Wednesday, October 13, 2004

SPITBALLS!!: Bush has a ball of spittle on his mouth


FROTHING BLINKARD

Bush has a ball of spittle on his lip.
Bush's last debate...ever

Prescient Zell Miller Warned: SPITBALLS!!!

Saturday, October 09, 2004

The Soros Blog

Thoughts on the Iraq war and the current administration by George Soros.

We do not own the FactCheck.com domain name and are not responsible for it redirecting to GeorgeSoros.com. We are as surprised as anyone by this turn of events. We believe that Vice President Cheney intended to direct viewers of the Vice-Presidential Debate to FactCheck.org.

Is Bush Wired?

Manchurian Resident, George W. Bush, needs help.

COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY

Forget the hanging chads and butterfly ballots. The Presidential election drama of 2000 is still a mystery to most Americans. COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY investigates charges of disenfranchisement and 180,000 uncounted Florida votes cast largely by the working poor and people of color, uncovering racial exclusion, voting rights violations and the subverting of a recount in the most contested and controversial election in U.S. history. Running Time: 74 min.

Friday, October 08, 2004

POLL: Why did Kerry win this debate?

Take this poll.

Kerry wins every exchange & debate

Play back each exchange. Pause at the end. Score it.

Kerry won every time.

He is the clear winner. Period.

Thursday, October 07, 2004

BLOGGERS: Documenting the Media Coup of 2004

Teaching Newspeople the value of impartiality.
Holding them accountable for their crimes...captured in millions of recording homes.


"The rank of a disinterested (impartial) mind is so high that what it sees is true, what it desires comes to pass, what it commands must be done." - Avicenna

"A mind unmoved by any contigent affection or sorrow, or honor, or slander, or vice, is really disinterested -- like a broad mountain that is not shaken by a gentle wind. Unmovable disinterest brings man into his closest resemblance to God (Truth). His purity is derived from it..." - Meister Eckhart




Disinterest does not mean uninterested, but rather having no special interest in the outcome (among other things)...or, in other words impartial; unbiased.

Who should be the paragons of disinterested impartiality if not those whose job's Hippocratic Oath, if you will, is to do just that -- namely, those who claim to provide the News. But most of those who are in such roles are mere posers, media whores, Mammon's puppets.
And these puppets are about to perpetrate a coup on the American people. They are going to do everything they can to shoehorn Bush and Cheney back into the White House...where they never belonged in the first place. And they are going to turn their backs on the Truth, and by doing so, reap their Faustian rewards, and forever lose the trust of humanity, and even God...who, as Eckhart says: "gives himself to the disinterested heart."

It is our job, as bloggers, to document this descent, and this attempted coup.

So...how can we make these folks understand our need for them to be impartial?

And what does it say about us that we want unbiased Truth?

Here's the deal, folks: The Truth always finds it way back to the light. And it exposes those forces of darkness that tried to suppress it.

Taoists keenly know this. And Taoists know that this current administration has, at every occasion, taken the path that is agaist the Tao. Against Nature. Against the Spirit. Or said differently...against Heaven AND Earth.

A pity really...for "what is against the Tao doesn't last long." A pity for those ignorant relative few who drank their poison koodade, and other pollutions.

And now they are polluting the Truth, and by doing so, polluting our minds and hearts.

Time to Flush Bush: Champion of Partiality and Division.

But as for us bloggers...it is, again, our job to document all the lies and distortions and diversions they hurl at us. For these things will come back to indict them.

Maybe then they will simply stick to the truth. And practice practice practice at becoming disinterested...even at the peril of their jobs.

Have they not squirreled away ANY F.U. money?

Surely they have, all.

Journalists of the world, awake!

Join the bloggers in being the clear eyes of the world, watching.

Strive to be impartial, at all costs. You've spiritual rewards to gain.

Do not let America and the World down.

-Anonymoses Hyperlincoln


Take the poll at Daily Kos:
Which Newsperson or team is Impartial?

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Anonymoses meets Elizabeth Edwards in Charlotte

From the Anonymoses NAMECALLING Series




CHARLOTTE--Fresh from a successful debate in Cleveland, Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Senator John Edwards, brought her energy home to North Carolina and shared it with eager and exuberant Charlotteans. Among the eager and exuberant supporters was the blogger, Anonymoses Hyperlincoln, or he whom some call "Dave". More on that later.

Looking around Google News, you'd think Mrs. Edwards only said one thing, as they all seemed to pick up on that one thing and share it amongst themselves. She did not say just one thing. She said everything. And were I her counselor, I might tell her to save her breath, since the media are apparently too lazy or cheap to expend more ink on the future First Lady. Prescience is not one of their strong suits. But, then again, she was talking to the people, the Charlottean and veterans...not the soundbite hunters and gatherers...good people, all.

Most of the reporters I saw there must have been committing it to memory, since I only saw them pull out their pads once or twice, and then only briefly. And they get paid for this. Drink more coffee, gents!

But then again, I had a pad, and didn't use it. I suspect I was just as mesmerized by Mrs. Edwards and her guests as anyone else.

Her guests, whose names I sadly do not have, were two women whose lives have been direly impacted by Bush's poor judgement and decisions.

One young woman was in the Pentagon at the time of 9/11. She told us how she, and many others like her, were ushered out of the system in order to remove their own responsibility toward these unfortunates. Future unfortunates, I should say, as it was due to Bush and his policies that all she has was taken away.

The other guest had the room in tears, as she spoke of just how poorly the families of soldiers in Iraq are treated by the current misAdministration, and to a crowd largely made up of Veterans of Foreign Wars...who know this should not be happening, and feel, in their hearts, and identity with this young wife who is struggling, emotionally and financially, with the situation afforded her by George W. Bush, Man of the(rich)People.

During the visit, Mrs Edwards spoke on a broad range of topics, and showed that she has a grasp of the problems they will be facing, as well as the problems Americans are facing. But I really think people already know this about her. Most probably just want to meet her and exchange a few niceties, tips, and web addresses. So, again, I want to suggest that she relax, take it easy, have nice conversations with people...and not worry about making sure all the points are covered. There are too many to digest. This current administration has broken pottery in every way possible or imaginable. They are the anti-Tao, if you will...acting in direct antagonism to Nature and Spirit. Just seeing that you are genuine, authentic, honest, a champion of the people and truth...and yes, friendly, charming and graceful -- all of which come naturally -- is all she really need do. The rest is gravy. And I'm thankful for the gravy I sopped today. Hard to beat a good Southern gravy.

After wrapping up (which entails having operatives walk down the aisle with microphones in their hands, thus signalling Mrs Edwards that it was time for questions...and upon answering said questions...Mrs Edwards began greeting the crowd of well-wishers.

Being the gentleman that he is, Anonymoses Hyperlincoln, allowed elderly women to step in front of him, and have the first shake, all the while reminded of the saying about "the Baker serves his favorite last", and almost believing that, for some unknown reason, surely wrong, that he was, somehow, her favorite. Mrs' Edwards' reaction alerted him that this was indeed not the case, although she did spent a minute of two, and Mr. Hyperlincoln was able to congratulate her on her victory, and on her blogging. He said he wrote for Daily Kos and he was able to extend a greeting from the blogosphere. And he was able to invite her to come to his "Joycean blog, Anonymoses"...which she probably forgot just as quickly as she heard it.

A great visit. Try it.

