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The New York Times > Washington > Red Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guant�namo

MSNBC - U.S. generals told of detainee abuse early

MSNBC -: "�I don't think that exit polls can be used as a barometer for the accuracy of an election itself,� noted pollster John Zogby explained to me on last night�s Countdown, in what we think was his first full-scale television interview since the election. �At least until we find out if there's something broken with this round of election polls� I think that the gentlemen who are responsible for the exit polls should be fully transparent, release their data, discuss their methodology. Let us see what exactly it is that happened, and why it happened.�"

Ms. Magazine | Fighting Words for a Secular America: Ashcroft & Friends vs. George Washington & the Framers: "�I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church� (The Age of Reason, 1794). "

Ms. Magazine | Fighting Words for a Secular America: Ashcroft & Friends vs. George Washington & the Framers: "Paine�s writings heavily influenced the other Founders. A freethinker who opposed all organized religion, he reserved particular vituperation for Christianity. �My country is the world and my religion is to do good� (The Rights of Man, 1791). "

MSNBC - As ice melts, Arctic peoples at loss for words

Kevin Sites Blog: "'We're the good guys. We are Americans. We are fighting a gentleman's war here -- because we don't behead people, we don't come down to the same level of the people we're combating. That's a very difficult thing for a young 18-year-old Marine who's been trained to locate, close with and destroy the enemy with fire and close combat. That's a very difficult thing for a 42-year-old lieutenant colonel with 23 years experience in the service who was trained to do the same thing once upon a time, and who now has a thousand-plus men to lead, guide, coach, mentor -- and ensure we remain the good guys and keep the moral high ground.' "

Yahoo! News - Dolphins Protect New Zealand Swimmers from Shark

Ah, what we could learn.

MSNBC - U.N.: Iraq fighting 'wreaking havoc' on children: "GENEVA - Fighting in Iraq is 'wreaking havoc' on the country's children, nearly doubling malnutrition rates since the start of the war and all but preventing relief groups from working in the country, the U.N. children's agency said Tuesday. "

SI.com - Writers - Taylor: Pacers-Pistons fight expands growing�divide between players, fans - Monday November 22, 2004 1:58PM: "The fight was deplorable, yes, frightening, yes, but shocking? Not really. Not after we've seen Texas Rangers pitcher Frank Francisco angrily toss a chair into the stands, breaking a woman's nose; not after we've seen Tie Domi of the Toronto Maple Leafs wrestle with a fan in the penalty box; not after we've seen spectators rush the field to attack Kansas City Royals first base coach Tom Gamboa; not after we've seen Vernon Maxwell of the Houston Rockets charge into the stands to punch a heckler."

ESPN.com: Page 2 - Tale of the tape: "Adam Carolla had an interesting take on this incident: Imagine being the guy at the game who was first attacked by Artest? You've been watching these guys for two hours, you're pretty buzzed, you're loving the seats ... and then this fight breaks out, and it's riveting as hell, and then suddenly Artest gets nailed by the cup and he's coming right at you. As Carolla said, it would be like watching 'Captain Hook' in the movies for two hours, then Captain Hook comes right out of the movie screen and attacks you. Would you have blamed that first guy for soiling himself? "

MSNBC - Suit challenges detentions at GOP convention: "Barbara Friedman, who had encouraged her 16-year-old daughter�s participation in a peaceful protest, said she could not find her for two days. �I just see all our civil liberties slipping away,� Friedman said. �It�s very, very frightening.�"

These things that come to mind when given a bit of time between an email blast and a beautiful excel creation:

Where are the dogs that came after Clinton for the Monica situation? Where are they now? It could be a good VH1 special I think. Are they no longer around because they got the war that they wanted? Because they got the oil that they wanted?

I wonder about these things. About how our whole public discourse got turned on its head because of a blue dress and a stain and yet we and the media sit ideally by as we were lied into a war and our boys are dying a needless death. We knew every minutia of that situation didn’t we? Every little detail.

The teacher in the lonely kindergarten room, the teacher that so many of us depend on, is distracted by Laci and Michael and fall fashions these days. It is distracted by celebrity and pointless business dealings. ‘Teacher, can you work to educate us again?’ ‘Please?’ I understand it is easier not to do so, but is that how we are going to define our class now? How we are going to define our country?

Please, let’s not.

