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The 2004 Bushism Calendar: A Natural for Your Holiday Gift Giving. Hey, George, we're not laughing with you, we're laughing AT you. The F*ed Up White House Pink Underpants Prissies: Bush Cartel "Offended" by Kerry Profanity. Didn't Bush Say "F* Saddam" in Front of Condi? Oh, Those Bush Cartel Hypocrites Just are Too F*ing Much! 12/8 On Google, "Miserable Failure" Links to Bush 12/8 A U.S. military commander said insurgent attacks might not abate even if American troops kill or capture Saddam Hussein 12/8 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Get Your "Loaded Deck" of Playing Cards Critics assail U.S. for Afghan deaths: Air strike that killed 9 children spurs fears of backlash 12/8 Andy "Doesn't Play with a Straight Deck" Card dismissed as "a moot point" any lingering question about whether Bush relied on faulty intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. Uh, Okay, So Bush Lied and Got Away With It. Thanks for the News, Andy. Drive the Message Home, "Save America: Recall Bush" End America's Nearly Three Years of a Bush Cartel Halloween Nightmare Jeb Prepares for the Theft of Election 2004: Florida won't require printouts of touch-screen votes 12/8 Skin Disease Strikes U.S. Troops in Iraq. It's Like Bush Singlehandedly Brought on the Plague. 12/8 Bush Signs "Poison Pill" Medicare Bill on Monday 12/8 The Bush Legacy of Betraying Our Soldiers: Lack of Body Armor 12/8 With a pastor on one side and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. on the other, Howard Dean clapped his hands and swayed at the altar of the Christian Methodist Episcopal church Sunday, confidently singing over and over again, "We can work it out!" 12/8 Did Halliburton Cause Environmental Pollutants that are Causing Cancer in West Virginia? 12/8 Cease-fire offer eludes Palestinians 12/8 More Bush Cartel Incompetence: Terror-Related Cases Often Fizzle "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?" Postcards from BuzzFlash.com. Send Them to Your Republican Friends. NASA budget sliced by $300 million for congressional pork 12/8 BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War" Get This DVD! Letter from an Army Vet 12/8 The Bush Legacy: U.S. Spending Surges to Historic Levels 12/8 Send the Message Across the Nation: "Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died" Postcards. The Perfect Message to Your Senators and U.S. Representatives. Immediate cash aid falls shy of pledges for Iraq 12/8 Weapon of Mass Destruction Found in Texas. How Come Bush Isn't Talking About this Homegrown Terrorist Threat, Just Like the Anthrax Terrorist? 12/8 Sharpton fun on 'SNL' -- if you could watch him 12/8 Get It and Support BuzzFlash: New!** The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq: "a chilling portrait of the cabal of neo-cons who have commandeered American foreign policy" Afghan Villagers Torn by Grief After U.S. Raid Kills 9 Children 12/8 Roadside Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier in Iraq 12/8 A Long History of Speeding Tickets, Speeding and Bragging About It, But "Wild Bill" Janklow Cries Like a Baby While Testifying About Accidentally Killing a Veteran 12/8 Kucinich: Turn Iraq governance over to U.N. 12/8 "Take Back the Media": Warnography 12/8 Buy Your Holiday Gifts at BuzzFlash.Com And Support Our Growth! One question only, for the Washington Post: When will Charles Krauthammer be fired? 12/8 The FBI and Political Demonstrators 12/8 Get the "Trials of Henry Kissinger" DVD at BuzzFlash.com. We found this recently released -- and overlooked -- documentary absolutely riveting. If California wants to be just like Florida, then sure, let's start denying health insurance for poor children, as our new governor suggests. 12/8 Selective Civil Liberties 12/8 "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" DVD Be Cool in a BuzzFlash Hat! Karzai shock at child bomb deaths 12/7 The Perfect Companion to Al Franken's Book: "The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly." Now At BuzzFlash.com. Secretary of Defense Aims to Privatize the U.S. Military 12/8 Rockers Unite to Oust Bush 12/8 Dec. 4 - Bush visit to Home Depot is payback for huge contributions to his re-election campaign 12/8 Click Here to Make a Difference! BuzzFlash Depends Entirely Upon You. We are THE Pro-Democracy News and Commentary Site for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. We Have No Advertising, Just You. Help Us Expand. Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," at BuzzFlash.com. The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying. U.S. Strike in Afghanistan Kills 9 Kids "The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception." Now in Stock. Hospitals Say They're Penalized by Medicare for Improving Care 12/8 High Court to Debate Miranda Rights, Again 12/8 Get Paul Krugman's Book at BuzzFlash.com How a Shady Iranian Deal Maker Kept the Pentagon's Ear 12/8 The Bushed Economy 12/8 Bush's Thanksgiving "Ham" Stunt 12/8 Diebold (e-voting company) must now deal with the students they tried to silence and a Congressional investigation. (Scroll Down) 12/8 William Rivers Pitt Interviews Sidney Blumenthal 12/8 The Lies About Iraq and the Truth About Al-Qaeda: A BuzzFlash Two-Book Special More on the Medicare Poison Pill 12/8 Investors are concerned that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns 35.4% of BSkyB, has been ignoring their best interests. 12/8 The Wing Nut's Revenge 12/8	About a BBC Documentary on the Right Wing in Britain 12/8 The Secret Service is trying to determine if any action needs to be taken regarding a lyric from rapper Eminem that may be a threat to President Bush. 12/8 It All Started on BuzzFlash.com. HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume That First Appeared on BuzzFlash.Com! The Associated Press said it is protesting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's handling of his public appearance in Monrovia on Wednesday, an event the governor's aides omitted from his public schedule 12/8 Leonard Pitts: Don't Bother South Florida with Freedom of Speech 12/8 The Great Big Book of Tomorrow, by Tom Tomorrow , Creator of "This Modern World" 80% of Toys Sold in America are Made in China Under Questionable Working Conditions 12/8 Schwarzenegger Rebuffed on Spending Cap 12/8 When Republicans Get Caught, They Just "Don't Remember." Update on "Wild Bill" Janklow, the Man Who Couldn't Stop Speeding, Finally Killed Someone, And Now Blames It on His Diabetes. But He Can't Remember the Details. Yeah, Right. 12/8 Former Head of Texas Democratic Party Wins Election as Mayor of Houston 12/8 U.S. and 2 Allies Agree on a Plan for North Korea 12/8 A memo written by a top Washington lobbyist for the controversial Iraqi National Congress raises new questions about the role Vice President Dick Cheney’s office played in the run-up to the war in Iraq. 12/8 Turncoat Democrat Max Baucus Gets an Earful from Montana Seniors About His Role in Passing the Republican "Poison Pill" Medicare Bill 12/8 The Comic Strip That Has Been, At Times, Temporarily Banned by the Washington Post and Other Papers for Being Critical of Bush, "A Right to be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury." Now Available as a Premium on BuzzFlash.com. Updated: Who is Mary Rosh.com? Who is Tim Timken? He is the Latest BuzzFlash Grand Hypocrisy Party Hypocrite of the Week! Listen to All Ten on BuzzFlash and Take Back the Media Radio. And While You are At It, Listen to Our Earlier Tributes to Rush Limbaugh and Bill Janklow. The Bush Backdrop Generator 12/8 Democrats Promise Revenge in Florida Rumsfeld Says Army in Iraq Not Worn Out. Exactly How Would This Incompetent Boob Know? What a Blithering Failure. 12/8 Follow the Money on the Medicare Bill Vote 12/8 A Bill Only a Drug Maker Could Love 12/8 Clark criticizes Bush's challenge to enemies to 'bring 'em on' 12/8 Charges that Farm Laborers Have Been Abused in Florida 12/8 Bust Bob Novak! 12/8 How to Contact Congress? Buy the BuzzFlash 2003-2004,174-Page Congressional Directory as a Premium. Advocate and Help Out BuzzFlash.Com at the Same Time! (Includes Photos of Your Favorite Career Politicians) Content Provided by Capitol Advantage. News Blackout on FCC Media Deregulation Issue 12/7 Bush’s disinformation policy threatens the nation 12/7 How an American war hero is taking his battle over Iraq to Washington 12/7 Watch "Uncovered" Sunday Night at a MoveOn.Org MeetUp 12/7 The National Debt and Other Staggering Concerns 12/7 Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins. Now Available from BuzzFlash.com. U.S. Troops Hit Hard by Declining Dollar 12/7 U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., on Friday blasted President Bush and his "radical" administration for attempting to dismantle the "central pillars of progress in our country during the 20th century." 