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 Quotes

"Apparently it is more moral to start an illegal war, invade a country, occupy a country
  that did nothing to us; kill thousands of people ... all based on falsehoods trumped up
  by Bush and his hawk advisers. He told one falsehood after another to get us in a
  Vietnam-style quagmire.  We have lost our moral compass. We used to be mankind's
  greatest hope; now we are despised around the world."
     --Helen Thomas, on the election  Attribution

 U.S. Forces Storm Into Western Fallujah
  Reminder: These people never attacked us - we attacked them

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Backed by a barrage from warplanes and artillery, U.S. troops fought their way into
 the western outskirts of Fallujah on Monday, seizing a hospital and two bridges over
 the Euphrates River in the first stage of a major assault on the insurgent stronghold.

 Iraqi soldiers stormed through the facility, blasting open doors and pulling handcuffed
 patients into the halls in search of gunmen, claimed the US government.
 

 Yeah, we all believe the Iraqi military is strong enough to take on Fallujah,
 the city that held America's armed forces at bay for 18 months.
 

  Comments?

 Quotes

"A man who would have lost in 2004 if 9/11 hadn't come along,
  was lucky 9/11 came along. It gave his whole brand of simplistic politics a hook."
    --Kevin Phillips, a former GOP official and political analyst,  Attribution
.

   Comments?

 Subject: new subscriber

 Bartcop,

 I've been on the fence about subscribing to your site for some time.  I read it every day.
 This stupid election pushed me over.  Wednesday I felt like someone kicked me in my gut.

 I usually only feel like that after the Vikings blow a big game.  Now I'm mad and frustrated.
 I live in Utah.  Never did I think that half the country would think like the majority of Utahans...ass backwards.
 We have entered Hell.  Or maybe just a lower level.

 I'm getting off the sidelines.  I'm not sure how to start so I'm starting with you.
 I hope my small donation helps you get a bigger hammer.  Keep up the great work.
 The country needs you swinging harder then ever.

 If I may quote Eminem, "Fuck Bush!"
 Your friend in Utah,
 Jeff

 Whose morality?
   by the Seattle-Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
"A marriage license is a civil instrument, issued by the state, not the church. Community property, inheritance and
 child custody should be matters of law, not tenets of faith. Decisions on pregnancy, abortion and other reproductive
 matters are intensely personal, indeed moral decisions, and thus not the province of the state. The morality of science
 lies in truth, in a pursuit guided by compassion and ethics, not government edicts.

 There is no morality in the government forcing the victim of rape or incest to bear the fruit of that horror or to dismiss
 the health of the mother in abortion decisions. There is no morality in the denial of legal rights based solely on whom
 one chooses to love. There is no morality in rejecting the promise of a cure to those who suffer from a terrible disease.
 

 The religiously insane bastards who have seized control of our country value the fetus more than
 they value the life of the mother - the reason?  The fetus might be a boy, and everyone knows boys
 are worth more than some damn female, so get with the program.

 It's the same reason women can't be priests - they're not worth it.

 Bush knows what he's doing.
 He's getting his orders from God.
 

 Note to the irony-impaired:  Don't write to me and ask why I think females are inferior.
                                                 Write to Tom Coburn or one of the mother sacrificers, instead

  Comments?

 George, John, and Warren
   by Keith Olbermann

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
"This is mentioned because there is a small but blood-curdling set of news stories that right now exists somewhere
 between the world of investigative journalism, and the world of the Reynolds Wrap Hat. And while the group's
 ultimate home remains unclear - so might our election of just a week ago. Stories like these have filled the web
 since the tide turned against John Kerry late Tuesday night. But not until Friday did they begin to spill into the
 more conventional news media. That's when the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that officials in Warren County, Ohio,
 had "locked down" its administration building to prevent anybody from observing the vote count there.

 Suspicious enough on the face of it, the decision got more dubious still when County Commissioners confirmed
 that they were acting on the advice of their Emergency Services Director, Frank Young. Mr. Young had explained
 that he had been advised by the federal government to implement the measures for the sake of Homeland Security."
 
 

  Comments?

 Quotes

"The enemy has a face. It is Satan's. He is in Fallujah, and we are going to destroy him."
   --Marine Colonel Gary Brandl, on Fallujah,       Attribution
 

 I wonder how old the Devil's face is...

 Veteran sues, gets called up into illegal war

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 A veteran of the first Persian Gulf War is suing the Army after it ordered him to report
 for duty 13 years after he was honorably discharged from active duty and eight years after he left the reserves.

