I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Wow, first.
Wow, first.
graveyard??
OK, I have no life.
oooh second...sooo what's in the news?
damn, so close to first, only to have second snatched from my grasp! lol 
Great Austin City Limits on.
tena rocks.
People really liked this script a few days ago when I posted it. Thank you for all the helpful and positive feedback. I received no negative feedback.
One of the best suggestions was that it might work better as an animated series of sketches instead of live-action or CGI video. I've placed it in the public domain:
Open with picture of schoolchildren being asked to turn to a page in their textbook, zoom in on one looking ashamed as she opens her scruffy notebook in ill-fitting, dirty clothes, then pull back to show that the class has more than 20 students. Voiceover: "George Bush's illegal war in Iraq will cost our nation more than $200 billion that could have been spent on textbooks." Cut to a nighttime mountain war zone with U.S. soldiers fighting bin Laden and mulah Omar. Suddenly the battle stops. The lighting gradually increases and suddenly the sun illuminates a field of brightly colored poppy flowers. Camera zooms on one flower to show identification of opium poppy. A hand reaches to pick the flower and we see a turbaned farmer carring an AK-47 but the flower into a bag. Voiceover: "The illegal war in Iraq has allowed al Qaeda to make almost a billion dollars by selling heroin." Cut to the footage of Bush making his "have and have-mores" speech. Voiceover: "Bush has broken fundraising records." Cut to a hand removing the words "Brewster Jennings Associates" from a corporate office building directory, then A.Q. Khan apologizing for marketing nuclear weapons. Voiceover: "But while Bush has been raising money, his political payback has helped our enemies obtain nuclear weapons." Cut to Bush being asked in a press conference what his worst mistake post-9/11 has been. Cut to his refusal to answer the question, asking that the conferences be scripted. End with a still shot of the hooded Iraqi figure holding wires and standing on an MRE box. Voiceover: "Isn't it time that George Bush be prevented from committing any more crimes against the United States?"
If you like it, please send it to whomever you think is most able and willing to animate it, and/or the BushIn30Seconds producers who might be able to make the best use of it.
script suggestions that didn't make it into the above version:
s/could have been spent on textbooks/could have been spent on education
more here
js7aq-instead of "putting the flower into a bag", the opium harvester should scrape the bulb with a tiny bronze-looking sickle, the curve of which would be a little bigger than a fifty-cent piece. Milky-looking fluid should ooze out of the vertical scrape. What you do to harvest the ooze we're not clear on, but that's what we understand you do.
another one: s/that George Bush be prevented/to stop George Bush
k&y: Thanks, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to show the details of the drug trade that many might not understand. Shoving a flower into a bag sends a stronger message to those who know less about the details.
One more thing: after, "Bush has broken fundraising records," a quick picture of gas station price signs shown from street level would do well.
Austin City Limits
"By the Hand of the Father” featuring music by Alejandro Escovedo
June 19
Songs and stories of the unique 20th century journey of the Mexican-American father from the stage production “By the Hand of the Father.” Highlights include “Inside this Dance” with Pete Escovedo, “Ballad of the Sun & the Moon” with Rosie Flores and “Mexico Americano” with Ruben Ramos.
js7a-Good point. It was amusing, the other day, don't know if you saw it, that there was this Drug Trade Details thread and all these addicts were getting enraged at eachother over exactly how the drug trade works.
Helllooooo Tena!! So I guess this means you rejected Atrios' request to help him move. I'm not taking him to the airport either!
/Seinfeld
Kei & Yuri - A Drug Trade Details thread - really? I'm sorry I missed that one.
I'm one of the 15% of Americans who wish Dennis Hopper would get back on drugs. (cf. thread below)
Does anyone have any knowledge of how Rush was able to get the rights to use the song "Ohio" (Pretenders) as background music on his daily propaganda show?
I've always been curious as to how that came about.
steve - Let's just say I screened my calls for awhile there.
Moving oneself is simultaneously agonizing and exciting. Moving someone else is only one of those things.
Tena, heh. You've heard the Denis Leary sketch, I assume, "Dennis Hopper hopped up on coke in 6-speaker surround sound, yeah!"
A.
mac, Ohio the hippie anthem? CSNY Ohio? Seriously?
Jaysus, the world is upside down. I'm glad you listen to that freak so I don't have to, because if I heard that, I'd drive off the road.
A.
Athenae - I love Denis Leary.
I think my brain just quit working. I'm probably going to have to go to bed very soon, although it's only 9 here. But when your brain quits working and won't start again, no matter what you try to do, it's time.
Hope this thread gets y'all through the night.
Why does the Harris poll get so few undecideds compared to all the others? Something is fishy.
