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August 30, 2006
Income and Wealth, U.S. Census report
Please help vote the Republicans out! Vote green, we cannot continue like this and constantly replace one lousy group of liars with another group of liars. I urge you to vote your conscience and vote Green!
Yesterday's U.S. Census report on second class citizens!
"" The 2005 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement shows the following results:
Income
Overview
* 2004 marked the second consecutive year in which real median household income showed no change.
Race and Hispanic Origin
* Real median household income did not change between 2003 and 2004 for non-Hispanic whites, blacks or Asians or for households with Hispanic householders.
* Black households had the lowest median income in 2004 ($30,134) among race groups. Asian households had the highest median income ($57,518). The median income for non-Hispanic white households was $48,977. Median income for Hispanic households was $34,241.
* Comparison of two-year moving averages (2002-2003 and 2003-2004) showed that the real median income for households with householders who reported American Indian and Alaska native as their race was statistically unchanged. The same was true for native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander households.
Regions
* Real median household income remained unchanged between 2003 and 2004 in three of the four census regions — Northeast ($47,994), West ($47,680) and South ($40,773). The exception was the Midwest, where income declined 2.8 percent, to $44,657. The difference in income between the Northeast and West was not statistically significant.
* The South continued to have the lowest median household income of all four regions. The Northeast and West had the highest incomes among regions.
Nativity
* Real median income remained unchanged for native as well as for foreign-born households between 2003 and 2004. Native and foreign-born households had a median income in 2004 of $45,319 and $39,421, respectively.
Earnings
* Real median earnings of men age 15 and older who worked full-time, year-round declined 2.3 percent between 2003 and 2004, to $40,798. Women with similar work experience saw their earnings decline by 1.0 percent, to $31,223. Reflecting the larger fall in the earnings of men, the ratio of female-to-male earnings for full-time, year-round workers was 77 cents on the dollar, up from 76 cents in 2003.
Poverty
Overview
* There were 37.0 million people in poverty (12.7 percent) in 2004, up from 35.9 million (12.5 percent) in 2003.
* There were 7.9 million families in poverty in 2004, up from 7.6 million in 2003. The poverty rate for families remained unchanged at 10.2 percent. The poverty rate and the number in poverty showed no change for the different type of families.
* As defined by the Office of Management and Budget and updated for inflation using the Consumer Price Index, the average poverty threshold for a family of four in 2004 was an income of $19,307; for a family of three, $15,067; for a family of two, $12,334; and for unrelated individuals, $9,645.
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August 29, 2006
The Green Difference in Black and White
If you are looking at this page, then open the link. It contains a chart that clearly illustrates the difference between the corporate representatives and the Green Party. You might me suprised. I especially hope the progressives will spend a moment.
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August 28, 2006
Re: Answer the Question about the decline of western civ.
August 28, 2006
The Decline of Western Civilization
I have made a few statements on this blog that are probably anti-Christian. I suppose the reason for this is that I am ignorant of others religion except what I have been told by other ignorant people, who were of course told by more ignorant people. If we clear this up right now, anyone who is likely to be offended by the following entry has been forwarned and can stop reading.
Racism, bigotry, and anti-semitism is clearly on the rise, and it holds values directly in line with fudamentalists' world view. I admit I feel threatened by this encroachment on my society. But Western culture is not so weak that it can be brought down by a single group of devout yet very misguided militant proselytizers. Whatever erosion of culture we experience in the West is almost entirely the West's own doing for failing to clean its own house.
Picture for an instant that you are a veryopen minded Muslim man living in, say Malaysia. You feel that your own country is too corrupt, poor, and populated for your liking. So, you resolve to become educated and move to Europe, or perhaps the United States, where you hear that people are freer, happier, and enjoying a higher standard of living.
You pack up your family and make the big move. When you arrive you discover a society where anyone can decide what is considered high art; where a person is not judged by the clothes he wears on a hot day without even attracting attention from local police. Science and reason are the cornerstones of a secular society. Commercialism isn't out of site - it's splashed across billboard signs and subway stations, where messages to buy and consume are broadcast at your children 30,000 times a day. Sex before marriage is between consenting adults. Basically, this new culture is everything your old culture was not.
