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Quotes

"Bush won the squeaker election of 2004 because he managed to convince a number
  of piss-their-pants cowards that he was the only thing standing between them and
  getting nuked by terrorists. Cowards like Andrew Sullivan, like Christopher Hitchens,
  even like Dennis Miller. People who bought into the fear and gave up thinking and
  just begged Daddy Bush to make the mean terrorists to go away."
        --  Amanda Marcotte,   Link
 

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The End of 'Unalienable Rights'
  by Robert Parry  as seen on consortiumnews.com

 Link

 Excerpt:
George W. Bush's extraordinary assertion of unlimited Executive power signals a monumental change in
the structure of American democracy. As Bush's legal analysts tout the "zenith" of his presidential authority,
the impact on traditional American liberties is profound. It means an end to the concept of "unalienable rights"
as envisioned by the Founding Fathers 230 years ago. The new reality is that all American rights are at the
forbearance of the President.
 
 
 

Damn, it's like Robert Parry listened to the just-released  BCR 87

Note:
This is not what BCR sounds like.
This is Bart in the Bartmobile calling the BartPhone on my cell in an attempt to get more of you to call.

Write the number down on your hand 918-748-1714 - and call it tomorrow!
When you're in traffic, and you hear some pro-Bush  LIE on the radio - call the BartPhone.

918-748-1714
 

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

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Alaska: NO, you can't see the vote

 Link

 Excerpt:
The Alaska Division of Elections has refused to turn over its electronic voting files to the Democrats,
arguing that the data format belongs to a private company and can't be made public.

The Alaska Democratic Party says the information is a public record essential for verifying the accuracy
of the 2004 general election and must be provided.

The official vote results from the last general election are riddled with discrepancies and impossible for
the public to make sense of, the Democrats said Monday. A detailed analysis of the underlying data
could answer lingering questions about an election many thought was over more than a year ago, they say.

"Basically what they say is they want to give us a printout from the (electronic) file. They don't want to
give us the file itself. It doesn't enable us to get to the bottom of what we need to know," said Kay Brown,
spokeswoman for the party.
 

  Comments?

Katrina Cover-Up
 White House refuses to turn over Katrina papers

 Link

 Excerpt:
Der Guilty Monkey said Tuesday that he did not plan to turn over certain documents about Katrina
or make senior White House officials available for sworn testimony before two Congressional
committees investigating the storm response. The White House's hissy fit threatens to undermine
efforts to identify what went wrong, Democrats on the committees said Tuesday.

"There has been a near total lack of cooperation that has made it impossible, in my opinion, for us to
do the thorough investigation that we have a responsibility to do," said Joe Lieberman, Bush's kissing buddy.
LIEberman said he'd ask for a subpoena for documents and testimony if the White House did not comply.
 

The last thing the Giggling Murderer needs is for the Katrina truth to come out.
Thousands of Americans were dying why Der Monkey was on vacation, just like 9-11.

         "Lookie me, Pickles - I'm gonna play gee-tar
            instead of going to work today - Yee Haw!"
 

 Comments?

Subject: outsourcing torture

Bart, why are we sending prisoners to Syria.
Isn't that country on our "to invade" list.

Inquiring minds want to know.
 Mike R.
 

Mike, I'm not sure, but I don't think anyone really knows
to which countries we're exporting these helpless victims.
 

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You've Got Jail!

 Link

 Excerpt:
The bottom line is these guys in the Bush administration are obsessed voyeurs, poking their noses into
everyone's business, whether the excuse is squelching pornography or preventing terrorism. They simply
do not believe civil liberties and privacy are important. It is an executive branch power trip, and completely
anti-democratic. Corporations, of course, are not built to think about such lofty ideas as democracy, however,
focusing instead on the bottom line. In the world of high-tech privacy, companies such as AOL are also
two-timers, collecting data on users of their services so they can better feed us advertising and other
revenue-generating products, even as they try to protect that data from identity thieves. In acquiescing
to the unwarranted demand of the Justice Department to pore over the companies' records, AOL,
Yahoo and Microsoft are sliding down a slippery slope, unconvincingly claiming the data dump to the feds
has no implications for online privacy. Does anybody think they won't cooperate if the government comes
back and asks for IP addresses -- your computer's unique signature on the Web -- for everybody who
dared type in questionable searches such as "growing marijuana" and 'fertilizer bombs?'"
 

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Subject: depleated uranium

This will be this war`s Agent Orange.
I`m a Vietnam Vet and 20 years after Vietnam I got bone cancer from Agent Orange.

I urge all returning vets demand to be tested by the VA Hosp. or Vet Centers every year or so.
 Jim F
 

Dude, sorry to hear about your situation.
 

