Marc Perkel Rantz

My Suggestion to Bart

Letter I wrote to the Bay Area Reagonal Transit

I noticed you cut the parking price to $1. Why not just have free parking? It would eliminate the hassles of your bizzare parking payment system and eliminate enforcement costs. The benifit in increased ridership and public relations would more than offset the revenue.

If you keep making Bart more expensive - people like me will just drive because it's cheaper. I suggest you increase riders rather than fees.

My 2 cents ....

Govinator Breaks Campaign Finance Laws

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger broke state law last year when he used a loophole to loan his campaign committee $4 million, a move that prevented voters from knowing before Election Day who would end up paying the governor's campaign bills, a judge ruled late Monday.

Schwarzenegger will probably face no fines as a result of the ruling, but he will be blocked from paying himself back with the more than $3.4 million he has raised since his election and will have to convert the loans into a personal contribution to his campaign.

The millionaire former movie star contributed an additional $4.85 million in cash to his campaign before the Oct. 7 recall election.

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Loren E. McMaster said Schwarzenegger's use of a loophole to avoid a $100,000 cap that voters imposed in 2000 on candidate loans ``flies in the face of the express purpose of the law.'' He said Schwarzenegger's approach would allow rich candidates to ``evade both the $100,000 loan limitation and the requirement of pre-election disclosure of contributions, while those limitations would apply to candidates of more modest means.''

Surplus to Deficits

Letter to the Editor

Just 3 years ago the Congressional Budget Office was projecting 10 years of surpluses. Under Clinton we dreamed about paying off the national debt by the end of the decade. Now they are projecting 10 years of deficits with this year's deficity setting another record - one half trillion dollars on the red. Cheney says that deficits don't matter. Having gone from the biggest surplus in the history of the world to the biggest deficit in the history of the world in just 3 years make me wonder what Bush is even running again. I'm scared to think what America will be like with 4 more years of Bush.

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Yahoo Story

It does make you wonder - with America falling apart and governments on the verge of collapse - what will America be like with 4 more years of Bush. Will he succeed in totally destroying this country? Will he start World War 3? Will the deficit rise to 2 trillion dollars a year? The idea is too scary to think about. Maybe I need to plan to move out of the country but in this day and age there's no place that's safe anymore.

Blair's Wife says - Bush Stole the Election

From this article in the Times of India.

Bush 'stole' the presidential election: Cherie

PTI[ SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2004 08:20:21 PM ]

LONDON : In a forthright view that is likely to embarrass her husband, Cherie Blair, wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, is reported to have observed that George W Bush "stole" the US presidential election from Al Gore.

"Cherie Blair still believed that Bush had stolen the White House from Gore," author Philip Stephens wrote in his book "Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader. "

Although Tony Blair was pragmatic about Bush's victory, Mrs Blair was far less sanguine about the Supreme Court decision that gave him the keys to the White House.

She believed Al Gore had been "robbed" of the presidency and was hostile to the idea of her husband "cosying" up to the new President.

Even as they flew to Washington for their first meeting with the presidential couple, Mrs Blair was in no mood to curry favour, the book stated.

The book's disclosures of Mrs Blair's forthright views will cause embarrassment in Downing Street, because of Blair's good working relations with Bush, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, although they will not surprise officials or ministers who know her well.

bin Laden Captured?

I keep seeing reports on the web that bin Laden might be captured and is being held in secret for the election season.

I do a google search on "bin laden captured" and I get several hits about this on foreign web sites. Wonder what the scoop is on this?

Press Hates Dean

Letter to the Editor

I'm supporting Howard Dean because the Bush controlled news media has singled him out for bad press coverage. This convinces me that Dean is the man that Bush and the right wing press are most afraid of. And with good reason to. Although any of the Democrats are better than Bush - Dean is someone who gets it when it comes to the war in Iraq being a fraud and he doesn't have the burden of having voted for Bush's fake war.

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Some of my buddies in San Francisco got even with some lying reporters last year for lying about San Francisco Protests. Here's some footage of a reporter getting a pie in the face.

Novell should GPL Unix

I think Novell - who claims to have a copyright on Unix - should set Unix free and GPL it's copyright.

