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Weekend-Thursday April 25-30, 2009 Vol 2325 - Snakes & Witches
 Quote of the Day "Right now Obama’s getting a pretty
Hey asshole, if that's true, maybe it's because
Maybe it's because he didn't lose Detroit and New Orleans.
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Today's Tequila Treehouse...
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In THE THIN WHITE LINE, author Craig DiLouie presents
a terrifying vision about how
a pandemic might unfold, focusing on the Canadian
experience but relevant to any country.
Reading as if it were a non-fiction book describing
a pandemic that has already happened,
THE THIN WHITE LINE presents a realistic, meticulously
researched scenario.
"Craig DiLouie provides us with a clairvoyant
glimpse of life during the coming influenza pandemic. . . ."
—Grattan Woodson, MD, FACP
author of THE BIRD FLU MANUAL
Quotes
"That’s the working M.O. of this administration:
no matter what we do, we’re going to eventually get hit again.
Obama views the seven years after 9/11 as
more a fluke than a successful strategy by George Bush to prevent
domestic terror attacks. So if the working
theory is that we’re going to get hit again, what is the best response?
After all, the public does credit George Bush
with keeping us safe at 9/11."
-- Erick Erickson, liar and whore, Link
Erick, please explain how Bush's policies prevented an al Qaeda
sympathizer from
driving a gasoline truck into Radio City Music Hall during a
live TV broadcast.
Go ahead, I'd like to hear your theory.
If you can explain that to my satisfaction
I'll vote Republican in 2012.
"Heh heh
- Think they bought it?"
What makes a lot more sense is Bush made Osama a deal:
"We won't try to capture you if you don't
hit us again."
That would explain why an al Qaeda sympathizer didn't drive
a gasoline truck into Radio City Music Hall during a live TV broadcast.
What else could explain it?
Go ahead, I'd like to hear your theory.
If you're an insane handjob, sooooo eager to die for your
non-existant God,
why take out a sheriff's office in Mosul when you could be as famous
as Mohammed Atta
and make the front-page of every newspaper in the whole f-ing world?
I mean - you only get to die once, so why die a nameless punk in Mosul?
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We're All
Torturers Now
Will torture ever scandalize us again?
Excerpt:
Conservative pundits casually likened water-boarding
to prep school initiation and claimed that anyone who
opposes prisoner abuse must simply hate America.
The many ordinary Americans who want to see torture
allegations investigated -- evidently a majority
of them, in fact -- have been dismissed by these same pundits
as members of a bloodthirsty 'hard left.' The
president himself asks us all to move on. And if we're moving on,
it can't have been all that bad...
There's one other fact that accounts for the horror
differential between the torture memos and Abu Ghraib,
and that's the fact of Abu Ghraib. Because, as
I have suggested before, after Abu Ghraib, America seems to
have lost its capacity to be truly shocked by
anything America might do. As chilling and brutal as the images were
at the time, they have, in the years between,
lost much of their power to repel us. They have become -- abetted by
endless viewings of Jack Bauer on 24 and an interminable
national debate about torture -- emblems of what America
is at least willing to consider doing. They are
no longer postcards from the unthinkable. They are what we have become.
They are what Bush made America into.
Bush and the Fascist dogs say torture is good for America.
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Subject: Is America serious about Torture?
Like Bush, Obama says we don't torture.
However not a single person who tortured is being
prosecuted, nor has anyone so much as lost their job.
I think that for Obama to effectively pardon
those who committed these crimes sends the wrong message.
It just says that we are probably not torturing
anyone right now. Not that torture is wrong.
Crimes like torture are not something you can
just sweep under the rug.
We need to show the world we are serious.
Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA.
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Gun owners attack Pigboy
Excerpt:
Rush Limbaugh's new pet project -- fighting animal
cruelty for the Humane Society of the United States -- is riling
sportsmen from coast to coast, prompting fears
that the talkster typically supportive of gun rights is aiding a group
they say has a secret agenda to end all hunting
in America.
