and finally for des moines (kewl town btw, you should stop and have a drink) we have the Quote of the Day:

While I am sure that business ethics are mentioned somewhere in the curriculum for most schools of business, my feeling is that there is more emphasis on learning to successfully funnel money into private hands.

Where do the "rights" of companies like KPMG end, and when do we begin to reflect on "what's right"?

Richard Leutzinger,
Urbandale.

thanks richard!

continuing with the letters (3 poop-antipoop letters in a day is unusual for a small paper like the des moines register) this is definitely poop. we have clark sheets of sheldon writing:

One of the things that has always puzzled me about the pacifist crowd is how they can be such experts on war when so few seem to have had actual military experience.

hey, mister, i was serving aboard a nuclear submarine in 1980. what the fuck were you doing?
ok, i'll tone it down since he seems to qabble on with:

No one wishes so fervently for peace as a soldier, particularly when he is frightened, far from home and in imminent physical peril. What he also understands, however, is that in our imperfect world there are times when battle is necessary

of course. when NECESSARY. that's the key word here sir. WE ARE NOT ANTI-DEFENSE. WE ARE FOR UNNECESSARY MASS DESTRUCTION. got it class? then he quotes george orwell *gasp*:

"War is evil, and often the lesser evil."

ofen, again the key word here is OFTEN. yes, WWII being one of them. the other wars, well, korean i spoze, vietnam? are you kidding. gulfwar 1, probably. 2? obviously not. then he concludes with:

Conversation with a veteran might at least add a little reasoned debate to peace activists' current stock of smugness and slogans

i sure in the fuck hopeso. you're having a one sided conversation with one right now. if one has to be smug and have slogans, so be it. it seems to be the only way the message can get across any more.

even richer, the letter following it:

Don't follow that order
It was determined after World War II that the instigation of war is a crime against humanity. The political leaders of both Germany and Japan were tried and convicted in a court of law on this charge.

The defense of "just following orders" was rejected. It was determined that no person, military or non-military, is required to obey illegal orders. An order beginning a war was by definition an illegal order.

Most scholarly work done on the subject of war has determined that a "just war" is a war of self-defense.

Since President Bush is attempting to initiate a preemptive war, it follows that this war is both illegal and unjust. Therefore, neither the military nor civilian institutions are required to obey Bush's orders in that regard.

The Rev. Robert Price,
Prairie City.

most definitely - the ANTI-POOPYHEAD AWARD goes to the rev.

oh this is rich. letter in today's des moines register by palmer holden includes this qutie:

Everyone wants peace, but someone has to pay for it.

she conveniently forgot the flip side to that: Not everyone wants war, but everybody's got to pay for it.

the grand poopyhead award for today goes to the banks doing this. this is the class warfare being waged by the poopyheads. the poopyheads who contributed so heavily to the monkey's campaign, so they'll get a pass at the ethics table.

DSM Register
It is reported that more than 1,000 banks have been encouraging customers to overdraw their accounts. New ATM and debit cards allow people to withdraw more money than is available for them. And the people might not even realize they're overdrawing, because they were automatically enrolled in the option that allows this to happen.
Then they're charged as much as $35 for each overdraft, and the money has to be paid back right away. That translates into about 1,000 percent annual rate of interest for the banks. Millions of dollars in fees. Those banks, once trusted institutions, are encouraging customers to be fiscally irresponsible.

why hasnt anybody seen the truth? bu$h wants iraq to lay down all its weapons simply so that any american casualties, which would be catastrophic in the homeland, would be minimal. there's no way bu$h will not invade iraq. all this bullshit about the administration not making a decision yet, is one of the biggest lies since the assination of kennedy. and as i've said already, the bu$hies are going to 'give us a bone' and say they'll give inspectors more time - but the truth of the matter is, they're not ready. yet, the america press will gobble it up like a hungry fish with headlines like BUSH TO EXTEND TIME FOR INSPECTORS.

