The unsung heroes in the Terri Schiavo tragedy---Pinellas Park local police who stood their ground and refused to turn Terri over to Jeb Bush's SS agents. Bravely the local law said NO, unless they were given a court order from the Judge! Seizing an opportunity to get maximum television coverage, bro Jeb sent the SS to spirit Ms. Schiavo out of the Hospice, but local police refused to allow it. Wonder why our illustrious mainstream media wasn't all over this story like stink on a pile? It was a blatant example of fascism at its finest, and thank God there were heroes who faced the SS and won that battle in the State of Florida!   more:Barbara's Daily Buzz
http://www.buzzflash.com/dailybuzz/

"Terri Schiavo has become a metaphor in the religio-cultural struggle over abortion." 3/29

Krugman: "America isn't yet a place where liberal politicians, and even conservatives who aren't sufficiently hard-line, fear assassination. But...it Can Happen Here."

Act Now: Pharmacists: Do Your Job!
by NARAL Pro-Choice America
      Help fight the alarming trend of pharmacists refusing to fill women's birth-control prescriptions.
http://www.tompaine.com/action/#004261

What is going to be the outcome of this

Shiavo scam?

This brain-dead woman will die.

This issue will be the beginning of the end

of the Bush led Onward Christian Soldier

Fascist Regime.~ Hello in There

FRANK RICH
The God Racket, From DeMille to DeLay
The religio-hucksterism surrounding the Schiavo case makes DeMille's Hollywood crusades look like amateur night.

OP-ED COLUMNIST
DeLay, Deny and Demagogue
By MAUREEN DOWD
The president and his ideological partners don't believe in separation of powers. They just believe in their own power.

An overwhelming 82 percent of the public believes the Congress and President should stay out of the Schiavo matter

Tragedy of Terri Schiavo showdown between Democracy and Fascism.

read: Barbara's Daily Buzz
http://www.buzzflash.com/dailybuzz/

This story continues to headline the Bull-Shit

media. The pictures of vegetable Shiavo smiling,

(as a nerve reflex) This is Faux news at its

ultimate phoniest. For a bit of accuracy in news

watch: MSNBC - Countdown with Keith Olbermann

This former woman Shiavo is brain dead. 

Protesters and fanatics bringing water ,

praying , Let her die in peace .

The Mary worshipers and other Fishskins

with the worry beads, If you are really

that upset let her die and live in peace,

you will see her after the rapture.

Americans United Blasts Congressional Leaders' Promise To Push Religious Right Agenda Wednesday, March 23, 2005 In Closed-Door Briefings, Frist, DeLay Cement Ties With Religious Right On Schiavo Case, Judges, Abortion, Marriage, Church Politicking, Ethics Complaints

The repuglican neocon-soon- to -be

driven from office Tom DeLay has

studied a tape of Terri Schiavo . He has

determined that congress should step in.

Everytime the Rapture right tries to control

the states and the personal rights of

all U.S. citizens, We are all going to have

to fight the fools in congess and this out

of step fascist regime.

Has_congress_Gone_Nuts?

Did Schiavo Case Politically Backfire on Busheviks, Because Americans REALLY DO Want the Federal Government Out of Their Personal Decisions? Could be. 3/23

Schiavo Case Puts Face on Rising Medical Costs
GOP Leaders Try to Cut Spending as They Fight to Save One of Program's Patients

MSNBC - Schiavo recovery impossible, experts agree

read:

PULL THE PLUG ON PANDERING
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
Those who think letting someone who is critically brain dead
die is the same as Auschwitz are incapable of making moral
distinctions.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21564/

Welcome to WorkingForChange

Today's Top Five Headlines on BuzzFlash.com:

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
            -- Thomas Jefferson

From : THE SLUDGE REPORT 2005 Strengthening Social Security: President Bush Invites America's Oldsters to Cast Their Votes on Viable Alternatives to the Coming Retirement Apocalypse

 

Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies' Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone says the bestseller is "gross and absurd" and Catholic bookstores should take it off their shelves. see the book    full story The film "The Da Vinci Code (2006)" starring Tom Hanks due out next year, will be big news check out: The DaVinci Code: Uncover The Code Contest Another  preacher in the news : Garland Preacher Arrested On Child Molestation Charge For the second time in two weeks, a North Texas religious leader is charged with sexual misconduct. More Details

