tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53912282011-04-21T16:52:06.804-07:00A snarky fly in<br> the right wing ointmentmichaelnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1109576735490324662005-02-28T00:26:00.000-07:002005-02-28T00:45:35.493-07:00

Juan Cole links to this Daily Telegraph interview with Colin Powell, wherein the former general reveals the blindingly obvious:Colin Powell, the outgoing US secretary of state, was given his marching orders after telling President George W Bush that he wanted greater power to confront Israel over the stalled Middle East peace process.Although Mr Powell's departure was announced on

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1109260034621412412005-02-24T08:45:00.000-07:002005-02-24T08:47:29.153-07:00

What does the jobOf our media slobsAnd cuts through the right-wing fog?What exposes schemesAnd fascist regimes?It's blog, blog, blogIt's blog, blog,It's bitchy, it's ASCII, it's defIt's blog, blog,It's better than right, it's left!Everyone's got a blogNo one updates their blog.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1108500461910616042005-02-15T13:46:00.000-07:002005-02-15T13:47:41.910-07:00

The incidence of trolls in a comments thread is directly proportional to the truthfulness or relevance of a given topic.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1108093114095810132005-02-10T20:32:00.000-07:002005-02-10T20:38:34.096-07:00

I'm accustomed to getting my daily dose of idiocy from the Bush regime but this is pretty goddamned stupid:Napster has revealed an aggressive marketing campaign against Apple's iPod as part of its plans for a full launch of the Napster To Go portable subscription service later this quarter. The service is one of the first services enabled by Microsoft's Janus technology, which

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1106327075122127542005-01-21T10:03:00.000-07:002005-01-21T10:04:35.123-07:00

Today we re-inaugurate The chimp who has a mandate For oppression, deceit and war Get ready for four years more Enjoy your freedoms before it's too late.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1106166996937876912005-01-19T13:33:00.000-07:002005-01-19T13:36:36.936-07:00

...blue staters and red staters... ...passport-holders and non-passport-holders... ...to which I'll add Letterman fans and Leno fans. (even if you don't watch anymore, surely there's one you'd prefer over the other) Johnny Carson is a Letterman guy. Attaboy, Johnny.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1106059528794873732005-01-18T07:44:00.000-07:002005-01-18T07:45:28.793-07:00

Fat, fat, fat, fat, fat. Check out the pic of the fat kid at this Italian newspaper's website.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1105438044444375132005-01-11T03:06:00.000-07:002005-01-11T03:07:24.443-07:00

I dearly hope that this is simply a rather vicious spoof of the freeptards.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1104838752664625102005-01-04T04:27:00.000-07:002005-01-07T05:22:20.110-07:00

Name this foreign politician who: ...has been quoted as saying, "We need a strong policy to combat radical Islam. It is used as a breeding-ground for terrorism. We cannot afford not to watch them very closely." ...when a court overturned his attempt to expel a radical Muslim cleric who advocated the stoning of women, he merely changed the law, and the cleric was on the next plane leaving for his

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1103645358811600182004-12-21T08:55:00.000-07:002004-12-21T09:09:18.810-07:00

I have a good friend I still stay in touch with from childhood days. We've taken very different paths in life. He now works in the Pentagon under Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum, someone you may have seen quoted in the newspaper recently regarding the shortfall in recruitment and reenlistment in the National Guard. It's been difficult for me to talk to this friend this year; I've avoided it since a short

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1103304709491171682004-12-17T10:29:00.000-07:002004-12-17T10:31:49.490-07:00

Seeing this made me think of this... I, uh, live in the neighborhood where the Mountain Preserve Arsonist lived (the one you might have heard about, about 3 years ago). He ran around torching homes that were built on the fringes of neighborhoods that bumped up against open desert that was part of city or state or fed park land or preserves. Mind you, none of the homes were actually built ON park

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1103264317435573492004-12-16T23:15:00.000-07:002004-12-16T23:19:48.646-07:00

Today on KLSD (the San Diego AAR affiliate) I heard allegedly liberal radio host Ed Schultz ranting about these terrible bloggers and how they can smear anyone and how Congress oughta pass a law! requiring everyone who posts to the Internet to identify themselves first. Jesus. I could have sworn I was listening to Rush Pillbaugh. If I ever locate a transcript, I'll post it. Hey, Ed... ever

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1103041957762740572004-12-14T09:28:00.000-07:002004-12-14T12:57:05.896-07:00

