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Tues-Wed Sept 30-Oct 1, 2008 Vol 2219 - GOP Strangles Economy
by Bruce Yurgil  Quote of the Day "Republicans don't trust them.
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Quotes
"Palin just seems like someone you can relate
to. Hillary doesn't seem
like you could sit down and have a
cup of coffee with her."
-- Vicky Rokas, a handjob hockey mom and Republican voter,
Link
"I just don't get Americans' fixation on picking
a president based on whether he or she
is "one of us" -- a preference defined as
someone we'd rather share a beer or coffee with.
I, for one, do not want to chat with the president
of the United States at a happy hour.
I do not want to bond over half-price Buffalo
wings. I want the president (or vice president)
to be leading the free world. But maybe that's
just me."
-- Catherine Price, Link
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Stocks fall
on pre-vote jitters
Can Bush, McCain and Obama get the job done?
Excerpt:
Stocks declined early Wednesday, extending this
week's gyrations as investors prepare for a possible
Senate vote on the government's proposed $700
billion financial sector bailout. Credit markets remained
strained, adding to worries about the well-being
of the economy.
The decline follows a steep sell-off Monday and
a snapback rally Tuesday. Stocks logged their steepest
losses in years at the start of the week after
the House surprised Wall Street by rejecting the plan but then
the market then staged a partial rebound on hopes
party leaders would find the votes to pass the measure.
The Emergency
Bartcop Radio Show 145 will be up today.
Cain't nobody break down a massive, complicated financial disaster
like Ol' Bart.
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Subject: Is it time to panic yet?
America is in a scary position.
The economy is so bad that that people are too
scared to panic.
And we are getting close to the point where people
are too scared NOT to panic.
But whose fault is it really?
Clearly it's Nancy Pelosi's fault.
Why Pelosi?
Because she took impeachment off the table.
Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA.
Perkel is exactly right.
When Pelosi said, "We'll never impeach you,"
she was telling Bush that he and his
combover slugs would never be held accountable for any
of their murderous mega-crimes.
...it's almost like, ... the Democrats can't f-ing think.
C'mon, break a 12 year old crack dealer out of jail and ask him to show
you
how to construct a box that traps your opponent's guilty ass every
damn time.
Y'know, monkeys can see you do something, and then imitate it.
Hence the phrase "Monkey see, monkey do,"
but
the Democrats aren't that smart.
They saw how Clinton kicked Fascist-dog ass - twice. They've seen the
Neo-Cons
weild power like two-bit thugs, but now they can't even remember how
it was weilded,
but the part that kills me is that either way, if we're the minority
or the majority,
we know Jim Inhofe is going to have the last say on anything - and
that's bad.
"Bart,
Jim Inhofe can count on us to lay down for him!"
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The Rich
Stage a Coup
by Michael Moore
Excerpt:
Make no mistake about it: After stealing a
half trillion dollars to line the pockets of their war-profiteering
backers for the past five years, after lining
the pockets of their fellow oilmen to the tune of over a hundred
billion dollars in just the last two years,
Bush and his cronies -- who must soon vacate the White House
-- are looting the U.S. Treasury of every
dollar they can grab.
A shot of Chinaco for Michael Moore telling the damn truth.
Nobody else will say what's happening but Michael came thru.
The Bush bastards have emptied the Treasury and now they're borrowing
trillions from
the Chinese and the Saudis to give to the oil companies and we're stuck
paying it back.
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Subject: Is Moose Lady qualified to drive the planet?
When I voted it was tied at 49% each.
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Quotes
"McCain has revealed himself as a liar well
outside the permissive standards applied to politicians.
He's shown himself to be reckless to
the point of instability, repeatedly putting the country at risk
(exploiting the Georgia crisis, picking
Palin, storming the bailout negotiations) for transparently
self-serving reasons. He's conducted
his campaign in disgraceful and dishonorable ways."
-- John Marshall,
Link
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Do Polls Miss Obama Voters With No Land Line?
Excerpt:
Amid questions over how much public opinion polls
on the race between McCain and Obama
are being affected by racial prejudice and the
unpredictability of new-voter turnout, a new study
suggests there could be another gap in traditional
opinion polls--one that could mean Obama has
more support than other surveys estimate.
