I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
just got back from "old Europe" and was told in NO UNCERTAIN terms that we have 1 more chance to fix a certain mistake that has been made or we're out of the club.
EVERYONE I spoke to told me this.
NO JOKE.
They loathe Bush & LOVE Michael Moore.
Hmm. Kyoto?
One of the best columns I have read. Why aren't there more of these?
OT: Washington, DC, Apr. 30 (UPI) -- President George Bush told the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks a security memo he got warning of attacks lacked a date or place.
I can just imagine the members going, 'oh well then, of course, why didn't someone tell us that'?
Thanks Atrios. Made my day.
W's leading us on a crusade.
As in all things, a price must be paid.
What's the chickenhawk plan
When the shit hits the fan?
Why, they'll head up the "victory" parade.
nice tonic after the sinclair piece...
i want another helping of that with extra gravy.
Some believe the mind and body are merely rote machines, Dubya, ugly dumb congestions of cells and carbon and water and electric impulses whose only real purpose is raw animal survival and desperate procreation until death and decay and nothingness.
Others believe the human animal is a potent divine vehicle, that this flesh is merely how our ageless, formless spirit experiences density, and that we are here, in short, to learn mandatory messy earthbound information and then merge what we learn with the Great Mystery.
This is the last question, Shrub, and perhaps the most important of all: What will your contribution be? With what sort of divine openness and creative energy are you choosing to pass through this world? What will you lay at the feet of the divine besides a small mountain of dead bodies and an oil-rich stock portfolio?
Ouch.
I fucking hate George W and his squad of right-wing loonies... November can't come soon enough.
i want another helping of that with extra gravy.
Tons of leftovers in the fridge.
best column ever
One of the best columns I have read. Why aren't there more of these?
Dylan MacDonald |
Mark Morford writes these nearly every day. He's brillant. Check out the archives, and remember, "there no such thing as too much lubrication..."
To be fair, Atrios, Brother Mark offers more love in that piece than most of us can muster for the Unelected Fraud.
dear terroists
please give specifics, i.e. date exact time, location
also, number of deaths you would like to cause.
sincerely, george w bush
president united states of america
That is an absolutely wonderful article. 11 questions, indeed. Some fine hate, some fine ranting, some fine outrage. I wish we could sit Dubya down in a room, tie him up, and make him answer every one of those questions to our satisfaction before allowing him to leave.
Oh, and we'll have the entire thing watched over by some private contractors. But we won't be able to control what they do, so Bush will have to hope he doesn't get assigned one of the crazy ones.
- Joel
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Nightmares For Sale -
You're Damn Right I'm Angry!
Every question I'd like to ask. Of course, I have a couple more, but that's just a cavil - basically, this is exactly right. Thanks for posting it, Atrios.
The dazzlingly scary bit is that this useless, lying sack of shit and his thieving cronies actually have a decent chance of winning in November (thus proving PT Barnam's point about what's born every minute, but negating Mr. Peter's principle about the careers of incompetents).
Some people wake up earlier than me. Literally. Thanks Atrios. I just went to make my tiny url for this to show everyone here, and it was overwhelmed.
Morford is the sexiest, funniest noingo boingo around.
i want another helping of that with extra gravy.
Tons of leftovers in the fridge.
Yep. Morford rules. Anyone have any more info on the spate of trouble he got into with his boss, why his Morning Fix Newsletter went kaput, and why he almost lost his job?
"The dazzlingly scary bit is that this useless, lying sack of shit and his thieving cronies actually have a decent chance of winning in November (thus proving PT Barnam's point about what's born every minute, but negating Mr. Peter's principle about the careers of incompetents).
Bad or incomplete or non-existant dissemination of accurate information.. Gotta be.
OT, but apparently a text of a speech Paul Bremer (yes, that Paul Bremer)gave 6 months before 9/11 is now availabe in which Bremer said the administration is not interested in fighting terrorism. Paraphrased, he said the administration would probably wait until something catastrophic happened before doing anything about terrorism. Sound familiar? I heard it on a radio newscast this morning, but haven't found a link for it yet.
Fed up: Here.
