My two cents are:
YOUR_COMMENTS_HERE
Glint
The Plim Plaza Resort Hotel, in Ocean City, MD (click it!)
- Thursday, August 08, 2002 at 14:28:52 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Edgar Allen Poe. Where's he from?
Amontillado
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 23:59:05 (EDT)
My two cents are:
http://www.citypaper.com/2002-05-22/sizzlin_feature.html THis is a pretty nice culinary review of "Maryland's Trailer Park by the Sea"
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 23:23:19 (EDT)
My two cents are:
OMG, here it is, hasnt changed!!!!http://www.maryland.com/ImageGallery/index.php?catid=9
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 23:15:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The southern end of Ocean City is where the fun is. It's funky, it's beat, it's old, it's crowded, it's impossible to park on a weekend evening, but boy, oh boy, can it throw a party! This is where the channel cuts between Ocean City and neighboring Assateague Island. There are rickety amusement parks and there are fleabag hotels that haven't been swept out since Herbert Hoover was president. There are dumpy arcades filled with every imaginable kind of video game known to mankind, along with pinball machines, skeeball, and tons of other games designed to suck the quarters out of your pocket. Several years ago I was reading a John Barth book called "Lost in the Funhouse" where he describes being in Ocean City during the 1940s. It's really surprising in this fast-changing world that we live in, but many things that he talked about could have been taking place in the 1990s. (from an epinions review)
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 23:08:38 (EDT)
My two cents are:
http://www.ocmdhotels.com/plimplaza/index.html Unfortunately there's not a pic of the tinderbox at the website. The menu from the Paul Revere, explaining that one can enjoy Italian, Mexican, and seafood all in one sitting is kind of interesting.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 23:01:23 (EDT)
My two cents are:
SPeaking of dwarfs, did you know there is an entire little dwarf village in maryland? Mostly dwarfs anyway. I thing it is where moody judy was from, but she was full sized, kind of heavy.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 22:18:47 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 22:16:44 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Somebody told the landlord once that we were part of the Manson family. That made things pretty weird.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 22:16:25 (EDT)
My two cents are:
As I recall, the place cost us 1500 for the summer, circa 1978. 2 br living, kitchen, porch and 1 bath. Used to sit on the proch and crumble percodan on top of Jack Daniels shots.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 22:14:11 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Looks like I'll be getting eight timers for the porchlites!!!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 22:11:29 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Dave worked at Tonys pizza I think and would never share his weed. the rest of us all pooled which made dave the outcast. He always had shit stash anyway, but it was the principle more than anything because we always shared with him. Guy lost a few fingers in the dough machine at Tonys one night, red streaks all through the batter.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 22:07:18 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So anyway, I met my chick at the carny rides, leggy thing from PA someplace. Her and a girlfriend had room at the plim till their parents visited and moved them out somewhere nicer. After that they moved into our house.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 22:03:30 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Pinkfloyd was this gay black dude with one leg, smilling bill was a redneck from somewhere, Moody Judy was a total disaster, took her shoplifting with me once and got out to the car only to find she'd put back all the groceries I'd lifted from the supersaver.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 22:00:35 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Someone worked at the smorgasboard, or maybe someone saved up to eat there and said it was disgusting. Jack was a dishwasher at a restraunt up north, one day he comes back and says "hey guys, this little suzie creamcheese waitress at work says she wants to screw me"... "She says dishwashers are the rebels of society and she wants to do it with a rebel". We had other theories then as well, one of which was that if we could smoke enough angeldust we'd be happy in shit jobs the rest of our lives. Seems to have worked pretty well.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 21:57:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So there were about 4 of us that rented a house back on the bayside there in OC, about 1st or second street. There was me, Jack, Smilling Bill and Dave and Pink Floyd. There was also my girl and sometimes girls for the other guys. And Moody Judy as well. Sort of a generalized xrash pad. House rules were anyone could basically hang and party for 3 days but after that, rent was needed. Me (I was called King Rat after the bogart movie) and Jack (we called him Kerouac) and Dave (he didnt rate a cool name) were the core along with my chick. We were all 19 or 20
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 21:54:53 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Plim plaza was it huh is it still pink?
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 21:50:55 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Old news; yesterday's belly laugh. Today's is Moyers drunkenly arguing with the arresting cop. <> Hi there, Pete. Occultation of asteroid Valentine tonigh. Predicted time of the star's shadow transit at the observatory is 03:27:06 EDT. - Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 21:47:17 (EDT)
My two cents are:
But the embarrassed Harris had to admit she hadn't taken the time to read the elections law she was supposed to be administering, or even conferred with lawyers in her own office about how the resign-to-run law applied to her. Still unresolved is the legality of any official actions she took after she no longer held the office.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 20:50:39 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Stephen Dycus, a national security law expert at the University of Vermont, said he could not think of any other time the government ignored a court's order. "I don't think the Justice Department has the power to simply defy the court," he said. " . . . I don't remember anything in the 4th Circuit's order that would limit the District Court's ability to look into the national security necessity for keeping this guy."
Hamdi was captured in Afghanistan in November and sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but when investigators learned that he was born in Louisiana, he was transferred to Norfolk. The federal public defender for Eastern Virginia, Frank W. Dunham Jr., began efforts to meet with Hamdi in case the government decided to charge him.
However, the government had labeled Hamdi an enemy combatant and said he is not entitled to counsel. Dunham and Hamdi's father, Esam Fouad Hamdi, filed a motion with Doumar seeking access to the detainee.
Doumar granted the request, and the government appealed to the 4th Circuit in Richmond. A three-judge panel's ruling July 12 sent the case back to Doumar, saying he needed to have more facts and hear more arguments.
The opinion, written by Chief Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, advised Doumar that "the political branches are best positioned to comprehend this global war in its full context and it is the President who has been charged to use force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines were responsible for the September 11 terrorist attacks."
But Wilkinson also wrote that some judicial review is necessary, otherwise "any American citizen alleged to be an enemy combatant could be detained indefinitely without charges or counsel."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 19:56:43 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Nobody with a urine-colored font, thank God.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 19:38:49 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So, who's ehre any more? Anyone? Pete� - Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 19:33:42 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Moyers is not so affable in his old age. Check out his TV show on PBS Fridays. The man has become a deep-ender radical. It's surprising to me that PBS has the nerve to run it. Just the balance for Fat Tony.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 19:11:48 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I think the best advice Tony ever gave Newt was to play chicken with Clinton about the federal budget.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 19:09:04 (EDT)
My two cents are:
My only regret was that it happened to the affable Bill Moyers instead of the insufferable Daniel Schorr.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 19:08:04 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The way I heard it, this Moyers character blew a 1.0. That's hardly enough to make a white man careen down the road. I think he's just one of those weird jaspers who have it in for the highway patrol.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 19:07:44 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I predict that in 25 years this Moyers' arrest will be a quarter century behind him. Yet it will still burn in his soul. Evil. On the other hand, the twins were protected through their tenderest years, and only heard about it when they were old enough to wallow in their own vomit on the sidewalk behind Chuey's.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 19:05:09 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The evil one yells at the cops. The saintly one tells fibs about it to protect his daughters.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 19:02:49 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Still, it's good that Tony has a little chorus of approval here on Fornigate. It's heartwarming to know that good men are still willing to stand behind and support their favorite pudits. There's too little of that in the world today-- a fact that I attribute to the overload of information and choices confronting the modern consumer. More people should devote themselves to specific pundits, study their words and give forth with the appropriate huzzahs when a particularly juicy paragraph comes down. Keep at it Glimp! And way to go, Tony!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:59:01 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So on the one hand you had a presidential candidate who was arrested a quarter century before the election, and in his early 30's. On the other you have a pompous windbag pair of yapping lips that touched wine and then went careening down the road. One became president and the other yelled at the cops. FUNNY! - Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:55:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The fact is, it was the failed attempt to impeach Clinton that led to Newt's expulsion from office, and not Tony Blankley.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:54:38 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Tony was general advisor to Newt Gingrich? Was he responsible for the "laptops for the homeless" program, or for the idea of making a big stink out of having to sit in the back of Air Force One? Both? Maybe his battle nightmares distracted him, lowered his perfectly normal I.Q. a hundred points or so.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:52:44 (EDT)
My two cents are:
What's a "whim of fate" about a poll? Tony has a way of finding little Tony tempests in his little tea-pots. When you think of it, it's odd that a grown lard like Blank would bother to sneer at someone else's statement of support in so meaningless a way. A half a step up from "nyah nyah nyah." But a hell of a rimshot to the right ears, I guess.
Jism!
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:49:34 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Tell you what, the sight of Fat Tony rolling thunderously down on you at full force to the skirl of the bag-pipes would clear out the trenches in a hurry.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:43:39 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Veteran of a million television shows, no desparate struggles to survive.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:40:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It says he's a "veteran" commentator. Do you need more proof of his military prowess than that?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:40:01 (EDT)
My two cents are:
TONY BLANKLEY BIOGRAPHY:
Veteran commentator Tony Blankley is joining the Conservative Chronicle's lineup of syndicated columnists.
Blankley is a regular member of the McLaughlin Group, an on-air political commentator for CNN and NBC Cable, a weekly columnist for the Washington Times, a contributing editor for George magazine and a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
He has appeared as both a political expert and newsmaker on many national programs including Meet The Press, Face The Nation, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Nightline, CBS Evening News, ABC World News Tonight and the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour. Brill's Content magazine, which keeps a "Pundit Scorecard," recently rated him the most accurate of "TV's weekend soothsayers."
From 1990 to 1997, Blankley was press secretary and general advisor to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Before that, he worked six years for President Reagan in a variety of positions, including speechwriter, Senior Policy Analyst, and Deputy Director of Planning and Evaluation.
Before arriving in Washington in 1980, Blankley served for eight years as California Deputy Attorney General. He holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from UCLA, a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University and a Certificate in International Law from the University of London.
A naturalized American citizen born in London, Blankley followed the Reagan path by starting his career in Hollywood as a child actor.
He and his wife, Dr. Lynda Davis, have three children and live in Great Falls, Virginia, where they share their home with a menagerie of horses, sheep, goats, rabbits, peacocks, dogs, and cats.
Geesh! Nothing about his willingness to fight and die for a cause.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:38:04 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"I suppose it is one of those cruel whims of fate that almost precisely at the moment Mr. Clinton was regretting that he had but one life to give for another country, the liberal Pew Trust was in the field with a poll asking the public to measure from one to four the credibility of Bill Clinton and other public figures.
According to the poll, a score of one meant you believe almost nothing of what the person in question says. A score of four meant they believed all or most of what he says. Mr. Clinton scored a one with 44 percent of the respondents and a two with another 22 percent. So 66 percent believe little if anything that Mr. Clinton says. (President Bush scored the identical 66 percent - but in the categories four and three. So 66 percent believe Mr. Bush. Al Gore came in at 56 percent not believing him.)"
another rim shot for Tony!
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:34:50 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Tony "Ball" Blankley is always on a roll, unless the chocks are in.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:34:25 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"...Meanwhile, Bill - was he really president of the United States? - Clinton continues his sorry decline from shrewd political opportunist to hapless buffoon. Speaking to a Jewish group, he offered up the inexplicable claim that he would gladly grab a rifle and die in the trenches fighting for Israel. This sounds like something every family's crazy uncle would say after emptying a bottle of vodka at the family picnic.
How could a man who, only a few short years ago, manipulated 60 percent of the country by his psychologically cunning mind games, imagine that - given his military record - such a statement could be anything but laughable? The old Bill Clinton could do many things, but literally fighting and dying for a cause was obviously not one of them. He has either lost his mind or found a bottle...."
Tony Blankley, on a roll
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:28:49 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"While drunk driving is a deadly serious matter, one must confess an undeniable satisfaction in seeing the most unctuous liberal media proselytizer for all things soft, safe, gentle and tolerant pulling a .10 on the Breathalyzer and then loudly telling the trooper he was in perfect control of his vehicle - before being taken summarily down to the police station. I guess it's tough to be a limousine liberal without a limousine."
Tony Blankley's uncontrollable belly laugh over the Liberal monotone geeser Bill Moyers' recent DWI arrest
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:25:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Dumbass? How so? Redacted means edited no matter who uses it, dilbert.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:19:52 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The same exact or just the same?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:16:06 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Those cut and pastes were redacted, i.e. edited. The sensitive names were edited out and replaced with the word "REDACTED" you dumbass.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 18:05:32 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It looks like sombody else was also feeding at the same Saudi defense project agreement trough. Could it be that this project was at the root of 9/11 both in motivation and financing? Here's reports from three sources. Each redacted section referenced the same exact nomenclature.
Glint
source 1:
...Bin Laden Group is represented in the major cities of Saudi Arabia and the Arab
capitals of Beirut, Cairo, Amman, and Dubai. The company builds highways, housing
units, factories, hangars, and military bases, some of which are part of the U.S.-Saudi
"[REDACTED]" agreement.
source 2:
...Nonetheless, while the bin Laden group does not deal directly in armaments, it is an
obvious presence in the big military-related construction contracts. We have mentioned a
few of these above. At present, its most important contract is for the Riyadh Airport,
through the intermediary of the Al Salam Aircraft company, in the framework of the
compensation contracts stipulated by the [REDACTED] agreement.
source 3:
...The Saudis invested in defense -- what was called a [REDACTED]. They bought U.S.
surveillance aircraft and jet fighters. Qaddafi of Libya began a dispute with the Saudis,
complaining about U.S. planes with U.S. crews affronting Islam by flying over Mecca.
Qaddafi urged a uprising against the Saud family, and Saudi Arabia broke relations with
Libya.
Qaddafi was in sympathy with Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini's call for an Islamic political
revolution across Iran's borders. With Syria, he supported Iran in Iran's war with Iraq,
while Saudi Arabia supported Iraq. The sale of jet fighters to Saudi Arabia became an
issue in the [DemocRAT controlled] U.S. Congress, Congress voting down such salesand
also sales to Saudi Arabia of stinger missiles. The Saudis were trying to protect
themselves from Iran�
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 17:46:07 (EDT)
My two cents are:
1. What do the Saudis need an air defense for? How could a Saudi air defense system have been essential in the Oil War? 2. "Redacted" means "edited." It's a schmoe's way to think he's saying a little bit more because he uses an unfamiliar or fad word.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 17:41:54 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Geesh, what bore.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 16:36:13 (EDT)
My two cents are:
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EQUIPMENT - Secure Communications System -
The following items were built under a United States Government Contract. The equipment was en route to Saudi Arabia as part of the [REDACTED] program when the contract for the equipment was canceled. The equipment has been in storage since prior to the Gulf war but has been sealed in Mylar enclosures inside overseas shipping crates and shows no sign of deterioration. The equipment is all in new condition and has been racked and pre-wired. The quality of the components is high and good workmanship is evident in the installation and wiring of the equipment.
Click here to have one of our representatives call you right back.
(These pages are provided for information purposes only. Under no circumstance is it to be used or considered as an offer to sell or an offer to buy.)
Want to buy some air defense, cheap? (only on the web)
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 16:02:50 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"In the wake of Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution in Iran and the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia continued to strengthen their security relationship. The continuing explosion of petrodollars into the Saudi treasury allowed the government to increase military expenditures. Since 1979, the kingdom has spent more than $50 billion on U.S. military purchases, including 5 airborne warning and control systems (AWACS) and a $[REDACTED] billion '[REDACTED]' -- a state of the art command and control system for the Royal Saudi Air Force with six underground command centers linking 147 defense-related sites.
In the U.S., arms sales to Saudi Arabia often faced strong congressional opposition because of fears that the arming of Saudi Arabia would threaten Israel. In 1985, [democRAT-controlled] Congress rejected President Reagan's proposed sale of an arms package to Saudi Arabia."
Glint
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 16:00:56 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It's nice that you like it. Nobody else even read it. Go jack off somewhere else.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 15:26:29 (EDT)
My two cents are:
What I like best about this piece from 1996 is the way it bragged that how the system, that was at least 5 years behind its original schedule, was �completed ahead of schedule.� Depends on the meaning of the word schedule, and which schedule.
Glint
�[REDACTED] in place in Saudi Arabia�
December 1996
[REDACTED] provides a state-of-the-art command, control, and communications system
for the Royal Saudi Air Force to protect the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the world's
dominant producer of crude oil, from hostile attack.
[REDACTED], the largest and most challenging Foreign Military Sales program ever
undertaken by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Department of Defense, was
recently completed ahead of schedule.
[REDACTED] and the Electronic Systems Center (ESC) played an important role in the
acquisition of this $5.6 billion system, which includes 164 sites in Saudi Arabia, more
than 1,600 communication circuits and 1.2 million lines of software code. The system
exceeds all performance requirements, and was delivered on time and well under budget.
The [REDACTED] program provides a state-of-the-art command, control and
communications (C3) system for the Royal Saudi Air Force to protect the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, the world's dominant producer of crude oil, from hostile attack. The system
is comprised of 17 Long Range Radars, six underground command centers, 10 ground
entry stations for interfacing with AWACS aircraft, a variety of communication networks
to interconnect the diverse elements, and a training and maintenance center.
An extensive communications network comprised of high frequency radios, a mobile
telephone network, microwave line-of-sight radio systems, a store-and-forward message-
switched network, troposcatter radios, as well as a Kingdom-wide fiber-optic system,
spread out over a country one-third the size of the United States, provides connections to
more than 300 Saudi Government agencies.
The 54-month, $[REDACTED] billion contract for prime mission equipment and
integration and all facilities, training and maintenance support was delivered on or ahead
of schedule.
The best measure of the success of the [REDACTED] program can be gauged by
comments from the customer. The Honorable Raymond Mabus, the United States
Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said King Fahad is extremely proud of [REDACTED] and
its ability to defend the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He also added that the goodwill
obtained from [REDACTED] has been beneficial in expanding relationships between the
United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 15:18:17 (EDT)
My two cents are:
No more blurbs. Who cares? Your resume bores us. Go away.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 15:12:39 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Ydog?
doubt it
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 15:12:02 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Here's a blurb from another source, circa 1991. I especially like the part about how even though the Saudis and Iraqis were spending the same total dollar amount, the Saudi force was 1/8 the size. Gee, I wonder where all that Saudi money was going to? �� 8-) $-)
Glint
Toward Defensive Restructuring in the Middle East
Project on Defense Alternatives Research
February 1991
...
Saudi Arabia typically spends as much on defense as Iraq, even though its armed forces
are just one-eighth as large as Iraq's. It presently maintains four large garrison cities for
its field army, two more for the National Guard, and seven large air force bases -- all of
which have facilities that are among the most modern in the world. Although the 189
combat aircraft of the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) make it only 30 percent as large as
the pre-war Iraqi air force, when the size of the two nations' armed forces is taken into
account, the Saudis' distinctive emphasis on air power is clear. 23 True to form, in the
area of ground-based air defense, the Saudis have also sought to develop the most
sophisticated system in the Gulf, incorporating 16 Improved Hawk batteries, 141 Shahine
SAM fire units, 270 air defense guns, six underground hardened command sites, and an
automated command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) system.