Twenty-eight groups representing millions of hunters
and sportsmen are demanding that the Fascist bastard end
his collaboration with the HSUS and stop 'helping
them to mainstream their image in the minds of reasonable people.
ha ha
It couldn't happen to a bigger prick.
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Quotes
"A superstar, not a statesman, today leads
our country. That may win short-term applause
from foreign audiences, but do
little for what should be the chief foreign policy preoccupation
of any U.S. president: advancing America’s
long-term interests."
-- Karl Rove, Link
Translation:
Obama hasn't raped any countries yet so he could steal their
oil.
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The Banality
of Bush White House Evil
Even with torture, they couldn't make the link
Excerpt:
We don’t know if there was such unusual "chatter"
then, but it’s unlikely Zubaydah could have added information if there
were.
Perhaps some new facts may yet emerge if Dick
Cheney succeeds in his unexpected and welcome crusade to declassify documents
that he says will exonerate administration interrogation
policies. Meanwhile, we do have evidence for an alternative explanation
of
what motivated Bybee to write his memo that August,
thanks to the comprehensive Senate Armed Services Committee report on
detainees released last week.
The report found that Maj. Paul Burney, a United
States Army psychiatrist assigned to Gitmo interrogations that summer of
2002,
told Army investigators of another White House
imperative: "A large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish
a link
between Al Qaeda and Iraq and we were not being
successful." As higher-ups got more "frustrated" at the inability to prove
this
connection, the major said, "there was more and
more pressure to resort to measures" that might produce that intelligence.
In other words, the ticking time bomb was not
another potential Qaeda attack on America
but the Bush bastard's ticking timetable for
selling a war in Iraq.
"Go fuck
yourself..."
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In GOP base, a 'rebellion brewing'
Excerpt:
A quick tour through the week's headlines suggests
the Republican Party is beginning to come to terms with
the last election and that consensus is emerging
among GOP elites that the party needs to move away from
discordant social issues.
There was McCain's daughter and his campaign manager
who last week demanded that their fellow Republicans
embrace same-sex marriage. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman
-- the most devoted modernizer among the party's 2012 hopefuls
-- won approving words from New York Times columnist
Frank Rich for his call to downplay divisive values issues.
The party's top elected leaders in Congress,
meanwhile, spooked by being attacked as the "party of no,"
were recasting themselves as a constructive,
respectful opposition to a popular president.
But outside Washington, the reality is very different.
Rank-and-file Republicans remain staunchly conservative,
and they appear to have no desire to moderate
their views.... There is little appetite for compromise on what many see
as core issues, and the road to the presidential
nomination lies -- as always -- through a series of states where the
conservative base holds sway, and where the anger
appears to be, if anything, particularly intense."
Republicans want to lose in the worst way?
I suggest we sit back and allow that to happen.
Blacks hate them, Hispanics hate them, women hate them, gays hate them,
intellectuals hate them, the younger genaration hates them, etc.
Lastest survey says only 21%
of Americans admit to pollsters that they're Republicans.
Of course, the jelly-spined Democrats are still to scared to breathe,
but it's a no-brainer, kicking the asses of the 21%.
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Subject: Franken v Coleman
Bart, the Minnesota Supreme Court has given Coleman
until June 1st to prepare his oral arguments regarding the election recount.
Oral arguments to be held June 1st. Only
a month and half longer with only one Senator!
That rotten turdburglar.
Minneapolis Matt
Prometheus
Found
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A Republican
with Cajones
He's not scared of the vulgar Pigboy
Excerpt:
Larry Murphy has strong feelings about Rush Limbaugh.
"Rush Limbaugh is a racist, he’s a cancer to the Republican Party and he should be excised," Murphy said recently.
Those aren’t unusual sentiments. But what is unusual
is hearing them from a Republican candidate for office.
Republicans far and wide have been prostrating
themselves before Limbaugh in recent months, who has been
effective at leveraging his massive conservative
audience into allegiance from elected officials in the party.
