I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Sounds good, I am going for a walk right now. Now I am going for a walk against Bush!
I've got one. I'll be running along and then get a random "great shirt" from someone. And it really seems to sour the faces of the local Rethugs, which is nice.
I need to get me one of those, specially fitted, for the Belmont!
Hah, sounds like good fun. I like to hear about inventive grassroots activism like that.
I could lose a little weight.
every little bit helps.
The Bush hating grows tiresome. Get some eral IDEAS in your campaign of anti_Americanism beside hate. We're n ot buying it.
The Bush hating grows tiresome. Get some eral IDEAS in your campaign of anti_Americanism beside hate. We're n ot buying it.
Of course, if you're not the athletic type, you could just wear this. Or this. Or this.
Hey, Smarty, maybe you can squeeze into one of these.
Hey LeftWing Traitors.I got a couple questions,maybe you could sort them out for us?
Why has your president refused to put an all out effort to find OBL?Why is he dodging the question to fund the war further if he is so supportive of the troops?Why do you find his everlasting love of jesus so soothing yet his actions are so against the so called teachings of the book you so rever(sp)?
You put too much faith in those you let lead you and not enough questioning.Why will you not make you leader stand up and defend himself?He has much to answer for and yet you and your minions refuse to even see this as fact.Are you to be led blindly to democracy's end?I submit you are.
Please try and pay attention.
Rich here from Run Against Bush. Few of us are active runners. Most of us just walkers and light joggers, and while some of us has become active runners, we are all brought together by the "against Bush" part.
3500 members in 45 states - with active groups in 25 states across the country - check us out!
Dave, by the size chart, I might need a 100XL.
I prefer shit against bush myself.
Anyone create the bush toilet paper yet? I always thought he looked better with a choco-mustache myself.
I could lose a little weight.Antonin Scalia
Eat fewer ducks and more bush. Quack quack.
25 Rules For Being A Good Republican
1) You have to believe that being a drug addict is a moral failing and a
crime, unless you are millionaire conservative radio jock, which makes it
an "illness" and needs our prayers for your "recovery".
2) You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all
on their own.
3) You have to believe that the US should get out of the UN, and that our
highest national priority is enforcing UN resolutions against Iraq.
4) You have to believe that government should stay out of people's lives
but it needs to punish anyone caught having private sex with the "wrong"
gender.
5) You have to believe that pollution is ok, so long as it makes a profit.
6) You have to believe in prayer in schools, as long as you don't pray to
Allah or Buddha.
7) You have to believe that "Standing Tall for America" means firing your
workers and moving their jobs to India.
You have to believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about
her own body, but that large multi-national corporations can make decisions
affecting all mankind with no regulation whatsoever.
9) You have to believe that you love Jesus and Jesus loves you, and that
Jesus shares your hatred of AIDS victims, homosexuals, and Hillary Clinton.
10) You hate the ALCU for representing convicted felons, but they owed it
to the country to bail out Oliver North.
(More to come!)
25 Rules For Being A Good Republican
(continued)
11) You have to believe that the best way to encourage military morale is
to praise the troops overseas while cutting their VA benefits.
12) You believe that group sex and drug use are degenerate sins that can
only be purged by running for governor of California as a Republican.
13) You have to believe it is wise to keep condoms out of schools, because
we all know if teenagers don't have condoms they won't have sex.
14) You have to believe that the best way to fight terrorism is to alienate
our allies and then demand their cooperation and money.
15) You have to believe that government medicine is wrong and that HMO's
and insurance companies only have your best interests at heart.
16) You have to believe that providing health care to all Iraqis is sound
government policy but providing health care to all Americans is socialism
personified.
17) You believe that tobacco's link to cancer and global warming are "junk
science", but Creationism should be taught in schools.
1 You have to believe that waging war with no exit strategy was wrong in
Vietnam but right in Iraq.