John Edwards: Atticus wins the day...and debate

Cheney Contradicts Self During Debate
Edwards Upholds the Truth


Senator John Edwards


North Carolina Senator John Edwards not only did better than expected, he did better than any of the other contenders could have done.

Want proof?

Show us 10 places where Cheney won.
Then show us 10 where Edwards won.

Can't find ten for Cheney?

Case closed.

Edwards won again and again.

Contrast his performance with the performance of Joe Lieberman. Edwards said what needed to be said. He delivered the goods. Now learn from what you heard.


But guess what? The networks are calling it for Cheney! Even someone who should know better, like George Stephanopoulis, is spinning a Cheney victory.

Who is paying them to say such crap?

Wait for the commercial!

Oh look...a pharmaceutical ad!

Cut back to....no less than Joe Lieberman and Jack Kemp.

Ah! The liberal media!

ONLINE POLL RESULTS:

HARDBALL (MSNBC)
Edwards - 60%
Cheney - 40 %
1629277 responses

CBS NEWS
Edwards - 81%
Cheney - 17%

I looked at over a dozen online polls early this morning, and Edwards was the clear winner -- ranging from roughtly 70% to 90% -- in all but one of two polls.






Edwards lets Cheney know: HONEYMOON OVER!

Kerry/Edwards: A Code Green America

Democrats Win! World Erupts in Celebration!

Democratic Vision of the Future

Priorities: How to Beat Bush

MORE from Anonymoses

Edwards-Cheney Debate Transcripts

Read the transcripts.
Examine the evidence.


JOHN EDWARDS
Mr. Vice President, you are still not being straight with the American people. I mean, the reality you and George Bush continue to tell people, first, that things are going well in Iraq -- the American people don't need us to explain this to them, they see it on their television every single day. We lost more troops in September than we lost in August; lost more in August than we lost in July; lost more in July than we lost in June.
The truth is, our men and women in uniform have been heroic. Our military has done everything they've been asked to do.
And it's not just me that sees the mess in Iraq. There are Republican leaders, like John McCain, like Richard Lugar, like Chuck Hagel, who have said Iraq is a mess and it's getting worse.
And when they were asked why, Richard Lugar said because of the incompetence of the administration.
What Paul Bremer said yesterday is they didn't have enough troops to secure the country. They also didn't have a plan to win the peace. They also didn't put the alliances together to make this successful.
We need a fresh start. We need a president who will speed up the training of the Iraqis, get more staff in for doing that. We need to speed up the reconstruction so the Iraqis see some tangible benefit. We need a new president who has the credibility, which John Kerry has, to bring others into this effort.


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Saturday, October 02, 2004

Proto-YES band, Strawbs, comes to Charlotte

The late '60s and the early '70s were a most creative time in the Western World. Iconoclasts everywhere were shattering old idols, such as those that have been resussitated by the the squares among the Bushreich. In the arts, in film, in books, in lifestyles, and in music...staid, button-down, conservative bubble-gum music was being nudged out by orchestral rock, art-rock, progressive rock, not to mention the wondrous work by jazz and contemporary composers of "serious music".

Seminal in that vein, that throbbing vein of protean creativity, was a band called "Strawbs" -- who merged midaeval and renaissance music with ballads and progressive rock...among other things. And they did so, beautifully. And, thanks to the god of good things, they still do. And I was privileged to eye and earwitness it last night. I do get lucky sometime.
...
But curse the god who causes paragraphs to just vanish, because I just lost 5 good paragraphs which I am too pissed to repeat. Go see the goddam band.

Fri 1 Oct - Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, NC
Sat 2 Oct - Redlight Cafe, Atlanta, GA
Tue 5 Oct - Bellville Opera House, Bellville, OH
Thu 7 Oct - The Strand, Lakewood, NJ
Fri 8 Oct - Bodles Opera House, Chester, NY
Sat 9 Oct - Towne Crier, Pawling, NY
Sun 10 Oct - The Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA

Anais Mitchell: Party like it's 1984!


Anais Mitchell

Vermont's Anais Mitchell came to my awareness through the good folks at Evening Muse in Charlotte, North Carolina...which is fast becoming the Passim's of the South.
Her music is sexy, timely, progressive, exuberant, and... kicking ass.

1984
by Anais Mitchell

down at headquarters, there’s a big database
with black and white photos of the side of your beautiful face
and your library record, and all your test scores
and an invitation to party like it’s 1984

baby, don’t look so nervous, they just want the facts
and it’s all written out in the usa patriot act
cause we don’t take no chances in a nation at war
so tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1984

oh, honey, what did i tell you about the house being bugged?
they can hear us making breakfast, they can hear us making love
but excuse me a minute- big brother’s at the door
and he’s ready to party like it’s 1984

you know you’re my one and only; you always have been
sure is gonna be lonely after i turn you in
so i’ll wait till tomorrow to file my report
and tonight we can party like it’s 1984

Friday, October 01, 2004

"Help is on the way!"

A little something I wrote on the draft Kerry/Edwards site before Edwards was chosen...

I have long recognized that Edwards is one of the best things to happen to the Democratic Party, and, frankly, America, in a long time. So to see that someone had the foreskin, I mean foresight, to cobble together this wondrous tribute to our highest future, is, well, supercalifragilistic, if not expialidocious. Darned prescient too!
I would like to invite you to my little blog thang, whereon I have some of the best images of Gentleman Edwards I have yet to see. And, I would submit, a better choice than exists presently on this site. Think Diane Arbus. The opposite of Diane Arbus.In other words, use photos that bring out that which he naturally has, but which is often missed in photos. (And no, I am not talking about the mole!) I'm talking about his naturalness, integrity, intellectual curiosity, caring, listening, and his passion, intelligence, elegance, grace, and wit.
Things merely staged in the current officeholder.
God bless this endeavor. There IS hope in the world. Help is on the way...
Godspeed.
-Anonymoses-Charlotte, NCPosted by Anonymoses at March 12, 2004 11:24 PM

LINK

Bloggers are idea factories.


But if you look at Google News, you will see Bush's reaction to Kerry's having said that help was on the way, than to Kerry's initial comment. Are they afraid that it really is true, and that the message is so powerful that it will put Kerry in the White House to ensure that it becomes reality? Stay tuned...

Thursday, September 30, 2004

Kerry, Soldiers & the World the clear winner of the debate

"I thing we just saw the next President of the United States"
Help is on the way...

Don't just believe me, or your own eyes. Here is what some leading conservative bloggers are saying:

THE BLOG-SPIN: People I trust to be as honest as you can be - Mickey, Polipundit, Brookhiser, Drezner - lean toward arguing that Kerry won. I wonder what Hugh Hewitt and DailyKos thought. Just kidding. - Andrew Sullivan

Even the Bush inner circle admit that Bush did poorly. This is from the Right Wing Drudge Report:

Bush inner circle suggests Bush visit with Hurricane victims earlier in day was emotionally draining, contributed to "tired" appearance in debate...

But then again...you cannot trust Matt Drudge. A couple of days ago his headline read: ORANGE ALERT!
...and there was not an Orange Alert. He was talking about Kerry's make-up. This is irresponsible, since 85% of the people only read the headline.

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Anonymoses' new poem debuts on Billy the Blogging Poet

The Virtual Poet Laureate of North Carolina, Billy the blogging poet (Jones) , has started a new feature on his awesome site. The Wednesday Guest Blogger Series. To kick off his new venture, Billy invited me to submit a poem or other written item...which I, miraculously, completed and submitted...and can be found here.

