Howard & The White Boys
“Got My Mojo Workin”

This is a documentary from a soldier’s time in Fallujah, with the music by Howard and the White Boys, a band that got it’s start in DeKalb, Il. at NIU in 1988. Great band, and what I’ve heard of their new CD, “Made in Chicago,” is great!

From Children’s Defense League:

“Jesus vs. Jeezus” from: The Pain — When Will It End?

Fred Thompson, Republican. Lying his ass off so that he can be our next president.

Thompson warns of welfare state

LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. - Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Saturday that election of a Democrat to the White House in 2008 would open the way for a welfare state where bigger government, higher taxes and defense cutbacks sap the country’s economic and military strength.

“Our country is at a crossroads,” Thompson told several hundred people at a rally at a community clubhouse.

“We know that the most liberal element of the Democratic Party has taken control of the Democratic Party, and if they win this next election we’re going to go down the road of a welfare state,” he said.

After warning of a government that gets “bigger and bigger,” he said “I don’t think the American people are going to turn the keys to this country over to the most left-wing part of a left-wing party next year.”

“We’ve got to make sure that doesn’t happen,” he said.

Oh, where to begin…

Democrats are “tax and spend”? Well, Republicans “borrow and spend”. How’s that working out for you, America?

Democrats want bigger government? The government, in it’s present state, is the largest it’s ever been… under REPUBLICAN control.

The liberal fringe has taken over the democratic party? Really? With pro-war Hillary and Obama, and an “impeachment is off the table” Pelosi, I beg to differ. No, Mr. Thompson. If liberals were in charge, there would have been no Iraqi war, thousands of our troops would still be alive, hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens would still be alive, and Osama bin Laden might very well be in Prison.

Hell! It’s quite possible that the people lost on 9/11 could be alive today, busy working in their offices high up in the still’standing twin towers… because reports that Osama was about to attack would not have went ignored as it did on your REPUBLICAN watch!

Welfare state, my ass, Fred! If helping make sure poor, sick children get the medical attention they need and deserve, then, yes - call it a welfare state. Ignoring these children’s needs, leaving them to suffer in silence and quite possible die, well, that’s something we liberals won’t do.

And, Mr. Thompson, in case you’re wondering, this is precisely how you and your pro-life, party-of-family-values, REPUBLICAN party have earned the title “HYPOCRITES“.

Lawmakers from parliament’s largest Sunni bloc walked out Saturday[/tag] in protest of the arrest of their leader. Iraq’s army says they have offered to escort the leader from his home, but the leader, Adnan al-Dulaimi, claims they have not. He’s been confined to his home in a standoff for three days.

Iraq is overrun with theft and bribary. Everything from school books to electric meters are on the black market.

Turkey made good on promises to attack the PKK inside of Iraq when they used artillary and airstrikes against the group Saturday. Turkey reports it inflicted heavy casualties on the PKK militants. The U.S. military says it has no reports of Turkish military action within Iraq. Riggghhhhttt!

Iraq’s Shiite Muslim leaders are very worried about the U.S. campaign to turn Sunni Muslims against Islamic extremists. They fear the U.S. is creating an armed force that could one day turn against the government.

Security developments 12/2/07

What have we become? What would we call it if the head of a U.S. corporation were kidnapped because he committed crimes in another country? What happened to extradition? That isn’t good enough for us but it should be good enough for everyone else?

AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.

A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

The admission will alarm the British business community after the case of the so-called NatWest Three, bankers who were extradited to America on fraud charges. More than a dozen other British executives, including senior managers at British Airways and BAE Systems, are under investigation by the US authorities and could face criminal charges in America. extraordinary rendition

Until now it was commonly assumed that US law permitted kidnapping only in the “” of terrorist suspects.

The American government has for the first time made it clear in a British court that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington.

More at the Times Online

SUNDAY TALK

* MTP: Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) on his recent Iraq trip; roundtable of CBN’s David Brody, NBC’s David Gregory, NPR’s Michele Norris, and WaPo’s Eugene Robinson discuss issues important to minority voters and the GOP debate
* FTN: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); David Axelrod (Obama08 strategist) and Howard Wolfson (Clinton08 comm dir)
* This Week: Mike Huckabee (R-AR); roundtable of Peggy Noonan, Elisabeth Bumiller, Katrina vanden Heuvel and George Will; Steve Van Zandt of the E Street Band on bringing rock and roll to the classroom
* FNS: Karl Rove v. DCCC Chair Rep. Chris Van Hollen on 08; FedEx CEO and founder Fred Smith
* Late Edition: Pres. George W. Bush; Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX); Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT); Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno (a Cmdr. in Iraq); Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI); Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)

TV ALERTS

* Political Capital w/ Al Hunt (Bloomberg, repeats throughout weekends): Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM)
* Conversations With Judy Woodruff (Bloomberg, repeats throughout weekends): former
Senators Warren Rudman and John Culver on Iowa and New Hampshire
* Chris Matthews Show 12/1-12/2: Andrew Sullivan, Gloria Borger, John Heilemann, Elisabeth Bumiller discuss “How Much Trouble is Rudy In? And Will Huckabee Ruin Romney’s Plan for an Early Primary Sweep? Condi Rice: How Much Did Her Battle with Rummy and Cheney Harm Foreign Policy?” Quotes here.
* Newsmakers (C-SPAN, 10am, Sunday): TBA
* 60 Minutes (CBS, Sun): Will Smith; one laptop per child; “The Purge” of Iraq’s Christians
* Q&A (C-SPAN, 8pm, Sun): John Micklethwait, editor in chief of The Economist
* GMA and World News (ABC): Afghanistan poll results released 12/3
* The View: Charlie Gibson 12/3; Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) 12/4
* GMA: Caroline Kennedy 12/6
* “Sand and Sorrow” HBO documentary on Darfur narrated by George Clooney, 12/6, 8pm.
* Bill Clinton, Don Imus and others on Barbara Walters’ 10 Most Fascinating on 12/6

Source: Newsie8200

I feel another swiftboating coming on!

US war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have announced they’re planning to descend on Washington, DC this March to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in Iraq.

“The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is for reporters to cover it,” said Liam Madden, a former Marine and member of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War. “That’s left a lot of misconceptions in the minds of the American public about what the true nature of military occupation looks like.”

Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicized incidents of American brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not the isolated incidents perpetrated by “a few bad apples,” as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the group says, of “an increasingly bloody occupation.”

“This is our generation getting to tell history,” Madden told OneWorld, “to ensure that the actual history gets told - that it’s not a sugar-coated, diluted version of what actually happened.”

Iraq Veterans Against the War is calling the gathering a “Winter Soldier,” named after a similar event organized by Vietnam veterans in 1971.

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