Stall! Stall! or John Dean sez "Bush Should Be Impeached"
BILL MOYERS:
You write that the administration has tried to block, frustrate or control any investigation into 9/11 using, quote, 'well-proven tactics not unlike those used by the Nixon White House during Watergate.' What tactics?
JOHN DEAN:
Stall. Stall.
We knew that at the Nixon White House. Some of these are time-tested tactics. When the Congress put together a joint inquiry itself was self-defeating because it's much more difficult for a joint inquiry with its size -- the lack of attention its staff can give to a group that large. It gets diffuse. And Cheney-- "
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Monday, April 05, 2004
Bill O'Reilly is Salvagable
Bill O'Reilly is Salvagable
Some people are paid to bullshit, and they will do just that as long as the checks keep coming in. But for some dumb reason, I think Bill O'Reilly may well become one of the first to jump ship, and start speaking the truth.
Don't ask me why I think this. It may be the medication. But I do think that Al Franken's tough love will have an effect on him, and he will begin to understand that it is indeed better for a bad person to become good than for a good person to simply remain good.
Just as members of Bush's own administration are beginning to jump ship before they wind up in a Watergate-like courtroom on the wrong side, so too are members of the punditocracy beginning to heed to words of John Dean, who, once again, is standing up to Goliath and warning us...this time in advance.
We all know this new millennium would have turned out more bright and peaceful under Gore. Bush kept up saddled to 20th century hatreds and warring and secrecies. This is not sunshine. This is Bushweather. BushWorld. And it is substandard. Probably criminal.
The Titanic is sinking, and thank heavens. We need to get back on a positive track, where we are friends of the world and earth. Not it's rapist.
Get out while you can. Help create the new sunshine. The bright new day. The world will love you for it. As will more than half of America.
Carpe millennium! (And do it right this time!)
Some people are paid to bullshit, and they will do just that as long as the checks keep coming in. But for some dumb reason, I think Bill O'Reilly may well become one of the first to jump ship, and start speaking the truth.
Don't ask me why I think this. It may be the medication. But I do think that Al Franken's tough love will have an effect on him, and he will begin to understand that it is indeed better for a bad person to become good than for a good person to simply remain good.
Just as members of Bush's own administration are beginning to jump ship before they wind up in a Watergate-like courtroom on the wrong side, so too are members of the punditocracy beginning to heed to words of John Dean, who, once again, is standing up to Goliath and warning us...this time in advance.
We all know this new millennium would have turned out more bright and peaceful under Gore. Bush kept up saddled to 20th century hatreds and warring and secrecies. This is not sunshine. This is Bushweather. BushWorld. And it is substandard. Probably criminal.
The Titanic is sinking, and thank heavens. We need to get back on a positive track, where we are friends of the world and earth. Not it's rapist.
Get out while you can. Help create the new sunshine. The bright new day. The world will love you for it. As will more than half of America.
Carpe millennium! (And do it right this time!)
Saturday, April 03, 2004
Friday, April 02, 2004
The O’Franken Factor Stupid and Misleading Quote Contest
The O’Franken Factor Stupid and Misleading Quote Contest
Together with Al Franken and Air America Radio, MoveOn.org is holding a contest this week to find the most stupid or most clearly false – or ideally both – comment by a Bush administration official or major right-wing figure. Submit your quote ... and you could win!
The Prize
If you win, your quote will be featured on the O’Franken Factor radio show, and you’ll be recognized by name. We’ll also send you a signed and personalized copy of Al Franken’s book, “Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them.”
Together with Al Franken and Air America Radio, MoveOn.org is holding a contest this week to find the most stupid or most clearly false – or ideally both – comment by a Bush administration official or major right-wing figure. Submit your quote ... and you could win!
The Prize
If you win, your quote will be featured on the O’Franken Factor radio show, and you’ll be recognized by name. We’ll also send you a signed and personalized copy of Al Franken’s book, “Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them.”
Thursday, April 01, 2004
Tom Trainor ROCKER HEAVEN / apocalyptic satire / thewaryeye.com/press
Tom Trainor ROCKER HEAVEN / apocalyptic satire / thewaryeye.com/press
I am so excited to see this site. Tom! Call!!
I am so excited to see this site. Tom! Call!!
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Air America Radio & The O'Franken Factor make Limbaugh look Fat
O'Franken makes Limbaugh look Fat
Liberal genius, Al Franken
Today was historic. A bone fide Liberal radio show made its debut, and while it was rocky for some internet listeners, it was certainly a far cry from the hyperventilative bloviance that has become the earmark, so to speak, of Reich Wing Radio.
Soft-spoken, genteel, aristocratic, Mr. Franken shows why he, and not Mr. Limbaugh, gets to go to Harvard.
But the difference goes beyond style. It is even more obvious in content. Rush has to say what his trainers and sugardaddies tell him to say. Mr. Franken can say anything he wants, being true to Harvard's dedication to free inquiry, free expression, free...dom.
Rush and the Reich are not so freethinking. Nor has Rush had the wondrous opportunities to learn from the greatest minds of his generation. Franken has used his mind well, and has the added benefit of also having a good heart. Rush, a druggie, is not safe for your children. Al Franken is. And he will, daily, show why he is the better role model, and more to be trusted.
Stay tuned. I will. I love to learn. Mere emotionality does not impress, no matter how loudly one proclaims it.
FUTURE SHOWS
Just like hollywood's Bob Roberts, so too does Rush Limbaugh, the fat man's messiah, usurp badges of the young and cool, like rock music...and plays it on his show, as if he too is cool by extension. Well, Al Franken needn't usurp. He already has the great musicians and songs on his side...from CSY to Beatles to Radiohead to Talking Heads. And I think it would be great if he were to use music to help convey the message. Buffalo Springfield, Patti Smith, Peter Gabriel...and on and on and on. Take the music back! Maybe have live performances, or host benefit concerts...
And what about guests? Of course there will be comedic greats, as well as political and philosophical greats. And Mr. Franken should not hestitate to make use of the Harvard Lampoon staff and alumnae. Conan did, and look at him! Delight and instruct! Bring your education to bear, and don't shy away from your superior education and connections. For years you have serves us with great good cheer. We will repay you with ears and mouths.
Do what the Limbaughs of the world are afraid to do: Let others speak. And reach high and low. Have Nobel prize winners and laureates as well as the word from the street. Do you think Desmond Tutu would ever appear on the EIB network? Fat chance! Tutu has taste and refinement. And no reason to overstate. Rush is the Head Overstater in charge of breeding an army of overstaters.
Learn from Conan and Letterman. There is never a dull moment on either show. And both relentlessly work at making each show better than the last. And it shows. This, along with an impressive guestlist...along with your natural wit, will endear listeners to return. The alternative is obsolescent, vacuous and atavistic. A backwards-running watch.
I expect the O'Franken Show to, one day, be as good or better than Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. You're off to a good start. Carpe Millennium!
ANONYMOSES SUGGESTS...
We, or rather, I, at The Mose, would like to make a few suggestions for future guests. I'll just brainstorm a few...
former SNL members, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Walter Cronkhite, Jon Stewart, Sting, Robert Fripp, Ian Anderson, Jon Anderson, Elton John, Joan Baez, Joan Shenendoah, Norah Jones, Phillip Glass, Peter Gabriel, Gore Vidal, Alexander Theroux, Jesus, Peter Gomes, Arthur Kleinman, Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Martin Sheen, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Serkin, Andy Griffith, Maya Angelou, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Tom Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Iddybud, Flipper, Lassie, Robert Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson, Thom Yorke, Oprah Winfrey, Steven VW Beckwith, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Robert Borosage, Joe Conason, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Cher, Barbra, Monica even... Surely most would donate their time for a good cause.
TESTIMONIALS
Man! He ossum!
- Hank Gurdjieff
Air America is to the EIB Network what Albert Einstein was to Albert Spier.
- Prince Albert Gore Vidal Sassoon
Beyond the proverbial beyond. Even beyond that.
- Osama ben Franklin Roosevelt Greer Garson Kanin Abel
AM once again brings sunlight.
- Surreal McCoy
What do Frankenstein and Frankenchrist have in common?
- Nickle-Eye Rimsky-Corncob
Ya botha me.
- Debussy Fields
WHAT THE MEDIA ARE SAYING
Air America is new view in radio
Yale Daily News
Air America
NPR (audio), United States
Local Air America deal fails
Raleigh News, NC
Franken's Air America debuts
- Atlanta Journal Constitution
Air Apparent: New Radio Network Sees Profit in Liberal Views
Media Channel, United States
Liberal genius, Al Franken
Today was historic. A bone fide Liberal radio show made its debut, and while it was rocky for some internet listeners, it was certainly a far cry from the hyperventilative bloviance that has become the earmark, so to speak, of Reich Wing Radio.
Soft-spoken, genteel, aristocratic, Mr. Franken shows why he, and not Mr. Limbaugh, gets to go to Harvard.
But the difference goes beyond style. It is even more obvious in content. Rush has to say what his trainers and sugardaddies tell him to say. Mr. Franken can say anything he wants, being true to Harvard's dedication to free inquiry, free expression, free...dom.
Rush and the Reich are not so freethinking. Nor has Rush had the wondrous opportunities to learn from the greatest minds of his generation. Franken has used his mind well, and has the added benefit of also having a good heart. Rush, a druggie, is not safe for your children. Al Franken is. And he will, daily, show why he is the better role model, and more to be trusted.
Stay tuned. I will. I love to learn. Mere emotionality does not impress, no matter how loudly one proclaims it.
FUTURE SHOWS
Just like hollywood's Bob Roberts, so too does Rush Limbaugh, the fat man's messiah, usurp badges of the young and cool, like rock music...and plays it on his show, as if he too is cool by extension. Well, Al Franken needn't usurp. He already has the great musicians and songs on his side...from CSY to Beatles to Radiohead to Talking Heads. And I think it would be great if he were to use music to help convey the message. Buffalo Springfield, Patti Smith, Peter Gabriel...and on and on and on. Take the music back! Maybe have live performances, or host benefit concerts...
And what about guests? Of course there will be comedic greats, as well as political and philosophical greats. And Mr. Franken should not hestitate to make use of the Harvard Lampoon staff and alumnae. Conan did, and look at him! Delight and instruct! Bring your education to bear, and don't shy away from your superior education and connections. For years you have serves us with great good cheer. We will repay you with ears and mouths.
Do what the Limbaughs of the world are afraid to do: Let others speak. And reach high and low. Have Nobel prize winners and laureates as well as the word from the street. Do you think Desmond Tutu would ever appear on the EIB network? Fat chance! Tutu has taste and refinement. And no reason to overstate. Rush is the Head Overstater in charge of breeding an army of overstaters.
