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While the budget deficit soars so do oil company profits and income for Halburtian, KBR and Blackwater.

So is someone pulling his strings or what?

Bush ended his short lived 'Uniter' phase and decided on being a divider saying "Your either with us or your against us."

He carried on the tradition of Nixon, Kent State, Reagan, Iran-Contra Scandal, GingrichRoveCoulterORileySavageLimbaugh hate mongers. If your going to be a hate monger, guess what? people are going to hate you. You reap what you sow.

Bush went on with his "Bring it on" style of diplomacy. Lied about the reasons leading up to the Iraq War and then outed the CIA agent who provided real intelligence. He authorized torture and made stubbornness and incompetence accepted as virtues.

Why did he do all this? He has really bad judgment and he's greedy. And he hangs around with a bunch of crooks.

It's never too late to do the right think.

When I see a flag like this I think of Bush and when I see Bush I think of flags like this one.

I watched more of the videos from the non-impeachment hearing. Jeremy Rabkin just thinks its all because we hate Bush.

sign Congressman Dennis Kucinich's impeachment petition: click here

The Judiciary Hearing on Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations was a relentless attack on President Bush's relentless attack on the constitution and the rule of law as it used to be called.

Here's a link to Elliott Adams' President of the Board Veterans for Peace statement. He mentions the oath that troops take; Congress members take the same oath. Both those jobs are voluntary.

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

Neil Young, Where Politics and Technology Meet

CSNY Déjà Vu

some more alternative media.

When We Torture, So What?
Principles, Conscience Fall To War On Terror

A new book by one of the nation's most highly regarded reporters reveals definitively that the United States has engaged in torture and false imprisonment.

The news is that this is not news.

We're not shocked. We're not outraged. We'd not even given pause.

That's how far we've fallen. We are no longer a nation of laws, but of fear and of men. The war on terror has cost us thousands of precious human lives. Yet that's not the worst of it. It's also cost us our national principles. Now, it seems, it has cost us our national conscience.

We're losing this war to ourselves. That's usually how wars are lost.

We say this: Sometimes you must rise above your abstract, impractical principles. Laws are merely words. High-minded words won't do you much good when someone is willing to kill himself to destroy you. War is hell, haven't you heard?

We accept the unconstitutional invasions of our innocent telephonic privacies so that Cheney's war council might be able to eavesdrop on an occasional terrorist. We accept the absurd contrivance of our misnamed Justice Department, the one that cleaned out U.S. attorneys who wouldn't engage in partisan domestic prosecutions and that says it's not torture if you're trying to get information -- that it's only torture if you're doing it for your own perverse amusement.

We have sold out our national moral imperatives to our fears, our Constitution to this "new paradigm" and our country to our enemies abroad and our greater enemies inside our own White House.

We're all torturers. We knew that already. We don't want to think about it. But we're willing to live with it. And the death of an American ideal is worth an occasional headline, surely.

John Brummett

Dave P. sent a photo of the Ramona Anniversary protest which included this sign I painted back in feb of '07:

it's not too late to do the right thing!

rush hour, San Diego.

live link to web cam

This one went up today. I've always wanted to get a telephoto shot like this.

One of the articles of impeachment is for incompetence. There is no doubt that the economy is in a downturn. The Republicans always brag about what great business men they are and how the world would be a great place if they had their way. Well, what happened?

Man sentenced in e-mail threat case. A La Jolla man who e-mailed a threat against an activist at the La Jolla Children's Pool was ordered Monday morning to undergo a year of anger-management counseling and to stay away from the beach where harbor seals gather. Kent Trego, 54, pleaded guilty in April to threatening the Animal Protection and Rescue League activist who videotaped two divers entering the water at the pool in September, scattering about 18 of 50 seals. Federal Judge Roger Benitez sentenced Trego to five years probation, including six months of house arrest with a GPS system. After the activists told federal agents about the incident, the divers were ticketed for violating the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act. Trego didn't enter the water the day of the videotaping, but in January, he wrote an e-mail to the league saying "revenge will be taken out" on the activist, who would be "dealt with very harshly." Trego's lawyer, Mark Adams, said his client apologized Monday and would stay away not only from the Children's Pool, but from the controversy surrounding it. Trained in marine biology, Trego has spoken out against the rookery at the Children's Pool. Since the 1980s, harbor seals have taken over the protected beach, delighting tourists and animal lovers. But people who want the beach restored for human use have gone to the courts, and a judge has ordered city officials to clean it up. Trego spent four and a half months in jail awaiting sentencing. link

