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 Quotes

"The Department of Defense announced today the death of six Marines who were
  supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.  My condolences to the families of these men,
  killed so George Bush can feel superior to his father."
      --David Allen, "Six More Die in Operation: Iraqi Genocide", Attribution

 Bush Visits Canada Where They Hate Him, Too
  The whole world hates the Giggling Murderer - with good reason

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Bush sought Tuesday to patch up relations with Canada after years of his petty-ass bickering,
 flying here for tough hemispheric and global talks amid boisterous demonstrations from opponents
 of the unwarranted invasion and murder of the defenseless citizens of backwards Iraq.

 Bush's unpopularity in some Canadian quarters was unmistakable. Hundreds of protesters near the
 Parliament building held signs saying, "Please leave."  Others held placards that branded Bush an "assassin."
 A truck parked near the motorcade route was emblazoned with the phrase "Bush is a war criminal."
 Another placard simply commanded, "Go Home, you braindead asshole."

  Comments?

 Subject: "bipartisan efforts" are for losers

 Now we're hearing the same things from the Democrats as we heard four years ago
 when Bush stole the election from them the first time: "we need to work with Republicans,"
 "bipartisan efforts," and other useless, gutless phrases.

 Don't they realize that the Republicans hate them?
 Can't they see that they are the only ones extending the olive branch here?

 Suppose Kerry had won the election; would Bush, Karl Rove, and the rest of the GOP machine call for bipartisanship?
 It's not a fucking campfire, this is war; and the Democrats are squandering every minute of vigilance of grassroots
 supporters and every cent donated to the DNC or to Kerry that has gone into this election over the past two years,
 by retreating back to their 'support' of Bush's administration and agenda.

 Come to think of it, this is why the Democrats lost this year.
 If Daschle and his cronies had not gone around trumpeting the cause of bipartisanism after the 2000 election and had
 instead broken off with the GOP, brought voter fraud to the American mainstream media, and tried to push their own
 agenda four years ago, they would have had the White House this year.  If the Democrats themselves don't act like
 we need change, how do they expect the voters to believe that they are a viable alternative?

 This isn't the time for DNC leaders in the Senate and House to turn back again.  It's a time to be aggressive and a time
 to lay down a plan and an opposition to the Republican agenda.  If the real heroes like Dean aren't given their chance
 to take charge of this party, then the Democrats have already lost the 2008 election just weeks after losing in 2004.

 withheld.
 

 I agree.
 If Republicans were half-decent people, that bipartisan crap might work.
 But those bastards cheat and steal every minute of the day and they'd stomp puppies for a single vote.
 They re-wrote the rules to screw Clinton and our guys still want to play fair.

 Democrats refuse to fight for their jobs, their constituents or their convictions.
 How do they collect a paycheck when they refuse to do any work?

  Comments?

 Red Cross: Guantanamo Tactics 'Tantamount to Torture'
   Sure it's torture, but we suspect them of crimes so it's OK?

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 The Times said the Red Cross investigators had found a system devised to break the will of prisoners
 through "humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions."

"The construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be
 considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture,"
 the Times quoted the report as saying.
 

 America has clearly lost her soul.
 The whole world saw November 2 as a reaffirmation that America loves invasions and torture.
 Who's next of George W Bush's invasion and torture list?
 Shape up, world, and show Bush some respect because your country could ne next.
 If you have oil, not even God can protect you from America's Giggling Murderer.

 How many decades will it take for us to get our reputation back?

  Comments?

 Subject: confirming Alberto

 Bart...

 What will your comment be if Senator Clinton votes for Alberto?
 Will you still claim she's playing her cards close to the vest?
 I call that being a weasel, frankly.

 Will you put her in a pink tutu? I doubt it.
 Somehow, you have given her a pass every time she's supported the Smirkster.
 I can't figure that out...
 
 BadtotheboneBob
 

 BTTBB, you didn't say this, but this is what I heard:
"FOX News and talk radio and the whore networks and the GOP and the cable Nazis are NOT
 waiting and ready to pounce on Hillary for taking the tiniest step towards leadership in her Party."

 I also heard you say, "Hillary is no different than any of the other 99 senators."

 I'm not certain that Hillary will save the day for us.
 I'm not certain she won't disappoint us the same way Gore and Kerry did,
 but you're asking her to make her move NOW, and now is not the right time.

 As far as the specific vote for or against Gonzales, she can't be the one to lead that charge - not yet.
 If the Democrats were to grow a pair (fat chance) and decide to block Gonzales, she could vote her
 conscience, but she can't lead the peasants in revolt until the time is right.

