Boycott Chevron and Total, who built their pipelines with slave labor, with forced into servitude by the Burmese military.
Boycott Chevron and Total who are in business with a regime who is using the national resources of their country to prop up their power and control!
Boycott Chevron and Total who keep the military regime afloat to buy arms and ammunition and pay its soldiers so they can kill monks and peaceful protestors!
Boycott Chevron who also killed nonviolent protesters in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria so that regime could keep their people in abject poverty.
Viva the monks of Burma! Viva the the people of Burma! Viva Kenji Nagai! Viva Myint Aye, Maung Maung Lay, Tin Maung Oo,U Nyunt Oo and Yin Kyi!
Viva Aung San Suu Kyi!
Boycott all those who support Chevron and their propping up of the Burma Death Machine!
Say you do your tour in Iraq, and you are lucky enough not to come back injured and have to face the still broken VA's hospital system stateside. Say you also come back with all your marbles intact after seeing the hell on earth that is war. Say you even have plans to get a better education when you get home, to make more of yourself after you have given everything of yourself to your country. Well, guess what, you are still screwed.
In yet another brilliant move in assholery, National Guard troops are being denied benefits after the longest deployment of any ground combat unit in the Iraq War. This unit, the 2,600 member strong Minnesota National Guard (Is it me, or is the GOP really trying to piss off their convention state?), was in Iraq for 22 months after being kept there for President Bush's surge.
But when they got home, they had a special kiss of fuck-offedness from the Bush Administration and the Army. The troops are now being denied their GI Bills for furthering their education. See, their orders were written for 729 days, had their orders been written for 730 days, just one more day, they would have qualified.
Okay, I usually laugh and blow off the usual asshattery that is the government of the proud state of Texas. It is a vaudville show full of prat falls and jumbled justice jousting. But for the most part, I figured the monkeys we had in Austin were not wholescale frauds. How wrong I was. How very, very wrong.
As you know, I don't like John Edwards. See, I have a bless/curse of a photographic memory. I remember John Edwards, from when he entered the national stage taking the deposition in the Lewinsky fiasco during the Clinton Administration, to his cheerleading for the war in 2002. I also remember his platforms from 2004, which is why I am shocked he has reinvented himself once again.
But when he decided he wanted to be a populist this election cycle, I took that shit personally. The Farmer's Alliance started in Lampasas, Texas in 1876, which later evolved in the Populist Party. So yeah, you could say I have little emotional attachment to the name. That is why I refuse to allow this pretender advance towards the throne.
Nothing sums up better some of the issues I have with John Edwards, than this interview on Meet the Press. When called to the mat for his constant reinventions as a candidate, he stands by his record, even though that does not reflect his rhetoric today. I have no idea why anyone would believe a word he says after this:
This morning, 1 U.S Dollar was officially traded at 1 Canadian dollar. Thought it has returned to 1 USA = 1.00155 CAD, for a magical moment, the dollar was Loonie. God bless that Fed hike! I knew our dollar was weak, but that really shot it in the knee to take it down to the point our coinage is equal to that of our northern border friends! Let the foreign reserve sell off begin!
Reno, NV - Local Dog Catcher Joe Karren has announced he will be endorsing Democratic Nominee hopeful Mike Gravel. He even called the campaign headquarters himself to let them know he was firmly in their camp and planned on a press conference at the local diner, Angie's Spot, to formally announce.
"I was shocked Mr. Gravel picked up the phone," said Karren, whose support is supposed to bring in at least 2 votes for the Gravel ticket. "Even more shocking was when he said he would actually show up to my presser. I was just joking, I was really just going for a cup of coffee. But now he is coming, I feel like I gotta get a banner or something."
"It's about meeting the people," said Mike Gravel, who once led a filibuster that led to the end of the Vietnam War, and who was shat upon at last summer's Yearly Kos. "About meeting one voter at a time."
If Gravel completes his quest to meet every voter in America, he will be prime to win the nomination in 3012.
While all the rage are primary diaries, taser fest, OJ back in jail, Stars who will be dancing once again and the Patriots who seemed to have cheated, we just passed 1,000,000 dead Iraqi civilians. Glad to see our news system is reporting on the major issue of the day.
