I don’t know a lot about Kerry or his war record, but I do know that his recent gymnastics over the Iraq war leave less than credible and he’s unbelievably boring. But it wouldn’t matter if he were a combination of Audie Murphy and Sam Nunn because he’s been an avid supporter/partner with Ted Kennedy, and I’m against pretty much anything associated with that fat, murderous moron of a drunk.

Posted by: surfing monkey at January 22, 2004 04:48 AM

Ted who? Oh. You mean the one that doesn’t know how to call 911. That one.

Posted by: Cap'n SPIN at January 22, 2004 08:01 AM

This is the same “info” I posted on the Kerry’s Bounce thread. While ‘interesting’, I liken it to something from DEBKA.

Posted by: American_Defender at January 22, 2004 08:05 AM

“Kerry claimed that U.S. soldiers had “raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, …”

Sounds like Kerry in ‘71 was referring to the mysterious Tiger Force squad the Toledo Blade featured in a series last fall.

“It was an elite fighting unit in Vietnam - small, mobile, trained to kill. Known as Tiger Force, the platoon was created by a U.S. Army engaged in a new kind of war - one defined by ambushes, booby traps, and a nearly invisible enemy.”

“… to fight the enemy in one of the most highly contested areas of South Vietnam: the Central Highlands.”

“But the platoon’s mission did not go as planned, with some soldiers breaking the rules of war. Women and children were intentionally blown up in underground bunkers. Elderly farmers were shot as they toiled in the fields. Prisoners were tortured and executed - their ears and scalps severed for souvenirs. One soldier kicked out the teeth of executed civilians for their gold fillings.”

Posted by: munger at January 22, 2004 03:25 PM

Here is part of the way Kerry got out of taking responsibility for these atrocities he told about at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on April 22, 1971 - that he knew about:

“Again and again, the question was asked: Did Kerry commit atrocities or see them committed by others? Kerry stuck to his script.

“I personally didn’t see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that,” Kerry said. “However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions in which the houses of noncombatants were burned to the ground. And all of these acts, I find out later on, are contrary to the Hague and Geneva conventions and to the laws of warfare. So in that sense, anybody who took part in those, if you carry out the application of the Nuremberg Principles, is in fact guilty. But we are not trying to find war criminals. That is not our purpose. It never has been.”

To find out more on Kery’s life - go to an article in the Boston globe at: http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061703.shtml

Posted by: Anita1 at January 28, 2004 01:27 AM

WESLEY CLARK, America’s Savior?
by Larry S. Rolirad, USDNR political correspondent

Wesley Clark is the man. He is the ONLY candidate who is hell-bent on gutting the IRS and eliminating all of the loopholes that corrupt corporations feed from. General Clark wants to create a system where anyone who makes $50,000 or less would NOT EVEN HAVE TO FILE a TAX RETURN with the IRS. And for those who do file, all the taxpayers would have to do is fill out a three-question form.

General Clark would also repeal the Bush tax cut that only benefits the top one percent of our population to make up for the shortfall in taxes his new IRS restructuring would create. General Clark also plans to slightly increase the taxes on those who make more than a million a year.

No other democrat, and certainly no republican, is doing ANYTHING to restructure the IRS. In fact, the republican-dominated government has added hundreds of pages of code to the 50,000 page IRS manual in the past three years. And those additions are loopholes for corporations and the wealthy to further enrich themselves. The loopholes were put in our tax code by lobbyists who have most of our representatives in their pockets. They allow corporations to have offshore accounts, offshore fake ‘home offices’, and huge loopholes for the wealthy. Republicans ‘say’ they are for less government but how can that be if they are increasing the size of the IRS and expanding the size of the tax code that we all have to adhere to? The word “hypocrites” comes to mind.

Remember during the 2000 election/selection when candidate-Bush said “Businesses must be allowed to regulate themselves!”? It is obvious that Bush and the GOP would have no problem with having an Enron on every block in America. After all, Enron “regulated” themselves and look how many millions of people had their investments wiped out by corrupt corporate crooks.

Republicans will argue that their “Trickle-Down Economics” works. Some will say that if you give the wealthiest Americans more and more tax breaks it will lead to money “trickling” down to the masses. That is pure baloney, rancid baloney. ‘Trickle-Down Economics’ didn’t work under Ronald Reagan and it certainly is not working under Bush-Duh-Second. Even Bush-Duh-First called Reagan’s ‘Trickle-Down Economics”, “Voo Doo Economics” when he was running against Reagan for the 1980 republican presidential nomination. Today’s republican version of “Trickle-Down Economics” should be more aptly named “Doo Doo Economics” because it reeks of special interests and corruption.