Where ya moving to? When's the housewarming party?
While Atrios is away, don't be afraid to check out The Scrutiny Hooligans' new blog.
http://
www.scrutinyhooligans.blo...ns.blogspot.com
Athenae,
You might be thinking of the Neil Young song.
Actually, the name of the Pretenders song is "My city was gone", it's just that I've always known it as "Ohio."
I can't imagine Chrissie Hynde allowing Rush to co-opt her music. Ewwwwwww!!!
I'd also encourage you to take a look at my post today on Disney's hypocrisy vis-a-vis Michael Moore and the Republican convention:
Link
Bush & The Economy
Question one: Is corporate America more likely to profit under Bush, than under Kerry?
Question two: Is corporate America capable of manipulating those areas of the media that it controls in order to help ensure it's profits or to protect them when damaging circumstances arise?
Question three: Would those industries attempt to prevent a Kerry presidency by deliberately spiking it's employment rates, hiring more, rigging it's books to improve stock value, just like Enron and the others, to help create an illusion of economic improvement? Then, when Bush wins reelection, start laying people off gradually since the hirings were frauds anyway?
Considering what these people have done and are willing to do, I would be surprised if they didn't do this.
In fact I would be almost shocked and surprised if they didn't start another war, allow another terrorist attack, or assasinate someone just to get the boost they needed.
MYOB'
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js7a,
Here is a good
site that discusses that very aspect of the Harris poll. Basically, they press the undecideds for which way they are leaning, unlike most of the other major polls. Lots of other good info on the site as well....
mac, yeah, the Neil Young thing is what I thought you were talking about. CSNY when they did that "reunion" thing a few years ago played it and the crowd went absolutely berserk. I thought there was going to be some kind of bizarre Baby Boomer Riot in the Suburbs for a minute there. It's always been a favorite of mine, raised by a granola hippie dad like I was.
Never heard the Pretenders tune. Will have to check it out. I have shitty taste in music so I'm always grateful for people to point me in new directions.
Came into a major Bruce Springsteen crush two years ago, just started liking Neil Young recently, fell very hard for Mary Chapin Carpenter and then got over it really fast, too. I need a new obssession.
A.
I can't imagine Chrissie Hynde allowing Rush to co-opt her music. Ewwwwwww!!!
somefuckingchick
Yeah, that's why I'm wondering how it came about that he uses it. Seems strange to me.
I think Chrissie Hynde was at Kent State when the national guard attacked the students.
I wonder if Rush will continue with that Pretender's song after Nov. 2..."Ohh, waay to go Ohio"..... It does make me ill to think that the wingers co-opt rock tunes, when most of them were probably listening to bubble gum pop or Pat Boone when they were younger. You notice I didn't say growing up...(snicker)...
Speaking of that furriner Neil Young, "Ohio" and "For What It's Worth" seem both to be rather topical lately.
Re: Rush's theme song.
I believe that the rule is that one can use under 30 seconds of any song on the radio with out permission or payment.
I recall that Chrissie was really pissed but could not stop him.
Is Alejandro Escovedo OK? Last I heard (like, a year ago, if not longer) he had contracted Hepititis and got seriously ill on stage. As a musician, he of course had no health insurance. A premier songwriter, that guy...
I had an interesting conversation this evening with a friend who works for a CIA-contract company. This person mentioned that the now headless Nick Berg was CIA. Make what you will of that.
In case you missed it last night...I found something of interest to the scandal-plagued Bush administration here.
(Yes, blogwhoring.)
Now off to bed...
Here's a link for ya.
Russia 'Warning' on Saddam Puzzles U.S.
> State Department spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters he did not know anything about the information that Putin said Russia passed on. No such information was communicated from Russia through the State Department, he said.
Bilbo, cute. The problem is Bush cannot be "frank" about anything......
Google is my friend......
http://www.pretenders.org/arrush.htm
PRETENDERS' "My City Was Gone" as his main radio theme for years--with no complaints from CHRISSIE HYNDE, Carson says. But it wouldn't matter whether she, or the Bottle Rockets, complained, since radio stations and networks pay umbrella licensing fees to royalties collection agencies that allow them to use whatever music they choose.
Clinton Defends Successor's Push For War
Bad, bad, bad.
If anyone's wondering where my site is, I forgot to renew the domain. Should be back up later.
Andrew,
Thanks, that's some fucked up shit.
Reminds me of a time a year or so ago when Clinton said that he thought that bush was doing a "Good Job."
WTF
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Crimson Buddha says SCOTUS has ruled in favor of Hamdi! Check it out!
crimsonbuddha.blogspot.com
Clinton is a Republican of the type that still used to exist in the 1980s.