19) You have to believe that Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a
bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney was doing
business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin
Laden" diversion.
20) You believe that government should restrict itself to just the powers
named in the Constitution, which includes banning gay marriages and
censoring the Internet.
21) You have to believe that the public has a right to know about the
adulterous affairs of Democrats, while those of Republicans are a "private
matter".
22) You have to believe that the public has a right to know about Hillary's
cattle trades but that Bush was right to censor those 28 pages from the
Congressional 9/11 report because you just can't handle the truth.
23) You support state rights, which means Ashcroft telling states what
locally passed voter initiatives he will allow them to have.
24) You have to believe that what Clinton did in the 1960's is of vital
national interest but what Bush did decades later is "stale news" and
"irrelevant".
25) You have to believe that trade with Cuba is wrong because it is
communist, but trading with China and Vietnam is just dandy.
Speaking of grassroot campaigns, have any of you come across twenty dollar bills with bubbles coming out of Andrew Jackson's mouth saying things like "Bushit!"?
Why Bush doesn't lose any sleep over Iraq:
Bush 5/21/04: "Let me begin with a very valuable lesson I've learned -- a lesson that has influenced my well-being -- and here it is: Listen to your mother.
Barbara Bush: 3/18/03 "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths, oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
After all, it's not like any of those deaths are from important, wealthy families. That's why it's not relevant to Barb. Or George.
Conrast the "Run for Bush" against a fake news story promoted on the pro-bush Sinclair Media Group. They had an interview with an alleged fitness expert promoting the idea of jogging while chanting the Pledge of Alliegance.
What a great blog. Funny, light, productive. That's going on my morning must-read list, right after this, Tbogg, The Poor Man and Pandagon (because fat pandas and snark make me happy).
A.
The pledge of allegiance, with or without mention of God, is not rhythmic enough to chant while running. Seems to me it would make you either trip and fall, or screw up your heartbeat.
On the other hand, "Buck fush, buck fush, buck fush..." is nicely rhythmic, eh? 
Many people have ridiculed the Dean groupies as rather limited people, but I still remember when one single person started running in the morning with his Dean t-shirt on (during one of our many "just do something" days, and someone came up to him and asked where he could get a t-shirt.
Next morning our dean guy gave him a t-shirt and then 2 more showed up. Soon they had a jogging group every morning, 20 or so strong, with Dean t-shirts on everyone. Best advertising yet. Let's people know that there are people who are against Bush.
This is a great idea. I never go anywhere without my Dean duffle bag, now adored with a kerry sticker. Just to let people know there are others who feel the same way.
There are too many hit-and-run accidents here without giving anyone a "reason" to run you down.
America is no longer the home of the free. If you try to exercise your freedom you open yourself to attack because this nation is too polarized to allow one to exercise free speech and expression. Just look at people who disagree with the Bush/ republican Administration...they're called traitors...it's unpatrotic to protest....we're at war...get the point?
regards
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If this idea spreads, I can just see it;
Ho's on the corner, decked out in (sequinned, very short) tee-shirts advertizing "Blow Jopbs Against Bush!"
Aaargh! Oh, delete the p yerselfs.
I kind of like it with the p! Maybe this is a more intricate variant of the usual stuff?
Muad-Dib:
I hear ya. I admire those who will send (e)mail to the Repubs & Wingnuts under their real names. I could nerver do that; I flat out don't trust the Right in this country. Thay're fucking nuts, and have no compunctions at all about harming someone in the service of their "higher law". This is what happens when you're sure you have the Great Googlie-Mooglie on your side.
It's almost enough to make you wish there really was a Hell; 'cause that's for sure where they'd be headed.
The Moron, aka shrub, should be our poster boy for campaign finance reform. The rich and powerful foisted this idiot on us. We need to take back our country. Vote this fucker OUT.
Meanwhile, The World's most thick-headed Law Professor -- InstaMcPundit -- is running off into Peggy Noonan Land where prozac, gin and unicorns are in ample supply.
