Thursday, January 27, 2005

# 97 Homeland Czar defended bin-Laden.

This is the guy Bush tabbed to be in charge of Homeland security? A lawyer who has defended a terrorist financier who funded Osama bin Laden - the guy we are supposed to be fighting this war on terror against? Any Bush-bot who can't see what's going on now should be given up for dead (at least from the neck up).

http://www.universitystar.com/main/article.php?aid=1236

Security Risk?

by: Melissa Johnson and Sander Hicks,
News Reporter and Special to the Star -

Federal Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff’s ties to the financiers of the Sept. 11 attacks may prevent his confirmation as Homeland Security Chief.

According to a June 20, 2000 article in the The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey, Chertoff defended accused terrorist financier Dr. Magdy Elamir.

Elamir’s HMO was sued by the State of New Jersey to recoup $16.7 million in losses. At least $5.7 million went “to unknown parties... by means of wire transfers to bank accounts where the beneficial owner of the account is unknown,” according to the article.

Foreign intelligence reports given to then chairman of the House International Relations Committee Ben Gilman, R-New York, in 1998 accused Magdy Elamir of having “had financial ties with Osama bin Laden for years,” according to an Aug. 2, 2002 Dateline NBC broadcast.

In 1999, Magdy Elamir and brother Mohamed were named suspects in Operation Diamondback, an FBI/ATF undercover infiltration of Pakistani arms merchants who sought to arm Osama bin Laden with conventional and nuclear weapons, according to independent researcher and former New Jersey police officer Allan Duncan and taped transcripts with FBI informant Randy Glass.

Mohamed Elamir tried to purchase “small arms and ammunition” in a recorded telephone conversation with Glass, according to Dateline.

Dateline confirmed that Elamir and his corporations had paid at least $5,000 to Egyptian arms dealer Diaa Mohsen, who Elamir referred to on camera as a family friend.

Moshen was sentenced to 30 months for his involvement in Operation Diamondback. However, Elamir was never convicted. Duncan, who was hired by family members of the Sept. 11 victims to research government ties to the attacks, said the reason Magdy Elamir was never convicted was because he was never charged with a crime.

“By the time Operation Diamondback culminated in arrests in the summer of 2001, Michael Chertoff was the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the criminal division and Operation Diamondback would have fallen under his prevue since it was a criminal case and not a counterterrorism case,” Duncan said.

From 1990 to 1994, Chertoff was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, during the period when the first attack on the World Trade Center took place.

Omar Abdel-Rahman preached at the Al Salam mosque and was later arrested for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, according to Dateline.

Magdy Elamir was one of the Al Salam mosque’s financial supporters.

“The Jersey City area and particularly the Al Salam mosque were allowed to continue to be one of the major hubs of terrorist activity in the United States,” Duncan said.

In October 2001, Chertoff was appointed head of Operation Green Quest, a multi-agency initiative to target sources of funding for terrorist organizations, according to a U.S. Customs Service press release.

Chertoff told the Associated Press on Oct. 25, 2001 that, “The lifeblood of terrorism is money, and if we cut the money we cut the blood supply.”

Chertoff served in the capacity of Assistant Attorney General of the criminal division at the Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003. While acting in this position, Chertoff played a central role in formulating U.S. anti-terrorism policy — from increasing the FBI’s authority to conduct domestic surveillance at religious gatherings to the effort to secretly detain hundreds of Middle Easterners in the United States.

Chertoff was one of the chief architects of the Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act, also known as the International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001. Chertoff was then nominated to the Third Circuit U.S Court of Appeals in June 2003.

Though there is no formal career path for federal judges, it is common for appellate judges to have served as district judges prior to appointments, according to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Despite having never served in the judiciary, Chertoff was made a federal judge whose jurisdiction includes Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the Virgin Islands.

After 19 months, President Bush nominated Chertoff to the position of Secretary of Homeland Security.

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a government advocacy watchdog agency, has noticed Chertoff’s advancement from Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice to Secretary of Homeland Security nominee over the past four years.

“It’s an exceptional rise to power,” said Fitton.

Whether or not Chertoff had prior knowledge of Elamir’s alleged connections to Diaa Mohsen and bin Laden is unknown.

Calls to Chertoff’s office were not returned.

Senate confirmations hearings for Chertoff have yet to be scheduled, according to the office of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

# 96 Everything but what is needed.

Bush is proposing spending gajillions of dollars for all kinds of alleged programs to combat terror, but he withdrew funds to beef up our borders, one of the few things that might really help. It's almost as if he doesn't really want to hinder the terrorists.

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42546

INVASION USA

President won't add 2,000 border agents

Despite signing bill calling for bigger staff, Bush budget will not include needed funds

January 25, 2005

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Despite his signing a bill authorizing 2,000 new border agents, President Bush will not ask Congress for enough money to fund them.

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told USA Today yesterday that the administration's new budget will propose "good incremental increase" in the number of agents but would not approach the 2,000 level.

As part of the intelligence bill passed last month, Congress proposed nearly doubling the number of Border Patrol agents by adding 10,000 over five years. But Ridge scoffed at such an increase, saying it would be an inefficient use of homeland security funds.

"The notion that you're going to have 10,000 is sort of a fool's gold," Ridge told the paper. "It's nice to say you're going to have 10,000 more Border Patrol agents in five years, but what other part of Homeland Security do you want to take the money from?"

(TG: ANY part!)

He said it makes more sense to pay for a combination of more agents and better technology, such as ground sensors and cameras.

T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, criticized the lack of funding.

"Cameras don't catch people, people catch people," he told USA Today. "If you don't have the agents you're not going to catch the people your technology sees."

The number of illegal aliens in the U.S. grows daily with estimates ranging from 8 million to 20 million.

# 95 Deficit Will Hit Record.

This is a boring one, but a clear mark against Bush in yet another area. This one will eventually sink the country, showing that the love of money is the root of all evil.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/budget_deficits

White House: Deficit Will Hit Record $427B

By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The White House will project that this year's federal deficit will hit $427 billion, a senior administration official said Tuesday, a record amount partly driven by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The official, among three who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, said the estimate was a conservative one that assumed some higher spending than other analysts use.

Last February, the White House projected that the 2004 shortfall would hit $521 billion, only to see it come in at $412 billion. The official said the figure represented progress because it would be smaller than last year's record $412 billion shortfall when compared to the size of the growing U.S. economy. That ratio is a key measure of the deficit's potency.

"Our projections will show we remain on track to cut the deficit in half by 2009," one of President Bush's budget goals, the official told reporters. Even so, the number was among a blizzard of figures released Tuesday that illustrated how federal deficits remain a problem that Bush and Congress must reckon with.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that thanks to tax cuts and hurricane aid passed since its last calculations in September, the 10-year deficit had worsened since then by $503 billion, not counting war expenditures.

The congressional analysts projected that this year's deficit would hit $368 billion — which would be the third highest ever — excluding war costs. Adding expenditures for Iraq and Afghanistan operations would push this year's red ink to about $400 billion, said Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst.

Underscoring budget pressures hounding lawmakers, senior administration officials invited reporters to the White House to outline their upcoming request for an additional $80 billion, or slightly more, to help pay this year's costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I am grateful that Congress in a strong bipartisan fashion has consistently voted to support our troops, and I urge it to do so again," Bush said in a written statement.

There is little doubt lawmakers will follow Bush's lead, as they have repeatedly since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The latest proposal would bring war spending so far to about $308 billion, including $25 billion to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Congressional Research Service, which provides reports to lawmakers.

