Headlines at Iddybud June 20
DUH! Those not paying attention support Bush on Iraq
Remembering Reagan (cartoon)
Accenture- Bush Rewards Corporation Avoiding U.S. Taxes
Democrat Convention Credentials Bloggers
John McCain as running mate...on whose ticket?
Fourth of July Downloadable Flyer
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!
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Sunday, June 20, 2004
Fourth of July Downloadable Flyer
Fourth of July Downloadable Flyer
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
--Frederick Douglass, 1857
There is a marvelous Independence Day flyer available here.(Note-it's a pdf file).
It has fantastic quotes from the intelligently patriotic George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass and others, giving us a wide, varied, and fearless view of what being patriotic means. (John Ashcoft would faint when the walls of his narrow vision were ripped away to expose the open-sky view of these truest patriots).
You can print them out and distribute them at your own Fourth of July celebrations. The thoughtful creators of the downloadable flyers say:
May these quotes serve to remind us all of the ideals and values upon which
the United States was founded.
Take a look...I promise you won't be disappointed.
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
--Frederick Douglass, 1857
There is a marvelous Independence Day flyer available here.(Note-it's a pdf file).
It has fantastic quotes from the intelligently patriotic George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass and others, giving us a wide, varied, and fearless view of what being patriotic means. (John Ashcoft would faint when the walls of his narrow vision were ripped away to expose the open-sky view of these truest patriots).
You can print them out and distribute them at your own Fourth of July celebrations. The thoughtful creators of the downloadable flyers say:
May these quotes serve to remind us all of the ideals and values upon which
the United States was founded.
Take a look...I promise you won't be disappointed.
McCain as running mate...on whose ticket?
John McCain as running mate...on whose ticket?
Why am I hearing the tune "Dueling Banjos" running through my head?
I've said "..blah!" in the past when the rumors were swirling about John Kerry courting John McCain for his running mate...especially since Senator McCain made it crystal-clear he was fully committed to supporting a Bush re-election.
Now rumors are swirling about Dick "I swear there's a terror connection"-Cheney getting bumped for none other than Senator McCain as VP on the GOP ticket in November.
In order to accept, Senator McCain would have to have healed from those push-polls in South Carolina in 2000 just before the Republican presidential primary. Do you remember those infamous McCain-defeating push-polls? The Bushites tried to eat McCain alive by insinuating his wife was a drug addict, that McCain might be mentally unstable from his captivity in Vietnam, and that he'd fathered a black child with a prostitute. Perhaps he hasn't healed from that experience, but would be ready to suck it all up and move ahead like the good soldier and patriot he's well-known to be if his President should ask him to join the ticket.
Don't you just LOVE politics?
Sidney Zion of the Daily News writes:
How about a Bush-McCain ticket?
This would turn John Kerry's dream of running with John McCain into the mother of all nightmares for the Democrats. But it's hardly the only good reason for Dubya and the GOP bosses to see that it's done......
....If the President's poll numbers continue to go south and still look dreary when the Republican convention comes to Bloombergsville in August, it's a good bet that somebody -perhaps even 41 - will tell Cheney that it's not his night....
.....A Kerry-McCain ticket would have been cynicism in living color. Bush-McCain is an ideological perfecto.
[LINK-N.Y. Daily News]
The wise Mr. Zion is absolutely right--and what a nightmare it would be for John Kerry. I think I was correct last April when I asked: "Why has the DLC been dancing with this fellow [McCain]? At the end of the ball, he's leaving with the village idiot."
When you consider the wonderful field of well-qualified Democrats from which Senator Kerry's had to choose all along, you just want to kick his political advisors in the shins....hard.....don't you?
Why am I hearing the tune "Dueling Banjos" running through my head?
I've said "..blah!" in the past when the rumors were swirling about John Kerry courting John McCain for his running mate...especially since Senator McCain made it crystal-clear he was fully committed to supporting a Bush re-election.
Now rumors are swirling about Dick "I swear there's a terror connection"-Cheney getting bumped for none other than Senator McCain as VP on the GOP ticket in November.
In order to accept, Senator McCain would have to have healed from those push-polls in South Carolina in 2000 just before the Republican presidential primary. Do you remember those infamous McCain-defeating push-polls? The Bushites tried to eat McCain alive by insinuating his wife was a drug addict, that McCain might be mentally unstable from his captivity in Vietnam, and that he'd fathered a black child with a prostitute. Perhaps he hasn't healed from that experience, but would be ready to suck it all up and move ahead like the good soldier and patriot he's well-known to be if his President should ask him to join the ticket.
Don't you just LOVE politics?
Sidney Zion of the Daily News writes:
How about a Bush-McCain ticket?
