Big Dan's Big News May 26, 2008

● The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. Why do so many in the liberal media simply move on to another topic after stating that Bush took the nation to war based on a lie?

The new movie: War, Inc. John Cusack & Jeremy Scahill speak about the movie and the Iraq War on Amy Goodman's Democracy NOW! There's not 3 better people you should be learning about right now, than Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill (author of "Blackwater"), and activist/actor John Cusack!

● War, Inc. Official Movie Site

● Cusack and Scahill Go After War Profiteers on Amy Goodman Show



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Above: Billary Clintons

● What Game Is Hillary Playing? Nothing reveals the Clintons' lack of principle so clearly as their assertion that Dem Party rules should be abandoned.

● Hillary's Latest: It's Obama's Fault


● McCain Puts His Temper on Full Display with Anti-Obama Rant. The Republican reveals his inner hot head with an audacious shot across the bow to Obama. If John McCain goes ballistic every time he's mildly criticized by Barack Obama, this is going to be a much more interesting campaign than I thought. Yesterday Obama said this:

The steady disclosures of past lobbying activity by campaign aides, and the struggle to minimize firings, continue to plague John McCain's presidential campaign -- but the reality is that these problems only get worse the deeper anyone digs. There you'll find an anti-cigarette tax campaign on behalf of Lorillard Tobacco and a full-scale campaign to persuade the US Senate to approve use of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste site.

● McCain's Ethical Dilemma: Campaign Filled With Lobbyist Kingpins

● McCain's Campaign In Troubled Stretch...Resignations, Disarray, Lobbyists, Lobbyists, Lobbyists...


● Why did CNN hire Castellanos, who has a history of using "racially charged" tactics? And why won't it note he's advising McCain?


● Martin Amis & Chris Hitchens: Vicious Racism Concealed by a British Accent. The American right wing, desperate for articulate hate mongers, is importing UK polemicists to stir the base up against the Muslim/Arab "enemy."

Pundit on FOX "news" (wink wink) says "Osama" instead of "Obama" (for the 1000th time this "accident" has occurred on FOX "news"), and then jokes about killing Obama! How can they "accidentally" say "Osama" instead of "Obama" so many times with a straight face? If you are a Kook-Aid drinker, I guess you think this is "fair and balanced"!



● GAO, DOD inspector general to investigate Pentagon’s propaganda program

● Legal scholar Jeffery Toobin explained that the “real agenda” behind voter ID laws is “to help Republicans”:

● NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals. Create a Utopian paradise for society's less fortunate or a totalitarian corporate police state. Care for your people or deliberately oppress them. Join the World Assembly or remain a rogue state. It's up to you.

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● The Mars Phoenix Lander has just successfully landed near the north pole of Mars on its mission to search for water.

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● The New Daily NEPA/AAA DAILY GAS RECORD: $3.93/gallon-$59/tank; $1.46/gallon-$21/tank when oilmen Bush/Cheney took office

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton Regular Mid Premium Diesel
Current $3.927 $4.139 $4.322 $4.918
Yesterday $3.915 $4.127 $4.309 $4.905
Month Ago $3.593 $3.788 $3.956 $4.440
Year Ago $3.087 $3.254 $3.398 $2.945

Highest Recorded Price:

Regular Unl. $3.927 5/26/2008
Dsl. $4.918 5/26/2008