February 29, 2004
These people have no respect for the Constitution. The Congress was misled, it was lied to.
Yahoo! News - Soldier for the Truth - Exposing Bush's talking-points war
"Q: You gave your life to the military, you voted Republican for many years, you say you served in the Pentagon right up to the outbreak of war. What does it feel like to be out now, publicly denouncing your old bosses?
A: Know what it feels like? It feels like duty. Thats what it feels like. Ive thought about it many times. You know, I spent 20 years working for something that at least under this administration turned out to be something I wasnt working for. I mean, these people have total disrespect for the Constitution. We swear an oath, military officers and NCOs alike swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. These people have no respect for the Constitution. The Congress was misled, it was lied to. At a very minimum that is a subversion of the Constitution. A pre-emptive war based on what we knew was not a pressing need is not what this country stands for."
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Brad DeLong Explains the Economics AND the Politics
Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004): a Weblog
"Note that the president's habit of proposing not actual legislation, but rather vague "principles" that tell no one anything about anything is quite systemic. Remember McCain-Feingold? Patients' Bill of Rights? Best example was perhaps Medicare, where the president said, essentially, "pass a plan that's called a Medicare prescription drug benefit and I'll sign it." Currently there's some fracas going down about highway funding. People on the Hill have literally no idea what the president thinks about this or, really, any other issue. Apparently the White House staff doesn't know either -- the speechwriters just write stuff and the president says it and no one knows what anyone's talking about."
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Painful Polyps of Sadness
The Mighty-Morphin Mark Morford:
"If you answered, "Why, you get even more painful polyps of sadness and disgust on your soul due to the BushCo onslaught," consider yourself among the millions who are right now rather horrified and appalled and who are wondering just what sort of human -- not what sort of politician, mind you, not what sort of power broker, not what sort of failed Texas oilman corporate lackey -- but what sort of human being you have to be to enact such insidious ongoing planet-gouging legislation, smirking and shrugging all the way."
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Lovely. Democracy gets in the way, Bush and his handlers will just crush it. Remember this in November:
Haiti's lawyer: US Is Arming Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries, Calls For UN Peacekeepers
By Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill
Democracynow.org
"The US lawyer representing the government of Haiti charged today that the US government is directly involved in a military coup attempt against the country's democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Ira Kurzban, the Miami-based attorney who has served as General Counsel to the Haitian government since 1991, said that the paramilitaries fighting to overthrow Aristide are being backed by Washington.
"I believe that this is a group that is armed by, trained by, and employed by the intelligence services of the United States," Kurzban told the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!. "This is clearly a military operation, and it's a military coup." "
Democracy Now! | Haiti's Lawyer: U.S. Is Arming Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries
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I know from my friends that there are many criminally insane people living in Montana who pose as Christians. But now their Governor is getting into the act:
(from the Associated Press):
HELENA - Gov. Judy Martz on Friday defended the placement of Ten Commandments monuments on government property, saying those troubled by such displays "have something going inside of them that would need a little help anyway."
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Dinoboy at DemocraticUnderground.com fills us in with some more info:
She's not running for re-election this year, so she has a looser mouth than usual. She has said some real gems like, "My husband has never beat me, but then again, I never gave him a reason to.
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You know, I'm an atheist, I think religion is one big scam. But one of my favorite things to do with Christian Supremacists is to throw their book back at them.
inspired by a posting by barbaraann at DemocraticUnderground.com:
Here's a chunk of a little thing called Matthew 5:
"Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they shall be called sons of God."
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Republican-style, Anti-Labor, low-wage neighborhood-killers Wal-Mart
are apparently the biggest users of Georgia's PeachCare, a government program for kids.
They must be telling their employees to use government services instead of paying them a living wage.
"You have a company increasingly shifting the cost of health care to taxpayers," said Shaun O'Brien, assistant director of public policy for the AFL-CIO. Many Wal-Mart employees, the union says, earn wages of $7.50 to $8.50 an hour — not enough to make benefits affordable.
Wal-Mart, with 1.4 million U.S. workers, is the biggest private employer in America; it now employs more than 46,000 workers in Georgia. The company is not unionized."
