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| ....The core of the problem may also be that we can’t agree if there is a spiritual reality or not. If there is no spiritual reality, we are confined to material choices in a material world, governed by the laws of entropy, with or without free will. If there is a spiritual reality, we have to decide if spirit and matter are separate and conflicting realms, as most religions propose, or harmonious, in which case the laws of physics and the laws of spirit must integrate, and will one day be a post-mathematics of heaven and the soul. And if they integrate, they have presumably always integrated, even before there was time. This, in turn, means that evolution carries a spiritual dimension, which people like Teilhard de Chardin, Sri Aurobindo and Ken Wilber have been saying all along. So what do you think? Where are we going? Here are 12 possible answers which could start a dinner-party discussion... 1. Nowhere. We’re just material organisms, driven by selfish genes. There is no inherent direction; it’s up to us to make what we want out of life. 2. To heaven. As soon as the conflict in the Middle East has triggered Armageddon, everyone who has accepted Jesus into their hearts will rise into heaven in the Rapture. Amen. 3. To heaven on Earth, United Church style. Everyone will become kind and loving. 4. Nowhere. We’re caught on an endless wheel of suffering, with or without reincarnation. Spiritual enlightenment is the only way out. 5. Into space. Our destiny is out there among the stars. Let us boldly go! 6. To freedom, and the American way. Bring em on! God, democracy, Wal-Mart and Visa will prevail over all unbelievers. 7. To scientific socialism, and the sister/brotherhood of all humanity. Marx, Lenin and Castro were right after all. 8. To ecological collapse. We humans are too powerful a predator species. We are out of balance with nature, and will cause Earth’s ecosystems to collapse into disorder. 9. To entropy, and the final collapse of material order. The sun will go supernova, and the universe will experience a heat death. Meanwhile, it’s up to us to make what we want out of life. 10. To syntropy. Spirit will continue to evolve as it seeks spiritual, natural, planetary and cosmic harmony. 11. To a super-technological future. All problems will be solved by robots, nanobots, and the crew from Red Dwarf. 12. Nobody knows. And that’s the scariest (or most exciting) thought of all. |
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Save Iraq: Vote for Bush
President Bush says things are getting better in Iraq. He's our PRESIDENT, so he must be telling the TRUTH. There's NO REASON to doubt a man of such honesty and integrity. In case you have any doubts, here's all the proof you need:
| BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A series of bombs killed 35 children and seven adults Thursday as U.S. troops handed out candy at a government ceremony to inaugurate a new sewage treatment plant. Hours earlier, a suicide blast killed a U.S. soldier and two Iraqis on the capital's outskirts. The bombs in Baghdad's al-Amel neighborhood caused the largest death toll of children in any insurgent attack since the conflict in Iraq began 17 months ago. "The Americans called us, they told us, 'Come here, come here,' asking us if we wanted sweets. We went beside them, then a car exploded," said 12-year-old Abdel Rahman Dawoud, lying naked in a hospital bed with shrapnel embedded all over his body. Two bombs went off in quick succession at the ceremony about 1 p.m., then were followed by a third explosion a short distance away, said Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman. He said there were two suicide car bombs and one roadside bomb; the Americans said all three were car bombs. The explosions killed 42 people and wounded 141, including 10 U.S. soldiers. The wounded included 72 children under the age of 14, said Dr. Mohammed Salaheddin. The day of violence across Iraq, including insurgent attacks and U.S. airstrikes in Fallujah, left a total of 46 people dead and 208 wounded. In the northern city of Tal Afar, a car bomb targeting the police chief killed at least four people and wounded 16, Iraqi and U.S. officials said. The chief, whose name was only given as Col. Ismail, escaped the assassination attempt, police said. Also Thursday, the Arab news network Al-Jazeera showed video of 10 new hostages seized in Iraq by militants. Al-Jazeera said the 10 - six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women - were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq, a group that has claimed responsibility for seizing two French journalists. A Lebanese official later said kidnappers had released one Lebanese captive, although it was not clear if he was among the 10. In the al-Amel bombings, grief-stricken parents wailed over the bodies of their children at the Yarmouk Hospital morgue. One woman tore at her hair before pulling back the sheet covering her dead brother and kissing him. One man carried his younger brother - both legs bandaged - to the hospital, where some children were put two to a bed because of the many wounded. Outside, women sat on the ground and wept as they awaited news about their children. The hospital received 42 bodies - including those of 35 children - and 131 wounded, said Iyhsan Nasser, head of the facility's statistics department. At the site of the blasts, body parts were strewn in the streets amid pools of blood. A U.S. helicopter evacuated some of the wounded while other aircraft circled overhead and soldiers sealed off the area. Lt. Col. Jim Hutton, spokesman for the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, said 10 American soldiers were among the wounded. American troops were taking part in the ceremony to inaugurate the sewage plant, said Maj. Phil Smith, another division spokesman, calling the attacks "despicable." Officials earlier had said a U.S. convoy was passing through the area. Smith said the first two explosions targeted the ceremony, while the third was aimed at a nearby Iraqi National Guard checkpoint. The children were at the ceremony because the school year in Iraq has not yet begun. "This attack was carried out by evil people who do not want the Iraqis to celebrate and don't want (reconstruction) projects in Iraq," said Iraqi National Guard Lt. Ahmad Saad. Hours earlier, a suicide car bomber struck in the Abu Ghraib area outside of Baghdad, killing the American soldier and at least two Iraqis, and wounding 60, Iraqi and U.S. officials said. That bomb targeted a compound housing the mayor's office, a police station and other buildings, police 1st Lt. Ahmed Jawad said. A U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle parked in front of the compound was hit, Hutton said. Elsewhere, insurgents fired a rocket Thursday at a logistical support area for coalition forces on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding seven, the military said. No further details was disclosed - including whether or not it was a U.S. soldier. Meanwhile, the United States targeted a suspected terrorist safehouse in Fallujah. The military said intelligence reports indicated the house was being used by followers of Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to plan attacks against U.S.-led forces and Iraqi citizens. At least four Iraqis were killed - including two women and one child - and eight were wounded, said Dr. Ahmed Khalil of the Fallujah General Hospital. Witnesses said two houses were flattened and four others damaged in the strike. "Significant secondary explosions were observed during the impact, indicating a large cache of illegal ordinance was stored in the safehouse," the military statement said. Explosions continued for hours. American jets, tanks and artillery units repeatedly have targeted al-Zarqawi's network in Fallujah recently as U.S.-led forces seek to assert control over insurgent enclaves ahead of elections slated for January. The military says the attacks have inflicted significant damage on the network, which has claimed responsibility for bombings, kidnappings and other attacks. Doctors say scores of civilians have been killed and wounded in the strikes. Al-Zarqawi's group, Tawhid and Jihad, has claimed responsibility for several beheadings and kidnappings. Al-Jazeera's video of the latest hostages showed three captives, who were not identified, and two masked men pointing weapons at them. There was no mention of demands by the militants or when or where they were captured. The network said the 10 were employees of the Jib electricity company. Gen. Hussein Ali Kamal, Iraq's deputy interior minister in charge of intelligence, later confirmed that two Lebanese had been kidnapped along with a group of others that included women. More than 140 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq and at least 26 have been killed. |
Bush: Good for Iraq, Good for America. We should definitely elect him.
Hey, want some candy, little boy?
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Around for Everyone
Don't miss today's Fresh Air on NPR, as Jon Stewart will be interviewed. Should be a blast.
Moore/Bush (flash video)
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September 29, 2004
The blatant lies about Kerry, liberals and Democrats, that are now airing in the media, are so outrageous it is getting embarrassing and infuriating for me to watch or read them. I know it is going to get much worse as the election nears. I only hope that the incredibly ignorant people who still think Bush can succeed as our Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief will somehow tire of getting incessantly bashed over the head with all this b.s. and say that they've had enough, or just have enough courage to stay home on November 2.
Eisenhower endorses Kerry.
HERE is a refreshing anti-Bush web site. THIS AD is very effective. These are real people.
What Bush Will Do If Re-elected.
Bush prepares for debates (flash video) ...and... Kung Fu Kerry saves choking Bush
ABC News shows Bush lying (video).
From the editors of The Lone Star Iconoclast of Crawford, TX (excerpts):
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Bush & Iraq: Mizaru kikazaru iwazaru (see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing)
| "I'm not surprised if people in the administration were put on the defensive. We weren't trying to make them look bad, we're just trying to give them information. Of course, we're telling them something they don't want to hear." --- CIA spokesman's response to the Bush Administration's scathing attack of the former following a National Intelligence Council (NIC) assessment, completed in July, that gave a dramatically different outlook than the administration's and represented a consensus at the CIA and the State and Defense departments. |
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Eisenhower endorses Kerry.
