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Quotes
"America's enemies are strong and resolute.
We must be stronger and resoluter..."
-- President Swipe, Monday
Actually, I made that up.
But doesn't it sound like something the Moron would say?
Steps
to Wealth
by Paul Krugman
Excerpt:
Why are George W. Bush's business dealings
relevant? Given that his aides tout his "character,"
the public deserves to know that he became
wealthy entirely through patronage and connections.
But more important, those dealings foreshadow
many characteristics of his administration, such as
its obsession with secrecy and its intermingling
of public policy with private interest.
As the unanswered questions about Harken
Energy pile up - what's in those documents
the White House won't release? Who was
the mystery buyer of Mr. Bush's stock?
Plus, what's hidden in the Texas files that are sealed?
And what's in Saint Reagan's papers that we can't see?
If Reagan was such a good president, what are they hding?
A
cancer on the presidency
by William Rivers
Pitt
Excerpt:
"There is a cancer on the Presidency of George
W. Bush. Maybe he jobbed Harken stockholders,
maybe he didn't. Maybe he sold out with
insider information, maybe he didn't. Maybe he was part
of the Harken scheme to lie about their
stock value, and maybe he wasn't. But he always seems
to be standing right next to the scumbags
when the bad noise starts, doesn't he?
Alan Greenspan is supposed to come riding
in on Tuesday and save the Markets with a rosy report
about a healthy economy. The stock reporters
on the news channels were fairly drooling about it.
That is all well and good, but it bears
notice that Big Al does not own one single, solitary share of
stock in anything. Greenspan likes his
Treasury Bonds, his bank accounts, and probably even has
a few tin cans filled with quarters buried
somewhere under his porch."
Mail Bag
Hey Bart - I'm not sure on the details on
this, because they were
two different news stories that I was halfway
listening to over the weekend.
The first said that Bush is going to spend
the entire month of August in Crawford
(AGAIN. I believe even the journalists
implied that one might learn from their mistakes,
but when it comes to him this is obviously
not the case.)
And the second was that Al-Qaeda is gearing up for "spectacular" attacks on US, British, etc. targets.
Doesn't this give you an eery sense of deja vu?
Sam
Sam,
Actually, it makes me hurl.
One thing's for sure: The laziest president in history will
take his vacations.
Just like last time, he'll be sleeping when Al Qaeda is busy
sending clues again.
And after the new attacks, he'll claim there was "no way I could've known..."
Hey, rich boy!
There's a concept you're unaware of - it's called "work."
Why don't you try working instead of taking all those vacations?
An American Stasi
Excerpt:
"These TIPS soldiers have been given the mission
to go where the police can’t necessarily go,
see what the police can’t necessarily see,
and then report findings to the Justice Department,
which will maintain a database of tips.
It remains to be seen whether this will save the country
from attack, or simply bury bureaucrats
in thousands of vague, frightened, meaningless reports
that sully the reputations of the innocent.
But we have already seen the effects of creating a
system of omnipresent government informants
who treat all fellow citizens as potential enemies.
It used to be called 'living behind the
Iron Curtain.'”
There are 270 million people stuck in the Bush gulag.
The
Media Watchdog Didn't Bark;
It
Rolled Over and Played Dead
Why didn't the media question Bush's shady stock
dealings before he became president?
Excerpt:
Why the activities of oilman George W.
Bush in the 1980s and 1990s should be a matter
of headlines now is something of a mystery.
The mystery isn't what actually happened.
It is clear that in the course of making
roughly $16 million, Bush flouted securities laws,
rode roughshod over the rights of others
and found protection among his father's friends.
(Bush's memory is fuzzy on some of the
details.)
Bush
Harken Deal Faces New Scrutiny
By Pete Yost
Excerpt:
George W. Bush signed a letter in 1990
saying he wouldn't sell any stock for
at least six months in the struggling Texas
oil company where he was a director.
But 2½ months later, with
Harken Energy Corp. hit by a sudden financial crisis,
Bush cashed out his shares for $848,560.
The
Freedom Manifesto
by R.B. Ham
click
Letter to the Editor
Corporate
Criminals
I think it's somewhat amusing to see Congress
Critters scrambling to pass laws to create
the illusion they are doing something about
corporate crime as the desperately try to restore
investor confidence. What Congress doesn't
understand is that the corporate criminal are the
ones who run this country now, they are
in charge, and they call the shots.
America was bought and sold by Kenny Boy
Enron and corporate criminals like Ross Perot
who taught the electrical producers how
to scam the public with artificial energy shortages.
Our president's election was funded by
corporate criminals as he leads America into bankruptcy.
Bush and Cheney are the same breed of criminal
that Congress is pretending to crack down on.
Bush made almost a million bucks himself
in a stock options scam when he was on the board
of Harken Oil. If anyone believes this
is supposed to restore investor confidence, I have some
Enron stock to sell you.
