| Author | Message | | Alan | | Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 4:02 pm Post subject: GWB |
| Just a thought. Wonder which part of the states GWB thinks he is in at the moment?  | |  | | admin | | Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: GWB |
| | Alan wrote: | | Just a thought. Wonder which part of the states GWB thinks he is in at the moment? If you hate AOL clap your hands. |
 | | | | msteffan1 | | Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 8:05 pm Post subject: |
| | Laura...you seen Tony yet? Is that him over there....Hey Tony over here...whos this bald guy..thought Tony was our guy in Europe.. | | | | Dubya | | Posted: Sat May 25, 2002 9:00 pm Post subject: A warm welcome to all my fans |
| Greetings from the White House,
Dick has told me a lot of folks here have been speaking out in support for this great nation's efforts in that place near - you know where I mean. Vietnam is what I mean. Our dedicated soldiers, sailors and airmen are today bringing liberty, not just to Vietnam, but also to nations all across the globe but I have to tell you, we couldn't have done what we did without the help of you good British folk over there in England. So America extends a warm hand a friendship to all our British friends across the Pacific.
As you know I've been pretty busy since those Muslim folks broke up my annual vacation last year. But that's okay. If my annual vacation didn't last the whole year I can make it up in 2003 but right now, today, America and the world needs a strong leader who is committed to the task at hand and I tell you, with all sincerity, that Dick will get the job done. Wherever those Muslims are hiding, we'll smoke 'em out. They can run but they can't walk. Liberty, freedom, justice and peace will prevail and those folks who don't stand for these values will be rooted out, dead or alive just like the old poster way out west used to say.
At this critical time we need to pull together against our common foe. A foe that will do anything, pull any trick, undertake any dirty deed to stop my administration creating the kind of America we want to see. Our enemies will not succeed. We are too strong, too united in a common cause. The Democrats will fail.
These rumours and lies designed to help the terrorists won't stand. You have to ask yourself a question. Even if I had foreknowledge what would you expect a guy like me to do about it? These are scandalous claims. But I know I can always count on our great allies and friends, the British - and the Welsh, Scottish and IRA too, to stand by us as we achieve our common goal. America thanks you for your support. God bless you all.
Dubya | | | | Dubya | | Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 12:31 am Post subject: |
| I am honored to be here in France. It's my first trip as the President to this beautiful country and to this beautiful capital, Gay Paris, but don't be concerned, the boys have made sure all the folks I meet are straight. I always find it a great joy to talk with Jack. He's a -- it's not hard to figure out where he stands on issues even though Dick told me he's a good friend.
I'm also looking forward to going to Normandy tomorrow. I hope we catch a night flight so I can grab some sleep in this busy schedule. We do believe this is the first time a President has been out of the country for Memorial Day. The Democrats don't believe this and they're still talking about the election even though that was Jeb's thing and I had nothing to do with it. I'm looking forward to giving a speech and I promised Dick I'd keep it short. Memorial Day in my country is a day to honor those we have sacrificed for freedom, given their lives. Many died in France I'm told, but I say forgive and forget - we are good friends with the French now.
And we -- in the talk, I'm going to talk about -- We still fight people who hate civilization. It was -- or at least, civilization that we love, they can't stand freedom but some of the French are okay by me. It was President Shark who was the first head of state to visit me in the White House right after September the 11th. I was very grateful for that visit as Dick forgot to tell me when to come out from under the desk - he was busy in the bunker and that's okay - it was a busy day. As he, himself - Jack himself, said, that we're in a fight to defend civilization, and I couldn't agree more with him. And I want to thank the French people for the sympathy shown for my country after September the 11th, how about support in the war against terror? Dick told me not to push to hard on the first visit - maybe next time.
I and Jack spent a lot of time talking about how to better fight this fight. And that's not just in military terms. I speak in terms of doing a better job of cutting off money to terrorists, denying them safe haven. Just who the hell does Tenet think he is? And as we fight for a safer world, how to make the world a better world for all Americans everywhere, even in France and Normandy. And one of the things I really admire about -- I guess I should call you President Shark -- that is your name -- President Shark is that you've had this great passion for the developing world, and I appreciate your passion and I appreciate your heart but no kissing. It's important that we continue to work together to make sure that there is a strategy in place to help us develop and grow and prosper.
