From mikeintaos at hotmail.com Tue Jul 1 14:29:02 2008 From: mikeintaos at hotmail.com (Mike in Taos) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:29:02 +0000 Subject: [Anyone] Al knows! Message-ID: Al Gore on President Bush: Al Gore wrote this. It's the Al Gore we don't often see.... 'As most of you know I am not a President Bush fan, nor have I ever been, but this is not about Bush, it is about us, as Americans, and it seems to hit the mark. 'The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some Poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right? 'The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the President. In essence 2/3 of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change. So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, 'What are we so unhappy about?' A.. Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 Days a week? B. Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter? C.. Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job? D.. Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year? E.. Maybe it is the ability to drive our cars and trucks from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state? F. Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter? G.. I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough either. H. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital. I.. Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. J.. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames, thus saving you, your family, and your belongings. K.. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss. L.. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90% of teen agers own cell phones and computers. M.. How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world? 'Maybe that is what has 67% of you folks unhappy. 'Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S. , yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here. 'I know, I know. What about the president who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The president who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks? The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me? 'Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad? Think about it......are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain, OR, is it because the 'Media' told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day. Make no mistake about it. 'The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an 'other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable' discharge after a few days in the brig. 'So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans? 'Say what you want, but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads, and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells, and when criticized, try to defend their actions by 'justifying' them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way......Insane! 'Turn off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad. We are among the most blessed people on Earth, and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative. With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' Al Gore _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_072008 From mikeintaos at hotmail.com Fri Jul 4 12:38:55 2008 From: mikeintaos at hotmail.com (Mike in Taos) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:38:55 +0000 Subject: [Anyone] Woof! Message-ID: ALTON, Ill. - An Illinois woman says her beloved miniature dachshund gnawed off her right big toe while she was asleep. Linda Floyd told the Alton Telegraph for a story Wednesday that her beloved Roscoe was euthanized because of safety concerns. The 56-year-old says she has no feeling in her toes because of nerve damage from diabetes. She discovered the toe missing after waking from a nap Monday. She called her daughter, who phoned 911. A veterinarian says the toe had been bandaged because of a healing hangnail. That might have somehow attracted the dog. _________________________________________________________________ Making the world a better place one message at a time. http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_BetterPlace From totem at laplaza.org Fri Jul 4 14:55:34 2008 From: totem at laplaza.org (Thos Myers) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:55:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Anyone] another bushco legacy: Message-ID: <20080704205412.M15578@shell.laplaza.org> "Speaking at the White House yesterday, Bush tried to give the markets a nudge: ``We're strong dollar people in this administration and have always been for the strong dollar.'' "The dollar's 41 percent drop against the euro during Bush's term writes the economic epitaph of an administration that set out to restore American preeminence. Instead, Bush heads to Japan next week for his final international summit with diminished leverage as Russian and Chinese influence grows." http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=20601087&sid=aH0_cYGS8Avc&refer=home Message to bushco: Only cowards start wars. From totem at laplaza.org Fri Jul 4 15:11:23 2008 From: totem at laplaza.org (Thos Myers) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:11:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Anyone] Birth Control: Don't Let McCain Take It Away (fwd) Message-ID: <20080704210942.Q15578@shell.laplaza.org> Not only does the world need o have cirth control, but in many cases in the US(31%) need to practice retroactive birth control! bushco can be the leaders of this new movement. We must keep the momentum going as we get ever closer to the election. I am counting on you, today. Please join NARAL Pro-Choice America