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Thursday,     Dec 20, 2007      Vol 2087 - Dems Cave Again


Quote of the Day

"It's easy for us to lay all our problems
   at George Bush's doorstep."

    -- Obama, who the rad-left wants to send
        against the right-wing smear machine?   Link


 

In Today's Tequila Treehouse...
Arrow Rollins Hid Payoff Secret
Arrow Ron Paul's Problems HOT
Arrow Ugly American Makeover
Arrow Judge slaps Fascist W HOT
Arrow Think you had a bad day?
Arrow Republicans Hate Jesus HOT
Arrow Gang Raped by Halliburton
Arrow Bush's Torture Policy
Arrow Is Jennifer L Hewitt Fat?





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Quotes

"He is impossible to work with. There are times I say: 'Is there
  something more I can do? Have I done something wrong?'
  But even his own people tell me he won't compromise."

   -- Harry Reid, on why he caves in every f-ing time.    Link 
    

But Harry, why should he compromise if he knows for a fact he'll always get what he wants?
Bush might be the stupidest thug to ever sit in the Oval Office, but he can always outwit you.

 

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Rollins Hid Payoff Secret
  by Robert Parry

 consortiumnews.com

 Excerpt:
The pundits on CNN were unanimous: Ed Rollins was a great guy and his hiring
as national chairman for Huckabee’s campaign gave it a solid jolt of credibility.

But the panel didn’t seem to either know or care that Rollins has withheld evidence
since 1991 about the identity of a top Filipino politician who admitted delivering an
illegal $10 million cash payment to Reagan’s 1984 campaign from Ferdinand Marcos.

Rollins, who ran Reagan’s reelection campaign, mentioned the admission in his book,
Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, recounting how the Filipino said that he had carried
the money in a suitcase to a Republican lobbyist who was representing the Reagan campaign.

"I was the guy who gave the ten million from Marcos to your campaign," the Filipino
told Rollins. "I was the guy who made the arrangements and delivered the cash personally.
...It was a personal gift from Marcos to Reagan."

In his book, Rollins described this stunning news with a light touch.
The first thought that raced through his head, he wrote, was "Cash? Holy shit."



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Subject: our next president

Bart, when are we going to learn that the guy it would be fun
to have a beer with is NOT a good choice for president?
  Peter

 

Peter, when someone wants a pony, dammit, they want a pony.

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The Ugly American needs a Makeover

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 Excerpt:
Our insufferable arrogance and foreign policy excesses are garnering us record levels
of international opprobrium.
(I looked that up - it means infamy)

We're not a true friend or benefactor to humanity. We take much more than we give.
We force far more egregiously than we gently persuade, in military, economic,
cultural, and ideological terms. Global multitudes have become outraged.

We should nose out of other people's business, engaging them instead only on a
completely fair, equitable, and wholly non-supremacist basis. But Washington incessantly
intervenes to facilitate Wall Street profiteering wherever others simply want to be left alone.

We'll drive expensive SUVs to our own societal funeral because we've kept the rest of
humanity so impoverished that when poor children perish from malnutrition in distant
hopelessness, their parents can't afford even a donkey cart to take their bodies to the graveyard.


Some Americans steal $300M every day.


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Subject: Thank you, Chris Dodd

I want to thank Chris Dodd who put aside his presidential campaign to come back
to Washington to stop the Republicans and week Democrats like Harry Reid from
selling out our freedom allowing the government to spy on us without warrants.

With stories of spying and torture being revealed I was beginning to think that
everyone in Congress had forgot what it was to be an American. It is about time
that someone stood up to Bush and the sell out Democrats who want to sign away
our freedom so they can start their Christmas vacation.

Finally someone gets it that America is heading towards becoming like Nazis and
that it take a hero to stand before the Senate and say no more!   I was going to vote
for Hillary and she will probably make the best president. But even though it will be
a waste of my vote I'm going to vote for Chris Dodd because he has earned my respect.