12/7 Stock Up on this Holiday Gift: "The I Hate Republicans Reader: Why the GOP is Totally Wrong About Everything" Black Box Voting 12/7 Graydon Carter is one of the biggest names in US magazines. Now Vanity Fair's editor is gunning for George Bush/ 12/7 Best-Selling Michael Moore Book, "Dude, Where's My Country?", Is Now Available as a Premium from BuzzFlash.com Environmentalists Were Right to Worry About the New EPA Chief 12/7 U.S. Uncovers Weapons of Mass Destruction in Texas 12/7 Russian Deputy Drug Czar: Bush Administration Hiding Problem of U.S. Soldiers Becoming Drug Addicts in Afghanistan 12/7 BBC: Bush Cartel Weathers Iraq Troop Losses, Record Month of Death and Injury in Iraq and Bush Serves Up a Fake Turkey to Troops 12/7 Dems Say GOP Exploiting 9-11 Attacks 12/7 Stars and Stripes: "Conditions, Contrasts, and Morale" 12/7 Democracy Evaporating Before Our Eyes: Washington on Friday became the seventh state to cancel its 2004 presidential primary, opting to save at least $6 million. 12/7 American Enterprise Institute Tries for Regime Change in Iran 12/7 The People Vs. John Ashcroft 12/7 To the Victor Go the Spoils 12/7 Iraq morass will take years to fix 12/7 Landstuhl mortuary is funeral home for those killed in Mideast war 12/7 A New Word: Gop [from GOP, American Republican Party slogan] Take Back the Media Radio with the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week Support Independent Media! Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources. America's Gun War at Home: Ohio Closes Highway to Probe Shootings 12/7 Attacking the Attack Ads Keep BuzzFlash Free for Everyone and Free From Advertising. We Don't Even Rent Our E-mail List. "American Unhinged" by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell Nancy Reagan opposes replacing FDR with Reagan on dimes 12/7 Is BuzzFlash worth $1 a day to you? For about $1 a day, you can buy One Premium a month and help BuzzFlash stay Independent. We Take No Advertising. Help Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Message. (BuzzFlash Contributions are Not Tax-Deductible) Josh Marshall: The Medicare bill is a Washington-style mafia bustout 12/7 NRA may buy TV station: Would allow group to avoid limits on campaign financing 12/7 Dean's Ad Campaign Is Set to Broadcast Beyond Iowa 12/7 Confessions of a Traitor: "Take me to the lions -- I confess my crime of dissenting against Bush and his poaching wars, his invasions and evasions" Al Franken's "Fair and Balanced" New Book is Now One of Our Premiums at BuzzFlash.com!	Michigan Congressman's Charge May Spark Cover-up -- Or, As the Republicans Officially Call It, An Inquiry 12/7 Enron executive indicted for western energy market manipulation 12/7 Oh, Brother . . Can You Spare a Dime? Why Do The Repugs Worship Reagan? "Outside, dozens of protesters -- many of them disabled people and their caregivers -- stood bearing signs and chanting slogans denouncing Schwarzenegger's proposed cuts." 12/7 Hunger in Paradise 12/7 Luzerne County District Attorney David Lupas announced Friday that misdemeanor criminal charges of indecent assault, endangering the welfare of children, and corruption of minors have been filed against Pazuhanich, a Republican 12/7 December 5th Mailbag. The Real "No Spin Zone": The BuzzFlash Mailbag! Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers. "The six Metro Detroiters involved in the conversation rehearsed for hours Sunday. At times, Bush prompted them to mention prearranged topics...The White House created a backdrop especially for the occasion, meant to project Bush's empathy for industry." Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich told supporters here Thursday that he can get American troops out of Iraq in 90 days if he's elected president. 