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Quotes
"The terrorists are going to set off a bomb
every day because
they know CNN and MSNBC are going to
put it on the air."
-- Bill O'Reilly, on why Fox News hardly mentions Bush's bloody quagmire,
Link
Gee, Bill, if you ignore the poor, will they go away?
How about hurricane damages?
Can we turn our backs on that, too?
Is that why FOX is wall-to-wall Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith?
So people can forget about this?
America's
Fragile Republic
by Robert Parry
consortiumnews.com
Excerpt:
By a two-to-one margin, a federal appeals court
has repudiated Bush's right to snatch a civilian off the streets
of America and hold the person indefinitely without
trial. But the makeup of the three-judge panel was a fluke,
with two Clinton appointees comprising the majority.
The proportion of Republican appointees to Democrats
on the full U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia,
is the opposite, eight-to-four Republican. So,
the Bush administration retains high hopes that the full court will
agree to review the case of Ali al-Marri and
grant the President the authority he wants.
The case, which tests the limits of Bush's claims
to "plenary" - or unlimited - powers as Commander in Chief,
eventually is expected to reach the U.S. Supreme
Court where Bush has four of nine justices solidly in his corner
- Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justices
Scalia, Thomas and Alito.
"We
allowed Bush to stack the high court with crazy (but loyal)
ass-kissers because we don't have half a sac amongst us."
Lie Hard with a Vengeance
Excerpt:
In the first six years of the Bush presidency
the administration's ideological nucleus -- a tribe of humorless
conservative revolutionaries led by Cheney and
including Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith and Abrams -- racked up
a startling record in matters of official policy.
From their juking of the case for the Iraq War to their
Jacobin-esque purges within the government's
intelligence apparatus to their paranoid and sometimes
criminal fragging of political enemies great
and minor, the neoconservatives working for George Bush
botched virtually every important move they made
in the last six years.
Despite the walloping defeat of the Republicans
in the 2006 midterm elections, the clowns are once again
spilling out of the Volkswagen. Lately the neocons
seem to be all over the public airwaves, and not as the
targets of purgative public flogging or tarring
ceremonies, but as the subjects of serious interviews, with
respected journalists treating them like real
human beings with real opinions. Even worse, a few are still in
office, and appear to be cooking up a last-minute
encore before the curtain finally comes down in '08.
As long as the American whore media echoes every
lie,
and as long as the Democrats remain silent, evil
will continue.
What happened to our serious journalists?
Subject: Gatemouth Brown/fried chickem
I ordered the CD & I copied your recipe.
I liked your reference to who's timer that was
about the chicken floating.
Damn, God sure knows how to time chicken!
SHE is brilliant!
Danny Detroit
Note: The chicken is done when it starts to float - ergo it's
God's timer.
Quotes
"These killers hope that their attacks like
this one will create enough confusion and chaos
that we will abandon this young democracy.
I call on Iraqis to reject this provocation."
-- Dubya, calling on Iraqis to 'reject' up to 1,100 acts of violence per
day, alertnet.org
"Thank
you, Meester Boosh.
That's
great advice..."
Bushed Military
Excerpt:
Courting the soldier vote during the 2000 presidential
campaign, the candidate made this promise:
"Help is on the way." Throughout the 1990s, Republicans
had regularly lambasted Clinton for misusing
America's military and for failing to show soldiers
proper respect. Electing Bush was supposed to fix that.
The strategy paid off: the absentee votes
of soldiers helped Bush carry Florida and claim the Oval Office.
Granted, Bush never passes up the chance to pose
with the troops or express his warm regard for those
who serve and sacrifice. But to judge by results
rather than posturing, no commander in chief in American
history has cared less about the overall health
of America's Armed Forces. Bush will hand over to his
successor an Army and Marine Corps that are badly
depleted and verging on exhaustion. The real surge is
not the one that involves sending more U.S. troops
to Baghdad. It is the tidal wave of unsustainable demands
that are now engulfing America's ground forces.
