Subject: The Coal Spill
I was so bored Tuesday I tuned in your pal Rush
for a few minutes.
He was laughing with absolute glee that thousands
of animals were dying due
to the oil tanker sinking off Spain. He then
started pondering on how many
animals had died due to oil leaks from the Titanic
after it sank and why nobody
worried about such trivial matters back then
in the Golden Age of shipping.
After a commercial break he came back on to annouce
that his e-mail was
going nuts from people informing him the Titanic
ran on coal. Ever the spinner
and not admitting he is a moron, Rush then asked
how many animals died from
the coal that leaked into the sea.
I'm no rocket scientist but I'd bet water doesn't melt coal.
Rude Rich
Subject: The further adventures of Stinking Pigboy
Bart,
I can't believe this. Rush is ranting about the
size of the vehicles that the inspection teams
are going to be using in Iraq, he says they are
much to small (and efficient I suppose).
This guy is truly a product of the privileged
aristocracy, he needs to define importance and
stature (not to mention his manhood I guess)
by the size of the f*ing car that you drive!
What an impotent, juvenile putz. Don't most people
grow out of such attitudes?
Is it just me, or is this big idiot one of the
most out of touch, phony bastards ever?
Yes, he's an evil bastard.
He has sex with goats, too
How stupid do ditto heads have to be to follow
this morons line of bullshit?
He is also doubting the loyalty of several republican
senators (to the party)
because they are questioning parts of the Home
Security bill.
What about loyalty to the Constitution!!
I have to change the radio station now, this
guy is making me crazy.
Dennis in STL
Subject: Who will challenge Bush in 2004?
Maybe the only hope is a challenge from the right.
A coalition of:
1. Civil libertarians fed up with the big government
police state.
2. Fiscal conservatives fed up with supply-side
deficits.
3. Elite dissatisfied with the economic performance
of their portfolios.
4. Reformers against government corrupted by
corporate donations.
In other words, people like H. Ross Perot, McCain,
Warren Buffett and Jesse Ventura.
Perhaps even a Green or two, because conservation
used to be a conservative banner,
back in the Teddy Roosevelt days.
A challenge from the left? What left? No guts,
no media outlets, endless discrediting by
the corporate media, liberals are completely
marginalized. Ersatz opposition. Their hearts
aren't in it, but don't say that to the Earth
Firsters.
The only hope with have right now of denying Bush
a second term isn't coming from
a vital left, the right will have to schism,
a la Perot in 88-92.
Scott
Subject: Trent the helmethead
"I've found people to be pretty upbeat and very
generous and kind,
even when they don't agree with everything
I say," Lott, R-Mississippi, said.
Of course, Mr. Lott fails to mention that
the people who disagree with him are
the polite Democrats, rather than the rabid,
foaming-at-the-mouth Republicans
that we have to deal with. So of course
he's only had to deal with kind and
generous people. That's what makes them
Democrats.
-Eric
Subject: Kennedy on Bork
Bart,
Ted Kennedy delivered this speech on the Senate
floor just a few hours after
Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork for the Supreme
Court in July 1987.
"Robert Bork's America," Kennedy warned, "is a
land in which women would be
forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would
sit at segregated lunch counters,
rogue police could break down citizens' doors
in midnight raids, schoolchildren could
not be taught about evolution, writers and artists
could be censored at the whim of
government, and the doors of the federal courts
would be shut on the fingers of
millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is--and
is often the only--protector of
the individual rights that are at the heart of
our democracy."
It appears they didn't need Robert Bork.
Brad Orman
Subject: Are Dems afraid of assassination?
Dear Bartcop
After Kennedy, King, Kennedy, Kennedy, Carnahan,
9/11, John O'Neill, anthrax (sent to Democrats),
Wellstone, can Democratic timidity be blamed
on a fear of being assassinated? Maybe the Dem leadership
have secretly received the equivalent of
the Black Hand Note, the Sicilian Mafia's deadly warning to
uncooperative subjects. It makes some sense
when you consider the totality of the Dem's timidity.