HERE is a refreshing anti-Bush web site. THIS AD is very effective. These are real people.
What Bush Will Do If Re-elected.
Bush prepares for debates (flash video) ...and... Kung Fu Kerry saves choking Bush
ABC News shows Bush lying (video).
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Why Bush's home town newspaper endorses Kerry
From the editors of The Lone Star Iconoclast of Crawford, TX (excerpts):
| Few Americans would have voted for George W. Bush four years ago if he had promised that, as President, he would: • Empty the Social Security trust fund by $507 billion to help offset fiscal irresponsibility and at the same time slash Social Security benefits. • Cut Medicare by 17 percent and reduce veterans’ benefits and military pay. • Eliminate overtime pay for millions of Americans and raise oil prices by 50 percent. • Give tax cuts to businesses that sent American jobs overseas, and, in fact, by policy encourage their departure. • Give away billions of tax dollars in government contracts without competitive bids. • Involve this country in a deadly and highly questionable war, and • Take a budget surplus and turn it into the worst deficit in the history of the United States, creating a debt in just four years that will take generations to repay. These were elements of a hidden agenda that surfaced only after he took office. The publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago, based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda. Today, we are endorsing his opponent, John Kerry, based not only on the things that Bush has delivered, but also on the vision of a return to normality that Kerry says our country needs. [big snip] John Kerry has 30 years of experience looking out for the American people and can navigate our country back to prosperity and re-instill in America the dignity she so craves and deserves. He has served us well as a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and has had a successful career as a district attorney, lieutenant governor, and senator. Kerry has a positive vision for America, plus the proven intelligence, good sense, and guts to make it happen. That’s why The Iconoclast urges Texans not to rate the candidate by his hometown or even his political party, but instead by where he intends to take the country. The Iconoclast wholeheartedly endorses John Kerry. |
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September 28, 2004
"The Cat" speaks.
Good: Edward Kennedy speech. Better: George Soros speech.
Bush's own hometown (Crawford, TX) newspaper announces its endorsement for President.... KERRY!
Let the Fun and Games Begin!
Be wary of the Gallup Polls.
It's Time To Close Ranks, Says Dennis Kucinich.
Fired Bush Administration environmentalist/whistleblower gets day in court.
Top 10 Reasons for the US to Get Out of Iraq.
The Dunce: Former Harvard Business School professor recalls George W. Bush. (note: subscription req.)
Nothing to see, here. Move right along. We've got it under control.
How Evangelical Christians view Kerry's voting record.
| "If anyone ever thought Saddam Hussein wasn't killing enough of his own people, rest assured the Americans have more than satisfactorily taken over that job." --- Left is Right |
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"The Cat" speaks.
Good: Edward Kennedy speech. Better: George Soros speech.
Bush's own hometown (Crawford, TX) newspaper announces its endorsement for President.... KERRY!
Let the Fun and Games Begin!
Be wary of the Gallup Polls.
It's Time To Close Ranks, Says Dennis Kucinich.
Fired Bush Administration environmentalist/whistleblower gets day in court.
Top 10 Reasons for the US to Get Out of Iraq.
The Dunce: Former Harvard Business School professor recalls George W. Bush. (note: subscription req.)
Nothing to see, here. Move right along. We've got it under control.
How Evangelical Christians view Kerry's voting record.
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| "You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what: I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true." --- James Carville, Democratic strategist and Clinton campaign manager |
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September 27, 2004
Dan Gillmor, a Silicon Valley guru, begins a series of online articles comparing the economic and technology policies/stands of Bush And Kerry. Today Dan looks at globalization, the federal budget and competition.
Revised EPA Dress Code Now Includes Ball Gags
Before-and-after USGS photos of Ivan's effects on Gulf Coast.
"Slow Rolling" - It hurts us all. (reg. required)
----President Bush, replying when asked by Fox News if he still would have put on a flight suit to declare major combat operations in Iraq over.
Supersizing our kids.
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100 Children Die Daily in Iraq
Would John Kerry allow such evil dichotomy to exist? I don't think so. You need to make sure that your Republican relatives and neighbors either stay home November 2 or vote for Kerry.
Here's an excerpt of a post by Jack Kinsella, a "rapture expert". What's so funny is that now even the rapture proponents are starting to get so scared about the potential of world destruction resulting from Bush's policies, they fear that their rapture may never get a chance to pass.
How hilarious is that, in a warped sense? There you have it, a "logical" argument to give to your fundagelical neighbor on why not to vote for Bush.
Guys, guys. This kind of stuff makes Kerry look like he's scraping the bottom of the political smear barrel. We've been rolling for a while now with effective stories about how George H.W. Bush helped with his son's "rise to power" with primo sissy-assignments in the Air National Guard, etc. Why can't we focus on that?
Dan Gillmor, a Silicon Valley guru, begins a series of online articles comparing the economic and technology policies/stands of Bush And Kerry. Today Dan looks at globalization, the federal budget and competition.
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Around for Everyone
Revised EPA Dress Code Now Includes Ball Gags
Before-and-after USGS photos of Ivan's effects on Gulf Coast.
"Slow Rolling" - It hurts us all. (reg. required)
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Quote of the Year
"Absolutely." |
----President Bush, replying when asked by Fox News if he still would have put on a flight suit to declare major combat operations in Iraq over.
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Irony for Everyone
Supersizing our kids.
vs.
100 Children Die Daily in Iraq
Would John Kerry allow such evil dichotomy to exist? I don't think so. You need to make sure that your Republican relatives and neighbors either stay home November 2 or vote for Kerry.
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Nothing Left to Rapture
Here's an excerpt of a post by Jack Kinsella, a "rapture expert". What's so funny is that now even the rapture proponents are starting to get so scared about the potential of world destruction resulting from Bush's policies, they fear that their rapture may never get a chance to pass.
| ....World peace or global annihilation. The Bible doesn’t say when the Rapture will occur. It says we will know when it is near, even, at the door. And we know that Jesus said of the Tribulation Period which follows the Rapture, that the destruction and death will be so great that, if the days be not shortened, there should be no flesh saved. Logical secular analysis suggests either an historically elusive and seemingly impossible world peace that will result in the destruction of these weapons, or the historically probable global war that will result in their deployment. And it is impossible to imagine that if we don’t achieve one, we are doomed to face the other, as certainly as our 1904 Nebraska farm boy. Except that we live in a world where 19 guys with box cutters can destroy two 110 story buildings and kill 3000 people, all by themselves. Now we return to the central question of the timing of the Rapture. I don’t know the day or the hour, but I know the odds that we will achieve world peace, keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists and avoid total war with the Islamic world in the next twenty years. And, unless we do all that, if the Rapture hasn’t already happened, there will be nobody left to Rapture.... |
How hilarious is that, in a warped sense? There you have it, a "logical" argument to give to your fundagelical neighbor on why not to vote for Bush.
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Bush Family Helps Hitler. Big Deal.
| Published on Saturday, September 25, 2004 by the Guardian/UK How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power Rumors of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president. by Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave laborers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.... |
Guys, guys. This kind of stuff makes Kerry look like he's scraping the bottom of the political smear barrel. We've been rolling for a while now with effective stories about how George H.W. Bush helped with his son's "rise to power" with primo sissy-assignments in the Air National Guard, etc. Why can't we focus on that?
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September 26, 2004
| "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." ---John Adams |
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September 24, 2004
So, what's new?
This is what al Qaeda and bin Laden want.
Why Electronic Ballots Won't Work.
This guy is after another Nobel Peace Prize.
The long, painful demise of AT&T Wireless.
Here Comes Jeanne.
What if Bush Steals the Election (Again)?
Bullies at the Voting Booth.
LiberalOasis gives us Suggested Answers For Tough Questions About John Kerry.
Kevin Drum explains why we need a Plan E.
University of California gives finger to minority students.
2004 Election Summarized in One Cartoon.
Howard Dean opines about a national draft.
Mark Morford explains Kerry's conundrum.
Groperzenegger OKs hybrids using carpool lanes...
