From: (withheld)

Subject: LBJ's gotta a big six shooter, too....

Hey BC,

Reading your bit on LBJ made me recall a quick story that may or may not have been an urban legend.
I used to hunt at a deer lease near Llano TX, that was owned by the Johnson family.  The old hand that ran
the lease, knew LBJ and used to tell a story of how LBJ would host a big party, then invite everyone to go
swimming.  Then he (LBJ) would take off all his clothes, and announce that no bathing suits were allowed.
Apparently, he had an impressive shooter and never hesitated to show it off.
Guess that kind of jives with your recollection of the Life/Look story.

Gig 'Em,

AggieCharlie

From: john_larney@yahoo.com

Subject: Chadsux throwing in the towel?

Hey Bartcop,
           That caught my eye.  I understand that they want to shut down before that Nazi pig-sucking freak
Ashcroft closed all the critical Bush sites when his stormtroopers go marching through the streets and webservers.

Facing the tragedy and future events isn't going to be easy for anyone, but I'll be damned if I let Bush and
his criminal cabal get away with first stealing office and then letting a religio-nut eliminate all our freedoms.

Some may choose to ignore the unelected fraud, but I never will.  I'd rather have Cheney as prez,
and Colin as VP, then be saddled with another member of the Bush family ever again.

-John
 

John,
We haven't lost chadsux completely, but a web page can be a drag.
The pressure to constantly update without producing crap can be great.

From: jjtest@ismi.net

Subject: Bill Maher and Politically Incorrect

Jesus. To all those who would say Bill Maher's show should be "cancelled"
after his comments the other night, all I can say is... as if being targeted
by terrorists isn't bad enough, must we commit Constitutional suicide as well?!

The show's name is POLITICALLY INCORRECT, for Godsakes! I get the feeling these
same terribly offended people would spot a show in the TV Guide called something like
..... I don't know... "Sex With Animals", get the whole family together to watch it at 9pm
Saturday night, then have the audacity to be "terribly offended" by it's contents!

C'mon America.
Let's start fighting the REAL enemies.

jj.
 

JJ, I don't know if you caught my review of  Philly yesterday,
but ABC is the "Show me your tits" network.

That was more offensive to me than what Bill Maher said, and Maher wasn't doing it to shock,
like whore ABC was, he was speaking his mind, maybe just not too clearly.

                                 The left wing says, "If you can read this..."

From: bardgal@yahoo.com

Subject: Is CA next?

Both DC and NYC are HUGE Democrat strongholds.... both went boom.

Is California next? Is that why all the frenzy over chemical/biohazard weapons?
Since we don't have the density of Manhattan, is the only way they
can do the most damage is with some kind of chemical or virus?

Maybe they've already tried that. Maybe the rumor about AIDS being a
government invention was actually true.....  maybe that was just practice.

Isn't it sad that now, after 9/11/01 it is easier to believe the unbelievable?

Tally
 

Tally, you might be OK.
I just came from opensecrets.org and California was Smirk the Skirt's biggest fund-raising state.

It's all about more tens of billions for the Bush Family Evil Empire.

From: (withheld)

Subject: BartCop: Purveyor of hatred

Hi BartCop,

Following the terrorist attacks, gas station owners and attendants from Asia have been harassed;
one, a Sikh, has been killed. Sikhs wear turbans, they also have nothing to do with Afghans or Arabs,
they are from India.

Congratulations on being a mouthpiece for the bigots of the far right,
by showing a turbaned Osama bin Laden in a 7-11 jacket behind a cash register.
Would it please you if a few more gas station people are killed by sickos inspired by your site?

-bhaskar
 

bhaskar, ...no.

I didn't not attack anyone, and wouldn't stand by and allow someone to be attacked,
but Middle-Eastern guy in the 7-11 has been a joke since before there was an Internet.

Tell me, did you write The Simpsons at the Fox network and complain that
their portrayal of Apu at the Quik-E-Mart is also endangering innocent lives?

When I get mean and hate-filled, you'll know it.

From: fnx@earthlink.net

Subject: about BILL MAHER

YES!  Bill appeared on Jay Leno where it very strongly implied that ABC will pull the plug.
Jay asked for letters, calls and e-mail to ABC to stop the process.
Bill was obviously there to save himself, and Jay was very emphatic about "trying to help".

Tuesday night on PC, Ann Coulter.  I thought she and Eric Breeden would come to blows.
(Well, Breeden DID have something intelligent to say, so Coulter was incensed!)
And it became apparent to me, for the first time, that THOSE PEOPLE ACTUALLY
BELIEVE ALL THAT CRAP!  She was defending Jerry Falwell as "simply stating Christian Doctrine".
No-one replied, "HATRED IS NOT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE!"

These are soulless, artless, uninspired and unintelligent people who do
ACTUALLY BELIEVE what they are saying and doing.

IT IS TERRIFYING!

