Bush Guilty
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/iraqrept2/webfullreport.htm
posted by Gary at 10:24 PM
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Friday, November 05, 2004
US Military Actions Since 1945
WHY AMERICA IS HATED
US Military Actions since 1945:
1953 – US Over throws Massadeq of Iran.
1954 – Overthrow democratically elected President of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed.
1963 – US backs the assassination of S. Vietnamese President Diem.
1963-1975 – Vietnam war. US military kills 4 million people in SE Asia.
Sept 11. 1973 – US Stages coup in Chile. Democratically elected president Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 civilians murdered.
1977 – US Backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and 4 American nuns killed.
1980s - US trains Osama Bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives then $3 billion in “aid”.
1981 – Reagan administration trans and funds “contras”. 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
1982 – US provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.
1983 – White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
1989 – CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as president of Panama ) disobeys orders from Washington. US invades Panama and removes Noriega….3,000 Panamanian casualties.
1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from the US.
1991 – US enters Iraq. Bush reinstates the dictator of Kuwait.
1998 – Clinton bombs “weapons” factory in Sudan. Turns out that the factory made aspirin.
1991-Present – American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. UN estimates 500,000 Iraqi CHILDREN die from bombing and sanctions.
2000-2001 – US gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in “aid”.
9/11 2001 – Osama Bin Laden uses expert CIA training to kill 3000 people.
2003 - Bush invades Iraq (?!). 100,000 (and still counting) innocent civilians slaughtered.
The rest of the world looks at the US and says “you lost 3000 people?”
SE Asia lost 4 million people.
Guatamala lost 200,000 people.
Chile lost 10,000 people.
Argentina lost 40,000 people.
Iraq lost 100,000+ people.
Maybe the rest of the world isn’t so sympathetic to our loss because we just ignore what’s been done in our name.
Bin laden killed 3000 and 290 million people want he and his followers killed. Bush killed 100,000. How many want him and his followers killed?
US Military Actions since 1945:
1953 – US Over throws Massadeq of Iran.
1954 – Overthrow democratically elected President of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed.
1963 – US backs the assassination of S. Vietnamese President Diem.
1963-1975 – Vietnam war. US military kills 4 million people in SE Asia.
Sept 11. 1973 – US Stages coup in Chile. Democratically elected president Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 civilians murdered.
1977 – US Backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and 4 American nuns killed.
1980s - US trains Osama Bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives then $3 billion in “aid”.
1981 – Reagan administration trans and funds “contras”. 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
1982 – US provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.
1983 – White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
1989 – CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as president of Panama ) disobeys orders from Washington. US invades Panama and removes Noriega….3,000 Panamanian casualties.
1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from the US.
1991 – US enters Iraq. Bush reinstates the dictator of Kuwait.
1998 – Clinton bombs “weapons” factory in Sudan. Turns out that the factory made aspirin.
1991-Present – American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. UN estimates 500,000 Iraqi CHILDREN die from bombing and sanctions.
2000-2001 – US gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in “aid”.
9/11 2001 – Osama Bin Laden uses expert CIA training to kill 3000 people.
2003 - Bush invades Iraq (?!). 100,000 (and still counting) innocent civilians slaughtered.
The rest of the world looks at the US and says “you lost 3000 people?”
SE Asia lost 4 million people.
Guatamala lost 200,000 people.
Chile lost 10,000 people.
Argentina lost 40,000 people.
Iraq lost 100,000+ people.
Maybe the rest of the world isn’t so sympathetic to our loss because we just ignore what’s been done in our name.
Bin laden killed 3000 and 290 million people want he and his followers killed. Bush killed 100,000. How many want him and his followers killed?
posted by Gary at 12:29 PM
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Monday, November 01, 2004
EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FUHRER(1 of 2)
EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FUHRER(1 of 2)
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 11/01/04 09:08 pm
Msg: 413428 of 413463
1 recommendation
The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world.
It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.)
But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones.
Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn't know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious building was ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference.
"You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion - "a sign from God," he called it - to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion.
...
Playing on this new nationalism, and exploiting a disagreement with the French over his increasing militarism, he argued that any international body that didn't act first and foremost in the best interest of his own nation was neither relevant nor useful. He thus withdrew his country from the League Of Nations in October, 1933, and then negotiated a separate naval armaments agreement with Anthony Eden of The United Kingdom to create a worldwide military ruling elite.
EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FUHRER(2 of 2)
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 11/01/04 09:09 pm
Msg: 413436 of 413474
1 recommendation
His propaganda minister orchestrated a campaign to ensure the people that he was a deeply religious man and that his motivations were rooted in Christianity. He even proclaimed the need for a revival of the Christian faith across his nation, what he called a "New Christianity." Every man in his rapidly growing army wore a belt buckle that declared "Gott Mit Uns" - God Is With Us - and most of them fervently believed it was true.
...
To consolidate his power, he concluded that government alone wasn't enough. He reached out to industry and forged an alliance, bringing former executives of the nation's largest corporations into high government positions. A flood of government money poured into corporate coffers to fight the war against the Middle Eastern ancestry terrorists lurking within the homeland, and to prepare for wars overseas. He encouraged large corporations friendly to him to acquire media outlets and other industrial concerns across the nation, particularly those previously owned by suspicious people of Middle Eastern ancestry. He built powerful alliances with industry; one corporate ally got the lucrative contract worth millions to build the first large-scale detention center for enemies of the state. Soon more would follow. Industry flourished.
...
With his number two man - a master at manipulating the media - he began a campaign to convince the people of the nation that a small, limited war was necessary. Another nation was harboring many of the suspicious Middle Eastern people, and even though its connection with the terrorist who had set afire the nation's most important building was tenuous at best, it held resources their nation badly needed if they were to have room to live and maintain their prosperity. He called a press conference and publicly delivered an ultimatum to the leader of the other nation, provoking an international uproar. He claimed the right to strike preemptively in self-defense, and nations across Europe - at first - denounced him for it, pointing out that it was a doctrine only claimed in the past by nations seeking worldwide empire, like Caesar's Rome or Alexander's Greece.
It took a few months, and intense international debate and lobbying with European nations, but, after he personally met with the leader of the United Kingdom, finally a deal was struck. After the military action began, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the nervous British people that giving into this leader's new first-strike doctrine would bring "peace for our time." Thus Hitler annexed Austria in a lightning move, riding a wave of popular support as leaders so often do in times of war. The Austrian government was unseated and replaced by a new leadership friendly to Germany, and German corporations began to take over Austrian resources.
......
Germany's response was to use government to empower corporations and reward the society's richest individuals, privatize much of the commons, stifle dissent, strip people of constitutional rights, and create an illusion of prosperity through continual and ever-expanding war. America passed minimum wage laws to raise the middle class, enforced anti-trust laws to diminish the power of corporations, increased taxes on corporations and the wealthiest individuals, created Social Security, and became the employer of last resort through programs to build national infrastructure, promote the arts, and replant forests.
To the extent that our Constitution is still intact, the choice is again ours.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy_America/WhenDemocracyFailed.html
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 11/01/04 09:08 pm
Msg: 413428 of 413463
1 recommendation
The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world.
It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.)
But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones.
Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn't know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious building was ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference.
"You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion - "a sign from God," he called it - to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion.
...
Playing on this new nationalism, and exploiting a disagreement with the French over his increasing militarism, he argued that any international body that didn't act first and foremost in the best interest of his own nation was neither relevant nor useful. He thus withdrew his country from the League Of Nations in October, 1933, and then negotiated a separate naval armaments agreement with Anthony Eden of The United Kingdom to create a worldwide military ruling elite.
EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FUHRER(2 of 2)
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 11/01/04 09:09 pm
Msg: 413436 of 413474
1 recommendation
His propaganda minister orchestrated a campaign to ensure the people that he was a deeply religious man and that his motivations were rooted in Christianity. He even proclaimed the need for a revival of the Christian faith across his nation, what he called a "New Christianity." Every man in his rapidly growing army wore a belt buckle that declared "Gott Mit Uns" - God Is With Us - and most of them fervently believed it was true.
...
To consolidate his power, he concluded that government alone wasn't enough. He reached out to industry and forged an alliance, bringing former executives of the nation's largest corporations into high government positions. A flood of government money poured into corporate coffers to fight the war against the Middle Eastern ancestry terrorists lurking within the homeland, and to prepare for wars overseas. He encouraged large corporations friendly to him to acquire media outlets and other industrial concerns across the nation, particularly those previously owned by suspicious people of Middle Eastern ancestry. He built powerful alliances with industry; one corporate ally got the lucrative contract worth millions to build the first large-scale detention center for enemies of the state. Soon more would follow. Industry flourished.
...
With his number two man - a master at manipulating the media - he began a campaign to convince the people of the nation that a small, limited war was necessary. Another nation was harboring many of the suspicious Middle Eastern people, and even though its connection with the terrorist who had set afire the nation's most important building was tenuous at best, it held resources their nation badly needed if they were to have room to live and maintain their prosperity. He called a press conference and publicly delivered an ultimatum to the leader of the other nation, provoking an international uproar. He claimed the right to strike preemptively in self-defense, and nations across Europe - at first - denounced him for it, pointing out that it was a doctrine only claimed in the past by nations seeking worldwide empire, like Caesar's Rome or Alexander's Greece.
It took a few months, and intense international debate and lobbying with European nations, but, after he personally met with the leader of the United Kingdom, finally a deal was struck. After the military action began, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the nervous British people that giving into this leader's new first-strike doctrine would bring "peace for our time." Thus Hitler annexed Austria in a lightning move, riding a wave of popular support as leaders so often do in times of war. The Austrian government was unseated and replaced by a new leadership friendly to Germany, and German corporations began to take over Austrian resources.
......
Germany's response was to use government to empower corporations and reward the society's richest individuals, privatize much of the commons, stifle dissent, strip people of constitutional rights, and create an illusion of prosperity through continual and ever-expanding war. America passed minimum wage laws to raise the middle class, enforced anti-trust laws to diminish the power of corporations, increased taxes on corporations and the wealthiest individuals, created Social Security, and became the employer of last resort through programs to build national infrastructure, promote the arts, and replant forests.
To the extent that our Constitution is still intact, the choice is again ours.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy_America/WhenDemocracyFailed.html
posted by Gary at 8:13 PM
Sunday, October 31, 2004
At What Point Do You Say Enough Is Enough
Is it with two botched wars and 1100 U.S. troop deaths, 75,000+ Iraqi deaths at a cost of $200 BILLION?
Is it with 1.6 million private sector jobs lost since Jan, 2001?
Is it with a 64% rise in health care costs since Jan, 2001?
Is it with oil @ $50/barrel?
Is it with a president that, admittedly, has no interest in capturing/killing Osama bin Laden?
Is it with the stock market down between 15-20% since Jan, 2001?
Is it with the looting of the social security 'lockbox?'
Is it with a president that inherited a budget surplus turning it into a record-high deficit?
At what point do we say 'enough is enough' and FIRE the man responsible for the mismanagement of the United States - George W. Bush?
posted by Gary at 8:38 AM
Witnesses say Iraqi forces fired on civilians, leaving dozens killed or injured - billingsgazette.com
posted by Gary at 7:22 AM
The New York Times --- The President: In Exulting Bush Throngs, Just a Little Bit of Anxiety
posted by Gary at 7:20 AM
Here's the average IQ by state according to the Ravens APM
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News: "http://people.umass.edu/gcharter/iq.txt
,http://people.umass.edu/gcharter/iq.txt
Here's the average IQ by state according to the Ravens APM:
AVG IQ AVG Income '00 Electoral
(1) Connecticut..................113 $26,979 Gore
(2) Massachusetts................111 $24,059 Gore
(3) New Jersey...................111 $26,457 Gore
(4) New York.....................109 $23,534 Gore
(5) Rhode Island.................107 $20,299 Gore
(6) Hawaii.......................106 $21,218 Gore
(7) Maryland.....................105 $22,974 Gore
(8) New Hampshire................105 $22,934 Bush
(9) Illinois.....................104 $21,608 Gore
(10) Delaware....................103 $21,451 Gore
(11) Minnesota...................102 $20,049 Gore
(12) Vermont.....................102 $18,834 Gore
(13) Washington..................102 $20,398 Gore
(14) California..................101 $21,278 Gore
(15) Pennsylvania................101 $20,253 Gore
(16) Maine.......................100 $18,226 Gore
(17) Virginia....................100 $20,629 Bush
(18) Wisconsin...................100 $18,727 Gore
(19) Colorado.....................99 $20,124 Bush
(20) Iowa.........................99 $18,287 Gore
(21) Michigan.....................99 $19,508 Gore
(22) Nevada.......................99 $20,266 Bush
(23) Ohio.........................99 $18,624 Bush
(24) Oregon.......................99 $18,202 Gore
(25) Alaska.......................98 $21,603 Bush
(26) Florida......................98 $19,397 Bush
(27) Missouri.....................98 $18,835 Bush
(28) Kansas.......................96 $19,376 Bush
(29) Nebraska.....................95 $19,084 Bush
(30) Arizona......................94 $17,119 Bush
(31) Indiana......................94 $18,043 Bush
(32) Tennessee....................94 $17,341 Bush
(33) North Carolina...............93 $17,667 Bush
(34) West Virginia................93 $15,065 Bush
(35) Arkansas.....................92 $15,439 Bush
(36) Georgia......................92 $18,130 Bush
(37) Kentucky.....................92 $16,534 Bush
(38) New Mexico...................92 $15,353 Gore
(39) North Dakota.................92 $16,854 Bush
(40) Texas........................92 $17,892 Bush
(41) Alabama......................90 $16,220 Bush
(42) Louisiana....................90 $15,712 Bush
(43) Montana......................90 $16,062 Bush
(44) Oklahoma.....................90 $16,198 Bush
(45) South Dakota.................90 $16,558 Bush
(46) South Carolina...............89 $15,989 Bush
(47) Wyoming......................89 $17,423 Bush
(48) Idaho........................87 $16,067 Bush
(49) Utah.........................87 $15,325 Bush
(50) Mississippi..................85 $14,088 Bush
,http://people.umass.edu/gcharter/iq.txt
Here's the average IQ by state according to the Ravens APM:
AVG IQ AVG Income '00 Electoral
(1) Connecticut..................113 $26,979 Gore
(2) Massachusetts................111 $24,059 Gore
(3) New Jersey...................111 $26,457 Gore
(4) New York.....................109 $23,534 Gore
(5) Rhode Island.................107 $20,299 Gore
(6) Hawaii.......................106 $21,218 Gore
(7) Maryland.....................105 $22,974 Gore
(8) New Hampshire................105 $22,934 Bush
(9) Illinois.....................104 $21,608 Gore
(10) Delaware....................103 $21,451 Gore
(11) Minnesota...................102 $20,049 Gore
(12) Vermont.....................102 $18,834 Gore
(13) Washington..................102 $20,398 Gore
(14) California..................101 $21,278 Gore
(15) Pennsylvania................101 $20,253 Gore
(16) Maine.......................100 $18,226 Gore
(17) Virginia....................100 $20,629 Bush
(18) Wisconsin...................100 $18,727 Gore
(19) Colorado.....................99 $20,124 Bush
(20) Iowa.........................99 $18,287 Gore
(21) Michigan.....................99 $19,508 Gore
(22) Nevada.......................99 $20,266 Bush
(23) Ohio.........................99 $18,624 Bush
(24) Oregon.......................99 $18,202 Gore
(25) Alaska.......................98 $21,603 Bush
(26) Florida......................98 $19,397 Bush
(27) Missouri.....................98 $18,835 Bush
(28) Kansas.......................96 $19,376 Bush
(29) Nebraska.....................95 $19,084 Bush
(30) Arizona......................94 $17,119 Bush
(31) Indiana......................94 $18,043 Bush
(32) Tennessee....................94 $17,341 Bush
(33) North Carolina...............93 $17,667 Bush
(34) West Virginia................93 $15,065 Bush
(35) Arkansas.....................92 $15,439 Bush
(36) Georgia......................92 $18,130 Bush
(37) Kentucky.....................92 $16,534 Bush
(38) New Mexico...................92 $15,353 Gore
(39) North Dakota.................92 $16,854 Bush
(40) Texas........................92 $17,892 Bush
(41) Alabama......................90 $16,220 Bush
(42) Louisiana....................90 $15,712 Bush
(43) Montana......................90 $16,062 Bush
(44) Oklahoma.....................90 $16,198 Bush
(45) South Dakota.................90 $16,558 Bush
(46) South Carolina...............89 $15,989 Bush
(47) Wyoming......................89 $17,423 Bush
(48) Idaho........................87 $16,067 Bush
(49) Utah.........................87 $15,325 Bush
(50) Mississippi..................85 $14,088 Bush
posted by Gary at 5:12 AM
Saturday, October 30, 2004
REMEMBER CLINTON'S FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM ?
Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Clinton urged Congress Tuesday to act swiftly in developing anti-terrorism legislation before its August recess. (1.6 MB AIFF or WAV sound)
'We need to keep this country together right now. We need to focus on this terrorism issue,' Clinton said during a White House news conference.
But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against the proposed anti-terrorism measures.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, doubted that the Senate would rush to action before they recess this weekend. One key GOP senator was more critical, calling a proposed study of chemical markers in explosives 'a phony issue.'
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emerged from the meeting and said, 'These are very controversial provisions that the White House wants. Some they're not going to get.'
Hatch called Clinton's proposed study of taggants -- chemical markers in explosives that could help track terrorists -- 'a phony issue.'
'If they want to, they can study the thing' already, Hatch asserted. He also said he had some problems with the president's proposals to expand wiretapping.
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, said it is a mistake if Congress leaves town without addressing anti-terrorism legislation. Daschle is expected to hold a special meeting on the matter Wednesday with Congressional leaders.
The Associated Press contributed to this report."
'We need to keep this country together right now. We need to focus on this terrorism issue,' Clinton said during a White House news conference.
But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against the proposed anti-terrorism measures.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, doubted that the Senate would rush to action before they recess this weekend. One key GOP senator was more critical, calling a proposed study of chemical markers in explosives 'a phony issue.'
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emerged from the meeting and said, 'These are very controversial provisions that the White House wants. Some they're not going to get.'
Hatch called Clinton's proposed study of taggants -- chemical markers in explosives that could help track terrorists -- 'a phony issue.'
'If they want to, they can study the thing' already, Hatch asserted. He also said he had some problems with the president's proposals to expand wiretapping.
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, said it is a mistake if Congress leaves town without addressing anti-terrorism legislation. Daschle is expected to hold a special meeting on the matter Wednesday with Congressional leaders.
The Associated Press contributed to this report."
posted by Gary at 8:02 AM
Friday, October 29, 2004
Bush on terrorism comment,,,,,,whatever
Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "Re: Just made up my mind, Im voting for
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/29/04 10:49 pm
Msg: 7434 of 7446
2 recommendations
Wow.....what an incredibly uniformed person you are. You believe Bush has done a good job at fighting terrorism? Bill Clinton, our most recent President, has a far more effective record of deploying our military and our resources in securing our country and defending our principles, both at home and around the world.
Bush has taken America in the wrong direction. It is past the time to bring ourselves back on our course. I just hope it isn't too late.
Bush---Let's Not Elect Him in 2004 Either.
Grand Theft America:
http://ericblumrich.com/gta "
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/29/04 10:49 pm
Msg: 7434 of 7446
2 recommendations
Wow.....what an incredibly uniformed person you are. You believe Bush has done a good job at fighting terrorism? Bill Clinton, our most recent President, has a far more effective record of deploying our military and our resources in securing our country and defending our principles, both at home and around the world.
Bush has taken America in the wrong direction. It is past the time to bring ourselves back on our course. I just hope it isn't too late.
Bush---Let's Not Elect Him in 2004 Either.
Grand Theft America:
http://ericblumrich.com/gta "
posted by Gary at 9:52 PM
We Really Really Tried To Warn You
We did try, we really really did try to warn you neocons what a piece of shiit this moron in the White House is. We showed you lie after lie, blunder after blunder and fvck up after fvck up! We showed you that he's an idiot, we showed you he started a war on lies, we showed you he thinks sending your job to another country is good for you, we showed you he choked on 9/11, we showed you he ignored warnings of 9/11, we showed you his tax breaks screw every one of you that don't make $200k a year... yet you still support this idiot! You have chosen a man that is destroying this country over this country!... At this point I almost hope Bush wins... just think how bad you'll get fvcked when he doesn't have to kiss your ass for re-election! His re-election will destroy the republican party for the next century! The problem is it will also destroy this country!.... Just remember the down fall of America is on your ass... Enjoy your tax breaks, YOU WERE WARNED!"
posted by Gary at 6:42 PM
REGARDING THE BIN LADEN FACTOR
Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "BIN LADEN = ONE PERSON
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/29/04 06:11 pm
Msg: 5297 of 5310
2 recommendations
Possibly soley responsible for the deaths of 3000+ innocent americans. And 290+ million people want him caught and dead.
Bush, during that same time period, has killed minimally tens of thousands of innocent people, and potentially over 100,000 innocent people.
How many people want Bush/Americans caught and dead because of Bush's actions? Validating Bush means you support the needless killing hundreds of thousands of people. If you fear terrorism now, just elect bush and tell the world you agree with what he did. "
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/29/04 06:11 pm
Msg: 5297 of 5310
2 recommendations
Possibly soley responsible for the deaths of 3000+ innocent americans. And 290+ million people want him caught and dead.
Bush, during that same time period, has killed minimally tens of thousands of innocent people, and potentially over 100,000 innocent people.
How many people want Bush/Americans caught and dead because of Bush's actions? Validating Bush means you support the needless killing hundreds of thousands of people. If you fear terrorism now, just elect bush and tell the world you agree with what he did. "
posted by Gary at 5:12 PM
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Rhetoric and Reality - Origins and Goals of the Bush National Security Strategy
posted by Gary at 11:57 AM
RANGEL DRAFT
Rangel introduces bill to reinstate draft
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Charles Rangel introduced a bill in Congress Tuesday to reinstate the military draft, saying fighting forces should more closely reflect the economic makeup of the nation.
The New York Democrat told reporters his goal is two-fold: to jolt Americans into realizing the import of a possible unilateral strike against Iraq, which he opposes, and "to make it clear that if there were a war, there would be more equitable representation of people making sacrifices."
"I truly believe that those who make the decision and those who support the United States going into war would feel more readily the pain that's involved, the sacrifice that's involved, if they thought that the fighting force would include the affluent and those who historically have avoided this great responsibility," Rangel said.
"Those who love this country have a patriotic obligation to defend this country," Rangel said. "For those who say the poor fight better, I say give the rich a chance."
According to Rangel's office, minorities comprise more than 30 percent of the nation's military.
Under his bill, the draft would apply to men and women ages 18 to 26; exemptions would be granted to allow people to graduate from high school, but college students would have to serve.
Anyone who didn't qualify for military service because of impairments would be asked to perform community service.
The lawmaker has said his measure could make members of Congress more reluctant to authorize military action. The Korean War veteran has accused President Bush and some fellow lawmakers of being too eager to go to war.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/rangel.draft/
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Charles Rangel introduced a bill in Congress Tuesday to reinstate the military draft, saying fighting forces should more closely reflect the economic makeup of the nation.
The New York Democrat told reporters his goal is two-fold: to jolt Americans into realizing the import of a possible unilateral strike against Iraq, which he opposes, and "to make it clear that if there were a war, there would be more equitable representation of people making sacrifices."
"I truly believe that those who make the decision and those who support the United States going into war would feel more readily the pain that's involved, the sacrifice that's involved, if they thought that the fighting force would include the affluent and those who historically have avoided this great responsibility," Rangel said.
"Those who love this country have a patriotic obligation to defend this country," Rangel said. "For those who say the poor fight better, I say give the rich a chance."
According to Rangel's office, minorities comprise more than 30 percent of the nation's military.
Under his bill, the draft would apply to men and women ages 18 to 26; exemptions would be granted to allow people to graduate from high school, but college students would have to serve.
Anyone who didn't qualify for military service because of impairments would be asked to perform community service.
The lawmaker has said his measure could make members of Congress more reluctant to authorize military action. The Korean War veteran has accused President Bush and some fellow lawmakers of being too eager to go to war.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/rangel.draft/
posted by Gary at 8:06 AM
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Bush / Republican Accusations
In the bizarre, orwellian world that is BushCo and the republicans this year, I decided I need to start making a list of all things republicans accuse democrats of doing, when, as has been my observation, it is the exact opposite.
Examples:
1. Ed Gillespie on Meet the Press on 10/24/2004, accused the democrats of "running a campaign of fear". Um....ok...I don't think I'm on drugs, but which party has been using the fear of terrorists non-stop since 9/11 ? Each terror alert level change...hell, have a look at the Republican convention. Here's a condensed version of the RNC convention. Watch it and tell me what's missing from their "plan for the future" of America. http://www.oliverwillis.com/stuff/gopmashup.mov
2. After a week or more of seeing reports of democratic registrations getting shredded by a company hired by the RNC, I hear the republicans accusing democrats of "trying to steal the election...just like they did in 2000".
Excuse me! http://ericblumrich.com/gta is a great summart of the Greg Palast report. See the link after the animation sequence.
3. Bush has caused a significant increase in government and then claims Kerry represents big government .
4. Bush is a complete failure when it comes to fighting terrorism so Bush claims there will be more terrorist attacks if Kerry is elected.
5. Bush invades Iraq and then blames Kerry since Kerry voted for it?
6. Swastikas burning on Bush supporters lawns. Who would be surprised if that wasn't a republican propaganda stunt?
7. The little girl who had her Bush sign taken and ripped in half. Who would be surprised if that wasn't a republican propaganda stunt?
8. The alleged story about someone registering democrats and offering crack cocaine? Who would be surprised if that wasn't a republican propaganda stunt?
9. Colorado/Florida/Ohio Dead people registering to vote? Anyone can fill out a registration form and submit. How easy would it be anyone to fill one out that says mickey mouse and register it as a republican?
10. Florida-acorn? Well, I haven't heard this one.
Cheap tricks. Too bad the GOP has noone worthy of holding the office of the White House and that they have to try to steal it.
I'm sure there are more, and I will list them as they come to me.
If you want to know Bush's true weaknesses, take a look at his attacks on Kerry. These people are greasy slimeballs who will resort to anything to discredit Kerry since they have nothing to run on this year.
Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft/Rumsfeld---Don't change horsemen in the middle of an apocalypse.
Examples:
1. Ed Gillespie on Meet the Press on 10/24/2004, accused the democrats of "running a campaign of fear". Um....ok...I don't think I'm on drugs, but which party has been using the fear of terrorists non-stop since 9/11 ? Each terror alert level change...hell, have a look at the Republican convention. Here's a condensed version of the RNC convention. Watch it and tell me what's missing from their "plan for the future" of America. http://www.oliverwillis.com/stuff/gopmashup.mov
2. After a week or more of seeing reports of democratic registrations getting shredded by a company hired by the RNC, I hear the republicans accusing democrats of "trying to steal the election...just like they did in 2000".
Excuse me! http://ericblumrich.com/gta is a great summart of the Greg Palast report. See the link after the animation sequence.
3. Bush has caused a significant increase in government and then claims Kerry represents big government .
4. Bush is a complete failure when it comes to fighting terrorism so Bush claims there will be more terrorist attacks if Kerry is elected.
5. Bush invades Iraq and then blames Kerry since Kerry voted for it?
6. Swastikas burning on Bush supporters lawns. Who would be surprised if that wasn't a republican propaganda stunt?
7. The little girl who had her Bush sign taken and ripped in half. Who would be surprised if that wasn't a republican propaganda stunt?
8. The alleged story about someone registering democrats and offering crack cocaine? Who would be surprised if that wasn't a republican propaganda stunt?
9. Colorado/Florida/Ohio Dead people registering to vote? Anyone can fill out a registration form and submit. How easy would it be anyone to fill one out that says mickey mouse and register it as a republican?
10. Florida-acorn? Well, I haven't heard this one.
Cheap tricks. Too bad the GOP has noone worthy of holding the office of the White House and that they have to try to steal it.
I'm sure there are more, and I will list them as they come to me.
If you want to know Bush's true weaknesses, take a look at his attacks on Kerry. These people are greasy slimeballs who will resort to anything to discredit Kerry since they have nothing to run on this year.
Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft/Rumsfeld---Don't change horsemen in the middle of an apocalypse.
posted by Gary at 7:51 PM
Fox caught Bush lying about al QaQaa
Fox caught Bush lying about al QaQaa
by: faunotter (43/At keyboard) 10/27/04 11:43 am
Msg: 313544 of 313581
2 recommendations
Here is the official GOP lie-of-the-day concerning the 380 tons of ultra high explosive that Bush’s ineptitude allowed terrorists to remove from al Qa Qaa:
“.... a segment by NBC News on Monday directly countered Kerry's claims that the weapons disappeared because of low post-war troop levels, but instead shows that the HMX and RDX explosives were not even present when coalition forces first arrived at Al Qaqaa during Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
Source:
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/october/1027_cbs_explosives_story.shtml
The ultra explosives that Bush fumbled away into the hands of people who blowup marines as a hobby included HMX, a trigger for nuclear bombs. Here’s a quick Google assist for America's chronically lazy journalists....
“HMX is also known as Octogen. This explosive compound is a white, crystalline solid .”
Source:
http://www.islandgroup.com/ExplosiveChemistry.html
I want you to think back to the head (and news) spinning days of shock and awe last year. Friday, April 04 to be exact. As you may recall, those nutty kids over at Fox news were desperate for any news they could spin into a WMD find to support Bush’s decision to invade Iraq.
“As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqi chemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction.
---
U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al Qa Qaa complex.
