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Subj: All Schwarzenegger, All The Time!

Dear BuzzFlash,

I don't want to point to media bias, but if you watch just about any 30 minute period of MSNBC you begin to think their slogan should be "All Schwarzenegger, all the time!" They have this little red haired dude whose only job seems to be to give numerous live updates on what Arnold is doing every minute of the day. (Of course, those reports might have been much more interesting had the reporter shadowed Arnold a couple of decades ago!)

I guess having NBC journalist and Kennedy family member Maria Shriver as a wife sure doesn't hurt.

Jack Ballinger


Subj: Arnold and Ken Lay

Buzz,

Has any reporter asked Arnold about his meeting with Ken Lay -- the one mentioned by Joe Conason in Salon? Did I miss the answer or is that topic taboo?

ja in wa


Proposed bumper stickers for the next presidential election:

Bush/Cheney '04: Compassionate Colonialism

Bush/Cheney '04: Because the truth just isn't good enough.

Bush/Cheney '04: Four More Wars

Bush/Cheney '04: Leave no billionaire behind

Bush/Cheney '04: Making the world a better place, one country at a time.

Bush/Cheney '04: Putting the "con" in conservatism

Bush/Cheney '04: Thanks for not paying attention.

Bush/Cheney '04: The last vote you'll ever have to cast.

Bush/Cheney '04: This time, elect us!

Bush/Cheney '04: We're Gooder!

Bush/Cheney: Asses of Evil

G.W. Bush: God Save King George!

G.W. Bush: Whom Would Jesus Bomb?

Forward by William


Buzz,

New Bumper Sticker:

JACK KEVORKIAN FOR WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN

Forward by Ann


Subj: interesting relationship: Links Thursday, September 4, 2003

Hi buzz,

There were some interesting relationship between 2 of your links today (and yesterday):

1) Job stress, burnout on the rise; Layoffs, long hours taking their toll on workers 9/3

2) Mother Jones Daily Mojo: A Lost War 9/4

The relationship?

"But aides reported that Bremer is not likely to cut his vacation short"

So - the working American class has to do suicide jobs, killing themselves in the name of the company profit, has to choose what to lose (job or holiday) - and the ruling class won't do the same?

Bush can have 4 weeks - despite 2 weeks usually? Isn't Bush an American anymore? Or is he only the first to show that longer holidays are better holidays?

And Mr. Bremer doesn't cut his vacation - even after the bombing that killed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, a really VIP?

So - what would happen to a working American, if he would NOT cut his vacation after such an important event related to his company?

In Germany, the last minister of defence had to resign in a lesser situation like that - somebody should tell this to Mr. Bremer.

Bevier


Subj: Wingnuts Go for Racism on ESTRADA

Faux is flogging the ESTRADA-withdrawal story HARD all morning. Casting it as lessening "the Latino vote" for the Dems.

The wingnuts are SO clueless. They keep appealing to RACISM, that people should vote FOR somebody based on RACE as opposed to IDEOLOGY, that they should support somebody against their own SELF-INTEREST just because he is of their ethnic group.

The Faux dude ASNER couldn't put "Hispanic" ENOUGH times in this stumbler of a sentence: "ESTRADA is the Harvard educated Hispanic, Honduran, from Honduras, Hispanic."-----------swear to Zeus!

Anyway, all hail, SCHUMER, LEAHY, the Hispanic Caucus, the Professor, Mary Ann, and the rest!

Hmmmmmmm, funny: NOTHING on the DRUDGE site so far all the way to Noon. Perhaps SLUDGE is sleeping in.

John Garza


Subj: Rush's inside scoop . . .

I am a devout Progressive, but in my car, I occasionally listen to Rush Limbaugh to -- as they say -- keep my enemies closer, and I was quite taken aback some weeks ago when he said something to the effect that "all those Democrats making a stink about the unfound weapons of mass destruction had better give it up or they are going to eat their words very soon, because I have it on good authority that they (the weapons) have been found, and are being cataloged as we speak. The administration is just waiting for the right time to release the information, probably in September."

