Volume
1072 - Failure at the Top
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Wednesday,
May 21, 2003
Quotes
"Bill Bennett is through...He is objectively
discredited. He will not be proffered any public post by any president
into the foreseeable future. He will
not publish another book on another virtue, if there is any he has neglected
to
write about. It is possible that the
books written by him on the subject, sitting in bookstores, will work their
way
to the remainder houses. These are
the consequences of the damage he has done to himself.
--William F. Buckley Jr, Bennett
and His Enemies
Woo Hoo!
The bad guy loses - for once!
Terror
Alert in U.S. Raised to 'High' 
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Excerpt:
The Bush administration, concerned that
a wave of attacks overseas could spread to the United States,
raised the terrorism alert level to orange
on Tuesday and called for increased security nationwide.
Authorities described the intelligence pointing
to a domestic attack as general in nature, with nothing
credible suggesting a time, location, method
or target. They pointed to last week's bombings in Saudi
Arabia and Morocco as part of a coordinated
series that could spread.
"The U.S. intelligence community believes that
al-Qaida has entered an operational period worldwide,
and this may include attacks in the United
States," Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said.
Funny how Al
Qaeda cooperated with Bush and gave him
a peace window so he could play dress up and get some campaign
footage...
Y'know, those two guys look like,,, Nah, couldn't
be...
But now that the boy has had his chance to play with America's
toys and take pictures,
the Al Qaeda bombing campaign has resumed and people are dying
again.
Boy, this Bush White House has their photo-op timing down, don't
they?
Quotes
"We all live in fairly dangerous times in terms
of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
A lot of the songwriters that I've
admired and learned from ... are people who spoke in matters
of conscience as well as matters of
the heart. I think that it's essential that we defend that right."
--Elvis Costello,
Subject: Military Talk
(re: Issue 1071)
Bart,
About the guy "Lee P" who mentioned Nuremberg;
it's worth considering that those tried and executed
were not just German foot soldiers and
the like, but officers and others very high up on the chain of command.
Even if the argument is made to hold water
that soldiers are accountable for the actions they are ordered
to do, the comparison is still off.
As you said there's a difference between toppling a government and
wiping out millions of people indiscriminately.
Long story short, I can't fault soldiers
for doing their job. I don't view soldiers or the military as being
beyond criticism (the whole Iraq strategy
was a mess, and succeeded only because Iraq's military was
a joke, in my opinion), but that's hardly
the fault of the men and women ordered to search the building
that might be hiding a sniper, or rigged
to blow up.
Keep swingin', Bart, and good luck with
BC Radio!
- John
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This is no Sunday bridge club. These are
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corporations, institutions, and government
officials that profit from endless war. The US War of Terror is
not about liberation, democracy, or UN
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US government officials (because they love you)
Military and defense contractors
Heads of industry, finance, media, policy, and hype
The old Iran-Contra gang is back together and raping the world
like crazy.
George Schultz, James Baker, Bechtel, The Carlyle Group and
Poppy Bush have joined forces with Lockheed Martin,
Clear Channel, Rupert Murdoch and FOX News (who shamelessly
cheered for this war like some damn football game)
ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, Halliburton, Shell Oil, Occidental
Petroleum, Unocal, Paul Wolfowitz and Northrop Grumann
Henry Kissinger - the Bringer of Death, John Ashcroft, Richard
Perle, Amerada Hess, Unka Dick, Donald Rumsfeld,
plus Tom Ridge, John Negroponte, the always-lying Colin Powell
and don't forget convicted felon John Poindexter.
How did they fit all these homegroan terrorists on a mere 52 cards?
Sidebar:
Did you know Poppy's Carlyle Group was
the biggest shareholder in the maker of Bradley Fighting Vehicles?
I ordered a deck - hell, just $10 for a scorecard that will be
helpful in the next five years is cheap.
Only
Under Dubya: AWOL=AOK
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Excerpt:
"We really don't look for deserters anymore,"
said Mark Raimondi, spokesman for the Army's
Criminal Investigation Command. "If folks
don't want to stay around, we don't want them."
