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In Today's Tequila Treehouse... The 'Lying Mainstream Media' Conason: A press coverup  Bush is a fun guy - really  Memos: More Trouble for Bush   Mars Spectacular coming  Bart's lack of courage  Frist Caught Lying Again Bush: Iraq war is defensive  Cruise shamed into asking   Quote of the Day "To a large degree, I credit the Geneva    Conventions for my survival in Vietnam."       -- Pete Peterson, locked in a Vietnamese cage for          over 6 years, ...but treated humanely   Attribution     Pete, good thing you weren't captured and    held prisoner by Bush's Avenging Crusaders.

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"Apparently, the Republicans who dominate the party today, on the radio, online,
  and in the halls of Congress, think that the only good American is a Stalinist, a Nazi,
  a fascist, or any other brand of totalitarian thug who beats the crap out of innocents
  because he can, because we're Amurrikans.  That's the thinking and the mantra of
  today's brand of Republicans who run the party and run the right-wing noise machine."
            --John Aravosis,    Attribution
 
 

  Comments?

 LMSM, the 'Lying Mainstream Media'
   by Robert Parry at  consortiumnews.com

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 ...many war critics asserted that Bush's decision to take his case against Iraq to the UN
 was a ploy designed only to justify a predetermined course for invasion. In other words,
 the critics felt that Bush and his allies were not acting in good faith, but simply wanted
 some political cover for an illegal war.

 That, of course, was not the judgment of editorialists at the Washington Post,
 the New York Times or other major newspapers who praised Bush for going to
 the UN on the advice of supposed moderates such as Powell and Blair.

 Indeed, looking back to late 2002 and early 2003, it would be hard to find any
"reputable" commentary in the mainstream press calling Bush's actions fraudulent,
 which is what the British evidence reveals them to be.
 
 

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

  Comments?

 Subject: the Pentagon?

 Bart, you wrote:

> "the Pentagon says torture works."

 Since when did you start using the Pentagon as a reliable source?
 Cris
 

 I don't, but I consider the Pentagon to be experts at war.
 When they tell our soldiers, "If captured, don't resist because torture works,"
 I assume they're giving our boys their best advice.
 

  Comments?

 A press coverup
  Joe Conason on Bush's helpers in the press

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 Mooing in plaintive chorus, the Beltway herd insists that the July 23, 2002, memo wasn't news
 -- which would be true if the absence of news were defined only by their refusal to report it.

 They tell us the memo wasn't news because everybody understood that George W. Bush had
 decided to wage war many months before the United States and its allies invaded Iraq. The memo
 wasn't news because anyone who didn't comprehend that reality back then has come to realize the
 unhappy facts during the three ensuing years. The memo wasn't news because Americans already
 knew that the Bush administration was "fixing the intelligence and facts around the policy," rather
 than making policy that reflected the intelligence and the facts about Iraq.

 Only a very special brand of arrogance would permit any employee of the New York Times, which
 brought us the mythmaking of Judith Miller, to insist that new documentary evidence of "intelligence fixing"
 about Saddam's arsenal is no longer news. The same goes for the Washington Post, which featured phony
 administration claims about Iraq's weapons on Page 1 while burying the skeptical stories that proved correct.
 
 

 The NYWTimes and the WaHoPo have changed their mission statements to protect Bush,
 yet we still have to hear the whining from the right about "those liberal newspapers."

 I'm so old, I remember when those papers exposed corruption.
 Now they do everything they can to help the crooked bastards cover it up.
 

  Comments?

 NOT a Gulag Quotes

"One of Falah's captains began beating the detainee. Instead of a quick hit or slap,
  we now saw and heard a sustained series of blows. We heard the sound of his fists
  and boots on the detainee's body, and we heard the detainee's pained grunts as he
  received his punishment without resistance. It was a dockyard mugging."
      --Peter Maass, eyewitness to American torture   Attribution
 

"In the silence we could hear someone in the corridor protesting. They took him from
  the cell and into a box...They left the door open, and they kept beating him a long time.
  In the suspended silence every blow could be heard clearly."
       --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, eyewitness to Soviet torture   Attribution
 

  Comments?

 Subject: why protect sources who lie?

 Bart --

 As a journalist myself, I can tell you the easy answer people will give for this --
 If you burn the liars, the truthtellers will be afraid to talk to you as well.
 And particularly where the truthtellers are supplying you with extremely sensitive
 information that could cost them a great deal should their identity be known,
 you can imagine them being overly paranoid to the point where it wouldn't be
 enough to tell them, "No, no. I only burn people who lie to me."

 No matter what you say, they'll think you burn people when it becomes
 necessary to protect yourself. And so, your American version of the
 Downing Street memo story goes out the window...
 Ok,
 Irish Dan
 

 Dan, there's a difference between lying and making a mistake.
 When your source lies to make you look stupid (Dan Rather) or dead (Jim Hatfield)
 why should they be protected from the consequences of their bad intentions?
 