 Also, I'll bet if you had a chance to rewrite your note, you would accuse me of weasel-like behavior
 instead of "being a weasel."    I generally put a Number Six on an attacker for using personal insults.

 Quotes

"Hitler rose to his position as the "Leader" of Germany with the support of three major elements
  in German society: big business, which was won over by Hitler's covert promise to break the labor unions;
  the defense industry and the military, which responded to Hitler's call for disregarding the restrictions on
  German military buildup imposed by the treaty that ended World War I; and rural religious conservatives.
  Hitler won over this last group with his appeals to their feelings of defeated, yet resurgent nationalism;
  and with his hateful condemnations of those of their fellow citizens at the top of their personal enemies list:
  communists, homosexuals and Jews.

  Substituting "Muslims" for "Jews," this is today's Republican Party, which now controls all three branches
  of the federal government, most of the nation's governorships, and perhaps most importantly, the major media
  (now owned by a handful of corporations). America has lost its democratic republic to a system of one-party imperial fascism."
       --Michael Hasty, "21st Century American Revolution",    Attribution

 Turkeys in Washington ruin our holiday spirit
   by Molly Ivins

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Our government now arranges "torture flights." We are outsourcing torture. A Gulfstream 5 jet
 has been leased by the Department of Defense and the CIA. We use this plane to transport
 suspected terrorists from other countries or U.S. military bases to countries that practice torture.

 A Swedish television program tracked two Egyptians arrested there and supposedly "extradited" by Egypt.
 They were flown out on the leased American plane, and both suspects were then tortured in Egypt.
 According to Britain's Sunday Times, the plane's logbooks show it has been to 49 destinations outside
 the United States in the past two years, including Guantanamo and other U.S. bases, Egypt, Jordan,
 Iraq, Morocco, Afghanistan, Libya and Uzbekistan.
 

 Molly, are you surprised that we're in the torture business?
 Bush picked Alberto Gonzales (R-Mr. Torture) to be Attorney General.
 I wouldn't be surprised if Bush masturbated to videotapes of the torture.

  Comments?

 Subject:  Thanks

 Bart,

 Keep up The Good work. Your Sight helps keep me going in these dreadful Times!
 I just wish The Democratic Party had the courage you do.   You speak up.
 But this party has no guts any more.

 Keep putting pressure on them, Bart.  Maybe they will wake up.
 And your site is a relief and a release for many so keep up the good work.
 
 Darryl, trying to keep my head above water

  Comments?

 Scientist says FDA called journal to block Vioxx article
  Bush will let people die to protect a big contributor

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Just days before a medical journal was to publish a Food and Drug Administration-sponsored study
 that raised concerns about the safety of the arthritis drug Vioxx, an FDA official took the unusual step
 of calling the editor to raise questions about the findings' scientific integrity, says USA TODAY.

 Lead author David Graham says the call was part of an effort to block publication of his research
 showing that those who took Vioxx were more likely to suffer a heart attack or sudden cardiac death
 than those who took Celebrex, Vioxx's rival.
 

 I was on Vioxx when that call was made.
 Maybe Bush knew I avoid small airplanes?

   Comments?

 Subject:  Michael Moore

 Did you see the "new" Michael Moore on the Tonight Show?

 John A
 

 Yeah, I was kinda surprised.
 (He cut his hair very short, shaved his beard and wore a suit.)

 I was more surprised at his kind words for Bush. When Leno asked him what happened Nov 2,
 he said, "All the exit polls said Kerry would win, but I think Bush got more votes."

 I guess he thinks the voting machines that count backwards are working OK?

 Quotes

"Nicholas Kristof says, 'These days, the biggest risk may come from the small but growing
  contingent on the left that wants to bring our troops home now.'  Is Nicholas Kristof insane?
  The problem with Iraq is the left?  Excuse me.  Right-wingers created this insane mess.
  They control all three branches of government and are determined to make everything worse,
  having admitted no mistakes and thrown out the people who tried to warn them of their delusions.
  And Kristof thinks the “biggest risk” comes from liberals?  Just what is it he thinks we are
  going to do to upset this brilliant war effort?  Write a really nasty folk-song?"
         --Eric Alterman, Altercation,   Attribution

 Subject: returning from Iraq

 Bart, you posted:

> "Once an easygoing son of Iowa, Friedrichsen, 21, now has trouble controlling his temper,
> with the stress inside him sometimes exploding into tirades that he says have gone on for an entire weekend.

