Presidential scholars use there photo op to make a difference.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: America's Youth Reject Torture, Bill O'Reilly and Right Wing Ideology: "'We brought up some very specific points in the letter about the treatment of detainees, even those designated as enemy combatants,' Mari Oye told John Roberts, 'and we strongly believe that all of these detainees should be treated, according to the principles of the Geneva Convention... I asked him to remove the signing statement attached to the anti-torture bill, which would have allowed presidential power to make exemptions to the ban on torture.'"
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Dick Cheney is Richard Nixon On Growth Hormones
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Dick Cheney is Richard Nixon On Growth Hormones: "After all, the Committee for Un-American Activities met in open session, and I, for one, can't recall any activities, with the exception of the burglary at Watergate, more 'un-American' than the ones we've witnessed in the past 6 plus years. "
Friday, June 29, 2007
U.S. border fence protrudes into Mexico
Are there no competent people in our government at all? Like I can afford to pay for this with gas prices and Iraq and government waste from no-bid contracts, energy policies written by energy companies and giving away Medicare's ability to negotiate drug prices.
How do you protect a border when you don't know where it is? I know where my property is, I hired a surveyor.
U.S. border fence protrudes into Mexico - Yahoo! News
How do you protect a border when you don't know where it is? I know where my property is, I hired a surveyor.
U.S. border fence protrudes into Mexico - Yahoo! News
2007 seen as second warmest year as climate shifts
Mother Nature isn't happy. Everyone can do more personally and politically.
2007 seen as second warmest year as climate shifts - Yahoo! News
2007 seen as second warmest year as climate shifts - Yahoo! News
High court to hear detainee case
This "could" be good news for the rule of law. Maybe the Supremes can restore habeas corpus.
High court to hear detainee case - Yahoo! News
High court to hear detainee case - Yahoo! News
Hersh: "Hitting Iran is Bush and Cheney's Wet Dream"
This is long video interview in which Pulitzer Price winner Seymour Hersh explains that he is terrified of the Bush administration, and why. He uses the word "coup" (political coup I believe) as our only way out anytime soon. He talks about generations of problem due to the psychological damage done to our soldiers. Not to mention the Iraqi children damaged for life (those that survive).
Hersh is a man with experience dating back to Vietnam and he knows people who know things that I hadn't heard about.
Please watch this excellent interview.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Hersh: "Hitting Iran is Bush and Cheney's Wet Dream"
Hersh is a man with experience dating back to Vietnam and he knows people who know things that I hadn't heard about.
Please watch this excellent interview.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Hersh: "Hitting Iran is Bush and Cheney's Wet Dream"
Contempt of Congress
It's time for congress to take action. It appears that crimes have been committed by the Bush administration. Cheney is destroying records. Emails have disappeared. Where there is smoke.....
Contempt of Congress:
From the article:
"'This White House cannot have it both ways,' says Leahy. 'They cannot stonewall Congressional investigations by refusing to provide documents and witnesses, while claiming nothing improper occurred.' "
Contempt of Congress:
From the article:
"'This White House cannot have it both ways,' says Leahy. 'They cannot stonewall Congressional investigations by refusing to provide documents and witnesses, while claiming nothing improper occurred.' "
The Supreme Court Just Took Us Back to the Days of Segregation
Backwards again.
AlterNet: The Supreme Court Just Took Us Back to the Days of Segregation
From the article:
"In a 5-4 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday, the Supreme Court told local school districts that they cannot take even modest steps to overcome residential segregation and ensure that schools within their diverse cities themselves remain racially mixed unless they can prove that such classifications are narrowly tailored to achieve specific educational benefits. But they swear they haven't overturned Brown v. Board of Education"
AlterNet: The Supreme Court Just Took Us Back to the Days of Segregation
From the article:
"In a 5-4 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday, the Supreme Court told local school districts that they cannot take even modest steps to overcome residential segregation and ensure that schools within their diverse cities themselves remain racially mixed unless they can prove that such classifications are narrowly tailored to achieve specific educational benefits. But they swear they haven't overturned Brown v. Board of Education"
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Obama: Impeachment is not acceptable
I strongly disagree. Grave, criminal breeches, and intentional breeches of the president's authority have occurred,
Obama: Impeachment is not acceptable - USATODAY.com:
From the article:
"Obama, a Harvard law school graduate and former lecturer on constitutional law at the University of Chicago, said impeachment should not be used as a standard political tool.
