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Friday Jan 26, 2007 Vol 1917 - O.P.K.
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Quotes
"I don't support the President's surge plan.
Bush's plan is not tied
to a specific strategy and will only
needlessly endanger more soldiers."
-- House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX),
Link
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Bush's War
on the Republic
by Robert Parry
Excerpt:
From the beginning of the "war on terror," George
W. Bush has lied to the American people about the goals,
motivation and even the identity of the enemy
- a propaganda exercise that continued through his 2007
State of the Union Address and that is sounding
the death knell for the Republic.
Since 2001, rather than focusing on the al-Qaeda
Sunni fundamentalist terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks, Bush has
expanded the conflict exponentially - tossing
in unrelated enemies such as Iraq's secular dictator Saddam Hussein,
Shiite-led Iran, Syria and Islamic militants
opposed to Israel, like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
In effect, Bush has transformed what began as
a definable military objective - the defeat of "terrorist groups with
global reach" - into an endless war against what
he regards as evil, a conflict so vague that it is claiming as collateral
damage America's "unalienable rights" and the
Founders' checks and balances on the powers of the Executive.
In Bush's State of the Union speech on Jan. 23,
there could be heard a requiem for the Republic.
Robert Parry doesn't use imflammatory language
for effect.
Bush is really screwing up the whole planet and
he must be stopped right away.
We need for Bush to get a blowjob so he can be impeached.
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GET YOUR WAR ON OFF BROADWAY!
January 9 - 28, 2007
59E59 Theatres at 59 East 59th Street
New York, NY
For tickets, call 212-279-4200
If I was in New York, I'd go see this show.
David Rees is a genius.
Used with permission
http://www.mnftiu.cc
Quotes
"The Senate should step back for a moment and
give you [Gen. Petraeus] a chance...
Perhaps a last chance, to succeeed
in Iraq. If God forbid, you are unable to succeed,
then there will be plenty of time
for the resolutions of disapproval or the other
alternatives that have been contemplated."
--
Joe let-the-soldiers-die Lieberman, Link
"If Lieberman honestly thinks that "there will
be plenty of time" to change direction in Iraq
once the "surge" fails, then he's an
even bigger fool than I thought."
-- Greg Saunders, Link
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Cheney controls Russert
Excerpt:
Memo to Tim Russert: Dick Cheney thinks he controls
you.
Duh!
This delicious morsel about the "Meet the Press"
host and Cheney was part of the extensive dish
Cathie Martin served up yesterday when she, the
former Cheney communications director, took the
stand in the perjury trial of former "Scooter"
Libby.
Flashed on the courtroom computer screens were
her notes from 2004 about how Cheney could respond
to allegations that the Bush administration had
played fast and loose with evidence of Iraq's nuclear ambitions.
Option 1: "MTP-VP," she wrote, then listed the
pros and cons of a Snarl being on Meet the Whore.
Under "pro," she wrote: "control message."
"I suggested we put the vice president on 'Meet
the Press,' which was a tactic we often used,"
Martin testified. "It's our best format."
Well of course it's your best format, because Timmy is the softest interview
in DC - for a Republican.
Russert always asks the tough question - singular - and when the republican
lies and refuses to answer,
that's good enough for Tim and he mobes on. Russert is softer on the
BFEE than FOX News,
which is why they always go to Russert first.
There's only one thing that can turn Tim the Whore into a pit
bull.
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Aide: Cheney led war on Plame
Excerpt:
Cheney personally orchestrated his office's 2003
efforts to rebut allegations that they used flawed intelligence
to justify the quagmire in Iraq and discredit
a critic who Cheney believed was making him look foolish,
according to testimony and evidence yesterday
in the Libby trial..
Cheney dictated talking points for a White House
briefing in the midst of the controversy that summer, his former
press aide, Cathie Martin, testified, stressing
that the CIA never told Cheney that a CIA-sponsored mission had
found no real evidence that Iraq was trying to
buy nuclear materials in Africa.
