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Quotes
"We're on a constant hunt for bin Laden. We're
keeping the pressure on him, keeping him in hiding.
And today Zarqawi understands the coalition
and Iraqi troops are on a constant hunt for him as well.
Bin Laden's message is a telling reminder that
al-Qaida still hopes to attack us on our own soil.
Stopping him is the greatest challenge of our
day...."
--Bush,
lying again Attribution
bin Laden could attack us any time he wants to, but he obviously
chooses not to - I wonder why?
What was bin Laden promised? His freedom? Did Bush call off
the hunt in a deal with them?
Did Bush agree not to arrest Osama and Zarqawi if they don't attack again
on U.S. soil?
What makes a terrorist decide to put away his terror?
Giuliana Sgrena Returns to Rome
US ceases fire on Italian ally, safe passage allowed
Excerpt:
Draped in a blanket and apparently hooked up
to an intravenous drip, former hostage Giuliana Sgrena
was carried off a plane upon returning from Bush's
bloody war on Saturday, hours after American troops
fired on the car taking her to Baghdad's airport,
wounding her and killing the Italian agent protecting her.
Her brother, Ivan Sgrena, told reporters she was
very happy to be back in Italy but was "very sorry and sad"
about the death of Nicola Calipari, who was killed
when he threw himself over Sgrena to protect her from U.S. fire.
Giuliana Sgrena told Rai News 24 by telephone that "we
thought the danger was over after my rescue."
"And instead, suddenly there was this shooting. We were
hit by a spray of fire," she said. "I was talking to Nicola ...
when he leaned over me, probably to defend me,
and then he slumped over. That was a truly terrible thing."
Pier Scolari, the journalist's boyfriend, said
she told him: "The most difficult moment was when I saw the person
who had saved me die in my arms," according to
the ANSA news agency.
..
US attack against Italians was deliberate: companion
Excerpt:
The companion of freed Italian journalist Giuliana
Sgrena has leveled serious accusations at US troops
who fired at her convoy as it was nearing Baghdad
airport, saying the shooting had been deliberate.
"The Americans and Italians knew about (her) car coming," Pier
Scolari said on leaving Rome's Celio
military hospital where Sgrena is to undergo surgery
following her return home.
"They were 700 meters (yards) from the airport, which means that they had passed all checkpoints."
The shooting late Friday was witnessed by Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi's office which was on the
phone with one of the secret service agents, said
Scolari. "Then the US military silenced the cellphones," he charged.
"Giuliana had information, and the US military did not
want her to survive," he added.
Women
Worse Off Now Than 10 Years Ago
Bush is turning back the progress we
made
Excerpt:
Many women are worse off today than they were
10 years ago, women around the world
say in a new report that accuses governments of
failing to keep their pledge to achieve gender equality.
"The women of the world don't need any more words from
their governments ÷ they want action,
they want resources and they want governments to
protect and advance women's human rights," the report said.
The women's report sounded very different from
the speeches this week at the U.N. conference,
where governments have been touting their records
on women's rights.
Quotes
"You have an administration that failed to protect
investors. On the one hand, they are saying
the system does not need to be fixed, there
was nothing wrong with it, they fought against the
changes that we wanted, and then they say,
'Take your savings and put it into that very system.'
Where would we be if those who are retiring
had had their money in Enron and Worldcom?"
--New
York AG Eliot Spitzer, saying Bush has no credibility on S.S. privitizationAttribution
Subject: Why Hasn't Al-Qaeda Attacked Us Again?
Bart,
I can't help thinking that if I were them, I'd
be saying to myself, "Boy that one attack is going a long way.
We don't have to lift another finger. They are
doing our work for us. Their economy is about to tank...they are
curtailing their basic freedoms and plan to end
more...they are seriously divided and beginning to hate each other
with a passion...our recruitment is up 10 fold...Americas
respect in the world has reached an all time low..."
I think they are enjoying just sitting back and
watching us implode from within.
It must be extremely entertaining to them. Not
to mention we can't get bin Laden.
So who looks like the winner here?
CY
CY, I understand, but why blow up some dump in Masul and kill six people
when blowing up a Ferris Wheel at Coney Island would get so much more press?
4wk
From now until the end
of March,
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Order 1 get 1 free,
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a deal like that.
Judge: Musclehead Illegally Delayed Nurse Laws
..
Excerpt:
In a significant blow to Gov. Musclegead, Superior
Court Judge Judy Hersher has ruled
that he acted illegally when he delayed implementation
of a state law requiring hospitals
to have at least one nurse for every five patients.
