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"Dyslexia" is an ability within the sensory mechanism of the nervous system to perceive the world with a multidimensional view."
I honestly don't remember who said that. Wasn't me, but I wish I could give credit where credit is due.
We all have gifts and challenges. That's what makes us individual, and special.
Tho differences breed intolerance in those inclined -- always has.
Dyslexics tend to be creative, free thinkers - to "think outside the box".
The Bush Bunch are rigid fundamentalists -- polar opposites.
"Great Minds"!! :)
Famous People with the Gift of Dyslexia
http://www.dyslexia.com/qafame.htm
Political Leaders:
Winston Churchill.
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
Michael Heseltine.
Andrew Jackson.
Thomas Jefferson.
John F. Kennedy.
Nelson Rockefeller.
Paul Wellstone,U.S. Senator.
Woodrow Wilson.
George Washington.
Free Thinkers...
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*Albert Einstein / Physicist, Nobel Prize (link #2)
Ann Bancroft, Arctic Explorer
Alexander Graham Bell / Inventor (link #2)
Werner Von Braun / Rocketry (link #2)
*Dr. Simon Clemmet / British Scientist analysed carbon compound
found in the meteorite from Mars
*Thomas Edison /Inventor (link #2 kids) (link #3) (link #4 pbs)
Michael Faraday / Physics,the discoverer of
electromagnetic induction,
paramagnetism, & diamagnetism (link #2) (link #3) (link #4)
Henry Ford / Inventor (link #2)
John R. Horner / Paleontologist / Author: Digging up Tyrannosaurus
Rex & technical adviser for the film Jurassic Park (link #2)
William Lear
Charles Lindbergh / Aviation
Dr. James Lovelock
*Sir Issac Newton / Scientist & Mathematician (link #2) (link #3) (link #4)
Eli Whitney / Inventor "Cotton Gin"
played a large role in the Industrial Revolution
John VonNeumann / Mathematician
Orville & Wilbur Wright / Inventors (link#2) (link #3)
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Dr. Harvey Cushing /Father of modern brain surgery (link #2)
Paul Ehrlich
*Fred Epstein, Neurosurgeonn (link #2)
William James (link #2)
John W. House, M.D. / President, House Ear Institute World
Renowned Research Facility
Dr. Edward Hallowell / Psychiatrist
*John Robert Skoyles, Brain Researcher
Margie C. Sweeney, M.D.
*Dr. Helen Taussig / developed surgery that saved blue babies (link #2)
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*Harry Andersen / TV actor, Judge Stone on Night Court
Fred Astaire / Performer (link #2)
Michael Barrymore / British comedian, TV host
George Burns / actor and comedian
Enrico Caruso
*Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (Tom Cruise) / Actor (Link # 2)
Harrison Ford / Actor
Danny Glover / Actor
Tracey Gold
*Whoopi Goldberg /Actress, comedian (link #2)
Anthony Hopkins / Actor
*Bob Hoskins / Actor (link#2)
*Susan Hampshire / Actress
Edward James
Jay Leno / Actor & Hosts the ABC "Tonight Show"
*Liv Tyler (link #2)
Will Smith / Actor, rapper, comedian (link#2)
Tom Smothers / Actor, singer, comedian
*Henry Winkler / Actor "The Fonze" "Happy Days"
*Oliver Reed
Edward James Olmos
Jill Pages, Trapeze
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*Cher / Actress, singer
*Noel Gallagher / Oasis Guitarist
Nigel Kennedy, Violinist
Jewel / Singer, actress (link#2)
Harry Belafonte / Singer, actor, producer, human rights activist
*Brad Little
John Lennon / Singer
River Jude Phoenix
Achilles Poulos / Greek Entertainer
Bob Weir / Guitarist "Grateful Dead" (link #2)
*Usher / Grammy award winning R&B singer
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*Erin Brockovich
David Boies - Attorney
Nicholas Brady / US Secretary Treasury
George Bush / President of the United State
*Sir. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill / Prime Minister Of England
King Carl XVI / Gustaf of Sweden (link #2)
Jeffrey H. Gallet, Judge.