Novell is currently perceived as the "good guys" in the battle aghainst SCO's copyright claims against Linux. They now own SUSE and they appear to have a focus on Linux in their future. But - it would be a big step forward if Novell were to declate it's Unix copyrights public domain - specifically GPL - and set Unix free.

What concerns me is - what if Novell changes it's mind or some other Unix vendor does? I say to Novell - and hope other say the same thing - set Unix free. The future is in Linux - the battle is won - and it's time for Unix to die. Or rather retire = to join DOS and CP/M in the history of computer operating systems.

Greg Palast reviews Bush's Speech

NO CHILD'S BEHIND LEFT
The State of the Union's New Educational Eugenics
by Greg Palast

Go ahead, George, and lie to me. Lie to my dog. Lie to my sister. But don't you ever lie to my kids.

Deep into your State of the Siege lecture tonight, long after sensible adults had turned off the tube or kicked in the screen, you came after our children. "By passing the No Child Left Behind Act," you said, "We are regularly testing every child ... and making sure they have better options when schools are not performing."

You said it ... and then that little tongue came out; that weird way you stick your tongue out between your lips like the little kid who knows he's fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat. I saw that snakey tongue dart out and I thought, "He knows."

And what you know, Mr. Bush, is this: you've ordered this testing to hunt down, identify and target for destruction the hopes of millions of children you find too expensive, too heavy a burden, to educate.

Here's how No Child Left Behind and your tests work in the classrooms of Houston and Chicago. Millions of 8 year olds are given lists of words and phrases. They are graded, like USDA beef: some prime, some OK, many failed.

Once the kids are stamped and sorted, the parents of the marked children ask for you to fill your tantalizing promise, to "make sure they have better options when schools are not performing."

But there is no "better option," is there, Mr. Bush? Where's the money for the better schools to take in the kids getting crushed in cash-poor districts? Where's the open door to the suburban campuses with the big green lawns for the dark kids with the test-score mark of Cain.

And if I bring up the race of the kids with the low score, don't get all snippy with me, telling me your program is color blind. We know the color of the kids left behind; and it's not the color of the kids you went to school with at Philips Andover Academy.

You know and I know that the testing is a con. There is no "better option" at the other end. The cash went to the end the inheritance tax, that special program to give every millionaire's son another million.

But you'll tell me, you took tests as a youth. I know you did. And you scored on the Air Guard flight test 25 out of 100, one point above too dumb to fly. But you zoomed past the other would-be flyboys. They were stamped, "Ready for 'Nam." And you took a test to get into Yale. And though your pet rock scored a wee bit higher than you, your grandpa on the Yale board provided the "better option" which got you in.

Here in New York City, your educational Taliban, led by Republican Mayor Bloomberg, had issued an edict to test the third-graders. Winnow out the chaff and throw them back, exactly where they started, to repeat the same failed program another year. In other words, the core edict of No Child
Left Behind is that failing children will be left behind another year. And another year and another year.

You know and I know that this is not an educational opportunity program - because you offer no opportunities, no hope, no plan, no funding. Rather, it is the new Republican social Darwinism, educational eugenics:
Identify the nation's loser-class early on. Trap them, then train them cheap. The system will provide the new worker drones that will clean the toilets at the Yale alumni club, to punch the McDonald's cash registers color-coded for illiterates, to pamper the winner-class on the higher floors of the new service economy order.

Greg Palast is author of, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," which has returned this week to the New York Times bestseller list. View Palast's writings for Harper's, The Guardian (UK) and BBC television at www.GregPalast.com.

Bush Serves Troops Fake Turkey

Bush Serves Plastic Turkey to Troops in Fake War

As if this would surprize anyone - the turkey Bush served the troops for Thanksgiving is FAKE! Everything about Bush is fake. What you're looking at is Bush serving the troops a PLASTIC turkey. But - its consistent. A fake turkey for a fake war served buy a fake president.

We live in a fake democracy with fake freedom. This is an example of what the Bush government is trying to feed us.

The picture is from the FAKE NEWS MEDIA who is trying to get us to believe the fake news. And if you believe any of what Bush is saying then you'll probably believe in the fake economic recovery and we're going to send a man to Mars!

America is not safer!

Letter to the Editor

Its interesting to listen to Bush claim that we are fighting a war on terror when he fails to mention Osama bin Laden. Today is 861 days since 9-11 and it would appear that he got away with it. He is free and America is not free. We no longer seem to be investigating the Anthrax attack either.

