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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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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...
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Activists Against Iraq War Refuse to Call it Quits
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0207-11.htm
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Senator Richard J. Durbin | A Form of Torture
Statement of Senator Richard J. Durbin on the nomination of Alberto R. Gonzales
 to serve as Attorney General of the United States.

...Let's review what we know.

First, Mr. Gonzales recommended to the President that the Geneva Conventions should not apply to the war on terrorism. In a January 2002 memo to the President, Mr. Gonzales concluded that the war on terrorism "renders obsolete" the Geneva Conventions. This is a memo written by the man who would be Attorney General.

Colin Powell and the Joint Chiefs of Staff objected strenuously to this conclusion by Alberto Gonzales. They argued that we could effectively prosecute a war on terrorism while still living up to the standards of the Geneva Conventions.

In a memo to Mr. Gonzales, Secretary of State Colin Powell pointed out that the Geneva Conventions would allow us to deny POW status to al-Qaida and other terrorists and that they would not limit our ability to question a detainee or hold him indefinitely. So, contrary to the statements by some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, complying with the Geneva Conventions does not mean giving POW status to terrorists. Colin Powell knew that. The Joint Chiefs of Staff knew that. Alberto Gonzales refused to accept that.
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Editor's Note: In reference to the story above...
It's very clear to most intelligent people who have spent ample time researching terrorism, that the most dangerous terrorists in the world today are members of the current Bush Administration.  That being clearly the facts that we are dealing with, ALL law enforcement officers in the USA should be working to put Bush and friends in jail.

 Sadly, the Bush administration has NO respect for our Constitution. (Sad but true,  I would stake my life on the FACT that our president has never read and understood all of our Constitution)

The Republican party has passed several laws that go directly against our country's main base for all of our laws, 'Our Constitution'.  Our Constitution very clearly states that any law that goes against the Constitution is Null and Void.  To those of you who don't know this, the Patriot acts (1, 2, and 3), the department of Homeland security, the war on drugs and even the war on terrorism are ALL in direct violation of America's Constitution.

 Isn't it about time for 'We The People' to do our duty of firing and/or imprisoning EVERY one of the very evil men and women currently in OUR White House ?

It's also a fact, that it's every policemen's job to help our national guard when they are in need.  Since our national guard has never needed help so bad, I say it's time to send every policeman who supports Bush and his wars to the Mideast to help our national guardsmen who are in desperate need of help.  Yea know what else... I can't find anyone who isn't a policeman that disagrees with that plan, since we have at least 10 time more policemen in America than needed, and they are ALL living off of your tax dollars.

To those of you who may wonder where my anger comes from... It comes in part from seeing too many policemen blatantly breaking laws without being prosecuted. (Taking much needed respect away from good policemen) Also because of the FACT that George Bush and friends are the ones who planned and carried out the 9/11/2001, attack on our great nation. Yes they are being sued for 7 billion dollars, but that doesn't bring back the hundreds of thousands of people who they have killed, ordered killed and tortured.
[Rev. Neil Colton]
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Yes 9/11 was an inside job !
...The article I’m compiling will address issues regarding the demolitions of WTC buildings on 9/11/01. One issue that will be fully explored is the oft-repeated suggestion that “no major media” reported that the destruction of the Twin Towers or WTC 7 resembled, or might actually be controlled demolitions. This is false. Many major media anchors and reporters are on record saying that they did look just like controlled demolitions. These individuals include, Aaron Brown (anchor of CNN’s NewsNight) and Dan Rather (CBS anchor).

Aaron Brown’s live commentary on the demolition of the South Tower can be seen and heard in the CNN documentary DVD, “CNN TRIBUTE, AMERICA REMEMBERS: The Events of September 11 and America’s Response.” While watching the South Tower explode in real time into a cloud of debris and powered concrete,

Aaron Brown says, “ There has just been a huge explosion. We can see a cascade of sparks and fire and now this. It looks almost like a mushroom cloud explosion and I’ll tell you that I can’t see that second tower.”

Dan Rather's commentary on the demolition of WTC 7 can be seen and heard at the end of Alex Jones’s documentary video “Police State III: Total Enslavement”. While watching a replay of footage of the implosion and collapse of building 7 with another man I have not yet identified,

Dan Rather says, “A large building, in most other cities it would be one of the largest buildings in town probably, Trade Center building 7 has collapsed. Now here were gonna show a videotape of the collapse it’s self. Now here we go to videotape, the collapse of this building.”

An anonymous male voice, presumably another CBS reporter says, “It’s amazing.”

