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| January 9, 2006 |
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The BuzzFlash Mailbag The opinions expressed in the Mailbag are not necessarily those of BuzzFlash. More reader opinion is at "Contributors." You can write to Mailbag at http://www.BuzzFlash.com/contact/mail.html. Guidelines for submissions are at BuzzFlash FAQ #18. THIS IS PART 2 OF THE JANUARY 9, 2006 BuzzFlash MAILBAG. CLICK HERE FOR PART 1 Subject: "W" says Alito will bring "class" to the Supreme Court According to what I heard on NPR, Dubya and Sammy, as I think he called him, had breakfast this morning. Then Dubya did his usual hem hawing trying to find the correct unscripted term, and decided to say that he is qualified and "will bring class to the Supreme Court." They are such a class-less bunch. Then the guy teaching him to avoid any direct answers says he is different than Roberts, who has charm. He is a laid back "every man." Then they went through all the times when he came out with right-wing crap, and said that is okie dokie because you can say anything in order to get the job. Then they mention a couple of idiotic things he said while working for the Reagan administration and said those were because he was speaking for Reagan. He had some idea that Reagan had super-presidential powers and could ignore anything he chose. Since Bush already claims and uses those powers, we can only hope he doesn't think Bush needs more. It is apparent that the guy has never uttered a single statement that was just his feeling or beliefs. He only gives opinions to impress people, get jobs or keep jobs. However they are now saying that, in this case, he won't be saying anything just because he thinks it is what someone wants to hear. If you trust this guy then you need to have your head examined. I still think we need an up or down vote on Harriet. She could be the lesser of 2 evils even if she does think Bush is the brightest bulb in the firmament. Karen Webb Subject: Keep the Filibuster Dignified! Dear Buzz, Let’s all encourage our Senators to be prepared to filibuster Samuel Alito. It will be most undignified to confirm a Supreme Court Justice who plans to destroy the Constitution. He has already notified us in writing in advance that is what he will do. Tell them: Let’s plan to filibuster and keep the filibuster dignified! You’ll have to keep your shoes and socks on! But, it’s okay to take off the gloves to protect our Country and our Constitution. Margaret Subject: Triple Threat ... against the powers that be, that is. By way of we the people carrying-out the following three moves, which are - Bringing the troops home now, effectively ending the Iraq war as well as serving notice that empire's days are numbered; seeing to it that these latest budget cuts are reversed, liberating us, thereby, from the clutches of the so-called free-market; plus making sure that the Senate rejects both Alito and the real Satan (absolutism and superstition) for which he stands. The pay-off for us is that, in pulling-off the above three moves, we the people will have changed the world. What's more, cost-benefit-wise, it's too good to turn down. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: As If We Needed More Hypocrisy from This Administration Dear Buzzers -- Dear Buzzers -- ... we've GOT it. While Bush and Co. pronounce themselves "pro-life" (though, in reality, they're pro only their OWN lives) and are busy packing or trying to pack the Supreme Court with anti-abortion/anti-contraception justices like Roberts and (Sc)Alito, they're equally occupied with "forcing" genetically altered foods via the World Trade Organization on European countries that strongly oppose them. The study described in this piece is downright scary. As you probably know, Monsanto has been genetically "modifying" food crops (gee, I used to think Monsanto only made carpets, but they seem to have branched out, so to speak) and pushing them on countries that don't want them. Of course Monsanto must be contributing big bucks to the Busheviks. The gist of the study is that baby rats fed a genetically modified soy diet had a 55.5% death rate, compared to approximately 9% for those fed unmodified soy. They were often seriously underweight (as in not thriving) and exhibited liver and pancreatic damage, among other symptoms. Their kidneys were smaller than normal, and their blood cell counts higher, suggesting possible damage to their immune systems. Since rats' reactions -- which is why we use them so frequently in scientific experiments -- are quite similar to those of humans, this issue has serious implications for US. But do the Busheviks give a rat's ass?? (Rhetorical question, of course.) So much for the "pro-life" stances they hide behind. They've already proven that, once the "unborn child" is BORN, they don't give a damn if it starves to death or lives below the poverty line. They're obviously more interested in fetuses than in actual CHILDREN. (Or ANY of us who aren't among the rich.) When the big bucks start flowing in, they'll "force" European countries (who seem to be smarter than WE are) to push genetically modified foods on their citizens. I hope you'll check out the original article. It's not pleasant to read, but it's something we should be aware of. Meanwhile, the hypocrisy of this greedy, power-hungry bunch knows no bounds. Barbara Lee (Barb) Blazyk Subject: "Support the Troops" For whatever good it will do, I have written (again) to our congressman/senators asking them why the lack of body/vehicle armor is not as much of a scandal as is the Plame leak, lack of action for pre-9/11 warnings, Bush deciding he doesn't have to follow the law if he is not so inclined ... etc. I am not quite old enough to actually remember what it was like during WWII, but I am certain of one thing ... had we spent our 'support' of WWII like we are being told how to support the 'war on terror', I have a feeling we would not have won it. I also realize that the United States did not fight that war by itself, but what I am trying to say is this: IF this IS a 'war '... then the factories need to be running 24/7/365 to make sure the troops ARE supported/and protected by the CORRECT body armor, and EVERYTHING they need to keep them as safe as possible. Instead, as we all know, our 'commander-in-chief' insists that we all just 'go shopping' and 'trust them' to carry on. What bunk. It should be clear to ALL of the people in this country at this point that the war in Iraq is a WAR OF CHOICE ... and that it is primarily for Halliburton, and oil companies, to make insanely huge profits. But then, had any Democratic administration been found with ANY of these scandals, their butts would have been out of office, at midnight, 9/11/2001. Perhaps we should start remarking to those who we know support this maladministration: Supporting the troops is more than slapping a (made in China) yellow ribbon magnet on your vehicle. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: FYI Donna from California wanted to know where I got the information I used in a letter to BuzzFlash about my Congressman, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. The link below will take you to the AFL-CIO Website called “Who’s On Our Side.” You can get the information on your Congress Critters or Senators there. Hope this helps get some of these people back to earning an honest living. http://www.aflcio.org/issues/legislativealert/reportcards.cfm Marjorie L. Swanson Subject: A Letter To The Democratic Party
Democratic Party, where is our FDR for today? Mike Curtis Subject: Never a Texas Two-Step SNIP...