20 Questions (play against the computer)
All about the Ottomans
Balance (game)
Faces of Tomorrow
Godfather Horsehead Pillows
How to use PowerPoint to Break Up with Your Lover (note: you do need PowerPoint)
Not enough water to fill your pool? Try SYRUP
Photograpy by Jill Greenberg (click picture to start)
Ping Pong (game)
Slow Motion Video
The Ultimate Citrus Page
Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments
Your Life According to Me (site sometimes down)
Bless the Rich, Screw the Poor
So, what's new?
| The administration and most of the mainstream press are billing the tax package passed by Congress yesterday as a "middle class tax-cut." The reality is that the new law is more of the same: tax cuts that benefit the rich and, in many cases, exclude the neediest families. An analysis from the Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Center shows that the middle 20 percent of earners "will receive an average tax cut of $162 in 2005 from this legislation." The top fifth of earners, however, "will get an average tax cut of $1,317." As a result, the top fifth will receive two-thirds of all benefits. The bill excluded a provision that would have extended the child tax credit to four million low-income families who currently don't qualify. Extending eligibility to these families would have cost $4 billion.6 Meanwhile, conservatives included $12 billion in tax cuts for corporations. |
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Around for Everyone
This is what al Qaeda and bin Laden want.
Why Electronic Ballots Won't Work.
This guy is after another Nobel Peace Prize.
The long, painful demise of AT&T Wireless.
Here Comes Jeanne.
What if Bush Steals the Election (Again)?
Bullies at the Voting Booth.
LiberalOasis gives us Suggested Answers For Tough Questions About John Kerry.
Kevin Drum explains why we need a Plan E.
University of California gives finger to minority students.
2004 Election Summarized in One Cartoon.
Howard Dean opines about a national draft.
Mark Morford explains Kerry's conundrum.
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Hybrid Owners In California Can Use Carpool Lanes
Groperzenegger OKs hybrids using carpool lanes...
| Sacramento -- Supporting hybrid drivers and upsetting car collectors, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed bills Thursday allowing some hybrid vehicles carrying one person to use freeway carpool lanes and requiring older autos to pass smog checks. ....Hybrids that will qualify must get 45 mpg, which currently is only the Prius or Honda Civic hybrid. Pavley said she set the standard high to encourage automakers like Ford, which is about to release a hybrid sport utility vehicle that gets well under 45 mpg, to increase their vehicles' efficiency. Pavley's bill has some caveats. Hybrid drivers will have to buy a decal to use carpool lanes, and they won't be able to use some lanes that are classified as already congested by the state Department of Transportation.... |
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FRIDAY FUN
20 Questions (play against the computer)
All about the Ottomans
Balance (game)
Faces of Tomorrow
Godfather Horsehead Pillows
How to use PowerPoint to Break Up with Your Lover (note: you do need PowerPoint)
Not enough water to fill your pool? Try SYRUP
Photograpy by Jill Greenberg (click picture to start)
Ping Pong (game)
Slow Motion Video
The Ultimate Citrus Page
Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments
Your Life According to Me (site sometimes down)
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September 23, 2004
Did you know that....
CBS aired the wrong story?
Michael J. Miller (of PC Magazine) compares Kerry's and Bush's Technology agendas. Not much to compare (you'll see why). Great read. Intro:
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The Technology Debate
Michael J. Miller (of PC Magazine) compares Kerry's and Bush's Technology agendas. Not much to compare (you'll see why). Great read. Intro:
| While technology policy isn't the most central issue of the current presidential campaign, government policy, rules, and regulations have had significant effects on the development and spread of many of the technologies we use. So I recently posed a series of technology questions to both major presidential candidates. The Kerry campaign responded directly, while the Bush campaign said it was unable to respond and directed me to the campaign Web site. Below are the answers from John Kerry and the responses I could find from the Georgewbush.com Web site.... |
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Holy Flint, Michigan!
Moore on Fire!
Atrios cooks it just right:
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New Math: War = Peace
Atrios cooks it just right:
| Voting for the War Let's consider Bush's recent rhetoric. His latest ad says "Kerry voted for the Iraq war." When he asked Congress for the resolution, when Andy Card rolled it out after Labor Day, Bush claimed it was a vote for peace: you want to keep the peace, you've got to have the authorization to use force. But it's -- this will be -- this is a chance for Congress to indicate support. It's a chance for Congress to say, we support the administration's ability to keep the peace." At the time he signed the resolution, he claimed it was a vote for peace. "Our goal is not merely to limit Iraq's violations of Security Council resolutions, or to slow down its weapons program. Our goal is to fully and finally remove a real threat to world peace and to America. Hopefully this can be done peacefully." And, even today, as the ad is running he says: "Of course, I was hoping it could be done diplomatically. But diplomacy failed. And so the last resort of a president is to use force. And we did." He claimed then it was a vote for peace. He told Congress it was a vote for peace. He then says that the vote for peace that he asked John Kerry to make was actually a vote for war. The previous March he'd said, "F*ck Saddam, we're taking him out." So, he told people it was a vote for peace even though he'd decided it was a vote for war. Maybe war is peace. Who the hell knows anymore. Sure, we all knew in October what this vote was really for, and Kerry should have too. But, it wasn't what Bush said. |
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What If....
If America were Iraq, What would it be Like? Juan Cole asks those questions we've been thinking.
A great, new journal debuted online today, The Economists' Voice. As the press release says:
Check it out. There's even an article in it by Brad DeLong!
So Hurricane Jeanne is headed toward Florida (I swear, that state is a storm magnet!) and Son-of-Ivan is headed toward Texas, two states that have given U.S. democracy a black eye these past 4 years. Maybe there IS a god.
From National Priorities Project
Bush Administration should do something about this...
We keep hearing warnings similar to this, year after year it seems. Should we take this one any more seriously?
From Fred Langa:
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New Journal Debuts
A great, new journal debuted online today, The Economists' Voice. As the press release says:
| The first issue of "The Economists' Voice," a new journal featuring analysis and opinion by leading economists about key national and international policy issues, is being launched today (Wednesday, Sept. 22) by two University of California, Berkeley, economists and Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate from Columbia University.In its premiere edition, the journal tackles such topics as the fair use of intellectual property, political party flip-flops on federal deficits, the mysteries of international capital flow, and evaluation of former U.S. President Clinton's claim that he put police on the streets and took guns off while President Bush has done the opposite. The full story is online at: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/09/22_16698.shtml |
Check it out. There's even an article in it by Brad DeLong!
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Karmic Justice?
So Hurricane Jeanne is headed toward Florida (I swear, that state is a storm magnet!) and Son-of-Ivan is headed toward Texas, two states that have given U.S. democracy a black eye these past 4 years. Maybe there IS a god.
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Here's What The Iraq War Has Cost California
From National Priorities Project
| The costs of war in California: 120 soldiers killed 752 soldiers wounded $19.5 billion for what Congress has allocated so far Another $6.4 billion more for each year the U.S. remains beyond 2004 7,453 Reservists and National Guard troops on active duty |
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Flying Flu, Meet Walking Flu
Bush Administration should do something about this...
| Warning on flu pandemic Ian Sample, science correspondent Thursday September 23, 2004 The Guardian A new superstrain of the flu virus capable of triggering a global pandemic could emerge from east Asia, health officials have warned. Scientists working for the World Health Organisation fear that the arrival of the flu season in Asian countries could see the human flu virus merge with a lethal strain of bird flu that is already in circulation, producing a more deadly flu virus that could rapidly infect humans, leading to a global outbreak. Recent cases of flu in Thailand have been reported in areas already struggling to control the spread of bird flu, a virus that mostly affects poultry, but has claimed the lives of at least four people in recent months. Health officials warn that people living in regions where the viruses are circulating could catch both at once, raising the prospect of a new and highly virulent form of human flu emerging. "The reality is that if these two viruses meet, they will exchange genetic information and a new virus could emerge that's as pathogenic as the bird flu virus, but as infectious as human flu. It's a real scenario for the emergence of a pandemic," Klaus Stöhr, head of the WHO's influenza programme, told the Guardian.... |
We keep hearing warnings similar to this, year after year it seems. Should we take this one any more seriously?
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From Fred Langa:
| 30 Things Hurricanes Teach Us 1. An oak tree on the ground looks four times bigger than it did standing up. 2. Even after all these years it is still nice to spend time with Col. Mustard in the ballroom with the lead pipe. 3. When house hunting look for closets with lots of leg room. 4. Water from the shower is much colder than water from the kitchen sink--and tastes just as bad. 5. AA, C and D are the only alphabet we need ( batteries ). 6. The four-way stop is still an ingenious reflection of civility. 7. Radio can be the best way to watch television. 8. Chain-saw wielding men are nothing to be afraid of. 9. SUV's are the best makeshift tents on the market. 10. You can use your washing machine as a cooler. 11. It's your God given right to sit on your back porch and eat Chinese takeout by candlelight in your underwear. 12. We shouldn't complain about "useless" tools in the garage-- we actually DO need a generator. 13. You can' t spell "priceless" without I-C-E. 14. Downed power lines make excellent security systems. 15. Lakes can generate waves. 16. Gasoline is a value at any price. 17. Cell phones: Breaking up isn't hard to do. 18. The life blood of any disaster recovery is COFFEE. 19. The need for your dog to go out and take care of business is inversely proportional to the severity of the storm. 20. Candlelight is better than Botox--- it takes years off your appearance. 21. Air Conditioning: BEST. INVENTION. EVER. 22. Water is a comfort food. But 3-day-old Cheetos are too. 23. Shadow animals on the wall---still fun. 24. No matter how hard the wind blows, roadside campaign signs will survive. 25. You should never admit to having power at your house in the presence of co-workers or neighbors who do not. 26. There's a plus to having NOTHING in the refrigerator. 27. Getting through the day should be an Olympic event. 28. The movie theater can be a most pleasant place, even if the feature is Alien vs. Predator. 29. Somebody's got it worse. 30. Somebody's got it better. Obviously, they're getting preferential treatment. |
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September 22, 2004
This is great (found on Rubber Hose, originally from Flickr):
Lines are hurricanes' paths, Red counties voted for Bush in 2000, blue for Gore.
