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Don't Blame Me I Voted 4 Kerry

Elizabeth Edward: Patience shall be rewarded

Daily Kos :: Elizabeth Edward: Patience shall be rewarded: "Elizabeth Edward's post on Democrat Underground:

Something to mull over... I hope she and Teddy are right!

Elizabeth Edward's post on Democrat Underground:
... I want to share something inspiring, part of a letter from Thomas Jefferson.. Jefferson sent the letter in 1798 after the passage of the Sedition Act:

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles."

CNN.com - Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio - Nov 5, 2004

CNN.com - Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio - Nov 5, 2004: "COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.

Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.

Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch."

Yahoo! News - Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush (news - web sites) 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.

Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush's total should have been recorded as 365."

Stand and Fight - Leverage/ Power

Daily Kos :: Comments:

Leverage/ Power

The only real leverage we have that any of the corporations/ institutions / organizations will even blink at is economic. Hit them in their bottom-line. They know politically we can't really hurt them and they treat our Democratic congressmen/women with disrespect because they know they don't have the votes to prevent or move any legislation. We know boycots or even the threat of boycoting products or facilities get noticed and response. It worked in Selma, Alabama for our black brothers and sisters. Make them pay for treating us like 2nd-class citizens. Make it painful.
"

FYI

Concessions and proclamations of victory have no legal standing, they only count in the court of public opinion.

I don't know about the absentee ballots in Florida, but there were local state issues being voted on in Ohio that will require the counting of those ballots there.

What to say to ANYONE who tells you Kerry lost

Rove is up to his tricks, the more Bush looks certain today, the better they cry foul later!!

What to say to ANYONE who tells you Kerry lost:

Bush called victory to soon in Iraq too

There are 1.6 million votes still out in Florida
Bush up by roughly 10% of 3M votes counted so far
If Kerry picks up 25% of absentees,in FL he wins FL

People don't know about that, spread the word !!!


they crowed victory too soon in Iraq too

Another "Misson Accomplished"

Bush wants to do his victory speech before noon.

Let him, it will be another flop like the first one

There are 1.6 million votes still out in Florida

Repeat it with me:

There are 1.6 million votes still out in Florida

I URGE THE DOWNTRODEN HERE TO SEE OHIO THROUGH, BUT DON'T TAKE YOUR EYES OFF FLORIDA!!!!

Election day Story: New mom woes and pride

My post at daily kos

Being the clueless mom of an American kindergartner for the first time, I had no idea school was out today (1)

I planned to vote after her class ended, at 3pm, to avoid the possibility of getting stuck in line and getting her late for class.

I spent the entire morning itching to vote, reading Kos and other fabulous sites, fretting over Kerry, fretting over getting my 5 yr. old ready for school

Me, my 3 yr. old and my 5 yr. old sat outside waiting for the bus, singing Kerry Rimes(2):

Vote for Kerry, cause Bush is scary!

Vote for Kerry, cause Bush is mush

And my favorites, by my 5 yr old poetic genius:
Vote for Kerry, cause Bush needs a kick on his tush!

Vote for Kerry; cause Bush's tush is hairy!

Her school bus didn't show up. I drove her to school

Well you know what happened, right ? Not quite. I had to run out of her school before I burst into tears, of pride, of hope...




I figured we missed her bus while I posted yet one more alert to the brave souls that are out there GOTV. So I drove to her school, cussing under my breath about the kind of mom who would let her kid arrive late for school over politics..

We got to her empty classroom and after feeling like saying the biggest DUH in history, my 2 kids and I were heading back home.

In our way out, we passed through were the polling was. Having read John Edwards tale on how his late son Wade(3) dreamed of voting but never got the chance, I decided to make the election a "big event" for my kids:

I said: See kids, this is the most important thing you need to do in America, to make America great: Vote.

"What about pledging allegiance to the flag ?" asks my budding genius kindergartner, immediately launching into her pledge, which she has just learned

"Well, that too, but part of the allegiance you pledge is to protect the Republic and what it stands for" I answer

At this point, a few of the voters, officials start to join in, explaining to my two little angels (ha!) why voting is so important and what the Republic stands for. GOP and DNC united without bickering, for a whole ten minutes, teaching the new generation what America is all about.

I had to run out of there before I burst into tears, of pride, of hope, for a new era in this country, were we all put our differences aside, to care for our future generations!

(1) Motherhood is kind of new to me. Me and my husband were the typical yuppie couple, double income, no kids (DINK) for the longest time. All our friends are still DINKS and the family? Is overseas...

This election year, trying to ensure a good future for my "pride and joy", and missing some adult conversation during the day, I started blogging, chatting, flaming, discussing, cussing, you name it.

Needless to say it made my new mom of 2 hectic day even more impossible, and my nights even more sleepless

I spent the entire morning itching to vote, reading Kos and other fabulous sites, fretting over Kerry, fretting over getting my 5 yr old ready for school, dazed & confuse from lack of sleep, nerves over election, nerves over her school (already ? wasn't I supposed to be done after the potty training ?) And the rest is this story...

(2) Kerry Rimes - A must for the democrat chick parent!

(3) Remembering Wade Edwards, The son of our soon to be Vice President, Wade would be 24 this year.

Bush will be drafting a lot of 24 yr old young men and women, and making a lot of American families go through what the Edwards went through, if Kerry / Edwards don't stop him.

Bush has already made roughly 1,000 families go through the pain of losing a loved one....

FANCY CLOTHES AND OVERALLS

BY WADE EDWARDS

A little boy and his father walk into a firehouse. He smiles at people standing outside. Some hand pamphlets to his father. They stand in line. Finally, they go together into a small booth, pull the curtain closed, and vote. His father holds the boy up and shows him which levers to move.

"We're ready, Wade. Pull the big lever now."

With both hands, the boy pulls the lever. There it is: the sound of voting. The curtain opens. The boy smiles at an old woman leaving another booth and at a mother and daughter getting into line. He is not certain exactly what they have done. He only knows that he and his father have done something important. They have voted.

This scene takes place all over the country.

"Pull the lever, Yolanda."

"Drop the ballot in the box for me, Pedro."

Wades, Yolandas, Pedros, Nikitas, and Chuis all over the United States are learning the same lesson: the satisfaction, pride, importance, and habit of voting. I have always gone with my parents to vote. Sometimes lines are long. There are faces of old people and young people, voices of native North Carolinians in southern drawls and voices of naturalized citizens with their foreign accents. There are people in fancy clothes and others dressed in overalls. Each has exactly the same one vote. Each has exactly the same say in the election. There is no place in America where equality means as much as in the voting booth.

My father took me that day to the firehouse. Soon I will be voting. It is a responsibility and a right. It is also an exciting national experience. Voters have different backgrounds, dreams, and experiences, but that is the whole point of voting. Different voices are heard.

As I get close to the time I can register and vote, it is exciting. I become one of the voices. I know I will vote in every election. I know that someday I will bring my son with me and introduce him to one of the great American experiences: voting.

© 1996 Wade Edwards Foundation

http://www.wade.org/

To Wade, from a Mom of 2:

Wade, your Dad is about to become Vice-President. How I wish you could be here to see it. You're remembered tonight.

Wade, your mom, dad, brothers and sisters are very brave. Surviving without you has not been easy for them.

To survive and also find the strength to go against the Bush Cabal takes even more courage.

I hope you can see how happy we are that they did. How proud we are of your father is our (hopefully) new Vice-President.

We are proud of your mom who stood by your Dad during all those hard months of dirty politics and we are proud of your brothers and sisters, who gave us voters even more reason to admire and respect your Dad.

Wherever you are right now Wade, know this: We admire you too. We are proud of you too. Because you helped make your Dad and your family who they are today.

Now go have a round of manna with the other angels. It's on us, to thank you for helping make your family be who they are today.

Vote!!!!

EMINEM LYRICS - Mosh

EMINEM LYRICS - Mosh: "Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is god just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered"

Don't miss the clip on MTV!!!!

It's the Farenheit 9/11 for the 18-25 generation. And you will like it, even if you can't stand hip-hop...

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Kerry 298 Bush 231

Daily Kos :: Republicans made up General Schwarzkopf. calls

Daily Kos :: Republicans made up General Schwarzkopf. calls: "Republicans made up General Schwarzkopf. calls

From here:
http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/


In 11th Hour Gambit, RNC Tries Hoodwinking Press: Splices DNC Call and Makes False Accusations
Washington DC - Today, the Republican National Committee tried to falsely accuse the Democratic National Committee of claiming the endorsement of General Schwarzkopf. In fact, the RNC spliced a DNC recorded telephone call by General Merrill 'Tony' McPeak, urging voters to vote for John Kerry, and attempted to peddle the doctored audio file to the press.

