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Tuesday-Friday Dec 23-26, 2008 Vol 2264 - Bush's Blunderland
Thanks to Bruce Yurgil  Quote of the Day "If Cheney’s biography does not end
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Quotes
"The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an
act of blatant state terrorism,
demonstrating absolute contempt for
the concept of international law.
How many people do you have to kill
before you qualify to be described
as a mass murderer and a war criminal?
100,000?"
-- --Harold Pinter,
accepting the Nobel Prize for literature in 2005, Link
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Cheney says Democrats knew
Excerpt:
Cheney's interview with wanker Chris Wallace
was filled with significant claims, but certainly among
the most significant was his detailed narration
of how the administration, and Cheney personally, told
numerous Democratic Congressional leaders --
repeatedly and in detail -- about the NSA warrantless
eavesdropping program. And, according to
Cheney, every one of those Democrats -- every last one
-- not only urged its continuation, but insisted
that it be kept secret.
CHENEY: Regarding the terror surveillance
program. We did brief the Congress. We brought in the
chairman and the ranking member, House and
Senate, and briefed them a number of times up until
late '01 up until '04 when there was additional
controversy concerning the program.
At that point, we brought in what I describe
as the big nine — not only the intel people but also
the speaker, the majority and minority leaders
of the House and Senate, and brought them into
the situation room in the basement of the
White House.
Not that I'd ever believe anything Cheney said, but it explains a lot.
Why else would Pelosi take impeachment off the table?
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Palin named "Handjob of the Year"
Excerpt:
It's no upset, and it certainly doesn't compare
to the vice-presidency, but Sarah Palin didn't come away
from the 2008 campaign empty-handed: she's been
named "Conservative of the Year" by the right-wing
magazine Human Events. And, in an extra-special
honor for Alaska's governor, the announcement was
made by no less a personage than the She-Thing
herself, Ann Coulter.
'Sarah Palin wins HUMAN EVENTS’ prestigious “Conservative
of the Year” Award for 2008
for her genius at annoying all the right people.
The last woman to get liberals this hot under the collar
would have been … let's see now … oh, yeah: Me!'"
Remember how Ann Coulter got free McDonald's French Fries for life?
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Quotes
"If the president wants to go to war,
our job is
to find the intelligence to allow him
to do so."
-- Alan Foley, director, CIA Weapons Intelligence, to staff, December 2002,
Link
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Subject: Waiting out the Bush Administration
Waiting out the Bush administration is like being
a convict doing an 8 year sentence with less than a month to go.
The only question is if he's done so much damage
that we might not recover.
I'm not sure what is worse, what Bush did, or
that we allowed it to happen.
We have to do whatever it takes to make sure
it never happens again.
Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA.
A good start would be to impeach Nancy Pelosi.
That would tell future Speakers that they'd better do their damn jobs.
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When I was loaning money for a finance company, we almost always
"controlled the checks." That means if Bob Smith wanted to borrow
$15,000 to buy a car, we'd make the check out to the seller instead
of Bob Smith. That way we knew where the money was going.
Congress loaned these greedy bank bastards billions
so they could take that home in bonuses?
Why didn't congress have at least a Bartcop-level
of understanding of how to loan money?
Why I don't
like Obama
by Bob Parks
Excerpt:
This is the year of the Obama phenomenon, but
who is really responsible for his rise?
His shining personally and 'oratory' skills helped,
but who was really behind that and
other facets of our culture over the last few
years?
Try looking towards our white, liberal elite and
you’ll not only see their political influence
but also the mediocrity they’ve molded into our
society...
Look at pop culture - with singers who can’t sing,
writers who can’t come up with original ideas,
reality show participants with few redeeming
qualities, and behind the scenes you’ll see white
liberal elites who claim to embrace diversity,
and you’ll understand why we have a Barack Obama.
White liberal elites are America’s losers with
money.
Another complainer?
Obama could only be elected in a defective country?
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Quotes
"We've just had our civil rights taken away
by guys like you who lie and deceive in
order to get it done, and now you are
trying to invalidate 18,000 lawful marriages, too.
You know what, pastor? We gays and
lesbians are not really in a mood to be fucked with
right now, and we're not happy that
the presidential candidate we fought so hard for and
raised so much money for is throwing
us under the bus. We're pissed at Obama, not at you.
We really don't give a shit about you."