I was stunned. If it was true, how could it be kept secret, and if not, what incredible propaganda! And I wonder if any of his listeners will even actually remember that comment, but they will subconsciously remember and know in their hearts that even though nothing has been said in the press, we have the inside line, and they did find them, and we're just waiting for the right time. This is quite typical of the Republicans very effective method of making their constituency (particularly the wealthy ones) believe they have an inside line to the President. I'm not referring to the super-rich corporate raiders who do. No, I'm talkning about the psuedo-rich wanna-be's who contribute thousands to the Bush campaign. I have several friends who are devout Republicans and in our on-going political debates, virtually each and every one has said something to the effect that "I have a friend who knows someone close to the administration who says......" It is amazing, but they all believe they have some inside track, and it is an extremely powerful technique for manipulating them through their egos.

Such a statement however cannot be ignored, and I think Rush Limbaugh needs to be called on this, and it's allegations investigated. Second, I think there is a valuable lesson to be had here for the Democratic party. It is that personal touch that has made the Republicans so successful, that and a delusional populace motivated primarily by their own greed and ego.

Sincerely,

Eric Harrington


Subj: Be Cautious . . .

Dear Buzz,

Reading about the administration's moves to involve the UN leaves me a bit worried that the moves by Secretary Powell, and apparently, with the approval of Dubya, are duplicitous charades.

For Bush to eat crow in such quantity strikes me as damn unlikely.

What strikes me as quite likely is the attempt to use the UN as a "janitorial" service to tidy up after our "accidents" in Iraq. Business dealings for Bush's oily minions remains quite lucrative, and at public expense I might add. To think that Halliburton or the major petroleum companies will allow others to cabbage onto "their" treasure, is far fetched as I see it. So, in the end, it's like a take off on the old Dick Van Dyke line about the gold mine. "We get the gold, the UN gets the shaft."

So, until conflicting stories about flagging support for the UN resolution, the recruiting of Turkish mercenaries, let alone our desire to lead regardless of how bumbling the planning has been, or how horrific our brutality has been as seen by the staggering civilian casualty figures, I advise caution.

This isn't like Bush. It's too pat.

I was glad to read Jeff Koopersmith's column at http://www.apj.us advising us not to gloat. But, something tells me that Dubya and the chickenhawks are up to something, and the UN had better be careful! Misery loves company, especially when presidential politics is involved. How tempting to duck responsibility yet again, by claiming, "THEY screwed up, that's why its shot to hell, the [insert name of country] "allowed" the [insert current popular name for the resistance] to cause all this damage! The UN is a FAILURE! We HAVE TO LEAD!" Don't say "they wouldn't do that!" Of course they would, and in a New York City minute I might add!

Buzz, as odd as this may sound in the current atmosphere of hope, I suggest that we not get our hopes up. I also hope I am wrong, but I am afraid that I am not wrong.

sincerely,

Steve from Syracuse.


Subj: About Bush's request for more funds for his war

Do you think that the Bush Administration will resort to illegally selling arms to Iran again, if the congress refuses to grant him more funds for his war in Iraq?

Victor Saldivar


Subj: BEAE: How Not to Occupy a Country

BuzzFlash,

I rarely employ the overused word "pathetic," but it is just right to describe what I've excerpted below from the Washington Post. Pathetic means "arousing or capable of arousing scornful pity." Unfortunately, the object of that scornful pity is my country.

Pentagon sources report one hopeful sign that the military is thinking creatively and unconventionally about Iraq. The Pentagon's special operations chiefs have scheduled a showing tomorrow in the Army auditorium of "The Battle of Algiers," a classic film that examines how the French, despite overwhelming military superiority, were defeated by Algerian resistance fighters.

