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Friday May 1, 2009 Vol 2326 - Swine Flew
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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
"The typical president, I think, has two or
three big problems.
We've got seven or eight big problems."
-- Obama, trying to deal with the mess the Bush bastards left,
Link
"Heh
heh - Like I give a fuck..."
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Obama in Black and White
Excerpt:
On his 100th day in office, Barack Obama enjoys
high job approval ratings, no matter what poll you consult. But if a new
survey
is accurate, the president and some of his policies
are significantly less popular with white Americans than with black Americans,
and his sky-high ratings among African-Americans
make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they
actually are.
Asked whether their opinion of the president is
favorable or unfavorable, 49 percent of whites say favorable. Among blacks
the number
is 80 percent. Twenty-one percent of whites say
their view is unfavorable, while Blacks with unfavorable opinions of Obama
is too small to measure.
Those opinion differences are clear in the traditional
"right track-wrong track" question, a key indicator of the public's mood.
Thirty-four percent of whites say the country
is headed in the right direction, while 56 percent believe it is "seriously
off track."
For black Americans, 70 percent say the country
is headed in the right direction, with just 23 percent saying it is off
track.
(According to the U.S. Census, blacks make up
about 13 percent of the population, while whites make up about 80 percent.
The Times poll divided respondents into black
and white, with no other groups reported.)
On the economy, 55 percent of whites approve.
Among blacks, the number is 91 percent.
Thirty-six percent of whites disapprove of Obama's
economic performance, while just two percent of blacks disapprove.
How can we believe those numbers?
Since 80% of America is white, how can Obama not be popular with them
and still win the election?
Maybe the answer is in the poll taker - the New York Whore Times.
They might've faked the whole thing - why?
Because they are whores.
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Subject: Shepard Smith uproar
Dude,
Welcome back.
I thought it was weird that you printed nine rebuttals
with no explanation, much less a mea culpa.
It's just too subtle.
Did you mean "my bad" or "sorry, but Shep's still
R-tool" or "this is Fox pretending to be independent" or what?
Since when do you hold back? Not to nitpick,
just a rare moment of non-crystal clarity in your writing.
(I wanted to say in your non-writing but that
would just be being a dick.)
Wes in Baltimore
I was just making the point that, after 10 years
on live TV, Shep still can't control his mouth.
I never considered the possibility that he might
actually say something honest or intelligent.
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Combating
Epidemic Ignorance
by Joe Conason
Excerpt:
In the turbulent imagination of the hard-core
conservative, American foreign policy should be about telling off the rest
of the planet.
According to the right-wing mind-set, a manly
foreign policy would curtail any effort at seeking influence abroad, cut
off assistance
to developing countries, forget about improving
our global image and, above all, withdraw from the existing international
organizations,
especially the United Nations, which is nothing
more than a gargantuan waste of money and a hive of parasitic bureaucrats.
Only if we
brusquely and even violently dismiss the obnoxious
foreigners who annoy us can we vindicate our political and moral superiority.
Then there is the real world, where we regularly
encounter threats like swine flu - and where we must depend on the other
people
who live in this world to help protect our nation
and our families. Certainly that is the outlook of America’s new presidency,
confirmed with profound urgency after 100 days
by the sudden prospect of pandemic disease.
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Quotes
"The questions put to Barack Obama at his news
conference last night covered nearly every topic
but the Craigslist Killer, and if that
had come up, Obama probably would have answered it in stride.
You ask, he'll answer -- earnestly,
disarmingly, enchantingly, even -- and most of the time convincingly,
which is no small accomplishment for
a politician."
-- Tom Shales, TV critic for the WaHoPo, Link
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Quotes
"This notion that because we're conservatives,
our doors are closed and we only take
certain types of people is just crazy.
This is not -- never been the nature of this party."
-- Michael Tom Steele, trying to explain the all-white GOP,
Link
I'm confused about something:
The GOP claims they don't hate Blacks, but they don't have any Blacks
in their party.