...what today is the anniversary of? It was supposed to be a rather significant event. You'd think there'd be some stories about it in the media, right? The New York Times doesn't remember. Nor does the Washington Post. There's a very small item on it at CNN.com. Naturally, the Scott Peterson verdict gets top billing. Nothing at the LA Times. *sigh* ... even the very small blurb at

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1100616840701268072004-11-16T07:51:00.000-07:002004-11-16T09:03:44.700-07:00

These are the findings of the Education State Rankings, a survey by Morgan Quitno Press of hundreds of public school systems in all 50 states. States were graded on a variety of factors based on how they compare to the national average. These included such positive attributes as per-pupil expenditures, public high school graduation rates, average class size, student reading and math proficiency,

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1099532401330664872004-11-03T18:34:00.000-07:002004-11-03T18:40:01.330-07:00

And he never will be.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1099358908801449132004-11-01T18:27:00.000-07:002004-11-01T18:28:28.803-07:00

Kerry by six points in the popular vote. 290 in the Electoral College. Yes, I'm still alive. Just swamped with work. Yes I voted absentee already. Felt good!

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1096811534726060882004-10-03T06:43:00.000-07:002004-10-03T06:52:14.726-07:00

Wow! Check out this guy's rants. This one compares Bush to a box of Tic Tacs. And this is a howlingly great tribute to Dr. Seuss: Saddam: I'm Saddam. Saddam I am.I do not like you, Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam: Would you like to bomb Iran?We'll sell you weapons, despite the ban. Saddam: I would not like to bomb Iran!Praise be to Allah, and Koran!Those weapons are against convention... Uncle Sam:

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1096457996189364912004-09-29T04:38:00.000-07:002004-09-29T04:39:56.190-07:00

I am still working in San Diego. Very hard. Not much time to post but some time to keep up with events. I will likely be posting a lot of photos soon. I want to do a photoblog on Leucadia, the funky coastal town where I'm staying, and I'll be sure to take photos at the Michael Moore appearance in Del Mar (directly across from our office!) on 12 October. I'm going to try to go see Al Franken

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1095616559739538082004-09-19T10:55:00.000-07:002004-09-19T10:55:59.740-07:00

Miss America crowned last night.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1095485822571916482004-09-17T22:36:00.000-07:002004-09-17T22:37:02.570-07:00

A popular bar had a new robotic bartender installed. A fellow came in for a drink and the robot asked him, 'What's your IQ?' The man replied, '150.' So the robot proceeded to make conversation about Quantum physics, string theory, atomic chemistry, and so on. The man listened intently and thought, 'This is really cool.' The man decided to test the robot. He walked out the bar, turned around, and

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1095421665918341472004-09-17T04:45:00.000-07:002004-09-17T04:47:45.920-07:00

this is friggin' hilarious if true. Supposedly KXEM 1010 AM in Phoenix will become an AA affiliate. Check out the link to their site. They are currently airing Michael Savage, Neil "Liaaaar!" Boortz and Tony Snow. Right-wing hate radio booted off a station in Phoenix by AA! Can it really be true? I hope it's not a practical joke. (There is still, of course, at least another two hate radio

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1093617292402456032004-08-27T07:33:00.000-07:002004-08-27T07:34:52.403-07:00

In what is surely the most important election of the last half-century, we seem trapped in the politics of the madhouse. What is incredible is that these attacks on men who served not just honorably, but heroically, are coming from a hawkish party that is controlled by an astonishing number of men who sprinted as far from the front lines as they could when they were of fighting age and their

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1093588302812137802004-08-26T23:26:00.000-07:002004-08-26T23:31:42.813-07:00

A new 527 organization announced its existence today. " Alabama National Guard Soldiers for Truth" (ANGST), is comprised of all the service members who served with George W. Bush in the Alabama National Guard after May 1972, and therefore can testify to the president completing his military commitment which enabled him to avoid going to Vietnam. Below is a photo from a recent gathering of ANGST:

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1093511577847485192004-08-26T02:10:00.000-07:002004-08-26T02:13:05.200-07:00

I discovered today that my site, unelectable.com is mentioned in Wikipedia's definition of a 'google bomb'. I guess if I was really clever, I would have had an auto-forward from the framed Bush bio, to a page selling some cafe press unelectable.com swag... the site gets a few hundred hits a month and probably would get more if I promoted it. Oh well...

