Letters to the Editor/<br>  Free Press Forum

The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500

February 14, 2006

Dear President Bush,

The nation’s community pharmacists are offended by your comments last week in Manchester that pharmacists are overcharging the Medicaid system. This statement is disingenuous and untrue. In fact, nearly all Medicaid prescriptions have a cap (“FUL” or “MAC”) placed on them by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and by the state Medicaid programs designed specifically to make it impossible to “overcharge” the Medicaid system.

The National Community Pharmacists Association represents the nation’s community pharmacists—small businesses where 60,000 health care professionals work and where nearly 400,000 Americans are employed to serve millions of patients each day. Nearly half of community pharmacies are located in towns with populations of less than 20,000.

Dressed up as punk and Feminist, the SuicideGirls will be at the Arena in Qld., inevitably parading piercings, dyed hair, skin art and the other ingredients which effectively guaranteed the sensation its success.

There will be readers who will have acquainted themselves with Suicidegirls.com, and book, and burlesque review, alike. Championed by "pro-sex"-identified "Feminists" and Pop Culture's darlings, each are capitalist triumphs.

However, company president of the SuicideGirls Sean "Spooky" Suhl's inarguably questionable contracts, misogyny, pro-war neo-conservatism and lies should be common knowledge by now.

As should be Suhl's equally grotesque ideas about the Palestinians:

"I just said that all the Palestinians dying of smallpox is hopeful thinking for me. Sue me. It's a death cult not a civilization and them finally being wiped out by their buddy Saddam sounds like such a fitting end."

IMPORTANT: Our VERY first congressional race to impact will be decided on March 7th!!

Congressman Henry Cuellar is the BAD democrat we should defeat in a primary. He votes republican, was pro-CAFTA and endorsed Bush against Gore. He is a product of Tom Delay's redistricting of San Antonio. There is No GOP candidate at all. We MUST defeat Cuellar!!

His opponent, former congressman Ciro Rodriguez is MUCH BETTER. Please Contribute and spread the word to EVERYBODY!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11241268/

http://www.cirodrodriguez.com/

I am an employment and civil rights lawyer.   Your article on John Boehner is more than misleading.  The only issue on your list that would concern me as a Jew, is the Air Force Academy vote and we should ask him to explain that one.  The other items on your list are purely liberal Democratic politics and they have nothing to do with being a Jew.  

While it may seem to be ancient history and a moot point at this time, new information regarding the Bush Administration's run up to the war in Iraq have been reported in Britain's "The Guardian".

A new memo of  a meeting between George Bush and Tony Blair on January 31st, 2003 clearly indicates that Bush intended to invade Iraq regardless of whether or not there was a second UN vote on the matter or failure of weapons inspectors to find any WMD's. In short, the invasion of Iraq was a fait accompli.It was a done deal, and the US was going to forge ahead with this ill-concieved and illegal war of aggression. And this with the full support of Blair, regardless of the illegalities involved.

This is relevant now in that Bush is asking for another $120 BILLION to fund the war in Iraq, brining the total spent there to more than $350 Billion. Despite administration claims to the contrary, there is no end in sight.

With the passage of Ohio HB 3 it is incumbent upon the Secretary of State to guarantee equal protection to all Ohio voters and all qualified Ohioans seeking to participate in our electoral process.

When elected I will act in accordance with the intent of the new voter identification requirements and  immediately establish and issue the Ohio Voter Identification Card to all eligible Ohio residents.  I will also use the budget and manpower of the office to conduct aggressive, continuing statewide voter registration efforts to insure that those most likely to be disenfranchised by these new provisions are in fact included in Ohio’s election process.

Special emphasis will be directed towards registering and issuing cards to the elderly, the infirm, residents of poor urban neighborhoods, citizens in impoverished and isolated rural areas, students, the homeless, and temporary residents of support shelters including special needs situations.

In the interests of guaranteeing the voting rights of those participants I will initiate procurement of video and audio equipment to document their registration and validate their efforts.

Ms. Ivins,

Thank you.  I am so tired of hearing that the only way to get things done is to be "politic".  The article about Hillary Clinton and her run for the presidency put this in sharp focus.  Please allow me to congratulate you on this piece of writing and to thank you for your reference to Paul Wellstone.  A great man who did the right thing no matter how much it might have hurt his career.

Thank you,
Laura M. Traff

allots prior to the '04 election. The ChairperElected officials should be held accountable for their poor leadership. Kenneth Blackwell, as Ohio Secretary of State was responsible for administering elections in the state of Ohio. His poor leadership caused confusion in voter registrations, and his lack of oversight with county boards of elections resulted in the disenfranchisement of thousands of Ohioans. In Franklin County, many of us witnessed the extremely long lines and confusion, but that was nothing compared to Lucas County (Toledo).

The election was so poorly administered in Lucas County that Mr Blackwell's office was forced to investigate. His report contained the following:

*failure to maintain ballot security
*inability to implement and maintain a trackable system for ballot reconciliation.
*issuance & acceptance of incorrect ballot reconciliation.
*failure to prepare & develop a plan for processing the voluminous amount of voter registration forms received.
*manipulation of the 3% recount process.
*disjointed removal of Nader & Camejo from the ballot.
*failure to properly issue hospital ballots.

Dear Friends:

After Tom DeLay was forced out as House Majority Leader, three candidates emerged to replace him. They were Roy Blunt (Missouri), John Boehner (Ohio), and John Shadegg (Arizona).

They held the vote today. Blunt had the most votes. But the ballot was disqualified because MORE VOTES WERE CAST THAN ELIGIBLE VOTERS! This is not a joke, folks.

They held a second ballot. Guess who won? Boehner, FROM OHIO! Could Moliere have written a better play than this?

Thought you'd all find it amusing.

The BROWNSHIRTS and the NAZI PARTY rose to power because the world let them!

Their vision of a One World Government exerting total dominion, manipulation and control over the people is no different that what the new Internationalists and Global Czars; Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Blair, and others are ushering in upon us. Their euphemistic terms are designed to conceal their true agenda of total world dominance beholden to no one and no thing, God, the people and you included. Neoconservative is a nondescript term for this movement and they know it. For the world to take notice their goal and agenda needs to be exposed and their movement labeled for what it is, total WORLD DOMINANCE at the expense of freedom and free choice.