And don't forget how much safer all those Iraqis feel right now after we
came along and took care of all those evil-doers. It sort of reminds me
how safe I feel now that I read that Osama bin Laden has us right where
he wants us, especially now that every Muslim in the world hates us now.

That Bush guy is so great that a lot of folks around here are starting
to call him "Adolph" and his entourage is referred to as "the Fourth
Reich." Think about it, invading other countries without cause for the
sole reason of advancing our own economic greed.

No, I haven't forgotten weapons of mass destruction. Did we ever find
those? And for those of you who are sure they are over there, you need
to call in those GPS coordinates to our troops over there that are
looking; they need all the help they can get, especially before election
time.

And yes, I really am a patriot, a real, live Viet Nam era vet who
honorably served in the US Army and came out with a DD214 and an
Honorable Discharge, which is more than we can say for all the rest of
the chickenhawks in our regime. Except for Colin Powell (and they don't
even listen to him) neither Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney or Wolfowitz did
anything in the service when they really had a chance to wear the green.
No one really even knows where Bush was when he was supposed to be
serving, except he lost his flying certification because he didn't show
up. He sure isn't talking about it, is he? Here are his impressive
qualifications:

RESUME of GEORGE W. BUSH

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
LAW ENFORCEMENT: I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1976 for
driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and
had my driver’s license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record
has been “lost” and is not available.
MILITARY: I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused
to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By
joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in
Vietnam.
COLLEGE: I graduated from Yale University. I was a cheerleader.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.
I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas in 1975. I
bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas. The company
went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took
land using taxpayer money.
With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry
(including ENRON CEO Ken Lay), I was elected Governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR:
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making
Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden
city in America.
I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in
borrowed money.
I set the record for the most executions by any Governor in American
history.
With the help of my brother, the Governor of Florida, and my father’s
appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by
over 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one
billion dollars per week.
I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any
12-month period.
I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the
U.S. stock market.
I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal
record.
I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period.
After taking-off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst
security failure in U.S. history.
I am supporting development of a nuclear “Tactical Bunker Buster,” a WMD.
In my State Of The Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking
Iraq, and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president.
In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and
that trend continues every month.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I appointed more convicted criminals to my administration than any
president in U.S. history.
I set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any
president since the advent of television.
I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to
intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in
duty benefits for active duty troops and their families—in wartime.
I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to
simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people)
shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of
mankind.
I’ve broken more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
I’m proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S. history. My “poorest millionaire,” Condoleeza
Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
I am the first president in U.S. history to order an unprovoked,
pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I
did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S.
citizens, and the world community.
I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in
the history of the United States government.
I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations
remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war
“detainees”) and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
I am the first president in history to refuse United Nations election
inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).
I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most
corporate campaign donations.
My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends,
Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in
U.S. history. My political party used the Enron private jets and
corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court
during my election decision. I have protected my friends at Enron and
Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More time and money
was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent
investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.
I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center
attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country
in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history. I am
first president in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my
presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government contracts.
I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden and
Saddam Hussein to justice.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
All records of my tenure as Governor of Texas are now in my father’s
library, sealed, and unavailable for public view.
All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my
bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President,
attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and
unavailable for public review.
Please consider my experience when voting in 2004 -

Messing In Boats wrote in message ...


RESUME of GEORGE W. BUSH

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR:
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making
Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

This is a misleading statement. There are many different kinds of
pollution, and this implies Texas is highest overall or in all
categories, which it is not.

During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden
city in America.

Ozone is only one component of air pollution; there are five others,
according to the EPA. Houston surpassed L.A. in ozone only (not other
kinds of air pollution or pollution overall) and only in 1999-2000.

These will be of interest:

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m12.../article.jhtml
"Anyone who claims that Houston's smog problems are equal to or worse
than L.A.'s is misinformed," says Kay Jones, a former EPA official who
now consults on air quality."

http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_sout....af.0.a4.cccba.
html
"In some ways, calling Houston America's smoggiest city misrepresented
the relative quality of air in the two cities. Los Angeles' air is
worse than Houston's in other categories. But ozone is the primary
pollutant of concern and therefore gets more attention, officials
said."

http://www.rice.edu/projects/reno/rn...lates/air.html
"Houston's number of ozone violation days are actually somewhat fewer
than in the 1980s. The difference seems to be that Los Angeles has
improved more and faster."

Those were older articles. Here's more recent info on ozone
violations:

http://www.lungusa.org/air2001/analysis02.html#woes
State of the Air 2002
"For the third straight year, the top four most ozone-polluted
metropolitan areas were in California: Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange
County; Bakersfield; Fresno; and Visalia-Tulare-Porterville. The state
also has the five most ozone-polluted counties: San Bernadino has been
number 1 three years in a row; Kern, comes in at number 2 this year,
after claiming the number 3 spot for the previous two years; Fresno
moves up to number 3 after two years as the fourth-most polluted
county, Riverside is number 4, after two years as the second-most
polluted county; and Tulare, number five for the second year in a
row."

And overall air quality:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...olitan/2056693
Number of days in 2000-2002 when air quality was unhealthy
1. Riverside-San Bernardino, Ca. 445 days
2. Fresno, Ca. 421
3. Bakersfield, Ca. 409
4. Los Angeles-Long Beach, Ca. 255
5. Sacramento, Ca. 163
6. Pittsburgh, Penn. 134
7. Knoxville, Tenn. 109
8. Birmingham, Al. 100
9. Houston, Tx. 94
10. Baltimore, Md. 93

Once again -- ozone (the main component of smog) is not the only kind
of air pollution, and probably not even the most dangerous:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science....ap/index.html
".... 1999-2001 EPA data, do not take into account a pollutant that's
considered more dangerous than smog -- tiny particles of soot
that can lodge deep in the lungs and cause heart problems and even
death."

http://bicycleaustin.info/articles/p...cise-risk.html
"Severe particulate (soot) pollution exists in many urban and desert
areas, including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York City,
Salt Lake City and Phoenix, which in 1998 surpassed Riverside, Calif.,
with the nation's highest particulate levels. Levels of particulate
matter in Houston's air do not exceed the limit set in the current
national health standard for that air pollutant."

