The war on citizens!

Not even a week into the year and we hear of more and more corruption and more death. This is not the USA that my parents so believed in. It is sad...more of our children were killed in Iraq and yet the cheer leader tells us the economy is going great! Are you happy? Is your job secure? Are your kids safe? How about your pension...trust you have one?

This corrupt administration is waging war on US citizens and they have the audacity to have spent time money and energy on that stupid war on Christmas crap. Let's hear more about the war on citizens - not on a figment of their imaginations.

Let's see:

Women will be forced to bear unwanted children - but they take away money that can help her with the child after it is born.

They talk big about supporting the troops - but don't pay them well or give them the best equipment and then they cut them loose after they get home - especially if they got hurt or lost a job....

They talk highly of education - and then cut college grant funding so the rich can keep the big tax breaks.

They make human citizens pay all bills with a corrupt bankruptcy "reform" law engineered by the credit card companies but allow major corporations to file bankruptcy and not pay their bills [pensions]

They talk big about preparedness and compassion and then allow people to die in New Orleans. [There are also many still missing.]

on and on

IT'S A WAR ON CITIZENS...yell it loud and often

and now this breaking news from the New York Times

Extra Armor Could Have Saved Many Lives, Study Shows
By MICHAEL MOSS
A secret Pentagon study has found that at least 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to their upper body could have survived if they had extra body armor. That armor has been available since 2003 but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials.

DAMN THEM ALL IN THIS CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION

Happy 2006

When I think back over 2005 I see that many of my wishes came true! After the shrub's 2nd appointment, I was down but figured if given enough rope this administration would implode!
[I love to mix my metaphors:)]

Lived in D.C. long enough to have learned and seen that power corrupts - no matter if you are a D, an R or an I or if you are inside or outside the administration. If you have a position seen as having power and access - you do most anything to hold onto it!

So the crooks, led by the cheer-leader-in-chief, or is it now the cokehead-in-chief? or the liquorbrained-in-chief? He is so often more incoherent than usual he either is back to abusing substances or his years of debauchery have taken a big toll on whatever brain he had. He's an embarrassment to the country and to the world.

I read that he is on his "ranch" dealing with the alleged "brush." Its not a ranch I gather it was a pig farm and as for his brush dealings - I think he's out there drinking...he's not the type to do physical labor - he hires people for that - its a family tradition. And he rides his mountain bike - hip hip hooray - gotta keep buff for the next costumed performance....[he has more costumes than do my gay queen friends] - is there a connection between his interest in his body and those costumes and gayness? I think so - go back and read my April 28 entry.

Anyway I digressed - a trait of mine - I am a happier camper heading into 2006... The repugs have fires to put out all over the place..indictments, upcoming hearings on illegal spying, a supreme court appointment hearing that worries them, other repugs running as fast as their fat little legs can take them - AWAY from the shrub.... Cunningham admitting guilt, Abramoff probably working out a plea, "lesser" Enron people [remember Enron?] pleading and maybe testifying against the higher ups... I only hope that some progressives stay out there swinging away at what this administration is doing - I have almost given up on the Dem leaders - most of them are repugs in dem clothing- why else are they so quiet? I bet the mantra is stay center, stay in Iraq, don't rock the boat...well that kind of thinking has lost them power and will continue to keep them out of power- we need leaders who LEAD - not try to stay center.

We all need to take a pledge to not support ANY candidate who does not make a speedy end to the Iraq war a priority in their campaign. So John Kerry, Hillary and Joe Lieberman - bye bye...and I have added that unless you represent ME and not the corporations I will work against you even if you are a D...

There are those who say electing D's will get us chairs of committees. I respectfully disagree..what matters who the chair is if you are still a repug and only put on a costume like the shrub does?