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Boston.com / News / Nation / Across US, jobless losing benefits Happy Holidays from the Republicans...90,000 jobless losing benefits this week. Ho ho ho!

USATODAY.com - Bush's disdain for the news media puzzles, angers many journalists: "It's appalling to think that the man who runs the country somehow finds time for a long gym workout each day, but can't muster up the intellectual curiosity to peruse the newspaper. Is it laziness, arrogance or a willful combination of the two?" My guess: too many big scary words.

Misleader.org: Daily Mislead: "White House Covers Tracks by Removing Information" George Bush and his gang of thugs must think that EVERYONE is a stupid as they are. This is pathetic! Shitcan this sonofabitch! (And yes, I know what I just called his disgusting mother.)

Yahoo! News - Hunger and Homelessness Increase in U.S. 2.5 million Americans have lost jobs under George Bush...and you're surprised that the homeless population increased?

CBS News | 9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable | December 18, 2003�07:38:02: "(CBS) For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston. " Heads should ROLL!

Arlie Hochschild, UC Berkeley Sociologist, answers the question, "Why are 50% of Blue Collar White Males Planning to Vote for Bush in 2004, Even When He is Picking Their Pockets and Stealing the Futures of Their Children?" - A BuzzFlash Interview: "whether or not a male blue-collar worker realizes it, on a conscious level or not, that he is trading off his individual well-being. Bush is hurting this guy's well-being on all number of fronts -- job loss, elimination of overtime pay, reduction in future Social Security, future Medicare costs, long-term care and support, et cetera. Bush is basically adopting a policy of taking as much as he can for the business cronies who support him by taking away income from the working man. Still, 50 percent support him because he's a white guy and he represents the triumph of the white guy in a world that's threatening to him." Read the one below, first. Interesting.

AlterNet: Let Them Eat War: "They may wonder whether their own emotions aren't just one more natural resource the Republicans are exploiting for their profit. What we urgently need now, of course, is a presidential candidate who addresses the root causes of blue-collar anger and fear and who actually tackles the problems before us all, instead of pandering to the emotions bad times evoke. " Will blue-collar America wake up, or will they continue to be duped....and screwed yet again.

Take No Prisoners This is just fucked up. Jesus.

NPR : The Easy-Bake Oven, Gourmet Style: "The Easy-Bake Oven, Gourmet Style " Yum Yum...cooking with a lightbulb!

Yahoo! News - Oops! Vicar gives out porn films: "'In a first batch 20 to 30 videos were distributed and we immediately got a reaction from five to seven people saying we must have given them the wrong film,' he said. " Hmmmm....apparently not ALL of them complained. Ha!

NPR : The Ombudsman at National Public Radio: "This was not a matter of national security, of defending the nation or of defending the president himself. It was done to make possible a photo op. Great as PR. Sketchy as stewardship of the office. " Bush makes mad dash to Baghdad in order to upstage Senators Reed and Clinton as they visit troops in Afghanistan. Naturally, Faux News is in tow!`