Sep 28
Sep 28
Gypsy Punk party.
In the old times it was not a crime. Smoke up Johnny!
Sep 28
Like some of these phonies?
Reminds me of these phony soldiers:
* 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.
* 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.)
Media Matters – Limbaugh: Service members who support U.S. withdrawal are “phony soldiers”
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Sep 27
While the President is playing Mr. Wizard with his neo-con economic test tube theories and ignoring the Republican party, 151 fully covered under federal health benefits Republicans still tow the line for the old skipper.
Rather disgusting.
Talking Points Memo | The Few, the Brave, the Opponents for Health Insurance for Kids
Sep 27
Sep 27
“For over 200 years, this Nation has adhered to the rule of law _ with unparalleled success. A shift to a Nation based on extra-constitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill-advised,” she wrote.
By asking her to dismiss Mayfield’s lawsuit, the judge said, the U.S. attorney general’s office was “asking this court to, in essence, amend the Bill of Rights, by giving it an interpretation that would deprive it of any real meaning. This court declines to do so.”
Talking Points Memo | Judge Rules Key Portion of Patriot Act Unconstitutional
Sep 26
YouTube – War Inc Trailer See Cusack interview Naomi Klein about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, his inspiration for the film:
HuffPost Video: John Cusack Interviews Naomi Klein – The Huffington Post
Sep 26
“Shortly after Rep. Henry Waxman announced last week that his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would hold hearings on the Blackwater incident in which 11 Iraqi civilians died, the State Department notified Blackwater that under the terms of its contract no information could be produced without prior written State Department approval.”
At this point, why they haven’t decreed a blanket gag on all sentient beings communicating with congress is beyond me.
Talking Points Memo | If Henry Ain’t Happy, Ain’t Nobody Happy
Sep 26
A “snapshot” of one answer to the age old question “WTF?”
Sep 26
BY ANDREW BRIDGMAN
“I was sent to retrieve the original plans for the cotton gin for some Smithsonian event, but I accidentally opened this crate that had this weird chest in it…”
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Any thoughts? »
Sep 25
Two Elephants. The good kind.
YouTube – Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra – Tiny Elephant Parade LIVE ’91
Sep 25