The Pew Research Center, in three separate surveys
this summer, contacted users not only of
traditional land lines but also of cellphones.
Each time, Obama came out 2 to 3 percentage points
higher than when Pew called land lines alone.
Pew found that yoots who are strictly wireless--nearly
half of the 18-to-29 bloc--are 10 points
more supportive of Obama than their counterparts
who retain land-line phones.
So, maybe the 6 points Obama needs to counter the Bradley Effect might
be only 3 points?
The 700 point drop in the market will help Obama, too, since Gramps
was grandstanding
last week about "saving the day" that never got saved.
I hope the election gets here before the stock market falls to zero.
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Master of
the Non-Answer
Biden will have his hands full Thursday night
Excerpt:
Her ability to fill the debate halls with her
presence and her gift of the glittering generality
made it possible for her to rely on populism
instead of policy.
Palin is a master of the nonanswer. She can turn
a 60-second response to a query about
her specific solutions to healthcare challenges
into a folksy story about how she's met people
on the campaign trail who face healthcare challenges.
All without uttering a word about her
public-policy solutions to healthcare challenges.
In one debate, a moderator asked the candidates
to name a bill the legislature had recently
passed that we didn't like. I named one. Democratic
candidate Tony Knowles named one.
But Palin instead used her allotted time to criticize
the incumbent governor, Frank Murkowski.
Asked to name a bill we did like, the same pattern
emerged: Palin didn't name a bill.
The evidence keeps piling up that's she's another Bush-for-brains.
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The Palin Presidency
Barack Obunny and Elmer McFudd
Excerpt:
The image was so striking as soon as they walked
out on stage to shake hands with the moderator that
I wasn't able to shake it through the whole debate:
Barack Obama, long, lean and debonair, looked just
like Bugs Bunny, and John McCain, the hunched-over
and stumpy old man, made a perfect Elmer Fudd.
I'd also never noticed before how much McCain
sounded like Elmer Fudd (without the speech impediment).
His voice has the same kind of high-pitched,
sing-songy raspiness as Elmer's; and he telegraphs his plans to
trap Barack with the same kind of evil glints
in his eye that Elmer displayed when he was cooking up a plan
for the Wascally Wabbit.
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Quotes
"A tactic is when Bush used political operatives
to slander McCain in 2000.
A strategy is when McCain hired those
same operatives to run his campaign in 2008.
Totally different."
-- Stephen Colbert
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Subject: Jewish Princess
I love you dearly for your honesty and courage.
You fight the good fight against the fascist
Republican bastards every day and I thank you for it.
I know I possess a sense of humor and I also understand
satire. I wouldn't frequent your site
every day if I didn't have those capacities.
I just need to ask you, what the hell was the point
of posting the lyrics to Frank Zappa's 29 year
old song, Jewish Princess?
Keep swinging the hammer, Bart, but could you
not wield it at me and my people?
Shana tova. (Happy Jewish New Year)
Karen in Georgia
I thought of Jewish Princess when I was in the shower and it had been
so long since I heard it I had forgot most of the lyrics - so I looked
it up.
While reading it, I laughed, and thought others might enjoy the humor.
I've never been Jewish so I have no idea if your offense is justified
but I'm sorry if those song lyrics offended you.
If you had a comedy treehouse, and ran into a "Okies are Dumb" song,
I wouldn't be offended if you ran that, but I realize that's not the
same thing :)
Does this mean I shouldn't print Frank's Catholic
Girls?
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Subject: VP debate
Dear Bart:
Let's make sure that Palin doesn't show up for
the debate
with an odd rectangular lump on her back like
Bush had.
Jim W
Bush
in the 2004 debates - help from back stage?
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I'm gonna Blacklist his e-mail after today - find out why.
Subject: America is crashing
And you younger kids, if you never start drinking
you won't ever end up like Russell the Excitable.
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Stealing
the Florida Vote
'No-match' law calls into question thousands of new voter registrations
Excerpt:
About 3,200 new voters are in the cross-hairs
of Florida's new and controversial ''no-match'' law,
which could force them to cast provisional ballots
on Election Day if officials can't confirm their identities.
