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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. Subject: Bush Monster Dear BuzzFlash, Have you ever stopped to consider that Bush is a real-life Manchurian candidate? Or should I say UAE candidate? The more that is happening and the way the bush machine is destroying this country on a daily basis, the more I have come to believe that he is an actual implant of the Saudis and if I really want to get paranoid, it probably goes back to all the Nazis we let go and who have been plotting since the 1930's. Remember, the Bushes were involved with those beasts even that far back. Sincerely, Gail Henigman Subject: Worst Time in Our Lifetime BuzzFlash, Have you noticed how many of us senior citizens have sent you that same statement? "THE WORST WE HAVE EVER SEEN IN OUR LIFETIME." And, Shirley, wish I could write as you do. Please know you put into words, what I myself believe. At one time, politicians, more than likely, did SOME of what the Bush regime has done and is doing, but the difference is, they knew the limits and respected the Constitution of *We the People.* These thieves of our Democracy care not for *We the People.* Do not care for humans as a whole. This is why you will hear, "This is the worst we have ever seen in our lifetime." Something has to be done so our children, and grandchildren, will never have to think this is the way life is supposed to be, because it is NOT! Angie Subject: I Didn't Know ... When I was growing up, the catch phrase in my home was "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." My mother was a law student. Over a very short time this phrase was amended to the shorter (and I think, more personally relevant) version: "Ignorance is no excuse." I have lived my entire life by these words and the concept they represent - it is now the catch phrase we use in my home. I insist that our 6 year old daughter understand the value of a curious mind and act on it. I am sick to death with the excuse of ignorance being pulled out at every turn to justify inept, corrupt, dangerous and illegal actions by this administration and its minions whose job IS to know: "I didn't know..." - "I was unaware..." - "I don't recall..." - etc. Ignorance is no excuse. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Jesus God! Re selling our ports Good grief! Now I'm hearing Bush defenders saying Bush and the higher ups didn't know it was a done deal until it hit the news! This is insane! Do they ever tell Bush anything? They didn't even tell him when they thought the nation's capital ws under attack! That is always his defense ... well, he didn't know! Well, I would like to know why the hell not? Jesus God! My dog could be president with all Bush does! Diane Anderson Is everyone forgetting that under GW Bush we are now into debt to foreign countries more than all the other presidents combined?!!! Now he wants to sell our ports to a country run by people who were never elected and have terrorist ties? Do they just sober him up long enough to make his appearances and then let him go back to his drunken stupor? Karen in SC Subject: Supreme Court Backs Religious Right to Hallucinogenic Tea Dear BuzzFlash, I'm a big fan of yours but I think your headline on this is off the mark. Indigenous natives in the Amazon have been using a drink made from the ayahuasca vine for spiritual purposes for a long time--this is a legitimate use of nature-based substances that facilitate contact with the divine. Surely you don't believe that, in the name of the War on Drugs, the federal government should deny us the use of plant-based substances? Perhaps you are implying that the government is being inconsistent, but I applaud this Supreme Court decision to support native peoples' right to use plants in their ceremonies. A BuzzFlash Reader Yikes! the CEO of Dubai said he will do whatever it takes to secure this port deal. He has already hired people to hit the air waves. Who are they? The media should ask each person who defends this outrageous idea who is paying them! And why is this deal sooo important to them? I'm smelling something fishy. Shorty Subject: Privatization & globalization While we weren't looking, the executive dept of the US (and of many states as well) "privatized" nearly everything. What this really means is that (similar to what happened in Russia after the fall of the USSR) government functions were turned over to corporations who made a handsome profit delivering worse services than the government had formerly delivered. This greatly increased the opportunity for graft & corruption. But nobody cared - because, as I said, nobody was looking. Now that the commander in chief is about to turn over the running of our ports to a government implicated in the terrorism of 911, people have started to look. Imagine that! Maybe they will notice that the government, through