Recent Dots . . .

February 1, 2005

• • • Yippee! An election? We still want to know who they were all voting for. With no campaigning, no media, no advanced ballots, how did anyone know who they were voting for? A government to be appointed later? A total of 59 people are dead and a British plane is shot down. How many people died during our last election? All this during a day of extreme security lockdown. Yes it's great that everyone got out for the day to do something productive but we think a much bigger turnout would be attained if they had "free gasoline day" or the "sign up for electricity bowl". How 'bout this on the ballot:
US go home? Y / N.

• • • Even Fox couldn't ignore this story but it sure isn't winning the coverage battle against the Michael Jackson trial.
"The U.S. occupation authority in Iraq was unable to keep track of nearly $9 billion it transferred to government ministries, which lacked financial controls, security, communications and adequate staff, an inspector general has found."
$9 BILLION! We just lost the gross national product of Sweden. Wasn't Whitewater about a few hundred grand worth of Arkansas forest and unproven to boot? BTW, at least 1.7 Billion is said to have gone into the coffers of Halliburton. Luckily Alberto "the torturer" Gonzales will be there to prosecute these f_ckin' thieves! Get your tickets now for your trip to Cheney Island formerly known as Oahu.
Bremer's missing billions

• • • Speaking of torture...Here's one guy we've never liked because of his pro war stance and his general looking straight down his nose arrogance. But he's miraculously redeemed himself with this little interview:
"...the instinct to cover for the administration among conservatives is very deep. The trouble is that this White House actively rewards those who praise it and cuts off and punishes any dissenters. I tried to be clear and dispassionate in my review. But very few other conservatives have even raised an iota of concern. I'd like to think that religious Christians, for whom torture should be anathema, would lead the charge. But they seem to be leading the defense."
Andrew Sullivan

• • •A few Photos:

• • • When the crowd just gets too unruly , and the fence just can't hold'em back , the cops are forced to do whatever they can to maintain order at the inauguration...
Freedom & Liberty

• • • Is that a lift ticket?
Dick Cheney:
Master Snowblower

• • • Sorry, no art, no music, today.
Just ScienceNOW

January 29, 2005

• • • **Must Read**

SEYMOUR M. HERSH
What the Pentagon can now do in secret.

"so long as the United States refuses to get involved. “France, Germany, and the U.K. cannot succeed alone, and everybody knows it,” the diplomat said. “If the U.S. stays outside, we don’t have enough leverage, and our effort will collapse.” The alternative would be to go to the Security Council, but any resolution imposing sanctions would likely be vetoed by China or Russia, and then “the United Nations will be blamed and the Americans will say, ‘The only solution is to bomb.’”

“‘Tell us what you know about Iran and we will let your A. Q. Khan guys go.’ It’s the neoconservatives’ version of short-term gain at long-term cost. They want to prove that Bush is the anti-terrorism guy who can handle Iran and the nuclear threat, against the long-term goal of eliminating the black market for nuclear proliferation.”

..."existence of a broad counter-terrorism Presidential finding that permitted the Pentagon “to operate unilaterally in a number of countries where there is a perception of a clear and evident terrorist threat. . . . A number of the countries are friendly to the U.S. and are major trading partners. Most have been cooperating in the war on terrorism.” The two former officers listed some of the countries—Algeria, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and Malaysia. (I was subsequently told by the former high-level intelligence official that Tunisia is also on the list.)"

"The most insidious implication of the new system is that Rumsfeld no longer has to tell people what he’s doing so they can ask, ‘Why are you doing this?’ or ‘What are your priorities?’ Now he can keep all of the mattress mice out of it.”

What the Pentagon can now do in secret.

• • • Remember Whitewater, that horrible scandal involving that horrible man Bill and the hundreds of millions the Republican lackey Kenneth Starr spent to bring him down. Remember the 24/7 coverage for months from the "liberal" press. The good folks at Salon do, and their short term memory is even better. They've put together a list of 34 scandals from our current administration and other Republicans that are getting swept under the rug. Just insert the name "John Kerry" into any one of these and imagine the Fox backed screaming for his un-American head.
34 scandals

• • • Bill O'Reilly caught simultaneously lying and being a huge ass.
The Radio Factor

Three links for the weekend:

• • • The Thought Project

• • • World Processor

• • • Cheval Noir

January 26, 2005

• • • Who's afraid of the big bad Bush? Not Gore Vidal. Who knows history? Gore Vidal does. Get a quick education on what our country really is, has been, and will be.
Gore Vidal on Bush's Inaugural Address: "The Most Un-American Speech I've Ever Heard"
Listen, Read, or Watch

• • • "Golly gee, if only I remembered I had all this extra cash."
The USS Propaganda is leaking. Who's next?
$21,000
thanks Ms. Brenda

• • • Looks like the Brits are starting (or being forced) to fess up about those pesky torture incidents.
"The home secretary, Charles Clarke, is expected to announce today that he will accept the law lords' ruling that the indefinite detention without trial of 12 terror suspects in Britain breaches human rights laws."
Via 1820 thanks Mike

• • • This just in... While in the midst of every child in America being turned gay by Sponge Bob, a revelation has hit the wire: "everyone over thirty is gay!" and here's the proof.
Drag

• • • Fun-freaky posters for Sonic Youth, the Cramps, the Pixies, the Cure, the Darkness, Supersuckers and many more.
Michael Michael Motorcycle

• • • The pinnacle of individual sports has arrived. Sounds silly but we're still laughing.
Wheelbarrow freestyle

