Teacher of year snubs Bush aide over gaffe

The Massachusetts teacher of the year refused to attend an event in Washington honoring the nation's top educators because US Education Secretary Rodney Paige had called the nation's largest teachers' union a "terrorist organization."

Jeffrey R. Ryan, a history teacher at Reading Memorial High School who lost a friend in the Sept. 11 attacks, said he could not accept Paige's apology for the Feb. 23 remark about the 2.7-million-member National Education Association.

Paige said the reference to terrorism was a "bad joke." But Ryan said: "Nazi death camps aren't funny. Lynching people isn't funny. . . . and terrorism isn't funny. I just couldn't show up and shake that man's hand after he made those remarks."

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Grand jury to review call logs from Bush’s jet in probe of how a CIA agent’s cover was blown

Air Force One phone records subpoenaed

WASHINGTON -- The federal grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity has subpoenaed records of Air Force One telephone calls in the week before the officer's name was published in a column in July, according to documents obtained by Newsday.

Good. Bush not only needs to lose in November, he needs to be brought down so America doesn't move this far in either direction (right or left) for a long long time.

Also sought in the wide-ranging document requests contained in three grand jury subpoenas to the Executive Office of President George W. Bush are records created in July by the White House Iraq Group, a little-known internal task force established in August 2002 to create a strategy to publicize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

Oh, so kind of a marketing group, rather than a group that might want to see if such a war was necessary. See that question was never asked. It was a given since day one, so they had a marketing group have bull sessions every week dreaming up excuses for war that amercians would swallow. Like many marketing efforts, they decided to go with a lie, two in fact: Iraq had WMDs, and Iraq was connect to 9/11.

For more on that fun "Iraq Group": It met weekly in the Situation Room, the Post said, and its regular participants included senior political adviser Karl Rove; communication strategists Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin and James R. Wilkinson; legislative liaison Nicholas E. Calio; policy advisers led by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy Stephen J. Hadley; and I. Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

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Not easy to watch, but should be watched by every American who watches one of Bush's "Leadership" commercials.

Take Back The Media! Flash Animation "An American Requiem"

If Bush wants to be known as a leader, then is not only fair but necessary to ask why he failed to lead on 9/11. Multiple human errors occured that day, but despite all of those if Bush simply stopped reading the book about the goat and got up and demanded to know what hijacked aircraft was still up in the air (something that was known) and ordered those planes shot down at least the crash at the Pentagon would have been avoided. He failed. He failed miserably.

He didn't lead, on his most important day as a leader he didn't lead. He sat on a chair.

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Where have all the jobs gone... long time passing...

Yahoo! News - Stocks Cut Losses, Hope for Steady Rates

The government reported U.S. employers added a scant 21,000 workers to payrolls last month, far short of expectations for 125,000 new jobs. Hopes had been high the struggling job market would show more strength amid other signs of an improving U.S. economy.

If you need to add about 140,000 jobs a month just to keep up with graduates and immigration, it'd think your "recovery" is pretty lame if your expectations still don't get you to break even. Oh, and they've lowered January's number as well. This is scary. This isn't a recovery, its a return to the "gilded age" where jobs were scare, but the money flowed for the rich.

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Soon we'll be Searching for Bin Laden 24/7 - ummm... why haven't we been doing that since 9/11/01? Has George been distracted?

High-tech snooping for bin Laden

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. forces searching for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden along the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan will soon implement high-tech surveillance tactics in the region, enabling them to monitor the area 24 hours a day, seven days a week, CNN has learned. Emphasis Mine.

This is sad. Why are they searching for him seriously only now? So Bush can find him in time for the election? Is that the only reason Bush shows any interest in Bin Laden at all? (I want to see him punished for his role in the murder of thousands... but hey, that's just me).

Or is all this "search" stuff just fluff? Maybe Bin Laden's already captured, and his capture will be announced in... say... October?