Learn from Conan and Letterman. There is never a dull moment on either show. And both relentlessly work at making each show better than the last. And it shows. This, along with an impressive guestlist...along with your natural wit, will endear listeners to return. The alternative is obsolescent, vacuous and atavistic. A backwards-running watch.
I expect the O'Franken Show to, one day, be as good or better than Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. You're off to a good start. Carpe Millennium!
ANONYMOSES SUGGESTS...
We, or rather, I, at The Mose, would like to make a few suggestions for future guests. I'll just brainstorm a few...
former SNL members, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Walter Cronkhite, Jon Stewart, Sting, Robert Fripp, Ian Anderson, Jon Anderson, Elton John, Joan Baez, Joan Shenendoah, Norah Jones, Phillip Glass, Peter Gabriel, Gore Vidal, Alexander Theroux, Jesus, Peter Gomes, Arthur Kleinman, Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Martin Sheen, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Serkin, Andy Griffith, Maya Angelou, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Tom Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Iddybud, Flipper, Lassie, Robert Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson, Thom Yorke, Oprah Winfrey, Steven VW Beckwith, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Robert Borosage, Joe Conason, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Cher, Barbra, Monica even... Surely most would donate their time for a good cause.
TESTIMONIALS
Man! He ossum!
- Hank Gurdjieff
Air America is to the EIB Network what Albert Einstein was to Albert Spier.
- Prince Albert Gore Vidal Sassoon
Beyond the proverbial beyond. Even beyond that.
- Osama ben Franklin Roosevelt Greer Garson Kanin Abel
AM once again brings sunlight.
- Surreal McCoy
What do Frankenstein and Frankenchrist have in common?
- Nickle-Eye Rimsky-Corncob
Ya botha me.
- Debussy Fields
WHAT THE MEDIA ARE SAYING
Air America is new view in radio
Yale Daily News
Air America
NPR (audio), United States
Local Air America deal fails
Raleigh News, NC
Franken's Air America debuts
- Atlanta Journal Constitution
Air Apparent: New Radio Network Sees Profit in Liberal Views
Media Channel, United States
Which NY Times Columnist are You?
You are Paul Krugman! You're a brilliant economist
with a knack for both making sense of the
current economic situation and exposing the
Bush administration's lies about it. You
somehow came out as the best anti-war writer on
the Op-Ed staff. Other economists hate your
guts for selling out to the liberals. To hell
with 'em.
Which New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Are You?
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Air America Radio: Some debut! I couldn't even get it!
Air America Radio
Fix the goddam station! Get Al Gore to hook the station seamlessly to the internet, so people like me don't get bounced out.
Guess I'll go listen to Rush laugh at the weak attempt...
Fix the goddam station! Get Al Gore to hook the station seamlessly to the internet, so people like me don't get bounced out.
Guess I'll go listen to Rush laugh at the weak attempt...
Monday, March 29, 2004
The O'Franken Factor
iddybud: "March 31st: The O'Franken Factor
Website: http://airamericaradio.com/
Time: 12-3pm.
Current stations: WLIB (NYC, AM 1190am), WNTD (Chicago, AM 950), KBLA (LA, AM 1580). Will also be streamed online at http://airamericaradio.com/.
The O? Franken Factor: 12:00-3:00pm"
Website: http://airamericaradio.com/
Time: 12-3pm.
Current stations: WLIB (NYC, AM 1190am), WNTD (Chicago, AM 950), KBLA (LA, AM 1580). Will also be streamed online at http://airamericaradio.com/.
The O? Franken Factor: 12:00-3:00pm"
Sunday, March 28, 2004
From the Top: Join Christopher O'Riley for the best in new musicians
From the Top
As Virginia, Chris's delightful sister notes, it is "O'Riley", NOT "O'Reilly".
Mr. O'Riley is also the composer of piano music adaptations of the music of Radiohead, as well as being the host of "From the Top".
As Virginia, Chris's delightful sister notes, it is "O'Riley", NOT "O'Reilly".
Mr. O'Riley is also the composer of piano music adaptations of the music of Radiohead, as well as being the host of "From the Top".
pseudodictionary - the dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries
pseudodictionary - the dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries :: v2.0: "hello, and welcome to pseudodictionary, the place where words you've made up can become part of an actual online dictionary! slang, webspeak, colloquialisms...you name it, if you know a word that should be in the dictionary but isn't, submit it and we'll post it on this site (with credit given to you of course)."
Thanks to Blagh for the link.
Thanks to Blagh for the link.
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Bleeding-Head Conservatives: What do they want? Why do they smell?
Bleeding-Head Conservatives: What do they want? Why do they smell?
For years, bleeding heart liberals have dominated the scene, safe in their towers at the heart of America's headland. But now bleeding-head conservatives are gathering in America's heartland to demand that the headland step up their already considerable support for the heartland. But the headland is running out of money. Rather the Bush Gang ran off with it. So just as the headland has suffered, so too shall it's underachieving dependent, the heartland.
But this is all metaphor, mind, and has little to do with life on the ground.
Or does it??
To be continued...
(Well, maybe.)
For years, bleeding heart liberals have dominated the scene, safe in their towers at the heart of America's headland. But now bleeding-head conservatives are gathering in America's heartland to demand that the headland step up their already considerable support for the heartland. But the headland is running out of money. Rather the Bush Gang ran off with it. So just as the headland has suffered, so too shall it's underachieving dependent, the heartland.
But this is all metaphor, mind, and has little to do with life on the ground.
Or does it??
To be continued...
(Well, maybe.)
Friday, March 26, 2004
Bill Crystal has Bush's Ear. And eyes, nose, mouth, expressions...
Bush possessed by soul of Bill Crystal
Look at pictures of George W. Bush.
At times he looks like Paul Wolfowitz, at other times he looks like Karen Hughes, at times Phat Robertson, and now I have come to see that he can also absorb Bill Crystal. This is useful. If you want to know who has been instructing him...just look at him. Who does he look like?
You can pick your friends...
Ananova - Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it
Is the cure to AIDS just a booger away?
The next question then becomes...
Can you patent boogers?
Is the cure to AIDS just a booger away?
The next question then becomes...
Can you patent boogers?
Ralph Nader on Charlotte Talks - WFAE 90.7 FM
Ralph Nader on Charlotte Talks - WFAE 90.7 FM
Join Mike Collins as he interviews Ralp Nader...now playing.
WFAE 90.7 FM Your NPR News Source
UPDATE
Yours truly, the great and risible Anonymoses, made his way into the mind of the great Ralph Nader...thanks to the good folks at WFAE, Charlotte, who brings us not only Mike Collins, but also Fiona Ritchie and Thistle & Shamrock, as well as other great programming. I suppose I also entered into the mind of Mr. Collins as well, now that I think on it.
At any rate, I appear as Dave, email questioner, and basically ascertained that Nader is still Nader, and that Democrats needn't worry. He will, I feel sure, serve to not only forward ideas (which only Democrats have), and serve as a second front against Bush. I can't remember a harsh word about Kerry, but there were many harsh words about Bush. He will, in other words, serve the same purpose as Dean did, when he showed that Democrats had to be true to their consciences, and not merely pose, or worse, actually be...Bush Lite.
Nader too will help expose the foolishness so long propped up, largely by the Media.
Join Mike Collins as he interviews Ralp Nader...now playing.
WFAE 90.7 FM Your NPR News Source
UPDATE
Yours truly, the great and risible Anonymoses, made his way into the mind of the great Ralph Nader...thanks to the good folks at WFAE, Charlotte, who brings us not only Mike Collins, but also Fiona Ritchie and Thistle & Shamrock, as well as other great programming. I suppose I also entered into the mind of Mr. Collins as well, now that I think on it.
At any rate, I appear as Dave, email questioner, and basically ascertained that Nader is still Nader, and that Democrats needn't worry. He will, I feel sure, serve to not only forward ideas (which only Democrats have), and serve as a second front against Bush. I can't remember a harsh word about Kerry, but there were many harsh words about Bush. He will, in other words, serve the same purpose as Dean did, when he showed that Democrats had to be true to their consciences, and not merely pose, or worse, actually be...Bush Lite.
Nader too will help expose the foolishness so long propped up, largely by the Media.
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Richard Clark on NPR today at Noon
Richard Clark is to appear on NPR today on the Terry Gross show, "Fresh Air".
Should be quite interesting...
Should be quite interesting...
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Monday, March 22, 2004
Israel not safe under Sharon OR Bush
United Press International: Third Intifada launched in Gaza
I feel sorrow for the people of Israel who have to keep sacrificing their lives and well-being largely because of the policies (or lack thereof) of Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush. They are veritable terrorist incubators, rather than true peacemakers.
Peace is a treasure too subtle and rare to be appreciated by Mr. Sharon or Mr. Bush, and it should be more than obvious.
I'm reminded of a tale from childhood that goes:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall...
...and one cannot help but wonder if Sharon's wall is not really just another Humpty Dumpty wall. He sadly is even beginning to resemble the good Mr. Dumpty.
But this is too flip for such a serious time as this.
The simplest answer is just to vote them out of office.
As Dag Hammerskjold once said: "Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality." Something like that. It is no longer acceptable that the rich and powerful can want to fight, but the poor and powerless are the one who, in every way, pay.
Can Palestinians keep their rage under control, and actually forgive?
Can Israelis?
Some problems are solved. Some are resolved. But some are simply dissolved.
Here's to a renaissance of conscience...that subtle organ that has been bred out of us. It may be necessary, but will certainly be a welcome addition to our jaded personalities.
I feel sorrow for the people of Israel who have to keep sacrificing their lives and well-being largely because of the policies (or lack thereof) of Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush. They are veritable terrorist incubators, rather than true peacemakers.
Peace is a treasure too subtle and rare to be appreciated by Mr. Sharon or Mr. Bush, and it should be more than obvious.
I'm reminded of a tale from childhood that goes:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall...
...and one cannot help but wonder if Sharon's wall is not really just another Humpty Dumpty wall. He sadly is even beginning to resemble the good Mr. Dumpty.
But this is too flip for such a serious time as this.
The simplest answer is just to vote them out of office.
As Dag Hammerskjold once said: "Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality." Something like that. It is no longer acceptable that the rich and powerful can want to fight, but the poor and powerless are the one who, in every way, pay.
Can Palestinians keep their rage under control, and actually forgive?
Can Israelis?
Some problems are solved. Some are resolved. But some are simply dissolved.