Saudi Arabia's actual defense capability, however, is less than its ambitious program of
military construction and procurement suggests. For instance, despite the Saudis' $12
billion investment in air defense upgrades during the 1980s, Anthony Cordesman
concludes that their air defense corps could "hope to do no more than properly integrate
its Hawk defenses before the mid-1990s, and create a few effective mobile Shahine
units."
...
The Saudi air defense effort exemplifies a problem endemic to Saudi defense planning: it
is too ambitious given the Saudis' shortage of skilled labor and the limits of available
technology. Despite defense expenditures equaling 18 percent of their gross domestic
product, the Saudis have been unable to close the gap between perceived requirements
and capabilities. On paper, the Saudi air defense system is supposed to provide coverage
for industrial and urban concentrations, protect the army as it maneuvers over wide areas,
and augment the defense capabilities of the smaller Gulf states. The program hinges on
the successful integration of the whole into automated C3I and battle management
systems. But the target date for system integration and start-up -- now set for 1992 or
1993 -- keeps receding into the future.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 15:03:36 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Now, suppose Ydog was using Netscape or I.E. to print the page out. If his boss handed him the 319 pages, it means that he had time to copy down the URL for his e-mail to the Human Resources Dept. A manager, especially one working on the gov't dime with plenty of idle time, might want to stick his nose in here and see the ploppers and other droppings left here by the dog concerning his boss. I mean, even if the boss forgot to get the URL he - or some other interested party for that matter - could have fished the ream out of the recycling bin and copied the URL from any of the other 317 pages that weren't stuffed in the front pocket of Goofy's costume. How appropriate, a costumed dog character. No wonder he has such an affinity for cigar suits. The tree killer's jealous. - Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 14:48:03 (EDT)
My two cents are:
You ought to be court-marshalled and hanged by the neck until dead.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 14:43:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sorry, I'll repeat it below, and attempt to reformat it in a more appealing manner.
Glint
COALITION AIR DEFENSE IN THE PERSIAN GULF
THE SIX NATIONS on the west side of the Persian Gulf that are members of the loose
alliance called the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) together possess approximately 40
percent of the world�s crude oil reserves, with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia possessing the
overwhelming majority of them. The Iran-Iraq war has shown that refineries, processing
facilities, vulnerable to air attack. In addition to tankers in the gulf, oil facilities at Ras
Tanura and Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia and a vast complex of key petrochemical,
desalinization, and power facilities between Kuwait City and Mina �al Ahmadi in Kuwait
are attractive targets of immense value.
....
In October 1981, Iranian aircraft bombed Kuwait. In early 1984, Iran and Iraq began
attacking ships in the Persian Gulf, some of which carried oil loaded in Saudi Arabia and
Kuwait. Also in 1984, the Saudis successfully defended against an Iranian F-4 attacking
Saudi Arabia. In November 1986, Iranian F-4s reportedly attacked a French operated oil
platform 30 miles from the UAE.
In three of these four situations, the GCC countries involved were unable to defend
against attack. A number of factors contributed to air defense impotence, including the
lack of long-range early warning, limited response time, limited communication, and lack
of coordination between member countries. In the fourth situation, a small attack was
thwarted by the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF), but not without key help from the US E-
3 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) and US ground C 3 equipment
deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1980 at Saudi request. Although the Saudis made their own
air defense decisions and flew the interceptors that shot down an Iranian F-4, the US
operated C3 equipment probably made the difference between being the shooter and
being shot.
The GCC has recognized its need for effective air defense. Since 1984, Saudi Arabia
alone has made deals worth approximately $12 billion to buy AWACS, air defense
missiles, and two ground command and control systems.
....
The [REDACTED] program complements the Saudi AWACS program. [REDACTED],
an RSAF C3 system, will be a network of command centers, ground radars, and
communication sites strategically placed throughout Saudi Arabia. The system will take
inputs from any ground radar site, and AWACS, displaying them in each regional air
defense facility as well as the command operations center for Saudi air defense decision
making and management.
Conceived in the early 1980s, the [REDACTED] program was not begun until 1985 and
will not be completed until the early 1990s. The guiding force behind [REDACTED] has
been Prince Fahad bin Abdullah, former RSAF director of air operations and now deputy
minister of defense and president of civil aviation. Prince Fahad is a visionary who saw
[REDACTED] as a means to three ends: first, to link RSAF forces together in one
system; second, to integrate the air defenses of other Saudi armed forces into one national
system; and third, to serve as the underlying structure for a regional air defense network.
Whether the other Saudi forces will cooperate and whether the GCC nations will agree to
link with [REDACTED] remains to be seen. Obtaining cooperation is a difficult but not
impossible task.
....
The 1980 Carter Doctrine states that the Persian Gulf was an area vital to US interests
and that the United States would militarily intervene there if necessary. A US Rapid
Deployment Force (RDF) was formed as a means to implement the doctrine. Largely a
paper force at first and initially without plans or means to get to the region, the RDF was
a target of much criticism. The RDF became the basis for the US Central Command,
which now has responsibility for the Persian Gulf area and is severely hampered by not
having any in-place forces.
....
Security Assistance
In his 1985 State of the Union Message, President Reagan said, "Dollar for dollar, our
security assistance contributes as much to global security as our own defense budget." It
has long been the goal of the US security assistance program to build an indigenous
capability for defense that could reduce or obviate the need for direct US involvement.
More recent policy pronouncements state that specific US goals in the region include
strengthening Saudi and Moderate nations' forces with equipment that is interoperable
with US equipment.
There are many barriers to US security assistance efforts. Among these barriers are arms
restrictions, emphasis on management rather than capability, special interest groups, and
the country receiving the assistance.
....
Some Political Realities
Although the United States continues to seek bases on the Arabian Peninsula, it is
unlikely to achieve success even in relatively closely aligned nations like Oman. It
appears that there is little chance that a sizable US force would ever be based in a GCC
state in peacetime. The GCC nations simply do not want large standing US forces in the
area. ... This is not to say that the United States would never be asked to send direct-
assistance forces to the region, in which case basing rights would then be granted
....
The [REDACTED] system, a foreign military sales acquisition, could provide the
backbone of a GCC C3 network. The US Air Force manages the program for the RSAF.
The [REDACTED] program has the potential to integrate the entire Saudi air defense
system and to facilitate exchange of information between GCC nations.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 14:34:40 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The following views the program a little more favorably. Of course it was published in the "Aerospace Power Journal" in 1987. I spent five years and several hundred thousand dollars during the project starting in 1985. The author was a Lt. Col. in the USAF.
Glint
COALITION AIR DEFENSE IN THE PERSIAN GULF
THE SIX NATIONS on the west side of the Persian Gulf that are members of the loose alliance called the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) together possess approximately 40 percent of the world�s crude oil reserves, with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia possessing the overwhelming majority of them. The Iran-Iraq war has shown that refineries, processing facilities, vulnerable to air attack. In addition to tankers in the gulf, oil facilities at Ras Tanura and Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia and a vast complex of key petrochemical, desalinization, and power facilities between Kuwait City and Mina �al Ahmadi in Kuwait are attractive targets of immense value.
....
In October 1981, Iranian aircraft bombed Kuwait. In early 1984, Iran and Iraq began attacking ships in the Persian Gulf, some of which carried oil loaded in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Also in 1984, the Saudis successfully defended against an Iranian F-4 attacking Saudi Arabia. In November 1986, Iranian F-4s reportedly attacked a French operated oil platform 30 miles from the UAE.
In three of these four situations, the GCC countries involved were unable to defend against attack. A number of factors contributed to air defense impotence, including the lack of long-range early warning, limited response time, limited communication, and lack of coordination between member countries. In the fourth situation, a small attack was thwarted by the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF), but not without key help from the US E-3 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) and US ground C 3 equipment deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1980 at Saudi request. Although the Saudis made their own air defense decisions and flew the interceptors that shot down an Iranian F-4, the US operated C3 equipment probably made the difference between being the shooter and being shot.
The GCC has recognized its need for effective air defense. Since 1984, Saudi Arabia alone has made deals worth approximately $12 billion to buy AWACS, air defense missiles, and two ground command and control systems.
....
The [REDACTED] program complements the Saudi AWACS program. [REDACTED], an RSAF C3 system, will be a network of command centers, ground radars, and communication sites strategically placed throughout Saudi Arabia. The system will take inputs from any ground radar site, and AWACS, displaying them in each regional air defense facility as well as the command operations center for Saudi air defense decision making and management.
Conceived in the early 1980s, the [REDACTED] program was not begun until 1985 and will not be completed until the early 1990s. The guiding force behind [REDACTED] has been Prince Fahad bin Abdullah, former RSAF director of air operations and now deputy minister of defense and president of civil aviation. Prince Fahad is a visionary who saw [REDACTED] as a means to three ends: first, to link RSAF forces together in one system; second, to integrate the air defenses of other Saudi armed forces into one national system; and third, to serve as the underlying structure for a regional air defense network. Whether the other Saudi forces will cooperate and whether the GCC nations will agree to link with [REDACTED] remains to be seen. Obtaining cooperation is a difficult but not impossible task.
....
The 1980 Carter Doctrine states that the Persian Gulf was an area vital to US interests and that the United States would militarily intervene there if necessary. A US Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) was formed as a means to implement the doctrine. Largely a paper force at first and initially without plans or means to get to the region, the RDF was a target of much criticism. The RDF became the basis for the US Central Command, which now has responsibility for the Persian Gulf area and is severely hampered by not having any in-place forces.
....
Security Assistance
In his 1985 State of the Union Message, President Reagan said, "Dollar for dollar, our security assistance contributes as much to global security as our own defense budget." It has long been the goal of the US security assistance program to build an indigenous capability for defense that could reduce or obviate the need for direct US involvement. More recent policy pronouncements state that specific US goals in the region include strengthening Saudi and Moderate nations' forces with equipment that is interoperable with US equipment.
There are many barriers to US security assistance efforts. Among these barriers are arms restrictions, emphasis on management rather than capability, special interest groups, and the country receiving the assistance.
....
Some Political Realities
Although the United States continues to seek bases on the Arabian Peninsula, it is unlikely to achieve success even in relatively closely aligned nations like Oman. It appears that there is little chance that a sizable US force would ever be based in a GCC state in peacetime. The GCC nations simply do not want large standing US forces in the area. ... This is not to say that the United States would never be asked to send direct-assistance forces to the region, in which case basing rights would then be granted
....
The [REDACTED] system, a foreign military sales acquisition, could provide the backbone of a GCC C3 network. The US Air Force manages the program for the RSAF. The [REDACTED] program has the potential to integrate the entire Saudi air defense system and to facilitate exchange of information between GCC nations.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 14:29:47 (EDT)
My two cents are:
was their determination to stick together and to comfort each other that really defines kind of a new spirit that's prevalent in our country, that when one of us suffers, all of us suffer," Mr. Bush said in remarks to the miners and their families and rescuers at the Green Tree Fire Department in this suburb west of Pittsburgh. --NYT, Aug. 5, 2002
"Speaking of and to the ex-trapped miners at a fire station in PA, President Bush said, '...When one of us suffer, all of us suffers.'" --Bush Watch reader Rich Stadler reporting a radio sound bite, Aug. 5, 2002
"As for the miners, Bush observed, "It was their determination to stick together and to comfort each other that really defines kind of a new spirit that's prevalent in our country, that when one of us suffer, all of us suffers." (Syntax in the original.)" --David Corn, The Nation, Aug. 6, 2002
Days Since Enron Collapse-- 247. Arrests-- 0.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 14:16:41 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Was surfing the web for information regarding Saudi Arabia's reluctance to support a U.S. effort against Iraq and ran into a report from which a clip is reprinted below, without permission. It's almost enough to make one want to remove about 5 years from one's resume. I did a little bit of redacting in order to protect the guilty....
Glint
The [REDACTED] contract, which was called the "[REDACTED]" project, had a total cost of $5.6
billion. It involved a far more ambitious effort to give Saudi Arabia a system of 17 AN/FPS-
117(V)3 long-range, three-dimensional radar systems fully netted with its AN-TPS-43 and ANTPS-
72 short and medium-range radars. It was to have (a) a central command operations center
(COC) at Riyadh, (b) five sector command centers (SCCs) at Dhahran, Taif, Tabuk, Khamis
Mushayt, and Al-Kharj to cover the country, and (c) additional sector operations centers (SOCs)
at each major air base. It was to use a tropospheric scattering and microwave communications
system to integrate Saudi Arabia's surface-to-air missile defenses, some anti-aircraft gun units,
its radars, its E-3A airborne warning and control systems (AWACS) aircraft and fighters, and six
major regional underground operating centers and numerous smaller sites, all of which were to
be managed by a command center in Riyadh.
This system was supposed to give Saudi Arabia the ability to provide battle management
for high-intensity air combat and beyond-visual-range combat, and in providing the base for a
system to integrate the six Southern Gulf countries in the GCC: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. However, the software and systems integration efforts required to
make [REDACTED] effective were years behind schedule at the time of the Gulf War. The US Air
Force found the performance of the contractor to be so bad that the US Air Force Electronic
Systems Division issued a �show cause notice� and then terminated [REDACTED]'s work on the
program in January 1991.
The situation was so bad that several senior US advisors in Saudi Arabia regarded the
combined failure of [REDACTED] and the US Air Force to deliver a useful [REDACTED] program as the
worst managed arms sale in the history of the Gulf. One senior US officer described it as, � a
disaster on the part of the contractor and the Air Force from start to finish...A model of what
should never happen.� [REDACTED] staff, in turn, blamed the US Air Force for problems in the
contract specifications, program changes, and inadequate management.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 14:04:38 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"This accident only underscores the importance of proven gun safety measures, especially when owning and handling antique firearms."
Rep. Bob Barr
"Pistol Fires at Event for Rep. Barr"
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 13:47:18 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I doubt if the crynic is a Plim Plaza Smorgasboard kind of guy. Probably goes to Rehobeth and stays at The Sands whenever he heads to a local beach destination. - Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 12:47:59 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 12:44:35 (EDT)
My two cents are:
In an e-mail from a job agent today was the following quip of advice, "I often encourage folks to consider military service as their ticket to
getting a security clearance and essential experience to take them back
successfully into the defense industry." Perhaps it's time to roll. - Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 12:45:35 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Yep, I think people would gladly give back their crappy tax-cuts in return for robust 401Ks. It's Stupid's economy.
It's Stupid's economy, stupid!
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 12:33:50 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"Richard Dawkins, an Oxford science don, suggested Mr. Bush was just as much of a danger to world peace as Saddam Hussein, adding: 'It would be a tragedy if Tony Blair were to be brought down through playing poodle to this unelected and deeply stupid little oil-spiv.' "
say, what's a 'spiv'?
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 12:30:04 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The crynic snorted with derision and said he will never return. The pi�ata is cracked open, its bounty spilled in the dust and poked at by unimpressed children.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 10:56:16 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Correction: Make that a pic of the girls' step great aunt. - Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 10:22:26 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Right on, ydog - Plim Plaza. Between 1st and 2nd streets. I was going to post the name but thought it would be more fun to see who could identify it first, you or the crynic. The name of the restaurant in the basement belly of that beast is The Paul Revere. Yes, Plim is certainly a tinder box, but at least it's air conditioned, and the room was ocean front so no hot afternoon sun beating into it, although who spends an afternoon at the beach in their hotel room anyway? Rented a couple rooms for the Prairie Princesses a couple of years ago at the Shoreham. Rooms had low hung ceiling fans and no working AC that I can recall. Plim has a surprisingly nice pool area, built out over the parking lot. Also a large porch and deck along the boardwalk with plenty of rocking chairs for those of us who don't get off stutting up and down the boardwalk. Perhaps I'll scan a couple of pics and post them. That reminds me, I still haven't scanned the picture of the girls' dwarf step aunt I promised following last year's trip to corn country. <> Sorry to hear that your affordable house is in such a high crime area. At least the criminals know when you're away from home because the lights are on day and night. - Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 10:20:20 (EDT)
My two cents are:
By the way, the Republicans are toast. If we catch the right mood here, if things go the way they should, this is going to be the biggest slide in mid-year elections since the Civil War. I love the way Cheney is sneaking around avoiding the people he serves and collecting money for television ads. This has turned out to be the Republicanest of Republican administrations since Harding. There's a ray of hope in the universe. The American sap, burned in the pocket-book, may once again attend to matters of state, and figure out that a president is not something you opt for like a brand of toothpaste. Right now I wouldn't give a plugged nickel for Snippy's chances in 2004, although a lot of things could go bad or conceivably better for him in between. Remember back a couple of years ago when all the television troglodytes were talking about how the Republican were on the ascendency because 75 percent of Americans now owned a piece of the stock market? Yeah. It's almost too good.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 01:20:10 (EDT)
My two cents are:
On the way to work, I sat at a light behind a Ford Focus, which had a sign rivetted on the back, Z3-something. Is this the famous ydog sports car? The thing was about the ugliest mushroom car I've seen. Is this the one that took the family to Galveston? It looked like something I can afford. But what an ugly vehicle.
Gasket
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 01:14:10 (EDT)
My two cents are:
We were talking about the setup, me and the boss, in the morning before the thing with the 319 pieces of paper. We were talking about what is wrong, and he said, maybe he's getting wrong now that he's a boss. And I told him, no, you may be a boss, but you're not one of the fair-haired boys. Most of the bosses are these fair-haired boys that get identified early and elevated to positions where most of them fuck up. This boss is a guy who was the only guy they could go to after they ran out of fair-haired boys. He got his job because he was far and away better than anyone else in the organization at doing what the organization is supposed to do. So they made him a boss, and put him in a situation where he thinks he's supposed to guard the paper. I told him that since he's not a fair-haired boy, he is never going above where he is now. And if I have to, I'll tell him to stuff the 319 sheets up his ass, get smart, intervention therapy. My boss-friend is now a member of what they call "The Leadership", and they go off and have meetings and exercise their Leadership Potential, and come back with plans about how to improve on the fucked-up office morale by buying videotapes from consultants, videotapes that teach you how to have fun throwing dead fish around like they do in Pike's Place Market in Seatttle. Meantime, I've been pushing taking a raft trip on a beautiful reach of one of the main rivers. So today, the boss allows as how we'll have to seriously talk about that raft trip, once the current brushfires are out. Yeah. I've already got my own plans, because it's so fucking easy to take a raft trip on the government dime if raft trips are in line with your business. But I'll take these people on a raft trip if they can ever stop worrying about paper.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 01:11:39 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The boss, he's a friend of mine. About four years younger than me. Used to have hair down to here, in Hayward, came over and got Portola Valley girls and took them to Winterland and fondled their ass, did the acid and all that. Later on, he became a B'Hai and liked me instantly because I got up and stalked off from the coffee table when the guys were being anti-Negro. It was only later that ydog got upset because I was saying "nigger" all the time, just like a real nigger. So, I was printing out this XL spreadsheet, and the Fornigate was behind it and I keyed in F(ile) S(ave) because I hate the whole idea of the mouse, and it printed out the whole Fornigate file. The boss came to the cube and said something about how I'd like to see you, and I didn't understand. I thought he was going to come back an talk to me about work. But when he didn't come back, I grabbed my work stuff and went to his office, and he handed me this 319-page printout. I told him I recognize it but I didn't print it, hit the wrong button. The poor guy was dealing with his first problem as a boss. He kept saying, "three hundred pages," looking for a way out. I asked him if he had one of those recycling boxes that some people keep at their desks, which he didn't. I said, I'll recycle it, then. He kept mumbling, "three hundred pages," by way of excusing himself from having doubted me. I said, I'll recycle this, unless you want to keep it for evidence. He grinned weakly, and I left. I took the two top pages off, the ones that say "Bangkok", etc, and stuffed them in my pocket, and threw the rest in the recycle bin. Some of the pages were blanked or faded toward the middle, meaning I had used up an ink cartridge, too. Shit, that place puts out 300,000 pages of useless shit every day. That was yesterday. Today, we went to coffee and they asked what is this with Linda Tripp and I told them you find any sort of nut on the internet. And they explained to one another about how Tripp had no qualifications to talk about Cuba but the internet lets any nut talk about anything they want. And then the boss, who is only the boss because I told him he had to apply for the job because otherwise we'd all be supervised by some asshole, told about how we went to Rocky Mountain National Park back in '85 on the weekend during back-to-back training sessions, and how I'd dusted him. Didn't mention eating the prairie oysters of going to the honky tonk. The crisis is over. My friend the boss is forcing himself to remember why we're friends, even though he's still got a suspicion that I tried to get away with printing 319 pages of Fornigate. He's a smart guy, probably even smarter than me, but even so, I'd have to explain more than I want to convincing him that nobody on God's green earth wants to print out 319 pages of Fornigate, and if they did they wouldn't do it when everybody else is printing stuff, or sit at their desk while it printed out. Looks like I can keep at it and retire without getting a directed assignment in Fargo, North Dakota.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 00:59:21 (EDT)
My two cents are:
When I first went to college, down in southern Cal, there was a guy there in the dorm who had worked as Goofy at Disneyland, grew up right next door, back in the day when that area wasn't yet Little Guadalajara. I wrote to my grandmother and the other folks back in Minnesota about it, figuring it would give them a thrill.
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- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 00:33:59 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"Before starting his game yesterday, Mr. Bush, his driver in his left gloved hand, took time to condemn an overnight suicide bombing of a bus in Israel that killed at least nine. "I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers," Mr. Bush said on the first green of Cape Arundel, at 6:15 a.m. "Thank you. Now watch this drive." Without the slightest pause, Mr. Bush turned to his game - and hit his first ball into the rough." --NYT, July 5, 2002
practicing for his hit on Iraq?
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 00:33:08 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Don't insult the primate.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 00:28:35 (EDT)
My two cents are:
http://www.bushorchimp.com/
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 23:56:42 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 23:26:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Maybe his dads pals will buy him a chair at the harvard business school or the princeton school of government and international affairs.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 23:22:44 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 23:20:55 (EDT)
My two cents are:
If they're going to nail Martha Stewart for selling off about 200K worth of stock, on inside info, what's in store for Snippy and his 900K dump?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 23:13:36 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The worst, and this is not just a little embarassing is that I was, for one or maybe two days, one of those cartoon characters in a fuzzy suit walking around the kiddy zone. I was that dog "Goofy" from the disney cartoons I think. I know I wasn't big bird. I think there was a small bonus for doing it but it sucked. For one, you really couldnt see out of the thing. The only holes were down in the bottom of the jaw, just enough to let you see a kids hand to shake but thats it. Someone else had to lead you around so when you see these things thats why there's always a normal staff person with them. The second thing that sucked is that the damn suit is really really hot when its 100 degrees in the shade. When I finally got out of it I was drenched, soaked. Had some little bathroom to change in. I sat in there basically hyperventilating in my skivvies trying to get it together to go home. Manager came and knocked on the door to see if I was ok. I said "yeah", he said "good, the last guy collapsed".
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- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 23:13:33 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I think I worked the kiddy boat ride once, that was the worst, well, second worst, I'll get to the worst in a minute. Kiddyboats is bad because its 8 solid hours of lifting the sweaty sticky food covered screaming little darlings in and out of the boats. hey get heavy and the boats are actually sort of below floor level in a tub.
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- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 23:07:25 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The security guard gig was even better. Downside to house of mirrors was they told me I had to kep my shirt buttoned which really cut down on the tanning time since I usually udid the whole front of the shirt and sort of reclined in the chair next to the blue and orange boxes. Plus, the real parties dont start until two am. So the security guard gig I ended up guarding this abondoned condo on bayside around 80th street. structural defects and condemned. Chainlink all around. Job was to keep people out but nobody ever went near it. Once I asked a guy not to walk his dog past the fence and helped some kids push a bulgy whale raft off the pilings outback of the place. Thats about it, the rest of the time I just sat in the car with like alice cooper tapes a sixpack and a bong. Until it was time to go party.
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- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 23:04:25 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The carnival rides job didnt pay much. I worked the tiltawhirl, funhouse, bumpercars and kiddy bumpers till I wised up and volunteered for house of mirrors. An old hand at the bumpercars taught me how to search a car for wallets while pushing it back into the line up and to do it in a way nobody could see you pocket it if you found one - a sort of bodyblock technique. But house of mirrors was the best, absolutely no physical work just sit and take tickets. Blue for adults in the blue ticket box, orange for the kiddies and put them in the orange box. I was generally so stoned this was a fairly complex task.
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- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 22:59:30 (EDT)
My two cents are:
You know, we decided to leave the porch lites on while we were away. Been meaning to tell you, I think there are eight total. One at the front porch, one each on either side of the garage, one at the back door of the garage, and two each by each of the back doors. Eight. I'm going to look into the full xenon flood elements for them next time I'm down to the TruValue.
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- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 22:55:07 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Of course you could always claim you buy penthouse for the articles.
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- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 22:49:33 (EDT)
My two cents are:
accessing this page from work has always been a scary proposition for me. downloading it at the office just spooks me to no end. My boss reading of the Brandon infatuation or such.
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- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 22:48:45 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The smorgasboard as I remember was in a basement, down some steps off the boardwalk failrly close to downtown - meaning like 6th to 12th street. Ocean city is what now glirp, 180 blocks of wall to wall condos and 8 lanes of stoplights? Sort of like a vacation of I 270. As glorp describes, this would be one of the older wooden tinderbox hotels that hasn't fallen down or burned to the ground. They all sort of lean slightly to one side or the other and have elevations that float and sink if you trace the windowframes of paint schemes across the length or width of the building. Most of the rooms have add-on window ac's hanging out their lone dismal windows. Plim Plaza was pink, I think when I was there. There was another around 12th stret that was yellow. All of them were some garish color. There were about 4 or five of them as I remember. There were alot of smaller places with rooms, basicaally large old houses but none with a smorgasboard in the basement.
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- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 22:47:17 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Oh shit glorp, the smorgasaboard in ocean city? QWhere the f did you stay? Plim Plaza or one of those other huge hideous wooden dinosaurs along 15 miles of blistering pavement? I spent a summer in oc. Worked the carnival rides part of the time then got a cushy job as a security guard. For those of you who dont know OC maryland, it is the second largest city only to baltimopre I believe for june, july and august.
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- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 22:35:12 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It's our paper, that's whose fucking paper it is. United States government paper, almost a ream of it. It sure as hell isn't the boss's paper. We're paying the boss and we're not paying him to hang around the printer. My guess is, the boss got pulled into this by a whistle-blower, probably some loser who's decided it's his job to watch the print jobs. Bring in the consultants, I say!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 21:30:07 (EDT)
My two cents are:
At least I know which employee's file to look into next time I need to fill in a missing gap in the pickle jar. - Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 20:49:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Why was the boss involved, are you kidding? Whose paper was it anyway? Maybe he was perusing the latest Rush column, hit print, and wandered over to the printer before someone else could. Then he had to wait while you published the anals of Fornigate. Pissed him off because you kept him from doing a hit 'n' run print job. - Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 20:48:15 (EDT)
My two cents are:
During Bush's four years as a director, Caterair's problems went from bad to worse to insoluble. Because the company was privately held, there's no public record of his role in board discussions. But Caterair is in some respects an early example of the sort of financial engineering that has subverted so many prominent companies recently.
Carlyle financed the deal, as was the practice at the time, mostly through heavy borrowing. After the buyout, Caterair had about $464 million in long-term debt, according to a 1993 Wall Street Journal article based on the company's SEC filings. That article (dug up for me by Post researcher Robert Lyford) noted that Caterair had trimmed that debt load only slightly, to about $426 million, in the four years since it was founded.
The debt load became so heavy that in July 1993, while Bush was a director, Caterair tried to sell $230 million in new "junk bonds." Its filing with the SEC noted that it had failed to make a profit since it was founded -- losing $21 million in 1990, $26 million in 1991 and $400,000 in 1992. Profitability was difficult given Caterair's huge interest costs, which totaled $46 million a year in 1992. The Journal noted that in its SEC filing, "the company said its heavily leveraged balance sheet could prevent it from making certain debt payments." The company also told the SEC it was seeking waivers from lenders for possible violation of covenants in its credit agreements -- a sign it was in serious trouble.
Finally, in May 1995, a year after Bush left the board, Caterair decided to throw in the towel. The company was acquired by Onex Corp., a Toronto-based leveraged-buyout group that owned part of Sky Chefs Inc., a big catering company run by a unit of the German airline Lufthansa.
Onex paid no cash but agreed to assume Caterair's heavy debts. Caterair's creditors agreed to write off $350 million, and two big New York banks agreed to refinance another $650 million in debt. In other words, the financiers who had backed Caterair took a serious haircut. According to a 1996 article in The Washington Post, "Now every dollar Carlyle paid for 'Craterair' is worth 4 cents."
"They [Carlyle] paid so much for the company, it was sinking under its own debt," Onex's chairman, Gerard Schwartz, told the Journal in 1995. Schwartz himself was something of a junk bond king, and the Onex-Caterair deal was described in a 1997 Journal article as an example of the "merger boom" that was sweeping America in the '90s.
So come on, Mr. President. 'Fess up. Here the U.S. economy is tanking and it turns out you have unknown expertise in junk-bond financing and fancy financial footwork. It's time to put that stellar business experience to work.
� 2002 The Washington Post Company
Bush Business II
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 20:42:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Malek resigned in September 1988 as a high-level adviser in the elder Bush's campaign after disclosure that in 1971, at the insistence of his boss, President Nixon, he had compiled a list of Jews at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who, Nixon suspected, were part of "Jewish cabal" that was distorting his economic achievements. Several on the list were later transferred to different jobs, but Malek said he had no role in personnel decisions and denied he had willingly engaged in anti-Semitic conduct, arguing that he had been coerced by Nixon's repeated requests. The Malek flap didn't hurt his friend the vice president, who was elected as the nation's 41st president in November 1988.
It was Malek who suggested that George W. Bush join the Caterair board in 1990, according to a 1991 article in the New York Times. "I thought George W. Bush could make a contribution to Caterair," the Times quoted Malek as saying. "He would be on the board even if his father weren't President."
A March 2001 profile of Carlyle in the Times noted that the investment bank "gave the Bush family a hand in 1990 by putting George W. Bush, who was then struggling to find a career, on the board of a Carlyle subsidiary, Caterair, an airline-catering company."
Bush remained on the Caterair board until May 1994, according to a Sept. 17, 1994, article in the Dallas Morning News. He said he resigned so he could concentrate on his campaign for governor of Texas. The paper reported that Bush had previously disclosed that he owned between 1,000 and 4,000 shares of "stock appreciation rights." What intrigued the Dallas newspaper was that Bush had dropped the Caterair connection from his official campaign r�sum� in August 1994.
At that time, Caterair was staggering under its huge debt load, and because of unforeseen changes in the airline catering business. The Dallas paper noted at the time that in SEC filings, Caterair had disclosed $263 million in operating losses and writeoffs since its 1989 founding.
Bush denied the company's financial problems had any effect on his decision to leave the board. He said its problems were "part of a business cycle" caused partly by the fact that "the airline food business is going from hot meals to peanuts." Through those years the company's CEO was former Marriott executive Daniel Altobello. He continued to issue generally optimistic reports about the company's prospects.
Bush's Democratic rival denounced his role with the company. "George W. Bush says he's a successful businessman, but when his company is facing bankruptcy, he jumps ship and lets his partners sink," said Chuck McDonald, a spokesman for then-Texas Gov. Ann Richards, in a Sept. 16, 1994, comment to the Dallas Morning News.
Sad Bush Story II
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 20:38:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
By David Ignatius
Tuesday, August 6, 2002; Page A15
It's not something George W. Bush talks about much -- indeed, it's a fact that has been virtually purged from his official biography -- but for four years in the early 1990s, Bush was a director of a company that ultimately collapsed under the weight of its junk-bond financing and management mistakes.
The privately held company, called Caterair International Inc., was created in 1989 when Marriott Corp. spun off its airline catering business to investors organized by the Washington investment bank the Carlyle Group. If you haven't heard of it, Carlyle is a sleek financial operation that does its deals with help from a roster of former government big shots such as former defense secretary Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James A. Baker III and even former president George Herbert Walker Bush. As of 2001, a newspaper article pegged Carlyle's value at about $12 billion.
The Caterair deal was a piece of financial engineering known at the time as a "leveraged buyout." It was financed mostly by high-yielding "junk bonds," of the sort pioneered in the 1980s by Michael Milken, who later served jail time for his financial shenanigans.
Carlyle and its investors paid about $570 million for Marriott's In-Flite Services division, which the hotel wanted to sell so it could concentrate on its core business. The investor group was headed by Frederick V. Malek, a Carlyle senior adviser who had served as director of the 1988 Republican convention -- the one that nominated Vice President George H. W. Bush.
Bush I
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 20:36:59 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I know of a bandy-legged little phrase-mangler who can probably handle Bing. Should they ever meet, it will be asshole and elbow all over the pea patch.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 20:18:30 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Bing: a name synonymous with Evil.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 20:16:40 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Bing should never have turned her down when she asked.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 20:15:53 (EDT)
My two cents are:
We can't have to many warnings about Bing. We slept until 9/11, but no more. Heed the wake-up call. The World Trade Center was just a travel alarm compared to what Bing is capable of.
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- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 20:14:02 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Life's just not fair, Ann. Some people have maids, some people are maids.
Hazel
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 20:02:42 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Bing and jism.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 19:20:20 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It always comes back to Bing.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 19:18:47 (EDT)
My two cents are:
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or <go@nnego>
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 18:59:32 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Working Families From Malibu To East Hampton
July 31, 2002
HAVING DRAGGED A group of Manhattan elites back from the Hamptons last week to attend a fund-raiser at a tony Chelsea night club, Al Gore criticized the Bush administration for "working on behalf of the powerful, and letting the people of this country get the short end of the stick."
Back when he was exhibiting the Democrats' renowned good sportsmanship after he lost the presidential election, Gore managed to fund his tantrum with donations sent in from such ordinary Americans as dot-com multimillionaire Steven Kirsch ($500,000), former Slim-Fast Foods chief S. Daniel Abraham ($100,000) and Minneapolis multimillionaire Vance Opperman ($100,000).
Gore also got some help from the Manhattan "working poor" such as Loews Hotels scion and tobacco company beneficiary Jon Tisch ($50,000) - who must have been on a break from demanding that West African peddlers be thrown off the streets of Manhattan; songwriter and ex-wife of pardoned financier Marc Rich, Denise Rich ($25,000); and investment banker Jon Corzine ($25,000), now representing working families against "the powerful" in the U.S. Senate.
"The good part of being a Democrat is that you can commit crimes, sell out your base, bomb foreigners, and rape women, and the Democratic faithful will still think you're the greatest."
Also warming to Gore's pledge to fight for "working families" were many Hollywood billionaires. Notorious inseminator and Hollywood "producer" Stephen Bing ponied up $200,000. (In Democratic Party parlance, "producer" evidently means "a do-nothing who inherited a lot of money.") Actress and traitor Jane Fonda gave the Gore-Lieberman fund $100,000.
George W. Bush limited donations to his Election Recount Fund to $5,000 or less and still raised $13.8 million - four times more than the $3.2 million collected by Gore. Americans saw what the Democrats were up to, and thousands upon thousands of small contributions poured in to Bush from across the country.
Gore's Tantrum Fund took in $2.1 million from just 38 individuals - or, "working families." He had 84 donations above Bush's $5,000 maximum - totaling about $2.8 million. Of those, 30 were from California and 23 from New York. (Jane Fonda lists her address as Georgia.) Only $56,216 of the Gore-Lieberman fund came from donations of $200 or less. Bush raised more than $3 million in individual donations of $200 or less - more than the entire amount raised by Gore's Tantrum Fund.
The genuine and spontaneous outrage of ordinary Americans against a small band of Democratic royalists was pointedly ignored in news accounts about the recount funds. The Washington Post's headline was: "Bush Far Outspent Gore on Recount." The Chicago Tribune's was: "Bush spent 4 times as much as Gore in Florida recount." The AP headline was: "IRS: Bush spent four times as much as Gore on Florida recount."
The thousands of small donations sent to Bush from average Americans all across the country was said to demonstrate "the powerful fund-raising abilities of the Republican Party" - as The Washington Post obtusely put it.
Meanwhile, back at the Party of the People headquarters, the Democratic National Committee recently took in its largest single donation ever: $5 million from "producer" Stephen Bing - our featured Democrat this week.
In the current Vanity Fair, Bing is described by other Hollywood billionaires as a self-effacing, modest man. As evidence, they note that he has only one maid. "Name anyone else with his wealth who has only one maid," Man of the People Rob Reiner says. "You'd be hard-pressed."
I'd be hard-pressed to think of one of my friends who has a maid. Marie Antoinette did not flaunt her wealth in such a way as "progressive" liberals in America do.
Rich Hollywood progressives raved about how Bing helps out strippers when they're down on their luck. (And, one may surmise, also down on their knees.) "I've helped so many," Bing says, "you'd have to get me the names." That's "self-effacing" for a liberal.
Bing's admiration for the underclass is mainly shown by his predilection for siring children out of wedlock. This seems to be the new status symbol among liberals, with Bing currently leading Jesse Jackson 2-to-1 in disclosed illegitimate children. (Q: How do you empty a room full of rich liberals? A: Ask for a paternity test.)
In a romance borne of progressivism, the mother of one of his illegitimate children, Elizabeth Hurley, crossed a Screen Actors Guild picket line. Bing gallantly paid her fine to the union. So much for the little people.
Also, he plays the blues on the piano. I take it back: He is a man of the people.
Interestingly, Bing doesn't make a fuss about the estate tax. His professional accomplishments amount to having dropped out of Stanford - which we can assume he did not enter on the basis of his SAT scores - and then spending a decade writing a single episode of "Married With Children." Bing's credentials as a producer are as credible as his belief that women are attracted to him for himself.
