"That's right folks, Ralph Nader's Exploratory Committee is running a
online survey to ask people if they want Ralph Nader to run in 2004."
"Now I don't know about you, but with a few exceptions, I have been
disappointed with the entertainment value of the 9 morons running for the chance to
get their rear-end handed to them next November by Bush. So I, for one, went and
voted for Ralph to Run! The more the merrier!"
You can vote here.
"Make sure you get as many people as you can to vote, as it will be
surly entertaining to watch Nader and Dean fight over a splintered Far Left.
"S.A. Miller"
Sunday, December 21, 2003
Friday, December 19, 2003
Hit & Run: Comment on Pope: Irony Is Dead:
"I'd pay $5 to see those guards sing 'We Represent the Lolipop Guild'. Posted by Dan at February 20, 2003 08:18 PM "
"I'd pay $5 to see those guards sing 'We Represent the Lolipop Guild'. Posted by Dan at February 20, 2003 08:18 PM "
Slate Magazine:
"Time says Adnan Pachachi, acting president of the Iraqi Governing Council, was so intent on hectoring the deposed dictator face to face that he put a congratulatory phone call from President Bush on hold. In a Web-only item, Time reports that when offered a drink by his captors, Saddam responded, "If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?"
"Time says Adnan Pachachi, acting president of the Iraqi Governing Council, was so intent on hectoring the deposed dictator face to face that he put a congratulatory phone call from President Bush on hold. In a Web-only item, Time reports that when offered a drink by his captors, Saddam responded, "If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?"
The Era of Bill Clinton Is Over - Howard Dean triangulates the triangulator. By William Saletan:
"Dean advocates a 'New Social Contract.' "
The language and the policies suggest Dean is the first Rawlsian presidential candidate.
"Dean advocates a 'New Social Contract.' "
The language and the policies suggest Dean is the first Rawlsian presidential candidate.
Everyone should read Pope Pius XII's awesome magisterial cry for peace in the Encyclical Letter on the Function of the State in the Modern World. It was written in 1939 as the world stood on the edge of fire.
Salon.com News | Wesley Clark says jobs aren't coming back
"I keep hearing about recovery," Clark said during an interview with radio station WMOU. "You don't see the signs of recovery. People are very concerned with holding onto their jobs and keeping their lives together."
Wow, his economic sense is apparently about zero.
"I keep hearing about recovery," Clark said during an interview with radio station WMOU. "You don't see the signs of recovery. People are very concerned with holding onto their jobs and keeping their lives together."
Wow, his economic sense is apparently about zero.
Media Research Center: Quote of the Year
"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."
--Charles Pierce in a January 5 Boston Globe Magazine article. Kopechne drowned while trapped in Kennedy's submerged car off Chappaquiddick Island in July 1969, an accident Kennedy did not report for several hours.
"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."
--Charles Pierce in a January 5 Boston Globe Magazine article. Kopechne drowned while trapped in Kennedy's submerged car off Chappaquiddick Island in July 1969, an accident Kennedy did not report for several hours.
Thursday, December 18, 2003
Newhouse A1:
"Item! Dean, talking to Diane Rehm -- the Mother Teresa of Beltway radio -- excoriated Bush for undue privacy in the Sept. 11 investigation. It produced some 'interesting' theories, Dean said, such as the idea that the Saudis warned Bush of the imminent attack. Very clever, this; it allowed Dean to move the charge from the fever swamps of Internet forums to the national spotlight. Did he believe it? Oh, no -- but it's interesting, he said, and can't be disproved. OK, then: Dr. Dean sealed his gubernatorial records, and this makes some suspect he was an abortionist who sold the sundered remains to Satanists for Black Mass rituals. Hey, it's an interesting theory. Until we see the records, who knows?"
"Item! Dean, talking to Diane Rehm -- the Mother Teresa of Beltway radio -- excoriated Bush for undue privacy in the Sept. 11 investigation. It produced some 'interesting' theories, Dean said, such as the idea that the Saudis warned Bush of the imminent attack. Very clever, this; it allowed Dean to move the charge from the fever swamps of Internet forums to the national spotlight. Did he believe it? Oh, no -- but it's interesting, he said, and can't be disproved. OK, then: Dr. Dean sealed his gubernatorial records, and this makes some suspect he was an abortionist who sold the sundered remains to Satanists for Black Mass rituals. Hey, it's an interesting theory. Until we see the records, who knows?"
