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My two cents are: That Bush quote to the Brazillian president makes you wonder what that conversation was about, doesn't it? If the Brazilian President said something like, "Brazil is home to many races, White, Hispanic, and even a few orientals." Then Bush's question was perfectly legit, especially since Blacks are the most politically disenfranchised race in Brazil. Now if the Brazilian President said something like, "Our country is like yours in many ways," then the president said something quite stupid. I was hoping the site you posted would give the context, but it didn't.
Aaron
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 23:57:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Without ebb and flow Gary is just treading water, going nowhere. Must be frustrating.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 22:40:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Took that bait, hook, line, and sinkering? Everybody must get sinkered? Geesh!
Faux E�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 22:30:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Problem with Elizabeth Cotton was that whe was a terrible singer and an extremely mistake-prone guitar player. That techno stuff is the absence of mistakes, on the other hand. That's the kind of music they have in dance clubs on the Copacabana in Rio. Amazingly enough, there's a lot of terrible music in Brazil. Not terrible per endless dance music but terrible per "soul" or whatever, genuine-ness maybe. Although if they like it, what the hell?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 22:13:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: There was some nurd who posted on here for a while who claimed he had been a big-time extasy freak. I don't know how to spell it either. By the way, Gary is Pete, except for when he's me, or maybe some other Jasper, I don't really know who is plagiarizing what any more. Gary is Pete's attempt at sane, calm, and collected right-wing lunacy. It's fun sometimes, because you see the Rush-larded insane troglodyte haole wedged-up asshole busting his guts trying to keep from flying off the handle as he pretends to be rational. There is always the hope that his aorta will give out right in the middle of it, although of course none of us would hear about it.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 22:07:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stop it. the fish is in a barrel. stop, please!!!!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 21:32:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, you see, has this collection of napkins. Soiled not from spoodge, but from a decade of inane scribblings at denny's, each one a Chomskian kernal, an immanent open letter to the freep, or third-level poetry. Saved them all he did. "The Chronicles", his "ideas". They are crammed into shoeboxes under the roach infested bathroom sink in his hovel. When necessary, he does wipe with them. Thinking fondly of the ski-bunny.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 21:31:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey Glunt, the alcoholic wastrel Bush twins aren't going to have that problem now are they? Bet they'll pull the "c's" out of grandpoppy's ivyleague bankroll dont you? See, That's what's great about America Glunt, its a land of opportunity. um opportunism?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 21:25:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Been meaning to tell you all I sort of ditched classic libby cotton blues etc for some new genre. Listening to a blend of techno dance music, not hiphop or rap, key bands are puretone, ppk, zombie nation, sasha and digweed, Erika, DJ Encore, Dirty Vegas (that mitsubishi commercial tune). Kick ass commuting and workout music. Get the feeling its sort of ecstacy club music. anybody acid-age tried ecstacy?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 21:22:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look Gary, I take some umbrage at your reference to bus trash. It smacks of bourgeoise (sp please) self appeasement. Have you heard that new madonna tune... lyrics like " Music...brings people...together....music..mixes... bourgeoise and the rabble" - I mean poignantly sophisticated from the material girl eh Gar? Do you like fried chicken?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 21:18:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: I gotta say I really enjoyed the Tarzan posts, thanks - Whatever. I checked in daily and read them all. Really.
Borg 3 of 22
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 21:14:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Giving guns to the pilots isn't top priority? What kind of incredibly stupid CEO is this McCarty? That's literally the stupidest thing I've ever heard of!
Ann Cpulter
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 20:07:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Airline Exec: Drop Some Security TOKYO (AP) - American Airlines chief executive Donald Carty said Friday another terrorist attack against commercial airlines was unlikely and urged some security measures added at airports be dropped. ``It will be a hollow victory indeed if the system we end up with is so onerous and so difficult that air travel, while obviously more secure, becomes more trouble for the average person than it is worth,'' Carty said in a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Tokyo. Carty, who was in Japan to meet with business officials, said the airlines industry and the U.S. government responded quickly to beef up airport security after the Sept. 11 attacks. In hindsight, as with many hastily made decisions, some need changing, he said. He said screening passengers at the gate after doing so at the security checkpoint merely added to costs and customer hassles. ``With the amount of security that we have in the aviation system today, the likelihood of a terrorist choosing aviation as the venue for future attack is very low,'' Carty said. ``When you compare security across various potential venues, the airline industry is enormously well secured.'' Carty said he was not opposed to pilots' having handguns in the cockpits, but said priority should be given to other security measures such as screening passengers. Earlier this week, the U.S. government decided against allowing firearms in cockpits, saying pilots should concentrate on flying their planes and let marshals defend against possible terrorists. American Airlines, the world's biggest airline, has been trying to come up with a new business strategy to combat the sharp decline in the airline industry after the Sept. 11 attacks. American's parent company, AMR Corp., lost $575 million in the first three months of the year. Carty expressed support for the upcoming merger between Japan Airlines and Japan Air System. The carriers are setting up a holding company in October. The partnership between American Airlines and Japan Airlines, which dates back to 1995, was reaffirmed in a meeting with JAL President Isao Kaneko Thursday, Carty said. The alliance will grow as the Tokyo international airport develops as a hub for travel not only to Japan and China but also to Southeast Asia, he said.
Yea! We won the war*! Today is yellow!
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 19:49:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I heard Rush Limbaugh today say Democrats are "quagmired" in the 2000 election* scandal. Hell, anything can be a verb. In fact, I'll use it in a sentence. She anythinged her grocery cart with items.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 19:46:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: People who end sentences with double prepositions are almost as bad as people who don't know that the word "quote" is a verb. I refuse to "jawbone" with them.
Pepe�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 19:04:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Disgusting, the way these newbies will chat and chirp along happily without even following the ebb and flow of the posts. What bus station waiting bench do they scrape these people off of?
Gary
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 19:00:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Duh-h, you say? Guess you haven't shook off the dope yet, huh? No wonder the girls can't crack the top five, with the example they have. Who's up on top, the rent-a-cop's son?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 18:54:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Who sang that song?" I didn't know that the song had words. Think it was all English brass and tuba. You must be thinking of McGoohan's previous show, "The Secret Agent." Wasn't that theme song sung by...Johnny Rivers?
Glint
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 18:39:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's our hero, the mighty, absent Pete. The man who came to dinner. The crazy aunt in the attic. The turd in the punchbowl. The third-string para. The four-eyed, waxen tub of pig grease. It's the fellow who wrote to the freep, telling the freep that a tax cut would increase government revenues. He had it all figured out, following secret gridlines inside his head, what his relatives and the guy at the gas station affectionately call his "coconut." We are exceedingly lucky that he decided to visit under light of day, rather than scuttle past in the dark as is more usual.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 18:36:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Did anyone ever figure out how those assault balloons in "The Prisoner" actually captured Patrick McGoohan and took him back to the village?" There are at least two episodes where "Rover" drags #6 back from the presumably frigid water off of the coast of Wales. In each time, the big ball sprouts two smaller balls that seem to grip his shoulders and pull him back. I saw both those episodes only yesterday and noticed a particularly pruient symbolism whereby McGoohan's body, dressed in his typical black running outfit being dragged head first between the two smaller beach-ball sized balls, resembled a black phallus. His white soled sneakers looked like two clinging drops of, well, you know.
Glint
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 18:32:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, don't knowck her. She can't help it that her grades aren't as good as Poe's. <> Have to go crawl under the Deere and replace a couple pins.
Glint
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 18:26:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was TJ - Tom Jones. Of "What's New Pussycat?" fame.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 18:12:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: You always were under something faux dot.
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 18:03:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: The best liebral shivving into and sinkering was that thing with the homosexuals spouting about Tarzan movies. Whoever did that had to cut an past and entire month's worth of a usenet group. Showed a level of gumption that is not often seen on the conservative end of the bench. Almost as bitchin' as tying the store manager's Camero to the gumball machine rack.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 18:02:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who sang that song? Sounded like Gene Pitney, or maybe Englebert Humperdinck. Some nameless jingle singer? Wasn't it a retro hit, not long ago?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 17:56:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Secret Agent was easier to grok. Great theme song too.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 17:37:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, I always wondered how a great big beachball could bring #6 back.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 17:36:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is it safe to come out now? Or is Pete� still out there lashing out with the wicked stilletto of his wit? Did he finally leave the site, and promise to never come back, or do I have to stay underground?
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- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 17:34:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did anyone ever figure out how those assault balloons in "The Prisoner" actually captured Patrick McGoohan and took him back to the village? Or was that forever one of the program's unexplained mysteries?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 17:30:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Downers always make me want to watch 60's television shows.
have you ever done 'ludes and "Get Smart?"
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 17:26:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: My daughter may be only 6th in her class, but my lawn-mower is twice as big as yours...
did I mention that one of my friends is, no shit, a retired banker?
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 17:24:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: My big tough hermaphrodite can kick your "6th in class" student's ass.
and have you seen the latest pictures of my dog, Weasel?
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 17:22:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Vegetables repair the body.
John Q. Idiot
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 17:20:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ouch! Hold the phone.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 17:08:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020529/bs_nm/telecoms_att_ratings_dc_6
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 16:50:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, a weird thing happened to me. I've been taking some time off to repair the body and veg out. Along with the codeine kick came an urge to review my complete tape library of episodes of the 1968 cult classic T.V. smash hit, "The Prisoner" starring Patrick McGoohan. You remember, Q: "Who are you?" A: "The new #2." Q: "Who is #1?" A:"You are, #6." Well the first coincidence was minor. Was watching a rerun of a Columbo movie starring Peter Falk one night. He was chasing after a Hollywood funeral director (I couldn't help rooting for the bad guy in this one) played by, yes, that's right, Patrick McGoohan. But then the next day, the eldest daughter came home and reported that the rankings for her class of some 300 students had been published. "How did you do?" I asked. "I am #6."
Who is #1? <[email protected]>
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:47:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let things occur in your brain about it. Oggie - Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:37:08 (EDT)
a beautiful mind
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:45:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, Oggie, you are close. Do you do Hum?
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:45:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dot, stop proving your stupidity. The whole subject was about Fornigate's best moments IN THE PAST. Get it. Forget it. You are too stupid. Liberal proves the point. That's what it means. Dope. Doped. Doinked.
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:44:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: You see, guy, things tend to occur to Pete, things that might be called "thoughts." He just can't find a way to get words around them, so all you and I get is the weirdly disjointed and to us mysterious English renditions. But trust me-- these thoughts are crystal-clear and meaningful, glorious even, to Pete himself. And who is to say who is happiest? Are "normal" people any happier than the drooling fool, so content with himself, though unfathomable to others? Let things occur in your brain about it.
Oggie
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:37:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, I suppose we're going to have to start calling every clown with a learning disability a "poet" now. This is political correctness. With retarded bent.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:36:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why is he posting weird definitions? And, what's the crack about poetry supposed to mean?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:33:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Still baffled as to why he said "knife is active as knifed." The more I look at it, the less it seems to mean. Why did he put the verb-activated example in the past tense? Some things are perhaps best left in the gluey centroid of the pineapple's "mind."
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- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:33:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm not going to dignify that idiotic crack with my rapier-like liberally tactical wit. Doikn.
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:30:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: guido, no, the basic black loafers that your worst nightmare used to put pennies and dimes into.
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:29:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, dork, read it again, knife in itself can be a verb: Main Entry: 2knife Function: verb Inflected Form(s): knifed; knif�ing Date: 1865 transitive senses 1 : to use a knife on; specifically : to stab, slash, or wound with a knife 2 : to cut, mark, or spread with a knife 3 : to try to defeat by underhanded means 4 : to move like a knife in intransitive senses : to cut a way with or as if with a knife blade //[The only thing that needs to be activated is your brain] Doink.
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:28:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey Pete, are you wearing your Playboy Hugh Hefner loafers? The ones with the little bunny buckles?
go guido go
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:07:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Of course shiv can be used as a verb, just as knife is active as knifed. Poetry man." My best guess at what the pineapple means here is that words are "activated" or initialized as certain parts of speech, and "knife" has been activated as a verb. Thus, "knife is active as knifed." That's my best guess at the intended meaning of Pete's odd squawlings, anyway. If you think you can do better, go ahead.
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- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:05:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: One can only stand by holding one's hat in one's hand, witnessing the rapier wit of Pete's repartee.
go, pineapple, go
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 15:00:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Assbackwards is actually sdrawkcabssa. Doink.
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:58:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, dot, only after you tell us what two periods mean after your own "language.." Poetry? Doink.
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:57:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who is this Pete fellow? Quite the goober, isn't he?
Gary
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:51:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: The ability to use an on-line advanced learner's dictionary is the sign of a dude who knows his way around words.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:49:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is real-time! He's floundering around out there on the other end of cyberspace like a sea-gull on a fish-hook. It's like, virtual assbackwards only real! Backrealtimeasswards!
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- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:48:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good to have the definitions, too. I'd like to see a better description of the post-positional usage "shivved into" that Pete chose as the more compelling language..
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- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:45:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, doinker, its bassackwards. Daim Bramage.
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:43:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Problem is, he has it backasswards. The people who had the peyote were the ones saved from the shivving into, from the sinkering. The actual lesson was, yes, get some peyote, ingest it. Only thus will you be saved from shivving into with bent liberal tactics and sinkering. Thing you can count on with the pineapple-master, he always gets it wrong. You can take it to the bank.
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- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:40:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course shiv can be used as a verb, just as knife is active as knifed. Poetry man. Poetry. Doink. Main Entry: shiv Pronunciation: 'shiv Function: noun Etymology: alteration of chiv, of unknown origin Date: 1674 slang : KNIFE ///Main Entry: 2knife Function: verb Inflected Form(s): knifed; knif�ing Date: 1865 transitive senses 1 : to use a knife on; specifically : to stab, slash, or wound with a knife 2 : to cut, mark, or spread with a knife 3 : to try to defeat by underhanded means 4 : to move like a knife in intransitive senses : to cut a way with or as if with a knife blade
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:39:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Another zinger from the doinkmaster.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:18:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, 11:01, leave the peyote alone. Doink.
Pete�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 14:12:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Krispy Kreme? Yum. Gobs of solid Crisco colloidally complexed with dough. I'll take two dozen.
Glint
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 13:05:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Doughnuts?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 13:00:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fishing sinkers, maybe?
just guessing
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:59:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: If they're shivved into with a liberal tactic, what are they sinkered with?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:58:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you read between the lines, it is apparent that that post of Pete's pretty much shivs and sinkers the entire liberal establishment. from Savonarola to Hitler.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:56:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Me, too. I agree with Pete exactly, now that he's explained it.
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- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:54:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, Ted, was a liberal tactic using a conservative bent. The real rub were the awnings. Brought down the big hummer himself, it did. That and the oil rig servicing the gym. The best days on this site are when one is trying to figure out which liberal tactic was just shivved into another liar liberal at any given time, then sinkered. At least the ones without the peyote. Pete� - Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 19:33:57 (EDT)
That's just what I thought, too.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:53:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wonder what's more cost effective, nukes or 737s.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:10:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Everybody's been shivved?
Aunt Peg
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:08:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: If we had leveled those mountains with a few well-placed 737's the way Pete advocated, then maybe we could have shivved into Osama by now. I notice that everybody is complaining but nobody is coming up with better tactics using either a liebral or a conservative bent.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:08:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know what was worse, the shivving into or the sinkering.
had no peyote and was therefore easy meat for sinkering
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:03:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, you fools. Only the ones without peyote get shivved into with liebral tactics using a conservative bent and then sinkered. The lesson? Get some peyote.
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- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:01:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, it was Pete who suggested we level the mountains of Afghanistan with nukes. Not a bad idea but an idea that was dependent on first determining whether or not crashing airplanes into the mountains might not be more effective.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 10:41:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete would still be here if the liebrals had a sense of humor and could understand satire. Doink.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 10:30:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, Ted was the lie-bral tactic. With a conservative bent. Shivved real good.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 10:05:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey. That tactic below was, like, SOOOOO lie-bral. Wow. Moreover, geesh. End 'o story.
Faux E�
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 09:10:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: I absolutely *love* this report from Der Spiegel: BUSH'S EDUCATION "Are there blacks in Brazil?" It is said about the US president that before 9-11 he thought that the Taliban was a Bavarian brass band. Now the president of the world's most powerful nation has put his foot in his mouth yet again. It was Condoleezza Rice, his national security advisor who had to rescue the situation. When talking with Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 71, Bush surprisingly asked: "Do you have blacks too?" Ms. Rice noticed how stunned and surprised Cardoso looked and quickly told Bush that Brazil likely has more blacks than the US and that outside of Africa it was the place with the highest number of blacks. The Brazilian president remarked later that Bush was "still in a learning-phase" when it came to South America. The report is at http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,196865,00.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bush Lite, Making Ray-gun Look Like Einstein
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 09:03:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: E-mail me. If you have a cunt wide open,I got a big one cumming. If it's pussed over and sewn shut, your foul mouth will do fine.
Pete� <a legend in my own mind>
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 03:28:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where can I see works by this legendary figure? I mean, now that he's quit this site, where can I see his witty repartee?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 02:27:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: It may be a hard landing for some people, asshole, but Pete, a guy who left this site long ago and never came back, probably did all right. Now, there is a guy who never had any trouble picking winning stocks. He's as rich as, well, as rich as a crynic. Make no mistake. This man supports half the gooks of Hawaii, sitting around playing their whiney guitars and eating free government pineapple.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 02:26:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think Pete left because he was hurt. He was hurt and resentful that nobody took him seriously, except Glint, of course, who felt that he was a heavy hitter after reviewing the first "Open Letter." Glint allowed as how the stupid shit that Pete was always posting here was just a hobby, that you had to wait for the real McCoy, the world-class "Open Letters" and the occasional poems about gardens and whatnot. If Pete embarassed you, say by asking whether an atomic bomb is more damaging than an airplane wreck, or sneering at someone who mentioned that there were rings around Uranus, you could just pretend you didn't hear him. But now he's gone, and I guess all this yapping about old times is futile. The man said he would never return, and he's a man of his word. A man of virtue.
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- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 02:22:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/020530/telecoms_qwest_moodys_4.html
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 02:22:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Four trillion dollars in market value has been lost on Wall Street." This recession is hitting the blue chips. Some people have lost over hundreds of thousands of dollars on "secure" stocks that are now being rated as junk bonds. Quest was downgraded by Moody to junk bond status. AT&T now at $11.00 and sliding. Will it recover? Worldcom is at $1.67 a share. These are not speculative stocks. This is not my idea of recovery. It's not even a soft landing.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 02:18:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rumor I heard was that Pete quit. Gone. There is no more Pete to kick around. Stop living in the past. The man is ancient history. Like the west African negroes, brought to strengthen horticultural practices in South Carolina, those pertaining to the chosen crop of rice. It was too far to China so the rice tycoons enslaved the next best thing. Pete was, in a way, this site's rice slave. A guy who really knows is way around the topics, brought in from the outside to do the heavy lifting. But he quit. Said everyone was too stupid to learn from him. He meant it this time, he said. And now he's gone, never to return. Sad, really.
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- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 02:16:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: He's been taking speech lessons from Fess Parker? Pete's old coach?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 02:12:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: And we -- in the talk, I'm going to talk about -- there's been current -- modern-day sacrifices. We still fight people who hate civilization. It was -- or at least, civilization that we love, they can't stand freedom.
go, bush, go
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 01:31:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: To shiv is a verb?
doubt it
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:33:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: The best days on this site are when one is trying to figure out which liberal tactic was just shivved into another liar liberal at any given time, then sinkered.
can't argue with that
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:32:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: There were other rubs, but none so real as the awnings. Liberal tactics with a conservative bent. You had to be there.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:29:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: The real rub were the awnings.
I'll say
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:28:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: I miss Will-yum. And doubt it.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:27:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's easy, Meat. He's talking about and reliving his "best days on this site." I'll bet a lot of you didn't even know he had any!
Realbo
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:26:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: That was really Pete? I figured it for parody.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:26:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wouldn't mind Sue coming back but let's hope Trish doesn't return. Clifford is fascinating.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:25:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete has contributed a little blurb below explaining the import of "Ted", whatever that is. If anyone can work up the interpretive skills, the patience, and the downright "gumption" to figure it out, please post a synopsis here.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:24:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: In a libertarian society, Arianna would be could have her hand cut off if the neighborhood voted for it. The nanny state allows her to piss into the wind with her jack-boot rhetoric.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:24:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: First Pete comes back, now Gary. Is there any doubt that Trish and Sue will show up next? Maybe even Clifford and Will-yum? The old site if going to rock!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:22:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree. Let's take the handcuffs off the corporate scumbags. It is time to get America producing again. Memos. Memos, and maybe some fatter AOL shares. The old portfolio is looking a little peaked.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:20:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Arianna is a traitor and a socialist. That screed is nothing less than a plea for some sort of government regulation of top producers. If we follow her lead, what incentive will insiders have? The result will be the loss of naked ambition and corporate..uh...creativity.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 31, 2002 at 00:13:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hindsight -- it's all the rage in Washington. But though the story of the missed terror warning signals is eating up all the headlines, there is another story of warning signs being ignored by our elected officials that's getting hardly any ink at all, even though these signs are multiplying at an alarming rate. Here are a few of them: in the last two years, 433 public companies -- including Enron, Global Crossing, and Kmart -- have declared bankruptcy. Two million Americans have lost their jobs. Four trillion dollars in market value has been lost on Wall Street. And each day brings a fresh, stomach-turning revelation of the rampant corruption infecting corporate America. Despite these ominous flashing red lights, it now appears almost certain that no real reform legislation will come out of Congress before the November elections. Think of that. After the outrage generated by Enron, Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch, and all the other corporate scumbags undermining the modern private enterprise system, the end result will be a continuation of the rotten status quo. And that means fresh disasters down the road. Yet we have the information to, as the phrase of the moment goes, "to connect the dots" right now. It's a textbook case of special interests triumphing over the public interest. In other words, unless you're reading this in your executive boardroom, you�ve lost again. In this case, the biggest winners are those veteran Washington arm-twisters, the powerful -- and very well funded -- accounting and financial services lobbies. That's right, the same folks who helped bring us this mess by relentlessly chipping away at the rules and regulations governing their industries are now ensuring that any efforts to clean things up will be thwarted. And lest we forget, the problem is that much of what is being done isn't illegal but should be. Otherwise, the manic appetite for profits will continue to inspire Wall Street's rats to squeeze through every loophole. The latest example of their sinister handiwork is the sudden shelving of Sen. Paul Sarbanes' accounting reform bill, a muscular measure that would strengthen the SEC, restrict accounting firms' ability to double-dip as consultants and auditors for the same client, and impose stringent conflict of interest rules on the investment banking world. Instead, the bill is in a deep coma and not expected to survive, having been pummeled within an inch of its legislative life by a goon squad made up of finance lobbyists and their No. 1 Senate enforcer, Phil Gramm. First, the lobbyists brought out the rhetorical brass knuckles, issuing an "Action Alert" that Sarbanes' bill would result in a "de facto government takeover" of the accounting profession and "serious, harmful consequences for capital markets and American business." The warning on a pack of cigarettes is less alarmist. Then Gramm pulled out his copy of Robert's Rules of Parliamentary Obstruction and went to work, pressing Chairman Sarbanes to hold more hearings on the bill -- even though the Banking Committee had already held 10 hearings on the matter since Feb. 12 -- and offering 41 last minute amendments. Fellow Republican committee members added another 82 amendments for good measure -- a few extra kicks in the gut of the lifeless bill. It was democracy at its worst. The full court pressure worked. Sarbanes put the bill on ice and retreated to lick his wounds. When I called for his reaction, I was told he wasn't talking to the press. Why not? He should be speaking out to anyone who will listen and hitting the talk shows with his condemnation of those knee-capping his efforts. Where is his indignation over Gramm's bullyboy tactics? It should come as no surprise that, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, the accounting industry has already doled out $5.2 million in 2002 campaign contributions -- with $293,196 of that going to 16 of the 21 members of the Senate Banking Committee, including $37,500 to Gramm, and another $52,497 to Mike Enzi, who have cosponsored a highly diluted, industry-approved, next-to-useless alternative to the Sarbanes bill. It was this generous spreading of financial manure that doomed an earlier effort, led by then SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, to bar accounting firms from serving as both incorruptible auditor and smarmy sales help for the same company. Had Levitt's measure passed, it very well could have removed the tempting apple that Enron used to corrupt Arthur Andersen. And by the way, it's not just Republicans dancing to the accountants' tune. Sen. Chuck Schumer, the senior Democratic senator from New York, and among those who spearheaded the opposition to Levitt's proposal, has received $438,431 from accounting firms since 1989. It was this financial industry lobbying muscle that over the last decade pushed through legislation gutting so many of the regulations designed to bring accountability to our complex free market system: the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, which made it much harder for investors to win lawsuits against corporations; the Financial Modernization Act, which demolished the barriers that had kept investment banks out of commercial banking since the Great Depression; and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which gave us unregulated trading of derivatives and made the Enron debacle possible. Meanwhile the White House seems less than eager to put a reform bill on the president�s desk. Apparently, the post-Enron panic that inspired the president to propose a 10-point plan that included a reform of accounting standards has subsided. Or maybe the administration�s current do-nothing posture has something to do with the embarrassing revelation this week that the SEC has begun an investigation into whether Halliburton, under Dick Cheney, used questionable accounting practices to pump up its bottom line. "Once the excitement and the glares fade," accounting industry lobbyist John Hunnicutt said of reform efforts on the Hill, "people really start to think about it." Translation: he and his friends are keeping all their fingers and toes crossed that, "once the excitement and the glares fade," people will forget about the lies, the fraud, the cooked books, the document shredding and just lose interest. It looks like they just might get their wish. "It is unlikely," Sen. Jon Corzine, a Banking Committee member championing reform, said this week, "that we will get strong reform unless there is a new event that captures the public imagination." You mean the largest corporate bankruptcy in history and the parade of corruption that has followed weren�t big enough? That's like saying that Sept. 11 wasn't enough -- that we have to wait for the next horrific attack before we get serious about taking on terrorism (which, unfortunately, seems also to be the case). Do we have to wait for another 433 companies to go belly up, and two million more Americans to lose their jobs, before our leaders heed the warning signals and make passing the post-Enron reforms a top priority? How about a little foresight to go along with the heaping helping of hindsight Washington is serving up?
go arianna go
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 22:34:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: What he didn't know and why? That's no fun. Just about everything, because he's stupid. Some government inquiry. I'd just as soon stick with the pap.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 22:27:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: You've got to admit that the whore of whitewater has class though. While most Dimboshits just empty the bile on the Senate floor, Hillary went that extra mile and "intoned" hers. If you've to to have pap, you might as well have "intoned" pap, is what I say.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 22:26:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree with Pittsburglive.com that of all the pap about Bush's fuckup on the terrorists the particular pap issued by Hillary was the smelliest. Even a Dimbosap would have to admit it was smelly pap.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 22:22:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Man, that Hillary really can sling the smelly bile, can't she? Geesh! It's people like that who give bile-slinging a bad name. The old keg-legged murderous whore of Whitewater comes through again! Thank God I'm a Republican!
Glomp
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 22:15:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: I find it cool that "www.pittsburghlive.com" can bemoan a "carpetbagger" who has nothing to do with Pittsburgh. Or, for that matter, a "carpetbagger" who won in a landslide in a neighboring state of Pennsylvania. Didn't Ridge come from PA? Wow! Mr. Red, Yellow and Green, himself! I hear today is yellow. An okay day for the Homeland. Maybe.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 22:13:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: CYA time for the Snipistas? What else is new?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 22:07:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Poor Hillary" (www.pittsburghlive.com/) Of all the pap issued by Democrats over what President Bush supposedly "knew" prior to Sept. 11, none was more smelly than the (sewn shut puss oozong) bile emptied on the Senate floor by Sen. Hillary Clinton. "What did the president know and when did he know it," she demanded, intoning the familiar Watergate phrase. Never mind the intelligence failures, or the muddled communications between the FBI and the CIA over al-Qaida activities, or the fact that congressional committees saw much of the same intelligence reports as the White House. The freshman senator from New York readied her aim directly at President Bush, pulled the trigger - and shot herself in the foot. Within 48 hours of their criticisms many Democrats realized the thinness of the ice on which they stood, back-pedaled and proffered bipartisan unity and goodwill. Mrs. Clinton pined that she was only seeking "answers." What Clinton failed to realize was that national security and the war on terror are vastly more crucial to Americans than blaming for blame's sake. If any fingers are to be wagged, they should be directed not at what President Bush knew, but at what he didn't know and why. Next time we trust the carpetbagger from New York will check to see that her powder's dry before she tries to open fire.
or at least check her facts first
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 22:01:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: With the New York Times (both David Sanger and Maureen Dowd) writing that that Bush had either a "hissy fit" or a "petit fit" in the case of Mo Do who tends toward a certain cuteness of style - over David Gregory's smart-ass question and use of French during the Bush/Chirac press conference, we had this week's example of liberal journalists wanting to make something so that wasn't. A review of the tape showed the President laughing when he answered Gregory, Chirac laughing, the sound of the press corps laughing. To show what really purple presidential anger is, Fox ran the famous clip of Brit Hume being tongue-lashed (poor choice of words) by a crimson-faced Clinton over a Ruth Bader Ginsberg question years ago.
go fox go
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 21:54:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh yeah - downloading Grand Funk Railroad....
Glint
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 21:50:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Chaos in the making. Preparing for a WAN backbone upgrade between the axis of data running between the bubble zones of New York, Boston, Washington, and London. I am dying. Had to kick the codeine for a few days.
Glint
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 21:46:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Truer words were never doinked.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 20:57:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, Ted, was a liberal tactic using a conservative bent. The real rub were the awnings. Brought down the big hummer himself, it did. That and the oil rig servicing the gym. The best days on this site are when one is trying to figure out which liberal tactic was just shivved into another liar liberal at any given time, then sinkered. At least the ones without the peyote.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 19:33:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: As far as I'm concerned, Gary is just a liberal tactic.
Midge
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 18:01:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: You really don't want to know, Gary. Not a clean-living, sharp, smooth-talking, hip, level-headed, and fair-minded person like yourself.
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- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 18:00:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who's this Pete fellow?
Gary
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 17:26:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete� is using the old liberal dodge of coming back and infesting the site even though he promised he was leaving forever. Who let him in on the secret of that tactic? One of my brother liberals? Whoever it was, it's done, and now he's turned the tactic around and is using it against us. Aaaaaagh!
the horror, the horror
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 17:15:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete's trying to get back in with the same old tired routine. Turn on the voice-activated tape recorders.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 14:38:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cheney, Bush and Ashcroft are all the liars I need. Sure, that indicates an overall lack, but it will have to do.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 14:02:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Right on, my raving, incoherent brother!
Re-Pete�
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 14:01:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Something tells me they could be getting it, perhaps it is the mirror, or likely the lack of liars in office other than Daschle to warm their cockles. One thing is for sure, this vermin have been marginalized and their lies let dormant to fester for another day in which they will emerge. Stay ever vigilant. They are the true evil facing America. Liberal liars. Use their tactics back at them and watch them squeal. Pod people.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 13:55:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Proves the doink. Again. Point.
Re-Pete�
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 13:51:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's what you would call a hidden liberal tactic, or a secret liberal tactic, perhaps an invisible liberal tactic. They may not come out and say it, but that's what they're thinking. They bait us daily, never calling us cunts and twats, but that's the subtext. That's what's behind it all. "Damn the twerpedoes, full speed ahead." What do you think that means? It means, "Bend over, you cunt and spread your twat. I've got a big one cumming." When they sign off as Dexter� -HA!- don't you know what tactics they're using? The tactics of foul-mouthed twats and cunts. Liberal twats and cunts. When the tactics are thrown back at them in a keen satirical manner, the fucking cunts and twats whine and throw hissy-fits.
Re-Pete�
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 13:49:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Liberal tactics = bend over and spread your twat. Unless it's pussed over or sewn shut, in which case your foul mouth will do just fine.
uh-huh
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 13:42:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Amusing, how the liberals are still in a hissy fit over my use of liberal tactics back at them. Proves the point. Again. Doink.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 13:35:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, sure, a guy puts in chair time at a few ivy schools and he's expected to be Mr. Sophisticated. Hey, cut the bandy-legged little Texan some slack. This is just a rancher from Crawdad. A guy in bright yellow work gloves, like any Texas shit-kicker. Let the young feller pour all the ketchup he wants onto his daube de moreau.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 13:28:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Chirac was just standing there wishing his legs were bandy like the little guy's.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 13:24:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, Bush II is a goober, but he's a goober with numbers way up there with Clinton's after the impeachment. If he'd get a blow-job he'd really break some records.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 11:08:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: After Bill Clinton beat George Bush Sr., 41's press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, told me that perhaps the patrician from Greenwich with the pork-rind facade should not have strained to straddle two worlds. "Maybe it would have been better to be all Eastern elite or all Texas populist," Mr. Fitzwater mused. So now comes the son, who so desperately wants to be all-Texas-all-the-time that he overdoes the anti-elitist, anti-intellectual sneer. After NBC's David Gregory asked Mr. Chirac, who speaks English, in French if he would like to comment on a question he'd asked Mr. Bush about Europe's view of America as imperious, Mr. Bush had a petit fit. "Very good, the guy memorizes four words, and he plays like he's intercontinental," he said sarcastically as a bemused Mr. Chirac looked on. "I'm impressed. Que bueno. Now I'm literate in two languages." Mr. Bush did not care that foreign reporters usually ask him questions in English, or that he often sprinkles Spanish into his speeches with Hispanic groups. He felt he was being mocked or tricked in some way, even though the question wasn't even directed at him. He was tired and he let his famously thin skin show too easily. There is something bizarre about watching an Andover-, Yale- and Harvard-educated president, the grandson of an elegant Connecticut senator and the son of a gracious internationalist president, have a hissy fit because a reporter asks a legitimate question about European angst and talks to a Frenchman in French. W.'s anti-elitism is sometimes refreshing, but does he have to carry it around all the time? He shouldn't be forced to be a chip off the old block, but he should lose the chip on his shoulder.
go mo go
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 11:01:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: The bandy-legged little guy was tired, man.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 10:56:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Entire Nation Yearns To Excuse Self, Bolt For Exit You know how sometimes at a restaurant there will be a party of a dozen or so dining, and at the head of their table sits a drunken lout ignoramus who abuses the help? And you know how it soon becomes obvious, as he pollutes the ambiance with his loud, boorish behavior, that he is in a position of authority relative to all the others at the table - perhaps he inherited the company they work for - since they laugh uncomfortably at his smallness, crudeness, and insecurity? Bush Embarrasses Self, United States Defensive about own well-known ignorance and stupidity, lashes out at reporter David Gregory for displaying consideration and knowing French However, at another point, Mr. Bush showed little tolerance when NBC reporter David Gregory asked him a question in English and then added in French that the question was also directed to Mr. Chirac. "Very good. The guy memorizes four words, and he plays like he's intercontinental," Bush snapped. When the reporter volunteered he could go on in French, Mr. Bush lashed out saying, "I'm impressed. Que bueno. Now, I'm literate in two languages." (Actually, he's not even literate in one language.)
How stupid IS too stupid?
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 08:54:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rice actually said, "It's home to more blacks than any country outside Africa." To which Colin Powell replied, "What is Brazil?" The Shrubster absorbs facts more easily when it's played out like a game show.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 08:50:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Recently Bush met with Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Not far into the conversation, Bush asked the 71 year old statesman an unexpected question: "Do you have blacks too?" Condoleezza Rice was present and jumped in to save Cardoso from having to answer, informing Bush that in fact Brazil is home to more blacks than any country outside Africa. The American media did not report the incident. There seems to be an unwritten rule that while it's ok to acknowledge Bush's lack of "intellectual curiosity", any hard evidence of his lack of real intelligence must be covered up.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 08:44:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: hope the biop was neg. yeah, I shot up about 10-15 pounds when I quitbut had just lost 20-25 so it ws ok. have since removed them again but they were the hardest ever to shed man., those post smoking pounds. I quit cigs and caffeine at the same time. after a month I went back to the caffeine. At first the caff without the cig makes you edgy and want a cig more, after a month though, the metaboost from the caffeine was manageable.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 08:26:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you're waiting to get on your plane, and you notice that one of the other passengers is a skinny blonde horse-faced woman who is acting like the princess of the prom, turn in your ticket for a later flight. Her entire duodenum is packed with C-4. She thinks it's just the memory of Hassan's camel prod, but it's C-4. Take a later flight.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 03:06:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Next thing you know, the Arabs will be taking over the country. Buying golf courses and gas stations. Dating anorexic right-wing blondes from Connecticut, maybe even getting into their pants, bung-holing them like camel-boys in the famous Arab manner, until they scream for Norman Minetta. They may well pack these anorexic right-wing blondes' bungs full of C-4 and send them off to ride in airplanes, not knowing that they are human right-wing blonde bombs, suicide bombers, essentially. That is why we have to check all the unknowing C-4-packed blondes at the gate, not caring if they spill their coffee. We've got to get these blondes off our airplanes, and teach them to not give up their bungs to their Arab dates. Certainly not on the first date, like Ann Coulter. Wait until you get to know him a little better, girls. Listen to your mother, no matter how long gone she may be, nor yet how near. The Arab wants only one thing. Don't let him have it without making him earn it.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 03:00:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: He also brought his petty tyrant playground attitude.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 02:58:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think that guy down there who said that Pete never brought anything to this site was a little harsh. Pete brought his lies, after all. He brought his dishonesty, his lies, his lack of virtue, his immorality. He backed it with his stupidity, his awkwardness, his air of never being good enough. But mostly it was lies and lying that Pete brought. Maybe he wasn't a good liar, but he certainly was a prolific liar. He posted almost nothing that wasn't an obvious bald-faced lie. That is a record not many could match. So don't say he didn't bring anything. He brought his shitty lies.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 02:51:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't care if I NEVER see an Arab-American on television news. What is an Arab but just another white dude, but with sand under his toenails? I think they should interview more beautiful white babes. What is the point of having all the bimbo news gals if you don't have any bimbo interviewees? Television is a "cool" medium, and it needs more babes. One thing I'll tell you, though, bimbos or not, it certainly doesn't need more goddamn Arab-Americans. You can take my share of the Arab-Americans and stick them on Fox, or one of the other joke networks, maybe the blaxploitation network. Maybe give them their own raghead network. Just keep them off the mainstream news. If they can sing and play the guitar, instead of just ululate like most Arabs, put them on MTV.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 02:45:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: New Justice Department guidelines to be unveiled today will give FBI agents latitude to monitor Internet sites, libraries and religious institutions without first having to offer evidence of potential criminal activity, officials said yesterday.
about time they crack down on the goddamned churches
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 01:39:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: The American Flag fad may be dying down, but I notice that most of our retards still have them up. Do you suppose retards can keep enjoying the flashy play of colors longer than most Americans, or is it just that they're too dumb to realize that it's over?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 01:34:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why are you attacking Glint's deformities? First of all, that's very cruel and inhumane. Second, I bet Pete is twice as ugly as Glint. Glint is probably Fabbio compared to Pete.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 01:26:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Forceps? Looks to me like they delivered that guy with a fork-lift. Or maybe the "jaws of life", those huge mechanical pincers that rescue squads have for pulling people out of fender-benders.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 01:24:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint looks like he stuck his head up through the slats right when a steam-roller came over the bridge. I call him "Pancake-Head" behind his back. The guy could get a job in a side-show as "The Human Mushroom." The doctor who held the forceps ought to lose his license to practice, maybe even do a little time.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 01:22:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: What really worries me about the information on that URL is the possibility that Arab-Americans may be under-represented on the network news shows. Come on, guys, Tom, Dan, the other guy... let's get more of our adoptive rag-heads speaking out on the news. Surely this all-important ingredient in the American Soup should get more than a 0.6 percent share of the air-play!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 01:19:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.fair.org/press-releases/power-sources-release.html
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:53:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Daddy, why did Uncle Glint get his face caught in the trash-compactor? What was he looking for? Did he find it?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:24:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, shit-for-brains, if my Arab playboy butt-plug ever gave me a mysterious package to take on the airplane, do you think I'd tell those asshole Dominican charm-stealing security twerps? Why should an anorexic blonde dame from New England be questioned by swarthy little functionaries who don't even know where the comma goes or that the word "quote" is a verb?
Miss Annie
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:21:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does anyone else get the idea that Glint is an Oompa-Loompa escaped from the candy factory?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:16:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Olson was just a sick, lying, twat wide open. Coulter is a genuine philosopher of the right and an expert on airline security. Give guns to the pilots and stop fucking around checking for bombs on wheelchairs, what Arab has ever hidden under a freaking wheelchair? This is serious-- skinny white broads from Conncecticut are starting to spill their coffee, literally. Sure, she looks like an irritated or at least wall-eyed mare on the cover of her new book explaining about how liberals are full of shit, but nobody said this was a beauty contest. If this were a beauty contest, Glint would never have let his face get caught in the trash-compactor. At least he got his squashed top to bottom, instead of side to side like Coulter. Good thinking, Glint! You da man!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:14:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: The original post on CU's position as top 14 also said that this was second only to Florida State or some other bogus college. Probably if you could look up the stats on that college, it would give you a pretty good idea of what the top 14 ranking means. Or maybe not. Either way, it's literally the dumbest topic I've heard in my life. Of course, talking about the top 17 would be even literally dumber, so it's not necessarily the nadir.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:08:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh yeah. Well, Olsen couldn't carry Ingraham's WonderBra!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:07:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Coulter couldn't carry Barb Olsen's maxipad!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:05:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree with Ann Coulter. The idea that a commercial airline pilot needs to be in control of his airplane is literally the stupidest idea I've heard in my life, too. Well, maybe not "literally", but you get the idea.
Randy Weaver's Murdered Wife
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:04:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can't really comment on the latest from Coulter. Usually, I catch her on the local blab-fest, Wednesday mornings, and hear her say how great the this week's column is and how we're going to love it. While I can assume she probably rated this one pretty high, I hate to jump to conclusions.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:03:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's pretty keen that "CU" was in Top 14 for that whole decade (1989-1997.) Wonder exactly which place they were in. The Top 14 is a little vague. I mean, you can be #1 or, I suppose, #14. Ah, hell, what does it matter. Many schools like, say, RU and SSU and WTCU, can only dream of a place in the Top Fourteen. Still, it would be nice to know just which ranking in the Top Fourteen went to "CU" in the Kinda 90s.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:00:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Today's column lacks bite. She's trying to be too topical. A Coulter column only works if she's saved writing it for deep PMS. Poor bitch jumped the rag on this one.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:58:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's a cowtown till we say different.
Shaq
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:56:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good code, 22:45:20
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:55:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yup, Anne sure knows how to expose the liberals for the liars that they are.
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:53:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Would Mohamed Atta Object to Armed Pilots? Universal Press Syndicate | May 30, 2002 By Ann Coulter IN A NEW SAFETY INITIATIVE, the Department of Transportation has instituted an affirmative-action program for Arabs interested in pursuing careers in aviation. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta explained the security advantages of the program, saying, "surrendering to discrimination makes us no different than the terrorists." Since you can't tell these days: This is not, in the strict sense, true. It is true, however, that the department has prohibited pilots from carrying guns and has rejected the idea of a "trusted traveler" program. In fact, it's not doing anything to make the airlines any safer. This should come as no surprise, inasmuch as Mineta recently said he was unaware of any "specific" threat against aviation. They hate us. They're trying to kill us. They use airplanes as weapons. If Mineta doesn't talk to his boss, can't he at least read the papers? In congressional testimony last week, Mineta mercifully spared the senators a recap of his experience in a Japanese internment camp and allowed his assistant, longtime Bush crony and ATF apologist John Magaw, to explain the department's key security improvements. The reason Magaw decided to prohibit pilots from having guns is - and I quote - "they really need to be in control of that aircraft." This is literally the stupidest thing I've heard in my entire life. It is like saying women walking home late at night in dangerous neighborhoods shouldn't carry guns (or mace, for the gunphobic) because they "really need to be getting home." If the undersecretary for transportation security thinks we need to debate whether pilots "really need to be in control of the aircraft," someone other than him really needs to be in control of airline security. The scenario under which a gun might become useful for a pilot is this: The hijackers have penetrated the locked cockpit and thwarted air marshals, passengers and crew. It's going to be difficult for the pilot to fly the plane after the cockpit has been stormed by Arabs. Whatever could go wrong at that point - a wounded passenger, a hole in the side of the plane, terrorists wresting control of the gun - is better than the alternative. Ah, but Magaw is worried that the terrorists will now have a pistol. Think of havoc they could wreak with a gun. Of course, they'll also have a Boeing 767 careening at 480 miles per hour toward the nearest landmark building. Magaw seems to think the real danger is that terrorists will shoot at the White House from a window, not that they'll fly the plane into it. Magaw is the worst kind of government bureaucrat. He defends fascistic government abuses - but the trains still don't run on time. Fascism is at least supposed to keep the citizenry safe. As the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Magaw famously justified an unprovoked government assault against Randy Weaver and his family, culminating in the murder of Weaver's wife. In testimony before a Senate committee investigating the raid at Ruby Ridge, Magaw stubbornly refused to admit the ATF had done anything wrong whatsoever. Indeed, he even refused to acknowledge a jury verdict finding that the government had entrapped Weaver. Of the jury's verdict, Magaw said: "Do you believe Randy Weaver - or do you believe the federal agents who have sworn to tell the truth and are carrying out a career in this government?" If only airline pilots worked for the government! Then Magaw would not only allow them to tussle with terrorists, but they would also be free to gun down innocent Americans without criticism. (The Senate report found Magaw's testimony not credible and recommended abolition of his entire agency.) Magaw's other airline safety improvement was to reject the idea of a "trusted traveler" program, which would allow passengers to avoid three-hour airport security lines after submitting to an intrusive background check by the government. As reported by the New York Times, Magaw spurned the trusted traveler idea on the ground that "he is not sure who could safely be given the card." I don't know, how about ... NO ARABS? (Religion-of-Peace Update: As they prepare to stone a rape victim to death in Pakistan, the latest suicide bombing in Israel claimed the lives of a 70-year-old woman and her 18-month old granddaughter.) Amazingly, President Bush has actually found someone even dumber than Norman Mineta to secure the nation's airlines. The secretary of transportation is the only person on the face of the globe who thinks the airlines face no terrorist threat, and his deputy - by his own admission - hasn't the first idea which airline passengers can be "trusted." If these guys were doing their jobs right, Congress would be reining them in, civil libertarians would be screaming, and professional ethnic complainers would be holding candlelight vigils and singing "We Shall Overcome." Instead, Congress is forced to pass laws overruling Mineta and Magaw, civil libertarians are scratching their heads wondering why profiling is prohibited, and professional complainers are sending them flowers. Maybe somebody else should be doing this job
go anne go
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:52:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: They can call this a cow-town but not for long. This town is headed for the bigs. This town is on the map, you poindexters.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:45:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: This sucks. I'm going to go visit my friend who used to work in a bank and despises people who don't take care of the places they rent. The one who's all twisted up inside about the possibility that someone might be getting a blow job somewhere. Maybe some of the glory will rub off on me.
Glutch
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:42:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gosh, Glint, I can't imagine how you've missed mention of Joan. Isn't she ever mentioned in the Goldman-Sachs press releases? Maybe she just doesn't have legs?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:36:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course, I also walk around in a fog, and fall asleep a lot, but who doesn't? I mean, who doesn't who's a non-smoker?
H.Y. Schuyler
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:33:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Joan will be here. I don't sense anything out of town on the calendar. Starting to get summery. Triple digits easy by Monday. I thought some of the stuff below was pretty humorous. The football stuff. Top 14. What a rube.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:30:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: I had my last when they told me a biopsy would be in order, check out some sclerotic tissues. About a month and a half. I weigh twenty or twenty-five pounds more than when I last checked, don't know when it happened, though. I figure at least half of it is the smokes. All of a sudden nothing much fit. I think there are some serious drugs in the chokes, and some of them can fuck with your metabolism. Or just relaxing all those involuntary muscles, essentially every smooth muscle in your body, and your entire autonomic nervous system, can have dramatic results. Every three or four days I want a smoke for a few seconds. Just spent a few days on wildland retreat and there happened to be an old cottage-cheese tub full of marijuana, and I had a bunch of it-- it was like, you know, having a choke. Sort of nice to feel that hot tar-filled smoke on those lung tissues. Every three or four days I want a smoke for a few seconds.
Hon Yost
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 23:26:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:53:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Joan? Who's Joan?
Glint
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:47:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: workouts are still going pretty good, really starting to bulk up pretty good, pecs, tri and biceps. Curls, Fly's, crunches of course. also treadmill and volleyball.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:45:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:41:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: hey dude, 4 months no cigs, how you doing on it?
zerk
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:38:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:34:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm thinking of visiting Joan next Monday night. Meeting on Tuesday. Figure I'll make one more subsidized trip to Cowtown before I pull the plug in October. How's that sound? You be around?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:26:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:25:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't encourage the poor, pathetic asshole. He craves attention and you mustn't feed him. Next thing you know, he'll be requesting a vote on his significance or some such. This guy has been leveled by female gender and now he'll bend over for all cummers. Sick. Sad, really.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:21:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Besides, it has more to do with contributions. Most everyone here sort of brings, or at least brought a little something. Some more than others for sure, but that's how it was, sort of a pot-luck affair. Jeremiah for example brought that hayseed pride that connotes "independence" as working without health insurance. MK treated us to his crayola libertarian world view. Pete just never really had anything to contribute, always the awkward guest at the potluck, not bringing anything himself but complaining quite the loudest about the fare others brought to the table. What a "Loser".
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:21:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm not talking to you, I'm talking about you. geez, "Have you seen the holy grail"?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:16:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:14:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: The strength of a Doink or POW is overwhelming.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 22:13:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Talk about a weak-kneed retort. Sheesh. Look in the mirror. Yes, that one. Doink.
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:54:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:53:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I was expecting a weak-kneed typo or spelling retort. Thanks for overtly confirming my point...LOSER!
zerk
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:49:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wonder if zerk even knows where to place the comma at the end of a quote. Nah; rules schmools. Anyway, the closest I ever got to infinity on this site was the Sissy-Fuss episode. Close to the edge. Almost saw the universe in the sky's slit above Kilimanjaro. Almost got swallowed whole by that episode. Uh-huh.
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:43:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who do those people think they are putting Arafat's picture on a food package. That distinction belongs to the Wheaties people and the likes of a Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:43:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, sure. I never said they didn't make him sweat. They all made him sweat. They just never pulled ahead of him by much. That's all I'm saying. None of them ever pulled ahead of the pack. Although they all sweated like hogs.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:30:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Still, Clifford did give him a run for the money, you'll have to admit that...
