"What's with the overemphasis of everything
and the crying? What's that all about? I'm afraid he's going to have a nervous
breakdown on the air...This guy's on the edge everyday. Personally I think the guy is going
to have a crack up on the air -- which is going to be very good for ratings."
-- Michael Savage, talking about Glenn Beck's hysterical rantings,
Link
If the Dems weren't such helpless children (should I bother to
finish this sentence?) they could probably get
a great civil war going on the hard right - but, that wouldn't
be nice and it wouldn't be fair - so they don't do it.
Excerpt: The radical right wingers that were so prevalent
during the Clinton administration went dormant during the Bush years.
Now irresponsible sociopaths like Michelle Malkin,
Glenn Beck and Rep. Michele Bachmann are recklessly stoking
the fires of paranoid rightwing victimization,
I fear we will face countless tragedies like what just went on in PittsburgH.
When right wing radicals get upset, they either
shoot lots of people and or pull a Timothy McVeigh.
This is what Glenn Beck’s citizen army looks like.
People like Michelle Malkin fantasize about citizens rising up against
the (Democratic) state. They stoke their followers’
paranoia with bullshit that, mostly, they know is bullshit, for ratings
and a shot at political traction.
How many people have to die before the right-wing
media acknowledges their complicity in these kinds of attacks
and voluntarily dials back their inflammatory
rhetoric and incitements to violence? Sadly, I think it's going to
take a
long time for that to happen -- and a lot more
innocent people are going to die in the interim. I guess this is what
"America First" means for the radical right under
an Obama presidency.
There will never be justice
in the United States until this drunken asshole is jailed for mass murder,
corruption, flagrant violations of the law, and his refusal to recognize
human rights. He is also responsible for the worst attack on the United States
since Pearl Harbor. He is directly reponsible for the misery and lost hopes of millions of human
beings because of his reckless handling of the American economy.
"The hate speech on the right is loud and ubiquitous,
and getting even more so. There are people with much influence and wide audiences, spurring
others to do things like this. Not everyone is going to, but all it takes is one individual disturbed
enough to take "justice" into his own hands. This may be the first major act of violence precipitated by
this toxic ideology during the Obama administration, but it won't be the last. We're less than a hundred days
into a near-1500 day term. It's only beginning."
-- TreeRol on the shootings in PittsburgH, Link
Excerpt: Torture has been illegal for a number of years,
(Which
is why Bush belongs in prison) and Bush
insisted just as strongly
as Obama that the U.S. does not torture. (But
Bush was lying) There was a legitimate
debate about waterboarding,
(I don't recall that - I remember right-wingers
screaming 'traitor' at anyone who questioned Der Fuhrer) which does no physical injury, and which I do
not believe constitutes torture.
This is complete horseshit.
If Willie Horton ambushed this handjob and his
daughter in a dark parking lot and put a loaded gun in her mouth and
demanded that Hindraker blow him, he probably
would - yet Willie's actions did no physical injury, so there's no threat,
right?
If there's no threat, John, why are you so eagerly
blowing Willie Horton?
But according to press reports, only two or three
top-ranking terrorists were waterboarded, none after 2003.
(Those Cheney-planted press reports can't
be verified) And waterboarding has
been banned by the U.S. military
since 2006. (Which
is why Bush belongs in prison) So
what was Obama's purpose in implying that until he came along,
Bush was engaged in torturing prisoners?
His speech was carried live by Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, broadcast into
countries
where "torture" doesn't mean getting your
face wet.
Getting your face wet?
So if I defecate and urinate in a tub for a month, then force Hinmderaker's
head into that mess until he's forced to swallow,
he's going to laugh that off as a harmless prank because nothing happened
to him besides getting his face wet?
See how they lie?
They HAVE to lie because the truth does not serve their purpose.
Excerpt: I can’t think of another instance when a news
story at a newspaper explicitly called out an op-ed writer in the
same paper for lying, by name. It’s pretty extraordinary.
I can only imagine that something like this got passed up
the editorial food chain, from science editor
Nils Bruzelius to national news editor Kevin Merida, and perhaps beyond.
(The Post will not talk on record about their
editorial process; they "stand behind their reporting" and so forth.)
Hard to read it as anything but a rebuke from
the news team to Post editor Fred Hiatt and his editorial page’s
"multi-layer editing process," which allowed
Will to lie and mislead on climate change three times just in the last
few months, even after being corrected, publicly,
by multiple sources.
Along the same lines, see this new piece on the
Post’s weather blog, by Andrew Freeman:
'Will Misleads Readers on Climate Science - Again.'"
Lying about global warming is the pre-emptive murder of your grandkids.
You can gripe all you want about 911 happening
on Bush's watch
but it was three months after he becamew prisident.