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Amazon.com: Listmania! books for those on the path
Just to show that people can rip off my spiritual path just like they do others.
Just to show that people can rip off my spiritual path just like they do others.
William Saletan on Slate today reminds us that there will be debates between Bush and Dean if Dean wins the nomination.
The Corner on National Review Online:
"READING DEAN’S SPEECH [Clifford D. May]
"The front-runner for the Democratic nomination yesterday gave a speech outlining what he calls his 'foreign policy plan.' But his speech didn’t really deal with foreign policy and he certainly doesn’t have a plan. At most, what he has is a series of New Year’s resolutions regarding exotic places.
"He says he wants to 'establish a global alliance against terrorism.' Brilliant. Can’t imagine how he came up with that. But on what basis would he would seek agreement with, for example, the French who want no part of a War on Terrorism, just as previous French governments wanted no part of a Cold War and no part of a war to stop the march of Nazism? He neglects to say.
"He says he wants to find Osama bin Laden and eliminate 'sleeper cells of nuclear, chemical, and biological terror.' Yes, fine -- but how?
"He says he wants a '10-year, $60 billion international effort to prevent terrorists from obtaining weapons of mass destruction.' But what would happen over those ten years and for that $60 billion? He provides not a clue
"He says he will 'work to narrow the now-widening gap between rich and poor.' Actually, we know how he’d accomplish that one – if he can help make Americans poorer, that nasty old gap should start narrowing very quickly.
"Again, what Dean presented Monday can’t be appraised as a foreign policy plan because it’s simply not a foreign policy plan. It’s a wish list. It’s like a CEO saying to his Board of Directors: 'Next year, we’re going to produce a better product, sell more of them, rake in huge profits and make our customers, employees and investors very happy.'
"To which the Board of Director should say: 'Great, Howard. But where's the plan?'"
"READING DEAN’S SPEECH [Clifford D. May]
"The front-runner for the Democratic nomination yesterday gave a speech outlining what he calls his 'foreign policy plan.' But his speech didn’t really deal with foreign policy and he certainly doesn’t have a plan. At most, what he has is a series of New Year’s resolutions regarding exotic places.
"He says he wants to 'establish a global alliance against terrorism.' Brilliant. Can’t imagine how he came up with that. But on what basis would he would seek agreement with, for example, the French who want no part of a War on Terrorism, just as previous French governments wanted no part of a Cold War and no part of a war to stop the march of Nazism? He neglects to say.
"He says he wants to find Osama bin Laden and eliminate 'sleeper cells of nuclear, chemical, and biological terror.' Yes, fine -- but how?
"He says he wants a '10-year, $60 billion international effort to prevent terrorists from obtaining weapons of mass destruction.' But what would happen over those ten years and for that $60 billion? He provides not a clue
"He says he will 'work to narrow the now-widening gap between rich and poor.' Actually, we know how he’d accomplish that one – if he can help make Americans poorer, that nasty old gap should start narrowing very quickly.
"Again, what Dean presented Monday can’t be appraised as a foreign policy plan because it’s simply not a foreign policy plan. It’s a wish list. It’s like a CEO saying to his Board of Directors: 'Next year, we’re going to produce a better product, sell more of them, rake in huge profits and make our customers, employees and investors very happy.'
"To which the Board of Director should say: 'Great, Howard. But where's the plan?'"
OpinionJournal - Extra
I guess we'll have to start calling it the Zell Miller/Orson Scott Card wing of the Democratic party.
Cosmo's probably in their too since he's a Scoop Jackson Democrat.
I guess we'll have to start calling it the Zell Miller/Orson Scott Card wing of the Democratic party.
Cosmo's probably in their too since he's a Scoop Jackson Democrat.
Monday, December 15, 2003
ABC 7 News - Saddam Tells Troops He Wants to Negotiate:
"Adwar, Iraq (AP) - 'My name is Saddam Hussein,' the fallen Iraqi leader told U.S. troops in English as they pulled him out of a dank hole that had become his home. 'I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate.'