---
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said troops found thousands of 2-by-5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder
---
Initial reports suggest the powder is an explosive, but tests are still being done, a senior U.S. official said. If confirmed, it would be consistent with what the Iraqis say is the plant's purpose, producing explosives and propellants.
Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html
Sooooo - Bush claims that the 578 Toyota Tundra loads of extremely dangerous explosives were missing when US troops reached Al QaQaa. Fox news, in their haste to taint all white powders as WMDs, proves George is lying.
For once I believe Fox news.
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News
by: faunotter (43/At keyboard) 10/27/04 11:43 am
Msg: 313544 of 313581
2 recommendations
Here is the official GOP lie-of-the-day concerning the 380 tons of ultra high explosive that Bush’s ineptitude allowed terrorists to remove from al Qa Qaa:
“.... a segment by NBC News on Monday directly countered Kerry's claims that the weapons disappeared because of low post-war troop levels, but instead shows that the HMX and RDX explosives were not even present when coalition forces first arrived at Al Qaqaa during Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
Source:
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/october/1027_cbs_explosives_story.shtml
The ultra explosives that Bush fumbled away into the hands of people who blowup marines as a hobby included HMX, a trigger for nuclear bombs. Here’s a quick Google assist for America's chronically lazy journalists....
“HMX is also known as Octogen. This explosive compound is a white, crystalline solid .”
Source:
http://www.islandgroup.com/ExplosiveChemistry.html
I want you to think back to the head (and news) spinning days of shock and awe last year. Friday, April 04 to be exact. As you may recall, those nutty kids over at Fox news were desperate for any news they could spin into a WMD find to support Bush’s decision to invade Iraq.
“As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqi chemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction.
---
U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al Qa Qaa complex.
---
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said troops found thousands of 2-by-5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder
---
Initial reports suggest the powder is an explosive, but tests are still being done, a senior U.S. official said. If confirmed, it would be consistent with what the Iraqis say is the plant's purpose, producing explosives and propellants.
Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html
Sooooo - Bush claims that the 578 Toyota Tundra loads of extremely dangerous explosives were missing when US troops reached Al QaQaa. Fox news, in their haste to taint all white powders as WMDs, proves George is lying.
For once I believe Fox news.
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News
posted by Gary at 10:48 AM
Oh my: "George W. Bush: Faith in the White House,"
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News: "Bush Pimps Foolish Talibangelists
by: jack_cough_bush 10/26/04 11:17 pm
Msg: 301848 of 307169
17 recommendations
'George W. Bush: Faith in the White House,' a DVD that is being specifically marketed in 'head to head' partisan opposition to 'Fahrenheit 9/11.'
More than any other campaign artifact, it clarifies the hard-knuckles rationale of the president's vote-for-me-or-face-Armageddon re-election message. It transforms the president that the Democrats deride as a 'fortunate son' of privilege into a prodigal son with the 'moral clarity of an old-fashioned biblical prophet.' Its Bush is not merely a sincere man of faith but God's essential and irreplaceable warrior on Earth. The stations of his cross are burnished into cinematic fable: the misspent youth, the hard drinking (a thirst that came from 'a throat full of Texas dust'), the fateful 40th-birthday hangover in Colorado Springs, the walk on the beach with Billy Graham. A towheaded child actor bathed in the golden light of an off-camera halo re-enacts the young George? An older Bush impersonator is seen rebuffing a sexual come-on from a fellow Bush-Quayle campaign worker hovering by a Xerox machine in 1988; it's an effort to imbue our born-again savior with retroactive chastity. As for the actual president, he is shown with a flag for a backdrop in a split-screen tableau with Jesus. The message isn't subtle: they were separated at birth?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/100404L.shtml "
by: jack_cough_bush 10/26/04 11:17 pm
Msg: 301848 of 307169
17 recommendations
'George W. Bush: Faith in the White House,' a DVD that is being specifically marketed in 'head to head' partisan opposition to 'Fahrenheit 9/11.'
More than any other campaign artifact, it clarifies the hard-knuckles rationale of the president's vote-for-me-or-face-Armageddon re-election message. It transforms the president that the Democrats deride as a 'fortunate son' of privilege into a prodigal son with the 'moral clarity of an old-fashioned biblical prophet.' Its Bush is not merely a sincere man of faith but God's essential and irreplaceable warrior on Earth. The stations of his cross are burnished into cinematic fable: the misspent youth, the hard drinking (a thirst that came from 'a throat full of Texas dust'), the fateful 40th-birthday hangover in Colorado Springs, the walk on the beach with Billy Graham. A towheaded child actor bathed in the golden light of an off-camera halo re-enacts the young George? An older Bush impersonator is seen rebuffing a sexual come-on from a fellow Bush-Quayle campaign worker hovering by a Xerox machine in 1988; it's an effort to imbue our born-again savior with retroactive chastity. As for the actual president, he is shown with a flag for a backdrop in a split-screen tableau with Jesus. The message isn't subtle: they were separated at birth?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/100404L.shtml "
posted by Gary at 6:10 AM
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Bush Losing MANY Endorsements
Bush Losing MANY Endorsements
by: generic_id_1010101 10/26/04 05:50 pm
Thirty-three newspapers that endorsed Bush in 2000 that are now endorsing Kerry:
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA), Daily News (Los Angeles, CA), Ventura County Star (CA), The Oakland Tribune (CA), Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA), Daily Camera (Boulder, CO), The Day (New London, CT), The Stamford Advocate (CT), Orlando Sentinel (FL), Bradenton Herald (FL), Chicago Sun-Times (IL), Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), Rockford Register-Star (IL), Quad City Times (Davenport, IA), Bangor Daily News (ME), Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA), The Flint Journal (MI), The Muskegon Chronicle (MI), Columbia Daily Tribune (MO), Billings Gazette (MT), The Albuquerque Tribune (NM), The Journal-News (White Plains, NY), Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY), The Oregonian (Portland, OR), The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), The Commercial-Appeal (Memphis, TN), Corpus Christi Caller-Times (TX), The Seattle Times (WA) Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, WA), The Sun (Bremerton, WA), Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (WA) and The Wausau Daily Herald (WI).
Plus, don't forget the Lone Star Iconoclast of Bush's hometown, Crawford Texas!
(Then there are those that endorsed Bush in 2000 - and every other Republican Presidential candidate for the last few decades - but are making no endorsements this year; like the Tampa Tribune!)
Only four have switched from Gore 2000 to Bush 2004:
The Denver Post (CO), The Macomb Daily (Mount Clemens, MI), York Daily Record (PA), Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, SC)
Source: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id= 1000684275
Since 1940 when industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher began tracking newspapers during presidential elections, only two Democratic candidates -- Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Bill Clinton in 1992 -- have ever won more endorsements than their Republican opponent. That's because newspaper publishers, who usually sign off on endorsements, tend to vote Republican (like lots of senior corporate executives), which means GOP candidates pick up more endorsements.
Dubya Out The Door
In November 2004!
(To be fair, Bush is getting some exciting endorsements: The head of Iran's security council, Hasan Rowhani, and the al-Qaeda wannabe The Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri
Sources: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/iran_us_elections_2 & http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114489,00.html )
by: generic_id_1010101 10/26/04 05:50 pm
Thirty-three newspapers that endorsed Bush in 2000 that are now endorsing Kerry:
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA), Daily News (Los Angeles, CA), Ventura County Star (CA), The Oakland Tribune (CA), Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA), Daily Camera (Boulder, CO), The Day (New London, CT), The Stamford Advocate (CT), Orlando Sentinel (FL), Bradenton Herald (FL), Chicago Sun-Times (IL), Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), Rockford Register-Star (IL), Quad City Times (Davenport, IA), Bangor Daily News (ME), Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA), The Flint Journal (MI), The Muskegon Chronicle (MI), Columbia Daily Tribune (MO), Billings Gazette (MT), The Albuquerque Tribune (NM), The Journal-News (White Plains, NY), Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY), The Oregonian (Portland, OR), The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), The Commercial-Appeal (Memphis, TN), Corpus Christi Caller-Times (TX), The Seattle Times (WA) Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, WA), The Sun (Bremerton, WA), Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (WA) and The Wausau Daily Herald (WI).
Plus, don't forget the Lone Star Iconoclast of Bush's hometown, Crawford Texas!
(Then there are those that endorsed Bush in 2000 - and every other Republican Presidential candidate for the last few decades - but are making no endorsements this year; like the Tampa Tribune!)
Only four have switched from Gore 2000 to Bush 2004:
The Denver Post (CO), The Macomb Daily (Mount Clemens, MI), York Daily Record (PA), Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, SC)
Source: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id= 1000684275
Since 1940 when industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher began tracking newspapers during presidential elections, only two Democratic candidates -- Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Bill Clinton in 1992 -- have ever won more endorsements than their Republican opponent. That's because newspaper publishers, who usually sign off on endorsements, tend to vote Republican (like lots of senior corporate executives), which means GOP candidates pick up more endorsements.
Dubya Out The Door
In November 2004!
(To be fair, Bush is getting some exciting endorsements: The head of Iran's security council, Hasan Rowhani, and the al-Qaeda wannabe The Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri
Sources: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/iran_us_elections_2 & http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114489,00.html )
posted by Gary at 6:29 PM
Bush & Cheney vs. CIA & Soldiers
Bush & Cheney Knew They Were Lying:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0804-11.htm
Cheney's Greed Factor:
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8498
Cheney's Lamest Excuse Yet:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1011-25.htm
The CIA's 'Old Guard' Goes to War with Bush:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1011-21.htm
The Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket:
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20222/
The Unknown Soldiers:
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20254/
Soldiers Once....and Young:
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20140/
Operation Truth:
http://optruth.com/main.cfm "
posted by Gary at 8:54 AM
Monday, October 25, 2004
ELECTORAL VOTES NEEDED FOR KERRY
Based on the map at http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/election-test-fl,0,7324127.flash
Over 200 electoral votes are up for grabs this election. The state polls tell the tale, and I've seen them fluctuate as much nine points from one day to the next.
Kerry currently leads in the following states:
(electoral votes) [percentage points]
Michigan (17) [+6]
Ohio (20) [+5]
Pennsylvania (21) [+5]
New Jersey (15) [+8]
Washington (11) [+5]
Oregon (7) [+5]
New Mexico (5) [+2]
New Hampshire (4) [+9]
Maine (4) [+3]
These gives Kerry 253 electoral votes.
States where the two are exactly tied (w/in 1 point):
Minnesota (10)
Arkansas (6)
Iowa (7)
Florida (27)
If Kerry takes Minnesota and Iowa, game over. If Kerry takes Florida, game over.
States within 2-3 points:
Wisconsin (10) [trails by 3 pts]
Over 200 electoral votes are up for grabs this election. The state polls tell the tale, and I've seen them fluctuate as much nine points from one day to the next.
Kerry currently leads in the following states:
(electoral votes) [percentage points]
Michigan (17) [+6]
Ohio (20) [+5]
Pennsylvania (21) [+5]
New Jersey (15) [+8]
Washington (11) [+5]
Oregon (7) [+5]
New Mexico (5) [+2]
New Hampshire (4) [+9]
Maine (4) [+3]
These gives Kerry 253 electoral votes.
States where the two are exactly tied (w/in 1 point):
Minnesota (10)
Arkansas (6)
Iowa (7)
Florida (27)
If Kerry takes Minnesota and Iowa, game over. If Kerry takes Florida, game over.
States within 2-3 points:
Wisconsin (10) [trails by 3 pts]
posted by Gary at 7:37 AM
Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees Out of Iraq
More Rules of the Geneva Convention broken. (War Crime)
Yahoo! News - Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees Out of Iraq
Yahoo! News - Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees Out of Iraq
posted by Gary at 6:52 AM
Yahoo! News - IAEA Says Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
SHUCKS AND AWWWW CONTINUES
George Bush is the most incompetent pResident America has ever known.
This War Of Error is an overhyped ridiculously expensive joke.
BUSH---LET'S NOT ELECT HIM IN 2004 EITHER.
Yahoo! News - IAEA Says Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
George Bush is the most incompetent pResident America has ever known.
This War Of Error is an overhyped ridiculously expensive joke.
BUSH---LET'S NOT ELECT HIM IN 2004 EITHER.
Yahoo! News - IAEA Says Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
posted by Gary at 6:27 AM
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Guardian Unlimited Article on Bush re-election.
HOLY CRAP! Read the last paragraph of this article from the Guardian:
"On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1333748,00.html
"On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1333748,00.html
posted by Gary at 11:16 AM
DOWN THE RIVER
http://www.ifilm.com/media/getplaylist.ram?pinfo=ipt:realone|fid:2653645|mt:ro|bw:MULTI|refsite:|rcid:|prn:|it:|pop:|lid:|sid:1|cid:1|cch:|cr:1|gl1:false|gl2:true|gl3:false|plf:r1ram|bad:true
posted by Gary at 11:04 AM
BUSH HAS 131 COUNTRIES LEFT TO INVADE
It is estimated that Al Qaeda exists in 62 countries around the world. It is also estimated that there are 193 countries in the world. Based on Bush's record, he has 131 countries left to invade before his War Of Error is complete.
BUSH---LET'S NOT ELECT HIM IN 2004 EITHER.
BUSH---LET'S NOT ELECT HIM IN 2004 EITHER.
posted by Gary at 10:11 AM
10,000 private military contractors in Iraq
DynCorps employees in Iraq: how many? : SF Bay Area Indymedia
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2004/37131.htm
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/01/1668823.php
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11512
http://www.conspiracydigest.com/dirtytricks.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/gunhire.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935689,00.html
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2004/37131.htm
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/01/1668823.php
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11512
http://www.conspiracydigest.com/dirtytricks.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/gunhire.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935689,00.html
posted by Gary at 10:10 AM
Welcome to DMCC web site - Diplomats & Military Commanders for Change Official web site
posted by Gary at 9:00 AM
BUSH HAS MADE AMERICA SAFER
Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "President Bush has made America SAFE
by: ed_blackmail 10/24/04 06:41 am
Msg: 2764166 of 2764183
5 recommendations
Bush talks tough and goes after the bad guys. He... hey wait a minute, what's this --
.........
The Iraq war is increasing Al-Qaeda recruits worldwide, according to the conservative research group, International Institute of Strategic Studies. http://www.detnews.com/2004/nation/0405/26/nation-164677.htm
........
Well that's just great. Not only does the cowboy invade a country where 99% of Al Qaeda WASN'T, but now he's INCREASING the number of new Al Qaedans around the globe. And he can't do much about them because he's got our troops tied up in Iraq for years to come. Looks like i'll be voting for Kerry after all. "
by: ed_blackmail 10/24/04 06:41 am
Msg: 2764166 of 2764183
5 recommendations
Bush talks tough and goes after the bad guys. He... hey wait a minute, what's this --
.........
The Iraq war is increasing Al-Qaeda recruits worldwide, according to the conservative research group, International Institute of Strategic Studies. http://www.detnews.com/2004/nation/0405/26/nation-164677.htm
........
