Scatter Shooting

Bill Oreily's guests read from cue cards. After many viewings of this republican propanda television show that pretends to be fair and balanced. It becomes painfully obvious that the "No spin" cycle is very unbalanced. All you need do is watch an interview with a "man or woman of the people" who professes to have the dirt on Obama or any one who is not a republican and you can see their eyes reading from a scripted cue card as O'reily questions them.
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Kangagroo court: In a 5 to 4 decision Supreme Court Sides With John Ashcroft, Robert Mueller in 9/11 Detainee Abuse Case.

Javaid Iqbal, a Pakistani national and Muslim, who in November 2001 was detained “solely because of his race, religion, and national origin, and for no legitimate reason,” according to court documents. Two months later, he was moved to a holding facility in Brooklyn, where he was in solitary confinement for more than 150 days without a hearing, his lawsuit alleges. He said he was subjected to physical and verbal abuse, including unnecessary strip searches. On the day he entered solitary confinement, he says, he was thrown against a wall, kicked in the stomach, punched in the face and dragged across a floor by federal prison officers. He was cleared of any involvement in terrorism and was deported in January 2003 after pleading guilty to fraud and being sentenced to a year and four months in prison.

"The complaint does not show or even intimate, that petitioners purposefully housed detainees in the ADMAX SHU due to their race, religion or national origin," said Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion. "All it plausibly suggests is that the nation's top law enforcement officers, in the aftermath of a devastating attack, sought to keep suspected terrorists in the most secure conditions available until the suspects could be cleared of terrorist activity."

The court's liberal justices — David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens — dissented from the court's opinion.
"There is no principled basis for the majority's disregard of the allegations linking Ashcroft and Mueller to their subordinates' discrimination," Souter wrote.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Iqbal and found Ashcroft and Mueller liable. The Supreme Court’s decision reverses the 2nd Circuit and shuts the door on the possibility that others can bring similar lawsuits. It is painfully clear that not only is our country divided right down political party lines but, our Supreme court as well. The right votes one way and the left votes the other. Our court system used to be the great equalizer between those with wealth, power, and influence and those with none of the above. It's a sad state of affairs when the legal pursuit of justice can so easily be corrupted by obvious political allegiances. If the old Axum
" divide and conquer" holds true, then we will be or already have been . . .conquered.

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In 2003 under Donald Rumsfeld, Pentagon published Bible verses on top-secret intel reports. In a lengthy article on Donald Rumsfeld’s rocky tenure as Defense Secretary, GQ published never-before-seen cover sheets from top-secret intelligence briefings produced by Rumsfeld’s Pentagon. Starting in the days surrounding the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the cover sheets featured inspirational Bible verses printed over military images, “and were delivered by Rumsfeld himself to the White House” to the president, “who referred to America’s war on terror as a ‘crusade,’” GQ writes. Below are some examples of the Bible quotes (view the images here):
“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” [The quote appears over an image of a tank at sunrise]

“Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.” [The quote appears over an image of a soldier in Baghdad]

“It is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.” [The quote appears over an image of Saddam Hussein]

“Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, The nation that keeps faith.” [The quote appears over an image of tanks entering an Iraqi city]

GQ’s Robert Draper writes that when colleagues complained to the Pentagon official who came up with the cover sheets, he replied, “‘my seniors’ — JCS chairman Richard Myers, Rumsfeld, and the commander in chief himself – appreciated the cover pages.”
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Spending by oil and gas companies lobbying politicians on Capitol Hill jumped a whopping 64% between 2007 and 2008. From $82million to $126.8 million. No wonder the speculators are back: Over the past 2 weeks oil prices have skyrocketed again. Just today the price of west Texas crude went up $1.75 a barrel. We have already seen a .50 + increase at the pump in the past month. So, I guess that it's going to happen all over again. Just like it did under Bush these arseholes hedge fund sonsofbitches are going to be allowed to artificially inflate the price of oil, until at a time of their choosing when they sell off those stocks and make another killing while you and I get screwed. We can only pay the price at the pump we have neither the connections nor the capital to be able to play along with these investors. Oh by the way, many of the speculators are using the money that we the tax payers just gave them in the bail out. WTF!?! The oil lobby has been given a 10 billion raise Oil And don't give me that BS about the approaching holiday, summer vacation, and the Sunoco refinery fire in Pennsylvania. I ain't buying what you're selling. It's a conspiracy plain and simple. Now where'd I put that foil hat?
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Turd Blossom Karl Rove and those on the right have gone from the statement that "We do not torture!" to " We only tortured because it works." to "Exactly what did Nancy Pulosi know about torture and when did she know it?" You got to hand it to 'em. They are the masters of evasion and pointing the spotlight someplace else.

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Keep singing that old Beatles tune: "It's getting better all the time."

DaG Out