Tonight I met by coincidence with one of the gentle souls that I have come to know over the past couple of years. He gave me one of these buttons to hang on myself. "We have to do anything to get rid of Bush," he said. "He lied and couldn't wait to start a war." I kept silent and thinking to myself, I DON'T WANT everybody to vote because they are so vulnerable to political diatribe and propaganda. Never mind that the CIA, the British equivalent of the CIA, Russian President Putin, and the sacrosanct head of the Democratic party, Bill Clinton, all advised President Bush about the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam had in his possession at some time. It is so tiresome to me to have to hear this crap. Then we you have Sen. Kerry who has flipflopped on this issue (PROVEN!) on this issue some 15 times. OPEN YOUR MINDS, PEOPLE!
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A friend of mine reminded me today.........

"It Takes A Village"

Only problem is most villages come with a resident idiot.

While it is no doubt devastating to lose a loved one in war, I'm so sick and tired of hearing how parents of our Iraqi war dead go complaining and make publc spectacles of themselves. Why in the first place did their kids join the military in the first place? War is hell. And as long as human beings engaged in hegemony and war, they will die. It is happening in 2004, it has happened since the beginning of time.

(09-16) 11:09 PDT HAMILTON, N.J. (AP) --

A woman wearing a T-shirt with the words "President Bush You Killed My Son" and a picture of a soldier killed in Iraq was detained Thursday after she interrupted a campaign speech by First lady Laura Bush.

Police escorted Sue Niederer of Hopewell, N.J., from a rally at a firehouse after she demanded to know why her son, Army 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin, 24, was killed in Iraq. Dvorin died in February while trying to disarm a bomb.

My goodness, Al Gore these days looks like a grandmother dressed up in her husband's clothes!

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Can we say "paranoid"? And it is not because the Dems are all of a sudden interested in preserving the rights of black voters! They have to say "somethng" just to keep getting in the headlines.

WASHINGTON (AP) - John Kerry suggested Saturday night that Republicans may try to keep black voters from casting their ballots to help President Bush win in November. "We are not going to stand by and allow another million African American votes to go uncounted in this election," the Democratic presidential nominee told the Congressional Black Caucus.

"We are not going to stand by and allow acts of voter suppression, and we're hearing those things again in this election."

Can we collectively say "catwoman"? Or "this silver screen is too small for the both of us"?


Bacall hits out at co-star Kidman

(BBC News) "Veteran actress Lauren Bacall has labelled co-star Nicole Kidman a 'beginner' after an ITV journalist described Kidman as a 'legend'. 'She's not a legend. She's a beginner... she can't be a legend at whatever age she is,' Bacall told GMTV.

Kidman, 37, and Bacall, 79, are at the Venice Film Festival to promote their film Birth. Bacall plays Kidman's mum.
Bacall told a recent press conference she and Kidman had a 'fabulous relationship both on screen and off'. 'I love working with a young actress,' said Bacall.

The pair also appeared together in Lars von Trier's Dogville last year. "

Isn't this an oxymoron....Catholicism for Dummies? And yes, it is a real book which I saw tonight at Barnes and Noble. Perhaps there are some good chapters on how to prepare one's child to be molested by a priest. And of course, I'm sure there will be a complete guide to understanding why the Spanish Inquisition was necessary and how the "dark ages" in Europe were the golden years of the Catholic church with all of the torture and murder they perpetrated. Incredible that this book even exists at a time when the world is starting to understand the evils of the Catholic church.
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I know the elitest progressives will wring their hands and huff and puff....but the following is the pure, unadulterated truth. I welcome a rebuttal....and will publish it on my blog.



Go Ahead................I Dare You!


Enter Mexico illegally.
Never mind immigration quotas, visas,
international law, or any of that nonsense.

Once there, demand that the local government provide
free medical care for you and your entire family.
Demand bilingual nurses and doctors.

Demand free bilingual local government forms, bulletins, etc. Procreate abundantly.
Deflect any
criticism of this allegedly irresponsible reproductive behavior with, "It is a cultural United States thing. You would not understand, pal."

Keep your American identity strong.
Fly Old Glory from your rooftop, or proudly display it in your
front window or on your car bumper.

Speak only English at home, and in public,
and insist that your children do likewise.

Demand classes on American culture in the Mexican school system.

Demand a local Mexican driver license. This will afford other legal rights and will go far to legitimize your unauthorized, illegal,
presence in Mexico.

Insist that local Mexican law enforcement teach English to all its officers.

Good luck! You'll be demanding for the rest of time.

Because it will never happen.

In Mexico or any other country in the world...

Except right here.

Land of the Naive.

God Bless America--She needs it.

(Author unknown)
2004

To be submitted to local newspapers' Letter to the Editor sections:

Sorrowful reports in the world press depict the tears and wails of mourning echoing through the streets of Beslan, Russia in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left more than 350 people dead — nearly half of them children. Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly says on his country’s television sets, "what happened was a terrorist act that was inhuman and unprecedented in its cruelty.” As sad as this all may be, seemingly so conveniently forgotten to the world is the unprecedented terrorism, inhumanity and cruelty inflicted by Russia (in those days called “Soviet Russia”) on Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania for over half-a-century.

Forgotten is the time when the Russians grabbed tens of thousands of Balts – including women and children – and senselessly deported them to Siberian gulags and death camps. Forgotten and now silent are the Russian trucks which busily snatched and dragged men, women, and children off the street of the Baltic capitols, kicking, crying to certain torture and death.

Forgotten are the thousands and thousands of Balts who had to flee for their lives away from their homelands to avoid the systematic, brutal, oppressive Soviet occupation which lasted for 56 years. Forgotten are the arrests and executions of innocent citizens, massive deportations to Siberia, and a systematic effort to make the Latvians, Estonians, and Lithuanians a minority in their own country by flooding it with Russian speaking immigrants from Soviet controlled republics.

So as you try to make sense of what has happened on your tear-stained cheeks of your face, Beslan, please, please, don’t cry for me.


Ivars Bezdechi
San Diego, CA

President Bush might not be the brightest bulb in the four-pack, but I still support his re-election.
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"Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar

(written by Don Raye, Hughie Prince and Eleanore Sheehy,
as recorded by The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen
& His Orchestra, August 28, 1940)

In a little honky-tonky village in Texas
There's a guy who plays the best piano by far
He can play piano any way that you like it
But the way he likes to play is eight to the bar
When he plays, it's a ball
He's the daddy of them all

The people gather around when he gets on the stand
Then when he plays, he gets a hand
The rhythm he beats puts the cats in a trance
Nobody there bothers to dance
But when he plays with the bass and guitar
They holler out, 'Beat me Daddy, eight to the bar'

A-plink, a-plank, a-plink plank, plink plank
A-plunkin' on the keys
A-riff, a-raff, a-riff raff, riff raff
A-riffin' out with ease
And when he plays with the bass and guitar
They holler out, 'Beat me Daddy, eight to the bar'

He plays a boogie, he plays eight to the bar
A boogie-woogie, that is the way he likes to play on his piano
And we all know
That when he plays he puts them all in a trance
The cats all holler 'Hooray'
You'll hear them say, 'Beat me Daddy, eight to the bar'"