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UggaBugga nails it, quoting frst the Washington Post:
"From a Washington Post story by Mike Allen from August 7, 2001:
CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 6 -- By the time President Bush returns to Washington on Labor Day after the longest presidential vacation in 32 years, he will have spent all or part of 54 days since the inauguration at his parched but beloved ranch. That's almost a quarter of his presidency.
Throw in four days last month at his parents' seaside estate in Kennebunkport, Maine, and 38 full or partial days at the presidential retreat at Camp David, and Bush will have spent 42 percent of his presidency at vacation spots or en route."
then check out the awesome graphic:
bush-time-allocation.gif (GIF Image, 735x647 pixels)
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commondreams.com on our last hurdle: Diebold
"If Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has his way, Diebold will receive a contract to supply touch screen electronic voting machines for much of the state. None of these Diebold machines will provide a paper receipt of the vote.
Diebold, located in North Canton, Ohio, does its primary business in ATM and ticket-vending machines. Critics of Diebold point out that virtually every other machine the company makes provides a paper trail to verify the machine’s calculations. Oddly, only the voting machines lack this essential function.
State Senator Teresa Fedor of Toledo introduced Senate Bill 167 late last year mandating that every voting machine in Ohio generate a “voter verified paper audit trail.” Secretary of State Blackwell has denounced any attempt to require a paper trail as an effort to “derail” election reform. Blackwell’s political career is an interesting one: he emerged as a black activist in Cincinnati supporting municipal charter reform, became an elected Democrat, then an Independent, and now is a prominent Republican with his eyes on the Governor’s mansion."
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this is delightful, because if everbody believes they've already got Osama, then if they announce it, everyone will say, We knew about that already, so what? And if they don't announce it, everyone says, Why don't you have him?
TEHRAN, Iran - Pentagon (news - web sites) and Pakistani officials on Saturday denied an Iranian state radio report that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) was captured in Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan (news - web sites) "a long time ago."
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from Mark Oberzil:
I am a conservative. I believe in staying solvent and out of debt.
I am a conservative. I believe in keeping my nose out of other people's business, their nations and their bedrooms…
I am a conservative. I don't deal falsely or prematurely with facts.
I am a conservative. I understand the purposes of various institutions. It is the job of government to govern, the job of religion to address spiritual needs, and the job of business to secure profits by producing needed goods and services. I do not confuse these institutions.
I am a conservative. I understand my position in the world and that my opinions are not the only valid ones.
I do not have an exclusive claim on what is right, good or patriotic, and those who disagree with me are not automatically evil traitors.
What's really weird, though, is that I've always thought these things, but now everyone calls me a "liberal"!
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from Another Day in the Empire
from Another Day In The Empire:
According to Francis Boyle, international law professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Rove and Bush will engineer a Syrian invasion in September if they think the election is lost. "It’s just like what happened in the 2002 congressional campaign," Boyle told Snowshoe Films. "Karl Rove got the Senate back and more votes in the House by going to war against Iraq. And they'll do the same thing this time. I think the most likely target is Syria. They're setting Syria up for an attack. So they'll sit there and wait and see how things turn out and after everyone goes on vacation in August, after Labor Day weekend, if they're going to lose, I think they'll got to war. Chomsky gave a lecture down in Cuba and he said the same thing. He didn't identify Syria, but he said if they conclude it’s the only way they're going to win an election, they'll go to war."
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February 27, 2004
Jamming It Down Bork's Throat
Have you noticed how these Anti-Marriage religious fundamentalists really reach for the porno imagery when they're describing what's happening to their notions of marriage?
from Help Save Marriage! Sign a federal marriage amendment petition :
"The stakes are so high, says former federal judge Robert Bork, that the battle ahead is nothing less than "the Gettysburg between the culture of the average American and the culture of the intellectual elite. Overwhelmingly, the public would vote against [gay] marriage, but the courts are going to ==>thrust it on us, jam it down our throats.<=="
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Also, check out how Bork makes the enemy "the intellectual elite". Isn't that sick and Taliban-esque? If you're smart, you're the enemy.
Adam and Eve (or Steve) got kicked out of the Garden of Eden when they ate the apple of what?
Knowledge.
Stupid is good. Smart is evil. Welcome to the New Christianity.
And can you believe somebody spent $19.95 to secure the URL nogaymarriage.com?