Martin portrayed Cheney as a general on a political
battlefield -- enmeshed in tactics, but also deputizing
Scooter Libby to handle the dirty job of persuading
journalists that Joe Wilson was all wrong.
Martin recalled giving Cheney and Libby information
from the CIA that Wilson went to Niger "and his wife works
for the CIA." Martin is the fourth
witness from the administration to bolster the prosecution's claim that
Libby
had to be lying when he said he learned about
Wilson's wife weeks later from Russert the whore.
Gee, it'd be great if Russert went to prison with his best friends in the BFEE.
"Unka
Dick, is Tim's rump as soft as it looks?"
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Subject: WMDs and Hillary
Bart,
She doesn't have a chance in 2008.
She does not have the strength of her convictions...whatever
they are.
We are now living in a dictatorship.
You got one third of that right.
Nobody can stop the half-wit from continuing the
war and raping and stealing our country blind.
We still have no oppositon party...no matter
the results of the last election. There were never any WMDs.
I knew that in 2000.
If you were willing to bet 100 million lives on
that hunch,
I'm glad you're not the president, either.
Anybody with a functioning brain knew that the
2000 election was rigged and that
the Dems and the MSM lay down like the dogs they
are.
I can't argue with the truth.
If we had a functioning Democracy these thieving
murderers could not have destroyed our country for all
but the very, very rich.If Hillary said the war
is a nightmare and that the imbecile lies with every breath he takes,
she would have the nomination hands down.
But NO!!! She has to poll each word she utters.
The nomination is hers to lose.
No offense, but I think she and Bill know more about winning than you.
We are thirsting, yes, starving for someone to
speak our truth.
Someone to say...yes, we are living
in an insane asylum run by murdering lunatics and yet, everyone pretends
- the MSM, the Dems, the GOP, the Pundits that
we are really at war. We are not really at war, we are in
a PR war and nobody is pulling back the curtain
to reveal the ugliness and the HORROR!
I'm confused because there's plenty of horror in almost every direction
you look.
The first Democrat to speak this irrefutable truth
will be the next President of the United States!
George W. Bush is the only terrorist that I'm
really afraid of.
Jack
Yes, Bush is the world's most dangerous terrorist.
It would be great if we didn't have to wade thru 23 more months of
his
rapes and murder and torture-insanity before we got change.
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Now everybody has a Diebold key
Excerpt:
Could an attacker create a working key from the
[Diebold website] photograph?
Ross [Kinard of SploitCast] decided to
find out. Here's what he did:
I bought three blank keys from Ace.
Then a drill vise and three cabinet locks that
used a different type of key from Lowes.
I hoped that the spacing and depths on the cabinet
locks' keys would be similar to those on the
voting machine key. With some files I had I then
made three keys to look like the key in the picture.
Congress needs to pass laws mandating a paper trail for votes cast.
Let's out these Diebold crooks out of business..
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Subject:
If only James Carville hadn't picked up the phone
to tip off Matalin about Kerry's intention to contest Ohio.
Then Matalin would not have picked up the phone
to tip off Cheney. Then the two Ohio election workers
who were convicted on felony election fraud charges
yesterday would not have thrown the election.
I think you're leaping.
In a close race, the GOP would have to expect
the results to be contested, unless Bob Shrum
told Kerry the Quitter to fold before the polls
close. The way we heard the story, Kerry was
damn eager to conceed but the Giggling Murderer
had already been put to bed by Condi.
The more you blame Gore and Kerry, the more you
allow your readers to be distracted
from the real issue...election fraud.
I think a top priority in a Democratic presidential
candidate is willingness to fight.
In politics, it's more important than mother's
milk.
Without it, the GOP will just run us over like
the last two times.
Nothing President Gore or President Kerry did
can match the sheer stupidity of Bill Clinton
allowing the Republicans to catch him literally
with his pants down in the Oval Office.
MAM
That's a cheap shot.