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1093352713248451432004-08-24T06:04:00.000-07:002004-08-24T06:05:13.246-07:00

Coward Pass it on.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1093339975426419112004-08-24T02:28:00.000-07:002004-08-24T02:32:55.426-07:00

In these days when my fury with the Swift Liars and the GOP smear machine renders me incapable of writing much that's original or useful on the topic, reading this post by Juan Cole is quite cathartic: The debate that a handful of Texas multi-millionnaires close to the Bush family have cleverly manufactured over John Kerry's war record is absurd in every way.... Most of those making the charges

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1093152431401632042004-08-21T22:25:00.000-07:002004-08-21T22:27:11.403-07:00

Graphic Designer Fired For Heckling Bush Bush/Cheney '04 - Four More Reichs!

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1093106072053052332004-08-21T09:18:00.000-07:002004-08-21T09:34:32.053-07:00

I've been wanting to blog on the Swift Boat Liars business but I'm just too damn angry about the whole thiing to write anything that would be coherent. It would probably contain a lot of expletives and not much clarity or much that's original, that hasn't already been said by other bloggers. So, let me tell you about my SoCal adventures. I found a really cool little motel in Leucadia, which is

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1092665126975185462004-08-16T07:05:00.000-07:002004-08-16T23:10:16.593-07:00

My friend Chris gets letters from wingnuts. A choice quote: you should be taken off the internet for propoganda... you are misrepresenting facts to paint bush in a negative light.... does he have his faults, sure, do some of those facts show where he has messed up, sure .... but alot of those things you said happened during his presidency are completely irrelevnat to his abilities as leader of

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1092424406784491992004-08-13T12:09:00.000-07:002004-08-13T12:13:26.783-07:00

Today Reuters reports on the White House's reaction to the Michael Moore interview with Porter Goss, where Goss asserts he doesn't have the skills to work for the CIA: The White House dismissed the Moore interview transcript as "ridiculous hearsay" and emphasized the depth of bipartisan respect for Goss on Capitol Hill. "Ridiculous hearsay"???Oh, really? Only in Bush Bizarro world is a filmed

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1092334945049175382004-08-12T11:19:00.000-07:002004-08-12T11:22:25.050-07:00

If you've ever spent an August in Phoenix, going to San Diego for the month is indeed like paradise. From 110+ degrees and 30% humidity to 75 degrees max, nice cool foggy mornings for biking, a beautiful coast highway to bike on, an edit suite with cable modem and no boss cracking the whip... and I'm getting paid to be here. Sucks to be me, eh? And I just found out I will be here until mid

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1091643896702492002004-08-04T11:21:00.000-07:002004-08-04T11:24:56.703-07:00

I just picked up a job in San Diego. I have to leave RIGHT NOW. I will be gone for 3 weeks. (note to burglars: house will still be occupied) So posts here will be very sporadic (though I will have net access), until I get back. Until then, I leave you with this picture of me and Ann Richards from 2000. That "No W" sticker I'm wearing was purchased from Zak Exley's gwbush.com site

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1091476014921923612004-08-02T12:43:00.000-07:002004-08-02T12:46:54.920-07:00

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident(actually, the first of two attacks which collectively are described as such), which was the pretext Lyndon Johnson used to escalate the Vietnam war: The official story was that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an "unprovoked attack" against a U.S. destroyer on "routine patrol" in the Tonkin Gulf on Aug. 2

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1091377664999177152004-08-01T09:16:00.000-07:002004-08-01T09:27:45.000-07:00

I've been lax about plugging Paul Babbitt lately. This guy can win! and you should be helping him! I started a "Bloggers for Babbitt" blogroll and the first member (besides me) is Rain Storm. Go over and check him out. Good blog. Anyway, the Babbitt campaign has re-vamped their site. I don't know if the issues section is new, but here's the highlights: He is a strong supporter of

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1091254583852527532004-07-31T11:12:00.000-07:002004-07-30T23:16:23.853-07:00

Apparently the new campaign theme is, "We've Turned A Corner", rather than "John Kerry wants terrorists to impregnate your daughter, force your son to run off to San Francisco and marry queer, and expropriate your house". OK I'm exaggerating a little bit. I'm pretty sure it was something close to that. Anyway, isn't that a short, clever way of

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1091238957709561842004-07-30T18:41:00.000-07:002004-07-30T18:55:57.710-07:00

This is sick, sick, sick. SALT LAKE CITY - The head of the nation's largest polygamous community, headquartered along the Arizona-Utah line, was accused Thursday in a lawsuit of repeatedly sodomizing his nephew and for decades covering up wide-scale sexual abuse of children by fellow members of his sect. The allegations were the most serious and graphic to be brought against Warren Jeffs

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1091173454659401032004-07-30T00:36:00.000-07:002004-07-30T00:46:03.786-07:00