Then Dan Rather says, ”Amazing, incredible, pick your word. For the third time today, it’s reminiscent of those pictures we’ve all seen too much on television before, where a building was deliberately destroyed with well-placed dynamite to knock it down.”

Those statements are just the tip of the iceberg. There are countless statements confirming that the Twin Towers and WTC 7 were destroyed by controlled demolition. These statements come from firefighters, office workers, police officers, and journalists from CNN, FOX, etcetera...
For the rest of this story and to learn more about this ongoing lawsuit, please visit the link below:
http://suetheterrorists.net/
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Conscientious Objector Launches Web Site
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0207-03.htm
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Farmers and the Poor Hit Hard by Bush Budget
WASHINGTON - President Bush will propose a 2006 budget Monday that, despite record spending of about $2.5 trillion, will call for billions of dollars in cuts that will touch people on food stamps and farmers on price supports, children under Medicaid and adults in public housing.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020605Y.shtml
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Bush Seeks Cuts in Law Enforcement
WASHINGTON - President Bush's budget will propose slashing grants to local law enforcement agencies and cutting spending for environmental protection, American Indian schools and home-heating aid for the poor, The Associated Press learned Saturday.

Bush molded the roughly $2.5 trillion spending plan for 2006 as a response to a string of record federal deficits, and is sends it to Congress on Monday.
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Quotable quote By One Of President Bush's Family Heroes
"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine a policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a Democracy, or a Fascist Dictatorship, or a Parliament, or a Communist Dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.  This is easy.  All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the Pacifists for lack of Patriotism and exposing the country to danger.  It works the same in every country."
[Hermann Goering] - Hitler's Reich-Marshall
at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII
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Email Forward Of The Week !.
NOT A NEWS STORY... OR IS IT ?
TWO TOUGH QUESTIONS

Question 1:
 If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already,
three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and
she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?

 Read the next question before looking at the answer for this one.

Question 2:
 It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.
 Here are the facts about the three leading candidates.

Candidate A
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.
 He's had two Mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B
 He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke,
drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.

Which of these candidates would be your Choice?
 Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candidate A: is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B: is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C: is Adolph Hitler.

And, by the way, the answer to the abortion question:
 If you said yes, you just killed Beethoven.

 Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

Never be afraid to try something new.

 Remember: Amateurs built the Ark Professionals built the Titanic

and in case you never saw this one.....

 Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more
than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

 * 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
 * 7 have been arrested for fraud
 * 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
 * 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
 * 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
 * 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

 Can you guess which organization this is?

 Give up yet?

 It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same
group of idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

You gotta pass this on.
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YOU'VE BEEN WARNED, GET A TISSUE READY!
"You are My Sunshine, My only Sunshine"
  Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare for a new sibling. They found out that the new baby was going be a girl, and day after day, night after night, Michael sang to his sister in mommy's tummy. He was building a bond of love with his little sister before he even met her. The pregnancy progressed normally for Karen, an active member of the Panther Creek United Methodist
Church in Morristown, Tennessee.
In time, the labor pains came. Soon it was every five minutes, every three, every minute.
 But serious complications arose during delivery and Karen found herself in hours of labor.
Would a C-section be required? Finally, after a long struggle, Michael's little sister was born. But she was in very serious condition. With a siren howling in the night, the ambulance rushed the infant to the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Mary's Hospital, Knoxville, Tennessee. The days inched by. The little girl got worse. The pediatrician had to tell the parents there is very little hope. Be prepared for the worst. Karen and her husband contacted a local cemetery about a burial plot. They had fixed up a special room in their house for their new baby but now they found themselves having to plan for a funeral. Michael, however, kept begging his parents to let him see his sister. I want to sing to her, he kept saying. Week two in intensive care looked as if a funeral would come before the week was over.
Michael kept nagging about singing to his sister, but kids are never allowed in Intensive Care. Karen decided to take Michael whether they liked it or not. If he didn't see his sister right then, he may never see her alive. She dressed him in an oversized scrub suit and marched him into ICU. I looked like a walking laundry basket.
The head nurse recognized him as a child and bellowed, "Get that kid out of here now. No children are allowed." The mother rose up strong in Karen, and the usually mild-mannered lady glared steel-eyed right into the head nurse's face, her lips a firm line. "He is not leaving until he sings to his sister" she stated. Then Karen towed Michael to his sister's bedside.
He gazed at the tiny infant losing the battle to live. After a moment, he began to sing. In the pure-hearted voice of a 3-year-old, Michael sang: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray." Instantly the baby girl seemed to respond. The pulse rate began to calm down and become steady. "Keep on singing, Michael," encouraged Karen with tears in her eyes. "You never know, dear, how much I love you, please don't take my sunshine away." As Michael sang to his sister, the baby's ragged, strained breathing became as smooth as a kitten's purr. "Keep on singing, sweetheart." "The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping, I dreamed I held you in my arms". Michael's little sister began to relax as rest, healing rest, seemed to sweep over her. Keep on singing, Michael." Tears had now conquered the face of the bossy head nurse. Karen glowed. "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. Please don't take my sunshine away..."
The next day...the very next day...the little girl was well enough to go home. Woman's Day Magazine called it
The Miracle of a Brother's Song. The medical staff just called it a miracle. Karen called it a miracle of God's love.
NEVER GIVE UP ON THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE.
LOVE IS SO INCREDIBLY POWERFUL.
Life is good.
Have a Wonderful Day! 

