Subject: Re:Good Article on Dems & Julie Hiatt Steele

BC,
     There's a good article you should link to on Truth Out, talking about
the issues Democrats can talk about, and how to grow a spine.
He also has a great paragraph about JHS.  Here's a sample:

 If Democrats cannot define and fight for the right issues it is only because
 they are afraid to look. Sometimes it is right there in front of their faces.
 Think Julie Hiatt Steele. Where is the Democratic Party for this heroine
 and the steep price she has paid for personal integrity? She has more dignity
 in her little finger than any smug-ridden favor-fondling GOP felonious financier.
 

     Here's the link:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.04F.JC.Democrats.htm

     Here's the one on Smirking Chimp with some good comments:
http://www.SmirkingChimp.com/article.php?sid=5979&mode=&order=0

     I'm seriously considering saying screw it, and coming out to DC for the bash,
I have to check prices for airline tickets first.  This is getting to be too good of an
opportunity to miss.  If I do decide to come out, I'm going to pay the $200 ticket price,
you'll be able to send the rest on to Julie so she can get her teeth fixed.  I just hope
I'm not too late for a ticket.

You're NOT too late!

Keep it up, you're gaining momentum.  April 27th will be a key opportunity to network,
schmooze, and make some contacts for future plans and ideas.  I just hope I can be there
to help you make it happen.  Keep swinging that truth hammer!

Regan
 

 Regan,
 I'm announcing today we have extra tickets!

 We'd sure love to see you, and I promise you'll never forget meeting Julie Hiatt Steele.
 She's such a bundle of fun and poise and class.

 You gotta come!
 Twenty years from now, you'll remember April 27th, 2002.
 You can't put a price on a great memory that'll last forever.

 bart

Subject: Social Darwinism redux

Bart,

While watching a documentary last night on PBS about the Scopes Monkey Trial, I think I had an epiphany or something.

Seems that Wm. Jennings Bryan, a true man of the people, was pretty open-minded on the subject of Darwinism in his youth.  What turned him against it, though, was the way in which it was being interpreted by the right-wingnuts of his day.  What they were trying to do was to apply the docterine of the "survival of the fittest" to society.  Progress, they reasoned, was achieved through weeding out the weak elements of a species; thus social progress can only be attained likewise.  Why, then, should the strong be expected to help the weak?  They called this Social Darwinism.

Here's what led to my epiphany.
One of the right-wing tautologies went something like this (I'm quoting from memory):  A wingnut would ask,
"If you should come across a drunk lying on the cold sidewalk, should you help him or leave him to die?"

The correct answer, he would inform you, is to leave him to die.  "For, if you were to lend him a hand, take him home
and clean him up, he would then go off and marry a drunk; then they would bear two or three children who be drunkards
as well; and so society would end up burdened with five drunkards in place of the one!"

And this was my epiphany.  Preposterous as it seems, there was at least a kernel of truth in this lesson.
Because there must be AT LEAST ONE TIME that somebody helped the besotted Monkey Boy off the floor
-- and lo and behold, look what transpired:  He did indeed marry a drunkard (drunken driver) and have two
drunkards for kids.  And the burden to society?  Immeasureable!  (They never foresaw the "Presidential" angle.)

-- Riant
 

Well  put!

Subject: Keep up the great writing the great movie reviews

BC you are great.  It is not that people are not reading and responding
to your movie reviews and articles, it is because they agree with your assessment.
Panic Room was awful and worse it was dumb.

Keep writing and understand that most people are appreciate what you write.

Celaine
 

ha ha

Artie, is that you?
Thanks.

Subject: This is starting to get too predictable

Yesterday Smirk tells the world that he "expects" better leadership and "expects" results from Israel and from
the Palestinians. What if they don't play his way? Is he going to hold up foreign aid? Is he going to send in our troops?

This morning reports are floating around that the CIA has information that there are Al'Queada terrorists in the west bank
and Gaza, so I guess that answers my first question. Smirk has an excuse to send our troops in to get killed and justify it
with his war on "terra".

And finally does anybody really believe that Israel is going to pull out of the cites and territories that it is occupying
simply because Smirk told them to? Bullshit, if they pull out it will be because they already plan to and Smirk, by
making his "demand" yesterday can try to take credit for the "withdrawal" (something Barbara should have demanded
Poppy do before Dubya was conceived). Oh well, I got that off of my chest and feel better now.

