Okay folks I am sitting in my PJ’s wasitn the day away. So far I have accomplished well….nadda.
I have drank 3 cups of coffee, ate some soup (tomato), and ate 3 peanut butter cookies…all while watching Fargo…which is an excellent film, although the depiction of North Dakotans is, I am sure a bit far fetched, but hell it could be right on the money. I seriously hope not. No one geographic region can be made up completely, of stupid people. Can it?
Moving on….
I come into my room to check my email and I received an email from the organization http://www.moveon.org/ asking me to please participate in getting to the bottom of what really happened during this year’s election.
I have pasted it here…for all those who are interested in the happenings of that day…and of hopefully getting an investigation going.
Subject: Tell Congress to Investigate the 2004 Election
Dear friend,
Questions are swirling around whether the election was conducted honestly or not. We need to know -- was it or wasn't it?
If people were wrongly prevented from voting, or if legitimate votes were mis-counted or not counted at all, we need to know so the wrongdoers can be held accountable, and to help prevent this from happening again.
Members of Congress are demanding an investigation to answer this question. Join me in supporting their call, at:
http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/
Thanks.
After reading this I stared doing some surfing…. and I have to say that everyday I read or find something else that is so disturbing to me…. I actually become speechless…. at a total loss for words...as to how to describe my feelings for this Government.
People are still going on and on about the apparent Morals of the USA and its LEADER. I find this to be so ludicrous, I mean if you were to listen to the Republicans , if you protest this war, or the President, or if you believe in fair and basic rights and liberty for everyone, well then you are ANTI-AMERICAN. PERIOD
Well ok….
Here’s your Moral Prez…
http://static.vidvote.com/movies/bushuncensored.mov
If Kerry were to do this, can you just imagine what FOX news would do to him or for that matter what the evangelicals would say?
Rather hypocritical don’t you think?
I could go on and on about how I feel or think with regards to the current administration and its re-elected MANDATED leader… but instead, I was lucky enough to find an article that represents my view(s).
GOD HELP AMERICA, THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN (or have they? -ed.)
From the Daily Mirror- UK
THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes from their own sidewalks and looking outward towards the rest of humanity.
And for a few hours early yesterday, when the exit polls predicted a John Kerry victory, it seemed they had. But then the horrible, inevitable truth hit home. They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put before them. The Yellow Rogue of Texas. A self-serving, dim-witted, draft-dodging, gung-ho little rich boy, whose idea of courage is to yell: "I feel good," as he unleashes an awesome fury which slaughters 100,000 innocents for no other reason than greed and vanity.
A dangerous chameleon, his charming exterior provides cover for a power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves whose goal is to increase America's grip on the world's economies and natural resources. And in foolishly backing him, Americans have given the go-ahead for more unilateral pre-emptive strikes, more world instability and most probably another 9/11. Why else do you think bin Laden was so happy to scare them to the polls, then made no attempt to scupper the outcome?
There's only one headline in town today, folks: "It Was Osama Wot Won It." And soon he'll expect pay-back. Well, he can't allow Bush to have his folks whoopin' and a-hollerin' without his own getting a share of the fun, can he?
Heck, guys, I hope you're feeling proud today.
To the tens of millions who voted for John Kerry, my commiserations. To the overwhelming majority of you who didn't, I simply ask: Have you learnt nothing? Do you despise your own image that much? Do you care so little about the world beyond your shores? How could you do this to yourselves? How appalling must one man's record at home and abroad be for you to reject him? Kerry wasn't the best presidential candidate the Democrats have ever fielded (and he did deserve a kicking for that "reporting for doo-dee" moment), but at least he understood the complexity of the world outside America, and domestic disgraces like the 45 million of his fellow citizens without health cover.
