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ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
By Austin Kuder
All we need to do right now to
achieve energy independence is to continue to reduce consumption by replacing
SUV's with smaller more efficient vehicles. While we are doing this we must
commit to a program of replacing all personal vehicles with electric cars. Oil
is much too important to continue to burn and pollute our planet. We must
reserve its use for heavy transportation and plastics and clothing and
fertilizer etc.
The idea to build off-shore rigs to extract more oil to solve our problems is
just wrong on so many levels. How many electric generating windmills can we
build for the cost of just one of those huge, expensive and dangerous oil rigs?
A windmill will create energy immediately and immediately put us on the path to
energy independence.
We should encourage oil companies to use their immense profits to build
windmills for a share of the revenue generated rather than build oil rigs. We
cam replace our cars with electric ones, replace our electric grids to handle
the larger load and put a windmill atop each of the new transmission towers on
the new grids in ten years.
EDUCATING JOSH MANDEL
By Austin Kuder
My State Representative, Josh
Mandel from Ohio stated on TV that Barack Obama lacked substance (a major
talking point of the Republicans). I would like to inform my ignorant State Rep.
of the 'substance' in Barak Obama's program for change.
First (Obama writes to me), "We can invest in renewable energies, create up to
five million green jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced".
"We can end tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas."
"We can finally guarantee health care for anyone who wants it, make it
affordable for anyone who needs it, and cut health care costs for manufactures".
"We can restore fiscal responsibility in Washington by winding down a war in
Iraq that's costing $10 billion a month, by cutting wasteful spending, by
shutting corporate loopholes and tax havens, and by rolling back the Bush tax
cuts for the wealthiest Americans".
"CEO's are making more in 10 minutes than some workers earn in a year". We can
reduce CEO pay by exposing the highest paid in every industry and encouraging
people to not patronize those companies. (OK that one is my idea)
TAX MONEY FOR THE ADVANTAGED
By Austin Kuder
We give up. You guys won
already! You guys busted the unions
so a non-college grad can't get a living wage. All of
the human resource workers are college grads. All of the
good jobs require college. College grads earn twice what a
blue collar worker gets. And now they want us to pay them to
stay in Ohio! If blue collar workers weren't so stupid
they would vote Democratic and we wouldn't have such
crap coming out of the State House.
I gave my rep. Josh Mandel a good idea for a new law
but he ignored me. So everyone, keep voting Republican and
they will take more of our money and give it to the rich and
put us more in debt and cause more inflation.
THE RIGHT-WING CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
By Austin Kuder
The Sunday edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer has
turned totally right wing. On two issues they didn't give a progressive point of
view. They printed a sick-leave letter by the officer of a company that provides
sick pay benefits but says the needs of other employees are different than
theirs! What a stupid argument. Then on the Russian invasion of Georgia they
didn't print that Bush's invasion of Iraq has emboldened the Russians! (I sent
them two letters they could have printed.)
How about a little balance P.D.?
OBAMA SLANDERED
By Austin Kuder
Former Clevelander Jerome Corsi has slandered Barack Obama in a book. He has polluted more than 100 radio and television programs since the book was published August 1st. Obama must be given equal time on all of those programs and bring a defamation suit against that lowlife sleazebag who (not co-incidentally) swift boated John Kerry's bid for president with a similar book. This moron probably approves of king george's presidency. Obviously he wants more of the same by supporting McCain.
Please read: "The Prosecution of George W. Bush" by Vincent Bugliosi
BUSH VS. RUSSIA
By Austin Kuder
Yesterday I saw a Russian
colonel on the news saying if Bush can take Baghdad then they can take Tbilisi.
Bush has sent our soldiers there to provide humanitarian aid. What if we invaded
Cuba and Russia sent troops with humanitarian aid? We would just love that
wouldn't we! Our cowboy leader may be trying to look better in history by making
the Russians back down but he may be starting World War III.
It will be so nice to see Bush go and have someone with above average
intelligence running the most powerful country in the world.
THE RISK OF EVIL & INCOMPETENCE
By Austin Kuder
Bush has a lot of nerve to
object to the aggression of Russia regarding their invasion of Georgia. Bush
opened the door of aggression by bullies. He invaded Iraq just because he could.
Russia, France, Germany and the United Nations objected to Bush's aggression.
Did that stop him? The kind of thing Bush did can result in World War.
Also, didn't we see a buildup of Russian troops and equipment preceding the
invasion? I didn't see any news of a buildup in the news. Bush's incompetence
allowed al-Qaida to blindside us now this! Bush is running the worst
administration I have ever seen.