So while they're giving our voters wrong polling places, they have the gall to make up fake phone calls, and claim we're the ones doing the dirty tricks?

Unfuckingbeliveable "

The Waning Influence of Neo-Conservative Strategists

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26081
U.S. ELECTION:
Some Cuban-Americans Shift to Kerry
Peter Costantini
MIAMI, Oct 30 (IPS) - At the amphitheatre in Bayfront Park on Miami's waterfront, against a background of pleasure boats and freighters on Biscayne Bay, knots of people began drifting in before 3 pm Friday for Senator John Kerry's campaign appearance that evening.
    Most were local supporters for the presidential candidate and activists in the state of Florida's Democratic Party, who came to volunteer for the grunt work that would make the rally happen.
    The payoff would be a ringside view of the hoopla of a historic presidential race that will end in Tuesday's vote, a chance to hear Kerry, along with his opening acts musician Bruce Springsteen and actress Bette Midler, up close and personal.
 
 

"The Waning Influence of Neo-Conservative Strategists"
Drafted by Erich Marquardt on November 1, 2004
http://www.pinr.com
Brought to power through the inauguration of the Bush administration,  a group of individuals who pursued neo-conservative ideology managed  to institute their policy directives during the window of opportunity created after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The central goal of this neo-conservative faction was, and remains, to sustain the U.S. as the unchallenged superpower in the world, capable of launching military strikes against any states or groups that threaten this status.
 

http://www.cato.org/dailys/10-31-04.html
More Security, But Are We Safer?
by Charles V. Peña, October 31, 2004
Charles V. Peña is director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute.
    More than three years after 9/11, America is certainly a country with more physical security to defend against terrorism. For example, airline passengers are subject to greater inspection, including a requirement to remove their coats and routinely take off their shoes and belts to pass through security. In Washington, DC, the Capitol Hill area is now ringed by checkpoints and barricades and many streets are closed. And there is no street parking around the World Bank and International Monetary Fund buildings. New York's police presence - including officers armed with fully automatic weapons - is much more visible. These and other security measures at least give the public the sense that they are better protected against a terrorist attack, but are we actually safer now than we were before 9/11?
    The answer is not clear or easily discernible. -snip-
    If we want to be safer, then we need to address the reasons why people choose to become terrorists and want to kill innocent Americans. This requires understanding that the growing tide of anti-American Muslim hatred - which is the basis for the radical Islamists to draw Muslims to their ranks - is fueled more by what we do, i.e., U.S. policies, than who we are. In other words - as the 9/11 Commission concluded and numerous polls conducted throughout the Islamic world show - they do not hate us for our freedoms, way of life, culture, accomplishments, or values.
    Yet we still refuse to understand that point, much less to reevaluate our policy. Such refusal results from not wanting to be accused of blaming America for 9/11. That is understandable and certainly nothing justifies those terrorist attacks. But with more than one billion Muslims in the world, we cannot continue to ignore addressing the underlying reasons why so many of them have a growing hatred of the United States.
    According to Shibley Telhami, a member of President Bush's advisory group on public diplomacy, our so-called hearts and minds campaign to dissuade Muslims from becoming terrorists is "worse than failing. Failing means you tried and didn't get better. But at this point, three years after September 11, you can say there wasn't even much of an attempt, and today Arab and Muslim attitudes toward the U.S. and the degree of distrust of the U.S. are far worse than they were three years ago." If that's the case, we may be killing terrorists abroad and Americans may be better protected at home but we are actually less safe.
 

http://www.ConsortiumNews.com/2004/103104.html
Bush the 'Infallible'
George W. Bush's chief political appeal to his followers may be paradoxically the same characteristic that many critics despise: his sense that he is above the rules that apply to other people ñ or other countries. His supporters, still traumatized by the Sept. 11 attacks, seem to want a president who doesnít care what anybody else thinks. October 31, 2004 -snip-
    This sort of feckless behavior might be disqualifying for other politicians ? look, for example, at the damage done to John Kerry over questions raised about the extent of his heroism in Vietnam combat. But Bush’s followers don’t think it’s fair to point out any disparity between Bush’s shirking of his National Guard duty in the 1970s and his shipping off today’s National Guardsmen to extended tours in the Iraq War.
    An ordinary politician might have to explain why he had “inadequate time” for his duties when that excuse doesn’t cut it for today’s Guardsmen.

Steve sent this:
The "October surprise" release of the new Bin Laden tape didn't cause enough  fear, so maybe an unannounced pretend attack will help...  Read it all and  judge for yourself.
This article is urgent reading, with many official links for documentation.
http://legitgov.org/essay_kane_fema_terror_drill_102904.html
 

http://www.dailyreviewonline.com/Stories/0,1413,88~10973~2504312,00.html
Pentagon gets funds for special ops
Daily Review Sun, 31 Oct 2004 7:04 AM PST
WASHINGTON -- Moving into an area of clandestine activity that traditionally has been the domain of the CIA, the Pentagon has secured new authority that allows U.S. special operations forces to dole out millions of dollars in cash, equipment and weapons to international warlords and foreign fighters.
 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6370144/site/newsweek/
Missing Explosives: Did the Military Ignore Warnings?
Newsweek Sat, 30 Oct 2004 9:11 PM PDT
Nov. 8 issue - New evidence shows that American military forces in Iraq were slow to respond to suspected looting of Saddam-era ammunition dumps.
 

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110104F.shtml
Reporter Saw Insurgents Loot Qaqaa Arms Depot
By Katrin Bennhold, The International Herald Tribune
Saturday 30 October 2004
    Paris - A French journalist who visited the Qaqaa munitions depot south of Baghdad in November last year said she witnessed Islamic insurgents looting vast supplies of explosives more than six months after the demise of Saddam Hussein's regime.
 

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/041108/usnews/8weapons.htm?track=rss
In Iraq, weapons, weapons everywhere--and free for the taking
US News & World Report Sat, 30 Oct 2004 3:08 PM PDT
I t came out of nowhere to dominate the final week of the presidential campaign.
 

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110104V.shtml
Colin Powell Believes U.S. is Losing Iraq war
    Salon.com, Sunday 31 October 2004
    Secretary of State Colin Powell has privately confided to friends in recent weeks that the Iraqi insurgents are winning the war, according to Newsweek. The insurgents have succeeded in infiltrating Iraqi forces "from top to bottom," a senior Iraqi official tells Newsweek in tomorrow’s issue of the magazine, "from decision making to the lower levels."
 

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/103104B.shtml
A Matter of Survival
    By George Sprague
    Concord Monitor | Letter  Thursday 28 October 2004
    When I was home in New Hampshire on leave last month, a lot of people approached me to tell what a good job we're doing here in Iraq.
    I appreciate the support, but I don't need the media or those people to tell me what I see every day. We are not getting the job done.
    People ask me, "How's it going over there?" Cities have been overrun and are in a state of lawlessness. My job brings me into the streets. I see these things as they happen. They aren't just headlines for me. All we are doing here is treading water, and at this rate we can't keep afloat much longer. I'm just a simple man, but I can see that everything this administration has done with Iraq has been dead wrong.

A repeat.
http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=9477&fcategory_desc=Under
Independent Media TV
The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
By: Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times, October 19, 2004
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    It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.
    "It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."
    When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, said she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for it to be delivered. "We believe that the CIA has been told not to distribute the report," she said. "We are very concerned."
 

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/10061307.htm?1c
CIA leak case raises fears that information could stop flowing
As a judge tries to find out who released agent Valerie Plame's name, two journalists have been cited for contempt and sentenced to jail time.
By Chris Mondics, Inquirer Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Judith Miller doesn't see herself as journalism's Joan of Arc - far from it.
    But if her 18-month jail sentence for refusing to divulge confidential sources is upheld by a federal appeals court, that is what she could become.
    Miller is an investigative reporter for the New York Times who was leaked the identity of a CIA operative whose husband had been scathingly critical of President Bush's case for going to war.
    Miller never published an article, although others did, suggesting that the White House had leaked the information as an act of retribution. Her name came up after the Justice Department appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the potentially illegal leak. The prosecutor demanded that Miller and a Time magazine reporter testify before a grand jury, and when they refused, the judge in the case sentenced them both to a year and a half in the slammer.
    'I don't want to go to jail'

Why isn't Novak in jail (?), that is what I want to know.
 

http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/politics/vote_10reasons.cfm
Top 10 Reasons For Working Families To Vote Nov. 2nd.
 

