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From: (withheld)
Let me see if I got this straight:
We should have no gun restrictions in America,
because the citizens need an
"equalizer" to make sure that the U.S. government
doesn't tyrannize us.
But foreign countries shouldn't be at all alarmed
over the "missile shield"
because the U.S. government would never bully
anyone.
Free Market Ideology Loses Power
in California
by Dean Baker
From: csm_714@yahoo.com
Subject: The Bartcop Reader
BC,
Great work with The
Bartcop Reader
I love it..
Keep up the great work...
Frijole
Thanks, but that's Brainsmasher
and Genslab doing that
excellent job.
I just visited and noticed it looked a more tidy over there than the
treehouse does.
Great Political Quotes
All week long he's invited Democrats
to the White House for dinner
and a movie and I think we all know
what men want to do after that.
-- Elayne Boozler on W's Charm Initiatives
Subject: Great Pornographer Quotes
Bob Livingston told the New York Times that
I was a bottom feeder.
That's true. But when I got down there, look
what I found.
-- Larry "Constitution" Flynt
From: jonbastian@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: California Blackouts...
I have to point out one little flaw in the
"Remember 1995"/Drowning in Oil story.
Everything else is on the nose, but as for the
rolling blackouts here in California,
it isn't regulation causing them, and no one
here thinks that. Rather, it's DEregulation
(thank you, Pete Wilson, R-Asshole) that have
allowed the power companies to badly
manage themselves into the ground. And
the rolling blackouts and energy emergenices
started a little bit before the election, although
they were nowhere near as common at the time.
Incidentally, even though I'm in California (LA,
to be exact), I haven't
had any problems with these rolling blackouts.
Why not? Welp, my power
company was very slow to jump on the deregulation
bandwagon and sell all
their excess power only to buy it back at inflated
prices. Consequently,
the juice is flowing through their system, and
they've got a surplus.
Of course, typically, our Democratic governor
is getting blamed for a
big problem caused by a Republican administration.
Sigh...
Jon Bastian
Jon, I know nothing about California's problems.
I just know whatever Pigboy says, it must be the opposite.
The point still stands - we were drowning in cheap oil in 1995
and the only reason we're starving now is hoarding by BIG OIL.
Stroke Me, Stroke Me
If you want to spank me, say so,
but I'm talking off again next week.
-- El Pigbo, midway thru second hour
But Pigboy, if we tried to spank you, we might hurt that gerbil.
The Israeli election results are coming in...
They said Maddog Warmonger Ariel Sharon is ahead of Barak 59-41.
Do the votes mean anything in Israel?
Or is it set up like our fraudulent elections where the guy who
gets fewer votes
is installed by right-wing ditto-monkeys against the will of
the people?
Why have the Moonies given the Bush family MILLIONS?
From: jdcole1978@hotmail.com
Subject: another Historychannel.com poll
Great website, first of all. If you've ever
heard of a comedian named Bill Hicks,
I recommend listening to (I think) track 19 on
his CD "Rant In E-Minor,"
although all his stuff is good (too bad he's
dead now).
Anyway, I was following the historychannel.com
link that was emailed to you
and you posted regarding the confederate flag.
Well, today's (2-6) poll is in
regards to the bias on the media - liberal, conservative,
undecided.
I voted at 8:30 Eastern time - the results?
76% conservative!
Pig-fucker can stick that up his ass.
Keep up the good work.
Keep the hammer pounding!
John D. Cole
John, Hicks was one of the greats.
Plus, his language makes me look like a priest.
On the historychannel.com poll, I just checked it,
the Freepers have pulled the conservative bias to almost even.
Can't have that. historychannel.com
Tally Briggs / Actress at Large
Random Rants
From: ecollins@ong.com
A correction: Roe v. Wade was a
TEXAS, not a Missouri, case (much as I
hate to kill the intended Ashcroft irony--but
you've got Smirk, instead). Also
the case started in, I'm pretty sure 1970.
