PRETZEL BOMB 2005


On January 14th, 2005, we Americans who are furious with the current President will each send one grab-bag-sized bag of pretzels to the White House (just to show we care) at the following address:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Spread this message to every Bush-fearing person you know; post it on message boards, communities, etc. that you belong to.

Spread the word!

HAHAHAHAHAHA Whoever knew rightwingers were so entertaining! Here's a shorter letter - with a great response - to whet your appetite.

Read the rest here

Kevin Writes to Fox Blocker:

Good luck with that. You couldn't block Fox if you were GOD. FOX RULES.
Thank you for reading,
Kevin


FoxBlocker Writes Back: (this cracks me up!)

Assuming you mean "GOD" in the traditional Judeo-Christian sense, a single omnipotent being capable of miracles, I believe that if I were God:

# Social Security would last past my retirement date (2040).
# All children would have access to medical care.
# Everyone would have an opportunity to get a quality education.
# No nation would be allowed to wage war on another nation simply for personal gain.
# .....and as an afterthought, Rupert Murdoch would be reborn as a urinal.

By the way, if you think this guy Kevin is a huge loser, piss him off by blocking FOX NEWS yourself.

Support Our Ribbons - Funny

New Bill Could Make Bush President For Life

Prison Planet | June 14 2005

A House bill has been introduced that would change the 22nd amendment and enable George Bush to remain President for the rest of his political life.

The bill would repeal limitations on a President holding office for a maximum of two terms.

An even darker scenario, Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected as President in 2008 and shorty after the 22nd amendment is abolished, making the Hitler admirer our permanent Fuhrer.

This is the modern day version of the Enabling Act, which allowed Hitler to officially declare himself dictator.

The bill, which can be found at the Library of Congress website here, reads as follows.

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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. (Introduced in House)

HJ 24 IH
109th CONGRESS
1st Session

H. J. RES. 24
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 17, 2005

Mr. HOYER (for himself, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SABO, and Mr. PALLONE) introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary


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JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

`Article --

`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.'.

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The 22nd amendment as reprinted on the FindLaw website reads as follows.

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.


Annotations
Limitation of Presidential Terms

''By reason of the lack of a positive expression upon the subject of the tenure of the office of President, and by reason of a well-defined custom which has risen in the past that no President should have more than two terms in that office, much discussion has resulted upon this subject. Hence it is the purpose of this . . . [proposal] . . . to submit this question to the people so they, by and through the recognized processes, may express their views upon this question, and if they shall so elect, they may . . . thereby set at rest this problem.''

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

-George Orwell

United Press International | June 14, 2005

A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11.

Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.

Reynolds, who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and is now professor emeritus at Texas A&M University said, "If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a government attack on America would be compelling."

Reynolds commented from his Texas A&M office, "It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause of the collapse of the twin towers and building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either. The government's collapse theory is highly vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three buildings."

Teacher freaks out about National Anthem, with Video Recorded on Cell Camera by Student


Political Gateway - Mar 2 - Independent internet news media reported the story today of a high school teacher forcing a student to stand for the National Anthem by yanking his chair out from underneath him. We have the video. The teacher seems angry and is seen shouting in the video, even while the anthem is playing.



Political Gateway: Video of teacher-

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=3068 <-- You can Download the video at this page.


The original article follows the updates

Update March 5: From the "Your Not Going to Believe This File"
On a recent Hannity and Colmes Show (FoxNews, March 3rd), Radio host Bill Cunningham tells Hannity and Colmes, regarding the teacher incident, "We need more of that old-fashioned religion, and we need more teachers beating people about the face and head, especially on the derriere. If we had more of that, believe me, we'd have less people thinking like you [Colmes]." Hannity's first reply to the tirade is "Mr. Cunningham, you're a great American." I have added the full transcript to the bottom of this page (seems the updates are getting bigger than the story.)
Latest Update March 4 (early morning):
The boys are really in trouble now. The original website posting of the video led detectives to another video. In the new video, set to music, the three teens smash Christmas decorations at five houses using basball bats. Authorities believe other homeowners will come forward.
Three were arrested and charged with 4 counts of Criminal mischief. Corey Zappa, 18, and two 17-year-old-friends. It seems these are the three involved in the video taping at the school.
A local station has posted a short video news story on the incident here (look on the right hand side for the video in the list)
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/030305_nw_teenstudents.html

