Eric Holder Confirmation Hearings "WATERBOARDING IS TORTURE".....Finally !!!!

4 Minute Video of Leahy Asking Important Questions about Torture, listen to Holder's Answers....Stunning video.

( sorry it took awhile to find on Youtube...Linked to the title is BBC article about Torture at GItmo...)
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{{Over on Sidebar I have a Petition for a Special Prosecutor to be appointed regarding war crimes....and here is a video with more about this issue...}}

MSNBC and Chris Matthews Attempt to Rewrite History with their "Documentary" on the Decider.....

I rushed around all day on my day off trying to get things done ( cough, like pay bills,find food,buy candles, and fix things)...came home and decided that I would watch Hardball....What a HUGE mistake....Chris Matthews created a Documentary called " The Decider " about Bush....what a Nauseating Piece of Horse Crap.....the Muted Lighting and Patriotic Wardrobe and whoreish makeup do not really highlight the Truth....It was amazing how much was Not Highlighted, like how Bush told us to go shop after 9-11, how he bumbled through that actual day stumbling like a drunk lost on New Years Eve..... And how the Infamous August 6th Memo was not revealed to Americans for 2 years.....and then only when Condi was heavily questioned at a 911 Hearing....she squeaked it out....so the 911 part is mishandled in a pathetic manner. I would call it propaganda.

The best part of the "documentary" is when they say how" Bush's troops Drove the Taliban out of Afghanistan"....Now to give Chris some credit, he does explore how Bush tried to link Iraq to 911.... ( By the way the MSM never really did properly investigate the events of 911....Shame on them).But the MSM like the Whitehouse has lost their journalistic integrity, and moral path, and lost sight that they were to Protect Freedom of Speech and Report the Truth and History....The Programs tries to paint the Rhetoric as merely an intelligence error....NOT what it really was...A LIE.....

All in all....a poor piece of journalism...Chris should have interviewed Joe Wilson...that would have improved it. And the Title needs work.....I personally would have called it "The Criminal" and covered OTHER issues, like the Torture, the WMD lies, the Illegal Spying and the Fearmongering and Illegal War, and even the firing of the US Attorneys.And Other Issues that he criminally mishandled should be covered as his negligence did hurt Americans and other people of the world, there were many
lessons along the way, from Iraq, to Katrina to American Troops and families, to Victims of the Tsunami to Katrina and IKE.....and the Economic Tsunami that we face but has global implications and impacts...this man lacks leadership and judgement and compassion....I would not trust him to change my cats's Kitty litter.

But that is just my thoughts on the Mission Accomplished Era....as I sit here and chew more TUMS....and ponder the Criminals at the Helm....22 days to go.

A Letter to Mr.Bush from a Mom on Mainstreet....

Dear Mr.Bush,
I know you will never read this letter, and that you don't read much period. I don't care I am still going to write it, because I Vote and I pay Taxes. I am horrified at what you have done to this Country, OUR Country. I know you ran your two Drilling Businesses into the Ground, Arbusto and Harken, but you had your Daddy and his friends bail you out. So I guess "Bailing " is always viewed by you as a Solution. See I am a mom, a single mom and a nurse. I know you don't respect Single Moms, you have made that clear in your speeches and in your Laws. I work hard, but I don't make much and I do take care of my son and I have never asked Anyone for a Dime. Most Single Moms I know work really hard.....

And now we learn that these Huge Corporations and Banking Entities on Wall Street have made mistakes and mismanaged their Monies and Investments. And you sent Mr "Hank" Paulson to the Hill today to explain to Hurry Up and Sign paperwork basically giving him total Control over 700 Billion Dollars. Personally I have trouble with trusting Men with Sandbox Names ( ie, Scooter). He came to the Hearing today, and I realized he has only been Director of the Treasury for 22 Monthes. He must miss Goldman Sachs, and His 38 Million /year CEO job, and his role Running Board Meetings. But he treated our Senators like they were disgruntled employees he could badger, he was arrogant and short sighted. I know it is hard to live on 300 Million Dollars and have any Comprehension of Someone like me that lives below poverty level.

I watched him field Questions about WHY there was no Oversight Proposed, No Auditing, and no Regulatory observances.And in his 3 pages of The Plan, there are 32 WORDS that make Mr.Paulson a Czar of this massive amount of money. I am confused that he worked at Goldman Sachs just 22 monthes ago, he did not see ANY Problems on the Horizon , especially after the Bearn Stearns Failure ? And the Other 11 Banks that already Failed ? And there were NO other Warnings or Economists voicing Concerns, even after watching Commercial Properties Fail En Masse and 9000 Families Lose their Homes a day to Foreclosure.