January 22, 2005

• • • Fed up and just plain busy is the tone around here...
About a week ago we were losing a little starch in our fight, it was all getting too absurd. Hypocrisy was in full flight. Forged Niger enriched uranium document fake author Robert Joseph got promoted in the State Department and will now negotiate arms control with Iran and N. Korea. The President goes to war based on lies of weapons of mass destruction that we now know for sure were not there. How convenient for the President's re-election bid that we are just finding out now that they called off the search in October. Isn't it also interesting that the terror threat level color warnings have not been mentioned since, yet we needed the highest level of security ever seen for an inauguration, so high that the cost could only be paid for by the District of Columbia's terror fighting funds. Abu Gharib soldiers are sentenced for years for their acts of torture but the top guy writing the legal justification and AOK will now be our Attorney General. Using the same tactic to go to war, FEAR, the presidents began his assault on Social Security turning "security" into "risk". Yeah the poop was piling high and stinking up the land. This bit of fine observation sums up our thoughts...
Dancing with Wolves
But something has awoken our spirits. We've been saying for a while that our only hope is that they'll just go to far and the blind followers would get divine vision. We can't quite put our finger on it, but we felt something shift this week, maybe the massive arrogance of the administration and corporations to hold such a gaudy inauguration, maybe it's the record deficit that's a giant wall in front of all of Bush's proposed policies, the talk of going into Iran, the collapse of the Dollar and the rise of the Euro, the realization brought on by the tsunami that being a good Christian is more than hating gays, it's caring for the needy and poor, loving your neighbor and a dozen other things in the Bible that the administration has no respect for. Can you feel it, the tide is shifting friends, They've been flying too close to the sun and there's just a thin veneer of wax left on those wings.

• • • Ms. B points us to another great clearinghouse of sane thought. And wouldn't ya know the very first thing we see is a quote from our main man Thommy J that we've been looking for. Can it get any more clear than this:

"Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every persons life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state," therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society."

Thomas Jefferson, 1808

Counter Punch

• • • The best reason for God creating icebergs.
or...
The worst vacation ever.
Cruise with...

• • • Enough of the passive resistance.
Install this where applicable.
The FoxBlocker

• • • Some Wilco bootlegs showing off the visuals behind the band by...
Candy Stations

• • • Diamonds, kooky kittens, steel boxes, Irishmen, and much much more...
Playing Along with African E-mail Scams

• • • Our old friend Daze makes an out of yard appearance at this gallery show...
Tag The System

January 12, 2005

• • • "In Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here," a conservative southern politician is helped to the presidency by a nationally syndicated radio talk show host. The politician - Buzz Windrip - runs his campaign on family values, the flag, and patriotism. Windrip and the talk show host portray advocates of traditional American democracy — those concerned with individual rights and freedoms — as anti-American. That was 69 years ago."
Sermon: Living Under Fascism 

Thanks Brian K

• • • Bill O'Reilly ("Clooney strenuously objected to “The Factor” investigation that uncovered problems in distributing the 9/11 money, even though we proved our case and the Red Cross revamped its entire operation because of it.")
VS.
George Clooney ("First, to clarify, it was not the Red Cross but the United Way that sponsored that telethon... an easy mistake to make... if you're 3.")
(the links of their comments are at the to of the article)

• • • Credit is due to Ms. Brenda for the "wake up" to
Common Dreams.

• • • With some 21 million votes the Peoples Choice Award for Best Picture goes to...
Fahrenheit 9/11

• • • Gallery of Computation...
Complexification

January 7, 2005

• • • If 150,000 plus dead from a natural disaster is a horrible event. What do you call an estimated 2 million dead from a man made genocide in Sudan? We have to ask, If all of our TV's, clothes, and cheap plastic goods were made by black faces would it finally get the same attention?

• • • Torture fip-flopper Gonzales...
The ethic-less ethics of the oily House of Republicans...
Disposable reservists...
Supreme tire rotation and fowl flighty Justices...
Our favorite NY Times Diva shows us how to fry an administration in 500 words or less.
Dowd
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• • • After reading that we kinda feel like
this.
Epileptics beware.

• • • Why we've always used Macs.
Crash
Thanks Bishop

• • • 2wenty 4our reasons not to visit Budapest and one good reason to visit this site. Shining like music to boot.
Digitalized

• • • Sorry Katz, couldn't find the Italian Ice clip.

January 4, 2005

• • • A momentous day it is as we add a site to our list on the right of "Sites we can't live without". Much to read, much to learn, gobs of links, with an abundance of enlightenment you won't find from any mainstream media source. The antithesis of fox news, akin to Democracy Now. The fabulous mushroom cloud of truth that is...
Common Dreams.

• • • We're often asked: Where did you get that T-shirt?
We just can't keep a secret from our readers.
Shop. Participate.
Threadless

• • • Free Mag, cool interface, get past the first half and you'll find what we found interesting:
Shanghai Surprise (photos).
Mikkel Holmbo (paintings).
Encore Issue 5

January 3, 2005

• • • The end of Habeas Corpus as we know it.
The new plan by the administration is to hold detainees possibly for life without ever getting a trial and we'll have to pay to build special prisons to house them.
Long-term

• • • OK, this fox news affiliate, tells it's investigative reporters to lie about their findings that Monsanto's bovine growth hormone could be harmful, the reporters refuse and are then fired. They file a suit based on the Whistleblower Act and loose. The judge says it's OK for a news organization to lie. Well, don't mess with the truth, it may get your licence to broadcast tossed.
Journalists petition FCC to challenge Fox-13 license renewal.

• • • Has anyone noticed that Bush was on vacation again, well, it was the Holiday Season. Has anyone noticed that his "ranch" near Crawford,( the property that he bought right before he ran for President to keep it looking like he is a Texan and not a cheerleading Yaley from Connecticut) , which really isn't a working ranch, is now being referred to as ...
The "Crawford White House".