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:29:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: He never fell behind Gary. He never fell behind Trish or Sue. He was always there neck and neck with Clifford and Will-yum. You can't say he was THE doormat. Just a doormat among many.
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- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:27:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sucking off a goat dosent mean anything! Well, maybe to the goat!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:25:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: To put this in perspective, you sort of have to consider the range of players, the level of play. Sure the Loser was outmaneuvered at every turn by the 22, but there were others he fell behind as well. The rock-skulled Jeremiah and the fatally clueless MK to name but a few. Miles behind Glint although the Brenda bit has certainly pulled him down from nomination as honorary number 23 of 22. And Crynic, ha. We'll make crynic second only to the Loser.
Borg 19 of 22
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:22:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Say what you will about Pete, there is no doubt in my mind that if he had been at the right place at the right time, he would have went.
,
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:15:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Impotence? Try to tell that to the goats.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:12:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: I mean the pathetic reaches for granduer, the inability to bond with his fellow man, the impotence and related mysogeny...the list goes on. In fact it goes on for about 5 years.
borg 7 of 22
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:07:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:05:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hiya gang. You know, alot of folks have come and gone here at the pothaole on the information superhighway. But the term "loser" really only applies to one. Sure we've called Pete alot of things, but given the 5 years of this site, and sort of contemplating being "Pete" for 5 years on this site, one word really seems to describe it above all else. The word, "Loser" Hands down, unequivocable last place. Worst team in the league 5 years running I guess would be the sports analogy. But its more than just worst in league for 5 years, its more like never having won a single game in 5 years. No, worse than that, like never having scored a point, fumbled uselessly on evry possession. Total failure. A "Loser", the essence of.
zerk
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 21:04:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who, me? Turn away from anti-terrorism investigations and planning to concentrate on state right-to-die laws and medicinal marijuana? You must be thinking of some other attorney general...
John Ashcroft
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 20:48:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know that famous quotation from T.E. Lawrence? The one about some men dreaming while they're wide awake, thus making their dreams possible rather than sitting around and scratching their balls like most people? It's almost eerie the way that quotation describes Pete�. In fact, I'm surprised that Pete� hasn't come across that quotation somewhere and adopted it as his personal motto.
Linkletter
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 20:45:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dexter�????????????
I sense a new round of cunt-calling if this keeps up
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 20:27:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who, me? Terminate the unmanned drone surveillance on Osama Bin Laden?
Don Rumsfeld
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 20:27:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, I may have had a few "hallway conversations" about how the administration was handling the Enron melt-down, but as the administration says, in fact I had "very few such conversations." And, by the way, in an unrelated development, I'm moving back to Austin so my son can finish high-school with his shit-kicker friends...
Karen Hughes
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 20:25:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: I haven't been a big fan of Pete ever since I found out he picks his nose and eats it.
Dexter�
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 20:19:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've been reading the Goldman-Sachs' Company Wednesday Highlights, and there's not a goddamn thing about Chandra Levy. What gives? And where's the reviews of the new Fox sit-coms?
Glush
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 18:13:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete? Oh, he's one of the day-time dreamers. You know, the ones TE Lawrence wrote about in "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", th ones who act their dreams with open eyes? Straight-jacket material. Rubber roomers.
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- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 18:10:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: He was confused about a lot of things. About the only thing he ever got right was the fact that President Buchanan started the Civil War.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 17:58:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, to be fair, a lot of it was just stupidity. The North Sea, Kiliminjaro, the grid lines, Plato, Sisyphus... it wasn't lying so much as it was wishful thinking and pure stupidity.
Pop
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 17:56:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why did the fat man lie so much, Daddy?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 17:55:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Twisted up in his lies, he forgets that the Buck V6 Dauntless was the stock Jeep motor during the period he was lying about.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 17:52:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, if the Bush administration - and its predecessor - will not come clean and accept responsibility, then the people will have to legally take matters into their own hands and force openness and responsibility in government. I aim to help do just that. No one is above the law, and I am fed up with politicians who think they are, no matter what their poll ratings and standing may be! I don't even care if they call themselves (compassionate) conservatives. The issues are not academic and trivial - they concern the survival of each American, his or her family, and the nation as a whole. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Larry Klayman is chairman and general counsel of government "watchdog" organization Judicial Watch.
go, loonball, go
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 17:51:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, doink, it was a Buick V6 Dauntless, but details and facts were never your hot subject. Oh, and your allies never disproved the truth about the rebuild. Liberal. Duh.
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 17:42:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Also yesterday, White House officials said they plan to send Lieberman an update to a statement the chronology made about Karen P. Hughes, President Bush's counselor. The chronology overstated Hughes's Enron-related activity, the officials said. The chronology indicates Hughes had been concerned about Enron for many weeks before it became a major political issue in early January. "Beginning at the end of November 2001, Karen Hughes, counselor to the president, had occasional conversations and meetings with other press secretaries throughout the executive branch concerning responses to media inquiries on Enron." Officials said yesterday that in fact, Hughes had very few such conversations. "Enron was dominating the headlines and she could not rule out that there had been discussions with public affairs people," a senior administration official said. "There was no systematic way in which Karen reached out to the public affairs people." The official said Hughes may have had a few hallway conversations in which she and administration officials discussed how the issue was being handled. The official said Hughes "touched on the issue" during an hour-long meeting with public affairs officials in January that covered many other topics, including the upcoming State of the Union address. "She made a general statement that every agency should get this information out as quickly as possible and disclose it as quickly as possible," the official said. "We had nothing to hide, because we acted appropriately."
a few hallway conversations, then back to Austing for the boy's sake
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 17:42:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete? He quit long ago. Gone. Really. This time he meant it. Just dropped by to repeat the faux-gossip about the blue books. Always a mile or two behind the curve. Big fat guy with horn-rim spectacles. 16-inch biceps, 38-inch left gluteal lobe, 41" right. Waxy complexion like wax fruit. Peach. Not here any more, spreading his lies somewhere else. So don't worry.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 17:37:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Zerk, the part about the venturi was the pineapple's. He's into it because he once worked on a Volkswagen; he spent a few days on here pretending that he had rebuilt a motor from a Jeep but describing the Volkswagen motor instead. Just another example of his lying.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 17:33:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. -T. E. Lawrence from "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 15:34:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ask Anita about the pubic hairs in the Blue Books she claimed her students put there. Liberal nutcase. Par for the course.
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 14:43:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anita Hill, still fixated by hairs on cans. And those she hopes will notice them.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 13:15:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: The hair on the Coke can that he put there.
Anita Hill
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 13:03:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: BUSH DIDN'T KNOW!! And That's The Problem Terrorism To Bushies Was Soooo Bill Clinton An MWO Commentary The revelations over the holiday about the continuing Bush 9/11 scandal point to a horrifying conclusion: Bush knew nothing before September 11, despite all of the evidence that he could have have known almost everything. The official version of events, in covering up this fact, resorts to a redeployment of the Bush Dodge. Because Bush was not guilty of knowing anything, he did nothing wrong. But that's how the White House goes about framing situations in order to escape scrutiny and responsibility. The facts remain: The Bush White House severely downgraded the importance of anti-terrorism before September 11. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's only significant actions on the anti-terrorism front was to suspend Predator drone tracking of Osama bin Laden. National Security adviser Condoleeza Rice never followed up her predecessor's warnings about bin Laden's overwhelming importance. Attorney General John Ashcroft, riven by his crusades against medical marijuana use and child pornography, made anti-terrorism no priority at all right until the eve of the terrorist attacks. More generally, the Bush Administration was placing its military strategic focus almost entirely on reviving Star Wars under the National Missile Defense rubric -- and backing off the vigilant, a most obsessive efforts by the Clinton Administration to fight the terrorist threat from Al Qaeda and other barbarians. And all the while, the inept and somnolent F.B.I., as exposed in the Rowley/Minneapolis memo, actively kept information from going forward that could well have stopped the attacks -- and then tried to cover itself by stonewalling like the rest of the Administration. The issue in the Bush 9/11 scandal isn't treason. It never has been -- though the Bushies would like you to believe it is, so that they can stand exonerated. The issue is policy and competence. And from what we now know (despite the desperate attempts of the White House to keep us from knowing anything, and changing the subject), it is clear that the Administration was scandalously unprepared on September 11, when it had every reason to be highly prepared. Not because the terrorists were so fiendishly clever. They weren't. Their actions had been predicted inside the government for years. Not because the information was so vague and scanty. It wasn't, except at the very top, which made all the difference. No -- it was because the Administration turned a blind eye to terrorism and anti-terrorism from January through early September. That, it seems, is why the White House is so adamant about keeping key documents, including the August 6 memo, from seeing the light of day -- not because of what it shows Bush knew, but because, in combination with everything else, it shows all he didn't know. The White House would like to make it sound as if its critics have accused George W. Bush of treason. We have not. We have charged that the Bush Administration has moved into a surly defensive crouch, stonewalling on 9/11 just as it stonewalls on everything else, because its misplaced priorities and special-interest driven policies have hurt the country -- in this case, by downgrading anti-terrorism operations in favor of its kooky national security projects -- projects now fully discredited by the cruel realities of September 11, but that still profitable, to the special interests. And so the Administration doesn't want anybody to know very much... especially about how much Bush didn't know.
Bombing Bin Laden Was Sooooooo Bill Clinton
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 13:03:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Watch out. I think he's just about ready to point out the hair on that can of Coke.
Anita Hill
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 12:54:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Someone here's in charge of totall recall.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 12:53:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Say, didn't someone once say they're baiting us for it daily? What comes after that?
Faux E�
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 12:52:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Say, wait a minute. Isn't it the economy, stupid? Isn't it Stupid's economy, stupid? Didn't they put Dick Cheney in a secure location holed up with Arthur Andersen CPAs to cook up books to hide the surplus billions Snippy pissed away? Perhaps they should shred themselves?
curious baghdad granny
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 12:47:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: L.G., you're this page's answer to Will Rogers.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 10:28:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: What? The demonrats are trying to pin "accountability" on Snippy and his crew? Where's the stained dress?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 10:05:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: James Carville and his team of heavy thinkers have come up with a new catch phrase to, they hope, rival "It's the economy, stupid." You probably heard Hillary using it lately. She's particularly good at using generated talking points - remember "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"? The new word is "accountability." Somehow it just doesn't sing. Stick it in a time machine and set the dial for 1993.
L.G.
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 09:42:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why is it, then, that nobody really thinks of CU when pondering college football powers? Florida, Florida State, Miami, Nebraska, Notre Dame, USC, UCLA, Alabama, Michigan State and Univ., Ohio State, Penn State. Those are the ones that leap to mind. Even the initials CU don't register. You have to explain that CU stands for Colorado University before you get a glimmer of recognition. Then, if you give an actual shit, you have to explain that "CU" is a real football power, no kidding, man. There was a the Golden Age (1989-1997) when "CU" was ranked in something I like to call the Top Fourteen. You could look it up!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 23:46:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ooh, the top 14! Can you say Fig Newton Bowl?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 23:35:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: There was a 10 year period of such, but more impressive is CU was ranked in the top 14 from 1989 to 1997, consecutively for 143 weeks, second only to Florida State during that period.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 21:07:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: go anne go
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 20:57:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: DALLAS-I've been on 16 planes since September, from Ohio to Oregon, and my carry- on luggage has been searched nearly every time I've walked through the metal detector. There were the nail clippers at JFK, a shiny knife pendant at LAX, and a silver lock dangling from the ring of a leather collar in Chicago. In Columbus, after my personal belongings took their trip down the conveyor belt, a security guard asked me to step out of line for a bag check. Since all three of the aforementioned items were safely packed in my checked suitcase, I wondered what could have possibly triggered suspicion. He led me to a long table off to the side, where the bags of two other passengers were being checked. He rooted around in my backpack until he found what had alerted the person at the X ray machine: my portable and innocuous-looking vibrator. Known to many as the "pocket rocket," this little buzzer is barely bigger than a lipstick and wouldn't intimidate even preppie Charlotte from Sex and the City. "What's this?" he asked. "It's a vibrator," I said. Sure, I could have gone the easy route, claiming my right to carry a personal shoulder massager on board, but what about the next girl who's got a glow-in-the-dark cock, circumcised head and all? I wanted the security folks to get hip to how some of us relax on a long flight. "What do you mean?" he said. "What do you mean 'What do I mean?' " I replied. "Would you like me to show you how it works?" The guys on either side of me blushed and chortled respectively, then the man repacked my bag and let me go on my way. Each time I travel, I continue to put as many whips, riding crops, and sharp objects as I can in my checked luggage, but I was especially nervous when I recently booked a flight to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. I'd heard that it's illegal to sell dildos in the state of Texas. Worse yet, rumor had it that having more than six dildos constitutes the intent to distribute them, so zealous dong ownership alone is against the law. In case my luggage was x-rayed and I was plucked from the boarding line once again, I wanted to be prepared. I decided that honesty was my best defense: I would have only two dildos with me-the other 15 would actually be vibrators and butt plugs. (You may think it's overkill to pack so many, but a girl's gotta be prepared.) Well, after doing a little homework, I learned that it's not just dildos that are illegal, but all things "obscene," which Texas law defines as dildos, artificial vaginas, or any device "designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs." In my house, we call that sexual pleasure, and in the land of the free, some states regulate how you get yours. Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders who want to play bury the bone are not alone: There are similar laws on the books in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Colorado, and Alabama. Since the majority of people who use dildos, vibrators, and other insertable sex toys are women, making them contraband is another institutionalized form of controlling female sexuality. There's also an insidious double standard at play: A much higher percentage of men than women can masturbate to orgasm with their own hands. Vibrators deliver consistent, powerful stimulation unparalleled by any human being. The first time I ever used a vibrator, all I could think was, Wow, now I know what all the fuss is about! Actually, I couldn't really think at first, since I was too busy reeling from the amazing orgasm. Vibes aren't just for solo missions anymore. Let's face it: Even the most ambitious lover can get a stiff neck, repetitive stress injury, or just plain exhaustion from going that extra mile to make you squeal. A person who whips out a vibrator in the bedroom says to me, "I am sexually confident, adventurous, and dedicated to your pleasure." And I don't want any state legislature telling me how I can or cannot come. Though I wasn't in Dallas for a silicone-sausage shopping spree, I wondered, What do Texans do when they want to fill a hungry hole, stuff a slippery slit? What if a girl wants to celebrate Masturbation Month (which is May, by the way) in the Lone Star State? Could Debbie do Dallas without any dildo diddling? Some stores, like Austin's women-owned Forbidden Fruit (www.forbiddenfruit.com), require customers to sign a release form declaring that they are purchasing toys for educational purposes only. While there isn't a Commission to Crack Down on Dildo Distribution (well, none that we know of), Forbidden Fruit's diligence is a result of being raided and shut down in the '90s. Incidentally, Forbidden Fruit carries copies of a new amateur, authentic lesbian porn flick called Home Cookin', which was filmed in Texas (www.passionfruitvideo.com). Trust me, if the hotties in this vid were performing for educational purposes, then remind me to apply to the University of Texas pronto. Other shops don't openly display plastic phalluses, but if you ask and they know you're not a cop, they might show you something on the QT. Once again, sexuality is shrouded in mystery, hidden behind the counter, relegated to the back room, available only to those who know the secret password. Ironically, s/m gear is perfectly acceptable (signs posted say it's sold for costume only), so I could buy all the leather chastity belts, bondage gear, and ball gags I wanted at local fetish shops Leather by Boots (www.leathernetwork.com/lbbpage/) and Shades of Gray. Plus, there are plastic penis swizzler sticks aplenty at novelty shops. Just those pesky jerk-off tools are off-limits. This from the same state where guns are not only legal and easily available, but concealed firearms are A-OK as long as you have a license. Hey, I'm all for a sex-toy licensing program if it makes motorized muff- movers lawful. Imagine what the test would be like to carry a concealed dildo? I can see it now: Lea Delaria as the hard-nosed instructor and Drew Barrymore, with a strap-on beneath her silk dress, as the nervous first-time driver. Excuse me while I grab my pocket rocket and whack off to that image. After all, it's my right under New York State law.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 20:25:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, Pete's a liar? Surprise, surprise.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:40:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: And they actually rank 22nd all time in won-lost record. Right behind Army. Yawn.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:38:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here. Read it and weep.
Anonymous. <http://www.2cuz.com/factoids/decade.html>
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:32:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: And yet if you check out , you won't find CU listed among the top ten in wins for any decade at all. Bunch of losers.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:32:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, anon, he meant the "false baiters." Ha Ha. Doint. Ha Ha
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:20:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, when the have the All-Time Bowl, CU will not even be considered. Figures.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:20:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, with 2 losses each year to those two "teams" for decades (roughly approximated for arguments' sake), that is 224 losses out of its 379 total losses. Oh well. Thank God for Parity and the demise of Dr. Tom.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:19:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Byt he way Glint, did you know this fact: CU is ranked #15 on the all time win/loss list: 621-379-36 (.617)with 1,036 games in 112 seasons. No doubt it would be higher without Nebraska and Oklahoma on its schedule each year, both of whom were ranked, er, a bit higher ;-)
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:18:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, I see ... "sure afoot" Ha hya ha
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:16:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Poetry, losers, poetry. Doink.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:15:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: How can you tell a false baiter from a real baiter, dipshit?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:10:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: And yet he demonstrates the same inablility to put words together in a coherent way. Maybe it is Pete.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:06:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: The false baiters are sure afoot. Doink.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 18:00:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hasn't called anyone a pussed over twat either. Can't be Pete.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 17:56:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Notice that they haven't mentioned anything about aligned planets today. Glint's wife must be on to them.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 17:53:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey Glint, did you know: "CU 62 NU 36 was on 11/23/2001. Next meeting is 11/29/2002. The dates are 372 days apart, inclusive. Notable characteristics of the number 372. * It is divisible by 62, the number of points CU hung on the corn. * 372 divided by 62 equals 6. * the number of points awarded for a touchdown * the number of touchdowns CB hung on the corn last November Today, 5/28/02 is the midway point between the last drubbing (62-36) and the next shellacking." From the True Blue Buff Board.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 17:51:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: The facts never got in the way of a true blue liebral liar. Out spot!
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 17:35:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: God speaks through others, such as when he said, "Don't wash the dress, Monica. Keep it as is - just in case."
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 17:33:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Doink.
GOD�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 17:17:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: God proved them wrong? Prove it.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 16:53:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, and they used to say God is dead too. He also proved them wrong as well.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 16:50:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pathetic to see Pete try and worm his way back in. Pete is dead.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 16:47:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yup, touch�, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Doink.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 16:15:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Main Entry: 1fag�ot Variant(s): or fag�got /'fa-g&t/ Function: noun Etymology: Middle English fagot, from Middle French Date: 14th century : BUNDLE: as a : a bundle of sticks b : a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature
hmmmmm...maybe he has a point ...
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 16:13:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Define faggot, liar.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 16:11:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: How fucking interesting it is to sit in on such a scintillating conversation between two faggots.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 16:03:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hmm, interesting. I've listened to KODY radio before when traveling in the central state's center.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 15:45:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here you go: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/rmandeville/kodysurvey3.html
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 15:42:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, didn't hear anything about any new uniforms. Last news I heard was that Heisman Trophy winner Eric Crouch wasn't picked up until the third round, by St. Louis.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 15:40:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: You made me curious so I had to look. I have a copy of Goldman-Sachs' Company Highlights for Halliburton. It's a summary of Friday's Analysts meeting at HAL -- the first such meeting since 1998. Seems the biggest worry comes from some asbestos-related litigation concerns, apparently from some previous construction projects. In another report, Solomon Smith Barney describe HAL as "Not the Beverly Hillbillies." They have raised their EPS estimates by $0.10 following the meeting. Let's see, oh - there's a reorganization coming soon. Now, I'm looking at Bear Stearns. Pessimistic as usual, they remain unconvinced that the oilfield up turn can overcome the asbestos liabilities. Moving on...Lehman Brothers is "positive" about Haliburton and have given it a "1 Strong Buy" recommendation. Nothing about Anderson or Cheney here. Guess you need to go to mediasluts.com to get the "real truth" from the experts.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 15:32:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, did you see the new sKer unis?
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 15:29:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Spoken like a true liberal demonrat sitting on the Florida Supreme Court.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 15:28:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: The only rules that don't apply should be election laws!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 15:09:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did we ever? We've had their number punched for a long time. Ever since it became clear that their kind believes that the rules don't apply to them.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 15:03:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does anyone believe the media spin and liar demonrats any more? If so, bring in the lobotomizer. Doink.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 15:01:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dick can take it. Won't even lift a finger to wag it like the scumbag did.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:49:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Andersen & Cheney Cooked Halliburton's Books MAY 22: No wonder the Bush administration ignored early signs that Enron and its auditor Arthur Andersen had, for years, doctored Enron's books. It seems that VP Cheney had some chestnuts in that fire himself. It was reported this week that while Vice President Dick Cheney served as CEO of Halliburton Corp he approved similar bookkeeping trickery. And, just like Enron, Cheney's choice of auditors was customer compliant Arthur Andersen. A month ago Halliburton quietly announced that it might have to restate some earlier earnings. Yesterday the other shoe dropped. The company admitted that it had "altered" its books - while Cheney was CEO - to report as revenue more than $100 million in "disputed costs" on some construction projects. It seems that, even though Halliburton's clients were refusing to pay the bills, claiming they did not owe that much, the company booked the disputed accounts receivables as money in hand. Two former executives of the company have reportedly told investigators that Halliburton employed "aggressive accounting practices in order to obscure losses." Since the Supreme Court ruled during the Clinton administration that a serving President of the United States is not immune from civil court actions, Cheney remains vulnerable to shareholder lawsuits.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:36:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let The Games Begin! Offshore: The Last Refuge of Scoundrels With the November elections just six months away, GOP candidates are ducking and bobbing as their Democratic opponents throw the first Enron political punches. And, when the going gets tough, Americans get going - unless they are US corporations. For them, when the going gets tough it's just time to go. Each day the list of US companies reincorporating offshore to escape taxes grows. The latest is one of the remaining "Big Four" accounting firms, Price Waterhouse Cooper, which has moved its consulting arm to sunny, tax-free Bermuda. How patriotic.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:33:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Uh...?
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:29:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: She ain't no Tejan, she's an Africunt.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:24:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jackson Lee was trying to hide under the dingleberry.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:22:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: TOP BUSINESS HEADLINES FOR MAY 28: Stock Markets; U.S. Consumer Spending, Personal Income Rise in April; Andersen Opens Defense in Enron Obstruction of Justice Trial; Senate OKs Bill Allowing Bush to Negotiate Trade Deals; & Japan Economy
Ah ha, Enrongate isn't a political scandal, just a business story about Anderson
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:21:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: TOP US HEADLINES FOR MAY 28: FBI Agent Alleges Roadblocks in Pre-Sept. 11 Moussaoui Probe; Terror Victims, War Dead Remembered on Memorial Day; Catholic Church Abuse Scandal; Arizona Wildfire Injures Firefighter, Forces Evacuations; Medical Examiner: Chandra Levy Was Murdered; Pentagon: U.S. Tested Nerve Gas on Navy Ships in 1960s; & Ex-Klansman Convicted of Murder in 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing
Where's Enrongate
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:20:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: TOP HEADLINES FOR MAY 28: India: Speech by Pakistan's Musharraf 'Disappointing and Dangerous'; NATO Welcomes Russia as Partial Partner at Rome Summit; Israel Raids Jenin After Suicide Bombing Kills Two; Bush Meets With Pope John Paul II; Arizona Wildfire Injures Firefighter, Forces Evacuations; Investigators Probe Taiwan Jet That Broke Up in Mid-air, Killing 225; Rifts Between O'Neill, Bono Emerge on Aid to Africa During Tour; Nepal Says 100 Rebels Killed, Raid Thwarted; Philippine President: U.S. Hostages Still Alive; Scientists Make Strides in Efforts to Clone Extinct Tasmanian Tiger; & Underground Ice Reportedly Detected on Mars May 28 10:11 AM EDT
Where's Enrongate
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:20:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: She's a Texan, right? Figures.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:04:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Car Talk. . No matter how hard she tries, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. (D-Texas) just can't seem to shake her car troubles. Jackson Lee took a beating in the media a few months back for having a staffer wait outside her front door each morning in a government-financed car to shuttle her the whole two blocks from her apartment to the Rayburn Building. HOH. later reported that she had started slipping out the back door to have her chief of staff drive her to work, though her office insisted that the boss wasn't trying to evade scrutiny. Then, during a House vote Wednesday night, an interesting scene played out on the east side of the Capitol. The Capitol Police cleared Rep. John Dingell's (D-Mich.) car. to go through the security barriers, which only let through one vehicle at a time. But suddenly a Mercedes with dark windows sped up. and tried to sneak through the barriers on Dingell's tail. According to HOH's spy, police officers rushed over and ordered the car to stop, as the tinted windows slowly started rolling down. "Who should be in the passenger seat but Sheila Jackson Lee.," said the source.
ship her ugly brown ass to uganda
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 13:50:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Living in Uganda on $1 a day? Drugs must me dirt cheap there, those lucky bastards.
Dick Glans
- Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 13:28:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you get those little rugrats weaving rugs for oh eight to twelve hours a day, you save LOTS on textbooks, and teachers, and in the end, you have a rug to sell for a mean profit! The old ways ARE the best!!
Kapitalist Tool
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 23:19:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Better than a life on the dole, I guess.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 23:12:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: The kids in the soup kitchen lines whould be working for a living like their Indonesian cousins. Unfortunately, our touchy-feely "child labor" laws have doomed these able-bodied children to a life on the doll. I hate lie-brals.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 23:11:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Crynic, How are your blue chips doing?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 23:11:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Increasingly Irrelevant in an Established Order that Tolerates Poverty Aid alone, in the absence of leadership to restructure global financial, trade and environmental relations, will never achieve the goal of poverty eradication. But turning the rhetoric of aid - ownership, empowerment, participation, gender equality, basic human needs - into action is a litmus test for the global community. Unless there is genuine reform in international governance, and a delinking of aid from vested interests and conditionality, aid will be seen as increasingly irrelevant - just part of an established order that tolerates poverty rather than a key element which can contribute to prosperity and security for all. The Global North: Never Richer, Never Meaner The people living in greatest poverty in the world are having to pay the price of getting rich countries� economies in order. The total failure of the majority of rich countries to honour the commitments they have made to increase aid towards 0.7% in order to achieve the Millennium Goals for 2015 contrasts sharply with the growing wealth of OECD countries. This disparity can be summed up simply in the phrase "richer but meaner". Our Common Challenge Arrested development and vast economic disparities that separate us all on the planet do not cause events like 11 September - but they set the stage for more than 40 conflicts on the planet today. Global peace will remain out of reach for everyone unless everyone has a share in the common future - and something to protect. Fundamental institutional reforms are needed to ensure that international organizations reflect the financial, political and security interests of all, not just those who are already rich and powerful. http://www.ccic.ca/news/reality_aid_2002_key_messages_19_03_2002.htm
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 22:41:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Kennedy, Democrats launch effort to increase federal minimum wage Wed May 22, 5:49 PM ET By MELISSA B. ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats led by Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts on Wednesday revived an effort to boost the federal minimum wage by $1.50. "Our proposal is extremely reasonable," said Kennedy who has championed previous increases in the hourly minimum wage, now at $5.15. It's higher in some states. Kennedy proposed increasing the minimum wage in three steps: by 60 cents two months after enactment; by 50 cents on Jan. 1, 2003; and by another 40 cents on Jan. 1, 2004. Congress last voted to increase the minimum wage six years ago. About nine million workers now earn the minimum, Kennedy said. In exchange for Republican support for an increase, Kennedy said that he would accept a package of business tax breaks costing $20 billion to $30 billion over 10 years. About a year ago, Senate Republican and Democratic leaders announced they were close to an agreement that would have allowed a minimum wage bill to be debated. Republicans were likely to offer a proposal by Sen. Don Nickles of Oklahoma more modest than the $1.50 increase sought by Democrats, but debate was put off over the next few months for various reasons. After Sept. 11, work on minimum wage and the rest of the routine legislative agenda was indefinitely postponed as Congress funded the war in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and debated airport security and other anti-terrorism initiatives. The minimum wage issue is one that has long divided Republicans and Democrats. Two years ago, minimum wage proposals were attached to a Senate bankruptcy bill and a House tax-relief package. Both efforts were later abandoned. On Wednesday, Kennedy said he doesn't yet have the 60 votes necessary to force a vote in the Senate. In the House, Rep. David Bonior , D-Mich., who is running for governor, scheduled a meeting with Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., later in the day to discuss prospects for minimum wage legislation in that chamber. President Bush said last year that he would favor a minimum wage increase if states are allowed to opt out.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 22:36:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: 1 in 4 people in a soup kitchen line is a child.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 22:25:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Faces of Childhood Hunger Billy Thirteen year-old Billy is not so different from a lot of eighth grade boys. He likes science fiction, Harry Potter books, and killer whales. He wants to be an artist when he grows up, but says he likes going to school most of all because he knows he'll be able to get lunch when he goes. This isn't something he can always count on at home, where his mother's low-paying job leaves her struggling to make ends meet. But even this does not make Billy so different from other kids his age. In fact, ninety-eight percent of the children attending his school rely on the reduced or free school lunch program for daily meals. Billy also stays after school a few days a week because he can get dinner there. His school operates one of the hundreds of Kids Cafes set up across the U.S. for low-income children. There, kids can get a balanced evening meal in a safe environment where tutoring and other educational activities are provided. Recently, Billy has started helping out in the kitchen on the nights he eats. "It makes me happy," he explains. "I like to do what I can." He also says that they often serve his favorite foods, so that makes him happy too, but when asked to name some of those favorites, he hesitates. "Whatever they put in front of me, I guess.
surprise mr. o'neil;
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 22:21:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Strip steaks on the grill. Salad, baked potato, deviled eggs. American cheese - no south poling greek feta. Especially on Memorial Day. Mrs. likes blanc and I like cabernet - so we compromised on a merlot. Root beer floats for desert. Magnificent electrical storm going on now. Going out to watch. Might switch from the aluminum crutches back to the wooden ones first, however.
Glint
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 22:17:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: "O'Neill expressed surprise that as many as six or seven children had to share a textbook and suggested voluntary aid could ease such shortages." http://fyi.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/05/01/california.schools.disrepair.reut/
Surprise!
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 22:13:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: O'Neill, Bono Divided on Aid on Africa Tour Mon May 27, 5:34 PM ET By Glenn Somerville KAMPALA, Uganda (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Irish rock singer Bono revealed strong differences on Monday over how Western nations should help poverty-stricken Africa. The pair, in Uganda on the third leg of a four-nation tour that has taken them to Ghana and South Africa and will end in Ethiopia, differed publicly on whether more aid money or more efficient use of current aid funds could help Africa. The unlikely duo -- the world's most powerful finance minister and the frontman of rock band U2 -- met about a year ago and agreed to a tour of Africa to look at poverty and social and development issues. As they visited an elementary school outside Kampala, O'Neill asked how much it would cost to drill a well to supply the school, which depends upon rain water collected in a tank. "These kids are still learning under trees and worse, they're going hungry to learn, did you know that," Bono asked O'Neill. O'Neill expressed surprise that as many as six or seven children had to share a textbook and suggested voluntary aid could ease such shortages. "I think if people understood they could give six copies of Dr. Seuss and every child could have one...that translates better than saying give us more money," O'Neill said. "If you do something that helps people with real tangible things (it helps more than) talking about some cosmic stuff about billions of dollars." Bono, a long-term activist for debt relief and for more generous aid to Africa, responded by saying that more money was needed from rich Western nations. "It is going to take billions of dollars," Bono said, insisting it was "not cosmic stuff" but rather about ensuring children had access to educational opportunity and to a bowl of porridge a day. ECONOMIC PROGRESS At an appearance at Kampala's Makerere University, O'Neill praised Uganda's economic progress and its commitment to use money from debt relief that it was granted to help alleviate poverty. The country of 23 million has averaged six percent growth over the past decade, largely helped by donor funds. In 2000, around 35 percent of the population was living on less than a dollar a day, though that was down from 56 percent in 1992. O'Neill and Bono visited a public marketplace, meeting a woman who had parlayed a $100 loan from a non-profit organization called FINCA International, which receives U.S. backing, into a successful restaurant that employs two others. "I think it makes a good case for helping people with an idea and who are committed to making their own business," O'Neill said of her success. "One of the great things about the pictures that are being sent around the world from here today is that they're not the usual pictures of Africa, which is of famine or HIV/AIDS ," Bono said. "These are pictures of people who are fighting back against their poverty, using every resource that is available to them and this is an image that is great for Africa -- people fighting for their economic freedom."
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 21:57:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Andouille sausage on the barbie. Salad with feta cheese, nice olive oil/red wine vinegar/garlic/Greek oregano dressing. Cheeky little burgundy. Say, isn't this what living's really all about?
shallow hal, but who's counting
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 20:23:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: To save your world you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? Auden, W. H. (1907 - 1973) British poet. Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier
In Memoriam
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 19:56:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: The flag fad is so over.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 18:40:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: My flag's better than your flag.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 18:08:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh? Says who?
Pete�
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 17:27:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Pete�"...guy dosen't even own a flag.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 16:40:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Prrr...Seeya John�
Pete�
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 15:55:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27558
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 15:33:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ha ha.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 27, 2002 at 11:15:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.cfm
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 22:44:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Would someone riposte a little, just for the record?
pickle recall
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 21:40:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Liar.
Quit Pro Quo
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 21:34:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: No work, all trash?
Ohh-kay
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 19:50:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ho-
Mo.
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 19:40:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ho.
Ho.
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 18:44:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh?
Oh?
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 18:30:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, nice day for socialsits. No work, all trash. Oh.
Pete�
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 17:23:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: After waiting almost 4 months after the Necropolis re-release, I almost pissed my pants when "FORENSICK" showed up at the mall. Sporting THE most disgusting cover art I've ever seen (http://www.chedsey.com/images/disgorge/forensick.jpg) since "Piles of Dead Jews", I was eager to hear it after waiting so long, the return of the mexican crack zombies band! The disc starts off with "JISM Adipose Carbonization" and I was immediately happy, knowing that Disgorge were back and still maintaining the intensity of there debut. Unlike many other bands, DISGORGE actually increased the brutality and speed on their 2nd release. "Crevice Flux Warts" is probably the most unique track. "Silks Sphincter Anal Lumen" starts off with one of the sickest riffs I've heard in a while. Forensick has created such a stir among the underground that Necropolis' extreme death-grind sub label, Deathvomit, picked up the North American distribution rights for the disc along with three live tracks and two tracks from the band's split with Czech goregrind group Squash Bowels and tossed it all onto one CD.
Dr. J
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 16:19:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The latest on Chandra.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/48753.htm
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 16:04:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dedicated to John, may he rest in peace. His life was a job well done, deluded though he was near the end.
http://www.herald-sun.com/tools/slideshows/slideshow.cfm?showID=230669&pageID=14&imageseq=6
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 15:43:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fender bender?
doubt it
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 15:37:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nevertheless, the flag has been desecrated. Thank goodness the Democrats protect free speech.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 15:36:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: No flags were harmed in the making of the cast.
Glint
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 15:34:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: That cast would be unconstitutional if Gingrich had had his way and gotten the 97th Amendment passed.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 15:19:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: How would anyone know if he were perching on a ledge? did he fly down and land?
gruesome bs
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 14:40:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: "... Yet like messages in an electronic bottle from people marooned in some distant sky, their last words narrate a world that was coming undone. A man sends an e-mail message asking, "Any news from the outside?" before perching on a ledge at Windows on the World. A woman reports a colleague is smacking useless sprinkler heads with his shoe. A husband calmly reminds his wife about their insurance policies, then says that the floor is groaning beneath him, and tells her that she and their children meant the world to him. ..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyregion/26WTC.html
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 14:34:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Beautiful photo of Mars featured on Drudgereport.com page...
Glint
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 14:14:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: *** N E W * A N C I L L A R Y * P A G E * C O N T E N T ! ! ! *** I've scanned my cast and posted it on the ancillary page. Wish I would have done it sooner because I spilled coffee on my toes this morning and some of it splashed onto the cast. To view it, proceed to the URL given below. At the top of the page click on the image of the crippled astronomer. It's perfectly harmless!!
http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/glint/ <[email protected]>
Carroll County, MD US of A - Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 13:30:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: What do you mean, Clinton was the first one who bombed bin Laden? No way!
way
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 10:55:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Born-again Senate Democrats Richard Shelby, Arlen Specter and John McCain leading the hunt for Bushist blood as established Democrats back off and gloat. What if they're so disgusted by Bushist mishandling of Al Qaeda info that they really do switch parties? A consummation devoutly to be Bwa ha ha-ed, indeed. Bwa ha ha in any case. Bwa ha ha.
in any case, out there where the buck stops, this investigation was derailed. bushists will try a little more clinton-blaming, except he's the one who first bombed bin Laden.
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 10:53:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know if I've ever been to Montgomery Mall. Driven by it hundreds of times on the I-270 spur. It's sort of an intraveneous route allowing persons from outside the epidermis to gain access to the heart of the patient. Been to White Flint several times in the past year. Sharper Image store there, you know. <> Resistance is getting somewhat futile, Friday.Anonymous@08:22:07.
Glint
- Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 01:17:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: I set him on fire in Montgomery Mall once Glint, there by the T-intersection near Woolworths and Sears on the second floor. Firemen ended up wheeling him out a doorway sort of above the Magic Pan entrance/exit where they soaked him in some kind of foaming green fire retardant spray from some cannisters. His crie were horrible, chilling really. But he was OK.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 23:52:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course we put him out most of the time, especially if the bell was about to ring. He was a good sport, would wheel his smoking self into class and steadfastly deny to the teacher that anything at all was the least bit amiss.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 23:47:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Kevin always had several disheveled notebooks straggling under his arms or under his wheelchair. Torching a few of the extruding papers from behind was the perfect incendiary fuse. By the time he realized he'd been torched again, half his backside was aflame. Especia;;y if he happened to be wheeling into the wind. Then he never knew until the was almost engulfed!!!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 23:44:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Setting fire to the disabled is more of an art than a pastime or casual hobby. It takes a certain talent to find just the right way to start that slow unnoticeable burn. By the time anyone knew my disabled friend was on fire in highschool, I'd already had his little faux fur polyester winter coat asmolder for two or three minutes.
zeerk
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 23:41:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 23:38:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's enough to make one start setting fire to the crippled little newsies hawking the afternoon rags on the streetcorners of planet Cleveland and St. Louis from their miserable cripplecarts and handiwagons. Somewhere between Minneapolis and St. Paul, hauled up with their wretched little blistered and calloused mitts dragging the on and off ramps of civil society.
Somebody ought to do something. Really.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 23:25:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: New Dems Richard Shelby and John McCain backing up that bitch clinton. Damn. Gimme some spin. Why isn't all this smoke and mirrors working? Don't they know W wasn't trying to save his hide? Don't they know it doesn't matter that he lied? Geesh!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 22:04:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Quiet here today...
The New #2
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 20:02:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/messier/messwn03.html
Deacon 214 of 1942
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 16:41:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Great day to be alive. It is well with my soul. Certainly glad to have died behind the wheel. Call me...
deacon light blues
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 16:27:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Corner seat in the computer lab whose adjacent windows, when open, provide a refreshing breeze. With the current uncertainty in the stock market, I'm considering an alternative: Land. Sort of a sweetheart deal, a 2.5 acre lot for sale by owner. $20k cash. Sounds win win.
Glint
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 15:21:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Beautiful cool Memorial Day weekend here in the red county enclave in the People's Republik of Maryland. More clouds than I'd like as when life was castless and a day like today would be spent studying magnetic storm regions on the solar disc. Instead, mellowing out with the panther box and a cold Harp, downloading some Bob Marley.
Glint
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 15:12:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: By THE CAPITAL EDITORIAL BOARD SECOND-GUESSING SEPT. 11 -- The Democratic Party -- and, in particular, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York -- made a big mistake in implying that President Bush either knew about the Sept. 11 attack in advance or should have been able to piece it together in advance from information presented to him. This is unfair, unreasonable and sure to backfire on those who made the statements. Clearly, there was an intelligence failure in the years and months leading up to Sept. 11. The problem now is analyzing why the system failed to provide a warning -- and making the changes necessary to make sure the system provides warnings next time. Unfortunately, there will be a next time. This war will go on for a long time. There will be more attempted terrorist attacks on the United States. But we can't learn from what happened at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the circus atmosphere of a public congressional hearing. Much of the evidence is still highly classified, and public hunting for scapegoats won't serve any constructive purpose. Any investigation ought to be conducted, behind closed doors, by the relevant congressional intelligence committees. These are fully cleared for security. They are bipartisan. The safety and security of our citizens depend on how well they do their work. In the meantime, trying to pin the blame on President Bush in hope of short-term political gain is stupid and self-defeating.
fuck bitch clinton
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 14:13:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Missile Parts at Saudi Base Spark Warning" Los Angeles Times, by ERIC LICHTBLAU and PAUL RICHTER, WASHINGTON -- Remnants of a surface-to-air missile discovered at a Saudi military base used by U.S. troops likely belonged to Al Qaeda operatives, prompting an FBI warning about possible missile attacks against U.S. aircraft, according to a classified alert issued this week. Intelligence officials have suspected for years that Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network may have access to surface-to-air missiles, but the discovery of a missile-launching tube from a shoulder-mounted missile at the Prince Sultan Air Base appeared to offer troubling confirmation.
don't stop till every last ragamuffin has found out the truth about the fictional 73 virgins
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 14:06:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Happy, or brain dead?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 12:28:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: ...Compounding the culture gulf, Bush is a happy man. I don?t mean that he is smug, or one-dimensionally cheery. He is occasionally capable of expressing profound emotion. But he is comfortable in his skin, his religion, his family and his office. This has done wonders for American self-confidence at a time of the most profound trauma. If the first half of his presidency had been more placid, Bush?s natural optimism might swiftly have lost its appeal, but for many Americans something in Bush?s sunny and straightforward personality has provided an antidote for September 11. Quite apart from his policies on the environment, Iraq and terrorism, Bush offends French sensibilities in a country where the President is expected to be aloof, cerebral, grave, private, formal and intensely serious. Thus, while France sees a caricature of crass America, much of America sees continuity, familiarity and reassurance....
Times Newspapers
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 11:40:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: ...The Bush mystique is almost untranslatable abroad. To appreciate it you need to have shot the breeze in a baseball dugout; you must find the sound of a train?s whistle keening across a night prairie the most beautiful music on earth...Bush is at his best working a crowd, high-fiving and joshing, or in a huddle with a handful of people; he is at his worst on a large podium, propounding large ideas in small sentences. ?Saddam Hussein is a dangerous man who gasses his own people,? said the President in Berlin. This is the kind of blunt reduction that reassures Americans in the Midwest as much as it enrages Parisians on the Left Bank....
Times Newspapers
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 11:36:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: SHELBY TO CHENEY: SHUT YOUR TRAP AND COME CLEAN!! Alabama G.O.P. Senator Defies Republic Party Line Says Democrats Have "Obligation" To Ask Questions In a report in the Washington Times, Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has publicly broken with the Administration over the motives behind an independent investigation into the events preceding the terrorist atrocities of September 11. George W. Bush has firmly rejected calls for an investigation, and has killed the release of the controversial August 6 briefing contents. Vice President Richard Cheney and other prominent Republics have also denounced and ridiculed the call for an independent probe as nothing more than partisan politics. But now, Senator Shelby, through the vehicle of the Moonie paper, has told Bush, Cheney, the Administration, and its supporters, kindly to stuff it: "Democrats have an obligation to ask questions about who knew what, but so does everybody else in the Senate and House have an obligation to scrutinize events and to think for themselves," Alabama Sen. Richard C. Shelby said in an interview. "Republicans ought to be asking questions that go above politics, and that go to the security of this country," said Mr. Shelby, the ranking member of the Select Senate Committee on Intelligence. Senator Shelby had thus joined the Weekly Standard, George Will, and much of the rest of the D.C. right-wing establishment in warning the Administration it is making a mockery of national security. The conservative crack-up continues. Will the Media Whores report it? Will they ask Ari whether, in light of Shelby's comments, as well as those of other prominent Republics, the White House still views the call for an independent probe as strictly a "partisan" effort? If it does, how does he explain the support of Richard Shelby, John McCain, William Kristol, George Will, and many other leading Republics for precisely such an investigation? Are they really partisan Democrats, too, in extremely clever disguise?
Dems in Disguise
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 09:19:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 07:33:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: He's freakin out there man, Brautigan, I mean. Not him like in the flesh, but in the car. In the car. In the old car. The one that can't keep up and where you could pull the keys out of the ignitionswitchwhileitwastillrunning. That's what it was all about. Well, maybe not all, but some. It would be fair to say "some". "I woke up before Pauline and put on my overalls. A crack of grey sun shone through the window and lay quitely on the floor. I went over and put my foot in it, and then my foot was gray." (In Watermelon Sugar)
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 00:55:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Think nothing of it." The tigers left. I went over to ideath and told Charleythat the tigers had eaten my parents. "What a shame," he said. "The tigers are so nice. Why do they have to go and do things like that?" I said. "They can't help themselves," Charley said. "I like the tigers, too. I've had a lot of good conversations with them. They're very nice and have a good way of stating things, but we're going to have to get rid of them. Soon."
Watermelon Sugar
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 00:45:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: You people are freaks. If there was a giant cement truck that could pave someplace in cyberspace, this would be it. This place is nothing but a pothaole on the information superhighway. That's why people stopped driving the old cars, not because they were broken, but because they couldn't keep up. By 1964, 50 mph was slow because there were superhiways called "interstates" - except we called them "superhighways" then because one day they would connect the world or at least the continent and its big cities without stopsigns and maybe almost as as fast as that bullet train the frogs were building.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 00:36:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 00:31:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Happy birthday, Gary! You old dog! I can say that because I'm at least 97 myself! Just kidding. Let the debates begin!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 21:55:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Too bad Pete got arrested or died. He knew a lot about cars.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 21:50:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not an engineer, takes a physicist. You're not talking about designing a circuit for a hair dryer.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 21:19:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: btw, I really enjoyed using the term sleeve valve instead of two-stroke. thanks bitter anon, how's your ignition switch? The bultaco of course had no ignition switch, it had a kill button, but otherwise it was always on, always lurking in Keitel's garage.
Borg 173 0f 22
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 21:17:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bonus points to anyone whyo 1) can explain what it means when an engine is "on the pipe" 2) can explain what a "Peaky" engine is, and 3) can explain what is physically happening in the sleeve valve system when equipped with an expansion chamber and on the pipe at the same time. Praxis never looked so good.
zerk
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 21:13:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: In fact, I think it was the sleeve valved engine itself that sort of promted the use of venturi carbs. But thats sort of the easy part. Only an engineer or a race enthusiast probably understands how an expansion chamber works on a sleeve valve engine.
zerk
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 21:11:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 21:09:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oops. it was a 38mm. The amals were crap anyway. Mikuni built a much better racing carb. Float bowl on an amal always had to be tapped with the ass end of a screwdriver to make it stop leaking fuel and seat the needle jet properly. Slides warped alot too. One on every early bmw.
zerk
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 20:40:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: The bultaco had a 36mm amal carb. a carb works on a venturi principle.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 20:16:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Something tells me this socialist deals with vortex venturis and such ...
Pete�
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 20:12:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: This new Pete is a man of few words, thankfully. He obviously knows vapidity does not require endless paragraphs of typos and idiocy.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 19:17:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glad to see a socialist admit that its ignorance of the truth is sad, really. Funny.
Pete�
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 19:12:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I've been traveling around our country for a year and no one cares about foreign policy other than about six journalists." -- President-elect Bill Clinton, to Rep. Lee Hamilton of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, 1992 Did someone say something about a memo surfacing? I'm waiting for a White House memo to surface, circa 1999, addressed to al Qaeda and reading: Could you wait 'til I'm out of office? We elected a schmoozer president to lead the free world--twice. We didn't care that he didn't comprehend foreign policy and simply adjusted reality to his and our limited understanding of the world, muddying the lines between enemy and ally and conducting affairs as though the U.S. had none of the former. In fact, in the 90s the very application of the words "evil" and "enemy" invited mockery. To wit, those six-day-a-week briefings by a CIA senior analyst that President Bush began to studiously undergo practically from his first day in office were declined all together by his predecessor, who had said he didn't need them. Was this even news? Not to a public that didn't know the difference. Nor was the fact that Clinton never bothered to meet with James Woolsey when the latter was his intelligence chief. Maybe Hillary will think twice the next time she wants to assign blame-or at least once. If Enron and the failed fundraiser-photo-scandal haven't proved it already, perhaps now she can finally learn that Bush really is the rubber and her husband the glue: Whatever you say bounces off Bush and sticks to you. How many more embarrassments before we can finally come to know her as the Mute Senator? She'll sound smarter than ever.
Clintons are fudge chunks
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 17:37:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: How's the brain tumor, L.G.?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 14:51:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, asshole. Sad, really. Get the lingo straight, pineapple.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 14:50:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: The truth hurts all socialsits. Funny really.
Pete�
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 14:28:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thirty-nine years ago John F. Kennedy, thought to be a silver-tongued orator, went to Berlin and said, "Ich bin ein Berliner." There are some pecksniffian linguists to this day who claim that translates into "I am a sweet roll." From recent reports, the president, who they say can't speak without fumphering, not only made it through without a gaffe but changed a lot of doubting minds.
L.G.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 14:08:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: NATO is dead, long live NATO WASHINGTON--NATO is dead. Long live NATO. NATO died in Afghanistan--the very same place where that other top-heavy and obsolete multinational construction, the Soviet Union, expired. (History is not just cruel. It is witty.) The proximal cause of the Soviet Union's death was painful defeat in Afghanistan. The proximal cause of NATO's death was victory in Afghanistan--a swift and crushing U.S. victory that made clear America's military dominance and Europe's consequent military irrelevance. The gap in military capacity is so staggering that even professor Paul Kennedy, author of the highly influential ``The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers,'' has now recanted the America-in-decline theory he fathered in the 1980s. Kennedy has been moved to express his awe at American resurgence: `` Nothing has ever existed like this disparity of power; nothing.'' The important point, Kennedy notes, is less the gap between the U.S. and rogue states than between the U.S. and the rest of the great powers. Everyone knows that all the talk of the ``coalition'' in Afghanistan was a polite fiction. Europe, in particular, was reduced to the sidelines because its technology is so far behind America's that what little aircraft, munitions and transport it might have contributed would only have gotten in the way....