update: March 3rd: The local news station, ABC channel 7, was there at the school today. The teacher is back in class and said he will take a class on classroom management after seeing the video. The teachers are standing by him. Some students are rallying for him.
Turns out there was more to that video than was posted on the internet. The day before Mantel's angry outburst, his electronics students had a substitute teacher, and they spent part of the class saran-wrapping a younger student to a desk. The students who taped the video knew that when Mantel returned he would be furious. (ABC Channel 7)
Update: March 3rd: Asbury Park Press has posted a story mentioning blame all around on this item. From the website:
"No one is blameless in the ugly episode"
"Certainly not the student or some of his classmates, whose insolence and foul language were inexcusable. Nor the teacher, who lost control of his temper and his classroom. And not the school board and superintendent, who declined comment on what kind of punishment was meted out, if any, and who seemed to suggest that their chief concern was the unauthorized use of recording equipment ? not the behavior of the students and the teacher."
Update: March 3rd: Police are investigating claims that a longer version fo the video, 10 minutes longer, was origianlly posted on the web and then taken down, replaced by the shorter one. (if you have this longer one, please contact us). "Several students interviewed about the tape Wednesday said that the longer version of the video ? which first appeared in December, shortly after the incident occurred ? showed the students provoking Mantel. They also said that Mantel, who teaches wood working and electronics at the school, often screams at his students." (Asbury Press)
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Excerpts and information on the video.
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This happened at Brick Township High School in Jersey.

New Jersey School Board is considering ban of cell phones (due to the video) in its schools.

The student who recorded the affair, Corey Zappo, has been suspended for 10 days.

The teacher has faced no discipline and no action is being taken.

Schools Superintendent Thomas L. Seidenberger issued a statement that "not all details cited on the Internet regarding this incident are factual." The statement did not elaborate.

"I don't want to hear a sound! Not a sound! Morning exercises will come on, you will stand, you will stand quietly, you will pay attention! Any Questions!?...Now stand up and keep your mouths shut!" Students stood up as the national anthem began playing.
In the middle of the anthem, Mantel walked over to Jay and demanded that he stand up. Jay silently refused, and Mantel yelled again, "Stand up!". Jay then said "I don't have to stand up". To which Mantel insisted "You have to stand." Jay said "No I don't". Mantel then reached over and pulled Jay's chair out from under him. Jay responded to Mantel's outrageous behavior by asking him "Are you serious?", to which he yelled "I am damn well serious."

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From the Independent Media Center of Philadelphia
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Jay's friend who was in the class at the time, Corey, says that their teacher had been strict in the past in demanding that students stand for the national anthem and pledge of allegiance. That's why they brought in a camera - to expose the teacher in case he did anything again. "The teacher and school principals wanted him (Mantel) to press charges against us...they tried to blame it on us like it was premeditated, like we did it just to get him on tape, which is false. We knew he was gonna go nuts because he frequently used to" said Corey.

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Hannity and Colmes Transcript
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Thank you to the Media Matters for America Website, original story here http://mediamatters.org/items/200503040003

From the March 3 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:

ALAN COLMES (co-host): Look, is it OK? Do you have a First Amendment right not to stand up during the Pledge of Allegiance or "The Star Spangled Banner"?

CUNNINGHAM: Alan Colmes, I think if you're a 16- or 17-year-old miscreant, and you don't know the sacrifices of American soldiers from Iwo Jima through Fallujah, if you have no idea what the red, the white and the blue stands for, I think to have the chair pulled out from under you is the least of what should happen.

And back in the good old days at Deer Park High School, Alan Colmes, the board of education would have met my derriere, and Ma Cunningham would have beat me about the face and head if I had done similar things.

And I think it's reprehensible that you sit there and defend someone like this who has no right to be a clown. That kid was a clown, and he got exactly what he deserved.

COLMES: I bet you were never a clown in school, huh, Bill?

CUNNINGHAM: Never at all. I followed the American way.

COLMES: Look, are you OK with the idea that a school, a government school, a teacher in a government school, could whack your child, could hit your child, could physically harm and without your permission as a parent? That would be OK with you?

