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Quotes
"Nixon was a flawed man but a great one;
Bush is merely flawed and hasn't a
shred of greatness."
-- Chris Fox,
Link
Thinking
Past Plan B in Iraq
by Ivan Eland
Excerpt:
After initially spurning the Iraq Study Group's
(ISG) recommendations, Bush now seems inclined toward
the ISG's recommendation of transforming the
U.S. military's role from fighting insurgents and militias into
a smaller force that would train Iraqi forces
in seeming perpetuity.
Although this solution would lower U.S. casualties,
and perhaps increase GOP chances in the 2008 elections,
it will do little to dampen the combination of
guerrilla and civil war in Iraq. A more radical solution is needed:
a dramatic decentralization of Iraqi governance.
This ISG strategy has actually already been tried
and has failed. U.S. forces have been training Iraqis for years
but Bush elected to spearhead the surge into
Baghdad with U.S. forces because Iraqi units were unreliable.
Plot to
backstab Al-Sadr fails
They invite him to peace talks, them ambush him
Excerpt:
The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada
al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to
peace negotiations at a house in the holy city
of Najaf, which it then attacked, say Iraqi government officials.
The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which
would probably have provoked an uprising by outraged Shia
if it had succeeded, has left a legacy of bitter
distrust in the mind of Mr Sadr for which the US and its allies in
Iraq may still be paying. "That made Muqtada
lose any confidence or trust in the invaders and made him really wild,"
the Iraqi National Security Adviser Dr Mowaffaq
Rubai'e told The Independent in an interview. It is not known
who gave the orders for the attempt on Mr Sadr
but it is one of a series of ill-considered and politically explosive
US actions in Iraq since the invasion. In January
this year a US helicopter assault team tried to kidnap two senior
Iranian security officials on an official visit
to the Iraqi President.
Is it possible to screw up this bad?
So word is out that when the Americans talk peace, it's a death trap?
They've blown this war in more ways than Bush blows Jeff Gannon.
Discuss
it on The Bartcop Forum
Discuss it on the BartBlog
Subject: a Million Thanks cards
Bart...
Have you seen the 'commercial' on the telly where
the young lady says
she started 'a million thanks' card collection
for the troops....
Buick, Pontiac, and GMC dealers have offered
to host the collection boxes
in ALL of their dealerships. Thanks, indeed.
lynn
I'll bet every SUV on the showroom floor has a yellow ribbon already
on the back,
because nothing brings them home quicker than an SUV with a
yellow sticker on it.
It pays to advertise on bartcop.com
Still at 2006 prices!
Smithsonian Alters Climate Exhibition
Excerpt:
The Smithsonian Institution toned down an exhibit
on climate change in the Arctic for fear of
angering Congress and the Fascist Bush administration,
says a former administrator at the museum.
Among other things, the script, or official text,
of last year's exhibit was rewritten to minimize and inject
more uncertainty into the relationship between
global warming and humans, said Robert Sullivan, who was
associate director in charge of exhibitions at
the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Also, officials omitted scientists' interpretation
of some research and let visitors draw their own conclusions
from the data, he said. Graphs were altered "to
show that global warming could go either way," Sullivan said.
Well sure, "either way" like when gravity sometimes
pulls and sometimes makes everybody fly.
We need to get religious insanity out of government and allow more
room for science and logic.
The GOP's
Torture Enthusiasts
commondreams.org
Excerpt:
Rudy said, "It shouldn't be torture, but every
method they can think of."
Mitt Romney naturally had to up the ante. "I'm
glad they're at Guantanamo...
My view is, we ought to double Guantanamo." I
am politician, hear me roar!
Duncan Hunter boasted that, "in terms of getting
information that would save American lives,
even if it involves very high-pressure techniques,
one sentence: Get the information."
Tom Tancredo: "We're wondering about whether water-boarding
would be a - a bad thing to do?
I'm looking for Jack Bauer at that time, let
me tell you."
Only McCain and Ron paul were hesitant to endorse torture.
McCain, because he's been a victim of it. Paul, because he has a brain.
Quotes
"It is a blight upon the Department of Justice
that Gonzales is still the attorney general.
We are brought back to the dark days
of the Nixon era, where the tentacles of politics
reach into the Department of Justice
and threaten our core notions of what justice means."
