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In Today's Treehouse... Don't mention the dead Chopper shot, six more dead Turkey to Bush: FO and Die  Marijuana May Help With MS Bush to Fed Judges: Go To Hell Protestor subs Ashcroft, Rove Howard Dean's 'problem' Favorite Reagan stories Presidential Sticker Posers Quote of the Day "My weapon did jam and I did not shoot, not a round,   nothing. I don't look at myself as a hero. My heroes   are Lori (Private Lori Piestewa, who died in the ambush    of Lynch's convoy), the soldiers that are over there,    the soldiers that were in the car beside me, the ones   that came and rescued me."      -- Jessica Lynch, who never asked to be a symbol of this     costly war and, as far as we know, hasn't lied Attribution

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 Quotes

"The fire grew, my team leader's beside me now yelling something.... He couldn't get his door,
  pleading for me to hurry - more shouting. Seems so far away, like a voice at the end of a tunnel.
  Got to get the door open or we're going to die. Where's my gunner? I close my eyes and throw
  myself into the door. Still doesn't budge. This is it. This is how I am going to die.
  No! I open my eyes and throw myself once more. Oh Thank God, it opened...."
      --Pfc. Rachel Bosveld, when her Humvee was hit by a grenade attack, in a letter home

"My greatest desire is that the president's daughters would go to Iraq and do what she was doing.
  Then I think there would be a wise decision on what we're doing there."
     --Mary Bosveld, mother of Rachel, who became one of Bush's 390   Attribution

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 When the body of US soldier Artimus Brassfield was flown to the military mortuary at Dover,
 there were no TV pictures of a flag-covered coffin and hero's salute - the White House has
 banned media coverage at the base. But can Bush's efforts to hide the body bags quell
 growing public disquiet over the death toll in Iraq?

 Chopper shot, six more dead

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 An Army helicopter crashed Friday into a riverbank near Tikrit, killing six U.S. soldiers.
 It probably was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, an officer said.

 Two Americans also were killed in separate attacks Thursday and Friday in Mosul,
 raising concerns that the insurgency was spreading north. .
 
 

 "War is good. The media loves me. I'm the man!
   This is my big chance to be a big war hero!"

 Quotes

"It's getting real old and getting real crazy."
    --Benjamin Colgan's appraisal of Baghdad in an e-mail to his parents on Friday,

"People keep asking, 'Are the Iraqis better off? What we have to start asking is,
 'Are we better off?' And we're not. We're losing our children."
   --Pat Colgan, mother of Benjamin Colgan; who died Saturday   Attribution

 Subject: Bechtel stock

 It is interesting how Booger has bought Bechtel stock.
 It is privately owned and not subject to any scrutiny from public stockholders.
 No wonder they are a favorite of the B.F.E.E.
 Bechtel stock does not exist!!!

 Hardboiled
 

 I expect nothing but lies from people named after nose excrement.

  http://liberalhyperbole.blogspot.com/

  Click  Here

 Turkey has decided against deploying troops to help the Boy Plunder.

 NATO's only Muslim country, Turkey has been troubled by how to react to
 Bush's war, first barring U.S. troops from attacking its neighbor from Turkish soil,
 then, only after much bribes were paid, last month agreeing to send Turkish troops
 to help its biggest ally in the occupation of Iraq.

 Now Ankara has changed its mind once again.

 Subject: Tommy Chong

 Bart,

 Great radio show #18, g'damn I can't stand Oreilly.

 You pointed out Oreilly LYING about Tommy Chong's past convictions (he said 18, what a piece of shit liar).
 Tommy Chong had ZERO past convictions.

"Chong, who has no previous convictions..."
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1045876,00.html

-raj

 O'Reilly has to fabricate lies because the truth makes him look stupid.
 He's a punk-ass liar who wouldn't last five minutes in a live chat room.

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 A marijuana pill appeared to relieve some of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis
 in the first scientifically rigorous study of the strongly debated drug.

 The research, published this week in The Lancet medical journal, found that even though
 improvements could not be detected by doctors' tests, a greater proportion of patients taking
 the drug reported reduced pain and muscle stiffness than those taking fake capsules.
 

 Once again, we don't want to help the sick and the dying with their pain.
 No, we want to please the Invisible Cloud Being - that's what's important.

