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Dr. Bob Fitrakis:
I have just run across your article entitled "Death of a patriot: No more" from March 17, 2004. As a professional in the computer industry for twenty years, I must take exception to some of the claims made by ignorant people in the Democratic and Republican camps who know little, if anything, about computers.
You quote Gibbs as saying "Inevitably, computers mess up". That is an interesting statement and is clearly used to stir up sentiment without offering any context for the statement whatsoever.
Let's look at that a moment. If computers "mess up", then it is safe to say that, as one can simply observe from life around them in general, people mess up more than computers. The facts show that computers only do what people tell them to do, and they do it exactly many millions of times per second. Computers simply are not known to make any mistakes, while people do all the time.
You are listed as supporters of Al Awda, assoicated with Islamofascist terrorists,as a supporter and you BLATENTLY lie about groups supporting them
SHAME ON YOU; DEATH OR JAIL FOR ALL TERRORISTS, THEIR SUPPORTERS, DRUG DEALERS, COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS TOO THAT SUPPORT THESE TERRORISTS BECAUSE YOU ARE PROMOTING TERRORISM UPON THE EARTH.
A CURSE ON YOU AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT YOU INCLUDING UP TO THE VATICAN AND ALL OTHER DRUG DEALERS
YOU MUST BE HAPPY WITH YOURSELVES KNOWING YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THE MURDER OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS
Also from GreenGrow:
NO TO LEGALIZATION OF TRAVEL TO CUBA HAVENT YOU READ THE STATE DEPTS SPONSORS OF TERRORISTS LIST NUMNUTS?
SHAME ON YOU; DEATH OR JAIL FOR ALL TERRORISTS, THEIR SUPPORTERS, DRUG DEALERS, COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS TOO THAT SUPPORT THESE TERRORISTS BECAUSE YOU ARE PROMOTING TERRORISM UPON THE EARTH.
A CURSE ON YOU AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT YOU INCLUDING UP TO THE VATICAN AND ALL OTHER DRUG DEALERS
YOU MUST BE HAPPY WITH YOURSELVES KNOWING YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THE MURDER OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS
Also from GreenGrow:
NO TO LEGALIZATION OF TRAVEL TO CUBA HAVENT YOU READ THE STATE DEPTS SPONSORS OF TERRORISTS LIST NUMNUTS?
The Trail of the Catonsville Nine has been out of print for 15 years, and the new edition includes Robin Andersen's preface and essay that brings the play's ideas and themes up to date including an analysis of the media coverage of the war in Iraq.
Poetry and documentarian Lynn Sachs with footage from Investigation of a Flame
The new edition includes Berrigan's original introduction, and additional materials by Robin Andersen and James Marsh that bring its ideas and themes up to date in the context of the war in Iraq.
On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.
The Catholic activist involved in the protest against the war included Daniel and Philip Berrigan; all were found guilty of destroying government property and sentenced to three years in jail.
Poetry and documentarian Lynn Sachs with footage from Investigation of a Flame
The new edition includes Berrigan's original introduction, and additional materials by Robin Andersen and James Marsh that bring its ideas and themes up to date in the context of the war in Iraq.
On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.
The Catholic activist involved in the protest against the war included Daniel and Philip Berrigan; all were found guilty of destroying government property and sentenced to three years in jail.
The Great Lakes are a national treasure critical to the public health, economy and quality of life in Illinois. However, the Lakes are threatened by serious ecological threats resulting in beach closings, fish that are unsafe to eat, lower water levels, and the loss of healthy shorelines.
Right now, Congress and the Bush administration have a historic opportunity to restore the health of the Great Lakes by funding Great Lakes restoration. It is critical that we generate public support from Great Lakes states like Illinois to convince our leaders to invest in the future of our region.
Please take a moment to urge EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt to fund Great Lakes restoration. Then, ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click this link or past it into your browser: pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=687&id4=OHFreep
Background
Right now, Congress and the Bush administration have a historic opportunity to restore the health of the Great Lakes by funding Great Lakes restoration. It is critical that we generate public support from Great Lakes states like Illinois to convince our leaders to invest in the future of our region.
Please take a moment to urge EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt to fund Great Lakes restoration. Then, ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click this link or past it into your browser: pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=687&id4=OHFreep
Background
Finally a reason to get excited, as we now have before us an electable
candidate worthy of taking on George W. Bush and his coterie of
neoconservatives next November. Well, at least that's what the scared
liberals out there would have us believe. But John Kerry is neither
electable nor exciting. He is a Zionist sympathizer who supports Bush's
"road map for peace" in Israel and Palestine, as well as a corporate
Neoliberal, who voted in support of NAFTA, normalized free-trade with China,
and the US's $17.9 billion dollar "aid" package to the IMF.
I want to thank Bob Fitrakis for putting the truth out there to the
American public about the agenda of the right to alter our elections
secretly via paperless electronic voting machines.
I am an activist that opposed evm's in Arkansas for almost a year, and was successful in persuading our Secretary of State to file the waiver under the HAVA Act, delaying the implementation of these machines until 2006. Secretary Blackwell's insistence to purchase Diebold machines despite the fact that he also requested the waiver is highly suspect to say the least.
I work with activists in other states, including Ohio, to stop the purchase of paperless electronic voting machines. I have never encountered anyone so headstrong to bring disaster on his election process as Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. This man is unyielding in his stance on Diebold, despite computer security reports, computer scientist's expert opinions on these machines and the general distrust of these machines by his constituency. I ask what's the rush and why the hurry? He filed the waiver which delays the machines until 2006.