MSNBC - A War for Malnutrition?: "Acute malnutrition among young children in Iraq has nearly doubled since the United States led an invasion of the country 20 months ago, according to surveys by the United Nations, aid agencies and the interim Iraqi government. After the rate of acute malnutrition among children younger than 5 steadily declined to 4 percent two years ago, it shot up to 7.7 percent this year, according to a study conducted by Iraq's Health Ministry in cooperation with Norway's Institute for Applied International Studies and the U.N. Development Program. The new figure translates to roughly 400,000 Iraqi children suffering from �wasting,� a condition characterized by chronic diarrhea and dangerous deficiencies of protein."

It Hurts, but Don't Stop (washingtonpost.com): "An American general in Vietnam famously said, 'We had to destroy the village to save it.' This has become the definitive expression of the macabre futility of war. Last week we destroyed an entire city to save it (progress!), but our capacity to find that sort of thing ironic seems to have become shriveled and harmless. "

CNN.com - Former janitor leaves millions to school - Nov 22, 2004

Thanks for sending, good points in there.

Saw the author of that book on Jon Stewart the other night and all I can say is I am sure his writing is better than his stage presence. Jeez! What a sleeper and he really must have been nervous cause he was talking a mile a minute.

Anyway, to the point of your email. I totally agree with you and think it was great of you to send this out. Of course, between us, I must take a harder line and say that the religious right really is not the problem in this country and that they have indeed been hijacked as well. I am not telling you anything you don’t know. Bush is no more spiritual than you and me and probably much much less spiritual than you and me except in the pursuit of cold hard cash. He and those that fill his empty suit use this religious right to gain more money and more power. They needed to find somebody- there weren’t enough millionaires being created to keep the party going for much longer so they had to strap their wagon to Jerry Fallwell and his ilk. It is sad.

The true struggle our country and our world is going through is the poor vs. the rich. This is the war. They have used a false morality and a sometimes confused bunch of individuals who find solace in togetherness in ideas and thought to obscure what the truth is and the struggle that is presenting itself.

It is a struggle that will define you and me and our generation. It is not just about our poor world citizens, but the poor species trying to survive these days right next to us and who are going extinct. Never perhaps to be seen or heard again.

It is about greed versus a true morality. It is about respect for our world and its peoples and its species. This is why I felt no real passion towards Mr. Kerry, for not much was going to change even under him, not enough anyway at this late date. There is going to have to be a wholesale change from the bottom up at this point. I hope it doesn’t come too late for us.

CNN.com - Thousands protest ahead of APEC summit - Nov 19, 2004: "'We are protesting not only because of APEC, but also because Bush is coming, who is the number one terrorist of the world,' said one protester. 'And he is coming to do his utmost to ensure that they keep impoverishing people.'"

Will this real terror war (rich vs. poor) spread?

Orcinus: "You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught."

NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. November 12, 2004 | PBS: "MOYERS: Well, for all the people who are watching who don't know what the Beatitudes are, what are you talking about?
CHITTISTER: Well�
MOYERS: The sermon on the mount.
CHITTISTER: The sermon on the mount, Jesus gets up, faces a crowd who's saying to him, 'What are we do now?'
And he said, 'Remember the poor. Keep the poor as your criteria.' We have 1 out of every 318 people on this planet this morning, Bill, are refugees. They're following garbage cans in the back of restaurants around the world. They're following the resources that we took from their countries that are now jobs in somebody else's country. "

Sorry Everybody

ESPN.com: Page 2 - Why the Jets shall overcome

Read it.

MSNBC - Species disappearing at an alarming rate, report says: "Current extinction rates are at least 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural rates found in the fossil record, the report stated. The data were released as 3,500 delegates gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, for a World Conservation Union conference focused on halting what's deemed an extinction crisis."

Living the Compassionate Life: "This is what I call the promotion of human value. My main concern is always how to promote an understanding of deeper human value. This deeper human value is compassion, a sense of caring, and commitment. No matter what your religion, and whether you are a believer or a nonbeliever, without them you cannot be happy."

Eminem Like Toy Soldiers lyrics @ All The Lyrics: "It wasn't my intentions, my intentions was good
I went through my whole career without ever mentionin' (?)
Now it's just out of respect for not runnin' my mouth
And talkin' about something that I knew nothing about
Plus Dre told me stay out, this just wasn't my beef
So I did, I just fell back, watched and gritted my teeth
While he's all over t.v. down talkin' a man who literally saved my life "

And what does Suge do? Punks Dre at the awards last night (www.daveyd.com for info). It is all he will ever understand until he is stomped out like his cigars either for good on the charts, or for good.

The New York Times > Washington > Election Over, McCain Criticizes Bush on Climate Change: "'The Inuit language for 10,000 years never had a word for robin,' he said, 'and now there are robins all over their villages.'"

