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Quotes
"Did you know that Bush's economic plan will
create 1.4 million jobs? Oh, and did I mention
that the plan will create 1.4 million
jobs? And don't forget, the plan will create 1.4 million jobs.
Republican politicians are obviously
under instructions to push that job number. On the Sunday
talk shows some of them said "1.4 million
jobs" so often that it sounded like an embarrassing
nervous tic. Of course, there's no reason
to take that number seriously. Basically, the job-creation
estimate came from the same place where
Joseph McCarthy learned that there were 57 card-carrying
Communists in the State Department."
--Paul Krugman, Jobs,
Jobs, Jobs
But wait a minute - Bush's money transfer top the super-rich has
already lost over two million job,
so he's saying making that same mistake again will somehow create
1.4M new jobs?
That means if he's telling the truth (ha!) and everything goes
according to his plan
we'll stioll be 600,000 jobs in the hole - why would anyone back
this idea?
"Mr
Rove said this was good politics..."
Excerpt:
George W. Bush’s doctrine of preemptive
wars is creating a new deep divide in U.S. politics.
On one side, Bush and his backers see the
Iraq War as the start of an American global empire
built around unparalleled military power.
On the other, a scattered grouping of skeptics dig in
for what they see as a fight for the soul
of the American republic.
Without doubt, the Bush side now owns the
strategic high ground, asserting vindication in the U.S.
ouster of Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein.
Bush also can claim near total mastery of a U.S. news
media that shed any pretense of “objectivity”
as it flooded the nation with heroic images of American
soldiers and heart-warming scenes of grateful
Iraqis, while downplaying civilian dead and growing
signs that many Iraqis resent the U.S.
occupation.
Quotes
"Senator Dole, aren't you a little over the
top? We were grateful when the U.N.
stood with us after 9/11, when French
and German soldiers joined us in Afghanistan
to hunt for bin Laden. You remember
him. He's the one who killed our people.
By the way, those French and German
soldiers are still there.
--
Big Dog, kicking poor Bob Dole's ass every week on 60 Minutes
Where
was the danger to U.S. from Baghdad?
by Arianna Huffington
Excerpt:
From the moment that statue of Saddam hit
the ground, the mood around the Rumsfeld campfire
has been all high-fives, I-told-you-sos
and endless smug prattling about how the speedy fall of
Baghdad is proof positive that those who
opposed the invasion of Iraq were dead wrong.
What utter nonsense.
In fact, the speedy fall of Baghdad proves
the anti-war movement was dead right.
The whole pretext for our unilateral charge
into Iraq was that the American people were
in imminent danger from Saddam and his
mighty war machine. The threat was so clear and
present that we couldn’t even give inspectors
searching for weapons of mass destruction
— hey, remember those? — another
30 days, as France had wanted.
Great point, Arianna.
Bush said we didn't have another 30 days.
We had to invade RIGHT NOW because every second counted.
The warmongers say there was no rush to war, but Bush wanted to
invade so much he was
squirming like a little boy who had to potty. Bush pissed
off every other country in the world
because it was SO IMPORTANT that we murder Iraq today and tomorrow
couldn't wait.
Bottom line? He loves death. We've never had
a president who loved death so much, and this
president (sic) loves death so much he smirks and makes
jokes about people he's killed or is
preparing to kill. It's goddamn sickening to have this man/child/monkey
running the planet.
"We
were very careful to avoid injuring any civilians."
Quotes
"Now that the war has been won, is it permissible
to suggest that our emperor has no clothes? I'm not referring
to his abysmal stewardship of the economy
but rather the fig-leaf war he donned to cover up his glaring domestic
failures. President Bush went
to war with Hitler's Germany and found another Afghanistan instead. After
comparing
the threat of Hussein to that of the
Führer, it was odd to find upon our arrival a tottering regime squatting
on a
demoralized Third World populace. Now
the pressure is on for Bush to find or plant those alleged weapons of
mass destruction fast or stand exposed
as a bullying fraud..."
