November 6, 2006

THE THINKING SPOT

Former President Clinton says: " It isn't *cut and run*, it is *stop and think* time"

ALERT

Buzz Flash suggests: Don't let anyone get away with saying they are voting for a Republican because they "like" him or her. ANY Republican is an enabler of the Iraq War, the dismantling of our constitution, incompetence, arrogance, and contempt for democracy -- because they provide the votes that keep the Republicans in the majority.

WAR

Iran Tests New Missiles that can Reach U.S. Bases; Preparing to Share with Allies. And all because of the Iraq War
http://tinyurl.com/y8f5wj

Only 8% of Americans Support Iraq Strategy: Many adults in the United States believe their fed. dministration should alter its tactics in Iraq, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. 61 per cent of respondents believe the U.S. should change its military strategy.
http://tinyurl.com/t2mm5

We Had To Invade, They Were Working On Weapons Of Mass Disintegration”...
http://tinyurl.com/y6b6j5

Saddam Hussein sentenced to hang: Saddam's sentence will be automatically appealed and reviewed by a panel of appeal judges, who will decide whether or not to allow a retrial. If the judgement stands, however, Saddam must be executed within 30 days of the appeals panel delivering its verdict, the chief prosecutor has said.
http://tinyurl.com/ycsa7m

Iraqi president will not sign death warrant for Saddam : Iraq's new rulers split yesterday over whether to execute Saddam.
http://tinyurl.com/v8vax

THE WHITE HOUSE

An Ideology of Lying - "It is not news to anybody that Bush followers lie repeatedly and aggressively, but what does continue to amaze is that there is literally no limit on their willingness to do so even when - especially when - it requires them to ignore and contradict even the most glaring facts which everyone can see, as clear as day, right in front of our faces."
http://tinyurl.com/y5cytw

White House mad at candidate's snub
http://tinyurl.com/y2p2wz

Rove “Irritated” That GOP Candidate Snubbed Bush...
http://tinyurl.com/shcym

How Bush FBI investigation of Bin Laden - this will explain an awful lot - check this out! then How George W. Bush Stole the 2000 Election - Part 1 or 2, next is How George W. Bush Stole the 2000 Election - Part 2 of 2, and lastly Spoiled Ballots: How Bush Got "Elected" Twice (8", 17", 9", and 10 min respectively.
http://tinyurl.com/yx8jpr

POLITICS

Our Post-Election Nightmare: The President Declares Another Mandate --- "This result," Bush continued, "is a clear sign that the American people support my policies and most especially my Iraq policy that isn't cut and run. Sucks to be these guys, I guess."
http://tinyurl.com/ugdps

The Rat Pack --- "Ken Adelman, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney and Richard Perle have spent many years waiting for the opportunity to road-test their wild ideas about how to deal with the world, and with the installation of the Bush administration, they finally got their big chance. Now that the wheels are coming off, however, they are trying to pretend that none of this has anything to do with them."
http://tinyurl.com/y2xvht

SCANDAL

Anti-smoking ads cleverly boost smoking among teens:
http://tinyurl.com/y7oflc

Law-Enforcement Efficiency, 1999-2006: A Comparative Study --- Defendant: President William Jefferson Clinton Charge: Lying about a blow job Cost to the US taxpayer: $52 million Outcome: Impeached and found not guilty
http://tinyurl.com/y77cf6

LEGAL ITEMS

Feds Refusing FBI Terror Cases: The Justice Department increasingly has refused to prosecute FBI cases targeting suspected terrorists over the past five years,
http://tinyurl.com/y3cde5

FBI willing to go undercover in Congress if necessary - The new chief of the FBI's Criminal Division, which is swamped with public corruption cases, says the bureau is ramping up its ability to catch crooked politicians and might run an undercover sting on Congress.
http://tinyurl.com/yypv2k

Court rules Navy cannot deploy sonar that harms marine mammals:
http://tinyurl.com/yy3lyl

Birth control patch harms women's health, lawsuit alleges:
http://tinyurl.com/y5w3ta

ELECTION ITEMS

Do Republicans Think Black Voters Are Stupid?: There are reports out of Nashville that African Americans are getting phone calls telling them if they voted for Harold Ford Jr. in the August primary, they don't need to vote for him again now.
http://tinyurl.com/wkd69

