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Archive for August 2004
Conservative Congressmen Just Can’t Stop Lying
Posted by on 08/31/04 at 1:11 pm
Category: Politics
his is from former Congressman Ed Schrock’s telephone advertisement on a gay sex line:
Uh, hi, I weigh 200 pounds, I’m 6′4″ . . . blond hair. . . very muscular, very buffed up, uh, very tanned. . . .
Schrock would be the very muscular, very buffed up blond guy on the left. Uh-huh.
Hastert Wrestles Truth; Gets Pinned
Posted by on 08/31/04 at 12:34 pm Category: Politics
enny “Wrastling Coach” Hastert was let out of his cage for a few minutes yesterday to speak at the Republicanist Con in NYC. Never shy about making things up, Coach Hastert gave the delegates a history lesson that he, well, just made up:
Both President Lincoln and President Reagan understood that in order to be respected around the world, you have to have the courage to stand up for America.
Hey, Coach, maybe you ought to stick to things you understand like the crotch lift and leave history to the grown-ups.
Let’s start with Abraham Lincoln and how he stood up for America in his foreign policy. Clearly, Dennis was practicing the gut wrench when they were going over the Trent Affair in history class. Trent Affair (Short Version): American warship nabs two Confederate soldiers from British mail boat in international waters; British complain and threaten war; Lincoln gives in and sends rebels back. It’s hard to criticize Lincoln here. After all, he probably thought that one war at a time was enough; but it’s not really standing up “fer Amuhrrica.”
Now as to Reagan standing up for America, I have one word: Beirut.
No Lipstick on This Pig
Posted by on 08/31/04 at 12:06 pm Category: Politics
isgraceful. There is no other way to describe the Republicanist Convention. Rudy Giuliani told a number of whoppers, but I’ll focus on one in particular.
Rudy claims that Kerry flip-flopped on the security wall in Israel. First he quotes part of what Kerry said to the Arab-American league in Detroit: “We do not need another barrier to peace.” Then he quotes a Kerry interview in the Jerusalem Post saying “Israel’s security fence is a legitimate act of self defense.” Wild applause. Flipper impersonators dance around Madison Square Garden. Wild-eyed Republicans pump their fists into the air and break into tears of joy. Another flip-flop. Yes!! Hallelujah!
Of course, the Republicanists assume that we are too stupid to find the Jerusalem Post article that Rudy was quoting. Wrong. It’s right here. And, um, it doesn’t really support what Rudy was saying. Allegedly Rudy was lipstick on the pig, but frankly we have pure pig here.
For starters, Rudy left off how Kerry prefaced his statement to the Arab-American league about “another barrier to peace,” which was this way: “I know how disheartened Palestinians are by the Israeli government’s decision to build the barrier off of the Green Line – cutting deep into Palestinian areas.” What Kerry was complaining about was not the barrier but its territorial incursions. The Jerusalem Post article continues:
While he has objected to the route of the fence – as has Bush – Kerry has never opposed Israel’s right to build the barrier for security reasons, [Kerry spokesmen] said.When Kerry said, “We don’t need another barrier to peace,” he meant a barrier that deviates from the Green Line and makes peace talks harder, the sources added.
This isn’t “nuance.” This isn’t something hard to understand. Giuliani just decided that if he wrapped himself in the 9/11 flag he could lie without accountability. Shameful.
