Now that the death taxes have been eliminated for the super rich - I was wondering if this has cut into charatable donations from estates that uned to be used to reduce the tax burden. Has this hurt church donations?
... which is why Bush picked him ..... You won't see this story in the GOP controlled press.
US Congressman Porter Goss, nominated to be the new director of the CIA, may be talking himself out of the job, according to film-maker Michael Moore.
Moore, who directed the film Fahrenheit 9/11, has released an interview with Mr Goss in which he says he lacks the qualifications for the top spy post.
"I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified," Mr Goss told Moore's production company in March.
The White House has dismissed the interview as "ridiculous hearsay".
The interview did not make it into the final edit of the film, which criticises President George W Bush's policy on Iraq.
But following Mr Goss's nomination by the president, Moore has released the transcript and video excerpt on his website.
"I don't have the language skills. I, you know, my language skills were romance languages and stuff. We're looking for Arabists today. I don't have the cultural background probably," Mr Goss says on the video.
"And I certainly don't have the technical skills, as my children remind me every day: 'Dad, you got to get better on your computer.'
"So, the things that you need to have, I don't have."
Michael Moore has this Video of Porter Goss admitting he is unqualified - but you won't see this on the GOP owned network news.
Did you ever wonder why you aren't seeing this on the network news? Don't you think it's news when the person who was just appointed to head the CIA has admitted that he isn't even qualified to work for the CIA?
In a nation where one party owns the press - the GOP - how do you tell what the polls really are. In 2000 all the polls showed Bush ahead of Gore but when the election happened Gore won the popular vote by 500,000 votes.
So - in this "too close to call" race - how do we know what's really happening? Is the media covering up Kerry's lead? I think so. Here's why.
I look at where the battleground is. Remember that the base line is the last election. In all that states that Gore won - Kerry is safely ahead. In all the states that were close - Kerry is ahead in most of them. The rest are too close to call. And in states that Bush won in 2000 - several of them are now battleground states.
So - since technically Gore won the last election and Kerry is doing better - it's looking good. However - there's still those rigged voting machines and other dirty tricks yet to be played. Look for more talk of suspending elections or other power grabs. Kerry also has to get a 5 point lead just to compensate for GOP cheating.
Here's an Electoral Vote site that shows the trend.
Just to clear things up once and for all - Bush did not win Florida. Neither did Gore. Nobody won the election in Florida. What happened is that the Supreme Court in a Supreme act of Treason to the Constitution stopped the election process and without any constitional authority to do so - appointed Bush the president.
We can argue forever who might have won the election had the process not been terminated by the Supreme Court but that doesn't matter. What matters is that we at least tell it the way it is - and the way it is is - Bush didn't win. The Supreme Court stole the election for Bush. And for those of you who claim "Bush would have won anyhow", even if that were true - it doesn't matter. He didn't win. He was not elected president - he was appointed president. Bush did not win Florida.
I keep seeing the press make statements that Bush won Florida by 537 votes when the reality is that he didn't. Bush won by only one vote - 5-4 in the Supreme Court who stopped the election process and substituted it with their own election.
Bush's partner in Iraq Ahmad Chalabi who the CIA called "curveball" and who the Bush administration relied upon in the decision to go to war is wanted for murder and counterfieting money. Is there anyone connected with Bush who isn't a thief?
You might have seen this story in the news lately about the San Francisco man who put up a fake video of a beheading (of himself being beheaded) and the Associated Press took it as real. Since then the respectable press has been trying to cover their asses and distort the truth to make it look like this guy is to blame for the deception rather than their own stupidity.
To that end the newsmedia who has called Ben Vanderford and interviewed him have been changing his story to suit their spin on the issue. But unlike them - I am a real journalist and I have provided them web space to tell their side of the story unedited. That way the real story can come out.
As of this moment the FBI is trying hard to find something they can charge these kids with to save the press the embarrasment of having fucked up the original story. You see - if they can persecute them - then that take attention off their own coverups, their stupidity, and that the media is just a puppet of the Bush administration. At least - this is my spin about what is going on with this story.
As of right now - this is the only link on the internet to their side of the story and as an advocate of free speech I have decided to give them a voice. I got a call early this morning after they got booted off of their previous host and I decided to give them a voice. They have given me the go ahead so it is now up there. And it will remain the official unedited voice of what it is they have to say.
One of the reasons I am doing this is because I have myself been a critic of the original Nick Berg Video which was heavilly edited and raised more questions than it resolved. In the Nick Berg video the man who is killing berg - al-Zarqawi - has two legs where the real al-Zarqawi only has one. The video appears to have been filmed at Abu Ghraib Prison and Berg - who was in American custody is still wearing an American orange uniform. Aparently others had suspected fakery and were curious enough to experiment on how to fake a beheading. These kids produced a video - obviously not intended to actually decieve anyone - because it was the beheading of the producer of the film who was never a captive - and who's name and address appear in the film.
Had Associated Press done ANY research at all they would have know it was fake. Here's a link to the Original video. Can you believe they fell for this?
Letter to the Editor
Alan Keyes will run for US Senate in Illinois where he has never lived. Keyes once called Hillary Clinton a carpetbagger for running for Senate in New York is now doing the same thing.
Amazingly how these Republicans flip flop when it works to their favor.
The Keyes candidacy raises questions about the race factor. Keyes is strongly against affirmative action and any race based preferences. So it makes you wonder why he doesn't have a problem with the GOP picking him because he's black.
Anyhow - I'm predicting that an African American will win this senate seat - and by African American I'm talking about someone who actually comes from Africa.