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Letter to George W. Bush

Dear President Bush,

Congratulations on your election victory and for doing so much to
educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from
you and understand why you would propose and support a constitutional
amendment banning same sex marriage. As you said, 'in the eyes of God
marriage is based between a man a woman'  .

"I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When
someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I
simply remind them that in Leviticus 18:22 it clearly states that
homosexuality is an abomination... End of debate. However, continuing
to read Leviticus does raise a few questions. I need some advice from
you regarding some other elements of God's Laws in Leviticus and how
best to follow them.

For example, Leviticus 25:44 says that I may possess slaves, both
male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring
nations. Now, a friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans,
but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

Number 2: In Exodus 21:7 it says, that I can sell my daughter into
slavery, mmm, I'd like to consider that. In this day and age, what do
you think would be a fair price?

Number 3: I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she
is in her period of uncleanness - Leviticus 15:19-24. The problem is
how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.

Number 4: When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it
creates a pleasing odor for the Lord, as it says in Leviticus 1:9.
The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to
them. Should I smite them?

Number 5: I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath.
Now, Exodus 35:2. clearly states he must be put to death. Am I
morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to
do it for me?

Number 6: A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is
an abomination, after all, it says so in Leviticus 11:10, he says
that it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree.
Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?

Number 7: Leviticus 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of
God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear
reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some
wiggle-room here?

Number 8: Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including
the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly
forbidden by Leviticus 19:27. How should they die?

Number 9. I know from reading Leviticus 11:6-8 that touching the skin
of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

Number 10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Leviticus 19:19 by
planting two different crops in the same field, as does my wife by
wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton and
polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it
really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole
town together to stone him to death as suggested in Leviticus
24:10-16? Can't we just burn them to death at a private family
affair, like we can do with people who sleep with their in-laws, as
it says in Leviticus 20:14?

I know that you, President Bush, have studied these things
extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so
I am confident you can help. Thanks again for reminding us that God's
word is eternal and unchanging."

My weekend was spent protesting the Iraq

occupation. Not much was said by our

elected Dems. Al Gore has been against war

from the start.

 BBC NEWS | Politics | MPs stress UN Iraq role

AL Gore Could be Our Next President

My choice for president

in 2008? Al Gore of course' ~ Hello In There

Jimmy Carter recently has said

"Gore won in 2000"

The Raw Story | Carter says Gore won 2000 election

Is Al Gore Gearing Up for a Comeback and Another Run for the Presidency? 9/23

More on Gore. The '60s Are Back

Al Gore Speech 9/9/05 > Press Room > Sierra Club

 

At the protest in D.C. I saw most of these ,

and many more.~ HIT

Slogans of the March

by Mary Jane Karp; September 25, 2005

[Below are some of the mostly handmade signs that caught my eye at the D.C. protest march on Saturday. They expressed anger, sorrow and hope for change with a diversity of _expression that reflected the diversity of the crowd.]

War is terror with a bigger budget.

Proud of my soldier son.

Ashamed of this war.

Feel Safer Yet?

The rapture is not an exit strategy

Oil Costs. Go Solar.

A good general knows when to retreat.

No Soldier Left Behind

Bush makes me embarrassed to be an American.

From New Orleans to Iraq:

Stop the war on the poor

ADMIT YOU LIED.

Jesus still loves you.

There's nothing to fear but fear-mongering itself.

Bring home our brothers and sisters.

Hey, Ma, we're home

[picture of flag-drapped coffins]

1900 KIA and counting.

Relief Not War.

Make Levees, Not War.

Read more...

Desiree Fairooz  librarian from Fort Worth, TX

Welcome back from D.C. my fellow protesters.

Coming home to Texas , We are met with

the Texas heat. Late Sept. and over 100?

100 degree plus temps. Global warming is

here for sure ,

The rally in Washington, may not even make

your local news shows. It was almost not

reported entirely on CNN. The crowds estimated

were 30!  Yes! the fatass lyingest liar of them all,

Rush_Limbaugh said on his daily radio rant

 "The people who oppose the war, numbered 30"

Well the drug addicted  Asshole   was off a bit.

