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Code Pink

"George W. likes to claim that global terrorists are out to attack America because 'they hate our freedoms.' But we're learning that it's really the Bushites themselves who hate America's freedoms.

"Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright, and one of America's leading peace activists Medea Benjamin, have recently felt the bullying hate of the Bush Regime. Both women had been very vigorous practitioners of our freedom to speak out in opposition to government policies using those freedoms to protest the war in Iraq."

Jim Jubak

But no one is talking about the retirement crisis, says Jim Jubak, the Web's #1 investing columnist, even though soon-to-retire boomers have just lost a whopping $2 trillion in home equity.

"I wish someone would recognize that the housing crisis, the home mortgage crisis, the sub-prime crisis, whatever you want to call it, is not just a crisis for the economy. It's not just a crisis for the housing sector. It's a cirsis for retirement.

"People live in homes. It's very true. Housing companies have to sell homes. If they don't sell homes it does indeed take down the economy. But most of American's biggest retirement asset is the house they live in..."

Huh?

"Oh, sure, CEOs loudly proclaim themselves to be free market worshipers piously preaching against the mortal sin of government interference in the awesome workings of the holy market. "But after church, these corporate executives slink into the back alleys of the devilish government to procure subsidies, regulations and other favors to satisfy their profit lust.

"Take the case of Monsanto, Inc. which makes a product known as BGH (Bovine Growth Hormone) that forces cows to produce more milk. Aside from the damage that it does to cows, BGH is essentially an artificial sex hormone. So it can pass through the cows milk to people who drink it. Guess what? Consumers, especially mothers, do not want their families drinking sex hormones. So there's been such a consumer outcry against BGH milk that numerous supermarkets and dairies now offer milk labeled as free of artificial growth hormone so consumers can have a clear choice..."

Bush on Carrier

"Welcome to a terrible anniversary. The fifth anniversary of the Iraq War. Five long hard brutal years ago George Bush made the dramatic mistake of starting the war with Iraq.

"And this day every Republican, nearly so, and certainly their Republican candidate, John McCain, says we were absolutely right to go in, what a great thing it was that started this Iraq War, and that we should continue it Indefinitely...