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Shirley Smith: Killing Them Kindly

MS SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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Is this why we need a Republican partisan Supreme Court ... to decided how we kill people in the US? Let us count the ways. If the US citizen in question is not in prison, sitting on death row, then he can be walking on the street and get shot because another US citizen, with a gun, thought he was being threatened.

If that's not the case, there's always an overdose of prescription drugs or drunk driving ... not to discount the number of deaths due to out and out murder or suicide.  


Shirley Smith: The Other "L" Words -- Laissez-Faire and Loyalty

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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"Laissez-Faire: The allowance to do as one pleases without interference, regulation or control, "a hands-off" government policy." Free enterprise, deregulation, inaction, enough rope to hang oneself with."

"Loyalty: Faithfulness, allegiance, devotion, duty, honor, patriotism, trustworthiness." -- Roget's Super Thesaurus


Shirley Smith: Why do people pay any attention to a headline seeking dummkopf like Coulter?

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Shirley Smith: Questions, Half-Truths, and Quixotic Quips

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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Today's political campaigns raise more questions than answers, but the answers are there if people really want to see them. People are being killed every day due to the policies of the US, and the Clintons get angry because people want to see change in US government, and it doesn't include them ... big lawful changes. What gets in the news? Not Iraq. Not the deaths.


Shirley Smith: The Bull in the Bush GOP's China Closet

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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Shirley Smith: The Importance of Minding Our P's and Q's?

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Shirley Smith: 'Bombs Bursting in Air'

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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"Bombs bursting in air." Words taken from out of own national anthem, and that's what I thought of five years ago when listening to US bombs bursting over Baghdad. Even over the airwaves, the sound was more real and frightening than any movie producers could ever pull off, because we knew it was real, and it was happening to people who had done nothing to this country. Nothing! Innocent people.


Shirley Smith: Stabbed in the Back and Still Feelin' No Pain? Miracle? No, Politics

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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"It's not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief." -- G.B. Shaw, Androcles and the Lion, 1912.

Just like Bush and Lieberman, Senator Clinton has made no bones about how she is supporting the Republican Party's nominee for the Oval Office, Senator John McCain. No secret there.


Shirley Smith: Blackwater Blocked By California Grassroots Forces

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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Well, the swell of grassroots blocked Blackwater from building a training area around San Diego.

Email received from The Courage Campaign:

Have you heard the wonderful news?

From the Associated Press: "Military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide has pulled its plans to build a training facility in a remote area about 45 miles east of San Diego."


Sacred Cows and Sacrificial Offerings

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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We Americans must believe in these words by FDR in a speech, Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938:

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.