   Comments?

 Memos: More Trouble for Bush

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 When Poodle's chief foreign policy adviser dined with Sleazy Rice six months after Sept. 11,
 she didn't want to discuss al-Qaida. She wanted to talk about "regime change" in Iraq,
 setting the stage for the U.S.-led invasion more than a year later.

 Bush wanted his Poodle to heel, but Brits worried that Bush was rushing to war, according to
 a series of leaked secret Downing Street memos that have renewed questions and debate
 about Bush's hardon for Saddam.

"U.S. scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and al-Qaida is so far frankly unconvincing,"
 says the memo. "For Iraq, `regime change' sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam."

 
 Slowly, the American whore press has been forced to do their jobs - and they hate it.
 And this bad news is hitting the BFEE after a long string of defeats.

 There are too many hundreds of billions of dollars left yet unstolen, so there's too much at stake
 for them to lose, so they'll fight like hell to steal those remaining hundreds of billions of dollars.

 ...but they are wounded and wounded oil men with money left yet unstolen is a very dangerous thing.

 
  Comments?

 Subject: the view from Canada

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 North Dakota has decided that it is going to divert water from the river that runs directly into the
 Red River in Manitoba. I don't know if you recall but Winnipeg and lower Manitoba were in a state of
 emergency from flooding a few years ago. Anyways, if this water is diverted huge ecological and
 potentially ruiness results will have a big impact of the stability of the border towns of Manitoba.
 Thus far the US gov't has said it is doing what it wishes.

 You know the topper?
 They've decided to do this on July 1st. That is Canada Day.
 What a way to say 'fuck you'.
 

  Comments?

 Bush is a fun guy - really

  Click  Here
 
 

  Comments?

 Subject: Gitmo Gulag

 Thank you Senator Durbin for finally standing up to tell the truth about America's torture chambers!

 It's about time someone is telling the truth the way it really is. When America acts like the Nazis,
 the Communists, and like power crazed third word dictators then it is a act of patriotism to stand up
 and call it like it is. At what point did telling the truth become a bad thing? At what point does telling
 the truth put our troops at risk?

 What puts Americans at risk is what the truth is. We really do torture people to death.
 It really is happening. We are not as bad as the Nazis, but we are heading in that direction.

 If stories about American torture camps is bad for America then what we need to do
 is stop doing the torture - and not trying to keep it a secret.

 Marc Perkel
 San Francisco, CA.
 

  Comments?

 Subject: your lack of balls

 Dear Great and Powerful Bartcop:
 No straddling-the-fence commentary from the 'Cop of the Internet following
 Rocky's right to the point piece regarding the WTC collapse?

 How shocking! Not!
 
 There are dozens or hundreds of crazy websites that have "proof" that Bush did it,
 the CIA did it, the Mossad did it, the aliens did it and they can't all be right, right?
 Apparently, you want me to stake my reputation on things I don't know about.
 

 When are you going to grow a pair?

 You think I'm afraid?
 

 Given the veritible fountain of information your Internet brethren have copiously distributed
 and the ever-increasing number of books, videos, and other sources of information that are
 available to you at the click of a mouse, how can it be that you still have a modicum of respect
 for yourself when you continue to write that (and I'm paraphrasing here) " I still have not yet
 seen proof that 911 didn't happen exactly as the Masters of the Universe told me it did."

 How pathetic.
 
 You can scream and stomp your foot and name-call all day long, but like the others who write,
 you failed to include any of this "proof" that everyone on the net has seen but me.

 Why do you guys do this again and again?

 If you have some proof, send it to me, but don't send 500 links to non-credible sites.
 
 But I guess you're fearful of losing those paying customers who would flee likes the
 proverbial rats if you were to actually take a stand on such a controversial issue.
 The almighty buck reigns supreme!
 
 In a way that's true.
 If I printed every wacky claim that was made and told people it was a fact without any proof,
 I would lose credibility and subscribers and I choose not to do that.

 If you have some proof, send it to me, but the problem with people like you is that
 you think you can scream, "But everyone knows it's true" and call that proof.

 That ain't proof, Sherlock.
 

 As with my previous e-mails, I'm certain this one won't see the light of day on your page.
 However, when I am kicking your Okie ass in Chicago,

 No, you won't get in the door because only pre-paid players are allowed.
 

 I will reveal myself to you and we can have a little poker-table debate on the subject.
  John Galt

 Just-found "Why I never subscribed" by John Galt

  Excerpt:
 Rather than waste my time in pointing out to you the myriad sites
 that have the statistical information to prove the latter....
 
 
 So, instead of offering proof, you choose to scream like a spoiled child.
 
