tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57267972011-04-21T14:49:30.108-07:00A Weapon of Mass Discussion!Bristolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18294320005501376909noreply@blogger.comBlogger1911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726797.post-1117591830637539842005-05-31T19:06:00.000-07:002005-05-31T19:10:30.646-07:00

Taking a country to war is one of the most solemn responsibilitieswe bestow on our President, on our Commander-in-Chief. It would behard to imagine a greater act of deceit than that which takes a countryto war on a lie. Sounds treasonous. No doubt criminal. Which of coursemakes it very difficult to understand why the President is still freeto walk the halls of our White House and act the part of

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It occurred to me while listening to Rick Warren, Author of The Purpose Driven Life on the radio the other day that while much has been made of the election being dominated by moral values, the morality of waging an unnecessary war in Iraq is not being discussed. 'Talk of the Nation' Tuesday, November 9, 2004 http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/ I think I am beginning to understand why. It has

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The Culture Wars Begin In Earnest. Many are crestfallen but today we spit out the bitter taste of despair and launch a new offensive. Election 2004 was won by Democrats on the issues and truth. That didn't matter. Election 2006 & Election 2008 will be a battle between Authoritarian Populism vs. Democratic Populism. We must select as our leader someone who will speak to every American about

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The Secret File of Abu Ghraib New classified documents implicate U.S. forces in rape and sodomy of Iraqi prisoners By OSHA GRAY DAVIDSON It has been months since the now-infamous photographs from Abu Ghraib revealed that American soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners -- yet the Bush administration has failed to get to the bottom of the abuses."There are some serious unanswered questions," says Sen

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You gave me fortune You gave me fame You me power in your God's name I'm every person you need to be I'm the Cult of Personality - Living Color - This week's maudlin display of sentimentality over Ronald Reagan's death has brought into focus a peculiar part of conservatism. The eagerness to elevate their leaders to deity level status. We will get a show of that this week as the 'true believers'

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The Homicide Cases This editorial appeared in Friday, May 28, 2004 Washington Post This is what we have become.....accessories to murder. PRESIDENT BUSH'S persistence in describing the abuse of foreign prisoners as an isolated problem at one Iraqi prison is blatantly at odds with the facts seeping out from his administration. These include mounting reports of crimes at detention facilities

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One of the saddest conclusions I have come to over the madness of the Iraq war is those of us who have opposed it from the beginning didn't do enough to stop it from happening. We call it Bush's war but it's really our war. Yours, mine our neighbor down the street and our family back home. We said "Not in our name" as if that would distance us from the responsibility we have as Americans for this

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld offered "my deepest apology" Friday to Iraqi prisoners abused by sadistic military personnel and warned that videos and photos yet to come could further inflame worldwide outrage. "It's going to get a good deal more terrible, I'm afraid," he said glumly in congressional testimony televised throughout the Arab world as well as in the United

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"I'm saying it now for him." So began the unmasking of a complete coward. On Wednesday Bush simply couldn't find it within himself to say the "A" word. And a day after Press Secretary Scott McClellan was asked why Bush himself had not apologized for Iraqi Prisoner abuse, bush did...sort of. It is interesting to note that bush still hasn't actually said he IS sorry. WASHINGTON (AP) -

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The Whitewash House looks like the 'Keystone Mafia' the way they threaten and silence those don't follow the script. Book after book come out showing how ruthless the Bush Boys are but still a lot of the public are willing to turn a blind eye to the high crimes and misdemeanors. They thought they were voting for someone who would restore honor the Oval Office only to find that Bush is even worse

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Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen emerged from 3 hours of questioning from the 9/11 commission to face reporters today. "Look, if we had something to hide we wouldn't have met with them in the first place. We answered all their questions. As I say, I came away good about the session because I wanted them to know how I set strategy, how we run the White House, how we deal with threats," Bush

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"I request duty in Vietnam." John Kerry "I had other priorities" Dick Cheney The Wiggles of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. “I think this whole thing is preposterous, this attempt to impugn Kerry is cheesy and sleazy,” said historian Stanley Karnow, author of "Vietnam: A History." “If a guy has his arm taken off he gets a Purple Heart. If he has a scratch he gets a Purple Heart. “I think the Bush