that wuz quick. dashcle doin the same old shit. nothing new. injects help for states. pointing out differences. they're going with the recommendations of leading economists. bob > rich v poor? daschle > figures figures figures. then hands off the lead to amy. congress first before attack? daschle wont commit. but advocates more time. with limitation. what i dont understand is why bob wont press for the 'share the intelligence we supposedly have with inspectors and let them prove the bu$hies were right' line. wimp. bob > another resolution? daschle > wouldnt require another resolution. american people want it. tries to shirt the burden of proof on jr. bob > go alone? daschle > again, burden of proof on georgie. bob > agree with kerry about the 'rush to war'? daschle > ought not to rush. counterproductive if we do. back to amy > building blocks for medicare. prescription drugs. afford not to compromise? daschle > bush plan for HMO, not patients. absolutely wrong. problem? HMO is not universal. iowa doesnt have them. south dakota doesnt either. amy again questions the timeliness. dashcle > tosses out the senior citizen tail. there's room for compromise. bob > stock dividend dead? daschle > yes. enough opposition. huge handout to those who dont need it. bob > democrats in last election? daschle > we did better than you realize. picked up governorships. 44K votes shy of control of senate. regaining senate in 2004. bob back with final word after this.

card is making the rounds. on face the nation. bob scheiffer isnt one of my most respected journalists. or commentators. but we'll see how much reptition we get.

SOTU: bob: where's the connection between 9/11 & iraq. card: iraq's history. again. again. again. SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY ASSHOLE. oh sorry, that wuz meant for the tv.

cook report. amy ... who is amy? what is this cook political report? she gets to ask how is jr addressing the threat of iraq. our oceans cant protect us any more (card). more blather. about progress. about war that'll continue for some time. that we're resolved to win. terrorists would like to do dastardly things to us. we have a stable economy. throws out health care. oh there's that compassionate word again. twice. TWICE. how fruckn slick is that huh. bob's back on the war. more time possible? card: again, time is running out. its not about inspectors. its about saddam. a long tirade of the same old shit. POOPY so thick you now need a bulldozer. there's the facts that cant be proven already. or saying that the cannisters are there is proof. the reason we wont tell the inspectors is cuz the burden is on saddam. how does that answer the fuckn question asshole. back on the SOTU being 'a comic show of variety sorts'. to include all the issues. not concentrate on iraq. hm. ok. bob : is he going to tell us something we dont know. card: saddam hasnt answerd the questions. CAN THIS POOPYHEAD NOT HEAR THE QUESTION BEFORE HIM? amy's back on the economy now. again, how does he address the economy. card: pres did this, pres did that. relief for everybody. we can create jobs. that good ol' mantra.for labor. the tax system is unfair. double taxation on dividends. the same ol. there's that senior citizens bone. bob challenges the 'rich v poor' and gives card 1st response to daschle's later response. not political. blame the dems for being political. daschle up after this break.

let me see if i got this right now. jr slams affirmative action in colleges. then he wants to raise the pay for people in goverment with 'special skills'. makes sense to employees of poopyhead, inc i spoze.... but not to me. of course, its hidiously clear what is going on here. but people are just not getting the real message for some reason. i wish someone could put their finger on why this country still seems to be in shock.

cbs sunday morning is always a breath of fresh air. john mayer was in a segment. what a cutie. he deserves a place. definitely not a poopyhead. wanna know how i can tell? the camera was on him like stink on shit. and there's just something about the eyes of someone who's not a poopyhead. cant really explain it. but you'll know it when you see it. and for those that still have trouble, that's why we're here.

baker: pres hasn't made the decision. jeezuz. the resolution only authorizes, not requires. oh my GOD get this guy a shovel will ya? kennedy is on and is strong, but missed the first salvo. oh wait, thats a tape. lets see if the SOTU makes the numbers skyrocket the way they're planning.

ok, is bushwatch open today? and where the hell is slate at?

mcconnell. dodd's a dudd.

russert's heavy on the 'shoving repug quotes' in their faces about how jr is fuckng up. ok, mcC. again, that no doubt he has. where is the fuckn PROOF. these fuckn poopyheads can not prove their claims. when is this going to stop? confidence in the 'team'. saddam & alQ. dodd: no evidence. mcC is starting to shift in his seat. hm. dodd wants proof. mcC will 'trust' the 'man'. talk about the effects the proof should have, without having the proof. this has got to be chapter something in the RPM, rite?

SOTU: dodd. perhaps more quickly than others would like. the numbers are high becuz ppl tend to rally for the CIC.

stock dividends: mcC .. tax reduction package. pres wants action. and action we'll give him. not accepting deficit spending. ??? robust. robust. repeat it one more time mcC. blasting the $300 check dems have proposed. the thing is a 'package'. dodd: compare $300 to $27,000 'welfare' (mcC words) checks ... hah. good one. unfair to average families. nothing goin to happen now. still misses the point $300 will NOT stimulate mr. dodd. less than $1/day for the average person. throws out dangerous. goes in the wrong direction.

