Parts of the U.S. Near Financial Collapse

Bush Fiddles While LA Burns

Where was George?
He was nowhere to be found when California, and other states under his watch, drown in a sea of red ink. But then again, it was Bush's friends at Enron and other energy bilknesses, that set them on their spiral downward.

Remember the blackouts?
Remember the cause?

Sure Governor Davis is a little weenie-man. But the world is full of weenie-men, and they have to work somewhere! Why not as governor of California? I mean, look at the king weenie in the White House. We have lost all standards. There are no Sir Roberts left.



Where are the Sir Roberts?

Remember Sir Robert? He was the gentleman and MP in the play and film, An Ideal Husband, who, through the help of ill-gotten gains, finally achieves an honorable position in society.

Now don't get me wrong. There are plenty of people who have gotten where they are through ill-gotten gains. The difference here is that, like Jean Valjean, Sir Robert actually evolves into an honorable man of worth...by rejecting a scheme that would require his reactivating, for lack of better words, his ancient prejudice toward money, and against goodness and honesty.


How nice it would be if leaders in America, although tainted, would raise themselves to the honorificabilitude of a Sir Robert.

But perhaps I am wrong. There already is a Sir Robert. And this Sir Robert hails from, of all places, West Virginia.

Sir Robert Byrd was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
But look at how he has achieved that which is beyond the scope of some...he has evolved. And is even allowed to believe in such evolution! Not only has he shunned his errant past, and shady connections...he has risen to become the outspoken voice of the people on the Senate floor.

It is sad to realize that his age all but guarantees that we will not have that voice much longer.

Long live Sir Robert Byrd! Champion of the People...



MORE ON THE COLLAPSE FROM THE WASHINGTON POST:
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Wired News: Bloggers Gain Libel Protection

Bloggers Gain Libel Protection

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59424,00.html/wn_ascii

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can't be held responsible for libel for information they republish, extending crucial First Amendment protections to do-it-yourself online publishers.

Online free speech advocates praised the decision as a victory. The ruling effectively differentiates conventional news media, which can be sued relatively easily for libel, from certain forms of online communication such as moderated e-mail lists. One implication is that DIY publishers like bloggers cannot be sued as easily.

"One-way news publications have editors and fact-checkers, and they're not just selling information -- they're selling reliability," said Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "But on blogs or e-mail lists, people aren't necessarily selling anything, they're just engaging in speech. That freedom of speech wouldn't exist if you were held liable for every piece of information you cut, paste and forward."
MORE...

Conservatives Burn Beatles Albums

FLASHBACK:

Before there were Dixie Chicks, there were The Beatles...

Reactionaries Burning Music

It was 40 years ago today...(well, thereabouts)...and Klansmen and their families, fearing an assault on their precious "values", gathered in fasces to set flame to those ungodly and unpatriot Beatles. And since they were too poor to actually go to England...they set fire to their albums instead.

Flash-forward 40 years...and similarly-minded folk are destroying Dixie Chicks CDs. They are putting people like Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, George Michael, and other outspoken opponents onto graven images, and trying their damndest to anti-worship them to death. Unfortunately, as cyberphilosopher and clicheist, Surreal McCoy, has noted...the problem with hatred is that half the people don't know they are hated, and the the other half don't care. And the strange third half will sick Guido on you. Hating is also bad for the health, manifesting all manner of halitoticities and malolfactions.

The upside of all this daft reactionism is that the really good artists never appear on their screens. You will never see a Ricky Skaggs CD in the same home of an Arvo Part or Radiohead CD. Nor will you see Phillip Glass, Lisa Gerrard, Gorecki, or Ginestera. And that's just the G's. Also safe are David Hykes, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane (largely due to death), King Crimson, Messaien, Stockhausen, Cage, Beth Orton or Bigger Than the Beetles. Most of MP3 is also safe.

So let the reactionaries burn their CDs. The music ain't that good anyway. And besides, it makes them look foolish and petty. And how fun that people like Sir Tim Russert have to lick their low-taste boots...

Bush Administration Embraces Fascism

Bats 14 For 14

The 14 CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM
by Lawrence Britt

Dr. Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), and found they all had 14 elements in common.

The 14 characteristics are:


1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

"Oh I'm proud to be an American..."


2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

What is Guantanamo, Alex?


3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.


4. Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.


5. Rampant Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.


6. Controlled Mass Media
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.


7. Obsession with National Security
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.


8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.


9. Corporate Power is Protected
The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.


10. Labor Power is Suppressed
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .


11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.


12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.


13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.


14. Fraudulent Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.




Jeez! 14 our of 14! He finally made a hundred.
Billion!

And just when we lost our hundred billion! What a coincidence!

Look. I'm no happier about this than you are. Americans are more than just customers. Indeed, we are more than just employees and employers.

Bush's business model for how to run America and the world is very short-sighted and bereft of historical wisdom.

We needn't allow it to continue. The next election must send an overwhelming message. Close is not good enough. We see what happens in such cases.

America, and indeed, the world requires that we return to more sensible people and policies, based more on human rights and age-old wisdom, than on making the quick buck.

It is completely okay to sit on your hands at election time, ye Republican readers...if you think you really cannot put your stamp, your signature, your vote on continuing in this backward and even deadly direction. But speaking out against it would be even better. Sins of omission are still sins.

-Anon

The Japanitor

The Japanitor:
The Story of the Japanese Janitor

at a blog near you...

Patrick Kennedy Admits to White-Collar Crime

Patrick Kennedy Admits to White-Collar Crime

"I never worked a bleeping day of my life"

"Distressingly little time for sloth or idleness."
- Lord Goring from "An Ideal Husband", Oscar Wilde

Rep. Patrick Kennedy has gone and mentioned the unmentionable...that he (like most white-collar folk) has never worked a bleeping day in his life. And it is hoped that others like him will come forward and admit that they too have coinclined.

