STILL THINK DEMOCRATS GIVE A SHIT?

Top Democrats won't attend anti-war rally in WashingtonBy Steven ThommaKnight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - As the anti-war movement arrives in Washington this weekend, many top Democrats are leaving.
Nationally known Democratic war critics, including Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Russell Feingold of Wisconsin and John Kerry of Massachusetts, won't attend what sponsors say will be a big anti-war rally Saturday in Washington.
The only Democratic officeholders who plan to address the rally are Reps. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and John Conyers of Michigan.
Today's leading Democrats head a party divided over the war, and many leaders are wary of standing with anti-war activists, who represent much of the party's base. The divide between anti-war activists and Democratic leaders underscores a challenge the party faces in the 2006 congressional elections and beyond. Some activists say that Democrats such as Clinton and Kerry who criticize the war but refuse to demand a timetable for withdrawal are effectively supporting the status quo - and may not merit future support.
En route to Washington for the rally, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan protested outside Clinton's New York office. "She knows that the war is a lie, but she is waiting for the right time to say it," Sheehan told about 500 cheering supporters. "You say it or you are losing your job."
Spokesmen for the Democrats who are skipping the anti-war event all said they had schedule conflicts. But some leading anti-war activists aren't buying it.
"There are a lot of people here who are wondering, where are the Democrats?" said Tom Andrews, a former Democratic House member from Maine who's now the national director of Win Without War, one of several groups that are organizing three days of protests against the war in Washington starting Saturday.
"The Democratic Party has an identity crisis on this issue. We need voices. We need leadership," Andrews said. "But fear is driving them."
The rally comes at a time when a growing number of Americans want a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, a proposition that both President Bush and many leading Democrats reject.
A poll this week by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that 51 percent of Americans want to keep troops in Iraq until it's stabilized, but the ranks of those who want to set a timetable to withdraw have grown to 57 percent from 49 percent in July. (Evidently some people chose both answers.)
At the same time, a growing number of grassroots Democrats are dissatisfied with their party's leadership in Congress. The percentage of Democrats who are happy with their leaders dropped from 64 percent in May to 49 percent now, the Pew survey found.
Dean, who rallied anti-war activists with his fervent opposition to the war during his 2003-2004 presidential campaign, already was scheduled to spend the weekend meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, spokesman Josh Earnest said.
"His views on the president's handling of the war in Iraq are well documented," Earnest said. The anti-war rally, he said, is "not something the party was involved with."
Kerry planned to be in his home state this weekend, a spokeswoman said. At Brown University on Monday, the senator ripped Bush's conduct of the war, saying the president should admit "countless" mistakes in the war and proclaiming that "real leadership stands up to special interests and sets the course for future generations."
Feingold was scheduled to be out of town, a spokesman said. Feingold is the only national Democrat weighing a 2008 presidential campaign who's endorsed setting a timetable to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
Clinton also didn't plan to attend, a spokesman said.
"Our job is to make them pay a price for continuing to support this war," said Bill Dobbs, a spokesman for United for Peace and Justice, another group that's organizing the anti-war weekend in Washington.
Sixty-six members of Congress have formed an "Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus" that wants either immediate withdrawal or a timetable to withdraw. None of the party's congressional leadership and none of the likely candidates for president are members.
Anti-war organizers said they expected 100,000 people Saturday. A rival group plans a rally Sunday in Washington to show support for the war.
There you have it yet again! Ever wonder why the Democrats made last election's greatest loser the president of their party? Eaaaaaaaaah! Because they're supposed to lose. Our masters may give us a Carter or a Clinton every decade or two who pretends to care more about us more than big oil and defense corporations. But don't let that confuse you into thinking there is more than one powerbase in this country.
Stop supporting these traitors. They're just the sheep's clothing. When given the fake choice between the SA and the SS, the only real choice is between revolution and slavery. Brecken ze?

Here Comes Another Freak, Auto Exhaust Fueled, Monster Hurricane!!

