In case you missed it: They're lying us to war again

So this week the Bush administration showed video footage of Iranian speedboats racing around 2 US warships in the Persian Golf (in international waters). They played the video, which showed the boats zooming around, and had audio of some of the radio communication. The voice, (supposedly coming from the speed boats), said: “I am coming to you. … You will explode after … minutes.” The only problem is, it wasn't from the speedboats, and it was dubbed over the video footage.

I won't go in depth on it, but you can check out this blog on it (from New York Times).

Again, Bush and his Administration are fabricating evidence to rile up the American people for war with Iran. Don't believe ANYTHING that comes from these people... We don't want another pointless war!

Diebold (Premier) controls vote count in NH Primary

I just read this blog which tells about Premier (formerly Diebold), running the eVoting machines in New Hampshire. Diebold is the company that has gotten in trouble numerous times over voting machines that can be easily hacked to return bad results. Watch this clip from Democracy Now! And of course the actual testimony of a computer programmer who wrote a program for a Republican to hack the voting machine. Scary stuff!

Now why would anyone want to steal a primary election? Well, whoever did it in the past might be inclined to make sure that a certain candidate wins this time, to further promote their agenda. Or perhaps to make sure certain candidates (Ron Paul) don't win. Or maybe to make other candidates (Hillary) have a surprise victory, to ensure that Republicans have a candidate they can beat..

I'm not saying this is gonna happen.. But look for exit poll numbers which are way off from the actual results. That's a sure sign.. And of course, watch out in November....

Obama surges! Paul gains!

It's been an exciting week! From the Iowa caucuses: Obama destroyed Clinton and Edwards. Since that time, it's become readily apparent that the Democratic ticket is likely to be Obama/Edwards. Edwards has become the attack wing for Obama. He's taken her on directly in attacks that have hurt her, while leaving Obama still relatively clean. They both talk about removing the lifers from Washington politics and changing the system that is broken. It couldn't be any more apparent.

Now New Hampshire: Obama surges past Clinton! Clinton cires. As always happens when you attack, Edwards goes down with Clinton. But I'm sure he's happy to be the VP on a winning ticket this time.

Go Obama!!

And on the Ron Paul side, Ron Paul takes 10% in Iowa, ahead of Guiliani, who had only 3%. Yet Fox still excludes him from their debate. No worries, Paul just buys an hour of airtime right before the debates! haha.. go suck on that Faux News!

Go Ron Paul!

So if you're a Democrat, vote Obama! And if you're a Republican, vote Ron Paul! And if you're an independent, go google/youtube Obama and Paul, and figure out who you like best.

Ron Paul & Dennis Kucinich Ticket

It's time. Let's face it. The best candidates for the future of our Country are Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. They would change the face of politics and the course of humanity if either of them were elected. But neither of them will be. They will both lose their party's primary election. It's going to happen. Face it.

But will the revolution die? When Ron Paul loses the primary, will that be the end? Does it have to be?

I don't think so. If one thing has been made perfectly clear in his campaign, its that he is not as important as his ideas and the hundreds of thousands of people who support them. He has raised as much, if not more, than all of his fellow Republican candidates, due to our financial support, and our belief in his message. We have given him nearly $12 million dollars in this last quarter of fundraising (maybe more come Dec 16th). Could we not do the same in the general election?

Ross Perot showed us in 1992 that if you have money, you can be a contender in the Presidential Election. Well how much are you willing to risk to make that a reality? Are you willing to risk Hillary's pre-determined victory on it? Does the possibility that Giuliani or Huckabee or Romney could be our next President scare you enough? Are our ideals worth that risk?

Yes. That situation is the very reason why we NEED Ron Paul. How many "lesser than two evils" voting cycles do we have to go through? How many more terrorism, 9/11, WWIII tirades do we have to hear? When we are too scared to vote anything but for Hillary for fear that a pro-war Republican might achieve victory, then we have already lost. When we have two choices, "Bad" and "Worse", then we have no choice. We NEED Ron Paul. Our Country NEEDS Ron Paul.

