Archive for November 8th, 2007Hoyer Stands By Vote to Go Into IraqQuestionGirl November 8th, 2007 - 8:27 pmFrom the Hill: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the number two Democrat in the House, says he stands by his vote in favor of the 2002 “use of force” authorization that led to the war in Iraq.
“Removal of Saddam Hussein was an appropriate policy,” Hoyer said at a breakfast meeting with reporters Thursday sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. “I still believe that.” But he added that he would not have voted for it if he had known “how incompetently it would be executed.” Steny needs to gooooooooo. Financial NewsQuestionGirl November 8th, 2007 - 1:47 pmThings are looking uglier every day. CUOMO SUBPOENAS FANNIE & FREDDIE DOLLAR REACHES ANOTHER ALL TIME LOW GOLD MARCHES TOWARD HISTORIC HIGH MORGAN STANLEY SOUNDS $6 BILLION WARNING REAL ESTATE: BUY, SELL OR HOLD The reports on the news last night of the Bush/Sarozy meeting all painted a rosey picture. I didn’t hear about this: Mr Sarkozy spared no sensitivities as he launched into a full-blown attack on the Bush Administration. “The dollar cannot remain solely the problem of others. If we are not careful, monetary disarray could morph into economic war. We would all be its victims,” he said.
 And The Beat Goes OnBuck November 8th, 2007 - 11:38 amFmr. Buckeye Town Mgr. accused of sexual indecency
My thoughts: No comment. Aqua Dots RecallQuestionGirl November 8th, 2007 - 11:22 amThis is getting ridiculous…….but hey, maybe when the kids get loaded on the GHB they’ll be even more creative!
And if that’s not enough, you have to worry about the toys you give your animals, too. Rights By The InchBuck November 8th, 2007 - 11:02 amBy a vote of 235-184, the House approved the first federal ban on job discrimination against gays, lesbians and bisexuals yesterday. And even though ENDA faces a tough fight in the senate, and the promise of a veto by Chimp-N-Charge, it’s still a triumphant blow to the religious / homophobic / anti-we-the-people mentality that grips our country. “Republicans, meanwhile, said the bill could undermine the rights of people who oppose homosexuality for religious reasons…” Probably one of the most offensive sentences I’ve read in a very long time. Being gay is who you are, and not what you do. Homophobia is a mental illness. It can (and should) be removed from the workplace. A homosexual can no longer check the ‘gay’ at the door as women can ‘female’ or blacks can ’skin color’. And if you truly believe in “we the people”, the choice couldn’t be more clear. Greedily demanding their tax moneys, while not extending them the same rights in the workplace, sounds a tad bit like taxation without representation. Try and defend that position… I dare you! Religious reasons, my ass! Just plain ol’ homophobia at play here. How did I come to this conclusion, you ask? Has it ever been common practice to pink’slip employees for gluttony? How about adultery? When employers start firing workers for “coveting his neighbor’s house”, then we’ll talk. Appeal for RedressQuestionGirl November 8th, 2007 - 10:55 am
Some of Rep. Filner’s comments: As background, let’s review the Vietnam conflict and the insights that Rep. Bob Filner, chair of the House’s Veterans Committee, has on what happened to the veterans that served in that war.
Rep. Filner, on Oct. 17, 2007, on Capitol Hill, said: “We did not take care of them. We [the government] made a mistake. We can still rectify it for those who are [still] with us. Over half of the homeless on the streets tonight, 200,000, are Vietnam Vets. As many Vietnam vets have now committed suicide as died in the original war.” “That is over 58,000! We did something wrong. And, we see ‘the same thing’ happening again [with respect to the Iraq War]. The ’suicide rates’ are back up to where they were in the Vietnam period. We’ve seen homelessness already … The President says: `Support troops, support troops, support troops,’ but, when they [the troops] come home, `they are on their own.”’ Rep. Filner continued: “Because, what’s going on now is we’re `saving the President’s face.’ Everybody has admitted that we can’t win this [the Iraq War] militarily … It’s a political thing. We’ve gotta get out … He [Bush] is going to `stay in.’ He’s going to `stay in’ through his term. He’s going to make the Democrats take responsibility for this thing. That is to `save his face.’ Thousands of kids are going to come back in caskets, which we are not allowed to see, or with amputations, brain injuries, with traumatic stress … Everybody comes back with [this] incredible … sense of what they went through and it’s very difficult to reintegrate.” Club BlueQuestionGirl November 8th, 2007 - 12:13 am |
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