Rather than simply posting the poem, Billy went the extra mile and added a brief bio and some commentary. (Great job, Billy!).

The poem is called "The War Song of G. Dubya Bushrock", and is a BushWorld version of TS Eliot's classic Prufrock. Hope ya like it! I have to thank my old friend, Rob Urban, for turning me on to this poem back in the '70s, and for awakening in me a renewed interest in the poetic word. In one of Rob's poems, "Possibilities", he wrote of a future time where he drove a taxi in Manhattan. And now, 20 years later, he is indeed in Manhattan. But he is doing way better than he envisioned. He was also one of those brave souls who ran toward the WTC as it was crumbling down. And while he was inundated with dust and the smoke of death, he thankfully survived, and helped inform the world of what was happening. One of the heroes of that sad day.

I first met Billy Jones while attending an outstanding blogger conference in Greensboro, North Carolina, hosted and presented by blogmeisters Billy, Ed Cone, David Hoggard and Matt Gross, and attended by such giants as Eric Muller of IsThatLegal?, Ruby Sinreich, and, of course, Anonymoses -- who is, as you may not know...9 feet tall...standing on a car, and composed of pure energy. Our particularly deipnosophistic banter over plates of Thai creations was memorable and hopefully repeatable. Greensboro is becoming a major center of blogging, and I only wish they would come and give Charlotte a kickstart.

So head on over to Billy the Blogging Poet, and introduce yourself. Ye poets and bloggers will find a brother and kindred spirit.

UPDATE!

Reviews roll in...

This is the most brilliant f**king thing I have ever seen.
Rob Urban, Journalist

That was truly an amazing work of genius.
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Kevin Hayden, The American Street

Fantastic! Great work. TS would be proud.
Billy (the blogging poet) Jones

The knowing, the not knowing, the wishing we didn't, the agony of the dilemma, the cajoling of the mind to stick with something, the apathy, the resignation, yet the still searching for hope...all this and more you capture in your poem, Dave...the plight of us as humans in these present times. And, since we are all so intricately connected to each other ~ each of us carry within us the trials and tribulations of all...whether we realize it or not. Thank you for creating such poetry that allows us to "Feel" such Truth.
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Patty Ann Smith, Hope4America

A brilliant poem.
Iddybud

T.S. would be proud...and probably flattered.
Tom Priest

Monday, September 27, 2004

Are Bush and Kerry really Goofus and Gallant?


GOOFUS AND GALLANT

Goofus wants to make everyone hate his country.
Gallant wants to make friends around the world.

Goofus turns his back on the poor.
Gallant listens to the poor, and tries to help them.

Goofus likes to blow up things.
Gallant likes to help keep his house in order.

Goofus is basically a racist and a sexist.
Gallant identifies with all of humanity.

Goofus would choose someone like Dick Cheney to be his partner.
Gallant would choose someone like John Edwards to be his partner.


The similarities are uncanny.

Do you have any more?
Feel free to comment!

411blog.net: Where bloggers and journalists come together.

This service exists to create a constructive, symbiotic relationship between blogging and traditional forms of journalism.

Among those listed are these:

Rhetoric and Democracy
the chutry experiment

(Thanks to Lex Alexander and Blog on the Run.)

Evangelists do more than lay people

Evangelical Christians now control the Republican Party, says Evangelical Christian, Jerry Falwell.

WASHINGTON – The Rev. Jerry Falwell said yesterday that evangelical Christians, after nearly 25 years of increasing political activism, now control the Republican Party and the fate of President Bush in the November election.

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Sunday, September 26, 2004

3 Giants Against Bush's War: Diana, John-John & Paul

Who could have prevented Bush's War from ever being allowed?
Princess Diana, John Kennedy Jr.(who would have been Gore's running mate, not war hawk Lieberman), and Paul Wellstone.

What a freaking coincidence! Three of our most beloved.

And it only gets worse from there.

Welcome to BushWorld!
Where Bush gets what Bush wants.
Like God.
Like the Devil.

When will George's misprisions make their return call?

Must all our beloved be taken?

Fire Bush.
He is not a nice man.

Elizabeth Edwards: First blogger in the White House


Elizabeth Edwards on Blogging

First, on blogging, a couple of notes. Read Kos and found out about the NY Times piece on blogging -- thorough piece. I have traveled this road so long moving with the masters (in order to read them) from the acidic edge of newsgroups to the more definitive personalities of blogs. Today, too, Ed Cone's blog sent me to Mr. Sun (a new one for me) who was commenting on the (Greensboro) News and Record blog. He wrote, and it is true about this blog as well: "The blogs sound like the people I choose as friends: smart, informed, funny, curious, and imperfect." The genius of it is completely captured there. Even coverage by the NYT won't change 'em.

From Daily Kos (on NY Times on Daily Kos)

Moulitsas's site, Daily Kos, teems with information -- sophisticated analysis of poll numbers, crystal-ball babble, links to Senate, House and governor ''outlook charts.'' But what pulls you in is not the data; it's his voice. He's cruel and superior, and he knows his side is going to win.


Saturday, September 25, 2004

Bushitler: The Serpent's Egg



How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany...

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Friday, September 24, 2004

Progressive Blogging

Why blogging is not for the conservative of heart.
by Anonymoses Hyperlincoln III

(in progress)

[NOTES]
Ruminiate this!
Martin Wisse
Progressive Gold: The Best of the Left
Blue Lemur: A free Progressive Blogging Community

How Bush Terrorized America into War on Iraq in order to seize their Oil & Assets for Cheney & Friends

There's something almost obscene about a map that was studied by senior Bush administration officials and a select group of oil company executives meeting in secret in the spring of 2001. It doesn't show the kind of detail normally shown on maps - cities, towns, regions. Rather its detail is all about Iraq's oil.
...
Another interesting task force document, also released under court order over the opposition of the Bush administration, was a two-page chart titled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfields." It identifies 63 oil companies from 30 countries and specifies which Iraqi oil fields each company is interested in and the status of the company's negotiations with Saddam Hussein's regime.
...
Yet the documents suggest that those who took part in the Cheney task force - including senior oil company executives - were very interested in Iraq's oil and specifically in the danger of it falling into the hands of eager foreign oil companies, rather than into the rightful hands of eager U.S. oil companies.
...
It seems likely then that Big Oil, through the Cheney task force, was involved in discussions with the administration about getting control of oil in Iraq. Since Big Oil has sought to distance itself from the administration's decision to invade Iraq, this apparent involvement helps explain the otherwise baffling level of secrecy surrounding the task force.
...
It's also noteworthy that one person - Dick Cheney - was pivotal both in advancing the administration's plans for regime change in Iraq and in formulating U.S. energy policy.

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Michael Moore Speaks to Syracuse Crowd of 10,000

It was a big night for fans of Michael Moore in Syracuse last night. Moore spoke to a sold-out crowd of 10,000 at the Carrier Dome. Two large video screens flashed a video of John Ashcroft singing “Let the Eagle Soar” and Michael Moore appeared in jeans, black T-shirt, and a red baseball cap with an American flag on the front.
- (Iddybud guest blogging at American Street)

Catching up on the news...

A few windows I have yet to close:

"Similar to sugar pill"
The Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly urged antidepressant manufacturers not to disclose to physicians and the public that some clinical trials of the medications in children found the drugs were no better than sugar pills, according to documents and testimony released at a congressional hearing yesterday.

The Jewish Vote comes home to Kerry
Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) is gaining support among Jewish voters as growing numbers disapprove of President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, according to a poll commissioned by the American Jewish Committee.

