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Saturday, February 05, 2005
I'm in love with the Rude Pundit
Yep, like Clarence Thomas, that shining beacon of hope for the black community, Alberto Gonzales, who is, indeed, the first Hispanic Attorney General and, in fact, Attorney General to all of us, will glow like a 7-11 burrito being nuked in a cheese-stained microwave, casting a beam on smiling would-be torturing Hispanics everywhere, wondrous Hispanics who toil in the fields of America, trying so hard to justify the ways of the white people who order them to do their bidding.
(Oh, and, by the way, John McCain, you gimpy motherfucker? Don't you ever try to take the moral high ground on anything, ever again. Not only did you stay stone silent on Gonzales, but you sucked it up like a good little butt boy and voted for the torture master.)
(Oh, and, fuck you, Joe Lieberman.)
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com
---On the head again Daddy-o...Oh and before anyone tries saying I must just hate Mexicans..I highly recommend you scroll down and examine my kids picture...No I am not Mexican but I know THEY ain't diggin the 'Electrode'...These Senators have stepped into 'The Alternate Reality' and apparently expect us to join them---
(Oh, and, by the way, John McCain, you gimpy motherfucker? Don't you ever try to take the moral high ground on anything, ever again. Not only did you stay stone silent on Gonzales, but you sucked it up like a good little butt boy and voted for the torture master.)
(Oh, and, fuck you, Joe Lieberman.)
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com
---On the head again Daddy-o...Oh and before anyone tries saying I must just hate Mexicans..I highly recommend you scroll down and examine my kids picture...No I am not Mexican but I know THEY ain't diggin the 'Electrode'...These Senators have stepped into 'The Alternate Reality' and apparently expect us to join them---
posted by Christy at 6:16 PM
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ReBelle Daily Dispatch
China says it has plans to unhook currency from U.S. dollar -but no timetable
LONDON (AP) - China will free its currency from its peg to the U.S. dollar eventually, a central bank official told international officials Saturday, but emphasized that the weakness in the dollar is not China's concern.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1821&u=/cpress/20050205/ca_pr_on_bu/britain_g7&printer=1
---BIGGGG UHHOHHHH---
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Destroyed embryo deemed human
A frozen embryo destroyed in a Chicago fertility clinic was a human being whose parents are entitled to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, a Cook County judge ruled Friday
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-egg05.html
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Ignoring the Smoke
Humankind is changing, or at least helping change, Earth's climate by pumping carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases into the atmosphere, mostly by burning fossil fuels. The United States is doing more of this than any other nation. The consequences aren't coming; they're already here: Some scientists believe thousands have already died because of man-made atmospheric warming.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62111-2005Feb3.html
--Scary stuff---
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Mystery list may trace to team
The whodunit mystery surrounding the do-not-admit list for President Bush's Fargo visit still hasn't been solved, but clues uncovered Friday indicate a worker with the White House advance team may have been the culprit.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=82503§ion=News
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GOP proposes bill that would suspend ALL laws
But -- most overlooked -- is Section 102 of this bill. It would empower the Secretary of Homeland Security to suspend any and all laws in order to ensure the "expeditious" construction of a set of barriers and roads south of San Diego, to keep illegal immigrants out. It also would prohibit ANY judicial review of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to suspend any law. ON EDIT: While the law the bill references mentions barriers and roads "near San Diego," it does not appear to be (technically speaking) limited to that area -- but to any barriers or roads "in the vicinity of the United States border." (See comments below).
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/2/5/15448/41910
----Again. Big HMMMM------
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Marine General Is Told To Speak 'More Carefully'
The Marine Corps commandant yesterday urged a three-star general to choose his words "more carefully," after the general told a San Diego conference this week it was "a lot of fun to shoot" the enemy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61672-2005Feb3.html
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The Scourge of Her Conviction
Two days before Christmas, Elena Sassower walked out of the Washington, D.C., jail where she'd just finished serving a sentence that should frighten anyone inclined to protest in the halls of power.
http://villagevoice.com/news/index.php?issue=0505&page=lombardi&id=60660
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----This is becoming a habit Georgie----
Journalists paid to write for military Web site
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon’s chief investigator is looking into the military’s practice of paying journalists to write articles and commentary for a Web site aimed at influencing public opinion in the Balkans, officials said Friday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6915347/
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Wounded in action Haunted by his experiences as an army medic in Iraq, David McGough couldn't cope with life after his tour of duty. Yet it took two failed suicide attempts before he was diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Alison Roberts on the forgotten casualties of the war
http://society.guardian.co.uk/mentalhealth/story/0,8150,1405859,00.html
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
U.S. 'in for a shock' In early election results, Shiite cleric's alliance trouncing Washington's favorite
Baghdad -- Partial results from Sunday's election suggest that U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's coalition is being roundly defeated by a list with the backing of Iraq's senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, diminishing Allawi's chances of retaining his post in the next government.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/04/MNGSMB5MDT1.DTL
-----What happens when bush realizes he just lost control of the second largest oil reserve on earth?..WHAT will he tell DADDY?----
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New York court rules in favor of same-sex marriage
A Manhattan judge declared Friday that a New York state law that forbids same-sex marriage is unconstitutional--a first-of-its-kind ruling in the state that if upheld on appeal would allow gay couples to wed. State supreme court justice Doris Ling-Cohan ruled in favor of five same-sex couples who had filed a lawsuit after being denied marriage licenses by a New York City clerk.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15048&sd=02/05/05-02/07/05
---Won't we all go gay now? I mean now that its legal wont that trigger my lesbianisim? Damn gotta do the dating thing all over again---
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UPDATE: Officials Back Away from Early Estimates of Iraqi Voter Turnout
Then, in Friday's paper, Burns and Filkins noted that one election commision official was "evasive about the turnout, implying it might end up significantly lower than the initial estimate." They quoted this official, Safwat Radhid, exclaiming: "Only God Almighty knows the final turnout now." They revealed that the announcement of a turnout number, expected to be released this weekend, has been put off for a week, due to the "complex" tabulation system.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000788083
---Can you vote Vietnam on Diebold machines?---
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Statement on the Bush Blacklist for Fargo
"News of the Bush blacklist of dozens of citizens from a Fargo, North Dakota speech is as frightening as it has become routine for this Administration. To blacklist a local citizen because he produces a radio program at odds with the political agenda of the White House is dangerous for Democracy.
This Administration cannot promote freedom and liberty abroad while banning our most fundamental freedoms here at home. The pattern of stifling those voices that do not represent conservative orthodoxy has chilling implications for our Democracy.
http://www.democracyradio.org/node/view/37
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Stark is first to put video on congressional Web site
Washington -- Fremont Rep. Pete Stark made a little bit of congressional and high- tech history Friday by becoming the first member of Congress to post a video clip on his official Web site.
His 3 1/2-minute blistering response to President Bush's State of the Union speech on Wednesday night is part of a new program devised by Democratic activists to let members of Congress communicate directly with their constituents by video. Republicans are expected to follow suit, and soon.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/05/BAGDGB6A5O1.DTL
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Tapes Reveal Enron's Power Plant Rigging
Transcripts detail how electricity traders conspired to shut down smooth-running generating facilities during the energy crisis.
By Jonathan PetersonTimes Staff WriterFebruary 4, 2005Enron Corp. traders conspired to shut down a healthy power plant as blackouts rolled across California in early 2001, according to documents released Thursday.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-enron4feb04,1,7827702,print.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true
----And when they came close to being caught in the act they asked themselves...oh where oh where can we find another energy related source to loot?----
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Pentagon still failing to protect the troops
By Edward M. Kennedy and Brian and Alma Hart February 3, 2005
THE THREE of us first met in November 2003 at Arlington National Cemetery when PFC John Hart was buried after being killed in an ambush of his unarmored Humvee in northern Iraq. We discussed the armor issue and how to resolve it, and we've been working together ever since to get the troops what they need as quickly as possible.
Unarmored Humvees had first come to our attention in August 2003 when Massachusetts soldiers serving in the Rhode Island National Guard were killed by roadside bombs called IEDs -- "improvised explosive devices." Our troops quickly learned that improvised armor protection was not effective against these improvised explosives. Soon we began seeing reports of anxious parents buying body armor, and even vehicle armor, and mailing it to their sons and daughters in a desperate effort to fill the gap.
So when Specialist Thomas Jerry Wilson questioned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Kuwait in December about why soldiers had to dig through landfills to find scrap metal to protect their Humvees, he was asking a question that should have been answered many months ago, when it first became clear that our troops were being sent out on patrol in inadequately armored vehicles.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/02/03/pentagon_still_failing_to_protect_the_troops/
----To our fine veterans..I love you guys. I find this appalling and intolerable...
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.Parents censor high school literature and are allowed to burn books they find offensive
Here in Norwood, a small group of parents sent letters to Superintendent Bob Conder, expressing their concern over, "Bless Me, Ultima," a book being used in the classroom as a literature book. Conder said the books, about 2 dozen in total costing $6.99 each, were pulled from the classroom, and designated to be destroyed. The parents approached the superintendent and asked that they be able to burn the books instead of the school janitor destroying them.
Conder granted them their request, as he has the right to dispose of them. Conder informed the School Board in a letter after the fact. He further stated, "I can’t dictate morality, but my job is to protect the kids. The books should have never been purchased, and were not properly disclosed for approval."
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/norwoodhighschool.htm
--I am so sick of this NAZI bullshit----
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Rumsfeld may skip Germany because of war-crimes suit
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday he may skip a trip to a security conference in Germany next week because of a lawsuit there accusing him of war crimes.
"It's something that we have to take into consideration," he said when asked whether the suit was a factor in weighing whether to attend the Munich Conference on Security Policy, an annual gathering of government defense officials and lawmakers, where an address by the U.S. defense secretary is typically a highlight.
Attorneys from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights filed a suit with German prosecutors last November charging that U.S. officials, including Rumsfeld, are responsible for acts of torture against detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/219765-7564-P.html
------They waited YEARS to get Pinochet...They will get you too Rummy. You will NEVER be able to run far enough----
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Was There Pundit Payola at the Pentagon?
NEW YORK Will the next revelations about newspapers columnists paid by the government come out of the Pentagon? The Washington Times reports today that an in-house probe is underway at the Defense Department.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000789070
---This is so outta control ----
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http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_international&Number=293347912
Russia said yesterday it had abandoned efforts to tie the rouble's movement closely to the dollar and switched to shadowing both the euro and the US currency.
---UHOHH---
LONDON (AP) - China will free its currency from its peg to the U.S. dollar eventually, a central bank official told international officials Saturday, but emphasized that the weakness in the dollar is not China's concern.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1821&u=/cpress/20050205/ca_pr_on_bu/britain_g7&printer=1
---BIGGGG UHHOHHHH---
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Destroyed embryo deemed human
A frozen embryo destroyed in a Chicago fertility clinic was a human being whose parents are entitled to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, a Cook County judge ruled Friday
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-egg05.html
---hmmm---
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Ignoring the Smoke
Humankind is changing, or at least helping change, Earth's climate by pumping carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases into the atmosphere, mostly by burning fossil fuels. The United States is doing more of this than any other nation. The consequences aren't coming; they're already here: Some scientists believe thousands have already died because of man-made atmospheric warming.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62111-2005Feb3.html
--Scary stuff---
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Mystery list may trace to team
The whodunit mystery surrounding the do-not-admit list for President Bush's Fargo visit still hasn't been solved, but clues uncovered Friday indicate a worker with the White House advance team may have been the culprit.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=82503§ion=News
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GOP proposes bill that would suspend ALL laws
But -- most overlooked -- is Section 102 of this bill. It would empower the Secretary of Homeland Security to suspend any and all laws in order to ensure the "expeditious" construction of a set of barriers and roads south of San Diego, to keep illegal immigrants out. It also would prohibit ANY judicial review of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to suspend any law. ON EDIT: While the law the bill references mentions barriers and roads "near San Diego," it does not appear to be (technically speaking) limited to that area -- but to any barriers or roads "in the vicinity of the United States border." (See comments below).
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/2/5/15448/41910
----Again. Big HMMMM------
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Marine General Is Told To Speak 'More Carefully'
The Marine Corps commandant yesterday urged a three-star general to choose his words "more carefully," after the general told a San Diego conference this week it was "a lot of fun to shoot" the enemy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61672-2005Feb3.html
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The Scourge of Her Conviction
Two days before Christmas, Elena Sassower walked out of the Washington, D.C., jail where she'd just finished serving a sentence that should frighten anyone inclined to protest in the halls of power.
http://villagevoice.com/news/index.php?issue=0505&page=lombardi&id=60660
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----This is becoming a habit Georgie----
Journalists paid to write for military Web site
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon’s chief investigator is looking into the military’s practice of paying journalists to write articles and commentary for a Web site aimed at influencing public opinion in the Balkans, officials said Friday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6915347/
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Wounded in action Haunted by his experiences as an army medic in Iraq, David McGough couldn't cope with life after his tour of duty. Yet it took two failed suicide attempts before he was diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Alison Roberts on the forgotten casualties of the war
http://society.guardian.co.uk/mentalhealth/story/0,8150,1405859,00.html
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
U.S. 'in for a shock' In early election results, Shiite cleric's alliance trouncing Washington's favorite
Baghdad -- Partial results from Sunday's election suggest that U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's coalition is being roundly defeated by a list with the backing of Iraq's senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, diminishing Allawi's chances of retaining his post in the next government.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/04/MNGSMB5MDT1.DTL
-----What happens when bush realizes he just lost control of the second largest oil reserve on earth?..WHAT will he tell DADDY?----
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New York court rules in favor of same-sex marriage
A Manhattan judge declared Friday that a New York state law that forbids same-sex marriage is unconstitutional--a first-of-its-kind ruling in the state that if upheld on appeal would allow gay couples to wed. State supreme court justice Doris Ling-Cohan ruled in favor of five same-sex couples who had filed a lawsuit after being denied marriage licenses by a New York City clerk.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15048&sd=02/05/05-02/07/05
---Won't we all go gay now? I mean now that its legal wont that trigger my lesbianisim? Damn gotta do the dating thing all over again---
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UPDATE: Officials Back Away from Early Estimates of Iraqi Voter Turnout
Then, in Friday's paper, Burns and Filkins noted that one election commision official was "evasive about the turnout, implying it might end up significantly lower than the initial estimate." They quoted this official, Safwat Radhid, exclaiming: "Only God Almighty knows the final turnout now." They revealed that the announcement of a turnout number, expected to be released this weekend, has been put off for a week, due to the "complex" tabulation system.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000788083
---Can you vote Vietnam on Diebold machines?---
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Statement on the Bush Blacklist for Fargo
"News of the Bush blacklist of dozens of citizens from a Fargo, North Dakota speech is as frightening as it has become routine for this Administration. To blacklist a local citizen because he produces a radio program at odds with the political agenda of the White House is dangerous for Democracy.