-- Eliot Spitzer, New York attorney general turned governor,
Link
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Subject: what happened to Dennis Miller?
Hey Bart,
What the hell happened to Dennis Miller?
I remember his HBO show -- he was a big Clinton
supporter during the impeachment -- and occasionally funny.
Now he's doing incredibly lame Hillary jokes.
Did he get popped for cocaine or child porn and now he has to
"work it off" by servicing the neocons on Fox
News? It's the only explanation that makes any sense.
That or demonic possession...
Jack Hughes
evilGOPbastards.com
Jack, on 9-11, he heard somebody call Rudy "a
Nazi," so he threw away 40 years of conviction
(and his career) and he started blowing Bush
in public and he can't understand why his old audience
of well-read liberals told him to fuck off.
Poor schmuck had the best job on TV, the job Bill
Maher has now,
and he threw it away to prove what a great president
Bush is! LOL!
Have you ever seen someone (besides McCain) throw
it all away for such a totally lost cause?
'The Nation'
hates Hillary
Why can't they just tell the truth?
Excerpt:
The Nation, once a respected resource of liberal
opinion and journalism, has seemingly declared war on
Hillary Clinton. Their recent pieces on her contain
at least two factual inaccuracies, casting doubt on the
veracity of the entire series of articles and
the motives of the author.When discussing the 2005 bankruptcy bill,
for example, Ari Berman tries to build a case
for Sen. Clinton being in favor of that legislation because she
voted for a similar bill in 2001 that did not
pass and because she missed the vote on the 2005 version.
What the author either neglects to mention (or
just did not know) was Clinton not only opposed the 2005 bill
as indicated in a speech the day before, she
was also one of only 29 Senators to vote against cloture on it.
Few faulted Clinton for missing the vote - she
was by her husband's side during his open heart surgery.
There are so many "Democrats" who would rather see a Republican win
than Hillary.
Why is she still in this race, knowing that if she wins, she'll have
to fight all sides?
Bush to lose Brits in Iraq
Excerpt:
Gordon Brown is prepared to risk the future of
the "special relationship" with the United States by reversing
Blair's poodleness for Bush's bloody quagmire,
Bush has been warned. He has been told to expect an
announcement on British troop withdrawals during
new PM Brown's first 100 days in power. Details of the
talks came as a close ally of Mr Brown called
for a quicker withdrawal of British troops. Nigel Griffiths,
a former minister, said: "We should get out of
Iraq as soon as is practicable. We should consult the Iraqi
government - but they cannot have a veto. This
cannot be delayed."
Then our Monkey will beat his chest and declare once again that he's
right, and that every other leader
in the free world is wrong - and the American whore media will continue
to prop him up.
Subject: Hagel & Bloomberg
The problem with these two, is that I don't just
think they'll split the Republican vote.
I think they'll hurt the Democratic vote too...
Hagel's been EXTREMELY outspoken about the war.
A lot of Dems would vote for him just for that
reason (and unfortunately wouldn't pay
any attention to his extreme right wing views
on everything else).
Matt
But Hagel voted FOR the war and hasn't apologized.
Oh, that's right - he gets a pass.
nevermind...
Michael Moore's "Sicko" sneak peak.
Old business
The guy who drew those great anti-Dr Snatch toons
we ran yesterday?
He's a super-staunch right-winger - isn't that
strange?
Maybe there are two PJ Gladnicks on the web?
Check out his stream of Uber-Nazi rants
Yet he hates (or hated) Dr Snatch enough to do this to her.
Go figure...
Subject: the big Hillary fight
Hey Bart,
Why don't you let your readers browse her words
from the speech she delivered the day
they voted to authorize war. She states directly
that this vote is NOT for a rush to war.
She, like the rest of the dems, was voting for
a show of strength. I.e. they were putting
the country before party and NOT playing politics
with national security.
Ben
Ben, I don't think the facts are allowed to interfere.
Some people start with their hatred of her, then
they look for reasons.
I have no trouble answering questions about issues
I feel strongly about.
Those who hate her, but can't explain why they
gave Kerry a pass, prove my point.
Subject: Her fame
Robert Mitchum? I'm starting to get some
gray hair, but I had to look up that reference.