The current Democratic Party is a crowd of idle, rich degenerates, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the czar's court. When not occupied with abortions or strippers, they busy themselves denouncing the Cossacks as "the powerful."
typical hypocritical demonrat liar <go@annego>
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 18:58:51 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Who are you? What are you talking about? I never heard of either one of you. What are you doing in my computer?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 18:16:31 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It was a mistake, man. The big question is why the boss had to be involved at all. Fucking bastard!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 17:07:07 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Pretty good post about the boss catching you dumping the page to the printer. I was wondering, did the Coulter pics come out o.k.? You said the boss "was acting as though I maybe printed it out on purpose. That would have been a waste of resources, man." You mean your mistake wasn't a waste that caused your employer a couple reams of paper? - Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 17:04:47 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Arianna took the easy path.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 16:56:10 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Have you noticed how Arianna doesn't have to lie or make preposterous claims or draw idiotic connections the way Coulter does, and yet her stuff is vicious just by telling the unembroidered story?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 16:10:30 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Holding Dick Cheney "Accountable"
Posted by Arianna Huffington on 8/6/2002, 8:12 am
Board Administrator
By now, you'd think the Bush White House would be pretty adept at responding to the rising tide of corporate scandals washing over the White House lawn.
Clearly, though, Team Bush had an off day last week when, in the space of 12 hours, it was revealed that both Harken Energy, while President Bush was on its board, and Halliburton, while Vice President Cheney was its CEO, had created subsidiary shell companies in offshore tax havens. The administration's attempt at what was presumably damage control did more harm than good.
First, Bush and Cheney's reps tried to argue that even though setting up shop in the Caymans is a favorite ploy of companies looking to avoid paying their fair share of taxes -- Enron had 692 subsidiaries there -- that wasn't the reason Harken or Halliburton had done it. Well, pray tell, what was? A desire to rack up frequent flier miles checking on the company headquarters/PO Box? A desperate longing for a b###hin' tan? Cheaper umbrella drinks for company meetings?
As if this half-hearted evasion weren't lame enough, White House spokesman Dan Bartlett fell back on the classic "Plan B:" trying to make friends and win arguments by splitting hairs. Harken's offshore entity wasn't designed to evade taxes, explained Bartlett, it was meant to enhance "tax competitiveness." And to his credit, Bartlett didn't even break out laughing after this claim. Probably waited until he got back to his office. Oh yeah, and, also, oral sex isn't -- well, you know the drill.
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer even tried the ol' No Harm, No Foul defense, arguing that the reason Bush's company went Caribbean was a "moot question" because Harken never made any money on the Cayman venture. Memo to Fleischer: Arguing that the crime didn?t pay isn't a defense. And by the way, thank you, Ari, for further evidence that our first MBA president was an exceedingly poor businessman.
These wobbly spin doctors' task was, admittedly, made much harder by the fact that on the same day these tax dodge disclosures came to light, President Bush had spoken out with his usual Dudley Do-Right forthrightness against the very same practice. "We ought to look at people who are trying to avoid U.S. taxes as a problem," he said. Indeed we ought. So why don't we?
Let's start by looking at the problem of the vice president and Halliburton. During the number two's time as the company's number one, the number of Halliburton subsidiaries registered in tax-friendly locations ballooned from nine in 1995 to 44 in 1999. The result? A dramatic drop in Halliburton's federal taxes, which fell from $302 million in 1998 to less than zero -- to wit, an $85 million rebate -- in 1999.
At the same time they were hard at work stiffing U.S. taxpayers, Cheney and Halliburton were happily feasting at the public trough -- the company received $2.3 billion in government contracts and another $1.5 billion in government financing and loan guarantees.
During the vice-presidential debate, Cheney scored points responding to a Joe Lieberman zinger about the millions Cheney had made during the Clinton-Gore years by boasting that "the government had absolutely nothing to do" with his burgeoning bank account. Only someone fully immersed in the corporate culture of our day could view $3.8 billion as "absolutely nothing."
It would be nice to hear what Mr. Cheney has to say about all of this, but, unfortunately, the V.P. has been making himself very scarce as of late -- especially when it comes to the media. He hasn't spoken to reporters, given a press conference, or made the rounds of the political chat shows since, coincidentally, right around the time in May when reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission was looking into Halliburton's Cheney-era accounting practices first surfaced.
His vanishing act has been so effective that many have started to wonder if Cheney has returned to his secure, undisclosed location. If he has, it's only because the mountain hideaway is filled with fat cat donors. It turns out that the vice president has been talking after all -- but only to those ready to write a hefty check to the GOP.
Cheney recently headlined his 47th fund-raising event of the year, and he plans to make at least two dozen more of these coffer-cramming appearances before Election Day. At one such event, donors who ponied up $25,000-per-couple were allowed to take part in a 45-minute roundtable discussion with Cheney. So it seems that if the White House Press Corps is ever going to get any face time with the vice-president, it's gonna cost them. $555 per minute. I wonder if Connie Chung and Chris Matthews can team up and get the couples discount?
Of course, Cheney's reluctance to talk to reporters is understandable, given what has been coming to light about his heretofore highly touted tenure at Halliburton, including the questionable accounting, the offshore subsidiaries, and the revelation that the company did business with Iran, Libya, and -- despite Cheney's denials -- Iraq. Call this his "Axis of Profits."
But, to be fair, under Cheney, Halliburton did end up giving a little something back to America -- in the form of $2 million worth of fines for consistently overbilling the Pentagon. In one case they charged $750,000 for work that actually cost them only $125,000. Despite all this, the company has continued to be awarded massive government contracts, including a new 10-year deal with the Army that, unlike any comparable arrangement, comes with no lid on potential costs. I guess it really does help to have friends -- and ex-CEOs -- in very high places.
During a fundraising appearance last month, Cheney lauded the White House's commitment to "more accountability for corporate officials." But what kind of accountability can we expect when corporations are not only allowed to walk away with little more than a slap on the wrist for defrauding taxpayers but continue to be richly rewarded with government contracts?
Congress is currently considering legislation that will bar the Pentagon and the new Homeland Security Department from doing business with companies that have set up offshore tax-cheat havens since January. Which means that all the corporations that had the foresight to profit early from their disloyalty, depriving the government of $70 billion a year, are A-okay. If something is so wrong on Jan. 1, what made it right on Dec. 31?
We should bar the government from signing contracts with any corporation that has moved offshore to avoid paying U.S. taxes. Period. And we should go further and not enter into any contracts with any company that has been fined for ripping off taxpayers. Like the president said last year, you're either with us, or you're against us.
I'd love to know if this is the kind of "accountability" Dick Cheney was referring to. If you happen to find yourself at a GOP fundraiser, would you mind asking him?
go arianna go
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 15:39:18 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Buckle down?
doubt it
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 15:06:05 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Couch potato season. Let's view!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 15:01:53 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Duh, Madden has not been in the saddle since last season. Seems like eons ago since the pigskin was wiped. Buckle down. Doink. Pete� - Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 14:35:21 (EDT)
My two cents are:
When was Madden not in the saddle, Urine Font? What the hell are you ranting about? Let's watch!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 14:32:08 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Hey, Guess what?!! Real football is back to Monday nights. Madden is back in the saddle. Let's Play!!! Pete� - Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 14:19:11 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"SNL did have ... a skit featuring Carrot Top as a hermaphrodite. Interesting for some of us." Sorry I missed that even though if I was home I probably wouldn't have watched SNL. That night I was at an astronomers' barbecue in a local park where we obtained permission from the nanny state to violate the sunset curfew. Thunderstorms moved through adjacent areas during the afternoon so it was cloudy. I set up the new videocamera on a tripod and the 9" AC/DC/TV/VCR on a portable table whose cloth was lost in a fire last month. We played around with it. Around 9 it looked like it wasn't going to clear off enough to do any observing so people got ready to leave. Then someone spotted Vega. I pointed the cam up and began sweeping over toward the star. We were stunned to see dozens of stars sweeping across the TV screen. Stars that were either too faint or choked by light pollution reflecting off the bottom of the haze layer to be seen with the naked eye. I was able to locate and split some double stars and identify some star clusters. Every time I'd find an interesting object I'd hit the record button and capture a few seconds of video. Interesting how a TV can hold the attention of a crowd. Kept people from leaving. After a couple hours it did start to clear off some and telescopes began springing up. The new 0.003 Lux cam had saved the star party! Kept people from spending another boring night at home watching SNL while the dogs licked the outside fork. We had fun making and watching our own SNL production on the outside TV. - Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 14:14:43 (EDT)
My two cents are:
With enough sun screen your bod color will match your font color.
gnat
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 14:11:28 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"...250 watt floods with the promise of 150 degree dispersion and a sensor that flashes them on automatically..." That's great. They're economical and no doubt any astronomer neighbors greatly appreciate the auto switch off when the gourds are asleep and the stars are blazing. "...xenon blaster...I can tan under it in daylight!!!!" That's great. I agree that daytime is the most appropriate time for powering such a beast. - Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 14:01:01 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The Mrs. didn't comment on my bod at the pool, which made me feel good. We talked about fudge and carmels from the Candy Kitchen. We're lathered on the sunscreen and our flesh is still healthy and pink. - Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 13:46:26 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The coast was great. Nice resort hotel with beautiful pool surrounded by potted palms and leafy trees. Sign out front advertises A/C and color TV, pool, and pool bar. Not to mention the $8.99 all U can eat smorgasboard. Hotel right on the board walk - walk downstairs to restraunt and shopping everywhere. Great driving in the Caravan. 3 hours at 70+ mph. Kids cut me a Kraftwerk CD for the drive. The Mrs., whom one might say is uninitiated when it comes to clinks and klanks of psychodellic electronica techno often asked if this or that strange noise was in fact coming from the engine. The kids either watched videos on the 9" television or cranked the sound up on their walkman CD players so they wouldn't have to hear it. On the way we did not stop for any cofee or breakfast. I drank a half pot before we left. No hispanic girls buck toothed or otherwise flirted shamelessly with me. The closest I came was a Polish summer student who couldn't identify the soup of the day when I asked, even though she was carefully analyizing a ladel full of it as it dribbled back into the vat. She said "I'm from Poland and am not famliar with the food here. You should come to Poland and eat." Said she was in O.C. for the summer. "Nice place to spend the summer," I offered. She shook her head and said, "No, not really." I pointed out that there was sun, beach and surf all around. She said, "Oh, I like Ocean City. I thought you were talking about this restaurant." - Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 13:43:23 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It's not really classic treason. It's just Republicanism.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 13:27:18 (EDT)
My two cents are:
BUSH WAS WARNED ON AL QAEDA
Did Nothing After Urgent Briefings By Clinton Aides
Clinton-Hating Drives Dubya's Indifference
Condi Rice Lies, Covers Up About Security Info
Where Are The Whores? On The Beach?
A blockbuster report in Time Magazine has revealed that, for months before the September 11 attacks, Clinton aides repeatedly warned George W. Bush and his advisers about the alarming threat posed by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and the need to launch military roll-back efforts against the terrorists.
But the Bush Administration, consumed with hatred for anything connected with Bill Clinton, and more interested in pushing its discredited national missile defense system, did nothing.
A Bush senior official confirms in the Time article that everything the Administration has done since September 11 -- the much vaunted war on terrorism -- amounts to what the Clinton aides had been pushing for all along. It took the deaths of 3000 American civilians to get the Bush team even marginally up to speed on what the Clinton advisors had been screaming to them about since the winter of 2000.
In reaction to the Time article, senior Bush aides have reverted to lies and cover-ups.
Notably, Condoleezza Rice, Bush's National Security Adviser, has denied ever being at a meeting where her predecessor, Sandy Berger, pressed the need to attack Al Qaeda. Rice's pattern of mendacity on these matters is well established. Several months ago, when questions first arose about what Bush knew about Al Qaeda before the September atrocities, Rice held a press briefing for the White House press corps and categorically denied that she or any other top official knew anything about terrorist plans to use airplanes as weapons of mass death.
This was untrue, as was quickly revealed when news came out about preparations made against precisely such an attack against the G-8 conference in Genoa, long before September 11.
Now Rice is denying she met with Berger. This seems almost certainly untrue as well.
So -- will the Media Whores do their jobs and expose Rice's coverup efforts? Or will they roll over in the sand, like good little doggies, and play dead?
Anti-Clintonism = Soft On Al-Qaeda <none dare call it treason.com>
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 10:45:26 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Not Hannity! Say it ain't so! Another case of anus cysts?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 03:16:15 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Iraq Attackers Who Proudly Did Not Serve
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, John Ashcroft, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Spencer Abraham, Don Evans, Karl Rove, Andrew Card, Tom DeLay, Trent Lott, Bob Barr, Mitch McConnell, Dick Armey, Phil Gramm, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Newt Gingrich, Mark Racicot, Rudy Guliani, Charlton Heston, Wayne LaPearre, Bill Bennett, Jerry Falwell, George Will, Bill O'Reilly, Tony Snow, Britt Hume, Sean Hannity.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 02:21:47 (EDT)
My two cents are:
LAX-Boy.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 00:22:53 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Did Pete say he was psyched or that he was psycho?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 00:22:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Nah that was autopete. I'm quite sure.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 23:06:51 (EDT)
My two cents are:
snip dissing the clinton alarms about al qeada and everything else clinton did regarding same is old news isnt it? Newsweek carried that months ago. Perhaps the liberal moonie times is just now getting the story, lazy liberal press.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 23:04:18 (EDT)
My two cents are:
PROTEST DICK CHENEY'S VISIT TO SF
When? Wednesday, Aug. 7th, 7:30 A.M. (Yes, that's A.M.)
Where? Fairmont Hotel, California & Mason, San Francisco
Why? Because he's a corporate crook, cooking the books while CEO of
Halliburton. Because he wants to drag us into a war with Iraq. Because
he and his energy buddies bilked California of billions.
The SF Mime Troupe's Dick Cheney II, a.k.a. El Holmes, will be holding
a people's press conference so come with your questions about Cheney's
misdeeds!
If you're into dressing up, come as a journalist, or perhaps a "Friend
of Cheney", i.e. your favorite corporate criminal. Or you can be part
of an angry mob calling for Cheney's arrest with signs like "Wanted:
Dick Cheney - The Corporate Crook".
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 22:27:23 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Why was he even in the loop? Does he hang out around the printer? Isn't he supposed to be running his own scam? I don't like that he's involved at all. It's a matter of personal privacy. You are owed that as a human being. He's asserting his puny little authority because you questioned his word-smithing skills. This is about as subtle as a two-by-four to the crown. Geesh, man, don't write this off. And remember: Revenge is a plate best served cold (old Sicilian saying.)
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 21:41:28 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Hey, it was just a mistake. He was acting as though I maybe printed it out on purpose. That would have been a waste of resources, man.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:57:05 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Er, why was it he boss who handed you the manuscript? Who pulled his fucking nose into it?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:40:07 (EDT)
My two cents are:
geesh, dude
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:37:37 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Polls, schmolls! So much depends on the body count and who they are in deciding an election. The voter may decide that -although his planned retirement is now a foolish dream, although he's been getting screwed, and although he's being spied on by his neighbor as part Patriot legislation, it really doesn't matter if we can pretend we've conquered Arabia again.
too close to call
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:36:50 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I printed out this whole page by mistake. It was about 300 sheets. Nobody else could use the printer. They were all standing around bitching about the long file. Then someone looked in the print queu and traced it to me. I was trying to print a spreadsheet but the browser was behind it and, and I did the file print commands on the browser. The boss called me in and handed me the reams of paper. I feel a lot like James Cheney must have when he realized they'd caught him flouting SEC regulations.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:35:26 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Do you suppose Pete really thinks the Republicans are going to do well in the off-year elections? Why isn't he posting polls, anyway. Is that's Glint's job?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:26:21 (EDT)
My two cents are:
They all deserve their day in court. They are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, at least in my opinion. They might beat the rap. It's happened before (U.S vs. Jism, 1999.)
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:26:17 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Was that last urine-colored post a bang or a whimper?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:24:23 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Boy, Pete hasn't lost a step, has he?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:23:52 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I think there's a certain amount of substance to complaints about the behavior of the president, the vice-president, and various of their cohorts. It remains to be seen, though, whether the juries will agree, and whether the judges will hand down the necessary severe sentences.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:23:48 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Irritable and angry? Look of distress? Agony?
doubt it
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:21:33 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I love it when liar liberals get irritable and angry over the lack of any substance to their attacks on the virtuous: Bush. Keep flailing it is hilarious. You dorks lost, continue to lose and will lose the next round of elections. Fuhgeddaboudit, Bush is President and will be for 8 full, long solid years. I love the look of distress on these scumbags' posts. There is no way their agony could compare the the years the virtuous ahd to endure Cliton. Viva Bush!! Death to the traitorous!! POW !! Pete� - Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:14:45 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Who the hell knows what the Snip believes. I doubt he's given it more than 30 seconds thought so why should we? That's why it's so good to have Ashcroft and Cheney, whoever he is.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 20:02:53 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 19:21:40 (EDT)
My two cents are:
You mean, Snippy doesn't really believe that a tax cut will create jobs and make everything better? It's just a scam to loot the Treasury, the way he did with Harken's stockholders and the way Cheney did with Halliburton? Geesh, who would have though it! Maybe that's why Bush didn't get the most votes.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 19:19:14 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The only reason Tennessee doesn't look like Argentina right now is that it isn't a sovereign nation; since the federal budget was in good shape until recently, there's a safety net. And the federal budget was in pretty good shape because the Clinton administration, unlike state governments, behaved responsibly. Budget projections were honest - if anything, too cautious - and boom-year surpluses were used to reduce debt.
But the responsibility era is over. Even as state governments face up to the consequences of cooked books in the 1990's, the Bush administration is following in their footsteps.
The latest antics of the White House Office of Management and Budget have even the most hardened cynics shaking their heads. It's not just that projections for fiscal 2002 have gone from a $150 billion surplus to a $165 billion deficit in the space of a few months; it's not just that the O.M.B. projects a much smaller deficit next year, when everyone else - including the Republican staff of the Senate Budget Committee - says the deficit will increase. It's also the fact that O.M.B officials simply lie about what their own report says.
"The recession erased two-thirds of the projected 10-year surplus. . . . The tax cut, which economists credit for helping the economy recover, generated less than 15% of the change." So reads the agency's press release. Yet as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities points out, the actual report attributes 40 percent of the budget deterioration to tax cuts, only 10 percent to recession. Maybe dishonesty in the defense of tax cuts is no vice.
State governments turned into banana republics in part because voters didn't realize that a charming, personable chief executive can also be an irresponsible opportunist, seeking political advantage through policies that ensure a fiscal crisis on someone else's watch. Now the same governing style has moved to Washington. And this time there's no safety net.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 19:16:06 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Glint got all excited about Forest too. But that may have had nothing to do with football. Anyway, these guys, Glint and Pete, fancy themselves as football insiders, real buffs, because they went to college and watched games. Pete ought to be good for an old coach story or two this season. Some real knee-slapper about the cagey old drunk coach saying something really off the wall. I'm psyched.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 19:13:37 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Pete practically came when Forest revealed he had been in the NFL. Really pathetic. Told Forest that he, Pete, used to play a little himself, then went on to announce his tremendous girth.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 19:08:00 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Did Pete ever play football? Or was he more of a luau guy.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 18:13:56 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The FBI never would have known where to look for the jism if Ken Starr hadn't understood what Linda Tripp was giving the USA when she turned over the secret tapes of her phone calls with her friend, Moanica. So, yeah, the FBI might be good with jism, but not if a Special Prosecutor isn't around to figure out where the jism is and how to get someone to turn it over. Of course, in a trial of private sexism the FBI usually isn't involved, and the jism has to be siezed at the expense of the suing party. Of course, when it is the Republican Party that is paying for a sexism trial, then there are plenty of resources to retrieve whatever jism may not have been wiped off.