The law, designed to prevent potential election
fraud and remove joke names from voter rolls
-- ''Ricco Suave'' and ''Joe Blow'' among them
-- requires local elections officials to mail letters to anyone
whose registration information doesn't match
the state's driver's license or Social Security databases.
Opponents worry that the law poses needless challenges
to voters. The databases that elections officials
use can have typographical errors that could
call someone's registration into question, and the no-match
notice could get lost in the mail, said Mary
G. Wilson, national president for the League of Women voters.
''You know what happens: You're out of town, or
you get busy and you put your mail aside and don't
open it right away. So you may have no idea that
there wasn't a match,'' she said.
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Subject: Amazing Republican Money-Destruction Machine
Bart,
The Republicans just blocked the financial bailout
bill from passing (60% of Dems voted in favor,
67% of Reps voted against). That led to
the Dow falling almost 778 points, more than ever in history.
Yes, in the three days from the close on Friday
to the close today, the dow fell 6.98%.
In the week from 9/10 to 9/17/2001 (when the
markets reopened after 9/11), the Dow fell
just under 685 points, 7.13%.
By blocking the bailout package House Republicans have
destroyed more capital than Osama bin Laden.
If the Democrats know how to campaign...
OK, I won't bother finishing that sentence.
Russ
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Subject: my letter in the New York Times
To the Editor:
Barack Obama showed dignity, grace and intelligence,
proving that he can be
a respectful diplomat and a powerful leader.
All John McCain displayed was
bitter arrogance to the point that he couldn't
look at Mr. Obama even once.
How can we believe that Mr. McCain will "reach
across the aisle" when he
can't even look across the stage? Shameful behavior,
Mr. McCain.
Not traits I want in a leader.
Tally Briggs
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Subject: why I hate Sarah Palin
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Quotes
"Obama now holds a double-digit lead in key
battleground states. Among registered voters
surveyed in Colorado, Michigan, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Wisconsin and Nevada, Obama tops
McCain 50 to 40%. Just a week ago, Obama
led 45% to 42%. Nationwide, Obama leads 47%
to 41%. The Research 2000 tracking poll has
Obama leading 51% to 41%, while Rasmussen
has Obama up 51% to 45%."
-- Political Wire, Link
In a cash poker game, if you have a great
hand that can still possibly lose,
you can buy insurance from the other players.
It looks like McCain had wiggled his way
out of the lead,
but I'd still buy some insurance if someone
was offering it.
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Subject: This bailout is bullshit
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Subject: random thought...
Bart,
Does anyone know what the current "threat level"
is? Is it green, yellow, purple, orange?
I think it should be RED since the Wall Street
terrorists are attacking our financial freedom.
We better "fight them over there" (Wall Street)
"so we don't have to fight them here"(Main Street).
"They hate our (financial) freedoms" "They kill
innocent.... (IRA's)" "We need the surge (bailout)
to bring stability to Baghdad (Wall Street)"
Same playbook, different game.
Jon in Ohio
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Hockey Moms for Truth
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Just in time for the Thursday debate!
Subject: Crisis? What crisis?
They say we are in the middle of an economic crisis
and that the economy is going to die.
Yet Congress is off on holiday.
So if this is such a crisis then why are they
taking a vacation?
I'd like to take a vacation too but I'm busy
paying off the national debt.
Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA.,
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Subject: Will Race Decide this Election?
How racist is it when 90% of African-Americans
will vote for Obama? Or is that different?
Michael S H
Blacks, because they had no choice,m have been voting for white candidates
for years
but the Republicans don't have a single, nationally-elected African
American.
The GOP wouldn't vote for a Black man to save America.
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The Decline of US Power
Excerpt:
Though Bush and Kinda Sleazy Rice have been visiting
the United Nations in recent days
- with meetings continuing this week for Rice
- for their usual, intensive annual round of diplomacy,
the behind-the-scenes buzz at the world body
is focused on the relative decline of U.S. power in world affairs.