 Why don't you and everyone in your no-proof club do some work and find some evidence
 and quit screaming at those of us who are so old-fashioned that we want some f-ing proof
 before we publish Galt facts wild speculation  that can't be backed-up?.

 If you can't put something in one paragraph that has some meaning, you got nothing.
 If your "proof" is pointing to 500 wacko web sites, you got nothing.

 ...and a "Suck me" for the insinuation that I'm controlled by the White House.

 Why kind of pinhead would make that baseless charge with no foundation?

 The same pinhead who claims all his 9-11 "proof" is "everywhere?"
 

  Comments?

 Frist Caught Lying Again
  How can this liar run for president?

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 I never made the diagnosis," Frist lied to reporters Thursday.
"I wouldn't even attempt to make a diagnosis based on a videotape."

 But the transcript of Frist's statements in March clearly call him a liar.

"That footage, to me, depicted something very different than persistent vegetative state,"
 Frist said March 17 on the Senate floor.
 

 I hit my head after faiting after reading the the Democrats actually fought back.
 Can you believe they circulated a transcript proving Frist lied?

 Why did they decide to fight back?
 They they find some balls on the street and strap them on?
 

  Comments?

  Click  Here
 
 

  Comments?

 Subject: rules of puncuation

 The rules governing the use of an apostrophe are way simpler
 than the rules of Texas Hold-em, so don't give me any of that
 crap about you just being too damn stupid.
 
 It's "Nazis", not "Nazi's", unless you are talking about
 something that a Republican possesses.
 Videochas
 

 What you say is true.

 What's also true is I'm under a pressure deadline to publish and I only get one shot
 at it per issue.  Until I fly a tutor into Tulsa to teach me two new systems, I must depend
 on others to publish  bartcop.com  and I can't bother them each time I discover an
 apostrophe that's out of place.

 Changes are coming, but never fast enough.
 

 Comments?

 Quotes

"Hillary can't be president because she had that disasterous, socialist
   health care proposal ten years ago..."
    -- Kato Burn, wrinkled, old slut who's dumber than Chippy the Chimp, on Capital Gang
 

 Hey Kato, do you know why General Motors laid off 25,000 employess?

 They did that because they pay TWICE as much for health care per car
 than they pay for f-ing steel.  Health care is putting GM out of business,
 and Hillary's career-killing crime is trying to prevent that?

 I don't know if her health care plan was any good or not - who had time
 to read 600 pages of wonk fine print, but I remember the cowardly Democrats
 ran away from fixing health care and look at the mess we have as a result.
 

 Comments?

 Subject: BCR Show 76 feedback

 Bart, toooooo Funnnnny!
 The submarine and McDonalds rap was way funny!

 Thanks for the all important trip update.
 Its the reason I subscribe!
 Robert
 

 Comments?

 Quotes

 "Iraq" is Arabic for "Vietnam."
    -- bumper sticker sighted by Randi Rhodes
 

  Comments?

 Subject: why the senate Dems voted for war

 The best explaination I have heard is that it was seen by them as a "win/win" situation:

 (1) If the war was unpopular they could say that they had been "fooled" into thinking
       Iraq was a real threat. (Hey, Bart, you even fell for that one).

 Or:

 (2) If the war was popular they were simply "on the right side of history".
      They had all their bases covered.

 Joe R
 

 Joe, when you say, "even Bart fell for that one," are you saying the senior intelligence experts
 who work at the BartCop Think Tanke should've challenged the CIA's experts and their conclusions?
 
 Are you saying  bartcop.com  should have better intelligence sources than the Pentagon?
 
 
  Comments?

 Quotes

"One night we tried playing poker with Tarot cards.
   I got a full house and three people died..."
    -- Steven Wright, comedian
 
 

  Comments?

 Mars Spectacular

 The Red Planet is about to be spectacular!

 This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate
 in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars
 may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs
 its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the
 last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.

 The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles
 of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky.

 Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.
 Mars will be easy to spot. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east
 at 10p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.

 By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach
 its highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty convenient to see something that no
 human being has seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August
 to see Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month.

 
 Thanks to Rude Rich

  Comments?

 Subject: not everyone hates us

 Hi Bart - I am a US expat living and working in India.
 The Indians don't quite understand us, but they sure do like us.

 We're sending all our work over here, and we're selling them cruise missles,
 and fighter jets so they can bomb the hell out of Pakistan someday.

 Mike
 

  Comments?

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 Subject: BartCop Radio

 Bart,  my wife and I are crazy about your radio show, and listen as often as we can.
 She really cracks up when you get so into a rant, then you start over a few times due to
 some word that trips up your timing, then you break out laughing at yourself or the idiot
 you're talking about, or as she says, your combo snicker/giggle. She loves it when you laugh.
 She also loves it when you bring it to the lamebrains running this country.

