Jon Soltz Co-Founder of VoteVets.org, (served as a Captain in Operation Iraqi Freedom) has posted this quote from FOX News:
Question: So is sending this signal that we’re not going to use these kind of techniques anymore, what kind of impact does this have on people who do us harm in the field that you operate in?
Gen. Petraeus: Well, actually what I would ask is, “Does that not take away from our enemies a tool which again have beaten us around the head and shoulders in the court of public opinion?” When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions we rightly have been criticized, so as we move forward I think it’s important to again live our values, to live the agreements that we have made in the international justice arena and to practice those.
LIDDY: I understand that they found out today that Miss Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, which means in illegal alien, “the race.” And that should not surprise anyone because she’s already on record with a number of racist comments.
Finished with the race-based attack, Liddy moved on to denigrate Sotomayor’s gender:
LIDDY: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then.
Finally, Liddy disputed the entire idea that there’s anything wrong with the paucity of women and total lack of Hispanics on the Court:
LIDDY: And everybody is cheering because Hispanics and females have been, quote, underrepresented, unquote. And as you pointed out, which I thought was quite insightful, the Supreme Court is not designed to be and should not be a representative body.
The Supreme Court has had 106 white men out of 110 sitting judges. Two women, two men of color.
G. Gordon Liddy believes that its okay to have the highest court in the land run by white men only, not reflective of the ethnic diversity of the people the high court is governing.
For the past decade a proposal to add sexual orientation and gender identity to ExxonMobil’s official equal employment opportunity policy has been voted down by the oil company’s shareholders. At the most recent vote more shareholders than ever voiced support for the protections — but the proposal still failed.
The Human Rights Campaign announced that 39.3% of shares voted in favor of the new policy this year, compared to 8.2% in 2000. Before merging with Exxon in 1999, Mobil included sexual orientation in its equal employment opportunity policy , but the wording was removed when ExxonMobil was formed.
Google ‘Exxon Mobile, failed cleanup’ and you get the following options:
in 15 seconds, you get 33,000 hits for articles about Exxon Mobil’s FAILED CLEANUPs…
Especially when you look at a guy like Henry Kravis:
who, according to director Robert Greenwald, “is a billionaire, the 57th richest person in America. He acquired this wealth by purchasing public companies with borrowed money. To pay off the debt, he cuts benefits at the company, sells its assets, and lays off employees.
This get-rich-quick scheme made him $450 million last year. Meanwhile, his tax rate is lower than teachers, firemen, nurses, even his own cleaning staff!”
So you’re giving 29% to the Military, plus nearly 8% on interest on Military Debt (that’s the trillion dollar cost of war that you’re only paying interest on), plus nealy 4% on Veteran’s benefits…
As both The New York Times and The Wall Street journal reported on Tuesday, BlackRock execs are now directing key elements of the government program at a time when they stand to reap great profits from the fallout of a problem they helped create.
The U.S. picked BlackRock to manage the assets once controlled by AIG and Bear Stearns and to analyze the assets of Freddie Mac and Morgan Stanley. And as if that were not enough on its plate, the Treasury Department has just selected BlackRock to be one of the few firms trusted with using U.S. taxpayer dollars to buy toxic assets from the banks and then resell them in a process that presents enormous conflicts of interest with other BlackRock operations.
Bank of America, with a 47% ownership position in BlackRock, is also the owner of what was once Countrywide Financial, which led the pack in selling bad mortgages. The disposition of those failed properties under BlackRock’s tutelage will have much to do with B of A’s future profitability. As if that were not enough financial incest, the former president and other top executives of Countrywide now run a company created by BlackRock, which is profiting mightily by snapping up the sort of distressed loans that they originally had marketed.
Confused? You’re supposed to be. That’s the point of a successful hedge fund, a totally unregulated activity in which very rich people pool their money in order to more effectively rip off the rest of us. And BlackRock is at the top of that game, managing $1.3 trillion in assets. But in this round the stakes are far higher because BlackRock, which did a great deal to cause the economic meltdown, has now been put in charge of the government recovery effort.
In a classic case of schizophrenic stupidity, we’ve put the fox in charge of the hen house.
AGAIN.
(p.s. notice Jack Welch practically drooling, trying to blame ‘THE GOVERNMENT’? How obtuse of him…
AMERICANS WERE PROMISED A REWARD FOR SAVING BANKS.
The ruddy BANKING bastards.
They took the ‘created’ trillions of dollars from the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury,
they helped stabilize themselves,
they slowed lending to regular Americans to a standstill,
they increased credit card interest rates from 8% to 27% overnight,
they are usurious,
they still have not properly written down or told the truth about the extent of their exposure to toxic assets, because they don’t want us to know how stupid they were buying mortgage tranches from people who were fraudulently sold mortgages they could never repay,
they backstab the American public by not letting ordinary Americans speak in Congressional hearings about their abusive usury,
their CEOs are still taking multi-million dollar salaries (!#?!?!?!?@**!!),
and, NOW that they’ve had the benefit of the low-cost trillions,
they want to pay back their TARP loans (which could be seen as being industrious and responsible)
except that they are again jockeying to screw the American taxpayer out of the fair value of interest on the trillion dollar loans.
Let those warrants sit in Social Security’s coffers, so that if there is any benefit to having bailed out banks, American workers will receive the benefit in their elder years.
Enough with allowing these rich white bankers to get richer at the expense of working class Americans.
The Archie Bunker, blue collar, non-college graduate working class family breadwinner has been hit the hardest by this recession. Already suffering with declining wages for the last few decades, these workers have had fewer jobs within which to work.
Men… incurred about 80 percent of the job losses in the 1990-91 recession, but Sum said by his calculations the numbers this time were dramatically different. In the 1990-91 recession, men lost 1.037 million jobs. They have lost 4.5 million to date in this one.
This is grim news for struggling blue collar families. While women’s role in the workforce has expanded, by some estimates the male remains the main breadwinner in about 75 percent of two-income U.S. households.
“When males lose their jobs … women become more important to family income, and those that have not been working will re-enter the labor market to sustain family income,” said Peter Doeringer, a Professor of Economics at Boston University.
Pundits are saying that capitalism is on its last legs, that our economy will be dramatically different after the fallout of the trillions of dollars of toxic bank assets are dealt with. What they need to add to their scenario is massive change in blue collar America, in the heart of the United States.
Solution? Educate. Get these workers into two year educational programs to teach them green jobs, a la Van Jones’ book:
America, as a strong manufacturing and productive economic powerhouse, needs to also factor in our carbon footprint.
We can educate these men, their families, high school students and college students so that they can work the green jobs we will need, to come out of this recession.
As if that isn’t bad enough, 
