the-peoples-patriot, a political Blog: 08/15/2004

Saturday, August 21, 2004

Want to know how Bush got in or at lease one of the reasons

"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
&
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
&
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.

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Friday, August 20, 2004

An Email from Senator Barbara Boxer

"U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer"
To: ********************************
Subject: Senator Boxer Asks Californians About Health Care
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:42:47 -0700

I thought you would be interested in the following
message. B

===================================================

Dear Friend:

It is hard to believe that 44 million Americans,
including 6.5
million Californians, are without any health
insurance
whatsoever. And for many who have health
insurance, it is
getting costlier all the time.

Part of the problem is that the price of health
insurance has
undergone record increases. In 2001, the average
cost for
individual coverage was $2,650. By 2003, the cost
was $3,383.
For the same time period, the cost of family
coverage rose from
$7,073 to $9,068.

I am working to increase access to affordable
health care
insurance and prescription drugs, and I would like
to hear your
ideas. On my Senate website, I have made available
a survey
where you can register your ideas. You will find
the survey
feature on my Senate website at
http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/survey.cfm .

I encourage you to visit my website and reply to
the questions
posed in the survey. I have pledged to do all I
can to help
working Americans solve the problems they
experience with
health care insurance, and knowing your views will
be important
to me.

Because of federal election rules, I will not be
able to post
full results of the survey until November. I
invite you to
return then to see the views of your fellow
Californians.

Sincerely,

Barbara Boxer
United States Senator

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For more information on Senator Boxer's record and
other
information, please go to:
http://www.boxer.senate.gov

If you would like to make a comment regarding this
or any other
federal matter, please feel free to do so at:
http://www.boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm

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BUSH FLIP FLOPS IN PANDER TO MIDWEST VOTERS

President Bush visited Michigan this week and said,
"We've got to use our resources wisely, like water.
It starts with keeping the Great Lakes water in the
Great Lakes Basin." He then attacked his political
opponents for supposedly equivocating on the issue,
and said, "My position is clear: We're never going
to allow diversion of Great Lakes water."[1] This
declaration, however, was a direct flip-flop from
statements the President made just three years ago.

According to The Associated Press in July of 2001,
"Bush said he wants to talk to Canadian Prime
Minister Jean Chretien about piping [Great Lakes] water
to parched states in the west and southwest."[2]
Though experts said, "diverting any water from the
Great Lakes region sets a bad precedent," the
President insisted, "A lot of people don't need [the
water], but when you head South and West, we do need
it."[3]

Sources:
1. "President's Remarks at Traverse City, Michigan
Rally," The White House, 08/16/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=51424.
2. "Bush's talk of North American water pact upsets
environmentalists, politicians," The Associated
Press, July 19, 2001.
3. "Remarks by the President in Roundtable
Interview with Foreign Press," The White House, 07/17/01,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=51425.

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Thursday, August 19, 2004

Want to read the Intel report on Iraq

http://web.mit.edu/simsong/www/iraqreport2-textunder.pdf

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BUSH "LIVING IN THE PAST" ON MISSILE DEFENSE

President Bush this week said that "those who
oppose ballistic missile
system[s] really don't understand the threats of
the 21st century. They're
living in the past." He then claimed, "We're going
to do what's necessary to
protect this country."[1] But a look at the
President's push for an unproven
defense system aimed at preventing a Cold War-style
attack while he
underfunds counterterrorism/homeland security shows
that he is the one whose
policies are wholly outdated. It also shows that,
in fact, he is not doing
everything necessary to protect America.

The missile defense system the President is pushing
is designed to shoot
down Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) -
a weapon experts agree
posed a far greater threat to America during the
Cold War. By contrast,
today the threat of 9/11-style terrorism is far
greater than that of an
ICBM. A missile defense system does nothing to
address that kind of
terrorism. Additionally, nonpartisan congressional
auditors this year found
that the missile defense system was wholly
unproven.[2]

Despite these facts, the President is pushing to
spend billions on the
system, while cutting funding for more pressing
national security programs.
Specifically, he is pushing a massive 9% cut to the
Nunn-Lugar program[3] -
the government's central effort to protect loose
nuclear material and
prevent that material from getting into the hands
of terrorists on the
international black market. He has also drastically
underfunded basic
homeland security programs, including grants to
first responders.[4]

