"My plan is to say y'all come...I got the fried
chicken and potato salad."
-- Tom Michael Steele, asked, by a gay person of color, what his plan is
moving forward
regarding inclusion of diverse populations in the Republican party,
Link
"Yes, that's right. To lure African-Americans
into the GOP, Steele is offering "fried chicken and potato salad." Since he mentions Republicans should
also be reaching out to the LGBT community, I wonder what stereotype he's going to offer us? Buttplugs
and Birkenstocks?"
-- LGBT blogger Bil Browning, Link
Excerpt: Good observational humor comes from the concept
that the world is crazy but we can all be in on the joke.
It not only speaks truth to power, but also tosses
a banana cream pie at it for good measure.
Here's comedian Bill Hicks commenting on the rationale
behind the first Iraq War.
"People say 'Iraq had the fourth largest army
in the world.' Yeah, maybe, but after the first 3 largest armies, there's a REAL big fucking
drop-off. The Hare Krishnas are the 5th largest army in the world, and they've already got
all our airports."
And here's Dennis Miller commenting on the current
one: "Liberals should not overplay this WMD, because it's enough for a lot of us to see
those kids smiling on that street again."
Really, Dennis?
Kids in Baghdad are smiling because Bush dropped
the Mother of All Bombs on their city?
Kids in Baghdad are smiling because Bush killed
perhaps one million Iraqis?
Dennis, I'm so old I remember when you used to
mock retarded thinking.
Bill Hicks on the first war: "You know we armed
Iraq. During the Persian Gulf War, those reports said: 'Iraq: incredible weapons -- incredible weapons.'
'How do you know that?' 'Uh, well... we looked at the receipts. But as soon as that check clears,
we're goin' in.'"
Dennis Miller on the current: "Next time we
go to war, don't give a specific reason for the war that the Left can eize upon and later flog
us with it ad nauseam, just do it. Remember, the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk
about Fight Club."
See the difference? (I mean, aside from the fact
that Bill Hicks has been dead for fifteen years
and Dennis Miller's career has been dead for
less than ten.)
Dennis Miller is too goddamn moronic to believe these days.
"Next time we attack a helpless country to steal their oil, don't
give a reason - just do it?"
Really Dennis?
Is that why your career died and went to Hell?
Because you think murdering the helpless is funny?
You used to have the Number One Prime Spot in all of television - the
job that Bill Maher has now.
These days, all you get is the occasional invite from FOX News to blow
Bill O'Reilly.
"What’s worth noting about what Jeff Sessions
-- the line of questioning, was that being a white man, that’s normal. Everybody
else has biases and prejudices...but the white man, they don’t have any ethnicity, they don’t
have any gender, they’re just like the normal folks, and I thought that was a little jarring."
-- my good friend Jeffery Toobin on CNN, Link
Hi Bart;
I don't believe Sarah ever did reveal the local
hospital/doctor records
from Trigs birth after her negligent cross country
trip while in labor.
I searched the net on custody for Trig+Levi but
found nothing current?
Now this would be the straw in the GOP's back
if Sarah lied about Trig being her son.
Talk about negligent vetting for the second highest
office in the land, and talk about
a million dollar deal for Levi if he can prove
it with DNA. Absolutely scrumptious if true.
Best as always;
Crede
Excerpt: When Sarah Palin announced her resignationabandoned
her constituents by quitting,
she did so with the complaint that the media
was relentless in ridiculing her and her family.
Is that true?
Why do you and she blame "the media?"
Why can't you spell out who the offenders are?
Is it Katie Couric for asking questions?
She also said "the media" attacked her baby which
isn't true as far as I can tell.
Why can't these whiners name their assailants?
Dowd stood at the crossroads of choice: She could
pen a column acknowledging some of Palin's good works
- like taking on her own party, fighting corruption
and gaining unmatched popularity in her home state.
Or, Dowd could continue down the dirty road of
journalism as pro-wrestling and throw a mindless,
Hulk Hogan smack-down on Palin (thus proving
Palin's point).
We know what a journalist would do.
Oh, can you suck me for your hypocrisy?
When the rumor leaked that Clinton might
have a girlfriend, did FOX News spend any time
acknowledging some of Clinton's good works, such
as eight years of peace and prosperity?
I hate to say something good about Dowd but at
least she's capable of telling the truth.
She rarely does it, but I've seen it happen -
have you sons of bitches ever told the truth even once?