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1101/p11s02-woiq.html
Demoted Iraqi judge fears for his country's future
By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BAGHDAD ? Keeping a watchful eye on the powers that be in the new Iraq is dangerous work. So the young Iraqi judge knew his days as chief investigator for Iraq's Central Criminal Court were probably numbered.
    But when the dismissal phone call came to Judge Zuhair al-Maliky two weeks ago - as he sat in his office in fortified chambers under the Baghdad clock tower that once housed a vast museum devoted to the life of Saddam Hussein - he was nonetheless surprised.
    Since the end of the Hussein government and his appointment to the position of chief investigator, Judge Maliky has pursued top politicians and security ministries for everything from fraud to illegal detentions.
 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6370525/site/newsweek/site/newsweek/
Hell to Pay
Whoever wins, the road ahead in Iraq is rough. Both Bush and Kerry have plans that depend on newly trained Iraqis. But insurgents are killing recruits, and infiltrating the forces. A report from the front
 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/iraq_reconstruction_dc
Report Cites Fraud, Abuse Cases in Iraq Rebuilding
By Sue Pleming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators this year opened more than 100 cases involving alleged abuse of some of the billions of dollars in U.S. and Iraqi funds to rebuild Iraq, an auditors' report said on Monday.
 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=655&e=3&u=/oneworld/4536970611099311618
Global Warming Has Arrived: Arctic Study
Jim Lobe, OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov 1 (OneWorld) ñ With only eight weeks left before the elves finish their work and Santa Claus mounts his sleigh, an eight-nation study on global warming co-sponsored by the United States has concluded that the North Pole is melting beneath St. Nick.
 

http://www.spacedaily.com/2004/041031185608.0x1rnsqo.html
Fragile Arctic region endangered by greenhouse gases: report
 WASHINGTON (AFP) Oct 31, 2004
Greenhouse gases have contributed to a gradual warming of the ecologically-fragile Arctic region, causing massive climate changes, including melting glaciers and sea ice, according to a soon-to-be-released environmental study.
    The New York Times reported Saturday that the study, to be released November 9, is the first thorough assessment of the causes and consequences of global warming in the region.
 

http://www.spacedaily.com/2004/041030222741.1hztzh
 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=5&u=/ap/iraq_assassination
Gunmen Kill Deputy Governor of Baghdad
Mon Nov 1, 2:21 AM ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen killed the deputy governor of Baghdad on his way to work Monday, Iraqi officials said.
 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=568&ncid=749&e=1&u=/nm/20041101/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc
Oil Extends Rebound Ahead of Election
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices extended a bounce from three-week lows on Monday, climbing back above $52 for U.S. crude amid jitters over tight global winter fuel stocks and this week's U.S. presidential election.
 

Hmmm! Double Hmmm!
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041031201740.ziq2a9i9.html
Deputy chief of Russia's strategic air force killed: report
 MOSCOW (AFP) Oct 31, 2004
The deputy commander of Russia's strategic long-range air force was killed Sunday in the western Smolensk region, the Interfax news agency reported quoting police sources.
    Unknown assailants opened fire on General Konstantin Dementyev's car, killing both Dementyev and his driver on the spot, the sources said, adding that the second passenger was rushed to a Smolensk hospital.
    No official comment was immediately available.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/

Votergasm

.. one group appealing to the traditionally apathetic 18 to 25 year old set is giving a whole new meaning to swing voters.

Joining us to talk about the group Votergasm is one of the organizers, Peter Koechley in New York City. In the Here & Now studio we have Ian Wehrle, a 20 year-old student at Berklee College of Music, who is organizing an election night party in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

http://here-now.org/shows/2004/11/20041101_13.asp

Economic Reporting Review: Baker

http://www.cepr.net/Economic_Reporting_Review/2004_11_01.htm

Economic Reporting Review by Dean Baker November 1, 2004

Outstanding Stories of the Week

In Africa, Free Schools Feed a Different Hunger Celia W. Dugger New York Times, October 24, 2004, Page A1 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkhUbnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article reports on the explosion in primary school enrollment across sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the decision by most governments to end fees. As the article notes, the ending of primary school fees was largely the result of pressure by non-governmental organizations on the World Bank. Until recently, the World Bank had often made the charging of fees for primary school enrollment a condition for issuing loans to developing countries.

Air Superiority at $258 Million a Pop Tim Weiner New York Times, October 27, 2004, Page C1 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkhVbnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article discusses the procurement of a new generation of fighter planes by the Pentagon. According to the article, the Pentagon will pay $258 million for the plane. The plane was designed using state of the art technology. It was thought that this technology was necessary to defend against Soviet weaponry, which caused the price to be much higher than was originally anticipated.

Is It the Economy? Jonathan Weisman Washington Post, October 29, 2004, Page E1 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkhWbnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article examines the accuracy of econometric models designed to predict the outcome of the presidential election based on the performance of the economy. The most commonly cited models predict that President Bush should win re-election by more than ten percentage points. Polling data over the last month indicates that this is very

unlikely.

Economics and Ideology

Behind Candidatesí Domestic Plans, an Ideological Gulf David E. Rosenbaum and Robin Toner New York Times, October 24, 2004, Page A27 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkhXbnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article discusses President Bush and Senator Kerry's positions on a range of domestic issues. The article explicitly asserts that their differences on these issues are rooted in ideological differences.

This is not clear. Both President Bush and Senator Kerry are

politicians, not political philosophers. It is reasonable to assume, unless evidence is presented otherwise, that they take positions in order to increase their probability of getting elected. Politicians generally find it useful to claim to believe the positions they espouse, but that does not mean that their political positions necessarily reflect their personal views.

For example, the article notes President Bushís support for tax cuts, and asserts that tax cuts are ìreflecting his belief thatÖ. ëitís not the governmentís money, itís your money.íî Itís not clear what President Bush meant by this comment, but it is incoherent on its face. (There is no politician that explicitly advocates taxing people unnecessarily. Nor does any politician explicitly advocate not collecting enough money to pay for the programs they view as necessary.) While President Bushís support for tax cuts may actually be attributable to some ideology, it may also be attributable to a desire to please the wealthy individuals who contribute large amounts of money to his campaign.

Similarly, President Bushís support for Social Security privatization (another issue discussed in this article) may be more easily

explained by his desire to please the financial industry, which could earn hundreds of billions in fees and commissions from privatization, than any ideological belief in the superiority of government-mandated savings accounts to the traditional Social Security program.

Bush Uses Market Incentives; Kerry Focuses on Rules Juliet Eilperin Washington Post, October 26, 2004, Page A5 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkhYbnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article compares President Bush and Senator Kerry's approaches to environmental regulation. It claims that the main difference is between their willingness to rely on market mechanisms as opposed to government regulations to bring about environmental goals, but it presents no evidence to support this position.

The evidence in the article is that Senator Kerry has a greater commitment toward reducing environmental damage than President Bush. For example, Senator Kerry has been supportive of a Kyoto-type agreement, which would lead a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. He has explicitly supported market-based mechanisms, such as marketable emission permits, to bring about this goal.

By contrast, President Bush has quite explicitly said that he does not view the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as a high priority and believes that the resulting economic costs would exceed the environmental benefits. In this case, as in the others mentioned in the article, there is no difference whatsoever between the candidates in their willingness to use market mechanisms for environmental ends. Rather the difference is over which environment goals they want to pursue.

The Bush Philosophy: Resolute, No Matter What Richard W. Stevenson New York Times, October 26, 2004, Page E4 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkhZbnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article discusses President Bushís approach to governance. At one point it asserts, ìhe has sought to bring market forces to bear on social welfare programs to hold down the growth in their costs.î The article does not give any examples of when President Bush has used market forces in this way.

The most prominent example of when he sought to increase private sector involvement in social welfare programs was when he increased the subsidies to private health insurers in order to make them better able to compete with the traditional Medicare program. While these subsidies may lead to more private sector involvement in Medicare, according to the Office of Management and Budget these subsidies raised the cost of the Medicare program by approximately $100 billion over the next decade, so presumably his motivation was not lowering costs.