Why go after Clinton when the topic is "Desire to win?"
And remember, they had to cheat to win.
Before Clinton, they agreed to keep a man's sex life out of the fight.
(But we're not allowed to know how many felonies Bush has.)
And the crooked whore Supreme Court bent/broke legal precedent after
legal precedent
to allow the bastard Fascist dogs to get him under oath so they could
attempt to entrap him.
(But there's no need for Bush & Cheney to talk about 9-11 under
oath.)
Yes, it was a big blunder, but Clinton's no quitter.
I'd pick a peace-loving, no-soldiers-dying genius with an eye for the
ladies
over a too-scared-to-fight-back quitter any day.
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Hoodies!
I thought it was pure genius to photograph the shotglass on it's side,
kinda like how you feel after drinking Cuervo Gold.
Photos by mariomorgado.com
Frank vs Tipper and Bart
I got too many e-mails to print and reply to all of them
but I did what I could in the time I had.
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Subject: Prosecutorial Misconduct
I am a young (white) real estate attorney here
in texas. in order for you to graduate from law school
you must complete a thesis. the topic i
wrote about was the ineffectiveness of court appointed attorneys
in capital punishment cases (there are virtually
no requirements to get appointed to one of these cases
and that's a whole long story unto itself here
in the state where we kill more of our own citizens than
most third world countries)
What i discovered was that in nearly every case
there was prosecutorial or investigation misconduct
(i.e. witholding exculpatory evidence, intimidating
witnesses, etc...) in some of these cases you would
have thought that the DA was with the mob.
My point here is that i think that this goes on more often
than we know and the only reason we know about
this particular instance is because the perps in this case
are white and the "victims" are black
In the overwhelming majority of the cases i looked
at were texas murder and rape cases, almost every
prisoner in texas who was executed was black
and the victim was white. I think the prosecutorial
misconduct needs to be addressed and hopefully
this case will bring to light something that is rarely discussed.
keep hammering!
Sean
Innocent, after serving 21 years
Excerpt:
DNA evidence has cleared Willie O. "Pete" Williams,
an Atlanta man who has served 21 years in prison
for raping and kidnapping a woman in April 1985,
Williams' lawyers said today.
Williams, who is now 44, was convicted largely
on the eyewitness testimony of the rape victim and of
another woman who was assaulted.
Williams has always proclaimed his innocence,
a spokeswoman with the Georgia Innocence Project said.
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McCain,
too old to be president?
He fell asleep during the SotU Lies
Excerpt:
"If you're McCain, who will be over 70 by 2008,
you'll want to make doubly sure to demonstrate your
alertness and vigor. You definitely won't want
to slump in your seat, out cold, when Bush starts talking
about Iraq. And yet that's exactly what McCain
did tonight, napping on camera for ten agonizing seconds.
Lack of self-control? An expression of contempt?
Embarrassing in any case," says Tucker Carlson
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Subject: About Marc's letter...
Hey Bart,
Kudos to Marc Perkel!
Of course, we all know that he's a great writer,
concise, on point,
grammatically correct, and all of the other things
that matter.
But getting your letter printed in the "Letters-to-the-Editor"
section of the
New York Times is NOT easy to do - but he did
it, and done it good, too...
We are proud of him!
Sally P
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Want to trade links?
Random thought...
The term "sex slave" has kinda become a joke for people like you and
me.
I don't mean that as a slam, it's just that you and me don't have to
worry about things like that.
If we heard that "slavery" was going on somewhere, we'd rightly put
our foot down.
But sexual slavery is going on in every corner of the globe
where people have no hope.
There's a movie coming out - check out the trailer.
The usual disclaimer:
I was never sexually abused and I never sexually abused anyone.
Each time I mention the rapist priests, I can feel people thinking,
"Did it happen to Bart? Why is he so passionate
about priests raping children?"
Bully sons of bitches piss me off - they always have - and I'd enjoy
teaching a bully a lesson.