--Robert Scheer, LA Times, Did
Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War?
Goodbye,
Coke. Hello, Mecca Cola
This Boycott of U.S. Products Could Really Do Some Damage
Excerpt:
The boycotts and the surrounding avalanche
of negative publicity are a storm warning of what may lie ahead.
Eight of the world's top 10 global brands
-- Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, General Electric, Intel, Disney,
McDonald's and Marlboro -- are American,
worth an estimated cumulative $337 billion. McCann-Erickson's
message may be that they should shed their
Americanness, but just like other famous American brands
-- Starbucks, Nike, American Express, Levi's,
Heinz and Kelloggs -- they are wrapped irrevocably in the
American flag. Indeed, many have built
their brand on precisely what until now has been the appeal of America,
what Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government, calls American "soft power."
As that is dissipated, so the companies
concerned are put at a competitive disadvantage.
Excerpt:
The US military has admitted that children
aged 16 years and younger are among
the detainees being interrogated at its
prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson, a US military
spokesman, said all the teenagers being held
were "captured as active combatants against
US forces", and described them as "enemy combatants".
The children, some of whom have been held
at Guantanamo for over a year, are imprisoned in separate
cells from the adult detainees, Lt Col
Johnson said. He would say only that the teenagers are "very few,
a very small number" and would not say
how old the youngest prisoner is.
Lt Col Johnson said the juveniles were being
[interrogated] because "they have
potential to provide important information
in the ongoing war on terrorism".
So how young are the children who are being tortured in Cuba?
Reminder: They are being held in Cuba so the American laws against torture won't apply.
New stuff at the Bart Store
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Quotes
"I think there's been a lot of disturbing elements
that so much of the intelligence
on which the capitals built their case
seems to have been shaky."
-- Hans Blix, saying that
the US and Britain used "shaky" intelligence,
including
forged documents, in an effort to prove Iraq had banned weapons
Bush lied and got over a hundred American killed - doesn't anybody
care?
They impeached Clinton for lying about sex, and Never-Elected
gets a pass
for lying America into a war where thousands of innocent people
died?
I guess you can get away with that when you own the press.
Today
Show goes black on Tim Robbins
Actor jerked off the air for not backing illegal war
Excerpt:
It was at this point that something happened
that has perhaps never happened before in the history of morning television.
The music swelled under Robbins... Mid
sentence answering a question that had been asked just 10 seconds earlier...
"We have a terrible track record" said
Robbins, clearly not able to hear that music was coming up to literally
'play him off the stage'.
The camera cut to a wide shot. Lauer
was leaning in and very much in conversation. Either Lauer was ignoring
what must
have been the deluge of invectives in his
earpiece, or he just determined that he wasn't finished with this line
of questioning.
But the music ended. The bumper music ended
and the studio was in the two shot as Robbins said..."It's for some reason
not in our best interest to keep it going
and pursue it to the next level." Lauer nodded, and the camera faded to
black as
Robbins - mid sentence -
had his microphone turned down.
Made
for TV
by Gene Lyons
Excerpt:
Reporting on a 12-year old Iraqi boy, orphaned
by a U.S. bomb and hospitalized with both arms blown off,
a CNN correspondent actually asked if he
understood the purposes of "Operation Iraqi Freedom." A Kuwaiti
doctor tactfully responded that Ali Hamza
had suffered "psychological trauma" and had no political views.
Museums Looted?
I can't believe I have to say this, but somebody has to....
Report: Iraqi museums looted, loss "incalculable to history."
Report: Military guarded oil wells, let history be stolen because Bush is stupid.
Report: Rumors that "looters" had keys and knew exactly what they were looking for.
Report: Bush is stupid, he let history be stolen to protect that precious oil.
Report: The papers are full of the "We TOLD them to guard the museums!" reports.
