Etta James & The Blues Breakers
“You Got Me Runnin”

Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

~ Howard Zinn ~

Will this crook ever go away?

Way too funny that he picked the WRONG audience to preach his republican “small government” crap to!

OXFORD, England (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will capture the presidency in 2008 unless the Republican Party can rise to meet the challenge, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Thursday.
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“Don’t kid yourself. She will be the next nominee, and if Republicans don’t get their act together - and it is pitiful - she will be the next president,” he told a crowd of Britons and Americans at the Oxford Union, a 184-year-old debating society.
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DeLay warned that a Clinton victory would result in higher taxes and bloated government. He also said she would seek to create a British’style publicly funded health care system, a prediction that was met with thunderous applause. (emphasis mine)

“By the way, there’s no one denied health care in America. There are 47 million people who don’t have health insurance, but no American is denied health care in America,” he said to derisive laughter.

Norman Mailer, shown in February, cultivated a streetwise, brawling, larger-than-life image.

Norman Mailer, the outspoken writer whose prize-winning works made him a towering figure on the American stage for more than 50 years, is dead. He was 84.

I don’t think Fred really wants to throw them under the bus, but I bet many feel that way after reading this! Telling people you plan on tinkering with their retirement is not the best strategy for taking the White House in ‘08, Fred.

Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson on Friday proposed reducing benefits promised to future retirees and establishing a system of voluntary personal retirement accounts under Social Security to help shore up the program’s finances.

“If somebody’s got a better idea let them put it on the table,” said the former Tennessee senator in a challenge to fellow Republicans as well as Democrats vying for the White House in 2008.

Given their track record in economics, would you feel secure in the knowledge that a republican is about to ‘fix’ your future? Not smart, Fred. Good luck with it though.

While we have our eyes on Iraq, our troops in Afghanistan have now also had their deadliest year since our invasion in 2001.

From USA Today: