taste it! J-Sin's musings...

9.30.2004

the faith of mr. bush is lacking

the new york times weighes with a wonderful review and dismantling of the hypocritical and ghastly shocking "George W. Bush: Faith in the
White House"
that promises to be yet another in an exciting and dizzying array of more stupid on the right...the stupid that's found Bush blankly staring at the grave of Dr. King as if it was a man who would have been a total dude with him...and as always continues to isolate those non-believers with his policies...it's sickening to me that he gets away with it...so many people in the media do not do enough to expose the fact that this is a man whose divisive and corrupt self-image is so innate that he could potentially mistake himself for the divine...these same rightwingers can seemingly get away with anything as their latest escapade is to deliver the proverbial trojan horse into some new legislation, ironically imposing their will on state's rights as supposed champions of state's rights (except when it comes to let's see gun control, gay marriage, etc.)...and speaking off the cuff, I must say I'm impressed with the details of Mr. Socas' view on the toddler tax...though his swift boat veterans for traffic is pretty damn funny....

documents reveal major gaps in bush's presidental record

hahahaha the onion's got it together...

9.29.2004

will this election be decided by

who would jon stewart endorse?...hmm, maybe but I think it's a safe bet to suggest he'd endorse kerry but he won't endorse anyone since he's really quite non-partisan...while he makes fun of bush more it's because well a.) bush gives out more material 2.) bush is a douchebag iii.) kerry's too boring to make fun of...plus maybe he'll get some republican conservative religious right psychos sicced on him...(yeah a co-worker aim'ed me that, I never realized that's how you spell it!)...my work is having a little patio party for us this afternoon...in a couple of hours actually to award some creative marketing ideas that anyone in the company could have come up...hopefully there was something creative because our current projects aren't all the most interesting things in the world...I don't mean to say the implementation is boring or whatever because that's always a thrill-a-minute (not too much sarcasm there I swear, no honest!) but it'd be nice to do something like so cutting-edge the freakin' ginsu knife is jealous...also how would you like to be in a keane video? I know I would:

We are looking for Keane fans to appear in the video for their new single "This Is The Last Time".

You will need to be available right through the night on either Monday 4th October or Tuesday 5th October. The video shoot will take place in a Central London location and hot drinks and basic food will be provided.

You have to be over 16 and please bring ID together with your warm clothes ! Please do not wear any t-shirts etc with obvious logos (Nike, Adidas etc).

If you are interested please send an e-mail to keane@exposurefilms.co.uk . Please do not send any photos just your name, age and a contact telephone number. We will then contact the people selected and give them the full details.

Thanks,
www.keanemusic.com

expos are coming

I'm psyched that the expos are coming and NOT coming to Northern VA...as much as I'd love what it'd do for my property values the traffic would be horrible...but finally I'll get to see a national league team play!...I can't wait to get atlanta braves tickets...awesome...and peter angeles can fucking taste it...he's a prick.

the shaun squad

no I didn't spell my last name wrong...I just joined the shaun squad for shaun of the dead!...be sure to join up too, as you can win "pints" and gain prizes and luxurious accomodations...yeah really!...I can't wait to see this movie...someone from work was telling me it was hilarious...speaking of movies, I have Walking Tall at home...the wife rented it for me, what a great woman!...whoohoo...yesterday was a loooooooong day...never thought it would end, plus I had my stats class that evening, man it took freakin' forever...today is seemingly shaping up to be another long day but hopefully it won't be too bad...argh, I left earlier for work than I normally do and it still took me just as long, got in here just before 9am...so frustrating...I hate the fairfax county parkway, it's ridiculously congested...I need a car that flies like in Back to the Future...

9.27.2004

so you wanted to be a [fill-in-the-blank]

a cam whore? how to muff dive...or and most importantly, how to make man boobs...or even still better, see what jennifer aniston and brad pitt's kids would look like...yes. really.

so when will Bush's game come out?

if you can play as kerry when will you be able to play as bush? perhaps it could be a drinking game!

ok the bush administration has officially gone over the "fucking" edge

so I send an email to my father-in-law who works at the department of energy...and apparantly they now employ an Ashcroft-ian filter as my e-mail was rejected because of inappropriate speech nonsense:

Your message contained inappropriate language which is unacceptable at the U.S. Department of Energy. Please make the appropriate changes and resubmit your message.

Thank you.

Date: 09/27/2004, 11:44:40 AM
Subject: I'm a bleeding heart 'merican liberal
Policy: Obscene Word - Return to Sender (Recipient)
Recipients:
Reason:
List:Obscene Word - Return To Sender
Found the expression "fucking" 2 times, at 1 points each, for an expression score of 2 points.
===================
Total Message Score: 2 points.

apparantly I'm the bleed-heart type



this quiz was fun...also their 404 error page is pretty funny...damn if I can't wait for this movie!

"mow earth"

remember when "mow earth" was a popular phrase, not of course to be confused with earth healing which is never (I hope) confused with sexual healing...though certainly not as rad as fetch...if you've taken notice I've updated a number of links on this here blog and if you scowl at the andrew sullivan link, well I just have to admit that I like a lot of his analysis (sometimes) and hell it's always good to know what the "opposition" is thinking...besides he's not pro-Bush (since Mr. Bush is anti-family)...and is that kind of progressive thought that ensures that rove is overrated...so this weekend I watched both the Red Sox-Yankees games that were on television...the wife even kicked in and watched and I got to teach her about the greatest game invented a bit...whoohoo!...the pennant races sure are exciting with literally three divisions undecided and the wild card not locked up in either league yet...I'd love to see the Red Sox knock the Yankees out of first place but they basically have to win every game left (from Baltimore and Tampa Bay) while the Yankees have to lose a bunch...which is possible but not exactly likely (he says as he knocks heartily on some wood)...also this weekend I was able to put away all my CDs (fast approaching 3,000!)...and we also played some wicked Stratego but sure as hell didn't waste our time with hello.jpg nonsense...apparantly there was also a nifty little protest at Treasury a few days past...that would have been neat to attend...it will be interesting to see how this Thursday's debate goes...predictions anyone?...my prediction is that Bush will flounder but that Kerry will not aggressively launch into him fearing what happened with the Gore-Bush 2000 debates...though if he's smart he'll bring up Halliburton which is an issue most voters are pissed off about...we'll see.

9.24.2004

they're using their noodle?

there's a new moveon ad featuring the dude from The Tao of Steve...pretty darn good too...I just got off the phone with a guy from Orrin Hatch's office...I called to let them know how ticked I was about the senator's recent statements (see my last post) regarding the Democrats and Anti-War folks demoralizing the troops...he actually thanked me for being "civil"...must not have done my job...haha

did you know that Kerry was actually responsible for 9/11?! well him AND jane fonda

that's right folks, the latest charge that the Swift Boats for Morons will be sending out will associate Jane Fonda and John Kerry as not only those that also have gay lovers but as the integral pillar to Osama Bin Laden terrorist network...of course this is inherently obvious given the rhetoric currently spilling out of the GOP's mouth...seriously folks, why are we letting them get away with this shit?

size matters?

So I got the new Helmet disc sent to me...and since this band has a very influential history I figured it'd be pretty good...and it is...while certainly not as dynamic as "Betty" or as groundbreaking as "Meantime", it sure is a good addition to the Helmet family...Page Hamilton still knows how to rock a mean guitar and it overall reminds me of early Rollins Band stuff...you can get it in October and you'll be seeing my review for it in one week or so...unless I choose to review it early...last night I watched Wierd Science...what a great movie!...but dude, what happened to Wyatt played by Ilan Mitchell-Smith??? he just kind of dropped out of Hollywood in the late '80's...."You're stewed buttwad!"..."How 'bout a nice greasy pork sandwich served on a dirty ashtray"...god what a great movie!

expos moving to dc

looks pretty imminent doesn't it?...well that's not stopping Peter Angelos from whining about losing money...from the guy who was going to sue Maryland for a billion because of a Big Tobacco lawsuit that he won who was also sued by Van Halen for canceling a concert...ugh what a douche bag.