Village Voice on Roger Stone
Roger Stone spearheaded the pro-Bush mob shutdown of the Miami/Dade recount in 2000.

Polis is a blogger from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Good stuff!
Bush takes the bait
Bravo to John's offensive on Iraq. He has re-framed this debate for what it really is: a trade-off between Saddam in power and the chaotic, terrorist incubator it now is. This is an answer to Bush's "I'm against evil you're for it" scenario. It's something Americans can instinctively understand; we've been living in the same world with dictators forever, even helping them, as in: Saddam. Once Bush's foolishly simplistic worldview is challenged, the rest comes tumbling down. The trick is to say it in ways that busy people working three jobs can quickly grasp, and to keep the focus on serious doubters in Bush's own party, like Chuck Hagel and Doug Bereuter, in every single press release.

Bush's 'Transformational' Democracy
George W. Bush’s advisers call him “a transformational president,” meaning that they believe his election to a second term on Nov. 2 will cement Republican political control for the foreseeable future. Some outsiders might consider the boast hyperbole, but this prediction of conservative hegemony should not be underestimated.

Captain Obvious: The website that's almost as evil as President Bush, but so much smarter.


Wednesday, September 22, 2004

John Edwards: Smart, Sexy, Pure


Vote for us and the world celebrates.
Vote for them and the world mourns.

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

"the leaking of Valerie Plame's identity is the worst national catastrophe in American history"

PLAME
by Michael Carmichael for Political Junkies
Whitley Streiber is a novelist and a non-fiction author of some very popular books. In his essay, A National Catastrophe, Streiber deduces that the leaking of Valerie Plame's identity as a NOC (no official cover) agent of the CIA is the worst national catastrophe in American history.His final two paragraphs explore the motivations for this crime, and he concludes that the criminal who leaked her name is either a psychopath hell bent on initiating a nuclear Armageddon or a cynical and vindictive sociopath who deserves a severe dose of whatever is left of American justice.

Excerpts from Mr. Streiber:

The outing of Valerie Plame in the column of Robert Novak has now led to the resignation of Jim Pavitt from the CIA. Mr. Pavitt was Valerie Plame’s superior. His work has been devastated by this catastrophic security leak, and he has apparently chosen to resign as a result. The announcement of his retirement is the tip of an iceberg of national disaster.

Don’t believe for a moment the rantings of lying radio hosts about this case. Valerie Plame was no small fish. The revelation of her name is, in fact, the most serious intelligence disaster in the history of this country.

...
The rumor mill also has it that Karl Rove and Dick Cheney may be indicted in the matter.

Of course, this is a partisan time, so there’s no way of telling how true such rumors are. In any case, it doesn’t matter. The grand jury apparently has the name of the individual or individuals responsible. It is to be hoped that, if found guilty, no matter how high they may be, the people responsible be made to suffer the maximum penalty for the horrific crime they have committed. –
Whitley Strieber

States Writes: a Progressive Peer Directory from The American Street

Research links to mass media & blog sources in all states. Swing states - won by less than 55% of thepopular vote in 2000 - are highlighted, with cumulative Gore and Nader vote totals defined as Dems.State newspapers are generally listed in order of city size, but capital city papers and highly regardedpublications may supersede that order. Blogs without postings after 1 July 2004 were screened out.

These are the sites listed from North Carolina:
Monkey Media Report The Political Junkies EDCONE.COM: Word Up Deride and Conquer collective sigh Stand Tall anonyMoses APOSTROPHER Carolina Progressive Blog on the Run Ruby's Rants & Randomness a complete bunch of pants reason and radical Blue North Carolina CAROLINA JOURNAL ONLINE I respectfully dissent Brian's Slightly Left-of-Center Blog SCRUTINY HOOLIGANS the COMMON SENSE FOUNDATION notes from underground - societal whispers

Time to scare people again

Why not just do your job, and leave us alone?

The Low Weakly Standard on bloggers

The Weekly Standard has low standards when it comes to blogs...

Michael Moore's words of encouragement

Mike says: Lighten up!

John Kerry Speech at New York University

Text of the speech

Bush: The Missing Years

Where was George?


"That is, anybody with a computer and a modem can be a blogger, and any blogger can be a media-player."

Wither the Newtwork "News"
Network News: Too Little, Too Late

Newsweek on the eventual collapse of a dinosaur.

Monday, September 20, 2004

How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics by Calvert Watkins

Occasionally, I like to see what my old professors are up to. One of my favorites was Cal Watkins, who taught a course in Indo-European, among other things. Who would have thought, at the time, how valuable it would be...even, and especially, in genealogical research.

Here is one of more recent endeavors, called How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. Cannot wait to get a copy!

Here are some of the reader comments:

AWESOME & EXHAUSTIVE MASTERPIECE
This vast tome is a masterpiece of comparative Indo-European poetics. It investigates the nature, form and function of poetic expression and ancient literature among an impressive variety of Indio-European peoples. The author uses the traditional comparative method to identify the genetic intertextuality of particular themes and formulas common to all the daughter languages of ancient Indo-European. The work comprises seven sections and 59 chapters.
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This work is an opus magnum, and it took me months to read it. Even so, I cannot claim to have grasped all the complexities of the fascinating text in which more than 30 familiar and obscure languages are quoted. I strongly recommend this masterpiece to those interested in ancient history, language and its structure, and to literary critics.

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Your first impression will involve picking your jaw up off the floor.

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A stunning achievement...
I haven't read this book, not really.. How could I? The author cheerfully quotes about fifty of the major Indo-European languages over an historical span of some 5,000 years. The Greek is in Greek (which I can barely spell) and (if you are like me) your knowledge of Luvian, Old German, and Sanskrit is probably a little bit rusty.

Nevertheless, it is absolutely one of the most fascinating books I have ever had in my hands. It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "tour de force."

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If you have not read the works of Professor Watkins, and you have an interest in languages, poetry or genealogy...let me not hesitate in recommending him.

You may also find his works, used, here.
If you happen to have an American Heritage Dictionary sitting around...look in the back and front for articles by Professor Watkins on Indo-European languages, as well as a reduced Indo-European dictionary...which is in the back of many editions.

Eugene Armstrong beheaded

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A video posted Monday on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong. The militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slaying and said another hostage - either an American or a Briton - would be killed in 24 hours.
The grisly decapitation was the latest killing in a particularly violent month in Iraq, with more than 300 people dead in insurgent attacks and U.S. military strikes over the past seven days. Earlier Monday, gunmen in Baghdad assassinated two clerics from a powerful Sunni Muslim group that has served as a mediator to release hostages.

Kerry on Letterman, Jon Stewart on Leno

Guess I'll be using the flipper tonight...

Bush and Abel: Ownership Society & The Cainization of America

George W. Bush is MegaCain. He kills many people's brothers. Well...he has others do it for him.
And now he is calling for an "Ownership Society". As Norman O. Brown once pointed out..."Cain means Ownership".

Are you a Cain or an Abel?

You needn't be either.

Bush is a Cain.

Vote for Cain if you must. But know that blood is on your hands.
Lots of it.


The Bible teaches lessons. Whether or not you learn the lessons is up to you.



Here are some thoughts I had on the matter, prior to hearing of Bush's new designs.