Well that's just great. Not only does the cowboy invade a country where 99% of Al Qaeda WASN'T, but now he's INCREASING the number of new Al Qaedans around the globe. And he can't do much about them because he's got our troops tied up in Iraq for years to come. Looks like i'll be voting for Kerry after all. "
posted by Gary at 5:44 AM
GOD TALKS TO GEORGE BUSH?
GOD TALKS TO BUSH?
God talks to George Bush and tells him to Kill tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and now claims they are?
God talks to George Bush and tells him to send our sons, our daughters, our mothers and fathers to go kill our distant neighbors?
God talks to George Bush and tells him Steal hundreds of billions of dollars from Americans to give to the likes of Halliburton?
God talks to George Bush and tells him to bankrupt America and American citizens to pay for his ignorant mistakes?
Who is George Bush's god? Would your god say these things to you?
God talks to George Bush and tells him to Kill tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and now claims they are?
God talks to George Bush and tells him to send our sons, our daughters, our mothers and fathers to go kill our distant neighbors?
God talks to George Bush and tells him Steal hundreds of billions of dollars from Americans to give to the likes of Halliburton?
God talks to George Bush and tells him to bankrupt America and American citizens to pay for his ignorant mistakes?
Who is George Bush's god? Would your god say these things to you?
posted by Gary at 3:34 AM
Saturday, October 23, 2004
BUSH ABORTION INFORMATION
In the winter of 1971 George W. Bush was dating a woman named Robin Lowman (now Robin Garner). Miss Lowman became pregnant by Smirk and he arranged for her to have an abortion - which in the great state of Texas in 1971 was very illegal! Not to mention that George W. is running as a pro-life candidate for the presidency.
The unnamed source of this story, was a friend of Robin Lowman's and the girlfriend of the man who arranged the abortion. His name is Robert Carl Chandler. Chandler is a Bush friend and supporter from way back and he made the arrangements for Miss Lowman's abortion at the Twelve Oaks Hospital in Houston, TX (now the Bayou City Medical Center). The source overheard the call by Mr. Chandler to arrange the abortion and the source visited Robin Lowman at the Twelve Oaks Hospital after the procedure.
The source meanwhile, is afraid of coming forward, saying that she was threatened by Chandler and another Bush friend and supporter named Jim Bath. Bath has longstanding intelligence connections, and played a role in the BCCI scandal. Robin Lowman (now Garner) is married to Jerry Lee Garner who is an FBI agent.
So, that's the story: an illegal back room abortion arranged by the Republican party Presidential candidate who is running on a pro-life ticket.
http://www.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=159
The following has been removed from the CNN transcript
Mr. Novak : Mr. Flynt, NEVER let it be said that we CENSOR any of our guests here on CROSSFIRE -- and you said you wanted to talk about the election. Tell me what you wanted to say.
Mr. Flynt : Well, during the impeachment debacle, we did an investigation which resulted in the resignation of Bob Livingston and others, and we have continued this investigation -- and for eight months we've been looking into George W. Bush's background.
And we've found out in the early 1970s, he was involved in an abortion in Texas -- and I just think that it's sad that the mainstream media, who's [sic] aware of this story, won't ask him that question, when they were able to ask him the drug question without any proof at all -- and we've got all kinds of proof on this issue.
Mr. Novak : Well, you're ...
Mr. Flynt : You know, the guy ADMITTED he was a drunk for twenty years, and if the abortion issue is true, then that puts him lower on the morality scale than Bill Clinton!
Mr. Novak : Mr. Flynt, you said IF it's true and you have no proof of that. I gather you are a very strong ...
Mr. Flynt [ smiling, mind you] : THE HELL WE DON'T HAVE PROOF!
http://pearly-abraham.tripod.com/htmls/bush-abortion.html
The unnamed source of this story, was a friend of Robin Lowman's and the girlfriend of the man who arranged the abortion. His name is Robert Carl Chandler. Chandler is a Bush friend and supporter from way back and he made the arrangements for Miss Lowman's abortion at the Twelve Oaks Hospital in Houston, TX (now the Bayou City Medical Center). The source overheard the call by Mr. Chandler to arrange the abortion and the source visited Robin Lowman at the Twelve Oaks Hospital after the procedure.
The source meanwhile, is afraid of coming forward, saying that she was threatened by Chandler and another Bush friend and supporter named Jim Bath. Bath has longstanding intelligence connections, and played a role in the BCCI scandal. Robin Lowman (now Garner) is married to Jerry Lee Garner who is an FBI agent.
So, that's the story: an illegal back room abortion arranged by the Republican party Presidential candidate who is running on a pro-life ticket.
http://www.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=159
The following has been removed from the CNN transcript
Mr. Novak : Mr. Flynt, NEVER let it be said that we CENSOR any of our guests here on CROSSFIRE -- and you said you wanted to talk about the election. Tell me what you wanted to say.
Mr. Flynt : Well, during the impeachment debacle, we did an investigation which resulted in the resignation of Bob Livingston and others, and we have continued this investigation -- and for eight months we've been looking into George W. Bush's background.
And we've found out in the early 1970s, he was involved in an abortion in Texas -- and I just think that it's sad that the mainstream media, who's [sic] aware of this story, won't ask him that question, when they were able to ask him the drug question without any proof at all -- and we've got all kinds of proof on this issue.
Mr. Novak : Well, you're ...
Mr. Flynt : You know, the guy ADMITTED he was a drunk for twenty years, and if the abortion issue is true, then that puts him lower on the morality scale than Bill Clinton!
Mr. Novak : Mr. Flynt, you said IF it's true and you have no proof of that. I gather you are a very strong ...
Mr. Flynt [ smiling, mind you] : THE HELL WE DON'T HAVE PROOF!
http://pearly-abraham.tripod.com/htmls/bush-abortion.html
posted by Gary at 6:15 PM
BUSH 2000 CAMPAIGN PROMISES
Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "Moderate republicans, consider this:
by: biqdawg_bubba (34/M/Tampa, FL) 10/23/04 11:08 am
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Bush: ?Over the past four years, I have brought a straightforward approach to the presidency. I tell you what I?m going to do, and I keep my word.?
[Bush Radio Address, 10/15/04]
Bush Promise on Not Sending Troops Into Combat Without An Exit Strategy: ?I?m going to be judicious as to how to use the military. It needs to be in our vital interest, the mission needs to be clear, and the exit strategy obvious.? [Bush, 10/11/00]
Reality: Military Is Stretched While Bush Has No Plan For Future of Iraq. Senators Chuck Hagel and John McCain say ?we are not winning? in Iraq. Senator Dick Lugar said the ?lack of planning is apparent.? A former-senior administration official admitted, ?There was no real planning for postwar Iraq.? [NYT, 8/23/04; Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, 9/15/04; NBC, ?Nightly News,? 9/14/04; CBS, ?Face The Nation,? 9/18/04; Newsweek, 7/21/03]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Health Care: ?I?ll have as a goal the idea of making sure people have got affordable health care and insurance policies to make sure they?re able to pay for them.? [Bush interview with ABC?s This Week, 1/23/00]
Reality: Families? Health Costs Have Risen 64 Percent Since Bush Took Office. Families are paying $1,044 (64 percent) more in health expenses since Bush took office. [Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits 2004 Annual Survey]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Fiscal Responsibility: ?And we can proceed wit"
by: biqdawg_bubba (34/M/Tampa, FL) 10/23/04 11:08 am
Msg: 2759365 of 2759375
5 recommendations
Bush: ?Over the past four years, I have brought a straightforward approach to the presidency. I tell you what I?m going to do, and I keep my word.?
[Bush Radio Address, 10/15/04]
Bush Promise on Not Sending Troops Into Combat Without An Exit Strategy: ?I?m going to be judicious as to how to use the military. It needs to be in our vital interest, the mission needs to be clear, and the exit strategy obvious.? [Bush, 10/11/00]
Reality: Military Is Stretched While Bush Has No Plan For Future of Iraq. Senators Chuck Hagel and John McCain say ?we are not winning? in Iraq. Senator Dick Lugar said the ?lack of planning is apparent.? A former-senior administration official admitted, ?There was no real planning for postwar Iraq.? [NYT, 8/23/04; Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, 9/15/04; NBC, ?Nightly News,? 9/14/04; CBS, ?Face The Nation,? 9/18/04; Newsweek, 7/21/03]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Health Care: ?I?ll have as a goal the idea of making sure people have got affordable health care and insurance policies to make sure they?re able to pay for them.? [Bush interview with ABC?s This Week, 1/23/00]
Reality: Families? Health Costs Have Risen 64 Percent Since Bush Took Office. Families are paying $1,044 (64 percent) more in health expenses since Bush took office. [Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits 2004 Annual Survey]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Fiscal Responsibility: ?And we can proceed wit"
posted by Gary at 6:09 PM
Moderate republicans, consider this:
by: biqdawg_bubba (34/M/Tampa, FL) 10/23/04 11:08 am
Msg: 2759365 of 2759375
5 recommendations
Bush: “Over the past four years, I have brought a straightforward approach to the presidency. I tell you what I’m going to do, and I keep my word.”
[Bush Radio Address, 10/15/04]
Bush Promise on Not Sending Troops Into Combat Without An Exit Strategy: “I’m going to be judicious as to how to use the military. It needs to be in our vital interest, the mission needs to be clear, and the exit strategy obvious.” [Bush, 10/11/00]
Reality: Military Is Stretched While Bush Has No Plan For Future of Iraq. Senators Chuck Hagel and John McCain say “we are not winning” in Iraq. Senator Dick Lugar said the “lack of planning is apparent.” A former-senior administration official admitted, “There was no real planning for postwar Iraq.” [NYT, 8/23/04; Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, 9/15/04; NBC, “Nightly News,” 9/14/04; CBS, “Face The Nation,” 9/18/04; Newsweek, 7/21/03]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Health Care: “I’ll have as a goal the idea of making sure people have got affordable health care and insurance policies to make sure they’re able to pay for them.” [Bush interview with ABC’s This Week, 1/23/00]
Reality: Families’ Health Costs Have Risen 64 Percent Since Bush Took Office. Families are paying $1,044 (64 percent) more in health expenses since Bush took office. [Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits 2004 Annual Survey]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Fiscal Responsibility: “And we can proceed with tax relief without fear of budget deficits, even if the economy softens.” [Bush, Kalamazoo, MI, 3/27/01]
Reality: $5.6 Trillion Surplus Replaced With $2.3 Trillion Deficit. The $5.6 trillion ten-year surplus projected in January 2001 is gone, replaced with $2.3 trillion in deficits over the next ten years-a fiscal decline of $7.9 trillion in just three years. [CBO, The Budget And Economic Outlook: An Update, 9/04, “Monthly Budget Review,” 10/6/04]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Jobs: “When America works, America prospers, so my economic security plan can be summed up in one word: jobs.” [Bush Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union, 1/29/02]
Reality: Economy Is 7 Million Jobs Short of Bush’s Post-9/11 Jobs Prediction. The 2002 Economic Report of the President projected more than 6 million new jobs between January 2001 and August 2004. Instead, we have lost 900,000 million jobs. As a result, we are more than 7 million jobs short of the prediction which President Bush made after 9/11, the tech bubble, and the recession. [BLS and Economic Report of the President, 2002]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Social Security: “I’ve lockboxed Social Security money to make sure that the Social Security system is secure today and is around tomorrow.” Just after taking office, he said that “my plan will keep all Social Security money in the Social Security System, where it belongs.” [Bush Remarks, Elizabeth Dole Endorsement (Bedford, NH), 1/4/00; Bush Radio Address, 2/3/01]
Reality: Bush Looted Social Security to Pay for His Tax Cuts. To cover the cost of his tax cuts, Bush will have to spend the entire projected Social Security surplus of $2.4 trillion from 2005 through 2014. [Office of Management and Budget, 2/04; Office of Management and Budget, Historical Budget Data; Social Security Administration, Fiscal Year Trust Fund Operations, 12/30/03; Congressional Budget Office; Senate Budget Committee Democratic Caucus, 2/27/04]
by: biqdawg_bubba (34/M/Tampa, FL) 10/23/04 11:08 am
Msg: 2759365 of 2759375
5 recommendations
Bush: “Over the past four years, I have brought a straightforward approach to the presidency. I tell you what I’m going to do, and I keep my word.”
[Bush Radio Address, 10/15/04]
Bush Promise on Not Sending Troops Into Combat Without An Exit Strategy: “I’m going to be judicious as to how to use the military. It needs to be in our vital interest, the mission needs to be clear, and the exit strategy obvious.” [Bush, 10/11/00]
Reality: Military Is Stretched While Bush Has No Plan For Future of Iraq. Senators Chuck Hagel and John McCain say “we are not winning” in Iraq. Senator Dick Lugar said the “lack of planning is apparent.” A former-senior administration official admitted, “There was no real planning for postwar Iraq.” [NYT, 8/23/04; Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, 9/15/04; NBC, “Nightly News,” 9/14/04; CBS, “Face The Nation,” 9/18/04; Newsweek, 7/21/03]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Health Care: “I’ll have as a goal the idea of making sure people have got affordable health care and insurance policies to make sure they’re able to pay for them.” [Bush interview with ABC’s This Week, 1/23/00]
Reality: Families’ Health Costs Have Risen 64 Percent Since Bush Took Office. Families are paying $1,044 (64 percent) more in health expenses since Bush took office. [Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits 2004 Annual Survey]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Fiscal Responsibility: “And we can proceed with tax relief without fear of budget deficits, even if the economy softens.” [Bush, Kalamazoo, MI, 3/27/01]
Reality: $5.6 Trillion Surplus Replaced With $2.3 Trillion Deficit. The $5.6 trillion ten-year surplus projected in January 2001 is gone, replaced with $2.3 trillion in deficits over the next ten years-a fiscal decline of $7.9 trillion in just three years. [CBO, The Budget And Economic Outlook: An Update, 9/04, “Monthly Budget Review,” 10/6/04]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Jobs: “When America works, America prospers, so my economic security plan can be summed up in one word: jobs.” [Bush Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union, 1/29/02]
Reality: Economy Is 7 Million Jobs Short of Bush’s Post-9/11 Jobs Prediction. The 2002 Economic Report of the President projected more than 6 million new jobs between January 2001 and August 2004. Instead, we have lost 900,000 million jobs. As a result, we are more than 7 million jobs short of the prediction which President Bush made after 9/11, the tech bubble, and the recession. [BLS and Economic Report of the President, 2002]
What Bush Said He Would Do on Social Security: “I’ve lockboxed Social Security money to make sure that the Social Security system is secure today and is around tomorrow.” Just after taking office, he said that “my plan will keep all Social Security money in the Social Security System, where it belongs.” [Bush Remarks, Elizabeth Dole Endorsement (Bedford, NH), 1/4/00; Bush Radio Address, 2/3/01]
Reality: Bush Looted Social Security to Pay for His Tax Cuts. To cover the cost of his tax cuts, Bush will have to spend the entire projected Social Security surplus of $2.4 trillion from 2005 through 2014. [Office of Management and Budget, 2/04; Office of Management and Budget, Historical Budget Data; Social Security Administration, Fiscal Year Trust Fund Operations, 12/30/03; Congressional Budget Office; Senate Budget Committee Democratic Caucus, 2/27/04]
posted by Gary at 6:06 PM
Three of Four Bush Supporters Still Believe in Iraqi WMD, al Qaeda Ties
Yahoo! News - Three of Four Bush Supporters Still Believe in Iraqi WMD, al Qaeda Ties: "Three of Four Bush Supporters Still Believe in Iraqi WMD, al Qaeda Ties"
posted by Gary at 2:53 PM
Friday, October 22, 2004
Thanks to emmanual goldstein? (Aw shucks).