When military families sign up the second and third sons, aren't they
voting with their feet?
Why do military families volunteer when it's obvious that Bush's bloody
quagmire is lost?
Every new recruit is saying, "Stay the course,
Mr President - we're with you!"
If this war ever ends, THEN the military families will speak up - when
it's too late.
If the military families are going thru the hell we think they are,
why remain silent and
encourage thousands more young men to sign up to become amputees or
to fill coffins?
Quotes
"It is an act of desperation by an increasingly
beleaguered enemy seeking to
obstruct the peaceful political and
economic development of a democratic Iraq."
--Ambassador Crocker and Gen. Petraeus on another day in Bush's Paradise,
Link
I don't care if it's the third act of Romeo
and Juliet.
How is three dead soldiers a day making
the situation any better?
Subject: underscore vs dash
when al gore invented the internet "underscoring"
was the prevalent method of coding,
i have no idea why.
but like all stupid things, it became common
in spite of the drawbacks.
a huge problem with underscoring is typing a
hyperlink and the
underscore gets lost in the automatic underline
that takes place.
like this example: www.bart_man.com
you do not see the underscore even though it
is there.
this causes all kids of headaches when people
try to retype the address.
your ohio pal.
philip
Subject: nice letter about hating Paris
Plus we have a chance to clear the air...
Hamas defeats
Bush's Fatah
Another massive Bush failure in the MidEast
Excerpt:
Five years ago this month, Bush laid out a vision
for the Middle East that included Israel and a state
called Palestine living together in peace. "I
call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not
compromised by terror," the simpleton declared.
The takeover this week of the Gaza Strip by the Hamas
militant group dedicated to the elimination of
Israel demonstrates how much that vision has failed to materialize,
in part because of actions taken
(or not taken) by Bush. The United States
championed Israel's departure
from the Gaza Strip as a first step toward peace
and then pressed both Israelis and Palestinians to schedule
legislative elections, which Hamas unexpectedly
won. Now Hamas is the unchallenged power in Gaza.
In his last summer in office, Clinton got all parties close to to agreement
to a peace plan at Camp David,
but the BFEE asked for and got meetings where they told all sides that
if they waited until Bush won,
they'd get a much better deal. I mean, why sign up for peace
now when you can always have peace later?
So they followed the BFEE advice and when Bush got in office, he was
"hands off."
Bush said, "They'll have peace on their timetable,
not ours." and he washed his hands of it.
Bratty
Bush
Held over
Quotes
"The involvement of the White House's political
operation in this project, including Sara Taylor
and her boss Karl Rove, has been confirmed
by information gathered by congressional committees.
Some at the White House may hope to
thwart our constitutional oversight efforts by locking the
doors and closing the curtains, but
we will keep asking until we get to the truth."
-- Pat Leahy, (D-Rubber stamp turned ...bulldog?)
Link
Call me a dreamer...
Subject: Rush comment
Bart, you published:
> "What in the world is it that recommends this woman
> to be president other than her last name?"
> -- Piggy Piggy Limbaugh
> Rush, she speaks in complete sentences that make sense.
> What recommends Bush to be president besides his last name?
Just wandering if you could give me some complete
sentences that she has said that makes any sense?
When the Socialist Clinton's speak they never
made any sense to me so i need evidence
which I'm so sure that you can produce because
of your imminent and all knowing wisdom.
Please tell me soon because i need it for a thesis
I'm writing.
Dee
Dee, is January 20th, 2009 soon enough?
Subject: Mike Malloy!
As Mike Malloy said on his show last night....
"Hillary is not
a liberal, she is not a progressive ---
Forget what Hillary
says or what people say about her ---
Look at her voting
record ---
Pro war --- check
Pro Tax cut ---
check
Pro torture ---
check
Pro corporation
--- check
Anti choice ---
check
Anti privacy
rights --- check
Anti Gay marriage
--- check
Anti immigrants
--- check
Anti working
class --- check
Anti unions ---
check
Anti environment
--- check
That's why true
progressives hate her."
