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4/30/2005

The New York Times today is running an article about increasing evidence that the U.S. is practicing rendition of "terror suspects" to Uzbekistan, where they are summarily tortured.

According to the Times, " Separately, international human rights groups had reported that torture in Uzbek jails included boiling of body parts, using electroshock on genitals and plucking off fingernails and toenails with pliers. Two prisoners were boiled to death, the groups reported. The February 2001 State Department report stated bluntly, "Uzbekistan is an authoritarian state with limited civil rights."

Go back, read that again. That's right - boiling, electroshock, and ripping out finger- and toenails. This is the stuff of Poe's nightmares - not even the stories that made it onto paper, but the nasty, dank, dark, murderous insanity that never made it out of his own head. This is the nightmare that wakes you up sweating and with a scream on your lips, the nightmare that your own mind won't let you remember in the morning. This is, according to numerous CIA operatives, very real.

Go back, read the quote italicized above again. In 2001, the State Department called Uzbekistan "an authoritarian state with limited civil rights."

Sounds like an understatement, doesn't it?

"Uzbekistan's role as a surrogate jailer for the United States was confirmed by a half-dozen current and former intelligence officials working in Europe, the Middle East and the United States. The C.I.A. declined to comment on the prisoner transfer program, but an intelligence official estimated that the number of terrorism suspects sent by the United States to Tashkent was in the dozens.

There is other evidence of the United States' reliance on Uzbekistan in the program. On Sept. 21, 2003, two American-registered airplanes - a Gulfstream jet and a Boeing 737 - landed at the international airport in Tashkent, according to flight logs obtained by The New York Times."

"The number of terrorism suspects sent...to Tashkent was in the dozens." That should make every American citizen's blood run cold.

When did the U.S. turn into a country that would sidle up to and pay millions of dollars to a country with such a horrendous record of maltreatment and utter disdain for life that the leadership of countries like Uzbekistan demonstrate? Has our leadership always been so absolutely lacking in morality that this is nothing new? Or is this only a product of the "war on terror?" Sadly, this is not just a product of the war on terror. The U.S. backed Saddam when he was gassing Kurds in pursuit of a genocide. The U.S. backed Chile's butcher, Pinochet. The list could go on, and on, and on.

We, the American people, now know that our leadership has sold our souls in the pursuit of their so-called "war on terror", which we now know isn't helping at all to stop terrorism, in fact, it seems to be egging the terrorists on in Iraq, and in fact, in all, terrorists attacks tripled in 2004, a fact that the State Department tried to suppress.

We are aware of our country's transgressions. What will we, as a people, do? Will we sit back and claim moral superiority in the face of such aggregious disdain for human rights? Will we sit back and say "oh, well, those terrorists are inhuman monsters who kill and maim in their pursuit of evil?" Or will we say to our congressional "leaders" in 2006 that rendition of prisoners to countries in order to outsource torture is unacceptable? Will we be willing to make the statement that we will abide by the supreme American value: that EVERY person on our soil has a right to a fair trial, has the right to not be boiled alive, to not have fingernails and toenails ripped out with pliers, has the right to not be subjected to electroshock...has the right to not be tortured?

We, the American citizenry, red state and blue, left and right, need to stand up and say "enough." If we don't, and if we continue to allow the corruption in the White House, State Department and just about every other government institution to conduct heinous practices, then we are all guilty of crimes against humanity. We cannot hide our heads in the sand and say later "we didn't know," because we do know now - it's in the mainstream media. We, the people, have no more excuses. Whether we WANT to face the moral bankruptcy known as rendition or not, we MUST face it, and counter it.

If we, as a people, have stooped to the gutter level of condoning and even allowing our government to pay other countries to torture our prisoners in this "war," then maybe we should just throw in the towel, because this country, and this American way of life, won't be worth saving. I want, more than anything, to think that we, the people, have not stooped to those dank dark nightmare levels in our quest for a "little security." However, where is the righteous indignation pouring forth from all of the populace, when there needs to be a strong, clear condemnation of such practices.