I like the idea of a graveyard shift myself, though I don't know if they still dig graves during the night. Probably not.
I can't imagine Chrissie Hynde allowing Rush to co-opt her music. Ewwwwwww!!!
Wait a minute. Rush is doing Pretenders covers now? I mean, I like "Tom Sawyer" and "Freewill" and all that, but the Pretenders? Well, I bet it's interesting, at least. Geddy Lee's distinctive bass playing is probably cool on "Ohio" but I just don't know...
Okay, I'm kidding.
Funny enough, on their latest EP, Rush(the band) does a cover of "for what it's worth".
God I loathe the left.
js7a,
Here's my quick take on your ad. Your ad script has some very effective, powerful images. To me, though, it seems like it tries to cover way too much ground in one spot. I think this would be possible to do, e.g. consequences of Iraq War, but it seems tricky. The best political ads (e.g. the "Child's Pay" that won MoveOn's contest) have a single, powerful statement that is memorable and doesn't get lost among a bunch of other messages. Maybe a series of related ads? I'm hardly a media expert, I just know what affects me. I hope someone does pick up on your ideas and run with them somehow.
Since PBS has decided to turn wingnut, it makes it a whole lot easier to NOT send them a dime. It kind of funny if you think about it.
Ron: Interestingly, Rush IS about to release an all-cover album (their first ever), but there are no Pretender's songs on there.
It's saturday night and I aint got nobody. I got some money cause I just got paid (by Slate.com, for writing crap).
Geeze, Kaus- Go buy yerself a goat or two.
Keev: Fair enough, but the audience I am trying to target is those people who can reasonably be expected to influence the Republican legislators who are getting negatives from Bush coattails, and special counsel Fitzgerald. A mass-market appeal would be better suited for September-October, when the undecideds typically dwindle.
These days, I think we should be trying to influence the talking heads and wonks and people who actually can do something to stop Bush other than cast a ballot.
An open thread! Just as I'm preparing to spend the evening interacting with people who are in the same room as me!
Well...let's see. Bush is a jerk who never should've been born, and his mother's was suckled at Satan's teat! He's ruining this country!
Trolls are stupid! They don't know anything! If you're a troll, fuck you!
Good comments, everyone! Keep 'em coming!
OK, got that out of my system. Good night!
Argh, I was without power for over 6 hours tonight!
No Eschaton! No Slashdot! No diepunyhumans!
It were 'orrible, I tell you!
I HAVE to get new batteries for my ancient PowerBook 165c.
Tena, thanks for looking out for us Haloscan junkies.
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What's the most self-critical thing George W. Bush has said about himself?
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What's the most self-critical thing George W. Bush has said about himself?
God I loathe the left.
Isn't that funny? We are then perfectly balancing the world, you and me.
It's never happened, friend.
Can't wait for the "informal" occupation. These people must be on crack. The scandals are going nowhere. Lace up your Chuck Taylors and take to the streets. Come Nov., man up a pollling station.
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By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 20, 2004; Page A01
BAGHDAD -- The American occupation of Iraq will formally end this month having failed to fulfill many of its goals and stated promises intended to transform the country into a stable democracy, according to a detailed examination drawing upon interviews with senior U.S. and Iraqi officials and internal documents of the occupation authority.
Hey, wasn't Larry Flynt promising us some kind of bombshell this summer? A book, a revelation, something political? And anti-Bush?
Note: Using the words "American occupation" and the words "having failed" in the same sentence is high treason, both for content, and for displaying knowledge of grammar that exceeds that of our President.
You have been warned.
Ya know what?
I guess I am a partisan. If Clinton says the war was a good idea, I'm willing to hear his arguments. HIS arguments. Not the rest of the hooha. Lord knows, since we're there, I'd love to hear that all that tax money was somehow well spent.
Sad fact.
Only Clinton can save Bush now.
Hope he doesn't.
Wouldn't be prudent.
oh, found it. A book featuring evidence Bush paid for a girlfriend's abortion. Ho hum. Wonder if its still coming out.
Biblio: Well done! (Just how I like 'em... heheh...)
Perhaps you'd like some Reagan ketchup to put on those links?
Whatever movie you go see prior to F911, for God's sake don't go see The Terminal. Day After Tomorrow was more believeable and enjoyable - at least there were SFX to look at.
Tecla--Last I heard, Flynt was saying that his leads hadn't panned out, and he has nothing, so that is dead.
Chrissie Hynde is quite unhappy with Rush using her song but, as noted earlier, can do nothing about it. Apparently, once, at a concert, as the band started playing the song, some audience members started yelling "Rush! Rush!" She stopped the music to castigate them.