"U.S. Special Forces replied: 'Regards from President Bush.'"
"Adwar, Iraq (AP) - 'My name is Saddam Hussein,' the fallen Iraqi leader told U.S. troops in English as they pulled him out of a dank hole that had become his home. 'I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate.'
"U.S. Special Forces replied: 'Regards from President Bush.'"
Sunday, December 14, 2003
Telegraph | News | Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam
So not only did we get Saddam, but it turns out he was partly responsible for 9/11 and he was buying Uranium for Niger. Wow. But of course, the Bush administration all along stood behind the intelligence that Saddam was linked to Al-Quaeda and Blair's government behind the Niger intelligence.
So not only did we get Saddam, but it turns out he was partly responsible for 9/11 and he was buying Uranium for Niger. Wow. But of course, the Bush administration all along stood behind the intelligence that Saddam was linked to Al-Quaeda and Blair's government behind the Niger intelligence.
There's a new conservative newspaper at ND, The Irish Rover, best headline: "Margaret Sanger: Women's dream or racist scheme".
Saturday, December 13, 2003
More Jack: "My daughter is 13. Lately, all I've been thinking about is, "Would you please get a pair of pants that's not, you know, down below your navel?"
"I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over 40 as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost"
"I'm a pretty liberal Democrat, but I'm not after Bush the way all the rest of them are. I was alive in WWII we turned off all the lights, as if people might come running up the beach. In that climate what else were you going to do? We didn't have a choice then. And we don't really have one now. I don't know what else Bush can do. We just have to see how it goes."
"I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions o simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't be in constant rebellion against our parents--it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.
"I'm of the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth I thought the world had gone mad. If you think about those old shows, they all had puppets. And somehow I think, symbolically speaking, that has contributed to a generational lack of personal responsibility. It's why baby boomers are such conspiracy theorists and I'm not. It's why everybody thinks we went to Iraq to get the oil and I don't. I see that as a minor, symbolic generational difference that all adds up to mass movements. People are so frustrated. They don't want to take responsibility for their failures. There's always an excuse, you know? It's always, "I'm this and that's why" or "This happened to me and that's why" Everyone has the impulse to point their fingers elsewhere. They point at the puppet: He did it! Not me!"
Jeanetta: He only thinks he's a liberal!
He also read Treason and didn't diss it in the interview.
I think he's a Zell Miller
Democrat.
"I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over 40 as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost"
"I'm a pretty liberal Democrat, but I'm not after Bush the way all the rest of them are. I was alive in WWII we turned off all the lights, as if people might come running up the beach. In that climate what else were you going to do? We didn't have a choice then. And we don't really have one now. I don't know what else Bush can do. We just have to see how it goes."
"I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions o simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't be in constant rebellion against our parents--it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.
"I'm of the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth I thought the world had gone mad. If you think about those old shows, they all had puppets. And somehow I think, symbolically speaking, that has contributed to a generational lack of personal responsibility. It's why baby boomers are such conspiracy theorists and I'm not. It's why everybody thinks we went to Iraq to get the oil and I don't. I see that as a minor, symbolic generational difference that all adds up to mass movements. People are so frustrated. They don't want to take responsibility for their failures. There's always an excuse, you know? It's always, "I'm this and that's why" or "This happened to me and that's why" Everyone has the impulse to point their fingers elsewhere. They point at the puppet: He did it! Not me!"
Jeanetta: He only thinks he's a liberal!
He also read Treason and didn't diss it in the interview.
I think he's a Zell Miller
Democrat.
Bob Lutz: "I always look for the absurd in situations, especially on warning labels. When I was CEO of Exide batteries we were suddenly confronted by this California law that said all car batteries have to carry a sticker that says, WARNING: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS LEAD, A SUBSTANCE KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER AND/OR REPRODUCTIVE HARM. Now lead is an inert substance. It doesn't give off fumes or anything. I can't imagine anybody getting cancer from lead, and especially from the lead in a battery that's stowed away under the hood of a car. So I said, Let's add a supplementary label for California only that says, DO NOT PERMIT SMALL CHILDREN TO SUCK ON BATTERY POSTS."
Muhammad Ali: "I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where the black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it. ... Since that day, things in America have changed 100 percent."
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