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8/11/04
Swift
Boat Vets - Flip Flop
Interesting the information you can find on www.johnkerry.com
George
Elliot is in the ad
what George Elliot said BEFORE Kerry ran for president:
"In a combat environment, Kerry was unsurpassed. Kerry emerges
as the acknowledged leader in group. His bearing and appearance
are above reproach."
Elliot was NOT a crew member on Kerrys boat.
Al French is in the ad
Fact: Al French was not a member of Kerrys swift boat
Louis Letson is in the ad
FACT: Letson was NOT the doctor that signed kerry's sick
call sheet. Letson Offers NO PROOF He Treated Kerry. Nor did he
serve as a member of Kerry's boat.
Van O'dell is in the ad
Fact: John Kerry was nominated for the Bronze Star by James
Rassmann. Official Naval documents available at www.JohnKerry.com
include the reports. These reports contain the details of the four
boats involved, including Kerry's boat PCF-94. These report specifically
detail the boats involved receiving, "HEAVY automatic weapons
AND small arms FROM BOTH BANKS."
O'dell was NOT a crew member on Kerrys boat.
Roy Hoffmann is in the ad
FACT: Hoffman's Boss Awarded Kerry Silver Star & Bronze
Star: "Captain Roy Hoffman" was Admiral Zumwalt's "trusty
aide."
This is What Zumwalt Said About Kerry: "KERRY's calmness, professionalism
and great personal courage under fire were in keeping with the highest
traditions of the United States Naval Service."
Hoffman was NOT a crew member on Kerrys boat.
Van O'dell is in the ad
Odelle said BEFORE Kerry ran for president:
"As far as I was concerned, the war was won over there in that
part for that period. And it was mainly won because of the bravado
and the courage of the young officers that ran the boats, the SWIFT
boats and the Coast Guard cutters and Senator Kerry was no exception."
Lonsdale was NOT a crew member on Kerrys boat.
Bob Hildreth is in the ad
Hildreth said BEFORE Kerry ran for president:
"If John Kerry came to us and said he had one more mission
and we're going to hell, he'd have a full crew"
Hildreth was NOT a crew member on Kerrys boat.
- Jordan
8/9/04
Fighting the good fight
Now that Air America is up and running and doing very well, it is nice to see more and more liberal talk radio shows springing up all over the country. Be sure to support these folks as they take the fight to the conservatives on their own turf. One such show is Bruce's 'liberal voice of America' show. He E-mailed me today and I thought I would share with you his efforts to keep the radio waves fair and balanced. He is on the same station as Sean Hannity. Go bruce! So tune in to KABC 790am throughout Southern California and listen for Bruce, who is doing fill in work. Check him out online for updates on his air times..
Also be sure to check out his '154 Reasons to Toss george W. Bush'
- Jordan
Well I have added a new page to this site and it will be dedicated to the economy. It seems that the economy, much to the SCEP's (So Called Elected President) chagrin, is the number one issue for voters in this election. This is bad news for Bush because, lets be frank here, the Bush economy sucks. Right now the economy page is mostly graphs and charts but over the days I will be adding useful links as well. Besides I know how we all love to look at pictures.
- Jordan
8/6/04
Connect the dots. A list of bad news for bush and the following terror alerts
(Note this is only a portion. The rest is found here)
Also take a look at this graph that shows Bush approval ratings, and the terror alerts. Notice how the lower the ratings go the more frequent the alerts.
January
10, 2002 - George W. Bush, answering reporters' questions in the
Oval Office regarding his close relationship with Ken Lay.
February 5, 2002 - Angry lawmakers to subpoena Ken Lay over Enron
scandal. Journalists inquire about Lay's close connections to the
Bush
February
12, 2002 - Attorney General John Ashcroft on Tuesday called on "all
Americans to be on the highest state of alert" after an FBI
warning of a possible imminent terrorist attack.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
May 22, 2002 -- Bush goes on the record as opposing the formation
of an independent commission to look into why 9/11 happened
Same day:
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee votes to issue subpoenas
to the Bush administration for information on its contacts with
bankrupt energy trader Enron Corp.