This blood is on your, mine and every other American's hands until we stop this war. We are the barbarians at their gate, their new Khan knocking on their door. More Iraqis have now died than during the Rwanda genocide. What will history call this? We should be beyond ashamed, we should be hiding our face in horror from international view until we stop this war.
Below, each O represents 20 dead Iraqi civilians.
Each O represents just one of these, JUST ONE:
Look at it below. LOOK AT IT.
LOOK AT IT NOW AND SEE WHAT OUR COUNTRY HAS WROUGHT.
End the damn war, or accept our place in the annuals of time as the harbringers of doom. HISTORY WILL NOT ABSOLVE US. LOOK AT IT.
EACH O IS 20 DEAD IRAQIS. LOOK AT IT. LOOK AT IT NOW.
Ever wonder why you never hear about Texas Democratic oilmen? Well, they exist, but they always get the raw end of the deal with the Bush family. While I have my own reasons for liking the Hunt family, evil empire aside, but I am more amazed that no one ever says anything about the way people like Oscar Wyatt are treated.
Wyatt is a also a self-made oil tycoon, but he has two strikes against him: he is a Democrat, and he is anti-war. So now that you have all ready about Mr. Hunt is being treated by the Bush Administration, let's see how the cards fall for Oscar.
Figured you needed a laugh after that depressing speech.
Osama Bin Laden: "War on Terror Has Jumped the Shark"
Kennebunkport, Maine - Dissent was the word of the day last week when Osama Bin Laden received his copy of the script for his video released last weekend. After what was described as near total meltdown in his trailer on-location in Kennebunkport, Maine, Bin Laden at first refused to shoot the latest installment of the War on Terror.
"This is always what happens when a show fires its writers," said a distraught BIn Laden, who has captivated the country's fascination with his betrayal of a blood thirsty mullah. "I just knew when they let Karl Rove go, the quality of writing would just fall to the floor. I don't know whose ratings are going to be worse, President Bush's or ours."
You are nothing but an ATM to the Democratic Party. Daily Kos is a cash cow they pander to only during election years because of the money you can generate for their campaigns. And once you have secured their seats, they no longer return your calls, and your emails are returned with generated noreply responses. They do not care what you think, they only want you for your money.
Once they have what they want, they do not feel the need to comply with the wishes of the ones who sent them there. You are irrelevant in their eyes since they have no need for fund raising this year. If they cared, if they truly cared what the netroots wanted, they would act on the principles of those who canvassed, those who worked their phones, those who gave them money.
They don't. You are just a typing ATM machine to them, and nothing more.
Well, here is some interesting news, Univision has beat out all the other networks, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC and CW for the coveted 18-34 demographic. While not exactly surprising with how the sociodemographics are trending in the United States of America, it is definitely a benchmark, an a benchmark that was just a matter of time.
This is also before the Presidential Debates in Spanish, so the quality programming on Univision cannot be discounted. Have you ever seen Sabado Gigante? You don't need to speak Spanish to enjoy that. Plus, even the The Soap agrees that soap operas on Univision are more entertaining than the usual ABC, NBC and CBS fare.
Mr. Reid, I know you are tired of getting these letters, but I offer you a ray of hope tonight. I offer you validation from the Republicans in their Presidential debate this evening. When you are looking for justification for bringing a plan to end the mistakes of the Iraq War to the Senate floor, look no further than presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.
Now, truth be known, my guy in this fight is Ron Paul. And he, as I am sure you know, is against the war. Always has been. Well, tonight he got into a tangle with Huckabee as to if it is time to end this war. Huckabee, though a decent man, was using the old "you break it, you bought it" stance. Paul, as you know, is strict on the Constitution and wants out.
Frontier Populism is relatively new school of thought, mostly being hammered into a political philosophy by young Texans. The aim is to create a society without systems for political, economic and social hierarchies controlled by the few, while still keeping true to the rugged individualism that is rampant in the Lone Star Republic. It is an answer to our years of displaced wealth in the arenas of politics, culture and economics.
The basis of this new society is that all citizens will have true and equal access to the tools of information and production, allowing for a realistic chance at the American dream. And if that fails to take hold across the nation, at least create a brand spanking new Texas one. It is basically time to end the nightmare that is imperialism cloaked as a capitalistic democracy.
