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Friday, April 30, 2004

Another reason not to watch Fox news

"What I do is try to focus upon those elements of the press that I think do an effective job and try to be accurate in their portrayal of events. For example, I end up spending a lot of time watching Fox News, because they're more accurate in my experience, in those events that I'm personally involved in, than many of the other outlets."


I bet, the propaganda wing should rate pretty high with the President, er...Vice President.


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What did Cheney cut while secretary of defense


Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been charging that John Kerry would be a dangerous president because he opposed many key weapons that the military now relies on, himself presided over the biggest cutbacks in defense programs in modern history when he was secretary of defense under the first President Bush.

As Pentagon chief from 1989 to 1993 Cheney canceled or cut back many of the same weapons programs – bombers, fighter planes, battle tanks – that he says Kerry tried to deprive the armed forces of.

Many of the Cheney-era cuts were made at the end of the Cold War, when the administration of President George H.W. Bush was seeking to reduce the size of the military. But some of these downsizing efforts would have affected the military of today.

Cheney proposed, for instance, disbanding part of the Army's Fourth Infantry Division, the unit that captured former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein last December, according to Congressional Quarterly .

The latest Bush-Cheney campaign ad depicts weapons such as the B-2 stealth bomber flying over a battlefield and then disappearing into thin air, attempting to convince voters that if Kerry prevailed back then, U.S. military forces would be underequipped.

Yet Cheney canceled the B-2 bomber program after 20 planes, even though the Air Force insisted it needed 132. He opposed upgrading the M1 Abrams tank, recommended killing the latest model of the F-14 fighter jet and opposed buying more F-15s.


They gut the military, they gut intel, and everything else they can find

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Thursday, April 29, 2004

Winning the hearts and minds.....

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Excerpt from the John Poindexter from Wired


(W) Is privacy a right?

(JP) It's certainly not a constitutional right. It's an individual right that has to be balanced with concern for the common good. Privacy has to be relative to to other objectives- for instance, security. The greatest threat to privacy is terrorism. How much privacy was there in Afghanistan under the Taliban?


This is the 4th Amendment

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


That seems to be like privacy IS protected by the Constitution, the theoretical dictatorial power aka the Taliban was a government power not a Terrorist power they let terrorists into their country, the mass confusion between the two is well known.

What's apparent is case study #1 on the mind set of the Neo-Con/ Globalist/ Totalitarian alive in our government, privacy is a right and so is our liberty that's not their belief they want us to become Serfs and return us to feudal times, when Bush said Poor people are lazy HE MEANT IT, regardless of the fact of his own membership in the "lucky sperm club" they dislike you, it's your fault your poor!!!

The scariest thing is some of you conservatives out there will not vote Liberal because of 1 issue, and usually it's abortion, They can bury you in debt, kill the planet, lie you into war however they say they're "pro-life" so it makes up for all of it.

Your taxes are going up
Your medicine is going up
Your debit is going up

Your income is going down
Your healthcare covers less
Your job might be going overseas


More people should be Liberal and not be afraid to say we care about other people, let's keep them well, let's educate them that isn't Socialism, it's a healthy society.

Poindexter and the Oligarchy he serves wants you under their thumb and you let them by supporting 1 issue.

Pathetic


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New LINK, say Hola to...

Hoffmania


More links to come this week!

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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Kerry's team vetting VP choices


Democrat John Kerry's campaign has begun background checks of top running mate prospects, including former rivals Dick Gephardt and John Edwards, while other hopefuls anxiously await word that they're worthy of a Washington "vetting."

Several Democratic officials familiar with the selection process said Wednesday that background checks have been under way for several weeks. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said individuals other than Gephardt and Edwards are under consideration, but they would not identify them -- nor say how many there were.

The candidates are known only by Kerry, a handful of advisers and a team of lawyers conducting background checks that are described as unusually thorough.

One Democrat mentioned as a favorite of several Kerry advisers, if not necessarily the candidate himself, is Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack. But officials said it was unclear whether the campaign had begun a background check -- called "vetting" in Washington parlance.

Judging by the cases of Gephardt and Edwards, the selection process may be farther along than previously thought. Still, campaign officials said Kerry will not make his choice anytime soon.

"There is certainly a good argument for waiting -- to bring an element of excitement into the presidential convention in July," said Anita Dunn, a Democratic strategist who does not work for Kerry.

"On the other hand, the White House has the luxury of sending Vice President Cheney out in the traditional role of attack dog while letting the president deliver a positive message, which forces Kerry to try to figure out who he's going to answer on a given day," Dunn said. "Kerry may want help."

Kerry aides declined to comment, citing their boss' desire to keep the search discreet.


Kerry people, listen to me DO NOT LET GEPHARDT NEAR YOUR TICKET!

No one will vote for a Spineless Albino who couldn't win his own state let alone bring those swing states over during the big dance!

Cigarettes are bad for your health regular, unfiltered, light whatever your poison is, the same is true with politicians. Republican and Democrats ultra lights are just as bad for you and the country as unfiltered variety they are all poison and must be avoided.
With a Gephardt on the VP ticket why not tell Progressives and Liberals the Democratic party is off limits to them, why not put that sign on the door. This Moderate ticket they keep trying to put Kerry will shut out the real problems this country faces, Energy independance, terrorism, The economy, the deficit, outrageous cost of medicine in this country and so forth by pandering to the "Nascar Dads" who are a small voting block anyway or stressing tax breaks for people who dont need them.

So do you want ultra light Gephardt?


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Becoming more American everyday, Iraqis decide they life in the wild wild Middle East!



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I still cannot believe Bush is still regarded "Tough on Terror"!

People, attacking Iraq isn't the same as attacking the terrorists, Bush attacked Saddam for OIL and Empire the former tyrant of Iraq wasn't a threat especially to us!

Let me give you a test!

1. Name three middle east leaders WITHOUT using the net or any other help.

2. Do you feel safer?


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Wes Clark defends Kerry's war record, like it needs to be however it's important!

When John Kerry released his military records to the public last week, Americans learned a lot about Mr. Kerry's exceptional service in Vietnam. They also learned a lot about the Republican attack machine.

The evaluations were uniformly glowing. One commander wrote that Mr. Kerry ranked among "the top few" in three categories: initiative, cooperation and personal behavior. Another commander wrote, "In a combat environment often requiring independent, decisive action, Lt. j.g. Kerry was unsurpassed." The citation for Mr. Kerry's Bronze Star praises his "calmness, professionalism and great personal courage under fire."


In the United States military, there's no ideology — there are no labels, Republican or Democrat — when superiors evaluate a man or woman's service to country. Mr. Kerry's commander for a brief time, Grant Hibbard, now a Republican, gave Mr. Kerry top marks 36 years ago.

Now the standards are those of politics, not the military. Despite his positive evaluations, Mr. Hibbard recently questioned whether Mr. Kerry deserved one of his three Purple Hearts.

In the heat of a political campaign, attacks come from all directions. That's why John Kerry's military records are so compelling; they measure the man before his critics or his supporters saw him through a political lens. These military records show that John Kerry served his country with valor, and that those who served with him and above him held him in high regard. That's honor enough for any veteran.

Kerry, Clark , McCain all war heros, real war heros and Bush's goons keep attacking him on it!

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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Poor Batman!

Adam West better know as Batman from the 60's is now selling EZ link Internet/ ATM centers.

Someone get him a real job, please!!!!

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Kerry gets a $1000 haircut?

On the Friday before his MEET THE PRESS appearance, Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry flew his Washington, DC hairdresser to Pittsburgh for a touch-up, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Cristophe stylist Isabelle Goetz, who handles Kerry's hair issues, made the trek to Pittsburgh, campaign sources reveal.

"Her entire schedule had to be rearranged," a top source explains.

A Kerry campaign spokesman refuses to clarify if Goetz flew by private jet on April 16 or on the official Kerry For President campaign plane.

The total expense for the hair touch-up is estimated to be more than $1000, insiders tell DRUDGE.

One source suggests the hairdresser was flown to Pittburgh on Teresa Heinz Kerry's 'Flying Squirrel', a Gulfstream V private jet.

[The 'Flying Squirrel' is worth about $35 million. A deluxe model; plasma TV, two bathrooms, fancy mahogany and burlwood paneling, gold-plated fixtures.]

"Senator Kerry thinks Isabelle does a superb job," a campaign source said.

Goetz grew up in a small town in eastern France. She also does Hillary Clinton's hair.


Let's analayze this "story"

- Hair touch-up is estimated to be more than $1000

- The 'Flying Squirrel' is worth about $35 million. A deluxe model; plasma TV, two bathrooms, fancy mahogany and burlwood paneling, gold-plated fixtures.]

- Goetz grew up in a small town in eastern France

- She also does Hillary Clinton's hair.


So Kerry is a vain elitist and who flew out his *gasp* French Hairdresser on his wive's private jet who also *double gasp...losing oxygen rapidly* 'styles' Hillary Clinton's hair.

Thank you Drudge for a perfect example of a loaded story and note this isn't NEWS this is a political attack (Hillary Clinton, France) for the Conservatives out there stop and think about it, lose your bias for a minute and just look at the merits.


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Monday, April 26, 2004





This is so stupid!

Bush hates Arabs and they stick it in their face!

When I first saw this I thought it was a joke on the flag of Israel but I guess the jokes on the Iraqi people...yet again.

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Kerry takes defies right wing church head

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry ( news -web sites ) received communion from a Catholic priest Saturday, one day after a top Vatican ( news -web sites ) cardinal said politicians who support abortion rights should be denied the Eucharist.


Kerry took communion during the 6 p.m. mass at Boston's Paulist Center, where campaign spokesman David Wade said the candidate regularly worships. The church is close to the Beacon Hill home Kerry shares with his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.

"We're following the directive of our archdiocese," said Father Joe Ciccone, who gave Kerry the Eucharist. "They have said we should give him communion."

The Paulist Center attracts Catholics uncomfortable with some of the Vatican's orthodox teachings or who otherwise feel alienated from the Roman Catholic Church.

The congregation includes gay couples, whose adopted children are baptized there, unlike in some other Boston parishes. In November, its leaders refused to read aloud during Mass from a letter opposing gay marriage, as requested by the Massachusetts bishops.

The congregation is not geographical, but ideological, drawing people from as far as away as New Hampshire, said Drew Deskur, the center's music director and a parishioner for 25 years.

"It's not St. Around-the-Corner," Deskur said. "It's an intentional community that draws people from all over Boston. It tries to make sure that everyone feels welcome and that everyone participates in the liturgy."


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Sunday, April 25, 2004

Karen Huges is retarded!

"I think that after September 11, the American people are valuing life more and we need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life," she said. "President Bush has worked to say, let's be reasonable, let's work to value life, let's reduce the number of abortions, let's increase adoptions. And I think those are the kinds of policies the American people can support, particularly at a time when we're facing an enemy and, really, the fundamental issue between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life."


Pro Choice means PRO TERRORIST, PRO AL-QAIDA?

Round up these traitors now!!!!









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There's a good reason I'm not going to the March for women tomorrow, I'm a guy.

Now that shouldn't restrict me from going, If I were to go they'd find me out, I'm a fake. The reason guys join Greenpeace isn't because we like the planet, we don't give a rats a$$ it's the 90% female to male ratio that calls to us. For heteros like myself the lack of impulse control, it's biology you have to flirt and try to score and we can't control it, Lord knows I've tried and failed.

I try to keep it honest in my life and the only reason I would go and the first thing to pop into my head was "There's going to be alot of women there", for me it wouldn't be about choice or anything other than getting laid. With that said It would be dishonest to the women and their cause; agreeing with it or not walking next to them, chanting, singing songs and other protest events, i'd be found out anyways the only single guys who will be there fall into two groups:

1. Fakes (myself)

2. Gay men

To be honest I wouldn't like some dude trying to run game on me, I have better ways to spend my Sunday. The women who read the blog, This isn't to squash your hopes about decent guys or the guys that have an ernest belief in a woman's right to choice, I'm giving you the reason I shouldn't go, is it pathetic and even a little sad? Of course it is but in order to practice what I preach I need to admit what I was doing, why I was doing it I can't tell you how many people have joined the Green party because of the young women, You want a guy to be up front and not try to scam, the soft drive of oblivion, it isn't pretty but it's here, laid bare and sincere. I might be a guy with a healthy libedo, but I'm not an A$$hole.

Besides DC is a long way to go to get laid.

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Saturday, April 24, 2004

I had to go out today, face the sun and be away from my CP!

i do want to leave you with a quote to carry with you over the weekend, but rest assured I will post later tonight and tomorrow!

Sherman : What will you do to win the votes of the Americans who are atheists?

Bush : I guess I'm pretty weak in the atheist community. Faith in God is important to me.

Sherman : Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists?

Bush : No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.

Sherman (somewhat taken aback): Do you support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of state and church?

Bush : Yes, I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on atheists.


That's right, you read it correctly

if you are an atheist your not a citizen OR a patriot!

Kerry is pro choice and he gets hammered

Sen. John Kerry's defiance of his Church's condemnation of abortion and approval of gay marriage is not only a problem for him and Catholic bishops, but for individual Catholics as well, according to a leading Catholic layman and editor.

He says Catholic priests should refuse to give Holy Communion to Kerry even if their bishops have not specifically warned the senator that he is not to receive Communion.

That demand of excommunication for Kerry is made by Deal Hudson, editor of Crisis magazine, the nation's leading intellectual Catholic journal.

Hudson is a respected Catholic layman, and his views are often sought by national media and government officials, including the Bush White House.

In an exclusive interview with NewsMax.com, Hudson said that the matter of individual bishops ordering Kerry to refrain from receiving the Eucharist when in their dioceses - in other words, excommunicating him - was between Kerry and America's individual bishops, including his own.

"It's in the hands of his ordinary [bishop] - and when his ordinary has spoken and said that politicians should refrain from communion, he's alluding to the fact that someone like Sen. Kerry should not consider themselves part of the Catholic community."


But Governor Pataki, Governor Ahnuld, Ruddy Guliani, Tom Ridge are all Catholic and all PRO CHOICE...

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? WHERE ARE THE CALLS FOR EXCOMMUNICATION?

As someone who has been excommunicated, it sucks however this is a political drive; make no mistake they don't care about the fetus they care about making the base happy!

Off to get hammered!

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Friday, April 23, 2004

Kerry still has...

a piece of shrapnel in his left thigh from an injury he suffered in the Vietnam War, his doctor said Friday during a review of 36 pages of the Democratic presidential candidate's military medical records.



The records shown briefly to reporters provided a few more details about the wounds that resulted in Kerry's three Purple Hearts and show that he suffered from respiratory ailments, a skin rash and a minor urinary tract infection during his four years in the Navy.

Kerry was wounded three times while commanding a swiftboat in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, an assignment that brought him close to enemy fire several times.



I wonder how he gets past the screeners and the metal detectors at the airport?

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Check this Sh*t out!

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Yeah, you heard that right. 40 GB.
That’s one song a day for 27 years –
more than enough to crank tunes all
day long, all summer long.

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You might be away from home for over a year (so much for the weekend warrior stuff) possibly lose a leg, breathe in all of that Depleted Uranium and worst case die for oil...

Hey you MIGHT get an iPod, it'll help you during your rehab.

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Thursday, April 22, 2004

In America there are NO second class citizens unless your gay.

Can you imagine a doctor not operating on you because you're gay?

Will this be on a form, do you have to pass a queer test, can you be sued if you lie TO SAVE YOUR LIFE?

Now replace 'Homosexual' with 'Black' or 'Jew'
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Can you imagine a doctor not operating on you because you're Black?

Will this be on a form, do you have to pass a negro test, can you be sued if you lie TO SAVE YOUR LIFE?
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Can you imagine a doctor not operating on you because you're a Jew?

Will this be on a form, do you have to pass a kosher test, can you be sued if you lie TO SAVE YOUR LIFE?

So much for the hypocratic oath!!!

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There's a reason this administration doesn't want you to see! these pictures





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Happy Earth Day!

And this isn't Satire

President Bush, trying to shore up his environmental record against attacks by Democratic rival John Kerry, on Thursday called for restoring or protecting as many as 3 million acres of wetlands over the next five years.

Bush was celebrating Earth Day by highlighting efforts to help wetlands at a Maine nature reserve. He also was announcing new figures Thursday from the Agriculture Department that he says show that, for the first time in the nation's history, the annual net loss of wetlands on farmland has been reversed.

The government has estimated that wetlands overall are being lost at the rate of 100,000 acres a year, despite pledges by successive administrations to develop policies to end the decline.


He's killing our planet, oh wait he believes Jesus will protect us from ourselves!

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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

A clear choice between Dubya and Kerry


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Sweet Jesus, this is bad, this is the Bush legacy!