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/charleskrauthammer/ck20020524.shtml <go charles go!>
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 14:00:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: To hell with the polls! They're rigged to be wrong! A damn socialist tool!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 13:52:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush holding steady. Eerily Nixon-like.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 13:52:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: This report from GALLUP NEWS SERVICE makes a guy's skin tingle with or without any methylmorphine: "Terrorism Controversy Does Little to Damage Bush's Standing." Get this: "His job approval rating is holding steady at 76%, unchanged from the previous reading in early May. Only 17% of Americans disapprove of the job Bush is doing as president. Among this group, only 13% (or 2% of all Americans) mention Bush's knowledge of a threat of terrorist attacks prior to Sept. 11 as a reason they disapprove of his performance." In other words this 2% of Americans are the Dims that are reading and believing mediawhores.com. And this probably really makes them writh: "Other measures of Bush's political standing have changed little following the terrorism controversy. Eighty percent of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of Bush, compared to a 79% favorability rating from an April 29-May 1 poll." Favorability ratings have gone up since the "scandal" broke. What else? How about Bush's handling of forein affairs? "Additionally, the public continues to overwhelmingly approve of Bush's handling of foreign affairs (70%) and of U.S. military action abroad to fight terrorism (83%) -- both ratings showing no change since they were last measured, in early April." It's a good thing we don't believe the polls, or else it would mean that Bush's boots are stomping worms like Carville.
Glint
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 13:45:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now I remember. It as the Omaha Knights hockey franchise. Nothing at al to do with Kings. Never mind. <> Found my pill box. It's a metal case about 1.75" x 1.5" x 3/8" (outside) and a artist's rendition of a jungle scene with a lazy panther laying on a log looking up at a parrot sitting in the bamboo. Bought it at a head shop about 25 years ago. Holds 24 tabs today, nothing like the contraband from the days of old. It's the only piece of paraphanalia left from the old days.
Glint
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 12:57:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, wait! That was the Kings NBA franchise - not the hockey team. Where did I put my pill box at? Need to call the Dr. for a refill. Don't want to run out during the long weekend.
Glint
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 12:48:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oops, I just checked. They are now the Sacremento Kings (since 1985). Caliban still took them away, but from KC who took them first.
Glint
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 12:46:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Which kings are you talking about, woo hoo, the LA Kings? Isn't this the same hockey team that used to be based in Omaha? Used to love going to their games as a young lad. Always guaranteed to be a blood spill on the ice. Then the Caliban took them.
Glint
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 12:42:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Threatening anonymous posters on an anonymous board. WOW! Dude, you really don't need all that angry baggage. Do a Monica on the Smith and gently squeeze your ticket to permanent obscurity. You'll feel much much better and we get one less rat poisoning America. It's a win-win.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 11:26:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Go Kings.
woo hoo
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 10:50:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: FBI: Probe Opened Into How Moussaoui Case Handled Thu May 23, 7:34 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Thursday an investigation has been opened into complaints from an agent in Minneapolis that FBI headquarters mishandled the case of Zacarias Moussaoui before the Sept. 11 attacks on America. Agent Colleen Rowley complained in a recent letter to Mueller and lawmakers that FBI headquarters should have approved a request from the Minneapolis office for a search warrant involving Moussaoui, who was being held in August after arousing suspicions at a Minnesota flight school.
But the buck stops down there somewhere-- Snippy
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 10:47:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: A Disney choral tribute. It just keeps getting better and better. Who would have known there were so many rubes in Maryland?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 10:44:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: May 23 - A paid FBI informant told ABCNEWS that three years before Sept. 11, he began providing the FBI with information about a young Saudi who later flew a hijacked passenger plane into the Pentagon. Aukai Collins, the informant, said he worked for the FBI for four years in Phoenix, monitoring the Arab and Islamic communities there. Hani Hanjour was the hijacker Collins claimed to have told the FBI about while Hanjour was in flight training in Phoenix. Twenty hours after ABCNEWS first requested a response, the FBI issued an "emphatic denial" that Collins had told the agency anything about Hanjour, though FBI sources acknowledged that Collins had worked for them. FBI Special Agent Ken Williams wrote a memo last July 10, urging FBI headquarters to investigate Arab students in flight schools nationwide - and helped set off the furor over whether the attacks could have been prevented. If Collins' claims are true, he would be another source who had advised the FBI to take a closer look at Phoenix, and maybe the first to identify a potential terrorist who later turned out to be one of the Sept. 11 hijackers Collins said the FBI knew Hanjour lived in Phoenix, knew his exact address, his phone number and even what car he drove. "They knew everything about the guy," said Collins. The FBI emphatically denies that Collins provided any information about Hanjour, but officials acknowledge they paid Collins for four years to monitor the Islamic and Arab communities of Phoenix because of his unusual background. A self-styled Islamic holy warrior, Collins was born in the United States. After getting into trouble with police as a teenager, he says he found religion - Islam - and eventually went overseas to fight. In Chechnya, he lost his leg to a land mine. Informant Says He Provided Basic Facts Once in Phoenix, in 1996, the FBI asked Collins to focus on a group of young Arab men, many of whom were taking flying lessons, including Hanjour, Collins said. "They drank alcohol, messed around with girls and stuff like that," Collins told ABCNEWS. "They all lived in an apartment together, Hani and the others." Collins said he provided the FBI with basic facts and let the FBI take it from there. "When I said there's this short, skinny Arab guy who's part of this crowd, drives such-and-such a car, I assumed that they would then, you know, start tracing him and see who his contacts were," he said. FBI Never Saw Hijacker as Threat The FBI in Phoenix either failed to monitor Hanjour's communications or Hanjour himself practiced extraordinary skill in hiding his intentions - because the FBI never regarded him as a threat. Much to the dismay of the FBI, Collins has written a book about his exploits. Soon to be published, it is titled My Jihad. The FBI was not alone in failing to predict Hanjour and his group were dangerous. "I can't figure it out either," said Collins, "how they went from their back yard to flying airplanes into buildings." Congress cannot figure it out either, as it continues to demand answers from the FBI.
Even if it's true, I doubt this ever made it to Snippy's desk
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 10:41:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Went to a school band and chorus concert last night. I don't know, it might have been the codeine, but I forgot to take a camera to snap a pic of Brenda - again! In a Disney choral tribute, during the Little Mermaid section, I loved the way Brenda shook his hair back off the shoulders when they came to the line about "Yes, you want her, certainly you know you do; chances are she wants you too - there's no doubt about it!" Breanda was looking straight at me, I'm almost certain. I sat in an asile seat with the stars and strips sticking out into the asile, so from the stage I would have been easy to spot. Those seats were awful, however. I never realized how much weight the feet still bear when sitting - weight that was now pressing down on my rear. So I popped a few tabs of codeine for the sake of my ass. It made the 2nd half of the program much more bearable. It made the stage lights sort of gauzy and the patriotic music, such as the Battle Hymn of the Republic, made me tingle and buzz all over. After dropping me off the door the Mrs. didn't park where I told her to so after the show I had to hobble clear to the far side of the parking lot, in and around moving cars, etc. If I had known that was coming I would have downsized the dose somewhat.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 10:35:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think this government is being run more like Arbusto than Enron. Maybe a little bit like Halliburton. Somewhat like the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Company. It's a mix. A cocktail of business practices.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 10:34:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: $29 billion in extra Republican pork overnight, billed as patriotism. $750 billion increase in the debt limit, while still standing by the US government's debts. That's reassuring. Reassuring that there's plenty for the Columbian Army, to keep nasty drugs off our streets and keep the damned Columbian indios under control. Nothing like running the county like a business, as the GOP is always proud to say. Running it like, say, AOL or Enron. Scratch a Republican politician and you'll find a savvy businessman. A guy who can make it in the private sector. Someone not unlike, say, Matthew Kramer.
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- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 10:30:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think calling MediaWhores MediaSluts is just an attempt to be meaninglessly cute, akin to spelling Texas as Tejas or signing off with "foop."
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 09:55:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've got to go up and witness the last blooming of the dogwoods, can't stay around to celebrate poor Gary's 51st. Try to make the pathetic bastard feel better about himself, since I won't be around to support him. Correct him immediately if he says anything involving politics or science or anything involving ideas or knowledge, because his being consistently wrong about everything is what has created or at least nurtured his depression. Let him know that he is wrong, and ultimately he will stop trying to express his ridiculous misimpressions and superstitions, and his major source of stress will diappear.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 09:52:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: You might say, American may become the new Germany, kicking ass all over the world, the green meanies of the 21st century. But if you look at the pictures of American soldiers in Afghanistan or whereever, they look like wimps who aren't particularly comfortable and wish they could be watching televsion instead. Now you look at your WWII German newsreels, and you'll notice that the greasiest beat-up camo'd Kraut with a Panzarfaust or Schmeisser, lying in the dirt with Sherman tanks rolling by or crawling over a hedgegrow with a potato-masher ready, that Kraut is grinning, the fucker is enjoying himself. I don't think even the Kraut film-maker could fake that... I think those guys really loved sneaking around and having machine-gun and grenade fights. Your American, at least from the 1950's or so on, doesn't have a cultural chance of ever being that way. I mean, look at Glint or Pete or Jeremiah. However block-headed these guys are, they could never make it as mid-century Germans. They're just too pussy.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 09:44:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: As far as worrying about the European Union deciding that Snippy is really President, I'm tempted to say fuck 'em, so what if he is? Those Europe turkeys can go stuff it, they don't fuck with our economy, we fuck with theirs. They are the ones who should buy the bags of rice and beans, or lentils maybe would be more appropriate. The only thing that would rally me to Snippy's side would be one too many snorts of derision from the European peanut gallery. Hell, they couldn't keep their own Serbs in line without not even help but leadership from Bill Clinton. Sure, Snippy is no Clinton, he's a fuckup, but in the end he's an American fuckup and a patriot stands by an American fuckup when the Krauts and the Wops and the Bohunks start yapping. That's my stand and I'm not going to change it.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 09:37:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, but do you have the Supreme Court, the Final Elector?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 09:31:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Speaking as the liberal majority, we appreciate the Freepers' calling MediaWhores MediaSluts, particularly the fact that they don't get why one would appreciate it.
bwa ha ha
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:43:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: PHOENIX MEMO REVEALED!! "Chilling" Says Fortune Magazine Cheney's Nonsense Exposed Why The Bushies Are Stonewalling Fortune reporter Richard Behar has filed a report exposing the contents of the notorious FBI Phonix memorandum. Behar is the first reporter to gain access to the text of the actual memo, which the Bush Administration is doing its utmost to keep secret. And, Behar writes, the memo's contents are "chilling": The memo was written by Phoenix FBI Special Agent Kenneth J. Williams, described as a member of "Squad 16," and it was approved by a man named William A. Kurtz. The title reads: "Zakaria Mustapha Soubra; IT-OTHER (Islamic Army of the Caucasus)." The "synopsis" says: "Usama bin Laden and Al-Muhjiroun supporters attending civil aviation universities/colleges in Arizona." And the memo bears the FBI codes: "Derived from G-3" and "Declassify on X1." Soubra, the memo said, was a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. (According to the Los Angeles Times, he was questioned by FBI agents in 2000, after he was observed at a shooting range with another Muslim, who was a veteran of Islamic jihads in the Balkans and the Middle East. No charges were brought against him, and he is currently a senior at Embry-Riddle.) The organization named in the memo's title, the Islamic Army of the Caucasus, is based in Chechnya and was at one time headed by a man named Amir Khattab, who, according news reports, is suspected of having ties to Osama bin Laden. The FBI's probe of Soubra, according to the Williams memo, was instituted on April 17, 2000, nearly 17 months before last year's terror attacks. Williams warns in his July 10 memo of a possible "effort by Usama bin Laden to send students to the U.S. to attend civil aviation universities and colleges." He also refers to a "fatwa by Al-Muhjiroun, spiritual leader Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed Fostok." (Fostok, according to news reports, once ran a London-based radical group called the Islamic Liberation Party, dedicated to overthrowing Western society. He was arrested for suggesting that it was permissible to kill then British Prime Minister John Major, which he denied and was released without any charges being filed.) The Williams memo included the names of several Middle Eastern students, one identified as a "Saudi national," who were apparently students at Embry-Riddle at the time. One reason FBI officials have given for not releasing the memo is that several of these individuals are still under investigation. So, although those names are now in my notebook, they will not be published here. Behar's shocking report exposes the ridiculous chicanery resorted to by Vice President Dick Cheney in recent days. On the one hand, Cheney has insisted that the Phoenix memo contained nothing special, just more non-specific "chatter" of no real use to authorities. On the other hand, Cheney has insisted that to make the Phoneix memo public would be a horrible violation of national security, tantamount to "giving away the family jewels." The Media Whores are content to let Cheney get away with this glaring contradiction. An unimportant memo that is also of earth-shattering importance? "Anything you say, Mr. Veep!" Well, now Richard Behar has blown Cheney and the Bushies' cover. Of course the Phoenix memo is important -- not because it compromises national security but because it shows that Bush's F.B.I. is astonishingly incompetent. The reason the Administration wants to keep the memo secret has nothing to do with national security. It has everything to do with the Administration's political security. But now that Richard Behar -- of capitalist tool Fortune, no less -- has exposed all of this, will the Media Whores follow up?
patriot 4 or 5 of 22
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:34:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: I mean aren't most of the bigtime maritime industry global corporate shipping magnates registered in countries like Libya and Syria? And the drug czar puts out this ad about a 15 year old kid buying a bag of weed promoting terror???? How many flight schools would that Caspian sea pipeline have supported???
zerk
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:33:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey crynic, do you celebrate United States national holidays>
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:31:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:30:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Four months without a cig by the middle of next week. really don't think abut it except every 3 or 4 days now. Even then I know I can laugh it off. so far. Saw some new research about a vitamin A compund that prevents lung cancer in xsmokers. havent read it yet.
zerk
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:29:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess this is a good a place as any to jump in and let you folks know I am back. I had a great vacation and am over the trauma of turning 51.
Gary
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:26:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gourdon's vines are the only things creeping in Glunt's world.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:26:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jeremiah may not have actually had guns, but he'd been down to the home armory department at Walmart aplenty. Seen all the sporterized versions with the camo carbon fiber stocks. He knew who his neighbors were.
zerk
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:25:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd think your tolerance would be creeping up there by now glunt. Vie gehts?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:22:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey Glunt, can't you put together a morphine collage of John and the fired asian collection?
Borg 3 of 22
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:17:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm mounting a gun on the hood of the poppin johnny!
Glunt
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:13:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is a time to study one's neighbors, identify those most likely to pose a threat as Glint has done. Scope out just the right sniping position from behind the leyland cypress and stockpile the urine jars.
borg 7 of 22
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:10:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: So in a way, maybe we have more to fear from ourselves. I mean, in the real scenario, a big war, it's going to be mostly overseas. A land invasion of the US would probably be one of the last phases unless of course those bilingual canadiens get some ideas. But anyway by the last phases, you've got to figure things are pretty close to the bone. There's probably not much food or gas or electricity around and maybe we've probablyalready turned on each other. Thats the reason to arm yourself, for when we turn on each other. Oh, gee, some of us already have. They are called republicans.
z
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 08:03:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, like I tried to stress, the rice and beans arent solely to outlive the invading arab, also incase the econ keeps going south and there's not much left after scraping the mortgage together and buying the muscatel.. As far a weaponry, I think its sort of a hillbilly fantasy. The fed will at least dole out M1's to every man woman and child, probably m16's. Should the need arise to shoot your neighbors before this, a case of buck for the mossberg seems necessary though.
zerk
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 07:55:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nah, popeye, no tatoo yet. was thinking about the balck ink, either something gothic or something like a pattern anklebracelet or armband. I'd like to go jailhouse on this but that might be hard plus fresh tatoos on the knuckles would be a little more than I can pull off at pothaole.
z
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 07:51:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was funny, as I remember. Both of those yahoos were calling for nuking Mecca, and Pete had a plan to destroy the Afghan railroad system and leave the Taliban floundering in the mud while we swooped in over the mud. They were all fang and claw. So I told them I stopped by the gun store on the way home and bought buckshot and if any right-wing Arabs or haoles came up to my door I would shoot them. They seemed to think that this was outrageous. The crynic was particularly worried about the danger of having a loaded gun around the house. The stupid fucker should realize it's better than having one up his lily-livered ass.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 02:41:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jeremiah is no survivalist. He was just a sad sack mailman with a shed out back. Maybe knew some guys down at the bowling alley who talked about starting a militia unit, maybe just read it all in magazines. Thing is, how long is 20 lbs of rice and 20 lbs of beans going to last? Why bother? Me, I went down to the gun store and bought two boxes of 00 buckshot for the Mossberg, and an extra clip for the Smith. The shot comes in boxes of five, which means I could take out the crynic and his whole family ten times, if they come bunched up. Or, in a different scenario, I could collect endless 20 lb sacks of rice without even using up one of the ten. The crynic was shocked when he heard about this, so was Pete, matter of fact. Figured I was some sort of crazy dangerous weirdo, but I was just calculating that adopting a right-wing approach could not hurt, and it could especially not hurt to put those weak sisters on notice that they'd better not come and ask me for any of my rice or my beans. I figure in a general break-down the best thing to do is shoot the pinata and see what falls out, get it before it understands that is is finally outside the bubble, and for that you need bullets. Now, you tell me, brutal as is necessary, pulling no punches: is that so wrong?
Popeye
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 02:35:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Used to sniff suede spray back in '66. Made me the man I am today. That's bullshit. I was always the man I am today. So, jackson, did you get that hole put in your body or whatever the fuck it is you were thinking of doing? Oh yeah, a tat. I'm telling you man, pure skin. That's the secret. Don't mess with your skin, man. I knew a guy, Puerto Rica dude, had maybe 10 tats on his body, nice ones, all centered around a chick named Thelma. I mean, there's Thelma's name, Thelma's name in a heart, A nude Thelma. So, I say, "Is Thelma your old lady?" And he gets all serious and says, "Yeah, she was mi corazon 15 years ago, but no more, paco. Somebody Keel her with knive. They cut out her poosy." No lie, man, that's what dude says, they cut out her poosy. And dude has his skin, his only skin, like one-track some shithouse wall. Stay away from names on your skin. Go retro, maybe a battleship. What the hell? Keep your skin pure, jackson. Even some artsy Incan design can become a man's Thelma.
Eddie Gann
- Friday, May 24, 2002 at 01:42:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: So I'm at this party sort of flirting with this girl that wants to make me badly. At one point she says " do you prefer to be the dominant or submissive partner in a relationship" Well, the stereo was just ending a song so everyone heard her question and whole room got quiet to see what I was going to say. "It depends", I said, "sometimes I like to be tied up, and sometimes I like to tie the other person up. It just depends, I cant really explain it". That turned into a pretty damn weird relationship!!!
zerk
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 23:57:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Later, I spent a litle time in tshirt design. my favorite creation was made with some acrylic paints from the sagebrush 101 art class about the time I was reading Justine and Juliette for my freshman honors thesis. Made this tshirt, actually a pair at least, with the male zygote symbol in red, dripping like blood off the arrow point. had some other stuff and read 'de sade" at the bottom or something. Got some interesting dates at parties.
zerk
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 23:53:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Back in the mid-late 70's I think around farrah hair zone, for guys a black glitter rocknroll aerosmith tshirt that maybe had a picture of reefer or said acid on it or something and a leather brimmed hat and a chain wallet was about as slick as you get in Ocean City MD. I never went that route, too commercial, even though I did have the hair for the farrah look. Anyway, I often mused that instead of a tshirt that said reefer or acid, one that said "Glue" might be pretty cool.
zerk
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 23:49:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: She kept it down to about once a week with the glue. Had quit by the time we met. Thought drinking alcohol was repulsive.
z
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 23:46:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, so here's the question... I've got an inkling that maybe, just maybe, someone wont step in and saveus from snippy. Maybe the european union will actually think he represents us and the rest of the world will be so pissed off that I actually took the truck down to the Piggly Wiggly last week and bought 20 pounds of rice and 20 pounds of beans. big sacks. put them in a big sealed up plastic tub. Thing is, I just don't feel like Jeremiah? Am I Jeremiah? Its more like if the econ keeps going south I want some food around to tide over waiting for the foreclosure papers, if something gets interuppted in the supply chain I want a buffer waiting for the cyanide to run out of the taps. It's not like I think Clinton's penis is going to shatter the moon and drown us all in cosmic dust. So I'm not really jth right? you guys would be brutal enough to tell me I think.
zerk
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 23:43:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, her 150 IQ was kind of interesting with the glue habit.
zerk
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 23:36:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glue generally gets a bad rap. Huffing gas is more of the bottom of the barrel. Gas makes your head pound too much, sort of like amyl nitrate. Glue is alot smoother I think. I dated a chick that did glue for awhile. She said globbing it on to a washcloth and then laying on your back with the cloth over your mouth was the way to go. Artiste she was, and amazingly flexible.
zerk
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 23:35:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: I knew a guy, Darryl Monroe was his name, who climbed up to unstick a froze dumper and it closed on him. He was there for several hours until someone heard him yelling, stuck inside the dump-truck. He was a glue-head, airplane glue. Vicodin to him was the good stuff.
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- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 20:00:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete's just angry because he lost one of the rabbit buckles.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 19:40:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, I thought they were at least 2nd rate attempts. Doink.
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- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 19:13:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, the pitiful second rate liberal asshole with third rate attempts at humor needs to get on par with the doink on this board. Doink is so very first class.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 18:55:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Unbeknowest to Ann Coulter, Mr. Gephardt has no authority to allow or disallow airport security to scrutinize passengers who look like the last two-dozen terrorists to attack civilian aircraft. Doesn't she realize that this is all the New York Times's fault and that Gephardt is just a pawn? Shee-it, at least Daschle earned his whacks by committing a real breach of sanity, expressing the laughable idea that "protecting constitutional rights" was a concern of the government. Poor Angry Annie, she just can't understand a) that Arabs are being watched at the airport and b) that a good way to get a bomb on an airplane would be to put it in a wheelchair with a white paraplegic. But of course we don't read Ann Coulter because she knows how to splice a cable or keep a bomb off an airplane. We read her because we know the numb-nuts are going to post her whole column on here a couple of times so we might as well get it over with.
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- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 18:26:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Last night I was tractoring around, cutting the grass which has started going to seed since the accident. After crawling up into the seat the Mrs. tried to take my crutches away, and I had to practically fight her for them. I took out a bungie cord and strapped them to the roll bar. I was able to prop up the red, white, and blue cast and wedge it between the hood and the throttle lever. On the side of observatory hill I lost forward thrust. After backing down in reverse for 20 or 30 yards I lost backward thrust. I knew what the problem was - a pin pulled out from a rod between the peddals and the hydro transmission. Happened before in the winter when plowing. Sometimes deep snow can pull out a cotter key and a pin drops out. I was relieved to have the crutches along because it was going to be haul crawling otherwise. Plus I didn't have a cordless or cell phone with me. I decided it was still going to be too far to hobble so I crawled underneath and was able to use the bungie cord to temporarily fix the problem so that I was able to drive in a forward direction back to the house. Meanwhile, as I was working, a neighbor (who you don't know) walked over and asked if I was alright. I said yeah, and told him about the missing pin. He said that he was afraid I fell off and ran over myself. Not this time.
Glint
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 18:26:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, Ann and acolytes, what the Democrats know is that somebody fucked up big-time and let a crew of ragheads mess up some fine American real estate. What they know is that somebody was asleep at the switch. They figure that maybe the sleeping administration should be managed a different way, maybe send somebody around every two or three hours to shake shoulders and wake the fellers up.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 18:16:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: A pitiful second rate liberal asshole with third rate attempts at humor. Sad, really.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 18:16:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good, good... the sophisticates are on the prowl. Pete� is wearing the sweatshirt celebrating a college football team and his Playboy� loafers, the ones with the discreet little bunny-head buckles. He's surfind Amazon.com looking for a book about wine so he can memorize some wine and impress the chicks if he gets a date. Glint? Oh, he's trying to figure out how to clean the jism off his cast before the old lady gets back from the cafeteria, assuming she doesn't have to work late with Rufus Washington, the 300-lb cook, "peeling spuds" as she puts it. If he sprays the jism with Mr. Clean it might melt the cast itself and leave a huge clue, but if he waits for it to dry so he can chip it off she might get "out from under" her overtime, come home unexpectedly, and see that he's been spilling his seed again. Isn't that exactly what he promised the counselor he would never do? Wasn't that in fact one of the conditions of his probation? He's feverishly calculating the odds. There could be hell to pay.
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- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 18:11:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Oops, forgot about Caity. Oh well."
BJ Clinton
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 17:22:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just spooged her silly.
Impeached and disbarred former Pres. Clinton
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 17:08:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: "At least I didn't kill my intern". Beginner.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 16:55:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean impeached and disbarred ex-president Clinton and lame duck Democrat Condit?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 16:42:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ok I'lll bite. What did he say?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 16:15:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: What did former President Bill Clinton say to Gary Condit??
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 16:03:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 15:54:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: If the Fridge and Olga Korbut ever reproduced, their kid would definitely be named No Chance.

- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 15:52:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Jism" Jism I can hardly express / My mixed emotions and my thoughtfulness / After all I'm forever in your debt / And jism I will try to express / My inner feelings and thankfulness / For showing me the meaning of success / Ooh, well, well / Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo / Ooh, well, well / Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo / // Jism I know you won't distress / You little bubble inside of the man / Please remember you splat on a blue dress / And jism hold me close to your heart / However distant don't keep us apart / After all it was written in the stars / // Ooh, well, well / Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo / Ooh, well, well / Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo / Wellll / // Jism please let me explain / I never meant to seek political gain / So let me tell you again and again and again / I love you, yeah, yeah / Now and forever / I love you, yeah, yeah / Now and forever / I love you, yeah, yeah / Now and forever / I love you, yeah, yeah
Dr. J <thank you john lennon>
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 15:35:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: In a girly-girl, eye-poking attack, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., has demanded an investigation into "what the White House knew about the events leading up to 9-11, when they knew it and, most importantly, what was done about it." The more urgent question is: What do the Democrats know now? Memo to Democrats: Muslim men are plotting another terrorist attack on America right now! That's what you know. What are you doing about it? Directing airport security to keep searching white paraplegics at the airport? Gephardt's genius plan for assuring air safety after Sept. 11 was to federalize airport security. But he refused to allow airport security to scrutinize passengers who look like the last two-dozen terrorists to attack civilian aircraft. That's what he did when he knew about it.
the girly man
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 15:35:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glad you guys went. Ouch.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 15:32:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, cards fell right such that after a loss they were still invited to the BIG GAME.
Glint
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 15:06:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: By the way, I have the NU and Tejas games right here on my desk in video. Better than s*x.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 14:59:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: "cards" falling just right? .o5? 62-36, baby.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 14:41:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yup, Anne knows the truth.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 14:36:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: What do Democrats Know Now? Universal Press Syndicate | May 23, 2002 By Ann Coulter REPUBLICANS were so dumbstruck by the mendacity of Democrats claiming President Bush had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 attack, they have overlooked the most stunning legerdemain of this accusation. Suppose Bush had known 19 Muslim immigrants planned to hijack four planes on Sept. 11. What could he have done? Throw Arabs out of the country? Put them in preventive detention? Order airport security to take an extra little peek at swarthy men boarding planes? Liberals won't let us do that now! In a girly-girl, eye-poking attack, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., has demanded an investigation into "what the White House knew about the events leading up to 9-11, when they knew it and, most importantly, what was done about it." The more urgent question is: What do the Democrats know now? Memo to Democrats: Muslim men are plotting another terrorist attack on America right now! That's what you know. What are you doing about it? Directing airport security to keep searching white paraplegics at the airport? Gephardt's genius plan for assuring air safety after Sept. 11 was to federalize airport security. But he refused to allow airport security to scrutinize passengers who look like the last two-dozen terrorists to attack civilian aircraft. That's what he did when he knew about it. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has thundered that it is "imperative" that Bush tell the Senate "what actions were taken in response" to any advance warning of a terrorist attack. In response to the next terrorist attack, here are the actions Leahy took: He hauled the attorney general before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying he was "very" angry at Ashcroft. Leahy was "very" angry not because Ashcroft was failing to do enough to prevent the next terrorist attack. Just the opposite: Ashcroft was doing too much, thereby threatening the civil liberties of Arabs. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., reacted to Sept. 11 by babbling about having the proper "balance" between fighting terrorism and protecting constitutional rights. If the Democrats had shown half as much indignation about terrorists as they did about Ashcroft, their convictions might rate more with real Americans. Hilariously Democrats are especially indignant that nothing was done in response to the memo from an FBI agent in Phoenix who had noticed a lot of Arabs enrolled in American flight schools. As the New York Times reported (in the always-crucial penultimate paragraph): "FBI officials said there was reluctance at the time to mount such a major review because of a concern that the bureau would be criticized for ethnic profiling of foreigners." Let's see, who might have criticized the FBI for ethnic profiling? For Ashcroft's evident interest in immigrants of Mideastern descent rather than, say, currency traders after Sept. 11, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, railed that the detention of Arabs "smacks of racial profiling." Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., hyperventilated that the Bush administration was "literally dismantling justice." David Bonior, the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, leapt to action after the Sept. 11 attack by repeatedly denouncing nonexistent racial profiling at the airports. He even dragged the FAA administrator and eight FAA assistants to Detroit to listen to constituents who claimed they had been profiled at airports. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., warned that "the Phoenix memo is going to come to be one of the most important documents in our national debate about whether we did enough to protect America from the attack of Sept. 11." What's this "we," paleface? After a savage terrorist attack by a group of immigrants of Middle Eastern descent, Durbin has hysterically attacked people who support ethnic profiling of airline passengers as troglodytes "crawling on (their) bell(ies) in the mud at a right-wing militia training camp in Idaho." He actually took time from his busy post-9/11 Senate schedule to write a letter to the editor making this point. Sen. Hillary Clinton - whose very first act in the Senate was to sponsor a bill prohibiting ethnic profiling - has also demanded an investigation of what Bush knew and when he knew it. (What did she know about her husband's serial philandering and when did she know it?) Maureen Dowd sneered of the administration's failure to prevent the Sept. 11 attack: "I guess nothing short of a copy of Mohamed Atta's Travelocity itinerary would have stirred the FBI from its stupor." But back on Nov. 25, 2001, as the corpses of 3,000 of her countrymen lay rotting in smoldering heaps, Dowd was snarling about Ashcroft's questioning of Arab immigrants in the United States. She snippily noted that "the first resistance to his edict to interview 5,000 Middle Eastern men came from police chiefs objecting to racial profiling." After Manhattan is nuked by Muslims, then will it be OK for the attorney general to question Middle Eastern men? Liberals may have no basis for complaint with George Bush, but Americans do. Pick your poison, Mr. President: Order ethnic profiling and be subjected to querulous attacks on the pages of The New York Times, or permit American women and children to be murdered in the next terrorist attack
go anne go <[email protected]>
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 14:36:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, I don't see how the Cornhuskers can go as far this year as they did last year. Of course last year was a surprise, thanks to the cards falling just right.
Glint
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 14:33:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fake Pete sightings. Anyway, Glint, we get FSU this year. Fun. Wonder how good NU is gonna be without Crouch. We may miss up to 6 starters for violations. Ouch.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 14:24:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Especially when said female was known to be having a sexual relationship with a lying married DemocRAT congresscreature.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 14:22:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Goes to show one's death is only big time news if/when that death is connected to so called newsworthy people. Any no-count female that is missing under suspicious circumstances receives little coverage from the ghouls of the media.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 13:59:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: A modest little town.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 12:53:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Flags flying at half-mast in Modesto, California today.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 12:26:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Old man Bush is a queer? Geesh, it's awful to think of that fine twat pussed over, Barbara Bush, wasted on a faggot. Man, I got a big one cumming for some of that action.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:48:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Little George was the head of the cheer squad at Andover, a boys' school. It's sort of like where the boys had to play women in Shakespeare's time, because women weren't allowed on stage. So they made some poor scrote serve as cheerleader. Probably picked Bush because his old man went to Andover, too, and he was remembered in school tradition as a queer, so everybody figured Little George might be queer as well. He never made the squad at Yale, which was probably a relief to him.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:45:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: I hear that the football team got together and demanded that Snippy lead the cheers that excited them to a victorious state of playfulness. No other cheerleader would do. They wanted the Snipster to wear the turtleneck sweater with the big Y on the front, and wield the megaphone of leadership. And the hockey team and the lacrosse team and the badminton team joined in the clamor. It was something akin to the upwelling of popular sentiment that dragged Little George into the race for President. The voice of the people saying, Snippy, we want Snippy to be our president. We want the young Bush boy, who comes from such good stock. Bring on Dubya!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:32:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I have no doubt that strings were pulled. Markers were called in. Favors were returned. I suppose you think the guy is so loveable he was made cheerleader by popular acclaim? By the beloved Yale Whiffenpoofs or Bulldogs or whatever they are?
doubt that
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:27:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy was given the cheerleadership by his father's friends?
doubt it
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:24:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: What do you think of this Jew, Loserman, Glint? Guy's a real kike, isn't he?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:21:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Trouble with having an unelected American president is he sound ridiculous scolding Castro for not holding elections. Standing in the midst of a bunch of greaser followers of the unelected dictator Batista. Jimmy Carter, possibly the worst-lipped President ever elected, though not the worst if you include the appointed president*, has so much more moral authority to deal with Castro that Snippy comes across as a flew-weight. But then he always was. Yale cheerleader, you understand, and lightweight faux oil-executive. Given everything he ever "attained", by his father's friends. They even gave him what will turn out to be his most worthless attainment, a presidency*.
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- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:07:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Naw, you're thinking of the Florida State Semenholes. Perfect name for a bunch of douche bags.
Glint
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:00:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Seminals? Can't be. Isn't that one of those Florida kick ass football schools named after some Indian tribe who had heap plenty big ones cumming?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 10:56:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whoa ho ho! Like Monica on a pea-shooter. Hee hee hee. What a picture! Haw! Just the Monica part is hilarious. And then pea-shooter! Hyuk hyuk! Who's the wit? Is that you, Pete? Don't hide your talent under a barrel like that! Sign 'em, dude. The talent scouts may be watching!
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- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 10:22:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Seminal, you mean. These words come to us from the Latin, through medievil French, came over in 1066 with William the Conqueror and Halley's Comet. Semer = "to sow", "je s�me � tous vents" means I sow to all the winds. Something seminal being seedlike, inspiring or fertilizing additional activity, usually thought or artistic effort.
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- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 10:18:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Dims really drink up that mediasluts.com bilge. Take to it like Monica on a pea shooter.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 10:16:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: A Dr. on Fox News talking about Chandra Levy just used the word "semenal."
Dr. J <JISM sells papers>
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 10:08:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: In the vivid codeine inspired dreams the dreamer floats in such a way that the head seems to be about 8 feet off the ground. The environment is rich in detail and the dreamer, who is dimly aware that it is a dream, can "steer" among the passing images. While floating through the prison yard the dreamer can draw near to any of the hundreds of prisoners and examine each poor and pockmark of the chisled face, confident that should this person be met outside of the dreamworld bubble recognition would be certain. Or when passing through a garden full of plants the dreamer can swoop down to ground level and examine each pigment in the petals of a particular flower, and repeat for numerous exquisitely detailed specimens. The amount of detail is directly proportional to the number of tabs consumed.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 09:42:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: No official of cabinet rank made counterterrorism a top priority. Attorney General John Ashcroft was preoccupied with "traditional" law enforcement against drug abusers and pornographers. He allegedly turned down a request from the F.B.I. to hire "hundreds" of additional counterintelligence agents. Over at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was obsessed with the construction of a "national missile defense" whose irrelevance was proved on that tragic day last September. (The nukes we now rightly fear are not expected to arrive on an antique rocket from North Korea.) Mr. Rumsfeld also reportedly killed a request to shift $800 million from the missile-defense budget to counterterrorism-and ordered the grounding of the innovative Predator drone sent up by "the Clintonites" to track and possibly kill Osama bin Laden. In fact, it was two officials held over from the previous administration-counterterror chief Richard Clarke and C.I.A. director George Tenet-who tried to direct the government�s attention to the looming threat from Al Qaeda in the weeks and months before Sept. 11. This is not a blame game, but an essential effort to understand what was wrong with the procedures and priorities of government. An independent commission was Ronald Reagan�s immediate response to the Iran-contra scandal. Now this President, who claims Mr. Reagan as his model, should accept the same kind of thorough, nonpartisan probe.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 08:51:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why did Snippy fly those Bin Ladens out of the country, anyhow? What about that oil line to the Caspian sea? What does Condi Rice know that caused her to tremble and her voice to quaver whilst giving good news conference? Say, when's the last time Snippy had a news conference and answered an actual question?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 08:49:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: The reason Snippy didn't read the memo is not because Snippy cannot read, but because it had been written in disappearing ink made from Clinton's naughty bodily fluids?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 08:47:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Coulter paste we'll be getting after Glint wakes up and then again after Not Here� wakes up explains that Fuckup-gate is really all about the New York Times, girly-girl attacks, and checking out white people at airports and thereby making them spill their coffee. Maureen Dowd is also to blame. The reason Snippy fucked up is that Democrats wouldn't let him arrest the terrorists before September 11 because it would have been racial profiling. Doink.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 08:40:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Howdy there, pardner. I'd say that Georgie Boy fell for the old "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" ploy, and dropped the Bin Laden ball because hated Clinton had been carrying it. All through those nice safe Millennium celebrations.
Faux E�
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 08:37:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: WHITE HOUSE CONFESSES PARTISAN SCARE CAMPAIGN No Bigger Threat -- Except From Democrats!! Bush Official: Campaign As Phony As A $3 Bill Stung by the refusal of even the Media Whores to fall for their latest bullying ploys, White House officials have confessed what everyone else figured out some time ago -- that the scare campaign launched over the weekend is just a political scheme to fend off criticism and attack the Democrats. The Toronto Globe & Mail reports that, Wednesday, the White House quietly acknowledged that the threats are not urgent and that the warnings are partly motivated by political objectives. "There will be another terrorist attack. We will not be able to stop it," [F.B.I. Director Robert] Mueller told a gathering of prosecutors in Virginia. "It's something we all live with." However, White House officials told reporters that the blunt warnings issued yesterday and Sunday do not reflect a dramatic increase in threatening information but rather a desire to fend off criticism from the Democrats. The Bushies' cynicism here is breathtaking -- more so even than with their original cyncial ploy!! The White House thinks it can scare the hell out of millions of Americans in order to advance its partisan political agenda, and then, when caught red-handed, can simply say, like Gilda Radner's old Emila Latella on Saturday Night Live: "Oh! Never mind!" And THEN the White House imagines it can get away with it.
Mullah Nasruddin 4 or 5 of 22
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 08:35:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: So my current thinking is that as far as 911, team bush just plain and simple was not up to the job. They knew what the job was, Burger and oniell told them what the job was, explained what had to be done. That just wasnt as fun as playing missile defense and looting social security. (you know, if counterterrorism resulted in fat freaking contracts for lockheed and boeing it would have been number one or at least up there with oil leasing in ANWR). Even worse is this "inevitable" comment from slimeball chaney. "We're still not up to the job of protecting our citizens and we do not intend to be, ever" Team Bush just dosen't get it. At all!
Dean 3 of 22
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 07:44:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: A socialist accusing (falsely fo course) someone of lying and feigning outrage? Puh-leeeeze!!! Doink.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 03:59:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Might black out and thumb his way to Austin, wake up in the alley behind Chuey's with empty pockets and a scrotum-load of genuine Jenna Bush clap.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 00:31:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: No telling what Glint will do when he's liquored up and full of opiates. Might dress up in a jack-bunny suit and picket George Bush.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 00:29:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wonder if Glint bought any of that worthless stock?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 00:27:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: I didn't think this Terrorgate think would have legs. I assumed that everyone already knew that Snippy had fucked up, and had forgiven him. But it appears to demonstrate the Snipper's incompetence in a way recognizable to the common man, most of whom can now confidently point to Little George and say, "that guy is a fuckup." Why didn't the minority who voted for him realize that he was a fuckup before the election? With a bigger margin of defeat, he might not be hanging like a big dead albatross around America's neck today.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 23:38:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Colin has always been a tolerant man. He understands that it takes a village, and he wants to be there for little George as he grows and matures.
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 23:34:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Bush family is a lying family. Good lord, tyro president* Bush lies to his own daughters, and they undoubtedly lie back to him. Old Poop Bush lied about everything from his sexual orientation to whether he was in the loop. Mama Bar Bush lied to George when he was just a little kid, telling him to consult Billy Graham about God although she was intelligent and cynical enough to know she was feeding him fairy tales and that Billy Graham was an ignorant shithead. Little George's brothers are liars from the get-go, don't even tell me about it. How can anyone be ignorant enough to be "disappointed" by the current lies?
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 23:33:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: I kind of liked what Colin Powell said about the Europe trip... something to the effect that dubya is starting to learn its good to have allies
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 23:30:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: I am very disappointed in the lying of this administration. However, I suppose it is to be expected, given the lying that made up the fabric of the Bush campaign, the dishonest trashing of McCain, the Bush camp's dishonest treatment of the flawed florida vote, and a thousand other prevarications flowing from the Bushites since the start.
concerned Tampa grandmother
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 23:28:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: When did Business Week turn into a communist spin sheet? They are treading very very close to irresponsibility in wartime (or whatever time this is-- sure doesn't feel like wartime to me-- feels like SUV and boutique beertime, maybe even 32-oz steaktime).
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 23:25:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: A man looking for turtles cold find what the D.C. police searching party couldn't. Maybe they need search lessons.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 21:45:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2002/nf20020521_0817.htm
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 21:07:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: A liberal like Clinton gets a total blow-job in the White House while Commander-in-Chief and they won't even remove him from office. But just let a right-winger like Condit have a little extra-marital affair, on his own time, and the man is crucified by the liberal media.
more lie-bral spin
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 20:33:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: What does it have to do with the right-winger, Condit. If the guy was liberal, would you be saying that?
typical lying liberal
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 20:02:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: They identified her dentally. Was Condom's jism found on the skull's teeth?
Dr. J
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 19:53:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thank goodness it turned out to be the celebrity skull. I hate it when a suspected celebrity skull turns out to be the skull of an unknown greaser. You invest all that excitement and then it duds out and leaves you with a sour taste and an unsatisfied yearning for vicarious contact with the famous. Sad, really.
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 19:45:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's the deal with the impeachment petition? Has Bob Barr jumped parties?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 19:40:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Got what right? Their agogness?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 19:38:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fox News got it right, again.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 19:37:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Read and Sign the Petition Demanding Investigation and Impeachment of the Illegitimately Elected Bush and Cheney for Dereliction of Duties in Woefully Failing to Protect the American Public from the September 11th Terrorist Attacks."
ranting of a hysterical brainless liberal weenie
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 19:33:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Brit Hume? A nasty sullen twisted shit. No more a newsman than Rush Limbaugh. This character's idea of "balance" is to pair up someone from the responsible media with a lunatic right-winger like Coulter or Blankley. But they do bring us the Chandra news, so we'll have to suffer through it.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 18:49:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, if it were Chandra's skull, wouldn't that be news? Problem is, it will turn out to be the skull of some Puerto Rican Janitor with a small unpaid debt to his numbers runner. No news, just a dead greaser.
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 18:45:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fox News is agog over possibility it's Chandra's skull that was found in the D.C. park.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 18:31:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe we could leak to the Times information about an increase in chatter by Enron execs about upcoming violent corporate acts.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 17:37:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint says that as long as the Enron subpeona story stays off the front page of Yahoo we're safe.
The Snipper
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 17:32:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: I see the Bushes as common crooks.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 17:00:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Color Them Fatalistic By MAUREEN DOWD ASHINGTON - I have no faith in the ability of the U.S. government to keep out terrorists. But I have absolute faith in the ability of New York co-op boards to keep out terrorists. The F.B.I. has warned apartment managers in New York that the evildoers might try to get a place, furnish it with explosives and blow up the building. But first the Qaeda rats would have to find an empty, affordable apartment. Then they'd have to get past the withering front line of real estate agents. Finally, they'd have to penetrate the maximum security defenses of Manhattan co-op boards. There's screening and then there's screening. The enemy vermin can dupe the I.N.S. to get student visas, but wait until the East Side co-op president starts grilling them about where they went to school, what eating clubs they were in, which dancing class they attended, and whether they would bother the neighbors with any impolite crashes or unesthetic bangs. If Henry van der Luyden of the Ardsthorpe had interrogated Mohamed Atta, that creep would have been screaming for mercy. Beyond the co-op boards, however, we're on our apocalyptic own. Robert Mueller calls suicide attacks "inevitable." Dick Cheney says another terrorism episode is "not a matter of if, but when." Donald Rumsfeld warns that the terrorists "inevitably will get their hands on" nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. "They jerk us around, try to jerk us around, and test us," the defense secretary told senators yesterday. "We are going to be living in a period of limited or no warning because of the asymmetrical advantages of the attacker as opposed to the defender." Mayor Michael Bloomberg says it's impossible to guard against all the different ways terrorists can do damage in New York. Instead, he says, we should just live our lives. All this fatalism from our leaders and we're still only on a yellow alert?!?! Yellow in the Tom Ridge color scheme means the risk of an attack is significant. As opposed to an orange alert, which means high, or red alert, which signals severe danger. There is a red alert going on now, but it's only in Karl Rove's office. (There is a severe risk of political damage to the Bush administration.) That's why the Bushies are trying to terrify us. They desperately want to change the subject from the stunning lapses of their ostensibly expert foreign policy team - and they cynically want to make it sound as if nothing they do or don't do really matters in the end. Mr. Ridge offers five colors to warn against infiltrations. (This being Washington, officials hotly debated including white in the terror pinwheel, but decided against it, perhaps fearing it would look like a white flag.) I think it would be far more useful, however, if we had a wheel with five colors to warn against incompetence. Holy heather: At this level, John Ashcroft stays so busy whiting out lines of the Constitution, diluting Justice's civil rights division, lionizing the Second Amendment and robing naked statues that he forgets to give the president a detailed F.B.I. memo describing the time and place of the next terrorist attack. Squeal teal: At this level, George Tenet, a rare Clinton holdover, so assiduously ingratiates himself with the president (he named the C.I.A. building after Poppy and keeps him in the loop) and has his minions spin the blame toward the F.B.I. that he can't manage to find even an hour to figure out how to infiltrate Al Qaeda. Top-secret taupe: The president and vice president keep secret all the data that Americans need, on the spurious assumption that They Know Best (The Bush family motto). The Bushies become so obsessed with drawing attention to Bill Clinton's failure to eliminate Osama that they have no energy to eliminate Osama. Bureaucratic balsam: Tom Ridge works so hard trying to prove his relevance that he becomes unable to do his irrelevant job, which is teaming with Norm Mineta to hire more of the highly trained airport professionals who drag 85-year-old dowagers and eight-month-old infants out of the security lines and make them remove their orthopedics and booties. Visas-for-everyone violet: I.N.S. employees continue to show up for work, exponentially ratcheting up the risks to the American public.
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 16:52:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, they are victims of their rather pedestrian appetites? Is that what you are trying to say? If so, I agree.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 16:34:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think of the Bushes as basically innocent. I see them as leaves wafted on the winds of greed and corporate criminality. They are victims, rather than villains.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 16:33:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy's problem here is the he, his father, and all their friends and toadies are so tangled up with the Enron bunco game that ANY evidence that comes out will be on the negative side and require more lies and dodges. It is, unfortunately for the Bush clan, an outright criminal conspiracy. If we had a real justice department it would be after the Bushes on racketeering charges. It is always one of the saddest things in the world to see a self-righteous crook have his face rubbed in the fact that he is a crook. I may shed a tear when this goes down.
Oggie
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 16:28:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it! I thought the DemonRATS were the stalinists, complete with jack-booted thugs! You mean it is the Republicans who are America's Nazis? Didn't Rush explain this to me?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 16:23:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: What he means is, if Senator Jeffords hadn't jumped, the country could continue in the totalitarian mode preferred by the GOP.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 16:22:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Bush administration* has nothing to hide vis a vis Enrongate. Not only will they gladly turn over all notes and documents requested, but they will gloat with delight when the true story comes out!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 16:21:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: ...bite the apple ....
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 16:21:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: "A Senate panel voted on party lines Wednesday to issue Congress' first subpoenas to the Bush White House."
my that IS news! democRATS trying to bite the apple again
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 15:58:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure he may strike. But he almost certainly won't strike in the hobby-farm area of Maryland.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 15:55:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: What? Political strategy? Having everyone charging around saying the Arab is about to hit? What could be political about that? The administration* just wants us to know that we shouldn't go outside until the warning color goes down to yellowish-green. Don't buy any airplane tickets or SUV's or furniture. Don't think about Fuckup-gate. The Arab could strike at any moment.
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 15:53:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Exactly right. Whoever wrote that screed sees "ferocity" in the meek watered-down questions of an essentially owned and operated conservative-controlled media. Gosh, how ferocious to hint that Karl Rove might be behind the latest dog-wagging campaign. Sometimes all you can say is "Geesh."
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 15:49:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: One think I learned while building my skills, as mess-steward on a copra scow with a subscription to Forbes -- the best time to invest in flipped IPO shares is when your head is full of Vicodan and Jim Beam. It really brings you closer to the true core of the universe, and makes your decisions clean and true.
Omar Cook, Jr., Financial Advisor to the Maritime Industry
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 15:45:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: A good place to go is the SEC page on IPO deals. The way it works is there is an inner circle, more inner than Glint, that gets to buy. They turn around and re-sell to the outer circle, which includes Glint, within 24 hours. This is called "flipping" your IPO shares, and it is where the huge profits are made. There is no place to research an IPO company, because it is not public and you probably can't see a reasonably truthful balance sheet. I'd say go ahead and buy, but save some of your money to pound down a rat-hole.
Omar Cook, Jr. , Financial Advisor to the Maritime Industry
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 15:40:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush Staff Subpoenaed in Enron Probe WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate panel voted on party lines Wednesday to issue Congress' first subpoenas to the Bush White House, seeking information on staff contacts with Enron Corp. officials. The vote was 9-8 to subpoena President Bush's executive office and the office of Vice President Dick Cheney to compel them to produce relevant documents by noon on June 3. The vote followed a two-hour debate that at times turned bitterly partisan. The material being sought also covers the Clinton administration, going back to January 1992. The vote grew out of the Governmental Affairs Committee's investigation of Enron, which filed the biggest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history last year. The Houston-based company has been among Bush's biggest campaign contributors.
Does Snippy feel the same way he felt when he heard that patrol car sireen?
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 15:36:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: "unpredicted ferocity?" Don't make me laugh!
BWAAAHAAAAHAAHAAHAHA!!!