Republicans have the misconception that the richest Americans immediately recycle all of their windfall tax breaks back into the economy. But when the wealthy get additional money they don’t immediately say to themselves “Gee, I am going to immediately build new factories and hire thousands of Americans”. No, they do just the opposite. They close down factories, fire American workers, and then send the work to slave-labor countries. They also merge existing American companies and fire tens of thousands of workers. The money they get back in huge tax breaks is not spent on building businesses in the United States. It is mostly hoarded. That money doesn’t reenter the economy as many would like to convince you. And it certainly doesn’t “Trickle Down” to the average American.

There is only so much toilet paper, detergent, and food that a wealthy person needs and buys. Do republicans really believe that if you give the wealthiest one percent of our country huge tax breaks that their spending on toilet paper would skyrocket? Hardly, unless they defecate constantly at the news of getting a few extra million dollars each year.

The best way to invigorate the economy is to put the money into the hands of those who would return the money back into the economy almost as soon as they get it. And that means the middle class and the poor. The average American drives the economy, not the extremely wealthy.

Aren’t you tired of the massive corruption in our government? Aren’t you tired of feeling victimized every year by the IRS? Don’t you want to put more of your hard-earned wages into your pockets and less in the government’s coffers??? The time for a change is now. We the citizens of our country have the power to take back our government and our country from those who are using our treasury as their personal piggy bank, while forcing the middle class and the poor to have to pay for the shortfalls they are creating.

To change the system we need someone in the White House who cares about the average American, and American families. As Wesley Clark likes to say, “one party likes to ‘talk’ about ‘Family Values’, but I value families”. Mr. Clark is the only candidate who would make changes that would benefit the middle class and the poor. Currently, we have no one in government who is looking after our best interests. We need to change that. And we have the power to change that, if only we act.

BTW: Republicans propagandists are already trying to tie Wesley Clark to the Clintons. I suppose the republican party will be running against Clinton forever. They used all kinds of references to Clinton during the 2000 election. And now they are trying to do the same dishonest, manipulating thing again. Intelligent voters won’t fall for their scheme but the non-thinking republican party lambs will. It is unfortunate that they can be led like a hog to slaughter so easily.

Posted by: Mike Hallibrue at January 30, 2004 10:16 AM

WRT the rich not paying taxes, you might take a look at http://www.house.gov/jct/x-45-00.pdf. According to this paper and others from Treasury, the top 1% of taxpayers pay 33.6% of ALL income taxes. Top 10% pay 66% of I.T. The bottom 56% of taxpayers (up to 40K income) paid 3% of all income taxes. This was for 2000. Under the Bush tax cuts, the bottom 55% will pay less than 2.5% of taxes.

Posted by: Loy Rickman at February 16, 2004 03:04 PM

Does 9-11 Mean Anything to Terrorists?
Larry S. Rolirad

People are putting great significance in the nine hundred and eleven days since the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks against United States. But “911” should have no significance to Arabic people. They read from right to left, not left to right. So “911” would be “119” to the terrorists. And do you really believe that the Al Quaeda terrorists, who believe that everything about the western world is evil, would use our ‘evil’ numerical scheme to make a point? No, they wouldn’t.

The March 11, 2004 attacks in Madrid, Spain were indeed 911 days from our 9-11-01 attacks. But using our numerical scheme would be something that someone in the West would conceive, not the terrorists.

But who in the West would have the motive to deliberately try to associate those who detonated bombs in Madrid with the same terrorist group that attacked the US? My guess would be people the US, and in particular the republican party. After all, the republican party has been capitalizing off of fear to push forth their agendas ever since September 11, 2001. As long as republicans can play the “fear card” to control and manipulate the masses they will continue to do so. There are hundreds of billions to be made. And since people kill each other for pennies every day don’t you think that people would do anything, even killing thousands of people, when they can make billions?

Stop being duped Americans. Think for yourselves and stop being propaganda pawns to corrupt political parties. Before you take back our country, you have to first take back your minds.