A Pentagon flier announcing the film puts it in eerie perspective: "How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. . . . Children shoot soldiers at point blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film."

Umm ... maybe they should have watched this film back before the Idiot-Cowboy-in-Chief took us into a senseless a war? Or read A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East? Isn't studying old wars what they're supposed to do at military schools?

"The Battle of Algiers" does not offer in any sense a recipe for the American occupation in Iraq. If there's any military message in the film, I'd say it's that it's hopeless for an occupying army to fight a urban guerrilla war where a substantial fraction of the population opposes the occupiers. This is because the brutal hard-line tactics that seem to offer the only hope of rooting out the guerrillas generate more resentment and more support for the resistance. In one of the film's most powerful scenes Mathieu, the French colonel, tells journalists

And those who explode bombs in public places, do they perhaps respect the law? ... No, gentlemen, believe me, it is a vicious circle. ...we are neither madmen nor sadists, gentlemen. Those who call us fascists today, forget the contribution that many of us made to the Resistance. Those who call us Nazis, do not know that among us there are survivors of Dachau and Buchenwald. We are soldiers and our only duty is to win. Therefore, to be precise, I would now like to ask you a question: Should France remain in Algeria? If you answer "yes," then you must accept all the necessary consequences.

Of course, like most things, it's sounds better in French.

How can an occupying army pacify a hostile population, at least in the short-term? Through utter brutality. When I visited some cousins in Nantes (France) a few years ago, we went by the Monument aux fusillés de Nantes, in memorial of a 100-some French who were executed by the Nazis. The executions took place, if I remember correctly, after a Nazi officer was assassinated by the Resistance. The French who were executed had nothing to do with the Resistance -- they were just selected at random to collectively punish their countrymen and strike terror in their hearts. As I understand it, this was the typical protocol of the Nazi occupying forces. While I expect the occupation of Iraq will drive American soldier far down such a dark path, thankfully things haven't deteriorated far enough that American public opinion will tolerate us becoming modern-day Nazis.

Gabriel Demombynes


Subj: Iraqi Funds Request

Dear BuzzFlash,

What's wrong with the Dems? Having just listened to their debate, hearing sitting Congressmen say they'll approve Bush's budget request, I then see your link for "New Bush Request for Iraq Funds May Flop" [LINK]

The story mentions the Democrats will accede to the requests, in my view properly so, given that our soldiers need immediate succor--even if it is ultimately symbolic--and the Iraqis need some prospect of life getting better.

But why not take this extra-budget request and say something like "But we've got to get the money somewhere. We can't take it from the working people of America, their life is hard enough. So we'll get it from the companies that leave our shores to avoid taxes. If they want the benefits of America they should contribute to America instead of stealing from it!" Then maybe slap a heavy penalty tax on companies that dodge their responsibility, or whatever will work.

Instead, their leadership meekly goes along whenever BushCo ropes them into a corner, instead of asking "how do squeeze some good out of this?" When will the Congressional leadership stop going like lambs to the slaughter, raising not a bleat or a scuffle?

Jim P


Subj: Voter Registration

Thank you so much for having the voter registration available on your website. I needed to update my information and it was wonderful to be able to do it on BuzzFlash. I have forwarded the info to my daughter so she can do the same. Thank you!!

