"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these
Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed,
that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People
to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and organizing
its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness" . . .

http://suetheterrorists.net/
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Is Bush Out of Control?
DOUG THOMPSON
Aug 15, 2005
Buy beleaguered, overworked White House aides enough drinks and they tell a sordid tale of an administration under siege, beset by bitter staff infighting and led by a man whose mood swings suggest paranoia bordering on schizophrenia.

They describe a President whose public persona masks an angry, obscenity-spouting man who berates staff, unleashes tirades against those who disagree with him and ends meetings in the Oval Office with
 “get out of here!”
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7218.shtml
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Frank Rich | Someone Tell the President the War Is Over
Like the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081405Z.shtml
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21 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak
 A Comprehensive Database
http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal
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DOJ Shakeup Clouds Plame Probe
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081305Y.shtml
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Plame Prosecutor Inclined to Enforce Perjury Laws
Washington - When Al Qaeda operative Wadih El-Hage blamed false testimony he had given to a federal grand jury on confusion and jet lag, then-assistant US Atty. Patrick J. Fitzgerald was not impressed. "I submit to you," Fitzgerald told jurors at El-Hage's 2001 trial in New York, "you heard 10 of the most pathetic excuses of perjury ever known."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081605Y.shtml
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Bush Suggests Force against Iran, Shroeder Says No
President Bush said he could consider using force as a last resort to press Iran to give up its nuclear program. But German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, one of the most prominent European opponents of the US-led war on Iraq, told an election rally on Saturday the threat of force was not acceptable...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081305A.shtml
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George W. Bush And The Seal Of Atlantis
...Little did any one notice that when the president gave his speech he was standing in the Seal of Atlantis combined with the early Christian symbol of the Messiah...
http://www.fourwinds10.com/news/george-w-bush-and-the-seal-of-atlantis.html
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"Today's arrest of Mark (sic) Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement."
- D.E.A. administrator Karen Tandy admitting that the arrest of Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery was a quasi-legal, politically motivated hit-job
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An Honest Business Card
I got a cool business card from a friend last month.
On the front was his business info. and on the back is says this:
I do things 3 ways:
Good, Fast, & Cheap.
You may choose from any 2...
If it's Good & Cheap, it won't be Fast !
If it's Fast & Good, it won't be Cheap !
If it's Cheap & Fast, it won't be Good !
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William Rivers Pitt: Cindy's Victory
They are sunburned and storm-lashed. They sleep in tents that sit along the muddy earth of drainage ditches by the side of the road. They have been heckled by "counter-demonstrators" who chanted "We don't care!" during a rendition of "God Bless America." They have been attacked by fire ants and hassled by local health inspectors. On Thursday morning, at about 5:30am, they were blasted awake by a fourteen-car convoy of Secret Service SUVs which roared through the camp at high speed while leaning on their horns the whole time...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505Z.shtml
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Cindy Sheehan and other military families, veterans, and concerned citizens have brought the issue of the lies that launched this war to Crawford, Texas, and to the corporate media.
Cindy's New Site With a Video Message:
http://www.meetwithcindy.org
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Latest News from Crawford (354 articles posted):
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=taxonomy/term/13
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Sheehan Will Remain Despite Attack
"A kind gentleman from down the road offered us the use of his property," Ms. Sheehan told reporters on Tuesday night. Ms. Sheehan identified the man as Fred Mattlage, whom she described as a distant cousin of Larry Mattlage, a local resident who fired a shotgun across the road from the encampment on Sunday afternoon...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081705I.shtml
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Email Forward Of The Week !.
NOT A NEWS STORY... OR IS IT ?
Before you send anyone a super pissed off email about nothing, perhaps send it to your "drafts" folder and think about it for a few days. The person you were about to scorch may have been planning to visit you
 with a box of chocolates and/or a bonus check.
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Just click your mouse on the "I Was There".
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Go Here If You Are Bored
http://www.flowgo.com/funpages/view.cfm/6489
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Joke Break !
THIS IS A JOKE,  IT'S NOT A NEWS STORY !
A tour bus driver drives with a bus full of senior citizens down a
highway, when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady. She
offers him a handful of peanuts, which he gratefully munches up.

After approximately 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and
she hands him another handful of peanuts. She repeats this gesture
about eight times.

At the ninth time he asks the little old lady why they do not eat the
peanuts themselves, whereupon she replies that it is not possible
because of their old teeth, they are not able to chew them.

"Why do you buy them then?" he asks puzzled.