I saw the Pretenders live in the 80s, and it was a wonderful show. They played in what is now Symphony Hall, but then hadn't quite been restored to its glory. Being punk and being young, we rushed the stage and danced the night away, overwhelming the dweebs with connections who had managed to get front row folding chairs. The management got even with us by sinking that bit of the floor (it was an orchestra pit of sorts) which had been elevated for the show to provide more floor space. I watched the second half of the show with the stage at just about eye level.
In the words of Chrissie:
WE CAN'T JUST WAIT FOR THE
OLD GUARD TO DIE
BEFORE WE CAN
MAKE A NEW START
BRING ON THE REVOLUTION
(KEEP THE PRESSURE ON)
I WANNA DIE FOR SOMETHING
oh well, compared with the massive crimes that are going on now, this is really nothing anyway. Thanks for the update, rorchach.
"God, I loathe the left."
Because they were 100% right about Chimpy's totally immoral and profoundly stupid war in Iraq?
I can see how that might tend to grate on your nerves after a while.
We're gonna throw that chickenhawk out on his ass come Nov.
Deal with it, punkass.
Hey, is NYC throwing a tickertape parade to celebrate the "end of the occupation"?
DALLAS (AP) - An international movement of Roman Catholic priests out of countries where they have been accused of abusing children has continued even after the abuse scandal that swept the U.S. church in 2002, The Dallas Morning News found in a yearlong investigation.
Hundreds of priests accused of abuse have been moved from country to country, allowing them to start new lives in unsuspecting communities and continue working in church ministries, the newspaper reported in Sunday editions.
``For me it would be a tragedy to reduce the role of a pastor to that of a cop,'' said Salesian Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez of Honduras, who has been mentioned as a possible successor to Pope John Paul II. ``I'd be prepared to go to jail rather than harm one of my priests.''
Hey all. I was out of the country for a week.
So, Reagan's still dead, right?
I mean, if someone needs to stamp his desperately clawing forearms back into the ground, I'm up for it.
Hey, js7a,
Instead of trashing your commercial's credibility by doing the opium poppy bit wrong, why not just show the guys with the AK-47s walking in the fields...leave the "harvesting" bit to the Kuleshov Effect. I mean, if I saw a supposed "opium lord" harvesting a poppy flower into a bag, I'd be like, "Ohh...gaaawwwd!" and I can't be the only drug geek out there.
Oh Thersites, now I can't sleep for another couple of hours.
Sooooooo,Clinton defends Bush on the Iraq war.I give up.
From Steve Gilliard's blog. A brilliant idea. Click the link above.
Steve said: Jen sent me a link to this site and if you're going to the GOP funfest and riot, wearing one might not be a bad idea.
June 10th. To date, 832 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq by the enemy, by friendly fire, and by accident. There are 81 days before the Republican National Convention comes to New York.
This is the problem: The Bush Administration has aggressively concealed the numbers, names and faces of the dead — pretending that the war has neither victims nor consequences.
If truth is the first casualty of war, then this time, truth is war’s atrocity. Whether you support or oppose the war in Iraq, it’s easy to agree that suppressing information is undemocratic, and it belittles the sacrifices that have been made. How can we feel righteous about something we’re trying to hide?
Signal Orange is a project to make the invisible visible — which is a premise and prerequisite for democracy. The goal of Signal Orange is to unveil the faces that the Bush Administration wants hidden — and to stop pretending that its actions in Iraq are inconsequential.
This is a response: Signal Orange represents the dead with the living — wearing T-shirts in their names. There is one shirt for each soldier who died. The front states how he or she died, the back reads, “(Rank) (First) (Last) can’t vote anymore.”
The signal orange color of the shirt was chosen for the same reason it is used where caution is required — it’s the most visible color in person, on camera, and on video. The shirts are to be worn in places where the media is focused, whether that focus is momentary or constant. Examples might include the audience outside a morning talk show, or a parade, or a sporting event, and it certainly includes the Republican National Convention in NYC come September.
Signal Orange doesn’t say that these soldiers or their families condemn or support the war, and it doesn’t speak for them. Whether they opposed or supported the war, they were fighting for our right to decide democratically whether a war is just or not. They’ve been buried twice—once in the ground, and once in the media. If we can make them visible in the media through Signal Orange, we can demonstrate that they had voices that have been lost.
Signal Orange generates no profits, and is independent of any institution or organization. You might be interested in wearing one of the shirts, or helping out in other ways. For any other inquiries, contact kevin@signalorange.net
I mean the link below. Where's preview when you need it? Argh.
"A Republican PR firm has formed a fake grassroots front group called "Move America Forward" to harass and intimidate theater owners into not showing "Fahrenheit 9/11."
