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April 2005



'TRUE BELIEVERS' LAUD STALIN

Saturday, 30 April 2005 4:04 P GMT-07
I don't know about you but I get pretty fed up with the pseudo-Christian "true believers" who claim that they, and only they, have all the truth that can be known and then feel compelled and determined to inflict it on everyone else.  Ever

THIS KIND OF COOKING MAKES ME SICK

Saturday, 30 April 2005 4:00 P GMT-07
Here's another of Jim Hightower's "quickies."  He notes that many CEO's bilked their shareholders and employees of huge sums of money, pocketed enormous "bonuses" for doing it and have been allowed to walk away free, with no payb

WELFARE FOR THE RICH

Saturday, 30 April 2005 2:19 P GMT-07
When my dad died many years ago the Dean at the small college where he worked as Registrar wrote a very touching tribute.  I've read it many times but there was one comment that, at first, I wondered about.  The Dean wrote of my dad, "He was

TOO WILLING TO BEND THE LAW

Friday, 29 April 2005 5:28 P GMT-07
In case any of you are wondering why Senate Democrats are opposed to a few of Bush's judicial nominees, perhaps this will at least explain why they don't want Judge Priscilla Owen moving up to a more prestigious position in our judicial system.  Thi

A BETRAYAL OF DEMOCRACY

Thursday, 28 April 2005 4:45 P GMT-07
I've written frequently here complaining about the lies told to the American people by President Bush,  members of his administration and congressional supporters.  Bush has another device for keeping the truth from the public that I haven't said a

F.D.R. vs BUSH: HOPE VS FEAR

Wednesday, 27 April 2005 2:11 P GMT-07
This nation recently ignored, for the most part, the 60th anniversary of the death of the man who was, in the opinion of many, the greatest president of the 20th Century, Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Not a perfect president by any means -- after all, he

NOW, DON'T YOU FEEL SAFER?

Monday, 25 April 2005 2:50 P GMT-07
Here's a new voice, at least to me.  I've not seen anything up to now by Mark Morford and I know nothing about him except that he wrote this for The San Francisco Chronicle.  He may be well known around the Bay Area and I'll have to look for more t

FRIST GOES OFF THE DEEP END

Thursday, 21 April 2005 2:59 P GMT-07
Below is an email letter I received yesterday from the religious group Faithful  America , http://www.faithfulamerica.org .  It seems that I'm not the only one that is deeply concerned by Sen. Frist's underhanded and dishonest attempt to make his &

CROSSING THE LINE

Thursday, 21 April 2005 1:07 P GMT-07
Republican leaders in both the House and Senate, Tom DeLay and Bill Frist, are leading the charge in crossing the lines of decency, honor and truthfulness.  Their recent actions and statements are almost unbelievable.  There is only one explanation

NUCLEAR OPTION - HANG ON!

Wednesday, 20 April 2005 4:33 P GMT-07
This move by Sen. Frist constitutes just about the most outrageous lie yet by the Bushie gang -- a special message inserted into church services this Sunday telling parishioners that opposition to Frist's "nuclear option" attempt to destro

"WHO'S BETTER OFF?"

Monday, 18 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
On July 21, 2003, I posted a blog here entitled, "A Conservative on the 'Neo-Con' Agenda."  It was a speech, delivered before (the empty) U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).  Now he's done it again.  Ron Paul is in

THE REAL REPUBLICAN AGENDA

Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:53 P GMT-07
Since starting this blog site I've found myself at a loss to understand why certain things are happening.  Why is the Bush administration pursuing a particular policy or course of action that seems, on the surface, to make little or no sense?  Why

THE CRUELEST CUTS OF ALL

Friday, 15 April 2005 10:22 A GMT-07
The president's budget proposals include more than $200 billion in cuts to domestic discretionary spending over the next 5 years and 26 billion more in entitlement programs.  The Republicans claim that this is an effort to bring the escalating feder

BUSH BRAGS, BLUSTERS & BOASTS

Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
George Bush loves to boast.  Unfortunately, his boasts, like the boasts of most bullies keep being revealed as nothing more than hot air.  Remember "Mission Accomplished?"  Even before that he had blustered about his "shock and awe

"DON'T SHRED THIS SAFETY NET"

Wednesday, 13 April 2005 4:09 P GMT-07
Speaking of social security, Christina Kasica, grandaughter of Polish immigrants, helps to put a human face on the debate over privatization with this eloquent plea to not destroy the reliability of this very successful program.  Ms. Kasica is a co
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BUSH THE SNAKEOIL SALESMAN

Monday, 11 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
As Donald Kaul observes, George W. Bush continues to perform like a consummate snakeoil salesman, dashing around the country intent on selling a feigned and phony "cure."  Trying to convince the country that the popular Social Security pro

BANKRUPTCY BREWING BEHIND BUSH BRAVADO

Sunday, 10 April 2005 1:47 P GMT-07
President Bush continues to to talk big and and pretend that all is well with the U.S. in both foreign and  domestic affairs.  Beneath his bluster our isolation in the world is growing and our influence is eroding.  At home our trade and budget de

UNDERSTANDING THE "NUCLEAR OPTION"

Friday, 8 April 2005 5:26 P GMT-07
The Republican drumbeat goes on.  The so-called "nuclear option" to use " procedural trickery" to slip through a change in Senate rules that would eliminate the filibuster as a part of the Senate's role in both advising AND con

BAD SIGNS FOR BUSH & NEOCONS

Friday, 8 April 2005 5:10 P GMT-07
The second part of today's The Progress Report, http://www.progressreport.org , documents the increasing discomfort of true conservatives with Bush and his neocons (more accurately, neo-fascists), and their policies.  I've pointed out many times tha

A SINKING SHIP OF STATE

Tuesday, 5 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Here's another long essay (sorry about that), but it's another that I consider a "must read."  And, in case you hadn't noticed, the long commentaries are often among the best.  Be that as it may, since it is long and I want you to read it
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HOW THE NRA AIDS TERRORISTS

Monday, 4 April 2005 2:38 P GMT-07
Once in a great while something of meaningful import appears in the mainstream media.  This is one of those times.  The following appeared as an editorial in yesterday's New York Times.  It documents one way in which our idiotic gun laws in the U.
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NUTS AND BOLTON

Friday, 1 April 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Don't be fooled by the right-wing dominated media's ballyhooing about the report issued this week which tries to put all the blame for the Iraq war onto the nation's intelligence agencies while absolving Bush, and his administration of chicken-hawks

A HAMMER OUT OF CONTROL

Friday, 1 April 2005 4:49 P GMT-07
Terri Schaivo is dead.  All of her now, not just her brain.  It's sad for her and her family.  It's been sad for the past 15 years while she has been kept partly alive by machines and feeding tubes.  It's also sad the way a lot of so-called "