Eliminate reliance on a single theory of patient care. Some Insurance Companies have actually discovered that alternative methods are cheaper and in many cases more effective than the "Authorized" (Allopathic) form. Also, PREVENTION is a LOT cheaper than "Treatment" (which seldom if ever results in a cure.) Health Freedom is a lot more sensible than Government-sanctioned "Management" of illness. Unleash ALL forms of Medicine, and watch us become a much healthier country!

Mr. Conyers, in case you haven't noticed, most Americans no longer have faith in the intentions of their leaders.

Look at how surprised oil companies are over the public's sudden drop in oil consumption. What, just because the price drops a few dollars we're supposed to forget how vulnerable we felt when they so ruthlessly screwed us? We aren't supposed to protect ourselves when we see the stock market, and our retirement accounts shrink?

You can try to bribe us with "better" healthcare, but realistically speaking, even if you get something passed it will be shot full of loopholes big enough to drive an HMO through. That's the way you roll.

Look at the $700 billion "emergency" funding that had to be passed last month for America to survive. Will you be using the same congressmen and women in the creation of this "new healthcare"?

Personally, after being betrayed by you on many occasions, I am skeptical of anything you promote. Apparently, you'll say and do anything to further your personal agenda, and worry about damage control later.

The only thing we can be sure of is, when given the opportunity, you'll disappoint us and make your friends happy.

After 150 years in Congress, your healthcare friends have had a chance to buy you many times over.

"We the people" can't compete with that kind of influence.

I'd rather see the Judicial Committee focus on legal matters instead. I'm sure there are things to do. Things that have a little more to do with your job description?

Like maybe....impeachment?

I'm not in Congress. I don't take bribes, not even when they're disguised as healthcare packages.

Elections are over! Still, Sarah Palin is in the news every day.

Palin urges GOP governors to keep Democrats honest
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer – Thu Nov 13, 6:18 pm ET

-----MIAMI – Sarah Palin called on fellow Republican governors to keep the new president and his strengthened Democratic majority in check on issues from taxes to health care as she signaled she'll take a leadership role in a party searching for a new standard-bearer.

Addressing the Republican Governors Association meeting Thursday, this year's GOP vice presidential nominee — and an oft-mentioned candidate for 2012 — revisited some aspects of the bitter campaign and talked about the role of the governors in the coming year. After losing the White House and several seats in the Senate and House, the party is engaging in some soul-searching about its direction. . . .

The title alone blows me away! While the Repugs have lied, cheated and stolen for the past eight years, Palin is now the criterian?

And, this, yesterday:

Facing Palin factor, Romney mulls political future
By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer – Fri Nov 14, 3:12 am ET

--AP – In this Oct. 23, 2008, file photo
former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
answers questions during …

---BOSTON – Tagg Romney was in his office the other day when the door opened and in popped his father, Mitt Romney, dropping off the family dog.

It was a mundane task that highlighted Romney's change in fortunes: Instead of managing a White House transition, or preparing to assume the vice presidency, the man who failed in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and was passed over by John McCain for running mate is focusing on his family and political interests.

And it may stay that way through 2012 and beyond.

The surprising ascendancy of McCain's eventual pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and her popularity among some GOP conservatives have left Romney wondering whether he could wage a viable second campaign for the White House, according to friends and advisers. . . . .

Well, I’m sure you already know that Palin is in your face!

I’ve so often said, Palin would make an excellent neocon mouthpiece! Well, guess what? It was the neocons that chose Palin to be McCain’s running mate. And now, the same neocons that brought you Bush and Cheney are preparing to bring you Sarah Palin to run for president in 2012 – I’m talking about the neocons of the PNAC. The PNAC is back:*

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

ON YOUR WATCH, JOHN, YOU DID NOTHING!

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Obama advisers: Bush era war criminals will walk
Stephen C. Webster
Published: Monday November 17, 2008

Even as President-elect Obama vowed "to regain America's moral stature in the world" during Sunday's 60 Minutes appearance, two of his senior advisers confessed there is no intent to pursue those in the Bush administration who engaged in torture, a war crime.

Speaking on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press, the advisers said that the plan is to put a stop to current interrogation methods and to "look forward" as opposed to focusing on prior transgressions.
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WE VOTED FOR CHANGE,
NOT MORE OF THE SAME!