Bush plans to send his 2006 budget to Congress on Feb. 7. It will not include a request for more war funds for that year, the officials said, saving that request for later.

Tuesday's forecast by the Congressional Budget Office was widely awaited at the start of a year when Bush and Republicans are likely to propose tight spending restraints — and battle Democrats and some GOP lawmakers over those plans.

The budget office projected $855 billion in shortfalls for the decade ending in 2015. The office estimated that deficits would gradually fade into slight surpluses by 2012 — but not many were taking that forecast at face value. In making those estimates, the budget office assumed that current tax and spending laws would be unchanged, as it is required to do by law.

The practice is designed to give lawmakers a neutral starting point to work from when crafting legislation. As a result, the budget office projections omitted war costs and some of Bush's top legislative priorities.

The budget office said assuming U.S. troop strength in Iraq and Afghanistan stays steady through next year and then declines gradually, those wars would add $590 billion to the decade's deficits. Bush's proposal to prevent his tax cuts from expiring — and easing the impact of the alternative minimum tax on middle-income Americans, a move both parties favor — could add red ink exceeding $2.3 trillion, the budget office said.

The budget office did not say how much Bush's plans to revamp Social Security would cost, but it has been estimated at $1 trillion to $2 trillion. On the other hand, the budget office assumed most domestic programs would grow at the same rate as inflation. Keeping such spending at about the same level as this year for the entire decade — which Bush may come close to proposing — could reduce deficits by $1.3 trillion over the period, the budget office said.

Republicans used the deficit figures to argue that budget savings must be found this year, including from popular benefit programs. "If we do nothing, our kids and grandkids will be overwhelmed by the costs of our inaction," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg, R-N.H. Democrats blamed Bush and the GOP for the daunting piles of red ink.

"Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House, but they can't control the budget and they can't escape responsibility for its dismal condition," said Rep. John Spratt of South Carolina, top Democrat on the House Budget Committee.

The administration officials provided little new detail about their war package. They said of the $80 billion, about $75 billion would be for the Defense Department, with most of it for the Army. They said such spending would include personnel costs, the start of an effort to add at least 17 combat brigades to the Army and replacing worn out equipment.

The rest of the money would largely be for aid the State Department would give to U.S. allies and for other expenses. Included would be money to help new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, to build an embassy in Baghdad and to aid victims of fighting in Sudan's Darfur province.

The cost of the embassy alone has been estimated at $1.5 billion. They did not state whether the request would include aid for Indian Ocean countries staggered by the tsunami. But one said the United States was spending $5 million daily there, and the administration would seek a "significant request, very generous assistance."

The United States has already committed $350 million to tsunami recovery efforts.

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

# 94 Bush pushes LOST treaty again.

He tried last year to get us LOST and was rebuffed. He tried again last month to get us LOST and failed again (#44 http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/Archive/2004/Dec/17-588638.html). But Bush is persistent, and he's trying again while his supporters are still drunk from the inauguration. If only he had this kind of persistence to try to make abortion and the sodomite agenda illegal, he would probably be successful.

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42528

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER

Sovereignty-sapping U.N. accord gets new life

Rice says Bush 'would like to see' Law of the Sea Treaty passed in Senate

January 25, 2005 By Ron Strom
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

The Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST, a U.N. agreement decried by U.S. sovereignty advocates who were able to prevent consideration by the United States Senate last year, appears to have new life after comments made by Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice at her confirmation hearings.

The international treaty, which gives a U.N. agency called the Seabed Authority control of over 70 percent of the earth's surface and natural resources, was thought to be a slam-dunk for approval in the Senate last year, but opponents pressured members of the body, including Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and no vote was held.

Bush administration officials have pushed for the treaty's passage, as has Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. Lugar held hearings on the legislation in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year, but failed to allow opponents of the treaty to testify.

According to an e-mail alert from the American Conservative Union, Lugar then "exerted pressure on Majority Leader Bill Frist to bring the matter to the full Senate – without debate and without a recorded vote." Besides giving the U.N. power over seven-tenths of the earth's surface, the treaty would have authority to tax by requiring a permit to engage in any activity affecting the seabed, such as oil drilling or mining. The permit would cost $250,000.

The Seabed Authority could also require royalty payments for minerals extracted.

# 93 Bush promotes democracy in Inaugural.

" So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world."

America is not a democracy, she is a republic. That's one of the reasons people hate the Pledge of Allegiance which is given "to the Republic, for which it stands".

A democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. It is mob rule.

Our representative, Constitutional Republic provides for inalienable rights, which cannot be abrogated by majority vote, or even unanimous vote. The founders of America loathed a democracy.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/10691575.htm

# 92 Bush invokes New World Order in Inaugural.

"When our Founders declared a new order of the ages; when soldiers died in wave upon wave for a union based on liberty; when citizens marched in peaceful outrage under the banner "Freedom Now" they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled."

The term "a new order of the ages" is the translation of a motto on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States (www.greatseal.com) which can be seen on the back of the dollar bill, written in Latin as, "Novus Ordo Seclorum", a synonym for "new world order".

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/10691575.htm

# 91 Bush elevates Koran in Inaugural Address.

After being sworn in George W. Bush gave his Inaugural Address, which included the following:

That edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran, and the varied faiths of our people.

Of course the Bible and the Koran conflict greatly. They cannot both build the same kind of society. Notice that only two examples of the Bible are alluded to (and one of them is probably also in the Koran), but the WORDS of the Koran (assumedly ALL of them), and the varied FAITHS of OTHER people (non-Christians) are lauded.

He is making it out that America was built by the Koran, other faiths, and just a sprinkling of Christianity.

http://thetarpit.blogspot.com/2005/01/president-bush-takes-oath-on-bible.html

"The words of the Koran?"

Those are the words of Mohammed, a 7th Century Arabian conqueror and tyrant. At what point did the Koran become a contributor to the American ideal of freedom? At what point did multiculturalism and political correctness make it so imperative that even a Republican President would choose to ignore the truth and elevate the likes of Mohammed to the level of even Moses, let alone of Jesus?

The truths of Sinai are embodied in the Ten Commandments. The Sermon on the Mount is an essential revelation of the teachings and character of Jesus Christ. These are implicitly understood as foundational elements of Western and American Civilization. Can this be said of the words of the Koran? Sura 9 of the Koran is understood by Muslim scholars to be the last Sura "given" to Mohammed, and as such is the final word, trumping any previous Sura with which it might conflict. It is essentially the Great Commission of Mohammedans, and not surprisingly, it deals extensively with the practice of jihad, or holy war.

Here are a few passages from Sura 9: 9:5

But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

That doesn't sound much like "turn the other cheek." What President Bush has done in his address is reiterate his fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the war America now fights. The words of the Koran do not reinforce America's ideal of freedom; the words of Mohammed directly inspire the mortal threat that Islam poses to American Civilization.

If we do not understand our enemy, what are our prospects for victory?

Thursday, January 20, 2005

# 90 It's the economy, stupid.

"But the economy is doing so well!" cry the Bush-bots.