You have two choices at this point. The first is to "do as the Romans" and adopt Western values for your own. This requires abandoning everything you were taught as a child and embracing the laws and constitution of the land.You must abandon the petty tribal rules practiced by closed religious extremist Not an easy choice, and I suspect many more would make it given the opportunity.
The second option is to retreat into your own core beliefs as a buffer against the world you suddenly find yourself in.Including the very basic right of practicing whatever religious beliefs you chose, so long as you are willing to grant others the same right. Perhaps you were once lax in your daily prayers, or sometimes stayed home on Fridays. Well no more! Now it's halal food only, a prayer rug in every room of the house, full religious garb for yourself and your entire family, etc.
Are you likely to become an actual citizen? Probably. Will you be free to exercise your rights, without fear of reprisal from the religious extremist who run your country? Yes, and you can join with others in peaceful demonstration of those right! Encouraging others by being extremely vocal about defending any perceived persecution for your faith, largely avoid mainstream culture as you stay within a small group of like-minded people, and become very active in your campaign against immorality - particularly where it could affect your children.
The effect this has on the wider culture is hard to gauge. However, there are sure to be some who, whether for their innate sense of right and wrong, or because they themselves were victimized, feel that the immorality of the society they live in is just too much to ignore. These will be strongly attracted to any small but vocal group of people who espouse an alternative view where right and wrong are actually defined in blunt terms.
If Islam is fluorishing in the West, it isn't because the Muslims are invading and forcing their religion on people at swordpoint. Unlike the United States where we are spreading freedom at the end of a cannon. It is because Western culture fails to call evil for what it is, corporate greed!. People mock President Bush for even invoking the word freedom, as if the rest of the world cannot even understand the concept.
If there is any good news to be found, it is that Christians aren't putting up with it. The mainline denominations that were once the backbone of the American Protestant Church - the Episcopalians, the Presbyterians (USA), and the Methodists,are slowly peaking out from under the sinful repression of feigned morality. Whereas the Southern Baptists and other active evangelical movements that actually make an effort to adhere to Biblical standards of morality are growing more repressive of christ's message hope, and grace.
All people, at some level, have a sense of what is right, good, and true - some simply choose to ignore it. Civilizations rise and fall with their corporate sense of love and charity. What we live in now is a passing phase, make no mistake. I truly believe that much of the presently-accepted ignorance and hatred will not be accepted for too much longer by a majority of our society. It was no fluke that George Bush was elected twice, despite being an incompetent and arrogant leader with a speech impediment.The corporate power in the united states controls the christian right so be wary when you enter our borders and political life.
The question I put to you is thus: will the backlash produce a society of men who listen to Isa' call for works of charity and grace, protecting the widow, feeding the poor and visiting the prisoners?
"Conservative Christian is an Oxymoron"
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August 25, 2006
Hey Zack !
Are you going to sell out the 3rd District like Frist? Maybe Monsanto already owns you? maybe 24,000 dollars worth! or maybe the 527 money is what you really want?
Senate Poised to Pass Bill Taking Away Your Right to Know What's in Your Food
Tell your Senator to vote "No" on the "National Uniformity for Food Act"
Label ReadingThe House of Representatives has passed a controversial "national food uniformity" labeling law that would take away local government and states' power to require food safety food labels such as those required in California and other states on foods or beverages that are likely to cause cancer, birth defects, allergic reactions, or mercury poisoning. This bill would also prevent citizens in local municipalities and states from passing laws requiring that genetically engineered foods and ingredients such as Monsanto's recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) be labeled.
The Senate will soon be voting on this bill which would gut state food safety and labeling laws. The "National Uniformity for Food Act," lowers the bar on food safety by overturning state food safety laws that are not "identical" to federal law. Hundreds of state laws and regulations are at risk, including those governing the safety of milk, fish, and shellfish. The bill is being pushed by large supermarket chains and food manufacturers, spearheaded by the powerful Grocery Manufacturers of America.
