Images of 911 by Anonymoses

How many of you who were in Manhattan on 9-11-03 looked up and saw this strange creature floating by?




Run through a photoshop filter, we get this strange creature...



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Is Arnold Just Another Koslowski?

Arnold's friends in the entertainment world have resorted to bragging about all of his extravagent purchases...which include a dozen or so humvees, a tank, and many other gas-guzzling examples of conspicuous consumption and classlessness. You can't buy class, Arnold and Mr. Koslowski. But you can buy the media. I guess you know this already...

The Military vs. the GOP - Are they falling out of love? By Timothy Noah

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Beware The Luntz

GOP Pollster, Frank Luntz



GOP Strategist, Grover Norquist


Beware The Luntz

There is a reason pollster Frank Luntz resembles Grover Norquist.
He is in love with him. Well maybe. He is at least in love with his ideas.

So why does he pose as a non-partisan pollster? And why did he do so during those crucial days of the 2000 election? And why did MSNBC hire this ex-Enron consultant to mislead us?

Read this, and don't get fooled again. He's just another lying liar...

The Death of Credentials

Thought leaders?



SEAN HANNITY
finished High School



RUSH LIMBAUGH
finished High School

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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULIS
BA (Political Science), Columbia University, summa cum laude
MA (Theology), Oxford University




AL FRANKEN
BA, Harvard College



Standards are important. Time to start listing the credentials of the pundits and talking heads...

Opening the Hollywood Pandora's Box

Opening the Hollywood Pandora's Box
Bring on your Swartzeneggers, your Kelsey Grammers, your Dennis Millers!
Make Hollywood the only talent pool for politics. I'll be sure to tell Butch and Sundance to gather friends...

Edward Said and George Plimpton died this week

Edward Said and George Plimpton died this week...

I first met Edward Said in 1980, I believe it was, when he was giving a talk at Duke University on Orientalism. Sadly I didn't know who he was at the time, but was deeply moved by his depth and passion. Since that time, I have often thought about him and his work, and often look back on that intimate meeting with a sort of reverence. He was a light illuminating much that is even still kept in the dark. May his work and spirit live on...

PROFILE: REMEMBRANCE OF EDWARD SAID, PROFESSOR, AUTHOR AND ADVOCATE OF THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE
All Things Considered: September 25, 2003



Also this week, another monumental personality passes from us.
George Plimpton, among other things, was a great fan of pyrotechnics...and it was in this context that I first made my acquaintance with the lofty old soul.

It was in the early 1980s in Boston, and Mr. Plimpton was to host an international fireworks festival. George introduced each country's firework presentation, describing the subtleties and techniques employed. And while the display was taking place, an orchestra would feature that country's music.

The French were really good with pastels; the English were good at causing the fireworks to sort of park themselves in the air, then branch off in different directions, then repeat the process. The Japanese fireworks were most similar to viewing a computer screen, and the fireworks seemed to be directed at the stationary viewer. Palimpsests were also quite excellent. The Chinese had perhaps the strangest. A dozen strings of glowing red apples that slowly drifted across the sky, in time with the music. Very subtle. Very different from the American fireworks that finished off the evening...and, by the way, won the competition. To me they merely looked like a battleship had pulled up to the shore and just starting opening fire on the crowd. Huge white fireballs.
Goodness gracious!

For his myriad interests which he shared with the world, George Plimpton will be missed and remembered. I don't expect to have a more scintillating experience of the world of pyrotechnics.

Goodbye to two great gentlemen.

Rush Limbaugh calls General Clark a Fraud

Rush Limbaugh calls General Clark a Fraud

Why are the French so beautiful?

Question for the day:
Why are the French so beautiful?

Clark and Kerry Beat Bush in CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll

Note how they frame it as a tie...even though both Clark and Kerry receive more percentage points than George. Typical media shilling for Bush...


FROM THE ARTICLE:

WASHINGTON - Democrat Wesley Clark, in the presidential race for less than a week, is tied with President Bush (news - web sites) in a head-to-head matchup, according to a poll that shows several Democratic candidates strongly challenging the Republican incumbent.


Clark, a retired Army general, garnered 49 percent support to Bush's 46 percent, which is essentially a tie given the poll's margin of error. The CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll was conducted Sept. 19-21, beginning two days after Clark announced he would become the 10th Democratic candidate for the party's nomination.


