Bush's search for clean Cuban hookers goes awry... once again "intelligence" lifted from a college student's research papers turns out to be completely false. The worst part of this latest Neoconjob is the irony that Cubans have a better healthcare system than you and I do here in the USA - because ALL healthcare in Cuba is provided to everyone for FREE. The Neoconartist tried to take Castro's bragging about having an extremely low level of AIDS and twist it into Fidel hyping the Cuban sex trade.

Here's what Castro actually did say in his 1992 speech: "There are hookers, but prostitution is not allowed in our country. There are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist. Those who do so do it on their own, voluntarily…. We can say that they are highly educated hookers and quite healthy, because we are the country with the lowest number of AIDS cases."

More from Moore...
In October he plans to set up camp in Florida bringing camera crews and "an army of lawyers" who will serve as poll watchers in November to focus attention on voting rights issues and try to prevent a repeat of the 2000 election debacle.

"I am going to be in Florida," Moore said to cheers at a delegation breakfast, "and together - together, we will guarantee to every Floridian that their vote will be counted this year. I will have my cameras. We will put a huge spotlight on them. They will not get away with it this time."

Speaking of grapefruit...
Miss America pageant axes talent routines
In response to last year's all-time low interest level - only 10.3 million viewers tuned in, marking a steady decline over the last few years - the talent routines, introduced in 1935 to help make Miss America something more than a beauty contest, are being eliminated. “It’s a tragedy,” says Heather French Henry, Miss America 2000. “That’s what separates us from the type of contestant that goes to Miss USA. Our young ladies get into it for the scholarships and the talent.”

"There you have it, the speeches by the skinny guy with the funny name and the fat guy with the simple name are two of the biggest performances at the (Democratic) convention. Even if you weren't there to hear Moore's speech, it makes for a great read, nonetheless," says Don Hazen, Executive Editor, AlterNet.

Here's an excerpt from Moore's speech ...
"The one thing I hear when people come out of the theater over and over again is I never saw that on the news. Right? I never saw those Black congressmen being shut down one after another. Did anyone see that?"

"I didn't know there was a riot at the inauguration parade. I never saw the egg hit the limo. I never saw that! I don't hear from the amputees who sit in our hospitals, 5,000 or 6,000 of them. How come I don't hear from them on the nightly news? I don't hear from the mothers. I don't see them on the evening news, the mothers of children who have been killed in Iraq and who state their opposition to this war. I haven't seen them on the news."

Michael Moore also loves to tell about NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., who told Fox News no less, that he took his pit crew to see "Fahrenheit 9/11," and said all Americans should see it.

Barack Obama is the name of another person Wisconsinites should start to get familiar with... soon to be elected Senator from the state of Illinois.

Here's an excerpt from Obama's speech...
"Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."

"There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States."

"There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."

Take the time to read Obama's entire speech.