US Election 2004
Theodore Roosevelt / Michael Moore
Quotes "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." - First Amendment to the United States Constitution "For all practical purposes, if all of your enemies are well, happy and peaceful, they would not be your enemies. If they are free from problems, pain, suffering, affliction, neurosis, psychosis, paranoia, fear, tension, anxiety, etc., they would not be your enemies. Your practical solution toward your enemies is to help them to overcome their problems, so you can live in peace and happiness. In fact, if you can, you should fill the minds of all your enemies with loving kindness and make all of them realize the true meaning of peace, so you can live in peace and happiness. The more they are in neurosis, psychosis, fear, tension, anxiety, etc., the more trouble, pain, and suffering they can bring to the world. If you could convert a vicious and wicked person into a holy and saintly individual, you would perform a miracle. Let us cultivate adequate wisdom and loving kindness within ourselves to convert evil minds to saintly minds." - Henepola Gunaratna, Mindfulness in Plain English
"Everywhere one looks can be found the mechanisms to make our society more religious and by its natural consequence more ignorant. The preaching of creationism in public schools, the fight to minimize the truth of evolution, the search to ban a women’s right to choose, the bigotry in preventing two-people in love from joining in union, the battle to unite church and state, the desire to keep the word “God” in government, maintaining the death penalty, even as so many questions now exist as to its validity, the stupidity of preaching abstinence to hormonal teenagers while making contraceptives harder to attain, the xenophobia of denying social services to new immigrants and their children, most of them dark-skinned and of divergent cultures, the decimation and oppression of science in government and schools, the fight to prevent stem-cell research that may save the lives of millions, the under-funding and indifference to our children’s education, the skyrocketing costs of higher education that prevent millions from advancing in enlightenment while maintaining them in the lower castes of society and the subsidies to faith-based institutions over those of secular existence. "Countries, like individuals, face karmic lessons (i.e., lessons about actions that bring reactions for good or ill). When a lesson isn't learned, it returns in a magnified form. You might say the message echoes again, only much louder.... I will say this - after the elections on 2 November, the coming two months of warfare in Iraq will be the bloodiest seen. It will get worse after a railroaded Iraq election attempt in early 2005. By inauguration day in late January, a slight majority of Americans will see President Bush sworn into office for a second term and ponder, "What in the world have we done?"" - John Hogue via email - October 22, 2004 "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell "When a man fails to understand separation of powers, it is time to separate him from power."
Reading 10 Reasons Not to move to Canada - Sarah Anderson Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America - Arianna Huffington Apollo Alliance - American Energy Independence A message from the Union of Concerned Scientists George W. Bush on Tribal Sovereignty
Some 2005 Inauguration photos not featured on CNN
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