I cannot sit quietly with my head between my buttocks and pretend that America is A-Okay, and everything is peachy, and "they hate us for our freedom." So, I write this piece, and I'll write others like it. In 2006, I'll be voting. In 2008, I'll be voting again. And I'll still be writing about these horrendous crimes against humanity, and I'll still be screaming to the heavens to anyone who will listen that TORTURE IS NOT AN AMERICAN VALUE. Torture isn't a HUMAN value. In fact, TORTURE IS NOT A VALUE AT ALL. I have no love for terrorists, but, my fellow citizens, red state and blue, left and right, we have become the terrorists in allowing our leadership to throw civilized justice to the winds. We do have the control. We must start exercising that control over our government.

That's what I'll be doing, in the strongest way I know how. It may not be much, but if I am joined by a multitude of others, our voices will be heard. They MUST be heard.

What will you do?

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4/28/2005

Privacy

It started today, with of all people, Rush. I don't like Rush Limbaugh. I don't like him at all. However, I have to agree with him on two things - the earth revolves around the sun (that's if he even believes that to be true) and the seizure of his medical records by prosecutors on a fishing expedition to find out if he illegally received prescription painkillers is a serious breach of privacy and the patient-physician priviledge. Rush might be a pill popper, and I'll scream it to the heavens that he's a big fat lush, but that's not the point. The point is that his medical records are supposed to be private and confidential, and that needs to be true for all of us, including this racist, misogynistic, green-pus-of-hate-filled blowhard. The Florida Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal based upon the improper seizure of confidential records, and won't even say why. This represents a breach of privacy for all of us (there's been a lot of that coming out of Florida lately - must be those liberal activist judges that the wrong-wing keeps spewing about).

Glorified Tattling

Students at schools in Georgia are being encouraged to turn in their classmates with the promise of money and privileges. Some might say "whatever it takes to get guns out of our schools." I ask these same supporters of school-encouraged tattling on classmates: How about we get rid of guns? Especially handguns and assault weapons. Noone needs those. No, it doesn't mean that only criminals will have guns - it means they won't have them either. Seriously, round them all up, offer more money than they can be sold on the streets for, and melt them down. Make a nice statue in Kansas 20 stories high. As long as it's not a statue of the ten commandments.

But I digress. Paid tatting - of course, when students voiced fears that classmates will turn each other in arbitrarily for the reward, or out of vengeance, the police say "...Houston County's Kinchen said: 'That will sort itself out. Our officers deal with these kind of things every day; they can find out which kid is being set up and which kid is telling the truth.'"

Yeah, sure. And I'm willing to bet that not a single prisoner in jail was set up. How exactly will these officers be sure to sniff out the fakes? They won't. Get real.

Nazi Book Burning, the Easy Way

Alabama has a wacko in their State House, who wants to ban all books by gay authors and about gay characters in public schools, including books by such literary greats as Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams and Alice Walker.

"I don't look at it as censorship," says State Representative Gerald Allen. "I look at it as protecting the hearts and souls and minds of our children."

Maybe you don't think of it as censorship or thought control, but the a whole bunch of the rest of us do. Fortunately, this measure died the quick death it deserved when other legislators didn't even show up to vote on it. Evidently they weren't too keen on it either.

Really, you Alabamians need to stop voting these wackos into office. I know, so do we Virginians. I'll concede that point.

Wasn't There Something in Revelations About the Sign of the Beast?

Every evangelical christian I've known (and I've known quite a few) were "Left Behind" apocalyptic types. I'll bet dollars to donuts that this doesn't even ruffle their "rapture" website. Georgia's Governor signed a bill that will require a valid, state approved, picture ID in order to vote.

Hear that "whooshing" sound? That's the sound of our freedom being eroded away daily. This is only representative of the last 3 - 5 days. Frankly, that scares me. I personally don't care to live in a totalitarian regime, and that's where the wrong-wing is dragging us.