There is no good reason to spread lies and exaggerations about Houston
and Texas in the name of politics.

jjp wrote:

Messing In Boats wrote in message ...


RESUME of GEORGE W. BUSH

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR:
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making
Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

This is a misleading statement. There are many different kinds of
pollution, and this implies Texas is highest overall or in all
categories, which it is not.


Indeed, for a couple of days, Bhopal was worse.

Bhopal Industrial Disaster, December 3 1984
by Rajiv Lather

Winter night and all is quiet,
people sleep wrapped in quilts,
unaware of the virulent monster
close by, seething to escape.

Right after midnight it leaks out,
like a gargantuan gray amoeba,
silently floating along the floor,
entering homes thru' windows n doors.

Toxic tentacles touch every one
to burn tissues of eyes and lungs.
Fleeing folks flounder in the dark
and choke on their own fluids.

Doom roams from home to home,
industriously snuffing out life after life.
Poisonous cloud continues to kill,
till thousands die a dreadful death.

Dawn sheds light on a tragic sight;
ill and dead spread here and there.
Green leaves turned to black
and smell of burning chilies hangs in air.

Funeral fires light up the sky,
as flesh after lifeless flesh
is consumed by flames,
seen off by eyes too shocked to cry.

Powers that be let rich culprits flee.
Handicapped survivors, cries of blind
remain behind as relentless reminders
of great deeds achieved by greed.
Copyright @ haryana-online.com & Rajiv Lather

There is no good reason to spread lies and exaggerations about Houston
and Texas in the name of politics.


Texas sucks.


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The Houston scenario does not fit your agenda, now that it has been refuted?

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
jjp wrote:

Messing In Boats wrote in message
...


RESUME of GEORGE W. BUSH

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR:
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making
Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

This is a misleading statement. There are many different kinds of
pollution, and this implies Texas is highest overall or in all
categories, which it is not.


Indeed, for a couple of days, Bhopal was worse.

Bhopal Industrial Disaster, December 3 1984
by Rajiv Lather

Winter night and all is quiet,
people sleep wrapped in quilts,
unaware of the virulent monster
close by, seething to escape.

Right after midnight it leaks out,
like a gargantuan gray amoeba,
silently floating along the floor,
entering homes thru' windows n doors.

Toxic tentacles touch every one
to burn tissues of eyes and lungs.
Fleeing folks flounder in the dark
and choke on their own fluids.

Doom roams from home to home,
industriously snuffing out life after life.
Poisonous cloud continues to kill,
till thousands die a dreadful death.

Dawn sheds light on a tragic sight;
ill and dead spread here and there.
Green leaves turned to black
and smell of burning chilies hangs in air.

Funeral fires light up the sky,
as flesh after lifeless flesh
is consumed by flames,
seen off by eyes too shocked to cry.

Powers that be let rich culprits flee.
Handicapped survivors, cries of blind
remain behind as relentless reminders
of great deeds achieved by greed.
Copyright @ haryana-online.com & Rajiv Lather

There is no good reason to spread lies and exaggerations about Houston
and Texas in the name of politics.


Texas sucks.


--
Email sent to is never read.

jjp wrote:

And overall air quality:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...olitan/2056693
Number of days in 2000-2002 when air quality was unhealthy

10. Baltimore, Md. 93

I suppose because krause was spewing nearby?

-- Charlie


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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:45:56 -0600, Messing In Boats wrote:
chickenhawks in our regime. Except for Colin Powell (and they don't even
listen to him) neither Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney or Wolfowitz did anything in
the service when they really had a chance to wear the green.

It could be argued that Rumsfeld is a chickenhawk, as he chose
ROTC at Princeton instead of Korea, but he did serve as a fighter pilot.

http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHG...20Chickenhawks

thunder wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:45:56 -0600, Messing In Boats wrote:
chickenhawks in our regime. Except for Colin Powell (and they don't even
listen to him) neither Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney or Wolfowitz did anything in
the service when they really had a chance to wear the green.

It could be argued that Rumsfeld is a chickenhawk, as he chose
ROTC at Princeton instead of Korea, but he did serve as a fighter pilot.

http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHG...20Chickenhawks



Whatever...that's why it is so absurd when Bush plays toy soldier. As if
he has *any* understanding of the horrors of warmaking. Or anything else
except, maybe, Bud Lite.

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Whatever...that's why it is so absurd when Bush plays toy soldier. As if
he has *any* understanding of the horrors of warmaking.


As you do, I'm sure, based on your experiences.

John Gaquin wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message news:brf2et$2jjo4


Whatever...that's why it is so absurd when Bush plays toy soldier. As if
he has *any* understanding of the horrors of warmaking.


As you do, I'm sure, based on your experiences.



As a matter of fact, I do. I know quite a bit, first-hand, about the
horrors of warmaking, and I didn't get that knowledge being bounced out
of bars in Texas while I was AWOL from the Air National Guard.

Bush is crap.

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"Harry Krause" wrote in message

As a matter of fact, I do. I know quite a bit, first-hand,

You've made such representations before, but when asked to clarify or
confirm, became ominously evasive. IIRC, the only substantive statement you
made was that you *...served your country in time of war...*, which, of
course, could mean a great deal or nothing. Unfortunately, your credibility
is not enhanced by such things.