• • • "They worry about their careers because poor folks are up to no good."
"They play sports and pick fights to satisfy evolutionary nostalgia; faking struggle feels good , I guess"
Suburban_Creatures

• • • Star Trek geek pad, really cool backyard fort, or just safer than the Jones'
Life Assurance

December 30, 2004

• • • Amidst the branding of the administration with the Religious Right, you know, those folks who parade Jesus around like Sponge Bob at the Macy's parade. The President, seems to be forgetting all that his top advisor (Jesus) has taught him: the charity, the helping of the poor and needy and such. He does seem to remembering his inaugural festivities of four years ago as just not big enough. Even with the upping of aid from 15 million to 35 million it doesn't even match what he'll be spending to crown himself this time around.
Stingy? Yes!

• • • You gotta keep'em dumb if their gonna keep voting Republican. In an effort to breed a whole new generation of voters, the President has seen fit to cut Pell Grants for poor college students and in the process making us so much more competitive in the world. If you couple this with how ridiculously hard it now is for any foreign student to get into this country, and how so many want to leave here after getting an education due to fear and bigotry, we're well on our way to being a 2nd world nation. Now if he can only find another 100 ways to cut social programs it'll make up for the one he's promoting in Iraq.
Grants?

• • • In response to that horrible incident of fetus snatching this device has been created for a more humane method of forced delivery.
Patent no.3,216,423

• • • Spreading the Good Word:
A Missionary's Guide.
Via McSweeney's
By Wendy Molyneux

• • • Is there really a heightened sense of security in this country. How safe would your card be if stolen? One artist decided to find out.
Zug

December 28, 2004

• • • On a recent trip to California, while playing Poker with some friends and new acquaintances, we were troubled to learn that one of them, a reservist, in town to test for his annual certification, was told to go find some place to sleep, "there wasn't enough beds". He then let us on to a little known fact: many reservists returning home from Iraq have to pay their own airfare! All this makes the following story not so hard to believe...
Homeless

• • • As Bush tries to posture the US as a the dominant world power, a new world order does indeed seem to be emerging... "As an economic power, the United States no longer sets the rules, much less rule the game."
China Expands. Europe Rises. And the United States . . .

And this ominous announcement isn't making us feel any better about the Bush foreign policy. "Russia and China are set to hold unprecedented joint military maneuvers"
How does this headline escape the American press?
Feel safer now?

• • • Last minute gift for the music lover in your life.
Bowl

• • • She's a nun. You're F-cked!
Kate

• • • Whatever happened to that old teddy?
The Urban Beast Project

December 23, 2004

• • • As the biggest loss of American lives story hits the wire it is promptly put aside so the real war story can be told.
The most incredibly ridiculous right wing media campaign to date...
The War on Christmas

• • • A shortage of Festivus poles has created this phenomenon...
Floating

• • • From the creator of such hits as, "The Ex-Presidents" and "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" comes Robert Smigel's best yet...
Blue Christmas

• • • There comes a time in life when you just have to get serious about your passions. Stop messin' around, get organized! The Warriors would be proud. Warm ups recommended for bad rotator cuffs.
S F NYC

December 21, 2004

• • • We've been duped.
Our good friends at Hotwax Residue point out that our last post is actually attributed to...well we'll quote:
"George Carlin very emphatically denied he had had anything to do with
"Paradox," a piece he referred to as "a sappy load of shit," and posted his comments about being associated with this essay on his own web site.
The true author of the piece is neither George Carlin nor Jeff Dickson, nor is he anonymous. Credit belongs with Dr. Bob Moorehead, former pastor of Seattle's Overlake Christian Church."
(http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/paradox.asp)

Decomber 19, 2004

• • • "The paradox of our time in history is that we have
taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider
freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more,
but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have
bigger houses and smaller families, more
conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees
but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment,
more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but
less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too
recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get
too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read
too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our
values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate
too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life.
We've added years to life not life to years. We've
been all the way to the moon and back, but have
trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.
We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've
done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We
write more, but learn less. We plan more, but
accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to
wait. We build more computers to hold more
information, to produce more copies than ever, but
we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow
digestion, big men and small character, steep
profits and shallow relationships. These are the
days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier
houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick
trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one
night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do
everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and
nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can
bring this letter to you, and a time when you can
choose either to share this insight, or to just hit
delete.
Remember, spend some time with your loved ones,
because they are not going to be around forever.
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to
you in awe, because that little person soon will
grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you,
because that is the only treasure you can give with
your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and
your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and
an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep
inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for
someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time
to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we
take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
If you don't send this to at least 8 people....who cares?"

GEORGE CARLIN (His wife recently died...)
Isn't it amazing that George Carlin - iconoclastic and
mouthy comedian of the 70's and 80's - could write
something so very eloquent ...and so very
appropriate post 9-11.

December 13, 2004

• • • As a shining example of how the main stream media refuses to do any work to get a story and will simply react to whatever drops on their up-armored heads. Shocker of shockers, we don't have enough up-armored trucks and humvees (and don't forget flak jackets and kevlar helmets).
Apparently, this is "news" even though there were oodles of "reporters" at this press conference with Rumsfeld as the star and this soldier asking:

"Sir, my unit, the 2nd Brigade -- (inaudible) -- Cav, we have five out of the six red zones in this country.  And with the up- armored humvees, the new -- (off mike) -- humvees they're bringing over with the -- (inaudible) -- those doors are not as good as the ones on the up-armored humvees -- (inaudible).  We even lost quite -- we lost some soldiers due to them, and we're trying to make a change -- (inaudible).  The question is, are we going to get more up-armored humvees?"

