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It is interesting that all you guys think a black judge can not be objective. Lets face it, all the judges were appointed because of there unique life experiences which influence there decisions. Are you saying that you can not tolerate Justice Thomas black experiences."
Scalia is not Black - and I want him investigated and impeached also! But he is Catholic. Seems to me that 60+ years ago there was a "Catholic" "Popish" conspiracy (Remember the KKK?) going on in this country, and the fear was that the Catholics were out to get the Protestants. And then JF Kennedy was elected. Mama Mia, the world was turned upside down! The End of the world was upon us. But we are all still here. And 5 Catholics now sit on 5 of the benches of the Supreme court! (Hey, there might still be some truth to that conspiracy of a Catholic takeover!)
This is a ridiculous question! Black experiences? - Our President is black! I voted for him. But I don't want to impeach Obama.
I want to have Thomas investigated. Has nothing to do with my not being able to tolerate his "Black Experiences" decisions for crying out loud – it’s about his ultra-conservative decisions and now his possible decisions being influenced by his wife (who is white by the way) who is accepting money from conservative groups and entities who indirectly may want to influence Thomas's vote. What does this have to do with anyone not being able to tolerate decisions based on his 'Black Experiences'? Nothing! But has everything to do with decisions being corrupted by maybe White Elite Ultra-conservative Fascist Corporate interests!
Any one Judge on that court has more power than ALL Americans, our President, all the Courts, all of Congress, and all of the Senate! Justice Kennedy used his one vote in Citizens-United to swing the decision that granted “Personhood” to Corporations. One Man! (Thomas voted for the “Personhood” decision – and I fail to see, given all Racist, Jim Crow, Segregationist, hatred for the Black Person in this country, how this morphs into his “Black experiences” and how it influenced his vote for “Citizens-United” which may very well be the instrument that dis-enfranchises’ ALL blacks in this country)!
So you see, we do want to make sure that EVERY judge that sits on that court is not influenced by special interests – every one of them. And if it is found that there was a direct connection between a judges vote and an ideological influence, wife, money or otherwise, than he or she should be investigated, and possibly impeached. Period!
February 11, 2011
Yes, history does repeat itself. What goes around comes around! I will probably vote for Obama in 2012, if he does run but the Republicans will take back the Senate and the WH. Working and middle class Americans will have their assets eliminated. With no money and health care Americans will lose their homes and the few that may be able to pay the property taxes will eventually lose their money and they will either freeze to death or roast to death with the inability to pay the heating or cooling bills. Americans who are still alive will be brought to concentration camps to die. These concentration camps will be similar to the camps that imprisoned the Japanese during the Second World War. What awaits Americans is the loss of money, pensions, health care, homes, and death with the Republican takeover of the Senate and the WH.
The Chant has Begun - Level 42
the spirit of the people
the spirit of the people
the spirit of the people
the rhythm has begun ...
old men with their protocol
lead us off to war
sometimes we don't even know
what we're fighting for
marching to the beat of their drum
leaders we no longer trust
told too many lies
the promises they made to us
were never realised
hear me now the chant has begun
nowhere left to turn
no-one left to turn to
voices raised in anger
they don't have the answer
our whole world's in danger
oil slicks on the ebbing tide
progress out of hand
blind men choke on swallowed pride
heads down in the sand
don't wanna see the damage they've done
trees destroyed by acid rain
falling from the skies
when our children place the blame
who will tell them why
hear me now the chant has begun
why is love so rare
all this talk of warfare
voices raised in anger
they don't have an answer
pass the word along
we can wait no longer
too much blind destruction
follow love's instructions
now the chant has begun
(chant)
make your choice there's no escape
add your voice, the chant has begun
Regarding the Koch Bros. gathering ... Elected officials in attendance would be violating campaign finance rules as defined by the Citizens United case. I recall the justices explicitly declared that these front groups could not coordinate activities with the officials or their campaigns.
"We won't bomb anybodywith this guy." - Charlotte Hayes
Expanded bombing in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as drones in Yemen. Clearly she has no clue what she is talking about.
I hope he is impeached. Why do the Supreme Court Justices have life-time appointments? Many people think this is wrong. Is there anyway to change this law? They should all be independent justices, not conservative and/or liberal.
PRAY: God of Many Names
By Bill Hudson
Awesome God of the immensity of cosmic time and space.
Intimate God, at home in each human heart.
Energizing organizing God, drawing us together in global solidarity.
God of many names,
God of no name,
Father, Mother,
We thank you and we praise you.
Forgive us for every time and every way
That we separate ourselves from our sisters and brothers
In whose hearts you dwell through other images,
Other experiences, cultures, revelations.
We long for the fullness that only our solidarity can reveal.
Break us free from our idolatry of wealth and markets,
Individualism and competition and consumption.
These make, of sisters and brothers and ourselves,
Consumers or producers, competitors or markets.
God of many names,
God of no name,
Mother, Father,
Alert us to your urgency,
Your tireless struggle. Amen.