Michael Hesetine / British MP
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
Lyndon Johnson / President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson / President of the United States
John Fitzgerald Kennedy / President of the United States
*General George S. Patton / General, Pilot (link #2)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt / First Lady
*Nelson Rockefeller / Vice President (link#2 by him)
*Woodrow Wilson / President of the United States
*George Washington / President of the United States
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Scott Adams / "Dilbert" creator
*David Bailey / British Photographer
Michelangelo Buonarroti /Artist
*Walt Disney / Animation artist
*Leonardo da Vinci / Artist (link#2) (link# 3)
Nicola Hicks / British Sculptress
Auguste Rodin / Sculptor "the thinker"
Patricia Buckley Moss / Artist
*Pablo Ruiz Picasso / Artist (link #2)
*Robert Rauschenberg / Artist (link #2)
Jørn Utzon / Architect "Sydney Opera house" (link #2)
Richard Rogers / Internationally famous architect,
creator of Lloyd's Building, London, Pompidou Centre, Paris
*Allison Merriweather/ Artist
Søren Kragh Jacobsen / Danish film director
*Stacy Poulos, Photographer, writer, multimedia Producer
Steven Spielberg / Filmmaker "The color Purple", "Indiana Jones"
"Schindlers List" "Always" "Jurassic Park"
*Robert Toth / Artest / Sculpture
Bennett Strahan
*Vincent VanGogh / Artist
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G. Chris Anderson / Managing Director of Drexel Burnham -
Wall Street Investment banking firm
*Stephen Bacque / Inventor & Entrepreneur,
President, A.S. "Bacque Enterprises, Inc."
*Richard Branson / Founder of "Virgin Enterprises"
*John T Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems (link# 2)
Fred Curry /Chairman & CEO of Greyhound Bus
Reyn Guyer / Nerf ball developer
*William Hewlett / Co-Founder "Hewlett-Packard" (link#2)
*Tommy Hilfiger / internationally-known fashion designer.
Steve Jobs / Founder "Apple Computers"
*Craig McCaw / Billionaire of "McCaw Cellular"
David Murdock / CEO, Dole Food
*Paul J. Orfalea / Founder and Chairman "Kinko's"
*Charles Schwab / Investor & multimillionaire businessman (link# 2)
Raymond Smith / Former CEO, Bell Atlantic
Richard C. Strauss (Dallas real estate developer)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger / Harvard University
Auther Stone
Chick Thompson / produces commercial videos
Ted Turner / President "Turner Broadcasting Systems"
Thomas J. Watson Jr. / Former CEO, IBM
F.W. Woolworth / Department Store Innovator
William Wrigley, Jr. / Chewing Gum
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*Avi / Children's writer & illustrator
Hans Christian Anderson / Author of fairy tales
Earnest Hemingway / Writer (link #2)
*Steven Cannell / TV Show writer "Rockford Files" Clumbo"
Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Dame Agatha Christie / Mystery writer
Fannie Flagg / Author
"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"
*Ronald Davis / writer, educator
Gustave Flaubert / French
*John Irvine / Writer
*Debbie Macomber / Auther
New York Times bestseller status with her 101st novel
Prophet Mohammed
*Danielle Mullen / 19 year old playwriter
*Patricia Polacco / Children's Author & Illustrator
*Girard Sagmiller / Writer
Prophet Joseph Smith / The Book of Mormon
Elizabeth Daniels Squire / Author of mystery novels
*Victor Villaseñor
Mark Twain / Writer "The adventures of Huckel Breey Fin"
William Butler Yeats / Irish Author
Victor Villaseñor / Writer
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* Terry Bradshaw / host of Fox's NFL pre-game show /former NFL quarterback
*Rulon Gardner / gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling
Duncan Goodhew / Olympic Swimmer
*Bruce Jenner / Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist
*Magic Johnson / Basket Ball
*Greg Louganis / Olympic Gold medalist
Dan O'Brian / Olympian
Babe Ruth - Baseball Legend
*Steven Redgrave / 4 Olympic Gold medals for Rowing
Jackie Stewart, World famous race car champion
Muhammad Ali / World Heavyweight Champion Boxer
*Bob May / Golfer
Joe Montana /Greatest quarterback of all time
*Diamond Dallas Page / World Wrestling Champion (link #2)
