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Wednesday Oct 18, 2006 Vol 1858 - U.S.A. - R.I.P.
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"You cannot blame the entire Republican party
for this reason. The entire government
of the United States, the Congress,
the White House and increasingly the courts for the
last six years has been in the total
control not of the Republican party but of the most
ideological, the most right wing, the
most extreme sliver of the Republican Party."
-- Big Dog, identifying the worst of them, the pedo-neo-con
'Christians', Link
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Shame on
Us All
by Robert Parry
Excerpt: (Bart's edits)
History should record October 17, 2006, as the
reverse of July 4, 1776.
From the noble American ideal of each human being
possessing "unalienable rights,"
Bush effectively rescinded that concept by signing
the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
On the surface, the law sets standards for [dealing
with] supposed terrorists and "unlawful combatants,"
But the new law creates a parallel "star chamber"
system of criminal justice for anyone, including a US
citizen, who is suspected of [attacking] the
U.S. government or its allies anywhere on earth.
These tribunals could use secret evidence to prosecute
a wide range of "disloyal" American citizens.
The procedures are similar to "star chambers,"
which have been employed historically by absolute
monarchs and totalitarian states.
The evil men who grabbed this unlimited power
are not going to willingly give it up.
You don't steal unlimited power - then give it
back.
You just don't.
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"These are the results for the fiscal year
that ended February the 30th."
-- Too Stupid to be President, October 11, 2006
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Bush will Live in Infamy
Excerpt:
George W. Bush will live in infamy for what he
has done in Iraq.
161 dead. 83 dead. 53 dead. 16 tortured. 17 decapitated.
Shiite doctors dumping the bodies of Sunni patients
they have murdered.
Burn marks. Executions. Torture chambers. Revenge
killings.
Family members shot in front of their wives and
children.
These are all the headlines from Iraq in just
the last couple of days.
If this isn't a civil war, what in the world is?
Anywhere from 50,000-650,000 Iraqi civilians have
been killed in the last three and half years.
Let that sink in for a second. That's a gigantic
number. The human toll in Iraq has been unspeakable.
And none of it had to happen. This was a war of
choice.
And it has been one of the worst choices ever
made by a world leader.mid
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Triangulating
On Torture
or Why I Hate the Clintons
Excerpt:
I wrote yesterday about Hillary
Clinton's waffling on the subject of torture
during her interview with the Daily News Editorial
Board.
It was the usual hit-job, hack-job, handjob you'd
expect from a Clinton hater.
This writer has no interest in making a point,
he just wants to try to be cute.
I f-ing hate that.
Today, a laudatory op-ed in the LA Times
by torture advocate Alan Dershowitz
points out that Bill's also equivocating on the
subject.
No, that's not what happened and we both know it.
Dershowitz isn't God, he's just a legal scholar
with an opinion.
If he thinks Clinton is equivocating, then that's
his
opinion.
If I say you're a terrible writer and a no-class
whore - does that make it true?
That's a great example of taking an opinion and
assigning facts status to it
hoping the reader will be dumb enough to miss
the clumsy bait-and-switch.
People often do that when they're unable to win
the argument with logic.
Apparently, the Clintons have decided that torture makes a great triangulation topic.
It's impossible to win with a Clinton hater.
If both Clintons agree, "they
made a calculating political decision to agree."
If they have different opinions, "they're
scheming, triangulating whores."
Can't with with Clinton haters - or Jew haters
- or gay haters - the list is endless.
Sidebar of dynamite:
Maybe they're smart enough and brave enough to
realize the subject of torture must be
addressed, and they think that the subject ought
to be dealt with in a more honest way
than McCain blowing Bush for political gain.
IF,
someday, an unpopular decision needs to be made, should we wait until then?
And make that ugly decision injured, in a mad
panic, with no time to reflect on it?
Or should we talk about it calmly, in the open?
(Just kidding - we can't have that conversation.)
Both of them carve out an impossibly nuanced stand
against the current bill, but in favor
of torture under certain circumstances - circumstances
that don't occur in real life.