 In my lifetime, will we see logic and science interfere with religious insanity?

 Joe Conason's Journal
 The super-patriots in the GOP praised veterans -- then cut funding

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Yesterday evening on the House floor, Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., offered some angry perspective on the
 Bush administration's "support for our troops." A Vietnam-era Air Force veteran (although his own Web site
 omits that fact), DeFazio rose to contest the happy-face rhetoric of his Republican colleagues in anticipation
 of Veterans Day next Wednesday. DeFazio's remarks about the real record of the self-styled super-patriots
 in the GOP deserve to be quoted at length.

 Subject: Nimitz docks in San Diego

 Hey Bart,

 Did you happen to catch a glimpse of the "Mission Accomplished" banner
 the Nimitz had up when it docked after a 8 month deployment?  I didn't either.

 Do you think they spent an extra night 30 miles off-shore so they could pat themselves on the back?
 Don't think so.

 See what the Navy can get accomplished without the chimp around, they actually get to go home
 on time and save the country 3 million bones!

 Keep up the good work
 JW

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 The government promised to defend a new law banning certain late-term abortions,
 despite rulings by three federal judges who blocked its enforcement so legal challenges
  - which they concluded would likely succeed - can go forward.

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Howard Dean's remarks about the need to appeal to white Southerners could certainly have been better phrased.
 But his rivals for the Democratic nomination should be ashamed of their reaction. They know what he was trying
 to say - and it wasn't that his party should go soft on racism. By playing gotcha, by seizing on the chance to take
 the front-runner down a peg, they damaged the cause they claim to serve - and missed a chance to confront the
 real issue he raised.

 A three-sentence description of the arc of American politics over the past 70 years would run like this:
 First, Democrats and moderate Republicans created institutions - above all, Social Security and Medicare
  - that provided a measure of financial security to ordinary working Americans. The biggest beneficiaries of
 these institutions were African-Americans and working-class Southern whites, and both were part of the
 moderate-to-liberal coalition that dominated American politics until the 1960's.

 But the right opened an increasingly effective counterattack, with a strategy that included using racially charged
 symbolism to get Southern whites to vote against their own economic interests. All Mr. Dean was saying was
 that Democrats need to understand and counter this strategy.

 Need sound clips, promos and IDs

 Earlier in the year, several people sent those little sound snippets for the radio show.
 Those were all saved on ht hard drive, which was infected with a virus.

 Technically, there's probably a way to transfer those without getting the latest
 computer infected, but my luck with that stuff isn't the best, so could you re-send?

 People sent in jingles and "Bart will be right back" - that kinda stuff and that's what I need.
 Mick the Voice - I need all of that you can send me.

 Please send those to  bartcop@bartcop.com

 If we use your stuff, free membership is the least I can offer in return.

 Subject: Pokerfest in New Orleans

 Hey Bart,

 Think William Bennett would come if you'd invite him??

 Just asking,
 Meg in Kenpsha, WI
 

 That would be cool.
 We could slip "Still smoking" some roofies and get some pictures of him
 in bed with a couple of shemale hookers and post them here at  bartcop.com

 Bartolo News from Latin America

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 When I saw these links on Bartcop citing Noam Chomsky in reference to Cuba,
 the web-site's legitamacy took a severe hit in my eyes; a guy with progressive views, for the most part.
 

 I need to say something here...
 I get a lot of this and it makes no sense.

 To be Koresh-honest with you, I don't know who Noam Chomsky is.
 I've heard the name a lot, and I'm guess he(?)'s a writer, but he doesn't speak for me
 until I know who he is and what he stands for - that kind of thing.

 The idea that a mention of his name should discredit me is not reasonable.
 If you see an idea here (Marc Perkel's last letter is an example) that doesn't mean I'm willing
 to die for that person's idea, it just means it's an idea somebody had that seemed interesting.

 I'm not shy about my opinions.
 Generally, when I print something I say, "I agree," or "That guy's a nut,"
 but the mention of an idea is no excuse for someone to have a cow, understand?

 Cheeses, sometimes I wonder if we're actually the side that promotes tolerance...

