Louisville-AP -- A Republican leader applauded a bumper sticker being circulated in Louisville that reads "Kerry is bin Laden's Man/Bush is Mine" as Democrats decried it.Jefferson County G-O-P chairman Jack Richardson the Fourth says he didn't know the bumper sticker's origins, but agreed with its message.
Richardson says the local G-O-P had no involvement in creating the bumper stickers, but said the stickers were available at the county's GOP headquarters.
At least they didn't make a rude pun out of Mr. Kerry's name. That sort of thing is just so uncouth.
From the Amazon customer reviews for "My Pet Goat":
All I remember about that morning are the words "get ready" yalped in my ear over and over and over and over and over by that teacher woman. I'da asked her to quit it to, but I didn't want to upset the children, see. That's why I let my mind wander away from the goat book to a subject I know lots about... 'pusghetti? ...I kinda wished Andrew Card had come up an whispered "'pusghetti" in my ear twice... cause whoo boy I like it. He wouldn't of had to told me twice! I woulda said, "Where? here? hey... I'm the president, right? I want some damn 'pusghetti right now" and I could have extremed myself right outta there. I shoulda outta' then, shouldn't I?
There are many other reviews, too. It sounds like a real page-turner.
Via Sadly, No.
There are reports in the Australian press that new Iraqi Prime Minister spent a quiet evening a few weeks back personally executing a half-dozen suspected insurgents.
Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad major crimes unit just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim Government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the executions.They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up against a wall in a courtyard next to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the Al-Amriyah security centre, in the city's north-western suburbs.
They say Dr Allawi told onlookers that the victims had each killed as many as 50 Iraqis and they "deserved worse than death".
I'm sure this will work out for the best. I hope everyone is enjoying their democracy, by the way.
[MORAL CLARITY UPDATE: Tim Dunlop notes that Charles Johnson thinks this story might be made up, but thinks it's "a smart idea" if true, although he doesn't approve of it. Also, John Kerry is a flip-flopper.]
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Associated Press asked a federal judge Friday to order the Pentagon to quickly turn over a full copy of President Bush's military service record. ...Records released so far do not put to rest questions over whether Bush fulfilled his National Guard service for a period during the Vietnam War, the AP argued in papers filed in federal court in New York. ...
"A significant, ongoing controversy exists over the president's military service during the Vietnam War, specifically whether he performed his required service between May and October 1972," lawyers for the AP wrote.
There also are allegations that potentially embarrassing material was removed from Bush's military file in 1997, when he was running for re-election as Texas governor, the AP said. ...
AP first sought the Texas records in March, and sued the Pentagon in April over the allegedly slow response.
The Pentagon said on July 9 that military payroll records that could more fully document Bush's whereabouts during his service in the Texas Air National Guard were inadvertently destroyed. And microfilm containing the pertinent National Guard payroll records was damaged and could not be salvaged, according to the Defense Department.
In a related story, the AP corporate offices were inadvertently cruise-missiled to rubble on Friday morning, again later that morning, and then again around lunch time. Survivors were then inadvertently sent to Guantanimo Bay, where they are now inadvertently being tortured by bad apples.
Was Joseph Wilson telling the truth about his wife's role in getting him sent to Niger? Do his conclusions stand unrefuted because he conducted a good investigation, or because he is an extraordinarily lucky liar? Who could possibly care? These questions and more, except for that last one, are answered by Mary Jocoby in Salon, and by Joseph Wilson in a letter to the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the SCCI, in response to their excessive (i.e.: existent) probing of these matters. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.
In a related story, it turns out that we conducted an enormous war to destroy weapons of mass destruction in a far-away land, but - funny story - when we got there, it turned out there were no WMD, and there probably hadn't been any for quite a few years. When we get tired of determining whether or not Joseph Wilson is a bad, bad man, maybe we could peek into that a bit. Just a thought.
I would like to thank the Republican Party for reminding me of the Nuge. I had totally, totally forgotten about The Nuge; but, now that I've been reminded, it's all I can think about. The Nuge. Dude: the Nooooooooj. Senator The Nuge. President The Nuge? Why not? It's fun to say, and it's even funner to think about. Just let your mind wander ...
Ebenezer Nuge ...
The Three Nuges ...
Baton Nuge, Louisiana ...
Extreme Street Nuge ...
Nuge York City ...
I apologize for having no point. I do not apologize for loving The Nuge. I am in a state of shock.
Former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka will not run for the U.S. Senate, he announced at a news conference Wednesday evening in front of his restaurant. ...Republican sources say that the Republican Party will now focus on two potential candidates: Jim Oberwies, who finished second in the primary for this nomination, and John Cox, who ran a couple of years ago. Both have the distinction of being multimillionaires.
But another name surfacing is that of rocker, outspoken conservative and gun rights activist Ted Nugent.
"He grew up in Arlington Heights. He went to St. Viator High School," said Cook County Republican Chair Gary Skoien. "He has more connection to Illinois than Hillary Clinton had to New York, and he's been a very articulate spokesperson on constitutional issues. He would be a very interesting candidate."