-- Dana Douglas, about Rick Warren (R-Handjob) speaking at the inaugural
Link
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The GOP winter blunderland
Excerpt:
You have to hand it to the Republicans. Seriously.
You have to. If not, they'll beat and belittle you,
take whatever you have, anyway, and then insist
you never had it in the first place.
The nicest thing I can say about the current crop
of GOP ideologues is that they're consistent.
With America currently in the shape of an ER
patient on a crash cart, Republican politicos still spew
their psychotic Bizarro World views; sort of
a fragmented funhouse mirror reflection of their already
distorted priorities. Up is down. Right is wrong.
And if you feel life has you by the short hairs,
you're not seeing life the way they do - so it's
all your fault.
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Subject: Why are you giving Obama a pass on Warren, Bart?
As gay
men and lesbians who voted for him, we can speak up when many of us feel
stabbed in the back. And we can
hold his feet to the fire if we feel he needs it.
One would
therefore think he'd be more sensitive to hatred and bigotry against gay
men and women
of a kind so loudly espoused
by Rick Warren. He wouldn't treat any other minority group who
came out in droves for him
this way. Millions of gay men and women feel stung by the results of
Proposition 8, yet Obama gives
a bigot who supported its passage a prominent place in his inauguration.
Why is
it whenever he 'reaches across the aisle' it's to homophobes and anti-choice
zealots?
Why not Aryan Nation or the
American Nazi party? Can't offend the Latinos...the Koreans...the Jews.
Why not invite the Nation
of Islam ...oh, wait. Too risky to mention Muslims in the inauguration.
Can't reach across the aisle
to them. But hey, the queers have their very own marching band!
Shouldn't they be happy with
that?
It sends
a signal to gays and lesbians that their concerns don't matter.
It's a signal to shut up and
sit in the back of the bus.
On the
contrary. Warren gets even bigger exposure. It helps to legitimize his
homophobia and
religious bigotry. He can
play it that the ultra-leftist Obama is 'beginning to see the light'.
I thought
you look with scorn upon wimpy 'pink-tutu' politicians, Bart? I think it's
most refreshing that queer
journalists of every stripe are
swinging the big hammer and not rolling over and giving a pass on Obama's
insensitivity.
We rolled over and forgave him for
Donnie "Pray The Gay Away" McClurkin. Not this time.
He's our President too and we can
call him on the carpet if he fucks up. And he did - spectacularly.
Here's a question for you, Bart.
Do you think that Hillary Clinton would have
invited Warren to speak at her inauguration?
Probably not
And would it have surprised you if Palin -McCain had invited him to speak at theirs?
You wrote:
> Could someone send me a graphic similar to this, but with Obama
getting knifed?
How about this graphic instead?
Masterlcz
I'm not gay so I don't feel the same pain you do - but I have a question:
What would make you happy?
Obama is going to make hundreds of decisons per day for the next
four years.
If he's right 98% of the time, the hard Left will crucify him for the
2% he gets wrong.
Why do we Democrats do that to each other?
Let's say inviting Warren to speak was Decision # 421 since the
election.
If he had invited someone else to speak, he would've handled
Decision
# 421 well,
but wouldn't we then complain about whatever Decision # 422
was?
If a fella makes 2 mistakes on a hundred question test, he still gets an "A," right?
We got what we wanted - yet we're
still angry - why is that?
Would you rather have four more years of Bush?
The world is never going to be perfect. Our president
is going to make mistakes.
We can always find things to complain about, but we're getting ready
to watch
the Bush bastards leave and I'm going to give the man who beat them
a break.
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Quotes
"I think we've had some serious goofs along
the way. The Katrina matter was terrible.
The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
The handing of the economy has been terrible.
Hstory may accord him a higher grade
than his contemporaries, but I would give Bush
about a C-minus right now if I were
grading him."
-- Pat Robertson, being very generous with his grading,
Link
"Only a
C-minus?
I'd give him a C-plus, at least..."
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It was a
Don Julio Christmas
for KS
and the gang!
Subject: Michael Connell
Bart, as soon as I saw that a "GOP Consultant"
had died in a small plane crash...
I knew that he had been Wellstoned.
I just didn't know why.
Thanks for the link - I now know that:
"Earlier this year Connell was subpoenaed to testify
in an Ohio federal court regarding
voter fraud just days before the November presidential
election. His alleged intimate
knowledge of White House and Capitol Hill email
systems has been a hot topic of
conversation for Washington insiders regarding
the Karl Rove/White House email scandal."
