I am amazed at all the campaign posters with Bertie’s photo on display, advertising all the other crooks on Bertie’s team. I’ll bet a lot of Fianna Fail politicians are wishing they hadn’t become associated with the Chief Crook and bottle washer 😉
corruption
Please Vote for me because…
Please Vote for us because …
Because I did not take bribes (don’t you believe him?)
Because I don’t burn cars, sell drugs, or support crime (don’t you feel safer?)
Because I don’t keep patients waiting on gurneys (just don’t get sick!)
Because I’m not continuing with stealth taxes (I can feel that extra change in my pocket)
Because I won’t shoot my foot off (I’m from stab city)
we won’t continue to give away public land to private Hospital developers as the next step in privatizing health-care
we won’t give away more public services like Eircom, and Aerlingus.
we won’t build and give away more public roads and bridges to NTR
we won’t continue to support monopolistic private businesses like VHI,
Eircom ( want to buy some shares?), NTR, etc
And above all, We will restore the Freedom of Information act, and become truly transparent!
How Sinn Féin could win the election.
If Sinn Féin wanted my vote, they would blowup the Toll booths on all the Irish toll roads. Particularly after NTR boosted the rate for autos to 1.70 Euro just before the Easter Bank weekend. After only 6 months in operation on the M7, this would make a 6% increase, and if that were to happen again, 12% per year. And we don’t live in Rip-off Ireland?
Why would we continue to have Finna Fail spend public funds for roads only to have their friends at NTR reap the profits from the very people who paid for the roads.
Maybe blowup could be a bit strong, but you get my meaning. Maybe a bit of St. Patrick, and drive the snakes out of Ireland.
Bertie’s short memory
How many years does it take to provide ‘a few more hospital beds’. Today Bertie used that line, while explaining why his government is giving away billions of Euros in Public lands to private hospital developers. His government has been in power for 12 years, and now he is planning to supply a few more hospital beds? What happened to the campaign promises he made 12 years ago.
This is just another way to payoff campaign contributers.
Time, for a change!
Looks like the Thieves Co-Conspirators are leaving town.
It looks like George’s and Dick’s Co-Conspirators are leaving town before the fall of the Bush regime as Halliburton will move HQ to Dubai.
Anyone get the feeling of rat’s deserting a sinking ship?
Does the U.S. have an extradition treaty with Dubai?
Politics online
In the category of ‘Dud’ with all the censorship, poor biased reporting, or just plain NO reporting on politics. How could this be surprising. Americans embrace politics online! Especially from the Mass Media in America, owned primarily by Big Business, who are the last to challenge the status quo. How would you ever hear the real facts about politics?
This Government is not in Business
Interesting, almost everybody I’ve talked to knows that government is not a business. So why is the government hoarding it’s our money? We gave the government money to spend on maintenance and infrastructure build-out, to help people and make the future brighter and better. If they aren’t spending it, give it back, they obviously don’t need it.
They are being told by ‘economic’ genius, that they should hold on to the surplus so that there would be funds for any crisis in the future. However the only known constants in the world are death and taxes. The government will ALWAYS have enough money, This government will always increase taxes when it needs it. It always allows energy, communications and transportation businesses to increase their rate at will, so we know that they will increase taxes should a crisis arise.
So why don’t we have a world class health system, why do we have high speed trains that can’t go high speed due to poor railroad tracks. Why do we pay taxes and get nothing back, except back talk from this government?
This week we will see how bad the hoarding will be. Who are they saving our money for, us or their ‘friends’?
Post Bertiegate comes the silent lie
Has any one noticed that the Irish Government has returned to the silent lie? That the Stardust does not need to be investigated, because no new evidence was found by the non existent follow up investigations that never happened. That the nursing home reports are never publish so long as the bathroom tiles are fixed?
The fact that the Irish freedom of information act will postpone any evidence from from coming to light about this corrupt and incompetent government does not make the problems go away. Except for the ministers, who can continue to be unresponsive to their responsibilities to the public.