OK; My first question here is the obvious. I'm sure you're thinking the same thing I am. How are they going to blame THIS tragedy on black people? We all heard the rabidly racist Goebbels propaganda ministers lambast poor blacks for being poor and black again and again after Katrina. They ignored the fact that our government stood by while American babies went days without food, formula, water, juice, and being cleaned. I don't believe that this government could have survived the deaths of those babies, especially with the "liberal media"'s cameras right there allowing us all to witness it. I hate the sell out resignationist "liberals" that gave up on us as much as the Nazis, ahem, Neocons. I hate the oil and defense corporation owned media conglomerates with a passion. I have to admit, however, that those cameras saved a lot of lives! If those cameras weren't there in those babies cute little faces, and the American people hadn't witnessed them nearing their dying throes as we did, THEY WOULD BE DEAD. Uncovering the tyranny of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex is not worth that large a price!
Anyway, the Goebbels propaganda ministry tells us that all of the victims are on welfare. Bullshit!!!!!! Those people couldn't afford cars because they work for the tourism industry which refuses to pay them enough to afford an automobile. The Republicans who have stolen and scared their way into absolute rule will not allow a minimum wage bill to pass, and they have paid off and scared enough democrats to prevent any from being voted upon. Social Security is a program for the elderly who have been working and paying taxes all their lives and to whom we owed our pre CIA attack of 911 freedoms. They deserve a dignified twilight to their lives as our advisors, bedrock upon which we build our own families, and our link to the past. Can you imagine childhood without grandpa and grandma? There is no lifelong free money going out to healthy, able bodied, young people unless you are talking about rich heirs or royalty.
To believe the lie about hordes of healthy, young, able bodied blacks living on welfare makes you a Fucking Nazi and I would be more than happy to call you that to your face if you believe the propaganda ministry's lies to that effect. People who believe that bullshit are just as insanely stupid and deserve death as much as the Nazi bastards that believed that Jews were all lazy and conniving, leading to the Holocaust. Unlike the fascist, propagandist commentators, I have worked alongside poor people in the fields, moving tons of toxic shit, and carrying loads that'd break any "self made" well to do asshole heir's back. I have never felt so much like I was going to die than when I spent a twelve hour day working for Labor Ready six months ago, and I've been to war! I hurt for days and my entire upper body was bruised. I could only limp home and crash like I never crashed before. My wife made the accurate assumption that it would take twice what I earned that day just to have a doctor look at the torn skin on my arm. After taxes, I brought home only fourty dollars! Poor people work their asses off! Give a working poor person an auto loan for God's sake. Close down those shady used car lots that plague poor neighborhoods with insane interest rates and overpriced, rusty jilapes! Then, and only then can you assure that everyone will have a vehicle ready to get them away from a disaster! Raise the minimum wage. There should be no such thing as a working poor. Here's another plan! Instead of letting thousands of corporate and government owned busses, vans, trucks, and rental cars get destroyed by water anyway, how about lending them to people who need them to flee for their very lives. All of those vehicles were written off by insurers anyway and most have devices that track their positions, preventing theft.
OK, lets assume that you are a racist bastard who ignores the fact that most poor people are white; and you believe we blacks buy too many fowdies, menthol cigarettes, Nikes and watermelon. Then guess the fuck what? That means we pay sales taxes. If the government is going to just let us die, then they need to return every cent we've paid throughout our lives in sales and payroll taxes and never tax us again!
How much do Iraqis and Afghans pay in taxes? ZZZZZEEEEEERRRRROOOO, so let's stop "freeing" them and try freeing American taxpayers from being under educated so they can improve their lives on their own.
The next issue presented by the Goebbels propaganda ministry, shockingly enough, is a demand for accountability for monies spent to aid the victims of the first monster storm of 2005.
You'll get your accountability when you account for the money spent stealing oil and killing civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why does Helliburton get government contracts without having to bid against other companies? Why do war profiteers get to overcharge by millions on damn near every contract and engage in sickeningly wasteful practises on our dollar. For instance, if a brand new Helliburton SUV has a flat, they get a new SUV instead of fixing it, regardless of where the flat occurred!!! Why are Helliburton employees and the American Civilian Mercenary Hitmen in Iraq getting paid wages that 90% of more educated, skilled, and experienced, and hard working Americans can only dream of? Don't you dare say because of the danger. If that were the case, every private should be getting 80,000 a year or more as well and Iraqi police trainees should all be millionaires. As far as this war is concerned, the real cowards are the average Bushites. They want to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at people they believe hate us and who supposedly want to destroy America so they will one day like us and be our friends. Damn, it doesn't get any more cowardly or stupid than that!
Well, here comes another monster freak hurricane, just like I said it would. We are paying for this global warming all right! I hate being right! Man do I hate it. I mean, it's really getting old.