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News: "Re: WOODTHI32, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM
by: woodthi32 10/22/04 10:17 am
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I wanted to take a second to thank you for your good links, and your level-headed, intelligent insight. You are consistently informative and logical. You are the rarity on these boards. "
by: woodthi32 10/22/04 10:17 am
Msg: 226885 of 232953
1 recommendation
I wanted to take a second to thank you for your good links, and your level-headed, intelligent insight. You are consistently informative and logical. You are the rarity on these boards. "
posted by Gary at 7:13 PM
Electoral College Map
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2004_ELECTIONGUIDE_GRAPHIC/
washingtonpost.com - Electoral College Map
news.bbc.co.uk
ElectionProjection.com
Electoral-Vote.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/elections/2004/electoral-college/ohio.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/election-test-fl,0,7324127.flash
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2004/politics101/politics101_ecmap.html
washingtonpost.com - Electoral College Map
news.bbc.co.uk
ElectionProjection.com
Electoral-Vote.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/elections/2004/electoral-college/ohio.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/election-test-fl,0,7324127.flash
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2004/politics101/politics101_ecmap.html
posted by Gary at 10:18 AM
Republicans Endorsing John Kerry
Republicans Endorsing John Kerry
Charley Reese, conservative columnist/journalist, Orlando Sentinel (1971-2001) -- May 17
Lee Iacocca, former Chrysler Chairman -- June 25
Russell E. Train, (interview) EPA chief under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford -- Jul. '04
Various Republican Business Leaders -- Aug. 5
Gail Slocum, former Republican Mayor of Menlo Park, California -- Sept. '04
Clay Myers, Republican Secretary of State (1967-77) and State Treasurer (1977-84) for Oregon -- Sept. 1
Bill Rutherford, former Treasurer of Oregon and Chair of the Oregon Investment Council -- Sept. 1
George Comstock, Mayor of Portola Valley, California -- Sept. 1
Mike Cobb, former Republican Mayor of Palo Alto, California -- Sept. 8
Pete McCloskey (editorial here), former Republican Representative from California -- Sept. 8
John Eisenhower, son of former Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Sept. 9
Steve May, former Republican state legislator from Arizona -- Sept. 10
Jon Silver, former Republican Mayor of Portola Valley, California -- Sept. 24
John A. Galbraith, former Republican Ohio General Assemblyman -- Sept. 28
David Catania, Republican (now Independent) Councilman from Washington, D.C. -- Sept. 29
Clyde Prestowitz, counselor to Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Commerce -- Oct. 6
Rick Russman, former Republican State Senator from New Hampshire -- Oct. 7
Marshall Wittmann, former communications director to Arizona Republican Senator John McCain -- Oct. 7
Richard Schmalensee, former Council of Economic Advisers member for President George H. W. Bush -- Oct. 12
Elmer L. Andersen, former Republican Governor of Minnesota (1961-63) -- Oct. 13
Ballard Morton, son of Thurston Morton, former Republican Senator from Kentucky -- Oct. 14
Anne Morton Kimberly, widow of Roger C.B. Morton, former Republican Representative from Maryland -- Oct. 14
William Milliken, former Republican Governor of Michigan (1969-82) -- Oct. 18
Marlow Cook, former Republican Senator from Kentucky (1968-74) -- Oct. 20
Peter Gillette, former Republican Commissioner of Trade for Minnesota (1991-95) -- Oct. 20
Republicans Who Will Not Vote For George W. Bush
Paul O'Neill, former Treasury Secretary to Republican President George W. Bush -- Jan. '04
Paul Findley, former Republican Representative from Illinois -- Apr. '04
John Dean, former White House Counsel to former Republican President Nixon -- Apr. '04
A. Linwood Holton former Republican Governor of Virginia (1970-74) -- Aug. 29
Andrew Sullivan, conservative columnist, former editor of The New Republic -- Jul. 25
Richie Robb, mayor of South Charleston, WV (and 2004 Electoral College WV Republican elector) -- Sep. '04
William Saletan, "liberal Republican" columnist for Slate -- Sept. 1
Log Cabin Republicans -- Sept. 8
Lincoln Chafee, Republican Senator from Rhode Island -- Oct. 4
John H. Buchanan, former Republican Congressman from Alabama -- Oct. 4
Robert L. Black, retired Republican judge of the Ohio First District Court of Appeals -- Oct. 13
Bob Barr, former Republican Representative from Georgia (1995-2003) -- Oct. 14
Karl W. B. Schwarz, very conservative Republican from Arkansas (scroll down or search "Karl") -- Oct. 20
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News
Charley Reese, conservative columnist/journalist, Orlando Sentinel (1971-2001) -- May 17
Lee Iacocca, former Chrysler Chairman -- June 25
Russell E. Train, (interview) EPA chief under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford -- Jul. '04
Various Republican Business Leaders -- Aug. 5
Gail Slocum, former Republican Mayor of Menlo Park, California -- Sept. '04
Clay Myers, Republican Secretary of State (1967-77) and State Treasurer (1977-84) for Oregon -- Sept. 1
Bill Rutherford, former Treasurer of Oregon and Chair of the Oregon Investment Council -- Sept. 1
George Comstock, Mayor of Portola Valley, California -- Sept. 1
Mike Cobb, former Republican Mayor of Palo Alto, California -- Sept. 8
Pete McCloskey (editorial here), former Republican Representative from California -- Sept. 8
John Eisenhower, son of former Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Sept. 9
Steve May, former Republican state legislator from Arizona -- Sept. 10
Jon Silver, former Republican Mayor of Portola Valley, California -- Sept. 24
John A. Galbraith, former Republican Ohio General Assemblyman -- Sept. 28
David Catania, Republican (now Independent) Councilman from Washington, D.C. -- Sept. 29
Clyde Prestowitz, counselor to Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Commerce -- Oct. 6
Rick Russman, former Republican State Senator from New Hampshire -- Oct. 7
Marshall Wittmann, former communications director to Arizona Republican Senator John McCain -- Oct. 7
Richard Schmalensee, former Council of Economic Advisers member for President George H. W. Bush -- Oct. 12
Elmer L. Andersen, former Republican Governor of Minnesota (1961-63) -- Oct. 13
Ballard Morton, son of Thurston Morton, former Republican Senator from Kentucky -- Oct. 14
Anne Morton Kimberly, widow of Roger C.B. Morton, former Republican Representative from Maryland -- Oct. 14
William Milliken, former Republican Governor of Michigan (1969-82) -- Oct. 18
Marlow Cook, former Republican Senator from Kentucky (1968-74) -- Oct. 20
Peter Gillette, former Republican Commissioner of Trade for Minnesota (1991-95) -- Oct. 20
Republicans Who Will Not Vote For George W. Bush
Paul O'Neill, former Treasury Secretary to Republican President George W. Bush -- Jan. '04
Paul Findley, former Republican Representative from Illinois -- Apr. '04
John Dean, former White House Counsel to former Republican President Nixon -- Apr. '04
A. Linwood Holton former Republican Governor of Virginia (1970-74) -- Aug. 29
Andrew Sullivan, conservative columnist, former editor of The New Republic -- Jul. 25
Richie Robb, mayor of South Charleston, WV (and 2004 Electoral College WV Republican elector) -- Sep. '04
William Saletan, "liberal Republican" columnist for Slate -- Sept. 1
Log Cabin Republicans -- Sept. 8
Lincoln Chafee, Republican Senator from Rhode Island -- Oct. 4
John H. Buchanan, former Republican Congressman from Alabama -- Oct. 4
Robert L. Black, retired Republican judge of the Ohio First District Court of Appeals -- Oct. 13
Bob Barr, former Republican Representative from Georgia (1995-2003) -- Oct. 14
Karl W. B. Schwarz, very conservative Republican from Arkansas (scroll down or search "Karl") -- Oct. 20
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posted by Gary at 8:53 AM
Thursday, October 21, 2004
TODAY'S NEWS - Thursday, October 21, 2004
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News: "A SAMPLING OF TODAY'S NEWS
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/21/04 10:55 pm
Msg: 44849 of 44898
Leading Economic Indicator Index Declines
Yahoo! News - Leading Economic Indicator Index Declines
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=668&u=/ap/20041021/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/e conomy_39&printer=1
Bush: 'We will not have an all volunteer army':
http://homepage.mac.com/njenson/movies/allvolunteerarmy.html
The U.S. Treasury Department tapped into a federal employee pension fund Thursday as a stop-gap measure to keep the government below its $7.384 trillion borrowing limit, Treasury Secretary John Snow said in a letter to Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32577-2004Oct14?language=printer
DOW under 9900
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^DJI
Kerry / Edwards '04 "
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/21/04 10:55 pm
Msg: 44849 of 44898
Leading Economic Indicator Index Declines
Yahoo! News - Leading Economic Indicator Index Declines
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=668&u=/ap/20041021/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/e conomy_39&printer=1
Bush: 'We will not have an all volunteer army':
http://homepage.mac.com/njenson/movies/allvolunteerarmy.html
The U.S. Treasury Department tapped into a federal employee pension fund Thursday as a stop-gap measure to keep the government below its $7.384 trillion borrowing limit, Treasury Secretary John Snow said in a letter to Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32577-2004Oct14?language=printer
DOW under 9900
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^DJI
Kerry / Edwards '04 "
posted by Gary at 9:57 PM
INTERNATIONAL ENDORSEMENTS OF NOTE
o World Opinion Favors Kerry:
"CNN's Richard Quest, who recently returned from a tour of the U.S., said: "There are vast numbers of people, especially in Europe, that are looking at the United States' population and cannot understand how they want to re-elect George W. Bush. It is a simple fact.''"
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/schneider.world/
o Iran Endorses Bush:
"Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan Rowhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's top security decision-making body. "
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/iran_us_elections_1
o UK Envoy Says Al Qaeda Supports Bush:
"The Foreign Office was thrown into turmoil yesterday after the British ambassador to Rome, Sir Ivor Roberts, described President George Bush as 'the best recruiting sergeant ever for al-Qaida'.
His comment, made at a closed conference of about 100 British and Italian diplomats, politicians and journalists in Tuscany, was leaked to an Italian newspaper, provoking embarrassment in London.
According to one of those present, Sir Ivor had been taking part in a discussion on which candidate Europeans would back if they had a vote in the US election. The ambassador said they would vote for Mr Kerry but some people would want Mr Bush, not least al-Qaida.
'If anyone is ready to celebrate the eventual re-election of Bush, it's al-Qaida. Whereas it is clear that the Palestinians hope that a Kerry victory will unblock the situation,' he said. "
Seems this assessment was wrong. Does Bin Laden really want to solve the problem between the Pals and Israel? Only a stateman in the Oval office would be able to have intelligent discussion with other world leaders. Face it, people. Bin Laden is seen as a world leader at this point. America cannot invade all 62 countries where AQ exists. Bush has zero credibility, and never admits a mistake, and doesn't have a brain or control of his agenda. He's a puppet.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1309177,00.ht
o Putin, the other leader moving his country toward totalitarianism, endorses Bush, while the Russia Journal, describing Bush stated "Presidential politics, and U.S.-Russian relations, are all about fresh starts, repeats, and starts all over again. Poor memory is a useful qualification. That’s one reason why Bush Jr. has declared the cold war over at least a dozen times during his presidency. Bush’s intellectual credentials are not immense, but no one ever declared so vehemently and so often that he cannot remember history.
http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews-article.shtml?nd=46007
o Yassar Arafat Supports Kerry:
Of course. Clinton/Albright came closer to peace there then anyone else. Bush has ignored the situation and allowed it to fester and ooze. With a statesman in the White House again, maybe we can make some progress there. That IS the source of terrorism, but the bushies would rather have you distracted.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=71301
Kerry / Edwards '04
"CNN's Richard Quest, who recently returned from a tour of the U.S., said: "There are vast numbers of people, especially in Europe, that are looking at the United States' population and cannot understand how they want to re-elect George W. Bush. It is a simple fact.''"
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/schneider.world/
o Iran Endorses Bush:
"Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan Rowhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's top security decision-making body. "
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/iran_us_elections_1
o UK Envoy Says Al Qaeda Supports Bush:
"The Foreign Office was thrown into turmoil yesterday after the British ambassador to Rome, Sir Ivor Roberts, described President George Bush as 'the best recruiting sergeant ever for al-Qaida'.
His comment, made at a closed conference of about 100 British and Italian diplomats, politicians and journalists in Tuscany, was leaked to an Italian newspaper, provoking embarrassment in London.
According to one of those present, Sir Ivor had been taking part in a discussion on which candidate Europeans would back if they had a vote in the US election. The ambassador said they would vote for Mr Kerry but some people would want Mr Bush, not least al-Qaida.
'If anyone is ready to celebrate the eventual re-election of Bush, it's al-Qaida. Whereas it is clear that the Palestinians hope that a Kerry victory will unblock the situation,' he said. "
Seems this assessment was wrong. Does Bin Laden really want to solve the problem between the Pals and Israel? Only a stateman in the Oval office would be able to have intelligent discussion with other world leaders. Face it, people. Bin Laden is seen as a world leader at this point. America cannot invade all 62 countries where AQ exists. Bush has zero credibility, and never admits a mistake, and doesn't have a brain or control of his agenda. He's a puppet.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1309177,00.ht
o Putin, the other leader moving his country toward totalitarianism, endorses Bush, while the Russia Journal, describing Bush stated "Presidential politics, and U.S.-Russian relations, are all about fresh starts, repeats, and starts all over again. Poor memory is a useful qualification. That’s one reason why Bush Jr. has declared the cold war over at least a dozen times during his presidency. Bush’s intellectual credentials are not immense, but no one ever declared so vehemently and so often that he cannot remember history.
http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews-article.shtml?nd=46007
o Yassar Arafat Supports Kerry:
Of course. Clinton/Albright came closer to peace there then anyone else. Bush has ignored the situation and allowed it to fester and ooze. With a statesman in the White House again, maybe we can make some progress there. That IS the source of terrorism, but the bushies would rather have you distracted.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=71301
Kerry / Edwards '04
posted by Gary at 9:25 PM
Seriously, KERRY CANT DO WORST AMERICA
No WMD, Powell apologizing for the main premise of his speech to the UN being wrong, which makes the main premise for war wrong.
Liberation that smells more like Viet Nam than France.
Not enough troops to massively secure a country the size of California. Disallowing the ease at which insurgencies can grow.