About one in every 10 members of Iraq (news - web sites)'s security forces "actually worked against" U.S. troops during the recent militia violence in Iraq, and an additional 40 percent walked off the job because of intimidation, the commander of the 1st Armored Division said Wednesday.

In an interview beamed by satellite from Baghdad to news executives attending The Associated Press annual meeting, Maj. Gen. Martin Dempsey said the campaign in Iraq was at a critical point.

"We have to get this latest increase in violence under control," Dempsey said. "We have to take a look at the Iraqi security forces and learn why they walked."

The militia violence aggravated underlying troubles in Iraq's new military and police forces — the unfulfilled desire for "some Iraqi hierarchy in which to place their trust and confidence" and a reluctance by Iraqis to take up arms against their countrymen, Dempsey said.

"It's very difficult at times to convince them that Iraqis are killing fellow Iraqis and fellow Muslims, because it's something they shouldn't have to accept," he said. "Over time I think they will probably have to accept it."


Great war planning guys!

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What your missing if your not tuned into Air America Radio!

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If bush stole the $700 million he's in trouble!

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Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Windows users, I need help

Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, Safari are all browsers for OS X This site looks great when using Open source browsers however when I use Internet Explorer 5.2 The page looks like sh*t.

I need to know what it looks like on a Windows machine using IE 6, I get feedback from people using Mozilla or other Open source browsers but I NEED IE 6 feedback, if you help you get free blog whoring!!!!!

I hate Windows but I still have to design by it's rules!

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Maybe I should enlist now to avoid the DRAFT?

A senior Republican lawmaker said that deteriorating security in Iraq (news - web sites) may force the United States to reintroduce the military draft.

"There's not an American ... that doesn't understand what we are engaged in today and what the prospects are for the future," Senator Chuck Hagel told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on post-occupation Iraq.

"Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?" Hagel said, arguing that restoring compulsory military service would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face."



Oy vey, I'm not dying for Dubya!

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Last night we heard O'Reilly say we shouldn't dissent because it only helps the terrorists, never mind the government lied you into war, you should shut up not talk down your commander n' chief well what did O'Reilly say about Clinton?


O'Reilly: President Clinton is obviously not a wartime leader. He can talk softly, but the big stick is much too heavy for him. We are lucky to have won this action and its almost miraculous more Americans weren't killed.


um, Bill....no Americans died in that war, zero, ziltch, nada!

For the record, you don't have to be a wartime leader to win wars, you just have to be a good leader.

Vietnam was a problem because we DIDN'T dissent enough, we had blowhards like you calling us communists, why? We saw what we were being told was diffrent from the realities on the ground.

We won't "Shut up" while you're rhetoric is killing our boys!

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BIG story from Iraq!


As the situation in Iraq grows ever more tenuous, the Bush administration continues to spin the ominous news with matter-of-fact optimism. According to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Iraqi uprisings in half a dozen cities, accompanied by the deaths of more than 100 soldiers in the month of April alone, is something to be viewed in the context of "good days and bad days," merely "a moment in Iraq's path towards a free and democratic system." More recently, the president himself asserted, "Our coalition is standing with responsible Iraqi leaders as they establish growing authority in their country."

But according to a closely held Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) memo written in early March, the reality isn't so rosy. Iraq's chances of seeing democracy succeed, according to the memo's author�a U.S. government official detailed to the CPA, who wrote this summation of observations he'd made in the field for a senior CPA director�have been severely imperiled by a year's worth of serious errors on the part of the Pentagon and the CPA, the U.S.-led multinational agency administering Iraq. Far from facilitating democracy and security, the memo's author fears, U.S. efforts have created an environment rife with corruption and sectarianism likely to result in civil war.

Provided to this reporter by a Western intelligence official, the memo was partially redacted to protect the writer's identity and to "avoid inflaming an already volatile situation" by revealing the names of certain Iraqi figures. A wide-ranging and often acerbic critique of the CPA, covering topics ranging from policy, personalities, and press operations to on-the-ground realities such as electricity, the document is not only notable for its candidly troubled assessment of Iraq's future. It is also significant, according to the intelligence official, because its author has been a steadfast advocate of "transforming" the Middle East, beginning with "regime change" in Iraq.

'The Trigger For Civil War'

Signs of the author's continuing support for the U.S. invasion and occupation are all over the memo, which was written to a superior in Baghdad and circulated among other CPA officials. He praises Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi, and laments a lack of unqualified US support for Chalabi, a long-time favorite of Washington hawks. (It bears noting that Chalabi was tried and convicted in absentia by the Jordanian government for bank embezzlement, in 1989, and has come under fire more recently for peddling dubious pre-war intelligence to the US.) The author also asserts that "what we have accomplished in Iraq is worth it." And his predictions sometimes hew to an improbably sunny view. Violence is likely, he says, for only "two or three days after arresting" radical cleric Muqtada al Sadr, an event that would "make other populist leaders think twice" about bucking the CPA. Written only weeks ago, these predictions seem quite unwarranted, since simply trying to arrest al Sadr has resulted in more than two weeks of bloody conflict�with no end in sight�and seems to have engendered more cooperation between anti-Coalition forces than before.

Yet the memo is gloomy in most other respects, portraying a country mired in dysfunction and corruption, overseen by a CPA that "handle(s) an issue like six-year-olds play soccer: Someone kicks the ball and one hundred people chase after it hoping to be noticed, without a care as to what happens on the field." But it is particularly pointed on the subject of cronyism and corruption within the Governing Council, the provisional Iraqi government subordinate to the CPA whose responsibilities include re-staffing Iraq's government departments. "In retrospect," the memo asserts, "both for political and organizational reasons, the decision to allow the Governing Council to pick 25 ministers did the greatest damage. Not only did we endorse nepotism, with men choosing their sons and brothers-in-law; but we also failed to use our prerogative to shape a system that would work ... our failure to promote accountability has hurt us."

In the broadest sense, according to the memo's author, the CPA's bunker-in-Baghdad mentality has contributed to the potential for civil war all over the country. "[CPA Administrator L. Paul] Bremer has encouraged re-centralization in Iraq because it is easier to control a Governing Council less than a kilometer away from the Palace, rather than 18 different provincial councils who would otherwise have budgetary authority," he says. The net effect, he continues, has been a "desperation to dominate Baghdad, and an absolutism born of regional isolation." The memo also describes the CPA as "handicapped by [its] security bubble," and derides the US government for spending "millions importing sport utility vehicles which are used exclusively to drive the kilometer and a half" between CPA and Governing Council headquarters when "we would have been much better off with a small fleet of used cars and a bicycle for every Green Zone resident."

While the memo upbraids CPA officials�an apparent majority�who stay inside the Green Zone in the name of personal safety, it also maintains that the Green Zone itself is "less than secure," both for Westerners and Iraqis. According to the author, "screening for Iranian agents and followers of Muqtada al Sadr is inconsistent at best," and anti-CPA elements can easily gather basic intelligence, since no one is there to "prevent people from entering the parking lot outside the checkpoint to note license plate numbers of 'collaborators.'"

Ordinary Iraqis also "fear that some of the custodial staff note who comes and goes," according to the memo, causing a "segment of Iraqi society to avoid meeting Americans because they fear the Green Zone." It also derides the use of heavily armed personal-security details (PSDs) for CPA personnel, saying the practice inspires reticence among ordinary Iraqis. "It is ingrained in the Iraqi psyche to keep a close hold on their own thoughts when surrounded by people with guns," the memo notes. "Even those willing to talk to Americans think twice, since American officials create a spectacle of themselves, with convoys, flak jackets, fancy SUVs."


Find the link here.

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Monday, April 19, 2004

The book proving how inept Bush co really is!
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Bush hires Ex-con as the new Iraqi ambassador

President Bush named John Negroponte, the United States' top diplomat at the United Nations, as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq on Monday and asserted that Iraq "will be free and democratic and peaceful."

Bush announced the nomination in an Oval Office ceremony.

At the United Nations, Negroponte, 64, was instrumental in winning unanimous approval of a Security Council resolution that demanded Saddam Hussein comply with U.N. mandates to disarm.


WTF

This guy has more blood on his hands and he gets this job, he has a history of ignoring or supporting DEATH SQUADS and he's the one Bush is pinning the Iraqi's hopes and fears on!

is this Dubya's "Holy mission" or "Crusade"

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NORAD ran drills using jets as weapons....how sad is it that the Media is just catching up with a TWO YEAR OLD STORY, I knew a year ago!


In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties.

In a third scenario, the target was the Pentagon — but that drill was not run after Defense officials said it was unrealistic, NORAD and Defense officials say.

