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Subj: If you don't agree . . .

Subj: Time poll up to 72%

Dear BuzzFlash,

http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html

The evil empire is losing its fig leaf!

Peter Kielland

[BuzzFlash Note: It's now at 78%. Go Bush! Well, at the very least, the DimSon can claim he's the best at creating ill-will toward the U.S. Now, that's a legacy! :)]

BuzzFlash-

Where did the Washington Post article, U.S. Decision On Iraq Has Puzzling Past, go from your site?

Sent this to Peter Werbe & Mike Malloy (www.ieamoericaradio.com) & Nancy & SKI (WLS)

- Check out this quote from the 3rd paragraph, "The previously undisclosed Iraq directive…"

" Previously undisclosed" MY ASS!!! Below the intro to the Post story are 3 stories I found in less than 5 minutes using a google search.

Wish the Post wasn't part of the liberal media….(assume sarcasm)

Keep tappin'

Roy L. Streit
Rio Rancho/Placitas NM

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U.S. Decision On Iraq Has Puzzling Past

Opponents of War Wonder When, How Policy Was Set

By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 12, 2003; Page A01

On Sept. 17, 2001, six days after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush signed a 2½-page document marked "TOP SECRET" that outlined the plan for going to war in Afghanistan as part of a global campaign against terrorism.

Almost as a footnote, the document also directed the Pentagon to begin planning military options for an invasion of Iraq, senior administration officials said.

The previously undisclosed Iraq directive is characteristic of an internal decision-making process that has been obscured from public view. Over the next nine months, the administration would make Iraq the central focus of its war on terrorism without producing a rich paper trail or record of key meetings and events leading to a formal decision to act against President Saddam Hussein, according to a review of administration decision-making based on interviews with more than 20 participants……FOR THE REST OF THE ARTICLE GO TO

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43909-2003Jan11.html

FROM WSWS

Bush aides push war with Iraq

By Joseph Kay 20 October 2001

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/iraq-o20_prn.shtml

In the wake of the terror attacks of last month, a section of the Bush administration is working hard—overtly and covertly—to create a pretext for an American invasion of Iraq. The events of September 11, and more recently the anthrax scare, are being exploited by high-level operatives within the American government to promote a program that has long been sought by the military and intelligence establishment: the ousting of the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein and the transformation of Iraq into a state subservient to American interests.

As with all the policy decisions of the American government since the attacks last month, these Bush aides and their supporters in the media and foreign policy think tanks advance the argument that an attack on Iraq is necessary in order to root out terrorism, with complete disregard to the actual evidence at hand….

Will George W. Bush launch a new US war of aggression against Iraq?

By Jerry White http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jan2001/iraq-j25_prn.shtml

25 January 2001

By all indications the world will not have to wait long before the new Bush administration involves the United States in a bloody military adventure. The bellicose statements over the last several days, by representatives of the Bush administration, Pentagon officials and the news media, suggest that the first target of such aggression is likely to be Iraq…..

FROM CBS NEWS

Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2002

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml

CBS News has learned that barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq —even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks.

That's according to notes taken by aides who were with Rumsfeld in the National Military Command Center on Sept. 11 –notes that show exactly where the road toward war with Iraq began, reports CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin.

Subj: Waiving requirements for N Korea inspectors was vital to US security?!

Dear Buzz,

After WAIVING the requirement that North Korea allow inspectors, Bush argued that the decision was-- "vital to the national security interests of the United States". (???!!)

Bush logic.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1908571.stm

Nancy Lynn Nagy (TN)

Subj: Blaming Clinton and MLK Weekend

Dear Buzz,

So the Big Dog is to blame for North Korea? Ha! I don't remember Clinton calling Kim a "pygmy". Well, it's quite evident Karl Rove studies Orwell's "1984" as a how-to manual. That's why Clinton is blamed for everything: Clinton is the Bush junta's Goldstein!

Please remind everyone that this Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, Jan. 18th, there will be massive anti-war protests in D.C. and San Francisco. I'm flying to D.C. to film it. I hope everyone who can get there - by plane, train, auto, bus, or on foot - will go and fill the streets of our capital with an overwhelming and omnipotent presence of peace.

