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Tuesday Jan 16, 2007 Vol 1911 - Lost halo
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Quotes
"The most dangerous George Bush is one who
feels weak, powerless and under attack.
I doubt there are many limits, if there
are any, on what he would be willing to do in order to
restore a feeling of power and to rid
himself of the sensations of his own weakness and defeat."
-- Glenn Greenwald, "Bush
collapse poses risks"
What's scarier than a cornered monkey with nukes?
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Waist Deep
in the Big Muddy
by Greg Palast
Excerpt:
Bush has an urge to surge. Like every junkie,
he asks for just one more fix:
let him inject just 21,000 more troops and that
will win the war.
Been there. Done that.
Bush is asking us to save Iraq from the Iraqis.
There's always a problem with giving a junkie
another fix. It can only make things worse.
Our maximum leader says that unless he gets to
mainline another 21,000 troops,
"Iran would be emboldened in its pursuit of nuclear
weapons," and terrorists
"would have a safe haven from which to plan and
launch attacks on the American people."
Excuse me, but didn't we hear that same promise
in 2003? Nearly four years ago, on the eve
of invasion, this same George Bush promised,
"The terrorist threat to America and the world
will be diminished the moment that Saddam Hussein
is disarmed."
Maybe the title should be "Waste Deep," since Bush
has stolen/wasted more money than any other president.
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Quotes
"Jack, is it important? I'm really busy..."
-- Chloe on 24, telling Jack,
with whom she's saved the world 13 times,
that's she's "busy" with
"important stuff" and doesn't have time for him.
24 is an incredibly poorly-written, high-budget, action TV show.
They can't even remember that Chloe wears a white hat, and would follow
any order
Jack gave her in a heartbeat, even risking losing her job and kail
time for him.
This is really exciting, but super-stupid, TV.
In the two-hour premier, they traded Jack to the bad guys for "Ahmed
the terrorist," we'll say.
Trouble is, any high school kid with an IQ of 44 has done a dope deal,
and the first rule in
the dope deal is, "I'll let go of my money
after
I see the goods."
But the handjobs at America's CTU never bought pot as teens, so they
don't have the f-ing brains
to insist that they trade Jack for the bad guy right
then, but noooooooooooooooooooooo.
They agreed to a prisoner-swap under the conditions that after
the bad guys leave with Jack,
(and CTU agreed to turn all their satellites off) the terrorists would
call them at some later date
and tell them where "Ahmed the terrorist," might be hiding.
For this, the president gives up the man who saved the world 13 times?
If only Veronica Mars was the president.
She's waaaaaaay smarter than anyone has ever been on the high-budget
24.
If they render my subversive ass to Gitmo, don't send Jack Bauer to
save me.
Send Veronica Mars.
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Poll on AOL
Which president
was best?
Bill Clinton 30%
Ronald Reagan 27%
John F. Kennedy 17%
Dwight Eisenhower 13%
George W. Bush 5% (That's
a shocker)
Richard Nixon 2%
George H.W. Bush 2%
Jimmy Carter 2%
Gerald Ford 2%
Total Votes: 406,002
Which president
was worst?
George W. Bush 49%
Jimmy Carter 25%
Bill Clinton 15%
Richard Nixon 6%
George H.W. Bush 3%
Ronald Reagan 1%
Gerald Ford 1%
John F. Kennedy 1%
Dwight Eisenhower 0%
Total Votes: 408,543
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We might "win" but still lose
Excerpt:
Joint operations against Shiite militias are
far less likely, and not only because of political interference
from the top. Groups like al-Sadr's Mahdi Army
don't generally start fire fights with the Americans or
attack Iraqi forces. Their goals are different,
quieter. Another U.S. adviser, Maj. Mark Brady, confirms
reports that the Mahdi Army has been continuing
to systematically take over Sunni neighborhoods, killing,
terrorizing and forcing people out of their homes.
"They're slowly moving across the river," he told Hastings,
from predominantly Shiite eastern Baghdad into
the predominantly Sunni west. If the 20,000 additional
American troops being sent to the Iraqi capital
focus primarily on Sunni insurgents, there's a chance the
Shiite militias might get bolder. Colonel Duke
puts it bluntly: '[The Mahdi Army] is sitting on the 50-yard line
eating popcorn, watching us do their work for
them.'" am
I never claimed to have much in the IQ department, but I can't understand
how we
have ANY chance to win because the puppet government Bush installed
is loyal to Iran.
They're so loyal to Iraq they don't mind dying for it.
How is it I understand that, but America's Little Dictator doesn't?
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Subject: the real terrorists
Dear Bart:
I think you are on to something with your real v. fake terrorists rant.
In a similar vain, if real terrorists had attacked
us on 9-11, we would have taken measures to actually
improve our security against terrorists such
as inspecting incoming cargo, better security at nuclear
power plants, etc. Instead, we have only
pretended to address the terrorist threat with meaningless
gestures like making people take their shoes
off at airports and limiting carry-on fluids.
The 9-11 attacks were a hoax.
The security measures taken since are a hoax.
The same people are behind both hoaxes.
