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Tuesday October 28, 2003
Quotes
"Does the president really believe that suicide bombers
are willing to strap
explosives to their bodies because
we're restoring electricity and creating jobs for Iraqis?
Is the president arguing that the better
things get in Iraq,
the more dangerous it will become for American
soldiers?"
--John Kerry, finally showing a little
outrage that Bush is ruining the world,Attribution
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Red Cross, Three Police Stations Bombed
Excerpt:
A team of suicide car bombers devastated the Red Cross headquarters and
three police stations Monday,
killing three dozen people and wounding more than 200 in the bloodiest
day in Baghdad since the occupation.
From north to south in Baghdad, the explosions over a 45-minute
period left streetscapes of broken bodies
and twisted wreckage. The dead included a U.S. soldier, eight Iraqi policemen
and at least 26 Iraqi civilians.
...
"Bring
'em on!! We're not scared!!"
Quotes
"The more progress we make on the ground, the
more free the Iraqis
become, the more electricity is available,
the more jobs are available,
the more kids that are going to school, the
more desperate these killers become.
They can't stand the thought of a free society.
They hate freedom.
They love terror. They love to try to create
fear and chaos."
-- the boy some call "President" Attribution
Dear God, why did you allow this monster
to be born?
Were you having a bad day that day, God?
Subject: Peak Oil
Excerpt:
Bart, I suspect you're a member of either
the Council on Foreign Relations ,
The Trilateral Commission, or the Bilderberger
Group.
For you never have the balls to suggest a
oil crisis.
Come on, Bart, get your head out of the
party's ass, and show some courage.
What will happen if you mention peak oil? You
gonna get kicked out of the club?
I don't even know what peak oil is, but if Bush is for it, I'm
against it.
Pssst: Don't let on that I'm in those clubs - it might blow
my cover.
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Dissing
Dissent
In White House Actions, A Troubling Echo of Life in Communist
China
by Liu Baifang
Excerpt:
I grew up in the People's Republic of China,
so I know how it is to live in a place where
voicing opinions that differ from official
orthodoxy can be dangerous, and I fear that model.
I also worry about what I see happening
to our media and freedom of the press. The Bush administration
has repeatedly made clear that it does not
welcome skeptical, penetrating questions.
Indeed, Bush press conferences, which I
enjoy watching, seem to me to have become more and more like those
held by the Chinese Communist Party: Nothing
but the official line is given, and probing questions from reporters,
which are crucial to advancing the public's understanding
of the government's actions, are often evaded or ignored.
Moreover, as Helen Thomas recently learned, too-persistent
questioning on sensitive issues means that the next time
you are ignored, even relegated to the back row
of the briefing..
The Bush bastards are afraid of Helen Thomas because she refuses to be bought like most of the whore press.
So George, how do you feel about your mom and dad?
Excerpt:
As the alcoholic George Bush approached
his 40th birthday in 1986, he had achieved nothing he could call his
own.
He was all too aware that none of his educational
and professional accomplishments would have occured without his father.
He felt so low that he did not care if he lived
or died. Taking a friend out for a flight in a Cessna aeroplane, it only
became
apparent he had not flown one before when they
nearly crashed on take-off. Narrowly avoiding stalling a few times, they
crash-landed and the friend breathed a sigh of
relief - only for Bush to rev up the engine and take off again.
Not long afterwards, staring at his vomit-spattered
face in the mirror, this dangerously self-destructive man fell to his
knees
and implored God to help him and became a teetotalling,
fundamentalist Christian.
So I was right - I knew something monsterously serious/tragic made him give up his best friend, the bottle.
David Frum, his speechwriter, described
the change: "Sigmund Freud imported the Latin pronoun id to describe
the impulsive,
carnal, unruly elements of the human personality.
[In his youth] Bush's id seems to have been every bit as powerful and
destructive as Clinton's id. But sometime in
Bush's middle years, his id was captured, shackled and manacled, and locked
away."
Oh just suck me.
Clinton has always been the opposite of
this failed loser. Clinton didn't even have a dad, and he grew up with
nothing
and made every giant leap on just his talent
and determination, whereas the Pinhead had it all handed to him.
Suck me with this "George
caged his demons but Clinton didn't" horseshit.
.
Marty's
Entertainment Page
Tonight - premiere of '24' - with no commercials
Wanda Sykes on Jon Stewart
An extra special 'Disinfotainment Today' from Michael Dare
Some reader suggestions
The Wall Street Poet
Tim Robbins hosting the Johnny Cash tribute
Tom Sizemore's going to jail
The 17th Annual Bridge School Benefit
Buck Owens, patron of the arts
Britney Spears says no more topless pictures
ABC/Disney says Oswald acted alone
Chris Wallace leaving ABC/Disney for Faux where he'll replace
Tony Snow
( I didn't know Chris Wallace was a Nazi - and where's Snow going?
