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Quotes
"To my way of thinking, Coulter is the perfect
candidate to speak for the right. She's viperous, unprincipled,
holier-than-thou, paranoid, whiny and
blessed with a perpetual smirk. She believes rich people who rip off
the system are just good businesspeople,
that poor people forced to accept public assistance are parasites
better off eliminated. Barring the
reincarnation of McCarthy or Cohn, she's the perfect candidate for Moral
Conscience of the Right. She gets my
vote "
--Harley Sorensen, Ann
Coulter Does Joe McCarthy Proud
Excerpt:
Defense officials said on Friday the Pentagon
was insulted by media claims the rescue of Jessica Lynch
in Iraq was hyped to boost support for
the war as questions swirled over the private's rescue.
The U.S. Army has launched an investigation
into the capture of Lynch and others on March 23 in Iraq
and an Army spokesman said the military's
Criminal Investigation Unit was also looking at the treatment
of Lynch and other U.S. prisoners of war
in Iraq to establish if any war crimes were committed.
Lynch's rescue on April 1 from...
...what?
The investigation has concluded and the Pentagon was completely
cleared of all charges?
Who was in charge of the investigation? ....Katherine who?
Oh, ...Katherine Harris (R-FL)?
Well, ...see?
We need to stop being overly suspicious and support our president-on-loan
from God.
Quotes
"Wasn't this the country that Tony Blair and
George Bush pledged, in the same breath that announced war,
that the people of Afghanistan would
not be forgotten? Well, I can say after two visits to Afghanistan that
they are not only forgotten but well
and truly betrayed. The country is on its knees: roads, bridges, tunnels,
schools, homes, hospitals, and farmlands
are reduced to rubble and dust. It is one of the most heavily
land-mined countries in the world.
Only 5% of the rural population have access to clean water, 17% have
access to medical services, 13% have
access to education, 25% of all children are dead by the age of five.
The people are dying! And we are turning
a blind eye."
--David Hayman
Afghanistan
has been well and truly betrayed
...if only they had some oil Bush could steal, he'd be all over Afghanistan
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Starts the middle hour of prime time tonight
Iraq
War Helped Boost Al Qaeda
Allowed Network to Recruit: Experts
Excerpt:
The U.S.-led war on Iraq gave Al Qaeda
the opportunity to reinvigorate its weakened terrorist network with
new recruits and more funding, say experts
on terrorism. The Iraq war 'clearly increased the terrorist impulse,'
said Jonathan Stevenson, senior fellow
for counter-terrorism at London's International Institute for Strategic
Studies...
'The political masters in the U.S. and Europe
underestimated the extent to which bin Laden would use the war
in Iraq as a propaganda weapon to rejuvenate
the movement and attract more funds,' said Paul Wilkinson,
head of the Center for the Study of Terrorism
and Political Violence... in Scotland. 'As far as the war against
Al Qaeda goes, it possibly has been counterproductive.
We face turbulent times ahead'... 'So while the Al Qaeda
leadership has been weakened, the network
as a whole has become more elusive than before,' [Stevenson] said,
adding that responsibility for planning
and carrying out attacks rests more than ever with local groups.
If you look at this witrh a small IQ, it's clearer than that.
By staging a fake war against a country who wasn't planning to
attack us, it stands to reason that those
who ARE planning to attack had extra time while we were distracted
to become better prepared.
Did you know Poppy Bush currently works for Saudi Arabia?
He's on retainer with them to lobby for
stuff they want/need, and what they don't want/need is our military
coming in a routing out Al Qaeda.
So killing two birds with one stone, the Corrupt Commander stages
a fake war so FOX and CNN
will say how great he is, while Poppy collects a fat check for
shielding the Saudis from attack.
You should be hearing this on NBC, CBS and ABC, but they want
their tax cut more
than they want to see America punish the bastards who took
down the WTC towers..
Hey,
you know what?
written on Black Russians
Watching Dave Friday night, he said it was "Fleet
Week" in New York City.
Being an Oklahoma rube, I can only guess what "Fleet
Week," might mean.
A third of the way into the show, Dave asked Paul if he knew Anchors
Away.
Paul said, "Yeah, I know that song..."
ha ha
Sidebar:
Paul knows all the songs.
I'll bet if I snuck up on Paul and said,
"Do
Garbage - Version 2.0," he'd
start counting, "1, ...2, ...3, ...4...,"
and his band would burst into "Temptation
Waits!"
So Paul and the gang burst
into Anchors Away, and the doors of the Ed Sullivan Theater
blew open
and I'll be damned if about 100 current, on-duty US Navy personnel
didn't come streaming thru the doors.
You know what else?
I liked it, and if you
didn't like that, I suggest you have the problem.
What is it with liberals?
It hurts me to hear Rush sayin, "those nutty liberals don't
want our country defended,"
and then I turn around and see e-mails from
"screw-the-military" liberals.
Back to Dave!
Kareem Abdul Jabber on cape!!
Wasn't he the pilot in Airplane who dragged Walton
and Lanier up and down the court for 60 minutes?
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Welcome
back, Neil
Excerpt:
"The reaction to France that the administration
allowed to happen is so immature. These people
have their own opinion - they're French!
They're not fuckin' Americans, they're French!
Vive la difference, hello? And this big
deal about Bush landing on an aircraft carrier?
Talk about a six-year-old kid with a Tonka
toy - we got it here. Bush has polarised the country
and is creating this breeding ground for
an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably
make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's
pretty crazy. If I keep speaking my mind, will I be deported?"
Hey Neil, we're glad to have you back, but we were damn disappointed
you left in the first place.
If you're sincere about dropping your hero worship of the Unelected
Idiot, I can be a fan again.
Hummers Here, Hummers There
Excerpt:
In private, Bush aides have been fuming:
The U.S. gave the Saudis intelligence warnings before the
recent attacks, but they took no steps
to deter them. Publicly, though, the Bush team bites its tongue.
We never talk straight to Saudi Arabia,
because we are addicted to its oil. Addicts never tell the truth to their
pushers.
Reminder:
The 'President's' father is on the Saudi payroll as an advisor
and a lobbyist.
All American decisions concerning Saudi Arabia will be made with
the interests of the B.F.E.E. first.
...but don't think about that - let's talk about American Idol and Monica Lewinsky - again.
Quotes
"10 lengths.. it's not a horse, it's an antelope."
--Nuveeeeena, in the BC Chat room, giving Vegaas
oddsmakers advice on the Belmont
Excerpt:
In 1995, Hatch was told by his senior staff
that the FBI and other government agencies
had missed warning signs about the 1993
WTC bombing and were ill-prepared to prevent
future domestic terrorist attacks. Hatch,
whose committee oversees federal law enforcement,
approved holding investigative hearings
about the information, but they never took place
"We have information that some instances, like
the WTC, could have been prevented if the
relevant agencies had worked in concert
with each other," the investigators wrote.
"Simply stated, several different agencies had
a small piece of the puzzle.
"If they had shared with each other, there is
at least a strong possibility that they would
have identified the World Trade Center
as a target before the bombing."
But nooooooooooooooooooooo. Hatch, like every
Republican in congress, had his head
inside Clinton zipper, looking for "something very, very important,"
like potential obstruction
of justice charges for Travelgate, Filegate and every other crime"
that never occured.
Instead of doing their jobs, all the Republican party did once
they seized control was to
attack our last elected president while Al Qaeda was busy working
with flight simulator.
They wanted Clinton stopped more than they wanted America to
be safe.
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Quotes
"bartcop is in the vanguard of a movement
to take back the media
from the whores, and to return
it to the authentic democratic civil society."