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from http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/LJstickers.html :
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From the Axis of Logic:
BUSH THE SUPRALAPSARIANIST:
AxisofLogic/ Critical Analysis
"And it is at this point Dominionists introduced a perversion to Calvinism—the same one James Hogg utilizes in his The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner—its technical name is "supralapsarianism." It means essentially that the man called from before the foundation of the world to be one of the elect of God’s people, can do no wrong. No wonder then observers noted a definite religious swing in George W. Bush from Wesleyan theology to Calvinism early in his administration.[25]How comforting the Calvinistic idea of a "justified sinner" is when one is utilizing Machiavellian techniques to gain political control of a state. It’s more than comforting; it is a required doctrine for "Christians" who believe they must use evil to bring about good. It justifies lying, murder, fraud and all other criminal acts without the fuss of having to deal with guilt feelings or to feel remorse for the lives lost through executions, military actions, or assassinations."
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What a bunch of frightened, superstitious idiots:
Bush Ejects Two From Bioethics Council (washingtonpost.com)
President Bush yesterday dismissed two members of his handpicked Council on Bioethics -- a scientist and a moral philosopher who had been among the more outspoken advocates for research on human embryo cells.
In their places he appointed three new members, including a doctor who has called for more religion in public life, a political scientist who has spoken out precisely against the research that the dismissed members supported, and another who has written about the immorality of abortion and the "threats of biotechnology."
The turnover immediately renewed a recent string of accusations by scientists and others that Bush is increasingly allowing politics to trump science as he seeks advice on ethically contentious issues.
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Hmm. Look below, that last line sounds a lot like what we hear about Iraq: Any true democracy that forms there will be Anti-American, thanks to the actions of George W. Bush.
United Press International: Bush accused of supporting Haitian rebels
"The U.S. talks about democracy, but it's their democracy, not the people's democracy," Dupuy said.
Using Venezuela as an example, Dupuy and Clark accused the administration of not supporting governments that replace any group of ruling elites.
"Any government that has the support of the majority of its people will have a problem with the United States," Dupuy said.
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at andrewsullivan.com, Andy quotes Hitchens on Gibson:
QUOTE FOR THE DAY II: "Long before he emerged as the spear-carrier for the sort of Catholicism once preached by Gen. Franco and the persecutors of Dreyfus, Mel Gibson attained a brief notoriety for his loud and crude attacks on gays. Now he's become the proud producer of a movie that relies for its effect almost entirely on sadomasochistic male narcissism. The culture of blackshirt and brownshirt pseudomasculinity, as has often been pointed out, depended on some keen shared interests. Among them were massively repressed homoerotic fantasies, a camp interest in military uniforms, an obsession with flogging and a hatred of silky and effeminate Jews. Well, I mean to say, have you seen Mel's movie?" - Hitch on Mel Gibson's S&M religion.
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Later, Sullivan hones in on something I've thought before about Bush - that he's corrupting Christianity, that he's cheapening an institution that has brought us a whole lot of nice music. Sullivan writes:
"I repeat that there is something deeply disturbed about this film. Its extreme and un-Biblical fascination with human torture reflects, to my mind, not devotion to the message of the Cross but a kind of psycho-sexual obsession with extreme violence that Gibson has indulged in many of his other movies and is now trying to insinuate into Christianity itself."
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BRAVE AMERICANS:
In all her 67 years, Ann Hall has never protested anything
— until President Bush came to Louisville yesterday.
Fed up with the president's positions on education, the
economy and a host of other issues, she went downtown
with a couple of friends to voice her displeasure.
"He cares nothing about the common person," said Hall, of
Louisville. "We decided we're just tired of it, and we needed
to do something."
So, carrying a sign that referred to the president as an "idiot,"
she; Lori Eisenbeis, 68; and Midge Ostendorf, 72, took their
place among 1,000 or more protesters who gathered half a
block from the Galt House. Sprinkled among the crowd was
a handful supporting Bush.
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I Just Go Berserk
:: Billy Jack :: I just go berserk ::
(with thanks to BartCop.com)
“I want my President to be President,” he said. “All I’ve seen is a series of theatrical performances.”
Senator Chuck Hagel, Chairman of several committees or sub-committees in the Senate, is among may top-ranking Republicans who have complained openly how the Neo-Cons have frozen senior Senate and House members of their own Party out of the White House. “They treat us as a nuisance,” said Hagel.