And I suppose it explains where your politics
lie, Malloy is correct of course
and we know a progressive like John Edwards can
just as easily be elected...
Which is not very difficult against those extreme
right Republican stiffs that are running.
Al B
Humboldt County
Al, if Edwards fails to win the nimination, Ol' Bart won't be the reason
why.
If Democrtic primary voters prefer Hillary, should we abanodon one
man, one vote?
I say no.
Making an allegation and then saying "Check" constitutes less-than-perfect
evidence.
Mike sees negatives when he looks at Hillary - that's his right.
I look at the Republicans and think our side would do a better job
so I'll support whoever our side decides to send into battle.
September
Song and Dance
Did anybody trust them to keep their word?
Excerpt:
Remember how we were told that if we just waited
until the fall, we'd see that Bush's "surge" was working?
Well, now it turns out that we shouldn't expect
answers in September after all. Tony Snow was purposeful
on Wednesday in stomping, trampling, tap-dancing
upon and otherwise giving a definitive beat-down to any
expectations of a serious, fact-based reassessment
of Iraq policy in the fall. Never mind that the White House
raised those expectations in the first place.
The September scenario has been a rhetorical mainstay
for the administration and its supporters, a major
argument for ignoring all the bad news from Iraq
and giving Bush's troop escalation a chance to work.
Let's wait for Gen. Petraeus, the man who's now
running the war, to submit his progress report.
At that point, went the White House argument,
the "way forward" would become clear.
The fog of war seems to have closed back in.
They're stealing perhaps $300M a day.
Saying, "We need
another 200 days" means
"We want to steal another $60 billion."
They have a printing press that shoots out sheets
of million dollar bills every day.
This printing press uses soldier blood for ink,
which is OK with Bush, because...
As long as the military families are willing to supply the ink, who
thinks these
heartless crook/bastards will ever say, "We've
stolen enough - let's end this war?"
Oil men can't get enough - no matter how many hundreds of billions of
dollars they steal.
Hillary strong in Texas
Excerpt:
Republicans who think Hillary atop the ticket
would help GOP fortunes in Texas next year
might want to reconsider, according to a new
poll. She leads Obama among Texas Democrats
and would pose a surprisingly strong challenge
to a Republican in the 2008 presidential contest, the poll finds.
The survey found that Mrs. Clinton is virtually
tied among Texas voters with McCain and Cross-dresser Rudy.
"People say if Clinton is at the top of ticket,
in Texas it will be another big year for Republicans," said Daron Shaw,
a Univ of Texas professor and director of the
Texas Lyceum Poll. "That doesn't seem to be true."
Maybe Texas women like her, but don't want to argue with their caveman
husband about it.
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Paris pays
for Bush's sins
by Will Durst
Excerpt:
Oh sure, I get the whole schadenfreude thing.
Our fascination with the train wreck of supercilious celebrity.
Build them up to tear them down. It was cumulative.
Year after year of exposure to her pirouetting down
the runways of the world, collecting obscene
amounts of cash for supplying a face to smug. Perfecting the
art of being famous for being famous. (My,
this is such a clever writer - I never heard that phrase before...)
My theory: part of this gleeful piling-on can
be traced to our built up frustration with Dubyah. We've got
blue balls for accountability and are kicking
this poor poodle of a person as a Presidential proxy.
News anchors couldn't hide their delight: "Ha
ha, rich girl. Welcome to the real world."
Which they are familiar with how?
Subject: Eliminate Toll Booths to reduce Global Warming
These days everyone talks about ways to reduce
carbon emissions to fight global warming. One simple way
to cut carbon emissions is to eliminate toll
roads and toll bridges. Toll collection requires people sit in traffic
with their engines running generating useless
smog while waiting in line to pay a tax. If these tolls were
eliminated then millions of tons of greenhouse
gases would not be dumped into the air we breathe and it
would reduce our need to buy Arab oil and avoid
gas shortages that drive up prices.
