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"Am I Still an Unpatriotic Traitor?" "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns ? the ones we don't know we don't know." ---Donald Rumsfeld
, Secretary of Defense PRESIDENT BUSH: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."
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| "The Iraqi people are achieving great things and serving and sacrificing for their own future. Today, more than 200,000 Iraqis, including 78,000 new police, are protecting their fellow citizens. They're building a country that is strong and free, and America is proud to stand with them. All over Iraq today, as that nation moves closer to self-government, Iraqis can be certain that in the United States of America, they have a faithful friend. And our military -- and in our military, they're seeing the good heart of America." ---- President Bush, in a speech yesterday at Fort Campbell, Kentucky |
If only fairy tales DID come true....
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War in Quotes
In memory of the 1-year anniversary of Bush's invasion of Iraq, here are some quotes:
In memory of the 1-year anniversary of Bush's invasion of Iraq, here are some quotes:
| One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), Autobiography (1977) I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) (attributed) War is not nice. Barbara Bush (1925 - ) Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), The People, Yes (1936) The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929) War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929) The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973) |
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FRIDAY FUN
100 Most-mispronounced English Words
All Things Cowboy
Bunny Love (Video)
HowToons ("How-To" cartoons and videos for kids)
Ming the Merciless
Simpsons Home (for real!)
Be sure to visit the FRIDAY FUN archives and relive some of your most unforgettable moments in humor.
100 Most-mispronounced English Words
All Things Cowboy
Bunny Love (Video)
HowToons ("How-To" cartoons and videos for kids)
Ming the Merciless
Simpsons Home (for real!)
Be sure to visit the FRIDAY FUN archives and relive some of your most unforgettable moments in humor.
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A Universal Demand for Clean Water
GOP Pollster Warns Bush to Ease Up on Clean Water Act. (Snippet:)
Well, if Bush's own studies show the detrimental effect of his policies, and he's ignoring them, then what's the point?
I swear, this is probably the best post I've ever read on the Democratic Party's spinelessness and Kerry's fortitude: Fighting Man.
GOP Pollster Warns Bush to Ease Up on Clean Water Act. (Snippet:)
| ...The Bush Administration's systematic assault on the Clean Water Act, one of the nation's most important environmental laws, has included weakening programs that maintain water quality, huge cuts in funding for water protection, and reduced enforcement of regulations. One EPA draft proposal would weaken regulations and oversight of the program responsible for cleaning up the 45% of the nation's waters that are still too polluted for swimming, fishing, drinking water, and other uses. "The most significant threat" noted Mulhern "is the directive the administration issued in January, 2003, declaring that many wetlands and streams should have no Clean Water Act limits on pollution at all." In a parallel effort, the Interior Department has been rolling back protections to make it easier for coal companies to bury streams and valleys with waste, in the process of mountaintop removal strip mining. The Bush Administration's own studies show that this type of mining has already destroyed more than 1,200 miles of streams and 380,000 acres of Appalachian mountains and forests. |
Well, if Bush's own studies show the detrimental effect of his policies, and he's ignoring them, then what's the point?
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March 18, 2004
I swear, this is probably the best post I've ever read on the Democratic Party's spinelessness and Kerry's fortitude: Fighting Man.
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Analysis of the Embedded
Fascinating article on a conference at U.C. Berkeley that reviewed the outcome of embedded journalists in Iraq. Excerpt:
Fascinating article on a conference at U.C. Berkeley that reviewed the outcome of embedded journalists in Iraq. Excerpt:
| ...Even for a reporter riding in a tank with American soldiers, any casualties inflicted by the crew usually occur off screen and out of sight. The result, said Gitlin, is that the point of view of the reporter approximates the view of the government's own camera. War reporting becomes a travelogue. He likened some war coverage – particularly that practiced by television – to a televised sporting event. Rather than journalism, it becomes entertainment. When the primary motive of media institutions becomes audience share, then these institutions "seek a rapture of attention" in order to procure as many eyeballs as possible. This, said Gitlin, conflicts with "a journalistic duty not to please," but rather to shake the safe assumptions of their audience.... |
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WHAAA?
WOW! What is so wrong with the jello-spined Democratic Party that a prominent Republican can give better support? Before long Kerry is going to wonder if he is running for the Democrats or just for himself.
