Memorial Day Reflection

I am three quarters Italian...my homeland is an area in Tuscany...hard to find a more beautiful area...one day I will finally see Florence and the home of the Medici...interesting group of people the Medici...be amazing to find a villa to live on...With the 'Net, I can still blog...I will get to my homeland soon...after fighting for 48 years, or at least thirty years since I turned 18, I am tried of banging my head against the wall...I know if I stop banging my head, the headache will go away!!! But I really don't think the American people have a voice anymore...we just don't matter...we have blogs to vent on, but the politicians do what big business wants...unless we get to vote on the issues, I just don't believe the two party system works anymore...if one party lead by King George can rape and rewrite the Constitution, Democracy is starting to fail...when the Democrats have lost the power to fight back, the system is failing...when 70% of American wants to bring the troops home and our voice is ignored by both parties, we have ceased to matter...another 500 soldiers will die by September...billions of more dollars wasted...I went back and read about how Vietnam was defunded and it took about three years of fighting with Nixon...I hope this war can get defunded in less time...I am a persistent person...but there is a fine line between persistent and stupidity...look at King George...retreat is not surrender...I am starting the process of selling my house but with the current market, plus I have to convince my brother to sell our "homestead", I just may pack up and leave....my brother can rent the house...I close friend, a life long Republican who left the party because of Bush, Chaney, and Rove, sold her house, moved to Costa Rica, teaches English as a second language and couldn't be happier....she loves Costa Rice...I am ready to move there too....I could live in the mountains, teach English, which I have done for twelve years at the community college level, would be amazing...so day by day I plan to leave the madness behind...I feel like I am walking away, but I am tried of being voiceless...I feel it is simply time to move on...maybe Ed, Ruthann, CA, Pam, Jamie, Steve in Iowa, Bill, Todd, and the rest of the gang, can buy an island somewhere and leave in Freedom and PEACE...Memorial Day is here...my dad was killed in Vietnam...for the 3400 plus killed in Iraq, the 385 plus killed in Afghanistan, and all the others who have died since the USA fought for its freedom back in the 1770s and all the others who have served this Country and our serving today and over this weekend, we need to say THANK YOU and remember them this weekend...kept them close to our hearts...and hope all our politicians find a conscience...

Bush, War, and Dems

The Dems did make a lot of noise after the election without having the votes to back up the noise...Did I miss something after the 2006 election when the Dems had only something like a 232-201 majority in the House, far from the 287 votes needed to override a King George veto...and the Dems also had a slim 50 seats plus one independent Democrat who votes Republican to 49 majority...far from the 66 votes needed to override the King's veto...I was saying back in December 2006 the Dems don't have the juice or power to get the Republicans to break away from the King and influence the war policy and funding...the King is to stubborn to change his mind even when something like 70% of Americans want to start bringing our troops home...Did anyone really think the Dems would get Bush to sign a bill with timelines and withdrawal dates or have his fellow Republicans jump ship and override the King's veto?...the Republicans are lemming heading to the ocean in mass...all the Dems could do is keep sending the same bill to the King until the funding for the troops was a real issue and try to blame Bush for vetoing all the bills with all the money he requested and hope more people blame the King and the Republicans who continue to support him instead of blaming the Dems...the Dems had two choices in my mind: the Dems could simply send the King a bill with no withdrawal dates or even benchmarks with teeth, basically give the King what the King wants...or keep sending the King bills he would only veto and the Dems won't have the votes to override the King and either way we all lose, especially the troops, since the troops would be underfunded eventually while still fighting...when did the Dems ever have the power to end the war without the help of the Republicans? Again, what did I miss?...and the Republicans, probably lead by Doctors Evil, Chaney and Rove, kept the lemming Republicans in line...did anyone really think the Dems could end the war themselves without having the votes in the Senate or the House to take on the King...I never thought the Dems had a chance to make any noise...if anything, the Dems didn't want to risk being the ones who cut off funding for the troops...and how many of us want the troops not funded while they are still fighting the civil war in Iraq...What options did the Dems really have? Keep rolling the rock up the hill and have it fall back down on them? How long could they really do that? Edwards can saying send the King the same bill but he doesn't have to run for re-election in the House or Senate...Trust me, I have lost faith in the two party system...neither party is doing the will of the people...only maneuvering for position in the 2008 election...which is the real crime....worrying about re-elections and positioning for the 2008 presidential election, instead of listening to the majority of the American people...the Dems should take their share of the blame...the King called their bluff...what does the King have to lose? He is already naked...the lemmings are too afraid to hold the King accountable...and the Dems never had the power to influence policy...the Dems keep rolling the rock up the hill and the rock keeps falling on them, on the American people, the troops, and the two party system...and now the King trots out the war horse that al Qaeada in Iraq wants to kill Americans...information from 2005...and why are we suppose to believe the King now after all his lies...shocking that al Qaeda wants its followers to kill Americans...all the King has is the fear card...and his lies... information from 2005 he disclassifies to give a commencement speech!