May 24, 2002 - The attorney general warns railroad and transit systems to remain in a heightened state of alert
-Jordan
We
are turning a corner
"When it comes to improving our economy and creating jobs,
results matter"
- Bush
Yes Bush they do. So where are the results? The
job numbers released today show a measly 32,000 jobs. That is
a far cry from the 306,000 jobs Bush
claimed his stimulus would bring. One tenth to be exact. And
we all know how good this administration and the SCEP (So
Called Elected President) are at predicting
jobs.
The anointed appointed one will have to do better than that. After all, results matter.
-
Jordan
8/5/04
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth did not serve alongside Kerry
In the new ad, members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth claim that they "served with John Kerry." Hannity & Colmes co-host Sean Hannity echoed the false claim, saying that the veterans in the ad are "the people that know him best."
While the veterans attacking Kerry in the ad are veterans of the Vietnam War and may have served at the same time as Kerry, as The New York Times reported on August 5, the Kerry campaign noted that "none of the men had actually served on the Swift boats that Mr. Kerry commanded." Adm. Roy F. Hoffman, one of the veterans in the ad, has even "acknowledged he had no first-hand knowledge to discredit Kerry's claims to valor," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on May 7, "and said that although Kerry was under his command, he really didn't know Kerry much personally."
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's Republican ties
As Media Matters for America previously noted, on May 4, Salon.com's Joe Conason detailed Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's ties to the Republican Party. In addition to pointing out that the group's founder, John O'Neill, has long-standing ties to the GOP that can be traced back to the Nixon administration, Conason also reported that among the people behind Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is "veteran corporate media consultant and Texas Republican activist Merrie Spaeth, who is listed as the group's media contact."
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth doctor did not sign Kerry's medical record
Neither Hannity nor Scarborough bothered to note that Dr. Louis Letson, who is featured in the ad claiming to have treated Kerry for the wound that earned him his first Purple Heart and claiming that it was undeserved, was not the medical official who signed Kerry's medical records for the wound. The Kerry campaign noted this fact in a report in The New York Times and a report in the Los Angeles Times that surfaced when Letson first unleashed this attack in May.
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- Jordan
It sucks to be Bush
AAHHHHHH! Terror alert! Code Orange! Ahhhh! Imminent threat of an unspecified nature! Ahhhhhhh! Code red! Code red!
Why do the facts hate America?
Send them this. It is an amazingly well researched piece on what exactly Bush knew before going into Iraq. All the proof is there. Everything is cited and sourced. It is a powerful tool. Pass it on to everyone you can.
-Jordan
The
meme is dead. Long live the meme.
One of the big memes circulating among the GOP is that Kerry is too
inexperienced to be the president. They then go on to cite Kerry's record
in the senate and his number of bills passed as proof of this.
well lets run the numbers shall we?
| legislator | years in congress | bills passed | bills per year |
| Cheney | 11 | 2 | .19 |
| Kerry | 25 | 57 | 2.28 |
So kerry was 12 times more productive than Cheney was. That aught to shut them up for a moment.
Kos pulled a piece on this from the diaries which I will share with you:
In the "rapid fire" section of Crossfire she said the following to a Republican Strategist...
"Dick Cheney was in the house for over a decade. How many bills did he pass?"
The Republican Strategist paused, looked physically ill, then tried to change the subject by saying "Well, he was acknowledged as a leader."
There was laughter in the crowd.
But Brazille didn't let him go. She leaned forward and very calmly told the truth.
"2 bills".
2 bills for Cheney. 57 for Kerry.
Code blue! Code Blue!
- Jordan
8/4/04
CNN had a report on this 'new' terror threat 2 years ago. Don't believe the hype for one second that this weeks terror threat, the day after the Democratic convention is anything but politics.