And what better ticket to have than a Paul / Kucinich? Or Kucinich / Paul? I don't care who is the President and who is Veep. But would it work? Could their message resonate to a large enough audience to upset the establishment election? I don't know the answer to that. But at this point, I'm willing to give it a shot!

Are you?

Lying Liars

Can someone please explain to me why exactly you're not allowed to call the President and his administration liars? Seriously. They lied. They lied about Iraq, and they've been lying about Iran. Unfortunately we didn't uncover their lies about Iraq until after we invaded them. But thankfully, this time, we have proof that they've been lying about Iran for at least a couple of months. Yet nobody in the MSM will call Bush on it. They all spin their questions of him to ask if this NIE "discredits" or "downplays" what Bush has been saying the last few months. Nobody that I've seen has used the word "lie".

Except for liberal blogs and online news of course... Like at Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-hendra/enough-spin-already-bush_b_75271.html

It's the economy, stupid!

I know we've seen this before. Back when Reagan was in office, there were corporate accounting scandals, (the Savings & Loan stuff). After the excesses of the 80's, Bush the first had to deal with a recession. And here were are now, 20 years later, with the son of Bush. He outdoes Reagan's spending and our deficits. We have more corporate accounting scandals than we can keep track of. Now our economy is tanking and we're heading for another recession. Nobody wants to say it, but it seems obvious to me.

The next President, unlike Bush, will inherit a disastrous economy. Bush has ruined this country like he ruined the many corporations he tried to run previously. But this failing economy will fall square on the shoulders of the next elected President. For it will be his/her duty to fix the broken economy. And when that President is unable to do so fast enough, their legacy will be their failure.

So they are tied to Bush. Their sole job is to fix what Bush has done. Get us out of Iraq. Make some peace in the Middle East and bring us back from the brink of WWIII. Fix our ailing economy. Fix our standing in the world. That is their legacy..

Who's up for it?

Barack Obama or Ron Paul?

So I'm a progressive liberal, (if you can't tell). I've been supporting Barack Obama in the Democratic primary. He's been preaching change, and has a record to show that he believes what he is talking about, and will do something about it (unlike Hillary who will continue the status quo). And he's been speaking out against war and how to deal peaceably with the world.

I'm also pessimistic about our government. I've known for quite some time that our government is broken. We have a corporate controlled (fascist) government, run largely by the military-industrial complex. We spend something like 60-70% of our annual federal budget on defense. At the same time Bush is pouring billions of our yet-to-be-collected dollars into wars in the middle east while our national needs aren't being met. We have bridges collapsing and health care for poor kids being vetoed.

I've long felt that our federal government needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from the foundation up. The foundation laid out by our founding father's was a good one. It's what we've built on top of it that needs be torn down. And soon!

And that's where Ron Paul comes in to play. I know that he is a Libertarian at heart, meaning he believes in freedom and liberty over government control. That extends to everything, even those government programs like helping to provide healthcare to poor kids. While I think that having those types of programs is good for this country, I think that my feelings for what is right with our government is being far overshadowed by what is wrong with our government. And so the idea of having a president who works to cut down our government, however he can, is appealing to me. I just want to be sure the first programs he focuses on cutting are not social ones, but military ones.

Ron Paul has said that the US needs to pull all of its forces from abroad, and focus on ourselves. If we eliminate the need to police the world, like he says, then our needs to spend billions on the military drops. That's the military-industrial complex being slashed, which is a great thing!

After Ron Paul has had 4 or 8 years of hacking our federal government to iddy-biddy pieces, then we can refocus on building it again. Once the bloat is gone, we can build those programs that we feel we need for our society, not ones our military industries say we need. Not ones that corporate interests say we need. Ones we actually need. That's the point where the Democrats should be in control.

So it's coming time that I have to decide. Obama is still my Democrat. But Ron Paul is only slightly behind him on my list of favorites. And I only have a short time before I must change my voter registration to "Decline to State" in order to vote for Ron Paul. Otherwise I'm locked in to Obama. What to do....