Let history books account for Congressman John Conyers and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's inability to administer the necessary consequences to an out of control Administration who've, through these two cowards' impotence most likely due to alter allegiances other than the Constitution of the Nation that, THEY STOOD DOWN!!!

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
~ Edmund Burke

Congressman,
I thought you were a good man, in a good place, to do good things for the Country.

R E M E M B E R
The Bush Administration couldn't have gotten away with their WAR CRIMES without the blind eye of Nancy Pelosi and silent voice of John Conyers... NO?

Congressman,
You do realize you published a door stopper. Or was it meant to be much more? How well can you hold a debate when you've refused to ask the probing questions of the House...

Oh, but wait...
... There's more.

Abramoff said he had agreement with White House aide just a month after Bush took office
Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Monday November 17, 2008

Email noting relationship with White House came just a month after Bush took office

Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff told his colleagues at his former law firm that he had an “agreement” regarding communications with a former assistant to then-Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, perhaps the most substantial documented tie between Abramoff and the White House to date.

In the email, dated Feb. 27, 2001, Abramoff reprimands a colleague who asked him to use Susan Ralston – Special Assistant to the President George W. Bush and then-Bush senior adviser Karl Rove – to arrange a meeting with the President for one of his clients.

In response, Abramoff writes that Ralston and he have an “agreement with her as to what we are going to ask her and when.”

Prior to joining the White House staff, Ralston was Abramoff’s assistant at the lobbying giant Greenberg Traurig. Prior to Greenberg, she had also worked with Abramoff at the lobbying shop Preston Gates & Ellis.
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Q U E S T I O N
Will our president-elect be dumb enough to use E-Mail?
Or will the House Oversight and Judiciary be dumb enough to not check?
I mean, how would you know what's missing if the technology afforded to you to use so as to comply to the law can be disregarded so?

Or is this a case of...
SEE, HEAR, AND SPEAK NO EVIL?
*nudge*nudge*
Hypocrisy is an unnecessary evil.

Oh, but there's more...

Documents say feds can track cell phones' locations without telecoms' help
John Byrne
Published: Monday November 17, 2008

Federal law enforcement may be able to track cellular phones users' locations without the help of the telecommunications companies themselves, according to a report Sunday.

Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom of Information Act request suggest that existing technology allows law enforcement to bypass wireless companies in locating individual cell phone users.

Using "triggerfish" technology, mobile phones are tricked into transmitting their serial numbers, phone numbers and other data by posing as a cellular phone tower. Until now, it's been believed that such technology could only be successfully employed with the help of the telecoms themselves, because the specific location of the phone couldn't be traced with enough accuracy.

But a document obtained by the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation from the Justice Department in a lawsuit and posted online last week says triggerfish can be deployed "without the user knowing about it and without involving the cell phone provider."

The detail was noted by the ACLU's Rachel Myers on Daily Kos and highlighted in a posting on Ars Technica on Sunday.
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I'm confused...
... Remind me why telecoms were granted immunity from obtaining warrants?

Q U E S T I O N
Are Americans safe from their own Government?

Oh, what's a rogue government if not for...

Top judge: US and UK acted as 'vigilantes' in Iraq invasion
Former senior law lord condemns 'serious violation of international law'
Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday November 18 2008

One of Britain's most authoritative judicial figures last night delivered a blistering attack on the invasion of Iraq, describing it as a serious violation of international law, and accusing Britain and the US of acting like a "world vigilante".

Lord Bingham, in his first major speech since retiring as the senior law lord, rejected the then attorney general's defence of the 2003 invasion as fundamentally flawed.

Contradicting head-on Lord Goldsmith's advice that the invasion was lawful, Bingham stated: "It was not plain that Iraq had failed to comply in a manner justifying resort to force and there were no strong factual grounds or hard evidence to show that it had." Adding his weight to the body of international legal opinion opposed to the invasion, Bingham said that to argue, as the British government had done, that Britain and the US could unilaterally decide that Iraq had broken UN resolutions "passes belief".

Governments were bound by international law as much as by their domestic laws, he said. "The current ministerial code," he added "binding on British ministers, requires them as an overarching duty to 'comply with the law, including international law and treaty obligations'."
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WAR CRIMES ON YOUR WATCH...
... AND YOU DID NOTHING!!!

