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If the past couple of years are any indication, they're going to find a dead person to hang the "white powder" letters on. It was Stephanie Tubbs Jones!

Just wanted to say, I'm very sorry that I dropped my support for Mike Miles in favor of the "more electable" candidate. Of course I'm talking about one term-only Senator Ken "Nighthorse" Salazar. I can sleep easily knowing that the telecoms are immunized from the law. Let's pass a law retroactively giving immunity to anyone who broke any law over the last 8 years. What the hell, make it the last 50 years. I guess it really doesn't matter with this DOJ. Looks like my vote for a democratic senator didn't count. Maybe it'll count next time when I vote for anyone but Nighthorse.

It's incredible to listen to these Global Climate Deniers and their convoluted and tortured excuses for not believing. Here's an example of what they sound like:
"What do you mean, I shouldn't hang out on a shooting range?
What are you, some lefty whacko?
There's no reson to think that there is any danger. Oh, sure, in the past people have been hit by bullets on a shooting range, but no more so than have been hit on shooting ranges since the beginning of time.

In fact there have been scientific studies that the chances of a bullet, which is very small in relationship to me, taking up the same volume of space as my body at any given time are infintessimal almost to the point of being non-existant. And I am so sure of this I'm going to make my children and neighbors walk around on the shooting range as well."

It would actually be funny if it were only them suffering the consequences of this type of thinking.

How about this? If there is only a chance of 1 in 1 million that your child would be hit wouldn't that be a chance you wouldn't be willing to take?

I thought you guys were the ones with the zero percent doctrine.
Peace. Out. Recycle.

Today is America Recycles Day and I hope it finds you all well. In the spirit of recycling (which is the right thing to do), and saving energy (ditto), and doing the right thing for the people and the planet, which many of us knew 35 years ago (remember Jimmy Carter?), I say we go to the polls and recycle every one of these spinless politicians (of whichever party) for some new ones who want to work for the common good instead of the Corporate Plantation Owners. If there is no other candidate running who will commit to do the job of the people--run yourself. Let's face it, could you do any worse?
The way I learned it in school was: "government for the people, by the people." A lot of our leadership seems to have forgotten that little lesson, so I say it's time to teach them a lesson. They say they want us to wait til this administration is out of office before they will do anything. I say, they can leave with this administration, and good riddance!

I thought I post some information because you might not see it anywhere else.
November is Recycling Month and Nov. 15th is "America Recycles Day".It's kinda odd, in what I've always thought of as a progressive city (Denver) with an allegedly progressive mayor, there isn't a single event scheduled in the city.
I just hope that means that we're all so busy doing the work of recycling that we don't have time to raise awareness. Hopefully our Mayor and maybe even our Governor will get involved next year.

I haven't posted in a while cause I've been busy and very frustrated with everything. I guess you can get used to just about anything.
When you have to suffer outrage after outrage, day after day, eventually it becomes commonplace and you barely notice it anymore.

Poor kids need healthcare? Screw 'em! They shouldn't have been born poor. They have the chance to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and really make something of themselves through hard-work and study. Just like our pResident did. It's hard work. I know that. It's hard being a "C" student, especially when your teachers/profs were paid or threatened to raise the grades to a "C".

If you have nothing to hide you shouldn't mind being spied on. Only Terrists and evil-doers don't want to be spied on.

Where's your flag lapel pin? The one with seven stripes and 20 or so white spots in the blue field, made by child labor in China?

Don't really want our troops to die for nothing? Why don't you support our troops?

Waterboarding was prosecuted by us in other miitary adventures and that was illeagal cause we weren't doing it. It's all in the way you look at the water. if you're looking down at a face that's under water, that's okay. If you're looking up through the water at someone holding you down while you struggle for breath, it doesn't seem quite so okay. I suppose if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't mind being tortured. (see: only terrists and evil-doers above)

Two months ago, global warming didn't exist, now it's a priority, as long as it doesn't cost anything.

Oh, my god! Iran is supplying weapons to the Iraqi insurgents, so they must be bombed. The biggest supplier of weapons to the insurgents? Huge Ammo dumps left unprotected; shipments of hundreds of thousands of rifles and machine guns unaccounted for and lost; millions of american dollars in CASH lost. I wonder if anyone could purchase weapons with millions of dollars?

A 2mm fetus is more important than a 2 ft child.

Gays are going to destroy marriage, because they don't have the same family values as David Vitters, or Newt Gingrich, or Randy Cunningham, or Larry Craig, or... (pick almost any of them at random and sing along.)

(Unless they want to work for free) Let's go kill us some brown people! I mean "Liberate". Spread Freedom like a big pool of blood.

All of this from people who are supposedly far more religious and holy than I could ever hope to be.
I'm sick of it.

Keep this one in mind: Matthew 5:9

Peace. Out.

Now Bush wants another $196 billion. Well, maybe if you give us an accounting for the last $400 Billion. To the penny. Where did it go? If you can't answer that, why should we believe you'll use this money wisely? Why hasn't the party of fiscal responsibility been asking this question for the last five years?
BTW if you pay a contractor, say "Blackwater" for example, huge sums of money without the process of a competitive bidding system, and you pay them with money from the patriotic taxpayers (Middle Class), the least they could do would be to pay taxes to the country that has been so generous to them. Not only do Blackwater make 5 times what the troops make, they don't even seem to want to support the troops with taxes. Why do they HATE AMERICA???