The true estimates were between a quarter million to

500,000.

http://www.truthout.org

Video Special | Footage of the September 24th March Against the War
http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

 500,000 People Vanish in Washington, DC: The media failed to cover the largest antiwar demonstration in America since the Vietnam era.
http://info.detnews.com/weblog/index.cfm?blogid=5304

The Freeper 's numbered about 150.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The rally they held on Sunday was a small and

sick 400. These people held crosses and signs,

shouted out hate and bible passages.

On our side the majority that opposes war.

Many signs and stickers , t-shirts. All mostly

had the idea of ending the occupation in Iraq,

and stopping the Bush regime.

Cindy Sheehan with Jesse Jackson and Joan Baez.

more photos: http://photobucket.com/albums/v45/txpoolboy/9-24-05/

Cindy Sheehan Arrested at White House
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092605Y.shtml

Katrina and Cindy Blow into Town

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Posted on September 26, 2005
http://www.alternet.org/story/25987/

We marched , ate , danced and sang , we watched

Flamenco  dancers, slept on bunk-beds,

talked the talk and walked the walk.

We're going again!

This is just a beginning ~ Hello In There

End the War on Iraq! September 24-26 · Washington, DC

Sat., 9/24 Massive March & Rally Peace and Justice Festival Operation Ceasefire Concert Sun., 9/25 Interfaith Service Training for Grassroots Lobby Day Training for Nonviolent Civil Resistance National Meeting for Counter Recruitment Other Activities Mon., 9/26 Grassroots Lobby Day Mass Nonviolent Civil Resistance

Did you know about  the news reports  the

Corporate media ignored? ~ Hello in there

Molly Ivins:
Happy Media Accountability Day!

Project Censored
Locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware,
but is not, for one reason or another.

This is it people, our chance to show the Bush led

government we are not going to take it anymore.

We are rejecting this Roberts nomination.

We reject this failed illigitimate president and his

appointments. ~ Hello in there

read this :

With Bush and Republicans Weakening, It's Time To Reject Roberts ...

and this:

John Kerry: NO on Judge Roberts
http://www.johnkerry.com/features/robertsExcerpts.html

Administration Screw-Ups? Let Me Count The Ways... "Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq, what George Tenet is to slam-dunk intelligence, what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad, what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy, what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning, what Tom DeLay is to ethics and what George Bush is to 'Mission Accomplished' and 'Wanted Dead or Alive.'" —John Kerry, Sept. 19, 2005 Archive

Al Gore, Your are a Mensch, a Heartfelt Man of Integrity and Good Deeds, and the Jeremiah of Our Times. You are, With the Deepest Appreciation for Your Leadership, This Week's BuzzFlash "Wings of Justice Award" Winner.

The stolen elections of 2000, 2002 and 2004 are nowhere to be
found in the milquetoast Carter-Baker Report now passing for
wisdom on America's broken electoral system.

Read more:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1462

The Republicans, the party of hate,are

now blaming Katrina, and loss of life, on the

people of New Orleans. The scary thing is

 too many people believe these absurdities.

With God On Our Side?
by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com
      People like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are much closer to being "anti-American" than liberals who rail against Bush.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050919/with_god_on_our_side.php

Tragedy in Black and White

Race is the biggest reason America treats its poor more harshly than any other ...

Good Grief

The country has put its faith in President Bush many times before, and come up ...

United for Peace

Everyone needs to get to Washington this coming

weekend. We will unite to show the world we are

not taking this war anymore.~ Hello In There

Code Pink's schedule:

 

http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/codepink/signUp.jsp?key=443

 

United for Peace and Justice

 

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=91

Mother Who Lost Son in Iraq Continues Fight Against War
By MARC SANTORA

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, last night brought her campaign to end the war to New York, where she accused Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of not doing enough to challenge the Bush administration's Iraq policies.