A coallition, which at 60 nations totals more than BOTH WWI and WWII combined...on both sides.
Yet -
90% of military deaths American
90% of troops, American
90% of cost covered by, you guessed it Americans. And 5 nations have bailed in the last 10 months.
Nothing even close to subtantial when it comes to links to 9/11 or al-queda.
We have the largest negative deficit ever...and growing. The budget is unbalanced, and worst yet...there is no effort to balance it.
Bush bills constantly get trashed by Federal courts, because of Constitutional issues. No matter how you feel about the ruling, Bush losses often. Bad planning, waste of money.
Bush handpicked Chalabi and paid him 340k a month of OUR money. He was already known to be shady..and was a criminal in Jordan, I believe.
Bush decided to step back fromt he table with North Korea and allow China to handle it. Now North Korea has nukes and flaunts it.
Bush said he would never put the security of America in the hands of foriegners. He let the largest Communists agents deal with another Communists threat getting nukes.
Surprised?
Iran has nukes.
Not talking with these folks may be strong...but its also arrogant to think other humans won't work toward thier goals cause we dicide not to talk. Be close to your enemies. In this case, I beleive that.
Face it, as must as you love Bush. As much as some hate Kerry. He can't do much worst.
And I never ever worry about the US allowing ANY PRESIDENT OR ADMIN to take this country to a point that we can build back up from.
At worst we have to deal with terms likes Dubyas. It make take 2 terms to fix things. But its possible with someone else.
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by: failed_success
Liberation that smells more like Viet Nam than France.
Not enough troops to massively secure a country the size of California. Disallowing the ease at which insurgencies can grow.
A coallition, which at 60 nations totals more than BOTH WWI and WWII combined...on both sides.
Yet -
90% of military deaths American
90% of troops, American
90% of cost covered by, you guessed it Americans. And 5 nations have bailed in the last 10 months.
Nothing even close to subtantial when it comes to links to 9/11 or al-queda.
We have the largest negative deficit ever...and growing. The budget is unbalanced, and worst yet...there is no effort to balance it.
Bush bills constantly get trashed by Federal courts, because of Constitutional issues. No matter how you feel about the ruling, Bush losses often. Bad planning, waste of money.
Bush handpicked Chalabi and paid him 340k a month of OUR money. He was already known to be shady..and was a criminal in Jordan, I believe.
Bush decided to step back fromt he table with North Korea and allow China to handle it. Now North Korea has nukes and flaunts it.
Bush said he would never put the security of America in the hands of foriegners. He let the largest Communists agents deal with another Communists threat getting nukes.
Surprised?
Iran has nukes.
Not talking with these folks may be strong...but its also arrogant to think other humans won't work toward thier goals cause we dicide not to talk. Be close to your enemies. In this case, I beleive that.
Face it, as must as you love Bush. As much as some hate Kerry. He can't do much worst.
And I never ever worry about the US allowing ANY PRESIDENT OR ADMIN to take this country to a point that we can build back up from.
At worst we have to deal with terms likes Dubyas. It make take 2 terms to fix things. But its possible with someone else.
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by: failed_success
posted by Gary at 7:29 PM
washingtonpost.com: Treasury Moves to Avoid Piercing Debt Limit
washingtonpost.com
Treasury Moves to Avoid Piercing Debt Limit
By Laura MacInnis
Reuters
Thursday, October 14, 2004; 12:59 PM
The U.S. Treasury Department tapped into a federal employee pension fund Thursday as a stop-gap measure to keep the government below its $7.384 trillion borrowing limit, Treasury Secretary John Snow said in a letter to Congress.
Congress adjourned for an election break last weekend without raising the politically sensitive limit. Snow said it was critical that lawmakers raise the debt ceiling when they return on Nov. 16.
"Given current projections, it is imperative that the Congress take action to increase the debt limit by mid-November, at which time all of our previously used prudent and legal actions to avoid breaching the statutory debt limit will be exhausted," he said.
The United States was just $10 billion below its legal borrowing limit as of Tuesday, according to the latest data.
Snow said the Treasury Department would stop investing in the $56 billion Federal Employee Retirement System's Government Securities Investment Fund, known as the G-fund, as a means to keep issuing debt in the near-term.
"Such a suspension action has been taken in the past by my predecessors and by me," Snow said. He said the funds would be restored once Congress raises the debt ceiling.
Congress has already increased the debt limit twice during the Bush administration's tenure, in 2002 and 2003.
Republicans in Congress avoided a vote on a debt ceiling increase before next month's presidential election, as it would have likely drawn Democratic criticism about President
Bush's huge budget deficits.
"Rep. John Spratt of South Carolina, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said Thursday's announcement was "the latest in bad fiscal news resulting from Republican mismanagement of the budget."
"When this administration took office, it claimed that the debt limit would not be reached until 2008, even if the administration's tax cuts and other policies were implemented," Spratt said in a statement.
"Instead, largely as a result of the tax cuts proposed by the administration and enacted into law by Congressional Republicans, the debt limit now will have to be raised for the third time in three years," he said.
The White House said in July it expects the budget deficit for fiscal 2004, which ended Sept. 30, to be about $445 billion, the largest on record. Treasury is expected to release the year-end data in the next few days. The previous record deficit was $374 billion, set in fiscal 2003.
Congressional aides have suggested the debt limit increase might be attached to another bill when lawmakers return to session, but have not said which one.
Democrats were angered earlier this year when Republicans tried to sneak the debt limit through on a spending bill and it was eventually removed.
Treasury spokeswoman Brookly McLaughlin said the next quarterly refunding announcement, set for Nov. 3, is not expected to be delayed due to debt limit concerns.
(Additional reporting by Anna Willard)
washingtonpost.com: Treasury Moves to Avoid Piercing Debt Limit
Treasury Moves to Avoid Piercing Debt Limit
By Laura MacInnis
Reuters
Thursday, October 14, 2004; 12:59 PM
The U.S. Treasury Department tapped into a federal employee pension fund Thursday as a stop-gap measure to keep the government below its $7.384 trillion borrowing limit, Treasury Secretary John Snow said in a letter to Congress.
Congress adjourned for an election break last weekend without raising the politically sensitive limit. Snow said it was critical that lawmakers raise the debt ceiling when they return on Nov. 16.
"Given current projections, it is imperative that the Congress take action to increase the debt limit by mid-November, at which time all of our previously used prudent and legal actions to avoid breaching the statutory debt limit will be exhausted," he said.
The United States was just $10 billion below its legal borrowing limit as of Tuesday, according to the latest data.
Snow said the Treasury Department would stop investing in the $56 billion Federal Employee Retirement System's Government Securities Investment Fund, known as the G-fund, as a means to keep issuing debt in the near-term.
"Such a suspension action has been taken in the past by my predecessors and by me," Snow said. He said the funds would be restored once Congress raises the debt ceiling.
Congress has already increased the debt limit twice during the Bush administration's tenure, in 2002 and 2003.
Republicans in Congress avoided a vote on a debt ceiling increase before next month's presidential election, as it would have likely drawn Democratic criticism about President
Bush's huge budget deficits.
"Rep. John Spratt of South Carolina, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said Thursday's announcement was "the latest in bad fiscal news resulting from Republican mismanagement of the budget."
"When this administration took office, it claimed that the debt limit would not be reached until 2008, even if the administration's tax cuts and other policies were implemented," Spratt said in a statement.
"Instead, largely as a result of the tax cuts proposed by the administration and enacted into law by Congressional Republicans, the debt limit now will have to be raised for the third time in three years," he said.
The White House said in July it expects the budget deficit for fiscal 2004, which ended Sept. 30, to be about $445 billion, the largest on record. Treasury is expected to release the year-end data in the next few days. The previous record deficit was $374 billion, set in fiscal 2003.
Congressional aides have suggested the debt limit increase might be attached to another bill when lawmakers return to session, but have not said which one.
Democrats were angered earlier this year when Republicans tried to sneak the debt limit through on a spending bill and it was eventually removed.
Treasury spokeswoman Brookly McLaughlin said the next quarterly refunding announcement, set for Nov. 3, is not expected to be delayed due to debt limit concerns.
(Additional reporting by Anna Willard)
washingtonpost.com: Treasury Moves to Avoid Piercing Debt Limit
posted by Gary at 9:41 AM
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
The New York Times > Magazine > In the Magazine: Without a Doubt
The New York Times > Magazine > In the Magazine: Without a Doubt: "faith-based presidency. "
posted by Gary at 9:15 PM
Iran Endorses Bush
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by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/20/04 08:57 pm
Msg: 212542 of 212560
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World Opinion Favors Kerry:
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/schneider.world/
Iran Endorses Bush:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/iran_us_e lections_1
The Foreign Office was thrown into turmoil yesterday after the British ambassador to Rome, Sir Ivor Roberts, described President George Bush as 'the best recruiting sergeant ever for al-Qaida'.
His comment, made at a closed conference of about 100 British and Italian diplomats, politicians and journalists in Tuscany, was leaked to an Italian newspaper, provoking embarrassment in London.
According to one of those present, Sir Ivor had been taking part in a discussion on which candidate Europeans would back if they had a vote in the US election. The ambassador said they would vote for Mr Kerry but some people would want Mr Bush, not least al-Qaida.
'If anyone is ready to celebrate the eventual re-election of Bush, it's al-Qaida. Whereas it is clear that the Palestinians hope that a Kerry victory will unblock the situation,' he said.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1309177,00.html "
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/20/04 08:57 pm
Msg: 212542 of 212560
5 recommendations
World Opinion Favors Kerry:
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/schneider.world/
Iran Endorses Bush:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/iran_us_e lections_1
The Foreign Office was thrown into turmoil yesterday after the British ambassador to Rome, Sir Ivor Roberts, described President George Bush as 'the best recruiting sergeant ever for al-Qaida'.
His comment, made at a closed conference of about 100 British and Italian diplomats, politicians and journalists in Tuscany, was leaked to an Italian newspaper, provoking embarrassment in London.
According to one of those present, Sir Ivor had been taking part in a discussion on which candidate Europeans would back if they had a vote in the US election. The ambassador said they would vote for Mr Kerry but some people would want Mr Bush, not least al-Qaida.
'If anyone is ready to celebrate the eventual re-election of Bush, it's al-Qaida. Whereas it is clear that the Palestinians hope that a Kerry victory will unblock the situation,' he said.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1309177,00.html "
posted by Gary at 8:01 PM
BUSH: OUR FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT!
BUSH: OUR FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT!
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/20/04 07:22 pm
Msg: 211894 of 211896
1 recommendation
BUSH: OUR FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT!
Everyone has to stop pretending that George Bush is macho because, plainly, he acts like a girl.
Not a woman a girl. Not a week goes by when John Kerry isn't attacked because he said something that hurt someone's feelings. According to Bush spokes people, Kerry lost the first debate because of his "new insult" to our allies when he said the coalition wasn't genuine. Poland had Lithuania over for a debate party that night, and now they can't look at each other without crying.
All of the attacks on Kerry involve his thoughtless words, like when he said the Iraqi prime minister wasn't legitimate the bitch; he hurt the troops when he said Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time men!; he hurt the Vietnam vets when he called that war a mistake he is so not sitting with us at lunch anymore.
Bush is all, "And another thing about John Kerry: he uses Botox, he spends too much time on his hair, and he's two-faced: flip-flopper!
And, I bet John Kerry didn't even deserve any of those medals. I woulda gone to stupid old Vietnam , but I wanted to be a stay-at-home soldier."
Excuse me, this president isn't resolute: he's on the rag.
He stopped having press conferences, which is basically saying, "I'm not talking to you." He acted all crampy at the debates: "Its hard work" I kept waiting for him to say, "If you don't like how I do your shirts, then iron them yourself."
He even ran for President like a girl. Promising to "restore dignity to the Oval office." What man gives a rat's ass about restoring an office? A real man thinks the Oval Office lost all its integrity the day Monica Lewinsky stopped coming in there to blow the president.
And then, in the one area I'm talking about Iraq where he could use being a little in touch with his feminine side he acts like the typical stupid male, who gets himself lost when he's driving, won't admit it, and won't stop and ask for directions. Always insisting, "Please, I know what I'm doing."
The only time guys like this learn their lesson is when their wives leave them. So on November second, I suggest we get a divorce.
by: truthmissle108 (28/M/Huntington Beach, (Reposted because I just found it and think it's priceless. Kudos to Truthmissile!)
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by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/20/04 07:22 pm
Msg: 211894 of 211896
1 recommendation
BUSH: OUR FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT!
Everyone has to stop pretending that George Bush is macho because, plainly, he acts like a girl.
Not a woman a girl. Not a week goes by when John Kerry isn't attacked because he said something that hurt someone's feelings. According to Bush spokes people, Kerry lost the first debate because of his "new insult" to our allies when he said the coalition wasn't genuine. Poland had Lithuania over for a debate party that night, and now they can't look at each other without crying.
All of the attacks on Kerry involve his thoughtless words, like when he said the Iraqi prime minister wasn't legitimate the bitch; he hurt the troops when he said Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time men!; he hurt the Vietnam vets when he called that war a mistake he is so not sitting with us at lunch anymore.
Bush is all, "And another thing about John Kerry: he uses Botox, he spends too much time on his hair, and he's two-faced: flip-flopper!
And, I bet John Kerry didn't even deserve any of those medals. I woulda gone to stupid old Vietnam , but I wanted to be a stay-at-home soldier."
Excuse me, this president isn't resolute: he's on the rag.
He stopped having press conferences, which is basically saying, "I'm not talking to you." He acted all crampy at the debates: "Its hard work" I kept waiting for him to say, "If you don't like how I do your shirts, then iron them yourself."
He even ran for President like a girl. Promising to "restore dignity to the Oval office." What man gives a rat's ass about restoring an office? A real man thinks the Oval Office lost all its integrity the day Monica Lewinsky stopped coming in there to blow the president.
And then, in the one area I'm talking about Iraq where he could use being a little in touch with his feminine side he acts like the typical stupid male, who gets himself lost when he's driving, won't admit it, and won't stop and ask for directions. Always insisting, "Please, I know what I'm doing."
The only time guys like this learn their lesson is when their wives leave them. So on November second, I suggest we get a divorce.
by: truthmissle108 (28/M/Huntington Beach, (Reposted because I just found it and think it's priceless. Kudos to Truthmissile!)
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posted by Gary at 6:24 PM
The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket: "The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket"
posted by Gary at 4:56 PM
Ex Marine Sues Over Kerry Film Stolen Honor
Yahoo! News Message Boards Top Stories: "ExMarine Sues Over Portrayal- KerryFilm
by: rustyfeasel 10/20/04 05:52 pm
Msg: 184473 of 184475
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/politics/campaign/19vet.html
Ex-Marine Sues Over Portrayal in Kerry Film - New York Times - Article - 2004-10-19
''A veteran shown in a new film critical of Senator John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activism is suing the producer of the movie, saying it libels him by deceptively editing his statements.''