 David Miyasato received word of his reactivation in September, but says he believes he completed his eight-year
 obligation to the Army long ago.  "I was shocked," Miyasato said Friday. "I never expected to see something
 like that after being out of the service for 13 years."

 "Screw that ignorant monkey and his illegal murder of Iraqi civilians," Miyasanto was heard to say.*

*May not be exact quote
 

  Comments?

 Quotes

"Violence breeds more violence, like the Black Watch saw this week.
  This will result in more tragic deaths."
       --Dante Zappala, a soldier's brother, speaking at an anti war rally in Glasgow,   Attribution

"Fallujah will be like Glasgow if there were invaders here,
  as if Hitler had come here in World War II. It is exactly the same."
     --Mahmood Al-Sabbagh, an Iraqi Refugee in Glasgow,    Attribution

 Top Priority: Media Infrastructure
   by Robert Parry  at  consortiumnews.com

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 As liberals and Democrats sort through what went wrong in Election 2004, they should put at the top
 of their list the dangerous imbalance that now exists in the national news media.

 Over the past quarter century, the conservatives/Republicans have built a huge, permanent media machine
 - a vertically integrated structure that puts out the conservative message on TV, with newspapers, through
 magazines, over radio stations, in books and via the Internet.

 Through all these forms of communication, in large cities and small towns, the Right's media is there for its listeners,
 readers and viewers every day, year round, not just during election cycles. Its impact is especially important in rural
 areas that don't have easy access to the variety of media found in urban centers.

 Indeed, the conservative media's role in firming up rural America as a "red" Republican bastion is often overlooked.
 The incendiary rhetoric on conservative talk radio has been a major factor in convincing millions of these Americans
 that "liberals" are demons who hate their country and love killing babies.

 Meanwhile, trying to position itself in the center, the mainstream or corporate media keeps tacking rightward
 to avoid offending conservatives, who aggressively trash individual reporters and news organizations if they are
 deemed to show any traces of liberalism.
 
 

 Note: consortiumnews.com is the most important site on the internet. You should read their stuff.
 

  Comments?

 The Road Not Taken
  Or, ...Next time you are angry think twice before you act

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 You simpletons resent the elitist "city slickers" who you know openly scoff at you don't you? Well you know what, Tough Shit,
 The next time I'm in a first class cabin flying over your dumb asses, while shipping French Champagne, and eating Russian Caviar,
 I'm going to look down on your pathetic little states and laugh. I'm going to let out a big hearty laugh because you moronic bastards
 working on farms, in coal mines and factories, were too fucking stupid to get out while you could and go somewhere like say California,
 but instead you knocked up some local townie, because you were too fucking stupid to use a rubber. Now you're stuck busting
 your ass at some piece of shit job that you hate, if you're lucky enough to have a job at all. You will never get out, good thing too;
 because this place is already too crowded to have to take on all you brain dead fools.

 Subject: Major praise

 Bart, you wrote:

> Annie, I am against Bush, and I am not against www.blackboxvoting.org  but when you go there, it says:

>> Black Box Voting has taken the position that fraud took place in the 2004 election...
>> We are working now to compile the proof...

> We can suspect all we want, but we need proof to make the accusation. "
 

 Let me say this is the best thing I've ever read on the internet.
"We can suspect all we want, but we need proof to make the accusation."

 WOW.  Powerful stuff.  I don't think I've ever heard anybody say "don't bash the other guy
 until we have proof that they cheated."  Integrity is the greatest thing ever.  You, my friend,
 Bart, have a massive amount of integrity.  You have the truth.  You use the truth.
 The enemy uses lies, proganda, extortion, and money.  When all is said and done and all
 parties are dead, who will God send to Hell first?  The liars?  Warmongers?  The fake?
 The evil ones even if they are anti-homosexual and anti-choice?
 Or the ones who embrace the truth?

 Just wanted to point that out.
 Bee Bee the blue from Ohio the Red.
 

 Bee Bee, thanks for that, but I'm not that honorable.
 It's more like, ...my ego is so big, ...I can't stand being caught without the goods.

 Nobody wants Bush exposed more than me, but we can't expose him with a "probably."
 I think the 2004 vote probably was crooked, lots of people do, and if someone has proof,
 nobody will make a fuss bigger than  bartcop.com  but until we have a case morons will buy,
 we ain't taking down nobody.