By the time the Supreme Court issued
its ruling on January 22, 1973 (also the day
LBJ died), plaintiff Roe's (actual
name, Norma McCorvey) baby had already been
born and given up for adoption.
Challenge Mail from Brandon Sutherland
Great Republican Quotes
"I'm getting much more pleasure out of helping
people than making money and making movies.
And it's increasing my desire to do
that. It will probably lead to some political office. I haven't
really said this is the time. But, you
know, the bottom line is if Davis goes on the way he is
-- then eventually there will be a vacuum
in a year and I could ...,''
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying he'll run for California
governor.
Translation:
"I haven't had a hit since True Lies
in 1994, so I have to change careers."
From: denise.topaz@usa.net
Subject: Censorship
Dear Bartcop,
We're in BIG trouble.
Already, a subtle effort to quash any criticism
of the Bush Residency is afoot.
After only a scant few weeks, CNN has removed
the discussion board entitled "The Bush Presidency".
They have notified posters to move to other discussion
areas such as "Abortion", "India/Pakistan Relations"
and "Separation of Church and State". Interestingly,
they still maintain discussion boards on "Bill Clinton"
and "Jesse Jackson", but there seems to be no
room for any discussion of our current Pretender.
Scary, huh?
Keep your brilliant battle going--we need you now, more than ever.
Denise Topaz
Denise, scary but expected.
Scarier still - we have no idea why the press is giving Smirk a pass.
For some reason, the wild-ass media whores no longer want to make money.
...did you just hear that owl hoot?
ha ha
First hour, Pigboy is whining about "baby-boomers who grew up without
ever
having to do any real work in their entire lives."
Hey, Pigboy, who's our installed president?
Please list the hard work that snotty, rich brat ever did in his life.
Or are you counting his desertion from the National Guard as hard work?
I've never deserted my country in war time, so I don't know if it's hard work or not.
The Congressional hearings on
the Rich pardon are next week.
Horendo Revolver has an opinion.
The hearings in Congress begin next Wednesday.
Please God, have them subpeona The Master.
I got my truth hat on...
The Real Reason
I didn't hear the vulgar Pigboy today, I took the day off.
But last week, that pig Hannity spent DAYS on Mel Reynolds.
Never heard of him?
Relax, nobody has.
He was an obscure Demo Rep from Illinois when he got caught fooling
around with a 16 year old girl.
That's not good.
Yahoo News says Reynolds was sentenced in 1997 to 6-1/2 years
in prison for bank fraud
and campaign finance violations, but the sex is all that Hannity
and Rush can remember.
When it happened in 1995, the vulgar Pigboy had multiple orgams
on the air READING
the court record of the sex talk betweeen idiot Reynolds and
the 16 year old girl.
(Remember, Reynolds is NOT a Green Bay Packer, so sex crimes
could be enforced)
Well, Reynolds got one of the Clinton pardons last month.
This was the best new Rush had received since the Whore Court
stole the election.
The pardons gave Rush an excuse to drag out alllllllll that five
year old sex talk to embarrass Reynolds.
Pigboy went on vacation last week, so Hannity stepped in and
did DAYS on Reynold's cock.
Each hour, he'd go over it again and again and again.
Jesse Jackson we might understand, because they've both hated
him for years.
But why the inordinate amount of time devoted to Reynolds?
These fraudulent sons of bitches had their little gigglefest because
Reynolds is black.
Rush and Hannity can't get on the air and say, "Ain't that just
like a nigger?"
But they can get thisclose to
doing it by playing the "oversexed" card.
Rush and Hannity are superb communicators.
When they tear into Jackson and Reynolds for their "sex problems,"
the whites-only crowd
perks up because Rush has the courage to say what needs to be
said.
The darkies are all oversexed and Rush's fans - the real Americans
- know that.
Rush is just doing his whites-only audience a favor by warning
us that "one of them" was loose.
He's here to remind the racists that "those people" are sex-crazy.
Remember, Rush gets paid to divide America.
I'd like to take him fishing on Lake Tahoe sometime...
From: jmo@cadws15.wilm.ge.com
Subject: Banned political websites - Bartcop's next?
KAR-IST!
Bartcop, I can't believe it (well yes I can)!
I work for....well let's
just say I work for a "Generalized" Electric
company and each day
during lunch (my free time) I read your site,
APJ and sometimes
I check out the Rush VS. Reality site on MSN.
Well NO MORE!
Nope, RVR has now been banned from access. If
I click on the link, type
the address or use my bookmark, I get the corporate
warning page telling
me this site is an evil site equal to the lengths
of those porno sites on the Net.
Along with the warning that a "ticket" has been
recorded that
I tried to access this site.
I wonder who's next?
You, Bartcop?
American Politics Journal?
Rackjite?
I wonder if I can access Rush's site itself.......hold on, let me see........
YEP! I SURE CAN!!!!
Knowing the company I work for, it doesn't surprise
me one bit!
I'm gonna download every anti-GW/GOP item I can
and every pro-Bartcop I
can, print them out and line the walls of my
cell...I mean cubicle.
I'll update you.
Blues
Debate Idea
Trying to fix what's wrong with our Thursday night debates,
I came up with something that might help a lot.
Next time we do this, we should let the Rush fans work as a team.
They pick a fast-typer to anchor their team, but anyone can send
the anchor messages.
So if Bird was smarter and a better typist, he could be the anchor.
If the subject was the Clinton pardons, Gorefan and Mr Republican
and the other DMs
could send suggestions to their anchor to use as rebuttal.
I'm all for a moderator, too, if someone wants the job.
But this team idea should greatly increase the IQ of the victims,
I mean the Republicans,
and if there's only two people typing, maybe the BB won't freeze.
If we try this and it still freezes, we'll set up a thing on Dalnet
of EFNet or whatever,
for the Thursday night debates in case they get crowded.
So you GOP types that hang in the chat room and the BartCop Sucks
Forum,
pick an anchor who can think and type and let's try that.
Tequila Talk
I have discovered something.
I can taste a difference in three different bottles of Chinaco
Anejo.
The Anejo from store "A" tastes different than
the Anejo from store "B" or store "C."
It stands to reason that it would be hard to duplicate each batch
exactly.
In this case, you have papaya, pears, mango, apple and wildflowers
mixed in there
so it must be an art just to get it to taste similar to
the previous batch.
...and I would never have noticed if I hadn't gone broke.
To new readers - I fell into some easy ADM cash money and for
a long time
I was chugging the Chinaco Anejo like it was f-ing
Budweiser.
When I came back to earth, I had to learn to savor each
drop of God's Nectar
thereby multiplying the taste of sunshine a hundred fold.
Thank you, God, for taking away all that money.
From: YPScholl@houston.rr.com
Subject: Where are the links to buy something?
Hey Bartcop,
I read your blurb about some upcoming fundraising,
and I thought, well,
maybe I'll buy that coffee mug or a bunch of
bumper stickers. Then I went
looking for a link for that mug or bumper sticker,
and couldn't find one anywhere !!
So, where are the links to the Bartcop.com Store??
Didn't I see one in days past??
Make it easy for us to give you money!!
Post the link to the store!!
Respectfully,
Steve in Houston
Steve, I have returned the links to the top of the page.
From: rwebs@microsoft.com
Subject: Susan McDougal
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm intensely
jealous. I totally agree with
your opinion about Susan; she has more integrity
in one little finger than you'd
find among all of the repubs (and many of the
demo's, unfortunately) put together.
The way she stood up to that bully, and didn't
back down even one smidgen to
save her neck; there's no WAY she could ever
become a politician (unfortunately)!
