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Archives: December 2007
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Dec. 31, 2007:
Got hope? Nope.
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: We've got about one more year of the Bush regime. Scary as the thought might be, the pending presidential election is even more scary. America is offered little choice for leadership. Clinton? McCain? Obama? Romney? Huckabee? Oh, mommy!

Contemplating a catastrophic future with
a sense of confidence rather than despair

by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: So, I would say cheer up, we have nothing to lose in the coming catastrophe but a set of bad habits that the species will have to shake off if it is to survive.

Dec. 27, 2007:
Teach the children, Thou shalt not kill
by Don Nash, Unknown News

Dec. 26, 2007:
Satan himself is preferable to Hillary Clinton
by Pavel C., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The Democratic Party sought to trade off our liberties, our Constitution, our national wealth, and our good name in the world for political expediency. They really ought to be punished if they attempt to propel Sen Mrs Clinton into the Oval Office.

American economy hijacked by corruption
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The unwillingness of our elected representatives to act upon the coming economic disaster can only be defined as treason, pure and simple. This sellout of the American worker began in earnest with Ronald Reagan firing the air traffic controllers during his term the White House, and it has continued under the subsequent administrations of GHW Bush and Bill Clinton.

Dec. 23, 2007:
A Bush & Cheney Christmas story
by Don Nash, Unknown News

Dec. 22, 2007:
A stink on the White House
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: There is nothing to prevent a Democratic president from exercising the same illegal, unconstitutional and tyrannical powers asserted by the Bush government. In fact, since the Democratic Congress served as towel-holders and enablers of a manifestly criminal Republican president, what leads any of us to suppose that a Democratic Congress would enforce the law under a president of their own party? How naïve! Let me know how that works out...

Dec. 21, 2007:
The height of naïveté
by The Canadian, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: I continue to be amazed by the fact that at this point in America's history its Citizens are the only 1st-world people who truly and deeply believe their own propaganda.

Dec. 18, 2007:
Hey, where were you?
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The recession has been here for years. Again most people are willing to still believe the garbage, the spin and lies the newspapers and sorry to say their government is selling them. It still makes them feel good and at ease, allowing themselves to be fooled again and again.

Dec. 17, 2007:
The death of democracy
by Don Nash, Unknown News

Dec. 12, 2007:
If first you don't scream
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: First they came and placed a leash on me. I didn't complain because it was long enough for me to still go out on walks, just so long as I didn't go too far, and I could speak when I wanted to.

Tell the dying to go away
by Chris D., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: No matter what problems I have with Canadian healthcare I will say this:

We would not make a man choose which finger he could afford to save.

We would not shove a woman in a taxi and drop her off frightened and disoriented in a bad part of town.

We would not refuse a doctor's referral to any kind of specialist.

We would not attempt to block medical testing or imaging.

We would not try to convince someone with a tumor that they do not, in fact, have a tumor.

We would not deny a life-saving bone marrow transplant.

We would not tell a woman to take her dying baby to a different hospital.

Dec. 11, 2007:
Talking empty heads on radio
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: It is obvious from listening to these Wall Street shills on WABC that they have their marching orders from their political and corporate masters to try and minimize the unfolding financial debacle to discourage a run on the banks and divestment in the stock Market.

Dec. 9, 2007:
Fire! The theater really is on fire!
by Mr Chuckles, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The very idea of the government rewriting private contracts, even with just verbal arm-twisting (and unspecified threats) has the bond markets shaken up. If contracts are broken now then who is to say that more contracts won't be unilaterally rewritten later?

Dec. 7, 2007:
The Bush-Paulson plan
by Mr Chuckles, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Everything but the kitchen sink will be thrown at the problem -- because rising prices are ignored by the Feds, and profits are private, but falling prices are alarming to the Feds and get socialized.

Utter and absolute hopelessness in America
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: There is little to be hopeful about. The money pouring into Washington from the powerful lobbies and special interest groups has trumped any real representation which may still exist for the common man in America. The Washington politicians and their corporate benefactors hold the citizens of this country in contempt and are working to remove any influence which they still have left.

Dec. 4, 2007:
Loony legislation for 2008
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: America's Congress will legislate that every man, woman, and child think exactly as Congress thinks. Wait a minute -- this just in, Congress already did that. Never mind.

Dec. 3, 2007:
Learn to live on less
by Ace, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Our only conceivable exercise of protest at this point, probably worthless individually but possibly meaningful collectively, is economic boycott. This concept is not new (i.e.: Boston Tea Party). This dictatorship, like all others, is sponsored solely by Big Business: by Wal-Mart, Exxon, AT&T, Citibank and McDonald's and their evil ilk. Corporate Amerika benefits greatly from a fearful, totalitarian state, and they count on us citizens to never make the connection between our slovenly consumer habits and the fueling of a repressive poilitical atmoshphere. Every time we buy gas from Exxon, buy a Whopper at Burger King, pay for our credit card at Bank of America, watch a crappy movie on Showtime, troll MySpace for kicks or play with our little AT&T cellphones, we are feeding the monster that imprisons us.

Dec. 3, 2007:
The further adventures of Genocide-Man!
by Don Nash, Unknown News


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