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  • Will Romney's last-ditch efforts to appeal to women work?   12 years 32 weeks ago

    Although as a woman he can not appeal to me ever because I have been listening to both sides for years I do believe he can sway some women who have not been paying attention and do not know what the republican party has been saying and Mitt Romney did not know any women to hire for his Gubinitorial cabinate and needed binders full of women. A sensable woman could not vote for him.

  • The Bush Administration Committed War Crimes When it Tortured Terrorist Suspects...   12 years 32 weeks ago

    I'm still voting for Obama, because on several other issues he leans toward being a democrat. Which is a hell of a lot better than the alternative. Although I'm considering voting my conscience (green), because Romney will probably win by a landslide in GA..

  • The Bush Administration Committed War Crimes When it Tortured Terrorist Suspects...   12 years 32 weeks ago

    I believe the credibility of the truth movement will survive to the next century when the real investigation results and the real story will be told to our geat and great X children. The real truth about Custer never came out immediately. Movies, History books, etc upheld Custer as an Amercian Folk hero until recent times. Seems the truth always gets delayed a couple hundred years no matter how blatant and obvious the crimes are, We love our criminals in America. It is star spangeled reality of nationalistic pride.

  • The Bush Administration Committed War Crimes When it Tortured Terrorist Suspects...   12 years 32 weeks ago

    Obama needs to pardon John Kiriakou not prosecute him. This shows Obama is not fit to be president.

  • The Bush Administration Committed War Crimes When it Tortured Terrorist Suspects...   12 years 32 weeks ago

    Not to mention all those who outed Valerie Plame/Brewster Jennings still around around scot free. Isnt there a law about beign an "acessory after the fact of a crime"?

    Oh well, who pays attention to the law anymore?

    No wonder somebody like Mourlock can get up and say that women who are raped and get pregnant by it should just shut up and be cognizant that they have been "blessed by GAWD". Heck, even the dem Donnolly sez he's anti-choice.

    This must be the "October Surprise" It sure trumped Trump trying to get Obummer's trascripts while Rmoney's taxes remain vieled from view: "That's all you peopel are goign to get!" A. Rmoney

    It's all moving faster now

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 32 weeks ago

    Actually that was not the last debate before the election. Thom was at the last debate before the election and it was held in Chicago by the Free and Equal Foundation with the four other national presidential candidates. Thom was on the pre-debate show and asked good questions, putting Libertarian Gary Johnson on the spot about the "commons" and Johnson did not know what the commons meant. The debate without the pre-debate show can be seen at CSPAN http://www.c-span.org/Events/Third-Party-Presidential-Debate/10737435220-1/

  • The Bush Administration Committed War Crimes When it Tortured Terrorist Suspects...   12 years 32 weeks ago

    Yes Thom:

    Those members of the Bush Administration (Including George and Dick) should be treated as war

    criminals, for knowly breaking International Law.

    The Bankers, who caused the crash of OUR economy, and stole all the wealth of the middle class,

    need to be "PERP" walked and tried in federal court. Obama is totally wrong here and there can

    no justice for any till ALL wrongdo'ers are treated equally under the Law.

  • The Bush Administration Committed War Crimes When it Tortured Terrorist Suspects...   12 years 32 weeks ago

    Now that's someone that should get a Presidential pardon.

  • Daily Topics - Wednesday October 24th, 2012   12 years 32 weeks ago

    Republican men don't seem to understand that rape doesn't consist of a woman saying no after the fact. It involves violence and usually betrayal of trust. It leaves psychological and physical damage. It's a crime and the rapist is responsible for it, not the victim. How someone like Richard Mourdock can blithely say it's god's will and god's gift if such a horrible thing results in pregnancy (which itself is not easy to deal with) is beyond my comprehension.