To illustrate just how out of touch the President
has been on national
security issues, consider the summer before 9/11:
As the White House
received warnings of an imminent terrorist (not
ICBM) attack, the Bush
administration threatened to veto an urgent request
to shift $800 million
from missile defense into critical
counter-terrorism programs.[5]

Sources:

1. "President's Remarks in Ridley Park,
Pennsylvania ," The White House,
8/17/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=51069.
2. "Missile defense called unproven," San Francisco
Chronicle, 4/24/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=51070.
3. "Fact Sheet: GOP Budget and Homeland Security,"
HouseDemocrats.gov,
03/25/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=51071.
4. "The Bush Record: Homeland Insecurity,"
Democrats.org,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=51072.
5. "What Went Wrong.," Newsweek, 05/27/02,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=51073.

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Well, at lease he WAS in Vietnam , Kerry that is. 4 months. I don't think I've ever hear him say that though.

It's what they don't say that makes me sad. All of them Kerry or Bush of any of them;

John Kerry's service in Vietnam lasted 4 months and 12 days, beginning in November 1968 when he reported to Cam Ranh Bay for a month of training. His abbreviated combat tour ended shortly after he requested a transfer out of Vietnam on March 17, 1969, citing Navy instruction 1300.39 permitting personnel with three Purple Hearts to request reassignment. So far as we are able to determine, Kerry was the only Swift sailor ever to leave Vietnam without completing the standard one-year tour of duty, other than those who were seriously wounded or killed.

It is clear that at least one of Kerry's Purple Heart awards was the result of his own negligence, not enemy fire, and that Kerry went to unusual lengths to obtain the award after being turned down by his own commanding officer.

John Kerry has long insisted that using the three-injury loophole to leave combat early was his own idea, but Kerry's fellow Swift officer Thomas Wright, who served on occasion as the OIC (Officer in Charge) of Kerry's boat group, contradicts that claim. Wright reports that he "had a lot of trouble getting Kerry to follow orders," and that those who worked with Kerry found him "oriented towards his personal, rather than unit goals and objectives." He therefore requested that Kerry be removed from his boat group. After John Kerry qualified for his third Purple Heart, Thomas Wright and two fellow officers informed him of the obscure regulation, and told him to go home. Wright concluded, "We knew how the system worked and we didn’t want him in Coastal Division 11."

Constructing a complete picture of Kerry's service is difficult due to gaps in the Naval records provided by the Kerry campaign. These gaps include missing and incomplete fitness reports, missing medical records and missing records related to his medal awards.

For this reason we call upon Senator Kerry to authorize complete access to all his military records by filing a standard Form 180, a simple two-page release form.

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is in the process of researching John Kerry's time in Vietnam by conducting interviews with eyewitnesses to his activities, and we plan to add material to this section over the next several weeks as it becomes available. We will report the true circumstances of Kerry's medal awards and injuries, describe other controversial missions, and provide in-depth analysis of his fitness reports.

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Kerry's Medals

1st Purple Heart: December 2, 1968

2nd Purple Heart: February 20, 1969

Silver Star: February 28, 1969

Bronze Star / 3rd Purple Heart: March 13, 1969

.
Other Missions

Christmas in Cambodia: December 25, 1968

Sampan Incident: January 20, 1969.

.
Fitness Reports

Analysis of John Kerry's Fitness Reports

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BUSH "LIVING IN THE PAST" ON MISSILE DEFENSE

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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

REPORT SHOWS BUSH IGNORING CHEMICAL SECURITY

President Bush this week said, "We're going to do
what's necessary to protect this country."[1] But
according to a comprehensive new report, the Bush
administration has not only failed to safeguard
vulnerable terrorist targets at home, it has actively
blocked government initiatives to safeguard the most
dangerous materials that could be used in a
terrorist attack.

