Mr. Salvador,

I’m not sure how you ‘learn’ what has and is happening in the world, but most of us use books, journals, TV and now the internet. It would be nice to be omnipotent and be everywhere at once, but I don’t think I, at least, am going to achieve that blessed state in my lifetime.

That said, it shouldn’t be TOO remarkable that much of what is said is repeated from other sources. That doesn’t necessarily make it wrong. (One of my favorite movie lines is, “Just because we’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re NOT out to get us.”)

The point is, NO ONE seems to deny that it’s a fact that this country, under the ‘leadership’ of one George W. Bush has invaded two sovereign countries, killings tens of thousands (probably more), displacing millions, bombed the citizens of two other sovereign countries, violated constitutional rights in this country and generally allowed this country to sink into a morass it may or may not recover from.

These are facts, young man, and not regurgitation. There are only so many ways you can describe the actions of this man. Sooner or later you’re going to find yourself repeating what others have said; and it bears repeating.

If nothing else, the man has taken the Declaration Of Independence, the founding document that sets out the rights of ALL men, and thrown it into the mud and stomped all over it. The man is a pariah, certainly to a LARGE portion of this country and no doubt most of the rest of the world.

Somehow, I don’t think what you are witnessing is regurgitation, it’s anger and indignation, rightly vented.

Jed Clampett

That may be true on paper, but the reality is much different. Even though the people are forced to hold their retirement savings in a highly volatility system rather than the security of pensions, there is nothing the public can do to affect the companies activities. Mainly, the executives in the corporation own a majority of the shares, supershares actually, with stronger decision making power. The only way to affect the market system would be for all individuals to pull their money out for a half year, unfortunately, it won’t make any difference, no way the populace, who control about 3% of the wealth can make a dent on the influence of those that control the other 97%.

IMO- they need to hire an army of regulators to investigate the large corporations and their activities in foreign nations. Rico laws should be used to prosecute the entire executive leadership when they are found to have paid bribes or done other immoral and illegal things. Otherwise, we are merely hypocrites with one set of laws for one group of people and another set of laws for those who we don’t see as our equals.

Peace

Hey there people, do any of you really know what your are writing about?, i find it amazing that your comments are not much more than a regurtutation (i probably misspelled that word so i will just called it “Puke or Barf” of what you have heard from _ _ _ you fill in the blank, do any of you know “Who Are Corporations” ? do any of you have any investments or 401k’s or pension plans, They are You, most people in america and abroad, Rumsfeld, Chaney and Vietnam,, You Freaking Idiots, try the name Robert McNamara,,, Please people make an effort to inform yourselves prior to launching after “G DubbYa” with your hatred as missguided as it maybe, “G DubbYa” may not be the Best President ever elected But please let us all make an effort to inform ourselves before we convince ourselves of our superior intellect

Best Regards to All and may God Bless us all who believe in each other and not just our hatred for each other

Jed Clampett

you must be so proud of your wit… dimmy.

Peace

Jed, go back to making up quotes, your bloviating days are OVER!

Now THAT is Change that is good for America

Hmmm,

ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS FROM THE BELTWAY AND BEYOND

Now THERE is a non-sequitur if ever I saw one.

“THAT FITS,” isn’t that a euphemism for, “I want?”

Jed Clampett

Yea, just like Duke Cunningham or Ted Stevens… honorable allright.

Peace

Great job D&C you beat RS!

At least he did the semi-honorable thing.
FROM CNN:
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, citing a federal probe, is withdrawing his nomination as Commerce secretary, two Democratic officials say

Jed Clampett

So, they came in lying to the nation about the intentions of the previous administration as well as their own, yet Clinton had to go through impeachment proceedings for lying to the nation about what humans have always done, chase the cat. No crime in that unless it’s forced, not like it was false intelligence or torture or something of that nature.

These guys deserve no less than capital punishment for their traitorous actions against our nation and our planet. Cut from the same cloth as Mugabe, the only difference is that they would not be permitted to act with the same kind of brutality here. Something about many private individuals owning their own weapons.