The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals upholds an Alabama sex toy ban: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a 1998 state law banning the sale of sex toys in Alabama, ruling the Constitution doesn't include a right to sexual privacy. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the state has a right to police the sale of devices

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1091146326714035452004-07-29T17:07:00.000-07:002004-07-29T17:12:06.716-07:00

A judge ruled Thursday that a ballot measure to stop public funding of campaigns can't go on the November ballot. Called the No Taxpayer Money for Politicians, the measure sought to repeal funding for the Clean Elections system and prohibit public funding of campaigns for statewide office. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Margaret H. Downie ruled the initiative violated the Arizona

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1091125516641315712004-07-29T11:20:00.000-07:002004-07-29T11:25:16.643-07:00

I'm volunteering some of my time and talents to the local chapter of a 527 organization Which Shall Remain Unnamed. I was told the following story by a staffer: A couple nights ago, a local major network affiliate sent a reporter and cameraman to cover the pro-Kerry activists watching the Democratic convention at the organization's offices. Before the shooting started,

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1091081203328553332004-07-28T22:56:00.000-07:002004-07-28T23:06:43.326-07:00

Sibel Edmonds is a whistleblower who was translating documents for the FBI after 9/11. She alleges there has been a cover-up of some of the culprits who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. In case you need to update yourself see here and here. From today's NYTimes: ASHINGTON, July 28 - A classified Justice Department investigation has concluded that a former F.B.I.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1090885346126890162004-07-26T16:39:00.000-07:002004-07-26T16:42:26.126-07:00

Michigan GOPers have given Nader a big hand in getting on the ballot there: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader's quixotic presidential campaign says it submitted about 5,400 signatures to get on the Michigan ballot, far short of the required number of 30,000. Luckily for him, approximately 43,000 signatures were filed by Michigan Republicans on his behalf, more than meeting the requirement. from

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1090860236462497272004-07-26T09:41:00.000-07:002004-07-26T09:43:56.463-07:00

Adam Yoshida is blogging about buggery again. It seems to be an obsession with him. The only people who think about it more are, well, gay men. This limerick's for you, Adam: Adam is grossed-out by gays And all of their buggering ways. "Do you know what queer men are doing? We must ban that kind of screwing Before I try it one of these days!"

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1090818420166602072004-07-25T22:03:00.000-07:002004-07-25T22:11:40.216-07:00

I mean, you're fucking kidding me, right? "I think that bloggers have put the issue of professionalism under attack," said Thomas McPhail, professor of media studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, who argues that journalists should be professionally credentialed. "They have no pretense to objectivity. They don't cover both sides." New York Times on Convention bloggers. Prof.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1090790523362101182004-07-25T14:19:00.000-07:002004-07-25T14:22:46.493-07:00

Charley Reese, a syndicated conservative columnist, has this to say about Dick and Karl's puppet: Americans should realize that if they vote for President Bush's re-election, they are really voting for the architects of war - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of that cabal of neoconservative ideologues and their corporate backers. I have

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1090386073025414142004-07-20T22:00:00.000-07:002004-07-20T22:01:13.026-07:00

A roadside bomb exploded north of Baghdad early Wednesday, killing one U.S. 1st Infantry Division soldier and bringing to 900 the number of U.S. military forces killed since the beginning of military operations in March 2003. Bring them on.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1090345024008729872004-07-20T10:33:00.000-07:002004-07-20T10:37:04.006-07:00

Netscape.com has a message board where you can nominate someone for one of the World's Dumbest People. Here are my entries: Hey, get this: Our so-called President responded to the 9/11 attacks by doing a half-assed job of invading Afghanistan - which is now largely in control of the warlords, outside of Kabul - and then attacked Iraq, a nation that had NOTHING

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1090251626579022932004-07-19T08:39:00.000-07:002004-07-19T08:40:26.580-07:00

Ann Coulter and Fabio - Separated At Birth? (twin brothers, I'd bet) props to Attaturk for noticing.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1090248787628429672004-07-19T07:29:00.000-07:002004-07-19T07:53:07.626-07:00

...from the Republican National Committee and the Bush/Cheney '04 crusade, which we are only too happy to return to them in their own postage-paid reply envelopes, along with however much junk mail we can stuff in them to weigh them down as much as possible. In fact, the real battle is just beginning.... Just consider this quote from a prominent liberal activist: "Now

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1090171093501865292004-07-18T09:54:00.000-07:002004-07-18T10:20:56.470-07:00

