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Sunday, November 30, 2008

ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG

MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR 1954'S BASTARDIZATION OF THE PLEDGE - DEAD AT 97

ALEXANDRIA, Pa. - The Rev. George M. Docherty, credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance (in 1954 - 10 years before I was born - so not THAT long ago), has died at 97.
Docherty, then pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, just blocks from the White House, gave a sermon in 1952 saying the pledge should acknowledge God.

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and was unfamiliar with the pledge until he heard it recited by his 7-year-old son, Garth.

"I didn't know that the Pledge of Allegiance was, and he recited it, 'one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,'" he recalled in an interview with The Associated Press in 2004. "I came from Scotland, where we said 'God save our gracious queen,' 'God save our gracious king.' Here was the Pledge of Allegiance, and God wasn't in it at all."

There was little effect from that initial sermon, but he delivered it again on Feb. 7, 1954, after learning that President Dwight Eisenhower would be at the church.

The next day, Rep. Charles G. Oakman, R-Mich., introduced a bill to add the phrase "under God" to the pledge, and a companion bill was introduced in the Senate.

Eisenhower signed the law on Flag Day that year.


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New York Times

June 27, 2002

Half a century ago, at the height of anti-Communist fervor, Congress added the words ''under God'' to the Pledge of Allegiance. It was a petty attempt to link patriotism with religious piety, to distinguish us from the godless Soviets.

But after millions of repetitions over the years, the phrase has become part of the backdrop of American life, just like the words ''In God We Trust'' on our coins and ''God bless America'' uttered by presidents at the end of important speeches.

Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California ruled 2 to 1 that those words in the pledge violate the First Amendment, which says that ''Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.''

The majority sided with Michael Newdow, who had complained that his daughter is injured when forced to listen to public school teachers lead students daily in a pledge that includes the assertion that there is a God.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Who was more responsible - the "Religious" Organizational Partners - Adult Men - or the Drafted German Boys ?












Saturday, September 13, 2008

Obamanation






















Wednesday, September 10, 2008

McCain Played The Racist Card

Watched 'Inside Edition' tonight. The Lipstick on a Pig the lead story. Left it as an open question.That is what caught my eye.. Then the blond pretty former Journalist 'previewed' John McCain's latest attack ad. Setting it up as that - a fun game of 'fresh today' attack ads Keep with me- this was America as we have all grown up in dying nationwide on TV. Just prior to the playing the preview - the host played Mavericks - McCain and Palin are presentedas Superheroes - images of them soaring through blue sky. Drudge today had a picture of the mock-up of an imagined Palin Superhero doll.Short skirt - lots of leg. Lots of doll leg. Now the attack ad. The video clip opens with a snarling wolf.Half White and Half Black. He is the lead wolf in a charging pack. Most white.But he is leading and he is Half Black and Half White. Described by the announcer as coming for Sarah Palin. The announcer says he has already attacked Palin - and that he will notstop until he destroy her. Seriously. The WOLF turns around and attacks- but now he as he is going in for the kill he has turned .... ALL BLACK. -------------------------------------------- This is 2008.40 years after 1968.An ENTIRE Generation KNOWS this is wrong and why it is wrong.Half of this living Generation is supporting this and the other have may not notice. A good man who happens to be mixed race is has been literally DEHUMANIZED into the form of a animal - not a man, a dangerous animal. A US Senator reduced to a wild out of control animal - accused of attacking a white woman. (Didn't the last RNC head apologize for the Republican's racist Southern Strategy. And now this ?) These people tonight expressed in no uncertain terms that the racists were not yet defeated. The corrupt GOP played the race card tonight.Condi Rice and Clarence Thomas will sleep well in mansions on 1000 count egyptian cotton sheets. Tonight the racist Republican party told an entire race. 'We are not done yet.' On the same day they accused a Black Man of daring to insult a White Woman, Team McCain unleashed the wolves. A day after they imagined Obama as a leering pedophile trying to sexualize children.And Palin was the one insulted and attacked today. I am very sad John McCain did this to America tonight.Children for a generation will think this is ok from a man who may be President. Not a 527 attack ad.This was McCain.'I am John McCain and I approved this message.' Get a copy of Inside Edition if you hope to see this.They snuck played it on Inside Edition - and now the attack ad is hidden. McCain's You Tube channel put up a new 'Fact Check' ad this time usingthe WOLVES to represent the lawyers Obama has employed to learn about Ms. Palin. The exact same image - the Black snarling Wolf threatening a white woman. You know what happened to a Black Man who was accused of messing around with a White man's woman don't you? Accused - it did not have to be true.Blacks had better stay in line or they could be accused of something.'Now you don't want to be accused of something now do you boy ?' ------------------------------------- Of course the boy - did not always have to be white. Lets not forget thatWhen there is a failure to communicate - boy can be sure the Man will make him aware.