9.23.2004

plaxo contact updates are fucking annoying

man they piss me off...the labels and publicity people that I work with are always sending me update requests from plaxo...ugh I hate them. and apparantly I'm not alone in the spitting of venom in their general direction and sometimes they listen like a good little Big Brother would...bunch of nutjobs and you should be able to opt-out by never agreeing to allow anyone to put your e-mail address in their database in the first place! yes I'm filled with spite tonight...but hey my software release tonight finished early...so I can go to bed, so I can wake up and work for the man tomorrow.

oh lucky me I get to e-vote!

apparantly I get to vote electronically this year...hmm, interesting seeing as how a lot of pundits were declaring Virginia a swing state (sort of) due to the high percentage of "democrats" in Northern VA...well Sequioa will rectify that for the elephant won't they? yes, I'll be demanding a paper ballot. calling the manassas city election office tomorrow.

only one left and I can tell ya if its a total scam

today I checked freeipods.com and it says:

Five of your referrals must sign up and complete one offer. Currently 4 of your friends have joined and successfully completed one offer.

wow! so like only one more person has to come through and it's golden as they say on the college campuses...yeehaw.

liars academy's equipment stolen in baltimore

this happens far too much but the newest victim of band equipment thievery is Equal Vision's Liar's Academy...isn't this some bullshit?

cnn makes a massive blunder

this really pisses me off:

Republicans have long sought to scare voters by claiming the terrorists want a Kerry victory in November. Now CNN's senior political analyst is repeating the same nonsense.

On Sunday, CNN's Bill Schneider claimed Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda "would very much like to defeat President Bush" [1]. This sort of baseless fear-mongering is outrageous enough from Republican partisans, but it's entirely unacceptable from a news organization like CNN.

Call on CNN to publicly refute such partisan speculation:

Tom Hannon
CNN Executive Director of Political Coverage
(202) 898-7900

Then, let us know you've done so, at:

http://www.moveon.org/mediacorps/cnnschneider_dash.html

Schneider's remarks parrot those of Republican hatchet men:

In March, Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) said, "I promise you this, if George Bush loses the election, Osama bin Laden wins the election, it's that simple" [2].
This past Saturday, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) asserted al Qaeda wants Kerry to win [3].
Though CNN presents Schneider as a non-partisan observer, he is also a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
The very idea that our president should be chosen by our enemies is an affront to democracy. Worse, there isn't even any evidence bin Laden or al Qaeda actually prefer Kerry. In March, an Egyptian group claiming links with al Qaeda actually declared support for Bush's re-election, saying it would be impossible to find a leader "more foolish than you (Bush), who deals with matters by force rather than with wisdom" [4].

This is not the first time CNN has allowed such a remark. In May, correspondent Kelli Arena made a similar assertion: "[T]here is some speculation that al Qaeda believes it has a better chance of winning in Iraq if John Kerry is in the White House" [5]. Arena offered no source for the claim, which clearly comes from Bush surrogates (she also mistakenly attributed attacks in Iraq to al Qaeda).

Unsourced comments with such great political weight are out of bounds for serious journalists. Schneider and Arena are carrying water for Republican partisans when they repeat damaging claims about al Qaeda's presidential preference without citing any evidence.

Call on CNN to visibly refute these unacceptable comments with the facts and to prohibit partisan speculation on whom al Qaeda wants to win the election:

Tom Hannon
CNN Executive Director of Political Coverage
(202) 898-7900

I think Michael Moore said it best...

Dear Mr. Bush,

I am so confused. Where exactly do you stand on the issue of Iraq? You, your Dad, Rummy, Condi, Colin, and Wolfie -- you have all changed your minds so many times, I am out of breath just trying to keep up with you!

Which of these 10 positions that you, your family and your cabinet have taken over the years represents your CURRENT thinking:

1983-88: WE LOVE SADDAM. On December 19, 1983, Donald Rumsfeld was sent by your dad and Mr. Reagan to go and have a friendly meeting with Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq. Rummy looked so happy in the picture. Just twelve days after this visit, Saddam gassed thousands of Iranian troops. Your dad and Rummy seemed pretty happy with the results because ‘The Donald R.’ went back to have another chummy hang-out with Saddam’s right-hand man, Tariq Aziz, just four months later. All of this resulted in the U.S. providing credits and loans to Iraq that enabled Saddam to buy billions of dollars worth of weapons and chemical agents. The Washington Post reported that your dad and Reagan let it be known to their Arab allies that the Reagan/Bush administration wanted Iraq to win its war with Iran and anyone who helped Saddam accomplish this was a friend of ours.

1990: WE HATE SADDAM. In 1990, when Saddam invaded Kuwait, your dad and his defense secretary, Dick Cheney, decided they didn't like Saddam anymore so they attacked Iraq and returned Kuwait to its rightful dictators.

1991: WE WANT SADDAM TO LIVE. After the war, your dad and Cheney and Colin Powell told the Shiites to rise up against Saddam and we would support them. So they rose up. But then we changed our minds. When the Shiites rose up against Saddam, the Bush inner circle changed its mind and decided NOT to help the Shiites. Thus, they were massacred by Saddam.

1998: WE WANT SADDAM TO DIE. In 1998, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others, as part of the Project for the New American Century, wrote an open letter to President Clinton insisting he invade and topple Saddam Hussein.

2000: WE DON'T BELIEVE IN WAR AND NATION BUILDING. Just three years later, during your debate with Al Gore in the 2000 election, when asked by the moderator Jim Lehrer where you stood when it came to using force for regime change, you turned out to be a downright pacifist:


“I--I would take the use of force very seriously. I would be guarded in my approach. I don't think we can be all things to all people in the world. I think we've got to be very careful when we commit our troops. The vice president [Al Gore] and I have a disagreement about the use of troops. He believes in nation building. I--I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. And so I take my--I take my--my responsibility seriously.” --October 3, 2000

2001 (early): WE DON'T BELIEVE SADDAM IS A THREAT. When you took office in 2001, you sent your Secretary of State, Colin Powell, and your National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, in front of the cameras to assure the American people they need not worry about Saddam Hussein. Here is what they said:


Powell: “We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they have directed that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was 10 years ago when we began it. And frankly, they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.” --February 24, 2001


Rice: “But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.” --July 29, 2001

2001 (late): WE BELIEVE SADDAM IS GOING TO KILL US! Just a few months later, in the hours and days after the 9/11 tragedy, you had no interest in going after Osama bin Laden. You wanted only to bomb Iraq and kill Saddam and you then told all of America we were under imminent threat because weapons of mass destruction were coming our way. You led the American people to believe that Saddam had something to do with Osama and 9/11. Without the UN's sanction, you broke international law and invaded Iraq.

2003: WE DON’T BELIEVE SADDAM IS GOING TO KILL US. After no WMDs were found, you changed your mind about why you said we needed to invade, coming up with a brand new after-the-fact reason -- we started this war so we could have regime change, liberate Iraq and give the Iraqis democracy!

2003: “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!” Yes, everyone saw you say it -- in costume, no less!

