As this major push for health reform heads for the finish line, it's worth noting that we could provide a staggering 88,120,908 people in this country health care for a full year for the money we're spending in Afghanistan.



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Yep. Told you so.

a criminal in our midst

Resolved that President George W. Bush be Impeached for High Crimes and Misdemeanors and that the following Articles of Impeachment be presented to the United States Senate:

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 XIIII

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 XVIII

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 XXVIII

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 XXXIII

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

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Free Tibet flags -- Made in China

from The BBC:

Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.

The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.

But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper.

The factory owner reportedly told police the emblems had been ordered from outside China, and he did not know that they stood for an independent Tibet.

Workers who had grown suspicious checked the meaning of the flag by going online.

Thousands of flags had already been packed for shipping.

Police believe that some may already have been sent overseas, and could appear in Hong Kong during the Olympic torch relay there this week.

Walkin' In Memphis

Commemorations are being held across the country today to mark the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Civil Rights Leader and Peace Activist was gunned down on April 4th 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old.


"We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter to me now. Because I've been to the mountain top. Like anybody I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he has allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen The Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to The Promised Land. So I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man -- Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." -- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. April 3, 1968.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm only going to talk to you for a minute or so this evening, because I have some very sad news for all of you and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee." -- Robert F. Kennedy April 4, 1968

... Kennedy would be assassinated himself just two months later.

Begin Carrousel

Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out against what he called "the infinite lengthening of biological life." He made the remarks in a homily delivered to young people in Rome on Sunday.

The pontiff said that even if an 'immortality pill' was found, "the world would fill up with old people; there would be no space for the youth."

"We cannot then, hope for the infinite lengthening of biological life." said Benedict.


"There's just one catch -- Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of Carrousel."

The George W Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages.

You'll want to be the first at your corporation to make a contribution to this great man's legacy. 

The Library will include: 

The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction. 

The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you can't remember anything. 

The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't have to even show up.

The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in. 

The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out. 

The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room (which no one has been able to

find).

The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you

to go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tours. 

The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete with shooting gallery. 

Plans also include: 

The K-Street Project Gift Shop - where you can buy (or just steal) an election. 

The Airport Men's Room, where you can meet  some of your favorite Republican Senators. 

Last, but not least, there will be an entire floor devoted to a 7/8 scale model of the President's ego. 

To highlight the President's accomplishments, the museum will have an electron microscope to help  you locate them. 

When asked, President Bush said that he didn't care  so much about the individual exhibits as long as his museum was  better than his fathers.