A toll is a tax with a high cost to the environment.
If we must pay a tax then we should raise the tax on
gasoline to make up the difference. A gasoline
tax doesn't require that we sit in traffic with our engines
running to pay the tax. If we are going to fight
global warming then we need to make changes in a carbon
friendly way. So lets close down those toll booths
before the ice caps melt and it's too late.
Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA.
Along those same lines - why can't cities synchronize their damn stop lights?
In Tulsa, you get stopped at the red light at 41 St going north on Memorial
Drive.
Then you stop at 39th, the south side of Highway 51.
Then you stop at the north side of Highway 51.
Then you stop at 35th Street for Tulsa Jr College.
Then you stop at 33rd Street for Hotel Row.
Then you stop at 31st Street - a huge intersection.
Then you stop at 29th, the south side of Interstate 44.
Then you stop at the north side of Interstate 44.
Then you stop at 27th Street for a housing addition.
In a mile and a half you have to stop nine
times - that's crazy.
And let's not pretend that this is serious rocket science.
If they just turned every north-south light green for 2 minutes,
we could drive from 46th Street north to 21st Street and pass all
nine red lights.
Buit no - there's nobody in Oklahoma that can figure out tough problems
like this.
Quotes
"When we first launched this enterprise, we
truly believed that the sun rose in the east
and gravity worked. We were wrong. As
we have increasingly observed, most notably on
the days the AG testified before Congress,
some mystical alchemy provides that the worse
he does, the better his chances become
of remaining in office. At this point, just about nothing
Gonzales does could cause the president
to fire him..."
-- Slate.com, announcing the retirement of Gonzales death watch,
Link
Faithful
Hate Bush, too
Link
Excerpt:
Could it possibly get any worse for George Bush?
Could he possibly be any less popular?
Yes, if diehard Republicans start to abandon
him. And that is what is now happening.
Bush's approval rating fell to 29
percent in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
That's a drop of six points since April.
Where's the trouble? Republicans.
Bush has lost 13% more Republicans, from 75%
to 63%, since April.
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Wayne Madsen Report
Is this the future of left-leaning internet sites?
Excerpt:
Two major factors have convinced us that we had
to change our format from a free site to a members' site.
One is the increasing costs associated with trying
to compete with the corporate media here in the nation's capital.
(We wanted to give you) a free site but the eventuality
of going broke was a certainty.
I know the feeling.
I don't want to start any wars, but there is one Wal-Mart-sized web
site
that is soaking up almost
all of the lefty money on the web.
That one site is making its owner $50,000 a week - while the rest of us fight for crumbs.
That site makes more than the next 10 sites combined.
They seem to be killing off the mom-and-pop sites on the left side
of the web.
Whoops -
FBI did it again
They're accidentally tracking Dems for Bush
Excerpt:
An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau
potentially violated the law or agency rules
more than 1,000 times while collecting data about
domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial
transactions in recent years, far more than was
documented in a Justice Department report in
March that ignited bipartisan congressional criticism.
The new audit covers just 10 percent of
the bureau's national security investigations
since 2002, and so the mistakes in the FBI's
domestic surveillance efforts probably number
several thousand, bureau officials said in interviews.
The earlier report found 22 violations in a much
smaller sampling."
They are NOT going to give the Democrats this much power in 2009.
Bush will either refuse to stand down or
his Supreme Court will rule in January 2009
that those powers were "overreaching" and prevent the Democrat from
having them.
Third Possibility: The Democrat will say,
"No president should have that much power"
and then volunteer not to use it, knowing the next Fascist to
steal power will use it.
How did I get in a party that can't learn?
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Quotes
"Hillary reported that her husband made more
than $10 million in speeches last year.'
I might add that Bill Clinton is making
these $10 million in speeches by talking about me.