This is great (found on Rubber Hose, originally from Flickr):
Lines are hurricanes' paths, Red counties voted for Bush in 2000, blue for Gore.
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One Year Ago, Today
------Richard Perle, Top Bush Adviser - September 22, 2003 |
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September 21, 2004
Finally!
John Kerry's speech yesterday at NYU. This is what we need for the next six weeks!
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The Rapture Racket
This is a GREAT summary of the Rapture/Tribulation/Armageddon craze curently sweeping through America and the Republican Party.
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---- Sir Ivor Roberts, Britain's ambassador to Italy |
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September 20, 2004
The Answer is TEN:
Bush's Failed Policy Allowing Terrorists to Pour into Iraq
How well do you know Bush? (Comedy Central Quiz; I scored a 7... beat that!)
I'll often jump on good-sounding conspiracy theories, but this one sounds over-the-top (snippet):
Then why did Osama B.L. take credit for it? It's one thing to create grade-school quailty accusations, such as the one where Kerry shot himself in the foot in order to get a medal and be sent home from Vietnam. However, claiming Bush & Co. set up and executed 9/11 is a major league accusation that needs more amounts of backup documentation than has ever been accumulated, due to the severity of the charge. All I've seen so far is he-said she-said b.s. Where's the real evidence?
Way to go, Captain Kirk!!!
There ARE WMD in Iraq
Deadlier Planet
How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a lightbulb?
The Answer is TEN:
| 1. one to deny that a lightbulb needs to be changed, 2. one to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the lightbulb needs to be changed, 3. one to blame Clinton for burning out the lightbulb, 4. one to tell the nations of the world that they are either for changing the lightbulb or for darkness, 5. one to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Haliburton for the new lightbulb, 6. one to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner "Lightbulb Change Accomplished", 7. one administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally "in the dark", 8. one to viciously smear #7, 9. one surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along, 10. and finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a lightbulb and screwing the country. |
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Bush's Failed Policy Allowing Terrorists to Pour into Iraq
How well do you know Bush? (Comedy Central Quiz; I scored a 7... beat that!)
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Bush Ordered 9/11??
I'll often jump on good-sounding conspiracy theories, but this one sounds over-the-top (snippet):
| ....Our case is alleging that Bush and his puppets Rice and Cheney and Mueller and Rumsfeld and so forth, Tenet, were all involved not only in aiding and abetting and allowing 9/11 to happen but in actually ordering it to happen. Bush personally ordered it to happen. We have some very incriminating documents as well as eye-witnesses, that Bush personally ordered this event to happen in order to gain political advantage, to pursue a bogus political agenda on behalf of the neocons and their deluded thinking in the Middle East. I also wanted to point out that, just quickly, I went to school with some of these neocons. At the University of Chicago, in the late 60s with Wolfowitz and Feith and several of the others and so I know these people personally. And we used to talk about this stuff all of the time. And I did my senior thesis on this very subject - how to turn the U.S. into a presidential dictatorship by manufacturing a bogus Pearl Harbor event. So, technically this has been in the planning at least 35 years.... |
Then why did Osama B.L. take credit for it? It's one thing to create grade-school quailty accusations, such as the one where Kerry shot himself in the foot in order to get a medal and be sent home from Vietnam. However, claiming Bush & Co. set up and executed 9/11 is a major league accusation that needs more amounts of backup documentation than has ever been accumulated, due to the severity of the charge. All I've seen so far is he-said she-said b.s. Where's the real evidence?
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Way to go, Captain Kirk!!!
There ARE WMD in Iraq
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September 17, 2004
Bill Moyers connects the Rapture Index to the November election (snippet):
This isn't the least bit funny. These religious zealots may very well end life as we know it. They have the resources and the blind desire to pull it off. The only people who can stop them are US. No one is going to do it for us. So get off your keister, get Kerry into office and then really start working on this, because it's going to take a whole lot more time and energy to subdue these people, as Dr. Robert Adele points out:
Today's succinctly-worded Talking Points bear repeating:
So many of us were screaming, before March 19th, 2003, that all this would happen if Bush was given the power. Saying "I told you so" is only selfish, arrogant and self-serving. But, jesus christ, I TOLD YOU SO! (That didn't help at all... I feel just as bad.)
Bush Administration has failed to complete more than 70 percent of its own regulatory agenda
Groperzenegger redefines "The Special Interest Governor"
Women: The Heritage Foundation (AKA the Neocon Movement) sez: Wear a Dress to your Job Interview!
Your Marriage is Under Attack! (Apparently.) Save it HERE.
3-Foot Ninja (game)
Alice in Physics (learn physics)
Ants in you Pants (video)
Celebrity Bad-Hair Days
ColorCell (interactive)
Feeling Cramped in Your Hummer?
High School Senior Photos
Keyboard for Pirates (Rrrrrrrr!)
Magic 8-Ball
My next boat and plane
Yeti Pentathlon (game)
It would be bad enough just seeing Bush floating up naked
Bill Moyers connects the Rapture Index to the November election (snippet):
| ....How do we explain the possibility that a close election in November could turn on several million good and decent citizens who believe in the Rapture Index? That’s what I said – the Rapture Index; google it and you will understand why the best-selling books in America today are the twelve volumes of the left-behind series which have earned multi-millions of dollars for their co-authors who earlier this year completed a triumphant tour of the Bible Belt whose buckle holds in place George W. Bush’s armor of the Lord. These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the l9th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative millions of people believe to be literally true. According to this narrative, Jesus will return to earth only when certain conditions are met: when Israel has been established as a state; when Israel then occupies the rest of its “biblical lands;” when the third temple has been rebuilt on the site now occupied by the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosques; and, then, when legions of the Antichrist attack Israel. This will trigger a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon during which all the Jews who have not converted will be burned. Then the Messiah returns to earth. The Rapture occurs once the big battle begins. True believers” will be lifted out of their clothes and transported to heaven where, seated next to the right hand of God, they will watch their political and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts and frogs during the several years of tribulation which follow. I’m not making this up. We’re reported on these people for our weekly broadcast on PBS, following some of them from Texas to the West Bank. They are sincere, serious, and polite as they tell you that they feel called to help bring the Rapture on as fulfillment of biblical prophecy. That’s why they have declared solidarity with Israel and the Jewish settlements and backed up their support with money and volunteers. It’s why they have staged confrontations at the old temple site in Jerusalem. It’s why the invasion of Iraq for them was a warm-up act, predicted in the 9th chapter of the Book of Revelations where four angels “which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released “to slay the third part of men.’ As the British writer George Monbiot has pointed out, for these people the Middle East is not a foreign policy issue, it’s a biblical scenario, a matter of personal belief. A war with Islam in the Middle East is not something to be feared but welcomed; if there’s a conflagration there, they come out winners on the far side of tribulation, inside the pearly gates, in celestial splendor, supping on ambrosia to the accompaniment of harps plucked by angels. One estimate puts these people at about 15% of the electorate. Most are likely to vote Republican; they are part of the core of George W. Bush’s base support. He knows who they are and what they want. When the President asked Ariel Sharon to pull his tanks out of Jenin in 2002, over one hundred thousand angry Christian fundamentalists barraged the White House with emails and Mr. Bush never mentioned the matter again. Not coincidentally, the administration recently put itself solidly behind Ariel Sharon’s expansions of settlements on the West Banks. In George Monbiot’s analysis, the President stands to lose fewer votes by encouraging Israeli expansion into the West Bank than he stands to lose by restraining it. “He would be mad to listen to these people, but he would also be mad not to.” No wonder Karl Rove walks around the West Wing whistling “Onward Christian Soldiers.” He knows how many votes he is likely to get from these pious folk who believe that the Rapture Index now stands at 144 --- just one point below the critical threshold at which point the prophecy is fulfilled, the whole thing blows, the sky is filled with floating naked bodies, and the true believers wind up at the right hand of God. With no regret for those left behind. (See George Monbiot. The Guardian, April 20th, 2004.) I know, I know: You think I am bonkers. You think Ann Coulter is right to aim her bony knee at my groin and that O’Reilly should get a Peabody for barfing all over me for saying there’s more to American politics than meets the Foxy eye. But this is just the point: Journalists who try to tell these stories, connect these dots, and examine these links are demeaned, disparaged, and dismissed. This is the very kind of story that illustrates the challenge journalists face in a world driven by ideologies that are stoutly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. Ideologues – religious, political, or editorial ideologues – embrace a world view that cannot be changed because they admit no evidence to the contrary. And Don Quixote on Rocinante tilting at windmills had an easier time of it than a journalist on a laptop tilting with facts at the world’s fundamentalist belief systems.... |
