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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
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- 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
This kind person left me a note telling me that my beloved Family Guy is coming back to Fox later this year!!! Oh, I can only hope that�s true. �twould certainly be proof that there is a God.
Well, my crazy sister sent me yet another fucking letter. Oh and she sent it to work and our Receptionist for some reason felt the need to open my personal mail. Actually, I don�t even really care. Mistakes happen (she opens a lot of mail and rightfully wouldn�t assume someone would be getting personal items at work). If my stupid sister decides to send my personal mail to work, for some odd reason, then she�d better be prepared for other people to be exposed to her insanity, I guess.
I didn�t read her letter, though. I glanced at it. The first paragraph was just as annoying as her past work, so I shoved it back in the envelope, unread. I don�t think I�ll ever read it. I don�t really see the point in getting in to a pissing match, letter-writing argument with the woman and I am just exhausted by the whole insane episode.
In better news, the weather has cooled significantly, thank Christ. We�re back to normal...for now, anyway.
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ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS KNEW OF ABU GHRAIB REPORT
Since late February, the Pentagon has been in possession of a report produced by Major General Antonio M. Taguba that details the abuse of Iraqis incarcerated in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. [1] Months later, despite knowing of the 53-page report's existence, top administration officials responsible for the military still have not read the document.
White House officials told the Los Angeles Times that "the abuse of Iraqi prisoners sparked so much concern that President Bush was told about an investigation during the winter holidays." [2] But White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan tried to insulate the President from criticism by suggesting that the President was surprised by the report's findings. McClellan told reporters yesterday that Bush "only become aware of the photographs and the Pentagon's main internal report about the incidents from news reports last week." [3] Yet President Bush still has not read the report.
Three weeks before the press reported the story of the Abu Ghraib report, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard B. Myers knew enough about it to call Dan Rather and ask him to delay airing the story. [4] Yet, as of this Tuesday, Myers still hadn't read the report. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that he had merely "seen a summary."
SOURCES:
1. "Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba"
2. "Accountability at Issue in Abuse of Prisoners", LA Times, 5/5/04
3. "White House and Pentagon Scurry to Draft Responses", New York Times 5/5/04
4. "CBS delayed airing abuse story for two weeks", AP, 5/3/04
WHITE HOUSE MISLED AMERICA ABOUT COST OF WAR
In a transparent effort to mask the true costs of war and reduce the size of the mounting budget deficit the White House left funding for Iraq and Afghanistan out of the 2005 budget it submitted on February 2. [1] Since that time, the "administration has steadfastly maintained that military forces in Iraq will be sufficiently funded until early next year." [2] White House Budget Director Joshua Bolton insisted "no request [for more money for Iraq] would come until January at the earliest."
From the beginning, military officials predicted that the Administration's game playing would create problems. General Peter Schoomaker, Army Chief of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 11, "I am concerned...on how we bridge between the end of this fiscal year and whenever we could get a supplemental in the next year...I do not have an answer for exactly how we would do that." [3] Marine Commandant General Michael Hagee agreed.
As predicted, it was revealed last month that, without additional funding, US troops would face a $4 billion shortfall as early as this summer. [4] Yesterday, the President was forced to come clean and request "an additional $25 billion to finance military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan." [5]
SOURCES:
1. "Deficit Is $521 Billion In Bush Budget", Washington Post, 2/2/04.
2. "War May Require More Money Soon", Washington Post, 4/21/04
3. "U.S. Military May Run Out Of Money", UPI, 2/11/04
4. "Rice Delivers 'Upbeat' Iraq Report", CBS News, 4/22/04
5. "$25b sought for Iraq, Afghanistan", Boston Globe, 5/5/04
Visit Misleader.org for more about Bush Administration distortion
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Word of the Day for Thursday May 6, 2004
preternatural pree-tuhr-NACH-uhr-uhl; -NACH-ruhl, adjective:
1. Existing outside of nature; differing from the natural; nonnatural.
2. Surpassing the usual or normal; extraordinary; abnormal.
3. Beyond or outside ordinary experience; inexplicable by ordinary means.
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�I just love the light in LB. . .I just loved laying there, watching the light come through the window and kind of sweep through the room with the breeze. It was like waltzing. Or like that scene in 'Singin in the Rain' where Debbie Reynolds is up on that ladder and Gene turns on that huge fan and it�s blowing air all around them while he dances around her.�
-- from Singing in the Rain
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