“Who better to shake up the White House than Billy Jack, an outspoken critic of both Bush and the Democratic Party leadership,” said one state GOP Chairman. “And it will surprise people about how sophisticated he is about many key issues the American people want to know about.”
February 26, 2004
Hannity Calls the Kettle Black
Apparently the big thrust of college drop-out Sean Hannity's new "book" is that liberals have committed the fantastically irresponsible act of "politicizing terrorism".
Excuse me, you supercilious punk -
Wait, wait, wait. Temper. Ad hominem attacks do not advance arguments.
Let's detour here for a moment to appreciate the fabulous Jay Mohr - former star of the greatest half hour show in television history, the short lived "Action".
Jay now has what looks to be a recurring gig on "The West Wing" playing Hannity. He's hysterical.
Okay, now where was I -
Excuse me, you supercilious punk.
One of the candidates for president justifies every mistake, every bungle, every overreach by intoning, "September 11th changed everything". One party has chosen to move its convention - it's *political* convention, you halfwit - to New York City, and made it the latest convention ever so it could be within a week of - wait for it - September 11th. One administration has no record of achievement, rather has left a trail of destruction in its wake in every measurement of success in public policy, but still intends to run on their record in a "war".
One White House has blocked the investigation into what went wrong on 9/11. One White House has blocked the investigation into what went wrong in Iraq. One single occupant of the People's White House took the deaths of 3000 innocent Americans and used them as a smoke screen to carry out a personal, Oedipal murder contract on one man, at the cost of hundreds (so far) of young American lives.
One side in the war debate decided to call the folks on the other side of the debate Un-American.
Mr. Hannity, you're right that the war has been politicized. You and your master Cheney and his boy Bush made sure of it.
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February 25, 2004
Sullivan Again: Gibson's Gory Gospel "Pure Porn"
www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish
PURE PORNOGRAPHY: At the same time, the movie was to me deeply disturbing. In a word, it is pornography. By pornography, I mean the reduction of all human thought and feeling and personhood to mere flesh. The center-piece of the movie is an absolutely disgusting and despicable piece of sadism that has no real basis in any of the Gospels. It shows a man being flayed alive - slowly, methodically and with increasing savagery. We first of all witness the use of sticks, then whips, then multiple whips with barbed glass or metal. We see flesh being torn out of a man's body. Just so that we can appreciate the pain, we see the whip first tear chunks out of a wooden table. Then we see pieces of human skin flying through the air. We see Jesus come back for more. We see blood spattering on the torturers' faces. We see muscled thugs exhausted from shredding every inch of this man's body. And then they turn him over and do it all again. It goes on for ever. And then we see his mother wiping up masses and masses of blood. It is an absolutely unforgivable, vile, disgusting scene. No human being could sruvive it. Yet for Gibson, it is the h'ors d'oeuvre for his porn movie. The whole movie is some kind of sick combination of the theology of Opus Dei and the film-making of Quentin Tarantino. There is nothing in the Gospels that indicates this level of extreme, endless savagery and there is no theological reason for it. It doesn't even evoke emotion in the audience. It is designed to prompt the crudest human pity and emotional blackmail - which it obviously does. But then it seems to me designed to evoke a sick kind of fascination. Of over two hours, about half the movie is simple wordless sadism on a level and with a relentlessness that I have never witnessed in a movie before. And you have to ask yourself: why? The suffering of Christ is bad and gruesome enough without exaggerating it to this insane degree. Theologically, the point is not that Jesus suffered more than any human being ever has on a physical level. It is that his suffering was profound and voluntary and the culmination of a life and a teaching that Gibson essentially omits. One more example. Toward the end, unsatisfied with showing a man flayed alive, nailed gruesomely to a cross, one eye shut from being smashed in, blood covering his entire body, Gibson has a large crow perch on the neighboring cross and peck another man's eyes out. Why? Because the porn needed yet another money shot.
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February 24, 2004
Andrew Sullivan Was In My Drama Class
Here's the (formerly) Bush-Loving Big Ol' Gay Republican Andrew Sullivan. I about teared up reading it. I recommend that everyone read all of Andrew's posts for today.
www.AndrewSullivan.com - Latest Posts
The 'M-Word'
Why It Matters To Me
What's in a name?
Perhaps the best answer is a memory.