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4/25/2005

Saturday, my husband and I made a trek to Washington D.C. to visit the Holocaust Museum.

I've been thinking about what lesson I took away from the museum - that's what museums are for, after all. The lesson I took away was this:

Take a good hard, long look at the faces in the photos - the faces of the Jews condemned to die, the faces of the Nazis who allowed themselves to be engulfed in a societal madness. Look hard - you can see yourself in both.

Looking at the Holocaust from the point of view of a 30-something gentile living 60 years after the fact far away from the places where these atrocities occurred, I wonder who I would have been during the killing time. Would I have been a "good german" girl who fell for the Reich propaganda?

I like to think not, just as I don't fall for propaganda now. I like to think that I would have been a member of a resistance movement like the White Rose. I like to think that. I hope that I would have been one of the few who stood up and spoke out against madness.

On the wall in the entrance to the museum, there is a quote of Bill Clinton's for the dedication of the museum. Bill Clinton liked to say "never again." But under Bill Clinton's watch, there was the 9 levels of hell that was Rwanda, and noone was saying "never again" when that genocide was raging - a killing time that would leave the rivers and roads and schools and churches choked with the dead.

Now, BushCo says in 2001 "not on my watch," and a genocide is raging in Sudan.

Never Again. Not on my watch. These words can mean something, but only if they are verbalized while action is being taken.

Action is not being taken.

Every member of the Federal, state and local governments in this country, from the highest post in the White House on down to the local school boards, need to take a walk through the Holocaust Museum, and look long and hard at the faces staring back out at them from the photos and films. Maybe then they would understand that when you say "genocide", as Colin Powell did about Sudan, or "never again" as presidents have been saying for 60 years, you have to make it mean something.

The world is tired of its leaders talking the talk, but turning a blind eye when it is time to walk the walk.

I am tired, down to the core of my bones, of hearing the talk from the world's leaders, and watching them turn their backs in the next breath.

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4/21/2005

According to the credit card companies who lobbied for "bankruptcy reform", filing bankruptcy isn't a stigma anymore.

Since when? Out here in America, where real people live, work and struggle daily to make the rent and hope beyond hope that they don't get sick and lose their job and health insurance and please don't let us lose the house, bankruptcy is still a stigma. It's a sign of "failure", or at least, that's how it seems. Often, though, it's not, and Bush's baby, the new bankruptcy reform bill that he oh-so-sanctimoniously signed into law yesterday, simply says "you're a failure if you can't pay $50 for a tylenol at the hospital or $150,000 for that 3 day hospital stay that saved your life."

It's easy for a lazy slacker whose daddy bought him company after company to run into the ground to call others lazy slackers. It's also stratosphere high levels of hypocrisy, and the biggest head in the universe.

"This practical reform will help ensure that debtors make a good-faith effort to repay as much as they can afford," Bush said. "This new law will help make credit more affordable because when bankruptcy is less common, credit can be extended to more people at better rates." (see above link)

Sounds great on the surface. Sure, make those lazy shirkers pay their way.

However, this will do nothing to make credit more affordable, because credit is already very affordable for those of us who are fortunate enough to have good stable jobs, own a home, and have a little money in the bank. I count myself among those fortunate, but it wasn't always that way. I grew up wearing Goodwill specials and playing with toys bought for a quarter at yard sales. I grew up watching my father work graveyard shifts so we could have a little extra - a movie here, a trip camping there. College for me - the first in the immediate family to graduate from college. I grew up blue-collar, with a healthy respect for working people, the satisfaction with a hard job well-done, and the constant reminder of how easy it is to fall through the cracks in the system and everyone deserves a fair shake. To me, those are the true American values.

Bankruptcy was a safety net for many Americans, and it is being chopped away with every whim of our "ordinary guy" president, who is anything but an "ordinary guy."

According to the article, "The financial services industry made the case that bankruptcy frequently is the last refuge of gamblers, impulsive shoppers, divorced or separated fathers avoiding child support, and multimillionaires who buy mansions in states with liberal exemptions to shelter assets from creditors."

