October 20, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

I was right when I saw Bush walk across the stage at his first presidential bid, I told my husband, "That is a *Little Napoleon* strutting across that stage or I don't have four kids. Sure enough, we got us a piece of Texas Trailer Trash full of greed and with no sense of self-worth to head up our fantastic democratic experience. Geez, I hope folks have gotten their belly full of this pathetic asshole!!!!! jkh

GOP *el sicko* HYPOCRITE OF THE WEEK

Craig Schelske BuzzFlash, Shelske's wife, Sara Evans, accused him of adultery, addiction to pornography, sexual obsession and watching pornography with their kids,
http://tinyurl.com/ycmwn6

WAR

Top US general says Rumsfeld is inspired by God Top --- "He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country," **** So Rumsfeld is 'hearing voices' now and it's God who's talking to him? That explains much.****
http://tinyurl.com/y6e3fp

Reflecting on Rumsfeld --- We are suffering from the most well-funded thought-control experiment in history, more sophisticated and deadly by many orders of magnitude than anything contrived by Kim Jong Il

General Concedes Failure in Baghdad --- A day after George Bush conceded for the first time that America may have reached the equivalent of a Tet offensive in Iraq, the Pentagon yesterday admitted defeat in its strategy of securing Baghdad.
http://tinyurl.com/ybjh3d

Troops With Stress Disorders Being Redeployed --- Soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder are being recycled back into combat. "It's flat-out not a good idea," says Dr. John Wilson, an expert in combat trauma.
http://tinyurl.com/y9r5bb

Bush Issues Doctrine for US Control of Space
http://tinyurl.com/yfbhb9
Comment: it is my understanding that any war we have is simply to test our latest toys. Our main objective for a long while has been to control outer space. He who controls the goings and comings of space will run the show.

THE WHITE HOUSE
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"A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.": Plato - (429-347 BC) - Source: The Republic
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Bush defies Senate, appoints mine agency head - President George W. Bush appointed former energy executive Richard Stickler to head the federal mine safety agency on Thursday, even though the U.S. Senate rejected Stickler's nomination twice in two months.
http://tinyurl.com/yap5da

President Bush Receives Negative Ratings on All 11 Issues Included in Latest Harris Poll - With Healthcare, Iraq, Hurricane Relief, Taxes and Economy Getting Worst Marks
http://tinyurl.com/yalhye

If Bush Voters Read the National Examiner and Globe Tabloids, It's Not Looking Good for George
http://tinyurl.com/ye8yog

SCANDAL

Why is the White House so Eerily Confident about the Coming Elections? --- Remember how Bush sat with his family as Florida went for Gore and Bush looked totally confident that everything would go his way. My, my Dear -Diebold is what Bush knows we don't - don't you think?.
http://tinyurl.com/yfo9js

House clerk warned GOP about Foley years ago
http://tinyurl.com/ycl5h8

Rep. Rodney Alexander's office sued for sexual harassment --- "Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.), already enmeshed in the ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) page scandal, now faces a new controversy as a former staffer has sued his office for sexual harassment," John Bresnahan reports.
http://tinyurl.com/vg4qj

Waitress Accuses GOP Congressman Of Threatening To Rape Her, Recants Charges...
http://tinyurl.com/yl2ewq

GOP House Appropriations Chair Lewis Fires 60 Staffers Investigating Corruption - The House Appropriations Committee has fired about 60 private contractors who made up most of an investigative unit that was auditing billions of dollars in government spending, including the $62 billion federal relief package for Hurricane Katrina.
http://tinyurl.com/ygtjcj

LEGAL ISSUES

Skilling's Last Stand --- Former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling stands to face a judge and a possible decades-long prison sentence Monday.
http://tinyurl.com/ym8r42
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting: Justice William J. Brennan, 1982
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Battles brewing on torture, detainees --- blatantly unconstitutional" because it denies detainees the right to challenge their detention in court.
http://tinyurl.com/yaru9j

Law's Reach Extends to Jails in U.S. --- The military tribunals bill signed by President Bush on Tuesday marks the first time the right of habeas corpus has been curtailed by law for millions of people in the United States.Many legal scholars predict the law's partial repeal of habeas corpus will be struck down as unconstitutional -LA Times
http://tinyurl.com/ydaymh

Canadian Court Ruling Upholds Freedom of the Press --- A court struck down sections of a Canadian anti-terrorism law Thursday, in a ruling that threw out warrants used to search the home of a reporter covering US efforts to secretly send a Canadian terror suspect to Syria for interrogation.
http://tinyurl.com/ybjh3d

