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Time Out for OT – Vol 7

it should be a requirement that men cannot bring forward legislation that has such an adverse affect on women without women legislators having a major role in writing that legislation. This is just absolutely ridiculous.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 13, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

un…believable. I like your suggestion, except that the men are obviously already mental.

what year is this again?

» Posted By SanityNow On April 13, 2010 @ 4:00 pm

for sure. But the Fam were lobbyists of the darkest kind. Friedman was the socio-economic architect and Pinochet the Chilean conductor. Kissinger (Nixon, too) was an enabler. There were, as you know, many, many co-conspirators in that experiment. Just very interesting to see this rise to the surface. Just proves the truth always surfaces. Like lies and bodies for example.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 10, 2010 @ 10:13 pm

Hi Bito! Hope you are continuing to feel better.

maybe that is speaking to creating a process to accomplish a task? I don’t know exactly what the original quote is from but that is my first take.

anyway, have a good day!

» Posted By SanityNow On April 10, 2010 @ 9:39 am

before I leave for an all day Saturday of Little League and Babe Ruth baseball, here is a story newly dredged from our not too distant past:

Cable ties Kissinger to Chile controversy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100410/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_kissinger_chile

“”You can instruct” the U.S. ambassadors “to take no further action” on the subject of Operation Condor, said the Sept. 20 cable by Harry Shlaudeman, assistant secretary of state for Inter-American affairs, to Shlaudeman’s deputy.

The next day, on Sept. 21, 1976, agents of Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet planted a car bomb and exploded it on a Washington, D.C., street, killing both former Ambassador Orlando Letelier, and an American colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Letelier was one of the most outspoken critics of the Pinochet government.

Nearly a month before the blast, the State Department seemed intent on delivering a strong message to the governments engaged in Operation Condor.”

General Pinochet and Milton Friedman, a Chilean Terrorist and an American Terrorist forever joined together and enabled by guys like former Secretary of State Kissinger and former President Nixon.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 10, 2010 @ 9:36 am

where do you think he got the idea for himself?

that statement by him is the only thing I have heard him utter that I feel is truth. He is bad for humans.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 9, 2010 @ 9:46 am

ok, bito. so I just read some of the comments below. tubes out today, woohoo! I don’t know what your diagnosis is, and I don’t want to labor you with having to explain it, but I hope you accept my good vibes and well wishes. I can’t believe you are on the computer but then I understand why you need to be.

I’ll be thinking good thoughts about you today and tomorrow and…

» Posted By SanityNow On April 9, 2010 @ 9:04 am

“I could give a flying crap about the political process,” he said. “We’re an entertainment company.” – Glenn Beck

Undoubtedly the only true and honest thing he has ever said.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 9, 2010 @ 8:57 am

man, I would give you a nice bowl full right now if I could. From what I gather, you are going through some rough stuff. I won’t labor you with a query right now but if all you are waiting for are ice chips, I am imagining it has something to do with severe medical procedures and orders from doctors.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 9, 2010 @ 8:45 am

‘they’ would love to forget but they can’t because ‘we’ won’t let them.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 9, 2010 @ 8:36 am

get ready to rumble…

» Posted By SanityNow On April 9, 2010 @ 8:34 am

truth and obfuscation, both great words to know.

we are not in disagreement boomer. and i feel, like you, that we must hold those who are truly responsible for these insane decisions accountable. Cheney and Bush primarily, but also a whole host of irresponsible people in positions of authority that abused the trust of their country.

However, since we now no longer require compulsory service, the acts of war that always occur in all wars and the ramifications that they beget are merely theoretical for the vast majority of the American electorate. the only way to help people understand the abhorrence of war, especially an unprovoked war as in Iraq and arguably Afghanistan, is to expose unadulterated information like this single example to as many naive Americans as possible so that they can at least have the chance of grasping what a true crime looks like. And I am not talking about the guys in the copters. I am talking specifically of Bush and Cheney and those that helped to obfuscate the truth for their master plan.

beyond that and re-instituting the draft, i am not sure what else to do.
It’s horrible to watch but it’s the truth. and in this case, it hurts.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 5, 2010 @ 10:48 pm

I think it is fair to say that war, declared or undeclared, provoked or unprovoked, engenders psychopathic and sociopathic disease in humans.

a concern I have, among many, is what happens to our society when these soldiers are brought home and feel themselves slipping back in to that dissociative behavior?

» Posted By SanityNow On April 5, 2010 @ 2:50 pm

omg. Palin is the gift that just keep on giving.

This whole thing just pisses me off and makes me sick. The day the SCOTUS gave him(W) the presidency, I looked over at a colleague and said “look, we’ll be at war within 6 months. mark my words.” It turned out I was wrong. It was a year later we were headed in to Iraq to be welcomed as liberators.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 5, 2010 @ 2:25 pm

I concur.

we have been “engaged” in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for 8 years. That is over twice as long as either theater in WWII. Korea was only two or three years. Vietnam may come close to or exceed Iraq/Afghanistan in terms of actual time on the ground but not by much. (I mean total cost in human lives and dollars spent. Vietnam War still outpaces The Iraq War by at least 5 million total deaths.)