Sound familiar? No, this is not from Rumsfeld's visit last week... it's from 7 months ago!

Full transcript from the DOD website.
Boy that Rumsfeld really reacts quick!
Just another whopping failure to support our troops.

• • • A heads up not to miss the last NOW on PBS with Bill Moyers as the host on Dec. 17."

"We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people."

• • • That story makes this story all the more scary.
Fox News chosen as the news source for Clear Channel.

• • • Having done a bit of travel lately, we've been privy to quite a few "private" conversations. This site has read our minds.
The Theatre of the Barely Socially Acceptable

• • • "if one truly had eye sockets half the size of its head, or fingerless-hands, or feet comprising 60% of its body mass."
Michael Paulus "Skeletal Systems"

• • • Bad girl, bad.

December 2, 2004

• • • Just getting up from that turkey triptophan "trip". Sorry for the lack of posts. Actually we're trying to get our site moved onto some actual blog software but we haven't had the time to get the bugs ironed out. We've had too many requests for an rss feed to keep up the "vining". Plus we need an easier way for our guest editors to post . Sorry in advance for the lack of posts, but we'll be in Vegas for a bit. Vegas, Baby!

OK, one post to leave you with that should keep you busy...
To all the religious right and their eagerness for a religiodeocracy - "this nation was founded on Christian principles by Christians"- blah, blah, blah. Who's really practicing revisionist history?
Go back to history 101 with our main man...
Thomas Jefferson.

"our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right."

A few more:

Man was this guy a liberal. Straight out of the left playbook!

Fiscal responsibility:
"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared."

Also, this covers a few topics (gay marriage, creationism stem cell research, etc.:
"bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education & free discussion are the antidotes of both."

Substitute "Arab citizens" for "Indians" here:
"the two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice & fear. after the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us . . . ."

and we haven't even touched the separation of church and state thing .

All this and much, much, more at the newly facelifted
Library of Congress

November 23, 2004

Hey assholes, that's my Mother your talking about:

• • • Just in time for the holidays, more love and understanding from the ever mor(on)al Mr. Falwell:
Reverend Jerry Falwell, national chairman of the Faith and Values Coalition and Moral Majority founder, labeled the National Organization for Women (NOW) the "National Order of Witches," said he was going to invite People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to Christian men's gatherings called "Wild Game Night" so that they "can sit there and suffer," and called Americans United for Separation of Church and State "an anti-Christ" group.
Witches

• • • Not to be out done, 38 year old bow tie boy, Tucker Carlson, chimes in with his version of fem bashing.
Mustache

• • • Disclaimer stickers for Science text books.

• • • Blasphemy or Brilliance... you make the call.
John breaks.

• • • It's official. Ponchos are back!

• • • Take your marks....set...Plagiarize!

• • • "To all my friends, my friends." M. Rourke Barfly
top deck

• • • Einstein's Special Theory of Relatives:
...Spaghettisburg Dressing being a spaghetti casserole with turkey dressing that Albert's wife devised...
The Lost Theories of Einstein

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us @ TLD!

November 20, 2004

• • • As if right on cue. A pro sport meleé via Pistons / Pacers. Thank the almighty lord there were no white women with naked backs involved. We can all sleep soundly.

November 19, 2004

• • • Once again violence is the preferred sin in our country.
We've all seen the Terrell Owens - Nicolette Sheriden Monday Night Football intro and the subsequent uproar and media blitz. Does anyone see the irony that this happened in concert with a very violent sport. Just last week we saw grown men fighting, fists swinging, before that game even started. A felony that went unpunished. Players are frequently permanently injured while we cheer on. Now don't get us wrong, we like football and actually have season tickets to the Lightning (at this rate possibly the last team to ever hold the Stanley Cup). Our point is simply to illuminate the irony that seeing a bare woman's back is grounds for this moral outrage. And we didn't even get to see a nip or butt cheek. Maybe a good stiff arm woulda made it OK.

• • • Now for more moral outrage. DJ Norwood (creator of the fabulously informative political blog "blogwood") and the "Morning Wood" show have been cancelled/terminated by Program Director Randy Wynn at our local community radio station WMNF for very selective reasons. All on the complaint of one person. We've listened to the entire show (aired between 4 and 6 AM - during the relaxed time of FCC rules) and yes there's one F word, a figurative use of a bodily function - in song, a tribute to the late Old Dirty Bastard, and - this is probably the source of the call - a song with the Lyric "get your Jesus off my penis". All that being said it was quite Innocuous.
Listen for yourself.
Here's our letter that we fired off.

We are quite perturbed over the recent cancellation of Morning Wood. Your reasoning for this seems to be quite selective as we have heard many of these "words" during daytime hours. We've always found your station to be the last bastion of sanity in this often ridiculously conservative city. This makes your decision all the more baffling. Are you really reacting to one complaint? Have your fears of the FCC been realized? Will he be reinstated if your fears are not? Is this based purely on the fear of losing money? Are you combining the blog with the broadcast to base your decision? Have you personally listened to the broadcast in it's entirety? Quite frankly you seem to be bowing in fear to a hypothetical situation, one that we would hope would require a defense from you , not an offense to Mr. Norwood. We have donated money to your station, are rabid listeners, and will be or are (we haven't seen it if it's out) listed in the Directory. We will continue to support the station in the hopes that someday our funds may used to defend a DJ from this nonsense, not just for your new building.
Words, words. They are just words. Words used in musical expression.
In our opinion this is surely a low point for OUR station.
Bring back our Wood!

