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I read your article about George Dumbass Bush being the biggest environmental terrorist of all time (I agree) and his many other too-long-to-list violations (I agree) but when you ran down a list of history's bad guys, you did NOT list Christopher Columbus... why?

Why is it that so many people still think of this greedy, murdering, slave-trading bastard as a hero? There were an estimated 6,000,000 people (Taino) in the Caribbean when Columbus, lost, came upon it and then promptly "claimed" it... He called it the New World and was heralded for his "discovery"... but, didn't the Taino discover it...they had been in the (cough,cough) New World for two thousand years when Columbus stumbled upon them. Columbus promised the King & Queen of Spain riches beyond imagination for funding his voyage... but even though he enslaved the population and put them to work in the gold mines until they dropped dead from exhaustion or starvation... the greed was never-ending but the gold just wasn't there. So, the enterprising Columbus rounded up 1,000 of the biggest, strongest Taino and stuffed them into the stinking holds of his
The Republicans have posted a "Debate Facts" section on their website. As is shown below, there is nothing factual about their claims.

1. Kerry On The Threat Posed By Saddam Hussein

Republicans charge that Kerry once supported and is now critical of the decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein and Iraq. This, in their minds, is a flip flop.

RESPONSE: A huge amount of information has been uncovered since 2002, including a great deal of evidence that the intelligence Bush used to the war was incorrect or even forged. Kerry and the rest of Congress voted on Bush’s bad information. Now that we know the justification for the war was invalid, it is by definition a mistake. As a Senator and as a Presidential candidate, it is Kerry's duty to use this information to improve our government's global policy -- to correct a mistake propagated by Bush and his cabinet.

2. Kerry Flip Flop On Iraq

RESPONSE: See point 1.

3. Breaking Debate Fact: Kerry Said President Has Lost Support Among Military Officials

Robert F. Kennedy was greeted with a standing ovation on Wednesday at Campbell Hall on the OSU campus. A Harvard graduate, Kennedy is a professor at the Pace University School of Law, senior attorney for the National Resources Defense Council, and chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund.

More than two hundred people came to hear him talk about his new book, Crimes Against Nature, and the Bush administration's irresponsible environmental policies.

Kennedy blamed the public's ignorance of President Bush's environmental abuse on the timidity of the national press and the White House Press Corps, whom he referred to as "stenographers."

One of the problems Kennedy discussed is the particulate emissions from 1100 coal burning plants operating illegally in the country, causing acid rain, sterilization of lakes, accumulation of ozone, and mercury poisoning. Effects of air pollution are thought to be responsible for as many as 5000 deaths per year and a recent increase in cases of asthma in children. Lawsuits from the Clinton era against many of these plants were ordered to be dropped by Bush
Long before the Florida election the CIA had been active in influencing the American electorate.

We've witnessed the Iran Contra scandal and all those involved affect the outcome of elections in the nineteen eighties. Although the information acquired from this scandal was a bit more complicated than the average human listener had time for or attention span to understand, none the less the outcome was obvious.

The hostage crisis in Iran ended in a fallacy that undermined quest for a firm foundation of democracy in the United States. On this basis, the Republican Party maintained power for twelve years under the guise of a dogooder for the US populace. The same party oversimplified political ramifications of they're debt creating overextended government bureaucracy. Today we see a continuation of this bombastic upheaval of democracy being led by a military industrial complex.

With the appointment of Goss to head the CIA, the continuation of this corrupt democracy lives on. Goss was implicated in the drug smuggling ring allegedly run by the CIA. Well I could also conjecture that he was a main
The Israeli Tourism Authority, thinking of creative ways to lure visitors back to the Holy Land, has taken to organizing the high profile visits of Hollywood stars and pop divas to mixed reaction.

Earlier this year, Richard Gere arrived for a film festival, attended a seminar, had posters of his face plastered all over Israel and generally left with rave reviews especially from the female human rights activists. They didn't question the intentions of his visit or give him too much flak for not taking any public positions on human rights. They work on human rights every day of the year, but he was RICHARD GERE!

A few months later Chris Noth, Mr. Big, was on the pages of Haaretz being whisked away by helicopter to see the sights of Israel all paid for by the good folks at the Israeli Tourism Authority. In fact, they were even armed with pro forma statements about how much the visit would boost Israeli tourism.

