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Mia, you work like a....well, like an elephant, LOL.

God bless you for all the time and painstaking research you present to us for our use in furthering the conservative cause.

You are a great American.

Leni

Bump! Great Work Mia!!!

YOO-HOO! SECURITY MOMS:

THE TERRORISTS ARE TARGETING YOUR KIDS!

GEORGE BUSH WILL ACT PREEMPTIVELY TO PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN
AS HIS 34-YEAR RECORD PROVES. . . JOHN KERRY WILL NOT

KERRY'S "GLOBAL TEST" FOR PREEMPTION
WHY SECURITY MOMS WILL VOTE FOR BUSH

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA

by Mia T, 10.01.04
BUSH: I WILL ACT PREEMPTIVELY TO PROTECT AMERICA
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KERRY: I WILL REQUIRE 'A GLOBAL TEST' TO ACT PREEMPTIVELY
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LEHRER: New question. Two minutes, Senator Kerry.
What is your position on the whole concept of preemptive war?
KERRY: The president always has the right, and always has had the right, for preemptive strike. That was a great doctrine throughout the Cold War. And it was always one of the things we argued about with respect to arms control....
But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons....
LEHRER: Ninety seconds.
BUSH: Let me -- I'm not exactly sure what you mean, "passes the global test," you take preemptive action if you pass a global test.
My attitude is you take preemptive action in order to protect the American people, that you act in order to make this country secure.

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004

The U.S. Education Department advised school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or school buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism.
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School Warning
School Plans, Security Information Gathered by Suspected Iraq Insurgent Focus Concern on Schools in Six States

By Brian Ross
ABCNEWS.com

Oct. 7, 2004--Schools in six states in particular are being watched closely based on information uncovered by the U.S. military in Baghdad this summer, law enforcement and education officials told ABC News.

A man described as an Iraqi insurgent involved in anti-coalition activities had downloaded school floor plans and safety and security information about elementary and high schools in the six states, according to officials.

School officials in Fort Myers, Fla.; Salem, Ore.; Gray, Ga.; Birch Run, Mich.; two towns in New Jersey; and two towns in California have been told to increase security in light of the discovery.

Officials in the New Jersey towns, Franklinville and Rumson, were notified by counterterrorism officials last month that their schools had been possibly singled out.

"Once we were notified, we immediately put a plan into effect," said Dwight Pfenning, deputy commissioner of education for the state of New Jersey.

And William Matthews, superintendent of schools in Jones County, Ga., sent a letter to parents, faculty and staff last week notifying them that security was being increased during the election season.

"In an effort to be proactive and ensure the safety of all, we are reviewing our school safety plans," Matthews wrote in the letter. "You may notice an increase in law enforcement visibility as well as other measures designed to provide a safe and pleasant environment."

Matthews said in the letter that the information was not considered a threat.

On Wednesday, the federal government warned schools nationwide to look out for suspicious activity that might signal terrorist activity, and told school officials to be on the lookout for anyone spying on their buildings or buses, expressing interest in obtaining site plans, and other types of suspicious activity.

It followed an analysis by the FBI and the Homeland Security Department of the school siege in Beslan, Russia, last month, in which nearly 340 people, many of them children, were killed.

Law enforcement officials said they had no easy explanation why an insurgent in Baghdad would be gathering such specific information about American schools, some of them in small towns.

And though the information was recovered in July, it was not given urgency until the attack in Beslan.

Ultimately, officials say they are hoping to increase security in schools and heighten awareness without causing parents nationwide to panic.

ABC News' Richard Esposito contributed to this report.

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HEAR THE FIRST VEEP DEBATE NOW! (the whole ball of wax)

CHENEY WARNS AMERICA: THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT OUR SURVIVAL
KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA

by Mia T, 9.09.04
CHENEY WARNS AMERICA: THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT OUR SURVIVAL
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KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN 'SURVIVAL' DEBATE
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"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today on November 2^nd, we make the right choice because if we make the wrong choice, the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States and then we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mindset, if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts and that we're not really at war."
Dick Cheney

"We were not at war in the 1990s."
John Kerry

"I think there's been an exaggeration; [President Bush] has exaggerated the threat of terrorism. There needs to be a refocusing. They are really misleading all of America... in a profound way."

"The War on Terror is less... is occasionally military but it's primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation."

"The Bush Administration is so entralled by the idea of preemption and American military might. This is the consequence of the policy that regards legitimacy as largely a product of force and victory as primarily a triump of arms."

"A threat that is real and imminent. That is the only justificatiion for going to war."

