October Surprise: Jean Kerry and fat teddy get married!:
Posted on 02/11/2004 10:04:05 AM PST by Liz
Edited on 02/24/2004 3:01:19 AM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
Actress and activist Jane Fonda attends an anti-Vietnam War rally at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The rally was sponsored by Vietnam veterans. John Kerry can be seen directly in the background. 1970 Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, USALeif Skoogfors (CORBIS)
WASH TIMES 2/11 Rep. Sam Johnson, Texas Republican, who spent nearly seven years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam, said yesterday the photograph of Mr. Kerry with Miss Fonda will hurt him nevertheless. "I think it symbolizes how two-faced he is, talking about his war reputation, which is questionable on the one hand, and then coming out against our veterans who were fighting over there on the other," Mr. Johnson said. Mr. Johnson recalled that his North Vietnamese captors played recordings of Miss Fonda telling U.S. troops to give up the war. "Seeing this picture of Kerry with her at antiwar demonstrations in the United States just makes me want to throw up."
Hidden messages shout to you b/c you're so much smarter than the rest of 'em........comes from being a conservative.
Ditto.
Smiling...
Taking a look at Mr. Edwards...
http://members.aol.com/endclint0n1/ambulancechasing.swf
WHO pays for the full size passenger jet that sKerry uses to jet all around the country.I noticed in a pic, when the cabin door was opened, I noticed the word DELTA on a plaque on the the top step (or somewhere around the steps.) Again...WHO is paying all that money for jet,fuel, and pilot, and insurance? eh
bttt
bttt
bttt
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/news2004/1004/101504-iran.htm
"Kerry Taking Campaign Contributions From Pro-Iranian Group"
By Jeff Gannon
Talon News
October 15, 2004
http://www.inatoday.com/military%20target%20of%20101804.htm
"MILITARY TARGETED BY GAY ACTIVISTS"
October 18, 2004
By Toby Westerman
Copyright 2004 International News Analysis Today
www.inatoday.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, in an exclusive interview with International News Analysis Today, stated that homosexual rights activists are seeking a gay-friendly military. If they are successful, the ability of "straight" military personnel to effectively function would be compromised, according to Donnelly.
Both the 2004 U.S. presidential election and a recently filed federal law suit may have a direct bearing upon the U.S. military's morale and readiness, Donnelly warned.
Of the two main contenders for U.S. president, Democratic Party candidate John Kerry is a fervent, longtime supporter of the gay activist military agenda, and would seek to implement that agenda if elected, Donnelly stated.
Kerry's deep enthusiasm for homosexuals in the military expressed itself in an "arrogant and distasteful" attitude toward his opponents and ridicule for military personnel concerned about overt homosexual activity in barracks offering "little or no privacy," stated Donnelly, who cited Kerry's actions during 1993 Senate hearings on homosexuals in the armed forces."
October Surprise: Jean Kerry and fat teddy get married!:
The Boston Globe wrote:
"Sen. John Forbes Kerry's trip to Nicaragua bears out what many relatives on the Forbes side of the family, and most politicians who know him, contend. He's a shrewd opportunist whose personal political ambitions dictate every move he makes.
The arrogance he often displays came through in his boastful assertion last week that his conversations with the Sandinistas 'were longer than any the Secretary of State has had with the Nicaraguan government in five years.'"
Below are the most relevant excerpts from a series of articles that appeared in the Boston Globe in 1985.
*****************
KERRY, HARKIN ARRIVE IN MANAGUA
Published on April 19, 1985
Author(s): Walter V.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Sens. John F. Kerry and Thomas Harkin (D-Iowa) arrived here last night, expressing hope that their two days of meetings with Nicaraguan leaders will provide them with enough information to sway congressional votes on the issue of aid to anti-government rebels.
*****************
NICARAGUA OFFERS TRUCE IF US HALTS CONTRA AID
Published on April 21, 1985
Author(s): Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, after intensive talks with Sen. John F. Kerry and Sen. Thomas R. Harkin of Iowa, said yesterday that Nicaragua would agree to an immediate cease-fire and other measures to end the country's civil war if the United States ended all support for Nicaraguan rebels.
In a document handed to the two Democratic senators as they left, Ortega also said he would immediately restore civil liberties in Nicaragua and end press censorship if the
*****************
GOLDWATER SUGGESTS REPRIMANDS OF KERRY, HARKIN FOR TRIP
Published on April 24, 1985
Author(s): Eileen McNamara, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barry Goldwater yesterday accused Sens. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts and Tom Harkin of Iowa of violating a federal law that prohibits private citizens from negotiating with foreign governments.
Goldwater, expressing what Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) called "the repressed anger" of Senate Republicans, suggested that the freshman Democrats be formally chided for meeting last week in Managua with Nicaragua's president, Daniel Ortega Saavedra.