Sources: al Qaeda linked to bank threat
The FBI announced Friday that the government has received a new, unsubstantiated terrorist threat against U.S. financial institutions -- a threat, sources said, that was to be carried out by al Qaeda operatives.
"Unspecified terrorists are considering physical attacks against U.S. financial institutions in the Northeast, particularly banks, as part of their campaign against U.S. financial interests," the FBI said.
And if there is any doubt that Ridge is playing politics check out this disgusting statement:
"We must understand that the kind of information available to us today is the result of the president's leadership in the war against terror,"
They are playing politics with our national security!
- Jordan
8/2/04
What
recovery?
I am sick and tired of hearing Bush go on and on about this wonderful
economic 'recovery' that we are supposedly experiencing. Tired of hearing
about how fast the growth is going.
I
put it this way. let's say you have a hill 20 feet high. then a few
years later some guy, let's call him "W", bulldozes the mountain
and in it's place he digs a hole 15 feet deep. Then after a while he
quickly throws 2 feet of dirt back into the hole. Can it be said that
the hole is being filled? Sure. Can it be said it is filling at a pace
faster than it was before he threw the dirt in? Of course. Is the hole
as high as the mountain? NO.
This is the slippery slope the Bush team is working. They are bending,
twisting and spinning so fast it makes me dizzy. But nothing they say
can get me to believe that Bush is anything but one of the worst economic
presidents in history. Period.
Now because sometimes these concepts are hard for folks on the other
side of the isle to comprehend, I make this point in a pretty animated
picture.
Check it out and
pass it on (error fixed. thanks Joel)
For months I have been saying that come November there will be no issue more important than this. The word 'Diebold' will be known by all, and unless people wake up, the word is nothing but trouble. The following article is a MUST READ for all people who want to see a fair election.
How They Could Steal the Election This Time
On November 2 millions of Americans will cast their votes for President in computerized voting systems that can be rigged by corporate or local-election insiders. Some 98 million citizens, five out of every six of the roughly 115 million who will go to the polls, will consign their votes into computers that unidentified computer programmers, working in the main for four private corporations and the officials of 10,500 election jurisdictions, could program to invisibly falsify the outcomes.
The result could be the failure of an American presidential election and its collapse into suspicions, accusations and a civic fury that will make Florida 2000 seem like a family spat in the kitchen. Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary, has written, "Automated voting machines will be easily rigged, with no paper trails to document abuses." Senator John Kerry told Florida Democrats last March, "I don't think we ought to have any vote cast in America that cannot be traced and properly recounted." Pointing out in a recent speech at the NAACP convention that "a million African-Americans were disenfranchised in the last election," Kerry says his campaign is readying 2,000 lawyers to "challenge any place in America where you cannot trace the vote and count the votes".
- Jordan
Wow, the Democratic convention must have been better than I thought. Time to increase the Boo! Factor™
Tom Ridge press conference on terror threat
But we must understand that the kind of information available to us today is the result of the president's leadership in the war against terror, the reports that have led to this alert are the result of offensive intelligence and military operations overseas, as well as strong partnerships with our allies around the world, such as Pakistan.
- Jordan
7/30/04
It was therapeutic
Before this speech I was anti-Bush. After that speech I am pro-Kerry!
Kerry
although still a bit f a stiff speaker, and still needs to work on those
applause breaks, rose up to meet this challenge. He really needed to
shine and he did much better than I was expecting.
He effectively countered every single one of Bush's negative attacks
all in one sweep. He was much more aggressive than I thought he would
be. It is if they toned down all the speeches in the days before and
then unleashed Kerry to do the most effective attacking, taking the
fight directly to Bush. It was a brilliant move. Anyone who thinks this
campaign is not being run effectively after this speech just is not
paying attention.
He also brilliantly spoke directly to bush and challenged him to run
a positive campaign with out the negative attacks Bush is dependent
on. Bush has nothing to run on so the negative attacks are a must. By
challenging Bush to rise above such attacks he is setting Bush up to
fail. And calling attention to that failure. Brilliant.