I'm looking forward to joining thousands of my brothers and sisters in saying that unjust war will not be tolerated, that peace is patriotic. For those who can't make it to D.C. or SF, your city just might have its own rally. Check it out...

http://www.unitedforpeace.org
http://www.internationalanswer.org

Mike
Spokane

Subj: Orwellian Economics: Lesson II

Just a short lesson on the Bush budget and the so-called "Death Tax":

A few words to the aspiring wise:

DEAD PEOPLE DON'T PAY TAXES!

NOT EVEN FEDERAL TAXES!

AND GUESS WHAT! You, a live person, can inherit a million without paying federal taxes!

It's only a multi-millionaire's heirs who now have to pay federal taxes for inheriting something they didn't earn. People like, duh, George W. Bush!

But even these multi-millionaire children won't pay if Bush gets his way.

I'd say that was class warfare by the rich against the poor, wouldn't you?

A BuzzFlash Reader

Re: More on the NYT Editorial Board, From BuzzFlash.com

Dear BuzzFlash,

I believe you might have misunderstood the purpose of the NYT comment. It said: "No one has put more effort than George W. Bush into ending the image of the Republican party as a white only haven."(Emphasis mine.)

I believe that he has put a tremendous amount of effort into ending the image, but not the practice of the Republican party as a whites only party. You need to understand that the NYT readers are supposed to overlook the words effort and image, but if they do notice them, they're supposed to think that effort actually means accomplishment; and that image actually means substance.

I live in North Carolina. Our state Motto is: "Esse Quam Videri", the English translation: "To Be Rather Than To Seem".

Thanks for all you do to keep us informed.

Neb Conner

Subj: PECKERING

Dear BuzzFlash,

In defense of Pickering, Bill Frist on Meet the Press and George Will on This Week contended that Pickering "boldly" fought the KKK in the 60's by testifying against a Klan higher-up. Apparently, this was at great personal risk which proves that he is not a bigot despite the avalanche of evidence to the contrary.

And what was Pickering's bold courtroom testimony? Here it is:

Defense Counsel: Do you know of Sam Bowers' reputation in the community?

Pickering: Yes.

Defense Counsel: Is it good or bad?

Pickering: It's bad.

Defense Counsel: Do you know that Sam Bowers teaches Sunday School?

Pickering: Yes.

Defense Counsel: Thank you. That will be all.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subj: Bush and the Lott fiasco

Dear BuzzFlash,

Excuse me, but am I missing something? Was George Bush not at that birthday party for Strom Thurmond where Lott made his notorious, scurrilous remarks? And if so, why did it take George almost a week to say anything about it? If he is so much a defender of civil rights, why did he not speak up RIGHT THEN AND THERE?

This hypocrisy must continue to be exposed. They cannot be allowed to get away with it.

Jim Palmer
Tennessee

Sent to Howie Kurtz:

Subj: Frist Comment

Howie you wrote this about Frist in your 1/13 column:

"How could Frist defend Bush's plan to end taxes on stock dividends when most middle-class folks already have tax-free status in 401(k) plans? Frist was ready with a story about shopping for a used car and how the dealer strongly backed the dividend proposal."

Howie how could you write this in your fawning Frist column and not point out the obvious. Frist uses a used car salesman as a credible voice on the Bush tax plan. Last time I checked-- used car salesman were ranked below trial lawyers in terms of credibility. Isn't it ironic that Frist had to dig up someone from a shady profession to defend the tax plan?

Howie surely this couldn't have gone unnoticed by you--you can't be that oblivious to the comical nature of this endorsement. Then again you wouldn't want to offend your conservative buddies like Rush by making Frist look bad now--would you?

thank you,

stevie gardiner
somerdale, nj

Subj: Election Night Poll Service to Dissolve -- Just Wondering...

Buzz--

Just wondering about this latest development in our voting system. If you go back and read the Kurtz article from 2000, you might find it interesting that VNS predicted, based on normal voting patterns and models, that Gore would win Florida in 2000. As the night went on, it became clear that the vote was less Democratic than usual in certain districts. How interesting, thought I. (Maybe the word "Democratic" in the last sentence should be lowercase.) In any case, VNS computers failed during the mid-terms in November, and now the networks have now decided to scrap the service completely.

So in 2004 we'll have no independent national exit polls, plus we'll be casting ballots on electronic voting machines with proprietary inner-sanctum-workings and no paper trail -- I predict that the country will vote strangely Republican!