Cynthia Pedersen
Oceanside, CA


Subj: Gov. Gang Bang

Buzz,

It seems the real issue with AHHnold is one of character. He is a man of extremes and excess. In his Oui interview he brags of gang bangs, womanizing, drug and steroid use, etc., etc. I don't buy the excuse that he was "just a young man" at the time. He was around 26 or 27 then? That's nearly 10 years past the time when this country deems you mature enough to fight and die in war. No one who has committed even the smallest criminal offense gets a pass like that (unless your name is bush, then you can be busted for coke or desert the military and have your record washed, more youthful mistakes eh)? The Arnold of today is still the same as the old one. He was one of the first to own a Hummer, a vehicle of excess and also owns and drives an even larger tank like vehicle. His body is pumped to gross excessive proportions. He smokes the biggest most expensive cigars. He makes movies of excessive violence featuring cartoonish characters at a time in his "acting career" when most actors start to get more introspective and look for more meaningful roles. And now his taste for more excess leads him to want to be leader of one of this country's greatest states. I don't trust him and I don't for a minute buy bush's act of being only mildly interested in the outcome. They are behind him and it's obvious from his actions of the past few days that he hasn't a clue what he's doing. That should give us all an idea as to what kind of puppet he really is. More scary stuff from the masters. We can only pray they hit the wall soon.

Phil Rowland
South Pasadena, CA.


Subj: Got a headline for you "Insects Seeking WMDs"

Okay actual headline is "A Real Sting Operation Against Terror" [LINK]

It starts like this...

"Swarms of honeybees and moths housed in a big mesh-covered tent in San Antonio might hold the key to finding nuclear weapons...

For three years, scientists at the Southwest Research Institute have worked with the insects to sniff out explosives under a Defense Department contract."

PS. Personal note - my favorite part is when they talk about the University of Montana researchers who are "training the insects" (huh??!!) The added bonus is that they have plans to start training rats, too... (Can't you just see Bushie scurrying around?)

Sincerely,

Grateful BuzzFlash Reader


Subj: things are really desperate when........

Bugler shortage: Pentagon OKs digital device to play taps!

Linda


Dear BuzzFlash friends,

They're spinning yarns again, the liars:

U.S. Sought Support on Iraq Long Ago

WASHINGTON - The bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad was "a breakthrough, a sad one" that changed attitudes at the United Nations and is allowing the Bush administration to seek a resolution for more international support in Iraq, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Thursday.

Wolfowitz said the issue of a U.N. resolution "didn't sort of emerge out of nowhere a few days ago. It's been on our agenda ever since the fall of Baghdad."

The Bush administration's offer on Wednesday to share power with the United Nations was widely seen as a change of tactics resulting from the rising costs, mounting casualties and growing criticism of slow progress in rebuilding Iraq. The Pentagon was considered particularly wary of a big U.N. role.

But Wolfowitz said the administration always understood a U.N. resolution would be important in attracting international support.

"I think we had a breakthrough, a sad one, but the bombing of the U.N. headquarters I think changed the atmosphere" at the United Nations, he said. "And it looks like we can move forward in that area."

He said when Secretary-General Kofi Annan agreed last week that a multinational force would have to be under U.S. command "that really solved our principal concerns on the military side, and we embrace that quite eagerly."

Asked if the decision to seek a resolution was a "midcourse correction," as it had been described by Sen. John Warner, R-Va. and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Wolfowitz said "we are making course corrections virtually on a weekly basis."

"We've been trying for a long time to get the U.N. to where I'm hopeful we're now going to go, to an understanding that, yes, we need the U.N. to ask for forces," he said.

Wolfowitz said "we're at a place where we would have been happy to be a month ago or two months ago. But it's better late than never."

[LINK]

I like the phrase 'long ago' when they're talking about last March and April, don't you? I suppose last spring is ancient history to the press. This is why Afghanistan is treated as if it were an episode in remote history. After all, it was almost 2 years ago now. But it's Wolfowitz's tone that really galls me. The U.S. has, with weary patience, been trying to get the United Nations involved. Ah, but they just wouldn't listen. Sad. And, sadder still, UN headquarters in Iraq have now been blasted into the next world. So sad! It's all so sad but perhaps now --sigh-- the UN will finally bend its shoulders to the task. The task that heretofore the patient noble nation of America has had to bear alone...

But behind the low-key regretful (double-speak) tones, one is always aware of iron fists in velvet gloves.

I detest these lunatics with their calculated histrionics and florid conniving, backed up with shock and awe. How the hell did we let them into the control room of human history? What were we THINKING!!

