The problem with Moore's approach isn't what he presents, or even what he believes. Although, I think his approach of just piling on whatever he thinks smokes like a gun is lazy and disservices any focused attack. My real problem with the approach is what he leaves out. It's obvious even to me--a guy who gets his political news from "Peanuts" reprints (and only the color ones on Sunday)--that he ignores all facts and evidence that might counter the argument he's determined to make. The result is propaganda for people who already agree with him, but won't change the minds of anyone whose mind you'd want to change. The people who disagree will continue to disagree, because Moore does nothing to counter their arguments. The movie would be a shitload more effective if it were focused on disproving conservative myths instead of creating a whole slew of liberal ones via implication.

That's what I'd like to see. A movie that doesn't pander to the NPR totebag crowds shuttling edamame home to their mud-compact homes in V-4 Saabs. One that has an answer every time the SUV-driving, fried-children-eating, baby-seal-beating Republicans say "But what about..." In stead we get a movie meant to make liberals feel good about themselves.

Now if I hear one more jackass say "Everyone should see this movie," I'm gonna kick him (or her) in the nuts. What they mean is, "Everyone should see this because I'm right and you should be forced to agree with me. Oh yeah, and I'm an asshole." Sure, everyone should see this, and everyone should read Bill O'Reilly's books too. You're a pompous ass if you think everyone should see it just because its what you believe. Only people who want to should see it. And they should see it as part of a much larger curriculum. You should know enough to make up your own mind, not let Michael Moore do it for you.

--The Filthy Critic

1) Last Comic Standing -- I couldn't have been more pleased with how the episode ended. Thank God Ant is gone.

2) Yay! The Amazing Race is back! THE best reality show on TV. The race was thrilling as always, they really know how to manage the tension and excitement.

Favorite team so far: Jim/Marsha the military father/daughter team. Tough pretty much sums up Jim; his leg is gashed open - he doesn't care, he'd rather get on the plane than get the stitches he needs. He doesn't complain, he doesn't let it slow him down.

Least favorite team so far: Charla/Mirna the "Cousins" team (Charla's a little person). They seem to have this assumption that everybody should be giving them a hand. They're indignant that nobody is helping them yet they say they won't help anybody else unless the other team helps them first. Charla seems rock steady, but in the meat carrying task Mirna showed herself to be whiney enough for 2 regular sized people.

American and Iraqi joint patrols, along with U.S. Special Operations (search) teams, captured two men with explosives in Baghdad on Monday who identified themselves as Iranian (search) intelligence officers, FOX News has confirmed. ... The Defense officials also confirmed to FOX News that in recent days there has been significant success in tracking down "known bad guys" based on information from local citizens. While those captured aren't from the list of former regime members or from terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's (search) network, they are "active" bombers and organizers of recent violence.

The arrest of the two Iranians suspected of attempting to carry out a vehicle bombing has focused new attention on how Tehran is trying to protect its interests in the country it fought for eight years in a devastating war.

So far, Iran is believed to have used money, not guns, to influence Iraq — particularly by spreading wealth among Shiite political factions — while avoiding a direct confrontation with its longtime rival the United States.

--FOXNews.com

The new ad from President Bush's campaign featuring Senator John McCain.

Sen. McCain:

It’s a big thing this war.

It’s a fight between right and wrong, good and evil.

And should our enemies acquire for their arsenal the chemical, biological and nuclear weapons they seek, this war will become an even bigger thing.

It will become a fight for our survival.

America is under attack by depraved enemies who oppose our every interest and hate every value we hold dear.

It is the great test of our generation and he has led with great moral clarity and firm resolve. He has not wavered, he has not flinched from the hard choices, he was determined and remains determined to make this world a better, safer, freer place. He deserves not only our support but our admiration. That’s why I am honored to introduce to you the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

--GeorgeWBush.com

‘In the Senate four years – and that is the full extent of public life – no international experience, no military experience, you can imagine what the advertising is going to be next year,’ Mr. Kerry said. With a grin, he added: ‘When I came back from Vietnam in 1969 I don’t know if John Edwards was out of diapers then.'

--GOP.com

Labeled "EXCLUSIVE" at the NY Post's site: "Kerry Picks Gephardt"

MSNBC

Boy, it's a good thing they were so secretive about it, you wouldn't want the media to announce it before Kerry gets to announce it in a little over an hour.

Now we see how Kerry handles having an underling right out in the spotlight who's infinitely more personable than him.

Recieved this in the mail, it has some LOL moments. Neither fair nor balanced, but deal with it.

It's quite long so click to check it out.

Democratic Convention Update News Service

Newsletters 4,5,6

demconventionupdatenews@yahoo.com,

or

yahoogroup, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/demconventionupdatenews/

Due to the fact that the Secret Service has decided to shut down the "Information Superhighway" (AKA internet) because it runs too close to the Fleet Center and is therefore a security risk to John Kerry, we at Democratic Convention Update News Service have decided to combine newsletter numbers 4, 5, and 6. We recognize the fact that some of the people who will receive this newsletter are Liberal Democrats and /or members of the National Education Association and are therefore barely literate. For their benefit, we typed the newsletter slowly to match their reading speed and are using small words wherever possible.

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Security Notices and Transportation Notices

The Security Notices section of this newsletter, as well as color coded security levels, are brought to you as always by "Osama Bin Laden and Associates, PC" If you are every randomly stripped searched in public, have your flight delayed, or are maimed on a bus by a homicide bomber because you are an American Infidel living in an unholy country, you can thank us at OBL and Associates.

The Transportation Notices section has been brought to you by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). At OPEC, we remind you that with or without oil, many of our people are nothing more than a bunch of illiterate, homicidal maniacs brainwashed by blind eunuch so-called clerics who are strapping explosives to our children and sending them into your country to kill you as you sleep. Pleasant dreams, infidel, and keep buying those SUV's.

The Coast Guard announced that to protect the DNC, Boston Harbor will be closed. They further announced that part of the security plan calls for a 50 mile radius in and around Boston Harbor to be MINED, with the mines in various sized ranging from ultra-small to super-ultra large. While no timetable for the mining has been announced, the disappearance of a Hingham to Boston commuter boat, and the fact that a customer at Legal Sea Foods had his head explode into little pieces when he bit into a shrimp, has led some to speculate that the mining may already have begun.

Due to the DNC Security requirements, the Queen Mary 2 will be rescheduling its previously planned port visit to Boston. The visit is also contingent upon Ted Kennedy moving his many cars that are parked throughout Nantucket Sound.