  • Was Romney's ignorance on foreign policy clear last night?   12 years 32 weeks ago

    I voted no, but the two questions weren't clear to me. Sadly I too didn't know, or remember that Iran had a coastlne. Once I heard it I remembered that they had submarines. I've been more involved in domestic issues then foreign ones, so I'm probably not the best one to answer the question. As for Romney's take on ships, planes, etc. that I absolutely new was a crock. I read years ago that one nuclear sub has more firepower then the entire Pacific fleet in WWII. Whoever prepped this guy for a foreign policy debate heaven forbid they are not the ones he'd actually ever use if, God forbid, he get's elected.

  • The Bush Administration Committed War Crimes When it Tortured Terrorist Suspects...   12 years 32 weeks ago

    This is a criminal act by the the Obot regime, reminicent of life in the 3d Reich. Never mind Iraq. The people involved in killling Kennedy, and spawning the Vietnam war, need to be held to account first. The shadow government took full power then. Oswald was a CIA agent and did not shoot Kennedy.

  • Was Romney's ignorance on foreign policy clear last night?   12 years 33 weeks ago

    Last night, Free & Equal provided a forum (simulcast on several online and cable venues) for 2012 presidential candidates to debate actual substantive issues... rather than just the mostly irrelevant semantic "differences" between the two interchangeable corporate party candidates.

    The corporate party's Romney will get the vote of people who have no hearts — people unable to empathize with others.

    The corporate party's Obama will get the vote of people who have neither heart nor minds — the weak willed and weak minded who are uneducable.

    Those who have both the heart to stand in support of truly sane and sensible solutions and the minds to understand that continuing the insane (R) & (D) corporate continuum will leave our children with no future worth having (if it leaves them with any future at all) will vote for one of the four on-ballot presidential alternatives who showed up at the Free & Equal debate.

    The substantive differences between the alternatives was illuminated best by their answers to the 6th question: If you could get a Constitutional amendment approved what one amendment would you choose?

    VIDEO October 23 Free & Equal POTUS Debate:

    http://rt.com/usa/news/third-party-debate-us-election-094/

    VOTE TODAY - rank choice preference for next debate:

    (This voting will determine which two of the four alternative candidates will be in Free & Equal's October 30 debate)

    http://freeandequal.org/vote/

    **VOTING ENDS AT 10:30pm EDT / 7:30pm PDT TONIGHT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24**

    NOTE: the Free & Equal debate forum was far better than the Democracy Now! Expanded Debates were, because Free & Equal did not waste time repeating the ridiculous (R) & (D) quarreling of the unfree and unequal corporate media events. The corporate party's candidates could have participated in the Free & Equal debate, but they didn't because the corporate party's Republicans and Democrats oppose all alternatives to corporatocracy.

    People who vote for the corporate party's money manufactured candidates waste elections!

    Protest votes were and still are the only votes not wasted.

    www.chenangogreens.org

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    No it was not a debate. Again, this present day Journalistic culture brought America to where we are today. In our twenty four hour day by day news cycle horse race, with highlighted topics that will be described after commercial messages, is actually the basic physiological derivative cultured into our present social structure.

    Educated and persuaded, convinced, by free speech, lies, deception, and most of all breach of basic Constitutional rights. All done with Commercial time too. Today’s new powerful weapon for the future plutocracy.

    Stay with us and we will go over this important topic, the usual saying before the commercial starts. As an example, about a news anchor, will highlight and talk about Universal Health care after these messages. Then get a bombarded by an AARP insurance ad, if you haven’t guessed it by now, the advertisement letting you know Congress forgot to include some twenty percent of what you really need in benefits.

    Heck, Social Security should twice today of what it really is paying out. Enough of the bull crap of today’s capitalism; all mergers in corporations for the bigger the better must include education and pensions for employees rather than the customary layoff routine now in business practice. Then and only then can huge salaries and bonus plans be given to the CEO responsible for such good success. This would eliminate unemployment plus promote a living waged society. Dividends and stock bonus stuff included in a new plan for capitalism.