Here's to a renaissance of conscience...that subtle organ that has been bred out of us. It may be necessary, but will certainly be a welcome addition to our jaded personalities.
Sunday, March 21, 2004
Top Bush Advisor, Richard Clarke, says loyalty trumped by decency, conscience
Richard Clark looking like a bald Chris Bury
Top Bush Advisor, Richard Clarke, says loyalty trumped by decency, conscience
"Loyalty is important, but only to a point.", says former Bush advisor and counter-terrorism expert, Richard Clarke, who, among other titles, was also former Terrorism Czar in the Clinton administration, and served under both Bushs and Reagan, who originally appointed him. He went on to explain that when the president is not safeguarding the lives of Americans, he no longer deserves that loyalty.
Mr. Clark, who is probably the person who knows more about the subject than anyone else on earth, has said that Bush was inadequate for the job, and that Bush's complacency and misplaced focus on Iraq "because it had better targets" has cost actual American lives, and threatens to put even more American lives in jeopardy.
3,000 lives needn't have been spared on 9/11, soldiers needn't have lost their lives in Iraq, since Saddam was never a real threat, and the soldiers and civilians who will lose their lives in the coming days, months, years...will not have needed to have done so.
And when one considers the profiteers of war, and the fact that they are to this day, reaping huge profits while our sons and daughters are being sacrificed to the alter of their money...hardly seems right. Seems almost sinister, really.
At least it ought to make you think twice before you pull the lever for this guy who has meant death and sorrow to so many families in America and abroad.
I applaude the nobility of Mister Clark, who, after all, is trying to keep America safe...as he has done for decades. Only this time the solution may be in the form of new leadership. I know he would agree.
And no drop-out Limbaughs can take away what Mister Clark can bring to those with ears to hear and learn...though try they certainly will.
A Renaissance of Conscience?
But I think there will be a renaissance of conscience, if you will. And that those who know things will come forward, and realize that their loyalty too has been abused. And that lives are being lost needlessly, and because of incompetence, greed perhaps, and pressures which simply should not have been allowed to enter into the decision-making process, while those that should have been...were ignored.
This is not good maintenence. Not good stewardship.
This is more like plunder.
Step forward, good people. Your ego exists as a quasi-separate entity from God, whose interests are at cross-purposes. Transcend your ego, like most responsible adults above the age of 40. It is a hindrance to real progress and harmony.
Or...read through some of these related articles:
Excerpts from "Against All Enemies"
- New York Times
Excerpt: 'Against All Enemies'
- CBS News
Bush Ignored Al Qaeda
- NPR News
Former adviser says Bush preoccupied with Iraq
-ABC Online, Australia
Clarke, Bush and What Did They Know
-Bayou Buzz, United States
Bush ignored terror threat, claims ex-aide
- Guardian, UK
Kerry to read book critical of Bush
News 8 Austin, TX
Will Bush read it? Can he read?
NEWSWEEK: In the Months Before 9/11, Justice Department Curtailed ...
- Yahoo News
The Bush doctrine has been turned on its head
- Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Buy the book, "Against All Enemies" by Richard Clarke, at BUZZFLASH...and make a donation to keep independent voices alive.
Conservatives (the C-list) lack brilliance, merit as guest-list proves
Conservatives (the C-list) lack brilliance, merit as guest-list proves
LAUREATES OF LIMBAUGH
Ever hear a nobel laureate being interviewed on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly? Of course not! Nor will you have heard any on the world's A-list of brilliance and merit. But you may well have heard any number of laureates, in any number of fields...if you were listening to NPR. Why just last week, I heard an interview with Desmond Tutu.
When you turn on your radio, you have a few choices. You could listen to music, or you could listen to talk. That's about it. There is no fart channel. Well, let me think about that a minute...
OK..so Rush, though flatulating bloviance, or bloviating flatulence, is passing gas...onto the customer. He does at least give us a break by allowing all manner of gutter helmet to intercede.
There are no guests on Rush Limbaugh. All you get is pure Rush. Pure opinion. One voice. Dictation.
And one voice is not enough. Not if you value education, edification, amelioration.
I suspect there is a reason that Conservatives -- at least the most visible and outspoken ones in today's America -- are those very people who made Cs in school. They just got by. They may have also participated in that allied C-word, "cheating".
Anecdotally, the only folks I know who cheated happen to be conservatives. And strangely, they have tended to foist their cheating upon the post-educational world...cheating at work, cheating on their wives... It is as if they get a thrill from the cheating itself.
But quality rises on its own merit. It needs no shoehorn, no false promotion.
And quality recognizes quality, and also cheating. And quality avoids cheaters, and gravitates to kindred spirits. One reason you will not see laureates on Limbaugh.
LAUREATES OF LIMBAUGH
Ever hear a nobel laureate being interviewed on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly? Of course not! Nor will you have heard any on the world's A-list of brilliance and merit. But you may well have heard any number of laureates, in any number of fields...if you were listening to NPR. Why just last week, I heard an interview with Desmond Tutu.
When you turn on your radio, you have a few choices. You could listen to music, or you could listen to talk. That's about it. There is no fart channel. Well, let me think about that a minute...
OK..so Rush, though flatulating bloviance, or bloviating flatulence, is passing gas...onto the customer. He does at least give us a break by allowing all manner of gutter helmet to intercede.
There are no guests on Rush Limbaugh. All you get is pure Rush. Pure opinion. One voice. Dictation.
And one voice is not enough. Not if you value education, edification, amelioration.
I suspect there is a reason that Conservatives -- at least the most visible and outspoken ones in today's America -- are those very people who made Cs in school. They just got by. They may have also participated in that allied C-word, "cheating".
Anecdotally, the only folks I know who cheated happen to be conservatives. And strangely, they have tended to foist their cheating upon the post-educational world...cheating at work, cheating on their wives... It is as if they get a thrill from the cheating itself.
But quality rises on its own merit. It needs no shoehorn, no false promotion.
And quality recognizes quality, and also cheating. And quality avoids cheaters, and gravitates to kindred spirits. One reason you will not see laureates on Limbaugh.
Saturday, March 20, 2004
Reservist Commits Suicide Over 4,000 dollars?
New York City: Reservist Commits Suicide Over City Job
No offense...but 4 thousand dollars! 4 million dollars in not enough to kill yourself over. But 4 thou is, well, silly. That's like a nickle in today's Bushbubble world. Which reminds me of a screenplay I wrote once, called "Prick in the Balloon". Who, or what, will be the prick that pricks the Bush balloon? This feller who felt death was better than not having 4 thousand dollars?
Look. The point is not to deride the dead, or his relatives. The point is...look deeper. Was he on medication? If so...why? And for what?
Surely he didn't do himself in out of greed. Maybe he knew something. Maybe he was going to talk.
He died. Don't let his story die with him.
No offense...but 4 thousand dollars! 4 million dollars in not enough to kill yourself over. But 4 thou is, well, silly. That's like a nickle in today's Bushbubble world. Which reminds me of a screenplay I wrote once, called "Prick in the Balloon". Who, or what, will be the prick that pricks the Bush balloon? This feller who felt death was better than not having 4 thousand dollars?
Look. The point is not to deride the dead, or his relatives. The point is...look deeper. Was he on medication? If so...why? And for what?
Surely he didn't do himself in out of greed. Maybe he knew something. Maybe he was going to talk.
He died. Don't let his story die with him.
MICROBLOG: Anonymoses for Insects
The good folks at Anonymoses Labs have made a breakthrough in microblogging, and are ready to roll out the new product...since this is apparently the time for rolling out new products. Iraq War, for instance.
The new microblog is for insects and other small readers.
Presenting....
MICROBLOG!
The new microblog is for insects and other small readers.
Presenting....
MICROBLOG!
Friday, March 19, 2004
"You have got lots of good, clean, Christian yogurts." Document proves absurd claim
"You have got lots of good, clean, Christian yogurts." Document proves absurd claim
Yogurtheadman in ecstasis
For more than 39 long American months, critics of the Bush Administration have made the seemingly absurd claim that you, and by extension, me, or I, have got lots of good, clean, Christian yogurts. And most have shrugged off the claim as little more than nonsense or ennuendo. But careful eyes have discovered otherwise, and the archaeoethnological world is all atwitter...not to be confused with al atwater, or Al Atwater (as he likes to fancy himself), who is the long lost brother of lee atwater, famous dead guy. (The long part may be overstatement.) But be that as it may, it is, nevertheless, a purely adventitious and rare joy to know, once and for all time, that such is indeed the case. That case, again, being the cleanness and Christianity of our formidable yogurts.
We have yet to gain access to these rare documents, but will seek to make them public, once they are made public.
Yogurtheadman in ecstasis
For more than 39 long American months, critics of the Bush Administration have made the seemingly absurd claim that you, and by extension, me, or I, have got lots of good, clean, Christian yogurts. And most have shrugged off the claim as little more than nonsense or ennuendo. But careful eyes have discovered otherwise, and the archaeoethnological world is all atwitter...not to be confused with al atwater, or Al Atwater (as he likes to fancy himself), who is the long lost brother of lee atwater, famous dead guy. (The long part may be overstatement.) But be that as it may, it is, nevertheless, a purely adventitious and rare joy to know, once and for all time, that such is indeed the case. That case, again, being the cleanness and Christianity of our formidable yogurts.
We have yet to gain access to these rare documents, but will seek to make them public, once they are made public.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack! The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
iddybud
You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack!
The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
Ahh! How sweeeeet! He has ruminations!
(We all knew he had ruinations!)
BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
I D D Y B U D
Queen of the Wild Frontier
You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack!
The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
Ahh! How sweeeeet! He has ruminations!
(We all knew he had ruinations!)
BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
I D D Y B U D
Queen of the Wild Frontier
People have the power to redeem the work of fools
People have the power to redeem the work of fools...
Patti Smith lyrics
FROM THE REPORT ("People Have the Power")
I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools
upon the meek the graces shower
it's decreed the people rule.
...
The power to dream, to rule,
to wrestle the world from fools...
Patti Smith lyrics
FROM THE REPORT ("People Have the Power")
I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools
upon the meek the graces shower
it's decreed the people rule.
...
The power to dream, to rule,
to wrestle the world from fools...
World Leaders Rally around Kerry
Leaders from around the world secretly hope Kerry sends Bush packing.
Here are some countries:
Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Argentina Australia Austria Azerbaijan
Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bolivia Bosnia and Herzergovina
Brazil Bulgaria Canada Cambodia Cameroon Cayman Islands Chile China Colombia
Congo (Zaire) Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador
Egypt El Salvador Estonia Ethiopia Finland France Gambia Georgia...