 Quotes

"I'm pretty blessed to be in Saddam's home town, Tikrit. It's very nice here
 other than the fact that we're in Iraq and there ain't no escaping it."
   --Artimus Brassfield, 4th infantry division, in an email to his father

"Evidently the war is over and yet we still have people dying every day. He was a sitting duck.
  Who is going to be the next person?"
    --Cary Brassfield, father of Artimus Brassfield who died October 24th  Attribution

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 A man charged with entering a restricted area during an October 2002 presidential visit
 has subpoenaed John Ashcroft and Karl Rove to testify at his trial next week.

"We intend to find out from Mr. Ashcroft why and how the decision to prosecute Mr. Bursey
 was reached," said Lewis Pitts, Bursey's lawyer. Bursey has said he was arrested because he
 was carrying a sign that read "No War for Oil" and contends others with pro-Bush placards
 were allowed to stay in the area. The U.S. attorney's office has said Bursey was arrested
 not for what his sign said but for where he was carrying it.
 

 That's obviously false since the pro-Bush sign carriers were welcome near Mein Furhrer.

 I did it again

 First thing this morning, I had an idea for the page so I clicked on it.
 The box came up that said, "This page has been modified. Do you want to see
 the modifications or do you keep the original version?"

 Groggy, I hit "Modify" and lost today's page.
 All I had left was what was posted in the members section last night.

 This happens to me a lot, more than most, I'd say.
 A person in my position gets asked by the computer 50 times a day,
 "Do you want to replace 'index' with what you just wrote?" and usually
 the answer is yes, but sometimes that costs me a day's work and I f-ing hate that.
 

 We have more problems:
 I've had to wipe my C drive clean twice so far this year, and now we're looking at Number Three.
 The guy who fixed me up last time sold me a bootleg copy of Windows XP, so I can't
 get any updates or patches or whatever they're called from Microsteal, so we have to
 once again wipe the C drive clean and start allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll over.

 This does not make us happy.

 So, sometime very soon, we'll be down for a day or two while I get ANOTHER
 completely wiped out C drive and once again start to rebuild every goddamn thing.

 A flood of red ink

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 "At some point, however, both Mr Bush and the rest of Washington will be forced to leave this fiscal Neverland.
 When will that be? Many look to the late 1980s and early 1990s as a model.

 This time the turnaround will be much tougher. There will be no "peace dividend" from the end of the cold war.
 As baby-boomers retire, the pressure from entitlement spending will be more acute.  Set against this background,
 the path back to a sustainable fiscal policy will be extremely painful, even without any dramatic fiscal crisis.
 Long after Dubya is back on his ranch, Americans will be trying to recover from the mess he created."
 

 This is from The Economist.
 Look at the chart - the line soaring upwards was due to our last elected president.
 The fantastic nosedive is what happens when the Whore Court says, "Stop counting those ballots."

 Subject:  the UK version of "Dude, Where's My Country?"

 Here's how they're marketing it over there.
 Thought you'd like this pic.

-D

 Howard Dean's 'problem'

 I still fail to see what's so wrong about what Dean said about handjobs from Dixie.
 Talk radio is pretending he said, "Let's rape all the nuns," or something.

 What did he say that was so wrong?
 For what should he apologize?  Telling the truth?

 Are they saying there are no rednecks with shotguns and Dixie flags?
 Or that Dean shouldn't try to get their vote?
 Are blacks upset with Dean?

 I don't think the feigning-outrage nazi's know what he did wrong, either.
 I heard 3-4 of them today, and it was all the same words in the same order:

 "Can you believe that? Can you believe Dean said that?"

 Then they'd play the clip - again.

 "I think this is proof Dean is very unstable. He can't control himself."

 Then they'd play the clip - again.

 "Doesn't Dean understand what he's saying? Does he not recognize his own words?"

 Then they'd play the clip - again.

 That Sullivan prostitute that's subbing for Rush was the worst:

"I thought Dean was going to go postal and murder everyone in the room - I really did..."

 Then he'd play the clip - again.

 This'll sound strange, but maybe I'm not stupid enough to get what they mean?

 Quotes:

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power
  to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence,
  is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power."
      --  Franklin D. Roosevelt, who knew something about fighting Nazis Attribution

 Buck Doesn't Stop With Bush
  by Helen Thomas, who can't be bought

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
"There have been presidents who have taken blame for a catastrophe, bad judgment or a plan gone wrong.
  In the case of the Iraq attack, President Bush may yet own up to his mistake in leading the nation to war
  on the basis of false advertising about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq as haven of Sept. 11 terrorists.