Whereupon the old lady answers,
"Well we just love the chocolate around them."
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(For more jokes, please visit our jokes page.)
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Back To The News
May 19, 2005 is the 1,346th day since the attacks of 9/11.
That is the same length of time from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the end of WWII
on V-J Day (Dec 7, 1941 to Aug 24, 1945).
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Under the Clerics' Thumbs
Women's rights groups in the Middle East fear that Iraqi women will be
 the biggest losers in the country's new Constitution...
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/081505WA.shtml
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Do you approve of the overall performance of Congress?
.......  Yes ......  No .... Undecided  
Dem ....  2.8% .... 91.2% ...  6.0%  
Ind ....  5.1% .... 87.7% ...  7.3%  
Rep .... 19.1% .... 69.1% ... 11.8%  
Overall Percentages
 8.7% approve of Congress  
83.0% do not approve of Congress  
 8.3% are undecided  
Wow....this is dramatic. The MSM does not report the numbers like this.  
Visit the Blog to comment on this issue. Visit:  
http://blog.gophercentral.com/modules.php!name!News!file!article!sid!4263#p_comments
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Veterans Group Issues
"Declaration of Impeachment"
St. Louis - A national veterans' organization today issued a "Declaration of Impeachment" and announced it is beginning an online petition to remove President Bush from office for crimes committed during the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Using the same language as the original "Declaration of Independence," Veterans For Peace cited many of the same reasons to remove George Bush that Thomas Jefferson cited to separate from King George of England. And in a modern version of the signing of the Declaration, VFP announced the posting of its online impeachment petition...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070405B.shtml

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
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Editor's Note: Why is this news site here at this point in history ?  Because I give 150% of my support to our American soldiers.  How can I give 150% when 100% is all that is mathematically or humanly possible ?  That's easy... Just take half of the potential support away from the illegal Administration that wrongfully put them in harms way, and give that much needed support to our soldiers !
[Rev. Neil Colton]
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Pro-war parents:
How to get your kid into uniform
This one is for you parents who think our fight in Iraq is a really swell idea...
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/07/18/bethcol0.htm
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Peace Corps Option for Military Recruits Sparks Concerns
Alan Cooperman, The Washington Post
Tuesday 02 August 2005
    The US military, struggling to fill its voluntary ranks, is offering
to allow recruits to meet part of their military obligations by serving
in the Peace Corps, which has resisted any ties to the Defense
Department or US intelligence agencies since its founding in 1961...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/01/AR2005080101310.html
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I Cannot Yet Skin A Deer
Are you prepared for the Big Collapse? Peak Oil? Rural life?
Can you pickle meat and eat bark?
Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

Editor's Note: Yes Mark... I can skin a deer, eat bark, wild berries, milkweed, and countless other local plants that God has put here for us.  We grow organic vegetables, grow and sell Heirloom vegetable seeds,
 use as little gas as possible most of the time...

I sure wish I could say the same about our Government ! That is going through oil like it was never ending, genetically altering plants, killing the weeds God gave us as food with chemicals to keep the road sides prettier etc...
But thanks for asking !  I'll bet most Americans can't, and that is just sad.
[RNC]
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(From My "Terrorism and America" Page)
The 56 men who signed
the Declaration of Independence
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Continental Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKean was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding...
(FULL STORY)
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From General Wesley Clark
The time has come to investigate the Bush Administration's role in the prisoner abuse and humiliation that has motivated our enemies in the war on terror and endangers the well-being of our fighting forces...
http://www.securingamerica.com/
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***** In Today's America There Is A More Powerful Act Than Voting Blue...
And That's Buying Blue ! *****
You may have voted blue, but every day you unknowingly help dump millions of dollars into the conservative war chest. By purchasing products and services from companies that donate heavily to conservatives, we have been compromising our own interests as liberals and progressives.

BuyBlue.org is a concerted effort to lift the veil of corporate patronage, so consumers can make informed buying decisions that coincide with their principles.

Currently, we are developing an extensive and interactive website where users will be able to monitor corporate activity in real time. We cannot do this alone; we need an army of Blue buyers to be the eyes and ears of this movement. All we have to do is put our money where our mouth is to make it profitable to be ethical.

Our collective buying power WILL make a difference, and we WILL be heard.
http://www.buyblue.org/
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Some Thoughts
And the Nintendo generation is all part of their plan !
Welcome to modern day slavery... Where the draft is coming back, the new war machines run with controls much like Nintendo, Where it takes 2-3 incomes to keep an average house running...
What is modern day slavery you might ask ? It's when and where one income from one 40 hour work week will not cover your cost of living. Food, rent, medical, dental, the cloths you wear, insurance, a car, taxes, etc.. ALL OF IT. Where we buy cheap from companies that don't pay their help enough to get off of food stamps unless they have more than one income. Where both parents are working while the TV and video games do the babysitting and big brother is deciding what they should see or play. Where family closeness all but disappears because everyone in the family is too involved with self preservation to see the big picture. Followed by war, lots of wars, a thinning of the herd as some would say,
separating the rich from the poor, and eventually....
More on Modern Day Slavery coming soon... We're living it, so we might as well talk about it.
[RNC]
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Quotes of The Week
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
[Thomas Jefferson]
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"Following the leader is only as safe
as the leaders you choose to follow".
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"Have you heard that President George W. Bush is urging his daughters to volunteer for the Army and fight in Iraq? No? I haven't, either" !
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
[Susan B. Anthony] - 1896
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"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable
as the will and moral courage of free men and women".
[Ronald Reagan]
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"Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace."
[Charles Sumner]
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As Sy Hersh, a well know reporter put it:
 "The Democrats are living in fear, reporters are living in fear and all any of us
can do is to turn to the internet in search of the truth."
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"Remember, every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted".
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