SSA: 2017 is the magic number. dodd returns to the tax package. connects it to the trust fund. mcC. deficits now? i'm amazed he wants to slam deficit spending. sayin the dems didnt pass the house appropriations. this guy is amazingly transparent of a stupid old man. you can always tell a man by the way he waves his hand. and this 'man' is not a 'man' eye would want. right plan to make the economy get rolling rapidly, huh. blah blah blah. FIELDS OF POOPY, in its finest form.

ok, RACE and that's my Que to get a smoke in. i'm not touching this one.

starting to look more like the poopyheads are crying 'why not me too'. i dunno what exactly is making that stick, but its a thought that's been going through my head off and on for a while now, and being as how card is on spewing out the propaganda cuz nobody else would, kinda makes the case for a big-deal SOTU. hm.

what bothers me most about iraq thing, is exactly what is going to happen after we bomb the shit outta 'em. i mean, where are the plans about how to resurrect the lives of millions of people who obviously will have life's basic needs compromised severely. and if anybody doesnt think that this is going to get a whole lot uglier than being touted by the DoD, they are going to get a whallop on the butt that'll leave a mark for some time to come. this will be a decades long problem for America, for a host of reasons. (1) it'll make more people more unhappy with our government (2) we'll lose the credibility of what America should mean (3) it'll take a decade plus to get the oil within reach of their present goals. especially if saddam does the nasty.

senator dodd on. russert belts into the 'have we made a case for war', and dodd goes with the 'not ruling out unilateral action' he's swinging his head from side to side so fuckn fast its hard to keep up with his 'give them more time' but 'we need to act'. i mean, make up your mind senator. but maybe his heart has the dove rather than the chickenhawk. is he a vet? and who's this sittin next to him? its cold in here.

andy card is a 'card' carrying charter member of Scheißekopf Inc. we went grom +236B to -300B. now they're denyhing they knew they were in a recession before they took office. how fuckn stupid does he think we are?? then he blames 9/11, then corporate scandals. this guy is a real piece of work. the devil spent a lot of time on that mold. when i look at andy - andy, of the mayberry machiavelli klan - i think kennyboy. the crooked E. when you knock over the "E" you get a "W" dontcha?

argh

i'm curious. how do poopyheads expect us to pay for their toys of mass destruction - BULLETIN: russert: will the U.S. go nuclear on iraq? card: no comment. WE RETURN YOU TO YOUR NORMAL LIFE NOW. where was i? the punk's numbers are in the 50's, which means the americans have to be shocked again to get those numbers back up. i think 55 is the magic number. anyway, where was i? oh ya. jus a thought. all these tax cuts and shitty talk about how the government is taking too much money from the citizens it serves, does that mean we're not getting our money's worth? and just how do these poopyheads expect us to pay for their toys of mass destruction if the tax base was diminished. those toys are not cheap!

where's my coffee.

the case of the missing money. would it be possible to keep the B.F.E.E. out of it?

jus bouncing around and lookie wat i found. someone trying to do the 'real clear politics' faux nazinewz trip. take a peek at the arrogance, and igorance this poopyhead displays with such style.

(the poop) Forgive me if I fail to believe that police wouldn't take action against a Catholic priest (or any other religious leader) who openly espoused killing people - especially those of another faith - and had a known history of supporting terrorist organizations and terrorist activity.

she goes to link her 'espoused killing people' to the story on the uk site, but not a word about 'espoused' or 'killing people' .. zip, nothing. this is the poop that seems to gain its credibility from where is impossible to guess, other than to venture saying whoever is responsible for spreading this shit around town needs some serious charmin.

people often ask me why i think americans are hated around the world the way they are. this 'why do they hate us?' whine the poopyheads like to toss out everytime they have to defend their fuhrer. but ya know what i tell them? if you watched faux news wouldnt you?

all reality shows all the time. hm. does that mean we're going to have state sponsored television? because, all this 'reality' crap is fine, and i enjoy some of it. but gimme a break. who do they think they're foolin. there's a stage, there's a cameraman taking orders from a director. its not 'real'. it may be competitive. and i think that's what we need to call these shows. competitive tv. not reality tv. i guess it jus sounds better.

