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Hillary Clinton Wants to be President.  What a Shock Ha?  NOT! Editorial by R.L.

So Hillary Clinton wants to be the next President?  Who'd have guessed it?  Stop the press, and print up the new headlines for all of America to be shocked when they hear the paper boy on the corner yelling, "Read All About It, Read All About It, Hillary Clinton announces she's running for President!"  Yawn.  Borrrrrrrring.  More lost revenues for the already failing newspapers around the country.  Ever wonder why they lose money?  There are lots of reason, but one of them is acting like this would be some kind of news to yell out at the top of your lungs. Another carnival side show huckster.

Here we go again.  Hillary Clinton for President.  Just another rat brained politician.  Her ambitions for life became painfully obvious when she didn't kick her no good cheating husband, Bill, to the curb for his sexual affair, and his lies about it, with the politically star struck young female that he fooled around with in the White House.

Bill had a lot more political connections and clout than Hillary had, and has on her own.  She needed him for her own selfish political career.  Who are these people?  What mud swamp are they born in?

The major problem with Hillary is that she comes with more baggage than we would like her to be carrying....namely, her husband Bill!  If she became the next President, then we'd have that creep of a husband of hers living in the White House with her.  Once is enough!  These are the two most power hungry couple we've seen in a long time.

The United States won't win this war.  It's not winable for many reasons.  First of all we didn't start off on the moral high ground to win this war.  Bush straight out lied about Iraq having Weapons of Mass Destruction as the major reason to launch his war against Iraq.

The disgraceful torture practices exposed at Abu Ghraib Prison didn't do anything positive to endear us to the rest of the world, to ourselves, nor any of our enemies, or future enemies.  And with Bush's continued belief that the use of torture is appropriate under certain circumstances, only serves as an example to the rest of the world that we are not as civilized as we profess to be.

Bush and his administration allowed torture!  Think about that.  If Bush is such a christian man, as he claims to be, does he also think that if Jesus were sitting across from him, that Jesus would agree to using torture on his enemies?  If not, then how can Bush truly justify torture.....and profess himself to be a "born again christian?"

Another aspect of this war is that it has developed in to a bunch religious fanatics waging war against each other.  The Christians declare that you can't get in to heaven unless you believe in Jesus Christ, and that he was the son of God, and so you are doomed to an eternity in hell if you do not accept this.  The people of the Muslim faith are well aware of the christian beliefs, and of course resent such proclamations.  Some radical Muslims believe that if they become a martyr they will be rewarded with seventeen virgins when they get in to heaven.  Who dreams up all these whacky ideas?  It's the age long battle cry of "my God is the real god, the only god, yours isn't.....your a sinner.....your an infidel."

Did you know only one third of the world is composed of Christianity, and the remaining two thirds of the world is made up of Muslims and all of the other religions of the world?  Christianity is in the minority, not the majority.

Iraq is such a mess, that it may be advisable to have troops of Psychiatrists tending to the overwhelming needs of the population. They're needed to address the left over effects of a brutal dictator, and the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from all the bloodshed, kidnappings, bombings, and generations of pent up grudges between all the different groups and factions of people.

This is an expensive war.  It's costing the taxpayers over $200 million dollars per day!  Are you satisfied with the results?

President Bush Gives "Surge" Speech on January 10, 2007

Well, the stumble bum was at it again!  He still can't get through a speech without sounding like he has a wad of gum in the way of his tongue.  Ladies and Gentleman, he's going to send an additional surge of 21,500 troops in to Iraq.  17,000 of them will be in Baghdad.  A surge?  What the hell is that?  It's supposed to hold Baghdad together.  BULL!

I'll tell you what this surge REALLY is.  Once again it's a losing proposition and strategy by Bush and his administration.  It's a cover for what is really going on.  Britain announced they are going to pull out 3,000 of their troops.  And look at all the other countries that have already pulled troops out over time, which just leaves more and more gapping holes in the number of our own military personnel over in Iraq.  So, this isn't extra military personnel in the form of a powerful surge that Bush is sending over there.  It's a fill up and plug the hole in the number of reduced military support from other countries.  We're not getting stronger, we are definitely getting weaker!  End of story.

Bush is fond of claiming that he has a plan, and that the people who disagree with him don't offer any plans of their own to address this war.  Lots of people are sick of hearing this defense from Bush.  The bottom line is that Bush got us in to this mess, through all of his lies, and he needs to take full responsibility in undoing the tremendous damage, and future damage he has brought upon America.  Bush is like a delinquent child.  He gets himself in to trouble, and then when he's caught he just spews out more lies and digs his hole deeper.  It's like a neighbor who gets in to trouble with the law and ends up in jail.  You tell him he shouldn't have done what he did, and should not have lied in court, and maybe he could have averted being sent to jail.  He continues to give you double talk, and instead of going straight, he'd like you to do his jail time for him.  And in effect, that's what our country and military people are doing....paying for his lies....and paying with their lives...that's too high of a cost!