A GLIMPSE OF THINGS TO COME?

Global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels turned hurricane Katrina into a monster storm. Yes, thank an SUV owner for our worst disaster yet. Even after the intense hurricane season last year, you never heard the words Global warming mentioned as a cause. The fact is, hurricanes feed off of warm water. If the planet gets warmer, you guessed it, there is more, warmer, water. That warmer water creates more, and larger storms period. This simple conclusion doesn't take a PHD in meteorology. I'm not going to give you a lesson in elementary school environmental science, so lets move on.
Another cause of the sheer bedlam, besides the monster storm itself, is the pre-existing poor condition of the levee, pump, and canal systems which were supposed to keep the city of New Orleans dry. The levees were not maintained or fortified as scheduled by the Army Corps of Engineers because funding and manpower required was diverted to Afghanistan and Iraq.
During the hurricane, levees and dams broke, pumps failed, and the sub sea level city filled like a giant bowl. Who knows how many thousands have drowned in their attics or in the flow. Now that the hurricane has passed, there are tens of thousands of Americans wading through hot filth, excrement, and corpses. They are starving! Perhaps much worse, they have no access to clean water for drinking, or bathing. These people are going to start getting sick and thousands more will die. What about the very young?!? What about the elderly?!? What about the Handicapped?!? What were we waiting for?!? We should have staged our gear, vehicles, and personell, and started evacuating people when we saw that big ass donut shaped cloud coming toward our coast! What the hell do we pay taxes for? This will be the worst avoidable disaster in our country's history. Ladies and gentlemen, here is proof that the government doesn't give a shit about you or your family. Oil in Central and Western Asia is the priority, not you!! Where is the National guard to restore order? Where is the Army Corps of engineers? Where are the Navy construction battalions and Navy civil engineering corps? They're in Iraq! American infrastructure is deteriorating and the people who should be fixing dams, levees, and dikes are in Iraq!!! I don't recall Iraqis paying taxes for their services. Now, it seems, help is finally on the way. Washington needs to do some serious PR damage control. I don't really care why they've finally decided to send help after thousands have already died, I'm just glad it's coming. Lets hope it's enough and that the death toll isn't too horrible.
To add insult to injury, for the first couple of days after the disaster, the press has been focusing almost completely on looters. There are thousands dead and thousands more at risk. There are babies that haven't been fed and that have been languishing in intense heat and filth for days, but the biggest story is looters. What more proof do you need that the media doesn't care either? They just see this as an opportinity to portray desperate people as "ruthless lawless crazy niggas". I just don't understand it. These people have no unspoiled or dry food left in their houses. They have no clean water to drink. They have no clean dry clothes of their own. What are they supposed to do? The corporations have already written off the contents of their stores with the insurance companies, let these people get what they need to survive since the government which they paid taxes to wont. There are a few people taking other things, but trust me, the corporations have already written off teverything in those stores. Each corporation involved is getting one or more huge checks from their insurance companies. Looting is a non issue. Hunger and thirst and dead bodies should be the big issue. The corporate executives will be fine as they have plenty of food, water, clothing, and shelter and their babies aren't soaked in filth or starving in humid 100 degree heat indexes. Again, I ask, Where are the democrats??? Why aren't they doing anything about our government's inaction? Why have they allowed our national resources to be so horribly misallocated by the Republicans? Now I ask you what city will be next? Will it be Houston, Miami, Jacksonville, Charleston, Norfolk, Washington? Lets keep destroying our environment and supporting a government that doesn't give a shit whether we live or die, and we'll find out soon enough!