This Administration cannot promote freedom and liberty abroad while banning our most fundamental freedoms here at home. The pattern of stifling those voices that do not represent conservative orthodoxy has chilling implications for our Democracy.
http://www.democracyradio.org/node/view/37
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Stark is first to put video on congressional Web site
Washington -- Fremont Rep. Pete Stark made a little bit of congressional and high- tech history Friday by becoming the first member of Congress to post a video clip on his official Web site.
His 3 1/2-minute blistering response to President Bush's State of the Union speech on Wednesday night is part of a new program devised by Democratic activists to let members of Congress communicate directly with their constituents by video. Republicans are expected to follow suit, and soon.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/05/BAGDGB6A5O1.DTL
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Tapes Reveal Enron's Power Plant Rigging
Transcripts detail how electricity traders conspired to shut down smooth-running generating facilities during the energy crisis.
By Jonathan PetersonTimes Staff WriterFebruary 4, 2005Enron Corp. traders conspired to shut down a healthy power plant as blackouts rolled across California in early 2001, according to documents released Thursday.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-enron4feb04,1,7827702,print.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true
----And when they came close to being caught in the act they asked themselves...oh where oh where can we find another energy related source to loot?----
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Pentagon still failing to protect the troops
By Edward M. Kennedy and Brian and Alma Hart February 3, 2005
THE THREE of us first met in November 2003 at Arlington National Cemetery when PFC John Hart was buried after being killed in an ambush of his unarmored Humvee in northern Iraq. We discussed the armor issue and how to resolve it, and we've been working together ever since to get the troops what they need as quickly as possible.
Unarmored Humvees had first come to our attention in August 2003 when Massachusetts soldiers serving in the Rhode Island National Guard were killed by roadside bombs called IEDs -- "improvised explosive devices." Our troops quickly learned that improvised armor protection was not effective against these improvised explosives. Soon we began seeing reports of anxious parents buying body armor, and even vehicle armor, and mailing it to their sons and daughters in a desperate effort to fill the gap.
So when Specialist Thomas Jerry Wilson questioned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Kuwait in December about why soldiers had to dig through landfills to find scrap metal to protect their Humvees, he was asking a question that should have been answered many months ago, when it first became clear that our troops were being sent out on patrol in inadequately armored vehicles.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/02/03/pentagon_still_failing_to_protect_the_troops/
----To our fine veterans..I love you guys. I find this appalling and intolerable...
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.Parents censor high school literature and are allowed to burn books they find offensive
Here in Norwood, a small group of parents sent letters to Superintendent Bob Conder, expressing their concern over, "Bless Me, Ultima," a book being used in the classroom as a literature book. Conder said the books, about 2 dozen in total costing $6.99 each, were pulled from the classroom, and designated to be destroyed. The parents approached the superintendent and asked that they be able to burn the books instead of the school janitor destroying them.
Conder granted them their request, as he has the right to dispose of them. Conder informed the School Board in a letter after the fact. He further stated, "I can’t dictate morality, but my job is to protect the kids. The books should have never been purchased, and were not properly disclosed for approval."
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/norwoodhighschool.htm
--I am so sick of this NAZI bullshit----
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Rumsfeld may skip Germany because of war-crimes suit
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday he may skip a trip to a security conference in Germany next week because of a lawsuit there accusing him of war crimes.
"It's something that we have to take into consideration," he said when asked whether the suit was a factor in weighing whether to attend the Munich Conference on Security Policy, an annual gathering of government defense officials and lawmakers, where an address by the U.S. defense secretary is typically a highlight.
Attorneys from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights filed a suit with German prosecutors last November charging that U.S. officials, including Rumsfeld, are responsible for acts of torture against detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/219765-7564-P.html
------They waited YEARS to get Pinochet...They will get you too Rummy. You will NEVER be able to run far enough----
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Was There Pundit Payola at the Pentagon?
NEW YORK Will the next revelations about newspapers columnists paid by the government come out of the Pentagon? The Washington Times reports today that an in-house probe is underway at the Defense Department.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000789070
---This is so outta control ----
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http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_international&Number=293347912
Russia said yesterday it had abandoned efforts to tie the rouble's movement closely to the dollar and switched to shadowing both the euro and the US currency.
---UHOHH---
posted by Christy at 5:09 PM
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This is 'Little' and her big sister Ana. They are both Karate students and LOVE Scooby -Doo!
posted by Christy at 12:05 AM
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Friday, February 04, 2005
'Little' Prayers
To those of you whom have written me with prayers and well wishs for my child I would like you to know I will never forget your kindness.
Her name, to those who asked is Kaylee, but don't tell her that she only will answer to her nickname 'Little'. She is 4 years old.
As I was trying not to fall into flu hell myself, her father has just returned with her from the emergency room. The fever is not yet broke but she is well medicated and resting comfortably right now.
Again, I appreciate your kind words and thoughts, and your continued patience. I would also like to thank my local Emergency room as they put her as a priority and took her with no waiting.
Soon I will be here as I had planned to be all along. Yall have been great.
Thank you for simply everything.
Her name, to those who asked is Kaylee, but don't tell her that she only will answer to her nickname 'Little'. She is 4 years old.
As I was trying not to fall into flu hell myself, her father has just returned with her from the emergency room. The fever is not yet broke but she is well medicated and resting comfortably right now.
Again, I appreciate your kind words and thoughts, and your continued patience. I would also like to thank my local Emergency room as they put her as a priority and took her with no waiting.
Soon I will be here as I had planned to be all along. Yall have been great.
Thank you for simply everything.
posted by Christy at 11:35 PM
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Returning Soon...
The ReBelle Daily Dispatch will start up again tonight or in the morning (depending on my kids fever)...In the meantime..
Again, thank you Rossi for the Aussie connections..You are great.
Again, thank you Rossi for the Aussie connections..You are great.
posted by Christy at 3:56 PM
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Dispatch from Down Under
Bush lays off the ultimatums
February 4, 2005
It's what the State of the Union left out that makes it interesting, writes Michael Gawenda.
For all George Bush's rhetoric on spreading freedom and liberty around the world - the clarion call of his second term - he seems to be subtly, but surely, changing his foreign policy.
---Hell yeah hes changing it..Even the blind can see what he WAS doing did not work out too well. Just ask the CIA..or FBI...or just about anyone else not waiting for the Second Coming anytime soon.---
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Pushing ahead with export of liberty
President George Bush argued in his State of the Union speech that only the transformation of dictatorships into democracies would address the resentment and despair that bred terrorism.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/03/1107409989585.html
---SOOOOOOO....Does that mean we are taking out Saudi Arabia too...?...Just curious----
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Sharansky's take on war and peace wins Bush's ear
By Megan Goldin in JerusalemFebruary 4, 2005
It has been a long and lonely road for the former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who has for years been ridiculed for his political theories of spreading democracy across the globe to obtain world peace.
But the former labour camp prisoner, who is now an Israeli cabinet minister, no longer walks alone.
His companion in his campaign to democratise the world is no less than the US President, George Bush.
To have the ear of the most powerful leader in the world after decades of having his political ideology dismissed as naive and eccentric is a pleasant change for the diminutive Ukrainian-born mathematician.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/03/1107409990123.html?oneclick=true
---- Soooo...played any alternate reality games lately?-----
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FM: Bush "Is closing his eyes" to Iran’s democracy
Iran slammed the U.S. President George W. Bush’s call for the freedom of the Iranian people as misguided and ignorant of the history of the Islamic republic "with its deep roots of freedom and democracy".
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=6936
-----HAHAHAHAHA Don't the Iranians know they are dealing with a man who NEVER READ history?..And when they tried to brief him he put his hands over his ears and sang LaLaLa very loudly.-----
posted by Christy at 3:38 PM
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The God of War
"We don't pray enough for leaders," said Mr. Hall, a former Democratic congressman from Ohio. "I know that today we're going to pray for the president — all the people that are here — but what are we going to do tomorrow? We need to pray for our president every day."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050204-123546-6730r.htm
Say huh Tonto?
Oh I'll pray for you alright Georgie...I will pray that God has mercy on your murdering thieving soul. I will pray that YOUR children NEVER suffer as you have made so many suffer. I will pray that my children live and my beloved nation is cleansed of immoral war, and the stink of torture. I will beg God to hear me when I ask for the entire world NOT to forsake us BECAUSE of YOU Duh' Leader. But mostly Georgie I will pray that the TRUTH of 9/11, Enron, Halliburton, Medicaid, torture, Iraq, vote fraud, war profiteering, desertion, DUIs, insurance Fraud, propaganda, energy market manipulation, mass murder , Abu Graib, Osama bin Laden , the House Of Saud, lie after lie,TREASON....ALL catchs up with you at once.
I don't pretend to know what God thinks but I have faith that everytime He ponders you Duh' Leader, He can't help but shake His mighty head.
I cannot remember a time I have EVER heard anyone who ORDERED so many deaths speak so MUCH about God.
Perhaps George, the Gods of War would be pleased with YOUR bloody offerings. But since you're not even good at war either..I HIGHLY DOUBT IT.
The One that made the trees is watching you Georgie. If I were you I would confess now and beg for mercy. Mercy you, yourself, are not capable of.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050204-123546-6730r.htm
Say huh Tonto?
Oh I'll pray for you alright Georgie...I will pray that God has mercy on your murdering thieving soul. I will pray that YOUR children NEVER suffer as you have made so many suffer. I will pray that my children live and my beloved nation is cleansed of immoral war, and the stink of torture. I will beg God to hear me when I ask for the entire world NOT to forsake us BECAUSE of YOU Duh' Leader. But mostly Georgie I will pray that the TRUTH of 9/11, Enron, Halliburton, Medicaid, torture, Iraq, vote fraud, war profiteering, desertion, DUIs, insurance Fraud, propaganda, energy market manipulation, mass murder , Abu Graib, Osama bin Laden , the House Of Saud, lie after lie,TREASON....ALL catchs up with you at once.
I don't pretend to know what God thinks but I have faith that everytime He ponders you Duh' Leader, He can't help but shake His mighty head.
I cannot remember a time I have EVER heard anyone who ORDERED so many deaths speak so MUCH about God.
Perhaps George, the Gods of War would be pleased with YOUR bloody offerings. But since you're not even good at war either..I HIGHLY DOUBT IT.
The One that made the trees is watching you Georgie. If I were you I would confess now and beg for mercy. Mercy you, yourself, are not capable of.
posted by Christy at 2:12 PM
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Thursday, February 03, 2005
I do not know her name. I never have. But I dream of her. I dream of looking into THAT face and trying to explain it all. I do not know your name child, but I think you are beautiful.
posted by Christy at 9:50 PM
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Collateral Damage
Lullaby
Hush little baby,
Don’t say a word.
Your dreams are dead;
Your voice unheard.
Cry no more,
Just pray for peace.
Mommys failed,
And man is beast.
See their hatred
Burn, so bright.
Lighting up
The sky tonight.
A holy war;
On holy ground.
Not one angel,
To be found.
But Mommy’s here.
No more sorrow.
I hope you live.
To see tomorrow.
Your Daddy’s dead.
Your brother’s gone.
If we survive,
We'll move on.
Past the snipers,
And the rubble.
Beyond the murder,
And its trouble.
If you grow up,
Keep this trait;
For only hope,
Can stop the hate.
Your pretty face,
With aged eyes,
Must be strong,
Against all lies.
Crushed beneath,
Boots and tanks,
The militant,
Are closing ranks.
Mommy’s here,
Don’t be scared.
You must be brave,
If you are spared.
When both guns,
And sorrow cease,
You must be able,
To brave the peace.
Hear not, child,
The soldiers scream.
Listen to
Your Mommys dream.
Because of you,
I'll live on,
Even after,
This night I'm gone.
Look at me!
Turn from death!
That fouls this life,
With every breath.
We cannot run;
No where to go.
What will happen?
I don't know.
Think not of,
The shaking walls.
Hold mommy tight,
As death calls.
Think instead,
Of rolling waters.
Not of the blood,
That covers martyrs.
Go hide yourself
In the night!
Don't come back!
Until its light.
Do not cry,
I'm in your heart.
But for now,
We must part.
Now they come!
You must go!
Whatever happens,
You must grow.
Run, child, run!
I'll hold the door!
But Mommys' love,
Can't stop the war.
Christy Cole
Hush little baby,
Don’t say a word.
Your dreams are dead;
Your voice unheard.
Cry no more,
Just pray for peace.
Mommys failed,
And man is beast.
See their hatred
Burn, so bright.
Lighting up
The sky tonight.
A holy war;
On holy ground.
Not one angel,
To be found.
But Mommy’s here.
No more sorrow.
I hope you live.
To see tomorrow.
Your Daddy’s dead.
Your brother’s gone.
If we survive,
We'll move on.
Past the snipers,
And the rubble.
Beyond the murder,
And its trouble.
If you grow up,
Keep this trait;
For only hope,
Can stop the hate.
Your pretty face,
With aged eyes,
Must be strong,
Against all lies.
Crushed beneath,
Boots and tanks,
The militant,
Are closing ranks.
Mommy’s here,
Don’t be scared.
You must be brave,
If you are spared.
When both guns,
And sorrow cease,
You must be able,
To brave the peace.
Hear not, child,
The soldiers scream.
Listen to
Your Mommys dream.
Because of you,
I'll live on,
Even after,
This night I'm gone.
Look at me!
Turn from death!
That fouls this life,
With every breath.
We cannot run;
No where to go.
What will happen?
I don't know.
Think not of,
The shaking walls.
Hold mommy tight,
As death calls.
Think instead,
Of rolling waters.
Not of the blood,
That covers martyrs.
