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Quotes
"Courage. There's no reason why they shouldn't
be courageous. The truth is supposed to be our Holy Grail."
-- Helen Thomas, talking
about America's Cheney-stenographer, whore press, Video
Reminder: Jon Stewart was
named "Most trusted journalist" - and he's a comedian.
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Fool Me
Over and Over
by Dan Froomkin
Excerpt:
Last summer, when New York Times Public Editor
Clark Hoyt appropriately spanked reporter Elisabeth Bumiller
and her editors for a top-of-the-front-page story
in late May that was "seriously flawed and greatly overplayed."
Hoyt wrote that the story, which appeared under
the headline 1 in 7 Detainees Rejoined Jihad, Pentagon Finds
"demonstrated again the dangers when editors
run with exclusive leaked material in politically charged circumstances
and fail to push back skeptically."
Entirely by coincidence, of course, Bumiller's
article, based on a secret Pentagon report, provided a handy talking point
for
Cheney the dick later that day, when he snarlingly
attempted to rebut Obama's major address on national security speech later.
Bumiller's reporting failure also earned her
an editor's note appended to her story, and a scolding op-ed.
And yet, amazingly enough, eight months later
- now in the midst of attempts by Gitmo dead-enders to turn the aborted
Exploding Christmas Underpants plot into a political
cudgel - Bumiller is at it again, though this time chasing Bloomberg, et.
al,
rather than leading the pack. This time it's
one in five former detainees who have "engaged in, or is suspected of engaging
in,
terrorism or militant activity."...
"What is the point is of a public editor criticizing
a story for the New York Times if they're going to republish it a year
later,"
he told me. 'Gullible, amnesiac journalists are
a dangerous thing. Is our profession really incapable of learning anything
from its mistakes?'"
Dan, why are you pretending America's whore press has any credibility
to squander?
They are paid for whores and whores will do whatever you pay them to
do.
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Why do we
listen to Rudy?
"America's mayor" has no credibility left
by Joe Conason
Excerpt:
Why does the mainstream news establishment continue
to present Rudy “9/11” Giuliani as a leading expert on terrorism
and national security? Rather than scrupulous
analysis or fresh insight, he offers hyper-partisan spin, unburdened by
basic facts
or even a working memory. On "Good Morning America,"
Rudy sought to draw an unflattering comparison between Obama
and his predecessor with an outlandish claim.
"We had no domestic terror attacks under Bush.
We’ve had one under Obama." This is now the Republican propaganda line,
insulting to any American of normal intelligence,
which only omits the largest terrorist attack ever on American soil – and
the
event that restored Giuliani’s fortunes and allowed
him to mount an ill-fated presidential campaign in 2008. (Sometimes he
forgets
shoe bomber Richard Reid, and sometimes he pretends
that the Reid attempt occurred before 9/11.)
It's obvious that Giuliani was responsible for
a serious menace to national security, which fortunately was derailed before
it could
do any real damage: the nomination of Bernard
Kerik as secretary of Homeland Security. Consider the security implications
of a
Cabinet member with ties to organized crime,
an outstanding arrest warrant in his home state, and all the other myriad
defects of
Giuliani’s corrupt former police commissioner
-- whom he promoted because of loyalty instead of qualifications or competence.
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Quotes
"Uultimately, the buck stops with me.
And when the system fails, it is my responsibility."
-- Obama, acting like a man,
Link
"Hmm. I wish you had given me this written
question ahead of time so I could plan for it. Ahhh...
I'm sure historians will look back and say
gosh we could have done it better this way or that way. Ahhh.
You know I just, ahhh, I'm sure something
will pop into my head here...with all the pressure of trying to
come up with an answer but it hadn't yet...."
-- Bush in 2004, acting like Der Little
Fuhrer, Link
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Obama and
the Limits of Cool
by Maureen Dragon
Excerpt:
Unlike the Republicans, who have yet to take
responsibility for a single disastrous thing they did,
President Obama said “ultimately the buck stops
with me.”
But when he failed to immediately step up to the
microphones in Hawaii after the Christmas terror
and thank the passengers for bravely foiling
the plot that his intelligence community had failed to see,
President Cool reached the limits of cool.
No Drama Obama is reticent about displays of emotion.
The Spock in him needs to exert mental and
emotional control. That is why he stubbornly
insists on staying aloof and setting his own deliberate pace
for responding -- whether it's in a debate or
after a debacle. But it's not O.K. to be cool about national
security when Americans are scared...
He’s so sure of himself and his actions that he
fails to see that he misses the moment to be president - to be
the strong father who protects the home from
invaders, who reassures and instructs the public at traumatic moments.