Here's a kick in the ass for ya... I went to Fox
News (to post a comment to any story they had on it
- which I was sure would leave out the above
information) and I could not find the story anywhere.
I did a search for Michael Connell and guess
what? Nothing.
What did I expect? About what I got.
So here's a little something for the to do list
- email, call, and write - FOX, Hannity, Rush, etc.
and ask them why Michael Connell's death is not
has suspicious as Vince Foster's.
Peace!
Elvis
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Marty's Entertainment Page
Marty always has good stuff.
Hannity named Liar of the Year
Excerpt:
Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor
of conservative misinformation. But never has he
so enthusiastically applied his talents for spreading
misinformation as he did to the 2008 presidential race,
focusing his energies primarily on Obama. Day
after day, Hannity devoted his two Fox News shows and
his three-hour Hate Radio program to "demonizing"
Obama, starkly explaining in August: "That's my job.
... I led the 'Stop Obama Express.' " Hannity
promoted and embellished a vast array of misleading attacks
and false claims about Obama. Along the way,
he uncritically adopted and promoted countless Republican
talking points and played host to numerous credibility-challenged
smear artists who painted Obama as a
dangerous radical. When he was not going after
Obama, Hannity attacked Obama's family, as well as
Hillary and other progressives, and denied all
the while that he had unfairly attacked anyone.
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Happy Birthday to John B who just turned 83!
Quotes
"The public might not understand that that
wasn’t the SEC’s job.
The SEC is not a safety and soundness
regulator."
-- SEC Chairman Christopher
Cox, (R-Crooked) passing blame for the mess we're in, Link
"The mission of the SEC is to protect investors,
maintain fair, orderly,
and efficient markets, and facilitate
capital formation."
-- SEC’s mission statement, Link
As long as the whore press gives them a pass,
as long as the Democrats allow the bastards to lie, cheat and
steal,
the crooked Republican billionaires will continue to lie, sheat
and steal.
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Subject: Obama's problems at the hands of Democrats
Barty, old hammer,
I know the problem Obama is having with "our"
party.
He's a pragmatist, not an idealog...inexcusable
if you're a two dimensional Democrat.
However, he may get things done...also inexcusable
if you're a two-dimensional Democrat.
Barak Obama, alpha(bet) male...a smart leader.
Wayne, Dayton
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Visit The Beat Museum in San Francisco
You might run into somebody
Dismantling Bush's Imperialism
Excerpt:
Obama's first appointments to the Justice, State
and Defense Departments mark no radical change.
Rather, they return to a centrist consensus familiar
from the Clinton years. But pragmatic incrementalism
and studied bipartisanship will do little to
undo the centerpiece of the Bush/Cheney era's legacy. At its heart,
that regime was intent on forcing the Constitution
into a new mold of executive dominance. Obama enters the
White House in a slipstream of forces that will
hinder attempts to abandon this constitutional vision. He may be
a careful constitutional scholar, but we can't
rely on Obama alone to reorient the constitutional order. It will be
up to progressives to insist on fundamental repudiation
of the Bush/Cheney era.
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Subject: Blagojevich
Hi Bart,
Bloggo is a rare breed, a Democrat who will 'fight
to his last breath'.
Whilst the punditry heaps scorn upon him, and
do gooders wring their hands, he fights, and promises to fight.
Corrupt or not, Dems could take inspiration and
use him somehow, or they could just attack him
and abandon him for an obedient lapdog who will
fold in ala Pelosi and Reid, or Salazar.
Julian
Good point - and maybe this proves an old point I've been making for years:
Remember the classic Star Trek where Kirk was split into two
people - one good and meek
while the other was a cunning, whiskey-drinking rapist who had no trouble
making decisions?
Is it a man's evil side that makes him a strong leader? (Assuming Blago
is guilty...)
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Saw it on postcards.org
Subject: Rick Warren at the Inauguration
Dude:
I agree with you. My view is, let's not make a
big deal out of this. There are so many more
important issues to get worked up about. Warren
is just one speaker among several.
Besides, can anybody remember who was in Warren's
position at Bush's last inauguration?
Probably not.
Steve
I never heard of Rick Warren until this week.
If it was some sick bastard I knew, I would have
stronger feelings about it..
