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She was killed by 9/11, among other things. She was another victim of that horrific day, yet she wasn't even in the same country when the events of 9/11 happened She was born on September 11 and she was born in emotional pain that got worse every day she lived. Her father abandoned her even before she was born and stayed away a lot of when she was alive. He said he would gaze at her photo for hours yet he would rarely contact her when living in the same city. He said he would take her for an outing...

The man convicted in a school killing in Alberta has walked away from an open custody facility in Toronto, prompting a police manhunt. Police said Todd Cameron Smith left the custody facility without escort or permission. In April 1999, the then-14-year-old Smith sawed off his stepfather's rifle and gunned down 17-year-old Jason Lang at W.R. Myers High School in the southern Alberta community of Taber. He had intended to kill everyone at the school. The killing sent shockwaves across Canada, coming one week after two youths shot and killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Smith was...

I was checking out the site and I noticed the following message: Get Well Message From Americans Who care It has come to my attention that our American Wounded Soldiers need a morale boost. I want to send thousands of cards to those soldiers. I have a way to get the cards right to the nurses. I would like to ask everyone to buy a patriotic or thank you card and write a message to our wounded American soldiers in the cards. I will send them to the Combat Support Hospitals so the soldiers will get cards from Americans who...

Nov 2 2004 View of an Alternate Universe: Election Day from the DailyKos viewpoint [11:04PST; 2:04PM EST] If those IA numbers hold up... ...Bush is cooked here because we had a huge head start. If Trends Hold... ...Kerry's cleaning Bush's clock! GOTV, GOTV, GOTV! Show the world what happens when America actually choses their President, instead of having one chosen for them! If this holds, it will be a blow-out of epic proportions. I just can't get anything done today. Waiting anxiously for the actual results [11:10PST; 2:10PM EST] Not liking Zogby right now... I'm of the belief that Kerry...

Bush-Cheney campaign officials said today that Bush advisor Karl Rove, working with chief of staff Andy Card and national security advisor Condi Rice out of the White House, took the lead Tuesday in refuting early media exit polls showing a big election night loss for President Bush. Officials said the trio, from the Old Family Dining Room, were glued to computers showing GOP exit polling data that conflicted with the early media polls that found Bush losing big in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. Rove, working though the Republican information, found that the polls were flawed, especially in that they were...

More extremely good news. The Columbus Dispatch reported an analysis of registered voters in the higher populated Ohio counties. The last 3 paragraphs are extremely misleading concerning Cuyahoga county. This article reports Cuyahoga at 1.005 Mil registered voters. This is a net decrease from 2000. That’s important so I’ll say it again. Cuyahoga county, the most Democratic county in state and Kerry’s hope of winning Ohio has lost 5,000 registered voters since the 2000 election! All those stories about thousands of new registered voters are just so much BS. Hard raw data does not lie. Color Ohio red. Meanwhile other...

The Rev. O'Neal Dozier recently spent a weekend knocking on doors in West Palm Beach's black community canvassing votes for President Bush. "The results were very mixed," said Dozier, pastor of Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach. "At one house they'd tell you, `I'm not interested. I'm going to vote for Kerry.' But at the next house, they would sit and listen." Dozier, who was appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush to Broward County's judicial nominating committee in 2001, said his pitch might emphasize the Republican Party's abolitionist roots. If the family regarded themselves as Christians, he would focus on the...

His brother's helper: Jeb's 'strong leader' image after storms could help 'W' Not since Robert F. Kennedy has a president's brother been the political asset that Gov. Jeb Bush can be in the next 10 days. Sam Houston Johnson and Donald Nixon were mostly kept out of sight by their famous brothers. Billy Carter and Roger Clinton were sometimes amusing novelties but never figured in Democratic Party campaign plans. But with high approval ratings in the nation's fourth-largest state, Jeb Bush rivals former New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a first-magnitude GOP star. "It's not...

http://www.detnews.com/2004/politics/0410/24/a01-313507.htm Bush 47 Kerry 42 MOE = 4

MIAMI — They used to come to South Beach to die, old people long past retirement settling in a place so sleepy that one resident joked the only sound ‘‘you heard in the streets were ambulances." Today, the cheesy has been dramatically transformed into the chic, the old replaced by the young. The Roaring ’20s-era Art Deco hotels on Ocean Drive are now trendy restaurants and bars that serve drinks at 5 in the morning, the rich and famous such as actress Jennifer Lopez have been seen at the nightclubs, and beautiful people wearing alleged bathing suits dot the wide...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - President Bush turned the tables Saturday on Sen. John Kerry, declaring "the best way to avoid the draft is to vote for me," and pledged to oppose mandatory military service. The Democrat stuck to domestic issues, blaming Bush for a shortage of flu vaccines. Kerry also opposes a draft and has suggested that re-electing Bush would greatly increase the prospects for one. The president, fearing that young voters will be swayed by the charge, fired back, "The person talking about a draft is my opponent." With new polls showing the race tied or Bush slightly ahead,...

