Subject: Last night's speech
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Date: 9/9/2003 3:53:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: TrueMajority
To: [email protected]
Dear Karen,
Rather than admitting the shortcomings of his failed policy and plotting a course to get us out of Iraq, George Bush used the speech to the nation to repeat his lies in the hopes that people will believe them if said often enough.
There was no mention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Bush continued to equate Iraq with al-Qaeda terrorists even though there's no factual basis for the charge, and then he asked us for another $87 BILLION to bail him out.
How much is $87 billion? For that amount of money, America could:
Solve the school budget crisis in every one of our communities,
OR
Provide health insurance for every uninsured American child for 15 years,
OR
Provide food for all 6 million of the children who die from hunger around the world for 7 years.
A day of protest is being planned for October 25 in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles and places in between. For information about these events, go here.
Sincerely,
Ben Cohen
President, TrueMajority.org
Co-Founder, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
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On Sunday night, Dennis (Kucinich) issued a POWERFUL REBUTTAL to the Bush speech: "The President has been unable to produce evidence that this war was fought over weapons of mass destruction. It is not too late for him to prove that it was not fought over oil. That can be done by returning control of the oil to the Iraqi people." (At the United Nations yesterday, Dennis reiterated these points at a news conference with receptive journalists.)
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Word of the Day for Tuesday September 9, 2003:
metier, also m�tier met-YAY; MET-yay, noun:
1. An occupation; a profession.
2. An area in which one excels; an occupation for which one is especially well suited.
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Quote A Day, Sept. 9, 2003:
The meltdown of the power grid and the shutdown of corporate networks this month remind us that everything is so interconnected now - except our minds and hearts - that a hiccup anywhere can mean trouble everywhere. -- Tom Mahon
Fact of the Day:
Luxury spending in the United States has been growing four times faster than overall spending. In "Living it Up: Our Love Affair With Luxury", James Twitchell says that this necessary consumption of unnecessary items and services is going on at all but the lowest layers of society: J.C. Penney now offers day spa treatments; Kmart sells cashmere bedspreads. He even finds ways to compare hotels to cathedrals, concluding that perhaps luxury offers "a form of cheap grace, epiphany on the fly, a momentary stay against existential confusion."
Be The Change:
Dedicate one luxury item expense to help somebody else!
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