From the Revolutionary War on, deserters
have been seen as the dirty laundry of the armed forces
— the mockers of code and honor, the drags
on morale.
They come in varied shadings of character
and motivation: lonesome 19-year-olds with a sick mom
back home. Late-blooming conscientious
objectors who signed up for the college benefits.
Miscreants with an appetite for drugs and
street violence. And the ones who simply got scared.
During the Vietnam War, especially in its
early stages, the FBI helped the military track down deserters.
Courts-martial were common.
...unless Daddy was rich and protected your cocaine-sniffin',
drunk ass.
Hey Bart?
Remember what you learned in the sandbox?
"It's nice to share, my son" (selflessness)
And then when you started playing your favorite
'American' sport?
"Don't hog the ball, my son" (sportsmanship)
And then when you started dating?
"Treat her like her father's watching, and she'll
be impressed you are a gentleman..." (good manners)
Might as well throw those ideals out the
window, because with the B.F.E.E., we've 'advanced' into:
The Law of the Jungle Under the leadership
of George: of the Jungle.
"What's our oil doing under their sand!"
"I don't have to listen to anyone, you see..."
"Damn French ingrates, who needs 'em!"
International law? It is dying: with each
movement GWB makes.
(as a student of International Law and the Law
of War, Cambridge UK, 1995)
But it can be restored in 2005, if the USA
holds one last free election.
Keep it up,
Drew
I don't have a good feeling about the 2004 elections.
The Democrats apparently don't mind that Diebold (R-Funny software)
owns and controls
the voting process and that it's ILLEGAL to attempt to
verify if the machines are accurate.
There's an old hustle I learned in my days as a pool shark:
"I agree to play by your rules if I get to
keep score."
As long as the Democrats are willing to let the GOP keep score,
and by law that score cannot be verified, they don't have a chance.
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VCR
Alert
Season finale of Enterprise
Shania will bring 5 minutes of good to the Country Music
Hoedown
Will the Dixie Chicks be there?
...but the big guns are on Law & Order, where
they arrest Michael Jackson for child-dangling.
TV
Talk
On the last 24
of the season, Keifer managed to stop the illegal oil war in the Middle
East.
You see, in Fantasyland, America doesn't murder smaller countries
just to steal their oil.
No, that only happens in real life, when the scared rabbit Democrats
go to sleep
and let the murdering B.F.E.E. run rampant and take over
the whole planet.
Subject: This modern world
Hi BC!
I am so happy to see you running "This Modern
World."
I used to read that strip regularly (koresh,
it's been so long I can't remember
what 'zine it was) and had totally forgot
how scathing yet insightful it is.
Not that I don't already, but I'll definitely
visit your site every day for certain!
YM
YM, let me explain:
Back in early 2001 (who knows, time goes so fast) my producer
Marc Perkel went from free
bandwidth to paying for it. We had to discontinue the larger
toons. TMW is often hueueuege.
But with the radio shows coming in at 100 meg, what's a giant
toon here and there?
I hope my good friend Tom Tomorrow doesn't think I stopped
running his stuff
out of some reason other than size - I should write and tell
him that.
Thanks
Americam
get facts right on present, past leaders
by Mark Taggart
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Excerpt:
Were sailors honored that their commander in
chief paid them "a little homage?" Maybe so. However, when
this commander had the opportunity to serve,
he went AWOL from his post for over a year in 1972-73.
A curious way to show respect, is it not?
If you or I deserted, it would have ruined our careers and perhaps
landed us in jail. But it apparently doesn't
apply if you are the son of someone with connections in Washington;
you could end up having the Supreme Court appoint
you as president.
Another
great error message
This one's so good, it reminded me of 'get your war on'
http://www.clint.ca/oops/index.htm
Subject: Tuesday
Good afternoon Bart,
I just don't get it - I thought the idea
behind the war with Iraq was to make sure Saddam didn't use
his (so far nonexistent) weapons of mass
destruction against us and to defeat terrorism, so if we won,
where are the WMD and why is the terror
alert level being raised? Did we really lose?
