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Bob Geldof announces release of Live Aid DVD set

Check that link. Has a finalized track listing, too.

Doc Refrains for October 5th, 2004 - I'm BAAACCCKK!

I'm tired of LJ-cutting this. People need to get their heads out of the sand and stop ignoring what's going on with the neo-cons. So hit downspace a few times or use that scroll bar if this isn't your bag.

"Can you imagine taking an international poll of nations to determine whether or not we need to protect you?" Bush asked, eliciting boos from the partisan crowd.

That was one of Bush's questions to a partisan crowd in Iowa today.

For context, what Kerry said was that while every president has the right to strike pre-emptively, he must do it in a way that passes a "global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing, and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."

Of course, as is usual Bush utterly ignored an earlier statement from Kerry in that debate where he said, and quite clearly, that "I'll never give a veto to any country over our security".

President Bush would rather you forget that part.

Kerry's exact quote:

Here is what Kerry said during the debate:

"No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded -- and nor would I -- the right to preempt in any way necessary, to protect the United States of America," the Democrat told moderator Jim Lehrer during the debate.

"But if and when you do it, Jim, you've got to do it in a way that passes the, the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people, understand fully why you're doing what you're doing, and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."

In short, make sure you've got all your ducks in a row before you try to sell war to a public all too ready to grind your skull into hamburger if you try to sell them a load of bilge.

For further coverage on Kerry's response to what he rightly called "pathetic" scaremongering by the folks at 1600 Pennsylvania, go here.

"DeMint said after the debate that he would not require teachers to admit to being gay, but if they were “openly gay, I do not think that they should be teaching at public schools.”"

That.. filth spewed from Jim DeMint is representative of exactly what the modern Republican party is being turned into, and what led the son of no less an American icon than Dwight D. Eisenhower to renounce the Republican party, go independent, and endorse John Kerry for President.

Tonight, John Edwards and Dick Cheney face off in their only scheduled debate. I do not for a second expect Cheney to be as visibly unprepared and downright pathetic as Bush was last week (nor do I expect Bush to be a stammering goober two debates in a row. His people will cancel the debate before they'll let that happen again.). But Edwards has been a fire breathing pit bull himself against the policies and actions of the Bush administration, so Cheney had better be prepared for one hell of a fight.

That's the news and I am outta here!

Doc Refrains EXTRA

(courtesty of jesterstear)

"The Senator is wrong, I have never suggested that there is a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11"

From Meet The Press, aired Sept 14, 2003. The speaker is Vice President Dick Cheney:

"If we’re successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States, so it’s not pursuing weapons of mass destruction, so that it’s not a safe haven for terrorists, now we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11."

There's a name for people like Dick Cheney - Lying Sacks Of Shit.