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Quotes

"It has been told by the prophets in the land that there is a president coming out of Texas, a Burning Bush.
  He will deal with abortion in the land. We ask you to give him an executive order and mantle him and give
  him a mandate with the fear of the Lord."
   -- Rev. James Nesbit, praying with "kill women's rights" activists,  Link
 

Women ARE going to lose their reproductive rights if a Democrat fails to filibuster Alito.
Doesn't anybody care about that?

We're going back to the desperate fifties, when a scared, pregnant girl sees no alternative
to visiting a flunked-out, former medical student in a dark alley with a coathanger.
 

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Horse Sex Porn Candy Teen

 Link

 Excerpt:
Attention, all who are reading this column right now, please put down your drink and leap up off the couch
and put your pants back on and log in to Google and type the words "hot bunny terrorist fluffer banana"
into the comely and world-beloved Google search engine. Do it. Do it now. Oh no wait, make it  "Osama butt
pancake lube explosives yay." Or better yet, try "homemade nuke porn lollipop kiddie nipple bomb!!!"
(Be sure to include extra exclamation points because as we all know, Dubya isn't the brightest of presidents
and these will add zing and personality to your entry and make your search terms -- the very ones the Bush
administration is right now subpoenaing the Google corporation to gain access to -- really stand out to the
FBI and the Department of Justice, which are always in need of a little zing). It shall be a mini-movement.
It shall be called 'Operation Screw With the DOJ and Make Lynne Cheney Squirm.'"
 

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Rove's Early Warning

 Link

 Excerpt:
What Democrats should have learned is that they cannot evade the security debate. They must challenge
the terms under which Rove and Bush would conduct it. Imagine, for example, directly taking on that line
about Sept. 11. Does having a "post-9/11 worldview" mean allowing Bush to do absolutely anything he wants,
any time he wants, without having to answer to the courts, Congress or the public? Most Americans -- including
a lot of libertarian-leaning Republicans -- reject such an anti-constitutional view of presidential power.

If Democrats aren't willing to take on this issue, what's the point of being an opposition party?"
 

I've been asking that question for years...
 

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Subject: hey from Tom

I have been reading your work for years, and I have disagreed with very few things you've said.

(I am not a poker fan, I've never found Chinaco anywhere, and I work in the auto industry,
so I've not agreed with some of your thoughts on Ford/GM).

Anyway, I agree with the other 99% of what you've written.
I don't find viewpoints different than mine to be a danger.
That is (or is supposed to be) the inherant liberal mindset.
I have to think that most of your readers feel the same way.

So I will be stickin' with you, and shouting a few 'Amens' as I read the page
(which gets me some strange looks from my coworkers).
There are a bunch of us here in Motown who read your page daily!

Tom
 

 Comments?

Del Castillo on Tour

Thursday -- January 26 - Nashville, TN - 12th & Porter
Friday - January 27 - Atlanta, GA - Smith's Olde Bar
Saturday - January 28 - Memphis, TN - Young Avenue Deli
Friday - February 3 - Kansas City, MO - Grand Emporium
Thursday - March 2 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues with STYX
Friday - March 3 - West Hollywood, CA - House of Blues with STYX
Saturday - March 4 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues with STYX
Sunday - March 5 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues with STYX
 

 You can't have two guitar players this good in the same band.
 It's just not right.

 And when they do the twin leads, whatever that's called,
 your ears just can't believe what they're hearing.

 Most bands don't have one guitarist as good as either of these guys.
 

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Subject: trading hostages for votes

 ermmmm--
Bush didn't run for Prez in 1980.
That was Reagan.

I disagree.
Reagan was Bush's stooge, his unwitting dupe.
George Herbert Herbert Bush was president from 1981-1993.
 

My understanding is that Reagan DID negotiate with Iran to hang on to the hostages 
until he was inaugurated and me may have sent Bush the elder to do the negotiating.

2crows. 
 

True, but it's illegal for private citizens to conduct American foreign policy, not to mention 
the crime of having the terrorist-kidnappers to keep their hostages longer than they wanted to.
 

 Comments?

From: John Kerry

To: Icavedin  (That's my screen name at johnkerry.com)

Subject: Stand with us: No on Alito

Dear Icavedin,

I've studied Alito.  I am left with the conclusion: Alito will move the Court backwards.
I will vote against Alito. This is an important fight.

The bottom line is he cannot be trusted.
We can't trust him to stand up to government abuse of power.
We can't trust him to protect our right to privacy.
We can't trust him to defend mainstream American values.

To muster enough Senators to defeat Judge Alito, the American people have to
make it clear that they are against his nomination. That's where you come in.
By speaking out, you will help us convince other Senators to join our fight.

John Kerry.
 

Hey John, why don't you sac up and filibuster his lying ass?
Why do you claim you need thousands of signatures?

All you need is an ounce of courage, John.
Can we get that from you?

...or will you just cave in again?
 

 Comments?
 

Reminder:

Have you made your TV signs yet for Bush's State of the Union speech?
There will be big prizes for the top few winners.