 Quotes

"The coming days will show you that the one you preferred will lead you to an unbearable hell.
  Although the criminal Bush has spilt blood of Muslims during the last four years and despite
  the butcheries that he committed and continues to perpetrate in Afghanistan, in Palestine and
  in Iraq, we see that... the applause of his people is increasing. This shows the nature of the
  American people who approved the war against Islam led by criminal America."
      --al-Masri Brigades, the madrid train bombers,  Al-Qaeda group warns US of 'unbearable hell
 
 

 Dear mad train bombers,
 Only 51 percent of Americans endorse our Madman.
 The sane half of America knows we invaded Iraq just to steal your oil
 

  Comments?

 Subject: Are you serious, Bart?

 Bush plans to CLOSE OUR BORDERS?  Do you have a link?

 Eckhard
 

 Eckhard, yes, I'm serious. Whenever I say "Swear to Koresh" I'm dead serious.

 But no, I don't have the link at my fingertips, but it's in one of the back issues.
 I'll give a six month subscriprion to the first person who can find it.

 Letter from a Vet

  Click  Here
 
 

  Comments?

 You think I'm angry?  Check out Elaine

 Subject: reply to last issue's consortiumnews article

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 The Democratic campaign was not "well run".

 I have never, in my life, seen a campaign as badly run as Kerry's.  Between Shrum, Marybeth Braindead,
 McIdiot Auliffe and the pathetic excuse for a candidate, no one had to invest billions in the media to gain
 control of anything.  Kerry and his minions handed this election to the GOP.
 

  Comments?

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 Anti-Bush Party in DC on Inauguration day?

 Last night on AAR, Janeanne Garafolo suggested we welcome the next Bush Reich
 with a "tear gas and fire hose" reception on January 20th of next year.

 If anyone plans on going, I would like to sponsor your sign(s).
 I will trade you money for signs, paint, etc for some digital pictures.
 If we buy in bulk, we can get signs cheap, right?

 I'm not talking about one sign or two signs, depending on costs, I'd like to see a sea of signs.
 So if you're going to DC to protest that bastard, click below and we'll see what can be worked out.

 First thing we'll need is some local DC ground people to be anchors.
 Once we have them, we'll check into the costs of, say, 20-40 signs.
 Then anyone wanting to protest can meet up with our anchor and get an anti-Bush sign to carry.
 I'll even pay for some hot chocolate afterwards, because it can get chilly in DC in January.

 If someone would like to donate to the protest fund, Click  Here and put "protest" in the subject line.
 If you'd like to help via mail: bartcop.com  PO Box 54466  Tulsa, OK  74155

 With a bigger budget, we can build bigger, better signs with eye-catchingcolors.
 With enough big, fancy signs, one might be photographed for a national/worldwide publication.
 Let's show the world that not all Americans are fascist, warmongering sons of bitches.

 Would you make a good anchor?
 

..
"You better not make me look bad
  with people all over the world watching!"

  Click Here to volunteer to  Protest that Bastard

 We have 72 days to prepare, but it all starts with some DC anchors.

 ...unless you think we should bow down and worship this Giggling Murderer?
 

 Update
 We have a lot of volunteers and almost $100 in build-a-sign donations, mostly thanks to Diane E.
 Wouldn't it be cool is we had 60 signs in the streets of DC on Bush Re-Installation Day?

 Subject:  get with it

 Bart, you wrote,

> "You elected him, America."

 How long are you going to spread the lie for Bush, Bart?
 R voting software certified by R testing = R results.

 The election was massively stolen, and the more you accept the results the more you help Bush.
 Bush has commited treason. Stolen elections, OR won elections are moot.

 Please don't help Bush create false closure. FIGHT!
 WE DO NOT ACCEPT THE RESULTS, BUT IN ANY CASE, TREASON IS NOT A MANDATE.

 Paul
 L.A. protester
 

 Paul, what you have is a theory.
 If you can prove the vote was rigged, please forward that to me.

 ...and please don't reply with a link to  blackboxvoting.org

 Like me, they are asking people with proof to step forward.

 Letter from a Pillar

  Click  Here

  With a reference to http://www.pipa.org

 That PIPA study is about absolute ignorance.

 For instance, they say:
 Three in four say if Iraq did not have WMD
 or support al Qaeda, US should not have gone to war

 ...yet Bush voters backed him because they thought both instances were true.

 This is what Franken and Consaon have been talking about for days on AAR.
 They said:

 "We like Bush because he caught Saddam, the guy behind 9-11."
 "We like Bush because he found and destroyed the WMDs Iraq had."
 "We like Bush because he's good with the environment and he balanced the budget."

