[Stoner]

Originally posted by angelize56:
Yeah whatcho talkin' about sl!

Hi Angel !!

[angelize56]

Jack my friend...how ya been! Take care! Sparky

[Stoner]

Just OK.

Been so wet here , that the mold count is way up, and my allergies are kicking in

[angelize56]

So the antihistamine you're taking explains the way you post???? Get to feeling better ! Take care! angel

[Stoner]

Can't take antihistimines.
I don't do the rhinitus reactions,
I'm into the histamine 'like' reactions

no meds

[angelize56]

Just have to tough it out! Can I help?

[Stoner]

Your smile is an inspiration to my better health

[angelize56]

Ok then! There ya go! Time to fix dinner! You take care, get better and have a great weekend! angel

[Stoner]

See ya

BTW>>> don't take the Science quiz

[angelize56]

Already read the thread you booger you! Don't plan on being in that thread! Good night Jack! Take care! angel

[angelize56]

Did you see this Mulder??? Take care. angel

Multibillionaire Soros commits $10 million to defeat Bush
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Sharon Theimer
Associated Press
Aug. 8, 2003 02:10 PM

WASHINGTON - Making a major foray into partisan politics, multibillionaire George Soros is committing $10 million to a new Democratic-leaning group aimed at defeating President Bush next year.

Soros, who in the past has donated on a smaller scale to Democratic candidates and the party, pledged the money to a political action committee called America Coming Together, spokesman Michael Vachon said Friday.

The group plans a $75 million effort to defeat Bush and "elect progressive officials at every level in 2004," targeting 17 key states: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan (can't target me!!), Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

"The fate of the world depends on the United States, and President Bush is leading us in the wrong direction," Soros said in a written statement. "ACT is an effective way to mobilize civil society, to convince people to go to the polls and vote for candidates who will reassert the values of the greatest open society in the world."

Soros has been better known for his philanthropy and a $1 billion effort to try to prevent the proliferation of Russian nuclear weapons after the Soviet Union's collapse. He announced earlier this summer that he was scaling back his Russian spending after finding it was subsidizing programs such as education reforms better paid for by the government.

Soros helped finance an ad in The New York Times two Sundays ago accusing Bush of using intelligence "exposed as exaggerated or even false" to justify the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

ACT said it plans a large-scale effort to register voters and mobilize them to go to the polls. It has $30 million in commitments so far and plans a national fund-raising drive starting next month.

The group is headed by Ellen Malcolm, president of EMILY's List, a group dedicated to winning the election of Democratic women candidates who support abortion rights, such as New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The new PAC's co-founders include Steve Rosenthal, head of the Partnership for America's Families and former political director for the AFL-CIO; Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union; Carl Pope, the Sierra Club's executive director; and Cecile Richards, president of America Votes, a new Democratic-leaning group that includes many of the same members as America Coming Together.

Under the nation's new campaign finance law, the group must remain separate from the Democratic Party to accept contributions on the scale of what Soros has pledged. The law bans national party committees from accepting contributions of that size from any source.

Nonetheless, the effort will help Democrats counter the Republican Party's fund-raising advantage. GOP committees routinely raise millions more than their Democratic counterparts, and Bush is widely expected to collect $200 million or more for next year's primaries - exponentially more than the Democratic hopefuls - with no Republican challenger.

In addition to Soros' pledge of $10 million, the PAC has raised $8 million from labor groups and a total of $12 million from several individuals, Malcolm said. The donors include Louis and Dorothy Cullman, who helped finance the newspaper ad with Soros; Anne Bartley, former president of the Rockefeller Family Fund; Peter Lewis, founder of Progressive Insurance; Patricia Bauman, head of the Bauman Family Foundation; and Rob McKay, head of the McKay Family Foundation. Malcolm declined to say how much each committed.

[Rep]

And, as I write...I have my, "Re-defeat Bush 2004" pin on my shirt. Just got back from spending the day at my local county fair. I could have sold 50 of them.

[jjb]

Hey Rep--to you and your California Democrats: Hasta La Vista, Baby!!!

I guess I don't understand the title of this thread..............Why hasta la vista to Rep? And since when and how did they become "his California Democrats"? Why do the shortcomings of one man suddenly become the faults of an entire political party? Are Republicans in general really that insecure?

Rep does a fine job for the people of the state he represents, I believe he is in his third term in a predominantly Republican district.....................I would say that in itself says alot.

A dig is a dig Mulder, but you know what??? I wouldn't personally take alot of pride in an Austrian immigrant, turned Mr. Atlas, turned actor, turned politician (I won't mention the Schriber thing) representing my party, let alone my state. Especially since the word is that with the number of candidates running anyone could win with as little as 17% of the vote. Well, I guess whoever wins that will give 83% of the voters reason to be discontent..............maybe they can have another recall and sooner or later get it right

Now, Mulder, can you tell me if word in the other 49 States of the Republican solution to Californias problems is true? Rumor has it the go to bed at nite praying everything west of the San Andreas fault slides into the ocean........................that way they can take credit for getting rid of half the states problems-LMAO

jjb

[Mulderator]

Originally posted by jjb:
I Why do the shortcomings of one man suddenly become the faults of an entire political party? Are Republicans in general really that insecure?

I think you ought to be asking all the liberals that question. The perceived shortcoming of Bush is projected to the entire party. So what's wrong with Rep taking the blame for Grey out's screwups?

[jjb]

And, as I write...I have my, "Re-defeat Bush 2004" pin on my shirt. Just got back from spending the day at my local county fair. I could have sold 50 of them.

Make that 51 Rep

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The perceived shortcoming of Bush is projected to the entire party.

Perceived???? Shouldn't that read..............the shortcomings of the party is projected to the Bush administration??

jjb