White Waffle House Part II
Posted by on 08/30/04 at 9:43 pm Category: Politics
Flip:
I made a commitment to our troops and to the loved ones of our troops that they will have the resources they need to fight and win the war on terror. That’s why last September, while our troops were in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, I proposed supplemental funding to support them in their mission. This was legislation that provided funding for body armor and vital equipment, for hazard pay, health benefits, ammunition, fuel and spare parts. . . .[O]nly 12 members voted against it. Two of those 12 senators are my opponent and his running mate. [Source]
The commission’s recommendations are consistent with the Bush Administration strategy to address these failings and to win the war on terror. However, the job is not done. The report will help our country identify even more steps we can take to better defend America. [Source]
Today’s action is just the latest step the President has taken to win the War on Terror and protect our homeland. America is safer and stronger than it was three years ago as a result of President Bush’s leadership. [Source]
Some are skeptical that the war on terror is really a war at all. My opponent said, the war on terror is far less of a military operation, and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law enforcement operation. I disagree. Our nation followed this approach after the World Trade Center was bombed in 1993. The matter was handled in the courts, and thought by some to be settled. And yet, the terrorists were still training in Afghanistan; they were still plotting in other nations; they were still drawing up more ambitious plans. After the chaos and carnage of September the 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States of America — and war is what they got. (Applause.) Winning the war requires us to give our troops the best possible support. [Source]
The other side hasn’t offered much in the way of strategies and plans to win the war on terror or to expand prosperity throughout our country. As a matter of fact, all we hear is bitterness and old partisan anger. But they’re going to find out right quick that anger is not an agenda for the future of America. (Applause.) I look forward to taking on the big issues, the issues that matter, with optimism and resolve and determination.[Source]
And winning the war on terror requires that we use all our assets, including a fantastic military. (Applause.) And as we use that military, our troops must be given the best equipment in the world. That is why I went to Congress and asked for an $87 billion appropriation to help our troops. I want to thank the two Congressmen for supporting that supplemental. But my opponent chose to vote no, and here’s what he said. He said, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion — before I voted against it.” (Laughter.) [Source]
There’s going to be many turns in this campaign, but this will remain constant: I will offer a positive, optimistic, and hopeful vision to the American people. I have a plan to win the war on terror and to spread peace and freedom throughout the world. I have a plan — (applause.) [Source]
Flop.
Lauer: “You said to me a second ago, one of the things you’ll lay out in your vision for the next four years is how to go about winning the war on terror. That phrase strikes me a little bit. Do you really think we can win this war on terror in the next four years?”
President Bush: “I have never said we can win it in four years.”
Lauer: “So I’m just saying can we win it? Do you see that?”
President Bush: “I don’t think you can win it. [ Source]
If you go to www.whitehouse.gov and put “win the war on terror” into its search engine you can find 275 other times that Bush said he would “win the war on terror.” I think that those poor folks wandering around NYC in Flipper costumes at the GOP convention ought to show up on Thursday night and flap those flippers together vigorously when W accepts his coronation.
Wolf Bite
Posted by on 08/30/04 at 8:57 am Category: Politics
nother GOP whopper from Ken Mehlman, BC04 Campaign Manager and Ghost Writer to the First Twins:
BLITZER: Any quick reaction to Michael Moore?MEHLMAN: Michael Moore is one of John Kerry’s surrogates. He has been out there. He sat with Mrs. Kerry in John Kerry’s box during their convention.
BLITZER: Did he sit with Mrs. Kerry, I don’t think he sat with Mrs. Kerry.
MEHLMAN: Well, I know he sat in the box. And he has made a number of outrageous statements during the course of this campaign. And I…
BLITZER: He sat with Mrs. Carter, Jimmy Carter — and former President Jimmy Carter, just to be precise. I was there.
MEHLMAN: Oh, Wolf, details, details. (OK, Ken didn’t really make this last statement - ed.).
It must sting to be taken down by not-so-big-bad Wolf Blitzer. And, hmmm, what about Iranian Mole Ahmed Chalabi sitting just behind Laura as her guest at the (mis)State(ment) of the Union? Any thoughts on that, Ken?
Bush Admits Cheney Dodges His Taxes
Posted by on 08/29/04 at 9:14 am Category: Politics
n route to the Republican Coronation in NYC, Bush’s stump speech has an interesting inconsistency, that no one seems to have picked up:
You might remember the tax relief plan. We said if you’re paying taxes, you ought to get relief. We did it the fair way.
Compare that with:
So they said, how are you going to pay for it? [Kerry] said, oh, I’ll just tax the rich. Now, you’ve heard that before, haven’t you? All we’re going to do is tax the rich. Well, the rich dodge and you get stuck with the bill.
Do I get this right? The fair thing is to give everybody tax relief, even the rich who, W tells us, are dodging their taxes? It seems to me that if what George says about the tax-dodging propensities of the rich is true, the answer is to increase enforcement not to give them tax breaks.