As of this morning, a little over 500 theaters have agreed to show the movie beginning next Friday, June 25. There are three national/regional theater chains who, as of today, have not booked the movie in their theaters. One theater owner in Illinois has reported receiving death threats." --Michael Moore, June 18, 2004.
Ok, I'm not a big fan of Michael Moore, but this pisses me off. How unAmerican is this shit? Are these "Americans" afraid that Michael Moore says something bad about their hero, George W. Bush? I think there's a word that describes such people. Fascists.
I hate Denis Leary. All you have to do is watch those obnoxious Quaker State commercials. He makes you want to beat him over the head with that piston.
And, of course, boycott Quaker State.
Adam, maybe it shows how scared the right is about the movie. Though they have a right to demonstrate, of course, it occurs to me that such demonstrations will make more people interested in seeing the movie.
Fuck Chrissie Hynde.
Yeah, that makes sense, Echidne. Controversy sells, and the louder they tell people not to see it, the more people will want to see it.
"Have we gone to war yet? We fucking deserve to get bombed. Bring it on." -- Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders
Hence my "Fuck You" to Chrissie Hynde.
Fuck Chrissie Hynde.
I hate Denis Leary.
I'm not a big fan of Michael Moore
A bit grumpy lately, Adam?
Nah
Clinton Defends Successor's Push For War
Bad, bad, bad.
If you read this carefully, he's saying he's pro-inspections -- that something had to be done about Hussein, and the inspections could have taken care of the problem if given a chance.
Rush is the big stud in a stable of radio talent that includes Dr. Laura and Jim Rome (obnoxiousness seems to be theme here). This means that the network has most likely applied and paid for a BMI/ASCAP usage license. So Rush can use anything in the BMI/ASCAP library for "bumper" music as he wishes.
The sad part is that Chrissie Hynde probably no longer "owns" Ohio. When she and the rest of the Pretenders signed their recording contract the record label ended up owning the rights and can resell those rights to whomever they please. But I've heard the music from "Ohio" since Bush I on the Limbaugh show. I suspect it stems from Rush's opinion that he's a cool, hep, cat that knows good music. If he ever read a lyric sheet he'd have double the Oxy dose...
How else would Michael Jackson have ended up owning the entire Beatles library during the Reagan/Bush I years. I was so depressed. But karmic justice eventually prevailed and Paul McCartney bought it all back at fire-sale prices during Clinton I.
A good blog specializing in the music meme is Psynthesis. Look for a link in the archives to Courtney Love's story about her record "deal". It will give you a good perspective on modern indentured servitude.
The last time I saw any serious journalism on the opium/heroin trade was back in the '80's. Afghanistan was featured and the most striking image was the harvesting of the poppy sap.
The men with the miniature sickles moved through the field making the slices. Then the pre-pubescent females in the village were stripped naked and ran through the fields. At the other end, the stepped into tents where the women of the village used a wood or bone scraper to pull the sap from the hairless young bodies.
But the most striking part was the out-stretched arms of the young girls. It was a near replica of the now famous image of the young bombing victim from Vietnam.
Interrobang: good idea, thanks.
CybScryb: I'm skeptical because I've read that other kinds of drugs are harvested by naked people running through fields.
I'm not interested in depicting drug harvesting, I'm trying to get people to realize that the abandonment of Afghanistan's opium fields means several hundred million dollars for al Qaeda per year (U.S. News said a congressional inquiry found a single opium farmer pulled in $250 million for Osama.)
A few select quotes to use when revisionists try to tell you that america was founded on xianity:
"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian Doctrine."
~George Washington
"I do not find in orthodox christianity one redeeming feature."
~Thomas Jefferson
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My mind is my own church."
~Thomas Paine
"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give the assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
~Abraham Lincoln
My library's flag is still at half mast. I'm not familiar with the "rules" of the custom. Any ideas how long it'll be so? (Assuming of course Reagan doesn't arise from the dead.)
Joe Hill - it is for Ray Charles who read more books than Dubya
Personal note...
My band just got through playing the local music festival thingy, AthFest. Just wanted to let y'all know we rocked the fuckin' joint, so I'm in a good mood.
Carry on.
PLEASE, SOMEONE, tell Randi to dump the laughing guy or at least take his mic away! I'm Beggin' ya!!!!!
Fuck the Republicans, fuck the Democrats.
Joe Hill - I believe Dear Leader said it should be thirty days. (And what he says is law, you know, and that's how you know it's law, 'cause he says it. Sometimes in memo form.)
Backslider - congrats on the great performance. Kinda hard to wind down after, eh?
