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ex_deliveryboy, that's the name I used when I filled in for your excellent show Dark Refrains on the dear, departed Vampire Radio. Now, on to today's report!
Well, how about with a couple of absolutely amazing coincidences?
With Bush's convention bounce not even lasting a full week by all reports, I'm sure it's just absolute coincidence that this little gem shows up in the Times on September 5th.
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Iraq's toppled leader Saddam Hussein and his top aides will go on trial within weeks, Iraqi Minister of State Kasim Daoud said on Sunday.
``Saddam Hussein and his band will stand trials within a period of weeks,'' Daoud told a news conference in Kuwait City after talks with top officials.
He said he was referring to the U.S. list of the 55 most wanted members of Saddam's administration, most of whom are either in custody or have been killed.
I'm sure, also, that's it's purest blind chance that the Pentagon has ordered an investigation into the awarding of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's five Vietnam War decorations. (Note: unless you're prepared to register, don't click that link. I've got the whole article if anyone wants it.)
The highly unusual inquiry is to be carried out by the Inspector-General's Office of the US Navy. Senator Kerry served as a Swift boat captain for four months in 1968, serving two tours of duty in Vietnam.
LATE BREAKING COINCIDENCE: Just as news comes from several sources this morning that the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq has reached 1,000, we stunningly get a warning from Chicken Little From Hell... I mean, Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge stating that.. wait for it.. them durn turrists might just want to disrupt the 'lections!
"Okay, I already played thet card, but hell, ya gotta give me a break! I'm runnin' outta "the sky is fallin'" variants to pull out of my ass, here!" Secretary Ridge did not reportedly say.
But is Ridge the biggest tool of this not even half-gone week? No, that one comes later. Patience, grasshopper.
Let us, dear friends, turn to those stalwart defenders of George Bush.. I mean, stalwart defenders of truth and all it stands for, MoveOnForAmerica.org.
Not to be confused with the anti-Bush MoveOn.org, this new group headed by GOP consultant Stephen Marks hopes to pull a "Willie (sic) Horton"-style attack on John Kerry with two TV ads -- one linking Kerry to the parole of an escaped-on-furlough convicted cop shooter (somebody else made a deathbed confession) and one chronicling the most nefarious side of Kerry supporter Al Sharpton.
But as with the apparent vast majority of the high powered players in the Bush campaign, apparently Stephen Marks is a colossal liar on a positively brobdingnagian scale. This, of course, should surprise exactly nobody.
Moving on (ahem), it had been several days since Alan Keyes had made an absolute horse's ass out of himself, so on September 4th we get this little tidbit wherein he apparently channeled Zell Miller and flared up on Illinois anchorman Walter Jacobson. NOTE: That link goes to a Linkfilter.net post which points to footage of the incident and other material that shows just how much of a gibbering lunatic Keyes is.
Now, faithful readers, we come to Vice Preznit Dick Cheney who spouted forth with this dread warning on what will happen if you vote for John Kerry:
"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States."
While you absorb the colossal scale of the scumbagginess of that quote, I offer you this positively glacial rejoinder from a man who'll be a REAL Vice President, John Edwards:
"Dick Cheney's scare tactics crossed the line today, showing once again that he and George Bush will do anything and say anything to save their jobs."
I close today with a quite apt political cartoon from the one and only Ben Sargent:
No more years, that's the news, and I am outta here!
I just read this incredibly blistering remark from Bill Maher directed toward the Preznit and I absolutely had to share. Enjoy! (Note: the following is just a leetle shy of halfway down the page. Props to The Wise And Holy Eschaton.)
And finally, New Rule: You can't run on a mistake. Franklin Roosevelt didn't run for re-election claiming Pearl Harbor was his finest hour. Abe Lincoln was a great president, but the high point of his second term wasn't theater security. 9/11 wasn't a triumph of the human spirit. It was a fuck-up by a guy on vacation.
Now, don't get me wrong, Mr. President. I'm not blaming you for 9/11. We have blue-ribbon commissions to do that. And I'm not saying there was anything improper about your immediate response to the attacks. Someone had to stay in that classroom and protect those kids from Chechen rebels.
But by the looks of your convention, you'd think that the worst thing that ever happened to us was the best thing that ever happened to you. You just can't keep celebrating the deadliest attack ever as if it's your personal rendezvous with greatness. You don't see old men who were shot down during World War II jumping out of a plane every year. I mean, other than your dad.
But even your dad didn't run for re-election based on a recession and his propensity to barf on the Japanese. Now, I know you'd like us all to get swept away with emotionalism and stop sweating the small stuff like the deficit and the environment, and focus on what's really important: how you look in a fireman's hat. But crying during your speech? I mean, come on! There's no crying in politics! It's not fair! That's a trick chicks use. How are we supposed to discuss this rationally if you're going to cry?! There's a name for people who exploit their participation in historical events for political gain. They're called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
So I say, if you absolutely must win an election on the backs of dead people, do it like they do in Chicago, and have them actually vote for you.
ex_deliveryboy, that's the name I used when I filled in for your excellent show Dark Refrains on the dear, departed Vampire Radio. Now, on to today's report!Well, how about with a couple of absolutely amazing coincidences?
