Wednesday July
3, 2002
Note: As you know, not every issue
of bartcop.com is a winner. Today's issue is so good,
and so jammed-packed with super-excellent stuff, I had to "babe
it up" a little just so people
wouldn't mistake it for the best and most important site on the
www.
Quotes
"Why don't they change it to 'one nation under
Canada? Or 'over Mexico?' That
way, everybody's happy"… -- Robin Williams
SEC Report: Bush
Violated Security Laws Four Times
Excerpt: George W. Bush violated federal securities
laws at least four times when he was a director of
a Texas oil firm in the late 1980s and
early 1990s, according to an internal government report.
The document was prepared by the Securities
and Exchange Commission in 1991 during its
well-publicized investigation into whether
Bush had benefited from insider information when
he sold Harken Energy Corp. stock
before its value plummeted, and then failed to promptly
report the transaction to the SEC in violation
of federal law. Bush’s stake in Harken helped
make him a multimillionaire.
The Governor is a criminal, but he's above the laws the
little people must obey.
The press is making money riding the Bush gravy train so they
refuse to report the facts.
Bart,
Loved the Juliefest video.
The most uplifting thing I've seen since
the occupation began.
Excerpt: In only a year an a half, President Bush
has overseen the biggest economic downturn since 1929.
Millions of people have lost hundreds of
billions of dollars. They lost their retirements, their life
savings, their 401ks, their jobs, their
homes and their health insurance. Poverty, unemployment,
drug use and violent crime are up from
the Clinton years.
The Republican CEO friends of Bush have
looted their companies, crooks taking hundreds of
millions while leaving their stock holders
and employees holding an empty bag. All while Bush
looks on with his stupid smirk doing nothing
about the structural causation, only pointing his
finger at unnamed individuals, once his
best pals.
A
Pre-4th of July thought
Dow Jones Industrials - 9,007.75
NASDAQ -
1,357.85
Gee, remember when the Dow was at 11,500
and the NASDAQ at 5,000?
It occured under Bill Clinton just before
he left office.
Hmmmmmmmm
Excerpt: But hey, nobody's getting nekkid in the
Oval Office, right? At least not that we know about.
So desperate were GOP savants to distract
attention from Bush's fecklessness that they added
a touch of spice to the weekly Chicken
Little terrorism alerts.
Who taught corporate criminals to lie,
cheat and steal? Rush Limbaugh led the pack, but
Republican pundits were all over TV chat
shows suggesting that the innocent lads and lasses
of Wall Street were corrupted by Bill Clinton
and Monica Lewinsky.
and
Pledging
Allegiance
Excerpt: "...two words in a patriotic oath
hardly constitutes an "establishment of religion."
Democrats would be idiots to hand so easily
demagogued an issue to Republicans just so
some self-dramatizing village atheist can
"protect" his eight year-old daughter from a theoretical
threat she's too young to understand. He
should try teaching her tolerance, a sense of proportion,
and the meaning of "with liberty and justice
for all."
Excerpt: It has always been this way for centuries.
We armed Japan, selling them the scrap metal
they used to build their navy. We armed
and financed Germany, with Prescott Bush,
the Bush family scion, Germany's principle
financier in marketing German bonds in this
country. We armed and financed Russia.
War is big business, right up there with oil,
and most of the wars directly involve Big
Oil's interests anyway. Iran/Iraq? Oil.
Gulf War? Oil. Kosovo? Oil. Somalia?
Oil. Vietnam? Oil. The Falklands? Oil.
Suez Canal? Oil. Afghanistan? Oil. The
West creating Khaddafi? Oil.
Dominating world drug trafficking is the
only thing remotely comparable to the other
Big Two, and it's a distant third. With
the Taliban out, and the poppy crop back in,
maybe Bush hit the trifecta again. But
you need a string of puffed up patsies to get in
the ring with the champ to keep the suckers
paying. The easiest way is to sponsor a
dictator for a while, and then attack him,
a favorite formula returned to repeatedly.
Or you have your inside man instigate as
much of the whole thing is necessary,
as occurred in the first WTC bombing, and
the OKC bombing.
I would like to correspond with all your dickhead
communist friends who think socialism
and communism is the future of a modern dictatorship
with your heroes Hillary and Bill
Communist in charge. You will be propaganda
minister because you lie about everything.
You even pimp for that Julie Steele woman and
you post pictures of broads all the time.
Your "wife" must like that. I'll bet you
are gay and use that as a cover.
I hear you live in a trailer park and get money
from the Democrat party.