For 2003, Dick “Not a Pretty Face” Cheney reported taxable income of $1,900,339, which by all measures makes him rich, so W is standing up in front of Ohio voters and calling his Vice-President a tax dodger. Which may be one of the few true things Bush has uttered lately. Cheney only paid 13.1% of his income in Federal taxes. This is pretty much the average federal tax rate for people in the $20,000 to $30,000 income bracket. I guess that’s why George says this:
I’m proud to be running with Dick Cheney. He is a really solid man. (Applause.) He is a — I like to tease, I like to tease my Vice President by saying, you know, he’s not the prettiest face in the race. (Laughter.) But I picked him because of his sound judgment, his expertise, and the fact that he can get the job done. That’s why I picked Dick Cheney. (Applause.)
Yep, when it comes to dodging taxes, Cheney gets the job done.
Hairy-Backed Swamp Developers, Aggresive Dorks and Little Honkers
Posted by on 08/27/04 at 9:29 pm Category: PoliticsThe ever-perceptive Sid’s Fishbowl noticed this adaptation from Garrison Keilor’s new book. The Minnesota Lutheran gives a Southern Baptist sermon that could make Jerry Falwell shout Amen! and cross party lines. Well, maybe it’s not that good, but it took my breath away. Read it.
You say New-Kyuh-Luhrr, I say New-Clear
Posted by on 08/27/04 at 3:09 pm Category: Politics
nother hilarious reason from the increasingly desperate Bush League as to why you should vote for George in November showed up on the BC04 website today. No, it’s not because Bush eats his cheese steak “whiz with” and Kerry eats his with Swiss (i.e. perfidious French) Cheese, even though the “whiz with” claim is a lie. No, it’s not because GOP balloons will fall from the roof for George and “Democrat” balloons didn’t fall for Kerry, even though that may turn out to be true. No, it’s because — get this — John Kerry mispronounced a word! Kerry, allegedly, said Lambert and not Lambeau (as in Field) when visiting Green Bay.
Now, am I missing something, or is this strange coming from the campaign for a guy who says “New-Kyuh-Luhrr,” “Enter-puhr-nuhr,” “Amuhr-i-kuhns” and can’t even get within a mile of pronouncing Abu Ghraib correctly? Maybe my priorities are misplaced, but somehow it seems to me that pronouncing the name of a football field correctly is less important than correctly pronouncing the name of the prison where U.S. soldiers did some indisputably bad things to some Iraqis and set back the whole hearts and minds thing even beyond what we hope to be the only 4 years that W will spend in the White House.
Maybe the Republicanist point, here, is more subtle. Lambeau, you see, is a French word. If Kerry really spoke French, he would never have said Lambert. So, we caught him in another lie! Kerry can’t really speak French!! No doubt Prof. Glen “Insta-Hayseed” Reynolds will be all slathered up about this now and will have 16 posts on this, complete with scans of old newspaper clippings proving that Kerry was never in Switzerland and thus never could have learned French.
You know, in the end, it’s quite sad. People are losing their health insurance, increasing numbers of people are in poverty, we’re stuck in a quagmire in Iraq, and the whole world hates us, but all the Bushies can talk about is whether Kerry gets the name of a football field right or really has shrapnel in his butt.
White Waffle House
Posted by on 08/27/04 at 7:01 am Category: PoliticsAll the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end. Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict, commenced at a time of our choosing.
“I don’t think you give timelines to dictators,'’ Mr. Bush said, speaking of North Korea’s president, Kim Jong Il, and Iran’s mullahs. He said he would continue diplomatic pressure - using China to pressure the North and Europe to pressure Iran - and gave no hint that his patience was limited or that at some point he might consider pre-emptive military action.
Flip-flop or lie? We report; you decide.
Bang, Bang, Osama, You’re Dead!
Posted by on 08/26/04 at 9:43 pm Category: Politics
lan “Suicide Carpetbagger” Keyes is at it again. Just read this:
Regular Americans should be allowed to carry concealed handguns, have access to the kind of heavier weapons used by foot soldiers and could even help in the war against terrorism, U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes said Tuesday while slamming his opponent on a gun-related issue.“I think instead of being afraid of defending ourselves, we would do well to follow a course of action that re-educated our people in the means of their self-defense,” the staunch conservative Republican said at a Chicago news conference. “And it would, by the way, provide an armed citizenry that would make terrorists think twice and three times before they dared to threaten our people.”
Yeah, Alan, that’s the ticket. If the people in the Twin Towers had one of the “heavier weapons used by foot soldiers” like this, then Mohammed Atta and his cohorts would never have even have tried to fly themselves into the building. (Of course, I could never set foot on the streets of DC again.)