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This is the week the consequences of blindly following a leader who has no compunction about lying became obvious. Of all the horrible, malevolent, underhanded thing George Bush has visited upon this nation, the unnecessary war in Iraq tops the list. First came the photos of flag draped coffins returning to Dover over the objections of a Whitewash House that only wants pictures of Dubya shaking

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. Bushco Inc. is so angry that we have seen the tragic result of their splendid little war that, not only did they have the photographer fired, they had her husband fired as well. The Photo As April drags its bloody stump to an ignominious close, we should redouble our efforts to return to an era peace and prosperity. Re-Defeat Bush!

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"Nobody, but nobody, is more reluctant to go to war than President Bush.... He does not want to lead the nation to war." - Ari Fleischer - Yes but... The documents contradicting the carefully nurtured image of bush being a reasonable, humble man of the people are rolling off the presses faster than the Whitewash House can keep up with them. The latest, of course, is Bob Woodward's 'Plan for

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I have a friend who, during his twenties, was a hopeless pot smoker and beer drinker. He often would show up in the morning stoned and wasted. He'd look terrible but would tell me "the first hit of the day is the best". That's pretty sad. So I was encouraged a few years later to find that he was sober and working a high pressure job with some success. Not long after that I learned that he had

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I remember several years back being taken by surprise during my third call back for a job interview when I was asked what I thought my biggest weakness was in my previous job. Now I know that question is pretty standard and the answer is "I care too much" or "I often give 110%". The question is more to identify the arrogant or clueless. So I couldn't help a big belly laugh when seeing this

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Bush Recession: Is your true goal simply to tear down the Bush administration, or will you in the event of Kerry's election begin a campaign to tear him down as well? Are your personal politics to the left of Kerry? Would you like to see an end to Capitalism? Are you a Socialist? A Communist? I'm just wondering, so spare me the flames My first response, like Richard Clarke to the neo-clowns

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During the amazingly short public testimony of the person who literally sat atop the nation's security apparatus one question stands out as the most telling. It has to do with the President's Daily Briefing. It is, by all accounts, a short summery of the security threats the US faces and provides the president a qualified 'heads up' so he can take action to perform his "most Solemn duty" to

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The Crusades have never been more evident than they are today. The idea that you must kill your enemies in order to save them is tragically on display as US troops slaughter Iraqis and blow up their mosques. It's as if we have been sent back 1300 years and no one has noticed. Well, unless you count the entire Moslem world. Here in the US, the "Stepford Citizens" chant the ancient text as

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In Sunday's Washington Post back on Page A13 sat the story the entire anti-war movement had been looking to read for more than a year. The headlines read "Spread of Bin Laden Ideology Cited; Iraq Invasion Said To Alter Dynamics Of Local Militants" Many millions of people while carrying a variety of signs about blood for oil or 'bush=satan' understood one universal truth. Bush's personal war of

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Air America Radio is on the air! The network that can be initially heard in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Bernadino, California, Portland, Oregon, XM Satellite Radio and over the Internet at www.airamericaradio.com Woo Hoo! I'm suddenly hearing 'on the air' what I have been listening to at parties, at work, on the train and until the roll their eyes at me, at home. The people I run into

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It's all about choosing your battlefields. So Condi will testify. The generals concluded the battleground of the 9/11 commission with it's partisan allies was much less treacherous than the much larger battleground of public opinion that is shifting glacially away from 'bush as war hero' to 'bush as incompetent boob'. Another of those battlefields, already chosen but subject to change is the

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Back in the 1970's 'Revenge' was all the rage. Hollywood worked the American desire to get the bad guy with such hits as Dirty Harry and all those Death Wish Bronson movies. Clint Eastwood tapped into the helplessness Americans felt when faced with a bureaucracy and rules of engagement and Charles Bronson's was a more personal revenge after a vicious attack on his movie family. Later we saw the