The war on terror is a sham if we do not pursue those who actually did it. A victory over a fake enemy from a war that was a fraud does not make America safer or more secure. We are living a lie. I say its time to face reality as it really is.

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Fake war - fake security - fake economy - fake news - fake religion - fake election - fake presidency - its all one big fraud!

Bush Says - Whoopie! we're all going to Mars!

Letter to NASA

Dear NASA,

As a government agency controlled by the Bush Administration I understand that you are obligated to put the Bush Ad up on your web site. However - the reality is - we are not going to Mars. Bush has absolutely no intension of going there. This is nothing more than a political ploy to win the votes of NASA supporters so that Bush can get reelected and gut the space program.

Surely you people aren't stupid enought to believe this - are you?

Thanks for listening - please pass this email around.

Marc Perkel
First One
Church of Reality
"If its real - we believe in it!"

Free Speech Zones - or Speech Free Zones?

Letter to the Editor

Any time Bush goes out in public the police remove all the protesters to "Free Speech Zones" - which are in a location where they can not be heard. These are not really "Free Speech Zones" but rather they create "Speech Free Zones" around Bush where free speech is prohibited.

I ask the question - can we really call America a free country when the right to speak is prohibited any place the president goes? Who would have thought that our liberties would be so suppressed and that Americans would stand by - doing nothing - and allow it to happen. Americans are unwilling to fight for the freedom to speak. Lady Liberty is dead - and Bush spits on her grave.

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Freedom is an illusion - no more than a slogan. America is not a free country. We have become the enemy of freedom.

California Taxes are Going Up

The govenator of California is proposing the we vote for a borrow and spend packages as an alternative to raising taxes. What Republican's don't get that goverment borrowing is a tax. Every dollar borrowed has to be paid back with interest.

California has a lot of fat in the goverment. I think it's time to cut government bullshit and reduce the size of the state payroll. Let's not do this with borrowed money. Let's actually solve the problem - or pay for it by taxing the rich. I'd rather see millionaires pay their share than to burden the public with debt so the rich get a big tax break.

Choosing a Democratic Presidential Candidate

Letter to the Editor

Democrats are faced with the challenge of picking a candidate to overthrow the Bush regime. How do we choose? To me it's somewhat of a process of elimination and the candidates past voting record is as strong of a test as you can get.

I have a real problem with Gephardt, Kerry, Edwards, and Lieberman because they vote with Bush too often. They all supported Bush's fraudulent war in Iraq. They voted for Bush's tax cuts for the rich. I just can't vote for Democrats who vote with Bush and sell out our country. I want a candidate who isn't sleeping with the enemy.

Bush orders settlement to conservative GOP website by City of Fresno

Settlement funnels money to local conservative website on orders of president George Bush. Rightwing website "FreeRepublic" to recieve large settlement from City of Fresno.

This is urgent-read and call the attorney general's office as soon as you can. We must stop this criminal give-away to GOP activists at taxpayer expense.

The City of Fresno has announced it is paying a large settlement to the "FreeRepublic", a right wing conservative website/forum to settle a lawsuit filed by Freerepublic alledging defamation and damage of reputation. Some background on the case:

The case FreeRepublic vs. City of Fresno stems from a bulletin sent to Fresno Police by Fresno Human Relations Commissioner Debbie Reyes regarding an event planned on sept. 13th by the Fresno chapter of FreeRepublic Network. This event, billed by Freerepublic as a picnic/rally was a subject of concern to Reyes as she had been made aware of possible counter-protests to the picnic/rally by activists critical of FreeRepublic Network's harrassment of anti-war activists and general right-wing extremist nature. Ms. Reyes faxed a notice to police that there might be possible conflicts at the event and notified them that FreeRepublic was well known as an organized hate group disguising themselves as patriotic americans. This notice and resulting publicity resulted in the lawsuit naming City of Fresno, Debbie Reyes, and Mayor Alan Autry as defendants. They alledged Reyes fax resulted in defamation and filed suit seeking $1,000,000 compensation.

