Poll: Most Republicans Reject Evolution
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2007

(AP) The three Republican presidential candidates who indicated last month that they do not believe in evolution may have been taking a safe stance on the issue when it comes to appealing to GOP voters.

A Gallup poll released Monday said that while the country is about evenly split over whether the theory of evolution is true, Republicans disbelieve it by more than 2-to-1.

Of course he doesn't want America "to return to the tax-and-spend era."  Read: "Protect the Haves at all cost!"

In fact, some theories hold that virtually all of the smoke-and-mirrors of this administration is to further the massive transfer of the nation's wealth into the hands of the Haves, that essentially every mystery of the current administration can be explained if but examined in this light.

That is why the JUNE 15, 2007 edition of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS was so on point, so apropos. Bill Moyers gets it. His guests in this edition, (Andy Stearn & Grace Lee Noggs), get it. They explain the rebellion, they explain the revolution.

It is well-known that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby - once Vice President Cheney's most trusted adviser - has been sentenced to 30 months in jail for perjury. Lying. Not a white lie, mind you. A killer lie. Scooter Libby deliberately poured poison into the drinking water of democracy by lying to federal investigators, for the purpose of obstructing justice.

at the Muck, a suggestion from a Jane that I summarize:

Von Spakovsky is a member of the Tennessee and Georgia Bars.  That they required him to explain how Von Spakovsky justifies the signature of Shelton Bradshaw days after Bradshaw left on the letter contrary to DOJ policy.

"it might be worthwhile."

IANAL but what do the Ls think of its worth?

 The disciplinary agencies for these states are:

GEORGIA

William P. Smith, III.
General Counsel
State Bar of Georgia
104 Marietta Street, NW
Suite 100
Atlanta, GA 30303
404/527-8720
FAX: 404/527-8744
Website: www.gabar.org

TENNESSEE

Lance B. Bracy
Chief Disciplinary Counsel
Board of Professional Responsibility
of the Supreme Court of Tennessee
The Oaks Tower, Suite 730
1101 Kermit Drive
Nashville, TN 37217
615/361-7500
800/486-5714
FAX: 615/367-2480
Website: www.tbpr.org

Many Americans are under the impression that the US currently has about 145,000 active duty troops on the ground in Iraq. What is seldom mentioned is the fact that there are at least 126,000 private personnel deployed alongside the official armed forces. These private forces effectively double the size of the occupation force, largely without the knowledge of the US taxpayers that foot the bill.

Some contractors make in a month what many active-duty soldiers make in a year. Indeed, there are private contractors in Iraq making more money than the Secretary of Defense and more than the commanding generals.

Would you support the Congress' setting a binding withdrawal date of March 31, 2008 by announcing that after March 31, 2008 (or an earlier date), it will not fund the Iraq War?

Vote Yes or No (poll at bottom of post)

Security think tank EastWest Institute has issued a report that according to the AP shows:

Violent Muslim, Christian and Jewish extremists invoke the same rhetoric of "good" and "evil" and the best way to fight them is to tackle the problems that drive people to extremism,

and

extremists from each of the three faiths often have tangible grievances -- but they invoke religion to recruit followers and to justify breaking the law, including killing civilians and members of their own faith.

We should always be aware of extremism in our backyard, if they are willing to kill and have their unruly conviction in thier God behind them, then they are in fact dangerous.

"The rise of evangelical Christianity inside the military went on steroids after 9/11 under this administration and this White House," Weinstein said in an interview. "This administration has turned the entire Department of Defense into its own personal faith-based initiative."

$1 billion? $1 billion? Approximately ONE FIVE HUNDREDTH of the money Bush and Cheney have spent creating the Iraq Debacle.

Bush's administration has not only been unwilling to provide the aid that New Orleans needs, it continues to block foreign aid offers.

NEW ORLEANS -- The cash-strapped city of New Orleans is turning to foreign countries for help to rebuild as federal hurricane-recovery dollars remain slow to flow.

Kenya Smith, director of intergovernmental relations for Mayor Ray Nagin, said city leaders are talking with more than five countries. He wouldn't identify the countries, saying discussions were in the early stages. But he said the city is "very serious" about pursuing foreign help.
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Discussions with foreign representatives have been occurring off and on since the storm, but Smith said the city became re-engaged after a news report in April that millions of dollars in aid offered by foreign countries after Hurricane Katrina went unaccepted.

It wasn't clear how much of the $854 million in aid originally offered remained on the table. In Katrina's wake, Cuban President Fidel Castro's proposal to send more than 1,000 medical personnel to New Orleans was among the offers of aid.

The template for the Bush administration's mania for secrecy was signed by the president six years ago - Executive Order 13233, reversing the presumption of right of public access to presidential papers.
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Mr. Bush's order would be rescinded by a proposal approved overwhelmingly in the House in March and now making its way to passage in the Senate. The White House, of course, is vowing to veto any final bill.
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The administration insists that only 64 of more than two million pages have been sealed thus far. They would be a good place to start reading once Congress re-establishes the public's right to know.