UPDATE: Here's KOS on McCain:
I know that McCain is not going to get tied to the upper echelons of the Democratic Party, but, for god's sake, what is wrong with the Democrats, such that a Republican is giving more support to Kerry than most Democrats? Do the Democrats REALLY care so little that they are relying on the conscience of the few remaining moderate Republicans to carry out their dirty work? It makes me embarrassed to be a Democrat.
| McCain says Kerry is not weak on defense - By Associated Press - Thursday, March 18, 2004 McCain tells NBC he doesn't believe that Kerry is ``necessarily weak on defense'' -- even though he says they disagree on some issues. McCain serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and is a friend of the Massachusetts senator. He says Kerry and President Bush [related, bio] should be talking about Medicare and other issues instead of engaging in negative campaigning. The Arizona Republican says the American people don't need such political attacks. He says the result will be lower voter turnout, particularly among younger people. Kerry accuses Bush of leaving American troops prone to attacks in Iraq, while Bush and Vice President Cheney argue that Kerry lacks the judgment to lead the armed forces. |
WOW! What is so wrong with the jello-spined Democratic Party that a prominent Republican can give better support? Before long Kerry is going to wonder if he is running for the Democrats or just for himself.
UPDATE: Here's KOS on McCain:
| There's no way McCain will be Kerry's running mate; you don't undo his decades of conservative votes and stances on a whole host of issues and end up on the Democratic ticket. Nevertheless, McCain seems to be relishing his role as Republican apostate who refuses to be defender of Bush's realm. McCain's primary motivation is probably his sense of honor; he's not entirely consistent, but he tends to conduct himself with honesty and integrity, and he's earned a reputation as a straight shooter by not going against his openly stated positions. He respects Kerry, sees chickenhawks Bush and Cheney maligning a good man's honor and patriotic service, both in the military and in political life, and he feels compelled to speak out. But it's hard not to conclude that he especially enjoys doing the right thing when it really screws Bush and his minions. |
I know that McCain is not going to get tied to the upper echelons of the Democratic Party, but, for god's sake, what is wrong with the Democrats, such that a Republican is giving more support to Kerry than most Democrats? Do the Democrats REALLY care so little that they are relying on the conscience of the few remaining moderate Republicans to carry out their dirty work? It makes me embarrassed to be a Democrat.
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March 17, 2004
Today's Quote
From Steve Gilliard:
From Steve Gilliard:
| "Bush has run this war like King Leopold ran the Congo, as his private preserve, not a national priority. They have used 9/11 like duct tape, for everything under the sun. Yet, there has been no call for national sacrifice, and no effort at any. Tax cuts, FCC witch hunts, gay marriage, all trivialities compared to the task of securing the US." |
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A Safer Iraq
Yes, Mr. President, the U.S., under your vision and leadership, has made Iraq MUCH SAFER for its citizens.
Interesting how the Iraqis are trying to keep the Americans away from the scene (last sentence, bold). That speaks volumes about how much the country despises our presence there.
Yes, Mr. President, the U.S., under your vision and leadership, has made Iraq MUCH SAFER for its citizens.
| Wednesday, March 17, 2004 Posted: 1:36 PM EST (1836 GMT) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A powerful explosion, apparently from a car bomb, went off in the Karrada district of central Baghdad Wednesday, virtually destroying the Mount Lebanon Hotel and damaging a number of houses and offices nearby. Iraqi police sources said there were "many dead, many injured." A coalition military official said he believed the blast was caused by a car bomb. "It's a scene from hell here," CNN Baghdad Bureau Chief Jane Arraf said. "People are crying and screaming and debris is everywhere," Arraf said. "I heard the explosion and I ran down the street, and saw many, many people killed. There were children dead," Raad Abdul Karim, 30, told Reuters. "They are ordinary families. I don't know why this happened." The blast rocked the area about 8:10 p.m. (12:10 p.m. EST), leaving a large crater in front of where the hotel had stood. An hour after the blast, smoke continued to billow into the sky as ambulances rushed away with casualties. Rescuers searched amid burning timbers and crumpled brick for survivors. Iraqi police and coalition soldiers cordoned off the area. U.S. soldiers from the nearby "Green Zone" attempted to go into the area to rescue victims but were driven back by angry Iraqis.... |
Interesting how the Iraqis are trying to keep the Americans away from the scene (last sentence, bold). That speaks volumes about how much the country despises our presence there.
