Monday, August 23, 2004

REPUBLICANS AGAINST BUSH I love this kind of Republicans and they live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands! And there's more of them, and more. Then you have the expats against Bush. There's a button for lots of groups against Bush. And if you listen to Air America Radio, you can hear Randi Rhodes getting calls from Republicans who are going to vote for Kerry. 11:33:15 PM

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SCHEDULE Republican National Convention - Schedule New York, NY, August 30th-September 2nd 6:00 PM - Opening Prayer led by the Reverend Jerry Falwell 6:30 PM - Pledge of Allegiance 6:35 PM - Ceremonial Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd Amendment) 6:46 PM - Seminar #1: Katherine Harris on "Are Elections Really Necessary?" 7:30 PM - Announcement: Lincoln Memorial Renamed for Ronald Reagan 7:35 PM - Trent Lott - "Re-segregation in the 21st Century" 8:00 PM - Vote on which country to invade next 8:10 PM - Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh 8:15 PM - John Ashcroft Lecture: "The Homos Are After Your Children" 8:50 PM - Seminar #2: "Corporations: The Government of the Future" 9:10 PM - EPA Address: "Trees: The Real Cause of Forest Fires" 10:15 PM - Carl Rove Lecture: "Doublespeak Made Simple" 10:30 PM - Rumsfeld Lecture/Demonstration: "How to Squint and Talk Macho Even When You Feel Squishy Inside" 10:40 PM - John Ashcroft Demonstration: New Mandatory Kevlar Chastity Belt 10:45 PM - GOP's Tribute to Tokenism, featuring Colin Powell & Condi Rice 10:46 PM - Ann Coulter's Tribute to "Joe McCarthy, American Patriot" 10:50 PM - Seminar #3: "Education: A Drain on Our Nation's Economy" 12:00 Mid - Nomination of George W. Bush as Holy Supreme Planetary Overlord 8:40:35 PM

WASTING MONEY AlterNet: "A team of auditors was dispatched to Iraq in late January this year after a string of internal reports showed that the military was wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer money. They have issued eleven reports since June 25, almost all of which have pointed to the misuse of the money allocated for reconstruction, be it Iraqi or Congress-appropriated funds. According to two of these reports issued in late July by Stuart Bowen, the auditor-inspector general of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), not only have a full one-third of the items purchased by the Pentagon gone MIA (including the pricey generator), but a whopping $1.9 billion or more of Iraqi oil revenue has also mysteriously disappeared. Embarrassed military authorities did eventually track down the missing generator and much of the money, both of which seemed to have ended up with none other than Halliburton. But the Pentagon was not able to explain just how Halliburton gained possession of Iraqi funds when neither the United States Congress nor the Iraqi government authorized their transfer to Halliburton in the first place. Worse yet, the man who authorized the allocation - CPA chief Paul Bremer - had already quietly left Iraq just as the reports were being released. In over a year, the CPA had managed to spend just 2 percent of the $18.4 billion earmarked for the immediate reconstruction of Iraq. And not a penny was spent on the two areas where the Iraqi people were suffering the most: healthcare or water and sanitation." 10:56:17 AM

DEMONSTRATIONS IN GERMANY Each Monday demonstrations are held against the reforms planned by Schroeder. The protest is massive. 10:46:08 AM

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