Mr. Kennedy was alluding to the obscene tax cut that was recently granted to folks like him...and not to folks unlike him. These others, the actual workers, will get nothing, or close to nothing. But then again, they work, they are used to punishment.

We at Anonymoses applaude Mr. Kennedy's bold admission, and hope others will follow suit, if not follow in suits. Don't plan around it though. I certainly won't. Too much work.

Google News and Media Weblogs

Google News and Media Weblogs
INCLUDING...
Weblogs Compendium -
Listings of templates, tools, directories, hosting and discussion about weblogs.
Dive into Accessibility -
Presenting tips which can be applied to a weblog template to make it more accessible. Although these concepts apply to all web sites, focus is on implementation using popular weblogging tools.
Blogroots -
Discussion and resource site for webloggers.
Write a Better Weblog -
Article about writing a better blog, by Dennis A. Mahoney.
Mediajunk -
A blog-style site with news of blogging, new media, thin media, Google and other web stuff. Packaged and presented in Michael Heraghty's style.
Photobloggies Awards -
Awards for photoblogs.
MovableBlog -
A blog about the MovableType Personal Publishing System.
WebWOWzer -
Putting the wow in your browser. Websites reviewed.
Weblog Bookwatch -
Links to books that are popular on weblogs. Mainly books about blogging.
An Incomplete History of Weblogs -
Commentary on the early development of weblogs.
The Psychology of Weblogs -
Essays about blogging and the behavior and motivations behind it, from an online psychologist.
Deconstructing "You've Got Blog" -
Reading between the lines of Rebecca Mead's November 2000 New Yorker article on Weblog culture.
Blogging @ Writers Write -
A resource containing blogging news headlines, resources, tools and articles about creating a weblog.
Anatomy of a Blogging Engine -
Article on implementing a content managed blogging engine.
eCriteria Datablog -
Online resource for blogging and web service related resources, tools, article publishing, and group blogging community sign up.
Weblogger User Group -
A user group for and by webloggers (aka bloggers, diary keepers, personal journalists). Busy discussion list.
The Peer-to-Peer Review Project -
Site to encourage interaction by having bloggers review each other's blogs.
Weblog Devel: Homemade Weblog Tools -
There are many tools available to build a weblog (GreyMatter, Moveable Type, and Blogger), but some bloggers still decided to design their own tools. This group is here for those of us who built their own, homemade from scratch.
BlogPromo -
A moderated mailing list for promoting blogs, weblogs, and online journals and diaries.
Blogtech -
List for technical discussion of weblog-related software. All projects are welcome.
Media Coverage of Weblogs -
Collection of links to articles and media coverage regarding Web logs.
Live Journal Review -
A weblog that primarily reviews online journals and weblogs and gives ratings and awards based on categories.
Rewrite -
The search for innovation in newspapers. This blog explores where we've gone wrong and what we're doing right, with an eye toward rewriting the future of newspapers.
All Consuming -
Aggregates books that are mentioned on weblogs and provides insight into what the weblog community is reading at the moment.
Hypergene MediaBlog -
All about participatory journalism: how audiences are changing the future of news and information.
ISSN for Weblogs -
How to sign up your weblog for an International Standard Serial Number, adding it to the standardized worldwide encyclopedia of periodicals.
Blogads -
Blogging about blogonomics, catablogs, thin media, old media, ezines, klogs, blogads.
Microcontent News -
A blog on blogging, micromedia, microads, ezines and self-publishing and corporate blogging.
Philringnalda.com -
Research Professor of Markup Cryptography, University of Blogaria. Help setting up and keeping going for those who blog.

Senator Thurmond is dead

Senator Strom Thurmond is dead.

God rest his soul and heal the hearts of his family.
Although a political opposite in many ways, still,
as they say in China..."Ancient Rare". And should be honored as such.
May angels rest his eyes, and whoosh him home.

This lovely Charlotte manor shows taste when lighting the night.

FUELING THE "RECOVERY"

...but why is Charlotte lighting the day?

Come to Charlotte. It's a beautiful city in a beautiful state. It is beginning to catch onto the subtleties of night lighting.

My question is: Why light the day?
Travel around Charlotte on any given day, and you will see streetlights just a-pumpin' out the light. And this stuff ain't cheap. It ain't even needed. If it were water, we would have been Venice years ago. Only we'd have motorboats. With NASCAR all over 'em. Just thinkin' about it makes me loosen my grammar. Drop g's an' shit. Even cuss. Dayem!

But I digress. Or will die gressing. Enough already!

So yes. Make 'em shut off the lights. I'm tired of fueling the "recovery"...
-Anon

Fake Giant Among Real Pygmies

FAKE GIANT AMONG REAL PYGMIES

Author, Paul Theroux has a superior brother... Alexander Theroux, the author of "Darconville's Cat" which Anthony Burgess included within his famous 99 best novels.

At any rate, one of my favorite phrases from this phrase-rich oevre is "fake giant among real pygmies"...which I have borrowed, and now give credit where due. A pregnant phrase, really, with much currency...

Here is Dalkey Press' interview of Alexander Theroux:
http://www.centerforbookculture.org/media/media_authors/theroux_alexander.jpg

EXCERPT:
AT: ...I've always admired stylists. I put the writers of bumphable, ready-to-wear prose, calculated to sell, guaranteed not to shock, in the same category as artists who can't draw. There is a lack of bravery and a lot of fraud in them. I have tried never to write a book that didn't attempt something new in the way of narrative technique. Writing is an assault on cliche. I find little to admire in writers who make no attempt at originality. (I remember, among other things, effortfully working to make the perambulations in London of Roland McGuffey recapitulate the lines of the Union Jack.) It's death commercially, of course, but I knew from the beginning that I was too opinionated, literate, and unconventional to enjoy a widespread reputation. It doesn't bother me in the least. I've always been too busy to make money. I'm among the freest people I know.