The speech is a week from tonight.

Quotes

"After joking at the start that he never cared much for lectures during his
  college days, Bush lectured for nearly a full hour too long. This Q-and-A session
  featured more softballs than a weekend slow-pitch tournament."
     -- Rick Dean, Topeka Capital-Journal, on Dubya's speech at Kansas State, Link
 

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Racketeering Charge may be Added in Biggie Suit

 Link

 Excerpt:
Lawyers for the Notorious B.I.G.'s family have revealed that they may add a civil racketeering claim
when they file a renewed wrongful death lawsuit against the crooked cops at the LAPD.

Biggie's mother and his widow, accused convicted corrupt cops Rafael Perez and David Mack of
conspiring to kill Biggie with "Suge" Knight after a Vibe party in March 1997.

"We are considering a racketeering action," the Wallace family attorney Perry Sanders told New York's Daily News.
Sanders said he has not received the 81 CDs containing new information from LAPD's Goon Squad.

If the racketeering charge proves successful, Biggie's family could triple their money in damages.
The LA City Council rejected a bid by the Biggie family to settle the case for $18 million last year.
.

First, the crooked cops help kill the innocent victim.
After getting caught, they get caught a second time hiding relevant evidence.
Now they are late giving that hidden evidence to Sanders as ordered by the judge?
 

My math ain't so good - what's $18 million tripled?
 

 Comments?

Subject:  are conservatives changing

...or are they just continuing their tradition of double-standard hypocrisy???

On warrantless wiretaps Bush/Gonzales claim the president has "inherent"
constitutional power to order snooping even if Congress didn't allow it.

The "mushy" concept of "inherent power" is cleary at odds with a "strict constructionist"
constitutional interpretation that the right has argued for.  Why doesn't some reporter
pin Gonzales (or better yet Bush) on this flip-flop?

Bush claims power to follow laws based on his own interpretations (recent torture legislation he signed).
But, he claims judges should be strict constructionists. So (as is typical) he doesn't practice what he preaches.

Aren't journalists doing their job anymore?
Maybe I missed it - if, so I've been asleep.
If not, the media has.

- Jonny Spot
 

Jonny, when the Great Cock Hunt of 1998 ended, so did press interest on Presidential crimes.
Bush can do no wrong - he was sent by God, personally.
 

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Quotes

Wolf the Whore: How worried are you, if you are worried, that the Israelis might decide
                            to take unilateral military action against Iranian nuclear facilities?

Eagleburger: I'm not really certain that the Israelis could pull it off.
                             And under those circumstances I hope they wouldn't try.

Wolf the Whore: Ambassador Holbrooke, what do you think?

Holbrooke: The Iranians are the problem, not the Israelis. This president is a madman.

Wolf the Whore: Which president?

Holbrooke:The Iranian president.
 

Thanks to Capt Mathman   Link
 

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Village People Cop on the Lam

 Link

 Excerpt:
The original policeman from the Village People decided not to face the law in a San Mateo Court Tuesday.

Victor Willis, who co-wrote "YMCA" and "In the Navy," failed to surrender so that he could be sentenced
in connection with possessing cocaine, a probation violation and other charges.
 

 Comments?

Subject: Re: hey from bart

Hey Bart,

It's impossible to write a page with no conflict or monkey mail.
Once in a while we disagree about something, as it should be.
I never learned anything from people who I completely agree with.

Some folks aren't interested in new  ideas, one of those folks is the preznit.

Keep swingin' that hammer
Steve
 

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Isiah Thomas Accused
 All successful black men must be taken down

 Link

 Excerpt:
New York Knicks team president Isiah Thomas is accused of sexual harassment and
discrimination by one of the team's former front-office employees in a federal lawsuit.

Anucha Browne Sanders claims Thomas made unwanted sexual advances toward her and refused to stop,
according to her lawsuit. Thomas and Madison Square Garden are listed as the defendants in the lawsuit,
which charges them with sex discrimination and retaliation.
 

Maybe Thomas is guilty, I don't know - I wasn't there.
But can't we have ONE successful black man without the taint?

How long before they find a dead hooker in the trunk of Harry Belafonte's car?
 

  Comments?

TV Stuff

The Shield is such a great TV series, and this last season could easily be their finest.
Forrest Whitaker, one of my all time faves, is the bad guy who's actually the good guy
who's trying to take down our hero, the murderous murderer Vic Mackey.

Vic is like Smirk, except:
He only kills when he has to,
He doesn't giggle when he kills
He has a heart.

Americal Idol - That perky blonde who sang "Since You've Been Gone?"
They're grooming her to win the whole shebang.
That back story with the deserting mother is like an Olympic story.
 

  Comments?

Katie Holmes Sundance Mystery
 Does Cruise have too much control of her?

.
  "They never allow me to be alone..."

 Link
 
 

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