'I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breeches, and intentional breeches of the president's authority,' he said."
Obama: Impeachment is not acceptable - USATODAY.com:
From the article:
"Obama, a Harvard law school graduate and former lecturer on constitutional law at the University of Chicago, said impeachment should not be used as a standard political tool.
'I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breeches, and intentional breeches of the president's authority,' he said."
What is in Cheney's Secret Papers?
The Pap Attack!!!
AlterNet: Blogs: Video: What is in Cheney's Secret Papers? [VIDEO]:
From the article:
"Mike Papantonio of Air America's Ring of Fire and GoLeft TV talks about how Dick Cheney has become the poster child for Republican secrecy, corruption, and failure. Mike Papantonio of Air America's Ring of Fire and GoLeft TV talks about how Dick Cheney has become the poster child for Republican secrecy, corruption, and failure. "
AlterNet: Blogs: Video: What is in Cheney's Secret Papers? [VIDEO]:
From the article:
"Mike Papantonio of Air America's Ring of Fire and GoLeft TV talks about how Dick Cheney has become the poster child for Republican secrecy, corruption, and failure. Mike Papantonio of Air America's Ring of Fire and GoLeft TV talks about how Dick Cheney has become the poster child for Republican secrecy, corruption, and failure. "
For Progressives, Gore's the One in 2008
Gore/Edwards or Gore/Obama. That should be the ticket for 2008.
AlterNet: For Progressives, Gore's the One in 2008:
AlterNet: For Progressives, Gore's the One in 2008:
War on Iraq: Iraq by the Numbers
It's bad. Generations of traumatized children and new insurgents.
AlterNet: War on Iraq: Iraq by the Numbers
From the article:
"Americans are waiting for General David Petraeus to report to Congress in September on the 'progress' of the President's surge strategy. But there's no reason to wait for September. Here's a look at some telltale numbers that show the horror in Iraq. "
AlterNet: War on Iraq: Iraq by the Numbers
From the article:
"Americans are waiting for General David Petraeus to report to Congress in September on the 'progress' of the President's surge strategy. But there's no reason to wait for September. Here's a look at some telltale numbers that show the horror in Iraq. "
Poll: Distrust of U.S. growing - Politics - MSNBC.com
The poll speaks for itself
Poll: Distrust of U.S. growing - Politics - MSNBC.com
From the article:
"In one measure of Bush's unpopularity, the poll showed he is less trusted on foreign policy than Russian President Vladimir Putin by allies Britain, Germany and Canada, even as faith in Putin has plummeted. About half in the United States say they have little or no trust in either leader's conduct of foreign affairs."
Poll: Distrust of U.S. growing - Politics - MSNBC.com
From the article:
"In one measure of Bush's unpopularity, the poll showed he is less trusted on foreign policy than Russian President Vladimir Putin by allies Britain, Germany and Canada, even as faith in Putin has plummeted. About half in the United States say they have little or no trust in either leader's conduct of foreign affairs."
Does Dick Cheney Really Love His Grandson?
I believe that Cheney does love his daughter and grandson. He can't speak up and remain a Republican. He has the balls to do about anything else, but not this.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Does Dick Cheney Really Love His Grandson?
From the article:
"Bush is now threatening to veto the DC Appropriations bill because it no longer includes gay-bashing language that the GOP has put in there for years. The language banned the DC government from using federal funds to in any way support domestic partner benefits, civil unions and the like (not that the DC government was using federal funds, but it was a nice chance for the GOP to gay bash anyway). Now that the Democrats have dropped the GOP gay-bashing language from the bill, George Bush is threatening a veto."