His face was familiar, but the obit from 1997
says -- Mitchum starred in more than 100 movies, including
"The Story of G.I. Joe" and "The Sundowners,"
and played the fearsome ex-convict in the original "Cape Fear."
Sorry, never heard of the first two.
The Wikipedia article about "Cape Fear" mentions
"The Night of the Hunter".
Never heard of it either, but it might be worth
watching
http://www.jackasscritics.com/movie.php?movie_key=147
My guess is that more kids have heard of Paris Hilton's chihuahua Tinkerbell than Robert Mitchum.
Robert Mitchum doesn't deserve that, but I think
you're right.
(Note the similarities between spoiled rich girl
Paris and that spoiled rich boy W,
who also carries around a toy dog.
When I consider their awful parents,
I'm reminded of the title of that Gay Nineties
song "She is more to be pitied than censured".)
Brad
Lots of people wrote about the similarities between the two, but Paris
never tried to
take over the world, and Paris didn't steal $10,000 from every family
in America
and she hasn't killed 3500 soldiers and she never ordered the Mother
of all Bombs
to be dropped on a city of 5 million people - so there are some differences
between the two.
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Tag Team Lying Quotes
"What I know is the world needs courage.
And what I know is this good man is
a courageous man."
--
Dubya, blowing Tony Blair for the last time,
Link
"The harder they fight, the more determined
we must be to fight back.
If what happens is, the harder they
fight, the more our will diminishes,
then that's a fight we're going to
lose. And this is a fight we can't afford to lose."
--
Tony Blair, desperate to justify his massive blunder - teaming up with
Bush, Link
Subject: you ripped off Al Franken
Bart,
That title was just to get your attention. But
what the hell?
Al Franken has nearly the exact same mock interview
in his book "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot."
He uses the exact same quotes from Limbaugh but
his questions are different.
I'm not accusing you of anything but that is one
hell of a coincidence.
If your dating is correct (1995) then it was
impossible for you to have stolen it
directly from Al. (RLBFI came out in 1996 i believe.)
What's going on dude?
Gabe from Venice
Not sure, 12 years is a long time, but maybe I
thought Al's questions were too tame.
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Quotes
"Bush has repeatedly violated the law for six
years. Whenever power is unchecked
and unaccountable, it almost inevitably
leads to mistakes and abuses. In the absence
of rigorous accountability, incompetence
flourishes."
-- Al Gore, nothing but the truth, Link
Subject: you said what?
Bart, you said:
> The sane majority chooses not to write.
Are you saying that those of us who do write to
you
are either insane or not part of the majority?
Mike
At the time, that sentence seemed OK, but looking at it now, you're
right.
I seem to have insulted anyone who ever wrote.
What I meant to say was... human nature being what it is,
one is more likely to write when they disagree than when they agree.
I, for one, think our soldiers are better than Al Qaeda.
Today on
The Randi Rhodes Show
3pm Senator John Edwards
4pm Senator John Kerry
Randi said she & Kerry "get into it."
Quotes
"Anybody on the left who hopes that when people
like Reverend Falwell disappear
that the opportunity to convert all
of America has gone with them fundamentally
misunderstands why institutions like
this were created."
-- Newt Gingrich, at Liberty University,
Link
He sounds like a candidate because I have no idea
what he just said.
From: BUSHisLIAR
Subject: you hacked up my e-mail
What a lying fuck you are, you do this all the
time.
You've done it to me several times.
No, I've never lost the body of an e-mail you
wrote.
And aren't you just the sweetest person to start
an e-mail that way?
It's one of the tricks you adopted from the right,
misquoting and skewing
what someone said to make it seem like you won
the argument.
That's crazy talk.
There's no argument that I have to cheat on or
change to put on the page.
You're making crazy charges that won't stick
and that makes you angry.
I often EDIT letters, because that's what an
editor does.
If you send a long-ass e-mail, I might skim it
and, if I see a paragraph or two that
seem interesting I might pull that out, but why
would I have to change what you said?
What pearls of wisdom have you sent me that was
"too hot" to print?
Your other trick is to call anyone that criticizes Hillary (the pandering phenom) a Hillary-hater.
No, that too is crazy talk.
If you say, "I
didn't like her war vote," that's not
hatred and I wouldn't call you a hater.
But if you said, "That
fat c**t is so fucked up I wish she'd die,"
yeah, that's kinda hateful.