''The suit, filed yesterday in Philadelphia, involves the film 'Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,' which accuses Mr. Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president, and the antiwar group he joined of making up the accounts of wartime atrocities that Mr. Kerry later talked about in his 1971 Senate testimony. The Sinclair Broadcast Group has asked its 62 television stations to show the movie this week.'' "
by: rustyfeasel 10/20/04 05:52 pm
Msg: 184473 of 184475
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/politics/campaign/19vet.html
Ex-Marine Sues Over Portrayal in Kerry Film - New York Times - Article - 2004-10-19
''A veteran shown in a new film critical of Senator John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activism is suing the producer of the movie, saying it libels him by deceptively editing his statements.''
''The suit, filed yesterday in Philadelphia, involves the film 'Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,' which accuses Mr. Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president, and the antiwar group he joined of making up the accounts of wartime atrocities that Mr. Kerry later talked about in his 1971 Senate testimony. The Sinclair Broadcast Group has asked its 62 television stations to show the movie this week.'' "
posted by Gary at 4:55 PM
Suspected Muslim militant planned suicide attack on court to deal Spain its ''biggest blow in history''
posted by Gary at 12:36 PM
BUSH SERVICE RECORDS DISCREPENCY
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News: "COWARD BUSH DISHONHORABLE DISCHARGE
by: kerrysacomrnie 10/20/04 09:53 am
Msg: 207270 of 207412
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Hidden from the American people!
An examination of the documents pertaining to George W. Bush?s service in the National Guard, which were released by the White House on Friday, demonstrate that Bush did not complete his National Guard service obligation.
A memo released by the White House from Albert C. Lloyd, Jr., LTC (Ret.) asserts that, based upon an examination of Bush?s records, 'George W. Bush has satisfactory years for both 72?73 and 73?74 which proves that he completed his military obligation in a satisfactory manner.'
http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Document%201%20-%20Al%20Lloyd%20Memo.pdf
The documents released on Friday demonstrate that, even by Lloyd?s own standards, Bush did not have a 'satisfactory year' in 1973?74.
According to the Lloyd memo, 'Members of the Air National Guard/Reserve are required to have 50 points per retirement year in order to have a satisfactory year for retirement/retention.' Although Lloyd asserted that Bush had 56 points in his final year, the documentary evidence shows that Bush had only 40.
The document in question is the 'ARF Retirement Summary' for Bush?s final year. This document was sent to Bush for approval on January 30th, 1974, three months after Bush had been placed on 'inactive' status and six months after the last day he served, according to the records. This document, which says that Bush received only 40 points, is stamped April 10th, 1974, and is unamended. It lists Bush as having"
by: kerrysacomrnie 10/20/04 09:53 am
Msg: 207270 of 207412
13 recommendations
Hidden from the American people!
An examination of the documents pertaining to George W. Bush?s service in the National Guard, which were released by the White House on Friday, demonstrate that Bush did not complete his National Guard service obligation.
A memo released by the White House from Albert C. Lloyd, Jr., LTC (Ret.) asserts that, based upon an examination of Bush?s records, 'George W. Bush has satisfactory years for both 72?73 and 73?74 which proves that he completed his military obligation in a satisfactory manner.'
http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Document%201%20-%20Al%20Lloyd%20Memo.pdf
The documents released on Friday demonstrate that, even by Lloyd?s own standards, Bush did not have a 'satisfactory year' in 1973?74.
According to the Lloyd memo, 'Members of the Air National Guard/Reserve are required to have 50 points per retirement year in order to have a satisfactory year for retirement/retention.' Although Lloyd asserted that Bush had 56 points in his final year, the documentary evidence shows that Bush had only 40.
The document in question is the 'ARF Retirement Summary' for Bush?s final year. This document was sent to Bush for approval on January 30th, 1974, three months after Bush had been placed on 'inactive' status and six months after the last day he served, according to the records. This document, which says that Bush received only 40 points, is stamped April 10th, 1974, and is unamended. It lists Bush as having"
posted by Gary at 9:06 AM
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
1000 VETS (PREWAR) OPEN LETTER TO AWOL BUSH
1000 VETS OPEN LETTER TO AWOL BUSH
by: chimpnotized 10/19/04 08:45 pm
Msg: 200201 of 200807
13 recommendations
The following letter was signed by 1,000 war veterans and given to the President on March 10, 2003.
Dear Mr. President:
We, the undersigned veterans who have served our country in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the 1991 Gulf War and other military conflicts, respectfully request an opportunity to meet with you about the threat of war between the United States and Iraq.
Mr. President, we are patriotic citizens and veterans who respect the office of the President and the ethics and values binding us together as Americans.
As such, we feel duty-bound to share with you our serious concerns regarding issues of national security, the appropriate use of our military strength, and the health and welfare of our active duty soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. Those of us who are veterans of the 1991 Gulf War can offer particular insight into the ongoing troubles in the Middle East, and the likely consequences of another war in that volatile region.
A dozen years ago, we helped liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, and in the course of combat operations came face to face with brutality and the consequences of modern warfare. We learned how unpredictable the nature of war can be. And we learned that war-related losses are not simply experienced on the battlefield.
Following the 1991 Gulf War, we collectively failed to prevent Saddam Hussein's violent repression of a popular uprising and the unprecedented refugee flight that ensued. As a result, tens of thousands of innocent civilians died. In addition to those deaths, the war and immediate post-war conditions resulted in the excess deaths of 46,900 children under the age of five, according to the New England Journal of Medicine (Sept. 24, 1992).
Over the long term, the 1991 Gulf War has had a lasting, detrimental impact on the health of countless people in the region, and on the health of American men and women who served there. Twelve years after the conflict, over 164,000 American Gulf War veterans are now considered disabled by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. That number increases daily.
The possibility of large-scale war between the U.S. and Iraq looms before us once again. For this urgent reason we would like to meet with you to discuss steps the United States and its allies can take to protect U.S. soldiers, allied forces, and Iraqi civilians from known and suspected hazards that would result from military operations.
We understand the risks that come with war and that there are times when such risks are necessary. However, we strongly question the need for a war at this time. Despite Secretary of State Colin Powell's report to the Security Council and the testimony of others in the administration, we are not convinced that coercive containment has failed, or that war has become necessary.
Our own intelligence agencies have consistently noted both the absence of an imminent threat from Iraq and reliable evidence of cooperation between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Again, we question whether this is the right time and the right war.
The scale of the crisis would be so large that the international community would be unable to prevent widespread suffering. For these reasons and more, it remains in our nation's best interest to avoid another war. The risk of excessive civilian casualties like those predicted by the UN pose a grave risk to our national security, making the U.S. more of a target of retaliatory attacks by terrorists.
As veterans who honorably served our nation in its wars, we believe that our perspectives, knowledge and expertise can aid you at this crucial time, as you continue to deliberate on whether or not to commit our nation to war.
Sincerely,
Vice Admiral Ralph Weymouth, USN, Retired
Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, USN, Retired
Brigadier General Evelyn P. Foote, USA, Retired
Colonel David H. Hackworth, USA, Retired
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by: chimpnotized 10/19/04 08:45 pm
Msg: 200201 of 200807
13 recommendations
The following letter was signed by 1,000 war veterans and given to the President on March 10, 2003.
Dear Mr. President:
We, the undersigned veterans who have served our country in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the 1991 Gulf War and other military conflicts, respectfully request an opportunity to meet with you about the threat of war between the United States and Iraq.
Mr. President, we are patriotic citizens and veterans who respect the office of the President and the ethics and values binding us together as Americans.
As such, we feel duty-bound to share with you our serious concerns regarding issues of national security, the appropriate use of our military strength, and the health and welfare of our active duty soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. Those of us who are veterans of the 1991 Gulf War can offer particular insight into the ongoing troubles in the Middle East, and the likely consequences of another war in that volatile region.
A dozen years ago, we helped liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, and in the course of combat operations came face to face with brutality and the consequences of modern warfare. We learned how unpredictable the nature of war can be. And we learned that war-related losses are not simply experienced on the battlefield.
Following the 1991 Gulf War, we collectively failed to prevent Saddam Hussein's violent repression of a popular uprising and the unprecedented refugee flight that ensued. As a result, tens of thousands of innocent civilians died. In addition to those deaths, the war and immediate post-war conditions resulted in the excess deaths of 46,900 children under the age of five, according to the New England Journal of Medicine (Sept. 24, 1992).
Over the long term, the 1991 Gulf War has had a lasting, detrimental impact on the health of countless people in the region, and on the health of American men and women who served there. Twelve years after the conflict, over 164,000 American Gulf War veterans are now considered disabled by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. That number increases daily.
The possibility of large-scale war between the U.S. and Iraq looms before us once again. For this urgent reason we would like to meet with you to discuss steps the United States and its allies can take to protect U.S. soldiers, allied forces, and Iraqi civilians from known and suspected hazards that would result from military operations.
We understand the risks that come with war and that there are times when such risks are necessary. However, we strongly question the need for a war at this time. Despite Secretary of State Colin Powell's report to the Security Council and the testimony of others in the administration, we are not convinced that coercive containment has failed, or that war has become necessary.
Our own intelligence agencies have consistently noted both the absence of an imminent threat from Iraq and reliable evidence of cooperation between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Again, we question whether this is the right time and the right war.
The scale of the crisis would be so large that the international community would be unable to prevent widespread suffering. For these reasons and more, it remains in our nation's best interest to avoid another war. The risk of excessive civilian casualties like those predicted by the UN pose a grave risk to our national security, making the U.S. more of a target of retaliatory attacks by terrorists.
As veterans who honorably served our nation in its wars, we believe that our perspectives, knowledge and expertise can aid you at this crucial time, as you continue to deliberate on whether or not to commit our nation to war.
Sincerely,
Vice Admiral Ralph Weymouth, USN, Retired
Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, USN, Retired
Brigadier General Evelyn P. Foote, USA, Retired
Colonel David H. Hackworth, USA, Retired
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posted by Gary at 8:15 PM
JON STEWART RIPS TUCKER CARLSON
JON STEWART RIPS TUCKER CARLSON
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/19/04 08:41 pm
Msg: 36383 of 36383
On CNN'S Crossfire. Carlson is such a dweeb. I only wish Bob Novak was there that day.
Stewart Rocks!
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2653047
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by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/19/04 08:41 pm
Msg: 36383 of 36383
On CNN'S Crossfire. Carlson is such a dweeb. I only wish Bob Novak was there that day.
Stewart Rocks!
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2653047
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posted by Gary at 7:42 PM
BUSH 2000 CAMPAIGN PROMISES
REMEMBER BUSH'S 2000 CAMPAIGN PROMISES:
by: ben_dover_america 10/19/04 08:51 am
Msg: 3297 of 3308
3 recommendations
"I will restore honor and integrity to the White House"
HAH
"I'm a compassionate conservative"
What compassion? What conservative traits have you shown? None.
"Leave no child behind"
Um...you talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.
"I'm a uniter, not a divider"
Yep....Uniting all of Islam against us. Uniting the world in their hatred of US. Americans, however, are more divided today than anytime than the civil war.
"President of all the people, not just those who voted for me"
I let you slide until the lies of Iraq began. Since then you will always be the Resident.
"A reformer with results"
Yeah; Poor results.
"It's the people's money, not the government's"
So you can give it away to the people of your choosing.
Election reform
(sigh)
Reforming the military
From the light, smart weapons technology of a superpower into a ground war fighting force of days gone by? That's a step backwards, IMO.
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by: ben_dover_america 10/19/04 08:51 am
Msg: 3297 of 3308
3 recommendations
"I will restore honor and integrity to the White House"
HAH
"I'm a compassionate conservative"
What compassion? What conservative traits have you shown? None.
"Leave no child behind"
Um...you talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.
"I'm a uniter, not a divider"
Yep....Uniting all of Islam against us. Uniting the world in their hatred of US. Americans, however, are more divided today than anytime than the civil war.
"President of all the people, not just those who voted for me"
I let you slide until the lies of Iraq began. Since then you will always be the Resident.
"A reformer with results"
Yeah; Poor results.
"It's the people's money, not the government's"
So you can give it away to the people of your choosing.
Election reform
(sigh)
Reforming the military
From the light, smart weapons technology of a superpower into a ground war fighting force of days gone by? That's a step backwards, IMO.
Yahoo! News Message Boards Top Stories
posted by Gary at 7:55 AM
Monday, October 18, 2004
IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA 2004 --- America Revealed thru Daily TV Broadcasts
posted by Gary at 12:45 PM
Sunday, October 17, 2004
RANGEL DRAFT BILL
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News: "Dems Draft bill to end chickenhawk war
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/17/04 08:44 am
Msg: 173940 of 173940
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/rangel.draft/
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/17/04 08:44 am
Msg: 173940 of 173940
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/rangel.draft/
posted by Gary at 7:45 AM
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Friday, October 15, 2004
Fed Pension Funds Tapped.
Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "'The U.S. Treasury Department tapped into a federal employee pension fund Thursday as a stop-gap measure to keep the government below its $7.384 trillion borrowing limit, Treasury Secretary John Snow said in a letter to Congress.'
Bush maxed-out America's Visa card. Now he's stealing pensions."
Bush maxed-out America's Visa card. Now he's stealing pensions."
posted by Gary at 3:41 PM
Some links to check out
Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "Re: AMERICA DOESN'T WANT KERRY, EUROPE D
by: drygully@sbcglobal.net (56/M/CA) 10/15/04 01:20 pm
Msg: 339252 of 339268
2 recommendations
Another lying christian piece of shit!
Bush could have had Zarqawi:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/
Bush & Cheney Knew They Were Lying:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0804-11.htm
Iraq and WMD's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Ten Appalling Lies we were told about Iraq:
http://www.alternet.org/story/16274
Iraq Far Graver than Viet Nam:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0916-10.htm
The Thief of Baghdad:
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/19620/
17,000 GI's not listed as Casualties:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0916-25.htm
Operation Truth - Iraq Veterans speak out:
http://optruth.com/main.cfm "
by: drygully@sbcglobal.net (56/M/CA) 10/15/04 01:20 pm
Msg: 339252 of 339268
2 recommendations
Another lying christian piece of shit!
Bush could have had Zarqawi:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/
Bush & Cheney Knew They Were Lying:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0804-11.htm
Iraq and WMD's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Ten Appalling Lies we were told about Iraq:
http://www.alternet.org/story/16274
Iraq Far Graver than Viet Nam:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0916-10.htm
The Thief of Baghdad:
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/19620/
17,000 GI's not listed as Casualties:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0916-25.htm
Operation Truth - Iraq Veterans speak out:
http://optruth.com/main.cfm "
posted by Gary at 12:27 PM
CHENEY FLIP-FLOP ON IRAQ
Yahoo! News Message Boards Top Stories: "CHENEY FLIP FLOP ON IRAQ!
by: truthisinbetween (M/Blue Pacific) 09/30/04 08:47 pm
Msg: 128462 of 178988
13 recommendations
Yesterday the Seattle Post-Intelligencer dug up the text of a speech Cheney gave in Seattle in August 1992, while serving as secretary of defense for the first President Bush. Back then Cheney argued that taking over Iraq wouldn't be worth the cost in U.S. lives, and would lead to a quagmire. In light of the turmoil there now, the irony of his words is as rich as vast fields of Iraqi crude. Ditto regarding Cheney's timing on the threat Saddam may have posed: The Iraqi dictator, as we now know, was much closer to wielding nuclear weapons at the time of the first Gulf War -- when Cheney said Baghdad was a no-go -- than when the Bush administration launched the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth?' Cheney asked during the 1992 speech. 'And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.'