Jim Wilson
Jim, I suspect you are correct, but all we know for sure is Bush is lying.
If he was innocent on 9-11, why couldn't he testify under oath with
cameras?
Clinton had to, when it was very, very important to find out about
his zipper,
but when it's 3,000 (now 6,000) dead, Bush says we don't need
to get to the bottom of it.
But there IS a reason why they've refused to attack
us here.
It's scary wondering what that reason might be...
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War Escalation
Aimed at Securing Iraqi Oil
by Chris Floyd
Excerpt:
At any time within the next few days, the Iraqi
Council of Ministers is expected to approve
a new "hydrocarbon law" essentially drawn up
by the Bush Administration and its U.K. lackey.
The new bill will "radically redraw the Iraqi
oil industry and throw open the doors to the third-largest
oil reserves in the world," say the paper, whose
reporters have seen a draft of the new law. "It would
allow the first large-scale operation of foreign
oil companies in the country since the industry was
nationalized in 1972." If the government's parliamentary
majority prevails, the law should take effect in March.
As the paper notes, the law will give Exxon, BP,
Shell and other Bush cronies sweetheart deals,
allowing them to pump gargantuan profits from
Iraq's nominally state-owned oilfields for decades to come.
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Subject: re: power outage - Welcome to My World
We've had two 3-day outages and a 24 hour outage
this winter.
I'm afraid to clean up the yard, every time I
do we have another storm.
Lack of power and boredom can really motivate
a person. I finally hooked up
that propane water heater, repaired the gas fireplace
in the living room and repaired
that 1000 watt generator I bought used for next
to nothing 6 years ago.
Lost the contents of the refrigerator/freezer
twice but at least
I could read Bartcop and watch the Daily Show.
Walt
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Nuke on '24' Causes Fallout for FOX
Excerpt:
"How much longer? I hear someone," says the nervous
terrorist with a heavy Middle Eastern accent,
just before U.S. agents storm a warehouse where
a nuclear device is being assembled. Confusion reigns,
drama builds, the device is detonated and a mushroom
cloud looms over Los Angeles. Such is primetime
television in the age of terrorism, or as some
critics charge, has "24" gone too far?
"It's the closest television comes to roller coasters,"
said David Bianculli, of the New York Daily Whore.
"It works well dramatically, and as far as feeding
fears, that's what '24' is all about."
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Subject: marijuana and driving
Personal experience shows my foot is lighter when
I puff.
Studies show this is the case.
Marijuana's Effects on Actual Driving Performance
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/misc/driving/s1p2.htm
Excerpt:
All subjects were able to complete the series
without suffering any untoward reaction while driving
The MADD crowd certainly wishes it were not so,
but it would serve their purposes well to help
spread the word.
Julian
The first rule of drug laws and studies ought
to be "Tell the truth," but it's not.
The government lies and parents lie to their
kids.
The kids know
their parents and government are lying to them
so they disregard their words when it comes to
more dangerous drugs.
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Bush is Mistakenly Aggressive
Excerpt:
In fact, administration officials (anonymously)
concede that Bush's Iran language may have been
overly aggressive, raising unwarranted fears
about military strikes on Tehran. Instead, they say,
Bush was trying to warn Iran to keep its operatives
out of Iraq, and to reassure Gulf allies - including
his owners in Saudi Arabia - that he would protect
them against Iranian aggression. One senior
administration official says the policy is part
of the new Iraq offensive.
Please. I know these people are dumb, but even
they aren't this dumb.
Bush is trying to provoke Iran into some kind
of Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Bush couldn't run the fry stand at a McDonalds,
but we let him make decisions that make the world different?
With our military barely hanging on,
how can he start a third war (that he'll lose)?
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Cheney: We need 'the stomach'
Excerpt:
Cheney said on Sunday the United States must
show it has the "stomach" to win in Iraq
or it will confirm bin Laden's view that Americans
can be pressured to leave.
U.S. allies helping in fighting terrorism must
have confidence that the United States
will stay until a successful outcome, he said.
"If the United States doesn't have the stomach
to finish the task in Iraq, we put at risk
what we've done in all of those other locations,"
he said on "Fox News Sunday."
Bin Laden's strategy is to push U.S. presence
out of the region through terrorism and Iraq
is currently at the center of that battle, Cheney
said. "It's absolutely essential that we win there."
But Dick, wasn't it "essential" that we win in Vietnam, too?
But you said, you had "other priorities" when it was your turn to serve.
You're OK with sending others to die, but you were afraid to fight.
I think that's why people call you a chickenhawk.
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Quotes
"There's a simple reason the world hates Bush's
new strategy in Iraq: He spurned their advice.
He ordered a troop increase, not the
first phase of a withdrawal. He rejected the Iraq Study
Group (and
the advice of his generals). This
was a major snub by Bush, a big-time thumbing
of his nose at his critics and even
at some of those who have advised him. It was the contrarian
Bush in action again, much as he was
in his first term -- only he's less popular now.