Election Night Poll Service to Dissolve
Networks, AP Decide to Kill VNS After Recent Problems

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49866-2003Jan13.html

Kurtz column from Nov. 9 2000

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A49600-2000Nov8

Regards,

BC

Subj: Thousands Rally Against War in Iraq, Push Peace in Downtown Los Angeles 1/12

Dear BuzzFlash,

What do you think are the odds that the NY Times will cover this one? (Or, for that matter, the LA Times -- of course we know the Chicago Tribune won't cover it).

I just thought of a good way for you guys to make money (solely to keep BuzzFlash going, of course): start a bookie service on the "mainstream" (i.e. quote-unquote-liberal) media to cover liberal events fairly. You could offer like 1000-1 odds on whether an event will be covered fairly by the media; when it is covered fairly, pay $1000. Let's face it, the media will cover the left wing fairly about 1 out of 3000 or 4000 times (if that) and you would make a fortune.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Buzz,

A letter I wrote to our Mayor and Governor (both repugs, of course):

Dear Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki,

I am writing merely to express an opinion, as I know there is nothing that powerless people can do about this. Because it's all about money, I know. I've lived in New York City for 28 years and never thought I'd live to see a republican convention held here. Yes, I know you're both republicans (although, Mayor Bloomberg, you've only been one for about 5 minutes), and this is not a personal attack on either of you. It is, however, criticism of your political party. You are government officials of a great state that prides itself on diversity and yes, liberalism (and please let your colleagues in the GOP know that LIBERAL is a word we like here, and they should feel free to utter it anytime they like). I certainly hope this doesn't mean that you have aligned yourselves with the right-wing policies that are destroying this country. With the exception of Manhattan, which has pretty much become a bastion for the wealthy and white, our other great boroughs are a reflection of everything the GOP does NOT stand for. Although we do have our problems, I can think of no more shining example of diversity - all of the different cultures, races, religions, nationalities, languages, living together the best they can in communities all throughout our city. We've always welcomed immigrants here. Unfortunately, these are not attributes that the GOP values or respects, let alone practices. On the contrary, they now seem to be working towards a segregated society (both in race and class). The republicans can talk up a good storm about civil rights and their great concern for the less fortunate, but one only has to look at how hostile their policies are towards urban areas, minorities, lower and middle income families, women, public schools - and the list goes on. And these policies are getting worse by the day.

Many conservatives, including your president, many in his cabinet, and in congress have always expressed contempt for New York and New Yorkers. We've been called America-haters, godless, greedy, materialistic, sinful, terrorist-lovers, etc. We've been told we're not part of America, so why, may I ask, do they want their convention here? Well, the answer is very simple. What better place to elevate their exploitation of 9/11 on such a grand scale? One would have thought they would have sucked every last drop out of it by now. But to pass up a convention in NYC? - the place they have been degrading all their lives? Why that would mean missing out on the endless supply of 9/11 photo ops. I hope you will inform them that merely standing near Ground Zero or posing with firefighters does not make them heroes, nor does it prove that they care. George Bush posed, didn't he - and then turned around and stabbed them all in the back. Yes, we know what republican policies are and I think the first responders have figured it out too. Is this how we'll have to earn the $20 billion that was promised to us after 9/11, because god knows they haven't given it to us in any other form. I hope they will show some respect to this city and it's people, because they never have before. How dare they use New York this way. I know we need the money. Frankly, I'd rather go broke. You should have fought harder for the Democrats. They belong here.

Barbara in NYC

Subj: Dog Killing Tennessee Trooper Should Not Bear Arms

BuzzFlash,

Last Friday morning "Good Morning America" ran the video tape of the incident described in the story "Killing of family dog unfolds on video tape" posted 01/13/02.

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/01/27473390.shtml?Element_ID

As a retired letter carrier it was evident, to me at least, that the dog in question was not acting hostile or aggressive. During my working career I faced down very hostile and aggressive dogs without benefit of a Remington 700 12-gage shotgun. I had to deal with full-blooded pit bulls, not mixed breeds bearing a vague resemblance, Rottweilers and Dobermans armed only with a can of pepper spray, that was ineffectual.

I never got bit in thirteen years.

In fact, from careful viewing of the tape, it appears that the dog was trying "to greet" the shooter, Officer Eric Hall. Officer Hall's act was cowardly.