 We love kickin back, waiting for that kick-ass song to start, then we focus on your every word,
 knowing all our stuff is done, no one is gonna disturb our evening, and we can hear the true 'Hammer'.
 So, I go to open show 76, ...no go.     I check my old e-mail and see my membership had expired!
 This can't be happening!!!

 This is one of the few times we had a chance to chill and get our fill of the Bartcop. My bad, dude.
 So to make up for that lapse in judgement I'm sending a check and the rest is my gift to your ongoing
 struggle to get people to start thinking again. Koresh, we are so F**ked in this country right now.
 
 We need every voice we can get to help stir the zombie sheep public into a waking awareness of
 just what has happened in this country in just the last horrible five years.
 (withheld)
 

 Dude, I have re-activated your subscription - thanks.
 

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  Comments?

 Subject: 9-11 and WTC     I, too, have been labeled a nut

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 When the north tower started to fall, you can see the upper floors above the damage already
 collapsing on  themselves even as the lower portion is itself collapsing. This effect is akin to a
 glass straw, acting as the core of the building, shattering like tempered glass into many small
 pieces, taking the 'knees out from under body' of the building and allowing it to pancake.
 The speed of fall approached that of gravity, meaning little or no resistance to the fall.
 To anyone who is familiar with re-inforced concrete, with its mesh of steel netting and numerous
 pieces of interlaced steel rod, knows that even bulldozers have a tough time knocking it down or
 tearing it up. Imagine that wall or slab several feet thick and with all that embedded steel,
 surrounding some of largest known steel columns and beams of that era, thickness measured
 in many inches, with diameters of area larger than some pick-up trucks are tall, bolted with
 hundreds of bolts larger than your arm is round.
 

  Comments?

 Cage Match - Mark Geragos vs Nancy Grace

 Tuesday on Larry King Live

..
          Dat's right!

 She's been screaming "Lying bastard scumbag asshole" at Geragos for almost two years.
 Tuesday, Geragos takes on Nancy "I-guarantee-they're-all-guilty" Grace.
 

  Comments?

 Quotes

"Now, tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws, but that doesn't mean it
  gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has probably betrayed
  as many outlaws as have the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives.
  Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti;
  tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion;
  tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins;
  tequila, firebug in the house of good taste. O tequila, savage water of sorcery,
  what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!"
     -- Tom Robbins, "Still Life with Woodpecker," by Bantam Books
 

  Comments?

 Subject: Howard Dean

 That's right - give them HELL Dean !!
 Finally someone with some sack in the Democratic Party !!

 These right-wing morons have been running rough-shod all over our country,
 for the last several years, and it's about time someone other than Bart-Cop stood up to them.
 
 Keep up the good work.
 Power to the people·
 Carl
 
 

  Comments?

 Did David Boren install a gay network at CIA?
   Is the military-homosexual complex for real?

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 I would like to open up consideration of the question of whether David Boren, using the influence
 he gained as the patron and mentor of George Tenet, was able to install a homosexual network in the CIA.

 First of all, I am 100% sure that Boren is homosexual. This has been known at the gossip level around
 Oklahoma for more than three decades.

 (I can verify those rumors have been around for 30 years.)

 Boren has made a lifelong practice of setting up young men with government jobs, if they are sexually
 appealing to him and if they are gay or if he thinks they might be gay.

 Just the fact that Boren set Tenet up on his career path, and that the two men have remained close friends
 since the 80s, makes me suspect that Tenet is queer.

 
 Note: We usually wouldn't run a story like this, because a person's sex life is nobody's business, but this
 Gannon/Guckert with Bush stuff had to involve the Secret Service, plus the crazy Skull & Bones rumors,
 topped with the fact that a Repub being gay is suicide stuff, wheras Dems don't really care.
 That means a Repug can be blackmailed and that makes it possibly national security stuff.
 
 
  Comments?

 Chicago Pokerfest July 16, 2005

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  Click  Here  for updates and who's coming so far.

 Bush: Iraq war is defensive

  Click  Here

  Excerpt:
"We went to war (with Iraq) because we were attacked (by 15 Saudis from Afghanistan),
 and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country
 and hurt our citizens," Bush lied in his weakly radio address.

"Some may disagree with my decision to remove Saddam, but all of us can agree that the world's
 terrorists have now made Iraq a central front in the war on terror," lied the warmonger.
 
 

 Actually, Mr. President, the whole world agrees with that last sentence.
 You built the terrorist training center that is Iraq and terrorists have responded to it.
 
 

  Comments?

 Cruise shamed into proposing by bartcop.com

..
          former virgin seduced by Scientologist

   Click  Here

  Excerpt:
 For weeks, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes answered questions about
 marriage by saying, ''That's something we have to talk about.''
 Friday morning, they found the time at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
 

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