SM: You mean that?

AT: In the sense of not needing fame, yes. A psychiatrist once told me, "You're always trying to get out of the world." So? We all have to manage that one day. Maybe I'm only practicing my technique.

SM: Something Darconville shares.

AT: And Marina, in "An Adultery." There is a method, a deliberateness in a way of writing that has its parallel in the way of living. I'm talking about being loyal to your own vision, not living by borrowed apocalypse or polluting your dreams, in life or art, just for success. It's interesting, fashion is the enemy. True style means more than anything a refusal to compromise.

SM: You mean to be true to yourself?

AT: Basically. Write the books you should, be the person you are. I wanted to write a "roman d'analyse," for example, with "An Adultery." A new genre. Plot didn't interest me in the least. Character is plot, anyway. Start delineating a figure--merely describe a person--and he or she will begin to act, do things, go in a particular direction. I set the novel up as a syllogism and purposely wrote balancing rhythmic and arhythmic sentences. I think its rewards come only if you're willing to think, to come to terms with what I set out to question, sort through, analyze. (pause) Nothing there for the Leon Uris crowd--beach readers, military minds, people who flip pages to pass time. I wanted the book to be what it was, no self-promotion, no hook for a publishing scheme. There's a mystical passivity in refusing the entrepreneurial.

SNAILworld: History of the Slow of Head
from the Snail Media series:

IS BIG MEDIA (BM) IRRELEVANT?

In 1995, I wrote a column about the brain-drain from the Snail World to the Web World. People with brains were gravitating to the internet, leaving the slower of head to fill the jobs and places in the Old World of corporate radio, TV, newspapers and such. And as such...the quality of content was systematically diminishing.

Well, not much has changed, trendwise. If one wants to find out what is really going on in the world...to depend on the corporate media is foolhardy, and maybe even dangerous. It is THAT bad. Look at it! Listen to it! That is...if you can stomach all the SUV and pharmaceutical ads...not to mention infantile content and their constant sins of omission.

In 2003, the Internet has become infected with commercialism, and blogs are among the cutting edge of consumption...and production. If you're not being paid to lie...why do it? Indeed, why do it anyway? Surely there is a ring of Hell for those who lie because they are paid to do so. And hanging out in the fire with Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Miller, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and the like, would not be something I would care to do. The yowling itself would be reason enough to go elsewhere. The licking flames might be a form of mercy.

I'm not the only blogger who thinks Big Media is becoming irrelevant. Here is another take on the matter:
http://iddybud.blogspot.com/2003_06_22_iddybud_archive.html#105665770239591282

"PUT YOUR HANDS UP"

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
How Paul Wolfowitz is Reaping the Rewards of War
by Anonymoses

AT YOUR LOCAL BLOGSPOT
http://anonymoses.blogspot.com

FROM THE SILLY QUESTION FILES:



Will David Beckham convert to American football?
Guess.

Will Martha Stewart change her name to Kay Martin?
No, even though she may find herself Goodwill hunting, she will never be k-martin'.

What is the N.E.E.K.C. Foundation?
I think you mean the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Who is Robert Woodjohnson?
I'll give you a wood johnson! It's three names, not two.

Is it true you are writing a book on Clinton called "LBJ"? If so, why?
The book is called "el B.J."...although I may simply call it "Johnson"...since that was the focus of the media during his glorious reign.

http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext96/thbrs10.txt
The Project Gutenberg Etext of
Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the United States Senate
"ON THE EXPUNGING RESOLUTION"

http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/8fmun10.txt
FORMATION OF THE UNION
1750-1829
BY
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, PH.D.

http://www.gutenberg.net/
PROJECT GUTENBERG
Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of Michael Hart, who in 1971 decided that it would be a really good idea if lots of famous and important texts were freely available to everyone in the world. Since then, he has been joined by hundreds of volunteers who share his vision.
Now, more than thirty years later, Project Gutenberg has the following figures (as of November 8th 2002): 203 New eBooks released during October 2002, 1975 New eBooks produced in 2002 (they were 1240 in 2001) for a total of 6267 Total Project Gutenberg eBooks. 119 eBooks have been posted so far by Project Gutenberg of Australia.

John Kerry + Wesley Clark?

http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/John Kerry + Wesley Clark?
While I lean more toward Rep. Dennis Kucinich's unabashed liberalism or Gov. Howard Dean's chutzpah, I'm intrigued by Joe Conason's Democratic dream ticket: John Kerry and Wesley Clark. To counter Karl Rove's campaign strategy of casting Bush as a strong "wartime" president, this ticket would pair two progressives who are also highly decorated veterans. Kerry won five Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star, then went on to join Vietnam Veterans for Peace; Clark graduated first in his class at West Point, was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and ended his military career as the four-star supreme allied commander of NATO.

Bill Moyers is getting around...
BlogPulse Top Links [BETA] - Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs 15.This is Your Story - The Progressive Story of America. Pass It On.
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CANDIDATES AS CABINET
Imagine that only one of the Democratic candidates makes it to the top slot. Say John Dean or John Edwards. Maybe even John Kerry. Certainly a John though. There has never been a King Dennis, and so precedence is not cheerleading from the background, adding the winds of history to the sails of the candidacy. It could happen. At any rate, you can imagine it because it will certainly be so. They all can't be president. At least not this time. They have to take turns. Maybe even earn it.

Of course there is the possibility that two will rise, leaving the rest to what? Pack up and go home? Well maybe not. Maybe each can have a vital role in whichever administration takes over the current unpleasantness.

I can imagine, say, a Dean/Edwards ticket, with Kerry as State, Kucinich as Drug Czar, Gephardt as Labor, Braun as Attorney General, General Wesley Clark as Defense, Lieberman as Commerce, Gore as Energy...and Sharpton as the official Merlin, or seer to the President. In such a scenario, a synergy, rather than a competition, would ensue...and together both they and we can restore democracy and help put our country back on healthy soil, heading in a positive direction.

