Wednesday, April 30, 2003
dead baghdad cat bounce
those poll numbers sure are fickle. the war hasn't even been officially declared over yet, and awol's job approval rating is already dropping.
those poll numbers sure are fickle. the war hasn't even been officially declared over yet, and awol's job approval rating is already dropping.
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blogging around
talkleft reports that there was a big rally in support of mike hawash, the intell employee who has been detained (disappeared?) up in oregon. he is charged in the oregon terror case.
kos has some good graphs illustrating presidential polls (ie, awol can't even get his numbers as high as his daddy after the first gulf war).
devra, over at the bluestreak, tells us that john kerry's wife (previously a repub) has switched parties (presumably to endorse her hubby's bid for president). devra also kindly and correctly attributes the phrase "blogtopia" to us.
antidotal muses on ashleigh banfield getting heat for criticizsing the media's handling of the war.
jenny at little red cookbook links us to an article that dares to hope that "the web will win the culture wars for the left."
cursor.org reports that tompaine.com made the pentagon blink (also a nice link to dan kennedy's thoughts about the banfield v. weiner affair).
crowgirl over at magpie links us to some good reporting about the sars epidemic.
thanks to annatopia, we found the bush v. bush debate from the daily show w/john stewart.
talkleft reports that there was a big rally in support of mike hawash, the intell employee who has been detained (disappeared?) up in oregon. he is charged in the oregon terror case.
kos has some good graphs illustrating presidential polls (ie, awol can't even get his numbers as high as his daddy after the first gulf war).
devra, over at the bluestreak, tells us that john kerry's wife (previously a repub) has switched parties (presumably to endorse her hubby's bid for president). devra also kindly and correctly attributes the phrase "blogtopia" to us.
antidotal muses on ashleigh banfield getting heat for criticizsing the media's handling of the war.
jenny at little red cookbook links us to an article that dares to hope that "the web will win the culture wars for the left."
cursor.org reports that tompaine.com made the pentagon blink (also a nice link to dan kennedy's thoughts about the banfield v. weiner affair).
crowgirl over at magpie links us to some good reporting about the sars epidemic.
thanks to annatopia, we found the bush v. bush debate from the daily show w/john stewart.
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dear mr. bush...nyah nyah nyah, you missed me, you missed me
a london-based arabic paper has published a letter purportedly from saddam hussein:
the london-based al-quds al-arabi daily frontpaged wednesday, april 30, what it described as a letter handwritten by ousted iraqi president saddam hussein, urging his people to rise against the anglo-american occupation forces.
the letter was dated april 28, the 66th birthday of saddam whose whereabouts remain a mystery, the paper chief editor abdul bari atwan told agence france-presse (afp) over the phone from london.
and saddam adds a ps: "osama sends his regards!"
a london-based arabic paper has published a letter purportedly from saddam hussein:
the london-based al-quds al-arabi daily frontpaged wednesday, april 30, what it described as a letter handwritten by ousted iraqi president saddam hussein, urging his people to rise against the anglo-american occupation forces.
the letter was dated april 28, the 66th birthday of saddam whose whereabouts remain a mystery, the paper chief editor abdul bari atwan told agence france-presse (afp) over the phone from london.
and saddam adds a ps: "osama sends his regards!"
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us forces shoot protesters protesting shootings
2 people were killed in fallujah, iraq, when us forces fired upon a demonstration which was protesting against the recent deaths when us forces fired upon a demonstration, according to cbc news.
u.s. soldiers fired on anti-american protesters for the second time this week, as iraqis demonstrated wednesday against the previous shootings
sounds iraq is becoming a mobius news strip.
2 people were killed in fallujah, iraq, when us forces fired upon a demonstration which was protesting against the recent deaths when us forces fired upon a demonstration, according to cbc news.
u.s. soldiers fired on anti-american protesters for the second time this week, as iraqis demonstrated wednesday against the previous shootings
sounds iraq is becoming a mobius news strip.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
blogging around
antiwar.com tells us the us force in post-war iraq could top 125,000.
gianna of she sells sanctuary wonders how benign awol really feels about the dixie chicks when the administration has warned frace against defying its policies.
sasha, who's undercover, wants to know, where's condaleeza? she also links us to what paul wolfowitz really thinks of al franken's act.
cursor.org reinforces what we've known all along with this link: corporate media defaults on 9/11.
the horse has some good stuff from krugman and conason, plus readers comments as well.
angut iglarpok links us to the understatement of the year: "george w. never makes anyone feel less intelligent than he." yeah, but does he do that on purpose?
antiwar.com tells us the us force in post-war iraq could top 125,000.
gianna of she sells sanctuary wonders how benign awol really feels about the dixie chicks when the administration has warned frace against defying its policies.
sasha, who's undercover, wants to know, where's condaleeza? she also links us to what paul wolfowitz really thinks of al franken's act.
cursor.org reinforces what we've known all along with this link: corporate media defaults on 9/11.
the horse has some good stuff from krugman and conason, plus readers comments as well.
angut iglarpok links us to the understatement of the year: "george w. never makes anyone feel less intelligent than he." yeah, but does he do that on purpose?
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he put the compassionate in compassionate conservatism
rummy thinks the recent "war" should get high marks for its "compassion towards innocent civilians," according to the bbc.
us defence secretary donald rumsfeld has said that his country has entered a new era in which it must pre-emptively seek out and prevent attacks by terrorists and terrorist states.
he told coalition troops at us central command in the gulf state of qatar that the wars in afghanistan and iraq showed that america had made a good start.
of course, the argument could be made that the war isn't actually over yet. saddam has yet to be accounted for. in fact, tariq aziz says saddam is still alive:
iraq's former deputy prime minister tariq aziz has told u.s. interrogators he saw saddam hussein alive after the two airstrikes mounted by coalition forces to kill him, a senior defense official says.
[ed. note: no big surprise...osama bin laden and ken lay are still both free men.]
and the shooting's not even over yet.
conflicting accounts emerged tuesday about a clash between the u.s. military and civilians in iraq that witnesses and red cross officials said killed at least 15 iraqis and wounded up to 53 others.
and as for actually letting the people of iraq have a democracy, and choose their own government? well, just ignore those thousands of people out on the streets of baghdad, ok?
street protests by thousands of iraqis and a boycott by leading shia muslims today marred us-sponsored talks on the formation of a new government in baghdad.
besides, if rummy says there'll be democracy, by god, there'll be democracy!
if you're suggesting, how would we feel about an iranian-type government with a few clerics running everything in the country, the answer is: that isn't going to happen," he said.
even if we have to keep invading this stupid country over and over again until they get it right!
rummy thinks the recent "war" should get high marks for its "compassion towards innocent civilians," according to the bbc.
us defence secretary donald rumsfeld has said that his country has entered a new era in which it must pre-emptively seek out and prevent attacks by terrorists and terrorist states.
he told coalition troops at us central command in the gulf state of qatar that the wars in afghanistan and iraq showed that america had made a good start.
of course, the argument could be made that the war isn't actually over yet. saddam has yet to be accounted for. in fact, tariq aziz says saddam is still alive:
iraq's former deputy prime minister tariq aziz has told u.s. interrogators he saw saddam hussein alive after the two airstrikes mounted by coalition forces to kill him, a senior defense official says.
[ed. note: no big surprise...osama bin laden and ken lay are still both free men.]
and the shooting's not even over yet.
conflicting accounts emerged tuesday about a clash between the u.s. military and civilians in iraq that witnesses and red cross officials said killed at least 15 iraqis and wounded up to 53 others.
and as for actually letting the people of iraq have a democracy, and choose their own government? well, just ignore those thousands of people out on the streets of baghdad, ok?
street protests by thousands of iraqis and a boycott by leading shia muslims today marred us-sponsored talks on the formation of a new government in baghdad.
besides, if rummy says there'll be democracy, by god, there'll be democracy!
if you're suggesting, how would we feel about an iranian-type government with a few clerics running everything in the country, the answer is: that isn't going to happen," he said.
even if we have to keep invading this stupid country over and over again until they get it right!
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wmd's? we don't need no wmd's!
not that any of us expected any different, but so far there is no proof of powell's arms claims, us empty-handed in iraw search for wmd, according to the sfchronicle.
powell's speech on feb. 5 signaled the end of the bush administration's support of continued u.n. weapons inspections and set the stage for military action by providing information that he said showed iraq was in continued violation of security council resolutions that required it to disarm.
he told the council he was sharing "what the united states knows about iraq's weapons of mass destruction as well as iraq's involvement in terrorism."
in the 38 days since u.s. and british troops invaded iraq, however, military forces have yet to produce any of the weaponry or chemical or biological agents powell described, nor have they produced iraqi scientists with evidence about them, officials said.
they also have not turned up anything to support powell's claim to the security council that "nearly two dozen" al qaeda terrorists lived in and operated from baghdad.
we found that link thanks to the smirking chimp, one of whose readers pointed us to abcnews, who says white house officials privately admit that 9/11 was the main reason for war.
officials inside government and advisers outside told abcnews the administration emphasized the danger of saddam's weapons to gain the legal justification for war from the united nations and to stress the danger at home to americans.