Tell that to the thousands of waiters and waitresses who lost high-tech jobs to India and China. Tell that to the thousands who lost jobs to NAFTA. Tell that to the women who are forced to work to afford housing that a man used to be able to provide for his family by himself.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050119/D87NA42O0.html

Inflation on Fastest Pace Since 2000

Jan 19, 1:08 PM (ET)

By MARTIN CRUTSINGERWASHINGTON (AP) - Consumer prices jumped 3.3 percent last year as the biggest surge in fuel bills in 14 years pushed up inflation at the fastest pace since 2000, the government reported Wednesday.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050119/1/3pyjn.html

Warren Buffett sees no way but down for US dollar

# 89 Indonesia fears U.S. invasion.

Why shouldn't they fear a U.S. invasion? We're invading everybody else, or planning to. They have a large Muslim population. They would be easy pickings right after the tsunami. And we've done it to them before.

http://search.csmonitor.com/2005/0114/p06s01-woap.html

Indonesia tightens access to Aceh

Aid groups are protesting registration demands.

The USS Lincoln left Indonesian waters on Wednesday.

By Tom McCawley Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA – The devastation wreaked on Aceh's coast by the Dec. 26 tsunami was so great that Indonesia's fears of foreign intervention in the war-torn province were briefly swept away. Aceh, which lost nearly 100,000 people, was reopened to foreign aid workers, and even the US Marines were invited to help by a nation that hosted huge demonstrations over the invasion of Afghanistan.

But on Tuesday, Indonesia announced that all foreign aid workers in the province will have to register with the military or be expelled, and said they must travel with armed soldiers in areas deemed to be insurgent hotbeds.

Indonesia also said the Australian, US, and other foreign soldiers who were among the first to bring aid to victims here will have to leave Indonesia by the end of March - or sooner if possible.

Many members of the Indonesian military and political establishment also blame foreigners - particularly Australia and the US - for the 1999 referendum that led to independence for the tiny former province of East Timor and have vowed that Indonesia will never allow itself to lose territory again.

# 88 Bomb Iran?

And just what involvement did Iran have in 9-11? Iran has a MUCH larger military than Iraq (which is why we helped Iraq for so many years).

If we're still having trouble with Iraq, how will we fare in Iran? Who is next in this WWIII, war on terror?

http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/009312.html

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050118/pl_nm/iran_usa_dc

Bush Won't Rule Out Iran Attack

TEHRAN -- Iran has the military might to deter attacks against it, its defense minister said in remarks published on Tuesday, one day after President Bush said he would not rule out military action.

Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said the Islamic Republic, which has seen U.S. forces topple regimes in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq in the last three years, did not fear attack.

# 87 Cinderella not invited to the ball.

Once again it looks like Prince George will favor the evil stepsister, Communist China, over Free China (Taiwan).

The reds got an invitation to the inaugural ball, but Taiwan was jilted again.

Bush's relationship with the commies has gotten so cozy we don't even let Taiwan beat up on our 12 years olds in the Little League World Series anymore.

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200501\FOR20050119a.html

China, Taiwan Bicker Over Invitation to Bush Inauguration

By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com
International Editor
January 19, 2005
Pacific Rim Bureau

(CNSNews.com) - The longstanding dispute between China and Taiwan has spilled over into plans for President Bush's inauguration, with Beijing insisting that Taiwan -- the island it considers a rebel province -- has not been invited to send official representatives to Thursday's event.

Taiwan has sent a delegation to attend the ceremony, headed by a Nobel laureate and top academic, Lee Yuan-tseh, and including senior figures such as Joseph Wu, chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, the body dealing with Taiwan's relations with mainland China. But in Beijing, foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan questioned the Taiwanese envoys' status.

After the Chinese government had "expressed its concern" to Washington, he said, it had been assured that the Americans "have not invited and do not recognize the so-called special envoy delegation from Taiwan."

But Kong stressed that China's ambassador to Washington, Yang Jiechi, had been invited to attend.

In turn, Kong's counterpart in Taipei, Michael Lu, urged China to "change its narrow-minded way of thinking and drop its irrational rhetoric."

China's communist authorities consistently work to deny Taiwan diplomatic recognition. Most foreign governments comply with Beijing's demands that the self-governing island not be allowed to participate in international community and that its leaders be isolated.

The U.S. stance is more ambiguous: Washington has full diplomatic ties with Beijing and only quasi-official ties with Taiwan, but is also committed by law to help the island defend itself against outside aggression.

The Bush administration has offered Taiwan its largest weapons purchase deal ever, while at the same time chastising President Chen Shui-bian for his leanings towards independence. Taiwan has strong support in the U.S. Congress, where some lawmakers have been critical of the administration for not being more supportive of democratic Taiwan.

Historically strained relations between China and Taiwan worsened following Chen's 2000 election.The president, who won re-election last March, wants to redraw the island's constitution and put it to a referendum before his second term ends in 2008 -- a plan that has infuriated Beijing.

In another recent development, China's legislature is preparing to pass an anti-secession law designed to counter any future move by Taiwan to declare formal independence. Taiwan says the law would legalize the use of force against the island.

Even a bit of relatively good news -- an unprecedented agreement by the two sides to allow direct charter flights across the Taiwan Strait over the upcoming Chinese New Year period -- has done little to ease the continuing tensions.

# 86 Inauguration security by terrorists?

I couldn't make stuff up that would be as far out as things really are.

The justification for the extravagant expenditures for the upcoming coronation was the threat of terror (which should be under control with all the anti-terror laws that have been passed). Now it turns out that part of the security will involve two terrorist organizations - including the group that ordered an assassination of Bush when he visited Columbia!

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42454

D.C. security data given to terror-tied protest group

Details about 2001 inauguration now in hands of people planning huge parade demonstration

January 19, 2005
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

In compliance with a lawsuit-inspired court order, the District of Columbia has handed over significant amounts of security data to the International Action Center, a protest group that maintains ties with two terrorist organizations and is a front group for the communist Workers World Party.

According to watchdog group Accuracy in Media, over 1,000 pages of documents, 38 videotapes and numerous photographs and audiotapes related to D.C. police tactics, training and planning and the 2001 presidential inauguration are now in the hands of IAC, which has ties to FARC and the National Liberation Army, both of which the State Department describes as terrorist organizations.

IAC was founded by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who is the most prominent attorney on Saddam Hussein's defense team.

Colombia's FARC has been accused of ordering an assassination attempt on President Bush when he visited the country in November. The security information includes:

  • Lesson plans and handbooks on use of aerosol sprays, force and tactical batons;

  • Management of Mass Demonstrations, Civil Disturbance Units training documents;

  • Metro Police Department instruction on use of firearms and other service weapons;

  • Portions of "Operations Plan, Parade Manual and Civil Disturbance Unit Response Plan for the 54th Inauguration of the President of the United States";

  • All rooftop and street-level surveillance videotapes of the presidential inauguration;

  • Redacted logs from the Synchronized Operations Command Center and the running resum¨¦ for the Inauguration Day intelligence teams; and

  • The identification of all plainclothes MPD officers who were detailed for the 2001 Inauguration to intelligence teams.

In addition, D.C cooperated with a court order to reveal the identities of undercover officers who had infiltrated IAC and its related organizations.

Lawyers for the District of Columbia strenuously objected to turning over the data, citing law enforcement privilege and potential security breaches.

The IAC also requested numerous other documents including the "Intelligence Operational Plan" for the presidential inauguration. The International Action Center is staffed by members of the Workers World Party.

The groups jointly publish articles in support of FARC activities including "spectacular" raids on U.S.-trained battalions in Colombia and communiqu¨¦s signed with the slogan "Liberation or death."

The IAC has sent delegations to meet with FARC leaders in the Colombian jungle and agitates in support of the group's goals.

