Friday-Monday Mar 27-30, 2009 Vol
2310 - Afghan Mosh Pit
Quote of
the Day
"It was horrible -- some of the worst electrical work I've ever seen...with the buildings the way they are, we're playing Russian roulette." --
Jim Childs on Halliburton's
electrical work in Iraq Link
Cheney pocketed that money and hired
morons to do the electrical work. If a
few
dozen soldiers die, why would Cheney care?
In
Today's Tequila Treehouse...
Obama va
Pot Questions
Hallucinogenic
Tea Legal
Bachmann's
call to arms
Who killed
streetcars?
How F-ing
Stupid is Reid?
Obama Rolls
the Dice
Wanda to
Roast Obama
Sexy Jennifer
Esposito
Meria Heller shoots
from the hip. Asking the tough questions
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"While I watched Obama take the oath of office,
I visualized a woman there. I want to help chart that course."
-- present and future backstabber Donna Brazile,
Link
"Someone needs to take Donna into a back room
and not let her come out until she admits that Hillary
Clinton is a woman."
-- FlaDemFan, Link
Excerpt: When the White House put out a call for town
hall questions, it might not have been expecting this.
For the more than 92,000 people who responded,
there is a deep concern in America — undetectedignored by the whore media — about the decriminalization
of marijuana, its possible use for medicinal purposes and its
potential as a new source of tax revenue.
Given the opportunity to say what’s really on their minds without going
through the filter of the whore, people asked
questions that suggested broad interest in legalizing pot and taxing it.
After taking questions lower on the list, Obama
addressed the pot issue head on, mocking those who joined him
with a chuckle, “I don't know what that says
about the online audience."
"The answer is no, I don't think that is a good
strategy to grow our economy," he said,
as the audience in the room applauded and joined
him in a laugh.
ha ha - Yeah, that's funny as hell. A real knee-slapper.
Why legalize something that can help sick people in pain?
Why legalize something that can help the dying go out with dignity?
Why tax a crop in demand that outsells the next 5 crops in California
as we go broke?
Instead, let's empower those Mexican gangs and see if they pay taxes
on it.
I mentioned this problem in BCR 150.
If Obama would dare to consider legalizing pot, Leno and Letterman
and the whore press would
go crazy, ponding Obama with shit like, "No
wonder his stimulus plan is so crazy - he wrote it high" and the yuks would continue until the voters dumped Obama for some
right-wing Christain handjob.
Excerpt: A unanimous Supreme Court decision on Tuesday
gave a small religious sect the right to keep importing a hallucinogenic
tea,
central to its ritual observance, that the government
wants to ban as a controlled substance under federal narcotics law.
With an opinion by Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Jr., the decision was one of the most significant applications of the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act, a 13-year-old federal
statute that requires the government to meet a demanding test before it
can
enforce a law in a way that creates a substantial
obstacle to religious observance.
The government failed to carry its burden under
the statute, Chief Justice Roberts said in an opinion that not only rejected
the administration's specific arguments but also
dismantled its theory of the case. The chief justice said the government's
"bold argument" that the Controlled Substances
Act, the basic federal narcotics law, "simply admits of no exceptions"
could not be reconciled either with the religious
freedom law or with administrative practice under the act itself.
Well then, why can't we have religious marijuana?
I could get into a religion that was based on common sense and logic.
That's why I'm The Seventh One in Mark Perkel's
"Norm Coleman’s lead attorney went on talk
radio and said they were going to lose and that they’ll probabably appeal to the state Supreme
Court, and we are very confident that we’ll win that too and that then we will be seated. And
by we, I mean me."
-- Al Franken, fighting those anti-democracy Fascists, Link
"I think it’s very unwise and not helpful.
These groups should leave them alone. It’s not helpful to me. It’s not helpful
to the Democratic Caucus."
-- Harry Reid (D-Dishrag) telling the critics of Bayh's Backstabbing
coalition to back off, Link
How f-ing stupid is Reid?
Bayh is doing all he can derail Obama's agenda - and Reid thinks
that's OK?
We need to get rid of backstabbing Reid and his friend backstabbing
Nancy.
> Too bad that Democrats don't support Lefty talk
radio.
> It'd be nice if we had a "Limbaugh" with
compassion and brains
> who could rally Democrats against backstabbers
like Evan Bayh.
Please check out Jack Clark's Blast the Right
podcasts at therationalradical.com David W
I'll do that - but did you get my point?