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Pay As You Go
NDOL recommends bringing back PAYGO. Some Republicans in Congress are starting to support it. It sounds like a very good idea (it must be, since Bush is dead set against it).
NDOL recommends bringing back PAYGO. Some Republicans in Congress are starting to support it. It sounds like a very good idea (it must be, since Bush is dead set against it).
| There were a variety of factors that made the elimination of federal budget deficits -- and the creation of budget surpluses -- during the Clinton administration. Chief among them was a brilliantly successful administration economic strategy that produced the longest period of low-inflation, high-employment, broad-based economic growth since the 1960s. But it didn't hurt that Congress was operating under strict budget rules enacted in 1990. These included "caps" on Congressional appropriations, and a rule called PAYGO (for "pay as you go") that created a point of order on the House and Senate floors against any proposal for new entitlement spending or new tax cuts that wasn't offset by spending cuts or revenue increases. (The point of order could be waived by a super-majority vote, but that rarely happened.) These rules were abandoned by Congress in 2002 at the request of the Bush administration, which was busily doing everything possible to eliminate budget surpluses and return the federal government to an era of big deficits, mainly through its monomaniacal insistence on tax cuts targeted to the wealthiest Americans. With virtually all Congressional Democrats and a growing number of Congressional Republicans becoming alarmed at the torrent of red ink engulfing the federal government, there's a new impetus to bring back tough budget rules, especially PAYGO. The administration, alternating almost daily between denying that deficits matter, pretending it intends to do something about them, or blaming them on somebody else -- anybody -- opposes a return to PAYGO if tax cuts are included. Late last week, however, the Senate, with four Republicans joining all but one Democrat, included PAYGO in its version of the federal budget resolution for the next fiscal year.... |
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March 16, 2004
FBI Wants to Tap Broadband
FBI Petitions for Broad Wiretapping Rights
This is unsettling news. Can't we have at least one day of no bad news?
FBI Petitions for Broad Wiretapping Rights
March 15, 2004 By Sebastian Rupley The Bush Administration has asked the Federal Communications Commission to require broadband service providers to introduce new architecture in their networks that would facilitate eavesdropping by law enforcement officials. The 85-page proposal was filed March 12 by the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Experts are saying that if it is approved, it could dramatically hinder both emerging and existing technologies.... |
This is unsettling news. Can't we have at least one day of no bad news?
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The Next Florida
Which state is destined to be the next "Florida" in the 2004 Presidential election? Why, FLORIDA of course!
Which state is destined to be the next "Florida" in the 2004 Presidential election? Why, FLORIDA of course!
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Caution: This Product Contains Dihydrogen Monoxide. Keep Away From Paralegals.
Ha, ha ha! This is just too funny!
A couple of sources of info on this deadly substance are HERE and HERE.
And on an equally unserious note HERE is a machine that just kicks ass. Really. It kicks your ass.
Ha, ha ha! This is just too funny!
| Posted on Sun, Mar. 14, 2004 SoCal city falls victim to Internet hoax, considers banning items made with water - Associated Press ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - City officials were so concerned about the potentially dangerous properties of dihydrogen monoxide that they considered banning foam cups after they learned the chemical was used in their production. Then they learned that dihydrogen monoxide - H2O for short - is the scientific term for water. "It's embarrassing," said City Manager David J. Norman. "We had a paralegal who did bad research." The paralegal apparently fell victim to one of the many official looking Web sites that have been put up by pranksters to describe dihydrogen monoxide as "an odorless, tasteless chemical" that can be deadly if accidentally inhaled. As a result, the City Council of this Orange County suburb had been scheduled to vote next week on a proposed law that would have banned the use of foam containers at city-sponsored events. Among the reasons given for the ban were that they were made with a substance that could "threaten human health and safety." The measure has been pulled from the agenda, although Norman said the city may still eventually ban foam cups. |
A couple of sources of info on this deadly substance are HERE and HERE.
And on an equally unserious note HERE is a machine that just kicks ass. Really. It kicks your ass.
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Diebold Follies
Robert X. Cringely has some comments about Diebold's balking at the attempts by legislators to pass laws requiring paper printouts of electonic voting machines (snippet):
If you haven't figured out by now that Diebold, which is essentially run by the Republican Party, is going to behave exactly like a Bush Republican (i.e. lie, stall, misrepresent), then now of this will make sense to you. As Left is Right has been saying for about a year now, voting fraud via electronic voting maching tampering is going to be the undoing of the Democrats in November, 2004. Get you information HERE and HERE.