If she ever makes it up to my neck of the woods
(Seattle), I'm going to try to meet her myself.
Hmm... I'm not married...
D'ya think she'd...?
Na, probably not.
Still, I can dream, can't I?
Thanks,
Robert Webster
Nicole Kidman leaves her husband.
She's telling close friends she wants to marry an actor.
Remember 1995?
I do.
In 1995, America was drowning in cheap oil and gasoline.
Oil and gas were so cheap, the just-took-control Gingrich House
of Representatives
were ridiculing Jimmy Carter and his "conserve energy" policies.
Matter of fact, we were so awash with cheap energy, the ditto-monkey
Congress
passed a law repealing the 55 Mile-per-hour speed limit because
- it wasn't needed!
We were drowning in cheap, cheap gas and oil.
(And the lying bastards have the gall to say Clinton had no energy
policy...)
So - what happened?
Bob Dole got his clock cleaned by Clinton, and the GOP got angry.
They decided they were going to get behind one guy and win the
White House in 2000.
For reasons that I think, to this day, only the big
story explains, they chose that idiot Smirk.
Everyone knows Smirk was and is a horrible candidate
to run for national office,
because he was skeleton-boy and he was a total idiot who's unable
to think.
Since they HAD to win this election - no matter what it took -
they needed a game plan
that could circumvent the FEC rules, so they needed a source
of mega-giga-dollars.
Where else would you go besides BIG OIL?
Smirk's friends in BIG OIL knew Smirk was a hole that would
produce for them like crazy.
Making a long, sad story short, they put their plan together
to elect Smirk.
For payback, they wanted Carte Blanche on drilling rights
and monopoly prices.
...and look what happened,
...look where we ended up.
The minute Smirk took his stolen oath of office in Washington
D. C.,
the most populous state in the nation becomes the victim of "rolling
blackouts."
The problem causing the rolling blackout?
REGULATIONS - they claim.
REGULATIONS we didn't need forced on us by the liberals..
Un-needed, un-necessary, un-American, anti-capitalist REGULATIONS.
Ready for me to bring it home?
What would solve all of the (newly-created-by-Smirk ) problems?
1. Drilling in Alaska and wherever BIG OIL wants to go.
2. Drop those silly, un-needed, un-necessary un-American REGULATIONS
on BIG OIL.
3. ...and lastly, the solve-every-problem-in-the-world TAX CUTS
so BIG OIL can invest.
...and if I'm wrong, why did Newt and his ditto-monkey Congress
raise the speed limit?
They did it because we were drowning in cheap oil and
gas
We're all getting screwed by BIG OIL.
The reason your gas bill just tripled is the same reason
the profits of the BIG OIL companies are about to triple.
Smirk and his BIG OIL buddies are stealing from the poor to give to the super-rich.
We're getting fucked.
Great Political Quotes
There's a risk that Democrats who are
not sharing the anger and dismay could
find themselves disaffected from big
pieces of the base of the party.
But if the base of the party is angry
with Republicans and working day and night
to vindicate through the midterm elections
what was taken away from them in
the election last year, that could be
good for the Democrats.
-- Tony Podesta, a Democratic strategist
From: s_w_newman@yahoo.com
Subject: Thank You, BartCop
Dear BartCop,
I just want to say thank you for being the only
real voice of decency.
Living in the right-wing hell hole of Virginia,
I cling to bartcop.com as a bastion
of intelligence, reason, and morality.
Considering this nation's shameful slide to the right,
it feels good to know at least some people out
there are willing to stand up for what's true.
I have been a devoted Democrat for years, but
no more.
Those rat-bastard traitors will have to earn
my vote next time.
We all need to band together - to remind a brainwashed
public that the word liberal is a beautiful thing.
Let me know how to donate.
I don't have tons of dough, but I want to help
this cause.
Keep fighting the bastards, BartCop!
We need you.