Well, then, if this writer, RJ Eskow from
nightlight.typepad.com
says
the
unthinkable can't happen,
then we're all safe. Whew!
Once RJ Eskow gives us his Nancy
Grace guarantee that we're all safe,
let's not spend any more money on Defense, or
border security or policemen.
Why face an ugly reality when you can stick your
head in the sand, instead?
Besides, if one says they might allow limited torture in circumstances
that don't occur
- what's the problem?
Oh, that's right.
RJ Eskow didn't write that to make a valid
political point.
He wrote that trying to be cute with the Clintons.
I f-ing hate that.
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Subject: Pickles
Bart, yesterday you quoted Chris Shays (R-panic) saying,
> "Dennis Hastert
didn't kill anybody."
I wish someone had responded "No, but Laura
Bush did."
BKC
"The
Democrats and the American media have
agreed not to mention my
depraved indifference."
Pickles ran a stop sign, killed a man and the cops failed to test her
for alcohol.
She killed the most popular boy in school, her old botfriend,
and the cops never bothered to test her?
It's a good thing she wasn't black, and driving with a cracked taillight.
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..
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We have a few shot glasses left.
Corrupt John Doolittle (R-Crook)
Excerpt:
On Saturday, the WaHoPo
confirmed that John Doolittle (R-Crook) is under investigation
for sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g with
Jack
Abramoff - something he denied for months.
"John
Doolittle is good people.
He
always endorsed
my checks with a Thank You'."
Doolittle admitted that he has paid two different
Washington criminal defense lawyers
more than $50,000 since July. John Doolittle
has been lying about the investigation.
This Doonothing slug is being slapped around by
Lt. Col. Charlie Brown, (US Air Force, Ret)
one of a number of veterans who are fighting
back against 21st Century Bush Family Facsism.
Worse yet, Doolittle is "tight" with the GOP child-molester crowd.
"I swear to help Hastert cover up sex scandals!"
If you vote in California's 4th District, say no to the crooked Republican
and elect an honest Democrat who fought for his country - Charlie
Brown.
Lt Col (Ret) Charlie Brown and his wife Jan (also a veteran)
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"John Doolittle has made a mockery of the public
trust - using his office
to launch a relentless pursuit of personal
riches and extra perks, and
disgracing his office as the only member
of Congress involved in both
the Jack Abramoff and Duke Cunningham
bribery scandals."
-- Charlie Brown campaign Link
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Judge Vacates
Conviction of Ken Lay
His family gets to keep all those stolen
millions
"Can I come out of hiding now?"
Excerpt:
A federal judge Tuesday vacated the conviction
of Kennyboy Lay, wiping out
a jury's verdict that he committed fraud and
conspiracy in one of the biggest
corporate scandals of Bush allies and contributors
in U.S. history.
Lay was convicted of 10 counts of fraud, conspiracy
and lying to banks in two separate
cases on May 25. Enron's collapse in 2001 wiped
out thousands of jobs, more than
$60 billion in market value and more than
$2
billion in pension plans.
Lay went missing in July while vacationing with
his wife in Aspen, Colo.
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Want to trade links?
The
link page is bigger than ever,
thanks to Chicago
Jim
Put "Link me" in the subject header.
Maybe mention what section you belong in - news, humor, etc
Your link will be seen by dozens
Subject: The Day America Died
Tuesday marked the end of what we once called
America.
Bush signed into law a bill that gives Bush the
powers of Adolf Hitler.
Bush can now torture people in secret torture
prisons that are similar
to the beginnings of Germany's concentration
camps. We are our own enemy.
History will mark October 17th as the day that
America died.
This will cause the people of the world to hate
America
because it is causing Americans to hate America.
Marc Perkel
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Subject: The Quaint Little Experiment
It really was a radical departure from the cultural
norm.
This ideal of a government of the people, from
the people and by the people.
Where rule of law was a sacred right that superseded
all other things.
Not with the stroke of a sword, but a pen, a
morally bereft, intellectually deficient
lesser son of greater men, and it all went away.
