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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 01:44 AM
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For Shits and Giggles, I went to MichaelMoore.com...
He never fails to deliver--bless his heart...

:applause:

His letter to *:

Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush


Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

---snip----


I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

---snip------

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.


---snip-------------
For full letter go to...

www.MichaelMoore.com


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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 03:01 AM
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1. Excellent! Nominated
And did you see this quote at the site?:
"I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich." -- Congressman Charles B. Rangel

And he is quite right. In a matter of days Bill Frist is planning on calling a vote on legislation that would repeal the Estate Tax. Yes! When thousands of the poorest people in our nation are suffering from the worst natural disaster the US has ever suffered, the GOP is shunting funds to the rich!

This administration never fails to disgust me.


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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:14 AM
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2. I heard earlier today that Frist was pissed off--
I honestly just thought it was speculation on the part of the news channel I was watching that a special committee and vote would be called.

Hmmmm...we'll see...I'm not getting my hopes up
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:21 AM
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3. Nope, not just speculation
In fact, I'm going to be posting that link in the DU Activists forum so people can e-mail their Senators and Representatives to ask them to oppose the repeal.
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:40 AM
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4. Whoa--
So another REPUBLICAN is actually pissed with his FUROR?

Has hell frozen over?
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:44 AM
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5. I don't believe so
The megalomaniac has just gotten to the point that even the bushbots are finally questioning his behavior. He thought that he had his admirers so enamored of him that he could go to any lengths, but he failed to realize that there are limits even for sycophants.
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:52 AM
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6. True--that's a good point.
So, what are your thoughts on this? Do you think a special meeting will be called to discuss how things went w/NOLA--leading to where is the money going, kind of thing?

This all may get rather interesting...
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:59 AM
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7. I don't know, but it would be very nice if it happened
There should be an inquest...where is the money going, why didn't Chimpy McF*ckstick et.al. do a better job of preparing for this, why haven't rescue efforts been better coordinated, why aren't people who are offering help being allowed to do so, etc.
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 06:39 AM
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12. Definitely, but you just know those losers are going to
run for cover and let the king of their spin machine (Rove), try to cover it all up. I sincerely hope that the the magnitude of this tragedy doesn't allow for them to run or hide.

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jessicazi Donating Member (458 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 05:36 AM
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9. when the ship is sinking the rats jump off.
shrub's ship is sinking and the rats (other repubs) are jumping.
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 05:26 AM
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8. chalk one up for ... Michael Moore ! ! !
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rosesaylavee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 06:16 AM
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10. Why don't more people listen to this guy?
Nominated. :kick:
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xynthee Donating Member (322 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 06:25 AM
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11. permalink:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=183

I used to visit his Must Read (http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php) page every day. I stopped after he ignored election fraud. I'm still wondering about that . . . .

But I digress! This is a good read.
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 05:11 PM
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15. Thank you for the permalink.
:hi:

I try to go to his site every few months or so to see what's going on in the world of Moore. I also enjoy reading his commentary on what's going on in the world--and how the boy king is handling it.

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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 07:44 AM
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13. here's some documentary material...just for shits and giggles.....
:patriot:
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yy4me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 05:28 PM
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16. My first thoughts..my god, they look like Nazis
Is this what we've come to? Ignore our citizens, then come to their rescue with guns.
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GOPBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 08:01 AM
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14. Awesome letter! n/t
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 06:18 PM
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17. Be sure to check out the clip of Kanye West
(scroll down) dissing the chimp.
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