Trust President Bush to Run, and Win a War?  Your Out of Your Mind!

Remember Hurricane Katrina?  Remember Bush appearing on television, standing next to Brown and telling Brown that he was doing a great job?  Yeah, dumb and dumber.  Lies and more lies.  Bush should have been impeached a long time ago!

Bush appointed Mike Brown to the position of Deputy Chief of FEMA in January 2003.  Mike Brown was just another, in a long list, of unqualified Bush cronies!  Want proof that Brown was unqualified?  Okay.

The last job Brown held before being appointed by Bush to the FEMA position was as the head of an Arabian Horse Association.  Outrageous isn't it?  Now there's a hell of a job qualification for you to get a Federal job ha?  What a jump up the job ladder.  How many breaks have you had like that?  None?  Guess you don't have the right kind of connections....or you don't embellish and lie enough.

A 2001 White House press release said Brown had worked for the city of Edmund, Oklahoma from 1975 to 1978.  It said his job was "overseeing the emergency services division."  Not the truth, because Claudia Deakins,  head of public relations for the city of Edmond, said that Brown was an "assistant to the city manager from 1977 to 1980, not a manager himself, and had no authority over other employees. The assistant is more like an intern. Department heads did not report to him."

Hmmm, sounds a lot like college kid job doesn't it?

Then there's a legal website called FindLaw.com provided by lawyers or their offices.  There's a section for you to list your   "Honors and Awards", and Brown wrote  "Outstanding Political Science Professor, Central State University".

Again, that's just not true!  Charles Johnson, the News Bureau Director in the University Relations office at the University of Central Oklahoma (formerly known as Central State University), said that  Brown "wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.  He may have been an adjunct instructor, but that title is very different from that of "professor."

Hmmm, are you noticing a pattern going on here with Brown?

Concerning Katrina, Brown also committed perjury when he testified under oath about his handling the hurricane response.  Brown testified that Louisiana Gov. Blanco’s August 27th request to the President for a federal emergency declaration excluded Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquerines parishes.

The true facts were that Blanco had requested the President to declare a disaster in “all the southeastern parishes,” which includes Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquerines.

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Current Story Line:  October 20, 2005
Some US Military Troops Appear to Use Arnold Schwarzenegger School Yard Language

News Source:

An Australian TV station aired incriminating footage of  US soldiers stationed in Afghanistan burning Taleban corpses.  The footage also shows other troops taunting the residents of a nearby village because they believed that the village was harboring the Taleban.

The troops alleged taunting message that was piped through speakers to the village was:

"You are too scared to retrieve their bodies - this just proves you are the lady boys we always believed you to be."

Lady Boys?  Doesn't this smack strongly of Arnold Schwarzenegger's name calling using the phrase of "Girlie-Men"?

You have to ask yourself what in the hell is going on here?  Are these people totally NUTS?  Another proud day for America ha?  That sure helps us out with some kind of a moral high ground doesn't it?

The footage describes the scene where two Taleban fighters corpses were laid out facing Mecca and then being burned in what the reporter, John Martinkus, explains as a "deliberate desecration of Muslim beliefs".

The Islamic tradition requires that bodies be washed, prayed for, wrapped in white cloth, and then burned within 24 hours.

The soldiers had also yelled out through the speakers to the village:

"Attention Taleban you are cowardly dogs.  You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing West and burnt."

The footage was taken in the village of Gonbaz located outside the southern city of Kandahar by the Australian cameraman Stephen DuPont.  He was embedded with a US forces unit.

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WARNING
WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS VERY GRAPHICAL AND DISTURBING,
  TURN AWAY NOW IF SEEING THE TRUTH DISTURBS YOU

Photos Out of the Abu Ghraib Hell Hole
	An Iraqi detainee being restrained after suffering injuries to both legs at Abu Ghraib. It is unclear whether his injuries werre from dog bites.
	Draw your own conclusion, if you can, of a baton wielding US soldier controlling a naked detainee covered in a "brown substance" with his ankles handcuffed.
	Spc. Sabrina Harmon posing over the body of a detainee who was allegedly beaten to death by CIA or civilian interrogators in the prison's showers. The detainee's name was Manadel al-Jamadi.
	Up on a prison walkway, a hooded detainee is photographed having collapsed with his wrists handcuffed to the railings.
	The infamous photo shown around the world. Whatever happened to "spice and everything nice?"
	I don't think her Mom and Dad will be entering this in to the family photo album as their daughter's new pet.
	When did Crucification come back in to popular demand? I guess they thought, "Gosh, with all of the new technology lets get rid of the wood cross, and hook up some electricity."