John Kerry

"Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?
If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late.
Trusting in [their] sanity and restraint... is not a strategy, and it is not an option."
George Bush
State of the Union Address
The U.S. Capitol
January 28, 2003

"Dick Cheney's fear tactics crossed the line. What it says to the American people: 'If you go to the polls in November and elect anyone else but us and another terrorist attack occurs, it's your fault.' This is un-American. Except the truth is and proves once again that they'll do anything and say anything to keep their jobs. Protecting the American people from terrorist attacks and from vicious terrorists is not a Republican issue and is not a Democratic issue. It's an American issue and George Bush and Dick Cheney should know that.
John Edwards

et's get real, people. Universal health care schemes or abortion-friendly justices have little utility if we're blown to bits.
There is a reason lifelong liberal Democrats like the former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, and the Hollywood actor, Ron Silver, who agree with George Bush on absolutely nothing domestically, are not only voting this November for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in their lives--they are, in fact, campaigning vigorously for his reelection.
Ed Koch and Ron Silver are supporting George Bush because they know what all rational, informed voters know--only one issue matters in this, the first post-9/11 presidential election: Who would better prosecute the War on Terror, George Bush or John Kerry?
The choice could not be more clear.

THE LETHAL DIFFERENCE: THE BUSH DOCTRINE v. THE NEO-NEOLIBERAL, ANIMAL FARM MENTALITY

President Bush and Dick Cheney, as enunciated in The Bush Doctrine, advocate preemption and overwhelming military might.
Kerry and Edwards, The Men From Hope, (been there, done that), advocate "a more sensitive war". . . a defensive-only war. . . the hope that tomorrow will be a better day.

THE WHOLE BALL OF WAX
This difference is the whole ball of wax, people.
No less than Western Civilization hangs in the balance.
When terrorists declare war on you and commit acts of war against you, you are perforce at war.
At that point, you have only one decision to make:
Do you fight?
Or do you surrender?
Bush chose fight.
clinton and Kerry -- repeatedly and invariably -- chose surrender.
KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN THE DEBATE
In an effort to shut down debate on this issue -- clearly a losing one for Kerry-Edwards -- John Edwards labeled Cheney's warning "un-American."
I have news for the two Johns. Nothing is more American than acting to preserve, protect and defend America. And nothing is more un-American than thwarting that effort.

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004

COMPLETE ARTICLE

Thanks Mia for being 'on the case' and so quickly!

. . ."Rather than "forgetting" "schoolteacher" and "librarian," Laura Bush's jobs before her marriage, Missus Heinz inserted the qualifier, "I mean, since she's been grown up," precisely to exclude them. Although Missus Heinz proceeded to marginalize those jobs ("my experience is a little bigger"), Heinz's real target was the job of stay-at-home mom."

Well, she knew she had children; so don't where she goes from here. . .

Think the 'reading is definitely on target here; but do wonder if their could be a tad more in Teresa's comment 'since she been grown-up'. . .and her choosing precisely those words because they express if not betray, Teresa's deeper - unspoken assesments of Laura. . .and her 'growing up' middle class.

The Mz.Heinz-Kerry, is not only impressed by her heiress/philanthropist title; she stops just short of describing herself growing up, as a little 'african princess'; and who, should her husband 'ascend to the Presidency; will be America's First 'Queen'.

["My roots are African. . .The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African." ] She just forgets to remember. . .the servants. . .

thx :)

thank you. :)

http://www.johnkerry.com/contact/contact.php -- direct comment line.

Thanks always, Mia.

"Which makes one wonder if the heiress really wants to be stuck in D.C. for four years.... "

Freepers report Teresa's snippet is getting heavy radio play in Michigan. Thanks for the free and effective media, Teresa.

you're welcome :)

ping

The Kerry Kampers might want to begin to secure that lock on the attic door where they try to keep the wonderfully amusing and mad Teraaaaaaaayza!

Rather than "forgetting" "schoolteacher" and "librarian," Laura Bush's jobs before her marriage, Missus Heinz inserted the qualifier, "I mean, since she's been grown up," precisely to exclude them. Although Missus Heinz proceeded to marginalize those jobs ("my experience is a little bigger"), Heinz's real target was the job of stay-at-home mom.

Well said.

My friend's wife used to use the phrase "****ing Republicans", but I saw her transformed minutes after the second plane smashed into the WTC (I was visiting them briefly to retrieve some tools), saying (in a phone call to her sister) that GWB may "rape the environment" but that he's definitely the one we want in there for something like this.

George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

Now now mia let's give mrs heinz kerry a break, who knows? Maybe her arthritis was acting up and she started hitting the gin soaked grapes early the day she made the guffaw about laura bush!

Thanks for the ping
& bttt