You could work, but you tricked the bureaucrats
into giving you 100% mental disability so you never
have to work again. Just so you can be
a dickhead and sit on your ass all day insulting good people.
Meanwhile I work for a living and support pimps
like you.
Bob Memo
Bob, thanks for the support
Shocked Afghans Criticize U.S. Strike; Toll
Is 40 Dead and 100 Wounded Wedding party attacked by US Military
Yes, this was a bad thing, but I've only seen it mentioned once
that the reason they were attacked it because the wedding party
wasfiring their guns in the air to celebrate the
damn wedding.
I don't care if it's their custom or not.
When your country is under attack from the US military,
firing into the air when our planes are flying overhead can get
you killed.
The reason you and I have never been shot at or bombed by the
military
is because we didn't fire into the air as a US gunship flew over
our position.
The actress, who plays Rachel on the hit
comedy "Friends," sued
Man's World magazine, claiming that paparazzi
scaled an eight-foot wall
to photograph her as she sunbathed in the
backyard of her home.
Hmmmm, ...the nude pictures I've seen of Rachel were taken on
a beach.
I know she's very, very wealthy, making almost a million dollars
a week,
but I didn't know she could afford to have an ocean in her back
yard.
Why do these stars go to Europe and take their pants off on some
beach
and then act all surprised when the pictures show up on the Internet?
Quotes
"I'm just a big-mouthed lesbian now..." --Rosie the tramp, making lesbians cringe
In a haughty, better-than-you tone, the
Unelected Fraud defended his own business experience with a corporation
accused of fishy accounting.
''Everything I do is fully disclosed; it's
been fully vetted,'' the man some call "president" barked, as he paused to speak with reporters
during an appearance in Wisconsin. ''Any other questions?''
Yeah, I have a question or two - if you're into full disclosure,
like you claim, why did you hide your papers from the years you were governor? And if he's
a saint we should all admire,
why did you bury Reagan's papers where nobody could see
them?
And if you're so into full disclosure, tell us why your daddy
pardoned the Iran-Contra gang?
You're a liar, Mr Bush.
Two devastating anti-Bush editorials in today's NY Times appear
next to each other.
They both go for the jugular and are too powerful for even Fox
News to ignore.
One accuses the DOD and CIA of hiding the true Anthrax killer
(a white supremist Republican)
and the other piece finally airs Bush's criminal conduct while
at Harken energy.
This is truly historic. Here are the urls:
Excerpt: Mr. Bush and Mr. Pitt say they are outraged
about WorldCom.
Representative Michael Oxley, played a key
role in passing a 1995 law (over Mr. Clinton's veto)
that, by blocking investor lawsuits, may
have opened the door for a wave of corporate crime.
More recently, when Merrill Lynch admitted
having pushed stocks that its analysts privately
considered worthless, Mr. Oxley was furious
— not because the company had misled investors,
but because it had agreed to pay a fine,
possibly setting a precedent. But he also says he is
outraged about WorldCom.
Might this sudden outbreak of moral clarity
have something to do with polls
showing mounting public dismay over crooked
corporations?
As Gene Lyons wrote, Bush did what Martha Stewart is accused of
doing, but instead of having
a friend on the inside, Bush was on the board,of directors
and a member of the auditing committee.
Excerpt: Astonishingly, the F.B.I. allowed the destruction
of anthrax stocks at Iowa State University,
losing what might have been valuable genetic
clues. Then it waited until December to open the intact
anthrax envelope it found. The F.B.I. didn't
obtain anthrax strains from various labs for comparison
until March, and the testing is still not
complete. The bureau did not systematically polygraph scientists
at two suspect labs, Fort Detrick, Md.,
and Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, until a month ago.
You know me - never one to point a finger without proof, but it's
almost like
the FBI has orders not to catch this guy.
I wonder why that is?
Could it be because the anthrax killer is only targeting Democrats?
Is Bush allowing murder for political gain?
JulieFestWest Updates on Party of the Year atThe
Rio
I wouldn't mind seeing Gore make another run in
2004,
but he better leave that incompetent wimp Lieberman
on the sidelines.
Derrick in KC
Dittos to that.
Remember when Lieberman debated Cheney, and Cheney claimed
he made his hundred million without any help from the government?
Ha!
He's been selling oil field equipment to his good friend Saddam,
which is ILLEGAL,
but the American press has decided to look the other way because Cheney
is a senior partner
in the Bush Family Evil Empire, so he's immune from investigations
or prosecution.
