Letter to the Editor
Retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will now get her wish that a GOP president appoint her successor. She was at an election night party on November 7, 2000 when became "visibly upset" when network anchors first awarded the state of Florida to Al Gore. Her husband said she was upset because the couple wanted to retire and that his wife preferred that a GOP President appoint her successor. Shortly thereafter she was the swing vote that appointed Bush president after the people elected Al Gore. Now everyone in the world is paying the price for her act of treason to the Constitution. I say good riddance to you.
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President Bush is asking America to sacrifice again for the Iraq war, but not all Americans have to sacrifice. Rich America isn't sacrificing. As poor America tightens the belt and sends their sons to die, the rich keep getting more tax cuts. Just this week the Senate wants to give oil companies another 18 billion dollars at a time when oil companies are making record profits. With the Downing Street memo we know that the war was a fraud. So I question if it i good for America to give tax cuts to the rich while the poor have to fight and die. I think that Americans should not join the military until Bush makes the rich pay their fair share and he has a plan about how to get us out of a state of perpetual war.
People no longer trust the Republican controlled corporate mainstrean media and are turning to the internet to get their information. That is because corporate media giants fail to cover stories so as not to upset the Bush Administration. For example, ABC News and CBS news have yet to run a single story about the Downing Street Memos, which prove that George W. Bush deliberately and systematically lied about his reasons for invading Iraq.
The more the media covers up the more people distrust them and are turning to alternative media outlets that aren't controlled by money interests. As it turns out readers can get better information from independent sources than the can from the well funded but tightly controlled TV networks.
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As the founder of the Church of Reality - a religion based on believing in everything that is real - I consider both the decisions made by the Supreme Court to be a victory for religious freedom. The Texas case correctly allows the Ten Commandments to be displayed among other historical images and is distinguished from the Kentucky case where the Ten Commandments was clearly an endorsement of a specific class of religion. This was an important victory for religious freedom because we only have religious freedom as long as the government remains religiously neutral. There must always be room in America for a reality based religion because if the government takes reality away from the people, what do you have left?
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I find it interesting that people think that the Ten Commandment is the basis of US law. In reading the Commandments I see only three of them, killing, stealing, and lying as having any relationship to current law. The other seven are totally legal. Some people want to replace the law with biblical law, but what would that mean? Exodus 31:15: says, "Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death." And that comes from the same book in the Bible that the Ten Commandments come from. I don't think WalMart is going to have an easy time hiring help if we start enforcing that biblical law.
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Defense Secretary Rumsfield doesn't like the outcome of the Iranian elections where the winning candidate won in a landslide getting 60% of the vote. Rumsfield called it a mock election complaining that the 8 candidates they had to choose from were somehow fixed.
Here in the USA we don't have 8 candidates to choose from. We have only 2 which are chosen by political insiders. We had Skull and Bones man Bush vs. Skull and Bones man Kerry, with the electronic voting machines under the control of the Republican party. Bush won the previous election only because the Republican controlled Supreme Court stopped the vote count and illegally declared Bush the winner. This election was won by rigging voting machines in Florida to swap the totals in Democrat dominated counties in Florida.
So it seems to me that we are hardly in a position to criticize the outcome of Iran's elections. But Rummy would have to make that claim because he is moving to invade Iran next. Who would have thought we would see the day when Iran had freer elections than America?