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- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:57:23 (EDT)
My two cents are:
But the buff did say he's psyched about the coming football season. Ought to make for some pretty intense television viewing.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:42:39 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe he's just exhorting everyone to "Go buff!" What's with the piss colored font though?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:39:16 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I always thought the piss-colored font guy was a nudist, and the cry of "Go Buffs" a call to strip down and be one with nature.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:34:49 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Back in the day, back during Nam, it was impossible for pro football players to get in the service. One after the other, they were turned away as physically unfit for duty, or shuffled off the the National Guard. It was tough because many of them were Republicans and you know how much they crave the battlefield.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:34:00 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:33:19 (EDT)
My two cents are:
And to all you other football buffs, I say: GO BUFFS!
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:30:09 (EDT)
My two cents are:
An NFL player would be useless in the Army. Guys are too big. He would stick up out of his hole like a duck in a shooting gallery. We might as well send women
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:30:05 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Well then, count me in!
Football Buff and proud of it!
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:29:03 (EDT)
My two cents are:
You're darn right he had jism. Say what you want about the FBI, but those boys are great with jism. It all balances out. For every 9/11 there's a blue dress. Win some, lose some.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:27:30 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"Go football buffs" or "yay, fans" are ways of recognizing the importance of football as a leisure activity. In these days when Americans are working shorter and shorter hours because of the increases in productivity, we need plenty of stuff to fill in our free time, and a "national game" fits the bill. The great thing about football is you not only have it on Friday, when the high school teams play, but on Saturday, Sunday, and now even Monday. Some Americans have discarded their alliegance to their high schools, and now it appears that our ties with the athletic teams of our colleges may be weakening as well. Thus the call to football viewership and fandom: "go buffs." The more football we watch, high-school, college, or pro, the sooner this war will be won. Remember, a famous pro football player quit the game and signed up to become an Army ranger, because he had always dreamed of chasing and killing people. Peggy Noonan wrote a column about his patriotism.
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- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:26:28 (EDT)
My two cents are:
If it's a Klintoon plan we're following, we're all doomed. I wouldn't go higher than the fourth floor, near the fire escape. Klinton had jism.
Glurp
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 17:17:37 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Clinton is a loser. Bush won. Get over it.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 16:29:47 (EDT)
My two cents are:
What are 'Buffs?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 15:48:17 (EDT)
My two cents are:
How was LAX, Urine Font?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 15:36:22 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Dow Falls Triple-Digits Again...
Developing...
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 15:30:16 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Be fair to Snip. That plan was a Klintoon plan, presented on PowerPoint back when the official administration* policy was to do the opposite of whatever Klintoon did or suggested. The Snipistas are more mature now and have implemented the Klintoon Plan. Too bad everybody had to get shot but that's the price of petulance.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 15:26:46 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Wonder what the moron thinks about Snippy blowing the plan to take out Al Qaida? Can anyone think of a single thing that the Snipster has done right?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 15:17:40 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Pitiful asshole.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 15:15:06 (EDT)
My two cents are:
My God!! This page is still here. Was on vacation for a while. What has happened while away? Getting psyched for football season! Go Buffs!!! Pete� - Monday, August 05, 2002 at 15:01:52 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Got to go watch the Fish video. Find out how we can make this place into another Pike's Place Fish Market.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 13:58:09 (EDT)
My two cents are:
They are the thoughts of a woman of scant virtue. A Jezebel. A woman who heeds only her loins. Strike these thought from thy brain lest the Lord strike thee thrice with the Smiting of Gideon" Ezekiel 3:16
Rev. R. Cobb Dworshak
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 13:57:07 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Glint. The Good German.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 12:46:52 (EDT)
My two cents are:
And they are nasty thoughts.
Rev. R. Cobb Dworshak
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 12:28:38 (EDT)
My two cents are:
He did it for the United States Air Force. He didn't have to. He already had helped win the War on Drugs.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 11:59:35 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Democracy needs oil, pal. How would you like to vote in a booth with no air conditioning? Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 11:51:50 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Where's the chump who thinks he was defending democracy by shielding the repressive Saudi despots?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 11:43:41 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Ginger? She thinks too much.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 10:30:34 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Ginger Lynn bio special coming up on Bravo.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 09:39:28 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Social thinking
It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then
just to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought led to another, and soon I
was more than just a social thinker. I began to think alone -"to relax," I
told myself - but I knew it wasn't true. Thinking became more and more
important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time. I began to think
on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't
stop myself.
I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I
would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly
we are doing here?" Things weren't going so great at home either. One
evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life.
She spent that night at her mother's. I soon had a reputation as a heavy
thinker. One day the boss called me in. He said, "Brian, I like you, and it
hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you
don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job." This gave
me a lot to think about.
I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I
confessed... "I've been thinking..."
"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey,
surely it's not that serious."
"It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as college
professors, and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on
thinking we won't have any money!"
"That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to cry. I'd
had enough. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door.
I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche, with an AM station
on the radio. I roared into the parking lot and ran up to the big glass
doors...they didn't open. The library was closed. To this day, I believe
that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. As I sank to the
ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster
caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You
probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous
poster.
Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA
meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was
"Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the
last meeting.
I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home.
Life just seemed...easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.
bushist tactics
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 09:37:33 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Guy in the next cube went to the doctor and she started rubbing something on his face and he said when do I start and she said, you just started. Took all the skin off. He came in all red, like a beet. The face. That's where the sun hits. This stuff peel off the skin, lets you start with a new skin, or something near. Another guy had it on the top of his head, rubbed the stuff all over his pate, and it never seemed to do much. Maybe the doctor mixed it too weak?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 04:10:45 (EDT)
My two cents are:
BUSH SUMMER WARNING: I GOT TOO MUCH SUN!
Reporters following President Bush this weekend in Kennebunkport were stunned at the appearance of elder Bush -- who sported bright red sores on his cheeks from sun-induced lesions.
"I got too much sun, that's all" the former president said. "It looks much worse than it is."
Bush underwent two-weeks of treatment for keratoses last month, it was revealed.
Bush, 78, said he was feeling fine, but his son still poked fun. "Let's hear it," the president instructed reporters. "Make the old boy feel better."
Mayo Clinic officials described the elder Bush's sun-induced keratoses as "focal areas of damage in the top layers of skin caused by sun exposure over the years. These are not skin cancers, ... and the prognosis for total recovery is excellent."
Bush remained covered with various ballcaps during this weekend's outdoor activities.
But the sun's shocking effect of the former president's skin, as these photos show, is a stark summer reminder to sun lovers worldwide to be ever mindful of its dangrous rays.
the face again, it's always the face with these bozos
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 02:18:43 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It has been 77 days since the vice president has
answered a question from a member of the news
media. He has not agreed to a newspaper interview
since his trip to the Middle East in March. Besides
fund-raisers, his recent public appearances have
been so routine that the White House last posted
one on its Web page June 6.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 01:06:14 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Neat story in Time about how Clinton gave Snippy a plan to take out Osama, but the Snip had better things to do. Here's an excerpt: " Berger had left the room by the time Clarke, using a Powerpoint presentation,
outlined his thinking to Rice. A senior Bush Administration official denies being
handed a formal plan to take the offensive against al-Qaeda, and says Clarke's
materials merely dealt with whether the new Administration should take "a
more active approach" to the terrorist group. (Rice declined to comment, but
through a spokeswoman said she recalled no briefing at which Berger was
present.) Other senior officials from both the Clinton and Bush administrations,
however, say that Clarke had a set of proposals to "roll back" al-Qaeda. In
fact, the heading on Slide 14 of the Powerpoint presentation reads, "Response
to al Qaeda: Roll back." Clarke's proposals called for the "breakup" of
al-Qaeda cells and the arrest of their personnel. The financial support for its
terrorist activities would be systematically attacked, its assets frozen, its
funding from fake charities stopped. Nations where al-Qaeda was causing
trouble-Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Yemen-would be given aid to fight the
terrorists. Most important, Clarke wanted to see a dramatic increase in covert
action in Afghanistan to "eliminate the sanctuary" where al-Qaeda had its
terrorist training camps and bin Laden was being protected by the radical
Islamic Taliban regime. The Taliban had come to power in 1996, bringing a
sort of order to a nation that had been riven by bloody feuds between ethnic
warlords since the Soviets had pulled out. Clarke supported a substantial
increase in American support for the Northern Alliance, the last remaining
resistance to the Taliban. That way, terrorists graduating from the training
camps would have been forced to stay in Afghanistan, fighting (and dying) for
the Taliban on the front lines. At the same time, the U.S. military would start
planning for air strikes on the camps and for the introduction of
special-operations forces into Afghanistan. The plan was estimated to cost
"several hundreds of millions of dollars." In the words of a senior Bush
Administration official, the proposals amounted to "everything we've done
since 9/11.""
But we needed a tax cut to make the economy better.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 01:01:34 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Guess there's no sense in posting any politically-oriented comments. The Republicans, as usual, went up Shit Creek and threw away the paddles. They are in a world of hurt. They are no good when they can't lash out from a position of phoney virtuousness. Their Bull Goose Asshole, Dick Cheney, can't even cross a sidewalk for fear someone will ask him a question. Snippy looks more ridiculous than usual scolding the CEO's for not playing the game straight. Somehow he seems to lack authority. And I get the feeling that this country isn't really ready to go in and do a Marshall Plan for Iraq, so wagging the dog might not be a good long-term bet. Why did those boneheads think that Snip would last longer than his old man, who is ten times as smart and has learned how to read, even if he does have a weak stomach?
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 00:53:09 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I was never tutored in body surfing. My twenty foot wave dumped me on the cobble beach, and about sixteen twenty-footers spanked me around on it as I was trying to crawl out. Next time I went out I took my Jet-fins�. My surf contacts tell me that a wave is measured from level up, so a twenty-foot wave is really forty feet from trough to crest. On Copacabana the waves were maybe six-footers, and broke on the beach. I rode in them, but would always get scraped around on the sand at the end. Then I was watching some Brasileiros do it, and they turned back into the wave just before it broke. I tried that and it worked fine. Mentioned it to my surf guru later, guy from Wrong Beach, and he said, yep, that's the way you do it. Thought it was pretty funny that I didn't know. You get your ride, a fin or two helps, and then you tuck and dive back into the wave and swim out and grab the next monster. A pineapple would know all about this stuff, but unfortunately our pineapple left when somebody started insulting him. Gone, urine-colored font and all.
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- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 00:45:33 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The senile old fart from across the street, guy who just had new turf unrolled, came over and jawboned me about a truck he had where the throttle cable always went out. Oh, yeah, big deal, a throttle cable. Must have been tough.
Anonymous.
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 00:37:53 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Best thing was I got to use my big old Chinese end-cutters I bought down at Harbor Freight & Salvage for pulling nails. Eighteen inch handles. Nipped that wire clean. I'd watch the Chinaman. His tools are getting better. I got a Chinese floor jack of many tons capacity that works fine and weighs about a hundred pounds, and I had a set of Chinese router bits but they break when you use them so I'm saving them. Maybe I'll run into some rice boards. But John Chinaman is good at the heavy stuff that doesn't have to be precise or have a certain temper and quality of steel. What I don't understand is how they can ship all that heavy stuff all the way from China and still make a dime.
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- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 00:34:36 (EDT)
My two cents are:
12 would have appreciated the way I just hooked up the 2-inch clutch connector cable that broke two year ago and just broke on the SVO, and cost only 20 bucks for a new one, dealer item you understand. 12 was a car buff. A fuckwad and a car buff. Seems as if Dick Cheney is running FoMoCo, maybe not, but I'll bet it's a Republican. Used to be you'd go in looking for a two-inch cable and they'd fucking give you one, fish around in a bin for it and chunk it on the counter, nah, no charge. They figured it was a good idea to sell cars that you could fix. So, the top of the long cable, which you have to unhook, is on this self-adjusting gizmo, a "quadrant" that last two times it took me forty-five minutes just to find it up under the dash, and from there it's one of those deals where you just try to get it in right with one hand doing three hands worth of stuff, out of sight, and by the law of averages it's bound to eventually all line up, like a simultaneous eclipse of the five inner planets as seen from Pluto. You have to do this because the arm off the clutch it impossible to pull forward against the springs, and nobody figured it was worth putting an adjustor somewhere out in the open. So I tried baling wire, a wire turnbuckle where you twist it with the pliers handle, and it broke. Then I tried some big fat wire but couldn't get purchase on it. Then I rummaged around in the tool box and saw this valve spring compressor I bought from the old fox-in-the-bush along with the climbing spurs, the kind that slips in from the side and you turn a screw handle. I slipped it between the clutch lever and the bell housing and instead of compressing by closing it I uncompressed by opening it, pushing the lever forward to where the pin went through the hole slicker than snot on a glass doorknob. Took about thirty seconds after 45 minutes of fucking around with the wire and also a long woodworking clamp. I can't wait until it breaks again! It was fun.
G-force
- Monday, August 05, 2002 at 00:27:20 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I expect to die by drowning. If not accidentally at least be offering my ashes up to the lorelai of the north atlantic. A cold and icy ocean and fitting grave for any man. In fact. I sort of welcome sea death as a return to the deep green womb of life.
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 23:10:16 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So making the surface I am indeed beyond the breakers. Out where the baracuda run, but thats ok. So I look for my buds. Playing solitaire, all three of them, dont even know I'm almost unconscious. So I do a backfloat for about five minutes until I collect myself and the srf settles and then get out. Very weird surf.
18
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 23:05:46 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So after the tow carries me out abit, I decide to go for the surface. I know if I'm not out enough and get tossed again its probably over because I'm pretty dazed from the first bashing.. I mean I was body surfing a 20 foot wave when all of a sudden it sucked up all the water beneath me and in front of it and me and pounded me head first into the hard wet sand without a buffer. Spine feraking crunching.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 23:03:15 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The big wave sucked all the water up and I went headfirst into the sandy beach. It was a 15 or 20 footer and I came to bouncing along the bottom in the undertow and for some reason still holding my breath.. 20 some years later I still remember the sound of my vertebrae snapping on impact. But anyway, bouncing along the bottom I figured it best to let the undertow carry me out aways so I didnt come up in the middle of another huge breaker. The way these waves went, you had to get in and out on a cycle - otherwise they were just to big.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 22:58:58 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So anyway, she really did spit in my mouth. BUt speaking of drowning in the surf, it was right there in Barre de Navidad, there is a little bay and the surf rises to about 15 feet off and on every 20 minutes, really weird. So the Duke dude and the chick are supposed to be watching me in the surf but I get conked out bodysurfing and end up in the indertow after listening to my neck snap like a pack of 40 firecrackers as a monster wave dumped me headfirst into the sand.
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 22:54:46 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 22:48:46 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So I had a cuarto there on the beach for about a month and Luis and his wife Negrita that ran the place were real good to the bubbleboy. There was ths big stone washbasin for clothes in the courtyard and it was about 40 yards from the surf. Rats would crawl all thru the rafters of palm fronds at night so you just left a little bread and cheese out. Shit, I had a hotplate and a crapper plus mosquito netting over the bed.. It was uptown. Probably why the locals brought me home when I passed out with Brenda someplace in Manzanillo after she made me watch her take a shower.
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 22:46:16 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So that's where I met Scotty and Brenda. Brenda was the brains of the outfit, said she had a swimsuit sewing company in Acupulco and Scotty was her sorry-assed brother. Anyway, you had to hang out at the bus station to wait for the Banco Federale to open at 10 am. Which is where I met them. Brenda was pretty savvy for a gringo and steered me away from the more viscious prostitutes, gypsys and other neerdowells. Scotty was a dumbass all tangled up with a minor or something and Brenda said he had the strains, not clap, from Carmelita.
2
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 22:39:36 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Yeah, I was probably somewhat of a "bubbleboy" to the locals. he towns, as i am remembering them now were melaque, manzanillo, and Barre de Navidad. Barre is where I spent the most time. eating legal percodan and loafing down on the beach. Sucked the local pharmacia dry. Anyway, there wasn't shit to do except stumble down to the bus station every afternoon and see if anyone stupid enough to fleece got off the bus from Guad.
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 22:33:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I don't know, it's been awhile.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 22:10:20 (EDT)
My two cents are:
They got whores in Tijuana?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 21:33:26 (EDT)
My two cents are:
On the other hand, there were the real whores. Usually found in the nightclubs of Tijuana.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 21:29:29 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Used to say the Mexican girls who dressed like whores were virgins. The dumpy ones who wore huarachis and sack dresses were not virgins. They were mothers.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 21:28:09 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Spit in your mouth and said let's go? Shit, how come the girls inside the bubble never do that? The closest I came was.... well, another time for that. Either way, it doesn't sound like you really gelled with the third world. The university side of it, anyway. Shit, when I go to Mexico the women act like a bunch of nuns. Even the whores don't look you boldly in the eye. That's why I stopped going. That and nearly drowning in the surf, in the Olhas Altas. My horoscope says I will die by water, you understand.
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- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 21:14:18 (EDT)
My two cents are:
All that glitters is not gold, my friend.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 21:14:13 (EDT)
My two cents are:
When I was young I thought only of getting out. I said goodbye to my street, goodbye to my house. Give a man gin, give a man cards, give him an inch, he'll take a yard. And I rue the day I first got off this train.
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- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 21:07:13 (EDT)
My two cents are:
What I really remeber from that Universidad was these fucks from SMU, which is a rich kid school in Dallas called Southern Methodist University. They all had these ralph lauren polos in the latest peach and mauve.
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:58:05 (EDT)
My two cents are:
There are other things that have happened to me with hispanic women, besides that and the latest thing about the bucktoothed girl with the glasses. That girl was ready to go!!!! Both of them.
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:53:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
And perhaps in a way, this stupid little story indicates something about a false dichotomy, about being in or out of the bubble. I dumped the bubble for the surf but still had a foothold in each place. That's why this inreadibly luscious girl walked up to where I was on the Mexican sand, scooped out a hole for her delicious hips, set them down next to me, leaned over, spit in my mouth and said "kiss me gringo, my family is down the beach"
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:50:05 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I think I just answered that. The off-campus thing. I mean.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:45:47 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So I ended up bailing on the Universidad about halfway thru, demanding a refund and spending the rest of the summer loafing around somewhere north of alcapulco on the dime the folks dropped for the tuition and then calling them collect for a plane ticket to get ome after I'd drank that as well.. It was pretty cool. To make a long distance phone call, you had to go to a "large distancia telephone office" and request and then wait for a line. This wasn't to get a line to the states, just a line from the boonies in Mexico to the airport or something. And they all served booze, the phone offices. I remember sucking down these banana sort of chocolate milkhakes, kahluah I think. Best drinks I ever puked up later. Sort of like throwing up chocolate milk.