Below are links to the entire speech, as well as a link to some highlights.
John Kerry Democratic Convention Speech
John Kerry Democratic Convention Speech - Highlights
Did anyone elses jaw drop to the floor at this line?:
"I want an America that relies on its own ingenuity and innovation - not the Saudi royal family."
You go with your bad self!
- Jordan
7/29/04
Imagine that!
back on 7/7/04, I reported, as did many others the follwing story:
Screw October! Let's have a July Surprise!
A third source, an official who works under ISI's director, Lieutenant General Ehsan ul-Haq, informed tnr that the Pakistanis "have been told at every level that apprehension or killing of High Value Targets before [the] election is [an] absolute must." What's more, this source claims that Bush administration officials have told their Pakistani counterparts they have a date in mind for announcing this achievement: "The last ten days of July deadline has been given repeatedly by visitors to Islamabad and during [ul-Haq's] meetings in Washington." Says McCormack: "I'm aware of no such comment." But according to this ISI official, a White House aide told ul-Haq last spring that "it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July"--the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Imagine my surprise when I read on CNN today:
Pakistan captures high-level al Qaeda operative
Pakistani security forces have captured a high-level al Qaeda operative who was on the FBI's most-wanted terrorist list in connection with the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said Thursday.
Hayat said Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who the FBI lists on its Web site as being born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, was captured in a raid in central Pakistan "a few days back."
The FBI said on its Web site that the Rewards for Justice Program is offering a reward of "up to $25 million" for information that leads to Ghailani's capture.
Send this sham story to your friends and help us deflate some of the punch they were hoping to get. This is a transparent attempt to divert attention from Kerry. Don't let them do it!
UPDATE: I note that the CNN article mentions that this capture happened on Sunday. They chose to announce it 5 hours before Kerry speaks to the nation. This is a game ot them. It makes me sick.
- Jordan
7/28/04
Saddam Hussein on trial
I wonder if they will televise the trial. Seriously, you think lots of people watched the O.J trial? This trial would be watched by the world. I doubt Bush would allow that to happen. Wouldn't want all those cameras filming when Saddam talks about how Bush senior sold wicked evil mean nasty Mr. Hussein all those Weapons of Mass Destruction. That wouldn't do at all. In fact one wonders if Bush will even let Saddam testify. With all the prison torture going on you ha-
*** WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM TO BRING YOU AN IMPORTANT NEWS BULLETIN ***
Ex-dictator's lawyer says he had brain scan and could die
SADDAM Hussein has suffered a minor stroke and could die before his trial, his defence lawyers claim....
"Our information is that he's in very poor health. We understand from the International Committee of the Red Cross that our client has had a brain scan to discover how badly he has been affected by the stroke. We believe he could die because of his health problems.
"We also think an attempt may be made on his life.
"We're very worried that we won't have a client to defend." ...
"We believe any trial could be months, if not years away - I think Bush and Blair would be happier if he died from ill health."
Imagine my surprise.
- Jordan
Well a few days into the convention. How are we doing?
source: www.electoral-vote.com/
What about the 'battleground' states?
source:
online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-battleground04.html
Dropping
the Obama on ya
Before last night not many people had heard of Barack Obama. Now this
morning people are saying that he will be the first black president
of the United States of America. And you know what? I believe it. That
is how powerful this speech was. He makes you believe. He inspires you
in ways that we all need to be inspired. The speech was effortless.
It was awesome. The people on the right are sputtering and stammering
in an attempt to find some way to spin this speech in a negative way.
It was so positive and uplifting the pundits are blowing a fuse trying
to figure out how to taint this man. At one point in the speech, as
if he knows how they will attempt to spin his positive message in a
poor light he speaks directly to them:
Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal American and a conservative America -- there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and a white America -- there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States [...] but I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
Awesome.
