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January - February 2004

07 February 2004 - Rules for being a Republican

from: http://www.knrcradio.com/

06 February 2004 - Bush is either AWOL or a deserter. Your choice.

See here for an excellent discussion, with documentary proof, on President George W. Bush - deserter from the Texas air National Guard. See here for an extended discussion of the documents. Click here for animation that makes the same point - Bush is a deserter. And here to see a flash animation about the Chickenhawks in government today.

04 February 2004 - Rummy says WMD may still be found in Iraq.

What drugs is he taking? Read about it here or here.

Senator Kennedy reminded Rumsfeld that Rummy said 'we know' whereabouts of WMD in those halcyon days leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

08 January 2004 - In Campaign 2004, secularism has become a dirty word as this NY Times op-ed shows.

Democrats, particularly Howard Dean, are being warned that they do not have a chance of winning the presidential election unless they adopt a posture of religious "me-tooism" in an effort to convince voters that their politics are grounded in values just as sacred as those proclaimed by President Bush. More here.

07 January 2004 - Is Bush another Hitler? You decide. But the Bushies just can't seem to let go of the comparison. Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?

06 January 2004 - Which are you?

Are you a tax and spend democrat or a borrow and spend and spend and spend republican? George W. Bush thinks that government is too big, too intrusive and spends too much money. That is why he has worked so hard, and unabashedly, to give Americans a withered, tax-starved government. In fact, he seems to think that they only way to fix something is to cut taxes. Is that bridge broken? Cut taxes by $1 trillion over ten years and we'll have enough money to fix it. Schools don't work? Cut taxes so we can cut funding. Veterans have problems with health care? Cut taxes so there will be a damn good excuse to cut funding. Don't like environmentalists? Cut funding to our public land agencies and charge an entrance fee. Welcome to the Bush brave new world of privatization and paying as you go. Like a good republican, Bush has preached small government and fiscal responsibility.

What has Mr. Small Government and Mr. Fiscal Responsibility given us? We know what his cronies have received. But what about us? For starters, a deficit that has grown from $0.00 in 2000 to $480 billion in 2004. How about an increase in federal spending of $381 billion, including the $150 billion military incursions [so far] into Afghanistan and Iraq? As Stephen Moore from the anti-tax group, Club for Growth [think of "club" as something you get hit with, not something you join and you get an idea of what they're after] says, "He [Bush] is worse than any president since Johnson on spending." Except that people in the US got quite a bit from their government when Johnson was spending the money.

So, which are you? Tax and spend or borrow and spend?

Historians will some day look back on the Reagan era and the Reagan "revolution" and be amazed at how republicans succeeded in making citizens hate their government and call for tax cuts. They will marvel at how Americans were so gullible as to allow themselves to support policies that were only in the best interests of their manipulators. And they will wonder how Americans could have been so stupid as to piss away 200+ years of freedoms for the fascist doctrinaire of a blow-hard dictatorship as comical, and deadly, as Mussolini's Italy, though republicans can't fathom the connection. In the height of hypocrisy, Bush champions freedom while stifling free speech.

As this new year begins, it is a good time to remember the words of Josef Goebbels and search for similarities in the words of our republican brethren. If the methods, below, sound familiar, well; don't worry about it. You're probably just a ranting democrat as John Leo wrote in "The Left's Nazification of Bush."

"[T]he rank and file are usually much more 
      primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must
      therefore always be essentially simple and
      repetitive. In the long run basic results in
      influencing public opinion will be achieved
      only by the man who is able to reduce problems
      to the simplest terms and who has the courage
      to keep forever repeating them in this
      simplified form, despite the objections of the
      intellectuals."
                          

05 January 2004 - Wisdom

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