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Does Dick Cheney Really Love His Grandson?
From the article:
"Bush is now threatening to veto the DC Appropriations bill because it no longer includes gay-bashing language that the GOP has put in there for years. The language banned the DC government from using federal funds to in any way support domestic partner benefits, civil unions and the like (not that the DC government was using federal funds, but it was a nice chance for the GOP to gay bash anyway). Now that the Democrats have dropped the GOP gay-bashing language from the bill, George Bush is threatening a veto."
New Post-Katrina Investigations Reveal More Federal Waste And Incompetence
I remember watching Bush's appearances on TV during the Katrina calamity. He clearly did not know what was happening. From watching new programs I knew more than he did. And still he has a 27% approval rating, amazing. Read the article for the three new discoveries.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: New Post-Katrina Investigations Reveal More Federal Waste And Incompetence
From the article:
"Three new investigations shed further light on how the Bush administration betrayed Gulf Coast residents during Hurricane Katrina, and how New Orleans and other affected areas are still suffering from federal waste and incompetence."
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: New Post-Katrina Investigations Reveal More Federal Waste And Incompetence
From the article:
"Three new investigations shed further light on how the Bush administration betrayed Gulf Coast residents during Hurricane Katrina, and how New Orleans and other affected areas are still suffering from federal waste and incompetence."
Subpoenas Now, Impeachment Later?
This should be the case. Bush, Cheney et al have created their own kingdom. I believe there should also be war crimes involved. Lieing to justify an unprovoked attack on another country. Kidnapping and torturing. They have made us the evil empire and should be impreached.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Subpoenas Now, Impeachment Later?:
From the article:
"'This administration, I have to say, has a certain contempt for the law,' said Turley. 'They treat it like some of my criminal defendants used to treat it. ... They come up with any argument that might work. ... It's a sort of shocking development. ... But at the end of the day, they will lose, and they're making the situation worse.'"
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Subpoenas Now, Impeachment Later?:
From the article:
"'This administration, I have to say, has a certain contempt for the law,' said Turley. 'They treat it like some of my criminal defendants used to treat it. ... They come up with any argument that might work. ... It's a sort of shocking development. ... But at the end of the day, they will lose, and they're making the situation worse.'"
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
What some people will do for a buck
No, I'm not referring to John Edwards. Currently he is my pick to be president and I am please that he is using this despicable word to raise funds. I mean Ann Coulter. Why is she being allowed to slander honorable people and make a fortune at it. I have never listened to her except to read the transcript of her "dialog" with Mrs. Edwards. She disgusts me.
Coulter's words help Edwards raise cash - Yahoo! News
From the article:
"When Coulter appeared Tuesday on MSNBC's "Hardball," Elizabeth Edwards called in to ask Coulter to stop making personal attacks on her husband. The exchanged deteriorated, with Coulter shouting over Mrs. Edwards and demanding that the campaign stop using her name to raise money if they want her to stop personal attacks. Response to the controversy was so large that it repeatedly crashed the server for MSNBC's political blog Wednesday."
Coulter's words help Edwards raise cash - Yahoo! News
From the article:
"When Coulter appeared Tuesday on MSNBC's "Hardball," Elizabeth Edwards called in to ask Coulter to stop making personal attacks on her husband. The exchanged deteriorated, with Coulter shouting over Mrs. Edwards and demanding that the campaign stop using her name to raise money if they want her to stop personal attacks. Response to the controversy was so large that it repeatedly crashed the server for MSNBC's political blog Wednesday."
White House, Cheney's office subpoenaed - Yahoo! News
It took a very long time for the politicians to do this. Heads should roll. Cheney is obviously out of control. Gonzales is obviously a liar. I wrote Secretary Rice last night asking that she, Ashcroft and Powell speak up on what has been happening. No response yet. They have come out on the short end while I believe that they are the honorable people in the administration that have or are having their careers and credibility ruined.
