The Hollywood Liberal

From Teresa

It’s scary, isn’t it? Little local political humor to ease the nerves:
Keep it up
Theresa

H.L. Responds:
Theresa, Having Bush and the Republicans around does make for some easy material. I ‘m perfectally willing to take my chances with the democrats. They do some pretty funny stuff too sometimes, plus we still have 2 more years of Bush. You know the Dems won’t impeach him IF They win.

Think Progress.org
Senior Bush administration officials wanted North Korea to test a nuclear weapon because it would prove their point that the regime must be overthrown.
This astonishing revelation was buried in the middle of a Washington Post story published yesterday. Glenn Kessler reports from Moscow as he accompanies Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice:

Before North Korea announced it had detonated a nuclear device, some senior officials even said they were quietly rooting for a test, believing that would finally clarify the debate within the administration.
Until now, no U.S. official in any administration has ever advocated the testing of nuclear weapons by another country, even by allies such as the United Kingdom and France.
One of these officials may have been Rice herself, Kessler hints. Rice, he reports, “has come close to saying the test was a net plus for the United States.” Rice has been trying to counter the prevailing view that the test was a failure of the Bush administration’s policy.
A factual timeline of the North Korean program traces how policies of containment and engagement slowed and stopped the program, while threats of regime change increased the dangers. The two key failures were the choice to focus on overthrowing the government in Pyongyang rather than stopping the nuclear program, and the invasion of Iraq which distracted U.S. attention from the real nuclear dangers and propelled both North Korea and Iran to accelerate their programs.
The revelation that some officials secretly wanted North Korea to test their nuclear weapons is evidence of how the administration’s national security policy has become completely divorced from reality.
– Joe Cirincione

From Keith Tucker

Aloha;
War of the worlds was broadcast originally on Halloween, so this Halloween
season I felt that it was time to re-visit that theme with our modern
technological terrors. Let there be paper ballots, before it’s too late.
www.whatnowtoons.com

Speaking of Halloween, check out the Gallery of Freaks, Wierdo’s and Monsters that we put up for the past 2 Halloweens. Some scary creatures in there.

from Caleb Hayes

Hi, my name is Caleb Hayes and I am starting a new website for the youth
to help them become more politically active. You may remember me as the
young founder of Anti-Bush.com Well now I’m back with
www.YouthDemocracy.net Youth Democracy.net It is time for our youth to step up to the plate and take back this country.

Would you be interested in trading links to help promote my site? Or
maybe doing a story on www.YouthDemocracy.net Youth Democracy.net

H.L. Responds
Caleb, Great idea and site, Good Luck
H.L.

From: Amy J. Higer of The South Orange-Maplewood Committee to Stop the War

In August, members of Military Families Speak Out–Bergen County NJ
(_www.MFSObergencounty.org_ (http://www.mfsobergencounty.org/) ) sat down with
both candidates in the NJ Senate race and asked each about their views on the
war in Iraq. The answers are enlightening. I am attaching a leaflet MFSO put
together reproducing the questions and answers from both interviews.

Here are their answers

H.L. Responds
Amy, there you go, thanks for the info
H.L.

Many Republicans are worried the congressman Mark Foley’s child sex scandal will hurt
Republicans in this year’s elections. But it may end up helping them because it draws attention
away from all the other scandals that might affect the election even more.

The Foley scandal distracts from Bush’s network of secret torture camps.
The Foley scandal distracts from the fact that the war in Iraq is making terrorism worse.
The Foley scandal distracts from the fact that Osama bin Laden is still free.
The Foley scandal distracts from the fact that Iraq is in a civil war.
The Foley scandal distracts from the fact that 2700+ soldiers died in Iraq for nothing.
The Foley scandal distracts from the fact that we are now losing the war in Afghanistan, too.
The Foley scandal distracts from the Jack Abramoff and Tom Delay scandals.
The Foley scandal distracts from the fact that Bush let New Orleans die.
The Foley scandal distracts from the fact that the national debt is about to exceed 10 trillion dollars.
The Foley scandal distracts from the Abu Ghraib scandal. And Haliburton’s no bid contracts, global
warming, the failed war in Lebanon, failed diplomacy with Iran and North Korea, ignoring the Geneva
Conventions, the United Nations, and the Anti-ballistic missle treaty, warrantless wire tapping of our
phone conversations, no weapons of mass destruction, and Bob Woodward’s latest book “State of Denial”.

So although this sex scandal is bad for Republicans, it isn’t nearly as bad as all the other scandals.
Besides Clinton won with a sex scandal. I think Republicans are better off dealing with a sex scandal
than dealing with a record of failure.

Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA.

Heres another one from Pixwit

From Michael Capozzola

Hi There,

Here are a couple of cartoons I did which you can run if you like.

Mike

H.L. Responds
Mike, Good stuff, here they are. Thanks