*****************
LIBERAL ACTIVISTS WORRY SOME STATE DEMOCRATS
Published on April 30, 1985
Author(s): David Farrell, Globe Staff
Sen. John Forbes Kerry's trip to Nicaragua bears out what many relatives on the Forbes side of the family, and most politicians who know him, contend. He's a shrewd opportunist whose personal political ambitions dictate every move he makes.
The arrogance he often displays came through in his boastful assertion last week that his conversations with the Sandinistas "were longer than any the Secretary of State has had with the Nicaraguan government in five years."
*****************
CONGRESSMEN DISPUTE SHULTZ ON THEIR ROLE
Published on May 25, 1985
Author(s): Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats say they are not about to give the Reagan Administration a free hand in Central American policy, even if Secretary of State George P. Shultz considers their behavior "undesirable and reprehensible."
"The Congress more clearly represents the views of the American people, who overwhelmingly disapprove of the Administration's policies in Nicaragua," said Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who traveled to Managua last month
*****************
ORTEGA'S TRIP TO MOSCOW LOOMS LARGE ON CAPITOL HILL
Published on June 8, 1985
Author(s): Eileen McNamara, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON - The major foreign policy debate of this session of Congress is turning not on issues of national security or international stability but on one man's travels.
The April visit to Moscow by President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua is cited by enraged Republicans and embarrassed Democrats alike as cause for the most recent resuscitation of debate on Capitol Hill over aid to rebels fighting Ortega's government.
*****************
He looks like he smells bad.
It's those decayed, foul-smelling liberal positions he takes.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40988
"Yasser Arafat endorses Kerry
Thinks Democratic senator 'better for Palestinian cause'"
By Aaron Klein
Posted: October 18, 2004
8:35 p.m. Eastern
On The Net...At Home and Abroad:
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/newsimages/usa/john%20kerry001.jpg
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=47357
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/newsimages/usa/push_cross.jpg
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=47240
===
===
IslamOnline.com: "The Silver Screen Documents the Political Fray" by Dilshad D. Ali (October 14, 2004)
http://www.islamonline.net/English/artculture/2004/10/article08.shtml
IslamOnline Views & Analyses: "Against John Kerry" by Norman Madarasz (October 14, 2004"
http://www.islamonline.net/English/Views/2004/10/article07.shtml
===
===
http://www.islamicity.com/articles/Articles.asp?ref=IV0410-2488
Muslim citizens have a voice and can influence the selection of the rulers of the country ..
Audio
Mahathir's advice on US Elections
10/16/2004 - Political - Article Ref: IV0410-2488
Number of comments: 73
Opinion Summary: Agree:58 Disagree:9 Neutral:6
By: Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
Iviews* -
"Open letter to American Muslims"
Well, here are some comments I got in a forwarded e-mail.
I do not recall seeing all of these details posted before, do with this what you can.
Mod please remove any contact information that may be incorrect to post, I left it in to show the e-mail was not ANON.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41005
"HYSTERICAL WOMEN FOR KERRY" -Commentary by Michelle Malkin
Posted: October 20, 2004
===
===
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000683.htm
"TERESA, SAD AND SUBDUED"
by Michelle Malkin ·
October 19, 2004
NOTE: The following text is an exact quote:
===
===
http://www.joyjunction.org/bulletin/modules.php?s=128fdbc9e713e69443b4ffe5c834de5b&name=News&file=showarticle&threadid=819
Lack of Care from Britain's National Health Service May Have Killed My Mother;
"KerryKare" Could Kill Your Loved Ones Too!
by Jeremy Reynalds
Executive Director
Health care is now center stage as we count down the final days to the upcoming general election.
President George W. Bush and his Democratic opponent Sen. John Kerry have dramatically different approaches toward dealing with health care for America. At a recent campaign stop, Bush criticized Kerry's approach to expanding access to health care.
"My opponent's proposal would be the largest expansion of government-run health care ever," Bush said. "His plan would put bureaucrats in charge of dictating coverage, which could ration your care and limit your choice of doctors ... He's putting us on the path to Hillary care."
In addition, one Washington-based taxpayer advocacy group, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), has estimated the cost for Kerry's plan at $1.5 trillion over 10 years. The candidate's proposal would reportedly hike taxes $969 per taxpayer, or nearly $10,000 over the next decade.
What scares me about "Kerrycare" is its apparent similarity to Britain's notoriously badly run and inefficient National Health Service (NHS).
My last experience with the NHS was four-and-a-half years ago just before my mother's death when I was able to visit her before she died about three weeks later.
This is what I found.
I made my way slowly up the stairs to the second floor of the hospital where my mother was a patient in the geriatric unit. I walked through the ward, passing by a variety of elderly people in various states of apparent mental and physical decay.