Posted by: Mike Hallibrue at March 14, 2004 06:50 PM

Does 9-11 Mean Anything to Terrorists?
by Larry S. Rolirad

People are putting great significance in the nine hundred and eleven days since the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks against United States. But “911” should have no significance to Arabic people. They read from right to left, not left to right. So “911” would be “119” to the terrorists. And do you really believe that the Al Quaeda terrorists, who believe that everything about the western world is evil, would use our ‘evil’ numerical scheme to make a point? No, they wouldn’t.

The March 11, 2004 attacks in Madrid, Spain were indeed 911 days from our 9-11-01 attacks. But using our numerical scheme would be something that someone in the West would conceive, not the terrorists.

But who in the West would have the motive to deliberately try to associate those who detonated bombs in Madrid with the same terrorist group that attacked the US? My guess would be people the US, and in particular the republican party. After all, the republican party has been capitalizing off of fear to push forth their agendas ever since September 11, 2001. As long as republicans can play the “fear card” to control and manipulate the masses they will continue to do so. There are hundreds of billions to be made. And since people kill each other for pennies every day don’t you think that people would do anything, even killing thousands of people, when they can make billions?

Stop being duped Americans. Think for yourselves and stop being propaganda pawns to corrupt political parties. Before you take back our country, you have to first take back your minds.

Posted by: Mike Hallibrue at March 14, 2004 06:50 PM

What Happened to the Republican Utopia?
by Larry S. Rolirad

Republicans have long said that if only they controlled our government there would be utopia. They said that the budget would be balanced. They said that people would be more free. They said that the government would be smaller. They said that government pork would decrease. They said, they said, they said.

But talk is cheap and the republican party have displayed the perfect example of how cheap talk can be. So what happened? Why isn’t our country at peace? Why isn’t our budget balanced? Why is the size of government larger than at any time in its history? Why is our environment deteriorating? Why are more and more American jobs being sent oversees daily? Why is the balance of trade still out of whack? Why are we losing more and more jobs oversees everyday? Why is our tax code fifteen percent larger than it was three years ago? Why is our economy in ruins? Why have millions lost their life savings? Why has unemployment gone up? Why are there millions more uninsured people? Why are our civil liberties being attacked? Why is there so much secrecy in the executive branch? Why has the US become the most hated country on earth? Why, why, why?

Republicans have controlled the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branches of the government for three years now, but instead of America improving, it has been going downhill faster than an angry avalanche. Sociologically our country is down. Economically our country is down. And we are at war with our soldiers dying every day in foreign lands. In almost every major area of measurement our country has been going down, down, down.

Yes, what happened to the utopia promised by republicans? No one is dreaming any longer. But how can they when republican nightmares are invading every facet of our lives. Please republicans, stop trying to make our country a utopia. It is destroying us.

Posted by: Mike Hallibrue at March 16, 2004 06:41 PM

DEAR SIR,
I WANT TO BE ONE THE AMRICANS MILITARY,I DON,T KNOW IF YOU WILL NEED ME.

Posted by: FRANCIS ONWUKA at March 18, 2004 12:14 PM

There is no feeling more profound than the feeling of fear a parent feels when one of their children is serving in the military and in harm’s way.

A Parent’s Deepest Fear
by Larry S. Rolirad

On September 17, 2004, a mother of a soldier who died in Iraq appeared at a republican campaign rally at the Colonial Fire Department in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, where First Lady Laura Bush was speaking. When the woman spoke out to Laura Bush by saying “When are YOU going to serve?” “When are YOU going to fight?” she was drowned out by the entire Bush mob of 700 republicans, who began chanting, “Four more years! Four more years!”. So much for a mother’s right to free speech. So much for republicans being for the First Amendment, or our Constitution.

The mother, Ms. Sue Niederer, of Hopewell, N.J., was wearing a T-shirt with the words “President Bush, You Killed My Son!” on the front of the shirt, and on the back of the T-shirt was a picture of her dead son. Her son was Army 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin, 24, who was killed in Iraq in February while trying to disarm a bomb. Republicans in the audience tried to cover-up Ms. Niederer’s T-shirt with Bush campaign signs. While Laura Bush was talking about the war and the troops, Ms. Niederer yelled out to Laura Bush to get her attention. When Ms. Niederer continued yelling out to Laura Bush asking why her son was killed, the entire mob of seven hundred republicans kept increasing the volume of their chant of “Four more years! Four more years!” So much for the republican “compassionate conservatism” for this woman filled with grief over the loss of her son.