Here is what Maureen Dowd wrote:
Caribou Barbie, nutty puppy, exquisite battiness,
erratic, egoistic, narcissistic personality disorder, grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy, loopy,
solipsistic meltdown, strange, incoherent, breathless, prickly, thin skinned, country-music melodrama, reckless,
ga-ga, crazy like a fox, crazy, casuistry, girlish burbling.
Maybe that's because Palin is known nationwide
for being Caribou Barbie, nutty puppy, exquisite battiness, erratic, egoistic, narcissistic personality
disorder, grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy, loopy, solipsistic meltdown, strange, incoherent,
breathless, prickly, thin skinned, country-music melodrama, reckless, ga-ga, crazy like a fox, crazy,
casuistry, girlish burbling.
BTW, I might have invented that pick-out-the-insults
idea.
You bastards probably owe me five bucks.
Dowd's column was entirely this ad hominem attack.
Such is the state of journalism post-liberal takeover.
Reason is dead and yellow journalism soars.Dowd
no longer even tries her hand at political analysis with intellect.
She has gone form Pulitzer Prize, to plagiarism
to name-calling.
That might be true, but the FOX Whore News Network
was created to tell lies about Democrats.
You sons of bitches get paid to lie and to whore
out your false opinions sent in by Karl Rove.
Dowd may be shit, like you say, but she had shown
flashes of talent and honesty.
Can you worthless liars say the same?
I really liked that article, thanks for linking
to it --- but did want to say, when the author says she will lie
to her son about the reasons his daddy died –
that she will tell him he died as a hero for his country,
instead of the truth that he died as a sucker
idiot for Bush ---- then she will perpetuate the problem.
I swore when I gave birth to a son that I would
raise him so he’d never enlist in anyone’s army,
and telling him the exact truth about the military
(you’re a number, cannon fodder, they don’t give
a rip about you, there’s nothing patriotic about
dying for your country) is the one way to make it so.
Jitske
It's easy
- just call the BartPhone at 1-800-530-2979
and
leave your 2 minute message or question or joke or impression to be played
on BCR. If you screw it up, just say it again and I'll edit the bad part
out.
Ditto Monkeys
are welcome to call!
Keep your
language decent so I can
play it on BCR!
Excerpt: This needs to be asked because suspicions that
prescription painkillers may have been involved in Jackson’s death
are strong enough that the federal Drug Enforcement
Administration has been brought into the investigation. And we know
that he had a documented history of battling
pain and at least some acknowledged problems with prescription painkillers.
We don’t know yet what pain drugs Jackson was
on or what they were prescribed for. But if he was addicted to
prescription painkillers, that addiction almost
certainly started with legitimate and needed treatment for real pain.
And that’s where medical marijuana might have
helped.
We know — repeat, we know — that marijuana can
be effective against certain types of pain. As The Lancet
Neurology put it a few years ago, “cannabinoids
inhibit pain in virtually every experimental pain paradigm.”
We know that human clinical trials such as this
one have found marijuana to be effective, particularly for neuropathic
pain.
But God likes it when his children are in pain.
Think I'm wrong?
Ask any Republican.
Excerpt: U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, the reserve
soldier who says he shouldn't have to go to Afghanistan
because he says Obama was never eligible to be
president, has had his deployment orders revoked, Army officials said.
Lt. Col. Maria Quon said Tuesday evening that
Cook was no longer expected to report Wednesday
to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida for mobilization
to active duty.
Cook is a reserve soldier assigned to an active
component unit for duty. Last week he filed a request in
federal court seeking a temporary restraining
order and status as a conscientious objector through his attorney.
So - killing is wrong if the president was born in Hawaii?
You KNOW this is about race, because John McCain was born in Panama
and if he'd
won the election and I'm sure Sparky the Cook wouldn't mind killing
for that warmongering old geezer.
.
"If I had the power Sonia Sotomayor has, I
would issue summary judgment against her nomination
to the court."
-- the vulgar Pigboy, fighting that third-stage syphilitic fever,
Link
Excerpt: While everyone was watching Michael Jackson on
every channel except maybe the Golf Channel,
I have been watching the HELP Committee hearings
on C-Span.
HELP stands for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
and is chaired by Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Since Kennedy has been ill, the acting chair
of the committee is Chris Dodd. Listening to this committee
is sort of like watching Star Wars. Senator
Dodd is Obi Wan Kenobi (our only hope) and his Jedi council
is made up of fellow democrats Patty Murray of
WA, Barbara Mikulski of MD, and Jeff Bingaman of NM.
For a complete list of committee members, look
here: http://help.senate.gov/About.html
This shows 22 members, but think there are 13
Democrats and 10 Republicans. The Darth Vader of this
committee is Sen. Tom Coburn, (R-Likes to Hear
Himself Talk) of Oklahoma.
Both sides love their phoney religion (that isn't real) more
than they love their kids, who ARE real.
Religion is a tool used by opportunists to take your money ...and
sometimes ...your wife and your daughter.
Those who believe in "faith" and some Invisible Cloud Being are soooo
much easier to fool.
How is it possible that Okie with an IQ of 64 guy sees this and few
others see the same thing?
It clearer than Lake Concha!
It's not really the sheep's fault, they've been brainwashed like their
superstitious back-to-the-fifties parents.
Joe Strummer wrote some great lyrics that I quote often.
In the Middle East, those kids are brought up to be willing to die to
harm the other side.
That will continue until; they take advice from Ol' Bart or Joe Strummer.
Bart, Sarah got into politics to "lower taxes"
as most of the modern day repulican problem solvers.
The world's solutions lie in keeping more for
yourself! WRONG!!!!
I enjoy your page, and hope to start listening
to your radio.
Thanks for the BCR CDs, and hang in there!
We need your humor wit and exposure to the truth!
Ricardo
I think taxes are like working for an hourly wage.
The more you work, the more money you have.
The Rethugs say, "Taxes are too high,"
but cutting them leads to financial disaster.
There are 7-8 states right now who are billions in debt and can't make
payroll.
In California, Arnie is laying off state workers 10 percent - forcing
them to take
unpaid leave three days a month - and how soon will that go to five
or ten days a month?.
Rethugs say, "Taxes are too high,"
which means "You don't need to work, but you can still spend as much as you want,"
but real life doesn't work that way.
Once you max out your credit cards, which is where those 7-8 states
are today,
you hit a brick wall and suddenly there's nothing for supper - all
because the super-rich
and the GOP claimed they were going to cut YOUR taxes, then they stole
all the money.
Forced furloughs means fewer cops, fewer fire engines, fewer women's
shelters, fewer meat
inspections, less paint on slick highways, fewer medical examiners
- who wants to live like that?
If you call 9-1-1, do you want to be put on hold becauise there are
fewer operators?
If Republicans enjoy less government, I suggest they move to New Orleans.
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Quotes
"A good judge comes to the bench sensitive
to those biases, and when they analyze a case they try
to set those biases aside." -- Tortureboy Gonzales,
who is so hated and disrespected he can't get a job despite
the fact that he has "Was Attorney General of the United States" on
his resume, Link
When they support Bush? George Bush?
From a wealthy New England family?
His father was a US congressman and vice president
of the United States and he
attended a prestigious prep school in New England
as well as Yale and Harvard, b
ut supporting him is "thumbing their nose at
elites"?
Could Scarborough be any more full of crap?
DBK
Excerpt: Twelve people tortured, slain and dumped along
a mountain road in Mexico were off-duty federal agents.
It is one of boldest attacks on federal forces
since President Calderon launched his national war on drugs.
Mexico's national security spokesman Monte Alejandro
Rubido said the 11 men and one woman were
investigating crime in Calderon's home state
of Michoacan, which has been a center of his crackdown on organized crime.
They were ambushed by members of the La Familia
drug cartel, Rubido said.
Their bodies were found piled up along a mountain
highway
I hope Obama has an eye on this.
I've been looking at California coastal maps lately and it seems like
our government trains
our soldiers on some of the most expensive real estate in the entire
nation - why?
Maybe we should move those bases to very southern California, Arizona,
New Mexico and Texas.
Then we could sell that off-limits land to The Sierra Club and some
to developers to build nice hotels.
What sense does it make to train our soldiers on super-expensive land
while are borders are open?
These Mexican gangs are already here, and when they start beheading
Americans I want you to say,
"Ol' Bart warned us about this coming disaster
but we didn't do anything about it."
It's always easier to avoid a problem up-front than figuring out how
to fix it after it blows up.
A cogent argument can be made that if you've had
sex with a woman then you've had sex with a crazy one.
However, I seem to draw the loonies like moths
to a searchlight
and while the sex can be very good, the dues
are way too high.
I'm sure Steve McNair would agree - if he was
still alive.
Trust me, I have a couple stories that even I
have trouble believing.