12/7 Bush Can't Even Protect Us from the Flu, Let Alone Terrorism: U.S. Flu Shot Makers Run Out of Vaccine 12/7 The Bush Legacy of Incompetence: Mishandling of classified information by the legal staff at America's prison for terrorism suspects undermines the military's case against a Muslim chaplain charged with security breaches, his attorney said yesterday.12/7 Ever Heard of Neil Bush? 12/7 Enron Accountant is "Cooperating" With Government 12/7 Violence Flares Up in Iraq, While Rumsfeld Visits Oil Fields 12/7 Networks Don't Follow the Money in Medicare Story 12/7 Dems want inquiry into reports of Medicare bribe. But remember, the rule of law doesn't apply to Bush Republicans. New Medicare Bill Bars Extra Insurance for Drugs 12/7 Bush Ain't Reforming Education; He's Impeding It 12/7 California Legislature Hands Arnold a Defeat on Budget 12/7 "Bedtime for the Bushes" - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Thomas Burns Take the Deal, Ralph! A BuzzFlash Editorial Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! Warrants: Limbaugh Was 'Doctor Shopping' and Engaging in Illegal Drug Use World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia BUSHel Full of Lies for the Holiday Season: A BuzzFlash Four-Book Special that Catalogues the Bush Lies from Soup to Nuts Soldier who was raped reportedly attempts suicide 12/7 The Bush Legacy of Incompetence: Four Army divisions -- 40 percent of the active-duty force -- will not be fully combat-ready for up to six months next year, leaving the nation with relatively few ready troops in the event of a major conflict 12/7 Winning Hearts and Minds: "As the guerrilla war against Iraqi insurgents intensifies, American soldiers have begun wrapping entire villages in barbed wire." 12/7 The Michigan Republican Party has asked its members to turn over holiday card lists -- complete with their analysis of the political and religious affiliations of their friends and family and their positions on issues 12/7 "THERE'S A disturbing irony in an administration that claims it intends to establish democracy in Iraq -- yet all the while systematically dismantling democracy here at home." 12/7 Update on Hollinger Media Conglomerate Financial Scandal 12/7 List of Medicare Losers is Significant 12/7 Update on the Perils to Democracy of Electronic Voting: A BuzzFlash Interview with Bev Harris Congressman Charges that Pentagon May be Lowballing Casualty Count 12/7 Complaint Alleges DeLay Fund Raising plan Violates Law 12/7 U.S. Terrorism Plot that the Media Ignores 12/7 Halliburton has been given $1 billion worth of reconstruction work in Iraq by the US government without having to compete for it. 12/7 Former Texas GOP Senator and Still Hypocrite Phil Gramm Proposes Making Money Off of Texas Teachers Dying. We are Not Making This Up. 12/7 Why Smith Can't Recant: They've Got Him on Tape. Of Course, with "KGB" Ashcroft as AG, Republican High Crimes and Misdemeanors Manage to Disappear --- Poof! 12/7 US claims to have killed 54 guerrillas in an Iraqi firefight were exposed as lies yesterday by one of the soldiers who took part. 12/7 FBI Wants to Keep Failed Anthrax Probe Secret. Bush Has Failed at Getting Osama, Saddam, and the Anthrax Terrorist. Is That What You Call Success? Yes, If You're a Republican. 12/7 Instead of uniting the nation, as promised -- a feat that would have been easy in the post-9/11 burst of common patriotism -- Republicans turned into thuggish opportunists. 12/7 Bushed Lied and Our Soldiers Continue to Die -- And be Wounded. We are Way Past the 400 Deaths Mark Now. GI Killed After Patrol Attacked in Iraq. 12/7 Federal spending per household is most since WWII 12/7 FOX Poll? "This week’s FOX News poll finds that when asked which present they would like to give Bush, 43 percent of voters say "another four years in the White House" and 47 percent say they would give him retirement to the Crawford ranch" 12/7 New Poll: Dean Has Slight Lead in South Carolina, But Race is Still up for Grabs 12/6 Conservatives Blast Bush on Spending 12/6 "Save California: Recall Bush" Bumper Stickers, From BuzzFlash.com (In Stock and Shipping!) Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! "Springtime for Pfizer" by BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter How the Bush Cartel Shafts Our Veterans: Held Over New Item, Ongoing Record of Bush Cartel Shame: How the Bush Cartel Disrespects and Short Sheets Our Soldiers, A BuzzFlash News Analysis THE LIGHTER SIDE: The Dubya Chronicles 12/8 The Codpiece Has Landed 12/7 Karl Rove's Scrapbook 12/7 Baghdad Bush 12/7 Bush Serves Troops Plastic Turkey in Iraq, 22 Soldiers Fall Critically Ill 12/7 Fox News Presenter Fired, Didn't mention Michael Jackson For 5 Entire Minutes 12/8 Dubya's Phony Photo-Ops 12/7

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Sympathy Forms: Bush famously refuses to attend GIs’ funerals. But couldn’t he send something more personal to grieving families?