2004: OOPS. MISSION NOT ACCOMPLISHED! Now you call the Iraq invasion a "catastrophic success." That's what you called it this month. Over a thousand U.S. soldiers have died, Iraq is in a state of total chaos where no one is safe, and you have no clue how to get us out of there.

Mr. Bush, please tell us -- when will you change your mind again?

I know you hate the words "flip" and "flop," so I won't use them both on you. In fact, I'll use just one: Flop. That is what you are. A huge, colossal flop. The war is a flop, your advisors and the "intelligence" they gave you is a flop, and now we are all a flop to the rest of the world. Flop. Flop. Flop.

And you have the audacity to criticize John Kerry with what you call the "many positions" he has taken on Iraq. By my count, he has taken only one: He believed you. That was his position. You told him and the rest of congress that Saddam had WMDs. So he -- and the vast majority of Americans, even those who didn't vote for you -- believed you. You see, Americans, like John Kerry, want to live in a country where they can believe their president.

That was the one, single position John Kerry took. He didn't support the war, he supported YOU. And YOU let him and this great country down. And that is why tens of millions can't wait to get to the polls on Election Day -- to remove a major, catastrophic flop from our dear, beloved White House -- to stop all the flipping you and your men have done, flipping us and the rest of the world off.

We can't take another minute of it.

- Michael Moore

fistagon in the google

searching for fistagon results in some odd hits

some other stuff

Slate tackles Ali G while last night's viewing of Mean Girls was hilarious and hit the spot...that movie was way better than I expected...I'm looking forward to this weekend's Yankee vs. Red Sox series at Fenway...should be damn good...I hope at least...looks like the Braves are set to wrap stuff up...yesterday I had to take the little cat to the vet because she kept puking...as it turns out the little rascal ate something that's causing blockage and she's all constipated...had to get her xrays and an IV and now we're giving her a laxative...poor kitty cat...it's all good though hopefully she'll drop some bombs...work is quiet thus far and here's to hoping it remains that way as we drop some software fixes out sometime this evening...yuck, I hate that our releases are always done at night...so damn stupid...oh well.

find the forgerer?!

yesterday's William Safire's column was annoying dumb so I shoot him an email:

Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:12 AM
To: 'safire@nytimes.com'
Subject: wait you're talking about forgery?
Importance: High

You mean to tell me you wrote a column blasting CBS and saying that they need to find the forger? This on the heels of your sword-falling for the Niger uranium forgery? Time after time you blasted the press because they revealed that the Niger uranium claim was a complete fraud but now—damn that sword must be mighty full what with Tenet and Powell already speared on it—you jump right back on to scold CBS. I’m sorry Mr. Safire but you have as much right to discuss forgery as the Bush administration does on environmental issues. By and by it’s amazing how you’ve gone from dictionary militant to blatant Republican shill whose lame cutthroat columns have made people turn their newspaper back to the front just to insure that its not some Scaife nonsensical Review or some sawed-off New York Daily News. Really let us all know when you finally accept that job at the Enquirer and we’ll be delighted to read your beautiful prose regarding Oprah’s secret alien abduction. But in all seriousness, the forgery you coveted helped start a war, an illegal war to boot, meanwhile the CBS one will no doubt have the opposite of election snafu, instead somehow convincing the ignorance in American society that indeed Mr. Bush wasn’t some privileged man-child but a righteous dude who in between gulps of Budweiser and snorts of the best damn line of coke that South America could offer, he was somehow more courageous than all the people who actually wore their patriotism in the form of a long plane ride to Asia. But it’s this societal difference that makes people in your class feel that they laugh and guffaw in the general direction of those damn peons who keep getting in the way with their vote and demand of equal liberties and freedoms—and you dare to mention the liberal elite in the same breath. All together however, your column was so ironic it was hilarious in its utter hypocrisy.

9.22.2004

transformer more than meets the eye

the memepoolers are trying to decide if the transformer's history is cooler than the japanese tricked out ones

so does cheney's business with iraq count?

in the eyes of the Swift Boat Morons??? they're accusing kerry of meeting with the enemy (the North Vietnamese group that had ties to the Viet Cong) as if Cheney's Halliburton didn't do business with Iraq, which of course violated our sanctions and as if Bush's defense secretary Rumsfeld didn't meet with Saddam years ago...these guys are anything but "for truth" they're for "fascism"...fuck them.

the shocker!

forget the metal sign, flash the shocker!...but only when you got no other gestures left biatch!

9.21.2004

the three spot

I just dropped a few bucks at best buy to get the new Star Wars trilogy on DVD today...also got a couple CDs...whoohoo good shit man...the new max graham and "Reflections" by paul van dyk...also this weekend I somehow managed to do a bunch of reviews at Smother.Net so check 'em out...or don't...did a review of that cool documentary about The Weathermen...and last night saw an interesting movie called The Human Stain...I dunno, it was good but not exactly realistic considering the casting job...but you'll have to see it for yourself...acting was great though.

who doesn't love the garbage pail kids?

I hear they're coming back!

furnishing springfielders with their own map

you've reached a low point when you spend that much time dissecting simpsons cartoons...but admittedly quite funny.

this weekend sucked

I was at work until about 5:30am on sunday morning...totally blew butthole...then the redskins lost to the giants...PUKE!...and the red sox dropped 2 of 3 against the hated yanks...oh well...anyways I did very well on my first test in my stats class, I got the second highest grade...whoohoo! (knock on wood)...the wife is doing much better limping around though she had to go to the dentist yesterday and get a wisdom tooth pulled...yikes!

kim jong il's lair

don't fall into the big bad man's lair!

9.19.2004

way too late to be blogging

but sadly I'm at work as we release some of our new software...blech it's far too late to be at work and it looks like I might be here for another 20-30 minutes if not longer...ugh!...well as it turns out I was right, De La Hoya got chumped...awesome!...now see I bet that was a good fight...did anyone see it?...I would have liked to but a.) I'm at work 2.) I don't have money to waste on it and iii.) the last tyson fight has determined to me that I will never get another pay per view unless it's something so massively good that the pope's getting it...and even then I dunno...anyways something's up at work so I gotta jet on over to see...

9.18.2004

me in the press

my interview with the Rocky Mountain News article on the Political Machine has come out...you can read it here...thanks Brian for talking to me...

9.17.2004

disgusting wtc nonsense

because america never exploits err, never forgets

new sampling law

watch out kids, according to Remix Transmissions:

SAMPLING NOW ILLEGAL?
Earlier this month, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that artists must now pay for any musical sample they use in their work, no matter how small. In the past, artists only had to pay for larger samples that incorporated an easily recognizable piece of the original work. The new ruling stems from an older case involving the NWA track "100 Miles and Runnin," which included a short guitar riff from a mid-70's Funkadelic song called "Get Off Your Ass and Jam." For more information, visit ca6.uscourts.gov.

robocop 4?

could it be...another Peter Weller classic?..ok I use classic very lightly here...but robocop 4?...bizarre...that's as likely as the vietnamese beating china with their own form of battlebots...or ahem, something.

9.15.2004

get my blog shares up b!

come on, what a weak listing on blogshares for me!...ah, capitalism at its most inane.

big flying black triangles

are everywhere and aren't being kept hush-hush!

want an gmail account?

so if you want a gmail account, it's like a gig of email storage and has awesome spam filters/guards...just leave me a comment with your email address and I can send you an invite if I have one remaining still...word

kelley washington's one catch

looked nice...

bush by the numbers

yeah I know this is yet another in a trillion of forwards similiar in vein but it's a goodie so check it:

Bush by numbers: Four years of double standards
By Graydon Carter
03 September 04



1 Number of Bush ministration public statements on National
security issued between January 01 and 10 September 01 that
mentioned al-Qa'ida.

