Smafty Mac: Fighting the kakistocracy!!!

Free speech is the foundation of freedom, The UK doesn't have that right and they're our closest ally.


Pass the pic around, support freedom!




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I love Celebrity Poker

I usually don't watch card games on TV, but it's damn good and it gets exciting at times!

Check it out on Bravo, I recommend it as great tv, and I don't even watch TV!
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White House says the deficit forecast isn't as bad as it looks, much like your doctor saying you have cancer,but it's the good kind.

he White House projected on Friday that the budget deficit would reach $445 billion in this fiscal year.

That would make it by far the largest shortfall ever in the dollar amount, though it would be well below the record for a deficit as a percentage of the gross domestic product and well below the amount forecast six months ago.

Joshua B. Bolten, President Bush's budget director, presented the new forecast as good news, saying "the improved budget outlook is the direct result of the strong economic growth the president's tax relief has fueled."

But Democrats said the revised forecast for the 2004 fiscal year, still almost 20 percent higher than the record $375 billion deficit in the previous year, showed just how much the government's fiscal health had deteriorated under Mr. Bush.

"They're claiming improvement?" said Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee. "That is utterly preposterous."

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Greg Palast on John Kerry, ouch!

The millionaires are dancing now. The balloons are falling on John Kerry, John Edwards and their nuclear families.



They're playing "Johnnie B. Goode" over the loudspeakers. Democrats are hopping up and down like JFK never went to Dallas; like Bill Clinton didn't blow it for us; like there's a chance to bring the boys home alive; like America can crawl out of Dick Cheney's bunker and look at the sun again.


But has Johnnie Kerry been good so far?


He told us tonight about some poor bastard in Ohio whose job evaporated when his company unbolted the equipment and sent it south. Hey, Johnnie, didn't you vote for NAFTA?


We applauded when he said the White House should stop treating teachers and school kids like fugitives from justice and help them out. But, Johnnie, didn't you vote for George Bush's "No Child's Behind Left" assault on public education?


Then there was that little story meant to show us all he is a Man for All Seasons, above party politics. "I broke with many in my own party," he said, "to vote for a balanced budget, because I thought it was the right thing to do." No, John, it wasn't. It was craven political cowardice, going with the anti-government hysteria that put a knife into the heart of the programs you cried over tonight.


He told us the sad story of the poor homeless guy huddled in front of the White House. Is this the same John Kerry that voted for Clinton's welfare "reform"? That put a five-year limit on food stamps, making child starvation the law of the USA. At least Ronald Reagan offered ketchup as a vegetable.


Kerry made good use of the cash he saved on feeding the poor. "I fought to put a 100,000 cops on the street." Hey, thanks, John.


But my absolute favorite of the night was when Kerry told us, "Saying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doesn't make it so. As President, I will ask hard questions and demand hard evidence."


But, as Senator, you didn't. No questions asked: you just closed your eyes and voted for the lie. I know it, and you sure as hell know it.


And you mentioned a time or two tonight that you served your country. Got yourself a medal for it, too. I'm sorry, but shooting a Vietnamese teenager in the back who was defending his country doesn't make you a hero.


Yesterday, my buddy Michael Moore and I held a press conference in Boston. Some joker of a reporter asked Mr. Fahrenheit about Kerry's gung-ho keep'm-in-Baghdad position. Michael fudged and fidgeted. I felt bad for him as he faked the answer, "President Kerry would not have sent us to war." But as Senator, Kerry did.


I've got an easier job than Michael: as a journalist I don't have to defend any candidate. Nevertheless, I know that my Democratic Party friends will want to ship me to Guantanamo for asking, "You believe in Kerry, but does he believe in you?"


Remember, comrades, I'm only asking questions, here. I'm sorry if the answers make you uncomfortable about your favorite rich guy.


I know what you're going to say. "Isn't Bush worse?"


By a long shot. But asking if Kerry is as bad as Bush is like asking if a slap in the face is as painful as a brick to the skull.


But don't you get tired of being slapped around by privileged politicos on hypocrisy hyper-drive -- then having to applaud? It can't be pleasant, no matter how many pretty balloons they drop on your head.

Gotta Love Greg, he has balls!
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Sandy Berger Cleared of all wrong doing!

President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger -- who'd been accused of stealing classified material from the National Archives -- has been cleared of all wrongdoing.

The National Archives and the Justice Department have concluded nothing is missing and nothing in the Clinton administration's record was withheld from the 9-11 Commission.



The Wall Street Journal reports archives staff have accounted for all classified documents Berger looked at.

Late last year they asked investigators to see if the former national security adviser removed materials during his visits.

Berger's lawyers said his client had inadvertently removed several photocopies of reports, but later returned them. cleared of all wrong doing

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Bush calls Kerry a man with few achievements, talk about transference, Dubya wouldn't have accomplished anything if he wasn't a Bush!

resident Bush sought to grab back the political spotlight from John Kerry on Friday by casting his Democratic rival as a man of few achievements and offering a bare-bones preview of his own second-term agenda.

"We're turning the corner and we're not turning back," Bush told cheering supporters on a rain-soaked ballpark in Springfield, Missouri, as he returned to the campaign trail a day after Kerry's televised Democratic National Convention speech.

In his sharpest attack yet, Bush said Kerry had little to show for nearly 20 years in the U.S. Senate, including eight years on the Intelligence Committee. During that time, Bush said, Kerry had "no record of reforming" the intelligence services.

Kerry has made intelligence reform a cornerstone of his campaign and has called for the quick adoption of the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission, stepping up pressure on the president, who is expected to act by executive order next week.

Bush, who aides said slept rather than watch his rival's Democratic nomination acceptance speech to run against him in November, defended his actions in Iraq and warned: "If America shows uncertainty or weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch."

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Kerry certainly gave the FOX crowd red meat with the Saudi Family Remark.

Watching Kerry and Edwards makes me feel a sense of pride, welcome to the 2004 DNC convention!

Oh ballons are falling, I guess it's offical now:

Kerry is the Democratic Choice for 2004.

I question the use of Sammy Hagar and so I will watch the FOX news coverage and how they will slam Kerry.

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Kerry's Speech is about a 9/10!

He's really hitting the marks tonight, terrorism and taxes!
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The Kerry daughters, great speech and good looking which is always a deadly combo!

Max Cleland should be back in the Senate, they marked him as a Saddam lover and an UnAmerican goon!

Tonight we take the fight to them!!!
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Fricken serendipity

Terror alerts on the same night Kerry is to give his speech, my gast has been flabbered, a terror alert on the eve of Kerry's speech, NO ONE saw that one coming!

The FBI warned police in California and New Mexico that it received information about possible terrorist activity in their states. However, the warning wasn't specific about particular targets or a method of attack, a federal law enforcement official said Thursday.



The FBI decided to pass along the threat information but warned that it was considered unsubstantiated and uncorroborated, said the official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity.



The vague warning was distributed to authorities in California, New Mexico and some other Western states the official did not identify.



U.S. officials earlier this month warned that a regular stream of intelligence indicates al-Qaida wants to attack the United States to disrupt the upcoming elections.



Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has said the government does not have specific knowledge about where, when or how an attack might take place.

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Remember when we were warned of an July suprise during the Convention, well here it is

Hayat said Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who the FBI lists on its Web site as being born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, was captured in a raid in central Pakistan "a few days back."

The FBI said on its Web site that the Rewards for Justice Program is offering a reward of "up to $25 million" for information that leads to Ghailani's capture.

The embassy bombings, in August 1998, killed 213 people in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania.

The minister said officials wanted to be sure of Ghailani's identity before making the capture public. He said Ghailani was being questioned.

The capture, said Hayat, shows "Pakistan is committed to fighting terrorism."

"We have been quite successful ... in apprehending key figures," he added.

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Incomes have shrank for 2 consecutive years

he overall income Americans reported to the government shrank for two consecutive years after the Internet stock market bubble burst in 2000, the first time that has effectively happened since the modern tax system was introduced during World War II, newly disclosed information from the Internal Revenue Service shows.



The total adjusted gross income on tax returns fell 5.1 percent, to just over $6 trillion in 2002, the most recent year for which data is available, from $6.35 trillion in 2000. Because of population growth, average incomes declined even more, by 5.7 percent.



Adjusted for inflation, the income of all Americans fell 9.2 percent from 2000 to 2002, according to the new I.R.S. data.