...and that's only up to "G"!
Here are some countries:
Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Argentina Australia Austria Azerbaijan
Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bolivia Bosnia and Herzergovina
Brazil Bulgaria Canada Cambodia Cameroon Cayman Islands Chile China Colombia
Congo (Zaire) Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador
Egypt El Salvador Estonia Ethiopia Finland France Gambia Georgia...
...and that's only up to "G"!
Saturday, March 13, 2004
The O'Franken Factor: Coming on March 31st...and I'm excreted!
The O'Franken Factor: Coming on March 31st...and I'm excreted!
The long-awaited Liberal Media finally comes of age!
The long-awaited Liberal Media finally comes of age!
Friday, March 12, 2004
Behold the Draft Kerry-Edwards website!
In Poll, Edwards Leads the Pack for VPs
The Bright and the Dull. It's your choice, Jackson! Be the Change.
A new man is in town...
...and he will help save us from further embarrassment.
When John Edwards stepped down from his campaign, a few days ago, a vacuum descended upon the Democratic Party. But not only Democrats, but also many Independents and free-thinking Republicans...who could appreciate his radiance and confident optimism. It was palpable. People began quoting many of his words and themes. As in a swoon, the loss washed over many who represent the best, and often most simple and honest, folks who represent that which is most treasured about America. Most people are not merely about self aggrandizement, personal gain and domination. America still lives because Americans care for those most in need of caring...not providing yet more money for those who least need it.
The reason I lament so, is that I only today discovered that there is now a "Draft Kerry-Edwards" website. Could it be that...Edwards lives?!
Here is the link:
http://www.draftkerryedwards.com/
Now...draft Clark as Secretary of State or Defence...and you've got an even better dream ticket!
The Bright and the Dull. It's your choice, Jackson! Be the Change.
A new man is in town...
...and he will help save us from further embarrassment.
When John Edwards stepped down from his campaign, a few days ago, a vacuum descended upon the Democratic Party. But not only Democrats, but also many Independents and free-thinking Republicans...who could appreciate his radiance and confident optimism. It was palpable. People began quoting many of his words and themes. As in a swoon, the loss washed over many who represent the best, and often most simple and honest, folks who represent that which is most treasured about America. Most people are not merely about self aggrandizement, personal gain and domination. America still lives because Americans care for those most in need of caring...not providing yet more money for those who least need it.
The reason I lament so, is that I only today discovered that there is now a "Draft Kerry-Edwards" website. Could it be that...Edwards lives?!
Here is the link:
http://www.draftkerryedwards.com/
Now...draft Clark as Secretary of State or Defence...and you've got an even better dream ticket!
Quran Search
Quran Search
The quran searchable by word, topic, or verse reference...such as:
3:11 (Their plight will be) no better than that of the people of Pharaoh, and their predecessors: They denied our Signs, and Allah called them to account for their sins. For Allah is strict in punishment.
Thanks to Daily Kos and Iddybud.
The quran searchable by word, topic, or verse reference...such as:
3:11 (Their plight will be) no better than that of the people of Pharaoh, and their predecessors: They denied our Signs, and Allah called them to account for their sins. For Allah is strict in punishment.
Thanks to Daily Kos and Iddybud.
Thursday, March 11, 2004
BushWorld Too Unstable for Market Strength
Yahoo! News - Stocks Slump on Security Fears
Bill Clinton was a good man. Still is. And frankly, so is George W. Bush. He darned well better be. He has a wondrous soul who has trusted him with her charms. He darned well better be a good man. And I'd suggest that if he isn't...maybe he should ask her what it's all about.
One thing it's not about is posturing. It is about standing up to those whose morals are questionable at best, but who, nevertheless, persist in saddling you with basically self-serving demands and requests, which you, and every other decent person know could be much better served elsewhere.
Yes, Bill Clinton was a good man, and still is. And the world, at least, knew or sensed this. And the world became more peaceful, and ironically, secure, because of the understanding that he would likelier help you than want to bomb you.
Some people will try to pretend that the economy is all fine and good under Bush's, er, gaze. But I ask you. For whom?
Sure, a handful of investors, military contractors, bomb manufacturers, flu vaccine, antidote, sex enhancing drug manufacturers and such have done quite well, thank you. But ask the average American. Moreover, ask everyone else in the world.
To fix the economy, we need to send a signal to the world, and to average Americans, that help is on the way. Real help this time. Not help in the form of a moribund economy. Not in the form of Shock and Awe and other environmental hazards. Not in the form of a secret Business Government whose goal is "Big Cookie", but whose means is raiding the cookie jar.
Democrats have proven that they can better be trusted with the common well, and the common wealth.
America can be a generator of healing. Healing ourselves and the world on many levels, none of which entail surgical strikes or Shock and Awe.
Help is on the way. If Bush were a good man, he would step out of the way.
Please. You cried when you left Crawford.
Be happy. Go home.
Bill Clinton was a good man. Still is. And frankly, so is George W. Bush. He darned well better be. He has a wondrous soul who has trusted him with her charms. He darned well better be a good man. And I'd suggest that if he isn't...maybe he should ask her what it's all about.
One thing it's not about is posturing. It is about standing up to those whose morals are questionable at best, but who, nevertheless, persist in saddling you with basically self-serving demands and requests, which you, and every other decent person know could be much better served elsewhere.
Yes, Bill Clinton was a good man, and still is. And the world, at least, knew or sensed this. And the world became more peaceful, and ironically, secure, because of the understanding that he would likelier help you than want to bomb you.
Some people will try to pretend that the economy is all fine and good under Bush's, er, gaze. But I ask you. For whom?
Sure, a handful of investors, military contractors, bomb manufacturers, flu vaccine, antidote, sex enhancing drug manufacturers and such have done quite well, thank you. But ask the average American. Moreover, ask everyone else in the world.
To fix the economy, we need to send a signal to the world, and to average Americans, that help is on the way. Real help this time. Not help in the form of a moribund economy. Not in the form of Shock and Awe and other environmental hazards. Not in the form of a secret Business Government whose goal is "Big Cookie", but whose means is raiding the cookie jar.
Democrats have proven that they can better be trusted with the common well, and the common wealth.
America can be a generator of healing. Healing ourselves and the world on many levels, none of which entail surgical strikes or Shock and Awe.
Help is on the way. If Bush were a good man, he would step out of the way.
Please. You cried when you left Crawford.
Be happy. Go home.
Merger For Rival RSS/ATOM Formats?
Merger For Rival RSS/ATOM Formats?
Which content syndication camp are you in? RSS (define) or Atom?
Actually, if a new proposal by the co-author of the popular RSS (define) format catches on, it won't matter; both would merge into one protocol under a new proposal, a move that could nip the argument over the competing formats in the bud.
Dave Winer's proposal
Which content syndication camp are you in? RSS (define) or Atom?
Actually, if a new proposal by the co-author of the popular RSS (define) format catches on, it won't matter; both would merge into one protocol under a new proposal, a move that could nip the argument over the competing formats in the bud.
Dave Winer's proposal
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
"What would Dubya Do?" : The new game that proves George ain't Jesus
"What would Dubya Do?" : The new game that proves George ain't Jesus
We, at Anonymoses Humor o' Seriousness Corporation, have come up with yet another mind-blogglingly groovy new game to add to the cesspool of Human Achievement.
This one is almost too easy to play. Even feti can do it.
Alls ya do is ask a question that might have been asked Jesus. Or imagine you have a chance to ask Jesus a question.
Then imagine what George W. Bush would, in all earnest, say.
For example:
Q. Dear Jesus. What should we do? Our country is running out of oil, but there are more than few weak countries whose asses we could kick and steal their oil. Should we?
A. Been there. Done that... Who?
As the game is not proprietary, at least on our part, is is perfectly fine, in fact encouraged that you, so to say, make it your own, dawg.
END OF TRANSMISSION
We, at Anonymoses Humor o' Seriousness Corporation, have come up with yet another mind-blogglingly groovy new game to add to the cesspool of Human Achievement.
This one is almost too easy to play. Even feti can do it.
Alls ya do is ask a question that might have been asked Jesus. Or imagine you have a chance to ask Jesus a question.
Then imagine what George W. Bush would, in all earnest, say.
For example:
Q. Dear Jesus. What should we do? Our country is running out of oil, but there are more than few weak countries whose asses we could kick and steal their oil. Should we?
A. Been there. Done that... Who?
As the game is not proprietary, at least on our part, is is perfectly fine, in fact encouraged that you, so to say, make it your own, dawg.
END OF TRANSMISSION
Hummus of the Duchess
Hummus of the Duchess
Forget Hummers. Hummus is what is important.
Now Charlene over at Duchess Journal has shared her famous recipe.
(You'll need to go to the site to learn the procedure for proper preparation)
BEST EVER HUMMUS [Yep, this is the recipe I've been talking about in my "personal news" updates. Bon Appetit!]
Ingredients:
2 cups Garbanzo Beans [canned Chickpeas is fine]
1/3 cup Garbanzo liquid or water
1/4 cup Sesame Tahini
1/4 cup fresh Lemon Juice of two lemons
4 cloves of garlic [crushed or whole]
1 tbsp Olive Oil
I'd like to suggest adding a touch of Cumin. Such a noble and ancient spice can hardly find a better home.
Forget Hummers. Hummus is what is important.
Now Charlene over at Duchess Journal has shared her famous recipe.
(You'll need to go to the site to learn the procedure for proper preparation)
BEST EVER HUMMUS [Yep, this is the recipe I've been talking about in my "personal news" updates. Bon Appetit!]
Ingredients:
2 cups Garbanzo Beans [canned Chickpeas is fine]
1/3 cup Garbanzo liquid or water
1/4 cup Sesame Tahini
1/4 cup fresh Lemon Juice of two lemons
4 cloves of garlic [crushed or whole]
1 tbsp Olive Oil
I'd like to suggest adding a touch of Cumin. Such a noble and ancient spice can hardly find a better home.
Bush's "means justifies the ends" Crusade
Bush's "means justifies the ends" Crusade
Every Christian knows, deep down, that Bush's policies are a far cry from what Jesus would do...
Rense.com has an enlightening take on the matter, in their article called, "Laughter of the Gods".
EXCERPT
The more I look at the chaotic mess George W. Bush is making in every blessed corner of the world, the more I am inclined to take a closer look at the God in whose name he claims to be making it.