"What we've got here is a failure to communicate."

Thursday, August 28, 2008

McCain's Daughters - they dont show the one on the right much.

McShame McSame















McCain - Palin 2008





This lady has been Gov of Alaska for only 20 Months.
Before that she was on the City Council and Mayor of a town of less than 6000 people.
A joke choice.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

IT'S A SMALL WORLD - Ride It Here

Vintage Disneyland - post 1964 New York World Exposition


PARIS Disneyland "It's A Small World"

Franconia Notch NH





Spent the day and night in Franconia Notch.
One of my favorite spots in the world - and just over 2 hours from our front door. Hiked The Flume - and took the Tram to the top of Cannon Mountain for some amazing hiking along the rim.






Thursday, August 21, 2008

FASCISM ALERT


smokinggun.com

AUGUST 21--The next time you forget to return a couple of library books (and ignore those annoying letters about the overdue status of said volumes), think of Heidi Dalibor.

The Wisconsin woman, 20, was arrested earlier this month in connection with a pair of books overdue for several months.

Dalibor, who made the mistake of ignoring a court citation issued after she failed to respond to letters and phone calls from the Grafton library, and on August 6 for failing to return copies of Janet Fitch's bestseller "White Oleander" (a 1999 Oprah Book Club selection) and "Angels & Demons," author Dan Brown's follow-up to the "The Da Vinci Code she was "apprehended" at her family's home, CUFFED and STUFFED in a police cruiser, taken away and booked for violating the "overdue library materials" ordinance.

She also had to pose for a mug shot at the Grafton Police Department.

Dalibor subsequently settled with the library by paying her overdue fines.

The Answer is TWELVE Homes ... 5 on the McCain Compound alone


Kaine on McCain's House Gaffe: "He Couldn't Count High Enough"

August 21, 2008

Obama V.P. prospect and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine mocked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Thursday for not knowing exactly how many houses he owns.

"I understand that Sen. McCain was asked yesterday this question, 'how many houses do you own?,' and he couldn't answer that question. He couldn’t count high enough apparently to even know how many houses he owns," said Kaine.

Kaine, who made his remarks on CNN's "American Morning," was referring to an interview that the presumptive Republican nominee gave to Politico on Wednesday when the Arizona senator was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own.

"I think -- I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. "It's condominiums where -- I'll have them get to you."

The correct answer, McCain's staff told Politico, is at least four, located in Arizona, California and Virginia.

(Vauge undercounting - in a word - a lie.)

Newsweek estimated this summer that the potential first couple owns at least seven properties







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Thank Bill Clinton - he signed DOMA into Law

8/21/08

WASHINGTON — Same-sex marriage is legal in two states, but not a single one will show up in the 2010 census.

The Census Bureau says the federal Defense of Marriage Act bars the agency from recognizing gay marriages in the nation's 10-year count, even though the marriages are legal in Massachusetts and California.

The agency's director, Steven Murdock, said in an interview Thursday that the 1996 federal law "has that effect, in terms of being a federal agency. We are restricted by it."

The Census Bureau does not ask people about their sexual orientation, but it does ask about their relationships to the head of the household. Many gay couples are listed in census figures as unmarried, same-sex partners, though it is an imperfect tally of all gay couples.

Murdock said the bureau will strive to count same-sex couples in the 2010 census, just as it has in the past.

But those people who say they are married will be reclassified as unmarried by the Federal Government in it's records.

Same-sex couples with no children will not be classified as families, according the bureau's policy.