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I know I've made this point before but George Bush is NOT America. He isn't even Midland, Texas. Therefore questioning or criticizing him does not mean you are attacking America. That seems to be a pretty simple concept. It mystifies many right-wingnuts that anyone could even contemplate it even while they decry the poisonous political atmosphere being jacked up by Richard Clarke's testimony in

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Dick Cheney and his drug addled pal Rush tried to portray Richard Clarke as "out of the loop". Clearly they hadn't read the first compelling chapter of 'Against All Enemies' titled "Evacuating the White House" The chapter is a blow by blow account of what the government's initial response was to the attacks on 9/11. What is amazing is that while the Whitewash House has been stonewalling the

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I can't believe the White House response to last night's 60 Minutes segments with National Security expect and former White House anti-terrorism czar Richard Clarke. During the official rebuttal, bush apologist Stephen Hadley's said no one remembers bush telling Clarke to make a connection between Iraq and al-Quida. Better yet he said bush has no specific recollection of it. Is that it? My God

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The Shame of the Nation

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Brilliant editorial cartoonist Wiley Miller's daily strip Non Sequitur got me thinking this morning. The weeks running gag is that a talk radio host is having second thought about reading "news" that comes as a direct feed from the White House. Friday's comic jokes that what the conservative corporate media really fears is literacy. In the last month, I have noticed a remarkable reluctance of

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There are three devastating example that illustrate the Bush Cartel's abandonment of democratic principle. They are in addition to the fraud and threats of mob violence in Florida during the last election. They are 1) the invasion of Iraq. 2) Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy and 3) the Medicare "reform" passed earlier this year. Each of these examples has two things in common. Firstly, they

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"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, it's probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. It fool me. We can't get fooled again." The evidence suggests Mr. Bush was trying to say: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." His difficulty comes from the underlying ethos of the modern Republican Party. The working assumption or '

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In yet another symptom of the sickness Bushco Inc. has spread around the nation through it's propaganda, many bushies are screaming at the twin travesties of Spanish voters throwing out their pro-war government and, to compound it, a Socialist win. The scramble for a rationalization to this would be funny if it didn't illustrate so clearly how deluded these folks are. I've heard some say, "See.

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WASHINGTON - Halliburton Co. acknowledged to Pentagon auditors that it provided faulty cost estimates last year for $2.7 billion in services to American troops in Iraq and Kuwait, according to documents released Thursday by the Defense Department. The fawning Associated Press goes on to frame the issue as partisan saying... Democratic critics say Halliburton is an example of war profiteering

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Well this 'Operation: Haitian Freedom' (sweatshop coup) sure is going well. I guess the brain trust in the basement of the Pentagon was expecting another deployment following the U.S. sponsored coup against Aristide. How else to explain sending in more troops to Haiti when things just got bloodier after the kidnapping. To hear the Bush Cartel explain it they aren't just winging it as they

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Bush Svengali Karl Rove seems a might distracted these days. It must be the coming Grand Jury indictments for conspiracy to reveal a CIA's operative's cover. But look. The bush campaign's stumbles and missteps are so comical that one is tempted to think it might be intentional. Personally, I think it goes hand in hand with the level of incompetence these guys have shown already. Blunders of

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In George Orwell's '1984' Winston Smith spends his days at a low paying dead-end cubicle job altering news accounts and farm production statistics that might be embarrassing to Big Brother. Today he might work at the FCC. Rooting out any thing that might embarrass Our Beloved Maximum Leader, George W. Bush. Just as Winston Smith thought he could, in his own small way, defy Big Brother and his

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The brazen shamelessness of Bushco Inc is only matched by its tone-deaf cluelessness. The multimillion dollar ad campaign bush issued as his opening salve in election 2004 has insulted the 9/11 families, the fire fighters and police officers who bore the brunt of the attacks and really only served to highlight the shallow ethical trough from which the bushies eat their slop. "It's a slap in the

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Sounding more and more like they really did organize the coup against Aristide, the bush Cartel is now setting the terms of power sharing assignments. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration rejected on Tuesday bids for power in Haiti by rebels and insisted they lay down their arms and return to their homes. There is a political process under way to pick up after the departure of President