However, they openly admit they hate those terrible gay sinners, but
Larry Craig got caught
trying to get a strange man's penis in his mouth - and he's still in
the senate?
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An unavoidable
fight
by Gene Lyons
Excerpt:
Perennially wrong but never in doubt, Cheney
and his circle first pooh-poohed the al-Qa'ida terrorist threat, then panicked
after 9/11,
quickly magnifying a band of stateless fanatics
with an appetite for mass murder into yet another existential threat to
the nation's survival.
They argued that the real threat to America wasn't
Osama bin Laden, but Saddam Hussein, calling on the CIA to produce ironclad
evidence
that the attacks on New York and Washington were
masterminded in Baghdad. Analysts who claimed that Iraq and al-Qa'ida were
mortal
enemies reportedly were met with derision, bullying
and threats.
According to Mayer's brilliantly reported book,
Cheney and his staffers, particularly one David Addington, described by
many as
"Cheney's Cheney," badgered the CIA to endorse
two fixed ideas: that Saddam possessed nuclear weapons and meant to use
them
on behalf of bin Laden. The inconvenient fact
that little or no evidence existed only caused them to redouble their efforts.
This increasingly appears to have been the cause
of the United States' sickening descent into torture.
Experienced Federal Bureau of Investigation interrogators
who'd extracted crucial evidence from captured al-Qa'ida functionary
Abu Zubaydah, including the identity of 9/11
mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were unable to confirm Cheney's obsessions.
The result, beginning in August 2002, was Justice
Department memos dismissing as "quaint" the Geneva Conventions, and authorizing
waterboarding, sleep deprivation and beatings
falling short of "organ failure and death" specifically against Zubaydah.
It's the timeline that's significant. All this
took place precisely as the Bush White House began its 2002 pre-election
propaganda campaign
urging war with Iraq: "mushroom clouds," yellowcake
uranium, etc. Was it truth or useful fiction that Cheney's thugs were after?
Authoritarian regimes have always used torture
to secure false confessions.
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See more at whatnowtoons.com
Subject: Franken vs. Coleman
Bart,
How can it take a longer period of time to recount
votes for a senate seat
than it took to recount votes for the presidency
in 2000?
Dino
Dino, I believe your memory has a glitch.
As a favor to Cheney, that whore Scalia ordered the vote counting to
stop.
He said "Counting the votes could cause irreparable
harm to petitioner Bush."
Scalia was right - counting those votes would do Bush no good at all.
That's why the Supreme Court butted in and took our vote away.
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Still the best advertising bargain on the Net
Banner ads by the day,
by the week,
or by the month
Question
What's keeping every gay couple in America from getting married?
I think there are four states now where it's legal - so what's holding
them back?
If *I* was gay, I'd fly to Iowa or VT or whatever and get married to-f-ing-day,
but (wild guess) 95% of gay Americans aren't doing that - and
I wonder why.
Can't be a money issue - 95% of gays aren't poor.
Note:
This is not an attack, it's a question.
Sidebar:
I like Brad Pitt, no reason I wouldn't...
But didn't he say he wouldn't marry Angie until gays could legally
marry?
Seriously - did anybody buy that?
If people put off doing what they wanted until a majority of people
came to their senses, nobody would ever do anything.
But somehow, Angie seems to have bought that.
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Subject: Rumsfeld and tamiflu
hey Bart,
I heard someone mention that Rumsfeld owns alot
of tamiflu stock.
I checked it out on Snopes and it seems to be
true:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/tamiflu.asp
That could explain alot.
*67
The Bush bastards make their money from Americam misery.
Wars, invasions, torture, hostages, weapon sales, pandemics, etc.
When a Republican is president, bet on America to fail
because they can't make any money when America is safe and at peace.
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Get knocked out at the Political "Punch"
Quotes
"No matter who wins the race, there's always
going to be a cloud hanging over them -- did they really
get more votes than the other guy. That's
a reality. And there's nothing you can do to change that."
-- Norm Coleman, very, very concerned about Al Franken's image after he
takes office, Link
"Where were you in 2000, Norm, when we really
needed you?"