Go hide yourself
In the night!
Don't come back!
Until its light.
Do not cry,
I'm in your heart.
But for now,
We must part.
Now they come!
You must go!
Whatever happens,
You must grow.
Run, child, run!
I'll hold the door!
But Mommys' love,
Can't stop the war.
Christy Cole
posted by Christy at 9:41 PM
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The flu is kicking my asssssss
I tried to nightquil and read the news but even I have my limits.
I feel funny woo woo NOT funny haha.
Since I got two babies down sick as well I will be back soon if I dont die from this crap first.
Can you overdose on nightqil?..just wondering...
Its like Jack Danials with a fever stirred in.
I'll be back but it may take a minute.
I wont be long.
I'll post the news as soon as I can sit up straight again. Yall keep the faith..
Soon.
I feel funny woo woo NOT funny haha.
Since I got two babies down sick as well I will be back soon if I dont die from this crap first.
Can you overdose on nightqil?..just wondering...
Its like Jack Danials with a fever stirred in.
I'll be back but it may take a minute.
I wont be long.
I'll post the news as soon as I can sit up straight again. Yall keep the faith..
Soon.
posted by Christy at 8:26 PM
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Dispatch from Down Under
At the risk of pissing people off I would just like to take this moment to say that Rossi is a PERFECT example of why it is I am SO frustrated.
When Austrailian Citizens know MORE about what is happening in America than Americans do, something is so terribly off, it HAS to have been by design.
Thank you Rossi, for EVERYTHING darlin. At times like these I am truely humbled and in awe that ANYONE outside the U.S.A. could still not only believe in us, but would take the time to help as well.
It is that kind of spirit that turns our friends into our heros.
WE The People will never forget that our nations are born of the same Mother, England, and raised by the same Father, Revolution.
Together we have changed the world forever.
Now we must change mankind itself.
No sweat.
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Halliburton to End Iran Operations
HOUSTON — Halliburton Co. will pull out of Iran after its current contracts there are wound down, its chief executive said Friday.
"The business environment currently in Iran is not conducive to our overall strategy and objectives," Chief Executive Dave Lesar said in a conference call.The Houston-based company, formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, has been criticized for its work in Iraq, where it is the largest private contractor with revenue totaling more than $10 billion.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-halliburton29jan29,0,6199862.story?coll=la-home-worldxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CIA ordered to hand over Iraq prison files
February 3, 2005 - 1:22PM
A US judge today ordered the CIA to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and turn over records concerning the treatment of prisoners in Iraq to watchdog groups.
"Congress has set the laws, and it is the duty of executive agencies to comply with them," US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein wrote.
It was the second time in six months that the judge suggested the government was impeding the American Civil Liberties Union's quest to monitor government actions in the war on terrorism.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/03/1107228821125.html?oneclick=true
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US soldier tells of horror inside Abu Ghraib
February 3, 2005 - 1:25PM
Conditions at the Abu Ghraib prison were so "deplorable" that rats and wild dogs were a common sight and edible food and water were scarce, a witness testified in the penalty phase for a soldier who has pleaded guilty to abusing detainees.
Army Major David Dinenna, a leader of Sergeant Javal Davis's military police battalion, testified today at Fort Hood in Texas that Abu Ghraib was a bleak and volatile place for the thousands of detainees and their vastly outnumbered guards.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/03/1107228821238.html
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Bravo company's Medal of Honour hero
February 3, 2005 - 1:54PM
A US soldier credited with saving dozens of lives by beating back an Iraqi attack before he was killed will receive the first US Medal of Honour awarded since 1993, according to the officer who nominated him.
It is the US equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
Sgt 1st Class Paul Smith, 33, of Florida, was killed in action when his outnumbered unit was attacked by Iraqi forces at the Baghdad airport on April 4, 2003.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/03/1107228823755.html
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Thank You Rossi. GREAT JOB !
When Austrailian Citizens know MORE about what is happening in America than Americans do, something is so terribly off, it HAS to have been by design.
Thank you Rossi, for EVERYTHING darlin. At times like these I am truely humbled and in awe that ANYONE outside the U.S.A. could still not only believe in us, but would take the time to help as well.
It is that kind of spirit that turns our friends into our heros.
WE The People will never forget that our nations are born of the same Mother, England, and raised by the same Father, Revolution.
Together we have changed the world forever.
Now we must change mankind itself.
No sweat.
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Halliburton to End Iran Operations
HOUSTON — Halliburton Co. will pull out of Iran after its current contracts there are wound down, its chief executive said Friday.
"The business environment currently in Iran is not conducive to our overall strategy and objectives," Chief Executive Dave Lesar said in a conference call.The Houston-based company, formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, has been criticized for its work in Iraq, where it is the largest private contractor with revenue totaling more than $10 billion.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-halliburton29jan29,0,6199862.story?coll=la-home-worldxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CIA ordered to hand over Iraq prison files
February 3, 2005 - 1:22PM
A US judge today ordered the CIA to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and turn over records concerning the treatment of prisoners in Iraq to watchdog groups.
"Congress has set the laws, and it is the duty of executive agencies to comply with them," US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein wrote.
It was the second time in six months that the judge suggested the government was impeding the American Civil Liberties Union's quest to monitor government actions in the war on terrorism.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/03/1107228821125.html?oneclick=true
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US soldier tells of horror inside Abu Ghraib
February 3, 2005 - 1:25PM
Conditions at the Abu Ghraib prison were so "deplorable" that rats and wild dogs were a common sight and edible food and water were scarce, a witness testified in the penalty phase for a soldier who has pleaded guilty to abusing detainees.
Army Major David Dinenna, a leader of Sergeant Javal Davis's military police battalion, testified today at Fort Hood in Texas that Abu Ghraib was a bleak and volatile place for the thousands of detainees and their vastly outnumbered guards.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/03/1107228821238.html
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Bravo company's Medal of Honour hero
February 3, 2005 - 1:54PM
A US soldier credited with saving dozens of lives by beating back an Iraqi attack before he was killed will receive the first US Medal of Honour awarded since 1993, according to the officer who nominated him.
It is the US equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
Sgt 1st Class Paul Smith, 33, of Florida, was killed in action when his outnumbered unit was attacked by Iraqi forces at the Baghdad airport on April 4, 2003.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/03/1107228823755.html
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Thank You Rossi. GREAT JOB !
posted by Christy at 11:19 AM
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Let Me Repeat That
You can post on the comments section without signing up for ANYTHING.
I Promise.
I had the settings wrong but it should be all good now.
Calling once again for yall to post links and I'll get them into the Daily Dispatchs.
Thanks you guys..I Love You People!
I Promise.
I had the settings wrong but it should be all good now.
Calling once again for yall to post links and I'll get them into the Daily Dispatchs.
Thanks you guys..I Love You People!
posted by Christy at 8:57 AM
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"Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
1953 quote from President Eisenhower
1953 quote from President Eisenhower
posted by Christy at 2:08 AM
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ReBelle Daily Dispatch
CIA Faces Pressure to Divulge Ties to Ex-NazisWed Feb 2, 2005 02:25 PM ET By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator demanded on Wednesday that the CIA director release thousands of pages of documents detailing the agency's ties with former Nazis who aided in Cold War espionage against the Soviet Union, officials said.
Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio, Republican co-author of a 1998 bill ordering the disclosure of government records on Nazi war criminals, wants CIA Director Porter Goss to say publicly why his agency has not agreed to divulge the records.
http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7516505
--- I will tell you why...It will embarrass ATLEAST TWO American Presidents...Namely the son and grandson of Prescott Bush who was a Nazi lover to the point he HELPED FINANCE THEM...Just ask a Senator named John Kerry...He KNOWS all about this little bank once known as B.C.C.I...Terrorists banked there... So did the Bushs and MANY other VERY surprising names...----
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US guards 'filmed beatings' at terror camp Senator urges action as Briton reveals Guantanamo abuse David Rose and Gaby HinsliffSunday May 16, 2004The ObserverDozens of videotapes of American guards allegedly engaged in brutal attacks on Guantanamo Bay detainees have been stored and catalogued at the camp, an investigation by The Observer has revealed.
The disclosures, made in an interview with Tarek Dergoul, the fifth British prisoner freed last March, who has been too traumatised to speak until now, prompted demands last night by senior politicians on both sides of the Atlantic to make the videos available immediately.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1217973,00.html
----Alberto 'The Electrode' Gonzales is DIRECTLY to blame for this and SO IS BUSH for listening to him------
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Pearl Harbor Redux
"This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone," the former high-level intelligence official told me. "Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign. We’ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah—we’ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism."
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2750
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CIA ordered to turn over prisoner recordsBy Larry NeumeisterFeb. 2, 2005 "Salon.com" -- New York -- A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the CIA to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and turn over to watchdog groups records concerning the treatment of prisoners in Iraq. "Congress has set the laws, and it is the duty of executive agencies to comply with them," U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein wrote. It was the second time in six months that the judge suggested the government was impeding the American Civil Liberties Union's quest to monitor government actions in the war on terrorism. The ACLU filed its lawsuit in October 2003 seeking information on treatment of detainees in U.S. custody and the transfer of prisoners to countries known to use torture. The group is seeking the records to show that prisoner abuse by the United States is "not aberrational but systemic."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7957.htm
---The Electrode has INFESTED us with vileness---
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U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror by Peter Grose Special to the New York Times 9/4/1967 -- "New York Times -- page 2" -- WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-- United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong. The size of the popular vote and the inability of the Vietcong to destroy the election machinery were the two salient facts in a preliminary assessment of the nation election based on the incomplete returns reaching here. Pending more detailed reports, neither the State Department nor the White House would comment on the balloting or the victory of the military candidates, Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu, who was running for president, and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, the candidate for vice president. A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam. The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Ky and General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7943.htm
----Gawd ...I don't want to know whats about to happen----
---BTW..I LOVE http://www.informationclearinghouse.info.. I HIGHLY recommend it.--
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ACTION ALERT ACTION ALERT
U.S. Senate is poised to lock you out of the courtroom!
A key part of President Bush’s agenda for his second term is "legal reform." You can expect to hear him go on about it during his State of the Union address tonight. Unfortunately, like WMD in Iraq and the latest "crisis" in Social Security, the Administration’s case for making drastic changes to the legal system is another sham based on misinformation and deception, and serves as a front for the corporate agenda so dear to Mr. Bush.
As part of this drive the Senate will vote the week of February 7 on the so-called "Class Action Fairness Act" (S. 5). There is nothing fair about this proposed law. It is simply a way for corporations to restrict the legal rights of ordinary citizens to fight unscrupulous companies that sell unsafe products, rip off consumers, pollute the environment and employ unfair labor practices.
Please contact your Senators NOW – tell them that you demand fairness in our legal system, and that the only way to do that is to either stop or amend the class action bill. To send them a quick letter, please go to
http://action.citizen.org/pc/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=6894551
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Correspondence care of Medact The Grayston Centre 28 Charles Square London N1 6HT The Rt Hon Tony Blair MP 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA 8 December 2004 Dear Prime Minister, The medical journal The Lancet recently published a study that estimates the post-invasion Iraqi death toll at 98,000. The same study reported that the risk of death from violence among Iraqis is vastly higher than it was before the war began. You have rejected these findings, but offer no comparable assessment of your own. As you know, your government is obliged under international humanitarian law to protect the civilian population during military operations in Iraq, and you have consistently promised to do so. However, without counting the dead and injured, no one can know whether Britain and its Coalition partners are meeting these obligations. We therefore urge you immediately to commission a comprehensive, independent inquiry to determine with the greatest possible accuracy how many Iraqis have died or been injured since March 2003 - and the cause of those casualties.
http://www.btinternet.com/~musicweaver/count_casualties_campaign.htm
----I see Londons numbers ain't adding up right either. OUR Pentagon says we have lost 1400 men....I have to say ...between the neocon butt boys and the Isreali spies looting OUR military dry...I DONT BELIEVE A DAMN THING THEY SAY ANYMORE...huh...Isreali spies?...oh DON"T get me started..-----
--PS and BTW..before anyone gets creative..I have no more problems with Jews than I do with Palestinians..My problem is with any leader with the nickname 'The Butcher' attatched to himself...And thats just what other ISRAELIS calls Sharon...He picked that one up by way of a little resort known as Lebbanon, a place where some other towers were attacked and felled, another man there was watching...his name was Osama and he got ideas....And ROUND and ROUND we go---
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
2/2/2005
Alas, John McCain:Oh, dear John McCain, sweet Senator from Arizona, how the Rude Pundit feels for you. You remember every night, don't you, Senator McCain, the pain and humiliation dealt to you at the hands of the Vietcong. God, what they did to you , in those years in as a POW, held in bamboo cages. How they hurt you, Senator McCain, broke your teeth, broke your bones. How tight were the ropes that bound your arms, twisting them, contorting your muscles. "Torture ropes," as you called them, are meant to make control of a prisoner simple - just a brief pull and the verge of pain upon which you've been living becomes the precipice of pain that you feel. How they beat you, Senator McCain, viciously, on a daily basis, sometimes several times a day, demanding that you say you're a criminal, a terrorist, if you will.They fucked you up
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2005/02/alas-john-mccain-oh-dear-john-mccain.html
----A man who was tortured voting for a torturer because of political bennies....Appalling...You Go Rude, tell it like it is Daddy-O---
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Infighting Cited at Homeland Security
Squabbles Blamed for Reducing Effectiveness
By John MintzWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, February 2, 2005; Page A01
As its leadership changes for the first time, the Department of Homeland Security remains hampered by personality conflicts, bureaucratic bottlenecks and an atmosphere of demoralization, undermining its ability to protect the nation against terrorist attack, according to current and former administration officials and independent experts.
Although the 22-month-old department has vast powers over the lives of travelers, immigrants and citizens, it remains a second-tier agency in the clout it commands within President Bush's Cabinet, the officials said. Pockets of dysfunction are scattered throughout the 180,000-employee agency, they said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55552-2005Feb1
----If ONE Bush appointee had done her freaking job as National Security Advisor...We could have blown those trillions elsewhere..oh but right..Then no one would have a chance to lose a few trillion in the shuffle----
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Public Citizen launches drug safety web site
Visit our new and improved Web site, www.worstpills.org a searchable, online drug database that provides comprehensive information about 538 prescription drugs and warns of 181 drugs that are unsafe or ineffective. Read about drug pricing, follow our 10 rules for safer drug use, review the current issue of our Worst Pills, Best Pills newsletter, and sign up for e-alerts about newly discovered drug dangers!