> "It's hard that he has changed," said Holly, 19. "The guy I fell in love with is completely different now."
 

 So, to all you people who had a hard-on for war a couple years back,
 what do you think is going to happen when you accidentally cut one of these guys off in traffic?

 CaptnJag
 

 It's certainly going to be a massive problem.
 Everyone coming back from Iraq will be different, but 1/3 will be unable to cope with the change.
 That's another reason they shouldn't be sent off to war just to make the Bush family richer.

  Comments?

 Quotes

"As America sinks deeper into the heart of darkness, its thinking citizens need to jolt themselves
  out of their apathy. With each passing day their beloved America is scaling ever greater heights
  of hideous glories.  Fallujah will enter history as the place where US imperialism carried out an
  offense of heinous proportions, a monstrous crime far beyond any possible forgiveness.
  The Euphrates empties into the Persian Gulf the hopes and aspirations of innocent people whose
  lives were snuffed out on the orders of a man rewarded for his monumental crimes by his great nation."
      --Anwaar Hussain,    Attribution

 FleeAmerica.com

   Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Many people write to ask: Am I betraying my country by leaving? The answer is NO, your country
 has already betrayed you. Maybe you grew up believing America meant bacon cheeseburgers,
 Martin Luther King, rock 'n' roll, and Saturday afternoon softball. But - as you've probably noticed -
 the operative images in the world today are Abu Ghraib, Condi Rice, and the flattening of Fallujah.

 And when you first pledged your allegiance to "one nation under God," you probably didn't realize
 that God would be delegating much of the day-to-day managerial responsibility to James Dobson
 and Tom DeLay. It's America that's changed-not you!

   Comments?

 Subject: You need a tip jar

 Bart, put a pic of a nearly full tip jar in your page and link it
 to paypal so ppl can throw in a few coins on a daily basis :)

  <withheld>
 

...

 Click to leave a tip

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Between August and October, Iraq lost $7 billion dollars in potential revenues due to sabotage
 against the country's oil infrastructure, according to Assem Jihad, Bush's spokesman of the Oil Ministry.

 Bullshit.

 An estimated 20 oil wells and pipelines were bombed or set abalze this month in northern Iraq alone,

 "Estimated" because all we know is what Bush wants us to know.

 Iraq's security crisis and its long, porous land borders left the country's petroleum industry with no
 effective protection against saboteurs — either Saddam loyalists or tribesmen competing for jobs
 with the British security firm Erinys International, which has a contract to secure oil wells and pipelines.
 
 Don't believe a word of this handjob excuse.
 THIS is the reason Bush invaded that helpless country - to steal their oil.
 If there was peace in Iraq, the oil being pumped out could be accounted for, but with a war....

 With every beheading, the BFEE can steal another 30 billion dollars worth of oil.
 The BFEE has a legal license to rape Iraq and they're taking that to the max.
 

  Comments?

 Quotes

"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty
  to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people."
        --Hugo Black,   Attribution
 

..

 Subject: U2

 Bart, your poster AR from Dublin said,

> No surprise that (Bono) has not spoken out against the war in Iraq.

 I guess, depending on how you define speaking out, that maybe this is true.
 However, Bono told Bush--to his face--that the invasion of Iraq was wrong
 (I suppose that, since he spoke of invasion rather than war, AR is correct).

 Also, U2 came out with a special song reacting to 9-11.  Do you remember
 the part where the lyrics say something about not becoming a monster in reaction
 to the monster that attacked you?    That's pretty direct.

 Russ.
 

  Comments?

 Smoking while Iraq burns
   The US is numb to everyone's pain but its own

..

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Iconic images inspire love and hate, and so it is with the photograph of James Blake Miller, the 20-year-old marine
 from Appalachia, who has been christened "the face of Falluja" by pro-war pundits, and the "the Marlboro man" by
 pretty much everyone else. Reprinted in more than a hundred newspapers, the Los Angeles Times photograph shows
 Miller "after more than 12 hours of nearly non-stop, deadly combat" in Falluja, his face coated in war paint, a bloody
 scratch on his nose, and a freshly lit cigarette hanging from his lips.

 Gazing lovingly at Miller, the CBS News anchor Dan Rather informed his viewers: "For me, this one's personal.
 This is a warrior with his eyes on the far horizon, scanning for danger. See it. Study it. Absorb it. Think about it.
 Then take a deep breath of pride. And if your eyes don't dampen, you're a better man or woman than I."