immediately and help us ensure that the anti-choice, anti-birth control candidate, John McCain, does not become president. Click here to become a member of NARAL Pro-Choice America today. http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=TGNj0MhAgAoZ1hjf4JbDAw.. Thos, in honor of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, our goal is to recruit 73 new members each week until Election Day. Be one of this week's 73 new members - you will be making us stronger both politically and financially, enabling us to do our work at every level to protect the right to choose. Pro-choice Republican and Independent women - key blocs of swing voters in this year's election - are less likely to support John McCain for president when they learn he has repeatedly voted against allowing women to obtain birth control. What concerns these voters even more about McCain's record is that John McCain voted to ban abortion for many women, even in cases of rape, incest, or when a woman's life is in danger. It's critical that we contact the almost 200,000 pro-choice women we identified in 2004 and 2006 in battleground states who will be this year's swing voters and tell them about the threats to choice we can expect if John McCain picks up where George W. Bush left off. Become a member of NARAL Pro-Choice America today to protect choice from McCain and elect pro-choice Sen. Barack Obama. http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=ASjvIYvOTM8DWIvmOUP9qw.. Not yet convinced to join? Look at McCain's rigid, anti-choice track record. What hasn't he already tried to take away from women? * Birth control? McCain is against a woman's access to it, and he voted more than 20 times to block it. * Health-care coverage? McCain opposes equal access to it. He voted to eliminate Title X and deny millions of women basic health-care services ranging from birth control to breast cancer screenings. * The right to choose? McCain won't protect it. In fact, he's voted against choice 125 times out of 130 opportunities since 1983. And he said Roe v. Wade should be overturned! Join NARAL Pro-Choice America for $10 or more today to be one of the 73 who will help protect the liberties and access to basic health care that McCain would deny to women. http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=nF-1U1DcO8cnCdzgPxQbZA.. Please act on this opportunity to join today as part of our Membership Drive for Choice and be one of this week's 73 for choice. The future of women's reproductive freedom is hanging in the balance! Sincerely, Nancy Keenan, President NARAL Pro-Choice America http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=Wtmzt4NlBVLnSmcbk_wD_Q.. P.S. Every dollar we can bring in at this point is critical to defeating John McCain's bid for the presidency. Help NARAL Pro-Choice America recruit 73 new members each week until Election Day! Please forward this message to your friends and family members to urge them to join today! If you are already a member, I ask that you please consider making an additional gift to help our fight for choice. http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=8TDLrHMck2nI2TO7SdA0Rg.. http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=F1j3ISFo49HZDxFw5BARHg.. From totem at laplaza.org Fri Jul 4 15:15:03 2008 From: totem at laplaza.org (Thos Myers) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:15:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Anyone] 4 July 1776 Message-ID: <20080704211347.Y15578@shell.laplaza.org> IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776. THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's GOD entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that Governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World. HE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good. HE has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. HE has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyranny only. HE has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures. HE has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People. HE has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the mean Time, exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within. HE has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. HE has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. HE has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries. HE has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance. HE has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our Legislatures. HE has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. HE has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: FOR quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us: FOR protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: FOR cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World: FOR imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: FOR depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury: FOR transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences: FOR abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these Colonies: FOR taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: FOR suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever. HE has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection, and waging War against us. HE has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People. HE is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with Circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation. HE has constrained our Fellow-Citizens, taken Captive on the high Seas, to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. HE has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes, and Conditions. IN every Stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every Act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People. NOR have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them, from Time to Time, of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our Connexions and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the Rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connexion between them and the State of Great-Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of Right do. And for the Support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour. John Hancock. GEORGIA, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, Geo. Walton. NORTH-CAROLINA, Wm. Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. SOUTH-CAROLINA, Edward Rutledge, Thos Heyward, junr. Thomas Lynch, junr. Arthur Middleton. MARYLAND, Samuel Chase, Wm. Paca, Thos. Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. VIRGINIA, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Ths. Jefferson, Benja. Harrison, Thos. Nelson, jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. PENNSYLVANIA, Robt. Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benja. Franklin, John Morton, Geo. Clymer, Jas. Smith, Geo. Taylor, James Wilson, Geo. Ross. DELAWARE, Caesar Rodney, Geo. Read. NEW-YORK, Wm. Floyd, Phil. Livingston, Frank Lewis, Lewis Morris. NEW-JERSEY, Richd. Stockton, Jno. Witherspoon, Fras. Hopkinson, John Hart, Abra. Clark. NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Josiah Bartlett, Wm. Whipple, Matthew Thornton. MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, Saml. Adams, John Adams, Robt. Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry. RHODE-ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE, &c. Step. Hopkins, William Ellery. CONNECTICUT, Roger Sherman, Saml. Huntington, Wm. Williams, Oliver Wolcott. IN CONGRESS, JANUARY 18, 1777. ORDERED, THAT an authenticated Copy of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCY, with the Names of the MEMBERS of CONGRESS, subscribing the same, be sent to each of the UNITED STATES, and that they be desired to have the same put on RECORD. By Order of CONGRESS, JOHN HANCOCK, President. BALTIMORE, in MARYLAND: Printed by MARY KATHARINE GODDARD. From totem at laplaza.org Fri Jul 4 15:20:59 2008 From: totem at laplaza.org (Thos Myers) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:20:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Anyone] happy Fourth! Message-ID: <20080704212044.R15578@shell.laplaza.org> http://www.wvablue.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=660 From buteonidae at msn.com Fri Jul 4 15:32:02 2008 From: buteonidae at msn.com (JMac) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:32:02 -0600 Subject: [Anyone] happy Fourth! In-Reply-To: <20080704212044.R15578@shell.laplaza.org> References: <20080704212044.R15578@shell.laplaza.org> Message-ID: Scary how in that film the people reading the Declaration of Independence changed the wording to make it "politically correct"! No document is sacred. Nothing is sacred! Happy Fourth anyway, people! John McL. Taos -------------------------------------------------- From: "Thos Myers" Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 3:20 PM To: Subject: [Anyone] happy Fourth! > http://www.wvablue.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=660 From totem at laplaza.org Fri Jul 4 15:45:54 2008 From: totem at laplaza.org (Thos Myers) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:45:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Anyone] happy Fourth! In-Reply-To: References: <20080704212044.R15578@shell.laplaza.org> Message-ID: <20080704213624.T15578@shell.laplaza.org> I did send the original. Needed updating. Just like Thomas Jefferson updated God's WORD - The BIBLE. http://www.monticello.org/library/exhibits/intro.html No different than busco "updating" (read destroying) the Constitution aka loss of the 4th amendment (habeas corpus) and the 1st amendment. At the first and second RNC Conventions there were "free speech" zones. I thought, naively, that this country was a free speech zone. Nope, bushco took that away as well. The NSA is reading all this. So much for privacy. We used to be a nation of law but torture, starting wars, keeping prisoners without representation and without charging them with crimes, and more have destroyed that myth. There are 35 articles of impeachment that have been entered into Congress: http://www.impeachbush.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5283 On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, JMac wrote: > Scary how in that film the people reading the Declaration of Independence > changed the wording to make it "politically correct"! > No document is sacred. > Nothing is sacred! > > Happy Fourth anyway, people! > > John McL. > Taos From totem at laplaza.org Fri Jul 4 15:47:08 2008 From: totem at laplaza.org (Thos Myers) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:47:08 -0600 Subject: [Anyone] those 35 charges: Message-ID: http://www.impeachbush.