"we were not lying," said one official. "but it was just a matter of emphasis."
yeah. emphasis on the wrong country entirely.
not that any of us expected any different, but so far there is no proof of powell's arms claims, us empty-handed in iraw search for wmd, according to the sfchronicle.
powell's speech on feb. 5 signaled the end of the bush administration's support of continued u.n. weapons inspections and set the stage for military action by providing information that he said showed iraq was in continued violation of security council resolutions that required it to disarm.
he told the council he was sharing "what the united states knows about iraq's weapons of mass destruction as well as iraq's involvement in terrorism."
in the 38 days since u.s. and british troops invaded iraq, however, military forces have yet to produce any of the weaponry or chemical or biological agents powell described, nor have they produced iraqi scientists with evidence about them, officials said.
they also have not turned up anything to support powell's claim to the security council that "nearly two dozen" al qaeda terrorists lived in and operated from baghdad.
we found that link thanks to the smirking chimp, one of whose readers pointed us to abcnews, who says white house officials privately admit that 9/11 was the main reason for war.
officials inside government and advisers outside told abcnews the administration emphasized the danger of saddam's weapons to gain the legal justification for war from the united nations and to stress the danger at home to americans.
"we were not lying," said one official. "but it was just a matter of emphasis."
yeah. emphasis on the wrong country entirely.
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Monday, April 28, 2003
no blogging today
sorry, folks, but between real life errands and a slower-than-molasses-on-a-snail's-butt-after-sex internet today, skippy will not be posting. go read the rittenhouse review, or daily kos, or eschaton, tom tomorrow, or the daily rant, or any of the fine blogs on our blog roll.
also, check out calpundit's analysis of tim lambert's latest skewering of john lott's funny games with reality.
and, as always, go freep the beard (lefthand sidebar).
sorry, folks, but between real life errands and a slower-than-molasses-on-a-snail's-butt-after-sex internet today, skippy will not be posting. go read the rittenhouse review, or daily kos, or eschaton, tom tomorrow, or the daily rant, or any of the fine blogs on our blog roll.
also, check out calpundit's analysis of tim lambert's latest skewering of john lott's funny games with reality.
and, as always, go freep the beard (lefthand sidebar).
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Sunday, April 27, 2003
the benevolent liberators
jenny over at little red cookbook (rapidly becoming one of fav new blogs) links us to this story in commons dreams:
american troops 'paraded naked thieves':
american soldiers guarding an arms dump in baghdad stripped four suspected iraqi thieves, burnt their clothes and forced them on to the streets naked, witnesses said early this morning.
a muslim member of the delta squadron 10 engineer corps is alleged to have written “ali baba. haram” in arabic across the men’s chests before they were evicted at gunpoint from an amusement park in the city.
sounds like the same people who got a hold of the dixie chicks.
jenny over at little red cookbook (rapidly becoming one of fav new blogs) links us to this story in commons dreams:
american troops 'paraded naked thieves':
american soldiers guarding an arms dump in baghdad stripped four suspected iraqi thieves, burnt their clothes and forced them on to the streets naked, witnesses said early this morning.
a muslim member of the delta squadron 10 engineer corps is alleged to have written “ali baba. haram” in arabic across the men’s chests before they were evicted at gunpoint from an amusement park in the city.
sounds like the same people who got a hold of the dixie chicks.
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Saturday, April 26, 2003
a whole lott of nothing
atrios directed us back to tim lambert's exquisite living tome on john lott's adventures with the truth. and it looks like, no matter how you slice it, john lott's thesis "more guns, less crime" is just "more gristle, less meat."
apparently, when all is said and done, lott made numerous coding (we assume mathematical) errors in his data...the question remains as to whether the errors were honest mistakes or an attempt to make the numbers fit the conclusion, instead of the usual scientific way of looking at the data and then reaching a conclusion.
this was pointed out by ian ayers and john donahue of standford (full disclosure...this paper is 120 pages long...we are taking tim's word on it. if anyone wants to read it and dispute tim, feel free to use our comments section).
apparently, after much back and forth in the vein of "did not did so did not did so" and "i'm rubber and you're glue," lott eventually asked for his name to be removed from one of the "i know you are but what am i" responses circulating in the intellectual ether. apparently, yes, the data is bad, and what do you know, it actually turns out that, according to the figures and the history, more guns = more crime.
but we suppose that won't stop lott. it never did before.
atrios directed us back to tim lambert's exquisite living tome on john lott's adventures with the truth. and it looks like, no matter how you slice it, john lott's thesis "more guns, less crime" is just "more gristle, less meat."
apparently, when all is said and done, lott made numerous coding (we assume mathematical) errors in his data...the question remains as to whether the errors were honest mistakes or an attempt to make the numbers fit the conclusion, instead of the usual scientific way of looking at the data and then reaching a conclusion.
this was pointed out by ian ayers and john donahue of standford (full disclosure...this paper is 120 pages long...we are taking tim's word on it. if anyone wants to read it and dispute tim, feel free to use our comments section).
apparently, after much back and forth in the vein of "did not did so did not did so" and "i'm rubber and you're glue," lott eventually asked for his name to be removed from one of the "i know you are but what am i" responses circulating in the intellectual ether. apparently, yes, the data is bad, and what do you know, it actually turns out that, according to the figures and the history, more guns = more crime.
but we suppose that won't stop lott. it never did before.
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some updates
tendentious gives us an update on the reporter who was fired from the sfchron after participating in the anti-war demonstrations...apparently it wasn't so much that he was anti-war, but that he was pro-palestine.
also, we were pretty sure, but then we found out for a fact...nezumi is firmly on the left. great! we love those little mouse icons!
and david of let's try that again (a fine australian blog) thinks we should have made more of this story:
skippy's home to go for $500k
the home of australian icon skippy is set to be sold for $500,000 after the park was closed down following claims of animal cruelty.
the troubled wildlife sanctuary waratah park, in sydney's ku-ring-gai national park, is to be sold to earth sanctuaries ltd.
earth sanctuaries said it had been selected as the preferred purchaser of the assets of waratah park pty ltd, subject to relevant approvals. it said the $500,000 purchase price would be funded from earth sanctuaries' cash reserves.
waratah park is best known as the setting for the famous 1960s television series skippy the bush kangaroo.
we had seen that article, but to be honest, it broke our hearts too much to bring it up.
everybody, now:
skippy, our friend ever true.....
tendentious gives us an update on the reporter who was fired from the sfchron after participating in the anti-war demonstrations...apparently it wasn't so much that he was anti-war, but that he was pro-palestine.
also, we were pretty sure, but then we found out for a fact...nezumi is firmly on the left. great! we love those little mouse icons!
and david of let's try that again (a fine australian blog) thinks we should have made more of this story:
skippy's home to go for $500k
the home of australian icon skippy is set to be sold for $500,000 after the park was closed down following claims of animal cruelty.
the troubled wildlife sanctuary waratah park, in sydney's ku-ring-gai national park, is to be sold to earth sanctuaries ltd.
earth sanctuaries said it had been selected as the preferred purchaser of the assets of waratah park pty ltd, subject to relevant approvals. it said the $500,000 purchase price would be funded from earth sanctuaries' cash reserves.
waratah park is best known as the setting for the famous 1960s television series skippy the bush kangaroo.
we had seen that article, but to be honest, it broke our hearts too much to bring it up.
everybody, now:
skippy, our friend ever true.....
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letters...we get letters...
folks, jenny at the little red cookbook wants us to know (mainly 'cuz we've been bugging her about it) that her blog now has a comments feature! go! leave a comment! (keep it nice, though).
and spadehammer at hammerdown is aghast (but not particularly surprised) that awol's administration admits that there really weren't wmd's over there...it's not that they were lying, it was "just a matter of emphasis." yeah, right. emphasize this, pal!
ps, we gotta give a shout out to free pie for sending all that traffic our way...kim is away from the computer till monday, but there's plenty of good stuff up on her site now, so go read!
folks, jenny at the little red cookbook wants us to know (mainly 'cuz we've been bugging her about it) that her blog now has a comments feature! go! leave a comment! (keep it nice, though).
and spadehammer at hammerdown is aghast (but not particularly surprised) that awol's administration admits that there really weren't wmd's over there...it's not that they were lying, it was "just a matter of emphasis." yeah, right. emphasize this, pal!
ps, we gotta give a shout out to free pie for sending all that traffic our way...kim is away from the computer till monday, but there's plenty of good stuff up on her site now, so go read!
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Friday, April 25, 2003
fun with google
you can actually find news articles with the two key words "santorum" and "sars."
also, here's another fun google search.
you can actually find news articles with the two key words "santorum" and "sars."
also, here's another fun google search.
