Should Dick Cheney Be Hanged?

Rachel Maddow Transcript
We hanged people for waterboarding as a war crime, in Dick Cheney’s lifetime. With that is as the historical context, the vice president cavalierly told ABC News that he specifically approved that same technique being used against the prisoner named Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
TRANSCRIPT
But first, it isn’t often that a news headline has the [...]

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This Fridays corrupt cop stories

Every Friday we bring you  the corrupt cop story’s for the week From DWC. Two cops are headed for prison in New Mexico, and one in California.
Tom
 Let’s get to it:
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, two former San Juan County law enforcement agents were sentenced December 11 to six years in prison each for their roles in [...]

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US balks at backing condemnation of anti-gay laws

religious zealots are dragging us back to the Dark Ages.
UNITED NATIONS – Alone among major Western nations, the United States has refused to sign a declaration presented Thursday at the United Nations calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality.
In all, 66 of the U.N.’s 192 member countries signed the nonbinding declaration — which backers called a [...]

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GM and Chrysler Will Get $17.4 Billion in U.S. Loans to Survive

Bush is just dumping this disaster over on the Obama’s plate. Very simple to see.
Tom
Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC will get $13.4 billion in government loans to keep operating in exchange for a restructuring under a rescue plan that President George W. Bush will announce this morning.
The money will be [...]

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Smelly jobs suddenly a lot more attractive

This is a very distressing article. 99% of the media is not covering this stuff. This is playing out all over the US. Folks the national debt is approximately $10,655,000,000.00 and counting. Monies have been handed to the war machine, the banks and the insurance companies to make the rich richer while the poor keep [...]

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School Days, Stanley Clark

This one of the greatest bass guitarist that has walked the face of the earth. I’ve been listening to him for 30 plus years. Enjoy

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An major labor triumph

A rare victory for working people
over corrupt and idiotic suits
A lot of companies are being killed right now, not because they’re not viable and well managed, but because the rocket scientists who run the banks have screwed things up so royally they’re randomly calling in loans all over the place.
The reality is that many [...]

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Who Will Pay

Hersey by Rush, Lyrics below….
This video is excellent. It flows with the lyrics Neal Peart wrote several years ago.
 

All around that dull gray world
From Moscow to Berlin
People storm the barricades
Walls go tumbling in
The counter-revolution
People smiling through their tears
Who can give them back their lives
And all those wasted years?
All those precious wasted [...]

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