The Department of Defense announced today that at the request of John "liveshot" Kerry, troops from the United Nations will be manning security checkpoints in a thousand mile radius around the convention. Troops from France, Morocco, Belgium, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, Libya, North Korea and Lebanon, along with a group of observers from the Palestinian Authority will be taking part in this effort. The DOD stated that this is a good opportunity to give troops from these countries an opportunity to learn how to use toilets and take showers, and practice such important skills such as kidnapping, extortion, sexual favors in exchange for safe passage through a roadblock, and how to recognize if a BMW is being driven by a gimme girl or driven by a capitalist pig who can afford to pay ransom. The Mexican Army was invited to participate, but they stated that their army was too busy shooting at American Border Patrol Agents 10 miles inside Texas and New Mexico as they escorted drug dealers into America. John Kerry stated that he managed to organize this coalition of countries that are together for a common purpose, and this is proof that his coalition building skills should get him elected president. Kerry, on the advice of his political advisor, Michael Dukakis, has promised reporters a unique photo opportunity when he rides on top of a North Korean tank from his residence to the Fleet Center.

The United National released a statement saying they welcomed the chance to bring their peace loving troops into the United States, and that money raised from kidnapping, extortion, and of course, tolls, will be used to increase the funds available for dictators and tribal leaders to obtain prostitutes, with additional funds set aside for the new chief of UN Weapons Inspections, Scott Ritter, to locate a new harem of young teenage boys.

The Sierra Club, in cooperation with other environmental groups, has announced that they plan to take advantage of Boston's new found freedom from auto traffic to transplant Piping Plovers onto every street in Boston at 50 yard intervals, with special attention to the intersections.

Every road is going to be closed by either roadblocks or Piping Plovers, and all other modes of transportation are going to be closed, so why bother leaving your house. AAA of Massachusetts said that if you feel like a fish out of water by just staying at home because your three jobs are barricaded shut, you can just sit outside in your car with the engine running for two hours at a time looking at the cars parked next to you to simulate a trip on the expressway. If your commute takes you onto the Mass Pike, just toss money into a sewer. Ladies, You can put on your makeup in a parked car, and yes stockbrokers, you can also read the financial section in a parked car. Gas Stations will be open and charging the usual $10.00 per gallon during the summer driving season.

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Education Report:

The Education Report of this Newsletter is sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA) At the NEA, we have been indoctrinating your children with the words and wisdom of Karl Marx and Joseph Stalin, and cleansing them of any belief in God or of the American Dream. We love our union negotiated invulnerability to your efforts to protect America from our ultra-left wing policies, and we are proud to endorse John Kerry in his effort to unite America under the leadership of dictators, tribal leaders and un-elected despots that is the United Nations.

The Practical Exams for UMASS Amherst Course, Rioting 101, and Looting 202 will be held on Causeway Street at Merrimack Street. Be certain to register with your instructor (wearing the blue ski masks), and be certain to dump your student ID into one of the burning trashcans prior to donning your mask. Graduates of these programs can go onto a roster for invitations to other planned spontaneous riots throughout the civilized world. A special award will be given to the student who throws the tear gas canisters the farthest.

The Practical Exams for Northeastern University Course Rioting 101, and Boston University Course Mayhem 101 have been canceled due to the fact that they were held after the Patriots Superbowl victory. Most students failed the practical because they allowed themselves to be videotaped without their masks.

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Legal Report

The Legal Report section is brought to you by the ACLU. At the ACLU, the only thing missing from our name is "anti-", as in "anti-american", "anti-religion", etc.

After a first of its kind change in venue from the Federal First Circuit Court of Appeals, the Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based in California issued a ruling in the case of ACLU V. MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE, ET AL. This case affects all law enforcement agencies except for Federal Law Enforcement that are working at the convention. In a PER CURIAM ruling, the court ruled that all police working at the convention may not carry guns as this may cause post-traumatic stress disorder in any illegal aliens that may be present. Also, the police working traffic or crowd control may not use hand signals as this is considered to be culturally insensitive to people from some countries. The court ruled that the police must shout "Simon says", and then use the words "red light or green light" in order to get cars to move, or "please kind sirs and madams, cross the street in an orderly and safe fashion while looking in both directions". These orders must be given in Cambodian, Creole, Vietnamese, Russian, Ebonics, Spanish, Mandarin, French and Arabic before the barely understood English is actually used. Court appointed monitors from the Sierra Club will be present to ensure that the shouts from the police do not interfere with the Piping Plovers. Reporters attempted to interview the justices, but they were all in a San Francisco medical marijuana clinic for treatment of their various ailments and were unavailable for comment.

The Bulger family announced that a special fund has been established by the South Boston Winter Hill Gang Business Club for businesses that may be vandalized during the convention but cannot get insurance. This fund is available to all businesses throughout the city except for those that already have "special protection." Rates for the loans are 30% compounded weekly. A special security force has also been expanded, and will visit you on a weekly basis to ensure your continued safety and prosperity. You can get details at almost every business in Southie that has intact windows and non-vandalized cars parked in front.

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ALERT!! A DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION UPDATE NEWS SERVICE EXCLUSIVE!!!!

Excerpts from John "liveshot" Kerry's acceptance speech have been leaked exclusively to us here at DNC Update News Service. Here is part of the speech:

"I am proud to have you nominate me on the last night of the Democratic Convention here in Boston for the Democratic ticket for president. I am extremely proud...... (short pause for dramatic effect and looks at his watch for proper timing) ... OH NO!! Did the electrical power just go out in a spontaneous and completely unplanned manner!?! You know, with no lights and the TV and radio media outlets unable to properly record my acceptance, I guess we should defer this monumental moment for about 5 weeks from now, where I fortunately reserved a large sports arena in the key battleground state of Ohio. There, on a stage with excellent lighting to showcase my perfect hair and surgically enhanced facial features, I can formally announce my acceptance and save federal campaign funds that can be better used to showcase my ultra-liberal screw America policies on TV.

To the people that live within a thousand mile radius of Boston, I apologize for Mayor Menino's lack of planning that has caused this convention to become a circus due to this power failure and which had already greatly inconvenienced you and left you with a city full of Piping Plovers and no hope of auto traffic for the next year.

Well, in the dim light provided by police and firefighters that are preparing to escort you, my faithful delegates, to the safety of your Hotel or various corporate sponsored parties, let me assure you that in five weeks my formal acceptance of this nomination will not be interfered with by a friend and member of the AFL-CIO International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers accidentally closing off a circuit breaker, and our great march to Washington will begin and our federal funds will match that of George Bush."