*Jim Shea, Jr./ gold medal competing in the skeleton event at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Nolan Ryan / Pitcher, National Baseball of Hall of Fame (link# 2)
Billy Banks /Tae-Bo the Fitness of the future
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Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. / Astronaut
*Ennis William Cosby
*Andrew Cunningham
Frank Dunkle (Director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
*Angus Hepburn
Joseph P. Land
*Julia Walker / Hollywood hair stylist for
Whoopi Goldberg "Sister Act 1 & 2" "Made In America"
Elizabeth B. (Liz) Student / LD Pride On Line
*Anthony Parle, farmer / some cucumbers for Mc Donald Secrete sauce
*Bob Turney / Probation Officer & author
"I'm Still Standing" and "Going Straight"
*Leonie J. Winson
*Sam K. / student
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http://www.playback.net/vision/dyslexia/people.htm
"Fifteen percent of the population has some level of a 'developmental learning disability', stemming from 'dyslexia'"
Have a nice day! :)
Atrocious - crimes against humanity. But WMD was the stated reason for war. Bush is held to a high standard of truthfulness and for the veracity of info he provided in making the war case to Congress. Bush's truthfulness and veracity are now in question.
This is a very colloquial internet forum. No need for anyone to act as spelling police. There's the ignore feature if you are troubled by another's posting. Consider using it.
I doubt Abbas can reign in Hamas or other militants. Not now, at least. Tensions are too high. But I guess the "road map" allows Young George to say -- "hey, I gave it the old college try"... Good PR, good for '04!
ergo,
Pharmaceuticals are always easier to get than the illicit drugs
Isn't that the truth! Like everything else, it comes down to money. If you can pay the right shrink,
it's all legal -- and it's big bucks for the pharma industry.
What a system! :)
How sad and moving... Does anyone really have to wonder why so many view us with such contempt. Yet stories like that rarely "leak" out into our mainstream media. Thanks for posting it. :)
Bravo & thank you!! Very well said. :)
Bush Certainty On Iraq Arms Went Beyond Analysts' Views
During the weeks last fall before critical votes in Congress and the United Nations on going to war in Iraq, senior administration officials, including President Bush, expressed certainty in public that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons, even though U.S. intelligence agencies were reporting they had no direct evidence that such weapons existed.
In an example of the tenor of the administration's statements at the time, the president said in the Rose Garden on Sept. 26 that "the Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. The Iraqi regime is building the facilities necessary to make more biological and chemical weapons."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26487-2003Jun6.html?nav=hptop_tb
CERTAINTY !!!
The new FCC reg is a ridiculous ploy to expand conservative media control.
Murdoch makes Al Jazeera look "Fair & Balanced"....
I suspect that was supposed to be an "apology", but instead he went on to explain his vulgar and ridiculous statements. Did we honestly expect anything better from such a fundamentalist loon??... He's back on "iggy". But interestingly enough, in posting his defensive jibberish he actually made our point (you know, the point of the "far left, Bush hating" crowd) when he said.....
If the rhetoric of the board were to focus on the questions of the existence of WMD's (neither proven nor disproven at the moment)
The Bush Admin stated that the existence of WMD was a FACT and used such facts to make it's case for war to Congress, the American people and the international community. Not only did the Admin claim as FACT the existance, the claimed Saddam's WMD posed such an immediated and grave threat to the US that there was no time to allow the inspectors to complete their inspection...And they told us to buy duct tape!.. Now it appears the info used to claim WMD existed as FACT is suspect. But hey, Bush is the big boss in DC and he is ultimately responsible for the quality of the info presented to Congress, the American people, and the world.