 A few days later, the LA Times declared that its photo had "moved into the realm of the iconic". In truth, the image
 just feels iconic because it is so laughably derivative: it's a straight-up rip-off of the most powerful icon in American
 advertising (the Marlboro man), which in turn imitated the brightest star ever created by Hollywood - John Wayne -
 who was himself channelling America's most powerful founding myth, the cowboy on the rugged frontier. It's like a
 song you feel you've heard a thousand times before - because you have.

  Comments?

 Subject: health care and Elvis

 Dear Bart,
 
 Because we have private healthcare, the United States spends about 30% of its healthcare on administration.
 The result is we spend 50% more per capita than the next highest nation.  If you consider life expectancy to be
 a consequence of healthcare, our life expectancy is somewhere between 18th and 25th in the world.
 We are doing poorly compared to the industrialized world.  Part of this is because we are much fatter.
 
 I read in the Harper's index that the ratio of Canadians who would prefer a U.S. style healthcare system
 is about half the percentage of those who think Elvis is still alive.

 Come to think of it Elvis was fat, had lots of healthcare, and died relatively young.
 Joe

 Dan Rather got smeared
   by I-got-a-new-attitude Bill O'Reilly

   Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Right-wing talk radio in particular pounded Kerry and also bludgeoned Dan Rather for his role in
 another smear incident - the charges against President Bush about his National Guard service.
 Again, Rather was found guilty without a fair hearing. Charges that he intentionally approved
 bogus documents that made Bush look bad were leveled and widely believed. It was chilling.

 As a CBS News correspondent in the early '80s, I worked with Rather and have known him for
 more than 20 years.  Listen to me: There is no way on this Earth that he would have knowingly
 used fake documents on any story.
 

 Why is O'Reilly acting like a decent human being?
 Is it because he got caught with a penis-shaped vibrator in his butt?

 When Rush got caught with his lil' heroin habit, he didn't act like a human being.
 When Laura the Unloved (is she still in radio?) got caught spreading her legs
 for some dude with a camera, she didn't act like a human being.

 When Bill Bennett (R-Still Smoking) got caught losing millions at a casino in
 his underwear he didn't act like a human being - so what's up with HO'Reilly?
 

..
"Do you hear buzzing?"
 

  Comments?

 Subject: donation

 Bart, I like this Tip Jar idea.

 Can't really afford a subscription, but to be able to contribute a little now and then is cool.
 Thanks so much Bart for this site.
 Keeps me laughing, angrily laughing but even that is good medicine.

 sharon
 

 Sharon, that was nice - thanks.

  Comments?

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  who, after three stolen elections in a row, nevertheless harbor the naive belief that the Lucy Party
  wouldn't dare snatch the football away yet again."
     --Michael Hasty,   Attribution
 
 

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"The "Bush doctrine' of foreign policy is really very simple: Attack any country that can't fight back,
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 Michael Jordan's Brother Deploying to Iraq
   He'll be the best protected black guy in the whole country

  Click  Here
 

 Bisexual 'Alexander' Irks Some in Greece
  Nerves flair up in a nation even more homophobic than the United States

  Click  Here
 

'Mr. Perfect' Eldrick loses again
  Will the former Tiger ever win another round of golf?

  Click  Here
 

 GOP pushing hard for alien presidents
  Amend the Constitution so Musclehead can replace Bush?

  Click  Here
 

 Tom Ridge (R-Baby Killing Catholic) Resigns Homeland Post

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Tom Ridge is resigning, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

 A Homeland Security Department official said Ridge is expected to stay on his job for a few months,
 until a more loyal successor is found. Some officials expect the U.S. may face increased terror risks
 around the holidays and the Jan. 20 inauguration.

 Possible candidates for Ridge's replacement include anybody with more Bush loyalty than integrity.

  Comments?

..

  Subject:  no foldchecking

 You talk tough about political backbone yet fold like the very people
 you complain about, while defending Tush against the patriots!

 Like a poker newbie you deal sloppy seconds and try to fold/check.
 In short, you are a loud mouthed wimp.

 Remember that the next time you pose in YOUR tough guy flight suit.
 truthpedal
 

 I think I'd look stupid dressed that way.

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  In Today's Tequila Treehouse...