Ostensibly (don't use that word often) Randi Rhodes is the biggest
talker on the Left
and I'd be surprised if 20% of the nation even knows who she is which
was my point.
I've always said Republicans are cowardly sheep who need constant reaffirmation
that
Hillary is The Devil and liberals want to have sex with your kids so
that's why talk radio
fits so well with those losers - but the majority (Democrats) can't
find a place on the radio?
Excerpt: Michele Bachmann, a handjobn Congresswoman from
Minnesota, has some fighting words for Obama’s energy plans.
Bachmann, when asked about Obama’s cap-and-trade
plans on a local radio station last Saturday, responded:
"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous
on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back.
Thomas Jefferson told us, “Having a revolution
every now and then is a good thing,” and the people – we the people
– are going to have to fight back hard if we’re
not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of
changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the
United States.
Bachmann also expressed some skepticism on global
warming, saying, “The science is on our side on this one,
and the science indicates that human activity
is not the cause of all this global warming."
So when some Minnesotan takes a shot at Obama,
Bachmann will say, "How can you blame me for that?"
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Subject: Michelle the Bitch?
I guess I don't get this. She has been gracious
from day one.
I have not heard her say a cross word, get angry
in public or do anything embarrassing.
She dresses well, and behaves like the educated
lady she is.
Linda R
The Right is planting their seeds of hatred again.
That's how they turned so many people away from Hillary.
The Right's been screaming "Lesbian
murderer" at her for 18 years.
Meanwhile, the Dems can't shut up about how great Pickles is.
I'm not saying we need to slam her, just shut up with all the
praise.
It humanizes Fuhrer Bush when Democrats praise Pickles
the Murderer.
From Snopes (I would list the link, but it's infected)
Notice how nice they are to Saint Pickles?
The accident "had taken place,"
as tho Pickles was innocently standing there when lightning struck
her boyfriend.
And then "causing the death of the sole
occupant." I've read 1,000 of these reports and they always say, "She
ran a stop sign, killing the other driver," but Pickles is so nice and sweet, we should soft-pedal the
boyfriends who died at her hand?
Hillary, on the other hand, is a cold-blooded murderer - everybody
know that because the whore press
and talk radio Nazis and the whore newspapers and whore cable
networks say she is and the Democrats,
as always, have failed to list the facts and set the record straight
to defend Hillary.
"The Senate Budget Committee approved Obama’s
'ambitious budget blueprint' giving him 'a symbolic endorsement of efforts
to boost clean energy, fight global warming and improve access to health care.' The party-line
vote 'sets the stage for floor debate next week, where moderate Democrats unhappy with (winning
the White House) wield more influence.'" -- Think Progress, Link
"Where were these "Democrats" during the 8
years of Bush’s reign, when Bush ran up massive deficits
PLUS off-book war costs?" -- Briseadh na
Faire, Link
"The same place they are now. Ready to obstruct
anything their corporate owners tell them to."
-- Hoodathunk, Link
"We
let Bush have everything he wanted for 8 bloody years
but now w're ready to stop Obama - whatever it takes."
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Quotes
"Our enemies know that when the United States
goes into battle it fights with one hand tied behind it's back... Were not using the full force of the
foot we're bascially kicking with the little toe..."
-- Mark Steyn, who apparently wants to nuke every country Bush senselessly
invaded, Link
I have a question:
We pay trillions of dollars in taxes for "the best
military in the world,"
so why can't they handle some teenagers with 1950s technology
supplied by Iran?
We spent unknown hundreds of billions on our invisible
B2 bomber,
then we send kids to their death in unarmored Humvees?
WTF??
Gee, it's almost like our military exists to make money for super-rich
bastards.
After all, a long war makes them more money than a short war
- right?
Bart, have you seen Bachmann's latest weirdness?
And do you believe she got 29 co-sponsors?
Michelle Bachmann (R-MN...are they all
weird there?) has proposed
a bill that would amend the Constitution
to make it impossible to use any currency "issued
by an entity other than the United States" as legal tender in the U.S.
Has she ever looked at a dollar bill?
It's a Federal Reserve Note, issued by the Federal
Reserve, not the United States.
If this were to pass, it would eliminate all
the money currently in circulation!
Russ
Excerpt: The United States still bears untold scars from
the American streetcar swindle. The once profitable system of
privately-held independent electric-powered urban
transit was destroyed, giving cities the choice between
government-subsidized transit or no service at
all. An economical, efficient, and non-polluting transit system
has been replaced with one that is more expensive,
less-efficient, and highly polluting. The American taxpayer
has paid the price ever since.