Really?
September is 3 months after January?
You know, I know and Bob Dole even knows that
it happened because Clinton
ignored numerous terrorist actions including
an attack on the World Trade Center.
No, Clinton found and arrested those bastards
and they are in jail right now.
Have you been getting your "facts" from Rush
and Hannity again?
You're being pretty damn obtuse to pretends that
Bush
received a memo that indicated it would happen.
Yeah, *I* made that up, printed it on bartcop.com
and now
the whole world thinks that happened because
of me.
It was a memo...
Now you admit there was a memo?
...that stated that attacks were imminent but
since that was already
a stated goal of terrorists it is clear who allowed
it to happen.
Historians will look between the Bushes.
Carson the MMG Monkey
Agent Andy Taylor is sent
on the most important mission of his life... penetrate the Birkenstock
Curtain surrounding Boulder, Colorado. His team: Barney, Gomer,
Floyd and Aunt Bee. But things go wrong,
they are cut off behind enemy lines. Were they betrayed? How
will they survive? And who is the frozen
dead Norwegian?
Excerpt: For more than a year he's been seeking treatment
at Fort Carson for a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sgt. X is also suffering through the Army's confusing
disability payment system, handled by something called a medical
evaluation board. The process of negotiating
the system has been made harder by his war-damaged memory. Sgt. X's wife
has to go with him to doctor's appointments so
he'll remember what the doctor tells him...
When Sgt. X went to see McNinch with a tape recorder,
he was concerned that something was amiss with his diagnosis.
He wanted to find out why the psychologist had
told the medical evaluation board that handles disability payments that
Sgt. X
did not, in fact, have PTSD, but
instead an "anxiety disorder," which could substantially lower the amount
of benefits he would
receive if the Army discharged him for a disability.
The
recorder in Sgt. X's pocket captured McNinch in a moment of candor...
"OK," McNinch told Sgt. X. "I will tell you something
confidentially that I would have to deny if it were ever public.
Not only myself, but all the clinicians up here
are being pressured to not diagnose PTSD and diagnose anxiety disorder
instead."
McNinch told him that Army medical boards were
"kicking back" his diagnoses of PTSD, saying soldiers had not seen
enough trauma to have "serious PTSD issues."
"Unfortunately," McNinch told Sgt. X, "yours has
not been the only case ... I and other doctors are under a lot of pressure
to not diagnose PTSD. It's not fair. I think
it's a horrible way to treat soldiers, but unfortunately, you know, now
the V.A.
is jumping on board, saying, 'Well, these people
don't have PTSD,' and stuff like that."
Republican whores always say, "We stand by
the troops" but then they vote to deny them medical treatment.
If only the Democrats would list these facts, these soldiers
could get the help they need.
"Hey
Bart, how about a nice hot cup of shut the fuck up?"
You’re a democrat, right?
Do you agree with everything Democrats profess?
Same with American Catholics.
Most of us despise this ridiculous crazy Pope
as well.
SP
SP, it's not the same.
I don't confess my sins to the Catholics.
I don't swear to God that I believe in the Democrats.
If you swear to God and don't mean it, won't He be angry?
Unless they changed the rules, one can't be forgiven
for a sin about which one is not remorseful.
Unless they changed the rules, that person can't get into Heaven
because his mortal sins remain on his remorseless soul.
Bottom line, logical people can't get into Heaven.
Bottom line, Heaven is a lottery for lucky people.
Who would buy into such a nutty system?
"Here's a link to the Alan Colmes radio clip
where one of the leading lights of the extreme right, Neal
Horsley, tries to explain to Colmes that everyone who
grows up on the farm has historically had sex with animals, including him, and that liberal city folks "are so far removed"
from "domestic life on the farm" that they just don't understand that "your first girlfriend is a mule" when you
grow up on a farm in Georgia."
Thanks to Chris H, Link
Excerpt: Obama was welcomed like a returning war hero
by hundreds of ecstatic US troops during a surprise visit to Iraq.
The pop-in provided Obama with a stunning photo
op as soldiers mobbed him, trying for handshakes and hugs,
many snapping shots with their own cameras.
The televised, four-star lovefest likely will
prove critical to the credibility of a liberal commander-in-chief as he
tries
to sell the American public on the grim prospects
now facing the country in Afghanistan. The stealthy, four-hour visit
and Obama's remarks were all that much more notable
because of his strenuous opposition to the Iraq war from
before it began, and his commitment to end it
now that he is president.
"We love you," shouted one soldier, to which Obama
quickly replied, 'I love you back!'"
We have broken the $1,500
ceiling! Thanks to all who have been so generous.
I know what you're thinking...
