Month: May 2005

Rep. Weldon of Florida caught lying

I know it’s tough to believe, but we have caught another moralizing member of the Republican Party with his mouth full of lies.  This time, the culprit is Dave Weldon of Florida.

His victim is a woman named Susan Fajt, a resident of Austin, TX, who was paralyzed in November of 2001–three months after our president decided that we didn’t really need to pursue cures with embryonic stem cells.  On her own dime, she travelled to Portugal in June, 2003 for a treatment that involved using her own nasal mucosa . . . not adult stem cells. The results were not impressive–but Dave Weldon used her anyway.  What’s a “doctor” supposed to do when the  medical facts don’t fit the political agenda?  Sigh. Same as his president, I guess.  Make shit up!
http://weldon.house.gov/Photos/?PhotoID=20541

See, before she left for Portugal, Susan could stand up with braces and a walker. When she got home, she could still stand up with braces and a walker.

Here’s the funny part: last week when members of the Congress who oppose ESC research were having a press conference, Dave Weldon held up a picture of Susan Fajt and claimed, “This poster is of a young lady who was paralyzed for years and had an adult stem cell transplant. She is able to stand up.”

Problem is, she never had an adult stem cell transplant.  She had another kind of treatment, and her condition was not changed by that treatment.

On a message board for paralyzed people and their families that I frequent, someone happened to see that press conference on CSpan and posted about it here:
http://carecure.atinfopop.com/4/OpenTopic?q=Y&a=tpc&s=4754088921&f=3854088921&m=4981

01017&p=1

The very next day, our hero Dave Weldon was on CNN talking about this great new treatment with Miles O’Brien and Kyra Phillips. The “doctor” recommended to a high-level quadriplegic (former race car driver) that he go to Portugal for this surgery.  Dumbass!  That interview was seen by another member of the same paralyzed community.

Do you guys have any idea how fucking crazy it makes paralyzed people to hear these bastards talking through their asses about how the cure is already here, and they should just go and get it?  Most of the paralyzed people I know are far, far more educated on the latest promising therapies than their own doctors, much less the clowns who are actively lobbying to take away every chance of ever seeing those therapies come to the market.

Since then, there has been a lively conversation about how best to get “Dr.” Weldon’s dumbass lie out there for public consumption.

Can you guys help?  Please clean this post up and cross-post it wherever you like.  (A diary from me will not get a lot attention at DailyKos, but some of you can put it up and maybe get it seen . . . ) Newsweek can be drawn and quartered for a single sentence that is not strictly accurate . . . but a US Congressman can go on national television, make shit up, use a disabled woman to add weight to his airheaded arguments, and no one will raise a flag.  

Unless we make them.

Here’s a copy of what Susan had to say to Representative Weldon:

Dear Representative Weldon-

I am writing you today to respectfully but firmly insist on a well-publicized retraction of the statement you used to accompany an exhibit on C-span this week. The statement is below:

“This poster is of a young lady who was paralyzed for years and had an adult stem cell transplant. She is able to stand up.”

I am the young lady pictured on the poster to which you referred. My name is Susan Fajt.

The short sentence which offends me is full of inaccuracies.

  1. I went to Portugal for a cellular transplant involving my own nasal mucosal cells. There was NO “adult stem cell” transplantation involved.
  2. Although I am standing in the picture you referenced, it is only with the use of braces to stabilize my paralyzed legs. I could also do the same prior to the cellular transplant.
  3. My picture was used to support your stance of opposition to federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. I do not agree with your opposition to this funding and my likeness should not be used to defend your opinions.

I’m not sure of the legalities involved with such a use of my image. Perhaps such use is indeed legal; however it was also highly unethical and was offensive to me. I request an apology and a public retraction. This retraction must clarify the 3 points above.

Congressman Weldon, I’m playing in a game with high stakes. I need a cure for paralysis. If you want to use my image to justify a significant increase in research funding for adult stem cells, I can support that. I cannot be party to the use of my likeness to stop funding for a type of research because you find it to be morally repugnant. To my eyes, the use of blastocysts for medical research is less repugnant than the disposal of the same blastocycsts as medical waste.

On the embryonic stem cell issue, we may have to agree to disagree. Regarding your somewhat fraudulent use of my photo, I feel sure that you will appreciate my stance. I look forward to your immediate response, apology and retraction.

Sincerely,
Susan Fajt

Thanks!  Oh, yeah.  I want ESC research because I’m married to one of those paralyzed people.  Politics prevents the research that would make him well; it ain’t a game to me.

