[Received the below tidbit from a fellow Kucitizen & member of PDA. Thanks Peter!]

BUSH IS MY SHEPARD
Bush is my shepherd; I dwell in want.
He maketh logs to be cut down in national forests.
He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness.
He restoreth my fears.
He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace for his ego's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and war, I will find no exit, for thou art in office.
Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy media control, they discount me.
Thou preparest an agenda of deception in the presence of thy religion.
Thou anointest my head with foreign oil.
My health insurance runneth out.
Surely megalomania and false patriotism shall follow me all the days of thy term,
And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever.



JUST ANOTHER MANIC MONDAY

BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY: THE LONG JOURNEY HOME
Ron Kovic, AlterNet
The author shares the inspiration behind his classic antiwar memoir: 'I wanted people to know what it really meant to be in a war--to be shot and wounded, to be fighting for my life on the intensive care ward--not the myth we had grown up believing.'
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/22181/

THE NEW BLACKLIST
Doug Ireland, LA Weekly
The Christian right has launched a series of boycotts and pressure campaigns aimed at corporate America -- and at its sponsorship of entertainment, programs and activities they don't like.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22206/

GUESS WHO'S PAYING FOR DINNER?
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
Under the Bush tax plan, by 2015, those making between $80,000 and $400,000 will be paying as much as 14 percent more of their incomes than those who are hyper-rich.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/22195/

THE PENTAGON'S MANPOWER CRISIS
Paul Rieckhoff, HuffingtonPost.com
Military recruiting numbers are deep into the Porta-Potty. The all-volunteer military has been run into the ground -- and now it's broken.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/22202/

READERS WRITE: TURNING UP THE HEAT ON WAL-MART
Laura Barcella, AlterNet
Why is Wal-Mart wicked? AlterNet counted the ways in a June 1 article -- and lots of ever-opinionated readers weighed in.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22210/

A DAY IN MISSISSIPPI
Heather Gray, AlterNet
Forty years after the Civil Rights Bill became law, race relations in Mississippi and throughout the South remain warily tense.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22205/

Originally Published on Monday, May 16, 2005
Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!
by Jeff Cohen

Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? And an easy way to help alleviate global poverty? Buy your gasoline at Citgo stations. And tell your friends. Of the top oil producing countries in the world, only one is a democracy with a president who was elected on a platform of using his nation's oil revenue to benefit the poor. The country is Venezuela. The President is Hugo Chavez. Call him "the Anti-Bush." Citgo is a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Money you pay to Citgo goes primarily to Venezuela -- not Saudi Arabia or the Middle East. There are 14,000 Citgo gas stations in the US.

Click here: http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp to find one near you.

By buying your gasoline at Citgo, you are contributing to the billions of dollars that Venezuela's democratic government is using to provide health care, literacy and education, and subsidized food for the majority of Venezuelans. Instead of using government to help the rich and the corporate, as Bush does, Chavez is using the resources and oil revenue of his government to help the poor in Venezuela. A country with so much oil wealth shouldn't have 60 percent of its people living in poverty, earning less than $2 per day. With a mass movement behind him, Chavez is confronting poverty in Venezuela. That's why large majorities have consistently backed him in democratic elections. And why the Bush administration supported an attempted military coup in 2002 that sought to overthrow Chavez. So this is the opposite of a boycott. Call it a BUYcott. Spread the word. Of course, if you can take mass transit or bike or walk to your job, you should do so. And we should all work for political changes that move our country toward a cleaner environment based on renewable energy. The BUYcott is for those of us who don't have a practical alternative to filling up our cars. So get your gas at Citgo. And help fuel a democratic revolution in Venezuela.