The California Nurses Association sued
Musclehead on Dec. 21. CNA attorney James Eggleston
told the judge Friday that they
sought the one-in-five ratio to combat "the managed
care philosophy of staffing, to make it
so lean it becomes dangerous."
Subject: Why Al Qaeda Hasn't Attacked Us
Bart,
Since we talked, I thought of something that is
a corollary to why Al Qaeda hasn't attacked us.
We already have proof that they can be bought off
and stopped from attacking - look at the deal
the rulers of Saudi Arabia made with Al Qaeda to
stop most or all of the attacks inside Saudi Arabia.
And the Saudis are Bush's good friends, aren't
they? Bush probably brokered this deal through Prince Bandar
(or "Bandar Bush" as he is fondly known by the
BFEE). The bin Laden family is heavily invested in the same
industries that stand to profit from the endless
war scenario. Osama bin Laden is simply attending to the family business.
He knows that, if he attacks the US again, Bush
would have to whack him to survive politically, and that it might upset
their dandy profit center.
It kind of gets back to your question: would evil
men kill to steal billions?
Of course they would, and they are.
I just finished listening to Show 69, and your
comments on the stock market are spot on. If you want to invest,
stick to natural resources (oil, gas, precious
metals, industrial metals, etc.), and keep the rest of your cash liquid by
putting it in
a short-term Treasury money market fund (short-term
ONLY). If you still want to invest, use a trailing stop-loss strategy.
Here's the way it works: say you purchase 100 shares
of a stock or mutual fund at $10 a share. If the price of the stock or
fund drops 25%, to $8 a share, sell it, don't hold
on to it. If the price rises, say to $15 a share, adjust your strike, or selling
price accordingly. At $15, your trailing stop loss
number would be $11.25. It's kind of like poker: "you've got to know when
to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to
walk away, know when to run."
Note that, in this strategy, if the price rises,
then falls to your new trailing stop loss, you still walk away with modest
gains.
If your initial investment drops in value to $800
(your original stop loss price), you've minimized your losses.
I have some other ideas to pass along to Bartcop.com
readers;
if I ever get enough free time, I'll post them
to your stocks section.
Keep hammerin'
Ann in Philly
Damn, just listening to Ann from Philly, I can feel my IQ creep up.
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Did anyone meet David Rees at Harvard,
and tell him "Bart says Hey?"
Is Dubya in the closet?
..
Excerpt:
Ah, the irony of it all. The administration of
George W. Bush, easily the most homophobic president of modern times,
deployed a homosexual escort and promoter of gay
life styles as one of its "propaganda as journalism" shills.
James Guckert, aka Jeff Gannon, infiltrated the
White House press corps as a so-called journalist working for two
GOP-backed web sites. He quit after some left-wing
blogs outed him but - like most Washington scandals - the story gets juicier.
The bloggers revealed Guckert had registered a
number of web site domain names with gay themes, including hotmilitarystud.com.
Guckert admitted registering the names but claimed
he never put up any web sites with gay themes.
Like so many who shill for Bush's White House,
Guckert is a liar.
GOP: OSHA laws just get in the way
Over
There
by Michael Hammerschlag
Excerpt:
Lately, I've been considering whether Bush's
justification for the Iraq War: we are fighting them there
so they won't come here isn't completely
without merit. After all, there have, incredibly, been no attacks
in America since 9-11. And creating a theme park
for jihadists in Iraq certainly has kept them occupied.
It was brought home to me by a friend in Hawaii. "I
believe that. Hey, I'm a lifelong Democrat. But there
haven't been any attacks here." Again and
again this is mentioned by US troops as the rationale for their
struggle and suffering, and it seems logical.
But it breaks down on closer examination. First,
there's the madness of creating a vicious insurgent war in
a place that didn't have one. No matter how many
times Bush and the neocons say so, there were no terrorists
directed at America in Iraq before the invasion*,
until we invaded and created them. Perhaps Iraq has functioned
as a gigantic bug zapper for jihadi mosquitoes-
where were the suicide bomber when Saddam reigned?- but most
fanatics are home grown. Was it really worth the
immense price in lives and treasure? The Arabs who flocked to
fight the good fight in Iraq weren't planning or
able to mount attacks on America. Maybe in Iraq, they will get the
training to do so: a prison university for criminals,
except it's Al Qaida training terrorists.
Subject: MWO
Bart -
MWO - why is everyone acting like to say MWO was
good / they liked / miss it is a slap at you?