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Media, Politics, and Entertainment Report

The Media, Politics, and Entertainment Report Sections are brought to you by the Guild of Chinese Government Censors. The Guild of Chinese Government Censors has been changing, editing and outright removing passages critical of Red China since 1949, and is a proud sponsor of the Democratic National Convention and a major donor. Find out more by going to Freespeechisbannedinredchina.org

A concert will be held with many of Hollywood's stars making appearances. The highlight will be a sing along featuring “God-Damn the USA”, a new song using the music from Lee Greenwood's song "God-bless the USA” with new lyrics provided by the Dixie Chicks and sung by Barbra Streisand. An alternative “Damn the USA” will be available for Atheists, as well as “Allah Damn the USA” sung by the Saudi Arabian Embassy Glee Club. The sing along guide, available for $20.00 at the door or $18.50 in advance, also includes a full-size pinup of Nancy Pelosi wearing a tear away bikini.

Judges from Anti-American Idol will be present to judge who has the best raving lunatic speech outside of the Fleet Center. After 8 PM, they will be inside to judge who has the best raving lunatic speech.

Bill Clinton has agreed to be a judge for "Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Government Girls Gone Wild’s It’s almost a bikini bikini content” to be held at the State House Hall of Flags. Female State Employees not related to Speaker Tom Finneran are encouraged to attend, regardless of the job that was arranged for you by your relatives in the legislature. All female employees are reminded that the producers of Government Girls Gone Wild will be filming when the police water cannons open up on the protesters, so the photos of you in wet transparent clothes looting, burning cars, or just enjoying the mayhem can earn you extra cash (see newsletter 3 for more details).

The Russian newspaper Pravda, famous for its reporting during the soviet era, and Radio Moscow, are taking advantage of the Democratic convention to hold a reunion the day before the convention begins at the new Massachusetts Convention Center. All former interns and graduate students that worked for Pravda, Radio Moscow, TASS or any of the other soviet bloc media outlets are invited to attend. Because of this reunion, the BBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and NBC will not be broadcasting any news, and the New York Times, Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times will not publish any editions, as all of the on-air talent, writers, producers, reporters, and editorial staff will ALL be in attendance. As a matter of fact, all programs on PBS will be canceled that day. Phil Donahue promised to wear a suit and not a skirt when he attends.

An internet poll has revealed that only one out of five NASCAR fans watch races because they expect to see a spectacular crash. However, the same poll shows that nine out of ten NASCAR fans will tune into the Presidential Debates between Bush and Kerry in the expectation of seeing Kerry do a spectacular flip-flop and then crash and burn.

“Gimme Girls Gone Wild”, will be holding a wet t-shirt contest and a contest with prizes in the following categories: best decorated car costing over $30,000, largest high definition TV in a section 8 apartment, most number of illegitimate children, most creative application for welfare and food stamps, largest diamond necklace, most designer clothes, most number of arrests for any offense or series of offenses without a conviction, and best high pitched shrill yell of “give us more welfare money now”. As an extra special treat, winners of the Days of Our Lives and General Hospital trivia contests get 20 gallons of Ben and Jerry's ice cream. After the contest, participants can drive their Lexus, Mercedes, BMW’s and Humvees in a police escorted parade to the Welfare office where special hours have been arranged so they can pick up their checks. Ben and Jerry will be present to give out more ice cream. As always, clothing is optional for those who wish to find potential fathers for more welfare babies.

Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner and the Nation of Islam will be holding a discussion on how to get the liberal stooges in the media to publish pornographic photos with captions that blame America for the world’s troubles. Autographed copies of Turner’s book on how to manipulate the media, and the illiterate pinheads that live in your district, and a bonus guide to pornography will be on sale for $29.95. A special full size centerfold of Miss Iraq 2002 is also included.

The O.J. Simpson book, “How to Behead your wife, a waiter, or an infidel” is being offered by the Boston Chapter of Islamic Jihad. Price is $24.95 for an autographed copy.

The Boston Chapter of Hamas, in cooperation with the Boston Chapter of the Arab Taxi Drivers Association, are offering “The Gullible Idiots Guide to Obtaining 71 Virgins”. For $19.95, the book includes a bonus video on how to cut and sew a vest to properly fit plastic explosives in order to avoid painful chafing, and how to wire a Crown Victoria Taxi with as much dynamite as possible. A special offering of a map of American Nuclear Power Plants, Chemical Factories, Bus and subway routes, and homes of American Leaders will be given out to the first 100 buyers of the book. Available from taxi drivers throughout Boston

Move-On.Org Girl's Gone Wild is sponsoring a Nancy Pelosi look and Sound Alike wet T-shirt contest, during which contestants scream barely coherent anti-American statements and then strip to the tune of the French National Anthem. California grown "medical" marijuana will be given out to contestants by Woody Harrelson of "Cheers" Fame, followed by Harrelson beating the crap out of a bound and gagged photographer.

Danny Glover is teaming up with Sean Penn in an as-yet-unnamed movie about a pair of left wing cops that tenderly care for the disadvantaged illegal aliens in their precinct by beating the crap out of greedy republicans until they donate hot-tubs for every apartment in the local public housing complexes No word yet on the complete plot, but Penn told US Magazine that this movie was inspired by his visit to Iraq where the people all had access to hot-tubs before the US Air Force bombed the helpless civilians in them, and Glover told Entertainment Tonight that after his visit to Cuba, he was convinced that the exploited minorities in the US should live more like Cubans. The film will be shot in Boston during the DNC too take advantage of both the abandoned streets and the fact that the Teamsters will be looting with everybody else and therefore unavailable to interfere with filming.

By popular demand, the Hilary Rodham Clinton look and sound alike contest has been moved to the Boston Police Rifle Range. Word from the knowing is that Hilary herself is going to attend to see if she still can be her annoying self.

In order to show solidarity with the oppressed people from overseas who are coming into Boston by flying in first class on Air France, Move-on.org reminds you not to wear deodorant, brush your teeth, use breath mints, or bathe for a couple of weeks prior to the convention. You are further reminded not to wear designer ski masks or expensive leather gloves from large multi-national stores. In order to prevent allergic reactions, use only non-latex gloves when you are looting department stores or raiding the center of multinational capitalist pig's lives, McDonalds.