Once again the braindead Democrats refused to open their little scared-bunny mouths.
The racist tea-baggers have set their hair on fire because it took Obama
3 days to comment on the underwear bomber.
Yet back in 2001, when Richard Reid tried to light his shoe bomb, it
took Bush seven days to comment.
If the braindead bunnies would bother to mention that, the flaming teabaggers
would have to shut up.
But nooooooooooooo - they're Democrats - they can't be
bothered to list the damn facts.
How did I get stuck in a party of mealy-mouthed surrender monkeys?
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Quotes
"The US would be ready to embrace a black presidential
candidate, especially one such as Obama
– a light-skinned African American with
no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
-- Harry Reid, quotes from 2008 in some
new book Link
CNN is having a cow over these clumsy Reid remarks and I can't see why.
Obviously, America would accept a light-skined Black over an Uncle
OJ Watts Black.
That's a fact, so why should Reid get in trouble for saying it?
And Obama can break into Black street language when he wants
to - what's wrong with that?
"Back in 1977, I managed a pizza parlor and
I was surprised by
how many Black customers ordered their
pizza minus the cheese."
-- Bartcop
Was that a "racist" comment?
Sure it was- since it involved race.
Was I wrong to say what I said?
Just try to make me apologize for stating a fact.
When will Anerica and their whore media grow up when it comes
to race?
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Subject: Mr. 9-11 forgets...
Bart,
Not only did Rudy suddenly forget 9-11, which
is all he can usually talk about,
he claims the failed attempt to
blow up underwear was a successful terrorist attack.
I guess, if it has to do with underwear, Rudy
is the expert..
Russ
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Quotes
"Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson have become the
most unpopular and electorally imperiled members
of the entire Senate. This has happened
largely because of their hostage-taking actions on health care.
Lieberman's actions appealed to no
one. Now, he is toast, even among Republicans. A warm body
will defeat him in 2012."
- Chris Bowers - and I hope he's right
Link
Jesus, that's still three long-ass years away.
Plus, Kissyface will never go away.
If he's defeated, David Gregory will still have him on Meet
the Whore every f-ing Sunday
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Subject: Medical marijuana "shops"
Bart, I love you, man, but you have the MMJ thing all wrong.
I live in CA.
First off, the law is really unsettled, and the
cops see it as a huge threat to their gravy train,
so they ignore court rulings, the will of the
voters, etc, in order to hammer down on anyone they can.
My girl has had multiple spinal operations, including
fusions, pain pumps, etc, and these clowns still spent
several years and 100s of K$$ trying to screw
her. I beat them down with the help of some good lawyers
and natural talent, but I'm still fighting.
It's been sheer fucking hell for six (count 'em) years.
This crap is a huge clusterfuck/tarbaby, and if you try to get it in on it as a business, you are buying yourself a heaping pile of grief.
That said, let me link you to some info.
There's also a big case coming up that will be important (it's sitting
at the
CA Supreme Court at the moment) - called People
v. Kelly.
http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5802
(explore this site for good info - they are the guys
doing 90% of the legal work for MMJ)
http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/pdfs/n1601_medicalmarijuanaguidelines.pdf
Do a google for "marijuana collectives raided in california"
By the time you are done reading all that stuff,
you'll have an outline of what's up.
Thanks for all you do.
Pete
Pete, thanks for that.
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Quotes
"If it makes me a pariah, so be it. It is the
truth, not stuff I want to believe.
But everything is in jeopardy. Our
children’s future is at stake."
-- Glenn Beck, the crying pariah,
Link
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Cheney's
Role in Yemeni Resurgence
by Ambassador Marc Ginsberg
Excerpt:
Let it be clearly understood that Al Qaeda's
resurgence in Yemen can, in no small part, be traced back to Dick Cheney.
In 2007, Cheney personally authorized the release
of 11 Saudis from Gitmo, who then passed through a leaky Saudi
halfway house terrorist rehabilitation program
to rejoin Al Qaeda. Two of the 11 former detainees took the express jihadi
underground railroad to rejoin Al Qaeda in Yemen...
Based on a comprehensive review by the Defense
Intelligence Agency 14% of the 530 Gitmo detainees released through
Cheney's direct approval (74 to be exact) have
either been identified as reengaging in terrorism or suspected of doing
so.
So Cheney authorized the release of unrepentant
hardened terrorists to his Saudi friends. Having cut their shackles from
the Saudis, these escapees are now training and
recruiting the likes of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and threatening to
attack the U.S. embassy in Yemen, and Cheney
has the chutzpah to accuse Democrats of being soft on terrorism!