How lame is it for the big boss to blame the underlings??.. By the same logic, Ken Lay could blame his bookkeeper, or Willie might even blame Monica... But responsibility ultimately resides with the big boss of any group or institution... And we all know that!
Like I said, if the "Dream Team" ever needs a Boy George jury, they should call mlsoft!... :)
Maine, This is "Why"...
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=1083902
op Murdoch's DirecTV Takeover
MB Docket No. 03-124
Comment Deadline: June 16
Reply comments will be due by July 1.
http://www.democraticmedia.org/getinvolved/directvAction.html
"News Corp.'s acquisition of DirecTV will also increase the ability of Murdoch to influence the public on behalf of his conservative views. He will be able to create TV channels and interactive services at will, giving them favorable placement in his US media empire"
Eric Rudolph, Right Wing, Home Grown Terrorist:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=1084357
"With us or with the terrorists"??.. What does THAT mean, exactly??...
What about those who supported, Eric Rudolph - a home grown, right wing terrorist??... We have laws in this country, included in the Patriot's and Homeland Security Acts, regarding those who support terror, or promote views that contribute to terror... Are there two sets of rules, or a double standard - one for home grown terrorists and another for terrorists of Arab descent??.......
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The case of Eric Rudolph: Right-wing terrorism and the Bush administration
By Patrick Martin
4 June 2003
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/rdph-j04.shtml
The Republican Party connection
To the extent that it has examined the political background of the Rudolph case at all, the US media has sought to focus attention on local sympathy for the fugitive terrorist in the North Carolina backwoods, portraying this as essentially harmless and almost quaint, like hog-calling contests or squirrel hunting.
The media is entirely silent on the larger issue: the role of the Republican Party in creating the political and moral atmosphere for right-wing terrorism, by whipping up hysteria over abortion, homosexuality, gun control and similar issues, and pandering to racism and anti-Semitism.
There is a grotesque irony in the spectacle of Attorney General John Ashcroft presiding over the arrest, arraignment and prosecution of Eric Rudolph. Ashcroft has himself expressed political views on abortion and gay rights that are substantially identical to those voiced by Rudolph, whatever differences they may have on tactics.
Many leading Republicans have made common cause with racist and white supremacist elements, particularly in the South, where such elements shifted their allegiance from the Democratic Party after the civil rights reforms of the 1960s. Ashcroft, for instance, was on friendly terms with Southern Patriot magazine, a publication that preaches the glories of the old Confederacy and the legitimacy of a war to defend slavery.
Ashcroft and George Bush both gave speeches at the racist Bob Jones University in South Carolina, solidarizing themselves with an institution that regards blacks, Jews and Catholics as inferior. Ashcroft’s 1999 speech included the declaration that the basis of American government was “We have no king but Jesus”; i.e., a flat rejection of the separation of church and state in favor of the theocratic outlook that Christian fundamentalist doctrine should be established as the law of the land.
Ashcroft, former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr and former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi had close ties with the Council of Conservative Citizens, a successor to the White Citizens Councils that organized resistance to desegregation during the civil rights era. The councils were the “respectable” wing of the racist establishment, subcontracting out the use of violent and terrorist methods to the Ku Klux Klan. In a somewhat analogous fashion, the Republican Party of today denounces abortion as a “holocaust,” while leaving it to the Eric Rudolphs and James Kopps to carry out the logical implications of such a position, by bombing clinics and murdering doctors.
Lott was compelled to step down as the Republican leader in the Senate last December, after his notorious comments expressing regret that Strom Thurmond was defeated in his 1948 presidential campaign on the segregationist Dixiecrat ticket. His ouster did not signify any rupture in the “wink and a nod” relationship between the Republican establishment and the white supremacist right. Lott’s mistake was only to be too explicit in his comments, while failing, in the eyes of the far right, to be sufficiently aggressive as Republican leader in the Senate.