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Spamerica
Excerpt:
I don't have any anti-Spam software. I
know it's a big business. I know I should get some Spam filters,
but I guess I'd rather get tons of Spam
than no email at all. (Sad, but true.)
So tons of it I get. And let me tell you,
a trained sociologist would have a field day deconstructing the
American Psyche with what gets Spammed
by the millions to every nook and cranny email address
in this country. But I don't know a trained
sociologist so here goes....
From: Jason W
Subject: blind
your very "blind" indeed
My what?
Yo,
Ayatollahs! Hawks Preparing for the Next Regime Change
by Maureen Dowd, one of the reporters at the paper that
hires liars and fruads
Excerpt:
The C.I.A. is snooping around itself and
other spy agencies to see if prewar reports of
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and ties
to Al Qaeda were exaggerated.
The suspense is killing me.
The delicious part is that the review was
suggested by Donald Rumsfeld, a main culprit in
twisting the intelligence to justify a
strike on Baghdad. It's like O. J. vowing to find the real killer.
As Rep Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat
on the House intelligence committee, put it:
"This could conceivably be the greatest
intelligence hoax of all time."
Her innocence is touching.
I sure hate to agree with hates-everyone Mo Do, but isn't
that just like a Democrat?
"It's starting to seem like maybe the president
might have been lying?"
What's f-ing wrong with our side?
The Democrats buy every lie the Unelected Fraud and his
Gang of Thugs put out there.
They've even forgotten that he stole the election and was appointed
by a crooked court.
The GOP never accepted Clinton - not for a second, yet the Dems
have been bending over backwards
to give this little shit everything he wants, while Karl Rove
is beating their brains in with big hammers.
Quotes
"Every Memorial Day I think about what these
men did and what we owe them. They didn't go through hell
so Kenny Boy Lay could betray his investors
and workers at Enron, or for a political system built on legal
bribery. It wasn't for corporate tax
havens in Bermuda, or an economic system driven by the law of the jungle,
or so a handful of media buccaneers
could turn the public airwaves into private sewers. Sure, to paraphase
Donald Rumsfeld, freedom makes it possible
for people to be crooks, but so does communism, and fascism,
and monarchy. Democracy is about doing
better. It's about fairness, justice, human rights, and yes, it's about
equality, too; look it up. I was never
called on to do what soldiers do; I'll never know if I might have had their
courage. But a journalist can help
keep the record straight, on their behalf. They thought democracy was worth
fighting for, even dying for. The least
we can do is to help make democracy worthy of them "
--Bill Moyers,
Bill
Moyers on being a journalist
Jokes about Ann Coulter
What do you call a smart blonde?
A golden retriever.
May 24, 1943
The
Battle for the Atlantic ends
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Quotes
"Jan O. Karlsson, the Swedish Minister for
Migration, has got himself into trouble after
calling the American President 'that
fucking Texas geezer'. The rather impolite description
of George W. Bush was presented by
the Swedish minister during a meeting with the press
this week. Karlsson said he used
the coarse description of the President in connection with
criticising US politics on AIDS and
abortions and criticising the fact that that the US has
withheld financial means from the UN."
--Hanne
Dankertsen, That
fucking Texas geezer
Santorum: big donor to gay rights group?
Excerpt:
Senator Rick Santorum, (R-Bigot), has become
a "major donor" to New York's
biggest gay rights organization, thanks
to a gay comedian's off-Broadway show.
Seth Rudetsky, who stars in the one-man
show, "Rhapsody in Seth," started the
Sen. Rick Santorum Education Fund earlier
this month by donating 5 percent of
all ticket sales to the Empire State Pride
Agenda (ESPA) in the senator's name.
Excerpt:
The United States is illegally holding
thousands of Iraqi prisoners of war and other captives without
access to human rights officials at compounds
close to Baghdad airport, The Observer has learned.
There have also been reports of a mutiny
last week by prisoners at an airport compound, in protest
against conditions. The uprising was 'dealt
with' by the Americans, according to a US military source.
