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In Today's Tequila Treehouse... Bush: Chainsaw to programs  France: Political asylum to US Paranoia grips U.S. capital Rapist convicted, but gang free  Religious right vs. science  Back from Iraq - and homeless The Ricky Proehl Syndrome  Nonsense from whore liars  The Monkey who Cried Wolf  Quote of the Day "I extended my hand and he was good   enough to give me a manly embrace"       -- Joe Lieberwhore, on Bush slipping           him a little forked tongue,         Attribution

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 Quotes

"You know what? This looks a lot like the fall campaign. And just like the
  town hall meetings of his campaign, the audience is already on his side."
      --Bill Plante, one of Bush's ultra-partisan whores at CBS News,  Attribution
 

 Comments?

 Bush takes chainsaw to social programs
  We can't afford them after his war and giveaways to the super-rich

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  Excerpt:
 Bush proposed a $2.57 trillion budget Monday that would erase scores of programs
 and slice Medicaid, disabled housing and many more but still worsen federal deficits
 by $42 billion over the next five years.

 Forty-eight education programs would be eliminated, including one for ridding drugs from schools.
 In all, more than 150 government-wide programs would be eliminated or slashed deeply, including
 Amtrak subsidies, oil and gas research, and grants to communities hiring police officers.

 Chief among the targets would be Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the
 poor and disabled, but farmers' payments, student loans and veterans medical
 services were also on the chopping block. Democrats complained that Bush's budget
 excludes next year's war costs and the price tags of his Social Security smash-and-grab thinly
 disguised as "an overhaul to pout more money in the hands of the people," which it's not.
 

 After lying to the soldiers, after sending them into that sand trap without the armor they needed,
 the son of a bitch now wants to  cut veterans medical services?.

 Will the military families cheer this latest outrage, too?
 Or will they get tired of Bush betraying them?

 Comments?

 Quotes

"I voted to confirm Dr. Rice.  It was a difficult decision, especially in light of the Bush
  Administration's policies concerning Iraq.  However, my vote is not any endorsement
  of Bush Administration policies.  I invite you to read my statement
     --Patrick Leahy (D-Rubberstamp) on why he empowered Ghost Killa Rice,
 
 

  Translation: My blowing the governor is not any endorsement of sex between men.

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   "I love Condi - she's like semi-sweet chocolate..."

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 France offers political asylum to Americans

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  Excerpt:
 Forget about all that trans-Atlantic talk of kiss-and-make-up following the "Freedom Fries"-era
 disagreements between France and the United States. There's a new tabloid on Paris newsstands
 offering an alternate take:   "L'Anti-Americain."

 The cheeky newspaper's editor-in-chief says Ghost Killa Rice can have a free issue when she's in
 Paris next week. She'll need to have packed her sense of humor. This month's issue features an
 entry in a bogus George W. Bush diary that reads: 'Ask the CIA: Where's China?'
 
 

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 Paranoia grips the U.S. capital
   You have to leave America to get free speech

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  Excerpt:
 This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive,
 with the Orwellian name "JCS Conplan 0300-97," authorizing the Pentagon to employ special,
 ultra-secret "anti-terrorist" military units on American soil for what the author claims are "extra-legal missions."

 In other words, using U.S. soldiers to kill or arrest Americans, acts that have been illegal since the U.S. Civil War

 Instead of being fired for the grotesque military-political fiasco in Iraq and the shameful torture scandals,
 Rumsfeld has just managed to create a new, Pentagon spy/special ops organization, blandly named
"Strategic Support Branch," that will replace or duplicate many of the CIA's tasks.

 The CIA has been sent to the doghouse. Too many CIA veterans criticized or contradicted Bush's and
 Cheney's phony claims over Iraq and terrorism. So Bush has imposed a new, yes-man director on the
 agency, slashed its budgets, purged its senior officers, and downgraded CIA to third-class status.

 Rumsfeld's new, massively funded SSB will become the Pentagon's CIA, complete with commando
 units, spies, mercenary forces, intelligence gathering and analysis, and a direct line to the White House.
 The Pentagon has just effectively taken over the spy business.
 

 Isn't anybody going to do anything?

 Comments?