Report: FBI/CIA joint ops saved 90 percent
of the best stuff under orders from Smirk!
"We cannot let Iraqi freedoms result in a loss of history," Bob Woodward
will quote.
Reminder: We're all being spoon fed a script by Bush's good puppy press, the un-indicted, co-corporateers
Gingrich: State Dept. Undermining Bush
Excerpt:
As for Colin Powell's trip to Syria, the
Republican former House leader said that
"to meet with a terrorist-supporting,
secret police- wielding dictator is ludicrous.''
Donald Rumsfeld endorses his good friend Saddam Hussein
Subject: Lies and Damned Lies
Bart, Hi , and hope you all got rid of the
bees.
A bee swarm.Shit, that's just creepy.
Anyway, I am writing because I thought you
might dig this, all courtesy of Buzzflash.
RE: DixieChix - Ray Waddell, apparently
from Billboard, wrote an article about how
DC concerts are still selling out, but
he concluded with this: "The Dixie Chicks' album
"Home" has tumbled down the charts in the
weeks following singer Natalie Maines'
declaration in London that she was ashamed
to come from the same state (Texas) as Bush."
Oh yeah? Billboard has Home at number one
on the country charts, up this week
from number two. I think Ray Waddell is
filled with number two. What kind of
idiot reporter would not consult the current
chart in his own magazine?
A lying Bush-Monkey, that's what kind.
Mark
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Music
stuff
Putting your mark on entertainment history
(some sizzle to go with the steak)
Got a favorite group?
Someone you think is under-appreciated (like Garbage)?
Send in your favorite songs on MP3 so we can have some
"bumper music."
We'll be going to (hopefully) lots of commercials and we need
SMALL, 30-second MP3s
of your favorite music. Maybe it's Pink Floyd, maybe
it's YOUR BAND, maybe it's Nat King Cole.
...unless you'd like to live on a steady diet of Garbage, Zeppelin and U2.
Quick! Somebody get Rude Rich a cool cloth!
ha ha
Sidebar:
I've asked Rude Rich to be the BCR music
critic, because we disagree so much, and if I can't scare some
knuckledragging, pinhead ditto-monkeys
into any kind of debate, at least Rude Rich has some real opinions
and is ready to back them up - and regardless
of what I did to him a year ago in DC using a cue stick off the wall,
...I don't intimidate him at all..
So, if you have any passion for music, find some neighborhood
kid to show you how to make MP3
and then e-mail them to bartcop@bartcop.com
so we can hear them on 
Hey, this whole BCR thing all depends on two things - you and
me.
So send me your best/favorite music (no vocals, just music)
on a 30-second MP3 to
One of my favorites is "Plush" by the Stone Temple
Pirates.
That's a bumper song, but we might have to play that one
all the way thru.
So, in the next 6 days - that gives you until past the weekend,
I expect three 30-second
MP3s in my mailbox from each and every one of you - there
can be no exceptions.
Besides, the person who most consistently sends in the best bumper
MP3s might end up working for
the obviously monsterous money-making mega-corporation
with a heart.
Music stuff
This is an idea not-yet completely thought out.
Do you remember Wanda from Volume 1046?
She wrote:
> I am a hertosexual woman aged 65+. I read
Bartcop every day.
> I've never heard Shirley sing & now
I'm a little afraid to play her music...but SHE is really HOT..
So, I wrote her back and offerd to burn her a "Best of Garbage"
CD.
She liked that idea, so I burned her a "Best of Garbage."
Once I saw it on my hard drive, I thought about erasing it, but
then I thought:
"I wonder if anyone else would like to hear Bart's "Best o' Garbage,"
so I saved the files.
What if we gave away a free "Best o' Garbage," CD to the next five $10 subscribers?
Statement:
There's a possible chance this is morally equivicable, so let
me say this about that:
If contacted by Shirley's legal team, I will plead guilty, pay
their fine then ask what measures
could be taked to legally promote their great band that's on
almost nobody's lips.