Excerpt: Harry Reid (D-Dishrag) said Friday that John
Roberts misled the Senate during his confirmation hearings
by pretending to be a moderate — and that the
United States is now “stuck” with him as chief justice.
“Roberts didn’t tell us the truth. At least Alito
told us who he was,” Reid said, referring to Samuel Alito.
“But we’re stuck with those two young men, and
we’ll try to change by having some moderates in the
federal courts system as time goes on — I think
that will happen.”
Gee Harry, you've been in politics for 42 years and you just figured
out Republicans lie? WE TOLD YOU
not to confirm that lying bastard but all Roberts had to do bat his
eyes at you and you fell under his spell and
gave him a lifetime appointment where he can screw every American and
there's nothing we can do about it
because you're the dumbest son-of-a-bitch in politics now that Bush
is gone.
"We believed
everything Bush told us, so we OK'd his new
path that led America to torture, kidnapping, rape and murder."
Seems to me that we're all pro-torture, kidnapping, rape
and murder
as long as we allow these broken bastards to steer the boat in
our name.
They told Bush, "Impeachment is off the
table" because Bush could've
named them as co-conspirators at his damn trial. How do
you put someone
on trial who got permission to commit those crimes up-front?
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Quotes
"Palin doesn’t know Eskimo from Alamo about
Texas government and politics. If Gov. Perry relies too heavily on Palin, he may find himself with
a lot of time to watch Russians from her front porch come January 2011."
-- Senator Kay Bailey Hutchifelon's political director, KC Jones,
mocking Perry and Palin in the Texarkana Gazette, Link
I love a good Fascist-on-Fascist fight!
Will the Democrats use that to their advantage?
Or will they try to bring the two sides together in harmony?
If Cully-fonia wasn't nutty enough to elect Da
Guvernator,
and if Bush the Lesser hadn't kept Poppy in the
spotlight,
would Dana Carvey be another Rich Little by now?
Bush looked 80 years old by booking Rich Little,
who did his Carson impressions
and his Jimmy Cagney/Edward G Robinson/etc impressions
which were killer,
but nobody under 50 knows who any of those people
are.
Wanda to
Roast Obama May 9th She'll entertain at the 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner
This will be a comedy highlight of 2009.
I can't wait.
Wanda has six weeks to write this roast and trust
me, every comic she knows
is going to feed her jokes and gags - she should
tear the place up.
Perhaps only Chris Rock would've been a funner
choice.
Sidebar: Speaking of I-Can't-Wait, at this years Rock
n Roll Hall of Fame Show (VH-1, Apr 4)
one of the greatest guitar players ever, Jeff
Back will be inducted by Jimmy Page.
A - Page is not known for his speach-making abilities.
B - Off all the people in the world, why Jimmy
Page?
C - I like Jeff Beck, he's one of the
all-time greats - Blow by Blow is Mona Lisa -
but why would
Jeff have a guitar player better than him do the honors?
D - Damn, Beck must have a zero lack of self-esteem
(a compliment)
"Take the prompter and the written speeches
away from that candidate and you have nothing. You have nothing like the guy with
the soaring and inspiring rhetoric. Can't we get a guy that can talk? Can't we get a guy who can put two
thoughts together?"
-- a pundit complaining about an emtpy-headed candidate - can you
guess who?
The French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchainé
(the Chained Duck: don't ask ...),
mentions that Pope Benedict XVI has earned a
nickname - from the French Cardinals, themselves.
But it's a perfect French pun.
Benedict is known as *Benoit Seize*, and the Cardinals
have named him *Benoit XIII et III*
That's Benoit Treize et Trois, or (pun) Benoit
Tres Etroit ...
OR: "Benny very tight"
(har har har: tight could be taken physically
(anus?), or morally, or as 'square' or 'prude')
Enjoy the ride, keep hammering on the weak Democrats
(Citizens! not pols) to avoid Media Mind Games...
Drew in Suisse
"Can't we get a guy who can put two thoughts
together?"
-- that's Rush, complaining about Obama's brain not working,
Really, Rush?
After eight years of "Put food on your
family," you're fed up with Obama?
After eight years of "So GYNs can practice
their love on their patients," you're fed up with Obama?
After eight years of "Is our children
learning?" you're fed up with Obama?
After eight years of "My Pet Goat" and
"Won't get fooled again," you're fed up with Obama?