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win a few, lose a few
is there an anti-war backlash? on one hand, the arizona republic reports that anti-war celebs see payoffs for piping up:
in the weeks after [natalie] maines' comments, sales of the [dixie] chicks' latest album, home, fell out of the top spot on the country charts - before bouncing right back into the no. 1 position last week.
after his outburst at the oscars last month ("shame on you, mr. bush!"), michael moore saw his book stupid white men return to the top of the new york times bestseller list. two days after the oscars, he reported on his web site that his documentary bowling for columbine had received more video orders on amazon.com than the oscar winner for best picture, chicago.
even [actor tim] robbins, who frets about "a climate of fear" for lesser-known actors, can't really complain. "i'm ok," he says in an interview. "i just finished two films," including one with clint eastwood. "i don't believe there's fallout."
well, that's great. if you're a celebrity.
if you're a work-a-day regular joe, you might get fired.
a san francisco chronicle reporter who was arrested while participating in an anti-war demonstration last month said he has been fired for falsifying his timesheet. henry norr, who covered technology and wrote a weekly column for the chronicle, said he was fired on monday.
norr was suspended without pay after his arrest. the day before the march 20 demonstration, norr said he sent an e-mail to his supervisor that said he planned to participate and expected to be arrested. norr said he took sick leave for the day of work missed, which the chronicle determined was a falsification.
too bad his name wasn't janeane garafalo or martin sheen.
is there an anti-war backlash? on one hand, the arizona republic reports that anti-war celebs see payoffs for piping up:
in the weeks after [natalie] maines' comments, sales of the [dixie] chicks' latest album, home, fell out of the top spot on the country charts - before bouncing right back into the no. 1 position last week.
after his outburst at the oscars last month ("shame on you, mr. bush!"), michael moore saw his book stupid white men return to the top of the new york times bestseller list. two days after the oscars, he reported on his web site that his documentary bowling for columbine had received more video orders on amazon.com than the oscar winner for best picture, chicago.
even [actor tim] robbins, who frets about "a climate of fear" for lesser-known actors, can't really complain. "i'm ok," he says in an interview. "i just finished two films," including one with clint eastwood. "i don't believe there's fallout."
well, that's great. if you're a celebrity.
if you're a work-a-day regular joe, you might get fired.
a san francisco chronicle reporter who was arrested while participating in an anti-war demonstration last month said he has been fired for falsifying his timesheet. henry norr, who covered technology and wrote a weekly column for the chronicle, said he was fired on monday.
norr was suspended without pay after his arrest. the day before the march 20 demonstration, norr said he sent an e-mail to his supervisor that said he planned to participate and expected to be arrested. norr said he took sick leave for the day of work missed, which the chronicle determined was a falsification.
too bad his name wasn't janeane garafalo or martin sheen.
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graphics r us
uggabugga has a great set of playing cards, a la iraq's most wanted, only with awol's gang (big thanks to annatopia for the link!)
and maru the crankpot has a great billboard posted on her site.
uggabugga has a great set of playing cards, a la iraq's most wanted, only with awol's gang (big thanks to annatopia for the link!)
and maru the crankpot has a great billboard posted on her site.
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and media press for some...
we have to agree with michele at a small victory: why is the laci petersen murder getting all the press? she's sure not the only woman to ever get killed by her cheatin' husband.
we have to agree with michele at a small victory: why is the laci petersen murder getting all the press? she's sure not the only woman to ever get killed by her cheatin' husband.
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bloggers on santorum
kos talks about rick santorum's grieving process...and it's as weird as "man on dog" sex.
atrios has several posts, including a good cartoon by auth.
balloon juice and his readers have a good ol' time with rick.
the mad prophet sends us to these posts at lean left and morons.org.
sisyphus shrugged analyzes the analysis of santorum's remark.
as of now, 3 gop senators have come out of the closet of dissent to go on the record against sen. santorum: snowe, chaffee and smith.
kos talks about rick santorum's grieving process...and it's as weird as "man on dog" sex.
atrios has several posts, including a good cartoon by auth.
balloon juice and his readers have a good ol' time with rick.
the mad prophet sends us to these posts at lean left and morons.org.
sisyphus shrugged analyzes the analysis of santorum's remark.
as of now, 3 gop senators have come out of the closet of dissent to go on the record against sen. santorum: snowe, chaffee and smith.
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Thursday, April 24, 2003
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tom paine on santorum
ralph g. neas, president of people for the american way, writes an essay on tompaine.com showing that sen. rick santorum's recent anti-gay remarks are just part of the larger problem the republican party has with, uh, well, with bigotry.
santorum's record closely matches that of other far-right ideologues. alabama attorney general william pryor -- who is one of president bush's troubling federal appeals court nominees…equated the right of gay americans to engage in consensual sex within their own homes to "activities like prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia...."
while you're over at tompaine, you may also want to check out these articles: wars on earth and downing the dipolomats (gingrich leading the neocons).
ralph g. neas, president of people for the american way, writes an essay on tompaine.com showing that sen. rick santorum's recent anti-gay remarks are just part of the larger problem the republican party has with, uh, well, with bigotry.
santorum's record closely matches that of other far-right ideologues. alabama attorney general william pryor -- who is one of president bush's troubling federal appeals court nominees…equated the right of gay americans to engage in consensual sex within their own homes to "activities like prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia...."
while you're over at tompaine, you may also want to check out these articles: wars on earth and downing the dipolomats (gingrich leading the neocons).
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substitute blogger
hey kids, tom tomorrow is actually on vacation. but his blog goes on, thanks to guest blogger bob harris. be sure to drop by!
hey kids, tom tomorrow is actually on vacation. but his blog goes on, thanks to guest blogger bob harris. be sure to drop by!
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defiant dixies
listening to the self-righteous wing, you'd expect that the dixie chicks are crawling back with their tails between their legs, sorry for being such bad little americans and dissing awol. not so, says cnn.
true, natalie maines is sorry for the wording of her london gaffe where she said she was embarrassed that awol is from texas...but, "am i sorry that i asked questions and that i just don't follow? no."
the article, which talks about the chicks' upcoming interview with diane sawyer, goes on:
maines and the trio's other members -- sisters emily robison and martie maguire -- also tell sawyer the fallout was too harsh for the offense and they've always supported u.s. troops, even though they questioned the war.
"it's the people who have gone overboard and done such irrational things that take you back to the days of book burning. that is a concern for me," maguire said.
"we know some of our fans were shocked and ... upset. i totally understand it. my problem is, when does it cross the line? when is trashing emily's property ok? when is writing a threatening letter ok?"
robison added that the band was dealing with "bigger issues" than the loss of record sales. "i'm concerned about my safety. i'm concerned about my safety for my family," she said. "when you're getting death threats ... at our concerts this year, we have to have metal detectors, and to me that's just crazy. but we have to take precautions because this thing has gotten so out of control."
plus, the chicks git naked! and hey, while you're there at cnn, go freep the beard! (left hand side bar).
listening to the self-righteous wing, you'd expect that the dixie chicks are crawling back with their tails between their legs, sorry for being such bad little americans and dissing awol. not so, says cnn.
true, natalie maines is sorry for the wording of her london gaffe where she said she was embarrassed that awol is from texas...but, "am i sorry that i asked questions and that i just don't follow? no."
the article, which talks about the chicks' upcoming interview with diane sawyer, goes on:
maines and the trio's other members -- sisters emily robison and martie maguire -- also tell sawyer the fallout was too harsh for the offense and they've always supported u.s. troops, even though they questioned the war.
"it's the people who have gone overboard and done such irrational things that take you back to the days of book burning. that is a concern for me," maguire said.
"we know some of our fans were shocked and ... upset. i totally understand it. my problem is, when does it cross the line? when is trashing emily's property ok? when is writing a threatening letter ok?"
robison added that the band was dealing with "bigger issues" than the loss of record sales. "i'm concerned about my safety. i'm concerned about my safety for my family," she said. "when you're getting death threats ... at our concerts this year, we have to have metal detectors, and to me that's just crazy. but we have to take precautions because this thing has gotten so out of control."
plus, the chicks git naked! and hey, while you're there at cnn, go freep the beard! (left hand side bar).
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watch dem dems!
the kos has the latest cattle call for the democratic candidates, including a california field poll, which has liberman on top.
meanwhile digby wonders "what's wrong with the democratic party?" and then he decides, "nothing."
the kos has the latest cattle call for the democratic candidates, including a california field poll, which has liberman on top.
meanwhile digby wonders "what's wrong with the democratic party?" and then he decides, "nothing."
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is seymour butts designing the web site?
our friend eric over at the hamster points out that the family research council, whose vp of media relations is genevieve wood, has a url address that might be a subliminal message: http://www.frc.org/expert.cfm?get=wood
our friend eric over at the hamster points out that the family research council, whose vp of media relations is genevieve wood, has a url address that might be a subliminal message: http://www.frc.org/expert.cfm?get=wood
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brand new bowl, same great soup
hey kids, our scientist bud dave appell has a great new look for his blog quark soup, so please check it out. among other fine topics, dave delves into why he thinks the term "sars" is misleading and inappropriate.
hey kids, our scientist bud dave appell has a great new look for his blog quark soup, so please check it out. among other fine topics, dave delves into why he thinks the term "sars" is misleading and inappropriate.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2003
ari caught in a bald-face lie (pun intended)
thanks to the roger ailes' reader known as ras-nesta, we were alerted to today's white house press briefing, where the journalists actually got fed up with fleischer's dodging of questions he doesn't want to answer (scroll down to about 3/5 of the page):
q you're saying they've turned the corner, they just haven't gone quite far enough?
mr. fleischer: i'll leave it as i put it.
q why won't you answer the question about --
mr. fleischer: greg.
q hold on. we're entitled to follow up, ari -- this isn't homeroom.
mr. fleischer: greg.
q why won't you answer the question about whether or not -- he said there are going to be consequences --
mr. fleischer: david, there are other qualified reporters in here, too, who can follow-up.
q i didn't say they were not qualified, ari. i'm saying you're running it like it's homeroom, like we can't follow-up when you're refusing to answer a question that's been posed twice to you, directly. the secretary of state said that there would be consequences. why won't you say what they might be?
mr. fleischer: greg.
q do you want to elaborate on what those consequences would be?
mr. fleischer: i addressed it earlier. you heard what i said about consequences.
q you didn't address it, which is the point. but you can't tolerate that kind of dissent.
whoa! we bet that guy gets sent to the back of the room with helen thomas from now on!
thanks to the roger ailes' reader known as ras-nesta, we were alerted to today's white house press briefing, where the journalists actually got fed up with fleischer's dodging of questions he doesn't want to answer (scroll down to about 3/5 of the page):
q you're saying they've turned the corner, they just haven't gone quite far enough?
mr. fleischer: i'll leave it as i put it.
q why won't you answer the question about --
mr. fleischer: greg.
q hold on. we're entitled to follow up, ari -- this isn't homeroom.
mr. fleischer: greg.
q why won't you answer the question about whether or not -- he said there are going to be consequences --
mr. fleischer: david, there are other qualified reporters in here, too, who can follow-up.
q i didn't say they were not qualified, ari. i'm saying you're running it like it's homeroom, like we can't follow-up when you're refusing to answer a question that's been posed twice to you, directly. the secretary of state said that there would be consequences. why won't you say what they might be?
mr. fleischer: greg.
q do you want to elaborate on what those consequences would be?
mr. fleischer: i addressed it earlier. you heard what i said about consequences.
q you didn't address it, which is the point. but you can't tolerate that kind of dissent.
whoa! we bet that guy gets sent to the back of the room with helen thomas from now on!
