January 2, 2006

News -- January 2, 2006

Time to impeach a President - "I’ve always felt impeachment is the nuclear option of politics; a drastic action we call in after all else fails. That’s why I’ve been reluctant to call for the impeachment of President George W. Bush. No longer. The reckless, arrogant actions of the man leave me with no choice but to consider that final solution. Time to impeach the son of a bitch."
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7935.shtml

What Did They Say When Clinton Was Being Impeached? -- Comments from Delay, Hyde, Hagel, Frist, Sensenbrenner, and Smith.
http://bulldogpolitics.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-did-they-say-when-clinton-was.html

War Without End - "This was the year the "war on terror" - an obnoxious expression which we all parroted after 11 September 2001 - appeared to be almost as endless as George Bush once claimed it would be. And unsuccessful. For, after all the bombing of Afghanistan, the overthrow of the Taliban, the invasion of Iraq and its appallingly tragic aftermath, can anyone claim today that they feel safer than they did a year ago?"
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0102-20.htm

German media: U.S. prepares Iran strike - "The Bush administration is preparing its NATO allies for a possible military strike against suspected nuclear sites in Iran in the New Year, according to German media reports, reinforcing similar earlier suggestions in the Turkish media."
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051230-112208-8968r

Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won't Go Away - "Almost a year after Representative Cynthia McKinney was told by Donald Rumsfeld that it was not the policy of the Bush administration to reward companies that engage in human trafficking with government contracts, the scandal continues to sweep up innocent children who are sold into a life of slavery at the behest of Halliburton, Dyncorp and other transnational corporations with close ties to the establishment elite."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/010106sexslavescandal.htm

Truth or dare, America - "How furious would your average American be, to discover that everything we the people had been told, everything we'd thought we'd known all our lives, was a mountain of lies, half-lies, three-quarter-lies, "national security" lies, lies we knew were lies, lies we suspected, lies we'd swallowed, lies we'd told ourselves, and lies we'd told each other?"
http://www.unknownnews.org/051230a-hh.html

A hit on students, elderly - "This was legislation conservatives in Congress had demanded so they could assure voters next year that they had done something to curb federal spending. At the same time, lawmakers are hoping the public doesn't realize that this cut is only a faint scratch in a budget larded with tax cuts, war spending, and carefree pork-barrel projects that will balloon - not reduce - the size of the deficit."
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060102/OPINION02/601010303/-1/OPINION

Prescott satellite to spy on your home - "John Prescott has told tax inspectors to use satellites to snoop on householders' attempts to improve their homes. Images of new conservatories and garages taken from space will be used to hike up council taxes and other property levies, official guidance obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveals."
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article335970.ece

Why this brain flies on rat cunning - "It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of "living" computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is happening. The "brain", grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a single rat embryo, has been taught to fly an F-22 jet simulator by scientists at the University of Florida."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/06/1102182227308.html?rats




Quote of the Day
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government--lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
~ Patrick Henry

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