Plame on Plame.

She has just begun to speak out. Listen to what she has to say. Gentlewomen and men, I give you..Valerie Plame and KO:

Plame on surviving the Washington spy game
They had no shame, those men that destroyed the trust of the CIA employees. Cheney made them all collateral damage in his little pissing contest.

Mukasey is a fan of the “Unitary Executive Theory”

After watching the confirmation hearing for Michael Mukasey the last couple of days, I have come to the conclusion that he is a Bushie of the highest order…just more intelligent than the others in that select group. Watch the exchange between Mukasey and Russ Feingold below regarding Bush and his ability to disobey laws he [...]

The Fog of Fear…

The NYT has a good Editorial read up this morning. It addresses the Bush administration’s propensity to find something, anything…to drum up their fear factoring in order to gain more power to spy on Americans. The title is: Spies,Lies and FISA. From the second paragraph of the editorial:
There is no truth to any of those [...]

DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM

When Right Wing Sadism Intrudes Into Our Every Day Lives
by Donatra
I will not, under any circumstances, vote for a candidate who does not support a single payer health care program. I have always said this, always believed it, but in the last few days events have unfolded which have brought the health care (and [...]

Breaking: Obama is a Corporate Shill…

From David Sirota’s blog at WorkingForChange:
BREAKING: Obama Says He Will Vote for NAFTA Expansion
Hot off the presses from MSNBC:
“Obama said he would vote for a Peruvian trade agreement next week, in response to a question from a man in Londonderry, NH who called NAFTA and CAFTA a disaster for American workers. He said he supported [...]

TAIL GUNNER JOE = REPUBLICANS 2007 Part 2

Part two in our series of Conversations with Uncle Abe, comparing the fear campaign of McCarthy to Bush’s fearmongering.
PART II
The Only Thing They Have to Spread is Fear Itself:
Repressive Legislation and Court Decisions
I specifically asked Uncle Abe if he saw any similarities between the Red Scare of the 1950s and what’s happening [...]

Myanmar is hell on earth, what is the UN doing about it?

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The Monks in the beginning of the video started the protests. The brutal regime that has controlled Myanmar, formally Burma have been arresting and/or locking down all their monasteries in an attempt to keep them silent. Thursday, a Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai was murdered by a soldier at pointblank range during one of the protests [...]

LOVING PARENTS DON’T ALWAYS SAY YES

A guest post by Donatra’s mother-in-law Rachel. Please welcome her to the Sirens family.
KEEPING THE KIDS OFF THE HIGHWAY, OFF DRUGS AND BRINGING THEM HOME FROM THE BUSH WAR
by Rachel
I assume you have already heard about the delusional band of abusive and neglectful parents who are slithering their way down [...]

Keeping it all in perspective..

This is Death Valley in CA. The star formation is the Milky Way, the photo information and a wonderful panorama suitable for your computer wallpaper is here. Friggin awesome isn’t it? I have seen sights like this when I used to camp in the SoCal deserts during the winter months as a young hippie [...]

“They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither.”

Those are the words Alan Greenspan uses to describe BushCo in his book is entitled: “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,” From a NYT writeup:
Mr. Greenspan describes the Bush administration as so captive to its own political operation that it paid little attention to fiscal discipline, and he described Mr. Bush’s [...]