contributions

Don’t Lose Sight Of The Real Scandal Sean Gonsalves January 10, 2005 I’m a dawg. But I don’t like red herring. The word smiths at Merriam-Webster define a red-herring argument or fact as "something that distracts attention from the real issue."
As for origins, the dictionary people point out the following: A herring is a soft-finned fish that is often preserved through a salting and slow smoking process. That’s what gives herring a red or dark brown hue. It’s also what makes them smell (…)

Drug Addicted US Troops Sent To Scotland For Help Iraq Veterans In Rehab With NHS Patients Liam McDougall, Health Correspondent 09 January 2005 A PICTURESQUE Scottish hospital is being used by the US military as a base to treat drug and alcohol addicted troops who have fought in Iraq, the Sunday Herald can reveal. The US department of defence is sending up to 40 damaged servicemen and women a year - including marines, army and airforce personnel - to Castle Craig rehabilitation clinic to (…)

The Truth Shall Set You Back Lying Is No Sin For Bush’s Minions Margaret Carlson January 13, 2005 At CBS, four high-level people (five, if you count Dan Rather giving up his anchor chair) have been fired for being taken in by phony documents. You may not think that’s enough, but what strikes me is how rare such firings are. When there’s lying, cheating and stealing on Wall Street, a prosecutor has to have the corporate executive dead to rights - at Fannie Mae, at Marsh & McLennan, at (…)

What Bush Said About Iraq’s So-Called WMD Staff and Wire Reports Jan 13, 2005 Statements by the Bush administration before and after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 on Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs:
BEFORE THE WAR
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." - Vice President Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002.
"The problem here is that (…)

Brave New Era For Privacy Fight Kim Zetter January 13, 2005
As the nation prepares for President Bush’s inauguration next week, privacy activists on both sides of the political spectrum are bracing for a White House push to augment controversial domestic surveillance powers gained under the Patriot Act and other legislation passed since 9/11.
"The administration has made it clear that they do intend to continue their move to dramatically reduce privacy and constitutional protection for (…)

address given by Dr. Meyers at Oklahoma University Peace Rally
As some of you know, I am minister of Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma City, an Open and Affirming, Peace and Justice church in northwest Oklahoma City, and professor of Rhetoric at Oklahoma City University.
But you would most likely have encountered me on the pages of the Oklahoma Gazette, where I have been a columnist for six years, and hold the record for the most number of angry letters to the editor. (…)

by Mark Engler
Despite an increase in promised aid to tsunami-affected countries last week, the United States’ aid offering still isn’t topping the list. Australia, for one, has donated much more. But the United States could make up for its somewhat meager offering by forgiving debt payments for tsunami countries. A temporary moratorium on payments won’t be enough. It’s time to go farther-much farther-and end debt obligations for tsunami countries in Southeast Asia. Trouble is, we (…)

Dear Senator Kerry,
I recieved your email asking for people to call Dennis Hastert and Bill Frist about voting rights and the need for changes regarding the way elections are conducted, and applaud your efforts to advocate this important issue.
I intend to call and write Senators once I have drawn up a proposal for actual legislation to address these issues. It won’t be immediate, but I will certainly be promoting the proposal to my email list as well as calling congress to ask (…)

On December 18, I attended Gary Webb’s memorial service in Sacramento, California, along with about 250 other people.
In 1996, Webb wrote a series of articles (“Dark Alliance”) for the San Jose Mercury News reporting that, in the 1980s, “a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to...street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to an arm of the contra guerrillas of Nicaragua run by the Central Intelligence Agency” and the “cocaine that flooded in helped (…)

I consider the two methods by which the republicans used to steal the 2004 election: 1) paperless electronic voting and 2) massive disenfranchisement of primarily African-American voters; to be two SEPARATE issues. Yes, they were combined to produce the same end, namely another Bus sElection; aside from this, they are fundamentally unrelated.
Many democrats and DUers are calling for an Election Reform movement which will address both issues in ONE campaign. I VEHEMENTLY disagree that this (…)