There is an enormous contrast between the indulgent treatment given by the media to those expressing open support for Eric Rudolph, and the witch-hunting hysteria against Arab-Americans and immigrants who had no association whatsoever with the September 11 terrorists. (One can only imagine the public uproar, followed by police raids, if a storekeeper in Brooklyn had put up a sign, “Pray for Osama bin Laden.”)
Ashcroft’s Justice Department has raided offices and seized the assets of Muslim charitable organizations in the United States, charging that even raising funds to provide food and medical care for suffering Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza Strip constitutes aid to “terrorism.”
With much more evidence, federal agents could have raided the offices of the Christian Coalition, the Southern Baptist Convention and dozens of fundamentalist preachers—to say nothing of the offices of the Republican Party itself—on the grounds that they bear political and moral responsibility for fostering the homegrown terrorists of the Christian Right.
The Democratic Party, for its part, is complicit in covering up the enormous role played by extreme right-wing and fascistic elements in the Republican Party, and their political influence within the Bush administration. It works to conceal from the American people this dirty secret of American politics.
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World Socialist Web Site
The US has become more complacent and "right" -minded since the Goldwater Days... And gov, and much of the media is controlled by various right-wing factions. But some in the US media are covering the Bush Fiasco, and rightfully and responsibly so.
Bush's problem is across the pond where both Blair and the war are intensely unpopular. I don't see how the Bush Admin avoids the fallout - even if the majority of Americans don't care or have their heads in the sand...
When the press questioned Ari about using nukes in Iraq, he said they were not ruling out anything militarily, and the US would do whatever was needed to protect it's people....
Not verbatim -- but something very similar.
I say "chicken legs" or was that Chicken HAWKS??? It's a "barn yard" thing, like SHEEP! :) And because We, here in the US, are always "right", and the rest of the WORLD is always wrong... Capish??...
But the problem is the United State's loss of credibility because there are real threats in the world. And WHO will believe and/or support us now??...
Sad!
Every country is required to "catalogue" such programs with the UN, including the US.... But Bush created a WMD program and scenario that was not included in Iraq's filing. Now that scenario, and Bush's entire case for pre-emptive war is called into question.
Do you understand that??....
And they call everyone who questions this recent foreign policy fiasco a "BushBasher".... Perhaps they should tell it to the original American Patriots, the ones who gave their lives for the freedoms this country is supposed to stand for, and the Constitutional system it was founded on.
Questioning gov is not only the "American Way", it is an absolute responsibility of our country's continued freedom,
and the absolute right of every American...
Attack on Freedom
http://www.moveon.org/
The Attack on Freedom
In 1814, the British marched on Washington and burned down the White House. In World War II, the United States fought a virulent fascism that took tens of millions of lives. During the cold war, we faced down tens of thousands of nuclear-tipped missiles pointed directly at our cities. These conflicts struck at the very heart of our survival as a nation.
Although there have always been men who call for dictatorial powers in times of crisis, our Bill of Rights survived these threats intact because our leaders knew that these freedoms are the foundation of our strength as a nation and must be protected....
http://www.moveon.org/
Look what made it to CNN... "Liberal Media"??..
Is lying about the reason for a war an impeachable offense?
By John W. Dean
FindLaw Columnist
Special to CNN.com
Friday, June 6, 2003 Posted: 5:17 PM EDT (2117 GMT)
(FindLaw) -- President George W. Bush has got a very serious problem. Before asking Congress for a joint resolution authorizing the use of U.S. military forces in Iraq, he made a number of unequivocal statements about the reason the United States needed to pursue the most radical actions any nation can undertake -- acts of war against another nation.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/06/findlaw.analysis.dean.wmd/
Maybe Americans aren't "brain dead" after all -- Maybe they ARE taking notice??... :)
Red Alert City
Are New Yorkers the president’s sacrificial lambs?
