1879 - First mobile home (horse drawn) was used in a journey from London to Cyprus.
1972 - The manned lunar module from Apollo 16 landed on the moon. no horses were injured in the making of this journey.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
-- Leon Trotsky
“The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.”
-- Paris Hilton
FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:
a) Jane Harman
Pastor Ag has railed against Congresswoman AIPAC for years. Did not trust her, did not like her, threw money at her last opponent, always thought that she was a paid political operative whose loyalties lay with Israel, rather than America.
Turns out to be true. Big Brother (NSA) recorded her cutting deals to free pro-Israeli traitors from AIPAC who were spying on the US.
In brief, Jeff Stein at CQ has a much, much more detailed account of that story, first reported in 2006, of Rep. Jane Harman getting caught on a wiretapped phone call allegedly discussing a quid pro quo with "a suspected Israeli."
There are a lot of hairy details on this one. But the gist is that an NSA wiretap recorded Harman in a conversation with a "suspected Israeli agent" in which Harman allegedly agreed to use her influence with the DOJ to get them to drop the AIPAC spy case in exchange for help lobbying then-Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi to make Harman chair of the House Intelligence Committee -- a position she ended up not getting.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Not only is this treason, it is one of the few crimes that has a pretty harsh penalty, according to the US Constitution.
She was asked to pressure the NYT, to drop a warrantless wiretap story. And she did.
She was asked to derail an investigation into AIPAC's treason. And she did.
She was asked to cooperate with Alberto Gonzales to keep Bush Admin crimes secret. And she did.
Methinks we need to indict and try a member of congress for treason and other crimes.
The US Constitution:
Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted
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I suspect that Jane has some serious lawyering up to do. And that our AIPAC lobbying targets have some serious review of their campaign funds to complete. AND, Israel best review our relationship. Because it will change.
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b) Big Pharma killing Americans by polluting our water
The U.S. federal government has "consistently" overlooked massive amounts of waterway contamination stemming from 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals legally released into waterways, the Associated Press reported today.
According to the news agency's investigation, government and industry officials don't know how many pharmaceutical ingredients – like lithium and nitroglycerin – are released into lakes and rivers that feed into drinking water, because they don't track those chemicals as drugs.
But the AP found that 22 pharmaceutical compounds do show up in EPA and Food and Drug Administration records. Drugmakers and federal regulators both say that the manufacturing of these kinds of chemicals doesn't impact water quality, but according to the story...
http://rawstory.com/...
Which is worse? Selling your soul to Israel and putting our national security at risk by committing treason? or deliberately sending tons of medically active materials into our drinking water? Tough call.
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c) 21 horses die at polo club - Big Pharma's poison at work?
CNN) -- Fourteen thoroughbred horses dropped dead Sunday before a polo match near West Palm Beach, Florida, and a national investigation has been launched to find the cause, officials said.
Teams are trying to figure out what happened at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Florida.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel is reporting that as many as 21 horses in total have died between Sunday night and Monday morning.
http://www.cnn.com/...
Anyone who the whereabouts of Michael Vick? Oh, wait. He only murders dogs.
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d) Rahm Emanuel reminded where his interests should lie.
A rabid ultra-conservative Israeli politician threatened President Obama's chief of staff, instructing him that he should remember his jewish roots and that his loyalties should be no different than the traitorous Jane Harman's.
National Union chairman Ya'acov "Ketzele" Katz sent a letter to White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel last week admonishing him not to forget his Jewish and Israeli origins. Katz's missive came in response to a reported verbal exchange between Emanuel and an unidentified American Jewish leader.
Katz claims that in a private meeting with the unnamed leader, Emanuel said, "In the next four years, there will be a peace agreement with the Palestinians on the basis of two states for two peoples, and it does not matter to us who is the prime minister."
In the letter, a Hebrew version of which was provided to The Jerusalem Post by Katz's parliamentary aide, Katz wrote: "For many Israelis, this report is a cause for worry because it reveals a condescending attitude toward our prime minister and Israeli public opinion. This is an attitude that Israel does not expect from a real friend such as the US, and all the more so from an Israeli Jew who has succeeded in being appointed White House chief-of-staff."
Katz went on to compare Emanuel to the biblical Esther, who ended up at using her influence with Persian King Ahashverosh to intervene on behalf of the Jews of the Persian Empire.
http://www.jpost.com/...
Rahm? Where do your loyalties lie? With Ms. Harman, or with your president?
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e) Jay Bybee
As calls grow for his impeachment from the bench, (9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals), the sad truth is that Rahm Emanuel not only wants to support and protect the torturers, he wants to stop any prosecution of those who broke the law AND those who ordered the crimes to take place.
The blogosphere has been charged with debate about impeaching Jay Bybee, the deputy attorney general whose name is on arguably the worst torture memo released last Thursday. Bruce Ackerman wrote a convincing case for impeaching Bybee on Friday; today the New York Times joined the cause with a fiery editorial: "These memos make it clear that Mr. Bybee is unfit for a job that requires legal judgment and a respect for the Constitution. Congress should impeach him."
But the editorial goes beyond that point – read the whole thing – to make the case that President Obama and Congress have a legal obligation to investigate the entire chain of command behind Bybee and other government lawyers' sick, skewed defense of torture.
http://www.salon.com/...
I can't explain why exactly, but Rahm's statements on Bybee and the torture crowd somehow reminds one of Jane Harman's "This conversation never happened" statement to an Israeli spy.
Rahm supports protecting torturers? This is the transparent, responsible administration we were hoping for?
Bullshyte.
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"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin