You know that a guy is really evil when he shoots a friend in the face-and the friend apologizes. The idea that Cheney will get a free pass for all the crimes he committed in the US and abroad makes my blood boil. But that's just how it's going to be, thanks to Nancy Pelosi and her brand of guttless Democrats.

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When Bush made his recent trip to the "Middle-East" he collected so much Gold, from the Sudi Prince (Payola??, for high Oil Prices)that the 'Secrete Service was embarrassed' while carrying it off!

So Cheney, takes the same trip; with his wife and daughter; to make sure he get's even more, Gold!! Is the MSM (Press) going to report on this??

4,000 American's Dead, thousands (hundreds of thousands?) that will never be the same! Our Nation Trillions of dollars in debt, War Profiteers (Halliburton, Balckwater, ect.) with No-Bid, Cost Plus Contracts! To give our soilders, contaiminated water, rotten food, and deny them their benifits!!

Damn, these People!! To a new level of Hell!

Vote Green, and demand Accountablity!! Tell the Dems. Impeachments Back on the Table!!

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Pursue the Bush administration beyond January 20 until they are brought to justice.


Direct Democracy

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Remember the old cartoon show, Super Chicken? That's Cheney. He said in a speech that all the people killed in Iraq were volunteers. As in, "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred." How does volunteering to lay down your life for your fellow man somehow render your life as less valuable?

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Yes. Maybe he intentionally chose that day to celebrate for having helped massacre 4000 americans and more than a million iraqis including innocent babies. And the saudi kings and omanate sultans licking his feet and presenting him for the great humanity he had rendered. Shame.Shame.

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If anyone has any question about Cheney's role in the run-up and subsequent Iraq war, please check your local listings for Public Television's Frontline. Once you see it, whatever little bit of doubt you might have still harbored about a leader "wanting" to take his nation to war without just cause, this will "take care of it".

It is no wonder that this smug, arrogant, divisive, secretive, war criminal and I have no other adjective to fit him, feels absolutely nothing for the 4,000 young men and women who have laid down their lives for this utterly senseless conflict, and the thousands of others maimed forever both physicall and mentally. He and "W" and all the other neo-con's who have given nothing but taken everything in these past five years, don't dare second guess themselves. I couldn't sleep for weeks after hitting and killing a puppy that ran in front of my car, how could any of them possibly live with themselves if they didn't convince themselves they "had to do it"?

All of them who got us into this are today very wealthy. Through their books, kickbacks, new jobs, all have fared very well. That anyone would even consider voting for John McCain over either democratic candidate is beyond the pale.

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... with the god shit already, Michael. Haven't you had enough of that stupid god bless amerika bullshit from GW Beanbrain and the Dickless wonder?

I think we'd all feel a lot better, and safer I might ass, if you asked for the blessings of the gnomes hiding in your garden. We already know where Beanbrain's god blessings crapola have gotten us.

~Rev. El
Pastor, WVCSR

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the US that they had the power to decimate (more or less the percentage) the American economy should it wish to do so.

Cheney may not be the free agent he's portrayed as being. Is the US government more powerful than Saudi Arabia's or is it beholden? Who has whom by the short and curlies? (Is this what worries Nancy Pelosi or is she just dim?)

All the more reason, in my view, to impeach Bush and Cheney for betraying the US constitution and the American people. Have they not been effectively acting as enemy agents?

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I'm serious! Not that I want him physically harmed (Note to the Secret Service: Oh, perish the thought, dear boys!) But you've got to admit this undeniable fact - America - the world! - would be one whole hell of a lot better is this evil piece of shit would just go to bed one fine night, close his eyes and never wake up.

If you happened to check out "Bush's War" on Frontline last night, you'll understand my frustration and rage. Bush and Cheney were determined to go to invade Iraq and seize the second or third largest oil reserves on the planet. For this they should be thrown in federal prison for the rest of their miserable lives.

By the way, a DVD of that documentary is available from PBS video. If you didn't see it last night (part two is on this evening), purchase it AND SHOW IT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE!