Social Security

Kerry Vows fight for Equal Pay for Women and a $7 Wage David M. Halbfinger New York Times, October 23, 2004, Page A13 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkh0bnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article reports on a campaign rally in which Senator Kerry pointed out several issues where his positions would prove especially beneficial to working women. At one point the article presents a criticism from the Bush campaign that Kerry had supported higher taxes on Social Security (as well as other items), and therefore could not claim to have been helping women. The increase in taxes on Social Security that Kerry supported applied to the wealthiest 20 percent of

beneficiaries. These beneficiaries are disproportionately men or married couples.

The article also quotes Senator Kerry's attack that Bush ìraided the Social Security trust fund to pay for the tax breaks for the

wealthiest Americans.î Under the law, spending the trust fund on tax cuts or anything else does not have any impact on Social Security. The government is obligated to repay the bonds held by the Social Security trust fund, just as it is obligated to repay any other government bond.

Bush, Kerry Are Vague on Social Security Jonathan Weisman Washington Post, October 23, 2004, Page A6 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkh1bnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article discusses the candidatesí positions on Social Security. At one point it comments that Kerry ìhas failed to detail how he would Ö tackle the looming crises in Social Security and Medicare.î While projected increases in health care costs are projected to lead to shortfall in the Medicare program by 2018, the most recent projections from the Social security trustees show that the program will be fully solvent until 2042 with no changes whatsoever. An independent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office projected that the program would be fully solvent until 2052.

According to these projections, the program is more financially sound that at any point in it first four decades of existence. If the current situation can be described as a ìlooming crisisî then Social Security also faced a looming crisis from 1937 until 1983.

Final Ads Continue Trend of Negativity Howard Kurtz Washington Post, October 26, 2004, Page A8 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkh2bnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article reviews the final ads put out by the presidential campaigns before the election. The article notes that an ad by President Bush says that he will ìstrengthen and protect Social Security.î The President has indicated that he intends to divert a portion of the Social Security tax into individual accounts and to reduce Social Security benefits for future retirees to cover this expense. Since the point of the article is to assess the accuracy of these ads, it would have been appropriate to call attention to the fact that President Bush actually does not intend to preserve Social Security in its traditional form, and that his proposed diversion of funds and benefit reduction would not generally be seen as "strengthening and protecting" Social Security benefits.

All Those Promises: Do They Really Matter? Elisabeth Bumiller New York Times, October 26, 2004, Page E1 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkh3bnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article includes a comment from historian Robert Dallek, dismissing the credibility of John Kerry's claim that President Bush will privatize Social Security. Since the President has explicitly said that he will divert a portion of Social Security taxes into individual accounts and reduce payments for future retirees to pay for it, it is not clear why this historian does not view Mr. Kerry's charge as being credible.

Health Care

Momentum Builds for U.S. Role In Paying Highest Health Costs

Milt Freudenheim and Robert Pear New York Times, October 23, 2004, Page A1 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkh4bnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article discusses proposals to have the government pick up the cost of paying for the sickest patients, including the one put forward by Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry. The article includes comments by several health care experts, but it does not mention the most obvious criticism of such proposals: the problem of cost shifting.

A large portion of health care costs take the form of fixed costs that are largely independent of utilization. For example, one of the main reasons that a hospital room is so expensive is that the hospital tries to average the cost of much of its medical equipment over the number of patients who will be staying in the hospital. If the federal government were to adopt a policy of paying the bulk of the costs of the more expensive patients, then it would provide a powerful incentive for hospitals and other health care providers to shift much of their expenses to these patients.

This could mean, for example, that hospitals would reduce the cost charged for a hospital room, but increase the fees charged for procedures (e.g. open heart surgery) that the sickest patients are likely to receive. In this way, they would increase the expense to the

government but reduce the cost to patients or private insurers. It is not clear that the government will be able to prevent this sort of cost shifting.

Panel Reviews New Vaccine That Could Be Controversial Gardiner Harris New York Times, October 27, 2004, Page A12 http://err.c.topica.com/maacOBaabbkh5bnpH4ybaeQBpp/

This article reports on the development of a new vaccine that can prevent a form of meningitis that is often fatal. The article points out that the vaccine is very expensive, and the probability or getting infected by this strain of meningitis is very small. As a result, it is questionable whether the government or private insurers should pay for the vaccine to be administered to the general population.

It would have been helpful if the article had indicated why the vaccine is expensive. Few drugs (or vaccines) are actually expensive to produce and administer. Usually, they command a high price because the government grants the manufacturer a patent monopoly, which allows firms to charge prices during the life of the patent that are far above costs. If the reason for the high cost of this vaccine is simply the high price charged by the manufacturer because it holds a patent monopoly on the vaccine, rather than high production costs, it suggests a very different problem. In this case, the cost of vaccinating people is very low, once the vaccine is invented. The problem is that patents are a very inefficient mechanism to finance drug research, and are

obstructing the provision of health care.

Trade

Where They Stand, What Theyíve Done New York Times, October 26, 2004, Page A8 Not available on nytimes.com

This article gives a summary of President Bush and Senator Kerry's positions on a number of major issues. At one point it asserts that President Bush supports liberalized trade. This is inaccurate. While President Bush does support liberalized trade in some areas, for example manufactured goods, he opposes liberalizing trade in other areas, such as physician and lawyersí services, and supports increased protectionism in other areas, such as patent and copyright protection. In general, President Bush supports liberalized trade when its primary effect is to reduce the wages of less-educated workers. He supports protection when it has the effect of increasing corporate profits and/or the wages and salaries of more educated professionals. _____________________________________________________________________________________

Dean Baker (www.cepr.net/dbbio.htm) is the Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Plan B: 'October/November Surprise

http://www.ConsortiumNews.com/2004/102704.html
Plan B: 'October/November Surprise'
By Robert Parry,October 27, 2004
With the polls tightening, the Bush campaign has resorted to Plan B,
an "October/November Surprise" aimed at depressing the Democratic
vote in key battleground states, such as Ohio. Unlike earlier Republican
"October Surprise" gambits, however, Bush's scheme is right out in
the open.

Thanks, Steve.
http://www.awolbush.com/kerry-vs-bush.asp
 

The 9-11 Families are really angry today. Oh, are they making noises of disgust!
I am listening to CSpan right now. Be prepared for the headlines. I will get the CSpan connections of this to you when I can.

YAHOO NEWS is not allowing me to email and store their articles for some reason. I don't know if this is a global issue and is effecting everyone or if they are pissed at me (this I doubt) but I am not able to get to you the juicy yahoo news today. This is how I find the articles. I do to yahoo news, sign in and then rate articles. From that rating results page, I go to highest rated articles and view them.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102704C.shtml
 Bush to Request $70 Billion More
    By Jonathan Weisman and Thomas E. Ricks
    The Washington Post
    Tuesday 26 October 2004
    The Bush administration intends to seek about $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, pushing total war costs close to $225 billion since the invasion of Iraq early last year, Pentagon and congressional officials said yesterday.
    White House budget office spokesman Chad Kolton emphasized that final decisions on the supplemental spending request will not be made until shortly before the request is sent to Congress. That may not happen until early February, when President Bush submits his budget for fiscal 2006, assuming he wins reelection.
    But Pentagon and House Appropriations Committee aides said the Defense Department and military services are scrambling to get their final requests to the White House Office of Management and Budget by mid-November, shortly after the election. The new numbers underscore that the war is going to be far more costly and intense, and last longer, than the administration first suggested.
 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=BKLJBKQ0CM5T3QFIQMFSM5WAVCBQ0JVC?xml=/news/2004/10/27/wus27.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/27/ixworld.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=29434
Bush feels the heat as rural heartland goes cool
By Alec Russell in Washington
(Filed: 27/10/2004)
    President George W Bush campaigned up and down a small rural stretch of the heartland yesterday, desperately seeking to shore up his position in a once safe region where Republicans are registering the first prickles of concern about his record - and his chances.
    With just a week to go before voting, Mr Bush focused his fire on Wisconsin and Iowa, two mid-western states that have become pivotal to his chances. He lost both narrowly to Al Gore in 2000 but now badly needs to win them as an insurance policy, given the state of play in Ohio and Florida, two of the three key swing states, where he is in a dead heat with his rival.
     Preparing for a fight: George W Bush rolls up his sleeves
    Sitting on the banks of the Mississippi, the focus of a blitz of campaigning by the two presidential candidates, two Republican businessmen in their mid-30s aired the anxieties that go to the heart of jitters among Bush supporters.
    "People are worried about Iraq," said Eric Dragne, in a display of candour remarkable in a partisan climate that tends to allow for no self-doubt on either side. "Many people here know people who have lost their lives."
    "People also talk about the financial side of Mr Bush's record," said his companion, Steward Sandstrom. "And maybe that we should be committing money elsewhere."
    For Mr Bush's campaign, just a week before polling such conversations are troubling - and a guide to why he was in Dubuque, Iowa, the businessmen's home town, for a rally last night pumping out his message to shore up his support.
    Mr Dragne and Mr Sandstrom are still planning to vote for Mr Bush but not, it seems, with great gusto. Their confidence in the President has been dented by the continuing turmoil in Iraq and an un-Republican splurge in spending.
 