While the recession that hit the economy in 2001 in the wake of the market plunge was considered relatively mild, the new information shows that its effect on Americans' incomes, particularly those at the upper end of the spectrum, was much more severe. Earlier government economic statistics provided general evidence that incomes suffered in the first years of the decade, but the full impact of the blow and what groups it fell hardest on were not known until the I.R.S. made available on its Web site the detailed information from tax returns.



The unprecedented back-to-back declines in reported incomes was caused primarily by the combination of the big fall in the stock market and the erosion of jobs and wages in well-paying industries in the early years of the decade.



In the past, overall personal income rose from one year to the next with relentless monotony, the growth rate changing in response to fluctuations in economic activity but almost never falling.



But now, with many more ordinary employees joining high-level executives in having part of their compensation dependent on stock options and bonus plans, a volatile and relatively unpredictable new element has been introduced to the incomes of millions of workers.



"Risks used to be confined largely to executives and business owners with large incomes,'' said Edward N. Wolff, an economist at New York University who studies wealth and income.



"But now for many people with more modest incomes their earnings are more volatile,'' Mr. Wolff added, leaving them more vulnerable to losing pay they count on to meet regular expenses like mortgage payments, car loans and day-to-day living costs.

Guess what, CEO's wages have Risen on average by 15%

The median pay for a chief executive officer in the United States rose 15 percent in 2003 and was up 22 percent among top executives at larger companies, according to a survey released Wednesday. The survey, by the Corporate Library, a research firm in Portland, Maine, showed increases in almost every category of executive compensation, including base salary, annual bonus, total annual compensation, restricted stock, long-term incentive payouts and the value realized from the exercise of stock options.
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The only category to decline from 2002 to 2003 was the value of stock option grants.
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Despite some calls for restraint in pay, it was a better year for the executives than 2002, when the median total compensation rose 9.5 percent

I Always wondered what Compasionate Conservative meant, now I know Compassion for some.
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DNC wrap-up

What a day, I missed most of it due to my project to fix up my backyard, busy day and lots of breakin' stuff!

Edwards speech was at least an 8 out of 10, Clinton and Obama really tore the roof off the Fleet center. I was hoping that John would have brought up the free speech zones and more about himself and Kerry but otherwise the "Two Americas" idea is catching on and it's all very true!

Missing everything today really threw me off and digging and breaking stuff really took it out of me, maybe I could catch some zzs now (seeing as how I've had 2 hours of sleep over the last 48 hours)

I will cover post responce to the speech and I hope Kerry knocks it out of the park tomorrow night, voters need to hear him address terrorism, people with screw themselves economically if they think they need to be protected he need to hit the rightwingers right where it hurts, Republican myths of being strong defense.

Kerry needs an 11 tomorrow night and to lose that stick up his ass, all I hope will occur tomorrow!
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I watched the FOX new coverage of the Heinz-Kerry Speech, these guys are such biased pieces of shit, some of the worst I've ever heard.

Republicans want their women to know their place and have that glazed over, blank stare, Stepford Wives look to them.

I would feel just fine having her as first lady, not off to watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force.


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Touch Screen voting troubles in Florida, all of the results are gone and no paper trail to back it up..everything is lost

Remember Bush wants You to use those machines!

Almost all the electronic records from the first widespread use of touch-screen voting in Miami-Dade County have been lost, stoking concerns that the machines are unreliable as the presidential election draws near.



The records disappeared after two computer system crashes last year, county elections officials said, leaving no audit trail for the 2002 gubernatorial primary. A citizens group uncovered the loss this month after requesting all audit data from that election.



A county official said a new backup system would prevent electronic voting data from being lost in the future. But members of the citizens group, the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, said the malfunction underscored the vulnerability of electronic voting records and wiped out data that might have shed light on what problems, if any, still existed with touch-screen machines here. The group supplied the results of its request to The New York Times.



"This shows that unless we do something now - or it may very well be too late - Florida is headed toward being the next Florida," said Lida Rodriguez-Taseff, a lawyer who is the chairwoman of the coalition.



After the disputed 2000 presidential election eroded confidence in voting machines nationwide, and in South Florida in particular, the state moved quickly to adopt new technology, and in many places touch-screen machines. Voters in 15 Florida counties - covering more than half the state's electorate - will use the machines in November, but reports of mishaps and lost votes in smaller elections over the last two years have cast doubt on their reliability.



Like "black boxes" on airplanes, the electronic voting records on touch-screen machines list everything that happens from boot-up to shutdown, documenting in an "event log" when every ballot was cast. The records also include "vote image reports" that show for whom each ballot was cast. Elections officials have said that using this data for recounts is unnecessary because touch-screen machines do not allow human error. But several studies have suggested the machines themselves might err - for instance, by failing to record some votes.



After the 2002 primary, between Democratic candidates Janet Reno and Bill McBride, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida conducted a study that found that 8 percent of votes, or 1,544, were lost on touch-screen machines in 31 precincts in Miami-Dade County. The group considered that rate of what it called "lost votes" unusually high.



Voting problems plagued Miami-Dade and Broward Counties on that day, when touch-screen machines took much longer than expected to boot up, dozens of polling places opened late and poorly trained poll workers turned on and shut down the machines incorrectly. A final vote tally - which narrowed the margin first reported between the two candidates by more than 3,000 votes - was delayed for a week.



Ms. Reno, who ultimately lost to Mr. McBride by just 4,794 votes statewide, considered requesting a recount at the time but decided against it. Seth Kaplan, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade elections division, said on Tuesday that the office had put in place a daily backup procedure so that computer crashes would not wipe out audit records in the future.



The news of the lost data comes two months after Miami-Dade elections officials acknowledged a malfunction in the audit logs of touch-screen machines. The elections office first noticed the problem in spring 2003, but did not publicly discuss it until this past May.



The company that makes Miami-Dade's machines, Election Systems and Software of Omaha, Neb., has provided corrective software to all nine Florida counties that use its machines. One flaw occurred when the machines' batteries ran low and an error in the program that reported the problem caused corruption in the machine's event log, said Douglas W. Jones, a computer science professor at the University of Iowa whom Miami-Dade County hired to help solve the problem.



In a second flaw, the county's election system software was misreading the serial numbers of the voting machines whose batteries had run low, he said.

Paper ballots nit computers, I worked on computers for years and they screw up all of the time!
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Howard Dean is going very well tonight, the crowd as almost as loud as it was for Bill Clinton and it wasn't that much of a diffrence.

When Dean said it wasn't about him but about America...I couldn't say it better!

You only have until the 29th to donate!

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O'Reilly Vs Moore

Bill called Michael Moore a coward for not coming on his show, well here he is Bill...why not invite David Brock, are you afraid?

Moore: That’s fair, we’ll just stick to the issues

O’Reilly: The issues… alright good, now, one of the issues is you because you’ve been calling Bush a liar on weapons of mass destruction, the senate intelligence committee, Lord Butler’s investigation in Britain, and now the 911 Commission have all come out and said there was no lying on the part of President Bush.  Plus, Gladimir Putin has said his intelligence told Bush there were weapons of mass destruction.  Wanna apologize to the president now or later?

M: He didn’t tell the truth, he said there were weapons of mass destruction.

O: Yeah, but he didn’t lie, he was misinformed by - all of those investigations come to the same conclusion, that’s not a lie.

M: uh huh, so in other words if I told you right now that nothing was going on down here on the stage…

O: That would be a lie because we could see that wasn’t the truth

M: Well, I’d have to turn around to see it, and then I would realize, oh, Bill, I just told you something that wasn’t true… actually it’s president Bush that needs to apologize to the nation for telling an entire country that there were weapons of mass destruction, that they had evidence of this, and that there was some sort of connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11th, and he used that as a –

O: Ok, He never said that, but back to the other thing, if you, if Michael Moore is president –

M: I thought you said you saw the movie, I show all that in the movie

O: Which may happen if Hollywood, yeah, OK, fine –

M: But that was your question –

O: Just the issues.  You’ve got three separate investigations plus the president of Russia all saying… British intelligence, US intelligence, Russian intelligence, told the president there were weapons of mass destruction, you say, “he lied.”  This is not a lie if you believe it to be true, now he may have made a mistake, which is obvious –

M: Well, that’s almost pathological – I mean, many criminals believe what they say is true, they could pass a lie detector test –

O: Alright, now you’re dancing around a question –

M: No I’m not, there’s no dancing

O: He didn’t lie

M: He said something that wasn’t true

O: Based upon bad information given to him by legitimate sources

M: Now you know that they went to the CIA, Cheney went to the CIA, they wanted that information, they wouldn’t listen to anybody

O: They wouldn’t go by Russian intelligence and Blair’s intelligence too

M: His own people told him, I mean he went to Richard Clarke the day after September 11th and said “What you got on Iraq?” and Richard Clarke’s going “Oh well this wasn’t Iraq that did this sir, this was Al Qaeda.”