The right wing noise machine has been under construction
since Buckley earned his chops attacking
the Civil Rights movement in the late 1950s - you
know, local control is more important than equal rights
and protection for ALL American citizens.
That too long tenure, and the filthy lucre of
Scaife and Moon, means that you operate in what our brave
servicemen would call "a target rich environment" -
meaning there is room for Bartcop, MWO, and many many others ... .
John K
Springfield, IL
When MWO was up, I hardly ever had a chance to read them.
I wish I could turn back the clock.
Subject: It's time to draft the Clintons
Excerpt:
I support the Clintons as much as any Democrat...but
why aren't they attacking this administration?
Why isn't Bill speaking up and asking what the
fuck is going on in HIS NAME as an American citizen?
Anybody remember the obscene quotes from Harry
S Truman as an elder statesman?
Let me give you a few, fresh from my vintage copy
of , circa 1976:
"Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar, and people
know it." -- 1961
"I don't think the son-of-a-bitch [Nixon] knows
the difference between telling the truth and lying."
"I never gave anybody hell--I just told the
truth on these fellows and they thought it was hell."
Why aren't the Democrats talking like this?
A few, maybe...but it's long past the time for
the Clintons to pull a fucking bartcop and start telling the truth.
Contributed by: Daddy-O
Daddy-O, thanks for that.
When we meet (could be this weekend, could be 2006) I got the first round
if you can take us to the hottest
jazz/blues/rock clubs in town. If that band blows, I'll want to leave right
away. If they're good, I'll stay all night.
Thirty five years ago, I knew St. Louis bands like I know guitars, economics, hockey, golf, soccer, basketball politics.
Most of all we want to check out Soulard Blues Bar.
Neocon
Amorality
by Robert Parry at consortiumnews.com
Excerpt:
The Bush administration sets out worthy-sounding
goals - freedom, democracy, security - and then it
applies whatever tactics are deemed necessary -
torture, murder, unprovoked invasions - along with
an aggressive propaganda strategy at home.
Next, when events take a positive turn, the neoconservatives
claim credit, even if they had only a minor role
or the events were largely coincidental. Criticism
of the bloody means is washed away by celebration of the
virtuous ends. Mainstream commentators join in,
cheering the neocons' farsightedness. Those who opposed
the original actions are pushed to the political
margins.
After two years of bloody war in Iraq and 1,500
U.S. soldiers dead, the neocons have reached such a moment.
They are claiming vindication because of several
developments in the Middle East, including the Iraqi election,
tentative progress in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations,
and Lebanese demands for a full Syrian withdrawal.
Subject: Zapruder gave Dan rather his start
In November, 1963, Dan Rather was an unknown newscaster
at a small Texas TV station.
When the Zapruder film of the assassination of
John Kennedy became public knowledge,
Dan Rather reported from Texas that he had seen
the film, and that it showed John Kennedy's
head "rocket forward" from the head shot.
Single frames were shown from the film in magazines
and on TV, but the actual moving image was
not shown to the American public until Jim Garrison's
trial of CIA agent Clay Shaw made the Zapurder
film public, and proved once and for all that the
head shot pushed John Kennedy's head backwards.
Shortly after Rather's "rocket forward" broadcast,
he was given his first network slot and the start of
his rise to media stardom. His original "rock
forward" broadcast appears briefly under the opening titles
of Oliver Stone's "JFK".
Bernie in Oregon
Eldrick
Woods fails to lose golf tourney
That's what I call "news"
Excerpt:
Mickelson's streak of 10 consecutive rounds in
stroke play atop the leaderboard ended,
but not without a gutsy fight. Most players would
have buckled when Woods surged into
the lead, but Mickelson came right back at him.
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The Hunting of the President
I saw the Conason/Lyons movie in full for the first time Saturday.
There weren't a lot of surprises, but I didn't know that the crooked
judge, David Sentelle,
(appointed by Reagan as a favor to Jesse Helms) who yanked Independent
Prosecutor Robert Fisk
out of the way so Ken Starr could launch an open-ended assault on the 1996
election results was the
same crooked judge who reversed the convictions of Ollie North and John
Poindexter for the BFEE.
Sentelle has always been a right-wing tobacco whore, and Clinton was
a pain to the killers who push
tobacco on children so Sentelle hated him. Add in a generous helping
of religious insanity and outright
disgust for anyone who'd give a black man a break ...and you have a GOP
motive for impeachment.
The sons of bitches...
Subject: credit cards
Hey Bart
It's not just Capitol One jacking up rates. EVERYONE
is doing it, including department store cards.
