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March 12, 2004

Was Bush AWOL from the Blount campaign?

Since the Democratic primary kicked off the story about Bush being AWOL from the ANG has been getting kicked around again. Some folks down in Charlotte, North Carolina are asking a former worker for the "Red" Blount campaign some questions about Bush's time in Alabama.

Archibald says Bush typically came to work around noon, hours later than other campaign workers. He says Bush often joked about drinking the night before and about getting out of legal scrapes while a student at Yale.

Bush's job on the campaign was state organizational director. His duties included getting signs, buttons and other material to campaign volunteers around the state. According to Archibald, a senior campaign official came to him one day and said the job wasn't being done and asked him to do it. He took over.

Archibald told Time that a group of headquarters volunteers thought Bush "looked good on the outside, but was full of hot air." They called him the Texas Soufflé.

I think John Kerry has been handed a nice rebuttle for when Bush call's himself a "war president".

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February 01, 2004

Back!

Wow...I used up all my bandwidth last month. :)

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December 28, 2003

Bad Beef

We were told last week that 1 cow stricken with "Mad Cow" disease. Then came news of a second herd being quarantined.

How long will it take for the third, fourth and fifth herds to be identified? Folks, this isn't something new. Oprah warned us about this years ago and she got sued, sending a message to everyone what will happen if you air the meat industries dirty, worst kept secret.
With shades of the Ford/Firestone fiasco, the media can no longer ignore the story and now the US is pointing a finger at Canada. The US begins to blame Canada even though they recently claimed it could take weeks, months or "that investigators might not succeed at all".(link to NYT--free blah blah required)

This doesn't look good for the US at all no matter how you look at this. The political implications are enormous since wide swaths of meat eating Americans will be possibly affected by a widespread outbreak of CJD. Not to mention the fact that a GOP lead Congress put the kibosh on a bill that might have helped prevent "downed-animals" from making it to the tables of America.

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Johnny Cash

I have been a fan of the "Man in Black" since I first heard him sing when I was a child. I recently saw a commercial on TV for his latest collection entitled "Unearthed", it is a box set of previously unreleased music. Those of you who don't know Johnny was a man of the people, specifically a working class man's hero and musician. Not suprisingly there is an upside-down American flag on the front of the box set cover.


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December 21, 2003

Dishonest Dubya

Ladies and Gentleman...just in time for Xmas...get your own Dishonest Dubya doll!

Another fine product from Angry Candy Productions.

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December 08, 2003

Remind Us

I am mirroring this file for Angry Candy. Enjoy our leader reminding us why we went to war.

Remind Us

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November 15, 2003

A telling quote from President Lincoln

"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon it's crimes. I have two great enemies, the (...) Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe..corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."

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November 07, 2003

Welcome to the blogroll

Big, Left, Outside

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November 05, 2003

In defense of DU.

Instacracker, Sully, and Pejman Yousefzadeh are participating in the most recent dog-pile on the Democratic Underground. The attack has been spawned from a truly terrible post, it has been deleted, that advocated the Iraqis to rise up and kill our troops in order to drive home the reality of war to "middle-America".

The thread was locked and, I'm ashamed to say, it spawned another thread in defense of Starpass' post. Both threads were roundly criticized and the people posting the comments wishing harm to our troops were just a handful at most. Andrew failed to point out the thread denouncing the idea that more dead soldiers are what we need.

To put this in perspective though it was George Bush who said, "bring 'em on". Instead of criticizing the President for calling on the opposition to attack our troops it was spun into something called "The Flypaper Strategery". The premise of this strategy was to fight the terrorists on their turf instead of in America. That sounds all well and good but the problem is we aren't facing "terrorists" like the ones that attacked the WTC. We are an occupying force facing a guerrilla insurrection. So Bush was asking these guerrillas to step up their attacks on our troops. Unfortunately for the US that is exactly what has happened.

Where is the moral clarity of Bush to ask the opposition to attack his troops?

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