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blogging around
the horse has an action alert for the latest candy crowley fiasco (she likened the democratic candidates to the "iraq's most wanted" playing cards deck). there's plenty of links to send emails to lou dobbs' sponsors to let them know you don't like it when a national news organization equates the leaders of one party to the leaders of the enemy country we recently fought. (scroll down to about the middle of the page).
what better place to learn about the rapid mutation of the sars virus than db's medical rants?
bo cowgill's blog got named in this stanford daily article about blogs originating out of that fine institution.
speaking of school, ever wonder what made the difference between that "a minus" you wanted and the "b plus" you got on a paper? eric tam at antidotal explores his thoughts, as one who doles out the grades.
jeanne d'arc of body and soul has a moving tribute to the recently departed nina simone.
devra (of blue streak) is on a semi-hiatus...turns out she has a life, and has to actually live it! imagine that!
talkleft tells us that city of santa cruz, california, has filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government over medical marijuana! good luck, santa cruz! dynamite roller coaster on their boardwalk, if this suit is victorious, let's all take some medicine and go for a ride!
over on avedon's other weblog, dr. carol links us to a washpost article that tells us the awol administration was underprepared [ed. note: duh!] for the strength of the shi'ite organization in iraq (and she got the link from ampersand, another fine friend of this blog!)
eric alterman has plenty of links proving that the administration wasn't ready for the "peace" in iraq after our little war...plus some great thoughts about how the self-righteous wing is whining about journalists being "too" educated.
liberaloasis has a great explanation of why we didn't get too excited over gephardt's new health care plan.
food for thought has an excellent email dialogue with jan mickelson, who is is against the "gay agenda" in our schools.
the horse has an action alert for the latest candy crowley fiasco (she likened the democratic candidates to the "iraq's most wanted" playing cards deck). there's plenty of links to send emails to lou dobbs' sponsors to let them know you don't like it when a national news organization equates the leaders of one party to the leaders of the enemy country we recently fought. (scroll down to about the middle of the page).
what better place to learn about the rapid mutation of the sars virus than db's medical rants?
bo cowgill's blog got named in this stanford daily article about blogs originating out of that fine institution.
speaking of school, ever wonder what made the difference between that "a minus" you wanted and the "b plus" you got on a paper? eric tam at antidotal explores his thoughts, as one who doles out the grades.
jeanne d'arc of body and soul has a moving tribute to the recently departed nina simone.
devra (of blue streak) is on a semi-hiatus...turns out she has a life, and has to actually live it! imagine that!
talkleft tells us that city of santa cruz, california, has filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government over medical marijuana! good luck, santa cruz! dynamite roller coaster on their boardwalk, if this suit is victorious, let's all take some medicine and go for a ride!
over on avedon's other weblog, dr. carol links us to a washpost article that tells us the awol administration was underprepared [ed. note: duh!] for the strength of the shi'ite organization in iraq (and she got the link from ampersand, another fine friend of this blog!)
eric alterman has plenty of links proving that the administration wasn't ready for the "peace" in iraq after our little war...plus some great thoughts about how the self-righteous wing is whining about journalists being "too" educated.
liberaloasis has a great explanation of why we didn't get too excited over gephardt's new health care plan.
food for thought has an excellent email dialogue with jan mickelson, who is is against the "gay agenda" in our schools.
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backlash? or bad mow?
viewers avoided susan sarandon's tv movie about the woman with cancer in antartica this last weekend, says e! online news.
sarandon's cbs tv movie ice bound was slaughtered by practically everything last night, including abc's easter sunday four-hour broadcast of cecil b. demille's the ten commandments, starring charlton heston (chalk one up for the gun-toting right)...the real-life story of stranded cancer survivor dr. jerri nielsen, placed last in overnight ratings with an average 8.9 million viewers and lost close to 40 percent of audience levels from the eye network's ratings last sunday.
we must concur with e!'s conclusion however...that is, it's hard to draw a conclusion from this whole thing:
of course, there's no way to tell if the ratings crash stems from anti-sarandon sentiment or the telepic's sobering subject of a doctor suffering from breast cancer who must perform her own biopsy--rescuers had to wait four months before approaching the forbidding south pole surroundings to bring her back to civilization.
personally, though we have met ms. sarandon and love her work, both acting and cause-related, we watched moses ourselves. we always love demille's camp classic, it's the best part of easter for us. several reasons come to mind:
1. it's john derek's greatest role
2. anne baxter was a babe
3. it's the one film where vincent price is overshadowed as a bad guy (nobody can touch yul brenner)
4. say what you will about his politics, heston was born to play moses
5. edward g. robinson: "nyah! where's your god now, moses? nyah!"
so, if it's a choice between going to camp de mille another year, or watching susan sarandon slice open her own breast, it's no contest!
viewers avoided susan sarandon's tv movie about the woman with cancer in antartica this last weekend, says e! online news.
sarandon's cbs tv movie ice bound was slaughtered by practically everything last night, including abc's easter sunday four-hour broadcast of cecil b. demille's the ten commandments, starring charlton heston (chalk one up for the gun-toting right)...the real-life story of stranded cancer survivor dr. jerri nielsen, placed last in overnight ratings with an average 8.9 million viewers and lost close to 40 percent of audience levels from the eye network's ratings last sunday.
we must concur with e!'s conclusion however...that is, it's hard to draw a conclusion from this whole thing:
of course, there's no way to tell if the ratings crash stems from anti-sarandon sentiment or the telepic's sobering subject of a doctor suffering from breast cancer who must perform her own biopsy--rescuers had to wait four months before approaching the forbidding south pole surroundings to bring her back to civilization.
personally, though we have met ms. sarandon and love her work, both acting and cause-related, we watched moses ourselves. we always love demille's camp classic, it's the best part of easter for us. several reasons come to mind:
1. it's john derek's greatest role
2. anne baxter was a babe
3. it's the one film where vincent price is overshadowed as a bad guy (nobody can touch yul brenner)
4. say what you will about his politics, heston was born to play moses
5. edward g. robinson: "nyah! where's your god now, moses? nyah!"
so, if it's a choice between going to camp de mille another year, or watching susan sarandon slice open her own breast, it's no contest!
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traffic update in sunnyvale, calif.
at least 25 anti-war protesters were arrested in their demonstration against lockheed-martin in sunnyvale, ca, up in the bay area yesterday, sayes reuters.
one person who had linked himself to other demonstrators with plastic piping was injured as police drilling through the tubing reached his arm by mistake. he was treated at the scene.
drilling through the guy's arm? yeah, we'd call that a mistake, all right.
at least 25 anti-war protesters were arrested in their demonstration against lockheed-martin in sunnyvale, ca, up in the bay area yesterday, sayes reuters.
one person who had linked himself to other demonstrators with plastic piping was injured as police drilling through the tubing reached his arm by mistake. he was treated at the scene.
drilling through the guy's arm? yeah, we'd call that a mistake, all right.
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now if we can do something about the other 49 states...
oliver at the liquid list sends us this heads up: awol may not get on the alabama's ballot in time for the next presidential election, says cnn.
the problem is that the republican national convention is being held later than usual to avoid conflict with the olympics, and the gop won't choose a candidate until september 2 -- two days after alabama's august 31 deadline to certify presidential contenders.
republicans are asking the democrat-controlled legislature to change the law and extend the deadline until september 5.
personally, we don't think awol will have any problem, as it is projected that he will spend more money ($200 million) than any candidate in history for this next campaign.
wow. good thing we don't have any use for that money anywhere else.
oliver at the liquid list sends us this heads up: awol may not get on the alabama's ballot in time for the next presidential election, says cnn.
the problem is that the republican national convention is being held later than usual to avoid conflict with the olympics, and the gop won't choose a candidate until september 2 -- two days after alabama's august 31 deadline to certify presidential contenders.
republicans are asking the democrat-controlled legislature to change the law and extend the deadline until september 5.
personally, we don't think awol will have any problem, as it is projected that he will spend more money ($200 million) than any candidate in history for this next campaign.
wow. good thing we don't have any use for that money anywhere else.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003
blogshares sucks!
you heard us. blogshares sucks! we registered, and have yet to receive our confirming email, in spite of clicking the "if you have not received your confirming email" button twice.
not only that, when we tried to "claim" our blog (supposedly, you get 5000 shares of your own blog when you register) the site told us there was no such blog, even though it's listed and indexed (but not for trading, yet, because we haven't "claimed" it, but we can't "claim" it, because it says it's not listed).