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None Dare Call it Armageddon
None dare call it crusades, None dare call it Armageddon...
Time for a little peace, love and truth-tellingI just watched a History Channel video on The Crusades, just to gain a little information on that period for a dollar...the rental charge on the video.Turns out Damascus played an important role. I flash forward to the present news of Israel bombing Damascus and shake my head. Will this madness ever cease? Why can't we all just get along? Is God that deranged that he or she would not allow a sort of wise tolerance to enter into the souls of these endlessly warring peoples? I googlesearch the matter and stumble upon a page which bears this quote:The Prophet (pbuh) said: The place of assembly of the Muslims at the time of the Armageddon (al-Malhamah, the great war) will be in al-Ghutah near a city called Damascus, one of the best cities in Sham. (Abu-Dawud)...this makes me feel no better. No better at all. Even a little anxious. Bush's poll numbers are falling, badly, and when that happens...someone has to be kicked. Kicking dogs is illegal. Vicariousness is an intriguing concept, and one wonders if such things do not still go on among world leaders. We don't need no stinking religious war or religious victory. Blessed the peacemakers. All people are created equal. It is the handful who act otherwise. And sadly, it is that handful that currently rule the world.If mothers ruled the world, less children would die.Women...rise. Gaia is calling her daughters to save her from the rapists and child-killers. Sheesh! And to think Google caused all this!Let us make a detour around Armageddon. Let our children live.Winning is not everything. Possession is overrated. Cain means ownership.Peace is disarming.
FADE TO BLACK
Posted by:
HyperLincoln / 10/7/2003 10:13:30 PM

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Cain Means Ownership
The Onerous Onus of Ownership
"Love's Body is a modern Thus Spake Zarathustra. Professor Brown is affiliating himself to a major line of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prophets, such as Nietzsche, Carlyle, D. H. Lawrence, oddest of all, Emerson. . . . Norman Brown has the same apocalyptic imagery, fire, resurrection, the judgment, the body, and a very similar apocalyptic message."--Martin Green, CommonwealThe other day, I was talking to my bud, Woody, and he informed me that he would have to evacuate his domicile, since he could not come up with the money to pay the taxes on the house. Among his main concerns was this: What to do with all the stuff accumulated over the years. It was almost as if he were enslaved by the things that weighed him down...namely things, nouns. While ruminating on the situation, a line from a book I had read long ago popped into mind. "Cain means ownership."It is from the book, "Love's Body", which was written just before the 60's began to take hold, in 1966 to be exact, by Norman O. Brown. I had read it in the '70s, and certain parts still inhabit portions of my not nearly so protean mind. This was one of them.But then, I found myself seeing how this "Cain means ownership" thing, could also explain many of the troubles currently infecting the globe. Not just Woody...who is an innocent victim of its clutches.Cain, as the story goes, killed his brother, Abel. There are, though, various iterations of what actually happened, and what is to be taken from the story. Laurence Gardner, for instance, talks about Cain's having been spawned from a different confluence of parentage than Abel, and that he had descended from the Annunaki, and was thus superior, by birth, to his entirely earthly half-brother, Abel. Things like that.And if this is to be taken to be the meaning that Norman Brown meant to convey, well then one must surmise that ownership is a right of children of Annunaki. Or maybe that these good folks have an onus to maintain the nouns of the earth. Something like that. But I don't think he was talking about esoteric understanding of the story of Cain and Abel. I think he is talking about the undergraduate view of the story, namely that Cain slew Abel, bla bla bla... And in this view, it seems well to explain how we, as contemporary Westerners treat property. We will kill our brother for it and over it.We at Anonymoses think this is a misprioritization. God's Children should always take precedence over Man's Things.That said, I still don't know what to tell Woody...
Posted by:
HyperLincoln / 7/1/2004 02:47:11 PM

CBS admits errors. When will FOX, NBC, ABC, etc.?

The one network that has the nuts to stand up to power made mistakes, and admits it. The other networks and news orgs are essentially PR tools for power. When will they admit their errors?

Sunday, September 19, 2004

Government Insider Says Bush Authorized 911 Attacks

or how to turn the U.S. into a presidential dictatorship by manufacturing a bogus Pearl Harbor event

"This (9/11) was all planned. This was a government-ordered operation. Bush personally signed the order. He personally authorized the attacks. He is guilty of treason and mass murder." --Stanley Hilton

Stanley Hilton was a senior advisor to Sen Bob Dole (R) and has personally known Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for decades. This courageous man has risked his professional reputation, and possibly his life, to get this information out to people

MORE

Stanley Hilton falls on a hand grenade for America

From William Rivers Pitt, 2002

Truthseeker interview with Mr. Hilton on Sept. 10, 2004

Stanley Hilton Sues Bush Cabal for 9-11 Conspiracy

Mike Ruppert Names Cheney Prime Suspect in 9/11

FBI Conspiracy Cover Up by 9/11 Commission by SIBEL EDMONDS

Dov Zakheim: The Mastermind Behind 9/11? by STEPHEN ST. JOHN

What? And Why? The 9/ 11 Conspiracy Continues... by JOHN KAMINSKI
EXCERPT:
I've said it over and over. The US government planned, executed, and then covered up the 9/11 caper, covered it up with layers of clumsy lies and false leads, like pseudo hijackers with phony names and heartwrenching cellphone calls that couldn't have possibly been made. As Barb Honegger recently wrote on the Conspiracy Planet website, they covered it up by piggybacking the whole plot on a military exercise that was being conducted that very day, so that the air defenses would hesitate intercepting the hijacked airliners, so that the practice exercise could become real, and the rich oil pigs could get their way playing hog-in-trough with all the coins in the U.S. Treasury."

"9/11 was no attack by Islamic malcontents. It was a deliberately scripted terror event to turn America into a police state and simultaneously make billions of dollars for the richest people in the world, some of whom live in this country, many of whom live in Europe, Arabia and elsewhere. They were the same friends of the Bush family who stole all those treasures from the Iraqi museum."


Tipping Point: Bush Bad for Business Bottom Line

Whilst perusing Daily Kos, I ran across a discussion on how bad things will suddenly become if Bush is "re-elected".

Here is a point I made. Tell me if I am wrong!

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Tipping Point: Bush Bad for Business Bottom Line

"It's the world, stupid!"
We are all in concurrence here, I believe. And I also believe this is the biggest issue of all, ultimately.
Business is starting to catch on too. And I think it might well prove to be the tipping point. Businessmen and women are ashamed to say they are American. They call themselves Canadians...perhaps thinking of the future.And when the world hates you...your bottom line suffers, if not your very existence.
This is what should be talked about in the Big Media...because they too are going to suffer by having dwindling world opportunities.
-anonyMoses

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Many a poor man and woman lament the plight of those even less fortunate around the globe. They can hear the cries.

But when Business begins to listen to the World -- even if only for their own self-interest -- major changes may more rapidly occur. Let us hope we can spare the world of more of the same, nay, worse. And may we spare ourselves of the world's wrath at our poor judgement.

Kerry '04: Because World Democracy is Vital

Kerry/Edwards: Spreading Democracy the Right Way


Do we want to spread democracy around the world, as George W. Bush has claimed?
If the answer is YES...the question then becomes:

What is the fastest way to achieve it?

Here's how...

Honor the votes and wishes of the world.

Well, the world has spoken, and the message is overwhelming and clear.

The world wants John Kerry to be the leader of the free world.
NOT George W. Bush.

In all the countries except three very small countries,
John Kerry was who they would vote for.

And these include our strongest allies.

The message is clear.

It was a landslide.

Trust Democracy. Trust the people of the world.

