Saturday, July 31, 2004
WTF?!?
legal -- maybe; moral - bwahahahaHe was actually defeated once before in 2000 by a total of 543,895 votes... but he still became President because of the inherent flaw in the American Electoral College system. This site is dedicated to providing the country with the means to use that flaw AGAINST George “W” Bush in the 2004 Presidential election... The Defeat Bush Again website will use the same flaw in the Electoral College system to Kerry's advantage in 2004. By strategically enabling Nader voters in “swing states” to agree to swap votes with Kerry voters in States where either Kerry or Bush stand no chance of losing, this site will help shift the overall numbers into Kerry's favor while still maintaining the same support for Nader as he would have otherwise received. While other grass roots groups on the Internet are aimed at convincing Nader supporters to simply give up and NOT vote for Nader, DefeatBushAgain.com is using an entirely different approach. Our vote swapping system allows Nader to retain his support base while completely avoiding the destructive “ Nader Factor ” at the same time.
That's sticking with the spirit of the whole thing . . .
Moore Exposes Himself [eww] as a Girlie-Man!!!
Reports "there is no [bunny quotes] terrorist threat"343@hotmail. com pw: wow">It's all about me, me being there, me versus Bush, Bush being a few miles down the road," Moore said
"It's all about meeeeeeeeee." First honest impression Moore's given since... well, since "More donuts! Now!!"
...Moore said that he didn't want the screening in Texas to detract from the Democratic National Convention.
Yeppo. Kerry might not have gotten enough delegate votes if MMoore had left Bahstan... [and the egosphere grows to claim yet another planet...] On the MSNBS video online there is an interview by Blumblerumble, NBC talking head:
Interviewer: "Why did you decide not to go to Crrawford?" M: The people in Crawford had been writing me for the last month...[blablabla] to ask me to bring the movie down there...
It took you a month to make that happen?!?!? Big, powerful director guy... But nevermind... [see the clip to watch petulance at its best -- upon being asked to hurry for time Moore says "well. I'll just stop right there." *rolls eyes*]
M: "Then I thought I should go down there... as a nice gesture. It's really turned into a big circus "
duh? isn't that what you do best? Donuts and Scandals Bread and Circuses?
Interviewer: "When you and I last spoke in February, you said, "There is no terrorist threat." M: "I never said that." I: "Yes you did, it's right here: 'There is no terrorist threat. There are acts of terrorism but there is no terrorist threat.' Have you changed your views in light of the 911 Report...?" M: [picture 13 y.o. valley girl] "*tsk*huh*tsk* whul... Do you live in NY? *huh* ...We all know how we feel...waiting for the last shoe to drop... " I: "Yes, I do... Have you changed your views in light of the 911 Report?" M: "How do you feel living in NY? huh? huh!?!" I: I guess we'll stop right here..."
Somewhere in there is a long rambling diatribe about Bush's terrorists having nothing to do with reality but those other terrorists being real and very scary... [Was MMoore even living in NY on 9/11/01? It just struck me that we've [I've] never heard his where-I-was-when-911-happened story. I've heard everyone else's. Like Chelsea wandering around mid-town that morning...] The whole stack of DhimmoCon spins and lies is wobbling more and more erratically. Seems to me the wheels are on fire and the center cannot hold.
Ahnold's Admirers
special festivities for Birthday BoyThey grunted, they flexed and and they posed in their tight swimming trunks... all in honor of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former bodybuilder turned politician. It was the governor of California’s 57th birthday, and ... members of the Arnold Classic gym celebrated too, staging [a special] bodybuilding competition. “This is for Arnold, our hero and the greatest champion ever,”
Oh, the location of the gym? Baghdad.
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Baghdad’s Arnold Classic has kept up tight relations with the Austrian-born politician. Last year, after changing the name to Arnold Classic from “Elegant Bodies,” the gym’s owner wrote to Schwarzenegger to let him know. The governor wrote an appreciative letter back, and he wrote again last week to say thanks after hearing that the gym would be holding its inaugural competition on his birthday.
quagmire, indeed.