And don't forget. When people are making excuses about the lack of post-war planning, they're also lying. These guys knew so much about Iraq they claimed that they knew things Iraq didn't know about itself, that the rest of the world didn't know about Iraq, that Iraq's neighbors didn't know about Iraq. But the same people didn't know the Iraqi populace was armed? These guys 'knew' Iraq had slipped its w.m.d. over the border into Syria; they 'knew' Iran was slipping agents over the border into Iraq. If they know all this -- and these are the things they claim they started the war to prevent, then why the heck aren't they watching the borders? You notice how sometimes they claim to be all-powerful and all-knowing and the next instant they are claiming the opposite? We better understand now that neither case is true. It's just more manipulative propaganda.

Now, who the heck knows why they let Wolfie out of the dog house (where he's been in since after the Iraq attack when he said that w.m.d. wasn't really the point, just an easy concept everyone could get behind and the public could be counted on to grasp) to offer up new yarn to the media -- but we'd better keep our eyes on him. And all of them.

Whatever they're up to, it's NO GOOD!

Mary (NYC)


Subj: Wolfowitz: UN bombing a "BREAKTHROUGH"

Paul "I love the smell of smoking UN headquarters in the Morn'in" Wolfowitz said they been wanting a little UN action for some time. Now maybe the UN has been softened up enough to send some boys and girls in to die for Halliburton. Isn't life great?

A BuzzFlash Reader

* * *

Wolfowitz says U.S. wanted U.N. resolution since fall of Baghdad [LINK]

WASHINGTON (AP) The bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad was ''a breakthrough, a sad one'' that changed attitudes at the United Nations and is allowing the Bush administration to seek a resolution for more international support in Iraq, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Thursday.

Wolfowitz said the issue of a U.N. resolution ''didn't sort of emerge out of nowhere a few days ago. It's been on our agenda ever since the fall of Baghdad.'' ... But Wolfowitz said the administration always understood a U.N. resolution would be important in attracting international support.

''I think we had a breakthrough, a sad one, but the bombing of the U.N. headquarters I think changed the atmosphere'' at the United Nations, he said. ''And it looks like we can move forward in that area.''


Dear BuzzFlash,

Has anybody noticed that George Bush, after altering his own administration's GDP growth numbers, has done an amazing thing?

The revised GDP numbers show 3 quarters of negative growth in FYI 2001. But yet Bush had a surplus.

Since that time, Bush has had positive GDP numbers and increasingly larger deficits.

How does this work?

A recession produces a surplus but a growing economy produces record setting deficits?

I think Bush's GDP numbers (which he had to revise from his original statements) are a lot like the EPA statements about air quality around ground zero in sep and oct of 2001.....totally bogus and not to be believed.

Thanks

FAC


Subj: Did Bush admin underfund and understaff Afghan war because...

...they didn't want it to get in the way of the Iraq invasion?

Did they compromise the hunt for Bin Laden so as not to too committed to be able to invade Iraq?

At it's peak the number of us soldiers in Afghanistan was reported at just around a mere 2 thirds of the New York police force

Intriguing isn't it?

Roger


Subj: Tax Cuts and Iraq Instead of Fixing Schools?

BuzzFlash,

While the biggest tax cut in history went through draining our reserves, thereby handing over OUR assets to the top one percent schools such as this are forced to close. When the Bush administration sees fit to spend billions of dollars through the war in Iraq to hand our money over to Halliburton, schools such as this are forced to close. I am really angry about this, folks because this happened in the village that I grew up in. So much for GOP Mayor James Garner and his boss's message of leave no child behind. They just did. But then again, Hempstead is not where the top one percent lives, it is a village of low to middle income families.

Mary!

