Letter to the Editor
Clinton said, "I did not have sex with that woman." Reverend Ted Haggard said, "I did not have sex with that man." Clinton said that he smoked pot but he "didn't inhale". Reverend Haggard said he bought Meth but he didn't snort it. The more things change the more they stay the same.
If you haven't seen the HBO special "Hacking Democracy" here's some
links to exerpts of the video. Feel free to pass them around.
http://video.lisarein.com/hbo/hackingdemocracy/hbo-hackingdemocracy-1.mov
http://video.lisarein.com/hbo/hackingdemocracy/hbo-hackingdemocracy-2.mov
http://video.lisarein.com/hbo/hackingdemocracy/hbo-hackingdemocracy-3.mov
Letter to the Editor
Bush was for "stay the course" before he was against it. Last week he said, "We've never been stay the course." Did Bush "cut and run" from "stay the course"? Now it seems he's back. He's sticking with Rumsfield and Cheney says, Bush is going "full speed ahead" with stay the course. The only problem is that Bush doesn't have a course to stay. Bush says Democrats have no plan, but it clear than Bush has no plan and is flip flopping on sticking with it.
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On Monday all four independent military papers, the Army Time, the Navy Times, The Marine Corp Times, and The Air Force Times, are coming out against Bush. A day before the election they are calling for Rumsfield to Resign. That are saying with a single voice that, "Regardless of which party wins Nov. 7, the time has come, Mr. President, to face the hard bruising truth: Donald Rumsfield must go." These independent papers can speak freely where those serving in the military can not. The military is crying out for the voters help and they want you to vote Republicans out. If you support the troops then listen to them now. Rumsfield must go.
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It's getting to the point where Bush is starting scandals faster than I can write about them. Today's scandal is that Bush posted detailed plans on how build a nuclear weapon on the Internet. Under political pressure from Republicans Bush posted many documents captured in the Iraq war on the web to help make the case that there was justification for Bush's war. In those documents were detailed plans to build nuclear weapons from before 1991 when Saddam was our best buddy.
Last night the White House finally shut down the web site after the New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts that Bush was giving nuclear weapons plans to the terrorists. The weapons experts were shocked by the public disclosures. Bush talks about fighting a war on terrorism yet he gives terrorists the most detailed plans to build an atomic bomb that has ever been published. How could they put nuclear plans on the Internet without knowing that they were there? It looks to me like Republicans are putting the safety of the world at risk for pure political purposes.
Letter to the Editor
I used to think that the reason that evangelicals were against gay marriage was because they believed that it was morally wrong. But now I'm beginning to realize that perhaps I was wrong about that. Since evangelicals require that people who have sex get married, I'm wondering if the opposition is based on gay evangelical men not wanting to have to marry their gay lovers. I have to say that I'm rather surprised about evangelist Ted Haggard being caught in a relationship with a gay hooker that involved using hard drugs like Methamphetamine. After all, he's the leader of the National Association of Evangelicals.
I can't see becoming an evangelical myself because it's just not my kind of life style. I think I'll stick with being a heterosexual Atheist for moral reasons.
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I'm having nightmares about being butt fucked by tweaked up evangelical preachers.
Letter to the Editor
Laura Bush accused Michael J. Fox of "manipulating feelings" by using his Parkinson's Disease to promote stem cell research. She is implying that people like Fox are faking it for political purposes. Just like Christopher Reed was faking being a quadraphonics when he was promoting stem cell research. My sister has been a diabetic for 40 years and I'm beginning to wonder if she might have been faking it for political purposes too.
The stem cell issue is a fake issue put out there to sucker gullible evangelicals into feeling good about themselves and give them another fake cause to keep them occupied. But the price of their moral masturbation is that it denies valuable medical research for the rest of us. My sister might not get a cure for Diabetes in her lifetime because Laura Bush is using step cells in a cheap political ploy. I want to encourage people to vote for stem cells, for Michale J. Fox, Christopher Reed, and for my sister who really is not faking Diabetes.
Letter to the Editor
It was just 12 years ago that the Republicans took control of Congress with their Contract with America. In this contract the Republicans pledged to do the following:
"Require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress; select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse; cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third; limit the terms of all committee chairs; ban the casting of proxy votes in committee; require committee meetings to be open to the public; require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase; guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting."