	Bush Hated in Canada, Too
	Red Cross: Torture at Gitmo
	Turkeys in Washington
	D-r-i-v-e   b-y   N-e-w-s
	FDA in Vioxx Tampering
	Flee America While You Can
	'Losing' Billions in Iraq
	Smoking while Iraq burns
	Dan Rather got smeared

Quote of the Day

"Voters like the president because he doesn't
  blink and he doesn't waver and he isn't going
  to start. He says he values life, and he means it."
    --Karl Rove, explaining why 'Mr. Respects Life'
      dropped the Mother of All Bombs on a city
      of five millions civilians     Attribution
 

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 Quotes

"The Department of Defense announced today the death of six Marines who were
  supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.  My condolences to the families of these men,
  killed so George Bush can feel superior to his father."
      --David Allen, "Six More Die in Operation: Iraqi Genocide", Attribution

 Bush Visits Canada Where They Hate Him, Too
  The whole world hates the Giggling Murderer - with good reason

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Bush sought Tuesday to patch up relations with Canada after years of his petty-ass bickering,
 flying here for tough hemispheric and global talks amid boisterous demonstrations from opponents
 of the unwarranted invasion and murder of the defenseless citizens of backwards Iraq.

 Bush's unpopularity in some Canadian quarters was unmistakable. Hundreds of protesters near the
 Parliament building held signs saying, "Please leave."  Others held placards that branded Bush an "assassin."
 A truck parked near the motorcade route was emblazoned with the phrase "Bush is a war criminal."
 Another placard simply commanded, "Go Home, you braindead asshole."

  Comments?

 Subject: "bipartisan efforts" are for losers

 Now we're hearing the same things from the Democrats as we heard four years ago
 when Bush stole the election from them the first time: "we need to work with Republicans,"
 "bipartisan efforts," and other useless, gutless phrases.

 Don't they realize that the Republicans hate them?
 Can't they see that they are the only ones extending the olive branch here?

 Suppose Kerry had won the election; would Bush, Karl Rove, and the rest of the GOP machine call for bipartisanship?
 It's not a fucking campfire, this is war; and the Democrats are squandering every minute of vigilance of grassroots
 supporters and every cent donated to the DNC or to Kerry that has gone into this election over the past two years,
 by retreating back to their 'support' of Bush's administration and agenda.

 Come to think of it, this is why the Democrats lost this year.
 If Daschle and his cronies had not gone around trumpeting the cause of bipartisanism after the 2000 election and had
 instead broken off with the GOP, brought voter fraud to the American mainstream media, and tried to push their own
 agenda four years ago, they would have had the White House this year.  If the Democrats themselves don't act like
 we need change, how do they expect the voters to believe that they are a viable alternative?

 This isn't the time for DNC leaders in the Senate and House to turn back again.  It's a time to be aggressive and a time
 to lay down a plan and an opposition to the Republican agenda.  If the real heroes like Dean aren't given their chance
 to take charge of this party, then the Democrats have already lost the 2008 election just weeks after losing in 2004.

 withheld.
 

 I agree.
 If Republicans were half-decent people, that bipartisan crap might work.
 But those bastards cheat and steal every minute of the day and they'd stomp puppies for a single vote.
 They re-wrote the rules to screw Clinton and our guys still want to play fair.

 Democrats refuse to fight for their jobs, their constituents or their convictions.
 How do they collect a paycheck when they refuse to do any work?

  Comments?

 Red Cross: Guantanamo Tactics 'Tantamount to Torture'
   Sure it's torture, but we suspect them of crimes so it's OK?

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 The Times said the Red Cross investigators had found a system devised to break the will of prisoners
 through "humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions."

"The construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be
 considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture,"
 the Times quoted the report as saying.
 

 America has clearly lost her soul.
 The whole world saw November 2 as a reaffirmation that America loves invasions and torture.
 Who's next of George W Bush's invasion and torture list?
 Shape up, world, and show Bush some respect because your country could ne next.
 If you have oil, not even God can protect you from America's Giggling Murderer.

 How many decades will it take for us to get our reputation back?

  Comments?

 Subject: confirming Alberto

 Bart...

 What will your comment be if Senator Clinton votes for Alberto?
 Will you still claim she's playing her cards close to the vest?
 I call that being a weasel, frankly.

 Will you put her in a pink tutu? I doubt it.
 Somehow, you have given her a pass every time she's supported the Smirkster.
 I can't figure that out...
 
 BadtotheboneBob
 

 BTTBB, you didn't say this, but this is what I heard:
"FOX News and talk radio and the whore networks and the GOP and the cable Nazis are NOT
 waiting and ready to pounce on Hillary for taking the tiniest step towards leadership in her Party."

 I also heard you say, "Hillary is no different than any of the other 99 senators."

 I'm not certain that Hillary will save the day for us.
 I'm not certain she won't disappoint us the same way Gore and Kerry did,
 but you're asking her to make her move NOW, and now is not the right time.

