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  • Hoo Hah! Bush at the NAACP
    21 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush spoke to a large audience at the NAACP yesterday (for you who live in Europe, thats the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). He was politely received. In some cases, seemingly more so!
    (Short version)
    Bush: I love black people!
    Audience: Hoo Hah!
    Bush: The Republican Party is going to do better by the NAACP in the future.
    Audience: Hoo Hah!
    Bush: Congress has approved billions in aid for New Orleans victims.
    Audience,rising: Hoo Hah!
    Bush: The No (…)

  • Warrantless Spy Program Monitoring Peoples Thoughts
    21 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Warrantless Spy Program Monitoring Peoples Thoughts
    From President Richard M. Nixon To George W. Bush
    The CIA, obviously, was not afraid of the oversight committees (a dog and pony show for the American people) that were set up to watch over the intelligence community in the 70’s when their CEPO program appears to have first come online. From what I’ve been able to gather, the CIA’s, CEPO program, was a program to detect if a person is lying and/or telling the truth, monitoring peoples (…)

  • Fighting Back Against The PR Presidency
    20 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fighting Back Against The PR Presidency By Walter Pincus July 13, 2006 The Summer 2006 issue of Nieman Reports is about "Reflections on Courage." Veteran Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus thinks that Washington editors and reporters should be brave enough not to cover any statements made by the president or any other government official that are designed solely as a public relations tool, offering no new or valuable information to the public.
    Courage in journalism today takes all (…)

  • Man In Coma For 19 Years Asks To Go Back To Sleep
    20 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Man In Coma For 19 Years Asks To Go Back To Sleep By Andy Borowitz Posted on Jul 14, 2006 In what members of the medical community are calling an unprecedented development, a man who recently awoke from a 19-year coma has asked doctors to put him back to sleep.
    At a press conference in Jacksonville, Fla., today, the man, Jason Deloit, 43, told reporters that at first he was excited to be conscious again, “But then I turned on the TV.”
    Mr. Deloit said that the first images he saw on (…)

  • REPORT: Oman Trade Pact Permits Foreign Ownership Of US Nat’l Security Assets
    20 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    REPORT: Oman Trade Pact Permits Foreign Ownership Of US Nat’l Security Assets By David Sirota 7.18.06 In an explosive report tonight, top House Democrats discovered provisions in the controversial Oman Free Trade Agreement that would permit foreign ownership of U.S. ports and other key national security assets. Three Democrats and one Republican held an emergency press conference today to expose the provisions just before the House is scheduled to vote on the Oman pact on Thursday. As (…)

  • Is Anyone Still Listening To The Flaming Bush?
    20 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Is Anyone Still Listening To The Flaming Bush? By Leon Hadar July 14, 2006
    Please name the US presidential candidate who made the following point during the 2000 race for the White House: "I think that one of the problems that we have faced in the world is that we are so much more powerful than any single nation has been in relationship to the rest of the world than at any time in history, that I know about anyway, that there is some resentment of US power. So I think that the idea of (…)

  • Cowboy My Foot
    20 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cowboy My Foot By Charley Reese July 19, 2006
    It’s amazing how journalism can create instant myths, especially in this age of the Internet and television. Time magazine’s big story about the Bush administration ending "Cowboy Diplomacy" is a good example.
    Time writes a lead story asserting that there’s been a big change in President Bush’s approach to foreign policy, and the television chatter heads pick up on it and talk it to death.
    In the meantime, nothing has changed in the Bush (…)

  • Who Is Hoekstra’s Secret Source?
    20 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Who Is Hoekstra’s Secret Source? Russell Tice May Not Be The One Who Tipped Off Rep. Peter Hoekstra, But He Wanted To Be By Leah A. Nelson WEB ONLY July 19, 2006 Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) must be enjoying himself. Since the New York Times released his May 18 letter to President Bush in which Hoekstra, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, condemned the intelligence community for keeping secrets from Congress, he has been feted as a Republican who is willing (…)

  • Bush - Stoned? Drunk? Medicated? Retarded? Presidential Tester For The Pharmaceutical Industry?
    20 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush - Stoned? Drunk? Medicated? Retarded? Presidential Tester For The Pharmaceutical Industry? You Decide........ Buzzflash Reader Contribution By Ruth Lopez Created 07/19/2006 - 3:06 pm Bush is fried. He’s either drinking, smoking pot, medicated, or some combination of all of them. [1] Either that or the man has taken a one-way trip to crazy town.
    Watch his gibberish at the G8, especially the bizarre stuff about how long the plane flights to various countries are. If you take out the (…)

  • The Ugly Truth: Our President Is An Imbecile
    20 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Ugly Truth: Our President Is An Imbecile Cenk Uygur 07.18.2006 You know it, I know it and the American people know it. But everyone is afraid to say it. They say it privately, but people are afraid of saying it publicly because you will be branded as a liberal, elite, intellectual snob. But believe me, you don’t have to be an intellectual to see how painfully stupid our president is. Just look at the conversation he is having with world leaders at the G-8 summit. Mikes picked up the (…)