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Note P.I. = Seattle P.I. (Post Intelligencer)
P.I. - Tortured false confessions       - Mar. 2007
P.I - Promotes Bigfoot to kids         - Feb. 2006
P.I. - Bush WMD lies                     - Nov. 2005
Seattle Times - Plamegate letter       - Oct.  2005
P.I. - Horsey Anti-France Cartoon  - Sept. 2003
P.I.- My Healthcare Editorial           - Nov. 2001
Supportive response to above          - Nov. 2001
P.I. - Tim Eyman tax cut initiative     - Jan.  2000

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Welcome

Help stop the Iraq War, and the upcoming Iran War.
Read, investigate, use the web, call your legislators, write letters.
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Hi. I'm a liberal democrat who wants to see the human condition improved for all. I'm a skeptic and non-religious.

Of particular interest to me is our healthcare system that is corrupted by for-profit insurance.
This has resulted in a broken system. We must change to a system that eliminates for-profit insurance. The savings from converting to a non-profit medical payment distribution system would insure everyone.

All this means is that insurance corporations won't be taking a cut off the top. Insurance companies provide no healthcare at all, they simply collect our money, skim off 30%, then negotiate the least amount they can pay your doctor while limiting your coverage. It's a horrible system.

Paying outrageous profits is wrong practically and morally. Having a for-profit payment system naturally invites providing less care for greater cost - because maximizing profit is the goal, not providing health care. On the other hand, Medicare operates on about 5% overhead. That's honest, effective healthcare.

Read my short Healthcare Fact Sheet. For example: In one HMO, 19% of the Medicaid dollars were skimmed to pay the three owners' salaries.

More of my interests and opinions.



Click here for some of my favorite quotes regarding religion.


Here are just a few disturbing quotes from Family Bush:

George Bush Sr. on atheism:
Question: "Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists?"
Bush Sr:.
"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

Bush Family Values
Barbara Bush:
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths," Barbara Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

George W. Bush:
Bush won't meet with Cindy Sheehan and other protesters.
``...I think it's also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life.''

A balanced like would be to care about the people he sends to kill or be killed, and their families.



My Dad's published materials



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Rumsfeld and Saddam

Multimedia

Clip of my interview from the March 18, 2006 Seattle Anti-War Protest - March 18, 2006 (local Fox news). Length - 30 sec.   Marking the three year anniversary of this illegal, bloody war. I asked if they were doing interviews - they weren't but did this anyway. My take is if you want to make a statement and know you can deliver a better soundbite than most, then try and do so. Otherwise they may not do any, or they often pick people at random, which gets some unfocused, weak statements. I've rarely seen attacks on the media like I make here, and big media is the other war criminal besides the administration.

Entire Anti War Protest clip - March 18th 2006 - total segment length, 1 min 20 sec. I'm at the end.

Video - Americans shooting Iraq citizens(11-05): A "trophy" video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians. The video first appeared on a website that has been linked unofficially to Aegis Defence Services. Original article in the Telegraph.

Bush Katrina Timeline Failures
Katrina Timeline - the right wing lies - a webpage chronicle

Bush avoiding Vietnam video:
Former Texas Lt. Gov. Barnes admits getting Bush into the National Guard, keeping him safe from combat.

Stephen Colbert video
: Colbert skewers Bush and the right wing at the White House correspondents dinner.

Local atheist Wendy Britton on right wing radio. 2005 - She was invited onto extreme right wing Michael Medved's radio show following an unpleasant experience as an unwilling witness to local radio KTTH bigotry where Medved was a happy guest.