Just who IS this God that chats up brazen hypocrites and zealots in our midst -- whipping them into a frenzy of pharisaic attempts to strangle democracy at home and abroad? This awesome creature is on a murderous rampage in the Middle East, Africa, South America and -- as Donald Rumsfeld would say -- east, west, north and south somewhat. Armed and jackbooted, Bush's flinty-hearted Diety bears no resemblance to the compassionate and forgiving God in whom Christians have put their faith for more than two millenia.
More and more innocents are being herded onto the world's killing fields by the deliberate actions of a Christian nation -- in the name of its Christian God. What blasphemy! If Christians are unable to recognize the difference between good and evil; if they cannot see that those we crush under our heel are also God's creation -- then all those hours spent in Sunday School, church services, summer camp and "all day singing and dinner on the grounds" picnics were a sorry waste of time. The nature of a man is revealed by the company he keeps. Those who preach that maiming and killing terrified men, women and children is "God's will" -- who cover up the slaughter of their own citizens and who topple other regimes by force or farce -- are evil men who cavort with evil gods. And every single Christian in this country knows it.
Every Christian knows, deep down, that Bush's policies are a far cry from what Jesus would do...
Rense.com has an enlightening take on the matter, in their article called, "Laughter of the Gods".
EXCERPT
The more I look at the chaotic mess George W. Bush is making in every blessed corner of the world, the more I am inclined to take a closer look at the God in whose name he claims to be making it.
Just who IS this God that chats up brazen hypocrites and zealots in our midst -- whipping them into a frenzy of pharisaic attempts to strangle democracy at home and abroad? This awesome creature is on a murderous rampage in the Middle East, Africa, South America and -- as Donald Rumsfeld would say -- east, west, north and south somewhat. Armed and jackbooted, Bush's flinty-hearted Diety bears no resemblance to the compassionate and forgiving God in whom Christians have put their faith for more than two millenia.
More and more innocents are being herded onto the world's killing fields by the deliberate actions of a Christian nation -- in the name of its Christian God. What blasphemy! If Christians are unable to recognize the difference between good and evil; if they cannot see that those we crush under our heel are also God's creation -- then all those hours spent in Sunday School, church services, summer camp and "all day singing and dinner on the grounds" picnics were a sorry waste of time. The nature of a man is revealed by the company he keeps. Those who preach that maiming and killing terrified men, women and children is "God's will" -- who cover up the slaughter of their own citizens and who topple other regimes by force or farce -- are evil men who cavort with evil gods. And every single Christian in this country knows it.
Fresh News and Insight at The Rational Liberal
Fresh News and Insight at The Rational Liberal
Rising star, Jude Nagurney Camwell, leads you through the maze of American politics with felicity and great insight.
Rising star, Jude Nagurney Camwell, leads you through the maze of American politics with felicity and great insight.
FactCheck.org: Puncturing a Republican Tax Fable
FactCheck.org Puncturing a Republican Tax Fable: "GOP fact-twisters claim 80% of the tax relief given to the rich goes to job-creating small businesses. Don’t believe it."
Stay the course? Americans say Phooey!
Stay the course? Americans say Phooey!
Perhaps the worst news for Bush and the Republicans was a question in the Washington Post-ABC survey (1,202 adults, Thursday-Sunday) that asked: "Which of these two statements comes closest to your own views: A. After four years of George W. Bush, we need to elect a president who can set the nation in a new direction. B. We need to keep the country moving in the direction Bush has taken us." Same direction got 41 percent, new direction 57 percent. Two percent, bless their indecisive hearts, expressed no opinion.
That is the type of Bush-specific finding that defies malinterpretation by the wiliest of White House spinmeisters. A clear majority of Americans say (at least at the moment) that they are looking for something different. It is one growing deficit the administration will kiss off at its peril. It is a finding that does not meld well with the overarching Bush campaign themes of steadiness and staying the course. What if the course is one on which Americans do not wish to stay?
Perhaps the worst news for Bush and the Republicans was a question in the Washington Post-ABC survey (1,202 adults, Thursday-Sunday) that asked: "Which of these two statements comes closest to your own views: A. After four years of George W. Bush, we need to elect a president who can set the nation in a new direction. B. We need to keep the country moving in the direction Bush has taken us." Same direction got 41 percent, new direction 57 percent. Two percent, bless their indecisive hearts, expressed no opinion.
That is the type of Bush-specific finding that defies malinterpretation by the wiliest of White House spinmeisters. A clear majority of Americans say (at least at the moment) that they are looking for something different. It is one growing deficit the administration will kiss off at its peril. It is a finding that does not meld well with the overarching Bush campaign themes of steadiness and staying the course. What if the course is one on which Americans do not wish to stay?
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Anonymoses Presents: People I think I'd like.
Anonymoses Presents: People I think I'd like.
This will be an exercise in free association...
Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, John Malkovich, Gary Sinese, Beck, Jeff Beck, David Beckham, Colin Firth, Peter Gabriel, Peter Brook, Peter Pan, Patty Pan, Patter Poon, Prune Tang (no, that's a drink I'd like to see), Gary Tang, Mel Brooks, Louise Brooks, David Brooks, Clara Bow, David Bowie, David Boies, David Byrne, David Brancaccio, David Bianculli, Spalding Gray, Chadwick Gray, Wilson!, Robert Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson, Phillip Glass, Tim Robbins, Ton Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Gore Vidal, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Rep. Jim Leach, Cary Grant, Grant Tinker, Tinker Bell, Lee Grant, Robert E. Lee, Lao T'se, Gautama, Jesus, Mohammed, Mohammed Ali, Socrates, King Wen, The Duke of Chou, Paramahansa Yogananda, Jon Anderson, Robert Fripp, Gurdjieff, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Idries Shah, Jallaluddin Rumi, Coleman Barks, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Al Franken, Michael Moore, Rep. Lincoln Chaffee, Senator John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean, John Kerry, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Truthaddict Louis, Zhoodah, Zarah, Zarathustra, Neitzsche, Schopenhauer, Willard Quine, Sophie Freud Lowenstein, Alexander Theroux, Olivia DeHaviland, Audrey Hepburn, Juliet Binoche, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Whoopie Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Beckwourth, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Jerry Brown, Linda Ronstadt, Roberta Flack, Joan Armatrading, Joan Shenendoah, Norah Jones, Woody Allen, Ravi Shankar, Steve Reich, Robert Reich, Jeremiah, Baruch, Tia Tephi, William Shakespeare, Taliesin, Mary Magdalene, Mary Tyler Moore, Sherri Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Orson Welles, Orson Bean, Mr. Bean, Dziga Vertov, Tristan Tsara, Salvadore Dali, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Sergei Eisenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Baruch Spinoza, Henri Bergson, Fyodor Dostoyevskii, Yevtushenko, Steven Biko, Desmond Tutu, Kafe Annan, Dag Hamerskold, John, John-John, Jackie Kennedy, Robert Benchley, Red Skelton, Drew Barrymore, John Barrymore, The Beatles, Diane Rehm, Jim Lehrer, Bill Moyers, Daniel Schorr, Howard Rheingold, Stewart Brand, David Holtzman, Bob Dobbs, Moby K. Dick, Martha Loofa, Martha Graham, Twyla Tharp, John Cage, Bucky Fuller, Thom Yorke, Clare Short, Mayor Livingston, Tamara Beckwith, John Barth, T.C. Boyle, Pagan Kennedy, Johnny Depp, Walter Cronkhite, Edward R. Murrow
This will be an exercise in free association...
Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, John Malkovich, Gary Sinese, Beck, Jeff Beck, David Beckham, Colin Firth, Peter Gabriel, Peter Brook, Peter Pan, Patty Pan, Patter Poon, Prune Tang (no, that's a drink I'd like to see), Gary Tang, Mel Brooks, Louise Brooks, David Brooks, Clara Bow, David Bowie, David Boies, David Byrne, David Brancaccio, David Bianculli, Spalding Gray, Chadwick Gray, Wilson!, Robert Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson, Phillip Glass, Tim Robbins, Ton Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Gore Vidal, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Rep. Jim Leach, Cary Grant, Grant Tinker, Tinker Bell, Lee Grant, Robert E. Lee, Lao T'se, Gautama, Jesus, Mohammed, Mohammed Ali, Socrates, King Wen, The Duke of Chou, Paramahansa Yogananda, Jon Anderson, Robert Fripp, Gurdjieff, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Idries Shah, Jallaluddin Rumi, Coleman Barks, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Al Franken, Michael Moore, Rep. Lincoln Chaffee, Senator John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean, John Kerry, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Truthaddict Louis, Zhoodah, Zarah, Zarathustra, Neitzsche, Schopenhauer, Willard Quine, Sophie Freud Lowenstein, Alexander Theroux, Olivia DeHaviland, Audrey Hepburn, Juliet Binoche, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Whoopie Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Beckwourth, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Jerry Brown, Linda Ronstadt, Roberta Flack, Joan Armatrading, Joan Shenendoah, Norah Jones, Woody Allen, Ravi Shankar, Steve Reich, Robert Reich, Jeremiah, Baruch, Tia Tephi, William Shakespeare, Taliesin, Mary Magdalene, Mary Tyler Moore, Sherri Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Orson Welles, Orson Bean, Mr. Bean, Dziga Vertov, Tristan Tsara, Salvadore Dali, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Sergei Eisenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Baruch Spinoza, Henri Bergson, Fyodor Dostoyevskii, Yevtushenko, Steven Biko, Desmond Tutu, Kafe Annan, Dag Hamerskold, John, John-John, Jackie Kennedy, Robert Benchley, Red Skelton, Drew Barrymore, John Barrymore, The Beatles, Diane Rehm, Jim Lehrer, Bill Moyers, Daniel Schorr, Howard Rheingold, Stewart Brand, David Holtzman, Bob Dobbs, Moby K. Dick, Martha Loofa, Martha Graham, Twyla Tharp, John Cage, Bucky Fuller, Thom Yorke, Clare Short, Mayor Livingston, Tamara Beckwith, John Barth, T.C. Boyle, Pagan Kennedy, Johnny Depp, Walter Cronkhite, Edward R. Murrow
Where is Martin Luther Queen?
Where is Martin Luther Queen?
When will a powerful voice among the Gay community step forward and seize the moment and microphone...and rally those who are NOT Gay to rally to the cause of their diminishing civil liberties? What made ML King great was not that he could rally his own...which he did in great number. He was able to rally non-blacks to his cause.
Everyone knows or is related to a Gay person, if not several. And most people probably feel that they deserve to have the same rights as everybody else. What is needed is a good articulator, and one who can bring supporters out of the shadows. Just as with the blacks during King's time, there are still those who, for whatever reason, are embarrassed or ashamed to be seen in a group of Gay people...perhaps for fear that they will be considered Gay themselves.