According to the nonpartisan Working Group on
Community Right-to-Know, the Bush administration has
blocked an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
initiative to impose security measures for extremely
hazardous chemicals stored at power plants across the
country. As a result, some 3.5 million people
living near these non-nuclear power plants continue to
face the danger that a terrorist attack could send a
cloud of toxic and lethal gas into their
neighborhoods. The report also details how opposition from
chemical manufacturers has derailed a bill in
Congress, the Chemical Security Act, which would have
required facilities using the most dangerous chemicals
to consider safer technologies and use them where
practicable.[2]

Since 2000, the chemical industry has donated more
than $17 million to President Bush and Republican
congressional candidates.[3] These companies have
also given more than $6 million in soft money to the
Republican National Committee.[4]

See the full report here,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50995.

Sources:

1. "President's Remarks in Ridley Park,
Pennsylvania ," The White House, 8/17/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50996.
2. "Unnecessary Dangers: Emergency Chemical Release
Hazards at Power Plants," Working Group on
Community Right-to-Know, July, 2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50995.
3. "Chemical & Related Manufacturing: Long-Term
Contribution Trends ," Center for Responsive Politics,
07/5/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50997.
4. "Soft Money for Misc Business in 2002,"
OpenSecrets.Org,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50998.

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Yes, Kerry Did Skip Three-Quarters of Senate Intel Committee's Public Hearings

By FactCheck.org
Aug 18, 2004, 06:52

A Bush-Cheney '04 ad released Aug. 13 accuses Kerry of being absent for 76% of the Senate Intelligence Committee's public hearings during the time he served there. The Kerry campaign calls the ad "misleading," so we checked, and Bush is right.
Official records show Kerry not present for at least 76% of public hearings held during his eight years on the panel, and possibly 78% (the record of one hearing is ambiguous).

Kerry points out that most meetings of the Intelligence Committee are closed and attendance records of those meetings aren't public, hinting that his attendance might have been better at the non-public proceedings. But Kerry could ask that his attendance records be made public, and hasn't.

Aides also claimed repeatedly that Kerry had been vice chairman of the intelligence committee, but that was Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, not John Kerry.

Analysis
Kerry often touts his eight years on the Senate Intelligence Committee as a prime qualification for office. The Bush ad takes that on, describing Kerry as a no-show for most of the committee's public meetings. If anything, the ad understates Kerry's lack of attendance.

Public Hearings

The Bush ad shows Kerry promising to "immediately reform the intelligence system," then counters with an announcer saying "as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee Kerry was absent for 76 percent of the committee's public hearings." As support for that statement, the Bush campaign states that Kerry is listed as present at only 11 of the 49 public meetings of the committee while he was a member, from 1993 through January, 2001, when Kerry left the committee.

FactCheck.org examined the official, published records of those hearings. And indeed, Kerry is listed as attending only 11 of those hearings.

Kerry's apparent absence from 38 of the hearings actually figures out to an absentee rate of 77.6%.

However, the Bush ad's lower figure plays it safe -- giving Kerry credit for attending one hearing for which the record is a bit ambiguous. The record of that hearing, on June 22, 1999, lacks the usual list of the senators and staff members who attended. We checked the full transcript for any sign that Kerry had been there, and found no record of Kerry speaking, or anyone else noting his presence. If Kerry is counted as absent from that hearing as well as the others, he missed nearly 78%. But if he attended and didn't speak, then he would have missed only 37 of the 49, for a no-show rate of 75.5%, which the ad properly rounds up to 76%.

In a rebuttal to the ad, the Kerry camp accused Bush of "fuzzy math and bad stats," saying "They rely only on whether Sen... Kerry made statements in one of a small number of open hearings." That's not true. Records list senators and staff members as being present whether or not they spoke, and -- to repeat -- the 76 percent figure actually gives Kerry credit for attending one hearing for which there's no evidence of his participation.

The rest of the story

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Bush Blocking Safe Chemical Alternatives at Vulnerable Power Plants

"He who is willing to give up freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
&
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams

In the almost three years since September 11, the Bush administration has not only failed to safeguard vulnerable terrorist targets here at home, it has actively blocked an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiative to impose security measures for extremely hazardous chemicals stored at power plants across the country.

As a result, according to a new report by the Working Group on Community Right-to-Know, some 3.5 million people living near these non-nuclear power plants continue to face the danger that a terrorist attack could send a cloud of toxic and lethal gas into their neighborhoods.

