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Saturday, July 16, 2005 |
THE VOTE: Should Bush Fire Karl Rove?
To help unnerve the neo-robber barons & their brain dead supporters,
go to:
http://www.vote.com
2 QUOTES FOR THE WEEKEND:
"For George
Bush to fire Karl
Rove would be like Charlie McCarthy firing
Edgar Bergen."
- - Al Franken
"The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many
times that of the mid-day sun ... Thirty seconds after the explosion came, the
air blast pressing hard against people & things, to be followed almost immediately
by a strong sustained awesome roar which warned of doomsday & made us feel
that we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with forces heretofore reserved
to the Almighty."
- - A US brigadier general who observed the 1st
nuke bomb test from a bunker
10,000 yards south of the explosion: July 16, 1945
THE HISTORY:
July 16, 1945 -- US: First atomic bomb exploded, Trinity Site, Alamogordo,
New Mexico. Detonation was not made public for three weeks, when two others like
it devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Powered by a sphere
of plutonium the size of an orange, it produced a fireball that rose 8,000 feet
in a fraction of a second, pushing a mushroom cloud 41,000 feet high. The Manhattan
Project was top secret in 1945, & nearby residents were told an ammunition
dump had exploded.
For an update, SEE:
US Still Pursuing Nuclear Options 60 Years After First Bomb
by Agence France Presse, July 15, 2005
Sixty years after the first atomic bomb was tested in the New Mexico desert,
the United States still has some 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert
and is considering new weapons such as earth-penetrating bunker busters.
AT: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0715-11.htm
July 17th, 1998 -- The NY Times report reveals the CIA worked hand-in-hand
with drug traffickers. Proves that old news travels fast.
For more details, SEE:
CIA Admits Ties to Contra Drug Dealers
Floor Remarks of Rep. Maxine Waters - July 17, 1998
http://www.house.gov/waters/71798pr.htm
THE CARTOON: Smear Someone? Moi?
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=641477&ct=1185761
THE BOOK TIP: The Madness of King George
The Ingenious Insanity of Our Most Misunderestimated President
by Michael K. Smith Matt Wuerker
Introduction by Terry Jones of Monty Python
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/index.cfm?action=book&bookid=248
THE ANIMATION: Busho Live
The Legendary Rock Star: GWB performs a medely of favorites.
http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=19343
THE WEBSITE:
How To Talk To A Conservative About Karl Rove (If You Must)
Everything you need to fight back against the right-wing misinformation
campaign.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07/14/rove-primer/
11:02:07 AM 
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Roving Target
By Will Durst, AlterNet, July 14, 2005
"Hello, this is the President of the United States. Yeah, I find it hard to believe too, but go ahead and leave a message and either Dick or Karl or my Dad or Laura will get back to you. BEEEEEEP!"
"Yeah, boss? This is me, Scott. McClellan. You know, your press secretary? You remember. Kind of balding? The one who always falls for your finger on my chest, then I look down and you hit me on the nose trick? Listen, I got a problem here. Um, this thing is getting weird. I mean, the reporters won't get off the Karl Rove-Valerie Plame story. They're like rabid wolverines and I'm the wounded bunny. "I did the whole Rcan't comment on an ongoing criminal investigation deal like we agreed. And kept doing it. Christ, I must have said it maybe 80 times and they wouldn't stop. The hell is that?...
MORE: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/23547
Moses' Top Ten
By Sarah Vowell, NY Times, July 16, 2005
The Ten Commandments have a shot at being named Time magazine's man of the year. This week, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed that 63 percent of the respondents want President Bush to appoint a Supreme Court nominee who supports "allowing displays of the Ten Commandments on government property." The Conservative Caucus is even petitioning the president to appoint the former, as in fired, Alabama chief justice, Roy Moore, the legal whiz who defied a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of Montgomery's state judicial building...
MORE AT: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/opinion/16vowell.html?th&emc=th,
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