November 17, 2004

• • • WARNING! This video for Adult viewing only.
(via Scottish .com-munists at 1820)
OK, this is just sick. We are certainly not winning the "hearts and minds" or any PR war with this kind of abuse of the Geneva Convention (article three: "The wounded and sick shall be collected and cared for. "). I'm sure every Iraqi can't wait to be just like us. Where's the moral outrage from the Right over these lives?
This "great victory" could very well be our greatest defeat.
Can you say..."War crimes."
Video 1

Read: Killing Wounded Prisoners And The Conscience Of Humanity

Video 2

video 3

That's it for today...off to vomit.

November 16, 2004

• • • Submit your apology today! Thanks Rachel K.
Sorry Everybody.

• • • A collection of unexpected photography.
File Magazine

• • • Just click the black boxes.
Metabiotics

• • • "A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work. Treating your audience like thieves is absurd."
Wired Interview: Jeff Tweety of Wilco

• • • Why your opinion is worthless. And Malcom's isn't.
"Worth" the listen.

November 10, 2004

• • • Cluster bombing a city, killing untold civilians...not shocking.
Destroying the last medical dispensary and most likely the doctors and staff in it...not shocking.
Blowing up anything over two stories tall...not shocking.
No news or reports on insurgent or civilian casualties...not shocking.
Pledging 90 million to rebuild the city at the very moment we are turning it to dust...not shocking.
Finding the dank apartment where the terrorists beheaded hostages...shocking!
If the media were "liberal", would this really be the lead story?

• • • Why?

• • • "Liberals are not against religion. They are against hypocrisy, exclusion and judgmentalism. They resist the notion that one side or the other possesses "the truth" to the exclusion of others. There is a great difference between Cotton Mather and John Wesley."
Hart

• • • A veteran Foreign Service officer warns that when Colin Powell departs in a second Bush term, America will lose its last bulwark against the radical ideologues who are planning more Iraqs.
The State Department's extreme makeover

• • • Some music...
homegrown

• • • Some web design...
Billy Harvey

• • • Some photography...
New from Marshall Sokoloff
Three Sisters

November 8, 2004

In a bit of a hiatus but this needs to get off our chests:

• • • So we're getting ready for a big shindig in Fallujah. Which brings up a few glaring questions. Why is it not plain as a sunny day in the Sahara that the fact that this is happening after the election is not an absolute admission by the Bush Administration that everything they're doing over there is political? Were the suicide bombings, the burning of hung soldiers of mercy, the beheadings, not worthy of an attack? Is the only thing that gets us motivated a successful election for the right? And how transparrent is it all now? Very, to us. Yet, oops we didn't put those dots together, from the Media. Also if we were serious about getting these "insurgents" why are we pre advertising our attack? We know why. The insurgent tactic has been to simply disappear into the common folk and wait for the US to move on, then reappear later somewhere else. Knowing this, won't it appear to be a fantastic quick victory? Yes there will be some small battles and we'll lose a few soldiers, this will give the media the pics they need to bolster the small offensive into a great battle. Stay tuned...

November 5, 2004

• • • In an effort to heal our nation we've come up with this T-shirt. We like to call it a "uni-t"
front:

back

Different shirt styles and other items to follow.
Purchase here on Cafepress.com/tinylittledots.

The Day After

• • • Hats really don't taste that bad, it's the texture. Republicans, you are the winners, proving once again you can win with a campaign based on blatant lies and severe character assassination. Yes it was a defeat for our side but it is hardly an overwhelming victory for Bush. The nation is still pretty evenly divided. One thing for sure is there will be no hiding from their own record this time around. The situation in Iraq is still a mess, the deficit is still rising like a helium filled feather, corporate greed is at it's highest, taxes for the rich are at their lowest, healthcare is still a mess, the Canadians are still the only ones who deserve fair drug prices, oil is still over $50 a barrel, science will continue to take a back seat to religion, and our school system (especially in Fla.) is taking a beating. Thank God, we're safe from Iraqis.
It's very interesting that the pundits are referring to this victory as a win for Karl Rove and a defeat for Kerry. We have to point out what we feel are the glaring Kerry campaign errors.

SWIFTies: Kerry should have constantly reminded that none of the Bush cabinet save Powell have any military experience. All draft dodgers, all of them. He should have made readily available the speech he gave to congress that was severely taken out of context to smear him. He should have assaulted McCain to defend him, held his feet to the flames and not let him get away with his silence on his relationship with Kerry.

Fli-Flop: My God! Bush's whole four years are rife with flip-flops. One simple ad listing the litany of flops would have done wonders.

87 Billion: First it was ignored that the need for the 87 billion was an admission by the Bush war machine that he was way too confident and unprepared going in.
Why Kerry never fully and concisely stated why he was for then against is incomprehensible. He voted against it because by the time the bill hit the floor it was severely altered from when it was introduced, it did not come bundled with the "Plan" Bush had PROMISED the American people. It also included a 20 Billion slush fund for Halliburton that was added in with no explanation as to what it was for. Finally, it was a protest vote!
It didn't matter if he voted no it was slated to pass by an overwhelming majority. Kerry knew it would pass whether he voted for it or not.

The lies: At some point you have to call a spade a spade, he should have used the word; lies, liar, lying. It is incredibly easy to show with video the way they twisted his words and positions.

Cultural issues: Since when are good Christians accepting of lies, pro-war, pro-gun, and against the poor and weak. Bush went on vacation more than he went to church. He never even "met" God till after a lifetime of benders.

We've heard the "America needs to heal and unite" speech from Bush but this is the same speech he gave last time. We feel it is not the reponsibility for our side to make the first move. Bush didn't exactly run a campaign that makes us feel all warm and fuzzy about coming into the fold. Bush will have to "throw us a bone" or three to prove he really wants unity. We hope for this but by track record alone he is likely to steamroll his vision on the half of us.
Like Kerry said, no one expected, two yers ago, one year ago, six months ago, or even three weeks ago, tha it would even be close. We are still half the country and we will not be ignored. Besides, we have to defeat Jeb in '08

W, America is behind you 51%.
Here's to another four years of tiny little dots!