 A big reason Bush won is because Bush supporters are stupid enough to listen to (and believe)
 talk radio and crazy whores like FOX News, who deliberately sell lies to help the president.

 The other networks refuse to call FOX on their lies, and we have Bush as President as a result.
 The more stupid and ignorant people are, the more power Bush gets.

 Subject: cancel me

 Bart that's my last donation. I am moving back to Canada.
 Please cancel my subscription.
 Thanks for your good efforts through the years.
 Steve B
 

 Steve, sorry to lose you.
 Chin up, it could be worse - somehow....

 bart

 Read a book, get oral sex
  It's so totally scandalous, you have to read it

  Click  Here
 

 Afghan Kidnappers Set Deadline
  Bush single-handedly brings back beheadings everywhere

  Click  Here
 

 Al Sharpton, Wife Announce Separation
  Split after 23 years, but, of course, they will "remain on the best of terms"'

  Click  Here
 

'The Incredibles' Soar to $70 Million at Box Office
  Kid's films make money - who knew?

  Click  Here

 Christians See Court Appointments as Top Bush Aim
  Goodbye to your day in court and goodbye to womens' reproductive rights

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Christian conservative leaders say their top priority in Bush's second term is the appointment
 of conservative judges to the Supreme Court and throughout the judicial system.

 Analysts have speculated Bush could have the opportunity to appoint as many as three or four
 new justices since all but one of the nine justices are over 65 and several have had health problems.
 Even if he does not reshape the Supreme Court, Bush will certainly make hundreds of lifetime
 appointments to the federal trial and appellate courts in the next four years.
 

 Reminder: The Democrats are scared spineless - they can't be counted on to help
 Even when they were in the majority, they refused to stand for anything.

  Comments?

..
 

   Click  Here

  No doubt, your letter is in here.

 Helen Thomas says Bush is afraid of her

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
"Now that President Bush has won reelection, maybe he'll feel secure enough
 to restore the First Lady of the Press to her front-row seat.

"No,' predicted Helen Thomas on Friday when she keynoted the 9th Annual Women
 Venture Conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center. 'He's still afraid of me.
 He can't take my questions. Mine are very simple.'"

 When I asked her how it feels to be the scariest little old lady in America,
 as far as W. is concerned, she said, "I don't feel anything but sorry for him,
 if he can't take a tough question. He's the president of the United States."

 Subject: you are right, as usual

 Hey Bart,
 I love Bob Parry. He makes more sense than most, present company excepted.

 Bart, I have been too depressed to think. I am somewhere between leaving the country
 and thinking of helping to organize a revolution, but if we do, it will have to be like no other!

 Marches and Demonstrations are useless. Whatever we do now, will be very different
 from what has gone before or it has no chance of doing any good at all.

 What does one do when one is up against Evil dressed in choir robes?
 Dpt
 

 Dpt, I recommend Chinaco, God's flowers and some Shirley on the speakers.
 For me it's like re-booting.

 Remember, you can't fight unless you have your head.

 Rove's Revenge
   by MoDo

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Just how much did Karl Rove hate not being one of the cool guys in high school in the 60's?
 Enough to hatch schemes to marshal the forces of darkness to take over the country?
 Oh, yeah. A supporter of Nixon against Kennedy at 9, the teenage Karl was, in his description,
 "a big nerd," a small guy with a pocket protector, briefcase, and glasses almost as big as his head.

 Even as a high school debater in Salt Lake City, "Rove didn't just want to win; he wanted the
 opponents destroyed," write James Moore and Wayne Slater in "Bush's Brain." "He would
 defeat them, slaughter them and humiliate them."

 Subject: Proof of vote tampering

 Take a look at this Bart, if it is for real it is stunning proof that they rigged the election.

  http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00000906.htm

 Yours Sincerely
 Anthony R
 

 Isn't it interesting that the right wing wackos use exit polling to determine
 that this election was all about "morality," but when that same exit polling
 shows Kerry was the real winner, they talk about how flawed exit poling is...

 Quotes

"It's true that people on my side of the divide want to live in a society where women are free
  to choose abortion and where gay relationships have full civil equality with straight ones.
  And you want to live in a society where the opposite is true. These are some of those
  conflicting values everyone is talking about. But at least my values -- as deplorable as
  I'm sure they are -- don't involve any direct imposition on you. We don't want to force you
  to have an abortion or to marry someone of the same gender, whereas you do want to close
  out those possibilities for us. Which is more arrogant?"
        --Michael Kinsley, sometimes a liberal,   Attribution

 Subject: I can't believe the bigotry

 It is sad that people who preach against bigotry and hatred can see the irony of their hatred and dismal
 of fundamentalist Christians.  You seem so blinded by this hatred that you cannot bring yourself to even
 consider that perhaps people of faith (I'm a Lutheran so I guess I don't really fit the hard right Christian
 mold you are so certain of.) have looked at the facts of a situation and simply come to a different conclusion.
 If you continue to refuse to believe that people are capable of disagreeing with you while being intelligent
 caring people you will always fail to grow.