White House, Cheney's office subpoenaed - Yahoo! News:
From the article:
"'If there have been lies told to us, we'll refer it to the Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney for whatever legal action they think is appropriate,' Leahy told reporters. He did just that Wednesday, referring questions about testimony by former White House aide Brett Kavanaugh, who now sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia."
White House, Cheney's office subpoenaed - Yahoo! News:
From the article:
"'If there have been lies told to us, we'll refer it to the Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney for whatever legal action they think is appropriate,' Leahy told reporters. He did just that Wednesday, referring questions about testimony by former White House aide Brett Kavanaugh, who now sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia."
Right-Wing Judicial Activism Runs Amok
Democrats when they were the minority party spinelessly gave the Bush administration whatever it wanted. In the war on Iraq, energy policy, prescription prices that cannot be negotiated..... But the biggest legacy is the packing of the Supreme Court with loyal Bushie right wing neocons. It was my biggest fear and it has come to pass. My children and yours will suffer for a generation because the Democrats were spineless.
Rights for students and workers have been taken away and given to religious and corporate entities.
AlterNet: WorkPlace: Right-Wing Judicial Activism Runs Amok
From the article:
"Congressional Democrats never stood up to Bush's far-right judicial nominees. With this week's decisions, Americans are reaping what their lack of back-bone sowed."
Rights for students and workers have been taken away and given to religious and corporate entities.
AlterNet: WorkPlace: Right-Wing Judicial Activism Runs Amok
From the article:
"Congressional Democrats never stood up to Bush's far-right judicial nominees. With this week's decisions, Americans are reaping what their lack of back-bone sowed."
War on Iraq: Exposed: The Anatomy of a Torture Scandal
The truth is - torture does not work. A person in fear and pain will say anything to make it stop, more so if they have no information to give. Any information obtained from torturing actual terrorists that are willing to martyr themselves will probably be lies and will have no intelligence value. Any court cases that are brought before a reasonable judicial process (hence the administrations desire for military tribunals) would have to dismiss the case, even if the person being tried is an actual terrorist.
What does work is police interrogation. No fear or pain but quite psychological. Admissible in court. Accurate.
So we have men and women traumatized on both sides. The American soldiers that come home will have to live with what they have done for the rest of their lives.
What happens now with the detainees in Guantanamo? The will be sent to Afghanistan where their treatment will likely be worse. All it creates is more hate of America.
AlterNet: War on Iraq: Exposed: The Anatomy of a Torture Scandal
From the article:
"In the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, Americans were offered two kinds of analysis. We were given a choice regarding the horrendous abuse of those detained in Abu Ghraib (70 percent to 90 percent of which, according to the Red Cross, were arrested by mistake or had no intelligence value): Was it just a few bad apples -- a crazed night shift of sadists that raped, sodomized, beat and electrocuted prisoners (including women and children) -- or was it systemic, based on orders that came straight from the top?"
What does work is police interrogation. No fear or pain but quite psychological. Admissible in court. Accurate.
So we have men and women traumatized on both sides. The American soldiers that come home will have to live with what they have done for the rest of their lives.
What happens now with the detainees in Guantanamo? The will be sent to Afghanistan where their treatment will likely be worse. All it creates is more hate of America.
AlterNet: War on Iraq: Exposed: The Anatomy of a Torture Scandal
From the article:
"In the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, Americans were offered two kinds of analysis. We were given a choice regarding the horrendous abuse of those detained in Abu Ghraib (70 percent to 90 percent of which, according to the Red Cross, were arrested by mistake or had no intelligence value): Was it just a few bad apples -- a crazed night shift of sadists that raped, sodomized, beat and electrocuted prisoners (including women and children) -- or was it systemic, based on orders that came straight from the top?"
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Nader's Ego Enters 2008 Race
This is funny. To this day I will not give to a charity or cause that lists "Nader the Spoiler".
Humor: Nader's Ego Enters 2008 Race - Newsweek The Borowitz Report - MSNBC.com
Humor: Nader's Ego Enters 2008 Race - Newsweek The Borowitz Report - MSNBC.com
Paris Hilton back home
With all that's going on in the world, why are you reading this? All links purposely removed.