You speak of Mrs. Bart as a steady, positive
person and that is
wonderful in a life companion. Bask in your good
fortune.
Steve W
I got real lucky at an early age.
Wish my old age luck was a little better.
LOL,, THATS HILARIOUS BECAUSE YOU DID NOTHING
BUT BASH LAURA
AND HER NUDE PHOTS BUT THE ONLY REASON
PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT THEM
ON YOUR WEBSITE IS BECAUSE SHE WAS A LITTLE
HOTTIE!
THEY DONT CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT HER..
BUT THANKS ANYWAYS..
I HAVE A NEW FOUND RESPECT FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL
WOMAN NOW AND WILL BE
A NEW LISTENER TO HER SHOW.. HAVE A GREAT
DAY,, AND GOD BLESS..
JESSE THE PIT BULL
...and what will your hands be doing while you
listen to her nag a caller?
Do you have newfound respect for every woman who spreads her
legs for a camera?
Sarah Palin scares the whole hell living shit
out of me.
She is so Fascist Right that she makes Mussolini
look like a radical liberal.
And people like her.
That is what really scares the shit out of me.
I live in Georgia, i've already seen the Palin
2012 bumber stickers.
These fuckers are backwards-ass enough to vote
for her.
She quit on Alaska to be the first to throw her
hat into the ring for the 2012 election.
You thought it started early last time. Well,
this election has already started.
She is just to stupid to realize the resigning
mid-term was the absolute worst thing
she could have done. And you know as well as
I do, these uneducated Repuglicans
will believe the spin. "She did it for the sake
of the Country."
Paul C
Subject: 'Palin waving Trig like
a Pittsburgh Towel'
Would that be a gold Steelers "Terrible Towel",
or a white Penguins' towel? ;-)
We've been having a pretty good year in pro sports
around here, except for the under-funded and mismanaged Pirates...
I agree with you on Pailn's kids; she served up
her preggered-out-of wedlock "abstinance" kid
for national consumption and abuse, called "open
season" and then cried when the press piled on.
She deserves whatever she gets, though I'll admit
I feel a little sorry for Bristol...
Zone Man
I agree - it's gotta be tough growing up with a bat-shit crazy Mom.
Tuesday's Poker After Dark, Doyle's
telling the story about the time he was playing
legendary poker player Stu Unger and he bet $300,000
on a bluff on some hand.
This week's Poker After Dark is
3 children and 3 longtime pros.
Doyle talked about his big $300K bet, and these
kids look at him like, "...and?"
Dear Bart:
Conason raises an interesting point. Why
would the people who control the Republican Party choose Palin
when she was so unqualified and McCain was a
72 year old cancer survivor who was likely to die in office?
If McCain wanted to get elected it seems like
he would have selected someone who was qualified.
He may have thought the VP candidate wouldn’t
matter much to voters. Still, if winning and patriotism
were his only motives, he would have selected
someone else. So why did he select Palin?
We had similar questions when GHW Bush selected
Quayle. We now know that he selected Quayle
because he did not want to promote someone that
could latter get in the way of a future Presidential run
by either Jeb or W. We also know that W.
selected Cheney, in part, because Cheney promised he
wouldn’t get in the way of a future run by Jeb.
So who was McCain trying to keep the path to the
Whitehouse clear for by selecting Palin? Who knows?
He doesn’t have any heir apparent. Someone
must have convinced him to select Palin even though it would
harm his chance of winning. Was it the
Bushes? Trying to keep a Presidential option open for Jeb.
I’ve often heard that Reagan was forced to put
Bush on the ticket in 1980.
In 1988, GWH inexplicably selects Quayle and
after the election, the Bush media turns Quayle into a laughingstock.
1992 to 2000, the Bush media tell non-stop lies
about Clinton, Clinton and Gore.
In 2000, W. easily beats Quayle and selects Cheney
(after he has had several heart attacks)
because he won’t be in Jeb’s way to run for President
later.
In 2008, after the Bush media showed McCain what
it could do by destroying Hillary, I think they forced
McCain to pick a light weight or face a hostile
Bush media. In 2009, long time Bush operative, Fred Malek,
joins the Palin for President operation and someone
convinces her to quit he position as Governor.
Anybody got a better theory to explain this history
of Republican VP selections?
Jim W
In many cases the religio-handjobs had to be appeased.
No crazy, gay-hating Bible-thumpers on the ticket?
No reason for the religio-crazies to get out and vote.
That's why they want to run on gay marriage every election.
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