YELLOW CAKE
By Austin Kuder
After consideration I'm not
apologizing or withdrawing my demand that Keven O'Brien be fired for lying. The
inference of tons of yellowcake is that it was a significant amount. In fact it
takes hundreds of tons to make a bomb! O'Brien is guilty of deceit. He misled us
just like Bush misled us into the Iraq war. Bush is guilty of the most horrific
crime in American history. (please read "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for
Murder" by Vincent Bugliosi; especially pages 123-130)
It makes me angry when someone tries to justify the invasion of Iraq. You should
be ashamed for permitting him to give us the impression that tons of yellowcake
is an important amount.
KEVIN O'BRIEN'S YELLOW CAKE
By Austin Kuder
I'm asking asking the
Cleveland Plain Dealer to fire Kevin O'Brien for lying about tons of uranium
yellowcake (a form of lightly processed ore) being removed from Iraq. He
recently wrote on that subject. When I read it, I didn't know what yellow cake
was. If it had been found, wouldn't it have been in the news? I didn't hear of
it?
Doesn't anyone proofread that asshole's work for lies? As little of his stuff
that I read, I caught that outrageous lie. How many other lies does he get away
with? Why is he allowed to pollute the newspaper?
BAILING OUT THE BANKS
By Austin Kuder
The immorality of the Bush
administration knows no boundaries. They have given tax breaks to the rich and
left our children with debt while causing inflation with their deficit spending.
They have permitted our businesses to continue to leave our country and leave us
unemployed and in further debt. They have made war based on lies and tried over
and over to reduce benefits for veterans. They have given our tax dollars
without bidding to Halliburton of which Dick Cheney was CEO. They have Medicare
scheduled to be bankrupt by giving money to the drug companies. They tried to
bankrupt Social Security. Now they are giving out tax money to financial
concerns like Fannie May and Freddie Mac whose CEO's are taking 16 and 18
million dollars a year in salaries and benefits.
I want a law that denies any Federal assistance to companies whose executives
earn more than ten times the lowest paid employees in that company. If we give
our tax dollars to those companies the executive salaries must be reduced
immediately and remain below ten times the income of the lowest paid employee
until that company repays us.
MORE OF THE SAME?
By Austin Kuder
If John McCain is elected President he will think he has a mandate to continue the Bush Presidency. He will continue to subsidize tax breaks for the rich with our children's income and inflation. He will continue war first and the needs of the people second. His energy solution will pump more CO2 into the sky, risk the oceans with expensive oil rigs and delay dealing with energy independence. Our health care will continue to be a money maker for the 1,000 insurance companies and a gold mine for their CEO's and stockholders and they will continue to reject, overcharge and deny claims. (Please watch the movie "Sicko". It will open your eyes!)
OUR RESILIENT ECONOMY
By Austin Kuder
An old and bewildered George
W. Bush appeared subdued and apologetic as he said "our economy is resilient".
It's as if he is disappointed that he hasn't succeeded in totally destroying it
and all of our social programs. He did succeed in destroying Medicare. It is on
target to implode in a few years because of his giveaway to drug companies.
Fortunately he wasn't able to give the Social Security Fund away thanks to
Dennis.
His irresponsible management of the budget has resulted in inflation. His
refusal to put us on a path of conservation has led to a fuel crisis. His
ignorance of global warming has offered us more oil production and more CO2
production as an answer.
Our economic problems are the result of recent and current administrations
selling us down the river. It has been a conspiracy of politicians and
corporations in concert to destroy our economy.
STUPID & RACIST
By Austin Kuder
The Republican party has been
telling us for years that they're for a strong defense and lower taxes. In other
words they prefer to spend our tax money making war machines and conducting wars
rather than spending the money on social programs and improving the
infrastructure. It is surprising to me that they are ever successful selling
that program, but they are. The only conclusion that I can make is that many of
the people who vote for them are stupid!
Now, much to my dismay, we can't oppose them with a white, male, Protestant
nominee. The only hope that we have to get a Democratic president now is that
the majority of the people are not stupid or racist.
OPEN DISCOVERY
By Austin Kuder
If you read the Plain Dealer and have read Regina Brett's articles about open discovery please e-mail info@oacdl.org and demand open discovery for all defendants in Ohio. As it is the State can withhold details of the evidence against them. This results in expensive wrongful convictions and appeals.
ELECTRIC CARS
By Austin Kuder
John McCain's offer of $300 million dollars to the
person who invents a better battery for electric cars is cynical and a
distraction from the goal of doing something now. He is saying that it's not
practical now so we have to go on with business as usual. It's a shame that he
isn't as pragmatic as evil Rumsfeld was when he went to war with the army we
have, not the army that we wish we had.
