From: noahveil2@hotmail.com

Subject: the $43 million

Couldn't help but notice the cartoon about the $43 million we gave to the Taliban.
Like you, I also jumped on the bandwagon of this story, but I'm afraid, like the accusation
concerning the bogus footage at CNN, this is an inaccuracy we better nip in the bud.

There was a middleman. The $43 million was given from the US to the UN who used it to
supply humanitarian aid, like food and medicine, to the people of Afghanistan, supposedly bypassing
the Taliban altogether. Since this is precisely the action recommended on your site in
"An Alternate Form of Action" from the Daily Brew, I think it's time to call it quits on this particular accusation.

Did the humanitarian aid actually GET to the people of Afghanistan?
Did any of it end up in the hands of the Taliban?   Different story.

Michael
 

Michael, yes, that's a problem.
Even if we just sent food, the taliban can hijack that shipment, give half the food
to its army, then trade the other half for cash to give to bin Laden.

Let somebody else finance bin Laden.

From: monceaux@mail.ev1.net

Subject: That jerkoff President of ours

It was really refreshing and *very* surprising to see Smirk stealing ideas from
Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R- N.H last night. These are the guys
who put together the Hart-Rudman report, and the ones who first thought up the idea
of  the "Secretary of Homeland Defense" position and to make it a cabinet-level position.
Nice to see Smirk steal the idea and take  all the credit.

Bush let this report SIT since he was inaugurated (released 11  days later) without acting on it.
Instead, he let The Pacemaker head up another commission that would have most likely duplicated
the findings of Hart-Rudman--if the Pacemaker would have been thorough enough (Hart-Rudman
took 30 months; Smirk told the Pacemaker he had 6 months to pull together his report).

Turns out, this bipartisan commission had some GREAT ideas that could have been helpful.
Now since its time to score political  points, Smirk acts upon it.
Here's the executive summary of the Report:

http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01013102.htm

Ryan
 

Ryan, he did the same thing in Texas.
He worked against some health care bill for children.
When it passed without his signature, he told America it was
"an example of how he worked to bring both sides together,"

...and the whore press knew it but they refused to call him on it
because their boss,  Mr. Rove told them it wasn't a good story.

From: Jangellamf@aol.com

Subject: Your best

Show the proof......No shit.

But Karl Rove isn't the mastermind behind this carefully-orchestrated manipulation.
He doesn't have the skills of experience via trial and error.  That could only be one person.

Who was out of sight and out of mind last night? Who was part of hiring a PR firm to sell the Gulf War
to the people? Who has the real power to create a press blackout should he choose to, after seeing
first hand what happens when America gets a load of its kids getting slaughtered ?

Richard Bruce Cheney. It ain't Rove, he's small time. As Hyman Roth said of  Frankie Pentangeli, small potatoes.
Cheney's fingerprints are all over this, the strategy of an endless war, because Plan A, which worked ten years ago,
won't work now. Keep America on wartime footing for as long as it takes means that opposition can be effectively
and legally squelched--only someone that was knee-deep in Iran Contra would have had the brains to come up with this,
an elusive bogeyman that will never live long enough to testify in front of the Senate.  There's your boy.

Last night I watched the Taliban reiterate over and over about how if the US wants bin Laden, they have to show
some evidence that he's responsible. My initial reaction was, 'you arrogant bastards' and then it hit me--in any other
accusation, that's exactly what they do. But because of the press steam-roll and script (''it has to be bin-Laden,
and he's pundit #31 to explain why"), even I was swept up. We're ASSUMING that bin Laden is guilty because
that's what we've been told since Day One. But there hasn't even been enough hard evidence to charge the dude
on a RICO violation--no one has ratted him out, no tapes, nothing. We're so keen on immediate vengeance that
nobody has had the balls to say, 'hey, we remember Waco and impeachment, show us the proof, too'.
Innocent until proven guilty, remember?

Nah, too much like work, let's lynch the sucker on the say-so of people that we wouldn't loan a nickel to ordinarily.
To get the public to go for this over their increasing (and healthy) skepticism requires the genius of a long-time pro
who's already made too many mistakes. That's Uncle Dick (not unlike Uncle Joe, as in Stalin, folks, these poppas
don't brook no dissent, here?). Rove--not a chance.
Meet the same boss who already was the old boss and there's your boy.

Johnny Angel

From: sarge@cyberportal.net

Subject: Made again

Bart
 
Another heads up: The Smirking Chimp used your "Proof before war" essay on its listbot.
You know you've made the big time when your competitors start boosting your stuff.

 No, no, no.
 I asked them to run that, as a favor.
 They were very nice about it, too.
 They even asked if I wanted to wait post-speech, but I said no.
 

Re West Wing's "Two Cathedrals": No, Bartlett never went to the mat with his father about
the women's pay scale. He knew within a nanosecond after daddy belted him it was a no-go.
(If he'd ballistic about a church service; what would he do about money)
I don't think Mrs Landingham had a problem with that; it was enough that Jed agreed to try.
 
She had Old Man Bartlett figured within a day after he hired her -- "Jed, your father was a prick."
She obviously wasn't lacking in brains because she worked for Jed for years.
Barlett wouldn't have dull people round him. Everyone from his wife to his body man are super sharp.
 
One of the things I like about The West Wing -- lots of texture and depth.
 
Anita

From: khass@comports.com

Subject: Over the edge?

Bart, you need a vacation.  You said--

Depending on how you have your fonts set, this will say different things.
But if you type "NYC" and then enlarge it and change it to "wingdings" font,
you get a (poison sign) and a (Star of David) with a (thumbs up.)

To answer your question as to why "Bill" would have that in there...
When Bill was personally doing the code review he got reallllllllyy tired
(you can imagine, with over 20 million lines of code to look at).
So, the evil anti-Semite organization that had infiltrated the TrueType fonts group
maneuvered to schedule their code review when Bill was at his weakest.

This is the way I heard it.
I'm sure, with enough investigation, other 'facts' will be uncovered.

BTW, did you notice that usa (lower case) is "cross" "droplet" "peace
sign"... hmmm... Christians, oil, peace?  Wow!  What another coincidence
(read as "stretch of the imagination").  Can somebody say Bible Code?

Keep up the... uh... good work, and lay off the Art Bell :-)

Kenneth
 

When you people write, you need to be baseball-bat-over-the-head clear.
What are you saying?

That I faked that?
Or that it's not really there?
Or that's not really a Star of David?
Or that Gates doesn't really control Microsoft?
Or that I really shouldn't have printed it?

What are you saying?

If that upset you, you're not going to like Q33NY in wingdings font.

From: Powers@cl.uh.edu

Subject: 4 More Years 4 More Years

Great Scott, you'd think Bush delivered one of the preatst oratorical
masterpieces of all time.  The damn bar is so low he passes because he
doesn't drool on himself.  Mark my words, this event will be turned into the
Bush reelection campaign 2004 before because we are letting him off the hook.

GAO inquiry of Cheney:  Gone
Investigation of insider trading with O'Neil and Rove:  Gone
Bailout for Bush contributors in insurance and aviation:  Done
We're being blinded by misguided rah rah bullshit when we ought to keep this monkey bastard's feet to the fire.
Support him but for Christ's sake let's not all get in line to kiss his ass.

Bill