"I like Ol' Bart, been reading him for years, maybe I should send him a 'love' check."
Fact is - about 2% contribute.
Ergo, ipso facto - times are tough.
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Romanian humor
Quotes
"You have given Iraq the opportunity to stand
on its own as a democratic country. That is an extraordinary achievement.
It is time for us to transition to the Iraqis. They need to take responsibility for
their country and for their sovereignty."
-- Obama to the troops in Iraq,Link
Specter: Do I like Rush Limbaugh? Yeah, I like
him... Stern: He’s a crackpot.
He’s an enemy of the country.
Specter: Uh, no, he’s not. He’s expressing
his opinion. Stern: He wants the president
to do poorly? Listen, I never voted for Bush, but I always wanted
to see him do well. I’m an American. I want my president to be successful.
Who says
‘I don’t want my president to do well?’ That’s anti-American! Specter: Well *I* haven’t heard Rush Limbaugh
say that. -- Arlen Specter,
liar and whore, on the Howard Stern radio show, Link
What
a pitiful liar Specter is - claiming he didn't, personally, hear
Rush say it
so he can't possibly comment on a fact
he personally didn't witness.
Truth is, like all Republicans, Specter is afraid of Rush.
BTW, Arlen, you probably never personally heard Hitler
say "Death to the Jews," so that would make Hitler merely a man who was "expressing
his opinions?"
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Subject: 2009 World Series
of Poker
I got hired as a dealer for the WSOP this year,
they are having a 1,000 dollar buy in event, that's cheaper then normal.
It's being called the "Stimulus Special" Sat.
May 30th. The rest of the schedule can be found at Worldseriesofpoker.com
If the money for the Bartcop WSOP dream slows
down you should offer folks half their donation as action,
somebody gives you 100 dollars, give them 5%
of any winnings you make, etc. etc.
--Mike the Dealer.
Mike, that's a great idea - let's do that (or I may never
get to $1000 :)
Each $100
donated gets you 5% of my winnings.
AND, for $300,
I'll wear your logo on my cap at the final table
Subject: Let me help with
WSOP
Hey BC, put me down for a $100
pledge -- one-tenth of your buy-in
for the poker tournament. Now you only need nine
more backers.
I hope they show up, because I'd love to see
you get into this contest.
That's because, win or lose, I know your trip
report will be fantastic!
And remember: as long as you can meet the big
blind, NEVER QUIT!!
Ray
Note: Until this year, the buy-in for the WSOP was $10,000.
Subject: Let me help with
WSOP
Hey Bart,
I'm in for a few bucks to get you that seat.
"Love" check is in the mail.
Kathi G
Subject: Let me help with
WSOP
Bart, I'm in Vegas that week, I'll donate $100
to your quest f you would agree
to meet me for one shot of nice tequila
at The Pink Taco at The Hard Rock.
Dan Mac
Dan, if
this WSOP thing happens, we'll get there Friday, so that would work.
I always enjoy sharing a shot of fine tequila
with a fellow Fascist-fighter.
Join Team Bartcop to make this once-in-a-lifetime dream
come true.
"Not so long ago, when a politician was caught
with a whore, it meant not only the end of his political career, but extended exile from polite society.
This was particularly true of politicians. It was exactly one year ago that Governor Spitzer was revealed to be the
client of a prostitution ring--some of whose employees have since gone to prison--and obliged to step down from
office 'in disgrace'. Now all is forgiven! "
-- some handjob at the weakly standard,Link
"By the Weekly Standard’s standards, Senator
Vitter should also be in "extended exile from polite society." Spitzer left office but Vitter is running
for another term in the Senate. If the Standard thinks Spitzer should
be in extended exile, presumably it thinks Vitter
should join him." --
Phil Singer,Link
There's nothing wrong with paying for sex. It's
as "wrong" as smoking pot, meaning it's wrong because some
religiously-insane fools claimed they talked
to God and God told them he didn't like those kinds of behavior.
What's wrong is running on a "sex is bad" platform, and then you get
caught with a woman.
What's wrong is running on a "queers are bad" platform, and then you
get caught with a man (or boy) in your mouth.
Click for the juicy details of Reagan's bizarre sex-with-boys club
At her last rally in Florida, Sarah Palin told
the audience that Barack Obama "palled around with terrorists" adding,
"I am just so fearful that this is not a man
who sees America the way you and I see America." Upon hearing her
concern that Sen. Obama might be a terrorist,
a voice in the crowd cried out 'Kill him!' 10/08
Rep. Michele Bachmann said on radio: "I'm a foreign
correspondent on enemy lines and I try to let everyone to
know exactly the nefarious activities that are
taking place in Washington. I want people in Minnesota armed and
dangerous on this issue of the energy tax, because
we need to fight back." 3/09
“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit
more because of the Taliban,” GOP Congressman Sessions said
“...systematically understanding how to disrupt"
2/09
Effect:
Richard Poplawski kills three police officers
in Pittsburgh, convinced that Jews controlled the media and
President Obama was scheming to take away his
arsenal 4/09
Jim Adkisson opened a guitar case at a Tennessee
church pulling out a gun, killing two, and wounding four more.
