RoseMerry—-I agree with THE HAGUE for the entire Bush cabal…..but also agree with Mark…am not for capital punishment even for these mass murderers..and if anyone thinks their oil war is anything but organized mass murder they are really divorced from their own humanity.

For those who don’t have good public transportation…how about linking up with rideshares via Craigslist.com in your area?

Marie? Are you really that naive? “The government” do something about the “oil companies”? Bush and Cheney ARE OIL. Exxon, the second largest company in the world, wrote our “Energy Plan” behind closed doors with the Dick Cheney, the biggest shareholder in the company he headed, and which is profitting so greatly on the illegal war that HE started. Oil services company Halliburton is handed tens of billions in no-bid contracts, Dick Cheney’s stock is up in value by tens of millions, and Halliburton has moved its HQ to the Middle-East to off-shore profits. Please give me a break! It’s Christmas everyday for them and their friends. They could care less about anything but their profits. BIG OIL IS EVIL. We have the technology to harness solar. The sun gives off more energy every second than has been used in all of history. HERE’S THE SOLUTION: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heku9oTLysg Exxon=LIARS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIorjvdBku8 Dick Cheney KNEW in 1994 that going into Iraq would turn into a death-spiral quagmire…here he is saying so. We are there FOR OIL PROFITS. The government do something??!! They did something all right, planned and executed an evil oil war to profit themselves and their oil friends. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i-mksZODSs&NR=1

Ken—In 2000 I sold my Baby Benz that loved for its great styling…a pleasure to drive…and because had been injured and left with vertigo that would have for years. Looked and seemed fine, but not safe to drive. I walked everywhere, took public trans or cabs when had too much to carry. It wasn’t that much of an adjustment and many benefits. But do you know the story of Stan Meyer? He’d been in high tech and made news after he invented and got the patent for a water fuel cell and an adapter kit that would allow any car to be converted and run on plain tap water. He’d received death threats and recorded his fears, predicted he would be killed, and he was. Here’s a bit on his amazing work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8stApCmxYEM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h75_TGiwg78&feature=related

Janis, Hits a nerve with me too. Short answer to obvious question: Bush Inc…. in the broadest interpretation.

Yes Diana…he is a miserable, bitter, blind individual whose life is unloading his pile of merde here….completely ignore him. He’s creating his own karma….

Ginger….you are so right.

Every marriage can hit a rough patch with the thought that this too shall pass. Something will wash through and everything will be renewed. Perhaps that is the danger of benign neglect, but the world is moving fast around us and reality can be altered overnight. Suddenly everything you’ve imagined about how your life would proceed is thrown into relief by this new big, amorphous shaped-shifting thing. Do you ignore it, confront it, hope it arrived by error and wil go away. It can be a seismic shift in your entire consciousness and about everything that you thought was your true solid rock. In Susan Minot’s “Evening,” the protagonist has led a cushy, upscale existence that from the outside looks glossy but the truth is rather empty on, and is now young and dying pn her bead. Throughout her entire three marriages she’s thought of one man she had a weekend fling with right out of college. As this woman is in bed dying too young she recalls her life and the centerpiece for her at the moment was this weekend fling and the attraction for her to that place and man and moment that was some kind of touchstone for life. I think SHE is nameless perhaps because then we can consciously or subconsciously project our own feelings, wishes and intentions on this protagonist. Bart had in effect rejected her on some level, at least she feels this. She needs to feel pleasure, comfort, and perhaps Jonathan was the man that haunted her. He would be a mirror, perhaps the best mirror she could find right now. In one glance he will confirm—is she still attractive and desirable—or has she let it go more than she knows. Either way it’s more information, and more time to decide. Having dinner is not a crime. She doesn’t know yet what if anything will happen. There are no small children at home. Change needs a catalyst. This dinner will set her down a new road: some kind of raprroachement with Bart, leaving him, or some kind of fling or relationship with Jonathan.