Titled Unnecessary Dangers:Emergency Chemical Release Hazards at Power Plants, the report describes how a sudden release of ammonia or chlorine from a power plant could kill and injure far more people than the tragedy of September 11.

Power plants burning coal or oil use ammonia in air pollution control equipment and chlorine in their cooling water systems. The report calls for power plants to shift to safer chemicals, which are available today and would all but eliminate the hazard. [1]

"Safer chemicals should be the option of first resort," Paul Orum, the author of Unnecessary Dangers told BushGreenwatch. "We know security systems will fail". The Working Group on Community Right-to-Know website contains excerpts from numerous media reports which have documented security breaches at facilities storing chemicals around the country. "Power plants are only one industry among many that pose chemicals emergency release hazards to communities," he added.

Unnecessary Dangers reports that EPA was making final preparations in June 2002 to announce new security requirements for power plants and other industries with stores of hazardous chemicals. The staff had already drafted a press release and talking points, when the White House suddenly stepped in and blocked the regulatory initiative.

The report also details how opposition from chemical manufacturers has derailed a bill in Congress, the Chemical Security Act, which would have required facilities using the most dangerous chemicals to consider safer technologies and use them where practicable.

The report makes it clear that a power company's choice of chemicals determines the danger to the surrounding community:

The choice of anhydrous ammonia by some 166 power plants endangers 21,000 people on average around each facility.

The choice of the far less dangerous aqueous ammonia by 69 power plants endangers an average of 205 people off-site.

The chlorine gas used at 40 power plants endangers on average 4,600 neighbors.
Orum says power plants can readily substitute safer chemicals that work just as well for pollution control and cooling systems. Urea can replace the extremely hazardous anhydrous ammonia, and chlorine bleach or bromine can replace chlorine gas. Unnecessary Dangers identifies the 225 power plants of concern and the specific chemicals used.

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SOURCES:
[1] Unnecessary Dangers:Emergency Chemical Release Hazards at Power Plants, Working Group on Community Right-to-Know.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2004

How do you spell Bush, I think you spell it HITLER

Rep. Porter Goss, President Bush’s nominee to head the CIA, recently introduced legislation that would give the president new authority to direct CIA agents to conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United States—including arresting American citizens.

The rest of the story

Call your Rep. and anyone else you can think of. This is now gone very very bad.

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Report Shows How Bush Is Squeezing Middle Class

President Bush is now barnstorming the country
claiming his record shows that he cares about America's
middle class. On everything from taxes to health
care to workers wages, the President says he has
fought for average Americans. But a new comprehensive
report shows that in almost every key economic area,
he has actually gone to bat for his wealthiest
contributors, at everyone else's expense.

According to a cover story in this month's American
Prospect, Bush has pushed policies that benefit the
major special interests funding his campaign, while
rejecting commonsense, bipartisan proposals that
would help the middle class. On taxes, for instance,
Bush has claimed, "If you're struggling to get into
middle class and you feel like you're paying plenty
of taxes, take a look at my agenda."[1] Yet, as the
Prospect report points out, Bush's tax policies
have actually shifted more of the tax burden off of
the wealthy, and onto the middle class.[2] His
policies have also raised federal fees on the middle
class, and forced state and local governments to raise
middle class taxes to deal with the record federal
deficits.

On health care, Bush has said he is working "to
help more American families get health insurance."[3]
Yet, as the Prospect report shows, the only major
initiative Bush has offered is an industry-backed
proposal that experts say could further raise health
insurance premiums and deductibles for average
Americans. Similarly, Bush has refused to support real
legislation to lower the price of prescription
drugs in America.

On wages, Bush has said he wants to help Americans
earn better paychecks - but as the Prospect report
shows, he has simultaneously refused to support a
minimum wage increase while pushing to eliminate
overtime pay protections for millions of workers.

Read the full American Prospect report online here,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50799.

Sources:
1. "President Emphasizes Minority Entrepreneurship
at Urban League," The White House, 7/23/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50800.
2. "CBO Report: Bush Tax Cuts Tilted to Rich,"
Yahoo!News, 08/13/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50801.
3. "Remarks by the President at Traverse City,
Michigan Rally," The White House, 07/23/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50802.