CUNNINGHAM: No problem. In the good old days, back when AIDS was an appetite suppressant and when gay meant you were happy, back in those days there was discipline in public schools. But not today.

We need more of that old-fashioned religion, and we need more teachers beating people about the face and head, especially on the derriere. If we had more of that, believe me, we'd have less people thinking like you [Colmes].

COLMES: I can't even take you seriously, making comments like that. I mean, it's so absurd.

CUNNINGHAM: It isn't absurd.

COLMES: You know, there is a Supreme Court decision, the Barnette decision in 1943, West Virginia decision, that basically talks about a student's right not to recite the pledge, which would probably apply to this as well. You have a First Amendment right not to participate. You choose not to see that.

CUNNINGHAM: Alan, there's a principle in the law called loco parenti. And by that I mean it's a Latin phrase that means when the kid's in school, he does not have the same rights as an adult who's not in school. And the teacher stands in loco parenti, which means in the role of a parent.

I would ask you, Alan, if you had a kid acting like that, so disrespectful to the flag and to the anthem, would you mind if some teacher, doing his role as your -- as the parent of that child, so to speak, at school, would simply pull the chair out, not inflict any serious injury, not even a minor injury on the child, and tell that kid that America stands for principles of hard work and perseverance.

COLMES: I would mind, because what if the kid did have an injury? You don't know that a kid would not be injured when you pull a chair out. That's absolutely wrong.

CUNNINGHAM: He wasn't injured. He wasn't hurt at all.

HANNITY: Mr. Cunningham, you're a great American. Thanks for giving us a full report tonight. We love having you back, my friend.

CUNNINGHAM: Sean, you're a great American.

HANNITY: You know something? I want to tell you something. If you -- Hugh Hannity, God rest his soul, passed on a few years ago, my father, if he ever saw me mocking, ridiculing, laughing, taping, acting that way, cursing in that classroom, let me tell you something, what this teacher did would pale in comparison to what would have happened to me at home. And an apology would have been on that teacher's desk the next day.

No wonder why kids aren't learning anymore, Bill?

CUNNINGHAM: Sean, I went through a public school system. I assume you did also. And back 20, 30, 40 years ago, that kind of behavior was incredibly impossible, because of the cultural circumstances in which the students -- the fellow students would have so criticized that kid named Jay -- I don't want to use his last name -- because it would have been culturally unacceptable.

How come national shows, rightfully so, spend time on this? There's probably a kid in that class with straight A's who's a Boy Scout, who's not complimented. But the Alan Colmes and the Michael Moores would jump on the side of this miscreant and act as if he has rights and no responsibility.

HANNITY: Well, you know what's amazing? Look, probably it's better that a teacher doesn't have to yell like this in class, but I have no doubt this is a cumulative effort. That's why these kids are taping him. And has been pretty much setting this teacher up to act this way. They are purposefully provoking him and disrupting any opportunity that there might be in that classroom for anybody to learn anything.

And you know, but it's amazing that there is a backlash, Mr. Cunningham. And Bill, there -- parents are saying, "Good, good for this teacher. Finally, somebody is fighting back."

CUNNINGHAM: You know, Sean, how messed up is America today, when patriotism is criticized, and miscreants are applauded.

And I hope the students in New Jersey, the former home of Governor [James] McGreevey, who had his own difficulties -- I might add that Jersey, of course, is a blue state. We don't have these kind of problems in Ohio --

HANNITY: In Cincinnati, my friend.

CUNNINGHAM: -- Kentucky or Indiana.

COLMES: All right.

CUNNINGHAM: We don't have those problems in Cincinnati.

Alan Colmes, you have a good heart, but what's between your -- between your ears concerns me a great deal.

COLMES: I am not defending the child's behavior. I'm defending his rights. I do thank you very much, though.

CUNNINGHAM: Responsibility.

HANNITY: Bill, thank you, my friend

They market your mind and sell your soul

to the man that owns the golden cereal bowl.

Their new diet cola that makes you unfat

turns to formaldehyde from the chemical in that.

You are the new product the companies will sell

but you've been brainwashed, so you're never going to tell.

"If you're not careful the media will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

-Malcolm X

"All warfare is based on deception."

-General Sun Tzu, ca. 400 B.C.