Marc Perkel Rantz

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.