This would turn John Kerry's dream of running with John McCain into the mother of all nightmares for the Democrats. But it's hardly the only good reason for Dubya and the GOP bosses to see that it's done......
....If the President's poll numbers continue to go south and still look dreary when the Republican convention comes to Bloombergsville in August, it's a good bet that somebody -perhaps even 41 - will tell Cheney that it's not his night....
.....A Kerry-McCain ticket would have been cynicism in living color. Bush-McCain is an ideological perfecto.
[LINK-N.Y. Daily News]
The wise Mr. Zion is absolutely right--and what a nightmare it would be for John Kerry. I think I was correct last April when I asked: "Why has the DLC been dancing with this fellow [McCain]? At the end of the ball, he's leaving with the village idiot."
When you consider the wonderful field of well-qualified Democrats from which Senator Kerry's had to choose all along, you just want to kick his political advisors in the shins....hard.....don't you?
Democrat Convention Credentials Bloggers
Democrat Convention Credentials Bloggers
From the N.Y. Times
From the N.Y. Times
A handful of scribes publishing in a newer medium will join the thousands of newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalists at this summer's political conventions. They'll be blogging.
The Democrats are holding true to their ``party of inclusion'' billing vis-a-vis the online chroniclers, whose Web logs have leapt in popularity this year as political junkies increasingly get their fix with mouse clicks.
[LINK]
The Democrats are holding true to their ``party of inclusion'' billing vis-a-vis the online chroniclers, whose Web logs have leapt in popularity this year as political junkies increasingly get their fix with mouse clicks.
[LINK]
Accenture- Bush Rewards Corporation Avoiding U.S. Taxes
Accenture- Bush Rewards Corporation Avoiding U.S. Taxes
The Bush administration recently awarded a $10 billion Department of Homeland Security contract to Accenture, a company that based its headquarters in Bermuda to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
The move defied the President's promise to make sure everyone is "paying their fair share." If that isn't enough to get you steamed, last week the White House's Congressional allies defeated legislation that would have stopped the contract. Congress rejected legislation sponsored by Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) that would have prevented the contract from moving forward. The White House, through these Congressional allies, defeated the legislation on a sheer party line vote.
The General Accounting Office has cited Accenture for using offshore tax havens. Because of the GAO's report, at least one state has had the courage to do what Congress and the White House refuse to do. In May,
Illinois held up a $2 million state contract to the company because of its tax behavior. In its defense, the company denies getting serious benefits from moving offshore. But, according to a June 1 Bloomberg News report, Accenture's tax liability decreased while its U.S. earnings increased in 2002 and 2003.
*Thanks to Misleader.org for organizing this information to help us understand the big picture.
The Bush administration recently awarded a $10 billion Department of Homeland Security contract to Accenture, a company that based its headquarters in Bermuda to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
The move defied the President's promise to make sure everyone is "paying their fair share." If that isn't enough to get you steamed, last week the White House's Congressional allies defeated legislation that would have stopped the contract. Congress rejected legislation sponsored by Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) that would have prevented the contract from moving forward. The White House, through these Congressional allies, defeated the legislation on a sheer party line vote.
The General Accounting Office has cited Accenture for using offshore tax havens. Because of the GAO's report, at least one state has had the courage to do what Congress and the White House refuse to do. In May,
Illinois held up a $2 million state contract to the company because of its tax behavior. In its defense, the company denies getting serious benefits from moving offshore. But, according to a June 1 Bloomberg News report, Accenture's tax liability decreased while its U.S. earnings increased in 2002 and 2003.
*Thanks to Misleader.org for organizing this information to help us understand the big picture.
Duh! Those not paying attention support Bush
DUH!
Those not paying attention support Bush
There is "solid support" for Bush policy in Iraq from those Americans who do not pay attention to Iraq
*35% pretty much admit they could care less about news from Iraq
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Those not paying attention support Bush
There is "solid support" for Bush policy in Iraq from those Americans who do not pay attention to Iraq
*35% pretty much admit they could care less about news from Iraq
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Despite the deadly unrest and the growing scandal over the abuse of Iraqi detainees at US-run prisons, some 57 percent of Americans say the US effort there is going well, up from 46 percent in May, according to a survey by the independent Pew Research Center.
At the same time, Pew reported that the number of Americans very closely following events in Iraq had dropped to its lowest level in 2004, to just 39 percent, down 15 points since April.
And 35 percent said that people they know are becoming less emotionally involved with the news from Iraq, up from 26 percent in May.
[LINK]
At the same time, Pew reported that the number of Americans very closely following events in Iraq had dropped to its lowest level in 2004, to just 39 percent, down 15 points since April.
And 35 percent said that people they know are becoming less emotionally involved with the news from Iraq, up from 26 percent in May.
[LINK]
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