104 Number of Bush ministration public statements on National
security and defense in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Sdam
Hussein.

101 Number of Bush ministration public statements on National
security and defence in the same period that mentioned missile defence.

65 Number of Bush ministration public statements on National
security and defence in the same period that mentioned weapons of mass
destruction.

0 Number of times Bush mentioned Osama bin Len in his three
State of the Union dresses.

73 Number of times that Bush mentioned terrorism or terrorists in
his three State of the Union dresses.

83 Number of times Bush mentioned Sdam, Iraq, or regime (as in
change) in his three State of the Union dresses.

$1m Estimated value of a painting the Bush Presidential Library in
College Station, Texas, received from Prince Bandar, Saudi Arabia's
ambassor to the United States and Bush family friend.

0 Number of times Bush mentioned Saudi Arabia in his three State
of the Union dresses.

1,700 Percentage increase between 01 and 02 of Saudi Arabian
spending on public relations in the United States.

79 Percentage of the 11 September hijackers who came from Saudi
Arabia.

3 Number of 11 September hijackers whose entry visas came through
special US-Saudi "Visa Express" programme.

140 Number of Saudis, including members of the Bin Len family,
evacuated from United States almost immediately after 11 September.

14 Number of Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) agents
assigned to track down 1,0 known illegal immigrants in the United
States from countries where al-Qa'ida is active.

$3m Amount the White House was willing to grant the 9/11
Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks.

$0 Amount approved by George Bush to hire more INS special agents.


$10m Amount Bush cut from the INS's existing terrorism budget.

$50m Amount granted to the commission that looked into the
Columbia space shuttle crash.

$5m Amount a 1996 federal commission was given to study legalised
gambling.

7 Number of Arabic linguists fired by the US army between
mid-August and mid-October 02 for being gay.

George Bush: Military man

1972 Year that Bush walked away from his pilot duties in the Texas
National Guard, Nearly two years before his six-year obligation was up.

$3,500 Reward a group of veterans offered in 00 for anyone who
could confirm Bush's Alabama guard service.

600-700 Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit during that
period.

0 Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with
information about Bush's guard service.

0 Number of minutes that President Bush, Vice-President Dick
Cheney, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the assistant Defence
Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, the former chairman of the Defence Policy
Board, Richard Perle, and the White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove
the main proponents of the war in Iraq served in combat (combined).

0 Number of principal civilian or Pentagon staff members who
planned the war who have immediate family members serving in uniform in
Iraq.

8 Number of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives
who have a child serving in the military.

10 Number of days that the Pentagon spent investigating a soldier
who h called the President "a joke" in a letter to the editor of a
Newspaper.

46 Percentage increase in sales between 01 and 02 of GI Joe
figures (children's toys).

Ambitious warrior

2 Number of Nations that George Bush has attacked and taken over
since coming into office.

130 Approximate Number of countries (out of a total of 191
recognised by the United Nations) with a US military presence.

43 Percentage of the entire world's military spending that the US
spends on defence. (That was in 02, the year before the invasion of
Iraq.)

$401.3bn Proposed military budget for 04.

Saviour of Iraq

1983 The year in which Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan's special
envoy to the Middle East, gave Sdam Hussein a pair of golden spurs as
a gift.

2.5 Number of hours after Rumsfeld learnt that Osama bin Len was
a suspect in the 11 September attacks that he brought up reasons to
"hit" Iraq.

237 Minimum number of misleing statements on Iraq me by top
Bush ministration officials between 02 and January 04, according
to the California Representative Henry Waxman.

10m Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the streets
on 21 February 03, in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, the largest
simultaneous protest in world history.

$2bn Estimated monthly cost of US military presence in Iraq
projected by the White House in April 03.

$4bn Actual monthly cost of the US military presence in Iraq
according to Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld in 04.

$15m Amount of a contract awarded to an American firm to build a
cement factory in Iraq.

$80,000 Amount an Iraqi firm spent (using Sdam's confiscated
funds) to build the same factory, after delays prevented the American
firm from starting it.

00 Year that Cheney said his policy as CEO of Halliburton oil
services company was "we wouldn't do anything in Iraq".

$4.7bn Total value of contracts awarded to Halliburton in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

$680m Estimated value of Iraq reconstruction contracts awarded to
Bechtel.

$2.8bnValue of Bechtel Corp contracts in Iraq.

$1bn Amount the war and its aftermath are projected to cost for
the 04 fiscal year.

35 Number of countries to which the United States suspended
military assistance after they failed to sign agreements giving
Americans immunity from prosecution before the International Criminal
Court.

92 Percentage of Iraq's urban areas with access to potable water
in late 02.

60 Percentage of Iraq's urban areas with access to potable water
in late 03.

55 Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who were unemployed before
the war.

80 Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who are unemployed a Year
after the war.

0 Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi
surrender in May 1945.

37 Death toll of US soldiers in Iraq in May 03, the month combat
operations "officially" ended.

0 Number of coffins of de soldiers returning home that the Bush
ministration has permitted to be photographed.

0 Number of memorial services for the returned de that Bush has
attended since the beginning of the war.

A soldier's best friend

40,000 Number of soldiers in Iraq seven months after start of the
war still without Interceptor vests, designed to stop a round from an
AK-47.

$60m Estimated cost of outfitting those 40,000 soldiers with
Interceptor vests.

62 Percentage of gas masks that army investigators discovered did
Not work properly in autumn 02.

90 Percentage of detectors which give early warning of a
biological weapons attack found to be defective.

87 Percentage of Humvees in Iraq not equipped with armour capable
of stopping AK-47 rounds and protecting against roside bombs and
landmines at the end of 03.

Making the country safer

$3.29 Average amount allocated per person Nationwide in the first
round of homeland security grants.

$94.40 Amount allocated per person for homeland security in
American Samoa.

$36 Amount allocated per person for homeland security in Wyoming,
Vice-President Cheney's home state.

$17 Amount allocated per person in New York state.

$5.87 Amount allocated per person in New York City.

$77.92 Amount allocated per person in New Haven, Connecticut, home
of Yale University, Bush's alma mater.

76 Percentage of 215 cities surveyed by the US Conference of
Mayors in early 04 that h yet to receive a dime in federal homeland
security assistance for their first-response units.

5 Number of major US airports at the beginning of 04 that the
Transportation Security ministration mitted were Not fully screening
baggage electronically.

22,600 Number of planes carrying unscreened cargo that fly into
New York each month.

5 Estimated Percentage of US air cargo that is screened, including
cargo transported on passenger planes.

95 Percentage of foreign goods that arrive in the United States by
sea.

2 Percentage of those goods subjected to thorough inspection.

$5.5bnEstimated cost to secure fully US ports over the Next
dece.

$0 Amount Bush allocated for port security in 03.

$46m Amount the Bush ministration has budgeted for port security
in 05.

15,000 Number of major chemical facilities in the United States.

100 Number of US chemical plants where a terrorist act could
endanger the lives of more than one million people.

0 Number of new drugs or vaccines against "priority pathogens"
listed by the Centres for Disease Control that have been developed and
introduced since 11 September 01.

Giving a hand up to the vantaged

$10.9m Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person
cabinet.

75 Percentage of Americans unaffected by Bush's sweeping 03 cuts
in capital gains and dividends taxes.

$42,000 Average savings members of Bush's cabinet received in 03
as a result of cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes.

10 Number of fellow members from the Yale secret society Skull and
Bones that Bush has named to important positions (including the
Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum Jr. and SEC chief Bill
Donaldson).