Those with children who are related to the head of the household will be classified as families.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Meet Army Special Forces Commander Schroer

After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Army Special Forces Commander Schroer became director of a 120-member classified organization that tracked and targeted international terrorists. He routinely briefed the country's top officials, including Vice President Cheney.


He retired.

He had a sex change.

Now She can not get a job.

She has however filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government.
It was the Library of Congress that will not give Schoer a job
as a Terrorism Research Analyst.

Washington Post has the story.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Collection of Commentary ....

Senator Max Cleland - Former member of the 9/11 Commission, resigned in December 2003:
"I, as a member of the [9/11] Commission, cannot look any American in the eye... It is a national scandal... this White House wants to cover [9/11] up."


Senator Mark Dayton - Member, Senate Committee on Armed Services and Homeland Security:
"[NORAD] lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 Commission.. .the most gross incompetence and dereliction of responsibility and negligence"


Congressman Ron Paul - Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee:
“The [9/11] investigations that have been done so far are more or less cover-up and no real explanation"


Congressman Curt Weldon:
"[9/11 Commission] there's something very sinister going on here... something desperately wrong... This involved what is right now the covering up of information that led to the deaths of 3,000 people"


Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney - Member of the House Armed Services Committee:
“The [9/11] Commission ran up against obstruction by the administration and non-cooperation from government agencies... the errors and omissions immediately jumped out at us"


Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh:
"[9/11 Commission findings] raise serious challenges to the commission's credibility and, if the facts prove out, might just render the commission historically insignificant itself"


Former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts, PhD:
"Distinguished national and international scientists and scholars present massive evidence that the 9/11 Commission Report is a hoax and that the 9/11 "terrorist attack" has been manipulated to serve a hegemonic agenda in the Middle East... We know that it is strictly impossible for any building, much less steel columned buildings, to "pancake" at free fall speed. Therefore, it is a non-controversial fact that the official explanation of the collapse of the WTC buildings is false"


Assistant Secretary of Housing, Catherine Austin Fitts:
"The official story could not possibly have happened... It’s not possible. It’s not operationally feasible... The Commission was a whitewash."

Bush has achieved America's Demise

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.

by Paul Craig Roberts

The Bush regime is proceeding exactly as the Nazi regime proceeded. First, eliminate every person of conscience and integrity from the government. Second, redefine duty as service to the leader: “You are with us or against us” – a formulation that leaves no place for duty to the U.S. Constitution. Patriotism is redefined from loyalty to country and Constitution to loyalty to the government’s leader.

Americans are too inattentive and distracted to be aware of the grave danger that the neoconservative Bush regime presents to American liberty and to world stability. The neoconservative drive to achieve hegemony over the American people and the entire world is similar to Hitler’s drive for hegemony. Hitler used racial superiority to justify Germany’s right to ride roughshod over other peoples and the right of the Nazi elite to rule over the German people. Neoconservatives use “American exceptionalism” and “the war on terror.” There is no practical difference. Hitler cared no more about the peoples he mowed down in his drive for supremacy than the neoconservatives care about 655,000 dead Iraqis, 100,000 disabled American troops, and 2,747 dead ones.

When Bush the Decider claims unconstitutional powers and uses “signing statements” to negate U.S. law whenever he feels the rule of law is in the way of his leadership, he is remarkably similar to Hitler, the Führer, who told the Reichstag on Feb. 20, 1938: “A man who feels it his duty at such an hour to assume the leadership of his people is not responsible to the laws of parliamentary usage or to a particular democratic conception, but solely to the mission placed upon him. And anyone who interferes with this mission is an enemy of the people.”

Neocons Hate Reagan

counterpunch.com

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.


The Mindlessness is Total
Are You Ready for Nuclear War?
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
8/19/08

The neocons hated President Reagan, because he ended the cold war with diplomacy, when they desired a military victory over the Soviet Union.

Deprived of this, the neocons now want victory over Russia.

Today, Reagan is gone. The Republican Establishment is gone. There are no conservative power centers, only neoconservative power centers closely allied with Israel, which uses the billions of dollars funneled into Israeli coffers by US taxpayers to influence US elections and foreign policy.