The Red Cross so far has been denied access
to what the organisation believes could be as many
as 3,000 prisoners held in searing heat.
All other requests to inspect conditions under which
prisoners are being held have been met
with silence or been turned down.
Once again, the American media will cover for Bush to protect
him from world opinion. If Clinton had
1/3 of the bling hero worship The Fraud gets, we'd all have 601Ks
and the Dow would be chasing 18,000
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of Budspy and three Star Trek novels,
has just released a new
science fiction novel - Pit Planet
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for more details and to read the first two chapters of this book.
Dueling Quotes
"I don't believe anyone that I know in the
administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons."
-- Rumsfeld, with a straight face, to the Senate's appropriations subcommittee
on defense, May 14,
"We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted
nuclear weapons."
-- Cheney on Meet the Press,
March 16, but Tim has agreed not to bring it up
"Stop
asking questions - I am your King!"
Everything update
is
coming soon. It's debut may be as soon as early next week.
Yukon Bill is putting together the financial page. If you want to help, willstein@inamongus.com
Also, we have two more positons opening up.
Position
One:
We could really use a PC guru and a Mac guru.
When someone writes with a tech question, (Can't get radio
show!) it would be nice if
I could forward their mail to a person who's hopelessly geeky
and informed on tech stuff.
You might get 5-10 e-mails a day, so maybe you could have some
stock answers ready
for the FAQ that keep popping up and save a bunch of time.
Position
Two:
This is the fun position, but it has to be just the right person.
We
need a reader.
I'll send you the book, you'd read it in a few days, then write
a book report for us to read.
Then you'd send us the Top Ten quotes, and maybe interview the author.
Sidebar:
I've had to pass up interviews with some
big-time Democrats because I didn't read the book.
For this position, we really need someone with time on their hands.
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I need Michael Weiner (Savage) phototoons and graphics.
We might do a Weiner Roast.
Victims: Americans are worse than Saddam
Excerpt:
Before the end of the war Mrs Sabrir lived
with her husband on a farm in the town of Khanaqin,
close to the Iranian border. They had survived
unscathed through the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War
in 1991 and the invasion of Iraq. As opponents
of Saddam they even welcomed the American invasion.
But it is the peace, and the disintegration
of Saddam’s grip, that has destroyed their lives. On April 11,
two days after the fall of Saddam, Kurdish
fighters entered Khanaqin, ordering all 15,000 Arabs to leave.
“There were so many Kurdish fighters we couldn’t
count them. They came into our house, and fired into
the air, and grabbed me by the shoulder
and said we had to leave in 48 hours or they would kill us.”
After seven days of travelling by foot and
by donkey from Khanaqin, 1,500 of the tribe ended up
in the abandoned prison, 30 miles north
of Baghdad. They had nowhere else to go.
Marty's
E! page
VCR alert
- Jon Stewart primetime special - 'Iraq: A Look Baq'
(Comedy Central (10pm est/9pm central)
Baron Dave Romm's Memorial Day Impeachment Watch
The Worried Shrimp has been busy
Matt Groening - Outstanding Cartoonist of the year
Formerly blacklisted Betty Garrett (finally) got a star on the Hollywood
Walk O'Fame
Elton John in Vienna
Poppy at Indy
A serial philanderer marries, again
And the first Saudi Woman pilot
click
Excerpt:
If George W. Bush truly leveled with Americans
about his feelings
about the war in Iraq -- in the same way
that he levels with Dick Cheney,
Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleeza
Rice, and others in his
inner circle -- he would surely say something
like this:
..
A Democrat fights
back
Fiction,
by Mike Palecek
Joe
Coffee tells his wife that he’s thinking about running for Congress.
"Coffee Joe"
speaks out against prisons and the military. At first, they laughed.
Soon,
terrified establishment politicians try to stop him.
Joe Coffee’s Revolution provides a refreshing alternative perspective.