He would have done something to make that country fairer and re-connected it with the wider world. Instead America chose a man without morals or vision. An economic incompetent who inherited a $2billion surplus from Clinton, gave it in tax cuts to the rich and turned the US into the world's largest debtor nation. A man who sneers at the rights of other nations. Who has withdrawn from international treaties on the environment and chemical weapons. A man who flattens sovereign states then hands the rebuilding contracts to his own billionaire party backers. A man who promotes trade protectionism and backs an Israeli government, which continually flouts UN resolutions. ho invented a war on terror, and thus as author of it, believed he had the right to set the rules of engagement. America has chosen a menacingly immature buffoon who likened the pursuit of the 9/11 terrorists to a Wild West, Wanted Dead or Alive man-hunt and, during the Afghanistan war, kept a baseball scorecard in his drawer, notching up hits when news came through of enemy deaths.
A RADICAL Christian fanatic who decided the world was made up of the forces of good and evil, w Which translates to telling his troops to do what the hell they want to the bad guys. As he has at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and countless towns across Iraq. You have to feel sorry for the millions of Yanks in the big cities like New York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco who voted to kick him out. These are the sophisticated side of the electorate who recognize a gibbon when they see one. As for the ones who put him in, across the Bible Belt and the South, us outsiders can only feel pity. Were I a Kerry voter, though, I'd feel deep anger, not only at them returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us all into the same category of moronic Muppets.
The self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and strong". You probably won't be surprised to learn of would-be Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn who, on Tuesday, promised to ban abortion and execute any doctors who carried them out. He also told voters that lesbianism is so rampant in the state's schools that girls were being sent to toilets on their own. Not that any principal could be found to back him up. These are the people who hijack the word patriot and liken compassion to child-molesting. And they are unknowingly bin Laden's chief recruiting officers. Al-Qaeda's existence is fuelled by the outpourings of America's Christian right. Bush is its commander-in-chief. And he and bin Laden need each other to survive.
Both need to play Lex Luther to each others' Superman with their own fanatical people. Maybe that's why the mightiest military machine ever assembled has failed to catch the world's most wanted man. Or is the reason simply that America is incompetent? That behind the bluff they are frightened and clueless, which is why they've stayed with the devil they know. VISITORS from another planet watching this election would surely not credit the amateurism. The queues for hours to register a tick; the 17,000 lawyers needed to ensure there was no cheating; the $1.2bn wasted by parties trying to discredit the enemy; the allegations of fraud, intimidation and dirty tricks; the exit polls which were so wildly inaccurate; an Electoral College voting system that makes the Eurovision Song Contest look like a beacon of democracy and efficiency; and the delays and the legal wrangles in announcing the victor.
Yet America would have us believe theirs is the finest democracy in the world. Well, that fine democracy has got the man it deserved. George W Bush. But is America safer today without Kerry in charge? A man who overnight would have given back to the UN some credibility and authority. Who would have worked out the best way to undo the Iraq mess without fear of losing face. Instead, the questions facing America today are - how many more thousands of their sons will die as Iraq descends into a new Vietnam? And how many more Vietnams are on the horizon now they have given Bush the mandate to go after Iran, Syria, North Korea or Cuba...? Today is a sad day for the world, but it's even sadder for the millions of intelligent Americans embarrassed by a gung-ho leader and backed by a banal electorate, half of whom still believe Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.
Yanks had the chance to show the world a better way this week, instead they made a thuggish cowboy ride off into the sunset bathed in glory. And in doing so it brought Armageddon that little bit closer and re-christened their beloved nation The Home Of The Knave and the Land Of The Freak.
God Help America.
I want to emphasize that I am dead set against this war in Iraq.Against anyone dictating to me what my reproductive rights should and shouldn’t be, against anyone trampling on an individuals right to love and marry the one they love…
I am dead set against the killing of innocent children in the name the USA…
US-led forces reach central Falluja By: Reuters in Falluja, Iraq November 9, 2004 15:32 GMT
US and Iraqi forces have punched to the heart of Falluja, consolidating positions in Iraq’s most rebellious city after a day of fierce combat. While bursts of gunfire could still be heard in some districts, residents said the sound of heavy bombardments and explosions eased off around 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday (1:15 p.m. British time) after a night and day of intense fighting between US-led forces and rebels.