Something to think about...

Wired News: Dems to Vie for Online Votes


"What's revolutionary is that it absolutely negates the role of money," said Fertik, who is working as a consultant for the Kucinich campaign.

"What that means is this is pure democracy at work. This is people choosing the candidate with the best message and the best ideas," he said.

NetMedia 2003 | 2003 shortlist

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THE NORTH CAROLINA EXPERIMENT
an adventure in ordinary life

In the Heat of Play

apostropher: June 2003 Archives 2:06 am
In acknowledgement of the time of this entry, I'll mention this story. Japanese researchers at Akita University School of Medicine published a study indicating that viewing computer monitors at night, particularly bright ones, produces physiological changes that could disrupt the sleep cycle. Interesting enough, if not particularly surprising. But what caught my eye was only mentioned in passing. They had the subjects doing exciting (a shooting game) and boring (addition) tasks on bright and dim displays and collected a range of measurements during the tasks.
Rectal temperature was recorded at two-minute intervals during each task. [...] The rectal temperature decreased during the night in all conditions. The rectal temperature was higher during the exciting task than during the boring one and significantly higher during the tasks with a BD than during the tasks with a DD in the latter half of each task.
Now, I'm not really a gamer; you get much past left, right, fire, and hyperspace and I start to panic. I can add numbers in my head pretty easily. But I have to think my ability at either would be greatly diminished by the distraction of 11 rectal temperature readings in a twenty minute span.
Posted by apostropher at 02:06 AM

"This is Anonymoses, from whom God hid nothing..."

Anonymoses ponders the issues...

I don't know...I tried to get through the other candidates' letters, but was reminded what David Ogilvy once said, which ALL the candidates should keep in mind:

"You can't BORE someone into buying your product." - David Ogilvy

Senator Edwards tells his usual common man story; the Reverend Al Sharpton all but surrenders and yet throws his vote to whomever is chosen; Lieberman is his arrogant, constipative self...overly possessive of the votes won for Gore in 2000; Kucinich is great and yet...are we ready for a President with bangs? Gephardt sounds like his words were granked out by a machine or a grinder-organ monkey. Braun is not as impressive as she could be either. Hard to get excited about most of them. Dean is the real shiner, although Kucinich is also powerful and saying that which needs to be said. Change the hair though, Dennis. Get a better suit. God I'm shallow!

Incuse my extrusion, but I just heard a most croak piece by Piazzola, and thought I'd share this, which is called "Listening to Piazzola"...not that I share the particular emotion...

MoveOn.org PAC
Here is Senator John Kerry's letter to MoveOn.org members. I haven't read it yet, so I ain't gonna comment till I do...

OK...Now I am reading it. Read with me...and remember. HE speaks in italics.

Dear MoveOn Members,
Three words sum up why we need to take action today: The Supreme Court. I need you to join me in keeping the Supreme Court out of the hands of right wing ideologues. I am prepared to filibuster, if necessary, any Supreme Court nominee who would turn back the clock on a woman’s right to choose, on civil rights and individual liberties, and on the laws protecting workers and the environment.

This is, of course, an urgent and important thing to do. But even with its urgency, I don't know if it makes a good lead. Lead with your best. This panoply of issues is hardly different that any politician has said since time immemorial. Watch "The Candidate" with Robert Redford. That is, if he lets you. If he does, say that I sent you, and then invite me over. HE is the one who deserves to be President. Unfortunately America doesn't deserve HIM.
But back to Kerry's opening graf... The Bush Residency in unprecented...and he should be unpresidented. Look. The Media is not gonna tell us squat about his true weaknesses. If you don't...switch parties. Or become a talk-show host. Pays better. You ARE on good terms with Mammon, aren't you?

If you agree with me that there should be no equivocation, no double-speak, no avoidance of the issue, then sign my online petition today at:
http://petition.johnkerry.com

Most people don't know what equivocation means. As such it may well qualify as a showpoint, for lack of better words. One almost thinks you are trying to tell yourself these things. Leave memos on the fridge. Not here. We do love ya though. Don't get me wrong...

I will deliver this petition to Senate Democratic Leader, Tom Daschle, and the Ranking Democratic Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pat Leahy, as well as their counterparts on the Republican side of the aisle – Majority Leader Bill Frist and Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch. We will assure that they hear our voices loud and clear that we will oppose a nominee who would turn back the clock on a woman’s right to choose, on civil rights and individual liberties, and on the laws protecting workers and the environment.

Still on the Supreme Court, I see...
What applies to equivocation also applies to those other specialized terms: Daschle, Hatch, bla bla bla.
If you are gonna talk about the Supreme Court...talk about their egregious behavior during the 2000 selection.
The conflicts of interests...those things the media love to bury or avoid altogether.

Mister Senator. Open all your chakras. Compose your message thusly: By using and appealing to the head, the heart, and the body. There is a profound lack of this mixture in the entire canon of western letters, and yet the East mixes and synergizes them almost, and probably, by nature. So far...you are just head.

The criteria are basic: Any person who thinks it’s his or her job to push an extreme political agenda, rather than to interpret the law, should not be a Supreme Court Justice. Any person who thinks it’s his or her job to carry out the President’s political agenda, rather than to provide justice to ordinary Americans, should not be a Supreme Court Justice.

Agreed, but arcana to most. Earth to Senator Kerry...

Make no mistake, we need to take back the White House in 2004 and that’s why I’m running for President. When I’m President there will be no John Ashcroft trampling on the Bill of Rights – but before I become President we must stop George W. Bush from using the Supreme Court to carry out the President’s political agenda, rather than to provide justice to ordinary Americans.

I see you know about the magic of "when". But it is reather presumptuous, don't you think. Don't come off as pompous or as the rightful heir. Sounds too much like Bush, rather than his antithesis.