ELECTION ISSUES
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Democrats – remember this fine suggestion – don't do as I do, do as Abraham says: I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends author: Abraham Lincoln
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The Bush Kiss of Death for a Washington GOP Congressman
http://tinyurl.com/yzk3vn

Former delegate gets purported Diebold code (Note that the focus is on finding and silencing the whistleblowers, rather than checking the voting machine code for back doors.) ......Diebold Election Systems Inc. expressed alarm and state election officials contacted the FBI yesterday after a former legislator received an anonymous package containing what appears to be the computer code that ran Maryland's polls in 2004. --- Cheryl C. Kagan, a longtime critic of Maryland's elections chief, says the fact that the computer disks were sent to her - along with an unsigned note criticizing the management of the state elections board - demonstrates that Maryland's voting system faces grave security threats.
http://tinyurl.com/y9ua86

New Laws and Machines May Spell Voting Woes
http://tinyurl.com/yaukv4
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The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do: Joseph Stalin , Premier of the Soviet state, 1941-1953
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Toss-up! GOP, Dems Battle For Senate Control Down Stretch --- Democratic challengers lead in Penn., Ohio Senate races; Talent up in Missouri; Allen clings to narrow lead in Va.
http://tinyurl.com/vmn2z

ECONOMY

More Homeowners Going Into Default - The number of Californians who are significantly behind on their mortgage payments and at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure more than doubled in the three months ended Sept. 30, providing the latest evidence of trouble in the housing market, figures released Wednesday show.
http://tinyurl.com/yl4xfn

Australian Treasurer Seeks Orderly Withdrawal From U.S. Dollar --- Treasurer, Peter Costello has called on East Asia's central bankers to "telegraph" their intentions to diversify out of American investments and ensure an orderly adjustment.
http://tinyurl.com/yyskpl

Medicare drug plan was bait-and-switch scheme; plan prices to skyrocket next year:
http://tinyurl.com/y5p43q

ENVIRONMENT

Ozone Hole Now As Large As North America...It is primarily caused by human-produced compounds that release chlorine and bromine gases in the stratosphere.
http://tinyurl.com/yzcr7v

MILITARY

Troops' debt a growing security concern - Thousands of U.S. troops are being barred from overseas duty because they are so deep in debt they are considered security risks, according to an Associated Press review of military records.
http://tinyurl.com/y2g4nz

HEALTH

Medicare Drug Aid No Longer Automatic for Most Vulnerable --- More than 600,000 low-income elderly and disabled people who automatically received federal help to pay for their Medicare drug coverage this year will have to actively apply to get such assistance in 2007, Medicare officials said yesterday.
http://tinyurl.com/yapgmm

GAO Advises Agency on Condom Information - Government auditors reminded the Bush administration Thursday that literature distributed by federally funded abstinence programs must contain medically accurate information about condoms' effectiveness in preventing sexually transmitted diseases.
http://tinyurl.com/yds9fu

Doctors accuse Eli Lilly of trying to buy regulatory influence to benefit sepsis drug
http://tinyurl.com/yggr4x

Ritalin stunts growth of preschoolers; 40 percent develop side effects
http://tinyurl.com/yj5nyf

Diabetes drug Metformin found to cause vitamin B12 deficiency
http://tinyurl.com/ygvort

FDA approves Merck's Januvia diabetes drug that claims to treat diabetes but only alters symptoms, health author says:
http://tinyurl.com/y6w82f

Medical journals begin cracking down on fraudulent studies funded by drug companies:
http://tinyurl.com/yym5q9

Pomegranate juice protects diabetics from heart disease:
http://tinyurl.com/y6hlkv

Medication reactions send 700,000 Americans a year to emergency rooms:
http://tinyurl.com/y3t3ws

Grape seed extract halts colorectal cancer:
http://tinyurl.com/spvko

Deep-fried coke a big hit at state fairs; health author calls treat "metabolic time bomb":
http://tinyurl.com/yl36yw

Cinnamon extract shown to reduce oxidative stress of metabolic syndrome:
http://tinyurl.com/yjar9u

Cancer diagnosis doubles suicide rate in patients:
http://tinyurl.com/yayf23

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Funeral home directors conspired to steal body parts from cadavers,then sell to biomedical supply companies
http://tinyurl.com/ylqtd6

Happy + confident = poor math skills
http://tinyurl.com/yhv7qe