As a child, I had no idea what homosexuality was. I grew up in a traditional home - Catholic, conservative, middle class. Life was relatively simple: education, work, family. I was brought up to aim high in life, even though my parents hadn't gone to college. But one thing was instilled in me. What matters is not how far you go in life, how much money you make, how big a name you make for yourself. What really matters is family, and the love you have for one another. The most important day of your life was not graduation from college or your first day at work or a raise or even your first house. The most important day of your life was when you got married. It was on that day that all your friends and all your family got together to celebrate the most important thing in life: your happiness, your ability to make a new home, to form a new but connected family, to find love that puts everything else into perspective.
But as I grew older, I found that this was somehow not available to me. I didn't feel the things for girls that my peers did. All the emotions and social rituals and bonding of teenage heterosexual life eluded me. I didn't know why. No one explained it. My emotional bonds to other boys were one-sided; each time I felt myself falling in love, they sensed it, pushed it away. I didn't and couldn't blame them. I got along fine with my buds in a non-emotional context; but something was awry, something not right. I came to know almost instinctively that I would never be a part of my family the way my siblings one day might be. The love I had inside me was unmentionable, anathema - even, in the words of the Church I attended every Sunday, evil. I remember writing in my teenage journal one day: "I'm a professional human being. But what do I do in my private life?"
So, like many gay men of my generation, I retreated. I never discussed my real life. I couldn't date girls and so immersed myself in school-work, in the debate team, school plays, anything to give me an excuse not to confront reality. When I looked toward the years ahead, I couldn't see a future. There was just a void. Was I going to be alone my whole life? Would I ever have a "most important day" in my life? It seemed impossible, a negation, an undoing. To be a full part of my family I had to somehow not be me. So like many gay teens, I withdrew, became neurotic, depressed, at times close to suicidal. I shut myself in my room with my books, night after night, while my peers developed the skills needed to form real relationships, and loves. In wounded pride, I even voiced a rejection of family and marriage. It was the only way I could explain my isolation.
February 23, 2004
Disagree With This Administration, And You're A Terrorist
WASHINGTON (AP) - Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation's largest teachers union a "terrorist organization" during a private White House meeting with governors on Monday.
This is the same lying Rod Paige who rigged the numbers in Houston to gin up a totally fake "miracle" out of the educational scores. That was one of those great Texas success stories that W. ran on in 2000.
Like all the others, it was a complete scam and con job.
Now he's our Cabinet-Level officer in charge of Education - and he calls the teachers' union a "terrorist organization".
Of course, at this time in history, there is simply nothing worse you can call someone. But ESPECIALLY in this administration, which justifies its existence and every crime it commits by pointing to its own self-proclaimed "Eternal War On Terra".
But Riggin' Rod, the man who just didn't count those students who weren't doing so well, unfortunately dragging down those numbers in the Houston School District, felt he was at home. He thought he was among friends. And so he let his real feelings out.
Teachers are terrorists.
The Bush educational program in a nutshell.
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Absolute Ignorance combined with Absolute Arrogance is a dangerous mix.
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Being proud of your ignorance does not make it noble. Being absolutely sure of something that turns out to be wrong is being absolutely wrong.
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Is Bush Gay?
Rick Perry worked under him, didn't he?
Mmmmmmm.
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Go to http://www.orangeguru.net/weblog/
for great wild visual blogging. I've stolen many pictures from him this week.
Awesome Song For An Election Year
IDIOT SON OF AN ASSHOLE-AND HE'S OUR PRESIDENT!!!
An awesome song from NOFX. I'd seen these guys name around for years, but had never heard them.
It takes a while to download, but believe me, it's worth the wait. Also requires Flash. When it's done, you can just hit "back" and it will start over. Have everybody in the house come around when it starts, so they can see the lyrics. Sure to stick in your head for days. Um, not for the kids, I guess.
Yeah, right.
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Hey, do any of my readers out there know how to put a counter on this blog?
Any help greatly appreciated. Please respond in the comment field below.
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February 22, 2004
Seething Anger
Yahoo! News - Survey: Anger Toward Bush Intensifying
WASHINGTON - In Arizona, Judy Donovan says she feels desperate for a new president. In Tennessee, Robert Wilson says he finds the president revolting. In Washington state, Maria Yurasek says she'd vote for a dog if it could beat President Bush.