Btw, my boy carries that message too, in his own way. Stop and really listen.

It is sometimes tough, in these times of negativity, to get the word out. It is hard to get the word in. I struggle against this, but I can't do it for everyone can I? To let people know that the Light is there for them, too.

Something I almost never read, wrote to me today to say this same message. To say, 'move on'. It is difficult to do though. It is difficult not to share that Light and love I found there on the floor of that hotel, with my little radio. It is difficult not to share that feeling there, that has not left. But it is not wanted so often. 'The glass is half full' 'You are just in relationships for the money and status'. Huh?

Floating above the world, the birds must laugh. It must have a chuckle too. Or It just shakes It's head and moves on, to another world and another development. Don't leave me yet though, please. I am here for you, I want to carry that message.

TomPaine.com - Blogs: "The Post, surprisingly for this hawkish editorial page, says: �It is a measure of the stunning absence of accountability under Mr. Bush that it is Mr. Powell who leaves, while the architects of the failed and even disastrous policies he opposed, from postwar Iraq to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, remain in office.�"

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Slapping the Other Cheek

MSNBC - Eminem�s new CD delivers

Tali-banned | Metafilter: "Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks"

ABC News: School Talent Show Draws Secret Service: "The 1963 song ends with the lyrics: 'You might say that I'm young. You might say I'm unlearned, but there's one thing I know, though I'm younger than you, even Jesus would never forgive what you do � And I hope that you die and your death'll come soon. I will follow your casket in the pale afternoon. And I'll watch while you're lowered down to your deathbed. And I'll stand o'er your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.' "

I wrote the former post in in jest of course. But I guess there is some truth to it as we do need a revolution right now.

I am not talking about a religious revolution however, though I guess to some of us it would be very spiritual. I am talking about a revolution for our Mother Earth, for nature, for our natural world.

As we have seperated ourselves from the jungle and our past I think we have lost something. I can still hear it calling. It is becoming overpowering and I fear soon it will overpower us if we do not do something quick.

The icecaps and our world is melting quick. She does that, goes through changes. I get the feeling though if we don't start listening to her like we now listen to money it will be she who melts and us who melts away. To paraphrase George Carlin, she will just fluff us off like a bad case of the fleas.

She got so close with us though didn't she? Gave us a big brain and compassion and a conscience and love. She gave us light and all these years to figure things out, to learn what was important. And we are doing Her dirty. Some people are doing it behind a dogma of 'the end times are coming anyway' and some are doing it blinded by $$ and some don't even know they are doing it consciously... but we are. To our own detriment for She will be here to see it all, and to start again.

Some days I almost want to try and start my own religion. One that has something to do with the sun burning out, where as a religion that is your goal, to see that happen. I think it could refocus people in the right way maybe. It seems useless trying to fight this 'mind virus' as one has characterized it, so form a new one that has your ideas in mind, like L Ron Hubbard.

Fuck, I don't know. What do we really know anyway huh? We just know what we can see and feel and touch. Those things before are us becoming less each day. No longer can you see or touch or feel the thousands and possibly millions of species that have gone extinct in our short lifetime. No longer can one enjoy a breath of truly fresh air. Not a sip of clean water from a river.

It makes me sad, for we were given so much. The Native Americans had it right when we got here and wanted to teach us and, learn from us. They didn't want blankets full of small pox. I think they could have done without the liquor too. They wanted to talk about their connection to the land and how great that could be, how it was available to all of us. How we are all God's (Earth's) children. How they had lived for 30000 years in this place of plenty.

What have we done in 250 years? Some great things. Some amazing advancements. We should be proud. We should also take some time to understand where we have gone wrong and where we could do better. Morality is not just about marriage. In fact, if you do care about marriage let's say this much I would hope that you care about our world and our survival and our fellow species survival (besides cockroaches) this much. Maybe even more, but that is the biggest font allowed in my window.

As we drift off tonight, all of us, evangelicals, Muslims, Native Americans, Americans, Kenyans, business men, environmentalists, hippies, priests let us think of the jungle still there in our mind, in our heart. She is calling to you, please listen. Love.

Yahoo! News - Falwell Plans for 'Evangelical Revolution'

Just what we need.

The Arctic is melting | Metafilter: "Junk science.

Needs more study.

Too reality based for our society.

What is really weird will be seeing the Exxon_Mobil CEO explain why the oil pipeline is sinking into the melting permafrost while at the same time still claiming that climate change is not real."