Hell, maybe Shirley will call the Bart-Phone at 918-493-1500 and tell me to knock it off!
ha ha
So if you;'d like to hear Bart's "Best o' Garbage,"
all you need to do to get your free CD is
Click Below to become a Corona volunteer
for $10 a month.
You're going to sign up sooner or later, right?
Why not get in now and get your free Garbage CD
- it's hot stuff!
This is an important VCR Alert, but let's get one thing
straight right from the git-go.
This information you are about to read concerning tonight "West
Wing," did NOT
come from my good friend Martin Sheen or my
good friend Bradley Whitford
(Don't read if you want to be surprised.)
On tonight's "West Wing," [Aaron Sorkin might read
bartcop.com,
but he's a much bigger 24
fan.
Tonight, the president's daughter gets kidnapped,
just like Kimberly in 24.
And who was behind this horrible crime?
Why - it's Chandler Bing from NBC's Friends.
Tonight, Chandler kidnaps Zoey and then he reveals that
he was the man who created SD 6.
Then, against her will, Chandler takes Zoey back to Tulsa, Oklahoma
where he somehow got a job
with an unknown dot com entity that might be called bartcop.com
Excerpt:
No excerpt is good enough.
You have to read the whole thing - it's that good.
If you liked Paul Wellstone,
if you dislike pompous, self-important, asshole-bastard gasbag
sons of bitches,
if you think kicking the recently departed is in really bad f-ing
taste,
if you're a human being who thinks decency ought to count for
something,
then Click
Here and watch what Al Franken does to this prick.
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Michael Dare & Disinfotainment Today
Springsteen supports the Dixie Chicks
Edward Norton doesn't trust The Chimp
'The Madness of George Dubya' features songs updated by Tom Lehrer
And, Traci Lords has written her autobiography
(Let's hope I'm not in it)
click
Santorum
Sets the record "Straight"
His gay bashing was just a misunderstanding
Excerpt:
"If the Supreme Court says that you have the
right to consensual (gay) sex within your home,
then you have the right to bigamy, you
have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest,
you have the right to adultery. You have
the right to anything."
"I was
appointed, not elected,
so I'm
taking over the world."
Quotes
"In this case, what we're talking about, basically,
is priests who were having sexual relations
with post-pubescent men. We're not talking
about priests with 3-year-olds, or 5-year-olds.
We're talking about a basic homosexual
relationship. Which, again, according to the world view
sense is a a perfectly fine relationship
as long as it's consensual between people. If you view
the world that way, and you say that's
fine, you would assume that you would see more of it."
--Sen. Rick Santorum, (R-Insane), Santorum's
comments on homosexuality in an AP interview
This idiot can't really be this crazy, is he?
In his lust to attack gay people, he says a priest raping a nine-year
old boy is "consensual?"
The priest tells that scared little boy that "God
wants this to happen, abd if you fight me you will
go to hell for all eternity."
and since the kid doesn't yet have the courage to tell the priest to take
a f-ing hike, he submits to his attacker and when he gets older
he'll go on a church burning spree
because he can't handle a normal adult relationship due to his
priestly nightmares.
The raping priests and Rick Santorum are both Typhoid Marys of religious insanity.
Kurt Vonnegut Interview
Click
Here to read this specific interview on alternet.com
Click
Here to read Kurt's regular, bi-weekly Q&A on inthesetimes.com
Excerpt:
That said, do you have any ideas for a
really scary reality TV show?
“C students from Yale.” It would stand your hair on end.
What targets would you consider fair game for a satirist today?
Assholes.
Quotes
"I can only hope that the sound of Laci's voice,
begging for her life,
begging for the life of her unborn
child, is heard over and over and over again
in the mind of that person every day
for the rest of his life..."
-- Sharon Rocha
- mother of Laci Peterson
Deflowering Monica or The Middle East?