* * *

School Closing Roils Parents [LINK]
By Nedra Rhone
Staff Writer
September 5, 2003

(Snip) Parents and staff members crowded into the Band Box at Hempstead's middle school where last night's regular board meeting served as a forum for residents to air concerns about the closing of Prospect School.

Board members voted on Tuesday to close the deteriorating elementary school, where problems include mold on the cafeteria walls, feces in the building and a chimney that caved into a classroom.


Subj: The French-German Fiasco

Dear BuzzFlash,

I cannot understand why the American people are so angry and upset with France and Germany!! Hasn't it been proven that they were correct and we were wrong? We have not found any wmd, and its been proven that Iraq was not an imminent threat to this country and other words our selected leaders lied to us and we have the gall to be mad with the French and Germans for trying to warn us about the deception. Where is the reality in all of this? Are we so gullible and naive that we just follow like sheep to the slaughter house??

I guess nothing should surprise me by just observing how the American people vote. Its been reported over and over again that the Bush tax cuts highly favored the top 1% and yet more than half of the 99% voted for the best interest of the one per cent. If you can make sense out of that it will explain why this corrupt administration feels that they can dam well do anything they please!! Wouldn't you?

James Epperson
Las Vegas


Subj: LOUD AND PROUD!

i am at a complete loss as to why the dems allow the repugs to frame everything! when they accuse a democrat of CLASS WARFARE, instead of shrinking up like it is a bad thing.......say it loud and say it proud! YES IT IS CLASS WARFARE AND WHILE YOU FIGHT FOR THE TOP 2% OF THAT CLASS......US DEMOCRATS WILL FIGHT FOR ALL THE WORKING PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY!!!! stop shrinking at the words! turn it into words the repugs are scared of!!!!!!!!!

sharon s. swift (a hard working nurse and mother of four)
memphis tn


Subj: Bush and Ashcroft Can Learn a Thing Or Two From Hong Kong

As Attorney General John Ashcroft has been going around the country trying to sell the expansion of the U.S.A. Patriot Act to our fellow Americans, both he and his boss George W. Bush can learn from Hong Kong that freedoms are not to be tampered with. If anything, the entire U.S.A. Patriot Act should be torn up and let America return to her former glory. That glory in my opinion was when she did stand for freedom.

Mary MacElveen

* * *

Hong Kong Ends Anti Subversion Bill [LINK]

Hong Kong Leader Ends Anti-Subversion Bill

BY MIN LEE, Associated Press Writer

(Snip)

HONG KONG - Hong Kong's leader on Friday abandoned an anti-subversion bill that sparked a massive public protest in July, plunged his administration into crisis and fueled fears that China was trying to curb freedoms in the former British colony.

Tung Chee-hwa, a former shipping tycoon hand-picked by Beijing to run Hong Kong, said he will withdraw the bill from parliamentary consideration because of lingering worries among residents. He also pledged to focus more on economic recovery.


Subj: GOP Convention Protest

Dear Buzz,

Just a thought for your readers; when the Bush Administration and the GOP stage their convention at Ground Zero next year, it would behoove the Americans that know better to stage the biggest protest of all time. The important thing being not the protest itself but exposure of the protest to the rest of America by making the goal to get in front of any and every TV camera that can be found with chants so loud that they drown out the on-camera personalities and signs that can be seen by the sheep in middle America that still believe Bush deserves their support. It's time to stand up and be heard despite the Bush Administration's and the compliant media's so-far successful efforts to stifle dissent.

Let's exercise our Constitutional freedoms lest the Bush Administration get elected in 2004 and take more of them away.

A concerned reader


Subj: R. Perle Repost

Buzz,

I read the "walking down memory lane" article "Thank God for the death of the UN" by Richard Perle. He refers to UN as "the chatter box on the Hudson." As any fourth grade geography student can tell you, the UN is on the East River. And this guy advises the Pentagon on defense? It's indicative of this administration to employ persons incapable of doing the job.