Fresh heir: Paris Hilton back home - Celebrity News - MSNBC.com
Fresh heir: Paris Hilton back home - Celebrity News - MSNBC.com
People convicted in Abramoff probe
Hmmmm, Repulican, Repulican, Repulican, Repulican, Repulican, Repulican, is there a pattern here?
People convicted in Abramoff probe
People convicted in Abramoff probe
Even a lap dog needs a job?
But not this one. There must be someone more credible. He has been Bush's toy poodle for too long.
Deal to name Blair as Middle East envoy delayed Reuters.ca
Deal to name Blair as Middle East envoy delayed Reuters.ca
Iraqi Youth Face Lasting Scars of War
PTSD at home, PTSD abroad. Our biggest import, our biggest export.
Iraqi Youth Face Lasting Scars of War - washingtonpost.com
Iraqi Youth Face Lasting Scars of War - washingtonpost.com
Cheney: 'Oh, How I Wish He'd Go Away!'
I LOVE this post. I watched "The Daily Show" last night with John Stewart wondering how Cheney could shoot an old guy in the face and then get him to appologize for the trouble he caused Cheney (senile maybe?). Reminds me of my neighbor who's pit bull broke his collar and attacked me in my yard. He hasn't spoken to me since. It seems his dog was traumatized from being quarantined for two weeks.
Michael Winship: Cheney: 'Oh, How I Wish He'd Go Away!' BuzzFlash.org
Michael Winship: Cheney: 'Oh, How I Wish He'd Go Away!' BuzzFlash.org
Disaster tourists head to Tahoe to see wildfire, devastation
Some peoples lives are so pathetic that they can only feel good looking at other people who are having a worse time.
Disaster tourists head to Tahoe to see wildfire, devastation - On Deadline - USATODAY.com
Disaster tourists head to Tahoe to see wildfire, devastation - On Deadline - USATODAY.com
Just what we need - another actor in the whitehouse
Look at what this guy is defending!
ABC News: Fred Thompson Defends His Lobbying Past:
"Thompson, who likes to cast himself as a political outsider, earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government for more than 20 years. He lobbied for a savings-and-loan deregulation bill that helped hasten the industry's collapse and a failed nuclear energy project that cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars.
He also was a lobbyist for deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was widely criticized for endorsing 'necklacing,' the gruesome practice of execution where gasoline-soaked tires are thrown over a person's neck and set ablaze."
ABC News: Fred Thompson Defends His Lobbying Past:
"Thompson, who likes to cast himself as a political outsider, earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government for more than 20 years. He lobbied for a savings-and-loan deregulation bill that helped hasten the industry's collapse and a failed nuclear energy project that cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars.
He also was a lobbyist for deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was widely criticized for endorsing 'necklacing,' the gruesome practice of execution where gasoline-soaked tires are thrown over a person's neck and set ablaze."
Cheney the "timelord"
Cheney the "timelord". I'm a fan of science fiction. Recently it has been making more sense than the reality we live in. Ever seen Doctor Who, the long running British sci-fi series? I think Cheney sees himself as a timelord, existing outside of space and time. And like a tardis, he thinks his head is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Cheney and the Constitution
Cheney and the Constitution
Democrats target Cheney's office funds
Makes sense to me. If you don't work for the company why the hell should they pay you?
Democrats target Cheney's office funds - Yahoo! News
Democrats target Cheney's office funds - Yahoo! News
Hey Dude, Where's My Vacation?
While Republican undercut unions this is what is going on.
AlterNet: WorkPlace: Hey Dude, Where's My Vacation?:
"Nearly one-fourth of American workers have no paid vacation or holidays, according to a recent study from the D.C.-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and nearly half of all private sector workers have no paid sick days."
AlterNet: WorkPlace: Hey Dude, Where's My Vacation?:
"Nearly one-fourth of American workers have no paid vacation or holidays, according to a recent study from the D.C.-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and nearly half of all private sector workers have no paid sick days."