Fourteen Senators Face Voters for the First Time since Authorizing Iraq War --- It should be remembered that it was the Democrats who controlled the Senate in the fall of 2002 when the Senate voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq. Majority leader Tom Daschle and assistant majority leader Harry Reid led the majority of their fellow Senate Democrats in voting to launch a war of aggression against a country that, despite their claims to the contrary, was no threat to the security of the United States.
http://tinyurl.com/ucpdw

Mud-slinging shows GOP's desperation - Contrary to Republican attempts to change the subject, tomorrow's midterm congressional elections are shaping up to be a referendum on President Bush's mishandling of the war in Iraq -- as they should be. The war has squandered hundreds of billions of dollars and taken nearly 3,000 American lives. It has damaged America's standing in the world and left it more vulnerable to terrorism. (No link available)

Virginia State Board of Elections Secretary Finds Widespread Incidents of Voter Suppression
http://tinyurl.com/y4ftxv

Democrat Jon Tester pulled ahead of incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns in the final days before the election, according to a USA Today/Gallup
http://tinyurl.com/y687qx

S.C. governor injures eyes from lights --- Sanford faces Democratic state Sen. Tommy Moore in Tuesday's election.
http://tinyurl.com/y782xu

Wal-Mart's 'last-minute donations' to Republicans
http://tinyurl.com/ymxc85

Looking for a Lifeboat --- A new NEWSWEEK poll shows that the GOP has lost more ground. Will rallying the base stem a Democratic tide?
http://tinyurl.com/y38p29

Fourteen Senators Face Voters for the First Time since Authorizing Iraq War
http://tinyurl.com/y7mlfe

The "GOP Surge" evaporates
http://tinyurl.com/yyva32

Republicans prepare for the worst as disaster looms in midterm elections (the latest polls suggesting that Democrats will seize control of the House of
http://tinyurl.com/ygz5fp

What GOP Surge? --- Bush supporters are trying to create the illusion of an even race to conceal a stolen election, but careful review of the available data shows it is just not so
http://tinyurl.com/tgerq

Updated House & Senate Projections
http://tinyurl.com/efp5w

Polling Report
http://tinyurl.com/2yl7e

New Hampshire Forces GOP To Stop Robo-Calls...
http://tinyurl.com/y3xppq

GOP Using Deceptive Robo-Call Smear Campaigns To Win Votes…
http://tinyurl.com/trhkj

Dem Candidate Webb Surges Ahead Of GOP's George Allen...
http://tinyurl.com/y5madt

NY State GOP Lashing Out At National Party For Lack Of Support...
http://tinyurl.com/w8phu

Bush Spending The Day Before Elections With Katherine Harris...(Nelson must be a sure thing)
http://tinyurl.com/y7zahr

New Telemarketing Ploy Steers Voters on Republican Path
http://tinyurl.com/sgpay

Bush Will Say Anything --- "The November 7 elections are shaping up as not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats, but a test of how gullible - and how divorced from reality - the American people have become."
http://tinyurl.com/u9423

BUSH DOING GOP MORE HARM THAN GOOD…
http://tinyurl.com/tcv62

Republican dirty tricks: Repeat calls not from Hodes : Democratic field offices received dozens of phone calls and e-mails from frustrated voters upset about repeated automated phone calls they thought were coming from Democratic candidate Paul Hodes - though the calls were paid for by a Republican group instead.
http://tinyurl.com/yenwhp

ECONOMY

As Drug Prices Climb, Democrats Find Fault With Medicare Plan - For big drug companies, the new Medicare prescription benefit is proving to be a financial windfall larger than even the most optimistic Wall Street analysts had predicted.
http://tinyurl.com/y7bncq

Ford Cuts Health Benefits, Merit Pay - Salaried workers at Ford Motor Co. won't get pay raises next year and they'll pay more for health insurance under benefit changes announced by the struggling automaker.
http://tinyurl.com/vssfa

High paying factory jobs continue to be replaced by low paying service industry jobs - While the unemployment rate fell by its lowest rate since May 2001 last month - the news isn't rosy in all sectors.
http://tinyurl.com/wgord

