Comments on: Straight talk

by: Lara Hammond

Mon, 19 May 2008 05:45:15 +0000

RELOCATION LEGISLATION S1003 DOES NOT MAKE IT TO RESOLUTION! Senate Bill 1003 (The Navajo Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974 Amendments) proposed by AZ Senator & Presidential hopeful John McCain did not come to a resolution! If passed, this bill would have had dire consequences for Dine’ families who continue to live on their ancestral homeland, for the families who have moved and for the land of Black Mesa. While S1003 passed through the Senate, it never made it out of the House Resources Committee to the House floor for a vote. The congressional session ended with no action being taken.

Many thanks to all of the action taken in support of the Dineh and in
stopping this bill, and the relocation laws. Thousands of letters,
emails, and faxes were sent from throughout Indian Country and
general support network, as well as the video sent to Congress that a
Black Mesa resident and BMIS volunteer compiled of statements from residents of the ‘Hopi Partitoned Lands’.

by: John Rice

Sat, 17 May 2008 18:01:07 +0000

McCain value human life?
You must be kidding.
He has already admitted to being a war criminal on the air during a 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace, through his bombing of civilians and other targets contrary to Geneva Conventions.
While a POW, he valued his life over those of other servicemen by revealing information which aided the enemy.
McCain valuing human life? How? Whose life? By what votes has he done so?
His voting record demonstrates a total disregard for the lives of Afghanis and Iraqis and anyone living South of the border–anyone that is, other than the few leaders who still operate as our nation’s puppets.
John McCain is an elitist neo-con fraud.

by: Evan Greenwood

Sat, 17 May 2008 04:03:22 +0000

Another point for pause is McCain’s effective admission that the Iraq war was over oil (and presumably he knew that when supporting it then and now).

Simply put, how much does this man value a human life?

by: Jabbarwock

Sat, 17 May 2008 02:53:45 +0000

You’re damn right McCain ought to be treated the same way! In all honesty I’m ashamed and apalled at our tv “news-media” and quite frankly disgusted with many citizens for taking what it tells them as holy writ. They (with a capital ‘T’) are RIGGING THE GAME. It’s not enough for us merely to suggest topics of discussion that They will, most likely, completely disregard or at least marginalize. Why is there no law, rule or regulation banning news distortion? Why is there no law, rule or regulation banning the embarrasing level of tv media bias? It’s happening again and again like a bad dream. Freindlies put in seats of inscrutable power; mass media becoming mouthpieces of their corporate masters; voices of dissent relegated to the internet and pissed on twice daily. When will the Intellectuals, the Critical Thinkers, the Visionaries, have their channel; their say? I’m 28 and already I can ORWELL knocking on the door.

Gotta go, my rat-cage is getting a little tight.

Have a good one, and a victory-gin on me.

by: peter knopfler

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:42:25 +0000

Mr. McCain’s futuristic syle of presenting his ideas and possible actions, 2013 looking back, like a movie effect where you see the action first and then what leads up to the action. It’s fantasy time folks let’s all pretend and do some wishfull thinking, or, a good salesman always assumes the sale, under the belief, that a sucker is born every moment. I personally found it insultingly juvenile, assuming no education, and yet I now wonder what education McCain really has and if it is still valid. Prison of war experiences doesn’t make a good administrator, nor does it add to your mental and physical health, 8 years in extreme conditions, and now cancer at 71, doesn’t qualify for the stress that comes with the presidency. His mother is 96, but wasn’t in prison and doesn’t have cancer. Every physician, world wide knows that stress increases cancer, and his is on his face. Consistent anger over years also causes an acidic body that attracts cancer. Cancer and a bad temper is highly volitile and always go together. Hopefully He will last 4 years. Respectfully Peter.

by: Chas. E. Martin

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:05:07 +0000

That’s all fine and good. Go ahead and scrutinize the hell out of McCain. For the sake of decency, could you at least pretend to do the same proctology exam on the Dem candidate? Thanks so much.

by: Cordley Coit

Fri, 16 May 2008 21:56:54 +0000

McCain looks like a throw down canidate.
He’s doing dead man walking wile waiting for the dems to finish passing the shot sword.