Note the way Iran seems to be stiffing the world on its nuclear program. And why is this not a great time to do so? Bush has tied us down totally in Iraq, and is not in a position to do anything serious anywhere else. Every real rogue/malefactor knows this. An example of the way Iraq is harming our national security.
Joe Hill - it's up to the library to decide, but they will probably ape the federal practice of 30 days. (Feds only control federal flagpoles, for everyone else it's their own decision.)
Your upset because the flags have been at half-staff too long?
A friend was wondering about the flag business, too, really angry that it appears Bush ordered the flags at half staff for 30 days while it was what, less than 2 weeks for Sept.11? We're 30 miles from Ground Zero, so the loss is still felt here, unlike the "loss" of Reagan.
A friend was wondering about the flag business, too, really angry that it appears Bush ordered the flags at half staff for 30 days while it was what, less than 2 weeks for Sept.11? We're 30 miles from Ground Zero, so the loss is still felt here, unlike the "loss" of Reagan.
...hearts and minds...splattered all over the walls...
Mikhail Capone,
Excellent points.
Now I hear that the Vatican is mad because the European Union won't recognize Europe's "Xian roots." Call me crazy, but I'll go to my grave believing that Europe has pagan roots and that Xianity had to replace (through violent, political, and sociological change) the indigenous religions of Europe.
I think the reason that American Xians are so intent on asserting American's "Xian roots" and that the Vatican is asserting Europe's "Xian roots" -- both in the face of massive evidence that neither proposition is true -- is that they know that they're in trouble and believe that if they could convince the rest of us that such "roots" existed, it would give them some sort of claim to legitimacy. A legitimacy that they believe is slipping from their grasp. Otherwise, I just don't understand it.
Went to see Scissorfight at The Middle East Club in Cambridge, MA, excellent show. Madd propz to Ironlung, the singer, for encouraging the audience not only to vote Bush out this year, but to think ahead to 2006 and our chance to depose Mitt The Shit.
Help me out here...from an AP story on Clinton's 60 minutes appearance:
David Kay concluded Saddam did not have stockpiles of forbidden weapons, although he was conducting programs related to producing such weapons.
Is this correct? Did Kay conclude that Saddam "was conducting programs related to producing [forbidden]weapons"?
thanks...
Boy, I sure Atrios' cable guy shows up when promised (unlike every cable guy with whom I've ever had the pleasure of dealing). I'm going to be reduced to actually doing work pretty soon.
I see some wire services reporting that Ken Lay's indictment is expected soon. I'd been predicting it in August as part of the Republican's planned shift towards the center and civility and so Bush would have time to make a commercial showing Kenny doing the perp walk, but maybe they think that they're in enough trouble that they need to move it up to July.
Also, today's NYT says that all the money and negativity directed against Kerry in Bush's 90-day ad blitz didn't do too much harm to Kerry.
"Boy I sure Atrios'" should have been "Boy I sure hope Atrios'"
Hecate,
Well, if you can stand it, you could try browsing through James Kennedy's site. He's a major supplier of godly ignorance and superstition.
http://www.coralridge.org/
He's one scary s.o.b. If you've ever caught his Sunday morning show you might have noticed the not-so-subtle hand-o'-god above his lofty pulpit.
At the last quarter of his show he does these little fifteen minute mockumentaries on the ACLU being a communist beachhead, Revolution-era Deists being revivalist fundies and Planned Parenthood being the KKK.
Ewwww, D.B. You're right about the "scary" part. Even that guy's picture scares me. Ewwwww.....
And the strangest thing about him is him-his orange, leathery skin, his completely inhuman, puppet-like movements and his very strange delivery.
BlakNo1:
I live in the Cambridge area and pass the Middle EAst often. How long will this group appear there?
"Fahrenheit 9/11" due out this Friday.
All those who oppose Bushboy should try to see it and then "word of mouth" it to as many friends and family members possible.
It may be the most candid and effective anti-Bushboy information available.
You know that the mainstream media will never tell it like it is.
The church is what you linked to, but this is his PAC/militant wing/whatever.
Random musings on a Sunday morning:
Bush/McCain '04: never happen. For one reason - Kerry thought of it first, and the Republicans will not countenance Bush appearing to "copy" Kerry. Which may be one of the many good reasons Kerry kept reaching out to McCain - to taint him in the Bush campaign's eyes (all the while appearing moderate and above party loyalty).
Saudi beheading: so the Saudis couldn't find Johnson and his captors in the several days between the kidnap and the beheading. But they can find and kill four senior AQ members within hours, as they're dumping the body. But they can't find the body.
Anyone else choking on the rich smell of male bovine dung? The top guys dump the body? The body can't be found?