A subtext to this year's presidential campaign is the intense anger that many Democrats are directing toward Bush, an attitude that has been growing in recent months.
"I've never seen anything like it," says Ted Jelen, a political science professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. "There are people who just really, really hate this person."
Fully a quarter of Americans — mostly Democrats — tell pollsters they have a very unfavorable opinion of the president, more than double the number from last April. When only Democrats are polled, more than half report they feel that way.
Further, in exit polls conducted during Democratic primaries, a sizable chunk of voters have been describing themselves as not just dissatisfied with Bush but outright angry — 51 percent in Delaware, 46 percent in Arizona and New Hampshire, 44 percent in Virginia and Wisconsin.
"They really have a head of steam up against Bush," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. He said the level of political polarization surrounding Bush, the division between Republicans who favor him and Democrats who don't, exceeds even that for President Clinton (news - web sites) in September 1998 during the impeachment battle.
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What Hump?
When Presidents Reagan and Bush 41 were shown how their pie-in-the-sky economics were producing ruinous deficits, they enacted tax hikes to begin to correct the economy. Not Bush 43. Hearing only applause as he shuttles between his financial base to military bases – W retreats into messianic incompetence. "We don't second guess out of the White House," he announces, confusing stubbornness for strength; and he tells the G-8 leaders in 2001, "Look, I know what I believe and what I believe is right."
Whenever President Bush is now confronted with an unacceptable reality, he either changes the subject – is steroid use really more important than the environment? – or expresses confidence in his certainty. "I'm absolutely confident that..." he'll say, as if the issue is his determination rather than his conclusion. One is reminded of Igor in Young Frankenstein, who when asked about the foot-high hump on his back blithely answers, "What hump?"
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And we all knew it was going to go wrong, and we told you, and you mocked us and said we were un-patriotic.
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NPR Can NOT Be Serious
There's only two reporters who work for both NPR and Fox News.
NPR is supposed to be our politically-neutral National Public Radio. Because it is not on marching orders from a multinational corporation, NPR has a wide reputation for being lefty. Amongst the conservative right wing, NPR has the reputation of being Pravda, an evil communist leech sucking up their precious tax dollars - never mind that the Federal budget going to NPR is roughly equal to the Halliburton mark-up on one week's worth of toilet paper in Iraq.
Fox News is the unabashedly conservative promotional arm for the White House, owned by Australian pornographer Rupert Murdoch.
Mara Liasson and Juan Williams work for both organizations. On Fox News Sunday Juan and Mara spend all their time - like they are doing this morning - bashing Democrats.
NPR has announced that these two enablers of the right wing will be covering the Democratic Convention.
This is a crime, and the last nail in the coffin of NPR's credibility.
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Bill Kristol this morning is once again is the most sensible, Christ, most left-wing voice on Fox. I'd rather see him cover either party's convention.
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As these Fox apologists obfuscate the story of the war this morning, let's all sing:
WMD!
WMD!
WMD!
You bloodthirsty f#$%s.
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Formerly-sane host Chris Wallace announced that Brit Hume won an award for Excellence in Broadcasting?!?!?
Ha! HA-HA! AAAAA-HAHAHAHAHA-HA!-HA!HA!
ggggrrrrrrrbbbblblblbblbbup-a-huh-huh
UUUURRRRRRRGGGHHH - -BLEEAH!
Oops.
How do you clean vomit out of an Apple keyboard?
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"...this election will be decided by security issues..."
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Explains a lot, doesn't it? Remember this inescapable pop-up if Hannity's "How to Hate Americans" makes it onto any sales charts.
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So true.
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Peace Was Cool.
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Today's the 21st . Today's word is "Failure". He's failed at everything he's ever done.
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February 21, 2004
Many Conservatives Are Smart Enough To Recognize Radicals
Disenchanted Bush Voters Consider Crossing Over
BEACHWOOD, Ohio — In the 2000 presidential election, Bill Flanagan a semiretired newspaper worker, happily voted for George W. Bush. But now, shaking his head, he vows, "Never again."
"The combination of lies and boys coming home in body bags is just too awful," Mr. Flanagan said, drinking coffee and reading newspapers at the local mall. "I could vote for Kerry. I could vote for any Democrat unless he's a real dummy."