The differences today are clear: George Bush wants to criminalize the right of women to choose, he’s willing to take us back to the days of back alleys, to gag doctors and to deny families the right to plan and be aware of their choices. And don’t take my word for it: just look at who they’ve already tried to ram down our throats: Judges like Charles Pickering and Priscilla Owen who have long records of opposition to Roe v. Wade, have sought to restrict laws barring sexual discrimination, have supported a ban on interracial marriage, and have worked to narrow laws on gender discrimination. Or Judges like James Leon Holmes who dismissed arguments for the availability of abortion for rape victims claiming that conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami. Each year in America, over 30,000 women become pregnant as a result of rape or incest; snow falls in Miami roughly once every 100 years.

One-trick pony, huh...

I believe America should move forward and advance our right to privacy and equal rights, the civil rights, and the right to choose in this nation.
No one is better at demanding action and holding government accountable than MoveOn.Org – and together we can stop the Bush right-wing juggernaut by mobilizing the United States Senate to reject any Bush Supreme Court nominee hostile to the rights of women to choose.

What can I say. Most disappointing. Do you need a speechwriter? Call me. I could at least add a touch of jocularity to your wooden, canned excuse for a State-of-the-Union address.
No wait. This was just a letter to MoveOn.org. My bad.
But seriously...tell the whole truth. From the top down. Start with that which we are not being told by Bush's media arm...ie FOX, MSNBC, CNN, Washington Post, etc. Go over their heads. You are a Senator of the United States for God's sake. Not a mere pundit or media whore. Act like it. And act ON it. Wanna be a real hero?

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Here is the Howard Dean Letter to MoveOn.org...who is having an online vote this week. Don't miss it!



Now we move on the Governor Howard Dean of Vermont...


Dear MoveOn member,
Our country is at stake. The Bush Doctrine of preemptive war is wrong for America. The Bush tax cuts are not about cutting taxes; they are about starving and destroying Social Security, Medicare, and our public schools. They call polluting our air "The Clear Skies Act," destroying old growth "The Healthy Forest Act," and taking away our civil liberties "The Patriot Act."

Brilliant! Better yet...true! A great opening graf...although "wrong for America". Hmmm. Sure it is true. But wouldn't "poison for America" be stronger? After all...they ARE the coalition of polluters.
Strange...when I first saw "Healthy Forest Act", I thought it said "Heal Thy Forest Act". Maybe they will change it now...

If you are as tired and angry as I am about the manipulation and lies, then please join my campaign by signing the Pledge to Take Back America. Let's show that millions of us are not ashamed to stand up for our values:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/moveon

Now THIS is what should be coming out of the mouths of Democrats. Not the same old same old. Not afraid to call lying "lying". Not afraid to admit that "I'm ashamed to be an American, 'cause, you know, I'm cheap..." Something like that. Shame, indeed, has its uses. The Reich should try it sometime...

Too many in my party have failed to stand up to this administration's assault on our country's ideals. Let's show them that the era of conservative intimidation is over. People in Washington worry about "electability"-but they forget why they were elected in the first place. Silence equals defeat. Victory requires educating, organizing, and convincing.

I AM convinced. Who can top this? Anyone else of the 9?
It is 9, isn't it? Seems more like 3 or 4.
"Conservative intimidation".
What?
"Conservative intimidation". Sheesh. Listen next time!
"Sorry, but it bears repeating..."

Defeating George Bush will take nothing short of a massive grassroots movement. That's why we've taken a page from MoveOn's book by providing tools on our Web site to help build the movement in your community. Click below to see what's happening near you and to join in. And please forward this email to your friends -- I want everyone to know that there is a way to get involved, no matter where they live, or how much time they have:
http://action.deanforamerica.com
Candidates who continue to say whatever it takes to be elected will lose. What Americans want is a leader who believes in and will fight for sensible and principled positions, including balanced budgets, health care for every American, and a defense policy consistent with American values. The only way we can beat George W. Bush is to stand for a clear alternative.

"A defense policy consistent with American values..."
What?
"A defense policy consistent with American values...YOU HEARD ME! I'm on to you..."
This also needs not only repeating, but inacting. Like Citizen Kane, America, under George W. Bush, has drifted into darkness. We now attack other countries, preemptively willy-nilly. Americans are not like that. We are much better than that. Practically the opposite. The Republicans down OWN the military or the defence of America...which is more than just intimidating and killing people. It is protecting life...here and abroad. And not just our species. We are bigger than that. Our policies should be consistent with that larger view.

On my first day in office, I will tear up the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war. I will end this President's policy of domestic division. I will repeal those parts of the Patriot Act that betray the Bill of Rights. And I will roll back this President's tax cuts, because we will never achieve social justice in this country unless we balance the budget.

Dean is the one. The Grail King. The protector of the people. I can hear it in his voice...

I stood up against this President's attack on Iraq. I did not support his huge tax cuts. I did not support the misnamed "No Child Left Behind Act," which is raising property taxes all over America and bankrupting our public school system. Unlike all but one of my opponents, I have balanced a budget and I have appointed judges-and I am the only candidate who has made health care available to 99% of the children and 90% of the adults in my state.

...another reason to vote for Dr. Dean...


I believe that we can protect ourselves from terrorism and protect the civil liberties that make our nation strong. I believe that we can grow and prosper while also protecting our environment. I believe that a free and brave nation will always be stronger than a fearful nation, and I refuse to submit to fear any longer.

Hear! Hear! Bodhisattva!! As John once said...True love casteth out all fear. We must no submit to this cheap tool of Fascists; fear. People fear death. People fear poverty. Yet all die, and with poverty comes wisdom. Ask Meister Eckhart. Ask Peter Gomes. Hell...ask yourself: Am I getting any wiser standing here, polishing my cars?


Abraham Lincoln said that a government of the people, by the people and for the people would not perish from this earth. Only you-we-have the power to ensure that the ideals of America are not destroyed by this President's radical agenda. If you share my beliefs, then join me in pledging to take back America in 2004:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/moveon
To plan or to join campaign events near you -- including a nationwide day of rallies and house parties on June 23 -- please click here:
http://action.deanforamerica.com

Will do...

We can only undo the damage this President has done by coming together as Americans today. MoveOn-and members like you-have proven that the grassroots has more power today than at any time in history. Yet MoveOn took years to grow to the size it is today. We do not have years. Years from now will be too late. We must come together now to defeat George W. Bush -- so please pass this email along to all of your friends who believe, as you do, that we must act now to take back America.

Agreed. Those who are posturing for 2008 are doing a profound disservice...to themselves, and to America and the Democratic Party.
We cannot let the theft, lies, poverty and violence continue.

Formidable, Governor Dean. I did not, heretofore, realize how timely, true, and important it is that you, or at least your ideas, become the fabric of America. We have been in the dark too long. And to think...Clinton ushered in quite a lot of sunshine. Only to be replaced by a rebelliant (my word) and floodprone weather, symbolically and otherwise.

If all 9 Democrats were as gutsy as you...at least our side of the story -- the truth -- will get out.

MoveOn.org PACHere goes a letter to MoveOn.org from the handsome Senator Edwards of North Carolina. Of all the candidates, he is certain in the top tier.

Also participating are:
Carol Moseley Braun
Howard Dean
John Edwards
Dick Gephardt
Bob Graham
John Kerry
Dennis Kucinich
Joe Lieberman
Al Sharpton

Lieberman, Graham and Gephardt seem to Anonymoses to be weak and eminently beatable. Sharpton tells it like it is, and is, in my opinion a great asset to the party...along with Kucinich and Moseley Braun.
But Edwards, Dean and Kerry are, in the mind of Anonymoses, the best choices for winning. Dean will probably be portrayed as another Gore wonk...which I like, but the automations will have hay with it.
As a doctor, Dean can pull in the Medical vote, which Bush seems to be trying to pit against the lawyers. Dean and Edwards might then be a most balanced ticket...and win the upper-middle class voter, who are oftentimes in the doctor/lawyer profession. And Bush might well be intimidated by his being a doctor. Edwards certainly has more charisma than Dean, but together...a good team indeed. Kerry can mop the floor with Bush, but will he? Hard to imagine anyone NOT being able to beat Bush, actually. Too bad they cheat lie and steal...as it really helps them get selected. The money doesn't hurt either.

If it comes down to mere money...revolution may be the only solution.
Enough talk...I need dinner.

The Masters of Spin

In this column written for the opprobrious MSNBC, Eleanor Clift deconstructs Bush Inc's lie machine. Why she writes for that piece of shit is beyond me, but there it is. Enjoy...

Joyce's Paradiso
EMPIRE OF THE EVIL AXIS

A post from the Forum today...



Empire of the Evil Axis by TheGreatAnonymoses


How enemies come and go!


A few years ago, Russia was considered to be the very manifestation of evil. Now they are among our best friends.


Flash-forward five, ten, twenty years. Iraq is our strongest ally. Palestine and Israel have worked it out, and are now friends, family even, and are now among the most visited places in the world, and even the poorest can get good money for a mere trinket. Matzoh Balls and Baba Ghanoush flow in the streets.
England has changed its name to Ireland, and the deed has been transferred to India.
Rednecks are taking telecourses at Princeton, and teaching soccer moms how to roll cigarettes.
The "Children's Coup" has been accomplished by toy guns alone...they are that realistic!


What will be our future? And who will be our enemies and our friends?


Is there no way to break the cycle, without putting the military-industrial complex out of bidness? And what of chariot-makers and phrenologists? How to protect their jobs??


History seems to teach us to take these notions of "evil this" and "evil that" with a grain of salt. Any survey of just about any country will show that all are plenty evil already...at least by human standards.


Is playing the evil game...evil itself?
Who can throw stones with a clear conscience? And will not that muddy a clear conscience?


America should protect itself...but when it starts fights I can't help but see a bully. And we know how bullies turn out!


Maybe they think that bullying with make the country bullish...but this, alas, is bullshite. What is against the Tao is also against the Dow.
:: Dave 1:52 PM [+] :: - Anonymoses

Joyce's Paradiso

FEAR AND ENMITY

Fear is a strange thing. It has a peculiar effect on the mind, which some people use for their benefit.
Fear creates enmity -- a deep-seated hatred, but also implying an enemy.


Scare the people, and show them a picture of the enemy. The rest will work itself out.



When one is stricken with fear, one will do things that one would not normally do. So if you think it is important to keep your wits about you...don't succumb to fear. Fear itself is the enemy, and is, to a certain extent, the creator of it.


When in times of crisis...seek impartial advice...as the vested players are entirely vested. Seeking advice from a panicked soul is not wise.


May God remove fear and enmity from all souls, and bodies in need of souls.

May contageous laughter fill the air. This terror thing blows.
:: Dave 2:41 PM [+] :: - Anonymoses
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DIVISION OF LABOR
What if the 9 Democratic Candidates attacked Bush from 9 different angles?
Could he (and his media) fend them off?

Take off the pussymitts...and go git 'em! It's feeding time!