He targeted the congregation out of hatred, saying,
“liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country.”
7/08
Timothy Johnson shot and killed the democratic
party chairman of Arkansas, Bill Gwatney, 8/08
"Obama has not attended church services since
he took office. Obama has yet to reveal what church he may have chosen or when
he might attend his first Sunday services as president." -- Bill Sammon,
chief whore at FOX NEWS's Washington Bureau, Link
Dude, loved BCR #151, just like old times - quality
and damn funny provocative shit.
(Some recent Bartcop Radio shows lately have
been somewhat lame - in my opinion.)
You could call them lame, or you could call them
collateral damage.
Recently we got kidnapped into something we weren't
ready for.
I agree than some of the Winter shows were more
...informative than entertaining,
but lately the dark clouds are fewer and more/better
shows should ensue.
ha ha There I go again - Bart the English
major.
I would like to know the Bumper music in
151- "God will f*ck ya.".
bluegrass #. and the last one (
Mary Gauthier??).
-Skepticarpenteristen
I will attempt to locate that.
The music is always put in last and there's always
a time-panic and things get murky.
I still don't get this piracy business.
I'm so old, I remember when men of war said,
"If you rule the skies, you rule the war."
We not only own the sky, we own f-ing space.
Our satellites can't track ships in the Indian
Ocean?
They said when Nixon went to China in 1968 (?) our satellites back
then could tell
which dude was Nixon and which dude was the Commie bastard at the time.
That's over 40 years ago and they say the military is years
ahead of Microsoft.
If we could track combovers in 1968, why can't we track pirate ships
in 2009?
A ship makes a call - "We think we're about
to be boarded," and angry F-22s take off in their direction - why isn't this happening?
But, I do have a cat named Olie who does the very
same thing with his golf ball - sized fuzzy toys:
dunks them in his water bowl, then drops them
at my feet. Sometimes, he carries them around 'singing'
to them before he drops the soggy mess on me.
I'm kinda relieved to read that your Dax does
the same thing.
Whatever is going on inside those walnut-sized
kitty brains, anyway?
Will be hoping for an explanation....
Deb
Someone suggested that a cotton-y fuzzy ball in
your mouth would be super-dry
and the cure for massive cotton-mouth is water
so maybe our cats are just being logical :)
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Phillippe Sands said it in perfect English--"If
I were they..."
Stupid Americans would tend to say (improperly)--"If
I was them..."
Check things out before criticizing an educated
man!
Linda
Hi, Bartcop! I've been reading your site for a
while and I like it a lot.
But sometimes jump in with a comment without
thinking it through.
Phillippe Sands' grammar was perfectly correct
when he said, "If I were they ...".
He was using the subjunctive form of "to be"
because he is absolutely not "they".
That's also why he uses "I were" instead of "I
was". Remember, from English classes?
Anyway, continued good luck with your site. I'd
contribute if I could, but am currently jobless.
Best to you and Mrs. Bart always.
Carlo
Bart, I hope you were just being sarcastic…..it
is grammatically
correct to say, “If I were they, I would think
carefully…”.
Warren
Bart: you've got nerve correcting someone's English.
"If I were they" seems inelegant, but is technically
correct in the Queen's tongue.
Go back to hammering and leave the grammar to
the pros, dude.
LOL
Carmody in Wichita
Bart,
Philippe Sands' grammar is correct, and his statement
is not illogical.
Grammatically, he is employing the subjunctive
conditional, contrary to fact,
as when the Cowardly Lion sings "If I were
king of the forrrrest."
He's not, but if he were....
Sands' pronoun "they" is also correct because
it is a predicate nominative.
With regard to logic, it's analogous to saying
"If I were you...." How can I be you?
The word "if" allows I to be you.
I can't, nor am I claiming to be.
Likewise, Sands is not claiming to be more
than one person.
Ross
Grammarian and Logician
You are all wrong.
It's tough being right when everybody else is wrong.
This is about math, and one can't be several.
It's like saying, "IF I were a married couple"
or
"If I were a football team..."
Proper English would be, "If I were one
of Bush's murderous thugs..." That keeps things singular.
All that subjunctive conditional and
predicate nominative crap doesn't hunt.
Besides, I'm was raised by nuns.
My grammer is the goodest.
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