Please let this be true. ====== The widow of former President, and Republican icon, Ronald Reagan has told the GOP she wants nothing to do with their upcoming...
John C. Merritt
beowulf@...
Aug 1, 2004 5:53 pm
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"Last week's Democratic convention boosted voters' views of John Kerry but failed to give him the expected bump in the race against President Bush, a USA...
From Newsweek July 31 - Coming out of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Sen. John Kerry now holds a seven-point lead over President George W. Bush...
kalewms@...
Aug 2, 2004 1:41 am
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<<tired of repeating myself in plain English>> amen. <<admit that you're a reactionary who would rather see four more years of Bush>> by your own admission...
kalewms@...
Aug 2, 2004 2:12 am
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... That should be obvious. I personally always have and always will vote for the person who most closely advocates and represents my views on the issues,...
<<he will certainly have a much better chance of getting my vote and the vote of other progressive and pro-constitution voters than he does today>> that's...
kalewms@...
Aug 2, 2004 12:21 pm
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"In an echo of the savings and loan industry collapse of the 1980's, the federal agency that insures company pensions is facing a possible cascade of...
"What of the antiwar sentiment that is still in truth at the heart of most Democrats' anger? It has been displaced downward and outward, into the outlying...
"Congressman Jim McDermott has announced his co-sponsorship of Congressman Charles Rangel's legislation to reinstate the military draft and other forms of...
"The American Civil Liberties Union has withdrawn from a federal donation program, refusing to follow U.S. Patriot Act rules requiring use of a government...
That's more than disingenuous. This news is over a year old. His stated reason for sponsoring the bill was "At the time that this bill was written, President...
kalewms@...
Aug 3, 2004 12:46 am
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... The link was just provided to me today. Have Rangel & Co. officially ended that push? And how is Kerry planning to double the military and special forces,...
"It has been months since the now-infamous photographs from Abu Ghraib revealed that American soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners -- yet the Bush administration...
"I think that a radical life is not something that depends on Internet connections or websites or demos or even on politics, like having Green mayors. This may...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html?hp August 3, 2004 Reports That Led to Terror Alert Were Years Old, Officials Say By DOUGLAS JEHL and...
"In the late 1960s, when Turner Communications was a business of billboards and radio stations and I was spending much of my energy ocean racing, a UHF-TV...
The Case Against George W. Bush, By Ron Reagan It may have been the guy in the hood teetering on the stool, electrodes clamped to his genitals. Or smirking...
kalewms@...
Aug 4, 2004 12:35 pm
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Good to see the Kerry campaign is waking up to this... "On November 2 millions of Americans will cast their votes for President in computerized voting systems...
"It looks like the FBI's Boston field office faked a threat of domestic terrorism just before the start of the Democratic National Convention by leaking...
I guess we won't know for sure until we see whether she shows up at the Republican Convention or not. "According to a report published Monday on NewsMax.Com,...
Evidently, the balance of powers are a nuisance to the Christian Coalition and their ilk. Get this, House leaders using an obscure and largely untested...
... If she doesn't show up, the spinmeisters can always use her age and recent bereavement as a reasonable excuse, though that would be hard if she doesn't at...
John C. Merritt
beowulf@...
Aug 4, 2004 9:35 pm
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From the New England Journal of Medicine, no less. "There is increasing evidence that U.S. doctors, nurses, and medics have been complicit in torture and other...
"Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s employee wages and benefits policies cost California taxpayers $86 million annually to provide health care and other public assistance...
"In June 1945, Truman ordered the U.S. military to calculate the cost in American lives for a planned assault on Japan. Consequently, the Joint War Plans...
"Guerrilla artist Banksy has covertly cemented a 20-foot (6-metre) satirical statue protesting at the British legal system into a central London square. ...