More about what we are eating
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August 22, 2006
A Voice from the Christian Left
Talk about hitting the nail on the head! Marilyn Chandler McIntyre is the big hammer. She writes with the grace and honesty all the demonic righties cannot.
The article is in Common Dreams
"christian conservative is an oxymoron."
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August 09, 2006
Muslims Reflect on Isa(jesus)
The muslim world gets it. What do christians lack?
Blood thirsty killers are not christians or muslims or jews.
"Suras 4.157, 3.55, 5.117 abrogated for Truth and Sakina - Christus Rex 31-7-97:
In the Qur'an, Muhammad stated that Isa did not die a death of agony on the cross but was taken straight up to heaven:
4.157 "And their saying: Surely we have killed the Messiah, Isa son of Marium, the apostle of Allah; and they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but it appeared to them so (like Isa) and most surely those who differ therein are only in a doubt about it; they have no knowledge respecting it, but only follow a conjecture, and they killed him not for sure. Nay! Allah took him up to Himself; and Allah is Mighty, Wise."
In 3:55, the phrase "I am gathering thee", and in 5:117, the phrase "when Thou tookest me" are forms of the same Arabic word "tawaffa". Both these verses refer to the return of Jesus to God at the end of his life, and the most straightforward interpretation of them is to suppose that they refer to a natural death of Jesus at the end of his earthly life, but it can also mean that he was taken to heaven without undergoing the experience of physical death.
Said Iyad Sarraj, a Palestinian psychiatrist who has studied suicide killers "the basic drive for self-destruction is the same ... They all believe that they are not going to die, that they are moving from one phase of life to a higher one." In paradise, they are told, the bomber wilI be crowned with glory and achieve the ultimate - he will see the face of Allah.
This idea has led to a long line of Islamic 'martyrs', particularly young bachelors, who commit murder-suicide in acts of violence believing they will attain the highest sainthood in heaven. It is an idea which Muhammad has spun on top of the blood of the Redeemer, and it is an idea that must stop once Jesus comes down from the Cross. It is in this spirit only - for the mistaken journey made by such martyrs - that this shrine is erected.
It is not so much the question of whether the Arab 'docetic' perspective in which Jesus was received directly without pain to God's grace is more or less correct than the orthodox New Testament account of pain and suffering, but the devastating heritage of using the Crucifixion as a key to establish the doctrine of blessing violent martyrdom, particularly against the Jews whom Christianity has often falsely laid the blame for Jesus' death. It is clear that suicide bombers often do feel no pain yet cause untold damage and suffering.
The lie is this:
Killing and maiming does not bring one closer to the face of Allah, personal pain or no pain.
One should also ask whether martyrdom in an act of bloody revenge is in any way compatibile with any true notion of God. Christian martyrs did not die in a violent act of killing. This question runs to the core of what the 'one God' can possibly mean if such a god can approve the genocide of followers of the same 'one God' under a different cultural guise. One should consider seriously the fact that in the souk of Medina 700 Jewish men lost their lives in an act of unjustifiable genocide, because, in the end Muhammad, made his journey to Mecca peacefully without himself suffering threat of bloodshed. This is the inerasable testament of history. In this century this would be a war crime of mass-murder of international reprobation and justice.
It is our duty to bring Jesus down from the Cross and in so doing end this river of blood that has run red through history from the Crucifixion to the jihad.
One also has to acknowledge that social justice is essential to this process. As long as the Palestinian people remain a repressed people, the struggle for freedom will go on. Only through genuine reconciliation can real peace come. There are extremists on both sides. Continuing lack of justice carries opinion to the brink of extremisim and war."
martyrs
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August 07, 2006
Mosque in Memphis
In recent years American Muslims have witnessed an increase in the incidence of attacks on mosques by arsonists and vandals. On June 20th, Masjid Al-Noor in Memphis, Tenn., became the latest target, this time at the hands of an enraged neighbor. The suspect, who tried to enter the locked mosque, was said to have opened fire on the mosque with his shotgun, filling the door of the mosque with bullet holes. One Muslim man was wounded after being shot in the pelvis area by the suspect, who returned home to reload his shotgun. He was eventually arrested and charged by Memphis police. To the shock of the American Muslim community, he was released the following day on $25,000 bond.