And then I watched you go to the UN while The Bailout Hearings were going on and the Stock Market again was like watching a cat weave between rockers on a summer porch. It is a Labile Market driven by Nerves and Rumors at this point. So you, Our Failed President go to the UN, and there you attempt to strong arm our Elected Reps by laying the Whole Financial Drama before the UN. How Unpresidential of you to go there and Air Our Very Dirty Broken Laundry. I am surprised you did not go there and just hold our your hand and maybe even shed a few crocodile tears as part of your performance.

See Here is the Thing, YOU and YOUR administration are asking People like me,moms, and dads and families that are struggling to just put food on the table and take care of our kids and our folks. People are struggling, 47 Million Plus without Health Insurance, 50 Million Underinsured ( and facing Huge Medical Bills), and 27 Million living in Poverty, and 15 Million are children.These People that are already hurting and stretched too thin and eating noodles and turning off Utitlities and selling their belongings are supposed to Bailout the WallStreet CEO's ? So they can get their Multi Million Dollar Severance Packages and escape to the Cayman Islands ?

Mr.Bush we have already Experienced Under Your Failed Leadership An Illegal War and all the damages that brings, the Devastation of Katrina, Rita and IKE, and now you have Devastated our Financial System....and we learned tonight you and your Administration 6 monthes ago that there were problems, and you did NOTHING. And now you want Money from us, all of us and Our Children. That means you KNEW all summer that there Massive Trouble on the Horizon and you did Nothing. Like when you got the August 6th Memo in 2001 warning of Trouble and you did Nothing. I wonder, is there a Financial Memo that warned of this Wallstreet Disaster, I bet there were MANY.

Tonight we learn that there are FBI Investigations regarding Potential Fraud at Management Levels at Lehman Brothers, AIG, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And yet the paperwork that Mr.Paulson brought forth had 32 words that would have prevented ANY Investigations, Criminal or otherwise. So we are supposed to give money to coverup these Possible Crimes and Bailout the Possible Perpetrators ?

These 32 WORDS would have prevented ANY Investigation:
"Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."

Mr.Bush you know Nothing of Mainstreet and What is happening to Real People In this Country. You need to stop your Motorcade and look at the People and the Suffering that you have Inflicted on this country. This is not a Golf Game, there are NO Mulligans and No One to Bail Us, We The People.... Out. 8000 Families a day lose their Homes, they Know the Truth there is Something Wrong here In America and No One is Bailing them out.


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3 Articles to learn More:
(1) articale about the Bailout And WHY I think it is right. Asia Times

(2) 10 things you should know about the BIG Fleece and you will wish you didn't know later....

(3) The Great American Kleptocracy tells the whole story.
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Dear Mr.President by PINK:

Wednesday Night Music.....

Sheesh If I had to pick One damn song that reminds me of this damn administration this song would have to be IT.......
Duran Duran " Come Undone".......

( Blogger and YouTube have been giving me hell- let me know if the video runs okay for you...)

NEVER FORGET ANNIVERSARY...It has been 7 years of Criminal Negligence and Incompetence....How could we Forget ?

[originally posted August 6th, 6am]

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7 years ago today, on a hot day down in Crawford Texas Mr.Bush was handed an IMPORTANT MEMO ( a PDB) by Harriet Miers, his special Counsel, it was a Security Briefing a WARNING regarding Osama Bin Laden and PLANES and Large Building Targets. The Name of the Memo" Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the United States".We did not learn of this Memo until April 2004 when Condi Rice was Finally Forced to reveal it at the 911 Hearings. There had been a VideoTape sent by Bin Laden in July, and warnings Spring of 2001.( Enough of a Warning that Condi took her name off an Oil Tanker.)Enough of a Warning that the August 6th Memo was sent to Mr.Bush while he was on Vacation on the Ranch. His FIVE week Vacation. After he recieved the Memo he continued his Vacation, and we would not learn of THIS Critical Memo until 3 Years later. The Public was NEVER warned or told of ANY Threat by Bin Laden UNTIL after 911....and the Truth about the August 6th Memo was not publicly revealed until April 2004.

Ben Veniste's Grilling of Condi Rice for the Truth about the August 6th Memo....(or you can click the title to hear the 30 second abbreviated version).

SIGN DENNIS KUCINICH'S IMPEACHMENT PETITION (just click the TITLE, it has to be signed by tonight MN)