Austin Kossacks meetup: Sunday, June 5, 3 pm

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Yes, it’s that time again. Austin Kossacks will meet on this Sunday, June 5, 3 pm, at the Texas Chili Parlor, 1409 Lavaca.

If you haven’t been to one of our meetings yet, first and foremost we have fun. So don’t be misled by the agenda posted below the fold. We have an especially busy meeting because we have a lot of planning to do for our Bloggers’ Caucus and our dKos/bloggers table at DemFest. Not to mention that we are preparing to help elect Texas Democrats to the U.S. Senate (Barbara Radnofsky) and as governor (Chris Bell). And more!

See below the fold for info on DemFest for out-of-towners, plus our Sunday meeting agenda.
Austin Kossacks meeting, Sunday, June 5, 3 pm,
Texas Chili Parlor

AGENDA

DemFest

Bloggers’ Caucus

1. Revise agenda? By Sunday, we’ll have more details about this for discussion. In addition to Texas state representative and blogger Mark Strama, incumbent progressive Democrat of District 50, and Dan Fletcher of Lookin’ Forward, who are already on the agenda, some who want to be incorporated, will attend, and/or expressed interest:

  1. Supporting lookinforward as he prepares his talk
  2. roses wants some advice on introduction
  3. Should we have a sign-in sheet?
  4. lookingforward: report on fabulous door prize idea
  5. How to award Sandia’s bumper stickers
  6. How to get MSM coverage
  7. Coordinating our posts of pre-DemFest diaries
  8. And another thing

Our table

  1. Collect contributions for reimbursing Dan (Note: Special thanks to sciguy, who contributed even though he’s out of state at the moment and hasn’t even met us in person yet! He’ll be back in Austin in July and will start joining our meetings then.)
  2. What it will have
  • Need sign(s) & balloons…whatever
  • Signup sheet(s) – to help Kossacks from different areas find each other / any other purpose?
  • dKos/Austin Kossacks name tags/badges or other identifiers we want to use
  • Orange and white balloons (idea stolen from Seattle Kossacks)
  • Bulletin board w/supplies to serve as message center
  • What handouts are we going to have?
  • Markers, pens (how to keep them at the table?), paper
  • Tablecloth and stuff like that
  • Staffing it, keeping an eye on it, keeping it stocked – can someone take charge of that?
  • We have made an open invitation to other bloggers to place their materials at our table too…

Reporting

  1. Divvy up report writing on the various DemFest activities?
  2. Staying in touch with each other: share cell phone nos. & keep cell phones on?

Updating Kos At DemFest 2005
Need to get general info up there

AKs in action

  1. Supporting Barbara Radnofsky, Chris Bell, and other candidates (including Lamar Smith alternative)
  2. Welcome committee for DFT meetings in Austin (see lookinforward’s post on this)
  3. Lining up speakers for future meetings–Othniel has a terrific list of possibilities

Miscellaneous
Move Austin Kossacks blog to blogspot?

Announcement
George Lakoff to be at St. Edward’s, Saturday, June 25th, 1:30-6 pm

Future meetings

  1. June 12?
  2. July 9? In July, more social/celebratory? BBQ? (sciguy will be back in town) Invite speaker?

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KOSSACKS’ GUIDE TO DEMFEST, JUNE 17-19

  1. Check Kos at DemFest 2005, which will be updated with info (esp. as DemFest gets closer)
  2. Look for Austin Kossacks table–pick up dKos badge, check message board
  3. Events of special interest to Kossacks & other bloggers
  • Friday, 5-6 pm: Bloggers’ Caucus, hosted by Austin Kossacks
  • Saturday, 10-11 am: “Framing for Democracy,” by Jeffrey Feldman of Frameshop / “Websites and Blogs,” led by Greg Greene of Blue State Digital
  • Saturday, 2:40-3:40 pm: “Progressive/Alternative Media” – panel includes Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (dailyKOS.com) and Jerome Armstrong (MyDD.com)
  • Sunday, 8-9:30 am: Breakfast with Jerome and Kos (separate registration & payment)
  • Fun throughout, with political scavenger hunt on Friday night and great food and live music on Friday & Saturday nights. After all, Austin is the live music capital of the world!
  1. Consult A Yankee’s Guide to Austin (PDF format), by Kossack Lunch Lady
  2. Housing
HOUSING INFORMATION FOR OUT-OF-TOWNERS

In the “Additional comments” section of the DemFest form titled DemocracyFest – NEED Guest Housing, write that you are a member of DailyKos and would like to stay with another DailyKos member. (We’re trying to match up as many Kossacks as we can.)