 Washington's 'Ricky Proehl Syndrome'
    by Robert Parry at  consortiumnews.com

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 ...at the Post and many other U.S. news organizations, no accountability seems to be expected
 when journalists follow the lead of a conservative administration, even when the sloppy journalism
 contributes to the deaths of more than 1,400 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

 Opposite rules apply to journalists who have made mistakes that offend the current Bush administration or,
 for that matter, its predecessors in the Reagan-Bush administrations of the 1980s and early 1990s.
 In those cases, offending journalists can expect to see their careers severely damaged if not ended.
 [See Consortiumnews.comâs ãThe Bush Rule of Journalism.ä]

 Hiattâs opinion pages have launched what appears to be a new public relations campaign to punish
 any Democrat who dares criticize Bushâs policies. The new line is that critics of Bush are guilty of
 negativity and/or cheap partisan politics.

 Hiatt chastised Kerry as wrongheaded for criticizing Bushâs economic policies during Campaign 2004.
 Hiatt wrote that ãit wasnât trueä when Kerry told voters that ãthe economy had tanked, jobs had fled
 and George W. Bush (aka Herbert Hoover) Îhas caused these things to happen.âä

ãWorst, at least from a political perspective, the hectoring made Kerry look like a grump,ä Hiatt wrote.
 
 

 Yet, to this day, the talk radio fascists and the TV cable Nazis insist the WaHoPo is "all Democrats."

 Note: consortiumnews.com  is the most important site on the internet

 Comments?

 Subject: Bush 41 as Deep Throat?

 Bart,

 The very question begs reason.  Bush 41 was the wimpiest president we ever had.
 He took a downgrade from congressman to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury just for
 a smile from Nixon, and UN Ambassador was his favorite job -- he got to "hang out"
 with the big guys and throw parties that he didn't even have to pay for.

 As far as being the first of Nixon's circle to suggest resignation, I don't know the exact timing,
 but it's clear that Bush 41 didn't make the suggestion until it was extremely obvious Nixon was going to do it.
 Bush 41 was a yes-man, and the chances that he knew even 1/10 what Deep Throat told Bernstein are about
 as small as the chances that he would risk losing his pat on the head from Nixon--zero.

 Russ

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 Quotes

"My vote in favor of Dr. Rice is difficult to explain. It is more the product of
  a belief than a cold analysis of her record. I believe that Dr. Rice is capable
  of learning from her mistakes and changing her ways. That she will rise to
  this new challenge. That she can be a good Secretary of State.
    --Patrick Leahy (D-Rubberstamp) on why he empowered Ghost Killa Rice,  Attribution
 

 Translation: We'll lose thousands more troops due to her insane endorsement of every idiotic idea
 her boss/husband has, but one is expected to make mistakes when undergoing on-the-job training.

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                  "Do I look fat in this outfit?"

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 Subject: Bush record awful compared to Reagan but very horrible compared to Clinton  FACTS

 -- SHOCK & AWE--

 Democrats Create Wealth and Jobs

 1.From Harding In 1921 to Bush in 2003

 2.Democrats held White House for 40 years and Republicans for 42.5 years.

 3.Democrats created 75,820,000 net new jobs -- Republicans 36,440,000.

 4.Per Year Average÷Democrats 1,825,200---Republicans 856,400.

 5.Republicans had 9 presidents during the period and 6 had depression or recession.

 6.Republicans had a recession/depression in 177 months and Democrats in 32 months.

 7.DOW÷grew by 52% more under Democrats.

 8.GDP÷grew by 43% more under Democrats.
 

 Comparing Clinton versus Reagan

 1.JOBS÷grew by 43% more under Clinton.

 2.GDP---grew by 57% more under Clinton.

 3.DOW÷grew by 700% more under Clinton..

 4.NASDAQ-grew by 18 times as much under Clinton.

 5.SPENDING--grew by 28% under Clinton---80% under Reagan.

 6.DEBT÷grew by 43% under Clinton÷187% under Reagan.

 7.DEFICITS÷Clinton got a large surplus--grew by 112% under Reagan.

 8.NATIONAL INCOME÷grew by100% more under Clinton.

 9.PERSONAL INCOME÷Grew by 110% more under Clinton.
 