Election Day 11:45 PM, 2004

• • • Champagne in one hand.
Lightly salted hat in the other.

Election Day 1:30 AM, 2004

• • • Kerry, in a landslide. If so, will the Republicans part gracefully with their power?

October 29, 2004

• • • So 380 tons of "stuff" goes missing. Bush answers with, "Oh that stuffs everywhere, and it was probably stolen by someone when Clinton was President." Well...
Now there's video of a few US soldiers guiding an ABC embedded reporter through the Al Qaqaa ammo bunkers after the war had started. This article brings it all in focus and raises some serious questions. One we have is: If we were really looking for weapons of mass destruction, why was this Manhattan size stretch of desert, peppered with house size bunkers, just left to the wind? We also learn that this is just one of 500 or so sites that are unprotected and/or uninspected. Did we really have enough troops to do the job?

And now, Rudy Giuliani has blamed the troops:

"No matter how you try to blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there," Giuliani said on NBC's "Today" show. "Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?"
Mom

• • • White House Menu

• • • coloring, crashing, coloring, crashing, burn.

October 27, 2004

• • • "If you are an Evangelical you are automatically pro gun and pro war...Evangelicals have reduced Christianity to two things: Gay rights, and Abortion."
Hijacking the church, the right has ignored the teachings of Jesus. Love your enemy, promote peace and tolerance. Abortion? Under Clinton, abortions dropped 50% to a 24 year low. Under Bush, it has risen every year.
Tony Campolo
The Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education

• • • Government ain't pretty.
Paul Shambroom
Meetings

• • • Every damn thing Vermeer!
Essential

• • • via McSweeny's
Excerpts from Dagwood Bumstead's intervention.
by John Moe

October 26, 2004

• • • You'd think Bush's handlers would have learned from the debates not to let their pup go out in public. As part of their final push towards the election, Bush is being sent out to do something he's done less than any other President in History:
Give an interview! Don't get too excited, he's is only giving them to the righty pundies. Unfortunately, even that's not staged enough.
"Up in the Air"

• • • Here's about a hundred semi trucks full of reasons not to feel safer under this Administration. Think about it. You have to have serious logistical support: lots of people, fork lifts, fuel, trucks (big ones), clear transportation routes and clandestine destinations. All under the watch of the neo-con's and their fantasy of how this war was going to play out.
Three Hundred and Eighty (380)

• • • If you missed Jon Stewart on Crossfire, here it is in it's entirety. Don't miss classics like:
"No, I won't be your Monkey"
"You're a bigger dick on your show..."
and much, much, more!
Jon vs. Tucker

• • • Publisher of the Month.
Redstone

• • • Two reasons to be in NY Dec. 31. Pre sale Nov. 1
Wilco w/ Lips

• • • Also hear.

October 22, 2004

• • • Not your average sign stealing story.
"Jan said she and her husband have never done anything like this...".
Signs

• • • I hates it when my own kin... I can torture 'em? Can't I?
relatives

• • • Enough politics! Where's the f'in art?
Clear your calendar.
28mm

October 20, 2004

• • • Who is fit to lead this country in war? Apparently resumés are not required in this endeavor.
Democrats
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with
Combat V Purple Hearts.
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91.
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven
campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars, and Soldier's Medal.
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam;
Bronze Star with Combat V.
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star
* George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
* Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311.
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18
Clusters.
* Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.

Republicans
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by
marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple
Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem," although continued in NFL for 8 years.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.

Pundits & Preachers
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.')
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
* John Wayne: did not serve.
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
* Ralph Reed: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
* Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
* Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things that don't
shoot back.)

October 19, 2004

• • • Welcome back. Where the f have we been?! Well, just soakin' it all in after the debates. Most of you out there are not privy to the onslaught of campaign commercials and it is entirely ugly and predictable from the right. To sum up, Kerry is a half Jew, closet homo, more liberal than a pot smokin' peacenik straight out of the Haight, whole raise your taxes to about an 89% tax bracket enabling the terrorist immigrants to have flu shots before your grandmother, while suing every doctor out of business thus allowing Osama to qualify for the Nobel Peace Prize, and release Saddam to take over Saudi Arabia. Oh, and you, yes you, keep your eyes on this amulet, you are scared, you are getting very scared, when you hear the sound of my voice say "liberal" you will become very, very, scared.

• • • The world is watching this race with a concern never seen before. We're quite aware of most non-Americans feeling disenfranchised, we know your fate is also riding. So what can you do? Visit here first...
go and tell

• • • As the Red Sox force a game seven, we are reminded of a recent conversation about how great the parity would be in Baseball without those pinstripes. Plus we're a bunch of Met fans.
Yankee fan?