But Murphy, an underdog Republican candidate
for Senate, says Limbaugh can’t be the voice of the party.
"My opponents are afraid to say that," Murphy
said.
It figures that he's the underdog - that's why he's willing to speak
the truth.
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Quotes
"This is not fucking torture!!"
-- Shepherd Smith (R-Tool) live on FOX News, Video
So, if you scream the f-word on live TV, it's not torture?
Subject: wrong about Shepherd Smith
Hello,
To be fair to Shepherd Smith at Fox News, he did
not say:
> "This is not fucking torture!!"
-- Shepherd Smith (R-Tool)
live on FOX News, Video
He said, in fact, the opposite:
"This is America. We do not fucking torture!"
See for yourself on the video. Anyway, what's
worse: true believers like Hannity,
or a tortured media whore like Smith, who sold
his soul to Murdoch and now can't sleep at night?
I don't know what your policy is on corrections,
but this warrants one.
Desa
It was not on live TV, it was on an internet only
show, and he said "We do not fucking torture.'
Paul in NC
Yo Bart,
Slow down a minute, did you actually watch the
video?
Watch and listen, he doesn't say waterboarding
is not torture, he says,
"We are America, I don't give a rat's ass if
it helps, we are America, we do not fuckin' torture!"
I'm the last person to stick up for Fox, but
you shouldn't jump to conclusions, eh?
Mike in Mooo Hampshmere
Bart,
I think you need to watch/listen to that video
again. Smith does not say "This is not fucking torture"
He says "I don't give a rats ass, this is America
and we do not fucking torture"... radically different implication and meaning.
Lord knows I'm not a Faux news fan but Smith
sure put his head on the block with that one, he'll probably be fired by
the weekend.
Tony D
Probably the 1000th to tell you,
Shep was pissed about torture...not denying it.
He said "we do not f*****g torture!"
He meant we shouldn't...
Wayne, Dayton
Bart I believed in the video Sheppard Smith is
telling these other two nut balls that he is against torture and the
US Should not Torture and he doesn't want them
to do it in is name . He is probably one of the only sane people
on Fox News .I watch the whole video and he was
the only one against it and got quite angry at the other two .
Mike Mesa AZ
Bart,
I think you are misunderstanding the context
of what he was trying to say. He was angrily telling the grey haired hand
job
that America should NOT be torturing under any
conditions. He was not defending this country's right to torture or denying
that we do. He was furious that we are and that
(paraphrasing) "since we are America we do not (should not) torture."
He meant should not torture. "We do not fucking
torture." means that we are America and we are not supposed to be doing
it.
After he realized he said "fucking" on TV he
leaned back "It's wrong." I am anti-torture,
by the way, unless the Bush/Cheney families,
Bill O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Fleischman,
etc. are the subjects of the torture. Then I'm all for it.
Keep on hammerin'.
Harker
You got the quote wrong, Bart. Smith actually
said
"We are America! I don't give a rat's ass if
it helps! We are America, we do not fucking torture!"
I was surprised to hear that coming from a right-winger
of all people.
There has been too much debate featuring "It
helps keep us safe!" versus "It doesn't work."
I agree with Sheppard Smith: I don't care if
it works, it's wrong. If you beat a 6 year old
with a tire iron for sneaking cookies from the
cookie jar, he'll stop doing it, but that's beside the point.
It's morally abhorrent. THAT is the argument
we should be making.
Fuck the ends justifying the means, that's what
dictatorships do.
-J
Either I'm misinterpreting your objection or you're
misinterpreting Sheperd Smith (the guy in the middle, whoever he is).
He says, "I don't give a rat's ass if it helped.
(Bang on the table) We are America! We don't fucking torture!"
I take that to mean that that whatever the lawyers
might have said at the behest of their masters, it, the torture,
was wrong, not that since we're America, whatever
it was it wasn't torture.