-- Fred Barnes, dumber than Chippy the Chimp, Moonie
Times
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The Two
Vacuums
by Peggy Noonan
Excerpt:
W"There was something unnerving about the speech,
from the jumpy beginning to the stumbles to
the sound glitches. A jittery affair, and some
dusk hung over it. At the end I suspected the president's
aides had instructed him again and again not
to strut or have an edge. He perhaps understood that as:
Got it--don't be me. He couldn't
do wounded wisdom, but he could repress cocky cowboy. The result
was that he seemed not chastened but effaced,
not there. It was odd. One couldn't find the personal
geography of the speech.
There are two vacuums in the Iraq story. The first
is the vacuum that would be filled in Iraq if America
withdrew tomorrow. The second is the power vacuum
that will be created in Washington if Bush is,
indeed, collapsing. The Democrats of Capitol
Hill will fill that one. And they seem--and seemed in their
statements after the president's speech--wholly
unprepared to fill it. They seem absorbed by the small
picture of partisan advancement at the expense
of the big picture, which is that the nation is in trouble
and needs their help. They are sunk in the superficial.
This nutty bitch thinks Democrats are having trouble with reality?
We didn't get 3022 soldiers killed for no reason.
I wish the Nazi right would stop saying the Democrats have no plan.
Bush makes 100 mistakes a day and he commits 100 crimes a day.
His decisions kill soldiers and civilians every day.
Having a democrat in the White House means that will stop.
That's all the voters really need to know.
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Subject: cooling down
Hey Bart,
You wanted it to cool off. I hope you're enjoying
it.
It's been in the twenties the last few
nights in Santa Barbara.
In Santa Barbara!!!
This is bullshit.
Dan
Dan, I love the cold weather.
But as soon as this front passes thru,
it'll be back to 70 degrees in Oklahoma.
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Subject: State Farm insurance
Hey Bart, I'm fighting with State Farm.
Three roofing contractors and a roofer friend
(who was just giving me advice)
all say I have hail damage on my roof. (it leaks)
State Farm, of course,
sends an adjuster out who says he can find no
hail damage whatsoever.
Didn't they just get sues for doing this shit
in New Orleans?
They want your money hassle free but they sure
don't want to part with any.
Sparky
Sparky, sue them.
Juries hate insurance companies.
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Marty's Entertainment Page
always
has good stuff.
Click on the E!
Iraq pumped 3.5M
barrels daily before
Bush invaded
and then they got their 2003 Halliburton
upgrade
Bush's oil gouge, which is going to $100
a
barrel
makes $350,000,000
Bush
will steal every day.
No wonder they were so eager to start a war,
stealing $350,000,000 every day.
It's the biggest theft in Earth's history.
Exxon made
$10B profit in 90 days
$100M a day - all profit - because Bush started a fake war
Bush's "Bring 'em on" death taunt is up to...
3,019....3,020
American victims
More death, while the Little Dictator stalls for time.
Who will be the 2008 nominee now that Rudy is pro-quagmire
and McCain has been rejected by the religio-wacko right?
...and how much did BIG OIL make yesterday?
Exxon
makes $100M - every day
Bush has killed more than Americans than Osama.
Subject: war for profit
Hey Bart, I just ran across these stats:
"Even while broad market averages have fallen,
the share prices of defense-industry
heavy hitters have soared," says Burke.
His report points to seven year-to-date examples:
United Technologies (UTX), up 11%;
Northrop Grumman (NOC), up 12%;
Raytheon (RTN) and Boeing Co. (BA) up 16%;
Rockwell Collins Inc. (COL), up 18%;
General Dynamics (GD), up 21%; and
Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) up 25%.
PRNewswire: Defense Industry Poised to Profit
There you have it!
xoxoxoxoxo
pandora
Bush would never allow those companies to be war profiteers
unless he got a slice of the profits, himself.
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Basra preparing
to install meters
Who's been telling you for years about this?
Meanwhile, the whore media never brought it up
...and
it's the reason Bush sent 3,000 men to their deaths
Excerpt:
A South Oil Company official said they are
getting ready to install meters at Basra oil terminal,
135 km southwest of Basra city, to measure
the amount of exported.
He said installing these meters was delayed
for three years because there was no company to
undertake the project due to the security
situation. U.S. company Parsons accepted the project.
Media director Sallam al-Maksousi said, "Installing
these meters would put an end for the
groundless accusations against South Oil Company
of involvement in oil smuggling,"
In the meters are being installed, that means peace is about to break
out.
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Quotes
"The American press corps has lost its way.
There's no reason the media played along with
the administration's shifting rationales,
all untrue in the run-up to the catastrophic war in Iraq.
Congress rolled over, as we did, no
questions asked. But the result of our default has been
devastating. We lost our halo as the
visionaries for a better mankind."
-- Helen Thomas, one
of the few who tells the truth Link
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Subject: installing meters on the pumps
Since the Iraqi lackeys are about to sign over
their country's oil
to the Gang of Thieves, why NOT put back the
meters?
Now they can steal the oil legally, so there's
no need to hide the amounts.
And all our troops can switch from fighting "insurgents"
to guarding Exxon's new turf.
Mission accomplished.
If ONLY someone had predicted all this. . . .
Liz Mac
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