2
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:43:40 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Yeah, but did you live off-campus?
Glurb
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:39:30 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I did a semester or at least what passed for one in summer school at the Universidad de Guadalara. Three of us roomed with a shrew that fed us cornflakes and limited the hotwater. The fuck from California had a old karman ghia he was getting reupholstered and was about 10 years older than me and the other dude from duke who wasn't too shy about whacking off in our little room with three narrow little beds. He was down there with the girl from his highschool that never gave it up to him but did to eveybody else. It was weird. So in some sort of demented Night of the Iguana deal we all go trapsing off to the pacific coast, to places named things like melaque and barre de navidad and other shit where oaxacan cheese is white and gooey and the eggyolks are sort of flat and unrefrigerated. I still remeber the gold in the churches and supertramps "breakfast in america" tune blaring out of every third world juke bix I saw.,
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:34:19 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So what if he was a fuckwad? How about 1? She's a real fuckwad. Then there's Pete.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:26:29 (EDT)
My two cents are:
SNL did have PINK on last night. Also a skit featuring Carrot Top as a hermaphrodite. Interesting for some of us. Wll, not us, myself being one of the 22, but for others not of the 22 and not sure what being not of the 22 means or dosen't mean. It's always been sort of parabolic.
2
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:13:04 (EDT)
My two cents are:
12 was a fuckwad. Let's call a spade a spade. What did Lotka say about the dam? Sounds interesting. Like something I could bite on to and chew. Include biographical details on Lotka. And why the tomato fork? The only tomatoes the Zapata family ever saw were in the kitchen garden. Emiliano was the top horse groom honcho of Morelos. In morelos they wore those big sombreros and clothes like a mariachi singer. Wasn't no dirt farmer. A tip-top guy, with silver buttons on his trousers. Like George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant, he was the greatest horseman of his time and place. I spent a week in Guadalajara hiding from a two-week visit alone to Puerto Vallarta, and visited the mariachi square, bought a rug, and went to the museum where the famous modern painter has the paintings. Diego Rivera? There was a picture of a peasant grinning and holding an ear of corn toward the painter like somebody selling Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Next to me was this standard young Tapatio and his Tapatia bride, it's a striking genetic look, the local Guads or Tapatios. They have beautiful eyes and a distinctive head shape that is extremely attractive on a woman, and they are skinny. This guy said to his wife, "es Zapata," referring to the peon with the ear of corn. He said it all warm and meaningful, even though Guadalajara is a million miles from Morelos, I think. Aren't those Indian extremists down in Oaxaca called Zapatistas?
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- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:09:08 (EDT)
My two cents are:
We're glad twelve would have enjoyed today. It's a small tribute if indeed it can be considered such - which we fear not as it is randomness in Borgville. Perhaps accidental but most certainly sincere once attenuated. In the meanwhile, I have placed seven, count them, seven, porchlites around the homestead. In some places we have opted for the relativitively mild 60 watt yellow bug bulbs. In other areas, the 250 watt floods with the promise of 150 degree dispersion and a sensor that flashes them on automatically if a gourd vine creeps over the property line. Atop the transformer at th corner of the freehold is the giant mega xenon blaster, have no idea what it is but it cost me 250 bucks to get it installed straightwired to the transmission line and it burns all day and all night. I think I can tan under it in daylight!!!!
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 20:06:42 (EDT)
My two cents are:
12 would have loved this, my he rest in peace.
15
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 19:51:00 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Hey, this is like a reunion, I see 2 and 11 and 19 and even 4 of 5!!!!!. I'm glad you sent me those stories and notes. Who are the turds?
17
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 19:34:22 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Freshwater penguins, the old lady asked me the other day why there were not freshwater penguins - why you don't see them on lakes etc. Even frozen lakes. Can someone explain this? Freshwater penguins?????
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 19:30:21 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 19:27:35 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Forgetting Zapata would be like forgetting the Bush administration's looting of social security in reverse. It's probably time to start sharpening the tines on the tomato rakes. Saw a deal today about a guy that "invented" a saltwater tomato, see, that's the thing, the saltwater cow should have evolved, everything was there. It just dosent make sense that it dosent exist. Either that or Lotka was wrong about things growing up around the sides of the dam. That would cause alot of rework and probably creeate an Erik von Danikan chair at a prestigious university.
2
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 19:23:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Maybe like a lemon herb seasoned rice, hint of jasmine, perhaps some mangrove root and rose petals or bouganvilla leaves or vine cuttings boiled into the water first as a sort of stock????
11
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 19:19:22 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Down at Liquor to get some soda pop and these two beaners, little middle-aged fireplug field hands, are waiting in line behind me and I'm trying to pick up a word or two of what they're saying, and one of them calls the other "commandantito." So there you go. Mexican field hands call one another commandantito. Another guy had an Emiliano Zapata T-shirt, which is always good to see. It would be a sad day if the Mexican peon ever forgot Zapata, even though he wasn't a Republican. Also Swung by the hardware store for some hardware and a small azalea, but it seems they won't be in until fall, too hot to plant azaleas mid-summer, so I see a redwood tree in a one-gallon pot, it was green-taped to a nice 1/2 x 1/2-inch stake. Looked like a fairly sturdy stake, so I bought the tree, eight bucks. A well-staked tree it was. Hard to pass up. I can work the stake up into some tooth-picks, maybe chop-sticks, find a use for it. I got tools.
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- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 17:53:50 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Exotic rice?
doubt it
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 13:49:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
well, off to do a little shopping, next to last day of this vacation. havent torched a tablecloth with a deaf guy yet, but I might. Thinking about some steamed shrimp and grilled mahi maybe with some kind of exotic rice for dinner.
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 13:16:31 (EDT)
My two cents are:
le onion?
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 13:10:59 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Did you read the Bush one?
4 or 5 of 22
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 13:04:18 (EDT)
My two cents are:
enjoyed the gore post, dont read many c and p's but that one was worth the effort.
2
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 11:10:05 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Well, its about time to begin preperations for this year's bookburning. Looks like ann thrax is the leader. I'll have to start checking the garage sales and thrift shops.
19
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 10:02:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Please excuse the autopete's below. I have a feeling they may have some sort of innoculatory value.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 09:24:09 (EDT)
My two cents are:
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- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 09:22:21 (EDT)
My two cents are:
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- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 09:15:45 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Broken Promises and Political Deception
By AL GORE
ASHVILLE -- There has always been a debate over the destiny of this nation between those who believed they were entitled to govern because of their station in life, and those who believed that the people were sovereign. That distinction remains as strong as ever today. In every race this November, the question voters must answer is, How do we make sure that political power is used for the benefit of the many, rather than the few?
For well over a year, the Bush administration has used its power in the wrong way. In 2000, I argued that the Bush-Cheney ticket was being bankrolled by "a new generation of special interests, power brokers who would want nothing better than a pliant president who would bend public policy to suit their purposes and profits." Some considered this warning anti-business. It was nothing of the sort. I believe now, as I said then, that "when powerful interests try to take advantage of the American people, it's often other businesses that are hurt in the process" - most of all, smaller companies that play by the rules.
This view was not partisan. It was based on a plain reading of the history of Republican governance under Presidents Reagan and Bush. And every passing day demonstrates that it was merely the truth.
I believe Bill Clinton and I were right to maintain, during our 1992 campaign, that we should fight for "the forgotten middle class" against the "forces of greed." Standing up for "the people, not the powerful" was the right choice in 2000. And, in fact, it is the Democratic Party's meaning and mission. The suggestion from some in our party that we should no longer speak that truth, especially at a time like this, strikes me as bad politics and, worse, wrong in principle.
This struggle between the people and the powerful was at the heart of every major domestic issue of the 2000 campaign and is still the central dynamic of politics in 2002. The choice, not just in rhetoric but in reality, was and still is between a genuine prescription drug benefit for all seniors under Medicare - or a token plan designed to trick the voters and satisfy pharmaceutical companies. The White House and its allies in Congress have just defeated legislation that would have fulfilled the promises both parties made in 2000.
The choice was and still is between a real patients' bill of rights - or doing the bidding of the insurance companies and health maintenance organizations. Here again: promise made, promise broken. The choice was and still is an environmental policy based on conservation, new technologies, alternative fuels and the protection of natural wonders like the Alaskan wilderness - or walking away from the grave challenge of global warming, doing away with Superfund cleanups and giving in on issue after issue to those who profit from pollution. And the choice, even more urgently today, is between protecting Social Security or raiding it and then privatizing it so that the trust fund can be used to finance massive tax cuts that primarily benefit the very rich.
The economic debate, now as then, is fundamentally about principle. The problem is not that Mr. Bush and Dick Cheney picked the wrong advisers or misunderstood the technical arguments, but that their economic purpose was and is ideological: to provide $1.6 trillion in tax giveaways for the few while pretending they were for the many, and manipulating the numbers to make it appear that the budget surplus would be preserved. It was pre-Enron political accounting.
For them, incredibly, it is also post-Enron accounting. And the result is the replacement in one year of a surplus with another massive deficit.
It's not just the stock market that has gone down. It is confidence in the honesty of our government. If President Bush wants to pursue honesty and integrity in the White House he should make public the names of the energy company lobbyists who met with Vice President Cheney to help draft energy and environmental legislation, and he should call for the release of the Securities and Exchange Commission files on the controversy surrounding his role in certain stock sales.
But what is far more important than the pursuit of a few bad apples in the White House is the need to recognize that what has been put at risk is nothing less than the future of democratic capitalism. And it cannot be rejuvenated unless the people and the politicians focus on the question: What is good for the whole?
Ideally, President Bush should lead that effort. For the president is the only person in our constitutional framework charged with representing all Americans. Presidents of both parties in the past have risen to meet that responsibility when the interests of the people were at risk from the unrestrained greed of the powerful. A Democratic president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, met that challenge, even though it earned him the hatred of his patrician social peers as a "traitor to his class." A Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, prevented the magnates of his day from consolidating their grip on both political and economic power.
We are at such a moment again. Uncommon power has combined with uncommon greed to create immense deceptions and losses. Millions of average Americans have been victimized. So have thousands of honest American corporations and the people who manage them, own stock in them, and depend upon them for a livelihood, for sending their children to college and for their retirement.
A major correction is needed in the course of our nation. It is needed first and foremost in the composition of the next Congress. We need a majority of men and women who will not flinch from the task at hand. Now is a time for truth and courage. And now is the time for all Americans to stand up to the powerful on behalf of the people.
Al Gore, vice president from 1993 to 2001, teaches at Fisk University and Middle Tennessee State University
ANNALS OF PRESIDENT GORE
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 08:59:25 (EDT)
My two cents are:
This just in:
BUSH BEGINS HUNGER STRIKE TO PROTEST HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN NEPAL
===WASHINGTON, DC-Against strenuous objections from his advisors, President Bush began a
hunger strike Monday to protest human-rights abuses in Nepal, vowing to subsist solely on
water and vitamin supplements until "the twin clouds of violence and oppression are lifted from
the land."
"I can no longer stand idly by while the
gentle, peace-loving Nepalese people are
made to suffer," said Bush, a longtime
admirer of Nepalese culture. "This hunger
strike will send a strong message to the
government of Nepal and the insurgent
Maoist rebels that their suppression of
freedom and subjugation of the innocent is
not going unnoticed."
Since 1991, Nepal has been locked in a
bloody struggle between its constitutional
monarchy and the Communist Party of Nepal
(CPN), a Maoist guerrilla group seeking to
overthrow the oft-oppressive regime.
Thousands of innocent civilians have lost
their lives in the crossfire.
After years of human-rights abuses by
both the government and the CPN, Bush felt
it was necessary to take action.
"In recent months, there has been a sharp increase in the use of deadly force on both
sides," said Bush, seated on a mat in the Rose Garden. "There have been numerous reports of
civilians being killed as a reprisal for the death of military police or of CPN army personnel.
Things are bad and they're only getting worse. Something had to be done."
Though he is a longtime member of Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders,
Bush insisted that his protest is not affiliated with any organization. Rather, he said, he is
acting as "one man with a conscience."
"Violence only begets more violence," Bush said. "I will be keeping the people of Nepal in my
heart and mind."
Many of Bush's critics charge that his hunger strike is, in actuality, a protest against the
government, contending that he sides with the CPN.
"I am not in support of the CPN," Bush said.
"They, too, have been party to gross
human-rights violations, such as recruiting child
soldiers and killing civilians they consider
'enemies of the revolution.' I am not taking sides.
With this hunger strike, I am merely raising
awareness in the hopes that it may help bring
about a peaceful end to the conflict."
Bush has also come under fire for
hunger-striking instead of using his powerful
position as U.S. president to take direct political
or military action.
"As my hero Mahatma Gandhi once said, 'You
must be the change you wish to see in the
world,'" Bush said. "Besides, this is not the will of
the American people. This is my fight. I will not let
my personal convictions affect my obligation to
the American people. Nepal's plight has touched
me deeply, and to take direct political action
without the mandate of the American people is to go against everything democracy stands for."
"I will try not to let the hunger strike affect my duties as president, but to avoid the strike
would be an affront to those who voted me into office," Bush continued. "The American people
elected a George W. Bush who acts on his beliefs. To do any less would be to turn my back on
my many supporters."
This is not the first time Bush has taken action on behalf of Nepal. In 1997, Bush started a
Yahoo! chat group to help disseminate information and news updates on the country's
struggle. In July 2000, Bush took time off from his presidential campaign to organize a
candlelight vigil in front of the Washington Monument to draw attention to the suffering of the
Nepalese.
"It was amazing," Bush said. "We had almost 500 people, twice the number we'd expected.
Just to be there, holding hands with a 70-year-old woman who'd lost members of her family to
the conflict while listening to a young boy sing 'Ras Triya Gaan' [the Nepalese national anthem]
was something I'll never forget."
Worried for his health and fearful of a repeat of a 1998 episode, Bush's top advisors have
pleaded with him to limit his hunger strike to 30 days. In early 1998, while governor of Texas,
Bush embarked on a two-and-a-half-month hunger strike in protest of former Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet, under whose reign thousands of political prisoners disappeared
mysteriously.
"[Bush's] work as governor became severely compromised after the first week," recalled Dan
Morales, Texas Attorney General under Bush. "He began fainting regularly, but still he refused
food, saying that his cause was too important. It wasn't until he developed an extreme case of
malnutrition that we finally dragged him to a hospital to feed him intravenously. He was furious,
but we felt we had to do it. Lord only knows what would have happened if we hadn't
intervened."
Continued Morales: "While I'm sure the president hopes to keep this new hunger strike
short, once he's committed himself to a cause, he goes all the way, no matter what the risk to
himself."
CAPTAIN GERUNDIVE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
- Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 08:52:23 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Alright, Fornigators, good afternoon, under God. Seek here, under God, for some respite from the madding crowd, under God, and their the hellish handbasket:
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war12.html
Anonymous.
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 23:51:01 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Oh, stop bitching, you serfs. Apres moi, le deluge. Whatever that means. I slept through French. I slept through everything. Still am. Look where it got me.
Boy George
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 23:44:01 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sure they whine. you'd whine too. The world is going to hell in a handbasket, you fool. It ain't like the good old days. Or maybe it is. Who knows?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 20:41:12 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Keeps 'em busy.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 19:07:43 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Bloody Pubbie whiners.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 16:54:50 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Website Violence-Incitement Update
From the Slate/Mickey Kaus-recommended Lucianne.com (7/31):
Reply 12 - Posted by: Give Me Freedom, 7/31/2002 2:45:10 AM
I honestly pray that God would remove [Hillary Clinton] in some fashion.
She is an enemy to this Country's freedom and culture, as are all democrats in leadership position.
THEY ARE THE ENEMY!
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Reply 21 - Posted by: LoneStarDaughter, 7/31/2002 10:56:39 AM
Isn't this rich? Jackson and Clinton conducting policy discussions regarding Israel and the Middle East.
Two of the most despicable scum bags on the planet. ...
Jackson, Arafat and Clinton: scum bags.
Die. All three of you, just die.
The world would be a better place.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: deedles, 7/31/2002 10:56:59 AM
Too bad [President Clinton] wasn't having lunch at the Hebrew University today.
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Reply 34 - Posted by: pss, 7/31/2002 12:29:36 PM
He sent Caravelle to get Barat in. Who will he want to send next Begala?? Go to bed and sleep Clinton, maybe our nightmares will go away if you don't wake up.
On Hardball this week, David Brock was challenged by host Mike Barnicle for referring to Clinton-haters as "Clinton-haters." Anyone who ever doubted the appropriateness of the label need only log onto Lucianne.com - refuge of wingers so demented they've been booted from Free Republic - to witness the depths of hatred and depravity of the enemies of the best president and freshman senator of our lifetimes.
who's more vile, freepers or luciannimals?
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 16:51:58 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Bing? Is Bing still stalking the land? Where the hell is Ashcroft? Meanwhile, I got to drive half an hour to the In & Out Burger to replace a busted clutch cable. It's like old home week. Lots of quality time with the boy or young man. Maybe the wheels will fall off next or the ignition switch will act up and I'll be doing some real pappying.
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- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 14:43:01 (EDT)
My two cents are:
i think the anti-Hollywood hangup has become a virulent virus among the retchies. Fine with me. Keeps them busy and outside the bubble of real life. I figure, as longs as nuts like Coulter and Glint have to monitor Bing, Baldwin, Pee Wee Herman and George Jessel, they are harmless albeit obsessive. I encourage these loonballs to keep reading People Magazine and the gossip columns. Leave the real news for the adults.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 13:33:32 (EDT)
My two cents are:
sure explains their vendettae? vendettas? against hollywood and porn.
19
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 12:41:41 (EDT)
My two cents are:
nobody wants phil graham, newt, etc. repugs pretty much says it. Is that what it really comes down to tohugh? that repugs are angry because the dems are the beautiful people? Makes alot of sense really.
19
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 12:36:04 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Yep, you're thinking that's the reason the boy Repugs are fried in fury. Only Thraxes, Linda Tripps and Lucianne Goldbergs are wanting them. Oh well. It's so hard to be omegas.
CAPTAIN GERUNDIVE SUBJUNCTIVE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 11:47:23 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Ms y said I had the best guy bod at the pool, which made me feel good, said the exercise is really paying off. We're both really tan.
19
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 09:59:22 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The coast was great. Nice hotel with beautiful pool surrounded by palms and banana trees. Hotel right on the beach - walk to restraunts and shopping. Great driving in the zx2. 2.75 hours at the speed limit or slightly better. Took Pink and the boom box. On the way down we stopped for some cofee and breakfast. The buck tooth hispanic girl with glasses that waited on us flirted with me shamelessly while ms y was in the restroom and even when she came back to the table. The girl was embarassing herself, and she knew it but just couldn't stop. She was determined. It was quite interesting, her friends were giggling but by god she was going to flirt with me. Then she came out and wiped down the tables, staring at me and smiling and batting her eyes every time I looked up.
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- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 09:52:40 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Tips on Cubans? Doubt that. But often time they come packaged in individual aluminum container tubes. - Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 08:07:15 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Hey, easy on Glurp! Even I didn't want to lose Pete. The guy was more fun than a bucket of lizards with their tails all grown back or never even been plucked off.