Speaking in front of more than 500 supporters in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Ms. Sheehan, speaking of Senator Clinton, said, "She knows that the war is a lie but she is waiting for the right time to say it."

Then, as the crowd cheered, she issued a challenge to Senator Clinton, saying, "You say it or you are losing your job."

A spokesman for Senator Clinton, while not commenting about Ms. Sheehan's remarks, said that the senator, while voting to give President Bush the authority to go to war, has been very critical of the way he has chosen to use that authority.

The main focus of Ms. Sheehan's anger, however, continued to be the Bush administration. She camped outside President Bush's vacation home in Crawford, Tex., for many days last month, a move that earned her widespread attention .

Since leaving Texas, Ms. Sheehan, of Vacaville, Calif., has been traveling around the country, rallying people against the war. Her entourage includes other parents who lost their children in the war, families of soldiers overseas, and veterans who have returned from Iraq.

The tour culminates with what organizers hope will be a huge protest in Washington Sept. 24 to 26.

Many in the crowd at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church last night were eager to get a peek at the woman whom they had seen on television.

"I was just passing by," said John Ullman, 37. "This is going to be a chance for me to get my first impression of her," he added, noting that he agrees with her goal of ending the war.

Mr. Ullman and the others who came to the church had to wait for more than an hour to hear Ms. Sheehan, as her party got lost on the streets of New York.

When they finally arrived, Ms. Sheehan, whose son Casey, 24, was killed last year, was treated like a rock star, as children and adults crowded around her, clamoring to shake her hand or get an autograph.

The church was an appropriate setting for a protest, said the Rev. David W. Dyson, who helped organize the event. Built in 1857, the church was created as part of the abolitionist movement, and tunnels below were twice used to shelter runaway slaves as part of the Underground Railroad.

Mr. Dyson said many people showed up because they respect Ms. Sheehan's willingness to speak out for what she believes.

"I was opposed to the war in the beginning," Mr. Dyson said. "I am even more opposed to it now."

Ms. Sheehan, however, was not the only person speaking to a crowd about the war in Iraq yesterday.

Gary Qualls, an Army veteran whose son also died in Iraq, spoke in Bryant Park in Manhattan as part of a gathering sponsored by Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission, which supports the Bush administration's goals.

Elsewhere, the Times Square Choir gathered for a special service called "Salute to the Troops" on the deck of the U.S.S. Intrepid, which is permanently docked on the Hudson River.

Ms. Sheehan has more events scheduled in the city, including a news conference with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other New York leaders this morning and a rally later in Union Square. She is to end her trip to New York with another speech at Riverside Church.

She also faulted the media for not scrutinizing the White House.

"It is not patriotism when you say, 'My country right or wrong,'" she said. "Because our country is very wrong now."

Frank Rich | Message: I Care About the Black Folks
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805B.shtml
Frank Rich: Once Toto parts the curtain, the Wizard of Oz can never be
the wizard again. He is forever Professor Marvel, blowhard and
snake-oil salesman. Hurricane Katrina, which is likely to endure in the
American psyche as long as L. Frank Baum's mythic tornado, has similarly
unmasked George W. Bush.

"How The Republicans stole the 2004 Election.."

The "Woodward & Bernstein of the 2004 Election"  in a Special
Investigative Report Revealing Massive Voter Theft, Fraud and
Illegalities in Ohio's Presidential Balloting

COLUMBUS, OH --  HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA'S 2004 ELECTION
& IS RIGGING 2008 by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, praised by
Rev. Jesse Jackson as the "Woodward & Bernstein of the 2004 Election,"
will be released September 19.  The theft of the 2004 election has been
catalogued, footnoted and thoroughly documented in more than 180
bullet points compiled by the Ohio-based investigative reporters in
their
shocking new compendium.  The special digest may serve as the
touchstone for all future coverage of the 2004 campaign and vote count
in the lead-up to 2008.