It was a handjob from day one, and everybody
knows that now.
Why is there no one in the press or the
Democratic party questioning the many failures of the appointed moron?
Thank you for letting me vent - it makes
me realize that we really are stuck in Bizarro world -
looking forward to the radio show.
John P.
John, good questions.
The media is protecting Bush because they can make an extra nickel.
Their corporate owners want another tax cut more than their integrity.
Koresh only knows why the Democrats are too afraid to speak.
I mean, can Mr Rove have pictures of every Democrat with
a sheep?
A
victory (of sorts) in Iraq
by Gene Lyons
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Excerpt:
According to the White House script, the
made-for-TV action/adventure flick CNN called "Showdown Iraq"
ended triumphantly when President Bush
swaggered across the USS Abraham Lincoln's flight deck in his
Village People fighter jock costume.
On Chris Matthews' MSNBC blatherfest, "Hardball," the hyperbolic
host and G. Gordon Liddy got so overwhelmed
with patriotic zeal that they actually discussed the president's,
um, well, his "manly characteristic" was
Liddy's euphemism. The Watergate felon turned talk show host chided
Democrats who found Bush's posturing ludicrous.
"Run that stuff again of him walking across there with the
parachute," Liddy scolded. "He has just
won every woman's vote in the United States of America. You know,
all those women who say size doesn't count
- they're all liars."
Quotes
"The whole time I kept thinking, 'When am I
going to cry?'
I remember when it finally came it
was like getting hit with a brick wall."
-- Sarah Michelle Geller on filming
her last scene of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the desert outside Los Angeles.
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Excerpt:
Billionaire investors Warren Buffett and
George Soros, Nos. 2 and 24 on Forbes
Magazine's 400 richest Americans, both
railed on Tuesday against Monkey's plan
to deepen income tax cuts and eliminate
taxes on corporate dividends.
Buffett said he already pays about the same
income tax rate as his receptionist -- about 30 percent.
But Buffett said with the Bush tax cut,
he could pay a mere 3 percent in income taxes. Recalling JFK's
declaration that Americans should "pay
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3 percent income tax rate "seems a bit
light."
Please, Mr Bush - just let us work a little - please?
Subject: Problem with Bart
Chat
Dear Bart,
I was unable to log into the chatroom Tuesday
around 10:30 pm.
Was there anything going on technically
or has something changed and I just missed the notice?
Didn't want to bug you since I know you're
busy with the radio stuff.
Yes, they changed the address to a more monkey-free environment.
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Why Radio Files Don’t Play
Bart,
I’m a Mac user, and the radio files freeze
for me, too. But at least I know why. It’s because I’m on a
dial-up internet connection. No streaming-type
audio works decently. Even the samples on Apple’s own
iTunes Store play for no more than 5 seconds
before they stop to rebuffer.
It’s not your fault, Bart. Unfortunately,
there’s nothing either of us can do about it. And though I
wish you nothing but success beyond all
expectation, there’s no reason for me to subscribe until I
get a broadband connection. Being
unemployed for ten months now, high-speed internet service
will have to wait for awhile. Sorry.
Keep up the good work.
Steve
Steve, I somewhat disagree.
I had 56K at the car lot and I got Mike
Malloy's Radio Show almost perfectly.
About twice an hour, it would re-buffer, but otherwise it was
fine.
Is it a coincidence that Macs are having the trouble?
Any Windows people out there having trouble with the stream?
To check, Click
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ol' Bart if anyone else has a clue...
Subject: About the word
"nigger"
Bart
I used to think like you regarding the word
"nigger." I felt that so long as using it serves to illustrate
how
profoundly offensive the term is, it is
justified to discuss it. That is until I saw an episode of "Boston Public"
where a white teacher was having a class
discussion regarding the word. I was on the white teacher's side
of the conflict, until towards the end
where Marla (a black teacher) said that until any person is on the
receiving end of that term in its most
negative connotation, no one can know the true meaning of the word
and how hateful that word truly is. Spike
Lee, in an ironic twist, hinted that white folks who have the best
of intentions "have not earned the right
to say it." I don't know about that; but there truly is a difference
between an African American saying it derogatorily,
and a white man saying it with the best of intentions.