Dennis Smith
Bordentown NJ


Subj: White House Approved Departure of Saudis After Sept. 11

BuzzFlash,

It's good to have friends in high places. We've known of this story for close to two years now. Glad to see the mainstream media finally picking up on it. Here it is in a nutshell:

Don Bush & his crime conspirators arranged for private planes to run around the country to organize the evacuation of rich Saudis, including some of bin Laden's relatives, in the days following 9/11. This was at a time when all commercial flights were grounded. Now wasn't that sweet?

Warmest regards,

Top Dog


Subj: Thank You BuzzFlash

Dear BuzzFlash,

Thank you for existing. You are indeed very therapeutic in these troubling times. I used to feel quite alone in my feelings of frustration with this incompetent lot in the white house, who consistently do the wrong things for our country, and now I see that there are many who feel like I do, and obviously see the Bush administration for what they really are. They are really here to service the rich and the big businesses, they do not care about the rest of the country. Paul Begala was right in saying that Bush loves the poor - so he keeps making many more poor folk by depriving them of jobs and cutting important funding. OUR COUNTRY IS WORSE OFF SINCE DUMBYA BUSH TOOK OVER. A Good president is one who hands over the country in a better condition than when he took it. As the 2004 elections gets closer, I predict that this administration will blame everyone possible for the failures it is responsible for - President Clinton to start with, 9/11 and of course the war in Iraq (which he could have avoided).

During the 2000 elections, many people were fooled into believing that Bush would be the uniter and not the divider, and that he would be a compassionate conservative. Well, now they know first hand what a miserable failure he really is, they would be simply crazy to vote for him again.

A BuzzFlash Reader


Subj: 9/11 and Iraq

With Bush stealing more American resources through additional funding requests for Iraq it opens an opportunity to force him to release the 9/11 hidden pages. We should call upon our representatives in this " government" of ours to tie funding to the release of the report

Tom Oliviero
Holbrook, NY


Hey Buzz, could you forward this letter or print it, I don’t have Karl’s address.

* * *

Mr Rove,

Congratulations Karl, things are going just swimmingly on the media front. Employing your own journalists and news broadcasters was a flash of brilliance. Keeping sixty six percent of the American public in the dark is no mean feat. Well done.

I figured I’d write directly to you Karl (there’s no point having someone read this to little Georgie). It’s time you got a little more credit and appreciation. It must irk you sometimes to have to sit in the background while your little mannequins Bush and Rumsfeld mouth your words and get all the attention. But don’t worry Karl, there are a bunch of us who know you’re really the one running things, so just hang in there.

Karl, if you can swing that new UN sanction deal then you’ve really proved yourself a champion. If those wimps agree to an American-run UN coalition, after you rubbed their “old Europe”noses in their greasy potatoes and bratwurst, there’s no telling how far we can go.

I like how you took those ideas from that Milo Mindermender guy in Catch 22 and really put them to use. Hell, both sides of every war have to buy stuff from our conglomerates. Nice going.

Just a few things Karl:

How are we going to hide all those wounded guys and amputees returning from our wars?

Do you think we could get the big guys (Halliburton and those other guys) to sponsor their own army divisions?

Maybe this isn’t a good time to call those European guys “chocolate makers”.

How are you going to cancel the next elections?

An admiring fan…tom coombs

[BuzzFlash Note: Purely out of curiosity, and employing a copy of our trusted Congressional Directory, we called the White House (at 202-456-1414) to get Karl's snail mail address. When the switchboard answered, we asked for Karl Rove's office. We were thanked and then heard the phone forward to another line. "BJ" (oddly enough, considering it was a "B-J" that got Clinton in trouble) answered the phone and I said, "Hi, BJ --" and was quickly cut-off and told "I'm on the other line with Air Force One." I was on hold -- with no muzak, I might add -- for about two minutes. When BJ returned, she graciously gave us the following info: Karl Rove, Senior Advisor to the President, White House, Washington, DC 20502. Let's all make sure he doesn't have that address at the end of 2004.]


