defeat the republicans

Yes!

of course it hurts, we are all being screwed by an elephant

McCain – Spears Republican ticket:

Click the image for the video.

What is not amusing is the real John McCain. Just like the American public quickly dropped support for Giuliani when they started to find out about the true Giuliani, I also believe that the American public will also quickly drop support for McCain once they find out about the true McCain. Click the following image for a sample of the real McCain:

If you have no care about the environment, then McCain is your guy as being rated dead last among 535 senators and representatives for his voting record on environmental issues.

And McCain is well-known for his temper. Although this is a dated video, this shows how John McCain resolves issues—by walking out.

And we’ve seen in recent weeks that McCain’s tactics for dealing with Obama is by spreading lies about Obama. McCain created an ad which insinuated that Obama cancelled his visit to the hospital to visit injured US troops when he was told he could not bring along the press. Click here to find out the true facts about the story. In the meantime, most of the American public don’t hear about the errors in McCain’s ads, they only hear about the initial ad. Even if much of the American public eventually learn the truth about the story, McCain is hoping to sway a couple % of voters with each false ad to sway the election. At least, that appears to be the strategy based on the fact that McCain dropped his initial claim to run a clean (non-negative) campaign. Here are Swift Boat tactics all over again.

PS. Paris came out with her own rebuttal ad. Good for Paris. And Kathy Hilton (Paris’ mom) had the following to say: “I actually have three responses. It is a complete waste of the money John McCain’s contributors have donated to his campaign. It is a complete waste of the country’s time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next president of the United States.” While McCain has managed to alienate contributors to his campaign (I can presume that the Hiltons will no longer be making campaign contributions to him anymore), give him enough time and I’m sure he will manage to alienate all Americans.

We already know they can sink pretty low, but now they are getting desperate because they know McCain is trailing… And for good reason. Here are 10 examples of how McCain has changed his views... but not even simply changing his views but even denying he had supported his previous view.

Anyway, back to the original topic about how low can Republicans sink: It appears the following button was for sale at a recent Texas Republican convention:

But worse than that are all the rumors flying around about Obama or his wife. It’s extremely easy for Internet rumors to spread through blogs and people forwarding e-mails. Even if most of the people realize the rumors are not true, there are those who will still believe them. But what’s even worse than that is the news coverage. I must admit that most of it is from Fox “News”. I don’t see why they are still considered a legitimate news organization. The only one who can stop this is Rupert Murdoch. If he has any integrity, he’ll shut down that organization or fire everyone and start all over again.

Anyway, Jon Stewart parodied the Obama rumors in the following video clip:

Click on the above image for the video. It’s worth viewing.

Republicans blocked a measure which would tax oil companies more… And not only that, Republicans failed to support a measure which would continue to extend tax breaks for wind, solar and other alternative energy development, and for the promotion of energy efficiency and conservation.

It’s obvious which side Republicans are on… Big oil and other companies (like pharmaceuticals) who pay government officials big salaries after they leave office… So why do people still vote these type of people into office?

Source: http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20080610/D917AV880.html

We need our democracy restored after nearly 8 years of living in the republican hell. People should once again protest without fear, write letters to the editor; act like a free American citizen.

Here is clip from the Colbert Report pointing out that O’Reilly is quite a jerk:

I wish I could post a humorous Daily Show video to help offset the grim reality that not only has US used torture to try to extort information out of suspects, but also it has now been recently revealed that those high in the administration were involved in the decision. And although we should be used to the fact by now that this administration thinks nothing about lying to the American public, it is disgusting to see how blatantly they do it.

Click the image for a video if you don’t mind hearing people lie through their teeth:

I would like to remind people that many held at Guantanamo Bay are not known terrorists or even “enemy combatants”. Some were “people of interest” who the government felt they needed to question without being subject to any laws. It’s well known that boys as young as 14 years old were held at Guantanamo. In addition, it’s also known that many (most?) of those held at Guantanamo who were later transferred to custody of their current home country (such as Australia and UK) were released because there was not enough evidence to hold them on any charges.

Also announced today was Pulitzer prize winning AP photographer was released after being held for 2 years by US military in Iraq. He was never charged with any crime. Can you imagine if one of your loved ones was just taken by the military/government and held in prison without charges for two years?

Reference: USA Today

Grabbing people off the street, holding them in prison without any charges, torturing suspects… To me, this sounds more like Communist Russia, not USA. Are we really so scared of terrorists that we would be willing to sacrifice our principles and become exactly like those who we criticized and ridiculed in the past? It’s a shame…

PS. And this is the same administration who received a memo on August 6, 2001 entitled “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.” and did nothing because they thought the document was “primarily historical”.

OK, for those of you would need to have a good laugh after reading this, here is the video from the Daily Show.

I’m not sure if people can imagine what $3 trillion is. I mean, we may be able to imagine $1 million… and maybe even $1 billion… but for all the $1 million things you can buy with $1 billion, can you really imagine what it would be like to have $1 trillion…? and then $3 trillion?

That is what Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimates the war will cost our country. The cost of the war is not simply the money which is taken from our taxes to pay for sending troops overseas, but also the cost of taking care of the tens of thousands of wounded soldiers who return from the war and the cost of replacing all the equipment which is being used.

Here is a way of how you can get an idea of how much is $3 trillion. You know how sometimes you may think how great it would be to be a millionaire? Now think of it happening… and then think of your closest 1,000 friends also being millionaires. Ooops, wait, that would be: think of your closest 1,000,000 friends also being millionaires… No, wait, that would be: think of your closest 3,000,000 friends also being millionaires. That would be $3 trillion.

So if you want to try to get some humor out of the fact that General Petraeus cannot give any prediction yet when troop levels will be able to be reduced (let alone saying when all troops can come home), there’s always the Daily Show:

Per Petraeus’ chart, notice how even though costs are going up, the costs somehow take a miraculous downturn when the predicting future costs (dotted lines).

Just in case you want to get a laugh out of the price of oil, click on the image for the Daily Show report on the price of oil.

which by the way has now hit $107/barrel.

Favorite line in video:

When Bush heard reporter comment that gasoline is predicted to hit $4/gallon: That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.

Or if you don’t mind being reminded of the 5-year anniversary of the war in Iraq:

Favorite line in video:

When Cheney was asked to comment that 2/3 of Americans believe that it is not worth the fighting: So…?