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It’s easy for the Bushes to stay gallant. They
delegate the gutter.
There
are always third-party political assassins, ostensibly independent, to do
the dynasty wet work.
W.’s old
pal and running partner, Lee Atwater, set up the Bush modus operandi: Lay in
the weeds while craftily planting plausibly deniable surrogates to slice up
your rival...
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By Sally Jenkins
Tuesday, August 24,
2004
ATHENS -- President
Bush has joined the list of those who would bend the Olympics to political
ends... |
McCain could wind up in Swift Boat crossfire
Newsweek, NY -- 8-24-04
... McCain condemned the first ad aired by "Swift
Boat Veterans for Truth," calling it dishonest |
At least Kerry has military
records.
"The Bush campaign has denied
involvement in the Swift Boat ad, saying that the president has spent his entire
life avoiding anything having to do with Vietnam." -- Craig Kilborn
"The road to the White House
turned muddy over the weekend as the Kerry campaign charged that the president
is behind negative ads that attack Kerry's record in Vietnam. To be fair,
President Bush did criticize the ads, saying they were too short." --
Craig Kilborn
Outside Panel Faults Leaders of Pentagon for Prisoner Abuse
New York Times, NY - 8-24-04
WASHINGTON,— The prisoner abuses photographed at the Abu Ghraib
facility in Iraq were unauthorized ...
Isn't there some kind of war
thing going on in Iraq?
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News
"Joe Piscopo announced
he's running for governor. And all of New Jersey is asking, can we just keep the
gay guy?" -- Craig Kilborn
"I have never, never seen an officer with over five years of
service (especially a pilot) with only two ribbons. Never. Something is not
adding up here." -- Democratic Underground
TrueAmerican commenting on George W. Bush's lack of medals
E-Mail
"Kerry never
bled," eh? Is Dole Catholic? Makes sense. He probably thinks Kerry got the
shrapnel he carries today by "some kind of an immaculent contraption!" Vivian
Hahaha Do you think Bob Dole
is an American or a Republican first?
http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=171
Disturbing News
Crash Victim Tells Of
Chemical Ordeal
wowt
…Following
the collision between two cars at 40th and Leavenworth, police said one driver,
Sivaprakash Natarajan of Manhattan, Kansas, offered the other driver money to
let the matter drop. When that driver called police, Natarajan began eating a
white, powdery substance that was in his car and became violently ill. A police
officer, a firefighter, and the other driver also came in contact with the
substance…
…FBI
spokesman Jeff Tarpinian said the agency does not suspect the substance was
intended for terrorist activities. Denver Post
"Will you join Mickey
Mouse, Shamu, me and even the Lord himself by finally endorsing a $250,000 cap
on medical malpractice?"
Doug Gallagher, candidate for the U.S. Senate, Florida
Is a cap on medical malpractice addressed in
the Bible? Isn't there something mentioned about taking care of the needy?
Republican Shenanigans
"The prisoners can
strike for a day, a month, even starve to death, as far as I am concerned."
-- Israeli Public Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, on a hunger strike
undertaken by more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners
Oslo museum reopens as search for Munch painting 'The Scream'
...
Vancouver Province, Canada --
8-24-04
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- As police continued their search
Tuesday for two stolen Edvard Munch masterpieces, a Norwegian magazine offered a
reward for the works ...
Good News
By Dana Milbank,
Washington Post
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
The 2004 presidential
campaign sometimes resembles the children's game of "telephone." Here are some
quotations as they came out of Democratic nominee John F. Kerry's mouth -- and
how President Bush and Vice President Cheney later recounted them.
"Every performer
tonight in their own way, either verbally or through their music, through their
lyrics, have conveyed to you the heart and soul of our country." -- Kerry,
July 8
"The other day, my opponent
said he thought you could find the heart and soul of America in Hollywood." --
Bush, Aug. 18....
At the
end of his column, Dana Milbank has an interesting update on the "new" plane for
the press. Scary.
www.proudliberals.com
Biz/Tech
News
“Through innuendo and
direct attacks by surrogates, men who assiduously avoided service in Vietnam,
like Dick Cheney (five deferments), John Ashcroft (seven deferments) and George
Bush (a comfy spot in the National Guard and a mysterious gap in his records),
have questioned the patriotism of men who risked their lives and suffered for
their country: John McCain, Max Cleland and now John Kerry.”
-- Paul
Krugman, NY Times columnist
Sorrent, a
maker of video games for cellular telephones, has released August 23, 2004,
'Bush vs. Kerry Boxing,' a game that puts players in the role of either United
States President George W. Bush or Democratic hopeful Sen. John Kerry. Kerry is
pictured in the game in this undated publicity photograph. Players can either
head directly into a Bush versus Kerry match-up or pick a side and fight through
'Campaign Mode' against the other party's leading figures. The $3.99 game also
can report live match results to a scoreboard on Sorrent's Website. The company
said it would donate 10 percent of its proceeds from sales of the game to youth
organization Rock the Vote. (Sorrent)
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Bush-Prison-Torture News
Just Because
Just because you dodged the Viet Nam draft by going into the National Guard and
then went AWOL, doesn't necessarily mean you are unpatriotic.
Just because everything you worked on failed or required a bail out doesn't
necessarily mean you are not a good decision maker.
Just because you stopped an investigation into Osama Bin Laden just before he
attacked on 9/11 doesn't necessarily mean you are not capable of making good
decisions in the war on terror.
Just because you froze for seven minutes doesn't necessarily mean you are
confused and indecisive,
Just because you pulled most of our troops out of Afghanistan before getting
OBL doesn't necessarily mean you lack the focus and commitment to get the job
done as Commander in Chief.
Just because you were wrong about Iraq's uranium enrichment program, long range
missiles, remotely powered aircraft, mobile biological laboratories, chemical
and biological weapons, ties to the 9-11 attack or anything that could be
considered a clear and immediate danger to our country doesn't necessarily mean
you have invaded a country in a manner that is illegal under international law.
Just because you withdrew from the control of international human rights
treaties, the Geneva convention, and war crimes courts and told the soldiers to
get information from prisoners "by any means necessary" doesn't necessarily mean
you were setting up a culture that was conducive to war crimes and torture.
Just because you "Shocked and Awed" a defenseless county, destroying their
roads, electrical grid, water supply communications, killed their women and
children as they slept at home in their beds or men as they prayed in mosques,
doesn't necessarily mean you don't understand how to win the battle for the
hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.
Just because you took what you said was a projected $6.4 trillion surplus and
turned it into more than a projected $2 trillion deficit doesn't necessarily
mean you are not a fiscal conservative.
Just because you pulled out of the Kyoto accord and reversed almost all the
environmental protections of our air, water and wilderness doesn't necessarily
mean you don't understand the importance of a clean and healthy environment to
the quality of life.
Just because your drug bill benefits the drug companies and HMOs at the expense
of the sick and elderly doesn't necessarily mean you are not compassionate.
Just because you have polarized the country more than any leader is history
doesn't necessarily mean you aren't a uniter.
Just because you have alienated our traditional allies and energized out
enemies doesn't necessarily mean you lack diplomatic skills.
Just because the jobs you have promised have not materialized, while more and
more have been outsourced, does not necessarily mean you do not care about the
circumstances of the working man.
Just because you stonewalled the 9-11 investigation for 18 months and the CIA
leak for longer doesn't necessarily mean you have anything to hide.
Just because you have already spent more on smearing your opponent than any
candidate in history doesn't necessarily mean you are afraid to run on your
record.
No, Mr. President, none of those necessarily mean anything, but I have decided
to vote for John Kerry. Why?
Just because.
www.bagnews.com
Go-F***
-Yourself News
Real Vet
versus Fake Vet
Kerry/Edwards News
Odd
News
Chandra
Broadband Image of Cassiopeia A is the most detailed ever made of the remains of
an exploded star. The one million-second image shows a bright outer ring ten
light years in diameter that marks the location of a shock wave generated by the
supernova explosion. A large jet-like structure protrudes beyond the shock wave
in the upper left. (NASA CXC/GSFC/U.Hwang)
Peace.
