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A collection of insightful ruminations, reflections, and rants on the events of the day (with the exception of the weekend). Come visit each weekday to see what's pushing Barbara's buttons.

November 17, 2005

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It would behoove all Americans to listen to the “Big Dog,” a real President who possesses the brains, the knowledge, and the skills to be a real President!  George Bush, his pseudo president Dick Cheney, and this administration do not know what they’re doing, and tell me who among us would allow incompetent workers to continue doing a job they messed up so very badly, one that cost the lives of those we love, one that cost the lives of innocent people, one that created mayhem and chaos for us all?  If a surgeon and his team cut off your left leg when it was the right leg infected, would you return to that same surgeon for any future amputation? If a dentist and his assistant removed your good tooth next to one that was decayed, would you return for any future extractions? If the painters painted a room the wrong color, would you trust them to paint your house? You get the picture here---it’s time to fire these guys, their entire team, this administration that is on the brink of totally and completely annihilating America!

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“Woodward on the Record:  Woodward spoke about the Plame investigation at some length with Larry King on CNN on October 27 ... WOODWARD: I mean I used to call Mike Isikoff when he worked at the 'Washington Post' the junkyard dog.” The only “junkyard dog here” is Bob Woodward!  Mr. “In bed with the Bush administration himself”!

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Lest we forget---Dick Cheney, while speaking about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, on March 16, 2003 said, “we believe, he has, in fact reconstituted nuclear weapons”, and now Cheney would have us believe the statements made by the Democrats regarding the truth and how this administration manipulated intelligence and told outright lies to wage that war in Iraq are “one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city”!  The Bush administration including Dick Cheney, as evidenced by his own statements, manipulated intelligence, and told outright lies, including "mushroom clouds," "imminent threat," "ties to Al Qaeda," etc. etc. etc., in order to wage a preemptive, unnecessary war in Iraq, and that’s a fact. All that blustering spin about “dishonest and reprehensible” is more descriptive of what Cheney himself said on March 16, 2003!!!  The master of the art of lying is lying again to cover the lies he told in the beginning!  Lies beget lies, and it won’t stop as long as these liars are allowed to stay in office----IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH if you really want to defend freedom and democracy, and that’s NO LIE!

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FEMA is evicting displaced Katrina victims on Dec. 1, 2005, just in time for Christmas!  I don’t think this will sit very well with the people in this country!  Just another among many miscalculations by the Bush administration, they don’t realize how much Americans really do care what happens to Americans!  Granted those who are perched in high places, never having gone hungry, never worrying about health care for a sick child, always with a roof overhead, not bothering their beautiful minds with the plight of the poor, are not in a position to know, but they should!!!

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Today’s “Quick Vote” on CNN’s web site asks the question: “Who should control the Internet?” The question comes replete with a choice list of answers: Private Sector; Non-profit group; International body; Government agency----hmm, is this not so subtle a way as to suggest a need and plant the seeds for control?  I have to wonder if the seeds of control are being sown by a competitor who always seems to be a day or two or three behind in presenting the news to the public and will only go public after the internet has resounded clearly what the public has a right to know.  Can you even imagine a Bush/Cheney administration without the internet; can you imagine the mayhem this administration would commit without the benefit of the internet?  NO---NOT EVEN IN THE WILDEST NIGHTMARES!!!  The Internet is the last line of defense for those who value freedom and democracy!

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Just knowing White Phosphorous melts the skin off the bones of the human beings it touches is enough for me to call it a Chemical Weapon of Mass Destruction.  I know I wouldn’t want it used against innocent human beings, whoever they are or wherever they’re found, and especially not around my family and/or loved ones!  The Repuglican motto is, “Do It To Others, Before They can Do It To You,” no matter who they are; guilty and innocent alike, if they’re in the way, just melt them down!

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Drug Companies aren’t making flu vaccines because it isn’t profitable!  Kinda, sorta, sounds like indirect negotiation to me---could this be construed as an effort to get the US government and thus the taxpayers to cough up the dough and the profits the drug companies are out to get???  Has it really reached a point where greed overrules service, care, and concern in the pharmaceutical industry? Are they not satisfied with the billions they already receive from the taxpayer via the government via Medicare prescription drug benefits? Are they not satisfied with the billions in profits they realize from those who have no other choice when it comes down to dying if they don’t take their very expensive, inflated costs, pricey prescription drugs? You have to know it’s an ill wind that blows no good when the motto is “pay or die,” sounds more like the evilest of blackmails to me!

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Ever watched someone seeking publicity, be it positive or negative, especially when they have become part of the background and are no longer doing the job they were hired to do?  Methinks that would describe the Bob Woodward of today!  While maybe he once did the country a favor and exposed the Nixon administration's wild-eyed crimes, he seems more than a bit determined to cover up for the crimes committed by the Bush/Cheney administration.  Bob Woodward is just an extension of the Bush/Cheney White House that wants to have their cake and eat it too!!!

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The following words from George Bush’s speech in Alaska are the scariest words I’ve heard him utter since this whole mess began:“-- and freedom's advance has only just begun."  Hold close everything that is dear to you, for George Bush has plans to extend his madness and expand his war!

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