If documaker Michael Moore didn't already have a marketing campaign lined up for the imminent Cannes bow of his latest work, "SiCKO," the Bush administration and its allies have handed him one on a silver platter.
Friday, May 11, 2007
CBS fires Gen. Batiste over VoteVets ad
Iraq veteran Gen. John Batiste “has been asked to leave his position as a consultant to CBS News” over a new VoteVets ad criticizing the Iraq war. He was interviewed tonight by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.
Motherhood ManifestoFree DVD From MoveOn.org
Watch the edgy, factual, and at times funny film that shows where the U.S. really stands on family-friendly policies, offers personal stories of families across the nation, and shares solutions.....here
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Killing On The Installment PlanThe Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday night to pay for military operations in Iraq on an installment plan, defying Bush's threat of a second straight veto in a fierce test of wills over the unpopular war.....more
At This Rate We Will Never Get Out Of Iraq. I Don't Think The Dems Are Getting Our Message
Terrorist Luis Posada CarrilesCould Be Tried In New Jersey
A grand jury is meeting in Newark to decide whether to indict Posada on charges of financing a terrorist operation. FBI agents visited Havana last year in connection with the probe, following up on a 1998 trip to the island.....more
‘’The prosecution never charged him for being what he is _ a terrorist,'’ The Communist Party Granma
He Says He Is Going To Spill The Beans If Tried, I Can't Wait To Hear What He Has To Say
Steal From The Poor, Give To The RichNot In Riviera Beach, Florida
Two national advocacy groups dropped lawsuits Thursday against this downtrodden city aimed at stopping one of the nation's largest eminent domain projects after the city said it would not force residents from their homes. The move comes one year after Florida enacted a law that prohibits the use of eminent domain for private development. It Was This Guys Idea, Mayor Michael Brown, But he was ousted from office in March, and a new city council and mayor pledged to abide by state law......more
Bush Administration Goes After Michael MooreAcademy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary "Sicko,".......more
End The Embargo On The Cuban People
The Dissolving GOPWind's Going To Blow It Away
I can't psychoanalyze those guys. I think the GOP was dissolving. Now it's drying up and the wind's going to blow it away. I just don't think we have the depth of knowledge, intellect, and experience necessary for a viable political party any more.....Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.)
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Conservative Assault On America's FamiliesThe “you are on your own”
Notion of government and freedom has meant that American families must live with stagnant wages at a time of high profits and productivity without a way to get ahead no matter how hard they try. It has meant health insecurity for workers and their families as fewer and fewer jobs provide health care coverage. It has meant that workers face their older years without the means they counted on to retire, as corporations have slashed traditional pension plans. And it has meant that half of Americans don’t have the fundamental right to take a day off from work when they are sick without losing a job or a paycheck......more
I Guess There Were Protesters At Roves EventSomething Jeremy Wallace Of The Herald Tribune Failed To Mention
Though their specific concerns varied, the protesters stood together along southbound U.S. 41 in Punta Gorda Saturday in response to one event: Karl Rove's appearance at the Charlotte County Republicans' Lincoln Day Dinner Gala, held that evening at Benedetto's Restaurant in Punta Gorda........more
Here Is What Mr. Wallace Had To Say.......click here
Conservatism Has FailedConservatism Is Dead
Watching the Republican debate last week really highlighted the fact that conservatism is dead. Not so much in the sense that no one believes in it anymore (those 20 percenters are still hangin’ on), but that it has been discredited to the point that very few are willing to give it another chance......more
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
One In Eight Iraqi Child DeadBefore Reaching Their Fifth Birthday
The chance that an Iraqi child will live beyond age five has plummetted faster than anywhere else in the world since 1990, said a report released Tuesday, which placed the country last in its child survival rankings.....more
State of the World’s Mothers Report
Italy's Neo-Fascist National Alliance PartyGiving Italians Free Urine Test
Milan authorities are handing out free urine testing kits to parents of teenagers so they can find out if their children are using illegal drugs. In a part of the northern Italian city controlled by the right-wing National Alliance party, almost 4,000 families will receive a coupon which they can exchange for a kit to test for some of the most widely used drugs including cannabis and cocaine......more
Lets All Pee Pee In The Cup
Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart Support Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles
South Florida’s three Cuban-American members of congress today are denouncing the Justice Department’s cooperation with the government of Cuba on collecting evidence in the Luis Posada Carriles case.......more
Monday, May 7, 2007
May Day Cops Off LA StreetsPolice Chief William Bratton said Sunday that up to 60 members of an elite squad that swarmed into a park and fired rubber bullets during a May Day immigration rally are no longer on the street......more
"I'm not going to defend the indefensible," Bratton told journalists
We Still Have The Video, What Will These Cops Tell Their Children?
RFK: Rove, 'Should be in jail,' Not In OfficeHe Is Very Good In The Caging’ Technique
Voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for prison time for the new US Attorney for Arkansas, Timothy Griffin and investigation of Griffin’s former boss, Karl Rove, chief political advisor to President Bush.......here
Now Thats What I'm Talking About Mr. Star, Fix Elections And Compromise Your Countrys Democracy.....As Long As Your Side Wins. Couldn't This Also Be Treason?
Dean says Dems playing nice -- for nowDemocrats running for president this year probably won't play nice with one another much longer, but they are staying together on issues important to voters, national party Chairman Howard Dean told a Dartmouth College audience Monday......more
Sunday, May 6, 2007
West Tampa Neighborhood Contaminated Stay Away From 1707 West Arch Street
The chemical Perchloroethylene, is being improperly released into the environment at 7000 times the allowed limit. Cancer survivor Annette Jackson has lived just a block away from the plant for the past 23 years and says the news has her upset and worried. D.E.P. found high levels of the chemical in ground and water samples taken just outside. As much as 1000 gallons of the chemical was improperly stored and disposed of........more
Simply Unfucking Believable
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