I could understand the occurrence SOME percentage
of cave-ins, but this wholesale shit reeks of something
more sinister than an unbelievable level
of universal skittishness. I mean, the one guy who stood up and hollered
about the injustices of the BFEE is blown
outta the sky just days before a critical election? Sounds fishy to me.
Now we have Nancy Pelosi "standing shoulder-to-shoulder"
with Bush on war in Iraq. She used to be a
firebrand, but now she's Bush's gun moll.
Add to this the immediate condemnation (from both the Right AND
the Left) as a "Conspiracy Nut" anyone
who even suggests such a scenario, and all bases are covered for a nice,
quiet, compliant Democratic non-opposition,
and the sustainable containment of just such a blanket death threat.
Either that, or every single Democratic politician still alive wears a pink tutu and thinks the bully W is "best of the best."
Hmmmm....
--patsy
Subject: My blood is boiling!
Bart,
When I first read the story about the Double-Secret
Court of Appeals that granted Ashcroft the power to
violate our rights against illegal searches and
seizures in the form of wiretaps and e-mail snooping, I was pissed.
Then I read your trenchant analysis of this tragic
story, and it prompted me to think again. When I read the story
a second time, I noticed something I missed the
first time around. You might have missed it too. The court's
decision read in part, "We think the procedures
and government showings required under FISA, if they do not
meet the minimum Fourth Amendment warrant standards,
certainly come close."
Come CLOSE?! Since when is the protection of Constitutional rights a fucking game of horseshoes?!
I guess I initally thought that the wingnut judges--appointed
by none other than William Renquist (R-Racist)
--had somehow found that Ashcroft's warrentless
snooping was Constitutional. That's why I was pissed.
But instead, what they decided was that the USA
Patriot Act comes close to not violating our rights!
That is what made my blood boil! What the
hell kind of decision is that, particularly coming from so-called
"strict constructionists"?! These are the
same Federalist Society idiots who keep talking about the sanctity
of original intent, and now they turn around
and say, in effect, "Well, this bill ALMOST meets the Fourth
Amendment standards against illegal searches
and seizures. Good enough for government work, boys!
Let's call it a day." The Founders are
spinning in their graves, and my head is about to explode.
Not only that, but since the gub'ment was the
only party to the double-secret court procedings, the ruling
cannot be appealed. Bart, I am fucking
livid! Every patriotic American should be enraged over this decision.
These judges brazenly violated their oaths of
office, and I think they have commiting treason against the
United States of America. They've done
more damage to this country than that John Walker Lind kid
ever could. And you know what the worst
part is? Ol' Smirky wants to appoint a bunch more of 'em to
help him convert our Republic into an Empire!
Koresh save us all!
Tom from Detroit
Subject: monkey mail why Gore lost Tennessee
Hello Bartcop. You are most excellent, thank you.
I moved to Tennessee from New Mexico in September
2000. We registered to
vote here immediately and of course voted for
Al Gore. I hadn't been here
long enough to foresee that he might lose this
state.
In your response to your reader's mail today you
state that Gore probably
lost Tennessee because it is backward and racist.
Well, say what you will
about us here (Oklahoma man!) a reality is that
Al Gore was smeared in
this state. You certainly know that his
father was a long-time Democratic
senator, fairly and consistently elected right
here in the Volunteer state.
I live in Oak Ridge, TN, and my next door neighbor
is our Al Gore's godfather.
He knew Al Gore Sr. for many years, and was himself
a prominent Democrat in
Tennessee. He is my friend, and explained
to me (I trust his insights) that the NRA,
anti-tax organizations, and right to lifers poured
millions into this state in 2000.
(I wasn't here long enough to really see it in
action, but my husband saw several
billboards while driving around the Nashville
area in Fall of 2000 that read
"He's not our Al Gore. Tennesseans for fair taxation")
I understand how easily Southern states can be
dismissed, and also understand
how in some ways Tennessee deserves a red-necky
reputation. However, it is
important to acknowledge propaganda and disinformation
and how powerful
they can be. You are always wielding the
hammer, I love your
site, and wanted to clue you in on what I know
about this one.
Thanks Bartcop.
Amy
ps - we have a democratic governor here now. . .. yee-hah!!