If you missed the speech you can view
it right here (quicktime required). You can read
the speech right here.
This man is what our party is all about. He is a wonderful rising star and
I look forward to seeing him shine in the years to come. Watching him I
was thinking how every other phrase to come out of his mouth was a bumper
sticker in the making. "The audacity of hope." After the speech
I felt wonderful. Full of hope. Of course because I am a glutton for punishment,
as soon as the speech was done I flipped on Faux News, to totally dash any
sense of positivity I had gained.
- Jordan
7/27/04
I'm a little verklempt
3 amazing speeches last night. Gore and Clinton both hit home runs, but the one that stayed with me was Carter. Man, what a man of peace he is! Surprisingly while most expected Gore and Dean to do the attacking, Gore's speech was rather timid, although very powerful. It was Carter, the gentle man himself, who had the most scathing things to say about Bush. But one part of his speech stayed with me. Because he said, almost word for word, something I have said many times. It's about hope:
"... in many ways the last few months have been some of the most disturbing of all. But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail."
Can you hand me a tissue please? I have said those exact words to my fiance and many others. It was weird to hear someone else say it, yet it feels good to know I am not the only one who believes in the goodness of people and the hope for our country.
- Jordan
Im almost over being upset that I was not invited to blog the convention.
Almost.
OK that's a joke. Not a joke, as in I really AM upset, rather a joke that I would even be concidered to be there with the reputable bloggers. So if you are looking for coverage of the convention, in blog format, may I point you to This Modern World, who seems to be giving a hands on, play by play of what he saw going each day. For a more serious take you can check out Kos, who as always, is on point.
- Jordan
Michael Moore, and O'Reilly Duke it out
Moore at last goes on O'Reilly's show. There were several rules in place before Moore would agree to go on with him. No cut off mike, No editing the footage, they each get to ask a few questions etc. Here is a snippit taken from show:
Moore: That's fair, we'll just stick to the issues
O'Reilly: The issues... alright good, now, one of the issues is you because you've been calling Bush a liar on weapons of mass destruction, the senate intelligence committee, Lord Butler's investigation in Britain, and now the 911 Commission have all come out and said there was no lying on the part of President Bush. Plus, Gladimir Putin has said his intelligence told Bush there were weapons of mass destruction. Wanna apologize to the president now or later?
Moore: He didn't tell the truth, he said there were weapons of mass destruction.
O: Yeah, but he didn't lie, he was misinformed by - all of those investigations come to the same conclusion, that's not a lie.
M: uh huh, so in other words if I told you right now that nothing was going on down here on the stage...
O: That would be a lie because we could see that wasn't the truth
M: Well, I'd have to turn around to see it, and then I would realize, oh, Bill, I just told you something that wasn't true... actually it's president Bush that needs to apologize to the nation for telling an entire country that there were weapons of mass destruction, that they had evidence of this, and that there was some sort of connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11th, and he used that as a -
O: Ok, He never said that, but back to the other thing, if you, if Michael Moore is president -
M: I thought you said you saw the movie, I show all that in the movie
O: Which may happen if Hollywood, yeah, OK, fine -
M: But that was your question -
O: Just the issues. You've got three separate investigations plus the president of Russia all saying... British intelligence, US intelligence, Russian intelligence, told the president there were weapons of mass destruction, you say, "he lied." This is not a lie if you believe it to be true, now he may have made a mistake, which is obvious -
M: Well, that's almost pathological - I mean, many criminals believe what they say is true, they could pass a lie detector test -
O: Alright, now you're dancing around a question -
M: No I'm not, there's no dancing
O: He didn't lie
M: He said something that wasn't true
O: Based upon bad information given to him by legitimate sources
M: Now you know that they went to the CIA, Cheney went to the CIA, they wanted that information, they wouldn't listen to anybody
The rest can be viwed here. It pains me to link to the Drudge Report, but alas he seems to have the transcript up before anyone else. be sure to read it. The best part is where Moore gets O'Reilly to sign up to go serve in Falujah. Kidding. Sort of.