On GMA the Smoaks said that they want the officers involved never to be in positions to use firearms ever again. In this I wholeheartedly agree with the Smoaks.

Any man who will so readily shoot what is obviously a family pet will shoot a human being regardless the circumstances. What should we respect law enforcement officers who have so little regard for the sanctity of life.

Bob Jewett

RE: George W. Bush Waived the Nuclear Inspections Required for North Korea

Dear BuzzFlash:

Doesn't this sound awfully familiar? Remember that $43 million given to the Taliban for the drug war before 9-11? Now we find that Bush has given over twice that to a member of the "axis of evil", and this is after his speech identifying N. Korea as such? Do these guys even know what the hell they are doing?

Ann C. Davidson
Philadelphia, PA

Hi, Buzz:

Wish I could say I was surprised about this one.

Taking the recommendation from bart (of bartcop.com) in today's "Mailbag", I fired off an email to Crossfire. Moments ago, it was sent back: "Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed". I opened it, scanned it for the reason--expecting to see "mailbox full", or something along those lines. Instead, this is what I discovered:

"Recipient address: crossfire@cnn.com
Reason: Server rejected MAIL FROM address.
Diagnostic code: smtp;553 5.3.0 Spam rejected see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?151.164.30.28
Remote system: dns;atlmail1.turner.com (TCP|151.164.30.28|39646|64.236.240.146|25) (smtpgw1.turner.com ESMTP server ready at Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:51:47 -0500 [EST])"

That's right, my email was deemed "spam"!

Just another indication that "CNN" now stands for: "Criticism Never Noted".

Liz Taylor
Houston

Subj: Bob Novak

Dear BuzzFlash,

In regard to Bob Novak's article in the Chicago Sun-Times, "GOP Senators on the Warpath"...

Seems some republican senators are madder than hell and vocalizing anger at the administration for totally closing them out of the War on Iraq and other decisions. All I have to say to them is, "Welcome to the Bush administration, Pie-dough Brains! After two years of Bush closing you out, what took 'ya so long to figure it out? Can you spell impeach?"

And if Boob Novak (not a type-o) writes about the anger, we can bet it is three times worse than reported.

~ Cathy

Thank god for predictable villains! DeLay tightens choke-hold on US Congress...

LJBK

GOP Leaders Tighten Hold In the House

Hastert, DeLay Reward Loyalty Over Seniority

By Jim VandeHei and Juliet Eilperin

Washington Post Staff Writers

Monday, January 13, 2003; Page A01

House Republican leaders, through a series of little-noticed rule changes and key appointments, are dramatically tightening their hold on power as they prepare to push for new spending cuts, bigger tax breaks and a more ambitious social agenda.

Since padding their majority in the November elections, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) have circumvented the seniority system to reward their most loyal allies with important chairmanships. They have systematically changed internal rules to seize greater authority over rank-and-file members, and they unexpectedly scrapped the eight-year limit on Hastert's reign.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47530-2003Jan12.html

Subj: Taxes

Dear Buzz,

Like most states, mine is having budget problems. One of the 'remedies' that they are considering inevitable is the cutting of school budgets. We are surrounded by churches, at least one to every school around here, and most of our schools house other church congregations on Sunday because these congregations have no building to call their own. However, I imagine that many of these families that tithe to the churches, perhaps as much as 5 or 10 thousand a year, scream bloody murder over 2 thousand or so in school property taxes. That is why our educational system is getting worse every year.

A BuzzFlash Reader.

Subj: Bravo! Carville - NOT a wp/washington/journalist coward...

Dear BuzzFlash,

How did the United States become the home of a lying, craven, incompetent, corrupt press?

Ans: because for 2 decades we let the r-w beat up on Women's Health care providers (aka "abortionists"), and the r-w got very good at picking their battles, dividing the opposition, and focusing their full fury on the target du jour... silencing all opposition with either assassinations, character assassination, or fear of one or the other....

P.S - as Mark Perkel pointed out in today's Bartcop.com, the US judiciary has LONG been the home of corruption and lies. Our current USSC Chief Justice (William Rehnquist) become a prominent conservative jurist PRECISELY because he helped subvert the 15th amendment, an "ACTIVIST [conservative] JUDICIAL AGENDA with the full approval and complicity of the Washington Post, for several decades until the Civil Rights and Voting Rights bills were finally passed in 1964 and 1965.