Friday, July 30, 2004
The Council Has Spoken ! ! !
shifts abound The Council is undergoing some changes. Aaron at Free Will and Jared of Exultate Justi have both decided to step down from the Council. We'll miss ya, fellas, though there's no way we'll quit reading ya. Our new members will be *drum roll*Athena of Terrorism Unveiled and Kate of The Resplendent Mango
Welcome, ladies. I'm looking forward to expanded horizons. This week's winners are: Control Room by Patterico Pontifications, and Getting It Out by S-Train Canvas Full results of the vote are over at The Watcher's, along with week's entries! Lots of good reading: Go See . . . Spambots: byte hot bits and die!! [Thanx, Watcher!]Spin on the balloons?!?!?
It's the DhimmoCrap Way We all know the ending of any political convention -- balloons and confetti falling. [when did that start, anyway?] This is what AP via USATodaytoday reports about the big balloon drop last night.BOSTON (AP) — The Democrats have a balloon problem. John Kerry concluded his acceptance speech Friday night, the jubilant convention crowd cheered and the balloons dropped. A few of them. Too few. "Go balloons," said convention producer Don Mischer, instructing the balloon droppers. "Go balloons. Go balloons!" His voice was becoming increasingly frantic...
I've done this job. It was called "stage manager" where I did it but the essence is the same. There is one person in charge of all the details of a staged performance. A TV director ho calls the camera shots, a radio producer cues the bumper music and the commercials, a stage manager calls the lighting, entrances and exits and special effects. This guy knew exactly what was supposed to happen, how and when. That is the job.
"I don't see anything happening," he said angrily. ... Long minutes after the place was supposed to be a blizzard of balloons and confetti, Mischer was still shouting that it wasn't happening, at least it wasn't right.
I know that feeling... The feed from the Producer was available to the media for timing purposes only: but CNN, the pros, broadcast it. Now here is what the DhimmoCraps reflexively felt they had to say:
Stephen Jewett, a DNC official involved in podium operations, said there was no malfunction with the balloon drop. The balloons were timed to come down slowly, he said, making "for a longer ending, which was nice."
So Mister Jewett, are you willing to look Mister Mischer in the eye ant tell him that he didn't know what the damn balloons were supposed to do -- what the plan was? How pathetic is it that you are completely incapable of saying, "yeah, the balloons got stuck. But they looked nice coming down slowly, didn't they?"
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Puke. Puke. Puke
you know what I'm talking about..."I ask you to judge me by my record " words to live by choke on
I'll be everything to everybody in every way with no discrimination or distinction. Just don't look in the box.
"reporting for duty" -- oy
Born in the West Wing -- oh gawd!
and to hell with those Iraqis who depend on us right now.
So... How come it is grand and independent and opinionated and free when TerryKerry tells someomne to shove it. But when America stands up and does what is right -- that is seen by the same opeolpl3e as being -- exactly just what kind of wrong is that?
Enron tax break myth
Corporate myth
"I will not privatize social security" so fuck you, too Grandma!
Those poor soldiers who had to buy their own armor because *I* voted against the funding! I'll fix that!!
oh, and fuck those little brown people. again.
Asthma because of hair pollution??
Oh gawd -- he's got them chanting. oh shit.
small town rural America thinks you're a freak, buddy. Wait til they see wintersoldier.com...
where does that R&D investment money come from when you force companies to fatten their payroll? And *how* do you propose to "reward" those companies who keep jobs here if not with tax cuts? oh, oh tax giveaways and corporate welfare.
gawd. there are holes in this you can drive a semi through! Oh, well -- he's got plenty of ketchup to opur on those words.
Formal Announcement: Americans will be penalized for "Doing Better" than $200,000/year.
Didja read the studies that show Head Start does nogood? nevermind... it's little *black* people not little *Iraqi/brown* people...
oh yeah -- government will crack down on waste. bahahahhahahha
buy drugs from Canada -- US phamaceuticals go broke, raise prices -- everybody's happy! Canada attacks.