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Monday, August 16, 2004

BUSH MISLEADS ON DISTRIBUTION OF TAX CUTS

As a presidential candidate in 2000, George W. Bush
pledged his tax cut
proposals "are especially focused on low and
moderate income families."[1]
Those proposals became law - but a new study by the
non-partisan
Congressional Budget office reveals that Bush
mislead America about their
distribution.[2]

According to the CBO study, the wealthiest 1
percent of all taxpayers -
whose earnings average $1.2 million - are receiving
an average tax cut of
$78,420 this year.[3] Meanwhile, the middle 20
percent of taxpayers - whose
earnings average $51,000 - are getting only a
$1,090 cut.[4] Those in the
bottom 20% - averaging earnings of $16,620 - get
just a $250 cut.[5] The
result: "President Bush's tax cuts have shifted
federal tax payments from
the richest Americans to a wide swath of
middle-class families."[6]

Sources:

1. "A Tax Cut with a Purpose," GeorgeWBush.com,
archived from 11/2000,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50505.
2. "Effective Federal Tax Rates Under Current Law,
2001 to 2014,"
Congressional Budget Office, 08/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50509.
3. "Report Finds Tax Cuts Heavily Favor the
Wealthy," New York Times,
08/13/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50506.
4. Ibid,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50506.
5. Ibid,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50506.
6. "Tax Burden Shifts to the Middle," Washington
Post, 08/13/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2460565&l=50507.

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Administration Ignores Terrorist Potential in Its Own Backyard

The Bush administration, which has ventured thousands of miles away to pursue still unsubstantiated reports of weapons of mass destruction, continues to thwart efforts to eliminate the very real danger of catastrophic terrorist attacks right in the nation's own backyard.

The threat consists of chemical-laden railroad tank cars-- lethal cargoes which the US Department of Transportation characterizes as potential "Weapons of Mass Destruction."

A hair-raising photo taken last September shows the Capitol dome in the background with a loaded, clearly identified, extremely dangerous chlorine tank car passing in the foreground, on tracks just blocks away (dangerous cargoes carry this identification to assist firemen and emergency personnel responding to an accident).

"This photo is an indictment of non-homeland security," says Dr. Fred Millar, a rail security specialist who served as a consultant to Friends of the Earth on the issue of terrorism and dangerous rail cargoes. "The blindness on this is stunning," Millar told Bushgreenwatch.

The simple, effective solution-- opposed by the chemical industry, the railroads, and the Bush administration-- is to reroute hazardous cargoes away from cities ranked as major targets for terrorists, such as Washington, New York, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

A sudden release of chlorine from a 90-ton rail tank car could create a cloud 40 miles long and 4 miles wide and be fatal 8 to 10 miles downwind. [1] If terrorists ruptured a tank car on tracks near the Washington Mall during public events such as the Fourth of July or the Inauguration, the deadly cloud could kill 100,000 people in a half-hour, according to estimates from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratories. [2]

Dr. Millar, who also sits on DC's Local Emergency Planning Committee, has urged the DC City Council to enact a proposal to prevent the four most dangerous cargoes from passing through by rail or highway when practical alternative routes exist. "This seems a no-brainer," he told the council last October, "since re-routing would eliminate the attractiveness [to terrorists]." This could be done along the Eastern seaboard by shifting hazardous cargo to a rail route which runs largely through a rural corridor instead of major cities such as Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Newark. [3]

If anyone doubts how easy it would be to sabotage a rail car, all one need do is take a look at the rail cars passing the Capitol with graffiti sprayed all over them. That graffiti wasn't put there by any security police.

Although the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has conducted a study of the vulnerability of the Washington area's rail system to terrorist attack, it has repeatedly delayed the release. While awaiting this federal report, the DC Council has held back on the rerouting legislation.

On Capitol Hill, Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) proposed a bill that would mandate DHS to reroute dangerous chemical cargoes, but Congress failed to take up the measure before going on recess. When promulgating regulations on hazardous cargo security in March 2003, the Bush administration dropped any mention of routing from the final rule.