The fuckin' Nuge, dude. The fuckin' Nuge.
[UPDATE: If you want to get some inside dope on his possible Senate run, why not Ask The Nuge?]
Play By The Rules is an organization created by Oxfam to bring attention to bad labor conditions and union-busting in sportswear factories in the developing world. There's a petition you can sign asking Fila, the company that is providing clothing and gear for the Olympics, to do better.
Lie:
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.
President George W. Bush
5/30/2003
Truth:
We have not yet been able to corroborate the existence of a mobile BW production effort.
David Kay
10/2/2003
I found this kitten on my driveway. Anyone talks politics in this thread and I'll run it over; or, if you hate cats, I'll make it crap on your pillow. You've been warned.
Via Atrios, Charles Pierce:
In 1994, an eight-year old girl named Valerie Lakey was playing in a wading pool. She got caught in a defective drain. Her intestines were ripped from her body by the suction. She is now 17. She will have to be fed through a tube, 12 hours a day, for the rest of her life. In 1997, John Edwards won her family a $25 million judgment, of which he took a portion. The judgment helped jump-start his political career.On the first day of last year, as part of his opening comments on Crossfire, this is how the incident was described by Tucker Carlson, whom public and private broadcasting networks tumble all over themselves to hire: "Four years ago, he (Edwards) was a personal-injury lawyer specializing in Jacuzzi cases."
Jacuzzi cases.
An eight-year old who got disemboweled.
Jacuzzi cases.
A child who'll have to be fed through a tube for as long as she lives.
Jacuzzi cases.
Now, I know it's a terrible thing when Whoopi Goldberg makes salacious fun of C-Plus Augustus's last name. I know that society may simply collapse. But here is a professional communicator at the top of his profession who, because he couldn't come up with anything else to say at the moment, smugly dispatches the tragedy of a child whose guts were ripped out. (Later in the same show, he told co-host James Carville to "Lighten up," about his comments.) It was an interesting evening -- not only should Tucker Carlson have lost every job in the professional media that he has, and not only did he lose forever any right to criticize anyone for intemperate speech, he at that moment should have been shunned by decent people for the rest of his sorry life.
Jacuzzi cases.
Christ.
[UPDATE: Tell CNN how much you appreciate their broadcast of that doughy bow-tie'd fuck Carlson mocking crippled little girls here.]
David Talbot of Salon has an interview with St. Ralph (you have to click through a bunch of ads - you are welcome to, but they mostly just yell at each other.) Talbot is trying to call him out on his campaign being supported by right-wing "corporate" interests. You've heard it all before, but the end is priceless:
Nader: We're not going to play the fascist game of the two-party monopoly barricading itself from any competition, with all kinds of statutory obstruction that cost third parties immense time and money if they can surmount them. This is a dictatorship, which you don't seem to understand...
I just want to point out that I'm not going to play Nader's fascist game of the three-party triopoly barricading itself from any competition by making me get signatures to be on ballots. Here is what I will do in my first 100 days:
1. Bring about world peace forever
2. Abolish all corporations
3. Cure AIDS and cancer
4. Make everybody completely free
5. Ban everything lame
6. Free Mumia
I will also legalize the KB, stage one in my War on Shwag. Also, I take no donations from anybody, and my Vice President will be Britney Spears Naked, and nobody will ever have to do anything they don't want to and we'll all live forever in cloud castles made of cotton candy and rainbows. There is now no possible excuse for voting for Nader, unless you are a big sell-out.
The revised White House text, which we will vote on, limits the grant of authority to the President to the use of force only with respect to Iraq. It does not empower him to use force throughout the Persian Gulf region. It authorizes the President to use Armed Forces to defend the "national security" of the United States - a power most of us believe he already has under the Constitution as Commander in Chief. And it empowers him to enforce all "relevant" Security Council resolutions related to Iraq. None of those resolutions or, for that matter, any of the other Security Council resolutions demanding Iraqi compliance with its international obligations, calls for a regime change.In recent days, the administration has gone further. They are defining what "relevant" U.N. Security Council resolutions mean. When Secretary Powell testified before our committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, on September 26, he was asked what specific U.N. Security Council resolutions the United States would go to war to enforce. His response was clear: the resolutions dealing with weapons of mass destruction and the disarmament of Iraq. In fact, when asked about compliance with other U.N. resolutions which do not deal with weapons of mass destruction, the Secretary said: The President has not linked authority to go to war to any of those elements. ...
Let me be clear, the vote I will give to the President is for one reason and one reason only: To disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, if we cannot accomplish that objective through new, tough weapons inspections in joint concert with our allies.
In giving the President this authority, I expect him to fulfill the commitments he has made to the American people in recent days--to work with the United Nations Security Council to adopt a new resolution setting out tough and immediate inspection requirements, and to act with our allies at our side if we have to disarm Saddam Hussein by force. If he fails to do so, I will be among the first to speak out.
If we do wind up going to war with Iraq, it is imperative that we do so with others in the international community, unless there is a showing of a grave, imminent--and I emphasize "imminent"--threat to this country which requires the President to respond in a way that protects our immediate national security needs.