The head of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, Paul Bremer, warned six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that the Bush administration seemed to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism and appeared to "stagger along" on the issue. Bremer, who in 1999 chaired a national commission on terrorism, gave a speech on Feb. 26, 2001, in which he said the "general terrorist threat" was increasing.
"The new administration seems to be paying no
attention to the problem of terrorism," Bremer said in remarks to the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation.
"What they will do is stagger along until there's a
major incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?"'
Lime Rickey: I've not told you this before, but your poems are terrific! You're one talented guy/gal!
Lisa, did you get the email that Mark sent out? It didn't say too much, but let the readers know that he was alive and would be back.
I think I'll make his archives my home page. This is great angry smart funny stuff.
Fallujah or fajita?
Got tea up my nose with that one.
Yeah, it was a fun read, but anywhere else would be too negative for swing voters.
Atrios, Thanks for the link to Morford. I subscribed to his "Morning Fix". I needed that.
Old Hat, many thanks.
Fed Up, it was great to see NBC reporting Bremer's criticism: too bad he got confirmation of his own belief of Bush's negligence.
No prob, Fed up. I've got a little stash.
dubya ugly dumb
ultimate staggering small
sharp toothed fairy
jr...I'm kind of surprised Bremer's remarks are just coming to light now. Tinfoil hat kind of guy I am, I wonder who's behind it? I also wonder what the WH plans to do to Joseph Wilson to discredit his book.
Awesome, funny stuff! You can subscribe to this for your email.
I know this bit is tired, but why does Dubya hate America? That's not even a rhetorical question...I'm honestly curious as to why the President of the United States harbors this seemingly murderous contempt for an overwhelming majority of Americans (and the whole world, for that matter.)
I'm starting to come down with a case of outrage burnout. I mean, hating someone all the time is hard work, but Morford's column made me laugh.
I fucking hate George W and his squad of right-wing loonies... November can't come soon enough.
renato, i second that emotion. but what will you do come nov. and bushboys legions of followers rush him back to his fine perch. i can think of more than one that would read thru the first snarky question and go what? in other words, like bush, "i don't get it" and then those that would get it but just toss it off as leftwing liberal crap. but it was good. kerry, should be on cspan 2pm EST talking about iraq, and it better be good.
Not for nothing, but I too really miss Fiona Apple
Why does Paul Bremer hate Amerca?
Not for nothing, but I too really miss Fiona Apple
fallujah, fajita...
What's the difference?!?!
Wonderful and hilarious, great column.
I think a good case can be made that the boy-king has not just fucked us in the ass, but given us HIV as well, and basically destroyed the entire human race because of his fucking Iraq misadventure and other policies.
A possible future: veterans dying from degenerative diseases brought on by long-term exposure to particulate deadened uranium, unable to benefit from crucial stem-cell research; other veterans going postal as they relive the stress and loss-of-humanity of dealing with insurgents; religious dictatorship preventing all sorts of scientific research as we are entering a century in which complete and total rationality is the only option for survival, followed some decades into the century with biological and/or nanotech super-cheap WMDs used by terrorist to kill millions. Followed quickly by the extinction of all or most humanity.
All because of the idiot boy-kings policies.
yummmmy... fajitas.
yummmmy... fajitas.
Mike.. Please dont depress us all on a Friday afternoon.. 
Wicked funny.
Mike,
After that all I can say is "What will become of the boobies?"
OT -- Where's the outrage over Rumsfield's acknowledgement on Tweety yesterday that he was not in the loop on the decision to go to war? I thought it would be all over the place today! Did anyone see that?
For those not living in the SF area, "fajita" alludes to a local police scandal: http://tinyurl.com/2w3wg
During the anti-war protests last year, a popular chant was "no blood for fajitas!"
Morford sends me his stuff in an e-mail every week - If you like his stuff, just sign up with him - this article is one of his more mild ones (Really!) - it's not always about politics - but it always makes one think - and it's a sure cure for blandness.
"OT -- Where's the outrage over Rumsfield's acknowledgement on Tweety yesterday that he was not in the loop on the decision to go to war? I thought it would be all over the place today! Did anyone see that?"