Steven Newman
From: mlhm5@mediaone.net
Subject: Ashcroft
Roe v. Wade was a Missouri case and Missourian John Ashcroft has
personalized it and made it his life's to get the decision overturned.
The clinic that preformed the abortion was in St. Louis. I lived near
the clinic
and every day for the 7 years I lived there women were jeered, ridiculed,
tormented, cursed, and spit on. There was never a day that went by
where
there less than 30 protestors carrying signs and screaming "baby
killers".
No effort was ever made by then Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft and later
Governor to ensure safe passage from the street to the clinic despite
numerous
incidents that required police intervention.
Make no mistake about it, it is personal with Ashcroft. He has deeply
religious
beliefs against all forms of abortion and birth control (except
condoms)
and has made the reversal of Roe v. Wade his highest priority.
Anyone who believes any other senario is just fooling themselves.
M. Lee Hibbs
Here are some FACTS about Marc Rich.
Rich was railroaded
Overzealous, faulty application of the law led to
unjunst conviction.
By his lawyer, Jack Quinn
Much of the history surrounding the 20 year old
Marc Rich case concerning complicated
oil trades, as well as the merits for the Rich
pardon, can be explained by one word:
RICO, the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organization
Act (RICO).
Designed to combat violent organized crime, prosecutors
in 1983 misused the racketeering
sledgehammer for the first time to attack Rich
for what was no more than a regulatory
dispute about price controls and taxes.
In 1989, the U.S. Department of Justice finally
put a stop to the use of RICO in cases like this,
but by then Rich's companies had been coerced
into pleading guilty just to survive, and Rich
had been labeled a fugitive for not returning
from his headquarters in Switzerland to be
subjected to a patently unfair and grossly overhyped
racketeering trial.
And the prosecutors overlooked the key facts underlying
the energy and tax case that the RICO
charges overshadowed. The U.S. Department
of Energy, the agency authorized to enforce the
oil price control rules, investigated some of
the very transactions covered by the indictment.
The department directed its attention to a major
oil company that actually developed the idea,
and the probe that conducted in a civil regulatory
proceeding, which is how everyone but Rich was
treated. The department concluded such
types of transactions should be viewed in a way entirely
consistent with the way Rich's conmpanies accounted
for them, contrary to the indictment.
Rich's defense team, consisting of both Republicans
and Democrats, tried unsuccessfully for more
than a decade to convince prosecutors to re-examine
the charges in light of the contrary conclusions
reached by the Justice and Energy departments,
as well as the contrary views of leading tax experts
of unquestioned integrity. The defense
was rebuffed not on the merits but because of Rich's absence,
which the prosecutors themselves caused through
their now-discredited misues of RICO,
Given this intractable impasse, a pardon was sought
to reduce this case to its proper proportions:
a civil regulatory dispute. The process
was never circumvented. Not only did I make the deputy
attorney general aware of Rich's pardon petition,
the White House consulted with the deputy
attorney general, who had been personally aware
of Rich's defenses for more than a year.
The president resolved the stalemate by requiring
Rich and his partner to waive any procedural
defenses that could be raised to the lawful imposition
of civil fines or penalties for their actions
covered by the indictment.
The president's actions were necessitated by the
prosecutors' unreasonable refusal to correct the
overzealous indictment that devastated Rich's
companies and exposed him to more than 300 years in jail.
This case should have been resolved as a civil
matter years aso.
Jack Quinn is a Washington lawyer and former White House counsel to President Clinton.
Now, why couldn't the whore press give us this story
instead of the weeks of horseshit
we got instead?
This pardon, the "vandalism" and the less-than-the-Bush's-got parting
gifts
are all we've heard lately while that idiot Smirk is reversing America's
course.
...doesn't that make you sad?
From: galloway@gtcom.net
Subject: Letter to Feingold
Senator Feingold,
What happened?? What were you thinking? What did
the republican menace do to
silence one of the more progressive voices in
the Senate? I hope you went for more
then the traditional 30 pieces of silver. I hope
it was enough to justify your new Pariah status.