not only that, because we have no confirmation email, we can't complete the registration process, so we can't join any of the forums or message boards to ask questions about how to fix these problems.
and we even sent an email to the head blogshare, asking about it. and what did we get back? nothing. nada. zip. zero. goose egg. null set. void. the middle of the donut.
we are angry. and we realize we are spending way too much time and effort on blogging to get upset about not being able to trade imaginary stock from our blog, but, gee whiz, the stock has really gone up in the last few weeks! we're frickin' on fire here! if only we could get a piece of our own action!
blogshares sucks!!!
you heard us. blogshares sucks! we registered, and have yet to receive our confirming email, in spite of clicking the "if you have not received your confirming email" button twice.
not only that, when we tried to "claim" our blog (supposedly, you get 5000 shares of your own blog when you register) the site told us there was no such blog, even though it's listed and indexed (but not for trading, yet, because we haven't "claimed" it, but we can't "claim" it, because it says it's not listed).
not only that, because we have no confirmation email, we can't complete the registration process, so we can't join any of the forums or message boards to ask questions about how to fix these problems.
and we even sent an email to the head blogshare, asking about it. and what did we get back? nothing. nada. zip. zero. goose egg. null set. void. the middle of the donut.
we are angry. and we realize we are spending way too much time and effort on blogging to get upset about not being able to trade imaginary stock from our blog, but, gee whiz, the stock has really gone up in the last few weeks! we're frickin' on fire here! if only we could get a piece of our own action!
blogshares sucks!!!
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the boss bats for the chicks
bruce springsteen went on the record supporting the dixie chicks' right to have an opinion, according to chartattack.com. in a message on his website, the boss says,
for them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-american. the pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about — namely freedom. right now, we are supposedly fighting to create free speech in iraq, at the same time that some are trying to intimidate and punish people for using that same freedom here at home. i don't know what happens next, but i do want to add my voice to those who think that the dixie chicks are getting a raw deal, and an un-american one to boot. i send them my support.
we can guess what happens next...a bruce springsteen boycott manufactured by the south carolina republican party.
bruce springsteen went on the record supporting the dixie chicks' right to have an opinion, according to chartattack.com. in a message on his website, the boss says,
for them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-american. the pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about — namely freedom. right now, we are supposedly fighting to create free speech in iraq, at the same time that some are trying to intimidate and punish people for using that same freedom here at home. i don't know what happens next, but i do want to add my voice to those who think that the dixie chicks are getting a raw deal, and an un-american one to boot. i send them my support.
we can guess what happens next...a bruce springsteen boycott manufactured by the south carolina republican party.
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blogging around
barney gumble at mwow(4) has whitewater for dummies.
talkleft has a name for it: radio radial right radio. (we've got a whole other name for it).
calpundit muses on man-on-dog sex, and why rick santorum might or might not have been misquoted.
instapundit reports on matt welch's analysis of the bush/saudi connection.
avedon carol keeps on blogging even as she recovers from her surgery. today the good doctor links us to a kentucky editorial which laments the irony that cable and the internet has "clobbered diversity" instead of expanding it.
and cursor.org brings us truly scary news: religious group helps lawmakers with rent. and if you're not scared enough by that, read jesus plus nothing from harpers (also courtesy of cursor).
barney gumble at mwow(4) has whitewater for dummies.
talkleft has a name for it: radio radial right radio. (we've got a whole other name for it).
calpundit muses on man-on-dog sex, and why rick santorum might or might not have been misquoted.
instapundit reports on matt welch's analysis of the bush/saudi connection.
avedon carol keeps on blogging even as she recovers from her surgery. today the good doctor links us to a kentucky editorial which laments the irony that cable and the internet has "clobbered diversity" instead of expanding it.
and cursor.org brings us truly scary news: religious group helps lawmakers with rent. and if you're not scared enough by that, read jesus plus nothing from harpers (also courtesy of cursor).
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friends don't let friends make "mr. and mrs. north"
who knew we were joanne woodward's personal friend? not us. but we got this important email from her concerning global warming, and thought we'd share it with you:
dear friend:
this earth day, please join with me and my husband paul newman to help secure the health of our planet for future generations: add your name to environmental defense's petition on global warming and join one million citizen co-sponsors of the mccain-lieberman climate stewardship act to halt global warming.
click here to sign the petition.
if you'd like to read the rest of joanne's email, please go to our sister site skippy junior.
who knew we were joanne woodward's personal friend? not us. but we got this important email from her concerning global warming, and thought we'd share it with you:
dear friend:
this earth day, please join with me and my husband paul newman to help secure the health of our planet for future generations: add your name to environmental defense's petition on global warming and join one million citizen co-sponsors of the mccain-lieberman climate stewardship act to halt global warming.
click here to sign the petition.
if you'd like to read the rest of joanne's email, please go to our sister site skippy junior.
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update on the chicks
a reader, responding to an earlier post we had about the "backlash" against the dixie chicks (for telling the truth), wrote in our comments section:
i don't suppose that it's possible that all of these radio stations and dj's were just practicing their own right to disagree and start their own protest, were they? i think that conspiracy theories about ties with the bush white house are a little bit of a stretch.
well, you sneaky little fox, jenny at the little red cookbook reports that, according to utne reader and capitol hill blue, those radio stations and dj's were just jumping through the hoops of the gop (no surprise there). utne says:
but as doug thompson reports for capitol hill blue, the whole “spontaneous” uproar was apparently generated by the republican party, which sent out thousands of e-mails instructing the party faithful to complain to their local country radio stations. national gop staffers themselves hit the phone lines, demanding stations remove the group’s music from playlists.
yeah, those poor dixie chicks! still number one!
a reader, responding to an earlier post we had about the "backlash" against the dixie chicks (for telling the truth), wrote in our comments section:
i don't suppose that it's possible that all of these radio stations and dj's were just practicing their own right to disagree and start their own protest, were they? i think that conspiracy theories about ties with the bush white house are a little bit of a stretch.
well, you sneaky little fox, jenny at the little red cookbook reports that, according to utne reader and capitol hill blue, those radio stations and dj's were just jumping through the hoops of the gop (no surprise there). utne says:
but as doug thompson reports for capitol hill blue, the whole “spontaneous” uproar was apparently generated by the republican party, which sent out thousands of e-mails instructing the party faithful to complain to their local country radio stations. national gop staffers themselves hit the phone lines, demanding stations remove the group’s music from playlists.
yeah, those poor dixie chicks! still number one!
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it's still ok to protest (as long as it's against democrats)
the 8 anti-war protesters who occupied sen. john edwards' office in february have had the charges against them dismissed.
jennifer palmieri, press secretary for edwards' presidential campaign, said the campaign played no role in the arrests or dismissals.
thank goodness for small favors. meanwhile, anti-war protesters are tying up traffic in sunnyvale in the bay area demonstrating outside of lockheed martin.
organizers say protesters also are starting a massive ``die-in'' event by lying down on nearby streets to protest lockheed martin's contract with the u.s. government to make weapons for the u.s. military.
sunnyvale police, in riot gear, are vowing not to let protesters block mathilda avenue or other heavily traveled streets in the area. a police spokesman says that protesters will be arrested if laws are violated.
the 8 anti-war protesters who occupied sen. john edwards' office in february have had the charges against them dismissed.
jennifer palmieri, press secretary for edwards' presidential campaign, said the campaign played no role in the arrests or dismissals.
thank goodness for small favors. meanwhile, anti-war protesters are tying up traffic in sunnyvale in the bay area demonstrating outside of lockheed martin.
organizers say protesters also are starting a massive ``die-in'' event by lying down on nearby streets to protest lockheed martin's contract with the u.s. government to make weapons for the u.s. military.
sunnyvale police, in riot gear, are vowing not to let protesters block mathilda avenue or other heavily traveled streets in the area. a police spokesman says that protesters will be arrested if laws are violated.
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on the street where you rove
madkane sends us a link to her latest "all i want is a new regime" (from my unfair dubya).
madkane sends us a link to her latest "all i want is a new regime" (from my unfair dubya).
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Monday, April 21, 2003
we thought they were just protesting his ability to raise money
some anti-war activists who occupied sen. john edwards' office, demanding to speak to him, are headed for their day in court.
raleigh -- eight peace activists arrested for trespassing in the raleigh offices of north carolina senator john edwards go to court monday. the eight were protesting edwards' support for the war on iraq and demanded to talk to him, but the senator wasn't in when they arrived at his office in february.
is the senator ever there? we thought he was busy raising money.
some anti-war activists who occupied sen. john edwards' office, demanding to speak to him, are headed for their day in court.
raleigh -- eight peace activists arrested for trespassing in the raleigh offices of north carolina senator john edwards go to court monday. the eight were protesting edwards' support for the war on iraq and demanded to talk to him, but the senator wasn't in when they arrived at his office in february.
is the senator ever there? we thought he was busy raising money.