 I'm religious.  I do not blindly follow orders.  I also have a son in the army safely returned from Iraq not long ago.
 He was saddened by the horror of war but he also saw the positive things that are happening to a people who
 lost many more lives annually during Sadam's reign than are dieing now.  Don't be blind, evaluate the facts.

 My wife is a teacher.  She has a young student who was born in Iraq.  They fled Sadam's murdering thugs
 and prays every day for peace in her country but is glad that America is there to bring it about.  What she
 lived in before we got there was terror not peace.

 Please open your bigoted mind just a little and you may learn..

 Brick
 

 Brick, we talked about this in BCR 59, which should be up tonight.
 It's OK to be religious, but starting a war and killing 100,000 innocent civilians
 because "God told me to" is just too stupid for words.

 Good thing your wife is here and not there, because one of Bush's
 Mother of All Bombs might've landed near her.

 That Bush, he's just like Christ, isn't he?

 Night of Drinkening

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Okay, we're smashed NOW. Let's just toss that out their, right out in the open. We don't normally pull
 the paper together like this, impaired like this, although we like to joke about it sometimes. But this time s'tru.
 Because this is no ordinery time. So This is what it looks like when you got drunk writers, drunk copy editers,
 drunk layout people puling a paper together. Drunk, drunk, drunk. We all shitfaced, yo.

 Okay, so our point person returned to the office near 9:00, from the Westin Hotle in downtown Seattlee and
 the Cha-Cha and Chop Suey, where we'd hung out, hoping for better news than what we got. Which is that
 Bush is up and defying the day's earilier prick-tease exit polls that had Kerry winning.

 Quotes

"George Bush's version of Christianity is virtually antithetical to the ideas put forth by the man
  whose religion bears his name. Bush has lied about almost everything. He has killed 100,000 Iraqis.
  He disrespected his father. He has smeared opponents and insisted that those who question him
  were themselves unChristian. But if you read the news stories about the election, it seems that tens
  of millions of Americans share that hypocrisy, intellectual dishonesty and moral degeneracy. To claim
  to be Christian while lying, cheating, stealing and killing...there's something wrong with this picture."
     --Tony Seton, "Neener, Neener, Neener",     Attribution

 Subject: blackboxvoting thread

 You are incorrect about what you said about Black Box Voting:
 they do not say "we are compiling", they say "we HAVE evidence".

 Please look again and correct your error.
 The work Black Box Voting is doing is extremely important, and needs to be supported.
 Bizfo
 

 Bizfo, remembering that we're on the same side - you are in error.

 This is the exact copy-and-paste text

 Black Box Voting has taken the position that fraud took place in the 2004 election
 through electronic voting machines.  We base this on hard evidence, documents
 obtained in public records requests, inside information, and other data indicative
 of manipulation of electronic voting systems. What we do not know is the specific
 scope of the fraud. We are working now to compile the proof, based not on soft evidence...
 

 It's a good rule to be careful when you accuse someone of being "incorrect" about a quote.
 I'm cool with BBV's mission, nobody wants Smirk more than I do, but their hyperbole
 makes my bullshit detector bark like a chihuahua on day old Cuervo.

 Not only that, but they say, "We need to raise $50,000 as quickly as possible..." to get this ball rolling.

 I don't have the time to figure out what BBV is up to, but if they have real evidence why don't they share it
 with Joe Conason, Eric Alterman, Truthout, Molly Ivins, Daily Howler, Buzzflash etc etc etc.

 Subject: gun ownership

 Dear Bart,

 Although I have always had a visceral fear of guns (and a lot of the people who own them),
 I'm seriously considering buying and learning to use a gun for the first time in my life.
 All the crazy militia folks who used to drill in my Texas neighborhood no longer look so crazy and paranoid.

 This government really scares the doody out of me.
 When they come to get me, they're gonna have a real fight on their hands.

 Karen D
 Lakeview, Oregon
 

 Karen, you need to be careful, but I think you're doing the right thing.
 A good reason to own a gun is because they have 200 million of them.
 Did you know Texas, alone, has 80 million guns?

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