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One-time radical activist Tom Hayden thinks that protests planned for the Republican National Convention will eclipse those he led against the party in Chicago in 1968."They'll be bigger by a thousandfold," Mr. Hayden told New York-based Indymedia.
"[Then Chicago Mayor Richard] Daley and the police really frightened people out of coming, and it was hardly a handful who were there," he recalled. "I think between 100,000 and ten times that many will be in New York." [I'm so important, I started it all! Bow to me the glorious Tom Hayden!]
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last night introduced President Bush at a Los Angeles fund-raiser by unapologetically reprising his joke about Democrats being "girlie men."
"I just want you to know how hard I've been working for you here in California," Mr. Schwarzenegger said at a dinner that raised $3 million for the Republican Party, reports Bill Sammon of The Washington Times.
"I've been organizing Republicans for Bush-Cheney. I've been organizing Austrian-born bodybuilders for Bush-Cheney.
"I have even been organizing girlie-men for Bush-Cheney," the governor added, prompting raucous laughter from the party faithful.
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As mountaineer would say, "Mr. Irreverent rides again:
Al Gore criticized President Bush's nomination of Rep. Porter J. Goss, eight-term Florida Republican, to lead the CIA, saying the president was using September 11 for political benefit, Associated Press reports.
In a speech yesterday before Music Row Democrats — a Nashville group formed to counter the image of country music as a bastion of Republicans — Mr. Gore said Mr. Bush "just thumbed his nose" at the bipartisan commission established to investigate the attacks.
"Is that the best person to come in and fix all these problems that the 9/11 commission told us about — when he's been out there as a partisan advocate dividing people on the subject of war and on the subject of intelligence?" Mr. Gore asked. {Goss has been "out there" dividing people on war and intel? Cough, sputter, cough, cough!] InsidePolitics
Wind is starting to pick up now, debris is brushing the roof and the power is almost flickering. Don't worry, we'll be ok!
Message from BWB:
She is fine. The storm passed around 10. She has leaves all over but no other damage.
She will be without power for awhile.