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What's the big question US presidential candidates should be asking themselves? Is my name short enough? You only have to glance at the credits on a Hollywood movie to see the polysyllabic, ethnic diversity of surnames in the great melting pot of the United States. But when it comes to voting for a president, the gene pool shrinks rapidly, and the preference is for monikers that are blunt and Anglo-Saxon. So if you want to find a way of forecasting who is going to win the race for the presidency, look at the lengths and origins of their names. The...

WASHINGTON - Weeks after Texas National Guard officials signed an oath swearing they had turned over all of President Bush (news - web sites)'s military records, independent examiners found more than two dozen pages of previously unreleased documents about Bush. The two retired Army lawyers went through Texas files under an agreement between the Texas Guard and The Associated Press, which sued to gain access to the files. The 31 pages of documents turned over to AP Thursday night include orders for high-altitude training in 1972, less than three months before Bush abruptly quit flying as a fighter pilot. The...

The presidential election campaigns of Republican President George W. Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) have resolved to limit their remaining television advertisements to 14 battleground states in the three weeks leading up to the November 2 election. Kerry has abandoned advertisements in North Carolina, the home state of his vice presidential running mate John Edwards, and Missouri, where polls indicate that Bush has a comfortable lead. Earlier this year, Kerry pulled all advertising from Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, and Virginia after spending millions of dollars in failed attempts to win the four traditionally Republican states. Bush's lead in Missouri...

WASHINGTON - President Bush's campaign vehemently denied a report Wednesday suggesting it is pulling back in Pennsylvania, one of a handful of battleground states that will decide the presidential race. The New York Daily News quoted an unidentified White House source as saying that Bush does not plan to travel to Pennsylvania anytime soon, and also reported that the state last month dropped off the Republican campaign's list of top 10 advertising targets. A Quinnipiac University poll earlier this week gave Democrat John Kerry a slight lead in Pennsylvania among registered voters, but indicated the candidates are running even among...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Mel Gibson (news) has donated $10 million that will be split between Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA and the Cedars-Sinal Medical Center to help care for children from foreign countries, officials said Tuesday. The donation will help children with serious medical conditions who are unable to be treated in their own countries. The children who will benefit from Gibson's donation will be recommended by Healing the Children. "For the past several years, the Gibson family has quietly supported Healing the Children's efforts to help sick and injured children around the world," said the organization's founder, Cris...

George W Bush's campaign is running a new advertisement attacking the White House challenger, John Kerry. The TV commercial accuses Mr Kerry of failing to understand the threat posed by terrorists around the world. It uses comments made by Mr Kerry to the New York Times where he says he wants to get to a time where terrorism is not the focus but a mere "nuisance". Opinion polls suggest the two men are in a close race for the presidency, ahead of the 2 November election. The new Bush ad was produced hours after the Kerry interview appeared in the...

BAREFOOT BAY, Fla. Nancy Stevens' eyes welled up with tears when she told Gov. Jeb Bush her all-too-familiar story: the double-whammy of Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne had destroyed her home and thrust her into a morass of confounding paperwork, federal agencies and grief. At this heavily damaged mobile home park in Brevard County, where storm victims waited to speak to federal and state officials, the 61-year-old retiree had reached wit's end. "Where do we go from here?" Stevens asked. "I know it's confusing - it's confusing for me and I didn't lose my home," Bush said. "We're trying to bring...

PALM HARBOR - President Bush won Friday night's presidential debate with a strategy of emphasizing John Kerry's Senate record, Vice President Dick Cheney told a group of Republicans gathered here to watch the event. ``It's the old Texas phrase, `You can run, but you can't hide,' '' Cheney told the group after the debate, repeating one of Bush's lines. ``The whole Kerry strategy has been based on this notion that they can obscure his record,'' Cheney said. ``Tonight, the president held him to account. ``He's a big-government, high-tax liberal, and you can't change that during the course of one campaign....