Robert X. Cringely has some comments about Diebold's balking at the attempts by legislators to pass laws requiring paper printouts of electonic voting machines (snippet):
| ....By now we know that touchscreen voting machines are suspect. They can be tampered with by determined folks, potentially changing an election. And most of them appear to be incapable of supporting effective vote recounts, even if those recounts are mandated by law. I wrote about this long ago and now many writers cover the same material, but I don't think we have been doing a very good job. For example, the tide appears to have turned, and voting officials are now starting to demand that touchscreen voting machines be able to generate a paper audit trail of every vote. This has the voting machine vendors crying foul ("We know that requirement was always in the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), but we talked you out of it, right?") and asking for more money -- lots more money -- to add printers to their touchscreen machines. That is IF the printers can even be added, the technical challenge is so great. Then this week I heard from reader Jed Rothwell, fresh from a day working the polls as a voting clerk. Jed says in the case of Diebold machines at least, there was a printer inside already. Jed writes, "Meg Smothers of the League of Women Voters recently said that Georgia has 28,000 voting machines, and it would cost $15 million to retrofit them with printers to produce receipts. That comes to $535 per machine. Yet these machines already have printers. They produce a paper receipt at the end of the day showing the vote tallies. The printers are the kind used in cash registers, and they have large rolls of paper that would easily last through the 12 hours the polls remain open. It takes people about a minute to cast a ballot, so one machine would need to print at most 720 receipts per day. The printer and paper are located on the right side of the machine, under a locked metal cover. It would be a simple matter to fabricate a new metal equipment cover with an outlet above the printer, that would print a receipt for the voter. Based on the retail cost of similar metal computer equipment cases available in any computer store, this should cost approximately $30 per machine, not $500. The programming change would be trivial.".... |
If you haven't figured out by now that Diebold, which is essentially run by the Republican Party, is going to behave exactly like a Bush Republican (i.e. lie, stall, misrepresent), then now of this will make sense to you. As Left is Right has been saying for about a year now, voting fraud via electronic voting maching tampering is going to be the undoing of the Democrats in November, 2004. Get you information HERE and HERE.
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Look out, the Polygamists are Coming!!!
Here's some gay marriage propoganda from the NFRA
Sheesh! Guess we'd better batten down the hatches, because all those recently married gays are going to bring down our country, down into the cesspool of our morally corrupt bastion of liberals and non-christians.
They make it sound so inevitable. Okay, now it's my turn to make a prediction of the inevitable. I predict that if Bushwins the 2000 election captures the Presidency, our economy will go south, we will begin invading defenseless countries, poverty will increase, the rich will get a lot richer, terrorism around the world will increase, most of the countries who have been our allies will shun us, our education system (all levels) will deteriorate, and compassionate conservativism will take on a whole new, ugly connotation.
Oh, wait... all that already happened.
You know, this "polyamory" thing sounds interesting.....
Here's some gay marriage propoganda from the NFRA
| National NFRA: Homosexuals Marriage: Gateway To Polygamy/Polyamory It will only be a matter of time before polygamy and group marriages are legalized. The push for the legalization of homosexual marriage is not only going to normalize what has long been known to be sexual perversion and a disease-ridden lifestyle, but it will open up the floodgates to an effort to legalize polygamy and polyamory (group marriages). Social commentator Stanley Kurtz, in "Beyond Gay Marriage," (The Weekly Standard, August 4-11, 2003) argues that "Among the likeliest effects of gay marriage is to take us down a slippery slope to legalized polygamy and 'polyamory' (group marriage). Marriage will be transformed into a variety of relationship contracts, linking two, three, or more individuals (however weakly and temporarily) in every conceivable combination of male and female. A scary scenario? Hardly. The bottom of this slope is visible from where we stand. Advocacy of legalized polygamy is growing." Kurtz concludes: "Marriage is a critical social institution. Stable families depend on it. Society depends on stable families. Up to now, with all the changes in marriage, the one thing we've been sure of is that marriage means monogamy. Gay marriage will break that connection. It will do this by itself, and by leading to polygamy and polyamory. What lies beyond gay marriage is no marriage at all." |
Sheesh! Guess we'd better batten down the hatches, because all those recently married gays are going to bring down our country, down into the cesspool of our morally corrupt bastion of liberals and non-christians.