---Spread this to those that take meds---
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Bush Promises Tight Budget, to Slash 150 Programs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Wednesday that his fiscal 2006 budget would slash or eliminate more than 150 government programs, and hold spending growth for many other programs at below the rate of inflation.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20050203/ts_nm/bush_budget_dc
----- This is gonna be BAD...He will leave MILLIONS hungry and homeless... This is becoming intolerably stupid.----
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FSU center spent public money to tout feds' policies
By Kimberly Miller
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
A Florida State University center has used more than a half-million in education tax dollars to put a positive spin on President Bush's key school policies, including hiring a public relations firm to teach charter schools to be more media-savvy.
Despite conflicting studies on the success of charter schools and other alternative education programs, the School Choice Center at FSU touts them as ways to "increase student achievement, increase parental involvement, promote school improvement through constructive competition, and accomplish racial and ethnic diversity."
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2005/02/02/m1a_FSUCENTER_0202.html
---Oh you didnt think ol Jeb was running a clean shop?..So much to loot, so little time---
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Holy crap
Even more curiously, a "senior administration official" who briefed reporters on the Social Security proposal earlier today disclosed details of the White House plan that I don't think will play well in Peoria. Most significantly, this official revealed that most or all of the earnings from new "personal" or privatized accounts will be paid not to the holder of the account, but to the government. The senior official called this a "benefit offset." It's one way to finance the creation of these private accounts, but it's going to cause quite a political stir, I think.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/holy-crap.html
---Are You Ready To RUMBLLLLEEE...?----
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator demanded on Wednesday that the CIA director release thousands of pages of documents detailing the agency's ties with former Nazis who aided in Cold War espionage against the Soviet Union, officials said.
Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio, Republican co-author of a 1998 bill ordering the disclosure of government records on Nazi war criminals, wants CIA Director Porter Goss to say publicly why his agency has not agreed to divulge the records.
http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7516505
--- I will tell you why...It will embarrass ATLEAST TWO American Presidents...Namely the son and grandson of Prescott Bush who was a Nazi lover to the point he HELPED FINANCE THEM...Just ask a Senator named John Kerry...He KNOWS all about this little bank once known as B.C.C.I...Terrorists banked there... So did the Bushs and MANY other VERY surprising names...----
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US guards 'filmed beatings' at terror camp Senator urges action as Briton reveals Guantanamo abuse David Rose and Gaby HinsliffSunday May 16, 2004The Observer
The disclosures, made in an interview with Tarek Dergoul, the fifth British prisoner freed last March, who has been too traumatised to speak until now, prompted demands last night by senior politicians on both sides of the Atlantic to make the videos available immediately.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1217973,00.html
----Alberto 'The Electrode' Gonzales is DIRECTLY to blame for this and SO IS BUSH for listening to him------
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Pearl Harbor Redux
"This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone," the former high-level intelligence official told me. "Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign. We’ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah—we’ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism."
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2750
----HMMMM---
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CIA ordered to turn over prisoner recordsBy Larry NeumeisterFeb. 2, 2005 "Salon.com" -- New York -- A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the CIA to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and turn over to watchdog groups records concerning the treatment of prisoners in Iraq. "Congress has set the laws, and it is the duty of executive agencies to comply with them," U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein wrote. It was the second time in six months that the judge suggested the government was impeding the American Civil Liberties Union's quest to monitor government actions in the war on terrorism. The ACLU filed its lawsuit in October 2003 seeking information on treatment of detainees in U.S. custody and the transfer of prisoners to countries known to use torture. The group is seeking the records to show that prisoner abuse by the United States is "not aberrational but systemic."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7957.htm
---The Electrode has INFESTED us with vileness---
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U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror by Peter Grose Special to the New York Times 9/4/1967 -- "New York Times -- page 2" -- WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-- United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong. The size of the popular vote and the inability of the Vietcong to destroy the election machinery were the two salient facts in a preliminary assessment of the nation election based on the incomplete returns reaching here. Pending more detailed reports, neither the State Department nor the White House would comment on the balloting or the victory of the military candidates, Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu, who was running for president, and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, the candidate for vice president. A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam. The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Ky and General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7943.htm
----Gawd ...I don't want to know whats about to happen----
---BTW..I LOVE http://www.informationclearinghouse.info.. I HIGHLY recommend it.--
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ACTION ALERT ACTION ALERT
U.S. Senate is poised to lock you out of the courtroom!
A key part of President Bush’s agenda for his second term is "legal reform." You can expect to hear him go on about it during his State of the Union address tonight. Unfortunately, like WMD in Iraq and the latest "crisis" in Social Security, the Administration’s case for making drastic changes to the legal system is another sham based on misinformation and deception, and serves as a front for the corporate agenda so dear to Mr. Bush.
As part of this drive the Senate will vote the week of February 7 on the so-called "Class Action Fairness Act" (S. 5). There is nothing fair about this proposed law. It is simply a way for corporations to restrict the legal rights of ordinary citizens to fight unscrupulous companies that sell unsafe products, rip off consumers, pollute the environment and employ unfair labor practices.
Please contact your Senators NOW – tell them that you demand fairness in our legal system, and that the only way to do that is to either stop or amend the class action bill. To send them a quick letter, please go to
http://action.citizen.org/pc/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=6894551
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Correspondence care of Medact The Grayston Centre 28 Charles Square London N1 6HT The Rt Hon Tony Blair MP 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA 8 December 2004 Dear Prime Minister, The medical journal The Lancet recently published a study that estimates the post-invasion Iraqi death toll at 98,000. The same study reported that the risk of death from violence among Iraqis is vastly higher than it was before the war began. You have rejected these findings, but offer no comparable assessment of your own. As you know, your government is obliged under international humanitarian law to protect the civilian population during military operations in Iraq, and you have consistently promised to do so. However, without counting the dead and injured, no one can know whether Britain and its Coalition partners are meeting these obligations. We therefore urge you immediately to commission a comprehensive, independent inquiry to determine with the greatest possible accuracy how many Iraqis have died or been injured since March 2003 - and the cause of those casualties.
http://www.btinternet.com/~musicweaver/count_casualties_campaign.htm
----I see Londons numbers ain't adding up right either. OUR Pentagon says we have lost 1400 men....I have to say ...between the neocon butt boys and the Isreali spies looting OUR military dry...I DONT BELIEVE A DAMN THING THEY SAY ANYMORE...huh...Isreali spies?...oh DON"T get me started..-----
--PS and BTW..before anyone gets creative..I have no more problems with Jews than I do with Palestinians..My problem is with any leader with the nickname 'The Butcher' attatched to himself...And thats just what other ISRAELIS calls Sharon...He picked that one up by way of a little resort known as Lebbanon, a place where some other towers were attacked and felled, another man there was watching...his name was Osama and he got ideas....And ROUND and ROUND we go---
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
2/2/2005
Alas, John McCain:Oh, dear John McCain, sweet Senator from Arizona, how the Rude Pundit feels for you. You remember every night, don't you, Senator McCain, the pain and humiliation dealt to you at the hands of the Vietcong. God, what they did to you , in those years in as a POW, held in bamboo cages. How they hurt you, Senator McCain, broke your teeth, broke your bones. How tight were the ropes that bound your arms, twisting them, contorting your muscles. "Torture ropes," as you called them, are meant to make control of a prisoner simple - just a brief pull and the verge of pain upon which you've been living becomes the precipice of pain that you feel. How they beat you, Senator McCain, viciously, on a daily basis, sometimes several times a day, demanding that you say you're a criminal, a terrorist, if you will.They fucked you up
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2005/02/alas-john-mccain-oh-dear-john-mccain.html
----A man who was tortured voting for a torturer because of political bennies....Appalling...You Go Rude, tell it like it is Daddy-O---
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Infighting Cited at Homeland Security
Squabbles Blamed for Reducing Effectiveness
By John MintzWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, February 2, 2005; Page A01
As its leadership changes for the first time, the Department of Homeland Security remains hampered by personality conflicts, bureaucratic bottlenecks and an atmosphere of demoralization, undermining its ability to protect the nation against terrorist attack, according to current and former administration officials and independent experts.
Although the 22-month-old department has vast powers over the lives of travelers, immigrants and citizens, it remains a second-tier agency in the clout it commands within President Bush's Cabinet, the officials said. Pockets of dysfunction are scattered throughout the 180,000-employee agency, they said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55552-2005Feb1
----If ONE Bush appointee had done her freaking job as National Security Advisor...We could have blown those trillions elsewhere..oh but right..Then no one would have a chance to lose a few trillion in the shuffle----
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Public Citizen launches drug safety web site
Visit our new and improved Web site, www.worstpills.org a searchable, online drug database that provides comprehensive information about 538 prescription drugs and warns of 181 drugs that are unsafe or ineffective. Read about drug pricing, follow our 10 rules for safer drug use, review the current issue of our Worst Pills, Best Pills newsletter, and sign up for e-alerts about newly discovered drug dangers!
---Spread this to those that take meds---
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Bush Promises Tight Budget, to Slash 150 Programs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Wednesday that his fiscal 2006 budget would slash or eliminate more than 150 government programs, and hold spending growth for many other programs at below the rate of inflation.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20050203/ts_nm/bush_budget_dc
----- This is gonna be BAD...He will leave MILLIONS hungry and homeless... This is becoming intolerably stupid.----
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FSU center spent public money to tout feds' policies
By Kimberly Miller
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
A Florida State University center has used more than a half-million in education tax dollars to put a positive spin on President Bush's key school policies, including hiring a public relations firm to teach charter schools to be more media-savvy.
Despite conflicting studies on the success of charter schools and other alternative education programs, the School Choice Center at FSU touts them as ways to "increase student achievement, increase parental involvement, promote school improvement through constructive competition, and accomplish racial and ethnic diversity."
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2005/02/02/m1a_FSUCENTER_0202.html
---Oh you didnt think ol Jeb was running a clean shop?..So much to loot, so little time---
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Holy crap
Even more curiously, a "senior administration official" who briefed reporters on the Social Security proposal earlier today disclosed details of the White House plan that I don't think will play well in Peoria. Most significantly, this official revealed that most or all of the earnings from new "personal" or privatized accounts will be paid not to the holder of the account, but to the government. The senior official called this a "benefit offset." It's one way to finance the creation of these private accounts, but it's going to cause quite a political stir, I think.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/holy-crap.html
---Are You Ready To RUMBLLLLEEE...?----
posted by Christy at 2:04 AM
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005
This is the new RebelleNation site administrator (blog mommy). Her name is Kim and I give you a big warm juicy welcome doll !! We are gonna have a BLAST. While Belle is busy with her dispatchs Kim will be here to make sure we are all charmed into submission. Yall play nice and LETS BLOG BABY BLOG !
posted by Christy at 10:34 PM
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OOOPPS My Bad.
I totally had the settings wrong ...I am so very sorry.
You may post now WITHOUT signing up for ANYTHING..
You may post now WITHOUT signing up for ANYTHING..
posted by Christy at 9:15 PM
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Bring it on Bitch
New Republic Calls for Death and Torture of Arundhati Roy and Stan Goff
By DAVE ZIRIN
The words "libelous" and 'the New Republic" have a proud history of walking arm-in-arm. Now, in the esteemed tradition of [former TNR writer who peddled fiction as fact] Stephen Glass, The New Republic has stooped to a new low, publishing a piece that calls for violence, torture, and even death for leading leftists who dare oppose Bush's war on terror and the slaughter in Iraq.
"Interestingly, Frank didn't have the guts to slander another one of the panel speakers, exonerated death row inmate Shujaa Graham. Graham, who has been moved to speak out against the torture of Iraqi prisoners by intimately connecting their pain with his own experience of torture in California's death row, escaped Frank's pen. I guess it's hard to pose fantasy threats of torture and death toward someone who has actually looked it in the face."
http://www.counterpunch.org/zirin01312005.html
Its not sour grapes. We are simply mad as hell and NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!!!!
Hey Alberto 'The Electrode" Gonzallass....Every Move You Make, Every Breathe You Take....WE are watching you...among others.
By DAVE ZIRIN
The words "libelous" and 'the New Republic" have a proud history of walking arm-in-arm. Now, in the esteemed tradition of [former TNR writer who peddled fiction as fact] Stephen Glass, The New Republic has stooped to a new low, publishing a piece that calls for violence, torture, and even death for leading leftists who dare oppose Bush's war on terror and the slaughter in Iraq.
"Interestingly, Frank didn't have the guts to slander another one of the panel speakers, exonerated death row inmate Shujaa Graham. Graham, who has been moved to speak out against the torture of Iraqi prisoners by intimately connecting their pain with his own experience of torture in California's death row, escaped Frank's pen. I guess it's hard to pose fantasy threats of torture and death toward someone who has actually looked it in the face."
http://www.counterpunch.org/zirin01312005.html
Its not sour grapes. We are simply mad as hell and NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!!!!
Hey Alberto 'The Electrode" Gonzallass....Every Move You Make, Every Breathe You Take....WE are watching you...among others.
posted by Christy at 7:18 PM
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Introducing Me and Myself
Who am I
In the intrest of full disclosure and to try to answer individual curiosity, I have decided to give an interview to Myself and provide the transcript here.
As you will see, in questioning Myself I tried to remain as fair and balanced as possible.However; after taking Myself into the spin zone, I walked away from me with the distinct feeling I had been spun.
Here is the transcript in full of my conversation with myself.
Me: Ok..Let's start this off by..
Self: I'm ready when you are.
Me: (polite pause) Yes, ok, let's begin with your name, rank, and cereal number...?
Self: Umm...
Me: Can I quote you on that?
Self: Uh...Ok..My name is Christy and I am a mommy...I don't..um..
Me: Cereal Number?
Self: ...Umm ...Two Fruit Loops and a box of Corn flakes ?
Me: Works for me...Ok. So how many kids do you have?
Self: Five, one son 4 daughters.
Me: Wow.
Self: Yeah ..thats what I said.
Me: So why DID you start this blog thing?