We must stop wasting oil to operate personal vehicles. We must rebuild the
electric grid with windmill atop each transmission tower and save the oil for
plastics, fertilizer, clothing and heavy transportation.
McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare
Submitted By Irv Bradley
OFF-SHORE DRILLING
By Austin Kuder
Some people out there are satisfied with the Republican's answer to $4 per gallon gasoline. Their plan for offshore drilling is dangerous for the environment, will take ten years to have any effect and provides no long term solution.
The Democrats want a long term solution and not prolong the agony or avoid
addressing the global warming consequences or any of the other related
shortcomings of increased production via off shore drilling etc.
My suggestion is to update the electric grid with windmills atop all of the
transmission towers and replace all personal vehicles with electric cars within
those ten years.
Oil is simply too valuable to continue to waste it like we are. Plastics,
fertilizers, clothes and heavy transportation need it. If we have a long trip,
we will have to fly or take a bus or a train.
OBAMA IN DETROIT
By Austin Kuder
The two Muslim women who
wanted to sit on Obama's stage wearing head scarves must have been Republican
saboteurs. Why else would two sisters try to identify Obama with Muslims? Now
they are making a public issue of it. It's so obvious.
While we are removing them from Obama's stage, why not remove their Muslim
scarves? Muslims require western women to wear scarves in their countries so we
should require that Muslim women do not wear scarves or other Islamic clothing
in America.
IRAQ, THE LAUNCHING POINT
By Austin Kuder
The Prime minister of Iraq
must be joking. He said that he "will not allow Iraq to become a platform for
harming the security of Iran". Does he really think that Bush or McCain care
what he will allow? He told Bush over a year ago that we could leave Iraq. He
told Bush that he didn't need or want us there anymore. Did Bush listen?
We will be lucky if Bush doesn't invade Iran while he is still in power. We will
be even luckier if Bush III isn't elected to continue the never ending war.
REPUBLICANS
By Austin Kuder
The Republican party is
intellectually bankrupt.
Their basic philosophy and appeal is to minimize
government and to minimize taxes. Have you ever
actually seen them do it to any meaningful extent
(except for the rich)? The answer is no! Haven't you
asked yourself why? They haven't done it because if
they did there would be massive unemployment and the
economy would go into a tailspin. The reason they
can't is because government is the largest employer.
To reduce taxes is to reduce employment. They know
this but they have painted themselves into a corner.
Because their philosophy is a lie they are also
morally bankrupt.
They must face reality. It is long since time for
them to accept the responsibility that our government
is the economy. Government employees are the basis of
the economy and capitalism provides goods and services
for the government employees.
They choose to ignore reality and to insist that
national defense is the main business of the Federal
Government. That is another reason that the
Republicans are morally bankrupt. They have chosen to
employ our people in the business of making war rather
than making a great society. They are primarily in the
business of killing people and destroying their
property!
Obviously there is a better way. Republicans must
stop kidding themselves and lying to us. We must all
admit that taxes are necessary for the economy. The
only remaining decision is what we spend money on. We
must stop spending so much money on destruction and
start spending more on construction for the purpose of
engineering a sustainable future.
A MOVIE RECOMMENDATION
By Austin Kuder
I just rented "Rendition". It stars Jake Gyllenhall and Reese Witherspoon. It was a great and important movie. I'm sure it will have many Academy Award nominations.
BUSH CLONE AD
Submitted By Irv Bradley
http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102
TODD TOROK ATTACKED AGAIN
By Austin Kuder
Wednesday in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, an article about Todd Torok summarized the crimes that he was
caught committing and the consequences that our society responded with. I read
about a string of prison sentences from 1989 to today. How is that working for
us? I would say: "Not worth the money or the effort".
Nowhere was it indicated that he was forced to attend re-hab for his drug
addictions. Todd Torok is an excellent example of how our system is failing to
help addicts and failing to protect us from them. If the money spent on
imprisoning him was spent on treatment and job training at the onset, the
results may have been better.
THE SUNNIS ARE FIGHTING THE SUNNIS
By Austin Kuder
Not only are the Shiites
fighting the Shiites but the Sunnis are fighting the Sunnis. It's all about
those who are opposed to the US being there and those who want us to leave. Our
government says Iran is helping both the Shiites and the Sunnis to fight the pro
American Iraqis.
The US is building a case again to attack Iraq. Separately captured Iraqi
fighters admitted they were trained by the Hezbollah in Iran. Under torture
people will say anything the inquisitors want. The US accuses Iran of providing
roadside bombs that can penetrate well armored vehicles and that these and other
weapons are being smuggled into Iraq via the Ho Chi Minn trail. I'm sorry I'm
confusing Iraq with Viet Nam again. At least we won't have to use de-foliates on
them. We can't even bomb them back to the stone age. They haven't left the stone
age.