    That small deletion by Congress giving limits in AARP created a whole insurance industry out there. Sheesh. Of course those old folks in Florida are stupid enough buy this crap, and not think twice about how in world the whole thing came about.

    Or the Government insurance corporation that does not have anything to do with the government is selling insurance by an erectus primate, the lizard, the crawling creature in evolution now walking around displaying natural tendencies, even now wearing a hat on bill boards selling insurance convincing your mind will be changed in fifteen minutes.

    Ladies and Gentlemen of America this really begs the question are they really selling insurance between all these political commercials or are they really conditioning the minds of America’s who can be persuaded with what I call an electromagnetic time derivative of Journalistic psychology in persuasion. Then get another few minutes of a political commercials likely lies hacked and convoluted, vote for me.

    Yes they can, and they, the one percenters are doing it right now all across the electromagnetic specturm.

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    Does anyone else see a repeating pattern? 1) A terrorist attack on an US target overseas during the Clinton admin (the Cole) and the diplomats during the Obama admin; 2) neo-cons and rethuglican presidential candiate banging the drums of war against a country that has not attacked us, but which has a lot of oil; 3) reports in a whimpy media (I guess held hostage by the corporations) that we may be cyber attacked on the homeland (WMDs and mushroom clouds).

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    All this bitching about the US and its foreign policy (whatever it is and will lead to) is just fooling ourselves. All this debating is really worthless because both, Obama and Romney agree basically on everything. The difference in there agreements is only in rhetorical style not in substance. We all should be voting for Jill Stein, who appears to have the soundest platform of any of the candidates we are asked to enlist in our cause for freedom, peace, and democracy, and a hands off foreign policy agenda in which meaningful disputes should be handled lawfully not with beligerency and war mongering.

    The real issues nobody seems to wish to confront is the undemocratic government constituted by Congress in the 1911 Congressional apportionment Law. 435 House seat established by the law out of a population of more than 320 million is clearly insufficient for the exercise of the people's democratic rights, that is, true democracy. We need to declare the current Apportionment Law unconstitutional, increase the House seats to more than 435 (perhaps even the 2 seats in the Senate), allow third parties to grow and prosper by introducing proportional representation. All this needs to be done properly, that is through a Constitutional Amendment, not with passing a new law. Those who still believe in our Constitution should never allow Congress to decide how many of them and under what condition they may represent us. The current law is unconstitutional and if further proof is needed let me know and I'll send my essay explaining why it is. Let's vote for Jill Stein, the truly sound other alternative.

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    WAR BEGOT WAR BEGOT WAR...
    Funny that saying NEVER ends with peace...Just more war.

    Call me a Hopless Peace Seeker but I am voteing for Jill Stein jillstein.org or Rocky Anderson voterocky.org. Their agenda - when it comes to Foregin Policy - is in the direction of collapsing the War Machine...Which doesn't mean abolishing our military; more so it means cutting back on over deffense spending, but even more important it means not engaging in unecessary and illegal wars or engaging in illegal occupation of another sovereigning nation; which cost more than just dollars...And for me that's the "Change" we and the world need. Sorry stupid war profiteers!!!

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    I could not believe my ears that Mrs Mitt Rommney has 5 sons and none of them have served in any wars or the Army ,instead they went preaching for the Mormon Church and to her it is serving their country ,what kind of demogogury is this and the Nation listens without jamming the streets of Washington DC. This is dodging the nation and saying ,millionaires can , as a matter of fact , get away with murder. Military draft is one way to put a brake on unnecessary wars.