I am an activist that opposed evm's in Arkansas for almost a year, and was successful in persuading our Secretary of State to file the waiver under the HAVA Act, delaying the implementation of these machines until 2006. Secretary Blackwell's insistence to purchase Diebold machines despite the fact that he also requested the waiver is highly suspect to say the least.
I work with activists in other states, including Ohio, to stop the purchase of paperless electronic voting machines. I have never encountered anyone so headstrong to bring disaster on his election process as Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. This man is unyielding in his stance on Diebold, despite computer security reports, computer scientist's expert opinions on these machines and the general distrust of these machines by his constituency. I ask what's the rush and why the hurry? He filed the waiver which delays the machines until 2006.
For 30 months, 9/11 was a huge political blessing for George W. Bush.
This week, the media halo fell off.
Within the space of a few days, culminating with his testimony to the Sept. 11 commission Wednesday afternoon, former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke did serious damage to a public-relations scam that the White House has been running for two and a half years.
We may forget just how badly President Bush was doing until Sept. 11, 2001. That morning, a front-page Philadelphia Inquirer story told of dire political straits; his negative rating among the nation’s crucial independent swing voters stood at 53 percent, according to the latest survey by nonpartisan pollster John Zogby.
On Sept. 12, Bush’s media stature and poll numbers were soaring. Suddenly, news outlets all over the country boosted the president as a great leader, sometimes likening him to FDR. For many months, the overall media coverage of President Bush was reverential.
Within the space of a few days, culminating with his testimony to the Sept. 11 commission Wednesday afternoon, former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke did serious damage to a public-relations scam that the White House has been running for two and a half years.
We may forget just how badly President Bush was doing until Sept. 11, 2001. That morning, a front-page Philadelphia Inquirer story told of dire political straits; his negative rating among the nation’s crucial independent swing voters stood at 53 percent, according to the latest survey by nonpartisan pollster John Zogby.
On Sept. 12, Bush’s media stature and poll numbers were soaring. Suddenly, news outlets all over the country boosted the president as a great leader, sometimes likening him to FDR. For many months, the overall media coverage of President Bush was reverential.
AUSTIN, Texas -- I'd like to thank Richard Clarke for doing the most obvious, decent and necessary thing this country needed from its government after 9-11, and that is to apologize to the families of those who died in those attacks and to admit: "We failed you. ... I failed you." Thanks to former Sen. Bob Kerrey for underlining it.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda is not necessarily a useful exercise, but the 9-11 commission was given that responsibility -- after the Bush administration made every effort to stop it -- and appears to be doing its best. That some members seem more interested in protecting the Bush administration than in finding out what actually happened is perhaps just the nature of politics, but still disappointing.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda is not necessarily a useful exercise, but the 9-11 commission was given that responsibility -- after the Bush administration made every effort to stop it -- and appears to be doing its best. That some members seem more interested in protecting the Bush administration than in finding out what actually happened is perhaps just the nature of politics, but still disappointing.
The global coffee industry has endured colossal changes over the past fifty
years. Production of beans has shifted from country to country. Profiteering
from the product has increased almost exponentially through huge sales at
retail outlets such as Starbucks and Seattle's Best. But not all involved in
the coffee market have benefited equally. Small coffee farmers have suffered
tremendous loss. Environmental degradation has also increased as ancient
forests have been cleared in hopes that the bare land can be transformed
into fertile ground, worthy of growing cash crops. Countries have lost
entire export industries as multinational corporations race to purchase the
cheapest beans they can find. And no country has felt the pain of these
transformations greater than Colombia.
America owes a debt to society, and what a debt.
December 31, 2003 the United States National Debt reached the $7 trillion mark.
President Bush didn’t mention it in his State of the Union speech and the Democrats didn’t bring it up in their response. But the U.S. Treasury’s Bureau of the Public Debt keeps a running tab and lately it’s running like hell.
$7 trillion was hit just 22 months after the debt passed $6 trillion February 26, 2002. It was the first time in U.S. history that trillion dollar milestones were crossed in back-to-back calendar years.
By comparison, the trail of arrears from $5 trillion on February 26, 1996 to $6 trillion took six years.
But what does it mean? To a public confounded by conflicting facts and competing philosophies, what’s a trillion or two either way?
The answer is interesting.
While the debt itself is a 13-digit string beyond the math of mere mortals, the interest on the debt is quite another story. Like the finance charge on your credit card, it’s the right-off-the-top part of the bill before the principal is touched.
December 31, 2003 the United States National Debt reached the $7 trillion mark.
President Bush didn’t mention it in his State of the Union speech and the Democrats didn’t bring it up in their response. But the U.S. Treasury’s Bureau of the Public Debt keeps a running tab and lately it’s running like hell.
$7 trillion was hit just 22 months after the debt passed $6 trillion February 26, 2002. It was the first time in U.S. history that trillion dollar milestones were crossed in back-to-back calendar years.
By comparison, the trail of arrears from $5 trillion on February 26, 1996 to $6 trillion took six years.
But what does it mean? To a public confounded by conflicting facts and competing philosophies, what’s a trillion or two either way?
The answer is interesting.
While the debt itself is a 13-digit string beyond the math of mere mortals, the interest on the debt is quite another story. Like the finance charge on your credit card, it’s the right-off-the-top part of the bill before the principal is touched.