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 15:33:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Need help with my homework today. I've got a chance to buy in an IPO. Since the company is not yet listed, where's a good place to go for research? Thanks in advance, guys.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 15:31:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: With the recent threats why isn't Cheney in hiding? Wasn't that the plan?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 14:24:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: The republican all hide behind religion. Doutful if any of them every get to heaven. They would screw their own mother. Evert notice their necks all swell up as big as their heads when they get caught.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 14:23:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: ANTI-BUSH BACKLASH BUILDS Whores, For Once, Outraged At Dubya's Bullying, Scare Tactics Bush Likened to Wizard of Oz Even Paula Zahn Objects! Open Ridicule for Bush, Cheney, Condi, Rummy "Authentic" "Credible" "Trustworthy"? "Nixonian" "Unaccountable" "Venal" Emerging As True Bush/Cheney Character The Tipping Point? With unpredicted ferocity, the public backlash against the crude diversionary scare tactics currently being deployed by the Bush Administration has built into a fresh media firestorm. Yes, even the Bush-fawning mainstream media, or some of them, finally seem to have gotten sick to their stomachs. Check out MoDo's latest: "There is a red alert going on now, but it's only in Karl Rove's office. (There is severe risk of political damage to the Bush administration.)" Tim Noah, Howard "Mister" Kurtz, Michael Kramer -- all have blasted the Bushies transparent effort to change the subject away from the White House's incompetence with a Chicken Little blitz. What Noah calls the whipping up of "dire news for maximum political benefit." Chris "Tweety" Matthews has been especially pungent: "We have a real problem with [Phoenix memo not reaching Bush, Mohammad Atta acquiring student visa].. these are real screw-ups, real foul-ups.. Are they being covered up by these generalized warnings?" Wow! Guess Dubya's been "un-anointed" as infallible king.
Oops
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 14:16:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: What does Coulter know? It's all the fault of that slanted liberal tripe-sheet rag, the Baltimore Sun! And Blubbering Dan Rather.
Glint and the crynic
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 14:05:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: I have it on good authority that Coulter will explain that this is all the fault of the New York Times.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 14:03:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm lost with all these disparate opinions wafting around on this site. Guess I'll have to wait for Ann to clarify and crystallize everything tomorrow.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 13:53:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rumsfeld Says Terrorists Inevitably Will Get Chemical, Nuclear or Biological Weapons...
Thanks, Don. Let's roll.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 13:49:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, these latest "warnings" smack of cynical cover-your-ass noise, but you can't be too sure. Just to be safe, I'm following Cheney's lead and conducting all business from an undisclosed location. Also, like Ashcroft, I will heretofor travel only by corporate jet.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 13:47:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: In addition to running like a frightened bunny, I was thinking clearly about how to respond.-- president* Bush
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 13:42:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: At the same time, you need to know about me that I was also thinking clearly about how to respond," he said. Bush granted the interview as a prelude to his weeklong trip to Europe, which begins today. After a stop in Berlin, he travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris and Rome. Bush's initial conduct on Sept. 11 came under scrutiny because he did not immediately return to Washington. When the first airliner crashed into the World Trade Center, he was in Sarasota, Fla., to speak on education reform. Bush and his entourage flew to two highly secure Air Force bases--one in Louisiana, the other in Nebraska--before arriving in Washington that evening. "I mean, I was trying to get out of harm's way," Bush said. "We were concerned about threats on the president. We were worried about future attacks, and there's a lot of belief that Flight 93 was headed to the White House," Bush added, referring to the hijacked commercial airliner that crashed in western Pennsylvania.
What about the secret blimp communique that Rove used as the excuse?
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 13:41:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jizmo is tripping on the Florida supreme court. It's not like the old days when he used to stare at head-shop god's eyes for hours, but maybe it betokens maturity, an interest in civic affairs.
go Jizmo, go
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 13:36:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dope hitting the old synapses pretty hard there, eh Jizmo?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 13:32:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: The real "coup" in 2000 was what went on in SCOFLA. At least a few repented from their 7-0 stance in later votes once SCOTUS rubbed their noses in their pootie poo.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 13:27:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Back when I was breaking bones, they didn't give us no pills. We gutted it out like Taliban John. No wonder America is getting its ass kicked in the War on Terrorism. Bunch of comfort freaks.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 12:05:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: No doubt about it, no B&W - dreams are in vivid technicolor with codeine. Rich red blood, the brilliant gigantic orange chewable pills. Intricate detailed dreams, which are soon forgot.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 11:25:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't forget that everyone from the old faggot on down to Neal have been pumping Kate Harris like stoats. That's illegal, isn't it? It involves jism, doesn't it?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 11:15:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: The cyrnic thinks so much of Chaney he would kiss his but. The man is a dam crook. Just like the Bush family. First Silverado Saveings and loan,crooked land deals in Florida, a gift of the Texas Rangers ball club for George and The Carlise Co. for the rest of the thieves. Check it out then open your eyes stupid. Also stealing the election.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 11:11:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Republican rap sheets are usually clean until after the end of an administration. It is only then that the fellas go before the judge, or behind bars. Mitchell, MacGruder, Deaver, that sort of thing, you know the list, not to mention the pardoned ones,Poindexter, Weinburger et al. Cheney will probably be dead before anyone can give him jail time, more's the pity. It would by nice to see that slick lying snout poking out from between the bars.
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 11:06:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's right! Republicans don't produce jism. They're clean. The do not besmirch God's temple, the body, with something so foul, so awful, as jism. Republican sinks are clean. Republican rap sheets, well, it depends.
Dr. Jism
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 11:00:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where's Clinton? Check any sinks nearby.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 10:55:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, where's the jism?
Glimpse Dimly
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 10:41:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: $100 million, paugh! Chump change!
Kenny-boy
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 10:40:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Talk about rubes! Don't you fuck-faces understand that good business is about walking just over the line of criminality while still maintaing quasi-credible deniability? Cheney was a master, a goddamn loaf-pinching master of a brink CEO! I love the man, you tree-hugging bottled-water-drinking fuckfaces. I wish I could take my ex-wife's temporary employment agency where he took Halliburton!
The Crynic
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 10:39:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: The funny thing is, if the Bush family had not created the Enron monster, Cheney's crooked practices would go unnoticed and unreported.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 10:34:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Under Cheney, Halliburton Altered Policy on Accounting By ALEX BERENSON and LOWELL BERGMAN uring Vice President Dick Cheney's tenure as its chief executive, the Halliburton Corporation altered its accounting policies so it could report as revenue more than $100 million in disputed costs on big construction projects, public filings by the company show. Halliburton did not disclose the change to investors for over a year. Advertisement At the time of the change - which was approved by Arthur Andersen, the company's auditor at the time - Halliburton was suffering big losses on some of its long-term contracts, according to the filings. Its stock had slumped because of a recession in the oil industry. Two former executives of Dresser Industries, which merged with Halliburton in 1998, said that they concluded after the merger that Halliburton had instituted aggressive accounting practices to obscure its losses. Much of Halliburton's business comes from big construction projects, like natural gas processing plants, which sometimes run over budget. With the policy change, Halliburton began to book revenue on the assumption that its customers would pay at least part of the cost overruns, although they remained in dispute. Before 1998, the company had been more conservative, reporting revenue from overruns only after settling with its customers. As chief executive, Mr. Cheney had final responsibility for Halliburton's books. But the company's chief financial officer, Doug Foshee, said yesterday that he could not imagine that Mr. Cheney had specifically approved the change, which he called a routine decision dictated by a shift in Halliburton's business mix. Mr. Cheney declined to comment yesterday. Andersen, which was fired as Halliburton's auditor last month, referred all questions to the company. Mr. Foshee said he was certain that the accounting change was approved by David Lesar, a former Andersen accountant who was Mr. Cheney's second-in-command and succeeded him as chief executive in 2000. Halliburton, which continues to follow the more aggressive policy, declined to make Mr. Lesar available for comment. Accounting specialists said that the change stretched and may have broken accounting rules. "If they changed their accounting from recording claims when they were settled and collected to recording claims at an earlier point in time, then that would raise a red flag and would raise a question as to whether it's a permissible change," said Lynn Turner, a professor of accounting at Colorado State University and former chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission. A company that revises an accounting practice usually must show that its new method gives investors more accurate financial information than its old method. Halliburton's revision, Mr. Turner said, does not seem to meet that standard. In addition, such changes are supposed to be disclosed promptly, he said. The criticism of Halliburton comes amid heightened suspicion on Wall Street about corporate accounting. Andersen is now on trial in Houston for destroying records related to its audits of Enron, and regulators and lawmakers in Washington are debating whether to tighten accounting oversight. Though the 1998 accounting change involved a relatively small sum for a company that had $17 billion in sales that year, it came at an important moment for Halliburton. The Dallas-based company was eager to win back investors' confidence after its takeover of Dresser, another energy services company. Mr. Cheney has called that deal, which was completed in September 1998, a top achievement of his time at Halliburton, though some experts say that the asbestos-related liabilities Dresser brought to the company may end up driving Halliburton into bankruptcy. On Jan. 20, 1999, Halliburton reported sales of $4.3 billion and profit of $66 million for the fourth quarter of 1998, both down from the period a year earlier. Mr. Cheney acknowledged that the quarter had been difficult but said he was "optimistic about the long-term outlook for our industry and for Halliburton in particular." The change in policy enabled the company to book $89 million in unsettled claims as revenue in 1998, compared to a "de minimis" figure in previous years, Mr. Foshee said. Exactly how much of that revenue turned into profits for the company is not stated in Halliburton's financial reports. But the impact would have been significant had the company taken the alternative route of writing the cost overruns off as losses, wiping out more than half of its $175 million in pretax operating profits for the fourth quarter, when the accounting change took effect. One year later, revenue from uncollected claims was about $98 million, according to Halliburton's 1999 annual report to the S.E.C. That report, which the company filed in March 2000, included Halliburton's first public disclosure of the new policy. Mr. Foshee said the company had not disclosed the change in 1998 because it involved such a tiny fraction of total sales. A year later, Halliburton decided to be especially conservative and disclose the new policy, he said. Total claims revenue rose to $106 million by July 2000, when Mr. Cheney left the company, and peaked at $234 million at the end of last year. According to Mr. Foshee, the change in accounting practices reflected changes in the company's business. Before the late 1990's, Halliburton had generally worked under "cost plus" contracts, which guaranteed the company a small profit on top of its costs, whatever they were. But by 1998, he said, most of Halliburton's contracts were fixed price, requiring it to finish jobs for a set fee - or else try to negotiate payment of cost overruns and change orders. Though resolving such disputes can take months or years, the company decided it was reasonable to recognize at least part of the revenue from the claims even while they remained in dispute, Mr. Foshee said. "I don't think that's a change in accounting policy as much as it's a change in business mix," he said. He added that Halliburton eventually collected on many of its claims and that its accounting practices reflected that experience. "We file a claim, and I think we're pretty conservative - we're fairly conservative - about reporting the claim," he said. That explanation was disputed by the former Dresser executives who joined Halliburton after the merger. They said that most of Halliburton's contracts had been fixed price even before 1998 and that the company made the accounting change to obscure large losses on several important construction contracts. Halliburton declined to disclose what percentage of its contracts were fixed price in any given year. Accounting experts said that Halliburton's practices were aggressive. The change was "clearly a way of pumping up revenues and receivables," said Paul Brown, chairman of the accounting department at the Stern School of Business at New York University. In general, companies are not supposed to book sales unless they are certain that they will be paid - and how much they will be paid, Mr. Brown said. He asked how Halliburton could know it would be paid on a claim that a customer had the right to dispute. "There's already a conflict here, or there wouldn't be these claims," Mr. Brown said. "How did Halliburton estimate the possibility that the change order was going to be resolved?" Indeed, in its 1999 annual report, Halliburton warned investors that "the environment for claims and change orders has become more difficult in the past few years," contributing to increased losses. Beyond the change in how Halliburton handled disputed claims, the company's books include one other indicator that analysts say can signal aggressive accounting. According to S.E.C. filings, Halliburton's accounts receivable - sales booked by the company even though it had not yet been paid for them - soared relative to its total sales during Mr. Cheney's tenure. At the same time, its competitors' accounts receivable fell slightly, S.E.C. filings show. When Mr. Cheney became Halliburton's chief executive in October 1995, Halliburton had roughly 95 cents in receivables for every dollar in quarterly revenues. When he left in July 2000, the ratio was $1.20 in receivables for each dollar in quarterly sales. Over the same period, the average ratio of receivables to sales at five big competitors of Halliburton fell slightly, from 92 cents per dollar of sales in 1995 to 86 cents per dollar 5 years later. The rising receivables are "a little bit of a red flag," said Edward Ketz, an accounting professor at Pennsylvania State University. Halliburton's stock has plunged since the company merged with Dresser, mainly because the deal saddled Halliburton with huge legal liabilities from a Dresser subsidiary that manufactured asbestos-containing bricks. Halliburton shares closed yesterday at $17.43, just below their level on Oct. 1, 1995; they stood at more than double that level when Mr. Cheney left the company. Since October 1995, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index has risen 86 percent.
here's the deal on Halliburton
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 10:32:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Speaking of Cheney, what's this deal about his company, was it Halliburton, switching to reporting expenses as revenues during his watch? And the auditor was Arthur Anderson. My my what a small world.
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 10:13:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Another Iceberg Breaks Away From Antarctica...
developing....
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 10:11:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Response to Cheney's Threats, New Warnings: Near-Universal Revulsion And Skepticism Media, American People Simply Don't Trust Bush The only debate seems to be whether the new threats represent cynical efforts to distract from current criticism or cynical efforts to provide cover against future criticism: "That's why the Bushies are trying to terrify us. They desperately want to change the subject from the stunning lapses of their ostensibly expert foreign policy team - and they cynically want to make it sound as if nothing they do or don't do really matters in the end." MoDo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "But Chatterbox doesn't put it past the Bush White House to time its release of this dire news for maximum political benefit. With the start of a new week, Topic A is shifting away from the Bush administration's possible incompetence in handling the 9/11 threat (mounting evidence suggests that the worst of this occurred within the FBI) and toward the prospect of a new, devastating al-Qaida attack on U.S. soil." Tim Noah -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What started as a story about how the Bush team handled unspecific warnings about possible terrorist attacks in the U.S. before 9/11 has now prompted the Bushies not only to defend themselves from charges of irresponsibility - which they are entitled to do - but to go on a Chicken Little warnings binge that another attack is imminent, inevitable and around the corner, but we can't tell you when, where or how." Thomas L. Friedman -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Put in terms a family newspaper can publish, all this unspecific sputtering amounts to little more than some classic and familiar butt-covering. But this time it's butt-covering with a purpose, and that purpose is misdirection. The more we learn about what various government agencies knew before Sept. 11, the more certain we are that we aren't prepared for what may come next - and the government definitely doesn't want us to know that." Michael Kramer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "American intelligence agencies have intercepted a vague yet troubling series of communications among al Qaeda operatives over the last few months indicating that the terrorist organization is trying to carry out an operation as big as the Sept. 11 attacks or bigger, according to intelligence and law enforcement officials." Which raises a number of questions: Is such a dastardly attack really brewing? Is the administration, having been stung by disclosure of the pre-9/11 warnings, now putting out every bit of scary intelligence - just in case?" Howard Kurtz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We have a real problem with [Phoenix memo not reaching Bush, Mohammad Atta acquiring student visa].. these are real screw-ups, real foul-ups.. Are they being covered up by these generalized warnings?" Tweety: Hardball, May 21, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "All right, Cliff, because I know Bob is so fired up to talk about this from Boise, Idaho today. And we dragged him out of bed early. I'm actually going to start with you first, Cliff. There is a lot of second-guessing going on, and there are people out there, even the president's supporters, who are saying that they think this latest series of warnings are nothing more than the administration collectively trying to cover its derriere. What about that?" Paula Zahn -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course, maybe it's true. It could well be true. I'm certain it's at least partly true. But the problem is that it's so deeply convenient and the administration's response to calls for inquiries has been so strident and aggressive that it's difficult to see this as mere coincidence. "Another clue adds to my suspicion. One of the two outlets to break this story, The New York Times, says that the increased activity has been for 'the last few months.' NBC says it's for the 'past several weeks.' So why do we hear about it right now? And what about Tom Ridge's color-coded terror system? Come to think of it, where's Tom Ridge?" Josh Marshall -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "On one level it's impossible to hear these dire assessments and, with charred images of Sept. 11 still fresh in our minds, not recoil. And only a fool would dismiss them out of hand. Still, skeptics must be allowed to ask the obvious out loud: Don't these hair-raising warnings come at a convenient time for the White House, as it tries both to fend off criticism for its mishandling of terrorist intelligence and to squash an expansive inquiry on Capitol Hill?" Eric Boehlert -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ..and it's not just the media. Mistrust shared by American people: Two-thirds of Americans think the Bush administration is hiding something about what it knew before Sept. 11, while just over a fifth think the administration is "telling the entire truth," a CBS News poll released Tuesday said...
BUT THE SKY *IS* FALLING! REALLY!! WHAT'S THE THREAT COLOR TODAY? WILL IT MATCH MY TIE? GEESH!
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 09:38:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's called serfdom. And the Bushes of the world will see that we stay that way. So many owned by so few. Corporate haven/heaven.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 02:47:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Amazing. What is it with these right-wingers and Castro, anyway? Bush is doing pretty much the same thing, only with him it's not direct fear of Castro but his fear of Jimmy Carter, a man born with enough lips on his face to equip a dozen Snippies, and his fear that Jeb hasn't burrowed his snout deep enough up the asshole of the Miami Cubans. The odd thing is, for forty years Castro has been doing in Cuba pretty much what Ashcroft is trying to do in the USA, and it doesn't seem to bother these yahoos when it's in our own county. Just another example of lip service to the natural rights of man, that liberal idea, while the real motive is to get back into Cuba and make some dough off the cheap labor, and maybe get a safe Republican offshore blow-job on the side. Well, nobody said the Bush family and its chosen political factions weren't sleazy, and out for the main chance. Nobody said that the Bushes and the Republican Party weren't a sickeningly shameful blot on America's honor.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 01:56:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 00:58:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hell, he wouldn't even own up to panicking and running like a rabbit on 9/11. Sent the oddly nauseating Karl Rove out to claim that there was a coded message saying the blimps were after him. He could have just said, "I fucked up and ran like a yellow-bellied hop-toad and practically shit my drawers. But then I saw Rudy Giuliani walking around in New York and he seemed to be doing OK, and I saw Hillary muscling up to the cameras in front of the Pentagon, so here I am to lead you, America, as soon as I clear it with Karl and Karen and Jim Baker and Dad." But no, he sent Rove out with the story about the blimps, and of course he got caught, but Americans were so relieved to hear that he hadn't shit his drawers in front of the whole world they forgave him, and gave him good poll numbers to keep him from shitting them the next time, or puking on the president of Japan, or whatever Bush family specialty stunt he was likely to pull.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 00:05:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Because he's a Bush, bone-brain. Do you remember his old man? He was always trying to pretend he was a tough guy. I kicked Geraldine Ferraro's ass. I eat bacon rinds. I pitch horseshoes. Kiss my ass. George Bush I spent his whole life, motivated his whole career, trying to convince people that he wasn't queer as a three-dollar bill. And just like Snippy, what did it ever get him? Is there anyone in America who thinks he's Mr. Macho, and not just a reasonably sufferable old lady? This Bush family is a trip and a half, let me tell you.
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- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 23:56:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now, here's my angle on Fuckup-gate, where the administration* fucks up prior to September 11 and then hides it for 8 months, figuring as Republicans usually do that hiding whatever is true is the best approach to any situation. This is not only Republican to the core, it is Snippy to the core, the same as hiding the drunk-driving arrest, which apparently did damage him in Maine. The man doesn't face up to his mistakes-- if he had said right at the start, after his fleeing to the bunker from imaginary enemies and then whatever happened that made him climb out of the hole, shame or whiskey or Rudy Guiliani's face time, then it would have been nothing. He could have said, shit, we knew they were coming, but we didn't know they were coming this hard, we sure fucked up, trying to keep the airlines happy and afraid to get Ann Coulter mad at us. And the country would have shook it off, and said OK Snippy, we didn't expect any better of you. Instead, the little guy tried to hide his fuckup, tried to present himself as some sort of tough although bandly-legged frontier Sheriff with a Wanted Dead or Alive attitude, smokin' out the woodchucks. When of course he was just a little fuckup cheerleader doing the best he could and fortunate to have brought on a token Negro, Colin Powell, who turned out to be a professional, and maybe a few others. So you see, it's just the Snip we're dealing with here, the guy who is dumb enough to think every one of his drunk-driving arrests or coke snorts or pom-pon girl rapes is going to stay sealed. Why does he do it? Is he trying to make people think he's a cool guy who doesn't fuck up? What kind of idiot does that make him? Does anyone in the country not realize, deep down inside, that the guy is a fuckup? That's why he even came close to getting elected-- it was the fuckup vote. Why does he pretend he's something other than what he is?
House of Meat
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 23:50:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: That under oath bit is like the I-word impeachment bit, with your second-string troglodytes trying to give the scab-ends of lunatic conservatism a heroic cast. You go for a "perjury" entrapment, which doesn't turn out to be perjury because the man has nothing material to say about the case and, hell, it's just a frivolous case that is really an attempted political smear, so you have to invent some horrible transgression, which turns out to be, perish the thought, "lying under oath." Listen to the crynic and Pete and Glit squawk and moan about lying under oath when it is Clinton being slippery in the scam lawsuit, and then it doesn't matter when Clarence Thomas does it, or when Solicitor General Olson does it, or when, say, Ashcroft does it relative to his blackballing the black judges. All these wonderful right-wingers are lying under oath every chance they get, about who they are and what qualifies them to wield the kind of power that can fuck up innocent citizens, and it means nothing. What does this all mean? It means our local troglodytes lack virtue. They are dishonest troglodytes. Tsk tsk.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 23:37:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think lying is wrong, whether it's under oath or just posting to a web board that the old Navajo pegleg woman who comes once a week to vacuum the floors and give you a throw is a hot young girlfriend.
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- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 23:28:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good point. I agree. Lying about the safety of the people is a good idea most of the time. Lying about sex is wrong. Except to the liberals, of course. That's why we're in the fix we're in today.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 22:22:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Except about sex?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 22:19:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: with
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 22:18:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Trogs, what I'm sure you know, but are unwilling to admit is, you are being lied to. Just as surely as Boinking Bill Clinton came into you entertainment room and shook his finger in you pudgy faces, you are being lied to now. And we all understand that that's okey-dokey as long as the liars are Republican. It doesn't matter whether the lie is about blowjobs or terrorism, does it? It's all about who's telling the lie to you. Oh, you'll say national security trumps lying. And that is a step in the right direction. The world becomes less black and white. Shades of gray and beige appear. Lying, even UNDER OATH, becomes subject to relativism. Join with me, my brothers and sisters! Say it LOUD! Lying, even UNDER OATH, is okay ME!!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 22:17:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 22:10:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: And to think Jimmy Carter got reamed out by the mouth-breathers for opining there was malaise in the nation.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:59:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Inevitable = We can't do anything about it and we never will. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:58:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: What I like is, the INS says it fucked up and will continue to do so. Right in line with administration* thinking.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:54:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: The smart corporations are cutting deals with the terrorist. They tend to go with whoever is holding the cards in the Inevitable Game. Uh...what cards does the Snip hold? Help me out here, Glint?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:50:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nah, they're just some pissy warnings to teach us the lesson: Careful What You Wish For. Just a petulant frat-boy response to Terrorgate.
Good Work, Dad, My Commander-In-Chief
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:47:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Perhaps some of the big corporations would like to pony up some fucking resources in this deal. Are we going to ride out the rest of the bush term in impotent fear?????
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:45:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: But hey, more seriously, that line about the inevitable, it bugged me too. pretty defeatist. Why inevitable? Has snipster moved us all to the gaza strip? Is this the timbre of the right wing? already beated just waiting for the next inevitable blow and the one after that and the one after that and the one after that?????
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:44:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: you know, find some sort of value in living in bumfuck
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:42:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe Glint was just trying to make himself feel better about living in pennsylvannia and working in D.C.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:40:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:38:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not that MK was totally unqualified, otherwise, for the job. The sick fuck could sure spin a lie as well as any general.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:27:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: If every on-duty officer who ever got a blowjob ON DUTY was held to that standard, MK would soon be sporting 4 stars. The service would be that desperate.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:25:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: By that definition, of course, the commander-in-chief couldn't even have a nooner with the old lady.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:23:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd target some smug bastard pederast with anger issues.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:22:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: The commander in chief fetish stems back to the attempt to nail clinton by calling him sort of "on-duty" during the bj to make it an alleged misuse of government time or something, since he was commander in chief at the time. They seem to have forgotten this. I heard our new commander in chief choked out on a pretzel and mumbled something about what the dogs were thinking.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:20:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: The idea of terrorism is to instill terror. If I were a terrorist, NYC is not the place I'd strike next. You want EVERYBODY to feel unsafe. I'd go for some Exurban enclave.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:19:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pretty disgusting. WHo'd like a guy like that beside him in the trenches?????
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:17:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Okay. I guess I was being facetious.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:16:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: My two cents are: Yes, I guess the fact that the Malls and apartment buildings may be the first to go is heartwarming for us who live in the Xurban rural countryside who can easily turn to internet and mail order sources. Indeed, when your driving foot's in a cast there is no other way. Also, by staying out of traffic I might be fortunate enough to avoid further calamities. Glint - Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:48:07 (EDT) HEARTWARMING???? That people may be killed???? Is this guy going to sleep feeling all warm and fuzzy because someone else is more likely to get it than he is?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:15:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: hell no. the right wing fought intervention in Bosnia while millions were slaughtered, they fought linton at every turn with their damn isolationist not my problem crap. Came home to roost though. So lets not pretend the right supported that. Sure, after it turns out ok they'll go for the credit, make a press stop for some photos with a NATO under leiutenant or something.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:03:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: looks to me like the bushies are attempting to release a backlog of specific threats. My guess is they've been sitting on a pile of them and now they just cant lay them out fast enough to get out from under the foreknowledge. I mean, the pending NYC threats just happened to appear since last week??? I thought they were from these captured taliban we interrogated 3 monyths ago. Who knew about the statue of liberty, when????
borg 19 of 22
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:00:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: When you think about it, the Dalai Lama is a lot like George Bush II. He was born Dalai Lama, and didn't have to win any sort of election.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 20:51:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: War on terror: Dalai Lama warns 21may02 THE Dalai Lama has questioned whether the war on terrorism was the best response to the September 11 attacks by Osama bin Laden.
some sort of goddam peace-nik
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 20:49:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, Snip didn't get to SEE the memo until now. He was told about it back in August to loud guffaws and tequila shots.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 20:30:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: You'd think the guy in Phoenix, Williams, would be the logical replacement for Mueller but my guess is he'll be "reassigned" to the Nome office.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 20:29:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: It looks like Ashcroft and Mueller are the fall guys in Terrorgate. Seems they went immediately into the CYA mode on 9/12 and didn't tell Snip about the FBI memo until, like, last week. I would assume they would have the dignity to resign before the Snip cans them. This is how it all starts, you know. Nixon was up in the 60s , close to 70, until, one by one, the lackeys started dropping and singing. By the time he was forced to leave, he was at 29%.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 20:27:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: To follow up on that, this character Pete� seems to think that "commander-in-chief" means commander of America's citizenz-- "our commander in chief", he says, the way in the French army you have to say "my general" or "my capitaine." Unbeknown to Pete�, the President is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force, the Coast Guard. He is otherwise neither my commander nor yours, in war-time or in peace-time, and he is accorded not one shred of authority over us as President, as he is accorded authority over cowboy generals and potato-peeling soldiers. If you happen to be in the military (which Pete� somehow never had the balls to be), Snippy can tell you to drop and do pushups. But if you happen to be a private citizen the President can't tell you to put out your cigarette with any more authority than the Dairy Queen waitress. I guess what this boils down to is that the troglodyte doesn't understand that simple fact about what America is or isn't. America, despite the troglodytes's wishes, is a free place, a nation conceived in liberty, where we don't have to follow leaders or glorify the hapless cluck who happens to be in the White House. Your great American presidents felt comfortable with opposition, and didn't have their vice-presidents snaking around saying that criticism was treason. And your great American presidents, viz Lincoln, FDR, and let's say Jimmy Carter in his motivation at least, were hated viciously by the right, for no other reason than that they possessed a consistent core of the best American values, which do not include the dark temptation of totalitarianism that right-wingers are so attracted to.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 20:19:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think it's a thing they have about Dad.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 20:12:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, traitor, at least the trogs know who to salute and when. How quickly you forget that, despite their obsessive hatred and jealousy of our Last Elected President, Bill Clinton, when it came time for us to smite the muderous Serbs, they were right there, four-square, in support of our Commander-In-Chief. Well, not actually OUR Commander-In-Chief seeing as how we're not in the armed forces (although some of us like to say we woulda went,) but you get the idea. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 20:05:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've been interested in this repetitive "commander-in-chief" riff we get from the troglodytes, from Pete and the crynic on up to higher life forms. Is this yearning for a "commander-in-chief" to adore the same human foible that permitted the ascendancy of "Der Furher" or "Il Duce?" Probably, but what sort of callow ignoramus could adore Snippy, no matter how well-endorsed he may be by his father's friends? OK, he was a cheerleader, and some of those cheers take coordination and a sense of timing ("first and ten, do it again") so he is not a total incompetent physically, he can walk and chew gum at the same time, and not trip over his megaphone, but after that, what do you have? Hitler had a fine talent for frothing at the mouth convincingly about German superiority, and had been in the trenches, and Mussolini could puff himself up and make the scabby little wops think they were Imperial Romans, but what in the world does Little Bush do for our troglodytes? Does he make them believe that faceless needle-dicked wimps trading memos and fiddling on PC's are big tough dudes that can smite Arabs? What in the world is it? Is it just stupidity mixed with talk radio and right-wing television food-fight artists? As I say, it is interesting, this Commander-in-chief thing. Even the great war presidents, we rarely think of them as "commander-in-chief", because "elected President" is so much bigger. Why do they have to lard it up for Snippy?
House of Meat
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 19:43:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Threats against the statue lady and a bridge and this is still a yellow alert day.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 19:33:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thorazine?
???
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 19:11:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy gets support cause he is our Commander in Chief. Except to the treasonous. Demonrats.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 18:52:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: The guy starts at 50%. Then the buildings come down on his watch. Zooom! Up the 93%. Thump! Down to 75%. Up 43, then down 18 and sinking fast. The people no longer believe in his war but they like the way he mangles a phrase. They like that he can call a former KGB spook Pooty-poot. For a guy who never spent one day of his life outside the bubble, this whole thing is enough to make you choke the pretzel, fall off the couch and get a shiner. Yippeee!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 18:49:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: I support him for warning us about apartment bombs. Rent around here is dropping faster than Snippy's numbers. Faster than American flags off of antennas.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 18:44:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy is popular because.... why was it again? The ragheads knocking down the two buildings, that made him popular. Back when they said the rags had killed 7,000 people he was in the catbird seat, but now, with only 3,000 dead from his inattention to business he's drooped in the esteem of his countrymen. This guy needs some terror fast, anything from a mall bomb to a suitcase nuke. He seems to depend on hysteria for any endorsement.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 18:43:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: None of which answers the question: Why support Snippy? What good has he done?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 18:30:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, if I never thought the crynic spoke the truth of the sane before, the endorsement of a lunatic sure convinces me now.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 18:17:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: For liberals the truth is spin. Doink. Crynic speaks the truth for the sane.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 18:04:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Expert spin, my foreign brother!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:55:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: The SCOTUS had the wisdom to send that loser packing. Bye-bye.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:53:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, he lost the election and got caught trying to steal it with his chads, his operatives, and the blue hairs in Florida. Finally, the Supreme Court said enough is enough.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:52:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sorry, the crynic, my bad. Gore won the election, but lost the Supreme Court coup.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:47:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: It gets worse.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:46:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: If Gore had ACTUALLY won, wouldn't he be living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in DC? Wouldn't he be called President instead of flunky part time teaching assistant at a junior college? And would we be dropping "free government cheese" bombs? Guess I missed something.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:44:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's ok, we all know you doinks have no imagination anyway.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:43:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not that Pete ever had game, but this is worse than I ever imagined.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:36:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, that is always how the deranged socialsits see the truth. Sad cases indeed.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:29:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: A sick voice crying out for help.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:19:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Any socialist would be worse that the man who is now where he belongs in the White House. Doink.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:14:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Besides the fact that Gore actually won, why would he be a worse alternative than Snippy?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:13:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: You approve of WHAT?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 17:02:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, I approve. Look at the alternative (i.e. the sore loser). What more reason can one need?
Glint
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 16:54:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whatever happened to Ray Cathode? Did he finally get a life or something? (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
Rockville, MD - Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 16:48:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Do you approve of Snippy, Glint? Why?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 16:47:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: So now that Bush's approval rating is back up above 75%, I wonder what "scandal" your shepherds will cook up next.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 16:31:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: More than half say they lack full confidence in government's ability to prevent future attacks.
drip, drip, drip
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 16:31:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: And, of course, we've all be shot.
poor pitiful asshole
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 16:23:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: "President Retains Strong Support But More Say U.S. Cannot Halt Attacks" By Richard Morin and Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, May 21, 2002; Page A04 - Questions about whether the administration properly handled warnings of possible terrorist attacks last summer have done little to diminish President Bush's standing with the American people. But for the first time since Sept. 11, more than half say they lack full confidence in government's ability to prevent future attacks, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Wash Post - ABC News: Bush has 76% Approval <read it and weep bitter dims>
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 14:55:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sorry to hear about your accident, Glint. I didn't scroll way back, but wouldn't be surprised to see the liberal lugheads trying to blame your fender bender on the current administration. Talk about fresh wounds and crying. Hell, they're still reeling over Reagan's landslide victory over that diplomatic genius 20+ years ago.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 14:53:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nice to hear from you, crynic. Don't be too hard on them. Their Clinton/Gore wounds seem to be as raw as ever. Stop splashing sea water into them. :-D
Glint
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 14:44:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's good to see you Limpocrats finally seeing Clinton for the traitorous criminal he is. His misdeeds have not gone unnoticed by the U.S. citizenry (see Gore loss - 2000). They were just ignored and denied by the delusional socialists. Glad to see you folks come back from the edge. Welcome to the fold. Have a nice day :)
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 14:40:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's inevitable. Clinton made it so.
end of story
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 13:22:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Clinton left all sorts of ticking time-bombs for Snippy. I predict that something poor, something bad, and something awful will happen during the remaining years of Snippy's appointment, maybe even several awful things. It is hard to tell how thoroughly Clinton has seeded the Snip's path with disasters. The poor bastard is walking through a minefield of legacy Clinton catastrophe.
.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:56:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought the OKC bombing was just delusional right-wing politics taken to its logical conclusion, as with the Ruby Ridge boys and that Koresh character. It's one of the few bad things that happened on Clinton's watch that actually showed up on Clinton's watch, rather than six months to a year and a half into Snippy's watch.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:47:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, stupid. Clinton caught the guy who did it. He never pretended to wage a war on terrorism, especially the inevitable kind that FBI field agents have no inkling about. McVeigh wasn't in flight school, carrying the Koran and trying to learn how to fly, but not take off or land. He murdered a bunch of people and he got caught. Yet, even now, murder is inevitable. Snippy's henchmen just said so. So, where's the war? What makes Snippy a war time president*? And, if he is, we've lost the war given that future attacks are inevitable. Get it, Jism-boy?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:44:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: So you're saying that the OKC bombing was inevitable since Clinton wasn't able to prevent it through their wonderful police work?
Glint
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:33:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Poor, delusional asshole.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:26:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: You've got to call it a war unless you want to tell people to lower their expectations. A war can be won, although the deifinition of victory is kind of squishy. When you win a war, the enemy can't really launch inevitable attacks. When attacks are inevitable, it stands to reason you've lost the "war." Perhaps it's time to stop the public relations and hyperbole and take a hint from the Israelis. They don't say they're in a war against terrorism. They go after the perps on a case-by-case basis. It's called police work. Tim McVeigh was a terrorist and he got nailed and punished by Clinton. No "war" talk, just efficient police work.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:25:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've been shot twice. Once by the terrorists that Clinton only wagged the dog, while pluging his fingers in his ears shouting "LA! LA! LA!" while Monica sang. Then again by Clinton's legacy recession which started biting in 2000.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:25:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Given that all manner of attacks are inevitable, isn't it time we all stopped pretending there's actually a war on terrorism. Or is calling it a war important to right wing wouldawents?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:19:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: When it comes, maybe they can re-impeach him (the dread I-word?) and this time the Senate will second the motion. Nothing like leading your country into a disasterous, meaningless war to fuck up your legacy.
.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:14:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: When the inevitable hits come, it will be another nail in the coffin of Clinton's presidency.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:09:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The cast is your own fault and you're lucky you didn't kill someone. Your employment picture sucks too. And, of course, we've all be shot.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:00:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's not as safe as Ascroft. Not as safe as Cheney. Not as safe as Snippy. Not even as safe as Ari Fleischer. It would at least be good to hear "lower your expectations" utterred from Republican mouths because that's what the result always is. Unfortunately the words are considered blasphemous.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:59:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: When the inevitable hit occurs, we can all say that Dick Cheney was on top of it all along. No more Keystone Kops.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:56:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, I'm not better off. My GD leg's in a MF cast, you AH!
Glint
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:55:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Staying out of traffic or off the bottle ought to do it, either one.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:53:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, Glint, you're as safe as anyone. Why is it again you support Bush? He's done something good, maybe? What? Are you better off now than you were two years ago?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:53:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Trees? What about trees? I mentioned bird cages. I say "bird cages" you think "trees." You must have the same treeitis affliction that had made a certain person look at a "book" and say "tree."
Glint
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:53:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: These guys have explained the inevitability of so many different hits that I'm beginning to think that some sort of hit is inevitable.
.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:53:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, I guess the fact that the Malls and apartment buildings may be the first to go is heartwarming for us who live in the Xurban rural countryside who can easily turn to internet and mail order sources. Indeed, when your driving foot's in a cast there is no other way. Also, by staying out of traffic I might be fortunate enough to avoid further calamities.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:48:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:45:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: What must be comforting to Glint is that at least we've now been warned that it's "inevitable" there will be more hits, perhaps at shopping malls, perhaps whole apartment buildings. It's a yellow day only because every day is a yellow day unless Osama bin Laden calls Snippy during a vacation in Crawford and swears on the Koran the hit will at 9:07 a.m. and will invlove a truck bomb at the Peoria Walmart. Then it will be a red day in Peoria. Then we'll all know the war is going well.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:44:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, I need a comment from you on this site. Thanks. http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/index.html
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 11:11:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now, as for doing my level best to defeat the terrorists, right Captain Jism, every time I see a swarthy fellow with dynamite strapped to his ass I will call 911, you idiot. Or do you mean one's level best is to support Snippy's band of Keystone Kops, support the new Star Chambers, support the nullification of the Bill of Rights except for the misinterpretation of the 2nd amendment? What are you doing to defeat the terrorist, Dr. Fool, sucking down Lucky Lager by the barrel and driving into trees? Sure, as long as you are in a cast the hermaphrodites and the pedestrians are safe, but what does that have to do with ending this silliness about airport security that only makes Ann Coulter stand in line with a leaky latt�?
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- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 10:58:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dr. J, Dr. J, Dr. J.... you poor rube. The "impeachment of a president" doesn't show the strength of the right-wing horris jismis. The right-wing faux-prudery diminishes and renders meaningless what could be a stain of impeachment. You don't quite get the fact that the impeachment by right-wing lunatics of a president demonized by the right, conceived as a triumph by the right, means nothing but that the right is out of its gourd. This is why we send the impeachment up to the Senate, so that legislators less easily stampeded by the mass hysteria of a given hour can calmly judge the worth of claims that may be, shall we say, politically motivated and without merit.
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- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 10:51:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't underestimate the power of jizm, my boy. It's appearance led straight to the impeachment of a president. Sure, an oaf-like guffawing hillbilly whose philia prevented him from keeping it in his pants. If things are as bad as you say, then where's the chatter about the "I" word? Zilch. Follow the advice of your shepherd and do your dead level best to make sure the terrorists are defeated. At least with your free hand.
Dr. J
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 09:55:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, developing, is the realization that a competent administration like that of, say, Clinton, wouldn't have been blindsided and lost our favorite skyscrapers? Ashcroft really was off chasing calico cats and the people who were supposed to be in charge of national security ( which is the real meaning of the bullshit Bush Co. phrase "homeland defense" ) were pushing huge weapons projects and saying it was impossible to infiltrate Al Quaida even though a kid from Marin did it without hardly trying. Don't you understand, Glint, that the Snipperman fucked up, big time, Cheney fucked up, Ashcroft was born fucking up, these fellows failed at their jobs. They failed miserably, mistaking political fervor and faux=certitude for intelligence and ability, and they helped several thousand people die needlessly. Several thousand of the citizens they were appointed to serve, that they were supposed to look out for. A horrible shame, and a stain on Republicanism and on the Supreme Court with slightly more import than a little jism on anybody's dress. How can you continue to enable these shameful and harmful failures? Weaving into that telephone pole should be your wake-up call, Glit. Your hidden guilt is trying to kill you, and will keep trying until you confess to yourself that a President Bush is a crime and a loss for everyone more than it is an ephemeral triumph for any one faction. Repent, Glit, before you tangle with an 18-wheeler.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 01:39:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rumsfeld suspended tracking bin Laden? No wonder condi looked so nervous.
none dare call it treason
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 00:12:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Among other things, the Newsweek blockbuster reveals that: -- Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld, upon taking office, suspended Predator drone tracking of Osama bin Laden, "among other actions." -- National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice at the very least dissembled when she claimed last week that there were no existing studies, as of 9/11, predicting a 9/11-style attack on America. "While Bush may have a point in saying he heard no specific threat, other aspects of the administration�s story weren�t holding up" by week's end, Newsweek writes. -- Rice actually claimed that George W. Bush had not read -- or, more specifically "doesn't recall reading" -- memos he was responsible to read. Newsweek observes that "the buck seems to be stopping nowhere." -- Attorney General John Ashcroft, at the prodding of Clinton-hating "Judicial Watch" right-wing judge Royce Lamberth, shut down FBI wiretaps of Qaeda-related suspects connected to the 1998 African embassy bombing investigation. -- Ashcroft, despite testimony to the contrary to the Senate, turned his back on counter-terrorism over the months before 9/11. "Ashcroft didn�t want to hear about it," says a former senior law-enforcement official. -- The Bush Administration's hard right-wing ideology as well as its incompetence contributed to the disaster: But the Bushies had an ideological agenda of their own. At the Treasury Department, Secretary Paul O�Neill�s team wanted to roll back almost all forms of government intervention, including laws against money laundering and tax havens of the kind used by terror groups. At the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld wanted to revamp the military and push his pet project, NMD. Rumsfeld vetoed a request to divert $800 million from missile defense into counterterrorism. Newsweek leaves open the possibility that Secretary "Enron Is A Tribute To Capitalism" O'Neill's roll-back of government regulation of money laundering and tax havens is the link that connects Enron with the 9/11 scandal. When Michael Isikoff gets off the sex beat and starts writing about a serious public scandal, you know that the Bush White House is in deep trouble. But this is only the start. There are even more shockers in the Newsweek article -- and there are more shockers to come over the next few days....
liars liars hoo ha what else is new
- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 00:05:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe now we can concentrate more on current and future terrorist threats. - Anonymous. - Monday, May 20, 2002 at 14:17:27 (EDT)
Okay, genius, I'm concentrating. Now what?
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 21:07:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who are "they" and what pulls their nose into our water?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 18:08:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now they're warning us to watch our water. Watch it come out of the faucet, go down the drain?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 18:00:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, it WAS your fault?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 17:28:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fender bender. Yeah. I was the only one treated by the EMTs. Treated at the scene but declined transport because I had my own ride to the hospital.
Glint
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 17:28:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: "We need an independent commission because we do not need to engage in a political witch hunt to blame the Clinton administration or the Bush administration for failure," said Rep. Timothy J. Roemer (D-Ind.). "We need to involve professional experts and people with technical skills who not only know the right questions to ask but what to do with the answers to transform the intelligence agencies from Cold War agencies into agencies targeting terrorists and transnational threats."
Glint should lead the investigation
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 17:26:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, Glint, we can sense your love for Klayman and Keyes.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 17:05:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good old Larry Klayman. An equal opportunity non profiteer. At least he's non-partisan, questions all sides accordingly. You have to love the guy for that.
Glint
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 17:00:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: And you still are sticking to the fender bender story? How about some details?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 17:00:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, Brenda. As I mentioned before Brenda appears to confortable with how things are. Certainly an improvement over the talk and contemplation of suicide expressed by Brandon in previous years. Talk whose report of here made E go cluck cluck. Of course, with the acting experience obtained via the theatre, it's possible that the calm exterior might just be an act. Or perhaps the suicide talk was Brandon's way of acting out and bringing on Brenda. Since I'm wearing a cast on the right leg and cannot drive now, the kids have had to walk down to the highway to catch the bus. So I haven't seen Brenda in a while and have no news to report.
Glint
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 16:46:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was actually I who suggested nkuing Mecac, the crynic. Either taht or crash a plane into it, assuming planes are worse than nkues.
ePte�
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 16:29:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: None of this would have happened, fuckfaces, if we had nuked Mecca when I suggested it.
the crynic
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 16:19:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know what they say about people of Keyes's ilk. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. I wouldn't be surprised if Condaleeza and Colin don't start getting mouthy next.
Pat Robertson
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 16:17:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Keyes is hermaphro?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 16:15:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Brenda's your guy.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 16:10:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's my guy.
Glint
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 16:06:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's what I don't understand about this whole thing, anonymous... why does Bush have to clean up after Clinton's Arab to beging with? Clinton's making the big bucks, why didn't he go in after Osama? As usual, the GOP gets the short end of the stick.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 16:05:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: KEYES: I�d like to say that I think it�s outrageous and irresponsible to suggest that folks who are raising questions and looking for truth in this matter are somehow arguing something that is simply partisan or unpatriotic - and a word of friendly advice to folks in the administration, the president and Vice President Cheney. I think they will look better, seem less defensive, if they simply, in a humble fashion open their hands and say yes, let�s look at this in a serious way because when you lose the World Trade Center and a chunk of the Pentagon, something sure went wrong and we too want to find out what it is. On behalf of all the American, especially folks like Kathy Ashton, and I think folks like that will be able to judge when the Democrats are doing partisan game playing and punish them for it. http://www.msnbc.com/news/754599.asp?cp1=1
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 15:59:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: I believe Klayman is right about the Clinton part, but he is dead wrong about Bush. Bush came to town to hose out the stables, after all, and was blindsided by an Arab left over from the Clinton Administration.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 15:54:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: BUSH WHITE HOUSE ADMISSION THAT IT RECEIVED INTELLIGENCE, BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, THAT BIN LADEN WOULD HIJACK PLANES AND OTHER RECENT ADMISSIONS, UNDERSCORE NEED FOR PUBLIC INVESTIGATION OF GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE AND RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR SECURITY Information Withheld From American People for Nine Months Judicial Watch Investigating and Writing Report About Security Lapses As Well As Representing Whistleblowers Who Want to Inform Public of the Truth to Spur Corrections Before More Serious Attacks Occur (Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, today announced that it is redoubling its efforts to expose government incompetence and reckless disregard for national security, as occurred prior to September 11, under both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Recent revelations, exposed involuntarily through government leaks, about FBI and intelligence community breakdowns, and the latest, belated revelation about the alert to President Bush concerning bin Laden�s hijacking of planes, underscores the need for a thorough public review of the most serious attack ever to take place on American soil. In recent days, Judicial Watch clients, such as FBI Special Agent Robert Wright, have been forced to take legal action to protect their First Amendment rights to tell the truth to the American people about the national security failures of the Clinton and Bush administrations. Only by exposing the truth, can meaningful corrective action be taken. But thus far, the Bush administration has shrouded its actions in secrecy, not wanting to admit its role in furthering Clinton administration neglect of our national security up to September 11. Nor have any high level officials been disciplined or fired as a result of the World Trade Center and Pentagon disasters. �To withhold material information from the American people, and not take responsibility for bungled mishandling of intelligence which might have prevented September 11, is no way to run a government, much more protect the American people. While Judicial Watch is itself investigating and will publish a report on the intelligence and other government failures of the Clinton and Bush administrations, now is the time for the Clinton and Bush administrations, and Congress, to come totally clean on any role they may have played in failing to prevent the tragedies - by not doing their jobs, in protecting the American people from foreign tyranny as required by the Constitution,� stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman.
Go, Lunatic Larry, go
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 15:52:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Asinine non-story? You mean the part about Snippy knowing that the Arabs were going to use airplanes as bombs instead of in the traditional hijacking manner? That's not the story, dude. The story is that the Snip was complacent on "homeland defense" before and after September 11. Kept the same practices in place, put Ridge in with no power to do anything, no legislative back-up, fired or demoted nobody, brought nobody in but the one buddy with no real brief, and treated our security as a great big public-relations scam complete with code colors and Cheney wagging the dog about new attacks every time it appears convenient. For the Glints and Petes of the world, who see government as a game of gotcha and media gimmicks, this looks like a non-story. But it is the story, and the fact that the right-winger doesn't have the patience or the mental acuity to follow it or understand it or even recognize it is part of the reason they are clueless sheep, destined to bleat forever behind non-entities like Bush and his group of cynical old men.
.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 15:41:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: For eight months Snippy has been protecting MY ass, and that's good enough for me. Would you trust an elected president to do that? Pretty damned risky, you ask me.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 15:27:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree he's a drip.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 14:47:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Drip, drip, drip.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 14:41:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: The investigation that the dems and retchies are demanding for this non-story ought to be fun. Unless you're the fall guy.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 14:40:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Saying, yes. Doing? Why just this last weekend I heard the Unknown vice-president* say we're going to get attacked. And yet today is still a yellow day. What's up with that?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 14:35:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good, everyone has backed off this asinine non-story. Maybe now we can concentrate more on current and future terrorist threats. I'm glad that Gephardt agrees at last that the important thing is to to do our dead level best to make sure the terrorists are defeated. What Bush has been saying, and doing, for eight months.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 14:17:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course, how can one blame a leader who doesn't know the meaning of the word.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 14:17:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: The way I read this is, there's been a coordinated back-off by both sides. The dems seem willing to go along with the idea that it wasn't Snippy who fucked up but Snippy's FBI. Heads will certainly roll and why not? I think the agent in Phoenix is safe, but the FBI operatives who scoffed at his warning are dead in the water. Apparently, everybody agrees there is no communication within the Bureau. The retchies have backed off after first stupidly publishing a list of how Dem senators voted on funding for intelligence, as if more money would have equalled more communication. The Official Line now is that even those who vote against more spending are patriotic and not subject to trial by tribunal. The fix is in. The buck stops with mid-level G-men.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 14:06:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gephardt, the first to jump on a Bash Bush bandwangon, and the first to jump off. Too bad it didn't run him over. Hey, maybe it has!