RAGIN CAJUN ON FIRE
Plays Morality Card

"Call Me a Class Warrior"
"I'm Not a Cowardly Editorialist"

Crossfire:

CARVILLE: Many call it class warfare or generational warfare. This administration has declared war on the middle class and has declared war on young people. I am not an editorialist for "The Washington Post."

I'm not going to be intimidated by these people. I am not cowardly back in the bunker. I'm going to engage in this. I am going to defend working people and I'm going to defend young people.

CARLSON: You're throwing out...

CARVILLE: .When this administration and its fat cats declare war on the youth of America, James Carville is going to side with the youth of America. I'm not a cowardly editorialist.

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CARVILLE: President Bush would like to portray himself as a straight shooting Texan. But when he gets around to saying all the people who pay taxes should get a tax relief under his plan he seems to be a little bit off. It's like 39 million people off, if you call that off...

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Subj: Land of Oz

Dear BuzzFlash,

I am wondering about getting the White House directions to Oz. It seems to me that if we could get GW to follow the yellow brick road he could could get himself a brain, a heart and even a little courage. I just keep hoping that if I click my heels together I will wake up from this terrible nightmare that GW and Co have created and find Bill Clinton back in office and peace, prosperity and happiness all around the world.

JCF

Subj: Bush's Texas Legacy: $10 BILLION Budget Shortfall

GET READY AMERICA. BUSH'S LEGACY TO TEXAS IS COMING YOUR WAY.

During the campaign of the Commander in Thief, then Texas Governor Bush in 2000, he got the news from associates in his private cortege that the tax cuts he had instituted during his stay in the Governor's office would come back to bite Texans with a multi billion dollar deficit in a year or two.

Bush, confident he would be get to the White House, smirked, "I'm glad I won't have to be there for that!"

Stranger than fiction...but sadly, true.

Someone get out the video record of Texas State Comptroller Carolyn Keeton-Rylander-Strayhorn®. During then-Governor Bush's 2000 national campaign, she was the one who stood up to Democratic critics of the Governor's tax cuts. Ms. Keeton-Rylander-Strayhorn, who ran for reelection this last November as "One Tough Grandma," with the background shot of Old West gunfighters facing off at high noon, stated in 2000 that any suggestion that the governor's very liberal tax cuts for the wealthiest Texans would leave the state in deficit was a lie. Of course the media covering the event rolled over like a whipped puppy to the Bush campaign and got its belly scratched by Keeton-Rylander-Strayhorn.

Today, two months after being reelected by trusting Texans as "One Tough Grandma," she shows her true colors, saying the state faces budget shortfalls of NEARLY TEN BILLION DOLLARS!!

She is one more political liar who ran flack for Bush. It will take more than changing her name again, from Keeton, to Keeton-Rylander, to Strayhorn, to change her ethics. She is just as much of a liar as her former boss.

Dan McCleod
Pearland, Texas

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=382&ncid=382&e=1&u=
/keye/20030113/lo_keye/texas_faces_multi_billion_dollar_budget_shortfall

Subj: Pickering is sacrificial lamb

Dear BuzzFlash,

You probably figured this out already, but if you haven't, Bush renominated Pickering because he really wants Priscilla Owen, and Bush knows that the Dems will only filibuster one of them. Bush is sacrificing Pickering to get Owen.

Keep up the excellent work.

Dwayne

Subj: Isaacson quits CNN!

Dear BuzzFlash,

Dare we hope someone will restore the integrity of the network?

Joe Moran

Subj: while Dem. senators cower and hide v bush.; "GOP Senators on the Warpath"!!!

In case our esteemed Senators didn't know, our Congressional founders gave Senators SIX-year terms precisely so they could resist the winds of hasty and jingoistic popular appeals. Unfortunately, Our Senators have become so lame, they tremble in their boots at the prospect of re-election four or six years from now!!

LJBK

GOP senators on the warpath

January 13, 2003

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak13.html

BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

Republican senators gathering last Wednesday for their session-opening ''retreat'' should have been happy, blessed with a regained majority and a popular president. They were not. Instead, they complained bitterly of arrogance by the Bush administration, especially the Pentagon, in treatment of Congress along the road to war.