An American soldier wounded in Falluja said he had seen two of his colleagues killed.
”A buddy of mine and another soldier were killed and I have seen about 50 other wounded (US) soldiers since the fighting began,” he told Reuters while awaiting medical evacuation. He declined to give his name.
A Reuters reporter saw about five wounded soldiers being flown out by helicopter and a US military ambulance driver also said he had witnessed many casualties.
Among the Iraqis killed was a nine-year-old boy, severely injured by shrapnel in the abdomen when his home was bombarded by US jets overnight. His parents were unable to get him to hospital and he died hours later of blood loss, they said.
US, IRAQI CASUALTIES
The military has given no figures for US casualties since the assault on Falluja began on Monday evening.
There has also been no word on the total number of civilian casualties. Falluja residents said a US air strike hit a clinic in a central district, killing some medical staff and patients.
A Marines tank company commander -- part of a US-led force at least 10,000 strong -- said earlier guerrillas were battling hard in Falluja’s northern Jolan district.
”They are putting up a strong fight and I saw many of them on the street I was on,” Captain Robert Bodisch told Reuters.
Many families fled the city of 300,000 to escape air raids before the offensive. The US military said about 150,000 residents had taken refuge outside Falluja.
Residents said they had no power and used kerosene lamps at night. They kept to ground floors for safety. Telephones were erratic. Even food shops had been closed for six days.
Iraqi troops brought nine handcuffed prisoners to a railway station on the northern edge of the Jolan area where US and Iraqi forces are based. They said two of them were Egyptians and one was Syrian. The rest were Iraqis.
The interim Iraqi government and its US backers say foreign Muslim militants led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi are holed up in Falluja along with Iraqi rebels.
The government says two Moroccans were among 38 people detained when Iraqi and US troops seized Falluja’s main hospital in the early hours of Monday.
POLICE STATION RAIDS
Rebels staged bloody attacks on police stations in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, police said. A mortuary official said 45 people died in attacks and clashes in and around the city, although other officials played down that figure.
Zarqawi’s group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
”Al Qaeda lions launched an attack in Baquba, where mujahideen were able to raid three police stations and kill more than 45 policemen,” the Al Qaeda Organisation of Holy War in Iraq said in a statement posted on Islamist Web sites.
Around 50 gunmen attacked a police station in southwest Baghdad, leading to fierce street battles with police that were continuing at sundown on Tuesday. A police source said he feared there were casualties but had no details.
A suspected car bomb outside an Iraqi National Guard base near Kirkuk in the north killed three people and wounded two.
Sami al-Jumaili, a doctor at the main Falluja hospital who escaped arrest when it was taken, said the city was running out of medical supplies and only a few clinics remained open.
”There is not a single surgeon in Falluja. We had one ambulance hit by US fire and a doctor wounded. There are scores of injured civilians in their homes whom we can’t move.
”A 13-year-old child just died in my hands,” he said by telephone from a house where he had gone to help the wounded.
The government sees Falluja and its sister city of Ramadi as rebel havens that must be retaken before January elections.
Allawi urged the gunmen in Falluja to lay down their weapons and let Iraqi forces enter the city peacefully to spare it from further attacks, his spokesman Thaer al-Naqib told reporters at a US base near Falluja.
”The political solution is possible even if military operations are ongoing,” Naqib said.
The authorities have appointed a temporary military governor for Falluja, Major General Abdul Qader Mohan, the commander of the military operations in Falluja, he added.
I know that in war horrible things happen, but in the past we were at war for reasons other than blatant lies and profits.
I feel that the more people are shown/told what really is taking place over there and in this country, the better. Regardless of their political views…..Americans have the right to know what the government doesn’t want you to know…..
That does not make you or me UNAMERICAN…just a well informed AMERICAN!
http://www.sharedvoice.org/unamerican/
I will post something every week on my Blog about the war and the casualties over there, both civilian and military. I will not use the major media as my source…rather overseas media and journalists who are not saying or reporting what the government wants the American people to read or hear.
Now….I have had me say for today….time to play…
Ciao 4 Now
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