so it's gonna be another month before the forces are even ready? ok, that puts it towards march now. any takers on what day in march? email me with your pick, and we'll get a pool going. so much for not 'cooperating with the U.N. by letting the inspectors have more time' huh. ok, time for plan b folx.

ok, slate time

An unnamed administration official says the evidence against Iraq is "akin to an impressionist painting," based on hundreds or thousands of tiny clues.

think that would work in a court of law for possessing a joint?

i got faux news on, and i thought i was watching the 700 club. its really getting syrupy. dripping with hypocrisy and hate and 'the little people' mentality. its amazing that these people have jobs, much less in the broadcast industry. *shiver*

well, another day, i wish another dollar. waiting now for slate, and then i'll head on over to bushwatch cuz yahoo mail is just lame lame lame. hotmail screws with my cpu too much to be comfortable. maybe i should seek out another freebie-public addy. i'm really excited about how the DAILY HOWLER digs into the psyche of the poopyhead. i'm amazed he's not one of their alumni who finally saw the light. i really pity those poopyheads. how they can live with themselves day after day with that attitude that they're the only ones who count. who matter. who 'pays taxes'. jeeezuz, are we still that neanderthal?

when the midget pounded his fist announcing to the rest of the world - you know he wuznt talkin to americans - that you're either with us, or against us. what other possible adjective could you give that, except arrogant. bellicose wallowing is so yesterday. so last century actually. is one of the problems with the poopy-cocktail-crowd is that they're stuck in this timewarp or something? sure we want our country to be the leader it used to be. duh. but that doesnt mean we have to repeat slavery values to do it.

the point being. where the hell are the aliens at god dammit.

NEW GRAPHIC UP @ FARPOINT

from today's guardian. gotta wonder ... all these internet sex stings. what the hell is up with that? are they getting better at grabbing people? or are they just releasing information about those they grab, when its convenient for them? i dont know. underage sex is a bad thing in my eyes. wrong as wrong can be. but to come out with something now about something that happened a long time ago - and yes, more than a year, can be a 'long time'. well, it reeks of poopy. duznt it?

Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector and an outspoken critic of war in Iraq, yesterday claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign after it emerged that he had been arrested in an internet sex sting in June 2001.

Details of the arrest emerged in a local New York state newspaper last week. Reports said Mr Ritter, 44, had been charged with attempted child endangerment after arranging, in an online chatroom, to meet what he thought was a 16-year-old girlat a Burger King restaurant. The girl turned out to be an undercover policewoman. The case was later dismissed.

Mr Ritter cancelled a trip to Baghdad on Tuesday and has instead been appearing on talk shows to defend his reputation. In an interview with CNN on Wednesday he refused to discuss details of the arrest and attempted to shift the fo cus on to who leaked the story. "The case was dismissed. The file was sealed ... Why did this come up now?" he said.

i say follow the money. money trails have a funny way of telling the truth. the truth about why. the truth about who. the plain unabridged truth. the people in power are in power for one reason. they have more money than those not in power. i spoze that's the way it's supposed to be. but does that make it right? money & power form the core of the republikan initiative. poopyheads are who spend money to maintain the power it takes to make more money to have more power. its a vicious circle. being that, it shouldn't be that hard to trace the money then, right?

the problem is, those in power, with the money, have control over something else. information. information, unlike money, has a funny way of disguising the truth. 'oh i read it on the net, so it must be true'. one of the more infamous lines of our time. yet, when anybody tries to prove themselves, what do they turn to? the internet. it is the internet, in all its color, that gives not the truth, but the tools to discern the truth. for the truth comes from within. influenced by home, family, politics, money & information. but there can only be one truth in the same way there is only one 'money' - be it a franc, a dollar, or a pound of gold.

now, lets take this a step further. being rich usually conjures up visions of sugarplums and dollar signs. rolls royces and mansions by the bay. being powerful usually conjures up visions of senior politician types, or men with gold badges or lots of stripes. being powerful and rich on the otherhand, is missing that vision. maybe because one generally spars with the other for dominance. can one be rich without being powerful? and vice versa? some would argue that one can be rich without having a lot of money. of course, that's true. rich doesn't necessarily mean having a lot of money. but when we're talking politics and poopyheads, rich means having a lot of money.