79 Number of Bush's initial 189 appointees who also served in his
father's ministration.

A man with a lot of friends

$113m Amount of total hard money the Bush-Cheney 00 campaign
received, a record.

$11.5m Amount of hard money raised through the Pioneer programme,
the controversial fund-raising process created for the Bush-Cheney 00
campaign. (Participants pledged to raise at least $100,000 by bundling
together cheques of up to $1,000 from friends and family. Pioneers were
assigned numbers, which were included on all cheques, enabling the
campaign to keep track of who raised how much.)

George Bush: Money manager

4.7m Number of bankruptcies that were declared during Bush's first
three years in office.

02 The worst year for major markets since the recession of the
1970s.

$489bn The US tre deficit in 03, the worst in history for a
single year.

$5.6tr Projected national surplus forecast by the end of the
dece when Bush took office in 01.

$7.22tr US national debt by mid-04.

George Bush: Tax cutter

87 Percentage of American families in April 04 who say they have
felt no benefit from Bush's tax cuts.

39 Percentage of tax cuts that will go to the top 1 per cent of
American families when fully phased in.

49 Percentage of Americans in April 04 who found that their
taxes h actually gone up since Bush took office.

88 Percentage of American families who will save less than $100 on
their 06 federal taxes as a result of 03 cut in capital gains and
dividends taxes.

$30,858 Amount Bush himself saved in taxes in 03.

Employment tsar

9.3m Number of US unemployed in April 04.

2.3m Number of Americans who lost their jobs during first three
Years of the Bush ministration.

22m Number of jobs gained during Clinton's eight years in office.

Friend of the poor

34.6m Number of Americans living below the poverty line (1 in 8 of
the population).

6.8m Number of people in the workforce but still classified as
poor.

35m Number of Americans that the government defines as "food
insecure," in other words, hungry.

$300m Amount cut from the federal programme that provides
subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes.

40 Percentage of wealth in the United States held by the richest 1
per cent of the population.

18 Percentage of wealth in Britain held by the richest 1e per cent
of the population.

George Bush And his special friend

$60bn Loss to Enron stockholders, following the largest bankruptcy
in US history.

$5m Amount Enron CEO Kenneth Lay earned from stock option
profits over a four-year period.

$101m Amount Lay me from selling his Enron shares just before
the company went bankrupt.

$59,339 Amount the Bush campaign reimbursed Enron for 14 trips on
its corporate jet during the 00 campaign.

30 Length of time in months between Enron's collapse and Lay (whom
the President called "Kenny Boy") still not being charged with a crime.

George Bush: Lawman

15 Average number of minutes Bush spent reviewing capital
punishment cases while governor of Texas.

46 Percentage of Republican federal judges when Bush came to
office.

57 Percentage of Republican federal judges after three years of
the Bush ministration.

33 Percentage of the $15bn Bush pledged to fight Aids in Africa
that must go to abstinence-only programmes.

The Civil libertarian

680 Number of suspected al-Qa'ida members that the United States
mits are detained at GuantE1namo Bay, Cuba.

42 Number of nationalities of those detainees at Guantanamo.

22 Number of hours prisoners were handcuffed, shackled, and me
to wear surgical masks, earmuffs, and blindfolds during their flight to
Guantanamo.

32 Number of confirmed suicide attempts by Guantanamo Bay
prisoners.

24 Number of prisoners in mid-03 being monitored by
psychiatrists in Guantanamo's new mental ward.

A health-conscious president

43.6m Number of Americans without health insurance by the end of
02 (more than 15 per cent of the population).

2.4m Number of Americans who lost their health insurance during
Bush's first year in office.

Environmentalist

$44m Amount the Bush-Cheney 00 campaign and the Republican
National Committee received in contributions from the fossil fuel,
chemical, timber, and mining industries.

0 Number of regulation rollbacks downgring or weakening
environmental laws in Bush's first three years in office.

31 Number of Bush ministration appointees who are alumni of the
energy industry (includes four cabinet secretaries, the six most
powerful White House officials, and more than other high-level
appointees).

50 Approximate number of policy changes and regulation rollbacks
injurious to the environment that have been announced by the Bush
ministration on Fridays after 5pm, a time that makes it all but
impossible for news organisations to relay the information to the widest
possible audience.

50 Percentage decline in Environmental Protection Agency
enforcement actions against polluters under Bush's watch.

34 Percentage decline in criminal penalties for environmental
crimes since Bush took office.

50 Percentage decline in civil penalties for environmental crimes
since Bush took office.

$6.1m Amount the EPA historically valued each human life when
conducting economic analyses of proposed regulations.

$3.7m Amount the EPA valued each human life when conducting
analyses of proposed regulations during the Bush ministration.

0 Number of times Bush mentioned global warming, clean air, clean
water, pollution or environment in his 04 State of the Union speech.
His father was the last president to go through an entire State of the
Union dress without mentioning the environment.

1 Number of paragraphs devoted to global warming in the EPA's
600-page "Draft Report on the Environment" presented in 03.

68 Number of days after taking office that Bush decided Not to
ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty to reduce greenhouse
gases by roughly 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels by 12. The United
States was to cut its level by 7 per cent.

1 The rank of the United States worldwide in terms of greenhouse
gas emissions.

25 Percentage of overall worldwide carbon dioxide emissions the
United States is responsible for.

53 Number of days after taking office that Bush reneged on his
campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.


14 Percentage carbon dioxide emissions will increase over the next
10 years under Bush's own global-warming plan (an increase of 30 per
cent above their 1990 levels).

408 Number of species that could be extinct by 50 if the
global-warming trend continues.

5 Number of years the Bush ministration said in 03 that global
warming must be further studied before substantive action could be
taken.

62 Number of members of Cheney's 63-person Energy Task Force with
ties to corporate energy interests.

0 Number of environmentalists asked to attend Cheney's Energy Task
Force meetings.

6 Number of months before 11 September that Cheney's Energy Task
Force investigated Iraq's oil reserves.

2 Percentage of the world's population that is British.

2 Percentage of the world's oil used by Britain.

5 Percentage of the world's population that is American.

25 Percentage of the world's oil used by America.

63 Percentage of oil the United States imported in 03, a record
high.

24,000 Estimated number of premature deaths that will occur under
Bush's Clear Skies initiative.

300 Number of Clean Water Act violations by the mountaintop-mining
industry in 03.

750,000 Tons of toxic waste the US military, the world's biggest
polluter, generates around the world each Year.

$3.8bn Amount in the Superfund trust fund for toxic site clean-ups
in 1995, the Year "polluter pays" fees expired.

$0m Amount of uncommitted dollars in the Superfund trust fund for
toxic site clean-ups in 03.

270 Estimated number of court decisions citing federal Negligence
in endangered-species protection that remained unheeded during the first
year of the Bush ministration.

100 Percentage of those decisions that Bush then decided to allow
the government to ignore indefinitely.

68.4 Average Number of species ded to the Endangered and
Threatened Species list each year between 1991 and 00.

0 Number of endangered species voluntarily ded by the Bush
ministration since taking office.

50 Percentage of screened workers at Ground Zero who now suffer
from long-term health problems, almost half of whom don't have health
insurance.

78 Percentage of workers at Ground Zero who now suffer from lung
ailments.

88 Percentage of workers at Ground Zero who Now suffer from ear,
nose, or throat problems.

22 Asbestos levels at Ground Zero were 22 times higher than the
levels in Libby, Montana, where the W R Grace mine produced one of the
worst Superfund disasters in US history.

Image booster for the US

2,500 Number of public-diplomacy officers employed by the State
Department to further the image of the US abro in 1991.