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=14237
Taking prisoners in the war on journalism
Inside the First Amendment
By Paul K. McMasters
First Amendment Center ombudsman , 10.24.04
    Follow this closely because the logic gets tricky:
    Someone in the White House leaked the name of a CIA operative to several journalists, apparently to punish the husband of the covert agent for taking issue with the administration.
    All of the journalists declined to participate in the apparent retaliation, with the exception of syndicated columnist Robert Novak, who revealed the name of the agent in a column published on July 14, 2003.
    Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed a special counsel to investigate the possible federal crime. The special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, assembled a large staff armed with all the investigative tools of the Justice Department. Under orders from the president to cooperate fully, White House personnel produced telephone records, e-mail logs and other material.
    Now, after more than a year of investigating, the special prosecutor, backed by a federal judge, is ready to send someone to jail. But not the two “senior administration sources” cited by columnist Novak. Nor, as far as we know, has the columnist been subpoenaed, questioned or threatened with contempt of court. Instead Fitzgerald has focused his prosecutorial zeal on Time magazine correspondent Matthew Cooper, who wrote about the leak several days after Novak published his column, and New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who didn’t write about the story at all.
 

TAKE ACTION!!
From:  Matt Howes, National Internet Organizer, ACLU
To:  ACLU Action Network Members
Subject:
Act Now to Ensure Creation of a Critical Government Civil Liberties Watchdog
1) Act Now to Ensure Creation of a Critical Government Civil Liberties Watchdog
2) Let your Representative know how you feel about his or her vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment
At this very moment, leaders from the House and Senate are engaged in heated negotiations over what could become the most dramatic restructuring ever of our nation's intelligence agencies. One of the key sticking points is the creation of a robust Privacy and Civil Liberties Board to ensure that government actions do not infringe on our liberties.
The 9/11 Commission endorsed the creation of a strong board. Yet in its version of the legislation to implement the commission's recommendations, the House rejected the creation of a board, a position that the Bush White House has endorsed. Fortunately, however, the bipartisan Senate version of the legislation included a strong board.
Take Action! Tell Congress that we can be both safe and free and that the final intelligence reform bill must include the creation of a powerful and independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to act as a watchdog over our civil liberties.
http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=16886&c=24
2) Let your Representative know how you feel about his or her vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment
Last month, your Representative had a chance to fight against discrimination by voting against the Federal Marriage Amendment.  You can thank them if they voted the right way - or tell them how disappointed you are that they voted the wrong way.
The proposed amendment aims to amend the U.S. Constitution to deny the right to marry to same-sex couples in committed relationships. It could also invalidate all state and local domestic partnership laws and nullify civil rights protections based on marital status.
No one should deny the most basic right of two adults to marry simply because they are gay or lesbian. Now, some want to write that discrimination into the U.S. Constitution.
Take Action! Let your Representative know how you feel about his or her vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment.
Click here for more information and to take action!
http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGayRights/LesbianGayRights.cfm?ID=16841&c=23
 

Again, the Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank of which I am becoming highly appreciative:
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: BACKGROUND ON THE NEWS
* Wednesday October 27, 2004
* Featuring the full text of past essays that are relevant today,
plus occasional postscripts newly written by the authors.
>->>>-> TRICK OR TREAT? <-<<<-<
The Bush administration surprised many last year by pressing for and
winning unprecedented funding for combating the spread of HIV/AIDS.
In an article for the January/February 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs,
Holly Burkhalter credited President Bush's Christian evangelical
supporters for galvanizing Congress against the pandemic. But she also
warned that their ideology, especially their objection to the use of
condoms, could undermine the best-known prevention strategies and
treatments. In a new postscript, she examines how both points are still
valid today.
*NEW* Click for a postscript by the author:
http://m1e.net/c?33182130-KQg/8q7XK1LN6%40703109-TCKp7ZxLtJqY2
* Click for the full essay text:
http://m1e.net/c?33182130-Ot4W3ZcP0fEB6%40703110-4HqIapnv2iY/k
 

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 -- GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE
Today’s Global Security Newswire is now available: http://www.nti.org
QUOTE OF THE DAY
================
It would be a good thing if somebody could detonate some sort of weapon of mass destruction in Washington, D.C., while both the U.S. Congress and Senate were in session. --
--Demetrius "Van" Crocker, demonstrating what not to say to an undercover U.S. federal agent, during the investigation that led to his arrest yesterday for attempting to acquire chemical weapons.
FULL ISSUE
==========
TERRORISM
City Officials Say Information Lacking to Secure Toxic Chemical Shipments Through U.S. Capital http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#86C12C88
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Japan Hosts Multinational WMD Interdiction Exercise http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#FACC9272
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Iran Considers Halting Some Nuclear Activities http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#552870C4
Kerry Blasts Bush Over Missing Iraqi Explosives http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#1C91E3A4
Powell Finds Support From Key Asian Nations on Resuming North Korea Nuclear Talks http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#0CBFF75B
Bush Administration Achieves Mixed Success in Facing Variety of Nonproliferation Crises http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#AA7C6E7F
Indian, Pakistani Prime Ministers to Meet Next Month http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#F6087DAA
CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Man Charged With Attempt to Acquire Chemical Weapons, Attack U.S. Government Buildings http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#B4B3BE6A
Iranian Cabinet Advances Domestic Rules for Complying With Chemical Weapons Convention http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#808912F0
 

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002072746_intel26.html
Leaders of 9/11 panel tell Congress to rescue intelligence overhaul
Seattle Times Tue, 26 Oct 2004 0:21 AM PDT
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M. WASHINGTON — Leaders of the Sept. 11 commission warned lawmakers yesterday that the nation will hold them partly responsible if another terrorist attack occurs before Congress restructures the government's intelligence community.
 

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20041026/pl_washpost/a62727_2004oct25
Unprecedented Peril Forces Tough Calls
Tue Oct 26, 1:21 PM ET
By Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer, Washington Post Staff Writers
In the tumultuous first year after Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush confronted a deluge of classified threat reports about the spread of nuclear weapons technology to unfriendly hands.
 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=ap/edwards
Edwards Chides Cheney on Iraq 'Success'
Tue Oct 26, 5:31 PM ET
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
MINNEAPOLIS - Sen. John Edwards on Tuesday assailed Vice President Dick Cheney for claiming Iraq was "a remarkable success story" and argued that the Bush administration is out of touch with the reality of the failure there.
 

http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=102504111643
CIA Officials Face Action For 9/11 Intelligence Failure: Report
New York, Oct. 26 (NNN) : The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is keeping the lid on a hard-hitting report about agency officials who might be held accountable for 9/11 intelligence failures, Newsweek has reported in its latest issue.
    The report identifies a host of current and former officials who could be candidates for possible disciplinary procedures imposed by a special CIA Accountability Board, the weekly magazine said in its "Periscope" column, quoting sources familiar with the document.
The report by the agency's inspector general's office was completed last June. But it has not been made public or sent to the two congressional oversight committees, which first asked for the review more than two years ago.
    Officially, Newsweek said, the agency's position is that more work needs to be done. In a recent private letter to CIA Director Porter Goss, House intelligence committee chairman Peter Hoekstra and ranking Democrat Jane Harman contrasted the CIA's failure to turn over the report with the Pentagon's ability to provide an exhaustive investigative report on the far more recent Abu Ghraib scandal. But Goss shows no inclination to release the document any time soon, the magazine said.
    When an account of the suppressed report surfaced on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page last week, according to Newsweek, Goss's top aide ordered the agency's Office of Security to conduct a leak investigation.
        "Everybody feels it will be better off if this hits the fan after the election," an unnamed agency official was quoted as saying. The 9/11 Commission was refused access to the report, Philip Zelikow, the commission's executive director, was quoted as saying. But the panel's staff was allowed to review the inspector general's investigative files.
        "The inspector general's report -- which, sources say, is more pointed than the 9/11 panel's report -- is not the only critical intelligence report that won't be seen by the public until after Election Day", the magazine said.
    Two Senate intelligence committee investigations -- into whether the White House misused prewar intelligence about Iraq and whether a special Pentagon unit manipulated intelligence about Iraq-Al Qaeda links -- won't be finished until the end of the year at the earliest, according to committee sources.
 

