Don’s Random Thoughts

The Original pledge:

“I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Note the missing “under god” and “of the United States of America” The “under god” was added to the pledge in 1954. In 1955, “In God We Trust” was added to our paper money. And in 1956 the country’s motto was changed from “E Pluribus Unum” (”Out of many, One”) to “In God We Trust.” All this is part of the red scare period which also brought us McCarthy-ism.

Our founding fathers were wise enough to specifically not include similar wording. Loss of freedom was brought about by scare tactics and manipulation. Doesn’t this sound similar to the way over response to the 9/11 incident? It really scares me.

Thanks to Maria Langar’s blog for pointing out this article.

I’m so glad that it’s election time! Since there is absolutely no other reason for the recent drop of gas prices. Summer use didn’t raise them, the problems with Venezuela hasn’t. Same with Iran. It’s amazing how generous the Republicans (aka Big Business) can be. Of course, we really shouldn’t forget how we’ve been screwed for the non election periods. Unfortunately, people are so forgetful.

If you don’t already believe “president” Bush should be impeached, you haven’t been paying attention.

If you want to learn more about the causes of the 911 incidents, watch these videos:
“Loose Change 2nd Edition”  (Video).
“9/11 Mysteries” (Video). Note the link to Mr Bush.

Much more information is available at http://911scholars.org/.
If you want to know what Bush is doing wrong, just listen to what he says the enemy is doing, it is an almost direct report on what he is doing.

A few of the reasons for impeachment:

• Lying to Congress and the American people about the need to invade Iraq
• Refusing to cooperate with congressional and 9/11 Commission probes
• Violating the Bill of Rights
• Obstruction of justice
• War crimes
• Abuse of power
• Criminal negligence

Somehow this seems a lot more serious than standing in the hallway of the oval office with a cooperative coworker. It’s a whole lot more serious than the antics of President Nixon as well. Why can’t the people who so righteously supported impeachment then, do it now when it’s really needed?

DO-IT-YOURSELF IMPEACHMENT

Use the link above to find out how you can participate in bringing about the impeachment.

The United States usually tries to send election monitors to foreign countries when conditions, better than exist here in these United States, exist. We want to assure a fair and impartial election. Why can’t we have some monitors here to identify the shenanigans. Maybe we could then have a fair and impartial election here.

I read other Blogs and one of my favorite is one done by Maria Langer. I stimbled across it and find the articles very interesting. She is a professional writer, mostly computer how to books for Apple computer software. I’m not too interested in that content since I’m a PC user. I find the web publishing information interesting, the fact she is a professional helicopter pilot interesting, and mostly I find myself in agreement with many of her politic views.
She recently posted a link to an article in Rolling Stone written by Robert F Kennedy Jr about the fraud in the presidential election of 2004, “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?”. It is a very well written article with good associated documentation. I find it amazing that this isn’t reported in the news, but, as Kennedy points out, the press actually contributed to the fraud.
It’s nice to have a blog where they do a good collection of topics of interest.

I was proud of the Dixie Chicks a few years ago when they had the courage to say “Just so you know, we’re ashamed President Bush is from Texas” or something like that. Any way, for some silly reason they said they were sorry for having made the statement?
Well, recently, Natalie, lead Dixie Chick, clarified her statement saying her statement was correct even though she apologized. Evidently their career was affected because of the statement. Isn’t that un-constitutional? When someone expresses their opinion about what their government should be doing, that’s a good thing. More people should, express their opinion, not propaganda recited from some right wing idiot who happens to have a radio or TV show. That is democracy at work. Haven’t seen too much of that recently.
So thanks Dixie Chicks!

A few years ago, I started watching CBS news because I was disgusted with the other “news” services. This was around the time of the inquisition of US Representative Gary Condit, accused of the murder of one of his interns by most of the rest of the news services. All except CBS evening news. It seems Dan Rather took the high road and wanted to see some reason to accuse him or not include it in the news. He was the only true journalist of the time that I saw and for that reason, I switched to CBS news. Needless to say, I was disappointed when, due the shenaigans of the Republicans in providing falsified but creditable documents to CBS news about Bush’s lack of military service, Rather ended up “retiring”. It was nice to see Bob Schieffer move in as interim anchor. Another good news man but only interim? Now Katie Couric will be anchor. Are they kidding? Not the same caliber. Hopefully she does continue the standard of reliable journalistic news, not entertainment news.
I visited Texas for a while recently and I confirmed that not all Texans are Bush like. Too many but not all. Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer are from Texas as well as the Dixie Chicks. Maybe there is hope.
When you watch or listen to “news”. Think about whether they are being true journalists or is the report being sensational and incomplete. Without reliable journalism, there isn’t much hope for exposing the truth about anything. Only the business interests will be served. Only profit, profit, profit. No truth, truth, truth.
I think the root cause of the disintegration of reliable news is the consolidation of many independent services into large corporate services. They provide the corporate messages not news.

Countdown until we’re rid of Bush.

Wow! More tapes from Osama Bin Ladin. How convenient, again, and again. These messages seem to always be related for a need by the Bush folks to divert opinion away from some damaging report about Bush or steer opinion to the illogical desires of the Bush folks. Does anybody still believe anything the Bush folks say. If so why?
They’re criminals who, if allowed to continue, will eliminate the constitution and we’ll be left with King George. Hasn’t our country been rather successful when most of the rest of the administrations were at least more honest and restrained in their interpretation of the constitution?
I just don’t believe any of this stuff, and everything that Bush says.
I do have to wonder if Osama Bin Laden even exists, if he does, whether he had anything more to do with 9/11 than Bush did. Too many things that were done or not done by other administrations that were factors in 9/11 occurring when not done or done by Bush’s administration. i don’t believe that much in coincidence.
Come on folks, dump the bum! He sets a bad example for your kids.

Th Right Wing (Wrong Wing actually) when called on any of their unconstitutional actions always plays the “We’re at War” card. We are not at war. We had a major incident possibly perpetrated by villainous people but, as evidenced by subsequent incidents, this isn’t anything like a war. In the first place, a War must be declared by the Congress. Authorizing the President to take a police action does not amount to a declaration of war. All this destruction and loss of life in Iraq has nothing to do with fighting the enemy and everything to do with a zealot’s insanity. Remember Afghanistan? Remember bin Laden? I know it’s hard.
Have we really done very much to improve security here like inspecting cargo containers. No. That would impact business unfavorably.
This isn’t a war. This is actually a business and/or political plan.