From: Judson_Kilpatrick@chcmail.com

Subject: Your Senator

Here's what James Inhofe tried to do to the $343 billion defense bill:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010925/ts/attacks_defense_spending_10.html

He is also trying to add ANWR drilling to every bill that comes through
(so that Alaska's senators don't have to take the heat)

What a guy!
 

They love Inhofe in Jokelahoma.
They love him when he gets on local radio and says,
"I'm on the Intelligence committee, and while I can't reveal how many cruise missles
  we have left in our arsenal to hurl at Saddam, I CAN tell you it's less than 100."

And they love it when he says "It depends on how many federal workers played hookey today,"
when asked how many innocent Americans died in the Oklahoma City Building.

Have you ever been to a sports stadium or a city park and used the restroom
and noticed a tiny nugget in the stool before you use it?

That's Jim Inhofe.

Cheney: No, you say that, Mr President.

Bush: Say what?

Cheney: "The meeting is adjourned."

Bush: It is?

Cheney: No, you say that.

Bush: Say what?

Cheney: "The meeting is adjourned."

Bush: It is?

From: sauerquint@gci.net

Subject: Time to purge America of Liberals?

That would be a tough one.  I think the problem may be your focus on the word LIBERAL.
What is a liberal? Don't you realize that America was FORMED by liberals.
America was FOUNDED AND BUILT by liberals.

Marx said it could never happen. It happened.
The strong helping the weak. those with ability helping those with needs.

The prosperous taxing themselves so the children of the poor could be taught to read and write
and "cipher"  (ie, arithmetic). No country in Europe (then) did such a thing.

America was the first nation to secularize, yet though religion was legally
"disestablished", faith in God flourished.

Our ancestors in Europe were enslaved by Romans and then by feudalism for hundreds of years. Nietzsche says
our ancestors were robbed of  their manliness, robbed of their courage, robbed of their dignity.  That is true, but
on the bright side, the population of northern Europe began to rise. The northern tribes learned to till the soil, and
then to dwell in towns and cities. After a few centuries the Roman missionaries taught the some of the teutons to
read and write.

It has been a slow process, and here on this continent, never before imagined things were done.
They said our experitment would never work, too radical, it was unheard of for a middle class
democracy to govern itself.

But it has indeed worked (so far).  Marx said liberalism would fail, that the middle class could never thrive,
that capitalism would force people out of the middle class into increasing poverty.

MARX was wrong. Democratic capitalism was right.
America will succeed ......

And you who want to "purge" this group or that group, you must not win, you cannot win.
We dare not permit you to win.
Government of the people, by the people, and for the people
.... shall prevail, both here .... and one day ... everywhere.

http://geocities.com/robbi01/america.html

From: kneller@gti.net

Subject:  Doris Kearns Goodwin

Hi Bart,

In Kearn's biography of LBJ she does say that he used to come to her room early in the morning
at the LBJ ranch and climb into her bed while he recounted episodes of his life to her.

It's very possible that she omitted the part about having sex with Lyndon about the same time.
Keep up the good work,

Rob
 

Rob, that can't be right.
Bill Clinton invented sex in 1998.

From: efestag@mail.alac.org

Subject: What is it with the press nowadays?

Well, look at it this way: Because of increased ownership concentration, there are
now fewer news outlets that reporters can go to if they quit or get fired by their current boss.
Also, salaries are higher and news is more professionalized, two factors that make for
greater caution when it comes to taking career chances.

Also, there's no frontier anymore; wherever you go, people can find out your past.
You can't just start a new life elsewhere if you become persona non grata in one locality.
For all those reasons, reporters are not as feisty as they used to be; they are more cautious,
more conservative. They have more to lose because they are more tied in to the establishment.
I'm not saying I like it. On the contrary.
But I think this may explain some of what we see in the behavior of reporters.

Eckhard Festag

From: vivaldi1@freedom.net

Subject: Gotta take Doris with a grain because...

RE:  Quotes
 "I knew Lyndon Johnson extremely well,
   and he did  have a minor-league Bill Clinton problem with the ladies."
   -- Doris Kearns Goodman to Dave last night.
 

DKG was LBJ's OFFICIAL Biographer.  As soon as Lyndon went home she went down there to do his bio.
She LIVED on the frigging ranch for years as a starry-eyed mousey-blonde historian looking to make it in academia.

She had access to the highest-security docs of his admin and to everybody Lyndon ever knew.  Hell Bart Lyndon
was "bagging" this young gal right and left.  Time Magazine, among many others, have photos of her on the ranch
working with LBJ.  Hey Bart, she wasn't a bad looker either, doe-eyed, slim-hipped, long-haired blonde.

Lady Bird HAD TO KNOW and just let Lyndon get away with it.
You won't find a more knowledgeable or loyal historian on the subject of LBJ than Kearns.

BTW I have no proof that DKG and LBJ ever "made it".
But Jeez you don't need to be a brain surgeon to put two-and-two together on this one.