Private chatter among the thousands of visiting
diplomats and dozens of national leaders has been
dominated by a shared perception of reduced American
power in the waning days of the Bush error,
says a senior U.N. diplomat. "The corridors are
full of it," says the diplomat."
Yeah, we're ALL full of it.
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"Every time the market falls a few hundred
points, Obama seems to pick up support."
-- Daniel Gross in Slate, Link
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Subject: Need Sarah Palin lookalike
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Subject: Another Bailout Vote
Well, they're back. Wall Street is coming
back with their hand out again.
They are not going to give up. They are
going to keep coming back until
Congress gives in and hands them our tax dollars.
I wish I was in a party of fighters, but I know
the Dems
are going to cave in like they always do.
Rebecca
Rebecca, we lost a trillion dollars trying to save 750 billion.
I think you might not like BCR 145.
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Quotes
"I don't remember a blaring call that said,
Frannie and Freddie are a disaster,
loaning to minorities and risky folks
is a disaster."
-- Neil
Cavuto, liar and whore, blaming poor minorities for Wall Street's greed,
Link
"I'm a
lying whore..."
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Quote
"George W. Bush's White House has gone belly
up like those big banks that failed."
-- Craig Crawford
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Treehouse Crossword Puzzle 22
Today's Puzzle is Simple 2 Clues
Thanks to GK!
She works hard on these customized-for-you puzzles.
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Subject: The MSM
Have you noticed how the major networks are spending
their whole show trying to convince us
that bailout is a good thing? Surely our economy
can be shaped to create value from something besides debt.
I see this as giving a country drunk with credit
more of the same, and that's bad.
Steve
In BCR 145 I said, "Our boat is on fire. Once
we put out that fire we can address the
bigger problem, but I think it's suicide to
debate whether or not we should put out the fire."
Of course, not everyone will agree with that, but Obama just said on
CNN,
"Recovery might begin with this bailout plan
but it can't end there."
Looks like Obama agrees with me about putting out the fire.
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Worldwide Bartcop
They read it in Bad Oeynhausen, Nordrheim-Westfalen, Germany
They read it in Athens, Attiki, Greece
They read it in New Delhi, Delhi, India
Shirley's family reads it in Edinburgh, City of, UK
They read it in Lititz, Pennsylvania
We get hits from everywhere. Want to sell stuff everywhere?
They have money - their economy isn't run by a religiously-insane moron.
Why sell to America when you can sell to the world?
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Iraq
pumped
3.5M
barrels daily before
Bush invaded
and then
they got their big Halliburton upgrades
Bush is stealing up to 6 million barrels of
oil per day.
Since oil sells for $125 or more per barrel,
Bush is stealing $750,000,000
every
day.
No wonder they were so eager to start
a war,
It's the biggest theft in Earth's history
but
our whore media is too busy to investigate.
4,172
brave men and women,
will never come home...
...all because of Bush's oil greed
Why are
we there?
Because
Iraq's oil wells have NO
METERS!
Where's all that oil money going?
Robert Plant: 'It's all about me'
Excerpt:
"Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are currently
touring the USA on the last leg of their 'Raising Sand' tour,"
he said, adding that the tour finishes on October
5.
"After those dates, Robert has no intention whatsoever
of touring with anyone for at least the next two years.
"Contrary to a spate of recent reports, Robert
Plant will not be touring or recording with Led Zeppelin."
He called the reports "both frustrating and ridiculous,"
before adding: "I wish Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones
and Jason Bonham nothing but success with any
future projects."
"Nothing but success?"
Without a singer, those songs don't work.
He knows that.
Of course, Robert still sings those songs, at
least lame, country versions of them.
Looks like Robert wants to be the biggest/only
star on the stage.
Maybe Zeppelin should do what Yes did, what Boston
did, what Journey did,
get a sound-alike singer and take the show on
the road - give the people what they want.
What about Robin Zander or Ann Wilson?
Ann knows the songs and she can still hit the high notes.
Then, Robert can play little country saloons with
whatever band he wants to hire.
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Subject: Donation
Bart, I still have your I miss clinton sticker
on my car
Keep it up,
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Scarlett
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