you can't make this stuff up...
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Bush to Promote Marriage in $1.5 Billion Plan, Report Says
Wed January 14, 2004 05:27 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bush administration officials are planning a $1.5 billion election-year initiative to promote marriage, especially among low-income couples, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Administration officials have worked with conservative groups for months on the proposal, the paper said, and are weighing whether President Bush should promote the plan next week in his State of the Union address.
The plan would provide at least $1.5 billion for training to help couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain "healthy marriages," the paper said. According to the Times, the officials said they believed the measure was timely because they were facing pressure from conservatives eager to see the federal government defend traditional marriage, after the highest court in Massachusetts ruled in November that gay couples had a right to marry.
Bush to Promote Marriage in $1.5 Billion Plan, Report Says
Wed January 14, 2004 05:27 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bush administration officials are planning a $1.5 billion election-year initiative to promote marriage, especially among low-income couples, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Administration officials have worked with conservative groups for months on the proposal, the paper said, and are weighing whether President Bush should promote the plan next week in his State of the Union address.
The plan would provide at least $1.5 billion for training to help couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain "healthy marriages," the paper said. According to the Times, the officials said they believed the measure was timely because they were facing pressure from conservatives eager to see the federal government defend traditional marriage, after the highest court in Massachusetts ruled in November that gay couples had a right to marry.
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He also wants another billion for his Mars plan...and the only thing that would be funnier than the chainsaw would be for him to be clawed open by a bear.
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space exploration is cool but you've gotta realize he's only going for it because karl rove wants to portray him as a kennedy-esque thinker of vision and scope.
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well, of course! that doesn't mean we should toss the space program, though. i am comfortable criticizing the man and not the plan.
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i can't figure out why bush is coming up with these semi-okay ideas lately. it's like someone you hate being suddenly really nice to you. it's creepy.
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JANUARY 13--The California woman who sued a restaurant after allegedly finding a condom in her chowder agreed yesterday to a confidential settlement of her legal claim. Amazingly, if Laila Sultan is to be believed, the condom episode was the second time she was forced to sue over an injurious incident at a chain restaurant. In December 1996, Sultan sued a Long Beach Taco Bell after she was burned by some spilled coffee (Sultan claimed her tray was bumped into by some rambunctious young customers). A Taco Bell lawyer told TSG that Sultan's claim was "a b.s. case," but that the fast food firm settled the matter for about $2000 to avoid hefty legal fees. Before settling in the condom case, a lawyer for McCormick & Schmick's seafood restaurant ridiculed Sultan's claim, saying there was "absolutely no evidence to suggest the restaurant was the source of the condom" found in her grub in February 2002. Along with the restaurant lawsuits, Sultan's tort history includes two other lawsuits, both of which she filed after allegedly being injured in auto mishaps.
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he's offering you a bone with his left hand while his right steathily rolls up a newspaper behind his back.
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then try on this attempt to posture Bush-as-Christ:
At Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington DC recently the Sergeant Major of the Army (SMA), Jack Tilley, was with a group of people visiting the wounded soldiers. He saw a Special Forces soldier who had lost his right hand and suffered severe wounds of his face and side of his body. The SMA wanted to honor him and show him respect without offending, but what can you say or do in such a situation that will encourage and uplift?
How do you shake the right hand of a soldier who has none? He decided to act as though the hand was not missing and gripped the soldiers wrist while speaking words of comfort and encouragement to him.
But there was another man in that group of visitors who had even brought his wife with him to visit the wounded who knew exactly what to do. This man reverently took the soldiers stump of a hand in both of his hands, bowed at the bedside and prayed for him. When he finished the prayer he stood up, bent over the soldier and kissed him on the head and told him that he loved him. What a powerful expression of love for one of our wounded heroes! And what a beautiful Christ-like example!
What kind of a man would do such a thing ?
It was the wounded man's Commander-in-Chief, George W Bush; President of the United States.
This story was told by the SMA at a Soldiers Breakfast held at Red Arsenal, AL, and recorded by Chaplain James Hnderson, stationed there.
I have offered to send the Chaplain some more examples of Christ's behavior, that resemble nothing close to bush, like pacifism, concern for the poor, etc.
At Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington DC recently the Sergeant Major of the Army (SMA), Jack Tilley, was with a group of people visiting the wounded soldiers. He saw a Special Forces soldier who had lost his right hand and suffered severe wounds of his face and side of his body. The SMA wanted to honor him and show him respect without offending, but what can you say or do in such a situation that will encourage and uplift?
How do you shake the right hand of a soldier who has none? He decided to act as though the hand was not missing and gripped the soldiers wrist while speaking words of comfort and encouragement to him.
But there was another man in that group of visitors who had even brought his wife with him to visit the wounded who knew exactly what to do. This man reverently took the soldiers stump of a hand in both of his hands, bowed at the bedside and prayed for him. When he finished the prayer he stood up, bent over the soldier and kissed him on the head and told him that he loved him. What a powerful expression of love for one of our wounded heroes! And what a beautiful Christ-like example!
What kind of a man would do such a thing ?
It was the wounded man's Commander-in-Chief, George W Bush; President of the United States.
This story was told by the SMA at a Soldiers Breakfast held at Red Arsenal, AL, and recorded by Chaplain James Hnderson, stationed there.
I have offered to send the Chaplain some more examples of Christ's behavior, that resemble nothing close to bush, like pacifism, concern for the poor, etc.
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