So its terror if muslims attack jews, but its what? Bigotry if "christians" attack mosques?!
"There is no good war only bad and worse ones."
Who would Jesus Bomb?
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Nobody wins
Everyone loses! Some more than other.
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Don't Blow, GO !
You can't wash the blood off your hands
Hart Viges Article
"My name is Hart Viges. September 11 happened. Next day I was in the recruiting office. I thought that was the way I could make a difference in the world for the better.
So I went to infantry school and jump school and I arrived with my unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. I was deployed to Kuwait in February 2003. We drove into Iraq because Third Infantry Division was ahead of schedule, and so I didn't need to jump into Baghdad airport."
LewRockwell
"I knew no one and the guy I was helping was screaming, as were many others. When I finally got out of there, I had a lot of that guy's blood all over me and there was no place to wash up. I remember washing my hands with canteen water and then rubbing them in the dirt, but I couldn't get all the blood off.
By the time I got to Da Nang all the blood had dried hours before and my hands itched. I finally got to take a shower and washed and washed. Back then there wasn't today's fear of blood as there was no such thing as HIV, but someone else's blood still felt weird. Somehow that guy's blood has stayed with me all of these years.
Sometimes, I find myself scratching at my hands and I am almost afraid to look at them as I can still feel that warm blood as it seeped through the compress I was holding. If you want to stop the bleeding, you need to put some real pressure on a wound, and if you let up for even a second, that blood starts flowing again and it leaves a lasting impression on your mind.
So the other day I was thinking about that blood again and then I thought about how many Americans in Iraq will be stuck with that blood that you can't wash away."
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See Ya !#%!!
You can be dumb as a rock and still be president. So long as you can hire and retain people(?) that can act on your behalf.
White House & Cabinet Appointments
Colin Powell (Secretary of State)
Richard Haass (State Department director for policy planning under Powell)
Richard Clarke (State Department chief adviser on terrorism)
Ann Veneman (Agriculture Secretary)
Rod Paige (Education Secretary)
Don Evans (Commerce Secretary)
Theodore Olson (Solicitor General)
John Ashcroft (Attorney General)
Larry Thompson (Deputy Attorney General)
Elaine Kaplan (U.S. Office of Special Counsel)
Timothy Hannapel (U.S. Office of Special Counsel)
Paul O'Neill (Secretary of the Treasury)
Peter Fisher (U.S. Treasury undersecretary)
Rosario Marin (U.S Treasurer)
Larry Lindsey (A "top economic adviser" to Bush)
Ari Fleisher (White House press secretary)
Scott McLellan (White House press secretary)
John W. Carlin (Archivist of the United States)
Lewis Libby (Vice President's Chief of Staff - indicted over Plame)
Karl Rove ("Resigned" as White House Chief of Staff over Plame scandal)
Claude Allen (Bush's domestic-policy adviser - arrested for shoplifting)
Shadow Government
Paul Wolfowitz (U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, now World Bank President)
Douglas Feith (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy)
Richard Perle (Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee)
Dov Zakheim (Comptroller of the Pentagon)
Military
Tom White (former Enron criminal, appointed US Army Secretary)
Gen. Anthony Zinni (United States Central Command in the Middle East)
Gen. Eric Shinseki (Army's chief of staff)
Col. Charles Pritchard (State Department's senior expert on North Korea)
Col. Douglas Macgregor (Department of Defense)
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (Department of Defense)
Major John Carr (Air Force prosecutor, resigned over Guantanamo)
Major Robert Preston (Air Force prosecutor, resigned over Guantanamo)
Captain Carrie Wolf (Air Force prosecutor, resigned over Guantanamo)
Mike Parker (Director, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Bunnatine Greenhouse (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, awarded Iraq contracts)
Victoria Clarke (Pentagon spokeswoman)
NSC, CIA, FBI, & Homeland Security
George Tenet (CIA Director)
Porter Goss (CIA Director & Tenet's replacement)
Kyle Foggo (CIA #3. Goss' flunky - probable scandal with these two)
Rand Beers (National Security Council senior director for combating terrorism)