Laura Bush never acknowledged the plea from the despondent and grief-stricken mother. She just continued reading her speech. So much for Laura Bush expressing any compassion toward another human being who was feeling so much emotional pain. Being a Bush means never having to be accountable for your actions. Being a Bush means never having to say you’re sorry. And being a Bush means never having to have any feelings for any other human being. Laura Bush takes after her mother-in-law, Barbara Bush, who callously made the following statement about our troops, “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it’s gonna happen? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” This comment by Barbara Bush concerning our troops was made on ABC’s Good Morning America on March 18, 2003. Barbara Bush’s total lack of sensitivity was obviously passed on to her offspring.

When Laura Bush mentioned the troops who were over in Iraq in her speech, Ms. Niederer shouted out “When are your children going to serve?” referring to Bush’s 22-year-old twin daughters, who aren’t even in the armed services. Laura Bush said nothing and continued with her speech. Why would Laura Bush answer a question like that? After all, dying in battle is for the poor and the middle classes, certainly not for anyone in the Bush clan of cowards.

As Ms. Niederer again tried to make her voice heard she was silenced by republican thugs who grabbed her and handed her over to the Secret Service and local police. The police handcuffed her and led her out of the event. Once outside, Ms. Niederer told the police that she had a ticket and asked, “Why am I being arrested?” She was told by the police that she had entered a private event and refused to leave, according to the Trenton Times. Ms. Niederer told the police she had a ticket to the event so she wasn’t trespassing. That didn’t matter to the GOP Gestapo working for the republican party. Their job was to silence her.

After handcuffing Ms. Niederer and reading her the Miranda rights, police locked Ms. Niederer in the back of a police van like a common criminal. She was charged with defiant trespass and later released. For speaking out for her dead son, who died in Bush’s Iraq War, Ms. Niederer could have received a fine and as much as sixty days in jail. Can anyone say “Police State”? What if all of the protesters in the Boston Tea Party were arrested? The republicans are like the British who ruled the colonies and used force and other coercive tactics to stop the people from demonstrating or speaking out. Our Founding Fathers believed that “Free Speech” and “Right to Protest” were so important they put them in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Republicans believe that only the wealthy should have a right to free speech. They believe that “money” is equivalent to “free speech”.

This republican event is an example of how much republicans have complete control over every one of their staged and scripted events. Only people who are right-wing republicans are allowed to enter one of their events. And only right-wing republicans are allowed to ask softball questions. And all questions are prescreened so GW Bush can rehearse the answers given to him by his circus-like trainers. Republicans don’t want their events televised showing someone asking GW Bush a real question, or a question he hadn’t had time to rehearse over and over again. That is why the republican mob of 700 silenced a lone grief-stricken woman. She was asking questions that Laura or George Bush don’t feel they have to answer. It is a supreme act of cowardice when republicans feel they have to silence a grieving mother who lost her only son in Bush’s Iraq War.

In a later makeshift interview following her arrest, Sue Niederer said “I was denied my freedom of speech.” Republican thugs always instruct their right-wing audiences to mindlessly chant the phrase “Four more years!” “Four more years!” over and over again if anyone tries to speak out against any of their speakers. Republicans started using this infantile, yet effective tactic during their convention a month earlier where they used the chant “Four more years” over and over again to drown out three people who managed to sneak into their four day political advertisement, otherwise known as a ‘convention’.

A week before she was arrested, in an interview with CBS NNS Correspondent David Martin, Ms. Niederer said she viewed her son’s death in Iraq as a “total waste” and “my son died for absolutely nothing.” She called the war in Iraq a “personal vendetta” of President George W. Bush. Ms Niederer said just before her son’s death what he felt about Iraq. First Lt. Seth Dvorin said“When I leave here I never want to come back! He said he thought it (the Iraq War) was useless. We weren’t going to win a war on terrorism or war on religion. It was just a guerilla war.” You never hear statements like this from our troops because there is a mandatory oath of silence placed on troops who served in Iraq and are still in Iraq fighting. A recent poll revealed that more than eighty percent of our troops in Iraq are against President Bush. The same amount believe that Bush is not doing his job. Military records even cite that more than 25 percent of all soldiers returning home are suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

The line “The first casualty of war is the truth”is unfortunately very accurate. It allows predatory politicians, like GW Bush, to use war to their advantage because no dissenting views are allowed. Even President Bush told the nation, “If you are not with us, you are against us.” These are the words of a dictator in a totalitarian regime. They certainly should not be uttered by a president of the United States. Thomas Jefferson said “Dissent is healthy for a representative democracy.” President Bush does not believe there should be any dissent. And republicans who support president Bush also are opposed to anyone who disagrees with Bush. Military law dictates that no one in the military can criticize the president, since he is their commander-in-chief. Since Ms. Niederer’s son is dead, the military can’t hurt him anymore for words he shared with his mother.