Then came "Esther," pilgrim Madonna, donning the latest Kabbalah outfit, raising a storm for visiting Rachel's Tomb, having her cab mobbed by fans resulting in her planned visit to the Old City of Jerusalem
Terrorism is defined as using fear, or terror, to influence the political decisions of an individual or group. Vice President Dick Cheney's flat statement that the United States will be hit again if it elects John Kerry is a nothing more or less than a terrorist threat. It is an attempt to manipulate Americans of all political persuasions by fear. It is an assault against democracy itself. The Vice President is holding a gun to the head of the American electorate and threatening, either reelect my boss and me or suffer the direst of consequences.

Osama bin Laden, meet Osama bin Cheney.
The recent polls showing a large Bush lead seem to be designed to either discourage Democratic voters and/or condition the American public for a Bush victory based on vote rigging. The methodology that seems to be in use by Gallup and most other polling firms connected to large corporations are greatly over weighted to give Republicans excessive representation and do not give sufficient weight to Democratic voters based on historical voting trend. Polls by independent polling organizations that are using properly weighted samples (like Zogby, Pew Research, Harris and others) are not showing a significant Bush lead and some have Kerry ahead!

While most political analysts predict the largest Democratic voter turn-out in history, Gallup is predicting in their methodology that Republicans will be 7-8% more of the total electorate than Democrats actually voting on election day. Based on the most recent elections, Democrats have usually been 7-8% more of the total electorate when the actual votes were counted. The swing in numbers using Gallup’s distorted methodology would tend to give Bush a “fake” lead in the neighborhood of 15%.

Amid the rubble of CBS's forgery debacle, one consolation for type buffs has been the flare of interest in typefaces. There was hot debate for a day or two about when precisely Times New Roman might have been available for electric typewriters. Times New Roman is a very famous, much-used type, designed by the renowned typographer Stanley Morison in 1931.

        After I left Oxford nearly 40 years ago, my first job was at the Times Literary Supplement, at that time lodged in Printing House Square in London. Morison had long connections with the TLS and, though retired, would still come in to browse among the new books awaiting dispatch to the reviewers, at that time all anonymous. He would open a book, hold it close to his nose and sniff. Sometimes he would grimace, mutter something about "poor glue" and cast the book from him.

AUSTIN --- Alice, we're in the Twilight Zone of Wonderland. Whee! John Kerry is disrespectful of our allies! Donald Rumsfeld thinks an election in three-fourths of Iraq is good enough. The No. 1 best seller in our nation is an untrue, vicious and ugly attack on a genuine, bona fide, certified war hero. Despite everything you have seen, read or heard about Iraq, all is tickety-boo over there, and anyone who says different is helping the terrorists.

        More than a year after "Mission Accomplished," we have still not restored water or electricity in Iraq back to Saddam Hussein's pitiful standards. The electricity is out between four and 14 hours a day in Baghdad, there is no potable water because of pipe breaks and contamination, the garbage is uncollected, and sewage runs in the streets. A year after Congress voted to spend $18.4 billion reconstructing Iraq, only $1 billion has been spent, and most of that has gone to overhead, contractors' profits, security service, insurance and property losses. The jobs have gone largely either to Americans or other foreigners in Iraq, with little benefit to the Iraqis.

As the fourth global-warmed hurricane in two months rips through Florida, we are reminded that George W. Bush is history's top terrorist.

We know, of course, that Bush has slaughtered thousands of Iraqis, imprisoned hundreds without trial or charges, and presided over the torture and sexual abuse of many of them. He is the world's leading recruiter for hate-America terrorists the world over.

Bush's preemptive militarism has paved the way for countless crusades for oil and fundamentalism in the decades to come. He overthrew the elected government of Haiti, resulting in hundreds of deaths. He tried to do the same in Venezuela. Other target nations are sure to follow.

Bush is also determined to turn AIDS into a profit center for the drug companies that help fund him. His attacks on sex education, birth control and reproductive choice will kill girls and women for the decades to come, especially if he re-criminalizes abortion in a second term.

As Texas's Governor Bush executed a record 150-plus people. He publically mocked at

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