] WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Cartoon characters Bugs Bunny and
] Daffy Duck will be used in public service messages
] educating Cambodians about land mines, the State
] Department said Wednesday.

Bugs Bunny to warn about land mines

] In the end, the Republican Congress looks likely to force
] through a stimulus package that is largely based around
] tax cuts. Some of these measures may be sensible
] long-term reforms, and returning money to taxpayers is
] seldom unpopular. But the stimulus will not create many
] jobs now, whatever Mr Bush says.

Don't quit your day job. No, really. How many 'jobless recoveries' can we survive?

Another Bush, another jobless recovery

] Two radio DJs in the US have been suspended after playing
] Dixie Chicks songs, after their statio banned the group
] for its comments about President George W Bush.
]
] DJs Dave Moore and Jeff Singer played two tracks by the
] country pop group on Colorado station KKCS on Monday,
] after a discussion over whether to reinstate the group.
]
] Dixie Chicks songs were banned by the station after
] singer Natalie Maines told a London audience, days before
] the start of the Iraq war, she was "ashamed" President
] Bush came from her home state of Texas.

DJs stir Dixie Chicks row

] Two years into President Bush's term, the damage he has
] done to the nation and the world is incalculable. On
] issue after issue, Bush does what's good for big
] corporations and right-wing extremists at the expense of
] the public. The Wage Slave Journal offers this scorecard
] to help you keep track of all of the evil deeds Bush
] commits and, more important, to provide a record for your
] perusal when November 2004 rolls around. Be sure to
] bookmark this page; Bush keeps it full.

This site will INFURIATE you - quite the sh*t-streak "Shrub" has so far. And this isn't just some bitter democrat rambling in a blog - each item is marked with a link to the news story it was drawn from.

And we have at least 20 more months to go? Oh goody - I'm sure the best is yet to come...

Laughing Boy

George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil

sdodson wrote:
] Laughing Boy wrote:
] ] Most likely the sons and daughters of the same people that
] ] want the confederate battle emblem put back on the Georgia
] ] Flag.
] ]
] ] ] A year after holding that school's first racially
] ] ] integrated prom, Taylor County High School in rural
] ] ] Georgia has returned to its segregationist ways and will
] ] ] be holding two proms again- one for white students and
] ] ] one for all students.
] ]
] ] Nice job kids! You've done a fine job of perpetuating the
] ] stereotype that all southerners are racist rednecks.
] ]
] ] Laughing Boy
]
] While I'm not for changing it back, I don't think it should
] have changed in the first place. I think people bitch and
] moan about something that noone really gave a damn about. It
] was a complete waste of time and money to even do.

I'll assume you refer to the changing of the flag back in 2001? I'll up your ante and say your right - it should have never been changed in the first place. And I'm not talking about 2001 - I'm talking about 1956 when the confederate battle emblem was put on the flag as a symbol of solidarity and resistance against the racial integration movement.

The flag was changed to its current version mostly due to pressure from corporations and organizations that threatened to boycott the state of Georgia if the battle emblem remained in place. Georgia was not the first southern state with a confederate themed flag to cave into these demands. This was done in the interests of the state as a whole to avoid economic backlash and potential loss of jobs.

So now it’s back in the Georgia house under debate. Our current governor made this issue a corner stone of his campaign – “Roy Barnes stole your flag” and it will likely appear on a ballot in the next election. These short-sighted nostalgic morons do not even begin to comprehend the damage and credibility (not to mention tax dollars) they are costing this state by continuing to make this an issue.

Laughing Boy

RE: Open Invitation for Georgia to Join This Century

] During this crisis patriotism as practiced in the United
] States reached alarming levels of intolerance and
] violence. The right of the other to dissent was
] unceremoniously thrown aside. If we take what happened to
] the Dixie Chicks as an example, one is hard-pressed to
] justify or even comprehend the incident. One of the
] ladies said she was ashamed of Bush being from her home
] state of Texas. She said it while performing on a stage
] in London. Had the Chicks been living under Saddam, we
] know a priori what would have happened. But knowing they
] lived in the United States one thought that the debate
] would have maintained a semblance of civility.
]
] Instead, they were attacked, taken off radio stations,
] and callers to the same stations spewed so much venom
] that it inevitably culminated in on-the-air death
] threats. Obviously, democracy is skin deep. I thought it
] was just foreigners like me who received death threats
] and viruses through their emails. I was wrong. This
] raises another issue: Could the Homeland security people
] tell the world why such people were not apprehended?
] Those who threaten to kill someone for reasons of
] ideology or a point of view are terrorists. No argument
] there. In this time of high security alert, it is amazing
] that such people get away with it. In all honesty, it is
] not very different from any petty dictatorship where the
] party clique and those close to power can do what they
] like when the rest are robbed of their basic rights.

I was displaying the American flag magnet on my car upside down for a while. The flag when displayed as such is a well-known distress signal. And thats how I feel the state of the country and our freedoms are - in distress. I finally gave up - everytime I parked in a large parking lot, I would return to discover it had been "righted" again.

Moral of the story - speak your mind; exercise your freedom of speech. PROVIDED your in line with the right wing idology.

Laughing Boy

The Dixie Chicks & Civility

Most likely the sons and daughters of the same people that want the confederate battle emblem put back on the Georgia Flag.

] A year after holding that school's first racially
] integrated prom, Taylor County High School in rural
] Georgia has returned to its segregationist ways and will
] be holding two proms again- one for white students and
] one for all students.

Nice job kids! You've done a fine job of perpetuating the stereotype that all southerners are racist rednecks.

Laughing Boy

Open Invitation for Georgia to Join This Century