I'm looking forward to the dinner. Dick's always saying that the food here is fantastic, and I'm going to give Sharky a chance to show me tonight. And I also look forward to continuing our discussions on important issues, like how to make sure NATO doesn't get caught; how best to continue to work with our organised friends in Russia; how we can work together to -- in the Middle East to bring guns - guns and peace but mostly peace - to that part of the world. I appreciate this good man advice but the doctor says - George, don't worry about a thing - I'll fix it. I listen carefully to it when he gives it - when Jack gives it. And I'm proud to call him friend. Thank you for your hospitality and your airports too. God bless America. And may the French god smile kindly on the French. | | | | Libby | | Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 9:51 am Post subject: |
| Just a thought. Wonder which part of the states GWB thinks he is in at the moment? | Quote: |
That would be the State of Confusion, Alan. You've heard of it..it's
ensconced between the State(s) of Delusion and Obtrusion.  | | | | | Libby | | Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 10:44 am Post subject: |
| Postcards From The Political Laity
By Art Layman
April 29, 2002 -- I am part of the political laity.
We are the great, unwashed masses who watch in amusement, disbelief, and sometimes horror as events unfold across the globe that will be spun into history.
We watched a mean-spirited Nixon slash and burn his way into the White House, a bumbling Gerald Ford throw himself on a grenade for him, Jimmy Carter go from a reviled wussie to the best ex-president the country has ever had, Ronald Reagan declare ketchup a vegetable, Bush Sr. pull back from Hussein for his own dark reasons and seal his fate, and Clinton hounded for eight years for his poor choice of dalliances.
During all of this, we go to work, go home to our families and friends, buy pet rocks, practice our duck-and-rolls, go to discos and then try to burn them down. And we watch. We may not be up-to-date on Roger Ailes' waist size, or Clarence Thomas' video rental record, but we know idiocy when we see it, and crap when we smell it. We notice things, even when the media likes to pretend we don't.
We notice when Fearless Leader tries to cover up the mess he himself has made in the Middle East. Junior told Sharon shortly after being elected that "I will not try to force peace". Was anyone surprised that the Palestinians, after declaring "Intifada II", began to agitate against Israeli forces, and Sharon began to clamp down forcefully? Bush, like his father before him, took office with the declaration that he wasn't looking to "interfere" with what was going on in that region; for his father, it quickly turned into Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and for Junior, it became the mess in the Middle East. Can't these guys keep their mouths shut?
We notice when Junior and Friends back a coup in Venezuela, then have to recant when it's unsuccessful. Is this guy so busy that he can't kick back with a beer and a pretzel and read a few newspapers on what's going on just to south of him? Or can he only handle one thing at a time? The evidence is mounting.
We also notice that Junior and his handlers don't really seem all that interested in achieving peace in the Middle East so much as they just want to ratchet the ol' Violence-O-Meter down to about a 9.5 so they can get everyone behind a hit on Hussein. I've never seen a guy so trigger-happy to go after his arch-enemy since we wanted Castro dead - THAT worked out really swell, don'tcha think?
We notice when Bush makes ridiculous comments, including "dead or alive", and "with us or against us." Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have the heart to follow through anymore, since he has been unable to clarify the difference between our raining bombs on Afghanistan to get "terrorist" Osama Bin Laden, and what Israel is doing to get "Chairman" Arafat. His simple-minded philosophy doesn't seem able to incorporate the current reality, so, like the classic scenario of the robot facing a paradox, he simply bursts into flames. Or ignores it - that's always something to fall back on.
We notice the nut-jobs with which Junior has saturated his administration, guys that lock the doors and pray in the middle of their offices with the "right" people, who spend thousands of dollars to get drapes to cover up the statue of the "Spirit of Justice" -- Jesus, could that BE any more ironic? We notice when they work overtime to protect the VICE President more than the theoretical President. We notice when the REPUBLICANS seem concerned that the Attorney General might be going too far.