1,0 Number of public-diplomacy officers employed by the State
Department to further US image abro in 04.

4 Rank of the United States among countries considered to be the
greatest threats to world peace according to a 03 Pew Global Attitudes
study (Israel, Iran, and North Korea were considered more dangerous;
Iraq was considered less dangerous).

$66bn Amount the United States spent on international aid and
diplomacy in 1949.

$23.8bn Amount the United States spent on international aid and
diplomacy in 02.

85 Percentage of Indonesians who h an unfavourable image of the
United States in 03.

Second-party endorsements

90 Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 26 September 01.

67 Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 26 September 02.

54 Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 30 September, 03.

50 Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 15 October 03.

49 Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president in May 04.

More like the French than he would care to mit

28 Number of vacation days Bush took in August 03, the
second-longest vacation of any president in US history. (Record holder
Richard Nixon.)

13 Number of vacation days the average American receives each
Year.

28 Number of vacation days Bush took in August 01, the month he
received a 6 August Presidential Daily Briefing heed "Osama bin Len
Determined to Strike US Targets."

500 Number of days Bush has spent all or part of his time away
from the White House at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, his parents'
retreat in Kennebunkport, Maine, or Camp David as of 1 April 04.

No fool when it comes to the press

11 Number of press conferences during his first three Years in
office in which Bush referred to questions as being "trick" ones.

Factors in his favour

3 Number of companies that control the US voting technology
market.

52 Percentage of votes cast during the 02 midterm elections that
were recorded by Election Systems & Software, the largest
voting-technology firm, a big Republican donor.

29 Percentage of votes that will be cast via computer voting
machines that don't produce a paper record.

17On 17 November 01, The Economist printed a correction for
having said George Bush was properly elected in 00.

$113m Amount raised by the Bush-Cheney 00 campaign, the most in
American electoral history.

$185m Amount raised by the Bush-Cheney 04 re-election campaign,
to the end of March 04.

$0m Amount that the Bush-Cheney 04 campaign expects to raise
by November 04.

268 Number of Bush-Cheney fund-raisers who h earned Pioneer
status (by raising $100,000 each) as of March 04.

187 Number of Bush-Cheney fund-raisers who h earned Ranger
status (by raising $0,000 each) as of March 04.

$64.2mThe Amount Pioneers and Rangers h raised for Bush-Cheney
as of March 04.

85 Percentage of Americans who can't Name the Chief Justice of the
United States.

69 Percentage of Americans who believed the White House's claims
in September 03 that Sdam Hussein was personally involved in the 11
September attacks.

34 Percentage of Americans who believed in June 03 that Sdam's
"weapons of mass destruction" h been found.

22 Percentage of Americans who believed in May 03 that Sdam
h used his WMDs on US forces.

85 Percentage of American young ults who cannot find
Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on a map.

30 Percentage of American young ults who cannot find the Pacific
Ocean on a map.

75 Percentage of American young ults who don't know the
population of the United States.

53 Percentage of Canian young ults who don't know the
population of the United States.

11 Percentage of American young ults who cannot find the United
States on a map.

30 Percentage of Americans who believe that "politics and
government are too complicated to understand."

Another factor in his favour

70m Estimated number of Americans who describe themselves as
Evangelicals who accept Jesus Christ as their personal saviour and who
interpret the Bible as the direct word of God.

23m Number of Evangelicals who voted for Bush in 00.

50m Number of voters in total who voted for Bush in 00.

46 Percentage of voters who describe themselves as born-again
Christians.

5 Number of states that do not use the word "evolution" in public
school science courses.

This is an edited extract from "What We've Lost", by Graydon
Carter, published by Little Brown on 9 September

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

For a former college drop-out from Ontario and, briefly, a lineman
stringing up telegraph wires on the railways of Cana, Graydon Carter,
55, has risen to impressive heights. The editor of Vanity Fair since
1992 after succeeding Tina Brown he is one of America's
celebrity editors with clout, glamour and a nice line in suits.

It is hard to imagine Carter doing physical work of any kind,
beyond exercising his thumb on his silver Zippo lighter. His labour is
restricted to rejigging helines in his magazine he is a
self-confessed failure at delegation of duties and swanning to
Manhattan parties. Martini in hand, he cuts an almost princely and
dandyish figure, with billowing shirts and similarly billowing silver
hair.

The spotlight on his activities has never burned brighter. In
recent months he has transformed the regular editor's letter at the
front of the magazine into less of a chat about its coming contents
the spres of Annie Leibowitz and rants of Christopher Hitchens and
more a full-bore diatribe against the world of George Bush.

team america new trailer

there's a new trailer...for Team America...god I can't wait to see this movie!

sign the moveon student petition

Dear MoveOn member,

Last week in more than 1,000 vigils across the nation, MoveOn members memorialized the 1,000 brave American men and women who've given their lives in Iraq. As the death toll continues to rise, thousands of young Americans soldiers are paying the ultimate price.

That's why today students and young people nationwide -- through MoveOn Student Action - are standing up to demand answers from President Bush. To make sure Bush gets the point, they're going to print an open letter to the President on Iraq in the New York Times. The goal is gather 100,000 signatures from young people across the country in the next 5 days - making this the largest online student petition in history.

If you're a student or young American, please join them by signing below. If you're not, please pass this message on to someone who is. We only have 5 days to collect 100,000 signatures.

To read the full text and sign the letter, just go to:

http://www.moveonstudentaction.org/iraqletter/

To donate towards the cost of the New York Times ad, just go to:

http://www.moveonstudentaction.org/donate/

MoveOn Student Action is a student driven project of the MoveOn.org Voter Fund and Click Back America, aimed at helping young people use their power as citizens. Here's a message from project director Ben Brandzel:

President Bush's war of choice has taken a heavy toll on our generation. Young people have suffered the vast majority of the 1000 deaths and 7000 injuries sustained in Iraq. We've lost friends, classmates, and siblings; and it's only getting worse.

Experts are now saying that Bush's poor planning and go-it-alone approach have left our armed forces overstretched and pushed us towards a national draft.

That's why we need 100,000 students and young Americans to stand up with us and demand a plan to end this war. Please join us, at:

http://www.moveonstudentaction.org/iraqletter/

This letter is only the beginning. MoveOn Student Action is also running an extensive program to help get out the youth vote in 2004. To really hold our officials accountable, including the President, we must start with a clear message and then back it up on election day. To make sure that happens, just sign up to volunteer when you sign the letter.

Thanks for all you do,

--Wes Boyd
MoveOn Voter Fund
September 14th, 2004

9.14.2004

good new music

so I got the new bjork album which is great...features Mike Patton too...awesome but you won't like if you don't like her vocals, since it's primarily just her vocals...also I got the new Fear Before the March of Flames sent to me the other day...awesome album...also sports a song that fensler would be proud of...called "Hey Kid, I'm a Computer, Stop Your Downloading"...you can listen to it at their purevolume site...good freakin' album booooy

as the taxpayer money gets wiped away

So the Washington Post whips up a good one in article specifically:

"[Rep. John Conyers Jr. (Mich.), ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee] also disclosed yesterday that Ashcroft spent more than $200,000 in taxpayer money on trips to 32 cities in August and September 2003 to drum up support for the Patriot Act.

A new Government Accountability Office study of the trips found that Ashcroft and his staff spent more than $77,000 for air transportation, according to congressional staffers who have been briefed on the findings. Nearly $40,000 was spent on hotels and other travel expenses, and U.S. attorney's offices spent more than $80,000 for conference room rentals and other costs, the staff members said.