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you employees need to take a pay cut...pass me that caviar on your way out, would you?
american airlines, facing bankruptcy, had convinced its employees to take massive pay cuts. uh, but not all its employees. the execs were going to get huge bonuses if they stayed on with the troubled airline. only, they didn't tell the employees about it until after the vote on pay cuts.
ok, ok, the airline then promised to forego the bonuses for the execs. uh, but not all the bonuses. the big pension pay-outs to the execs are not going to be rescinded. and several of the unions are demanding a re-vote on the pay cut concessions for their members.
some experts in labor law said the union could have valid cause for conducting a new election because the company did not disclose bonuses and payments to a pension trust for top executives while it negotiated with unions for pay and benefit cuts.
the bonuses were rescinded, but the company won't try to recover the undisclosed amount it paid to fund the pensions for 45 top executives. a spokesman for the flight attendants union said members were just as upset monday as they were when they learned of the executive perks late last week
this can't be helping the airline's stock prices.
american airlines, facing bankruptcy, had convinced its employees to take massive pay cuts. uh, but not all its employees. the execs were going to get huge bonuses if they stayed on with the troubled airline. only, they didn't tell the employees about it until after the vote on pay cuts.
ok, ok, the airline then promised to forego the bonuses for the execs. uh, but not all the bonuses. the big pension pay-outs to the execs are not going to be rescinded. and several of the unions are demanding a re-vote on the pay cut concessions for their members.
some experts in labor law said the union could have valid cause for conducting a new election because the company did not disclose bonuses and payments to a pension trust for top executives while it negotiated with unions for pay and benefit cuts.
the bonuses were rescinded, but the company won't try to recover the undisclosed amount it paid to fund the pensions for 45 top executives. a spokesman for the flight attendants union said members were just as upset monday as they were when they learned of the executive perks late last week
this can't be helping the airline's stock prices.
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say hello
to food for thought and the art deadlines list (we're wondering why we're on this page, not that we're complaining...but it's an interesting compiling of upcoming deadlines for grants, contests and scholarships in artistic endeavors...go check it out!)
to food for thought and the art deadlines list (we're wondering why we're on this page, not that we're complaining...but it's an interesting compiling of upcoming deadlines for grants, contests and scholarships in artistic endeavors...go check it out!)
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skippy is embarrassed that bush is from texas...hey, is our blog #1 yet?
atrios points out that all that hoopla surrounding the boycott of the dixie chicks after natalie maines' dissing of awol seems to have done absolutely nothing. their album home is still #1 on the country charts, and #30 overall.
but things are still rough for anybody who dares speak out against awol and his cowboy politics. andrew gumbel, (any relation to barney?) writing in the uk independent, says,
beyond the film world, powerful radio station chains with strong political ties to the bush white house have been orchestrating boycotts and hate campaigns against several anti-war performers…the venom behind these campaigns is disturbing enough but there is a second strand to the story. and that is that hollywood might not be such a liberal place after all.
as we live here, we can attest to the fact that it actually is, but we're just not allowed to say it out loud.
atrios points out that all that hoopla surrounding the boycott of the dixie chicks after natalie maines' dissing of awol seems to have done absolutely nothing. their album home is still #1 on the country charts, and #30 overall.
but things are still rough for anybody who dares speak out against awol and his cowboy politics. andrew gumbel, (any relation to barney?) writing in the uk independent, says,
beyond the film world, powerful radio station chains with strong political ties to the bush white house have been orchestrating boycotts and hate campaigns against several anti-war performers…the venom behind these campaigns is disturbing enough but there is a second strand to the story. and that is that hollywood might not be such a liberal place after all.
as we live here, we can attest to the fact that it actually is, but we're just not allowed to say it out loud.
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Sunday, April 20, 2003
just asking
talkleft links us to the london independent, which wants to know, mr. blair, where are those weapons of mass destruction?
but, mr blair, where are they? a month has passed since american and british troops entered iraq, more than a week since the fall of baghdad. but thus far not even a sniff. not a drum of vx or mustard gas, not a phial of botulin or anthrax, not a shred of evidence that iraq was assembling a nuclear weapons programme.
but that wasn't what they told us. remember colin powell at the security council two months ago (though today it seems another age on another planet): the charts, the grainy intelligence satellite pictures, the crackly tapes of the intercepted phone conversations among iraqi officials? how plausible it all sounded, especially when propounded by the most plausible figure in the bush ad- ministration. [ed. note: that's damning with faint praise!]
and the paper calls for a parlimentary investigation if no wmd turn up...the government investigating the reasons for the war? something you'll never find in this country
talkleft links us to the london independent, which wants to know, mr. blair, where are those weapons of mass destruction?
but, mr blair, where are they? a month has passed since american and british troops entered iraq, more than a week since the fall of baghdad. but thus far not even a sniff. not a drum of vx or mustard gas, not a phial of botulin or anthrax, not a shred of evidence that iraq was assembling a nuclear weapons programme.
but that wasn't what they told us. remember colin powell at the security council two months ago (though today it seems another age on another planet): the charts, the grainy intelligence satellite pictures, the crackly tapes of the intercepted phone conversations among iraqi officials? how plausible it all sounded, especially when propounded by the most plausible figure in the bush ad- ministration. [ed. note: that's damning with faint praise!]
and the paper calls for a parlimentary investigation if no wmd turn up...the government investigating the reasons for the war? something you'll never find in this country
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we can't tell you about the patriot act
this is frightening: found in the modesto bee (our second favorite newspaper named after an insect): what you read, watch, might be an open book.
is big brother watching the books you buy or the videos you rent? that question cannot be answered, under the usa patriot act.
the law, passed before the dust from sept. 11 settled, lets government agents seek court orders to seize records "for an investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities."
critics have sounded a warning because such court orders cannot be challenged. businesses are barred from telling anyone if they get one. not even congress can get an answer from the justice department on how many people are being monitored.
so, basically, you don't even have the right to ask if what you read is being monitored, because answering that question could put the country in danger.
danger of what? new ideas?
(thanks to wil wheaton, via tom tomorrow, for the link!)
this is frightening: found in the modesto bee (our second favorite newspaper named after an insect): what you read, watch, might be an open book.
is big brother watching the books you buy or the videos you rent? that question cannot be answered, under the usa patriot act.
the law, passed before the dust from sept. 11 settled, lets government agents seek court orders to seize records "for an investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities."
critics have sounded a warning because such court orders cannot be challenged. businesses are barred from telling anyone if they get one. not even congress can get an answer from the justice department on how many people are being monitored.
so, basically, you don't even have the right to ask if what you read is being monitored, because answering that question could put the country in danger.
danger of what? new ideas?
(thanks to wil wheaton, via tom tomorrow, for the link!)
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Saturday, April 19, 2003
blogging around
brad delong has the goods on the latest corporate accounting scandal: healthsouth.
our bud conrad of the gweilo diaries is having an adventure with a beautiful semi-famous indonesian television celebrity. and, conrad doesn't have sars!
dr. tom of thinking it through takes on lott and reynolds. again.
happy easter from lisa english of ruminate this!
brad delong has the goods on the latest corporate accounting scandal: healthsouth.
our bud conrad of the gweilo diaries is having an adventure with a beautiful semi-famous indonesian television celebrity. and, conrad doesn't have sars!
dr. tom of thinking it through takes on lott and reynolds. again.
happy easter from lisa english of ruminate this!
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wmd? uh, never mind
tenditious links us to an article from the guardian telling about the growing concern by the labour party that nobody has yet to turn up any weapons of mass destruction...thereby making mr. blair and awol's little war illegal:
tony blair is facing the threat of a fresh rebellion from labour backbenchers who are growing increasingly alarmed that the failure to uncover weapons of mass destruction in iraq will confirm that the war was illegal.
gosh, you don't think they were fibbing, do you?
tenditious links us to an article from the guardian telling about the growing concern by the labour party that nobody has yet to turn up any weapons of mass destruction...thereby making mr. blair and awol's little war illegal:
tony blair is facing the threat of a fresh rebellion from labour backbenchers who are growing increasingly alarmed that the failure to uncover weapons of mass destruction in iraq will confirm that the war was illegal.
gosh, you don't think they were fibbing, do you?
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change of address card
make a note, everybody, calpundit has a new url: calpundit.com (and, great new look to his blog! good work, kevin!)
make a note, everybody, calpundit has a new url: calpundit.com (and, great new look to his blog! good work, kevin!)
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the day the statue died
by popular demand (ok, madkane and the demveteran), here are the lyrics to the day the statue died:
did you write the patriot act,
and do you have faith in un’s pact?
if dick cheney tells you “no.”
do you believe in awol bush,
and should we save some arab tush,
and can you teach me how to snub nato?
well i know destruction could be mass
unless we kick iraqi ass,
we bombed them in basra.
i dig that shock and awe!
we left poor mosul in a pinch,
but israel thinks we’re a mensch,
while we were saving private lynch
the day the statue died.
i started singing
bye bye you iraqi bad guy
drove my hummer through the summer
but the bummer won’t die
and rummy’s boys drinkin’ whiskey and rye
sayin’ this’ll be the day saddam dies
this’ll be the day saddam dies.
by popular demand (ok, madkane and the demveteran), here are the lyrics to the day the statue died:
did you write the patriot act,
and do you have faith in un’s pact?
if dick cheney tells you “no.”
do you believe in awol bush,
and should we save some arab tush,
and can you teach me how to snub nato?
well i know destruction could be mass
unless we kick iraqi ass,
we bombed them in basra.
i dig that shock and awe!
we left poor mosul in a pinch,
but israel thinks we’re a mensch,
while we were saving private lynch
the day the statue died.
i started singing
bye bye you iraqi bad guy
drove my hummer through the summer
but the bummer won’t die
and rummy’s boys drinkin’ whiskey and rye
sayin’ this’ll be the day saddam dies
this’ll be the day saddam dies.