The Viet Nam War didn't end until Congress withheld funds.
THE PLIGHT OF THE IRAQI PRIME MINISTER
By Austin Kuder
The Shiites are fighting the Shiites. The ones that want us to go are fighting the ones that want us to stay. In Viet Nam it was the Viet Cong that wanted us to go and it was the Saigon government that we supported. Which one won? The one that wanted us to go won. It is inevitable.
Last year the Iraqi prime
minister that we support told us that we could leave now. He asked us to leave.
But we didn't leave. Now he is in the bad situation of being on the side of the
occupying power. If we had left when he asked us to he would have had a chance.
Now he is toast and he knows it.
The Viet Nam War didn't end until
Congress withheld funds.
EXPENSIVE PENNIES
By Austin Kuder
Did you know that it costs 1.7 cents for the US Mint to make a penney? That it costs 10 cents to make a nickle? Why are they doing that? It seems stupid to make those coins that have so little value because of inflation. We should stop making them. Prices should be rounded off to the nearest dime. If the mint just made dimes, quarters and dollar coins (and stopped making dollar bills) we would save a lot of tax money and coins would be much more useful. (psst......do something)
ENOUGH CAMPAIGNING ALREADY!
By Austin Kuder
It hasn't been about the
issues since Dennis Kucinich was excluded from the race for the Presidency.
Hillary and Obama are just wasting energy and money and good will by beating
each other up. They have campaigned enough. Any primaries that are yet to take
place already have plenty of exposure to the candidates. They should stop now
and take well earned vacations. From here on the focus has to return to the war,
the recession and the disaster known as the Bush Administration.
If they both suspend their campaigns until after the Convention whoever is
declared the winner will have renewed energy and money and political capital and
they will find that the people want anyone but a Republican.
Battle Hymn of the Republicans
Submitted By Irv Bradley
> > (to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic)
> >
> > Mine Eyes have seen the bungling of that stumbling
> moron Bush;
> > He has blathered all the drivel that the neo-cons can
> push;
> > He has lost sight of all reason 'cause his head is
> up his tush;
> > The Doofus marches on.
> >
> > I have heard him butcher syntax like a kindergarten
> fool;
> > There is warranted suspicion that he never went to
> school;
> > Should we fault him for the policies -- or is he just
> their tool?
> > The lies keep piling on.
> >
> > Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
> > Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
> > Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
> > His wreckage will live on.
> >
> > I have seen him cut the taxes of the billionaires'
> lone heir;
> > As he spends another zillion on an aircraft carrier;
> > Let the smokestacks keep polluting -- do we really
> need clean air?
> > The surplus is now gone.
> >
> > Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
> > Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
> > Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
> > Your safety net is gone!
> >
> > Now he's got a mighty hankerin' to bomb a
> prostrate state;
> > Though the whole world knows its crazy -- and the U.N.
> says to wait;
> > When he doesn't have the evidence, "We must
> prevaricate."
> > Diplomacy is done!
> >
> > Oh, a trumped-up war is excellent; we have no moral
> bounds;
> > Should the reasons be disputed, we'll just make up
> other grounds;
> > Enraging several billions
-- to his brainlessness
> redounds;
> > The Doofus marches on!
> >
> > Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
> > Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
> > Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
> > THIS...DOO...FUS...MAR...CHES...ON
Baghdad's Budget Questions
By Austin Kuder
Recently, Bush said that
Baghdad's latest budget
would outspend the United States by more than ten to
one on Iraq reconstruction, with US funding for
large-scale projects "approaching zero". On the third
of April Congress received notice that the Pentagon
planned to transfer $590 million in its war budget to
cover construction and infrastructure improvements for
Iraq security forces. (someone's lying)
While Americans are complaining of gasoline
prices, officials predict Iraq is headed toward a
major windfall because of the soaring price of oil and
record production levels.
Senator Ben Nelson is drafting legislation that
would restrict future reconstruction dollars to loans
instead of grants and Senator Carl Levin wants to add
a provision that would force the Iraqi government to
spend its own surplus in oil revenue to rebuild Iraq
before US dollars are spent.
(We should support these ideas. Contact your
Congressman and please forward this.)
Universal Health Care On Public Television
By Austin Kuder
Recently on PBS Frontline, a
program called
"Sick around the World" examined health care in
England, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland. It
was very interesting and enlightening. I'm sure it
will be on again. Don't miss it!
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