Adrian

 Note: Augustino Patti has purchased a ticket to Juliefest2002.
                 He has requested that we don't hide or code his name.
                 He wants everyone to know.

                ...and do not call him "Auggie."

Subject: Middle East, etc...

Here's how this one plays out. Bush and the Repubes lay back and are actually reponsible
for dead bod's piling up in the Middle East. The Dems are way too big of pussies to call them on it.
When it boils over, they send Colon Blow over there and look like big heroes basically cleaning up
the mess they allowed to happen. Has Rove written all over it.

"Enough is Enough!".... oooooooh! He sure is SCARY, ain't he?!

Too bad he wasn't scary enough to keep Bin Laden & Co from KICKING OUR SORRY ASSES UP
AND DOWN on 9/11! That would have been more handy then say, his pretzel-eating or party fund-raising skills...

It's about RESPECT. The whole world lost respect for America and Americans when we allowed
this bastard child of wealth to steal the keys to the free world. Only now do we and the rest of the
globe begin to see how much damage was truly done on 12/12/2000.

Remember folks, it all began with this:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/00pdf/00-949.pdf

Sure hope we can recover.

JJ

Subject: Does Hamas read Bartcop?

It sure as shootin' seems so!
Today's NY Times article quotes one of the Hamas leaders:

Mr. Shenab insisted that he was not joking when he said,
"There are a lot of open areas in the United States that could absorb the Jews."

Glory to Allah....and to Bartcop.

Patsy R

Subject: Explanation of "Panic Room"

What you saw in "Panic Room" is pretty typical in movies,
and I'm surprised you haven't noticed it in other movies.

Roger Ebert calls it the Idiot Plot.
It's a story that can only work because everyone in the story is an idiot.
In other words, it's kind of like the Republican National Convention.

Thomas R
 

ha ha

I know Hollywood produces a lot of crap.
I just expected more from Jodie Foster.

Subject: Prescott Bush

 BC--

  Geez, I used to email you all the time with what I thought was important stuff and you'd just ignore me.
I know you've got a lot of mail, but I'd try to let you know in the subject line what it's about so you'd
see it was relevant to your articles that day.

Paula, I did a screen grab of my unread, incoming mail for this mailbox.

 There are 9877 others with the same complaint.
 I didn't single you out to ignore you.

 I remember one day CNN bragged they got 178 e-mails in one day.
 Shit, I was getting that much in 1999.

 If anyone knows how to answer a bunch of mail
 and still produce an issue a day, please write.
 

  I'm pretty sure I sent you this before too. (I am a good researcher.) It pissed me off royally
to read his letter, written long before we temporarily "lost" a spy plane over there. Kinda chilling.

http://www.usccc.org/Current/chair.htm

  By the way, I believe I also told you that Barbara Bush (the older one) was
a tennis partner of Sandra Day O'Connor, yet NO ONE ever mentions that
conflict of interest in the Bush v. Gore case....nnooooooooooo, of course not   ; )

   Take care,
    Paula
 

 Paula, thanks for writing.
 I will try to read faster :)

Subject: The BFEE

You say the BFEE told Israel not to sign anything. Now while I agree with you
that the BFEE meddled in the middle east during the 2000 campaign,  what you're
overlooking however is the fact that it was Arafat that turned down a deal.

It is likely that the BFEE approached arafat and made some deal with
him to turn down Baraks offer. It's possible they could have done this
through the Saudis, bushdaddy's business partners.
 

I understand that Arafat turned down that deal.
And it's true that Team Smirk wanted that deal killed.

Team Smirk has a history of offering stolen American weapons to terrorists,
so maybe they approached Arafat like they did Hamas, Hezzbollah and Islamic Jihad.

You can't trust those money-grubbing Bush bastards.

Subject: I Can Guess What Happens Next...

So.  Bush, after sitting with his thumb up his arse for most of the ME crisis
has finally up & done the very thing almost everybody (except Bush's inner circle
& extreme right-wingers - Limbaugh, I'm lookin' at you...) has been suggesting all along

Palestinians Welcome Bush Initiative
 Click  Here

Oh, but let's not forget that he did spend "all morning" on the phone last weekend.
All morning.

On the phone.

From his office.

In his home.

I mean, jeez, talk about "phoning it in".
 

Tim H
 

Tim, I'll bet that morning on the phone was
the most work the lazy Bush boy has ever done.