We’re on the brink and, like many, I have a scary vision in my head: Right after the bombs begin dropping over Baghdad, or perhaps in ensuing months and years, as many in the Arab world seethe over the U.S.’s actions, further ferocious terrorist attacks will occur here in New York City. It’s one among many reasons I’ve opposed military action, and certainly without the U.N.—yes, even though the counterargument claims that if we don’t take out Saddam right away, he’ll give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists who will no doubt target Manhattan.
I’ve yet to be convinced that Saddam-connected terrorist attacks will occur if we don’t act this very minute, while I’m quite convinced that acts of terror will occur if we do. It’s a big relief that Osama’s top guys are now being captured; the Bushies are to be commended for that, no matter how long it took. But this invade-and-conquer scheme could undo whatever bit of safety we’ve gained, since there are a lot more Muslim terrorist groups out there beyond al Qaeda. And CIAhead George Tenet has warned of terrorist attacks if the U.S. invades Iraq.
That said, I’ve not bought even one roll of duct tape, nor have I gotten any plastic sheets for the windows. While a lot of crackpots in farmhouses out in the middle of the country are duct-taping every square inch of their homes and building anti-radiation bunkers underground, I don’t believe they’re really afraid, at least not for any rational reasons. For them, terrorism threats make for another obsessive and paranoid hobby, like going on a trek to the Arizona desert to try to find extraterrestrials. I think it’s pretty safe to assume that Al Qaeda is not going to set off a dirty bomb in the middle of the Kansas wheat fields.
No, the fear I have as a resident of New York City is certainly a more grounded one, and in that respect it’s accompanied by the reality that duct tape and plastic sheets aren’t going to do a damn thing. A Newsday/NY1 poll conducted last week showed that in fact I’m among the majority of city residents, who have a markedly different opinion on the war than that of the country as the whole.
Only 19 percent of New Yorkers support a war without U.N. backing (as opposed to nearly half of all Americans in other polls). Another 32 percent support war only with the U.N.’s okay. And 42 percent of all New Yorkers are opposed to any war of any kind against Iraq, period.
In his robotic and monotone primetime press conference last week, George W. Bush sloughed off the North Korea nuclear threat—a "regional" problem, he said—while repeating his Saddam mantras like a wind-up doll. But the one comment that concerned many New Yorkers came in response to a question about potential retaliation attacks by terrorists:
"It’s hard to envision more terror on America than September 11th," Bush said, attempting to connect 9/11 once again to Saddam. (Actually, he attempted to do that about a dozen times in the press conference.)
It was a profoundly, frighteningly arrogant statement. As I recall, on Sept. 11th, the president was whisked off on Air Force One to various places far in the hinterlands while the rest of us who reside in New York and Washington faced the terror head-on. And unlike Bush, the rest of us in the epicenters of terror know that if—when?—it happens again (or just before, maybe even as the bombs begin dropping on Iraq) we and our families won’t be carted off to a safe, undisclosed location like the Bushes, the Cheneys, and the Rumsfelds.
While Bush can’t "envision" more terror, New Yorkers certainly can. How about watching the Empire State Building come down next time? Sarin gas in the subways? Truck bombs on bridges? A radiological device exploding in Times Square?
Those are the cataclysmic events New Yorkers are thinking about with regard to this war against Iraq. And before you say it, the opposition to war against Iraq among New Yorkers can’t be easily chocked up to liberal sympathies. This is a city, after all, with a Republican mayor—the second one in a row—that voted in big numbers for a Republican governor, twice. The folks in Brooklyn and Queens are far from Upper West Side liberals or downtown intellectuals of the "give peace a chance" variety, and Staten Island votes consistently Republican.
More than that, the poll shows quite clearly that a major reason so many New Yorkers oppose the war is their fear of further terrorism. While less than half of New Yorkers—45 percent—believe an attack is inevitable right this minute, 67 percent believe the threat of terrorism increases if the U.S. invades Iraq.
A few months back, Jimmy Breslin wrote a Newsday column claiming that Bush couldn’t care less about the safety of New Yorkers, using Ground Zero as a photo-op while opening us up to further attacks by waging war in the Middle East. As time goes on, his words only ring with more truth.