Perhaps, occasionally, but I doubt that those groups are all that prevalent. Either way, the "financial services industry" has no business calling anyone else seedy.

The correct question, again, is not "why don't they pay their exhorbitant medical bills," but rather, "why can't they pay their exhorbitant medical bills."

Just like real question isn't BushCo prattling on about how social security privatization will help blacks who don't live as long as whites, but rather why don't blacks live as long as whites in this country?

But I digress.

The article goes on to state that "People with incomes above their state's median income will have to pay some or all of their credit-card charges, medical bills and other obligations under a court-ordered bankruptcy plan." Which makes it sound like this reform law will be sweeping in it's scope. A few paragraphs down, though, we find that "Between 30,000 and 210,000 people — from about 4 percent to 20 percent of those who dissolve their debts in bankruptcy each year in exchange for forfeiting some assets — will be disqualified from doing so under the law, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute."

In other words, 80% of Americans who file Bankruptcy are living below their state median income range (and fortunately for them, if the ABI can be believed, should still have the safety net). Which means that they are low-income, which means that they have no money to pay back debt. This flies in the face of, and effectively destroys, the argument of the "financial services industry" that people who file bankruptcy tend to be debt shirkers who are perfectly capable of paying, but are compulsive gamblers, impulsive shoppers, and other people with no self-control, no integrity and no sense of decency. What it really means is that 80% of Americans who have to file for bankrupcy do not have a choice - they don't make enough money to hit the median income in their state, and cannot pay back the overwhelming medical bills and simple cost-of-living that are part and parcel with being low- to poverty-level income. These are the Americans who don't get affordable credit, by virtue of the fact that they tend to be easy pickings for the credit/payday loan/"no money down" car dealers who, if you haven't noticed, tend to set up shop in fiscally depressed areas, and tend to charge interest rates just up to rates that can be considered usury.

So, as I see it, the question is not how do we keep what the "financial services industry" label deadbeats from shirking their debts, but why are so many people so burdened by lack of wage and preponderence of debts, and how do we fix that?

This is that "compassionate conservatism" that the wrong-wingers have been lauding for years, I suppose. Contemptible.

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4/19/2005

Metaphorically speaking, BushCo sold their souls (if they ever had one, that is) to the evangelical Religious Reich, and now the Reich wants its due.

It seems that some of the Reich thinks BushCo should drop the Social Security Privatization traveling carnival, and go back to those values that all those wrong-wingers in the red states voted for last November - gay bashing!

Or, as Ted Nugent would say, shoot them all. Talk about a wing nut.

Sell your soul to the devil, and eventually it comes to collect. And the Democrats want to cozy up to this bunch for votes?

So, let's take a look at the current BushCo camp:

DeLiar, who is stupid enough to send wheedling emails to constituents in Texas crying "those liberals are out to get me! I didn't do nothin' wrong" and is meanwhile crookeder than a dog's hind leg. Somebody call the Waaahhhhmbulance. If Bolton gets nominated to the UN Ambassadorship, it will be like releasing a pack of tasmanian devils into a henhouse.

Now, I read that BushCo wants to raise the retirement age in his unending obsession with fixing Social Security, even though it isn't broken. Sounds like more of the "there could be a nuclear bomb in New York City" slitted-eyed, conspiratorial wink'n'nod scare tactic hoodwinking and BushCowacking that we saw last October.

Okay, I convinced myself. BushCo IS the devil. The evangelical Reich are just his malicious little imps, but the imps are pissed at "Big Daddy", and the outcome could be very, very interesting.

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4/17/2005

The Lawrence Journal-World ran an article which lends credence to the ludicrous notion that there is a war going on over the teaching of evolution in public school science classes.

These arguments have been going on since Darwin's tome was published, and well over 100 years later, what we know about evolution is this: It happened. It happens still. How? Generally well known, with some discussion left as to the fine-tuning questions of the mechanics of it. It is impossible to understand biology without understanding evolution - it's one of those wondererful theories like relativity that explains so very much, so very simply.