Ben Miller (CIA staffer and Iraq expert with the National Security Council)
Flynt Leverett (Senior Director for Middle East Affairs on NSC)
Hillary Mann (Director for Iran and Persian Gulf Affairs NSC)
Tom Ridge (Director, Department of Homeland Security)
Paul Redmond (Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis, DHS)
Larry Mefford (FBI Director, Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence)
Bradley A. Buckles (director of the ATF)
David Kay (head of the U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq)
James Pavitt (Deputy Director of Operations, CIA)
Environmental Protection & Public Lands
Christie Whitman (Environmental Protection Agency administrator)
Linda Fisher (Deputy Administrator, EPA)
J. P. Suarez (Director, environmental law enforcement, EPA)
Bruce Buckheit (Director, EPA's Air Enforcement Division)
Rich Biondi (Assoc. Director, EPA's Air Enforcement Division)
Sylvia K. Lowrance (EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance)
Eric Schaeffer (Director of the Office of Regulatory Enforcement)
Tony Oppegard (Environmental Protection Agency scientist)
Jack Spadaro (Environmental Protection Agency scientist)
Bruce Boler (Environmental Protection Agency scientist)
Teresa Chambers (U.S. Park Police Chief)
Martha Hahn (Bureau of Land Management)
Andrew Eller (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
James Zahn (US Department of Agriculture microbiologist)
Mike Dombeck (Chief of the Forest Service)
James Furnish (Deputy Chief of the U.S. Forest Service)
Robert Card (undersecretary US Dept of Energy)
Beverly Cook (Assistant secretary US Dept of Energy)
Jessie Roberson (Assistant Energy Secretary)
Social Services
Thomas E. Novotny (Department of Health and Human Services)
Thomas Scully (Director of Medicare)
John Korsmo (Chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board)
Joanne Wilson (Department of Education Rehabilitation Services Administration)
Susan Wood (Food and Drug Administration's Assistant Commissioner)
Frank Davidoff (FDA's Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee)
Ambassadors & Foreign Service
Robert W. Jordan (U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia)
Otto Reich (White House special envoy for Latin America)
James Baker (UN's special envoy to Western Sahara)
Ann Wright (Career diplomat in the Foreign Service and Army Colonel)
John Brady Kiesling (Political Counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Greece)
John Brown (veteran of the Foreign Service)
And this is a very small part of the list. So who else needs to be added to the list?
Big shout out to othernews.org thanks!
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August 04, 2006
Another Eye ?
War doesn't happen in the abstract...
After 10 days of Isreali bombing.
Who would jesus bomb?
These kids in Isreal maybe...
What about this child in Lebanon?
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August 03, 2006
An Eye for an Eye,or blind"christians" ?
makes everyone blind..Where have we heard this before....? WE could just substitute the presidents and people... and you might not know who said what!
The republicraps are the other side of the same coin.
Freedom at the end of a gun is not freedom.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.” “The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world,” he added. He also denounced moves by some Arab states to recognize Israel or normalize relations with it.
Although the Iranian nation has shouted slogans against the Zionist regime since 1979, these slogans have never meant a physical confrontation with the Israel but rather referred to the need to wipe out all Zionist ways of thought, which never recognize anyone else’s right to live freely … Over the past two years, the Zionist regime has explicitly threatened the Islamic Republic because it possesses nuclear installations meant for peaceful purposes … Indeed, it is odd that the world has remained silent about Israel’s refusal to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (N.P.T.) but opposes Iran’s civilian nuclear activities. Unfortunately, instead of changing their stances toward regional incidents and adopting a fair attitude toward developments in the Middle East, the United States and other Western countries are actually trying to raise a brouhaha over a single statement by an Iranian official so they can divert attention from the ever-increasing crimes the Zionists are committing against the innocent Palestinians.
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