Surely our close allies the Saudis wouldn't be lying to us, right? Surely they wouldn't be wrapping this up in a neat bow to calm the foreign oil workers leaving in droves?
Yeesh. One of the big "news stories" on that Coral Ridge site is about a "major award" given to Indiana Rep. John Hostettler... by Coral Ridge. Fatuous, bigoted nonsense.
And -- yay Backslider! Rock the House... and the Senate.
Another story at the site tries to spin the finding of mental health authorities that ex-homo "deprogramming" is seriously fucked up and mekes already low-self-esteem queers suicidal.
Also, here's a crossworshipper who thinks Dumbya doesn't say refer to Jesus enough. (technically, he's correct: politicians have been appealing to that crowd with loathesome references to "god", which they feel is open-ended enough. This guy wants them to get specific)
Rudy- Most, if not all, bands appear at The Middle East one night only. You should pick up The Phoenix for concert news. Look for the red boxes.
There are three national/regional theater chains who, as of today, have not booked the movie (F/911) in their theaters.
One-fifth of the screens in the U.S. are owned by Phil Anschutz, "America's unknown billionaire,"an oil man and one if the richest men in the world.
Bush is Cheney's puppet, but it's Anschutz who works Cheney's strings and moves his mouth. Behind the Bush bungle-team real minds are at work.
No chance of Moore's movie coming to an Anschutz theater. Zero.
Well, it looks to be another day in Paradise.
OT
Uh-oh.
What can we say: there literally motherfucking self-haters...
John Lehman is taking a bitterly partisan position on Meet the press with regard to Iraq/ Al queda connections. He claims Iraq and Al queda produced VX gas together.
They never produced shit, they bought it or received it from us.
k&y,
preety darn scary, isn't it?
K&Y. I checked their list of cities. Fortunately Austin is not going to be targeted by these individuals.
But those of you in Denver, Detroit, Houston, San Diego, and Washington DC can expect to hear from those freaks this year.
Anyone in Manchester, England, Paris, France, and Sao Paulo, Brazil can expect visits from them as well.
They plan on hitting all of their Chosen Cities
K&Y. I checked their list of cities. Fortunately Austin is not going to be targeted by these individuals.
But those of you in Denver, Detroit, Houston, San Diego, and Washington DC can expect to hear from those freaks this year.
Anyone in Manchester, England, Paris, France, and Sao Paulo, Brazil can expect visits from them as well.
They plan on hitting all of their Chosen Cities
Sorry about the double post. I had to tinyURL the link.
Endlessly OT
Quoth Death, "Gotcha!"
(Death is kind of a lame petty loser)
And
KKK FAQ
..."hating black people" another "liberal media lie"
an idea! This week,as a campaign contribution to the dems.......BUY UP ALL THE F911 MOVIE TICKETS YOU CAN AFFORD!!!! AND PHUKKKKK DISNEY!
I once had a boyfriend, a secular Jew, go absolutely ballistic at the sight of a J4J passing out tracts in the T in Boston. My bf was such an easygoing guy that it was a shock to me...but then again, I've always thought of the J4J as "Baptists in sheep's clothing."
Brief reminder, for the billionth time: The Blood Libel of the Christ was not commercially successful. Church groups used tax-free church funds to buy bricks-indeed, houses-of tickets, which were then offered for free to random passerby as "witnessing tools".
So Soros could buy some tickets maybe...?
Actually we happen to think this thing will do well enough on its own anyway. Look at "Bowling", look at Hillary's book, look at Bill's book before it's even come out.
J4J are the real self-haters. In Jewish history many of the worst persecuters were apostates seeking to bring "light" to their tribe.
Brief reminder, for the billionth time: The Blood Libel of the Christ was not commercially successful. Church groups used tax-free church funds to buy bricks-indeed, houses-of tickets, which were then offered for free to random passerby as "witnessing tools".
You're right. And I can testify. I wrote about it months ago here when the movie first came out. The fundies were outside the theater on the street, a major thoroughfare, with signs offering those tickets for free. I got into it with several of them and they stopped harrassing motorists after that.
Time for Cheney to Shit or Get Off The Pot
Dick Cheney says he knows things the 9-11 Commission doesn't about connections between Saddam Husseing and Iraq, so now members of the Commission want Cheney to share it with him.
Time for Cheney to shit or get off the pot -- give us the evidence or admit you don't want the 9-11 Commission to learn the truth!
Sorry for that last post being all bold. I blew the closing tag.
I'm becoming an expert on these Kristian whackos.
Kennedy from Coral Ridge was one of the signers of the Coalition on Revival manifesto, (pdf)which seeks to bring thocracy to the US. A scary, scary bunch.