- Jordan
7/26/04
We get mail
Reader Andy writes:
Thought this might be a good link on your site. It offers a good view of John Kerry's personal and professional life. People complain a lot that they know nothing about John Kerry, maybe this article starts to teach them something about the good man that he is.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5506265/site/newsweek/
Great site by the way!
Andy
Thanks for the tip Andy! I Will also put the link on the 'election' portion of my web site. Viewer input is always welcome.
- Jordan
7/23/04
"If
we had known an attack was coming against the United States...we would have
moved heaven and earth to stop it."
- George W. Bush
Excerpts
from the 911 commission report Chapter
8 (PDF) of the Report, "The System Was Blinking Red,"
As 2001 began, counterterrorism officials were having frequent but fragmentary
reports about threats. Indeed, there appeared to be possible threats almost
anywhere the United States had interests - including at home.
In spring of 2001, the level of reporting on terrorist threats and planned
attacks increased dramatically to its highest level since the millennium
alert.
On March 23, Richard Clarke told National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice
that he thought there were terrorist cells within the United States, including
al Qaeda.
The next day [April 20], a briefing to top officials reported "Bin
Ladin planning multiple operations."
In May 2001, A report goes out to top officials that "Bin Laden
public profile may presage attack" and "Bin Laden network's
plans advancing."
In early May, a walk-in to the FBI claimed there was a plan to launch attacks
on London, Boston, and New York.
The next day brought a report that a phone call to a U.S. embassy had warned
that Bin Laden supporters were planning an attack in the United States with
"high explosives."
On May 17, based on the previous day's report, the first item on the CSG's
agenda was "UBL: Operation Planned in U.S."
On June 25, Clarke warned Rice and Hadley that six separate intelligence
reports showed al Qaeda personnel warning of a pending attack.
On June 28, Clarke warned Rice that the patternof al Qaeda activity indicating
attack planning over the past six weeks "had reached a crescendo."
"A series of new reports continue to convince me and analysts at State,
CIA, DIA, and NSA that a major terrorist attack or series of attacks is
likely in July," he noted. One al Qaeda intelligence report warned
that something "very, very, very, very" big was about to happen,
and most of Bin Ladin's network was reportedly anticipating the attack.
The headline of a June 30 briefing to top officials was stark: "Bin
Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks."
On July 23, the lead item for CSG discussion was still the al Qaeda threat,
and it included mention of suspected terrorist travel to the United States.
By late July, Tenet said, it could not "get any worse." On June
30, the SEIB (The Senior Executive Intelligence Brief) contained an article
titled "Bin Ladin Threats Are Real." Yet Hadley told Tenet
in July that Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz questioned the reporting.
Bush recieves the August 6 Presidential Daily Brief titled "Bin
Ladin Determined to Strike in US."
It was the 36th PDB item briefed so far that year
that related to Bin Ladin or al Qaeda, and the first devoted to the possibility
of an attack in the United States.
Most of the intelligence community recognized in the summer of 2001 that
the number and severity of threat reports were unprecedented. Many officials
told us that they knew something terrible was planned, and they were desperate
to stop it.
- - - - - - - - - -
If only we had been warned indeed.....
- Jordan
7/20/04
God bless you Helen Thomas
Thomas:
Prime Minister Blair took full personal responsibility for taking his nation
into war under falsehoods -- under reasons that have been determined
now to be false. Is President Bush also willing to take full, personal
responsibility --
McClellan: I think Prime Minister Blair said that it was the right
thing to do; that Saddam Hussein's regime was a threat.
Thomas: Those were not the reasons he took
his country into war. It turned out to be untrue, and the same is true for
us. Does the President take full, personal responsibility for this
war?
McClellan: The issue here is what do you to with a threat in a post-September
11th world? Either you live with a threat, or you confront the threat.