Several other Democrats who have been in the race for months also were close to Bush in direct matchups. Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) of Massachusetts and Sen. Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) of Connecticut also were tied with the president, while Bush held a slight lead over former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (news - web sites) and Rep. Dick Gephardt (news - web sites) of Missouri.


In the head-to-head confrontations, it was Kerry at 48 percent to Bush's 47 percent; and Bush's 48 percent to Lieberman's 47 percent. Bush held a slight lead over Dean, 49-45 percent, and had a similar advantage over Gephardt.

Nostronymoses predicts: Bogus "Blackouts" After Isabel

ISABEL
ISBAEL
ISRAEL

Nobel Prize Winner Assassinated

Not a good headline

A friendly reminder to policy-makers that actions have consequences, and that some don't make for very warm and fuzzy headlines. When will the world learn to only kill with kindness?

King Clinton Offers Sage Advice

Bill Clinton looking like Dali's apparition of a bust of Voltaire

King Clinton Offers Sage Advice to Democrats

Reassures World that America is not beyond Hope

Find a copy of this speech. I heard it over the telephone...and thought it was the most lucid blueprint to emerge this season. In fact, no one tells it better than Clinton and Gore...but, as Clinton said, this is the best set of candidates in many decades. Maybe ever. No need to overstate. Any one of them is superior to the current occupier. And we know, he will not show his face...unless it is a closed clique paying huge sums. And even there Bush looks like he has swallowed a jar of Contac. Nothing authentic. Nothing genuine. Simulacrum at best.

Not so the Democrats. None of them. All eminently qualified, and all worthy of our love, respect...and yes, funding.

As President Clinton himself said: We don't have to beat up on the Republicans. Just tell the truth and they will think it's Hell.

Lying Liar Limbaugh Lies Again

GARBAGE IN

Lying liar, Rush Limbaugh, is lying as I speak. Check it out! He must not have read Al Franken's book, or he'd know how ridiculous he sounds. But for that kind of money, I guess many weak-willed opportunists would lie all day. In fact there are many, and not just Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly.

Arm yourself from their garbage. Garbage in, garbage out. They are the garbage. Franken proves it. And you can learn all the sly ways these lying liars will lie to you.

Do you really want to be accused of purveying garbage? Remember...garbage in, garbage out. And they are the garbage.

That is...unless you don't mind building your house on a foundation of lies.


For example, Rush just blathered on and on about how he never, would never, try to flame someone. And then he went on to call for his listeners, in so many words, to flame MoveOn.org.

He's drunk on his "power". But the very rednecks who are his lemmings will, one day, turn ON him. Remember what your mother told you. Those who will steal or lie FOR you...with steal FROM you and lie TO you.

Maybe it would be best to just step out of the way and let them destroy each other...

The bottom 1%

Jerusalem Post says "Kill Arafat", and now the Israeli Government has authorized the removal of Arafat, while the United States, Europe and Egypt warn Israel against carrying out a threat to expel him.
Meanwhile America appears ever-closer to inheriting the winds of Hurricane Isabelle. Strangely, Isa is the Muslim word for Jesus. Hmm. Bad wording?
New namer! Maybe colors or notes would be better. Hurricane F#...not that threatening...hmm...

I say it it time to bring back exuberance. The world is going in the wrong direction.

Time for the Peacemakers to reign. 99% of the world wants peace. It's just those who profit who don't.

Is a Dean/Clark Dream Team Emerging?

Is a Dean/Clark Dream Team Emerging?

Among other things, a Dean/Clark team would usurp the Medical/Military initiative from Chimpy.

This would leave Hillary and Gore as the other Dream VPs for Edwards and Kerry to scoop up.

The clock is ticking...

Dean Asks Clark to Join His Campaign

Dean Asks Clark to Join His Campaign

Howard Dean doesn't pass Fox-style "Fair & Balanced" test on Israel

Howard Dean doesn't pass Fox-style "Fair & Balanced" test on Israel

During the most recent Democratic debate, Howard Dean had the gall to say that America needs to have the trust of both Israel and Palestine...and was bitchslapped for having done so.

Like Fox News, there are those who would have us pretend to be fair and balanced brokers, when in fact, we are not.

Yet another reason why the UN should be charge of the "Roadmap"...