Also, department stores are converting their
in-house cards to MasterCard as is Diners Club.
Your only defense is to go to a cash-only stance
and live on whatever cash you can make.
Debtor's prison is next.
Leland in Nashville
..
Why I Did Not Attend Bush's Second Inauguration
Excerpt:
14. Didn't want to have to wear the hood.
4. Decided to stay home and read 'My Pet
Goat'.
Subject: bankruptcy
Bart ol Cop,
Noxious laws enjoy support from a coalition of
all the Republicans plus a rotating handful of Democrats
who have ties to interested parties. Joe Biden
(D-Coward from Del) in one of these Democrats.
Delaware is home to most corporations and many
Credit Card Companies.
Corporations and wealthy people can protect their
assets from creditors in Bankruptcy by using something
called an "asset protection trust" a kind
of savings fund that can't be touched by creditors. Of course, Delaware
offers a generous trust to lure businesses and
affluent individuals to park their money there.
The driving force behind the Bankruptcy Bill are
the Credit Card Companies from Delaware.
David in L.A.
..
"Am
I a Democrat?"
Marty's Entertainment Page
'Nuke
Syria' Republican now says he was joking
by
Jackson Thoreau
Excerpt:
After substantial public outcry about twice saying
he wants to "nuke" Syria, U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson
[R-Texas] is now back-pedaling and contradicting
what his chief of staff told Roll Call, the non-partisan
Capitol Hill publication that broke the story.
In a March 4 article in the Dallas Morning News,
one of numerous places I sent the Roll Call report,
Johnson claimed he was "kind of joking" about the
matter. The paper quoted Johnson as saying: "I was
kind of joking. You know. We were talking between
veterans. We were swapping sea stories - things that
we'd done in the military." Then Johnson added, "Syria
actively opposes our allies' efforts on terrorism,
and they finance and harbor terrorists in Palestine,
Iraq and Lebanon. We're sure of that. They even fought
against us on the border during the Iraq incursion.
So I don't think they're a friend of the United States at all."
Johnson has said at least twice he wanted
to kill everyone in Syria in one nuclear swoop, just because he has
some unproven notion that weapons of mass destruction
are being hidden there. He has said this to a public
gathering in a speech in a church, no less, on
Feb. 19, and privately to Bush himself at the White House.
Quotes
"We bombed their children. We killed their husbands
and wives and we bombed them,
and we're going to do it again. Just random
killing like that, mass killing to force a
population to get rid of Saddam so we can move
in and take over and control the oil,
God damn it, if that's not evil, I don't know
what would be. You know, Bush, he's really
the evil one in here. We're the Nazis
in this game and I think a lot of people in this country
agree with me. We'll see what happens to me
if I get my head cut off in the next week by
-- it's always unknown Bush [inaudible] strangers
who commit suicide right afterward.
No witnesses. They have a new kind of crime.
-- Hunter S. Thompson, January 2003
interview, Attribution
Subject: Bush and bin Laden
Excerpt:
Bin Laden, before 9/11, was an extremist with
a few loony followers. Your typical Arab was
more centrist, pro-USA. We gave them money
for their oil, and we export Western decadence
like TV and bluejeans. Your "typical Arab
in the street" would not take up arms against America
because they were typically peace-loving "don't
fuck with me, and I won't fuck with you" people.
Much like America, pre-9/11. Most Americans
would have been aghast at the notion of striking
Iraq first, say, back when Clinton was President.
With 9/11, Bin Laden took a calculated risk of
pissing off moderate Moslems, calculating that we
would strike back, and strike back hard. We
did. This is what he wanted.
We've got tonza books by tonza authors.
Quotes
"All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin
to the furthest point east to raise the al-Qaida flag,
in order to make the generals race there to
cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses
without their achieving for it anything of
note other than some benefits for [Halliburton]. This is in addition
to our having experience in using guerrilla
warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers.
We bled Russia for 10 years, until it went
bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat. So we are
continuing to bleed America to the point of
bankruptcy
-- bin Laden, doing his Billy Jack
impersonation for Bush the Monkey. "I'm going to take my right foot and
whomp you
on the left side of your face and there's not a damn thing you can do to stop
me." Attribution
If only we had a president who didn't allow Osama lead him around by the ring in his nose.
Subject: Bush's deal with Al Qaida
Bart,
I have no doubt that Bush has some sort of deal with them to lay off on us
in exchange for letting Osamma tread this pebble
unharmed. My thought is that they
knew it would happen and let it in exchange we
would fly out the bin Ladens and
leave Osamma alone in exchange for no more attacks.