We notice when the same jackasses that declared, "We can support the troops without supporting the President" now cry "Traitor!" at the first mention of the Emperor's New Clothes. How has this not gotten more play in the media? I mean, I know that they're a vestige of their former selves, enough to make Edward R. Murrow spin in his grave, but how can they simply ignore that little sound-bite? We notice that, too, when every pathetic accusation against Clinton by anyone from Richard Mellon Scaife's drones to confessed liars is given huge front page play, while Bush's claims to have seen the first plane hit the World Trade Center and broken campaign "promises" months into his illegitimate presidency are completely ignored. We notice when the media decides that the most important thing to fix in their ridiculous broadcasts is the layout, instead of the cop-out.
Unfortunately, we notice some other things as well. We notice when the Democrats are so scared of high "approval" ratings that they let Junior ramrod through his own personal agenda. We notice when Democrats scurry to try to silence voices in their own party that might speak above a whisper when pointing out that a thug from Texas is merrily selling us -- and our futures -- down the river. We notice when no one from the Democrats bothers to ask the real-life Syme from Orwell's 1984, Ari Fleischer, what he means when he says that Americans need to "watch what they say". This guy is apparently willing to slash huge portions out of the American vocabulary to prop up his boss.
We notice a lot of things, but what do we do now? We already elected Al Gore President by hundreds of thousands of votes, including a majority in Florida, but watched the whole process get subverted by a corrupt Supreme Court - who the hell wanted to actually COUNT all the votes anyway? So we're waiting. We're letting the media pretend Bush still has his high approval ratings - like Daddy during the Gulf War, whose ratings dropped by 24 points after it ended. Of course, that assumes that Junior will LET the "war" end. We're watching that too.
But hey, don't blame me, I voted with the majority.
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ISSN No. 1523-1690 | | | | Libby | | Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 10:58 am Post subject: |
| Dear Walt Isaacson...
April 4, 2002
By Warren Pease
Dear Walt,
You don't mind if I call you Walt, do you? I mean, I feel as if I already know you so well.
I've read your confidential memos about conforming to White House orthodoxy and always making sure to mention 9-11 whenever your newsreaders talk about Afghan civilian casualties. I know when Ari said "Watch what you say," you took it personally.
I get a glimpse into your thinking every time one of your employees editorializes about how Democrats need to "just get over it," or another smirks or feigns outrage every time she reads an item about Daschle or Kerry or Kucinich ripping the administration a new one.
I can't help but notice that Enron has fallen off the table, or that CNN's news menu tends to fall into one of two main food groups: Updates on the war on terrorism, which sound an awful lot like White House news releases; and bubbly celebrity coverage, like how weird Gwennie's boobs looked on Oscar night. Or maybe, given the season, "Bunnies who lay eggs: Details at the top of the hour."
So which is it, Walt? Money or cowardice? A bit of both, maybe? Did somebody get to you? I mean, that's a hell of a powerful thing you've got there - a 24-7 news network with the budget to dig deep into all kinds of interesting stuff. It's a shame to waste it on such obvious drivel.
Doesn't it just frost you how, with all those resources, you keep getting scooped by virtually the entire rest of the world? I mean, if all I did was watch CNN, I'd swear I lived in a country governed by intelligent, forceful, patriotic, benign men who want only the best for us and for the planet at large.
On the other hand, if I read the Guardian, the Observer, Le Monde, any major paper published in the Scandinavian countries or in the rest of Western Europe, the leading Australian or New Zealand dailies - in short, if I get my information from any other source than United States mainstream media, I get the feeling I'm living in a parallel universe.
All over the world, except here, journalists are digging into some pretty meaty stories, asking real questions and expecting real answers.
Like what did Bush know and when did he know it about 9-11?
Like who ordered East Coast fighter wings to stand down on the morning of 9-11? Or if they weren't ordered to stand down, how come the mightiest fighting force the world has ever seen failed in its basic mission to secure American citizens against attack?
Like how is it possible that the entire US intelligence community was asleep at the switch, before and on the morning of Sept. 11?
Like what's the relationship of the bin Laden family to the Bushes and the Carlyle Group?