And don't forget...

(11/15/08 Scott McClellan 2008 Miami Book Fair C-SPAN Book TV)

... The TREASON!

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The Rule of Law Demands It!!!

We Are Not Toys
Seven members from IVAW's LA Chapter staged an early morning action on October 11th, placing 4,200 miniature soldiers around a gas station along with posters declaring "The Price of Gas: 4171 US SOLDIERS" (since the action, the number of US soldiers has climbed to 4,193). Participants in the Operation W.A.N.T. (We Are Not Toys) said their goal was to show average Americans what 4,171 US Soldiers looks like and to connect the deaths of US troops to this country's dependence on foreign oil.

How sad that in 2006, the Democrats "promised" to end the occupation of Iraq only to let George W. Bush, two years later, do it for them... NO? When the Democrats sought to end the illegal occupation of a country that NEVER posed an imminent threat to the U.S.A. the President and his political party derided the Democrats calling them "Defeat-o-crats" who are "appeasers to terrorists", seeking a "surrender to the enemy" while undermining the troops by "cutting and running" because the "Democrats fear success in Iraq" and would rather "settle for loosing". What does this bode for that same political party that let themselves be cowered and run by fear when they now promise "change"?

R E M E M B E R
The Democrats didn't end the illegal occupation of Iraq...
... With a little help from George W. Bush the Iraqi Parliament did.

Just how many U.S. Service men and women HAD TO die just so the Democrats could stand their ground of doing nothing, so that George W. Bush could do it for them?

The indictment criticizes VP Dick Cheney's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds
interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers.

Vice-President Cheney Indicted!

Associated Press

McALLEN, TX -- A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers.

The indictment criticizes Cheney's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees by working through the prison companies.

Gonzales is accused of using his position while in office to stop an investigation into abuses at the federal detention centers.

Another indictment charges state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. with profiting from his public office by accepting honoraria from prison management companies.

The indictments were first reported by KRGV-TV.

There have been numerous reports of torture and abuse in private prisons. Looks like Cheney just can't stop himself!

h/t to Edger for this:

DICK CHENEY INDICTED!! (Kinda)
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 05:05:24 PM

The long arm of Rio Grande Valley justice has reached out and nabbed....Dick Cheney?

Yes, apparently. A grand jury has indicted the vice-president this afternoon.

Hasn't the stature of limitations passed on "accidentally" shooting innocent bystanders?

It turns out that it's not the shooting, it's all about Cheney's investment in a group that runs prisons (badly, it's claimed) in Texas.

In other words, it sounds like one runaway, nutty grand jury. Which is something we never thought could exist in the Valley.

But, we guess, if you can't be brought up on war crimes before the World Court in The Hague, we guess it's up to the Willacy County grand jury to do what it can. . . . .

Could this. . . . might this . . . . oh, please let this be . . . . . !!!!!

Cross-posted at Docudharma
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene

“The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington’s handling of the Wall Street bailout is not merely incompetent. It is borderline criminal,” says Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine.

Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions
Topics:Stock Market | Economy (U.S.) | Treasuries | Federal Reserve | Banking
Sectors:Financial Services | BanksCNBC.com | 18 Nov 2008 | 04:38 PM ET

Given the speed at which the federal government is throwing money at the financial crisis, the average taxpayer, never mind member of Congress, might not be faulted for losing track.

CNBC, however, has been paying very close attention and keeping a running tally of actual spending as well as the commitments involved.

Try $4.28 trillion dollars. That's $4,284,500,000,000 and more than what was spent on WW II, if adjusted for inflation, based on our computations from a variety of estimates and sources*.

Not only is it a astronomical amount of money, its' a complicated cocktail of budgeted dollars, actual spending, guarantees, loans, swaps and other market mechanisms by the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and other offices of government taken over roughly the last year, based on government data and news releases. Strictly speaking, not every cent is a direct result of what's called the financial crisis, but it is arguably related to it.

Some 68-percent of the sum falls under the Federal Reserve's umbrella, while another 16 percent is the under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP, as defined under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, signed into law in early October. (The TARP alone is bigger than virtually any other US government endeavor dating back to the Louisiana Purchase. See slideshow.)