Jane Fonda has announced plans to travel from the Fleet Center to Battleship Cove in Fall River to pay tribute to Vietnamese War Veterans as part of her support for John Kerry. After laying a wreath in honor of Ho Chi Minh, Fonda will sit upon one of the Battleships 40MM antiaircraft gun batteries for a photo op, and then lay inside one of the 16 inch gun barrels for a special photo op. A raffle is being held which will benefit the Disabled American Veterans to see who will get to fire the 16 inch guns once Hanoi Jane climbs inside. Tickets are $25.00 and already 60,000 have been sold.

Michael Moore will be in Boston during the convention, and is looking for historical reference materials and veterans to interview for his upcoming new documentary, "How the French Single Handedly Won the Second World War Without Help From the Cowardly, Gun Crazy Americans and the Lazy British". Moore's other documentary, "North Korea, Breadbasket of Asia and a Model of Utopian Living", took first place at the Pyongyang Film Festival last year and is due out on video on July 27th. DVD's with unseen historical footage of farms overloaded with produce and a trial and execution and disembowelment of a dissident are also included.

In a break from his usual anti-firearm ravings, Michael Moore is offering French Army rifles with his autograph clearly on the stock. Saying that these rifles are harmless because they were never fired and only dropped once, Moore says this is the start of numerous business deals with French companies. Moore is lending his name to a designer series of nuclear centrifuges, biological warfare equipment, and a line of tanks with three gears set for reverse and one for forward. Moore's name also appears on a new book, "How to Sell Oil for Weapons Instead of Food with the Full Knowledge and Cooperation of the UN Secretary General". Moore's EBAY store has been doing a brisk business except for the tanks, which haven't sold outside of France.

Michael Moore also wants to show that the French aren't a nation of cowards, but are victims of an American smear campaign. Moore says he obtained documents that show that the German Panzer Divisions bombarded the French troops with jugs of decaffeinated coffee and heavy French pastry. After a lull in which the French troops hungrily ate the food, the German troops all sang "Frere Jacques" in a soft melodious voice that caused the troops to fall asleep and be captured. These documents were kept secret by NATO officials because they feared that the enemies of France and NATO could use these tactics again wherever French troops appeared, like Vietnam, Africa... These documents do not explain away the French's reputation for a being a bunch of rude, smelly, whiney and ungrateful bastards...

Nominations for the Berlitz School of Double Talk "Award for Excellent Doubletalk" are open until the end of June, with the award to be presented by the Chairman of the Berlitz School of Double Talk, John F. Kerry. While no official news has been released, top candidates include Nancy Pelosi, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Mike Wallace, and the combined staffs of the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

The National Association For the Advancement of Insane People is preparing to endorse John Kerry, saying that his policies are so crazy they might actually work despite what the "sane" people say. They also like his constant flip-flops on issues, saying it is a sign of either Manic-Depression or even Multiple Personality Disorder. They plan on presenting Kerry with the endorsement and coupons for Prozac and Electric Shock Therapy before the convention.

The Massachusetts Republican Party (MRP) has announced that they are planning to hold a convention of their own. All members of the MRP are expected to attend the convention to be held at the 99 Restaurant in Charlestown at 1PM on July 28. In order to provide for a more comfortable setting for everyone, a table of 6 has been reserved rather than the usual table for four.

Nation of Islam Girls Gone Wild wet t-shirt contest will be held at the intersection of Causeway and Merrimack Street. Awards for best vail, and hairiest legs will be given out. Winners will be eligible to appear at a Boston City Council meeting with City Councilor Chuck Turner.

Nation of Islam is also sponsoring an event with prizes awarded in the following categories: Name your homicidal clerics, longest time spent illegally in the US on an expired tourist visa, assemble a homicide vest loaded with plastic explosives in the shortest time, a geography contest where you name various chemical and nuclear plants and subway stops from the photos provided, reassemble an AK-47 in the shortest time, loudest shout of "allah ahkbar" and "death to the great Satan", and many other events. You do not need to be a Muslim to enter this contest. You just need to hate the USA. Newly released or escaped convicts from American jails are encouraged to attend.

Al Jazeera will be at the convention. As part of their coverage, they will be showing live, preparations for a 21 mortar salute which will be fired at American army positions in Iraq and simultaneously in Afghanistan, interview Jane Fonda and Ted Kennedy as they discuss why America is the Great Satan, and air live segments of Al Franken as he makes a pilgrimage to the cave where Osama bin Laden planned the attacks on 9-11. Mike Wallace of CBS's "60 Minutes", in a special report, will travel to various bases inside Iraq and interview soldiers at the British, Polish, Ukrainian, South Korean, Japanese and a few other camps as he attempts to explain the lack of international support for the removal of Saddam Hussein. A musical salute to John Kerry will be done by the combined Palestine Liberation Organization Orchestra / Pakistani Army Intelligence Glee Club, as they celebrate what they hope will be John Kerry's rise to power with a mixture of fundamentalist ravings, photos of John Kerry, and musical songs celebrating the 9-11 highjackers. In a not-so-stunning announcement, it was announced that Al-Jazeera is actually co-owned by the New York Times, CNN, and Move-on.org, and that Al Franken is responsible for most of the programming content.

The Leader of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and co-editor of Democratic Convention Update News will be in Boston during the Convention. Pro-American, pro-law enforcement types can contact him directly at demconventionupdatenews@yahoo.com, or see his yahoogroup, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/demconventionupdatenews/, where back issues can be requested, comments exchanged, and your input through polls can be left (or right). Left wing, Pro-United Nations, Liberal Democrats can kiss his.... For those wondering, The Leader of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and co-editor of Democratic Convention Update News should be addressed by his official workplace title of "Mighty Great One".

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ALERT !!! BREAKING NEWS!!! ALERT !!! BREAKING NEWS!!! ALERT !!!

BREAKING NEWS: France has surrendered to a group of German Soldiers! The Germans, led by a 95 year old former colonel and 10 other former soldiers ranging in age from 85-87 years old, became bored at a retirement home, asked themselves what they could do for some excitement on a slow day, and decided to invade France. After strapping on artificial legs and arms, putting in hearing aids and dentures, and taking the multiple medications required by geriatric Rambo's, they were ultimately successful.

After the French surrender, the German Government reluctantly accepted the surrender due to all of the people that they would need to provide welfare for, and arranged for a new French Government. The new government is called Vichy Light after the World War 2 government.

Exiled French President Jacques Chirac, from the mobile home in a British Welfare Trailer Park located in a desolate and windswept section of Scotland that was provided by Prince Charles and normally reserved for the common illegal aliens that sneak into Britain from France, begged the USA to come to his assistance. President Bush's reply was "Been there! Done that! No thanks!!"

The French people have all opened up their emergency survival kits provided by the French government in anticipation of an emergency like this, took out the Berlitz Guide to Instant German, and now the only place speaking french is Quebec.