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5283 Articles of Impeachment for President George W Bush by Dennis Kucinich Introduced in Congress June 9, 2008. Resolved, that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate: Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors. In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power. Article I - Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq. Article II - Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression. Article III - Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War. Article IV - Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States. Article V - Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression. Article VI - Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114. Article VII - Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War. Article VIII - Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter. Article IX - Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor Article X - Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes Article XI - Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq Article XII - Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources Article XIII - Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries Article XIV - Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency Article XV - Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq Article XVI - Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US Contractors Article XVII - Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives Article XXVIII - Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy Article XIX - Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to 'Black Sites' Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture Article XX - Imprisoning Children Article XXI - Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran, and Supporting Terrorist Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of Overthrowing the Iranian Government Article XXII - Creating Secret Laws Article XXIII - Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act Article XXIV - Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment Article XXV - Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens Article XXVI - Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements Article XXVII - Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply Article XVIII - Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice Article XXIX - Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Article XXX - Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare Article XXXI - Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency Article XXXII - Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change Article XXIII - Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911. Article XXXIV - Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001 Article XXXV - Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders www.taosdailyweekly.com Read the Weekly daily From buteonidae at msn.com Fri Jul 4 15:54:30 2008 From: buteonidae at msn.com (JMac) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:54:30 -0600 Subject: [Anyone] happy Fourth! In-Reply-To: <20080704212044.R15578@shell.laplaza.org> <20080704213624.T15578@shell.laplaza.org> References: <20080704212044.R15578@shell.laplaza.org> <20080704213624.T15578@shell.laplaza.org> Message-ID: No, I was talking about the link wherein somebody in Virginia or someplace was reading the Declaration, but changing the words to fit the current political climate. The video link, see. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Thos Myers" Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 3:45 PM To: "Open Forum for Taos residents" Subject: Re: [Anyone] happy Fourth! > > I did send the original. Needed updating. Just like Thomas Jefferson > updated God's WORD - The BIBLE. From totem at laplaza.org Fri Jul 4 17:19:34 2008 From: totem at laplaza.org (Thos Myers) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 23:19:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Anyone] happy Fourth! In-Reply-To: References: <20080704212044.R15578@shell.laplaza.org> <20080704213624.T15578@shell.laplaza.org> Message-ID: <20080704231923.C15969@shell.laplaza.org> Yeap, I watched it. On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, JMac wrote: > No, I was talking about the link wherein somebody in Virginia or someplace > was reading the Declaration, but changing the words to fit the current > political climate. The video link, see. > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Thos Myers" > Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 3:45 PM > To: "Open Forum for Taos residents" > Subject: Re: [Anyone] happy Fourth! > > > > > I did send the original. Needed updating. Just like Thomas Jefferson > > updated God's WORD - The BIBLE. > > > _______________________________________________ > Anyone mailing list > Anyone at laplaza.org > http://lists.laplaza.org/mailman/listinfo/anyone > From mikeintaos at hotmail.com Sun Jul 6 11:27:41 2008 From: mikeintaos at hotmail.com (Mike in Taos) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:27:41 +0000 Subject: [Anyone] Gazprom says........... Message-ID: www.tehrantimes.com Iran: Oil unlikely to surge to $250 A senior official from the world?s fourth-largest oil exporter says crude prices will not hit $250 a barrel in the near future. ?I think there is no real prospect of crude skyrocketing to $250 a barrel this year,? said the Director of International Affairs at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Hojjatollah Ghanimifard. ?When experts study oil hikes and declines, they first evaluate which factors should be taken into consideration and whether the processed information spans enough time,? the Iranian official argued. ?Figures [that suggest a surge to $250] are perhaps predictions with no scientific basis,? he told Mehr News Agency in a Friday interview. Oil prices on Thursday surged to an all-time high of over $146 a barrel. Brent peaked at $146.69 before falling back to $146.08; US crude jumped $1.72 to $145.29 after having hit $145.85. Chief executive of the Russian energy giant Gazprom Alexei Miller warned on June 10 that oil prices could hit as high as $250 a barrel by next year. ?Today we are witnessing