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Democrats let out a collective yawn. Clark better get the nod if Dennis doesn't. I'd just love to see the debates of: Clark: I served my country and watched my friends die in the front lines while my chickenhawk opponent snorted cocaine off of a hooker's ass in the bathroom of a Senor Frog's in Texas when he was AWOL from the Air National Guard that his dad got him into. Bush: Oh f***.

And for the love of all that is holy, they need to stop pushing Triple H.

Wait wait...people still believe this war was about getting weapons of mass destruction?

No. All just newspapers where I was quoted in articles or wrote letters to the editor that got published. Besides, with the PATRIOT Act, it's a lot harder to know what the government has on you because the PATRIOT Act states that anything they don't have to share with people, then they won't share it...even if you FOIA them.

12 results. All me.

They aren't showing it here in Champaign Urbana. We got the 'Best of Steve Martin' for some f***ing reason...they said that the states where Sharpton is on the ballot have to give equal time to all candidates except Sharpton isn't on the ballot here. It's f***ing bulls***.

Nuke, what are you talking about? If Carlos was God, he would have bobbled the sun when he was putting it in the sky trying too hard to look ultra-stylish putting it up there.

From the Daily Show: "Bush is going to repeal steel tariffs due to the condemnations by world organizations like the World Trade Organization. When the hell did Bush care what the world thought?"

This is the column done by my friend Ra down here at UIUC: What's common to Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein and Union Carbide? They all gassed humans. The first two have acquired well deserved notoriety, but in yet another instance of corporate malfeasance going unpunished, Union Carbide (acquired by Dow Chemicals in 2001) has so far escaped unscathed. In the early hours of December 3, 1984, several tons of lethal methyl isocyanate (MIC) leaked out of Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. More than 8,000 people died in the first three days. The death toll has since then crossed 20,000 and an estimated 120,000 remain chronically ill. Warren Anderson, Union Carbide's CEO at the time of the disaster, was charged with culpable homicide (punishable with imprisonment for up to twenty years) and declared a "fugitive from justice" in 1992. Both Union Carbide and Anderson face criminal charges in India but continue to ignore the Indian courts and also the Manhattan District Court Judge's ruling that Union Carbide "shall consent to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of India." Given the poor safety standards at the Union Carbide factory, it was a powder keg waiting to explode. In 1982, a confidential safety audit warned of a "potential for the release of toxic materials" and identified 61 hazards, 30 of them major and 11 in the dangerous MIC section ofthe factory. Corrective measures were taken at Union Carbide's sister-plant in West Virginia, but not in Bhopal. Furthermore, while all the vital systems in the West Virginia plant had back-ups hooked to computerized alarms, even the sole manual alarm in the Bhopal plant had been switched off. Consequently, the sleeping victims were caught completely unaware. On the night of the disaster, six safety measures designed to prevent a gas leak were either shut down or malfunctioning. A crucial refrigeration unit had been turned off so as to save $40 a day. This is not all, though. Recently declassified Union Carbide documents revealed that it used unproven technology to keep costs down. In February 1989, the Indian Government settled (without consulting the survivors or their representatives) for a paltry $470 million compensation with Union Carbide. About 95 per cent of the survivors received $500 for lifelong injury and loss of livelihood and Union Carbide was absolved of its civil -- but NOT criminal and environmental -- liabilities. This much was clear when in 2001, Dow Chemicals bought over Union Carbide. Dow accepted Carbide's asbestos liabilities in the U.S., but has been trying to lie its way through Carbide's Bhopal liabilities in India. To add insult to injury, it claimed "$500 is plenty good for an Indian" and refused to clean up the Bhopal site. Meanwhile, the chemical wastes left behind by Union Carbide continue to take lives and livelihoods, not to mention deformities in newborn babies. Soon after the accident, Barry Neuman prophecied in the Wall Street Journal that Indians don't expect compensation for lives lost because "the certainty of reincarnation satisfies the Hindus; for the Muslims, what God wills, God wills" (quoted on ABC NEWS, September 4, 2002). It turned out that not just Indians, but social justice activists everywhere -- be they accident survivors like Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla who lost immediate members of their families to the disaster and themselves suffer from several ailments or Texan fisherwoman Diane Wilson -- do care for justice and will settle for nothing less. The Bhopal disaster, rightly dubbed the "Hiroshima of the Chemical industry", epitomizes the worst of corporate globalization. The 19 year-old struggle for justice is one of the longest ever against a transnational corporation and reinforces the need for enforcing corporate accountability. As the survivors' legal counsel Raj Sharma says, "Criminal trial of corporate CEOs is not merely a necessary legal measure for justice in Bhopal" but "an essential prerequisite for tackling the growing crisis of corporate crime." Despite the many hurdles (including the U.S. and Indian Governments and the powerful business interests that control them), an International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal continues to gain in strength. The Bhopal campaign has received the support of AFL-CIO, Corporate Watch, Farm Workers of America, Greenpeace, Jobs With Justice, the Living Wage Campaign, National Association of Working Women and United Steel workers of America, among others. This July, 18 members of the U.S. Congress (including Dennis Kucinich) accused Dow of being a "party to the ongoing human rights and environmental abuses in Bhopal." They also took Dow and Carbide to task for the companies' "blatant disregard for the law."

"Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known unknowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know." I personally think Arnold should have won for his gem "I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman."

How did Macho Man Randy Savage's album not make this list?

Franken's new book you might like if you haven't read it yet. He attacks a lot of the main issues in a very humorous manner. If you want a book that goes after the issues hard, then check out Joe Conason's book "Big Lies: The Right Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth"...it checked out pretty well with SpinSanity as well with only a few minor errors in it.

http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20030630.html This is about "Treason". http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020713.html This is about "Slander". That is from one of my favorite websites, SpinSanity. They review books from both the right and left and fact check everything they say. Let's just say that Ann's books have events happening in the wrong years and things that supposedly happened never did. SpinSanity is not a leftist leaning organization...they attack both sides as their slogan says "countering rhetoric with reason". Al Franken also gives her a good thrashing in his book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" using a lot of the SpinSanity research. And as for a debate I would rather see it be Joe Conason vs Ann Coulter.

Nov. 21-23 this year was the Close the SOA action organized by SOA watch. More than 10,000 showed up. A group of us from here drove down.

I met a lot of Maryknoll clergy when I was in Georgia Nov. 21-23. Very powerful experience [along with the thousands of others that were there]

"physically incapable of being in the military" Woohoo for eye problems with my left eye that have me technically legally blind.

Too bad it's incredibly hard to get CO status. There are plenty of people that apply for it and never get it despite being CO's to war.

Yeah, I saw that. I was laughing my ass off.

The fact that the chickenhawks of both parties never served yet gleefully scream about sending troops to die in foreign lands makes me sick. Is there a difference between what Clinton did and what Dubya did to dodge? Yes. Clinton got student deferments. Bush had his dad call the TX legislature and got him vaulted over the hundreds of thousands of applicants that applied before him in the TX Air National Guard and that had higher test scores [bush scored so low on the test, if he would have been 1 point lower he would have been "too dumb to fly"] After getting in, Bush just left and went AWOL because he didn't want to take a physical. [Popular theory is that this is the same time Bush was doing cocaine and he went AWOL so he wouldn't have to take a physical and get busted] But then Bush has the balls to say that he left the military because the plane he flew was retired? Too bad the plane model retirement didn't happen until after he went AWOL for a while. If you're outraged about Gore being compared to Rambo for being a military journalist during Vietnam, then you should be really f***ing pissed that Bush goes AWOL then acts like a fighter pilot. I think Clinton was hypocritical especially when he said in regards to Columbine that we should not use weapons to solve our problems...and...oddly enough the day Columbine went down was the same day that the US dropped the greatest amount of bombs in Yugoslavia.

Hey now! Let's not give idiots a bad name...the f***os that wrote this article are so much worse than idiots.

That's what you get when your dad is a director of the CIA and has lots of contacts in the TX legislature. At least it's not as bad as Rush's anal cyst that kept him from serving. Or Dick Cheney's "better things to do". It's just fun to see the blatant hypocricy of the chickenhawks.

The troops of the Abe Lincoln when Bush played fighter pilot and declared "Mission Accomplished" were actually screened before being allowed to be there for Bush's speech. They were screened on whether or not they agreed with Bush's policies. Earlier this year, Bush was to give a speech to the EU and he would not go because they would not make sure that the entire audience was filled with only people who agreed with Bush. It's why Bush wouldn't go in front of Parliament with Blair when he was recently in London. At least our last elected President had the balls to go to places to give speeches where people may not agree with him [check out the video of when Clinton gave a speech at the Vietnam Memorial and you can hear vet's heckling him]

Better than Bush just going AWOL thanks to his daddy getting him into the Champagne division

At least Gore was in country in 'Nam and not at a Senor Frog's in Texas and Alabama downing margaritas and funding a small Colombian village like our current "President" Clinton didn't agree with the Vietnam war and left so he would not have to serve like many other Americans did. Hell, if my dad didn't get an exemption from the government for being a math teacher, he was planning on moving to Canada and he is the epitome of conservatism.

Bush met with soldiers' families? Oh man that's rich. Too bad it's not the truth at all. How many drugs over what period of time did you have to do to hallucinate that one?