This is what the right does when someone criticizes Bush, his administration or his policies.
Seriously - what would you like to say that I
have to block?
What part of BUSHisLIAR do I have a problem with?
They won't address the valid criticism you made,
instead they call you a Bush-hater
in an attempt to diminish & dismiss your
criticism.
They are guilty and they don't allow people like
you a forum to speak.
Since we're reading your words, that obviously
must not apply to me.
You are more like Limbaugh, Hannity & O'Reilly than you are different than them.
That was mean.
I'm 100 times for honest and fair than those
lying scumbags.
It just proves how wildly out-of-touch you are.
Different politics, same tactics & intellectual
dishonesty.
BUSHisLIAR
Neither of those three have ever told the truth in their careers.
You must have a tiny penis to make such ridiculously false charges.
Are you going to send me your pearls of wisdom that scared me
so we can show EVERYBODY your invincible argument that I dare not print?
Wait, let me guess - you're "too busy" to do that now, right?
Want to trade links?
Subject: San Francisco
Bart,
I don't live in California, but after all the
fun I had in Vegas, I'd love to
meet up for another PokerFest, and as a West
Coaster, this would be perfect!
Mike C
Details to follow - hopefully we can make this
fly.
I wonder if we'd get more people if we called
it Hempfest
2007?
Quotes
"This war is helping Al Qaeda. George Bush
is helping Al Qaeda. And every member of Congress
who continues to support this war is helping
Al Qaeda. We already knew this - the CIA determined
a long time ago that Iraq had become the newest
and best training ground for Al Qaeda in the world.
The Republicans have quite literally enabled
Al Qaeda so that they are better able to kill our troops.
When is the Republican noise machine going
to start defending America instead of their failed president?"
-- John Aravosis, americablog.com
I'm confused again.
Osama is Sunni, Iran is Shia.
Why are they teaming up?
And if they're teamed up, why kill each other
in Baghdad?
Maybe they're not teamed up.
Maybe the BFEE is just claiming that Iran is funding Al Qaeda
as another excuse to invade another oil-rich country.
When in doubt, bet on Bush stealing someone's oil.
Subject: George Will
I never liked George Will, but in 1992 (or was
it 1996?), I began hating him.
That year, he said on teevee that his son, who
is mentally retarded, was voting for Clinton.
Will made it look like only RE-TARDS would vote
for Clinton.
And he used his own son to make this point.
What a truly sick fuck he is.
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Tequilafest-Hempfest San Francisco
Who wants to host a tons-of-fun Poker/Fine Tequila party?
Who's got a big house, or a club house we can rent for a night?
Not a lot of feedback so far, but it's more than we got from New York.
Is everybody just too old to party?
Bart,
I have the perfect place and
I
would love to host Tequilafest San Fran 2007!
Marty's Entertainment Page
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Last night, I saw a surfer in Kuching, Malaysia reading my recipe for Train Station Fried Chicken.
I doubt I can teach any new chicken tricks to anyone in Malaysia,
but that's some damn good chicken and in 5 weeks we'll have Train Station
Fried Chicken,
Bixby Sweet Corn to be chased down by a few drops of God's finest work
ever, Chinaco Anejo.
Which reminds me, we haven't done our annual late-May Bart's Stock Tips!
Time to buy a few more shares of Land O' Lakes Salty Butter.
When that Bixby Corn comes in, they usually gain 3-5 points.
Swear to Koresh Sidebar:
The last three nights, we had sweet Bixby corn.
One was from 2004, the other two were from 2003!
I can't believe they held their flavor.
I'll be "canning" a ton of corn this year.
Giuliani
Insider Is Now a Critic
nywhoretimes
Excerpt:
As Giuliani runs for president, his image as
a chief executive who steered New York through 9-11 has become
a pillar of his campaign. But one former member
of his inner circle keeps surfacing to revisit that history in ways that
are unflattering to Mr. Giuliani: Jerome M. Hauer,
New York City's first emergency management director.
Hauer has challenged Mr. Giuliani's recollection
that he had little role as mayor in placing the city's emergency
command center at the ill-fated World Trade Center.
Hauer has also disputed the claim by the Giuliani campaign
that the mayor's wife, Judith Giuliani, had coordinated
a help center for families after the attack.
Rudy was on Dave last night.