a very great change for hydrocarbons. The [oil price] is very high and we think it will reach $250 a barrel,? Miller said. _________________________________________________________________ The i?m Talkaton. Can 30-days of conversation change the world? http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_ChangeWorld From mikeintaos at hotmail.com Wed Jul 9 12:20:18 2008 From: mikeintaos at hotmail.com (Mike in Taos) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:20:18 +0000 Subject: [Anyone] Wisdom of a leader. Message-ID: Whatever happened to leadership and honesty as presidential traits? I happen to believe that the only leader in the World to have these two admirable qualities in droves is the leader of the free world: George W Bush. Yes, we've all heard the Bushisms and laughed at them but do you really think somebody supposedly that thick can make it to the top of the most sophisticated political system the world has ever seen? No, and that is because Mr Bush is far cleverer than most of his predecessors. He may not have been a Rhodes Scholar, but he has the ability to reach out to his people and read them. Take the Iraq war for example. OK, so he got us into Iraq in the first place. But for Pete's sake, he's the leader of the world's only superpower. He needs to take decisions, even if sometimes they have nasty consequences - which is far better than we do in Europe, where we enjoy dithering not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself. Something had to be done about Iraq and our government was all for attacking it too. So let's not blame G.W. for the war. And when things did go wrong in Iraq, and there were calls to pull out, Mr Bush just followed his own counsel and doubled his bet with the Surge. And he was right because Iraq is in a relatively better shape today than it ever was and Al Qa'eda is a shadow of its former self in that country. This is a man who has the courage of his convictions. Let's not forget how Europe does wars. Usually they wait and wait until the enemy starts attacking, then they let them win a bit, then they fight until they are tired, then they just call the US to come over to clean the mess. That is what happened in WWI, WWII, and the Balkans. Bush is just showing us what a bunch of dangerous ditherers we are and we hate him for it. Naturally. And the Olympics. Bush said right from the beginning that he's going to the opening ceremony because he saw the whole boycott thing as silly and counterproductive. Compare that with Sarkozy who has changed his mind twice so far and to Gordon Brown who, well... err. Not much leadership from Europe here, as usual, just doublespeak. Once again, it is to Bush that we look for leadership. Bush may not have the slickness of his predecessor, but he is a man you can trust and who prefers to tell it like it is. This is refreshing, and very scary for us who are used to our politicians always talking grandly about principles and hiding behind political mumbo-speak. The fact is you guys hate Mr Bush because he is not a hypocrite and you are used to hypocrites as your leaders. After all you elected Bill Richardson. We hate what we don't understand. Yes, yes, all you Taos bleeding heart liberals are cringing out there. I can just hear you. But the fact is, Mr Bush has had to take some very tough decisions and the world needs people who can not only talk but also act tough and admit mistakes. Of course you think Mr Obama is going to make a difference, but as I write this, he's already giving all the signs of somebody who will say anything to get into power only to act in exactly the same way as the Washington clique he aims to replace! Hating George W. Bush is not only dull and unoriginal, but it shows a complete lack of understanding of the world in which we live in. You want liberty but you don't want to defend it... right. And for those of you who still don't buy into what I'm saying, look at the Middle East. Bush single-handedly managed to unite the Arabs in their hate for him. Given how difficult uniting the Arabs is, it takes a special man with special skills to achieve this. He is just the kind of man to bring about peace in that region! _________________________________________________________________ Making the world a better place one message at a time. http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_BetterPlace From totem at laplaza.org Sun Jul 13 19:54:33 2008 From: totem at laplaza.org (Thos Myers) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:54:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Anyone] Wisdom of a leader. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20080714015054.M44615@shell.laplaza.org> Other notable bush accomplishments: torture, illegal war (Iraq) torture, phone taps on EVERYONE, including land lines, cell phones and e-mails; loss of habeas corpus, and the collapse of the American dollar and economy. But bush sticks to his guns and keeps shooting whil the country sinks and sinks and sinks. We are not the superpower that we once were. China has made sure of that and Russia is reawakening thanks to saber rattling by bush. bush sticks to his word and the country is no longer number one in the world. And sinking fast. thanks bush for destroying america. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? www.taosdailyweekly.com On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Mike in Taos wrote: > > > Whatever happened to leadership and honesty as presidential traits? I happen to believe that the only leader in the World to have these two admirable qualities in droves is the leader of the free world: George W Bush. > > Yes, we've all heard the Bushisms and laughed at them but do you really think somebody supposedly that thick can make it to the top of the most sophisticated political system the world has ever seen? > > No, and that is because Mr Bush is far cleverer than most of his predecessors. He may not have been a Rhodes Scholar, but he has the ability to reach out to his people and read them. > > Take the Iraq war for example. OK, so he got us into Iraq in the first place. But for Pete's sake, he's the leader of the world's only superpower. He needs to take decisions, even if sometimes they have nasty consequences - which is far better than we do in Europe, where we enjoy dithering not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself. > > Something had to be done about Iraq and our government was all for attacking it too. So let's not blame G.W. for the war. > > And when things did go wrong in Iraq, and there were calls to pull out, Mr Bush just followed his own counsel and doubled his bet with the Surge. > > And he was right because Iraq is in a relatively better shape today than it ever was and Al Qa'eda is a shadow of its former self in that country. > > This is a man who has the courage of his convictions. > > Let's not forget how Europe does wars. > > Usually they wait and wait until the enemy starts attacking, then they let them win a bit, then they fight until they are tired, then they just call the US to come over to clean the mess. > > That is what happened in WWI, WWII, and the Balkans. > > Bush is just showing us what a bunch of dangerous ditherers we are and we hate him for it. Naturally. > > And the Olympics. Bush said right from the beginning that he's going to the opening ceremony because he saw the whole boycott thing as silly and counterproductive. > > Compare that with Sarkozy who has changed his mind twice so far and to Gordon Brown who, well... err. > > Not much leadership from Europe here, as usual, just doublespeak. Once again, it is to Bush that we look for leadership. > > Bush may not have the slickness of his predecessor, but he is a man you can trust and who prefers to tell it like it is. > > This is refreshing, and very scary for us who are used to our politicians always talking grandly about principles and hiding behind political mumbo-speak. > > The fact is you guys hate Mr Bush because he is not a hypocrite and you are used to hypocrites as your leaders. After all you elected Bill Richardson. We hate what we don't understand. > > Yes, yes, all you Taos bleeding heart liberals are cringing out there. I can just hear you. But the fact is, Mr Bush has had to take some very tough decisions and the world needs people who can not only talk but also act tough and admit mistakes. > > Of course you think Mr Obama is going to make a difference, but as I write this, he's already giving all the signs of somebody who will say anything to get into power only to act in exactly the same way as the Washington clique he aims to replace! > > Hating George W. Bush is not only dull and unoriginal, but it shows a complete lack of understanding of the world in which we live in. > > You want liberty but you don't want to defend it... right. > > And for those of you who still don't buy into what I'm saying, look at the Middle East. Bush single-handedly managed to unite the Arabs in their hate for him. > > Given how difficult uniting the Arabs is, it takes a special man with special skills to achieve this. He is just the kind of man to bring about peace in that region! > _________________________________________________________________ > Making the world a better place one message at a time. > http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_BetterPlace > _______________________________________________ > Anyone mailing list > Anyone at laplaza.org > http://lists.laplaza.org/mailman/listinfo/anyone > From totem at laplaza.org Wed Jul 23 08:15:20 2008 From: totem at laplaza.org (Thos Myers) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:15:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Anyone] Open your mail, Mr. Prez Message-ID: <20080723141453.F74721@shell.laplaza.org> This column is by Bill Nemetz, one of Maine's finest newspaper columnists. He writes for the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram. From this past Sunday's edition: COLUMN Mr. President, Please open your mail By BILL NEMITZ July 20, 2008 Dear Mr. President, You might recall that last year around this time, I wrote you a letter suggesting that you save yourself a pile of grief and simply call it quits. Well, you're still here. And despite polls showing that fewer than one in five Americans now think you've got the country headed in the right direction, it appears you're going to play out this presidency until its bitter (no, make that merciful) end. So I have another suggestion. As long as you're still the leader of the free world and all, you might want to consider at least answering your mail. I'm talking about the letter you received early last week from Maine's two Republican senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, along with 10 of their colleagues from both parties. In it, they asked that you join in a bipartisan "energy summit" to consider long- and short-term strategies for dealing with the nation's ever-expanding energy crisis. (That's right, the energy crisis. I know you're aware of it because just last week, when reminded how in February you said you hadn't heard that gas was headed over $4 per gallon, you replied, "I've heard it now." Nice save, sir.) Anyway, the letter from Snowe et al (no sir, that's not a typo -- it's Latin) suggests a sit-down involving "both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue" to talk about this whole energy mess. "Americans