The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder By: Vincent Bugliosi On Democracy Now Please watch v=HlISseXFjng for more insight.

It looks like The Bush Team (with a little help from the Neocon speech writers) are Cherry Picking again. (Cherry picking is the act of pointing at individual data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related data that may contradict that position.) This time it's Thomas Jefferson's words that are on the chopping block... Bush sputtered, on the 4th of July, one of Jefferson's last quotes, to the few who still think 'HE'S DOING A GOOD JOB'. But he left out the following passage: "under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves"... Interesting, that he chose to leave out such words. I wonder if he thinks, that's a bit too close for comfort, of what he thinks of his unquestioning followers. We must redact the quote, don't want to hurt our standings with the base... No big deal, after all that's what we do best... Redact, remake, alter, amend, change, modify, overhaul, redo and revise, "THE TRUTH", so it will fit nicely into our Neocon secret and devious plans. thinkingblue.blogspot

The closer we get to the presidential election the more John McCain looks and acts like George W. Bush. I don't know what his strategy is all about but do we really want another term of the neocons and Bush? I think not! Perhaps, he is banking on another 9/11 or something to shock Americans into the same fear-hold Karl Rove and the rest of the neocon manipulators had on the people...You know that PNAC group (which has since shut down their site...hmmm I wonder why, does rats overboard mean anything?) But, the PNAC in order to unleash their foreign/military campaigns needed a catalyzing event like "a new Pearl Harbor". (PNAC quote) 9/11 rode to their rescue. Now they were able to Pied Piper all the little frightened children into the black hole of hell. But their utopian plan did not work out so well. Maybe they need another Pearl Harbor because it seems the little children have lost some of their fear and may need a booster shot. How much more can we take? Obama or Anyone But McBush! Thanks, thinkingblue.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Update June 19, 2008 - OAKVILLE, Iowa - As floodwaters take aim at the tiny towns lining the Mississippi River, the heartland ethic of neighbors helping neighbors proved to be a potent force against the rising water Tuesday. Volunteers up and down the river in Illinois and Missouri joined sandbagging operations in the frantic effort to contain the Mississippi as forecasters predicted near-record crests from Quincy, Ill., to Winfield, Mo. "There's one thing about Midwesterners," said Don Giltner, mayor of Louisiana, Mo., a picturesque river town north of St. Louis where 40 square blocks were under water Wednesday, three days before the Mississippi's expected crest. "We're resilient as hell. We're all worn out. We've put in a lot of long days." Storms and flooding across six states this month have killed 24 people, injured 148 and caused more than $1.5 billion in estimated damage in Iowa alone — a figure that's likely to increase as river levels climb in Missouri and Illinois. More at Yahoo News... ---- I praise the resilience of these fine folks but unlike Limbaugh I don't need to thoroughly damn other American victims in order to give them praise. thethinkingblue --------- On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal areas of the Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, including the city of New Orleans. It was among the greatest of natural disasters to ever strike the United States. Katrina, which cut across Florida, had intensified into a Category 5 storm over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, reaching top winds of 175 mph (282 kph) before weakening as it neared the coast. Windspeeds over 140 mph (225 kph) were recorded at landfall in southeastern Louisiana while winds gusted to over 100 mph (160 kph) in New Orleans, just west of the eye. As the hurricane made its second landfall on the Mississippi/Louisiana border, windspeeds were approximately 125 mph (200 kph). Gusts of over 80 mph (129 kph) were recorded in Mobile and 90 mph (145 kph) in Biloxi, MS. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so true, but words are important just the same. What is happening in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast region, is beyond pictures and beyond words. To see the human suffering, live on your TV and not see any help, has to be one of the most calloused happening of our time! Right here in America, the land of plenty, it is completely horrendous and unbelievable. The babies, old people, desperate mothers, hungry, thirsty little children and the dead bodies floating in the sludge mixture of the Pontchartrain river and filthy debris left in the storm's wake, played out a nightmare scenario that no movie set could have duplicated with more heart wrenching agony. All of us, who watched our TV screens displaying the suffering of people searing in the heat of the smoldering, hot southern sun, felt so helpless. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now, Limbaugh, an arrogant ideologue that loves Howard Kurtz and hates the black victims of NOLA. He wants you to understand, it was all their fault for not escaping Hurricane Katrina! Wake, up! You drive by media fools. They were lazy, lazy people that deserved their fate. If only they were white and responsible. Just listen to this horrific rant as Limbaugh is all 'agush' with admiration over the way in which Iowa and the Midwest has responded to the flood disaster that befell the area last week. But to just congratulate the residents in their determination and courage in fighting the disaster isn't enough for the AM talk blow hard. Limbaugh could not pass up the opportunity to once again trot out his old, well known disdain for poor blacks in the south who were victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. To hear Limbaugh describe it, Iowa is more American, more honorable ... you know ... more white than Louisiana. Also see video here: thethinkingblue.com/limbaughbutt.html

