Ron Reagan To Speak At Democratic Convention
The son of American Republican President Ronald Reagan will be a speaker at this year's Democratic Party National Convention. Ron Reagan will use this time to advocate stem cell research. Read about this, here. The amazing thing is that Ron is not now nor has he ever been a Republican. He will be speaking with his Nancy Reagan, and this will be sure to inspire wrath and gnashing of teeth among the Republicans hoping to sell parts of Reagan's corpse to heavy contributors. I'm surprised Bush didn't crawl inside Reagan's coffin for a photo op. Karl Rove missed that one.
Monday, July 12, 2004
Bush's Military Records Destroyed ---
Records that could have proved or disproved once and for all whether Bush went AWOL during his champagne unit duty during the Vietnam conflict, have been damaged and destroyed. Read this story from the BBC News, here. Pretty fucking convenient those records had their little "accident," don't you think?!
Records that could have proved or disproved once and for all whether Bush went AWOL during his champagne unit duty during the Vietnam conflict, have been damaged and destroyed. Read this story from the BBC News, here. Pretty fucking convenient those records had their little "accident," don't you think?!
Is it 1984 Already? ---
The BBC News is reporting that Bush is planning on how to "postpone" the presidential election of the US is attacked. Sounds impossible but read about it here. This involves some more bogeyman tactics, saying "Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge last week warned al-Qaeda was planning to attack the US to disrupt the poll but conceded he had no precise information." My question is, if massive terrorist attacks are planned on Election Day, how does it matter what day we move it to? Are we assuming terrorists can't postpone attacks? Madness. The article cites Abraham Lincoln, truly a different breed of Republican:
Abraham Lincoln was urged by some aides to suspend the election of 1864 - during the US Civil War - but despite the expectation that he would lose, he refused.
"The election is a necessity," Lincoln said. "We cannot have a free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone, a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered us."
The BBC News is reporting that Bush is planning on how to "postpone" the presidential election of the US is attacked. Sounds impossible but read about it here. This involves some more bogeyman tactics, saying "Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge last week warned al-Qaeda was planning to attack the US to disrupt the poll but conceded he had no precise information." My question is, if massive terrorist attacks are planned on Election Day, how does it matter what day we move it to? Are we assuming terrorists can't postpone attacks? Madness. The article cites Abraham Lincoln, truly a different breed of Republican:
Abraham Lincoln was urged by some aides to suspend the election of 1864 - during the US Civil War - but despite the expectation that he would lose, he refused.
"The election is a necessity," Lincoln said. "We cannot have a free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone, a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered us."
Republican Values ---
Tom DeLay's fundraising tactics are under intense scrutiny now. Among the things DeLay has done, he "...was pressing for a $100,000 contribution to his political action committee, in addition to the $250,000 the company had already pledged to the Republican Party that year." Read about this story, here, in The Washington Post. The article goes on to report:
"Many corporate donors were explicitly told in TRMPAC letters that their donations were not "disclosable" in public records. But documents from several unrelated investigations offer an exceptional glimpse of how corporate money was able to influence state politics -- and also of DeLay's bold use of his network of corporate supporters to advance his agenda."
Tom DeLay's fundraising tactics are under intense scrutiny now. Among the things DeLay has done, he "...was pressing for a $100,000 contribution to his political action committee, in addition to the $250,000 the company had already pledged to the Republican Party that year." Read about this story, here, in The Washington Post. The article goes on to report:
"Many corporate donors were explicitly told in TRMPAC letters that their donations were not "disclosable" in public records. But documents from several unrelated investigations offer an exceptional glimpse of how corporate money was able to influence state politics -- and also of DeLay's bold use of his network of corporate supporters to advance his agenda."