In an interview with Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg on May 22 and 23, 2004, Ms. Niederer said “All returning caskets from Iraq should absolutely be shown. This is the cost of war. This is reality. You hear a number. Numbers don’t mean anything but when you see a coffin you know there’s a family behind this coffin. That’s impact.” When Ms. Niederer was asked what her response was to the recent evidence that this war was waged on the basis of “misinformation” she said “I wanted to rip the president’s head off. Curse him, yell at him, call him a self-righteous bastard and a lot of other words. I think if I had him in front of me I would shoot him in the groined area. Let him suffer. And just continue shooting him there. Put him through misery, like he’s doing to everyone else. He doesn’t deserve any better.”

When asked, Are you worried that Bush could win in November? Ms. Niederer replied, “Extremely concerned. If this country allows him (GW Bush), we are the fools. We deserve everything we get or do not get from him. We are allowing him to get away with anything he wants to do. He flat out lied to us, killing our troops. He doesn’t face the fallen family. If this is what we reelect, we deserve everything we get.” If you could speak to Bush or members of Congress who support this war, what would you tell them? Ms. Niederer replied, “Trade places with the troops over there now. You go over there. You send your children, husbands, wives. Let them come back in a coffin. Let me know what you think. You aren’t worth being called president. You’re not even worth being called Mr.. Face me, talk to me the victim of your war. But you don’t have the guts to do that.”

Isn’t there one republican who believes that losing your son or daughter during war earns you a right to speak out in protest? GW Bush is obviously ashamed of our troops who are brought back to the United States in coffins. President Bush ordered all dead troops to be brought back home in the dead of night to prevent the media from recording the event and to prevent military honor guards to properly acknowledge the deceased soldiers. Bush’s order is also depriving the families of our fallen soldiers from being able to pay their respects to their loved ones immediately upon their return. Bush is terrified of the signal that 1058 flag-draped coffins would send to the American people if they were allowed to be brought back during the day. Bush is only concerned about his own political future. He couldn’t care less about our dead soldiers or their grieving families. Bush and the GOP undoubtedly used focus groups to tell them that allowing the televising of the return of flag-draped coffins would hurt their chances for reelection this November. It is a supreme act of cowardice when republicans have so much fear from even one grieving mother who lost her only son in Bush’s Iraq War. They sure do not want to face 1058 mothers of dead troops returning from Bush’s Iraq War. So they continue to hide the returning dead.

Bush and the GOP are so terrified of the truth, and the American people, that they only agreed to three debates with Senator John Kerry. And they only agreed to any debates if direct questions from Senator Kerry would NOT be allowed. All questions would have to come from moderators. And I am sure that those questions will be given to Bush and his handlers before the debates. What is Bush afraid of? What is the GOP afraid of? Why are they so terrified of John Kerry’s direct questions to Bush? It is obvious that they want to protect GW Bush from himself. Bush has a long record of making gaffes and mutilating the English language. Bush and the GOP are too cowardly to be a part of an open debate, with no restrictions or limits. The GOP has agreed to having one debate in the form of a Town Hall style. But there are thirty-two pages of limitations mandated by the GOP for that debate format. Thirty-two pages!!! One example of the restrictions on the debate is this debate agreement: “If any audience member poses a question or makes a statement that is in any material way different than the question that the audience member earlier submitted to the moderator for review, the moderator will cut off the questioner and advise the audience that such non-reviewed questions are not permitted”. Talk about being cowardly. Talk about not wanting to be responsive to the American people. Talk about not wanting to be accountable to the American people. Why should you fall for Bush’s attempt to avoid the citizens of our country? Speak out. Demand that Bush agree to open and unrestricted debates. If Bush rejects your demands then he will have proven himself to be a coward.