Jenny from the Blog 04.30.04 - 3:16 pm
There's hardly any surprise left...one more duck trying to get themselves "out of the loop" before the war crimes tribunal fires up. It's going to eventually boil down to only God and his sons being in the loop.
lol:
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Oh that was hilarious!!!! Thank you Atrios!!
Niiiice.
Jenny from the Blog - I didn't see the show last night, but I do remember rumsfeld's micromanagement of the run-up to war. Then when the Army hit a rough patch for 2-3 weeks, with resistance tougher than expected, rumsfeld was the first to bail on the planning. He claimed he was out of the loop, and it was all Tommy Frank's plan. He's the consumate, back-stabbing political schemer - the first to jump on a bandwagon when it's to his advantage and the first to jump off. He's completely lacking in morals, ethics or integrity (I know I'm preaching to the choir).
In a sense, maybe rumsfeld's the canary in the bush coalmine. His bailing now is an indication of deeping, internal troubles in the Pentagon and greater bushco.
This article and a woot link too? I'd almost forgotten that I could laugh. And woot, keep up the good work- I look forward to it.
Aww, that was one of your best ones Woot.
Still waiting for some more animated boobies in unexpected places. That one with Kerry was a masterwork.
Fallujah or fajita (pronounced by the Bush boy as Fuh-Gee-Tuh)
The dazzlingly scary bit is that this useless, lying sack of shit and his thieving cronies actually have a decent chance of winning in November (thus proving PT Barnam's point about what's born every minute, but negating Mr. Peter's principle about the careers of incompetents).
Molly, NYC
Someone brought the Peter Principle up in class last night, saying that people are promoted to a level of incompetence. I responded that I didn't really think that was born out by the data, except among our elected officials.
Mike upthread mentioned the stem cell research, the decision GW "agonized" over in the summer of 2001. I've always been really ticked off over that- it was a sop to the religious right and near complete hypocrisy. Did he really think the big multinational drug companies were going to comply with that? They just took the research offshore. They will be damn careful not to mention how their "breakthroughs" were made, but real science is still working overseas, even if it's on the run here. Soon all we will have to offer the rest of the world is our entertainment/armament complex. Sad, really...
Old Hat: hummm, good leftovers….
Woot: did you properly fertilize that egg? (lol)
Lime Rickey: I wasn't born with the right gene for your work, but it’s really awesome.
On outrage burnout: I'm concerned that the literate and informed left will all be burned out here real soon, if not already. There's just sooooo much baaaaad stuff that's happened under BushCo.
Will we still be able to fight post-Labor Day when the final battles of the political war will need to be fought?
Morford and occasional lightweight threads like this sure do help relieve the stress and occasional depression.
Jim Faith: "In a sense, maybe rumsfeld's the canary in the bush coalmine."
I disagree totally. Rummy jumps way too early (remember the "It's Frank's plan" when the army parked outside of Baghdad?). The true canary would be Colin Powell jumping (he's a loyal soldier, not to be confused with integrity) and the proof that it's truly over would be Libby or Wolfowitz jumping back to the thinktanks/lobbying jobs, or Kristol writing a "neoconism would have worked, but Bush f*cked it up" postmortem.
What's that you say? "Chasing science out of America?" Mission Accomplished!
Actually, Morford got suspended from the Chron for a few weeks recently because he let one of those famous nasty words slip into his colyum. Apparently he can say anything else as long as he keeps it clean. I believe his colyum appears only online and by e-mail subscription, not in the regular paper. And this in one of the few newspapers in the country that merits the label "liberal media."
rooser04 - you've got a point. After the "Frank's plan" comment, the Army then rolled into Baghdad. In the blink of an eye rumsfeld was right back in the spotlight claiming that it was his planning all along. What a sleezeball.
I think Powell's gonna stay, at least until the election. Then he's out one way or the other. I hope libby gets nailed by the Plame grand jury. Maybe it will be wolfowitz's return to academia or AEI?
Reading these guys is like trying to read the old Kremlin hierarchy by looking at pictures of who was standing next to whom at the May Day parade.