O: You’re diverting the issue…did you read Woodward’s book?

M: No, I haven’t read his book.

O: Woodward’s a good reporter, right?  Good guy, you know who he is right?

M: I know who he is.

O: Ok, he says in his book George Tenet looked the president in the eye, like how I am looking you in the eye right now and said “President, weapons of mass destruction are a quote, end quote, “slam dunk” if you’re the president, you ignore all that?

M: Yeah, I would say that the CIA had done a pretty poor job.

O: I agree.  The lieutenant was fired.

M: Yeah, but not before they took us to war based on his intelligence.  This is a man who ran the CIA, a CIA that was so poorly organized and run that it wouldn’t communicate with the FBI before September 11th and as a result in part we didn’t have a very good intelligence system set up before September 11th

He did lie, he knew that the intel was shakey at best.

The CIA, the State Dept, the NSA and the non Neo Con Pentagon all agreed. WE went to war to First get Terrorists and WMDs then it became removing a brutal leader and they ignoed everything that could have proven it wrong, They lied because they ignored the facts they wanted war!
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The Clinton speech was the shiznit, one of the best speeches I've heard this political cycle

"They need a divided America, but we don't," Clinton said. "We Democrats want to build a world and an America of shared responsibilities and shared opportunities ... On the other hand, Republicans in Washington believe that America should be run by the right people, their people."

He said the Bush administration gave tax cuts to the wealthy while raising out-of-pocket health care costs for veterans and underfunding education.

Clinton also praised Sen. John Kerry for always being ready to serve the United States.

Clinton said when the United States went to war, when it needed to recover from the effects of war, when America needed to learn technology, Kerry always said, "send me."

Clinton urged voters to send Kerry to the White House.

Earlier, former President Jimmy Carter warned that "nothing less than our nation's soul" is at stake in the presidential election.

"Truth is the foundation of our global leadership, but our credibility has been shattered, and we are left increasingly isolated and vulnerable in a hostile world," Carter said.

Carter talked of serving as a Navy officer under two wartime presidents, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, who knew the "horrors of war" and "exercised restraint and judgment and had a clear sense of mission."

And he said Kerry, also a Navy veteran, would be a president like them.

"I am confident that next January he will restore the judgment and responsibility that is sorely lacking today," Carter said. "I am willing to follow him to victory in November." (Full story)

The delegates also cheered when Kerry's former Navy Swift boat crewman, the Rev. David Alston, spoke about the dangers of war in Vietnam.

"I stand before you only because almighty God saw our boat safely through those rivers of death and destruction by giving us a brave, wise and decisive leader named John Kerry."

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They're playing weare family and the Dems are grooving, makes me feel bad for watching them!

Update:They booed the FOX 25 banner HA HA HA HA
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Bush takes ANOTHER fall from bike

President Bush plunged down hills and plowed through the brush on his high-end, high-performance mountain bike today - and wound up flat on his back.

A bit shaken up, Bush dusted himself off, got back on his bike and kept rolling, a small cut on his knee and dirt on his back the only signs he had wrecked.



With an Associated Press reporter along for the ride, Bush tore around his 1,600-acre Texas ranch today.



A one-time jogger, Bush has been riding the knobby-tired bikes only since February, but he rides with abandon. He went biking today as Democrats gathered in Boston for their convention to nominate Sen. John Kerry as their presidential candidate.

Take away the Pretzels and mountain bikes already!!!
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The MTV kids are on TV right now, man I feel out of touch

MTV doesn't speak for me!
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I've heard Democrats complain of "Free speech zones" and how they aren't American, so why are there "Free Speech Zones" set up around the convention?

What needs to happen is Tonight when Bill Clinton Speaks or during the day, speaking on behalf of the Democratic party they call for a removal of the free speech zones and go into why "Free Speech Zones" aren't apart of the American Legacy.

Let's see if someone is brave enough to even mention it on stage.
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Heinz-Kerry tells reporter to shove it!

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry doesn't have a problem with his wife telling an insistent journalist to "shove it" when urged to explain her plea for more civility in politics. Neither does Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"I think my wife speaks her mind appropriately," Kerry told reporters Monday when asked about the exchange between his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, and the editorial page editor of the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.


Asked about the response on CNN's "American Morning," Clinton said Monday, "A lot of Americans are going to say, 'Good for you, you go, girl,' and that's certainly how I feel about it."

Heinz Kerry attended a Massachusetts Statehouse reception Sunday night for fellow Pennsylvanians, telling them, "We need to turn back some of the creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics." She criticized the tenor of modern political campaigns without being specific.


Minutes later, the Tribune-Review's Colin McNickle questioned Heinz Kerry on what she meant by the term "un-American," according to a tape of the encounter recorded by Pittsburgh television station WTAE.


Heinz Kerry said "I didn't say that" several times to McNickle. She then turned to confer with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and others. When she faced McNickle again a short time later, he continued to question her, and she replied: "You said something I didn't say. Now shove it."

She was hounded my that dork working at the Scaife paper, I really don't care if she did that or not If you are misquoted by a newspaper and they fail to make it right, screw'em.

That is just another reason to love his wife, she's a real person reacting like a real person would.
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Deliver us from Evil Part: 2

David Kay on WMDs

"I'm personally convinced that there were not large stockpiles of newly produced weapons of mass destruction," Kay told the New York Times. "We don't find the people, the documents or the physical plants that you would expect to find if the production was going on. I think they gradually reduced stockpiles throughout the 1990s. Somewhere in the mid-1990s the large chemical overhang of existing stockpiles was eliminated ... The Iraqis say they believed that [the U.N. inspection program] was more effective [than U.S. analysts believed], and they didn't want to get caught."

What happened in 1998?

Since the United States launched a war to disarm Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in March, teams of U.S. inspectors like the U.N. teams before them have found no clear evidence to back U.S. and British claims Saddam had secret caches of weapons of mass destruction.
       The allegation that Saddam Hussein had revived his nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs after U.N. inspectors left Iraq in December 1998 was the main justification for war.

So what happened in 1998? Oh that's right the Monica bombs the ones every Conservative I knew called "wag the dog" and our Conservative buddies never let that one go. The inspectors on the ground said otherwise, IAEA said otherwise and on and on. This wasn't a "wag the Dog" moment by any means, we bombed a viable target and killed Saddam's (already fetus like) Nuclear capabilities and the last stockpiles of WMD developed before 1998.


Protesters

Apparently protesting is wrong, damn that freedom for speech and assembly, the funniest tidbit he gave us was about Florida, whacky Left wing protesters..... I don't remember that. Yet I do remember the DC Republicans posing as Floridians trying to stop the legal recounts of votes.

Here's their collective mugs, names and former positions

1. Tom Pyle, policy analyst, office of House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.).
2. Garry Malphrus, majority chief counsel and staff director, House Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice.
3. Rory Cooper, political division staff member at the National Republican Congressional Committee.
4. Kevin Smith, former House Republican conference analyst and more recently of Voter.com.
5. Steven Brophy, former aide to Sen. Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.), now working at the consulting firm KPMG.
6. Matt Schlapp, former chief of staff for Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), now on the Bush campaign staff in Austin.
7. Roger Morse, aide to Rep. Van Hilleary (R-Tenn.).
8. Duane Gibson, aide to Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska) of the House Resources Committee.
9. Chuck Royal, legislative assistant to Rep. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.).
10. Layna McConkey, former legislative assistant to former Rep. Jim Ross Lightfoot (R-Iowa) now at Steelman Health Strategies

Imagine that, not a SINGLE one of them were from Florida.

The protests in Florida were because of of voters being illegally removed from the voter rolls in Florida, I've gone into great depth on the subject so I won't rehash it, I do recommend you pick up The Best Democracy Money Can Buy written by Greg Palast It gives the factual and documented account of the selection of the President.

For Vietnam, read the The Pentagon Papers and tell me you would have supported the war and please don't get upset at those damn peace-nick bastards for being right, if it makes you feel better it was bound to happen even a broken clock is right twice a day, you know Vietnam being based on lies and granola, it's delicious.

Is Sean Hannity Pro war?