Senate Republicans block labor bill
If you are a working person remember this when you vote. Republicans favor the corporations that work you till you die and want to give you NO benefits. I count on Republicans to ALWAYS do the wrong thing.
Senate Republicans block labor bill - Yahoo! News
Senate Republicans block labor bill - Yahoo! News
The Rebuilding the Middle Class Act (a.k.a. Employee Free Choice Act)
This is an important bill. It's passage would restore some power to the working class.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: The Rebuilding the Middle Class Act (a.k.a. Employee Free Choice Act)
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: The Rebuilding the Middle Class Act (a.k.a. Employee Free Choice Act)
High School Scholars Confront Bush on Torture
Next time elect a high school scholar. There knowledge of current event is greater than this president's.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: High School Scholars Confront Bush on Torture
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: High School Scholars Confront Bush on Torture
Sticking to Their 9/11 Lies
Another case of scientific facts being censored.
AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Sticking to Their 9/11 Lies [VIDEO]
AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Sticking to Their 9/11 Lies [VIDEO]
Monday, June 25, 2007
The Declaration of Indepencence
It is time to read this again. I think it's time.
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Another bad ruling by the Supremes
Supreme court justices should not be appointed for life.
Court: taxpayers can't sue on faith-based plan - Yahoo! News
Court: taxpayers can't sue on faith-based plan - Yahoo! News
Attorney general wins "sitting duck award"
Besides the "sitting duck award", he should also be given the boot.
Attorney general wins "sitting duck award" - Yahoo! News
Attorney general wins "sitting duck award" - Yahoo! News
Free speech works only one way
With the supreme court corrupted by the neocons, free speech is only for opinions that match the administration's view.
Justices Loosen Restrictions on Campaign Ads - New York Times
Justices Loosen Restrictions on Campaign Ads - New York Times
German prosecutors want CIA agents extradited
"U.S. officials privately describe the Munich prosecutors' call as an annoyance in German-U.S. relations."
An annoyance? Exactly who are these "U.S. officials" and why are they still "U.S. officials" after this statement.
How would our government react if a U.S. citizen were kidnapped and tortured by Germany? We have NO credibility thanks to our incompetent, lieing, two-faced government headed by "King Cheney" and "Bush the Fool". Hey Democrats, do you plan to do anything or just sit around with your thumbs up your butts? With a few exceptions, lets remove ALL incumbents and get representation that DOES SOMETHING RIGHT for a change!!!! Throw the incompetent, lobby kissing, pork grabbing do-nothing bums out.
I admire the Germans and Italians for trying to uphold the law. The quote "all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Where are the "good men" in our government.
Reading the news is so frustratingly maddening.
German prosecutors want CIA agents extradited - Yahoo! News
An annoyance? Exactly who are these "U.S. officials" and why are they still "U.S. officials" after this statement.
How would our government react if a U.S. citizen were kidnapped and tortured by Germany? We have NO credibility thanks to our incompetent, lieing, two-faced government headed by "King Cheney" and "Bush the Fool". Hey Democrats, do you plan to do anything or just sit around with your thumbs up your butts? With a few exceptions, lets remove ALL incumbents and get representation that DOES SOMETHING RIGHT for a change!!!! Throw the incompetent, lobby kissing, pork grabbing do-nothing bums out.
I admire the Germans and Italians for trying to uphold the law. The quote "all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Where are the "good men" in our government.
Reading the news is so frustratingly maddening.
German prosecutors want CIA agents extradited - Yahoo! News
A reasonable judge
Now disbar this judge who has wasted the taxpayers money.
More on the Verdict in Pearson v. Custom Cleaners - Offbeat
More on the Verdict in Pearson v. Custom Cleaners - Offbeat
Cheney Spies On White House Staffers
Cheney in one dangerous SOB. Backstabbing Bush and the people with knowledge and reasonable counsel (not Bush). ith the help of Gonzales, Bush's "friend". Impeach Cheney immediately.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Cheney Spies On White House Staffers
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Cheney Spies On White House Staffers
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