Republican women and your power to change America.

Today, July 1st, a lot of bad stuff happened in Ohio, Texas and North Carolina. The Republican controlled legislature decided to pass a number of anti abortion measures without discussion by the Democrats. The Republican State Legislatures have declared war on women. There is a solution to this problem I haven't seen published anywhere. Here it is! Women of Republican representatives of State legislatures need to deny sex to their husbands because the consequences of pregnancies is traumatic. Stand up and deny your husbands sex. You will feel very powerful!

Illinois Gov. Blagojevich arrest on corruption charges: The effect on the Obama stimulus package

Of all the stupid things to do, Illinois Governor Blagojevich is accused, by Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, of corruption and the complaint alleges that he was trying to sell Obama's Senate seat for money. This is unbelievably stupid. I guess this is why we should allow some wiretaps.


The effect may have many of us wondering whether a stimulus package for the States is a wise thing to do, given corruption across all of our government. The new mantra for everything involving government should now be Oversight, Oversight and more Oversight! You can throw in another word if you like: Regulate, Regulate, Regulate! I am speechless. This has significant implications for awarding contracts and cronyism.

Use it or Lose it says President-Elect Obama. Why didn't Paulson say the same to bailed out Banks?!

In his Saturday radio address, President-Elect Obama says he is planning to give the States money as a stimulus to boost jobs and the economy, but he said, the money will have strings attached that they must use it for the specific purposes or they will lose those funds.The question I have for Hank Paulson, Treasury Secretary, was why he didn't have similar strings attached to the Banks, when he bailed them out with the TARP money approved by Congress? He should have required a certain percentage of the funds be used for loans for cars, mortgages, student loans and small business ventures. But not only didn't he require it, but neither did the Congress!

When are thse folks going to wake up. I swear they are asleep at the switch and this feels like the blind leading the blind.

Fatalities by State from Iraq War and why Vermonters called for impeachment

A few days ago I wrote a piece titled, "Calls for impeachment from small towns across Vermont". At that time I had no idea as to why 29 towns have called for the impeachment of President Bush. I had first attributed it to the fact that Vermont had the only Progressive candidate in the Senate, Bernie Sanders and therefore it was understandable that many might vote for impeachment given the history of the blunders and failed policy of this President and his Administration.

But upon closer examination I had my eyes opened wide to the real reason that Vermont was leading the way in calls for Bush's impeachment, to end this Iraq war and to bring the troops home. Vermonters on a per person basis, have sacrificed more of its blood treasure, its soldiers, than any other State in the country, a fact not known nor cited by the main stream media. These families know first hand what this war is costing. By contrast the District of Columbia, the seat of politics and of all branches of government, had the least % casualties by a margin of 1 DC fatality for every 5 Vermonters. I am not trying to minimalize even one death here, but rather to give one good reason why Vermonters may have called for the impeachment of President Bush. They are living the consequences of going into this war of choice first hand.

Click on the image above to enlarge it and see where your State stands on the list. They are sorted by Fatalities from greatest to least percentage based upon the State population. Fatalities included in the data are those listed as of 3-11-07 on icasualties.org.