Self: Well I got drunk one night and thought , hmm that looks fun. It turned out well though because now I have a place to post news items people may have missed.
Me: Umm Dont they have newspapers for that?
Self: Yes and No.
Me: What do you mean?
Self: I mean newspapers are a place that news is SUPPOSED to be reported; but in these scary times reporters are either ignoring the news or worse, flat out distorting it...
Me: Isn't that dangerous?
Self: Yes, very dangerous.
Me: So what is it news papers are NOT saying?
Self: For one, the words war criminal and war profiteering....They are..
Me: War profiteering?
Self: Yes, as in profiting from war...They are not using the word 'Treason' either...
Me: Treason?
Self: Yes.
Me: Are you crazy?
Self: If I am I'm not alone.
Me: Well..Umm..ok..(inaudible)... Then WHY treason?
Self: Starting with 9/11...Did YOU know the insurance on the WTC was increased by 300% less than 90 days before they were destroyed?
Me: No, I did not know that...
Self: Not many do.
Me: But..I thought it was bin Laden who attacked us?
Self: It was bin Laden..But HE did not buy insurance on the WTC...When we find him ..you can ask him about it.
Me: So who committed treason then....?
Self: We will ask him that too.
Me: Lets move on to Iraq.
Self: Don't get me started...
Me: Started on..?
Self: Iraq serves many peoples intrests but not 'The Peoples' intrest. Our soldiers are digging through garbage to up armor thier vehicles while Bush and his supporters throw a 40 million dollar party. Our soldiers are ordered to kill innocent people for what we KNOW are lies. This is the worst situation imaginable for our troops. They are not fighting Vietnamese rice farmers for sure. Since there are no front lines women are literally on the battlefield. Our soldiers are being used as human shields for Halliburton employees.
Bush cannot secure the people of Iraq but the new US bases on thier pipelines are going up pretty well. He can order the city of Fallujah, The City of Churchs,.. destroyed, but he cannot seem to build a single thing that would better the lives of those he's claiming to have freed.
Me: Um..Won't the US bases being built there 'secure' the situation?
Self: Oh yeah they tried that once in a place called Korea once...That hasn't worked out very well for anyone... And if...
Me: But won't the oil be used for...?
Self: For what?!....I don't see us getting rich off Iraqi oil. I don't see Iraqis getting rich off of it either! The truth is both the Bush and bin Laden family fortunes are based on oil and defense contracts. Its convienant that a war is raging over the second largest oil reserve on earth. Both of these families have gotten FILTHY rich.
Me: Are you saying the Bush/ bin Laden family fortunes are related?
Self: Ofcourse they are related, Closer than anyone should be comfortable with. It's true that bin Laden family money is how our current President was set up in bunk oil companies thirty something years ago.
Me: Your Joking?
Self: Would I lie to you?...A man named James Bathh was the Texas money manager for the bin Laden family. He invested in Bush..After all they had failed a piss test together.
Me: Ok... But why would Saudis (of all people) invest in junk oil companies in Texas?
Self: That is a very good question. Perhaps we should ask Mr. Bathh... Osama is very likely to know the answer and without a doubt Bush knows why. So does his daddy.
Me: Hmm Ok...Let's go back to you...
Self: Do we have too...?
Me: Yes.
Self: Why?
Me: Because I say so...ok What are your goals in life?
Self: A degree in anthropology and the Presidency of the United States...Oh and I need a nanny.
Me: Your saying your going to be President one day?
Self: Yes..I didn't tell you?
Me: Ummm..No. I must have missed that part...(inaudible)...But won't your past as a stripper and your anger management issues be used against you?
Self: Yes, probably the nanny too.
Me: So..then..um how..?
Self: I'll use the current administrations' example... All we have to do is say if you question my motives you are unpatriotic.
Me: Isn't that horribly unfair and wrong?
Self: Why, yes, it is,.. isn't it?
Me: Um ok anthropology as in that Darwin stuff?
Self: Yes, actually, evolution is my intrest.
Me: Didn't you know that's un-christian?
Self: No. I did not know that.
Me: Umm ok, nevermind,...(inaudible)...to ask your political leanings?
Self: Well,I was actually raised a conservative republican. But I now consider myself a moderate democrat. I'm proud to be a liberal.
Me: WHAT?!!! A liberal?!! WHY?...?
Self: Maybe it was that Mexican experience, could be Clintons fault... Or it could be I've just known too many republicans...
Me: Don't liberals have coodies?
Self: Don't be an ass. Jesus was a liberal. So was Ghandi.
Me: UMM ..Moving on.
Self: Yes?
Me: Is it true yall practice voodoo in Louisiana?
Self: Does voodo mean drunken naked tree hugging?
Me: Yes.
Self: Umm..Well, then...yes.
Me: Ok, since you are totally beginning to bore me...
Self: (inaudible) you too.
Me: (continues)...ask you just just one more question before we go?
Self: Hmmm?
Me: Did mom ever find those other pictures she would hate...?
Self: If...(inaudible).. go down YOU go down!....(inaudible)...(crosstalk)...(screams)...
Me: Ok well...That does it for now...This is Christy signing off...
Self: Whatever!
Me: Tune in next week for the premeire episode of 'Life as a Bad Play'...
END TRANSCRIPT.
Sorry Yall. I don't have any tax payer money to pay a real journalist to do the legwork for me. Gotta go with the resources you have not the resources you might WANT to have....
posted by Christy at 6:52 PM
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Amen
GONZALES ADDED TO WAR CRIMES COMPLAINT IN GERMANY; NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS FAY REPORT ON ABU GHRAIB PROTECTED OFFICIALS
CCR filed new documents on January 31, 2005, with the German Federal Prosecutor looking into war crimes charges against high-ranking U.S. officials including Donald Rumsfeld: one includes new evidence that the Fay investigation into Abu Ghraib protected Administration officials – it is a comprehensive and shocking opinion by Scott Horton, an expert on international law and the Chair of the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. The second is a letter that details how Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee confirms his role as complicit in the torture and abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq.
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=ci38xk7IHk&Content=509
CCR filed new documents on January 31, 2005, with the German Federal Prosecutor looking into war crimes charges against high-ranking U.S. officials including Donald Rumsfeld: one includes new evidence that the Fay investigation into Abu Ghraib protected Administration officials – it is a comprehensive and shocking opinion by Scott Horton, an expert on international law and the Chair of the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. The second is a letter that details how Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee confirms his role as complicit in the torture and abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq.
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=ci38xk7IHk&Content=509
posted by Christy at 6:50 PM
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To the evil bastards who turned this boy into a bomb...I hope you rot in hell. I pray his soul will forgive us all. His Name was Amar Ahmed Mohammed. He was an innocent. He was a human being.
posted by Christy at 9:23 AM
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ReBelle Daily Dispatch
NEWS as of 8:40 am..e.s.t..2-2-05
Legion Leader Decries Undersecretary's Remarks on Veterans
1/26/2005 1:19:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Joe March, 317-630-1253 or 317-748-1926 (cell), or Wade Habshey, 317-630-1255 both of American Legion
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The leader of the nation's largest military veterans organization has reacted strongly to comments made by the Pentagon's undersecretary for personnel and readiness, Dr. David Chu.
Chu was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article Tuesday, pitting veterans from past wars against those currently serving in the war on terrorism, alleging veterans' benefits were taking away funds from national defense.
"His remarks about veterans' pay and benefits that 'the amounts have gotten to the point where they are hurtful...they are taking away from the nation's ability to defend itself' is a slap in the face to every veteran who took the oath to uphold and defend the constitution against all enemies," Cadmus wrote in a letter to the editor of the Journal.
"Our country cannot separate military retirees from veterans -- a veteran is a veteran!" asserted Thomas P. Cadmus, national commander of The American Legion. "When their country called all gave their best -- some gave their last -- and they deserve the best our country can give them."
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=42182
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The Nuclear Option in the Senate: A Preemptive Strike for Absolute Power
A January National Review column by former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, floor remarks by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and op eds in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere are clear: the right wing is mounting an all-out attack on the 200-year-old tradition of the filibuster in the Senate to clear the way for President Bush’s most extreme, ultra-conservative nominees to the federal bench and, eventually, to the U.S. Supreme Court. To that end, it’s obvious that the truth is no obstacle to any argument.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=17784
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Bush Not Revealing Social Security Details
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON - President Bush will outline ideas about strengthening Social Security but will not spell out all the details of a plan to fix the system's financial problems when he delivers his State of the Union address Wednesday night.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=18&u=/ap/20050201/ap_on_go_pr_wh/state_of_union
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Dems: No Gonzales Filibuster
(AP) Democrats won't try to filibuster Alberto Gonzales' nomination to be attorney general but will hold extensive debates in the Senate over his role in developing the Bush administration's policies on treating foreign detainees, the Senate's top Democrat said Tuesday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/31/world/main670539.shtml
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The Return of the Draft With the army desperate for recruits, should college students be packing their bags for Canada? By TIM DICKINSON
Uncle Sam wants you. He needs you. He'll bribe you to sign up. He'll strong-arm you to re-enlist. And if that's not enough, he's got a plan to draft you.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6862691?rnd=1107204673514&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040
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Cop pays sticker price
Denver police Sgt. Michael Karasek will be disciplined for threatening to arrest a woman for displaying on her truck a profane bumper sticker about President Bush, Police Chief Gerry Whitman said Tuesday.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3498669,00.html
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Judge Rules Gov't Wrong to Downgrade Wolf
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=461483
GRANTS PASS, Ore. Feb 1, 2005 — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration violated the Endangered Species Act when it relaxed protections on many of the nation's gray wolves.
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Bush will face political reality check after speech
By TAMARA LYTLEOrlando Sentinel
WASHINGTON - President Bush will have no problem winning applause and accolades Wednesday when he delivers his State of the Union speech to Congress.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/10778321.htm?1c
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Senate Delays Vote on Gonzales Nomination
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate won't vote Wednesday to confirm attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales, GOP senators say, in part because Democrats don't want to give President Bush a success to talk about in his State of the Union speech.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Senate-Gonzales.html?oref=login&oref=login
----Yeah its the dems fault because THEY DONT WANT A TORTURER AS ATTORNEY GENRAL...Gee wonder why?-----
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Global warming inevitable for decades to come, science conference told
EXETER, England (AFP) - A climate conference opened to renewed concern about the worsening threat of global warming and appeals from Britain to its ally, the United States, not to stand on the sidelines.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=15&u=/afp/20050201/ts_afp/scienceclimate_050201193856
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The Costly Right to Know
Citizens who rate the Freedom of Information law as priceless had better consider this: The Justice Department is demanding close to $400,000 from a public interest foundation before honoring its request for information on a lingering mystery of 9/11 - the secret numbers of immigrants who were rounded up after the terrorist attacks and never heard from as their court records were sealed. This huge tab, presented to the People for the American Way Foundation, is well beyond established criteria and amounts to an insult to the law's intent: letting citizens in on some of the murkier things the government may be up to.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/opinion/02wed2.html?ex=1108011600&en=c3e3feaf2ddda59d&ei=5070
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Pope Hospitalized With Breathing Problems
Anxiety has been running high over the 84-year-old pope's Parkinson's disease and other ailments, but Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told The Associated Press that the decision to hospitalize him was "mainly a precaution."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20050202/ap_on_re_eu/pope_flu
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Rumsfeld Seeks to Revive Burrowing Nuclear Bomb
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sent a memo last month to then-Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham saying next year's budget should include funds to resume study of building an earth-penetrating nuclear weapon designed to destroy hardened underground targets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52564-2005Jan31.html?referrer=email
---Excuse me just a moment...But isn't it wise to keep nukes out of the hands of incompetent idiot who could care less about 'The army you have' not the one we 'Actually go to war with'...? Rumsfield is a disgrace to the ENTIRE U.S.A...Ask John McCain...----
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It is not partisan for anti-torture Democrats to oppose Gonzales. It is partisan for anti-torture Republicans to support him.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_01_30_atrios_archive.html#110728692577088295
---Normaly I would not try to comment about another bloggers comments, but damn Atrios, yall ROCK!...and AMEN-----
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Evangelical leader thinks evolution more dangerous than anything. Ever.
It is Kennedy's opinion that Christians who embrace evolution are compromising their faith. He describes evolution as the most destructive idea ever to enter the mind of man, and a concept that has killed more people than all religions that ever existed.
http://www.itaffectsyou.org/blog/index.php?p=482
----If GOD createted EVERYTHING....then who CREATED evolution.?...Science CAN prove the very existance of God, Himself...SOMEONE wrote those instructions on a stem cell using mathmatics....This guy is denying GOD by DENYING the evidence of EVOLUTION. But hey wouldn't Jesus just bomb something? Wonder If Jesus would borrow Rummys little ground cleveing nukes?----
----By the Way..Every human being that has ever died has died of the EXACT SAME THING...Lack of oxygen to the brain...Funny cause thats exactly how ALL dogs die too...And rats...and fish..and yes even monkeys---
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Jump In Front Of A Crowd, Call It A Parade
To great fanfare and applause, the Pentagon announced this week that President Bush would propose dramatically increasing the "death benefit " paid to the families of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to $250,000.
Talk about jumping in front of a crowd and calling it a parade.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050131-115542-3499r.htm
http://www.thinkprogress.org/
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HOMELAND INSECURITY
Issue of 2005-02-07Posted 2005-01-31
It’s not easy to remember, but we didn’t always think of ourselves as a target-rich country. A rich country, sure, but terms such as "target-rich" and all that they imply hadn’t penetrated everyday American awareness. Today, nearly everyone who studies the sources of potential terrorism, particularly the global jihadist movement, believes that more attacks are inevitable. Stephen Flynn, in his book "America the Vulnerable," likens this period to the Phony War—the eight months, beginning in September, 1939, after Hitler had invaded Poland, and Britain and France had declared war on Germany, when essentially nothing happened. The United States hasn’t been attacked for more than three years now, an extraordinarily happy fact for which the Bush Administration is quick to take the credit. If that changes, the Department of Homeland Security seems well positioned to take the blame.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?050207ta_talk_finnegan
Legion Leader Decries Undersecretary's Remarks on Veterans
1/26/2005 1:19:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Joe March, 317-630-1253 or 317-748-1926 (cell), or Wade Habshey, 317-630-1255 both of American Legion
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The leader of the nation's largest military veterans organization has reacted strongly to comments made by the Pentagon's undersecretary for personnel and readiness, Dr. David Chu.