There is a time for flambouyance, but there is also a time for the wearing of standardwear...you know..jeans and tee-shirts.
Where is Martin Luther Queen? It is time to come forward and state your case. This is the election that, for good or ill, has landed on your doorstep. Remember King's nobility, and approach the mike. Your time is now.
Must we wait until you have your "I've got a speech" dream?
When will a powerful voice among the Gay community step forward and seize the moment and microphone...and rally those who are NOT Gay to rally to the cause of their diminishing civil liberties? What made ML King great was not that he could rally his own...which he did in great number. He was able to rally non-blacks to his cause.
Everyone knows or is related to a Gay person, if not several. And most people probably feel that they deserve to have the same rights as everybody else. What is needed is a good articulator, and one who can bring supporters out of the shadows. Just as with the blacks during King's time, there are still those who, for whatever reason, are embarrassed or ashamed to be seen in a group of Gay people...perhaps for fear that they will be considered Gay themselves.
There is a time for flambouyance, but there is also a time for the wearing of standardwear...you know..jeans and tee-shirts.
Where is Martin Luther Queen? It is time to come forward and state your case. This is the election that, for good or ill, has landed on your doorstep. Remember King's nobility, and approach the mike. Your time is now.
Must we wait until you have your "I've got a speech" dream?
Monday, March 08, 2004
George W. Bush: Less than Zero
George W. Bush: Less than Zero
It fascinates me to consider how stupid those who voted for Dubya must feel, after 3 years of innanely stupid moves, pussilanimous hiding, staged speeches, faltering jobs, diminishing respect, ecological abuse, financial plunder, and lie after lie of this mere puppet of a man, whom Laura is probably embarrassed to call husband. Less, indeed, than zero.
Do I sound harsh? Well, listen to the 24/7 tripe spewing from the radios, and tell me it is somehow unique. One tries to carry on a gentlemanly conversation, but there is just so much vitriol. What is one to do? Roll over and play dumb?
Is it that George can get away with anything but a sexual liasson?
What if a blue dress were to appear, with Bush's, er, excitement, upon it? Would that signal the end of Bush? An impeachment...led by freepers? Or would that too be ignored, glossed over, like Arnold's gropings?
Who are the hypocrites?
I think you know...
It fascinates me to consider how stupid those who voted for Dubya must feel, after 3 years of innanely stupid moves, pussilanimous hiding, staged speeches, faltering jobs, diminishing respect, ecological abuse, financial plunder, and lie after lie of this mere puppet of a man, whom Laura is probably embarrassed to call husband. Less, indeed, than zero.
Do I sound harsh? Well, listen to the 24/7 tripe spewing from the radios, and tell me it is somehow unique. One tries to carry on a gentlemanly conversation, but there is just so much vitriol. What is one to do? Roll over and play dumb?
Is it that George can get away with anything but a sexual liasson?
What if a blue dress were to appear, with Bush's, er, excitement, upon it? Would that signal the end of Bush? An impeachment...led by freepers? Or would that too be ignored, glossed over, like Arnold's gropings?
Who are the hypocrites?
I think you know...
Saturday, March 06, 2004
More on Bush's shameful Coup D'etat in Haiti
More on Bush's shameful Coup D'etat in Haiti: Guns smuggled from South Florida arming Haitians
An interview with Ira Kurzban, Aristide's lawyer
Ira Kurzban (Ira): Let me be clear that this is not a rebellion. This was a coup d’etat. It was a coup d’etat directed by, operated by, and equipped by the United States intelligence services...
An interview with Ira Kurzban, Aristide's lawyer
Ira Kurzban (Ira): Let me be clear that this is not a rebellion. This was a coup d’etat. It was a coup d’etat directed by, operated by, and equipped by the United States intelligence services...
No, Harold Lloyd is not Anonymoses
A photo of Harold Lloyd, not Anonymoses
Granted, I did look a bit like this in my college days, and I do have Lloyds in my ancestry, but to my knowledge this is a picture of screen comic, Harold Lloyd, and not me.
Sorry to disappoint. I do, however, often feel like I am falling, but suspect it is simply Weltschmertz brought on by BushWorld.
Ohio gentleman quits the Republicans, vows to vote for Edwards
Why I’m quitting the Republican party ... an Advocate.com exclusive
Welcome aboard, friend! May your decision ripple throughout the land...and bring kindred spirits in their wake.
Welcome aboard, friend! May your decision ripple throughout the land...and bring kindred spirits in their wake.
2 lucky people are promised jobs in Bush's economic "recovery"
Bush's Economic Indicator: 2 New Jobs (washingtonpost.com)
Someone take this man to an asylum. He has completely lost it now.
When a stooge at one of his "planned spontaneity" events said he might be able to put 2 new people to work, George W. Bush saw this as proof of his prowess as an economic generator.
The only 2 new jobs that are necessary to make a real change in the economic climate are those of John Kerry and his running mate.
Unemploy Bush. Let him see how it feels to be today's American.
Someone take this man to an asylum. He has completely lost it now.
When a stooge at one of his "planned spontaneity" events said he might be able to put 2 new people to work, George W. Bush saw this as proof of his prowess as an economic generator.
The only 2 new jobs that are necessary to make a real change in the economic climate are those of John Kerry and his running mate.
Unemploy Bush. Let him see how it feels to be today's American.
Republicans stole 4000+ pages of Democratic documents over a period of 18 months
Republicans stole 4000+ pages of Democratic documents over a period of 18 months
"A 65-page report by the Senate Judiciary Committee concludes that Orrin Hatch's senior counsel Manuel Miranda, and other Republican staffers, stole 4000+ pages of Democratic documents over a period of 18 months. Though Hatch says he's 'mortified,' his heartfelt defense of privacy rings hollow after MoveOn.org found that both Hatch and Miranda had appeared several times with obscure right-wing radio show host Kay Daly, as little as a week before she became the first to leak the memos to the public. "
"A 65-page report by the Senate Judiciary Committee concludes that Orrin Hatch's senior counsel Manuel Miranda, and other Republican staffers, stole 4000+ pages of Democratic documents over a period of 18 months. Though Hatch says he's 'mortified,' his heartfelt defense of privacy rings hollow after MoveOn.org found that both Hatch and Miranda had appeared several times with obscure right-wing radio show host Kay Daly, as little as a week before she became the first to leak the memos to the public. "
China plans to create nine million jobs in 2004 - Ni hui shuo zhongwen ma?
Channelnewsasia.com: "China plans to create nine million jobs in 2004 "
Thanks to iddybud for showing how pisspoor George is doing. What a contrast!
Thanks to iddybud for showing how pisspoor George is doing. What a contrast!
NewsMax's Season of Silliness
NewsMax's Season of Silliness: "All that respectability NewsMax has been aiming for of late seems to be going out the window. It's returning to the journalistically slack, hyper-partisan silliness we've all come to know and love. "
Plamegate: Air Force One Phone Records Subpoenaed
Plamegate: Air Force One Phone Records Subpoenaed
Grand jury to review call logs from Bush’s jet in probe of how a CIA agent’s cover was blown
Grand jury to review call logs from Bush’s jet in probe of how a CIA agent’s cover was blown
Campaign to stop the war profiteers
The Institute for Southern Studies
Join the Campaign to
STOP THE WAR PROFITEERS
AND END THE CORPORATE INVASION OF IRAQ
EXCERPT:
A handful of well-connected corporations are poised to make billions in profits off the death and destruction of war in Iraq.
Merchants of misery like Bechtel, Halliburton, MCI and others — many with scandal-ridden records — are raking in massive profits through insider “reconstruction” contracts. Other multinationals are leading a “second invasion” of corporate interests seeking to seize control of Iraq’s oil, water and other resources — resources that belong to the Iraqi people.
It’s time to stop the war profiteers and corporate looters of Iraq. Join Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, United for Peace and Justice, Veterans for Peace, and others in the campaign today!
Join the Campaign to
STOP THE WAR PROFITEERS
AND END THE CORPORATE INVASION OF IRAQ
EXCERPT:
A handful of well-connected corporations are poised to make billions in profits off the death and destruction of war in Iraq.
Merchants of misery like Bechtel, Halliburton, MCI and others — many with scandal-ridden records — are raking in massive profits through insider “reconstruction” contracts. Other multinationals are leading a “second invasion” of corporate interests seeking to seize control of Iraq’s oil, water and other resources — resources that belong to the Iraqi people.
It’s time to stop the war profiteers and corporate looters of Iraq. Join Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, United for Peace and Justice, Veterans for Peace, and others in the campaign today!
"basic tactics of the war profiteer – over-charging, cutting corners, and seeking to conceal the truth "
The Institute for Southern Studies
"MAKING A KILLING: The New War Profiteers"
From the winter 2003/2004 issue of Southern Exposure, the award-winning magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies
the basic tactics of the war profiteer – over-charging, cutting corners, and seeking to conceal the truth about what is going on – remain familiar. Indeed, the Bush administration’s open policy of connecting the Iraq military operation to economic goals of controlling the country's oil, water and other key resources and industries has drawn charges that the U.S. is engaging in that most elemental form of war profiteering: plunder.
"MAKING A KILLING: The New War Profiteers"
From the winter 2003/2004 issue of Southern Exposure, the award-winning magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies
the basic tactics of the war profiteer – over-charging, cutting corners, and seeking to conceal the truth about what is going on – remain familiar. Indeed, the Bush administration’s open policy of connecting the Iraq military operation to economic goals of controlling the country's oil, water and other key resources and industries has drawn charges that the U.S. is engaging in that most elemental form of war profiteering: plunder.
BartCop's most recent rants - excerpts
BartCop's most recent rants
There are seven sins in the world:
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle.'
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Karl Rove has modeled the Bush presidency on that of William McKinley (1897-1901)
and modeled himself on Mark Hanna, the man who virtually manufactured McKinley.
Mark Hanna saw to it that Washington was ruled by business, railroads, and public utility corporations."
--Bill Moyers, who the Freepers got fired from PBS
"I support a Constitutional Amendment to define 'marriage'" as it is in the Bible.
Multiple wives and huge dowries. If we're going to have laws based on religion, let's do it right.
-- Baron Dave
There are seven sins in the world:
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle.'
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Karl Rove has modeled the Bush presidency on that of William McKinley (1897-1901)
and modeled himself on Mark Hanna, the man who virtually manufactured McKinley.