I don’t know about the T shirt thing or the run idea, although them who is gonna do it, rock on
Looks to me more like people are just simply getting fed up of the dude and less they get reminded of him, the more they like it.
Bush’s voice is getting more and more grating and his expressions more and more icky.
Kerry sounds strong, mellow, guiding, leading and reassuring, Bush sounds hectoring, precious and annoying, I don’t think the Bush is gonna play well in any place.
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Fahrenheit 9/11 just won big at Cannes.
If this nation is to thrive
The toxic Republican hive
Of fucking drones,
With linguine backbones,
Must not be allowed to survive.
EJP, looks like you've got something, tho' it's up against stiff competition, and Variety has called it a flagrant piece of election-year propaganda against Bush.
Once again, Lime Rickey, you display your awesome talents. Hats off!
Repukes aren't born, they're hatched.
That's why they're so mismatched
With the human race.
There's an urgent case
That their rancid eggs should be snatched.
PLEASE modify the atrios homepage so it is smaller (kb) and consequently faster to load.
'Fahrenheit 9 / 11' Wins Palme D'Or Award at Cannes
Best movie.
Pass the popcorn, will ya'?
Fahrenheit 9/11 just won big at Cannes.
Yay. The Palme D'Or will hopefully increase the audience for this film in America. The freepers will write this off predictably - it's a French festival don't you know - but this is definitely positive and will help the film get wider distribution. Kudos to Monsieur Tarantino and the jury.
Even if Darrell Issa is a totalitarian bully fascist, you should not have a campaign to make him cry.
That makes two years in a row for an American film winning at Cannes that Variety disapproves of.
Yay for Michael!!!
It really is a hoot to go back and see Michael Moore's Oscar acceptance speech. You can see it at michaelmoore.com . Truly a blast!
"We live in fictitious times, where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president.
"We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons."
Yes, those were heady days for the Bush War Whores. Seems like ages ago when the Dixie Chicks and Michael Moore were demons. Now they are mainstream!
AP sez:
Fahrenheit 9/11 is the first documentary to win Cannes' prestigious Palme d'Or since Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World in 1956.
F 9/11 must be one powerful movie! Good for Mike! I just hope we merkins are allowed to see it.
Whaa? Where am I? How did my name end up in the "post comment" box here? Just sent a brief note to the Run Against Bush blog, and now I'm auto-inserted here? I can't start chiming in on THIS site, too--spending far too much time in the blogoshpere as it is, and this one is too crowded...but YOU GO, people!
Finally the Freepers have something to bitch about, instead of trying to shoehorn Bush's disaster into their purile little world view.
Hollywood & France.
I also expect the Corner to get at least 8 KJL's, 5 Jonah's, and 3 Derbyshires out of Moore's victory.
Just got back from our NC district convention in WNC, of about 150 folks.
Don't tell me NC is not competitive!
You won't believe what happened thanks to the efforts of the Kucinich and Dean folks. First, we have a Deanie going as a Kerry delegate(beating the Kerry MeetUp guy) and Kucinich has a NC delegate going to the national convention.
We are all new to this but we submitted resolutions thinking, "what the hell". Well, with some impassioned, spontaneous floor speeches we passed 5/6 of Kucinich's "Petitions" INCLUDING: LGBT Civil Rights, UN in US out of Iraq, Universal Single Payer Health Care, Repeal Portions of the Patriot Act AND Create a Dept of Peace!!!
http://www.kucinich.us/petitions/
AND we passed --in John Edwards country- a resolution stating our disapproval of Edward's vote for Negroponte!!
We are all pretty stoked with what a few us can do, and with the support of the established Dem party for our resolutions. Lead and they will follow!?!?
We have the power! (showing up helps too)
Oh, at our district convention we also passed a voter verified paper ballot resolution--what a day!