While I had been warned that my mother's health was rapidly deteriorating it was still a shock to me when I saw her. She was sleeping but her breathing was heavy and labored. Her hands, lying pathetically at each side of her frail body, were badly swollen. Her once immaculately permed hair fell untidily in all the wrong places.
Being assured by a nurse that it would be okay to wake her up, I went over to mom and gently placed his hand on her shoulder. "Mom, it's me," I said. "Can you wake up?"
The woman stirred, blinked, opened her eyes fully and although a little confused appeared to be pleased to see me.
"How are you?" I asked.
"Not so good," she said in a raspy, wheezing voice, speaking with difficulty. "I ask them to come and they don't. I've got bad phlegm. Can you get me some tissues?"
I took the nurse aside and asked her what exactly was wrong with my mother. She told me that despite running all sorts of tests they didn't exactly know. However, none of the tests explained the physical problems being faced by mom. The nurse pointed out that my mother did have a drug patch attached to her back to help alleviate some of the pain she was experiencing.
After saying goodbye, I left and came back the next day. Mom was sleeping. This time, things were worse than yesterday. When she was woken up, her face was permeated with a blank, vacant stare. She was even unable to recall who had visited her that morning.
Then while I stood in front of her, she said how nice it would be if her son would come to see her. I sighed inwardly and went to see the nurse, who again reiterated that while they didn't know exactly what was wrong with mom, they were still doing all they could to help her. However, mom apparently didn't think so. With that vacant gaze she still kept telling me, (apparently referring to the medical personnel) "I keep calling but they never come."
A tragic and gut wrenching story for me. It was in late Feb. 2000 I visited my mother as she lay in that hospital bed in South England: a "guest" of the country's nationalized health service.
A couple of days later I was back in the United States, so glad that my wife, pastor and a good friend had all told me that I should do whatever it took to pay a visit to my "mum" while I could. The week after my return, life was going on as usual -- except that as you might imagine my mother was never that far from my thoughts.
The following weekend arrived and with it plans for a birthday party for one of my sons, combined with a high school graduation celebration for another and a birthday party for my grand daughter. While it was a happy occasion the joy was tempered by an early morning phone call I received the day of the party.
My mother's hospital had called saying that she was getting steadily worse and it was not anticipated that she would live through the day. When I asked exactly what was wrong they still didn't know. In fact, the response I received was very vague and non-committal.
Later on that day the phone rang. It was a nurse from the hospital in the United Kingdom, saying that she was sad to have to tell me that mom had passed away a couple of hours before.
About 18 months later, I was browsing the international edition of the British newspaper the Daily Express, where there was a scathing editorial about the NHS.
Headlined, "An ailing NHS is bad for patients and nurses," the editorial writer intoned "Basic services in Britain go from bad to worse (There is) more evidence of the catastrophic state into which our health service has fallen." The article detailed the horrendous 36-mile journey that a couple had to travel from their local hospital for an emergency operation to save their premature twins.
As the Express wrote, "Although this was a life-threatening emergency, none of the capital's 20 special care units was able to help and the journey took nearly two hours. It is little short of a miracle that mother and daughters lived to tell the tale."
This latest scandal was on top of additional revelations about the NHS that surfaced in British papers at about the same time my mother passed away. While it was initially amazing to me that doctors had apparently been unable to accurately diagnose my mother's condition, I began to understand a little bit more as I read about the sad state of health care in the UK.
For example. The charges in 2000 against the NHS that unsanitary conditions may have been responsible for as many as 20,000 patients dying in hospitals because of infections they have allegedly picked up while staying in British hospitals.
One letter writer in 2000 to England's Daily Mail newspaper wrote, "We have health warnings on cigarette packets. Perhaps the Chief Medical Officer should consider a similar notice over the entrance to every hospital: ‘Entering here can seriously damage your health.' It may also achieve an effect on hospitals' waiting lists in that only those seriously ill would risk entering with a minor problem, only to end up with a major one, let alone terminal."
An editorial in London's Daily Telegraph newspaper in the same year went even further, calling the National Health Service "one of the worst medical systems in the developed world."
And in a e-mail to me, The London Daily Express's Peter Hitchen agreed, calling my experience "all too common."
Hitchen added, "The neglect of the elderly is widespread, and there have been many allegations that they are, in effect, allowed to starve to death( food is provided but no effort is made to help them eat it).Your general comments on the faults of our system seem justified to me, though I am unsure if the U.S. system is the one I'd choose to replace it."
Well, I for sure don't want to replace our current system of coverage (as troubled as it is) with anything that even vaguely resembles the NHS. That's a nightmare I don't want to think about and you shouldn't either!
Jeremy Reynalds
P O Box 27693
Alb., NM 87125-7693
Tel: (505) 400-7145
www.joyjunction.org
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