Click Here to order your copy today.
[Palecek is a former reporter, federal prisoner, and seminarian.]
Also by Mike Palecek: Click Here
Bush answers on 9/11 overdue
Excerpt:
President Bush is not going to assume responsibility
for the World Trade Center catastrophe.
His political allies blame Clinton (as
they are blaming him three years later for the current recession).
Moreover, Bush continues to stonewall attempts
to set up an independent investigation of what went
wrong, and continues to sit on the 900-page
report prepared by a bipartisan congressional committee.
The people Bush proposed to smoke out and
''get'' are still free. Moreover, some of the CIA officials
who ''dropped the ball'' in the summer
of 2001 have been promoted. Yet the media who were so eager to pry
into the private life of President Clinton
seem disinclined to uncover the real story of what happened
during that summer and whether the same
people who dropped the ball then are still dropping it..
Bush can't let that report come out because it might prove what
he knew. If they told him something big
was coming, and in typical Dim Son fashion he went on another
30 day vacation, the voters might not
want to be reminded that their 'president' never worked a day
in his life and didn't want to start then.
From: Jimmy
Subject: very very stupid
Bart,
You have just crossed the line.
No atty in the county can help you now
The Monitor
If this has something to do with my new prison bitch,
Mikey the Weiner Savage, I don't need an attorney.
All I need is another shot of Chinaco, which I'm working on as we speak.
Call 918-493-1500-
you have two minutes to rant away.
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Tell us about it! 918-493-1500
And I explain to them that I have no idea
what I'm doing, that I have no business being behind a microphone,
that I have about one hour's worth of training
as an audio engineer and I'm not that bright to start with.
Remember, these will get better.
So with that in mind, here's
Show #2
As always, it's in our patented "No
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It's in two parts, and they would be
Parts one (1) and Part two (2).
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(Not sure it deserves a"hot" button, but I didn't want you to glide past it.)
In Part Two, I mention this handmade silver belt buckle.
It was custom made (obviously)
by Mick Rasley
and sent to me with a bottle of Chinaco
Anejo.
A shot of Chinaco back to Mick and Lynn
My tech guy is back next weekend, the pace should pick up then.
Subject: The end of democracy in the U.S.
Dear Bart,
I recently sent this letter to the editor of
my local paper.
I thought you might like to use some of the facts
included in it.
Dear Editor,
Every American, both Republican and Democrat,
should be very concerned with our current Administration.
As a democracy our government should exhibit
principles of equality and respect for the individual within a community.
Under George W. Bush we no longer have that kind
of government.
For example, there is a proposal being considered
by the FCC that will relax the rules of media ownership.
The FCC has done little to open this debate to
the public but, for the 10,000 people that have contacted this
federal government agency to voice their opinion
only 11 were in favor of deregulation.(1) Several U.S. Senators
requested that the FCC hold off the vote to allow
time for more public input. Michael Powell, head of the FCC refused.
The vote on deregulation will take place on June
2cd as scheduled.
Consider the debate over allowing snowmobiles
in Yellowstone National Park; 360,000 people wrote to the Interior
Department, with 80% of responding citizens advocating
that the noisy machines be banned. Not only did the Bush
administration okay their continued use, they
increased the number of snowmobiles allowed. (2)
And of course on February 15th of this year over
30 million people worldwide marched against war with Iraq. (3)
But President Bush went ahead with the invasion
because of the dangerous weapons of mass destruction that Iraq possessed.
Of course the U.S. military has been unable to
find these so-called weapons but that’s a whole different letter.
(1) Karr, Rick. NPR: Morning
Edition. “FCC Plan to Ease Media Ownership Rules Criticized”.
May 21, 2003
(2) Ruber, Paul Sierra.
“Hear No Evil Department.” May/June 2003. pg. 14.
(3) Chrisafis, Angelique.
The Guardian. “Millions world wide rally for peace”. February
17, 2003.
Becky Ann
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