Listen to the audio:

I can't help but chuckle when i hear it, listen again

Sean pretending to be sophisticated or intellectual always backfires on him, when he opens his mouth he gives his charade away, he's not sophisticated or intellectual and I doubt he even understands half of what guests on either side of the aisle explains to him. The audio clearly states he is Pro-war, just in a round-about way.

So your not Pro-War but you will strike "Evil" using war, is Sean trying in a round about way to say he's Pro-Choice about going to war, he doesn't like but if it's "necessary" to kill for a greater good, he'd like to have the option available.

Nah

The audio book is full of big words you know he never EVER uses in real life, he wants to sound smart and who could blame him, no one wants to be called stupid. My advice is lay of the big words and stop pretending you're an intellectual it doesn't agree with you.

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I will wrap up the rest of it this book review as soon as Wednsday, assuming my host doesn't go down and delete my files, again. I'm redoing almost all of my part 2 audio, this is what I had left.

(Disclaimer: These MP3 files are not for download, they are copyrighted material, if you want it: download itunes and pay the $15.95. This is for an educational purpose, The author has made no profit, nor will accept any for thiese posts )


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My host is down for a while will have to put off Part two of the book review until tomorrow.
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Records provide more proof Bush was a No-show for those months in Alabama.

The Pentagon on Friday released newly discovered payroll records from President Bush's 1972 service in the Alabama National Guard, though the records shed no new light on the future president's activities during that summer.

A Pentagon official said the earlier contention that the records were destroyed was an "inadvertent oversight."

Like records released earlier by the White House, these computerized payroll records show no indication Bush drilled with the Alabama unit during July, August and September of 1972. Pay records covering all of 1972, released previously, also indicated no guard service for Bush during those three months.

The records do not give any new information about Bush's National Guard training during 1972, when he transferred to the Alabama National Guard unit so he could work on the U.S. Senate campaign of a family friend. The payroll records do not say definitively whether Bush attended training that summer because they are maintained separately from attendance records.

White House spokesman Trent Duffy said Bush kept his service commitments, pointing to the fact that Bush was honorably discharged in 1973.

Weren't they destroyed iin a fire in the 80's?

So this boils down to is this, he wasn't paid in that time span, to be fair he could have been there but it's very unlikely that he was there for three months and didn't get paid.
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Was I outfoxed?

Amazon screwed up my order so I should get Outfoxed next week and will give you a review as soon as they get it right!
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I'm working currently on more Hannity audio so posting will be light today.

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White powder found at Kerry HQ, no telling if the white powder is from Texas circa 1972

Police sealed off the office building that houses Sen. John Kerry's headquarters on Thursday after a package with white powder was opened by campaign staff.

Kerry, D-Mass., and his vice presidential running mate, Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., were hundreds of miles away, campaigning their way toward next week's Democratic National Convention.

"An envelope was opened and white powder fell out," said campaign spokeswoman Debra DeShong. "On the recommendation of the Secret Service, we contacted the local police who are here investigating."

The discovery of the package prompted authorities to order a fleet of emergency vehicles to converge on the location, and personnel in biohazard suits entered the building.

DeShong had no further information, but other witnesses said the envelope was opened on the eighth floor, which houses the campaign's fund-raising and human resources departments along with a financial company unrelated to the Kerry campaign.

"There is a suspicious package found on one of the floors of the building," said an internal office e-mail distributed to campaign aides. "Emergency services, fire, police and hazmat are on site. Please be advised if you leave, you will not be allowed to re-enter until authorities have given the all clear."

Kerry aides continued with their work throughout the incident, though the building's air conditioning was shut down for at least 30 minutes.

This better be a damn hoax, it would be a damn shame if it were real!
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Great news, if this carried the election I'd be happy.

Bush 45% Kerry 48%

However as soon as he gets in, hold his feet to the fire!
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Interesting Guardian article,our lies led us to war.

So Andrew Gilligan, the BBC reporter who claimed that the government had sexed up the intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, was mostly right. Much of the rest of the media, which took the doctored intelligence at face value, was wrong. The reward for getting it right was public immolation and the sack. The punishment for getting it wrong was the usual annual bonus. No government commissions inquiries to discover why reporters reproduce the government's lies.

All journalists make mistakes. When deadlines are short and subjects are complicated, we are bound to get some things wrong. But the falsehoods reproduced by the media before the invasion of Iraq were massive and consequential: it is hard to see how Britain could have gone to war if the press had done its job. If the newspapers have any interest in putting the record straight, they should surely each be commissioning an inquiry of their own. Unlike the government's, it should be independent, consisting perhaps of a lawyer, a media analyst and an intelligence analyst. Its task would be to assess the paper's coverage of Iraq, decide what it got right and what it got wrong, discover why the mistakes were made and what should be done to prevent their repetition. Its report should be published in full by the paper.

No British newspaper is likely to emerge unharmed from such an inquiry. The Independent, the Independent on Sunday and the Guardian, which were the most sceptical about the claims made by the government and intelligence agencies, still got some important things wrong. Much of the problem here is that certain falsehoods have slipped into the political language. The Guardian, for example, has claimed on nine occasions that the weapons inspectors were expelled from Iraq in 1998. Embarrassingly, one of these claims was contained in an article called Iraq: the myth and the reality. Even John Pilger, who could scarcely be accused of dancing to the government's tune, made this mistake when writing for the paper in 2000. It's not that the Guardian believes this to be the case: it has published plenty of reports showing that the inspectors were withdrawn by the UN, after the US insisted that they should leave Iraq for their own safety. But the lie is repeated so often by the government that it seems almost impossible to kill.

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Happy Anniversary to Smafty Mac: Fighting the Kakistocracy


I almost forgot that a year ago today I started this blog.

I first heard of blogging on CNN and thought "Neat shit", now I can sound off all day, stumbled into blogger using google and I perked up when I read it was free the Jew in me couldn't turn it down, what's better than free?

I kept it around for awhile my life and work got in the way so the blog took the hit for awhile, than in September of 2003 I started as a contributer to Hannity is a moron and started to make changes and update the content and so the legend continues......

I want to thank personally every reader who takes time out of their day to listen read my rants and the news I think is important or just too retarded to be true or go on about Indie rock I hardly know.

Thank you for all of the e-mails and I hope to give you even more in the future including more updated and a new web page filled with lots of media!

Feel free to e-mail me anytime at smaftymac@gmail.com about anything you want!


Thank you all very much, you do more for me than you know!



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Album: Weapons of Mass Instruction
Artist: Greg Palast





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Funny tidbit on the on Fox spin and the Marine Corps

Fox News Channel, which famously prefers the term "homicide bomber" over "suicide bomber," is taken to task in the new documentary "Outfoxed" for another attempt to make sure its newscasters use the right words. (And by right, we mean "correct," of course, not right wing.) A batch of internal advisories to Fox staffers, obtained by the filmmakers, includes one issued April 28 when U.S. Marines were conducting operations at Fallujah:


"Let's refer to the US marines we see in the foreground as 'sharpshooters,' not snipers, which carries a negative connotation," the network's senior vice president for news, John Moody, told staffers via e-mail. One problem: Marines want to be called snipers. "Sharpshooter" has less luster.



"There is no better sniper than a U.S. Marine Corps sniper," Maj. Jason Johnston, a USMC spokesman at the Pentagon, told us Friday. "A sniper would say, 'I'm not a sharpshooter, I'm a Marine Corps sniper, not to be confused with any other service's snipers.' . . . Hey, Marines are very proud of their titles."




In sniper school, he explained, "we have three levels of marksmanship. The lowest level is marksman. The second one is sharpshooter. The highest you can get is expert."


Though Fox prides itself on accurate, pro-military coverage, Johnston described the blunder this way: "It's just as bad as when the media calls us soldiers." (A soldier serves in something known as the Army.)


A network spokesman said he had no comment on the memos but referred us to Moody's remarks in The Post last week defending Fox and saying: "People are free to call me or message me and say, 'I think you're off base.' Sometimes I take the advice, sometimes I don't."


Our advice: If a Marine calls, listen.

What can you say?


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DNC chair files Freedom of information act

Melanie Ann Pustay, Deputy Director
Office of Information and Policy
Department of Justice
Suite 570, Flag Building
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001

July 21, 2004

Dear Ms. Pustay:

This letter constitutes a request under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. §552, and is submitted on behalf of the Democratic National Committee.

