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Bush's
loud silence on science education The American Museum of Natural History asked the Kerry and Bush campaigns to respond to a survey on issues ranging from NASA to deforestation. The last question was about evolution, the foundational principle of all life sciences. The Bush response was telling.
New
GOP ads use old but proven tactics: spread irrational fear and gay
bait Fear-mongering and division-causing drivel from a GOP radio ad: "There is a line drawn in America today. On one side are the radicals trying to uproot our traditional values and our culture. They're fighting to hijack the institution of marriage, plotting to legalize partial birth abortion, and working to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance and force the worst of Hollywood on the rest of America." Isn't "the worst of Hollywood" Charlton Heston? (I thought they liked him and his assault weapons). Fire
Fighters for Kerry (IAFF) - daily talking points Did you know that the IAFF had daily talking points? Bush
served in Guard improperly and insufficiently Eric Boehlert's article about Bush' s shameful National Guard service is one of several Salon.com must-reads this week. Boehlert cuts to the chase and itemizes Bush's service failures, the evidence for which is solid and completely unrelated to the documents CBS says it should not have cited:
Boehlert lists at least 10 missing official documents related to Bush's insufficient and improper Guard service, and the documents' significance. Brad
Carson leads in OK race for U.S. Senate! A recent poll Daily Oklahoman and KOTV 9 poll showed Congressman Carson at 39% and Republican Tom Coburn at 37%. Suddenly we have a very viable possibility for Dems to pick up a seat in the U.S. Senate! Please contribute to Caron's campaign. Also, consider giving to the four sponsored candidates of Operation: Southern Preservation. Even just $10 to each of these races--only $50--can make a difference. And give to the DNC. Only 44 days left until the General Election! Kerry
is the man to lead us in crisis. America needs John Kerry A new poll suggests that "Voters are uneasy about Democrat John Kerry's ability to handle an international crisis." At this point, my friends, I think I have given up on the American electorate. They are buffoons and children, and they, we, deserve George W. Bush, because they--the majority of us--have chosen to be dazzled by his falsehoods: falsehoods about himself and falsehoods he spreads against John Kerry. They, we, instead choose Bush, who ignored national security reports warning him of terrorists determined to use airplanes as weapons; who sat immobilized in a classroom--the glassy look of mental short-circuiting coating his eyes--when told that the second plane had hit the WTC; who continued reading My Pet Goat for want of something more decisive to do; who then used the 9/11 attack (an attack against America in my city! that endangered my friends! and killed seven men from my fire station a block away!) as an excuse to invade Iraq, misleading us as to Iraq's capabilities, and thereby letting the war against the terrorists flounder, switching all our resources instead to this reckless invasion of a land whose oil he coveted, a nation devoid of WMDs and terrorists, but which now--thanks to this man--teems with huddled masses yearning to make Americans bleed. This man, Bush, in the process of all of this, utterly isolated the United States of America--a once revered nation deemed the standard bearer of Democracy--and turned us into the most despised nation on the planet, a nation that will get little help as we sink into Iraq's abyss, suffocate under debt caused by Bush's tax giveaways to the rich, and eventually wake to the full magnitude of the horrible consequences that Bush's "dry drunk" illogic and grotesque misunderstanding of Christianity has wrought. Such is Bush's dark record, and America is worried about Kerry's ability to lead in crisis?! Then, America deserves George W. Bush! Heaven forbid America elect John Kerry--a man who in the crisis of combat, of ambush, took charge and saved the life of a comrade. Heaven forbid America elect a proven senator with a deep patriotism that is combined with an international worldview. Heaven forbid America elect someone who as a gov't prosecutor went after organized crime and made life better for thousands. Heaven forbid America elect someone who shed blood in foreign lands...for us! for you! and who then returned and spoke out against a war because he hated too much to see us do the wrong thing at the expense of our young men! Heaven forbid we elect someone with a sterling education evocative of the learnedness of our nation's Founders! Heaven forbid we elect someone who has the compassion to care, the savvy to practice wise diplomacy, and the ability to pull the globe's democracies back together into a more perfect confederacy of nations determined to cooperate against the threats of religious extremism and terrorism. Heaven forbid! And heaven just might forbid it, or so it would appear. Our nation has never been so corrupt; the poor have never been so poor compared to the richest of us, who have never before been so rich. We pollute our environment, poison our children's air, and swagger like a frat punk drunkard upon the world's stage, and heaven is expected to tolerate this? No. No, heaven is likely to give us just what we deserve: mis-leadership, deceit, and surprisingly swift decline. The very future of the republic hangs in the balance on Nov. 2nd. And we as a nation might very well be found wanting. Kerry
gets it: the Halliburton Presidency must end! The great twin truths about the Bush-Cheney administration are that it's viciously corrupt and grotesquely disingenuous. Halliburton is perfectly representative of the oil-energy-security powers in the interests of which Bush-Cheney "serve." And Kerry knows it! Will anyone listen? (And whatever happened to this news story?)
