Archive for August, 2005
Monday, August 29th, 2005 ...when I read the Sunday morning San Jose Mercury news I wasn’t surprised by this little incident.“At the pro-Bush rally, there were some heated moments when two members of Protest Warrior, a group that frequently holds counter protests to anti-war rallies, walked in with a sign that read "Say No ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2005 Scapple Face, a News satire blog has pulled one over on the right wing bloggers. In a satire piece that announced that George W Bush has done several things that he hasn’t really done. They say that he has written the Iraqi constitution, ordered a congressional fitness program, and written ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005 Here it is: your Quick Reference; your Official Cheatsheet. Everything you ever wanted to know about the outing of Valerie Plame. And remember, Valerie Plame is the center of the storm. This
website is an excellent guide to the whole can of worms: the Downing Street memos, all ...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2005 War needs popular support in order to be successful. It only goes to say that is the reason that governments go to such extremes in order to win popular support for war. Even the Germans during both world wars went to extreme measures of propaganda to win popular support for ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2005 I feel like I am repeating myself, but I’m not. Even though the truth about the build up to the Iraq War has been out in public for years now, this evidence isn’t accepted as the truth among those who continue to support the President’s vision of pre-emptive invasion. This ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2005 The Cindy Sheehan story is an important example of how the Bush administration takes advantage of people. Cindy gave her son to the Bush administration and she doesn’t want to give his memory to them as well. Knowing that Cindy is no longer a donor to the Republican cause he ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2005 The media doesn’t like to admit that they are wrong. When they make mistakes they make a little note of it and they go on. So, if they announce a breaking story with six inch headlines and they announce the correction with six point type then how many people from ...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005 We’re close enough to the 2008 election for everyone to be speculating about who it’ll be. Some of the favorites (or worst nightmares) include Jeb, Hillary, Condoleezza, Frist, Kerry (forms his 2 index fingers into a cross), among others. The name Sam Brownback doesn’t usually come up. Even if you’ve heard ...
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 Many people know that Pope John Paul II declared the Iraq War an unjust war before he died. Many Anti-War activists have argued that the Iraq War was not a “Just War,” since it was proposed at the end of 2002. But most people don’t even know what a “Just ...
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