Next item: I don’t take any personal credit for this phenomena, but for years now ive been saying that demonstrations in the streets, no matter how widely reported or ignored, don’t seem to affect our elected representatives, and what needs to be done is to camp out on their wealthy front lawns and offices. Have you noticed that that phenomena is happening now? As reported by travus t hipp, that tactic is bothering our sainted representatives. They don’t care about demonstrations in the streets, and their controlled media makes sure it doesn’t even get reported, so no one else notices. But live protesting bodies on their front lawns and office hallways does catch their attention, and actually affect their lives. Look into your own lives. No one changes when things are going good. The only time anyone changes anything is under stress, when things aint going so good. The lesson is simple. Put stress and pressure on your elected reps, not in the streets but on their front lawns, driveways, and offices. Piss off their neighbors. Lets face reality. You are peasants. Your opinion aint worth spit, except maybe just before re election time, but pressure from their peers and neighbors might have an effect. Public demonstrations can be fun, but you are essentially preaching to the choir and no one else is listening. Sit-ins however do seem to have an effect. If you cant get there physically, deluge their offices with emails and phone calls. As molly ivins repeatedly advised us, raise some hell. Next item: CLEVELAND - March 19 - On the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has asked his fellow Americans if it is time to consider impeachment of members of the Bush administration. In a three-and-a-half minute video posted Monday on his campaign website and on YouTube.com, the Ohio Congressman said, "We are in an interesting condition in this country, where we are told to take impeachment off the table, and keep on the table a U.S. military attack against Iran." Kucinich was referring to the long-standing insistence of some House Democrats that impeachment was "off the table" in Congress, and to the removal last week of a clause in the pending Iraq War appropriations bill that would have insisted the President come to Congress for approval before launching any military action against Iran. "This past week, in the Congress of the United States, I noted that the administration has threatened aggressive war against Iran. This is a violation of the UN charter. ... It's illegal to threaten aggressive war against another nation. Iran has no ability to attack us. And they do not have the intention to attack the United States." Kucinich asked people to join him in taking a stand on behalf of peace. "We cannot let this administration go any deeper into this journey, into destroying democratic governance, trashing our Constitution, forgetting the very purpose of this nation. America was never meant to be a nation forever on the warpath. It was meant to be a nation which also had the capacity to 'Promote the General Welfare.' We need to reevaluate the direction of this administration by looking at its conduct in office, by determining whether it has faithfully followed the laws of our nation." Kucinich said he was prepared to start the impeachment process. In an address on the House floor last week he warned the administration that its actions toward Iran "already constitute a case to ask the question about impeachment." On Monday, he traveled to London to meet with members of the British Parliament concerned about the war, and to give the keynote address at a large anti-war rally to be held at Westminster on Tuesday. In his video, Kucinich asked if others also think it is time to go down the road to impeachment. " I'm prepared to start that process. I began this week with a speech on the floor of the house, which warned the administration that its actions toward Iran already constitute a case to ask the question about impeachment. So I'm asking you, what do you think? Do you think it's time?" Responses to his video can be posted on his campaign web site: http://www.kucinich.us. Next item: are you as amused as I am with the bush regimes habitual response when caught with their pants down and their weenies in their hand? "Mistakes have been made". No apologies, no firings for incompetentcy or outright criminality, not even disciplinary actions. "mistakes have been made" intones our high poobahs, and then we are supposed to forgetaboutit. Contrast that with the world you live in. how would your boss, or your spouse react if your only response when confronted with your egregious conduct was to intone pontifically, without taking any personal responsibility whatsoever, "mistakes have been made"? if it were your boss, you would probably be looking for a new job, and if it were your spouse, you might be nursing a black eye and sleeping in the garage. But our governing officials live in a magic kingdom where no one is personally responsible for anything. Harry s Truman famously said, "the buck stops here". Times have changed a bit. Under king geo the feeble minded, In present day wash dc, the buck never stops anywhere. "S" happens, and no one is ever responsible Next item : in case you haven’t been closely following the latest bush crowd fiasco and their firing of 8n us attorneys, here is one that illustrates the pattern. The is the first few pp of an article By Max Blumenthal first posted at the nation. In September 2006, just weeks before pivotal Congressional midterm elections, Paul Charlton, US Attorney for Arizona, opened a preliminary investigation into Republican Representative Rick Renzi of the state's First Congressional District for an alleged pattern of corruption involving influence-peddling and land deals. Almost immediately, Charlton's name was added to a blacklist of federal prosecutors the White House wanted to force from their jobs. Charlton is someone "we should now consider pushing out," D. Kyle Sampson, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez's chief of staff, wrote to then White House Counsel Harriet Miers on September 16. In his previously safe Republican district, Renzi had barely held on in the election. On December 7, the White House demanded Charlton's resignation without offering him any explanation. Stacks of internal Justice Department e-mails subpoenaed by Congress in early March from the White House provided evidence that the dismissals of Charlton and seven other US Attorneys was a political purge orchestrated to install "loyal Bushies," as Sampson called them, into their posts and to protect Republican lawmakers like Renzi from indictments for corruption. The Administration's explanation that the ousters were "performance-related" has been discredited in light of the exposure of the e-mails--and especially proved false in Charlton's case. A model of professionalism, Charlton's office was honored with the Federal Service Award and hailed by the Justice Department as a "Model Program" for its protection of crime