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Everywhere I go on the Internet lately I face the picture of Jane Fonda with John Kerry, looking a little fuzzy, sitting three rows behind her at some anti-war rally in the 1970's. The damn picture is everywhere. It seems to be the one size fits all response to any criticism of bush. The implication is that if you vote for John Kerry you get Jane Fonda. A cold sweat nightmare for those still

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With all the things we could be talking about why is everyone focused on "The Passion" of "Gay Marriage"? The short answer is it’s the kind of wedge issues the GOP needs to keep their boy in the White House. The long answer is, well, a bit longer. I say that's get these issues up front and in the open right now. The whooped up hyper-Christianity will have a little bit longer shelf life than

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George Tenet testified yesterday that although al-Quida's numbers were down radical extremism was up and spreading. One step forward three steps back. George bush's self-fulfilling prophesy of a dangerous world populated by killers who would do us harm is close to complete. And just so we can't learn from our mistakes. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a blow to the commission investigating the Sept.

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Here's a little secret I hope you won't pass around. George will do anything; say anything to get legitimately elected this fall. Great, you say how can a secret be kept if it's already common knowledge among so-called "bushhaters'? It's already posted on hundreds of websites and is the working assumption within the Democratic Party. Those aren't the people that need to be kept in the dark.

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We all know that bush personifies the three slogans of Big Brother. 'War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is strength'. He is proud that he doesn't know what is going on in the world, avoiding newspapers and taking comfort in his splendid isolation. He boasts that he rules from the gut unencumbered by the facts. His distain for polls is legendary and focus groups anathema. But if he were

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With the right wing now falling into a defensive crouch, it looks like the war is to redefine and establish their ability to frame the national argument. Their need for control is evident. Defining the subject widely or narrowly is the mechanism for control. When they perceive that you have gone outside the boundaries they have set for discussion, it allows them to disregard anything they have

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I see that Bush is backing off and down playing in two areas where his supporters contend he is strong. First, he is quietly downplaying his prediction of 2.3 million jobs created this year. When the first round of tax cuts didn't work to improve the economy, he said, "just you wait" Then more jobs were lost following his second round of tax cuts. Just a few weeks ago, he boasted that the

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I swear to God I think we might be witnessing the decline and fall of Bushco Inc. Of all the possible things that could lead to the downfall and public humiliation of George W. Bush, I never in a million years thought it would start with a question from diminutive veteran reporter Helen Thomas TRANSCRIPT OF EXCHANGE BETWEEN PRESS SECRETARY SCOTT McCLELLAN AND REPORTER HELEN THOMAS See for

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It was been such a bad couple of weeks for bush that the Cartel has wheeled out two of it’s venomous attack dogs, Coulter and Drudge. If you take what Drudge posts as anything resembling the truth then you are truly lost because the documented evidence of truth tampering on the D.R. is overwhelming. The great Kansan William Allen White is rolling in his grave at the mere hint the Matt Drudge

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At what point do we as a nation say, that for the good of the country, George W. Bush should be removed from office because he has become dangerously unhinged? I know it's the kind of charge mostly associated with guys like Charles Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg and the right-wing peanut gallery at Newsmax but I'm just asking. They have been saying for a long time that liberalism is actually a

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One of the grandest ironies of this upcoming election is that the same uber-patriots who accused fellow Americans of supporting saddam, or worse, inviting another terrorist attack may secretly be harboring the same desires. If bush can't run as a self-described "war president" then he will have to answer for his dismal stewardship of the nations economy. Clearly, his people are not going to

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So you listened to the pResident and believed him. You listened to his minions warn of "mushroom clouds" and "stockpiles". You may have even listened to the 'experts' on FoxNews: "State Run Television" laying out the logic for invading Iraq. Did you ever listen to that tiny little voice in the back of your head that warned that it might all be bullshit? I know the cacophony of bloodthirstiness

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"He had the capacity to have a weapon, make a weapon. We thought he had weapons." George W. bush Feb. 8th 2004 It's come to this. Saddam " had the capacity"?????? Anyone has the capacity. Hell, the Bush twins "had the capacity". How long do we put up with these sorrowful excuses for his illegal personal war of revenge? Bush's appearance on 'Press The Meat' was like a sunburst pastie over