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OCT 27, 2005
HOOOORAY!
Harriet Miers Withdraws Her Nomination to The US Supreme Court!
Thousands of Americans are Relieved That They Won't Have to See More Photos of Her Spooky Eyes!

It is rumored that Harriet Miers learned her application of cosmetics from Alice Cooper, and the band members of KISS.  Whatever, who wants those spooky eyes staring down at them from the bench......or from anywhere for that matter.

We already knew Bush was mentally challenged, but now there appears to be strong, circumstantial evidence that he's visually challenged.

Bush had stated that Miers was the "most qualified" person to sit on the US Supreme court seat.  Oh no!  Mr. Bush, does that mean that any one else will be second fiddle?  We have no other better choices?  You said she was the most qualified?  The most? The Best?  Whatever shall we do now?  You're frightening us President Bush!  Save us from ourselves!

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Case 001 - Rick (Backyard Nature Specialist Web Site)
Just because we need to care and we Reward good people, not Punish them!

When Lori Berneson was a young girl she had a big heart.  That big heart of hers stayed with her all the way into adulthood, just the way we ideally hope and pray that it will, but as is so often the case, does not in many of the rest of us.  Lori and her big heart are being punished very harshly for caring about other people which she learned way back from her days of when she was a little girl.

We've all seen the haunting pictures of starving children.  Think about those images for just a minute or two.  Fix them in your mind.  Do you see them?  Sure you do.  How do you feel about them?  Sad?  Of course you do, and if you didn't there would be something wrong with you.  If it didn't bother you something would be missing in you as a human being.  If you could even consider telling yourself otherwise you'd better seriously consider seeking professional help because you've become a part of the larger world problem.

The least you can do is feel pain in your heart for people in such dire circumstances.  That's the least you can do.  It's a starting point and it's called respect and compassion.  If you can't truly feel those two emotions in the core of your being then your truly a lost soul.  Most of us, fortunately, can still feel those two emotions.

When Lori was a little girl she saw those same pictures that you and I have seen.  You'd think that she would have looked at the pictures, been bothered by them and asked a few questions but then after a while be off playing with her toys like most any other child, and in time have totally forgotten about those starving faces of children near her own age that she'd seen in those photographs.  But that's not the case, not with Lori.

Lori became increasingly concerned with helping the poor and she was haunted by the images of those faces and she couldn't accept the thought that so many of those children would be left to starve to death.  In Lori's mind it wasn't a very complicated matter because she just knew one thing for sure, she knew it wasn't right.

Lori approached her mother and father (Mark and Rhoda Berenson) and asked them if there wasn't some way in which she could help poor people and starving children.  A simple, direct question that deserved an answer.  Lori wasn't kidding and this wasn't just some passing phase or a question of curiosity.  This had now become a mission for Lori.

Try to imagine her parents surprise and the pride they must have felt in the caring and seriousness that their daughter exhibited at such an early age.  What do you tell such a child?  Do you gently brush her aside and tell her, "Someone else will take care of the problem", when you see photographs that prove that enough isn't being done and that scores of people continue to suffer and live in anguish?

Lori's parents taught her well.  In 1994 Lori started working as a freelance journalist.  She was a young woman working for the plight of the poor in war-torn Peru.

The people caught in between a war are the people who suffer and they never win.  They suffer and they starve.  The others pillage the spoils from war.

In 1995 Lori was arrested for allegedly helping a guerilla group.  Her parents were in shock by this unbelievable news.  For the last five years Lori has been serving a life sentence in one of Latin America's harshest prisons.  She is now a political prisoner in Peru!  Because of a big heart that tried to help poor and starving people.

We know one thing, it's wrong.

Let's help Lori, and her parents!

• Majority of House of Representatives Calls for Lori's Release
• For Fear of Being Called (One of the many poems written for Lori)
• Instructions for Teachers and Students who want to write to Lori

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
The Lori Berenson Story was also featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show.  You can read about it on the Oprah Winfrey Web Site to check the validity of the story.

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You may also wish to educate yourself if someone you love is a survivor and you would like to increase your understanding and your ability to help the person that you love.

Some of the illnesses associated with being the victim of rape and sexual abuse:

Anorexia, Bulimia, Self Injury, Suicide, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and of course difficulties in loving relationships with a significant person in your life.

Some statistics:
 

• According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a woman is raped every 2 minutes in America.

• One out of every six women in America has been a victim of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.

• Approximately one-third of all juvenile victims of sexual abuse cases are children younger than 6 years of age.

 
• 72% of rapes and sexual assaults are not reported to the police.

• Approximately 44% of rape victims are under the age of 18.

 
• Approximately 68% of rape victims knew their assailant.

 
• Teens 16 to 19 were three and one-half times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault.

• One of every four rapes take place in a public area or in a parking garage.

 
• 68% of rapes occur between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.

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Last updated: January, 2007