The Religious Reich can twist it any way they want, it's still there, and it's still happening, and they think they've waged a war on it. They haven't waged a "war" on evolution, they've waged a war on American children.

Want a scientific community in the next 50 years that can understand why bacteria change - mutate - evolve- when antibiotics are over-and incorrectly-used, and who can therefore begin to understand how to fight super-bacteria that will make us sick? Then teach evolution in public school science classes.

Want a scientific community in the next 50 years that understands genetics enough to know what to manipulate to cure genetic diseases? Teach evolution in the public school classrooms.

Want to stay ahead of Asia and Europe in innovative medical research? Teach evolution in the public school classrooms. Want our kids to be able to compete in the scientific disciplines? Teach evolution in the public school classrooms.

There IS no debate over the existence of evolution in today's scientific community any more than there is any debate over the existence of a sun-centered solar system. The only "war" that's being waged is the war over the future of America's scientific, technological and medical community. The war is on education, not evolution.

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4/13/2005

Who's afraid of terrorists? Not me.

I'm more worried about accidents. The New York Times today is running an article about 5000 labs in the U.S. and abroad receiving, apparently by accident (which I have my doubts about) test kits containing a 1957 strain of a pandemic flu strain.

According to the Times:

The 1957 strain has not been included in the flu vaccine since 1968, and anyone born after that date has no immunity to it.

Dr. Nancy Cox of the CDC in Atlanta was quoted as saying "It wouldn't be a smart way to start a pandemic to send it to laboratories, because we have people well trained in biocontainment,"

That makes me feel a lot better. Sure.

At least they discovered the screw up before unwittingly letting that particular strain out into the world again.

Or did they?

We'll have to wait and see.

Meanwhile, Stephen King's "The Stand" is a wonderful summer read.

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4/10/05

The New York Times today ran an article about a 16 year old high school girl from Heritage High School in Harlem who the government has arrested, detained without representation, and barely accused of plotting a suicide-bombing plot with another girl that one of the mothers claims never met until they were both detained on March 24 in pre-dawn raids.

The 16 year old girl, originally from Guinea, was a popular girl in her high school, according to the article - so popular in fact, that she came in second in the election for school president, and had a standing ovation when she came to school one day and students realized she had shed her traditional muslim headcovering.

Ahhhh....there's the rub. This girl is Muslim, was brought to America by her parents at the age of 2, and her parents happen to be illegal immigrants.

Meanwhile, this girl, who was reported to wear jeans under her traditional Muslim dress (and I'm willing to bet that like most teenagers, she ditched the traditional dress every chance she got), is suspected of being a suicide bomber.

Why? Because the government thinks she may have hung around with a Bangledeshi girl from another school, who couldn't handle the craziness of an American public school, so was being homeschooled. The Bangladeshi girl was, from the reports, a devout Muslim. By the way, it doesn't look like there's much evidence on the Bangladeshi girl, either.

According to the article, the 16 year old was excited about seeing "Gates", the open air art exhibit put on by Christo in Central Park, and forgot an appointment at immigration. Forgetfulness doesn't make a teenager a terrorist, it makes them a teenager.

One of the 16 year old's teachers fears that the girl forgetting the appointment at INS set in motion the government's arrest of her, and her father. What it sounds like is that the girl was arrested and detained in order to give the government some leverage over the father, who probably didn't do anything either, other than fail to get a green card. It sounds to me like she is being used as blackmail against the family. For what? Who knows? The Government won't tell anyone what "evidence" they have against this family, much less the teenager. This story the government is pushing about suicide bombing sounds trumped up, at best.

16 year old girls in New York City suicide bombers - give me a break. Being Muslim does not make them terrorists. Having illegal immigrant parents does not make them terrorists. Being "ferriners" doesn't make them terrorists.

