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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2142)	11/28/2004 5:57:06 PM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361008

r- And the scary thing is that they appear to have captured the White House. i think they've captured a great deal more than the white house. it was suggested to me that the united states will never see another democratic president. after glancing through the link you provided, i'm thinking he may be right. -r

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2142)	11/28/2004 6:24:18 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361008

I've been reading through your link, Ray, and was into a part about "court-stripping". I caught a segment of the 700 Club a few weeks ago and he was beating the drum for doing away with the filibuster. He was calling on his "flock" to write and call and pray to do away with that "evil" check & balance. I don't think many people realize how co-ordinated their efforts still are and how tied in with Republican leadership they now are. Frist speaks in the Senate about it, whatever the current it is, and does the talk shows, and Robertson is calling his people out for the same cause, and Ralph Reed is doing his deeds quietly. Reed is one smarmy, but effective, character.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2142)	11/29/2004 3:32:11 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361008

From NPR: "The Catholic archdiocese in Boston plans to close 65 parishes by the end of the year in an effort to save money. The financial crisis was brought on, in part, by the clergy abuse scandal, but it's also due to a priest shortage and shifting demographics." I think it's fascinating to go to your sheeple every week and demand their hard earned money to pay off the victims of priest abuse. This from the organization that kept moving those priests around for decades so they could ply their abuse to fresh sheeple. It's stunning that people haven't left in bigger droves. ========= Weirdness in Iraq Apparently Saddam Hussein's lawyers, annoyed in part that they haven't been able to meet with their client, are thinking of suing the USA for illegally toppling Saddam and his government. ========= More weirdness in Iraq Apparently the only Iraqis who were helpful to the USA military during the latest insurgent eruptions were the KURDS. Apparently they are the only Iraqi military force worth depending on. Kurdish autonomy? Yep. That should make the Turks quite crazy. Besides, if it's the Kurds against the Sunnis that's yet another clear indication that civil war has been raging in Iraq for a very long time.