| It begins...
Bush Holds 1st Cabinet Meeting Since Aug.
Just a few hours after Bush said:
"So today I want to speak to every person
who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I
will need your support and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can
do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out
to the whole nation."
He releases his 2nd term agenda:
"He pledged to keep up the fight against terrorism, press for stable
democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan, simplify the tax code, allow
younger workers to invest some of their Social Security
withholdings in the stock market, continue to raise accountability
standards in public schools and "uphold our deepest values and family
and faith."
Other items include reforms to the
nation's intelligence community, halving the record $413 billion
deficit, expanding health care coverage, a constitutional ban on gay
marriage and moving "this goodhearted nation toward a culture of life."
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A "simplified tax code" AKA Flat Tax
Privatized Social Security
"Raised accountability standards in public schools" AKA Justifying taking away their funding and moving to a voucher system
A Constitutial ammendment banning gay marriage
Banning abortion (yet still following the notion of "a culture of life" by sending our troops over to kill and be killed)
His efforts to "reach out to the whole nation" are astounding. |
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| It's hailing in the Bay Area and there's thunder and lighting. God is angry. I sense the Apocolypse is near. |
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| Gmail just gave me a bunch of invites. Anyone want an account? You get 1 GB of space for free. |
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| Oh, as long as I'm making recommendations, I rented a great movie recently, Goodbye, Lenin! It's a German movie about the life of a family living in East Berlin at the time of reunification. It's a drama/comedy (dramedy) and it's done very well. The score is done by the same guy who did the music for Amelie, Yann Thiersen. |
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