Cheney will continue to attack Democrats because he knows they won't fight back.
If you're a purse snatcher, you don't snatch the
purse of a tall, muscular athletic woman.
You attack the little old lady who you know isn't
going to be a threat.
Democrats can't respond to a threat because they have no bartcop in
them.
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Soldier
jailed for writing a song
The Pentagon has no sense of humor
Excerpt:
In the ironically named Liberty County Jail since
December 11 sits Army Specialist and Iraq War veteran Marc Hall,
a rap musician who had the audacity to write
a song attacking the Pentagon for subjecting him to a so-called stop-loss
order
after he had finished his Army tour and had returned
from a posting in Iraq.
Hall wrote the song and sent it to the Pentagon
as a protest. His commander at Ft. Stewart initially had him arrested after
he
went to his base commander to protest his stop-loss
order. He had planned to leave the service when his contract was up on
Feb. 27.
The Pentagon then upped the charges, claiming
that in sending his song to the Pentagon, he had "communicated a threat"
to he military.
In the song lyrics, Hall says he will shoot officers
if he is stop-lossed.
Well, yeah, that's going a little overboard but still, it was just a
song.
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Quotes
"At some point maybe somebody in the government
will wake up and say,
"Hey, it's colder. It's not hotter."
Maybe all this talk about global warming needs to be rethought."
-- scientist Ben Stein,
saying the polar caps aren't melting,
Link
North Pole, 1909
North
Pole, 2009
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Subject: SoCal water woes
hi bart,
sometime when you get a chance you might want
to get a look at water politics in california.
the future means more people means more
scarcity, meaning there is less stuff like water.
the endangered species act will be among
the first victims. all of this is playing out in ca now.
john b
I remember in 2001, Enron was buying up SoCal fresh water rights.
They were going to screw you guys with water like they screwed you
with energy.
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Assholes Quotes
"Green Bay is the greatest football team ever,
yada yada yada, best quarterback ever, blah blah blah,
most passing yards in history, yak
yak yak, best turnover ratio, yada yada yada, red-hot quarterback,
blah blah blah, greatest defense in
history, yak yak yak, most first downs ever, yada yada yada, best
passing percentages, blah blah blah,
highest red zone average, yak yak yak, best takeaway record,
yada yada yada, red-hot quarterback,
blah blah blah, greatest defense in history, yak yak yak..."
- assholes Troy Acheman and Joe Buck, just before
Kurt Warner's Cardinals kicked Packer ass
Why can't the assholes at FOX say, "These
are two good teams and, as everybody knows,
on any given Sunday, any team can win
because this is pro football, folks."
But no, they can't say that.
They go 100 miles out on a limb and then they look so super-stupid
when the team they've been fellating all afternoon loses.
CBS did the same thing with Tom Brady and the Patriots
"The Patriots are the greatest football team
ever, yada yada yada, best quarterback ever, blah blah blah,
most passing yards in history, yak
yak yak, best turnover ratio, yada yada yada, red-hot quarterback,
blah blah blah, greatest defense in
history, yak yak yak, most first downs ever, yada yada yada, best
passing percentages, blah blah blah,
highest red zone average, yak yak yak, best takeaway record,
yada yada yada, red-hot quarterback,
blah blah blah, greatest defense in history, yak yak yak..."
-- the TV announcers, just before the Ravens kicked their
asses by 30 points or so
Why can't they leave their cheerleading skirts at home?
Why can't they at least pretend they're neutral?
Oh, and it was a bad, bad weekend.
Dallas won a playoff game for the first time since 1936.
Oh well, let them get their hopes up.
It'll just make their next loss that much sweeter.
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Subject: Clowns
Bart, I suggest all congress members be required
to dress as our supreme court judges do,
in robes, except these robes be a combination
of clown and Nascar venue.
..
They should be required to display patches and
logos of all their special interest lobbyist receipts.
Maybe it would shame a handful
Ed
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Ed Freeman's
Medal of Honor
Heroic chopper pilot risked all
Excerpt:
On November 14, 1965, Freeman and his unit transported
a battalion of American soldiers to the Ia Drang Valley.
Later, after arriving back at base, they learned
that the soldiers had come under intense fire and had taken heavy casualties.
Enemy fire around the landing zones was so heavy
that the medical evacuation helicopters refused to fly in to the landing
zone.
Freeman and his commander, Major Bruce Crandall,
volunteered to fly their unarmed, lightly armored helicopters in.
Freeman made a total of fourteen trips to the
battlefield, bringing in water and ammunition and taking out wounded soldiers.