 As far as the specific vote for or against Gonzales, she can't be the one to lead that charge - not yet.
 If the Democrats were to grow a pair (fat chance) and decide to block Gonzales, she could vote her
 conscience, but she can't lead the peasants in revolt until the time is right.

 Also, I'll bet if you had a chance to rewrite your note, you would accuse me of weasel-like behavior
 instead of "being a weasel."    I generally put a Number Six on an attacker for using personal insults.

 Quotes

"Hitler rose to his position as the "Leader" of Germany with the support of three major elements
  in German society: big business, which was won over by Hitler's covert promise to break the labor unions;
  the defense industry and the military, which responded to Hitler's call for disregarding the restrictions on
  German military buildup imposed by the treaty that ended World War I; and rural religious conservatives.
  Hitler won over this last group with his appeals to their feelings of defeated, yet resurgent nationalism;
  and with his hateful condemnations of those of their fellow citizens at the top of their personal enemies list:
  communists, homosexuals and Jews.

  Substituting "Muslims" for "Jews," this is today's Republican Party, which now controls all three branches
  of the federal government, most of the nation's governorships, and perhaps most importantly, the major media
  (now owned by a handful of corporations). America has lost its democratic republic to a system of one-party imperial fascism."
       --Michael Hasty, "21st Century American Revolution",    Attribution

 Turkeys in Washington ruin our holiday spirit
   by Molly Ivins

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Our government now arranges "torture flights." We are outsourcing torture. A Gulfstream 5 jet
 has been leased by the Department of Defense and the CIA. We use this plane to transport
 suspected terrorists from other countries or U.S. military bases to countries that practice torture.

 A Swedish television program tracked two Egyptians arrested there and supposedly "extradited" by Egypt.
 They were flown out on the leased American plane, and both suspects were then tortured in Egypt.
 According to Britain's Sunday Times, the plane's logbooks show it has been to 49 destinations outside
 the United States in the past two years, including Guantanamo and other U.S. bases, Egypt, Jordan,
 Iraq, Morocco, Afghanistan, Libya and Uzbekistan.
 

 Molly, are you surprised that we're in the torture business?
 Bush picked Alberto Gonzales (R-Mr. Torture) to be Attorney General.
 I wouldn't be surprised if Bush masturbated to videotapes of the torture.

  Comments?

 Subject:  Thanks

 Bart,

 Keep up The Good work. Your Sight helps keep me going in these dreadful Times!
 I just wish The Democratic Party had the courage you do.   You speak up.
 But this party has no guts any more.

 Keep putting pressure on them, Bart.  Maybe they will wake up.
 And your site is a relief and a release for many so keep up the good work.
 
 Darryl, trying to keep my head above water

  Comments?

 Scientist says FDA called journal to block Vioxx article
  Bush will let people die to protect a big contributor

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Just days before a medical journal was to publish a Food and Drug Administration-sponsored study
 that raised concerns about the safety of the arthritis drug Vioxx, an FDA official took the unusual step
 of calling the editor to raise questions about the findings' scientific integrity, says USA TODAY.

 Lead author David Graham says the call was part of an effort to block publication of his research
 showing that those who took Vioxx were more likely to suffer a heart attack or sudden cardiac death
 than those who took Celebrex, Vioxx's rival.
 

 I was on Vioxx when that call was made.
 Maybe Bush knew I avoid small airplanes?

   Comments?

 Subject:  Michael Moore

 Did you see the "new" Michael Moore on the Tonight Show?

 John A
 

 Yeah, I was kinda surprised.
 (He cut his hair very short, shaved his beard and wore a suit.)

 I was more surprised at his kind words for Bush. When Leno asked him what happened Nov 2,
 he said, "All the exit polls said Kerry would win, but I think Bush got more votes."

 I guess he thinks the voting machines that count backwards are working OK?

 Quotes

"Nicholas Kristof says, 'These days, the biggest risk may come from the small but growing
  contingent on the left that wants to bring our troops home now.'  Is Nicholas Kristof insane?
  The problem with Iraq is the left?  Excuse me.  Right-wingers created this insane mess.
  They control all three branches of government and are determined to make everything worse,
  having admitted no mistakes and thrown out the people who tried to warn them of their delusions.
  And Kristof thinks the “biggest risk” comes from liberals?  Just what is it he thinks we are
  going to do to upset this brilliant war effort?  Write a really nasty folk-song?"
         --Eric Alterman, Altercation,   Attribution

 Subject: returning from Iraq

 Bart, you posted:

> "Once an easygoing son of Iowa, Friedrichsen, 21, now has trouble controlling his temper,
> with the stress inside him sometimes exploding into tirades that he says have gone on for an entire weekend.

