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September 13, 2004 Monday
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Kerry rips Bush over
lapse of gun ban
MSNBC, 9-13-04
WASHINGTON -- John Kerry is criticizing President Bush for
letting a decade-long ban on assault weapons expire while unveiling his own
$5 billion plan to fight ...
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Crime rate holds steady at 30-year low, report says
Houston Chronicle, 9-13-04
By comparison, there were 23 violent
crime victims per 1,000 people in 2002. In 1993, the violent crime rate was
50 per 1,000 people, or about one in every 20 people. |
Silence on assault-weapons ban
Denver Post, 9-13-04
A majority of voters support extending the federal ban
on assault weapons, which expires today. ... He should
be working to renew the ban on assault weapons. ...
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I feel
so much safer knowing Timothy McVeigh types can acquire Uzis.
"The assault weapons
ban expires on Monday. Thank God, I can go back to shooting ducks with my Uzi."
-- David Letterman
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Solidarity
There are less than three
months until the election, an election that will decide the next President of
the United States. The man elected will be the President of all Americans, not
just the Democrats or the Republicans.
To show our solidarity as
Americans, let's all get together and show each other our support for the
candidate of our choice. It's time that we all came together, Democrats and
Republicans alike.
If you support the
policies and character of John Kerry, please drive with your headlights on
during the day.
If you support
President Bush, please drive with your headlights off at night.
Terror Alert Timeline
Disturbing News
“Let's go to the White House on Sept. 13, 2001. Just 48 hours after 9/11, the
toxic rubble at the World Trade Centre site was still ablaze. On that afternoon,
Bandar met on the Truman balcony with President Bush and the two men lit up
Cohiba cigars. At the time, the White House knew that 15 of the 19 hijackers
were Saudis. It knew that Osama bin Laden was Saudi. And, as the 9/11 commission
concluded, it knew that Saudi Arabia was "the primary source of money for al-Qaida",
which was largely funded by wealthy Saudis via Islamist charities.
President Bush was in the presence of the ambassador from the country that is
the guardian of Wahhabi Islam, the fundamentalist sect which helped produce al-Qaida.”
–- Craig Unger, The Guardian
Republican Shenanigans
“President Clinton
got tens of thousands of get-well messages, which is nice. I guess President
Bush said a prayer for him. Jesse Jackson went to see him in person. Rush
Limbaugh sent over some pain pills.” -- Jay Leno
Good News
All Hat No Cattle History Flashback
The island of Grenada after Hurricane Ivan hit.
(Royal Air Force)
On October
25, 1983, the United States, backed by token military forces from Caribbean
nations, launched an invasion of the tiny island republic of Grenada. President
Ronald Reagan, citing a recent bloody coup in the country, ordered the military
operation to restore order and provide protection for U.S. medical students on
the island…. The invasion force was met by moderate resistance from the
Grenadian Army and armed Cuban personnel, and by the time the island fell under
U.S. control on November 2, 18 American servicemen were dead. Despite these
losses, the invasion of Grenada was, as expected, an exemplary American military
operation. It was thus in sharp contrast to the U.S. peacekeeping mission to
Lebanon, where on October 23, 1983 -- two days before the invasion of Grenada --
241 sleeping U.S. Marines lost their lives to a suicide bomber in Beirut.
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Today In
History -- September 13
On
Sept. 13, 1993, President Bill Clinton, Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after
signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
Ten years ago:
President Clinton signed into law a $30 billion crime bill.
Five years ago:
Israelis and Palestinians opened talks on a final peace accord.
One year ago: Angry
mourners swarmed Fallujah, Iraq, a day after eight Iraqi police were killed in a
friendly fire incident involving U.S. troops; the U.S. military apologized for
the deaths.
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"We
invade countries that don’t have nuclear weapons and don’t invade countries that
do." -- Madeline Albright commenting
on President Bush's foreign policy
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“The
American Movie Channel, coming out with a documentary about Republicans in
Hollywood. This should be the shortest documentary in history.” --
Jay Leno
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Odd News
Flying high: A giant kite in the
form of an Australian outback windmill floats above surfers at Bondi Beach in
Sydney. (Greg Wood)
Peace.