Tuesday March 20, 2012, 4:30 am
Thanks for sharing!

Tuesday March 20, 2012, 5:12 am
noted, thank you Cal

Tuesday March 20, 2012, 7:14 am
Noted. Thanks.

Tuesday March 20, 2012, 9:45 am

Think the greatest threats are the Homeland Insecurity and the NDAA. Those are real threats to any form of Constitutional rights, which are rapidly declining. While Americans do a lot of complaining, they don't seem willing to do much more. The other grave threat to freedom of the individual is the ongoing and ever increasing war on women. We need the ERA - and we need only 3 more states.

Tuesday March 20, 2012, 2:43 pm
thanks for sharing cal

Tuesday March 20, 2012, 6:34 pm
"Al Qaeda" is not the reason the U.S. attacked Iraq. Al Qaeda was not present in Iraq prior to the attack. The U.S. attack opened Iraq up for Al Qaeda and took out the secular dictator, in accord with Al Qaeda demands.

"Al Qaeda" is not the reason the U.S. attacked Afghanistan. In 2001, Taliban factions repeatedly asked the U.S. to extradite bin Laden. At one point, they even offered to pay for the cruise missile that would take bin Laden out. This was BEFORE 9/11. The U.S. wasn't interested.

AFTER 9/11, the Taliban offered to have bin Laden tried in an Islamic country. They asked only that the U.S. supply evidence of bin Laden's guilt. The U.S. supplied no evidence.

For 10 years now, the U.S. has been bombing the country. Most of the victims are peasants who know nothing about 9/11. The U.S. itself admits that the number of "Al Qaeda" people in the country is under 100. Yet the occupation and bombardment continues. This tells us that something other than "Al Qaeda" motivates the war-making.

Politicians often do one thing and then say the exact opposite. Reagan, for example, supported the contra terrorists in Nicaragua while loudly denouncing "Terrorists!".

This radical hypocrisy or audacity is hard for most Americans to fathom. We are way too trusting. If a politician says something, our first instinct is to BELIEVE. At best, we may conclude that the politician has exaggerated or embellished the truth. It's hard for us to imagine that the truth is the exact opposite of what has been said.

Thus, we end up living in a world of illusions, where reducing a country to rubble is seen as "Liberation!" or "Freedom!" and doing the bidding of Al Qaeda -- in Iraq and now Syria, for example -- is seen as "Fighting Terrorists". There is no way to free ourselves from this inverted self-destructive system, so long as we allow pleasant illusions to supersede reality.

Tuesday March 20, 2012, 8:06 pm
as usual Kit,you are profoundly well spoken,and I agree with you completely.
problem is what choices are out there?
gonna get a conservative whether it's the dems or the gop.
liberal is a dirty word.....to me there are no curse words but war,hate,and intolerance

Wednesday March 21, 2012, 10:31 am
Like a large percentage of Americans, I awake each day to recognize my country less and less.

Wednesday March 21, 2012, 10:38 am
You cannot currently send a star to tasunka because you have done so within the last week.

Wednesday March 21, 2012, 1:08 pm
Gore Vidal has a thesis that there were never any "best values", that the USI has always been a rapacious empire.

Wednesday March 21, 2012, 1:33 pm
thank you Cal

Wednesday March 21, 2012, 8:43 pm
Noted, thanks.

Thursday March 22, 2012, 1:25 am
Noted, thanks Cal.

Thursday March 22, 2012, 2:14 am
America with the law of NDAA is converting the country in to a NAZI regime and CIA as Gestapo GOD Bless you poor people of America and GOD May protect all of us from these leaders

Monday October 15, 2012, 11:15 am
Thanks for posting