This from Sen. Ernest Hollings:
Nobody is paying any attention to the budget deficit. Last month the House Budget Committee's Democrats forecast a deficit of nearly $500 billion, and The Post reported the story on Page A4. Last week the Congressional Budget Office reported that the deficit would balloon to a record $400 billion-plus, and The Post again buried the story on A4. Spending trust funds, such as Social Security, is what keeps the estimate at $400 billion. The actual deficit will be approximately $600 billion.
That's a win for Mitch Daniels. The goal of the departed Office of Management and Budget director was to keep any news that could hurt President Bush's reelection prospects off the front page, and The Post willingly aided and abetted him. In fact, when Daniels left two weeks ago to run for governor of Indiana, he told The Post that the government is "fiscally in fine shape." Good grief! During his 29-month tenure, he turned a so-called $5.6 trillion, 10-year budget surplus into a $4 trillion deficit -- a mere $10 trillion downswing in just two years. If this is good fiscal policy, thank heavens Daniels is gone.

Liar, Liar...
The stories they told - War on Iraq - smh.com.au

The Miami Herald | 06/18/2003 | Graham: Bush deceived the public over threat in Iraq...evokes the C-word: Chimpeachment

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U.S. Troops Frustrated With Role In Iraq (washingtonpost.com) . "The war is supposed to be over, but every day we hear of another soldier getting killed. Is it worth it? Saddam isn't in power anymore. The locals want us to leave. Why are we still here?"

Satan's Media are at it again...laying the groundwork for doing to Iran what we did to Iraq. Ah! What some people will do for money and power! But they still wind up with their ugly wives and uglier friends. No wonder they feel they need to be compensated...

Iddybud the blogger, from her infinite fount of insight, brings you the following related item...
Iddybud
Just one look at the headlines from this hour and you can almost smell the fishy PNAC planning their next fishy preemptive war...
Are you ready for more lies? More war and destroyed lives for oil and imperialism..er... I mean ' the furtherance of democracy'?

--UN calls on Iran to allow stricter nuclear inspections (AFP) - June 16 11:23 pm
--Iran sends official protest to US over "interference" (AFP) - June 16 7:51 pm
--Tehran has failed to report certain nuclear activities: IAEA (AFP) - June 16 7:50 pm
--Iran sticks to refusal to allow full IAEA nuclear inspections (AFP) - June 16 4:03 pm
--North Korea exports missiles to Iran by air (AFP) - June 16 3:28 pm
--UN nuclear agency meets in Vienna amidst concern over Iran program (AFP) - June 16 12:12 pm
Jude 9:26 PM

What is needed is less than the raising of a finger.
What is needed is a clear, compelling and universally applaudable and beneficial vision. - Anonymoses

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US marines diverted to Liberia

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Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror (washingtonpost.com) "The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure," said Beers

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U.S. Troops May Have to Go After Hamas, Lawmaker (washingtonpost.com)
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What does "right wing" mean?
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At PRA, we are often asked how we define the right wing. In the U.S., there is an identifiable right-wing agenda. Its roots lie in the lynchings of Blacks in the South by the Ku Klux Klan, the ideological principles of the John Birch Society, and the McCarthy hearings of the 1950's.
Central to the agenda is white supremacism, preservation of individual wealth in a setting of free market capitalism, preservation of rigidly traditional religious and family structures, and defense of US military hegemony.
There is virtually universal agreement that para-military white supremacists or neo-Nazis are right wing. More subtle distinctions are required when right-wing groups operate within mainstream US culture.

Sectors of the Right Wing

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The Daily Brew
No Investigation Necessary
© June 15, 2003
The Daily Brew
EXCERPT:
There is no longer any real question about whether Bush lied to Congress and the American people about Iraq. He did. The aluminum tubes, the uranium from Niger, the unmanned drones rigged to spew clouds of bio-toxins over New York City at any second? All lies. The Bush administration's public statements themselves demonstrate these were lies, and no further Congressional inquiry is necessary to prove it.

But if the lies were bad, the innuendos were worse. Brazenly exploiting the tragedy, the administration intentionally (and successfully) created a connection between Iraq and September 11th in the mind of the public that simply did not exist. Bush sold the attack using the same smoke and mirrors Enron used to earn "profits." Again, Congress need not hold hearings to establish this fact. The Bush administration's public statements already on record are all that is needed.

Thus it really doesn't matter if they ever find weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration isn't going to find Nigerian uranium or drones capable of attacking the United States no matter how hard they look. Even if they do find something else, Bush still lied.

While congressional hearings might provide some nice political theater (and have therefore been blocked by the Republicans), they are not really necessary. The fundamental question created by the war on Iraq has been answered.

Censored 2003: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2001-2002

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#4: Bush Administration Hampered FBI Investigation 46 into Bin Laden Family Before
#5: U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water System
#6: U.S. Government Pushing Nuclear Revival
#7: Corporations Promote HMO Model for School Districts
#8: NAFTA Destroys Farming Communities in U.S. and Abroad
#9: U.S. Faces National Housing Crisis
#10: CIA Double Deals in Macedonia
#11: Bush Appoints Former Criminals to Key Government Roles
#12: NAFTA's Chapter 11 Overrides Public Protection Laws of Countries
#13: Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford Lied to the American Public about East Timor
#14: New Laws Restrict Access to Abortions in U.S.
#15: Bush's Energy Plan Threatens Environment and Public Health
#16: CIA Kidnaps Suspects for Overseas Torture and Execution
#17: Corporate Media Ignores Key Issues of the Anti-Globalization Protests
#18: World's Coral Reefs Dying
#19: American Companies Exploit the Congo
#20: Novartis's Gene Research Endangers Global Plant Life
#21: Large U.S. Temp Company Undermines Union Jobs and Mistreats Workers
#22: Fish Farms Threaten Health of Consumers and Aquatic Habitats
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In These Times | Neocon Convergences
That neocons are galvanized by race is no surprise. One of the founding documents of neoconservatism is Norman Podhoretz’s 1963 essay “My Negro Problem—and Ours.” In that famous Commentary essay, Podhoretz’s comments helped create a gap between blacks and Jews that has yet to be bridged. Among other things, he suggested that the solution to America’s racial problem would be for blacks to accept miscegenation as an unobtrusive form of genocide.