It's Sunday, the day we who subscribe to that anachronistic relic of the 20th Century, the newspaper, get to read the gems and turds bestowed upon us by various pundits who somehow have been deemed worthy of being paid to tell the rest of us what we should think. A while back, I took a local right-winger named Doug MacEachern - MacHackern around these parts - to task

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1090169610245917452004-07-18T09:51:00.000-07:002004-07-18T09:53:30.246-07:00

Long time no post. Here's my excuse:

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1089032236375781412004-07-05T05:52:00.000-07:002004-07-05T06:00:24.353-07:00

Freepers have been fanatical about flogging the so-called "UN Oil For Food" scandal since it threatened to embarrass the UN, Kofi Annan, and certain European anti-war politicians, and hopefully by extension the entire anti-war movement (don't ask me how, it just would). Josh Marshall reminds us that the investigation has gone nowhere and seems to be yet another Chalabi

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088907495553126932004-07-03T19:17:00.000-07:002004-07-03T19:18:15.553-07:00

Big Time Dick's favorite website.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088844807800376412004-07-03T01:52:00.000-07:002004-07-03T01:53:27.800-07:00

Ha Ha. Fun with captions.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088795476660710472004-07-02T12:07:00.000-07:002004-07-02T12:12:13.233-07:00

The Arizona Democratic party challenged the Nader petitions and today Nader was ruled off the Arizona ballot in November: Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader removed his name from the Nov. 2 ballot, turning the Grand Canyon State into a one-on-one fight between President Bush and Democratic Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. The surprising move in court Friday morning

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088776579203114822004-07-02T06:52:00.000-07:002004-07-02T06:59:55.900-07:00

One year ago today, George W. Bush dared Iraqi insurgents to try to kill US troops: "There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on," Bush said. "We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation." Since then, 655 US soldiers have been killed. Why does George W. Bush hate our troops?

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088736175470503402004-07-01T19:09:00.000-07:002004-07-01T19:57:55.346-07:00

A columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, Michael Smerconish, wrote up a rather harsh review of Fahrenheit 9/11. I understand that, especially at 'lesser' newspapers, columnists tend to specialize in fact-free hackery designed to cater completely to one side or the other. But this guy's column is really, really sad. He's straining really hard to make a point here..

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088685678571176802004-07-01T05:31:00.000-07:002004-07-01T05:41:18.573-07:00

Having seen Fahrenheit 9/11 four times already (yes, I know, a bit obsessive), I am aware it does have some weaknesses, even though the film as a whole is marvelous. The whole Election 2000 debacle isn't really explained, merely asserted. If you already know how the GOP stole the election, you may not need the whole ChoicePoint/Katherine Harris thing explained to you. But for those in the

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088657183819718512004-06-30T21:37:00.000-07:002004-06-30T21:46:23.820-07:00

Maybe because he's a nasty, spiteful little prick. In various articles from the early 1970s, Ted Jacobs was described as "Nader's closest friend and advisor" and the person who stood "between Nader and the world, absorbing the fury of the attacked, offering solace to the ignored, always speaking the absolute truth within the limits of what he believes Nader would wish him to reveal." But,

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088586653948190062004-06-30T02:08:00.000-07:002004-06-30T02:10:53.950-07:00

WASHINGTON (AP) - A watchdog group says it will file a complaint with federal election officials, accusing two conservative organizations of illegally helping Ralph Nader's presidential campaign, possibly with support from President Bush's re-election campaign. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington planned to file its complaint Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission. It

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088544967344394602004-06-29T14:28:00.000-07:002004-06-29T14:36:07.343-07:00

The Daily Show excerpted portions of an interview Storm did with Michael Moore on CBS' The Early Show. It's really quite remarkable. Storm could barely disguise her contempt for Moore from the beginning. She constantly interrupted him and REALLY got offended when he bitch-slapped her and CBS and the rest of the SCLM over their incessant cheer-leading for

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088525181691184082004-06-29T08:53:00.000-07:002004-06-29T09:06:21.690-07:00

Crybaby Ralph Nader was rejected last weekend for Green Party presidential nominee: A day after not getting the Green Party's endorsement for president, Ralph Nader brushed off the rejection as an inconvenience, described the party as "strange," called the party's national nominating convention "a cabal" and predicted who the big loser in its decision not to endorse him would be. Then

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088474405342065562004-06-28T18:59:00.000-07:002004-06-28T19:00:05.343-07:00

Wouldn't it be nice if the So-Called Liberal Media would fact-check the Bush administration with as much vigor as they've gone after Michael Moore's film?