HOUSING INFORMATION FOR HOSTS

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Hillary Enables a Rapist

…or so says bigot and huckster Lou Sheldon:

Hillary’s got an agenda – and she’s been willing not only to lie, but to enable a rapist to gets what she wants. Now, she wants to be your President.

Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine details the systematic attacks that `Bill and Hill’ have perpetrated on women – the ongoing bullying, coercion and bribery by the Clinton political machine. Until now, their stories have been manipulated, distorted – and even suppressed – to protect Hillary and Bill. Their Lives tells the truth.

Lisa Myers from NBC, interviewing Juanita Broaddrick asked: “You’re saying that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted you, that he raped you?”

Find out how she responded! Download a free chapter of the book; simply click here. It’s fast and easy.

More below, with a poll.
Yes, friends: it’s been weeks since “activist judges” have gotten up to any mischief, and over a year since any perverts have tried to get married. Therefore, the Religious Right needs to drum up a few boogeymen to keep their cash flow even.

The Traditional Values Coalition has dug up Hillary, as we’ve seen. Who else is out there?

Gary Bauer’s never at loss for someone to fling poo at. He’s comes up with Amnesty International:

Amnesty International has gone from being merely irritating to now making obscene charges.  On the eve of Memorial Day weekend the human rights group
compared the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet Gulag (prison system.)  For good measure they also urged that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, Attorney General Gonzales and other U.S. government officials, or “architects of torture” as they referred to them, be brought up for charges of war crimes.

Even the liberal Washington Post was astonished and accused Amnesty of having “lost its bearings.”  Actual prisoners who survived the Gulag, like Natan Sharansky, quickly reminded us that the Soviet Gulag brutalized tens of millions of people.  Millions of those who entered that Russian government-sanctioned hell on earth died of torture, starvation, exposure or execution.  As the Post points out, if Amnesty wants to find something comparable to the Gulag they could look to “the labor camps of North Korea,…China’s Laogai…or, until recently, the prisons of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.”

Meanwhile at our “gulag” at Guantanamo Bay the “scandal” is about whether a Koran was inappropriately handled – a Koran that was one of hundreds we supplied to the prisoners!  Guards who have on occasion violated interrogation guidelines have been charged and punished.  Can Amnesty International really be this blind?

One final thought.  The inmates of the Soviet Gulag were people who, by and large, simply wanted freedom.  For that they suffered horrible torture and death.  The prisoners in Cuba were captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan in the wake of the vicious Al Qaeda attack on our homeland.  It is a testament to the values of Western Civilization that they are still alive.

Meanwhile, Pam notices that the American Family Association has shifted its sights from Disney to Ford:

Donald and Tim Wildmon’s AmTaliban American Family Association couldn’t succeed with a Disney boycott, so now they are refocusing that message of intolerance and wingnuttery — and going after Ford.

   AFA announced it has launched a boycott against the Ford Motor Company because of the company’s track record for supporting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual “marriage.” The pro-family group’s founder and chairman, Donald E. Wildmon, says Ford’s financial support of the homosexual agenda goes far beyond a few donations.

    “From redefining family to include homosexual marriage; to giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to support homosexual groups and their agenda; to forcing managers to attend diversity training on how to promote the acceptance of homosexuality; to sponsoring a commitment ceremony — that is, ‘marriage’; to sponsoring ‘gay pride’ parades, Ford leads the way,” Wildmon states. “The goal of every homosexual organization supported by Ford is to get homosexual marriage legalized.”

    According to Wildmon, there was so much material demonstrating the automaker’s track record on promoting the homosexual agenda that his group decided it was best to simply give it its own website: BoycottFord.com.

Apparently “Ford Tough” just isn’t tough enough anymore.

And and and…well, there’s always the California Legislature to beat up on:

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE ON THE VERGE
OF PASSING BLATANT HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE!!!

HELP TVC STOP THE PASSAGE OF
HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE IN CALIFORNIA…

“AS CALIFORNIA GOES, SO GOES THE NATION.”

Supporters of Traditional Marriage:

Traditional Values Coalition needs your help!

Two weeks ago the California Legislature did the unthinkable! They have actually said NO to marriage being only between one man and one woman. Under the guise of so-called “equal rights” for same-sex couples, 11 Democrat legislators killed our constitutional amendments that TVC sponsored protecting marriage for one man and one woman.