It goes on to say, "This year's election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public's money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family."
"Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act "with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right." To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves."
So - if you think that the Republicans upheld the contract then reelect them. if not then it's time to throw the bums out and drain the swamp.
Jesus! This election isn't about you you dumb fuck! Stay the hell out of this.
Letter to the Editor
With electronic voting machines a Democrat needs to have a 5 point lead to actually win elections. That's because electronic voting machines are inaccurate and always makes mistakes in favor of Republicans. Most of the country's elected officials who are in charge of voting are Republicans and they slant the elections by not providing enough machines in Democratic areas. This make Democrats wait in lines for hours to vote when Republicans only wait 5 minutes.
Republicans have already started their election tricks. In California a Republican mailed 14,000 LEGAL immigrants threatening them with jail if they vote. They are now trying to purge Dems from voter rolls. 2600 dead people have already voted in New York and the dead are voting for Republicans. (Perhaps because Republicans are against the death tax?)
We are still waiting to see if Republicans get Osama to make an election eve appearance like he did in 2004. Maybe Bush will fake a disaster and suspend elections? If there's a way to cheat the Republicans will figure it out. So Democrats have to work harder to win elections that are slanted in favor of Republicans.
LONDON (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda terror suspect captured by the United States, who gave evidence of links between Iraq and the terror network, confessed after being tortured, a journalist told the BBC.
Iban al Shakh al Libby told intelligence agents that he was close to Al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri and "understood an awful lot about the inner workings of Al-Qaeda," former FBI agent Jack Clonan told the broadcaster.
Libby was tortured in an Egyptian prison, according to Stephen Grey, the author of the newly-released book "Ghost Plane" who investigated the secret US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA) prisons that housed terror suspects around the world.
US President George W. Bush confirmed the existence of the network of CIA holding facilities overseas during a September 6 speech defending controversial US interrogation practices.
Libby was apparently taken to Cairo, Clonan told the broadcaster, after being captured in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
"He (Libby) claims he was tortured in jail and that would be routine in Egyptian prisons," Grey said.
"What he claimed most significantly was a connection between ... Al-Qaeda and the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. This intelligence report made it all the way to the top, and was used by (former US secretary of state) Colin Powell as a key piece of justification ... for invading Iraq," he told the broadcaster.
Powell claimed in a UN Security Council meeting in February 2003, weeks before a US-led coalition invaded Iraq, that the country under Saddam Hussein had provided weapons training to Al-Qaeda, saying he could "trace the story of a senior terrorist operative", whom Grey alleges is Libby.
"At the time, the caveats to say this intelligence was extracted under torture were not provided," Grey said.
Grey said that, after being held in Egypt, Libby was transferred to a secret CIA facility in Bagram, just north of Afghanistan's capital Kabul. The journalist said he had also met other people held in that facility who describe the torture that Libby faced at the CIA facility.
Since then, "he disappeared", Grey said.
"Like hundreds of other people arrested after September 11, he's vanished into a sort of netherworld of prisons where astonishingly, President Bush now says the prisons have emptied.
Letter to the Editor
Republicans are saying that "All politics is local" and that the Iraq war is a national issue. I don't agree. We've had 3000 dead soldiers shipped back from Bush's wars. When your friends and relatives are shipped to your home town in a box, that's local. I think that the Republicans are making a serious error understanding what local means.
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There's an old saying that if you don't change course you might end up where you're heading. Think about that when you vote on November 7th.
Letter to the Editor
After occupying Iraq for 3 years we can't even win control of Baghdad. Every day we lose ground. That sad part is that 2800 of our troops and 650,000 Iraqis have died for nothing. Bush even failed to steal their oil. Maybe it's time to put Saddam Hussein back in power. As bad as it was then, it's actually worse now. We can't win because to win means we have to defeat the people who we are trying to liberate. The people there hate us and they want us to leave. When America goes to war for all the wrong reasons we should expect to lose. One thing for sure is that Bush and the Republicans who got us into this mess aren't going to be the ones who get us out.