    Fighting on the Front is for people who have no choice. Bush, Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, other Talk Show hosts and a bunch of other influential people get away from serving, yet these Neo Cons who are suporting them have the audacity to start a fight on every Continent ,the blood of the poor and middle class is so cheap,they have NO regrets at all . They cannot wait to satrt another war . What about the mothers, fathers, daughter and brothers who have to live with for the rest of their lives when they are told that this war was NOT to defend our Homeland, like Viet Nam , Iraq war , Afghanistan war etc etc . Gen Eisenhower warned the nation about the Military Industrial Complex desire to proliferate arms build up . They started a war in Iraq that lasted 10 years on wrong , falsified and manipulated information (WMD) and then Rush Limbaugh has the audacity to justify it. Killing over 4000 of our own young poor people, 100,000 plus Iraqis dead, millions in property damage, and they dont have any shame that Mitt Romney has to criticize President Obama for being weak and apologetic. For them it war is cheap, just turn the page and move on.

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    Yes, I agree that Canada has a somewhat better social safety net. Over the last 40 yrs.; however, I have found that net shrank considerably. The same influences are felt in Canada these days. Corporate-made laws and politicians that pass those laws have created just as many problems, too. The Austerity Agenda has not escaped Canadians and they are starting to really feel it. There will little difference when I, too, return to Canada. It will be the same battles to fight. I do find; however, that Americans seem to "engage" themselves on a grander scale than Canadians. That is a problem. Complacency will not move us forward. Good Luck to your friend. As much as we like to think that we are so similar, we are different and it takes time to adjust to that. We do have a Canadian Identity!!

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    I would ask this generation to seriously think about this: We engage in serial wars, send huge amounts of aid to foreign countries, have redistributed several trillion dollars (since Reagan) to the richest few, and ended the entitlement to sub-poverty level aid for America's poorest. While going to war to "bring freedom" to foreign lands, we round up and jail the poor for the crime of poverty. While in the process of ending the citizens' entitlement to poverty relief, government was in the process of redistributing trillions of dollars upward, so Americans expressed their contempt for the poor. Infant mortality rates among our poor now rival those of Third World nations and the life expectancy of our poor has actually fallen below that of some Third World nations, and our entire government is sharply focused on easing the suffering of the middle class (?). During similar eras in the past, when the richest few gained a dangerous degree of power over govt., the poor and middle classes united to successfully push back, to the benefit of both. Not this time.

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    Precisely what I meant, old chap.

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    In fact, it was originally the House of Hanover, but sounded too German. House of Windsor has a regal British air to it. They're still closet krauts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    Well you may be amused, but we don't think it's funny. It's equally as pathetic as The House of Windsor.

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    Isn't war glorious!

    A Purple Heart isn't Just Something to Die For! It can be either a consolation prize for death or injury, a wife or mother's keepsake, or a valuable token manipulated for political aggrandizement.

    It was especially important for us to go to Viet Nam to defend the threat to our borders and freedom. Even more important was to have first shot the Native Americans out of their borders so that First Americans would have their own borders to defend against all who threaten. How smoothly each generation was convinced with advertising and pageantry to pitch right in and defend foreign borders containing resources of value essential to our mighty corporations. These wondrous patriotic institutions for which so many have died have fortified and built us into a thriving economic state, after first scaring the pants off the world with the big A-Bomb. Oh excuse me, there was A- Bomb 1 and then A- Bomb 2, arbitrarily dropped following an unauthorized general's whim.

    If only there were something that would make more money and opportunities than war-

  • In The Last Debate Before The Election...   12 years 33 weeks ago

    Watching the "debate" last night made me cringe in its infantile quality. As a bemused observer from Canada I'm helping a long time friend and American citizen move to Canada no matter who wins the upcoming "rigged" election.

    Your ship is sinking faster than you realize. That Romney's even made it THAT close to the oval office, with his track record of complete dishonesty is simply amazing.

    Good luck America, you are a fine and generous people unfortunately saddled by a corrupt government and an even more rapicious military. I'll take our form of "socialized capitalism" any time.

  • Was Romney's ignorance on foreign policy clear last night?   12 years 33 weeks ago

    How can the ignorant people of the US be expected to evaluate Romney's ignorance? It's the blind leading the blind.

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