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 13:49:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Surprised Buddy isn't on the list.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 13:44:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.seebo.net/corpsect.html
Sandy Hume
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 13:38:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Smudgeville is putting out a new story about a probable nationwide terrorist plot to blow up hi rise apartment buildings, so we're just going to have to forget about 9/11 inquiries on who knew what, when.
yellow alert
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 13:35:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course Brit doesn't smile. His reporter son was killed 2 or 3 years ago. (see Clinton body count for details.)
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 13:34:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course Brit can't smile. He can't even move his lips when speaking.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 13:28:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: He said his leg was "split."
you had to see his eyebrows
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 13:14:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Splint? Hospital bed?
doubt it
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 13:13:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Still, I don't get it. This TV person, Snow, asks Gephardt if he thinks Cheney behaved like an asshole, and Gephardt says, well, sort of, but I'll forgive him, it was in the heat of the moment and he probably won't do it any more. And one of our troglodytes posts this, saying it shows we should trust Bush. What's the deal with these troglodytes? Is anybody home? Maybe they spend so much time looking for arched eyebrows that they never learned how to listen to the spoken words.
House of Meat
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 13:12:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Getting that splint put on my leg last week was the first time I've been in a hospital bed. Since birth, that is.
Glint
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 13:04:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're being too sublte, anonymous. Shut your pie-hole.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 12:42:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: But he wouldn't necessarily be disbarred by the Supreme Court. That is not automatic, you see, but rather depends on what the definition of is is.
ePte�
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 12:39:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: All the Brit Hume tapes tell me is that this Gephardt is a slippery bastard. If this was a frivolous sex-harassment lawsuit, the bastard would be disbarred in Missouri by now.
Rance Pilburton
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 12:36:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit is right. Fuckup-gate is over. Gephardt has admitted he hasn't read the FBI report that the administration has refused to give to Senator Spector. No legs. And nobody is ever going to explain why the president calls Ken Lay Kenny-boy. Hell, he calls Putin Pootie-poot and he calls Cheney Chainy-chain, or at least he did until Cheney had Jim Baker tell him to stop.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 12:29:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why ask if they got into the President's daily brief? The only place they ever got, finally, was into the news, we all know that. Why bother the president with Clinton obsessions about terrorism when you're trying to build a missile defense shield to protect the country from the Martians?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 12:20:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's a good start, getting Gephardt to say Bush wasn't at fault, but we still have to get him to cut this bullshit about getting the facts out, and we still have to get him to admit that it was all Clinton's fault.
Tony
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 12:18:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: GEPHARDT: Well, Brit, as I understand it, there were reports from the FBI from Phoenix. There were reports from Minnesota. I don't know whether they got into the president's daily brief....And I don't know all of what was in the president's daily brief....I don't know that. I haven't seen the report, so I don't know exactly how it was couched, what it said....
for a guy who doesn't know too much this asshole sure flaps jaw a lot
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 12:18:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thank God we've got Gephardt under control. Now we've got to go after the others. You take the damned Phoenix FBI agent and I'll take the six commissions that said we ought to tighten up airport security and make Ann Coulter stand in line.
Brit
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 12:16:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds fair enough. Sure Bush is doing his best. No sense in pissing and moaning that he was appointed. So, everybody is friends now, and we get to check and see what can be done to make the spooks work like professionals-- not, of course, that it has anything extraordinary to do with Bush's failures as president? We won't be hearing that looking into the fuckup is unpatriotic, even though it is on the Bush administration watch or non-watch if you prefer, and is therefore the Bush administration's fuckup?
???
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 12:14:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: SNOW: Do you think the vice president overreacted? GEPHARDT: You know, you get into the normal back and forth, and it kind of - it looked like, I guess, for a few days like a political campaign. I just don't think that's what this should be about. I told the president on 9/12 in the White House that in this matter of fighting terrorism he had to trust us and we had to trust him. I think we've done that. I think we both tried to do that, we've all tried to do that, and we got to keep on doing that. We can't break out in partisan fighting and bickering. We've got to work with one another and try to find the answers so that we can do better. We got to put facts out in front of people. And we got to do our dead level best to make sure the terrorists are defeated.
follow your leader and trust bush
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 12:01:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I never ever, ever thought that anybody, including the president, did anything up to September 11 other than their best."
Dick Gephardt in Sunday interview on Fox News
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 11:57:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: I watched the Fox News interview with VP Cheney and Gephardt yesterday and was delighted to see some aggressive questioning by Britt Hume and Tony Snow. Mr Gephardt crumbled.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 11:34:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: How predictable....the democrats ran it up the flagpole and didn't get a salute...and instead wound up with batpucky in their skivvies. In this election season when they are now starting to panic about their prospects of losing more seats in both houses, we can see that the democrat leadership and their flacks will operate with what has become their typical absence of any principles as practiced during the Clinton years.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 11:31:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Bush's critics backing off on Sept. 11 clues" Brian Knowlton International Herald Tribune Monday, May 20, 2002 - WASHINGTON Facing a strong counterattack from the Bush administration, some legislators on Sunday moderated their criticism of the inability of the White House and intelligence agencies to piece together hints last summer and grasp the nature of the terrorist threat ahead of the Sept. 11 attacks. . And Vice President Dick Cheney, who has played a key role in the White House campaign to turn aside the criticism, warned Sunday that future terrorist attacks on U.S. targets were "almost a certainty," though he could not say when or where. . "It's not a matter of if, but when," Cheney said. . The idea that a savvier marshaling of intelligence might have helped avert the Sept. 11 attacks by four hijacked airplanes, which cost about 3,000 lives, has brought the sharpest criticism of administration conduct since September. A bitter public partisanship, largely forsworn by the political parties since the attacks, has suddenly returned to Washington. . But by Sunday, much of the criticism - and not just from Democrats - appeared to be settling at a level lower than the White House, concentrated on the FBI and CIA and on communication failures that President George W. Bush and those agencies have moved to address. . "I never, ever, ever thought that anybody, including the president, did anything up to 9/11 other than their best," Representative Dick Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, said on Fox-TV. "The question is, how do we do better?" Cheney offended many Democrats on Thursday by urging them not to "seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions" that might aid U.S. enemies. The suggestion that the president could have prevented the attacks, Cheney said Sunday, with barely concealed anger, "strikes me as beyond the pale." . The White House confirmed Wednesday that Bush was briefed Aug. 6 about a threat that U.S. planes might be hijacked. But Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, said Sunday that the briefing memo had been an analytical paper with "nothing fresh in it," a simple summary of "tactics that Al Qaeda might use." The CIA briefing memo is reported to have warned that Osama bin Laden wanted his Al Qaeda militant group to attack targets inside the United States. The administration has emphasized that most intelligence warnings pointed to a greater likelihood of overseas attacks. This followed an earlier intergovernmental study saying that terrorists might fly airplanes into the Pentagon or other buildings, and a report from an FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, last summer that Al Qaeda might be training pilots in a plot to hijack planes. The FBI was also investigating an suspect in Minneapolis who wanted to learn how to fly jumbo jets but not how to land them. . The sudden emergence of so many hints brought demands from Congress last week for the creation of an independent investigating commission and release of the full CIA memorandum, not just the parts leaked to the media. . Cheney adamantly opposed both requests Sunday. An open hearing, he said, would create "a circus atmosphere" and draw FBI agents from focusing on preventing future attacks. . Information in the presidential daily briefing comes from "the most sensitive sources we have as a government," Cheney said. To reveal them, he said, would be a "terrible precedent" that would impair the ability of the CIA and FBI to provide frank and full briefings. The Democratic leader of the Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, called last week for a public independent inquiry and release of the CIA document. But in an apparent split, Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, accepted Cheney's argument that the memo's release might jeopardize U.S. intelligence sources and that public hearings could do the same. . Still, he said, intelligence shortcomings need to be addressed. "I would like the president and the CIA and the FBI to have told one another before 9/11 about the Phoenix report and about the Minnesota report." Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on the intelligence committee, suggested last week that better coordination might have averted the Sept. 11 attacks. But he said Sunday that he would not now support calls for an independent inquiry, as long as "the administration cooperates with us." Some legislators charge that the administration has dragged its heels in the run-up to a congressional investigation. . Senator Bob Graham, Democrat of Florida and chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said Sunday that he and Shelby would meet Tuesday with Attorney General John Ashcroft "to see that the Department of Justice becomes fully cooperative." Aides to Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee, had earlier said he would formally request the release of the Aug. 6 memo. But on Sunday he appeared less pressed, saying the memo apparently "was a recapitulation, a summary of past events." . He added: "Any other charge is a bogus charge - that the president knew something and didn't act on it." If Bush did not have the information he should have, Shelby added, it was "because the FBI and the CIA and other people have not done their job." . Cheney and Rice both warned against complacency. Cheney said there was a temptation "for people to look back at Sept. 11 and say, 'Well, we haven't been hit in eight months, therefore the threats have ceded or gone away.' I don't think that's the case at all." . Rice said on CBS-TV that the administration was "doing everything that we can" to improve homeland security, but that there was no "assurance that we are going to prevent another attack." Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who last summer called attention to reports that a major terrorist attack might be imminent, said on CNN, "I still have that same deep sense of foreboding about what may happen." She noted that a stolen truck carrying cyanide was found Thursday in Mexico, and that tons of the poison, which could be used in a terrorist attack, were missing. < < Back to Start of Article WASHINGTON Facing a strong counterattack from the Bush administration, some legislators on Sunday moderated their criticism of the inability of the White House and intelligence agencies to piece together hints last summer and grasp the nature of the terrorist threat ahead of the Sept. 11 attacks. . And Vice President Dick Cheney, who has played a key role in the White House campaign to turn aside the criticism, warned Sunday that future terrorist attacks on U.S. targets were "almost a certainty," though he could not say when or where. . "It's not a matter of if, but when," Cheney said. . The idea that a savvier marshaling of intelligence might have helped avert the Sept. 11 attacks by four hijacked airplanes, which cost about 3,000 lives, has brought the sharpest criticism of administration conduct since September. A bitter public partisanship, largely forsworn by the political parties since the attacks, has suddenly returned to Washington. . But by Sunday, much of the criticism - and not just from Democrats - appeared to be settling at a level lower than the White House, concentrated on the FBI and CIA and on communication failures that President George W. Bush and those agencies have moved to address. . "I never, ever, ever thought that anybody, including the president, did anything up to 9/11 other than their best," Representative Dick Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, said on Fox-TV. "The question is, how do we do better?" Cheney offended many Democrats on Thursday by urging them not to "seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions" that might aid U.S. enemies. The suggestion that the president could have prevented the attacks, Cheney said Sunday, with barely concealed anger, "strikes me as beyond the pale." . The White House confirmed Wednesday that Bush was briefed Aug. 6 about a threat that U.S. planes might be hijacked. But Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, said Sunday that the briefing memo had been an analytical paper with "nothing fresh in it," a simple summary of "tactics that Al Qaeda might use." The CIA briefing memo is reported to have warned that Osama bin Laden wanted his Al Qaeda militant group to attack targets inside the United States. The administration has emphasized that most intelligence warnings pointed to a greater likelihood of overseas attacks. This followed an earlier intergovernmental study saying that terrorists might fly airplanes into the Pentagon or other buildings, and a report from an FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, last summer that Al Qaeda might be training pilots in a plot to hijack planes. The FBI was also investigating an suspect in Minneapolis who wanted to learn how to fly jumbo jets but not how to land them. . The sudden emergence of so many hints brought demands from Congress last week for the creation of an independent investigating commission and release of the full CIA memorandum, not just the parts leaked to the media. . Cheney adamantly opposed both requests Sunday. An open hearing, he said, would create "a circus atmosphere" and draw FBI agents from focusing on preventing future attacks. . Information in the presidential daily briefing comes from "the most sensitive sources we have as a government," Cheney said. To reveal them, he said, would be a "terrible precedent" that would impair the ability of the CIA and FBI to provide frank and full briefings. The Democratic leader of the Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, called last week for a public independent inquiry and release of the CIA document. But in an apparent split, Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, accepted Cheney's argument that the memo's release might jeopardize U.S. intelligence sources and that public hearings could do the same. . Still, he said, intelligence shortcomings need to be addressed. "I would like the president and the CIA and the FBI to have told one another before 9/11 about the Phoenix report and about the Minnesota report." Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on the intelligence committee, suggested last week that better coordination might have averted the Sept. 11 attacks. But he said Sunday that he would not now support calls for an independent inquiry, as long as "the administration cooperates with us." Some legislators charge that the administration has dragged its heels in the run-up to a congressional investigation. . Senator Bob Graham, Democrat of Florida and chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said Sunday that he and Shelby would meet Tuesday with Attorney General John Ashcroft "to see that the Department of Justice becomes fully cooperative." Aides to Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee, had earlier said he would formally request the release of the Aug. 6 memo. But on Sunday he appeared less pressed, saying the memo apparently "was a recapitulation, a summary of past events." . He added: "Any other charge is a bogus charge - that the president knew something and didn't act on it." If Bush did not have the information he should have, Shelby added, it was "because the FBI and the CIA and other people have not done their job." . Cheney and Rice both warned against complacency. Cheney said there was a temptation "for people to look back at Sept. 11 and say, 'Well, we haven't been hit in eight months, therefore the threats have ceded or gone away.' I don't think that's the case at all." . Rice said on CBS-TV that the administration was "doing everything that we can" to improve homeland security, but that there was no "assurance that we are going to prevent another attack." Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who last summer called attention to reports that a major terrorist attack might be imminent, said on CNN, "I still have that same deep sense of foreboding about what may happen." She noted that a stolen truck carrying cyanide was found Thursday in Mexico, and that tons of the poison, which could be used in a terrorist attack, were missing. WASHINGTON Facing a strong counterattack from the Bush administration, some legislators on Sunday moderated their criticism of the inability of the White House and intelligence agencies to piece together hints last summer and grasp the nature of the terrorist threat ahead of the Sept. 11 attacks. . And Vice President Dick Cheney, who has played a key role in the White House campaign to turn aside the criticism, warned Sunday that future terrorist attacks on U.S. targets were "almost a certainty," though he could not say when or where. . "It's not a matter of if, but when," Cheney said. . The idea that a savvier marshaling of intelligence might have helped avert the Sept. 11 attacks by four hijacked airplanes, which cost about 3,000 lives, has brought the sharpest criticism of administration conduct since September. A bitter public partisanship, largely forsworn by the political parties since the attacks, has suddenly returned to Washington. . But by Sunday, much of the criticism - and not just from Democrats - appeared to be settling at a level lower than the White House, concentrated on the FBI and CIA and on communication failures that President George W. Bush and those agencies have moved to address. . "I never, ever, ever thought that anybody, including the president, did anything up to 9/11 other than their best," Representative Dick Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, said on Fox-TV. "The question is, how do we do better?" Cheney offended many Democrats on Thursday by urging them not to "seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions" that might aid U.S. enemies. The suggestion that the president could have prevented the attacks, Cheney said Sunday, with barely concealed anger, "strikes me as beyond the pale." . The White House confirmed Wednesday that Bush was briefed Aug. 6 about a threat that U.S. planes might be hijacked. But Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, said Sunday that the briefing memo had been an analytical paper with "nothing fresh in it," a simple summary of "tactics that Al Qaeda might use." The CIA briefing memo is reported to have warned that Osama bin Laden wanted his Al Qaeda militant group to attack targets inside the United States. The administration has emphasized that most intelligence warnings pointed to a greater likelihood of overseas attacks. This followed an earlier intergovernmental study saying that terrorists might fly airplanes into the Pentagon or other buildings, and a report from an FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, last summer that Al Qaeda might be training pilots in a plot to hijack planes. The FBI was also investigating an suspect in Minneapolis who wanted to learn how to fly jumbo jets but not how to land them. . The sudden emergence of so many hints brought demands from Congress last week for the creation of an independent investigating commission and release of the full CIA memorandum, not just the parts leaked to the media. . Cheney adamantly opposed both requests Sunday. An open hearing, he said, would create "a circus atmosphere" and draw FBI agents from focusing on preventing future attacks. . Information in the presidential daily briefing comes from "the most sensitive sources we have as a government," Cheney said. To reveal them, he said, would be a "terrible precedent" that would impair the ability of the CIA and FBI to provide frank and full briefings. The Democratic leader of the Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, called last week for a public independent inquiry and release of the CIA document. But in an apparent split, Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, accepted Cheney's argument that the memo's release might jeopardize U.S. intelligence sources and that public hearings could do the same. . Still, he said, intelligence shortcomings need to be addressed. "I would like the president and the CIA and the FBI to have told one another before 9/11 about the Phoenix report and about the Minnesota report." Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on the intelligence committee, suggested last week that better coordination might have averted the Sept. 11 attacks. But he said Sunday that he would not now support calls for an independent inquiry, as long as "the administration cooperates with us." Some legislators charge that the administration has dragged its heels in the run-up to a congressional investigation. . Senator Bob Graham, Democrat of Florida and chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said Sunday that he and Shelby would meet Tuesday with Attorney General John Ashcroft "to see that the Department of Justice becomes fully cooperative." Aides to Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee, had earlier said he would formally request the release of the Aug. 6 memo. But on Sunday he appeared less pressed, saying the memo apparently "was a recapitulation, a summary of past events." . He added: "Any other charge is a bogus charge - that the president knew something and didn't act on it." If Bush did not have the information he should have, Shelby added, it was "because the FBI and the CIA and other people have not done their job." . Cheney and Rice both warned against complacency. Cheney said there was a temptation "for people to look back at Sept. 11 and say, 'Well, we haven't been hit in eight months, therefore the threats have ceded or gone away.' I don't think that's the case at all." . Rice said on CBS-TV that the administration was "doing everything that we can" to improve homeland security, but that there was no "assurance that we are going to prevent another attack." Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who last summer called attention to reports that a major terrorist attack might be imminent, said on CNN, "I still have that same deep sense of foreboding about what may happen." She noted that a stolen truck carrying cyanide was found Thursday in Mexico, and that tons of the poison, which could be used in a terrorist attack, were missing. WASHINGTON Facing a strong counterattack from the Bush administration, some legislators on Sunday moderated their criticism of the inability of the White House and intelligence agencies to piece together hints last summer and grasp the nature of the terrorist threat ahead of the Sept. 11 attacks. . And Vice President Dick Cheney, who has played a key role in the White House campaign to turn aside the criticism, warned Sunday that future terrorist attacks on U.S. targets were "almost a certainty," though he could not say when or where. . "It's not a matter of if, but when," Cheney said. . The idea that a savvier marshaling of intelligence might have helped avert the Sept. 11 attacks by four hijacked airplanes, which cost about 3,000 lives, has brought the sharpest criticism of administration conduct since September. A bitter public partisanship, largely forsworn by the political parties since the attacks, has suddenly returned to Washington.
surprise, surprise, surprise! <bunch of ankle biters>
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 11:19:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: I have an idea! Lets slap a trade embargo on Cuba and make those fuckers cut this Communism crap.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:45:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think he figured they would demand the release of the dudes imprisoned for bombing the trade center. Maybe slit a few throats, throw a few dead passengers out on the tarmac, probably at least half of them Democrats. Either way, it wasn't worth tightening up on airport security.
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- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:43:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree with the Boston Globe that it would be irrational to expect Snippy to guess what the Arabs were going to do with the airplanes they were going to hijack. Cut the man some slack, you evil Dimbosnaps.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:40:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Still, Glunt, don't you think it's reasonable to check out the story, the discoverable facts about the World Trade Center deal? Is Arlen Spector out to lunch? He usually is, isn't he? How about this Brit Hume? I've seen him only once, but it didn't look like he was happy, like he would ever smile-- looked like he was pinching off a perpetural big one cumming. Do you think if someone tickled him, his sister maybe, he'd crack a smile? What kind of name is Brit, anyway, for a man? Like "Stone" Phillips, the guy on one of the liberal nets? Do you trust Little Bush to bring back the Osama coonskin? How many camels have to die?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:37:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's all we Republicans are demanding - a fair, open investigation to clear the president's name. Let the chips fall where they may below the presidential level.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:18:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree with Glint. This thing is over. The upcoming investigations ought to confirm that.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:08:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The buck stops below the presidential* level."
sign of Snippy's desk
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:06:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, are you ready to write the mother of all open letters, my friend? If ever there was a time, it is now. Before they pass the Reversing the Expatriation of Profits Offshore Act. Come on, Pete, give it your best shot. If this doesn't win Essay of the Week the is no justice!
the crynic
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:04:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: "It would be irrational to imply that President Bush ought to have perceived in the disparate scraps of intelligence and speculation reaching the White House an imminent plot to fly commercial airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. If there was a failure to connect the dots - a failure to piece together hard intelligence and logical inference from analysts - it was a lapse of judgment that took place below the presidential level." Boston Globe
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:04:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like "terrorgate" has run aground, just like "enrongate." Saw Gephardt backpeddling pretty hard yesterday in an interview with Brit Hume. Quite a turnaround from his comments on Thursday and his rumor spreading. Of course, I suppose the partisan damage has been done. Light damage. Bush approval still high among patriotic Americans.
Glint
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:02:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is terrible. I thought that to evade full participation in America and its tax laws the crynic had to actually move to the Cook Islands and pledge alliegance to that nation. Does this mean he can still legally claim to be a US Citizen while avoiding the responsibilities of citizenship? He still gets the benefits of being an American, still gets the freedom and the physical and legal protections and the use of public services, without paying his share of the costs? How did such a situation come to be? What, is there an American Traitorship Act that sactions it, that lets people like the crynic get away with it while honest folk carry their end of the board? There must be a way to cut these parasites adrift, get them out of our country, replace them with hard-working Mexicans or Punjabis who will be only too happy to contribute to the collective welfare and be good Americans. I'll bet the crynic doesn't even register to vote, because he might have to do jury duty. What a class act.
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- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 03:23:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hmmm, they did say it was yellow alert day.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 02:26:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: You tree-hugging trailor people. Take your Reversing the Expatriation of Profits Offshore Act and tattoos and mullets and leave productive citizens alone! Fuckfaces!
the crynic
- Monday, May 20, 2002 at 00:05:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tax Avoidance And A Tan: Why I'm Thinking Of Moving This Column To Bermuda Filed May 15, 2002 It's official: I've decided to move this column to Bermuda. But don't worry about getting me a house-warming present, because I'm not really going anywhere. I'll still live in America, earn my living here, and enjoy the protection, technology, infrastructure, and all the other myriad benefits of the land of the free and the home of the brave. I'm just changing my business address. Because if I do that, I won't have to pay for those benefits -- I'll get them for free! It's all perfectly legal. Dubbed "tax motivated expatriation" -- which has a nicer ring than "sleazy tax-cheating loophole" -- it's the latest megatrend in corporate America, with more and more U.S. companies reincorporating offshore as a way of slashing their tax bill by tens, and sometimes hundreds, of millions of dollars. You see, Bermuda, along with sparkling turquoise water, beautiful pink sand beaches, a deep-water lagoon, and those picturesque policemen with the white hats, also has no income tax. None. Pop that into your Quicken and see how fast it fattens your wallet. And setting up shop on the sunny island couldn't be easier. A company "moving" to Bermuda doesn�t actually have to move. It doesn't even have to have an office or hold any meetings there. It just needs a PO Box and someone to pick up the mail. Or it could just let the mail pile up and forget about having someone pick it up. There's another cost savings, right there. It's a, yes, sleazy -- and highly profitable -- accounting trick. This kind of paper relocation saved Tyco International, a New Hampshire-based manufacturer, over $400 million last year. And Ingersoll-Rand, a venerable American company that made the jackhammers that helped chisel Mt. Rushmore, avoids paying more than $40 million a year in U.S. taxes by slipping into its Bermuda shorts. But the tax savings don't stop with sheltering overseas profits. Many companies that move to Bermuda also open a corporate beachhead in that financial mecca of the Caribbean, Barbados, where, thanks to the alchemy of modern accounting and a sweetheart tax treaty, profits earned in America can be shipped abroad and magically transformed into a tax write-off. And the benefits of this offshore shell game extend well beyond a corporation's bottom line. Formerly red, white and blue companies now sporting a Bermuda tan are also suddenly and conveniently immune to judgments against them in U.S. courts, less accountable to their shareholders, who are unable to file class action suits, and freed from a whole host of annoying government regulations. No wonder insurance companies have been among the most avid tax expatriates. Nobody is sure precisely how much this corporate exodus is costing us, but the IRS estimates that it's siphoning off at least $70 billion each year from the U.S. Treasury. And that number doesn't include the billions in taxes that corporations avoid paying by creating offshore subsidiaries. Enron, for example, had 881 of them and paid no taxes in four of the last five years. That's right, if you paid one dollar in taxes in those years, you paid more than this longtime fixture on the Fortune 500. Even more galling is the fact that many of the same companies that are giving the taxman the finger as they shield themselves with their Bermuda zip codes think nothing of holding out their hand when Uncle Sam is shelling out government contracts. Ingersoll Rand had more than 200 such contracts in 2001, while Foster Wheeler, another corporate �migr�, is currently raking in $600 million in U.S. taxpayer-provided funds. And how's this for irony: among the more than $1 billion in federal contracts held by Accenture, which relocated to Bermuda in 2001, is a five year deal to redesign the IRS web site. I wonder if it will include a special portal for those eager to avoid paying their fair share. Also showing a flair for self-parody is Tyco International, which established its Bermuda mail drop in 1997, and which over the last year has also taken in $1 billion at the public trough -- including $100 million for helping provide terror-related emergency response services. Very post-9/11 patriotic. But patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, right? So when forced to choose between patriotism and profits, Tyco quickly charted a course for Bermuda. Kate Barton, an Ernst & Young tax partner, doesn't see any problem with this: "The improvement on earnings is powerful enough that maybe the patriotism issue needs to take a back seat to that." So why not sell arms to Al-Qaida, while you're at it? They've got lots of money, and anything that creates a "powerful improvement on earnings" is presumably OK. Of course, it's not just tax revenue that's being lost. Because of convoluted laws that allow profits funneled offshore to be invested in foreign countries without being taxed (as opposed to money that's brought back into the U.S., which is subject to taxes,) we're also losing American jobs to cheap-labor havens like China and Mexico. It all adds up to a pretty neat trick. Unfortunately, this tax dodge is not available to you and me -- only to corporations. Just try telling the folks at the IRS that you're planning to relocate to Bermuda and would like to sign up for the zero tax rate and see how long it is before they stop laughing -- and then lock you up. Even if you tell them you don't like paying taxes because they get in the way of "improving your earnings." Despite the billions being lost to these offshore tax havens, however, the Bush administration has shown little ardor for closing the loopholes. On the other hand, if you�re receiving the traditional sort of welfare, the meager check that arrives once a month for needy individuals, the president is determined to wean you from your bad habits. He doesn't want anybody getting a free ride from the government without accepting the responsibility that comes with it. At least anybody who's not a CEO. Call it a �two love� track: unconditional love for corporations, tough love for people. The best effort to put an end to this corporate larceny has come from the bipartisan duo of Senators Max Baucus and Charles Grassley, the Democratic chairman and ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, who have introduced the Reversing the Expatriation of Profits Offshore Act. The bill, which would force the IRS to stop winking at on-paper-only corporate moves, is slowly working its way through committee. Too slowly. Plugging this ridiculous loophole is urgent -- especially in a time of war, when patriotism must come before profits. The Bush White House has not been shy about playing the patriotism card. Well, Mr. President, don't stop now -- here's an instance where it is actually called for.
Go Arianna go
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 22:34:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Now you guys really got me going," Bush said. He threatened to block the entire defense bill if it contained money for the controversial and costly Crusader artillery system. "I mean it. I'll veto it," he said tersely, glancing at Sen. Don Nickles of Oklahoma, where Crusader would be build. Bush ended with an attack on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. "He's starving his own people," Bush said, and imprisoning intellectuals in "a Gulag the size of Austin." The president called him a "pygmy" and compared him to "a spoiled child at a dinner table." Stunned senators didn't know quite what to make of the performance as it ended. "It was like in church, when the sermon goes on too long and you're not sure what the point is," one senator tells Newsweek. "Nobody dared look at anybody else." The White House's vaunted "message discipline" and internal unity were falling apart under the strain of criticism. Privately, some hardliners criticized press secretary Ari Fleischer for confirming the basic substance of the Aug. 6 memo when it was first reported. "We should have piled up the sandbags and said, 'None of your buisness, it's highly classified,'" one insider grumbled. Others criticized National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice's press briefing. "She wasn't ready for prime time," said one staffer.
but the rubes still love him
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 21:59:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pootie-poot? Now that's some bonding.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 21:52:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: I once read a newspaper article where they called a Republican an "operative."
need any more evidence?
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 21:38:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Right. Meat ignores the Eyebrow Factor.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 21:37:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: You ignore the effect of liberal media spin, traitor. POW!
ePte�
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 21:36:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's not a fair comparison. Clinton had the House Managers helping jack up his numbers. All Bushie-bush has is Osama bin Laden and the rubes with the flags on their pickups.
House of Meat
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 21:34:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: So what? That just proves our point that the polls mean absolutely nothing. You socialists are in love with the polls. Losers!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:35:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's 75%, traitor! Right where Clinton was the day after he was impeached.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:34:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: 78% aint a bad place to start before the free fall begins.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:28:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wow, what a roll with the pithy comments, dude! A true master! But what do they mean? Let the rest of us in on it!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:01:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: By Eric Wagner [ABCNEWS.com] W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 4 , 2000 ? When a bunch of Albanians mistook Madeleine Albright for a hotel cleaning lady, the secretary of state spewed a most-undiplomatic, and untranslatable, stream of invective, a newspaper reports. A State Department spokesman wouldn?t comment on the New York Daily News report that Albright was mistaken for a maid during last year?s peace negotiations for Kosovo in Rambouillet, France. Albright at first wasn?t recognized by the Albanian delegation when she walked into their room, it said. ?One member of the delegation, who didn?t realize who she was, and probably thinking she was some cleaning lady because it was after midnight, simply said to her, ?Give us five minutes and please go away,?? recalled Albanian diplomat Dugagjin Gorani in War on Europe, a British TV program. Instead, Albright exploded in rage, swearing at the group, according to the reports. ?Mrs. Albright started using explicit language which the translators never could translate into Albanian,? says Veton Surroi, another member of the delegation.
remember when?
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 17:48:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Sunday accused President Bush's foreign policy team of suffering from "untreated bipolar disorder."
Another fabulous medical diagnosis from the cleaning lady. <Ahhh....Maddy got the new talking points.>
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 17:43:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: KARACHI, May 19 (PNS): Forensic tests have confirmed that human remains found here were of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
May he now rest in peace
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 17:40:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: In general, do you approve or disapprove of the job George W. Bush is doing as president? Approve: 75% Disapprove: 18%
NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, conducted yesterday, May 18
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 17:33:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Must read full article. Brilliant!: "...It turns out it was not Osama bin Laden who killed 3,000 American citizens in New York: it was Dubya, who screwed up the intelligence report warning of the September 11 massacre....Dubya screwed up - full stop."
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/comment.cfm?id=541862002
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 17:18:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: On Drudge this morning: a link to a CBS site that says "A top-secret briefing memo presented to President Bush in 1998 focused on efforts by Osama bin Laden to strike at targets..." Don't bother. The CBS post has already been 'corrected' to say 'the president' instead of naming Bush, although the context is about Bush (next paragraph) so it is pretty easy to see where the mistake was. Why do this? From the article: "This is about assigning blame. Someone ? or more precisely some system or set of procedures ? should be blamed. Something went very wrong, and we need to know all about it."
All together now: Blame, blame, blame, blame, blame...
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 17:10:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-05-19/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-151431.asp
"President Bush is a victim of high dudgeon"
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 17:00:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Europe 'Is Rubbing Its Eyes' at the Ascent of the Right By ALAN COWELL (New York Times) LONDON, May 17 ? With the rise of the right in the Netherlands after elections this week, it is more clear than ever that Europe's political landscape is being dramatically redrawn. The Social Democrats who swept to power in the 1990's as they followed President Clinton's path toward the political center, embracing market economics while talking about social justice, are now in full retreat. From Austria to Portugal, the right has succeeded by depicting itself as a clarion of straight-talking change, ready to take on the once taboo issue of immigration. It is hard to overstate the scale of the left's flight. Surveys in France now forecast a right-wing majority in parliamentary elections next month, potentially cementing President Jacques Chirac's victory and the eclipse of the Socialists in the just completed French presidential vote. In Germany ? the "last bastion" of social democracy, as one Italian commentator put it ? Chancellor Gerhard Schr�der is trailing a conservative challenger, Edmund Stoiber, in elections set for September. Even in Britain, where Prime Minister Tony Blair seems to have ridden out the wave of discontent, his Labor government is being pushed to appease Europe's anti-immigrant outcry. This week the government announced plans to build three more remote camps for asylum-seekers away from the nation's cities. "A new political wind is blowing through Europe," Marcel Boogers, a Dutch political scientist, said in a telephone interview. "That wind is carrying a distrust of political leaders. That wind is carrying a kind of anger because of the arrogance, especially of Social Democrats who speak too much on behalf of the people and not too much with the people. Germany will be the real test because everywhere in Europe the Social Democrats are in retreat." What appears to make this shift more acute than the routine pendulum swing from left to right is a sense among voters that the left-wing parties who promised tolerance and social justice have become exhausted, complacent and clubby in office, out of touch with their constituents' worries at a time when Europeans' sense of national identity is slipping in a new era of continental integration. Beyond this, the right appears to be benefiting from a deep-seated fear that Western Europe ? cozy and prosperous ? is the target of a wave of chaotic immigration from Afghanistan and Kurdish Iraq, from the struggling Maghreb, from imploding sub-Saharan Africa. "A startled Europe is rubbing its eyes," the Berlin Tagesspiegel newspaper commented. "Whether Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Portugal, France, Belgium or now Holland, everywhere the right-wing populists are on the march." The change has been swift. In the late 1990's, voters in Germany and Britain chased away conservative parties that seemed to have atrophied after almost two decades in office. But, with ideology largely laid to rest after the end of the cold war, and politics so bereft of its traditional distinctions that, in France a Socialist prime minister ruled in "cohabitation" with a right-wing president, center-left governments that dominated in the late 1990's seemed to have missed the fact that more and more voters felt alienated from their increasingly blurred message.
sanity returning to europe?
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 16:42:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cheney is saying look we couldn't stop 9/11 and we won't be able to stop another attack. It's not a matter of if, but when. Get off our case.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 16:37:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: GOP canabalism? Which defense agencies are Republican and which are Democrat, again?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 16:26:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Saw Stephanopolis defending Bush on This Week today. I don't think it was the codeine.
Glint
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 16:23:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee had harsh words for U.S. intelligence agencies Saturday, accusing them of "not cooperating fully" with a congressional inquiry into intelligence failures leading up to the September 11 attacks.
GOP canabalism
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 16:08:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: They will build a shrine at the site of the WTC and the multitudes will come and worship at that shrine. The poor, sick, disabled, and wonderous miracles will occur. But only if they use the iron bars that fell in the form of a cross.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 15:19:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: The emporer* has no clothes.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 15:10:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: And while most of the current controversy is about what America didn�t do defensively, Rumsfeld and Bush didn�t take the offensive, either. Upon entering office, both suggested publicly that the Clinton administration left America with a weak image abroad. The day after the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole, the then candidate Bush said �there must be aconsequence.� An FBI document dated January 26, 2001-six days after Bush took office-shows that authorities believed they had clear evidence tying the bombers to Al Qaeda. Yet the new administration mounted no retaliation of its own.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 15:09:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: By the end of the Clinton administration, the then national-security adviser Sandy Berger had become �totally preoccupied� with fears of a domestic terror attack, a colleague recalls. True, the Clintonites had failed to act decisively against Al Qaeda, but by the end they were certain of the danger it posed. When, in January 2001, Berger gave Rice her handover briefing, he covered the bin Laden threat in detail, and, sources say, warned her: �You will be spending more time on this issue than on any other.� Rice was alarmed by what she heard, and asked for a strategy review. But the effort was marginalized and scarcely mentioned in ensuing months as the administration committed itself to other priorities, like national missile defense (NMD) and Iraq.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 15:08:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Once upon a time, a stern word from George W. Bush on the war on terror would have been enough. But this time the Democrats, and even Republicans like Richard Shelby and John McCain, weren�t buying the Teflon patriotism. The president�s political opponents were backed by some 9-11 victims� families. �Look at all of the investigations that have been held to examine the Enron collapse, a financial thing,� said Kathy Ashton, whose 21-year-old son Tommy was killed at the World Trade Center on his second day on a contracting job. �Why, eight months later, are we not investigating the mass murder of 3,000 human beings on American soil by an enemy of the United States that was enabled to carry out this mass murder because many agencies in this country dropped the ball?�
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 15:06:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: And under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the department was being prodded back into its old law-and-order mind-set: violent crime, drugs, child porn. Counterterrorism, which had become a priority of the Clintonites (not that they did a better job of nailing bin Laden), seemed to be getting less attention. When FBI officials sought to add hundreds more counterintelligence agents, they got shot down even as Ashcroft began, quietly, to take a privately chartered jet for his own security reasons. The attorney general was hardly alone in seeming to de-emphasize terror in the young Bush administration. Over at the Pentagon, new Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld elected not to relaunch a Predator drone that had been tracking bin Laden, among other actions. In self- absorbed Washington, the Phoenix memo, which never resulted in arrests, landed in two units at FBI headquarters but didn�t make it to senior levels. Nor did the memo get transmitted to the CIA, which has long had a difficult relationship with the FBI-and whose director, George Tenet, one of the few Clinton holdovers, was issuing so many warnings that bin Laden was �the most immediate� threat to Americans he was hardly heeded any longer.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 15:04:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Kurtz, who had previously worked on the Osama bin Laden unit of the FBI�s international terrorism section, was convinced he and his colleagues might have stumbled on to something bigger. Kurtz�s team fired off a lengthy memo raising the possibility that bin Laden might be using U.S. flight schools to infiltrate the country�s civil-aviation system. �He thinks of everything in terms of bin Laden,� one colleague recalled. The memo outlined a proposal for the FBI to monitor �civil aviation colleges/universities around the country.� Williams, the agent who sniffed out the link, was described by one former colleague as a �superstar,� a former SWAT sniper and family man who coaches Little League and, in 1995, helped track down Michael Fortier, Timothy McVeigh�s former Army buddy. �Anything he says you can take to the bank,� says former agent Ron Myers. But little of that seemed to make a difference back in Washington, where the Kurtz team suffered a fate even worse than Cassandra�s: not only were they not believed, they were ignored altogether
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 15:03:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: SO MUCH COMES IN, rumor, hearsay, disinformation, so little of it more than trash: once in a blue moon an agent-prospector may get lucky. But even then an agent�s warning is likely to be dismissed as what Condoleezza Rice last week called �chatter.� �There�s always TMI-too much information,� says former CIA agent Milt Bearden. Often agents poke fun at the sometimes obsessive quirks of their colleagues. �If a confidential memorandum comes from a guy out in, say, Phoenix, the first thing that goes up the line is, �That�s Harry again. He�s like a broken clock twice a day�, � one ex-agent says. Even today, long after 9-11, streams of new threats pass unnoticed through Washington. In recent weeks, for instance, the FBI has gotten specific threats about a car- or truck-bomb attack on an �all-glass� building near the U.S. Capitol, and another threat against a Celebrity cruise ship off Florida. Neither was corroborated, or publicized. Yet every now and then, amid the piles of dross, a nugget of pure gold turns up in intel files. The key for American national security-now and into the future-is to know it when we see it. Back in July 2001, Bill Kurtz and his team hit pay dirt, and no one seemed to care. A hard-driven supervisor in the FBI�s Phoenix office, Kurtz was overseeing an investigation of suspected Islamic terrorists last July when a member of his team, a sharp, 41-year-old counterterrorism agent named Kenneth Williams, noticed something odd: a large number of suspects were signing up to take courses in how to fly airplanes. The agent�s suspicions were further fueled when he heard that some of the men at the local Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University were asking a lot of questions about airport security.
pop another pretzel
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 15:02:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: This coverup.
Anonymous. <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,238574,00.html>
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 15:00:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
coverup? what coverup?
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 14:58:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: And, still, by 2020 our dependence on foreign oil will increase dramatically. Even if these rosy projections were true, Alaskan oil would account for about a 2-3% drop in our purchase of OPEC oil. But, on the other hand, some very productive American Pioneers would probably achieve a ten-fold increase in their personal wealth. We'd all bathe in it as it trickles down.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 14:12:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Analysis finds more untapped oil than previously estimated on federal reserve in Alaska Fri May 17, 8:43 AM ET By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A government study found that a federal reserve in Alaska holds up to four times as much untapped oil as previously estimated. The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, west of Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope, holds nearly as much untapped oil as does a wildlife refuge in the state that the Bush administration wants to exploit, a move strongly opposed by environmentalists, an updated Interior Department analysis released Thursday says. The analysis "shows there are plenty of prime opportunities for oil discovery outside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on lands where exploration and development of oil is legal," said Democratic Rep. Ed Markey, a leading opponent of drilling in the refuge. The National Petroleum Reserve was created specifically for energy development before World War II. Former President Bill Clinton's administration opened 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) of the reserve to oil drilling in 1998, although with stringent environmental restrictions. The reserve likely contains a mean amount of 9.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to the analysis. In 1980, when the last official estimate was made, that amount was put at 2.1 billion barrels. The new figure released by the U.S. Geological Survey (news - web sites) compares with the estimate of 10.3 billion barrels for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to the east of Prudhoe Bay. The administration has made developing the refuge's oil an energy priority, but has said little about the oil potential of the reserve. Recently the Senate rejected drilling in the refuge, although the House of Representatives last summer voted to open the refuge to oil development. The study said oil in the reserve is more scattered and in some cases "may be far from existing infrastructure" and more expensive to develop. The study estimated that if oil prices are below dlrs 35 a barrel - the price now is about dlrs 28 - more oil would be economically recoverable in the refuge. Above dlrs 35 a barrel favors the reserve. The Interior Department has said it plans to issue additional oil leases in the reserve next month within the 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) opened in 1998. It also is expected to open more areas of the reserve in the near future, according to government and industry officials. The report said that the amount of economically recoverable oil in the reserve at a price of dlrs 22 to dlrs 30 a barrel is between 1.2 billion and 5.6 billion barrels. The technically recoverable oil in the refuge has been put by the Geological Survey at 5.7 billion to 16 billion barrels with a mean of 10.3 billion barrels - about 80 percent of it likely to be economical to develop at dlrs 25 a barrel.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 14:03:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: They're cheap, they're strong, and they've only been used once.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 13:55:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Church to Make Bell Tower Out of WTC Beams May 19, 2002 8:51 am US/Eastern ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The bond between New York and New Mexico is now reinforced with steel, and a church demolished nearly 30 years ago will get a new bell tower using beams from the World Trade Center. http://1010wins.com/topstories/StoryFolder/story_439832808_html
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 13:45:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Williams' former colleague Ronald Myers, a 31-year FBI veteran, praised his work to the Los Angeles Times. "He is one of the sharpest agents I have ever met," Myers said. "Anyone in FBI management who wouldn't take what Ken Williams said seriously is a fool." Since the trial, Williams has continued working quietly. "It's been my past experience," Williams told the court, "that the smallest bit of information that comes in could later turn out to be the most important piece of the investigation." That's a lesson Williams' bosses learned too late.
The president* would have taken what Willie-will said seriously but the burgers needed flipping
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 13:29:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: When Georgie-porge was trashing gumball machines and leading cheers at Yale, Pootie-poot was commiting equally mischievous acts like slitting double agents' throats for the KGB. That's why Georgie-porge can look into Pootie-poot's lashless eyeballs and see a bro, a man he can trust.
Henny Penny
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 13:23:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Funny, that was Bill Clinton's pet name for a White House bush ....
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 13:16:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: BUSH PET NICKNAME FOR VLADIMIR PUTIN IS 'POOTIE-POOT'.... Developing...
The adults are back-- Bushie-bush, Cheney-chain, Powlly-pow, Rumsie-rum... how did so many of them fit into that tiny little car!
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 13:14:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: To give them their due, most of these guys are stupid enough to actually believe that criticizing snippy is treason. They're all Republicans, and right wing Republicans at that, so naturally they're going to have mental blocks about what America is supposed to be as outlined by the Founding Fathers. Naturally they are going reject things like certain inalienable rights, equality, liberty, the bill of rights, and concentrate on how much money there is in it for them. This is their right as Americans, which some of them are by birth, surprisingly enough. The fact that they don't believe in America doesn't mean that we can deny them their rights as Americans to believe in themselves and their money and their copper rain-gutters. That's part of what America is about-- giving space to the shithead as well as the responsible citizen. Sure, the right-winger doesn't add anything, but neither does the house-fly or the pinworm, but they're all god's critters.
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- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 11:04:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's Gore gonna do? He's been declared illegal by the Supreme Court Majority. Snippy has been anointed by the adults. The ghoul, the wop, the splib, the slitch, and that goofy guy, Kennedy. Dick Cheney is saying, in his most avuncular voice, that bitching about the Snip's performance is treason, and Trent Lott, that fine fellow, is agreeing in his sort of avuncular voice. What he lacks in voice he makes up for in hair. Didn't Junior Bush nab Taliban John? Some say it was just dumb, blind luck, but luck is an important quality in a president. All Clinton's luck came to him in the form of hallway blow jobs, peace, and prosperity, but Bush's luck comes in the form of nabbing a kid from Marin wandering around in central Asia playing soldier, when it looked like he wasn't going to nab any big shots. Treason is where you find it, though, and there's nothing like a good hanging to keep the war spirit going. Let's roll, cats and jammers!
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- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 10:54:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 09:43:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: The question now is "Can we truly afford another 31 months of Bush? The answer is NO! Call Gore!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 09:34:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, it's probably safe to say any glimmer of a second term is certainly gone now. That didn't take long 17 months to utterly fail in the most responsible job on the planet? to fail miserably as leader of the free world? To be iewed internationally as such an abomination that even Jimmy Carter is stepping up to the plate to handle foriegn relations. Bush Failed.
borg 5 of 22
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 09:09:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: hey Glunt, here's a tip..lets say you got vicodin and soma. you can get a really good buzz by downing one of each or even one and a half with some hot coffee on an empty stomach first thing in the morning. alternatively, powdering a vicodin and mixing it into a glass of warm water also works well on an empty stomach.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 09:04:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 09:02:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe Ann could stand on the steel beam holy spot and repeat again, "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too."
such a holy lass
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 03:34:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: To spite Coulter?
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- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 02:48:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Say, whatever happened to the two iron bars that fell out of the World Trade Center when it imploded and miraculously landed in the form of a cross, causing the rescue yahoo to fall to his knees and pray and blubber? Ann Coulter told the sad tale, complaining about how it was buried back next to the bridge column and the Word Jumble in the New York Times when it should have been on page one like it was in the papers on the supermarket check-out line. What's the upshot? I heard they finished hauling the trash away from the Trade Center, but they must have left the miraculous pieces of steel I-beam, right, that fell with one crossing the other, in a clear sign from Jesus, or the functional equivalent of Jesus, or maybe Snoop Doggy Dog, I'm not too knowledgeable about religion, the way Ann Coulter is. Those crossed beams must be the centerpiece of the new Trade Center holy spot that will be developed there, right? Why is the liberal press, especially the New York Times, ignoring the story?
House of Meat
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 02:41:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think it was the combo of booze and irritable pseudo-libertarian troglodytism. Translation: he blew off another stopsign, figured it was more important to finish pissing in the empty bottle before throwing it out the window and grabbing the next one out of the cooler. Of course, Enrongate and Snippyfuckedup-gate will also wear on a man, a small man who's just looking for someone to worship, but they always turn into the kind of clay-footed hero who will accept a blow-jab in the sacred halls where strode Calvin Coolidge or else a lipless little bandy-leg who couldn't see a bean-ball coming even though it was as big as a freight train and twice as noisy. It's rough being Glint in a world he never made. Sometimes it's just better to reach for the next St. Pauli Girl and the church key and leave the Chrysler on autopilot.
House of Meat
- Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 02:34:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm figuring Glint's road rage was the major factor in this disaster.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 23:34:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe he's tense because he could be posting from Heavensgate instead of just wearing a cast.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 23:11:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd say Glint's latest angry outburst is more the result of the old bi-polarity than any head trauma suffered, or at least suffered recently. Either that, or he's growing tense about Enrongate, Terrorgate and the coming gates.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 21:45:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can't get the truth that way....according to the Dick. Then how do we get it if its hidden by the smudge pots.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 21:40:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, sure, lantern-jawed, but don't we have to say penlight-lipped?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 21:09:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT MAY 18, 2002 14:31:25 ET XXXXX DOWD: OUR MAN IN ARIZONA "He hasn't been featured in any of the flinty-eyed, lantern-jawed photo shoots where the Bush team preened as war heroes. Annie Leibovitz has never laid eyes on him." NY TIMES op-ed queen Maureen Dowd is set to pass out the medals on Sunday, according to publishing sources, in a column paying tribute to the Phoenix-based FBI agent who warned about Islamic extremists in U.S. flight schools prior to 9/11. The agent, Kenneth Williams, named by the LOS ANGELES TIMES on Saturday, gets full Dowd affection, just as she slaps around Bush officials for not living up "to their own billing." "The Bushies were still fixated on their Maginot line of missile defense in the sky when the threat was Qaida freaks with box cutters. They cast themselves as the pros from Dover, the generals of the Gulf War with the right stuff," slaps Dowd. "Now comes Mullah Omar spouting off that he and Osama will bring 'fire and hell' on America. Even the unshakable Condi seems shaky." Dowd plants a tough-left: "Dick Cheney suggested that Democrats asking questions were unpatriotic. But that suggestion is anti-American. Maybe there has been too much bipartisanship lately. You can't get the truth that way." Developing late Saturday...
