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-Lucille Ball
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
--Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
REGISTER TO VOTE
"The time is always right to do what is right"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The "seven social sins": Knowledge without character,
Science without humanity,
Wealth without work,
Commerce without morality,
Politics without principles,
Pleasure without conscience,
Worship without self-sacrifice."
--Gandhi
"We have not inherited the world from our forfathers -
We have borrowed it from our children."
--Kashmiri, proverb
I didn�t. We just had a lot to talk about and since he�s incredibly busy lately he figured the only time we�d get to talk would be over lunch. I had a very yummy Chicken Teriyaki sammich. The chicken was cubed and I dropped a piece down the front of my white top so I now have teriyaki sauce on my boob.
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From NARAL:
The White House tried as hard as it could to denigrate the March for Women's Lives. Dick Cheney's top advisor, Mary Matalin, said it was "Out of touch and irrelevant." President Bush's closest confidante, Karen Hughes, compared pro-choice Americans to terrorists. When asked by CNN about the March, she responded: "I think that after September 11, the American people are valuing life more and we need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life....Really, the fundamental issue between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life."
But even George Bush can't ignore it when 1.15 million pro-choice Americans walk past his front yard. Yesterday, he had his Justice Department withdraw its outrageous demand that thousands of women who'd had abortions turn over their private medical records for John Ashcroft's perusal. Everyone who marched, or sent a message to the marchers, or contributed to help make it happen should feel enormously proud. You helped stop Bush and Ashcroft!
Now, it's time to turn the pressure up another notch. They've retreated on one front, but they're still pressing forward with the rest of their anti-choice agenda. That's why we need you to take these two important steps today:
� First, sign up to be one of the first of the 250,000 pro-choice precinct captains we need to recruit this year, to work online and in your community to keep spreading the word about how to protect our right to choose; and
� Second, make a special donation today to keep the pro-choice momentum alive (or sign up today to give $10 per month). Let's keep them on the retreat!
The March has already brought us one important victory, the withdrawal of the intrusive subpoena for abortion records. If we keep our movement growing and active, we can keep government out of our private decisions for the next generation.
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BUSH DIVERTING ENVIRO FUNDS INTO FOSSIL FUELS
President Bush yesterday tried to deflect questions about his environmental record by claiming that he supports efforts to reduce America's fossil fuel usage (1). He said he had "introduced ideas like a hydrogen-powered automobile, put money behind it and research behind it" so that so that we will be "less dependent on foreign sources of energy" and we will "improve the environment." But Bush's hydrogen-automobile proposal is purposely engineered to be fossil fuel dependent, and it is paid for by taking money out of programs that are actually reducing fossil fuel use.
As Mother Jones reported, "the Bush Administration has been working quietly to ensure that the system used to produce hydrogen will be as fossil fuel-dependent - and potentially as dirty - as the one that fuels today's SUVs. According to the administration's National Hydrogen Energy Roadmap, drafted last year in concert with the energy industry, up to 90% of all hydrogen will be refined from oil, natural gas, and other fossil fuels" (2). Such a system, experts say, would effectively eliminate most of the benefits offered by hydrogen because the Bush plan's use of oil/coal/gas to create fuel cells would generate large amounts of pollution. Not surprisingly, such a system would insure the massive profits of the energy industry, which bankrolls Bush's campaign (3).
Bush is, in part, paying for this fossil-fuel-based program by stripping funding from programs that are actually reducing fossil fuel use in America. As AP reported, Bush moved money into his hydrogen program at the same time he "ended an eight-year program to help automakers develop high-mileage, family size cars" such as the successful hybrids now beginning to permeate the U.S. market (4). Additionally, Bush proposed reducing "federal funding for renewable energy and efficiency research program by more than $200 million in 2002" (5).
Sources:
1. President Bush Touts Benefits of Health Care Information Technology, 04/27/200.
2. "Hydrogen's Dirty Secret", Mother Jones, May/June 2003.
3. OpenSecrets.Org
4. "Bush abandons high-mileage car program for hydrogen fuel-cell approach", Environmental News Network, 01/10/2002
5. "Proposed Bush Budget Cuts Renewables and Energy Efficiency Programs", Resources for the Future, 04/11/2001.
Visit Misleader.org for more about Bush Administration distortion
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Word of the Day for Wednesday April 28, 2004
heterodox HET-uh-ruh-doks, adjective:
1. Contrary to or differing from some acknowledged standard, especially in church doctrine or dogma; unorthodox.
2. Holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines.
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