Passing this one on because it's too good to ignore

News From Representative Raúl M. Grijalva
7th Congressional District of Arizona

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 15, 2006
Contact: Natalie Luna (520) 622-6788

Gas and Oil Companies Get a Sweetheart Deal from Bush Administration

No overlooked CIA data, leads unchecked, etc. Al-jazeera carried him on the airwaves this time, and here is what he said:

Lots of locals just love this guy, myself included.

The money quote: "forcing abortion on demand, including partial birth abortion, without parental notification for adolescent girls"

Now, how one can force you to have an abortion you are demanding is beyond me, but these wingnuts seem to think you can.

Sigh.

Should be on now on the East Coast.

"Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said Yusuf Bey IV, 19, and Donald Eugene Cunningham, 73, turned themselves in at Oakland police headquarters Tuesday after a judge signed arrest warrants for them and four other men not identified by police.

The warrants issued Tuesday ask prosecutors to charge the six with vandalism, robbery, conspiracy and making terrorist threats, all felonies, police said."

Let me just say this about that:

When this young woman finally found a drug store that stocked Plan B, the pharmacist refused to fill it on "moral grounds". I guess this means that he thinks that his moral judgement is superior to hers, or that he is somehow qualified to make decisions about her life for her.

Well, I have the ability to make moral judgements also, so here goes: it violates my moral code to interact with health care workers who exhibit a sloppy attitude toward patients. Why did these people even enter health care, and whose needs  are they there to meet, their own or the patient's?

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The United Nations on Thursday offered to help the United States provide disaster relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina as the storm's devastation challenged the U.S. authorities' ability to cope.

Cholera! In the US! It's unbelievable. Cholera is a disease common to the third world. It usually is communicated by drinking water that has been contaminated with feces. It can happen anywhere, but  our public health infrastructure in the US usually deals with this sort of thing very quickly.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0508240204aug24,1,4346014.story?page=1&ctrack =1&cset=true

A cactus-lined trail of tears in Arizona's desert is marked by the bones of those who fail. This year has been exceptionally deadly.

By Stephen Franklin
Tribune staff reporter
Published August 24, 2005

Leader of Texas border volunteers quits, cites group's racist tendencies

Associated Press
Jul. 27, 2005 08:00 AM

VICTORIA, Texas - The Texas leader of the Minuteman volunteer border patrol
group has resigned, saying the chapter lacks structure and claiming racist
tendencies among members from his area, a newspaper reported.

Jump, this is FUNNY!

Immigration Rising on Bush's To-Do List

The White House wants to build a coalition to court Latinos and marginalize hard-liners.

By Peter Wallsten and Nicole Gaouette
L.A. Times Staff Writers

July 24, 2005

Jump:

BOB HERBERT

One of President Bush's surrogates went before the NAACP last week and apologized for the Republican Party's reprehensible, decades-long Southern strategy.

The surrogate, Ken Mehlman, is chairman of the Republican National Committee. Perhaps he meant well. But his words were worse than meaningless. They were insulting. The GOP's Southern strategy, racist at its core, still lives.

Jump, please.

CLAUDINE LoMONACO
Tucson Citizen
At least three people a day have died while trying to cross the desert since the beginning of July, setting the deadliest pace yet for illegal immigrants in Arizona.

At least 42 people have died across the state since July 1, according to Border Patrol and medical examiners' figures.