This isn't the least bit funny. These religious zealots may very well end life as we know it. They have the resources and the blind desire to pull it off. The only people who can stop them are US. No one is going to do it for us. So get off your keister, get Kerry into office and then really start working on this, because it's going to take a whole lot more time and energy to subdue these people, as Dr. Robert Adele points out:
| ....There are many perils to our democracy today, many of them coming from within it: paperless voting machines, invasion of countries without pretext, and single-minded ideologies posing as monolithic truth, with the supporters galvanized around the notion that no truth exists apart from theirs, and who will go to any length to force that putative truth through the political process. Eternal vigilance against their eternal hostility is the responsibility of all who truly respect the democratic process. Such is the case with the "Christian nation" hypothesis: it does not stand against the weight of history or reason, and must be rejected by all who can think critically. |
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Today's succinctly-worded Talking Points bear repeating:
| With the number of casualties and wounded in Iraq rising daily, and entire cities destabilized by insurgent forces, President Bush's chest-thumping message of progress appears increasingly out of touch and counterproductive. Although the president's own intelligence officials have warned him for months that Iraq was dangerously unstable, his administration has sugarcoated the sobering reality and failed to make necessary changes to win the war. The president's own intelligence estimates conclude that Iraq will remain dangerously unstable through 2005. The 50-page National Intelligence Estimate – ignored by President Bush – provides a “dark assessment” and concludes that Iraq is headed toward major political, economic and security difficulties in the coming months, including possible civil war. Efforts to rebuild Iraq's economy and create democratic institutions cannot move forward while insurgents run free. The president claims Iraq is on the path to democracy, but months before scheduled national elections, major portions of the country remain under attack as the nationalist insurgency continues to grow. Reconstruction has failed to move forward and the United Nations remains unable to fully assist in planning for the January elections. President Bush's grandstanding on Iraq does not help the situation. Putting his own reelection needs ahead of the welfare of American troops and the Iraqi people, the president continues to deny that serious problems exist in his strategy and refuses to make necessary changes to win the war and build peace in Iraq. |
So many of us were screaming, before March 19th, 2003, that all this would happen if Bush was given the power. Saying "I told you so" is only selfish, arrogant and self-serving. But, jesus christ, I TOLD YOU SO! (That didn't help at all... I feel just as bad.)
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Bush Administration has failed to complete more than 70 percent of its own regulatory agenda
Groperzenegger redefines "The Special Interest Governor"
Women: The Heritage Foundation (AKA the Neocon Movement) sez: Wear a Dress to your Job Interview!
Your Marriage is Under Attack! (Apparently.) Save it HERE.
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FRIDAY FUN
3-Foot Ninja (game)
Alice in Physics (learn physics)
Ants in you Pants (video)
Celebrity Bad-Hair Days
ColorCell (interactive)
Feeling Cramped in Your Hummer?
High School Senior Photos
Keyboard for Pirates (Rrrrrrrr!)
Magic 8-Ball
My next boat and plane
Yeti Pentathlon (game)
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September 16, 2004
Call me crazy for saying THIS, but then go look at THIS. Are you all going to let this happen again? For shame!
"Suspected" nuclear industrial site in Iran
Call me crazy for saying THIS, but then go look at THIS. Are you all going to let this happen again? For shame!
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Let's Ice the Sport
Frankly, I could care less if the NHL goes on strike and the season is lost. I don't mean to offend ice hockey fans, but throughout my life every time I sat down to watch a game and try to learn it, there would eventually be players hitting and fighting and rough play that had nothing to do with the actual game. Ice hockey is a primitive, uncivilized game, much like boxing, that is attractive only to our basic, violent nature which is genetically inbred in each of us. Violence is no longer acceptable in our culture, thus all the thousands of laws created to repress it. Why on earth it is acceptable in an ice rink is beyond me.
Football is rapidly becoming excessively violent in my lifetime and I no longer enjoy watching it (like I once did) because of that; however at its current point of evolution I don't think it's time yet to outlaw the sport. Baseball is great for insomniacs, so go yankees! About the only sport I now enjoy watching for the competition and excitement is basketball. There's less violence in an NBA game than during recess on the school playground.
Moderate Republican Senators Getting Antsy With Bush's Iraq Policies
Kerry falling further behind in electoral college projections
Assault weapons: The arguments
It's Official: Iraq Invasion is Illegal (video)
Bush administration trying to block report on impact of global warming on the people of the Arctic
And the 2004 Voter Disenfranchisement Games Begin
Cheney's illegal business with terrorist nations
Your elected government, hard at work for you and your family:
Here in America we have a government that is elected by the people who hope that their elected officials will actually represent their needs and interests. Oops!
Football is rapidly becoming excessively violent in my lifetime and I no longer enjoy watching it (like I once did) because of that; however at its current point of evolution I don't think it's time yet to outlaw the sport. Baseball is great for insomniacs, so go yankees! About the only sport I now enjoy watching for the competition and excitement is basketball. There's less violence in an NBA game than during recess on the school playground.
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A quote for today
| "...this court has never, in its 24 years, reviewed a record of agency action that contained such a compelling portrait of political meddling." ---San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson, who last month overturned an earlier Commerce Department finding that dolphins were not harmed by Mexican tuna boats |
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Moderate Republican Senators Getting Antsy With Bush's Iraq Policies
Kerry falling further behind in electoral college projections
Assault weapons: The arguments
It's Official: Iraq Invasion is Illegal (video)
Bush administration trying to block report on impact of global warming on the people of the Arctic
And the 2004 Voter Disenfranchisement Games Begin
Cheney's illegal business with terrorist nations
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Shame!
Your elected government, hard at work for you and your family:
| Democrats Lose Bid for Energy Task Force Info Wed Sep 15, 2004 06:00 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on a House committee squelched a Democratic attempt on Wednesday to seek information on Vice President Cheney's energy task force, in a rowdy session punctuated by cries of "Shame!" from Democrats. On a party line vote of 30-22, the panel voted down the Democratic motion for the committee to ask the White House for the names of members and other information about the 2001 task force that formulated energy policy. Republicans, including chairman Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, noted Democrats had failed to get the information in various court cases, and charged they were now trying to embarrass the Bush administration ahead of elections with a motion they knew had no hope of approval by a Republican-majority committee. "I am not going to allow the Energy and Commerce Committee to become a political circus," Barton declared. But he had some trouble keeping order after he announced he would not allow any debate on the subject. "Shame on you, Mr. Chairman," shouted Rep. Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat. Committee Republicans booed her, and some in the audience applauded, while Barton observed in his Texas drawl: "The lady is entitled to her opinion." Another Democrat, Rep. Henry Waxman of California, walked out of the room in disgust, announcing that lawmakers were acting like teenagers. The unsuccessful "resolution of inquiry" was the latest effort by Democrats to pry loose information about the energy task force Cheney headed three years ago, which endorsed more oil and gas drilling and a revived nuclear energy program. Rep. Ralph Hall of Texas summed up for the Republican majority: "Politics, politics, politics." © Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved. |
Here in America we have a government that is elected by the people who hope that their elected officials will actually represent their needs and interests. Oops!
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September 15, 2004
Bush and Groperzenegger Apparently Not After Teachers' Votes
Infrared Image Loop of Ivan's Approach of Gulf Coast
I heard on the news today that as may as 50,000 New Orleans residents could possibly drown if Hurricane Ivan continues its current course, due to insufficient evacuation procedures. The Cuban government was able to evacuate, in an orderly and safe manner, 1.9 million out of Ivan's path. Normally U.S. National Guard troops are used for domestic emergencies such as that posed by Ivan. Unfortunately most of them are on the other side of the planet, busily slaughtering innocent Iraqi civilians. Get ready for those incessant requests for your money from the Louisiana chapter of the Red Cross, because all our government's spare change is over in Iraq lining the pockets of Halliburton et al.