Finally, someone gets it! Nails it! ANDREW GREELY: The slogan ''war on terrorism'' (or ''war on terror'') was false from the very beginning. Yet it has been a powerful political mantra for the administration to win support for almost anything it has wanted to do. The struggle against terrorists is not a war in any sense that the word has normally meant. It has the same value as, for example, the ''war on drugs.''
Jim, I dig the Kremlin reference. During the laughable Bush press conference I was pogo-ing around my loungeroom listening to Fatima Mansions "Blues For Ceausescu" and flipping off the TV. The empire is crumbling, so let's give it a good push.
My choice (after watching PBS last night on this moron) for questions for Dubya would be to ask him if he believes that Gawd created the You-nee-voice in six days (and took a monthlong vacation to Crawford on the seventh day), and if he believes that evolution is false.
I suspect that Dubya may be a creationist. If so, this needs to be made public knowledge.
Cheers,
Bush: "I want this Morford dude DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his poodle DEAD! I want his children's backyard kiddie pool PISSED IN by anyone we can find who has a bad case of the clap! I want his taxes, as low as they might be, AUDITED! I want his grandmother's social security CUT BY ANOTHER 5%! I want his church BOMBED like we used to do it in the good old days back when I was working in Alabama! I want his booze WATERED DOWN! I want his car to get 10 MPG less than it does now so he has to give me and Cheney even MORE money to fill up his tank! And I want you to find whatever sports team he likes and have their best player TRADED!!!"
Bush: "That'll teach'em!"
Rice/Hughes: "It sure will now come back to bed you New England stud you!"
MYOB'
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Actually, Morford got suspended from the Chron for a few weeks recently because he let one of those famous nasty words slip into his colyum. Apparently he can say anything else as long as he keeps it clean.
Been missin' me some Morning Fix, Classic version. Everything just seems so sanitized with what they're sending out now. I want my Mullet Haiku and my lovingly hand-crafted run-on sentences extraordinaire with an extra side of benign syntax abuse.
Reading this, isn't it spookily like The Life of Brian, all those people thinking Georgus is the messiah? Only thing different is he thinks he is too.
Life of Brian is being redistributed. Watch out for those bad Bigus Dickus jokes on these threads.
Bush: "That'll teach'em!"
Rice/Hughes: "It sure will now come back to bed you New England stud you!"
They got that on film those "abstinence only" classes might just be able to work. George W. "cuntsman" Bush. The anti-aphrodisiac. Adding Rice/Hughes would just clinch it.
Been missin' me some Morning Fix, Classic version. Everything just seems so sanitized with what they're sending out now. I want my Mullet Haiku and my lovingly hand-crafted run-on sentences extraordinaire with an extra side of benign syntax abuse.
agreed. speaking as a long-time reader of Mark's column, he has been sorely missed and came back in very sharp form. now I note, though, that the Chron sends only the first paragraph plus link, and the reader must click the link to read the entire column. I am sure that Mark will be glad to get more subscribers. Thanks, Atrios.
sigh, if only george DID get the press he deserves. WHERE IS HIS BRIT HUME????
Morford's a rectal probe. What does Bush's Texan accent have to do with anything? Contempt for regionial differences is lame. I mean, I'm a Texan. Would it make any sense for me to malign Morford's character just because he's in San Francisco?
Toby Petzold, the only reason I'd make fun of Bush's Texan accent is because it's phony. Have you ever heard another memeber of his family who has one? I'm not even sure that that weird whisper of Laura's is real. Like Pater he's had dialect training to try to talk like a human being instead of a rich twit. Daddums also had lessons to lower the pitch of his voice or injections. I wasn't ever quite sure.
Unfortunately vocal training can go only so far. If the brain is deficient the content won't improve.
My guess is that Texas is so big and the dialects and accents so varied that people from one part of the state think George W.'s accent is one they haven't heard yet. We even get that in a state as medium to small as Maine sometimes. It's that or people are too polite to point it out.
That SF-Gate-thing is... remotely funny.
Nah, i can not tell a lie: actually it's pretty dumb.
Glad I'm reading Atrios, KOS et al.
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