Accuracy in Media's Sherrie Gossett is the author of a special report on the data transfer. Said Gossett: "Given that videotaping a monument can get one arrested in the post-9/11 world, it's stunning to see that dozens of inauguration surveillance tapes and other data have been handed over by the court ¨D and to a group that maintains ties with terrorist groups and whose leader is working for Saddam Hussein himself."

The Workers World Party and the so-called Anarchist Resistance both are extremely active in "counter-inaugural" activities and plan large protests of tomorrow's second inauguration of Bush.

The WWP has had a "violent orientation," according to a congressional study of the group, while Anarchist Resistance vows to "bring anarchy to the streets of DC ¨C make resistance visible, and ring in the next four years with a smash!" It has advised its members to get on the parade route early in the morning. In 2001, the group claims, it "smashed a secret service check point."

The Associated Press reports that the National Park Service "has agreed to give thousands of anti-war demonstrators a prime spot along President Bush's inaugural parade route that will allow them to protest during the procession."

# 85 Log Cabin queers share key agenda with GWB.

Once again, even though they sometimes have to pretend to be opposed to the alleged conservatism of George Bush, the Republican perverts know an ally when they see one.

The sodomites know Bush is not conservative in this agenda (#31), his best friend knows he's not conservative on homosexual agenda (#75) - only willfully ignorant Christians refuse to acknowledge the truth.

Log Cabin Republicans Endorse 'Reform Agenda'

By Susan Jones

CNSNews.com

Morning Editor January 19, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - The Log Cabin Republicans did not endorse President Bush in the November election, but the homosexual advocacy group now says it supports key elements of the president's reform agenda -- and will work with members of Congress and the administration "to make sure these reform proposals become law."

"There is a tremendous opportunity for gay and lesbian Americans and our allies to play a key role in the important debates on Capitol Hill and to benefit from the enactment of many Republican reform proposals," said Log Cabin Republicans President Patrick Guerriero in a press release.

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200501\POL20050119b.html

# 84 Condi admits bad decisions, called liar, confirmed anyway.

Sen. Boxer backs Rice into the ropes, questioning her honesty in covering for Bush mistakes. Rice admits to bad decisions made on the war with Iraq.

Yet the Senate panel recommends her to be confirmed by a 16-2 vote.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050119/D87N8DRG0.html

Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice acknowledged "there were some bad decisions" by the Bush administration on Iraq

Sen. Barbara Boxer accused Rice of "an unwillingness to give Americans the full story because selling the war was so important to Dr. Rice."

Boxer said, the toll of American dead and wounded is the "direct result" of Bush administration "rigidness" and misstatements.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050119/D87MT3OO0.html

Boxer came close to accusing Rice of having lied in her public statements about the run-up to war in Iraq.

"Your loyalty to your mission you were given overwhelmed your respect for the truth, and I don't say it lightly," Boxer said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/18/RICEBOXER.DTL&type=printable

# 83 Troops spread too thin.

U.S. military troops are spread far to thin, and could be unable to handle a legitimate threat to our country.

We're all over the globe, fighting wars we don't belong in, using our military for non-military purposes, suffering a 20% non-deployable crisis (largely due to pregnant women), and having 25% of the forces made up of reservists.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050116/OPINION04/101160018/-1/opinion

Social Security needs to take a back seat to national security

Col. David Hackworth

Published: Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005

The most important element in war is the soldier. Everything and everyone else must play second fiddle to the guy on the ground who digs the enemy out with the point of his bayonet.

This remained the case in the Cold War missile age, and - like it or not - it’s even more so in the nasty hit-and-run fights of today and those down the terrorist track.

Because of “shock and awe,” Napoleon’s time-honored principle “God is on the side of the strongest battalion” no longer applies in conventional war. But it sure relates to the wars of insurgency our grunts are presently engaged in around the globe.

And here’s the rub: The Marines and the Army are stretched well beyond the breaking point - we simply don’t have enough mud soldiers in the ready rack to win these crucial ground campaigns. Without immediate relief, I worry that we’ll soon see a replay of what went down during the Vietnam War: Many of our top soldiers will hang up their rifles and hit civvy street - where the chances of living longer and easier come with the territory, and spouses are infinitely happier because they’re not sweating out every knock on the front door.

If this situation isn’t fixed ASAP, it could result in the finest professional ground force - active duty and Reserve - this nation has ever mustered becoming a mirror of the disenchanted, drugged-out, late Vietnam War crew that was more into fragging officers and smoking dope than fighting the VC.

The brass must deep-six conventional thinking and organize appropriately for the war at hand with Islamic radicals that will probably drag on for decades. Both the Marine and Army active duty need at least a 20 percent immediate increase, bringing the Marines to 200,000 and the Army to 600,000.

Not only do our armed forces have to gear up for the long haul, more Special Forces groups are needed as well. And more sweat on the training field must become standard operating procedure rather than the kinder, gentler drill that Army recruits are now served to maintain the low attrition that ultimately raises the casualty rate on the battlefield.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have also broken the Army Reserve and National Guard. More than one-fourth of the troops serving in these theaters are part-time soldiers - many serving a second tour, and some looking hard at tour No. 3.

Yes, these needed changes will cost billions of dollars more per year, but not to worry. If the irrelevant gold-plated Cold War weapons systems - such as obsolete multibillion-dollar ships and trillion-dollar fleets of fighter aircraft designed to shoot down the Soviets, who went down in flames years ago, plus the Marines’ flying albatross, the V-22 hybrid helicopter-airplane, which after more than 20 years of costly development does only two things well: crash and burn - were all canceled, the Pentagon could easily pay for the new boots on the ground from its own hide. And the only losers would be the weapons merchants themselves and the self-serving politicians who have their hands in their friendly local war racketeers’ pockets.

Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, chief of the Army Reserve, recently stood tall and blasted the Pentagon for its “dysfunctional policies.” He said his 200,000-man unit of part-time soldiers is “rapidly degenerating into a broken force.”

Enlistment and re-enlistment in these two important reserve elements are falling off the charts. Helmly said his Reserve Command is being placed in “grave danger” of not being able to meet future missions and, if nothing’s done, soon won’t be able to meet “requirements.”

Today, the regular Army has about 100,000 nondeployables out of a 500,000-man regular force. The Reserves and Guard dud ratios are even higher. Any civilian corporation that allowed too many slackers, deadwood and deadbeats would belly-up. Since pregnancy, disability and too many single spouses with kids who cannot deploy are a large part of this problem, the Army needs to understand once and for all that we’re at war and can no longer afford the luxury of social experiments.

While Congress studies long-range problems like Social Security, the force that defends America is going down the drain. It’s about time that body got its priorities straight and paid more attention to a higher security - our national security!

Retired Army Col. David Hackworth is a syndicated columnist.

# 82 Good thing they cancelled Kid Rock.

Man, they might have gotten profanity if they had Kid Rock perform. Good thing they went with wholesome groups, eh? And there's still more to come, since the inauguration isn't until Thursday.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050119/D87MSQ8O0.html

Singer Curses at Inaugural Youth Concert

Jan 18, 9:59 PM (ET)

By LEIGH STROPE

WASHINGTON (AP) - You might say the Janet Jackson moment of President Bush's inaugural festivities came Tuesday at a youth concert with hundreds of preteen Hilary Duff fans in the audience.

No nudity was involved, but the Vince Neil-style profanity probably didn't win rock band Fuel any fans at the Federal Communications Commission, nor from the parents at the concert.