Just got back in,and was listening to NPR.They were talking about a Supreme Court case called Renyolds v US.There is a debate about it's validity.The children of the victems of that case are petitioning the current bench to revisit the verdict.
Apparently 50 years ago the court was lied to and made a decision that has influenced later court cases with national security implications.It seems as tho everyhting that has national security implications is based on a flawed verdict and that we are being duped in every case that has N/S issues.
Are there any lawyers here that know anyhting about this issue?It sounded like we have been getting screwed for a couple generations and are paying a very heavy price today because of that decision.
Had I the money, I would rent the Jumbotron in Times Square and show Farenheit 9/11 24/7 during the Republican convention!
I would mail DVDs to all the delegates to the RNC.
AnneW, way to go!
Had I the money, I would rent the Jumbotron in Times Square and show Farenheit 9/11 24/7 during the Republican convention!
How much would that cost? 1 million bucks?
Moore would probably go for it, gratis.
Atrios could fundraise that in about a week. : )
Or Soros could just do it.
Had I the money, I would rent the Jumbotron in Times Square and show Farenheit 9/11 24/7 during the Republican convention!
Great idea Chris--let's do it!
The only Reynolds v. US case I know of is from 1878. It upheld anti-polygamy laws in US territories (in this case, Utah). Reynolds made a lot of statements about what was acceptable religious practice under the First Amendment, and polygamy did not qualify. It's entirely possible Reynolds may be revisited in the next few years (a test case is moving through the courts at glacial speed).
smalfish, it sounds like you are refering to a 1953 case United States v. Reynolds, where Chief Justice Vinson held that the government may withhold information for reasons of national security even when that information is vital to the plaintiff's case.
The suit was filed by the families of civilians who were killed as a result of a crash of an air force plane conducting secret experiments. The families wanted the air force investigation files, but they were refused for reasons of national security.
As a result, the trial court said o.k., then we'll hold you liable for negligence. However, the Supremos said not so fast and overturned the ruling.
F 9/11 must be one powerful movie! Good for Mike! I just hope we merkins are allowed to see it.
librul
There's also the little fact that Europe pretty much hates Bush's guts right about now, and this film is obviously saying what they want to hear, and they are obviously sending Bush a message through non-diplomatic channels. It may actually be a very good film, who knows? (I've read it's his best).
I'm just sayin'...
Not to brag or anything, but by this time tomorrow, my Run Against Bush shirt will have appeared in 3 races. The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive. My favorite response was from a young woman who exclaimed "That shirt is firing me up!" She then proceeded to leave me in the dust.
Spartakus, LOL.
Smallfish:
The Los Angeles Times (registration required) did a two- or three-part series on this decision and the case about two weeks ago. Go over and search the site. The secret project that spawned the case was called "Banshee," which might help with the search terms. The basic aspect of the case was that the secrecy of the project trumped the wrongful death actions of the survivors of the incident, a B-29 crash, including their right to know the circumstances of the incident. It turns out that, thanks to a chance discovery by a survivor of one of the project engineers killed, that she made contact with others on the plane who said, categorically, that the secret project equipment on board the plane had nothing whatsoever to do with the crash. The plane's engines had caught fire, something that the Boeing plane bore as a design flaw. This revelation revived the case.
Then my eyes glazed over.
Back on topic: I run. I'd love a anti-Bush shirt (hint, hint), but I'll be giving my money to candidates instead. Sorry.
Hey Brian,
You can get a free Run Against Bush t-shirt with our group membership option...
http://www.runagainstbush.org/
gr...groupmember.htm
Awesome! I wore my t-shirt for about 4 hours yesterday. That was about 3 hours too long. Seriously, it's a full-time job puttin that thing on. People are pointing, and 'hey-hey'-ing, and asking questions, and applauding, and 'GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE', and more - it's just unreal.
I know Perle and Kristol and some AEI people weren't amused when I passed them on the street. I *so wish* I was quicker with my camera!
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