And if the sailors on the U.S.S. Cole had a few of these babies, they would never have been blown up. (Of course, the sailors didn’t have the shoulder-fired missiles because of “you-know-who,” whom I won’t name but who - hint, hint - is a flip-flopping Massachusetts Democrat Party liberal who also voted against body armor for our troops).
But, you know, sometimes even a shoulder-fired Stinger missile isn’t enough and you might need a machine gun too. Not to worry. Alan says that you should have one of those as well:
Declaring “the front line of the war against terror once again involves the citizens,” Republican Alan Keyes said Tuesday he believes the U.S. Constitution grants properly trained private individuals the right to own and carry machine guns.[T]he GOP nominee for U.S. Senate argued the founding fathers intended the Second Amendment to allow people to carry the types of weapons “customarily carried in those days by ordinary infantry soldiers.”
Admittedly I was drunk all through Seventh Grade when we talked about infantry soldiers during the time of the Founding Fathers, but I didn’t get the business about how they had machine guns. How come we didn’t knock the s**t out of the Brits sooner in 1812? Oh, that’s right, the Brits had the RPGs.
Robbing from the Middle Class to Pay the Rich
Posted by on 08/26/04 at 12:36 pm Category: Politics
his amusing account from the campaign trail is most instructive:
In a lighter moment, the Cheney tour stopped at a farm stand owned by Ray Levan, 65, in the small town of Catawissa. Cheney and his wife went to buy fruit and vegetables, while daughters Mary and Elizabeth went with the Cheney grandchildren to watch cows being fed.The Cheneys purchased nine apples, five large tomatoes, three green peppers and a dozen ears of corn. Cheney pulled a $10 bill from his pocket and gave it to Levan. Asked by a reporter whether the $10 covered the cost of the produce, Levan indicated that it did not. But he said it was an “honor” to sell the fruits and vegetables to the vice president, even if at a discount.
If it’s a lighter moment when the VPOTUS steals from a farmer on the campaign trail, I wonder what a darker moment might be. The nicest explanation for the Cheney “dine and dash” is that the millionaire VP has no clue what this stuff costs. (This from the people who call Kerry elitist).
Oh, and which part of this article do you think got quoted on the BC04 campaign site? The part about Cheney stiffing the farmer or the part about Mary going off to see the cows fed? Oh, what would they do on the campaign trail without Mary?
Although I bet you Mary won’t be anywhere to be found (dairy farm or otherwise) when alleged entertainer Donnie McClurkin performs at the GOP convention with the other B-list talent. Donnie says that gays (that would be you, Mary) are out “to kill children.” You can find more of the odious wit and wisdom of this GOP superstar here. (Courtesy of John Avarosis).
UPDATE: Joe left a comment giving me grief, saying that Cheney only stiffed the farmer for a buck since the stuff he bought would have cost $11. I don’t know how much the roadside farmer would have charged, but Peapod charges $26.01 for what VPOTUS bought. But I suppose that if Joe figures that ripping off a buck is okay, then he probably figures that ripping off $16 isn’t much worse. And no, Joe, this isn’t, in and off itself, a reason to vote for Kerry, but the little things add up. Just like you don’t trust anyone who kicks a dog, you shouldn’t trust people who cheat people who are less well off.
Woohoo! New Links. New URL
Posted by on 08/26/04 at 9:25 am Category: PoliticsDue to kind links provided by the good folks at corrente and Seb at SadlyNo!, two of my favorite sites, and the new visitors these links have brought over here, I’ve added a new referrer to make it easier to get here. Not only will www.clifburns.us still take you here, but now you can get here with www.outsidethetent.com, which kinda makes sense given that it’s the name of the blog, donchya think?
White House Bribes Village Idiot With Trips to DC, NYC
Posted by on 08/25/04 at 11:46 am Category: Politics
h, Youngstown. That drug-ridden, mafia-infested river town that gives the Rust Belt a bad name. It has the highest unemployment rate in Ohio: 13.5%, more than twice the state rate. It is the 18th most dangerous city in the nation, even though it is only 340th largest in population. James “Beam Me Up, Scotty” Trafficant hails from Youngstown.