Not with an explosion. Not with a bang.
Not even with a collective whimper.
Fifteen dissenters with little picket signs was
the sum total of the collective protest.
Along with my fellow apathetic Americans I toast
the President's signing of
the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and offer
a moment of silence for the
brief and shining example that was briefly America.
We have reaped what we sowed.
God bless George W. Bush in whose hands our lives
now rest.
Reverend Jim
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Why We Still
Fight
by William S. Lind
Excerpt:
At least 32 American troops have been killed
in Iraq this month. About 300 have been wounded.
The "Battle for Baghdad" is going nowhere. A
Marine friend just back from Ramadi said to me,
"It didn't get any better while I was there,
and it's not going to get better." Virtually everyone in
Washington, except the people in the White House,
knows that is true for all of Iraq.
Actually, I think the White House knows it too.
Why then does it insist on "staying the course"
at a casualty rate of more than one thousand
Americans per month?
The answer is breathtaking in its cynicism:
so the retreat from Iraq happens on the next
President's watch.
That
is why we still fight.
Yep, it's now all about George.
Anyone who thinks that is too low, too mean,
too despicable even for this bunch
does not understand the meaning of the adjective
"Rovian."
Would they let thousands more young Americans
get killed or wounded
just so George W. does not have to face the consequences
of his own folly?
In a heartbeat.
I agree 100%.
Bush will stay the course for two more years, we'll have 6000 dead,
but Der Monkey will always "get" to say, "I
stayed the course."
He doesn't care how many thousands of soldiers die.
He doesn't care how many hundreds of billions of dollars we throw away.
He's stealing hundreds of millions of dollars per day,
and he has been doing that for over 1,000 days, so what does he care?
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So much to keep up with...
Mike Malloy subs for Springer October
19 & 20!
Shirley Manson and others will do Pretenders
songs on VH1 Classic Oct 20th
The free Stern offer is October 25 and 26.
My friend Teri's "Ghost Moms" premiers
on WE on October
27, the Friday before Halloween.
Mike Malloy returns to the air on October
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Subject: Man of the Year movie - I'm glad they made it
Excerpt:
I took the wife and daughter to see this film
and I have to say, I'm glad that they made it.
Yes, I could have done without the stale Monica
references, but the two that stood out
the most seemed to be pointing out how the issue
should have been handled at the time.
Do you recall Darrel Hammond's SNL opener right
after the impeachment, when he
(as Clinton) told Congress to suck it?
Along those lines.
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"The best news in the field.'
Quotes
"With the bill I'm about to sign, the men our
intelligence officials believe
orchestrated the murder of nearly 3,000
innocent people will face justice."
-- Dubya, on signing the Torture is Legal" bill,
Link
But Der Fuhrer, you have killed more Americans than al
Qaeda.
Who's going to bring you to justice?
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always has good stuff.
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Starring Tally Briggs
Produced by Tally Briggs
Directed by Tally Briggs
Best Boy Tommy Mack
Is U.S.
Worsening Iraq Civil War?
by Ivan Eland
Excerpt:
One of the internal contradictions in George
W. Bush's Iraq War policy has been the risk that
arming and training a Shiite-dominated military
would encourage it to violently subjugate the
rival Sunni minority, a development that could
end
up looking a lot like genocide. In this essay,
Ivan Eland argues that it may be time for the
U.S. to back away from Shiite-run security forces
I have an idea - why don't they take the Iraqis they're training and
their families to Kuwait or Qatar
and train them in a place that's safe? Then, once they're trained,
they'll be better able to take care of
themselves and their families AND they have a guarantee they won't
die during training.
It's so easy - why don't they train them in the simple and safe way?
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FullTiltPoker still in business
From a reader:
Here's the poker rundown in a nutshell.
Party Poker, 888 and a few others are turning
away US customers.
Ultimate Bet, Full Tilt, Poker Stars and Bodog
are all open for business to US customers.
PokerStars is even boasting of an increase in
business.
As far as middleman banks are concerned, FirePay
is out. NetTeller is in.
