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January 2004

Voter Turnout Gives Hope For 2004

Saturday, 31 January 2004 11:34 A GMT-07

It's easy to become discouraged and pessamistic about the future with all the negative things happening these days... lies and distortions of just about everything by the administration and the media, continuing casualties in Iraq, assaults on the en

Keeping Rx Drug Prices High

Friday, 30 January 2004 6:17 P GMT-07

Here's another segment of the Jan. 26, 2004, PROGRESS REPORT http://www.theprogressreport.org from the "Center for American Progress." If anything is ever going to be done to fix the badly broken healthcare system in the U.S. t

Time To Impeach Cheney?

Thursday, 29 January 2004 4:08 P GMT-07

Well the Clinton-haters among Republicans managed to impeach Bill Clinton over a brief consensual sexual dalliance. The Bush administration is becoming adept at illegal (that means laws have been broken) leaks of classified intormation, offence

Fair Trial For Saddam Unlikely

Thursday, 29 January 2004 11:56 A GMT-07

Don't expect Saddam Hussein to get a fair trial under U.S. or international auspices. There is just too much baggage carried by Bush administration and Republican officials who were complicit in creating and encouraging the monster that was the

Extremists In Control of U.S.

Wednesday, 28 January 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

This treatise was published by the British newspaper The Guardian on Monday, Jan. 26, 2004, and reprinted by the Common Dreams News Center, http://wwwcommondreams.org , today, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004. It addresses what I believe is the mo

Marriage A sacred Institution? Ask Britney

Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

Here's a bit of change of pace. It's difficult for me to undersatnd or get excited about the current flap over gay marriages. G.W. Bush in decrying gay marriages pompously declared recently that "marriage is a sacred institution...."

U.S. As Dr. Frankenstein

Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:41 P GMT-07

I've posted a couple of recent blogs on the subject of how the U.S. aided Saddam Hussein for years, while ignoring his many crimes against humanity. ["How U.S. Winked at Evil," (Jan 17) and "U.S. Guilt By Association," (Jan. 20).] Then, s

Libyans Hope But Doubt

Sunday, 25 January 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

All the White House spin jockeys, together with their obedient puppets in the media like William Safire, are trying to convince the public that the U.S. attack on Iraq is the reason for the Libyan dictator, Moammar Gaddafi, to offer to abandon his nu

"Chained In Iraq"

Saturday, 24 January 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

A couple of blogless days as I've been out of town. Just before I left home I received a sample copy of the Washington Post: National Weekly Edition, http://www.nationalweekly.com . A couple of essays grabbed my attention which

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U.S. Guilt By Association?

Tuesday, 20 January 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

The decision last Tuesday by the U.S. to label Saddam Hussein as a "prisoner of war" instead of a "war criminal" was a move that surprised many and could backfire on the Bush administration. If tried as a prisoner of war he would hav

Extreme Opposites

Monday, 19 January 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

Martin Luther King has been one of my special heroes, not just for his leadership and passion in working for equality of the races, but also for consistently championing a philosophy of non-violence. That puts him in the company of Gandhi,

Bush's Science Fiction

Saturday, 17 January 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

The announcement By G.W. Bush promoting manned missions to the Moon and to Mars, while the country staggers under an ever-increasing deficit and national debt, seemed like a politically motivated venture into science fiction. Then when informat

Worst Blunder In U.S. Foreign Policy?

Saturday, 17 January 2004 6:20 P GMT-07

Not my words, but the assessment of Sen Ted Kennedy. I wouldn't argue with him! I'm glad to see that the fact that people high in the Bush administration were urging a preemptive war on Iraq long before 9-11 is finally getting some attent

How U.S. Winked At Evil

Saturday, 17 January 2004 1:11 P GMT-07

One of the most egregious human traits, to my way of thinking, is hypocrisy -- defined in my dictionary as "the deceitful assumption of virtue." Hypocrisy has certainly been one of the most evident chatacteristics of George W. Bush and his

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Army War College Rips Bush

Friday, 16 January 2004 12:59 P GMT-07

This is another excerpt from the PROGRESS REPORT of Jan. 12, 2004, published on the internet by the Center For American Progress http://www.americanprogress.org/ . This part of the report deals with a "scathing report" by the U.S. Ar

Paul O'Neill's Education

Friday, 16 January 2004 12:58 P GMT-07

Here is the first part of the Jan. 12, 2004, PROGRESS REPORT, published by The Center For American Progress which can be accessed at http://www.americanprogress.org . This portion of the report deals with the new book, The Price of

Neocon's Vision: U.S. World Empire

Friday, 16 January 2004 10:08 A GMT-07

This is an expanded look at the vision of the "neocons" as described in the book "An End To Evil" by Richard Perle and David Frum and addressed in my blog of Jan. 14, 2004. This vision, which was first articulated in the early 19

A Perle To Cast Before Swine

Wednesday, 14 January 2004 5:01 P GMT-07

The following appeared yesterday, January 13, as an "Op Ad" on the Tom Paine website, http://www.tompaine.com/ , no author given. It a frightening prospect to see what rubbish Richard Perle, who was one of the earlies

Progress Report: Economy, Iraq, etc.

Wednesday, 14 January 2004 3:34 P GMT-07

This Progress Report, dated Jan. 9, 2004, is published the The Center For American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.org . As usual, due to it's length, it has been edited. Anyone wishing to view the unedited report, complet