NORAD, in a written statement, confirmed that such hijacking exercises occurred. It said the scenarios outlined were regional drills, not regularly scheduled continent-wide exercises.

"Numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft," the statement said. "These exercises tested track detection and identification; scramble and interception; hijack procedures; internal and external agency coordination and operational security and communications security procedures."

A White House spokesman said Sunday that the Bush administration was not aware of the NORAD exercises. But the exercises using real aircraft show that at least one part of the government thought the possibility of such attacks, though unlikely, merited scrutiny.


Do we have any doubts now that our media is lazy?

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David Corn's new piece from The Nation


It's hard to know what is more disturbing. That George W. Bush misled the public by stating in the months before the Iraq war that he was seriously pursuing a diplomatic resolution when he was not. That he didn't bother to ask aides to present the case against going to war. That he may have violated the U.S. Constitution by spending hundreds of millions of dollars secretly to prepare for the invasion of Iraq without notifying Congress. That he was misinformed by the CIA director about one of the most critical issues of the day and demanded no accountability. Or that he doesn't care if he got it wrong on the weapons of mass destruction.

Bob Woodward's new book, Plan of Attack , illustrates all these points. The full book, which details Bush's march to war, is not yet out, but as is routine for a Woodward book, the more noteworthy passages have preceded the book's release via a well-orchestrated PR blitz ( 60 Minutes , installments in Woodward's Washington Post , and leaks). And before this book--which follows Woodward's Bush at War , a mostly pro-Bush chronicling of the war in Afghanistan--hits the racks, it is already possible to draw conclusions. (Isn't life in the information age wonderful?)

Let's assume Woodward has gotten the story right. He may not deserve the full benefit of the doubt. Everything in the book is apparently drawn from off-the-record interviews except for two sessions with Bush. And some longtime Woodward critics still maintain (reasonably) that his book on the CIA in the 1980s, Veil , ended with a supposedly secret deathbed interview with CIA director William Casey that did not pass the smell test. But after Bush at War was published, the Bush crowd did not take exception to Woodward's work. So it is clear that he has the access and contacts (particularly with Secretary of State Colin Powell) to pen an insider's account of the Bush crowd.


Very interesting!

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Sunday, April 18, 2004

Watching the Woodward interview is making me angry!

The Saudis will manipulate the Oil markets so the economy is strong before the election, who the hell needs diebold? What's with stealing money from the Afghan reconstruction fund, where the hell is congress, he needs to be impeached.

For you right wingers out there, this is worse than lying under oath "HE STOLE MONEY FROM THE TREASURY, HE LIED TO CONGRESS!"

We have Saudi Arabia helping shape our policy AND election...You complain about the UN taking control or making policy, SAUDI ARABIA is being briefed (before Colin Powell) that should scare you.

Now you know why Bush won't testify without Cheney, Cheney is the real President!

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This Ghoul is our President!


In his interview with Woodward, conducted over two days in December of last year, Bush displayed no second thoughts about Iraq's postwar miseries or the failure to turn up any WMD. "I haven't suffered doubt," he told Woodward. When the author—quoting Bush's political adviser Karl Rove—suggested that "all history gets measured by outcomes," Bush "smiled," reports Woodward. " 'History,' he said, shrugging, taking his hands out of his pockets, extending his arms out and suggesting with his body language that it was so far off. 'We won't know. We'll all be dead'."


Find the link here

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I would like to thank Blah3 for putting me on his blogroll!

You can also catch him on his internet radio show TBTM Radio. Don Waller with his cohost Michael Stinson host probably the best liberal radio show out there, I'm sure your asking yourselves "Well why aren't they on Air America"?

I have no idea but if we make enough noise by sending comments to Air America we could fix that problem!

Just noticed the new show just got posted, off to listen!

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Ashcroft blames HIS inept preformance on suprise, suprise a former deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton, Jamie Gorelick

Here's her responce!


The commission investigating the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has a critical dual mission to fulfill -- to help our nation understand how the worst assault on our homeland since Pearl Harbor could have occurred and to outline reforms to prevent new acts of terrorism. Under the leadership of former governor Tom Kean and former congressman Lee Hamilton, the commission has acted with professionalism and skill. Its hearings and the reports it has released have been highly informative, if often disturbing. Sept. 11 united this country in shock and grief; the lessons from it must be learned in a spirit of unity, not of partisan rancor.

At last week's hearing, Attorney General John Ashcroft, facing criticism, asserted that "the single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents" and that I built that wall through a March 1995 memo. This is simply not true.

First, I did not invent the "wall," which is not a wall but a set of procedures implementing a 1978 statute (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA) and federal court decisions interpreting it. In a nutshell, that law, as the courts read it, said intelligence investigators could conduct electronic surveillance in the United States against foreign targets under a more lenient standard than is required in ordinary criminal cases, but only if the "primary purpose" of the surveillance were foreign intelligence rather than a criminal prosecution.


No one has ever said Clinton was perfect when it came to terrorism he made mistakes, yet this administration cuts funding or doesn't fund at all Counter terrorism to fund missile defense or plan a war against Iraq before OBL was even brought to justice.

Republicans are crying over the 9/11 commision being televised and the more they do the more Ken Starr keeps bouncing around my head. They NEVER would exploit something like this if 9/11 happened on Gore's watch or Clinton's, they're known for their level heads.

Reagan apologized for the Marine barricks.
Kennedy apologized for the Bay of Pigs.
The Bush administration.........blamed the Clinton administration!

Integrity is lost on this group regardless of the mess it made

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Lady Liberty is French?

Those Frogs should take the damn thing back!

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Spain orders troops out or Iraq

1,300 troops are to leave quote "As soon as possible"

The Bush doctrine, better get out while you can!

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Saturday, April 17, 2004



There's a good reason the Arab hates America, Bush endorses Sharon's plan for the west bank, Israel attacks ANOTHER Hamas leader to them it seems like they were given the OK by the US to do whatever it wants to the Arab people. Bush is one of those Fundi wackos who believe we should protect Israel and the Jews to appease God and eventually convert them to Christianity for the rapture and revelations to occur, in other words: F*** THE ARABS.

I have no problem with the people of Israel but I do have a problem with this kind of nonsense, you bomb them, they bomb you and what kills me is they have been doing this for thousands of years and no one on either side has said "wait a minute, we need to change course" it's just more death, more fear. I have no idea how to fix this problem, if pressed I would tell both sides to 'get over it' and tell them "I don't care who killed who thousands of years, grow up". That of course won't work, I'd be labeled anti arab and anti Semitic (even though I am a Jew) what are we to do?

Do you know how to fix this problem???

Update

Looks llike I was correct!

"It was Bush."


The verdict was near unanimous amid the tears and rage on Palestinian streets after Israel killed Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in an air strike Saturday that many Arabs felt President Bush ( news -web sites ) must have approved.

"Bush has Rantissi's blood on his hands," said Khamis Saadi, among tens of thousands who swept into Gaza's shabby streets.

"All doors to hell should be opened against the Israelis and against the Americans," he cried


We need to recognize the Arab people, not just Israel.

Tell Hamas to knock it off and tell Israel so stop bombing everyone than We will help them out.

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The Pixies are back!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. In the Pixies' case, a dozen years away from the stage has only helped their legend -- not just a consistently brilliant catalogue that converts thousands of new listeners every year, but the sense that the Pixies' tremendous effect on other bands (Nirvana pledged allegiance, for a start) was about to be rewarded commercially as well as aesthetically. Instead, the band broke up, and while bassist Kim Deal's Breeders and frontman Frank Black's solo career did just fine, neither one ever eclipsed the Pixies, as music or as legend.

"Legendary" isn't exactly how Black, Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago, or drummer David Lovering appeared at the outset of their reunion trek at Minneapolis' Fine Line on Tuesday night. Instead, they appeared as hard workers transported by their craft, frequently keeping their heads down as they ripped through a career-spanning set, from 1987's "Caribou" through 1991's "U-Mass," taking a detour for Neil Young's "Winterlong." Frank Black (or Black Francis, as he was known in his Pixies days), clad in flannel and jeans, scrunched his eyes shut as he hollered gleefully at the climax of "Debaser" (the song that got the loudest applause). Deal, all in black, grinned like mad behind a face full of hair. A long-haired and black-capped Lovering appeared -- and played -- like he'd won the rock-drummer lottery. The dapper Santiago, looked like the Son of Zorro, glanced around the stage like a host concerned about making his guests comfortable, while reeling out one perfect lead after another.