The 9/19 release date coincides with the report to be issued by a
special
commission led by Jimmy Carter and James Baker investigating widespread
fraud and vote theft in Ohio and elsewhere in the 2004 election.

Fitrakis and Wasserman are based in Columbus. They are publisher and
senior editor of www.Freepress.org, which broke the key stories
exposing
massive vote fraud, theft, intimidation and illegalities in the conduct
of the
2004 election in Ohio that gave the presidency to George W. Bush for a
second time.

Beginning nearly a year before the election, Fitrakis and Wasserman
issued
many breaking stories on the Freepress.org web site, sole reporting on
the
intimidation and fraud administered by J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio's
Republican
Secretary of State, who also served as co-chair of the state's
Bush-Cheney
campaign.  Fitrakis moderated hearings that took testimony from scores
of
Ohio voters who were disenfranchised in an extremely close statewide
vote
count that gave Bush a second term.

In their 767-page DID GEORGE W. BUSH STEAL AMERICA'S 2004
ELECTION: ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Fitrakis and Wasserman, with Steve
Rosenfeld,  compiled the core papers showing how the GOP hijacked their
victory in Ohio.  This reporting served as the basis for the commission
convened by Congressman John Conyers, leading to his influential
preliminary report on "Jim Crow" abuses in Ohio 2004.  Available via
http://www.freepress.org/store.php.

In HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA'S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING
2008, their new digest, Fitrakis and Wasserman summarize more than
180 key points ranging from rigged and maldistributed voting machines
to
intimidation and trashed ballots to fraudulent vote counts and a fake
Homeland Security alert, concluding with exposure of how the GOP may
already have the 2008 vote count locked up.  No concerned American can
avoid the conclusions or consequences revealed in this shocking digest
available now at http://www.freepress.org/store.php or
http://www.harveywasserman.com. ________________________
The Free Press
http://www.freepress.org

Finally America has begun to realize,

Bush brought down by 2 women

first Cindy Sheehan, now Katrina,

The Bush Myth Crumbled...

Howard Dean on John Roberts
He's the "wrong man at the wrong time" for America.

Paul Krugman | Not the New Deal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091605B.shtml
Now it begins: America's biggest relief and recovery program since the
New Deal. And the omens aren't good, says Paul Krugman. It's possible
to spend large sums honestly, as Franklin D. Roosevelt demonstrated in
the 1930's. F.D.R.'s mission in office was to show that government
activism works. But George W. Bush isn't F.D.R. Indeed, in crucial respects
he's the anti-F.D.R.

Campaign for America's Future | www.ourfuture.org

Last night, President Bush addressed the nation and told victims of Hurricane Katrina that "we will do what it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives". But he didn't tell them how he has already tilted the rules for reconstruction to benefit those of wealth and privilege, while undermining the poor and middle-class families who have suffered the most.

Instead of embracing good jobs for the recently displaced, President Bush's first major act in the recovery effort was to suspend a law that requires federal contractors to pay workers a decent wage. And, at the same time, his administration signed no-bid contracts that will give billions to multi-national corporations like Halliburton without any guarantee that they will hire displaced people to rebuild their own communities.

If President Bush gets away with cutting wages for those involved in rebuilding, then we might as well hand the whole job over to corporate greed. We need you to engage in the first battle of what promises to be a long fight to ensure that the recovery effort is one that puts people first -- and not one that lines the pockets of corporate elites. Please, write your member of Congress and demand that decent family wages and employing the victims of Katrina be the bedrock of the rebuilding efforts.

http://ourfuture.org/rebuilding_wages.cfm  

from Progress Report

KATRINA
Ideology Over People

The Bush administration turned Iraq into an ideological playground for right-wing economic policies. The results were disastrous. Now, as the people of the Gulf Coast face their own critical reconstruction needs, the White House plans more of the same. The Wall Street Journal reports the administration and its allies are plotting to use "relief measures for the hurricane-ravaged Gulf coast to achieve a broad range of conservative economic and social policies, both in the storm zone and beyond." Rep. Rahm Emanuel summed it up nicely: "They're going back to the playbook on issues like tort reform, school vouchers and freeing business from environmental rules to achieve ideological objectives they haven't been able to get in the normal legislative process." President Bush will present this misguided vision to the American people tonight at 9 p.m. The victims of Hurricane Katrina deserve better.

