"A caravan of a few vehicles, rather than a chartered bus, will take Brown County residents to a pro-Bush rally in Crawford on Saturday, Brown County Veterans Services Officer Billy Murphey said.
Murphey said Thursday that he had decided to cancel the bus because there weren't enough riders to help defray the $1,300 charter fee. Riders would have been asked to donate $25 each toward the cost.Murphey, who is helping organize the trip, had made tentative plans to charter the 55-seat bus, but said Wednesday that only seven riders had signed up.He said he anticipates about a dozen residents will make the trip Saturday in four or five vehicles. Travelers will meet the Brownwood Coliseum at 9 a.m. and leave from there, Murphey said."

http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/2005/08/26/news/news05.txt

They can't even fill a bus?? Sad....

Radical Iraqi Cleric Urges Followers to End Clashes

AP - BAGHDAD, Iraq - A radical Shiite cleric called on his followers Thursday to end clashes with Shiite rivals so that stalled talks on a new constitution can proceed. Fighting continued for a second day after the cleric's office in Najaf was burned and four of his supporters were killed.

Radical American Cleric Pat Robertson Apologizes for Chavez Remarks

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized Wednesday for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, only hours after he denied saying Chavez should be killed.

"Is it right to call for assassination?" Robertson said. "No, and I apologize for that statement. I spoke in frustration that we should accommodate the man who thinks the U.S. is out to kill him."

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Tom Tancredo is coming back to NH - attempting to launch his presidential campaign with the help of NH racists. The NH Center For Constitutional Studies is having a dinner for him on September 25.

From their website:
America's founders declared that our republic and its Constitution were established by the hand of God. They emphasized that he will continue to bless our land only if we are a moral and religious people who govern ourselves by the inspired principles of liberty and union.

Apparently they haven't read any Franklin, Jefferson, or Adams - all who had some pithy comments about the religious.

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." Ben Franklin

Overruling the Pentagon on two of its biggest requests, a commission reviewing base closings voted to keep open a shipyard and a submarine base in New England that military planners wanted to shut down.

The panel also spared three other major facilities, in Texas, California and Louisiana, against the Pentagon's wishes as it sped through its first day of deliberations, debating and voting on even the most contentious proposals in under an hour each.

But it was New England that got arguably the biggest victories of the day: the commission voted to save two of the Navy's oldest facilities — the Portsmouth shipyard at Kittery, Maine, and Submarine Base New London in Connecticut. Together, the bases are considered economic engines of their region and elected officials from Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut lobbied intently for months to save them.

AP - 13 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has ordered 1,500 additional troops to Iraq to provide security in advance of two upcoming votes, the military announced Wednesday.

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 24 minutes ago

Bill Moyer, 73, wears a "Bullshit Protector" flap over his ear while President George W. Bush addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

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The True Majority Oreomobile will be doing a presentation tomorrow at the NH State House, for our legislators! Beginning at 12 noon, the legislators can hear how NH voters would reshape the federal budget - and hear the results of the True Majority NH polling. Our very own Senator Gallus is going to be at a committee hearing in Concord - so please call him and urge him to attend the presentation.

For more info call Chris Collier at NHCA: 225-2097

From the NHPR website: New Hampshire's 2nd District Congressman joins us to talk about the issues from progress and challenges in Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel, the economy, the newly passed energy bill and the fate of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He'll also take your calls. Join host Jon Greenberg for an hour long discussion.

http://www.nhpr.org/node/9577

Great chance to let the Chuckmeister know you've been missing him - and what you think about his performance on the energy bill - and his failure to protect Social Security.

susanb

The conservatives are falling to pieces on Iraq.... They just can't hang with Bush's Mess in Iraq anymore...

Andy McCarthy declared today:

For what it's worth, this is where I get off the bus.

...even if I suspended disbelief for a moment and agreed that the democracy project is a worthy casus belli, I am as certain as I am that I am breathing that the American people would not put their brave young men and women in harm's way for the purpose of establishing an Islamic government. Anyplace. [Emphasis is McCarthy's.]

And Jonathan Adler quotes a bailing Professor Bainbridge, who starkly states:

"It's time for us conservatives to face facts. George W. Bush has pissed away the conservative moment by pursuing a war of choice via policies that border on the criminally incompetent."

Adler goes squishy and mumbles: "While I am not sure I agree with his analysis, he raises questions that conservatives should address."

Where the hell are the dems? Getting the usual bad advice from their inside the beltway losing strategizers...

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