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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the Israelis in his attempts to get a treaty between them and the Palestinians before this administration leaves town? That we'd attack Iran? Plenty of photo ops at the Wailing Wall with Joe Lieberman, but there has been no scrutiny whatsoever about what he said and did. That crooked little smile on his face tells me we won't be pleased when we find out.

Impeach him!

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This administration will pass into the history books right along with the other evil dictatorships of the past. Students will look back and wonder, why did the American people put up with this for so many years. OK Senators and Congressmen on both sides of the aisle, do you have an answer? The majority of Americans gave you a mandate in 06. What have you done?

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Obviously our system of checks and balances have failed to check and balance Bush's foreign policy. So who has legal right to check it? International courts?
Could international courts lean on Bush. Might there be a UN resolution asking Bush out of Iraq?
Could not the present administration be indicted by world court for the war crime of waterboarding? It is precisely unusual because other countries don't. And people have been convicted of waterboarding.
Could not the bush administration be indicted by impartial court on the charge the war is ultimately unfair. That the unfairness of making and causing the current suffering in Iraq, is unfair to the iraquis, and that making one country suffer to protect another is unfair and demands international penalties?
Might not organized religion say to the bush administration in no uncertain terms, "If anyone needs to be negotiated and talked sense to it's the terrorist." Thus it is highly immoral that we don't talk with our foes.
And might not an investigator find it suspicious that Islam both contains terrorism, and sells us oil?
Is not the case being made in history that there is no precedent for one country actively giving rise to another autonomous country. It is historically established principle that a state's autonomy is its leaders coming out of a process internal to the state. A country must stand up on its own. There is a difference between a war, and an occupation. One may have credence, the other is bad government.
Lastly, is there not something undemocratic about the recruiting of soldiers. Unfortunately there has been little community discussion of the subject.
Thus, the failure of our checks and balances upon a foreign policy must be parlayed by the international community into a demonstration of the legal might that will intimidate this administration.
Now a good percentage of free speech is unpleasant. So for god's sake feel sorry for republicans. This is not the easiest time for them and they are not without merit.
Of equal issue is how our system of checks and balances is dysfunctional. Do we deserve the credit for this war, or do just the prosecutors of the war?
The dysfuctionality stems from a distortion of reality through the media. The amount of media is unprecedented. The morality of writing promulgated, v. writing to a friend who writes to you, is undiscussed.
The media's focus on power, as the most vital information for you to know, not only shamefully ignores the mild plane of the kingdom of god, but may villify anyone who points out such as the religiously literate.
And if you define a public figure by how much face time, or even written time, public figure gets with the public, the face time of the media dwarfs those of politicians by astoundishing ratio.
This ratio is great enough to stultify our checks and balances into the stodgy cigar smoke it is now. And that the media is ultimately more indictable by international court than this president.
And this is saving grace because in some ways we are all within the ignorance of the media; and as people, trying to get a handle on a media protected first thing in the bill of rights, we are all responsible for the runaway media, and it's morally ambiguos friend, bad TV.
People have social responsiblities: that extend to influencing journalists, and knowing celebrities. It's just that the gap between the people and journalists/entertainers is so great: the people are as frustrated by the lack of three dimensionality to media and entertainers, as they are dissillusioned by politicians and the courts.
Yet you can ask anyone if they are disillusioned by politicians and they will let out a gasp, "oh yes." But if you ask someone why the heck is the kingdom of god not refered to in the newspapers, they'll look at you, and not know what

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I think our allies the Japanese have come up with the perfect name for our girly girl VP who shoots caged birds and slinks into Baghdad in the dark of night. We hereby name him to be the Time Ah-So of the Year. He who will pay for his tortured soul a millionfold in the hellhole where he has condemned others.

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MM did well, of course. I'm just waiting and counting the days until this enormous idiot of idiots is gone from the scene. Shame on us for letting it happen in the first place. Anyone who voted even once for this ticket should be wearing a bag over their head, in shame.