(Editors Note - Chirac might have gotten some support if he got of his fat ass and went to the Reagan Funeral to show some respect instead of staying in Georgia and watching "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 911" on DVD)

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That's it for this edition folks. Stayed tuned and well have more tidbits of info for you in our next edition, including a recipe for stuffed Piping Plover, a report on the other Democratic Candidates who are waiting for John Kerry to fall flat on his surgically altered face, a look at Mayor Menino's traffic management plan (Traffic plan? We don't have no traffic plan. WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN TRAFFIC PLAN!!!), and a report from the student athletes at UMASS Amherst as they prepare for the Tear Gas Olympics that is the Democratic Convention, and Laura Ingram, Jay Severin, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly will offer tips on how to avoid becoming nauseous when you are bombarded with liberal BS. Your comments are welcome - Mighty Great One

Copyright 2004 by the Leader of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

--Yahoo! Groups : demconventionupdatenews

Oh, the "President" here is Jacques Chirac.

Under the headline "Splendid isolation", France's Le Monde says the Iraq issue is confronting President Jacques Chirac with "a highly difficult diplomatic equation".

The president, it says, has to work out a way of "maintaining his opposition to the war without appearing to be shamefully nostalgic for Saddam Hussein".

His dilemma is "how not to oppose the reconstruction of a 'sovereign' Iraq without reneging on his original position".

As a result, at the Nato summit in Istanbul "France found itself isolated in its refusal to accede to America's requests and in its blunt criticism of George W. Bush's public pronouncements."

--BBC NEWS (via Instapundit)

Bush has prospered, in the view of these Democrats, less because of his own efforts than uncontrollable events and Kerry's failures. The prospective Democratic nominee's campaign was eclipsed by Ronald Reagan's death, Bill Clinton's book and the Iraq handover. However, the Democrats complain Kerry's campaign has done a poor job of presenting the candidate to the public.

The Kerry camp has responded to these critics by saying that the Democratic National Convention, beginning in Boston on July 26, will introduce him to voters at large. Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, enjoyed his first big spurt in the polls during the 1992 convention in New York.

--Robert Novak - Chicago Sun-Times

At this rate it'll be sometime in the second quarter of the century before the voters have the slightest clue who Kerry is. Maybe then they can move on to explaining what he stands for.

You wouldn't think the Secret Service would allow that. :)

From Yahoo! News

"Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it."

Take a few minutes to think about the founders of this country though. They created a nation dedicated to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; a nation dedicated to liberty and freedom and destined to be despised by the tyrannical haters of those values.

What happened to the signers of the Declaration of Independence?

Five signers were captured by the British and brutally tortured as traitors. Nine fought in the War for Independence and died from wounds or from hardships they suffered. Two lost their sons in the Continental Army. Another two had sons captured. At least a dozen of the fifty-six had their homes pillaged and burned.

What kind of men were they? Twenty-five were lawyers or jurists. Eleven were merchants. Nine were farmers or large plantation owners. One was a teacher, one a musician, and one a printer. These were men of means and education, yet they signed the Declaration of Independence, knowing full well that the penalty could be death if they were captured.

In the face of the advancing British Army, the Continental Congress fled from Philadelphia to Baltimore on December 12, 1776. It was an especially anxious time for John Hancock, the President, as his wife had just given birth to a baby girl. Due to the complications stemming from the trip to Baltimore, the child lived only a few months.

William Ellery's signing at the risk of his fortune proved only too realistic. In December 1776, during three days of British occupation of Newport, Rhode Island, Ellery's house was burned, and all his property destroyed.

Richard Stockton, a New Jersey State Supreme Court Justice, had rushed back to his estate near Princeton after signing the Declaration of Independence to find that his wife and children were living like refugees with friends. They had been betrayed by a Tory sympathizer who also revealed Stockton's own whereabouts. British troops pulled him from his bed one night, beat him and threw him in jail where he almost starved to death. When he was finally released, he went home to find his estate had been looted, his possessions burned, and his horses stolen. Judge Stockton had been so badly treated in prison that his health was ruined and he died before the war's end. His surviving family had to live the remainder of their lives off charity.

Carter Braxton was a wealthy planter and trader. One by one his ships were captured by the British navy. He loaned a large sum of money to the American cause; it was never paid back. He was forced to sell his plantations and mortgage his other properties to pay his debts.

Thomas McKean was so hounded by the British that he had to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Continental Congress without pay, and kept his family in hiding.

Vandals or soldiers or both looted the properties of Clymer, Hall, Harrison, Hopkinson and Livingston. Seventeen lost everything they owned.

Thomas Heyward, Jr., Edward Rutledge and Arthur Middleton, all of South Carolina, were captured by the British during the Charleston Campaign in 1780. They were kept in dungeons at the St. Augustine Prison until exchanged a year later.

At the Battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr. noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the family home for his headquarters. Nelson urged General George Washington to open fire on his own home. This was done, and the home was destroyed. Nelson later died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis also had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife for two months, and that and other hardships from the war so affected her health that she died only two years later.

"Honest John" Hart, a New Jersey farmer, was driven from his wife's bedside when she was near death. Their thirteen children fled for their lives. Hart's fields and his grist mill were laid waste. For over a year he eluded capture by hiding in nearby forests. He never knew where his bed would be the next night and often slept in caves.

When he finally returned home, he found that his wife had died, his children disappeared, and his farm and stock were completely destroyed. Hart himself died in 1779 without ever seeing any of his family again.

Such were the stories and sacrifices typical of those who risked everything to sign the Declaration of Independence. These men were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged:

"For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of the Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

Are there any among us who would do likewise?

-- Author Unknown

Once again Spinsanity blows holes in one of Michael Moore's films.

[I]t appears to be free of the silly and obvious errors that have plagued Moore's past work, such as the claim in Stupid White Men that the Pentagon planned to spend $250 billion on the Joint Strike Fighter in 2001, a sum that represented over 80 percent of the total defense budget request for the year.

However, "Fahrenheit 9/11" is filled with a series of deceptive half-truths and carefully phrased insinuations that Moore does not adequately back up.
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During a recent interview on "Late Show with David Letterman," the host identified the problems with the circumstantial argument of the film in a series of probing questions to Moore:

When you look at the film in total, are there things there - if I were smarter, could I refute some of these points? Shall I believe you that everything means exactly what it looks like? I mean, the presentation is overwhelming, but could a smarter man than me come in and say, "Yes, this happened, but it means nothing," "Yes, that happened but it means nothing"? But put together in a puzzle it creates one inarguable, compelling circumstance.