It is now clear that the California Legislature is determined to force every Californian to accept blatant homosexual marriage. A full-blown homosexual marriage bill (AB 19) is on the verge of being voted on by the entire State Assembly in just a matter of days.

We must stop this from taking place in California! The eyes of the nation are on California. The rest of the country cannot follow California’s lead if they sanction homosexual marriages.

Thank God for those crazy Californians. Who knows how the righteous would raise the dough without them?

Here’s a Mini Project

I don’t have Lexis-Nexis anymore and it makes me crazy.  But one of you must have access.  Here’s what I want.

I want all the articles that William Safire wrote between 9/11 and the start of the Iraq War that mention any of the following:

Mohammed Atta in Prague
Aluminum Tubes
Yellowcake uranium from Niger
Mobile Labs for Chem/Bio weapons
Drones
Salman Pak as a terrorist camp
Zarqawi
Iraqi intelligence agents visiting Afghanistan
Chem/bio weapons labs in Kurdistan

I also want to compare the date of publication with stories on the same topics that ran in the UK Telegraph, or other Anglo publications (including Australian).

Basically, I want to document the circle of lies from germination through dissemination, to fruition on mainstream television news outlets.

Any volunteers?

I love Hillary (& her hubbie too)

I love Hillary, and it’s not for her politics. I love her sizzle. I love that she is brazen. And I love that all freepers f&*^ing hate her (what more is there to love?).


Ah, remember the good ‘ole days when Bill was in the White House? Those were the good years! A BJ for the Prez in the oval office is so much cooler than a Prez who bombs the heck out of Iraq and considers torture a new kind of entertainment. Desperate Housewife Laura knows what she’s desperate for – a little bit of the good ‘ole days of sweet Clinton action.

And imagine, if Clinton can get elected twice, get impeached, watch his wife get elected to the Senate from a place where she’s never lived before and then get elected as the first man for First Lady – well heck, he’ll be unstoppable. Did I hear Universal Healthcare and payback time for the f&^%khead freepers in freeperville?

My Blog: PoliticalSmartAss.com

Open Thread

Bush said that “we’ve had thousands of people detained” and “we’ve investigated every single complaint against the detainees.”

He added, “It seemed like to me they [Amnesty International] based some of their decisions on the word of and the allegations by people that were held in detention, people who hate America, people that have been trained in some instances to disassemble, that means not tell the truth.”
Wash Post: Free Reg

Once Upon A Time Bush Loved Amnesty International

[From the diaries by susanhu.]
In a galaxy far far away . . . Or so it seems today. Today Amnesty International is just another group of people “who hate America” and where its report about the US forces’ torture and abuse of detainees is just an “absurd allegation.” Today Amnesty is “not taken seriously” by our highest government officials (and the biggest Dick in our great land).

But once upon a time, it was different. A time like, say . . . 2003? (More after the fold)
Yes, once upon a time, when the evil Saddam “who almost killed my daddy” Hussein roamed the earth spreading fear and death, torture and rape across Iraq, a time when Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction threatened a “mushroom cloud” over American cities, a time when his mobile bioterror factories and remote controlled vehicles of death prowled over land and air, and Iraq’s ballistic missiles were ready to be unleashed on a mere 45 minutes notice, Amnesty International, and its report on the human rights violations of the Iraqi regime, were taken very seriously indeed:

Excerpts from the White House web page: “Saddam Hussein’s Repression of the Iraqi People”

Amnesty International reported that, in October 2000, the Iraqi Government executed dozens of women accused of prostitution.

* * *

Iraqi security agents reportedly decapitated numerous women and men in front of their family members. According to Amnesty International, the victims’ heads were displayed in front of their homes for several days.

* * *

In August 2001 Amnesty International released a report entitled Iraq — Systematic Torture of Political Prisoners, which detailed the systematic and routine use of torture against suspected political opponents and, occasionally, other prisoners. Amnesty International also reports “Detainees have also been threatened with bringing in a female relative, especially the wife or the mother, and raping her in front of the detainee. Some of these threats have been carried out.”

* * *

Amnesty International reported that Iraq has the world’s worst record for numbers of persons who have disappeared or remain unaccounted for.

Well, maybe that was a different Amnesty International.