Chu was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article Tuesday, pitting veterans from past wars against those currently serving in the war on terrorism, alleging veterans' benefits were taking away funds from national defense.
"His remarks about veterans' pay and benefits that 'the amounts have gotten to the point where they are hurtful...they are taking away from the nation's ability to defend itself' is a slap in the face to every veteran who took the oath to uphold and defend the constitution against all enemies," Cadmus wrote in a letter to the editor of the Journal.
"Our country cannot separate military retirees from veterans -- a veteran is a veteran!" asserted Thomas P. Cadmus, national commander of The American Legion. "When their country called all gave their best -- some gave their last -- and they deserve the best our country can give them."
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=42182
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The Nuclear Option in the Senate: A Preemptive Strike for Absolute Power
A January National Review column by former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, floor remarks by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and op eds in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere are clear: the right wing is mounting an all-out attack on the 200-year-old tradition of the filibuster in the Senate to clear the way for President Bush’s most extreme, ultra-conservative nominees to the federal bench and, eventually, to the U.S. Supreme Court. To that end, it’s obvious that the truth is no obstacle to any argument.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=17784
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Bush Not Revealing Social Security Details
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON - President Bush will outline ideas about strengthening Social Security but will not spell out all the details of a plan to fix the system's financial problems when he delivers his State of the Union address Wednesday night.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=18&u=/ap/20050201/ap_on_go_pr_wh/state_of_union
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Dems: No Gonzales Filibuster
(AP) Democrats won't try to filibuster Alberto Gonzales' nomination to be attorney general but will hold extensive debates in the Senate over his role in developing the Bush administration's policies on treating foreign detainees, the Senate's top Democrat said Tuesday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/31/world/main670539.shtml
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The Return of the Draft With the army desperate for recruits, should college students be packing their bags for Canada? By TIM DICKINSON
Uncle Sam wants you. He needs you. He'll bribe you to sign up. He'll strong-arm you to re-enlist. And if that's not enough, he's got a plan to draft you.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6862691?rnd=1107204673514&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040
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Cop pays sticker price
Denver police Sgt. Michael Karasek will be disciplined for threatening to arrest a woman for displaying on her truck a profane bumper sticker about President Bush, Police Chief Gerry Whitman said Tuesday.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3498669,00.html
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Judge Rules Gov't Wrong to Downgrade Wolf
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=461483
GRANTS PASS, Ore. Feb 1, 2005 — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration violated the Endangered Species Act when it relaxed protections on many of the nation's gray wolves.
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Bush will face political reality check after speech
By TAMARA LYTLEOrlando Sentinel
WASHINGTON - President Bush will have no problem winning applause and accolades Wednesday when he delivers his State of the Union speech to Congress.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/10778321.htm?1c
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Senate Delays Vote on Gonzales Nomination
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate won't vote Wednesday to confirm attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales, GOP senators say, in part because Democrats don't want to give President Bush a success to talk about in his State of the Union speech.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Senate-Gonzales.html?oref=login&oref=login
----Yeah its the dems fault because THEY DONT WANT A TORTURER AS ATTORNEY GENRAL...Gee wonder why?-----
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Global warming inevitable for decades to come, science conference told
EXETER, England (AFP) - A climate conference opened to renewed concern about the worsening threat of global warming and appeals from Britain to its ally, the United States, not to stand on the sidelines.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=15&u=/afp/20050201/ts_afp/scienceclimate_050201193856
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The Costly Right to Know
Citizens who rate the Freedom of Information law as priceless had better consider this: The Justice Department is demanding close to $400,000 from a public interest foundation before honoring its request for information on a lingering mystery of 9/11 - the secret numbers of immigrants who were rounded up after the terrorist attacks and never heard from as their court records were sealed. This huge tab, presented to the People for the American Way Foundation, is well beyond established criteria and amounts to an insult to the law's intent: letting citizens in on some of the murkier things the government may be up to.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/opinion/02wed2.html?ex=1108011600&en=c3e3feaf2ddda59d&ei=5070
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Pope Hospitalized With Breathing Problems
Anxiety has been running high over the 84-year-old pope's Parkinson's disease and other ailments, but Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told The Associated Press that the decision to hospitalize him was "mainly a precaution."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20050202/ap_on_re_eu/pope_flu
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Rumsfeld Seeks to Revive Burrowing Nuclear Bomb
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sent a memo last month to then-Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham saying next year's budget should include funds to resume study of building an earth-penetrating nuclear weapon designed to destroy hardened underground targets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52564-2005Jan31.html?referrer=email
---Excuse me just a moment...But isn't it wise to keep nukes out of the hands of incompetent idiot who could care less about 'The army you have' not the one we 'Actually go to war with'...? Rumsfield is a disgrace to the ENTIRE U.S.A...Ask John McCain...----
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It is not partisan for anti-torture Democrats to oppose Gonzales. It is partisan for anti-torture Republicans to support him.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_01_30_atrios_archive.html#110728692577088295
---Normaly I would not try to comment about another bloggers comments, but damn Atrios, yall ROCK!...and AMEN-----
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Evangelical leader thinks evolution more dangerous than anything. Ever.
It is Kennedy's opinion that Christians who embrace evolution are compromising their faith. He describes evolution as the most destructive idea ever to enter the mind of man, and a concept that has killed more people than all religions that ever existed.
http://www.itaffectsyou.org/blog/index.php?p=482
----If GOD createted EVERYTHING....then who CREATED evolution.?...Science CAN prove the very existance of God, Himself...SOMEONE wrote those instructions on a stem cell using mathmatics....This guy is denying GOD by DENYING the evidence of EVOLUTION. But hey wouldn't Jesus just bomb something? Wonder If Jesus would borrow Rummys little ground cleveing nukes?----
----By the Way..Every human being that has ever died has died of the EXACT SAME THING...Lack of oxygen to the brain...Funny cause thats exactly how ALL dogs die too...And rats...and fish..and yes even monkeys---
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Jump In Front Of A Crowd, Call It A Parade
To great fanfare and applause, the Pentagon announced this week that President Bush would propose dramatically increasing the "death benefit " paid to the families of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to $250,000.
Talk about jumping in front of a crowd and calling it a parade.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050131-115542-3499r.htm
http://www.thinkprogress.org/
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HOMELAND INSECURITY
Issue of 2005-02-07Posted 2005-01-31
It’s not easy to remember, but we didn’t always think of ourselves as a target-rich country. A rich country, sure, but terms such as "target-rich" and all that they imply hadn’t penetrated everyday American awareness. Today, nearly everyone who studies the sources of potential terrorism, particularly the global jihadist movement, believes that more attacks are inevitable. Stephen Flynn, in his book "America the Vulnerable," likens this period to the Phony War—the eight months, beginning in September, 1939, after Hitler had invaded Poland, and Britain and France had declared war on Germany, when essentially nothing happened. The United States hasn’t been attacked for more than three years now, an extraordinarily happy fact for which the Bush Administration is quick to take the credit. If that changes, the Department of Homeland Security seems well positioned to take the blame.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?050207ta_talk_finnegan
posted by Christy at 8:37 AM
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Missing links
Sadly, for the next few days, I must engage in real work.
My news posts will be slow coming but as you can see all threads are open.
I've noticed a few times on the news posts I have forgotten to include the link for some items... Totally my fault and I'm sorry if it was a problem. I will try to double check EVERY time. If I miss one you wanted just let me know and I'll try to post it for you.
So far, so good everyone. Yall have truely been gracious and kind.
I'll be in and out, yall have fun and keep checking back as I will post the Dispatchs every chance I get.
My news posts will be slow coming but as you can see all threads are open.
I've noticed a few times on the news posts I have forgotten to include the link for some items... Totally my fault and I'm sorry if it was a problem. I will try to double check EVERY time. If I miss one you wanted just let me know and I'll try to post it for you.
So far, so good everyone. Yall have truely been gracious and kind.
I'll be in and out, yall have fun and keep checking back as I will post the Dispatchs every chance I get.
posted by Christy at 1:21 AM
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Holy Shitokki Batman !...Momma likes oh mymy momma likes...
posted by Christy at 11:32 PM
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ReBelle Daily Dispatchs'
NEWS as of...7:pm..est...2-1-05
Hicks has rights, rules US judge
A US court decision that declared the Guantanamo Bay military commissions unconstitutional, and said the prisoners had rights under the US constitution to challenge their detention, has intensified calls for the Australian Government to demand David Hicks get a fair trial or be brought home.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/01/1107228701903.html
-----This is what we do to the citizens our our ally and brother nation Austrailia... On behalf of my country I apologize --------
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Handicapped boy who was made into a bomb
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/01/1107228705132.html?oneclick=true
Amar Ahmed Mohammed was 19 years old. But the fact that he had the mind of a four-year-old did not stop the insurgency's hard men as they strapped explosives to his chest and guided him to a voting centre in suburban Al-Askan.
----This is what happens to the innocent in WAR ZONES we CREATED.----
Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11.
Ask Osama. ....Or Bush...... To Be continued...
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Turks to Iraq Kurds: hands off oil townCorrespondents in Ankara and BaghdadFebruary 02, 2005
TURKEY warned yesterday it would act to protect ethnic Turks in northern Iraq if the Kurds attempted to use their success in the Iraqi elections to take control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12121611%255E601,00.html
---Can you say TRIBAL WAR ?...Its sounds so much more ummm..less sooofistokated than say umm CIVIL WAR...lets not dare say ummmm..REGIONAL CONFLICT...OHH NOO..thatwould be bad..VERY BAD..shhhhh----
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If China Shuns Dollar, Look Out U.S. Bonds:
William Pesek Jr.
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Malaysia isn't a place traders look for clues about the U.S. dollar, yet Asia's No. 10 economy may be offering some ominous ones.
They can be found in a recent report on international reserve holdings at Bank Negara Malaysia, the nation's central bank. It states that Malaysia made a $2.1 billion ``revaluation gain'' in 2004, ``arising mainly from the depreciation of the U.S. dollar against the major currencies
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_pesek&sid=aEBBmwvtNuxA
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Gov. Bush's jobs record falls short of predecessors'
By S.V. Date
Palm Beach Post Capital Bureau
Monday, January 31, 2005
TALLAHASSEE — State employment figures show that Gov. Jeb Bush has presided over the lowest job-creation rate of any governor since 1970, appearing to call into question his claim that his tax cuts have created new jobs.
-----omg I just remembered why we dont let people 'inheirit' power in this country...ohh..wait....hmmm..---
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----BULLSHIT ALERT !!----
"Senate Democrats have enough votes to block major Bush initiatives like Social Security reform and to reject Bush appointees, including Supreme Court nominees. They may be suicidal, but they could undermine the president's entire second term agenda. At his news conference last week, Bush reacted calmly to their vitriolic attacks, suggesting only a few Democrats are involved. Stronger countermeasures will be needed, including an unequivocal White House response to obstructionism, curbs on filibusters, and a clear delineation of what's permissible and what's out of bounds in dissent on Iraq. Too much is at stake to wait for another Democratic defeat in 2006".
http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2005/02/the_call_to_kil.html
---Stronger counter measures indeed..sounds Geneva Convention QUAINT don't it though?-----
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When Robots Do the Killing
A new weapon can sanitize war, and that's tragic.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-ulin30jan30,0,5342211,print.story?coll=la-sunday-commentary
---Be Afraid Will Robinson! Be Very Afraid!------
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"The Children of Iraq"
----It is time to bear HONEST witness and look at those whos hearts and minds are still dangerously in question. LOOK... AWAKE ! AND LOOK AT THEM!---
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/01467.htm
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More Texans turn to food stamps
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3016725
---And yall got a village missing an idiot too---
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Bush promotes 'nuclear hawks' By Guy Dinmore in Washington Published: February 1 2005 00:39 Last updated: February 1 2005 00:39 A group of hardline officials known as "nuclear hawks" is being promoted in a shake-up of the Bush administration's arms control and non-proliferation teams, according to officials close to the administration.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/65fe8ca4-73e9-11d9-b705-00000e2511c8,ft_acl=,s01=2.html
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Sinclair's Hyman wrong on Ohio voting problems
On the Januauary31 edition of "The Point," Sinclair vice president Mark Hyman falsely asserted that "not a single documented case has been found" of an Ohio voter "being forced to wait as long as 11 hours" to vote during the 2004 presidential election and disputed the proven claim that "voters in heavily Democratic city precincts were forced to wait hours to vote." But according to news reports in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post, that is exactly what happened.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200502010009
http://www.newscentral.tv/uploads/franchise/point/point-20050131.shtml
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Justice and 9-11
After failing to obtain any competent investigation or tangible results from the 9/11 Commission, the White House, or Congress (many of the governmental personnel responsible for preventing an attack on the U.S. have actually been promoted since 9-11), many Americans are asking whether justice may be obtained through the courts. The answer is complicated, and it would be impossible for a brief article such as this to do anything other than scratch the surface concerning 9-11 justice.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/012805Floum/012805floum.html
-----COMPLICATED?...ummm yeah.. .JUSTICE?..hell yeah!....Time to clean out the closets America..Shall we start by playing 'Follow The Money'..?...HMMMM..---
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Canada to counter Patriot Act
By JIM BRONSKILL
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/01/30/915085-cp.html
OTTAWA (CP) — The government will revamp the wording of future federal contracts with the aim of countering U.S. powers, granted under anti-terrorism laws, to tap into personal information about Canadians.
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Catch-22
In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman nails the fundamental Catch-22 of the Republican Social Security privatization scheme.
In a nutshell, when privatization advocates talk about the benefits of their plans, they assume extremely rosy economic growth for the next 75 years. Unrealistically rosy growth. But if their daydreams come true, then the "crisis" they claim Social Security is in disappears, too — the economic growth is more than enough to cover the modest problems the trust fund faces down the road.