So is food a "right?" Is shelter a "right?" Clothing a "right?" Manolo Blanicks a "right?" [well, TerryKerry has 'em... *sniff*]
Why would Roosveldt want you to go to JohnKerry.com?" Why not FDR.com?
Let's respect one another?!?!?!?" The Constitution?!?!? Terry wrote this part -- right?
The "high road"?!?!? oy. class from class? oh - nevermind. "Red and White and Blue" but no Brown.
You "people of faith" -- we won't torture you or laugh at you... much...
Yeah, yeah, yeah -- you're reaaal tech savy. And your staff blushes at you in a clean suit... Can you read a science journal?? oh, yeah -- the staff can't.
More 60s stuff. Don't bogart that metaphore, man. [say -- tell me truthfully. Am I still oppressed and I haven't noticed? Really. Be honest. I can take it.]
"In the same boat" oh gawd. we're in such shit
Are they gonna play "Happy Days Are Here Again?" Wasn't that the Donk anthem? Those kids prolly never heard of it...
I'm struck by how nice, how safe, how secure it would feel to believe all this was true and Kerry was who he wants us to believe he is. *sigh*
And considering how dam stoo-pud they have shown us they think we are, I'm sure they believe that many people do believe all that. And if so many people believe in it -- mightn't it be just a little bit true?
Condolences and Rage -- again and again
[warning: graphic picture at top of link] In a videotape sent to Al Jazeera television, a group calling itself the Islamic Army announced that it had executed two Pakistani captives. The two men were working with a Kuwaiti subsidiary of Saudi company Al-Tamimi, which had been subcontracted to supply food to American forces in Iraq. The videotape displayed the decapitated bodies of the two Pakistanis, but Al jazeera ddid not air it, citing viewer sensitivities. ...Last week, the Pakistani foreign ministry said that two nationals, Raja Azad Khan and Sajjad Naeem, were identified as missing.
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The same group, Al Jazeera reported, said it had freed an Iraqi driver after he had proved that he was deluded and had announced his repentance.
The Secrets in Berger's Pants
Sandy gradually debriefedJuly 29, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — Urgent complaints that the FBI could not decipher bugged conversations between members of a Brooklyn mosque and Afghan terrorists because it lacked translators were included in the documents former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger removed from the National Archives, The Post has learned. In the latest twist to the document scandal, investigators said the revelation about translators was among several criticisms of America’s ability to deal with the looming al Qaeda threat contained in the “after action” memo on the millennium terror plot that is at the center of the Berger probe. ...Government officials said the FBI had been conducting electronic surveillance of a mosque in Brooklyn frequented by Afghans in 1999 after developing information from the investigation of the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa. Sources said the FBI had “hours” of taped conversations between people associated with the unidentified mosque and suspected terrorist leaders. But despite the potential intelligence value of the intercepted communications, stacks of tapes languished on the shelves at the FBI counter- terrorism center in downtown Manhattan because there were not enough translators. ...The report written by former White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke also warned of the presence of al Qaeda cells inside the United States. It urged increased surveillance of Arab students coming into the United States and called for increased security at U.S. ports and other points of entry, investigators said.
Dan Rather is All Over This
yeah - covering it with MMoore's planetoid assTonight, tonight Won’t be just any night Tonight there will be no morning star.
Oh. sorry. Tonight is the night we *finally* get to meet John Kerry! [Whee whoop whoopthZzzzzz] Before his 55 [fifty-five] minute speech, for which he hasn't rehearsed, the DhimmoCraps will present a video of Kerry's life and accomplishments. Produced by Speeelberg protegee, James Moll, ["Mr. Moll has the distinction of being Mr. Spielberg's in-house documentarian at DreamWorks SKG." whaa? like MMoore?] the tape will show Kerry in the jungles of the '70s decked out in complete combat gear. [an attempt to match the Bush flight suit moment?]The Kerry film is full of warm, golden-hued, Spielbergian images, beginning with the saturated colors of home movies, images of Mr. Kerry as a young, shirtless boy climbing trees and throwing footballs. The teenage years, in black and white stills, are set to "Stand by Me." The goofy era of his rock'n'roll band, ...even has an adolescent version of Jimmy Carter’s "lust in his heart" moment, saying that playing in the Electras was "a great way to meet girls."