Most of the opposition, much of it based in part on a fear of further attacks, comes from people in cities and other enclaves in "blue" states—those states that voted for Al Gore in the 2000 election—as opposed to Bush’s "red" states. Most of the terrorist targets that surfaced in the "chatter" the CIA has heard since 9/11—from LAX airport and the Golden Gate Bridge to Manhattan and D.C.—are in blue states or locales Bush wouldn’t have a chance of winning in the next election.
You have to wonder if Bush would have led us down this road if the 9/11 attacks occurred at Dallas and Houston shopping malls instead of in New York and Washington, if the "chatter" showed that Texas was now the primary target of Muslim fundamentalist terrorists and if the polls showed that Texans—and, say, Floridians—were overwhelmingly opposed to the war.
But it’s not that way. It’s this way: He conquers Iraq. He solidifies his support in Texas and his other red states. He uses New York and its tragedy as a backdrop for his re-election campaign, when the Republican convention comes here in 2004.
And meanwhile, we live in constant dread, perhaps more of a target than ever before.
Michelangelo Signorile can be reached at www.signorile.com.
Volume 16, Issue 11
©2003 All rights reserved.
Stop Murdoch's DirecTV Takeover
MB Docket No. 03-124
Comment Deadline: June 16
Reply comments will be due by July 1.
http://www.democraticmedia.org/getinvolved/directvAction.html
"News Corp.'s acquisition of DirecTV will also increase the ability of Murdoch to influence the public on behalf of his conservative views. He will be able to create TV channels and interactive services at will, giving them favorable placement in his US media empire"
"As New Yorkers living in the city most affected by September 11, we acknowledge the need to protect our safety, but as people who prize our Constitution and Bill of Rights, we believe it is impermissible to suspend freedom in the name of preserving it."
— New York Bill of Rights Defense Campaign leaflet
"As New Yorkers living in the city most affected by September 11, we acknowledge the need to protect our safety, but as people who prize our Constitution and Bill of Rights, we believe it is impermissible to suspend freedom in the name of preserving it."
— New York Bill of Rights Defense Campaign leaflet
Sheep??... Is THAT what Santorum had in mind??... :)
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Judge rejects Disney's no-fly zone
By MIKE BRANOM
Associated Press Writer
A federal judge rejected Thursday a conservative Christian group's attempt to remove the no-fly zone over Walt Disney World so planes could trail banners touting an anti-homosexuality Web site over the theme park during Gay Days festivities.
U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway said the Virginia-based Family Policy Network did not meet the burden of proof necessary to provide a temporary restraining order against the Federal Aviation Administration's restrictions. The rules were adopted to prevent possible terrorist attacks.
Conway also said she did not believe she had jurisdiction over the FAA's policies.
Family Policy Network and co-plaintiff Airsign, a North Carolina aerial advertising company, sued the federal government Wednesday, alleging the no-fly zone violates their free speech rights. The group wanted to hire Airsign planes to pull banners reading: "JESUS CHRIST: HOPE FOR HOMOSEXUALS.COM" over the park.
FAA restrictions say that planes must remain at least 3,000 feet above the park or stay at least three nautical miles away. A no-fly zone also covers Disneyland and the company's neighboring California Adventure in Anaheim, Calif.
The 13th annual Gay Days celebration, a four-day event which started Thursday, is expected to draw more than 100,000 gay and lesbian tourists. While Disney doesn't sponsor Gay Days - it has several outside organizers - the Magic Kingdom theme park is the hub of the activities.
"Airspace is a free-First Amendment zone," Glover said. "And we wanted to make sure that we could have the opportunity to explain the same home in Jesus Christ that we've found."
Glover added that on Saturday, the peak of Gay Days, banner planes will fly outside the protected zone as well as over other central Florida theme parks such as Universal Orlando.
"We're going to have other opportunities to share the message that we want to share, and we're going to take those opportunities and hope that this is corrected somewhere down the line," Glover said.