"I'm upset about Iraq and the vice president and his affiliation with Halliburton," said Mr. Scarnado, a registered Republican who said that he had not always voted along party lines. "I think the Bush administration is coming out to look like old boy politics, and I don't have a good feel about that."
Many of those wavering in their loyalty to Mr. Bush were middle-class voters who said that his tax relief programs had disproportionately helped the wealthy.
"I voted for him, but it seems like he's just taking care of his rich buddies now," said Mike Cross, a farmer from Londonderry, N.H., adding, "I'm not a great fan of John Kerry, but I've had enough of President Bush."
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Anybody who still thinks it's good for America to vote for Bush must be using fistfuls of powerful drugs.
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THE LAST HURDLE: DIEBOLD'S VOTING MACHINES
Kerry is doing well, building steam. Even Edwards would do. There's only one thing in our way now: The voting machines that don't generate a paper ballot.
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Groper Panders to State GOP, Obstructing Determined Marryers
Serial groper tries to lecture couples willing to stand in the rain overnight to marry on the sanctity of nuptials:
Lockyer rejects halt to nuptials / He dismisses governor's demand as a political ploy
"The governor really has very limited authority to do anything in this situation," said Jesse Choper, a constitutional law professor at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall and the school's former dean. "And the mayor does not report to the governor. The mayor is the chief executive officer of the city and county of San Francisco. He works by himself."
Nor, apparently, can a governor tell a judge what to do. Despite urging from Schwarzenegger, a Superior Court judge decided on Friday not to impose a temporary restraining order on the city to halt the marriages.
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Here's those Florida rioter thugs who shut down the vote count in 2000. This week, I'm going to do some research and see how these overfed white boys are doing today.
UPDATE:
According to the IRS published documents, the Bush campaign also paid individual rioters: Matt Schlapp, a Bush staffer from the Austin office received $4,276.09; Thomas Pyle, a staff aide to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, $456; Michael Murphy, a DeLay fund-raiser, $935; Garry Malphrus, House majority chief counsel to the House Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice, $330; Charles Royal, a legislative aide to Rep. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. $391.80; and Kevin Smith, a former GOP House staffer, $373.23. Moore and Slater tell us that Karl Rove and James A. Baker III put it all together. According to the Miami Herald, July 14, 2002: Three of the rioters went on to jobs in the Bush White House: they include Schlapp, who became a special assistant to the president; Malphrus, who became deputy director of the president’s Domestic Policy Council; and Joel Kaplan who became another special assistant to the president.
MORE DETAILS FROM MIAMI
The Miami Herald | 07/14/2002 | Bush recount troops land plum D.C. jobs
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You know what's sick about these guys? A thousand Nobel Prize winners and 500 scientific reports say humans cause global warming. The Bushies say, "We need to see more testing." Same with RU-486.
But their missile defense system couldn't hit the floor if you dropped one off the kitchen table - and they say they don't need more testing, they're ready to deploy tomorrow morning, and take all that chicken science stuff and get out of my way.
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Cheney, the man who runs this country, has gone insane. And he just might drag the whole world down into his madness. He's already got Bush.
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February 20, 2004
Conservatives Question Each Other's Sanity Over "War on Terror"
Now, newish readers, you should not get the impression that I am very likely to oft quote Pat Buchanan. But here's his review of the new book by PNAC whackjob and Author of the War on Terror Richard Perle and his gnomish evil henchman, Frum:
It's Pat:
"On the dust jacket of his book, Richard Perle appends a Washington Post depiction of himself as the “intellectual guru of the hard-line neoconservative movement in foreign policy.”
The guru’s reputation, however, does not survive a reading. Indeed, on putting down Perle’s new book the thought recurs: the neoconservative moment may be over. For they are not only losing their hold on power, they are losing their grip on reality."
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Heh-heh.
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Don't let any redneck asshole tell you you're not a good American just because you don't lick Bush.
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Arianna: Bush is a "Culture War" pResident
Salon.com | The culture-war president
With Silver Starred John Kerry threatening the president's hold on the high ground of national defense, Team Bush has decided it's time to switch battlefields and start screaming about Sodom and Gomorrah.And who has time to talk about the 3 million jobs lost on Bush's watch when gay couples are trying to make their lifetime commitment legal? Heaven forbid.You would think the Christian right has more pressing matters to worry about. America now has 35 million people living in poverty, many of them working poor. And Christian conservatives are up in arms about gay marriage?Maybe they should take another look at the Bible and its admonition that we shall be judged by what we do for the least among us. Indeed, if you removed every reference to poverty in the New Testament, the Good Book would be reduced to little more than a Not Bad Pamphlet. In the words of Rev. Jim Wallis, "The Prophets would be decimated, the Psalms destroyed, and the Gospels ripped to shreds." On the other hand, there is not a single mention of gay marriage or the need to ban it.
