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Joan Walsh's post at Salon.com on Saturday, July 11th is about The Attorney General of The US of A finally holding some folks to account for the torture of detainees in the "war on terror". Even though there is clear evidence that people high in the Bush/Cheney committed serious crimes in the sanctioning of Torture, it seems clear that none of them will ever be prosecuted or even investigated formally. These guys trashed our Constitution and hardly anyone is aware of it or even gives a damn. Please take the time to read this post and some of the accompanying letters.

Glen Greenwald's post at Salon on Monday, July 13th is a clear recap and analysis of how Goldman, Sachs harvested BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars, and is now reaping record profits by engaging in the same unregulated and risky practices that caused the financial meltdown in the first place. To anyone who has been paying attention it should come as no surprise that these guys not only own your government, they own you and your future. Who cares? Please read Glen's post. Just click his name in the sidebar.

There is a great video clip at this link: http://www.wimp.com/manpower/ This is a man speaking truth to power (for all the good it did). What I find interesting is that this man is not an angry congressman or senator, or even an outraged American citizen. He is a former politician from anther country. He is however clearly angry.

"I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore" has been trivialized into a joke. The only people who are angry with our government are the rightwing nutjobs who think the the second amendment is in peril, or that people of color and abortionists are responsible for all our ills.
Where is the anger of eloquent Americans. Like the bumper sticker says: "If you're not outraged you're not paying attention". I blame it on the TeeVee. Television is the most popular medium in the nation, and it is probably the major source of news and misinformation for most Americans. The so-called journalists of TeeVee are not about to shit in their own nest by saying anything controversial about the public figures their corporate masters have bought and paid for (with the possible exception of Bill Moyers, who is seen by far too few viewers). The talking heads and their puppetmasters all seem to agree "Everything is fine." Well I got News for ya - EVERYTHING IS NOT FINE!
The world's economy is in awful shape and our government's solution is to give more money to people who already have way too much.
Our Constitution has been violated, obviously and consistently, and those who have sworn to uphold it refuse, with ho-hum hypocrisy to do so .

Not mad yet? So go to OpenCongress.org and see what your representatives in Washington are up to. If you don't like what they're doing tell 'em so! (This site makes it easy to find email links to Senators and representatives.) Go to whitehouse.gov and give Obama a little advice. Email your lacal paper and vent a little rage. Tell everybody you know to do the same. Get a little outrage out there. Who knows maybe we can rouse the sheeple before every last one of us is sacrificed on the alter of greed.

I've only scratched the surface of what I intended to say in this post, but I am too tired and angry to go on just now.

Thanks for stopping by.