Interesting Days

While I'm recooping from some weird illness that kicked my butt (I usually don't get sick during the summer, but all those chem trails over Pensacola, Florida are probably dumping gawdknowwhat on us), I've surfed the web during waves when the icky feeling wasn't as bad. I've also been warming myself up for a passionate Kucinich For President campaign.

First, I must share some cool finds of late:

One is another blog worthy of my growing list of links (like the ones scatted in posts below that aren't already listed). This blog is called Bush Lies. Nice quotes of news items that make up a worthy list of pointers for those of you documenting, or arguing and also for any fellow American that needs more proof that Bush and his friends lie and because if their lies, people have died and more keep dying.

Relative to Bush is his helper, Katherine Harris, a Florida neocon that served in his brother, Jeb's administration. You may remember Harris' role in committing the terribly unAmerican/unpatriotic attack on our democracy when she cooperated in a concerted effort to insure that Gov. Jeb Bush's big brother would occupy the White House to become America's Big Brother. Well, Harris isn't too popular with many Floridians, and she's making more enemies these days, like with America's elderly.

The Associated Press released a story that the Florida Ledger published with the headline, "Harris Booed at Town Hall Meeting." She wasn't booed just once, but several times!

Hundreds of people showed up for the Bradenton, Fl. town meeting located at the Bradenton Kiwanis Hall on Thursday night, August 7th. She spoke for about 30 minutes of the allotted hour, then the town folks formed a very long line to the microphone to ask questions, but Harris didn't answer each question. Instead, she waited until all questions were asked, according to the Bradenton Harold. The boos were loud!

The people were already irate. Members of the AARP (an advocacy group for senior citizens) had been handing out literature to explain the Bush Administration's horrible changes of the Medicare drug plan. Harris' staff members and security guards confiscated the literature from the people handing it out and from the people accepting it."

Tony Fransetta, president of the Florida chapter of AARP, protested, "This is wrong," when he was told to hand over his fliers, according to the Bradenton Harrold report. "We have never been restricted in what we could hand out at other town meetings," Fransetta said. "We have talking points that simply list questions that would help people better understand and articulate their concerns. They have been denied that right."

Connie M. McKee, a member of Harris' staff, excused the confiscation of the literature by claiming that it was against policy for literature to be handed out during a town hall meeting. But Senior citizens in protest of the medicare bills distributed the fliers in the parking lot during a news conference held before the people assembled indoors for the meeting.

Harris took the liberty of handing out her own fliers during the meeting. One flyer detailed propaganda intended to give the false impression that "Bush's economic plans are restoring confidence and creating growth through fiscal discipline. Another highlighted the many benefits of Medicare reforms passed in June."

What the AARP, a well-respected group that looks out for our elders also provided on their fliers showed a a chart of Harris' voting record since she began her term in the House of Representatives in January. Not good news for Harris if she intends to return, but then again, she's proven that some people can attack democracy by committing election fraud and then be rewarded with an advancement from being Florida's Secretary of State, to becoming a member of the House of Representatives.

I wonder what the AARP, senior citizens on fixed incomes and other Americans denied decent healthcare and affordable drugs feel about Dennis Kucinich's ideas for solutions? He knows what many low-income people are going through and he has excellent ideas that can help all Americans to get the medical help and treatment needed, instead of only those that can afford the high insurance and bills, ideas that offer better alternatives to greedy insurance companies and plans known to deny doctors' and patients' the right to choose doctors and treatment proceedures. Just another reason why we need Kucinich, not Bush.