February 19, 2004
Justly Married
Justly Married Poster > the powazek store | CafePress
Practically everything about this story makes tears come to my eyes.
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from DontAmend.com:
Jerry Falwell and Senate Republican leaders want to write their personal religious beliefs into our US Constitution. Using the scare tactic of 'same sex marriage,' they want to deny civil rights and equal benefits to millions of people. For the first time in our history, other than Prohibition, a constitutional amendment would take rights away from Americans rather than defend their freedoms. Don't let that happen. Sign the pledge and promise not to vote for, or support, any politician who favors adding anti-gay prejudice to the US Constitution.
Robin Tyler,
National Co-Chair-DontAmend.com Executive Director, The Equality Campaigne - mail: RTdontamend@aol.com
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The list of misfires is lengthy...
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
"Even Bush's faifhful followers are getting edgy after a rough six weeks..."
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Heh-heh. Unelectable.
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Another American City Grows Up And Joins the 21st Century
Chicago Tribune | Daley has 'no problems' with gay marriages
They are Faith-Based - reality Means Nothing to Them
The Miami Herald | 02/19/2004 | White House accused of suppressing science
The report charges that administration officials have:
• Ordered massive changes to a section on global warming in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2003 Report on the Environment. Eventually, the entire section was dropped.
• Replaced a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fact sheet on proper condom use with a warning emphasizing condom failure rates.
• Ignored advice from top Department of Energy nuclear materials experts who cautioned that aluminum tubes being imported by Iraq weren't suitable for use to make nuclear weapons.
• Established political litmus tests for scientific advisory boards. In one case, public-health experts were removed from a CDC lead paint panel and replaced with researchers who had financial ties to the lead industry.
• Suppressed a U.S. Department of Agriculture microbiologist's finding that potentially harmful bacteria float in the air surrounding large hog farms.
• Excluded scientists who have received federal grants from regulatory advisory panels while permitting the appointment of scientists from regulated industries.
''I don't recall it ever being so blatant in the past,'' said Princeton physicist Val Fitch, a 1980 Nobel Prize winner who served on a Nixon administration science advisory committee.
Some Images
Have you noticed how Bushie is trying to end questions about his Vietnam-era activities by saying he was honorably discharged, as if that's the question being asked? Here's an interesting paragraph from the Niagra Falls Reporter:
"I did my duty. I was honorably discharged!" Bush proclaimed, as though that proves anything. Keep this in mind. Convicted D.C. sniper and serial killer John Muhammad served in the Louisiana National Guard from 1978 to 1985. He was twice court-martialed, once for striking an officer, another time for stealing. He was AWOL and spent time in the jail. Muhammad left the National Guard with an honorable discharge.
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Here are a few images I'm bringing over from the previous site. Pass 'em around! Make your own! Be inspired!
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Trusted Sources
As you read Screaming Points, you might wonder where I get my news. Well, I mainly follow my nose, and sometimes I even get out there myself.
But as far as online sources, there's a few regulars.
There's BuzzFlash - Daily Headlines and Breaking News
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Check 'em out - or catch the good parts here.
February 18, 2004
Welcome to Screaming Points
This is the new home of Screaming Points. It's being hosted by the fantastic Marc Perkel, the most dangerous mind on the internet, as part of his "No Anti-Bush Blog Left Behind" initiative for bloggers impoverished by the Cheney-Bush junta, as Gore Vidal likes to call it.
Well, Screaming Points certainly qualifies.
We're going to be rocking it hard here, but it may take a few days to get up to technical speed as we learn the new interface. All props to Perkel, and to BartCop through which I met him.
Let's have a rollicking, careening, heat-and-light-generating ride from here to election day. After that, who knows.
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Today's the 18th:
He doesn't read a newspaper. He'd never left the country before being selected. He's in an information coccoon, and that's just not good for the leader of the free world.
Shallow.