  SOURCES÷Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.BLS.Gov)
 Economic Policy Institute (EPI.org)÷Global & World Almanacs from 1980 to 2003 (annual issues)

 www.the-hamster.com (chart taken from NY Times)

 National Archives History on Presidents.  www.nara.gov

 Clarence Swinney-Political Historian
 

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 Quotes

"In his State of the Union Address, Bush announced a new initiative to keep young people
  out of gangs, a new program called Do Right And Follow Through (D.R.A.F.T.)."
          --Tina Fey, SNL's "Weekend Update"

 Comments?

 Subject: sex in the military

 Why are people aghast at consensual sex in the military and yet
 they turn their backs on the victims of the many reported rapes
 of female military personnel by their fellow soldiers?

 Jay
 Vancouver

 Comments?

 Religious right fights science
  The news comes from a country with a free press

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Al Frisby has spent the better part of his life in rooms filled with rebellious teenagers, but the
 last years have been particularly trying for the high school biology teacher. He has met parents
 who want him to teach that God created Eve out of Adam's rib, and then then adjusted the
 chromosomes to make her a woman, and who insist that Noah invited dinosaurs aboard the ark.
 And it is getting more difficult to keep such talk out of the classroom."
 

 While the whole planet is moving forward, look at who's moving backwards:
 North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, America and Yemen.

 I'm so old, I remember when America was leading the whole world.
 Now, we're religiously insane - with a chip on our shoulder and 10,000 nukes.

 Comments?

 Back from Iraq - and homeless

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  Excerpt:
 Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are now showing up in the nation's homeless shelters.
 The concern is that these returning veterans - some of whom can't find jobs after leaving the
 military, others of whom are still struggling psychologically with the war - may be just the beginning.

"You can have all of the yellow ribbons on cars that say 'Support Our Troops' that you want,
 but it's when they take off the uniform and transition back to civilian life that they need support the most,"
 says Linda Boone, executive director of The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans..

 Currently, there are 150,000 troops in Iraq and 16,000 in Afghanistan.
 More than 130,000 have already served and returned home.
 

 George Bush's Vietnam.
 You know it's a disaster because the media refuses to call it "Bush's war." If it had any chance
 of working out OK, Bush would be claiming it as his own personal "work of art."  If the Dems
 wanted to win in 2006 and 2008, they would adopt the drumbeat of "Bush's war, Bush's mistake."

 But they'll be eager to shame the blame with Bush for this never-ending, bloody quagmire
 because they're Democrats - and they have psychological problems with winning.

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 Subject: Re: NY whore Times killed "Hump" story

 You're not the only one Bart, I can't let it go either.
 You're right, Kerry wouldn't comment for fear of the "conspiracy buff" label,
 but I'm wondering if it was also because he didn't want to be labeled a "dirty player"
 - too bad, 'cause Bush won that first prize, hands down.

 As for the whore media not pursuing this because Kerry wouldn't raise the issue,
 they sure let that excuse slide past the monkey boy when it came to the Swift Boat Liars for Bush.

 I'm so sick of this bullcrap, I want to puke.
 JoAnn
 

 JoAnn, great point.
 With the Swift Boat Liars, the accusation WAS the story, eben tho Kerry had the
 medals (and wounds) to prove his bravery, Bush's whore media attacked him for no reason.

 The Vietnam-era Kerry was a fighter.
 We got the 2004-Kerry who was a spineless quitter.
 We deserved better, but Kerry just went to sleep.

 Worst of all, it made Bush look right - that Democrats can't be trusted to fight for America.
 Looking back, Gore screwed us for four years, but Kerry screwed us for a lot longer.
 Who's going to trust a Democrat now?

 Comments?

 Quotes

"Everybody said that Stephen Breyer was the only Supreme Court justice at the State of the Union.
  But it turns out that is not true. It turns out Justice Scalia was there. He was in Dick Cheney's pocket."
    -- Leno, who must have hired a new writer.

 Father Shanley convicted of child rape

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious Catholic rapist, was convicted
 Monday of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s.

 Shanley, 74, could get life in prison for two counts each of child rape and indecent assault
 and battery on a child when he is sentenced Feb. 15. His bail was revoked and he was jailed.

 The archdiocese's own personnel records showed that church officials knew Shanley publicly
 advocated sex between men and boys, yet continued to transfer him from parish to parish.
 

 So why isn't the Church on trial?
 Where are the charges against the monsters who assisted Shanley?
 Where are the charges against the bastards who moved Shanley from parish to parish
  so he could stalk new victims who were unaware he was a predator?