Like why did Cheney and Bush pressure Daschle to limit the Senate investigation into 9-11, and why did Daschle consent?
Like who Cheney talked with and what they talked about during those secret meetings on energy policy?
Like how much did Cheney make for Haliburton by selling equipment to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure after the Gulf War?
Like what's going on with the anthrax investigation, now that even the Feds admit it's probably a homegrown wingnut? And what about the threats against family planning clinics? Ashcroft says threats of terrorism are as heinous as the acts themselves, so why aren't the Army of God, Operation Rescue and their ilk squatting in dog kennels at Gitmo?
(And speaking of Ashcroft, how can you take anything he says or does seriously, given that he hates and fears calico cats as the devil's spawn, anoints himself with Crisco whenever he gets a new gig, cost taxpayers $8,000 to hang drapes to cover his metal mammary fetish, and lost his Missouri senate seat to a corpse?)
Like how was it possible for bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, to escape from under the noses of US Rangers and UK SAS troops? And why does Bush suddenly not seem to care after six months of "bin Laden is the main evil-doer" rhetoric, which your network dutifully reported, after cleaning up the Grammarian in Chief's fractured syntax?
Like what the hell is the "Axis of Evil" all about - or as my wife calls it "The Quadrant of Meanies" - and does Bush actually want to threaten the planet with first-strike nuclear capabilities? Or is he just too dumb to know that's exactly what he just did?
Like who is Richard Mellon Scaife and why is he giving millions to right wing causes? And what's it buying him, besides the undying devotion of neophyte pugilist Paula Jones?
Like would you maybe get serious about covering global warming if it could be shown conclusively that The Big Dog's penis actually caused an entire Antarctic ice shelf to break off and float away?
Like if Bush's approval ratings really hover between 80 and 90 percent, as your frothy shills claim at every possible opportunity, why is Michael Moore's book the national number one best seller, closely followed by Brock's personal apologia for his time as a right-wing shill?
Like why didn't US news outlets report the NORC results accurately, which would have revealed that Gore should be in the White House today and Bush should be chopping brush in Crawford?
Like how come the entire White House press corpse, including your intrepid reporters, fellate Ari at every opportunity, rather than roasting him alive as he and his lying boss so richly deserve?
And that's just a random sample, Walt. Maybe the biggest question of all is how can you claim to run a first-class newsgathering and reporting organization and consistently miss so damn much? Are Chandra and shark attacks and Jon Benet and The American Taliban and the rest of this hogwash really worth spiking every real news story of the past year and a half, or spinning virtually any piece of news so that it reads like a chapter from the GOP's playbook?
Walt, buddy, I can get all I want or need of that kind of drivel from Fox News. And don't think you can buy us off with a little Begala and Carville. An hour a day somehow fails to address the moderate/liberal concerns of the 50 million or so voters who would rather swallow swords than see Bush in the White House.
Finally, isn't it about time you dumped Chatty Paula in favor of someone with possibly a shred of credibility and objectivity and - what was that Bushie word - gravitas? Jesus Christ, Walt. She came from Fox. What else do you need to know?
Maybe a real reporter, say Helen Thomas, could use the money. Or maybe you could take a tip from Missourians and go with a dead guy over an idiot. I mean, one embalmed Edward R. Murrow has got to be worth at least a couple hundred live Paula Zahns.
Your friend and attentive viewer,
Warren Pease
PS: Walt, anytime you need to talk about this stuff, or just vent a little, feel free to email me at war_on_peas@yahoo.com. My door's always open, which is why those goddamn thieves had such an easy time of it last month. | | | | sharkman | | Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 11:12 pm Post subject: end of america's prestige? |
| The End Of America's Prestige
>
> By Charley Reese
>
> Wednesday, April 24 2002 @ 03:07 PM GMT
>
> A friend of mine once told a college class that nobody
> ever woke up in 476
> A.D. (the date historians define as the fall of the Roman
> Empire) and said,
> "Gosh, I'm in the Dark Ages."
>
> His point is plain enough. Transitions happen gradually,
> and the people who
> live through them never realize what is happening. So it
> is with Americans.