Although Obama and Clinton supported Dodd,
Dodd is the one who flew to Washington to make it happen.
Maybe the rest of the Democrats will wake up and stop funding the Iraq occupation.

Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA

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"If Congress can't get the job done then just pass a
  one-year continuing resolution. That's all they got to do."
   
  -- Der Schipanse, advising Harry Reid on easier, faster ways to cave in,       Link
     

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Another judge slaps Bush's Fascism

 ACLU says "This is six years too late"

 Link

 Excerpt:
In a rebuke to Bush Fascism, a military commission judge found Monday that Gitmo
victim Ahmed Hamdan is entitled to a determination of whether he is a POW protected
by the Geneva Conventions, which govern the rights and treatment of captives in wartime.

"It’s always a positive step when the military commissions proceed in accordance with the
United States’ international law obligations. However, the judge’s decision doesn’t resolve
the flaws inherent to the makeshift commissions system – it’s like sticking a band-aid on a
broken leg,” said Hina Shamsi with the ACLU. “Under the Geneva Conventions, Hamdan
should have received this hearing six years ago, when he was first captured by U.S. forces
instead of now, as an add-on to an entirely new and procedurally flawed process. That we
are still stuck on such preliminary, yet fundamental, issues is a stark reminder of just how
far astray we’ve traveled because of the Bush administration’s policies.”

At a hearing at Guantánamo earlier this month, attorneys for Hamdan, who is accused of
whatever crap the Bush bastards fabricate, asked the military judge to grant their client a
status hearing. Military Judge Keith Allred decided in Hamdan’s favor in a ruling that
became public today. If the judge determines that Hamdan is a prisoner of war, he will
be entitled to trial in a court martial proceeding under U.S. military law.


A trial?
For someone accused of a crime?
Oh Lawdy Lawd, how low can America sink?


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Lynn Spears dropping book plans

She was writing a book on the right way to raise your trainwrecks.

Sertiously, I can't make this stuff up.

 

Quotes

"Lynn Spears writing a book on raising kids?
  That's like Jeffery Dahmer writing a book on food."
   
  -- Joy Behar on The View (I don't watch it unless Kathy Griffin is on)
     

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Subject: Pigboy Quotes

"Politics is not for sissies." 12/17/07.
Rush Limbaugh, explaining why he never ran for public office.

"So this is either genuine and the Clinton campaign's in real trouble
or they're just setting up this big giant come back."
12/17/07.
     -- Professor Blatherskyte talking out of both sides of his mouth so he can come
        back a month from now and say, "I told you so," regardless of what happens.

"The Clintons are making the case that Obama is an idiot,
  unqualified. The black guy can't get it done."
12/17/07.
     -- The eternally racist radio talk show host who just couldn't resist pointing out
        Obama's skin color where the Clintons have never once made an issue of it.


Mac, thanks for that.

 

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Think you had a bad day?

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No, this guy is having a bad day...

Thanks to Rude Rich.


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Subject: Grand Old Pedophile update

Bart, you should not only read the story at this link but also those
at the links below the story at that site.

Pretty salacious stuff especially at the NAMBLA FANTASY story linked from there.

By the way, I tried to update my thread about predatory pedophiles
in the GOP but was physically threatened while trying to do it.

Peace,
  One Citizen


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Ron Paul to keep whites-only money

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Is Ron Paul too naive to be in politics?

 
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Subject: that Hillary photo

I am so pissed - some man had the nerve to talk about Hillary looking haggard.
Has he looked closely at the men who have been ruining this country?
What the hell does looks have to do with anything?

I can't wait for the stupid idiot who sent you Hillary's photograph to get old,
haggard, wrinkled, dried up with withered testicles hanging like dried figs.

I am so sick of a society (and the man who sent you Hillary's photograph) that is
so shallow that looks is the only thing that counts. Perhaps that is why so many
people are not real fond of your "hot girl" shots at the end of your page.