Peter Y
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A Biblical Obama
Excerpt:
The overarching theme of the Bible, particularly
of Genesis, is real estate. God is Trump-like, constantly making land deals
(and then remaking them, on different terms).
When Sarah dies, for example, there are two verses about her death, and
a
whole chapter about Abraham negotiating to buy
a burial site for her in Hebron. It’s not just land that the Bible is obsessed
with,
but also portable property: gold, silver, livestock...
There are Bible heroes who seem very much like
modern political figures. I am thinking of course of Bill Clinton,
who is reminiscent of King David in his sexual
misbehavior, emotional intelligence, and faith.
Is there ever a day when the GOP doesn't think of Clinton's cock?
And there are great Biblical passages about economics,
notably when Joseph is vizier of Egypt, and gradually confiscates
all the livestock and land of Egyptian farmers,
turning them into indentured peasants, transforming a relatively free market
into a centralized command economy. And one rich
vein in the Bible is the tension between church and state, as God and
His prophets are arrayed against a series of
kings who aggrandize themselves and try to keep God out of the public sphere.
The Bible, naturally, comes down on the side
of church supremacy. My own sympathies are with the kings, who are always
being undermined by meddling prophets. But I
didn’t find a Biblical Obama.
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Get knocked out at the Political "Punch"
Subject: Let the chips fall...
Bart, you wrote::
> I say we let the chips fall where they may.
> If we end up losing Pelosi and Reid, ...well,
...that's a price I'm willing to pay.
And when I read that I literally LAUGHED OUT LOUD
for 5 minutes!! No shit!!
Keep it coming!!
Bluedeer
Dude, I meant that shit.
If Reid & Pelosi broke the law, they show lose power at the
least.
Detractors say, "Bart has a blind eye when
it comes to the Clintons."
Clinton got semi-caught semi-doing a political groupie - and he's the
villian?
While Poppy armed terrorists and Der Fuhrter faked a 4200-dead-soldier
war?
"Let the chips fall" means "Let's look at the evidence."
The evidence says Clinton semi-had a girlfriend
and the Bush bastards armed terrorists and killed 4200 American
soldiers.
America the religiously-insane is struggling for an answer.
To them, the blowjobs were worse than the 4200 dead soldiers.
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Subject: 2009 World Series of Poker
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Marty always has good stuff.
Subject: listing the facts
Hi Bartoed one,
During eight years of Bush a grand total of three people were waterboarded.
Who said that? Rush or Hannity?
How could we possibly know if that's true?
One thing we know for sure is that Bush's
CIA destroyed the proof (video tapes) - they admitted that.
When Clinton was president he engaged in a policy
called rendition. That was when
they would capture a guy and send him to a country
such as Egypt or Israel and have
the guy tortured. Some of them were never
heard from again.
Who said that? Rush or Hannity?
How could we possibly know if that's true?
So you see Bartcop, when you list ALL the facts
the Democrats look like Republicans.
The only difference I see is that Bush did not
ever send a guy to a foreign country
specifically to have them tortured. ( keep in
mind that Gitmo is US property)
Who said that? Rush or Hannity?
How could we possibly know if that's true?
So next time you want to list the facts can you
do your readers a solid
and list all the facts instead of cherry picking
the so called evidence?
Carson ( I am not an animal I am a fiscal
conservative* )
* fiscal conservative means I understand
economics ( slap )
Carson, are you sure you know the definition of "fact?"
You say only 3 people were waterboarded - what horseshit.
You say Clinton had people tortured - complete horseshit.
We know for a fact that Bush tortured because his legal advisors put
it in writing.
Get your facts straight, boy.
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Worldwide Bartcop
They read it in Atyrau, Kazakhstan
They read it in Wasilla, Alaska (Meth Capital)
They read it in Chihuahua, Mexico
They read it in Lubbock, Texas
They read it in Triploi, Libya
Want
to sell stuff everywhere?
Why sell just to America when you can sell to the whole world?
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Subject: Donation
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