French
Twist
by Gene Lyons
Excerpt:
Unlike Whitewater, see, nobody's talking
about an independent counsel.
The Harken story isn't about about an insignificant
backwoods land deal.
It's about what Theodore Roosevelt called
"malefactors of great wealth"
and the kind of corporate chicanery threatening
the economic security of millions.
Why
US press didn't give Bush a burning
The papers knew about Dubya's deals in
2000. Strangely, they kept quiet
Excerpt:
"Why? Three reasons.
First, the election reporters got
themselves trapped in a narrative that was resistant to fact:
Gore was a a poseur, and Bush was an amiable
Forrest Gump. No fact that did not fit the
preconceived pattern saw ink or breathed
air.
Second, they were vulnerable to spin when the Republicans found material to keep the stereotypes going.
Third, there was outright prejudice
against Clinton and Gore. It was described a few weeks later
by Eric Alderman of MSNBC: 'Where is the
New York Times' famed Whitewater reporter, Jeff Gerth?
Where's the Washington Post special investigations
unit? Where is the scandal-mongering Matt Drudge.'
Seems like a lot of newspapers need to be reading bartcop.com
Unanswered Questions about 9-11
Excerpt:
Air Defenses: The first hijacking was known
by Boston ATC at 8:28, (Village Voice, amongst others).
The Pentagon admits to being aware of one
hijacking at 8:40, (Boston Globe) and two hijackings by 8:50
(General Myers). General Myers told the
Senate on Sept. 13th that "we did scramble fighter aircraft...
after the Pentagon was struck". That is,
fighters were scrambled at 9:40, a full hour later. A story that
fighters were launched from Otis AFB and
Langley AFB appeared in the press on Sept. 14th.
Why the delayed report ?
Rough calculations of the time and distance
traveled show they would have been flying at less than half
their top speed. Surely this was a situation
requiring emergency measures?
Flight 93 was in the air, with the hijacking
confirmed, for more than half an hour before it crashed,
but no interceptors launched from Andrews
AFB, only 10 miles and mere minutes flight time away
- even after a second (hijacked-confirmed)
plane had struck the WTC (according to "official"
government military sources). All this
flies in the face of standard procedure.
Why was the air response so inadequate?
The
best Vegas special ever!
I saw it last night on the Travel Channel.
It's called Vegas Hotels - High Rises and High Stakes.
They gave a extra-brief history and tour of all the major properties.
I saw so much stuff I'd never seen before, I'm going to make some
phone calls.
Remember, the party's on no matter what, but we're NOT married
to The Rio
until we write that Vegas-sized check, so all options are still
open.
I'll watch for it to repeat, it's the best show I've seen for catching Vegas Fever!
Reminder: Joe Conason is daily now at Salon.com
Quotes
"It's not easy to anticipate unforeseen consequences
in the stock market."
-- Rep Jim Greenwood (R-of course)
Today in History
It was very hot in Brooklyn on July 17, 1902.
Some dude named Carrier was trying to figure out how to keep
the newsprint from smudging so they could print a clear newspaper.
He theorized that if steam could be used to heat a room,
perhaps the subtraction of warm, moist air would cool a room.
His theory was correct, and air-conditioning is 100 years old today.
A shot of Chinaco Anejo to Mr Carrier of Brooklyn, New York.
In dusty Oklahoma, air-conditioning is your friend.
Our man in Saudia Arabia writes:
This was dated July 11. I read it and then moved on. Then it dawned on me ....
"THE removal of President Saddam Hussein would
open Iraqs rich new oilfields
to Western bidders and bring the prospect
of lessening dependence on Saudi oil.
No other country offers such untapped oilfields
whose exploitation could lessen
tensions over the Western presence in Saudi
Arabia."
Never mind Jr's need to "finish the job" for daddy to prove his manhood!
Could we "connect the dots" and find that
Cheney & Halliburton are trying
to [finish] the job they started during
Cheney's time at Halliburton??
Just asking.
MC.
MC, I say right on all counts.
Cheney (Halliburton) has been selling oil
field equipment to Saddam for a decade.
After Saddam pays for all that equipment
and done all the work, Cheney now can
steal it back with the help of a few hundred
dead American soldiers.
It's another GOP work of art
Why
won't Bush let the SEC release the Harken file?
Joe Conason's Journal Salon.com
Excerpt:
The letter's existence certainly "raises
questions," as journalists cutely say, about the story
told by Bush and his lawyers about his
long-standing intention to sell the stock to pay off
a bank debt. What it also suggests is that
Bush knew more than he has acknowledged
about the depth of Harken's financial troubles
when he did sell several weeks later."
Bart,
So the Justice Department found 12 hookers
in 13 months in New Orleans?
I bet Marc Perkel could find more than
that in Las Vegas in one night!
ha ha
Perkel should appointed the BartCop Official
Undercover Investigator!