You might throw in a middle aged or old person every now and then
just for a refreshing break from "so called" beauty.

Am sending you a small donation today but you may not want to take it
for I have some wrinkles and I look pretty damn haggard a lot of the time.
  Cathy


Cathy, believe it or not, I will accept your donation.

And yes, we have a Classic Hotties section for old people :)


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Quotes

"Mortgages have been bundled, so the savings and loan doesn't own the
mortgage anymore. It's owned by some international group, perhaps, or it's
been bundled into an asset. And so there's hardly anybody to negotiate with."
     -- Bunnypants, on why the super-rich will get away with their housing pyramid scheme,     Link

 

Note: Those Bush bastards are experts at stealing taxpayer money.

Remember when Kneel Bush stole $1.6 billion from the Silverado Savings and Loan?
Daddy's Justice Department decided that having Kneel say, "My bad" was punishment enough,
and he had to get out of the S&L business - that was his punishment.

So what does Kneel do now?
He sells software to his brother's Education Department.

Have these Bush bastards ever done an honest day's work in their lives?

 

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Quotes

"I'm going to tell you something. We have fabulous health care in America,
  just so you know. I think it's very important - before people start griping
  about the health care system here...

     -- President Shit-for-Brains, telling those who can't afford health care to "Stop griping!"    Link


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Subject: Huckabee followers

Bart, what do you call Mike Huckabee supporters?

Hucksters.

ha ha

That hammer's working - look at the GOP candidates' numbers.
How do you hold a campaign and not have a front runner?

Your friend,
Mike in Des Moines


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Quotes

"Front lines of this efforts... (This efforts?) are parents who send our kids
a clear message, drug use is not fun.
(That's not true - why do you think
they do drugs?)
  It is not glamorous. It is harmful. Drugs destroys lives."
,
     - - President AWOL on Cocaine during war time, who did OK in life,    Link

 

A more honest message, one the kids might listen to is this:
"Drugs are fun, ...but if you get in too deep they could kill you."

The kids know their parents are lying - that's why they stop listening to them.


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Subject: Katrina

Bart, I just want to say I hope Bush rots in hell for letting those people die.
 Wendy

 

Wendy, there is no Hell, but I get your drift.
Unless the Democrats act, and soon, Bush will never be punished for that crime.


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Vulgar Pigboy Quotes

"New York on Sunday was like a mother-in-law convention: icy and cold."
    -- Rush the drug addict, who's had THREE mothers-in-law because three women left him

"ESPN is destroying sports as we know it."
   -- The Methane factory, still angry that ESPN couldn't tolerate his Nazi hate

"If you want to see the future as the environmentalist have in mind,
  take a look at Oklahoma during the ice storm..."

    -- His Oinkness, failing to get that it was the worst ice storm in our history.

Rush has always been unable to remember which side of the arguement he's on.
It was the worst in history because the planet is changing - and it's not getting better.

And a quick "Blow me" for those who say the environmentalists are hypocrites
for wanting to stay warm in an ice storm - how can they believe their own crap?


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Subject: Hayden Panettiere, no Hula Hoop 'action', but close!!

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Craig, you're going to Hell because God doesn't want you to see that.
If you click on that link, tell Craig, "Bart says Hey" when you see him in Hell.

BTW, why did God create Hell?
So he could watch the characters he created for his play suffer for eternity?

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Gang Raped by Halliburton Thugs
Bush bastards foot-dragging
investigation


 Halliburton stock went from $9 to $80 with no-bid government contracts.

 Link

 Excerpt:
A US woman who said she was raped by Cheney's Halliburton thugs testified in Congress,
telling legislators that she was kept under armed guard in her trailer after reporting the attack.

Jamie Leigh Jones, now 23, said that she was gang raped inside the Baghdad Green Zone
in July 2005 while she was working for Halliburton.

The US Department of Justice failed to send an attorney to the House hearing,
which John Conyers blasted as "outrageous" and "unacceptable."

