Saturday, January 10, 2004
Bush planned on war before 9/11 and was just looking for an excuse.
Sound like a crackpot conspiracy theory?
Well it is from a memoir by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'neill who saw it all first hand.
Update: My mistake. It is not a memior by O'Niel, but a book written by Pulitzer prize winning Wall Street Journal Reporter Ron Suskind, who used O'neil as his primary source.
"Haven't we already given money to rich people. ... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle,"
A direct quote from Bush. Even though all the conservative pundits screamed that it was definitly not tax cuts for the rich, and Bush himself promised his tax cuts help everyone.
Friday, January 09, 2004
This was pretty cool.
From Time Magazine.
M A U R I C E C H E E K S ' V O C A L A S S I S T
Cheeks was an all-star point guard in the NBA before becoming Portland's coach, but his best assist was the one he gave to 13-year-old Natalie Gilbert on April 25. Prior to Game 3 of the Mavericks-Blazers playoff series in Portland, Gilbert began to sing the Star-Spangled Banner before a crowd of nearly 20,000. But then she forgot the words and was left nervously shaking alone, until Cheeks walked over from his team's bench, put his arm around Gilbert and sang the rest of the song with her.
Second most inspirational sports moment?
Watchcing fat head Zim get dropped.
SO I am assuming we are going to dip into our special hidden away piggybank with our rainy day fund to pay for this?
I mean it's not like we having a crushing debt and extravagant new spending programs.
Remember those long ago days back when cell phones were about 6 ounces heavier, ER was in its 3rd season, The world didn't despise us and Republicans were for lower spending?
Those were heady day?s
And FYI, Bush's father wanted a manned mission to Mars too, the estimated cost was a trillion dollars.
Man, Atrios is right o this one. Crushing debt, 3 million lost jobs, a preemptive war we were lied into costing us untold billions, the new immigration policy proposal, Clark released his in depth tax proposal, Bushs new budget figures coming out, including cuts in veterans benefits.
Whats the lead in the NYT story?
Clark is now wearing Argyle sweaters.
Thursday, January 08, 2004
God they are so freaking stupid over there at the Corner.
FYI, Drudge is playing up a video Byron reported on this morning in his NRO piece on MoveOn.Org: MoveOn has no reason to be backing away from the Bush-as-Hitler contestant because it's no aberration. One of the finalists in their commercial contest has a Bush-as-Hitler video themselves. Byron wrote about that group and their fellow travellers back in September for NRODT.
Besides the fact that any reputable magazine would take someone like Matt Drudge seriously, there reasoining now is Moveon.org should now be held responsible for ad's they didn't produce and have never seen.
THose people are about as sharp as a bag of wet mice.
Jonah Goldberg is such an idiot. LIke mother like son I guess. The fact taht he would even for a second think that Jiimmy Carter said that the Orcs in the LOTR "were not evil, but rather suffered from poverty and hopelessness" is just a complete buffoon.
It's a parody Jonah. Bad parody too.
Kind of like your career.
Keeping in mytradition of going after easy targets...
The fine young men at Young Conservatives. HEre is a snippet from one of their editorials.
Democrats have been driven insane by hatred; how else can you explain Dean’s statement that the capture of Saddam Hussein doesn’t make America safer?
For perspective, here is a poll taken by CBS/Time after Saddams capture.
AS A RESULT OF CAPTURING SADDAM, THE FOLLOWING THREATS WILL:
Terrorist threat against U.S.
Increase 18%
Decrease 19%
Same 60%
So according to the fine men at Young conservatives, 78% of america is driven insane by hatred.
I always seem to gravitate towards the easy targets. Probably because its effortlessly easy to make fun of stupid people saying stupid things, and makes me feel like I'm some kinda bigshot on my oh so cool "Blog" that 5 people read.
So in that vien, here's drudge today:
One of the finalists of the MoveOn.org ad contest is responsible for another heinous web video that compares Bush to Hitler, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
An ad by "Take Back the Media" is one of 15 Finalists in MoveOn.org's Bush in 30 Seconds Commercial Contest. Produced by Michael Stinson [SYMBOLMAN], The ARMY OF ONE flash animation has been chosen out of over 1000 submission by nearly 3 million votes online.
But currently streaming on the Take Back site with ARMY OF ONE is another shocking advert produced by Michael Stinson [SYMBOLMAN] -- alleging Bush/Nazi ties!
Let's recap:
The ad in question has nothing to do with Moveon.org at all. But the talking points of the day is to smear Moveon as parroting the bush/hitler attack. See here and here. This line of attack is nothing new. Remember the gay episcopal bishop who was afffiliated with a program whose website was linked to a website that had a link on that website that had GAY PORN!!!
But Drudge, crack newsman that he is (he wears a freaking FEDORA for gods sake), has morphed mentioning alleged Bush/Nazi ties, which believe it or not are 100% true (albiet his grandfather and admittedly unfair and silly to bring up regarding his grandson) into comparing Bush to Hitler.
