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    Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

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    Nobody Told Me Before I Was Told About Torture

    Guess this is why she is a very successful politician.

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    Another Wrong Not Righted

    Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, defending his pardon of former President Richard Nixon at a press conference. Image by Getty Images via Daylife

    Well it is official.  America tortured people.  And the people that committed these crimes and the people that devised these crimes are not going to be prosecuted or otherwise investigated.  Rahm Emanuel said so yesterday on TV.  [...]



    There is No Such Thing as Half Wrong

    A torture rack, photographed in the Tower of London – Image via Wikipedia

    President Obama and Congress: Please investigate, possibly prosecute and most certainly put forth new legislation to prevent any future torture being committed by our government. Do not condone what was done. Walk the talk. Do not put us at much higher risk of repeating these crimes in the future.

    The [...]



    human rights day

    Let’s all hope that by next year’s Human Rights Day, Guantanamo is closed, and torture and warrantless eavesdropping are no longer S.O.P. for the U.S. Government.

    Because regardless of how Condi Rice might object, the U.S. is guilty of civil rights abuses, human rights abuses, and torture:

    The International Committee of the Red Cross found “cruel, inhumane and degrading” treatment of detainees at the U.S. military prison [...]



    no longer the hero

    if he ever was, McCain has become Richard III, Iago and Macbeth rolled into one.

    He is the scheming, lame and eternally bitter Richard of Gloucester, needing to kill all goodness around him so as to never face that contrast to his black soul, and needing war, too, as peace gives him nowhere to put his rage:

    But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
    Nor made [...]



    don’t touch it

    I fear and loathe John McCain as much as the next progressive, but I get a very bad feeling when I hear Thom Hartmann, dday et al. going on about the things McCain supposedly did while a POW (signing a confession, recording a propaganda film 4 days after his capture, etc.), and the things which McCain has said occurred which seem actually to be confabulations [...]



    coming soon to a democracy near you

    Minneapolis in September, perhaps?

    SEOUL, South Korea – Police fired water cannons at thousands of protesters Tuesday as President Bush got a volatile reception in South Korea at the start of his three-nation Asian trip.

    Some 18,300 police were on high alert with riot gear and bomb-sniffing dogs to maintain order during Bush’s brief visit, the National Police Agency said.

    As evening approached, an estimated 20,000 anti-Bush protesters [...]



    Crist on KPOJ Morning Show

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    Cheryl Crist was a guest with Thom Hartmann on KPOJ AM 620 this morning. The audio is here of the interview starting at about the 18 minute mark:

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    There is also a KPOJ poll that Cheryl Crist is winning about who you will vote for in the primary, Crist or Baird, here:  KPOJ Poll

    Please check [...]

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