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REASONED HATRED 2
By Peter Fredson
November 18, 2005
Several weeks ago a fellow blogger remarked that I showed “unreasoning hatred” of George Bush. I then wrote an essay showing how I used reason to identify my hatred of Bush and specified his intolerable religious chauvinism.
Now I will give additional reasons why I think George Bush is the very worst President the U.S. has ever had, and that this country is in enormous danger of becoming a variant of fascist theocracy.
First and (…)

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats demanded that oil company executives who testified last week about skyrocketing energy prices reappear before lawmakers and testify under oath, after news reports raised questions about the truthfulness of their testimony.
Leading oil company executives long have denied taking part in a secretive energy task force run in 2001 by Vice President Dick Cheney .../... (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051116/pl_afp/usoilenergypolitics

TOKYO - Two teenage boys who took the antiviral drug Tamiflu exhibited abnormal behavior that led to their deaths, with one jumping in front of an oncoming truck last year and the other falling from the ninth floor of a building earlier this year, health ministry and other sources said Saturday.
The drug in Japan carries a note listing impaired consciousness, abnormal behaviors, hallucination and other psychological and neurological symptoms as possible serious side effects. The ministry (…)

The U.S. government has now admitted its troops used white phosphorous as an incendiary weapon against Iraqis during the assault on Fallujah a year ago. Chemical weapons experts say such attacks are in violation of international law banning the use of chemical weapons. We speak with columnist George Monbiot and the news director of RAI TV, the Italian TV network that produced the film "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre." [includes rush transcript] The U.S. government has now admitted its troops (…)

How are we ever going to undo all that these people are doing to OUR country? This is BUSH & CO’s Supreme Court. They care nothing for the people of America. As this article from TomPaine shows, this is a law that is historically based in racial rhetoric which has not place in our society today!! Read on and weep for us................... But we must NEVER give up!!!! Supreme Court stabs another GOP knife into US democracy by upholding ex-felon vote ban by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey (…)

By Sheila Samples
"Preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader — a dictator — willing to use those dreaded ’extraordinary measures,’ which few know how, or are willing to employ." — Michael Ledeen
Goodness gracious! Henny Penny! Since defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and vice president Dick Cheney teamed up to lead the charge to create a New World Order, the whole universe has become untidy. Very untidy. My friend Bernie says Dick and Rummy’s big plan to take over the (…)

In recent months, Planetary has received a lengthy and continuous stream of alarming reports concerning the mental health of President George Walker Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America.
According to reports now swirling through the political community in Washington, President George Bush is suffering through a painful nervous breakdown that was triggered by an acute and recurring outbreak of alcoholism that struck him at the time of Hurricane Katrina.
Informed (…)

Today I had a chance to see Tucker Carlson attempt to grill BYU Physics Professor Dr. Steven Jones. Carlson implied that the Professor was aiding evil terrorists in the Middle East. He never gave the professor more than 10 seconds without interrupting him.
Professor Jones is to be commended, though, because he made the key point that buildling 7 wasn’t hit by an airplane and that molten steel was found in the basements of all three buildings weeks later, when only massive amounts of (…)

Iraq Is Bush’s War Buck Stops At His Desk And He Cannot Duck Responsibility Or Accountability The President Cannot Claim He Was Misled As He Continues To Mislead
WASHINGTON - November 14 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement today on the Bush Administration’s attacks on critics of his Iraq policy:
"Let there be no mistake about it, Iraq is Bush’s war. The buck stops at his desk and he cannot duck responsibility or accountability for the failure of his war (…)

Judge Samuel Alito Jr.’s insistence that the Constitution does not protect abortion rights is not the only alarming aspect of a newly released memo he wrote in 1985. That statement strongly suggests that Judge Alito is far outside the legal mainstream and that senators should question him closely about it. They should be prepared to reject his nomination to the Supreme Court if he cannot put to rest the serious concerns that the memo, part of a job application, raises about his worthiness to (…)