And trust John Kerry and the Democrats to restore America's trust and respect in the world community.

Vote KERRY/EDWARDS this November.

The John Edwards Media Blackout

Liberal Media?
Why, then, are they refusing to show John Edwards?



Saturday, September 18, 2004

anonyMoses predicted Iraq Water War back in May

On one of my "dump blogs" called "NUCULUS" (as yet developed), I predicted there would be a war over water in Iraq.

Well, here it comes...

BUSH: "You're Gonna Get Drafted"

Dave Johnson at Seeing the Forest wrote a piece for us to share with our younger citizens. (via Matt Gross)
Distribute widely...

The Draft – A Reason to Vote if You’re Under 30

You already blew it: You didn't vote last time, or voted for Nader or Bush, and now you're gonna get drafted. There's no way around it now, the draft is almost a certainty.

You're hearing about Reserve and National Guard units being called up, and about people not allowed to leave the military even though their term is up. Have you thought about what this means to you? You KNOW this means they're having trouble finding enough soldiers to go to Iraq, right? Of course Bush doesn’t want to start the draft BEFORE the election. Duh! But what do you think happens the day AFTER the election?

I repeat, they are having trouble finding enough soldiers to go to Iraq. Think about it. Right, you're gonna get drafted.

Or, maybe you think they can't do that? Maybe you think the draft doesn't happen in America. Maybe you think they can't just grab your ass up off the street, stick a rifle in your hands and send you off to war? Of course not, that NEVER happens. Right.

WAR. Yes, that word. The word you have been hearing from Bush’s lips for months now. "I'm a WAR president", he says. Well, what did you think war MEANS? Somebody ELSE’S war? Did you think it means you get to watch a TV show with planes and stuff?

No, WAR means young people getting grabbed up off the street and sent off to fight. That. Is. What. War. Is.

And, by the way, women and students are NOT going to be exempt this time. Maybe not even rich kids. ONLY the children of politicians will be exempt. THIS TIME.

So, are you finally ready to do something about it THIS TIME? Which candidate do you think is more likely to grab your ass off the street and send it to Iraq? Which candidate do you think is more likely to start a war with Iran, or Syria, or maybe even North Korea? Like Bush says, we're at war, and that's the issue in this election. Well, THAT’S what you should be thinking about THIS TIME.

So vote. THIS TIME.

Friday, September 17, 2004

Oops Iraqalypse!

Mission Accomplished.
Bush can go home now.


Kerry/Edwards '04

Bush/Cheney & The Nightly News: Too little too late

What do the Bush/Cheney administration have in common with the Nightly News?
In a phrase: "Too little, too late."

After three years of sluggish incompetence, the Bush/Cheney administration is trying to calim any recent uptick as proof of their good works. But it is too little, too late.

The Nightly News, bless their hearts, has 15 or 20 minutes to funnel the world into a news capsule for popular consumption. But invariably it is too little, too late.
And they waste their 15 minutes on Michael Jackson and poorly cloaked pharmaceutical ads deguised as news.

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

George W. Bush

Old and Irresponsible

Kerry/Edwards: Code Green

Kerry/Edwards will return America to Code Green,
a place it has never been under Bush.
One might even think he profits from it
being that way.
John Kerry knows that a fear-free society
is a healthy society.
And the health of the citizens
come before the wealth of the few
who would exploit fear
for financial gain.
And John Kerry knows that,
just like under Clinton,
America can live in a green world,
and not a code red, yellow or orange.
There is simply no reason why a farmer in Iowa
should have to live in fear,
when the likelihood for terror
happening in his fields
is actually zero.
Choose hope, not fear.
Choose John Kerry and John Edwards.
They will make America safer
and healthier,
and will get America's financial house in order.
You can help.
Learn how at JohnKerry.com.




[This ad was written by Anonymoses Hyperlincoln, and may be used freely.]

Bush will burn your passport...

...and kill your business.


The World Likes Americans, but dislikes Bush.
If we re-elect Bush, the world will dislike Americans too.

Want to go overseas?
Want to do business overseas?

If your answer is YES...

Vote for John Kerry.
Show the World that we care what they think.

You do not have to burn your passport.
You can travel and do business overseas.

It's easier if you are welcome there.
Bush has sadly made us unwelcome.
And to rehire him would spell universal unwelcome.

Think outside the box.
Travel outside the box.

Vote John Kerry in November.
Give yourself a passport to the world.

We can repair the damage.
It's as simple as a vote.

Vote wisely.
Indeed, vote worldly.
Vote Kerry/Edwards in November.
The future is our friend.
And Peace is better than War.
[This ad was written by Anonymoses Hyperlincoln, and may be used free of charge.]

RNC to change name to RNBC

Republicans Not Colored (RNC) have decided to absorb their media unit (NBC) and call the new entity RNBC. This, they say, will provide "balance" to their Conservative media arm, CNBC.
Back to you, Dan.

Angry Bear asks: "Where's my Recovery?"

It's time to take stock of how the US economy has recovered from the recession of 2001. Unfortunately, the scorecard is not good; the current recovery is the weakest recovery from a recession in recent history.
MORE

John Sayles: Infotainment at the RNC

John Sayles is the director of Silver City which opens nationwide September 17. He also directed Matewan and Return of the Secaucus 7.

Here, he takes on the RNC.

Harvard B-School Prof Outs Bush


Harvard Business School


A professor of GW Bush tells how Bush told him of his connected pussilanimosity.

"What I couldn't stand -- and I told him -- he was all for the U.S. to continue with the Vietnam War. That means he was all for other people, Americans, to keep on fighting and dying."

The Curse of the W

CHARLOTTE--During the preview show leading to the game between the Panthers and the Packers, one Charlotte talkinghead repeatedly said" We need a W" "Bring us a W". (He meant "win" but also meant "Bush".

Wrong!

I think he cursed the game by trying to tie a win to a Bush.

Thanksalot! W doesn't mean "win". It clearly means "wrong".


Paul Wolfowitz found to be weird composite of Bush and Alfred E. Bushman

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Paul Wolfowitz

RAW STORY columnist, Avery Walker, on the Blogosphere

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Iddybud in 3-D


EXCERPT:
Now, I love oxblog, wonkette, iddybud and American Amnesia as much as the next guy. More, in fact. These people find stories that have otherwise slipped through the cracks and follow them with a tenacity that print journalists sorely lack. But we have to remember that these people have some of the best blogs out there.


Mister Walker makes some good points about how to keep your blog from being moribund and shallow. Although I disagree with his condemnation of stream-of-conscious writing, I find that most of what he says rings true. An enjoyable read for bloggers and those who want to know more about blogs...

-Anon

Monday, September 13, 2004

Exposing more 9/11 lies: The Things We Breathed

I knew they were lying to us at the time, and now, after time has passed, the truth starts to come out...

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anonyMoses, spaced

On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the air was not so bad. Nothing like what the folks at the tip of the island had to suffer. But it was bad enough to kill the flowers. It was bad enugh that we had to put wet towels over our air conditioners to keep down the particulates. But it was "perfectly safe"...at least according to the official reports at the time. Some people actually believed it. I was not one of them.

I knew I was breathing asbestos, burnt human remains, and all manner of horrible substances. And I knew I was just one of millions who were also told to stay put.
Were the truth known, there may well have been a total evacuation. That is, if you weren't leaving by plane. They were grounded.

The fires burned for weeks and weeks, and there was an occasional respite, when the wind shifted directions and blew the smoke, pollution and burnt remains away from the bulk of the island.

