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Monday, June 05, 2006

An election must be coming

"President George W. Bush on Monday rallied backers of an amendment barring same-sex marriage"

Before seriousness, delve into comedy. For whatever reason, Bill Bennet thought goint on John Stewart's show would somehow be a good way to get out the message of amending the constitution to insert discrimination.


Now back to the issue at hand. The budget deficit is out of control, aided by massive corruption and unprecedented welfare for billionaires. It's generating massive debt to be paid by future generations.

Global warming is actual science, not the junk science that suggests we ignore the problem. A catastrophe is building while short-sighted profit-takers compound the problem.

Hurricane season is almost here again. A flu pandemic might be coming. Meanwhile, FEMA is still gutted from 5 years cronyism, the addition of another layer of bureaucracy and, effectively, sabotage.

The war against the bastards that attacked us still has less troops deployed than there are police in Manhattan. Instead we've embarked into perpetual warfare for natural resources. People are dying left and right in a war that we started against a country that did not attack us, and did not have the ability to do so.

Fuel prices, thanks to world-record profit taking by dubya's buddies in the oil industry are more than double from the start of the current regime - all with the blessing of a federal energy policy that was written by the oil industry.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr has plainly laid out a compilation of the cold hard facts that show us the reality of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.

A recent poll indicates that a majority of American want universal health care, but instead we get costs spiraling out of control due to massive corporate profit taking and inefficiency.

Civil liberties are under attack, and are being rolled back at an alarming rate, and we don't even know the extent to which the executive branch, without any oversight, is spying on ordinary citizens without any warrant or cause to suspect terrorist activity.

So what does dubya do? Return to preaching how anyone who is not publicly heterosexual must be discriminated against by law. This, coming from someone whose party claims to want government out of private lives. The reality of his policies is a loss of freedom, privacy, states' rights and blatant disrespect for the Constitution - a document that dubya has referred to as "that goddamned piece of paper".

Think he'll change his ways and work for the good of the country to aid his party for the 2006 midterm election?

Nope, right on schedule, the good of the country is completely ignored so the neocon propaganda machine can focus mass media attention on wedge issues to distract from what he really has, and hasn't done over the last 5 years.

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.

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