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088412191444666162004-06-28T01:35:00.000-07:002004-06-28T01:44:51.960-07:00

Juan Cole dishes up some of the best - OK, IMVHO, THE best - commentary on Iraq to be found in a blogosphere notorious for know-nothings who bloviate about The Way Things Ought To Be in a country they could barely find on a map and certainly don't know much if anything about. Juan made an interesting point re: the Jack Ryan affair: If

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088376897218185792004-06-27T15:52:00.000-07:002004-06-28T01:47:58.986-07:00

And also soft on terrorists: "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." -George W. Bush, 13 Sept. 2001 "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." -George W. Bush, 13 March 2002 (exactly six months later)

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088325024871346072004-06-27T01:27:00.000-07:002004-06-27T01:33:24.610-07:00

We interrupt our regular Bush-bashing to bring you this news. Sometimes life is far stranger than fiction: NAPLES, Florida (AP) -- A man who walked into a Wal-Mart covered in blood and bought garbage bags Friday was charged with murder after authorities found a stabbed body in a trash bin. Wal-Mart workers called deputies after a blood-soaked man walked into the store and

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088290489517670082004-06-26T15:50:00.000-07:002004-06-26T15:54:49.516-07:00

I was thinking about some of the horrific images in Fahrenheit 9/11. (And I know it could have been much, much more graphic.) If our So-Called Liberal Media truly wanted to be 'fair and balanced', then every time they do a piece showing the gee-whiz wonder of our mighty military, they should do a piece on the toll of war. The maimed

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088282965419744912004-06-26T13:44:00.000-07:002004-06-26T13:49:25.420-07:00

MoveOn.org PAC has chosen Paul Babbitt, candidate for Arizona's CD1, as just one of the four most important races for them to get involved with!!!!! Please support Paul Babbitt. He CAN win this race, with enough money and Democratic support. The incumbent is a GOP carpetbagger who barely defeated a really lousy Dem candidate in 2002, with a lot of help from the Miserable

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088279179187456112004-06-26T12:44:00.000-07:002004-06-26T12:46:19.186-07:00

MichaelMoore.com has posted samples of emails they've received about the fantastic response to Fahrenheit 9/11. You really should go read it. The people have spoken. They love the movie and loathe Bush. Bye bye, Georgie. Moore just kneecapped you.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088265531003318442004-06-26T08:57:00.000-07:002004-06-26T08:58:51.003-07:00

F911 would make a GREAT audience participation film, a la Rocky Horror Picture Show. Saw F911 again last night. I could see it over and over! Great film. Can't wait for the DVD.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088197354648046312004-06-25T13:55:00.000-07:002004-06-25T14:02:34.646-07:00

Paul Babbitt, brother of former Clinton administration SecInt Bruce Babbitt, is running for Arizona's 1st District. The current officeholder, Rick Renzi, barely squeaked into office in 2002 thanks to a lot of Bush visits to Arizona and a really wretched Democratic opponent. Oh and I forgot to mention last week, is a carpetbagger. Paul Babbitt, on the other hand,

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088196200422282142004-06-25T13:26:00.000-07:002004-06-25T14:18:04.616-07:00

Just got back from F911. Quick impressions: The theater was about 2/3 full... for a morning show on a weekday. Pretty impressive. There was a good sized line outside waiting to get in for the next show, when we exited the auditorium. It is a powerful, moving film. A true tour-de-force. You will be moved to tears more than once. Even a Bush-lover could not leave that film,

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1088023163268201702004-06-23T13:38:00.000-07:002004-06-23T13:39:23.266-07:00

Got my F911 tickets for a Friday morning showing. I'll probably go again that night. Can't wait! I'll blog about the film Friday afternoon, right after I get back.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1087941180666900872004-06-22T14:51:00.000-07:002004-06-22T14:53:00.666-07:00

Can't you kids see I'm busy? Go play on the freeway or something. But seriously, I'm tuned into the world but kinda busy with other things. And burning with anticipation for F911.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1087854839415075802004-06-21T14:43:00.000-07:002004-06-21T14:53:59.416-07:00

I've been reading up on the forthcoming book by "Anonymous", an intelligence veteran, entitled Imperial Hubris: How The West Is Losing The War On Terror. See here and here. Despite the title's implication, the author seems to be writing that we have, for better or worse, left ourselves with no option but to wage total war. To be clear, this is a bit more complex than Yoshida's prescriptions for

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1087760353715453342004-06-20T12:37:00.000-07:002004-06-20T12:39:13.716-07:00