its inane trade policy, has also exported our vital basic industries & our manufacturing jobs to slave labor countries - many of which are using our consumer shopping dollars to build up their military threat against us. (When you see China's military build up you see "Your Wal-Mart Dollars At Work.") The most sinister part of all this is that a worldwide propaganda campaign waged by big media on behalf of big transnational corporations has convinced nearly everyone that privatization and globalization are inevitable and a (just dandy) "New World Order." Will we wake up at last? Stay tuned. Joe Subject: President "Schultz" Strikes Again!! Hi BuzzFlash, I've known for all these years, like all BuzzFlash Readers, that Bush is a real inept moron. But this UAE Deal puts the cherry on top of the ineptness!! How "funny" how Bush can't understand WHY people are so peeved at this UAE "Secret" Deal which Bush claims he "did not know anything about." Reminds me of a character I knew watching Hogan's Heroes years ago - Sergeant Schultz. How ironic that The UAE supplied hijackers for the 9/11 attack with the main characters from Saudi Arabia. How ironic that the UAE supports the Taliban. Remember them, George? And right now, Lou Dobbs [transcript] is only reporting that ... ... The UAE is a major investor in the Carlyle Group. Just last year, the same Carlyle Group with members such as George H.W. Bush, Neil Bush, and Treasury Secretary Snow, got money from the UAE, as just reported by Lou Dobbs. Think "W" is secretly involved with Daddy at Carlyle? ...The State Department is issuing Travel Advisories stating: "Americans in the United Arab Emirates should exercise a high level of security awareness. Americans should maintain a low profile and vary routes and times for all required travel." I guess Condi didn't get W’s "keep this secret memo." ... Britain in regards to the UAE is advising its citizens to "avoid large gatherings" and to "be aware of the threat of terrorism." ... The Australian government in regards to the UAE is telling its people "We continue to receive reports that terrorists are planning attacks against Western interests in the United Arab Emirates." ... Canada is "warning its citizens on the threat of UAE attacks." I can just imagine what America would have done to FDR, if shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, we witnessed FDR putting a company from Japan in charge of Pearl Harbor or our West Coast ports and then found out that his relatives had ties to a company investing in Japan. FDR would have been impeached on the spot if he did that! Yet, Bush has done just that with our ports and his “dear friends” in the Middle East! What a joke when I hear Rove say "Democrats are so Pre 9/11 while Republicans are so Post 9/11." Don't make me laugh so hard, Rove! Have you checked out your boss lately? ... Yup, our "I know nothing Sergeant W. "Schultz" and the Republicans who have stood by their man, have struck again, showing the world their ineptness for all to see! Tom Wieliczka Subject: Just When We Thought Bush Couldn't Get Any Worse Dear BuzzFlash: We have to give Bush credit on one thing: he has demonstrated that stupidity has tremendous depth and power. So does unmitigated greed when you're practically conjoined to Arabian oil magnates. How else can we explain that the "anti-terror" President is adamant about allowing Dubai to run terminals in six large East Coast ports and New Orleans? When even a Republican dragon like Bill Frist opposes Bush, you know something terrible is afoot. It's a total sellout that reeks of money under the table. Then, we have to endure that sniveling shill Scott McClellan tell us that Bush wasn't aware of the deal until a few days ago. Right. And W. doesn't know Jack Abramoff either. What an excuse Bush uses! He doesn't want to stereotype or discriminate against somebody based on the fact that they're Arabic. I wonder how quick Bush would have responded if New Orleans had been primarily populated by rich Arab Americans when Katrina hit. That city was very nearly destroyed and every bit of the disaster was traced to Bush, from refusing to fund levee strengthening, the miserable FEMA performance and getting promised funds to the victims, some of which have yet to see a dime, while millions of dollars worth of useless trailers sit vacant in Hope, Arkansas. Maybe we can see a glimmer of hope in this year's midterms based on the voter's disgust with Bush. It doesn't look like we can depend on the Democrats to get the majority back in either House, so maybe Bush will do it for us and take a bunch of his Republicans with him. Scott Subject: Military respond to Bush plan for Dubai to run US Ports Some of them are not very happy about it: http://forums.military.com/groupee/forums... a few samples:
Louise Subject: RE: UAE Port Issue When the UAE decides to punish the banks and people involved who laundered the 9/11 money, then maybe we will talk. Are you aware of the people they have chunked in jail for less ties to 9/11 than the UAE have? We invaded Iraq with no ties. Speak up or they assume you agree!!! ABB Karen Webb Subject: Bush Administration Betraying America, BuzzFlash News analysis of 2/20/06 The litany of treasonous acts by this president gets larger every day, yet the public seems disinterested. Why is that? Is it scandal fatigue as some in the MSM claim? Perhaps, but Americans sure didn't tire of Clinton's dilly-dallying with Monica, nor did it show any fatigue twenty-five years ago when our embassy in Tehran was under siege by Islamic fundamentalists. Day after day, then, the evening news began with, "It's now umpty-ump days that our diplomats have been trapped in that embassy. Why isn't President Carter doing anything about it?" And that incident probably robbed Carter of a second term. But now when it's a matter of our president getting in trouble, the MSM has this go easy on him policy. There's no "Four years now in Iraq with over two thousand of our best and brightest dead, so when is he bringing the troops home?" The reason the MSM doesn't stir up the masses against this president, as it did against Carter, is that MSM is in the pocket of the powers that be and isn't about to risk its insider status. Which means that our revolution won't be seen on TV, which is nothing new, of course, as we've known this for a long time. How to wake up the public with the MSM closed to us? No problem! We the people will find a way. After all, isn't that what changing the world is really about? A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Bush Agenda When Bush has the power and he believes that he will some day, he will do the following: Appoint Phyllis Schlafly as head of NOW. Appoint Pat Robertson as head of NARAL. Appoint the head of the KKK as the head of the NAACP. Appoint the head of a neo nazi group as head of the Jewish antidefamation league. Appoint a man who hates the UN to be the US ambassador to the UN. Oh wait... Appoint Jesse Jackson to be the head of the KKK. Hey he is on a roll here. Appoint a woman who lobbied against environmental protection to be secretary of the interior. Oh wait... Appoint the captain of the Exxon Valdez as the head of FEMA. Stephen Bliss Subject: Port Issue BuzzFlash, It is, of course, true that Republicans are trying to distance themselves from Bush on the port issue to improve their chances in the next election. But there is a very good chance the strategy won't work. They have promoted Bush as the infallible, benevolent dictator with a direct line to god; the foundation of the whole party. To suddenly say they were wrong may not gain them votes. Some followers may refuse to believe that Bush is infallible, others may feel betrayed. Either way they lose votes. The Soft-on-Torture Liberal Subject: Try Contacting Bill Frist, M.D. I'm a Tennessee resident and constituent of Bill Frist (puke). I've been on the 'net for hours trying to help 3 seniors in my family with the Medicare Part D program. I tried 5 times to get on the medicare.gov website, unsuccessfully. I e-mailed my concerns to Congressman Bart Gordon. Tried to send same letter by e-mail to Sen. Frist and couldn't do it. Check out his website. Since the anthrax scare, his regular mail is received in Virginia, then sent to Ohio for "irradiation," then sent somewhere else for further testing. Looks like it takes snail mail about 2 months to get to him. I went through the process of "topics" to send an e-mail, searched for Medicare issues, then looks like I have to sign a "waiver" and mail it to him before I can submit my letter. Maybe I'm just an idiot, but maybe you should try it and see what results you get. He's got a news release posted on his website bashing trial lawyers over the asbestos litigation, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to contact him to rebut it or anything else he does. He's just another "untouchable" in the Bush Regime. Peg Subject: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan etc. BuzzFlash - Thank you for posting the Washington Post article from Feb 2002. Very interesting. The proposed UAE port deal is nothing new in the corporate world but is a big shocker to most of the rest of us, with our heads down in one trench or another. 1. First questions are who controls all the other US ports? And are there no American companies in this business? We would certainly all be surprised if we found that 6 big airports on the east coast were run by French companies, 3 in the south by a corporation with headquarters in the Cayman Islands, say, 10 midwest airports managed by German and Swiss companies, and 8 in west by Chinese, Singaporean, and Japanese companies. 