And so does, Mayor George McKelvey, the latest member in that exclusive and select club of Morons Democrats for Bush. “George, say hello to Zell. Zell, say hello to George. Mr. Koch, wake up, and say hello to George and Zell. Now that we have the entire membership, we can have a meeting. Let’s vote for a new secret handshake. Ed, get your finger out of your nose or we won’t show you the secret handshake!”
Mayor McKelvey was an easy mark for the Bushies. How did they get him to come over to the dark side? They promised him some pork barrel project in Youngstown, you suggest. Wrong-oh. Not so much at all. No, all they had to do was invite this small town chump to the White House. McKelvey called the experience “humbling” and “life-altering.” I guess prior to his trip to DC the coolest thing he had actually done was order a blooming onion at Outback across the river. And, according to the Youngstown Vindicator, the Ohio GOP is footing the bill for a trip by McKelvey to the Republicanist Convention in NYC. Also according to the local paper:
If asked, McKelvey would also speak at the convention.McKelvey said he would do anything asked of him by the Bush campaign, including commercials. But he has no plans to switch his party affiliation.
“Once George opens his mouth on a commercial, he’ll turn voters off,” said Lisa Antonini, Mahoning County Democratic chairwoman. “What an amazing piece of work he is.”
McKelvey will probably call his trip to the Big Apple “mind-blowing” but that assumes he still has a mind to blow. Particularly now that he’s willing to do “anything” for the Bush campaign. “Hey, George, we’ll let you speak in New York if you go tell CNN you were having sex with John Kerry in Youngstown on the night he claimed he was in Cambodia!”
Would You Like Banana Bread With Your Whopper?
Posted by on 08/24/04 at 11:27 pm Category: Politics
ark Racicot, BC04 Chairman, was spouting the standard GOP whopper on 527s tonight on CNN but went one step further. You remember Marc Racicot, he accused Kerry of treason for suggesting that maybe people should vote for Kerry this November. Apparently, since we are at war it’s okay for people to run against Bush as long as they don’t actually suggest that they should win.
So back to the 527s. According to Racicot, not only are the Republicans against the 527s but so is the Federal Election Commission:
COOPER: The “Washington Post” today called the calls by President Bush to ban all 527s disingenuous. There are those who say that both sides, Republicans and Democrats, get some benefit from these groups. . . .RACICOT: We didn’t want any benefit, Anderson. That’s why we filed a petition with the FEC, I believe it was back in April, if I’m not mistaken, to prohibit this sort of thing. It’s not a disingenuous idea because the FEC since then has ruled, in fact, that we were right, that this kind of activity will not be allowed in 2006.
No, Marc, the new FEC rules do not ban 527s. (Why start telling the truth now?) The new FEC rules limit individual contributions given in response to solicitations mentioning a federal candidate and limit the amount of soft money that can be used for overhead by entities that have both 527s and PACs. But they do not eliminate 527s. Not now. Not in 2006. Not ever.
Maybe Marc should go back to giving out his famed banana bread recipe because frankly, when you think of Marc, you should think of “bananas” and “nuts.”
Vote for Our Really Cool Dad Who Bails Us Out And Stuff
Posted by on 08/24/04 at 9:01 am Category: Politics
nother sign of desperation from the Bush League: they’ve enlisted the First Twins to send me an email, complete with a cheesy cleavage shot of the twins, soliciting my vote. In fact, the two are so tightly clutched together in the picture they sent that they might even be the First Siamese Twins. (And I hear Ken Mehlman not only wrote the letter himself but also picked out the twin’s dresses. I bet you never knew that Ken had such a feminine side).
So why do Barb and Jenna think that I should vote for W? I bet you could never guess! Because they think he’s a good Dad! Of course, if Kerry’s daughters were asked, they would write that their Dad is an evil, treasonous, flip-flopping monster who made naughty videotapes of them when they were toddlers.
But you should also know that we would be voting for our Dad in this election even if he had not raised us, loved us, tutored us, coached us, and even listened to a few excuses from us for late curfews.
And bailed Jenna out of jail a few times. Sure I buy that. Of course you would still be voting for him.
We have been privileged to know our President personally and we know he is the right person to lead our country - especially when there are so many important issues at stake. Our Dad has qualities that are needed in a good President - loyalty, humor (embarrassing as it sometimes may be), compassion, and, most importantly, integrity. We’re not the only ones who see it. In fact, our friends - from varying political backgrounds - are supporting our Dad . . . because during the last ten years they met a man whose title was Governor or President, but who was always happy to be known as “our Dad.