Who is smarter man or chimps? I say chimps are smarter.
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February 11, 2011
Here are some words from Jesus in the Holy Bible that have haunted me for years.
“The poor will always be with us.” It seems that for every one step forward in helping the poor we take two steps backward. The heartache and the frustration of a lost cause will never go away.
“Render to Caesar what is for Caesar.” If laws are passed to profit and protect the rich, these laws are Caesar and we must accept that the rich will become even richer. Are the politicians and the rich actually saints who are following Jesus’ words in the Holy Bible? Are the politicians and the rich God’s chosen people since His death on the Cross?
I find that my belief system is being totally shattered by Jesus’ words. I honestly do not know what the Son of God wants from us. His words have placed me in a state of confusion. Here is my confusion. What is right may actually be wrong and what is wrong may actually be right!
Is all life a fraudulent experience?
February 11, 2011
I have shared with you the dramatic increase in our spending for food by 2015. There is another increase that will hit Americans hard, especially the working middle class who are working for slave wages. This dramatic increase will be in toilet paper. Average Americans will be unable to pay for toilet paper. Terrorist corporations and terrorist groups like American corporations and the American rich will be able to afford toilet paper through tax breaks and tax cuts that are given to them by taxation from average Americans’ wages.
Without toilet paper average Americans will have to wipe their behinds with tree leaves. Since the tree leaves are not as smooth as toilet paper, there will be scratches on a person’s behind. These scratches will never heal and in time most average Americans will die of rectal cancer. A new wave of immigrants will take the place of the enslaved Americans and slave wages will be passed on to the new immigrants. Another problem besides rectal cancer will be in lighter skin persons brown fingers from the use of tree leaves to wipe away the feces from a person’s behind. The feces will be embedded into the skin and no amount of soap will be able to wash away the color and the stench from our fingers.
Yes, higher toilet paper prices will bring rectal cancer and brown fingers with a stench.
It is interesting that all you guys think a black judge can not be objective. Lets face it, all the judges were appointed because of there unique life experiences which influence there decisions. Are you saying that you can not tolerate Justice Thomas black experiences.
The Torah is the origin of Christianity? Have you heard of the New Testament? The torah promotes none of what of wrote. God destroyed the Canaanites because they were guilty of sacrificing their babies to Molech. And they aren't around anymore proving the Bible is true.
The only mass murders were done by Catholics to real Christians.
Thom Hartmann is clueless to what Islam and Christianity is. I suggest you go to borders, and buy a Koran.
Obama, The Moderate Republican
By Jack A. SmithGlobal Research, February 9, 2011
At 9 p.m. Eastern time Jan. 25 President Barack Obama launched his 2012 campaign for reelection as a Democratic President running with a center-right political program reminiscent of what used to be called "moderate Republicanism."
The occasion was Obama's second State of the Union address, in which he assured millions of Americans watching on television that what's "at stake right now is not who wins the next election."
Winning in 2012 is precisely what's at stake, and the presidential speech was the vehicle for candidate Obama to emerge as a hopefully winning combination of two former Presidents. Ronald Reagan of the political right and Bill Clinton of the center, the optimistic Great Communicator and the opportunist Great Triangulater all in one. In foreign affairs, add a third predecessor, G. H. W. Bush, a conservative ³realist² in international matters...
I disagree in part w/ New #8 and 13, if they mean that the whole of the Union is a single “nation” and under Washington, D.C., the de facto, as opposed to possibly 50 countries or nations, then I descent.
I must agree w/ New #6 the U.S. cesspool is too corrupt and broken. Hence the original cause for the tea party as formed by Ron Paul. And somebody, you know who, wants the people rendered armsless. How do you suppose the people exercise the mandate contained in the last phrases of the Declaration of Independence?
J. Clarence Thomas belongs, bought and paid for, (there is no difference between him and the fella Bush III) to the shadow power elite that runs the de facto fascist national security corprotocracy police state. Who said there is no conspiracy?
Any justice must recuse itself even if there is only the appearance of partiality or impropriety. When the justice is involved in abuse of discretion, including Scalia, he should be impeached. Fat chance that’ll happen. They can’t even investigate the Bushwhacker for torture. You’ll only see more arrogance as high crimes go on being ignored and tolerated by the people.
I fully agree w/ New #13 that the people must physically demonstrate enmass in the streets as the “lowly towelheads” in Cairo and elsewhere has shown us. All of these infractions against the public trust cannot go unrewarded. We must go around the established and owned media and bolster independent media like this one to rally the people under one banner.
I’m sorry that I’ve been remiss in this vain, attempting to support Wikileaks, Manning & CCR w/ what meager funds I can muster after arming myself.
