Archive for December 7th, 2007

$51,369 PER HOUR

From: bravenewfilms

Henry Kravis 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!

House does not buy CIA tape-destruction claim

The CIA did not tell Congress about the destruction in 2005 of videotapes recording aggressive CIA interrogations of two al Qaeda suspects until this year, the top two members of the House Intelligence Committee said in an angry letter Friday to CIA Director Michael V. Hayden.

Anticipating an upcoming New York Times article revealing the destruction, Hayden said in a memo to employees on Thursday that congressional oversight committees had been notified about the existence of the tapes and plans to get rid of them.

“Based upon available records and our best recollection, this simply is not true,” said a joint letter from House intelligence committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Calif.) and the committee’s ranking member and former chairman, Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.).

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7261.html

Ron Paul Slams Global Warming "Fearmongering"

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Ron Paul Slams Global Warming “Fearmongering”


Congressman dismisses doomsday predictions during interview

Countdown : Special Comment


Far more scary than the nuclear threat presented by Iran, the NIE report released this week reveals a more domestic threat to the republic:

We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War Three about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole — or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked — at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so — whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed, were still even remotely plausible.

A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency: an unapologetic war-monger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself.