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Re Brit Hume, chosen to interview Dick Cheney concerning the shooting accident: "A man who must to stand on his ippy-tippy toes to reach the yummy dollop of stinkfoot hanging like a summer peach from Dick Cheney’s cybernetic arch-supports."I'm glad this dude's on our side.

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By Alan Watts in "The Gospel According to Zen" (1971):"Christian piety makes a strange image of the object of its devotion, "Jesus Christ and Him crucified." The bearded moralist with the stern, kind, and vaguely hurt look in the eyes. The man with the lantern, knocking at the heart's door. "Come along now, boys! Enough of this horsing around! It's time you and I had a very serious talk." Christ

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And when does this government agency get prosecuted for criminal negligence? And when do people who lost everything get to sue these motherfuckers for everything they own?Remember: Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about a blow job.

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Remember that the last time we fought a two-front war, we had the draft.

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The day: Wednesday, Jan 25 06The time: Just after 7 pmThe show: Scarborough CountyThe guest: Al FrankenThe caption: BLAMING AMERICA(Quick, we need a transcript!)I chanced by the TV a few minutes ago and who should be on "Scarborough County" but Al Franken, who must have been sitting in as Joe's designated lefty of the evening. Joe is fair and balanced and gave Al the last word after bestowing

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First, you have to believe that the destruction of the Twin Towers (and WTC7) were controlled demolitions, as the evidence indicates. You don't, however, have to believe that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld set the charges themselves.You just have to entertain the possibility that there was a second al-Qaeda cell working the September 11th attacks, in addition to the nineteen hijackers--who are

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Driftglass has produced an instant classic, if there can be such a thing.

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I have lately been wondering whether our friends Across The Pond will have to act as a counterweight to the mass stupidity expressed by the American electorate, which seems unable to appreciate the fundamental problem of the neoconservative madness of the Pax Americana:"The problem for the US today is that Leviathan has shot his wad. Iraq revealed the hubris of the imperial geostrategy. One small

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Is it even arguable that the Bush administration has been little more than one Constitutional crisis after another from the day they planted their worthless collective ass in the White House?

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Wolcott, our Virgil in Hell.From the John Ciardi translation of Dante's Inferno:"The poets come to the edge of the Ninth Bolgia [of the Eighth Circle] and look down at a parade of hideously mutilated souls. These are the SOWERS OF DISCORD, and just as their sin was to rend asunder what God had meant to be united, so are they hacked and torn through all eternity by a great demon with a bloody

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My thought here at the beginning is that it sounds unnecessary, in that we already have laws on the books, as the Second Amendment crowd is fond of telling us.Mr. Ashcroft? Mr. Gonzales?Update, 12/17:Of course, the fact that Congress even sees a need to enact such a bill is evidence of its finally awakening to the fact that this outlaw administration requires--gee whiz!--a check against its

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I like the halos press photographers sometimes put around Republicans. Sort of points up the hypocrisy thing, white-collar criminals waving fingers at us slobs who are just trying to make an honest living for the family.(Speaking of which, I thoroughly enjoyed today's pic of Ken Lay doing his apparently low-key perp walk. Lay almost looked like he was out for a stroll until you noticed the

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Now there was one funny motherfucker. Newsday has a nice obit on Pryor.

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Harold Pinter's Nobel acceptance speech will no doubt fuel arguments by the right wing that the Literature prize is given to radical leftists so they can have a bully pulpit from which to sling rhetorical turds at America. That's probably not the case, but, hey, if the shoe fits....In any event, Pinter did not disappoint:"You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical

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BTW, it's "ad nauseam", not "nauseum".

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He did okay as far as I could tell ('cept for a few home runs here and there), but bidness is bidness.And please, John: Don't remind me of 2002, okay? There's enough pain in the world without adding more to it.

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It's a sad day of remembrance.I'd love to hear what John would say about right-wing doughheads cherry-picking lyrics in order to cite "Revolution" as a conservative anthem. My answer? Get your own fucking music, assholes.In fact, I'd love to hear what John would say about any damn thing in the world, just so he could be here to say it.By the way, I first called this post "The Day the Music Died".

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This from Corrente Wire:"The GAO report does not prove that the Republicans stole Ohio 2004. However, it does make a prima facie case that ample means to steal Ohio 2004 existed, and ample opportunities as well."lambert goes on to list a number of major problems with the Ohio election:Weak system security controlsDesign flaws in the voter-verified paper audit trail systemsWeak security management

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From Shaun at Upper Left:"There's one thing, though, that I wish John, Cecil and anyone in a similar situation would do for me and for self-respecting Democrats everywhere. Next time one of those Republican twits starts to prattle on about '…the Democrat Party,' stop him in his tracks and say 'You're an educated person. You know the name of my Party and I take your deliberate misuse as a personal

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"The Bush administration has spent $20 billion on climate change programs since taking office, Dobriansky added, and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 0.8 percent between 2000 and 2003."Really? I guess we're supposed to be convinced by those numbers that our president is really concerned about global climate change. Here is one analysis of the president's alternative to the Kyoto Protocol:"The

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The "special relationship" appears to have its limits, after all.

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Well loved though socially inept. Straight.Politically liberal (from a family of mostly Republicans). Retired military (enlisted, never in combat except with father over morality of Nixonism and Vietnam--please don't ask why I stayed in).Native of Cincinnati, married and living in Marin County, Calif. Keine kinder.Currently reliving fish-out-of-water AF experience as admin/exec assistant (at my

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The question is being asked (about Bush, not Limbaugh; that part's mine), so let's consider it.Bush is said to have wanted to bomb al-Jazeera headquarters in Qatar, but a cooler-headed Tony Blair talked him out of it. Would Bush kill journalists? No, not if you just put a gun in his hand and Sy Hersh in front of him. Well, maybe Hersh ... just kidding!No, Bush would never shoot or stab anybody;

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Could this be evidence of intramural bureaucratic warfare within the Executive Branch, specifically, between the CIA and the Bush Administration? I'm wondering whether the bureaucrats of the CIA--meaning the working stiffs who collect the data, do the analyses and write the reports, not the Mob politicians like Porter Goss and his crowd of enforcers--are fighting back against the obvious

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Are we at an historical turning point? Is it possible that the base and obvious criminality of the Bush Republicans will be enough of a lesson to us to cause us to make the fundamental changes in our political system that need to be made in order for us to survive as the democratic nation dreamed of by the Founders?We spend ten times on "national defense" what we spend on social services such as

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