Justice officials told the GAO they did not keep track of some costs, including meetings between federal prosecutors and lawmakers about Patriot Act legislation. The report is scheduled to be released this week. "

isn't that lovely?...and meanwhile others are discussing how the bullshit Republican/Conservative humdrum regarding the CBS documents is just a red herring...remember folks, a lot of money is being thrown this and that way to get that story out and no one in the media has really taken enough time to look at it with an open mind...ahem kind of like the Al Qaeda-Iraq link pre-2002...when everyone was jumping on the neo-con ship even though it was more safe to be on the Titantic...probably the same folks who are using cheap slave labor to produce Che Guevara shirts...ironic ain't it?...yeah you've probably seen all the jocks wearing it since ratm made it onto rolling stone or something...but perhaps it's Argentina that should rightfully have his image...or something...

but while thinking of Ashcroft, I'm sure he'd agree not to give out sex bail...after all he's sure to pressure anyone that isn't as eXXXXTREMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEE as him...rad.

9.13.2004

imdb folks are nuts

and I don't think they like the thread I started about the Passion of the Christ...opps but they can taste it!

gi joe & hasbro v. fensler

looks like fensler got served but never fear, you can still get your tra la la's but no more body massages...

if the wife kicks the bucket

I'm going to get diamonds in my grill made from her carbon...booyakasha...now this is fucking metal.

that fish smells about done

I like it when the red water comes out and other strangeness from fat pie

first day back to work

is a big suckhole of murky depth...while I could waste time with typographical conservatism I'll skip that and laugh while I think they didn't talk about the Niger forgeries like this...so I watched the new show Joey but not this joey...it was funny enough...cool to see the chick from the sopranos even if her main use in the show was boobie jokes...also tuned in to father of the pride which was also quite funny...the baseball world is getting tougher because of that dickhead Julio in Baltimore...there's no excuse for throwing at a guy's head...unless you're Walter Johnson or Bob Gibson...first full day of football was cool, great to see the redskins win...I did my interview with that reporter, he has a blog at redassedbaboon.com and the article should appear on friday...and speaking of blogs, sometimes fat retardedly conservative nitwits are sadly funny if for no other reason than the sad commentary of our "everyone's voice should be and will be heard" generation...I wish I could be cool and hate france too...but get your dragonball on and all will be well.

9.12.2004

hi, I'm hijack

I really want to see this movie called "Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire"

9.11.2004

the political machine

is a great computer game...I bought it yesterday and am already addicted...nothing's more fun than beating Arnold Schwartzenegger with Hillary Clinton!...basically the game is you waging a presidential campaign and trying to win the electoral college...amazingly my first game was kerry v. bush and bush won the electoral college while I won the popular vote...bizarre!...anyways I'm getting interviewed by a reporter for Denver's Rocky Mountain News about the game...pretty nifty eh?...the wife is doing much better but we had a scare last night as I had to talk to the doctor because she was vomiting every couple of minutes...it was the vicodin obviously so now she's on OTC ibuprofen...she's now taking a bath which isn't much fun when you have on a cast...even if it's a half-cast...looking forward to football tomorrow...go skins!

9.10.2004

Speaking of Uncovered

not sure if you've seen Outfoxed yet but it's a great DVD and worthy buy...and speaking of FuxNewsChannel wasn't it interesting that their live coverage of the RNC doubled that of the DNC?...ugh they make me sick...and so do the networks...fuck them all, they all did such a paltry job asking the hard questions that they don't get to declare a mulligan and do-over...

demand the douchebaggy end!

those weasley dems are petitioning for the truth...you know that thing that they should have been doing in 2001 and 2002 but failed to because they're a bunch of pussies...but on a brighter note it appears as if there's a showing of "Uncovered" in DC sponsored by Independent World Media...here's the 411:

"UNCOVERED: THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR"
Tuesday, September 14th
7pm at Visions Cinema Bistro Lounge
1927 Florida Avenue,
NW (CT & FL Aves in Dupont)
Washington, DC

FILM
In UNCOVERED: THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR, filmmaker Robert Greenwald (director of OUTFOXED) chronicles the Bush Administration's determined quest to invade Iraq following the events of September 11, 2001. The film deconstructs the administration's case for war through interviews with U.S intelligence and defense officials, foreign service experts, and U.N. weapons inspectors, including a former CIA director, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even the Secretary of the Army. Their analyses and conclusions are sobering, and often disturbing, regardless of one's political affiliations.

REVIEWS
"A sober and devastating critique of Bush's foreign policy."
--Time Magazine

"Uncovered: The War on Iraq is a must-see for every American who cares about their country."
--Jean Oppenheimer, Screen Daily

Q&A
After the screening MEL GOODMAN, former division chief and senior analyst at the CIA's Office of Soviet Affairs and LARRY JOHNSON, former Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department's Office of Counter Terrorism, will do a Q&A.

BENEFIT
Tickets cost $10.00 and will benefit MoveOn.org and Win Without War/Fourth Freedom Forum.

TO BUY TICKETS
(strongly encouraged as we expect to sell out!):
http://www.visionsdc.com/dyno/filmdetail.asp?filmID=456

HAPPY HOUR
We will have a happy hour before and after the screening and have secured happy hour prices all night: $3.25 Magic Hat #9 / $3.25 Stella Artois / $2 PBR / $3 Rail drinks.

pain go away!

my wife woke up in utter pain this morning...damn cat was being a nutjob too and knocked over her drink onto the floor...the wife is still asleep...must be because she's loaded on pain meds...I did the unthinkable and rent Mel Christ's "The Passion" yesterday when I signed up for the blockbuster rent-as-much-movies-as-you-can-in-a-month plan...yuck but I'll watch it tonight I'm sure...watched the game last night and was horribly disappointed to see the fucking patriots win another game...I hate that team...speaking of football, don't worry clinton portis didn't break anything...it was a scam...anyways not too much going on here...probably will go pick up the new bjork album shortly...and being a veggie is tough but only when you think about it...I made some nice and spicy cajun rice last night that was damn good...also I watched Jersey Girl with the wife last night...surprisingly it was pretty good...hopefully bill maher's on tonight but I can't remember if this was the week he was off or if it was next friday...oh well...

9.09.2004

whose jeopardy

apparantly the long run is over...doh! but dude look how much money homeboy got!...I know someone who was on jeopardy but he only got as far as third place (or maybe it was second place)...darn.

genocide in Sudan CD

there's a new CD coming out from Waxploitation Records to help spread information about what's going on in Sudan...go support it now...read the press release...

genocide in Sudan CD

looks like there's an interesting benefit CD out to inform people of the genocide in the Sudan...Waxploitation Records is putting it out...check it because this is incredibly important and a worthy cause...

the wife's surgery

she's doing quite well now, thank you for asking or wishing her well...if you didn't, then fuck you...just kidding...we got to the hospital around 11am and after finding out the doctor thought the appointment was moved to 2pm and not 1pm (like it was) we had been waiting there for several hours...anyways I had a nice lunch with my mother in law at the hospital, which was my first frustrating experience as a newly minted vegetarian...yes I finally did it...the wife is going on a special veggie diet (she already has been a veggie since she was 12--not vegan) so I figured now would be an easy time to quit eating meat although I think I'll probably eat fish still...we finally got outta there around 5:30 amid the massive amount of tornado warnings and watches and whatnot...being in a hospital sucks...it's so damn depressing...when she was going to get an x-ray post surgery recovery we walked past this old lady just sitting in her wheelchair all by herself...very sad...afterwards we made our way home...the doctor prescribed some new medicine that I had to go get filled...man what a major pain, I went to our Giant who didn't have any of it but promised they could get some by Friday!?!...then I called a couple of CVS pharmacies and eventually tracked it all down...around quarter till eleven I was finally able to do a fantasy football team which was fun...I had second pick and got Mr. Tomlinson from San Diego...it was a pretty even and good draft at least I thought...I stayed up quite late last night to ensure she was taking her meds properly and to change her ice pack...just this morning she got some flowers delivered to her doorstep...no laides it wasn't me but her mom's boss...yeah I suck!...anyways I get to be a nurse for the next couple of days...wheea!