To a home for retired Brown Boots?)
Little Kids Rock
Nicole Richie to rehab
And the 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' world championship
Quotes
"The news that Tony Snow's important hair will
now only intermittently grace Fox News is
not a cause for lamentation. The way
we look at it - we are getting him back. He's now free
to really say how he feels in a medium we
own - radio. We need him there more than ever
and it's thrilling to know he can now be
as partisan and opinionated as he wants."
--Luci the bat's staff, Attribution
"I need a
man to give me a light."
Elizabeth
Smart Caught in Media Crossfire
This
is a very strange story of the media madness from all angles
Excerpt:
Couric is central to the story of the media battle
over the story. Elizabeth's parents, have written a book
to be released Tuesday. They also cooperated
with CBS on a television movie due to air Nov. 9.
Doubleday constructed a media campaign that
granted Couric the first news interview which aired Friday on "Dateline
NBC."
But six days before Couric's interview was
shown, CBS broadcast an interview with the parents from the set of the
movie
"Good Morning America" also ran clips from an Elizabeth
Smart interview. The source? Oprah.
Winfrey was miffed that she was awarded
the second, not the first, sources say.
A Winfrey spokeswoman said it was strictly
promotion, not anger, that led Oprah to "GMA."
Is the father enjoying the power and attention
a little too much (assuming he's in charge)?
It's hard to believe Elizabeth wants this much
attention, which everybody whispering about what the religio-nut
and his wife did to her while she was helpless.
This can't be comfortable for her. It's kinda ugly.
"Some
people are greedy..."
Quotes
"Dear Rush,
Thank you for your bravery and sharing
with the world your human struggles.
I love you, Rush. Please remember soooo
many of us rely on your wisdom as
we fight for the conservative principles
that this great country was founded on."
--Laurie in Tampa, who relies on a heroin
addict to teach her about principles Attribution
Free
Speech Kept Off US Streets
Not
allowed with this unelected "president," ACLU to sue
Excerpt:
When Bill Neel learned that Bush was coming
to town last year, he decided
he would be on hand to protest the president's
economic policies.
Neel and his sister made a hand-lettered
sign — The Bush family must surely love the poor!
They have made so many of us! — and
headed for a road where the motorcade would pass.
He was approached by a local police detective
and told that he and his sister had to move to a
"free-speech area" for protesters, on orders
of the U.S. Secret Service.
"He pointed out a relatively remote baseball diamond
that was enclosed in a chain-link fence," Neel recalls.
"I could see these people behind the fence, with
their faces up against it, and their hands on the wire. It looked
more like a concentration camp than a free-speech
area to me, so I said, `I'm not going in there. I thought the
whole country was a free-speech area.'"
After refusing several times to go to the area,
he was handcuffed and arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct.
When his sister argued against the arrest,
she was cuffed and hauled off as well. The two spent the president's
visit in a firehouse that was serving as Secret
Service headquarters for the event.
The Neels' experience is not unique.
Reminder: Clinton freely walked amonst the people. going
to McDonalds, meeting and talking with citizens,
but the never-elected punk and his goon can't because they are hated by
tens of millions of Americans.
If the Republicans cared about the Constitution, they wouldn't
allow Bush to do this.
The Democrats are bust crapping their pants with fear every day - so we
have to look to the GOP for help.
Quotes
"I love Gephardt trying to express anger. You
know, some politicians it just
doesn't work for, and Gephardt just keeps
looking an angry squirrel."
--Ann Coulter, Attribution
Ann, did you know people say you look like a squirrel, ...when your mouth is full.
Note to the Master Toonists
We'll be assembling the Halloween Issue on the 30th.
Please get your scary Cheney and Rumsfeld graphics in by then :)
No sex, or we'll audit you
Excerpt:
Why are some nonprofit organizations that don't
agree with Bush's "abstinence only"
philosophy repeatedly investigated by the government,
while faith-based groups get a free pass?
From: Kathy C
Hello-
My husband decided to spotlight your website
on his site,
and asked me to forward this along in case
you had a problem with it.
Let me know if it's ok please.
Kathy, no problem, I appreciate the gesture.
Subject: Mindpilot's Travel writing
BC:
That was excellent!
Tell Mindpilot to cross the country by rail more
often.
