Yesterday I saw Michael Moore’s movie “Fahrenheit 9/11.” The theater was packed. Since it was a Sunday, I found mself wondering if I was the only Mormon in the audience. I believe the information in this documentary deserves a wide audience – especially among my fellow Utah Mormons, whom I believe to be politically naive … Read more
Tomorrow, May 1, 2004 is European Union Expansion Day. The EU is expanding from 15 members to 25. Celebrations are planned all over Europe. Many see it as the most significant historical event since the fall of the Berlin Wall. On NPR today, a spokesperson from Poland said they view it as the most significant … Read more
“Those who vote decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything.”— Joseph Stalin By the November 2004 election, I wonder how many states, counties, and cities will have moved to paperless electronic voting (ie. voting with no paper trail)? It could be that Bush has already won the next election.
This Tuesday is the Utah Democratic Presidential Primary election. Thanks to his savaging by FOX and CNN (see what really occured on that caucus night ), Howard Dean is out of the race. However, thanks to his inability to pose as a Democrat, Joe Leiberman is also out of the race. We Democrats seem intent … Read more
I am in day 3 of my post-election depression. It scares me that G.W. (Shrub) Bush now has control of both houses of Congress. Look for more tax cuts for the rich, fewer jobs and less job security, more hunger, fewer people with health care insurance, reduced education spending (except to buy more tests!), increases … Read more
Well, the Senate voted to support the Republican House today and declare Nevada’s “Yucca Mountain” to be the country’s permanent nuclear waste repository. Of course, Utah’s 2 Senators, Hatch and Bennett, voted in favor of transporting the nations’s nuclear waste through Utah neighborhoods on trucks on their way to Nevada. The ludicrous thing is that … Read more
I just heard on NBC-TV news that G.W.Bush is going to get tougher on corporate wrongdoing. The picture of him standing in front of a backdrop that said “Corporate Responsibility” made me laugh and laugh and laugh…I’m sure we will all feel much safer now that the foxes are going to watch the henhouse even … Read more
The cover story of U.S. News and World Report for May 13, 2002 is about War Profiteering. A series of articles point out how money is the name of the game in corporate America, and that tragedies such as 9/11/2001 are cynically used as excuses to grab even more money from the American taxpayer The … Read more