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RNC, NYC

What depresses me unutterably about using the 9/11 backdrop is that this
strategy is entirely working, because everybody who voted for Bush hates New
York. That's the dirty little secret. It's not about the firefighters or the
actual families -- it's using us to achieve their goal. Having their
convention in New York is stamping our faces into the stinking, muddy,
smoking ashes and gloating over us. Top of the heap. A Number One. If you
can strike us here, you can strike us anywhere, it's up to you. No one
believes New York is for Bush, he never even bothered to campaign here. I
know, we had Giuliani and are saddled with Pataki, but that's different. No
one here votes for Bush. By definition, we are part of the Axis of Evil to
the rest of America. For one thing, we're Jews. All you Christians and
Muslims and Catholics and Orthodox Latvians, blacks and Puerto Ricans who live in New York?
You're all Jews too. That's what sucks so hard about these fearmongering ads
and their craven convention. It's using the last bastion of true
cosmopolitanism, tolerance, and civility left in this wounded, hate-filled
nation -- an island, really, a handful of boroughs -- as the new Ground Zero
for a rallying cry of Let's Go Kick Some Ass. Just what the city needs. The
RNC in NYC is a face slap, with an extra kick in the teeth after we got our
first two knocked out. Bush in New York is where the Ass meets the Hole, and
America loves tossed salad.

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Read This

Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind

With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.

But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.

In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.

The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.

“Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn’t do it,” said Michael O’Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution.

Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe.

The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.

“People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.

In January 2003, the threat turned real. Police in London arrested six terror suspects and discovered a ricin lab connected to the camp in Iraq.

The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the National Security Council killed it.

Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.

The United States did attack the camp at Kirma at the beginning of the war, but it was too late — Zarqawi and many of his followers were gone. “Here’s a case where they waited, they waited too long and now we’re suffering as a result inside Iraq,” Cressey added.

And despite the Bush administration’s tough talk about hitting the terrorists before they strike, Zarqawi’s killing streak continues today.

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Family Steering Committee
for the 9/11 Independent Commission

Questions to ask

answers George?

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Yes I know it's been up since Monday: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots

8. Carver Middle School
Best Biblical Ass-Pummeling: Did you know that since Canada decided to ban corporal punishment in schools last month, the USA and a single state in Australia are the only areas in the industrialized world which still allow the beating of schoolchildren? And some schools take this "privilege" way more seriously than others. Take Carver Middle School in Mississippi for example, whose assistant principal Ralph McClaney resigned last week after protesting the school's position on paddling. Most of Carver Middle School's students come from housing projects, and McClaney was expected to beat as many as 10 to 15 children a day, but "The idea of a big white guy hitting an 80-pound black girl because she talked back to the teacher did not sit well with me," he said. According to McClaney's written notes, the school's principal Earnest Ward told him, "These kids are different, all they understand is the paddle," and "walk the halls and, if the kids are out of line, burn their butts." Not only that, but according to the Washington Post, Carver special education teacher Cherry Moore believes that "Old Testament references to 'spoiling the child by sparing the rod' should outweigh the allegedly negative effects of corporal punishment cited by child-development experts." Oh boy.

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How to kick off your campaign the George Bush way:

Step 1: Piss off Firefighters

Fire Fighters President Says Use of Fire Fighter Images in New Bush Ads Smack of Political Opportunism

The General President of the International Association of Fire Fighters, AFL-CIO (IAFF), Harold Schaitberger, issued the following statement today after President Bush unveiled new political ads that use images of fire fighters in September 11, 2001 attacks for political gain:

-- As Bush Trades on Heroism of Fire Fighters, His Homeland Security Funding Cuts Hurt Fire Fighters and Communities --

"I'm disappointed but not surprised that the President would try to trade on the heroism of those fire fighters in the September 11 attacks. The use of 9/11 images are hypocrisy at its worst. Here's a President that initially opposed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and now uses its first anniversary as cause to promote his re-election. Here is a President that proposed two budgets with no funding for FIRE Act grants and still plays on the image of America's bravest. His advertisements are disgraceful.

"Bush is calling on the biggest disaster in our country's history, and indeed in the history of the fire service, to win sympathy for his campaign. Since the attacks, Bush has been using images of himself putting his arm around a retired FDNY fire fighter on the pile of rubble at ground zero. But for two and a half years he has basically shortchanged fire fighters and the safety of our homeland by not providing fire fighters the resources needed to do the job that America deserves."

