Cap In Hand by The Proclaimers
I could tell the meaning of a word like serene
I got some ’o’ grades when I was sixteen
I can tell the difference between magarine and butter
I can say saskatchewan without starting to stutter

But I can’t understand why we let someone else rule our land
We’re cap in hand

I could get a broken jaw from being in a fight
I know it’s evening when day turns to night
I can understand why stranraer lie so lowly
They could save a lot of points by signing hibs goalie

But I can’t understand why we let someone else rule our land
We’re cap in hand

We fight – when they ask us
We boast – then we cower
We beg
For a piece of
Whats already ours

Once I thought I could make God a bribe
So I said I was in his lost tribe
Getting handouts can be so frustrating
Get in line son, there’s five million waiting

I can’t understand why you let someone else rule your land
You’re cap in hand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvBM8lnc_6c

I hope everyone here follows Kathleen’s link. We all put up a lot of links here, and hope people will follow them, and most of us don’t. But this one is a MUST-CLICK.

I’m going to post that video. And the one just above it is superb too — I’ve never heard a better retort to the GOP’s warnings against “socialized” medicine. Frankly, the Democrats should run it in TV ads during the general when the inevitable attacks on the Democratic candidate’s health plan are launched, especially when the GOP decries the British/Canadian health plans.

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 in News, Empire, War party, Iran, Nukes, Antiwar Radio, Iraq, North Korea, Neocons, WMD, Sanctions by Scott Horton| Comment |

Gordon Prather continues the discussion on Iran’s nuclear program, the recent attack on IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei by John “Bonkers Bolton,” speculation that the neocons outed Plame in order to destroy the CIA’s monitoring of Iranian nuclear black market operations, Cheney’s suppression of the Iran National Intelligence Estimate for over a year, the fact that Iran was not obligated to tell the IAEA about the things they were keeping secret, how Bolton and the neocons unraveled the Agreed Framework agreed upon by Clinton and North Korea, how Rice put it back together, the circumstances surrounding the withdrawal of UN weapons inspectors in ’98, the low quality of Iran’s P1 subsonic centrifuges and the current status of IAEA negotiations.

People of the lie
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/11/14/gordon-prather-3/

People of the lie
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/11/14/gordon-prather-3/

Listen for yourself

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9942906

I will never forget Senators Kerry, Lincoln
Chaffee, Kennedy, Dodd, Biden’s faces during the John Bolton Nomination hearings. They had brought up how the Bush administration was still blocking their access to the NSA intercepts that they had been demanding. I thought this group of Senators was going to jump over the table and released some whoop ass on Bolton.

I believe these withheld NSA intercept have to do with Bolton accessing classified intercepts (rumors have it that Bolton may have been listening into Powells negotiations with Iran).

I will never forget Obama’s weak line of questioning and when Obama rolled over on the Condi “mushroom cloud” Rice’s nomination. I lost respect for Obama on that one.

This article by Sidney Blumenthal cleared up some
questions that I had.

” The Bolton confirmation hearings have revealed his constant efforts to undermine Powell on Iran and Iraq, Syria, and North Korea. They have also exposed a most curious incident that has triggered the administration’s stonewall reflex. The Foreign Relations Committee discovered that Bolton made a highly unusual request and gained access to 10 intercepts by the National Security Agency, which monitors worldwide communications, of conversations involving past and present government officials. Whose conversations did Bolton secretly secure and why?

Staff members on the committee believe that Bolton was likely spying on Powell, his senior advisors, and other officials reporting to the secretary of state on diplomatic initiatives that Bolton opposed. If so, it is also possible that Bolton was sharing this top-secret information with his neoconservative allies in the Pentagon and the vice president’s office, with whom he was in daily contact and well known to be working in league against Powell. If the intercepts are ever released, they may disclose whether Bolton was a key figure in a counterintelligence operation run inside the Bush administration against the secretary of state, resembling the hunted character played by Will Smith in “Enemy of the State.” Both Republican and Democratic senators have demanded that the State Department, which holds the NSA intercepts, turn them over to the committee. But Rice so far has refused. What is she hiding by her coverup?”

http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/blumenthal/2005/04/28/powells_revenge/

When Meet The Press post the clip of Edwards this morning I hope you will take a look. I also appreciate and respect your insights.

If you have not listened to that clip from Crooks and liars with Bolton and Tony Benn it is oh so worth it.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/18/tony-benn-on-the-revolutionary-notion-of-democracy/

did you notice how John Edwards was set off to the far right side of the stage.

Did you notice how Blitzer interrupted Edwards the most often/