With Bush's convention bounce not even lasting a full week by all reports, I'm sure it's just absolute coincidence that this little gem shows up in the Times on September 5th.
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Iraq's toppled leader Saddam Hussein and his top aides will go on trial within weeks, Iraqi Minister of State Kasim Daoud said on Sunday.
``Saddam Hussein and his band will stand trials within a period of weeks,'' Daoud told a news conference in Kuwait City after talks with top officials.
He said he was referring to the U.S. list of the 55 most wanted members of Saddam's administration, most of whom are either in custody or have been killed.
I'm sure, also, that's it's purest blind chance that the Pentagon has ordered an investigation into the awarding of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's five Vietnam War decorations. (Note: unless you're prepared to register, don't click that link. I've got the whole article if anyone wants it.)
The highly unusual inquiry is to be carried out by the Inspector-General's Office of the US Navy. Senator Kerry served as a Swift boat captain for four months in 1968, serving two tours of duty in Vietnam.
LATE BREAKING COINCIDENCE: Just as news comes from several sources this morning that the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq has reached 1,000, we stunningly get a warning from Chicken Little From Hell... I mean, Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge stating that.. wait for it.. them durn turrists might just want to disrupt the 'lections!
"Okay, I already played thet card, but hell, ya gotta give me a break! I'm runnin' outta "the sky is fallin'" variants to pull out of my ass, here!" Secretary Ridge did not reportedly say.
But is Ridge the biggest tool of this not even half-gone week? No, that one comes later. Patience, grasshopper.
Let us, dear friends, turn to those stalwart defenders of George Bush.. I mean, stalwart defenders of truth and all it stands for, MoveOnForAmerica.org.
Not to be confused with the anti-Bush MoveOn.org, this new group headed by GOP consultant Stephen Marks hopes to pull a "Willie (sic) Horton"-style attack on John Kerry with two TV ads -- one linking Kerry to the parole of an escaped-on-furlough convicted cop shooter (somebody else made a deathbed confession) and one chronicling the most nefarious side of Kerry supporter Al Sharpton.
But as with the apparent vast majority of the high powered players in the Bush campaign, apparently Stephen Marks is a colossal liar on a positively brobdingnagian scale. This, of course, should surprise exactly nobody.
Moving on (ahem), it had been several days since Alan Keyes had made an absolute horse's ass out of himself, so on September 4th we get this little tidbit wherein he apparently channeled Zell Miller and flared up on Illinois anchorman Walter Jacobson. NOTE: That link goes to a Linkfilter.net post which points to footage of the incident and other material that shows just how much of a gibbering lunatic Keyes is.
Now, faithful readers, we come to Vice Preznit Dick Cheney who spouted forth with this dread warning on what will happen if you vote for John Kerry:
"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States."
While you absorb the colossal scale of the scumbagginess of that quote, I offer you this positively glacial rejoinder from a man who'll be a REAL Vice President, John Edwards:
"Dick Cheney's scare tactics crossed the line today, showing once again that he and George Bush will do anything and say anything to save their jobs."
I close today with a quite apt political cartoon from the one and only Ben Sargent:
No more years, that's the news, and I am outta here!
I just read this incredibly blistering remark from Bill Maher directed toward the Preznit and I absolutely had to share. Enjoy! (Note: the following is just a leetle shy of halfway down the page. Props to The Wise And Holy Eschaton.)
And finally, New Rule: You can't run on a mistake. Franklin Roosevelt didn't run for re-election claiming Pearl Harbor was his finest hour. Abe Lincoln was a great president, but the high point of his second term wasn't theater security. 9/11 wasn't a triumph of the human spirit. It was a fuck-up by a guy on vacation.
Now, don't get me wrong, Mr. President. I'm not blaming you for 9/11. We have blue-ribbon commissions to do that. And I'm not saying there was anything improper about your immediate response to the attacks. Someone had to stay in that classroom and protect those kids from Chechen rebels.
But by the looks of your convention, you'd think that the worst thing that ever happened to us was the best thing that ever happened to you. You just can't keep celebrating the deadliest attack ever as if it's your personal rendezvous with greatness. You don't see old men who were shot down during World War II jumping out of a plane every year. I mean, other than your dad.
But even your dad didn't run for re-election based on a recession and his propensity to barf on the Japanese. Now, I know you'd like us all to get swept away with emotionalism and stop sweating the small stuff like the deficit and the environment, and focus on what's really important: how you look in a fireman's hat. But crying during your speech? I mean, come on! There's no crying in politics! It's not fair! That's a trick chicks use. How are we supposed to discuss this rationally if you're going to cry?! There's a name for people who exploit their participation in historical events for political gain. They're called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
So I say, if you absolutely must win an election on the backs of dead people, do it like they do in Chicago, and have them actually vote for you.
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