are understandably concerned about the rising costs of commuting to work, heating their homes and buying groceries," the senators wrote. "Our national reliance on foreign oil continues to undermine and threaten American security and provide billions for America's enemies." Now Mr. President, I thought any talk about helping our enemies would get your immediate and undivided attention. But it appears I was wrong. I called Kurt Bardella, Sen. Snowe's spokesman, Wednesday to see if you'd responded to the letter. "Not yet," Bardella told me. I called again Friday. "Not yet," he said again. Yes sir, I know that last week, you talked about what appears to be your energy plan: Lift the ban on offshore drilling, which won't lower gas prices anytime soon but will provide the reeling energy markets with a "psychological" boost. And I know that last month, when the idea of a bipartisan energy summit was first floated in Congress, your spokesman Tony Fratto said flatly, "A summit isn't the answer." Well, maybe it is, Mr. President, and maybe it isn't. But with people here in Maine wondering how they're going to stay warm this winter (there's even talk up north of folks sharing households), you can't blame the good senators for at least wanting to sit down and talk about potential solutions. So please, go ahead and answer that letter. You'd restore a lot of faith in what's left of our executive branch if you looked beyond what's good for the oil companies and, just this once, provided the kind of leadership this country so desperately needs right now. No can do? Fine. Then at least write Sen. Snowe and her colleagues back to say you got their letter but couldn't open it. Explain how reading anything from here on in would conflict with how you plan to spend your final six months in office. With your eyes closed. From mikeintaos at hotmail.com Wed Jul 23 11:43:14 2008 From: mikeintaos at hotmail.com (Mike in Taos) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:43:14 +0000 Subject: [Anyone] Open your mail, Mr. Prez Message-ID: I absolutely love it when a sanctimonious, leftist, prissy, bedwetting, phony, narcissistic, smarmy, holier-than-thou, last-picked-for-kickball, gutless, weasel punk lefty like Bill Nemetz writes his bird cage lining column and tommy buys into it. > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:15:20 +0000 > From: totem at laplaza.org > To: anyone at laplaza.org > Subject: [Anyone] Open your mail, Mr. Prez > > > This column is by Bill Nemetz, one of Maine's finest newspaper columnists. He writes for the > Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram. From this past Sunday's edition: > > COLUMN Mr. President, Please open your mail > > By BILL NEMITZ July 20, 2008 > > Dear Mr. President, > > You might recall that last year around this time, I wrote you a letter suggesting that you > save yourself a pile of grief and simply call it quits. > > Well, you're still here. And despite polls showing that fewer than one in five Americans now > think you've got the country headed in the right direction, it appears you're going to play > out this presidency until its bitter (no, make that merciful) end. > > So I have another suggestion. As long as you're still the leader of the free world and all, > you might want to consider at least answering your mail. > > I'm talking about the letter you received early last week from Maine's two Republican > senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, along with 10 of their colleagues from both > parties. > > In it, they asked that you join in a bipartisan "energy summit" to consider long- and > short-term strategies for dealing with the nation's ever-expanding energy crisis. > > (That's right, the energy crisis. I know you're aware of it because just last week, when > reminded how in February you said you hadn't heard that gas was headed over $4 per gallon, > you replied, "I've heard it now." Nice save, sir.) > > Anyway, the letter from Snowe et al (no sir, that's not a typo -- it's Latin) suggests a > sit-down involving "both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue" to talk about this whole energy mess. > > "Americans are understandably concerned about the rising costs of commuting to work, heating > their homes and buying groceries," the senators wrote. "Our national reliance on foreign oil > continues to undermine and threaten American security and provide billions for America's > enemies." > > Now Mr. President, I thought any talk about helping our enemies would get your immediate and > undivided attention. But it appears I was wrong. > > I called Kurt Bardella, Sen. Snowe's spokesman, Wednesday to see if you'd responded to the > letter. > > "Not yet," Bardella told me. > > I called again Friday. > > "Not yet," he said again. > > Yes sir, I know that last week, you talked about what appears to be your energy plan: Lift > the ban on offshore drilling, which won't lower gas prices anytime soon but will provide the > reeling energy markets with a "psychological" boost. > > And I know that last month, when the idea of a bipartisan energy summit was first floated in > Congress, your spokesman Tony Fratto said flatly, "A summit isn't the answer." > > Well, maybe it is, Mr. President, and maybe it isn't. But with people here in Maine wondering > how they're going to stay warm this winter (there's even talk up north of folks sharing > households), you can't blame the good senators for at least wanting to sit down and talk > about potential solutions. > > So please, go ahead and answer that letter. You'd restore a lot of faith in what's left of > our executive branch if you looked beyond what's good for the oil companies and, just this > once, provided