The choice of venue might have had something to do with that work ethic. Minneapolis's Fine Line houses 800 maximum, a number the club kept steadily to despite a horde of anxious fans hoping to get in. (There were still seventy-five or so even after the show -- which sold out in a reported four minutes -- had finished.) The space's intimacy could have given the Pixies room to meander if they'd wanted, but there was nothing sloppy about the show. They landed on every mark while still seeming casual, and although the band didn't talk much between songs there was a real sense of generosity in the air: twenty-seven songs covering the entire catalogue. And the audience shouted along with damn near everything, giving as good as they got.

Pixies set list:

Bone Machine
Wave of Mutilation
U-Mass
Levitate Me
Broken Face
Monkey Gone to Heaven
The Holiday Song
Winterlong
Nimrod's Son
La La Love You
Ed Is Dead
Here Comes Your Man
Vamos
Debaser
Dead
No. 13 Baby
Tame
Gigantic
Gouge Away
Caribou

Isla de Encanta
Something Against You
Velouria
In Heaven
Wave of Mutilation
Where Is My Mind?
Into the White


YEAH!!!

Music fans like myself jump over this kind of thing, they influenced most of the rock you heard in the 90's. The influence even goes as far as Kurt Cobain from the legends in their own right Nirvana, that he'd be happy just covering the Pixies at concerts. I got introduced to the Pixies when I was in middle school and rocked out but no one I knew actually knowing or liking the Pixies caused me to leave it in the CD bin for awhile but later in high school and the real world I met more people with my taste in music!

The music still holds up, you could use the music to sell anything really and it's better than anything Puddle of Mudd or that other really crappy band Nickleback...especially Creed.

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Friday, April 16, 2004



There you go, here's a picture for all of you ditto head who have been Hannitized YOU WANTED THIS!!!

You understood what sending troops there would be death, capture, and torture so instead of deciding that war was the last choice you DECIDED it was the ONLY CHOICE.

YOU SCREWED THEM!!!

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Woodward's book should be a Bombshell

President Bush secretly ordered a war plan drawn up against Iraq less than two months after U.S. forces attacked Afghanistan and was so worried the decision would cause a furor he did not tell everyone on his national security team, says a new book on his Iraq policy.

Bush feared that if news got out about the Iraq plan as U.S. forces were fighting another conflict, people would think he was too eager for war, journalist Bob Woodward writes in ``Plan of Attack,'' a behind-the-scenes account of the 16 months leading to the Iraq invasion.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the book, which will be available in book stores next week.

``I knew what would happen if people thought we were developing a potential war plan for Iraq,'' Bush is quoted as telling Woodward. ``It was such a high-stakes moment and ... it would look like that I was anxious to go to war. And I'm not anxious to go to war.''

Bush and his aides have denied accusations they were preoccupied with Iraq at the cost of paying attention to the al-Qaida terrorist threat before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A commission investigating the attacks just concluded several weeks of extraordinary public testimony from high-ranking government officials. One of them, former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke, charged the Bush administration's determination to invade Iraq undermined the war on terror.

Woodward's account fleshes out the degree to which some members of the administration, particularly Vice President Dick Cheney, were focused on Saddam Hussein from the onset of Bush's presidency and even after the terrorist attacks made the destruction of al-Qaida the top priority.

Woodward says Bush pulled Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld aside Nov. 21, 2001 - when U.S. forces and allies were in control of about half of Afghanistan - and asked him what kind of war plan he had on Iraq. When Rumsfeld said it was outdated, Bush told him to get started on a fresh one.

The book says Bush told Rumsfeld to keep quiet about it and when the defense secretary asked to bring CIA Director George Tenet into the planning at some point, the president said not to do so yet.

Even Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was apparently not fully briefed. Woodward said Bush told her that morning he was having Rumsfeld work on Iraq but did not give details.

In an interview two years later, Bush told Woodward that if the news had leaked, it would have caused ``enormous international angst and domestic speculation.''


So Bush and Cheney started hawking for a war in Iraq in the early days after 9/11 and didn't fill in his national security team on the details...talk about 'faith based policy'. It's no suprise he found comfort in the arms of his PNAC buddies, it's no suprise that when he was using false intel he didn't utter a word.

I hope Kerry beats the pants off of GW Maverick!...I wonder what Christopher Ruddy is thinking???

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Thursday, April 15, 2004

Get me whatever drugs Peggy Noonan is doing, make it a double!


"More and more it seems to me Mr. Bush is not only Bill Clinton's successor but his exact opposite.

"Mr. Clinton perfectly poised and hollow inside, a man whose lack of compass left him unable to lead within the Oval Office but who gave a compelling public presentation of the presidency, and Mr. Bush a strong president with an obvious soul, decisive at the desk, but with no dazzling edifice.

"It's actually amazing that two such different men came so close together. Lucky for us, considering the history, that Mr. Bush was the one who came now."


I was waiting for this article to end with the "walls are bleeding" or "The lights feel like little feet walking on my body" or my favorite "baby, baby baby c'mon what's wrong? It's a radiation vibe I'm grooving on"

Honestly; I've given better speeches drunk or 3 days without sleep, better than this President could give on his best day.

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Welcome to the new design of Smafty Mac aka The Age of Reason

This is of course a work in progress and will only get better...after it hits rock bottom and scares away my readers.

If you have suggestions or comments or hope I drop dead like all Commies should leave post on my comment board.


You will still get more of this



Oops, they caught me crappin' me pants, better tell unca Dick.

I'm probably getting drafted for this site but hell I don't need a leg, the left one has always given me problems.

Or

Enjoy witty commentary such as...

The mastermind behind the murder of almost 3000 people is still alive and putting out more mix tapes than 50 cent.

Did you notice that Bush was in his truck during Condi's testimony?
Apperently if her speech went south, so would he.


Witty AND Topical

Stay glued to your seats, enjoy the ride, and helps us kick Bush out of our office!, help me fight the Kakistocracy!


Update

If your on a Mac, use Safari, Camino, or Foxfire! Don't use Internet explorer it's a crappy browser that never works, does block pop ups and might be developed by the Devil.

If your on a Windows Machine, I could use some info from you, my Laptop doesn't have an ethernet card and when I bought one it failed to work so I cannot edit content so IE6 might make this blog look very funky...I have no idea.

So if you could help, I would appreciate it!!!

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Another great Flash Animation by Take back the Media, here's the Link

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Wednesday, April 14, 2004

What the hell?

Quentin Tarantino on American Idol, just caught the end of the show and WTF

Is the end nigh?

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Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Maybe I should invest in Tin foil hats but did anyone else notice he mentioned hidden WMDs too many times?

Are we going to find WMDs in Iraq in the coming weeks or months before the election?


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Cheney still getting $$$$$$ from the company thhat over charged our government and served our troops rotten food


Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) received $178,437 in deferred pay last year from Halliburton, the Texas oil-field services company he once headed that has received billion-dollar government contracts in Iraq (news - web sites).

The White House on Tuesday released the 2003 income tax returns for both Cheney and his wife, Lynne, and President Bush (news - web sites) and his wife, Laura.

Cheney's office said the income from Halliburton -- which was close to his salary as vice president -- was in no way linked to the financial health of the company. A Halliburton subsidiary is under investigation for possibly overcharging the U.S military for fuel supplies in Iraq.


Nope, no conflict of interest here, none at all.

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There was NO proof terrorists in 2001 would use airplanes....of course you have to ignore the FBI for that to be true.

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Monday, April 12, 2004

MI6 warned US of Al-Qaeda attacks


MI6 warned the American intelligence services about a plot to hijack aircraft and crash them into buildings two years before the September 11 attacks.

Liaison staff at the American embassy in Grosvenor Square in London were passed a secret report by MI6 in 1999 after the intelligence service picked up indications from human intelligence sources (Humint) that Osama Bin Laden’s followers were planning attacks in which civilian aircraft could be used in “unconventional ways”.

Information did not specify targets and would not necessarily have enabled US agencies to prevent attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, intelligence sources said.


Israel warned us of an attack, using guess what?

Airplanes


Mossad warned CIA of attacks - report
By Douglas Davis

LONDON (September 17) - Mossad officials traveled to Washington last month to warn the CIA and the FBI that a cell of up to 200 terrorists was planning a major operation, according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph here yesterday.

The paper said the Israeli officials specifically warned their counterparts in Washington that "large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent." They offered no specific information about targets, but they did link the plot to Afghanistan-based terrorist Osama bin Laden, and they told the Americans there were "strong grounds" for suspecting Iraqi involvement.