It took him about 60 seconds to bring up 9-11.
Gas prices:
Worse than '81
It's what happens when oil men steal power
Excerpt:
Gasoline prices have soared to levels never seen
before as even the inflation-adjusted price for a gallon
of unleaded topped the 1981 record spike in price
that had stood for 26 years.
And higher prices could be on the way as Americans
get ready to hit the road for the Memorial Day holiday
and the start of the summer driving season. Two
different surveys found record high pump prices once again.
Retailers say soaring gas prices are prompting
U.S. consumers to cut back on their purchases and shopping trips.
The Lundberg Survey put the price of a gallon
of unleaded at $3.18 in its latest reading,
up more than 11 cents from its reading of two
weeks ago.
We need a whole 'nother congress to investigate
all of Bush's crimes and the crimes of Bush cronies.
Subject: Tequilafest San Fran
Hello all!
We gotta help Ole Bart out here.
Let's get together and make it happen!
We're working on it, Bart.
Marselle
I think a San
Fran TequilaFest would rock.
Hell, maybe we should call it
Hempfest 2007 - that might draw a crowd.
Iraq pumped 3.5M
barrels daily before
Bush invaded
and then they got their 2003 Halliburton
upgrade
Bush is stealing $220,000,000 every day.
No wonder they were so eager to start a war,
stealing $220,000,000 every day.
It's the biggest theft in Earth's history.
Exxon made
$10B profit in 90 days
$100M a day - all profit - because Bush started a fake war
Bush's "Bring 'em on" death taunt is up to...
3,409....3,422
American victims
13
more families destroyed by Bush greed since last issue.
14
if you count the families of the kidnapped.
...and how much did BIG OIL make yesterday?
Exxon
makes $108M - every day
Bush can live with that,
because Iraq's oil wells have
no meters
and his front company is moving
to Dubai.
$100M
a day,
$200M a
day,
$300M a
day - where's that money going?
Bush has killed more Americans than Osama.
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Tonight is the last ever Veronica Mars.
In the second of the two episodes, someone tapes Veronica and her boyfriend
having sex
and puts it (I assume) on the internet for all to see. That pisses
her off like crazy.
If you watch Veronica Mars (You don't - that's why they cancelled it)
you know she gets revenge.
If you piss her off and aren't dead at the end of the episode, you're
probably in prison or, if you just
halfway pissed her off, you probably woke up naked and duct-taped to
a flagpole.
I wonder what she's going to do to the poor bastard after she catches
him?
Subject: tried to be nice Monkey Mail
Bart, between the two postings that had to do
with my e-mail, no one could have a clue what it was about.
Something about Durbin being crazy is what everyone
came away with, and that I have a f-word potty mouth.
As you are intimately aware, the critical point
never got spotlighted, along with a bartcop rebuttal.
Because you can not come up with one. I
knew I had you with this when I sent it.
No, I sent you an e-mail saying, :
BUSHisLIAR, send me some e-mail that
I changed.
I'll print it word-for-word to prove how wrong
you are.
Do you accept the challenge?
Was all that just smoke or can you back it
up?
...and calm down, for Christ's sake,
...and THIS is the reply you send?
I almost felt bad sending it...because I knew
you would
be forced to do something like what you did.
Dude, thanks for going easy on me.
I realize you are too heavily invested in the
argument you have made for the last 4-5 years so
I half-expected you to do something like this.
What am I invested in?
What argument was made?
What did you expect and what did
I eventually do?
I don't have time for guessing games.
I won't be relating this on DU.
Because it is too pathetic.
Your secret is safe with me.
ha ha
Thank you for helping me hide my patheticism :)
Do you mind (and I am serious) my asking when
you were approached by the Hillary camp?
I am not asking how much you recieve, that
would be rude.
I am just wondering how far back this goes?
Thanks,
Mark G
Mark, it was Barzini who apporoached me - ha ha
Dude, you a gambling man by any chance?
I can't remember if it's my good friend Jim Rose
I took this at The Palms
...or my good friend Johnny Knoxville (Can't find the picture!)
but one of them nailed their f-ing nutsac to a wooden stage floor and
I
hereby promise to do the same if anyone can
show
evidence that I ever got a dollar from any Clintonite.
That's what they call "going all in."
So, ... the bet is to you...
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