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I herewith apologize to you for believing that only the Germans could produce a Hitler and the ferocious terrorism that ensued. I see now that it can happen most any place. In the USA it appears that a very stupid electorate is responsible for putting a monster in office, not once but twice. What I don't understand is why warmonger McCain was at the top of the polls last week. Haven't the stupid voters had enough?

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Neo nazi's Bush, Cheney and those behind them will pay the ultimate price for their crimes. Of that I have no doubt.

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I never for a second thought we could become like the Germans of WWll who pretended not to see the atrocities committed all around them.
And yet, here we are. We have done nothing to stop these criminals from shredding our Constitution, murdering our military, murdering foreign citizens, stealing our national treasure, enslaving our population and future generations to pay for it all.
Don't bother praying about it. The god who blesses America is as big a myth as the promise of justice for these cretins.
I don't know who I despise more......Bush/Cheney or my fellow Americans who can't be bothered with the outrage necessary to end this War on America. Who is the bigger traitor?

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Bush's second in command, accomplice, isn't even worth discussing, he is simply a useless piece of shit - War Criminal.

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Immediately after Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States the FBI should move in and place George W. Bush and Dick Cheney under arrest. How much more evidence is needed to
convince people that those two guys are criminals?
We don't have to wait for any more polls as to whether or not the surge is working! Bush and Cheney are the TERRORISTS! John McCain beware!

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Both Hitler and Mussolini served as soldiers,corporals to wit, in the frontlines of WW I. Than they started WW II.

Bush and Cheney? Well Bush was in the Alabama National Guard before going AWOL avoiding the Vietnam war. Cheney was even more yellow, he escaped the draft alltogether by the trick of getting married. Between the two of them they attacked Iraq based on lies and deceit.

The difference is obvious, the first two knew what war was all about, the latter two? Worse SOBs and in the end losers like the others. They deserve to be treated like the criminals they are.

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What we SHOULD do is take our glorious leaders to a nice place like Bacuba Or Baghdad and turn them loose without the usual body armour and four hundred and seventy three troops and attack helicopters to accompany them, so they can fully enjoy the benefits of the glorious victory and heavenly peace we've attained there. A week or two should do the trick. If anyone's kidnapped and a ransom demanded, our reply should be:"We'll only take them back if you give us the nine billion dollars that were 'lost' there".

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Profile of the Sociopath

This website summarizes some of the common features of descriptions of the behavior of sociopaths.


Glibness and Superficial Charm

Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.

Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."

Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.

Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.

Shallow Emotions
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.

Incapacity for Love

Need for Stimulation
Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.

Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.

Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.

Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.

Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.

Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.

Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.

Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
Other Related Qualities:

Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
Authoritarian
Secretive
Paranoid
Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
Conventional appearance
Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim's life
Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim's affirmation

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I was watching this movie the other day and at the end Robert Redford and Cliff Robertson are facing off on a New York side walk. As Redford berates CIA man Robertson about the tactics and methods of the Agency, Robertson defends his actions. The conversation goes something like this:

Robertson:

No. It's simple economics.
Today it's oil, right?
In a few years-- food, plutonium,
and maybe even sooner.
What do you think the people
are going to want us to do then?
Ask them.
Not now. Then. Ask them
when they're running out.
Ask them when there's no heat
and they're cold.
Ask them when
their engines stop.
Ask them when people who have never
known hunger start going hungry.
Want to know something?
They won't want us to ask them.
They'll want us
to get it for them.

Redford:
Boy,
have you found a home.