2. Our questionable "allies" in the "war on terror." Pakistan - Powerful groups in Pakistan are likely protecting Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda along the Afghan-Pakistan border, just for starters. Saudi Arabia - home to 15 of 19 9/11 hijackers, royal family in like thieves with the Bush family - e.g. Prince Bandar (Bush) former ambassador, 1st post 9/11 White House visitor; current ambassador Prince Faisal al-Turki, former head of Saudi intelligence, heavily involved in Pakistan's intelligence service (see Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to 9/10/01." How soon we forget the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996, the FBI investigation of which was completely stonewalled and shut down by the Saudis. And on and on. UAE - Involved in money laundering (WPost article, above) and ties to al Qaeda. Here's from the staff reports of the 9/11 commission "The 9/11 Investigations" p 108, about bin Laden's camp in Afghanistan that we tried to attack in Feb 1999. There were visitors from the UAE. "National technical intelligence confirmed...the nearby presence of an official aircraft of the UAE." One doesn't have to be suspicious of all Muslims or Muslim governments or abhor foreign connections to realize that this port deal stinks to high heaven. The Bushies want to eavesdrop on our communications without any warrants or scrutiny. They deny visas to Cat Stevens and academics like Tariq Ramadan, but they want us to swallow the fiction that it's all just neutral business to let the UAE manage some of our ports. The good news is that it is a slap upside the heads of a lot of Republicans. Colleen Clark Subject: Look what I just found on Excite.com! Secret agreement with the UAE, and Bush claims he didn't know anything about this? Well, what did Dick know and when did he know it? Maybe Bush don't know Dick. Arab Co., White House Had Secret Agreement (AP/Excite) A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Ironic and Moronic The White House claims that failing to approve the ports deal "Sends a terrible message." What do they think torture, rendition, and spying on your citizens does? Bush's response is both ironic and moronic! Mike Scott I just saw where Bob Dole has been hired by Dubai to go on all the talk shows to try and sell Americans on this port deal! Bob Dole consults for Dubai company (News Observer) Shame on Bob Dole! A BuzzFlash Reader Hi Buzz and Buzzers, To all those right-wing, red meat, red state, Christocrats who never stop supporting Bush no matter what he does - if they still want to tell me that Bushcult will keep us safe, and that the Bush Crime Administration is the only one that will ensure our national security, then they deserve whatever consequences will come their way. The problem is, we don't deserve those consequences. We've suffered enough consequences already! It's really interesting to hear some of the rethugs (at least the diehards that are still devoted to that pinhead) accuse us of race baiting because we're against giving port security to the UAE but weren't against Britain having it. Well, guys, sorry, but I don't think ANY country should be in charge of our port security (frankly, I never knew another country had that position - how come we don't do it?). Race baiting - this from the same people who are hunting down Muslims and locking them up for no reason. Just a few days ago the enlightened Ann Coulter referred to Arabs as "ragheads fit only for extermination." I wonder if she thinks it's a fine idea to hand over our port security to Arab countries. They should just give up the race card since they're pretty vacant in that department. They're a bunch of Martin Luther King fans, right? Please. I can see the wingnuts going schizophrenic over this one. They don't know which side to take. And I don't want to hear how we're getting hysterical over nothing from any Bushcult members who live in places that have a snowball's chance in hell of ever having a terrorist attack. And notice how he isn't just proposing this - it MUST happen, it WILL happen. The sense of urgency is overwhelming, even for the Bush Administration. Wow, what does the UAE have on Bush? Of course we know there's hordes of money involved, but there must be some really mind boggling story behind this of how and why it will benefit Bush and his fellow criminals and cronies. I guess we will find out, and then as usual, nothing will be done. What worries me lately is Bush seems not to be interested in Congress, not that he ever was that interested, but he knows repugs will lose votes if this goes through and doesn't seem to care. It's going through no matter what. We are speeding towards dictatorship. I don't even believe it will matter if the dems take over congress (it seems that W doesn't either). I just have an awful feeling (which may have something to do with the fact that I live in one of the biggest terrorist targets and guess who's gonna be protecting us?). This is it repukes - anyone still supporting him - you are officially mentally defective. Please seek help. Or how about this - America, love it or leave it. Because anyone who follows this increasingly dangerous cabal must hate America - so go somewhere else. Thanks for all you do Buzz and Buzzers. Barbara in NYC (getting nervous) Subject: The Dubai Ports Deal? I want to be perfectly clear here! I hate the Bush Administration and the Republican party with a passion! But, after hearing about the proposed sale of US ports to the Dubai government to manage our sea ports? Honestly? I couldn't understand why my fellow Americans were so upset? And here's what? I mean ... The number one car sold in America is Japanese, the majority of our gasoline comes from the Saudis! All products other then personal care products (like soap, toilet paper, toothpaste) and food are made by China! Some of those foreign countries we buy from are democracies, but the majority of them are not! Point be ... until Americans start buying American made products again, and we have a government that supports American owned manufacturers through every type of protection across the board. This sale to manage our sea ports is a direct result of what happens to a country that has a trade deficit, no longer manufactures anything, and its own citizens no longer buys or supports any of its products, that the only thing we as a nation have left of value is ownership or to control or to manage our property! Yes! The Dubai government is an evil, warmongering, pro-terrorist nation that has ties to 911! And Yes! We need to block the sale! But, so is Saudi Arabia, and none of us have stopped buying their oil! Matthew Habben Subject: Protecting Our Ports Here's my suggestion for how to deal with the Portgate madness. The governors of the states affected should use eminent domain to acquire the port facilities and place them under state control. If the state then does not want to deal with the actual operation of the facility, they could sell or lease it to a suitable American company (thanks to the recent supreme court ruling). This would certainly constitute a "public purpose" - protecting our collective butts. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Dubai & The Free Market The republicans are cheating on their true love, laissez faire economics. If you strip away all the national security issues, this port deal isn't much different than, say, Federated buying Macy's. Or foreign-owned Mittal Steel buying International Steel Group, a deal that included former U.S. industry giant Bethlehem Steel. The republicans aren't troubled by how former ISG owner and current Mittal board member Wilbur Ross has become a billionaire. He buys companies out of chapter 11 bankruptcy only after stripping workers and retirees of pension and health benefits. Well over 100,000 steel workers were affected by Ross's acquisitions, which made ISG just too attractive for Mittal to pass up. Ross has done the same thing in the mining industry. He recently became known to the public only because of the tragedy at the Sago mine, which his International Coal Group owns. The republican response to Ross's activities, to Delphi's threats to break its union and cut wages and benefits, or to the general Wal-Martization of the American workforce, has ranged from a helpless shrug to a hearty endorsement. This is all just market forces at work, they say. There's nothing we can or should do because, despite the bumps along the way, a free market ultimately serves the greater good. So why all the hand wringing now? The odds are that older Americans who've lost all their health benefits and had their pensions slashed face a greater threat to their well-being from illness or injury than from a terrorist attack. But that's a risk they have to face because the market had to weed out the inefficiency their benefits caused. Republicans should now be faithful and proudly proclaim that we needn't worry about security if the Dubai deal goes through. The market will ensure that we're safe; the invisible hand will give us all the protection we need. The government, which can't do anything right, should not intervene, except to enhance security by relieving Dubai of the burden of paying taxes. Yet, these free-marketeers chose betrayal, leaving aside, for the moment, their love of laissez faire economics in favor of government intervention. We should not overlook the tacit admission of this strategy; they have admitted the possibility that their economic paramour may have committed the greater betrayal. Cathy Vance Subject: Question? Is there a connection between the Carlyle Group and the company of UAE taking over our ports? A BuzzFlash Reader [BuzzFlash Note: CNN has reported on Carlyle/UAE ties, but not specifically ties to the company, Dubai Ports World. However, Dubai Ports World is not privately held, but is owned by the government