Ready the Speeelbergian gag-bags.
Then, the mood changes. There are the home movies from Vietnam, the young soldier (Mr. Kerry's personal footage, shot on Super 8 film), somberly strolling with his rifle. Mr. Moll's eye lingers, with the heavy use of slow motion, through his younger years, hovers on the promise. "That this man was willing to take a bullet," says a former colleague from his war years, "Makes you respect him."
And via Drudge -- another perspective from John E. O'Neill, the man who took over John Kerry's Swift Boat charges:
Unfit for Command "Kerry would revisit ambush locations for reenacting combat scenes where he would portray the hero, catching it all on film. Kerry would take movies of himself walking around in combat gear, sometimes dressed as an infantryman [?!?] walking resolutely through the terrain. He even filmed mock interviews of himself narrating his exploits. A joke circulated among Swiftees was that Kerry left Vietnam early not because he received three Purple Hearts, but because he had recorded enough film of himself to take home for his planned political campaigns."
Is this as embarrassingly pathetic as it seems to me?
“I would have used archival footage,” Moll tells the NEW YORK OBSERVER's Joe Hagan, “but it was a pleasant surprise that he had taken his own footage while in Vietnam.”
[The filim] shows the swift boat and various shots of the swift boat, and some firing like you see in the water. Bullets in the water." "It’s just illustrative," he added, saying the bullets in the water were not from the actual event.
ok -- duh. I guess Kerry wasn't actually *simultaneously* saving a platoon of Green Berets and filming himself. It's -- to coin a phrase-- 'understandable.' Ok, we hear that "Mr. Spielberg, he said, loved the film," so we're clear that it is a superb emotion-jerker. This is the other piece of salesmanship:
With the protest years, the film starts to speed up, and eventually there is less of the warm, time-softened young man. He becomes the less stirring Senator from Massachusetts, but now brighter hues, set against July 4th bunting and the saturated reds of flags.
No wonder Speeelberg is proud.
Mr. Moll said the sweetest aspect of Mr. Kerry's biography lay in his family: Mr. Moll said the birth of his daughters, Alex and Vanessa, elicited warm, stirring responses from Mr. Kerry. "I cried like a baby when they were born, both of them," says Mr. Kerry in the film, sitting in the warm, living room light ... "The other one that really moved me was Teresa," said Mr. Moll. "I loved her." Ms. Heinz Kerry gets Mr. Kerry to laugh with her fizzy, frizzy, Mozambique wackiness.
"fizzy, frizzy, Mozambique wackiness." there's a phrase to remember . . . But missing is any footage of Julia Thorne, the girls' mother. Moll says "she is a private person," but it seems a normal response of someone who called her marriage to Kerry "soul killing." The bits I found most telling
[Moll] said. "...this isn't a piece of journalism." "This isn't a resume, it's a story," [Moll] said
A story. By the protegee of Hollywood's most emotionally manipulative genius, Speelberg. For the purpose of "introducing" Kerry to America.
"It would have been very hard to make him something he wasn't," [Moll] said. "I wouldn't have been capable of doing that."
*cough*bullshit*cough* oh, tell it to Michael Moore... the War Profiteer...
Moll mixes in the homemade Kerry film with stirring strings and a french horn soundtrack.
Naah -- too easy. Well, at least the DhimmoCraps are moving up in the world from the merely adequate MMoore to world class Speelburgian propaganda filims
Meanwhile -- back in the real world
SaddSADDAM Hussein has suffered a minor stroke and could die before his trial, his defence lawyers claim. ...Mr al-Rashdan said: "Our information is that he's in very poor health. We understand from the International Committee of the Red Cross that our client has had a brain scan to discover how badly he has been affected by the stroke. We believe he could die because of his health problems. "We also think an attempt may be made on his life. "We're very worried that we won't have a client to defend."