 That rhetoric in the rush to war has turned out to be a bunch of hooey.

 But until that day of reckoning, the buck-passing is picking up speed. For example, it looks like the CIA is
 going to be the scapegoat for the discredited information concerning Saddam's arsenal of WMD. No such
 weapons have been found, despite the pre-war insistence by Bush and others in his administration that
 Saddam had hoards of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

 The White House has the choice of either 1) blaming the CIA for bad intelligence or 2) admitting that the
 entire war was a pretext to keep Bush buoyant in the public opinion polls as a war-time president.
 Of the two, option No. 1 is much preferred. This means the designated fall guy is likely to be CIA Director
 George Tenet, whose job may be jeopardy."

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 Favorite Reagan story
  As told by George Shultz. - saw on on the BartCop Forum

 They were in Geneva for what I believe was a conference on the Salt II treaty.
 After arriving Shultz hands Reagan all the briefs for what he is supposed to talk about the next day.
 The next morning Shultz asks Reagan if he has any questions about the breifs.

 Reagan say, "Well, The Sound of Music was on last night and I just love Julie Andrews.
 So after watching that I went to sleep."

 Shultz said he sat there frozen. He was in a total panic. One of the most important events of Reagan's
 presidency, the one thing that would probably be his biggest legacy, a reduction in the nuclear arsenals
 for the world's two superpowers, and Reagan is clueless. After a long silence Shultz says OK, we will go to plan b.

 Reagan asks what plan b is.
 Shultz says he doesn't know, they will have to wing it.

 Valk
 

 I wasn't aware of this particular story, but it's classic Reagan.
 Like the Pinhead, Reagan slept and smiled thru his presidency without ever having a clue.

 My favorite Reagan story, and forgive me if I have the wrong name, but Reagan had a black Secretary of HUD
 or HEW or whatever they call that, I think his name was Louis Sullivan, but that's just a guess and Reagan ran into
 this guy at a meeting and said,  "Good to meet you, Mr Mayor."

 Reagan was so lost with Alzheimers, he couldn't recognize his own cabinet.
 It reminds me of a joke Dennis Miller used to do when he was funny.

"Reagan is 76 and he has his finger on the nuclear button?
  My Grandpa is 76 and we don't let him handle the TV remote."

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 Dave's baby - I wonder...  Will it float?

 Did you see The Sopranos Furio on NYPD Blue Tuesday night?

 It was strange because he was speaking perfect English.
 (On The Sopranos, he speaks very broken English.)

 The funniest part is he was being manhandled by the kid from Saved by the Bell.

..
"Don't make me kick your ass, Furio..."

..
 "Please Zack, don't hurt Tony and me - please?"

 Jessica Lynch Rejects Military Portrayal

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Jessica Lynch (USA-Hero) said the U.S. military was wrong to manipulate the story
 of her dramatic rescue and should not have filmed it in the first place.

 She told Diane Peroxide in an interview to air Tuesday that she was bothered by the military's portrayal of her ordeal.
"They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff,'' she said in an excerpt from the interview.

"It hurt in a way that people (She means the Illegal Usurper) would make up stories that they had no truth about,'' she said.
 She also said there was no reason for her rescue from an Iraqi hospital to be filmed. ``It's wrong,'' she said.

 Sidebar:
 In an effort to legitimize the murder of Baghdad, the B.F.E.E. had three cameras there
 to film the "dramatic rescue," where all doors were unlocked and no soldiers were present.

 On a recent episode of BartCop Radio,

 I did a pretend story about what it would be like to be a friend of John Lennon's while he was recording
 some songs generally regarded as the greatest in all of popular music history. Not one person mentioned it.

 I didn't expect kudoos for my goofy story, but that was never-before-heard Beatles music.
 Like the first draft of each days bartcop.com  these were early editions of some of music's
 greatest songs - and nobody had a comment?

 I continue to be surprised at the disregard for the music of The Beatles.
 Trust me, they were once a big group.

 Bush's American soldier body count in Iraq

 Last issue it was times 381  ....this issue it's  times 390
                                                                                                          The sons of bitches got  nine  kills since last issue.
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    Please vote to stay the course next November.

