| Jon's Soapbox..... |
[17 Sep 2004|01:30am] |
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He wouldn't do a thing like that would he???
REPORT SHOWS CHENEY WENT ABROAD TO ATTACK AMERICA
Vice President Cheney has regularly attacked the national security
credentials of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), calling him weak on terrorism. But
according to a new report, it was Cheney who actually did business with
terrorist countries and traveled abroad to attack America's
counter-terrorism efforts in the 1990s.
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| Jon's Green Soapbox..... |
[17 Sep 2004|01:32am] |
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If we sell the world off to big business, what are we going to do when they use it all up?????
JUDGE FINDS BUSH COMMERCE DEPARTMENT PUT POLITICS OVER SCIENCE
IN "DOLPHIN SAFE" TUNA ACTIONS
A federal judge has issued a stinging rebuke to the Bush
administration by ruling that the Commerce Department allowed
politics, not science, to determine whether to relax the
"dolphin safe" label for tuna sold in the U.S.
In a harshly worded opinion, San Francisco-based U.S. District
Judge Thelton Henderson last month overturned an earlier
Commerce Department finding that dolphins were not harmed by
Mexican tuna boats when they encircled schools of tuna with
purse seine nets.
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| Dear Diary..... |
[17 Sep 2004|03:10am] |
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Here is a little joke I got from my friend,  angieblue.
The following was recovered from the diary of a young beautiful lady after taking a week-long cruise.
MONDAY: Dear Diary: What a wonderful cruise this is going to be! I felt singularly honored this evening. The Captain personally asked me to dine at his table. Great food and lively conversation.
TUESDAY: Dear Diary: I spent the entire afternoon on the bridge with the Captain. It was a very interesting place to be, but I didn't understand all the technical instruments.
WEDNESDAY: Dear Diary: This evening the Captain made proposals to me unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. While he is an attractive man, I'm not that type of a lady.
THURSDAY: Dear Diary: Tonight the Captain threatened to sink the ship if I do not give in to his indecent proposals!
FRIDAY: Dear Diary:
This afternoon I saved 1,600 lives. Twice!
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| Jon's Green Soapbox..... |
[17 Sep 2004|10:09pm] |
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You're not hiding anything are you, Dickie?????
HOUSE GOP BLOCKS EFFORT TO OBTAIN CHENEY ENERGY TASK FORCE DATA
Environmental and government watchdog groups reacted angrily
Thursday to a House committee vote rejecting a resolution that
would have directed the Bush administration to release documents
and information surrounding Vice President Dick Cheney's secret
Energy Task Force meetings.
"The American people have a right to know what went on behind
closed doors," Anna Aurilio, legislative director for U.S. PIRG,
told BushGreenwatch. "We are extremely disappointed that the
House committee voted to keep the public in the dark about the
Bush administration's secret meetings with big corporations."
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| Jon's Soapbox..... |
[17 Sep 2004|10:12pm] |
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Why am I not surprised???
ADMINISTRATION MISLEADS ON PROSPECTS IN IRAQ
In late July, a report prepared for the President by his National Intelligence Counsel spelled out "a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq."[1] According to the New York Times, "the estimate outlines three possibilities for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst case being developments that could lead to civil war, the officials said. The most favorable outcome described is an Iraq whose stability would remain tenuous in political, economic and security terms."[2] But that didn't stop Bush and other members of the administration from telling the American people that Iraq was headed in the right direction.
On August 5, President Bush said, "[Iraq is] on the path to lasting democracy and liberty."[3] On August 24, Vice President Cheney told voters in Iowa that "We're moving in the right direction [in Iraq]."[4] And this Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Iraqis were "working at making a success out of that country...And I think they've got a darned good crack at making it." [5]
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