Protesters claim man nearly ran them over. Driver says anti-war group un-American. According to a Sheriff's Department report, Keith Alan Davis, 55, of Ramona told deputies June 27 that he was upset because the protesters were at the busy intersection again. He said that as he approached, he pulled his Chevrolet 1500 pickup onto the shoulder and slowly drove by the protesters, who were holding signs with such messages as “End the War in Iraq” and “Support Our Troops, Send Them Home Now.” “As he drove by the individuals protesting, he flipped each one of them off using his right middle finger,” the report says. “He wanted to look each one of the protesters in the face and tell them what he thought of them. He does not remember hitting any of their signs. He was not trying to run over any of the protesters.” That account is disputed by the protesters, several of whom are in their 70s. They said they had to move back to avoid being hit by the truck, and that they are sure several of them would have been injured had they not stepped out of the way. One witness, Robert Dobson, who was counter-protesting across the highway by holding a “Victory for Our Troops” sign, told deputies that after Davis gestured at the protesters, he then gave a thumbs-up sign to him and smiled widely. Dobson said it appeared to him that Davis intentionally ran over several signs. “I can't say for sure he was trying to hit them (the protesters),” Dobson said. “I can say he deliberately left the road and was deliberately trying to hit their signs, and the people were standing next to the signs. I saw them scatter.” He estimated the truck's speed to be between 25 and 30 mph. Dobson said he disagrees with the anti-war protesters, but that the driver of the pickup was the un-American one. Davis said Thursday that he never intended to hurt the protesters and told deputies he was traveling 3 to 5 mph. “I was just trying to let them know America doesn't feel the way they do,” he said. “I'm tired of sticking my head in the sand and ignoring them. “Apparently they've decided to blow this up and try to make something out of it. Maybe that's the way they operate. “If those people really hate America as much as their signs indicate, they should probably just pack and go. I might even help them pack and go – that is, if they're not too afraid and go run away. I can't believe they said that. That is completely inaccurate.” Davis added that he thinks it's ironic that the protesters talk about their First Amendment rights but don't want him to express his beliefs. link

The citizenry of Ramona will celebrate 52 continuous Sundays protesting ENOUGH war, ENOUGH corruption , ENOUGH death and destruction in Iraq. The weekly protests spearheaded by the Ramona Forum have demonstrated to passers by that something is very wrong with the direction our government is headed. In turn, the mood of the people viewing our protests have changed markedly from mostly anger and distain to support and participation .

Save the date - Sunday July 13

Protest: 10th and Main Streets, 12 Noon to 1PM

Party Afterward: 1003 6th street, Ramona

The press is invited to both the protest and celebration. We intend on having fun!

For more information contact:

Dave P

How does America feel about the war?
Beltway myth: "The left-wing base" vs. "the American people" on Iraq.

I found this hand stenciled American flag on a freeway pedestrian over pass. Some one had torn it down and thrown it on the ground. I admire the work that went into it. I've never torn down another's sign. I've wondered about the person who painted it, and the person who tore it down. Any way, I have it in my garage and look at it as I paint my protest signs. I love America.

I just posted this one (4:00pm). You can click on the link to see the web cam live. more pics over on flickr.

The recent SCOTUS ruling on guns made me think: to Bush violence is the solution to problems. A gun isn't just protection, it's the only form of protection. There are no other ways to solve prolems: "Bring it on!" Oh, except I forgot, the also popular solution: "Go shopping." Bush sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq so we could go shopping.