Well, Mugsy I certainly second useless, rambling, nut case woman hater opinion….

Michael- Like Frank, Dan and the other non-Dr Trolls….always a pleasure to read your posts.

McGin- Two of the main ideals that influenced the Founding Fathers were the Natural Rights Theory and Classical Republicanism. The former proposed that governments were founded for the purpose of protecting individual rights; the latter maintained that governments exist for the common good. James Madison was largely responsible for the synthesis of these two concepts into one system: basically, he said that people working for their own self interest (individual) could simultaneously benefit society (common good). Much of our Constitution consists of compromises between the individual and society, as do many of the controversial issues and decisions of our own day. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs —to kill people and to destroy.~General Thomas S. Power In war, truth is the first casualty.~Aeschylus The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.~Albert Einstein A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. The next war … may well bury Western civilization forever. Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.~Alexander Berkman All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.~Alexis de Tocqueville Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three “small” wars…we lost all three of them and for the same reason—hubris.~Andrew Greely A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.~Anonymous (German) Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.~A pirate, from St. Augustine’s “City of God” No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.~Barbara Ehrenreich What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise. ~Barbara Jordan Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.~Benjamin Franklin A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.~Benjamin Franklin War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.~Charles Evans Hughes The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~Charles-Louis De Secondat War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.~Chris Hedges We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.~Dwight D. Eisenhower Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.We may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower The tragedy of modern war is that the youg men die fighting each other—-instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ~Ed Abbey Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell. ~Edward Abbey Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. ~Edward R. Murrow History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. ~Eric Alterman No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people. ~Eugene Debs The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. ~Frank Kent In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.~Franklin Delano Roosevelt Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.~Franklin D. Roosevelt The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. ~Frederick Douglass If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army. ~Frederick the Great Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.~Fred Reed The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.~Friedrich Nietzsche Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. ~General Douglas MacArthur Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. ~General Douglas MacArthur Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. ~General Douglas MacArthur I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations. ~General Douglas MacArthur Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. ~General Omar N. Bradley We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.~General Omar N. Bradley War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.~General Omar N. Bradley War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. ..I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. ~General Smedley Butler

McGin—“Anger, gloom and doom?” Spin away. FACTS are FACTS. So are you a Freeper for the Heritage Foundation or do you freelance?

-Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose.” -Jean Hanff Korelitz’a “The White Rose” -Teilhard de Chardin’s ‘The Human Phenomenon [Always admired him, Joni’s mention of him in one of her pieces inspired me to read his book. Trivia: He last lived at Saint Ignatius on Park Ave, Jackie K. O’s church and where her funeral was held. -Robert Mondavi’s autobio “Harvests of Joy” -“‘The Olive Farm” Carol Drinkwater http://www.caroldrinkwater.com/ Anyone who loves the South of France will love her books, which are really about following your dreams. I’d read one of her books, and she sent me an email after reading about Wowowow in the London Sun Times, she’d come to the site and saw one of my post and contacted me. I was thrilled! I’d already read one of her books, remembered it well, and after her email read another, and now I’m on book three. She is a wonderful woman and her books are a delightful vacation to the South of France without leaving home.

Oh, jeese, I’m freaking and wasn’t there and he’s dead. What a terrific man and what a terrific story. He just had to come and see who Ms. Thang was herself. I heard a story that he and Jackie Kennedy, when she still lived in Georgetown after JFK’s death, went to a dark Georgetown restaurant/bar….got a little hot and tipsy and slid down on the banquette and necked. Who knows if it’s true but like the image! Cool story Whoopie, made me smile, thank you. Your mother sounds like my mother, a peach.

Lena—If this site were dedicated to Hispanics, Asians, African Americans, French, Gays, whatever…and he came on spewing hate and abusive to any of those demographic groups would you think it was funny? Would you post a message and say that coming onto a Gay group and spewing homophobia was funny? OF course you wouldn’t. He is a hate monger pure and simple. Get it? Got it? Good.