Hello BuzzFlash,

Thank you for your valuable work, which I enjoy daily. I would like to point out that Richard Perle' article about the UN [LINK] contains an error:

[...] the low-risk peacekeeping bureaucracies will remain, the chatterbox on the Hudson will continue to bleat. [...]

The building of the UN is on the East River, The World Trade Center, however was on on the Hudson. I tried to send several messages to Mr. Perle but all went unanswered, could you please forward this to him?

thank you

regards,

Santino Di Renzo


Subj: Editorial: White House Lies.......

Dear BuzzFlash,

Another fine editorial.

It seems to me that more direct action is necessary and perhaps possible.

Why can't RICO laws be invoked against the conspiracy to deprive New Yorkers of knowledge possessed by the EPA? Knowledge that would have prevented some deaths and disability.

Why haven't there been both State and US Attorney General investigations and Grand Juries? Aren't there citizens harmed by the actions of the White House and the EPA available to go down and file a criminal complaint?

Aren't there well qualified lawyers available on a pro bono basis who would be willing to advise and assist a citizens group seeking to bring criminal actions against members of the Bush administration?

Aren't there citizens willing to pursue a complaint against them for a conspiracy with the insurance companies to defraud the people and businesses affected by the actions of the White House and EPA?

Isn't Todd-Whitman particularly vulnerable to such actions since she is now out of the administration?

Shouldn't there a concerted effort not only to pursue criminal indictments but also civil suits against members of this administration for their actions?

Perhaps they could even pursue "citizen arrests" or other methods to make it "dangerous" for some of the Republicans to show up at the Convention. Well that's just a dream, probably not a reality.

But wouldn't it be great to see Bush and Cheney taken away in irons?

bob reynolds, orange park, fl


Subj: MBA accuracy, gotta love it

Buzz,

Okay now it's too bad that the standards of accuracy we all have to adhere to in our jobs aren't as loose as these. We would have a hugely comfortable margin for error.

Bush projected hundreds of thousands of new jobs would magically appear in each month after his tax cuts were rammed through the Republican held Congress and, well gee, as it turns out the economy actually LOST jobs. SURPRISE!!! He was off by a "mere" 437,000 in the number of jobs created. Gotta love that crisp, competent efficiency that an MBA administration is giving us!

http://www.jobwatch.org/

Dan DeLisio


BuzzFlash,

Cal State Long Beach vs. The TerminEgger

Question: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Answer: First, a chicken named Arnold ran from the candidate's debate, landed in Long Beach at CSULB, just in time to receive his egg. The chicken came before the egg.

On televised news coverage I watched The TerminEgger remove his yolk spattered jacket so fast you would think he was stripping down for a gang-bang. Which he was. A gang-bang of California citizens.

Have you noticed that no republican ever talks about the deregulation debacle? California's biggest deficit culprit, deregulation, might allow corporate CEOs like Enron's Ken Lay (SchwarzenEgger has had at least one private meeting with Lay-an-Egg) to line his pockets, declare bankruptcy, and fly the coop back to Texas with hands unslapped. California's tax money is the goose that "Lay" his golden eggs.

To the right wing, regulation only regulates their profits. It might hinder big corporation profits but it protects you and me from getting energy gouged. Some services should never be privatized. There are many Californians that depend on reliable power. Home dialysis patients or people in an iron lung at home.

Do you think everything in the world should be a profit making enterprise? A bottom-line planet? Cut costs, keep payroll as low as possible, do as little as possible, as cheaply as possible, and then charge as much as you can get away with. Then more cuts next quarter. Then more cuts, then more....Sounds crazy doesn't it?

Don't vote for any deregulation candidate. Trickle down voodoo economics doesn't work.

Score:

CSULB 1
The TerminEgger 0

Scott Heustis
Lakewood
The Man With No Job

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