Thanks for running that; it
was outstanding.
jwh
Click to Enter
Thanks to Mack Wilder
Quotes
"The only thing I ever saw that came close to Objective
Journalism was a closed-circuit TV setup
that watched shoplifters in the General
Store at Woody Creek, Colorado. I always admired that machine."
--Hunter S. Thompson, Attribution
Subject: Short term losses
just another example of the press focusing on
the negatives!
if only they'd report on how well Bechtel and
Haliburton are doing!
if only they'd focus on the recent conference
of hundreds of energy companies just drooling to do bidness in Iraq.
hell, when Bush made his first six figures in
Midland his investors had to lose millions.
for 87 billion dollars, guys like this got
off cheap.
Ricky Z
Dude, good point.
Yesterday, I heard that SOB subbing for the vulgar
junkie whining about the same thing.
He said, "The press just wants to focus on
the soldiers dying every day. They don't mention
the schools and the hospitals that are open
now and the electricity that's being turned on."
Funny, just a few years ago, America had the most
peace and prosperity in all of history, but the press
and every Republican bastard in the country
was fixated on which way Clinton's cock might lean.
They didn't want to talk about the tens of millions
of families that could afford new homes and a second car
for the first time in their lives. They didn't
want to talk about the raises and promotions and vacations that
people got for the first time under Clinton,
or the tens of thousands of dollars people put into savings when
the economy was pumping like a freight train
- no, they just wanted to talk about oral sex and Monica.
Reminder: When they tell you Clinton made oral
sex dinner conversation - they're lying.
Clinton did all he could to hide it, the GOP
and the dirty-leg press made it dinner conversation.
So the illegal and never-elected moron can just
live with the fact that men are dying.
He sent those men to their deaths to increase
his odds next November, so screw his lying ass.
Quotes
"Some Republicans are gunning for the upcoming CBS
miniseries "The Reagans." Apparently the script
doesn't discuss the greatness of the "Reagan
recovery" (1983-89) following the Reagan recession (1981-83),
or other GOP talking points...many in the
GOP today are bent on propagating a reverential view of their party's
recent leaders — from the fictionalized,
unrecognizably heroic George W. Bush seen in Showtime's recent
"DC 9/11: Time of Crisis," to CNN's presentation
of George H. W. Bush's heroic World War II exploits, to the
demand for a heroic recollection of "Dutch." See
the pattern? Nothing but "honor and dignity" in these White
Houses. The push to mythologize Reagan's
regime is perhaps the weirdest part of this program. In 1989, as he
left office, Reagan was widely seen as an
embarrassment. The man himself seemed addled; Iran-contra had clouded
his presidency in criminal intrigue; agencies
like HUD and FEMA stood exposed as cesspools of corruption."
--Doug Rossinow, Attribution
A Brief History of Computerized Election Fraud in America
Doesn't anybody care? The GOP will be in charge until we get out voting rights back.
Excerpt:
Thanks in part to the recent Bush approved Help
America Vote Act (HAVA), squadrons of shiny new
Touch Screen Trojan horses are being rolled
into precincts across America. Not, as we are told, to make
voting easier or more accurate, or to help disabled
people vote privately, or to save America from the dangers
of hanging chad and butterfly ballots -- no.
The real reason America is being flooded with billions of dollars
worth of paperless computerized voting machines
is so that no one will ever again be able to prove vote fraud.
These machines are not just unverifiable, they
are secretly programmed (their software is not open to scrutiny
by election officials or computer experts),
equipped with modems, accessible by computer, telephone, and satellite.
They are the final product of decades of work
by the election rigging industry. When they are installed in every
precinct in America, our elections will finally
become completely meaningless, nothing more than charades behind
which criminal thugs will wield the power of
this nation.
Subject: Rove not the grandson of a Nazi
Hey guys:
Look. I am no Karl Rove fan, but he was adopted and
is not the grandson of a Nazi.
Check it out on www.google. It is also
in Boy Genius.
Keep fighting the good fight.
JRS
Jaye, thanks for that, but his adoption does not
rule out Rove's being a Nazi.
Besides, Nazism is learned, not inherited.
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Subject: Department of Defense
Sam or Bart,
The Department of Defense was created in 1947
under Harry Truman, not Dwight Eishnhower.
It was a combination of the old Departments
of War and of the Navy. At the same time,
the Army Air Forces were detached from the Army
and formed into a new service, the Air Force.
The Marine Corps was kept in existence, no one
knows just why, to be administered
through the Department of the Navy. At
the same time, the National Security Council,
and our special friend, the Central Inteligence
agency were established.
Have fun and enjoy your freedom!