I once tried talking a walk through Central Park, a few days after September 11th, but the air was so unsustaining that I had to lie down and fall asleep...which I did for Lord only knows how long.

But look. Rather than trying to make people afraid, let me say instead that most people survived. And some may walk away entirely unscathed.

And surely people in, say, Tulsa or Phoenix or Butte, Montana needn't worry about terrorism, as the likelihood of it reaching them is microscopically thin indeed. And small towns should worry even less.

The best way to beat terrorism is to never fear. Once you fear, they have won.

There should be classes in fearlessness, like happens amongst Buddhists. If no one feared, terrorism would dry up. So again...there is nothing to fear but fear, itself.

I will probably write more about Fearlessness education, as I do think it is a low-cost way to win and even win-win...as having fearlessness is a virtue in and of itself. Like Patience.



BushMedia Pushes Mushroom Cloud Bullshit


Careful, or I'll hit you with this!

They are simply trying to scare us again, so we will vote for Bush. Don't believe them this time... They are known to lie about such matters.

Sunday, September 12, 2004

Business Abandons Bush

The World is too Important for Business, and the World says no to Bush

Business people are beginning to realize that Bush is bad for their future, and are starting to shop around. I think this will become a winning avenue of opportunity for Mister Kerry...

DEVELOPING...

They are "they"

The New Media Elite and why they hate you

The Fearful Cloister

by Anonymoses Hyperlincoln


The fearful cloister at The Fearful Cloister...

Poland, Nigeria and The Philipines favor Bush

Only 3 countries in the world want Bush to win.

It's the World, Stupid - Part 4

Saturday, September 11, 2004

John Edwards: "Walk with me through this day"

John Edwards spoke this morning at the Congressional Black Caucus Prayer Breakfast about the triumph of joy over sorrow on the third anniversary of 9/11.

Good morning. Today, on this day of remembrance and mourning, we have the Lord’s word to get us through. “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

And let me show you how we are building and putting cedars in those three hallowed places—the footprints of the Towers, the Pentagon, and the field in Pennsylvania. Walk with me through this day and you will see that this is a season of hope.


THE REST OF THE SPEECH



UGLIER THAN LINCOLN
The Alan Colmes Story

by Anonymoses Hyperlincoln


Friday, September 10, 2004

"Very September 10th"

Whilst performing "automatic writing" upon a blog comment window today, I stumbled upon a notion that was "very September 10th". It is that anything that happens today can be so adjudged. And as I am writing today, so too may it be so adjudged and ascribed. (There are still scribes, aren't there?)

Baruch! Git in here!

Anyway, here is said utterance, in its entirety:

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Bush Explained, Part One

What the Corporate Apologists for Bush are doing is muddying the waters...a thing they are very good at. They are also experts at muddying the air...figuratively and literally. It they could only put their sucking to good causes, they might suck up the pollutions they constantly spew into the world.

As long as there is a DOUBT (about the documents, for example), their lemmings can always say:

"well that's debatable..."

...and carry on with their pussilanimous deference toward this most inept executive. (Or do they all suck?)


END PART ONE

anonyMoses Homepage 09.10.04 - 7:21 pm #



Bush Explained, Part Two

It is tantamount to the hundred types of chad...

"Oh! Chad is complicated! Too complicated for ordinary people! There is dimpled chad, pregnant chad, hanging chad, shrimp chad...".

Chaos and Confusion.
What they do.
Enemies of light, truth and clarity.
Pollution itself.

The world knows.

Less than half of one small country finds him at all worthy.
The only stage he needs to be on leaves in an hour.
If we can't do better than Bush...we are screwed.


[Uttered by anonyMoses, and said to be "very September 10th."

anonyMoses Homepage 09.10.04 - 7:24 pm #



Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Sabra Callas to perform at Founder's Hall today!

Sabra Callas will be performing at Founder's Hall in Charlotte today, from Noon until 2:00.
Come check out this great local performer!

Monday, September 06, 2004

A Cure for Ye Hiccups

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Ahhh Choo!
Some people say that when they sneeze, they see God, or in some other way, lose their mind. And it has been said that when John sneezed, he became anonyMoses. We think this is an urban myth, even with photographic evidence. We just like being sceptical. Keeps us feeling manly.
AnonyMoses, other than being the person who is typing these words, is also the person who invented the cure for hiccups.
The cure involves no snake oil, no hokus-pokus, no standing on your head while throwing salt over your shoulder. But it does involve one of the few elements that are actually involved in said hiccup. Breathing.
Normally when you breathe, your breath runs along a track. Back and forth. But it needn't be on a back and forth track. In fact it is that moment when the inspiration becomes the expiration, and vice versa, which is part of the problem.
To remedy the problem, here is what you do:
1. Breathe in a slow, steady figure-8.
Simple enough, isn't it?
It usually knocks out the problem immediately, although you may experience one or two hiccups as you're getting the knack. You will find that it helps if you slow your breathing down as it rounds the turn from being an exhalation to and inhalation, and vice versa.
This type of breathing has many other uses, such as prolonging life, increasing awareness, relieving suffering and anxiety, and so on. But for hiccups, there is no better remedy.
And it's free. And prop-free as well. Not even a glass of water.
Please report your results, should you use this handy method by AnonyMoses, free healer.
Thanks, and have a very good tomorrow.

"George W Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David"

BUSH 'TOOK COCAINE AT CAMP DAVID' Sep 6 2004
And wife Laura liked dope, says book
By Emma Pryer

GEORGE W Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David, a new book claims.
His wife Laura also allegedly tried cannabis in her youth.

Author Kitty Kelley says in her biography The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, that the US President first used coke at university in the mid-1960s.

She quotes his former sister-in-law Sharon Bush who claims: "Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either."

Other acquaintances allege that as a 26-year-old National Guard, Bush "liked to sneak out back for a joint or into the bathroom for a line of cocaine".

Bush has admitted being an alcoholic but, asked during the 1999 election if he did drugs, he said: "I've told the American people that years ago I made some mistakes.

"I've learned from my mistakes and should I be fortunate enough to become president I will bring dignity and honour to the office."

...

Former student Torbery George says in the book: "Poor Georgie. He couldn't relate to women unless he was loaded."

Another says: "He went out of his way to act crude. It's amazing someone you held in such low esteem later became president."


LINK


What if George had not been treated as a medical case, but instead, as a criminal case...like most people? Would his prison time have prevented him from voting, much less becoming the President of the United States?

He should come clean, and be glad that he was treated so kindly. He should also consider those who are now serving in his absence...just as in Vietnam. And he should lead a fight to begin treating addicts medically, and work toward their becoming a healthy addition to America, rather than a permanent liability.

Karen W

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Are George and Karen really the same person?

Sunday, September 05, 2004

Bush's War on Seniors

Endlessly greedy, Bush Inc. foists it's latest flip-flop on senior citizens, while telling them the opposite. But Seniors are not gonna take. They are smarter than this upstart.

Pat Buchanan: My New Hero?

Hooda Thunkit! The man who had me spitting with his talk of "culture war" at Republican Conventions past, has now risen to the mountaintop. He has finally said what should have been said years ago, but everyone was too chicken to say it...

Create the Winning Kerry Ad...and win a new President!

AnonyMoses is rolling out its new product line in time for Fall...which we hope will be Bush's Fall...

We will be creating the ads that, for some dumb reason, the Kerry folks are overlooking. And we want you to help.