Victims of these evils see the link between neo-imperialism and neoracism much more easily than the victimizers. And they fear this axis of evil much more than the one concocted by Bush’s speech writers. That’s likely one reason black Americans resisted overwhelming media propaganda and opposed the Iraq invasion. The funding priorities of the Bradley Foundation show those fears are not misplaced.

Politics forum - Utne Cafe

TAP: Vol 14, Iss. 7. Keep Your Eyes On the Prize. Robert B. Reich.

The Observer | International | Hamas rules out ceasefire as both sides bury their dead

When It Raines...
Powerful people and institutions have a strong self-interest in resisting journalistic inspection and the public accountability it can inspire. But their resistance weakens the democratic bond between the powerful and the powerless that can prevent unchecked corruption where it matters most. Irresponsible attacks by the right on just about all tough-minded, independent reporting come at the cost of the very information citizens need to understand the political, social and economic context of their world. The ability of the Times to report honestly on the forces that govern our lives--and, by doing so, to help set the agenda for the rest of the media--is one of the few institutional obstacles in the path of those who misuse their power. And that's why, for all its flaws, the Times must be defended. We have, alas, seen the alternative.

From the blog of Katrina vanden Heuvel...
Editor's Cut How to Really Save Private Lynch

"We face an unemployment problem that is certainly without precedent in my lifetime," said Paul Bremer, the US-appointed Governor of Iraq, as he unveiled a $100 million public works program for that battered country, using funds drawn from the Iraqi Central Bank. The move, according to the Wall Street Journal, is part of a broader effort to get Iraqis back to work, rebuild the country's hospitals and highways and, generally, jump-start the moribund economy.
Meanwhile, back in Palestine, West Virginia--best known as the hometown of Private Jessica Lynch--nearly half of the adults in Wirt county are unemployed, the poverty rate hovers near 20 percent and funds for civic projects like rebuilding the 41-year old county swimming pool have completely dried up.

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Importance of Breathing Through The Nose
The first rule for correct breathing is that we should breathe through the nose. This may seem obvious, but many people breathe principally through the mouth. Mouth breathing can adversely affect the development of the thyroid gland. It can retard the mental development of children.
The nose has various defense mechanisms to prevent impurities and excessively cold air entering the body. At the entrance to the nose, a screen of hairs traps dust, tiny insects and other particles that may injure the lungs if you breathe through the mouth. After the entrance of the nose, there is a long winding passage lined with mucus membranes, where excessively cool air is warmed and very fine dust particles that escaped the hair screen are caught. Next, in the inner nose are glands which fight off any bacilli which have slipped through the other defenses. The inner nose also contains the olfactory organ-our sense of smell. This detects any poisonous gases around that may injure our health.
The yogis believe that the olfactory organ has another function: the absorption of prana from the air. If you breathe through the mouth all the time, as many people do, you are cheating yourself of all this free energy (prana). The yogis say this is a major factor in lowered resistance to disease and impairs the functioning of your vital glands and nervous system. Add to this the fact that pathogens can enter the lungs via mouth breathing, and you can see2

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NEW YORK--George W. Bush told us that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working together. They weren't. He repeatedly implied that Iraq had had something to do with 9/11. It hadn't. He claimed to have proof that Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons of mass destruction. He didn't. As our allies watched in horror and disgust, Bush conned us into a one-sided war of aggression that killed and maimed thousands of innocent people, destroyed billions of dollars in Iraqi infrastructure, cost tens of billions of dollars, cost the lives of American soldiers, and transformed our international image as the world's shining beacon of freedom into that of a marauding police state. Presidents Nixon and Clinton rightly faced impeachment for comparatively trivial offenses; if we hope to restore our nation's honor, George W. Bush too must face a president's gravest political sanction.

Released last week, the FAIR study reports that "official voices" — U.S. government and military, past and present — dominated TV newscasts, "squelching dissent'' and crowding out alternative viewpoints, including foreign perspectives.
American television viewers "were more than six times as likely to see a pro-war source as one who was anti-war; with U.S. guests alone, the ratio increases to 25 to 1,'' the study's authors, Steve Rendell and Tara Broughel, report in the May/June edition of FAIR's magazine Extra!
They looked at 1,617 talking heads and other on-camera sources, coding them by name, occupation, nationality, position on the war and the network on which they appeared. (In CNN's case, they targeted Wolf Blitzer Reports.) Turns out that, not only did Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld take over Iraq for the U.S., he also scored a clear victory over the media.
Indeed, military types got twice as much face time as civilians did. They were reinforced by the Pentagon's slickest marketing move of all time, the embedding of hundreds of journalists with the troops.
Obviously, the anti-war brigade didn't get much attention, even if its members were with the government or military. FAIR found a mere 3 per cent of U.S. sources "represented or expressed opposition to the war,'' and that includes senators and members of Congress."

BuzzFlash Mailbag - June 13, 2003

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Up to 7,000 civilians killed in war, researchers say At least 5,000 civilians may have been killed during the invasion of Iraq, an independent research group has claimed. As more evidence is collated, it says, the figure could reach 10,000.
Iraq Body Count (IBC), a volunteer group of British and US academics and researchers, compiled statistics on civilian casualties from media reports and estimated that between 5,000 and 7,000 civilians died in the conflict.

Violence flares as Israel and Hamas head for all-out war Israeli helicopters killed seven Palestinians, including a senior militant, his wife and infant daughter, as Israel and the Islamic group Hamas dropped any pretense of peace and declared all-out war.

That Bush sure is an effective leader! He asks for peace...and gets all-out war. Well...it IS Friday 13th!

Good night, Sweet Prince!

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Hamas warning after Gaza strikes
The World's Stupidest Man, George W. Bush, has a plan. He says he wants peace in the Middle East. Unfortunately he is a proven liar...
The Middle East is about to go up in smoke...

Great guns, Georgie!

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