A shot of Chinaco for two brave men.
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Subject: It was so cold this morning...
...I saw my Republican neighbor with his hands in his own pockets.
runotsure
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2009 - World Series of Poker
I didn't do a 2009 in review (Where's Barry Crimmins?) but if I had,
I would've mentioned that my 2009 highlight was the World
Series of Poker.
It was one of the funnest things I've ever done.
I got to meet and talk to many of the best poker players in the world
and I couldn't have done it without the generosity of you readers.
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Dennis Miller, bad wrestling host
Excerpt:
On Raw, Miller was awful from the second he walked
onto the stage, as he delivered a monologue that stunk
worse than Big Dick Johnson’s gym socks. Miller’s
“jokes” were met with total silence – well, unless you count
the forced chuckles coming from the announce
table.
Not only was the material not funny, but the political
nature of it was inappropriate for the setting. Miller, a rethug,
took shots at Obama, Pelosi and Michael Moore.
He also told Al Sharpton to “suck it” and ridiculed the concept
of global warming. The lone joke poking fun at
Republicans was visual, as the heads of Bush and Cheney were
superimposed on the bodies of DX. Of course that’s
not a personal attack like the other stuff, but I guess that’s
what Miller, a regular contributor on Fox News
Channel, considers fair and balanced.
Poor bastard - all he can get now is a wrestling gig and the occasional O'Reilly appearance?
I'd rather be Artie Lange than Dennis Miller.
I'd rather be anybody besides Dennis Judas
Miller.
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Subject: Artie Lange
Hey Bart, I agree with you, but I was surprised
by the difference in Howard's reaction with this
compared to when Dana Plato was on his show and
he savaged her and she committed suicide the next day.
He seemed fairly indifferent to it. I know
Artie was a personal friend of his, but still.
Plus his outrage over someone selling this story
was a bit hypocritical because if he didn't know Artie
he would've commented on it during his show like
he always does.
Greg in Vacaville, CA
I heard Robin say, "So this is how it feels when it happens to us."
But whoever heard of suicide by knife?
Especially by a recovering heroin addict?
And how does Artie come back from this?
I don't think a few jokes will do it.
Those demons must be something if he attacked them with a knife.
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Subject: backstabbing the Clintons
Hi Bart - Don't know if you watched 60 Minutes
last Sunday but just in case you didn't
here's some more info on how the Dem party backstabbed
the Clintons yet again:
http://susiemadrak.com/2010/01/10/23/01/the-establishment-candidate
The Establishment Candidate
Via 60 Minutes, something in the new book “Game
Change” I found a lot more interesting
than the dirty details of John and Elizabeth
Edwards’ marriage:
What Clinton didn’t realize, according to the
authors, was that some of her fellow
Democratic senators – whose support she thought
she had – actually preferred Obama.
“The sort of mythology is that Hillary Clinton
was the establishment candidate. That Obama had to
run kind of a guerilla campaign against her.
In fact, Obama was the establishment candidate.
There were a number of senators and Democratic
leaders, who secretly and privately
encouraged him to run behind the Clinton’s back,”
Halperin said.
Not that I trust Mark Halperin, btw.
Chris
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Quotes
"In the days leading up to a 2008 interview
with ABC News' Charlie Gibson, aides were worried with
Sarah Palin’s grasp of facts. She couldn’t
explain why North and South Korea were separate nations
and she did not know what the Federal Reserve
did. She also said Saddam attacked us on Sept. 11, 2001."
-- Excerpt from the book, "Game Change,"
by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Link
The bad news?
Like Bush, Sarah Palin isn't going to get any smarter.
If she wins the White House it'll be great news for super-lazy
comedians (Leno, Conan, Letterman, etc)
but it'll be another disaster for America.
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Subject: Double standard for Democrats? Not a problem for me
The Republicans are making a big deal about what
Harry Reid said about race. Republicans claim that there is a
double standard claiming that some people are
a lot more forgiving when a Democrat makes a racist sounding
comment than Republicans get. I don't have a
problem with the double standard. Republicans have worked hard
to disenfranchise blacks while Democrats have
worked hard to empower blacks. Harry Reid has a strong
record to fall back on. So if an old Democrat
uses the word "negro" it's not that big of a deal.
I am amused however because the more of a big
deal Republicans make of Harry Reid's comments the less likely
they are going to be able to get rid of their
incompetent party leader Michael Steele. Democrats look forward to
taking on the GOP with this year with Steele
in charge.
Marc Perkel
My blog: http://marc.perkel.com
Founder of the Church of Reality
http://www.churchofreality.org
"Reality Based Voter"
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