In another related incident which occurred on Thursday, August 26, 2004, Mr. Carlos Arredondo, 44, who lives in Hollywood, Florida, felt so much grief after learning his only son was killed in Iraq that he torched a military van that was parked outside of his house. Mr. Arredondo had just been informed by three Marines that his 20 year old son, Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo, was killed in Iraq. Mr. Arredondo suffered second degree burns over fifty percent of his body. Mr. Arredondo’s wife, Melida, said her husband “went crazy” when he learned that Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo, who was serving with the Marines in Iraq, had been killed fighting in Najaf. This father of the killed marine could face charges for arson, destruction of military property, and for public endangerment.

Karen Unruh-Wahrer is a Tucson, Arizona mother who recently lost her son in the Iraq War. Karen was a young 45 year old woman who just learned her son had been killed in Iraq. She was so devastated she cried uncontrollably for five days. On the fifth day, her overwhelming grief caused her to have a probable heart attack. Her son was only twenty-five years old when he was killed by insurgents in Iraq near Baghdad on September 25. He was a combat engineer who was only in Iraq less than a month when he was fatally shot during an attack on his unit.

Mrs.Unruh-Wahrer was totally consumed with the loss of her son. “Her grief was so intense…it seemed it could have harmed her, could have caused a heart attack. Her husband described it as a broken heart,” said Cheryl Hamilton, the manager of a respiratory care services facility at the University Medical Center, where Unruh-Wahrer worked as a respiratory therapist.

Five days after learning of her son’s death in Iraq, Karen saw her son’s body. That triggered such an extremely grief-stricken response she died from a broken heart just a few hours later. Her grief-stricken husband tried to perform CPR on his wife but couldn’t revive her. It was as if the pain from the loss of her son was so intense that she wanted to die. The Wahrer family is now experiencing a double tragedy, and they will be devastated for life.

Army Specialist Robert Unruh, will be buried on Friday, October 8. His mother’s body will follow her son’s in the procession to the cemetery, where she will be laid to rest next to her son.

In each of the three cases above, a parent acted out in grief after learning of their child’s death in Bush’s Iraq Corporate War. But their pleas fell on deaf ears from the entire republican party. Republicans are all pro-war and they couldn’t care less about our soldiers who are being mutilated or killed. When you question a republican about the death of a soldier they always reply with “They knew when they signed up that they could be killed. They knew. They knew.” No, they did NOT know. They signed up believing they would fight for our country. They signed up believing they would protect our country from all enemies, but Iraq never posed any threat to the United States. They signed up believing that they would fight to defend our freedoms, but Iraq never posed any threat to any of our freedoms. Our soldiers never believed that they would be sent to war to die for corrupt republican corporations, who all received multibillion dollar no-bid contracts from the Bush Regime. Lastly, they never believed that they would be sold out by their commander-in-chief to become mere cannon fodder for America’s wealthiest people.

No republican in government will ever speak to the devastated families mentioned earlier. President Bush or Vice President Cheney will never talk with the family of Army Specialist Robert Unruh. They will never talk with the family of Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo. And they will never talk with the family of Army 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin. No, they won’t talk to these families. They are too busy using the government to enrich their corrupt corporate buddies who are making billions of dollars off of the bodies of our dead soldiers.

Even though Halliburton has been caught three times defrauding the American taxpayer out of millions of dollars they are suffering no penalties. Under law, if a company is under indictment and investigation, money to their contract is suspended. But President Bush is doing nothing to enforce that law.

President Bush, and Halliburton’s ex-CEO, Dick Cheney, certainly would never speak out against Halliburton for stealing money from the taxpayers. After all, Dick Cheney is still receiving millions of dollars in retirement money from Halliburton. Cheney only worked for Halliburton for five years. And in that five years he was paid a whopping 55 million dollars. And now he is receiving millions a year in retirement. How many of you could work for a company a mere five years and get an obscene amount of money in retirement? How would you like to be a CEO of a company when you had zero experience or ability to be their CEO? The only experience that Dick Cheney had with oil was having his driver pull his limousine into a full-service pump and having the attendant fill up the car with gas. And Dick Cheney had zero experience as a CEO. But, Dick Cheney had something more than experience in the oil industry. He had government contacts, and boy did Dick ever cash in on them. He used his government contacts to funnel billions of dollars in contracts to the Halliburton corporation. He also was the CEO of Halliburton when the company used offshore companies to avoid paying taxes. Under Dick Cheney’s watch, offshore shell companies were formed to do business with Syria, Iran, and Iraq. All three of these countries were enemy nations to the United States. Dick Cheney committed treasonous acts by secretly doing business with rouge nations.