According to recent reporting, an investigation into former National Security Adviser Samuel Berger has been going on for at least nine months, since October 2003. Yet, the criminal investigation only came to light three days prior to the release of a report expected to be critical of the Bush administration's lack of focus on the events leading up to the 9-11 attacks. As conservative scholar Norm Ornstein stated, "you can't look at the timing of this with anything but an enormous amount of skepticism." [CNN, 7/20/04]

In light of the seriousness of the possibility that the Bush administration and the Department of Justice have politicized an ongoing investigation, it is imperative that this Freedom of Information request is responded to in an expedited manner.

Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552 and the regulations of the Department of Justice, 28 C.F.R. §16.3, I am requesting copies of the following:

Any and all communications relating or referring to the investigation of Samuel ("Sandy") Berger, between, correspondence (including electronic mail) between, memoranda between, phone records of communications between, meeting notes and/or minutes of meetings between, on the one hand, any official or employee of the US Department of Justice AND, on the other hand, (i) the Executive Office of the President or any unit or office thereof (including but not limited to the Office of the Vice President); (ii) any official, employee, or representative of the Republican National Committee; OR (iii) any official, employee or representative of the Bush-Cheney 2004 presidential campaign.

This request covers all documents created during the period from and including October 1, 2003 through and including July 20, 2004.

For your purposes in filling this request, please consider me under the category of "all other organizations," as defined by the Freedom of Information Act. If there are any fees for copying or searching for the records I have requested, please inform me of the cost prior to searching or copying, and only if the total exceeds $100.

If all or any part of this request is denied, please cite the specific exemption which you believe justifies your refusal to release the information and inform me of your agency's administrative appeal procedures available to me under the law.

Please provide all information on a rolling basis if possible. I appreciate your handling of this request as quickly as possible and I look forward to hearing from you within 20 working days, as the law stipulates.

If you have any questions or need further information concerning the above request, please contact me at the address below or at 202-863-8121.

Thank you for your attention to this request.

Sincerely,

Terence R. McAuliffe, Chairman
430 South Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Sounds good to me guys, sounds like dirty tricks to me, Berger screwed up but is he being charged with anything?
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You only have till next week to donate to Kerry, so donate and remember every dollar counts!

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Nukes found in Iraq?

Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday.



The official daily al-Sabah quoted the sources as saying the missiles were discovered in trenches near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

"The three missiles were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the missiles saying they carried nuclear heads," the sources said.

This is from the Washington Times so I'm not linking to nor do I believe it. IF there are Nukes they were planted, no way Saddm would have sat and not bragged about having nukes, no way the bordering countires wouldn't have heard abou it...we would have known, what a load of crap. Wouldn't Bush be on TV and Cheney and Rummy?

What crap!

Update

A U.S. military official Wednesday denied a report of Iraqi missiles carrying nuclear warheads being found in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad.

The daily al-Sabah newspaper Wednesday had quoted sources as saying three missiles armed with nuclear warheads were discovered in a trench near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

A U.S. military spokesman in Tikrit told United Press International that the report was untrue.

"Nothing's been found. The report is not factual," said Master Sgt. Robert Cowens, a spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division, based in Tikrit.

Like I said if Saddam would have bragged and the Bush administration would blitz the media...so far neither has happened.
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Check out this rather amusing flash from Media Matters, the Colmes part was HIlarious.

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What the hell is 29c87175f818b8340efa81d194018b2ad39d4efdd2b712e0 suppose to be or queer test..the internet is one scary place!
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900th soldier dead in Iraq.

A roadside bomb exploded north of Baghdad early Wednesday, killing one U.S. 1st Infantry Division soldier and bringing to 900 the number of U.S. military forces killed since the beginning of military operations in March 2003.


Maj. Neal O’Brien of the 1st Infantry Division said the most recent soldier killed was on patrol in a Bradley fighting vehicle in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad, when the bomb detonated shortly after midnight Wednesday.

On Tuesday, two U.S. Marines and two U.S. soldiers were killed in action in Anbar Province, a Sunni-dominated area west of Baghdad.

At least 895 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to a count of names of the dead released by the Pentagon. The latest deaths would raise the toll to 900.

How much longer before the 1000th is gone? Why are we even over there?


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Government makes web site for homeless, lack of Homeless access to WiFi "might be a problem"

The Department of Labor (DOL) today launched a Web site to help America's homeless find jobs through mainstream as well as targeted training, education and placement services and to provide a vital link to government- wide resources.



"This Web page furthers the Administration's commitment to helping the homeless, including homeless veterans," said U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao, who serves as vice chairman of the Interagency Council on Homelessness. "The Department of Labor is committed to pooling our resources and working together with Congress, our federal, state and local partners to achieve the President's goal of ending chronic homelessness in 10 years."



The Web page provides links to DOL's homeless programs as well as to other major government and non-government homeless Web pages and programs. Information on the new Web page will allow groups and individuals to better serve the homeless population. This page can be accessed at: http://www.dol.gov/dol/audience/aud-homeless.htm



"The Labor Department administers programs providing employment and training services that are crucial components in the comprehensive efforts to address the cycle of homelessness," said Charles S. Ciccolella, deputy assistant secretary of DOL's Veterans Employment and Training Services, who is coordinating DOL's efforts toward eliminating chronic homelessness. "The Department offers both mainstream and targeted employment-focused programs that help lead to self-sufficiency. A full list of these programs is available through the Web site."



DOL has been addressing the needs of homeless Americans through a number of model targeted intervention and prevention programs, such as the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program; the Incarcerated Veterans Transition Program; the Ready4Work and the Serious and Violent Reentry Initiative; the Jobs Corp Foster Care Recruitment Initiative; the Ending Chronic Homelessness through Employment and Training grants, which are jointly funded by DOL and the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and the President's new $300 Million Dollar Reentry Initiative for transitioning incarcerated individuals back into their communities and reducing recidivism.

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Kerry's "quality of jobs" reports going over well on Wall Street

emocratic presidential candidate John Kerry's assertion that the U.S. has been creating mainly low- paying, ``second-rate'' jobs during the past year's expansion is starting to resonate on Wall Street.



``The vast majority of net new jobs created have been in the low-wage sectors of the economy, and income growth has been disappointing,'' David A. Rosenberg, chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch & Co., wrote July 9. Lagging incomes may cause ``consumer spending to slow in coming quarters.''



Stephen S. Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York, reached a similar conclusion: ``While there has been some improvement on the hiring front in recent months, the quality of such job-creation has been decidedly sub-par,'' Roach wrote the same day. ``Unless that changes, the risks to a sustainable economic recovery will only intensify.''



Gaining the economists' seal on the idea of sagging job quality may bolster Kerry's challenge to President George W. Bush, who counts Wall Street executives as some of his major campaign fund-raisers. Kerry, a 60-year-old, four-term senator from Massachusetts, has previously based his arguments primarily on data from the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-financed research group in Washington, according to his campaign.



In addition to Roach and Rosenberg, senior economist Benjamin Tal of CIBC World Markets Inc. in Toronto said in an interview that until the past two or three months the bulk of the new jobs created have been in the ``lower-wage'' category. CIBC is one of the 23 primary dealers, or securities firms that trade U.S. government debt securities directly with the Federal Reserve.



Inroads



Many economists including Democrats such as former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence H. Meyer either disagree with Kerry's conclusions or say they can't be proven. Yet any inroad the candidate makes on Wall Street may bolster his arguments against Bush, 58.



``Any time Kerry can validate what he's arguing in a political context with reference to supposedly disinterested observers such as Wall Street economists, he's likely to get more traction,'' said Thomas Mann, a political analyst with the Brookings Institution, a policy research organization in Washington.



Wall Street executives including Merrill Lynch Chief Executive Officer Stanley O'Neal have put money behind the president. Securities and investment firms and their employees have given $6.9 million to Bush and $2.2 million to Kerry in this election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington group that monitors campaign finances.

If you have well paid, well insured workers they will be HAPPY workers who drive the American Economy.
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Krugman on Franken

A very good interview and apperently Krugman will become a regular, another win for us!!!!

Check out his book


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Deliver us From Hannity, the review and debunking of "Deliver us from evil" part one

"He was found cowering in a hole in the ground, out by a farm house in a desolate country town, he had only the clothes on his back..."

At first I thought he was referring to the whereabouts of President Bush during that mysterious AWOL 'incident'. Buried in the ground coked out of is mind, coming down, sweating from his yellowed black circled eyes. Scratching at his subterranean prison, buried alive by his disgusted family. However I think he Sean was going for Saddam, not Bush, still more clues where dropped, making me even more suspicious of the real subject of Sean's opening, isn't this President Bush?

He lives high life while we suffer, Bush has terrorized his people but not with rape rooms (well at least here in the US, we opened ours in Iraq) but with Phantom Arabs with Anthrax and nukes ready to strike the closest Iowa Corn field they can find.