http://www.whittierdailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,207~12044~2491102,00.html
Article Published: Monday, October 25, 2004 - 11:53:20 AM PST
'Wild cards' could make the difference in White House race
By Morton Kondracke
WHAT do the Rev. James Dobson, George Soros, Fallujah, Doyle McManus, the CIA, John Zogby, Osama bin Laden, Justice Antonin Scalia and I have in common?
    We all represent wild cards in the presidential race specifically, turnout efforts among Republican and Democratic voters, events in Iraq, late-breaking campaign developments, polling confusion, possible terrorism in the United States, post-election challenges in the courts and undecided voters. That last category still includes me.
 

http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2493869,00.html
Waxman: Flu shot shortage papers stalled
By Knight Ridder Newspapers
    WASHINGTON -- A senior House Democrat charged Tuesday that the Bush administration was refusing to release documents about the flu vaccine shortage until after the election.
    "What is happening is obvious," said Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Government Reform. "The administration is trying to delay the release of the vaccine documents until after the election. These documents should be released immediately."
    Waxman and Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, a Republican and chairman of the committee, asked the Food and Drug Administration two weeks ago for documents related to the vaccine shortage.
    Among them were reports and correspondence related to a 2003 inspection of Chiron Corp.'s flu vaccine plant in England.
    British health authorities temporarily shut down the plant this month because of contamination problems, which left the United States without nearly half of its supply for the coming flu season. Chiron is one of only two flu vaccine suppliers for the United States.
    In a statement, the acting FDA commissioner, Lester Crawford, said that Davis had assured him that taking more time to meet the document request would not slow the committee's investigation. He said the agency was "actively and diligently" trying to gather the documents.
    Robert White, a spokesman for Davis, said the chairman had given the FDA more time because the agency was busy trying to come up with more sources of vaccine.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/10022329.htm?1c
 

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=97457
Posted on: Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 02:00 CDT
Forget Politicizing Science. Let's Democratize Science!
    Science advising in government is unavoidably political, but we must make a concerted effort to ensure that it is democratic.
    Since the publication last year by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Ca.) of a report alleging that the Bush administration has been inappropriately manipulating scientific reports and advisory committees, science policy has become an issue with surprisingly long political legs. The administration dismissed Waxman's report as a partisan distortion and a politicization of science in its own right. But this charge became somewhat harder to sustain with the publication of a like-minded report by the Union of Concerned Scientists and a letter, signed by a left-leaning but still bipartisan group of scientists, again alleging that the administration has inappropriately played politics with the findings of government scientists and with appointments to federal scientific advisory panels.
    John Marburger, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, eventually responded with his own defensively toned report. The political right also took aim with a critique of leftist science in Politicizing Science, published by the conservative Hoover Institution. Without close examination of each allegation, it is hard to judge whether one side is engaging in the more significant distortion or whether both sides are merely viewing business as usual through a lens fractured along partisan lines.
    Regardless, such allegations that science has been politicized are unproductive. I also suspect them of being somewhat insincere, in the same way that Louis, the Vichy Prefect of Police in Casablanca, was "shocked, shocked" to find gambling in the back room at Rick's, even as he collected his own winnings. From the $120 billion for scientific R&D that the government provides, to the petty power plays that plague departmental governance, science is deeply political. Asking whether science is politicized distracts us from asking. "Who benefits and loses from which forms of politicization?" and "What are the appropriate institutional channels for political discourse, influence, and action in science?" Arguing over whether science is politicized neglects the more critical question: "Is science democratized?"
    Democratizing science does not mean settling questions about Nature by plebiscite, any more than democratizing politics means setting the prime rate by referendum. What democratization does mean, in science as elsewhere, is creating institutions and practices that fully incorporate principles of accessibility, transparency, and accountability. It means considering the societal outcomes of research at least as attentively as the scientific and technological outputs. It means insisting that in addition to being rigorous, science be popular, relevant, and participatory.
 

From Jules:
Subject:
        [A libbie's take on today's events] Crazy Cheney Comment du jour
[http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showtopic=103997&hl=]
>From the Kerry-Edwards Online Forum
"If our troops had not gone into Iraq, that is 400,000 tonnes of weapons and explosives that would be in the hands of (former Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein, who would still be sitting in his palace instead of jail," Cheney said.
As opposed to where they are now?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041026/ts_nm/campaign_cheney_dc&cid=564&ncid=2043
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Posted by lawnorder to A libbie's take on today's events at 10/26/2004 06:18:10 PM
 

And another from Jules, Thanks so much!:
Subject: Terrorists Thank Allah For G. W. Bush
[http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=37138469&tid=apcampaignrdp&sid=37138469&mid=300172&um=50&.sig=TQIO9E2zR8zI6KzdT7eHhA--]
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News
"Terrorists Thank Allah For G. W. Bush
by: jack_cough_bush 10/26/04 07:21 pm
Msg: 300172 of 300258 , 20 recommendations
What a blessing Bush has been for the fanatics.
    He allowed Bin Laden to escape
    He attacked Hussein who Bin Laden hated
    He alienated 95% of the Arab world
    He alienated 74% of the rest of the world at large
    He allowed the looting of artifacts from the cradle of civilization thus alienating scholars who may have helped
    He left the Iraq borders wide open allowing every nutbag fundamentalist funded by his friends the Saudi to pour in and surround our troops
    He left a small mountain of easily disguised, highly explosive matter unguarded so the terrorists can blow us up for the next ten years.
    Not bad (hard) work for a lifelong underacheiver who slunk into office without a majority of support.  "
--
Posted by lawnorder to A libbie's take on today's events at 10/26/2004 06:43:11 PM
 

Following is Inter Press Service news agency's weekly bulletin on the aftermath of war in Iraq and the ongoing Middle East conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. These IPS news stories are received by journalists, diplomats, government officials, political leaders, and by NGOs and civil society leaders, helping them to track the complex issues of a troubled region.
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IRAQ-U.S.: Veterans' Voices Rise in Protest
By Dahr Jamail
SAN FRANCISCO - With the news that members of a U.S. Army reserve platoon have been arrested in Iraq for refusing a "suicide mission," dissent among veterans of the U.S.-led campaign in that country continues to grow.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26008
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ENERGY: Dependence on Mideast Oil to Grow - Report
By Emad Mekay
WASHINGTON - At a time when rich nations, especially the United States, are trying to break their dependence on Middle East oil, a global agency is predicting that fuel imports from the area will keep rising unless buying countries adopt "radical" technological changes.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26025
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U.S. ELECTION: Fear of Military Draft a Growing Factor
Analysis - By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - With the presidential election coming down to the wire, the possibility of a revived military draft is looming as a potentially decisive factor in the outcome.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25952
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POLITICS: U.N. Terrorism Treaty Deadlocked
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which was on the verge of adopting a new international convention against nuclear terrorism, has been forced to shelve the proposed treaty because of opposition from Islamic states.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26026
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MEDIA: Kidnappers Showtime
By Samuele Gabbio
ROME - Kidnappers' tape tactics in broadcasting footage of victims has won them international attention. But are the media right to broadcast the tapes? Or are they serving criminal propaganda?... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25985
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POLITICS: U.N., Iraq Clash Over Elections
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is at loggerheads with the U.S.-installed interim government in Iraq over national elections scheduled to take place in that strife-torn country in January 2005.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25973
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POLITICS-U.S.: Bush Backers Steadfast on Saddam, WMD
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Three out of four self-described supporters of President George W Bush still believe pre-war Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or active programmes to produce them, and that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein gave "substantial support" to al-Qaeda terrorists, according to a survey released Thursday.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25967
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U.S.: Muslim Support for 'War on Terror' Plummets
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - While the Bush administration expresses frustration that its motivations in the "war on terrorism" are questioned throughout the Islamic world, it has a similar problem with Muslims at home, according to a major survey of nearly 2,000 followers of Islam across the United States.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25950
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IRAQ: Plight of Christians Provokes Calls for Special Protection
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - While the successful penetration by suicide bombers, who killed 10 people, including four U.S. nationals, of the carefully guarded ''Green Zone'' in downtown Baghdad grabbed headlines here this week, another measure of the deteriorating security situation in Iraq came from a more surprising source.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25948
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FINANCE: Church to Cut Dollars to Firms Aiding Israeli Occupation
By Emad Mekay
WASHINGTON - The U.S. branch of a global church that threatened to stop investing in companies whose actions support the Israeli military's occupation of Palestinian land says it will go ahead with the plan despite an outcry from Israel, some Jewish groups and members of the U.S. Congress.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25951
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Latest news from the Middle East: http://ipsnews.net/middle.asp
 

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102804Z.shtml
New Florida Vote Scandal Feared
  By Greg Palast,  BBC
  Wednesday 27 October 2004
  A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.
  Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".
  It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.
  An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day."
  Ion Sancho, a Democrat, noted that Florida law allows political party operatives inside polling stations to stop voters from obtaining a ballot.
 