Of course it's developing late Saturday, you liberal, the column doesn't come out until Sunday1
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 21:06:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: When is Snippy going to announce that this second-guessing, hind-sighting political town should cut Clinton some slack and start fighting this war instead of criticizing?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 21:02:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Being a Republican is never having to stop saying it's Clinton's fault.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 21:00:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: If that's Frezno Franny, not you but before, don't think we don't appreciate.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 20:58:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Only dots Shrub can connect are the ones in the coloring book.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 19:38:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: The buck never stops with these clowns. See, Clinton had a warning back in 1999, see, and, uh, well, no planes flew into highrises in the Tri-State Area. But, they could've, that's for sure. But they didn't and, uh, so when Bush became president*, there was no time to tell him about bin Laden because of Gore, don't you see. Gore and the recount that never happened, that's the ticket. Now, when Bush started getting monthly warnings last year, he naturally figured nothing would happen because either he thought Clinton had covered his ass for all time and, besides, he was on vacation and hadn't gained traction as a world leader because of the Florida fiasco. This was a Clinton operation right from jump street,probably right down to the hijackings themselves.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 19:26:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Try connecting the smudges and all you get is smudgier.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 19:14:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who's the joker who been posting that Cheney crap about criticizing Snippy in time of war? Is that one of the troglodytes, doing it seriously, believing in Cheney, wanting him to be a statesman instead of an oil hustler, or is it one of the enlightened people assuming that printing Cheney's own yaps is the best way to make him look like an idiot? Shit, if you're going to print Cheney, why not go all the way and put up some Trent Lott? Now THERE's a Republican idea of a statesman, and he's dumb enough that he might believe part of what he says.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 18:40:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey! Lee Hannland is back, only this time calling itself "we." We know that MacNamara had no jism, or something. What's the difference between MacNamera and a 2002 Republican? MacNamera realizes that VietNam was a mistake, but the Republican thinks its a noble crusade that foundered because the USA didn't have the chones to use nukes. Unleash Marshall Ky! Unleash Madame Nhu! They've both been clerking in their Pasadena liquor stores too long!
noathing like a brain-damaged haole for laughs
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 18:34:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Christ, you mean Snippy had all the info Clinton had, PLUS the new stuff from last summer, and he still kept popping pretzels??? The fuckers didn't dare fly planes into buildings on Clinton's watch. His people were meeting weekly about Osama (which the Snipistas sneered at as "obsessive")and had already stopped the Millenium bomb attack on LAX. No, the terrorists waited until president* Snippy got in because they knew the bandy-legged clown was all about Star Wars and couldn't be bothered with ragheads with box-cutters. This just gets uglier every minute!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 18:02:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: A CIA-commissioned report warned the Clinton administration in 1999 that terrorists aligned with Osama bin Laden might hijack commercial jetliners to crash into the Pentagon and government buildings in the nation's capital. The warning, given to high-ranking administration officials in September 1999, is the first known report to suggest that government sites in Washington were terrorist targets. The alert was cited in a previously undisclosed report prepared by the research arm of the Library of Congress for the National Intelligence Council (NIC), which is attached to the CIA. Two years later, al Qaeda terrorists crashed four jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and western Pennsylvania, killing about 3,000 people. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican and a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, wants to know what CIA officials and other government officials did with the report, which also included information that the terrorists could crash planes into CIA headquarters and the White House. Mr. Grassley asked in a letter yesterday to the CIA's Office of Inspector General to investigate how the agency handled the information. "The 1999 report should serve as a reminder that the focus of Congress and its oversight must be on what the intelligence communities knew and what they did in response to this knowledge," he wrote. "The FBI and CIA need to be investigated for what they did, or did not do, so we can make sure we don't make mistakes in the future." According to the report, intelligence experts believed that suicide bombers belonging to a "martyrdom battalion" of bin Laden's al Qaeda network might crash aircraft into various government buildings. The analysts suggested that the attacks could come as possible retribution for air strikes ordered by President Clinton in 1998 against bin Laden's terrorist camps in Afghanistan. The report ? titled the "Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?" ? noted that a terrorist linked to al Qaeda, who was arrested in the Philippines in 1995 and later convicted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, had suggested that such a suicide strike by a jetliner was possible. The report was prepared for the NIC, which is made up of a dozen senior intelligence officers who assist the U.S. intelligence community in analyzing threats and priorities. "Ramzi Yousef had planned to do this against the CIA headquarters," the report said. Mr. Clinton yesterday said he knew about the dangerous potential of bin Laden, but discounted the suggestion that the 1999 analysis should have alerted his administration to the possibility of a terrorist attack on the scale of the September 11 attacks. "Thayat has nuthin' ta do with intellugence," Mr. Clinton told the Associated Press while in Hawaii on a two-day stopover on the way to East Timor. "All thayat sez is they used public sources to speckle-ate on what bin Laden maht dew. Thayat don't have nothin' ta dew with what the 'telligence people, the CIA or the FBI, tell the administrashun." The Bush administration has come under fire for what critics call a lack of action in the wake of a warning delivered to the president in August 2001 ? a month before the September 11 attacks ? that terrorists could be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The administration has countered that an alert was sent to law enforcement agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department concerning hijackings but that no one in the government could have imagined jetliner attacks such as those that occurred September 11. "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday. Asked about the 1999 report at his daily press briefing, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer called it a psychological evaluation of terrorism. He noted that the report had long been available to members of Congress, some of whom have called for an investigation into intelligence failures in the administration. "I don't think it's a surprise to anybody that terrorists think in evil ways," he said. "It is not a piece of intelligence information suggesting that we had information about a specific plan." President Bush yesterday said that had he known "the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people." Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, took to the floor of the Senate yesterday to demand that Mr. Bush explain his response to the report received in August, citing a New York newspaper headline that suggested the president knew in advance of the September attacks. "The President knew what? My constituents would like to know the answers to those questions," Mrs. Clinton said. "Not to blame the President or any American." Mr. Grassley, in a letter to CIA Inspector General John L. Helgerson, said the report lists al Qaeda and bin Laden as "one of the most dangerous threats to the United States." He said U.S. authorities should expect that the terrorist mastermind and the organization "will most likely retaliate in a spectacular way for the cruise missile attack against his Afghan camp in August 1998." "Clearly, this represents one of the most alarming indicators and warning signs of the terrorist plot of September 11, 2001," Mr. Grassley said. "The fact that the government, and specifically an intelligence arm of the government, had a report in hand that Islamic terrorists could crash planes into buildings raises serious questions how the government responded." Mr. Grassley noted in the letter that the report was commissioned in January 1999 by the NIC, which reports directly to the director of the CIA and that it was completed and submitted in September 1999. He said it was not circulated to other government agencies.
"Clinton got '99 warning on hijacking crash threat" <asleep at all 99 switches? don't doubt it.>
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 17:55:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why don't they just go into the modified hangout mode and let this thing pass over? Every time the open their thin lips, the guffaws can be heard all the way to Afghanistan. I thought this was all about rolling, my brother.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 17:53:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean, Snippy was on top of it, even though there was nothing they knew about to be on top of? Wow!
Snippy Has No Clothes and He's Not Even the Emperor. Someone Get Bandylegs a Towel.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 17:47:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oops. Snipistas sent out new spin that Snippy had big plan to wipe out Al Qaeda two days before Sept. 11!! WOW! wHAT TIMING!
AUGUST 6 -- Al Qaeda Plan to Strike US in United States--What part of this did he not understand?
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:47:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: We knew that MacNamara was lying about the body count, after all he was a Democrat. Probably would have lied about jism too if he'd had any.
Lee Hannland
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:45:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can't be a real war. No flocks of chicken geese flying up toward Canada. No smelly bastards waving signs and picking their asses and smelling it on the nightly news. Back in my day we knew what a war was, by golly.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:29:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I ljust ove it when Dick wags his finger at me and says, "Naughty! Naughty! Senator Dianne does, too!"
Gloria Steinem <boots 4 walkin'>
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:26:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cheney just wants to be able to spank a few feminazis. Put 'em right in their place.
Gregor Samsa
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:24:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh I know, it was by getting the other poor dumb sonofabitch to pay your share of the taxes.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:20:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Poor Glint. Just never will understand how new money got to be old money. Clue #1, farm-boy, it wasn't by buying the furniture when the gypsies came around selling it out of the back of a truck.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:13:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't buy this "time of war" business. What war? This was at best just a chickenshit police action. Grenada was bigger than this thing. Crown Prince Abdulla is not going to give Snippy permission to fuck with Iraq, and Osama is hiding out and figuring the next moves, so where's the war? This is just waiting for the next crazy Arab. And trying to hang some bullshit ex post facto rap on Taliban John for associating with the wrong crowd. Why didn't the silly fuckers just realize they were lightweights, roll with the Trade Center punch, and go back to chasing calico cats? Why do they have to pretend to be big shots? Little Bush is just a scarecrow that Enron dusted off and put in front of Anton Scalia for blessing. When did he get the idea he should humpf and grumpf and pretend to be in charge? Isn't he afraid Cheney will get pissed off and hang another pretzel mouse on his face?
House of Meat
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:11:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cheney cautions Democrats about going after Bush on pre-Sept. 11 intelligence briefing Fri May 17,10:05 AM ET By CHAKA FERGUSON, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - Congressional Democrats should be "very cautious" in criticizing the Bush administration's decision not to disclose intelligence that terrorists wanted to hijack U.S. airplanes, Vice President Dick Cheney says. Speaking Thursday night at the New York state Conservative Party's annual dinner, he warned Democrats "to not seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions ... that the White House had advance information that would have prevented the tragic attacks of 9-11." "Such commentary is thoroughly irresponsible and totally unworthy of national leaders in a time of war," he said. The White House has acknowledged that a month before the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush was told by U.S. intelligence that Osama bin Laden 's al-Qaida terrorist network might hijack American airplanes. That prompted the administration to issue a private warning to federal agencies. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020517/ap_to_po/attacks_cheney_4
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:08:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, by the way, if that high-school was really in the town known as the richest old-money town and now one of the richest new-money towns as well in this that or the other tri-state areas, then why whine about the price of the blue nosed blood HS registry? Why are you so conflicted abou hanging on to those high school years anyway?
Glint
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:06:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Condaleeza? She reads the stuff. But she works in a Bush administration. It was her turn to lie. The interesting thing is, so what? What difference does it make what they planned to do with the airplanes after they took them? You still try to stop them from taking the airplanes, don't you? That is, if you're a responsible public servant and not just a Republican happy to have his share of the spoils.
House of Meat
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:04:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Speaking Thursday night at the New York state Conservative Party's annual dinner, he warned Democrats "to not seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions ... that the White House had advance information that would have prevented the tragic attacks of 9-11." "Such commentary is thoroughly irresponsible and totally unworthy of national leaders in a time of war," he said.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:02:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like it might be one of the crynic's scams, like the employment agency he took over from his wife after she just happened to pass on.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:01:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: How come a National Security Adviser doesn't read stuff about national security? She some kind of token? Is that why Karen left?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 15:53:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, all we want is your current biographical information, asshole. This call will only take a few minutes of your fucking time. We urgently need your help. Thank you in advance for making our directory a success, fuckface.
Linda Common, Principal
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 15:41:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've got two of those yellow postcards so far. I hesitate to call. Then, two days ago, I saw an identical card on this woman's desk at work, except hers was for Hayward State '71. Looks like they're going to compile the mother of all directories or the mother of all solicitation lists. I think I'll call the 800 number next week.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 15:33:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, by the way, that high-school was in the town known as the richest old-money town in one of our Tri-State Areas. It is now one of the richest new-money towns as well. If you don't keep moving forward, you are moving backward, is the only conclusion possible. Both on the front and the back end, we had more copper rain gutters on the students' houses than can be found in the whole Pacific Ocean, including the Kurile islands. Fuck you all.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 15:15:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Some outfit in one of those bogus states like Maryland or New Jersey keeps sending me postcards that purport to be from my high-school and have the name of the high-school principal on them. Supposedly the school is putting together an alumni directory and need to confirm my stats, but I figure they are going to try to hook me into buying one. Is this thing legit? They say call this 800 number. If I call, won't it be like reverse telemarketing? What is this scam all about? Is the Clinton family involved?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 15:12:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, the head injury screwed up some leg nerves and you have to use crutches?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 15:09:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, it was your fault. This is like pulling teeth. Or getting the truth out of the administration*.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 15:06:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, did you know that Kevin Phillips, the great Republican strategist who invented the "Southern Strategy" for Richard Nixon is going around claiming that the Bush family, including both Georges, is up to the neck in Enron, made Enron possible, and profited? Is saying that what is wrong with things now is that both political parties are controlled by money and the media are afraid to report the Bush-Enron story? What kind of fender-bender did THAT weirdo get into?
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- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 15:05:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just got a call from an astronomer who wants to make a donation to the library. Probably need to start hobbling toward the steps so I can get downstairs by the time he gets here. ER gave me a new set of crutches. These are aluminum. At first I declined their offer. Called Poe from the ER bed to ask if she could find my old crutches. She called back and said she had found them. Except the rubber pit pads were stuck together. Guess they haven't been used in 20 years or so. You should see the cast. I may hobble over and scan a pic and post it for you.
Glint <feeling little if any pain>
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 15:01:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: The only other thing I'll add is that codeine and Bass ale are effective. Downloading "Sister Morphine" by TRS.
Glint
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 14:55:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: No one here ever suggested that you might have been trying to drive with one hand and with the other molest Brenda. No, indeed. Besides it would have been investigating, not molesting. All for science.
sheeple
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 14:54:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who's fault? Injury reports? Vehicle damage? Weather conditions? Was Jism involved? Whose? DNA reports?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 14:53:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's just say it involved three cars and some roadside bird cages and just leave it at that. What more do you need to know?
Glint
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 14:37:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, it wasn't a vision caused by the head trauma either.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4175247&BRD=1289&PAG=461&dept_id=156627&rfi=6 <some registration required>
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 14:33:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Probably a terroist blimp zeroing in on Snippy. Snoopy vs. Snippy. Okay, Glint, let's hear the truth. No more of this fender bender crapola. What happened?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 14:32:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ironically, as I was stepping out of the Caravan at the orthapedist's office in Westminster yesterday Snoopy was passing by overhead emblazoned on the Met Life blimp. Same thing happened as I was leaving two hours later. They really look after a guy!
Glint
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 14:22:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's hard to believe Dr. J decided to post that one about the "transition." Must have been some fender bender.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:50:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: At the risk of sounding like a bad parody of myself, I suggest we blame Clinton, the voters the Florida Supreme Court.
Gleam
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:47:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: hey, does anybody want to buy one of these limited addition pictures I'm using to exploit the tragedy? Here's on of me on the phone talking to Cheney about whether visiting the Tri-State Area is really necessary. Don't I look serious? marked down from $150 to $1.50 while supplies last.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:44:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: If we whine about "politics" and point fingers and tell bald-faced lies enough, can we win the sheeple back?
W
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:40:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: The buck never stops here.
W
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:38:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, yes, Dr. J. I believe Clinton is the responsible party in your tragic "fender bender" and the cause of your sick pedophilia. When do they remove the cast from your head?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:37:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is a non-elected president* even have to answer such rude questions. He's not beholden to the sheeple. Let them ask Al Gore their pesky questions. He's the people's choice.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:35:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: If Gore wouldn't have tried to usurp the constitution by attempting to overturn the will of the people of Florida, perhaps the Bush administration would have had a normal transition period during which they could have reviewed the status of American security. But the delay allowed Clinton's jism and the terror status reports to slip down the cracks. I think we safely blame Clinton.
Dr. J
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:34:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: We're talking about a guy who almost lost his life in a pretzel attack.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:31:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why would anybody be so mean as to ask this president* what he knew, yet alone when he knew it? That's not fair!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:29:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's possible the administration* is not lying. They really might be totally clueless. That's their story and I'm giving themt he benefit of the doubt. Food for thought, I say. Let's wait until all the evidence is in. Let's roll.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:28:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can't we stick to Clinton's semen? That's what this page is about, you idiots.
Glimpse
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:25:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Was it a head injury, Glint, or are you just more comfortable in a state of denial?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:23:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: But to still go after Bill Clinton? After all, we now know that Bill Clinton was the president who STOPPED COLD Al Qaeda's millennium bomb plot. COLD. Why? Because Clinton took terrorism seriously. But Bush? And the Republics? -- When presented with the findings of the Hart-Rudman panel, established by Clinton, the Bush White House said thank you very much, and shelved it -- to the outrage of Hart, Rudman, and their hardworking colleagues. -- Despite very clear warnings about Al Qaeda's plans to use hijacked planes as missles, the Bush White House did nothing -- and now, eight months after the attacks, has brazenly lied about those warnings. -- When the Gore Commission on airport security in 1996-97 backed tougher measures that could well have prevented the attacks of September 11, Republicans, in collusion with the airline industry, fought those measures, and they were never implemented. And even after September 11, the Bush White House, along with Tom DeLay and Dick Armey, bitterly and (thankfully) unsuccessfully fought proposals to federalize airport security, on purely partisan grounds. There is a plain and horrifying pattern here: that on terrorism, as on the Middle East, the Bush Administration just decided to abandon everything that Clinton had done. If that pattern holds, very difficult questions arise about Bush's motives. Did he simply adopt a hands-off policy because he believed anything Clinton was for he should be against? Or might his hands-off policy had something more to do with Bush's ties to special interests, especially oil interests -- and most especially the Bush family's well-documented ties to the bin Laden family?
Clinton Took Bin Laden Seriously, Bush Sucked Up to the Oil Interests
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:21:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: BUSH IN THE BUNKER Condi, Dubya Caught In Huge 9/11 Lie Even The Whores Can't Ignore It G.O.P., White House Desperate to Kill Official Inquiry Breaking News: Worse And Worser For Oil Bunker Boys Bush's Lies, Blame Clinton Nonsense Flops Big-Time G.O.P. Special Interests Ruled the Roost, Reversed Security Plan The Bush Administration has driven itself deep back inside the bunker in which it hid on September 11, having been caught telling huge lies about what it knew and didn't know in the weeks before the Al-Qaeda terrorist atrocities. Bush Administration officials, led by Bush himself and his National Security adviser Condoleeza Rice, have claimed that there were no studies done before 9/11 to indicate that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might use hijacked airliners as missiles against American targets. That is a flat-out lie. In fact, there was more than one risk assessment study that predicted exactly such a possibility. In the weeks leading up to the Genoa economic summit last July, as the mainstream media are now reporting, American officials worked for weeks following up reports that bin Laden's group might use a hijacked airliner to attack Bush and his fellow western leaders while they met. Even more stunning is the breaking revelation, carried by Bloomberg, that another U.S. intelligence agency report from 1999 predicted precisely that Al-Qaeda might use hijacked aircraft to attack the Pentagon, the White House, and CIA headquarters. "Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, or the White House,'' the study said. How much more clear-cut can you get?
Did Snipster's Oil Cartel Buddies Bury the Bin Laden Connection?
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:17:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sorry, Snipista, our guy had lots of briefings, read them, knew what was in them, and ordered the bombing that your guys pooh-poohed. Your guy can't read, and his minions can't read either. Ignored the August 6th briefing that happened on HIS watch. Ignored Feinstein's repeated warnings. Nah. The buck stops with Bush. Take it like a man, Snipster.
Snippy's Just Not Taking it Like a Man
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:14:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Terrorgate" made p. A-5 of the Carroll County times today. The headline was something like "1999 report warned of hijacked airplane suicide attacks." Talked about who was president at the time and how he apparently did nothing to prevent 911. This appears to be the real story that's coming out now, the ripening fruit of the Dim scandal wanking.
Glint
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:01:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: President said, "Thanks to a mighty United States military and our coalition...we threw out a barbaric regime.... You need to know your government and our allies and our friends went into Afghanistan to free a country. We didn't go to conquer a country; we went in to free a country, because we believe in freedom for every individual, no matter where they live in the world."
we have friends?
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 12:57:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's not even sunrise in Hawaii. Count your blessings.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 12:49:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can't stand this daily baiting! It hurts my head and makes my skin turn red. I get a wrong feeling all over! STOPPP with the baiting! ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 12:47:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, zip it, you uppity burqa-free broad, we Bushistas are allowed to make Clinton-jism remarks, but when you do, you're baiting us daily! You know where that one goes! Say, little lady, what's that there on your coke? Doink!
Mr. Boundary-Setter
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 12:28:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: It must really kill our hysterical Snipistas that California Senator Dianne Feinstein, of all feminazi lie-brals, is the one who gets to rub Snip's nose in . . . well, say, that's not just egg on Snip's face!! Geesh!
E�
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 12:17:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's good about this one, is the coverup continues but each lie now has a life cycle of about 5 minutes before it's exposed. Pssst. Snipistas, it's time to stonewall and go into a modified hangout on this one. make 'em work to find the truth. Loose lips sink ships, eh, the crynic?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 12:16:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Statement By U.S. Senator Feinstein - On Concerns Raised About Possible Terrorist Attacks on Our Nation - "I am very surprised by the tone of the comments by White House spokesman Ari Fleischer regarding concerns I raised last summer about a possible terrorist attack on our nation and the need to reorganize our counter-terrorism and homeland defense efforts to try to head off a possible calamity. In the wake of the September 11th attacks, the issue is too important to our nation to engage in the kind of politics Mr. Fleischer is practicing. I, for one, do not believe that any of our nation's leadership had specific information last summer to know when and what kind of attack to anticipate. What I said last July on CNN was that I was deeply concerned as to whether our house was in order to prevent a terrorist attack. My work on the Intelligence Committee and as chair of the Technology and Terrorism Subcommittee had given me a sense of foreboding for some time. I had no specific data leading to a possible attack. In fact, I was so concerned that I contacted Vice President Cheney's office that same month to urge that he restructure our counter-terrorism and homeland defense programs to ensure better accountability and prevent important intelligence information from slipping through the cracks. Despite repeated efforts by myself and staff, the White House did not address my request. I followed this up last September 2001 before the attacks and was told by 'Scooter' Libby that it might be another six months before he would be able to review the material. I told him I did not believe we had six months to wait. I believed last summer, and continue to believe today that the system is seriously broken and needs to be fixed. One prime example is the memo sent July 10, 2001 by an FBI agent from Phoenix urging further examination of the questionable students at flight schools who may have had links to terrorists. This memo was very consequential and should have been analyzed at the highest levels of the intelligence community. Sadly it was not. More than a year ago, I suggested establishing a new head of Homeland Security, and I have introduced legislation that would give this person--now Governor Ridge--statutory and budget authority. I've also been working on legislation to create a new strong and independent head of the Intelligence Community separate from the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. I plan to introduce this legislation next week The American people deserve and need an individual whose sole role is to be responsible and accountable for decisions and activities that occur throughout the entire intelligence community. Currently, the head of the Intelligence Community and the Central Intelligence Agency is the same person. I do not believe it is possible for one person to perform these two functions at the same time and do them well. The lack of a strong, effective and independent head of the intelligence community has resulted in a community that is fragmented and uncoordinated and, as a result, not as effective as it can and must be. It is my hope that the Administration and Congress can work together to solve the critical security problems facing our nation, rather than playing the blame game."
go difi go
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 12:11:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm beginning to understand why none of this was mentioned by the aministration* after 9/11. You always wonder about coverups. Are they justified? Are they smart? Well, some are, some aren't. This one makes sense. maybe the Snipistas knew this would all come out but were hoping they'd have smoked out the Evil One so they could take him around in a cage in time for County Fair season in the Red States.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 12:07:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was unclear how a communication gap could have occurred. Richard Clarke, a senior White House Counterterrorism official under the not-asleep at the switch Clinton administration, staying on when Bush took office. Clarke warned federal agencies last July that "something really spectacular" was about to hit the United States. The briefing Bush received Aug 6 but paid no attention to carried the headline "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
Fell in a Crack? Couldn't envision? Plenty Spoodge on Thick Bush?
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 10:59:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the report had fallen through the cracks during the transition from the Clinton to Bush administrations. "This report . . existed in some form which did not come to the attention of this administration when we took office on Jan. 20th."
say, doesn't August 6 come AFTER Jan. 20th?
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 10:56:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: The briefing Bush received on August 6 carried the headline "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S."
sorry, what part of that did you not understand?
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 10:54:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Clinton-era intelligence report: "The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Suicide bomber(s) belonging to Al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA or the White House." (Republican Senator" Grassley said the report "confirms that the FBI and CIA were getting specific early warnings about terrorist plots, including crashing planes into buildings."
Snippy Has No Clothes and He's Not Even the Emperor. Someone Get Bandylegs a Towel.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 10:53:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Poor Condi Rice stepped in the shit, saying that no one had envisioned it, when lots of people had envisioned it, only Snippy didn't bother to read it much less heed it. So much rabid anti-Clintonism.
Bush Thought Clinton Was Overreacting to Bin Laden
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 10:43:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where is Dr. J? Not enough spoodge in screwup-gate yet?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 04:00:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, I see, he was in Crawford when they told him the Arabs were planning to steal airplanes in the traditional manner--and Ari told him it was nothing to get excited about so he kept on trying on the new Ranch 'n' Garden� brand Work-Gluvs� and getting to know the cows and the land and the folks in the Crawford Coffee Shop. Fair enough. That was, after all, before the Arabs stole the airplanes and used them outside the traditional manner, and it became necessary to blame Clinton for it. And when they blamed Clinton, Big-Time Dick Cheney didn't come on television and scold the blame-mongers for being un-American, because what could be more American, or at least more Republican, than to blame Bill Clinton for your own failure? Even the president* himself didn't make a speech about how Washington is a place where there's a lot of hindsight and politics and blaming Bill Clinton was bullshit. Snippy didn't say that if Bill Clinton had known the Arab was going to fly an airplane into the World Trade Center he would have gone out of his way to stop it, the way he said that he, himself, Snippy, would have done everything he could to stop it. And maybe that's OK, because after all, what good is Bill Clinton if you can't blame your failures on him. Why ruin it? Are you troglodytes beginning to pick up on this? Nah. Of course not. You're just troglodytes. You're just dumb Pete, and hermaphrodite-besotted Glint, and cracked pot the crynic. You just don't get it. Where are the nimble-minded ones, Gary, Trish, William, Clifford? No, all we get any more is the dullards.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 03:57:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: It takes a big man to stand and fight, but it takes a bigger man to run and hide.
House of Meat
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 01:03:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: That skedaddle from Florida to Nebraska proved that Snippy has legs. And is not afraid to exploit them when necessary.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 01:02:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: What is this crap about Crawford? The president* was in Florida, campaigning for Jeb, trying to wash away the family shame of the druggie daughter with some first-graders for props. He had to run just as far as if he had been in DC. Typical liberal lies to say he was in Texas and had to expose himself to the attack blimps for only a couple of states. The guy had to run to the NORAD bunker as he would have had to run from any other point in the continental US. If somebody had been running after him, it would have been a damned dangerous and heroic retreat in the face of fire. But fortunately there was nothing to retreat from. Karl Rove made a minor mistake in thinking that there was, and ordering the skedaddle. In thinking that there had been a coded message from the terrorists saying they were going to skin Snippy's ass. But any Republican operative can make a mistake. There is no reason to blame him for it.
Udale Greenhaw
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 01:01:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Treason. It is treasonous to try to figure out what happened. This is war, and Snippy's in the saddle. The congress has to sit down and shut up, except for people who are willing to support the Commander in Chief. Doesn't anyone read the Constitution any more? If Pete wasn't dead, he'd come and explain it all. How are we going to pin this on Bill and Hillary if we can't check it out? Sure, we know they are responsible, because that's what the right-wingers have been saying since September, but we don't have the facts, the evidence, the smoking gun. Let's delve into this and nail those fucking traitors!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 00:53:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: To answer all those questions about airline security down there at 22:30:21, it is simple: Clinton had been asleep at the switch. It's just amazing how people fail to see the obvious cause of Snippy's problems here. And another thing, how was he supposed to tell everyone about this stuff? As Tony Blankley says, it was classified information! It would have been breaking the law to tell it to the airlines, or anyone else without the proper clearance.
.
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 00:49:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, the Snip was grilling burgers in Crawford, his adopted home town, when the Arabs hit? Pretty smart of him. A hell of a lot closer to the NORAD bunker in Nebraska than the White House is. Why wear yourself out high-tailing it two thirds of the way across the country when you can be in position to zig-zag to safety a couple of large states away?
Rance Pilburton
- Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 00:45:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: US airlines deny receiving specific warnings about al-Qaida attack American airlines and airports say they weren't warned before September 11 of any specific hijacking threat. The Federal Aviation Administration says it warned airlines and airports that terrorists might be planning hijackings at the end of July. But pilots' and flight attendants' unions say their members were never told. Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, says the airlines were asked to "use caution". The FAA declined to release copies of the classified warnings, which are sent to airline security directors or posted on a secure Web site. In a written statement, American Airlines says it "received no specific information from the US government advising the carrier of potential terrorist hijacking in the United States in the months prior to September 11." American says it receives FAA security information bulletins periodically, but they were "extremely general in nature and did not identify a specific threat or recommend any specific security enhancements". Joe Hopkins, a spokesman for United Airlines, which lost two planes on September 11, said: "During 2001, there were no alerts or cautions that indicated a September 11th scenario was credible or possible." Jeff Zack, a spokesman for the Association of Flight Attendants, says the group's members were not told anything before September 11. "If we're supposed to be looking for suspicious people, we should know we're supposed to be looking for them," he said. Airline experts say the FAA should have tightened security after receiving the warnings. "With that threat escalating, why was it permissible to continue to take cutting tools on airplanes, and why did we have a flawed computer assisted passenger profiling system that didn't require a search of the passenger and carry-on articles?" former FAA security chief Billie Vincent said.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 22:30:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: You name the month, name the fucking year. July, August, 2001, 2002, 1999. Didn't lift a finger. Laughed it off and gilled another burger, popped another Lone Star Lite. He's a real piece of work, our Snippy. At least Nero played the fucking fiddle. Didn't sleep while Rome burned. Snippy tosses down a pretzel now and then, sells picture of him talking to Cheney about getting out of town, somewhere safe, worried it might not be confined to the Tri-State Area, that maybe a suicide blimp with Air Force One's name on it is on his ass. Christ, I miss the adults! Guys and women who didn't sleep. Adults who would study policy, analyze data and make decisions all day, then fuck like chinchillas all night. Adults.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 22:29:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy wanted to distance himself from Clinton, so he decided to do just the opposite. Which explains unbalancing the budget & turning the surplus back into Republican Deficit Red, helping Enronistas profiteer on energy, and turning a deaf ear on warnings about Bin Laden, having criticized Clinton for being the first to bomb Bin Laden's camps. Sad, really.
Didn't Listen to Specific Warning in July Neither. Geesh.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 22:12:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean Bush had stuff going back to 1999, as well as almost weekly warnings all last summer, and the bastard decided a barbeque in Crawford was in line? Geesh, what a fucking traitor!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 21:41:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, this report was in 1999? I guess that's why Clinton's people were meeting nearly weekly about bin Laden. This is really bad for Snippy. If the report was from 1999, then Snippy knew about it. This coupled with the reports he was getting all last summer should have caused a light bulb to glow above his pointy little head, but no. This is what happens when money-grubbing, clueless crooks steal an election. Wow. 1999, huh? Let's see the phrase mangler talk his way out of this one.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 20:40:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: 1999 REPORT WARNED: PLANE MAY BE USED TO HIT PENTAGON ...developed, printed, and framed.
News Flash! CLINTON ASLEEP AT SWITCH
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 20:10:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snip better catch someone who at least LOOKS like Osama. 67% of the American people say this "war" is a failure without that. I somehow doubt The Marin Taliban is a suitable replacement. People seem to be cutting the kid a little more slack these days.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 20:06:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, his heart is fine. Except for the sore. They used to sprout on his face. Now they erupt on his heart.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 20:03:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: The switch, Bagh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:49:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't you mean Asleep-at-the-Wheelgate?
curious Baghdad Begum
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:42:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Have the Snipistas told the American people to get over Terrorgate yet?
Mullah Nasruddin
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:41:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: "We do not consider that the wars in Afghanistan and Palestine and other Islamic countries are over," Omar said. "As for Afghanistan, I say that the battle has just started, and its fire and wrath will reach the White House because that is the center of injustice and oppression from where the war against Islam and Muslims was launched without any legitimate international justification." Omar vowed the U.S. presence in Afghanistan "will be hell because Osama bin Laden was still alive and that is a sore in the heart of (President) Bush who had promised his people he would kill the al Qaida leader."
He's saying Snippy has a bad heart!
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:30:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's it! It was Al-Qaeda's damn liberal tactics! If only they'd done the traditional skyjack, the CONSERVATIVE skyjack, we'da know it was time to roll!
no fault (please? pretty please? grovel grovel grovel?)
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:27:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, actually it was foreseen. It just wasn't paid attention to. Geesh.
Snippy Has No Clothes and He's Not Even the Emperor. Someone Get Bandylegs a Towel.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:25:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is all a tempest in a teapot stirred up by that media liberal, Matt Drudge. Anything for a headline, eh, Matt, you fr**king socialist?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:23:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, but on the other hand, if they had stopped what appeared to be a mere traditional skyjack, it still would have saved both the wall of the Pentagon and Barara Olson. If Barb had known that a skyjack was in the works, she might have taken the train and we wouldn't be running around clueless about why Clinton is a turd.
.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:20:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's an (unread by Bushistas) memo from the FBI/CIA psych-ops section detailing Muslim fanatic plans to hijack planes and smash them into US government buildings. Too Clintonian to attend to?
THEIR BLIND HATRED OF CLINTON CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:18:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can see why they gave him only two stars. Tommy Franks has at least four of the puppies, five for certain if he bags Osama.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:17:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The president did not - not - receive information about the use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers. This was a new type of attack that was not foreseen." - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 19:17:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Clinton's advisors met nearly weekly on how to stop bin Laden...I didn't detect that kind of focus from the Bush adminsitration." - Two Star General Donald Kerrick
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 18:53:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.rememberjohn.com
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 18:48:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bullet pendant? Pedantic overrides? Poot putt?
Perfp�
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 18:31:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: This news was put out by the Whitehouse as a diversion. Why?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 18:10:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Got it, Lee. Always on the spot with a moral lesson, eh?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 18:07:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, yeah, but everybody lies about sex! It's OK to lie about sex! The priests who buggered the alter boys lied, so it's OK. And now it's OK to lie about terrorist attacks. Everybody does it so it's OK. Let's open the gates at Guantanam and set Taliban John free. Everybody lies about terrorism, so why not them?
Lee Hannland
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 17:57:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: So what? Reagan was just a B-movie actor who mixed films with reality and couldn't be trusted alone with a decision. Snippy is a big-time Texas rancher, an oilman, a baseball team owner, a guy tough enough to have beat alcoholism and drug addiction. His driving record has been clean for a number of years. This is the sort of man you naturally wake up when his house is burning down. You don't leave a live-wire like this for a few more minutes in the sack even if there is nothing he can do.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 17:53:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Covering up is fine. Bill Clinton proved that when he didn't reveal the blowjobs he got. Bush has every right to cover up too!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 17:49:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's a pretty bold statement. The buck stops somewhere alright! Snippy says he would have done anything in his considerable power to stop bin Laden if anybody had told him when, how and where the attack was going to come. Wow! Did the bandy-legged little shit say anything about the coverup of the last 8 months?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 17:48:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: At least they woke him up when the attack came. They didn't bother to do that with Ronald Reagan.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 17:46:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON -- President Bush firmly defended himself Friday against Democratic suggestions that he ignored warning signs of the Sept. 11 attacks, saying "I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people" had he known of Osama bin Laden's plans.
Too bad nobody told him.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 17:45:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why would a horse-faced broad care about gun control one way or the other? Why do so many people get so excited about these boring "issues"? So what if some character can't get a sawed-off shotgun?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 17:34:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Talking about the weird-eyed horse-faced broad?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 17:32:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: This skinny broad is still in a snit about that bullet pendant.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 16:57:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: All the News We Heard from a Guy at Handgun Control, Inc. Universal Press Syndicate | May 16, 2002 By Ann Coulter HAVING BEEN cheerfully assured by "Handgun Control, Inc." (aka the Brady Campaign) that the Constitution protects only kiddie porn and says absolutely nothing about guns, the New York Times has been viciously denouncing Attorney General John Ashcroft for having the temerity to suggest that the Second Amendment protects the "right of the people to keep and bear arms." (In an eerie coincidence, the Second Amendment actually says, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.") This, the Times proclaims, is "radical," "ominous" and a "betrayal of (Ashcroft's) public duty." In its inimitable Stalinist style, the Times claims Ashcroft's position is "contrary to longstanding and bipartisan interpretation of the Second Amendment." This is always how liberals engage in obvious jabberwocky: They smugly announce a "broad consensus" among "respected academics" - meaning one of their interns went to the trouble of calling "Handgun Control, Inc." First of all, any journalist who is completely unaware that there is debate about the Second Amendment ought to be fired. But more preposterously, though a "bipartisan consensus" has begun to develop, it has gone heavily against the Times. For over a decade now, liberal law professors keep setting their minds to disproving the "pro-gun extremists" - as the Times calls people who disagree with the Times. Gleefully intending to establish that the Second Amendment refers only to the right of state militias to have guns, the professors invariably conclude, with great lugubriousness, that the gun nuts are right. By now, the growing roster of law professors who support the "radical," "ominous" Ashcroft position includes Larry Tribe of Harvard, Akhil Amar of Yale and Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas. (In happier circumstances, these professors are known as "respected" at the Times.) Among sitting Supreme Court justices, five have raised the Second Amendment in opinions just since 1990. The Second Amendment even made a cameo appearance in the very definition of constitutional law at the Times: Roe vs. Wade. Every single one of those citations assumes that the right belongs to the people. Indeed, the one guy the Times dredged out of the left-wing toilet willing to provide tepid endorsement to their bunkum was Stanford history professor Jack Rakove. Even Rakove - the only academic still defending Michael Bellesiles' fraudulent anti-gun book Arming America - wouldn't stoop to supporting the Times' preposterous claims. Far from asserting a "bipartisan consensus" for the Times' view, Rakove said it is "no secret" that controversy over the Second Amendment "has escalated in recent years." (Except at the Times, where it remains a huge secret.) Moreover, Rakove's big rebuke to Ashcroft consisted of his meek observation that "it is far from clear that the Justice Department's new position would prevail." For taking a position that an anti-gun zealot says might not prevail, the Times says Ashcroft is betraying "his public duty." But for bald-faced lies, nothing beats the Times' preposterous characterization of Supreme Court precedent. The most recent case directly raising the Second Amendment was United States vs. Miller, decided in 1939. (Any conservative who demanded deference to a case from 1939 would be accused of trying to lynch blacks and brutalize women.) The Miller case simply defined the types of guns protected by the Second Amendment. Reviewing the case of two bootleggers charged with failing to pay federal taxes on a sawed-off shotgun, the court concluded that the "instrument" was not covered by the Second Amendment. Since the Times lies about the relevant language, I will quote it in full: In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than 18 inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment or that its use could contribute to the common defense. The vigilant observer will note that the court did not find that since the defendants were bootleggers - and not members of a militia - they had no Second Amendment rights. Rather, the court's conclusion turned solely on the fact that a sawed-off shotgun was not "ordinary military equipment." As Professor Levinson (card-carrying member of the ACLU) said of the decision: "Ironically, Miller can be read to support some of the most extreme anti-gun control arguments, e.g., that the individual citizen has a right to keep and bear bazookas, rocket launchers and ... assault weapons." Now observe how the Times mischaracterizes the Miller decision. In a ham-handed deception, the Times substitutes the word "rights" for "guns," and claims that the court found that "the Second Amendment protects only those rights that have 'some reasonable relationship to the preservation of efficiency of a well-regulated militia.'" If the Times is going to dismiss the views of Harvard and Yale law professors, Supreme Court justices, and constitutional scholars Joseph Story and Thomas Cooley in deference to the press releases of a fanatical anti-gun lobbying group, they might want to find one with smarter lawyers than "Handgun Control, Inc."
oh anne oh
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 16:55:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: The ski bunny had a towel. Whatever.
Pete�
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 16:19:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 16:12:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: I gotta say, crapping on the crynic's dime is definitely where it's at. Even if I'm not a ski-bunny that forgot to latch the eenie door.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 16:00:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:59:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: I cut my fingernails on the kapitalist clock yesterday. Took two craps.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:58:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:56:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course the whole Brenda thing certainly raised judgement issues, but aside from that it's interesting to note that you can sort of see the same inability to discern in the recent "fender-bender" (fb) story. Sure it rhymes with gender bender, the guy just goes from one to the other, but back to the point... Here's a guy with what, his arm or leg in a cast after a car wreck. now assuming he's not Jth, he probably went to a doc or hospital for the cast. So what we now have is a wreck, a guy going to the hospital (how)?, getting a cast etc and meds. Somehow this dosent quite match my definition of fenderbender which is what you call ms fishbreath backing into you at the Piggly Wiggly.. So the deal is odd you see, a blowjob out of all proportion and a mildly serious car wreck is a fender bender. Its a judgement problem. Seems pervasive. Gotta wonder about it.
Borg 173 of 22
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:53:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah. LBJ and Nixon should have flipped the Nam switch to OFF.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:53:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ike needed his naps so he could hit the fairways before the sun rose. Plus, the guy had a bad ticker and an ugly wife. What's to stay awake for? He was probably sleeping at the switch when that U2 spy plane got shot out of the air over the USSR. He probably slept during the witch hunts in Congress. But, Ike was okay. Didn't trust Nixon as far as he could throw the White House.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:52:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: The problem with Viet Nam was more along the lines of flipping switches that shouldn't have been switched, rather than not flipping switches that should have been. If there was a catchy slogan for that, Pete� might have a chance of comprehending it.
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- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:50:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:47:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Eisenhower was asleep at more switches than a recording studio.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:47:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure I've heard of Eisentower. Was he the one who got us into VietNam? Geesh, I never knew that.
ePte�
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:46:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Apparently the pineapple has never heard of President Eisenhower. True, the man was just a run of the mill elected President with a capital letter and no asterisk, so he couldn't have been very important.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:44:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did Vietnam attack this country while JFK slept? I'm afraid I missed that. Can't see it, can't find it in my history books. I wonder how many troops died in Nam under the sleeping JFK. Compared to LBJ and Nixon, that is.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:39:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, yes, the intellectual discussion about how JFK was asleep at some sort of Viet-Nam switch. Sure missed those intellectual discussions about switches with old Pete. A real delight for the intellect, as anyone will tell you. That's why people post at Pete, isn't it, so they can get more intellect? More good stuff about JFK and the VietNam switch?
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- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:31:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: True, it looks like the P-apple is back, in the full flower of his ignorance and stupidity. Makes a liar out of himself one more time.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:26:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, that would make you a Meat Pie, I suppose. Crusty. Thanks for the intellectual discussion. Doink.
Pete�
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:26:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pineapple, have you no shame? . Yes it is! Yes it is! Yes it is! My ass is too a hole in the ground! I am the PINEAPPLE and I know! My ass is a hole in the ground.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:25:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Duh, JFK was asleep at the Vietnam switcha nd got us committed to a no-win proposition. Par for the liebral course.
Pete�
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:21:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: I said right at the beginning that this was Karen Hughes and Karl Rove wagging the dog. That's probably why Hughes left-- she knew this was coming out.
Smiling Jack
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:20:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: I noticed that myself. What's the story on this Pete character? He's not very cool under fire, is he?
Arnoldo, Philipino Newbie
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:18:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: What I like is the way these guys are universal sputterers. The sputter when Bill Clinton gets spoodge on a dress even though he catches the 4th of July bomber, and they sputter when it turns out that Snippy can't catch a cold. Got to admit, though, that this is the best sputtering we've seen since back when the Senate exhonorated Clinton and trashed the House Managers.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:16:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: What I like about Pete is his confusion about JFK being asleep at some surprise-attack switch. Does he mean he didn't read the Oswald clues right? Was JFK japped by Castro in the Bay of Pigs? Interesting to speculate on what rice-growing figment of his paranoia the pineapple is thinking about. Back to real life, I like old Rumsfeld a little more today. Even though he is a Republican he isn't a lunatic like most of the others. He doesn't say that people who want to check 9/11 out are traitors, the way Big-Time Dick does, he just says it was hard to predict even if you had the clues, which anybody including the evil Daschle and Lieberman can agree with. It would be nice if Republicans could learn to live comfortably in the world the way Rumsfeld seems to, instead of acting like a bunch of haole kindergarteners with bad wedgies.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 15:09:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: They dodge, they weave, they blame Clinton, they are obsessed and shameful. There is no virtue among conservatives. They preach about responsibility, but take none. From Snippy, to Kenny Boy, to chumps like Pete, Glint and the crynic, only one truth exists: IT'S THE MONEY, STUPID!
selfish, virtueless scumbags
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:43:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's just Pete floudering around, flapping his yap, trying to avoid the unavoidable. Pathetic. Par for the course.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:35:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: What is up with Alan Keyes? I hate to say that he appears to be participating in the divisiveness of the left. Why even incite the american people in the time of war? He is whining about the Bush Administration's possible knowledge of 9/11.
disturbed Republican veteran
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:33:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: As opposed to socialsit liberal liar demonrats who knowingly hurt this country daily. Intent. Criminal. [Wasn't FDR asleep at the switch? And JFK?] Doink.
Pete�
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:31:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: "President Bush said Friday that he would never do anything to knowingly hurt his country." Ignorance is bliss
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:29:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle led the charge, saying, "additional examination of the facts in broader forms" is needed to determine whether the Bush administration failed to adequately protect the public from the Sept. 11 attacks. "Why did it take eight months for us to receive this information? And what specific actions were taken by the White House in response?" Daschle, D-S.D., said. "I'm not going to jump to any conclusions, but it's hard to understand why the information was not released." Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said he may attach an amendment to a defense-spending bill near completion that would call for an independent investigation of the administration's handling of FBI information. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, "There was a lot of information. I believe and others believe, if it had been acted on properly we may have had a different situation on Sept. 11." Shelby said that his committee in August had been given "summary of a summary of a summary" given to the president, but pointed out that none of the material constituted a "general warning." Democratic and Republican sources said it would be inaccurate to characterize the "innocuous" information as a "warning," calling it consistent with the intelligence assessments that are provided to the Hill on a daily basis. Nonetheless, the administration was firing back with all its guns Thursday night and Friday morning. First lady Laura Bush, on a 10-day European tour, said Friday that victims of the Sept. 11 attacks were being "preyed upon" by her husband's adversaries. Appearing on NBC's Today show Friday morning, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that "the vast majority of the reports and scraps of information that come in tend to be eventually discounted as not being valid, or, at the minimum, not being actionable." He added that he had been unaware of the memo the FBI field office in Phoenix sent to headquarters last summer "until it showed up in the press very recently." The memo warned of suspicious Arab men enrolling in local flight schools to learn how to fly jetliners.
traitors, one and all
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:29:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's just a guy from Nebraska who eats boogers.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:28:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint is on the rag?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:25:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: The buck stops somewhere, but not here.
W
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:24:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: A Sacramento private school has expelled a kindergarten student three weeks before the end of the school year, saying her mother's work as a nude dancer clashes with its Christian philosophy. Christina Silvas, 24, of Rancho Cordova said one reason she took the job as a dancer at Gold Club Centerfolds off Highway 50 was so she could afford the $400 monthly tuition at Capital Christian School. "If you choose to do the wrong thing willfully, then God's word instructs me as to what my responsibility is," said Rick Cole, the head pastor of Capital Christian Center who made the decision to expel the girl. "I need to be faithful to my calling." Silvas, who previously worked at the church as a Sunday school teacher, has a different view. "I thought the church was supposed to accept everybody," she said. "That's my understanding of what God is about. My daughter is the one who goes to school there, not me, and they're turning her away." Silvas, who is single, said school administrators telephoned her last week and told her that in response to persistent rumors, a parent went to the strip club's Web site, downloaded pictures of Silvas and brought them to school staff. Silvas told them she does dance at the all-nude bar, which doesn't serve alcohol, and subsequently met with Cole. As head pastor of Capital Christian, which at 4,000 members is one of the largest Assemblies of God churches in the country, Cole had final say on the matter. Silvas said Cole told her not only will her 5-year-old daughter be expelled, but as long as she keeps her job at the club, neither she nor her daughter can attend church there. Silvas said her daughter enjoys the school's daily worship sessions and was looking forward to the end-of-the-year pool party and graduation ceremony. She hasn't told the girl why she won't be able to go to school next week. "I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to tell her," she said.
another victory for Jesus-- Glimpse
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:22:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mine was focused on the morning yoga lady.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 14:13:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why was the television focused on the WTC before the first plane hit the tower?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 13:46:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: So he's not Winston Churchill. Give the poor bandy-legged little phrase-mangler a break. He led us through the horror, after he found his sea legs and Karl Rove told him that Giuliani was hogging all the face time. Well, he led some of us. I was watching the Survivor re-runs myself.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 13:41:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my Chief of Staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 13:23:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: " I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident."
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 13:18:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: No raging fire here. Just a bandy-legged little one-term cheerleader. On the peace-time front, we have this week the passage of a fat farm bill, whereby Snippy can pay corporate farmers to not to work or "create jobs" by hiring workers, and a Republican tune-up of welfare reform which would require welfare moms to work more. Don't bother me, because I find food cheap enough and am not a welfare mom, but it sure is quintessentially Republican. We can't blame any of this on the clueless squirt who was given custody of the presidency*.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 13:14:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Have to wait and see if the hot coal gets fanned enough to become a raging fire. He should have been reading something besides The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 12:47:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, there goes Karl Rove's strategy of using 9/11 to sell the Republicans as the party of national vigilance in the midterm elections. Just one day after the GOP tried to shake the money tree with a photo of President Bush evincing "gritty determination" as he was shuttled around the country on Air Force One after the terror attacks, the administration was forced to admit that while Bush was relaxing at his Crawford ranch in early August, he was briefed about a potential Osama bin Laden hijacking plot. And yet the Bush team, which believed that President Clinton had fruitlessly overpersonalized the struggle with bin Laden, did not go into high alert. There are many vexing questions about this stunning news, but one of the biggest is why it took eight months for the White House to admit it had received early warnings about the day of infamy. Immediately after 9/11, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told the press that Bush officials had "no warnings" of the al-Qaida offensive. Now it turns out they were awash in clues, from the CIA briefing given to Bush, to the flare sent up by an FBI agent in Phoenix about the suspicious number of Middle Eastern men in flight training schools, to the silent scream from a Minneapolis FBI agent, who flat-out warned that suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui was the type who "could fly something into the World Trade Center." With Moussaoui now facing trial as the so-called 20th hijacker, it's clear the Minneapolis agent pretty much nailed the plot on the head. And yet no one "connected the dots," in the words of Sen. Bob Graham, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman." Say what? Bushistas thought that Clinton had "over-personalized" the fight against Osama Bin Laden? That's some fucking smoking gun. Vitriolic Retches finally hoist on their own petard. Disgusting.