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I have to confess I am astonished and more than a little bit wary of the sudden silence by the hard-core right. A series of stumbles and missteps by Bushco. Inc in recent weeks has been followed by a marked reduction in the vitriol spewed by the usual apologists. First, bush's wacky State of the Union proposing manned missions to Mars showed many people that he is as clueless as his father was

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"Knowing what I knew then and knowing what I know today, America did the right thing in Iraq." George W. Bush Feb. 5th 2004 Is that so? Tell that to the families of those mowed down in his rush to exact revenge against Saddam. More than 500 American soldiers dead, thousands injured and tens of thousands of innocent civilians dead. Tell that to all the relatives of those who have suffered from

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We all remember quotes. We remember what they said. They remember what they said. We will not let them forget! George Bush: There is "no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." Dick Cheney: "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." Donald Rumsfeld: "We know where they are." Colin Powell: "

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1) Will this election finally get Dubya to accept responsibility for something? 2) Will the electorate finally see the distinction between resolve and stubbornness? From what I have seen much of his political strength comes from the perception that he "says what he means and does what he says". Even if it's all wrong. I think it was Clinton who said something about Americans wanting a strong

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We have gotten over our fear of criticizing the pResident, overcome our reticence at pointing out the flaws of military adventurism in Iraq and we're not even worried about being called un-American for expressing our views in public anymore so when will it be OK to warn of the growing 'Militarization of America"? Where have all the anti-fascists gone? That's the question raised in the song '

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"I believe that the effort that has been directed to this point has been sufficiently intense that it is highly unlikely that there were large stockpiles of deployed militarized chemical and biological weapons there," he (David Kay) said. Kay was addressing Sen. John Warner as that august body tried figure out how they would extricate themselves for their very own quagmire of co-dependent

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Guess what. Those Weapons of Mass Destruction are in Syria now. No wait, now they are in Iran.....or Lebanon. Those looking for an explanation as to why David Kay couldn't find them are getting all the answers from "experts" at FoxNews: "State Run Television". The reactionary right is just now scrambling to find something, anything that will let them save face but it goes deeper than just the

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Well, this is a surprise. Iraq didn't possess Weapons of Mass Destruction. Who knew? Ask anybody. No one knew the rationale for bush's personal pre-emptive war of revenge was based on a non-existent threat to America. David Kay, his hand picked WMD Holmes, is ‘shocked....shocked’ that nothing has been found. "It's an issue of the capabilities of one's intelligence service to collect valid,

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mu·sic [ myzik ] noun 1. sounds that produce effect: sounds, usually produced by instruments or voices, that are arranged or played in order to create a pleasing or stimulating effect 2. art of arranging sounds: the art of arranging or making sounds, usually those of musical instruments or voices, in groups and patterns that create a pleasing or stimulating effect While the

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Never let it be said that the press, by that I mean columnists, don't excel at piling on. The same reporters who, for months, now have started Howard Dean's name with the adjective "front runner" have now tagged him with the phrase "has been" or " dot.com bust" after his 3rd place showing in Iowa. Why bother? Remember Al Gore invented the Internet, right? If they are at all sympathetic reporters

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If you were able to stomach watching the State of the Union on Tuesday, I hope you watched his lips. As the old joke goes, that's how you know if he is lying again. One friend of mine said "I found it awe-inspiring. Especially because he spoke from the heart--and did not use a tele-prompter or anything like that." I asked him what the little plastic shield like things bush kept turning to were

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In last summer's movie 'Runaway Jury', Dustin Hoffman plays a homespun lawyer who feels confident he has a way with juries. He thinks he can bend and influence the 12 members by being folksy and casual even to the point of leaving a mustard stain on his tie to impress the jury that he is just a regular guy. He thinks he is pretty good until he meets Gene Hackman who takes jury tampering high tech

