Is Hillary insane or just incredibly desperate?

“Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton confirmed Monday that as president she would be willing to use nuclear weapons against Iran if it were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel.”

Is this woman insane or just that incredibly desperate to win the nomination? The lack of judgment that allowed Bush to rush headlong into war with Iraq is rearing ignorant head once again. Has Israel ever shown the world that it is incapable of defending itself? What vital interest does Israel have (or protect) that a United States under Hillary Clinton’s leadership(?) would be willing to risk all out nuclear war to protect? She is sounding more and more like George Bush and his America-owns-the- world-and-answers-to-no-one-foreign policy everyday!

Do we really want to elect someone so thoughtless and dare I say, witless again? Don’t we already have such a personage sitting in the Oval Office? I don’t know about you, but I am so very tired of war and killing, and chest thumping; not to mention American arrogance and short-sightedness. Enough already, ENOUGH!

“Clinton said it was vital that the United States create a new “security umbrella” to reassure Israel and its other allies in the region that they would not be threatened by Iran. She said she would tell them that ‘if you were the subject of an unprovoked nuclear attack by Iran, the United States, and hopefully our NATO allies, would respond to that.’”

And note to Hillary: the Europeans have no love for Israel and I doubt very seriously if they would stand behind the U.S. Israel after all is not part of NATO.

Army, Marines give waivers to more felons

Ah, yes let’s all hear it for the all volunteer professional land forces of the United States of America. Tell me again why draftees are such a bad idea? How could we have gotten our choice of President so incredibly wrong? Oh yes, that’s right I didn’t vote for the moron! This is not my America, is it yours?

HUD Chief Inattentive To Crisis, Critics Say

Yes, yet another government institution discredited!

Bush Slows Down Troop Withdrawal

You have to give Bush credit for having balls! Big brass ones at that! Despite the American public’s—you know, We The People—overwhelming desire to see an end to the illegal Invasion of Iraq, Bush refuses to bring the troops home. Instead he slows down the withdrawal of American troops and shortens their tour of duty as if that might satisfy the American people.

Remind me again how this mediocre thinker, this self professed average achiever, this anti-visionary; this arrogant, unenlightened moron came to occupy the White House? Oh yes he was (supposedly) elected!

John Yoo’s legally flawed Memo of Ghost Presidential Powers released

...The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States...Article II, Section 2, United States Constitution.

Many a disparaging word has been said about the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) but I am proud to say that I am a card carrying member. Occasionally, the organization that fights for the Civil and Fundamental right of all Americans comes down on the wrong side of an issue, but this is not one of those times. The Justice Department declassified and the Pentagon recently released the now infamous, 2003 formally classified memo written by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, wherein the Justice Department provided "military interrogators with broad latitude for the use of harsh techniques in questioning prisoners in Afghanistan."

We have the ACLU to thank for shedding light on yet another chapter in American history wherein our government proved to be the enemy within.

The now discredited memorandum written chiefly by Yoo—now a Law Professor at Berkley University—undergirded its argument by asserting that the President has wide latitude in times of war as Commander-in-Chief, saying criminal statues outlawing torture "would conflict with the Constitution's grant of the Commander in Chief power solely to the President."

Here is the problem: the Constitution says nothing about the President’s inherent power to ignore U.S. and legally binding International Law in times of war. A war I hasten to point out that the Congress (Article I, Section 8, Clause 11, United States Constitution) did not declare. And since the President cannot declare War on his own how then was the United States at war and how could the president exercise there newly found powers?

And even if the country were in a congressionally declared war, where in the Constitution does it state that the President has the power to ignore the law in times of war or otherwise? It doesn’t! Article II, Section 2, only states that he shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy; the Article say nothing of additional powers to be exercised (inferred) in connection with the title.

In other words John Yoo’s assertions of supreme presidential power in wartime have no legal basis or underpinnings in either in the Constitution, or U.S. Statutory Law. The President of the United States is not above the law in a nation where the rule of law holds sway. Bush is not a dictator, nor is he a sovereign; he is bound to the same laws that bind all American citizens. To assert otherwise is folly not only to the nation, but to the very Constitutional construct the president swore to uphold and protect!

And shame on Congress for letting the man travel such a destructive path unchallenged as it were by the vocal and legislative curves of descent. The Republican-led congress only validated Yoo’s ill-advised memos by keeping silent on the issue. And no the Republic was not rightly served by the minority Party’s lack of clear vocal dissent.

The much vaunted American system of checks and balances broke down after the attacks of 9/11 and the American government once more became the enemy within. This episode once again proves that our government is only as good as those elected and yes, hired, to administer it. We The People can never let elected officials forget their oath of office in which they swear to Uphold and Defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. Veer in that commitment and the nation and her peoples suffer the possible yoke of tyranny!

Watch This Frontline episode: Bush's War, please!

The PBS news program Frontline just aired a 4.5 hour special called Bush’s War. This episode of Frontline is outstanding and breathtaking, both in its scope, and depth of investigative journalism. For those who still doubt that the War in Iraq was and is the biggest foreign policy blunder/fiasco in the history of the United States, watch this compelling two part show either on television or on-line at PBS.org here.

I implore you to watch this episode before you cast your vote in November, possibly for the same party that got us into this mess; watch this program with an open mind and an eye to the future of our nation. Do we really want to continue to be lied to? Do we really want to be in Iraq for nest 100 years? How many more Americans will lose their lives in this debacle? Enough is enough; it’s time for We The People to take back our government! Watch this program, and be informed!

Can We Please Banish The word NIgger!?

The word Nigger has once again found itself prominently on display in yet another Black American theme theatrical release as if the two were somehow forever connected by some disrespectful umbilical cord. It was used so frequently in this movie that it should have gotten its own credits billing. The movie is Chris Rock’s 2007’s I Think I Love My Wife.

In my Black American household the word nigger is never used, among adults, or children. And among my siblings the word is not uttered, nor is it used regularly at family gatherings, nor do I, or my black male friends, use it to greet one another.

It’s long past time to bury to the word nigger once and for all; it is stale and disrespectful no matter whose lips it slips past. And the continued use of the word diminishes the person uttering it, but does harm to us all. Nigger harkens back to an era in American history we would all assume put behind us! Time to move on, time to move forward as a people, time to remove the shackles of self hatred that allows black Americans to still refer to one another using such a derogatory term!

I'm BACK!!!!

I’ve been away for a while, living a far too busy life that has left me too little time to write strictly for pleasure and purpose. But I am back now, trying to carve out enough time write in this space. The current political climate is far too charged and dare I say, interesting not to write. So I am back…

CNN.com - Israel strikes militant stronghold in Beirut - Jul 15, 2006

CNN.com - Israel strikes militant stronghold in Beirut - Jul 15, 2006

I support Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas, both of which refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. And it is my belief that Islamic extremists need to be stamped out lest they threaten the freedom of us all. Their brand of hatred and vitriol is on par with the Nazism over 40 million humans gave their lives to stamp out. The people of Lebanon, like the Palestinians, voted a known terrorist organization into elected office and now they must suffer the consequences of their (misguided) actions.