Now the Pennsylvania band is just hoping the concert, "America's Future Rocks Today," wasn't aired live.

Borrowing a word from Motley Crue's Neil, the lead singer of Fuel proclaimed, "Welcome to the greatest ----ing country in the world."

Brett Scallions followed with a quick apology of "excuse my language."

# 81 Gonzales joins W in aim to ban semi-autos.

Now the president and his attorney general both support banning semi-automatic weapons, despite the fact that such arms are a Constitutional right.

Do you think four more years of Bush will give us more or less gun rights?

More or less homosexual agenda?

More or less illegal aliens?

More or less abortion?

Okay, so exactly what is conservative about Bush?


http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2997962

AG nominee supports assault weapons ban

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales told the Senate today that he supports extending the expired federal assault weapons ban.

Gonzales said. "The president has made it clear that he stands ready to sign a reauthorization of the federal assault weapons ban if it is sent to him by Congress. I, of course, support the president on this issue."

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

# 79 Another pro-abort for GOP chair.

Ken Mehlmen is the reported sodomite who ran Bush's election campaign and was rewarded with the chairmanship of the GOP. To compliment the homosexualization of the Bush administration, Mehlmen named key Republican abortion advocate, Joann Davidson, to be his co-chair.

Did you expect (Big) Brother Bush to surround himself with conservative Christians?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/politics/14conserv.html

Supporter of Abortion Rights Is Choice for Republican Job

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
January 14, 2005

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 - Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has asked an Ohio Republican who supports some abortion rights to be his co-chairman, stirring the ire of social conservatives.

Mr. Mehlman's choice is Joann Davidson, who was chairwoman of the Bush campaign in the pivotal Ohio Valley region and a former speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. In an interview on Thursday, Ms. Davidson declined to discuss her views on abortion.

"My focus is on building a stronger party," she said.

Her nomination awaits approval by the Republican National Committee.

She has been a member of the advisory board of the abortion rights group Republicans for Choice since its founding in 1990, according to a statement posted on the group's Web site congratulating her.

"We look forward to working with her to help make sure the concerns of pro-choice and moderate Republicans are heard within the Republican National Committee headquarters," the statement said.

Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values, an Ohio-based conservative Christian group, said, "How in the world can you have a vice chair of the Republican Party on such an important issue as this one be on the wrong side of the party platform?"

Mr. Burress, who led the drive for a constitutional ballot measure banning same-sex marriage in Ohio, also faulted Ms. Davidson for failing to take a position on the measure.

The co-chairwoman of the party during the 2000 election, Patricia Harrison, also supported some abortion rights, but Mr. Burress argued that the 2004 election had changed the party.

"They have got to go," he said. "The pendulum is swinging the other way now. We have a seat at the table now."

Ms. Davidson, however, said she did not take a position on the state same-sex marriage initiative because of her role as chairwoman of the Bush presidential campaign in the Ohio Valley. She said gay rights issues had not come up during her tenure in the Statehouse, which she left in 2000.

Brian Jones, a Republican Party spokesman, said Mr. Mehlman had selected Ms. Davidson not because of her views of social issues but because of her critical role in the campaign.

"Joann Davidson is one of the top grass-roots activists and leaders in the entire country, and she helped with the historic effort in Ohio that was key to the president's victory," he said. "That is why she is someone who is ideal for this position."

# 78 Bush praises M.L. Commie King.

The very first letter-to-the-editor I ever wrote in my life was an expose of M.L. King as a phony and a commie.

His birth name was Michael. He plagiarized his doctoral thesis. He was a sexual pervert. He was not a Christian. He was surrounded by Communists and shared their beliefs and agenda. He caused riots everywhere he went.

But Bush praised him again today as a man who made America "a different and better place".

A bunch of other liberals like Jesse Jackson and John Conyers said similar glowing things.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6834876/

Monday, January 17, 2005

# 77 Bush supports over-the-counter abortions.

Can any sane Christian conservative still support this wicked man? Now he's advocating making the "morning after" abortifacient pill as available as aspirin.

More babies will be killed by this convenient pill than by all other methods combined, but some of you will still insist Bush is pro-life.

Items #76 and #77 should convince the most loyal, worshipful Bush-bot, that their hero is a FRAUD (like I told them years ago) and unworthy of the support of any Christian. But many will remain true to their beloved Sun Myung Bush, no matter what the facts are.

http://www.covenantnews.com/newswire/archives/009271.html

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is considering whether to make morning-after birth control available without a prescription, and like most issues that involve sex and pregnancy, it has generated heated debate.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/10660891.htm

The morning-after pill is a higher dose of the contraceptive hormones found in the Pill. It prevents ovulation or fertilization, and can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting into the uterus.

Because medical experts do not consider a woman to be pregnant until after an egg implants into the uterus, the morning-after pill is not considered abortion, although some conservatives object to any interference with a fertilized egg.

# 76 Sissy Bush drops queer-marriage amendment.

This one ought to count at least double.

The last place of refuge for Bush-bots was to parrot, "At least he wants to ban homosexual marriages!" NOT ANYMORE!

He got your vote, now he doesn't even have to pretend to be conservative.

He can stab you in the back and hit you below the belt. John Kerry never pulled a flip-flop of this magnitude.

To be honest, a Federal amendment was dangerous anyway, as it would give the fedgov authority over marriage, but it was Bush's effort to appear pro-family, now he doesn't even have that appearance.

http://www.covenantnews.com/newswire/archives/009269.html

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/10657618.htm

BUSH SAYS HE WILL NOT PUSH GAY MARRIAGE AMENDMENT

By Jim VandeHei And Michael A. Fletcher

THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON - President Bush said the public's decision to re-elect him was a ratification of his approach ...

"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post.

For the first time, Bush said he will not press senators to pass a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, the top priority for many social conservative groups.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/01/011605bush.htm

Bush Drops Gay Marriage Amendment

by Paul Johnson
365Gay.com

Washington Bureau Chief (Washington) President Bush said Sunday that he will not press the Senate to pass a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Post Bush said that he remains opposed to gay marriage but believes there aren't the votes in the Senate to ensure the amendment would be adopted.

The change in position comes just days after Democrats called on the President to abandon his push for an amendment. By dropping his push for a constitutional amendment Bush will likely incur the wrath of social conservatives within the GOP, but avoid a confrontation with Democrats when he needs their support in the Senate to confirm dozens of appointments.

TG: See that? He's abandoning the moral conservatives who voted him into office and instead appeasing the liberal Democrats. Isn't that what John Kerry would be doing? Who won this election?

Sunday, January 16, 2005

Bush Scorecard 51 - 75 as of 1-16-05

Remember, this is only the liberal and ungodly stuff Bush has done SINCE the election.

Here are 75 items in 75 days.

I'm having a hard time just recording them. I only have time to check a handful of sources. No doubt I've missed several others.

Still Bush has managed one a DAY.

It's inconceivable that John Kerry could've gotten away with this.

It's too bad you email folks can't see the graphics I have on the hard copies.

1 - 25 are on this page (click here)

26 - 50 are on this page (click here)


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51. From Ozzie to Elton to Kid Rock.

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42269http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42260

At least they backed off on this (for now), just the fact that they would consider this vile, obscene, wailer who makes Eminem sound clean-cut, is bad enough in itself. But it fits the Bush modus operandi.

He has already honored Black Sabbath's occult rocker Ozzy Osbourne and sodomite singer Elton John.