In other words, their "solution" only works if the "problem" disappears.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/opinion/01krugman.html?ex=1265000400&en=8c655e65a8f207a5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland>
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Nazi Costumes Prompt VMI Investigation
Africans, Gays Also Parodied
By Carol MorelloWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, January 29, 2005; Page B01
Virginia Military Institute has asked a student governing body to investigate and recommend discipline against cadets who attended a Halloween party wearing costumes that parodied Nazis, Africans and homosexuals.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45703-2005Jan28.html
------Seems to be a whole new batch of nazis humorists among our youths today.. Funny woowoo NOT funny haha...Yall are lucky Im not your momma..-------
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Gorbachev Calls Iraqi Elections "Fake"
Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev called the Iraqi parliamentary elections a profanation.
In an interview with the Interfax news agency, he said the elections are "very far from what true elections are. And even though I am a supporter of elections and of the transfer of power to the people of Iraq, these elections were fake."
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/01/31/gorbacheviraq.shtml
--- When Soviets say fake election ...it MUST have been a joke...(again funny woowoo not funny haha)...------
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Uncommon SenseFreedom in Wonderland
By Michael Hasty
January 28, 2005—Protected from the American public by legions of imperial storm troopers in a city that appeared to be the very model of a high-tech police state, George W. Bush used the word "freedom" 27 times in his second inaugural address. The word "liberty" appeared 15 times. Under the circumstances, it's worth recalling that "freedom" was also one of Adolph Hitler's favorite themes.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/012805Hasty/012805hasty.html
----let me repeat that...."freedom" was also one of Adolph Hitler's favorite themes......How DID that turn out for Adolf ?...-----
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Iraqi Leader Says Thousands Couldn't Vote
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
By SALLY BUZBEE, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's interim president said Tuesday that tens of thousands of people may have been unable to vote in the country's historic weekend election because some polling places — including those in Sunni Arab areas — ran out of ballots.
-----OH they WERE a joke...Maybe no one noticed but the Russians..------
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Rebels threaten to behead captured US soldier 01/02/2005 - 17:57:33 Iraqi militants are claiming to be holding an American soldier hostage and have threatened to behead him in 72 hours unless the US release Iraqi prisoners.The website posting included a photo of what appeared to be an American soldier in uniform seated with his hands tied behind his back. A gun barrel was pointed at his head.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/02/01/story187365.html
-----I'm not personally sure about this that video just looked odd to me..Still developing...Stay Tuned...---
Hicks has rights, rules US judge
A US court decision that declared the Guantanamo Bay military commissions unconstitutional, and said the prisoners had rights under the US constitution to challenge their detention, has intensified calls for the Australian Government to demand David Hicks get a fair trial or be brought home.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/01/1107228701903.html
-----This is what we do to the citizens our our ally and brother nation Austrailia... On behalf of my country I apologize --------
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Handicapped boy who was made into a bomb
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/01/1107228705132.html?oneclick=true
Amar Ahmed Mohammed was 19 years old. But the fact that he had the mind of a four-year-old did not stop the insurgency's hard men as they strapped explosives to his chest and guided him to a voting centre in suburban Al-Askan.
----This is what happens to the innocent in WAR ZONES we CREATED.----
Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11.
Ask Osama. ....Or Bush...... To Be continued...
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Turks to Iraq Kurds: hands off oil townCorrespondents in Ankara and BaghdadFebruary 02, 2005
TURKEY warned yesterday it would act to protect ethnic Turks in northern Iraq if the Kurds attempted to use their success in the Iraqi elections to take control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12121611%255E601,00.html
---Can you say TRIBAL WAR ?...Its sounds so much more ummm..less sooofistokated than say umm CIVIL WAR...lets not dare say ummmm..REGIONAL CONFLICT...OHH NOO..thatwould be bad..VERY BAD..shhhhh----
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If China Shuns Dollar, Look Out U.S. Bonds:
William Pesek Jr.
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Malaysia isn't a place traders look for clues about the U.S. dollar, yet Asia's No. 10 economy may be offering some ominous ones.
They can be found in a recent report on international reserve holdings at Bank Negara Malaysia, the nation's central bank. It states that Malaysia made a $2.1 billion ``revaluation gain'' in 2004, ``arising mainly from the depreciation of the U.S. dollar against the major currencies
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_pesek&sid=aEBBmwvtNuxA
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Gov. Bush's jobs record falls short of predecessors'
By S.V. Date
Palm Beach Post Capital Bureau
Monday, January 31, 2005
TALLAHASSEE — State employment figures show that Gov. Jeb Bush has presided over the lowest job-creation rate of any governor since 1970, appearing to call into question his claim that his tax cuts have created new jobs.
-----omg I just remembered why we dont let people 'inheirit' power in this country...ohh..wait....hmmm..---
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----BULLSHIT ALERT !!----
"Senate Democrats have enough votes to block major Bush initiatives like Social Security reform and to reject Bush appointees, including Supreme Court nominees. They may be suicidal, but they could undermine the president's entire second term agenda. At his news conference last week, Bush reacted calmly to their vitriolic attacks, suggesting only a few Democrats are involved. Stronger countermeasures will be needed, including an unequivocal White House response to obstructionism, curbs on filibusters, and a clear delineation of what's permissible and what's out of bounds in dissent on Iraq. Too much is at stake to wait for another Democratic defeat in 2006".
http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2005/02/the_call_to_kil.html
---Stronger counter measures indeed..sounds Geneva Convention QUAINT don't it though?-----
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When Robots Do the Killing
A new weapon can sanitize war, and that's tragic.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-ulin30jan30,0,5342211,print.story?coll=la-sunday-commentary
---Be Afraid Will Robinson! Be Very Afraid!------
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"The Children of Iraq"
----It is time to bear HONEST witness and look at those whos hearts and minds are still dangerously in question. LOOK... AWAKE ! AND LOOK AT THEM!---
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/01467.htm
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More Texans turn to food stamps
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3016725
---And yall got a village missing an idiot too---
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Bush promotes 'nuclear hawks' By Guy Dinmore in Washington Published: February 1 2005 00:39 Last updated: February 1 2005 00:39 A group of hardline officials known as "nuclear hawks" is being promoted in a shake-up of the Bush administration's arms control and non-proliferation teams, according to officials close to the administration.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/65fe8ca4-73e9-11d9-b705-00000e2511c8,ft_acl=,s01=2.html
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Sinclair's Hyman wrong on Ohio voting problems
On the Januauary31 edition of "The Point," Sinclair vice president Mark Hyman falsely asserted that "not a single documented case has been found" of an Ohio voter "being forced to wait as long as 11 hours" to vote during the 2004 presidential election and disputed the proven claim that "voters in heavily Democratic city precincts were forced to wait hours to vote." But according to news reports in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post, that is exactly what happened.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200502010009
http://www.newscentral.tv/uploads/franchise/point/point-20050131.shtml
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Justice and 9-11
After failing to obtain any competent investigation or tangible results from the 9/11 Commission, the White House, or Congress (many of the governmental personnel responsible for preventing an attack on the U.S. have actually been promoted since 9-11), many Americans are asking whether justice may be obtained through the courts. The answer is complicated, and it would be impossible for a brief article such as this to do anything other than scratch the surface concerning 9-11 justice.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/012805Floum/012805floum.html
-----COMPLICATED?...ummm yeah.. .JUSTICE?..hell yeah!....Time to clean out the closets America..Shall we start by playing 'Follow The Money'..?...HMMMM..---
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Canada to counter Patriot Act
By JIM BRONSKILL
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/01/30/915085-cp.html
OTTAWA (CP) — The government will revamp the wording of future federal contracts with the aim of countering U.S. powers, granted under anti-terrorism laws, to tap into personal information about Canadians.
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Catch-22
In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman nails the fundamental Catch-22 of the Republican Social Security privatization scheme.
In a nutshell, when privatization advocates talk about the benefits of their plans, they assume extremely rosy economic growth for the next 75 years. Unrealistically rosy growth. But if their daydreams come true, then the "crisis" they claim Social Security is in disappears, too — the economic growth is more than enough to cover the modest problems the trust fund faces down the road.
In other words, their "solution" only works if the "problem" disappears.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/opinion/01krugman.html?ex=1265000400&en=8c655e65a8f207a5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland>
--------The alternate reality game-------
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Nazi Costumes Prompt VMI Investigation
Africans, Gays Also Parodied
By Carol MorelloWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, January 29, 2005; Page B01
Virginia Military Institute has asked a student governing body to investigate and recommend discipline against cadets who attended a Halloween party wearing costumes that parodied Nazis, Africans and homosexuals.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45703-2005Jan28.html
------Seems to be a whole new batch of nazis humorists among our youths today.. Funny woowoo NOT funny haha...Yall are lucky Im not your momma..-------
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Gorbachev Calls Iraqi Elections "Fake"
Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev called the Iraqi parliamentary elections a profanation.
In an interview with the Interfax news agency, he said the elections are "very far from what true elections are. And even though I am a supporter of elections and of the transfer of power to the people of Iraq, these elections were fake."
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/01/31/gorbacheviraq.shtml
--- When Soviets say fake election ...it MUST have been a joke...(again funny woowoo not funny haha)...------
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Uncommon SenseFreedom in Wonderland
By Michael Hasty
January 28, 2005—Protected from the American public by legions of imperial storm troopers in a city that appeared to be the very model of a high-tech police state, George W. Bush used the word "freedom" 27 times in his second inaugural address. The word "liberty" appeared 15 times. Under the circumstances, it's worth recalling that "freedom" was also one of Adolph Hitler's favorite themes.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/012805Hasty/012805hasty.html
----let me repeat that...."freedom" was also one of Adolph Hitler's favorite themes......How DID that turn out for Adolf ?...-----
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Iraqi Leader Says Thousands Couldn't Vote
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
By SALLY BUZBEE, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's interim president said Tuesday that tens of thousands of people may have been unable to vote in the country's historic weekend election because some polling places — including those in Sunni Arab areas — ran out of ballots.
-----OH they WERE a joke...Maybe no one noticed but the Russians..------
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Rebels threaten to behead captured US soldier 01/02/2005 - 17:57:33 Iraqi militants are claiming to be holding an American soldier hostage and have threatened to behead him in 72 hours unless the US release Iraqi prisoners.The website posting included a photo of what appeared to be an American soldier in uniform seated with his hands tied behind his back. A gun barrel was pointed at his head.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/02/01/story187365.html
-----I'm not personally sure about this that video just looked odd to me..Still developing...Stay Tuned...---
posted by Christy at 7:12 PM
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Welcome to the DCP chat members
Thank you guys yall are great. I truely appreciate it.
Also if anyone from Yahoo chat stumbles in, make yourself at home and dont hesitate to introduce yourself.
For those of you with opposing opinion I would like to welcome you here as well, I have no problem with diverse points of view.
And to my girl Ross, that link was great keep them coming! And tell the rest of the Aussies we welcome them as well. I love yall.
And speaking of love my man is hithrto known by his new indian name...That Hero Dude will suffice. Ty lover.
If anyone has probs registering because they are just not sure, its all good but please do feel free to use the news links. That is the main objective here. Information sharing is GOOD.( I will write out something about myself in a while to introduce myself more clearly, warning; it may be boring)
Yall have fun.
Have fun
Also if anyone from Yahoo chat stumbles in, make yourself at home and dont hesitate to introduce yourself.
For those of you with opposing opinion I would like to welcome you here as well, I have no problem with diverse points of view.
And to my girl Ross, that link was great keep them coming! And tell the rest of the Aussies we welcome them as well. I love yall.
And speaking of love my man is hithrto known by his new indian name...That Hero Dude will suffice. Ty lover.
If anyone has probs registering because they are just not sure, its all good but please do feel free to use the news links. That is the main objective here. Information sharing is GOOD.( I will write out something about myself in a while to introduce myself more clearly, warning; it may be boring)
Yall have fun.
Have fun
posted by Christy at 3:00 PM
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Heros and construction
My man whom is my hero is valiantly working on the little kinks on this site...Please forgive past margin errors and any atrocious spelling incidents that may have occurred. As this site is very recent we are still working it all out and BEG your ongoing patience.
If you have problems with connecting or downloading the site it is more than likely my hero is in here tinkering around for the greater benefit of Mankind itself.
I love that man.
We'll be back shortly.
If you have problems with connecting or downloading the site it is more than likely my hero is in here tinkering around for the greater benefit of Mankind itself.
I love that man.
We'll be back shortly.
posted by Christy at 1:15 PM
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NEWS as of 11:20 a.m. est, 2-1-05
CIA Corrects Itself on Arms
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cia1feb01,1,6296401,print.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=2&cset=true
WASHINGTON — In what may be a formal acknowledgment of the obvious, the CIA has issued a classified report revising its prewar assessments on Iraq and concluding that Baghdad abandoned its chemical weapons programs in 1991, intelligence officials familiar with the document said.
------GEEEE YA THINK ?------
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Kucinich Demands Broad Investigation Of Missing $9 Billion In IraqRanking Member on National Security Oversight Committee Calls For Federal Grand Jury Investigation and Congressional Hearings
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0131-11.htm
----- Thats 9 Billion TO START...One good audit and Smirky Mcflightsuit would drop like a flaming bat.----------
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----THIS I AM RE LINKING AS THIS IS VERRRY IMPORTANT---
Raw Story has acquired a copy of Saving Social Security: A Guide to Social Security Reform, printed by the House and Senate Republican Conferences as a guide for Senators and Representatives to market private accounts for the Social Security system.
The document is filled with suggestions for communicating with constituents such as, "Talk in simple language: Your audience doesn't understand financial jargon," and "Offer an alternate reality."
http://rawstory.rawprint.com/105/social_security_1.php
----Dont gooo into the alternate realityyyy..noooo wait!!---
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4 Networks Reject Ad Opposing Bush on Lawsuits
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/national/01ads.html?oref=login&adxnnl=0
----Which is EXACTLY WHY Im here--------------
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050131/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_plane_crash
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents claimed on Monday to have shot down a British military plane north of Baghdad over the weekend, and Al-Jazeera television aired a videotape from guerrillas showing flaming wreckage of a plane. Britain said all 10 personnel on the flight were missing and presumed dead.