of the UAE.] Subject: Dubai & The Free Market The republicans are cheating on their true love, laissez faire economics. If you strip away all the national security issues, this port deal isn't much different than, say, Federated buying Macy's. Or foreign-owned Mittal Steel buying International Steel Group, a deal that included former U.S. industry giant Bethlehem Steel. The republicans aren't troubled by how former ISG owner and current Mittal board member Wilbur Ross has become a billionaire. He buys companies out of chapter 11 bankruptcy only after stripping workers and retirees of pension and health benefits. Well over 100,000 steel workers were affected by Ross's acquisitions, which made ISG just too attractive for Mittal to pass up. Ross has done the same thing in the mining industry. He recently became known to the public only because of the tragedy at the Sago mine, which his International Coal Group owns. The republican response to Ross's activities, to Delphi's threats to break its union and cut wages and benefits, or to the general Wal-Martization of the American workforce, has ranged from a helpless shrug to a hearty endorsement. This is all just market forces at work, they say. There's nothing we can or should do because, despite the bumps along the way, a free market ultimately serves the greater good. So why all the hand wringing now? The odds are that older Americans who've lost all their health benefits and had their pensions slashed face a greater threat to their well-being from illness or injury than from a terrorist attack. But that's a risk they have to face because the market had to weed out the inefficiency their benefits caused. Republicans should now be faithful and proudly proclaim that we needn't worry about security if the Dubai deal goes through. The market will ensure that we're safe; the invisible hand will give us all the protection we need. The government, which can't do anything right, should not intervene, except to enhance security by relieving Dubai of the burden of paying taxes. Yet, these free-marketeers chose betrayal, leaving aside, for the moment, their love of laissez faire economics in favor of government intervention. We should not overlook the tacit admission of this strategy; they have admitted the possibility that their economic paramour may have committed the greater betrayal. Cathy Vance Subject: The Port Deal Is a Clever Rovian Maneuver Dear BuzzFlash, The "Arabian" company that will take over the ports loading and unloading cargo is in fact a British company that was bought recently by the United Arab Emirate's government. Everything will stay the same like management and personnel and all. And this company was and is doing that same job in the same ports already. The actual loading and unloading is done by Americans of the longshoremen union. The security of the ports is the responsibility of the coast guard and not of any company. So why all this artificial commotion which is nothing but much ado about nothing?? The answer - that it gives many in the congress the chance to posture and give the appearance of viable congress, not the rubber stamp, which it is. And the progressives fell for it!! A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Maureen Farrell's Newest Writings Are Devastating to Bu$hco! I'm so glad Maureen Farrell has returned after her hiatus. Her newest writings ("Bush Conspiracy Theories", esp) are simply devastating indictments of the Bush administration and its parade of lies, distortions and corruption. Her work displays copious guts and brains--Qualities spectacularly absent in the work of the MSM these days. Alas, Ms. Farrell is not qualified to work for the MSM as presently constituted--She is way, way, too honest, clear-thinking, accurate and bold in her reporting. I put her right up there with shining lights like Greg Palast and David Sirota in her analysis of the horrors currently being perpetrated in this country. Bravo to Maureen Farrell for carrying the light!! Maureen Farrell for BuzzFlash.com: Detention Camp Jitters A BuzzFlash Reader BuzzFlash wrote:
Frankly I fail to understand the implied association between LSD usage and "an unrestrained combination of treachery, lunacy, and lying". I'd be interested in hearing of the logic behind this comment. Ken Sherwood I wish people would stop thinking that Bush is working on principle, any principle. With regard to the latest upset, all the posts seem to think that Bush is allowing the sale of the ports because of global free trade. Or they are falling for the line that he knew nothing about it. Get a clue. He knew and his own, or his father's pockets (through the Carlyle Group) are involved. Why else is he being so rigid about revisiting the deal and threatening a veto? I have held the opinion for a while that Bush DOES control the White House and everything he shoves through benefits him