> "It's hard that he has changed," said Holly, 19. "The guy I fell in love with is completely different now."
 

 So, to all you people who had a hard-on for war a couple years back,
 what do you think is going to happen when you accidentally cut one of these guys off in traffic?

 CaptnJag
 

 It's certainly going to be a massive problem.
 Everyone coming back from Iraq will be different, but 1/3 will be unable to cope with the change.
 That's another reason they shouldn't be sent off to war just to make the Bush family richer.

  Comments?

 Quotes

"As America sinks deeper into the heart of darkness, its thinking citizens need to jolt themselves
  out of their apathy. With each passing day their beloved America is scaling ever greater heights
  of hideous glories.  Fallujah will enter history as the place where US imperialism carried out an
  offense of heinous proportions, a monstrous crime far beyond any possible forgiveness.
  The Euphrates empties into the Persian Gulf the hopes and aspirations of innocent people whose
  lives were snuffed out on the orders of a man rewarded for his monumental crimes by his great nation."
      --Anwaar Hussain,    Attribution

 FleeAmerica.com

   Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Many people write to ask: Am I betraying my country by leaving? The answer is NO, your country
 has already betrayed you. Maybe you grew up believing America meant bacon cheeseburgers,
 Martin Luther King, rock 'n' roll, and Saturday afternoon softball. But - as you've probably noticed -
 the operative images in the world today are Abu Ghraib, Condi Rice, and the flattening of Fallujah.

 And when you first pledged your allegiance to "one nation under God," you probably didn't realize
 that God would be delegating much of the day-to-day managerial responsibility to James Dobson
 and Tom DeLay. It's America that's changed-not you!

   Comments?

 Subject: You need a tip jar

 Bart, put a pic of a nearly full tip jar in your page and link it
 to paypal so ppl can throw in a few coins on a daily basis :)

  <withheld>
 

...

 Click to leave a tip

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Between August and October, Iraq lost $7 billion dollars in potential revenues due to sabotage
 against the country's oil infrastructure, according to Assem Jihad, Bush's spokesman of the Oil Ministry.

 Bullshit.

 An estimated 20 oil wells and pipelines were bombed or set abalze this month in northern Iraq alone,

 "Estimated" because all we know is what Bush wants us to know.

 Iraq's security crisis and its long, porous land borders left the country's petroleum industry with no
 effective protection against saboteurs — either Saddam loyalists or tribesmen competing for jobs
 with the British security firm Erinys International, which has a contract to secure oil wells and pipelines.
 
 Don't believe a word of this handjob excuse.
 THIS is the reason Bush invaded that helpless country - to steal their oil.
 If there was peace in Iraq, the oil being pumped out could be accounted for, but with a war....

 With every beheading, the BFEE can steal another 30 billion dollars worth of oil.
 The BFEE has a legal license to rape Iraq and they're taking that to the max.
 

  Comments?

 Quotes

"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty
  to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people."
        --Hugo Black,   Attribution
 

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 Subject: U2

 Bart, your poster AR from Dublin said,

> No surprise that (Bono) has not spoken out against the war in Iraq.

 I guess, depending on how you define speaking out, that maybe this is true.
 However, Bono told Bush--to his face--that the invasion of Iraq was wrong
 (I suppose that, since he spoke of invasion rather than war, AR is correct).

 Also, U2 came out with a special song reacting to 9-11.  Do you remember
 the part where the lyrics say something about not becoming a monster in reaction
 to the monster that attacked you?    That's pretty direct.

 Russ.
 

  Comments?

 Smoking while Iraq burns
   The US is numb to everyone's pain but its own

..

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Iconic images inspire love and hate, and so it is with the photograph of James Blake Miller, the 20-year-old marine
 from Appalachia, who has been christened "the face of Falluja" by pro-war pundits, and the "the Marlboro man" by
 pretty much everyone else. Reprinted in more than a hundred newspapers, the Los Angeles Times photograph shows
 Miller "after more than 12 hours of nearly non-stop, deadly combat" in Falluja, his face coated in war paint, a bloody
 scratch on his nose, and a freshly lit cigarette hanging from his lips.

 Gazing lovingly at Miller, the CBS News anchor Dan Rather informed his viewers: "For me, this one's personal.
 This is a warrior with his eyes on the far horizon, scanning for danger. See it. Study it. Absorb it. Think about it.
 Then take a deep breath of pride. And if your eyes don't dampen, you're a better man or woman than I."