Is this Cheney's train of thought? And the American people? My own brother sees no problem in taking Iraq's oil to fuel the American way.People close to Cheney over his career now say he is very different man. Cheney has severed many relationships. Old friends don't know who he is anymore. Cheney is said to be increasingly paranoid. His obsession with secrecy, his cavalier, condescending and arrogant view of the Iraq occupation are classic signs of a sociopath. His complete detachment from reality,public opinion and total lack of concern for the genocide he has championed in Iraq are now clear for all to see. The lack of sensitivity to the American families who have been devastated by his quest for the Iraqi oil fields and US global hegemony by fishing on the fifth anniversary of this genocide from the yacht of the political powers MOST responsible for 9/11 is beyond comprehension. The complete abdication of moral and ethical responsibility by the corporate media coupled with their complicity in perpetuating the big lie is evidence enough that this country IS NOW a fascist, totalitarian regime wrapped in our American flag. Combined with the demoralizing Democratic acquiescence and abject failure to even slow down this train wreck convinces me that,as Ralph Nader famously states, America is a one party regime,controlled by corporate warlords,financed by the American taxpayer(read Bear Stearns). The wasteful economic devastation wreaked by the Military Industrial complex($600 billion in Iraq) and the suspension of oversight/regulation has led us to the financial collapse occurring at this moment. Bush has inserted, many by means of recess appointments,a politically loyal industry lobbyist at virtually every government post. The criminal politicization of the Dept. of Justice with incompetent,evangelical robots was discovered and investigated. Almost every Atty. General inserted in crucial swing states is now in place and doing the bidding of the White House.The corporate financial punditry are busy calling a bottom to the bloodletting on Wall Street ignoring the fact that there has been no improvement in the conditions that caused it in the first place. So it goes...

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Write an actual letter, with a stamp and all, (Not an email) to Rep. John Conyers, and tell him to quit worrying about how the republicans might try to capitalize on the move to impeach, and BRING IMPEACHMENT TO THE FLOOR, along with all the evidence that HE KNOWS EXISTS. Remind him that it is his and all of our elected officials' RESPONSIBILITY to do this action and protect the constitution, not to mention the rights of the citizens in this country. And, most importantly, to bring to account the ones responsible for the horrible consequences to the Iraqi people of the Bush-Cheney immoral and illegal war. There are millions of us who are sick at heart because of these criminals. We need our representatives to REPRESENT US.

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Voting Green (or Nader)
I plan on voting for Nader. But only because the Democrats can't lose my state.
If it were a swing state like florida or Ohio i would chicken out and vote Democrat. I can't be a part of installing another Republican congress/administration.

What I cannot understand is how, after the most disastrous 7 years in our countrys history (yes worse than the depression, no war was being waged then) some 50% of the Voting Amricans STILL FAVOR THE REPUBLICAN????
MY GOD WHY? MURDER, DESTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE BANKRUPTING OF OUR COUNTRY---ALL THE DIRECT RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS!! YET MCCAIN IS NECK AND NECK WITH OBAMA?
AND ONLY SLIGHTLY BEHIND HILLARY???
WHY???
WHY???

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So? So, it remains blatantly obvious that Dick Cheney and his "boss" have their own agenda, and it has very little to do with what Americans want.

It's not too late, too expensive, or too distracting to impeach both Bush and Cheney. In fact, its exactly what should be done, for reasons I've blogged about here.

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Why was "Darth Vader" on a boat with a sultan? Because, he wasn't on a tour of some island; he was ignoring reality. A reality of a shattered nation we wrought upon Iraq in the name of democracy that has more than a half million dead.
Men love to fish becuase it gets us away from our problems. Trotsky was an avid fisherman. So was George H.W. Bush. But Cheney? Didn't he nearly blow someone's face off? People had hoped a big fish would leap out of the Persian Gulf and swallow him.
Cheney hung a "Gone Fishin" sign around the necks of the army to show his arrogance. Well don't worry, soldiers: after Bush is gone the fisherman will throw you the ones he won't keep.

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does moore really think contacting congress will do anything ??? i and others i know from maryland have done this repeatedly.,..meetings with staffers and the actual congresspersons. before the 2006 elections we were told that the dems agreed with us but hadn't any power to change things. now the excuse is something like "we agree with you but have to "support the troops" (by killing them in quantity)"they will not stop funding the war and risk being called cowardly....we should demand that their children or grandchildren be on the front lines.... or maybe they should themselves, starting with the grim reaper cheney himself.
congress, for the most part is a collection of cowards. they refuse to truly represent us.
i would love to know what to try next that might work.... asking congress to do the will of the people and expecting it to happen is living in a fantasyland.

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