ok, here we go, its a friday. the administration has a penchant for doin crazy shit under the radar on fridays. so lets see what it'll be today.

notice all this iraqi crap talk again. hell, its been like this cat & mouse game for weeks now. since a month before elections anyway. what puzzles me, why didn't any of this get brought up in june? or july? what prompted this administration to make a 'case against iraq' a month before elections?

also, they talk about iraqi cooperation. the us says saddam's not. blix says he needs to do more. saddam, of course, proves it with the facts. he has allowed un inspectors inside iraq. he has allowed un inspectors inside his palaces. he has allowed scientists to be interviewed. he has allowed this. he has allowed that. what the hell does it mean to cooperate?

those empty tin cannisters that make short-range conventional missles. 'could be' used for WMD. well, DUH. almost ANYTHING 'could be' used for WMD if enough of it was fashioned right. the point being, where are the WMD the bu$hies like to scream and holler like a spoiled rotten child. my take is that if the US had proof, they would have given it to the inspectors, so that they could uncover them. that has not happened. we gave them weeks and weeks to uncover the WMD the bu$hiesl say he has. oh wait, is that language now thatl he 'will have'? i mean, shit. how many other 'will haves' are there going to be if we invade?

ok, imus, the grande poopyhead is on. i like listening to this jackass. him and bernard, i swear, make it clear how poopyheads can actually live with themselves. stay tuned. FRIDAY'S SUPRISE is coming.

here's how the game gets played. scare everybody into thinking that destruction of those oil fields would result in $100/barrel prices. then, using that as justification for 'protecting the wells', one could actually make an argument that it should be 'priority number one'. one could also argue that even at $50/barrel, we're getting our money's worth.

but then, you'd have to also consider that protecting those wells, and using the proceeds of those wells (btw, who's doing the buying?) to rebuild iraq, is the only option that should be available. what i have a problem understanding though, is if the money used from the oil in iraq 'could' be used to rebuild iraq, why isn't it being used rebuild iraq now? are they not pumping @ 100% capacity? are the companies that had contracts before all this destruction, still get their contracts honored? by whom?

these are the questions that are evading the american reporters. in fact, i'll bet you all the reporters are playing ignorant and scared that they may lose their 'privileges', because i certainly haven't heard any answers. ideas have been out there for a while. december was when they were supposed to have this 'captured treasure summit', but nary a word from the media about it. why? why is this as much a secret as the energy policy meeting? or bush 41's presidential records? why???

ok, think of it this way. the iraqis could be a boom market to all the oil companies who were meeting to divvy up the treature after the bombs destroy everything else. just so that there can be no backtracking on it, let this quote live in infamy. any bets that it'll come back to haunt them?

The US secretary of state, Colin Powell, told the Boston Globe yesterday: "If there is a conflict with Iraq, the leader ship of the coalition [will] take control of Iraq. The oil of Iraq belongs to the Iraqi people. Whatever form of custodianship there is ... it will be held for and used for the people of Iraq. It will not be exploited for the United States' own purpose."

Asked whether US companies would operate the oilfields, Mr Powell said: "I don't have an answer to that question. If we are the occupying power, it will be held for the benefit of the Iraqi people and it will be operated for the benefit of the Iraqi people."

GUARDIAN 1/23/03

this meeting took place back in december btw.

At the meeting, on the future of a post-Saddam Iraq - details of which have been disclosed to the Guardian - the state department stressed that protection of the oilfields was "issue number one".

issue number one huh. i could see it being number 2, or even 3. but number one??

it's important to remember that there still are good people on this earth. even in des moines. from today's basu column:

On Jan. 9, Maumi Daffay, a refugee from Sierra Leone and the cook at Soul African Cafe on Sixth Avenue in Des Moines, went home to a burglarized north-side apartment. Missing were a TV, household goods, clothes belonging to her and her three children, and irreplaceable African jewelry. Two days earlier, I had run a column on the cafe, and on Jan. 10, Jim Almquist, whose wife read it, went to eat there. He's with the Urbandale Kiwanis Club. Hearing of the burglary, he alerted the Urbandale High School Key Club, which went out and bought Daffay and her family all sorts of things to replace their losses. They'll deliver them later this week. Almquist says they wanted to go beyond the material and show the family moral support.