Even if they nix Kid Rock, no doubt they will have other raunchy rockers in his stead.


52. Bush administration pays off media.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/
2005-01-06-williams-whitehouse_x.htm?POE=click-refer

Imagine the uproar it would've caused if Bill Clinton had paid off the liberal media to promote his unconstitutional education programs.

It's no less wrong for Bush to pay off the liberal media to promote his unconstitutional education programs.

It really isn't - just because he's a Republican doesn't justify his criminal activities (That last line is for the Bush-bots who think anything Sun Myung Bush does is right just because it's him doing it).


53. Bush urges Congress to subvert American industry.

http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_154.shtml

The unconstitutional WTO tries to shackle American industry (cotton and steel this time).

Foreign countries subsidize products so they can be sold on market below COST to eliminate U.S. competition.

Congress tries to protect American interests. Of course WTO rules that's illegal and fines America. Bush urges Congress to comply with the New World Order directive.


54. Bush slips TIA into intelligence reform bill.

"Intelligence Reform Charade",
The New American,
January 10, 2005

The Orwellian Total Information Awareness program was nixed in 2003 by Congress after a huge outcry from freedom-loving Americans.

Now Bush has installed the same increased wiretapping, surveillance, search, arrest, detention, and prosecution powers into the recently passed Intelligence Reform bill (mentioned in #23).


55. Bosom buddies with Bill.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6803476/site/newsweek/

Remember, Bush already made point #4 of the Scorecard for his part in dedicating the Clinton library (no doubt a branch of the Lion's Den porn chain).

Now he invited his best-bud, and New World Order comrade, to come to the White House.

They are playing so nice together!


56. GWB invites Abbas to White House.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/525351.html

We've already seen that Abbas is every bit as radical as the late Yasser Arafat (http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42304), but Bush will pretend he's 'more moderate' (a more moderate terrorist?).

Abbas' consorting with the RCC is also quite 'interesting'. Remember, Arafat's wife, Suha, was Catholic.

What strange bedfellows Islam and the RCC appear to be.


57. Bush commits future taxes to tsunami victims.

http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050110/2005-01-10T173302Z_
01_N10190791_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-QUAKE-BUSH-DC.html

There's nothing wrong with charity, but there is something wrong with using someone else's money (stolen from them).

There is something wrong with committing someone else's future money.

There is something wrong with promising a future increase with other people's money.

Bush is welcome to send all he wants to Asia - if it's his money.

He doesn't let me send his money to Asian missionaries I support.


58. Conservative groups criticizing Bush.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050109-115953-7289r.htm

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/110528391012551.xml

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42360wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42360

How can this be? George W. Bush is supposed to be a conservative!

Well it's good to see a few others are wising up. They must've read the Bush Scorecard and come to grips with the reality that Bush is not a conservative at all.


59. Bush to stiff D.C. with inauguration bill.

He's sending *my* money abroad at his whim, but he's going to stiff D.C. for his inauguration bill?

Why does he need extra security? Isn't his Homeland Security program working?

Why does he need such a fancy, expensive coronation inauguration - he's already the president?

Why not cut expenses on the inauguration and use the leftover funds for the tsunami victims?

Arrogance does not begin to describe it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63896-2005Jan10.html


Move over 'Babes', Bush hits 60!

60. Inauguration to be porn exhibit by "Bush babes".

Now we know what W was conferring with Slick about - he was getting advice on how to make his daughters look like expensive sluts for the coronation ball.

Fortunately these depictions of their inaugural gowns are drawings, so you won't have to expose yourself to actual pornography if you check these links, but if you watch the coronation inauguration, with Jenna and Barbara actually wearing these things, you will get more than an eyeful.

What a shame a 'Christian' president will have his daughters dressing like whores, wearing backless gowns with the fronts low-cut almost to the belly button.

The gowns are reminiscent of the splash made by "J-Lo" a few years ago with her low-cut gown.

Perhaps we could call Jenna "J-Ho", and I guess Barbara is "B-Lo".

Ps 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318188/posts

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-01-10-inauguration-dresses_x.htm?
csp=34

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050111/480/dccd10701110103

Remember, this is only the liberal and ungodly stuff Bush has done SINCE the election, which was just over two months ago!


61. Bush tabs Clinton keeper for Homeland Security.

When Bernard Kerik withdrew as the choice for Homeland Czar over scandals, from another "Nannygate" to sexual impropriety, I was reminded of Janet Reno, who stepped into her office "under the radar" because of a similar situation.

I'm convinced that Reno was Clinton's original 'man' for the job, but she would've been harder to get confirmed if other candidates hadn't pulled out.

I told people to watch out, the replacement will be the guy Bush really wants, but he would have some baggage that would've hindered him, but now he'll be approved easily.

How's this for "baggage" on Mr. Chertoff?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6813011/msnbc.msn.com/id/6813011/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6812230/msnbc.msn.com/id/6812230/

... even Democrats applauded. …

“Chertoff has the resume to be an excellent H.S. Sec.,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

TG: The most liberal of Democrats love Chertoff. How can that be if he is a genuine conservative?

TG: So he's already taken a central role in assailing the freedoms of Americans without doing anything to thwart terrorists? Well, he fits right in with the Bush administration.

TG: The Clintons skated and Foster's death was never solved. Chertoff must be quite adept at sweeping things under the rug. No wonder he had problems with his nanny. He’ll perform admirably as the Homeland Czar. The KGB and Gestapo will be so envious.


62. Bush claims faith is not under attack.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050111-101004-3771r.htm

Presidents must get the best mind-altering drugs on the black market! Someone tell this idiot about Judge Roy Moore, General Boykins, Indianapolis Baptist Temple, and the Philly Five (among many other examples)!


63. Trade deficit grows.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/trade/2005-01-12-trade-deficit-nov_x.htm?POE=click-refer

Bush's policies catering to Commie China are primarily responsible for this surprising 7.7% worsening just when experts thought it would start to improve. Just wait until NAFTA becomes CAFTA and FTAA.

The worst is yet to come.


64. Assailing American rights rather than preventing terrorism.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington
/articles/2005/01/13/us_passports_should_have_fingerprints_ridge_says/

Once again the Bush administration is treating American citizens like they are the perpetrators of terrorism, rather than the victims, and are diluting our freedoms under the guise of preventing terror.


65. Bush says unconstitutional fraud war "absolutely" worth it.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/Inauguration/story?id=406639&page=1

Worth what? Thousands of Americans dying to reinstall many of Saddam's thugs back into power? Violating our Constitution was worth it?


66. Bush push for more federal control of education.

http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/january/0113_bush_education.shtml

Never mind that his "No Child Left Behind" act is totally unconstitutional. Never mind that it allows the fedgov to usurp state and local gov't and schools. Never mind that it's a threat to home schools, Christian schools, and private schools. Never mind it replaces the "Three Rs" with evolution, queer-tolerance, and multi-culturalism.


67. Pilots not considered "in combat".

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050111-101005-5277r.htm

Somewhere a comedian is struggling to make ends meet who would be better as President, because our President could sure make it as a comedian.

In order to meet the requirement that women are still not officially allowed into combat, Bush has redefined combat to exclude pilots.

That is a kick in the manhood of every war pilot in history.

Perhaps Bush doesn't believe pilots are actually combatants because he's judging by HIS OWN experience as a military pilot.


68. Women warriors.

http://www.bible-researcher.com/women/getpreg.html

Bush policies have encouraged women to get pregnant to avoid being sent to Iraq - but the military is catching on and sending them anyway, right after the child is born.


