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Bush
to screw the Cuban people...and us The fastest way to bring down Castro is to administer a lethal dose of capitalism and exposure to Western freedoms. It worked with the U.S.S.R., why wouldn't it with Cuba? Yet, Bush wants to end even U.S. student travel to Cuba.
I have a friend who travels to Cuba about once each year at the invitation of--and at the expense of--the Cuban cultural affairs ministry. The trips are apolitical, and through them he has made enduring relationships with painters and musicians who he has helped gain exposure in the U.S., including the famed "Buena Vista Social Club," renown for their excellent Cuban jazz. Bush's
new policies will further culturally isolate Cuba from Americans.
And isolate us from the Cuban people. The
sound of Bush getting worried Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 received a 20-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday. The documentary includes footage of American soldiers in Iraq "expressing disillusionment with the war." Macedonian
gov't pretends to thwart terrorist attack; murdered migrants used
as props Clearly
Club Shrub's "war" against terror brings out the most
creative in folks. Today, the New York Post attempted to
impose their delusions onto their readers by blaring "WMD"
on the front page after a single pre-1991 sarin nerve gas round
was used by insurgents in Iraq. On March 2, 2002, this plan came to fruition when Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski announced that seven 'mujahedeen' had been killed earlier that day in a shootout with the police near Skopje. Photos were released to Western diplomats showing bodies of the dead men with bags of uniforms and semiautomatic weapons at their side." Way
past time For
some time I've been meaning to add MyDD to the list of "Views."
MyDD
(as in "due diligence") is a great blog. Kerry
offers hope for a smaller trade gap and higher wages From
the article:
Kerry said the nation's trade deficit stood at $500 billion largely
because participating countries aren't required to improve labor
standards and set environmental standards, making their products
cheaper in this country and jeopardizing American jobs. In cases
where those requirements exist, Bush isn't enforcing them, Kerry
argued. Pentagon
aims to kill Rumsfeld-damning report After
this report surfaces--and trying
to deep-six it has only drawn the media's attention--Rumsfeld
may "resign" after all. Ashcroft
drags out 1872 law to thwart Greenpeace and protest From
the commentary:
As the veteran civil rights campaigner Julian Bond said recently,
"If John Ashcroft had done this in the 1960s, black Americans
would not be voting today, eating at formerly all-white lunch counters,
or sitting on bus front seats." I'm
from Holland. Isn't
that weird? I average about one or two non-politcal posts a month. This is the first for May. The Dutch have a very strange sense of humor. Detestable
enormities Roman
Catholic bishops
are calling for the denial of the sacrament of Communion (the "Eucharist")
to anyone who is pro-choice, who is in favor of extending civil
rights to gays, or who is in favor of stem cell research or the
right to die, "euthanasia." *The
Roman Catholic church agreed to
remove Hitler's last obstacle to power for him when Pius XI dismantled
the Roman Catholic Centre Party--a workers party and literally the
only remaining political party in Hitler's path--in 1933. The future
Pius XII arranged the deal. (See John Cornwell's Hitler's
Pope, 1999.) Look:
Some kooky Christians (and, yes, not all Christians are kooky!)
actually don't like Bush...at all! The End Times Network seems to think Bush is awfully anti-Christ-ish. New
advanced business degree announced ;) Professor Stephen Hambone, Ph.D.Th., of Harvard Business School honors Bush. Steve's
in the middle of combat in Iraq again. :( Kerbala. More of this, I assume. The
Bush "recovery." (And I don't mean kicking the coke habit.)
March 2004 saw some states post strong job growth for the month. But it’s a Band-Aid on a gash. No numbers Club Shrub spins changes one simple fact: George W. Bush has presided over an almost unprecedented loss in American jobs…. There are fewer jobs today than since the official beginning of the recession—March 2001. Fewer jobs now than then! From the Economic Policy Institute report: [S]trong labor markets produce secure jobs and rising wages. Weak labor markets cause job uncertainty or loss and stagnant or falling wages. By these criteria, for most Americans, the economy is still short of recovering. The nation as a whole and 35 states still have fewer jobs than when the recession started. But among those states that have more jobs now than in March 2001, most have still failed to create enough jobs to keep up with the natural growth in the number of potential workers. In 49 states job growth has lagged the growth in working-age population since March 2001; 44 states have higher unemployment rates than three years ago. Jesus
would want us to abuse Iraqis Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the evangelical Christian Army general who famously remarked--while in uniform--that the war in Iraq was a war against "Satan" and that his God was superior to that of the Muslims, is possibly being implicated in the Abu Ghraib abuses and tortures. The
Real Deal Go, John, go! Shameless Kerry worship here. |
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