But during the hour-long hearing, Department of Justice attorney Brian Kennedy argued that the First Amendment had little to do with no-fly zones.
"The problem is not that it's an attractive target for speech," Kennedy said. "The problem is, it's an attractive target."
Disney has repeatedly said the "safety and enjoyment" of its guests were the reasons the company wanted the no-fly zones, and wants them maintained.
"We believe this is a well-founded decision by the court," said Disney spokeswoman Rena Callahan, who refused to comment further.
The suit listed the FAA, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Transportation Security Administration as defendants.
The FAA has refused to comment, aside from saying the no-fly regulations were part of an appropriations package approved by Congress in February and any attempt to repeal them would have to be addressed through legislation.
"Congress has some explaining to do and we intend to investigate Congress' actions in this case," said Stephen F. Crampton, chief counsel for the American Family Association Center for Law and Policy, a Mississippi-based group that provided legal assistance to the plaintiffs.
Ironically, Gay Days organizers supported the attempt to roll back flight restrictions.
"I don't believe the no-fly zone should be there," Chris Alexander-Manley, director of marketing for Gay Days Inc., told the Orlando Sentinel. "There was one group that was planning to fly a banner welcoming everybody."
Banners that participants at Gay Days would have sent aloft included "gaydays.com" and "The Girls at Gay Days," organizers said.
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Report: "Iraq: Key Weapons Facilities - An Operational Support Study."
Pentagon report found 'no reliable evidence' of WMD in Iraq
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
07 June 2003
A report by the Pentagon's intelligence agency concluded last year there was "no reliable evidence" to prove Saddam Hussein had developed chemical weapons - further undermining claims from Washington and London that the Iraqi regime presented a genuine threat to the West.
A leaked copy of the report by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) reveals that, despite extensive analysis, experts were unable definitively to conclude Iraq was either stockpiling or producing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The report's contents will add to the considerable pressure Tony Blair and President George Bush face as their pre-war claims come under intense scrutiny.
"There is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons, or whether Iraq has - or will - establish its chemical warfare agent production facilities," a summary page of the DIA report said. The report does not suggest Iraq did not have WMD. Indeed, it concludes that Iraq "probably" has such stockpiles. But its language is far more circumspect than that of senior Bush administration officials and the President himself, who insisted Iraq not only had large stocks of WMD but it was capable of delivering them in weapons.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=413164
It's the Hypocrisy, Stupid! :))
http://www.bushforpope.com/
Maine, Mlsoft is simply showing his own classless intolerance. After attempting a reasonable discussion with mlsoft, I have chosen to put him on ignore again. His potshots are clearly vulgar and an indication of his own character. His post was removed for it's vulgar content.
There's nothing "Christian" about the intolerance he has displayed on this thread. In fact, some of his ideology is probably closer to the ideology of "white supremacy" than "Christianity". Calling it "Christian" does Christians a true dis-service. Yet, forever people have used religion to justify hatred. Nothing new & surely and worthy of ignore - again.
They both DO lie! It's about politics and not good gov - anymore.
Regardless of the WMD issue, our handling of the Iraq situation has been nothing short of a foreign policy disaster. Yes, so called "conservatives" are outraged when lies are about sex, but when lies are about war they are defensive... But that really shouldn't surprise anyone...
Sex lies get you impeached! War lies get you re-elected??...
Thank heavens for the Brits, their outrage and their willingness to investigate the truth. Americans should do the same.
Like I said, mlsoft, the "Dream Team" loves guys like you...
My reference was to the Tuwaitha nuclear facility, not to combat troops.
The thought of gov lying IS outrageous, and they are investigating.
No one knows... But despite their "best efforts" to prove a link between 9/11 and Saddam the government was not able to make the connection. Another "intelligence failure"?? They might call it that... Or maybe they should call in Ken Starr...
Do YOU believe Saddam was connected to 9/11, and if so - why??...
Probably for the same reasons they built Tuwaitha in Iraq, and other facilities in the US, and around the globe.
Maybe someone can explain it to hap?... 8~}