THEIR BLIND HATRED OF CLINTON CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 12:31:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: The killer teens of Littleton had a plan to hijack a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center. This was not noticed by the Bushist government? How unimaginative. We are however glad to note that the first to bomb Afghanistan was two-term peace and prosperity actual-President Clinton.
no no they screwed up bigtime but lack the cojones to cop to it
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 12:26:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: On the official website to the White House are transcripts to A Bush Speech and question and answer session. The second to last question was asking him about when he first learned about the attack on the World Trade Center. This is the question and his answer. Q One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country. And another thing is that, how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack? (Applause.) THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Jordan. Well, Jordan, you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my Chief of Staff, Andy Card -- actually, I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my Chief of Staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011204-17.html
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 12:23:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you're into comparing the presidential-term body count, war-and-poverty Snippy's numbers ARE way higher than two-term peace and prosperity Clinton's.
the buck stops with Bush
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 12:17:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: He's not trying to say anything, dude. He is mortally wounded by the Snipper's failure to perform his duties as Commander-in-Chief, which is what presidency is all about for a troglodyte idiot, check the crynic. He is lashing out like an octopus stuck on the end of the spear, battering his poor tentacles against the shaft, squirting ink and generally carrying on. What you are seeing is the fear of legs, and that hollow pit that grows in a Republican's gut when he senses his man's poll numbers might drop a little. It's about the polls, stupid. R
Rance Pilburton
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 12:05:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Among the things I don't understand are Glint's post about the Cole and the WTC being bombed when Clinton was an elected President and his one about Drudge being outed as part of the liberal media conspiracy when he "endorsed Hillary Clinton." It is true that the brain floats in liquid, and even a fender-bender can batter it against the skull and cross wires, but even so, what the fuck is he trying to say?
???
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 12:01:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whew boy! Someone needs to get a grip on something. Either that or a nap!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 11:02:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's like the whole crooked family is awash in perpetual scandal, one blending into the other. You never know where it's going to come from. Will it be Poppy, Jebby, "Sweet Deal" Neal, Snip, the twin sluts or the Mexican pill-popper? Some of the scandals have actual legs, others have closure. What can't be denied is, the family's knack for scandal DOES have legs - over twenty years worth. Amazing!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 10:47:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: You've got me. I don't understand his concern about legs. When has any Bush scandal* ever had any?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 10:32:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why is he predcicting "another" legless scandal? Has there been a prior one? He can't be talking about Enrongate, can he? That one's not legless. It's hardly even begun. Far as I know, the Andersen phase is all that's even started. Oh, and those new Enron memos. This thing should be getting pretty hot six, seven months from now. probably stay hot another year or so, depending on the level of stonwalling or "modified hangout" time, as the Watergate crooks liked to call it.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 10:14:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, those knocks on the old noggin can leave you pretty grouchy. Not to mention stupid, of course.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 10:09:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Must be a head injury.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 10:07:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Enron dog is dead. Dims need a new hot dog to ride. I predict another legless "scandal" is brewing. It's cynical to fan the flames of this tragedy for such blatant political hindsight finger pointing. Bush should just let them play with this hot coal until their hands get burnt. <> Nice day to go get a new cast put.
Glint
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 09:54:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Perhaps ken star should be tried for treason?"
what, and not "move on?" <BWA!>
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 09:34:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: " I don't see why the troglodytes aren't screaming that Drudge is part of the liberal media." You're an idiot. Anyone with half a brain has known this since Drudge endorsed Hillary Clinton for the U.S. Senate. Try reading it next time, don't just look at the pictures.
Glint
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 09:28:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: "My wife, had she known, would not have taken that flight."
duh of the day
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 09:11:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Wow! Osama and his terrorist buddies repeatedly attacked us throughout the Clinton years and it's a huge surprise that they were going to continue their terrorism?!??" That's funny, I had always thought that Osama was behind the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. Also, thought that he was behind the dual Embassey bombimbs. But guess not. Either that, or they didn't occur on Clinton's watch. Not like the World Trade Centers were never attacked before. A truck bomb went off in a world trade center somewhre in 1993. Guess that wasn't in NYC and Clinton wasn't at the switch.
Glint
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 09:05:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree, while the crynic was certainly never a shining light by any stretch of..., these days he probably meets the glint test for porchlites quite handily and with room to spare.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 08:37:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: And I think we need to clarify the crynics misconception about Clinton and the military. Acting in the public interest and refusing to fund a fat budget of sweetheart defense contracts loaded with billions in overruns for starwars pork to the likes of lockheed and martin marietta is hardly tantamount to dismantling the military.
borg 17 of 22
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 08:35:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: And as far as blaming Clinton, dont you think there's a reason there is that law about not taking legal action against men on active duty? Perhaps because it interferes with doing their job? If we're going to point fingers, 911 is the opportunity cost of jacking clinton and the nation around about a blowjob. Of course the retchie intent was to hamstring him while he was still in office. They did a good job a very good job. Actually ended up sort of helping the terrorists. Perhaps ken star should be tried for treason?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 08:30:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: I sort of stopped posting to or about the crynic. Almost as if he's become a stupid(er) MK or a bright Jeremiah.. Lately he's shown a truly amazing world-class lack of insight, a tenaciously fastidious ability to completely fail in seeing connections between relevant ideas, and a true mastery of the inability to think on a conceptual and abstract level leading to the critical analysis and synthesis of ideas. He may not be much, but he's our pinata.
borg 3 of 22
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 08:23:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: am positively sickened by the stories on foreknowledge of the hijackings, i can, if they were run of the mill warnings almost see not doing much, but if they were indeed escalating in intensity that is another matter. Be that as it may, what I truly find unconscionable is the failure to use whatever info there was already available on this to build the osama case directly following 911. Is this why they kept ot all secret? They could have built a much beter case for much more expedient and possibly fruitful military action and possibly garnered broader support for hunting him down had they used this info instead of protecting and concealing their gross inaction. For the families of victims this must be truly horryfying.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 08:13:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't see why the troglodytes aren't screaming that Drudge is part of the liberal media, the way he puts up these shit-eating pictures of Snippy, and that great one of Ashcroft looking like Satan pinching a loaf. Maybe Ashcroft always looks that way. And it's hard to spin a picture of the Snip, even without the Ranch 'n' Trail� work gloves, because he always looks exactly like a guy who would scoot through Yale as a C-minus cheerleader and go bust in a few half-assed oil scams and drive drunk and desparately hide it from the kids and end up propped on a bench in a Rangers jacket trying to look like he knows what he's doing, and finally be given the presidency and sit scratching his ass in befuddlement when they tell him the Arabs are fixing to steal some airplanes and stir up trouble. Our Snippy. He ain't much to brag about, but he's the only president* the Supreme Court majority felt comfortable with, so I guess we're stuck with him for another three.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 03:11:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course he didn't know the towers were going to fall. He was wearing those Panglossian glasses.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 02:50:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're right. This is an occasion for a mini gloat-fest. Just a small one, mind you.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 00:49:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think this is going to be interesting. The whole Republican right-wing Snippista strategy for the past ten years at least has been to instill a sense of distrust and hatred of the government in the citizenry. Now that Snippy is the government, and more and more publicly looks as if something is not quite right, his 9/11 bubble could pop pretty easily. People are primed by years of Republican treason to look at a president and assume he's hiding something, maybe a blow-job, maybe worse, and Snippy sure looks like he's hiding something, even though it might just be his cluelessness. It now is all about image, and if the truth be known, the Snip isn't the best material for image, the poor bandy-legged little tangle-tongued fucker. And Karen Hughes who could puppeteer him is gone, and all they've got is this madman Rove and the fool Ari Fleisher, hammering that stupid idea about how back before September a mere skyjacking was OK. This is neat. Another step in the Snip going down in flames. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, as John McCain might say.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 00:48:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint? Glint who? Somebody who used to post on here back when it was all gravy for a right-winger? No legs.
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- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 00:39:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Bible bush - aflame yet remaining intact, unaffected by the fire. Freep probably believe Bush will be like that bush. Interesting.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 17, 2002 at 00:04:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: I know. it's just that every once in awhile I like to check and see if the crynic's take on life is shared by anyone else (Glint excluded.) Rather than spend a lot of time searching, I narrow things down a bit and pay a visit to loonball sites. First on the list is always the Freep. That place is crawling with the likes of the crynic and other assorted tax cheats and criminals.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 23:43:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who needs the freep? Doesn't the crynic check in enough to satisfy your need for that brand of horse-laugh? The crynic had it pinned on Clinton, who got the goods that this was planned way back in 1999, and hid the news from Snippy. But not from the crynic. Clinton added insult to injury by dismantling the Army, so it wasn't available to shoot the boxcutters out of the on-flight bags or whatever the crynic feels it would have done to stop the hijackings, or at least keep them traditional enough to make Ari and Condoleeza happy. Shit, when the going gets tough, the crynic gets the squirts just as quick as anyone on the freep.
House of Meat
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 23:35:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: I see they are also taking names of the traitorous members of the GOP who have dared criticize the president*. This is all just a case of the media and the Democratic Party working together and fooling the sheeple.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 22:59:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, and they're more than a little pissed off that the families of the dead seem to be angry at Snippy.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 22:44:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: At the Freep they've distilled this thing into a few key bullet points: 1. Clinton is at fault and should be tried for treason. 2. The press is a hateful tool of the left and is the only reason this story has any legs at all. 3. Given that the press can manipulate public opinion (with the exception of the enlightened rightwingers,) the GOP can forget about taking the Senate in November. 4. Snippy needs to take off the gloves and stop kissing commie butt.
'nuff said
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 22:40:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I would have been nice to have a traditional hijacking, the kind I remember from my carefree college days when I first took those tentative steps outside the bubble. Youth may be the time for Glint-approved experimentation with drugs, bestiality, pederasty (unless you happen to be Bill Clinton, of course,) but young people treasure continuity and tradition too, for all their bluster and bravado. September 11th was a little too avant garde for me, too mondo. There was little I could do to comfort the kids. It was new to all of us, this getting shot. Used to be, not everyone did get shot. Just some of us took the bullet. Oh for the days of Lockerbie, the Achille Lauro and the weekly flights to Cuba. The world is changing too fast for me and obviously for this stodgy administration*. Sad, really. Uh, let's roll. I guess. Sigh.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 22:14:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's the word they're using - traditional. This Rice woman, who's way over her head, used it too. Traditional. Kind of a comfort word. Makes you think of Yule Logs and May Poles and Spring training and hot spiced cider on an autumn night. They were expecting no more than a Traditional Hijacking from Osama bin Laden, the guy who sent the suicide row boat into the Cole, the guy who bombed the embassies in the classic manner. So, when the daily intelligence briefing came in, what was Snippy supposed to do, given that the expectations were for a mere Traditional Hijacking. Hell, we hadn't really had any of those since, well, since Poppy ruled the roost. Maybe the bandy legged little shithead figured a Traditional Hijacking was something the kiddies who had never witnessed one, needed. Also, of note is that Rice says these daily intelligence briefings are merely pro forma, rarely taken seriously. As a tax payer, I demand they stop wasting time with these things and get the fuck to work. These "briefings" sound like a chance for the boys to trade pretzel stories and pump Condeleeza Rice, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 21:06:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well OK, then, Ari. I think everybody agrees that there's no harm in a little traditional hijacking, and it's nothing to waste federal time on. Not when there are naked statues at the DOJ, calico cats are running loose in the alleys, and "science" laboratory-slaughterhouses are murdering stem cells all over the country.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 20:29:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, what they're saying is that not only is Bush lucky that they knocked down the buildings and killed three thousand, but the whole country is lucky. If they had just blown up some airline passengers, the Bushers would have accepted that as the normal course of events and not worth making much effort to avoid? Where is the compassion? I say every three or four hundred people is as important as every other, and you don't need to have the Arab kill three thousand before getting riled.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 20:24:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: The White House said that President Bush had been warned by American intelligence agencies in early August that Osama bin Laden was seeking to hijack aircraft but that the warnings did not contemplate the possibility that the hijackers would turn the planes into guided missiles for a terrorist attack. "It is widely known that we had information that bin Laden wanted to attack the United States or United States interests abroad," Ari Fleischer, the president's press secretary, said. "The president was also provided information about bin Laden wanting to engage in hijacking in the traditional pre-9/11 sense, not for the use of suicide bombing, not for the use of an airplane as a missile."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 20:17:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think Glint encapsulated the whole meaningless uproar when he pointed out that terrorism-gate has no more legs than Enron. All that's going to happen here is that Snippy's going to drop another ten points and then rebound two points when more of the public gets readjusted to the realization that he's a numbnuts. Sure, he looks like a turkey for setting all those people up to die, but how the hell was he to know the damned towers were going to fall down? He figured it for nothing much more than two or three planeloads, probably with a lot of foreigners aboard anyhow. At most, that's probably not even a thousand people. Any fool could see that something like that wasn't worth allowing some yahoo airport guard to confiscate Ann Coulter's bullet charm. Grow a brain. Doink.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 20:16:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean Bush had clear warnings in advance that bin Laden was going to steal airplanes and maybe turn them into bombs? Why didn't he do something to prevent it? I tell you, I never did trust that bandy-legged little lipless phrase-mangling Jew.
Pat Robertson
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 18:59:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Great column from Ann Coulter today about how the editorial writer for the New York Times is mean to John Ashcroft, and is undermining the 2nd Amendment besides. As important as this all is, I'd prefer to hear her views on Terrorism-gate. Guess we'll have to wait until next week, unless we can catch her on Lowell Ponte.
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- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 18:56:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's this bad rap on Clinton? When he had the warning about the 4th of July bomber what happened? Right, an alert Clinton Administration-hired border guard nabbed him crossing from Vancouver with a trunkful of C-4. Nobody ever bombed LAX on the 4th. Ah, but as Glint has pointed out, Clinton sent our "battleship", the destroyer Cole, to the middle east, and left it sitting defenseless in port with only Aegis anti-missile armament and 5-inch cannon and machine guns and cruise missiles and torpedoes and Marine guards with M-16s and frags and Berettas to protect it from Arab rowboat bombers. Clinton is clearly a bad apple, the villain in this mess. Bush is clean. Bush is going to smoke the Evil One out of his hole. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 18:38:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: I always figured it took more than no lips, bandy legs and a stunning lack of intelligence to be president. Or even president*.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 18:09:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, I don't know that Glint is really necessary. I think the crynic did a fine job of expressing the stereotype right-wing loonball point of view.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 18:02:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree. This crisis calls for the heartland wisdom of a clueless rube.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 17:58:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wish Glint was well. He's spin this thing jusst right! Kind of like spinning that he's in a cast because of a "rush hour fender bender."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 17:56:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where's Karen Hughes? Time to come out of retirement.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 17:50:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: But, but, Bush was chosen by God.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 17:47:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: America lowered expectations for Bush and raised them for Gore. Piper collects his due.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 17:45:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, you ingrates, don't look at me. Clinton's the one you want. I wasn't even elected, for crissakes! Pass the pretzels!
W
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 17:40:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Some relatives of Sept. 11 victims are seething over revelations that President Bush got advance warnings -- not shared with the public -- that Osama bin Laden's terror network might hijack U.S. planes. "My wife, had she known, would not have taken that flight," said Stephen Push, whose wife of 21 years, Lisa Raines, was killed aboard the hijacked plane that hit the Pentagon. "It's shameful that they know as much as they did and didn't warn anyone," said Push, of Great Falls, Va. "They put the business interests of the airlines above the lives of the citizens." Several relatives expressed hope Thursday that the revelations would intensify pressure for a high-powered investigation into possible intelligence and security failures preceding the attacks. "For the safety of ourselves and our fellow citizens, we want an investigation to make sure something like Sept. 11 never, ever happens again," said Kristin Breitweiser, whose husband, Ronald, died at the World Trade Center. She is part of group of Sept. 11 widows from New Jersey who are organizing a rally for victims' families and friends on June 11 at the U.S. Capitol. The purpose is to support a bill introduced by Sens. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., and John McCain, R-Ariz., that would establish a national commission to investigate the attacks. "I want accountability," Breitweiser said. Breitweiser said she became convinced shortly after the attacks that U.S. authorities mishandled clues that could have helped avert the carnage. She also contended that Bush, if he had received private advance warnings, should have acted more decisively at the first signs of trouble on Sept. 11. "They said they couldn't connect the dots, but once the dots were connected and the picture was drawn on the morning of 9/11, why did they do nothing?" she asked. "Why was the president allowed to sit for 35 minutes with a group of second graders when this country was under attack?" Donn Marshall of Marbury, Md., whose wife, Shelley, died at the Pentagon, also questioned Bush' actions. "It sort of makes you wonder where the get-tough president was when he was getting all this information, why they didn't react act more vigorously," Marshall said. "The notion that American planes might be hijacked, that should have caused more concern, even if we didn't think that they might be flown into things." Bill Doyle of New York City, whose son, Joseph, was killed in the World Trade Center, said he has received numerous phone calls from other victims' relatives, all distraught over the recent revelations. "I believe our whole government let people down," he said. "It's shocking, every time you turn on the TV, to see what's coming out in the wash." "If our president was told in August, someone had to drop the ball at the airports," Doyle said. "Were they alerted by the FBI or the CIA?" He suggested Bush make a personal statement that would address the families' concerns. Yet some relatives refused to blame Bush or his administration for any security lapses. "The groundwork for us winding up with a weak CIA and FBI, the weakening of our defense systems based on political correctness and expediency, happened long before Bush took office," said Sally Regenhard, whose son, Christian, was among the firefighters killed in New York. She strongly endorsed the push for a high-level investigation. "It's too late now for my son," she said. "But I do want to make the country safe. Right now, we're not there." Theresa Riccardelli, whose husband, Francis, was killed at the World Trade Center, said she would reserve judgment on Bush until she gathered more information. "A lot of this is hindsight, and nothing can change the fact that my husband isn't coming back," said Riccardelli, of Westwood, N.J. "But it will be interesting to watch over the next couple of months, and find out what they knew and what they did or didn't do." Peggy Neff, who lost her partner of 17 years, Sheila Hein, at the Pentagon, said the government probably could not have done more to prevent the attacks. "Could they? I doubt it," said Neff, of Hyattsville, Md. "It's time to put aside the anger ... it's time to start the grieving process properly so that we can find closure."
bunch of whiners
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 17:26:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: The crynic brings up some interesting historical conjecture. It has nothing to do with what Snippy knew and when he knew it, but it's still pretty good stuff.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 17:24:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: This has Clinton's jism all over it.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 17:00:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Call me when they find the jism.
Glimpse Dimly
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 16:57:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't blame Snippy. Blame his puppet master.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 16:56:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, if a hijacked plane crashes into Camden Yards tomorrow, it will be Clinton's fault for ignoring verifiable info regarding attacks as far back as 1999. This will be true even if it's later discovered Snippy was warned about it today. See, Clinton dissolved the U.S. Army and without the Army our ass is grass. Cheney has the right idea. Go underground.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 16:40:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: They did it too, maybe!!
GOP
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 16:36:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: The buck stops there.
W
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 16:32:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: One problem crynic. It didn't happen while Clinton was President. What Clinton knew, Bush should have known as well. "Not only did Clinton ignore the warnings, but he tried to dismantle the military." How does this change the fact that this happened on Bush's watch, not Clinton's. Let the blame fall where it may.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 16:27:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, Snippy's in the clear on this one? Whew! I always figured it was up to Clinton to heed last summer's warnings. Thanks, my brother. Keep reading the Freep! P.O.W.!!!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 16:24:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, dude, that doesn't sum it up. Both the CIA and the Israelis provided verifiable info regarding attacks as far back as 1999. Not only did Cliton ignore the warnings, he tried to dismantle the military. Guess he had an agenda that didn't include the duties of Commander in Chief. Don't be a fool - ALL YOUR LIFE.
the crynic
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 15:46:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's a good one, the crynic. Let's see if I got this straight. Clinton and his band were warned last summer about Al-Qaida hijacking planes while Bush was president*. Does that about sum it up, dude? Personally, I'm all for giving Snippy the same benefit of the doubt Clinton would be given by you in similar circumstances, my brother.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 15:20:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: liberal intelligence? Oxymoron to the nth degree. / / / Clinton and his band of hypocrites were warned time and again about an attack. Guess he was too busy renting out the WH, or covering up his misdeeds, or selling pardons, or obstrucing justice, or cutting a book deal, or spooging in the oval office sink. Even you liberal spinmeisters can't dodge that bullet. Sit and spin on this.
the crynic
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 15:12:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: There WAS evidence that planes were going to be suicide bombers. There is no way for anyone to coverup this mammoth failure ! I hope that the loved ones of the 9/11 casulaties come to fully understand that their people died because of this administrations failure to perform! There is blame for everyone,Republican and Democrat. John O'Neill, an FBI agent who had the goods on Bin Laden was thwarted from following through because of the Bush family wealthy oil connections. History will see this mess for what it is.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 14:54:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wow! Osama and his terrorist buddies repeatedly attacked us throughout the Clinton years and it's a huge surprise that they were going to continue their terrorism?!??
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 14:45:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: BFD. If clinton had not screwed up our intel so bad we may have stood a chance. This all falls on clinton and his staff. clinton should be tried for treason.
posted at the freep
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 14:41:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: I knew Glint would come in with a distraction. No, Glint, Enrongate continues to percolate but now we've got Terrorgate taking center stage. Kind of like when Travelgate and Filegate were going on simultaneously except, uh, real.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 14:31:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's the matter, Enron has four flat tires, eh?
Glint
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 14:15:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: BUSH KNEW OF HIJACK THREAT "THEY KNEW BIN LADEN WAS A THREAT BUT DID NOTHING" GOP Mantra Since 9/11 After months of blaming the Clinton administration for not capturing Osama bin Laden, it is now reported that the Bush administration knew of specific threats involving possible hijackings by members of bin Laden's terrorist network in the weeks before 9/11. The questions this new information raises will number in the hundreds (how many will be asked by the media may only number in the single digits). But there are the obvious: Given that Republicans have been blaming Clinton for not acting aggressively enough against bin Laden, why did the Bush administration not act swiftly and certainly, signaling intent to overturn the Taliban and al Qaida as a result of the intelligence prior to 9/11? (This might be waved off as an administration reluctant to overreact - but not overreacting is precisely what they have been accusing the last administration of doing since the attacks.) In lieu of initiating war in Afghanistan at that time, why did the administration do nothing to at least fortify airport security until it was too late? Why didn't they tell the American people? Were they seeking to avoid prompting public concern that would result in regulations or policies unfriendly to pro-Bush special interests, beginning with the airline industry? One quasi-excuse offered so far is that they did not know the planes would be used as missiles. What kind of excuse is that? Thousands might not be killed - only hundreds - so therefore there was no need to act? As for the claim itself, are they telling us it never occurred to anyone in the Bush administration, the FBI, or the CIA that hijacked planes could be deliberately aimed at buildings and/or crash into them unintentionally? Ari Fleischer obfuscates: "I will tell you there was, of course, a general awareness of Osama bin Laden and threats around the world, including the United States; and if you recall, last summer we publicly alerted and gave a warning about potential threats on the Arabian peninsula," Fleischer said. "That included long-standing speculation about hijacking in the traditional sense, but not involving suicide bombers using airplanes as missiles." "We kinda sorta had a general sense, somewhere in the world, routine, blah blah blah." No, Ari. You had specific information, and Bush had specific information, involving specific threats of specific actions by specific groups in specific places - namely the United States of America. From this specific information, specific actions that would have hurt Bush with supporting special interests could have been and should have been taken. This is an outrage, and we hope the Media Whores will finally start asking serious - deadly serious - questions of Bush and his fingerpointing, unaccountable, unelected regime.
Clinton wrote the memo, and that's why they ignored it?
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 14:08:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Congress should investigate this, it could all be Clinton's fault.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 14:05:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Possible intelligence failure? Duh. Duh-bya. They was warned, they ignored it, probably because the warning was written by a liberal. Oops. Sorry. Of course it's the liberals who have the intelligence since they embody it, do they not?
Horror on duh-bya's watch
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 14:02:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like the traiter is the one posting contents from the secret report here. You do have access to the report? You're not just feeding us a line of jeese are you? Traiter? The only defense a traitor has is to let Congress investigate. Then we will know if its a line of jeese.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 14:02:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush Lite: asleep at the switch. What else is new. More incompetence from the un-President.
actually he was asleep before he even came to the switch.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 13:48:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Congress is escalating its inquiry into possible intelligence failures before Sept. 11, including two incidents involving the FBI. In one of the cases, an FBI agent in Phoenix made a "strong connection" between a group of Middle Eastern aviation students and bin Laden's al-Qaida network two months before last year's terrorist attacks, according to a senior U.S. official who has read the memo written by the agent. The agent was so concerned that he mentioned bin Laden in the first sentence of a five-page CLASSIFIED memorandum submitted to FBI headquarters, which suggested that terrorists from al-Qaida or other groups might be using flight schools to prepare for a hijacking or bombing plot, several officials said.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 13:44:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like the traiter is the one posting contents from the secret report here. You do have access to the report? You're not just feeding us a line of jeese are you?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 13:40:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why, that's like asking Dick Cheney to release information on how Enron put together the energy policy*.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 13:39:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, are you suggesting the administration* actually release the FBI report? For public scrutiny? TRAITOR!!!!!!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 13:38:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not over my dead body will you ever see that report.
W
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 13:37:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Please post a link to the transcript of the FBI report. We'd rather read that than your pinch-filtered version.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 13:33:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course not. Why would anyone suspect bin Ladenoids of wanting to kill Americans. Oh, sure, they were going to hijack a plane, maybe kill some passengers, make a few demands. But, hey, that kind of thing used to happen all the time. I admire the administration* for stonewalling on this one. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 13:32:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Arab flight students interested only in flying the plane. They were not interested in learning takeoff or landing. FBI warned about these students. CIA warned of hijacking plot involving OBL. Yet, intelligence could not put these two ideas together and envision a suicide mission involving an aircraft.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 13:09:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: So what was the president* supposed to do, huh? Tighten up security at the airports? Check out ragheads at flight schools? Go public with it? Please! Back then, Snip's numbers were pretty shitty but he was working on a scheme to Enronize, er, privatize, Social Security. He was developing a comprehensive energy plan. His daughters were peddling their asses for booze and lines of coke on the streets of Laredo. Baseball season was just heating up. His staff was washing the grafitti that Clinton's whores wrote all over the walls. There were no W keys on the computers. Pardongate was the big priority. Who had time to follow up on some racist FBI agent's paranoia?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:32:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: FBI had warning, CIA had warning, where was Condoleeza Rice?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:24:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint will be here to spin this as another non-news story.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:23:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean the guy in Phoenix went over his boss's head and e-mailed his report to Ari who gave it to Bush who just sat on it?
doubt it
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:22:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: "But a suicide attack involving an aircraft was never envisioned." What kind of excuse is this? Why was it never envisioned? I believe that should have been considered even before the warnings.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:22:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree about the liberal bias in the press. Luckily, everybody knows about it so it has zero effect. We see it and we chuckle.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:19:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree. What right does he have to create a concern about plane hijackings by Osama bin Laden? It's like blowing smoke. And you know what they say about smoke? It usually doesn't indicate fire.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:17:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Since none of the terrorists took flying lessons in Arizona, it looks like that agent was full of shit and should be fired ASAP.
'nuff said
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:14:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Liberal bias in the press is hard to supress. It's just like crabgrass.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:13:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like Clinton was asleep at the switch again.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:12:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: How'd the guy in Phoenix get the phone number for the White House?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:11:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: My favorite was the one about which is more destructive, an airliner or an atomic bomb.
.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:08:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Some call it haole logic, anonymous. Others just think of the Afghan rail system and the rice-growing West Africans and call it stupidity.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:07:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: The big spin machines? You mean Murdoch's New York Post? What's it spinning, dope, other than a nice sensational headline? Such a rube is the wedgie-man. You're right, though, about the plans. The only guy who said they might be planning to fly the airplanes into the World Trade Center was the FBI agent in Phoenix that the Bush operation brushed off.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:04:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: President Bush and his top advisers were informed by the CIA early last August that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden had discussed the possibility of hijacking airplanes, according to reliable sources. "The information, given to Bush as part of his daily intelligence report, lacked specific details about how the terrorist plans would be carried out, the sources said. The White House said last night that law enforcement agencies were quietly placed on alert as a result of the intelligence....A CIA spokesman said the agency routinely passed on intelligence citing the possibility that al Qaeda might be planning to hijack an airliner as part of a terrorist action against the United States. But a suicide attack involving an aircraft was never envisioned, the spokesman said."
sort of runs contrary to the headlines of the big spin machines <but i thought bush had a copy of the hijackers flight plans and crash points?>
nope, sorry dimwits!, - Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 11:50:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rather than "perjury trap", can't you say "wiley investigative tactic?"
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 11:33:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: No doubt about it, dogs love jizzum. You don't believe me? Try it yourself, here boy! Dogs just naturally crave any source of protein. At least file this nugget of information away somewhere. It could save your life someday. When the FBI asks you, "where's the jizzum s'posed to be on this blue dress?" you can say, "why, the dog ate it." Best thing about it is if they get hot about and you get dragged in front of a judge, you can tell him the same thing. No perjury trap need apply because it's the truth.
Dr. J
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 11:23:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: The president* has a lot on his plate. At least he probably wasn't getting a blowjob when he got the "warning," although this should naturally be investigated. I say, no blowjob, no foul.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 11:11:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd say it's the citizens' fault more than Snippy. Where were the people who should have been out videotaping swarthy people looking at skyscrapers? Off on safari, that's where. Off living the hedonistic meaningless life of the playboy.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 10:53:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Right. Our intelligence people can't be chasing down every rabbit hole. Doesn't the FBI, for instance, have plenty of more important things to do, like closing down dope clubs in California and making sure the Oregon right to die law doesn't get rolling? Who's going to locate the calico cats if all the agents are off snooping after Arabs?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 10:51:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's relax, people! The way I read this is, sure, Dubya knew that Osama bin Laden's people would hijack planes but the memo didn't say what would happen next. There was no reason for anyone to react to such a sort of vague warning. Let's roll.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 10:24:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Once we smoke The Evil One out, all this silliness will be forgotten.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 09:59:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: We have met the enemy and he has bandy legs.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 09:57:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://nypost.com/images/front051602.gif
$100, $350 with frame
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 09:36:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: The liberal spin on this story is typical of the media. Tomorrow morning's Washington Times and the Wall Street Journal editorial will explain how it's all Hillary's fault
Glimpse Dimly
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 04:02:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think he ignored the warnings because we'd all been shot, just like in the movie. But wait a minute... we hadn't all been shot yet. This is too confusing. I'm going to my safe room, built on the advice of my Jew (we all have a Jew) and think this over.... it can't mean that character isn't king, can it?
Peggy Noonan
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 04:00:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, even so, it's nice to know that the bandy-legged little phrase-mangler is a real leader. It's nice to know that real men are splicing cable, while the girly men won't even get out of the car to change the tires, or something.
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- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 03:57:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, Snippy knew of the hijackings in advance. He never thought, however, that it would lead to such inconvenience in the Tri-State Area.
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- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 03:56:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Remember Snippy's words of wisdom, "The invisible part of everything that you thought you could see, you can't see."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 03:15:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Enron Lawyer: Calif. Moves Deceptive (AP) - Enron Corp.'s energy trading practices in California were deceptive and possibly illegal, a lawyer hired by the company to review its activities in the state said Wednesday. In testimony before the Senate Commerce consumer affairs subcommittee, Stephen Hall said he told Enron officials of his concerns in a face-to-face meeting in December 2000.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 00:04:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush was in Crawford on vacation.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 00:00:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cut Snippy some slack. He ignored the warnings because of...well...because of Clinton, that's how come.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 23:52:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shit. Back to work.
Zogby
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 22:26:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: What, and ruin a perfectly good opportunity to sell a collection of 9/11 pictures to raise money for the RNC?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 22:24:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: They knew? Why didn't they do anything about it?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 22:23:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: White House says it was briefed before September 11 that al Qaeda would attempt to hijack airliners...Developing
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 22:21:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can't believe it either. How could anyone win against Gerald Ford, the inventor of the the celebrated WIN button.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 20:31:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: A cynic might wonder how the likes of Jimmy Carter ever became President. The answer is Time Magazine, which put the obscure-but-liberal Georgia governor on its cover four times in a successful effort to play king-maker. (Johnny Carson likewise made obscure, failed Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and his saxophone a star on the Tonight Show, and has lately taken to voicing his distaste for patriotism associated with the War on Terrorism.) Time nowadays owns CNN, popularly known as the Clinton and/or Castro News Network for its relentless far-Left slant. The Media Research Center recently described CNN as a "propaganda tool for Fidel Castro�s government" and a "megaphone for a dictator." CNN, of course, is the half-brainchild of Ted Turner (former husband of Hanoi Jane Fonda), who once boasted aloud to Chinese leaders that he, like them, was a socialist.
Winner of the "Mara Liasson Eyebrows" prize for week of May 13
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 20:28:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: How about "He's an Asshole, Yeah, Big-time, Hey, Is This Thing On?" Sort of a buddy picture, you know, a couple of frat brothers shooting the shit? They don't all have to be marvelous shots of heroic moments. Another good defining moment picture would be the pretzel wound, another angle on how the prez shakes off adversity and keeps plugging.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 19:53:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean in the same series as "It Takes a Big Man to Apologize- an Even Bigger Man to Apologize Twice?" The photo of George handing the apology letter to the Chinese Ambassador?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 18:51:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: The best from the '60's was "Pom-pon Girls like it Rough", featuring the Deke House boys and the head Dekette. For the presidency* years I'll take "Smoothies Tip Big -- George, Karl, and Colin decide how much to pay the Chinese for feeding the spy-plane crew."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 18:49:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Piss patina copper frame.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 18:24:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll take the "Dancing Naked on the Table, 1963" series, in the textured matte "oil" finish and patina copper frame.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 18:23:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: I choose the one with the yellow clown gloves.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 18:16:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's President* Deer In The Headlights to you, traitor!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 16:52:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Limited Addition #1290 "Deer in the Headlights, 9/11"
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 16:33:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd trade the whole set for one photo of Brandon with a big one cumming from a mysterious astronomer.
Dr. J
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 15:54:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd trade the whole set for on photo of Cheney talking to Ken Lay at an undisclosed location.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 15:46:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Former President Clinton is not a stranger to controversy and he's at the center of it.. It's what he had to say about Al Gore's bid for the presidency that is raising eyebrows, MSNBC reported on Tuesday. Clinton: "He hasn't told me yet whether he's [Al Gore] going to run. If he does, of course, at the outset he would be the frontrunner, but I think he recognizes that under these circumstances, like every other Democrat, he'll have to make his case, but obviously he's got a lot of friends around America and a lot of people that know we won the popular vote last time and a lot of people think we won the vote in Florida last time. I'm one of them."
Go, Bill, go!
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 15:26:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll bet Yasir Arafat is getting all three pictures for free.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 15:23:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Limited Edition #1289 "Coolness Under Fire, 9/11" - $100, $350 with frame. President Junior calmly consulting with Vice-President Cheney by special telephone from Air Force One, while under attack by imaginary Arab blimp flotilla.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 15:15:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Limited Edition #1288 "Bolting for the Bunker, 9/11" - $100, $350 with frame.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 15:10:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: How much do I have to cough up for a night of "eating pretzels" with Frat-Boy?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 14:54:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Limited Edition #1287 "Scared Shitless Over Kansas, 9/11" - $100, $350 with frame.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 14:40:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: And they said Clinton had no class.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 14:16:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let me get this straight. Democrats are supposed to stifle objections and smile adoringly at President Bush whenever the subject is the war on terrorism. Anything else would be downright unpatriotic. But the G.O.P. can bathe Mr. Bush in a beatific commander-in-chief light, exploiting the war on terrorism to sweep more Republicans into office, guarantee the president's reelection and gild the party coffers. Anything else would be downright dumb - at least in a political jungle ruled by King Karl. (Nobody is even supposed to point out that Osama and the Evildoers are still out there. At this rate I expect Barbara Walters to find them before Tommy Franks does.) So now the White House gets caught peddling 9/11 commemorative photos. With all the class of a 1:30 a.m. infomercial for an electronic ab stimulator, the G.O.P. pitched donors, for a bargain price, a pictorial triptych of W.'s "defining moments." A letter to contributors hawked the goods Franklin Mint style: "Specially commissioned, individually numbered and matted, this limited edition series is yours free for serving as an honorary co-chairman of the 2002 President's Dinner with your gift of $150 or more." See W. take the oath of office! See W. deliver his first State of the Union address! And, if you act now, see W. aboard Air Force One in the hours after the terrorist attack, talking to the vice president! Fortunately for the Republicans, it's a photo and not a video. Otherwise we might hear the president nervously inquiring of his adult supervisor, "Hey, Dick, is it safe to come home yet?" Even putting aside the fact that this "heroic" image captures the shaky hours before the president found his footing and his mission in life, a day of blank fear when Washington received no guidance from its leaders, it obliterates the White House's professed principle of not using Sept. 11 to divide. Instead, Bushies are using that dark and sacred day to divide and conquer. "At best, it is in very poor taste," says a Democratic official, Jim Jordan. "At worst, it feels sacrilegious." Al Gore, who had his own fund-raising photo problems at the Buddhist temple, relished the role reversal: "While most pictures are worth a thousand words, a photo that seeks to capitalize on one of the most tragic moments in our nation's history is worth only one - disgraceful." Bill Maher, who believes his ABC show "Politically Incorrect" got canceled because he got in trouble with the White House patriotism police for his post-9/11 gibes, said dryly, alluding to the Florida election standoff: "It's the inaugural photo that is exploiting a tragedy." Asked if merchandising 9/11 was "morally correct," the never-illuminating Bush press secretary, Ari Fleischer, replied that "no objections were raised" by the White House to the party's use of the pictures. "Any picture taken of the president in that context is a reminder of how this president has brought the nation together, Democrats and Republicans alike," he added, transforming a red-handed moment of partisanship into a glad-handing moment of bipartisanship. Mr. Bush went to a Republican party gala last night and raised a record $30 million. It was at the same gala two years ago that Mr. Bush vowed to change the tone in Washington and end "excessive partisanship" and what he cast as the craven tactics of the Clinton administration. In his campaign, he vowed that he wouldn't put the Lincoln Bedroom up for sale. So he shouldn't put one of the worst days in our nation's history on the block, either. The Bush crowd has a glaring double standard when it comes to opportunistic use of catastrophes. A Times article this week suggested that this White House is politicizing all foreign affairs, which are measured and molded according to Karl Rove's electoral algorithms. Between the lines of the complaints about Mr. Rove's rising influence, one could detect a pouting Powell. The secretary seems to have a bad case of Rove rage. The idea that foreign policy has never been infected with domestic politics is extremely disingenuous. Especially in this administration, in which politics is everywhere and all the realms and all the portfolios run self-interestedly into each other like sauces on a plate of enchiladas.
Go, Mo, go
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 14:11:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is starting to sound awfully familiar. Do you suppose whatever disease MK had is catching?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 13:58:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Spill it now, Glint, or deal with Ashcroft's Army.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 13:52:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nobody can really "clam up" now that John Ashcroft is in charge of draping the stone nipples at the DOJ, and the Bill of Rights has been trumped by the patriotism act. I've got a feeling that after all these years of hollaring about jack-booted thugs, Glint may finally meet some.
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- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 13:51:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fender bender?
doubt it
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 13:47:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Details, that's what we need. Damage report. Injury report. Where's the cast? Brain damage? You can run but you can't hide.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 13:46:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: He sure clammed up on that one.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 13:36:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: He's not talking about the kid anymore. It's over.
Father Shanley
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 13:34:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, so the man is a sick pervert... isn't anyone ever going to let him forget? Let him put that into Dr. Jism and keep the name Breightly clean?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 12:27:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Some story. What probably happened is Brandon's dad came over and broke a bone or two for him, a little lesson in the virtuous life.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 12:00:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: What he probably did was swing wide to the right to open space for a left turn, like a Nebraska shit-kicker turning into the pig-house driveway. Yo, dude, this is the megalopolis, anybody home? Gee dingy, where did all these cars come from?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 11:58:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Drunk driving in Rush hour traffic is probably not a wise activity for the weak-blooded. You should take a bus or maybe save your boozing for the dome.
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- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 11:55:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rush hour fender bender. Don't worry, I got the worst of it.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 11:20:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thanks for the update, Glint. Did something happen?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 10:03:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: "PANICKED G.O.P. STRATEGY: HIDE FACT THAT DUBYA CREW "IDIOTS" Keep It "In Private" Republic Party Tyrannized by Rove, Bush Don't Tell, Don't Tell Policy -- Just Whisper Among Yourselves// In a revealing article on Republic Party plans for the 2002 election, the Los Angeles Times reports that G.O.P. leaders have learned -- and been told -- to keep mum in public about the moronic Bush Administration.// "You do it in private," said Richard Norton Smith, director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. Smith added that figures at the highest levels of the Administration "don't like to be told in public that they're idiots." The Times report also reveals that the Bush White House is peculiarly vindictive, even to fellow right-wing Republicans, when it receives public criticism. "They have a view of politics as warfare greater than other administrations," one Republican strategist told the Times. "So they don't tolerate it at all when conservatives criticize them." "In this White House, if you criticize the president, the White House will put you on the list of 'outsiders,'" said another prominent Republican. And so, the Times reports, Republic Party leaders from Tom DeLay to Rush Limbaugh to Gary Bauer find themselves treading lightly when they go public with their thoughts about the President. Mustn't tell the country what it already knows -- that the Bush Administration is a rudderless disaster." Well, at least some Republican have noticed the Bushistas are morons. Guess that means some pubbies are at least half-wits.
Eleanor Zorobbkin� (Mrs. Earle D.)
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 09:54:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tuesday's gone with the wind. Thank the Lord. Chysler was involved. Wearing a cast. Muscle relaxers. Downloading Lynyrd Skkynyrd.....(Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 09:41:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Which famed progressive media pundit was the first to out Ann Coulter as a a nutty, slutty Arab fag hag?
Father Mullaley
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 09:32:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: DUBYA PLAYS 9/11 HORROR AND SACRIFICE -- FOR GAGS! And Even Then He's Lying So Why Won't ANY Of The Media Whores Report This Nauseating Shocker? Two MWO readers have done a little investigating into George W. Bush's disgusting use of the terrorist atrocities of September 11 as a self-serving gag line in his speeches -- a line that also cloaks one of Bush's biggest political lies since his elevation in 2000. Reader D. Wright has uncovered at least eight (8!) occasions on which Bush made light of the horror and brave sacrifice of September 11, referring to the events at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania as part of hitting the political "trifecta." And reader Brian Broadus has passed along an excellent article by Jonathan Chait in The New Republic, explaining that Bush's tasteless "trifecta" "joke" advances a huge lie -- that Bush promised, during the 2000 campaign, not to touch Social Security funds or go into deficit spending except in case of war, recession, or national emergency. In fact, Bush NEVER qualified his pledge not to touch the Social Security funds, much less go into deficit spending. Here are EIGHT INSTANCES of George W. Bush making his tasteless "trifecta" joke. What the hell is funny about thousands of innocents dead? D Wright ---------------- Taft for Governor Luncheon, Ohio, May 10, 2002 Obviously, we've got budget matters. You know, when I was running for President, in Chicago, somebody said, would you ever have deficit spending? I said, only if we were at war, or only if we had a recession, or only if we had a national emergency. Never did I dream we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.) Remarks at GOP Luncheon, February 27, 2002 You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.) But we're fine. Remarks at Fisher for Governor Reception, April 3rd, 2002 I remember campaigning in Chicago one time, and the guy said, would you ever deficit spend? I said, well, only if we were at war, or the country was in recession, or there was a national emergency. (Laughter.) I didn't realize we were going to get the trifecta. (Laughter.) We're dealing with the issue of our economy, and I want you to know that we're dealing with the issue of war and our national emergency, as well. Remarks at the Graham for Senate Luncheon - Greenville, SC, March 27, 2002 I was campaigning in Chicago one time and a fellow said, would you ever allow for deficit spending, would that ever enter your vocabulary? I said, well, under certain circumstances: only if we're at war or there was a national emergency or there was a recession. Little did I realize we'd draw the trifecta. Remarks at Saxby Chambliss for Senate Dinner - Atlanta, GA, March 27, 2002 I'll never forget one time in Chicago when a reporter said, would you ever deficit spend? And I said, well, only -- only if we were at war, only if there were a national emergency, or only if there is a recession. Never did I believe we'd get the trifecta. But we're dealing with it. Remarks at Victory 2002 Event, March 29th, 2002 You know, when I was campaigning in Chicago, in the general election, somebody said, would you ever deficit spend? I said, well, only if we were at war, or there was a national emergency, or we were in a recession. Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. April 16th, 2002 The recession -- no question, I remember when I was campaigning, I said, would you ever deficit spend? And I said, yes, only if there were a time of war, or recession, or a national emergency. Never thought we'd get -- And so we have a temporary deficit in our budget, because we are at war, we're recovering, our economy is recovering, and we've had a national emergency. Never did I dream we'd have the trifecta. Remarks at Heather Wilson for Congress Luncheon, April 29th, 2002 You know, when I was campaigning in Chicago one time, they said, would you ever have a deficit? I said, I hope not. I said, I think it's important for us to make -- to work hard to have a balanced budget. But I said, yes, I'd have a deficit if I were the President only if we were at war, or in a recession, or in times of emergency. I didn't think I was going to draw the trifecta. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just a reminder, The New Republic has continually pointed out that, during his campaign, Bush never once qualified his pledge not to delve into the Social Security trust fund, much less descend into deficit spending. Not for war, national emergency, famine, frogs from heaven, mass murder of the firstborn, or nothin', according to a recent issue. There is NO RECORD of his putting conditions on his pledge. He made it up after things got bad -- even before September 11 -- hoping that no one would beat him to death on it. Some news type ought to bring it up at every press conference until he can cite such a remark prior to his "election." As TNR points out, he even added a condition to his busting the budget to get to the "trifecta," apparently because it makes for a better punch line. Sort of like joking about condemning someone to death.
Lick Bush!
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 09:21:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ted Nugent and his missus on Fox and Friends this morning. Never cared much for his spastic guitar playing, but he makes a pretty good talk show guest. Talking about giving Hillary a head star into the woods and then going im with bow & arrow. My view is that sticks and feather would be a definite imporovement. Nugent has a new book he's promoting, "Kill it and Grill it."
Glint
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 09:08:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: But just think... this century we're getting our Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Hoobert Heever all rolled into one bandy-legged little guy right in the first four years. With that out of the way the rest of the century will be a cake-walk.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 04:50:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: We might all be doomed, guy, but the boys in the country clubs can all afford a new set of Ben Hogans this year, what with the tax cut for the wealthy. Every disaster has a silver lining for somebody.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 04:47:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Essay of the Week, on the Free Republic web page. That is something to aspire to. A man could go to the tomb content if he knew he'd reached that pinnacle. Or, alternatively, if he could scrawl a shopping list, that too would be something for a full-moon troglodyte to aspire to. Maybe some day Pete will make it. Weirder things have happened. For example, look who's trying to be president, developing personal relationships with honest-eyed President Putin and land-loving farmer Crown Prince Abdullah. Are we all doomed here or what?
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 04:45:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: What I don't get is how an Open Letter could even qualify for Essay of the Week. Since when is an open letter and essay? I don't think it's fair to the pensive essayists to have to compete with the glib wankers who write open letters. Let's have an even playing field, at least in THIS matter!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 00:12:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're full of shit, dot-fuck. Fourth-grader my ass! That open letter could have pulled a C-minus at any Bible college from Wheaton to Bob Jones. Shit, I'll bet it could have pulled one at a number of legit colleges in Maryland, even.
black republican
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 23:28:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know, I remember reading something like that, over on the freep. Stirred up a hornet's nest of lunatics talking about how they didn't WANT the government to get more tax revenue. I remember thinking that the fourth-grader who wrote it should submit it for "essay of the week", although it didn't seem like the sort of philosophy they like to promote on the freep. Sometimes the troglodytes will take a promising youngster under their wing to train, even if he does get everything backasswards at first.
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- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 23:25:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: You guys don't know what you're talking about. I happen to know, through perusal of various Open Letters, that the Republican plan is NOT to bankrupt the nation but to increase tax revenues by lowering taxes. Evidently you poor fools haven't been let in on the secret. Grow a brain. Doink.
Rance Pilburton
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 23:21:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snipponomics? Is that what this is?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 23:19:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: The idea was to blame the economy on Carter, not the A-rab oil cartel. The idea was to get him out and start writing bad checks while bankrupting the Treasury. It was called Reaganomics...as if that was a good thing. Oh, by the way...we're doing it again.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 22:39:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Please! Listen to Carter???? That would have interfered with demonizing him. Get real!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 22:36:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know, it was carter who first started ringing the alarm bell about terrorism. Nobody listened. we got 12 years of republican isolationism and then 8 years of ken star. Enough time to raise an entire generation of terroists from the ground up.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 22:32:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: I always suspected the NY Times of riling up the Cubanos. It seemed so out of ethnic character at the time.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 21:27:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: It is important to identify the two groups. Once Ashcroft has the Bill of Rights dismantled, when the socialists get back in Daschle can arrest the ilk of Pete�, McVeigh, etc. and throw them in the pokey without trial. Finally hose out the stables.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 20:22:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Drudge has a link to a National Review OL story about how the the Elian riots in Miami were caused by a New York Times photographer trying to rile the Cubanos up to make them look bad. This photographer is also evidently responsible for the Intifada, or at least the Bethlehem part of it. Carry on, Troglodyte Press.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 20:06:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Am I right in thinking there are more right-wing nuts in America nowadays, or are they just noisier than they used to be? How much of it is just rattle-headed rubes like Glint and the crynic listening to the radio too much, and how much of it is deep social pathology as represented by a Pete� or a David Koresh?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 19:18:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who needs Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare when you have that group? Who needs Mill, Adam Smith, or the founding fathers? Who needs Voltaire or, hell, who needs any sort of enlightenment whatsoever? The right-wing ideal of going back to a world populated by nothing but mean knuckle-draggers like Coulter and Olson and Buchanan and confused dippy floozies like Noonan is good enough for me, and this is the library to take along.
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- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 19:10:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think it's a must-read list for troglodytes. It's called preaching to the choir and I love it when the choir pays money to people who agree with them.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 18:58:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Customers who bought [Slander : Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann Coulter] also bought: - Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson by Kenneth R. Timmerman - Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg - The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House by Barbara Olson - The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization by Patrick J. Buchanan - When Character Was King : A Story of Ronald Reagan by Peggy Noonan
sounds like an excellent summer reading list for the good guys
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 18:44:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: A man would be a fool to stay outside the bubble during a Bush presidency. Burned by his old man, I'm not going to be burned by him, any more than necessary. It's analagous to wartime, when a man would be a fool to go into military service.
clymer
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 18:36:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: sleepy little man
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 18:35:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did Snippy catch Osama yet?