The very very strange thing in all this is George Bush met with Fresno Mayor Alan Autry on 10/15/2003 and there is good reason to believe this lawsuit by the FreeRepublic Network was the main topic of conversation between the two. The FreeRepublic online forum is a darling centerpiece of the GOP party, the largest and most highly trafficked GOP oriented website in existence. Progressive activists have long suspected FreeRepublic receives under the table covert funding directly or indirectly from the GOP party. So it is quite likely and plausible that when Autry met with Bush and discussed this with him Bush told him to pay off these good old-boy conservatives and get some funds into their hands so they can continue their fight against the left and all things progressive.

It is clear that before any settlement is paid to FreeRepublic an investigation into ties between Mayor Alan Autry and FreeRepublic should be undertaken. He has been supportive of their activitys to a suspicious degree and it is apparent he was very interested in arranging for the city to settle out of court on the lawsuit and quickly get some money into the hands of his fellow patriots at FreeRepublic.

Did Fresno Mayor Alan Autry work at the suggestion of George Bush to supply a large cash settlement to FreeRepublic at taxpayer's expense? Demand an investigation.

Contact:
California State Attoney General
(916)322-3360

Bush and Blair behind Khadaffy's WMD sham

From the Toronto Sun. You won't see this in the American Press.

By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor

MIAMI -- Just before New Year, President George Bush and Britain's PM Tony Blair staged what French call a "coup de theatre."

That's Gallic for pulling a political rabbit from one's hat.

The rabbit in question was none other than Libya's Col. Moammar Khadaffy, once reviled as the world's most dangerous man and America's Enemy Number One.

After eight months of secret negotiations with Washington and London, the eccentric Libyan strongman grandly proclaimed his nation was abandoning its weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Bush, his neo-conservative supporters, and the U.S. media crowed that Khadaffy's surrender confirmed the wisdom of invading Afghanistan and Iraq. The evil Khadaffy had been cowed into giving up his arsenal of deadly WMD.

Other "rogue" states would hasten to follow Libya's lead.

But on closer inspection, there was much less to this drama than met the eye. Khadaffy, in fact, had no viable WMD, contrary to fevered claims by neo-con propagandists.

According to UN inspectors and European intelligence sources, Libya had only small amounts of World War I technology mustard gas, a primitive battlefield weapon.

It had no biological or nuclear weapons. Libya had no means of delivering WMD beyond some rusting Scud-B missiles with only a 180-mile range.

Libya possessed an assortment of nuclear junk: a small research reactor, some lab equipment, and a few inoperative, third-hand centrifuges bought from Pakistan or Malaysia.

There is no sign, at least so far, of any capability to make or deliver WMD.

When I was in Libya interviewing Col. Khadaffy, I found there was not a single elevator repairman in the country.

Bakers had to be imported from Egypt to make bread. Seventy percent of Libya's military equipment was broken down. In short, tiny, backward Libya, with a population of only five million, had no military capability.

However, in the 1980s, Libya certainly did fund all sorts of violent revolutionary groups and was implicated in the bombings of French and U.S. airliners.

After 17 years of punishing sanctions against Libya, Khadaffy sought to improve relations with the West by paying reparations for the airliners, and handing over for trial two agents involved in the 1988 Pan Am bombing.

Now, by pretending to eliminate WMD he does not possess, the colonel has given a huge political bonus to Bush and Blair, a way for them to evade censure for shamelessly lying their nations into the Iraq war. They will reward Khadaffy by halting efforts to overthrow him, slowly lifting sanctions, and allowing U.S. and British oil firms to resume exploiting Libya's high-grade oil. That's politics.

The CIA helped Khadaffy into power in 1969. In the 1980s, the U.S., Britain and France each tried to assassinate him.

Now, it seems the flamboyant colonel with nine lives is slated to be reborn as a good Arab and U.S. ally.

Right after the Libyan charade, Washington opened a major new campaign to deprive Pakistan of its nuclear arsenal. The U.S. media trumpeted leaked government reports alleging Pakistan had secretly supplied Iran, North Korea, and Libya with nuclear technology. These reports blurred the lines between exports of civilian and military nuclear technology.

Washington accused Pakistan of being a major nuclear proliferator. Pakistan nervously admitted some of its nuclear scientists may have privately aided neighbour Iran, which has sought nuclear weapons for the past 28 years.

So far, accusations that past or current Pakistani governments were involved with covert nuclear weapons exports remain unproven. A director general of Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, once told me Iran had offered to pay Pakistan's entire defence budget for 10 years in exchange for nuclear technology, but Islamabad refused.