The best place to get all of the latest info
seems to be cardplayer.com
If this is legal, I want to hear more.
Any legal opinions out there?
I'm
a lawyer and here's my opinion, Bart
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Iraq pumped 3.5M
barrels daily before
Bush invaded
and then they got their 2003 Halliburton
upgrade
Bush's oil gouge, which is going to $100
a
barrel
makes $350,000,000
Bush
will steal every day.
No wonder they were so eager to start a war,
stealing $350,000,000 every day.
It's the biggest theft in Earth's history.
Bush's "Bring 'em on" death taunt is up to...
2771....2782
American victims
Bush killed 11 more soldiers yesterday.
"Bush's war costs $2 billion a week."
-- so by all means, stay the course?
Bush has killed more
Americans than Osama.
Paris Hilton
grabs wrong car keys
Swear to Koresh, that made the damn news
Excerpt:
Paris screamed for someone to bring out her the
key to her SLR.
Ms. Hilton went to grab the keys herself.
Unfortunately the keys she returned with were
for her Bentley.
Let me ask you:
If you grabbed the wrong car keys, and some media handjob thought
that was news,
would that make you a bad person, worthy of ridicule, hatred
and scorn?
Ben Affleck was on Jon Stewart lately, saying during that "Benifer"
horseshit, he would
get up in the middle of the night in his undewrwear and pop a burrito
in the microwave and
some media handjob camped out on his front lawn with a satellite truck
would peep in and
see him and call that "scoop" in to the big boys back at the office.
Why is that news?
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"Yeah, Michael Steele, y'all..He cares about
Jesus"
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Don King, (R-Manslaughter) endorsing Michael Steele for the Senate,
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Subject: Feingold/Clark
Bart-Man,
My man Russ Feingold is THE ONLY candidate that can combat these republic-ant's.
That's an assertion, not a fact.
He can not/will not be swift boated by the right.
Another assertion.
His votes will stand up to any smear campaign they throw at him.
That's three in row.
As much as I would like to see another Clinton in office, Hillary has to explain some votes.
You mean her too-far-to-the-left voting record?
She is too moderate, which today means right of center.
To a Feingold backer, it probably seems that way.
How will the voters see it?
Wesley Clark will be the much needed military mind on the ticket.
True, but She didn't get on the Armed Services
Committee by accident.
Plus she has eight years experience in the White
House.
Jump on the bandwagon Bart-Man or provide good
reasons why
Hillary would be a better choice than Feingold/Clark
in 2008
Patrick DR
I ran a list yesterday.
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Subject: Our debt to China
Bart, we are something like 330 billion dollars
in debt to China.
This means that every American owes The Peoples
Republic about $1,100.
I'm teaching in China and will have saved about
$4,000 dollars upon my return to the US.
I feel I've done my bit to get it some back.
Joel G
Joe, the good news? 330 billion dollars isn't that much money.
We've spent lots more than that on Bush's bloody quagmire.
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Housekeeping
The bad news - Casa de Bart has flooded.
The good news - the damage is limited to the hall.
The bad news - they say we can have the hall back after "5-6 days of hell."
More bad news - the hall is the only access to the studio/computer
room
which means I'll have to go semi-dark for 5-6 days.
The good news - they only work 8 hours a day, so I'll have access
to the
studio/computer room for a few hours a day. I can answer
some e-mail and handle t-shirt orders if any come in.
More bad news - with the election coming, I'd hate to shut down
before Nov 7.
More bad news - the mold factor makes waiting difficult, but not impossible.
The good news - I'm getting 3-4 estimates, maybe the others will have better news.
More bad news - crying won't help me, praying won't do me no
good.
The good news - It's not Katrina, and Bush isn't my only chance
to survive.
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Have you noticed that whenever you see a picture of Katie Hubbard,
there is a Scientologist "little person" physically restraining
her?
Are they afraid she might break free and speak with a reporter?
Run, Katie, run!
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"Recent" is anything after Ron Hubbard's invitro was born.
She must be outside, where she
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