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"we want saddam back"
some iraqi's are not so happy with coalition forces, if by "some," we mean "hundreds of thousands."
some 50,000 people jammed the streets of al-sadr city, formerly known as saddam city, patrolled by kalashnikov-wielding guards.
hundreds of thousands poured out of mosques and demonstrated against washington’s presence. the sermons around the city offered the first clear reaction among muslim clergy to the three-week war and us occupation.
at the al-hikma mosque sheikh mohammad fartusi said the shia would not accept a brand of democracy “that allows iraqis to say what they want but gives them no say in their destiny.”
“this form of government would be worse than saddam hussein,” he said. he also urged the faithful to follow the hawza in najaf.
and things are still looking bad in mosul, according to the sfchron.
on wednesday, another shooting in mosul killed three people and wounded at least 11, including several who said american troops fired at them from rooftops. a marine sergeant near the scene said the americans were responding to fire from another rooftop.
they are killing us and no one's talking about it. we want saddam back," said zahra yassin, whose 17-year-old son was shot in the stomach and wounded. "let the embargo return. at least there was security
good thing this is getting plenty of coverage on cnn.
some iraqi's are not so happy with coalition forces, if by "some," we mean "hundreds of thousands."
some 50,000 people jammed the streets of al-sadr city, formerly known as saddam city, patrolled by kalashnikov-wielding guards.
hundreds of thousands poured out of mosques and demonstrated against washington’s presence. the sermons around the city offered the first clear reaction among muslim clergy to the three-week war and us occupation.
at the al-hikma mosque sheikh mohammad fartusi said the shia would not accept a brand of democracy “that allows iraqis to say what they want but gives them no say in their destiny.”
“this form of government would be worse than saddam hussein,” he said. he also urged the faithful to follow the hawza in najaf.
and things are still looking bad in mosul, according to the sfchron.
on wednesday, another shooting in mosul killed three people and wounded at least 11, including several who said american troops fired at them from rooftops. a marine sergeant near the scene said the americans were responding to fire from another rooftop.
they are killing us and no one's talking about it. we want saddam back," said zahra yassin, whose 17-year-old son was shot in the stomach and wounded. "let the embargo return. at least there was security
good thing this is getting plenty of coverage on cnn.
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mathematic irony
five demonstrators were arrested outside the pentagon yesterday.
at least five anti-war protesters were arrested outside the pentagon on friday when several dozen people tried to block subway entrances at the sprawling defense department headquarters, officials said.
glenn flood, a department spokesman, told reuters that five arrests were made by pentagon police after the group conducted what he and other defense officials called an annual anti-war protest made on good friday, a christian holy day remembering the crucifixion of jesus.
we're lucky it wasn't built in the shape of a triskadekagon or even more people would have been arrested.
five demonstrators were arrested outside the pentagon yesterday.
at least five anti-war protesters were arrested outside the pentagon on friday when several dozen people tried to block subway entrances at the sprawling defense department headquarters, officials said.
glenn flood, a department spokesman, told reuters that five arrests were made by pentagon police after the group conducted what he and other defense officials called an annual anti-war protest made on good friday, a christian holy day remembering the crucifixion of jesus.
we're lucky it wasn't built in the shape of a triskadekagon or even more people would have been arrested.
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buy talkleft! sell instapundit!
talkleft is (according to daily kos) apparently the highest priced blog on blogshares, a fantasy stock market to buy and sell interest in blogs. our own blog is "indexed, but not available for trading," whatever that means, thus reaffirming mrs. skippy's contention that what we do here everyday is pretty darn worthless. but we congratulate our friend talkleft, because she actually does fine work and very keen obeservation. go buy some shares!
addendum: whoops! we meant to say talkleft is the highest price "lefty" blog out there! didn't mean to slight all you righties! because we know the right never slights the left!
talkleft is (according to daily kos) apparently the highest priced blog on blogshares, a fantasy stock market to buy and sell interest in blogs. our own blog is "indexed, but not available for trading," whatever that means, thus reaffirming mrs. skippy's contention that what we do here everyday is pretty darn worthless. but we congratulate our friend talkleft, because she actually does fine work and very keen obeservation. go buy some shares!
addendum: whoops! we meant to say talkleft is the highest price "lefty" blog out there! didn't mean to slight all you righties! because we know the right never slights the left!
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letters...we get letters
a few bloggers sent us some alerts to what they're doing these days:
david marsden writes a funny asticle: bush polls topple (in iraq).
dave johnson notes that his post about "countering the right's mighty wurlitzer" (though we don't think republicans have such big organs) on his blog seeing the forest parallels some other blog writings, found specifically on the watch and hullabaloo and worldgonewrong.
a few bloggers sent us some alerts to what they're doing these days:
david marsden writes a funny asticle: bush polls topple (in iraq).
dave johnson notes that his post about "countering the right's mighty wurlitzer" (though we don't think republicans have such big organs) on his blog seeing the forest parallels some other blog writings, found specifically on the watch and hullabaloo and worldgonewrong.
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Friday, April 18, 2003
what we've been saying all along
it's a sad sad day when the co-star of cadillac man has more balls than the american journalistic community (thanks to the smirking chimp for the link!)
here's the entire transcript of what tim robbins said to the national press club on april 15. an excerpt:
a chill wind is blowing in this nation. a message is being sent through the white house and its allies in talk radio and clear channel and cooperstown. if you oppose this administration, there can and will be ramifications.
every day, the air waves are filled with warnings, veiled and unveiled threats, spewed invective and hatred directed at any voice of dissent. and the public, like so many relatives and friends that i saw this weekend, sit in mute opposition and fear.
as we said below, fascism creeps up on you, a little at a time.
it's a sad sad day when the co-star of cadillac man has more balls than the american journalistic community (thanks to the smirking chimp for the link!)
here's the entire transcript of what tim robbins said to the national press club on april 15. an excerpt:
a chill wind is blowing in this nation. a message is being sent through the white house and its allies in talk radio and clear channel and cooperstown. if you oppose this administration, there can and will be ramifications.
every day, the air waves are filled with warnings, veiled and unveiled threats, spewed invective and hatred directed at any voice of dissent. and the public, like so many relatives and friends that i saw this weekend, sit in mute opposition and fear.
as we said below, fascism creeps up on you, a little at a time.
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meanwhile, is it saddam or is it memorex?
abu dhabi tv aired a tape of what is purported to be saddam hussein greeting cheering crowds in baghdad, taken on what was purported to be april 9 (the day the statue died, and everyone was singing bye bye you iraqi bad guy drove my hummer thru the summer but you still didn't die and rummy's boys drinking whiskey and rye saying someone better make sure he dies...sorry, we were channeling madkane there for a second).
nobody is sure if (a) it really is saddam or (b) when the tape was shot. it does make one wonder though, if saddam's regime is dead, why does it keep popping up more than jason in the friday the 13th films?
abu dhabi tv aired a tape of what is purported to be saddam hussein greeting cheering crowds in baghdad, taken on what was purported to be april 9 (the day the statue died, and everyone was singing bye bye you iraqi bad guy drove my hummer thru the summer but you still didn't die and rummy's boys drinking whiskey and rye saying someone better make sure he dies...sorry, we were channeling madkane there for a second).
nobody is sure if (a) it really is saddam or (b) when the tape was shot. it does make one wonder though, if saddam's regime is dead, why does it keep popping up more than jason in the friday the 13th films?
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thanks for the help, now go home
tens of thousands of iraqi's are protesting their country's "occupation" by foreign troops in the streets of baghdad today.
the demonstration was peaceful, news agencies reported, but it provided dramatic new evidence that the ouster of saddam hussein's secular government has unleashed pent-up religious sentiment, especially among the country's long-repressed shiite muslim majority. in the absence of strong government, islam often provides the organizing principle, and the civic institutions, of muslim societies.
converging from several mosques, the demonstrators carried banners with such slogans as "no bush, no saddam, yes to islam," and "no to america, no to secular state, yes to islamic state." organizers said the demonstrators included both shiite muslims and sunnis, who represent the majority branch of islam is most muslim countries but a minority in iraq.
boy, that was sure a good idea. invade a country so it can turn muslim. smart thinking, awol!
tens of thousands of iraqi's are protesting their country's "occupation" by foreign troops in the streets of baghdad today.
the demonstration was peaceful, news agencies reported, but it provided dramatic new evidence that the ouster of saddam hussein's secular government has unleashed pent-up religious sentiment, especially among the country's long-repressed shiite muslim majority. in the absence of strong government, islam often provides the organizing principle, and the civic institutions, of muslim societies.
converging from several mosques, the demonstrators carried banners with such slogans as "no bush, no saddam, yes to islam," and "no to america, no to secular state, yes to islamic state." organizers said the demonstrators included both shiite muslims and sunnis, who represent the majority branch of islam is most muslim countries but a minority in iraq.
boy, that was sure a good idea. invade a country so it can turn muslim. smart thinking, awol!