-- the vulgar Pigboy, who thinks everything is about him,
Bush's blank check
Excerpt:
War critics are rightly disappointed over the
inability of congressional Democrats to mount an effective
challenge to Bush's Bloody Quagmire. What began
as a frontal assault on the war, with tough talk about
deadlines and timetables, has settled into something
like a guerrilla-style campaign to chip away at war
policy until the edifice crumbles.
Still, Democratic criticism of administration
policy in Iraq looks muscle-bound when compared with the
party's readiness to go along with the president's
massive military buildup, domestically and globally.
Nothing underlines the tacit alliance between
so-called foreign policy realists and hard-line exponents
of neoconservative-style empire building more
than the Washington consensus that the United States
needs to expand the Defense budget without end,
while increasing the size of the U.S. armed forces.
If we could stop the Bush bastards from getting us in wars of choice,
maybe we wouldn't need that big of an army.
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Quotes
"Violence outside Baghdad on the rise since
'surge' started."
-- Stars and Stripes headline,
Link
Subject: Thanks
Hi Bart, I heard about you on Mike Malloy's show.
I just want to let you know that I find your podcast
amazing and I will never miss another show.
What is that stuff you drink in the beginning
of the show? I like to try that, too.
Kind regards,
Patrick in Germany
Patrick, that's Chinaco Anejo tequila.
We just do a little sip to start the radio shows because it's not cheap
:)
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Iraq
pumped 3.5M
barrels daily before
Bush invaded
and then they got their 2003 Halliburton
upgrade
Bush is stealing $220,000,000every day.
No wonder they were so eager to start a war,
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...
3,514....3519
American dead
I'm REAL tired of this war.
Hey George!
Stop killing our soldiers!
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.
Tainted
Water at Camp Lejeune
It's been that way for decades
Excerpt:
Marine families who lived at Camp Lejeune in
North Carolina over three decades drank water contaminated
with toxins as much as 40 times over today's
safety standard, federal health investigators said yesterday.
The government disclosed results from a new scientific
study on the same day that some families testified
before a congressional panel about cancers and
other illnesses they attribute to tainted tap water at the base.
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Rust Anniversary:
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That's Mrs. Bart on the left
in 1957...
Excerpt:
This Friday, the centennial of Oklahoma statehood
will be feted by the ceremonious raising of
a rolling time capsule in Tulsa: a 1957 Plymouth
Belvedere, buried 50 years ago under the courthouse
lawn in a crypt. The bad news: As workers began
to unearth the plastic-wrapped two-door hardtop,
they discovered the crypt is partly filled with
water and the Plymouth may well be a giant rust bucket.
Organizers of the annual Tulsarama! festival reportedly were seen crying over the unexpected setback,
Back in 1957, citizens were asked to guess what
the population of Tulsa would be in 2007. The entries were
sealed inside the vault. Assuming they have not
been ruined by the water, the closest guess will be identified at
the car's unveiling and the entrant, or his or
her heirs, will be given the 50 year-old rust bucket as the reward.
Obama lawyer:
Libby pardon OK
Link
Excerpt:
Today attorney Robert F. Bauer, counsel for the
Obama campaign, comes out with what he calls
a "progressive case for a Libby pardon." In a
nutshell, Bauer's blog at the Huffington Post illustrates
why Democrats running for office should not recycle
'Democratic' advisors left over from 'centrist'
losing campaigns. Bauer worked for Bill Bradley,
one of the authors of the so-called 'tax reform'
of the Eighties that began the mighty work of
shifting our national tax burden from the wealthy and
corporations to the middle class.
The important point here is that Bauer's silly
machiavellianism - that a Libby pardon will get Bush into
more trouble and therefore we should want it
- is ethically wrong. But it is also false on its own terms.
Here follow some misdirection, misstatements,
or overstatements, with concise response:
Keira Knightley in Venice
Excerpt:
Keira Knightley's film Atonement will
open this year's Venice Film Festival.
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