-- Eric Kleefeld, proving that Coleman is a liar, Link
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The Irony of Satire
Excerpt:
This study investigated biased message processing
of political satire in The Colbert Report and perceptions of Stephen Colbert.
We found that individual-level political ideology
significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert's political ideology. Additionally,
there was no significant difference between the
groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely
to think
that Colbert only pretends to be joking and
genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report
that
Colbert used satire and was not serious when
offering political statements. Conservatives think Colbert dislikes
liberalism.
This is why the Bush White House asked Colbert
to roast Der Fuhrer - they thought he was serious.
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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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Pro-choice
Rethugs: We'll leave, too!
That would drop the Fascist Dogs to about 12%
Excerpt:
Shortly after Specter's announcement, a colleague
e-mailed around a press release from the Republican Majority for Choice.
She asked, "Am I crazy, or are they threatening
to defect along with Specter?" The consensus here was that the group's
statement
does read as an ultimatum to scrap the conservative
social agenda, or else. For me, it brought on a daydream about the GOP
resorting to using reproductive choice as a party-saving
bargaining chip. But, as always, you can judge for yourselves:
Specter is joining the more than 240,000 former
Pennsylvania Republican voters who are a microcosm of voters nationally
who switched last year to the Democratic Party.
The vast majority of these voters were pro-choice, fiscal conservatives
who
believed that the Party had become too monolithic
and extreme in their agenda.
If anyone in the GOP is celebrating this day,
they are completely misguided. If the Party continues to be so inhospitable
to
anyone who does not adhere completely to their
strict dogma, then they better get used to being in the minority.
Without mainstream candidates the GOP will have
no ability to compete in huge pockets of the country.
The craziest part is the GOP claims to be the party of less government.
Yet they want to gag your doctor and tie his hands.
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Quotes
"The only people who are reliably missing how
marginal the Republican party has become are the top whores
of the mainstream media. They report
on John Boehner and McCain, Newt Gingrich and Palin, Grover Norquist
and Michele Bachmann, as if they matter
and make sense to most Americans. When will media elites turn to the
real story: The GOP is committing slow
suicide, because it consciously chose a path of elitism and exclusivity,
while the Democrats fought a brutal
battle, but came back together around the values of inclusion and equity
that the political success of Barack
Obama and Hillary and Michelle – represent."
-- Joan Walsh,
Link
I'm thinking about selling t-shirts that say,
"You can't trust the media whores."
Think anyone would buy/wear one of those?
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Subject: torture
Hey Bart,
I am not a psychiatrist but I think the Bush/Cheney
(maybe) Rummy eagerness to torture
is simply because they don’t have sons!
Thus to prove their manhood they over compensate by torturing.
I wish some real psychiatrist would explore this.
Jack in Jacksonville, Alabamastanello,
I think it's sexual.
A NeoCons need torture screams to get his penis hard.
You know they videotaped everything and Bush & Cheney
kept the best 100 or so tapes so they can get the occasional sexual
release
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Sleazy Rice
Pulls a Nixon
If the President Orders Torture, It Must be Legal
Excerpt:
Student Q: Is waterboarding torture?
Condi: The president instructed us that
nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations
under the Convention Against Torture. So that's
-- And by the way, I didn't authorize anything. I conveyed the authorization
of the administration to the agency, that they
had policy authorization, subject to the Justice Department's clearance.
That's what I did.
Student Q: Okay. Is waterboarding torture in your opinion?
Condi: I just said, the United States was
told, we were told, nothing that violates our obligations under the Convention
Against Torture.
And so by definition, if it was authorized by
the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention
Against Torture.
So Condi, if Bush and Cheney raped you and said
it wasn't rape, would you agree?
If all the man has to do is deny the facts, how
can we be a nation of laws?
Remember when Clinton had a girlfriend?
Back then, you Rethugs said laws were serious
things that had to be followed.
But when it's kidnapping, rape, torture and murder,
laws don't really matter?
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Subject: re: listing the facts
Yes extraordinary rendition was authorized by
Clinton.