Is this a great country or what?!
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Bush and Groperzenegger Apparently Not After Teachers' Votes
Infrared Image Loop of Ivan's Approach of Gulf Coast
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America the Great
I heard on the news today that as may as 50,000 New Orleans residents could possibly drown if Hurricane Ivan continues its current course, due to insufficient evacuation procedures. The Cuban government was able to evacuate, in an orderly and safe manner, 1.9 million out of Ivan's path. Normally U.S. National Guard troops are used for domestic emergencies such as that posed by Ivan. Unfortunately most of them are on the other side of the planet, busily slaughtering innocent Iraqi civilians. Get ready for those incessant requests for your money from the Louisiana chapter of the Red Cross, because all our government's spare change is over in Iraq lining the pockets of Halliburton et al.
Is this a great country or what?!
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The Left Coaster summarizes Bush's failings in Iraq:
Bush in Early Stages of Alzheimer's Disease?
Kerry Campaign Hires Person Fired for Sporting Kerry Bumper Sticker
Mark Morford Says We Need Four More Years of Bush
Iraqi Invasion/Occupation Driving U.S. Soldiers Crazy - Literally
Bush Leaps Ahead of Kerry in Electoral Vote Projections
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Bush in Early Stages of Alzheimer's Disease?
Kerry Campaign Hires Person Fired for Sporting Kerry Bumper Sticker
Mark Morford Says We Need Four More Years of Bush
Iraqi Invasion/Occupation Driving U.S. Soldiers Crazy - Literally
Bush Leaps Ahead of Kerry in Electoral Vote Projections
Live near a high power line? Move!
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I think that at this point most Democrats don't even care what Kerry says. All they want him to do is act like Dean by raising his voice a few decibles and sound and look like he cares about what he's saying. Is he waiting for us to beg him? Fine. Senator Kerry, PLEASE, PLEASE START YELLING LIKE THE REST OF US!
As Kos sums up:
Even worse are the 100+ Iraqi civilians getting slaughtered each day. This is madness instigated by an American government led by Christian fundamental extremists who place no value on human life other than their own or those who give them money. How on earth can any voter even consider placing a mark next to any of their names on the ballot in November? What kind of warped perception of the world has much of America formed during the past 4 years? If your child blatantly lies to you about the need to do something, then does something terrible and then lies about the reason he/she did it, do you say to that child: "It's okay, I understand; and if you lie to me again, I'll understand and I'll support whatever you think you need to do in the future"? Apparently 47% of all parents do. We are all responsible for what's happening. We are all at fault, because of our laziness and pathetic humanitarianism, for allowing so many of us to gain such a warped perception. You are, I am, and every other reader is responsible for each and every civilian death in Iraq today and we must stop it now, because thoseunelected White House residents are not going to lift a finger. Get off your ass, let people know what's wrong, join your local Democratic club, write e-mails to your congressperson, write to your paper's op-ed, send money to Move-On and Kerry, put a friggin Kerry/Edwards sticker in your car window, listen to Democracy Now! and then ask others if they listened... If doing any of that means you no longer have time to visit Left is Right, then FINE! Just do something, you lazy-ass Democrat!
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It's time to pack our bags and leave.
As Kos sums up:
| Body armor is the only thing keeping Iraq from producing Vietnam-type KIA figures. As Newsweek noted, this is Phase II of the insurgency. Phase I, recruitment, is finished. Now the insurgents are out for blood (to the tune of over 70 attacks every day). We've lost this war. We've literally lost entire swaths of Iraqi territory to the insurgents. We've empowered Al Qaida and Islamist militants with new recruits and pictures of prison torture and rape to fuel their cause. We''ve stretched our military thin, hurt recruitment, made it impossible to respond to actual threats. In short, this is the biggest political and military blunder this country has faced since -- I'll let the historians decide when. But as things are going, this is going to have worse repercussions for our nation than Vietnam ever did. |
Even worse are the 100+ Iraqi civilians getting slaughtered each day. This is madness instigated by an American government led by Christian fundamental extremists who place no value on human life other than their own or those who give them money. How on earth can any voter even consider placing a mark next to any of their names on the ballot in November? What kind of warped perception of the world has much of America formed during the past 4 years? If your child blatantly lies to you about the need to do something, then does something terrible and then lies about the reason he/she did it, do you say to that child: "It's okay, I understand; and if you lie to me again, I'll understand and I'll support whatever you think you need to do in the future"? Apparently 47% of all parents do. We are all responsible for what's happening. We are all at fault, because of our laziness and pathetic humanitarianism, for allowing so many of us to gain such a warped perception. You are, I am, and every other reader is responsible for each and every civilian death in Iraq today and we must stop it now, because those
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September 14, 2004
FactCheck.org does a piece on Kerry's criticism of Bush for "letting the assault weapons ban expire":
Technically, FactCheck is completely correct. The Move-On ad is misleading and Bush didn't actively cause the ban to expire. You can't argue with FactCheck.
However Bush did inactively allow the ban to expire, in the best interests of the NRA, not in the best interests of the people for whom he works (American citizens). Bush swore in 2001 to protect the citizens of the United States. The Presidency is an active job, not a job where one sits around letting things happen. In this case Bush let things happen. A role of goverment is to protect those who cannot protect themselves, and Bush totally failed the test on this issue. He should be raked over the coals for allowing the expiration of a ban that had saved hundreds if not thousands of lives during the ten years it was in effect. Bush once again proves that he has no respect for any of our lives, unless of course our living involves sending money to the GOP. Since the day Bush took office I have yet to see him do one humane thing, one that did not involve a photo-op. Bush has become the most dispassionate President in the history of the United States and will no doubt be remembered throughout eternity for his blatant and extremely consequential prevarication and hypocracy.
California Due to Heat Up
Iraq Gets To Play With 3,500 Tons of Depleted Uranium For Next 4.5 Billion Years
Lead Poisoning: a Much Greater Danger to Children's Health than Previously Realised
Bush blog vs. Kerry blog
I received this note from the AFA and took the liberty of doing a small amount of, ahem, [editing] to "correct" its errors:
Okay, first and most important, Mr. Wildmon needs to improve his grammar: "...has publicly thrown their support..."? I mean, the local elemantary school's Spec. Ed. class can do better than that, NCLB and all. Seriously, notice how AFA spins P&G's stated support of not tolerating "discrimination in any form, against anyone, for any reason" into support of homosexual marriage; that's soooo Republican. Anyway, please do notify Chairman Lafley and praise him for his maverick stand. HE is a real patriot.
FactCheck.org does a piece on Kerry's criticism of Bush for "letting the assault weapons ban expire":
| A new Moveon PAC ad implies machine-guns are becoming legal, which isn't true. And it blames Bush, even though Bush said he would have extended the ban on assault weapons. September 14, 2004 Modified: September 14, 2004 Summary This latest ad from Moveon PAC is about as misleading as it can be. Through words, graphics and sound effects, it invites viewers to think that the expiration of the ban on 19 semiautomatic assault weapons will allow people legally to buy fully automatic machine guns that can fire "up to 300 rounds per minute." That's false. It has been illegal to buy a machine gun without federal clearance since 1934, and remains so. The ad also claims that Bush "will let the assault weapon ban expire," which is misleading. In fact, Bush spoke in support of the ban during his campaign four years ago and his spokesman said as recently as May of last year that he still supported it. It was Congress that failed to consider extending the ban and didn't present Bush with a bill to sign. |
Technically, FactCheck is completely correct. The Move-On ad is misleading and Bush didn't actively cause the ban to expire. You can't argue with FactCheck.
However Bush did inactively allow the ban to expire, in the best interests of the NRA, not in the best interests of the people for whom he works (American citizens). Bush swore in 2001 to protect the citizens of the United States. The Presidency is an active job, not a job where one sits around letting things happen. In this case Bush let things happen. A role of goverment is to protect those who cannot protect themselves, and Bush totally failed the test on this issue. He should be raked over the coals for allowing the expiration of a ban that had saved hundreds if not thousands of lives during the ten years it was in effect. Bush once again proves that he has no respect for any of our lives, unless of course our living involves sending money to the GOP. Since the day Bush took office I have yet to see him do one humane thing, one that did not involve a photo-op. Bush has become the most dispassionate President in the history of the United States and will no doubt be remembered throughout eternity for his blatant and extremely consequential prevarication and hypocracy.