USAT about the new fed report on economic inequality.

The 10th paragraph of USAT's lead briefly mentions: "Median net worth for whites rose 17 percent to $120,900 but fell 4.5 percent to $17,000 for minorities."

like TP (today's papers) noted. this deserves, if true, a lot more than a mere mention. no wonder nobody's paying attention. WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE... TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

this is unbelievable. could it be the crack in the icepond? i report. you decide.

STRATIAwire by Jon Rappoport

Two weeks before 9/11, all 60 gates at the facility were blocked with concrete barriers and barbed wire. Guard patrols were stepped up.

At least a few soldiers there believe that 9/11 was a military OP carried out by the US government. They also believe that the imminent war on Iraq has the clandestine purpose of enlarging the borders of Israel.

where's the conspirators when ya need 'em.

"A senior Republican senator yesterday expressed concern that a Pentagon surveillance program could be used on U.S. citizens and may "have a chilling effect on civil liberties." In a letter to Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) alleged that the Justice Department and FBI are more extensively exploring the use of the Total Information Awareness program than they have previously acknowledged.
Washington Post

i'm on grassley's mailing list, and i've generally had a high regard for him. proves my point ... just because you are republican, doesn't make you a poopyhead.

seems like nobody really likes sharpton. i dont either. not because of the same reasons everybody else uses - the tawana thing. but because he just doesn't appeal to me as being a leader i could trust. oh well. HOWARD DEAN HOWARD DEAN HOWARD DEAN. there did i say it enough?

and so much for the accounting reform they touted last year. the SEC is set to water down the rules. even this one.

Among the potentially nixed proposals is a plan to bar accountants from auditing the same tax shelters they created.

and of course, TP is right on the money in almost every paragraph, so it's without surprise that another gets posted.

As everybody mentions, the White House released a report detailing "the lies that Iraq has used to promote its propaganda and disinformation." The Washington Post points out that most of the allegations date from 1990 and 1991.

that damn liberal press. always getting in the way with the truth.

today's Quote of the Day is from EVERYWHERE

"This looks like a rerun of a bad movie and I'm not interested in watching it." - George W. Bush, Jr., President of the United States, January 21, 2003

you're right mister. this IZZ a bad movie. how americans are paying dearly for it is beyond comprehension. how do you sleep at night georgie?

that bald headed poopyhead ari is up screaming about how saddam is a threat because he will use his weapons of mass destruction. weapons of mass destruction huh. you mean those empty cannisters are what we're supposed to accept as weapons of mass destruction? this is a con job. spin has reached a new level of hypocrisy with this freek. i should count how many times WMD gets stressed.

done meatpacking. turn on msnbc, and guess what? that chimp's face is on again. screaming and hollering about saddam. but he's right on one thing. this is like a bad movie. and huney, you're the star whether you like it or not. and notice how this 'terrorist' attack in kuwait is making headlines. what the hell do you call an unmanned armed drone shooting a car in a 'neutral' country? this is really making me puke.

i'm still not done packing my meat, but i couldnt wait another second to get my hands on today's bushwatch.and saw the last item on today's long long list of why the people must wake the hell up and stop this madness.

"One of the [new FEMA] handbook's main suggestions...is for people to create disaster supply kits for the home, workplace and vehicle."

poopheads are the type of people who will love ya to death if they got a war they want you to fight, or some dirty work they need taken care of. but they'll hardly look at ya when they go to the opera, or fly off to the islands for dinner.

that came to me while meatpacking. dont know why. but it did.

and now the Quote Of The Day(tm)

DesMoinesRegister.com | Opinion

Let me get this straight: If you are fired, this is downsizing, budget restraint or some other excuse, unless you are black, and then it is racism.
This constant drumroll of racism really hurts those who are true victims of racism.
The Rev. Robert Price,
Prairie City.

this should make every red-blooded American hang their flags upside down.
DesMoinesRegister.com | Opinion

The administration's violations include withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; undermining the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; proposing to use smaller nuclear weapons for offensive battlefield purposes; halting progress on the START II and III treaties (nuclear-inventory reduction); developing Star Wars ("Missile Defense" in Orwellian double speak) to facilitate its declared intention to dominate the entire globe from space.
Consider also the "unsigning" from the International Criminal Court and a disregard for multilateral approaches and international law.

today's des moines register had an editorial supporting gay rights.