Way to go, Joe, letting him off the hook when it counted.
Comment: I know this is done by a guy, so why can't he
figure out
why Anna Kournikova is on every man's mind?
Bart:
I'd like two Tickets to the great party, and one
Fajita dinner for my wife
and one Clilean Seabass dinner for myself. (contribution
enclosed) I have
reserved the rooms at The
Rio already, for one
whole week 9/23 to 9/30.
We are both from Spain (live and work in Plattsburgh,
NY) we have a
European perspective on politics and are looking
forward to meet some sane people.
Julio and Lola
Julio!
Have you ever been to Las Vegas?
This may be the wrong weekend to meet some sane people, but I'll bet you don't meet many ditto-monkeys! :)
Thanks, looking forward to meeting you and Lola.
...and tell the people back in Spain about Julie.
I know you have Spanish heroes - she is a true American hero.
They read it in Fukushima.
They read it in Puerto Escondido
They read it in Fenton, Missouri, while eating their Imo's Pizza
...bartcop.com
I saw something on last night's Nightline that sickened
me.
Spencer Abraham, the guy who didn't know he was an Arab until
Karl Rove decided
Bush needed some diversity in his cabinet, said if we don't ship
the dirty nuclear waste
to Yucca Mountain, "then we might store
it on Indian Reservations."
What?
We're going to screw the red man again?
Again?
Holy Jesus!
We stole their land, we raped their women for the fun of it,
we hunted them as f-ing sport,
we marched them west until we decided we wanted the west coast,
too, so we marched them
back east a little until we found some rocky desert that we didn't
yet have a use for.
The look on Abraham's face when he said, "then
we might store it on Indian Reservations." it reminded me of the big "sit down" in The Godfather where Brando
said, "If my boy... ...is accidentally shot, ...by a policeman,
or accidentally ...gets struck by lightning, ...I'll look to some of the people in
this room, and that I will NOT forgive,"
...we knew, and they knew, Vito Corleone meant business.
Then the bald guy stands up and slaps his palm down on the table
and says,
"So, we'll sell the dope, but not near
the schools ...and only to niggers!! They've already lost their souls, anyway..."
...something like that.
Abraham had that same look in his eye.
"We'll store it on Indian land, ...they have
no soul to lose..." is what I sensed.
(does a shot...)
So we got this guy Spencer
Abraham, who is from some foreign land,
who is the B.F.E.E.'s front man for the decision that
NATIVE AMERICANS can just
"live with," whitey's nuclear waste if the B.F.E.E. doesn't
get their way screwing Nevada.
(does another shot...)
Look, I don't have the answer to nuclear waste disposal, not at the
moment, anyway,
but that "fuck em" attitude I saw about letting the red man eat
it made me feel sick,
...and this is from a foreigner who works for the Bush Crime
Family.
Hey, Spence!
That dirty blood money - does it feel good?
Does it spend like regular money?
to Julie Hiatt Steele
The
Who carry on
While some people debated the propriety of playing
so soon after the death,
a surprisingly lighthearted Roger Daltrey and
Pete Townshend got down to business,
grinding out two hours of classic material from
three decades' worth of albums.
"Tonight, we play for John Entwistle," said Roger,
three songs into the set.
"He's the true spirit of rock 'n' roll, and he
lives on in all the music we play."
The Who are under attack for having a "business as usual" attitude.
I've never been The Who's biggest fan, but I know they're a monster
group.
I don't know what else they could've done but play on. They may
have a hundred
people in the crew, and about a half million fans will see them
in their 25-city tour.
Should they have postponed the tour for 30 days? Six months?
Why?
What good would come from that?
I say, "Rock on, boys!"
Herbert
is a liar.
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> Bart, you know as well as I all the bad things that have happened
over the
> past half century can be traced back to Liberal thinking and influence.
> All good things can be traced back to Conservative thinking and influence.
Ok, let's make a list of all the "good things",
shall we?
- World War II. Conservatives from Japan
attack Pearl Harbor
- World War II (again) Conservatives in Germany
(aka Nazis) cause the Holocost
- Conservatives in America (aka the KKK) burn
crosses in black people's yards
- Conservatives in America stalk and murder doctors
at family planning clinics
- Conservatives in America cause even more abortions
by making birth control a taboo subject
- A conservative in America (aka Tim McVeigh)
blow up the Murrah Federal building
- Muslim conservatives fly planes into the WTC
and Pentagon
- Conservatives in America send Anthrax to liberal
congresspersons
The
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