White wash of OR White House on torture?

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/holder_cia_torture_review_almost_done.php#more

When did Bernie jump on the war wagon?

He (along with our Oregon senator Jeff Merkley) voted for Obama's most recent escalation in Afghanistan/Pakistan. Are there no more anti-war progressives left?

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm...

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may272010/obama-money.php

..and that's no fluke! ;D

Open Letter to the President

Dear Mr. President,

You said on June 16, 2010, speaking of, in all probability, the greatest environmental disaster in US history, the current Gulf of Mexico oil gusher:

“Because there has never been a leak this size at this depth, stopping it has tested the limits of human technology. That’s why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation’s best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge.”

Mr. President, how could this “accident waiting to happen” ever have been allowed to happen? Does the road to the so-called doomsday machine have any detours, provisos, back-ups, fail-safes; or are we all doomed? And, it’s going to be difficult to eat oil, drink oil and be merry before we die.

And to the point of this website (www.pahrumplife.org) against an encroaching unwanted for-profit private prison, as far as we know Mr. President, this great experiment you are allowing here in the high DESERT of Nevada has never been done before either. This experiment in the name of big bucks for some, is about to contaminate our and all local living things’ land, air and ultimately the precious aquifer in Pahrump, with millions of gallons of locally “ill handled of record” effluent spray now proposed to be laden with prison anti-depressant, anti-psychotic drugs and hormones.

I have tried writing to you and to Senator Reid and a host of other offices, agencies and in general people in charge, to no avail. The desert is too brand-new and specialized a game for screwing around with the precious water.

Please have someone or, better yet, have your own eyes take a look at the following URL presenting the piece “Pahrump, Erstwhile Tourist Town?” which discusses the specialized conditions of desert aquifer waters, and will lead you to more URLs concerning the special concerns about our desert aquifer coupled with the outrageous building of a water-usurping and contaminating expanding for-profit prison without the diluting effects of big waters which studies prove are also not effective enough to prevent deleterious effects to the environment.

What the Nevada Public Utilities Commission does with respect to water is not so much a matter of their being bound by law as it is a matter, despite their alleged own better judgment, of their wont to be bound by the absence of law. So the people and life in general have lost and will lose “big time” again if this untried experiment is allowed with risks similar to the foreseeable risks that could be seen and were seen before the “Great Gulf of Mexico Disaster”.

Here’s the URL: http://www.pahrumplife.org/2009_07_01_archive.html

And this: http://pahrumplife.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/we-are-the-experiment1.pdf

Democrats Get Your Spine…

Why do the Democrats have an inferior psychological self esteem and hold the Republicans superior with a perceived greater worth and contribution to our society and world? What comes to mind is an older British Empire where ‘the sun never sets on the Union Jack’ and how their self conceived superiority over the native tribes ruled the world a 100 years. Why is it that an American flag on someone’s dress means “I am a Republican American, patriot of our cause” and not “I am in love with freedom for all around the world”.

What the current middle east war, world depression and oil well disaster, have to be a symbol of for all Democrats is that the Republicans and the corporate cause they represent are completely self serving and completely incapable of self determined rule of our country and planet. What greater and more noble cause do the Democrats have than to oversee and regulate the activities of this ruthless cancer who is eating the very body of laws created for the equality of all. The laws of this country are a product of 4000 years of evolution. What greater Right do the Democrats have to wave their American Flag and to Uphold Their Ideals and Their Cause than the lives and suffering of 40 centuries of LOWER CLASS LABOR that created the United Stated of America? I have elected Democrats to be my Champion….BE IT, BE IT FOR ALL HUMANITY!

Andrew O. Jackson

Madison, WI

New line for your tee-shirt:

On President's Obama's worst day, he can easily be like you! On your best day, you can never be like him. Try iT!

It seems to be that the language of this land is war, cuss people out, sue, hate on, and criticize incessantly. Now don't get it twisted: I am not saying that one should not have the freedom and latitude to express one's thoughts and ideas. I believe that the President can receive your criticism and not let that break his stride, however, what I do observe in my hearing and reading is that others have this narcissistic (immature) need for the President to "do/say" things in the same way you would. Were we not all assigned our own temperaments/personalities??? That's why he was elected! I see too many comments mimicking the one holding the microphone.

Oh how I looonnggng for an original thought! Whether you know it or not, REAL men restrain themselves in the face of adversity and the President has more testosterone in his hangnail than the likes of many who hide behind computers, microphones or call-in shows. The masses -- and many are immature -- stand with those holding the microphone! It would be refreshing if people would try to understand what other meant, moreover than what they said! I hope you're not held to the same standard you want to assign to the President! This country has seen a lot of unnecessary sadness and pain -- pain that was generally caused in whole part, perhaps, by people like you who think they need to use guns, a legal system OR some imaginary "masculinity" to sway the system to get their own way because to demonstrate constraint and diplomacy is too much work. Small-minded, fearful babies...whaaaa.... whaaaa.... whaaaaa..... I want my way AND I want it now!!!

I respect a man like President Obama who does not reduce himself to that caveman thinking!

I attended a protest last week in Bolingbrook, IL and I was amazed and inspired by the sheer numbers of people driving by honking and giving us the thumbs up. We did not picket a BP station but rather displayed signs while standing on a public sidewalk.

People need to feel empowered and they need to be able to display their anger and frustration in a peaceful manner and boycotting is one of those ways. I am sorry that innocent dealers with families to support may be harmed financially but consider the millions of people living and working on our gulf who are impacted financially because of criminal BP and their shills in congress, frankly if I am going to bleed, I will bleed for them first.

No amount of money will fix what's unfolding and what's coming down the pike.......

gerald: yes, but use only one exclamation point. more than 1 is bad for your blood pressure. :)

@Maxrot; yeah, i did, I just can't stand to look at blubber. to me its obscene but thanx anyway;,, another reason not to shop at walmart!

Wars are fought to protect corporate profits, corporate interests, to expand the number of military bases we have around the world, and to kill off our precious human resources, like our young men and women. Please you must NEVER forget that the United States of Hell is an evil, vile, and wicked empire. We are NOT a good, holy, and saintly nation.

Corporate felon BP is playing a winning game of chicken.

Is it true that Irvine is a 'bedroom community?'

Perhaps the issue is that President Obama is not a leader and will never ever be one. Maybe we should develop the audacity of hoping that he become an able administrator . . .