 

I like this site (am furthermore88):
http://www.e-thepeople.org/poll/21296/view?s_a=res
What is the best medication for Bush, and his delusions of grandeur? (173 votes)
(Furthermore88, 10/19/04)
Anti-acid, to calm Bush's gut instinct. 4 %
Neuroleptics or anti-psychotics 18 %
Alcohol, because Bush is more fun drunk. 10 %
Nutrasweet, because it causes an specific insanity all it's own 3 %
All but the choice on slant. 14 %
I don't like the slant of this poll. 51 %
Total Votes:  173

http://www.e-thepeople.org/poll/21205/view?s_a=resc
Do you feel this country has been made safer from terrorism while Bush has been in the Oval Office? (143 votes)
(Furthermore88, 10/11/04)
no, because I can think for myself, and I can clearly see we are not safer because of Bush. 64 %
I don't like the slant in this poll !! 27 %
I DO like the slant in this poll !! 10 %
yes, because Bush told me I am, preferring to let Bush do my thinking for me. 8 %
I don't know 3 %
I don't care 0 %

http://www.e-thepeople.org/poll/21310/view?s_a=res 
Don't you think that the pro-life movement would be more effective if they:------? (132 votes)
(Furthermore88, 10/19/04)
Worked on social failures that lead to unwanted pregnancies? 23 %
Worked on education to prevent unwanted pregnancies? 18 %
Worked to distribute good contraceptive methods? 5 %
Were more concerned with and assisted the traumatized family who may require such a procedure? 3 %
All the choices but the slant option 23 %
I don't like the slant of this poll. 29 %
Total Votes:  132
 

ROBERTS, BROWNBACK OUT OF SYNC WITH KANSAS
TALKING POINTS:
1. The Kansas Legislature has struck down a ban on gay marriage TWICE. If the issue comes up again, it will happen a THIRD time.
2. Both Roberts and Brownback, the ghastly co-sponser of a dubious bill to ban gay marriage, support a gay marriage ban.
3. How do the two talking points synch?
4. Basically what we have is two Senators in DC who have decided that they are not going to represent the wishes of the voters in Kansas and are going on their own agendas.
5. Kansas has little, little voice in DC, and now we have NONE, due to an agenda that goes against the wishes of Kansans.
6. It is high time to replace the present Senators who represent us in DC.
7. The gay marriage ban goes against the GOP values of commitments to limited government, individual liberties, and constitutional restraint.
    In essence, Roberts and Brownback have moved to diminish the GOP values that made the party so great.
I AM ANGRY!!
FIRE BUSH 2004

I am getting this out on message boards in Kansas. I am having some trouble with Topeka Capital journal tho. If someone else wants to post it, go ahead.
 

Hard to believe

 

Sven wrote:

Subject: Hard to believe
 
 

Press Release

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Contact: Chas Offutt (202) 265-7337

PARK SERVICE STICKS WITH BIBLICAL EXPLANATION FOR GRAND CANYON
 

Promised Legal Review on Creationist Book Is Shelved
 

Washington, DC — The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces, according to internal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

Despite telling members of Congress and the public that the legality and appropriateness of the National Park Service offering a creationist book for sale at Grand Canyon museums and bookstores was “under review at the national level by several offices,” no such review took place, according to materials obtained by PEER under the Freedom of Information Act. Instead, the real agency position was expressed by NPS spokesperson Elaine Sevy as quoted in the Baptist Press News:

“Now that the book has become quite popular, we don’t want to remove it.”

In August of 2003, Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Joe Alston attempted to block the sale of Grand Canyon: A Different View, by Tom Vail, a book explaining how the park’s central feature developed on a biblical rather than an evolutionary time scale. NPS Headquarters, however, intervened and overruled Alston. To quiet the resulting furor, NPS Chief of Communications David Barna told reporters that there would be a high-level policy review, distributing talking points stating: “We hope to have a final decision in February [2004].” In fact, the promised review never occurred ­
? In late February, Barna crafted a draft letter to concerned members of Congress stating: “We hope to have a final decision on the book in March 2004.” That draft was rewritten in June and finally sent out to Congressional representatives with no completion date for the review at all;
? NPS Headquarters did not respond to a January 25th memo from its own top geologists charging that sale of the book violated agency policies and undercut its scientific education programs;
? The Park Service ignored a letter of protest signed by the presidents of seven scientific societies on December 16, 2003.

“Promoting creationism in our national parks is just as wrong as promoting it in our public schools,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, “If the Bush Administration is using public resources for pandering to Christian fundamentalists, it should at least have the decency to tell the truth about it.”

The creationist book is not the only religious controversy at Grand Canyon National Park. One week prior to the approved sale of Grand Canyon: A Different View, NPS Deputy Director Donald Murphy ordered that bronze plaques bearing Psalm verses be returned and reinstalled at canyon overlooks. Superintendent Alston had removed the bronze plaques on legal advice from Interior Department solicitors. Murphy also wrote a letter of apology to the plaques’ sponsors, the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary. PEER has collected other instances of what it calls the Bush Administration’s “Faith-Based Parks” agenda.
 
 
 
 

------ End of Forwarded Message

Bush is bleeding our jobs dry!

redistribute freely, as long as it's anti Bush

Bush Changes On Civil Rights Issue

Bobby, nice going in finding this one http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041026/ap_on_el_pr/bush_civil_unions_1
 Bush Stance on Civil Unions Upsets Groups

Tue Oct 26, 3:57 PM ET
By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Some conservative groups expressed dismay Tuesday over President Bush (news - web sites)'s tolerance of state-sanctioned civil unions between gay people — laws that would grant same-sex partners most or all the rights available to married couples.
"I don't think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that's what a state chooses to do so," Bush said in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC. Bush acknowledged that his position put him at odds with the Republican platform, which opposes civil unions.
 "I view the definition of marriage different from legal arrangements that enable people to have rights," said Bush, who has pressed for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. "States ought to be able to have the right to pass laws that enable people to be able to have rights like others."
 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) backs civil unions for gay couples, too. He opposes gay marriage but also opposes the idea of a constitutional ban.
 Some conservative organizations sharply disagreed with Bush and pressed him to seek a constitutional amendment that would ban both gay marriage and civil unions.
 "Civil unions are a government endorsement of homosexuality," said Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women For America. "But I don't think President Bush has thought about it in that way. He seems to be striving for neutrality while defending marriage itself."
 Knight said "counterfeits" of marriage, such as civil unions, "hurt the real thing."
 The head of another group, the Campaign for California Families, said it, too, wants a sweeping constitutional amendment that bars civil unions and same-sex marriage.
 "Here's the truth, civil unions are homosexual marriage by another name," said Randy Thomasson, the group's executive director. "Civil unions rob marriage of its uniqueness and award homosexuals all the rights of marriage available under state law."
 "Bush needs to understand what's going on and resist counterfeit marriages with all his might no matter what they're called," Thomasson said.
 But Matt Daniel, the leader of a coalition that successfully pressed for legislation that would create the constitutional ban on gay marriage, said Bush had staked out just the right position.
 A federal ban on gay marriage, not on civil unions, "is the way for America to resolve this in the fairest way, the best way," said Daniel, president of the Alliance for Marriage. "We do indeed support the president's position."


 

Had to get this one out and about

http://www.monsterslash.org/
Thanks, Kev.
I had to get this one out and about, since there are several news items or posts in this of interest, particularly the last one in the newsletter.
 