 A few days later, the LA Times declared that its photo had "moved into the realm of the iconic". In truth, the image
 just feels iconic because it is so laughably derivative: it's a straight-up rip-off of the most powerful icon in American
 advertising (the Marlboro man), which in turn imitated the brightest star ever created by Hollywood - John Wayne -
 who was himself channelling America's most powerful founding myth, the cowboy on the rugged frontier. It's like a
 song you feel you've heard a thousand times before - because you have.

  Comments?

 Subject: health care and Elvis

 Dear Bart,
 
 Because we have private healthcare, the United States spends about 30% of its healthcare on administration.
 The result is we spend 50% more per capita than the next highest nation.  If you consider life expectancy to be
 a consequence of healthcare, our life expectancy is somewhere between 18th and 25th in the world.
 We are doing poorly compared to the industrialized world.  Part of this is because we are much fatter.
 
 I read in the Harper's index that the ratio of Canadians who would prefer a U.S. style healthcare system
 is about half the percentage of those who think Elvis is still alive.

 Come to think of it Elvis was fat, had lots of healthcare, and died relatively young.
 Joe

 Dan Rather got smeared
   by I-got-a-new-attitude Bill O'Reilly

   Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Right-wing talk radio in particular pounded Kerry and also bludgeoned Dan Rather for his role in
 another smear incident - the charges against President Bush about his National Guard service.
 Again, Rather was found guilty without a fair hearing. Charges that he intentionally approved
 bogus documents that made Bush look bad were leveled and widely believed. It was chilling.

 As a CBS News correspondent in the early '80s, I worked with Rather and have known him for
 more than 20 years.  Listen to me: There is no way on this Earth that he would have knowingly
 used fake documents on any story.
 

 Why is O'Reilly acting like a decent human being?
 Is it because he got caught with a penis-shaped vibrator in his butt?

 When Rush got caught with his lil' heroin habit, he didn't act like a human being.
 When Laura the Unloved (is she still in radio?) got caught spreading her legs
 for some dude with a camera, she didn't act like a human being.

 When Bill Bennett (R-Still Smoking) got caught losing millions at a casino in
 his underwear he didn't act like a human being - so what's up with HO'Reilly?
 

..
"Do you hear buzzing?"
 

  Comments?

 Subject: donation

 Bart, I like this Tip Jar idea.

 Can't really afford a subscription, but to be able to contribute a little now and then is cool.
 Thanks so much Bart for this site.
 Keeps me laughing, angrily laughing but even that is good medicine.

 sharon
 

 Sharon, that was nice - thanks.

  Comments?

 Quotes

"At this point, the Democratic party is dominated by "Vichy Democrats"—collaborationists who accept
  the legitimacy of the 2004 election, thus ratifying the unconstitutional Bush regime (this group would
  include most elected Democrats, including—or especially—John Kerry); and "Charlie Brown Democrats"
  who, after three stolen elections in a row, nevertheless harbor the naive belief that the Lucy Party
  wouldn't dare snatch the football away yet again."
     --Michael Hasty,   Attribution
 
 

 Damn, I'd like to but Michael Hasty a drink.

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"The "Bush doctrine' of foreign policy is really very simple: Attack any country that can't fight back,
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 Michael Jordan's Brother Deploying to Iraq
   He'll be the best protected black guy in the whole country

  Click  Here
 

 Bisexual 'Alexander' Irks Some in Greece
  Nerves flair up in a nation even more homophobic than the United States

  Click  Here
 

'Mr. Perfect' Eldrick loses again
  Will the former Tiger ever win another round of golf?

  Click  Here
 

 GOP pushing hard for alien presidents
  Amend the Constitution so Musclehead can replace Bush?

  Click  Here
 

 Tom Ridge (R-Baby Killing Catholic) Resigns Homeland Post

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Tom Ridge is resigning, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

 A Homeland Security Department official said Ridge is expected to stay on his job for a few months,
 until a more loyal successor is found. Some officials expect the U.S. may face increased terror risks
 around the holidays and the Jan. 20 inauguration.

 Possible candidates for Ridge's replacement include anybody with more Bush loyalty than integrity.

  Comments?

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  Subject:  no foldchecking

 You talk tough about political backbone yet fold like the very people
 you complain about, while defending Tush against the patriots!

 Like a poker newbie you deal sloppy seconds and try to fold/check.
 In short, you are a loud mouthed wimp.

 Remember that the next time you pose in YOUR tough guy flight suit.
 truthpedal
 

 I think I'd look stupid dressed that way.

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