• • • Oh Bill.
Falafelfactor

• • • "From Lynne Cheney, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, comes a riveting tale of women in the American frontier. "
Sisters

October 12, 2004

• • • Media giant Sinclair plans to air an hour long anti-Kerry film in primetime. It plans to argue that the documentary is news. This is the same company that refused to show the Nightline where the names of all the fallen soldiers were read. If you are against this you can contact them or your local Sinclair affiliate and let them know. You could channel block them permanently on your cable or satellite system and you could surely let their sponsors know how you feel, it's the American way.
BOYCOTT SINCLAIR

• • • Now let's discuss what they plan on saying in this "news" piece. This also addresses the SWIFT ads on this same issue.
First let us state that this is clearly a repeat of the original SWIFT controversy that gave the President his largest lead a month ago. It is important that the truth gets out ahead of this "story". A good way to look at it is that they are getting desperate. Kerry's statements are completely taken out of context and in most cases he is quoting others statements. These statements are attributed to Kerry in the SWIFT ADs and we suspect also in the Sinclair production. We've posted this before a few months back. We highly suggest you watch the speech on this site below. You WILL be amazed at the picture the ads paint in comparison to his actual words in context. You WILL be even more amazed at the eloquence, the sincerity, and the composure of this man as a 27 year old veteran in the midst of the turmoil that was the early 70's while speaking to the world. Here's a quote to get you started, the rest is linked below:

KERRY:
" Several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia. Not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with a full awareness of officers at all levels of command. It's impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit. The emotions in the room, the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam. But they did. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do. They told the stories of times that they had personally raped, cut off the ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in the fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country. We called this investigation the Winter Soldier Investigation. The term ‘winter soldier’ is a play on words of Thomas Paine's in 1776 when he spoke of the “sunshine patriot and summertime soldiers” who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough. We who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country and we could be quiet. We could hold our silence. We could not tell what went on in Vietnam. But we feel because of what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes threaten it, not reds, not red coats, but the crimes which we are committing are what threaten it, and we have to speak out. I would like to talk to you a little bit about what the result is of the feelings these men carry with them after coming back from Vietnam. The country doesn't know it yet, but it's created a monster. A monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence and who are given the chance to die for the biggest nothing in history. Men who have returned with a sense of anger and a sense of betrayal which no one has yet grasped. As a veteran and one who feels this anger, I would like it talk about it. We are angry because we feel we have been used in the worst fashion by the administration of this country. In 1970, at West Point, Vice President Agnew said, “Some glamorize the criminal misfits of society while our best men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedoms which those misfits abuse. And this was used as a rallying point for our effort in Vietnam. But for us, his boys in Asia, whom the country was supposed to support, his statement as a terrible distortion from which we can only draw a very deep sense of revulsion and hence the anger of some of the men who are here in Washington today. It's a distortion because we in no way considered ourselves the best men of this country. Because those he calls misfits were standing up for us in a way that nobody else in this country dared to. Because so many who have died would have returned to this country to join the misfits in their efforts to ask for an immediate withdrawal from South Vietnam. Because so many of those best men have returned as quadriplegics and amputees and they lie forgotten, in Veterans' Administration hospitals in this country, which fly the flag, which so many have chosen as their own personal symbol. And we cannot consider ourselves America's best men when we were ashamed of and hated what we were called on to do in Southeast Asia. In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen, that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos, but linking such loss to the preservation of freedom which those misfits supposedly abuse, is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy. And it's that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart. We are probably much more angry than that, and I don't want to go into the foreign policy aspects because I am outclassed here. I know that all of you have talked about every possible – every possible alternative to getting out of Vietnam. We understand that. We know that you've considered the seriousness of the aspects to the utmost level and I'm not going to try and deal on that. But I want to relate to you the feeling which many of the men who have returned to this country express. Because we are probably angriest about all that we were told about Vietnam and about the mystical war against communism. We found that not only was it a civil war, an effort by a people who had for years been seeking their liberation from any colonial influence whatsoever, but also we found that the Vietnamese, whom we had enthusiastically molded after our own image, were hard put to take up the fight against the threat we were supposedly saving them from. We found that most people didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy. They only wanted to work in rice paddies without helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm, burning their villages and tearing their country apart. They wanted everything to do with the war, particularly with this foreign presence of the United States of America, to leave them alone in peace. And they practiced the art of survival by siding with whichever military force was present at a particular time, be it Viet Cong, North Vietnamese, or American. We found also that all too often, American men were dying in those rice paddies for want of support from their allies. We saw first hand how monies from American taxes was used for a corrupt dictatorial regime. We saw that many people in this country had a one-sided idea of who was kept free by our flag, as blacks provided the highest percentage of casualties. We saw Vietnam ravaged equally by American bombs, as well as by search-and-destroy missions, as well as by Viet Cong terrorism. Yet we listened while this country tried to blame all of the havoc on the Viet Cong. We–"
Kerry '71 Speech

October 11, 2004

• • • One of the hardest parts about discussing the Iraq war is that most folks don't seem to have a real notion of what war is really like. This is understandable. Most folks haven't been in a war or don't know anyone who has. Us included. But a wise man once said, "how can you truly know another's situation if you can't put yourself in their shoes."
Now we know some may get their Jollies and we're not in the habit of presenting shock schlock. We also have no idea what the situation is or who these people are in the video. However it is a very revealing and disturbing look into how things operate. Be sure to hear the audio.
Dude

• • • A look at what Bush is ignoring in N.Korea and Iran in favor of the nothing we've found in Iraq. 100 Suns

• • • The real deal BUSH FLIP-FLOP list.

• • • Need a more visual way of BUSH FLIP-FLOP 'ing?

• • • Sick of that crystal digital audio? Yearn for that warm full Analog sound?
Gakken

October 6, 2004

• • • We've seen the steaming stammering Bush. Get ready for the obviously trying not to be steaming and stammering Bush. Look closely when Kerry brings up the domestic record of a real Republican deficit hawk... Bush Sr.

Will we hear about this first real threat due to our spiraling deficit:
..analysts say Congress is likely to back Mr Snow's call for an increase in the limit, as failure to do so could force the government to default on its debt, triggering chaos on global financial markets.

The US government has never defaulted on its debt in its 228-year history.
The Bush Cookbook

• • • We love a good hack.
VP Cheney has instructed the public to go check his facts at factcheck.com. If you go there you mysteriously get redirected to... well, you'll find out.
What Cheney really meant to say was go to factcheck.org.
Unfortunately, it just gets worse for his "facts" there.