*References includ US National Archive, US Dept of Defense, US Bureau of Reclamation, Library of Congress, NASA, Panama Canal Authority, FDIC, Brittanica, WSJ, Time, CNN.com, and a number of other websites.

(NOTE: Financial Crisis Balance Sheet available at web link.)

A better way to reform? I have an idea. Let's change the plan
at the last minute. And the change is this. Let's get back to
the original plan.

Bottoms Up!

The Democrats got something of a MANDATE, I would think.

Now what's preventing them from pursuing impeachment?

Then GET RID OF HER, YOU FLAG-SALUTERS!

Or was that the way you really wanted it?

And to the Honorable Offer-able Honorable Chairman
of the House Judiciary. Don't forget whose House you
are in.

Alas, the plan was to change Washington from the bottom
up. Oh, but where to start??

I know. Congress. You guys are just about as low as they get.
(Whose Representatives are you? Remind me. Or have you
forgotten too.)

In two years, you'll receive a new mandate if you don't take
advantage of the next (checking my watch)...

http://usconstitution.net/const.html

Update your resume, Congressman.

Experience:
Sold out of Congress In Crisis

[In House Record breaking time.]

Just a friendly reminder. You are not exactly invisible anymore.
(Thanks, Obama.. We owe you one.)

Now, John, you did one good thing, and I thank you for that. You
got the DSM into the House Record.

That's a piece of history that will never ever ever ever ever be forgotten.

Just think. You're going to be famous.

But for what?

Last call! Bottoms Up!

To our new commander in chief:

Hang in there Obama. You may not see us and we may not see
you. Just be yourself, and "steady as she goes". This is almost
for SURE really it.

John? You there still?
Can you tell me where we're headin'.
Lincoln County Line or Armageddon.
Seems like I've been down this road before.
-- Bob Dylan, Tales of Yankee Power.

Please cosponsor
H.RES.1531

Should High Government Officials Be Investigated and Prosecuted?

Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights and Author, "The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book"

Stuart Taylor, Columnist, National Journal and Contributing Editor, Newsweek

David Vladeck, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Ratner's new book, "The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld," lays out the evidence that high-level officials of the Bush administration ordered, authorized, implemented and permitted war crimes, in particular the crimes of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Ratner and Taylor will make their respective cases for and against Rumsfeld and other officials in the Bush administration.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute.

WATCH VIDEO.

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The Rule of Law Demands It!!

Pardoning Himself!!

From The People's E-mail Network ("The Pen"):

Congress Must Debate The Implications Of A Bush Self-Pardon

Many people have been asking us, "Could Bush actually pardon himself?". Would it be despicable? Sure it would. Would it be shameless and cowardly? Yes, that and that too. But all those adjectives fit Bush like O.J.'s glove before it shrunk from being soaked completely in blood. Which means he is absolutely is planning on doing it.

And only impeachment could stop it. We need to talk about this. We need Congress to talk about this. And Congress is in session this week, so we need you to speak out this week while there is still time.

Impeach Now Action Page:

Tens of thousands of you submitted the action page on this last week. Do it again. Please speak out again while we still can. There is already a drum beat in the right wing media calling on Bush to pardon his whole administration. Only our voices can raise the price of such action so that there would be real consequences.

We have not given up, and will never give up hope on justice. We will be taking delivery of another huge shipment of the "Impeach Both!!!" caps that are still so popular. But this might be the last batch. So if you want to demonstrate your support for impeachment, please request yours now from the return page of the action page submission.

Impeach Now Action Page

Will Congress now act? That is not the yardstick of the worth of our activism. We speak out because we must speak out, whether we are heeded or not. Let history record that we spoke out until the last minute to the eternal shame of those who did not. Because when enough of us speak out at once, the worst thing that can possibly happen is that we are building the progressive base for the REAL change of the future.

So Bush most certainly is planning on pardoning himself. And all the right wing lock down ideologues in the corporate controlled media will call it "healing". Let's all make nice with war criminals? Shall we all make nice with the gang rape of our economy, our environment and our Constitution? We think not.

And one more thing. You know that come January 20th the right wing will start calling for the impeachment of our new president, over a endless litany of the most ridiculous of trivial trifles. In fact it has already started even though he has not even taken office. If they are so hot on impeaching someone, let them speak out now, when it truly is called for, or shut the hell up in 65 days.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.