Mark Hanna saw to it that Washington was ruled by business, railroads, and public utility corporations."
--Bill Moyers, who the Freepers got fired from PBS
"I support a Constitutional Amendment to define 'marriage'" as it is in the Bible.
Multiple wives and huge dowries. If we're going to have laws based on religion, let's do it right.
-- Baron Dave
Friday, March 05, 2004
How Godless Moneywhores Behave: Screw things up, then charge to fix it.
In These Times | War Profiteering and You
So the vice president’s former employer’s been in the news a lot lately. Bilking the U.S. government for millions in Kuwaiti oil imports to Iraq, turning the other way as employees take bribes, overcharging the Army for food served in mess halls.
It's the old "Screw things up, then charge to fix it". Infra dig. At least for those who still have integrity and a working conscience...
So the vice president’s former employer’s been in the news a lot lately. Bilking the U.S. government for millions in Kuwaiti oil imports to Iraq, turning the other way as employees take bribes, overcharging the Army for food served in mess halls.
It's the old "Screw things up, then charge to fix it". Infra dig. At least for those who still have integrity and a working conscience...
Short Takes: News From All Over - Utne Reader
Short Takes: News From All Over (Articles) Staff
Featuring:
-US Plans to Move Military Bases From Saudi Arabia to Iraq
-Blogging While Anti-Black
-Appropriating the Internet for Global Activism
-The Hispanic Challenge
-The Web's Wildest Art Site?
The Web's Wildest Art Site?
Click on the little Pokemon monster and the screen switches to an odd assemblage of pipes that disappear one by one as your cursor touches them. Click on the oval radiator shapes and a black-and- white animated photo appears of a little girl clutching an odd teddy bear. Click on that and get a muscleman flexing...and on and on into the wild, interactive, and constantly altered art world of Ben Benjamin and his site, Superbad. It's surreal eye candy for the tireless mouse manipulator. -- JS
http://www.superbad.com/
Featuring:
-US Plans to Move Military Bases From Saudi Arabia to Iraq
-Blogging While Anti-Black
-Appropriating the Internet for Global Activism
-The Hispanic Challenge
-The Web's Wildest Art Site?
The Web's Wildest Art Site?
Click on the little Pokemon monster and the screen switches to an odd assemblage of pipes that disappear one by one as your cursor touches them. Click on the oval radiator shapes and a black-and- white animated photo appears of a little girl clutching an odd teddy bear. Click on that and get a muscleman flexing...and on and on into the wild, interactive, and constantly altered art world of Ben Benjamin and his site, Superbad. It's surreal eye candy for the tireless mouse manipulator. -- JS
http://www.superbad.com/
Do Presidents Really Affect the Economy?
TAP: Web Feature: Econ Chamber. by Jared Bernstein and Lawrence Mishel. March 5, 2004.:
"Do Presidents Really Affect the Economy? "
"Do Presidents Really Affect the Economy? "
"Comcast is the Wal-Mart of the telecommunications industry"
TOMPAINE.com - Taking The Low Road: "Comcast is the Wal-Mart of the telecommunications industry: workers have no pensions, their wages and benefits are $16,000 lower than a comparable worker in the telecommunications industry and they have to pay more than $100 a month for family health care coverage, according to an analysis by the Communications Workers of America. "
Documents prove that Bush ignored his commitment to the United States military
Documents prove that Bush ignored his commitment to the United States military: "Documents prove that Bush ignored his commitment to the United States military"
Where was George?
Where was George?
Is Bush's hateability going to be an election year issue?
I should start out by saying that I do not hate Mister Bush.
But I'm not going to.
Instead I'm going to say why I love the man.
He is one of God's children.
With emphasis on the children part.
Were he mature, he would have outgrown what we adults call "his ego".
He hasn't. And because he hasn't, he come across as a feller who is still locked in his frat years. His values have yet to show any simulacrum of evolution. But then again...they don't believe in evolution.
I do not hate Mister Bush. OK...I said it, and mean it. But I do wish he would attain cosmic consciousness already. What on earth is he waiting for?
Many are not so kind as yours truly. And many people, the world over, actually hate the man. And this hateability might well become an issue this year, if it hasn't already.
God-willing, Mister Bush will at least try to snap to, and give Senator Kerry at least the appearance of a challenge. But Kerry, as they say, has a "likeability problem", as if being likeable were a bad thing. At least he doesn't have a "hateability problem". Much more severe.
But I would suggest to Mister Bush that he stop himself from hating, and then his own bad karma might follow suit.
It's all so confusing sometimes.
Don't hate.
Just make Bush the Baseball Commissioner.
And leave mature problems to mature people.
But I'm not going to.
Instead I'm going to say why I love the man.
He is one of God's children.
With emphasis on the children part.
Were he mature, he would have outgrown what we adults call "his ego".
He hasn't. And because he hasn't, he come across as a feller who is still locked in his frat years. His values have yet to show any simulacrum of evolution. But then again...they don't believe in evolution.
I do not hate Mister Bush. OK...I said it, and mean it. But I do wish he would attain cosmic consciousness already. What on earth is he waiting for?
Many are not so kind as yours truly. And many people, the world over, actually hate the man. And this hateability might well become an issue this year, if it hasn't already.
God-willing, Mister Bush will at least try to snap to, and give Senator Kerry at least the appearance of a challenge. But Kerry, as they say, has a "likeability problem", as if being likeable were a bad thing. At least he doesn't have a "hateability problem". Much more severe.
But I would suggest to Mister Bush that he stop himself from hating, and then his own bad karma might follow suit.
It's all so confusing sometimes.
Don't hate.
Just make Bush the Baseball Commissioner.
And leave mature problems to mature people.
Gay W. Bush: 1 - 7 of about 16
Google Search: "Gay W. Bush"
For the last time...George W. Bush is not gay. How could he be? He is a married man, and thus there had to be someone from a different sex involved. The whispering campaign is nothing but that. Do not believe yours ears. He is married, and he is also said to be a president or something. and one cannot be either and be gay. Sheer craziness I tell you. Don't believe your ears!
For the last time...George W. Bush is not gay. How could he be? He is a married man, and thus there had to be someone from a different sex involved. The whispering campaign is nothing but that. Do not believe yours ears. He is married, and he is also said to be a president or something. and one cannot be either and be gay. Sheer craziness I tell you. Don't believe your ears!
What's going on with the Bushes and the World
Democrats.com - Connecting dot com Democrats
Some of what you should know...
AP Features the First Bogus Corporate Poll of the Election Season
Right on cue, within 48 hours of Bush's official launching of his campaign, AP (American Propaganda), released its first trumped up poll.
International Suspicion and Anger Directed at Bush Grows in Wake of Haiti Coup
...if Mr Aristide had been prised from power against his will, it would have 'serious consequences and ramifications for the respect of the rule of law and democracy the world over.
Bush Manipulating the Strategic Oil Reserves for Corporate Gain
Guess who benefits on this deal? Yep! His pals in the oil industry.
World and US Differ Dramatically in View of Bush, Thanks to Our Media
...a whopping 60% to 90% of people in several countries see Bush as having a negative role in world affairs, 57% of Americans say they think Bush has a positive role. Why do they think that? Because the US media WANTS them to think that...
GOP National Committee Caught Laundering At Least $250,000 in Illegal Donations from Fannie Mae
...a quarter-million-dollar case of GOP fraud is being tucked into the news background with euphemistic titles like 'RNC Pays FEC Fine' instead of 'RNC Siphons $250,000 in Illegal Funds from Federal Loan Company.'
Some of what you should know...
AP Features the First Bogus Corporate Poll of the Election Season
Right on cue, within 48 hours of Bush's official launching of his campaign, AP (American Propaganda), released its first trumped up poll.
International Suspicion and Anger Directed at Bush Grows in Wake of Haiti Coup
...if Mr Aristide had been prised from power against his will, it would have 'serious consequences and ramifications for the respect of the rule of law and democracy the world over.
Bush Manipulating the Strategic Oil Reserves for Corporate Gain
Guess who benefits on this deal? Yep! His pals in the oil industry.
World and US Differ Dramatically in View of Bush, Thanks to Our Media
...a whopping 60% to 90% of people in several countries see Bush as having a negative role in world affairs, 57% of Americans say they think Bush has a positive role. Why do they think that? Because the US media WANTS them to think that...
GOP National Committee Caught Laundering At Least $250,000 in Illegal Donations from Fannie Mae
...a quarter-million-dollar case of GOP fraud is being tucked into the news background with euphemistic titles like 'RNC Pays FEC Fine' instead of 'RNC Siphons $250,000 in Illegal Funds from Federal Loan Company.'
Alan Greenspan: The World's Most Duplicitous Man
Greenspan's Con Job
From THE NATION and William Greider:
It is not exactly that he lies, but Alan Greenspan certainly ranks among the most duplicitous figures to serve in modern American government. Using his exalted status as economic wizard, the Federal Reserve chairman regularly corrupts the political dialogue by sowing outrageously false impressions among gullible members of Congress and adoring financial reporters. These distortions are not harmless; they become solemn writ for lawmakers and opinionmongers. Greenspan is especially destructive when he opines on public matters outside his supposed expertise as a central banker. His thinking is still anchored by Ayn Rand's brittle social philosophy: Let the strong prevail, let the weak pay for their weakness.
From THE NATION and William Greider:
It is not exactly that he lies, but Alan Greenspan certainly ranks among the most duplicitous figures to serve in modern American government. Using his exalted status as economic wizard, the Federal Reserve chairman regularly corrupts the political dialogue by sowing outrageously false impressions among gullible members of Congress and adoring financial reporters. These distortions are not harmless; they become solemn writ for lawmakers and opinionmongers. Greenspan is especially destructive when he opines on public matters outside his supposed expertise as a central banker. His thinking is still anchored by Ayn Rand's brittle social philosophy: Let the strong prevail, let the weak pay for their weakness.
Why Haiti was a Coup D'Etat
Coup in Haiti
From THE NATION article:
What happened in Haiti was a coup d'état, and it's almost funny to hear Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and Scott McClellan call that claim "absurd" and "nonsense." The coup didn't come in one fell strike, which fact camouflaged it for a time; we're used to a coup being a coup--which means a cut or blow in French--something sudden. But the coup against Aristide, and by extension against the Haitian people, was prolonged, a chronic coup. It began when Aristide was first elected at the end of 1990 and continued right up until he was hustled aboard a plane and flown to what he was told would be a place of his choice but that turned out to be the former homeland of fabled killer and diamond collector Jean-Bédel Bokassa, a country where, according to the CIA country report available on the web, a ten-year elected civilian government was recently replaced by a military coup d'état. Sound familiar?