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Shoe Journalist Says He Was Tortured After Arrest
Excerpt:
Muntadar al-Zeidi became an celebrity after he
hurled his shoes at Bush during a press conference.
Zeidi’s brother, the first family member to see
him in jail, reports of his torture after his arrest.
The report also throws into doubt last week’s
“apology” letter, which brother Uday al-Zeidi
insists Muntadar wrote against his will after
his torture.
The Bush bastards tortured a guy who made their Fuhrer look bad?
I'd guess 99% of the world believes that's true.
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Subject: Keeps Getting Worse... Michael Connell
Damn Bart... this keeps getting worse.
Here's an article from July... an attorney in
Ohio was seeking protection for Michael.
Apparently Rove had threatened to do him harm
if he did not take the fall for the 2004 vote fraud in Ohio.
http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/node/2164
The bad part is that now we know for sure that Bush stole 2004 as well.
I have two questions...
1 - Did Kerry's Skull and Bones association help
him decide to abandon any recounts
and investigations in Ohio? Surely he is
not so dumb that he could not see that this
christian/gop/deathcult wacko being the sole
vote counter in Ohio was suspicious.
2 - Why didn't they steal it for McCain this year?
I like Obama... and I really get a good feeling
from Michelle... but damnit - I can't shake the
feeling that if he wasn't playing ball he'd have been
Wellstoned, JFK'ed, Lennon'ed, Reagan'ed, etc,
etc...
I really hope Obama is a trojan horse and he forces
all the manufacturing back to the US,
and he repeals all the spying, wiretapping, renditions,
torturing, and restores all our freedoms and rights.
I hope the unions grow stronger and the middle-class
makes a come back. But the longer Obama
isn't a target of these scumbags, the more I
think I'm watching pro wrestling.
Peace!
Elcis
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Subject: last issue's "Housekeeping"
Bart-
Don't have a lot of advice for you on this one.
Sometime real life shit gets to be overwhelming.
Just wanted to offer some support and if there's
anything I can do
out here in Oregon to help out, let me know.
Keep swingin the big hammer.
You're one of the few voices of sanity in this
increasingly fucked up world.
John
John, thanks for that.
Do you know anything about antiques?
We think we caught a break that will give us a 20-day time out that we really needed.
Security has dropped from $125 an hour to a mere $600 a day,
but even at that
"discounted" rate, my VISA card is barking like a chihuahua on Cuervo.
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Quotes
"If the liberals wanted to secede and start
their own
little socialist country, I would not
stop them."
-- the vulgar Pigboy
Fine, Rush.
We'll take the West Coast, the East Coast and Vegas.
You can have everything from Utah to the slave states.
How soon can we draw up the papers?
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Subject: Unions
Ron, Ive been in a REAL Union. Local Ironworkers
506.
All it taught me was not to take pride in my
work.
I was told to slow down my work because I was
making my fellow drones look bad.
Dont give anymore then neccessary. Dont strive
to better yourself or look out for the
companies interests. The Union Bosses were in
bed with the owner of my company.
Those who kissed ass, got better shifts and treatment.
Everything about my experience was ANTI-AMERICAN!!
I couldnt help in certain areas, because I would
be taking job security away another Drones job.
Couldnt even empty an unsafe overflowing trash
can, because it was a "Members" job to do that.
To bad it sat around for 3 days before it was
emptied.
Unions are SOCIALISTIC entities. They take away
an individuals RIGHT to work when they want to.
NOBODY, but my employer, can tell me when I can
and cannot work.
Unions are an anachronism, whose time has come
and gone...
Robert in Seattle
Subject: Unions
I agree that without unions workers would toil
without the benefit of collective bargaining,
decent working conditions and decent healthcare.
No one is saying the unions are perfect.
There should be some concessions from the unions
in order to fix our automotive sector,
but not to the extent that they will be broken
and unable to protect our workers in the future
N
Proud Member
MTA
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Excerpt:
The tragic and suspicious death of Karl Rove's
election thief in chief should send a clear message
to Al Franken and other key liberals: don't be
riding in any small private planes.
Death by air crash now seems to be the favored means of ridding the Rovian right of troublesome characters.
The most recent is Michael Connell, who died Friday
night when his private plane crashed near
his northern Ohio home. Connell was the information
techology whiz kid who helped Rove steal
the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, along
with a few in between---possibly including the
2002 senatorial campaign in Minnesota that followed
the death of Paul Wellstone.
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