A US administration official told the paper that it was "quite credible" that the CIA did not heed the Mossad warning: "It has a history of being over-cautious about Israeli information." But the official noted that "if this is true, then the refusal to take it seriously will mean heads will roll."


If I got all of ths intel and they all said Terrorists would attack using airplanes, so what does Bush do?

Cut Counter-terrorism funding

ignoring requests for Counter-Terrorism funding

nothing

With those cuts, they actually made it easier to strike us. Missile Defense was more important than numerous threats regarding hijacking airplanes. These guys are inept an unqualified to run the store, especially Dubya.




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As many of you know I love the band Radiohead

Check out the lyrics for No Suprises off of OK Computer

A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal

You look so tired and unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent

This is my final fit, my final bellyache with

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises please

Such a pretty house, such a pretty garden

No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises please (let me out of here)


The best lyric in the song and the one that gets the biggest cheers ere in the US goes as follows:

Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us


I've been going through their live shows on the American tour and it always kils, always.

Besides that it's been really slow today, boring wouldn't be an overstatment.

i'm spammed by so much damn Freeper mail I lost count, and the Viruses my bulk folder gets is Insane but the messages are funny as hell, like "Free Porn", "Angeliena Jolie, Hot and naked", "Jennifer Lopez Naked", usually I'd jump at all three of those chances but who sends anything in .zip files labeled as porn..aren't those usually virus files?

HA

Believe me this slow news day will only get worse!

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The 'war' in Iraq is going to hell, the PDB shows prior knowledge of pending terrorist hijackings. So what is our "War time President doing"?

Bush is having a press conference...and I wonder if Cheney will be with him.

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Check out Outkast: Roses the video is great and the song is, as the kids say DOPE.

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Sunday, April 11, 2004

Iraqi Battalion Refuses to 'Fight Iraqis' ...doesn't this fall under the No Sh*t Sherlock category?

A battalion of the new Iraqi army refused to go to Fallujah earlier this week to support U.S. Marines battling for control of the city, senior U.S. Army officers here said, disclosing an incident that is casting new doubt on U.S. plans to transfer security matters to Iraqi forces.

It was the first time U.S. commanders had sought to involve the postwar Iraqi army in major combat operations, and the battalion's refusal came as large parts of Iraqi security forces have stopped carrying out their duties.


What a mess we made over there and where's Bush?

CRAWFORD, TEXAS

What's he doing?

GIVING TOURS OF HIS PROP REGAN RANCH TO THE NRA!

My heart and prayers go to the people of iraq and my apologies that we didn't do enough to stop the villiage idiot.
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I Will return later this eveining after I suffer through the holiday.

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Blogger was having some problems over the last 5 hours, posting should be regular again!!!

Here is the text of the 8/6/2001 PDB get the PDF file here.

Declassified and Approved
for Release, 10 April 2004
Bin ladin Determined To Strike in US
Clandestine, foreIgn government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin
since 1997' has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin
implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would
follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Youse! and "bring
the fighting to America."
Af1er us missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin
told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a -- -- service.
An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told - - service
at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's
access to the US to mount a terrorist strike,
The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of
Bin Ladin's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the
US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the
idea to attack Los Angeles International Airpor1 himself, but that6in
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Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and h~tped facilltatetne
operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was p1annfng-'hrs
own US attack.
Ressam says Bin Ladin was aware of the Los Angeles operation.
Although Bin Ladin has not succeeded, his attacks against the US
Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares
operations years in advance and Is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin
associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early
as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were
arrested and deported in 1997.
AI-Qa'ida members-including same wha are US citizens-have resided
in ar traveled to the US far years, and the graup apparently maintains a
support structure that cauld aid attacks. Two ai-Calida members found guilty
in the conspiracy to bomb our Embassies in East Africa were US citizens, and a
senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.
A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York
was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational
threat reporting, such as that from a -~._. service in
1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the
release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd aI-Rahman and other US-held
extremists.
continued'
Declassified and Approved
for Release, 10 April 2004
For the President Only
6 Auousl 2001
Declassified and Approved
for Release, 10 April 2004
- Nevenheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of
suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for
hijackings or other types of aNacks, including recent surveillance of
federal buildings in New York.
The FBI is conducting approximately 70 luillieid investigations
throughout the US that it considers Bin ladin-related. CIA and the
FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying
that a group or Bin ladir1 supporters was in the US planning at1acks
with explosives.
Declassified and Approved
for Release, 10 April 2004
For the President Only
6 Augusl 2001


The talking points are usless spin. Bush needs to go!

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Saturday, April 10, 2004

PDB proves Bush was aware of possible hijackings and surveillence of federal buildings in NY.

President Bush (news - web sites) was told a month before Sept. 11, 2001, that al Qaeda members were in the United States and the FBI (news - web sites) had detected suspicious activity "consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks," according to a secret memo the White House released under pressure on Saturday.



White House officials were quick to say in the wake of the document's evening release that the Aug. 6, 2001, memo did not warn of the Sept. 11 attacks and that although it referred to the possibility of hijackings, it did not discuss the possible use of planes as weapons.


From the memo

since that time indicates patterns of
suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for
hijackings or other types of aNacks, including recent surveillance of
federal buildings in New York.


Ashcroft stopped flying commercial on the 10th

Congress, Impeachment papers now!!!!


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White House was Well aware of dangers of terrorism, they just ignored it to focus on missle defense and Iraq

Published reports say President Bush was told more than a month before the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 that the al-Qaida network was planning an attack with explosives inside the the United States.

The Associated Press and The New York Times quote current and former government officials as saying that a briefing memo presented to Mr. Bush on August 6, 2001, also warned that al-Qaida terrorists were interested in hijacking airplanes.

The memo, entitled "Bin Laden [Is] Determined to Attack Inside the United States" is at the center of a debate about whether the Bush administration did enough to deter a terrorist attack before September 11.


Do we need to draw Bush a map and explain it to him like he's five?

Cheney: "ok, when the terrorists, I mean evil doers"

Bush: "Gotcha"

Cheney: "Say they're going to hijack a plane, how should we handle the situation"?

Bush: (Smashing silly Putty on the front page of the NYtimes)

Cheney: "George, PAY ATTENTION"

Bush: "I wanted to see what I looked like streched out"

Cheney: "Those are for Reading George" (looking down to the news paper)

Bush: (Glaring at Cheney with brainless resolve) "I don't read the papers, I let the news makers debrief me."

Cheney: "Yeah and it's a fortune to fly out Jessica Simpson and have her wear that Cap'n Cruch suit for you"

Bush: "Do you have a Captian of the Crunch Navy debriefing you?"

Cheney: (Heart begins to race) "Damnit George it's Jessica Simpson in a fuc*ing costume, there is no 'Crunch navy' pay attention or I'll call Your mom! These briefings say that evil doers are going to attack the US, what's your plan?"

Bush: "first and foremost we need missle defense to protect us from brain sucking aliens"

Cheney: (mumbling) "I don't think you need to worry Mr. President...Good just follow the script and you'll be fine...Al-Qaieda attack: Coming soon my foot!



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Friday, April 09, 2004

Operation Ignore by Al Franken

Bill Clinton's far-reaching plan to eliminate al Qaeda root and branch was completed only a few weeks before the inauguration of George W. Bush. If it had been implemented then, a former senior Clinton aide told Time, we would be handing [the Bush Administration] a war when they took office." Instead, Clinton and company decided to turn over the plan to the Bush administration to carry out. Clinton trusted Bush to protect America. This proved, nine months later, to be a disastrous mistake - perhaps the biggest one Clinton ever made.

Clinton's National Security Advisor Sandy Berger remembered how little help the previous Bush administration had provided to his team. Believing that the nation's security should transcend political bitterness, Berger arranged ten briefings for his successor, Condoleezza Rice, and her deputy, Stephen Hadley. Berger made a special point of attending the briefing on terrorism. He told Dr. Rice, “I believe that the Bush administration will spend more time on terrorism in general, and on al Qaeda specifically, than any other subject.''

Which brings me to a lie. When Time asked about the conversation, Rice declined to comment, but through a spokeswoman said she recalled no briefing at which Berger was present" Perhaps so, Dr. Rice. But might I direct our mutual friends, my readers, to a certain December 30, 2001, New York Times article? Perhaps you know the one, Condi? Shall I quote it? "As he prepared to leave office last January, Mr. Berger met with his successor, Condoleezza Rice, and gave her a warning. According to both of them, he said that terrorism-and particularly Mr. bin Laden's brand of it-would consume far more of her time than she had ever imagined.'' (Italics mine.)