Two years of growing discontent boiled over during the closed-door meeting at the Library of Congress. White House chief of staff Andrew Card was there to hear grievances from President Bush's Senate base that it is ignored and insulted by the administration, particularly by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in preparing for war against Iraq. Recital of complaints began with Sen. John Warner, a pillar of the Senate GOP establishment.

Subj: Ryan vs. Owens

Post Gov. Ryan of Illinois and Gov. Owens of Colorado squared off on Nightline tonight. It was great watching two Republicans go after each other. Owens (looking tanned and didn't get it here in Colorado) just felt that Gov. Ryan was wrong, wrong, wrong. He kept quoting facts and figures and repeating quotes from Ryan until Ryan said "I don't know where you get your information Bill but that's not what I said and those facts and figures are absolutely wrong and you are missing the point of what I did and why I did it." Nightline let Ryan have the last word and Owens was left off camera. It was terrific.

Sally McDonald

Subj: White House or Tara?

Dear BuzzFlash,

I don't believe you posted this article from the Washington Post yesterday:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47138-2003Jan12.html

It describes the career of White House advisor Dylan Glenn. Apparently, now that the Repuglicans have lost their only token black member of Congress with the retirement of J.C. Watts, they hope to groom Glenn in their next shallow, cynical ploy at showing the GOP as a "diverse", "inclusive" party (like the 2000 GOP convention-HA!)

What leaps off the page is the first line of the story:

"Around the White House, he was known as 'Farm Boy', for his months of toil on the record-setting agriculture bill President Bush signed last year."

Farm Boy? FARM BOY? This bunch just doesn't get it, do they? Some things never change, and the Repuglicans still think it is acceptable to call a 33 year old black man a "Boy".

And we know where this name came from, don't we? Who's the unelected fraud in the White House well known for handing out nicknames as a way to insult and degrade those around him?

Keep up the good fight BuzzFlash.

Yours,

W.

P.S. As an aside, that agriculture bill was a politically cynical, budget-busting disaster.

Dear BuzzFlash,

You know Neal Boortz, right? He's a nationally syndicated rightwing talk radio host. He has a dislike for Jesse Jackson and he lets us know it every time the opportunity arises. This morning, Boortz is railing against the civil rights leader because Jackson has expressed concern with the nation's 11% unemployment rate among African Americans (compared to the 6% overall unemployment rate).

Jackson feels that this disproportionate unemployment figure for blacks has to do with racial discrimination. Perhaps it does. Sure, there are other factors that could skew the numbers such as the area of the country in which many black people live and the overall unemployment there. But the numbers wouldn't be skewed enough to justify an unemployment rate among blacks that is almost twice the rate among whites. And when you consider that only 12.8% of the total US population is black, you really see how unemployment has disproportionately effected African Americans.

Let's put these numbers into perspective. Total black population in the US: 12.8%; Unemployment rate among blacks: 11%!

Neal Boortz doesn't feel these numbers have anything to do with racial discrimination.

He feels they have to do with the "work ethic" among African Americans! THEIR WORK ETHIC! Boortz said this in his first hour this morning. And his website goes further: "There is something pathetic about someone sitting on their ass all day, refusing to take any job that doesn't suit their sense of self-importance, while complaining about all of this racial discrimination that is keeping them from finding work."

Boortz is calling blacks lazy. Saying they have a poor work ethic. That the 11% unemployment rate among them is their fault! UNBELIEVABLE!

But then, that is to be expected from a libertarian loon!!

A BuzzFlash Reader
http://www.rightwingslayer.blogspot.com

Subj: Neo-Confederate Flag Nuts march on Georgia Capitol

Dear BuzzFlash:

The Atlanta Journal is full of good news for neo-Confederates and bad news for the GOP (Greedy Old Party).

Also, associate editor Jim Wooten is overjoyed about having a two party system again. I think he means the neo-Confederates and the Democrats.

Wooten also praises Bush as "a courageous leader" for renominating racist Pickering and Priscilla Owen to cement his control of the judicial branch. He also shares his enlightened views about diversity.

CNN showed some brief footage yesterday with a small plane flying over the capitol dragging a banner with the confederate flag emblem. Fred Barnes is still demanding that Senator Clinton reveal which candidates ran on the flag issue. Wake up, Fred.

Bob Gaiek, Atlanta