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California Due to Heat Up
Iraq Gets To Play With 3,500 Tons of Depleted Uranium For Next 4.5 Billion Years
Lead Poisoning: a Much Greater Danger to Children's Health than Previously Realised
Bush blog vs. Kerry blog
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Fixing AFA's agenda
I received this note from the AFA and took the liberty of doing a small amount of, ahem, [editing] to "correct" its errors:
| CREST, TIDE MAKER GIVES MONEY, CLOUT TO REPEAL LAW FORBIDDING SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR HOMOSEXUALS P&G policy leads to support for homosexual marriage Dear Mike, Procter & Gamble, makers of Crest toothpaste and Tide detergent, has publicly thrown their support and money behind the homosexual political agenda. P&G recently wrote to their Cincinnati employees urging them to support the repeal of a city law that forbids giving special rights to homosexuals. In 1993, the citizens in Cincinnati adopted the law by a vote of 62% to 38%. P&G is now working to get that law repealed and has given $10,000 toward that goal. To our knowledge, Procter & Gamble is the first company to support the political agenda of the homosexual movement. While not explicitly saying so in their public announcement supporting the repeal, P&G clearly showed their support for homosexual marriage. P&G said they "will not tolerate discrimination [against homosexuals] in any form, against anyone, for any reason." To keep homosexuals from being legally married is discrimination, which P&G says they will not tolerate. Taking them at their word, P&G supports homosexual marriage. Take Action [snip] Call Chrm. A.G. Lafley at 513-983-1100 and politely let him know that you are [appreciative of his political stand] and will ask others to do the same. [snip] Please forward this email to your friends and family. Sincerely, Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman, American Family Association |
Okay, first and most important, Mr. Wildmon needs to improve his grammar: "...has publicly thrown their support..."? I mean, the local elemantary school's Spec. Ed. class can do better than that, NCLB and all. Seriously, notice how AFA spins P&G's stated support of not tolerating "discrimination in any form, against anyone, for any reason" into support of homosexual marriage; that's soooo Republican. Anyway, please do notify Chairman Lafley and praise him for his maverick stand. HE is a real patriot.
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September 13, 2004
Afghanistan, check. Iraq, check. Iran:
Sound familiar? Mark my words, this is the start of another gear-up by Bush for invasion. The Neocons will stop at nothing in their attempts to further destabilize the Middle East in order to fulfill the prophesies of the Rapture. If you still have not figured out that the primary (or rather, only) driving force behind the Neocons and the religious ultra-right agenda is personal salvation at any cost, then you are truly not in touch with reality. Corporate America is tagging along only for the financial ride. We all have known for decades now that the Iran-Saudi Arabia-Israel region is the focal point of destabilization in the world. Hell, we learned that in high school.
The Neocons purposely bungled Iraq in order to start the process. Actually, I would say it started in Afghanistan, where the U.S. forces had Osama & Co. cornered and then "mysteriously" let them get away, fueling a rapid rise in their power and influence. Since then Bush has done everything he can to appear concerned about our heroin source's situation, while simultaneously diverting to Iraq the products necessary to finish off Osama's organization. How clever. Elections in Afghanistan? How stupid are we Americans, believing our current White House squatters when they tell us that democracy will take hold in such a religiously extremist nation, when we can't even hold fair elections here, after nearly 230 years of practice?
Bush purposely invaded and occupied Iraq with no (serious) post-combat plan in order to not only destabilize that nation but encourage terrorist-inspired unrest to bleed into Saudi Arabia and Iran. Before 3/20/03 Iran was steadily on course to a stable and increasingly progressive society. Following the Iraq invasion Iran has been slipping back into the control of the extremist and militant religious clerics, perfect fodder for Neocon "rage". Saudi Arabia? About two steps away from civil war.
The Neocons need the political and financial support of coprporate America in order to fulfill their agenda. As long as the White House continues to give tax breaks to the wealthy, relaxes environmental regulations on big business and stomps on American workers (increased tax burden, decreased real wages, regressive health care, deteriorating education), they will receive all the reciprocal support they could possibly need.
Global warming? Who gives a damn! We'll all be in heaven (fundagelicals) or hell (the rest of us) before it really matters. The rapture is scheduled to start in roughly 6-8 years. Bush's timeline is perfect so far. We've got one crazy, alcoholic, completely-out-of-touch-with-reality religious fanatic with more power over our destiny than any other individual at any time in our planet's history.
So I say keep one if not both eyes on Iran over the next several months and see how the current Neocon demand for cessation of Iran's nuclear weapons programs evolves into a military intervention almost guaranteed to bring an end to the current world order. And go ahead and take that once-in-a-lifetime vacation of which you've been dreaming for years. It's probably your last chance.
ddjangoWIrE has a poll (right sidebar) about the chances of an invasion of Iran. Check it out.
Kerry, speaking to Time Magazine:
"...not as safe as we ought to be..." "...standard of living...has gone down..." "...the largest it's been in the history of this country" "That's what bothers me." These are not fighting words. I don't feel the slightest bit of urgency in his message. Everyone is losing everything in Iraq, starvation and genocide run rampant on the African continent, the earth's atmosphere and oceans are heating up, Bush is ramping up an invasion of Iran as we speak, and this country's economy is slowly but surely sliding into a 1930's redux. Will someone please light a fire under the junior senator's pants?!
Did the RNC lease Pier 57 to the NYPD? (holy m.o.g. if they did!)
Malise Ruthven warns that George Bush’s undiscriminating war on terror only serves to win new recruits for osama bin laden
Explaining Bush's post-9/11 swagger
From that wacky yet lovable Jack Kinsella:
I'd love to be able to write colorful and entertaining crap like that. Unfortunately, I have a conscience.
UPDATE: You know, when you think about it, the part about "The instantaneous disappearance of millions of Americans, together with most of the Bush Cabinet, the military leadership and at least part of the House and Senate...", folks, I think we just solved our problem! Those who will instantly disappear are exactly those we wish WOULD disappear! Therefore, I say: THE RAPTURE? BRING IT ON!!!
If U.S. policy persists, so will the danger (excerpt):
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Rapture-Ready? Almost...
Afghanistan, check. Iraq, check. Iran:
| Iran rejects EU call to abandon uranium project Ian Traynor - Monday September 13, 2004 - The Guardian Iran yesterday flatly rejected demands to abandon its uranium enrichment programme, as a leading hawk in the Bush administration warned that America would act to prevent Tehran obtaining nuclear weapons. The escalation came as France, Germany and Britain joined forces with Washington for the first time to demand a halt to Iran's fuel enrichment work, signalling possible sanctions unless the Islamic republic pledges to abandon the activity by November. On the eve of an important board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, starting in Vienna today, Britain, France, and Germany have drafted a board resolution on Iran demanding concrete action and answers by November. The draft resolution also asks the IAEA to deliver a final verdict on Iran's nuclear programme. The draft threatens "probable further steps", which means referring the country to the UN security council for reprimand and penalties if Tehran fails to persuade the IAEA that it is not working on a covert nuclear weapons programme. Iran responded by rejecting the key demand contained in the European draft - that its ambitious uranium enrichment programme be ditched. The Washington hawk dealing with the Iranian nuclear issue, meanwhile, said the US would act, if need be, to stop Tehran obtaining nuclear weapons. John Bolton, the Republican "neo-con" who is in charge of nuclear counter-proliferation at the US state department, told journalists in Jerusalem: "We are determined that they [Iran] are not going to achieve a nuclear weapons capability". Last Friday in Geneva, Mr Bolton helped to draft the EU troika's resolution, which sees a narrowing of transatlantic differences over how to deal with Iran... |
Sound familiar? Mark my words, this is the start of another gear-up by Bush for invasion. The Neocons will stop at nothing in their attempts to further destabilize the Middle East in order to fulfill the prophesies of the Rapture. If you still have not figured out that the primary (or rather, only) driving force behind the Neocons and the religious ultra-right agenda is personal salvation at any cost, then you are truly not in touch with reality. Corporate America is tagging along only for the financial ride. We all have known for decades now that the Iran-Saudi Arabia-Israel region is the focal point of destabilization in the world. Hell, we learned that in high school.
The Neocons purposely bungled Iraq in order to start the process. Actually, I would say it started in Afghanistan, where the U.S. forces had Osama & Co. cornered and then "mysteriously" let them get away, fueling a rapid rise in their power and influence. Since then Bush has done everything he can to appear concerned about our heroin source's situation, while simultaneously diverting to Iraq the products necessary to finish off Osama's organization. How clever. Elections in Afghanistan? How stupid are we Americans, believing our current White House squatters when they tell us that democracy will take hold in such a religiously extremist nation, when we can't even hold fair elections here, after nearly 230 years of practice?
