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Thanks for the memories

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired is, in a sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

“The American public may justifiably be puzzled by how the government can seem to come up with trillions of dollars for foreign wars and banker bailouts, but so little for them. The United States is spending an estimated $3 trillion for an illegal war that has made us less safe, and $1 trillion so far to rescue bankers in a way that is destabilizing the economy. But it can't seem to secure health care or retirement security for all Americans.”
Michael Hudson ³ "A Trillion Dollar Rescue for Wall Street Gamblers"

Social Security

December 10, 2007 | Thomas Airington, 48, was told his appeal for Social Security disability,

filed last spring, would be expedited when he showed officials an eviction notice. Meanwhile,

he lost his house. Steadily lengthening delays in the resolution of disability claims have left

hundreds of thousands of people in a kind of purgatory, waiting as long as three years for

a decision. (Photo: Jeremy M. Lange / The New York Times) 12-11-07

Vaccines

Informed Choice? 11-22-07

Kurt Vonnegut: Born November 11, 1922 - Died April 11, 2007

“I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable.”

Not in my name? I am an American; I am culpable

I hear the claims and the clamor. "This is George Bush's war!" This Administration instituted a "war on science." Federal funding for research was reduced in recent years. Laws meant to protect the environment were repealed. I would love to say that much of what occurs in America today is not done in my name. It is not my fault or folly. However, I cannot make this assertion. I am an American; I am culpable. More 10-26-07

Columnist Jimmy Breslin-a national treasure calls for impeachment

“The other day, Bush said he couldn't understand why in the world would some people say that millions of Americans have no health insurance. 'Why, all they have to do is go to the emergency room,' he said.” More 7-23-07

USMC General Smedley D. Butler

“There is one great voice that does not turn up in our sanitized and cleansed textbooks and his message was a condemnation of the callousness of the blood barters and his voice was one that spoke from experience. He is the highly decorated (two medals of honor) former USMC General Smedley Darlington Butler. General Butler was one of the earliest critics of American intervention and the plundering of foreign countries for the benefit of Wall Street looters who were all too glad to trade lives for profit. Butler wrote the scathing War Is A Racket that was a no-holds barred indictment of the early military-industrial complex. Butler told it like it was, not a convenient thing for the revisionist historians who write the textbooks to indoctrinate the good little Americans in the religion of the always great, always righteous and blessed land of plenty.” More 7-10-07

How to destroy an African-American city in 33 steps

June 29, 2007 | Antoinette K-Doe talks inside her repaired Ernie K-Doe Mother-in-Law Lounge in New Orleans in May, 2007. Three new investigations shed further light on how the Bush administration betrayed Gulf Coast residents during Hurricane Katrina, and how New Orleans and other affected areas still suffer from federal waste and incompetence. (Photo: Alex Brandon / AP)
HUD plans to bulldoze low-income apartments in New Orleans 12-5-07
Where did the $23.5 billion in Katrina aid money go? 9-1-07

What New Orleans looks like two years later (video) 8-30-07

Anger, sadness mark Katrina anniversary 8-30-07

Why I am ashamed to be an American

Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D.: “As I began to emerge into manhood there was an ever, ongoing flow of hints, subtle suggestions that things were not as I had been told. However, it wasn’t until our country vented its awful wrath upon a post 9-11 world that I began to realize that I had been misled. At that point I had no choice but to take a long, hard look at the history of our country, a thorough examination of what turned out to be a past drenched in the blood of our foes, foreign lands raped of their natural resources, democratically elected governments overthrown, an outrageous succession of egregious arrangements with tyrants and dictators from around the world, along with the fact that our nation is the only developed country in the world that utilizes the death penalty to kill its own people, and that we imprison more of our own people than any other nation in the world… all of such having enabled me to gain a better understanding of why there are so many folks around the world who have become upset by our nation’s apparent willingness to abuse and exploit our fellow man. As a result of what I found, I have come to the conclusion that the vast majority of the American public is out of touch with reality, that such folks have unwittingly allowed themselves to have become mercilessly entangled in a world of fabrication and make-believe, a nation dominated by sheepish yes-men unwilling to face the fact that we, as a nation, are, and for some time have been, caught in a downward spiral of moral decline.” More 6-1-07

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

35th American President, born May 29, 1917
“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.” “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”