Go get his book here

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Just added a new link, Air America Radio

Air America is on the air, enjoy!!!!!

Thank you people smarter than me for making a button I can paste into my HTML.

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Thursday, April 08, 2004

Claim vs. Fact: Rice's Q&A Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission


Planes as Weapons

CLAIM: "I do not remember any reports to us, a kind of strategic warning, that planes might be used as weapons." [responding to Kean]




FACT: Condoleezza Rice was the top National Security official with President Bush at the July 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa. There, "U.S. officials were warned that Islamic terrorists might attempt to crash an airliner" into the summit, prompting officials to "close the airspace over Genoa and station antiaircraft guns at the city's airport." [Sources: Los Angeles Times, 9/27/01; White House release, 7/22/01]




CLAIM: "I was certainly not aware of [intelligence reports about planes as missiles] at the time that I spoke" in 2002. [responding to Kean]




FACT: While Rice may not have been aware of the 12 separate and explicit warnings about terrorists using planes as weapons when she made her denial in 2002, she did know about them when she wrote her March 22, 2004 Washington Post op-ed. In that piece, she once again repeated the claim there was no indication "that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles." [Source: Washington Post, 3/22/04]

August 6 PDB




CLAIM: There was "nothing about the threat of attack in the U.S." in the Presidential Daily Briefing the President received on August 6th. [responding to Ben Veniste]




FACT: Rice herself confirmed that "the title [of the PDB] was, 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.'" [Source: Condoleezza Rice, 4/8/04]



Domestic Threat



CLAIM: "One of the problems was there was really nothing that look like was going to happen inside the United States...Almost all of the reports focused on al-Qaida activities outside the United States, especially in the Middle East and North Africa...We did not have...threat information that was in any way specific enough to suggest something was coming in the United States." [responding to Gorelick]




FACT: Page 204 of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 noted that "In May 2001, the intelligence community obtained a report that Bin Laden supporters were planning to infiltrate the United States" to "carry out a terrorist operation using high explosives." The report "was included in an intelligence report for senior government officials in August [2001]." In the same month, the Pentagon "acquired and shared with other elements of the Intelligence Community information suggesting that seven persons associated with Bin Laden had departed various locations for Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States." [Sources: Joint Congressional Report, 12/02]




CLAIM: "If we had known an attack was coming against the United States...we would have moved heaven and earth to stop it." [responding to Roemer]




FACT: Rice admits that she was told that "an attack was coming." She said, "Let me read you some of the actual chatter that was picked up in that spring and summer: Unbelievable news coming in weeks, said one. Big event -- there will be a very, very, very, very big uproar. There will be attacks in the near future." [Source: Condoleezza Rice, 4/8/04]



Cheney Counterterrorism Task Force



CLAIM: "The Vice President was, a little later in, I think, in May, tasked by the President to put together a group to look at all of the recommendations that had been made about domestic preparedness and all of the questions associated with that." [responding to Fielding]




FACT: The Vice President's task force never once convened a meeting. In the same time period, the Vice President convened at least 10 meetings of his energy task force, and six meetings with Enron executives. [Source: Washington Post, 1/20/02; GAO Report, 8/03]



Principals Meetings



CLAIM: "The CSG (Counterterrorism Security Group) was made up of not junior people, but the top level of counterterrorism experts. Now, they were in contact with their principals." [responding to Fielding]




FACT: "Many of the other people at the CSG-level, and the people who were brought to the table from the domestic agencies, were not telling their principals. Secretary Mineta, the secretary of transportation, had no idea of the threat. The administrator of the FAA, responsible for security on our airlines, had no idea." [Source: 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, 4/8/04]



Previous Administration



CLAIM: "The decision that we made was to, first of all, have no drop-off in what the Clinton administration was doing, because clearly they had done a lot of work to deal with this very important priority." [responding to Kean]




FACT: Internal government documents show that while the Clinton Administration officially prioritized counterterrorism as a "Tier One" priority, but when the Bush Administration took office, top officials downgraded counterterrorism. As the Washington Post reported, these documents show that before Sept. 11 the Bush Administration "did not give terrorism top billing." Rice admitted that "we decided to take a different track" than the Clinton Administration in protecting America. [Source: Internal government documents, 1998-2001; Washington Post, 3/22/04; Rice testimony, 4/8/04]



FBI



CLAIM: The Bush Administration has been committed to the "transformation of the FBI into an agency dedicated to fighting terror." [responding to Kean]




FACT: Before 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft de-emphasized counterterrorism at the FBI, in favor of more traditional law enforcement. And according to the Washington Post, "in the early days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush White House cut by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism funds by the FBI, an internal administration budget document shows." And according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service, "numerous confidential law enforcement and intelligence sources who challenge the FBI's claim that it has successfully retooled itself to gather critical intelligence on terrorists as well as fight crime." [Source: Washington Post, 3/22/04; Congressional Quarterly, 4/6/04]




CLAIM: "The FBI issued at least three nationwide warnings to federal, state and law enforcement agencies and specifically stated that, although the vast majority of the information indicated overseas targets, attacks against the homeland could not be ruled out. The FBI tasked all 56 of its U.S. field offices to increase surveillance of known suspects of terrorists and to reach out to known informants who might have information on terrorist activities." [responding to Gorelick]




FACT: The warnings are "feckless. They don't tell anybody anything. They don't bring anyone to battle stations." [Source: 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, 4/8/04]



Homeland Security



CLAIM: "I think that having a Homeland Security Department that can bring together the FAA and the INS and Customs and all of the various agencies is a very important step." [responding to Hamilton]




FACT: The White House vehemently opposed the creation of the Department of Homeland security. Its opposition to the concept delayed the creation of the department by months.




CLAIM: "We have created a threat terrorism information center, the TTIC, which does bring together all of the sources of information from all of the intelligence agencies -- the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security and the INS and the CIA and the DIA -- so that there's one place where all of this is coming together." [responding to Fielding]




FACT: "Knowledgeable sources complain that the president's new Terrorist Threat Integration Center, which reports to CIA Director George Tenet rather than to Ridge, has created more of a moat than a bridge. The ability to spot the nation's weakest points was going to make Homeland Security different, recalled one person involved in the decision to set up TTIC. But now, the person said, 'that whole effort has been gutted by the White House creation of TTIC, [which] has served little more than to give the appearance of progress.'"  [Source: National Journal, 3/6/04]



IRAQ-9/11



CLAIM: "There was a discussion of Iraq. I think it was raised by Don Rumsfeld. It was pressed a bit by Paul Wolfowitz."




FACT: Rice's statement confirms previous proof that the Administration was focusing on Iraq immediately after 9/11, despite having no proof that Iraq was involved in the attack. Rice's statement also contradicts her previous denials in which she claimed "Iraq was to the side" immediately after 9/11. She made this denial despite the President signing "a 2-and-a-half-page document marked 'TOP SECRET'" six days after 9/11 that "directed the Pentagon to begin planning military options for an invasion of Iraq." [Source: Condoleezza Rice, 3/22/04, 3/22/04; Washington Post, 1/12/03]




CLAIM: "Given that this was a global war on terror, should we look not just at Afghanistan but should we look at doing something against Iraq?"




FACT: The Administration has not produced one shred of evidence that Iraq had an operational relationship with Al Qaeda, or that Iraq had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks on America. In fact, a U.S. Army War College report said that the war in Iraq has been a diversion that has drained key resources from the more imminent War on Terror. Just this week, USA Today reported that "in 2002, troops from the 5th Special Forces Group who specialize in the Middle East were pulled out of the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for their next assignment: Iraq." Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) confirmed this, noting in February of 2002, a senior military commander told him "We are moving military and intelligence personnel and resources out of Afghanistan to get ready for a future war in Iraq." [Sources: CNN, 1/13/04; USA Today, 3/28/04; Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), 3/26/04]



War on Terror



CLAIM: After 9/11, "the President put states on notice if they were sponsoring terrorists."




FACT: The President continues to say Saudi Arabia is "our friend" despite their potential ties to terrorists. As the LA Times reported, "the 27 classified pages of a congressional report about Sept. 11 depict a Saudi government that not only provided significant money and aid to the suicide hijackers but also allowed potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to flow to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups through suspect charities and other fronts." Just this week, Newsweek reported "within weeks of the September 11 terror attacks, security officers at the Fleet National Bank in Boston had identified 'suspicious' wire transfers from the Saudi Embassy in Washington that eventually led to the discovery of an active Al Qaeda 'sleeper cell' that may have been planning follow-up attacks inside the United States." [Source: LA Times, 8/2/03; CNN, 11/23/02; Newsweek,

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Today, Condi will make excuses for the Bush administration, of course the policies led to the biggest intel failure in American history and got us into a quagmire here are 9 questions the panel should ask.