----Notice the major change in death tolls?...The Pentagon says that tape is a fake...thats REALLY FUNNY and Really sad considering the tape not only shows a missle take down of a c130 it ALSO shows the smoking wreckage...BUT WHY WOULD IRAQIS SHOOT DOWN OUR PLANES???DONT THEY JUST LOVE US?...And as the lies continue every plane or chopter over Iraq is in terrible danger from...ummm birds! That was a flaming bird that hit that c130!! yeah yeah birds-----
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Letter from David Brock to Scott McClellan
Dear Mr. McClellan:
I am writing to ask you to consider revoking the White House press credentials apparently granted to Jeff Gannon of Talon News. Mr. Gannon and Talon News appear to be political activists rather than actual journalists, and as such should not be presented to the public as an independent news agency.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200501310004
----While we are at it can't Zell Miller be BANNED from the democratic party for the rest of his wretched life?-----
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U.S., Gulf states aim to reduce nuke threat
From combined dispatches MANAMA, Bahrain -- The United States and Gulf Arab states are discussing ways of pressuring Iran over a perceived threat from Tehran's nuclear and missile programs, the top U.S. diplomat in charge of disarmament said yesterday.
-----Just yesterday the US government told the Europeans to go shag themselves over Iran... Who needs the British when Bandhar Bush can call up the boys and have thier merry little band of DICTATORS AND TYRANTS roll through the Middle East and just TAKE whatever they want...These bastards will kill us all and yes Im including our American tyrant in with those bastards..HE choose his FRIENDS..Not I-----
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State of emergency as Nepalese king fires ministers
Gyanendra, who assumed the throne in 2001 when his brother, the former king, was killed in a massacre, denied that the move was a coup. However, soldiers surround the prime minister's house as armoured cars patrol the country's capital,
Kathmandu.http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1403180,00.html
---HMMMMMM---
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The Vietnam turnout was good as well
On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war. Under the heading "US encouraged by Vietnam vote: Officials cite 83% turnout despite Vietcong terror", the paper reported that the Americans had been "surprised and heartened" by the size of the turnout "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting". A successful election, it went on, "has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam". The echoes of this weekend's propaganda about Iraq's elections are so close as to be uncanny.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1403103,00.html
----How many people find freedom at the end of a rifle barrel?-----
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Military facing wide budget gap with Halliburton; Overruns of $4 billion
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=15>
Future Halliburton spending exceeds budget estimates by $4b
The top U.S. commander in Baghdad has cited an "unaffordable" budget gap of at least $4 billion between what Halliburton says it will cost to provide food, housing and other services for U.S. GIs for a year and what the government has budgeted, the (paid-restricted) Wall Street Journal reports Tuesday.
-----4 billion here 11 billion there, 6 billion here 800 million there...it kinda all starts to add up dont it?-----
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cia1feb01,1,6296401,print.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=2&cset=true
WASHINGTON — In what may be a formal acknowledgment of the obvious, the CIA has issued a classified report revising its prewar assessments on Iraq and concluding that Baghdad abandoned its chemical weapons programs in 1991, intelligence officials familiar with the document said.
------GEEEE YA THINK ?------
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Kucinich Demands Broad Investigation Of Missing $9 Billion In IraqRanking Member on National Security Oversight Committee Calls For Federal Grand Jury Investigation and Congressional Hearings
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0131-11.htm
----- Thats 9 Billion TO START...One good audit and Smirky Mcflightsuit would drop like a flaming bat.----------
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----THIS I AM RE LINKING AS THIS IS VERRRY IMPORTANT---
Raw Story
The document is filled with suggestions for communicating with constituents such as, "Talk in simple language: Your audience doesn't understand financial jargon," and "Offer an alternate reality."
http://rawstory.rawprint.com/105/social_security_1.php
----Dont gooo into the alternate realityyyy..noooo wait!!---
********************************************************
4 Networks Reject Ad Opposing Bush on Lawsuits
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/national/01ads.html?oref=login&adxnnl=0
----Which is EXACTLY WHY Im here--------------
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050131/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_plane_crash
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents claimed on Monday to have shot down a British military plane north of Baghdad over the weekend, and Al-Jazeera television aired a videotape from guerrillas showing flaming wreckage of a plane. Britain said all 10 personnel on the flight were missing and presumed dead.
----Notice the major change in death tolls?...The Pentagon says that tape is a fake...thats REALLY FUNNY and Really sad considering the tape not only shows a missle take down of a c130 it ALSO shows the smoking wreckage...BUT WHY WOULD IRAQIS SHOOT DOWN OUR PLANES???DONT THEY JUST LOVE US?...And as the lies continue every plane or chopter over Iraq is in terrible danger from...ummm birds! That was a flaming bird that hit that c130!! yeah yeah birds-----
************************************************
Letter from David Brock to Scott McClellan
Dear Mr. McClellan:
I am writing to ask you to consider revoking the White House press credentials apparently granted to Jeff Gannon of Talon News. Mr. Gannon and Talon News appear to be political activists rather than actual journalists, and as such should not be presented to the public as an independent news agency.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200501310004
----While we are at it can't Zell Miller be BANNED from the democratic party for the rest of his wretched life?-----
****************************************************************
U.S., Gulf states aim to reduce nuke threat
From combined dispatches MANAMA, Bahrain -- The United States and Gulf Arab states are discussing ways of pressuring Iran over a perceived threat from Tehran's nuclear and missile programs, the top U.S. diplomat in charge of disarmament said yesterday.
-----Just yesterday the US government told the Europeans to go shag themselves over Iran... Who needs the British when Bandhar Bush can call up the boys and have thier merry little band of DICTATORS AND TYRANTS roll through the Middle East and just TAKE whatever they want...These bastards will kill us all and yes Im including our American tyrant in with those bastards..HE choose his FRIENDS..Not I-----
***************************************************************
State of emergency as Nepalese king fires ministers
Gyanendra, who assumed the throne in 2001 when his brother, the former king, was killed in a massacre, denied that the move was a coup. However, soldiers surround the prime minister's house as armoured cars patrol the country's capital,
Kathmandu.http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1403180,00.html
---HMMMMMM---
*************************************************************
The Vietnam turnout was good as well
On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war. Under the heading "US encouraged by Vietnam vote: Officials cite 83% turnout despite Vietcong terror", the paper reported that the Americans had been "surprised and heartened" by the size of the turnout "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting". A successful election, it went on, "has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam". The echoes of this weekend's propaganda about Iraq's elections are so close as to be uncanny.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1403103,00.html
----How many people find freedom at the end of a rifle barrel?-----
*******************************************************************************************
Military facing wide budget gap with Halliburton; Overruns of $4 billion
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=15>
Future Halliburton spending exceeds budget estimates by $4b
The top U.S. commander in Baghdad has cited an "unaffordable" budget gap of at least $4 billion between what Halliburton says it will cost to provide food, housing and other services for U.S. GIs for a year and what the government has budgeted, the (paid-restricted) Wall Street Journal reports Tuesday.
-----4 billion here 11 billion there, 6 billion here 800 million there...it kinda all starts to add up dont it?-----
posted by Christy at 11:17 AM
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Monday, January 31, 2005
News Brief
NEWS as of 9:45 pm e.s.t. 1-31-05
US officials misplace $11.4bn
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12111466%5E2703,00.html
---The crime of Iraq is hiding a LARGER crime....Namely war profiteering. How often do YOU misplace 11.4 billion dollars?---
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PRESS RELEASE: Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation' of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies in New Edison/Mitofsky Report and Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results
According to analysis by the group of senior statisticians, the new data just released by the exit-pollsters shows that the possibility that the overall vote count was substantially corrupted must be taken seriously. "Now we have statistical evidence that these reports were the tip of a national iceberg. The hypothesis that the discrepancy between the exit polls and election results is due to errors in the official election tally is a coherent theory that must be explored," said statistician Josh Mitteldorf.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/emw203331.htm
-----My birthday was Nov. 2..no not joking...No matter how you add it up the numbers after 7:30 pm c.s.t...DO NOT COMPUTE WILL ROBINSON!!!...If you dont know that FREEDOM itself was stolen that night then tou have not been paying attention or are in denial...NO IT IS NOT SOUR GRAPES...I used those for wine...And the MOUNTAIN of evidence STILL pisses me off....If you dont believe me GO COUNT IT YOURSELF!.-------
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January 31, 2005 -- ALBANY — The state Republi can Party has secretly funded a personal servant for Gov. Pata ki's wife, Libby, at the Pataki family mansion on the Hudson River, The Post has learned.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/39186.htm
----I hope her TAXPAYER maid steals her jewels------
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Four Iraqi detainees killed, six injured in riot at detention facility in southern Iraq
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/031/world/Four_Iraqi_detainees_killed_si:.shtml
----Abu Graib was just the beginning----
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"We need a constitutional amendment that preserves marriage and prohibits counterfeit marriage," said Robert Knight, director of CWA's Culture & Family Institute. "As last year's sweep of ballot measures demonstrated, Americans want to protect marriage, not create 'gay' marriage by another name."
http://www.itaffectsyou.org/blog/index.php?p=476
------SOOOO now shacking up will be ILLEGAL?...Big HMMMMM-----
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Before you dismiss it as partisan hyperbole, hear Edelman's specifics: The basic structure of Social Security is under attack (on the grounds that the program is in crisis, though most respected economists say it isn't). Pell Grants for college tuition are on the cutting block. So are Section 8 housing vouchers (which started under Richard Nixon) and food stamps. Programs that have offered some protection for people in the lower third of the economy are under threat of evisceration.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50122-2005Jan30
-----This will mean hunger and homelesness to MILLIONS-----let me repeat that...MILLIONS---------
US officials misplace $11.4bn
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12111466%5E2703,00.html
---The crime of Iraq is hiding a LARGER crime....Namely war profiteering. How often do YOU misplace 11.4 billion dollars?---
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PRESS RELEASE: Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation' of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies in New Edison/Mitofsky Report and Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results
According to analysis by the group of senior statisticians, the new data just released by the exit-pollsters shows that the possibility that the overall vote count was substantially corrupted must be taken seriously. "Now we have statistical evidence that these reports were the tip of a national iceberg. The hypothesis that the discrepancy between the exit polls and election results is due to errors in the official election tally is a coherent theory that must be explored," said statistician Josh Mitteldorf.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/emw203331.htm
-----My birthday was Nov. 2..no not joking...No matter how you add it up the numbers after 7:30 pm c.s.t...DO NOT COMPUTE WILL ROBINSON!!!...If you dont know that FREEDOM itself was stolen that night then tou have not been paying attention or are in denial...NO IT IS NOT SOUR GRAPES...I used those for wine...And the MOUNTAIN of evidence STILL pisses me off....If you dont believe me GO COUNT IT YOURSELF!.-------
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January 31, 2005 -- ALBANY — The state Republi can Party has secretly funded a personal servant for Gov. Pata ki's wife, Libby, at the Pataki family mansion on the Hudson River, The Post has learned.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/39186.htm
----I hope her TAXPAYER maid steals her jewels------
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Four Iraqi detainees killed, six injured in riot at detention facility in southern Iraq
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/031/world/Four_Iraqi_detainees_killed_si:.shtml
----Abu Graib was just the beginning----
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"We need a constitutional amendment that preserves marriage and prohibits counterfeit marriage," said Robert Knight, director of CWA's Culture & Family Institute. "As last year's sweep of ballot measures demonstrated, Americans want to protect marriage, not create 'gay' marriage by another name."
http://www.itaffectsyou.org/blog/index.php?p=476
------SOOOO now shacking up will be ILLEGAL?...Big HMMMMM-----
****************************************************
Before you dismiss it as partisan hyperbole, hear Edelman's specifics: The basic structure of Social Security is under attack (on the grounds that the program is in crisis, though most respected economists say it isn't). Pell Grants for college tuition are on the cutting block. So are Section 8 housing vouchers (which started under Richard Nixon) and food stamps. Programs that have offered some protection for people in the lower third of the economy are under threat of evisceration.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50122-2005Jan30
-----This will mean hunger and homelesness to MILLIONS-----let me repeat that...MILLIONS---------
posted by Christy at 9:41 PM
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Who to blame?
No one will be held accountable for the countless lies that led to war.
No one will be held accountable for the billions of dollars spent on a war of choice.
No one will be held accountable for the lies told to the United Nations.
No one will be held accountable for the rush to war before inspectors could do their job.
No one will be held accountable for connecting Iraq to the attacks of 9/11
No one will be held accountable for the deaths of over 1400 American troops.
No one will be held accountable for the deaths of over 185 coalition troops.
No one will be held accountable for the maiming of thousands of troops.
No one will be held accountable for the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
No one will be held accountable for the kidnappings and beheadings.
No one will be held accountable for the destabilization of the country.
No one will be held accountable for not securing the pre-war freedoms of Iraqi women.
No one will be held accountable for the creation of a training ground for terrorists.
No one will be held accountable for being unable to win the hearts and minds of Iraqis.
No one will be held accountable for a war without a plan for making the peace.
No one will be held accountable for a war without an exit strategy.
Black is white and white is black. Yes means no. Freedom IS slavery.
If bin Laden exists... he is laughing his ass off at us right now..
Is it yet time to ask if our president is a WAR CRIMINAL?
How many more will have to die ????!.
PRESS JOIN THE PEOPLE
PRESS JOIN THE PEOPLE
PRESS JOIN THE PEOPLE
No one will be held accountable for the billions of dollars spent on a war of choice.
No one will be held accountable for the lies told to the United Nations.
No one will be held accountable for the rush to war before inspectors could do their job.
No one will be held accountable for connecting Iraq to the attacks of 9/11
No one will be held accountable for the deaths of over 1400 American troops.
No one will be held accountable for the deaths of over 185 coalition troops.
No one will be held accountable for the maiming of thousands of troops.
No one will be held accountable for the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
No one will be held accountable for the kidnappings and beheadings.
No one will be held accountable for the destabilization of the country.
No one will be held accountable for not securing the pre-war freedoms of Iraqi women.
No one will be held accountable for the creation of a training ground for terrorists.
No one will be held accountable for being unable to win the hearts and minds of Iraqis.
No one will be held accountable for a war without a plan for making the peace.
No one will be held accountable for a war without an exit strategy.
Black is white and white is black. Yes means no. Freedom IS slavery.
If bin Laden exists... he is laughing his ass off at us right now..
Is it yet time to ask if our president is a WAR CRIMINAL?
How many more will have to die ????!.
PRESS JOIN THE PEOPLE
PRESS JOIN THE PEOPLE
PRESS JOIN THE PEOPLE
posted by Christy at 6:41 PM
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