And that's what it's all about, ain't it al-Rashdan? That and Ms Kaddafy's legs...
More Dribs About the Drab
DhimmoCraps bravely explore uncharted territory in Pathetic LandAfter a number of his staff briefed him on the water taxi arrival in Boston (Kerry apparently complained that it wasn't a "sexy" boat he'd be traveling on and asked about something a bit more "manly")
Bahstanians who regularly ride this water-taxi, noted girly-men all, will be complimented and heartened to hear that Kerry has their interests at heart.
Kerry did devote his focus to the keynote speech of Illinois senatorial candidate Barack Obama and the weirdness that was his wife's lecture. According to staff that were present in the room, Kerry was enthusiastic about both, cheering by himself and talking to the television as though both Obama and Terry Kerry could hear him. "There was someone in the room actually taking notes of what he said to leak to journalists on the trip."
Now you're just baiting the GOP. ...and us bloggers.
On Wednesday, reporters got laughs after Sen. Patrick Leahy stood befuddled at the podium after the teleprompter went dark. The Vermont senator had no hard copy of his remarks, so a printed version had to be handed to him onstage.
Maybe following Cheny's advice had an effect?
Privately, according to Democratic National Committee staffers, DNC fundraisers and leaders are concerned about the convention, and whether any of it is having a positive effect for the party...."it's just a sense some of us have that this isn't going anywhere, ...there are a lot of us who are shrugging our shoulders and saying, 'Great day, but so what.'"
Astute, ain't they?
By far, the most upbeat moments came with the Obama keynote, but much of that momentum, from the DNC's viewpoint, was killed by the speech of Teresa Heinz Kerry . "Believe me, that was not a speech any of us wanted," [?!?] says the DNC-er. "If people thought Bill and Hillary were a package deal, they have no idea what they are getting with John and Teresa."
"Duck!"
Newly Freed Iraqis Take Blix By the Hand
unfortunately fail to smack him on the back of the headBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi officials said they have found four more empty chemical warheads similar to 12 others found last week, the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector said Sunday. ...Blix said. "They were in boxes, never opened -- there were bird droppings on them. But of course they should have been declared and destroyed." The discovery of four more such warheads -- and the potential to discover more -- raise the question of whether they are "remnants of the past [or] the tip of an iceberg," Blix said.
*sigh* ThanQ! My Headmistress
Oh!
Edward[s] clears up a few thingsEDWARDS: But what have we seen? Relentless negative attacks against John. [?!?!?] So in the weeks ahead, we know what's coming, don't we? AUDIENCE: Yes. [pass the plate] EDWARDS: ... more negative attacks -- aren't you sick of it? AUDIENCE: Yes. [pass the plate] EDWARDS: They are doing all they can to take the campaign for the highest office in the land down the lowest possible road.
The GOP isn't actually doing enough to smear Kerry so MBCahill has to do it all herself! [damned lazy conservatives!] . . .and the Big Lie rolls on.
Kerry -- Way to trip over your own ...uh, staff
[zen question: can something really be tripped over if it isSen. Bill Nelson suggested on the spur of the moment that Kerry and his entourage ought to go onto the Space Center itself and look at the inside of space shuttle orbiter.
...an opportunity some of us would gladly kill for. He was actually in the same orbiter that Glenn rode back into space -- Wow! [Discovery] A photo op with an American icon against the background of the most amazing accomplishment of Humanity -- American in origin. This is a political gem! A photo any sane campaign manager would lick Moore butt for. Yeah they were wearing "bunny suits" -- that is what ya *do* there. Glenn wore one too. NASA is currently preping the orbiter for flight and stray fibers or hairs would muck up the works. [duh...] Wearing a bunny suit is a mark of distinction and privilege, stupids. Being photographed wearing a bunny suit demonstrates a candidates support of "America's commitment to science, innovation and technology." So what's up with little MaryBeth Cahill and her conspiracy theories?!?
transcript of Britt Hume/Cahill interview CAHILL: well, yesterday senator john glenn, obviously he was an astronaut in his previous life sexrvings senator carr took a tour of a bio facility at nasa. it was just the two of them, and the nasa staff, and all of a sudden this is a leaked photo.