I hope it was enough compensation for imploding
your political career in a few short years.
Did they have pictures? Was that the reason you
helped elevate John Ashcroft, a man who
lied under oath (where is the outrage, the beating
of breast, the gnashing of teeth and the
rending of hair, now?), an extreme right-wing
demagogue by anyone’s definition, to the
office of Attorney General? Or have you just
taken leave of your senses?
Your actions are inexcusable and entirely indefensible.
You cannot rationalize your way out of this.
Here’s a news flash Senator; Republicans didn’t
vote for you, the DEMOCRATIC voters in
Wisconsin (one of the states where all the votes
were counted) did. You have done them a great
and intolerable disservice. You won your last
race by less then 50,000 votes.
That is a fairly thin margin. Looks like you will
be getting some much needed time off after the
next election cycle to mull over your selling
us out. What a pity, but accountability is paramount.
I hate to see you, of all Senators, be used as
an example to others, but you have only yourself to
blame. You may as well change your party affiliation
and join ranks with the opposition.
Then and only then do you stand a chance at re-election.
A parting thought; Maybe you can use the filthy
lucre that bought your vote to a good end.
I’m thinking a spine transplant or at the very
least some testosterone therapy.
Regards,
Dave Galloway
Sneads, FL
Do you know who Jorja Fox is?
First time I remember seeing her was as a doctor or ER.
Then she moved to the hottest new show of last year, West
Wing, where she played
the lady Secret Service agent who was guarding the president's
daughter.
Then she moved to this year's hottest new show, C.S.I.,
where she plays a criminologist.
She must think this whole Hollywood thing is pretty damn easy.
I'll bet Tally Briggs would kill to have Jorja's luck...
From: hudson_todd@hotmail.com
Subject: confederate flag
BC,
I don't know if you can/will do this, but I have a request.
Go to historychannel.com
and check out the poll at the bottom.
It is a poll asking what is the meaning of the confederate flag.
Obviously the freepers got to it.
After you vote (you can vote more than once, I did 10 times or so),
you can see the results
Not that I encourage steering people to skew a poll,
but I think the readers of bartcop.com could do
something about this...
Todd
Kiss Dumps Criss From Farewell Tour
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kiss drummer Peter Criss says he still wants to rock
n' roll
with the band but the other three don't want him on the start of their
farewell tour.
A statement posted on the band's Web site said Criss had left the group he helped found, but gave no reason.
On Saturday, Criss said Kiss lead singer Gene Simmons and guitarist
Paul Stanley cut short negotiations for him to
perform on the tour. Criss will be replaced by Eric Singer, who played
with the band from 1991 to 1996.
What's that got to do with the best-looking woman in rock n roll, Louise
Nurding?
Nothing, I'd just like to kiss her, that's all.
From: silentcal1924@yahoo.com
Subject: Offices
OK, let me get this straight:
A sickly, 90 year old man with Alzheimers so advanced he can't recall
his wife's name:
OK to spend $300,000 a year on his office. (For his very important
activities, I'm sure)
A healthy man in his 50's who just moved to the most expensive city
in the world:
Criminal to spend $300,000 a year on his office, even though he's a
serious contender
for a Nobel Peace Prize or important post like UN Secretary General
or Governor
of his adopted state.
I live in NYC. $700,000 a year for an office is no big deal here,
because that's what these things cost. Only knuckle draggers from
Grand Rapids or Bumfuck can get primo office space for a hundred grand.
You can't even buy a shitty house in the ghetto here for less than
a quarter mil.
Take heart- if you lived in Canada, the Liberal Party
would be kicking ass and taking no prisoners.
It's only in THIS country that they take it up the ass.
Sarah
Read the Previous
Issue
It had everything - press rules, wild pigs
golfing, Tina and more Demo capitulation.
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Thanks for the fumble,
Dude.