DesMoinesRegister.com | Opinion

there's no reason to think Republicans will negotiate. "I've never been real thrilled about giving special rights to special people," Senate Majority Leader Stewart Iverson of Dows told the Register. Iverson was among 23 Republicans who successfully took Vilsack to court in 2000 to overturn his gay civil-rights executive order regarding non-discrimination in state-government employment.
The reference to'special people" reeks of intolerance. It underscores the fact that gays and lesbians do face discrimination based on who they are. Long-standing social contempt for certain groups can take a long time to fade.

the iowa legislature needs to get off this poopyhead drunk they're on and allow equal rights, not special rights, for ALL people

the commentary. 'my mother used to say'. oh oh. lieberman smiles. perpetual grin huh. touch of good humor is a good thing. wit & humor is a necessary thing for politicians. not the jack hammer. twice asking about how it felt to 'stick republicans' and the 'democrats attacked reagan'. he likes lieberman's smile. do you? i dont. and it has nothing to do with anti-semitism.

wade henderson - who is he?? i wuznt sittin when they bannerd him. but he disagrees with hatch. connecting him to that inflammatory right-wing base. quotas are illegal. at least he's defining the wrong belief in what this case is really about. tryin to force the distinction between quotas and racial preferences. at least he's calm. teacher-like. leadership council on civil rights. there they bannerd him again. i dunno. bob injects inflammatory into his question to him. brings up abortion. but henderson admits it inflammatory. defends it somewhat. had it down. oh well, commentary comin up.

hatch. discrimination. you're joking right? this is the height of hypocrisy to put someone like hatch up there defending discrimination. and who's these new tits belong to? i'm amazed we dont have a huge mural as a backdrop on the set with him. he's stumbling already. hispanic, indian, african american. there are alternatives huh. good shieffer cornerd him on that. top percent of high school plan? c'mon. you're kidding right? how's health care getting into this? and bob interrupts him on this. citing a WP poll?? 94% 86% women/blacks are against affirmative action???? oh god, lemme find this. there he goes. injecting quotas. we're not talkin about quotas sir. tittie talk now 'we would prefer' ? who the hell is 'we' gurl. so now its the dems fault for causing this. bob shuts him down. finally. yuk. where's my scope?

ok, more powell. again, 1441. council has to act. ok. thats good. cant pin down whether to allow more time if they ask on the 25th. once again, we get the poopyhead spin on wmd. it continues to evolve into that one thing. wont admit to offers of 'coup' and shit. exile. saudi's working on that one behind the scenes, or were, until they bombd out. i wont weigh in at this point on what i think. encourage saddam to listen huh. ok mr secretary. now we're on affirmative action. what a crock. i think they not only prove there's a vast right-wing conspiracy, but they overtly think that they can push it upon the rest of us. overstepping. biting off more than you can chew. wadda they say about that? asking a black secretary of this regime about affirmative action, is only getting the spin. diversity ... but not 'underlying issue'. ok, hatch is up. this is poopyhead #2.

first up, the protests. 'what do you say to 'those people'? 1441, if he disarms there will be no war. one last chance. ? wat the hell duz that mean? arent they cooperating?? (shieffer).. more time? (powell) we have to decide if saddam's serious. jabberish mainly. same ol shit. finally... 'what is it that you want him to do mr secretary?'.... again, 1441 for full complete declaration. where are the missing pages mr secretary should be his next question.. but *gasp*, its not. again, on and on about 'full disclosure'. inspectors sneaking around? no issue to smoking gun requirement. full cooperation? i dont get it. the inspectors are spying .. we all know that. arent the bu$hies not happy with that? wats in their pea sized brains?? .. smoking gun now. 'passive cooperation'? oh, there's a difference huh. ... oh now potential weapons are the same as real weapons. jeeezuz, what have we succumbed to?? his hands are busy tho. time is not only running out huney, admit it. it is over. it wuz over before 9/11. wuzznt it. excuse me while i barf.

face the nation. oh goodie. powell. he's going to come out and say we do not need to go back to the un to start dropping bombs.
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man, just saw cbs sunday morning segment on some sex therapist in china educating the chinese on sex. she's not only 'not making a dime' off her lectures, books and shit, but she's spending money to do it. because life was good to her, she's gotta return the favor. this being posted in the fields because of the size of those galloshes.