Dems And GOP Need to Ban Together

The Dems don't have any balls, but the larger problem (pun intended) is the Dems don't have enough votes to influence policy...the Dems only have a simple majority...not a 2/3ths majority needed to override the King and actually influence policy about the Iraq War and override the GOP...the Republicans need to grow some balls too and stand up to King George like the Republicans did to Nixon and his bombing of Cambodia...the Democrats cannot fight the battle alone...Some Republicans are slowly breaking away, and only when more Republicans break away will the House and the Senate finally have the power to override the King and get our troops out of the civil war in Iraq and let them fight the real war on terror around the world...the Taliban and al Qaeda are mainly in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan...yes, there are some "terrorists" in Iraq but they are not the majority of the people fighting the US troops and the insurgency...far from a majority...the idea the Taliban will take over Iraq is ludicrous...the Shiite are 60% of the population...the Sunni around 25%...like the Shiite and Sadr and going to let their life-long enemies take over Iraq when the Shiite want to take the country after Saddam's reign...Am I missing something about that fear induced rhetoric the terrorists will take over Iraq when we leave? The Shiite are simply going to surrender? If the Taliban and al Qaeda continue to fight for control of Iraq, the civil war will go on for decades...while the majority of the Taliban and al Qaeda, the real terrorists who bombed America, live and reform in Pakistan and Afghanistan...as I have stated many times, the war on terror needs to be fought around the world not in Iraq which had no terrorists in it before Bushworld decided to destabilize Iraq...the "terrorists" in Iraq are too busy fighting the Shiite and other Sunnis to bomb America...however, the "terrorists" in Pakistan and Afghanistan and around the world need our attention...until the Dems and GOP fight together, King George will continue to rule...

Insanity And The Terrorist In Bushworld

The whole Iraq situation is just nuts...someone help me!!! Chaney goes to the Middle East to talk with Maliki and the gang and Chaney states things are improving and there is a greater sense of urgency among the Iraqis...then senior Iraqi officials fly to Washington to meet one-on-one with members of Congress to say leaving Iraq would be disastrous...then a majority of the Iraqi Parliament votes to end the US resolution and wants to set a timeline for US troops to leave...Huh? then the US Government Accountability Office issues a draft stating that between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq's declared oil production over the last four years are unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling...something like 5 to 15 million dollars a day....another theory is the Iraqis are just making up the production numbers...while US gas prices seem to go up everyday and are well over $3 a gallon in some areas...then the US doesn't want the Iraqi Parliament to take two months off during the summer while the US Congress takes August off...seems to be democracy is taking hold in Iraq...what am I missing? McNulty resigns: Gonzales still has no clue...a known terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, who is linked to a series of deadly attacks, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airline heading to Venezuela that killed 73 people, is in the US illegally. Carriles was being held on immigration charges, but a federal judge dismissed the immigration charges, and now Carriles is free and the US is harboring a known terrorist. A Massachusetts Congressman even questioned Gonzales at his latest hearing about the Carriles case and of course, Gonzo barely knew anything and said he would check into the situation. The US District Judge, Kathleen Cardone, stated the "US government practiced fraud, deceit, and trickery when it interviewed Posada," and she had no choice but to set him free. Gonzo's Justice Department doing more crack work...Plus the Bush administration refuses to extradite Carriles to Cuba or Venezuela. One theory is Carriles was a member of the US Special Services for many years, and knows to many secrets. What a country under Bushworld...

Gonzales and Card's Bedside Meeting

King George personally killed a Justice Department internal probe into the Ashcroft bed side meeting...King George simply denied investigators security clearance and the internal probe was killed. What I find amazing is that Ashcroft even told King George what he doing with the warrantless wiretaps was illegal...Last time I checked, Ashcroft has drank the koolaid and is a life long conservative...Even Robert Mueller, the director of the CIA was willing to resign because of what Bush and Gonzales and Card were trying to do! Even the US Justice Department considered the program illegal...US law makes it a crime to order domestic surveillance without a warrant. But King George went ahead and ordered the program and renewed it 30 times...and the Justice Department even told King George the warrantless wiretaps were illegal...as Jonathan Turley, a constitution lawyer said, "This would be a clear impeachable offense. I don't know of a more clear potential charge of impeachment with the modern presidency." How anyone can continue to support King George simply amazes me... I just hope the Democrats can get their act together and win the 2008 election...but I really don't think Hillary or Obama can win...we live in a racist and sexist and homophobic country...the swing votes the Democrats need to win may not be ready to vote for a woman or a black man...I hope I am wrong...

Dems And GOP Need To Band Together

I agree the Dems don't have any balls, but the larger problem (pun intended) is the Dems don't have enough votes to influence policy...the Dems only have a simple majority...not a 2/3ths majority needed to override the King and actually influence policy about the Iraq War and override the GOP...the Republicans need to grow some balls too and stand up to King George like the Republicans did to Nixon and his bombing of Cambodia...the Democrats cannot fight the battle alone...Some Republicans are slowly breaking away, and only when more Republicans break away will the House and the Senate finally have the power to override the King and get our troops out of the civil war in Iraq and let them fight the real war on terror around the world...the Taliban and al Qaeda are mainly in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan...yes, there are some "terrorists" in Iraq but they are not the majority of the people fighting the US troops and the insurgency...far from a majority...the idea the Taliban will take over Iraq is ludicrous...the Shiite are 60% of the population...the Sunni around 25%...like the Shiite and Sadr and going to let their life-long enemies take over Iraq when the Shiite want to take the country after Saddam's reign...Am I missing something about that fear induced rhetoric the terrorists will take over Iraq when we leave? The Shiite are simply going to surrender? If the Taliban and al Qaeda continue to fight for control of Iraq, the civil war will go on for decades...while the majority of the Taliban and al Qaeda, the real terrorists who bombed America, live and reform in Pakistan and Afghanistan...as I have stated many times, the war on terror needs to be fought around the world not in Iraq which had no terrorists in it before Bushworld decided to destabilize Iraq...the "terrorists" in Iraq are too busy fighting the Shiite and other Sunnis to bomb America...however, the "terrorists" in Pakistan and Afghanistan and around the world need our attention...until the Dems and GOP fight together, King George will continue to rule...