Bush purposely invaded and occupied Iraq with no (serious) post-combat plan in order to not only destabilize that nation but encourage terrorist-inspired unrest to bleed into Saudi Arabia and Iran. Before 3/20/03 Iran was steadily on course to a stable and increasingly progressive society. Following the Iraq invasion Iran has been slipping back into the control of the extremist and militant religious clerics, perfect fodder for Neocon "rage". Saudi Arabia? About two steps away from civil war.
The Neocons need the political and financial support of coprporate America in order to fulfill their agenda. As long as the White House continues to give tax breaks to the wealthy, relaxes environmental regulations on big business and stomps on American workers (increased tax burden, decreased real wages, regressive health care, deteriorating education), they will receive all the reciprocal support they could possibly need.
Global warming? Who gives a damn! We'll all be in heaven (fundagelicals) or hell (the rest of us) before it really matters. The rapture is scheduled to start in roughly 6-8 years. Bush's timeline is perfect so far. We've got one crazy, alcoholic, completely-out-of-touch-with-reality religious fanatic with more power over our destiny than any other individual at any time in our planet's history.
So I say keep one if not both eyes on Iran over the next several months and see how the current Neocon demand for cessation of Iran's nuclear weapons programs evolves into a military intervention almost guaranteed to bring an end to the current world order. And go ahead and take that once-in-a-lifetime vacation of which you've been dreaming for years. It's probably your last chance.
ddjangoWIrE has a poll (right sidebar) about the chances of an invasion of Iran. Check it out.
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Kerry, speaking to Time Magazine:
| "America is not as safe as we ought to be after 9/11. We can do a better job at homeland security. I can fight a more effective war on terror. The standard of living for the average American has gone down. People's incomes have dropped. Five million Americans have lost their health insurance. The deficit is the largest it's been in the history of this country. They're taking money from Social Security and transferring it to the wealthiest people in America to drive us into debt. They're shredding alliances around the world with people we have traditionally been able to rely on. That's what bothers me." |
"...not as safe as we ought to be..." "...standard of living...has gone down..." "...the largest it's been in the history of this country" "That's what bothers me." These are not fighting words. I don't feel the slightest bit of urgency in his message. Everyone is losing everything in Iraq, starvation and genocide run rampant on the African continent, the earth's atmosphere and oceans are heating up, Bush is ramping up an invasion of Iran as we speak, and this country's economy is slowly but surely sliding into a 1930's redux. Will someone please light a fire under the junior senator's pants?!
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Did the RNC lease Pier 57 to the NYPD? (holy m.o.g. if they did!)
Malise Ruthven warns that George Bush’s undiscriminating war on terror only serves to win new recruits for osama bin laden
Explaining Bush's post-9/11 swagger
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And Now... A View From the Right
From that wacky yet lovable Jack Kinsella:
| ...When a Syrian student reads in the New York Times that the White House invaded Iraq to steal its oil, why should that student believe America's REAL objective is to bring democracy and freedom? To someone raised in a totalitarian society, invading to steal makes perfect sense. Invading in order to help does not. What's in it for America? So, having read in the New York Times that America is stealing Arab oil, why would he believe America when it denies it? By definition, a thief is also a liar. Especially since the New York Times came right out and told him the President was a liar who concocted an excuse to invade Iraq to steal oil in the first place! In the Bible's Big Picture scenario for the last days, there are four spheres of world power; Gog-Magog, the Kings of the East, the Kings of the South and the antichrist's revived Roman Empire. But there is no mention of a fifth, overarching superpower resembling the United States of America. Nobody can dogmatically say what happened to remove the US from the Big Picture -- it simply isn't there. One possible reason might be the Rapture of the Church. In this view, the Lord returns for His Church. The instantaneous disappearance of millions of Americans, together with most of the Bush Cabinet, the military leadership and at least part of the House and Senate would cripple America beyond recognition. Therefore, America is absent from Scripture because the Rapture made her inconsequential. Personally, this is my favorite explanation, but only because I prefer it, not because I have any Scriptural reason to believe it. Quoting once more from Senator Miller's speech: "Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat's manic obsession to bring down our Commander in Chief." It is just as possible that America hands its future over to the liberals who bear the responsibility for its international reputation as a dishonest, thieving, immoral paper tiger that so much of world now believes deserves to be destroyed. |
I'd love to be able to write colorful and entertaining crap like that. Unfortunately, I have a conscience.
UPDATE: You know, when you think about it, the part about "The instantaneous disappearance of millions of Americans, together with most of the Bush Cabinet, the military leadership and at least part of the House and Senate...", folks, I think we just solved our problem! Those who will instantly disappear are exactly those we wish WOULD disappear! Therefore, I say: THE RAPTURE? BRING IT ON!!!
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Tom Maertens: Are we safer now?
If U.S. policy persists, so will the danger (excerpt):
| ...The current administration has exacerbated Arab hostility. It has abandoned our traditional evenhanded role as the honest broker in the Middle East peace process and -- for the first time in U.S. history -- endorsed Jewish settlements on the West Bank. Previous administrations, including George H.W. Bush's, called the settlements "an obstacle to peace" and even deducted Israel's expenditures on West Bank settlements from the U.S. yearly aid payments. Why would George W. Bush change our policy? The Guardian of London reports that almost one-third of Bush's electoral base favors war in the Middle East. This group of apocalyptic Christians reportedly believes that Israel must occupy all its "historic Biblical lands" as a precondition for the final struggle against the legions of the Antichrist in Armageddon. This in turn will bring on the end of days and the "rapture." Although this concept doesn't exist in the Bible, Attorney General John Ashcroft and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay are said to be among the believers. To Arabs, the invasion of Iraq is another example of the United States defending Israel's interests. They know that the so-called neoconservatives had long advocated overthrowing Saddam Hussein in order to establish U.S. military bases in Iraq, ensure access to oil and improve Israel's strategic position. The same neocons devised the theory of preemptive war, giving us a permanent rationale to invade any country we choose.... |
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September 12, 2004
Is this year's devastating hurricane season linked to global warming?
El Niño is back
Bush Administration's cover-up of 9/11 toxic pollution will kill more than actual attack.
China's countryside peasants victims of deadly pollution from expanding industrial base. (1-time reg. required)
Who Profits? (video) and Down the Drain
John Chuckman doesn't think John Kerry is the answer (snippet):
Yeah, well, Chuckie, it's a bit late to start looking for someone else, plus you don't really say why Kerry has no chance. But I like your Bush descriptions...
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Is this year's devastating hurricane season linked to global warming?
El Niño is back
Bush Administration's cover-up of 9/11 toxic pollution will kill more than actual attack.
China's countryside peasants victims of deadly pollution from expanding industrial base. (1-time reg. required)
Who Profits? (video) and Down the Drain
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John on John and George
John Chuckman doesn't think John Kerry is the answer (snippet):
| ....It is beyond rational explanation why the Democrats have wasted tens of millions running dobbin against an opponent whose sole merit was his determination to finish a story about goats after planes struck the World Trade Center. Except for that single shining moment of holding a steady course, Bush is an opponent who possesses every shortcoming and vulnerability it is possible to imagine - an inarticulate dope who has spent four years running the United States into the ground and reviving anti-Americanism throughout the world. Can anyone now have the slightest doubt about the overwhelming prevalence of insanity in the country? There is really only one way I can see of injecting some excitement and interest, not to mention purpose, into the election, short of Bush's miraculously, peacefully passing to his reward, succumbing finally to the cumulative effects of all those years abusing drugs and every human being who crossed his path with less family money than he had. My proposal is for Kerry to step down as the Democrats' candidate. Here is a chance for Kerry to display some genuine heroism. It would be a desperate step, but considering the fact that Kerry has no chance of being elected, it would at least provide a statement of principle, something Kerry, to date, has not managed to utter. The Democrats would be left in the lurch, but maybe, just maybe, they could quickly name someone with some purpose and principles to carry on, although it is easy to forget there seem to be remarkably few of those left in America. The worst that could happen is what is now virtually set to happen, Bush, the boy psychopath who relished watching frogs being ripped apart, being returned to office for four more years of watching people being ripped apart. |
Yeah, well, Chuckie, it's a bit late to start looking for someone else, plus you don't really say why Kerry has no chance. But I like your Bush descriptions...
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September 10, 2004
Regarding Cheney's recent campaign remark:
“It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.”
In actuality, Cheney could be right. He does not refer specifically to Kerry. In fact, if Bush isreelected, this could very well happen. Thus one could correctly interpret this remark to mean that voting for Bush, such that he wins the election, could result in a terrortist attack.
“It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.”
In actuality, Cheney could be right. He does not refer specifically to Kerry. In fact, if Bush is