personally. This is no different. L in upstate NY Subject: Please DON'T shorten your Morning Headlines! Dear Buzz -- I'm writing in response to the letter in yesterday's Mailbag from someone who complained about the length of your links to the actual story. As I (coincidentally) pointed out in one of my own letters, the Buzz "take" on the story we're being linked to is often more penetrating and perceptive than the story itself. OK, I admit that, like Buzz, I'm into irony and sardonic humor, but no less serious about our current situation -- actually, CRISIS -- than anyone who wants "just the facts." But putting the Buzz edge on the (often bland MSM) stories really makes my mornings! Please don't change your approach to the headlines of the day. I LOVE it! Barbara Lee (Barb) Blazyk Subject: The Port Deal Having been married for almost thirty years to a card-carrying member of the repug party, a conversation I had with my aforementioned spouse today stunned me. We were talking about the the ludicrous nature of a company owned by a government (which has harbored and supported terrorists) protecting U. S. ports. But, I could sense my husband gearing up for his usual defense of the bush administration. I got this statement in before he could say anything: "This would be akin to Ronald Reagan handing over a national security job to the U.S.S.R." On the other end of the phone, I could hear my husband's breath catch...there was a slight hesitation and then he said the words I have been longing to hear [regarding my political views, anyway] for thirty years: "You know something, you're right." I share this with you, fellow Buzzers, to let! you know: THERE IS HOPE! Liz Taylor Hey Buzz, I have a suggestion for your website: Don’t Change A Thing! 5,000,000 people per month don't read this site for no reason. Editorials, headlines and all. Keep it! Barbara in NYC Subject: Stupid Not! President IS THE LOOP Buzz, it isn't 'stupid'; it's a power grabbing coup within a coup! President not 'out of the loop', the sob IS THE LOOP along with Papa. A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Right To Be Left Alone Conservative Right-To-Lifers are overjoyed that South Dakota has passed legislation banning almost all abortions. This moves the bill one step closer to final passage. The bill states that life begins at conception. The sponsor of the bill is a Democrat named Julie Bartling, who seems to believe that the state has the right to force a woman to carry a fetus to term. That men would do such a thing is despicable, that a woman would is truly nauseating. What a bunch of hypocrites. South Dakota has the death penalty. They believe that it is quite all right to put to death a fully grown human being but don’t touch a few cells that could grow into a human being. By stating that life begins at conception that would seem to ban the morning after pill. Gee ladies, you can’t prevent conception and you can’t abort so there you are, mommy whether you want to be or not. My best advice to the women of South Dakota would to immediately emigrate to a free country. This fight over who has the right to decide what happens to woman’s body has been going on in the courts for over thirty years. There is a certain segment of this population that believes that they have the right to force their beliefs on everyone else. They are so militant in their beliefs that they truly do not care that when they get their way they are inflicting misery on another human being. Force that woman to have that child. Force a woman that has been raped to carry something within her body that must truly repulse her. Force a woman to follow what you believe whether she does or not. There was a time when some women decided to bear their child and then put it up for adoption. The news that the child they put up for adoption may some day show up on their doorstep makes many decide this is not an option for them. Not all women are cut out to be happy little mommies who are just overjoyed to be introduced to a person that they obviously wanted out of their life many years before. Right to lifers seems to be about to win what they have so long desired; the right to inflict their beliefs on others. Hard to believe it is happening in this country. Land of the free? Not so much! S.D. Senate Bill to Ban Most Abortions (AP/Yahoo) Marjorie L. Swanson Subject: Re: Red Herring in a Chess Game I totally agree with the BuzzFlash Reader when he equates this whole UAE port deal with a chess game. How so? Simple. This is a win-win for the Repugs. All those in the House and Senate who oppose the deal will come out looking as if they're independent of the WH and Bush--that they actually DO something about US security (even though we all know that's BS) and that the Dems are following their lead. Then what happens is the Dems can't play the "see, the Republicans aren't concerned about Americans' safety" card