In
New York and want to help Kerry? HERE'S
HOW This page, with a directory via Tom Smith, President of the Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC, is the Sept. 10 Village Voice list of links to great ways to help Kerry--from street theatre to to data-entry volunteer work at Kerry H.Q. Please check it out! PLEASE GIVE YOUR ENERGY. 9-11
widows endorse Kerry From the article:
"'I do not feel safe living in this country,' added Breitweiser,
who voted for Bush in 2000. 'I know John Kerry as president will
make this nation safer than it is today'.... Patty Casazza of Colts
Neck, N.J., said she and her late husband, John, 38, also voted
for Bush. [She said,] 'It has been a painful process to accept that
President Bush failed to protect us.' Texans
for Truth offer $50,000 reward to anyone how can prove Bush's Air
Nat'l Guard service claims Here's the article. It got me thinking of a Salon.com article in which Steve McMahon of the Media Fund reflected that Bush "did everything he could to avoid service,
jumped over 500 people to get into the National Guard, didn't show
up for service in Alabama, and can't prove he was there.... Convenient how he just can't remember, isn't it? Whoa!
Bush didn't tell the whole story? Can you imagine? The AP reports
that Bush's agenda laid out at the GOP convention was "missing
a price tag, but administration figures show the total is likely
to be well in excess of $3 trillion over a decade." The AP
states nonchalantly: "The White House has declined to provide
a full and detailed accounting of the cost of the new agenda." Bush
and Republican-led Congress let ban on assault weapons expire The AP story. Below:
Cal. Sen. Dianne Feinstein at press conference with law enforcement
officials. National police organizations such
as the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the International
Brotherhood of Police Officers and the Fraternal Order of Police
all support the renewal of the ban. Port
Authority, owner of WTC site, suing Saudi Arabia for 9/11 The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has no problem figuring out that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. It's suing Saudi Arabia, as it should. From the BBC article:
Hospital
records report 10,363 Baghdad-area Iraqis killed since our invasion The records from the Sheik Omar Clinic to not include people who died in Najaf, Karbala, Fallujah, Tikrit and Ramadi. Regulation
changed after Dem convention allows active military to attend conventions In one of the most horrific debasements of the principle of a non-partisan military, a concept vital to the survival of our republic, Dept. of Defense directive 1344.10, which prohibits active military personnel from taking part in several kinds of partisan activities, was modified by Paul Wolfowitz to allow military personnel to attend political conventions. When did the regulation to take effect? August 2nd, after the Democratic National Convention. Iraq
veterans Visit Operation Truth. It's very interesting to encounter the first-hand experience of soldiers in Iraq. Those soldiers still there are sorely in need, as are their families at home, and many of them believe that a draft, while not necessarily a likelihood, has become a very viable contingency. (Here's a very recent article co-authored by OT's founder, 1st Lt. Paul Rieckhoff.) Bush
plan: shift tax burden to the middle class The Congressional Budget Office has found that:
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