Issa should be investigated. Last year, when the SEC's investigation into Goldman Sachs led to a fraud suit against the company, Mr. Issa decided to investigate....the SEC! Let's look a little closer. Goldman Sachs pays a $550 million fine for selling a mortgage investment that was established to fail, thereby misleading the American people, and the people's representative Mr. Issa decides to investigate the investigators? But wait, it gets better. Also last year, Mr. Issa was among the lawmakers involved in negotiating the financial reform legislation. At that time Mr. Issa reported that "he and his wife had $5 million to $25 million invested in a Goldman Sachs high yield fund and a similar range invested in a JPMorgan Chase & Co. high yield fund." Even after disclosing his industry ties, Mr. Issa still did not step away from the negotiating. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Case & Co. are both members of the Business Roundtable, so we can be assured Mr. Issa is all ears when their lobbyists come calling. He ended up voting against the financial reform bill, which would have given regulators more authority over corporations like Goldman Sachs. And he is investigating corruption? Go figure.
Propaganda TV taken over --
Egypitian Liberators raced to Egyptions State Run TV and liberated it. The head propaganda commentator went back on air shortly after and announced that previous statements that the revolution was the effect of foreign powers were incorrect. That in fact the people had ended the Mubarak regime.
CBS commentator Liz Palmer, live in Cairo, remarked that people in the rural areas of Egypt must surely be wondering what is going on, as this is the first they have heard anything about this.
When will the people surround FOXFAKE and liberate the media from the propaganda corporate/right -wing masters so the rural people of our great nation can learn the truth: that this is revolution of the people against corporate abuse and manipulation, and that our President not a "foreigner", but is of the people and for the people. For it is true: many rural people here only know what propaganda TV tells them, and they do not know what is really going on..... God Bless the new democratic nation of Egypt.
Well Mubarak has resigned, does this make Suleiman the current president? If so, will the protesters remain until he and the whole regime is removed, or are they going to pack it up?
I mean now that they got what they wanted, are they now beginning to think, damn we should have demanded a Bill of Rights too!
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Impeach the son of a gun.
I agree that Justice Thomas needs to go, however, until we make some serious adjustments in all parts of the mass media in this country, nothing can happen. What is needed here is a mass protest against the media on a scale we are seeing in Egypt. That can only happen by a raising of the collective consciousness throughout the country. One at a time, we need to begin protesting against each of the major networks.
Would it be like the Clinton Impeachment? Is it safer to use peer pressure to make him retire so he can be retained by the private corporate sector?
Soros Funded Group ,
"At issue here is the well-known liberal group, Common Cause, heavily funded by liberal Billionaire George Soros group Open Society Institute and the Tides Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation doesn’t like that they lost the case last year that stripped some elements of McCain-Feingold, allowing corporations to become more involved in political campaigns.
Common Cause is now “asking the Department of Justice to investigate Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia in relation to the Citizens United Supreme Court case, arguing that their decision in the case raised ‘serious questions about the impartiality of’ both justices.”
According to Common Cause President and CEO Bob Edgar, “It appears both justices have participated in political strategy sessions, perhaps while the case was pending, with corporate leaders whose political aims were advanced by the decision,” as contends that the justices should have recused themselves from the case and adding that the decision should be vacated.
Then the rules should apply to all and not just the conservatives: There is a fine line and it needs full adherance, to call for impeachment Of Justice Thomas then should all rulings Justice Ginsberg made on behalf of her bias be overturned?
The liberal Ginsburg's involvement with the legal activist group, and recent outside activities by a conservative colleague, Justice Antonin Scalia, have touched off a debate over what kinds of extrajudicial appearances and contacts are appropriate for Supreme Court justices.
The code of conduct for the federal courts does not set clear rules for judges' involvement with advocacy groups. But it warns jurists to steer clear of outside legal activities that would "cast reasonable doubt on the capacity to decide impartially any issue that may come before" them.
Federal law says a judge or justice "shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned."
Several legal experts say Ginsburg's ongoing affiliation with the legal activist group undercuts her appearance of impartiality. Ginsburg declined to comment.
Although Ginsburg was well known as a lawyer for her support of women's rights, Hofstra University law professor Monroe Freedman said she should have severed her public ties with advocates for women's issues when she was elevated to the Supreme Court by President Clinton in 1993.
"I think this crosses the line," he said.
Ginsburg's affiliation with the advocacy group raises issues similar to those prompted by Scalia's appearance last year before a group whose members oppose gay rights at the same time the court was weighing a landmark gay rights case.
I believe he can be impeached. I also believe that no one is above the law. His wife is selling his vote - all you have to do is prove that he and she have colluded to rake in some money being given to his wife who is influencing him and buying his vote. President Nixon resigned when he was caught in a lie - Justice Thomas can be impeached or resign because he is corrupting the system of law he is suppose to be upholding. Again, no one in this country is above the law and he needs to be investigated and ultimately impeached. If the Prisident of the United States can be questioned by Congress, then a Supreme Court justice can be likewise.
The arrogance of these Justices is really beginning to STINK!!!
Justice Thomas should recuse himself; he should be impeached. Unfortunately, I don't believe that any of these things will happen because our system has become too terribly corrupt. Money rules everything. The corporations have the money; therefore the power. They will kill this nation.