the evil cheney does

In response to Cheney's allegation that a Kerry victory will result in a terrorist attack I wrote a letter to the editor of the Washington Post that reads as follows:

When Mr. Cheney stated in a sense that a Kerry victory in November would lead to another terrorist attack has an ironic twist of further reversing the pledges of the Bush/Cheney 2000 campaign. Indeed the “Great Uniter” has undoubtedly become the epicenter of the Great Divide. Never before have I witnessed an incumbent Presidential campaign focus entirely on attacking the other side without mentioning the past four years of their presidency. This sort of high-profile attack rhetoric not only is disingenuous but also in fact arms our enemies with a new resolve and weakens the American political culture. Instead of baseless attacks, could the Bush/Cheney campaign of ’04 focus on real debate—without bowing out of more? Why should we trust the Bush/Cheney administration to protect us from another terrorist attack? Given all the information that they had at their disposal they did nothing to prevent 9/11, so why are they able to declare a mulligan? Besides for a man armed with five deferments to attack a volunteer soldier on issues of courage and protecting our nation is laughable at best and typical bravado from a Rove-led campaign.

I'd encourage all of you to write to your local newspapers as well about this vicious and ridiculous comment by the Bush/Cheney campaign...call in to the White House comment line (I believe the number is 202-456-1111)...tell them you're sick of this nonsense...they're obviously trying to distract us from the 1,000 KIA in Iraq...as well as the economy...or why not look up his staff's contact info and ask them why they work for such evil?

9.08.2004

the evil cheney

In response to Cheney's allegation that a Kerry victory will result in a terrorist attack I wrote a letter to the editor of the Washington Post that reads as follows:

When Mr. Cheney stated in a sense that a Kerry victory in November would lead to another terrorist attack has an ironic twist of further reversing the pledges of the Bush/Cheney 2000 campaign. Indeed the “Great Uniter” has undoubtedly become the epicenter of the Great Divide. Never before have I witnessed an incumbent Presidential campaign focus entirely on attacking the other side without mentioning the past four years of their presidency. This sort of high-profile attack rhetoric not only is disingenuous but also in fact arms our enemies with a new resolve and weakens the American political culture. Instead of baseless attacks, could the Bush/Cheney campaign of ’04 focus on real debate—without bowing out of more? Why should we trust the Bush/Cheney administration to protect us from another terrorist attack? Given all the information that they had at their disposal they did nothing to prevent 9/11, so why are they able to declare a mulligan? Besides for a man armed with five deferments to attack a volunteer soldier on issues of courage and protecting our nation is laughable at best and typical bravado from a Rove-led campaign.

I'd encourage all of you to write to your local newspapers as well about this vicious and ridiculous comment by the Bush/Cheney campaign...call in to the White House comment line (I believe the number is 202-456-1111)...tell them you're sick of this nonsense...they're obviously trying to distract us from the 1,000 KIA in Iraq...as well as the economy...or why not look up his staff's contact info and ask them why they work for such evil?

9.06.2004

gnashing your teeth at Zell Miller and the rest of the freak show

Andrew Sullivan correctly weighs in the psychosis of Zell Miller...but he's not the only one out to expose Zell Miller's lies...the GOP yet again has thrown to their forefront the only real trump card they have in their platform (which starts with a homage to Reagan)--discrimination...whether it's against blacks, the poor (especially those callous bastards on welfare for shame!), the gay, women, free speech or the non-religious (read: non-Christian)...oh did I mention, Michael Moore?...well maybe it's due to the fact that all the haters are on the right...is that a fair assertion? well look at any political square and you'll see fascism on the right and communism on the left...however there's plenty of nutjobs who want us to go back a couple hundred years...in the end our great nation has taken a giant leap backwards for mankind...

9.04.2004

subservient chickenhawk?

move over subservient chicken...we've got Bush on the line!

up too early

my first day of pseudo-vacation, nursemaidness I wake up at 7am...of course I slept like shit last night so even though I'm fully awake and the caffeine high is trying to eek its way into my veins even deeper I still feel like a semi-zombie...so after four pages of music reviews coming out of my mind and fingers, realizing that indeed Yahoo!'s fantasy football didn't sign me up properly so I had to sign myself up again only to realize that I'm the only team in the league and the draft starts in two hours, has me slightly down...also I need to work on music today...and all I want to do is play Madden...kind of...not even really sort of...ack, THE DONGER NEEDS FOOD.

9.03.2004

my review featured in another press release

rad...I'm in a tear sheet:

Anadivine's Zoo in-stores Sept. 21st. Band Starts Tour

Check out the new ecard:

http://www.themilitiagroup.com/ecards/anadivine/intro_anadivine.html

"...a band that’s able to jump between hard-rocking punk and near-balladry pop, without losing a step..." - Aversion.com

"...Once again The Militia Group have a winner on their hands..."
- Smother.net

Look for Anadivine in upcoming issues of Alternative Press, Revolver, Law of Inertia, Outburn, Threat, Amp, GL Magazine and more...

isn't that cool? or maybe not so much...I suck.

when you can text it you can protest it

speaking of protesting...here's some new tactics

9.02.2004

now this is an interesting way to protest

make a postcard...rad.

the republicans stoop lower

so Dennis Hastert has accused liberal Soros of getting his money from drugs...and if that's not numbly dumb enough, apparantly Heinz ketchup was removed from the Double Tree Hotel so not to offend the Republicans staying there...wow and I thought political correctness was a hotbed of stupid...this also coming from the party that featured a dumbass delegate who put a purple heart bandaid on their chin because they just umm hurt themselves...how cute...I'm glad that they let infants into the party...let us all know when recess is over and you can crawl back into your fucking cave you mongrels of fascist ignorance...the wonderful wide world of FoxNews JournalismTM awaits!

twiddle dee and twiddle dumb

and other such nonsense...the stupid bush twins ranked in with a disgusting awards show overture towards their pappy and it just sounded freakin' dumb...I'm sure yale is proud...'course it's a sad day for the GOP when even psycho, intern-killer, Scarborough weighs in that all the Republicans do is attack Kerry...and whine about our safety and how only Bush can solve it---Uh I believe 9/11 happened on his "watch"...and it took him seven fucking minutes to even fucking do anything...Scarborough is a douche bag who got away with it...

dancers & druggees

move aside D&D and even AD&D...enter the digital age...of rave! with Dancers & Druggees...

even deep space is telling us to re-defeat bush

the aliens are contacting us and I do believe they're liberals!

9.01.2004

no you can't

looks like my former company looks kind of foolish don't they? I'm going to laugh when they piss off ICANN enough to get them to drop their .com and .net registry affiliations when they expire...stupid bastards...not that ICANN is much better, hell they try to extort money out of my current company all the time...blah. I can't wait for friday...we're having a BBQ here at work...whoohoo!...class was alright last night...but damn if I'm not wiped out by the time I get home...so when I give up meat starting next week, will I really not be able to eat bacon?!?!? will I have to satisfy myself with a Bacon Air Freshner???! will I be set to satisfy my meat-atarian ways by engaging in some noodle fetishes?...while I do the LYNNDIE!...to the window!




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