Jim from Roswell
Jim, I'm so young, I wasn't around then - so I took a guess :)
Thanks
Democrats and jobs and wealth
Comparing CLINTON to REAGAN
1.JOBS—grew by 90% more under Clinton
2.GDP---Grew by 64% more under Clinton
3.DOW—Grew by 500% more under Clinton(5 times as much)
4.Clinton increased spending by 28%---Reagan by 80%
5.Clinton increased debt by 28%--Reagan by 187%
6. Clinton got a hugh surplus—Reagan increased deficits by 112%
Clarence swinney
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Quotes
"These attacks are not really happening. Or if they
are they are the fault of liberals in the media.
Iraq is a democracy. The invasion was
a success. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
--Eric Alterman, Attribution
Deputy
Mayor of Baghdad Assassinated
He put his life in the hands of George W. Bush (R-Pinhead)
Excerpt:
Gunmen assassinated a deputy mayor of Baghdad
in a hit-run shooting.
Faris Abdul Razzaq al-Assam, deputy mayor for
technical services, had returned from
last week's international Iraq donors' conference
in Madrid when he was shot Sunday.
Bush's
American soldier body count in Iraq
Last issue it was
times 352 ....this
issue it's times 356
They
gotthree kills
since last issue.
..
I
want that oil - no matter how many lives it costs!
Soon, we'll be at 400.
How long before we hit 600?
...and then 1000?
Total deaths since President Giggles said, "Bring
'em On": 147 151
From: http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
Plus, at least 1947 2014 we've
broken 2,000 wounded
for Bush's oil hardon.
Many of them are missing arms, legs and eyes.
From: http://www.antiwar.com/ewens/casualties.html
How much more are we willing to tolerate?
VCR Alert
24 returns
tonight, and poor, almost-as-stupid-as-Bush Kim works at CTU!
How will she be stalked by a cougar inside the CTU building?
How will she managed to be kidnapped 3-4 times in 24 hours in a secure
building?
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From: Andy B-H
Subject: ABC says Oswald alone killed JFK
Dear Bart,
I guess the theory is that if you keep telling
people a lie, and tell them they are idiots
for not believing it, they will eventually
believe it. Now we have an investigation which
"irrefutably confirms that " Oswald killed Kennedy
alone.
Gee, is there any room for discussion here, guys?
Excerpt:
ABC News has conducted an exhaustive investigation
of the Kennedy assassination,
complete with a computer-generated reconstruction,
which irrefutably confirms that
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, the network said
Monday.
(Ooooh, they used computers - that means they can't be wrong.)
A two-hour special on the event is scheduled to
air Nov. 20, two days before the
40th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's
killing.
"It leaves no room for doubt," said Tom Yellin, executive
producer of the special.
He called the results of the ABC's study "enormously
powerful. It's irrefutable."
The Zapruder tape (and others) used eight millimeter film, meaning it
used eight frames per second.
That being a fact, experts were able to determine if took Oswald X amount
of time to shoot three shots.
(The rifle is a bolt-action rifle, meaning after each shot, you have to
lift and pull the lever to expel the spent
cartridge and load the next bullet into the chamber.) The trouble
is, the FBI's top marksman was unable to
shoot three bullets within that period of time with Oswald's rifle. It
just wasn't possible he said, and he wasn't
even aiming - he was just trying to get off three bullets and couldn't
do it. Until they address that, I'm still going
to be suspicious. Was Oswald faster than every shooter in the FBI,
and he still had time to aim?
Through interviews and other documentation, ABC
News also concludes that Jack Ruby,
who later killed Oswald, acted simply out of
his love for Kennedy.
Maybe a dying man tells lies, but I have a copy of the Ruby tape where
he tells the camera that the
real people behind the assassination will never be caught because they
are too powerful and have too
much to gain by staying hidden - but ABC says we should ignore the guilty
man's confession?
I got a feeling ABC's owners, Disney, want to keep their billion dollar tax breaks coming.
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Quotes
"I go all over the world and I must say that the
news we get in America has nothing to do with
the news that you get outside of this
country. People don't understand why so many of our usual
allies did not join us because if you get
outside the United States you hear a different kind of news.
My favorite source outside the US is BBC. They're
independent so they're not owned by any of the
major corporations that have vested interest
in this war."
--Cher, calling in Cspan saw
it on Atrios's
blog
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Why aren't Republicans more disturbed by the threat of computer cheating?
Excerpt:
This fall, at every venue I visit to sign books
and talk about politics, at least one worried citizen asks whether
I believe rogue computer software can steal
the next election for the Republicans. Others nod, murmur, and
wonder aloud: What can we do about this threat
to democracy? Why should we vote or encourage others to
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