Democracy Now! | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions: "So, we literally have them over a barrel. So, when we want more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, �Look, you're not able to repay your debts, therefore give our oil companies your Amazon rain forest, which are filled with oil.� And today we're going in and destroying Amazonian rain forests, forcing Ecuador to give them to us because they�ve accumulated all this debt. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It�s a huge empire. It's been extremely successful. "

Thank you mefi, I think...

Thich Nhat Hanh on the Iraq prison abuse scandal -- Beliefnet.com: "An act of cruelty is born of many conditions coming together, without any separate, individual actor. When we hold retreats for war veterans I tell them they are the flame at the tip of the candle, they are the ones who feel the heat, but the whole candle is burning, not only the flame. All of us are responsible. "

Thich Nhat Hanh on the Iraq prison abuse scandal -- Beliefnet.com: "Recent news about the abuse of prisoners of war provides us with the opportunity to look deeply into the nature of war. This is an opportunity for us to be more aware. This is not new; everywhere there is war, these kinds of things happen."

MSNBC - A Lingering Sense of Loss: "My fifth and final reaction was: How can these Red States people cite moral values, yet ignore the immorality of a war that has caused the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people? "

I think this is an interesting exploration. Of course, it is true too. The most extreme of love is of course voiced as 'unconditional love' but in practice how is this played out in actions? In ___'s case were we to sit by while the man in her life seemingly treated her poorly? Would this have shown love of ____'s?
In my own case with ___, was I to allow things to happen and to be said between us for all time? Or was I showing him love by voicing my concern to him and our parents? It is when we get down to day to day action that 'unconditional love' falls short and, if truly implemented, would mean anarchy in any of our social structures. We all have personal demands, but it is up to people, through communication and honesty to augment their demands to the personal, familial, societal. It is all about compromise and understanding.
For my own part I feel like love underlies all my interactions, with ___ or ___ or a homeless man or you and mom, and will always be there and something that I could easily come back to. My god is like this too. He is not satisfied with me when I make certain decisions- if I make too many poor decisions I risk losing our connection. Some of the most important that s/he has made clear is how I treat my family and how I open my heart and mind to the world and our natural environment. That is just me. We all have different views, but it is important to realize that this love is a foundation to build on, but not an crutch to avoid disagreement or dissappointment or confusion. In any healthy relationship just as in any healthy natural system there will be times of ebb and flow, and extreme love.

The Memory Hole > The Anti-war Speech That Earned Eugene Debs 10 Years in Prison

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MSNBC - Study: Arctic warming threatens people, wildlife: "The report, the work of more than 250 scientists and the biggest survey to date of the Arctic climate, found that the accelerating melt could point to wider disruptions from a build-up of human emissions of heat-trapping gases in the earth's atmosphere."

Rachel Carson: "Her earlier books include Under the Sea Wind, The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea. In 1954 she wrote: �The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.�"

Americans Who Tell the Truth: "'This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals. Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown.' - Walt Whitman"

MSNBC - No-show 'mystery candidate' wins election: "SANTA ANA, Calif. - Steve Rocco didn�t file a candidate statement or mount a campaign for the school board. He�s unknown to teachers and the district and only barely known to his neighbors.
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Nonetheless, the man being called a �mystery candidate� easily beat an opponent who is active, and relatively well known, in the Orange Unified School District."

MSNBC - Zakaria: Writing Prose for a New Term: "Looking over this list, Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, quipped, 'It's surprising that either of these two gentlemen wanted the job.' "

I LIKE MONKEYS
I like monkeys.

The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that
odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to
look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.

I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His
name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really
bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed.
Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.

I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new
environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at
high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the
spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.

Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive:
they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead.
Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn
cheap monkeys.

I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my
room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked
like I had 200 throw rugs.

I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.

I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for
a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real
bad.

I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want
to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.

I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately
there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change
them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so
it didn't all go bad.

I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to
extinguish the fire.

Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in
my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor
wasn't improving.

I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the
bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better.

I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn't
allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet
one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about the
frozen ones.

I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My
friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they like
them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in
the genitals.

I like monkeys

http://metafilter.com/mefi/36749

Perhaps true, perhaps not. I get the feeling it is.

MSNBC - U.S. in new warming battle � over Arctic: "Deepening a rift over global warming policy, some European partners are accusing the Bush administration of trying to weaken a report that warns the Arctic is warming almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet."