I was letting my imagination get the best of me, I don't think Bush would know what to do with an AK-47 and he would have had more than $200,000 in uncirculated bills.

The more I listen the more I am convinced of three things

1. Sean is a limited person
2. Sean is clearly not a historian
3. Sean Hannity is allergic to the truth, like my sister with peanuts I believe if he is exposed he will get all puffy and die.

To understand Sean Hannity's worldview doesn't require brain damage as one might expect, it's easy if you break it down. He is the personality type who would burn his house down to protect it from robbers, sure all if his possessions are gone and air looms have met a crispy fate but at least robbers wont get a hold of it, he would also label you "pro thievery" if you called his actions, and rightfully so: stupid.

The book starts off on why Iraq was a sort of moral crusade against Hitler-lite Saddam Hussein and the differences between Bush's moral clarity and Clinton's appeasement view. Sean clearly doesn't give credit where it is due and often defeats his own arguments. Take for instance this about the so-called "Monica Bombs"

Obviously Sean failed to read the Kay report or listen to numerous weapons inspectors when they credit those "Monica bombs" for destroying the last known stockpiles of WMD. This is a far cry from lobbing missiles for political gain; if any one said the President periodically raises the Terror alert to take our attention off of the Economy or the quagmire in Iraq Hannity would foam at the mouth and attack.

Sean even lies about our discovery of WMD

A side note before we go any further, the book was published before we officially called those "mobile weapons labs" what they were hydrogen trucks for weather balloons; we'll see if he changes this in the paperback edition, I'm not holding my breath on this on.

There are two forms of lying, the first is outright lying, such as claiming Saddam and Osama were linked together or Martians are currently residing in House cats to stage an all out take over of C-SPAN 2, which we all know it's Kangaroos the Martians have taken over and their sights are set on Court TV. The second is lying by omission, if you leave out key facts you can draw any conclusion you want. By misleading us you can make OZ seem like home, even fool Toto.

Case in point Botulism is a terrible disease not to be made light of; it can kill, paralyze you, or give you worst stomachache of you life. Yet we deny that the rich shoot this deadly toxin into their faces with the majority without serious problems. Sean equated the botulism found in Iraq to WMD not the vanity bug. He fails to mention the condition of the said vial of toxin, a fact that will either make or break his point, and his point is broken. WMDs have shelve lives depending on what it is the life can vary, something he left out. The questions I would ask would be: where was it found? What strain was it? Was it weaponized? And how old is it?

The answers are a fridge, the not so dangerous strain a, no it wasn't weaponized, and it had been sitting in that fridge for over twelve years.

So in affect this was useless goo, sure it you took a shot illness would be certain but this wasn't a Weapon of mass destruction it was a weapon of mild annoyance (WMA) much like the Sarin gas canisters launched at our troops. The exposed soldiers got headaches, not melting skin or burning lungs they got what I got listening to Hannity. WMDs need specific environments; even a temperature drop of only a degree can make VX or other nerve agents useless. The Anthrax mailer, if you remember this guy killed postal workers with advanced anthrax but not the other exposed outside of the postal system, why? The Anthrax was introduced to a new environment and it had to adapt and without the proper living conditions it lost it's potency and fizzled out. You could still catch it however it wasn't as lethal as it was before.

So who cares if they found useless sludge in Iraq, many Americans have this form of botulism in their own fridges, in the form of two-week-old Chinese Take-out.


Speaking of the big red commie machine, their human rights violations make Saddam look like Gandhi with a thicker mustache. The Chinese violently stamp out religious figures, people of any faith. The death toll is reaching over 260 million people, that's right hundreds of millions of people have died by Gassing, by biological attacks, or even the old fashion starve them then bleed them to death with straws and many other too numerous to mention, they possess Nuclear weapons aimed at every major city, the fuel international terrorism, the drug trade, the illegal weapons trade, the Sex slave trade and they print counterfeit US currency much like their neighbors in North Korea.


They are monsters, demons whatever medieval term you want to label them who want to hurt us, a government who has admitted freely they want us broken on our knees. Where is our moral crusader, Where is George Bush?

George Bush is appeasing them from his comfy oval office chair.

Don't believe me? He's had the premiere at the white house, they laughed, shared drinks, had a "Good conversation", hell they're still hold "most favored nation status" and these bastards trick out toddlers and kill babies outside of the womb.

Using Sean's own argument Bush becomes the appeaser and again using the same argument you can turn Clinton into the moral crusader for what he did in Kosovo, he saw them for what they were not Endless deployments like Hannity suggests but moral warriors fighting against ethnic cleansing, an evil like Nazism.

Using a broad, ambiguous, more often than not specious arguments and labels can contradict him every time he opens his mouth. The reason we don't invade China or Russia or North Korea is simply it would get very messy and very ugly, they have over two billion people living in China and the largest military in the world, it they could throw at us wave after wave of trained soldiers and believe me when I say it would kick down your door, pull you out of your home and execute you and your family on your perfect green lawns.

To avoid such conflicts we negotiate, put sanctions on or punish economically such countries. Our opening trade with them have brought new freedoms, certainly not like I would want but it's a start.

This idea requires someone who sees the larger picture and he obviously doesn't get it.

Sean's lack of history is troubling and you should be worried because people believe what he says is true, the mark of a great propagandist. Two excerpts blow his Historical confronting of evil right out of the water. After you listen to the first one just take a minute and calm down and yes, he is a moron

Sure that's true if you forget we were attacked at Pearl Harbor and the next day Germany, an ally of Japan declared war on us, not the other way around. The excerpt was not taken out of context; so don't flag me with E-mails. When you forge history to fit your model of the world you leave out the truth of the events, we knew about the concentration camps before we were attacked in '41 they existed on December 7 of 1940, we knew about their Evil and did nothing until it hit our doorstep. A loaded example of "appeasment" has to be this clip That's right the father of JFK, Robert and Ted Kennedy said that about Hitler without a doubt, Henry Ford was a proud supporter of the Third Reich. With that said why did Hannity mention Joe Kennedy when there are so many others out there who praised Hitler? The only possible conclusion you can draw is Sean is linking this bogus appeasement label to Teddy through his father. I am not one for sins of the father being passed down to the children nor that of their grand children so I gues Sean just over looked the fact that Prescot Bush actually funded the Nazis and was arrested twice for trading with the enemy. So Prescot funneled money to the Nazis that helped build those camps, Joe Kennedy changed his tune, Prescot Bush got caught and did it again, who is the appeaser now?


"Deliver us from Evil" is just full of this kind of pseudo history, from WWII to the Reagan era half truths of outright distortions, it's troubling to use the word 'distortion', he may honestly believe what he is saying, he may be such a poor student of history of or possibly just drowning in his own propaganda to just listen to what he's saying, His treatment of the Shah of Iran equating him to "kinda mean" from the brutal despot he was and blaming his fall of Jimmy Carter, instead of the people who got sick and tired of living in a dictatorship, who cut the strings of the American puppet. That being said the Iranians made the wrong choice after the overthrow and we let it spiral out of control both Carter and Reagan let it get out of hand and the only people who are still suffering are the Iranians, they threw out one monster for another. No mention of the Shah's brutality or his rape/torture rooms just a even Conservative historians said he wasn't nice, wow so let's look over the fact that the Shah was a monster to his people, Ollie North said we had a listening post there; Leaving out the real history of Iran Sean builds his arguments on excuses and dishonesty, he even goes as far as blaming Carter for the rise of Saddam Hussein and the Reagan administrations relationship, again omitting the fact that Saddam was a US puppet dating to the '50s.


In Sean's world he must deify Reagan, turn him into a demi-god free from mistakes and bad policy decisions. Glowing over what Kraghthammer lovingly called the 'Reagan Doctrine' this was apparently what brought down the Soviet Union not that fact that Totalitarian Communism was a bankrupt (literally) style of government, they were on their way out on both sides that is acknowledged, except in the Church or Regus Maximus. His policies foreign and domestic caused big problem not only here but also around the world. What do you think happened to those 30,000 + South Americans who were disappeared? Did they go to the same farm your parents said they took your dog to? I really don't think they are happier where they are now, neither is your dog. These people are DEAD we supported the Sandinistas they were responsible for the deaths of those people, and they are culpable so are we or at the very least Reagan who's policy caused it to happen. Reagan the "Tax Cutter" gave us the largest tax increase in our history, SDI didn't work in the 80s and it doesn't work in the double o's and on and on. Reagan apologized when he made mistakes, he admitted when he was wrong but you won't hear that from Hannity, ever Reagan was guilt free and saved the world. I believe the way Sean exalts Reagan would make him very angry, what Sean left out tells another story altogether.