He was Bulgey Whale squared, man.
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 02:09:21 (EDT)
My two cents are:
You mean the kind with those built-in cigar-holder things, like Tipacubanos? I didn't know the Cubes made anything like that.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 02:07:53 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Come on, Anonymous@21:42, watch your language. My kids are in the room. Don't you think a guy deserves a rest after five years of soapy sink counters and tripping over prayer rugs after lunch? During the war on drugs there was a seemingly endless supply of pipeline of Cuban cigars in the office. Dry tips though. - Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 00:50:59 (EDT)
My two cents are:
There was never a "0".
"-1"
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 22:39:53 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Wait a minute, if there was a "1" then there had to be a "0" and if there was a "0" then there is no apriori, no Fess Parker. Only bowls of promordial soup served up in coonskin caps somewhere in the deepfreeze of space, never to bloom, blossom or flower. Frozen little furry frisbees hurtling through the cosmos like so many frozen Ferengi pizza's splattering against the the bulwarks of the Enterprise.
'"0" As if Nobody Knew'
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 22:37:07 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Or url herself in sexually frustrated "Bush Daughter" fury onto one of the lecherous prongs of the "outside fork".
oafus
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 22:31:17 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Great. Now 1 will probably slit her wrists.
9
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 22:08:56 (EDT)
My two cents are:
1, 1 is the loneliest number. 1 is the loneliest number that there ever was. 1 is the loonliest number.
2
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 22:00:16 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 21:57:16 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Ah, he just does that shit for attention. The poor fuck is lonely. He's afaid of losing the remaining 21. He's take everyone back, even Jeremiah. The guy is lonely. He even got nasty about E when Pete drew the line in the sand. He didn't even want to lose PETE, for crissake! But what's his thing about Ho-hum. Wanted Ho-hum to post his real name?? What's that all about. Amber Alert! Amber Alert!
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 21:42:40 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The pinching. The loaves.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 21:38:42 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Of course we know Glint leads an isolated life. Anyone that fantasizes about "crispy critters" at air shows is more than a touch demented. There are other things, the sink full of arab spooge, Brandon, the gourds, the deaf fuck, the cigar suit, pete, the banker fetish, the jars of urine, the list goes on.
2
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 21:29:37 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The dwarf avocados are about to boom. Seems the recent Texas flooding has stunted the pecan and peach orchards but been a veritable boom for any place near the coast that a saltwater cow can shit an avocado seed. Unlike the typical western longhorn, a primarily freshwater species of cow, the saltwater shorthorn is a pretty darn good swimmer, what after having been driven across isthmus and into and across the Bay of Campeche onto the salt marshes of south Texas with sharp and sometimes burning pointed sticks by everyone from Vasco de Gamma and Ponce de Leon to some long dead Mayans that pioneered soccer, well....
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 21:20:28 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The more dollars you can stuff in that bag, the more saps you can loot, I mean hey, we're still paying off Neal Bush aren't we, and Prescott, the guys are theives.
2
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 21:12:54 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Do you cruel bastards ever consider Glint leads an isolated, boring life. Don't you think you'd be depressed too? Give the guy a break.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:56:25 (EDT)
My two cents are:
How were the dwarf avocados?
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:49:29 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Pete is taking on LAX again.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:48:46 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Give an okie a carpetbag.......
2
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:48:36 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Glint is upset with Bill Clinton.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:48:11 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Small wonder the scab is a Bush supporter.
2
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:47:57 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Glint sunk into deep depression again. Up. Down. Up. Down. geesh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:47:25 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Glint got a new TV.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:46:39 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Yes, 2, and it won't take long. Just focus right below on Glint's record of serving us by way of various lucrative government contracts he's had. This guy is a veteran of the War on Drugs AND he took money from the Air Force to protect the Saudi monarchy. Kind of brings a tear to the eye.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:45:36 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So the economy was tanking back when forest glump here was sucking down the fat coin eh? Coincidence? You be the judge!
2
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:45:05 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Nah, surely "the leech" recognizes he's part of the problem.
2
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:43:22 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I'm back. anything worth scrolling for???
2
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:40:35 (EDT)
My two cents are:
No winking here. If it's supposed to be moving, I'd say the Air Foerce bought itself a sack of shit.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:33:27 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Is that wink thing supposed to move? Java off, here. I notice it changed all the signature lines to block letters, or something did.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:11:59 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Today we've heard about the doing of Alec Baldwin and Bing. It sure hurts to see all your liberal icons crushed, one by one. Who next? Cher?
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 20:11:41 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Gllint
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:58:14 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It's not out of line for Glint to interpret things that way. For all his experience or knowledge of history tells him, he has lived in a time when America really stood shoulder to shoulder with freedom-loving Arabs to protect the ideals of Jefferson and Adams and Washington. For all he can tell in the hangover of his youth, America really is beset by an army of evil greasers trying to force cocaine down her children's gullets. So he can explain helping program a Saudi internal security system, designed to catch Taxi-drivers talking about universal sufferage, as a contribution to America, his 4,000 hours of service. Lay off the poor bastard. This is a '70s kid you're talking about, nothing more. Christ, the poor bastard listens to Kraftwerk. Be kind.
He'll enlist if Bing attacks.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:57:37 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The sick thing is, Glint really does think he's sucked at Sam's teat for the good of one and all. Sick, selfish bastard. Self-centered prick.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:26:28 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Miami lawyer Mark Wallace, who fought on behalf of the GOP in Palm Beach County during the butterfly ballot brouhaha, is today acting general counsel at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, run by Joe Allbaugh, the Bush-Cheney campaign manager.
Gore was certainly one huge unnatural disasters, gentlemen!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:23:52 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Mr. Cheney called for an end to innuendo about his activities in a now bankrupt Pitcairn Island firm that sold itself the air rights to a million acres of West Texas flatlands, deducted the transaction from its taxes as an entertainment expense, then borrowed $14 million interest-free from the Liechtenstein bank it owned, using its assets of company-acquired Callaway golf clubs as collateral, to finance the purchase of gifts for some Bessarabian oil prospectors who were then passing through Dallas
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:22:35 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Fuck who the client was, asswipe. By what stretch of your simple mind does aiding and abeting the Cradle of Terrorism count as helping THIS country? You think just because you land some sweet deal from the United States Air Fucking Force it's actually a benefit to America? Geesh, geesh, geesh. We would have been better served if you'd landed the contract to design a $24,000 toilet.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:20:51 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Boca Raton developer Ned L. Siegel, long a generous donor to the GOP, has been nominated by Bush to serve as a director of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. During the recount crisis, he sued Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore in a bid to stop the manual recount of the troubled butterfly ballots on constitutional grounds.
Butterflies are free, Mr. Siegel!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:20:49 (EDT)
My two cents are:
New York lawyer Brad Blakeman, who helped organize protests in South Florida and appeared in one Associated Press dispatch at the time as a ''Broward County GOP volunteer,'' today is director of White House scheduling.
Thanks for removing the squatter from Dick Cheney's house, Mr. Blakeman!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:19:41 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Kevin Martin, now a $130,000-a-year commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, was one of the first national Bush-Cheney people to arrive in Miami from Washington, on Nov. 8. He had been a deputy general counsel for the Bush campaign and before that worked for Ken Starr, the independent counsel in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Have a cigar, Mr. Martin!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:18:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Former Texas Transportation System Chairman David Laney left his Austin law firm to serve as a ballot recount observer in Volusia County. Bush appointed him recently to Amtrak's seven-member board of directors. It has no salary but pays a per diem and travel expenses.
God speed, Mr. Laney!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:17:36 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Saudi was going to be the next domino to fall after Kuwait. Fortunately, the international coalition intervened and left the Kuwaitis ululating in the streets and shedding their turbans and robes for baseball caps and Levi's. Sorry you didn't make it to the actual fight, Glint. It was the best feeling of my life, riding through the streets of Kuwait Town up top that Bradley and seeing the grateful raggers ululating madly and hurling gobs of hot mutton up to the troops. Once again America had freed another nation, same as we're fighting for freedom today, or hoping to be allowed to gather in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia so we can Jap Saddam and give him a couple armored division in the groin. Oldest trick in the book.
Get Some�
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:16:45 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"How does working for the defense of the homeland of Osama bin Laden qualify as serving THIS country?" The client was the United States Air Force, you moron! - Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:12:45 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Three members of the window-pounding crowd that on Thanksgiving Eve helped persuade the Miami-Dade County canvassing board to abandon the recount are now members of the White House staff.
He who stands at the door and knocks....
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:11:38 (EDT)
My two cents are:
You mean, when the time comes for us to send missles to Mecca, the only defense those poor Saudi bastards will have is the one this goober, Glint, worked on? Let's roll!
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:11:17 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I was on the verge of posting all that crap last week, and the thought struck me: why?
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:10:38 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Five lawyers who did research and wrote briefs to fight Florida court challenges are now deputies in the White House counsel's office.
Congratulations, you five lawyers!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:10:05 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Yes, yes, yes, but where is the strangely vomit-inducing James K. Baker II? Fighting the good fight for the Carlyle Group somewhere? Is it true that the Snippistas had to promise the RNC that he wouldn't have anything to do with the administration if Snippy won?
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:09:55 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Jeanie Mamo, a former Capitol Hill press secretary who now earns $62,760, was among those who came to Florida for the recount. Already with the Bush-Cheney campaign, she worked as part of the GOP's media team.
Thanks for getting the word out, Jeanie!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:09:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sue Cobb, a Coral Gables developer, today is the U.S. ambassador to Jamaica. Twenty months ago, the generous Republican donor volunteered her legal skills to the Bush-Cheney campaign -- working as part of the legal team that contested recounts in Miami-Dade.
Kudos, Sue!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:08:02 (EDT)
My two cents are:
There was an international coalition?
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:07:36 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Matt Schlapp, a former congressional aide, is currently White House special assistant to the president and deputy director of political affairs. In November 2000, he was part of the supposedly spontaneous window-pounding protest at Miami-Dade County Hall that brought to an end the first recount of Miami-Dade ballots.
Thanks, Matt!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:07:34 (EDT)
My two cents are:
John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control, caused a stir in May by accusing the Cuban government of transferring bioweapons technology to rogue nations. Nineteen months ago, he caused a different stir -- bursting into a Tallahassee library on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign to stop a recount of Miami-Dade County ballots.
Thank you, John!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:07:01 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Lawyer R. Ted Cruz, a Bush-Cheney campaign worker and former clerk to U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, arrived in Tallahassee for the first time in his life within 24 hours of the election to work on briefs. He became part of an early inner circle that included more nationally prominent Republican lawyers such as George J. Terwilliger III and Benjamin L. Ginsberg, who had been an outside counsel to the campaign.
Today, Cruz is director of policy and planning at the Federal Trade Commission, earning $138,200.
Thank you, Ted!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:06:21 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Shee-it! I didn't know that Hussein attacked the central troop concentrations in Saudi! Probably had heard that the clodhopper had been working to prevent just that! Woulda and coulda gave him a good lickin' if he tried, same as the Patriots shot down all those scuds, remember?
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 19:06:08 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Oh I see, Glop was one of those yahoos who figured the Saudis were good guys and that, maybe five years down the road, there would be enough American troops there to totally radicalize Osama bin Laden and make him want to kill thousands of Americans. Good work, Glisp! A grateful nation bows in thanks.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:59:20 (EDT)
My two cents are:
How does working for the defense of the homeland of Osama bin Laden qualify as serving THIS country?
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:57:09 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Q: "How did a Saudi defensive system come in handy during the Oil War?" A/Q: Where were most of the international coalition of troops concentrated? A: That's right, Saudi Arabia! (Maybe a second brain cell might help you figure that one out.) - Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:56:04 (EDT)
My two cents are:
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge warned the Bush administration Friday he would reject any White House effort to block the release of records on Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force unless government lawyers provided specific reasons.
Simply citing special presidential privileges or the Constitution would not be enough to keep those records from public view, said U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan.
"It is not appropriate to say, 'executive privilege,'" Sullivan said to lawyers for the administration. "It is not appropriate to say, 'This request is unconstitutional.'"
"I need to know what the basis is," he said.
The lecture was the latest sign that Sullivan is talking tough with the administration as two groups seek records about whether the Cheney task force was influenced by industry executives as it crafted the nation's energy policy.
The Sierra Club environmental organization and Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, have filed lawsuits to shed light on the task force's membership and its influences.
Sullivan, who was appointed by former president Clinton, chastised the administration's lawyers in July for advocating too broad a legal view of executive privilege. The proper approach, he said, is to examine whether disclosure would prevent the executive branch from carrying out any constitutionally assigned function.
The government, then, has until Sept. 3 to make that argument when it answers a motion by the plaintiffs to release all White House records relating to the energy task force.
Run by Cabinet heads, the Cheney panel directed federal agencies writing a plan last year that focused on energy production - a position favored by the industry.
The administration maintains that only government employees were members of the task force, which disbanded last year. But Judicial Watch alleges that former Enron chairman Ken Lay was a member.
"We want all of the information on the energy task force to come out as soon as possible," said Larry Klayman, chairman of Judicial Watch.
That could take months. Sullivan on Friday said he anticipates objections from the administration that would take "an enormous amount of time for this court to resolve."
Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club maintain that Cheney's panel is subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which is designed to open government panels in the executive branch to public scrutiny. The idea behind the law is that public disclosure would counteract lobbying by special interests.
drip, drip, drool
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:53:42 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Video camera worked pretty good. It came threaded for a tripod. The adapter ring for the Canon lenses was sophisticated enought that it locks onto the aperture diaphram so that the r-ratio can be adjusted using the aperture ring. SLR lenses project an upside down image ont to film plane however, so the video image was upside down. Moving the threaded tripod adapter to the opposite side of the camera fixed this. Tried it with 28mm and 50mm lenses. (Didn't bother using 200mm or 300mm yet; with the narrow field typcial of CCD detectors the wide angle lens acts like a telephoto.) The 12.5" telescope couldn't achieve focus because there wasn't enough travel room for the focuser to crank in far enough. I have another focuser adapter, not available in the observatory at the time, that sits lower in the focuser that might work. Focus was achieved for terrestrial objects in the neighborhood, however the clock drive must be switched off in order to enjoy/record them. I got out an 8" telescope and was able to videotape the Hercules cluster. When sweeping the field the cluster looks like a faint grey ghost on the monitor. However, once the telescope stops moving many of the individual stars of the cluster seem to pop out. Switched on the VCR and captured the site on videotape. A couple of nits. The first was with the order itself. Instead of a 9v battery adapter for the mini-mic they sent one that plugs into the wall. Inconvenient for use in the field. I'm returning it and they're sending a power cord splitter so that the camera and mic can run off the same power source using a 12v cigarette lighter plug. The other problem was with the camera itself. It had a dead pixel - or perhaps several consecutive dead pixels, near the edge on the right side of the screen. Hardly noticeable in terrestrial images, but at night it looks like a permanent immovable star. They said they shipped out a replacement camera today that should be here next week. - Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:52:01 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Doesn't matter. Glurp did it all out of a deep sense of obligation to serve others. The money was a bonus.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:49:42 (EDT)
My two cents are:
How did a Saudi defensive system come in handy during the Oil War? Were the dissident Saudis really so numerous that they couldn't be handled with the tradional thumb-screws and piano wire?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:45:30 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds like another Great Evil has landed on our planet, someone else to hate and fear: and its name is Bing! Who is going to save us from the Bing? Should be shift our aim from the listless Osama Bin Laden to the new threat, the Bing? It sound as if the Bing is far more dangerous.
If you don't eat your peas, Bing will get you!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:41:27 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Well put, whoever that message was directed to.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:37:58 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It's always wartime, Glumf, as long as a single Liebral is left standing.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:35:54 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Here is a link to a easier to read version with embedded whitespace, posted for your convenience!
Glint
The anti-Clinton
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 18:12:29 (EDT)
My two cents are:
What you're saying falls outside the chickenhawk definition. Sounds like you're extending the definition to include those who declined to take advantage of a significant opportunity to serve in uniform during peacetime. Whereas, the definition, posted here earlier, specifically states that the action of declining such an opportunity to seve must be performed during war time. Sooo, either put up or shut up. - Friday, August 02, 2002 at 17:51:40 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Working for the Poor from Malibu to East Hampton with Citizen Gore
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Having dragged a group of Manhattan elites back from the Hamptons last week to attend a fund-raiser at a tony Chelsea night club, Al Gore criticized the Bush administration for "working on behalf of the powerful, and letting the people of this country get the short end of the stick."
Back when he was exhibiting the Democrats' renowned good sportsmanship after he lost the presidential election, Gore managed to fund his tantrum with donations sent in from such ordinary Americans as dot-com multimillionaire Steven Kirsch ($500,000), former Slim-Fast Foods chief S. Daniel Abraham ($100,000) and Minneapolis multimillionaire Vance Opperman ($100,000).
Gore also got some help from the Manhattan "working poor" such as Loews Hotels scion and tobacco company beneficiary Jon Tisch ($50,000) - who must have been on a break from demanding that West African peddlers be thrown off the streets of Manhattan; songwriter and ex-wife of pardoned financier Marc Rich, Denise Rich ($25,000); and investment banker Jon Corzine ($25,000), now representing working families against "the powerful" in the U.S. Senate.
Also warming to Gore's pledge to fight for "working families" were many Hollywood billionaires. Notorious inseminator and Hollywood "producer" Stephen Bing ponied up $200,000. (In Democratic Party parlance, "producer" evidently means "a do- nothing who inherited a lot of money.") Actress and traitor Jane Fonda gave the Gore-Lieberman fund $100,000.
George W. Bush limited donations to his Election Recount Fund to $5,000 or less and still raised $13.8 million - four times more than the $3.2 million collected by Gore. Americans saw what the Democrats were up to, and thousands upon thousands of small contributions poured in to Bush from across the country.
Gore's Tantrum Fund took in $2.1 million from just 38 individuals - or, "working families." He had 84 donations above Bush's $5,000 maximum - totaling about $2.8 million. Of those, 30 were from California and 23 from New York. (Jane Fonda lists her address as Georgia.) Only $56,216 of the Gore-Lieberman fund came from donations of $200 or less. Bush raised more than $3 million in individual donations of $200 or less - more than the entire amount raised by Gore's Tantrum Fund.
The genuine and spontaneous outrage of ordinary Americans against a small band of Democratic royalists was pointedly ignored in news accounts about the recount funds. The Washington Post's headline was: "Bush Far Outspent Gore on Recount." The Chicago Tribune's was: "Bush spent 4 times as much as Gore in Florida recount." The AP headline was: "IRS: Bush spent four times as much as Gore on Florida recount."
The thousands of small donations sent to Bush from average Americans all across the country was said to demonstrate "the powerful fund-raising abilities of the Republican Party" - as The Washington Post obtusely put it.
Meanwhile, back at the Party of the People headquarters, the Democratic National Committee recently took in its largest single donation ever: $5 million from "producer" Stephen Bing - our featured Democrat this week.