The Republican candidate for president is a warmonger. There are no checks remaining in the Republican Party on the neocons’ proclivity for war. What Republican constituencies oppose war? Can anyone name one?



The Democrats are not much better, but they have some constituencies that are not enamored of war in order to establish US world hegemony. The Rapture Evangelicals, who fervently desire Armageddon, are not Democrats; nor are the brainwashed Brownshirts desperate to vent their frustrations by striking at someone, somewhere, anywhere.

I get emails from these Brownshirts and attest that their hate-filled ignorance is extraordinary. They are all Republicans, and yet they think they are conservatives. They have no idea who I am, but since I criticize the Bush Regime and America’s belligerent foreign policy, they think I am a “liberal commie pinko.”

The only literate sentence this legion of fools has ever managed is: “If you hate America so much, why don’t you move to Cuba!”



Such is the current state of a Reagan political appointee in today’s Republican Party.

He is a “liberal commie pinko” who should move to Cuba.

Mad for Obama 08



THREE American Supreme Court Justices still serving made a decision favoring state rights to allow individual citizens of a state the power to PUNISH and JAIL fellow AMERICAN CITIZENS for private consensual sexual pleasure with another adult of the same sex - even if they are in the privacy of their own home, deep in the middle acreage of their own land.

This was not yet FIVE SHORT YEARS AGO.

Those same judges - Scalia, Roberts and Scalia Jr still sit on the court and still want to allow some Americans to treat other American citizens in this way. Shocking really. That time has passed.



Vote Obama 2008 - and vote him the hell out in 2012 if he missteps too far to the right.

Fox News Apologizes to Transgendered Woman on America's Next Top Model

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) issued a media alert over an August 14th Fox News segment discussing the inclusion of a transgender woman, Isis, on the reality show America's Next Top Model. Fox News issued an on-air apology over the segment after the group called it “offensive,” “crude” and “dehumanizing.”

During the segment, Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett bandies about with Us Weekly Editor-at-large Ian Drew about the twenty-two year old model hopeful.

The segment opens with Isis' description of herself as a woman whose “cards were dealt differently.” “Boy, that's an understatement,” Jarred jokes. “Definitely, an understatement,” Drew responds snidely.

After giving a few examples – Calpernia Addams on Transamerican Love Story and Laverne Cox on the current I Want To Work For Diddy – Drew refers to the inclusion of transgender people on reality television as “The Crying Game 2008.” Then goes on to insult the show itself, “I got to tell you, we call it America's Next Top Tranny a lot of the time anyway.

A lot of these girls – you can't tell what they are. And so this just kind of blends in even more. She doesn't look any different from any other contestants who have been on there. I mean they're not exactly, like, the most high-class group of women usually.”

“This time yesterday we aired a segment about a transgender by the name of Isis, who will compete in the upcoming season of the television show America's Next Top Model,” Jarrett said in making the apology on August 15th. “The group GLAAD, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation sent us an email saying it was offensive. That was not our intention. We apologize.”

American Teen Executed By Peers for Being Gay

Yes they were all gang members...

Steven T. Hollis III, 18, of Randallstown and Juan L. Flythe, 17, of West Baltimore - both of whom are members of the Bloods gang, according to police - were arrested and charged Thursday evening with first-degree murder. They are accused of killing a fellow gang member days before his high school graduation in May.

The body of Steven Parrish, 18, was found May 29 in a wooded area near his parents' home and Woodlawn Cemetery.

"It's awful," Baltimore County prosecutor William B. Bickel said in an interview after yesterday's bail-review hearing in Towson. "You're talking about a gangland-style execution because he was gay. They took him out back in a field and stabbed him to death."

Angelo Taylor - NBC ignoring Child Molestation case



Taylor wrapped himself in a flag and was presented by NBC as an American Hero.
Most news links from 2005 on the web have been scrapped - but it did happen and he was charged with Child Molestation. He was 25. She was 15. Sounds more like what until this decade serious adults called Statutory Rape - a very real crime. He copped a guilty plea to a lesser charge ... but the reality remains. The double standard here amazes me - just imagine the shit storm if that had been a 15 year old teenage male he had be caught getting off with? That is his mugshot up there.

Oh yeah... Angelo also is very religious.

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