69. Wounded women warriors.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041220/OPINION02/412200308

32 women have been killed in combat so far and 230 injured.

How can this be when women are not legally allowed into combat?

http://www.bible-researcher.com/women/owens2.html

Oh, they are being snuck in by calling them "brigade-support battalions" instead of "maneuver battalions", with plans to expand the illegal entries.

During the holidays it looked like GWB was going to have a hard time hitting #60 and passing "the Babe" by the inauguration, but he must've just taken some time off for X-mas, because he has since exploded past McGwire at 70 and is soon to pass Bonds' 73 mark.

To show such a dramatic upswing opens up speculation that he must be on "the juice".


70. Bush's faith-based initiative exposed.

http://www.story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050115/ap_on_re_us/faith_based_lawsuitstory.news.

An Arizona church was disqualified for faith-based funds because they were "injecting religion" into the program, including encouraging people to witness their faith, read the scriptures, and attend church services.

Excuse me, but isn't that what a church is SUPPOSED to do?

Federal funding always comes with federal control, and this program is simply an attempt to secularize and neuter churches, bring them under control of the government, and keep them from serving God.

A Christian with the spiritual discernment of Mr. Potato Head could see the devil in that with his eyes closed.


71. Iraq becoming "terror haven".

http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4173981.stm

Wasn't Bush's attack on Iraq supposed to be to *prevent* terrorism?

Nope, kind of like how jails often make better criminals, this war is making better terrorists.


72. More unconstitutional spending.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2005/jan/14/011402378.html

Of course it's always for a "good" cause, like the children, the elderly, disaster victims - this time it's for college students as Bush is advocating increasing Pell tuition grants.

The fact that Pell was a flaming liberal should raise alarm, but Bush-bots just stare at their hero like deer caught in headlights.

If the gov't would keep their hands out of our pockets, we could afford to take care of these needs.


73. Bush tries to justify violating our Constitution.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12450-2005Jan15.html

Because he was reelected by a whopping 3% margin, GWB claims that justifies his unconstitutional war on Iraq.

The fact is, it doesn't matter if he was reelected by a unanimous vote, wrong is still wrong.

FDR was reelected to four terms. That didn't make his socialist agenda right.


74. Bush administration advocates torture again.

http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4175713.stm

New Att'y Gen. Gonzales has been an advocate of torture, although he had to bite his own tongue during his confirmation hearing.

Now departing Homeland Czar Tom Ridge is advocating torture as his parting gift.

It might be debatable if it was applied only to enemy combatants, but we've already seen (#45) that non-terrorist American citizens have been charged under the Patriot act, which means torture could potentially be applied to "homophobes", abortion protestors, fundamentalists, home schoolers, creationists, and YOU.


75. Bush best buddy admits W not conservative.

Newsmax.com
Insider Report:

After 75 examples from me in 75 days on http:/bushscorecard.blogspot.com now his own best friend confirms it with point #75.

Bush is NOT a conservative, even on the homosexual agenda.

Who would ever think Bush wouldn't be as conservative as his image? Why I'm so surprised you could knock me over with a feather!

Asked about President Bush's views on gay marriage, Betts declined to comment. He did add, "I don't think he's as conservative a person as the media generally characterizes him as."


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If you voted for a godly conservative, you sure didn’t get one with Bush. And unless you are willingly ignorant, you KNEW this is exactly what you voted for, because I’ve been telling you so for better than five years.

If you voted for Bush, you have NO right to complain about these things, because you ASKED for them KNOWING you’d get them.

I’d rather LOSE doing RIGHT than WIN(?) doing WRONG.

I’d rather be UNSUCCESSFUL in supporting what’s RIGHT than SUCCESSFUL in supporting WRONG.

We’ll be looking at more that 50 ungodly and liberal items just between the election and inauguration (less than three months).

There is no way Kerry, as repugnant as he is, could have kept up this pace. The Republicans would’ve OPPOSED him on most of these items.

What do we have to look forward to for the next four YEARS?

# 75 Bush best buddy admits W not conservative.

After 75 examples from me in 75 days on http://bushscorecard.blogspot.com/,
now his own best friend confirms it with point #75.

Bush is NOT a conservative, even on the homosexual agenda.

Who would ever think Bush wouldn't be as conservative as his image? Why I'm so surprised you could knock me over with a feather!

Newsmax.com
Insider Report:4.

President's Best Friend: Bush Not So Conservative

Few people know George Bush better that Roland Betts.

A New Yorker, Betts first met Bush at Yale -- and the two have been lifelong friends.

In a profile that appeared this week in the New York Times, Betts was described as playing the close, informal advisor role that Vernon Jordan played for Bill Clinton.

The Times described Betts' background as "a founder of the Chelsea Piers sports and entertainment complex in Manhattan, a force behind the rebuilding of ground zero, a former public school teacher in Harlem and the financier of films like 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Gandhi' - is one of the president's closest and most unusual confidants.

"Betts prides himself on the fact as a New York Democrat he has the President's ear who consults him on matters involving "cabinet appointments, the war in Iraq, Social Security, tax cuts, politics, architecture, sports and family."

Betts is credited with bringing the Republican Convention to New York this past summer.

"Which would you prefer: my being close to him, or some right-wing zealot being close to him?" Mr. Betts asked the Times reporter. "Who do you want to have his ear? So it's not a bad thing. Maybe I give him a little balance."

Betts offered some interesting revelations on the President:
· "The president said to me when he was elected something to the effect that, 'Laura and I are smart enough to know that when you're president of the United States, you don't make new friends,' meaning anybody who purports to be a new friend wants something," Betts explained.
· Asked about President Bush's views on gay marriage, Betts declined to comment. He did add, "I don't think he's as conservative a person as the media generally characterizes him as."
· "At the same time, Mr. Betts describes a president more concerned than he lets on about the perception among some critics that Vice President Dick Cheney is running the country.

When Mr. Bush spoke to the commission investigating the attacks of Sept. 11, Mr. Betts said that the president took along Mr. Cheney not to present a consistent story but to show the panel that Mr. Bush was in charge.

'What he told me was that he wanted people to see how deeply he understood all this,' Mr. Betts said, 'and how he was calling all the shots.'"

# 74 Bush administration advocates torture again.

New Att'y Gen. Gonzales has been an advocate of torture, although he had to bite his own tongue during his confirmation hearing.

Now departing Homeland Czar Tom Ridge is advocating torture as his parting gift. It might be debatable if it was applied only to enemy combatants, but we've already seen (#45) that non-terrorist American citizens have been charged under the Patriot act, which means torture could potentially be applied to "homophobes", abortion protestors, fundamentalists, home schoolers, creationists, and YOU.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4175713.stm

US 'should not rule out torture'

The outgoing head of the US Department of Homeland Security has said torture may be used in certain cases in order to prevent a major loss of life.

Speaking to the BBC, Tom Ridge said the US did not condone the use of torture to extract information from terrorists. But he said that under an "extreme set" of hypothetical circumstances, such as a nuclear threat, "it could happen".

A spokesman for Mr Ridge said his comments were taken out of context and did not amount to approval of torture.`

Mr Ridge's remarks come a day after the US was accused of eroding human rights by campaigners.

Prisoners shackled

A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticised the US over the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Shocking pictures last year alerted the world to abuses at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, and there have been numerous allegations of abuse and torture by former Guantanamo Bay inmates.