"previous life" ?!?!? *flash* John Glenn Is Reincarnated *flash*
"bio facility" ?!?! nice demonstration of dumbassedness situational awareness level, Cahill.
"Senator Carr" ?!? see above
"just the two of them" ?!? see above
"all of a sudden this is a leaked photo" Leaked, eh?
NASA sources reveal that NASA KSC gave the Kerry campaign people about 30 CDs, which were to be distributed to local media by the Kerry people. The photos in question were on these CDs. Local reporters were seen with with these CDs later in the afternoon. As such, assuming that the reporters got the CDs from the Kerry campaign, the Kerry people distributed the photographs themselves ...
Uhm... Mary Beth?
HUME: so the campaign had no idea there would be any photographs. CAHILL: none. HUME: when it was agreed he would put on his th costume. CAHILL: there was no press there. there was -- nothing. all of the sudden these photographs are out.
All of a sudden the photos the Kerry people asked NASA to make and give to them and then gave to reporters are "out!" How the hell did that happen?!?
...Since the photos were made with government resources, they were eventually posted on the KSC website - after the Kerry campign had copies. Also, given that they were produced by the government these images can be obtained via FOIA request.
1] How did Cahill not know this? *ahem*incompetence*ahem*dumbass*ahem*
2] What kind of "dirty trick smear" would -- hell, could -- NASA be trying to pull?!? [to piss off someone who might be in charge of their purse strings?] Proving that Kerry looks bad in baby blue?!?!?
To recap: What does this say about the world-view of the Kerry Campaign Staff?
They think:
1] technology is bad, evil and scary and might infect their candidate [eek]
2] people are only kewl when wearing the "right" clothing
3] they're so paranoid that they'll panic and attack just anyone for no apparent reason at all [ seriously -- isn't this sorta like the football wind-surfing jock punching out the guy with the pocket-protector and the scientific calculator holstered on his belt??]
4] they're too stoo-pud to know a good photo op when we see one [unless they stage it. Wait... they *did* stage this one...]
ThanQ! TBK
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MORE:
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has told NASA to remove all images of Kerry's visit to KSC from all NASA web sites - immediately - due to Hatch Act concerns. These images have now been removed.
And here they are -- those "un-posed" photos" ready for your PS amusement [Roger...] -- Kerry smiling at camera he didn't know was there -- secret photo [taken from 2 feet away] of Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. explaining it all -- Kerry wearing his "normal" "kewl guy" clothing -- just as MaryBeth is comfortable with -- This one is on the edge for little MaryBeth's comfort -- Kerry took off his coat [ain't nuthin' but a hound dawg -- Kerry in his suit coat [relax MB] talking with NASA people [ and waiting for a parakeet to land on that finger] -- Kerry in his suit coat [relax MB] looking up at the new heat shield tiles -- Sen. Bob Graham (back), D-Fla., former astronaut and Sen. John H. Glenn (front left), D-Ohio, Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. "not" posing for the photographer who "wasn't there"
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
I'm shocked that they're shocked . . .
other than that - I'm merely horrified Yep, a firm grasp of the obvious is the cornerstone of sanity. And it is good to be out front about where ya stand. And sometimes what is true is deeply disturbing nonetheless.The proposed [UN] resolution would issue a general condemnation of all forms of anti-Semitism and acts of intolerance, incitement and harassment. The decision would also call on member countries to take steps to block anti-Semitism. ... At a closed meeting held recently in New York, UN ambassadors from Arab and EU countries met and the Arabs made clear that they do not accept the initiative for the UN General Assembly to condemn anti-Semitism. The blunt language used by the Arabs describing their opposition, and their plans to use diplomatic means to prevent the resolution from reaching a vote, shocked the Europeans, said a UN source. According to UN sources, the Arab delegates were also critical of a UN seminar on anti-Semitism held last month.
and there it is. [more, locally ]
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