Create the ad that will send Bush packing, and put the infinitely more sane, Kerry and Edwards, in the White House. Do it for your mother. Do it for America. Do it for the world.

One needn't be too clever with the design. Remember, a good ad is supposed to be your best salesman. It is supposed to make the reader act. I once saw a 50 year old ad for Postum in a collection of the world's best ads...and went out and bought some the next day. It was still working for the Postum people...50 years after it ran!

Most ads, which are based on how people generally scan a page, has this structure:

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ILLUSTRATION
SUBHEAD FOR ILLUSTRATION

HEADLINE
SUBHEAD

BODY
SUBHEAD
BODY
SUBHEAD
ETC

INFO ON HOW TO ACT, COUPON, ETC
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It could be that the illustration is all you need.
Show a picture of Bush having a tryst with Monica...and you've done your job.
Or maybe the caption seals the deal.
If not that...the Headline. Most people never get beyond the headline, so try to have the ad do the work without the need of body copy. But let the body copy flesh out and enhance the work of the more primary elements.

The coupon section at end could be a link to where people can donate to the Kerry campaign.

Good luck & have fun!

BULLETIN: YOU CANNOT TRUST MSNBC

MSNBC is using Enron's Frank Luntz, proving they do not learn from their mistakes. DO NOT TRUST THEM!!!!!

Saturday, September 04, 2004

Zell Miller: The Face of Conservatism


The Face of Conservatism


What is it with the Millers? The Strange Case of Zell and Dennis Miller.
Republican Party found to be harboring Conservatives...
but the Democratic Party is not without then either.
In fact they have harbored Zell Miller and Gary Condit...
...two strong Conservatives, who are really more Conservative than they are Democrats, and admittedly so.


Zell Miller complains about "his party leaving HIM". Well, what would you expect when the feller acts like an adolescent hothead? What is a gentleman to do? Respect the man for acting like a boor and a madman? This sort of behavior might be fine, even de rigour, for Conservatives, but frankly it is too intolerant, too illiberal, for the mainstream of America, and it is certainly over the top for the gentle and kind Liberal.

But now that I have had time to think about the matter, I am glad that he exposed not only the content, but also the style of today's Conservative. It may well prove to be the very tipping point where people realize Liberal is not such a bad thing, and Conservative is not such a good thing.

After all...today, the real fringe, the real radicals, are on the Right, not the Left. The Left are really only just those with the backbone to stand up to the Right. In every other way, they are the center.

The Left is the defender of the center in more ways than one. The Left defends the common well; air, water, peace... the things we all cherish and, usually, share. The Right, however, is trying to privatize water, in fact they already are, and they have privatized not Peace, but War...and it won't be long before they privatize air. But some things should be geyond mere purchase by the highest bidder. It is this sharing of the common well that has been where politics end. But no longer. And it is time to become a little more traditional in this sense of protecting the well.

And the Center should not resent the Left for fighting to protect it. It is their children and grandchildren who will most benefit, or failing the help, suffer its loss.

It really is a time for a kinder, gentler America. At home AND abroad. Zell Miller ain't it. Pat Buchanan ain't it. Rush Limbaugh ain't it. O'Reilly certainly ain't it. And the Conservatives, of which these are all big stars, ain't it.

Republicans should think twice about harboring these hothead, intolerant, illiberal radicals. The Democrats, you can bet, will. Mean-spiritedness may play well in certain televangelized congregations in holdout haunts in the Deep South, but it cuts against the grain of common decency most everywhere else. The world certainly finds these intolerant cults to be atavistic and counter-productive.


Friday, September 03, 2004

"Most people only read the headline."

More than 85% of your readers will only read the headlines. Since this is true, it only makes sense to make your point...in the headline. Therefore, from now on, I am only going to write headlines.

Here are some of the next ones. Consider it a case of looking into the future. You may also feel free to use them for your own purposes.

- BushWorld: Corporate Fascism at Work
- Moderate Magnet: The Democratic Party - Big Tent for Moderates, Independents and Progressives
- Are Soldiers Not America?: America is NOT safer
- How Bush Stole Your Passport: World Removes Welcome Mat
- Voting to re-hire Bush? Are you really that cruel?

Bush Fatigue: Deflating the Bush Bubble

It doesn't pay to be smart or educated in today's America. It is the gullible and the stupid, who drink the koolaid and pass it around for others to be poisoned, who are pullulating in the cowshit.
But these braindead automatons are easily bored, and soon they will be bored with their lunkhead messiah in the Honkey House.

Judge a country by it's fruit. Our latest offering is the new George Wallace, Zell Miller.
Eat it if you like.

I shant be joining you.

Thursday, September 02, 2004

Millions of Floridians miss Bush Speech.

Is this a sign from God?



Fuggetabbadit!!!!!!!!

NOTES ON BUSH SPEECH

Bla bla bla...I know nice people.
Lies about Medicare and Medical benefits.
Lies about releasing energy with tax relief.
"Nothing will hold us back" is the tagline so far.
Hyperbole about terror not happening on his watch.
More compassionate conservative bullshit.
Lies about offering clear and steady leadership.
He looks like he is on drugs.
Lies about expanding liberty in an expanding circle.
Imperialism.
"We will extend the frontiers of freedom"...meaning look out world, we are coming to take over.

Workers...suck it up.

Threatens to take away social security, etc. Old Europe, as it were.
Licking business' ass.
Reduce regulation.
Make tax relief permanent.
Bla bla bla
Stealing Kerry's idea about empowerment zones.
Bla bla bla
Sticking it to lawyers.
Plagiarized Al Gore line about doctors and patients having say so instead of:
BUSH: Government
GORE: HMOs.

"Ownership Society."
[see: Cain means Ownership]

Empty promise to America's schools.

Local people in charge of their schools.

Screw the moderates.

I'm reminded of what David Ogilvy once said:
YOU CAN'T BORE SOMEONE INTO BUYING YOUR PRODUCT...

What else is on...


MAJOR DISRUPTION!!!!!

ABC MISSES IT!!!!

ANOTHER DISRUPTION!!

PBS seems more reliable in coverage.

Bla bla bla...lies about Kerry and coalition.

Get this boring man out of my white house!

Sorry, but this man really sucks.
What was his name?

God damn what a long speech...
Freedom indeed!

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COMMENTS

Zhoodah : i've never seen such UGLY women in my life

Lord, Here Comes The Flood...

...it'll be those who gave their island to survive.

Frances marches toward Zell Miller...

Listen to Ed Cone at noon today...

WUNC 91.5fm the state of things:

"News Round-up: Election day is exactly two months away. Much of the attention this week is on the Republican National Convention in NY, but here at home in North Carolina, races for Governor and Senator are heating up. Host Melinda Penkava talks about political issues and the news of the day with Paul O'Connor, columnist for the Winston-Salem Journal; Ed Cone, who writes the weblog EdCone.com and contributes an opinion column to the Greensboro News & Record; and Mike Munger, Chair of the Political Science Department at Duke University. "

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Is Zell Miller Satan?

What a redneck hothead! What a lover of life-killing weapons! What a non-Democrat!
Is he going the inherit the wind now brewing in the ocean? Does Frances have Zell's name on it?

I see no bright future for this angry low-class hothead, this Benedict Arnold.

Deliverance was filmed in Zell country.
Squeeeal!

Cheney is speaking as I write. So far he has class. Zell was the epitome of the lack thereof.

I, for one, would gladly leave him.

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