Guest Editorial
 Catch Bin Laden First

 Saddam Hussein is a bad man.
 We should have taken him out 10 years ago when we had the chance. And it would be nice if he were gone now.
 But - should we go to war with Iraq to attempt to take him out? I'm not sure it's a good idea.

 What makes us think we can win?
 Bin Laden blew up the World Trade Center and he's just one guy without a country and we can't catch him.
 The Anthrax terrorist remains at large and we really don't have a clue who did that.
 So what makes us think we can take out Saddam?

 America has to face the reality that we are a crippled nation with an incompetent president.
 If we went to war Iraq with Bush as President we would probably lose.
 I think Bush is using this as an election year gimmik to distract attention
 away from Bin Laden and the recession. Let's get Bin Laden first.

 Marc Perkel
 San Francisco
 

Reminder: Around the world, Bush is the most hated American president in 80 years

Subject: Myth of the Liberal Media

Long time reader, first time responder...

The cockeyed "liberal media bias" was made popular by none other than Richard Milhouse Nixon to dismiss the same folks who were exposing the shroud of secrecy and lies in which he operated.  Media attention had turned the nation against the war in Vietnam and for civil rights -- viewpoints largely linked to the left, even if the law of averages put them squarely in the center.  It was simpler to evoke suspicions that the media was unbiased among the same sort of people who said that turning the Panama Canal over to the Panamanians would allow the Chinese to destroy American commerce.

Since then, the myth of the liberal media, given to us the second most secretive and paranoid president (right behind George II), has been championed by pundits and politicians alike, until the lie repeated so often has become widely held as an indelible truth.  Started as a defense against a normally functioning and active media and carried forth by deluded conservatives who refused to admit that spying on enemies and tampering with evidence is such a bad idea.

Of course, what the knees-bent howling neo-conservatives like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh have failed to recognize is that when you're such a rightwing extremist that you suspect the left side of your body of disloyalty, everything will look liberal, except a proposal to slap .  Even the stuff in the mainstream -- like abortion rights and environmental regulations (both consistently supported by the majority of the American public).

EB

 The Bush Trust Deficit
    from Mediawhoresonline.htm

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 "...they don't trust Former Texas Governor Bush.  Because the overwhelming evidence suggests
 Bush's decision-making process does not involve considering what is best for our country.
 The Bush Doctrine, applied to anyone who disagrees with any policy of the Entitled Regime:
 "Who cares what you think."

 Bush has taken not a single action since beginning his White House occupation that demonstrates
 he is more concerned about the American people than his own interests.  He has advanced no policy
 that was not the result of a political calculation that his action would either "appease the base"
 or satisfy the cronies and the contributors."
 

 Reminder: If it's on MWO - it's true.

Subject: fodder for your "I told you so" file

(Bloomberg) -- Qwest, seeking to avert a bankruptcy filing, is selling its telephone-book unit
for $7.05 billion to buyout firms Carlyle Group Inc. and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.

The sale will take place in two stages, Qwest said in a statement distributed by PR Newswire.
Part of the proceeds will be used to pay down debt.

The first stage will involve the sale of QwestDex operations in CO, IA, MN, NB, NM, and Dakota
for $2.75 billion. That stage will close in the fourth quarter, Qwest said. The second phase, which includes
AZ, ID, MT, OR, UT, WA and WY, is for $4.3 billion and will be completed in 2003.

Qwest must reduce its $26.3 billion of debt to avoid a Chapter 11 filing after the company's fiber-optic
network didn't draw enough demand, analysts say. CEO Richard Notebaert got less for the phone-book
business than the $8 billion to $10 billion analysts had forecast.
 

"Buying opportunities" is what the super-rich call it.
 By bankrupting America, the B.F.E.E. can pick up the pieces for pennies.

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 It started like this:

 Dear Bartcop,

Your vulgarity and hatred demonstrate crass emotionalism, not reason, not debate.
Fear and loathing and hatred such as you exhibit are pandemic in liberals.
You must be a very unhappy person.
Life will continue to be unpleasant for you until you learn the truth.
And the truth is not found in calling a Harvard MBA "idiot" and worse.
How stupid must your candidate, Al Gore, be for having lost to who you denigrate as an "idiot" . . . .

SpiderMBA
 

So I try to reason with the ditto-monkey:

>   Spider, it's a comedy page.
>   And if I could answer that last question,
>   I'd be too rich to screw with this goofy page,

>   bart

But no - you can't reason with a ditto-monkey.
He didn't even get my ice-breaking joke.
Here's his reply to my olive branch:

Spare me your sophistry, your lies.
It is Hatred, with a capital "H".
It is animosity.
It is arrogance.
It is unmitigated ego.
It is liberalism.

SpiderMBA
 

So, it was time to teach the monkey a lesson:

> I was showing you how calm and rational I can be.
> You respond with the attitude you accuse me of.
> That makes you a Republican.

> Truth is, there isn't a Republican on the entire Internet who will face me in a live chat room debate.
> I've had a standing offer for YEARS, but you guys are "too busy" do invest a half hour getting your ass kicked.

> That's OK, keep listening to Rush.
> He's afraid to debate, too.

> You have no balls, and no way to defend your absurd positions.
> Your only option is to name-call and run.
 

 Will I hear back from SpiderMBA, the name-calling ditto-monkey?
 Maybe, but you can bet your modem he'll refuse to debate.

 He can't - because I have the truth and his side has nothing.

Subject: Iraqi Embassy Seige in Berlin

Hey Bart,

Let's play a little Connect-The-Dots.

1) Bush desperately needs an excuse to invade Iraq.

2) Bush meets with representatives of  various "Iraqi Dissident Groups."

3) A group of Iraqi dissidents which no one has ever heard of before takes over the
    Iraqi embassy in Berlin. They simply walk in, unopposed.

4) The German police assigned to guard the embassy gates claim they somehow "didn't see anyone enter."

5) Soon after, the dissidents claim to be unarmed, that the embassy personnel are not hostages,
and that they are merely symbolically reclaiming Iraqi territory in a show of defiance against Saddam Hussein.

6) An Iraqi embassy is a good place to find government documents and secret information.

7) The dissidents were in the embassy just long enough to search for such
documents. It has been suggested that enough time passed before they relaxed
their posture to either find and transmit sensitive material, or to find nothing at all.

8) "Damning" official government documents from an Iraqi embassy could well
"justify" military action against Iraq.

9) I repeat - Bush is desperate for an excuse to invade Iraq.

Here's a prediction for the coming weeks. "News Flash -- secret Iraqi government documents
have been uncovered by the US detailing Saddam's attempts to. . ." yada yada yada.

And the kicker is, they won't even have to be real.

KME

Subject: USA Today : U.S. Servicemen KIA in Afghanistan : 41

Bart,

USA Today ran the game stats for the BFEE global oil take over today.

pResident Moron has managed to kill 41 American service men to date to
acquire OIL $$$ for the BFEE and Unka Dick and all their cronies.

How many did the Big Dog kill out of greed over an eight year span.
We're only 16 months into "It'd be a lot easier if I was a dictator", and now 41 KIA.

Iraq's oil reserves are only second to Saudi Arabia's.
Need any other reason for Halliburton and Carlisle Group to bomb these evil brown people?
 

RDS