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[09 Sep 2004|01:14am] |
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Georgie "served", but John Kerry didn't deserve his medals?????
REPORT SHOWS BUSH WAS AWOL
Earlier this year, President Bush told the nation "I did my duty" in the National Guard in 1972 when he was supposed to report for service.[1] But according to a major new report, that is not true.
As a new examination of documents by the Boston Globe shows, "Bush fell well short of meeting his military obligation." Twice during his Guard service - first when he joined in May 1968, and again before he transferred out of his unit in mid-1973 to attend Harvard Business School - Bush signed documents pledging to meet training commitments or face a punitive call-up to active duty. But "he didn't meet the commitments, or face the punishment, the records show."[2] ( Read more... )
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[09 Sep 2004|01:39am] |
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Way too cute. :)
A three year old boy in his bath examined his testicles and asked, "Mommy, are these my brains?"
Mom said, "Not yet, honey."
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[09 Sep 2004|08:09am] |
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Georgie and his Cronies are the ones that should be on the Endangered Species List.....
WHISTLEBLOWING FLORIDA BIOLOGIST COULD STILL LOSE HIS JOB DESPITE FAVORABLE COURT RULING
Biologist Andrew Eller is still facing dismissal from his job at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, even though a federal judge has upheld his scientific findings on protecting the endangered Florida panther. [1]
Late last month U.S. District Judge James Robertson threw out a permit for a rock mining operation near Fort Myers, Florida, ruling in favor of a coalition comprised of the National Wildlife Federation, Florida Wildlife Federation and Florida Panther Society, which filed the case against the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Army Corps of Engineers.
Judge Robertson found that the Service had erred in its finding that the mine was no risk to the Florida panther, saying the agency should have considered the cumulative impact of varied developments in panther habitat, rather than the mine as an isolated project. ( Read more... )
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