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SOURCES:
[1] Chlorine Institute, Pamphlet 74.
[2] Testimony of Jay P. Borris, chief scientist at US Naval Research Laboratories before District of Columbia Council, Oct. 6, 2003.
[3] Testimony of Dr. Fred Millar on Bill 15-25 "Terrorism Prevention and Safety In Hazardous Materials Transportation Act of 2003," Jan. 23, 2004.

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If I asked you, "Have you seen "Outfoxed"? What would you say, "what's that"?

IT's a movie and it's a DVD like Fahrenheit 9/11 only on the news media in this country. I watch the BBC channel on my TV so I get "the news" and not "a message for Bush". And if you REALLY want to know what the rest of the world thinks of the United States watch the BBC (British Broadcast Corp.) channel.

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (This is another area ware most just say that "I'm nuts". Well, looks like I'm not the only nut on the tree.)

Outfoxed" examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. The film explores Murdoch's burgeoning kingdom and the impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person. Media experts, including Walter Cronkite, Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society. This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."

WE ARE SHOTING OURSELFS IN THE FOOT HERE. QUESTION MORE AND BELIEVE LESS OF WHAT THE "TALKING HEADS" SAY.

Glad you saw Fahrenheit 9/11? Or sorry you missed it? Want more info or want to know where the movie is showing, just do a search on "Outfoxed". The Internet, the empowering tool. Use it. Before you lose it.

IF you want to buy it, and that's my way because it on'y $8 to $10 online at overstock.com I plain to have people over to see it. Over 100,00 copies sold so far.

If you don't believe it after you'ver seen it fine, but at lease see it...

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Some Gov website on your privacy

And go ahead a go to these site even if you don't live in CA., they don't ask. And then see if you can find a website like for that office in your state.

Caif. Depaart. of Consumer affairs, www.privacy.ca.gov

Senate Office of Research, www.sen.ca.gov/privacy/privacy.htm

Calif. State Attorney Gen. www.ag.ca.gov

Federal Trade Commission, www.ftc.gov

FirstGov for Comsumers, www.consumers.gov

Sunday, August 15, 2004

What's your IQ?

A popular bar in Middle America had a new robotic bartender installed.

A fellow came in for a drink and the robot asked him, 'What's your IQ?'

The man replied, '150.'

So the robot proceeded to make conversation about Quantum physics,

string theory, atomic chemistry, Baroque composers, 17th century

metaphysical poetry, the history of the director in theatre and so on.

The man listened intently and thought, 'This is really cool.'

The man decided to test the robot. He walked out of the bar, turned

around, and came back in for another drink.

Again, the robot asked him, 'What's your IQ?'

The man responded, '100.'

So the robot started talking about football, baseball, the latest action

film, TV talk shows, thrash rock music of the early 1980's, and so on.

The man thought to himself, 'Wow, this is amazing.'

The man went out and came back in a third time. As before, the robot

asked him, 'What's your IQ?'

The man replied, '50.'

The robot then said...

'So, you gonna vote for Bush again?'

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Saturday, August 21, 2004

Want to know how Bush got in or at lease one of the reasons

Friday, August 20, 2004

An Email from Senator Barbara Boxer

BUSH FLIP FLOPS IN PANDER TO MIDWEST VOTERS

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Want to read the Intel report on Iraq

BUSH "LIVING IN THE PAST" ON MISSILE DEFENSE

Well, at lease he WAS in Vietnam , Kerry that is. 4 months. I don't think I've ever hear him say that though.

BUSH "LIVING IN THE PAST" ON MISSILE DEFENSE

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

REPORT SHOWS BUSH IGNORING CHEMICAL SECURITY

Yes, Kerry Did Skip Three-Quarters of Senate Intel Committee's Public Hearings

Bush Blocking Safe Chemical Alternatives at Vulnerable Power Plants

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

How do you spell Bush, I think you spell it HITLER

Report Shows How Bush Is Squeezing Middle Class

Monday, August 16, 2004

BUSH MISLEADS ON DISTRIBUTION OF TAX CUTS

Administration Ignores Terrorist Potential in Its Own Backyard

If I asked you, "Have you seen "Outfoxed"? What would you say, "what's that"?

Some Gov website on your privacy

Sunday, August 15, 2004

What's your IQ?

Agree or not, talking it over is better...

Saturday Night Live - Palin / Hillary Open

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