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Beware the bush Photo Op. One of the scary things about Bushco is how they have taken some of the common complaints of conservatives and actually enacted them as their own. I mean to say that things like "Big Government" that used to be what conservatives were against has now been embraced by their standard bearer, George Bush. Another is the old joke about the most terrifying sentence anyone

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One of the things Democrats had learned and then forgotten from the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 was the concept of rapid response. The idea that the news cycle is constantly churning and that you have to feed the beast. The eventual presidential candidate needs to get geared up to meet the well-oiled prop coming out of the Whitewash House. For every right-wing action there must be a slightly

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President Moonbeam makes like Bill Shatner and looks for "new journeys to the worlds beyond our own," I can already see the bumper stickers Bush/Cheney '04: "The Solar System Alone Couldn't Hold Our Egos" It does make great cover for Donald 'Strangelove' Rumsfeld's maniacal ambitions to arm the cosmos. The Infinite Arms Market. Things have been going quite well lately for the merchants of death

Bristolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18294320005501376909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726797.post-1074042230479999342004-01-13T17:03:00.000-08:002004-01-13T17:05:10.123-08:00

I had a message board back 'n forth today with a guy who is starting to clear the fog from his head. He is a bush supporter and thinks the Iraq War is, in his words, "great". He is starting to see news reports that bushco was planning to invade as far back as January 2001 and he is trying to reconcile that with what he knows about the bush rush to war based on.... (well, take your pick of

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Fellow blogger The Rude Pundit puts forth the idea that bushco is actually a cult in today’s entry. He/She has a pretty good argument if one looks at the definition given by the Cult Awareness Network. He/She mentions Jim Jones and Heaven’s Gate but the following news item reminds me more of Scientology with its penchant for lawsuits to silence former members WASHINGTON (AP) - The Treasury

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The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, The White House and the Education of Paul O’Neill, written by Pulitzer prizewinning journalist Ron Suskind reportedly shines a ray of light on the secrecy-darkened workings of the bush administration. Bush was like "a blind man in a room full of deaf people," The MBA president was shown to be as good at running the country as he was at running all his failed

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Whew. What a relief. We're back down to yellow. We must still run around in circles panicking but we no longer need to flail our arms. What was that all about? I guess what its always about. Money. "Los Angeles has spent $9.3 million so far; New Jersey $2.7 million and counting. New York state officials said they did not yet have a full accounting; the last alert cost New York City between $5

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Why is the opposition to bushco so vehement? Why does it sometimes verge of "bush hatred"? Conservative author Kevin Phillips puts forth the argument that the bush family represents almost completely the antithesis of what America is all about 'American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush' documents a family that feels it is entitled to the White House

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If you still have any questions about the recklessness of the wackos in the Whitewash House, the Southern Style column by Rebecca Knight is a fine place to look for answers. My first question is: Does the Bush administration have any idea what its doing in Iraq? "Recently Diane Sawyer pressed Bush about his administration's definitive statements that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass

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On New Years Eve, I had a conversation with an acquaintance that put forth the following argument: The divide in America today is not between Liberal and Conservatives anymore (a point made on this page before) He didn't quibble with my theory that the divide is now between Radicals and Gradualists, in fact it was something he felt recently but had not articulated. He said the divisions in

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I usually enjoy the response I get from readers of this site. The encouraging e-mails are great but so are the hate mail spams. To those detractors I have but one quibble. You are getting predictable. To those who just can’t seem to muster an answer, any answer to issues raises by this blog the all-purpose industrial strength retort is, "you never have an original though (sic)" as if

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Did you get a hummer for New Year's? No, not that kind of hummer but a shiny new gas-guzzler that couldn't represent the avarice and greed of the bush Cartel better. "The deduction for business owners, approved in May by President Bush as part of his federal tax-cut package, gives a deduction of up to $100,000 for new or used vehicles that weigh more than 6,000 pounds. Aside from Hummers and

Bristolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18294320005501376909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726797.post-1072916563166951982003-12-31T16:22:00.000-08:002003-12-31T16:25:14.640-08:00

The Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby makes a less than compelling case against "bush hatred" being really, really unfair by saying that liberals are just plain mean and get away with murder. He makes the case by listing a handful of times that frustration overwhelmed reason and rhetoric and, in some cases, comedy turned ugly. His mistake is then painting that as a reflection of "liberals". "My

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I guess it shouldn't come as any great surprise that the bush Cartel, with help from the Murdoch/Moonie owned media, has taken the war propaganda machine and turned it toward the economy. Bush's oversized Achilles Heel. Every day the news has "good news" about the economy as if we can eat the GDP or pay our bills with consumer confidence. Some of it is seasonal. At the end of the year, '

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The "party of personal responsibility" is looking for someone...anyone to blame. You see, the usual scapegoat, Clinton, is losing the bull’s-eye that they painted on his back in the 1990's. Blaming Clinton is so last century. The "party of personal responsibility" really never was. They could find someone to blame for just about everything. Minorities were taking your job, liberals were taking

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The censors have raised their ugly heads at the Cnet MP3.com bbs forums. Although the site is listed as MP3.com Discussion The place to talk about the new site and hang out with your MP3.com buddies. Moderators CNET_Time, CNET_Aaron The forum has now been purged of mostly progressive/liberal posts. Even those discussing political music and the community of political artists who were featured on

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The One Party State is looking with glee towards Election 2004. Soviet-style government was fine for the bush Cartel in the wake of 9/11 but to make the kind of changes they feel need to be made in America, they look to Mao. The Chinese 'Cultural Revolution' is the model that the radicals who have stolen our country look to. The irony is not lost on the artistic community around the world. Mao

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The chimes were ringing the three quarters past eleven at that moment. `Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask,' said Scrooge, looking intently at the Spirit's robe,' but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw.' `It might be a claw, for the flesh there is upon it,' was the Spirit's sorrowful reply. `Look here

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Greg Mitchell of 'Editor & Publisher', the bible of the news business, asks "When Will Press Stop Circulating Dubious Iraq Claims?" Has journalism reached such depths that this question needs to be asked? "When will the press stop circulating dubious or fabricated claims -- whether from Bush administration officials or intelligence abroad? The latest chapter unfolded this week with wide

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Thom Hartmann has a revelatory article that sheds new light on what I call ‘Eunuchism and the Modern Conservative.’ This portion helps explain the reaction some have toward Hillary Clinton and for george bush. It’s all about penises, vaginas, Viagra and why Republicans won’t settle for anything less than an action hero as California Governor. Look out for "the Hillary Clinton Testicle Lock Box.

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Shamelessness is the hallmark of the bush pResidency. How else can you explain Dubya going on national radio with Mother Teresa like compassion in his voice while doing all he can to actually hurt the suffering while helping the opulent. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush urged Americans to seek out ways to help the needy during the holiday season, and he took credit for a rise in volunteerism

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The stock market crossed the 10,000 mark this week and the bushies are ecstatic. The richest 1% who reaped the Bush Tax is now finding a place for all that free money Dubya gave them. Why was 10,000 under Clinton a bubble but fundamental growth under bush policies? This is borrowed money buying all this stock. Borrowed from our children! This illusion is marginally paid for. Meanwhile:

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One of the unexpected pluses coming from the arrest of Saddam Hussein is the renewed focus on the REAL culprits of 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s gang of extremists. Americans have a hard time focusing on anything as nebulas as a network of terrorists so bush had to create a demon. First it was Osama then it was Saddam and now we are back to Osama. Large majorities think catching him will be as easy and

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What was it that made Richard Nixon approve the tactics that led to the Watergate break in and his subsequent downfall? He would have beaten McGovern without much trouble without having to resort to burglary and threats but he was just too afraid of losing power. It's a lesson that should not be forgotten as we enter the 2004 election. Since bush wasn't actually elected outright of fairly, the

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"It's all psychological" That's the response I keep getting whenever I ask "How is Iraq different today than it was two days ago when Saddam was living in a pit in the ground?" It seems never to have occurred to them that the guerrilla resistance hasn't been fighting for Saddam these past 8 months but for Iraq. Most understand nationalism only within the scope of plastic flag waving patriotism

Bristolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18294320005501376909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726797.post-1071441742123681472003-12-14T14:42:00.000-08:002003-12-14T17:55:40.170-08:00

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Without firing a shot, American forces captured a bearded and haggard-looking Saddam Hussein in a dirt pit across a river from one of his former palaces near his hometown of Tikrit, ending one of the most intensive manhunts in history. The arrest was a huge victory for U.S. forces battling an insurgency by the ousted dictator's followers. Funny I thought the "huge victory"

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News Item: The reconstruction of Iraq's oil and gas infrastructure appears to be costing American taxpayers millions of dollars more than it should -- dollars which are currently flowing into Halliburton's corporate treasury. Pentagon officials acknowledged as much Thursday pResident bush said today that he was "shocked..shocked" that campaign contributor and (former*) Cheney employer was

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To be a fly on the wall. Newly released Nixon tapes show just how obtuse Republican can be. Nixon was talking politics with White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman at Camp David in August 1972. "Reagan is not one that wears well," Nixon said. "I know," Haldeman agreed. "On a personal basis, Rockefeller is a pretty nice guy," Nixon said. "Reagan on a personal basis, is terrible. He just

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Just a reminder: In case it escaped you. The bush Cartel is selling America piece by piece to their campaign contributors. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House, defending a new policy barring companies from nations that opposed the Iraq war from bidding on $18.6 billion in reconstruction contracts, said Wednesday that countries wanting a slice of that lucrative pie must participate militarily

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The President of the United States (in exile) came out an endorsed Howard Dean today saying "I've heard a lot of folks who, in my opinion, made a judgment about the Iraq war that was just plain wrong, saying that Howard Dean's decision to oppose the Iraq war calls his judgment on foreign policy into question. Excuse me. He was the only major candidate who made the correct judgment about the Iraq

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Now that bush has successfully morphed the reasons for a unilateral invasion of Iraq from threats of WMD to mass graves it's important to remember the circumstances surrounding these atrocities. MAHAWEEL, Iraq - The killers kept bankers' hours. They showed up for work at the barley field at 9 a.m., trailed by backhoes and three buses filled with blindfolded men, women and children as young as

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America the Angry? Hmmmmm! America the Divided? Shmaybe. Is America more divided than at anytime in our nation's history? I've seen several op-ed pieces making that claim but I'm skeptical. I wasn't around to sample the zeitgeist in the 1930's but my understanding of the anger and resentment stemming from the Great Depression and FDR's "socialist" response to it was deeper and longer lasting

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Populist author Molly Ivins came out yesterday in support of Howard Dean. Although, many of us haven't yet made up our minds as to who should replace bush, Ivins makes a compelling case for a starkly different political landscape in 2004 "Doesn't seem like a good year for a regular politician on account of we ain't lookin' at regular politics. These Republicans do not have a different strategy

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Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me about Bush Recession Radio. It was quite gratifying. I’ll add new links very soon. The new Cnet MP3 message board is up and running. The usual complaints are voiced about not posting political comments on a music messageboard. Some of the usual idiots are there but under different names and some of the Bush Recession Radio artists have drifted back.

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"Sometimes I want to stop and crawl back into the womb And sometimes I cannot tell wrong from right But I ain't gonna quit until I'm laid in my tomb And even then they better shut it tight" 'Shut It Tight' by T-Bone Burnett The MP3 Stations are gone, although, I was still able to play them as of this morning as a saved streaming playlist. The web pages have been deleted. Most of the links

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An open letter to the many great artists and musicians who have populated MP3.com's Political/Issues stations. We really have been a weapon of mass discussion! Thanks for being a part of Bush Recession Radio and The Bush Recession's Impeachment Radio. Your musical contribution as well as your moral support helped make an important statement in these dark political times. When I started posting

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Hate certainly is getting a workout these days. I don't mean hate as an emotion but the word "hate". Regrettably, I fear, it started with "hate crimes" and the political backlash that came with it. Or maybe it was the description of right-wing talk radio as "hate radio". It really doesn't matter because the word is now undergoing the transmogrification that "political correctness" underwent years

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