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Subject: Sighted, Peace On Earth & Goodwill To All Living Beings

"Peace on earth? How?"

"Troops out now from the Afghanistan/Iraq/Pakistan War along with our help in securing justice for the Palestinians."

"What about goodwill to all living beings?"

"The start-up is Medicare for all."

"Anything else?"

"Yes we can."

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Subject: No to GOP Obstructionism

People,

Finally ... someone stands up and says "no" to Republican obstructionism, and "yes" to putting the needs and expressed desires of the vast majority of ordinary Americans over those of a scant few wealthy individuals and corporations.

One of the biggest hurdles that real health care reform must overcome is the resistance of our own Senator Diane Feinstein, who continues to ignore the wishes of 83% of Americans in favor of the medical-industrial complex that's contributed so mightily to her campaigns for public office over the years, and who still hasn't come out publicly in favor of the "public option" President Obama and the Democratic Party promised us when we brought him and the Democrats so unambiguously to power this past November.

Now, with 60 members in the Senate's Democratic caucus, there's no excuse for Democrats' weak knees.

Please call Senator Feinstein (or your own senator and/or House member) now -- and several times over the next several weeks, if possible -- to demand vigorous support of a real and robust public health insurance option in health care reform legislation currently being drafted in congress:

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Senator Diane Feinstein United States Senate? 331 Hart Senate Office Building? Washington, D.C. 20510

Phone: (202) 224-3841? Fax: (202) 228-3954

Email:

http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe

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To find your own senator, click here:

http://www.senate.gov/

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To find your House member, click here:

http://www.house.gov/

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Thank you.

Pass it on.

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Subject: Her Majesty The Queen

I think that it was a little bit ignorant for the BuzzFlash staff to use her Majesty's need for repairs on Buckingham Palace as a negative advertisement for your site's funding. The Royal Family is the main tourist attraction for Britain. They help generate employment through travel. Buckingham Palace is a tourist site as well as many of the other royal residences. Furthermore, her Majesty has been progressive in terms of conservation, technology, and welcoming people of many religions and ethnic persuasions to Britain. What else may one say of a monarch who has many times been a guest of Google and has her own YouTube site, or who goes on swan counts with schoolchildren? You should pull the negative advertisement of the Queen and use Bernie Madoff instead.

Anne
http://radiofreedomcanada.blogspot.com

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Subject: Stonewall redux alert

I don't know if the "mainstream" media will pick up this story but early Sunday morning the police in Fort Worth raided a gay bar (on the 40th anniversary of Stonewell, no less) and arrested from 15 to 20 people for "public intoxication". Right. Anyway, one patron is in the hospital with bleeding in his brain. For coverage you can go to AmericaBlog.com or pamshouseblend.com. I believe the Fort Worth paper has an article, too.

Just wanted to alert everyone to the fact that this is what gays endure on an all too frequent basis in this hopelessly dysfunction democracy without hate crimes legislation in far too many places and FULL equality. Rest assured Obama will not address this with one of his pretty speeches so I thought I should at least alert everyone who cares since I doubt it will gain much traction in the national media.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6502162.html

Steve Moore
Camptonville, CA

Subject: Poem: DO NOT DISTURB

DO NOT DISTURB
by Barbara P. Gordon

stolen election 2009
Supreme Leader collaborates
Iranians take to the street

stolen election 2000
supreme court collaborates
Americans go to sleep

Coleman defeated
Al Franken not seated
it makes you want to weep

cradle of independence
rocks its lethargic children
to a somnolescent beat

BARBARA P GORDON

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Subject: Rich get richer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Households pushed their savings rate to the highest level in more than 15 years in May as a big boost in incomes from the government's stimulus program was devoted more to bolstering nest eggs than increased spending

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20090626/D992E5I80.html

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[BuzzFlash Note: Yes, as usual the rich are doing just fine, compared to most. But as this article reminds readers, Obama's stimulus package directly boosted incomes for the poor and working people: "The income increase reflected temporary factors relating to the $787 billion economic stimulus program that ... included one-time payments to people receiving Social Security and other government pension benefits. ... The stimulus package also featured reductions in payroll tax withholding ..."]