Not for taking people to be tortured but to bring
them to the US or Egypt for prosecution.
Before Carson gets too full of himself, Reagan
did that to bring the Achille Lauro pirates/hijackers to trial.
I have no problem with Reagan bringing the Achille Lauro pirates/hijackers to trial, assuming they knew who was guilty.
You could argue Clinton’s administration might
not be clean but by his executive orders, any terrorist seized in
extraordinary rendition could not be sent anywhere
that did not torture. Richard Clarke and Al Gore were involved.
But the questionable cases were taken Egyptian
Terrorists to Egypt.
Extraordinary rendition for torture was definitely a Bush II occurrence. His administration created the idea.
Name anyone who was seized in that manner and was tortured and you see it as a Bush policy and no one else’s.
Jamil Gasim Saeed Mohammed 2001
Mamdouh Habib 2001
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi 2002
Muhammad Bashmila 2003
Khalid El-Masri 2003 (it was the wrong
Khalid El-Masri)
Abu Omar 2003
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad 2005
Maher Arar 2005
The list goes on and on…
zen ferret
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Did Reagan knowingly sell weapons to terrorists?
Or was he an old, doddering dupe who had
no idea what his crooked VP was doing?
Subject: 2009 World Series of Poker
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Arlen Specter is a liar and a whore.
Two weeks ago he defended Der Pigboy
and now he's leaving because his party is too extreme?
Arlen, why did you defend the worst of the worst?
Marty's Entertainment Page
Marty always has good stuff.
Need to take a sudden trip?
Now with working link
Quotes
"Coming soon to a battleground state near you:
a new effort to revive the image of the Republican Party
and to counter Obama's characterization of
Republicans as "the party of 'no.'" There's a new initiative,
called the National Handjobs for a New America.
It will involve an outreach by a mix of GOP officials,
ranging from McCain to Jeb Bush.
Others involved in the new group's "National Panel Of Experts"
will include Haley Barbour, Bahbi Jindal and
Mitt Romney."
-- CNN's John King, pretending he knows something
about something, Link
Yeah, right.
McCain and Jeb and that sack of has-beens is really going
to shake things up..
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Forked Tongue 'Proud to Testify'
Excerpt:
Former Bush liar Ari Fleischer argued forcefully
against launching an in-depth investigation of Bush's torture program.
However, he said that if it does happen, he's
ready for them to bring it on:
He argued that nobody is up to the task, and that
any investigation would "lead to acrimony and blame-gaming" and
"devolve into the worst type of partisanship."
While noting that “no one likes to get a subpoena,” Fleischer said,
“I’ll be proud to testify if I get a subpoena.
I’m proud of what we did to protect this country." Those wanting
to see
Forked Tongue - or at least some of his former
colleagues - on the witness stand include Piggy Noonan, who called for
a 9/11 Commission-style handjob investigation.
Today, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) also demanded an
investigation into Bush's torture program.
"To continue to ignore the mounting evidence
of clear wrongdoing is a national humiliation," writes Byrd.
Funny how Fleischer is the ONLY ONE willing to testify - all the others
have ignored their subpoenas.
Of course, you can only ignore a subpeona when it's handed to you by
a pissy-pussy like Pat Leahy.
"What can
I rubberstamp for you, today, Mr Bush?"
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Subject: Arlen Specter joins the Democrats
Many Republicans are upset that Arlen Specter
left the Republican Party, but there isn't really a Republican party to
leave.
The party of Ronald Reagan no longer exists.
It is now the party of Bush, Cheney, Palin, Limbaugh, deficits, big government,
wire taping, unnecessary wars, borrow and spend,
Wall Street bailouts, Bank Bailouts, and torture. The party no longer stands
for anything, has no vision, and the only thing
left is the name and the logo. Now the Democrats are stuck cleaning up
the
Republican's mess and Arlen Spector has decided
to become part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
I say, welcome aboard, and welcome to the real
world.
Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA.
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They read it in Nuremberg, Germany
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They read it in Youngstown, Ohio
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