Snapshots From Around the World 5/31/05

This is part of a series that is posted randomly throughout the week. The series is a selection of photos and sometimes editorial cartoons that sum up visually what is going on around the world. Unless otherwise noted, I don’t necessarily endorse the actions or the sentiments portrayed in the photos, and I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the captions. Feel free to add any current events photos or editorial cartoons in the replies.

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Reaction : A Pakistani boy walks past a burning a Kentucky Fried Chicken(KFC) outlet set on fire by angry Shiite Muslim mob protesting against a bomb blast at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Karachi. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)


How do you like `em taters?

May 30: You say potato… : Different varieties of potatoes are displayed in Lima during the celebration of the National Potato Day. (AFP/Jaime Razuri)


Snapshot from Around the <s>World</s&gt Universe.

The Andromeda galaxy just got bigger — three times bigger, astronomers said on Monday. The galaxy is not actually expanding. But new measurements suggest that the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way is three times broader than astronomers had thought. This undated X-ray image shows the central portion of the Andromeda Galaxy.

The grandson of Mohsen Abdel Hamid clears the debris after his home was damaged by soldiers who came to arrest the Sunni political leader in the Al-Khadra district of Baghdad. US forces admitted an embarrassing mistake when they released Hamid after detaining him in error during a morning raid on his home.(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Katherine Dawson, left, sits with her niece Ameda Jackson, 3, at the grave of Dawson’s grandfather, and Jackson’s great-grandfather, James Gay, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, at the Anchorage Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Anchorage, Alaska, during Memorial Day, Monday May 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

Kicking off Safe Kids Week 2005, near-drowning survivor, Rachel Riddell, and her mother, Julie Rusciolelli, stand among 50 silhouette cut-outs, representing the number of children across Canada who die each summer while playing outdoors. (PR DIRECT PHOTO/Safe Kids Canada)

Doctors carry the body of a Palestinians killed by an explosion in Gaza City. Palestinian factions warned that a de-facto Middle East truce was in jeopardy after Israel launched an aerial strike against militants, wounding two sisters in the Gaza Strip.(AFP/Mahmud Hams)


Wear underwear!  Hilarious caption:

Cadets take part in a ceremony at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst. Britain’s servicemen and woman have been ordered to remember to put underwear on when getting measured for new uniforms to avoid embarrassing their tailors.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)


The photo is from May 19, but was only posted on the wires May 30.

A tribal Indian tsunami survivor sits inside a relief camp in the badly affected Car Nicobar island, located in the southern part of the Indian Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, May 19, 2005. For thousands of years the Nicobarese tended their coconut plantations and reared pigs on the sandy shores of their island paradise. Today, the tribespeople have turned their backs on the sea. The tsunami that struck their shores five months ago not only killed thousands of Nicobarese, it cracked the very foundations of their economy and their society. (Staff/Reuters)


Photo from May 11, but posted on the wires on May 30.

An Iraqi school boy reads a book in class at the elementary school Al-Thakafa al-Arabia in Sadr City, Baghdad, May 11, 2005. Ten years ago, the Al-Thakafa al-Arabia elementary school had broken windows, a shortage of textbooks, and kids whose extracurricular activity was begging on the streets. Pro-Saddam Hussein slogans adorned the walls. Today, it’s still a squalid place with filthy toilets and crumbling walls, but at least the teachers have chalk and erasers supplied by the government, and the kids have pencils, notebooks and satchels. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Mexican deputy Marcela Lagarde, left, the president of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies commission on the assassination of women in Ciudad Juarez, and Special Comissioner for the Juarez Slayings Guadalupe Morfin,right, walk together after meeting with Interior Minister Santiago Creel in Mexico City, Monday May 30, 2005. However, President Vicente Fox has defended his government’s work to solve the cases. Hours before Cabeza de Vaca’s announcement, he drew stunning criticism from friends and family members of the victims and human rights groups by suggesting that many of the killings here had been solved. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Indonesian police on a armored vehicle guarding the US embassy in Jakarta 26 May. The United States said it would reopen its embassy and diplomatic offices in Indonesia on Tuesday, almost a week after they were closed due to an unspecified security threat(AFP)

A child runs among crosses in the sand during observance of Memorial Day in Santa Monica, California May 30, 2005. The Veterans for Peace creates an ‘Arlington West’ memorial with crosses in the sand representing soldiers killed in Iraq. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Spanish matador Sergio Serrano is tossed by a bull during the ‘San Isidro’ bullfighting fair at Las Ventas bull ring in Madrid May 30, 2005. Madrid celebrates its patron saint San Isidro every year with a fair including cultural events and concerts, as well as three weeks of bull fights. REUTERS/Victor Fraile


A slightly older photo I missed when it was posted last week.