Let's not kid ourselves, it's not the fear that the detainees might be released... IT'S THE FACT THAT THE GITMO DETAINEES WERE TORTURED BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THAT THEY WANT CONCEALED. McCain/Scalia/WSJ Rally to Support Tyranny, Torture at Guantanamo. By J. Valtin The Public Record Monday, June 16, 2008 "No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. The Supreme Court decision to render unconstitutional the provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that curtailed use of habeas corpus by detainees deemed "enemy combatants" by the Pentagon and held at the Guantanamo U.S. military base in Cuba has unleashed a spurt of vitriol from the right-wing establishment. As can be seen above, the Wall Street Journal has picked up the hysterical standard set forth by right wing ideologue Scalia in his blistering dissent to the Boumediene decision, accusing his fellow justices as nothing less than accomplices to murder. With John McCain jumping on the bandwagon, the GOP agenda for the fall campaign is thus established: a liberal Supreme Court, along with an ostensibly too-liberal and inexperienced Democratic candidate for President, are threatening our troops abroad, and making terrorist attacks at home a near certainty. This demagogic assault on civil liberties is dangerous. Setting up your political opponents as criminals is a half-step away from indicating they are outside the pale of appropriate discourse. Such opponents can be targeted themselves by those who are only too ready to carry out the wishes of those they serve. But I consider even more ominous the likelihood that such outlandish statements represent the opinions of the military establishment, who have constructed the Guantanamo hell-hole, and wish to do their best to keep the torture and abuse there as secret and unnoticeable to citizen awareness as possible. MORE HERE: www.pubrecord.org

BILL MOYERS: Here we go again. No sooner does Barack Obama challenge John McCain on extending George Bush's expensive tax cuts for people at the top than cries go up of "Class War! Class War!"

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Now, Obama's economic policies should get a full critique. As should McCain's. But, please, can we put aside that old canard spouted by Wall Street apologists every time someone calls for greater equity between working people and the rich? Truth is, there's been a class war waged in America for thirty years now from the top down, and the rich have won.

Obama wins Democratic Party's Nomination. June 7, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Savor the Moment By BOB HERBERT Friday was the 40th anniversary of the death of Robert F. Kennedy. Had he lived, he would be 82 now. It's impossible to gauge the what-ifs of history. But nevertheless, I wonder what Kennedy, a complicated man with a profound sense of the moral issues at play in politics, would have made of the idea that Barack Obama has captured the Democratic Party's nomination for president. He might not have been surprised. Kennedy had been accused of dreaming when he said in the early 1960s that a black person could get elected president in the next 40 years. The fact that even a dreamer could imagine nothing shorter than a 40-year timeline gives us a glimpse of the nightmarish depths of racial oppression that people of goodwill have had to fight. The United States in 1968 (the same year in which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated) was a stunningly different place from the country we know now, so different that most of today's young people would have trouble imagining it. The notion in '68 that a black person — or a woman — might have a serious shot at the presidency would have been widely viewed as lunacy. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/opinion/07herbert.htm President Barack Obama in 2008

A remix of Bill O'Reilly's rant from his "Inside Edition" days. Brave New Films and thethinkingblue youtube channel.

My contribution to the O'Reilly rant during his Inside Edition Days of his Youth. He was younger then in chronological years but he was exactly the same as he is today in mental years... A Big Spoiled Brat!

To do a remix yourself go to: http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39040-make-your-own-o-reilly-tantrum-remix

This video on thethinkingblue youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UlLtX8WtFE

AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE THE POSITIVE is a song made famous by Bing Crosby in the 1940's. So many of these great oldies but goodies seem to fade away with each new generation. They will forever disappear unless someone pulls them out of obscurity and dusts them off to use in a modern realm... Please watch this video on how Fox News and other right-wing media organizations have infiltrated our rationality. Forcing us to question our reasoning... Hopefully, with the changing of the Neocon/Bush administration, these right-wing hate talk shows will become totally uninteresting and end. Then with a cessation of the blabber mouths such as Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, who shove our collective minds into a small dark box of hate, we will be able to return to wholeness. We can ELIMINATE THE NEGATIVE and start to see the light of truth. I believe Barack Obama will Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive and E-liminate the negative, so we can get back to living in a rational world. Oh, and he will mess with Mr. McInbetween. One can only Hope!

Sam Harris, Music Video Contest "War on War" www.youtube.com This video is thethinkingblue entry into a contest by Sam Harris. He wrote a powerful song with a strong message against war. The USA government is always declaring war on something i.e. War on drugs, war on terrorism, war on poverty... How about a war on war? Says Sam Harris... You can view the many contest entries by following this link... www.youtube.com