I think one of the bigget glaring omissions about the GAO report is that the War Czar will not be presenting it. Remember that guy, Lieutenant General Douglas Lute? I mean, come on, he was just made War Zar in June. President Bush decided a single figure was needed to oversee all military campaigns abroad, which I know, use to be called Commander in Chief. But shouldn't the dude he just created to oversee the Iraq Occupation be the one to present the GAO report on Iraq?
Of course not, that is why it is being ghost written for General Petraeus, not the freaking War Czar. Oh so how quickly we have forgotten. But the War Czar was meant to be forgotten because he had one sole purpose, which is why no one else wanted the job.
He was created, as was his title, to be a trial balloon for the draft.
So Grandpa Fred is officially in the race now, or will be on September 6th. Does that date ring a bell? It should, Kos even front paged a clip of some real political reporting by Jake Tapper, ABC News' Senior National Correspondent:
The real issue here, for campaign finance reformer types?
Disclosure.
If Thompson waits until September 6 to formally declare his candidacy, he wouldn't have to disclose any of the cash given to his campaign until January 31 -- after many major contests are over, including the Iowa and Nevada Caucuses, and the New Hampshire, South Carolina, Michigan and Florida primaries.
You have to give it Rove, his last kiss good-bye was one of the sweetest. The news cycle this week was suppose to be non-stop coverage of a resigning Attorney General. You know, a monumental event as the keeper of the rule of law steps down in disgrace, one of the highest position in the land. Alberto Gonzalez was the purest symbol of the utter contempt the Bush Administration had for the Constitution and our collective social contract. He deserved to be roasted in the international, national and local press as the subservient lackey of cronyism that he was.
But Karl Rove had his boy's back. He had an ace in the hole that would kill any and all discussion of Gonzo by the talking heads. He had something that involved at least a few of the meaty morals Americans love. The fall from grace of a powerful figure. Adultery. And best yet, gay sex in a public space. It was even signed sealed and delivered by a Guilty plea and fines paid. He held it in his sleeve till Alberto was ready to meet him in Texas. He had been sitting on for months.
You know, the worst part of the Bush-Cheney cabal is how poorly it is run. It use to take years to sheer away layers of the hidden hand onion till you got to the teary filled truth. But with Bush Redux, it takes about five minutes. This is no way to run a conspiracy. If this really was an agenda for a permanent majority of capitalist plutocrats, then this is what would happen.
First off, you have to knee-cap all the ones who brought you, which has been done with Rove and Gonzo, and countless other Bush Administration officials. Now they are in the fourth quarter, they need someone with pure balls to take this game into a never-ending overtime. Enter Michael Chertoff, who even looks like an agent of Satan.
First off, we did not lose this war, we lost the occupation. The United States Military Forces kicked the teeth in of any legitimate Iraqi armed resistance in our march to Baghdad. As with all our political wars, it was lost in Washington. Through actions, and mostly inactions, the crucial window after the toppling Saddam Hussein was closed by gross incompetence of the Bush Administration.
First rule of an occupation is to secure the capital, and the first Americans to arrive in Baghdad realized that security on the streets was the first major concern. With the Saddam loyalist either dead or on the run in the Iraqi Army, those that stayed on post were they for their country and people. Col. Paul Hughes, part of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, said these Iraqi generals stood ready to offer entire brigades of soldiers to help pacify and police troubled areas.
Kennebunkport, Maine - Dissent was the word of the day last week when Osama Bin Laden received his copy of the script for his video released last weekend. After what was described as near total meltdown in his trailer on-location in Kennebunkport, Maine, Bin Laden at first refused to shoot the latest installment of the War on Terror.
You have to give it Rove, his last kiss good-bye was one of the sweetest. The news cycle this week was suppose to be non-stop coverage of a resigning Attorney General. You know, a monumental event as the keeper of the rule of law steps down in disgrace, one of the highest position in the land. Alberto Gonzalez was the purest symbol of the utter contempt the Bush Administration had for the Constitution and our collective social contract. He deserved to be roasted in the international, national and local press as the subservient lackey of cronyism that he was. 