Thomas: There was no threat.
McClellan: The President made the decision to confront the threat.
Thomas: Saddam Hussein did not threaten this
country.
McClellan: The world -- the world, the Congress and the administration
all disagree. They all recognized that there was a threat posed
by Saddam Hussein. When it came to September 11th, that changed the equation.
It taught us, as I said --
Thomas: The Intelligence Committee said there
was no threat.
McClellan: As I said, it taught us that we must confront threats before
it's too late.
Helen Thomas: So the President doesn't take
full responsibility?
-- Helen
Thomas questioning Scott McClellan at a press briefing, 07/19/04
In
the city of Sin a woman is expelled from the Aladdin Hotel for speaking
her mind
Aladdin
expels Ronstadt after political remarks
Aladdin President Bill Timmins ordered security guards to escort pop diva Linda Ronstadt off the property following a concert Saturday night during which she expressed support for controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
Timmins, who was among the almost 5,000 fans in the audience at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, had Ronstadt escorted to her tour bus and her belongings from her hotel room sent to her. Timmins also sent word to Ronstadt that she was no longer welcome at the property for future performances, according Aladdin spokeswoman Tyri Squyres.
Near the close of her performance, Ronstadt dedicated the Eagles hit "Desperado" to Moore, producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11," and the room erupted into equal parts boos and cheers. She said Moore "is someone who cares about this country deeply and is trying to help."
Hundreds of angry fans streamed from the theater as Ronstadt sang. Some of them reportedly defaced posters of her in the lobby, writing comments and tossing drinks on her pictures.
I understand from the news reports I've read that, after Linda Ronstadt, one of America's greatest singers, dedicated a song to me from your stage on Saturday night, you instructed your security guards to remove her from the Aladdin, which they did.
What country do you live in? Last time I checked, Las Vegas is still in the United States. And in the United States, we have something called "The First Amendment." This constitutional right gives everyone here the right to say whatever they want to say. All Americans hold this right as sacred ....
Of all the things that go on in Las Vegas, this is what creates the need for serious action? What about the other half of the crowd at the Aladdin who, according to the Las Vegas Sun, cheered her when she made her remarks? Did you throw them out, too?
I think you owe Ms. Ronstadt an apology. And I have an idea how you can make it up to her -- and to the millions of Americans you have offended. Invite her back and I'll join her in singing "America the Beautiful" on your stage. Then I will show "Fahrenheit 9/11" free of charge to all your guests and anyone else in Las Vegas who wants to see it.
Aladdin
Hotel and Casino:
reservations@aladdincasino.com
TOLL FREE: 877-333-9474.
Ring....
Hello is this Aladdin Casino?
Yes.
Isn't your place the one that kicked Linda out
the other night?
Yes it is can I help you?
No, I think I'll go elsewhere.
Remember,
Linda Ronstadt didnt send 1000 troops off to the wrong friggin' country
to die. Whoopie Goldberg didn't sell us a war on lies. The Dixie Chicks
never took any of your Civil Liberties away.
Lets keep it real yo.
- Jordan
The 900 mark
900 young men and women sent to a country to die for a lie. 900 families asking why. 900 lives spent effortlessly by our government. All for a lie. Don't mince words. Don't sugar coat it. The dead deserve your anger. Question authority. Demand answers. As the president sets his eyes on Iran remember how willingly they sent our youth off to die. Remember that these troops are more than willing to be sent off to defend what they believe in. They were given the order and they did the job. All they ask, is that they are not sent overseas to represent America, for in the name of deceit.
- Jordan
7/19/04
I wonder if there will be another terrorist attack before the election?
- Jordan
Here we go again
With
all the criticism over the intelligence that brought us into the war in
Iraq, I feel good knowing that it won't be as easy to sell the American
people an unjust war this time around. Or so we hope. Because Bush is sure
to try to do just that.
Fool me once, shame on, shame on me... Fool me, we can't get fooled again.