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Quotes
"Bush has the lowest presidential approval
rating since Nixon. Here's another coincidence.
Nixon had a dog named 'Checkers.' Bush
plays checkers with his dog"
-- David Letterman
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FCC - Heat from Democrats
Excerpt:
As congressional Democrats prepare to give the
Federal
Communications Commission its toughest
scrutiny in years, a rivalry between the powerful
agency's two most prominent Republicans is raising
questions about its readiness to handle barbed
questions and stiff challenges.
The Republican-controlled FCC -- which makes far-reaching
decisions on telephone, television, radio,
Internet and other services that people use daily
-- has sparred infrequently with Republican-controlled
congresses. But the Democratic-run 110th Congress
is about to heat up the grill, starting with a Senate
Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee
hearing on Thursday.
First thing, let's get back to sanity. If
a boob pops out of some woman's dress,
there's no need to fine every affiliate who broadcast the event.
Second, why does the minority have 1500 radio stations and the majority has 1 - sort of.
Third, no restrictions and no taxes on the Internet.
There's more, but I'm behind...
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Subject: Cheney on Wolf "the Sheep" Blitzer
Bart,
So you saw that crap on Blitzer too?!
Could you believe Blitzer cowering down to Cheney
after the question about his daughter?
If you missed that segment, he asked about the
pregnancy of Cheney's lesbian daughter,
and the outrage of the Christian Right. Cheney
scolded Wolf for even bringing it up,
saying the question was inappropriate.
Blitzer groveled and apologized, rather than reply:
"It's an appropriate question because
YOU and W made the 2004 election a referendum
on fag hating. So how do you support
your daughter while staying married to the 'God
Hates Fags' crowd?"
What a sheep in Wolf's clothing.
Andy
I agree.
Cheney wants us to hate all "fags," except for
his daughter, who's a great, loving person.
So why aren't all gays "great, loving
people?"
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Subject: Cindy and Hillary
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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 is stealing $220,000,000 every day.
No wonder they were so eager to start a war,
stealing $220,000,000 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...
3,064....3,067
American victims
We lost 3
more since last issue
while the Little Dictator talks domestic issues.
...and how much did BIG OIL make yesterday?
Exxon
makes $100M - every day
5 more soldiers
dead,
but Exxon makes $100
profit
per day
Bush can live with that.
Bush has killed more than Americans than Osama.
Bush, Iraq
and Poker
by Stephen P. Pizzo
newsforreal.com Jan 25 column
Excerpt:
The other rule of Texas high-rollers back then
was to never place your own money into risky deals.
Instead use what they called "OPM," Other People's
Money. In the case of the S&L debacle,
the money stolen and squandered was taxpayer
insured savings. .
That's precisely the kind of deal Bush has had
going in Iraq, and wants to extend. He's not putting
his own children's lives at risk, but OPK - Other
People's Kids. And his rolling deployments gathers no loss.
As long as he can keep feeding fresh troops into
Iraq his project cannot be proven a failure. If Bush can
just keep borrowing other people's kids to place
at risk, and rolling over - renewing -- his Iraq policy
for just two more years, he's home free. It's
another Texas "win/win" in which the perp gets away
and the American people pay the price.
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Subject: I would be shocked if you published this email;
You have often made the argument that the members
of congress were given bad intelligence upon which
they voted to give Bush war toys. Many Dems voted
against the authorization, and I would like to single out
one in particular: Sen Bob Graham
of Fla. He also was the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
He had as much intelligence from all sources
as any member of congress.
If Hillary, or any Senator considering a vote to give the President a blank check to make war,
It's a good thing you started that sentence with "If."
...wanted another perspective, she could have
spoken with her esteemed Chairman of intelligence to see how
he could vote "no" based on what he knew. Those
who voted yes did so with full access to information which
cast doubts upon the assertions of the president
and head of CIA. Either they were too lazy to pursue it further,
or voted yes for political reasons. I happen
to think it is the latter. Dems did not want to appear "weak" on
homeland security matters, and to use the canard
that they were told an attack by Saddam was imminent,
is just using political cover.
