4 - Friday Headlines!

Cindy Sheehan announced yesterday afternoon that she would be mounting a campaign to run for the Congressional seat currently held by Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Sheehan is challenging Pelosi because Pelosi didn't move to impeach President Bush by July 23rd. - thereby "protected the status quo of the corporate elite and loosing touch with people in her district," Sheehan stated during her announcement speech. Sheehan said, "The country is ripe for change and it's going to start right here, right now!" The candidate says she has no money and will have to start raising campaign funds immediately....she also said she will not accept money from corporations. One of Sheehan's closest aides and greatest supporters is a former senior Pentagon analyst who will be remembered for leaking The Pentagon Papers to Congress in 1969 - Daniel Ellsberg. (Wow, Ellsberg, Pelosi, and Sheehan. I'm having a flashback to the flower power days the late 60's and early 70's! Power to the People Cindy!)

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Yesterday morning, when New York City and most of New Jersey and the 5 Boroughs were inundated with almost 3" of rain in as many hours the elderly NYC subway system came to a halt as many stations and tunnels filled up with water. Hundreds of thousands of commuters were left without a way to get to work. Yesterdays news broadcasts reported not the unusual fact that this had been an awful lot of rain in a short period of time....every major news channel instead had breaking wall-to-wall coverage of floods in the subway system, and, "incredible failure of the city's infrastructure!" (Geez, is this such a difficult concept to understand ?..... Folks where do you think water is going to go when there's a lot of it? I guess it's gotta go down the holes in the streets huh? Well if the sewers aren't kept as clean as they should be - and they're not - water's going to back up into the other underground services - namely the subway tunnels, electrical pipes and basements. I see it as being a problem of cleaning out the city's underground, and having well running pump systems spread around the city subway system. I have to ask where has all the money gone that the Metropolitan Transit Authority collected over the last 10 years? Did anyone think to upgrade the pumping systems before there was a big emergency? Naaaaa! Who needs planning! )

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Barack Obama is running for President saying we have to all come together and that "we need a new consensus based on faith and bipartisanship." (Remember those two words!) At the church that Obama and his family regularly attend, the pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. routinely references "white arrogance" in his sermons, and refers to "the United States of White America." Wright said of 9/11 that "White America got its wake-up call!" Adding that, "White America came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns." During the sermon on the Sunday that Obama and his family were in attendance, Rev. Wright preached, "Young African-American men, were dying for nothing." The "illegal war," he shouted, was "based on Bush's lies" and is being "fought for oil money." His sermon - filled with profanity - Wright also blamed the war on "Bush administration bulls--t." During the sermon candidate Obama nodded along with most of the other 2500 people in attendance. (Now that's the kind of faith based coming together bipartisan message we need more of here in the United States! Absolutely, Barack H. Obama is going to be a President for all the People! Yeah right, and Dennis Kucinich was just elected the sexiest man in America! Well anyway, if Barack is elected he can look us dead in the face and say..." Hey, I told you so...Honky!") Just how bad is this Reverend Wright??.....(invoking "her" name most reverently) a few years ago Oprah Winfrey said that she was a congregant of his church. She was reported to have attended a few of the services.....but since has disassociated herself from the Reverend entirely.

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The Rasmussen Report for August 9th. reported that President Bush's Job Approval Rating reached 39%!! You might say that isn't all that great! But take into consideration that The Gallup News Service reported, that as of July 15th. the latest Job Approval Rating for Congress, is 27%!! And yesterday's new Zogby Poll gives Congress a rating of just 14%! ( I'm afraid George Carlin is right - we get what we deserve!)


Finally, remember David Frosts' "That was the Week that Was" and didn't Sonny & Cher have some sort of a "Week in Review? "

Enjoy your weekend!

Dum Spiro Spero!