What, back then, did Cheney think those problems would look like?
'Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place?' Cheney asked. 'You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq.'
When Cheney and his colleagues in the second Bush White House did apparently decide to 'accept the responsibility for governing Iraq"
by: truthisinbetween (M/Blue Pacific) 09/30/04 08:47 pm
Msg: 128462 of 178988
13 recommendations
Yesterday the Seattle Post-Intelligencer dug up the text of a speech Cheney gave in Seattle in August 1992, while serving as secretary of defense for the first President Bush. Back then Cheney argued that taking over Iraq wouldn't be worth the cost in U.S. lives, and would lead to a quagmire. In light of the turmoil there now, the irony of his words is as rich as vast fields of Iraqi crude. Ditto regarding Cheney's timing on the threat Saddam may have posed: The Iraqi dictator, as we now know, was much closer to wielding nuclear weapons at the time of the first Gulf War -- when Cheney said Baghdad was a no-go -- than when the Bush administration launched the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth?' Cheney asked during the 1992 speech. 'And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.'
What, back then, did Cheney think those problems would look like?
'Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place?' Cheney asked. 'You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq.'
When Cheney and his colleagues in the second Bush White House did apparently decide to 'accept the responsibility for governing Iraq"
posted by Gary at 8:42 AM
THIS IS NOT MY AMERICA
Yahoo! News Message Boards Top Stories: "THIS IS NOT MY AMERICA
by: sixiesman 10/15/04 06:33 am
Msg: 178947 of 178958
5 recommendations
Ashcroft has said. America has fallen from God's graces, due to the 'corruption' of its culture and its growth into a secular nation that is not guided by 'Christian' principles. The goal of the religious fundamentalists in the Bush administration, including Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, is to move more and more of what is judicial discretionary authority over our liberties and freedom into the Executive Branch, specifically the Justice Department. Their goal is to establish a nation that is run by God's laws, as they see them, not the Constitution.
Bush/Ashcroft on a mission from God ends Nov 2nd "
by: sixiesman 10/15/04 06:33 am
Msg: 178947 of 178958
5 recommendations
Ashcroft has said. America has fallen from God's graces, due to the 'corruption' of its culture and its growth into a secular nation that is not guided by 'Christian' principles. The goal of the religious fundamentalists in the Bush administration, including Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, is to move more and more of what is judicial discretionary authority over our liberties and freedom into the Executive Branch, specifically the Justice Department. Their goal is to establish a nation that is run by God's laws, as they see them, not the Constitution.
Bush/Ashcroft on a mission from God ends Nov 2nd "
posted by Gary at 6:20 AM
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Cheney cuts weapons programs.
Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "In 1990, Dick Cheney Proposed Cutting the B-2 Bomber Program.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting AH-64 Apaches.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting M-1 Abrams Tanks.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting B-52 Bombers.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting 65,000 civilian jobs from the military.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting 38,000 active Military personnel
In 1990, Cheney Called for the deactivation of two Army divisions.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed the closure of 72 domestic military installations and 12 overseas facilities.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed to close 31 major domestic military bases.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the V-22 Osprey.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the F-14D fighter jet.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the F-15 fighter jet.
In 1991, Dick Cheney Proposed Cutting F-16 fighter jet.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the Army Helicopter Improvement Program.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting Phoenix missile program.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the Apache helicopter
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the M-2 Bradley fighting vehicle.
In 1991, Cheney ordered the Pentagon to reduce its work force by 300,000, including about 200,000 military personnel and 100,000 civilians.
In 1992, Cheney called for cutting 500,000 active-duty people, 200,000 reservists, and 200,000 civilians over five years.In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting Cheney Proposed Over 70 Base Closures. "
In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting AH-64 Apaches.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting M-1 Abrams Tanks.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting B-52 Bombers.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting 65,000 civilian jobs from the military.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting 38,000 active Military personnel
In 1990, Cheney Called for the deactivation of two Army divisions.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed the closure of 72 domestic military installations and 12 overseas facilities.
In 1990, Cheney Proposed to close 31 major domestic military bases.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the V-22 Osprey.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the F-14D fighter jet.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the F-15 fighter jet.
In 1991, Dick Cheney Proposed Cutting F-16 fighter jet.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the Army Helicopter Improvement Program.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting Phoenix missile program.
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the Apache helicopter
In 1991, Cheney Proposed cutting the M-2 Bradley fighting vehicle.
In 1991, Cheney ordered the Pentagon to reduce its work force by 300,000, including about 200,000 military personnel and 100,000 civilians.
In 1992, Cheney called for cutting 500,000 active-duty people, 200,000 reservists, and 200,000 civilians over five years.In 1990, Cheney Proposed Cutting Cheney Proposed Over 70 Base Closures. "
posted by Gary at 9:19 AM
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
GRAND THEFT AMERICA II
Pennsylvania: Campaign 2004: Voter registration workers cry foul:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04294/398767.stm
Pushing to Be Counted in Fla.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28107-2004Oct12.html?
Voter-registration forms shredded in Vegas
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40891
Voter Registrations Trashed:
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe
-Florida
Still facing lawsuits over its "felon list", which improperly excluded thousands of voters in 2000, Florida adopted a second felon list just as flawed as the first. Also, Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm
- Nevada
A voter registration outfit, funded by the Republican party, set up booths around public areas to register voters to vote. However, back at the company's headquarters, Democratic registrations were said by a former employee to have been shredded and tossed.
-Ohio
The Republican secretary of state, J Kenneth Blackwell, attempted to destroy thousands of new voter registrations because - he claimed - they were not printed in the proper card stock (a heavy 80-pound stock).
-Wisconsin
The Republican in charge of ballot printing in Milwaukee County, one of the most heavily Democratic in this important swing state, has ordered the printing of 250,000 fewer ballots than election officials asked for in this high-interest race.
-New Hampshire
The New England chairman of the Bush/Cheney '04 operation, Jim Tobin, recently resigned over his alleged role in an illegal phone-bank jamming operation in 2002. New Hampshire Democrats had set up a phone bank operation to call supporters and urge them to the polls. Tobin, as head of the Republicans' north-east Senate operations, hired a firm to place thousands of automated hang-up calls to that phone bank, tying up the lines and preventing the Democrats from getting their supporters to the polls. His history did not stop him getting promotion within the Bush campaign this year.
-South Dakota
While not a presidential battleground state, South Dakota is the home of two bitterly contested federal races - that of Democratic Senate minority leader Tom Daschle and Democratic freshman congresswoman Stephanie Herseth. The nephew of Daschle's opponent was caught handling absentee ballots, claiming to be a notary when he is not.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/markosmoulitsas/story/0,15139,1331610,00.html
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Voter_Registration_Fraud_Clearinghouse
http://vote2004.eriposte.com/
Grand Theft America --- The Original:
http://ericblumrich.com/gta
BUSH---LET'S NOT ELECT HIM IN 2004 EITHER.
Grand Theft America I:
http://EricBlumrich.com/gta
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04294/398767.stm
Pushing to Be Counted in Fla.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28107-2004Oct12.html?
Voter-registration forms shredded in Vegas
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40891
Voter Registrations Trashed:
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe
-Florida
Still facing lawsuits over its "felon list", which improperly excluded thousands of voters in 2000, Florida adopted a second felon list just as flawed as the first. Also, Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm
- Nevada
A voter registration outfit, funded by the Republican party, set up booths around public areas to register voters to vote. However, back at the company's headquarters, Democratic registrations were said by a former employee to have been shredded and tossed.
-Ohio
The Republican secretary of state, J Kenneth Blackwell, attempted to destroy thousands of new voter registrations because - he claimed - they were not printed in the proper card stock (a heavy 80-pound stock).
-Wisconsin
The Republican in charge of ballot printing in Milwaukee County, one of the most heavily Democratic in this important swing state, has ordered the printing of 250,000 fewer ballots than election officials asked for in this high-interest race.
-New Hampshire
The New England chairman of the Bush/Cheney '04 operation, Jim Tobin, recently resigned over his alleged role in an illegal phone-bank jamming operation in 2002. New Hampshire Democrats had set up a phone bank operation to call supporters and urge them to the polls. Tobin, as head of the Republicans' north-east Senate operations, hired a firm to place thousands of automated hang-up calls to that phone bank, tying up the lines and preventing the Democrats from getting their supporters to the polls. His history did not stop him getting promotion within the Bush campaign this year.
-South Dakota
While not a presidential battleground state, South Dakota is the home of two bitterly contested federal races - that of Democratic Senate minority leader Tom Daschle and Democratic freshman congresswoman Stephanie Herseth. The nephew of Daschle's opponent was caught handling absentee ballots, claiming to be a notary when he is not.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/markosmoulitsas/story/0,15139,1331610,00.html
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Voter_Registration_Fraud_Clearinghouse
http://vote2004.eriposte.com/
Grand Theft America --- The Original:
http://ericblumrich.com/gta
BUSH---LET'S NOT ELECT HIM IN 2004 EITHER.
Grand Theft America I:
http://EricBlumrich.com/gta
posted by Gary at 2:11 PM
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Voter Registrations Possibly Trashed
Voter Registrations Possibly Trashed: "(Oct. 12) -- Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash.
Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.
The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at democrats. Thee focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.
The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.
Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.
'We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assisatnt to get those from me,' said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee.
Eric Russell managed to retrieve a pile of shredded paperwork including signed voter registration forms, all from Democrats. We took them to the Clark County Election Department and confirmed that they had not, in fact, been filed with the county as required by law.
So the people on those forms who think they will be able to vote on Election Day are sadly mistaken. We attempted to speak to Voters Outreach but found that its office has been rented out to someone else.
The landlord says Voter"
Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.
The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at democrats. Thee focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.
The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.
Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.
'We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assisatnt to get those from me,' said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee.
Eric Russell managed to retrieve a pile of shredded paperwork including signed voter registration forms, all from Democrats. We took them to the Clark County Election Department and confirmed that they had not, in fact, been filed with the county as required by law.
So the people on those forms who think they will be able to vote on Election Day are sadly mistaken. We attempted to speak to Voters Outreach but found that its office has been rented out to someone else.
The landlord says Voter"
posted by Gary at 10:21 PM
HEADLINES WE NEVER SEE
"BUSH DISCUSSES POLICY DECISIONS"
"BUSH TALKS ABOUT HIS PAST SUCCESS(ES)"
"BUSH PLAN WORKING"
"BUSH REGRETS DECISIONS"
"BUSH TALKS ABOUT HIS RECORD"
"BUSH ADMITS TO HIS MISTAKES! "
"BUSH OUTLINES HIS PLANS "
"BUSH PLACES COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY. "
"CHENEY RELEASES ENERGY POLICY PAPERS."
"CHENEY COMES CLEAN ON HALIBURTON."
"BUSH APOLOGIZES TO SEC FOR ARBUSTO VIOLATIONS, PAYS FINE."
"BUSH SAYS 'FORGET IRAQ, OSAMA BIN LADEN'S MY NUMBER ONE PRIORITY".
"BUSH BALANCES BUDGET".
"TWO MILLION JOBS CREATED UNDER BUSH ADMINISTRATION."
"KERRY QUESTIONS BUSH ON PNAC INFLUENCE"
"CHENEY/HALLIBURTON'S ILLEGAL BUSINESS DEALS WITH IRAN"
"FOREIGN LEADER REQUEST MEETING WITH BUSH"
"(INSERT COUNTRY HERE) THANKS BUSH FOR (INSERT BENEVOLENT GESTURE HERE)"
Yahoo! News Message Boards Top Stories
"BUSH TALKS ABOUT HIS PAST SUCCESS(ES)"
"BUSH PLAN WORKING"
"BUSH REGRETS DECISIONS"
"BUSH TALKS ABOUT HIS RECORD"
"BUSH ADMITS TO HIS MISTAKES! "
"BUSH OUTLINES HIS PLANS "
"BUSH PLACES COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY. "
"CHENEY RELEASES ENERGY POLICY PAPERS."
"CHENEY COMES CLEAN ON HALIBURTON."
"BUSH APOLOGIZES TO SEC FOR ARBUSTO VIOLATIONS, PAYS FINE."
"BUSH SAYS 'FORGET IRAQ, OSAMA BIN LADEN'S MY NUMBER ONE PRIORITY".
"BUSH BALANCES BUDGET".
"TWO MILLION JOBS CREATED UNDER BUSH ADMINISTRATION."
"KERRY QUESTIONS BUSH ON PNAC INFLUENCE"
"CHENEY/HALLIBURTON'S ILLEGAL BUSINESS DEALS WITH IRAN"
"FOREIGN LEADER REQUEST MEETING WITH BUSH"
"(INSERT COUNTRY HERE) THANKS BUSH FOR (INSERT BENEVOLENT GESTURE HERE)"
Yahoo! News Message Boards Top Stories
posted by Gary at 10:15 PM
BUSH LOSING TO KERRY SO BADLY
Yahoo! News Message Boards Top Stories: "BUSH LOSING TO KERRY SO BADLY
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/12/04 01:01 am
Msg: 169217 of 169218
That his handlers brought in several little girls for some arm 'wrasslin'' to help the chimp's battered ego.
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20041012/mdf725445.jpg "
by: emmanual_goldstein_1984 (45/M/Oceana) 10/12/04 01:01 am
Msg: 169217 of 169218
That his handlers brought in several little girls for some arm 'wrasslin'' to help the chimp's battered ego.
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20041012/mdf725445.jpg "
posted by Gary at 12:02 AM
Monday, October 11, 2004
RE: Bush Soft On Terrorism
Yahoo! News Message Boards Top Stories: "Re: BUSH SOFT ON TERRORISM
by: my_inner_voice_has_tourettes (M/San Diego, CA **USA**) 10/11/04 11:13 pm
Msg: 8176 of 8192
4 recommendations
'The new [Bush] administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?' That's too bad. They've been given a window of opportunity with very little terrorism now, and they're not taking advantage of it.' Paul Bremer, Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism , Feb. 26, 2001 at the McCormick Tribune Foundation conference on terrorism. "
by: my_inner_voice_has_tourettes (M/San Diego, CA **USA**) 10/11/04 11:13 pm
Msg: 8176 of 8192
4 recommendations
'The new [Bush] administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?' That's too bad. They've been given a window of opportunity with very little terrorism now, and they're not taking advantage of it.' Paul Bremer, Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism , Feb. 26, 2001 at the McCormick Tribune Foundation conference on terrorism. "
posted by Gary at 10:19 PM
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