Cheney fun fact:
He headed up the VP search committee in 2000 and couldn't find one Republican for the job. The rest is history.

• • • Summer's over, winter's on it's way. We see plenty of these.
Could this be the year us Tampanians gets to see a few of these. Save your tiny jokes.

October 6, 2004

• • • We're sitting here digesting the VP debate. Sitting... Digesting...
Doing his best ogre routine, Cheney smacked away with the attacks both personally and politically as Edwards tried gracefully to stay on message and keep it clean. But when Cheney got his needle stuck on the "facts" about Kerry's record, Edwards fired back with a litany that painted the VP as a rich, old, white, racist, who would take the last meal from an old lady, to feed Mandela his. At that point mud was a weapon Cheney quickly abandoned.
Let's face it though, one of these guys really had to hit it out of the park to effect this thing even 1% and neither did so.
The most important thing we've learned from this debate is the that the next debate is Oct. 8th.

• • • Here's how to spin a non-scientific poll with an unbalanced pool into a win for Cheney.
If you hear that poll, along with anything Gallup, you know it's spewing from the right.
“the most profound purpose of polls is to see how people are responding to God.” George Gallup

• • • F'cking embarrassing.

October 3, 2004

• • • The Spin Has No Clothes...
Maybe it's the Dan Rather scandal. Maybe it was the fact that the Bush performance was impossible to spin, straight faced, into a victory. Or, maybe the press has finally figured out that this election is too important to just report the nonsense that's spoon fed them. But have you noticed that "spin" is no longer taken at face value and there is actually some fact checking involved and subsequent follow up based on these facts? No longer a mysterious "source" of "information", the spin is not simply reported, but now an entity to be reported on.

Notables:
• • • Polls are starting to trickle in, 8 point lead in New Jersey, huge bounce, and back on top in LA times and Newsweek polls.

• • • "One third of the ready reserve that are being called back are not showing up. Isn't that a mutiny?"
Bill Maher

• • • " Watching George Bush speak is like watching a drunk try to cross an icy street."
Tucker Carlson of all people.

• • • "I thought women knew when they were being lied to."
Dixie Chick on why women in the south feel more secure with Bush.

• • • If you have a bridge to sell we suggest going to Binghamton for potential clients.
Prodigy

October 1, 2004

• • • Our report card:
Bush- It's official, the man has no agenda. "Stay the coarse" or as Kerry describes it, " More of the same". He came with nothing more than what they've been using all along: Attack Kerry and present no agenda of their own. A plan? No, a man driving around lost who won't stop and ask for directions. Somehow, after repeating the same lines over and over, they have clearly lost there effectiveness. We were shocked at the physical reactions of Bush, the very things that crucified Gore. He seemed downright flustered. It's getting pathetic to see the right wing pundits trying to spin this clear defeat into something else.

Kerry- All polls point to a clear victory, we're happy to report. We feel his biggest mistake was in not pointing to the hypocrisy that Bush is so gung ho for international diplomacy efforts in the case of North Korea, but clearly had a different "plan" when he invaded Iraq. What kind of "clear message" is that to send? If you have Nuclear Weapons... Bush won't get involved, but if you don't...we'll invade?
His best line? "Outsourcing" the task of getting Osama.
Great choice of words.

• • • Tough guy Bill O'Reilly backs down (again) from his biggest challenge yet. Probably afraid of landing in the gutter. Lighten up Bill!
Franken Bowl

• • • Some of our "allies" are sending in special forces.
schladerbotze

September 29, 2004

• • • Well the results are in for the first debate and it's Bush by a landslide. We took a sneak peak at the Fox News post debate agenda, did you expect anything else. We also expect a lengthy discussion of body posture, nose twitches, ahems, and such. Oh yeah, and very little talk about fact and substance. Anyway, when hiring a new leader one should look first at their resume.

• • • An incredible first hand account of what kind of Nuclear capability Saddam really had. From the man in charge of developing them.
Saddam, the Bomb and Me
(and if you haven't registered with the NYTimes yet do it already! It's free and spamless. Even if you think they're a left wing rag they do have some of the most respected right wing columnists.)

September 24, 2004

• • • Finally!
For months we've been asking where the Bush flip-flop coverage is. We'd really love to see the TV Ad calling the kettle black (hint hint, nudge nudge, Kerry ad makers). But right now we'll settle for this.
Despite Bush flip-flops, Kerry gets label

• • • What would you do if the company that you and your whole family, and almost everyone in town worked for, decided one day that it just wasn't making enough money, (even though they've been handed tens of millions of dollars of subsidies and tax breaks), and decided to pack up and leave. Well in Argentina the community said "NO!", took over the factory and started up the machines. Socialism? Anarchy? We'll just call it great! But we did have some debate on whether to call it "Socialarchy".
Anyway read, listen, or watch it now on...,
Democracy Now: Occupy, Resist, Produce

• • • THAT MORTIFYING, HORNED, CONGEALED, MUCKY DEVIANT...
no that's not it.
THE HORNED, BLEATING, CRIMINAL, BANKRUPT FOAM...
nah.
Having trouble describing the leader of the free world?
Well look no further!
The Lovecraft Engine

• • • Dress your kids for success.
Lowercase Tee

September 22, 2004

• • • "If McCain continues to talk so candidly, he will be serving as a wingman for Kerry. Is this calculation or coincidence?"
The October Surprise?

• • • Shoulda took the peace train.
Diverted

• • • We love Elvis C. even more now.
Warning!

• • •All the old stuff is here in our
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