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- Bush's tax cuts overwhelmingly favor the wealthy.
The top 1% will save more than $30,000 per year while 31% save nothing
at all. Source: Citizens for Tax Justice and AFL/CIO
- The nation faces a record $500 billion deficit. The biggest cause of the deficit is Bush's tax cuts. Source: www.govexec.com
- The Bush Administration is systematically turning back 30 years of environmental progress. Source: Sierra Club
- President Bush is under-funding education with the smallest percentage increase in funding in eight years. Source: Committee on Education and the Workforce
- 2.9 million jobs have been lost under the Bush Administration. Source: New York Times
- Bush misled the public about the reasons for going to war with Iraq. No weapons of mass destruction have been found. Source: The Guardian
- Bush's Medicare bill helps corporations, not the elderly. 43.6 million U.S. citizens do not have health care. Source: www.misleader.org
- Halliburton,
the company where Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO, was given
multi-billion dollar contracts in Iraq without competitive bidding.
Source: New York Review of Books
- Pentagon officials found that Halliburton overcharged the U.S. government by $61 million for gasoline in Iraq. Source: Associated Press
- Deputy
Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, one of the main architects for
the war in Iraq, admitted that Iraq had nothing
to do with the September 11 terrorist attacks. Source: Washington Post
 
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| words wouldn't do justice to this annually held festival of festivals but i'll give it a go anyway. phenomenal. unbelievable. a glorious extravaganza that was truly one of a kind and i will never forget it.
so on saturday and sunday afternoons we trekked across from one county line to the next until we reached our destination that is the boondocks of indio, california. after a few hours of disastrous vehicular traffic we entered the fields of coachella only to be bombarded by hoards of human traffic but this time it was chaotically okay. i loved how i was rubbing elbows with 100,000 other hot glistening gorgeous colorful fanatics. it wasn't a problem to be sharing vomit-inducing porta-potty row, the buzzin' beer gardens, the 1000 degree rays of golden sun slowly but surely frying us all, or the colossally sized but stuffy as a motherfucker tent spaces where there was plenty of dancing, singing, swaying, lounging, meditating, sleeping, eating, drinking, rolling, lying, sharing, joking, smoking, toking, talking, screaming, laughing, crying, anything...so long as we were all wired and enjoying the music, it was fine by me. kanye west. common. sigur ros. carl cox. damian marley. imogen heap. audio bullys. franz ferdinand. eagles of death metal. depeche mode. daft punk. james blunt. louie vega. bloc party. digable planets. gnarls barkley. paul oakenfold. yeah yeah yeahs. matisyahu. madonna. massive attack. scissor sisters. tool. what a weekend. you touched my soul. thank you.
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| i often catch myself spitting out empty fillers
such as "like," "um," and "you know?" and i find that very usage to be
both debilitating and clumsy while speaking or writing. imagine a
crucial interview where i might answer a question with, "so, like, um,
yeah, that is my greatest weakness, you know what i mean?" all because
of a shitty vernacular by force of habit. a door that might have
been slightly ajar would then be slammed shut. i think it's not
at all uncommon for most of us to fumble with our speech patterns when
talking to friends, family, and acquaintances, but it's also not the
greatest way to come across when that transfers over to the
professional world.
i understand that the "quarter-life
crisis" is a period of seemingly endless searching, therefore i
mentally document certain realizations as they occur. it's only
natural. one study indicates that at my age the brain wiring is largely set but the frontal cortex is still in development, which is concerned with the
individual's ability to withhold inappropriate verbal or motor
responses while completing a task. sometimes i act or speak
without first considering the consequences but scientific findings
suggest that many people who are incontinent can become continent with
training and that this process doesn't stabilize until the early 20s. this means the clock is ticking.
although
i may be painting myself as a stickler for articulation, it's no secret
that the art of negotiation is absolutely imperative for an attorney at
law. upon entering this field, i now know that to be orally
succinct is to be successful. that capturing an audience under
the inevitable time constraints is of the essence. that we really
don't have all day to be beating around the bush and that cutting to
the chase is obviously always the more preferred method of
communication. i dont subscribe to the "less is more" belief per
se, however, it is important after all to reject the trivialities in
order to make room for the things that matter. less fluff, more
substance. less alcohol, more memories. less hate, more
love. intelligent life should aim at using fewer words, fewer
addictions, and, above all, fewer biases.
"if brevity is the soul of wit, prolixity must be the soul of stupidity."
my microsoft paint rendering of mis
amigas; paddling down the southfork american river; fresh off the boat
in marina del rey; yuns and mitchells congregated in san francisco;
wedding crashers at the santa barbara zoo; izzy & i waiting for a
ride on connecticut st; happy earth day to all & a very happy 12th
birthday to my kid sis esther who's not quite yet a teenager but already a super party animal. | | |
| i want a perfect body, i want a perfect soul, and i also want a perfect love. will that ever occur? yes or no or maybe so. i will never know until it happens. we live and learn from experience, whether they're shit or spectacular, otherwise the mind may just as well be rendered obsolete. existentially speaking, we are all separate entities and any given pair of individuals may conflict.
differences aside, i think it's important that everyone take a moment to open their eyes before their mouths in order to interrupt further ignorance and allow a bit more understanding. i understand cicero when he said, "to each his own," because quite frankly "if i want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own" (cher). i don't love her but i do love the freedoms we're alotted simply because we choose to exist.
what i'm not a fan of are those that lack individuality, integrity or a sense of reason but it's also my belief that we could find other ways of ultimately solving our differences than blowing the other man's head off. violence solves nothing as illustrated within the four echoes of an outcry--clamore: amore, more, ore, and re. with love, behavior, words, and actions, i am convinced that mankind is perfectly capable of finding an answer without war.
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