If you look at the rest of the signers you'll see some of Bush's favorite evangelicals, like Ted McAteer who recently visited the WH re:Israel.
Some of these nutjobs show up in a story I am working on for my blog right now regarding US policy towards North Korea. I think it's pretty big and I'll let you guys know when it's done.
Incog- At my local Salivation Army hall the marquee sign read "Pay a Poor Mans Way to See the Passion" for a couple weeks when the flim came out.
Heck, I may come out myself.
At my local Salivation Army hall the marquee sign read "Pay a Poor Mans Way to See the Passion" for a couple weeks when the flim came out.
Mooser, please tell me you're kidding. Because ... *head exploding* ... pay a poor man's electric bill and get his heat turned back on, would be my first fundraising choice. And people wonder why I give the money directly to the panhandlers sometimes instead of to fucking charity. Jesus Christ on a sit-n-spin ...
A.
Your upset because the flags have been at half-staff too long?
Dear lk,
"Upset" is the wrong word.
I'm more bemused by the wry incongruity of setting a library flag half-mast for so long, especially here in Santa Monica -- a place more McGovern liberal than Reagan conservative. As editoress points out, greater numbers and greater individuals have died with less fanfare. So... why so long?
An intense week of national elegizing, mythmaking, and outright forgetting apparently wasn't enough for us. Reagan closed the libraries as no other president had before; ushered in this sustained period of partisan division and class warfare; shut down mental health and low-income programs to bring a new class of people called The Homeless to our streets; ran a secret government to achieve his aims within the White House; appointed people who redefined trees as polluters, ketchup as vegetables, deficits as irrelevant, etc. etc. etc.
I think that week reflects both the taste of a consolidated and uniform corporate media, combined with a genuine, deep-seated desire among Reagan Democrats that the clockhand were back a few years. I think a month more of this comes more from Bush himself than from either the media or the people.
Anyway, a flag at half mast is a symbol. And like all symbols, especially those without clear precedents or explanations, it is to be wondered about.
So I wondered.
"Your" is also the wrong word, by the way....
--Joe Hill
I've just decided that the flags are at half-staff for Ray Charles, a man more deserving of a ridiculously overhyped state funeral than Ronald Reagan ever was.
Hey js27
Simpler ad
split screen
One: Aug. 6 2001 memo title "bin Laden determined to strike the U.S."
Footage of Bush going fishing that day
Two: Bush sitting at Emma Booker on 9/11
Bush saying he can't think of any mistakes he's made
Three:
Bush chuckling "I hit the Trifecta"
Bush addressing "his base"
Four:
Bush: "Bring em on"
flag draped casket with number of U.S. dead and 0 WMD
Finally: Ready for real leadership for a change?
notoverityrt: sounds great, athough if enough money were found a whole series could be made out of separate treatments of each height of stupid arrogance.
That one's pretty good, too. I suggest sending your idea to BushFlash.com
Really a great idea: don't let them forget that he's an idiot. People are aware of these colossal fuck-ups, they just need to be kept aware of them the way Doonesbury actually once did an entire strrip out of Quayle quotes or Howard Stern did a "show" out of Quayle recordings. There was this one about going forward and not backward that made me nearly piss my [nun] habit when I heard it...
I am also quite disguted by www.moveamericaforward.com. They are attempting to intimidate theaters into not showing Fahrenheit 9/11. They have posted on that web site the e-mail addresses of many people who work for the theaters - so I used that handy list to send messages of SUPPORT and THANKS. Please do the same.
Also, I think this is one of the featured issues on the current Air America Radio homepage - www.airamericaradio.com for more info.
After reading the new Salon article on the Bush abortion, I have read various online articles on the issue. I didn't know that the woman's name was known. I've followed up with some rudimentary research of my own. While some Web sites propagate the idea that Bush impregnated a 15 year old girl, Robin Lowman Garner was in fact born in or around 1947, so she was only about a year younger than Bush, who was born in 1946. (She's said to be 57 now.)
The husband of Robin Garner, Jerry Lee Garner, is also 57. They appear to have at least one child, Jerry Lee Garner, Jr., 28 years old, born about 1976, five years after the abortion.
One Web site said the couple live in San Antonio, but databases list them as living in Bourne, TX, (northwest of San Antonio) and Corpus Christi, TX. So they presumably live in Bourne and have a vacation house in Corpus Christi. Larry Flynt referred to the woman living today in Corpus Christi in a house worth half a million dollars. Whether she lives in one such house, or two, it's a little difficult to believe that the woman jumped from working as a cocktail waitress to living in fancy real estate simply on the salary of an FBI agent such as her husband.
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