I was no fan of Bill Clinton, I'm Clinton neutral He wasn't our greatest President but he wasn't our worst either. Sean without having a backbone creeped around calling Clinton an all out coward but he did say he shamed us in Somalia with the images of charred remains being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. So what happened in Fallujia when not only troops but also Americans contracters were dragged through the street, hung on bridges and beaten like pinatas doesn't shame President Bush? It doesn't show that Iraq is a far bigger mess than FOX tells us it is? The country that fell in a matter of days but we don't control all of Iraq, didn't we beat them? Just today the New Prime Minister of Iraq is letting Al-Sadr republish his Anti-US newspaper, if you don't remember him he united the Shiites and Sunnis against the US and boy we felt it in Fallujah. I agree that the Somalia mission was flawed and Clinton messed, and using the same intellectual honesty you have to admit the Bush screwed up Iraq and we're paying for it with the blood of our soldiers. How can't see why Sean excuses poor planning on Bush's part, letting the politicians fight our wars and then jump on Clinton for that same kind of screw up, Clinton learned why and that's why Kosovo went so well.


Check out Part two later in the week! lots and lots of clips!

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UPDATE 6/18/04

Everything is going as planned, no snags just polishing up and adding content!

You the loyal readers of Smafty Mac and Hannity is a moron will play with audio, I am breaking it into two big posts One on Monday the other on either Thursday or Friday.

Thanks for the e-mails, and I hope you enjoy it!!!

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BIG post due Monday in conjunction with Hannity is a moron

Of course it's very time consuming and posting will be very lite on both sites but it should be very cool and interactive, if it all goes as planned!

Lots of work to do over the weekend and plenty of research!
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2/3 of guardsmen NOT RETURNING...so who will be place them? *cough* Draft *cough*

Almost two-thirds of Indiana National Guardsmen in a battalion that spent a year in Iraq chose not to re-enlist when their service time expired.

Over the past 21 months, the service contracts of 102 soldiers in the 1st Battalion of the 152nd Regiment expired. Of those, 32, or less than one-third, chose to re-enlist.

The unit typically keeps 85 percent of its members, a sergeant in charge of retaining members said.

Before the war, the unit had 650 members. Now the regiment headquartered about 40 miles northeast of Evansville has about 530 soldiers left, The Herald reported in a story today.

In early 2003, 610 of the members were deployed to Iraq.

"That one big word, 'deployment,' has done more damage than anything," said Sgt. 1st Class Gary Love, who is in charge of convincing soldiers to stay.

"What killed us was the stop-loss," Love said. "There wasn't a whole lot we could do."

The Defense Department has been taking numerous steps to keep enlistment up during the Iraq conflict, included issuing a "stop-loss" order that prevents soldiers from leaving the military when their obligations end and multiple deployments of guard and reserve units.

Typically, retention is tracked in one-year cycles, broken down by quarters.

But the stop-loss order, which lasted 18 months, meant some battalions, instead of spreading manpower losses over a manageable period, have dropped members all at once.

Eighty percent of the unit's soldiers affected by the order -- 59 of 74 Guard members -- did not re-enlist, Love said. The goal was to keep at least half of those troops, he said.

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Federal debt limit to be critical this year.

The $7.384 trillion debt limit may need attention before the November election, Timothy Bitsberger, Treasury's nominee for assistant secretary for financial markets, said in a document obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

"It appears very likely the limit will be reached sometime in late September or October, with the most likely date being early October," Bitsberger said in the submission for the record after his Senate confirmation hearing last week.

"Treasury may be in a better position to narrow this range after completion of the mid-session review," he said in response to a question from Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.

CONTENTIOUS VOTE

The government's statutory debt was $7.220 trillion as of July 12, according to Treasury data.

Treasury Secretary John Snow has urged Congress to move speedily to raise the limit, in what is likely to be a contentious election-year vote on the country's rising debt. He has asked Congress to act before its August recess.

Democrats blame President George W. Bush's tax cuts for turning the fiscal surplus he inherited into a record deficit, which is expected to top $400 billion this year. The debt limit has already been raised twice during the Bush administration.

Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP, said the potential timing of a vote on raising the debt limit, just before the November election, could worry markets.

"Congress doesn't want to have to deal with it, and the bond market doesn't want to see Congress have to deal with it," he said.

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How dare the President say Kerry abandoned the troops

Courting conservative voters in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula, President Bush said Tuesday that rival John Kerry abandoned support for U.S. troops in Iraq and then bragged about it.



"Leaders need to stand up with our military," Bush told a cheering crowd, kicking off a two-day tour of three crucial states that he lost in 2000 to Democratic Vice President Al Gore.


Kerry said Monday that he and running mate John Edwards were proud of the fact that they opposed the $87 billion aid package for Afghanistan and Iraq "when we knew the policy had to be changed." Kerry said the Bush administration should have gotten other allies to help with the war in Iraq.


"He is entitled to his view," Bush said, adding that Kerry should not have gone on to "brag about it."


Bush's visit to the largest city in Michigan's Upper Peninsula with a population of 20,000 was the first by a sitting president since William Howard Taft in 1911.


"It was worth the wait," Judi Schwalbach told the crowd. She is the mayor of the Upper Peninsula town of Escanaba, Mich. Bush's daughter, Barbara, accompanied him to Michigan.


Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, whose district includes the Upper Peninsula, argued that Kerry and Edwards were right when they opposed the $87 billion because Bush misled the country about paying for the war, saying Iraqi oil would be used to cover the cost.


"If anyone let down the American people, it's this president," Stupak said. "He took a little bit of questionable evidence, exaggerated it and led us to war."


Bush drew applause when he criticized Kerry for his supportive comments about Hollywood stars following a New York fund-raiser in which celebrities called Bush and "thug" and a "liar."


"The other day my opponent said, when he was with some entertainers from Hollywood, that they were the heart and soul of America," Bush said. "I believe the heart and soul of America is found in places right here, in Marquette, Michigan."


Bush also criticized Kerry and Edwards for saying the administration has done a poor job of handling the economy.


"My opponents look at all this progress and somehow conclude that the sky is falling," declared Bush, saying that the economy has added 1.5 million new jobs since last summer, including 29,600 in Michigan since February.

How dare this guy talk like this, while this guys boasted "Bring them on" and gloated about being a "Wartime President" to ignoring every military planner who knew what the hell they were doing for the Neo-Con "flowers and candy" strategy.

Screwing up the war kill soilders, cutting benefits for our troops in combat and Veterans, men & women who bled for this country...something this current Cabal knows nothing about!
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Some people are making money off the war they pushed for in the first place....it makes you think that MAYBE they pushed for the war to make money, kinda like a big scam?

In the months and years leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, they marched together in the vanguard of those who advocated war.

As lobbyists, public relations counselors and confidential advisors to senior federal officials, they warned against Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, praised exiled leader Ahmad Chalabi, and argued that toppling Saddam Hussein was a matter of national security and moral duty.




Now, as fighting continues in Iraq, they are collecting tens of thousands of dollars in fees for helping business clients pursue federal contracts and other financial opportunities in Iraq. For instance, a former Senate aide who helped get U.S. funds for anti-Hussein exiles who are now active in Iraqi affairs has a $175,000 deal to advise Romania on winning business in Iraq and other matters.

And the ease with which they have moved from advocating policies and advising high government officials to making money in activities linked to their policies and advice reflects the blurred lines that often exist between public and private interests in Washington. In most cases, federal conflict-of-interest laws do not apply to former officials or to people serving only as advisors.

Larry Noble, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, said the actions of former officials and others who serve on government advisory boards, although not illegal, can raise the appearance of conflicts of interest. "It calls into question whether the advice they give is in their own interests rather than the public interest," Noble said.

Michael Shires, a professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, disagreed. "I don't see an ethical issue there," he said. "I see individuals looking out for their own interests."

Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey is a prominent example of the phenomenon, mixing his business interests with what he contends are the country's strategic interests. He left the CIA in 1995, but he remains a senior government advisor on intelligence and national security issues, including Iraq. Meanwhile, he works for two private companies that do business in Iraq and is a partner in a company that invests in firms that provide security and anti-terrorism services.