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Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Chappelle's Show was great tonight!

I laughed too much, my jaw hurts and my sides ache.

Wayne Brady was the guest on tonights show and sowed Dave and Wayne on the town, Wayne threatened to be his "bitches", Killed a cop, shot Dave Chappelle, best show of the season.

Now if Bryant Gumble were to do a segment, the world ould balance out and possibly a shot at middle east peace!

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The Kerry campaign gets a new Online Guru


A strategist with MoveOn.org, a group that Republicans accuse of being too closely tied to Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s presidential campaign, is leaving to work for Kerry.

Zack Exley will be the Kerry campaign's director of online communications and organizing. He was the MoveOn political action committee's special projects director, focusing on research and mobilizing MoveOn supporters, Eli Pariser, the PAC's executive director, said Wednesday.


This should help them get their blogging straight.

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Tuesday, April 06, 2004

Cheney introduced a bill to raise the cost of oil and Gasoline..Kerry slammed for *Talking* about it, but he never introduced any bill.

In October 1986, when Dick Cheney was the lone congressman from energy-rich Wyoming, he introduced legislation to create a new import tax that would have caused the price of oil, and ultimately the price of gasoline paid by drivers, to soar by billions of dollars per year.

"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States," Mr. Cheney, who is now vice president, said shortly after introducing the legislation.

Oil prices had plunged to $15 from nearly $40 a barrel in the early 1980's, as Saudi Arabia flooded world markets, and Mr. Cheney argued the tax was needed to stabilize oil-state economies devastated as a result. But other lawmakers, including some Republicans, criticized the Cheney plan and similar proposals as "snake oil" that would throw 400,000 Americans out of work. They also said then, as President Bush does now, that higher taxes would stall the economy.

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Kerry strikes back at the Catholic facist Republicans.

Mr. Kerry became combative when told that some conservatives were criticizing him for being a Roman Catholic who supported policies, like abortion rights and same-sex unions, that are at odds with Catholic teaching.



"Who are they?" he demanded of his questioner. "Name them. Are they the same legislators who vote for the death penalty, which is in contravention of Catholic teaching?"



He added: "I'm not a church spokesman. I'm a legislator running for president. My oath is to uphold the Constitution of the United States in my public life. My oath privately between me and God was defined in the Catholic church by Pius XXIII and Pope Paul VI in the Vatican II, which allows for freedom of conscience for Catholics with respect to these choices, and that is exactly where I am. And it is separate. Our constitution separates church and state, and they should be reminded of that."



Mr. Kerry apparently meant John XXIII, as there is no Pius XXIII.


I wouldn't want a President stuck in dogma.

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DAMNIT!!!


Tim Minear, executive producer of Wonderfalls, announced that the quirky Fox series had been axed. "Well, not sure what to tell ya'll, but we're canceled," Minear wrote in a posting at the Buffista.org Web site. "Effective at once."


A good show pops up out of the gloom that is network TV and gets killed.

F*ck Fox!

Their news and programing, dummys!!!!!

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Monday, April 05, 2004

Sorry for the lack of posts busy, busy, busy

Will post and reply to e-mails tomorrow!!!

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Teddy has it right!!!


Iraq has become "George Bush's Vietnam," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Monday, calling the president deceitful and for the first time comparing him to former President Nixon, who resigned in disgrace.

Saying that truth has become the biggest casualty of the Bush administration, Kennedy said Bush misled the public about the war, the economy, health care and education, eroding the nation's reputation at home and abroad.

"As a result, this president has now created the largest credibility gap since Richard Nixon," Kennedy said in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a think tank. "He has broken the basic bond of trust with the American people."

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Sunday, April 04, 2004

Kos,

Let me start by saying I've been called "Right Wing", "Homophobe", "Faggot" and other nice word I won't mention. I've been "told" to be more outraged over situations where I don't give a damn, and been told to "tone down my anger" when I have the right to be furious. I have been 100% correct and 100% dead wrong, I admit it, this is a commentary with views expressed by ME, not a campaign or special interest group; just Smafty J. Mac.

On to the Kerry blog group

Kos was removed because of a post regarding the Mercs that were killed the other day, which he retracted, The right jumped on it and spun into full attack mode putting pressure on Kerry's people to remove him from the Blogger link; which has been done. Manufactured outrage at it's best.

Kerry's web guys, get a spine...you want to win; you need to take risks and stand for something, let me remind you what Bloggers have done for the campaign

*$26,700,000 total raised online in any quarter*

Atrios and Kos both have raised insane amounts of money the campaign and in return Kos gets removed and Atrios wants to be removed. The Kerry people still have those old time Democrats running things, guys I imagine are afraid to step outside let alone speak their minds about issues or beliefs. These old timers need to go, they aren't ready for us, I say crazy things but it's my opinion and the love I get from readers and the bulk of hate mail means it's working, people are reading and learning there is a connection between the gulf in politics: *Blogging*.

I signed up for blog ads, asked them to look my way so I can drive up traffic and make some extra money. I could use the money but if this is the treatment bloggers get if some "Special interest group" finds something it doesn't like; too bad you're gone. I love being independent especially politically and this whole fiasco really goes to the point I wouldn't be welcome in the Democratic party, I speak my mind, I have an opinion that I don't check with talking points to get my facts straight and I'm not afraid to be out front with my beliefs or who I am: The Democratic party wouldn't know what to do with me if I did caucus with them.

Bloggers and the Internet junkies are the new Grass roots in American politics, embrace us or leave us alone. Do you see Republicans doing this to each other?

Where was the outrage on the Right when Coulter spewed this:

Moreover, if we're going to start delving into exactly who did what back then, maybe Max Cleland should stop allowing Democrats to portray him as a war hero who lost his limbs taking enemy fire on the battlefields of Vietnam.


Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends. He saw a grenade on the ground and picked it up. He could have done that at Fort Dix. In fact, Cleland could have dropped a grenade on his foot as a National Guardsman –- or what Cleland sneeringly calls "weekend warriors." Luckily for Cleland's political career and current pomposity about Bush, he happened to do it while in Vietnam.


There is more than a whiff of dishonesty in how Cleland is presented to the American people. Terry McAuliffe goes around saying, "Max Cleland, a triple amputee who left three limbs on the battlefield of Vietnam," was thrown out of office because Republicans "had the audacity to call Max Cleland unpatriotic." Mr. Cleland, a word of advice: When a slimy weasel like Terry McAuliffe is vouching for your combat record, it's time to sound "retreat" on that subject.

Oh, right there wasn't any, Kos says something and he becomes a lepar, don't fall into the trap.

I'm focused on removing Bush from office by election or impeachment. I will keep on doing what I do, saying what I say.

Kerry's web guys, don't be morons and cut us out; you only hurt the campaign!


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Angel Episode guide

Click on the link and follow it's episodes with the BEST Angel episode guide on the web.

Smart TV is never popular with the Brass, why cancel really good shows? Reality TV isn't "Reality" it's brainless crap, watching ego driven thirty somethings make fools of themselves has to be the worst utilized time you will NEVER get back.

Sorry for the rant, just caught a commercial for "High School Reunion" and wanted to pull an Elvis on the TV.

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Saturday, April 03, 2004

Did Richard Clarke Change his story?


The joint committee's declassified report, released last July, contains dozens of quotations and references to Clarke's testimony, and none appears to contradict the former White House counterterrorism chief's testimony last month. In its July 2003 report, the congressional panel cited Clark's "uncertain mandate to coordinate Bush administration policy on terrorism and specifically on bin Laden." It also said that because Bush officials did not begin their major counterterrorism policy review until April 2001, "significant slippage in counterterrorism policy may have taken place in late 2000 and early 2001."

Eleanor Hill, staff director of the House-Senate intelligence committee inquiry, said last week that she heard some of Clarke's March 24 presentation before the 9/11 commission and remembered his six-hour, closed-door appearance.

"I was there," she said of Clarke's 2002 testimony, "and without a transcript I can't have a final conclusion, but nothing jumped out at me, no contradiction" between what he said last month and his testimony almost two years ago.



Again, he isn't a liar or crazy, Frist should apologize!

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