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adventures in fascism continued
let's get one thing straight. nobody wakes up and says, "hey, let's make this a fascist country." it comes in teeny tiny increments, too subtle to be noticed, until, suddenly, it's difficult to speak your mind in what you heretofore thought was a free country.
the concentration camps didn't just spring up in germany all of a sudden. fascism comes slowly, inperceptively. that's what makes it so dangerous.
reggie rivers, writing in the denver post, talks about a man who hung an american flag upside down in his bookstore, indicating "distress," a metaphor in his mind for the political scene. he was visited by the police and threatened with arrest unless he took it down.
huh? it's against the law to hang the flag upside down? since when?
well, the aclu got into it and the city agreed the police were wrong. but by then someone had thrown a dead coyote on the bookstore's stoop, and the guy got the message.
shut up! fall in line! do not question! big brother is watching you!
it's not a "free market place of ideas" when someone anonymously, and cowardly, harrasses someone else with dead animal carcasses. that's domestic terrorism.
and as mr. rivers says in the post:
fleming's case illustrates the difficulty of protesting a war in a nation with such hawkish tendencies. war supporters don't fight back with words, they enlist law-enforcement officers, other government officials and corporations to silence dissent.
if you criticize the bush administration, congress or u.s. foreign policy, you're being unsupportive of the troops and the police may visit you.
if you protest through diplomatic channels - as france, germany and russia have done - you're cowardly and disloyal, and you'll be punished later when contracts are awarded in the rebuilding of iraq.
if you go on iraqi tv and criticize the war, as nbc's peter arnett did, you'll lose your job. if you make disparaging comments about u.s. aggression during a music concert, as the dixie chicks did, you'll be the target of a widespread corporate boycott.
all of this makes defense secretary donald rumsfeld's recent comments extremely interesting. on npr this week, rumsfeld responded to reports that iraqi citizens were protesting the interim government. he said that we shouldn't be surprised or dismayed that people in iraq were protesting. instead, we should celebrate because protests are a sign that they live in a free society.
talk about irony.
let's get one thing straight. nobody wakes up and says, "hey, let's make this a fascist country." it comes in teeny tiny increments, too subtle to be noticed, until, suddenly, it's difficult to speak your mind in what you heretofore thought was a free country.
the concentration camps didn't just spring up in germany all of a sudden. fascism comes slowly, inperceptively. that's what makes it so dangerous.
reggie rivers, writing in the denver post, talks about a man who hung an american flag upside down in his bookstore, indicating "distress," a metaphor in his mind for the political scene. he was visited by the police and threatened with arrest unless he took it down.
huh? it's against the law to hang the flag upside down? since when?
well, the aclu got into it and the city agreed the police were wrong. but by then someone had thrown a dead coyote on the bookstore's stoop, and the guy got the message.
shut up! fall in line! do not question! big brother is watching you!
it's not a "free market place of ideas" when someone anonymously, and cowardly, harrasses someone else with dead animal carcasses. that's domestic terrorism.
and as mr. rivers says in the post:
fleming's case illustrates the difficulty of protesting a war in a nation with such hawkish tendencies. war supporters don't fight back with words, they enlist law-enforcement officers, other government officials and corporations to silence dissent.
if you criticize the bush administration, congress or u.s. foreign policy, you're being unsupportive of the troops and the police may visit you.
if you protest through diplomatic channels - as france, germany and russia have done - you're cowardly and disloyal, and you'll be punished later when contracts are awarded in the rebuilding of iraq.
if you go on iraqi tv and criticize the war, as nbc's peter arnett did, you'll lose your job. if you make disparaging comments about u.s. aggression during a music concert, as the dixie chicks did, you'll be the target of a widespread corporate boycott.
all of this makes defense secretary donald rumsfeld's recent comments extremely interesting. on npr this week, rumsfeld responded to reports that iraqi citizens were protesting the interim government. he said that we shouldn't be surprised or dismayed that people in iraq were protesting. instead, we should celebrate because protests are a sign that they live in a free society.
talk about irony.
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syria: what's good for the goose is good for the (kosher) gander
according to reuters, syria is refusing weapons inspections (here we go again) but is willing to work to rid the entire middle east of wmd's. and this means you, israel! (thanks to antiwar.com for that link!)
asked by reporters in cairo whether syria would allow arms inspections, visiting foreign minister farouq al-shara said: "no...after this initiative, this syrian proposal (at the united nations)...syria won't allow any inspection. it will only participate with its (arab) brothers and all of the states of the world in turning the middle east into an area free of weapons of mass destruction."
but should syria be worrying? not according to the western press. but if you read the arabic press, you'll get a different answer.
according to reuters, syria is refusing weapons inspections (here we go again) but is willing to work to rid the entire middle east of wmd's. and this means you, israel! (thanks to antiwar.com for that link!)
asked by reporters in cairo whether syria would allow arms inspections, visiting foreign minister farouq al-shara said: "no...after this initiative, this syrian proposal (at the united nations)...syria won't allow any inspection. it will only participate with its (arab) brothers and all of the states of the world in turning the middle east into an area free of weapons of mass destruction."
but should syria be worrying? not according to the western press. but if you read the arabic press, you'll get a different answer.
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fan mail from some flounders
some other blogs have posted some writing they'd like us to note...
timmy the wonder dog likes scrapple face's latest: security council requests u.s. proposal to vote down
the daily kos has started a movement to draft clark.
hammerdown is looking at how rumsfeld lays another one ("bioweapons may be hard to find"...duh! could it be because there weren't any in the first place?) ps. spadehammer, we could have sworn we put your blog on our blogroll, an oversight we have corrected as of today!
and the better rhetor muses about awol's tendency to only tell us "what we need to know."
some other blogs have posted some writing they'd like us to note...
timmy the wonder dog likes scrapple face's latest: security council requests u.s. proposal to vote down
the daily kos has started a movement to draft clark.
hammerdown is looking at how rumsfeld lays another one ("bioweapons may be hard to find"...duh! could it be because there weren't any in the first place?) ps. spadehammer, we could have sworn we put your blog on our blogroll, an oversight we have corrected as of today!
and the better rhetor muses about awol's tendency to only tell us "what we need to know."
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Thursday, April 17, 2003
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warning! make sure you only use the genuine propaganda tools, not a knock-off!
thanks to cursor.org, we find out that there were fewer than 200 decks of those "iraqi most wanted" playing cards originally printed up, according to stars & stripes.
“everyone wants them,” a weary pentagon official said. they say, ‘not for me, you understand — for my mother,’ or ‘my friend,’ or ‘my cat’ or whatever. but we’ve never had a set here.”
the troops don’t have the cards yet, either, according to pentagon spokeswoman megan fox.
“the cards have been sent to centcom, but they have not been distributed yet,” fox said tuesday, after speaking to an official in qatar.
skippy's cat prefers a game of 'sorry.'
we guess then, these cards are not the real thing.
thanks to cursor.org, we find out that there were fewer than 200 decks of those "iraqi most wanted" playing cards originally printed up, according to stars & stripes.
“everyone wants them,” a weary pentagon official said. they say, ‘not for me, you understand — for my mother,’ or ‘my friend,’ or ‘my cat’ or whatever. but we’ve never had a set here.”
the troops don’t have the cards yet, either, according to pentagon spokeswoman megan fox.
“the cards have been sent to centcom, but they have not been distributed yet,” fox said tuesday, after speaking to an official in qatar.
skippy's cat prefers a game of 'sorry.'
we guess then, these cards are not the real thing.
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blogging around
happy birthday to echaton!
good stuff on the horse today, including an analysis of the anti-american rallies in iraq, some anti-petrosky backlash from the "bull durham" cancellation, and an action alert to let unabashed left robert scheer know there are some folks on his side.
eric alterman has some more on the media unable (unwilling?) to report the iraqi demonstrations, also.
liberal oasis says the bush plan for re-election is to "look busy."
happy birthday to echaton!
good stuff on the horse today, including an analysis of the anti-american rallies in iraq, some anti-petrosky backlash from the "bull durham" cancellation, and an action alert to let unabashed left robert scheer know there are some folks on his side.
eric alterman has some more on the media unable (unwilling?) to report the iraqi demonstrations, also.
liberal oasis says the bush plan for re-election is to "look busy."
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can he beam skippy's portfolio back to 1999?
the misanthropyst has a great story about an wall street insider trader with an inventive excuse: he's from the future:
federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic wall street trader on insider-trading charges - but he insists he's a time-traveller from the year 2256. andrew carlssin, 44, hasn't convinced investigators though.
like the misanthropyst, we're open to believing his story. it gives us hope for the future (and our own ability to go back to high school and punch out that jerk who gave us a melvin in front of that cute girl). and, don't be too quick to dismiss it out of hand:
in a bid for leniency, carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge "historical facts" such as the whereabouts of osama bin laden and a cure for aids...
officials are quite confident the "time-traveler's" claims are bogus. yet the source admits, "no one can find any record of any andrew carlssin existing anywhere before december 2002."
the misanthropyst has a great story about an wall street insider trader with an inventive excuse: he's from the future:
federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic wall street trader on insider-trading charges - but he insists he's a time-traveller from the year 2256. andrew carlssin, 44, hasn't convinced investigators though.
like the misanthropyst, we're open to believing his story. it gives us hope for the future (and our own ability to go back to high school and punch out that jerk who gave us a melvin in front of that cute girl). and, don't be too quick to dismiss it out of hand:
in a bid for leniency, carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge "historical facts" such as the whereabouts of osama bin laden and a cure for aids...
officials are quite confident the "time-traveler's" claims are bogus. yet the source admits, "no one can find any record of any andrew carlssin existing anywhere before december 2002."
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
the no spin zone spins out of control - again
think o'reilly learned his lesson when he called latinos "wetbacks" on the air? guess again.
oliver of the liquid list directs us to posts by oliver willis and tapped, reporting that bill o'reilly, while emceeing a dinner event for "best men," a charity for inner city kids, rem
think o'reilly learned his lesson when he called latinos "wetbacks" on the air? guess again.
oliver of the liquid list directs us to posts by oliver willis and tapped, reporting that bill o'reilly, while emceeing a dinner event for "best men," a charity for inner city kids, rem