> We are living in the ruins of a once-great republic. Now
> an empire utterly
> devoid of moral authority, the United States has nothing
> left but its
> military power and its capacity to consume on credit.
>
> Where the world's great leaders will come from in the
> future, I don't know,
> but they will not be Americans. Look at the Republican
> and Democratic
> parties and their top leaders. Mediocrity in full bloom.
> Weak men with
> ambition but no principles. They are devious men, skilled
> at concealing
> their personal ambition in patriotic or compassionate
> rhetoric, depending on
> which constituency they are trying to bamboozle at the
> moment.
>
> I said earlier that Colin Powell's trip to the Middle
> East would answer the
> question of who determines American foreign policy:
> America's elected
> leaders, or Israel and its powerful American lobby. The
> answer is Israel.
>
> Powell has disgraced himself. He did the ritual moaning
> and groaning about
> six Israelis killed by a suicide bomber but said nothing
> about the hundreds
> of innocent Palestinians killed by the Israelis. As of
> this writing, he has
> not even bothered to tour the devastated cities. He has
> not gone to
> Bethlehem to see the gratuitous and malicious damage to
> the civilian
> infrastructure. He has not gone to Jenin to smell the
> decomposing bodies
> buried under the rubble. He has not uttered a single word
> of public
> criticism of Israel, while Amnesty International, the
> United Nations Human
> Rights Commission and even Israeli human-rights groups
> have leveled
> blistering criticism at Israel's beastly policy and
> actions.
>
> Instead, he acted as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
> Sharon's errand boy by
> hopping over to Lebanon and Syria to ask them to restrain
> Hezbollah. I wish
> I could have been Lebanon's president long enough to tell
> him off.
>
>
> I would have said to Powell: "Where were you and the
> United States when for
> more than 20 years Israel illegally occupied Lebanese
> territory in open
> defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions? You never
> said one word; you
> never lifted one finger to force the Israelis out. And
> now, you have the
> gall to demand of me that I chastise Hezbollah, whose
> brave young men did
> what you should have done ‹ drove the Israelis out
> of Lebanon. If you
> cannot see the hypocrisy in your visit and in your
> request, then I truly
> pity you. Good day, sir."
>
> The Syrian president should have told him the same thing,
> for the United
> States has never done one thing to persuade the Israelis
> to stop their
> illegal occupation of the Golan Heights.
>
> Robert Fisk, the great correspondent of The Independent
> in London, wrote
> recently: "Mr. Powell's weakness, his failure of nerve,
> his cowardice are
> now likely to set off an Israeli-Palestinian war even
> more terrible than
> what we have witnessed so far. ... Thanks to Mr. Powell,
> President Bush and
> Mr. Sharon, America's credibility has been shattered.
> Israel, it turns out,
> does indeed run U.S. policy in the region. The Secretary
> of State sings from
> the Israeli songbook."
>
> The repercussions of this will be unpleasant for the
> American people. One
> day, God willing, the American people will wake up and
> realize what a
> painful price has been exacted for allowing their
> politicians to sell their
> souls to the Israeli lobby. I have to give the Israeli
> lobby credit. They
> recognized the souls weren't worth much and bought them
> on the cheap.
>
> We had a president once who vowed to make the world safe
> for democracy. We
> now have one who is busily making the world unsafe for
> Americans and who
> doesn't have a clue as to how ridiculous he now appears
> in the eyes of the
> world.
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Charley Reese can be contacted at briarl@earthlink.net.
> © 2002 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. | | | | Anglo Thug | | Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:28 am Post subject: How they manage the news |
| A guy walks in and asks the bartender, "Isn't that Bush and Powell sitting over there?" The bartender says, "Yep, that's them." So the guy walks over and says, "Wow, this is a real honor. What are you guys doing in here?"
Bush says, "We're planning WWIII. And the guy says, "Really? What's going to happen?"
Bush says, "Well, we're going to kill 140 million Iraqis this time and one bicycle repairman."
The guy exclaimed, "A bicycle repairman!!! Why kill a bicycle repairman?"
Bush turns to Powell, punches him on the shoulder and says, "See, dummy! I told you no one would worry about the 140 million Iraqis!" | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