Peace

Jed,
Actually the story of the Clinton aides sabotaging the offices before Bush’s inauguration was debunked by the GAO. That story, like so much of the right’s fodder, was pure fiction.

Jed Clampett

KUDOS!!!

www.foxnew s.com/story/0,2933,475209,00.h tml

apparently someone with huge testes and a large bank account just sent Bush an unmistakable message in Florida. I hope it’s not followed by a major attack that allows the ’son of a dog’ to suspend the transition ‘for the good of the nation’ of course.

www.whitehouse.gov/co ntact/

In case any others are brave enough to send the administration the picture of a shoe.

Peace

Jed Clampett

I have a hard time seeing the Clinton administration as immature and inexperienced… who were you referring to, Madam Allbright perhaps?

What I was getting at, the evil among us have no sense of humor, they misconstrue sarcastic laughter as contentedness, so they have no sense of jokes played in good spirit, since they link to the dark side, they think everyone else rides the dark side as well. Then they go to church on Sunday and pray to be prosperous.

It’s easy to characterize the Bush administration as evil, bumbling and nefarious, and leave it at that… but isn’t that what keeps getting us into trouble in the first place? Had Cheney and Rumsfeld been held accountable for their wanton killing and destruction in conducting the Vietnam fiasco, perhaps they would not have been able to do as much damage as they did. Those guys set up the precedent for privatizing war, invading nations on false pretenses, destruction of the environment, collapse of the global economy… almost too much to count, I understand the Americans know nothing of justice because they don’t practice it. When an ill individual of color gets arrested for trying to s.ell a $10 rock of crack to finance his next fix can get 20 years, yet Duke Cunningham, who helped corporate raiders bilk billions out of the treasury, preventing us from having the money to develop a decent education system or healthcare system only gets a couple of years… there is no justice.

I hope Pres Obama can show the world that justice does still exists in America and that the corporate leadership isn’t totally in control of the game… but from what I’ve seen lately and the changes the candidate has been going through in the last few weeks it leads me to think that only a natural disaster of enormous consequences will make Americans take notice… it’s too bad that unlike their ancestors, they don’t understand that Earth is living and is capable of such things. We are merely so adept at convincing ourselves, at explaining things to our satisfaction, that we ignore the obvious.

Good luck to all in the new year, let’s hope our new leaders are more enlightened and capable of doing things that are good for all rather than merely the benefit of their corporations.

Peace

Jed, I think you summed it up without realizing it…the Clintonista’s were a bunch of immature inexperienced dudes, while the Bushi.tes were eeeeeevil, bumbling, nefarious dudes

oh, the american presidency…i guess good leadership oughtta be covered under that there Endangered Species deal

Jed Clampett

Good riddance? they were allowed 8 years of deception, destruction and pillaging, get to leave on their own terms and as they leave this ‘environmentalist president’ (as George called himself during the Gore debates with that snickering smile on his face) destroys all those laws he has such great disdain for as an MBA, an oil man and a WAR PRESIDENT.

He wasn’t saying FU to the people of America, he was saying FU to the earth itself, in other words God.

They were not gotten rid of, so the word riddance is innapropiately used.
I don’t expect the new administration to do the right thing and prosecute these bastards, and I imagine they will have a hard time reversing all the damage they did during their tenure and transition. If they do these kind of things blatantly, just imagine what they have changed surreptitiously and we may never learn of.

Does anyone remember when the Bushies took over from the Clintonistas. The Clinton administration was full of young, happy, intelligent people with a sense of humor. When the Bush administration came in they showed their hand by threatening to prosecute people for vandalism because they crazy glued desks and other innocent pranks. I wish the new administration were as willing to prosecute the real vandals that have done so much to hurt our nation by gutting and de-nutting it’s laws and eroding trust in it’s institutions.

Peace

Bush is such a fool. Good riddance at least.