After eight years of "The levees will
hold" and
"The economy is sound," you're fed up with Obama?
After eight years of "Threats turning
into mushroom clouds," you're fed up with Obama?
Excerpt: People gripe about, say, Manny Ramirez making
$25 million to play left field. But if Manny hits .147, he's out of baseball.
These AIG jokers hit a lot worse than that. To
put it another way, if a plumber caused a gas leak that burned an AIG
aristocrat's Disneyland-sized mansion down, they'd
call it criminal negligence.
Which is what made the White House's initial response
so sickening. Yes, the bonuses totaled less than 1 percent of the
$175 billion AIG got in the bailout. The harm's
largely symbolic, they said. Yeah, well the U.S. flag's nothing but a symbol.
In politics, people live and die for symbols.
The AIG thing may not rise quite to that level, but to people lying awake
at 3 a.m. worrying about keeping their jobs,
they were bound to provoke outrage.
Having bungled that elementary judgment, something
I doubt a James Carville or Bill Clinton would have done,
the Ivy League brainiacs on Obama's economic
team found themselves tiptoeing along the rim of a political volcano,
so they selected, if not exactly a virgin, a
sacrificial victim to fling into the crater.
Anonymous White House sources leaked a story to
The New York Times pinning the blame on Chris Dodd.
Dodd, the newspaper reported, had inserted a
clause into the stimulus bill allowing the bonuses.
Now the cable news networks had their villain.
The leak was fiction. The truth was almost the opposite.
The White House pressured Dodd into backing down,
specifically enabling the AIG bonuses.
Because The New York Times rarely admits getting
burned by anonymous inside sources,
the White House's double-dealing has gotten little
play.
"We don't need to worry about infiltration
from foreign enemies. It's being done from the White House."
-- Piggy Pigboy, getting his neanderthal base excited,
LinkListen to Rush say it.
Excerpt: John McCain gave lukewarm support Sunday to a
Palin presidency.
In an interview with Karl Rove's dancing partner,
McCain said he would "like to see her compete."
Pressed further, McCain was more circumspect.
"Oh, I'd have to see who the candidates are
and what the situation is at the time," he said
Translation: If anybody runs against her, they'd be more qualified.
The GOP and the country should've been outraged that Mad McCain would
turn the country
over to a braindead swimsuit model, but like those nutty Cully-fonians
taking a chance on a bad actor,
many voters thought it would be "cute" to have a MILF president that
was dumber than a box of rox.
They're trying so hard to find
something that's just not there.
Bayh's Backstabbing
Coalition These traitors want Obama to fail
Ringleaders Include: Evan Bayh (D-IN), Tom Carper (D-DE)
and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR).
Backstabbers include: Sens. Mark Udall (D-CO), Michael Bennet
(D-CO),
Mark Begich (D-AK), Kay Hagan (D-NC),
Herb Kohl (D-WI), Mary Landrieu (D-LA),
Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Claire McCaskill (D-MO),
Ben Nelson (D-NE), Bill Nelson (D-FL),
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Mark Warner (D-VA).
Geithner's new $1 trillion plan to flush toxic
loans out of the economic system rests on the following assumptions:
The banks made crappy loans...some of these loans
are still on bank balance sheets, some the banks sold on the open market.
Currently, these loans on the open market are
trading for about 30 cents per $1.00 face value. Geithner's argument
is that if
the banks divested themselves of their remaining
"heritage assets" on the open market, the 70% loss ($1.00 face value vs.
30 cents
open market price) would destroy the banks along
with the world economic system. So the Fed will step in and guarantee
these
toxic loans at let's say 80% of face value, meaning
the banks only lose about 20% max.
So, guess what the banks are doing?
They are going into the open market and using
the hundreds of billions of US govt bail-out money they have already recv'd
to
"agressively" purchase more toxic loans at 35
cents on the dollar (in order to out price competitors who are still bidding
30 cents).
Then the banks will, in effect, re-sell them to
the US govt at the guaranteed rate of 80 cents under the Geithner plan.
So the taxpayer gets fucked twice...once for
the initial bank bail-out money, and again to guarantee above market prices
for the new toxic loans the banks are buying
with the original bail-out money.
Sweet, yes?
Don in Shingle Springs.
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"Whether the Pope's error was due to ignorance
or a deliberate attempt to manipulate science to support Catholic
ideology is unclear."
-- The Lancet editorial after Benny the Rat said condoms make
AIDS worse, Link
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