Moore's response to Letterman (after a joking aside) sums up the problem with his work. Despite proclamations that the film is satirical and represents his opinion, Moore still makes strong claims about its veracity:

You can't refute what's said in the film. It's all there, the facts are all there, the footage is all there.

Sadly, as with most of Moore's work, this is simply not true.

--Spinsanity

Terrorists may have been close to obtaining munitions containing the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin that Polish soldiers recovered last month in Iraq, the head of Poland's military intelligence said Friday.

Polish troops had been searching for munitions as part of their regular mission in south-central Iraq when they were told by an informant in May that terrorists had made a bid to buy the chemical weapons, which date back to Saddam Hussein's war with Iran in the 1980s, Gen. Marek Dukaczewski told reporters in Warsaw.

"We were mortified by the information that terrorists were looking for these warheads and offered $5,000 apiece," Dukaczewski said. "An attack with such weapons would be hard to imagine. All of our activity was accelerated at appropriating these warheads."

Dukaczewski refused to give any further details about the terrorists or the sellers of the munitions, saying only that his troops thwarted terrorists by purchasing the 17 rockets for a Soviet-era launcher and two mortar rounds containing the nerve agent for an undisclosed sum June 23.
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The warheads all contained cyclosarin, multinational force commander Polish Gen. Mieczyslaw Bieniek said.

"Laboratory tests showed the presence in them of cyclosarin, a very toxic gas, five times stronger than sarin and five times more durable," Bieniek told Poland's TVN24...

"If these warheads, which were still usable, were used on a military base like Camp Babylon, they would have caused unforeseeable damage."

--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The commercials are currently touting it as the #1 movie in America. That's not true. According to the most recent numbers Moore's movie fell $37,092,604 short of being the #1 movie in America.

Not according to the Senate Intelligence Committee. They blame the belief in Iraqi WMD on a "Global Intel Failure".

The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that a worldwide intelligence failure led to the belief that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction before the war, the panel's chairman said Thursday.
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[Sen. Pat] Roberts said various Iraqi military officials thought other Iraqi officials controlled weapons of mass destruction, and that there was evidence that Iraq was poised to become the "Grand Central Station" of a trade in such weapons.

"These conclusions literally beg for changes within the intelligence community," he said. "What we had was a worldwide intelligence failure."
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And Roberts suggested that even Saddam himself believed his regime had weapons of mass destruction.

"People who had the WMD and all of that either kept it, sold it, hid it, so on and so forth," Roberts said. "Saddam, I think, still thinks today that he had it."
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Furthermore Roberts said, "When we talk to some of the military generals of the Iraqi Republican Guard, one general will say, 'I thought General So-and-so had it.' You talk to General So-and-so, and he says, 'I thought he had it.' Saddam thought he had it as well."

--FOXNews.com

Bill Cosby went off on another tirade against the black community Thursday, telling a room full of activists that black children are running around not knowing how to read or write and "going nowhere."
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Cosby made headlines in May when he upbraided some poor blacks for their grammar and accused them of squandering opportunities the civil rights movement gave them. He shot back Thursday, saying his detractors were trying in vain to hide the black community's "dirty laundry."

"Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other n------ as they're walking up and down the street," Cosby said during an appearance at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund's annual conference.

"They think they're hip," the entertainer said. "They can't read; they can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere."
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"For me there is a time ... when we have to turn the mirror around," he said. "Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in."

Cosby lamented that the racial slurs once used by those who lynched blacks are now a favorite expression of black children. And he blamed parents.

"When you put on a record and that record is yelling `n----- this and n----- that' and you've got your little 6-year-old, 7-year-old sitting in the back seat of the car, those children hear that," he said.

He also condemned black men who missed out on opportunities and are now angry about their lives.

"You've got to stop beating up your women because you can't find a job, because you didn't want to get an education and now you're (earning) minimum wage," Cosby said. "You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity."

--Yahoo! News

Just finished the first 5 episodes of Penn & Teller's Showtime series Bullsh!t. They're quite entertaining and straightforward at detecting BS; and just knowing that Penn is interviewed in Michael Moore Hates America has actually got me looking forward to that film more.

...spending the two or so hours sitting through Fahrenheit 9/11 is sooooooooooo worth it when that liberal you're arguing with oh so arrogantly lays out the old "You obviously have not seen it. You're reading reports on it from blogs and your right-wing sources. See it and state your real opinions, like an ADULT" and you can smack him upside the head with the fact that you have seen it and are stating your own opinions. It's the trump card. They only lay out that line when you've beaten them into submission and the only way they can get out of it is to make you out as some right-wing automaton.

Note that I'm just saying the time spent seeing it is worth it, I never actually said anything about actually sending money Moore's way.

Dave Kopel has an excellent piece exposing 56 problems with Moore's film.

The first two:

2000 Election Night
Deceits 1-2

Fahrenheit 911 begins on election night 2000. We are first shown the Al Gore rocking on stage with famous musicians and a high-spirited crowd. The conspicuous sign on stage reads “Florida Victory.” Moore creates the impression that Gore was celebrating his victory in Florida.

Actually, the rally took place in the early hours of election day, before polls had even opened. Gore did campaign in Florida on election day, but went home to Tennessee to await the results. The “Florida Victory” sign reflected Gore’s hopes, not any actual election results. (“Gore Campaigns Into Election Day,” Associated Press, Nov. 7, 2000.)

The film shows CBS and CNN calling Florida for Al Gore. According to the narrator, “Then something called the Fox News Channel called the election in favor of the other guy….All of a sudden the other networks said, ‘Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true.’”

We then see NBC anchor Tom Brokaw stating, “All of us networks made a mistake and projected Florida in the Al Gore column. It was our mistake.”

Moore thus creates the false impression that the networks withdrew their claim about Gore winning Florida when they heard that Fox said that Bush won Florida.

In fact, the networks which called Florida for Gore did so early in the evening—before polls had even closed in the Florida panhandle, which is part of the Central Time Zone. NBC called Florida for Gore at 7:49:40 p.m., Eastern Time. This was 10 minutes before polls closed in the Florida panhandle. Thirty seconds later, CBS called Florida for Gore. And at 7:52 p.m., Fox called Florida for Gore. Moore never lets the audience know that Fox was among the networks which made the error of calling Florida for Gore prematurely. Then at 8:02 p.m., ABC called Florida for Gore. Only ABC had waited until the Florida polls were closed.

