a few biggies for the weekend

Private tapes shed light on candidate Bush

Private conversations with George Bush secretly taped by an old friend before he was elected president foreshadow some of his political strategies and appear to reveal that he acknowledged using marijuana, The New York Times reported Saturday

Bush also said that he hadn't planned to campaign against gays, but didn't want to alienate the conservative Christians. that's sweet and all, but deceptive as usual.
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Let's see how much media attention this gets:

Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.

Well surely we would notice if those elections were manipulated. I mean, it's not like having over 1,000 political parties running and the names of the candidates not being released until a few days before the elections would suggest anything like that.

ALSO:
- In a soldiers own words, “This war is about money. The money is only making the rich man richer.”
- The Simpsons took on gay marriage... in favor of it.

Terrorism vs. Militarism

Class action lawsuit bill moves forward...

did the doctor screw up your life? suck it up. you'll get over it.

oh, and about our product that killed your kid.... oh well. we're not held accountable anymore anyway.