Dear Mayor Giuliani:
Since you have based your presidential campaign almost exclusively on
your reaction to terrorist attacks on New York City, and since you
have recently accused Democrats of being on the defense against
terrorism and therefore guilty of inviting more casualties, I have
one question for you: Where were you on terrorism between January 31,
2001, and September 11th?
The first date was when the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st
Century issued its final report warning, as did its previous reports,
of the danger of terrorist attacks on America. The George W. Bush
administration did nothing about these warnings and we lost 3,000
American lives. What did you do during those critical eight months?
Where were you? Were you on the defensive, or were you even paying
attention?
Before you qualify to criticize Democrats, Mr. Giuliani, you must
account for your preparation of your city for these clearly predicted
attacks. Tell us, please, what steps you took to make your city safer.
Until you do, then I strongly suggest you should keep your mouth shut
about Democrats and terrorism.
You have not qualified to criticize others, let alone be president of
the United States.
Gary Hart
(co-chair, U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century)
P.S. You might ask these same questions of George W. Bush while you
are trying to find a better reason to run for president.
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Along with driver’s license, voters should have to show ‘right stuff’
One good thing about Rep. Betty Brown’s bill on the kind of ID voters should be required to bring to the polls with them?
Since her provision would cut down on voter turnout, it would free up parking at the polls.
Then again, so would a chicken flu epidemic.
Brown’s bill, which passed the House this week with all Democrats voting against it, would make it harder for people to vote.
Why?
Because it would make voters show a voter registration card and a driver’s license, or two other types of ID, such as your concealed weapons permit and your sex change papers.
Article: Michael Collins
Voter Fraud Scam Fails in Milwaukee Test Market
“Scoop” Independent News
Washington, DC
Reader’s comment:
At 10:28 PM, been there said…
i know you like to point out the history of voter fraud in chicago. and i can’t argue too much. but i would like to draw your attention to the 49th ward aldermanic runoff. if there is an honest person in the city council, it is probably my alderman, joe moore. he can’t be much of a crook, he ended up 51 votes short in the primary, and ended up in a runoff with a guy, don gordon, who sure smells like a republican. his strategy on election day was challenge, challenge, challenge. he lost by 247 votes. don is contesting the election. i was a judge, and the dozen or so challenged voters in my precinct were all black. hmm. all but 2 were able to identify them selves, and were allowed to vote. now he says that 10% of voters in that precinct were invalid.
i could go on. but many things about this campaign smell funny, including rabid bloggers with a positively rovian way of framing non-issues, and a huge chunk of change from one of the swift boat funders.
so, i have to agree that there is a concerted effort to frame dems for “voter” fraud. and what better place to look than chicago? especilly at an alderman that took on walmart, the iraq war, and impeachment.
things that make you go hmmmm.
Fox got caught this week with their hand in the cookie jar, or should I say the ham sandwich. They went on-air with a flat out made up story. The story involved a ham steak being placed in front of Muslim students as a prank in a middle school in Maine. Fox News Channel believed a parody site that said that an Anti-Ham Response Plan had been implemented at the school to fight against ham sandwiches - and ran with the story on-air.
You know they wanted to believe the story. They ran it because it’s the kind of thing Fox eats up. They love to ham up these fake stories of political correctness. And this involved making fun of sensitive Muslims, even better. Fox was in hog heaven.
This is their silly “War on Christmas” type of story on crack. Instead of
embellishing and making up stories on their own, this time they made the mistake of using an actual parody that could be proven to be fake. That was their real error. They’re usually savvier than that.I have called Fox, “Fake News Channel” before because of their penchant for putting
so much bias in stories that they aren’t representative of reality. That’s actually a much worse transgression than this because there they convince the mainstream media to cover real stories with their false slant — and the press usually falls for it. In this case, it’s good to see that they lived up to the title of literally being the Fake News Channel.I remember when Fox News demanded that all of the CBS producers and anchors be fired when they went with an uncorroborated story on-air. I am sure they will apply the same standard to their staff, right?
Most Katrina Aid From Overseas Went Unclaimed
By John Solomon and Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 29, 2007; A01
As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide.
Titled “Echo-Chamber Message” — a public relations term for talking points designed to be repeated again and again — the Sept. 7, 2005, directive was unmistakable: Assure the scores of countries that had pledged or donated aid at the height of the disaster that their largesse had provided Americans “practical help and moral support” and “highlight the concrete benefits hurricane victims are receiving.”
Many of the U.S. diplomats who received the message, however, were beginning to witness a more embarrassing reality. They knew the U.S. government was turning down many allies’ offers of manpower, supplies and expertise worth untold millions of dollars. Eventually the United States also would fail to collect most of the unprecedented outpouring of international cash assistance for Katrina’s victims.
Fascist America, in 10 Easy Steps
By Naomi Wolf, Chelsea Green Publishing
Posted on April 28, 2007, Printed on April 28, 2007
Editor’s note: This is adapted from Wolf’s forthcoming book “The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.”
Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down — the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel and took certain activists into custody.
They were not figuring these things out as they went along. If you look at history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship. That blueprint has been used again and again in more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways. But it is always effective. It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy, but history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps.
As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated in the United States by the Bush administration.
[T]his public meeting that is very important to the state of Florida — will be convened in Washington DC to ensure that the commissioners make it as hard as possible for anyone to attend and voice their opinions.
The EACs “Sunshine Notice” announcement is for a meeting that is murky and as closed as the EAC can possibly make it without directly violating federal law.
Low-KeyOffice Launches High-Profile Inquiry
By Tom Hamburger
The Los Angeles Times
Tuesday 24 April 2007
Rove Investigator Himself Under Investigation
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report
Tuesday 24 April 2007
2 gays among those ‘purged’ by OSC boss
Watchdog groups assail latest Bloch action
Jan 28 2005
Originalists, Federalism, and Scott J. Bloch
May 30 2005
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Mel Seesholtz
The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege (Hardcover)
by Damon Linker (Author)
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Jiffy Law
Filed by David Edwards and Mike Sheehan
The House Judiciary Committee, investigating the U.S. Attorney firings scandal, voted to grant immunity to former aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Monica Goodling. Goodling is a graduate of Regent.
“There are over 150 other Regent alumni currently working in the Bush administration with her,” says Stewart. It’s not surprising, he says, “since the latest U.S. News & World Report ranks Regent as a ‘Tier Four’ school, out of what must be hundreds of… oh, there’s only four tiers.
“Well, certainly four must be the best tier of the… eh, it’s the worst tier,” adds Stewart, to laughter. “Apparently, I’m being told that Regent is tied with Jiffy Law.”
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