Time for a change, will an honest politician restore the Freedom of Information? Or will we continue to be governed in the dark?
Or will the press begin to ask the hard questions, and not bow to the governments requirements not to questions their decisions?
Making illegality legal?
The lame duck Republicans are attempting to make the illegal violation of the 4th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, legal!
Republicans who limped back to Washington for a lame duck congressional session last week found a host of marching orders from President Bush, but perhaps none more urgent than this: Before Democrats take control of Congress in January, they must pass legislation authorizing the National Security Agency’s domestic eavesdropping program.
The real question will be how, even with the biased right wing Supreme Court, will you justify further violations to the constitution. How will Bush and his fellow future prisoners GOP republicans lie to convince the American public that being illegal is, really Legal?
The Code of Hammurabi should still work.
One of my favorite laws from this codex goes like this;
If a builder builds a house, and constructs it well, the owner will pay two shekels for each surface of the house.
If, however, he does not succeed, and the house falls in, killing the owner, the builder will be killed.
If the son of the owner dies, the son of the builder shall be killed.
In my previous post the Business community has sought to roll back the commonsense of such laws. Laws incorporated in the U.S. Constitution, the Magna Carte and even the Bible.
Big business has sought for years to create the power and privilege of ‘The Corporate Body’ or the right of the Corporation to have, and exercise, the same rights as a person. Now they are seeking to make that person, that corporate person, greater than a living person. That when they build a building and it kills the owner that they are exempt from punishment. And that when Enron collapsed the Corporate Body is not responsible. Only the maker of the bricks, should be killed.
And the Code that was once written in stone (now on that ‘god dammed piece of paper’ of the U.S. Constitution) president Bush and the GOP, the ‘defenders’ of this document are continuing it’s destruction by agreeing with this mindset. They believe that corporations are godlike, and are above the law. In that case we should not condem the Government, we should condemn the brick-maker, Bush, for the crimes of a collapsing United States?
Sounds good to me!
Who rules Congress
If you ever had any doubts who controls congress this should make it very clear. Businesses Seek Protection on Legal Front not that you didn’t know it yet. But the little guy the Joe voter on the street is going to get screwed again.
Frustrated with laws and regulations that have made companies and accounting firms more open to lawsuits from investors and the government, corporate America — with the encouragement of the Bush administration — is preparing to fight back.
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America, now a Tyranny
Now that the U.S. is faced with the Death of Habeas Corpus: Freedom is now a distance memory. I am reminded of some favorite quotations
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Republicans don’t care about your vote.
Political triage is common as in the GOP Focuses on Best Bets except for the chosen victim, as in this case Mr. DeWine has been pick as a loser by an internal GOP poll. And thereby stands the problem with the GOP, they don’t believe that the vote of the public is important. They have already decided that DeWine has lost already and that you, the public no longer get to choose who wins or loses in any political contest. It’s the Republican arrogance raising it’s head, the elite GOP do not wish the public to express their right to vote for their elected officials. They want to choose for themselves who wields power. And it’s not to be joe citizen, but the moneyed elite in the GOP.
Politicians shaking hands
You know that you can believe what politicians say when they shake hands in front of the press and say … well, anything!
Just as much as any other time that their mouths are moving.
Gay Pedophile Republicans are anti-Gambing
As for the “must have legislation” in the Republican congress GOP Gay Pedophile Tom Foley is less important than an Internet gambling ban bill in the eyes of the Republican Leadership.
Which do you rate higher, Child molesters, or poker players?
How do you like the Moral GOP pushing their morality on the american people?
UPDATE: Looks like the Republican morals are intack, they really only needed to be bribed with enought money or; How horse racing avoided new US internet betting law
UPDATE: If you need more reading look here THE LAW IS DOOMED – ONLY QUESTION IS HOW LONG IT TAKES!