But you're saying Bush was honest and straightforward with congress.
That's a very odd thing to believe as a reader of this page.
What did Bob Graham know that those who voted
yes did not know?
On a matter of such importance, any Senator with
a conscience should have found out.
I would be shocked if you published this email;
you have ignored previous letters I have written
which addressed this issue.
MP
I can't speak for Graham, but if he KNEW for a fact that the threat
was bogus, why wasn't he
setting his hair on fire to get people's attention and save those 3054
(so far) soldiers' lives?
I didn't hear a peep from Graham - did you?
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Subject: BCR Show 103 feedback
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I agree with Robbie in Florida.
I love the long shows, but given the choice between
shorter shows
more often and longer shows spaced apart, I'll
take the shorter shows.
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Best of all, bad feedback tells me what I need to correct
Most people seem to like the newer, fresher BCR format.
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I need to raise our subscription rate in the worst way...
Maybe if I can produce regular weekly shows with some entertainment
value,
I could convince more people to subscribe.
I'm 96% cheaper than visiting a therapist.
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Pokerfest/Tequilafest Jersey?
We're thinking about April 28 in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
But the only way I can afford to do this would be as a fundraiser.
Since we're not paying casinoe* rates, it'll be cheaper than Vegas,
maybe $30,
but we also need a minimum amount of people to attend to make it happen.
My days of gambling on fests are over, Democrats can't afford to party,
but it still could happen if there's enough interest.
If you might attend, send me an e-mail.
If I don't get enough maybes, we'll talk about a LA fest.
Also, the date is flexible, if April 28 is a bad date for everyone.
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From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat (A Republican paper, I assume)
Subject: Bush zealots
For two days in a row your editorials spoke
derogatorily of "zealots on the edge of the political
spectrum." In referring specifically to those "demanding
the president's impeachment," you say it "distracts from
the real work of changing the direction of the federal
government."
The work of a functioning American government includes
the use of checks and balances. President Bush's
arrogance and abuse of power threaten our Constitution.
This Congress should face the real work of impeachment,
responding as they should to government by the people.
President Bush has lied to the nation and Congress
getting us involved in a costly war, directed illegal
wiretapping and personal mail surveillance, condoned the
use of torture and covered-up the leak exposing an
operative CIA agent. He also failed to mobilize
emergency response when Americans were in harm's way in
the face of Katrina.
Is it possible the Bush Administration are the "zealots"
whom we should really fear? I, for one, am ashamed of
the actions of this government. The legacy of this
generation should not be of Americans who did nothing
when we could. We cannot allow a future president to
think he can act above the law because we let it happen
now. Apparently for those who love justice and the
Constitution we must continually guard against the zealots.
GLENN TRYON
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Subject: re Scorcese
Bart,
I so agree with you about Scorsese.
I always wished I could find a way to thank him
for producing "The Age Of Innocence".
It was a perfect movie with every detail of that
era of New York Society carefully researched.
I don't believe many people saw it; and some younger
people who did could not understand it.
He made it purely for the love of artistry and
perfection and it is a true gem.
It is one of the most memorable movies I have
ever seen.
It was a sumptuous feast for the eyes and brought
to life an interesting classic.
All of his movies have been great.
I don't think an Oscar suits him--he is in a
class by himself.
Carolyn G
Carolyn, I feel your passion, and I love it.
I think Marty got robbed on Goodfellas.
I think Goodfellas is 3/4 as good as The Godfather,
and that ain't no slur.
Surely, this year Marty gets his Oscar, and won't that
speech be sweet?
Jennifer Love Hewitt
See
more of 'Love' at BC
Hotties
BTW, TV Guide says Jennifer Aniston will play a lesbian
when she visits
her old Friend Courteney Cox on Dirt in
March - and they'll be kissing.
I told you that was a good show :).
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