When will people wake up and begin to denounce the cowardly republican party, and the corrupt Bush Regime? They are bankrupting our country, they are killing thousands of innocent Iraqis and Afghans, they have killed 1058 of our troops (so far), they have mutilated more than 10,000 of our troops (so far), they are causing our country to be the most hated country on earth, and they are creating more terrorists by killing innocent Muslims, not reducing their numbers.

When will YOU speak out? When will YOU start to fulfill your responsibilities as a citizen of the United States and stand up to the corrupt forces which are eating away at the fabric which makes our country great? When will YOU start fulfilling your duties as an American?

Posted by: Larry S. Rolirad at October 13, 2004 01:49 PM

SIZE DOES MATTER
Kerry to Win Easily…
by Larry S. Rolirad

Polls, pundits and politics. Had enough? Well, folks, you can forget all of political rhetoric you have been hearing from both sides of the political spectrum. Toss it. Chunk it. It is no longer relevant.

What does matter is a one hundred year statistical record which fairly well confirms a win this November for Senator John Kerry.

In the last one hundred years in US history the tallest presidential candidates received more popular votes in 88% of the elections, and won 84% of the time. This year’s election pits presidential contender, Senator John F. Kerry at a whopping height of 6 foot 4 inches against President George W. Bush, who’s height is a ‘paltry’ 5 feet 11 inches. Since the shorter candidate for president lost 84% of the time since 1904, President Bush’s chances of winning in 2004 appear very slim.

The last time we had a president as tall as Kerry’s 6 foot 4 inches frame it was 140 years ago, and the president was Abraham Lincoln. If Kerry wins in November he will match our tallest president’s height.

Since 1904, only three times has the shorter candidate received more popular votes in the election. The first happened in the 1940 election where presidential challenger, Wendell L. Willkie at 6’ 2 1/2” lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt at 6’ 2”. The other two shorter candidates who managed to buck the odds and win the most popular votes were Richard M. Nixon at 5’ 11 1/2” and Jimmy E. Carter at 5’ 9 1/2”, in years 1972 and 1976; respectively.

There are several other statistics that spell doom for another Bush win in this year’s election. GW Bush is the first president to preside over a net loss of jobs during his watch since President Herbert Hoover, seventy-two years earlier. Under Hoover, the net loss of jobs was a whopping negative 9.0 percent. Under Bush, the loss of jobs was a negative 0.8 percent. No other presidents in the past hundred years has had a net loss of jobs. Only Presidents Hoover and Bush share that dubious “distinction”.

Like Herbert Hoover, President Bush is a republican incumbent president who facing a taller challenger for reelection. President Hoover at 5’ 11” lost to challenger Franklin D. Roosevelt at 6’ 2’. And President Bush is facing Senator John Kerry, a challenger who is a whopping 6’ 4”.

There are a lot of similarities between Bush and Hoover. Both men share the same height at 5 foot 11 inches. Both men were republicans. Both men were incumbents when they faced taller opponents. And Hoover had two sons (Herbert Clark Hoover and Allan Henry Hoover) while Bush had two daughters (Barbara and Jenna). There is a certain Yin and Yang about this. GW Bush is even a distant cousin to Herbert Hoover, but related nevertheless. Samuel Prescott Bush, George W. Bush’s great grandfather, was an Ohio manufacturer who was also a close advisor to President Herbert Hoover. And if President Bush is defeated, he will share the same distinction with President Hoover as both being one-term presidents.

Another curious connection between Presidents Hoover and Bush occurs if you add up all of the digits in the year republican President Hoover lost, or “1932”, the total is “six”, or 1+ 9+3 +2 =15, then add the digits in “15”, or 1+5=6. Now add up the digits in the current year in which Bush is running for office, or “2004”, you get the same common number, or 2+0+0+4=6.

The same number “6” is also common to both presidents in one other way. Herbert Clark Hoover contains 6 vowels, Herbert (2) Clark (1) Hoover (3), or 2+1+3=6; as does George Walker Bush, George (3) Walker (2) Bush (1), or 3+1=6.

