One from the "I wonder how dumb people are" department:

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So-called U.S. hostage appears to be toy

(CNN) -- A photograph posted on an Islamist Web site appears to be that of an action figure and not a U.S. soldier being held hostage.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/01/iraq.hostage/index.html
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take a look at the picture. very funny. I don't know who's dumber -- the people who thought this would fool anyone, or the people who were fooled and are now spending a lot of time analyzing this picture.
 
posted by Chris at 9:17 PM
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  Barbara Boxer is the only Senator with the balls to stand up and say that something was wrong with the 2004 election. I'm glad someone did this time, but I'm pissed that the Democrats didn't and don't ever stick together and do the right thing.

Maybe my view is naive and simplistic, but it seems like certain things are more important than whether you're going to be called cry-babys by the Republicans. Anyway, today we learned that torture (Alberto G's hearing) and election fraud (electoral vote certification) aren't important enough issues to democrats to warrant much more than a couple peeps before giving in. Wouldn't want to do anything to possibily anger any republicans, that's for sure.

John Kerry was out of the fucking country today! He couldn't even do one very small brave thing for his supporters when his last chance came.

I'd switch back to the Green Party today if it weren't for the fact that those people make me even more crazy. ARRRRG. 
posted by Chris at 8:05 PM
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  R.I.P. Bob Matsui. I never met him, and I guess he wasn't real popular with the real progressive crowd in Sac, but he seemed a decent enough guy and it's sad that he died. If you don't know the details, here you go.

The real reason for my post is that I wanted to direct your attention to the comments on the story on Yahoo News. I don't know what sort of things I'd post if Tom Delay were to die, but I'm pretty sure it won't be as sensitive and pure (not to mention as heterosexual) as this post:

I GET FIRST DIBS ON HIS CORPSE!!!!!!
by: stopdemadness2003 01/02/05 05:41 pm
Msg: 890 of 1424
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I WILL ASS-RAPE THAT FUKKER'S CORPSE JUST AS A FINAL INSULT TO THE LIBERAL PIECE OF SHIT!!!
 
posted by Chris at 5:53 PM
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  Happy Blue Year!

BuyBlue.org has a petition (Blue Year Resolution!) for you to sign saying that you will support local businesses (but not the liquor store with the "Viva Bush" and "No French Wine" signs in the window) and business that support progressive causes. Go sign it! 
posted by Chris at 1:15 PM
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  I just read Howard Dean's speech from a few days ago. Real good stuff. 
posted by Chris at 5:48 PM
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  Don't give your money to Republicans. Progressive Pages is the Website I wanted to build...but someone else is doing it, so that's even better. Go there now, check it out, and contribute your favorite progressive business. 
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 Message from Ramsey Clark
"Bush can run, but he cannot hide from the Constitution"

Dear VoteToImpeach / ImpeachBush.org Members,

President Bush can run, but he cannot hide from the Constitution of the United States. The election does not pardon the President for past, or future "high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Impeachment is not a partisan political issue. The House of Representatives, possessed of the "sole power of impeachment," is required to consider a bill of impeachment on the facts even if every Member were of the same party, or political persuasion, as the President. The seven specific provisions of the Constitution setting forth the powers and duties of the Congress in considering impeachment intend that any President or other civil officer of the United States who has committed a high Crime or Misdemeanor "...shall be removed from Office."

The power of impeachment assures the people against criminal acts and despotic ambitions by government officials.

We, the People have the power to require the House of Representatives to do its duty and act on a bill of impeachment after full investigation and consideration. If it fails to do so those House members who failed to perform this Constitutional duty can and should be voted from office. Remember that President Nixon resigned under threat of impeachment for Watergate less than two years after his landslide reelection in 1972.

Impeachment is Imperative

For the American people who support and defend the Constitution of the United States, who want to prevent further crimes by a lawless administration, who believe we can redeem our country in the eyes of those we have assaulted and those who have witnessed this brutality and who dare to demand of future government leadership, NEVER AGAIN, Impeachment is Imperative. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that we Americans should declare the causes which impel us to impeach.

President George W. Bush chose to wage a war of aggression against Iraq, which had not attacked the United States and presented no imminent threat to our people, or legitimate interests. A small cabal, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby and Rove wrested decision making processes from established institutions of government to reinforce President Bush’s desire to seize Iraq, defying international institutions, the opinions of humankind and the rule of law to commence a disastrous criminal military adventure.

A Campaign of Deceit and False Propaganda 

War of aggression is the first offense listed in the Nuremberg Charter as a Crime against Peace. The Nuremberg Tribunal after hearing evidence of Nazi crimes in World War II convicted the leaders of waging wars of aggression, which it called "the supreme international crime."

At Nuremberg, the Chief U.S. Prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, promised posterity that in the future all nations, including our own, would be held accountable for such crimes.

President Bush and key administration officials engaged in a lengthy campaign of deceit, concealment and false propaganda to create support for, and acceptance of, its war of aggression by claiming Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, harbored terrorists, had close ties with and supported Al Qaeda and intended to attack the U.S., U.S. citizens and U.S. interests. A free society, democratic institutions and constitutional government cannot survive such deceit by its own government.

The U.S. has made civilians and civilian facilities its direct object of attack. It has pursued assassination and summary executions as official policy. President Bush boasted of summary executions in his State of the Union message in 2003. Excessive and indiscriminate force and illegal weapons have been used. Many thousands of Iraqi citizens, whole families, women, children, elderly Iraqis have been killed as a result.

U.S. military casualties exceed 10,000 including more than 1,100 deaths with many additional thousands returned to the United States for physical and mental illnesses.

The U.S. has employed torture, including torture to death, rape and sexual assault and humiliation, as approved and ordered policy from Afghanistan and Guantanamo to Iraq, inflicted on thousands of prisoners, many, if not most, without any evidence of wrongful conduct. An admitted 37 human beings have been murdered while being held in captivity by the United States under these conditions. We know not how many more. All the mounting evidence makes clear that this program of torture and death is not aberrational conduct of rogue or undisciplined soldiers but is rather the policy adopted at the highest levels of the Bush/Rumsfeld chain of command. All this in violation of the Geneva Conventions, the International Convention Against Torture, the laws of all nations and common human decency.

Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States provides: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, Shall Be Removed From Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors

More than 100,000 Dead Based on a Lie 

We learn from the prominent medical journal Lancet of the report by researchers at John Hopkins University, Columbia University and the Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad that the U.S. war of aggression against Iraq and military occupation has cost "at least" 100,000 Iraqi lives already must civilian, women and children. Already President Bush has launched a massive aerial and ground assault on Falluja which may kill thousands of defenseless civilians.

Haiti, where President Bush forced the elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide from office, is in chaos with many thousands killed by widespread daily violence committed by U.S. supported paramilitaries against Aristide supporters.

Nearly 500,000 have voted to impeach. Help us increase that number into millions the Congress cannot ignore.

Every American should choose whether to vote for impeachment entirely on the facts, straight up, or down, without political, or partisan fear, or favor. We owe this to the country, its future, the Constitution and our common heritage. Impeachment is Required Now.

Impeachment now is the only way we, the American people, can promise ourselves and the world that we will not tolerate crimes against peace and humanity by our government. Knowing what we know, to wait longer is to condone what has been done and risk more.

Sincerely,

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posted by Chris at 1:08 PM
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  Think it's all over and Bushy won fair and square? Think again. Here's a particularly interesting link demonstrating massive voter fraud just in one county in Ohio:

http://pages.ivillage.com/americans4america/id20.html 
posted by Chris at 3:44 PM
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