the kind of leadership this country so desperately needs right now. > > No can do? > > Fine. Then at least write Sen. Snowe and her colleagues back to say you got their letter but > couldn't open it. Explain how reading anything from here on in would conflict with how you > plan to spend your final six months in office. > > With your eyes closed. > > _______________________________________________ > Anyone mailing list > Anyone at laplaza.org > http://lists.laplaza.org/mailman/listinfo/anyone _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_072008 From totem at laplaza.org Wed Jul 23 12:15:54 2008 From: totem at laplaza.org (Thos Myers) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:15:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Anyone] Open your mail, Mr. Prez In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20080723181446.N75208@shell.laplaza.org> Well, beats being a mass murdering f*********** like bushco and his cult followers. On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Mike in Taos wrote: > > I absolutely love it when a sanctimonious, leftist, prissy, bedwetting, phony, narcissistic, smarmy, holier-than-thou, last-picked-for-kickball, gutless, weasel punk lefty like Bill Nemetz writes his bird cage lining column and tommy buys into it. > > > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:15:20 +0000 > > From: totem at laplaza.org > > To: anyone at laplaza.org > > Subject: [Anyone] Open your mail, Mr. Prez > > > > > > This column is by Bill Nemetz, one of Maine's finest newspaper columnists. He writes for the > > Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram. From this past Sunday's edition: > > > > COLUMN Mr. President, Please open your mail > > > > By BILL NEMITZ July 20, 2008 > > > > Dear Mr. President, > > > > You might recall that last year around this time, I wrote you a letter suggesting that you > > save yourself a pile of grief and simply call it quits. > > > > Well, you're still here. And despite polls showing that fewer than one in five Americans now > > think you've got the country headed in the right direction, it appears you're going to play > > out this presidency until its bitter (no, make that merciful) end. > > > > So I have another suggestion. As long as you're still the leader of the free world and all, > > you might want to consider at least answering your mail. > > > > I'm talking about the letter you received early last week from Maine's two Republican > > senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, along with 10 of their colleagues from both > > parties. > > > > In it, they asked that you join in a bipartisan "energy summit" to consider long- and > > short-term strategies for dealing with the nation's ever-expanding energy crisis. > > > > (That's right, the energy crisis. I know you're aware of it because just last week, when > > reminded how in February you said you hadn't heard that gas was headed over $4 per gallon, > > you replied, "I've heard it now." Nice save, sir.) > > > > Anyway, the letter from Snowe et al (no sir, that's not a typo -- it's Latin) suggests a > > sit-down involving "both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue" to talk about this whole energy mess. > > > > "Americans are understandably concerned about the rising costs of commuting to work, heating > > their homes and buying groceries," the senators wrote. "Our national reliance on foreign oil > > continues to undermine and threaten American security and provide billions for America's > > enemies." > > > > Now Mr. President, I thought any talk about helping our enemies would get your immediate and > > undivided attention. But it appears I was wrong. > > > > I called Kurt Bardella, Sen. Snowe's spokesman, Wednesday to see if you'd responded to the > > letter. > > > > "Not yet," Bardella told me. > > > > I called again Friday. > > > > "Not yet," he said again. > > > > Yes sir, I know that last week, you talked about what appears to be your energy plan: Lift > > the ban on offshore drilling, which won't lower gas prices anytime soon but will provide the > > reeling energy markets with a "psychological" boost. > > > > And I know that last month, when the idea of a bipartisan energy summit was first floated in > > Congress, your spokesman Tony Fratto said flatly, "A summit isn't the answer." > > > > Well, maybe it is, Mr. President, and maybe it isn't. But with people here in Maine wondering > > how they're going to stay warm this winter (there's even talk up north of folks sharing > > households), you can't blame the good senators for at least wanting to sit down and talk > > about potential solutions. > > > > So please, go ahead and answer that letter. You'd restore a lot of faith in what's left of > > our executive branch if you looked beyond what's good for the oil companies and, just this > > once, provided the kind of leadership this country so desperately needs right now. > > > > No can do? > > > > Fine. Then at least write Sen. Snowe and her colleagues back to say you got their letter but > > couldn't open it. Explain how reading anything from here on in would conflict with how you > > plan to spend your final six months in office. > > > > With your eyes closed. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Anyone mailing list > > Anyone at laplaza.org > > http://lists.laplaza.org/mailman/listinfo/anyone > > _________________________________________________________________ > Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. > http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_072008 > _______________________________________________ > Anyone mailing list > Anyone at laplaza.org > http://lists.laplaza.org/mailman/listinfo/anyone >