Read NY TIMES opinion column By Maureen Dowd:

At St. Rita's, 34 seniors fought to live with what little strength they
had as the lights went out and the water rose over their legs, over
their shoulders, over their mouths.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10274.htm

Watch Who's Cleaning Up
by Charlie Cray, TomPaine.com
     As the hurricane waters recede, we face another feeding frenzy for the same crony contractors who botched the job in Iraq.

Max Blumenthal wonders why Pat Robertson's shadowy relief organization,
Operation Blessing, is prominently featured on FEMA's list of charities
to receive donations for hurricane relief.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/blumenthal

A MORAL MOMENT
Al Gore, AlterNet
When the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic
floodwaters five days after a hurricane strikes, it is time
to hold the leaders of our nation accountable for the
failures that have taken place.
http://www.alternet.org/katrina/25349/

Lies from the Lyingest Liar of them all:

Limbaugh advances numerous falsehoods while discussing Hurricane Katrina

Since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast August 29, the storm and its aftermath have been frequent topics of discussion on Rush Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio show. In the days since the storm struck, Limbaugh has advanced several falsehoods related to the storm and official efforts to bring aid to its victims. Media Matters for America has identified the following Katrina-related falsehoods spread by Limbaugh on his radio show.

Read more...

 

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL -- We have the most partisan, incompetent, elitist, manipulative, sleazy, dishonest, corrupt White House in memory, and the Democrats get scared that they might be called partisan! Are they nuts?

The Krugman: "The point is that Katrina should serve as a wakeup call, not just about FEMA, but about the executive branch as a whole. Everything I know suggests that it's in a sorry state - that an administration which doesn't treat governing seriously has created two, three, many FEMA's."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html

Cindy Sheehan: Camp Casey to DC Update
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/09/con05327.html

Freeway Blogger

Where Is Osama bin Laden? Day 1,461 and Counting
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091105Y.shtml
It's the fourth anniversary of September 11 - and Osama bin Laden is
still at large.

Today marks four years that George W. Bush has been a complete flop

as a “War President,” the worst Commander in Chief in US History.

Read more:
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2005/1209

 "The Democratic Party needs a new direction," he said. "And I think it's become clear what the direction is: restore a moral purpose to America. Rebuild America's psyche."

"This is deeply disturbing to a lot of Americans, because it's more than thousands of people who get killed; it's about the destruction of the American community," Mr. Dean said. "The idea that somehow government didn't care until it had to for political reasons. It's appalling."

 ~ Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean

If You Work at a Corporation and Your Negligence Results in the Deaths of Hundreds, Perhaps Thousands, You Sure do Get Blamed. Why Shouldn't Bush? Why do the Dems Always Back Off from Criticizing the Most Pa! rtisan, Bumbling, Self-Serving, Selfish, Incompetent Administritation History of the United States. Bush Ran in 2000 Saying He Was Going to be Held Accountable. Hold Him Accountable for Christ's Sake. He's Running a Great Nation Into the Ground. 9/8

More Lies from the lying liers

"BUSH TRIES TO SHIFT BLAME"

KATRINA
Rove's Finger Pointing

On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said, "This is not a time to get into any finger pointing or politics or anything of that nature." Apparently, Karl Rove didn't get the message. The New York Times reports that Rove and White House communications director Dan Bartlett have "rolled out a plan this weekend to contain the political damage from the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina." The core of the strategy is "to shift the blame away from the White House and toward officials of New Orleans and Louisiana."