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Subject: fox news calls sanford a democrat

I can't paste the photo in here, but Fox news of course identified SC gov Sanford as (D). This should be front page headlines.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200906240026

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Subject: Obama's Got the Right Stance on Iran

Obama is correct to avoid a public hostile response to Iran’s post-election butchery. He states that such a response would only provide Ahmadinejad with another pretense for attacking his opponents, not that he seems to need one. But in similar historical situations, harsh statements from the White House have given little comfort to a dictator’s opponents, and have only played into the hands of the dictator in question.

Phillip Tofts

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Subject: NRA Mobilizing gun nuts with bogus claims

The NRA is agitating gun nuts and pandering to hate mongers with a bogus campaign that Obama plans to get rid of guns*. He does not--the campaign is fraudulent. See gunbanobama.com.

As a result we are in a Code 6 Alert of assassinations by hate mongers with guns (per the Swine Flu scale, a lot more deaths than from Swine Flu).

(*I confess, I have had guns all my life, grew up hunting in Africa, lots of weapons training in the Marine Corps, hunted as a diplomat, world of weapons up country in Vietnam, have a Home Defender now.)

A Threat We Can’t Ignore

Even with the murders that have already occurred, Americans are not paying enough attention to the frightening connection between the right-wing hate-mongers who continue to slither among us and the gun crazies who believe a well-aimed bullet is the ticket to all their dreams.

TWIGA

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Subject: Your premiums

I love to read and shop BuzzFlash. Your site is indispensable and your premiums are unique and fun.

I'm especially interested in the Feelgoodz flip flops. They're incredibly comfortable and make wonderful gifts. Will you be offering more color choices?

I will support your site for as long as my stingy budget will allow and if I don't get a job soon I guess I'll simply give up some other "luxuries" in order to continue to do so.

Thanks for all you do.

Lynne Cuomo
Oak Ridge, NJ

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Subject: The best and the brightest?

Dear BuzzFlash:

I won't listen to Rush Limbaugh, but his commercials appear every so often on radio with soundbites from his show that are either samples of his bloated ego and sense of self-importance, a hate bite, or my favorite, massages of the loyal Dittoheads. I paraphrase, but it goes a little like this:

"Rush Limbaugh listeners (this is His Circumference talking) are intelligent, thoughtful and insightful. They demand the truth and expect it" blah blah blah. Okay, Tubbo, whatever.

On a local call-in show that comes on just before you here in the NW Arkansas Bible Belt, some caller had evidently heard something about guns, and automatically assumed it was the President attacking the Second Amendment. I frankly have no idea what he thought he was referring to, but he exclaimed his disgust for President Obama and the supposed taking of his guns and said, and I quote, "Obama and them thar liberals are about the dumbest, ignorantist people I ever seen." I have not been able to find "ignorantist" in the dictionary. Or, as he pronounced it, "ignernst". There you have it, Rush.

You make your billions knowing just how idiotic your "fans" are and how easily they swallow your tripe, misinformation and hate. You think you're relevant, a real mover and shaker, but except for your Lemmings and this extremely intelligent caller, you're a pathetic joke who will go down in history as the quack you are, like Father Joe Coughlin from the FDR days and Joseph McCarthy. The rest of the country considers you a fool, albeit a rich one, and your followers the cream of the idiot crop.

I don't favor repeal of the 2nd Amendment, as I feel people have a right to hunt, as long as it's legal and there's no cruelty attached, such as killing a deer and then not using it for food. Responsibility is the key word here. However, I think the fact that our local caller has a gun is the most ignernst thing I ever heard of.

Scott
Fayetteville, Ar.

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