Woolsey said in an interview that he was not directly involved with the companies' Iraq-related ventures. But as a vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm, he was a featured speaker in May 2003 at a conference co-sponsored by the company at which about 80 corporate executives and others paid up to $1,100 to hear about the economic outlook and business opportunities in Iraq.

Before the war, Woolsey was a founding member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, an organization set up in 2002 at the request of the White House to help build public backing for war in Iraq. He also wrote about a need for regime change and sat on the CIA advisory board and the Defense Policy Board, whose unpaid members have provided advice on Iraq and other matters to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Woolsey is part of a small group that shows with unusual clarity the interlocking nature of the way the insider system can work. Moving in the same social circles, often sitting together on government panels and working with like-minded think tanks and advocacy groups, they wrote letters to the White House urging military action in Iraq, formed organizations that pressed for invasion and pushed legislation that authorized aid to exile groups.

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Don over at Blah 3 posted this "Give us the tape where Whoopi talks trash" responce from Kerry's campaign manager.

Yesterday, I received a letter from Bush Cheney ’04 Campaign Manager Ken Mehlman asking our campaign for a tape of a recent fund-raising event. Today, I sent the following reply:

Dear Ken:




Over the past several months, allies of the President have questioned John Kerry’s patriotism while your staff has criticized his service in Vietnam. Republicans and their allies have gone so far as to launch attacks against his wife and your campaign has run $80 million in negative ads that have been called baseless, misleading and unfair by several independent observers.



Considering that the President has failed to even come close to keeping his promise to change the tone in Washington, we find your outrage over and paparazzi-like obsession with a fund-raising event to be misplaced. The fact is that the nation has a greater interest in seeing several documents made public relating to the President’s performance in office and personal veracity that the White House has steadfastly refused to release. As such, we will not consider your request until the Bush campaign and White House make public the documents/materials listed below:




● Military records: Any copies of the President’s military records that would actually prove he fulfilled the terms of his military service. For that matter, it would be comforting to the American people if the campaign or the White House could produce more than just a single person to verify that the President was in Alabama when said he was there. Many Americans find it odd that only one person out of an entire squadron can recall seeing Mr. Bush.




● Halliburton: All correspondence between the Defense Department and the White House regarding the no-bid contracts that have gone to the Vice-President’s former company. Some material has already been made public. Why not take a campaign issue off the table by making all of these materials public so the voters can see how Halliburton has benefited from Mr. Cheney serving as Vice-President?




● The Cheney Energy Task Force: For an Administration that claims to hate lawsuits, it’s ironic that the Bush White House is taking up the Courts’ time to keep the fact that Ken Lay and Enron wrote its energy policy in secret behind closed doors. Please release the documents so that the country can learn what lobbyists and special interests wrote the White House energy policy.




● Medicare Bill: Please release all White House correspondence between the pharmaceutical industry and the Administration regarding the Medicare Bill, which gave billions to some of the President’s biggest donors. In addition, please provide all written materials that directed the Medicare actuary to withhold information from Congress about the actual cost of the bill.




● Prison Abuse Documents: A few weeks ago, the White House released a selected number of documents regarding the White House’s involvement in laying the legal foundation for the interrogation methods that were used in Iraq. Please release the remaining documents.




We also wanted to wish you a happy anniversary. As we are sure you and the attorneys representing the President, Vice-President and other White House officials are aware, today marks one year since Administration sources leaked the identity of a covert CIA agent to Bob Novak in an effort to retaliate against a critic of the Administration.




In light of the fact that the Administration began gutting the laws protecting the nation’s forests yesterday, we hope you will accept the paper on which this letter is written as an anniversary gift. (The one year anniversary is known as the “paper anniversary.”)




Sincerely,
Mary Beth Cahill
Campaign Manager

Don put it best, This is the way the opposition is suppose to act

WORD!
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Jon Stewart hands wolfie his @$$

STEWART: So what does the media do differently [now]?

BLITZER: I think we learned from our mistakes and try to do it better next time.

STEWART: Specifically.

BLITZER: Specifically, we learned from our mistakes and try to do it better next time. We look back and we say, "You know what, we should have been more skeptical."

STEWART: But...Wolf...Come on! It was a...

BLITZER: We're trained to be skeptical by our very nature, that's what journalists...

STEWART: Why weren't you? Because people...

BLITZER: I think we could have been more skeptical, I think we...

STEWART: Are they afraid of the Bush administration? Is the Bush administration so ham-handed that - ham-handed, and this is coming from a Jew who knows nothing of ham - but are they so forceful that they have intimidated the press corps into NOT asking those questions?

BLITZER: No. The answer's no.

STEWART: So...is the press corps, and again I'm gonna use the word, suffering from groupthink? OR...OR...or another word, retardation?

(Audience explodes in cheers as Stewart grabs Blitzer by the shoulder and rocks him)

STEWART: Come on! Tell me the truth! I want to know! I'm really curious. I'm baffled.

BLITZER: It's groupthink. Not retardation. You know, when you're told repeatedly - and I was told going into the [Kuwait] war...everybody said the same thing. There is no doubt, there are stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and it's only a matter of time before he has a nuclear bomb. Condoleezza Rice said on my show..."We can't wait for a smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." You remember that?

STEWART: And as it turns out, Pakistan had already sold mushroom cloud material to every country in the area BUT Iraq! It's crazy! The whole thing's crazy!

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The next time you hear John Edwards regarded as an ambulance chaser refer them to this story!

On a summer evening in 1993, David Lakey took his little girl swimming at a recreation center in Raleigh, N.C. Valerie Lakey was 5 years old, a good swimmer, and she and her friends liked to splash around in the children's wading pool that stayed open a little later than the big pool where they usually swam.

That's what Valerie was doing when a nearby mom heard her call out for help. Valerie was sitting on the bottom of the shallow pool, and the suction from the drain was holding her down. David Lakey raced to free his daughter but couldn't. Other parents jumped in the water to help, but they couldn't get Valerie loose. Valerie was scared, and she began to say that her stomach hurt.

Time passed, and somebody figured out how to turn off the pool's pump. The suction broke, and Valerie was released from its grip. But as David Lakey pulled his daughter from the water, blood and tissue filled the pool. Valerie's intestines had been sucked out.



David Lakey slumped to the ground on the side of the pool. He held his daughter on his chest, praying as they waited for an ambulance. Over and over, he told Valerie, "Daddy loves you. Daddy loves you. Daddy loves you."

Edwards represented Valerie in a lawsuit against the company that made the drain cover in that swimming pool. A jury awarded her $25 million, compensation for a life of intravenous feedings and colostomy bags.

Yeah that Edwards guy, what an a$$hole he is, I mean do you really need $25 million?

Tell your friends this story, they'll change their tune!
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Weezie dies

Actress Isabel Sanford, best known as "Weezie," Louise Jefferson on the television sitcom "The Jeffersons," died of natural causes, her publicist said today. She was 86.

Sanford died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized since July 4, said Brad Lemack. Her daughter, Pamela Ruff, was at her side, he said.


Her health had waned after undergoing preventive surgery on a neck artery 10 months ago, Lemack said. He did not give a cause of death.

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Ron Reagan Jr. to speak at the Democratic convention

In a move sure to embarrass Republicans, Ron Reagan will address the Democratic National Convention this month.

Reagan, son former President Ronald Reagan and an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, will be at the podium on the second night of the four-day event in Boston, July 27, in support of stem-cell research, he said Sunday in an interview here.

David Wade, a spokesman for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, confirmed Reagan's appearance, but sources said the date had not been determined. Scott Stanzel, press secretary for President Bush's campaign, declined to comment.

Reagan, a Seattle resident with his wife, clinical psychologist Doria, said he was contacted about two weeks ago by the Democratic National Committee. He said he "had a nice chat" on the phone with Kerry, "but he wasn't pushing me. I had already decided."

A registered independent who has long been an outspoken political liberal, Reagan said he would not campaign for Kerry or any other candidate. He said he would vote for Kerry, however, "as a way to defeat Bush."

Reagan, 46, said he also did not vote for Bush in 2000, despite the fact that Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, was vice president during Ronald Reagan's two terms in the White House.

President Bush "has made some terrible mistakes," most notably, attacking Iraq, Reagan said.

Reagan also opposes Bush's stand on stem-cell research. That is the only reason Reagan accepted the Democrats' invitation, he said.

The Democratic Party's platform calls for lifting restrictions on research using stem cells from human embryos. Bush signed an executive order in August 2001 that limited federal help to financing stem-cell research on embryonic stem-cell lines then in existence. He said such a limit would not require the destruction of any more embryos

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