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.

'Twas the night before Christmas and Santa's a wreck...
How to live in a world that's politically correct?
His workers no longer would answer to "Elves"
"Vertically Challenged" they were calling themselves
And labor conditions at the north pole
Were alleged by the union to stifle the soul

Four reindeer had vanished, without much propriety
Released to the wilds by the Humane Society
And equal employment had made it quite clear
That Santa had better not use just reindeer
So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid
Were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid!

The runners had been removed from his sleigh;
The ruts were termed dangerous by the E P A
And people had started to call for the cops
When they heard sled noises on their roof-tops
Second-hand smoke from his pipe had his workers quite frightened
His fur trimmed red suit was called "Unenlightened"

And to show you the strangeness of life's ebbs and flows
Rudolf was suing over unauthorised use of his nose
And had gone on Geraldo, in front of the nation
Demanding millions in over-due compensation

So, half of the reindeer were gone; and his wife
Who suddenly said she'd enough of this life
Joined a self-help group, packed, and left in a whiz
Demanding from now on her title was Ms

And as for the gifts, why, he'd ne'er had a notion
That making a choice could cause so much commotion
Nothing of leather, nothing of fur
Which meant nothing for him. And nothing for her
Nothing that might be construed to pollute
Nothing to aim. Nothing to shoot
Nothing that clamoured or made lots of noise
Nothing for just girls. Or just for boys
Nothing that claimed to be gender specific
Nothing that's warlike or non-pacific

No candy or sweets ... they were bad for the tooth
Nothing that seemed to embellish the truth
And fairy tales, while not yet forbidden
Were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden
For they raised the hackles of those psychological
Who claimed the only good gift was ecological

No baseball, no football ... someone could get hurt;
Besides; playing sports exposed kids to dirt
Dolls were said to be sexist, and should be passe;
And Nintendo would rot your entire brain away

So Santa just stood there, dishevelled, perplexed;
He just could not figure out what to do next
He tried to be merry, tried to be gay
But you've got to be careful with that word today
His sack was quite empty, limp to the ground;
Nothing fully acceptable was to be found

Something special was needed, a gift that he might
Give to all without angering the left or the right
A gift that would satisfy, with no indecision
Each group of people, every religion;
Every ethnicity, every hue
Everyone, everywhere ... even you
So here is that gift, it's price beyond worth ...
"May you and your loved ones enjoy peace on earth"

--author unknown

I strongly urge you to call and or write your Sentors and Representatives to reject The Federal Marriage Amendment.

Throughout our country’s history, certain areas of law have been restricted to the jurisdiction of the states. Marriage laws have been one of these areas. To allow the Federal government to seize jurisdiction in an area of law not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution would be a violation of the Bill of Rights’ Tenth Amendment.

I am sure you understand the historical need to maintain the rights of the states to make legislation and to control their own affairs without undue interference by the Federal government. To cede this right, in any instance, may establish a precedent, which could, in the long run, severely reduce the power of the states in all areas of law.

Since the abolition of slavery over 130 years ago, the U.S. Constitution has been a document that expresses equality and expands the rights of all American citizens. Its positive expression and protection of those rights is its hallmark. It is the envy of countries and the hope of people around the world.

To add this proposed amendment would return the tone of our country’s most important document from one of hope and inclusion of all people to one of restriction and separation. It would be the first time since the civil rights movement that discriminatory practices would be codified into law. It would be the first time since the Civil War that inequality of American citizens would be Constitutionally mandated. It would radically change the direction of a document whose purpose is to “secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity.” If we start restricting rights of certain groups where does it stop? When do “our” own rights become infringed?

We live in a country that is about freedoms. That means at times as a country, we have to accommodate differences we may not personally embrace in order to ensure that all individuals share this freedom:
· In order to guarantee that everyone can freely express their views we must tolerate things like pornography and KKK marches.
· Even though we may think some religions weird or unorthodox they are allowed to exist so that our own beliefs and religious practices are not infringed.
· Our justice system may not convict every person who has committed a crime in an effort to ensure that no innocent person is wrongly judged guilty.
· Some religions such as the Roman Catholic and probably other conservative sects do not recognize divorce and re-marriage as an acceptable lifestyle, yet our government not only recognizes these unions, it also protects the faiths from requiring the recognition of such unions.

The whole systems of laws in our country is set up to ensure the widest range of personal freedoms and to foster tolerance and acceptance of others who may not be like ourselves. The only way to exist in a nation with such diversity as ours is to fully embrace those differences as a positive trait in our nation and not to divide our country by what makes us different.