Sometimes partisan politics gets overheated -- I know that as well as anyone. But when one party controls all three branches of government, and then seeks to change the fundamental principles and rules of our democracy, we need to talk about it soberly and seriously. The Republican Senate leaders have decided to fundamentally alter the role of Congress -- they want to give George Bush unprecedented power to manipulate the legislative branch and the courts. Today Harry Reid and the Democratic Senators asked us, the American people, to help them preserve the right of our elected representatives to speak their mind on the floor of the U.S. Senate. We have to act. Sign this petition, which we will deliver to every U.S. Senator, asking them to protect the right to free speech in the Senate. If they don't, it is not only their voice that will be silenced -- it will be ours: http://www.democrats.org/freespeech Here are the facts: George Bush has appointed judges to lifetime positions at a better rate than any president in nearly three decades. More than 95% of his nominees have been approved. Only ten nominees have been refused -- all because they are unqualified and out of the mainstream. But that's not enough. And on this issue, as on Social Security, it is becoming more and more obvious to everyone that the Republican leadership is out of touch with reality. More Americans voted against George Bush than any sitting president in history. And that same day, across the country, the Democratic candidates for Senate received over 4 million more votes than Republicans. Americans did not endorse the fringe agenda to dismantle Social Security. And they did not endorse dismantling the system of checks and balances that have served our country for over 200 years. Please tell your Senator to stand up for free speech: http://www.democrats.org/freespeech This is not a partisan issue -- it is an American issue. And we all must act together in order to protect our democracy. Thank you. Governor Howard Dean, M.D.

Sign the petition now! They stold this election,

and now they want to silence the "true majority"

Stop this fascist regime~ Hello in there

This_Week_in_God -from Comedy Central

and from THE SLUDGE REPORT 2005

King of the Mary Worshippers Thumbs His Nose at God and Refuses To Die!

BEYOND THE GOD POD
Silja J.A. Talvi, Santa Fe Reporter
The nation's biggest private prison corporation is forging
strong ties with a fundamentalist Christian ministry,
blurring the line between church and state and harkening a
new turn in corrections toward Christian-based programming.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21457/

Ten Commandments -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution by Larry Beinhart, Author of "Wag the Dog" and the "The Librarian"
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/03/con05075.html

Some Religious Nuts Really Are Nuts! -- Episode 31.1 of Steven C. Day's The Last Chance Democracy Cafe
http://www.buzzflash.com/day/05/03/day05005.html

What would Falwell do?
After years of near-invisibility, religious progressives want to regain their vanished political clout. But with conservatives claiming a monopoly on godliness, it's going to be a struggle of biblical proportions.
By Amy Sullivan

WHAT JESUS WOULDN'T DO
Jim Wallis, AlterNet
In an excerpt from his book, Jim Wallis explains that
much of the religious Right's agenda is in direct
contradiction to Christ's own teachings -- and most
devout Christians know it.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21428/
Plus, Wallis conducts a 'values audit' of the president's
2006 federal budget -- which reveals a document that
is deeply un-Christian.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21426/

Today's Top Five Headlines on BuzzFlash.com:

Order: The_New_Media_Monopoly_Here

We're making great strides in the fight against Big Media thanks to people like you joining together to demand a media system that serves democracy, not the bottom lines of a few giant corporations. You're in the vanguard of this important movement. And we need your help to keep gaining momentum. A few months ago, Free Press distributed 10,000 media reform action toolkits -- for free -- to help citizens mobilize for media reform. The toolkits provide easy-to-understand information on media reform and materials to help people write op-ed articles, file public comments with the FCC, challenge broadcast licenses and cable franchise renewals, and enlist others in the fight for media reform. The first batch of toolkits was snapped up within 36 hours, but thousands of activists missed out. With your help, we can raise $100,000 to put 20,000 more toolkits in the hands of local organizers and educate legions of people about crucial media issues that will determine the future of our democracy. As we square off against well-heeled lobbyists in Washington, our only power comes from millions of people united for media reform. Become a member of the Free Press Action Fund today. Your contribution will help us arm activists across the country with the tools they need to be effective (and we'll even send you a thank-you gift). Onward, Robert W. McChesney President and Cofounder Free Press P.S. A reminder: The National Conference for Media Reform is filling up fast. Join more than a thousand activists, policymakers, entertainers and journalists in St. Louis on May 13 - 15. The early bird registration period ends on March 31. Don't miss this special event!

More proof that network TV,

is highly regulated and censored:

FREE SPEECH IMPEDIMENT
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet
This Sunday's episode of ABC's 'Boston Legal' focusing on
censorship was itself censored, purged of all references to
Fox and Bill O'Reilly. And nobody's talking.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21463/

Paul Krugman on the Debt-Peonage Bankruptcy Bill Scam 3/8

The Senate considered proposals Monday to raise the current federal minimum wage of $5.15 for the first time in eight years. How much was the first federal minimum wage?