 This is a Catholic cover-up and everyone involved should be sent to prison.
 Why doesn't the Boston DA do his job?

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 Convicted, but his rape gang is
 still helping other rapists today.

  Comments?

 Subject: one fighter left

 Bart, you wrote,

> "But so far, no Democrat shows a desire to take America into a non-Bush direction."

 Except maybe Howard Dean.  There's the one little glimmer in a dark sea of midnight-pink tutus.
 Is the DNC chairmanship throw-a-dog-a-bone or is it a minor move in the right direction?
 Already the conservative columnists are dragging out the YEEAARGH! straw dog,
 but let them argue with what he has to say.

 My friend Uncle Phil made this observation: Dean was before a loud crowd, pumped, but only
 his "scream" ended up in the final mix, not the crowd's.  If you had been in the audience, you probably
 wouldn't have heard him much above the roar, nor could he have heard himself.  He was a victim of
 "selective recording," taken out of context in an audio way, and pilloried for it, right and left.

 You've been a club owner and I've played in them.  You've heard musicians ask for more monitors
(so they can hear themselves) and I've asked.  What the audience hears is not the same as what the
 musicians hear, and if the show is recorded, the recording might sound entirely different from what
 either the musicians or the audience heard.  You can only hope it sounds good, and if it doesn't you
 blame the "sound man" or the recording engineer, whoever it is whose job is to balance the band's
 music and the crowd's noise.

 And so we should look to the sound man, whoever it was, for the final mix of Dean's fateful roar,
 for the way it was played in the media: for emphasizing the scream, and not the context.  If it had
 been music, we would have wanted the crowd noise mixed out, but it was a political rally, and a
 broader mix would have been a more accurate.  But spin rules.

 Damn the stereotypes and full speed ahead.  I know of no Democrat who speaks more plainly
 than Howard Dean, so let him take the helm, and if he can steer with it, more power to him.

 Let's bring Dean back up into the mix.
 YEEAARGH!
 Ross
 

 Ross, you are right.
 Elenore Clift was in the Iowa crowd that night, and she said you couldn't even hear Dean.  She didn't know
 about the scream until the next day when CNN ran it 10,000 times just to embarrass him, the bastards.

 The Monkey saying, "The gynocologists must be free to spread their love all over this country"
 is a hundred times worse, but of course, they'd never do that to a Republican, the sons of bitches.

 Comments?

 Expensive nonsense from expensive liars
   Bush's budget screws those who need help the most

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 You have to give Putsch credit for sheer, bald-faced audacity. On one hand, he wants to cut funding
 for Medicaid, farmers' payments, student loans and veteransâ medical services $137 billion over the
 next decade to reduce the huge deficits. But at the same time he wants to make permanent tax cuts
 that would increase the deficits by about $250 billion over the same time.

 Putsch reportedly said, "It's a budget that focuses on results. The taxpayers of America don't want us
 spending our money into something that's not achieving results." Money for disabled vets and Amtrak
 doesnât produce any worthwhile results, but giving money to people who donât need it does.
 Republinomics... Give all of Americaâs money to the super rich, and they will take good care of us.

 Some of the cuts defy belief. In the middle of two wars,
 he wants to double the co-pay Vets have to fork out for medications.

 Comments?

 Subject: Wal-Mart

 That Ben Stein quote is hilarious, as are the quotes from you and Matt H. that follow.
 What's next -- 'Win Ben Stein's Money to Shop at Wal-Mart'?
 What a sniveling little turd the man is.
 
 Since I know some folks who live near a Wal-Mart, they've told me how the whole area
 has gone to hell since WM came to town -- kind of like Pottersville in 'It's A Wonderful Life'
 if George Bailey had never been born, only with poorer people, bigger signs and more flashing lights.
 Their nice little Midwestern burg became a one big strip mall, thanks to Sam Walton's smiley-face nightmare.
 
 Then the whole dismal Republican supporting cast moved in: McDonald's, KFC, Home Depot, Bob Evans, etc.
 ad nauseum, all grouped like franchise vultures around the highway exit, so the locals lost the tourist business
 and went under. Now they wear a happy blue vest to work and grit their teeth when they smile. They call
 themselves the victims of WMD -- Wal-Mart Destruction. No more quiet country drives for them, the air stinks,
 and the residents hate WM, even though they have to shop there these days, because there's no place else to go.
 Maybe Ben should buy a house nearby.
 