2. Piss off 9/11 Family Members

Furor over Bush's 9/11 ad

The Bush reelection campaign yesterday unveiled its first three campaign commercials showcasing Ground Zero images, angering some 9/11 families who accused President Bush of exploiting the tragedy for political advantage.
"It's a slap in the face of the murders of 3,000 people," said Monica Gabrielle, whose husband died in the twin tower attacks. "It is unconscionable."

Gabrielle and several other family members said the injury was compounded by Bush's refusal to testify in open session before the 9/11 commission.

3. Piss off Everyone with any damn sense

Bush Ads Use World Trade Center Imagery

WASHINGTON - With a huge $10.5 million downpayment, President Bush's re-election committee rolled out its first campaign commercials on Wednesday, using images of the destroyed World Trade Center to claim "steady leadership in times of change."

"What sees us through tough times? Freedom, faith, families, and sacrifice," says one commercial, as clips roll of the Sept. 11, 2001, wreckage, a flag being raised, children saying the Pledge of Allegiance, parishioners at a church, parents with a new baby and firefighters.

The ads portray the Republican incumbent as a steward who has led the country through three years of economic woes and terrorism fears and seek to make the case that Bush has emerged as a leader amid foreign and domestic challenges.

This sums it up (from the second article):

Firefighter Tommy Fee in Rescue Squad 270 in Queens was appalled.

"It's as sick as people who stole things out of the place. The image of firefighters at Ground Zero should not be used for this stuff, for politics," Fee said.

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Insane!

Cole Claims a Vote Against Bush Is a Vote For Hitler

Republican Congressman Tom Cole claims a vote against the re-election of President Bush is like supporting Adolph Hitler during World War Two. It's what he said recently before a meeting of Canadian County Republicans.

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9/11 Panel Rejects White House Limits on Interviews

WASHINGTON, March 2 ? The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is refusing to accept strict conditions from the White House for interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and is renewing its request that Mr. Bush's national security adviser testify in public, commission members said Tuesday.

The panel members, interviewed after a private meeting on Tuesday, said the commission had decided for now to reject a White House request that the interview with Mr. Bush be limited to one hour and that the questioners be only the panel's chairman and vice chairman.

The members said the commission had also decided to continue to press the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to reconsider her refusal to testify at a public hearing. Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are expected to be asked about how they had reacted to intelligence reports before Sept. 11, 2001, suggesting that Al Qaeda might be planning a large attack. Panel members want to ask Ms. Rice the same questions in public.

"We have held firm in saying that the conditions set by the president and vice president and Dr. Rice are not good enough," said Timothy J. Roemer, a former Indiana congressman who is one of five Democrats on the 10-member commission.

Mr. Roemer said that former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore had agreed to meet privately with the full bipartisan commission, and that Samuel R. Berger, Ms. Rice's predecessor, would testify in public.

Like I've said before, I've really become to respect Gov. Kean, and I'm sorry I ever mocked his weird not from New Jersey accent when he would say "new jersey and you....perfect together."

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Tell your state officials you want your vote to be counted

Computer Ate My Vote

Today, TrueMajority is launching a campaign to protect the integrity of America’s elections and avoid a replay of the embarrassing Florida election fiasco in 2000. Our goal is to raise $50,000 to run a grassroots campaign urging state election officials to prohibit the use of computerized voting machines until we know they are safe and have a way to run reliable recounts. Can you help?

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The dangers of theocracy

Not Just for Abortion Anymore

The drug [Mifepristone - better known as RU-486], which blocks one of the cortisol receptors in the brain, is in clinical trials with 400 psychiatric patients and could be approved by the FDA within two years. The makers see it as a much-needed alternative to electroshock therapy. "Electroshock is not something anyone would volunteer for if they had a less-noxious alternative," says Joe Belanoff, a psychiatrist at Stanford and CEO of Corcept Therapeutics, which develops drugs for severe depression.

But access to the pills could soon be restricted. Citing the 2003 death of a California teenager who took RU-486 to end a pregnancy, anti-abortionists in Congress are pushing for a federal ban. The bill, introduced in November, has 68 co-sponsors. Scientists are worried: Availability is already limited because the drug has only one US distributor.