Whatever the case, this whole business is worthy of Alice in Wonderland. Who came down from the mountain to ordain that only the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, China, North Korea, India and Israel are allowed to possess nuclear weapons or sell nuclear technology?

The U.S. is about to build a new generation of earth-penetrating nuclear weapons. China and Russia are working on new nuclear systems.

India is building a very powerful nuclear arsenal and developing intercontinental missiles.

Israel has sold India advanced nuclear warhead and missile technology.

Muslim nations, it appears, are the only ones not allowed to possess WMD.

India used to rightly call this "nuclear apartheid" until President Bush allowed Delhi into the nuclear club.

Now that Iraq has been crushed, the White House's next targets are clearly Iran and Pakistan.

Neither pose any threat to the U.S.

Political and economic pressure on Pakistan will intensify.

President Pervez Musharraf, who has been unfailingly responsive to U.S. demands, may soon be asked to place Pakistan's nuclear weapons under joint U.S.-Pakistani control, a prelude to the total elimination of its nuclear arsenal, scientists, and weapons manufacturing capability.

If Bush were really serious about reducing nuclear weapons, as he claims, instead of building more nukes, he should slash America's still huge, quite useless arsenal of thousands of nuclear warheads.

That would be called leading by example.

One Hell of a Site for 9-11 Info

This site http://www.complete911timeline.org has everything. Not just the 9-11 timeline but info about the fake Anthrax scare that was created to pass the Patriot Act. Advance warning on 9-11, Afgan oil pipelines, Bin Laden Saudi and Bush connections. A must read for any patriot who loves America and despises what Bush is doing to it.

Still Leaning Dean

But I do like what Clark is saying. Still wondering about a Dean/Clark ticket. Here's some Clark said that I like.

Yahoo Story

Meeting on Thursday with the Monitor editorial board, Clark said: "I think the two greatest lies that have been told in the last three years are: You couldn't have prevented 9-11 and there's another one that's bound to happen."

Most terrorism experts contend the country has much to do to defend itself against a future attack. However, they say complete security cannot be achieved because of the vast number of potential targets and if civil liberties are to be maintained.

Clark told the Monitor American citizens should not be worried. "Nothing is going to hurt this country — not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike — there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way."

The War is a Lie - Audio Rant

Here's my latest audio rant called The War is a Lie where I tell it like it is about the war in Iraq. It's time to talk about Bush and Treason. It's time to take the country back. It's time to stop living the lie.

No Weapons - No Bin Laden Ties

Letter to the Editor

Secretary of State Colin Powell finally admitted that there's no link between Saddam Husein and al-Qaida. And Bush has quietly withdrawn a 400-member military team it sent to Baghdad to scour Iraq for evidence of weapons of mass destruction. It was all a lie. We went to war and sent our troops to die for nothing. Their lives continue to be wasted for absolutely no reason at all. Republicans complain about Democrats trying to compare Bush to Hitler. Well - the comparison is not entirely unfounded. This war is a fraud!

America is living a lie. The question that we really have to face is - is the American public really that blind. Are we really that clueless that we actually believe everything Bush says? Well - if you're fool enough to believe we have a reason to be in Iraq then you'll probably believe Bush's next story that we're sending a man to Mars!

Listen to this Audio Clip I made about how sorry the American Press is.
And Another One comparing Mars to Iraq.

Bush calls off search for weapons in Iraq

Had to go to the Irish Times to find this. You won't see this in the Bush controlled American Press.

US calls off search for weapons of mass destruction

The Bush administration has quietly withdrawn a 400-member military team it sent to Baghdad to scour Iraq for evidence of unconventional weapons, write Conor O'Clery in New York & Deaglán de Bréadún in Dublin.

The move indicates that the US does not now expect to find illegal weapons, the main reason given by President Bush for the war last year that toppled Saddam Hussein.

At the same time, a prestigious Washington-based research foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has published a scathing report on President Bush's case for war.

The US weapons team, whose withdrawal was reported yesterday by the New York Times, is the key unit of a 1,400-member US survey group sent to find weapons of mass destruction. Head of the group Mr David Kay is in Washington with his deputy, Gen Keith Dayton, and may quit his post soon, the paper also reported.

