Words

"We're not keeping any of it. It's all going to the judge."
Assurance from the Emcee regarding the destination for cash placed in red, white and blue
buckets that were passed through the crowd at a Constitution Party gathering in Portland,
Oregon. The event honored Judge Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court Justice
who was removed from office in 2003 after refusing to take away a 6000-pound statue of the
Ten Commandments that he had installed in the entrance of the Alabama Supreme Court in
the dead of night. The Constitution Party, a conservative Christian political party that
advocates theocracy, garnered 1 percent of the presidential vote in three states in 2000.
Seattle Times; 1 March, 2004; pp. A 1, A10
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"He should have passed away at 52. . . . he defies all
conventional wisdom."
U.S. gerontologist David Demko, commenting on 60 year-old living-legend Keith Richards'
relationship with the actuarial tables. Demko, who investigated the lifestyles of music's
biggest names, and predicted their death dates for the music magazine Blender, says that
Sting, will live to be 93.
Seattle Times; 29 February, 2004; p. A 17
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"We are moving toward an entire system of secret justice."
Lucy Dalglish, Executive Director of the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press,
commenting on the United States Supreme court's refusal to consider a challenge to the secret
trial of Mohamed Kamel Bellahoue, a Florida waiter who apparently served two of the 9-11
hijackers at the restaurant where he worked, in the weeks prior to the 9-11 attacks.
Seattle Times; 24 February, 2004; p A 4
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"I decided I did not get my master's degree in education to
spend my time paddling students."
Ralph McClaney, Assistant Principal at the Carver Middle School in Meridian, Mississippi,
who resigned his position after being ordered to paddle a sixth grade girl who had acted up
in class. A January, 2004 decision by the Canadian Supreme Court outlawing corporal
punishment in schools, leaves the United States, and one lone state in Australia, as the only
parts of the industrialized world that allow corporal punishment in schools.
Seattle Times; 22 February, 2004; p. A 6
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"I've never seen it this bad. People will always disagree about
facts, but what is going on now is the systematic suppression
of information."
Dr. Gordon Orians, Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington and member of the
prestigious National Academy of Sciences in the United States. A report by the Union of
Concerned Scientists signed by Orians, 20 Nobel laureates, several National Medal of Science
winners, and numerous other world-renowned scientists, states that "The scope and scale of
the manipulation, suppression and misrepresentation of science by the Bush administration is
unprecedented."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; 19 February, 2004, p. A1
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"I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be
questioned."
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, declining to recuse himself from Vice President Dick
Cheney's appeal of a federal court's order that the Vice President disclose the identities of
members of his energy task force. Three weeks after the Supreme Court decided to hear
Cheney's appeal, Scalia and Cheney spent three days duck hunting together in the marshes of
southern Louisiana, prompting more than 20 newspapers to demand that Scalia, President
Reagan's conservative appointee (and a signatory to the Supreme Court opinion awarding the
U.S. Presidency to George W. Bush) stay out of the Cheney case.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; 30 January, 2004; p. A3
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"The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in
our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians'
belief in the omnipotence of God as creator of the universe.
There can be no incompatibility between Christian faith and
proven facts concerning geology, biology, and astronomy.
There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and
land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith."
Former U.S. President, and Nobel Prize winner, Jimmy Carter expressing embarrassment that
the state of Georgia's Department of Education proposes to eliminate the word "evolution"
from the state's educational curriculum.
CNN Website http://us.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/30/georgia.evolution/index.html,
Friday, January 30, 2004 Posted: 3:46 PM EST (2046 GMT)
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"For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible and no
one can now doubt the word of America."
U.S. President George Bush Jr. in his televised State of the Union Address to a joint session of
the U.S. Congress on 20 January, 2004. In a previous State of the Union Address in January
2003, President Bush made alarming claims - now widely cited as false - that Iraq possessed
biological and chemical weapons, was seeking nuclear weapons, and posed an imminent
threat to the United States' security.

Transcript of the State of the Union Address from CNN website
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/sotu.transcript.3/index.html
20 January, 2004
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"We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoers by having
individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax
rebates"
U.S. President George Bush Jr. on October 4, 2001
Seattle Times; 19 January, 2004; p. B7
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