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October 2005



BUSH ON A TORTUROUS ROAD

Saturday, 29 October 2005 11:18 A GMT-07
"Five years of stupefying pork, ideological nonsense, dumb administrative ideas, fiscal idiocy, misbegotten energy programs -- and the first thing the man vetoes is is a bill to pay our soldiers because it carries an amendment saying, once again, tha

PRIVATIZING HURRICANE RELIEF

Friday, 28 October 2005 4:34 P GMT-07
The Bush administration sees the aftermathof Hurricane Katrina not as a humanitarian crisis but as primarily a business opportunity for the large corporations that fund the Republican Party.

2000 TOO MANY

Wednesday, 26 October 2005 4:23 P GMT-07
Bush lied and now over 2000 have died. They died for mindless fantasies of arrogant, power-hungry, neo-fascist ideologues. The dying must end. 2000 is 2000 too many to die for nothing.

PIG IN A JACKET

Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:47 P GMT-07
Conservations day will come, but it hasn't happened yet. Suddenly the Bushies are giving lip service to energy conservation, but words without deeds are empty.

WHOSE WAR?

Tuesday, 18 October 2005 8:53 A GMT-07
All politicians who support a war should be drafted - or have a close family member drafted - to be first in the line of fire.

KATRINA: THREE DISASTERS IN ONE

Thursday, 13 October 2005 3:30 P GMT-07
Hurricane Katrina should be known as K3 since it brought about three disasters. First was the hurricane itself, and second was the non-response of the Bush administration, both in terms of preparation and response. The third disaster is on the way

QUOTES FROM THE CLUELESS

Tuesday, 11 October 2005 5:10 P GMT-07
One way to get a picture of the kind of people who are running our federal government is to listen to the things thay are saying.  The mainstream media are careful to screen out most of the more outrageous statements from made by the politicians.

POLITICS BEFORE PEOPLE IS BUSH CREED

Saturday, 8 October 2005 2:12 P GMT-07
One of the most tragically irresponsible decisions of the Bush administration in the critical hours following Hurricane Katrina was its refusal to accept offers by the government of Cuba to immediately dispatch medical assistance to the victims.

A FIG-LEAF CONSTITUTION

Friday, 7 October 2005 4:42 P GMT-07
No amount of crowing over a fig leaf Iraqi constitution by President Bush can hide the fact that the region's autocrats, theocrats and terrorists are stronger than ever. No amount of crowing over a fig-leaf Iraqi constitution by President Bush ca

CEOs 431, WORKERS 1

Wednesday, 5 October 2005 4:50 P GMT-07
CEO to worker pay ratio is now 431:1. The biggest defense contractors have raised CEO salaries 200% since 9/11. Yes, the rich get richer at an alarming rate.

U.S.A. - UNITED SHAME OF AMERICA

Tuesday, 4 October 2005 4:40 P GMT-07
We have been deaf and blind too long to the misery and hopelessness of poverty that exists for millions of Americans. At the same time our president and his party ignore them while doing their utmost to enrich the already richest one or two percent

RIPPING THE COVER OFF POVERTY

Tuesday, 4 October 2005 4:00 P GMT-07
One possible positive result of Hurricane Katrina and the mismanagement of the Bush administration that preceded and followed it, may be that it has turned a spotlight on the existence of poverty in the U.S. that has long been hidden from sight.

PEAS FROM THE SAME POD

Sunday, 2 October 2005 8:15 A GMT-07
If anyone thought that the public could expect any decrease in being "hammered" with Tom DeLay out of his majority leader role, you should think again. Roy Blunt, who has been handed that role, is cut from the same piece of cloth as DeLay. (The type

"A CANCER ON OUR COUNTRY"

Saturday, 1 October 2005 4:28 P GMT-07
Yes, the Republicans are getting hammered -- by their own corruption and ethical malfeasance led by none other than Tom "The Hammer" DeLay.  Why isn't there an outcry for the impeachment and removal from office of the whole lot?  The firs