I hate to say it, but I think this country is in desperate need of re-instituting the draft with severe limitations on deferments. It is the only way that the entire country will be forced to “engage”

» Posted By SanityNow On April 5, 2010 @ 2:16 pm

really boomer? so we should just sweep this under the rug because it is three years old and is therefor somehow irrelevant? It is still our government that is disallowing this video to be seen by anyone outside a classified environment, regardless of who was in government then or now. and this video has nothing in it that warrants any level of secret classification. It is incriminating to be sure but does not merit secret classification. It doesn’t show any military capability or equipment beyond what everyone in the world already knows we are capable of, which is exactly why the military doesn’t want this publicly consumed.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 5, 2010 @ 1:59 pm

the video isn’t recent but it only saw the light of day, today. there are literally hundreds of others just like this, of that I am sure.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 5, 2010 @ 1:52 pm

…and no doubt.

» Posted By SanityNow On April 5, 2010 @ 1:51 pm

it actually pains me to post this. Unfortunately, I have to. Every one of us, whether we support our military actions in our name or not, needs to watch this. It is but a single example in what I am positive has been and continues to be a regular occurrence. What is most striking to me is that these combat soldiers appear to have lost the ability to differentiate between civilian and “insurgent” and what constitutes a real threat. This was a leaked video that our government had zero intention of releasing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/04/05/4117730-wikileaks-posts-combat-video-from-iraq-showing-civilian-casualties

I hope Rachel makes this a big deal on her show.

(PS – Here is the site that found and released this still-classified video, http://www.collateralmurder.com/ , and the text from the header:

5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.)

» Posted By SanityNow On April 5, 2010 @ 1:13 pm

Time Out for OT – Vol 6

are you trying to start a kerfuffle with me?

» Posted By SanityNow On March 31, 2010 @ 2:15 pm

“blindly” is your word not mine.

» Posted By SanityNow On March 31, 2010 @ 1:52 pm

unfortunately or fortunately, I am not always sure which, there just really aren’t many alternatives than to trust that president Obama and his advisers actually know what they are doing. I mean, regardless of all the hullabaloo we have witnessed and continue to witness, HCR actually passed and was signed in to law after not a single president was able to do that since Roosevelt, Teddy started talking about that subject in 1901.

» Posted By SanityNow On March 31, 2010 @ 1:22 pm

here is an interesting counterpoint to angry progressives from a…progressive? Austin Science Policy Examiner’s Steven Andrews makes some very pragmatic points. I think I agree with him although it doesn’t (the new policy) sit very quietly with me.

http://www.examiner.com/x-10722-Austin-Science-Policy-Examiner~y2010m3d31-Obamas-energy-policy-makes-sense-to-this-tree-hugger

(I should also add as a post script that I believe that this is more about putting some protections in place that haven’t been in place since 2008 and that actual drilling won’t take place, if ever, for many years. I think what is truly at the heart of this move is to further box in the Republicans with their own rhetoric no matter what they say. Either they get behind what they have said in the past ( ” We must be open to all energy independence options” , not likely since Obama is for it now) or they will continue to follow their zero sum game of complete obstruction (highly likely).)

» Posted By SanityNow On March 31, 2010 @ 12:52 pm

34 and counting. two female bombers. is this the work of separatist chechnyans?

there simply has to be another way of affecting change…yes? or is the power structure so entrenched that violence is the only way to change?

» Posted By SanityNow On March 28, 2010 @ 11:45 pm

jeebus. now that is hate right there taken to a whole other level. I think they need to smoke some pot.

» Posted By SanityNow On March 27, 2010 @ 9:54 pm

a very small one.

» Posted By SanityNow On March 27, 2010 @ 9:52 pm

I wish he would just to watch them self-combust in hate

» Posted By SanityNow On March 25, 2010 @ 3:31 pm

when ever I see “Club for Growth” I always think “Club for Hair Growth”

I couldn’t be happier about the imploding conservitard “movement”

» Posted By SanityNow On March 25, 2010 @ 2:56 pm

well played, sir.

and to your point of GOP veracity (or not), below is the story of the almost instantaneous unraveling of Cantor’s claim that his-office-was-attacked-so-Dems-are-just-as-violent-as-Pubes meme:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/25/850797/-Cantors-story-unravels

» Posted By SanityNow On March 25, 2010 @ 2:54 pm

tamryn wasn’t having any of his crap.

Nigel has a serious problem with comprehending causality and an equal lack of imagination to not know that something like that might have occurred.

» Posted By SanityNow On March 25, 2010 @ 2:39 pm

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