Excerpt:  It was Tim Russert's first question to Senator Edward M. Kennedy during the senator's recent appearance on "Meet the Press." Kennedy, who voted against the resolution authorizing war with Iraq, dodged the query the first time it was posed directly to him, as well as every variation thereafter.

"You say, Senator, 'This thing was a fraud.' Do you believe that 573 Americans gave their lives for a fraud?" Russert probed ever more dramatically later in the interview.

"Absolutely not," replied Kennedy, who went on to talk about walking past the memorial honoring soldiers who died in Vietnam and later referred to excerpts of letters from soldiers, now dead, printed in Sunday's New York Times.

# Kennedy's a peckerwood, and so's the author of the article.

The war was a fraud, and wasn't worth the lives of any Americans. Period. They died for a fraud. Period.

And mild-mannered milquetoast politicians who can't say "fraud" are just perpetuating the fraud.   =H&HH=

# Bush says "The world is a better place without Saddam in it!"

Game Survey Says: THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE WITHOUT _______(insert name)________. (snicker)

Multiple entries accepted! Write your entry on the back of a $5 bill and mail to H&H;! The winner will receive a bumper sticker: "I won and all I got was this lousy bumper sticker!"

Results will be tallied and published on April 1st's edition of Unknown News.   =Prisoner50X=

Excerpt:  You don't hear much of that old "noble cause" rhetoric from the Republicans any more -- particularly not when Kerry is trying so hard to draw a distinction between his band of brothers and the somewhat less, ah, heroic group around President Bush. After all, the GOP has a new bloody shirt to wave now, a new war to flog. The Vietnam vets are last century's model, ready for the political scrap heap.

From the archives, March 17, 2004 —
Tennessee County wants
to outlaw homosexuality

From the archives, March 19, 2004 —
County rescinds vote to ban gay residents

Excerpt:  Two computer projects designed to preserve the privacy of Americans were quietly killed while Congress was restricting Pentagon data-gathering research in a widely publicized effort to protect citizens from futuristic anti- terrorism tools.

As a result, the government is quietly pressing ahead with research into high-powered computer data-mining technology without the two most advanced privacy protections developed to police those terror-fighting tools.

Background information —
Voting machines open new avenues for massive vote fraud

# Fascinating article. American CEO's out to be taken out behind the barn and shot, heheh. It's always the workers who suffer. To be fair though, in most Fortune 500 companies you rarely find any lower level workers willing to stand up and actually say that the emperor has no clothes...there is often a "don't rock the boat" attitude, with vast cubicle farms that specialize in growing lifers...

At any rate, if the Big 3 go down you will see an impact just like you would see if an asteroid landed in Walden Pond ;-)

[P.S. My Toyota pickup is 10 years old and has never had any problems. It always starts on the first try and whenever I take it to 10 Minute Oil Change the chief greaser asks me if I want to sell it ;-) I love my Toyota as much as the day I bought it...my first new car, and the first time I learned how it felt to be confident that my vehicle would start and not overheat or some damn thing!]   =Prisoner50X=

Excerpt:  A Riverside County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty Monday to 12 drug-related counts including stealing evidence and using methamphetamine and marijuana on duty, crimes that could bring an 11-year prison term.

Excerpt:  Bush, in his weekly radio address yesterday, again mentioned Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as justification for war and listed their removal as the primary mission. "Our mission is clear, to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people," he said.

# The Sydney Herald broke the story, and two U.S. officials lied that it wasn't true.   =H&HH=

Excerpt:  "We have seen intelligence over many months that they have chemical and biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and that they're weaponized and that, in one case at least, the command and control arrangements have been established."