DISQUS

Never mind the fact that Exxon has failed to develop Point Thomson, en route to the part of ANWR that the oil-fired wingnuts are talking about developing. It is only 23 miles from Badami, the next nearest oil platform on the slope, but for some reason they have sat on the lease for decades, not developing known reserves of valuable hydrocarbons. Could it be there is a windfall profit in sitting on these known deposits until the prices are unbearable? Oil companies wouldn't manipulate a monopoly market for profit, would they? Not after a@@fuxing the people of Alaska using the corrupt Supreme Court to eliminate their penalties for the oil spill that sterilized good chunks of Alaska's Prince William Sound?

According to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, more than 600,000 Iraqis died as the result of violence at the hands of Combined troops or other Iraqi factions as of 2006. Bush has probably been responsible for at least 1,000,000 dead if we include not only the estimates of violent death but those killed in the course of living in a place with no sewer, electricity, fresh water, or medical supplies or dentistry. Add the number of refugees forced to live abroad after fleeing to Damascus and other "refuge" cities and we see that our nation under Bush is a mass-murdering psycho nation. Black armbands on the fourth in honor of our moribund rights and debased history.

Can we honestly celebrate our own independence and history of liberal, law and rights based government when we have become the monster we rejected in 1776?