From: Withheld

Subject: Eric Rudolph or Afghanistan

These past few days we have been hearing about how the U.S. is prepared to
go to a far away country, invading and bombing innocent civilians, to
defend ourselves against terrorism.  We are concerned about this line of
thinking for in our own country we are unable to apprehend Eric Rudolph a
Christian fundamentalist and white supremacist, charged with the 1996
bombings of an Alabama abortion clinic and the Atlanta Centennial Olympic
Park.  He is also charged with the double bombings of both the Sandy
Springs Professional Office Building and the Otherside Lounge(a gay nightclub).

Though there is no way to truly compare the events from New York and
Washington to the above mentioned activities, we find it disturbing that
our own government is unable to track down and arrest a known terrorist
fugitive in our own country.  We believe that this indicates a fundamental
flaw within our country.  Because many Americans have little or no contact
with people of both Arab or Muslim decent, they are much more willing to
demonize these people and their religion.  A man like Eric Rudolph is very
much like one of us; white, Christian, and anti-government.  These seem to be
ideas that the American people, for the most part, can get behind and understand.

Personally, we find the ideologies behind Eric Rudolph's actions just as frightening
as those of the Islamic Jihad.  Any religious fundamentalism is both dangerous in it's
attempts to curtail individual rights and freedoms, as well as the human death toll that
almost always accompanies it.  It is becoming apparent that this kind of religious
fundamentalism and rejudice, coupled with blind patriotism, is what is fueling the
government to prepare for a possible   invasion of and war with Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is a target for harboring a known terrorist and enemy of  the
U.S. As Messrs Bush and Ashcroft have continuously stated over the last
week, we as a nation will seek out terrorists all over the world and if
you are not with us you are against us.  Do you think that they would be
willing to use such force against those who may be aiding Eric Rudolph?

We live in Berkeley, CA and have seen the place turn into a bastion of
conservatism overnight.  I am a student at the university and listen to
young people talk about how we should bomb now and ask questions later,
and that if anyone doesn't like it we should bomb them too.  It is very
scary to hold an opposing opinion in this time of nationalist fervor.
We want to thank you not only for the great work you have done in the past
but also in your recent writings from the road, as you make your way
back home.  Thank you for reading this.

Sincerely - Monique & Paul

From: gypsyboy7@home.com

Subject:  INFINITE JUSTICE / HOLY WAR

From the tragic beginning of this nightmare, some of us have been
concerned with the implications of a ³Holy War.² The initial attacks
against the ³Great Satan,² on embassies and military installations in
North Africa, the Cole assault, and suicide bombers in the Middle East,
have been exasperatingly ³religious.² Answered by devastating destruction
on mosques and slaughter of worshiping innocents, terrorizing of refugee
camps and running battles with various children of God, a careless
retaliation endlessly repeated, with competing funerals and escalating
hysteria. Culminating in September 11. That date alone now sufficient
to convey horror.

In George Bush¹s first speech he used the word evil three or four times,
evil-doer, several. No doubt accurately. Demonizing the enemy is on the
first page of every war manual. The appalling ignorance expressed by
his later use of ³Crusade² is inexcusable in a national leader.

It seems that language is the first casualty of conflict; witness Jerry Falwell and
Pat Robertson, our own version of the Taliban fanatics, and their spiritually
ignorant remarks denigrating our diversity and tolerance, trashing civility.

The Star Spangled Banner replaced with God Bless America, admittedly an
improvement. But at this time?

The religion of International Capitalism has reconvened at the New York Stock Exchange,
though the fidelity of its adherents seems somewhat shaken to date. Sacrifice, Patriotism anyone?
Those two concepts inextricably twined. Tempting to chide.

Tempting too, to loudly proclaim, ³Not My War!² To pack up our
benevolent-humanist-socialist tents and slink away to an innocent shore,
preserving our love of children and animals and sunsets and bright flowers
and the wafting of tropical scents on soft Caribbean breezes. The
purple  prose of our idealism nudges reflections on innocence and morality.
Relativism ascendant. That decried mightily by our absolutist friends.
The comfort of faith denied us, to wrestle with our own subjective demons.

Some in our ranks are crying frequently today, an intermittent sobbing for
the bereaved, and our own confusion. We may wordlessly, thoughtlessly
envy the sanctuary of faith. Perhaps the world is too much for some of us.
Gentle innocents who dream of peace, hippie remnants and so forth. It¹s tough
being a pacifist these days. After David and Goliath, are there any new
lessons regarding the vulnerability of the mighty? Biblical religious stuff of
retribution and justice.

And now we have ³Infinite Justice.²

Good God, who thought of that?

Justice without end. Everlasting Justice. New and Improved Justice.
Another biblical reference, invoking the ultimate resolution by God, Allah,
Jehovah or Yahweh. There is an unlettered arrogance at the very notion.
Presumptionunchastened.

The Caribbean beckons.

But Dissent is now required more than ever. Words are important.

Scribblers scribble.
Have scribbled.

Carry on.

James Medley