Excerpt:
Donald Rumsfeld answered, “I don't think
we'll discover anything.”
Hits are way up
Prices are way down
argue with me
$80 for two ads, $300 for ten.
They seek them here,
They seek them there,
Those Bushies seek those weapons,
everywhere.
But, even with the dead and dying,
those weapons
just
aren't
there.
Welcome to the new world order
by RF
Update:
Streamboy
was a big help to me and to BCR.
He runs a Christian hard rock internet
radio station.
Hey, I tuned it on to check it out and I stayed for a couple of hours.
With BCR, things are moving much too fast - this whole BCR thing
is like buying a damn house.
I thought BCR would take about two
weeks to put together, but hell, it's gonna take
two weeks
just to read and decipher the Sony msd-je470 owner's damn manual
For me, this is like going to flight school.
There's so much to learn - who has the time? I need more multiple personalities
to handle stuff.
The good news? We have appointments to speak with DC, Seattle, Portland,
San Fran and dusty old Tulsa
between now and Monday. It would be cool if I
had something to announce by next Tuesday
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Quotes
"Because of the peace movement, we had the
Holocaust.
The Democratic Party is keeping the
Ku Klux Klan alive,
and if we'd listened to Southern Democrats
who wanted
peace in the Civil War, we'd still
have slavery."
-- former California GOP Party
Chairman Shawn Steel, at LMU in Los Angeles,
"Islam
a 'diseased' faith, ex-GOP chief says"
What?
The peace movement caused the Holocaust?
The Democrats are keeping the Republicans alive?
Wanting peace means you are pro-slavery?
Rush would love this guy.
Reminder:
We keep hearing what a savage and blood-thirsty and inhuman
monster Saddam was,
but could I direct your attention to a really, really big story from 4-5
years back?
Some knucklehead American kid was somewhere, maybe in Thailand
or Sukarto or Malaisia*
and he was caught stealing a newspaper... (The facts may be wrong,
but the story is true.)
Anyway, the local cops arrested him and the assigned punishment
for theft is "a caning."
Actually, "a caning,"
could range from an exhale to death in severity, but I assume it was real.
There was mention of "torn flesh" and "permanant scarring" that
didn't sit too well with likely-to-vote Americans.
The way I remember it, Clinton bribed them or pressured them and
they eventually let the mook go, but the point
was he stole a damn newspaper. "Over
there," they rip blood from your body for stealing a damn
USA Today,
which is only worth fifty cents - on their very best days!.
Lesson learned: They think different in different cultures.
Saddam was a brutal dictator?
Fine - welcome to the Middle East.
This is a place where some parents are HAPPY to learn that their
16-year old son
pulled a Columbine on a Haifa Pizza Hut and killed nine and wounded
35.
...and we won't get into "They're dying
for sacred sand," today, but it's true.
One other thing...
When I write something like that, I want you to do me a favor:
Don't write and say, "You've always
hated the Jews," because that's stupid and untrue.
Don't write and say, "You've always
hated the Palestinians," because that's stupid and untrue.
Don't write and say, "You've always
ben too far right," because that's stupid and untrue.
Don't write and say, "You're just carrying
Bush's water for him," because that's stupid and untrue.
Quote something that I wrote that wasn't true.
Malaisia* ... sorry about the Jimmy Carter joke
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Bush
believes he is leading a holy war
Just like his old friend Osama
Excerpt:
As he gained political power, Bush came
to believe in a divine plan that supersedes all human plans.
Richard Land, president of the Southern
Baptist Convention, recalls that Bush once said,
"I believe God wants me to be president." After
the World Trade Center attacks, according to
Time magazine, the president spoke of "being
chosen by the grace of God to lead at that moment."
Religious insanity is the cause of most wars.
I wish we could get past the silly superstitions of a thousand
years ago.
If there was a God, He wouldn't want us to remain mentally stagnant,
would he?
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