I saw the third lousy movie in a row at the theater last night - The Terminal. If you enjoy schmaltzy Hollywood crap that you've seen a hundred times before, then this is the movie for you. If you would applaud Tom Hanks for bending over and farting on screen, then this is the movie for you. If you enjoy paying for the priviledge of watching two hours of product placement shots, then this is

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1087594437121454512004-06-18T14:24:00.000-07:002004-06-18T14:36:58.146-07:00

Paul Babbitt, brother of former AZ governor and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, is running for Congress in Arizona's District 1, one of those weirdo districts that encompasses a good part of Northern Arizona and stretches down to Casa Grande (about halfway between Phoenix and Tucson). It is primarily a rural district. Paul's opponent is Rick Renzi, a first-termer who won a tight race in

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1087542464857129912004-06-18T00:02:00.000-07:002004-06-18T10:39:16.390-07:00

Well, this should go over about as well as the O'Reilly/Fox vs. Franken lawsuit and the pathetic Move America Forward campaign to lobby theatres against showing Fahrenheit 9/11: (An) independent conservative group, Citizens United, is crafting video ads for television and the Internet that slam Moore. The group's head, David Bossie, is a former Republican congressional aide who was one of

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1087408768425629032004-06-16T10:58:00.000-07:002004-06-16T10:59:28.426-07:00

More good news in the War on Human Rights: A key investigator in the espionage case against a Syrian-American translator at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo has been charged with raping and sodomizing children, officials said on Tuesday. The charges were made public during a pretrial hearing for Senior Airman Ahmad Al Halabi, who is accused of carrying jail maps, letters and other

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1087321699529823432004-06-15T10:47:00.000-07:002004-06-15T12:08:35.983-07:00

Wow, check out this glowing review of F911 at FoxNews.com!!!

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1087060150804127492004-06-12T10:06:00.000-07:002004-06-12T10:09:10.803-07:00

Former Official of American Family Radio To Serve 15 Years For Child Pornography: On Aug. 23, 2003, two California men renting Stevens' home during the Tupelo Furniture Market spotted images of possible child pornography on a computer disk while searching for an empty disk. They turned two disks over to Tupelo police. Four days later, police arrested Stevens, who remarked "he had a problem with

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1087058042940675912004-06-12T09:32:00.000-07:002004-06-12T09:36:07.930-07:00

Divorces: Rush Limbaugh: 3 Bill and Hillary Clinton: 0 Long-term drug addictions to opiates: Rush Limbaugh: 1 Bill and Hillary Clinton: 0 Repeat after me: Ha. Ha. Ha.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086917370232430972004-06-10T18:28:00.000-07:002004-06-10T18:29:30.233-07:00

Isn't it kinda funny how you don't hear the Bushies, never known for modesty, bragging about capturing Saddam? I think that was almost exactly six months ago. I do intend to blog about the rest of the 'torture memo' but I have been rather busy lately.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086898612756494652004-06-10T13:14:00.001-07:002004-06-10T13:22:20.200-07:00

If you were to write a letter to the editor, or to the President or a Congresscritter, similar to this one, you'd probably get picked up by the Gestapo FBI: Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086896326838374502004-06-10T12:35:00.000-07:002004-06-10T12:44:14.243-07:00

What Josh Marshall says: Even back home they're starting to wonder. This from an editorial in yesterday's Houston Chronicle ... (snip) The memos support the view that the prisoner abuses uncovered at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were not merely the grave mistakes of a few soldiers, but resulted from policies formed at the highest levels of government. They strengthen concerns about how

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086762143408930602004-06-08T20:59:00.000-07:002004-06-08T23:59:26.050-07:00

I've been reading through the "Torture Memo" made available by the Wall Street Journal. Not from front to back cover - it's pretty dense even for a fairly intelligent layman like myself - but reading a page or two, skipping forward, reading a couple more pages. Someone with legal expertise should tell me if I am wrong, but it reads like a manual for getting around the law in order to employ

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086715853389539472004-06-08T10:21:00.000-07:002004-06-08T12:05:49.470-07:00

The body of He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named is still cooling, and already legislators are scrambling to place his image on our money: On Tuesday Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) confirmed that he is considering sponsoring legislation in the Senate to have [He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named]'s image replace that of Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first treasury secretary, on the $10 bill. Not to be outdone,

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086657251610818872004-06-07T18:11:00.000-07:002004-06-07T18:14:11.610-07:00

The American Family Association is running another poll. Poll Questions

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086634827578290632004-06-07T11:56:00.000-07:002004-06-07T14:06:59.823-07:00