An unpublished manuscript of a three-act play by Jack Kerouac, right, based on his adventures, which was discovered recently, lies a atop a July-August issue of Bestlife magazine which features an excerpt, in New York, Tuesday, May 24, 2005 (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Thai women walk past an anti-smoking sign in Bangkok. About a quarter of Thailand’s 300,000 Buddhist monks smoke, unable to kick the habit despite an anti-smoking campaign targeting the clergy launched two years ago.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)


Viciously pointed Rob Rogers editorial cartoon.


Accompanying story: Contestants Break Bones Chasing Cheese

Chris Anderson, 17, clasps his Double Gloucester cheese to his chest as he waits to be taken away on a stretcher, suffering a sprained ankle, after claiming first prize in one of the races in the ancient daredevil sport of cheese rolling at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, England, Monday, May 30, 2005. The seven pound chunk of Double Gloucester cheese can reach speeds of up to 70mph (130 km per hour) and many of competitors suffer bruises, sprains and even broken limbs. The first competitor to arrive at the bottom of the hill claims the cheese. The Cooper’s Hill Cheese Roll includes seven races in total, four downhill. (AP Photo / Barry Batchelor, PA)

Honor guards, center, carry the ashes of retired Army Col. David Hackworth, the highly decorated infantry officer who denounced U.S. policy in Vietnam, past the riderless horse, during a funeral ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Tuesday, May 31, 2005 in Arlington, Va. Hackworth, was buried with full military honors. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin arrives to attend a government crisis meeting at Matignon in Paris May 30, 2005. French President Jacques Chirac named loyalist Dominique de Villepin as his new prime minister on May 31, 2005 in a shake-up of the government following his crushing defeat over the European Union constitution. Villepin replaces the unpopular Jean-Pierre Raffarin who quit earlier on May 31st. He is a former interior and foreign minister who angered the United States but won French hearts with his fierce opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq. (Emmanuel Fradin/Reuters)

Bush Judges Coming Up/Bring PRYOR Down!

I know Bush’s Federal Judge choices are disgusting to many of us, pathetic to most, activist to many. One already got through (Owen from Texas). I am not sure what’s going to happen, because of the Mod Squad 14 backroom deal, with Brown from California or PRYOR who used to be the Attorney General of Alabama, and for the time being is sitting on the 11th Circuit(Bush back doored him one night, but his time is running out, now Bush must make him legit and lifetime..yikes). A lot has been mentioned about Brown from California, so I am gonna use this diary to toss out some Facts about PRYOR…Are you with me….here we go…..

  1. PRYOR called Roe v Wade- “The Worst Abomination of Constitutional Law in HISTORY”

  2. PRYOR filed an Amicus Curiae brief challenging a unique Texas Statue Prohibiting possession of firearms by Individuals, subject to a temporary restraining orders in DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES. Alabama had no similar statue.

  1. PRYOR Condemning any constitutional Right protecting “the choice of ones partner” As “Logically extend(ing) to activities like Prostitution, Adultery, Necrophilia, Bestiality, Possession of Child Pornography, and even Incest & Pedophilia.”
  2. PRYOR is beyond anti-gay…saying “States have a prerogative to recognize that “Homosexual Activity” is harmful and exposes both the individuals and PUBLIC to deleterious spiritual & physical consequences.”
  3. PRYOR Believes that “Executing the mentally retarded did not violate the US Constitution prohibition against cruel & unusual punishment.” The SCOTUS rejected PRYORS argument & prohibited ALL STATES from executing the mentally retarded

PRYOR loves Big Tobacco Money & NRA Kickbacks.

PRYOR was the Co-Chair of Alabama’s ELECT BUSH/CHENEY 2000 CAMP.

PRYOR believes in No Separation of Church & State.

I am sure this is just the Beginning of what evil lurks behind the man. I beg you all NOW…Start calling your Senators…I call My Senator BOXER about 3 times a weeks just to let my voice be heard about this Hideous Individual. This Judicial Activist PRYOR is an “Extraordinary Circumstance” and should NOT be allowed on the Bench and should be Filibustered if need be. PRYOR CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO PASS ONTO THE FEDERAL BENCH OF THE 11th CIRCUIT. Please join me now…Call your Senators and have them VOTE NO when PRYOR comes up on the Senate Floor. This Man is Americans Worst Nightmare.