The premature calls probably cost Bush thousands of votes from the conservative panhandle, as discouraged last-minute voters heard that their state had already been decided, and many voters who were waiting in line left the polling place. In Florida, as elsewhere, voters who have arrived at the polling place before closing time often end up voting after closing time, because of long lines.

At 10:00 p.m., which network took the lead in retracting the premature Florida result? The first retracting network was CBS, not Fox.

Over four hours later, at 2:16 a.m., Fox projected Bush as the Florida winner, as did all the other networks by 2:20 a.m.

CBS had taken the lead in making the erroneous call for Gore, and had taken the lead in retracting that call. At 3:59 a.m., CBS also took the lead in retracting the Florida call for Bush. All the other networks, including Fox, followed the CBS lead within eight minutes. That the networks arrived at similar conclusions within a short period of time is not surprising, since they were all using the same data from the Voter News Service. (Linda Mason, Kathleen Francovic & Kathleen Hall Jamieson, “CBS News Coverage of Election Night 2000: Investigation, Analysis, Recommendations” (CBS News, Jan. 2001), pp. 12-25.)

Moore’s editing technique of the election night segment is typical of his style: all the video clips are real clips, and nothing he says is, formally speaking, false. But notice how he says, “Then something called the Fox News Channel called the election in favor of the other guy…” The impression created is that the Fox call of Florida for Bush came soon after the CBS/CNN calls of Florida for Gore, and that Fox caused the other networks to change (“All of a sudden the other networks said, ‘Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true.’”)

This is the essence of the Moore technique: cleverly blending half-truths to deceive the viewer.

--Dave Kopel

Kerry-04.com has put out a John Kerry resume. I figure it's no less fair than the old Bush resume.

JOHN FORBES KERRY, "MAN OF THE PEOPLE"

CAREER OBJECTIVE

President of the United States, Renter of the Lincoln bedroom, Intern Supervisor, Commander and Chief and Defender of the Working Man, I mean Person

EDUCATION

Educated at Swiss Boarding Schools -- because my parents did not like me that much

Attended elite private schools like Fessenden School in West Newton, Massachusetts and St. Paul's in New Hampshire -- just like your kids

Graduated Yale University, 1966 (I am much smarter than that Bush guy -- oh, wait, he also went to Yale.)

Graduated Boston College Law School in 1976 (I am much smarter than that Bush guy -- oh, wait, he got an MBA from Harvard.)

VIETNAM MILITARY SERVICE

Served as an officer on a swiftboat in the Mekong Delta in VIETNAM for three long months -- tried my best to come home a hero like JFK after his service on PT-109. I was in VIETNAM -- VIETNAM was a place where I was for a while. Did I mention that VIETNAM veterans love me?

I collected three Purple Hearts in my three months (had to get three in order to come home and run for Congress as a hero like JFK) and the last one for that scratch on my finger -- it REALLY did hurt! It was important to have the right connections so I could get home and run for Congress on my hero status like JFK -- he was not in VIETNAM, but I was.

Brought my own motion camera to make sure images of me in VIETNAM becoming a hero made it back home to the states. Got a free trip home after three months on my swiftboat where I suffered severe injuries and collected three Purple Hearts (did I mention that), a Bronze and Silver Star for heroism -- ensuring my destiny as a hero and man of the people like JFK.

Got home and found out they were not bestowing hero status on war heroes like me, so I threw my medals, or was it my ribbons, over the White House fence. Maybe it was someone else's medals.

Co-founder of the VIETNAM Veterans of America and spokesperson for the VIETNAM Veterans Against the War and worked closely with Jane Fonda to make sure everyone knew that all the guys in VIETNAM were war criminals -- I was too, and even testified before the Senate about my own war crimes.

"Represented" my cadre of anti-American misfits in a Paris meeting to discuss how we could better provide "aid and comfort" for the North Vietnamese and to discuss the unconditional surrender of the U.S. In doing so, I knowingly, directly violated UCMJ Article 104 part 904, and U.S. Code 18 U.S.C. 953.

Did I mention that this meeting, and my other anti-American activities, also put me in violation of the Constitution's Article three, Section three, which defines treason as "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of warfare.

Consequently, I stand subject to the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President...having previously taken an oath...to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

But I don't have to resign -- I am understudy to Teddy Kennedy, now the patriarch of JFK's family.

I topped off my coddling of Commies by authoring a book called The New Soldier -- but since military heroes are back in vogue, I now sue anyone who reproduces the cover of that book on any website, especially a website like http://kerry-04.com. (The cover picture is a mockery of the Iwo Jima flag raising -- you can see it at http://kerry-04.com until my lawyers get them to take it down.)

NOTE: Please join fellow Patriots and sign the petition demanding John Kerry's resignation. Link to -- http://PatriotPetitions.US/Kerry
CONGRESSIONAL "SERVICE"

Volunteered as a campaign worker for my mentor, Teddy Kennedy in 1962. I just love that big lug!

My first campaign for Congress was in 1972 -- I was a war hero like JFK but nobody noticed so I ran on my anti-American platform. I won the primary with a little help from my campaign manager (brother Cameron) who broke into my opponents campaign headquarters. Unfortunately, because of that Watergate thing, I lost the general election to a Republican even after spending more than any other Congressional campaign in the nation.

In 1982, with the help of Uncle Teddy, I got elected as lieutenant governor for governor Michael Dukakis -- then got elected to the Senate in 1984 -- it has been smooth sailing ever since. I have dedicated the last 20 years, between wives and vacation homes, promoting big government spending (except in defense and intelligence, which I vote against every chance I get), class warfare, the welfare state and general wealth redistribution, any kind of abortion on demand (without parental consent for minors), and obstructionist tactics in the judicial nominee process.

According to Americans for Democratic [sic] Action, a far-left watchdog group, I have a higher lifetime liberal voting record at 93% than Ted Kennedy with 88%

I am the ranking Democrat member of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. My current millionaire wife is heiress of the Heinz Ketchup fortune -- a "small" business

Ranking member of the Hispanic Task Force, even though I "borked" Miguel Estrada

Chaired the Senate Democratic Leadership Steering and Coordination Committee

In 1987, teemed up with Teddy to get an override of presidential veto of Boston's Big Dig Boondoggle -- one of the most larded distributions of taxpayer largess in U.S. history.

In 1991 the Senate created the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs to investigate the possibility that U.S. prisoners of war and soldiers designated missing in action were still alive in Vietnam. Acting as chairman, I helped persuade the group to vote unanimously that no American servicemen still remained in Vietnam. In doing so, I helped begin the process of normalizing U.S.-Vietnamese relations.