A. $0.25
B. $0.80
C. $1.15
D. $2.10

BANKRUPTCY BILL – MINIMUM WAGE DEFEATED: Conservatives in the Senate defeated Sen. Ted Kennedy's (D-MA) bankruptcy bill amendment on Monday to raise the $5.15-an-hour minimum wage. Kennedy wanted to increase the minimum wage by $2.10 over the next 26 months. An alternate proposal, by Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) – who has voted against minimum wage increases "at least 17 times in the last 10 years," was "salted with pro-business provisions" and fell by an even wider margin. While Kennedy's amendment "sought only an increase in the minimum wage," Santorum expanded his proposal to include regulatory rollbacks for big business and tax breaks for the restaurant industry. Santorum's amendment also would have "changed the rules so that fewer workers were protected by minimum wage and overtime laws."

Bankruptcy: The New Women's Issue
by Elizabeth Warren, Demos
     The Harvard professor on how women will suffer most if Congress passes the bankruptcy bill.
http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#004009

Blog of Blogs: Bankruptcy Edition
by Talking Points Memo
      Experts weigh in on the bankruptcy bill now pending before the U.S. Senate.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/bankruptcy/

Pass It On: Exceptionally Dangerous by the Leadership Conference On Civil Rights       Bush's judicial nominees are an exceptional bunch, all right...exceptionally dangerous to our civil rights and fundamental freedoms. http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton

BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Bill Keller,
Executive Editor of the New York Times

Nuking Free Speech

Robert Byrd

Senator Robert Byrd in famous for at least three things: highways in West Virginia, long speeches and his encyclopedic knowledge of the Senate. Now the senior senator takes a stand to defend one of the few remaining mechanisms for ensuring minority rights in our federal legislature: the filibuster. His is a passionate call. Will others stand with him? (Washington Post , free reg. req'd.) 

Deficits and Deceit
By PAUL KRUGMAN
President Bush's advisers knew that the 2001 tax cuts would probably cause budget problems, and welcomed the prospect.

BAD TO WORSE
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
If you think health insurance can keep you out of financial
trouble if you get sick -- surprise! Three-fourths of those
who filed for bankruptcy because of medical costs had
health insurance.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21402/

 The latest :Stolen_Election_2004_News

New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER
Americans are increasingly resistant to the president's plan to revamp Social Security, according to a Times/CBS News poll.
 

The Bush regime will not stop until they have

dismantled social security and all the progress,

that Democrats have made in the last 100 years. 

IT'S ABOUT PRIORITIES, STUPID: President Bush has no problem spending $2.1 trillion over 10 years to extend his tax cuts for the wealthy, but calls $60 billion in federal Medicaid spending unaffordable. The administration suggests states could make up for the funding shortfall by requiring "low-income people to make a co-payment before receiving Medicaid benefits." Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt tried this as governor of Utah and ended up reducing hospital admissions, clinic visits and access to prescription drugs for the state's poorest residents. In other words, the plan would "price the neediest people out of basic medical treatment and drive up the number of uninsured people."

CONGRESS – BANKRUPTCY BATTERING RAM: The Los Angeles Times reports that Republican senators "continued their steady drive toward passing more stringent bankruptcy legislation Wednesday," killing a series of amendments that would have protected "lower-income consumers, especially the sick and elderly and those who fall victim to fraud or aggressive marketing by credit companies." Nine out of 10 bankruptcies "are triggered by the loss of a job, high medical bills or divorce," and the bill is being pushed by a bipartisan coalition on the credit industry dole. Yesterday Senate Republicans "beat back" a Democratic amendment to the bill aimed at protecting U.S. soldiers, frequent victims of unscrupulous loan sharks, from the most harmful effects of the legislation. Don't let the Senate pass this anti-consumer bill under the radar -- write your senators today.

"How much better off we'd be as a nation if George Bush and his gang heeded the polls."

This lady tells it like it is.

read:

Barbara's Daily Buzz
http://www.buzzflash.com/dailybuzz/

Bush Stresses Support for 'Faith-Based' Agenda

THE DISPASSION OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT
Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com
Why have the morality monitors been silent about the Gannon
affair in which a gay prostitute was given special
privileges by the Bush White House?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21366/
More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

The latest from Molly Ivins, AlterNet:

Yes, our old friends from the Swift Boat Veterans for
"Truth" are back again. These same friendly folk are now
attacking the AARP, a group largely known for advocating
afternoon naps for the elderly.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21384/

"The latest Zogby poll shows that even in the aftermath of the post-Iraq election euphoria, just 39 percent of Americans think the war has been worth the lives lost fighting it. "

"President Bush keeps giving Democrats opening after opening on national security--including porous ports, insufficiently protected nuclear and chemical plants, and diminished numbers of first responders--"

"Figuring out how to talk about God and morality is all well and good, but the Democrats will never return to power until they can figure out how to take the national security cudgel out of the GOP's hands.."

more: A Tale of Two Leadership Styles

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