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:lol: where to begin? *rolls eyes*
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Sen. Frist: Teach Intelligent Design…Spread Of HIV Possible Through Sweat…Schiavo Can “Respond To Visual Stimuli"…

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...ligent_design_2

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salt lake city mayor pukes up the kool-aid, sees the light:

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson called for "the biggest demonstration this state has ever seen" to protest President Bush's appearance Monday before a national veterans convention.

  "This administration has been disastrous to the country," Anderson said Friday. "If people could organize and speak out in an effective manner from the reddest state in the country, that would garner a lot of attention."

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"Patriotism," the mayor said, "demands that people speak out when we see our government officials acting in such anti-democratic and deceitful ways to the people of our country."

  He also said: "I don't understand people simply blindly going along with the sort of deceit and utter cruelty of this administration. It's not just we have the right to speak out, but we have the obligation to speak out when we see misconduct on the part of the government. The most patriotic thing we can do is stand up against the misuse of governmental power."

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i've been trying to keep informed about what everyone in the world health community is calling the inevitable flu pandemic (like here). over here, it says that while Canada, Britain and Switzerland are lining up to stockpile Tamiflu et al, the US is doing nothing (they make their own reality).

Between the administration's priorities and Big Pharma's urge to go for the profits -- flu shots are unprofitable products -- America's public health structure is in increasingly woeful shape and certainly, despite endless warnings about what might come, in no shape at all to deal with a nationwide flu pandemic.
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.. the US is doing nothing (they make their own reality).

Not true - the NY Times recently ran an article on this country's preparations...

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Why a booming economy feels flat

Despite continued strong economic growth, this expansion is clouded with enough complications and uncertainties that, for many, it doesn't feel like good times.

The reason? A boom in corporate profits has not yet created a job market that makes workers feel secure, economists say. Hiring hasn't skyrocketed. Worse, wages are stagnant. This paycheck squeeze may prove more worrisome than soaring oil prices and concerns over a housing bubble. Some experts worry that wage stagnation may prove more permanent this time, because of an increasingly global market for labor.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0822/p01s03-usec.html?s=hns

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Bush: Less Popular Than Nixon During Watergate

Via Atrios, an American Research Group poll released today shows that George Bush has dropped to staggering new lows:

George W. Bush’s overall job approval ratings have dropped from a month ago even as Americans who approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president are turning more optimistic about their personal financial situations according to the latest survey from the American Research Group. Among all Americans, 36% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 58% disapprove. When it comes to Bush’s handling of the economy, 33% approve and 62% disapprove.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/22/bush-nixon/

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Navy Officer Affirms Assertions About Pre-9/11 Data on Atta

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 - An active-duty Navy captain has become the second military officer to come forward publicly to say that a secret defense intelligence program tagged the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a possible terrorist more than a year before the attacks.

http://nytimes.com/2005/08/22/politics/23c...artner=homepage

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Not true - the NY Times recently ran an article on this country's preparations...

bird flu vaccine requires huge doses; stretching strategies critical: experts

'Enthusiasm over the news that U.S. researchers have proven a vaccine is effective against the H5N1 avian flu strain was tempered Monday with word that it took massive doses - roughly 12 times the normal amount - to produce a protective response in humans. Given that manufacturers can only make enough vaccine for a fraction of the world's population in normal times with regular dosing schedules, experts said the findings underscore the urgent need to find ways to produce the same response with smaller doses of vaccine.

"I think these results suggest the world is even less prepared than more prepared," said Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "And unfortunately many policy makers might take this announcement as being 'We've hit the gold mine' - when in fact I would suggest we are having a hard time even finding water."

'In light of the American findings, federal officials said studies into a yet-to-be-made Canadian H5N1 vaccine will key in on the role antigen-sparing techniques could play in pandemic vaccine production. (Antigen is the substance in vaccine that provokes the immune system to produce protective antibodies.)...'

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Bush: Iraq Withdrawal Would Weaken U.S.

Aug 23 12:28 PM US/Eastern

President Bush charged Tuesday that anti-war protesters like Cindy Sheehan who want troops brought home immediately do not represent the views of most U.S. military families and are "advocating a policy that would weaken the United States."

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/23/D8C5KTL80.html

Spoken like a lame duck! :reallymad:

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:lol: when the preznit speaks, you listen. or not:

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NEW YORK Meeting briefly with reporters Monday aboard Air Force One, Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman subbing for Scott McClellan, said that President Bush believes that those who want the U.S. to begin to change course in Iraq do not want America to win the overall "war on terror."

Duffy spoke on a day when a surprisingly large antiwar protest met the president during his stay in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he addressed a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1001019573

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Rumsfeld Compares War Critics to Stalinists and Communists

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/08/24/r...cri_n_6148.html

Ok - I think he lied to invade Iraq, that he was unprepared for what followed, and that and that he's unpatriotic, too

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Sen. Frist: Teach Intelligent Design…Spread Of HIV Possible Through Sweat…Schiavo Can “Respond To Visual Stimuli"…

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...ligent_design_2

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McKain also endorses teaching Intelligent Design in schools!!!

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/politics/90069

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republican committeeman accused of molestation: 'A state Republican committeeman in the Poconos has been charged with molesting a teenage boy at an underage beer party in a Stroudsburg motel, police said Friday. John R. Curtin, 20, of Stroud Township rented a room Monday afternoon at the Days Inn on Park Avenue and threw a beer party for several boys ages 13 to 17, Stroud Area Regional police said. About 10 p.m., Curtin and a 17-year-old boy walked to the motel's parking lot, where Curtin molested him, police said...'
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republican committeeman accused of molestation: 'A state Republican committeeman in the Poconos has been charged with molesting a teenage boy at an underage beer party in a Stroudsburg motel, police said Friday. John R. Curtin, 20, of Stroud Township rented a room Monday afternoon at the Days Inn on Park Avenue and threw a beer party for several boys ages 13 to 17, Stroud Area Regional police said. About 10 p.m., Curtin and a 17-year-old boy walked to the motel's parking lot, where Curtin molested him, police said...'

the age differences dont seem that out of hand--the kids probably wanted molested its not as if its michael jackson and a 13 yr old 20 is pretty young for a politician

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!!!????  Isn't that assuming quite a lot, dude?

I dont think the post had anything to do with political trends in the US - it's an isolated incident and not something that is necessarily characteristic of all Republicans (even methaphorically)... Seriously, I dont think the age difference (unless the 13 yr old was involved) amounts to molestation... unwarrranted sexual overtures, perhaps...

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But here is Maureen Down's on Bush's Private Idaho :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/opinion/...article_popular

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