One FBI agent described in a memo seeing prisoners at Guantanamo shackled, hand and foot, in a foetal position for up to 24 hours at a time, and left to defecate on themselves.

The US defence department has announced a new investigation into the allegations. It has condemned the abuses in Iraq and says it is prosecuting those responsible.

Mr Ridge told BBC News 24's HARDtalk: "By and large, as a matter of policy we need to state over and over again: we do not condone the use of torture to extract information from terrorists." But he said it was "human nature" that torture might be employed in certain exceptional cases when time was very limited.

In the event of something like a nuclear bomb threat "you would try to exhaust every means you could to extract the information to save hundreds and thousands of people", he said.

'When not if'

But he admitted there was "a real question" whether using torture on terrorists would actually gain the information required "given the nature of the enemy". He said the US did not have the luxury of knowing where and when a terrorist attack might happen.

"I don't think it is 'if'. I think it's a matter of 'when'. We operate that way," he said. "On a day-to-day basis, not just the United States but many allies around the world, do whatever we can to share information about terrorists, share information about the kind of attacks."

Thursday's HRW report called for the Bush administration to set up a fully independent commission to investigate allegations of torture during interrogations at Abu Ghraib. It said abuses committed by the US had significantly weakened the world's ability to protect human rights because it had undermined international laws.

Mr Ridge argued the HRW report reflected a "foreign perception" that the US was using different methods to those employed before the 11 September 2001 attacks.

# 73 Bush tries to justify violating our Constitution.

Because he was reelected by a whopping 3% margin, GWB claims that justifies his unconstitutional war on Iraq.

The fact is, it doesn't matter if he was reelected by a unanimous vote, wrong is still wrong. FDR was reelected to four terms. That didn't make his socialist agenda right.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12450-2005Jan15.html

Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy

No U.S. Troop Withdrawal Date Is Set

By Jim VandeHei and Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writers
January 16, 2005

President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.

"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post.

"The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me."

Saturday, January 15, 2005

# 72 More unconstitutional spending.

Of course it's always for a "good" cause, like the children, the elderly, disaster victims - this time it's for college students as Bush is advocating increasing Pell tuition grants.

The fact that Pell was a flaming liberal should raise alarm, but Bush-bots just stare at their hero like deer caught in headlights.

If the gov't would keep their hands out of our pockets, we could afford to take care of these needs.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2005/jan/14/011402378.html

Bush May Raise Pell Grant Award

By DEB RIECHMANN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) - To ease tuition sticker-shock, President Bush wants to raise the maximum Pell Grant award by $500 over the next five years and fix a persistent shortfall in the nation's chief college aid program.

That would put the maximum grant at $4,550 by 2010, up 12 percent from the $4,050 offered today.

# 71 Iraq becoming "terror haven".

Wasn't Bush's attack on Iraq supposed to be to *prevent* terrorism?

Nope, kind of like how jails often make better criminals, this war is making better terrorists.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4173981.stm

Iraq 'could become terror haven'

Iraq could become a breeding ground for terrorists, with survivors taking their experience to use around the world, a new US intelligence report warns.

Veterans of jihad in Iraq could eventually replace the al-Qaeda hierarchy, the CIA's National Intelligence Council says.

The report, Mapping the Global Future, warns of "a new class of terrorists". It envisages how various scenarios for world security might develop over the next 15 years.

One strand examines how robust economic growth might see Asian nations become more powerful - another how the US would remain the solitary superpower dealing with various lower-level threats.

But others portend a greater threat from terrorism, and an Orwellian response to crime.

The report says: "Iraq and other possible conflicts in the future could provide recruitment, training grounds, technical skills and language proficiency for a new class of terrorists who are 'professionalised' and for whom political violence becomes an end in itself."

US President George W Bush has described the war in Iraq as part of the "war on terror". But the report suggests that terrorists could thrive in Iraq, and go on to "supersede" those who earned their stripes in training camps in Afghanistan.

"The al-Qaeda membership that was distinguished by having trained in Afghanistan will gradually dissipate, to be replaced in part by the dispersion of the experienced survivors of the conflict in Iraq," it says.

Inequality to grow

The report's writers consulted more than 1,000 experts on five continents before drawing their conclusions.

They believe economic growth around the world will not benefit everyone, with the gap between the "haves" and "have-nots" likely to widen.

"The benefits of globalisation will not be global," said National Intelligence Council (NIC) Vice Chairman David Gordon. "In countries where weak government, lagging economies, religious extremism and youth bulges come together, they have a potential to create a perfect storm... for internal conflict and potentially for international terrorism," he warned.

# 70 Bush's faith-based initiative exposed.

During the holidays it looked like GWB was going to have a hard time hitting #60 and passing "the Babe" before the inauguration, but he must've just taken a few days off for X-mas, because he has since exploded past McGwire at 70 and is soon to pass Bonds' 73 mark. To show such a dramatic upswing opens up the speculation that he must be on "the juice".

An Arizona church was disqualified for faith-based funds because they were "injecting religion" into the program, including encouraging people to witness their faith, read the scriptures, and attend church services. Excuse me, but isn't that what a church is SUPPOSED to do?

Federal funding always comes with federal control, and this program is simply an attempt to secularize and neuter churches, bring them under control of the government, and keep them from serving God.

A Christian with the spiritual discernment of Mr. Potato Head could see the devil's hand in that with his eyes closed.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050115/ap_on_re_us/faith_based_lawsuit

Faith-Based Grant to Ariz. Group Blocked

By JR ROSS,
Associated Press Writer

MADISON, Wis. - A judge has blocked the Bush administration from providing future "faith-based" grants to an Arizona mentoring group that injected religion into its publicly funded programs.

The ruling is the first time a judge has struck down a grant through the president's faith-based initiative, which seeks to give religious groups equal footing in seeking federal grants to provide social services.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cut off funds to MentorKids USA in December after evidence showed the group used public money to directly support activities such as worship or religious instruction.

U.S. District Judge John Shabaz's ruling Tuesday prohibits the agency from funding MentorKids in the future. MentorKids USA, based in Phoenix, received a three-year grant in 2003 to mentor the children of prisoners.

The program hired only Christians to work as mentors and required them to adhere to a Christian statement of faith and code of conduct. Mentors were also encouraged to share their faith with the children they worked with, introduce them to Scripture and provide monthly reports on whether the kids had discussed God, participated in Bible study or attended church.

Daryl Reese, the program's executive director, said MentorKids took steps to exclude religion from the work it did with the public grant.

"We simply said here is where the line is," Reese said. "Anything that we've got that's religious in nature is not a federal government program."

Anne Nicol Gaylor, founder of the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, said Friday that MentorKids is just one of many groups that uses public money to promote religion.

"Faith-based is supposed to be social services, not religious services, and that was religion-drenched," Gaylor said.

The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives said it is the first time a grant has been struck down because of concerns over a program's religious content.

Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families in the Department of Health and Human Services, said the agency is reviewing whether it can resume the grant should MentorKids USA show it can separate its religious and secular work.

Bush's program handed out $1.17 billion in grants to faith-based organizations in 2003.

Thursday, January 13, 2005

# 69 Wounded women warriors.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041220/OPINION02/412200308

32 women have been killed in combat so far and 230 injured. How can this be when women are not legally allowed into combat?

http://www.bible-researcher.com/women/owens2.html

Oh, they are being snuck in by calling them "brigade-support battalions" instead of "maneuver battalions", with plans to expand the illegal entries.