Alright, 51% - I've been asking this since November, and I'm asking it again: Is this what you voted for? 16 year old girls held in detention centers without representation, without charges, and with no contact with the outside world? Famlies torn apart for having the audacity of coming to this country to partake of some of this "freedom" we have? Would you rather see them "rendered" to Pakistan so they can be tortured for the "truth"? You must be so proud of yourselves for pushing this whacked-in-the-head administration on the rest of us.

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4/9/2005

The spirit of Dr. Mengele seems to be alive and well, and is living in America. The New York Times reported today that Stephen L. Johnson, the current acting administrator of the EPA, has been nominated by Bush to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

Mr. Johnson has come under some fire recently for a study planned by the EPA called the Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study, or CHEERS. The study would offer 60 families in Duval County, Florida, each $970.00, a camcorder, a bib and a t-shirt emblazoned with a logo for CHEERS, if the parents participated in a two-year “scientific study” by using common household pesticides in their homes, around their infants. The purpose of the study was to show the effects of household pesticides on infants.

Two U.S. Senators, Barbara Boxer, D-California and Bill Nelson, D-Florida, demanded that Johnson cancel the study, or they would attempt to block his confirmation. Johnson announced that he had canceled the study and was quoted by an AP Press article in the Arizona Daily Star on April 9, 2005 as saying “I have concluded that the study cannot go forward, regardless of the outcome of the independent review….” The $9 million study was partially funded, to the tune of $2 million, by the American Chemistry Council, which represents the American Chemical industry.

The EPA certainly sank to into the bottomless pit of immorality with this intended study. In the November 2004 American Journal of Public Health , Dr. Alan H. Lockwood, stated that ”I have reviewed ethical and scientific aspects of 6 human pesticide-dosing studies submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for consideration during the pesticide reregistration process. All had serious ethical or scientific deficiencies – or both – including unacceptable informed consent procedures, unmanaged financial conflicts of interest, inadequate statistical power, inappropriate test methods and endpoints, and distorted results.”

Should we be surprised that the EPA would condone, much less plan, such a heinous example of preying on the poor, as to offer adults money, not to have pesticides tested on consenting adults, but on their infants? What is it in the leadership of governmental agency that has “Protection” in it’s name that makes them believe that this type of testing on children is alright? Is an Okay thing to do, and would be accepted with anything short of outrage?

Are we so complacent in America that we would accept the Spirit of Doctor Mengele who, between 1932 and 1972, would inject syphilis into African-American men in Tuskegee Alabama without their knowledge or consent, and without treatment, all under the rubric of providing government sponsored medical care, and leaving them untreated so as to measure the already well-known effects of the progress of disease when left untreated.

Or, what about the Spirit of Dr. Mengele who performed illicit radiation testing on American citizens.

Or how about the more recent Spirit of Dr. Mengele that chose Incarnation Children’s Center, a halfway house in New York for children removed from their homes by social services, in which to conduct illicit drug trials for AIDS drugs, sponsored by a division of the National Institute of Health, and performed in conjunction with large drug companies such as Pfizer.

The very fact that CHEERS ever made it onto the drawing board at the EPA should give us all reason for deep concern. This type of “study,” to be conducted in a ”low income minority neighborhood” should be seen as a fundamental lack of ethics and morality on the part of the EPA.

The EPA is supposed to protect American citizens from environmental hazards, not subject the portion of America’s citizenry least able to defend itself to the whims of governmental immorality and government sponsored and initiated class warfare.

Johnson is definitely not the right man for the job, if it takes a political threat to cause him to cancel a study as heinously unethical as CHEERS. As acting administrator of the EPA, to allow such a study to exist in the first place proves that this man has no moral compass whatsoever.

It also shows that Bush, who nominated this Spirit of Dr. Mengele to head the EPA, also has no moral compass whatsoever.

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4/4/2005

BushCo took the traveling show, replete with snake oil, to Howard University to push his privatization scheme. Bush himself didn't even show up, and it's only hop and skip from Bush's (temporary) house.

Of course, several students who looked like they might possibly disrupt what was apparently a wrong-wing hootenanny were not allowed inside to witness the carnie show.