Emily Mulheran is worried, too. The 33-year-old Web designer, who participated in early trials at Stanford, said mifepristone silenced the voices that had twice convinced her to try to kill herself. She has since been unable to get the drug and has resorted to electroshock therapy, which has caused so many memory problems she can't work. "The people who are trying to ban this don't realize how many people it can help," she says, then adds with a laugh, "it makes me crazy."

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No George No! That's a sacred document! Stop George! Bad Monkey! Bad Bad Monkey!

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Supid Bills - and your congress

Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine

...the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (HR3261) makes it a crime for anyone to copy and redistribute a substantial portion of data collected by commercial database companies and list publishers. But critics say the bill would give the companies ownership of facts -- stock quotes, historical health data, sports scores and voter lists. The bill would restrict the kinds of free exchange and shared resources that are essential to an informed citizenry, opponents say.

The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill and the commerce committee is expected to review it on Thursday.

The bill's biggest backers are the Software and Information Industry Association; Reed Elsevier, which owns the LexisNexis database; and Westlaw, the biggest publisher of legal databases.

Art Brodsky, spokesman for public advocacy group Public Knowledge, says the bill would let anyone drop a fact into a database or a collection of materials and claim monopoly rights to it. This would contradict the core principle of the Copyright Act, which states that mere information and ideas cannot be protected works.

Under the terms of the broadly written bill, a public-health website could be deemed in violation of the law for gathering a list of the latest health headlines and providing links to them on its home page.

Google would be in violation for trolling media databases and providing stories on its news page.

An encyclopedia site not only could own the historical facts contained in its online entries, but could do so long after the copyright on authorship of the written entries had expired. Unlike copyright, which expires 70 years after the death of a work's author, the Misappropriation Act doesn't designate an expiration date.

You want to kill any future innovation in America and make us a third world nation within thirty years? Pass this bill.

Seriously, innovative industries will move to other countries to avoid this law. The Misappropriation Act is a fine example of how to put brakes on innovation, thought, and education. Let you congress persons know!

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Admit WMD mistake, survey chief tells Bush

David Kay, the man who led the CIA's postwar effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, has called on the Bush administration to "come clean with the American people" and admit it was wrong about the existence of the weapons.

In an interview with the Guardian, Mr Kay said the administration's reluctance to make that admission was delaying essential reforms of US intelligence agencies, and further undermining its credibility at home and abroad.

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Excerpts of press gaggle from Talking Points Memo:

QUESTION: In every speech he gives, President Bush invokes the atrocities of 9/11 and he talks about how that event has impressed on him a determination to always honor the victims of those atrocities in his daily conduct of his office. And I wonder if you could explain with some serious Texan straight talk here, Scott, how it is honoring the victims of 9/11 to restrict the questioning of the President on this subject to one hour?

McCLELLAN: I hope you'll talk about the unprecedented cooperation that we're providing to the commission when you report this, James. Because if you look back at what we've done, it is unprecedented. We have provided more than 2 million pages of documents. We provided more than 60 compact discs of radar, flight and other information; more than 800 audio cassette tapes of interviews and other materials; more than 100 briefings, including at the head-of-agency level; more than 560 interviews. So this administration is cooperating closely and in an unprecedented way with the 9/11 Commission, because their work is very important.

QUESTION: That would have been a very pertinent answer had I asked you about the administration. But, in fact, I asked you about the President’s cooperation.

McCLELLAN: And the President is pleased to sit down with the chairman and vice chairman to provide them with the information they need to do their job. And we believe …

QUESTION: Why only one hour? Why only one hour?

McCLELLAN: -- we believe that he can provide them the necessary information in this private meeting.

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While democrats fear the term Class Warfare, Republicans have been waging it for over 20 years. And they've been winning.

The Fed Chief's Terse Talk (washingtonpost.com)

Does Alan Greenspan have amnesia ["Fed Chief Urges Cut in Social Security," front page, Feb. 26]? More than 20 years ago he co-chaired a commission to ensure the solvency of Social Security. That commission recommended stiff increases in the payroll tax to create a surplus that would help fund the retirement of baby boomers down the road. The higher payroll taxes, which put a heavy burden on lower-to-middle income taxpayers, were signed into law and remain in effect to this day.

But in 2001 Mr. Greenspan endorsed a fiscally irresponsible income tax cut that effectively gives away the Social Security surplus he created primarily to high-income taxpayers. Now he suggests that those tax cuts be made permanent, while we reduce the enormous deficits that they've created only through cuts in spending, especially on Social Security.