They make it sound so inevitable. Okay, now it's my turn to make a prediction of the inevitable. I predict that if Bush
Oh, wait... all that already happened.
You know, this "polyamory" thing sounds interesting.....
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A GOP View of a Poll
I received this email from the Bush camp today:
Wow, talk about grasping at straws. Did you notice that 39% view Bush unfavorably, while only 29% view Kerry the same? I do find it odd, though, that 41% of voters have never heard, or have no opinion, of Kerry. Looks like he's got some work to do. Finally, GOP math is different than what I learned in 1st grade; they said Bush's approval rating rose from 47% to 51%, a net increase of 6%?! It appears that they're tacking on the 2% drop in his disapproval rating - you can't do that.
I received this email from the Bush camp today:
| TO: Campaign Leadership FR: Matthew Dowd Chief Strategist RE: CBS/New York Times poll -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are a few highlights of the CBS News/New York Times poll released this morning that were largely missing in the story: The President's job approval is rising. A majority of Americans, 51%, approve, while 42% disapprove, a net increase of 6 points from the 47% that approved and 44% that disapproved in the late February CBS News poll. The President now leads Kerry by 3 points among registered voters, 46% to 43%. This is a net increase of 4 points since mid-February, when Kerry led by a point. Against a possible Kerry-Edwards ticket, Bush-Cheney now leads by 2 points. A Bush-Cheney ticket leads a hypothetical Kerry-Edwards ticket among registered voters, 46% to 44%. This is a net increase of 10 points since late February, when the Kerry-Edwards ticket led by 8 points. The President's support is also more intense than Kerry's. 76% of the President's supporters say that their mind is made up, while just 70% of Kerry's say the same. President Bush is viewed more favorably by Americans. 43% of Americans view the President favorably, an increase of 3 points since mid-February. 39% view him unfavorably and 17% have no opinion of him. More Americans now view John Kerry unfavorably. Kerry's favorability declined, from 37% favorable/28% unfavorable to 28% favorable/29% unfavorable, a net decrease of 10 points since the late February CBS News poll. 41% of voters have never heard of Kerry or have no opinion of him. A majority of Americans now see Kerry as a man who only says what people want to hear. Just 33% say that Kerry says what he believes, while 57% say that he does not. On the other hand, a majority of Americans, 51%, see President Bush as a man who says what he believes. The real story from this poll is Kerry's 10-point drop in favorability since the late February CBS News poll and President Bush's rise in the midst of months of negative attacks from the Democrats. |
Wow, talk about grasping at straws. Did you notice that 39% view Bush unfavorably, while only 29% view Kerry the same? I do find it odd, though, that 41% of voters have never heard, or have no opinion, of Kerry. Looks like he's got some work to do. Finally, GOP math is different than what I learned in 1st grade; they said Bush's approval rating rose from 47% to 51%, a net increase of 6%?! It appears that they're tacking on the 2% drop in his disapproval rating - you can't do that.
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Too little, Too Late
NOW the AARP gets it? What a dumb-ass organization. I'll continue to toss the applications they keep sending and look for relief elsewhere.
| AARP seeks legal imports of drugs - March 16, 2004 AUSTIN, TEXAS -- The nation's largest seniors group launched a campaign Monday to make cheaper Canadian drugs available to Americans. AARP, which has 35 million members, said it will lobby drug corporations, Congress and the Bush administration to legalize the imports. The group also is running TV and newspaper ads. Rising prescription-drug prices and the Medicare debate have boosted the issue in Congress and on the campaign trail. The Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. pharmaceuticals industry oppose the practice, saying they cannot guarantee the safety of imported drugs. |
NOW the AARP gets it? What a dumb-ass organization. I'll continue to toss the applications they keep sending and look for relief elsewhere.
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| Well the weight of the world is FALLING And on my back I've been CRAWLING The state of affairs is APPALLING And the 6 o'clock news keeps CALLING Well I've been trying to see the world through their eyes Where black is white and day is night Left is Right Left is Right Left is Right, For me Well negotiations keep STALLING The United Nations keeps CALLING The Skeletons you're HAULING Won't hold when you're FALLING Put your head in the sand and you'll never know What's waiting for you in the depths below (below) Don't believe everything that you read Take what you want and keep what you need TWISTED NIXON |
CHICK HEARN, THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL THE MEMORIES.