No suprise, since this is the news we've been hearing from all over the country regarding the "bouncing" at this particular sideshow tour.

What bothered me more, though, and awakened the sarcastic wiseass in me, was this quote from RNC chairman Ken Mehlman:

“The party of [Abraham] Lincoln and Frederick Douglass is here to compete"

Um, no, sorry. It doesn't work that way. You see, some of us know a little about the history of this country. Some of us know that Yes, Lincoln was a Republican, however, Lincoln was a Republican in the 1860's. Back then, Republican was actually much more close to being the equivalent of the Democratic party of the 1960's. The names flipped later in U.S. history, therefore, Lincoln was NOT GOP. Big difference between 1960 and 1860. Roughly 100 years of difference.

So, wrong-wingers - you can try to re-write history all you want, but it won't work. Not as long as there are people like me out here who know full well what you're full of. People like me, and the children of people like me.

Oh, and by the way: the founding fathers were NOT born again christians. In fact, I strongly suspect at least a couple were closet atheists.

I guess I'm being an elitist liberal again...you know, the kind that reads something other than Chick Tracts and the daily bread "prayer of the day" book.

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4/2/2005

Even Cheney rebuked DeLay for threatening everyone who didn't kowtow to awesome display of power over the judiciary (snigger).

Political cannibalism - it's like the movie Alive, only without the Andes and without the soccer team. DeLay looks a little like a tough turkey, stringy, with no real substance. All "a doodle doo", with no "(fill in blank)."

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4/2/2005

This is a great idea I discovered perusing other blogs, and this one comes from LeGoogleBomb. The point is to click on the link below, and move Ann Coulter's dreadful website down in Google search results, while moving up websites that expose her for the lying, hypocritical, white-supremecist, neo-nazi, harpy in a toothless redneck meat-market dress that she is.

Click away, and enjoy!

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4/2/2005

Tom DeLay is holding a grudge. He also put out a veiled call to arms to all of his crazies - like the one who murdered a federal judge's family recently.

Oh, by the way, DeLay also might be indicted in Texas over illegal campaign fundraising in 2002.

DeLay, House Majority Leader, who has been the center of some delicous scandals recently, thought he found the opportunity to redeem himself in the eyes of the public by treading the dangerous waters known as the Schiavo Shoals. In BushCo and DeLay's rush to "save" a brain dead woman, they ignored all of the polls showing that a vast majority of the American Public thought Congress had no business interfering in the case of Terri Schiavo.

The Courts evidently didn't think they had any business interfering in a private family matter, since every single court that heard the case, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, refused to intervene in the removal of the feeding tube. Florida Governor Jeb Bush and brother BushCo even backed off when it became obvious that they were about to founder and sink on Schiavo Shoals.

DeLay is now frothing at the mouth at "activist judges" who dare to cross his political whims. DeLay released an incendiary statement recently:

"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today."

This statement, made upon the heels of an emotionally turbulent two weeks, is dangerous and borders on inciting violence.

According to today's Washington Post, DeLay is calling for a Judiciary Committee to investigate why the courts did not "protect" Terri Schiavo.

DeLay is holding a grudge against the courts that dared to cross him. He and BushCo thought that they had the judiciary so scared that they would kowtow to the religious reich and the wrong-wing on anything. DeLay and BushCo were wrong, and now DeLay will hold his grudge.

It's time for those indictments to be handed down in Texas, before this guy, even unwittingly, gets a judge killed by a wacko who will take DeLay's statements as a call to arms.

Maybe it IS a call to arms. It sure sounds like one to me, and I'll bet dollars to donuts that we hear in the near future of some wingnut getting arrested for 'conspiring to murder' a federal judge who was involved in the case.

DeLay could very well bring down the whole BushCo house of cards on his own - at least in the public mind, where it really counts, if his personal frustrations get a federal judge killed.

Wake up, other 51%, open your eyes wide, and take a look at what you've put in power.

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