In God We Trust!
"The evidence of God's presence far outweighs the proof of His absence." - Unknown
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Here is a time wasting link for those of you who like golf
http://www.matchpractice.com/game
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Regarding Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address.
As Air America Radio pointed out, it is an ironic juxtaposition:
One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication
and the other involves a groundhog.
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(Origin unknown - I received it in an email forward.)
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Back To The News

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Please check out the following pages:
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We be many and they be few
...The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.  Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=3659&l=en
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FOCUS - U.N. Experts: 'U.S. Treatment of Detainees Inhuman and Degrading'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020805Y.shtml
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A Matter of Conscience
By Sgt. Kevin Benderman
Bruderhof.com
Sgt. Kevin Benderman (40) is a U.S. Army mechanic with ten years of service under his belt, including a role in the assault on Baghdad. While there, his outfit was ordered to open fire on children who were throwing rocks at unit personnel. Troubled by this and other similar incidents, and facing a second tour of duty in Iraq, Benderman applied for conscientious objector status in December 2004. The U.S. Army has charged him with desertion. He has been called a coward by his commanding officer, and his chaplain has told him that he is ashamed of him. Born in Alabama, Sgt. Benderman currently lives in Hinesville, Georgia, with his wife, Monica, and stepson Ryan.

Having watched and observed life from the standpoint of a soldier for ten years of my life, I always felt there was no higher honor than to serve my country and defend the values that established this country. My family has a history of serving this country dating back to the American Revolution, and I felt that to continue on in that tradition was the honorable thing to do.

I cannot tell anyone else how to live his or her life, but I have determined how I want to live mine.

As I went through the process which led to my decision to refuse deployment to Iraq for the second time, I was torn between thoughts of abandoning the soldiers that I serve with, or following my conscience, which tells me: war is the ultimate in destruction and waste of humanity.
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From True Majority on - 2/8/2005
Dear Neil ,
It's budget time again, and President Bush just released another budget plan that is hundreds of pages long and really hard to decipher. In the end, though, it's just more guns and less butter.

Last year, to help clarify things, we made a short animation with our founder, Ben Cohen (the ice cream guy), that explains how the budget works in Washington. He's a food guy, so he used Oreos to show people where their money really goes and how easy it would be to change things. It was a huge hit. Over a million people have seen it, and it's still getting passed around today. It also won nearly every online award in the book. If you haven't had a chance to see it yet, you can check it out here .

Now we've got version 2.0 .

This version makes it easy for you to stack the Oreos and let your congressmen and women know what kind of federal budget you want them to be fighting for.

Pass It Around
Last year's Oreo animation was such a hit because people who loved it passed it on. So share the fun, and take this opportunity to encourage your friends and family to let their congressmen and women know what they think, too. Because that's the only way we're going to get our country back on the right track. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. We have to keep letting them know what's on our minds.
Thanks and have fun,
Duane Peterson
TrueMajority coordinator
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New York State Facts - kids room

What is a Billion?
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one
advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into
perspective in one of its releases:
A billion seconds ago - it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago - Jesus was alive
A billion hours ago- our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion dollars ago - was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the
rate that the Federal Government in Washington D.C. spends it.
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Despite what President Bush says, the war on Iraq is not over. The cost of this war to the American tax payer is going up every second. Since we can't put a price on human lives, we will just give you the figures in tax dollars that the American tax payers have paid as of right now. These figures were provided by the Costofwar.com website.

Cost of the War in Iraq

$175,659,259,812

To see more details, click here.

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