(to the tune of "Science Fiction - Double Feature" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show) Jeb Bush fixed the polls, he wiped blacks off the rolls It was going how the GOP planned Katherine Harris was there to make sure the vote wasn't fair And then the shit hit the fan The vote was a push, for Al Gore and George Bush They were tied because of some chads Baker called the Supremes, they came up

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086629978149742962004-06-07T10:33:00.000-07:002004-06-07T10:40:15.900-07:00

OK I'm going to flip-flop myself and blog on Ronnie. I can't resist. Reagan campaigned on tax cuts, fiscal responsibility, shrinking government and 'getting the government off our backs'. He worked with Congress to pass tax cuts in 1981, and then raised taxes almost every following year of his presidency. Flip-flopper! He took a very hard line against the Soviet Union, dramatically raising

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086628926412783772004-06-07T10:01:00.000-07:002004-06-07T10:22:06.413-07:00

This post by Adam Yoshida got me thinking on something that's been on my mind for a while. There's a particularly vicious strain of victim mentality going on, on the right. It can be summed up thusly: "Somebody did something to me, so I'm justified in doing whatever, to anyone!" Take Adam's post, for example. If you were to look through the DU comments on Reagan, they were nearly uniformly

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086546443964990652004-06-06T11:26:00.000-07:002004-06-06T11:27:23.966-07:00

Bill Clinton has a blog.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086540445721829042004-06-06T09:44:00.000-07:002004-06-06T09:47:25.723-07:00

We're sure to be drenched in Reagan worship for the next week. Once the body has cooled and rigor mortis has set in, you can be sure Hannity, Coulter, Rush and Fox News will rip off the limbs and use them to bash us lefties over the head for not being sufficiently mournful and worshipful of the Reagan myth. With the exception of this post, this will be a Reagan-free zone.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086453065081125282004-06-05T09:13:00.000-07:002004-06-05T09:31:05.083-07:00

A random collection of the latest rantings from the retard-right: Kim Du Toit, he of the legendary essay "The Pussification of the Western Male" (check out the photo of him showing off his surrogate penis): As if we need any further proof that President Fuckface would signify The End Of Civilization As We Know It, try this little number: Sen. John Kerry promised yesterday to add 20,000 combat

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086399450457592482004-06-04T18:36:00.000-07:002004-06-04T18:37:30.456-07:00

The Fahrenheit 9/11 trailer is back online after a brief absence. The QuickTime version is hosted by Apple. I didn't click on the Winblows Media version.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086368146099603472004-06-04T09:55:00.000-07:002004-06-04T09:55:46.100-07:00

Eschaton commenter Cosmic Grappler regales us with the following could-be-true tale of Commander Codpiece: Bush was to tape a congratulations to the Army special forces. He came in, didn't say hello to the crew or anyone else in the room, sat down and read the speech off the Teleprompter. His aide said that was good, but that Bush had missed the word "Army," Buh got testy and said,

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086330925463207312004-06-03T23:34:00.000-07:002004-06-03T23:35:25.463-07:00

I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. -Bill Clinton Chalabi?... I haven't had any extensive conversations with him. -George W. Bush

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086288222502705442004-06-03T11:37:00.000-07:002004-06-03T11:43:42.503-07:00

From the latest mailing I received from the RNC: The Washington Post calls the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe the "most prolific fundraiser of his generation." yes, those poor Republicans, they have SUCH a hard time raising money... I can promise you he will spend the money he raises on TV ads that distort the truth and confuse voters. Kettle, you're black! If

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086281683844482942004-06-03T09:52:00.000-07:002004-06-03T09:54:43.846-07:00

Perusing the Freeper comments referenced below, which were posted since my post, I came across this gem: I have no doubt whatsoever - NONE - that if this Plame thing had involved a Democratic administration, the whole thing would have died a quiet death a year ago - no investigation, no grand jury, NOTHING. And that makes me livid. Uh huh. Whitewater. Filegate. Monicagate. Troopergate.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086241612601517032004-06-02T22:45:00.000-07:002004-06-02T22:46:52.600-07:00

See it here. I've watched it five times already. Can't wait to see the whole movie.

michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391228.post-1086220786555844942004-06-02T16:44:00.000-07:002004-06-02T16:59:46.556-07:00

Bush has hired outside counsel in the Plame affair: President Bush has consulted an outside lawyer in case he needs to retain him in the grand jury investigation of who leaked the name of a covert CIA operative last year, the White House said Wednesday. There was no indication that Bush is a target of the leak investigation, but the president has decided that in the event he needs an

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