Most of the dozens of linguists and intelligence analysts assigned to the team, known as the Joint Captured Material Exploitation Group, have been transferred to anti-insurgency duties, a senior US Defence Department official said.

The newspaper said that, according to a senior official, the search for Iraqi weapons remains "the primary focus" of the survey group. But the official acknowledged that most of the new linguists and intelligence analysts to join the team had recently been given assignments combating the Iraqi insurgency rather than searching for weapons of mass destruction.

US analysts are still wading through a "10-mile high" cache of Iraqi documents stored in Qatar for evidence of weapons programmes, according to US officials.

The Carnegie report, WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications, which the endowment regards as the "first comprehensive review of everything we knew" said that President Bush's case for war was "deeply flawed" and compromised the intelligence community.

"Administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq's WMD and ballistic missile programmes," said the report. They lumped nuclear, chemical and biological weapons together as a single threat, despite the "very different" danger they posed, which distorted the cost/benefit analysis of the war, it said.

Senior EU security sources expressed grave concern over the findings. "It is very dangerous to manipulate the intelligence community." They added that it would be very unhelpful: "If people get the impression that the intelligence community is being used politically." The Carnegie Endowment analysts were "serious" people and what they were saying was "very, very troubling".

The findings come when the EU-US relationship has been going through a relatively positive phase with all sides trying to put disagreements behind them.

US Secretary of State Mr Colin Powell acknowledged yesterday that he had seen no "smoking gun, concrete evidence" of ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, but responding to questions about the Carnegie report insisted that Iraq had had dangerous weapons and needed to be disarmed by force.

Meanwhile, nine people, all believed to be US soldiers, died yesterday when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed near Falluja which has been the centre of sustained resistance to the US occupation. The US also disclosed that one soldier was killed and 34 others were wounded in a mortar attack on a US military base west of Baghdad late on Wednesday.

Earlier yesterday, around 60 Iraqi prisoners were freed from the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad, in a goodwill gesture by the US army.

Exposing SpyzoneUSA - Consumer Fraud

One of my callings in life it to expose crooked companies. I have several web pages dedicated to compaines who have fucked me over and I believe in getting even - making sure the crooks don't profit from their fraudulent conduct.

The lastest rip off I encountered is a company calld Spy Zone USA at spyzoneusa.com. I tried buying what they advertized as a "Cell Phone Mic" which turned out not to be a microphone at all. After several entertaining email exchanges - which I published - I decided to build This Web Page. It's not as good as my MCI Sucks or my Sprint Sucks pages. But I think you'll find it entertaining.

9-11 Timeline in Detail

Here's an interesting site that covers the 9-11 Timeline in Detail.

New Spam Discussion Forum

I've started a new spam discussion forum for people who are interesting in spam - or specifically - getting rid of spam. it's a BBS style forum allowing you to participate in the discussion. To praticipate Click Here.

Video of man shooting at his lawyer

Remember that video a few months ago of a man shooting his lawyer? The lawyer was hiding behind a tree - or trying to., and this guy who was a former client was shooting him? Does anyone have a copy of that you could email me? Sure would like to post it.

All I can say is - that guy would love to have me on the jury!

Mad Cow - Double Standard

It a double standard when it come to mad cow disease. When Canada had a single case of Mad Cow the US banned all beef from Canada.

Now remember - this was ONE COW and they banned the cattle from the entire country of Canada. And that happened back in May of 2003.

Now only 7 months later we find exactly the same thing here in the United States. So what do we do? Well - if we were to be consistent we would ban all US beef until we get to the bottom of this - but nooooo - when we do it - it's no big deal - the meat is safe. Nothing to worry about.

So - let me see here - if the cow come from Canada it's dangerous. But if it's an American cow - it's not. hmmmmmmmm .....

To my amazement here in the US we finally decided to prohibit the sale of meat from cattle who are too sick to walk. Little did I know that it was common practice here to sell cattle as food that are seriously ill from unknown diseases to be put on the tables and fed to American children. But - the cattle lobby has it's infestments in the right politicians who don't give a fuck about the people who they are sworn to serve.

So - the way I see it - this is something that may be good for America because it exposes the truth and if the cattle industry suffers then that's what the bastards have comming for serving us sick meat.