lostinromania

We have a runaway federal deficit, record spending, and war(s) with missing billions in support contracts as well as current military contracts worth more than our entire tax intake...so the bill WILL come due because you can't just print money forever.

The question though is...where will you be when you get your personal $1 million tax bill? I'm leaving the country personally.

If the president benefits from being "a war time president" in a never-ending "War on Terror" in that he can suspend the Constitution at will, use "national security" to conduct normally illegal operations, investigate anyone and everyone in blanket searches without a warrant, grant people and corporations immunity to investigation, torture as he sees fit, etc. then why would he ever seek a peaceful resolution for anything?

Any kind of "peace" with anyone would be immediate grounds for him to lose these extra-ordinary powers. So what would his motivation be?

Are we now doomed to be in a perpetual state of war with newer and better fascist laws for eternity, all for the sake of security against our perpetual enemies?

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi...

All those armchair generals and "liberal haters" may just grow a brain cell or two...guess with the new "section 10" even the Bush daughters might see a little camoflauge in their ensemble.

It's pretty weak when you identify yourself fully by who you hate, not who you are. I can't seem to figure out who these people are that hate "liberals" so violently and identify themselves with histrionic pundits. Do we really have that many people on the far-right fascist fringe in the US? I find it hard to believe.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2...

THIS is what happens when you ignore the phone number monitoring thing and let Dubya slide for that. Next up, medical and legal records...

Fresh off the presses, a 4 page expose, remarkably detailed and researched from Rolling Stone finding that 350,000 votes in Ohio alone (the swing state last election) were fraudulently stolen from Kerry allowing Bush to win.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/wa...

Have we woke up yet? The nightmare could be almost over.

Please read the full article and note all the evidence/proof before posting any right-wing pundit regurgitations.

Why does the main-stream media not say anything about George W.'s recent affair with Condolenza Rice?

The same thing with Clinton's smoking weed in college, where it was huge news but then the media totally ignored Bush's long-time cocaine habit and drinking problem. Not that I'm a fan of either one, I just think it's crazy how controlled the media is by the Republican party.

And after, I hear the right-wing pundits screaming like babies about "liberal bias in the press". It's all good that they can't give a single example, but still...

Article follows:

Reading an editorial, I found the winning arguement you can spring on any Bush supporter to make him change his mind. Follow the bouncing ball:

Since taking office, Bush has not vetoed a single bill passed by Congress, instead invoking "executive privelege as a wartime president" to write signing statements (750 of the things) gutting any bill he doesn't agree with or saying that they don't apply to him, including Congressional bills on torture, domestic wire-tapping, and executive secrecy necessary to fight the "war on terror".

Consider the "war on terror" is a war that doesn't theoretically ever "finish".

So, now we have precedent...now say Hillary Clinton or some other nefarious liberal takes the next Presidential election and becomes our next "war time president"?

If this doesn't scare conservatives into seriously upholding our Constitutional rights, I don't know what does.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/25050...

Why didn't they instead release the high-speed and high-resolution tape of the incident from the highway camera from the Virgina DoT instead?

Or, for that matter, any of the other 2 tapes of the incident that clearly should show something or at least provide a basis for comparison/triangulation?

Why is our media so satisfied with this?

Flipping through my congressman's essays, I came across a very interesting passing remark he made.

"But could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history. Prior to 1913, the government operated with revenues raised through tariffs, excise taxes, and property taxes, without ever touching a worker's paycheck. Even today, individual income taxes account for only approximately one-third of federal revenue. Eliminating one-third of the proposed 2007 budget would still leave federal spending at roughly $1.8 trillion-- a sum greater than the budget just 6 years ago in 2000! Does anyone seriously believe we could not find ways to cut spending back to 2000 levels?" - Ron Paul, R-Texas

full text here:

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst041006.ht...

Short story is that Iran is about to kill us economically...but here is the full report and my blog opinion.

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Bu4f2kQ9dLXzAXbYr_5...

Just the original report is here

http://www.europe2020.org/en/section_business/1502...

I spent the greater part of two days double-checking all the facts in the report from 3rd party sources, and it is rock-solid from what I can see. What I am asking for is:

Opinions on this from a Republican perspective?

Opinions on why this is being kept quiet?

I'll reprint and append any intelligable answers to my blog entry just so I can't be accused of partisanism.

Since Bush is busily selling off our strategic assets, I think we should sell NORAD next, but not sure to who. Logic would say Iran, they would love us for it, but I think the Chinese may be able to pay more. Any other suggestions?

Ok, I don't dream often, but last night I had a very short dream which was so extremely vivid I woke up with the same irritated feeling that I had in the dream towards my fiance:

The dream was in color and seeing through my own eyes, I am standing at my kitchen door surveying the kitchen and spot among the spartan and clean counter a liter milk carton standing next to the sink, fully open (not just one side, but wide open). I am irritated at my fiance, M, because she is always leaving food out like that and was afraid it was spoiled. I walk over to the carton and see that it is about 3/4 full. I lean down to smell it and it is still good, so I get the intention to return it to the refridgerator.

I'm not sure if I made it with the open carton to the fridge, but at this point I was waking up and can't quite remember. I was still a bit annoyed with my fiance when I woke up, but realized quickly it was a dream as I couldn't possibly have been to the kitchen yet that morning.