Mentioning the Nazi ties that Prescott Bush had with the nazi's, which is a documented fact, is now equated to comparing Bush to Hitler.
MY governor, who was served a federal subpoena, and is facing impeachment, last night:
I was wrong when I accepted gifts given to me by state employees and from friends who do business with the state. For this I accept full responsibility.
But worse, I was wrong in failing to truthfully address these issues. I lied and there are no excuses.
A poll released today:
And 79 percent of voters - including 70 percent of Republicans - said Rowland is not honest or trustworthy, compared with 73 percent from the last poll.
It’s nice knowing that 21 percent of the people in my state are complete morons.
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
It's amazing how much stupider Trent Lott get's with age. Heres a little blast from the past:
A congressman who questioned U.S. efforts to link Iraq to the al Qaeda terrorist network should "come home and keep his mouth shut," Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott said Sunday.
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Washington, who is one of three House members visiting Iraq to urge Iraqi officials to avert war by allowing U.N. weapons inspectors back in, has acted irresponsibly, Lott said.
"For him to be in Baghdad, the center of one of the most dangerous dictators in the world, with all kinds of weapons of mass destruction, to be questioning the veracity of our own American president, is the height of irresponsible," said Lott, R-Mississippi. "He needs to come home and keep his mouth shut."
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
It was only a matter of time before the Dean is like Hitler smears started getting hurled. Congratulations to the New York Post to be the first one out of the gate! Leave it to FOX news owner Rupert Murdoch's paper to be the first to use this disgusting hate speech!
This self described "intellectual" manges to compare Dean to Hitler, forward a baltant lie, and hurl a third grade insult. All within 1000 words! Not that I have anything against third grade insults. But I'm not a self described "intellectual" writing for a major newspaper.
Feel free to let the NY Post know how you feel
Rush today:
“We've got one case of mad cow disease - which the cow contracted under Clinton - and the Washington Post has George W. Bush defeated because of it. Unbelievable.”
The cow contracted it under Clinton. We've gotten to the point where absolutly anything bad that happened from January 1992 to January 2000 is "under Clinton". Unless its a good thing, like the 22 million new jobs, economic expansion, lower crime, etc, thats because of teh republican congress. OK then.
Rush was able to take fantastic pain medication that got him high so he could forget his back pain under a republican congress.
Rush then became a Junkie under Clinton.
Neil Bush banged hot asain hookers and didn't even have to pay for it, under a Republican Congress.
Neil Bush got Herpes from hot asain hookers under Clinton.
The movie Schindler's List was released under a Republican congress.
THe movie Bio-Dome was released under CLinton.
Millions of cute puppies were born under a Republican congress.
Millions of cute puppies were put to death by the humane Society under Clinton.
feel free to add your own.
This guy is a piece of work. Virtually every quote in this article from him is ignorant. A proud gay republican who doesn’t understand why more gays aren’t republican. Perhaps Bush vowing never to hire a gay in his administration, Rick Santorum comparing homosexuality to bestiality, etc..
But his delusion covers all aspects of his life. You cannot be a “devout catholic”, as he maintains, and gay. Homosexuality is a sin in the church. By not rejecting his homosexuality he is, according to his own “devout” beliefs, an immoral and unrepentant sinner and should be excommunicated.
And the “Clinton recession” crack simply shows his ignorance extends to his grasp of basic economic issues. And he can’t understand why gays aren’t for the Iraq war because saddam treated gays so badly. Being a “huge Bush supporter” and thinking that hes done a “great” job, he neglects to inform us as to how upset he must be at Bush for not invading and overthrowning every country that has a bad raecord regarding gay rights. I’m sure it just slipped is mind.
He was “surprised” that Columbia law school was liberal?
“Democrats haven’t had a new idea in 40 years”. Besides the obvious notion of making discrimination against gays illegal, the list is quite long, but why bother actually learning anything, when you can simply spout mindless slogans.
Monday, January 05, 2004
Kos urges everyone to write not only the AP, but any paper that prints this AP story by partisan hack “reporter” Nedra Pickler. Besides being a conservative partisan wh spins all her stories, todays involves a quote that doesn't exist
"I opposed the Iraq war when everyone else up here was for it,"
Kucinich andBraun were against it. What he actually said was:
I opposed the Iraq war; with the exception of Dennis and Carol, everybody else supported it.
The AP's credo also happens to be:
"News bearing the AP logotype is expected to be accurate, balanced and informed."
Contact Ms Pickler personally here:
Phone: 202.776.9421
email: npickler@ap.org
And check your local paper and if they run this story, complain.
Could the Mad Cow recall have been prevented if it wasn't for Republicans?
Yes.
For years, the politically potent and well-financed cattle and meatpacking industries have held sway in the debate over the practice of slaughtering and marketing non-ambulatory, or downer, cattle. They repeatedly blocked efforts by urban Democrats and a handful of moderate Republicans to end the practice -- which provides producers with millions of dollars of profits each year but also represents the biggest potential source of contaminated meat.
Notice it was Democrats who were urging the change, but were defeated by Republicans in congress who were eholden to corporate interests.