This gave the PNAC their "Pearl Harbor" to take
over the country and the Middle East.
Invading Iraq gave Saudi Arabia a reason for
us to move out our bases there and that's what Osamma wanted.
Everyone is happy except the dead Iraqis and the
families of our solders who are dead or maimed.
R Carlson
When Bush reminds us, "We're fighting them
over there so we don't have to fight them here,"
that makes me wonder why the "evildoers" would travel to Iraq to fight
the world's best military
instead of coming to America to create REAL terror by killing innocent
weomen and children.
If 9-11 taught us anything, it's that our enemy isn't stupid.
So Al Qaeda has chosen to fight "over there" instead of here, where the
battle began?
That makes no sense.
The only thing that does make sense is that they've made a deal
with Bush.
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Kansas AG Attacks Women's Rights
Excerpt:
The Kansas Attorney General, Phill Kline, is
seeking medical records of women÷including their name, medical history,
sexual history, birth control practices and psychological
profiles÷from two state abortion clinics as part of an alleged
criminal investigation he claims is about sexual
abuse of minors.
"If the brief had not been filed publicly, we wouldn't
even know that a Kansas court, operating in secret and using a gag rule
on the doctors, is demanding the most personal
and private information about scores of patients from their physicians,"
said Gandy. "The court even denied these doctors
the right to tell the patients that their records were requested, so the
women couldn't even defend themselves and their
privacy."
Kline has a pattern of trying to force medical
providers to report information about the past sexual history of women.
In 2003, his office tried to obtain information
about girls younger than 16 who engaged in sexual activity.
"There's obviously no allegation of wrongdoing or criminal
behavior by these women÷if there were, they'd have the right
to know the charges, the right to challenge release
of their information, the right to confront their accusers, the right to
due process and the right to an attorney," said
Gandy. "But these women don't even have basic rights in Kansas.
Phill Kline should be impeached for gross misuse
of his office and abuse of public trust."
Bush has given all religiously-insane knuckledraggers
the "courage" to turn back the clock.
The whole world is either laughing at America's
downfall or cringing in fear they made be next on Bush's hit list.
Subject: Murder Italian style
Questions being asked are: "What did Sgrena know that made her a target;" and "was the real target actually Calipari?"
I don't think we should blindly accept the official
storyline. Further, I am not about to consider
the old standby of "incompetance and over-reaction
of stressed out kids" as an excuse in this case.
Someone had a clear cut idea of what they were
doing. Both the Italians and the US forces knew
that the entourage was coming, and they shot anyway. The
suspicious part is why the confiscation
of cellphones and denial of medical attention?
Bart, somethings is very amiss in this latest
little gambit in Iraq.
Steve in Syracuse
Bush's U.S.
soldier body count in Iraq
1502,
1503, 1510, dead soldiers under Bush
That's seven families
destroyed over the weekend.
How many more, America?
Esquire magazine hosting "best band" contest
What a goofy poll this is.
They have Dave Matthews winning with 44 percent of the vote, proving
it was hacked.
I have nothing against Dave Matthews, but best band in the world? ha
ha
Was Diebold keeping track of the voting?
Besides, I'd think "best band" would require you to play electric guitars.
Pearl Jam got 39 percent, Radiohead (are they a group?)
got 8 percent,
and the only band in the world that can fill stadiums, U2,
got a mere 4 percent.
Funny, when people vote with their wallets, buying tickets and CDs,
they vote U2.
When kids with nothing else to do click on a mouse inside their house,
they vote Matthews.
Methinks this is as reliable as those about.com polls we used to
win years ago.
Bush's
'16 Tons' Plan
by Marc Perkel as seen on apj.us
Excerpt:
To me, the very definition of "free enterprise" means
free from government influence. After all, what else
does the word "free" mean? If the government
is your owner, you are not free. You are in fact a slave ÷
and the government serves as owner, employer, and
pickpocket all at once. They have your credit card
and are running up the bill. As things now stand,
we have a $36,000 birth tax in this country. That's your
share of the debt from the moment you are born.
Thanks, Bush!
What I can't understand is this: where the hell
are all the conservatives?
Doesn't this debt make their skin crawl even more
than yours?
The government is everywhere, expanding, and taking
over. They are already in your churches ÷ and now
they want to own the company for whom you work!
Why the hell aren't you freaking out?
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Being nice doesn't work
Increasingly desperate to find a right-winger to debate, I took a chance
when Mucinous wrote with the news he might've found
somebody.
I did everything I could to get him to debate.
Here is what happened:
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