Placing such a restrictive covenant such as the Federal Marriage Amendment on a document meant to enumerate and describe our freedoms as Americans would certainly do more long term harm to our national sense of purpose, our image as perceived by other nations, and the freedom of our citizens, than allowing the states to determine what the marriage laws are in their own respective jurisdictions.

Again I urge you to write your Senators and Representatives to reject the Federal Marriage Amendment.

I believe that ALL Americans, including gays and lesbians, deserve the rights, responsibilities, and
privileges that come with marriage. And right now, we have an unprecedented opportunity to make that
dream a reality. Please, join me in adding your voice to a million voices raised in support of civil
marriage for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender couples at www.MillionForMarriage.org.

You know i think the comedians are right.. California is like a bowl of granola.. what's not fruit or nuts is flakes. And the current mess out there seems to prove it more and more every day.

First of all, people are upset because the state has money problems. Almost every state has money problems due to the bad economy, the extra security efforts mandated but not paid for by Washington, and tax and program cuts in Washington mean more of a burden has been shifted to the states. California isn't in a unique situation. Everyday there are news stories about one state legistlature or another trying to deal with budget issues. California is the largest state, with an economy larger than that of most countries, so their problem looks a lot worse.

So now some rich Republican has paid people to go around the state to force a re-call election of the Governor who was elected only a year ago. They say this special election will cost the state of California 35 million dollars. When the government cannot pay the bills it has how is it financially responsible to force the government even deeper into debt ?

And the cast of characters lining up to be on the ballot looks more like Circus of the Stars than a group willing and able to serious consider the problems before the California government.

One of the least qualified, but most covered of these candidates is Arnold Schwarzenegger. We all know that he is a Republican and he backs Republican causes and candidates. But does that make him qualified to be a statewide elected official ?

While the Movie Making business is oftern mentioned in association with big budgets, it's reputation is more for slight of hand accounting than for inovation and frugality. While he is a major star, playing characters other than himself, he has rarely participated in the producing end of the business which is where the finances of a movie are delt with. His only two producing credits are for the films "The Sixth Day" and "The Last Action Hero" neither of which were huge profit makers.

In his announcement, he said that he was a man of the people but that he was wealthy enough to be able to finance his campaign without accepting any donations. I don't know many people in California or any other state who can say or do that.

How in touch is this "man of the people" who lives in a mansion in Brentwood (think OJ Simpson's neighborhood) and who spends most of his life surrounded by assistants and other movie people who themselves are probably not totally in touch with reality for the middle class. I don't recall any of my California friends mentioning being in the check out line at the local supermarket on Saturday morning behind Arnie and Maria and the kids.

Does someone who has multiple millions of dollars in his personal bank accounts understand the sort of restraint and spending cuts necessary to bring the finances of the state of California under control ??

Of course the other announced candidates are not much better. The ex-husband and wife team of Michael and Arrianna Huffington are both said to be running. That divorce is still in vendetta mode it seems. I don't know what Mrs. Huffington does except to go on the cable news channels and tell everyone else what they should be doing. Her voice is that of priviledge so i doubt she knows how to cut spending in a serious way either.

Comedian Gallagher has announced he will also be on the ballot of the special election. Can he bash government spending the way he bashes watermelons in his show. While he would make sure that meetings and speeches were entertaining, I doubt he would be taken seriously by those with the power at the state capital.

The state representative who paid for the recall petition drive with his own money is also running. Darrell Issa seems to have decided that if the election doesn't go you way, you can just pay for a new one. If the recall is not successfull I wonder how many times he can pay for a new recall petition drive and keep Californians perpetually going to the polls while nothing gets done in the state.

Hustler Magazine Larry Flynt has also announced that he is running. At least Mr. Flynt has run a succesfull business for a number of years no matter what you may think of its content. His magazine has spent a lot of time in court fighting for its right to be and still must be showing a profit to continue to find its way to convience store shelves. Mr. Flynt has a history of suporting individual rights and freedoms over the government and narrow-minded people's actions and desires. He truly believes in limited government and that government should stay out of people's personal business. Mr. Flynt is also confined to a wheelchair and can certianly be an advocate for minorities and the less fortunate in our society who are frequently over looked or over run by government today.

It's going to be a long and colorful race when the best alternative to the sitting Governor is the publisher of a tittie magazine.