Wealthiest senator ("man of the people"), with an estimated net worth of nearly $200 million (that's $800 million if you combine it with my current wife's assets)

POLITICAL POSTURING AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

ABORTION

Voted to federally fund abortions

Voted against parental consent for minors

Voted against ban on Partial Birth Abortion (3 times)

Voted against ban on sending money to UN population fund -- the money was sent to pay for China's forced abortion and sterilization policy

Have been warned by Catholic clergy that I will not be served communion due to my stance on this issue

NARAL lifetime rating of 100%; National Right to Life Committee lifetime rating of 0%

DEATH PENALTY

Oppose federal and/or state death penalty (except for innocent unborn children -- see above)

Voted against death penalty for terrorists

Voted against death penalty for drug-related murders

TAXES & ECONOMICS

I like high taxes and want to raise them

Voted against all three Bush tax cuts & want to repeal them

Voted for 1993 Clinton tax hike (largest in history)

Voted against major tax relief packages at least 10 times

Support re-raising taxes on the wealthy to redistribute money for healthcare and education -- i.e., Socialism

Claim I can stop outsourcing and create 10 million new jobs in four years, despite the fact that there are only about 8 million unemployed people in the U.S.

Want to raise the minimum wage, which will result in outsourcing and the loss of jobs

Voted at least 5 times against balanced budget amendments

Voted at least 5 times to raid the Social Security Trust Fund

Believe Washington manages your money better than you could

Lifetime rating of 26% from Citizens Against Government Waste

MILITARY & NATIONAL SECURITY

We don't need a military, per se

Favor UN control of remaining U.S. Troops

Voted for 7 major reductions in military funding

Voted against Gulf War I (1991)

Voted for Gulf War II -- but then criticized and voted against military appropriation for troops

Voted against MX missile, Trident Submarine, SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative -- Star Wars), and the B-1 and B-2 Stealth Bomber/Fighter

Supported slashing $2.6 billion from intelligence funding while serving as a member of Senate Intelligence Committee

SECOND AMENDMENT

Against

Have earned a lifetime rating of 0% from the National Rifle Association

FAITH & VALUES

Against/Don't have any

Voted Against Defense of Marriage Act

Favor civil unions for homosexuals until marriage is popular enough to support

Voted to extend hate crimes protections to homosexuals

Voted against voluntary school prayer

Voted against ban on human cloning and support embryonic stem-cell research

EDUCATION

Voted against voucher pilot program

Voted against approving a school-choice pilot program

Support racial profiling and preference for admission to universities, known as "affirmative action"

JUDGES, COURTS & LAW

Against racial profiling and preference when dealing with terrorism

Voted against confirmation William Rehnquist as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Voted against confirmation of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court

Only support activist judges who will support abortion, persecute Christians and rewrite the Constitution

Voted against confirmation John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General

Voted against punitive damage limits in products liability cases

As Michael Dukakis' Lt. Governor from 1983-1985, supported granting prison furloughs to hundreds of Massachusetts inmates

FOREIGN POLICY

Against linking Most Favored Nation status to China's human rights record

Voted for Kyoto Protocol on Environment that exempted major Third World polluters, while creating an unfair burden on American taxpayers

Supported Iraq regime change as late as January 2003, but not anymore

Support unilateral nuclear freeze

Support submitting completely to the UN, as well as the International Criminal Court, taking all sovereignty away from the U.S. and its citizens

Don't know what the Geneva Conventions say, mean or who they apply to

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Five multi-million dollar mansions

A large multi-million dollar yacht

Many "American" cars, including several gas-guzzling SUVs, which I am opposed to politically

Personal 757 campaign jet

Access to unlimited condiments -- did I mention my current millionaire wife is heiress to the Heinz fortune

Have dual citizenship in France

REFERENCES

General Vo Nguyen Giap -- most celebrated military hero of NORTH VIETNAM, where I served

"Hanoi Jane" Fonda

Teddy Kennedy

John F. Kennedy -- we have the same initials

Howard Dean -- (Albert Gore by proxy)

Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings

"Foreign Leaders" who I am unable to name at this time

--Kerry Resume for President

Mike Wilson's new anti-Michael Moore and kinda anti-documentary documentary is nearing completion and is close to getting a distributor.

Meanwhile David Brooks in the NY Times lays out some of Moore's more damning anti-American quotes.

"[Americans] are possibly the dumbest people on the planet . . . in thrall to conniving, thieving smug [pieces of the human anatomy]," Moore intoned. "We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing."
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"You're stuck with being connected to this country of mine, which is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe."
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"We, the United States of America, are culpable in committing so many acts of terror and bloodshed that we had better get a clue about the culture of violence in which we have been active participants."
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"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not `insurgents' or `terrorists' or `The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win."

--David Brooks - NY Times

Newsweek has an article on the distortions of Fahrenheit 9/11

[F]or all the reasonable points he makes, on more than a few occasions in the movie Moore twists and bends the available facts and makes glaring omissions in ways that end up clouding the serious political debate he wants to provoke.
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The use of innuendo is rife through... critical passages of “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
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The innuendo is greatest, of course, in Moore’s dealings with the matter of the departing Saudis flown out of the United States in the days after the September 11 terror attacks. Much has already been written about these flights, especially the film’s implication that figures with possible knowledge of the terrorist attacks were allowed to leave the country without adequate FBI screening—a notion that has been essentially rejected by the 9/11 commission. The 9/11 commission found that the FBI screened the Saudi passengers, ran their names through federal databases, interviewed 30 of them and asked many of them “detailed questions." “Nobody of interest to the FBI with regard to the 9/11 investigation was allowed to leave the country,” the commission stated. New information about a flight from Tampa, Florida late on Sept. 13 seems mostly a red herring: The flight didn’t take any Saudis out of the United States. It was a domestic flight to Lexington, Kentucky that took place after the Tampa airport had already reopened....

It is true that there are still some in the FBI who had questions about the flights-and wish more care had been taken to examine the passengers. But the film’s basic point—that the flights represented perhaps the supreme example of the Saudi government’s influence in the Bush White House-is almost impossible to defend. Why? Because while the film claims—correctly—that the “White House” approved the flights, it fails to note who exactly in the White House did so. It wasn’t the president, or the vice president or anybody else supposedly corrupted by Saudi oil money. It was Richard Clarke, the counter-terrorism czar who was a holdover from the Clinton administration and who has since turned into a fierce Bush critic. Clarke has publicly testified that he gave the greenlight—conditioned on FBI clearance.

--Newsweek