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June 7, 2006
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Haven’t stopped laughing yet---after reading the “Top Ten Repuglican Adulterers” with a few more added! It is hilarious to watch these overstuffed, puffed up, two-faced, peacock, adulterers prancing around pontificating on the virtues and values of “marriage protection”! I often wonder how many of these guys are aware of the psychological phenomenon that purports “womanizing” and “homophobia” as being symptoms of latent homosexuality! To borrow a phrase from Shakespeare and Randi Rhodes, “Methinks thou doth protest too much”!
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Ann Coulter’s appearance and remarks on 6-6-06 are proof positive that 666 is the day of the devil! “Syndicated columnist and author Ann Coulter appeared on the Today Show on Tuesday, promoting a new book. Host Matt Lauer asked her to explain certain remarks in the book aimed at activist 9/11 widows, including her charge that they were nothing but "self obsessed" and celebrity-seeking "broads" who are "enjoying" their husbands' deaths "so much." And to Matt Lauer goes the advice to see a priest for an exorcism, because there’s definitely nothing fun in having that devil spew her venom!
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When the deed is so horrible that it leaves no doubt as to character, sooner or later even those who reaped the benefits will abandon the perpetrator, as Katherine Harris is finding out! It’s called getting rid of the “evil-doer” in order to shed any and all guilt by association! Ms. Harris should have known, the Bushies will drop you like a hot potato when and if it suits them and lay the entire blame on you! Don’t get me wrong, I am in no way feeling sorry for Ms. Harris, she walked into the underhanded machinations of the Bush family with her overly made up eyes wide open thinking she would receive the same silver platter favors she served up. Alas, her miscalculation came in not really knowing that silver platters in the Bush family are reserved for family only!
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The first question that popped into my head regarding the election in California for “Duke” Cunningham’s seat---are they sure the voting process wasn’t rigged? In an effort to quell the questions surrounding the election process in these United States, will “narrow margin” be the theme to explain all Repuglican victories in the foreseeable future?
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Sad days in America just keep on coming----Repuglicans nationwide are doing everything possible to deny certain targeted groups of citizens the right to vote! First Georgia institutes “voter ID cards,” now Florida and Ohio have come up with “draconian new rules governing the activities of people who register voters.” The new rules “are intended to suppress Democratic voter turnout.” It is appallingly disgusting for George Bush to prance around boasting about “bringing democracy to oppressed people” in foreign lands, while he and his party are making sure democracy is denied here in America!
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Somehow a verbal invitation to come to a party and have your presence welcomed by those in the receiving line, only to then be thrown out because the ones who invited you needed the drama for personal gain and an opportunity to flex their muscle, is wrong! This is the same circumstance faced by illegal immigrants in today’s United States. They were given a wink and a nod by some of the same politicians who are now condemning their presence. When corporations said we want cheap labor, these not so illustrious politicians accommodated the money guys, and no one is left wondering why, not with the Repuglican K-Street Project going great guns in Washington, D.C.! But now that they need another wedge issue to garner votes in order to stay in power so they can repeat past mistakes, the politicians are hot to trot on enforcing the law. Lives are being torn apart, families uprooted, and a whole group of people is being maligned, illegal and legal alike. Prejudice knows no boundaries when an election is imminent! It’s too bad for us that these politicians aren’t as adamant about enforcing the law when it comes to lies told to wage preemptive unnecessary wars, vehemently wrecking the Constitution, spying on American citizens without probable cause, children being left behind, soaring medical costs, unfair labor practices, etc. etc. etc.
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It is a sad day indeed in America when stories relating to the involvement of our government in nefarious plots to wage preemptive war are no longer surprising! One of our greatest Presidents of all times, John F. Kennedy, strongly rejected covert, clandestine “Operation Northwoods,” and it appears the worst president of all times, George W. Bush, has not only fervently embraced the same basic horrendous ideas, but has also carried them out!!!
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When a man abdicates his principles for anything else, he is no longer a man. Arlen Specter has repeatedly caved in to pressure from the Bush administration and he is not serving the best interests of the people of these United States, he is nothing more than a handmaiden of those who fervently want to annihilate democracy and establish tyrannical rule. So exactly who are the terrorists that hate “freedom and democracy” now???
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