The word is offensive in any context
because of the baggage attached to it.
Pidru.
Where
Are All The Democrats?
by Vicki Gray
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Excerpt:
An unelected president, acting as if he
had won an overwhelming mandate, leads our country into
an aggressive war, trashes the international
system, turns a huge surplus into an out-of-control deficit,
and showers tax relief on the rich while
the economy tanks. The Democrats? They head for cover.
Subject: reality check
Bart, you printed:
> "Acting Navy Secretary Hansford T. Johnson presented Mrs. Reagan with
the Distinguished Public Service Award.
> A citation recognized her "poise and bearing" in the aftermath
of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "
I had to wake up in some alternate fucked
up universe.
That's the only explanation.
Up is down, right is left, war is peace, etc.
Hell, give me an award for interdimensional
travel without any intent.
That would make more sense.
migs
Migs, true.
Every day, Rush, Hannity and FOX explain how America is better
now with war, terror and recession
than it was when that criminal Clinton was giving us all that
overblown peace and prosperity.
Think the 2004 voters will buy it?
Or will they buy it and Diebold straighten them out?
Marty's
E! page
Harper's Weekly Review.
Jen, from Australia, sent a screen-grab that can only be accessed
from the US
New BAGnews
Martin Scorsese is doing a film on Bob Dylan
Elton John & Billy Joel donated concert tickets for the musicians
relief fund
'The Practice' fired 6 actors
David Gilmour donates to low-income workers & the homeless
Chevron/Texaco is bagging 63 years of sponsoring the NY Met broadcasts
James Brown pardoned in South Carolina
Buenos Aires recognizes gay & lesbian couples
Liive telecast from the summit of Mt. Everest
Scott Weiland - coke & heroin
Michael Jackson & Taco Bell
Pickles was in town with chump change for the peasants
And, Arnold had the best party at Cannes
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Correction:
In yesterday's issue, I inadvertantly said
woman killer Joe Scarborough worked for FOX.
"I kill
women - got any?"
Marty, our intrepid Entertainment mogul,
pointed out that the woman killer actually works for MSGOP.
I asked her, "Is there a difference?"
Her reply:
Well, sorta-kinda.
MSNBC is a joint-ownership venture of
Bill Gates & GE (who bring good things to death).
Faux is a joint-ownership venture of
Rupert Murdoch & Satan.
MSNBC, in an effort to become the 'new'
fox, has a wonderful on-the-job-training program
for white men only - like Joey Scarborough
& Jesse Ventura.
Of course, they're against affirmative
action.
Doo dah. Doo dah.
marty
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Subject: phony turd
You critiqued your radio gig and called
yourself Patrick.
You wrote the JK letter.
ha ha
You assume you know what happened to Scarboroughs
aide.
You must be an asshole to make that assumption.
Here are the facts:
A healthy young woman died from a blow to the head inside
US Rep Joe Scarborough's office.
Instead of getting the local coroner to determine a cause of
death, the state of Florida (Jeb Bush)
hired a coroner from Missouri who was previously fired for falsifying
autopsy reports.
And
the press didn't care about Republican Scarborough's dead girl
because
Gary Condit was making news, and he was a Democrat.
The press always covers for the Republican, and always hypes
the "guilt" of the Democrat.
The crooked coroner ruled that she died while standing up, then
hit her head on corner of the desk
as her lifeless body crashed back to Earth. The problem
is, you're a monkey who sees no crime there,
but when Clinton got some tongue you were screaming
"Crime! Crime! Impeach that criminal."
Sidebar:
I didn't print his name this time this
time, but this is the same chimp
who called me a liar for saying he reads
bartcop.com every single day.
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