come November. After the '06 election shows little or no change in seats, then Bush will push the deal through in some backdoor manner (much like he did with Bolton and the UN or some other bill that he'll send back to the House with an attachment of pork that approves the deal at some unGodly hour in the morning). Yep, the Repugs know what they're doing. And anyone who plays chess can see the analogy. After all, in chess, the thing that gives a player the advantage is being able to "see" three, four or more moves ahead. The Dems just react. DRA Subject: Who's in Charge? For a moment there I thought I was lost inside the old Abbott and Costello routine “WHO'S ON FIRST?”; with the question being just who IS in charge of our government? What we now know is that it definitely isn’t George W. Bush. From the moment, during his debate with Al Gore, he gave that goofy grin and admitted that he couldn’t understand the “fuzzy math” of Social Security, I had an uneasy feeling that the man who wanted to be president was not up to the job. Yesterday, we got the proof. While an aghast nation realized that the same government officials that were warning us about the danger of Arab spies in our midst had decided to give the United Arab Emirates control of our ports. Just a few months ago, Bush was direly pointing out that our ports weren’t secure and that it was necessary to break the Fourth Amendment and wiretap citizens who were contacting people outside of the United States to keep them safe. Yesterday Bush, who usually isn’t responsive to criticism, told us that if Congress took any action to thwart this contract that he would veto it. But after a mountain of criticism, we were told that Bush didn’t really know about the secret contract. BUSH DIDN’T KNOW? He pretends to be on top of his “war on terror,” so how does this micromanaged Bush government get away with awarding secret contracts to a nation that has had previous contacts with terrorists? How can it be, that the man who has built his whole administration around the fear of terrorists striking at the United States again, wasn’t consulted about giving an Arab country access to our ports? Which, we’ve also been told, was vulnerable to infiltration by a “dirty bomb”? Who are we to believe? George W. Bush, who claims to be in the know, or Scott McClellan, who claims that he was not. And if not Bush, WHO? It’s a short list of possible decision makers. And I don’t believe for a minute that this decision was left to a meeting of low level government employees who wouldn’t even have had the security clearance necessary to GET the classified documents to check out a terrorist connection! We know this because, according to Attorney General Gonzales, even CONGRESS couldn’t be informed about the secret illegal wiretapping that the Bush administration was engaged in. He stated that only a selected 8 were told, and those 8 tell us they didn’t get any REAL information. So, if you can’t trust Congress with this type of classified terrorist intelligence, why would you give it to a bunch of civil servant employees OR allow them to make an uninformed decision about who to hire to run our ports? There’s an “old” saying that goes: “Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice...well, you can’t fool me twice.” I may not know the answers but you certainly aren’t fooling me. But it is way past time for Congress to stop being fooled and to get some!! A BuzzFlash Reader Subject: Racism and Americanism As a 'Minuteman' in Arizona I was personally assailed as a racist and bigot by newspapers, various media organizations, and on GOOGLE. My commitment to protect our borders is not influenced by hatred of any race or creed or culture. I truly believe in my position on the sovereignty of America and its people. I am simply an activist who puts his money and energy where his mouth is. Now I see where those of us who are against the selling out of our ports are being called bigots and racists. Labeling Americans as racist who truly believe in our nation and its laws and Constitution seems to be in vogue again. I don't believe this tactic works in America any longer! Have read and heard much said against Lou Dobbs in the past and present. He also has been labeled racist for his stand against illegal immigration, outsourcing and port security. Dobbs however is the one journalist who broke the story on the selling out of our six largest ports to a country that is sympathetic and supportive of terrorism. He has consistently railed against most of the Bush-Cheney administration policies and put their violations and incompetence on stage for the world to see. We need a hell of a lot more like him and a lot less Hannity, O'Reilly and Limbaugh. If one watches Dobbs consistently you will see he is as anti-Bush cabal as any could possibly be. Lawton Watson
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