Got That? Raise tax on lower and middle income to create surplus to pay for baby boomers retirement. Use surplus to fund tax cut for the rich. Try to lower benefits for baby boomers. Bait and Switch genius.

Here's a nice timeline from Calpundit:

• 1983: Recommended raising payroll taxes far above the amount required to fund Social Security. Since payroll taxes are capped (at $87,000 currently), this was, by definition, an increase that primarily hit the poor and middle class.
  
  
• 2001: Enthusiastically endorsed a tax cut aimed primarily at people who earn over $200,000.
  
  
• 2003: Ditto.
  
  
• 2004: Told Congress that due to persistent deficits Social Security benefits need to be cut.

Here's Paul Krugman to sum it up:

The traditional definition of chutzpah says it's when you murder your parents, then plead for clemency because you're an orphan. Alan Greenspan has chutzpah.

Last week Mr. Greenspan warned of the dangers posed by budget deficits. But even though the main cause of deficits is plunging revenue — the federal government's tax take is now at its lowest level as a share of the economy since 1950 — he opposes any effort to restore recent revenue losses. Instead, he supports the Bush administration's plan to make its tax cuts permanent, and calls for cuts in Social Security benefits.

Yet three years ago Mr. Greenspan urged Congress to cut taxes, warning that otherwise the federal government would run excessive surpluses. He assured Congress that those tax cuts would not endanger future Social Security benefits. And last year he declined to stand in the way of another round of deficit-creating tax cuts.

But wait — it gets worse.

You see, although the rest of the government is running huge deficits — and never did run much of a surplus — the Social Security system is currently taking in much more money than it spends. Thanks to those surpluses, the program is fully financed at least through 2042. The cost of securing the program's future for many decades after that would be modest — a small fraction of the revenue that will be lost if the Bush tax cuts are made permanent.

And the reason Social Security is in fairly good shape is that during the 1980's the Greenspan commission persuaded Congress to increase the payroll tax, which supports the program.

The payroll tax is regressive: it falls much more heavily on middle- and lower-income families than it does on the rich. In fact, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, families near the middle of the income distribution pay almost twice as much in payroll taxes as in income taxes. Yet people were willing to accept a regressive tax increase to sustain Social Security.

Now the joke's on them. Mr. Greenspan pushed through an increase in taxes on working Americans, generating a Social Security surplus. Then he used that surplus to argue for tax cuts that deliver very little relief to most people, but are worth a lot to those making more than $300,000 a year. And now that those tax cuts have contributed to a soaring deficit, he wants to cut Social Security benefits.

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The Truth: Shopping at Walmart with raise your taxes and put downward pressure on your own wage

Wal-Mart stands out on rolls of PeachCare

A snapshot of Georgia's program for uninsured children shows that it's packed with kids of Wal-Mart employees.

A state survey found 10,261 of the 166,000 children covered by Georgia's PeachCare for Kids health insurance in September 2002 had a parent working for Wal-Mart Stores.

That's about 14 times the number for next highest employer: Publix, with 734.

Wal-Mart is the state's largest private employer. But when the top four companies on the list are measured by number of PeachCare children per the number of employees in Georgia, Wal-Mart still dominates.
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But the number of PeachCare children whose parents work for Wal-Mart struck a nerve with a local advocacy group for low-wage women.

"Most employees who make $7 to $8 an hour can't afford health insurance," said Cindia Cameron, organizing director of 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women. "When a very wealthy employer passes off to taxpayers what is rightfully a labor force cost, that's a serious public policy problem."

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Thanks to Alex, some fun:

Rumsfeld Fighting Technique

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The War President

Bush sets case as 'war president'

George isn't satisfied with his War on Iraq or his show War on Terrorism. He is the war president on many fronts.

He's at war against gays

He's at war against the poor

He's at war against civil rights.

He's at war with the environment

War! huh-yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Uh-huh

War! huh-yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again y'all

War! huh good God
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Listen to me?

We mock Islamic nations for its constant "jihads" and yet we take it seriously when we fight "war against pornography" and "war against drugs" and are experiencing an ongoing "culture war."

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