Jones testified that Halliburton-KBR firefighters invited her for a drink. "I took two sips
from the drink and don't remember anything after that," she said.

The next morning Jones woke up groggy and confused, and with a sore chest and blood
between her legs. She reported the incident to KBR and was examined by an army doctor,
who confirmed she had been repeatedly raped vaginally and anally.

The rape was so brutal she is still undergoing reconstructive surgery, Jones said,

Oh, the fun they had - taking turns brutalizing this unconscious woman they roofied,
knowing IF they got caught, Bush and Cheney would protect them from Justice.

What was Bush's reaction?


   "Do I look like I give a fuck?"

 

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Subject: I love Chris Matthews

He's a real journalist, you're a scumbag.
 Ken Swann

 

Merry Koreshmas to you too, Kenny.


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 Iraq pumped 3.5M  barrels daily before Bush invaded
 and then they got their 2003 Halliburton upgrade

Bush is stealing $220,000,000 every 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

 Link

Some people celebrate Bush's bloody oil war...

Some don't.
x 3,895....3,896

We lost another soldier since last issue.

We have 3,896 dead soldiers.

We'd like to bring the soldiers home,
but Bush is busy with his scandals.

 

Remember...
Exxon makes $108M - every day

That's why Bush raped Iraq and killed Saddam

How do we know for sure?
Iraq's oil wells have NO METERS!

 $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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Bush's Torture Policy
 by Brent Budowsky

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 Excerpt:
From the days of George Washington, every president, every Congress and every
Supreme Court has believed that torture is illegal and violates cardinal American values.

From the days of the Continental Army until today, torture has been opposed by
virtually every commander of every branch of military service. …

Of course, the CIA destroyed the torture tapes that were sought as evidence
by the 9-11 Commission, courts and Congress.

They were destroyed because they were evidence of abuses that the weight of legal
opinion would conclude constitutes criminal conduct under international and
American law. Their destruction probably constitutes obstruction of justice.

Torture is a cancer that metastasizes to everything it touches.

Our international credibility collapses. Our POWs are exposed to grave new dangers.
The destruction of evidence becomes inevitable. The obstruction of justice becomes
a reality and the inevitably failed cover-up is exposed.

Torture corrupts the military chain of command. Civilians who never served in the
military order uniformed officers to commit acts that they strongly oppose.


The only way you can disagree with this is to put party above country.
Why are thousands of officers lining up behind Bush and illegal torture?

Why are thousands of officers will to jeopardize the lives of their soldiers
just so the evil boy in the White House can masturbate to his private torture videos?

If you're willing to give your life for your country,
how can you also be willing to piss on everything it stands for?


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I pity the fool who thinks this photo is fake.


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Is Jennifer Love Hewitt fat?

This isn't about Hewitt, this is about the media and how they work.
Recently, People Magazine ran this picture of Hewitt in Hawaii.

Not to get personal, but if you make 20-50 million dollars a year
because of your looks, it's kinda incumbent on you to stay in shape.

But the media ran to her rescue, I assume because she's not crazy,
not getting arrested and not in fights and not OD-ing on drugs every week.

Fine, we all agree, she's not Paris, Britney, Lindsay etc.

But then shows like Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight ran this photo,

...and said, "How can anyone call this adorable underwear model fat?"

Isn't that confusing?

They intentionally turned their heads away from People Magazine and put up
this Hanes picture from 2005 and questioned the sanity of her "accusers."

If nothing else, it's just another way the whore media sends THEIR MESSAGE out.
It's not about the news, or what's important, it's about what THEY want you to know.

Maybe People Magazine has a clash with CBS, which runs Hewitt's show, but clearly
there's money to be made by slamming the idea that this wealthy sex object might have
gained weight and there's also money to be made by telling you Hillary is waaaay too old.

Sidebar: Hugh Hefner saw the "Hawaii pictures" and offered her $ to pose for Playboy.

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