Herbert Hoover was born in 1874 and GW Bush in 1946. If you add all of the digits in each birth year the total is 20 for each president, Herbert Hoover, 1+8+7+4=20, and GW Bush, 1+9+4+6=20.

Lastly, if Kerry wins he will match Lincoln’s height as the tallest presidents in our history. Both Lincoln and Kerry were 6 foot 4 inches. Abe Lincoln and Senator Kerry share another similarity. With a Kerry win he will match Lincoln’s age when he was elected in 1864. Lincoln was 59 in the 1864 election and Kerry will be 59 at the time of the 2004 election.

The statistics don’t lie. My money is on a Senator John Kerry win.

1904
Theodore Roosevelt (Rep) 5’10” TALLER WINS
Alton B. Parker (Dem) 5’ 9”

1908
William H. Taft (Rep) 6’0” TALLER WINS
William J. Bryan (Dem) 5’ 10”

1912
Woodrow Wilson (Dem) 5’ 11” TALLER WINS
Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) 5’ 10”

1916
Woodrow Wilson (Dem) 5’ 11” TALLER WINS
Charles E. Hughes (Rep) 5’ 10”

1920
Warren G. Harding (Rep) 6’ 0” TALLER WINS
James M. Cox (Dem) 5’ 10”

1924
Calvin Coolidge (Rep) 5’ 10” TALLER WINS
John W. Davis (Dem) 5’ 9”

1928
Herbert Hoover (Rep) 5’ 11” TALLER WINS
Alfred E. Smith (Dem) 5’ 10”

1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dem) 6’ 2” TALLER WINS
Herbert Hoover (Rep) 5’ 11”

1936
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dem) 6’ 2” TALLER WINS
Alfred M. Landon (Rep) 6’ 0”

1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dem) 6’ 2” SHORTER WINS
Wendell L Willkie (Rep) 6’ 2 1/2”

1944
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dem) 6’ 2” TALLER WINS
Thomas E. Dewey (Rep) 5’ 8”

1948
Harry S Truman (Dem) 5’ 9” TALLER WINS
Thomas E. Dewey (Rep) 5’ 8”

1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Rep) 5’ 10 1/2” TALLER WINS
Adlai Stevenson (Dem) 5’ 10”

1956
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Rep) 5’ 10 1/2” TALLER WINS
Adlai Stevenson (Dem) 5’ 10”

1960
John F. Kennedy (Dem) 6’ 0” TALLER WINS
Richard M. Nixon (Rep) 5’ 11 1/2”

1964
Lyndon B. Johnson (Dem) 6’ 1” TALLER WINS
Barry Goldwater (Rep) 6’ 0”

1968
Richard M. Nixon (Rep) 5’ 11 1/2” TALLER WINS
Hubert H. Humphrey (Dem) 5’ 11”
George C. Wallace (Ind) 5’ 10”

1972
George McGovern (Dem) 6’ 1”
Richard M. Nixon (Rep) 5’ 11 1/2” SHORTER WINS

1976
Gerald Ford (Rep) 6’ 0”
Jimmy E. Carter (Dem) 5’ 9 1/2” SHORTER WINS

1980
Ronald W. Reagan (Rep) 6’ 1” TALLER WINS
Jimmy E. Carter (Dem) 5’ 9 1/2”

1984
Ronald W. Reagan (Rep) 6’ 1” TALLER WINS
Walter Mondale (Dem) 5’ 11”

1988
George HW Bush (Rep) 6’ 1 1/2” TALLER WINS
Michael Dukakis (Dem) 5’ 8”

1992
Bill J. Clinton (Dem) 6’ 2 1/2” TALLER WINS
George HW Bush (Rep) 6’ 1 1/2”
Ross Perot (Ind) 5’ 7”

1996
Bill J. Clinton (Dem) 6’ 2 1/2” TALLER WINS
Bob Dole (Rep) 6’ 1”
Ross Perot (Ind) 5’ 7”

2000
Al Gore (Dem) 6’ 1” *Most Popular Votes/Lost
George W. Bush (Rep) 5’ 11” SHORTER WINS

2004
John F. Kerry (Dem) 6’ 4 ”
George W. Bush (Rep) 5’ 11”

*Gore lost in a controversial election where vote counting was stopped by the republican party, which relied on the republican-laden Supreme Court to appoint GW Bush.

Posted by: Larry S. Rolirad at October 13, 2004 02:07 PM