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A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: White House Website: Bush does not recall meeting Abramoff... http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060104-1.html So find those photos, they are bound to exist ... nobody meets Bush without having his picture taken, and especially nobody who charges $25,000 for promising to make an appointment with him. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: So Cheney was hospitalized for "shortness of breath," eh? Dear Buzzers -- He SHOULD have been hospitalized, years ago, for shortness of compassion, common sense, over all competence, and vision (and I don't mean the kind involved in reading an eye chart. I'm sure he'd pass THAT test: he'd see the big "E," which stands for EGO. And an ECONOMY skewed to the rich at the expense of the poor. It's about time he got his comeuppance. Now to tackle his cronies... (Message from God to Dick Cheney: "This was only a warning. But you'd better change your ways...or ELSE!" Barbara Lee (Barb) Blazyk Subject: The Party of Ideas Republicans like to praise themselves as the party of ideas. Makes for a good sound bite. My cousin Willie has lots of ideas. All of them foolish and most of them too stupid to bear repeating. (Except for when he invented the self lowering toilet seat that damn near broke his mother’s arm when she approached the commode with toilet brush in hand.) Having ideas is not enough. What we see right now is a lot of very bad ideas. Ideas that don’t solve the problems this country is facing but actually make the problems worse. In case you weren’t concerned enough about the Party with lots of bad ideas being in charge, we find out that a whole lot of these folks with bad ideas are also crooks. In the weeks and months to come we will hear lots of balderdash about how mistakes were made and people didn’t realize that Jumping Jack Abramoff was leading them astray. I never did understand the “I am an idiot defense.” If those in the Senate and the Congress were too damn dumb to know what was going on, then that is even scarier. Geez, not only crooks, but dumb crooks. One of the worst things that we have seen come to pass in the last five years is the level of incompetence. A bunch of dummies is running the country and all half the damn country is worried about is whether gays can get married or some woman can decide if she wants to continue to carry a fetus that now resides in her own body. During the last five years the number of people living in poverty has gone up, the deficit has skyrocketed, and we are deep in debt to the Chinese Communists. Does that seem like a real good idea to you? How patriotic is it to import enormous amounts of foreign merchandise while Americans who work in the manufacturing industry go without jobs? How patriotic are you when you purchase those foreign goods? Save a few bucks a year and sell your countrymen down the river? Don’t seem like a good idea to me. But then Republicans are the folks with all the ideas. Marjorie L. Swanson Subject: Bush Declares Himself Above the Law Bush could bypass new torture ban (Boston Globe) Don't know if I missed this on BuzzFlash or not, but I think it should be brought to the attention of your readers. Bush has a photo op to sign the anti-torture law, then turns around and says he doesn't have to follow it? This is outrageous and not one major media source has reported it. If this isn't proof bush thinks he is a king, I don't know what is. If this doesn't prove McCain is just a phony blowhard, what will? If Clinton would have done this, republicans would have been calling for his head on a platter and rightfully so. This kind of exemption of the law for the emperor, can only be seen in dictatorial regimes, like Saudi Arabia and Saddam's Iraq. And the outrage is intensified ten fold considering the subject matter of the bill, which makes bush and our military war criminals. This cannot be tolerated. Keep up the good fight, we have to win this one.
A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Cheney ER Report I can just see it: "SOB presents with SOB." Lisa J. Subject: "Punishment Park" I received my "Punishment Park" DVD this past week from your premiums and watched it last night. WOW!!!! This is an amazing movie. I can't recommend this movie enough. It is one of the scariest films I have ever seen in that it is not hard to fathom this happening given the present social/political climate in the world today. If you were to change the wardrobe and hair from the early seventies to present day fashion, you would swear this is going on right now. The dialogue and rhetoric from both sides is what you hear on the news and websites today. So to anyone who wants to see what could be in store with unchecked Presidential power, get this movie. I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Joel Brown Subject: The Big Scare Dear BuzzFlash, We're now being told that Samuel Alito's confirmation will mean the end of democracy. This kind of rhetoric scares rather than empowers people, and we are buying into it. Just remember that the power rests in the PEOPLE, and like Cindy Sheehan said, if we ALL do what she did by just sitting down, refusing to move, refusing to obey, the government would have to find other ways to govern. We have the numbers and we have the ultimate power over our lives if we decide to use it. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Boehner the Right Man for Majority Leader I heard Boehner wants Hot Tub Tom's old job. I think he would be the good one for making it a seamless change in "leadership."
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