 We're almost at 400.

 How long before we hit 600?

  ...and then 1000?

 Total deaths since President Giggle and Kill said, "Bring 'em On":  176  185

 From:  http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
 

 Plus, at least  2176     2195  wounded for Bush's oil snatch.
 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?

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 Subject: End the war

 Bart,

 Once again, the GOP center of the world (Houston) has spoken, see attachment.
 According to this 'non-scientific' poll from a popular tv station's web site, 60% either
 believe we should not have gone to war, or that it has come time to pull out before more die.
 People are sick of this crap!!

 I really enjoyed the last radio show, featuring Bill O'Liely~

 John W

 Humping the Pantleg of the Economy

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 During the 2000 presidential campaign, Bush is alleged to have explained his recipe for success with
 a flippant,  "I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity." He then went on to assure the Bob Woodward
 -- "I will seize the (9-11) opportunity to achieve great goals..."

 It must be true. Can anyone deny that Bush has frantically humped the pantleg of 9-11 -- or that such an
 atrocity was a golden opportunity for BushCo warmongers who were scratching their heads trying to
 figure out how to bring about a corporate coup here at home while destroying all mechanisims of diplomacy
 and civilized relations abroad?

 Can anyone deny that the citizens of the world are mesmerized with terror as they stare into the double-barrells
 of the genocidal shotgun in the hands of a man they increasingly consider quite mad?
 

 Bush has done some seizing, all right.
 He's seized all the money in the Treasury and he seized the chance to start a costly war.

 Subject: Jessica Lynch

 BC:

 I'm sending you a link here.  Jessica Lynch did not say that she was raped.  She says that she was told
 that she was raped, and she has no memory of the incident.  I, personally, doubt that she was raped.

 Someone, who would be such an animal as to rape a woman who was unconscious and had numerous
 broken bones, would not then take her to the hospital for care.  He would either just kill her, or leave her for dead.
 The rape story just doesn't make any sense, unless it is to spur the hatred of Americans against Iraqis.

 Jim H.
 

 Jim, my good friend, I disagree.
 True, she has no memory of the rape.
 The doctors told her that their medical tests indicate she was raped.

 Also, there's no reason to assume the man/men who raped her
 are the same people who delivered her to the hospital.
 See you in New Orleans in January?

 Reminder:

 If you have something important send it to Sam at sam@bartcop.com

 Can't get in the members section?  Sam can help.

 Subject: candidates and bartcop stickers

 Bart,

 I'm certainly a fan of your website, but I'd ask that you take careful consideration about who's holding your stickers in pictures.
 Wesley Clark or Howard Dean holding one would be political death.  Despite your religious beliefs there are a vast majority
 of Americans who believe in, at the very least, God.  A major candidate appearing to endorse the website of an outspoken atheist
 would never be elected.  It would spread like wildfire through, certainly, the conservative circles and most likely make it into the
 mainstream news in late October.  The picture of Dean standing next to a guy flashing one of your stickers is a hairsbreath away
 from chaos and your request for a picture of Wesley Clark could be bad news.  Chances are the campaign staffs of the candidates
 have told them not to pose with messages or the like, but a confusing moment on the campaign trail could mean four more years of Bush.

 AB
 

 You're saying America can't handle the truth?
 That's probably true, but my rejection of religious insanity isn't the cornerstone of this page.
 This isn't onlyafoolbelievesinGod.com

 But besides another lying politician, is any endorsement "safe?"
 Every person with an endorsement comes with baggage.

 It would be sad if the "baggage" of honesty hurt a candidate,
 but we live in sad times, so that's probably true.

 Have a good time today.  Take your kids out to dinner, but some toys for the wife.

 Subject: the real Jessica Lynch

 Bart,

 There's been some debate on this page as to whether Jessica Lynch's action rose to the level of "heroism."
 I think it's safe to say any doubts have been put to rest, considering her courage to refute the lies told by the "Defense" Department.

"It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about. Only I would have
  been able to know that, because the other four people on my vehicle aren't here to tell the story.
  So I would have been the only one able to say, yeah, I went down shooting. But I didn't."
   -- Private Lynch, American heroine

 Andy

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