During this year's Super Bowl, you'll see ads sponsored by beer companies, tobacco companies, and the Bush White House. But you won't see the winning ad in MoveOn.org Voter Fund's Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest. CBS refuses to air it.

Meanwhile, the White House is on the verge of signing into law a deal which Senator John McCain (R-AZ) says is custom-tailored for CBS and Fox, allowing the two networks to grow much bigger. CBS lobbied hard for this rule change; MoveOn.org members across the country lobbied against it; and now our ad has been rejected while the White House ad will be played. It looks an awful lot like CBS is playing politics with the right to free speech.

CBS's censorship demonstrates why this issue is so important: a few big media companies can effectively stop political speech.

CBS still refuses to run "Child's Pay." But together, we can increase the pressure on CBS. And through the power of the Internet, we can make sure that millions of people see the ad and learn about the controversy.

add your name to the CBS petition at moveon.org or call the CBS comment line at 212-975-3247.

Intelligent Quotes

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever," -- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff," -- Mariah Carey

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president," -- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.

"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it," -- A congressional candidate in Texas.

"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." -- John Wayne

"Half this game is ninety percent mental." -- Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." -- Al Gore, Vice President

"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." -- Dan Quayle

" It's no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another" -- George Bush, US President

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" -- Lee Iacocca

"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version," -- Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony.

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein," -- Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people." -- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." -- Bill Clinton, President

"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." -- Al Gore, VP

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." -- Keppel Enderbery

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." -- Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina

“If we let the loggers go in and cut down all the trees we wouldn’t have a problem with forest fires.” – George Bush

Top ten reasons George W. Bush should NOT be re-elected...

1) Compassionativity is not a word.
2) Social Security IS a federal program.
3) Benjamin Franklin did NOT invent the light bulb.
4) Trout are not extinct.
5) Brazil DOES have blacks.
6) Speaking is an important part of being president.
7) Our children is learning enough.
8) Fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice, shame on me.
9) Two words... Big Oil.
10) Sanity is an inalieble right.

Bush = Hitler ???

from the website : Truthout.org ---


The propaganda.
The lies.
The rhetoric.
The nationalism.
The flag waving.
The pretext of 'preventive war'.
The flaunting of international law and international standards of justice.
The disappearances of 'undesirable' aliens.
The threats against protesters.
The invasion of a non-threatening sovereign nation.
The occupation of a hostile country.
The promises of prosperity and security.
The spying on ordinary citizens.
The incitement to spy on one's neighbors - and report them to the government.
The arrogant triumphant pride in military conquest.
The honoring of soldiers.
The tributes to 'fallen warriors.
The diversion of money to the military.
The demonization of government appointed 'enemies'.
The establishment of 'Homeland Security'.
The dehumanization of 'foreigners'.
The total lack of interest in the victims of government policy.
The incarceration of the poor and mentally ill.
The growing prosperity from military ventures.
The illusion of 'goodness' and primacy.
The assassination teams.
The closed extralegal internment camps.
The militarization of domestic police.
The media blackout of non-approved issues.
The blacklisting of protesters - including the no-fly lists and photographing dissenters at rallies.

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The anti-gay American Family Association is doing a
poll on gay marriage, which they are going to present the results to Congress.

Please pass this URL far and wide. (I doubt they expect anyone but
their own, anti-gay members to answer it.) Thanks!

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

Well Brittany Spears got married. For 55 hours anyway.

Some people like her see marriage as a "stunt" or a "pratical joke" but there are others in our country who only wish that they were allowed to get married.

Hollywood is filled with examples of marriages that didn't last much longer than Brittany's did:

* Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra were married for 9 days.
* Drew Barrymore and Jeremy Thomas were married for 19 days.
* Drew Barrymore and Tom Green were married less than 6 months.
* Nicholas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley were married 3.5 months.
* Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married 18 months.
* Shannon Doherty and Ashely Hamilton were married 5 months.
* Shannon Doherty and Rick Salomon were married 8 months.
* Jennifer Lopez and Ojani Noa were married less than a year.
* Jennifer Lopez and Chris Jud were married 8 months.
* Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe were married 9 months.
* Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were married 4 months (the second time)
* Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson were married 1 year (the first time)
* Janet Jackson and James DeBarge were married 8 months
* Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Joli were married a little less than 2 years.

Elizabeth Taylor and Za Za Gabor have both been married 8 times, while others such as Joan Collins and Charlie Chaplin look almost sane in comparason at 4 marriages a piece.

And yet... there are those who say that by legalizing marriage between two people of the same sex, our country will be destroying the "sanctity of marriage." Looks like some people should get their own house in order before they start throwing stones.

Since July of 2000, when the Vermont civil-union law went into effect 6600 couples have paid their $30 fee for their civil union liscense. Only 25 of those couples have sought a dissolution of their civil union. (There is one case pending in Iowa).

While marriage may not be for everyone, gay or straight, that is not the point. The point is to
have the opportunity if a person so desires to have one's relationship recognized by the government. Of the 1900 gay households in Vermont on the 2000 US Census, only 936 have sought such a legal standing as a civil union. Almost 86% of civil unions performed have been for couple from the other 49 states where there are no such laws yet.

Massachuettes will have to provide legal recognition equal to that of heterosexual marriage to gay couples by this May and California has a law going into effect next year (keep your hands off Governor Terminator!) that will provide domestic partnerships with the same 300 legal rights and responsibilites as marriage.

Maybe some day we will live in a country where one of the Fab Five from "Queer Eye" can make as much a fool of theselves with their personal lives and many of our straight celebrities currently do. Of course, those guys would have to totally redecorate those tacky Las Vegas wedding chapels first.