victims. The Justice Department and the White House offered a scattershot of alibis for firing Charlton. The Bush Administration's case against Charlton rested ultimately on the account of a little-known Justice Department official named Brent Ward [2], who claimed in a September 20, 2006 e-mail that Charlton was "unwilling to take good cases." Ward's allegation was vague in its claim, mysterious for its submission and vacant in context. The article goes on to reveal who brent ward is and how he came to his position, but you get the idea. So now we have another political scandal featuring the bush crowd. Notice how they are handling it. They are trying the same tactic that worked so well back when congress wanted to investigate dick cheneys secret meetings with parties as yet un named wherein they created our nations energy policies. You remember that one don’t you? When enron et all screwed calif elec customers big time and congress threatened to actually begin to commence to start to do something. When faced with the threat of subpoena, the bushies compromised. Yes you can invite us in to testify, but it must be in secret so the public never finds out, and we wont be under oath, so we can lie with impunity. Nah nah nah nah nahm my fingers were crossed so I didn’t have to tell the truth. King geo and his merry men are trying the same tactic now. Lets see if the dems have the cajones to tell em to screw off, we demand open and honest testimony and under oath. Back in the pliestocene, when I went to school, that was called democracy. Nowadays its called miraculous. Next item: Hey, remember the last presidential election? Remember all the cheating in ohio? Well some folks in ohio have not forgotten, and 2 election officials have been sentenced to jail and now, in a bold move "to restore trust to elections in Ohio," Ohio's newly-elected Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, has requested the resignation of all four members of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. Ohio’s biggest city, Cleveland is in Cuyahoga county. Among those Brunner has asked to resign is Cuyahoga County BOE Chair Robert Bennett, who also chairs Ohio's Republican Party. Voting rights attorney Cliff Arnebeck and others have long charged that Bennett worked closely with White House advisor Karl Rove and Ohio's then-Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell to secure Bush's 2004 victory in Ohio. Bennett responded to Brunner by saying that he will refuse to resign. He has placed the blame for the May 2006 primary problems on private voting machine vendors, including Diebold. Bennett claims the rigging of the 2004 presidential recount was caused by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's office, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Hello, is this guy agreeing that the election recount was rigged? He seeminglyb aedmits that there were serious problems, and further admits that the presidential recount was rigged. But casts the blame on private voting machine vendors. Slowly, ever so slowly, the criminality in the ohio presidential elections, that gave the presidency to geo w bush, is being ferreted out. Next item: Well, its approaching apr 15^th, the date upon which we are supposed to fork over a huge percentage of our incomes so our govt can kill brown people all over the globe in order to protect the profits of large corporations and select families. So I inject part of an article from one of the tax protester organizations: It is well past time for the dominant media to ask itself, "Why do so many learned people -- with so much to lose -- (e.g., orthopedic surgeons and medical directors, constitutional attorneys, high-ranking military officers, graduates of our service academies, CPAs, business owners, and even former IRS agents) believe they have no obligation under U.S. law to pay the income tax? What is the substance of their beliefs? What have they learned that would cause them to take this bold stand? Why would these ordinary Americans risk prison just to avoid paying ‘their fair share’?" And again, very importantly, why is it that the Executive and Judicial departments refuse, at every turn -- even in their legal pleadings and rulings, to cite the specific U.S. statute that requires American citizens to pay taxes on their wages and salaries?   Worse yet, why do the courts refuse to let tax defendants show the jury what they read in Supreme Court decisions regarding, for instance, the meaning of the word "income" within the meaning of the 16^th Amendment, or what they read in the internal revenue laws? Why not? After all, the defendants took the action the government finds unacceptable only after reading this material.  These defendants are not attempting to tell the jury what the law is, only what they read. It is their most important if not only evidence they have. To prevent the jury from reading what the defendant read is to prevent the jury from receiving the defendant’s evidence. To prevent the defendant from presenting his evidence to the jury is to deny the defendant his Right to a defense, one of the most fundamental Rights of every American.   Next item: this mornings gv union mentions that gv is considering a proposal for a new co housing development. Of course some of their potential neighbors are objecting., and one of their objections seems unique. The proposed colors for the houses are too bright. That’s right. The colors are too bright. That argument might fly if this were in a designated historical district, or one of those sacred gated communities with their covenants and restrictions, but it aint. Its just a conventional neighborhood. In fact the neighborhood already has such cultural and esthetic treasures as the kmart and pineless creek shopping centers as well as several auto malls. But the proposed houses might be painted too bright. Heaven protect us from brightly painted houses.

Ok, lets have some real fun now: lets talk about what many want us to believe is the most important issue of the day: al gore is basing his political resurrection on this very issue. Alan stahler may come looking for me firing spit wads over this one. Lets talk about global warming. Im reluctant to say this, but the bush crowd might possibly be right on this one when they disavow the Kyoto agreements and claim that global warming is no problem at all. What’s that ? you say. Chamba agreeing with king george, karl, and big dick cheney? Well, give a listen to this article pub in nexus mag out of Australia. For those of you with short attention spans, or whose lunch hours are over and you cant listen to the whole article, the thrust of the article is that the data used to prove global warning is flawed and conveniently omits that fact that during the middle ages, a short 5-600 years ago, the earth had a period of global warming even greater than we are experiencing now, and it had absolutely nothing to do with the activities of man. hang onto your hats, boys and girls, here is the article. READ NEXUS ARTICLE.