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June 2006



A STRANGE AMERICA

Monday, 26 June 2006 3:12 P GMT-07
Our once great country is rapidly becoming unrecognizable. As Jay Bookman puts it the land of the free and home of the brave is becoming more and more the land of the cowed and home of the silent.  The reason for this surrender of liberty is fear.

HOPE FOR IRAQ AT LAST

Sunday, 25 June 2006 4:54 P GMT-07
Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is going to offer a "National Reconciliation" plan for resolving the conflict that has been raging there ever since Bush's idiotic and arrogant declaration that the war was over and the U.S. victorious.

HOME GROWN TERRORISTS

Sunday, 25 June 2006 3:02 P GMT-07
There are many groups in the U.S. that not only talk but perform terrorist acts. Mostly we turn a blind eye to these groups perhaps because many of them like to cloak their activities in Christian, rather than Islamic, smokscreens.
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A DESPERATE NEED FOR LEADERSHIP

Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:55 A GMT-07
Even should the Democrats take one or both houses of Congress in November I see little chance that the "terminally timid" Dems can put a brake on the Bush onsonslaught on our liberties and the push to create a truly imperial presidency and put an end

VACATION TIME !

Saturday, 3 June 2006 4:26 P GMT-07
My wife and I will be leaving early tomorrow morning for a vacation trip to British Columbia to visit a son and daughter of mine and their families (including 6 grandchildren.)  No more blogs posted here until after I return June 19th.

NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR

Saturday, 3 June 2006 3:42 P GMT-07
Making Americans fearful is Bush's most potent weapon in his drive to increase his power. "If voters can be kept frightened enough of terrorism, they might even overlook the monumental incompetence of one of the worst administrations the nation has

OUR SICK HEALTH SYSTEM

Saturday, 3 June 2006 12:46 P GMT-07
Four "big lies" are preventing the U.S. from implementing a much needed and easily available "cure" for our sick healthcare system. Let's open our eyes and not be afraid to make needed changes.

MEDICARE FOR ALL - JUST DO IT !

Friday, 2 June 2006 11:48 A GMT-07
Older Americans are already covered by a national health insurance system; extending that system to cover everyone would save money, reduce financial anxiety and save thousands of American lives every year. Why don’t we just do it?

WHO'S CRAZY NOW?

Friday, 2 June 2006 10:40 A GMT-07
A chorus of right-wing media bullies ridiculed those of us who opposed the war in Iraq while gloating over a "quick and total" victory in the first weeks after the invasion. Time has proven who was right and who was crazy.