You’ve convinced me, you cute things, because I have it on good word that John Kerry insisted that his kids were only allowed to refer to him as their “Multilingual Metrosexual Senator and Vietnam War Hero” and never as their “Dad.”
Ken, next time you ghost another First Twins letter to send to me, will you at least enclose a virtual barf bag?
Soft Brain on Soft Money
Posted by on 08/23/04 at 5:01 pm Category: Politics
f the White House is going to stand up and lie at press conferences, it really ought to disable the search feature on its own web site. Of course, since the Press Corps these days is about as aggressive as a herd of ruminating cows, taking the search feature down may be unnecessary.
To wit: Bush stood up in Crawford today and said this:
I’m denouncing all the stuff being on TV of the 527s. That’s what I’ve said. I said this kind of unregulated soft money is wrong for the process. And I asked Senator Kerry to join me in getting rid of all that kind of soft money, not only on TV, but used for other purposes, as well. I, frankly, thought we’d gotten rid of that when I signed the McCain-Feingold bill. I thought we were going to, once and for all, get rid of a system where people could just pour tons of money in and not be held to account for the advertising. And so I’m disappointed with all those kinds of ads.
How on earth Bush can say with a straight face that he’s against soft money issue ads and that he thought that McCain-Feingold got rid of individual soft money is beyond me. First, until lately, Bush has been very clear that one of his principles of campaign finance reform was to leave individual contributions unregulated. Indeed put “soft money” in the search box at www.whitehouse.gov and the first result is a March 2001 letter to Trent Lott saying this:
President Bush believes democracy is first and foremost about the rights of individuals to express their views. He supports strengthening the role of individuals in the political process by: 1) updating the limits established more than two decades ago on individual giving to candidates and national parties; and 2) protecting the rights of citizen groups to engage in issue advocacy.
Second, the statement released by Bush on signing McCain-Feingold (search result #20) shows that W (or at least the guy who wrote W’s statement for him) clearly understood that only union and corporate soft money were restricted. Indeed, Bush objected to the McCain-Feingold’s restriction on issue advertising by unions and corporations within sixty days of a general election:
I also have reservations about the constitutionality of the broad ban on issue advertising, which restrains the speech of a wide variety of groups on issues of public import in the months closest to an election. I expect that the courts will resolve these legitimate legal questions as appropriate under the law.
So for Bush to say that he has been opposed to soft money issue advertising all along is a “flip flop” at best and a lie at worst. Now that he’s gotten his knickers in a knot over MoveOn.org, he’s ready to toss the First Amendment out the door and not merely restrict but prohibit issue advocacy by individuals.
Family Values At Work
Posted by on 08/23/04 at 12:37 pm Category: Politics
t used to be that heckling W just got you ejected, maybe even threatened with arrest or even arrested, but these days it can get you fired too. Glenn Hiller lost his job because one of his firm’s clients objected to him shouting out “Where are the weapons of mass destruction?” during a GOP rally in Berkeley County, West Virginia.
Well, not just one of the firm’s clients. Let’s be specific here. The person who thought that Hiller should be another casualty of the Bush economy was one Sandy Sponaugle of Platinum Public Relations. So, I thought perhaps Sandy deserved an email:
Dear Ms. Sponaugle,By now you’ve probably been inundated by hate mail, but I just wanted to say I admire the brave way you stood up for Republican, no, American principles by seeing that Glenn Hiller got what was coming to him. First off, no disgruntled Democrats belonged at the rally. They should all be cordoned off in a free speech zone with the other flip-floppers. God-fearing folk shouldn’t be forced to listen to their nonsense.
And you responded the way a true American would: you got him fired. Personally, I don’t think even that was enough. Do you think maybe you can get his wife fired too? His daughters, you could probably get them expelled from school if you worked a little bit at it. They should also deny his unemployment claim since he was fired, after all, for misconduct. That will show him.
You know, we have brave troops that are in Iraq bringing democracy to that poor country so that Iraqi’s, just like Americans, can once again have the right to punish people they disagree with. So what you did is just another great way to support our troops. Keep up the good work!
Best wishes,
Clif Burns
If she responds, I’ll post it. You can also tell Sandy what you think.