"Martin Luther King, Jr. said, 'The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.' "

Name: Charles Pierce
Hometown: Newton, MA
Hey Doc --As Mo Udall once put it, the people have spoken, goddamn them.
They showed up. The Republican base, that is. The people who believe that their marriages are threatened by those of gay people, the people who believe there were WMD in Iraq and that Saddam waved a hankie at Mohammed Atta, the people who believe His eye is on every embryo. They all showed up, and there are more of them than there are of us. This was a faith-based electorate and, for whatever reason, their belief was stronger than our reality. This is a country I do not recognize any more.
The kids didn't vote. African-American turnout seems to have stayed pretty much the same as it was in 2000, despite all the talk. We lost seats in the Senate and in the House. (Daschle is a pretty momentous beat, despite the fact that he's not a wartime consigliore and never was.) They elected a polite David Duke in Louisiana, and someone who doesn't believe gay people should teach school in South Carolina, and a creep in Oklahoma, and somebody who's fairly obviously drifting into the fog in Kentucky. The pretty clearly indictable DeLay tactics in Texas worked like a charm. These are all victories won on grounds on which we cannot compete. When gay marriage trumps dead soldiers in Iraq, how do you run a race without dissolving into fantasy?
I don't know this country's mind any more, let alone its heart.
I started getting worried when my friend inside the Kerry bunker stopped calling, and then the nets were so damned slow about calling anything. (And NBC was precipitate in calling Ohio, no matter how it turns out, so little Russ and Jack Welch can congratulate each other this summer on Nantucket.) They had to know about New Hampshire sooner than they called it, and Minnesota and Michigan, neither of which was very close.
So, truly, no concession, no matter how much Russert wants one. Lawyer it up in Ohio to the very last second. Make them sweat. Make them bleed. But know that you ran this time for the president of a very different United States.
Later, that same day...Hey Doc --OK, now I'm starting to feel the gorge rise. Let us content ourselves with this. The country voted for these guys with its eyes open. Let us hear no complaining about "bait and switch," and a "uniter, not a divider," and on and on and on. It even returned a national legislature consonant with the incumbent's agenda. There will be permanent tax cuts that will institutionalize a national debt that will force some sort of evisceration of Social Security and Medicare. There will be continued military adventurism in the Middle East. There will be Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Chief Justice Antonin Scalia. There will be more lying and more vengeance.
So let there be no whining when your husband's National Guard obligation leaves him under fire for six extra months, or when Granny and Gramps are eating cat food, or when it become increasingly impossible to meet the economic needs of the middle-class family.
No complaining. None of it.
You wanted this guy. Now you have him, unleashed.

MSNBC - More 'them' than 'us': "They showed up. The Republican base, that is. The people who believe that their marriages are threatened by those of gay people, the people who believe there were WMD in Iraq and that Saddam waved a hankie at Mohammed Atta, the people who believe His eye is on every embryo. They all showed up, and there are more of them than there are of us. This was a faith-based electorate and, for whatever reason, their belief was stronger than our reality. This is a country I do not recognize any more."

MSNBC - A President Who Listens: "But this race won't have been historic if it turns out to have been a blip of civic engagement in the continuing saga of same-old. It not only revealed an electorate willing to follow the issues, to watch the debates. It revealed an electorate deeply, almost mortally divided, a civil war without a Mason-Dixon line. And a president who ignores that does so, not only at his own peril, but that of the country's future."

Newsday.com - Opinion Columnists: "So you were getting CBS/New York Times polls proclaimed as most important and real. One hundred seventy million cell phones and you don't poll one of them. The polls they are pushing at you in the news magazines, on the networks, in the big papers, are such cheap, meaningless blatant lies, that some of these television stations should have their licenses challenged."

DILATED PEOPLES (f/ Kanye West) LYRICS - This Way: "I, I can't live my, can't live my
Yeah, yo I can't live my I, I can't live my
Life this way, continue really get high
Instead of runnin 'round, lock one bird down
It's a new day gotta do it big just to get right
Show no respect can't live that way
You hold my check can't live that way
Without my chick on deck, can't live that way
They say what they like, but I've been that way
Our moves calculated through the limbs, almost here
Succes will be the best revenge
Man, from Clint East' to Kanye West (whut up, whut up!)
Some can't chill but everyday it says (everyday!)"

Michael Moore.com : Mike's Message : Messages: "Welcome to the longest running, uninterrupted democracy on earth! You own it. It�s yours."

MSNBC - A Kerry landslide?: "Vote.
It's not a joke. It's not a 'retro vs. metro' thing for us in uniform. It's not country music and a barbeque versus Moby and Haute Cuisine. It is not about polls. What matters to us in uniform the most is that you use the privilege. Your vote matters, regardless of your state. If you choose not to vote, you invalidate the core reason for which each of us in uniform today decided to make a commitment and, if necessary, place our lives on the line. "