Now that would be an efficient use of our
tax dollars!
Cheers,
Liz
I can't wait to see Perkel in action in Vegas!
Buy Martha, sell Cheney
Excerpt:
"Okay, are we done frying Martha Stewart yet?
If these fantastic financial scandals are
indeed a sizzling summer media barbecue in the making
- the Enron/Global Crossing/WorldCom/ Bristol-Myers
Squibb/Tyco/ImClone/Harken/Halliburton BBQ
- then isn't Stewart a measly marshmallow
while Vice President Dick Cheney is the fat side of beef
we should now be hauling into the flaming
pit?...Barbecue sauce, anyone?"
BartFest2002 - Party of the Year
Oddity.
We have more people confirmed from east of the Mississippi
than west.
What does that mean - got any ideas?
Make your own hotel reservations.
Reminder: Las Vegas is NOT Palisades Park.
September
28th - 
tickets
on sale!
People are coming from as far as Europe to attend BartFest.
.
26. The Hard Rock
At the pool, they have swim up blackjack, and
live cameras.
Note:
Works
better with IE, takes a moment to get going, and please use caution,
because sometimes the girls take their tops off, and the camera
has a zoom feature.
Plus, you have a better chance of seeing rock stars/movie stars
at the Hard Rock.
27. Gardunos
Restaurant They claim 250 different tequilas, which would
be
Chinaco Anejo and 249 lesser, inferior brands.
The bad news? ...the food might blow.
28. The
Coyote Cafe at the MGM When you put "Las Vegas" +tequila
in aYahoo search engine,
you get Coyote Cafe. Remember, we have a good
friend who owns the place. His letter is in the
back issues, and I will buy a shot of tequila for you,
in Las vegas, if you're the first person to
tell me which issue that letter is in. (We'll need his name
to get special deals!)
Click Here to see the first twenty five things to do in Vegas!
The
Rio wants a large check written.
The party's on either way, but we have to know how big a room
to buy, so if you're coming talk to us!
How are President Oil and VP Oil seen in Europe?
Bart
The papers I saw were in Switzerland, Austria
and Italy--"fraud" must be a Latin word
because I kept seeing it under Bush and Cheney's
picture in every country I went.
Michele in Germany
"I am not
stupid, ...and malfeasen..."
"Mr. Cheney played no role, either as vice
president or as
chief executive at Halliburton, in
helping us win government contracts."
click
ha ha
I guess Joe Lieberman might buy that...
Quotes
"You need to look back on the directors' minutes,"
President Bush said last week,
directing journalists to view the records of Harken Energy Corp.'s
board of directors.
Problem is,
... Bush refuses to release the records he asked the journalists
to review
You know Rove n' Dick are wishing they'd gotten a smarter puppet
Double-Dipper from Smoking Joe
Give Pitt a Chance To Reform S.E.C.
by Joe Conason
Excerpt:
Mr. Pitt should no more be obliged to quit
at this point than the Senators who
voted to confirm him, including John McCain
of Arizona, his leading critic.
The Arizona Senator complains that the
S.E.C. chairman has too many former
clients whose cases force him to recuse
himself, but that problem should have
been foreseen during his confirmation hearings.
The solution is for the Senate
to insist that the White House send over
more independent-minded appointees
for the open S.E.C. positions.
"Hi, I'm
John Fund.
I beat
women ...got any?
I belong
in jail, but the woman
I beat
up doesn't have enough money
to hire
a good lawyer, so I'm free
to beat
more women ...got any?"
If you know a NY lawyer who agrees that rich pricks
shouldn't be allowed to beat up women and get
away with it, please contact WSJCad@aol.com
Question
Do you know anyone who got a tax cut last year?
Everyone (but Scaife's employees) admits the tremendous deficits
were caused by 9-11,
Bush's bungling and the tax cuts, but if nobody got a
tax cut, where did that money really go?
If YOU got a tax cut, talk to me.
They read it in Birkirkara.
They read it in Rotterdam.
They read it in Tampa Bay, as they track the governor's race
...bartcop.com
The
cows come home
The truth is catching up with Dick Cheney and his front man.
Excerpt:
"Enough time has passed to allow comparisons
between the Bush Two and Clinton administrations.
As you might expect, there are some pluses
and minuses on each side. In Bush's favor is that,
by all accounts, he hasn't shot his sperm
all over any fat intern's blue dress, and thereby has
considerately avoided having the government
tie up staffers and millions of dollars on a repeat
of the Starr Report. On the other hand,
the economy is now a mess. The stock market slide has
wiped out the savings and pensions of millions,
including some who planned to retire and who
now may instead be planning to work for
food."
I say "bring back the blow jobs."
We lived without terrorism, we had jobs, we had money,
we felt safe knowing country was being run by competent people.
What was going on in Clinton's zipper was none of our business,
but President Swipe robbing the treasury IS our damn business.
Why can't the Democrats see that?
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