One thing about coups: They don't just happen. In a country like Haiti, where the military has been disbanded for nearly a decade, soldiers don't simply emerge from the underbrush; they have to be reorganized, retrained and resupplied. And of course, for something to be organized, someone has to organize it. At the end of the 1700s when heroic fighters like Henry Christophe, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Toussaint L'Ouverture joined forces to overthrow the French planters, they did it in a fashion quite similar to these latter-day brigands. Driving into one city after another with sabers drawn, burning and looting and seizing control, they took the north and then moved southward. Even then, with their scant means of communication, they planned it, they organized it. And they too had help from abroad--from the Americans, in fact.
In the current coup, there are several players. There is the disgruntled former Haitian army (an institution with a violent and unpalatable recent history), which has been wielded many times in the service of coups d'état, often subsidized by its masters, the elite of Haiti. The elite, too, had their hand in this coup--it's hard to believe in this day and age, but they must be called the entrenched class enemies of the Haitian people. There is "a growing enthusiasm among businessmen to use the rebels as a security force," said a news report from the Los Angeles Times after the remnants of the Haitian army that helped engineer the coup descended on the capital. "[The businessmen] welcomed the rebels."
From THE NATION article:
What happened in Haiti was a coup d'état, and it's almost funny to hear Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and Scott McClellan call that claim "absurd" and "nonsense." The coup didn't come in one fell strike, which fact camouflaged it for a time; we're used to a coup being a coup--which means a cut or blow in French--something sudden. But the coup against Aristide, and by extension against the Haitian people, was prolonged, a chronic coup. It began when Aristide was first elected at the end of 1990 and continued right up until he was hustled aboard a plane and flown to what he was told would be a place of his choice but that turned out to be the former homeland of fabled killer and diamond collector Jean-Bédel Bokassa, a country where, according to the CIA country report available on the web, a ten-year elected civilian government was recently replaced by a military coup d'état. Sound familiar?
One thing about coups: They don't just happen. In a country like Haiti, where the military has been disbanded for nearly a decade, soldiers don't simply emerge from the underbrush; they have to be reorganized, retrained and resupplied. And of course, for something to be organized, someone has to organize it. At the end of the 1700s when heroic fighters like Henry Christophe, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Toussaint L'Ouverture joined forces to overthrow the French planters, they did it in a fashion quite similar to these latter-day brigands. Driving into one city after another with sabers drawn, burning and looting and seizing control, they took the north and then moved southward. Even then, with their scant means of communication, they planned it, they organized it. And they too had help from abroad--from the Americans, in fact.
In the current coup, there are several players. There is the disgruntled former Haitian army (an institution with a violent and unpalatable recent history), which has been wielded many times in the service of coups d'état, often subsidized by its masters, the elite of Haiti. The elite, too, had their hand in this coup--it's hard to believe in this day and age, but they must be called the entrenched class enemies of the Haitian people. There is "a growing enthusiasm among businessmen to use the rebels as a security force," said a news report from the Los Angeles Times after the remnants of the Haitian army that helped engineer the coup descended on the capital. "[The businessmen] welcomed the rebels."
Glenn blasts Bush's space exploration plan
HoustonChronicle.com - Glenn blasts Bush's space exploration plan: "CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- U.S. space pioneer John Glenn said today that President Bush's space exploration plan 'pulls the rug out from under our scientists' and might waste too much money to ever put astronauts on Mars. "
Edwards' message will stay with Dems
WorkingForChange-Edwards' message will stay with Dems:
"Edwards was a pioneer in explaining what President Bush's tax policies mean: a transfer of the burden of taxation from 'wealth' to 'work.' "
"Edwards was a pioneer in explaining what President Bush's tax policies mean: a transfer of the burden of taxation from 'wealth' to 'work.' "
Soaring gas prices give gas-guzzlers an added boost of prestige
Yahoo! News - U.S. sees cause for concern over gas
Hummerers delight! Now people think you are REALLY loaded, now that Bush's gas miracles are creating even higher prices. And you can even take some responsibility in the soaring prices!
How responsible you are! We walkers think you are just the cat's meow!
Not so much that we want to be like you, but you do provide a needed spectacle in the Bush-led ennui we are yawning through...
Hummerers delight! Now people think you are REALLY loaded, now that Bush's gas miracles are creating even higher prices. And you can even take some responsibility in the soaring prices!
How responsible you are! We walkers think you are just the cat's meow!
Not so much that we want to be like you, but you do provide a needed spectacle in the Bush-led ennui we are yawning through...
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Finally! The Media gets a Liberal Outlet!
New York Post Online Edition: entertainment
Yes the vast Liberal Media is actually 1 radio channel...
Yes the vast Liberal Media is actually 1 radio channel...
MoveOn.org to Counter Bush's Ad Blitz
Yahoo! News - MoveOn.org to Counter Bush's Ad Blitz: "WASHINGTON - A Democratic-leaning online group will run television commercials in 17 presidential battleground states starting Thursday to counter President Bush (news - web sites)'s multimillion-dollar advertising blitz that will begin the same day. "
ALSO:
Why DOES George W. Bush look so much like Karen Hughes?
ALSO:
Why DOES George W. Bush look so much like Karen Hughes?
Kerry's VP List - Edwards and Clark are the best shot
CBS News | Kerry's VP List | March 3, 2004?11:49:12
CHARLOTTE--Howard Dean is awesome. But I can't see how he would add much to Kerry's chances of winning the presidency. By virtue of being the last of the so-called "top tier" candidates standing ...so far, granted... Senator John Edwards has shown that he can not only win votes on his own, he is in ascendancy. He is also handsome, a gifted speaker, a man of the people, smart, good-hearted, and Southern. General Wes Clark is also all of those things, although he didn't get as many votes as Edwards, But has the added advantage of a distinguished military career...thus adding so much gravitas to a Kerry ticket as to make Bush-Cheney seem laughable by comparison...even with their self-touted on-the-job experience, and, of course, Bush's brilliant stealth tactics while in the National Guard.
Of all the other possible candidates Mr. Meyer mentions, the only one that should even be considered is Senator Hillary Clinton. But I tend to think Edwards could achieve what she could bring, and then some. The others are simply untested, or tested and failed. Edwards and Clark have been tested and vetted...and have met with considerable approval.
Al Gore might make an interesting "wild card", as would someone outside the usual suspects, like a Robert Redford or an Oprah Winfrey.
But of the usual suspects...don't stray too far from Edwards or Clark. If you do, you lose...or make it much harder on Kerry.
Think synergy! All democratic forces should converge to send Bush packing.
The fate of the world is at stake.
CHARLOTTE--Howard Dean is awesome. But I can't see how he would add much to Kerry's chances of winning the presidency. By virtue of being the last of the so-called "top tier" candidates standing ...so far, granted... Senator John Edwards has shown that he can not only win votes on his own, he is in ascendancy. He is also handsome, a gifted speaker, a man of the people, smart, good-hearted, and Southern. General Wes Clark is also all of those things, although he didn't get as many votes as Edwards, But has the added advantage of a distinguished military career...thus adding so much gravitas to a Kerry ticket as to make Bush-Cheney seem laughable by comparison...even with their self-touted on-the-job experience, and, of course, Bush's brilliant stealth tactics while in the National Guard.
Of all the other possible candidates Mr. Meyer mentions, the only one that should even be considered is Senator Hillary Clinton. But I tend to think Edwards could achieve what she could bring, and then some. The others are simply untested, or tested and failed. Edwards and Clark have been tested and vetted...and have met with considerable approval.
Al Gore might make an interesting "wild card", as would someone outside the usual suspects, like a Robert Redford or an Oprah Winfrey.
But of the usual suspects...don't stray too far from Edwards or Clark. If you do, you lose...or make it much harder on Kerry.
Think synergy! All democratic forces should converge to send Bush packing.
The fate of the world is at stake.
Continuity Guide to The West Wing Characters
Continuity Guide to The West Wing Characters
Ever want to know what jobs the good folks on West Wing are performing, so to speak? Here is a good place to start placing names to faces to titles. It may be instructive when considering who might fill these positions under a Kerry Administration...
Ever want to know what jobs the good folks on West Wing are performing, so to speak? Here is a good place to start placing names to faces to titles. It may be instructive when considering who might fill these positions under a Kerry Administration...
Jude interviews Judge Gray
Syracuse.com: Syracuse politics: "California Libertarian Judge James P. Gray"
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Iraq had no WMD after 1994 - More on the useless deaths and killing in Iraq
USATODAY.com - U.N.: Iraq had no WMD after 1994: "UNITED NATIONS — A report from U.N. weapons inspectors to be released today says they now believe there were no weapons of mass destruction of any significance in Iraq after 1994, according to two U.N. diplomats who have seen the document."
Monday, March 01, 2004
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Billy the Boor does Oscar
TheStar.com - ABC tries to pump up `endless, boring' Oscars
Who is that boor pretending to be of equal status to the likes of Ben Kinglsley, Robin Williams, Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin and other archons of the genre? Get him off there! He is nauseating me.
Well, it's on...
Who is that boor pretending to be of equal status to the likes of Ben Kinglsley, Robin Williams, Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin and other archons of the genre? Get him off there! He is nauseating me.
Well, it's on...
God says America can go to Hell
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004®
Well, not really. She really said Bush can go to Hell.
Debbie H. God, systems analyst for IBMW has said that she hopes Bush will go to Hell, not just Heck...the inferior suburb of Hell. When asked why, God said that she didn't really go in for liars, cheaters or thieves, and claimed that Bush was the perfect trifecta of all three.
Seriously...how on earth could God, The God, choose his or her r-r-r-richest children for special attention, when there are so many others in greater need? Drudge is an idiot, and probably has no experience with God whatsoever...or he wouldn't be the way he is. Look at the way he spins Edwards' working-class upbringing. Aw, never mind. I'm just as bored as you are right now.
Well, not really. She really said Bush can go to Hell.
Debbie H. God, systems analyst for IBMW has said that she hopes Bush will go to Hell, not just Heck...the inferior suburb of Hell. When asked why, God said that she didn't really go in for liars, cheaters or thieves, and claimed that Bush was the perfect trifecta of all three.
Seriously...how on earth could God, The God, choose his or her r-r-r-richest children for special attention, when there are so many others in greater need? Drudge is an idiot, and probably has no experience with God whatsoever...or he wouldn't be the way he is. Look at the way he spins Edwards' working-class upbringing. Aw, never mind. I'm just as bored as you are right now.
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