60,000 Absentee Ballots Missing in Florida.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102804W.shtml
  Postal Experts Hunt for Missing Ballots in Florida
  By Michael Christie,  Reuters
  Wednesday 27 October 2004
  MIAMI - U.S. Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots that should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida's most populous counties, officials said.
  The issue evoked memories of the polling problems that bedeviled the Florida election in 2000 and which the state has been trying to address before next Tuesday's presidential election, which is again expected to be a very tight race.
  Broward deputy supervisor of elections Gisela Salas said 60,000 absentee ballots, accounting for just over 5 percent of the electorate in the county north of Miami, were sent out between Oct. 7 and Oct. 8 to voters who would not be in town on election day.
  While some had begun to be delivered, her office had been inundated with calls from anxious voters who still had not received their ballots.
  "It's really inexplicable at this point in time and the matter is under investigation by law enforcement," Salas told Reuters.
  "It was basically our first major drop of the absentee ballots," Salas said. She said postal service officials had assured Broward elections supervisor Brenda Snipes that the ballots had moved out of the post office to which they had been taken by the elections office.
  U.S. Postal Service Inspector Del Alvarez, whose federal agency is independent from the U.S. Postal Service, said it had yet to be determined if the ballots reached the post office.
 

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 -- GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE
Today’s Global Security Newswire is now available: http://www.nti.org
QUOTE OF THE DAY
================
It is certainly good news that at least the beginning of breaking up [Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan's nuclear smuggling] network has occurred. Unfortunately, a substantial number of players in that network are still walking around free people. -- --Nuclear expert Matthew Bunn of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
FULL ISSUE
==========
TERRORISM
U.S. Lawmakers Hope To Reach Compromise on Intelligence Reform Bill This Week http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#C80E2E2D
Russia to Contribute Two Navy Vessels to NATO Antiterror Effort in Mediterranean Sea http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#C9E89653
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Shuts Web Library http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#4E4DF226
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Iran Rejects Latest European Call for Complete Suspension of Uranium Enrichment Activities http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#D5DFF11D
Russian Businessman Claims to Have Attempted to Foil Sale of Russian "Suitcase" Nuclear Device http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#E91382EE
Powell Denies U.S. Inflexibility in Negotiations on North Korean Nuclear Program http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#B0F05DD0
U.S. Military Unit Did Not Have Orders to Search Iraqi Site for Now-Missing Explosives, Officer Says (hmmmm!)
http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#3FE6EBD1
Work Remains to Wrap Up Nuclear Network, Experts Say http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#C1CA48CA
Indian Nuclear Arsenal Helped Deter Regional Rivals' Ambitions, Prime Minister Says http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#EF75B044
MISSILE PROLIFERATION
India Successfully Tests Naval Prithvi 3 Missile http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#490C8AB0
North Korea Resumes Missile Base Activity http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#D51F27E7
MISSILE DEFENSE
New U.S. Missile Defense Director Vows More Secrecy http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html#3ADC27E6
 

http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_27.html
U.S. Military Unit Did Not Have Orders to Search Iraqi Site for Now-Missing Explosives, Officer Says
    During the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the U.S 101st Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade conducted only a limited search of the al-Qaqaa facility that housed hundreds of tons of explosives that have since been reported missing, the unit’s spokesman said yesterday. Some of the explosives were a type that could be used to detonate nuclear weapons (see GSN, Oct. 26).
    The unit, one of the first to reach the facility, encountered looters at the site when it arrived shortly after coalition forces captured Baghdad on April 9, 2003, Lt. Col. Fred Wellman told the Associated Press.
    Soldiers “secured the area they were in and looked in a limited amount of bunkers to ensure chemical weapons were not present in their area,” Wellman wrote in an e-mail message. “Bombs were found but not chemical weapons in that immediate area.”
    “Orders were not given from higher to search or to secure the facility or to search for HE type munitions, as they (high-explosive weapons) were everywhere in Iraq,” he wrote (Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Oct. 27).
 

From Bobby, Thanks:
Listen to Real People who voted for George Bush in 2000, but will be voting for Kerry in 2004.
http://www.errolmorris.com/html/election04/election04_main.html
 

I don't know what this person's slant is, but this is interesting.
http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=37138469&tid=apbushclout&sid=37138469&mid=809380
Republicans Endorsing John Kerry
by: liberal_attack  10/27/04 07:33 pm
Msg: 809380 of 809380
"The fact is, we're in deep trouble in Iraq," Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)
"We made serious mistakes," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
"the incompetence in the administration."
Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Republicans Endorsing John Kerry
Charley Reese, conservative columnist/journalist, Orlando Sentinel (1971-2001) -- May 17
Lee Iacocca, former Chrysler Chairman -- June 25
Russell E. Train, (interview) EPA chief under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford -- Jul. '04
Various Republican Business Leaders -- Aug. 5
Gail Slocum, former Republican Mayor of Menlo Park, California -- Sept. '04
Clay Myers, Republican Secretary of State (1967-77) and State Treasurer (1977-84) for Oregon -- Sept. 1
Bill Rutherford, former Treasurer of Oregon and Chair of the Oregon Investment Council -- Sept. 1
George Comstock, Mayor of Portola Valley, California -- Sept. 1
Mike Cobb, former Republican Mayor of Palo Alto, California -- Sept. 8
Pete McCloskey (editorial here), former Republican Representative from California -- Sept. 8
John Eisenhower, son of former Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Sept. 9
Steve May, former Republican state legislator from Arizona -- Sept. 10
Jon Silver, former Republican Mayor of Portola Valley, Californ
ia -- Sept. 24
John A. Galbraith, former Republican Ohio General Assemblyman -- Sept. 28
David Catania, Republican (now Independent) Councilman from Washington, D.C. -- Sept. 29
Clyde Prestowitz, counselor to Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Commerce -- Oct. 6
Rick Russman, former Republican State Senator from New Hampshire -- Oct. 7
Marshall Wittmann, former communications director to Arizona Republican Senator John McCain -- Oct. 7
Richard Schmalensee, former Council of Economic Advisers member for President George H. W. Bush -- Oct. 12
Elmer L. Andersen, former Republican Governor of Minnesota (1961-63) -- Oct. 13
Ballard Morton, son of Thruston Morton, former Republican Senator from Kentucky -- Oct. 14
Anne Morton Kimberly, widow of Rogers C.B. Morton, former Republican Representative from Maryland -- Oct. 14
Tim Ashby, director, Office of Mexico and the Caribbean, U.S. Commerce Department under Reagan and Bush I -- Oct. 14
William Milliken, former Republican Governor of Michigan (1969-82) -- Oct. 18
Marlow Cook, former Republican Senator from Kentucky (1968-74) -- Oct. 20
Peter Gillette, former Republican Commissioner of Trade for Minnesota (1991-95) -- Oct. 20
Andrew Sullivan, conservative columnist, former editor of The New Republic -- Oct. 26 (on Jul. 25 he announced he wouldn't vote for Bush)
Republicans Who Will Not Vote For George W. Bush
* Basil Akers, 1992 RNC NM delegate for George H. W. Bush and U.S. Army intelligence analyst in Vietnam, Oct. 25
* Bob Barr, former Republican Representative from Georgia (1995-2003) -- Oct. 14
* Robert L. Black, retired Republican judge of the Ohio First District Court of Appeals -- Oct. 13
* John H. Buchanan, former Republican Congressman from Alabama -- Oct. 4
* Lincoln Chafee, Republican Senator from Rhode Island -- Oct. 4
* John Dean, former White House Counsel to former Republican President Nixon -- Apr. '04
* Paul Findley, former Republican Representative from Illinois -- Apr. '04
* A. Linwood Holton former Republican Governor of Virginia (1970-74) -- Aug. 29
* Log Cabin Republicans -- Sept. 8
* Paul O'Neill, former Treasury Secretary to Republican President George W. Bush -- Jan. '04
* Richie Robb, mayor of South Charleston, WV (and 2004 Electoral College WV Republican elector) -- Sep. '04
* William Saletan, "liberal Republican" columnist for Slate -- Sept. 1
* Karl W. B. Schwarz, very conservative Republican from Arkansas -- Oct. 20 (see also [1])
* Walter Olson, Bush 2000 campaign advisor -- Oct. 26
 

Download Fahrenheit 9/11 Here FREE
by: dont_be_conned (M/DC)  10/27/04 07:41 pm
Msg: 809401 of 809406 , 2 recommendation
http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000468.html
MANY LINKS ON THIS SITE:
Bush flipping the bird! I'd like to see christian conservatives explain this!
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Michael Moore has made several Public Statements that web sites should pirate his movie. He cares more about getting rid of Bush than making money. He says he has already made plenty of money on it and he wants people like me to spread it around.
 

I have been to the site, and I hope to god it is legit!

Kelli