 Say, you know another place they are forced to shop at certain places because there's nowhere else to go?
 Red China, WM's major supplier of cheap crap.
 
 We're facing a four-lane Blockbuster-sponsored Bladerunner future in stupid foreign-made t-shirts and
 baggy-ass pants. Great. Thanks, GOP!
 
 Keep making the pie higher, Bart.
 A Disgruntled American

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 The administration that cried wolf
   Have they ever told the truth?  Ever?

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  Excerpt:
 Before the invasion of Iraq, Bush and his minions predicted that combat would be a cakewalk,
 that Saddam had not only WMD but also ties to al-Qaida, that nation-building would be paid out of
 Iraqi oil resources. Two years later, more than 1,400 U.S. troops are dead, there were  no ties to
 al-Qaida, the nuclear program turns out to be in Iran, and U.S. taxpayers are paying nearly $4.5
 billion a month for our presence in Iraq. Do you dare believe them about Social Security?"
 

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                       "Believe us or we'll kill you."

 Comments?

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  Excerpt:
 Bush isn't trying to reform Social Security. He isn't even trying to "partially privatize" it.
 His plan is, in essence, to dismantle the program, replacing it with a system that may be
 social but doesn't provide security. And the goal, as with his tax cuts, is to undermine the
 legacy of Franklin Roosevelt. Why do I say that the Bush plan would dismantle Social Security?
 Because for Americans who entered the work force after the plan went into effect and who
 chose to open private accounts, guaranteed benefits - income you receive after retirement
 even if everything else goes wrong - would be nearly eliminated.

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 Russia fires the Dollar, hires the Euro
   Monkey fiddles while Economy burns

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  Excerpt:
 Russia  said yesterday it had abandoned efforts to tie the rouble's movement closely to the dollar and
 switched to shadowing both the euro and the US currency. The move heightened expectations that other
 countries operating de facto dollar pegs, such as China, could follow suit. With 81 % of  Russia's oil
 exports currently sold to Europe, the move also provoked fresh speculation that Russia could decide to
 denominate its oil in euros. Russia is the world's second-largest oil exporter, behind Saudi Arabia.
 

..  destroying America for personal greed.

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 Boston Calm After Patriots' Win
   Even Boston is bored with the Patriots winning all the time

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  Excerpt:
 There was some pushing and shoving in Florida, but all was relatively calm
 back home where rowdy sports celebrations last year were blamed for two deaths.

 At the UM, about 90 miles west of Boston, students blasted "We are the Champions"
 from dormitory windows. A group of several hundred students formed but was dispersed
 about 30 minutes later, and university officials said four people were arrested for disorderly conduct.

 In Boston, most fans decided not to even take to the streets and those who did were scattered quickly.
 

 (yawn)

 Will this be the end of the NFL?

 Comments?

 VCR Alert

 Is House the best show on TV right now?
 I say "Yes."

 Granted, it's a new show, but every episode has been a strong "A+" and I can't say
 the same about The Sopranos, West Wing, C.S.I., Lost, Housewives - whatever.

 It's a serious medical drama that will make you laugh out loud a dozen times per show.

 It's on that dreadful FOX network tonight, middle hour of prime time.
 Why not check it out tonight and send in your opinion.

 I'll bet one viewing will get you hooked.

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 Quotes

"We're going to borrow $758 billion over the next 10 years to set up the personal
  retirement accounts. We think that's a manageable amount ... Trillions more after that."
    -- Cheney, explaining the totals they're going to steal from Grandma's check crooksandliars.com

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 I guiltily have been reading you for free for months, so here you go.
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 I have to tell you, your site has been my solace through one hell of a year
 - suprising that I'm still sane - and I think that's partly because I can go to
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 anger at the way our country has been going.

 I don't always agree with you, ...but I can always respect you.
 Give Mrs. Bart a big hug for me.

 Sincerely, the Mighty Quinn

 PS. My niece just taught me to play Texas Hold 'em this Christmas - what a hoot!
 

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 Maybe we should have a Pokerfest in Kalamazoo?

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 Are there any soldiers in Iraq reading this?

 JB the Revolutionary has offered to pay for 5 subscriptions for military personnel inside Iraq
 who might have a thing or two to say about the war without being censored (assuming Hillary's
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