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL LIES TO WASHINGTON POST: The Washington Post, citing an anonymous "senior administration official," reported on Sunday that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco "still had not declared a state of emergency." That wasn't true. Hours later the Post ran a correction, acknowledging that Blanco "declared an emergency on Aug. 26." (Read it here.) Newsweek also reported that, as late as Sept. 1, Blanco was "hesitant to declare martial law or a state of emergency, which would have opened the door to more Pentagon help." The magazine has yet to issue a correction.

Bush Played Guitar While New Orleans Drowned

Time For A Congressional Take-Over.

More often than not I find myself joining the people who call for us to put aside recrimination and political blame-mongering in a crisis. Not this time. We delayed the fault-finding on 9/11, we delayed the fault-finding on Iraq, and in both cases we were stonewalled by the Bush White House, lied to, condescended to, treated, as the old joke goes, like mushrooms: kept in the dark and fed manure.

George W. Bush appointed as head of FEMA a man who had spent the previous 11 years pimping for wealthy horse breeders. That's not just a mistake. That's not just bad judgment. That is malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance all rolled into one big, arrogant "screw you." This is contempt for the most fundamental role of government: safeguarding the lives of American citizens. FEMA head Mike Brown is a man completely over his head in this crisis. Not his fault. If you hire the head of the Kennel Club as Secretary of Defense you cannot then be surprised if the Army goes to the dogs. Hiring this unqualified man to head this vital front-line agency, FEMA, is not a crime, but it is criminally stupid, negligent and contemptuous. It does not rise to the level of impeachable offense under our Constitution. But it should.

We have put up with enough from this administration…

 The Constitution did not create the modern version of the office of the Presidency. That evolved. The Framers were of the opinion that the Congress would be the dominant branch of government. It is time to return to that model. Now. Right now.

Congress could, by setting aside party and ignoring the White House, take control of national politics. Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate could simply bypass the White House by passing legislation with a Presidential signature, or over a Presidential veto. It is time for Democratic and Republican leaders to work out a bipartisan, pragmatic, real-world agenda for the next three years. To do something about infrastructure. To do something about our slavish dependency on foreign oil. To do something about environment. To do something about health care. To do something about our uncontrollable borders. To use the budgetary power to take over the running of American foreign policy…

 Dear Congress: Forget party. Forget this White House. Fix this country.

 Posted by Michael Reynolds in Center Line at 16:53

 A Failure of Leadership
By BOB HERBERT
President Bush's performance last week will rank as one of the worst ever by a president during a dire national emergency.


Killed by Contempt
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The government's lethal ineptitude in the Katrina disaster was a consequence of ideological hostility to the very idea of using government to serve the public good.

 

 

United States of Shame

"Who are we if we can't take care of our own "

A FLOOD OF BAD POLICIES
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
While Katrina's dead have not yet been counted, it's not too
soon to hammer home a point: government policies have real
consequences in people's lives.
http://www.alternet.org/story/24923/

If you just read one thing read :

BuzzFlash - Daily Headlines and Breaking News

 a feature :Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute

How many more must die before America finally wakes up to the fact that an incompetent bunch of nincompoops are running this country into the ground? What's it going to take for the American public to wake up and escape from the Bush cult? It's amazing that it takes personal human suffering for some Americans to realize this country has been taken for the ride of it's life by a bunch of greedy, power hungry, political wind bags hell bent on destruction!

A must read article from last week:

Who Will Say 'No More'?

By Gary Hart
Wednesday, August 24, 2005; A15

"Waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool said to push on," warned an anti-Vietnam war song those many years ago. The McGovern presidential campaign, in those days, which I know something about, is widely viewed as a cause for the decline of the Democratic Party, a gateway through which a new conservative era entered.

Like the cat that jumped on a hot stove and thereafter wouldn't jump on any stove, hot or cold, today's Democratic leaders didn't want to make that mistake again. Many supported the Iraq war resolution and -- as the Big Muddy is rising yet again -- now find themselves tongue-tied or trying to trump a war president by calling for deployment of more troops. Thus does good money follow bad and bad politics get even worse.