In the current Vanity Fair, Bing is described by other Hollywood billionaires as a self-effacing, modest man. As evidence, they note that he has only one maid. "Name anyone else with his wealth who has only one maid," Man of the People Rob Reiner says. "You'd be hard-pressed."
I'd be hard-pressed to think of one of my friends who has a maid. Marie Antoinette did not flaunt her wealth in such a way as "progressive" liberals in America do.
Rich Hollywood progressives raved about how Bing helps out strippers when they're down on their luck. (And, one may surmise, also down on their knees.) "I've helped so many," Bing says, "you'd have to get me the names." That's "self-effacing" for a liberal.
Bing's admiration for the underclass is mainly shown by his predilection for siring children out of wedlock. This seems to be the new status symbol among liberals, with Bing currently leading Jesse Jackson 2-to-1 in disclosed illegitimate children. (Q: How do you empty a room full of rich liberals? A: Ask for a paternity test.)
In a romance borne of progressivism, the mother of one of his illegitimate children, Elizabeth Hurley, crossed a Screen Actors Guild picket line. Bing gallantly paid her fine to the union. So much for the little people.
Also, he plays the blues on the piano. I take it back: He is a man of the people.
Interestingly, Bing doesn't make a fuss about the estate tax. His professional accomplishments amount to having dropped out of Stanford - which we can assume he did not enter on the basis of his SAT scores - and then spending a decade writing a single episode of "Married With Children." Bing's credentials as a producer are as credible as his belief that women are attracted to him for himself.
The current Democratic Party is a crowd of idle, rich degenerates, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the czar's court. When not occupied with abortions or strippers, they busy themselves denouncing the Cossacks as "the powerful."
Ann Coulter
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 17:51:25 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It's only and "ill-conceived" definition because it applies to the sorry likes of you, coward.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 17:09:17 (EDT)
My two cents are:
You got it, war wimp. To serve this country in wartime, you've got to be in a position to do so. You think those folks who served in the, er, Gulf War, just joined up the day before? You serve yourself only and you always take seconds. Drug War, my ass.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 16:34:55 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Enlisting? What would enlisting get you? I thought that to be a chickenhawk one must have "declined to take advantage of a significant opportunity to serve in uniform during wartime." So far nobody has specifically said what the significant opportunity was and which war it was declined during. The mere act of enlisting doesn't mean squat unless it was during war time according to someone's ill-conceived definition. - Friday, August 02, 2002 at 15:26:42 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I know. He's usually so gung-ho when it comes to sending others to fight.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 15:12:22 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Interestingly enough, the only fight Glint didn't support was when we liberated Kosovo and brought down Milosevic. Glint didn't like that one. Wonder why.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 15:11:41 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Still on the rag and crowing about the tax cut that created the deficits.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 15:07:39 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Hayseed. I didn't realize there was a rule against enlisting. Pinch that loaf and eat it.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 15:06:27 (EDT)
My two cents are:
IN what could be a final nail in the coffin of his fading movie career, Alec "Bloviator" Baldwin is joining the B-list cast of TV's "Hollywood Squares."
Ha ha!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 15:03:03 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So what conflict should I have been in? Is Grenada the one? I *was* in Grenada. I traveled from the warm waters of the coast to the top of the spice tree covered mountains in 1998. (Picked up several bottles of some wicked hot sauce.) Or maybe I should have signed up in a hurry to go arrest Noriega? I spent a couple years fighting the drug war in the 1990s, with technology. Indeed, it was one of your more lucrative wars in which a person may have found themselves in a position to name their own price. But thank goodness George Bush has cut taxes since then. Gulf war? Leading up to that war I had spent 5 years working on a Saudi defensive system. Don't tell me that didn't come in handy. It was finished in May and Iraq invaded Kuwait in August. Somalia. Were they taking volunteers for Somalia? Kosovo? Just what in the hell are you talking about with this hawk chickenshit? From the sound of your posts, ignorance must be one giant bliss bubble. - Friday, August 02, 2002 at 14:59:29 (EDT)
My two cents are:
What's wrong with advocating whatever the GOP tells me to?
Glump
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 14:49:56 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It's good that Clinton can understand the difference between a just war and am unjust, illegal one. Perhaps that's one reason the audience applauded wildly. Glint would have supported Hitler, the highest official in the land.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 14:49:22 (EDT)
My two cents are:
How do you figure? What's wrong with advocating a good offense? - Friday, August 02, 2002 at 14:43:33 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Said the chicken hawk, Glint.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 14:40:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"Bill Clinton - who avoided serving in Vietnam - says he would take up arms and 'fight and die' for Israel if Iraq attacks the Jewish state. 'If Iraq came across the Jordan River, I would grab a rifle and get in the trench and fight and die,' the impeached ex-president said to wild applause at a Jewish fund-raiser in Toronto...."
he demeans everyone who actually has fought and died over there
Bubba: I'd Fight And Die For Israel
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 14:36:44 (EDT)
My two cents are:
No, you've got that wrong. It's hysterical material, not historical. ROTFL&PAL (pinching a loaf). - Friday, August 02, 2002 at 14:21:55 (EDT)
My two cents are:
For a guy who thinks Clinton's blowjobs are historically material, Glint seems to think "the highest court in the land" id it self proud by stopping an election and will be treated with respect in the future. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 13:08:46 (EDT)
My two cents are:
White House says Sept. 11 skyjacker had met Iraqi agent
By Bob Drogin, Paul Richter and Doyle McManus
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON - Despite deep doubts by the CIA and FBI, the White House is now backing claims that suspected Sept. 11 skyjacker Mohammed Atta secretly met five months earlier with an Iraqi agent in Prague, Czech Republic, a possible indication that Saddam Hussein's regime was involved in the terror attacks.
In an interview, a senior Bush administration official said that available evidence of the long-disputed meeting "holds up." The official added, "We're going to talk more about this case."
Convincing proof that Iraq was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks would give strong ammunition to the administration in its efforts to build domestic and international support for a military campaign to topple the Iraqi leader.
But the CIA and FBI concluded months ago that they had no hard evidence to confirm claims that the Prague meeting took place.
A federal law-enforcement official said yesterday, however, that the FBI has been reviewing Atta's possible ties to Iraq, including travel and phone records, with "renewed vigor" in recent weeks. Until now, the administration has largely argued that military action against Iraq is justified because of the danger the regime is secretly building nuclear, chemical or biological weapons that could be used against the United States or its allies. On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a news conference that Iraq had "a relationship" with al-Qaida, but declined to be more specific.
Looks like the script writers have been working overtime. Let's roll.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 12:39:37 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Watch it, you faux American. Bill Clinton was the highest official in the land. Elected by the people, not some banana republic court.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 12:31:10 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Celebrities been churning out the yuk-yuk one liners of late; here's another. Bill Clinton quoted as saying, "I'd Fight And Die For Israel." I truely wish he would, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 12:11:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The real belly laugh will come if and when this "Secretary of State" who never could figure out election law, is taken off the ballot . Of course, she could always appeal directly to the "highest court in the land." It's kind of funny how Glint selectively respects individuals and institutions because of the "highness" without any regard to whether or not they're crooked. If Glint was Iraqi, he'd be looking for a fat government contract from Saddam, who holds "the highest office in the land," that's what! What a pathetic hayseed.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 11:57:14 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Something to be proud of, Glint. Corruption. Good for a belly laugh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 11:41:55 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Something to be proud of, Glint. Corruption. Good for a belly laugh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 11:41:54 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Got a good belly laugh myself when I heard about it. Said Kathleen stated that she had misinterpreted the election law. Ha Ha Ha At least she admits mistakes when made. On the other hand she played the law like a violin after the election. Says who? The highest court in the land, that's who. - Friday, August 02, 2002 at 11:32:08 (EDT)
My two cents are:
And so, in my State of the -- my State of the Union -- or state -- my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation -- I asked Americans to give 4,000 years --4,000 hours over the next -- the rest of your life -- of service to America."
are you ready to roll over Saddam ?
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 11:13:00 (EDT)
My two cents are:
We SO enjoyed Katherine Harris' making the deadline for running for office by backdating her official letter of resignation. Does she only backdate for friends? Or when she's um "in the mood"? No one's calling her a venal lying partisan bitch, so far. No one's talking about Katy's backdate rape of the people of Florida.
CAPTAIN GERUNDIVE SUBJUNCTIVE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 09:30:18 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Why Saddam Hussein? Isn't this all a little too "mission creep?"
Anonymous.
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 04:12:30 (EDT)
My two cents are:
When Georgie boy stomps in righteous anger, all the world's pretzels quake in fear. Yup, they do.
don't get 'im riled, now
- Friday, August 02, 2002 at 00:42:36 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Katherine Harris did an excellent job for the Carlyle Group, there can be no doubt. She was Horatio on the Bridge for the Republicans, and lied as well and ultimately effectively as anyone could have. This team of corrupted refugees from figurehead CEO jobs based on privileged access to the United States Treasury would not have got into office without thoroughly partisan, unprincipled, and illegal behavior by the Florida Secretary of State. She deserves a plastic bust of Warren G. Harding and a pat on the back by every snake-oil salesman who happens to come through Tallahassee.
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- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 18:43:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The bandy-legged little bulldog gets furious too much? You're right. The guy needs to wrap himself around a bottle of $345 tequila with the twins, take a rest. Maybe at his beloved rancho in Crawford, where he likes to walk around and talk to the cows. Slap on a pair of yellow gloves and spoon horseturds in the barn. Hey, do we have a hokey little shit for a president, or what?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 18:01:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"Katherine Harris resigns secretary of state job"
...and a job well done it was!
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 17:54:47 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Today Snip said, "I'm just as angry as Israel. I am furious!" about the bombing in Jerusalem. The man really does need a vacation.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 17:25:55 (EDT)
My two cents are:
You liebrals just don't get it. Sure, Snippy was a bum back in the day. But the Arab/WTC confrontation changed him. It gave him purpose. It made him grow into his presidential boots. Now he's a great war leader. Sure, at first he ran like a rabbit, but then he came back and rallied the country. Rallied it to win the war. What war, you ask? The war of flying airplanes into sky-scrapers and knocking them down. The War of the Flukes, as it will come to be known. Or, the War of the Afghan Rocks. Or the War to Rid the World of Jose Padilla. Whatever. We would be up shit creek if we didn't have Georgie Porgie to lead us. A bandy-legged little guy who rose to the occasion to become a second Harry Truman, while still being just about exactly the opposite of everything Harry Truman was and everything he stood for or believed in. Liebrals just don't get it. You need to study the last two years worth of Peggy Noonan columns. Then come back here and try to make sense.
Surf Ryder
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 16:04:22 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I'd like to be under the hair-net in the back of the van with Katherine Harris and a tub of purple eye-shadow.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 15:54:58 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Katherine "wrote" a book which will be coming out soon. Do you know what it's called? It's called "Practicing Principled Leadership in Times of Crisis."
Geo. Orwell
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 15:54:08 (EDT)
My two cents are:
So? He needed the baseball team so he could become a public figure and run for governor. Shee-it, Katherine Harris had to throw a whole presidential election just to get to run of Congressman.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 15:50:29 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Or not actually GOing to do jack shit at the company his Daddy got him onto the board of, so he could inside trade his stocks, and get an unearned bundle so his Daddy could get him the baseball team he wanted for Christmas.
permissive Poppy
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 15:07:28 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sort of like not actually GOing to the miliary "job" his Daddy got for him.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 15:05:47 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Too bad Snippy didn't actually GO to the college his Daddy got him a degree from.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 15:05:06 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Leno also suggested the way to get rid of Saddam Hussein was to drop Georgie Boy's buddies on Baghdad: Kenny Boy, World.com, Halliburton, Harken CEOs.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 15:01:26 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Late-night comics are already poking fun. ''Bush jogged and played golf over the weekend,'' Jay Leno said last week on the Tonight Show. ''Thank God he got that out of the way before he takes his month-long vacation. Thank God we got that war and Middle East thing cleared up.'' David Letterman did a top 10 list of signs the president needs a vacation. No. 7 was: ''It's been what, two weeks since he went fishing?''
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 14:42:49 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Either achieve dignity or its opposite, Glintness.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:58:42 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I think that what our President meant was that going to college is bad if you do it inside the bubble. Outside the bubble, it's got more up sides than down sides, and may even help people achieve dignity.
Glint
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:56:07 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I have to confess that I went to college. LOTS of college. I hang my head in shame.
.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:53:45 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Glint, it's always progress when you can limit the sources of information available to people. I think it's even in the Republican platform.
Conservative and Proud of It
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:52:23 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Snippy on College: "In the way they're kind of writing it right now out of the Senate Finance Committee, some people could spend their entire five years on welfare - there's a five-year work requirement - going to college. Now, that's not my view of helping people become independent, and it's certainly not my view of understanding the importance of work and helping people achieve the dignity necessary so they can live a free life, free from government control."
How COULD getting drunk and dancing naked on tables promote dignity?
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:49:56 (EDT)
My two cents are:
"Cable companies get authorization to remove CNN from their programming"
By Anat Balint, Ha'aretz Correspondent -
The Satellite and Cable Commission decided Thursday to allow Israeli cable companies to remove CNN from their programming. The decision was approved by a large majority, following a stormy discussion on the issue.
The central argument for the deciison was the availability of three foreign news networks other than CNN: BBC, Fox News and Sky News.
now that's progress!
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:44:51 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It's called staying awake at the switch. Snippy has to keep the lips wrapped tighly around the Saudi anus. While not discouraging the Jews or the lunatic christians who tie the whole thing into Revelations.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:43:29 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Design a system? What's to design? Looks like America is targeting Afghani wedding parties now. We can't encourage Sharon to finish the job because the Saudis would get mad at us and take away our oil. Sometimes I wonder if you will ever understand global politics.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:40:13 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Anyway, on the world front, it appears as if Hamas is now targeting Americans after killing five in yesterday's bomb blast. Perhaps we should encourage Sharon to finish the job w.r.t. Arafat & his henchmen. - Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:23:49 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The ironic thing of course is that on the drive to the Atlantic the depressed teenagers will probably be sitting in the front seat doing the driving, while the parents foll around under the hair net in the back seat watching the telly. - Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:13:28 (EDT)
My two cents are:
One of these days I'll need to design a power system using the solar panel chipped in by the dairy man. - Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:09:02 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Nope, it's a pair of 6v sealed batteries in a case with shoulder strap. Sort of like a 20 lb purse. Try lugging a couple of those, an eyepiece case, camera case, and a book bag with atlases and reference books up a hill. Some day they'll find me face down on the path. - Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:07:04 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Maybe it's something along the lines of that U-Krank-It flashlight that Glurf took on the camping trip. Say, a bicycle hooked up to a generator. Sounds good, because Glint can control TV over-use by requiring the girls to pedal up their own power for any TV viewing. An hour a day of MTV or Britney tapes ought to give them the endurance to maintain a bubble when their turn comes.
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- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:04:58 (EDT)
My two cents are:
It might be a generator that comes with wheels and has a 12-volt output to keep a starter battery charged.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:01:59 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Portable 12-volt power source = battery?
spade a spade
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 13:00:50 (EDT)
My two cents are:
The teens is a glorious age! She should take advantage of it while she can! She should savor it to exhaustion. Of course, this may be difficult when trusted individuals lie to you, and try to blunt your appreciation of the world by sticking a portable television in front of your face while life passes by outside the window, and all in the name of keeping it from the old lady in the hairnet who keeps the bubble clean and the meatloaf coming.
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- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 12:58:51 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Depressed daughter?
dr. spock
whoever heard of a teenager being depressed? - Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 12:46:25 (EDT)
My two cents are:
I'm more concerned about Glump's referring to his depressed daughter as "Poe."
CAPTAIN GERUNDIVE SUBJUNCTIVE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 12:43:37 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Bush said yesterday that he is troubled by the creation of offshore affiliates by U.S. companies to avoid paying taxes, a practice that lawmakers are trying to restrict. Bush's comments coincided with disclosures that companies connected to Bush and Vice President Cheney created such offshore entities."
ANNALS OF BUSH THE UNELECTED
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 12:41:48 (EDT)
My two cents are:
All in the name of science you see. Still, if by chance a hermy just happens to wander into the field of view and cause a chance stellar occulation we reserve the right to reallocate observing time, just like the space telescope would, in order to take advantage of such targets of opportunity. <> While hooking the TV up to a portable 12V power source and a camcorder to test its record function, the Mrs. mentioned that UPS had tried to deliver a package and left this note. She wondered what coul have been in the package. Yes, I wonder too.... - Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 12:17:20 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Sounds win win to me.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 12:06:16 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Well, you expect a Republican president* to lie to his fellow-citizens. I'm more concerned about Glump lying to his family.
House of Meat
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 11:56:02 (EDT)
My two cents are:
NO NEWS TO US -- In the paper this AM, Bushistas finally admitted cooking the books on the pre-Sept. 11 tanking of the American economy. Yes, it was a recession, they allowed, we're so sorry we lied about it, and yes, it started before Osama. Are we going to tell Al Gore we're sorry we wrecked the economy? Naah. Stonewalling and lying are the Repugnican way. Hey, we won, didn't we? Well, okay, so we didn't win, but we bullied our way in, didn't we? And we did what we said we would, didn't we? Hey, is it our fault our policies suck?
Buck Stops With Dirty Little Bush
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 11:49:24 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Here's a story about the observation which launched this new science involving the observing of contemporary lunar meteorite impacts.
Glint
A Leonid on the Moon? - Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 11:39:03 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Here's a link to a news article from last year.
Glint
Meteors Cause Visible Lunar Explosions - Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 11:34:46 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Perseids are coming soon. A recently discovered phenomena are visible meteoritic impacts on the lunar surface that can be recorded with sensitive video cameras. The 0.0003 Lux model arriving should have the sensitivity and, hopefully, the resolving power. This image shows what purports to be Leonid striking the moon. Clicking the image will take you to Italy for details on this type of research. Unfortunately, I don't have a viewer like this fellow has for watching reflectionless TV.
Glint
click image
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 11:24:30 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Swung by the Germantown store but they were out, but scored the last boxed set at the next Walmart up the road. Store price was just $168 compared to $229 on their web site. Surprised the family with the TV. Told them I thought the kids needed some entertainment on the drive to the Atlantic so Daddy brought home a surprise. Wife loved it too but asked where I planned to keep it the rest of the year when the favmily wasn't traveling. The bedroom of course, knowingly violating her "no TVs in the bedroom" ban. When she objected as expected I looked concerned, stroked my beard, furrowed my brow, and then aha! I offered to keep it in in the observatory. Problem solved. Forcast was for clear skies and I expected delivery of the camera yetsterday. But the UPS mule only left a note because nobody was home. Hopefully I'll get a chance to conduct an end-to-end test tonight when darkness forces the parking of the tractor. The telescope and camera lens adapters have already arrived. The monitor/vcr have been tested, including recording using inputs from the family camcorder. If the UPS turtle doesn't chicken out we'll be cooking with gas this evening. - Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 10:48:04 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Powell told his bud, "I won't let the bastards run me out." How can Snippy dump him? His positives are 30 points ahead of Snip's.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 00:54:56 (EDT)
My two cents are:
Powell is a goober.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 00:53:59 (EDT)