Once Safe, Public Pensions Are Now Facing Cuts - Years of supporting court interpretations have enshrined the view that once a public employee has earned a pension, no one can take it away. Even during New York City’s fiscal crisis 30 years ago, no existing pension promises were reduced. But now a number of state and local governments are quietly challenging those guarantees.
http://tinyurl.com/y58dz3

911

911 Dutch Treat? - And so, we are supposed to believe that even as multiple NORAD drills were underway, video surveillance tapes from multiple cameras at multiple locations in three different "Category X" high security international airports just happened to fail to capture images of ANY of the passengers - the good, the bad and the ugly - about to board the ill-fated flights of 9/11!
http://tinyurl.com/y2g7z4

Wife Of Flight 175 Victim Won't Talk About Govt 911 Involvment - Why such a discrepancy? Why do many of the WTC family members cry out for justice when most all airline family members, save lone wolf Ellen Mariani, remain quiet as church mice?
http://tinyurl.com/yy93jf

RELIGIOUS ITEMS

Evangelist's scandal fuels family-values debate --- Leading into Tuesday's election, when voters in eight states will decide on gay marriage bans, liberals and some conservatives are saying the party that prides itself on family values has a hypocrisy problem.
http://tinyurl.com/y2yl3k

Texas Gov.: Non-Christians 'doomed' -- At megachurch with GOPers; Non-believers 'condemned to hell.'
http://tinyurl.com/yyyqsn

Who's to blame for Pastor Haggard's fall from grace? His fat, lazy wife!
http://tinyurl.com/vrfof

ENVIRONMENT

U.S. defends itself on global warming - He was asked at a news conference whether reported pressure from British Prime Minister Tony Blair might have led to a change of attitude in the Bush administration toward Kyoto-style controls. "I certainly got no indication that there's any change in our position," the U.S. negotiator replied, "nor is there likely to be during this presidency."
http://tinyurl.com/y6u3v9

Wal-Mart pushes product suppliers towards greener packaging:
http://tinyurl.com/y52vx9

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Human-cow embryos in planning stages --- The hybrid human-bovine embryos would be used for stem cell research and would not be allowed to develop for more than a few days.
http://tinyurl.com/yyuwoo

INTERNATIONAL

Israel Prepares for Gay Pride Parade
http://tinyurl.com/w5qop

MILITARY

Bush Plans Post-Election Call Up Of National Guard And Reserves --- Plans are secretly underway for a surprise new call up of National Guard and Reserves to be announced sometime after the election.
http://tinyurl.com/y4f6f7

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Stephanopoulos failed to challenge Cheney Lies
http://tinyurl.com/sl37l

Blog axes post that 'outed' GOP cand.
http://tinyurl.com/y64je4

Iraqi blogger: Media shut down
http://tinyurl.com/y7tv66

McLaughlin: Kerry may be 'telling the truth' on Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/y9vw6y

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Rumsfeld and Hussein: Partners in Crime --- "In the course of making the world less safe for democracy, Donald Rumsfeld has overseen the slaughter of 650,000 Iraqis and 3,000 Americans. He has targeted civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances. He has used white phosphorous as a weapon on civilian famlies. He has used depleted uranium and a new form of napalm. (When did melting the skin off children become a family value?) He has approved the hiding of prsoners from the Red Cross, the detention of Americans and non-Americans without charge or counsel, and the use of torture. Acceptable torture techniques were posted on the wall at Abu Ghraib in the form of a memo from Rumsfeld," writes David Swanson.
http://tinyurl.com/yxywkq

Great Failures of the Extremely Unsuccessful: The History of the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress
http://tinyurl.com/t5lfa

HEALTH

Medicaid Wants Citizenship Proof for Infant Care : Under a new federal policy, children born in the United States to illegal immigrants with low incomes will no longer be automatically entitled to health insurance through Medicaid, Bush administration officials said Thursday.
http://tinyurl.com/ylugwc

Is LASIK too Risky for You?
http://tinyurl.com/t2x3e

Compulsive Hoarders
http://tinyurl.com/y6m4lq

Researchers Question Flu Vaccine Safety
http://tinyurl.com/y4tpto

Hardening of the Veins?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/u7hdd

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

The U.S. Constitution Explained - 5 Minute Video:
http://tinyurl.com/wrxba