Rip Van Winkle
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 18:32:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: And these are the people Clinton gave the Panama Canal to, and the San Pedro Navel Station. Couldn't he restrict his infidelities to good, terrorist-bashing Serbs?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 18:30:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who's carping? Everybody should have a Ken Starr to monitor his infidelities and intended infidelities. Unfortunately, there are not enough free-lance loon-balls to go around, so Glint does not have to worry about staining the dress. Ching-Ling can take it home and make an alter of it, for all the FBI will ever know.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 18:27:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like it's preparing to storm here. Clouds are getting dark and the streetlights are swaying in the breeze. Nice to finally have an office with a view, inside of the bubble.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 18:03:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yep, still carping about Ken Starr. Unable to move on.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 17:58:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: angry little man
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 17:41:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Chin to ankle in horsehide sounds about right.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 17:41:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now he's bragging about his intended infidelities. Worried that someone might send a dress to the FBI if he spills, as if that is something the federal government did to American citizens when not prodded by a vast conspiracy. Don't worry, Glint, only a few loonballs like Kenneth Starr and Larry Klayman care if you poke the former underling. You have to be a threat to the lunatic right wing to rate the guy in the cigar suit.
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- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 17:39:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: What difference does it make?
Dr. J
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 16:46:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's the excuse I always use to stick my hand down a girl's pants. I say, "Just had to make sure you were really a girl." The uglier girls seem to be genuinely flattered.
Dick Glans
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 16:44:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Are you sure the Asian is a girl and not a he-she?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 16:37:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: I was sitting at my desk minding my own business trying to wolf down a sandwish when the phone rang. It was former asian girl #1 (redgirl1.jpg) calling from downstairs. She had swung by looking for a lunch date. Looks like we might be getting together again, maybe Friday. She's doing o.k. but needs a little encouragement. This looks like a good opportunity to minister to someone. Just have to be careful not to splash the sacrimental fluids onto the duds like the slick Willy did.
Dr. J
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 16:22:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: The queer and the steer. Moooooooooooo!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 16:17:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've seen Matt and Ann in together in public before, in person. They make a cute couple, he in his fidora and she dressed chin to ankle in leather. Rrrrrow!
Glint
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 16:14:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is the trifecta thing Bush was talking about to get all the laughs, so try and get a clue: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,132413,00.html
Glint
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 16:10:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd cornhole that mule. If my regular mule needed a rest, and the dachs was chasing mice.
Glimpse
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 16:07:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: She do have a sharp tongue...maybe it will slip, go south a bit.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 16:03:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Matt Drudge was drooling at the mouth over Ann....and her book.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 15:53:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: You've got to question the judgement of someone who would put a picture of herself looking like a corn-holed mule on the front of her book.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 15:53:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: A coherent statement such as, "Listen, I deeply hurt when there is a lack of hope for moms and dads of anybody."
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 15:51:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm going to wait until the Cliff's Notes come out.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 15:51:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hmmm, a book by Ann Coulter explaining why she hates the New York Times? Sounds like a real winner. Something every troglodyte will want to take to the beach this summer. She's even included a blooper by Janet Reno! This sucker is going to climb from #4,353, make no mistake. Matt Drudge gave it a rave review, and that's good enough for me.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 15:50:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: If the media were fair, they would report all the democrats' bloopers and all of George's coherent statements. The list would be short, and the numbers would match.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 15:46:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 15:44:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hopefully the beloved Ann will poop in her own nest.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 15:44:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yup, Anne definitely sees the truth through the lies of the lying liberal traitorous demonrats. POW!!!
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:59:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: After reading Ann Coulter's new book SLANDER: LIBERAL LIES ABOUT THE AMERICAN RIGHT, you'll never look at Katie Couric the same way again. Or Diane Sawyer. Or Lesley Stahl. Or PeterJenningsDanRatherTomBrokaw. Or Howard Kurtz, or any WashingtonPostNewYorkTimesLosAngelesTimes reporter. With SLANDER, Coulter launches a one woman name-and-shame campaign against what she believes to be a deeply biased media world. Never before has there been such an exhaustive index of big media blowups and blowouts published in book form. "And it's only Volume One!" Coulter threatened last week in Washington. SLANDER, set for release by CROWN in late June, is destined to become the blueprint for talk show hosts and conservative patriots for centuries to come. And a text book for liberals on what to avoid. [The book was rated #4,353 on AMAZON's best-selling hit parade on Tuesday morning.] The final manuscript was obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT. This reporter laughed, cried, shouted and screamed all by page 12. Page after page, Coulter throws stink bombs with attitude back at the elite press -- stink bombs of their own making; meanwhile thanking the entire staff of the NEW YORK TIMES, without whom "this book would not have been possible." ["In the entire NEW YORK TIMES archives on LEXISNEXIS, there are 109 items using the phrase "far right wing," but only 18 items that use "far left wing," she begins.] Coulter's summer collection -- footnoted and documented -- explores the happenings on TV, radio, Internet and print. In the chapter "The Joy of Arguing with Liberals: You're Stupid!" Coulter Defends President Bush and others republicans who have been accused of intelligence gaps. Coulter simply plays back embarrassing, rarely quoted goofs made by the loyal opposition. Bill Clinton: "This is still the greatest country in the world, if we just will steel our wills and lose our minds." Bill Clinton: "They've managed to keep their unemployment low although their overall unemployment is high." U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer: "Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again." Former Attorney General Janet Reno: "I will always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do." Coulter devotes pages to a spicy comparison of accomplishments by female role models Phyllis Schlafly and Gloria Steinem: "The party favors at the Schlafly luncheon was General Daniel Graham's book on Star Wars defense system, WE MUST DEFEND AMERICA," Coulter writes. "At the Democratic National Convention event attend by Steinem, the party favors were condoms." Coulter spares no one with her Binaca Blast of information. She reserves top billing for NBC's TODAY SHOW, which, ironically, she is scheduled to appear on next month to launch SLANDER. But if Coulter's thesis of "blacklisting" and "sin of omission" holds: Don't rush to set your VCRs just yet.
go anne go
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:59:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: the crynic wails and moans about Jimmy Carter because he has an inkling that Carter might be guilty of liberalism. There's no actual proof of this, but the crynic wants to be first in line to call a spade a spade if a spade should turn up.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:52:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: I pay taxes and I help out retards. Just the other day I flipped the roadside squeegie guy a quarter. So fuck off.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:47:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Plays it as it lies, dickweed.
no foot wedge here
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:45:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Brooklyn Bridge is for sale? Who do I call?
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:43:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just a savvy dude who plays it as it lays. No guff.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:37:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I you're looking for a "simpleton" to "con" or "sell the Brooklyn Bridge", you'd better look somewhere else. Nobody pulls a fast one on the crynic. If they fuck with the maritime regulations, the crynic is on to it from the get-go.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:36:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: For your info, Omar no longer has the bone. We surgically removed it (for a nice fee, mind you) at my new The Crynic Cosmetic Surgery/Tax Shelter Emporium conveniently located in Room 112 at City Hall, Cook Islands.
can you say untaxed cash cow?
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:36:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm a crafty hard-headed dude who calls a spade a spade. I take no guff from Jimmy Carter OR Fidel Castro.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:34:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you're still paying your taxes and helping out retards, I've got some beachfront real estate in Southern Florida to sell you.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:33:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyone who does his duty is a sap.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:31:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stop blaming the crynic for his actions. He blew out his brain back in the '60's on bad acid, and didn't make it back into circulation until the Americans With Disabilities Act kicked in. We've got to grit our teeth and take care of people like the crynic. It's our duty.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:26:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're right. As the crynic knows, you got to work the angles and take care of Number One. If that means evading taxes and military service, so be it. Only a sap contributes anything he can't get away with keeping for himself.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:23:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean Carter put in a whole enlistment and never went AWOL for a year at the end? What a rube!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:21:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just seeing Carter with Castro made the crynic's knees shake. He's always been worried about being blown up or poisoned while watching the Terps or cruising 4th street for a date. You'd think a maritime guy like the crynic would trust an Annapolis man like Carter. I guess the real old salts don't like those military types with all their book learning and Polaris missiles.
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- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:19:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: If he calls a spade a spade, why doesn't he call moaning and wailing moaning and wailing? Is this guy a gardener? I thought he was a gruff conservative who runs his wife's temporary employment agency.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:16:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course you call a spade a spade, the crynic. That's the mark of a GruffConservative�, isn't it?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:14:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: I follow Omar's advice on these things. Could a man with a grass skirt and a bone in his nose be wrong?
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:12:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: I sold it all when it bottomed out.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:12:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sorry, but I don't own AOL.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 14:00:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Moan and wail? That would be Gore in late 2000. I observe a spade and call it a spade. SImple.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 13:58:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: He never explains that the hot young girlfriend is his daughter. Doing the best he can.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 13:57:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is intelligence important to you crynic? Or can you feel desparately good just telling people that you have a hot young girlfriend and a portfolio stuffed with AOL shares?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 13:56:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: So why do you moan and wail about him, the crynic?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 13:54:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good day, Meathead. Contrary to your blubbering, I neither fear nor hate Jimmy Carter. It's difficult to hate a buffoon. I view him the same as I view the Meathead; a man of near average intelligence desparately wanting to feel good. A small man who twists reality to fit his needs.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 13:48:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Get a Jack Russel Terrier. World's best ratter. I suppose one would stoop to killing mice, like a retarded dachshund. Cats aren't in it against a good canine ratter like a Jack Russel. They go at it like a weasel in a henhouse. They have competitions in England, which dog can drag more rats out of a barn.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 13:36:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Since moving into the house on Clinton's deposition day in Jones V. Clinton, the local field mice have discovered ways to get in. Also, the last of our three cats died two years ago (see the pets page) so the mice have little deterrent. Kids have been whining for a kitten ever since. Neighbors and friends have obliged by offering kittens to the kids and I always have to be the bad man and say "no way, we're not going through 20 more years of cat hair everywhere." As far as the Dacshund was concerned he hated being the cat's punching bag. He has been much happier and relaxed since the cat croaked. After catching a mouse in a bag of shredded coconut on Sunday I told the Mrs. that it was probably time to bite the bullet and bring another cat into the house. Dachshund must have heard me because the next day he caught the mouse, or one like it, demonstrating that he can fulfill the requirements of a cat wihtout the litterbox mess and hairballs. I have therefore withdrawn the P.O. authorization for a kitten.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 13:27:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Coulter lashes back at the liberal press for the bad way they treat her. Made Drudge laugh, cry, shout, and giggle in the first 12 pages. Apparently Coulter's analytical techniqe consists of stuff like:"In the entire NEW YORK TIMES archives on LEXISNEXIS, there are 109 items using the phrase 'far right wing,' but only 18 items that use 'far left wing.'" So if you divide the 18 into the 109 you can calculate that the New York Times is biased 605%, not even counting the eyebrows. In much the same way, you might calculate how many killer bees there are in New Jersey by search lexisnexis on "killer bees" and on "peace bees." This Coulter is nothing if not clear-headed.
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- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 13:25:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: The best thing is Drudge fighting with O'Reilly.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 13:17:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think the best thing today is the picture of Horseface Coulter on Drudge.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 13:07:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think the best thing so far today is old the crynic checking in from his adopted country to register his fear and hatred of Jimmy Carter, and to moan and wail about the probability that Fidel Castro is going to poison him in his sleep. Ah, the pi�ata, it never fails to leak gifts through those enormous cracks. Do you suppose the poor man popped a brain lobe or so on some of that Carter-era cranked acid and is forever stuck in a time-warp? I wonder if he's still wearing his Jerry Ford WIN button.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 12:31:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is one intelligent and talented mullah we're dealing with here.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 12:25:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Right. He feels it lends an air of realism.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 12:20:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, anonymous, like most wogs the mullah is acutely aware of his bizarre accent, and strives to capture it in his posts.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 12:20:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know, Mullah, you write a lot like you talk. Where in the world did you learn to do that?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 12:17:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thees FauxPete like Faux News ees faux faux faux. The True Pete, he left thees place. He gave hees word, hees oath. The real Pete (RIP) he ees no liar, insh'allah.
Mullah Nasruddin
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 11:28:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good morning all. I really feel safe now that Jimmy Carter has joined the war on terrorism. Thank goodness he's down in Cuba licking Castro's boots. I am so relieved that Castro denied any ties to terrorism and that any biological research being conducted in Cuba is for medical reasons only. If Castro said it, Carter believed it; it must be true. Whew, that was a close one. Thanks JC.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 11:07:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: How long you going to be gone, Gary? And why?
Harlan St. Wolf
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 09:58:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 03:44:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: I turn the "Big 50" next July 2003. Can hardly wait. Ha!
Sue
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 02:15:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: You are an asshole, Gary, but a young asshole. I envy you your youth, but I don't envy the lard-assed lumbering four-eyed pea-brained body you live in.
Trish, 114
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 01:09:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bite it, Trish, you hosebag.
Gary, 51
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 01:06:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Happy Birthday, Gary! Remember that since I am more than twice your age (114), to me you are but a lad, and will ever be so. Have a wonderful week!
Trish
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 00:36:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Exactly. It's hard to believe that prick has the nerve to show his moniker around here.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 22:49:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fuck you, Gary.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 22:47:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well fornigators, tommorrow I will be 51. In order to get over the trauma of my first year past my 5th decade, I am taking a short leave from the board. I will resume posting next week, when I have recovered. I hope everybody has great week. :-)
Gary
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 22:02:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't forget Sue, and that moron, what was the moniker, L.G.? And the sappy dude who was always talking about Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Jupiter. I miss them all.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 22:01:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree. Bring back Gary and Trish and Clifford and William. Folks who knew how to boogie down with a post. This site was a barrel of laughs back when those four and their associates got to slinging the the old "b.s." It was like listening to Charlie Parker dueling Coltrane on the saxaphone, only with words. We won't see many like them again.
.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 21:56:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: This fake Pete� is turning out to be as uninteresting as the real one. Must have studied the archives for a long, long time.
House of Meat
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 21:52:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sorry pal, but my voice activates only to those with authorization now. Doink.
Pete�
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 20:31:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: You have to tiptoe gingerly around the packet sniffers avoiding causal words.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 18:57:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's odd that Dr. Jism can yammer on and on about jism, pinched loaves, his lust for teenage hermaphrodites, etc., but can't allow himself to write "fuck." It's like writing fuck is the one thing that will send him straight to hell and damnation.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 18:52:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: "White girls they're pretty funny Sometimes they drive me mad Black girls just wanna get f___ed all night I just don't have that much jam" (M. Jagger/K. Richards).
Dr. J
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 18:45:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know what they say, SO BE IT, those that live by the pork sword, die by the pork sword. It's the truth.
Lee Hannland
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 18:22:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whatever happened to the moron club? I heard there was only one member, and he finally decided to close shop.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 17:41:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Since 1981, more than 1 million Americans have been infected with the virus that causes AIDS, and about 450,000 have died. About 323,000 people are living with AIDS, which significantly damages the immune system. In San Francisco, an epicenter of the national AIDS fight for two decades, cases of venereal disease and HIV infection are soaring.
SO BE IT
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 17:30:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Voice-activated tape got it all, Pete.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 17:08:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: You can only vote the Pete clone off if the yellow puppy makes a faux website at bangkok.com and let's Pete defecate all over the lie-bral hydrant. Doink.
Pete�
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 17:06:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can we be sure that this "the crynic" is really the crynic? He doesn't seem to be bragging about anything, which is danged un-cryniclike. Where is the yacht and the hot young twitch? Where is the money and Omar the accountant with the IPO schemes? What about the terps? Is this site nothing but a doppelganger swarry?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:57:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Having this brush with the two dopoids was a breath of fresh air. Now maybe I can stay awake during the afternoon meeting. Those guys have pretty good coffee, so it shouldn't be too tough. Plus I like the other regulars. What does everyone think about this would-be Pete clone who has shown up here? Should we vote to get him off? That was always said to be an option by the real Pete.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:54:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Happy to see you took my advice and scored a pyschologist for the anger problem, dotty. You're doing much better. But time to get behind that broom until quitting time, ok? Easy does it.
the crynic
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:53:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, we have the false pineapple and the pinata trudging in with their sad Reagan-Bush attitudes, their nasty-man James Baker countenances, their Dan Quayle acumen. Dudes! Lighten up! Geesh, you had eight years of Clinton to encourage you to take off that hair shirt, loosen up, learn to enjoy life and not spend so much time hating the people who don't look like you. Stop taking it all so seriously, you're going to have heart attacks. Mello out, third-raters. Plenty of room for you.
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- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:47:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought it was supposed to be Miracle Whip?
Pete�
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:47:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete: Got the info on the aligned planets. Did you remember to get the mayonnaise and boy scout uniform?
Glimpse
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:43:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey dope dot, I find your obsession with slick Willie a bit weird yet entertaining. Do you ever dream of reincarnating as a cheap blue dress? Now tell the truth, if that's possible.
the crynic
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:33:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yup, this liberal mechanic sure does do his auto. Fits. Doink.
Pete�
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:28:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: The crynic, I didn't know you had such command of quaint historical concepts like going broke on beachfront Florida real estate. You really are "in like Flynn" with the lingo! You are a regular "reet floogie with the floy-floy!" Let's black-bottom, 'bo, and 23 skiddoo!
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:13:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Automatic, foolish reincarnated paralegal. Auto-fucking-matic.
.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:09:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Clarence Thomas is uniquely qualified to judge the legal qualifications and character of a pussy hound.
Rance Pilburton
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:08:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not so dot-dope. Nothing automatic about anything, but can be used to remove from other courts. Grow a brain. Woops, I forgot, you are a liberal dope dot. Fits.
Pete�
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:07:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: 15:35:32 - If that was your feeble attempt at sarcasm, thanks for the belly laugh; you're right on target. Kudos to a great sense of humor. However, if you REALLY believe that verbal "feel good" slime you just spouted, I have acres of very nice waterfront land in South Florida to sell you. Socialist puppet.
the crynic
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:06:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Our poor reincarnated paralegal doesn't understand that disbarment in Podunk gets you automatically struck off the list of the Supreme Court. Supreme Court? Hey, there's a classy outfit-- now the functional equivalent of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce, or any other third-rate South American junta. Gee, I wonder if he got kicked out of the Little Rock Shriners, too? No more riding the miniature car in a funny fez!
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- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 16:06:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Meatless misses the rub as usual. The US Supreme Court kicked his lying demonrat arse out too. Should ahve been for treason, as all liberal liars should be sent packing back to mother Russia. Doink Doink.
Pete�
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 15:43:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Reno Calls for Independent Investigator in Bush Case"
oh sure, now she squawks after the chines got away
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 15:40:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't understand why anyone would dislike Clinton. He seems a sort of amiable rogue to me, and he balanced the budget and brought eight years of peace, happiness, and prosperity to America. He brought us out of the slump of the Reagan-Bush years, brought government out into the open, opened it up more to the people. He reformed welfare and optimized trade relations, advanced civil rights, kept an eagle eye out for terrorism, pet an end to the Koresh madness, reunited Elian with his father, and was exhonorated of all the spurious accusations brought by the right-wing fringe- whitewater, filegate, travelgate, pussygate, impeachment, and a hundred other hare-brained lunatic charges. An all-around tip-top president. We are fortunate to live in his time.
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- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 15:35:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whoever this guy is who is pretending to be old Pete, the one who quit, this impostor sure doesn't like Clinton.
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- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 15:28:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Clinton is not the one having a hard time getting money, pineapple, it's his shysters. Besides, he'll always be a lawyer in the hearts of his countrymen, the patriotic ones, even if the loon-balls think disbarment in Arkansas is a negative.
House of Meat
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 15:24:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2002&CID=N00004702
my hero
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 15:21:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: They should move on to disbarring Kendall and Bennett next.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 15:18:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Earth to Meat, Cliton is no longer a lawyer. He was disbarred for lying under oath. Get a clue. Doink.
Pete�
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 15:16:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: It always breaks my heart to hear that a lawyer is having a hard time collecting his fees.
House of Meat
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 15:08:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think John may have misled when he said that he had contributed to the Clinton Defense Fund. No record of him at http://www.opensecrets.org/legalfund/index.htm. I knew John was a good American who wouldn't support a scum bag president.
Glint
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 14:45:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: The fees were grossly inflated for their PR value, so CBS and the rest could whine about how the Clintons were being persecuted by a "right wing cabal".
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 14:32:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bill and Hillary Clinton have become fabulously wealthy since leaving the White House, but they're still stiffing their lawyers, the Daily News has learned. Various documents and sources familiar with the Clintons' legal debts reveal they have yet to retire hefty bills from the Whitewater, Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky scandals, as well as Bill Clinton's impeachment battle. The former President owes $1 million to Robert Bennett, his Paula Jones attorney. Bennett's firm hasn't seen a nickel in nearly a year. The Clintons also are believed to be in seven-figure hock to David Kendall. He and Bennett refused to comment. A year ago, Clinton aides confirmed the former First Couple still owed $3.9 million in legal fees. Since the Clintons left the White House in January 2001, their legal defense fund has paid $254,000 to Kendall's firm, Williams & Connolly, and $86,000 to Skadden Arps, Bennett's firm. In all, about $7.7 million in legal debts have been paid off. But the fund is now tapped out, and the Clintons haven't done any new fund-raising for it. It's possible the Clintons may have paid some of Kendall's outstanding tab from their own pockets, but a Clinton loyalist said that was unlikely. "They would prefer not to [pay] and don't think they should have to," said one former senior aide. Aides to Sen. Clinton and her husband refused to say how much - if anything - the couple might have paid themselves. "They have publicly disclosed everything they're required to disclose," said Jim Kennedy, a spokesman for the senator. Washington lawyer Tony Essaye, who ran the defense fund for years, said he has not been informed that any of the Clintons' outstanding $3.9 million debt has been paid down. The Clintons' financial fortunes have brightened considerably since a dramatic 1998 fund-raising letter for the legal trust said they faced a "financial crisis" of bills "far beyond the President's total compensation or the First Family's net worth." Now, the Clintons' personal wealth includes $18 million in book advances and $10 million to $15 million that the ex-President has raked in for speeches. They also receive $302,000 a year in federal checks for his pension and her senatorial salary.
deadbeats
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 14:29:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020513-1636532.htm
CNN called Castro's 'megaphone' <Castro News Network>
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 14:23:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: If we let go of the Arabs, Old Poop Bush would lose his juice with the Carlyle group, and the Reagan cabinet would have to look to a future as mere billionaires instead of really rich. Even Spiro Agnew and James Baker might have to get jobs.
.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 14:06:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Spokeswoman for the "Psychic Friends Network" Dionne Warwick was arrested Sunday when baggage screeners at Miami International Airport said they found 11 suspected marijuana cigarettes inside her lipstick container.
she should have seen it cumming
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 14:03:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Arab may be ignorant and poor, but he treats his goats like princesses.
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- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 14:01:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 14:00:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: "his isn't a putdown of the Arab mind,but of the Arab leadership which holds on to power through keeping thier people ignorant and poor. " mary - Monday, May 13, 2002 at 13:31:37 (EDT) - - Sounds like you're talking about the Democratic leadership in America.
Stupid and needy
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 13:55:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: my spelling is atrocious today, sorry.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 13:32:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree with the lack of unity. It isn't easy to be united when you are kept in the dark with myths and conspiracy theories. There is so much darkness in the Arab world, so little understanding and communication. So much fear and hatred and lies, that I don't see how they function at all. This isn't a putdown of the Arab mind,but of the Arab leadership which holds on to power through keeping thier people ignorant and poor.
mary
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 13:31:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's also the Iraqi menance and the lesser Iranian menace. Reagan gave the Lybian menace a good whack and it's stayed put for now. Personally, I don't think there's all that much unity among the nations of the Arab world. The only thing holding them together is hatred for their youger half brother Israel.
Glint
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 13:27:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like Glint knows a lot about this topic. Why not just have him explain it, and terminate the thread? Maybe he can send an "open letter" on it to Snippy as well, get the little guy clued in.
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- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 13:25:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: And as far as the Arab nations are concerned, come on, since when have they ever had any thing but hate for the US? So why even feign the diplomacy and the good will? They attacked us for heaven's sake,and they danced in the streets. I say if Bush makes the statement we don't accept terrorism and you are either with us or with the terrorists then he should hold to it. Demand that the funding of terrorism stop now, or no negotiations. Demand that the known terrrorists are hunted up and brought forth for prosectution. If they threaten us with an oil embargo we come back with a food embargo. Let's get serious.
Mary
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 13:16:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Personally I believe that Palestine is being used by the Arabs as fodder to taint Israel. Their only purpose is to die as martyrs. They are bred and raised to be the bait, to die as martyrs either as individuals in suicide bombings or as a whole under the legitimate retaliaton of Israel. However if Israel retaliates it is always portrayed as aggression and slaughter. Palestinians are human targets kept there by their own Arab brethren for the purpose of propaganda. There has been no attempt to help these people out of their misery by the other Arab nations. What does that tell us?
mary
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 13:06:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hard to say, but we might make even more enemies by backing out now. Viewed as weak. I agree with you though, that we are in the thick. Bush tried to create some breathing room by backing off from Arafat. He's tried a couple of olive branches, but Arafat hasn't passed muster. Unlikely he'll be invited to Camp David anytime soon.
Glint
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 12:56:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Only problem is the two sides do not want peace and we are caught in their feud.
Mary
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 12:51:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mary, it's diffulcult to see who would be a more neutral broker. Greenland maybe? Brokering peace in the middle east is a big responsibility and most nations naturally expect the U.S. to play the role and take the heat. Israel has a terrorist problem, many mini 911's daily. They need to be allowed some space to do what they have to do, just like the U.S. had to do in reaction to the attacks on NYC, Wash., and Cow Patch, PA. Let Sharon hunt and catch them, dead or alive.
Glint
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 12:42:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: my point at 23:43:03 : the US sould stop trying to cozy up to the Arab states. Its such a farce even if we do need them for "the coalition".
mary
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 12:16:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: I haven't seen a jeeze burger since Jesse Jackson was a bus boy.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 12:14:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: If E were really here she might explain about steak and eggs to poor Glint.
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- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 12:13:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mrs. Dog had noticed that the ear stud had been getting up earlier since the asian chick arrived to make breakfast. She had spotted him once or twice bending over and peering through the keyhole while holding a hamburger platter in one hand and - well, although she couldn't see the other hand she couldn't help but notice that the sleeve of his robe was flapping rapidly. She shrugged and went back to bed, stepping over the pile of burgers on the floor near the bed.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 12:11:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, Bill came out for a Palestinian state before the Mrs. Hell, it's been a feature of the negotiations since at least Old Poop Bush. It was fucking agreed to by that bull goose Jew before Netanyahu, the one who got whacked because of it.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 12:09:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
I thought I could spot them, but this is something new...
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 12:07:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good morning, E.
Dr. J
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:58:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yellowdog's jeese burger is just a poor man's knock off of the breakfast of champions: steak and eggs. It has long been the standard breakfast combo for astronauts on the day of lift off. Granted, their powdered drink mix may lack the Tang found in the JB's condiments. If you want to eat like an astronaut without slipping the surly bonds, just visit your local Denny's restraunt.
Glint
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:56:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: The very same Lynn Cheney. The one whose daughter went lesbo.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:56:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Lynne cheney. Say isn't she the pubbie broad whose lesbian love themes enlightened her bodice-ripping novel?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: "He has a wife and is not likely to flea[sic] this jurisdiction." -- Sunday, at 01:55:51. Where did you scratch this piece up? Thanks, 17:03. I'd forgot all about that old sig line; those old usenet posts are on the order of what, 10 years old?
Glint
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: In the paper this morning, there were references to Snippy's policy of recognizing the Palestinian state. Lucky he's so stupid he doesn't realize it's HILLARY'S POLICY OF RECOGNIZING THE PALESTINTIAN STATE! BWA HA HA!!
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:35:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: I imagine that he served her breakfast in bed. A dripburger on a croissant, hold the meat. That is until his fingers start to feel numb.
Dr. J
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:33:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Although I don't think I've heard Eminem, unless it was out of some boog's car window at the stoplight, I agree with the noted critic Lynn Cheney that his music is horrible. I can tell it's horrible because in his picture on the Drudge exclusive he's holding his arm out in the stupid clueless rapper's arhythmic gesturing thumb-and-finger hand-bob that all those clueless fools seem to think is necessary. I can see the artist now, clasping the microphone in his left hand and yelling poorly-rhymed banalities into it, lumbering back and forth on the stage with arm outstretched and finger-jiving out of time in that silly clown-like rapper manner.
Go, Ms Cheney, go!
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:31:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think he's trying to deflect the threats of legal action by making light of his pederasty and general perversiion. Dr. Jism, indeed!
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:27:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint is migrating his jism material over to Dr. J, so as to not besmirch the noble name Glint so much. Crafty move, Glint! You'll make a fornigator yet!
Rance Pilburton
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:24:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who let you out?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:23:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ydog seems like a breakfast person. I wonder if he got up and made a drip burger for the old lady, heavy on the jizz whiz, sticky wet egg whites and stuff. Mothers Day at the Texas Road House wasn't too bad. I put my 16 oz. sirloin into a doggie bag to take home. Due to a misunderstanding the waitress put in the order for medium well instead of medium rare. By the time a new one came out I was so full of steak fries, red ale, and onion blossoms that I just bagged it. Brought it in for lunch today. Speaking of doggie bags and jism, I found a snarl while combing my hair for church yesterday. Had tractored the lawn the day before and suspect that some tree sap might have dripped down. The Mrs. took a look and said it was something dry and white. Mentioned in passing that she'd noticed the Dachshund on my pillow during the night.
Dr. J
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 10:32:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: go eminem go.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 10:12:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUNDAY MAY 12, 2002 19:08:29 ET XXXXX EMINEM BATTLES CHENEY ** Exclusive** RapperActor Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem, fires back at Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, in a new CD set for release next month by UNIVERSAL. Rapping on the track WHITE AMERICA from the upcoming EMINEM SHOW, obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT, Mathers declares: "F*@k you, Miss Cheney!" The rap attack comes after Cheney appeared before a Senate committee to condemn Eminem's music. "Blood, guts, guns, knives, lives, wives, nuns, sluts. It is despicable. It is horrible," she said in 2000, quoting the lyrics of pop music's bad boy. "He is a violent misogynist. He advocates raping and murdering his mother in one of his songs. He glories in the same song and the idea that he might murder any woman he comes across. He talks about how he will choke the women he murders slowly so that their screams will last for a long time." Mathers fires back in the new song: "F*@k you with the freeness of speech this Divided States of Embarrassment will allow you to have! F*@k you!" UNIVERSAL plans a June 4 release of the recording. It is expected to become the top-selling disc of the summer. Not to risk being labeled a democrat shill: former VP wife/lyrics fighter Tipper Gore also comes under Eminem's rage. "F*@k you, Tipper Gore!" repeats the Detroit native. Developing... ----------------------------------------------------------- Filed By Matt Drudge
.... Drudge exclusive.....
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 04:50:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who cares about Israel and the poordevil Palestinian hangers-on? We should be celebrating now that they've caught the Carroll County Rapist. Poe and her sister and Brandon can sleep with out fear tonight, as can all the children in the tri-county area.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 04:43:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: I myself am not a big fan of the Palestinians. I say fuck 'em. Nobody made them leave and now that some of them say they want to go back and herd their goats on the old sod it's too late, tough shit. It's all just a bunch of crappy desert ground, and the Arabs never did anything with it in 2000 years. All they want it for now is to stand on it so the Israelis can't continue to make it bloom. Fuck 'em.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 04:41:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nah. What you broker is enforced peace. You build a big wall. Any Israelis who want to stay in the settlements do so at their own peril. Then you patrol that wall with international troops. End of story.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 13, 2002 at 01:59:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: 2. the united states should quit trying to be a broker for peace. There is no way we can deny where our loyalty lies, and I think we jeopardize our integrity and international reputation pretending that we can be a neutral broker.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 23:43:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: my one cent on israel and palestine... how can there be a palestine state? why can't we just be realistic and realize there is NO way that the Islam religion wants the jews to continue, so there is no way Israel can accept any compromise that threatens its security. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just looking at it realistically. I'm throwing out reasonable solutions and looking at the impact beliefs have on the region. No one can reason with the myths of faith. I know from my own entrenched beliefs. Why perpetuate the idea that the extremists will stop? Also, why is moving the Palestine people to other land in the region considered ethnic cleansing. They will still exist, probably have more opportunity to exist better than they have for the last fifty years. It seems to me they are the ones that have a nihilistic attitude, the suicide bombings, and their desire to have Israel be the perpetual bad guy. I think its more an attitude of being victim to tarnish Israel than it is to survive. Flame away, I'd love to hear some intelligent insight into all of this.
Mary
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 23:32:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where Glint is right now, I imagine he's getting his own planets alligned and his moon probed.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 19:32:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bail? Did I miss something? Hum?
Pete�
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 19:13:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, you bet Glint got something on the "alligned planets." And he's aiming to "get" more, pending bail.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 18:27:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: They've even got their own code words.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 17:51:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, did you get anything on the aligned planets? Thanks
Pete�
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 17:40:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who knew?
geesh
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 17:25:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thank The Lord this man has been captured!
Hortense Beegum
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 17:06:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ashcroft hit the bullseye on this one.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 17:04:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: FROM: Curtis RoelleDATE: 04/07/1995 10:29:36SUBJECT: Is CPP included with GCC? The Makefile for a program I am trying to build uses gcc, which in turn appears to exec the C precompiler (cpp). The gnu version of cpp is not currently on the system here so I tried the standard Solaris cpp. Apparently gcc wants the gnu cpp because it is using several options (primarily -Accc...c and -lang-c) which the default cpp fails to recognize. I perused ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu and did not see cpp or gcpp, which leads me to believe it is part of the gcc distribution, is it? The system here has the man pages for both gnu and standard cpp, but the gnutools/bin does not have a cpp executable, so apparently whoever built the gcc compiler did not bother building cpp. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Curtis Roelle Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
oh really?
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 17:03:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: A global network of satellite watchers post on the Internet the orbital paths and schedules of the five known U.S. spy imagery satellites. Anyone with a personal computer and a basic understanding of astronomy, from foreign intelligence agencies to weekend hobbyists, can calculate when these billion-dollar birds will pass over any point on Earth, and observe them as points of light hundreds of miles high in the night sky. ''Here it comes! Oh, it's bright!'' Curtis Roelle, a computer engineer, exclaimed one recent night as a secret, radar-imaging Lacrosse satellite raced at thousands of miles per hour through the heavens above his home in Howard County, Md. Roelle charted the satellite's course using the same software and Internet data Thomson used to track U.S. spy satellites over Baghdad. ''Now, it's passing through Gemini,'' Roelle said, peering through binoculars as the Lacrosse, the size of a school bus, caught the sun's rays on its protective golden blanket, making it visible in the darkness below. ''It's kind of glowing. When we first spotted it, it was 978 kilometers (606 miles) away. And by the time it reaches the horizon, it will be 3,000 kilometers (1,860 miles) away.''
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 17:00:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Something happened to me? Amazing.
Pete�
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 16:58:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: List of Herschel 400 Award Awardees. The Herschel 400 Award is the only Astronomical League observing award that can be earned by non-League members. This is due to a special agreement with the Ancient Acity Astronomical Society, who originally created the award. The observers who tested out the program received certificates that were unnumbered. They are listed first in the table. ---010 Curtis W. Roelle Westminster Astronomical Society 1984-Jan-16 ---!!!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 16:54:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: This morning (Monday) I observed the Shuttle and Mir from my NW-facing balcony on the front of the house. Shuttle rose first, and Mir was about a minute behind it. Both passed nearly through the zenith and then faded as they headed East, due to reduced sunlit surface being visible. I use a handy little program called "Trackstar" along with Kelso's element posts on sci.space.news to calculate my ephemeris. Then after the show I rush my kids back in and show them the swiftly moving ground path using the "instant track" program. I put on a little show for them. Tonight at bedtime they asked me to check the ephemeris and then asked to be woken up for tomorrow's 5:30ish performance. Curt
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 16:52:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: That last from roelle.718914208@uars_mag...
developing
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 16:49:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Authoritarian responses to perceived violations by students of policy about the display of nude images may do more harm than good. If the policy is unjust, treating the violator as guilty may be the worse offense.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 16:48:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/) I must be the stupidest Magyar in the universe
Telek Manok
Sverdlosk, - Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 15:21:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hard to believe something like this happened to another fornigator. Thought Pete would be the last. How did they catch him? I hope nobody here turned him in. Is Ashcroft really monitoring the internet that closely?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 13:00:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bond is $200,000 for accused astronomer By Sheila Shelton/Staff Reporter Bond was set at $200,000 in Carroll County Circuit Court Thursday afternoon for Curtis Roelle, 46, of Carroll County. He has been charged with three counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child in connection with three visitors to his observatory, six counts of bestiality, apparently involving his dachshund, Weasel, and two counts of improper relations with an animal. Roell was charged by Carroll County Sheriff's Police on Wednesday and taken to the County Jail. Formal charges were filed by the County State's Attorney's office on Thursday morning. Roelle remained in jail this morning. The human-related charges against Roelle, a school janitor and amateur astronomer, involved two girls and a hermaphrodite; one is just under 10 years old and the other two are 14 and 16 years old. It is alleged that one of sexual acts took place between March and April of this year and then two occurred this Tuesday. Assistant State's Attorney Carey Luckman asked Associate Judge Charles Frank to set bond at $250,000. "This was not a forcible situation these two little girls and the hermaphrodite were enticed by trust. The children were given candy or food to be taken into a room alone with this man at a domed outbuilding at his survivalist retreat where he observes area children through a high-powered telescope," said Luckman. "The charges against this man are not probationable offenses and bond should be set at $250,000 or $25,000 -- 10 percent. As a condition of the bond, if he posts it, he should not be allowed to have contact with anyone under 16 years of age. He should refrain from contact with anyone at his retreat under 18 years of age," said Luckman. Attorney Jim Bass who represented Roelle told the court that his client is married and is "fond of children." "He has a wife and is not likely to flea this jurisdiction. I'm sure he is not returning to his employment. Set the bond at $25,000 so he can post bond and let him begin getting help and he won't leave the community," said Bass. Luckman also read into the record that Roelle received court supervision in 1996 in Nebraska on a public indecency charge for exposing genitalia. Frank reminded Roelle that there is a mandatory prison term on each of the charges he now faces if convicted. "You are now unemployed and a condition of your bond, if you post it, is that you cannot be around any children, not even a relative. You have to make all court appearances. Your next court appearance will be at 3:30 p.m. on May 24 for a preliminary hearing and it will be before Judge Harold Frobish."
.... developing...
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 01:55:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: It will come in handy at Glint's trials, no mistake about that.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 01:36:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: If this page serves any purpose, it'll be that of a good record of Glint's illegal downloads. Leave it to Glint to help the industry association.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 01:09:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's talk he's got a huge collection of lovin' spoonful. Hopefully, it's frozen or at least in the fridge.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 01:07:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: I was tempted to do a little Googling to refute Glint's claim about the story behind the 10cc name, but then I figured he's the jism expert. Or the 7% solution expert. Or both.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 01:03:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 23:24:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm busy downloading "Jism Adipose Carbonization" by Forensick.
Dr. J
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 22:43:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Simultaneously downloading a little Lenny Kravitz, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, Moody Blues, 10cc, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Sophisticated musical taste, you see.
Glint
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 22:30:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: That crack about 10cc is what reminded me of the doctor's visit. Decided to download an mp3 of "I'm not in love" now...
Glint
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 22:23:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: I once had an embarassing encounter involving my own jism in a doctor's office that had the staff wondering, but you probably wouldn't want to hear it.
Glint
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 22:16:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, what time was it when you dropped, Glint?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 22:11:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: 10cc is a stoner band. It's 10cc of a 7% solution, not jizzem.
Glint
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 22:03:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: I seem to recall an old T.V. western called the Chisolm Trail or something. Names sounds like it could have have been an alias for jism, kind of an inside joke among the T.V. folks. Don't remember the details but the show was probably packed with jism tales. And what about Gun Smoke? They should have called it Gun Squirt. Marshall Matt Dillon a balling Miss Kitty, who was getting balled on the side by Doc and Festus. What about Big Valley, you say? That can't be about jism, can it? Well, what do you think the big valley is for anyway? That's right, jism!
Dr. J
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 21:43:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint is probably a big 10cc fan.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 20:32:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: I am reminded of one known possibly hidden codeword in the pop music genre. The Rolling Stones once did an album or hit song called something like "Sticky Fingerprint File." Did anyone ever think to ask them if that song was a reference to DNA stained police records? If so, did they admit it? What did they say, as if we didn't already know?
Lee Hannland
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 19:43:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now I want to talk about jism. Don't worry, it's not offensive or nothing. Not like I'm going to be talking about sticky wicked twats or big ones cumming. Quicksilver could be a codename for jism, you know. There are lots of things that might be jism in disguise. That's because there is much genuine interest in jism in not only this nation today, but the entire world. Jism jokes are reaching all time highs, are always appropriate and in demand, and good at any party or gathering on or off the job. Games can be made using jsim. Replace the word "tears" with "jism" in any number of tunes that have been popular over the years and what do you get? "As jism goes by." "Lonely jism drops." "Jism on my pillow." Even bands such as Jism for Fears and Blood Sweat and Jism. Thanks to Clinton, jism's out of the sink for good. He has made it socially acceptable to talk about jism and tell jism jokes. Talking about the gravity of jism spilt on Gap clothes or DNA souveniers with a straight face is in and of itself a very droll way of jesting about jism. It's dry humor about something that's anything but. Jism is so main stream now that even the president and vice president can joke about it in public. The public now looks to its leaders for guidance in the way jism is heading. Speaking of jism jokes, the biggest jism jokers of all times by far was the duo of Bill Clinton and his little hand puppet Willard. They was a regular fountain of jism jokes, the likes of which won't be seen again in our lifetime, I'm sure. Willard blowing wads of tadpoles all over. Sure, he's out now and making his millions, but that doesn't matter to us. It's the jism, bunco! Streams and streams of it shooting, squirting and pulsing. The genie is out of the box. Humpty Dumpty Clinton has fallen off the wall and split his yolk. All the king's horses are now tracking it over hill and dale. Well, that's all I had to say.
Dr. J
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 19:25:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whatever happened to Quicksilver Messenger Service? What were some of their great hits? Fresh Air? Shady Grove? Coedine?
Glint
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 17:35:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is there a Men's Hermaphrodite Appreciation Society?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 17:25:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Today's bubblous collegiate tour was a mere 45 minutes away - in Baltimore. It was a nice campus, with a full engineering college (finally a campus with some real academics). The campus is racially diverse, with 30+% minority populates. On the plus side, it has a new observatory with what looks like a 5 meter ash dome on top of the physics building and full cutt-off lighting across the entire campus. I could see one of the young offspring and me communicating via cell phone as we watch the same asteroid occulting the same star and comparing results real-time. In reality, kids said they hated the place the minute their eyes caught sight of that domw sitting up yonder hill. After all, they have their own bubbles they're trying to break out of.
Glint
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 17:15:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 17:06:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nevertheless, the idea of a conga line where everyone has a scalpal is a pleasant image and obviously the product of an...active mind.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:25:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Never seen a bug that was very good with a scalpel. Of course, you don't use a scalpel to dissect a bug, so I guess it equals out.
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- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:21:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: This bug cutting thing may be compared to a conga line in which everyone has a scalpal which they use to peel back the flesh of the person in front of them in order to see what they had for lunch. The person at the front of the line is also at the one at its end. Circle of life and all that jazz.
Glint
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:17:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Put to sleep? Geesh! Don't give poor, sick Glint any ideas!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:14:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: If it makes you feel any better, the insects had already been put to sleep.
.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:11:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete is definitely on a pile. You got one thing right.
.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:10:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think it's great when middle-aged neighborhood guys take an interest in the local teenagers on ANY level. It does take a village, you know, and that includes the village busy-body, the village idiot and the village pedophile.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:09:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is not like watching your average teenage girl developing and popping out all over. Brenda is a complete and utter shift of the paradigm. A tree topples somewhere, a new mountain range thrusts forth where there should be a hairy field of wheat. And above all there is no hint of your typical teenage angst. In conversation Brenda is so comfortable shape shifting in that container in a way that these eyes have never seen before in someone that young and tender, and yummy, and juicy. Yet, I digress. The thing is, you have one bug cutter being dissected by another, ad infinitum. Pete's there somewhere way on top of the pile.
Dr. J
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:06:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's great, Dr. J. You get to be sick about puberty and about hermaphroditism at the same time! How lucky you must feel!
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- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:03:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Damned if the pop-up featuring Michelle in her Barbarella costume didn't stick, even after I clicked over here. She will be with me as long as I leave the browser open.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:00:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Uh-huh. I'm sure Brenda's parents would be happy to know you've taken such a keen interest in their kid. Hopefully, there's a local adult who has a similar interest in yours.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 12:00:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: SVO itself was a yeomanlike name. Of course I gave it to the kid, but it's still a straight name, like Fred or Stanley or Employment Office or Oldsmobile. My other car is called Pickup, and of course there is the Raider/Montero which is piratical and meaningless at the same time.
.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 11:59:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Have you ever thought that while you were splitting open tiny insects that there could have been somebody else, maybe in another dimension somewhere, slitting open your back to see what makes you tick in turn? That's where the Brenda thing is headed. Brenda is my little bug in a bell jar. A bug that is undergoing a strange metamorphosis. Like a star which, after burning bright for ten million of millenia one finds onesself fortunate to be alive and at ringside during the culminating event of a star's life as it bursts forth in a brilliant supernova! If you don't like you can just go spill your yolks.
Dr. J
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 11:55:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, as long as you're able to quote scripture from memory on ocassion.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 11:56:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: I googled Hooters and didn't find Miss May, but I did find Hooters Girl Michelle of Austin, Texas, a featured H. girl from fall 2001. She looked pretty cute in her Barbarella costume. She definitely had hooters, but not overstated, as appears to be the case with a lot of your Florida and Las Vegas and Winnipeg Hooters Girls.
.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 11:55:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess it's okay to post childrens' pictures on the web andexpress your sexual desire for them. What a great country!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 11:54:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: When I said you didn't deserve it, I wasn't talking specifically to you. I know if you met Brenda you too would go weak. Would you, could you, with a ball bag? To know Brenda is to fixate.
Glint
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 11:44:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is she on the web somewhere? It is out of the main-line to hold any interest in the Glint/Brenda thing, I'll admit, but you know, I once had a job dissecting the guts out of insect larvae, and it was sort of interesting. To see what the bugs had been eating, which was the point. Of course it was more complicated than watching Glint's sickness reveal itself, and it took some manual dexterity, but probably both are sprund from idle curiosity, organized in different ways by different circumstances. Sounds to me like the Dodge names are sort of car-related or ride-related. For instance, you might take a drive along the beach and feel the Breeze. You might escort your slitch to the belly-rub in your Escort. Avenger is OK in a way, same league with Cavalier and Corvette, sort of sword and piracy names which is after a long tradition of naming ships, almost. On the other hand, maybe Camero means something, but I doubt it-- it's the names that are either made-up words or words that don't have nothing to do with a ride, like Contour, that really suck. They run letters through a computer to come up with a name that supposedly makes people feel a certain way, the way the violin tune in the Civil War TV show makes most people cry.
.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 11:40:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, but the Hooters chick is a real chick and probably a legal adult. I find that a little bizarre.
Gleam
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 11:39:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: I have no interest in Brenda whatsoever. Am quite happy with the hooters calendar in front of the treadmill in the weightroom. Speaking of which, this chick for May is about the finest I have ever seen. Worth the price of the calendar alone.
Borg 7 of 22
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 11:20:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not that any of you deserve it, but I've decided to post Brenda's year book picture where else? On the Fornigate ancillary year book at the URL given at the end of this message. Just scroll down and click on the gerbil. Not the gerbil near the top -- that's Brandon's picture -- but the bloody one way down at the bottom of the page. What? I'm running out of icons to link pics too. Also, since Brenda is a secret participant of this page Brenda pic goes under an icon cover. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Dr. J
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 10:20:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: well, its not a contour, it has the dohc contour engine, a 2.0 as opposed to the 1.8 sohac in the standard escort. I'll agree with the issue about the name. I've been mulling over car names for a while now. Dodge seems to have the most problematic names. Hard to even think of a memorable dodge name, maybe the viper. I mean, a dodge avenger? a neon? the plymouth breeze? Chevy seems to do best, consistent with the C's at least as far as camaro corvette, cavalier. At least there is the semblance of a theme. Ford seems to fall somewhere in the middle. There is now a zx3 ford focus, but it is a different car from the zx2. Word is ford sort of gave the escort to the svo team and said make something cool out of this. so it got the bigger engine, stiffer suspension, new body panels 60's and 15 inch aluminums, the obligatory spoiler. Redline is apparently 6500 with peak power coming on from 4-5500. quite a little slingshot of a ride. I posted a link that had tons of 0-60 and quarter mile times,
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 09:38:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: I bet the hits will just pile up for that one.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 04:45:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I for one am not hiding. No closet here. The yearbooks came out today so now I have a pictue of Brenda that I can scan and post here. Trouble is that it was taken at the beginning of the year before the hormonal therapy really kicked in. The picture just doesn't do Brenda any justice at all. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 04:43:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is fun. You can run rings around the troglodytes even when they're hiding! Even when, like Pete, they are in such deep hiding that they claim to have quit when they do feel the need to crawl out from under the rock. It becomes sort of like yodeling, just something you do to keep your throat limber, but do well, because it's no fun doing it badly. A glance at the grunting, lugubrious, unhappy troglodyte posts demonstrates that.
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- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 03:55:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Minorities are too dumb to see through the Dimbocrap lack of results? What lack of results? Eight years of international stability and prosperity at home under Clinton? A balanced budget, a vanity car in every garage, a chicken in every burrito? Jobs even for the black man and the former welfare mom? All sorts of crazy dot.com progress, even Maryland pulling out of the Bush Senior slump thanks to Bill Clinton and progressive Democratic government and becoming sort of a third-rate ersatz California, complete with the Leyland cypress trees and the lawn tractor bigger than my neighbor's and the dark-sky whack-os and the gruff but stupid retired bankers bitching about the less fortunate citizens bleeding him dry? You materialistic little conservative shits had never had it so good, and never will again. Check back in in 2020 if you want to talk about results.
,
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 03:51:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: What about Geesh? Shouldn't Geesh join in? People mention her a lot, but she hardly ever deigns to post. What gives?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 02:14:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: At least you're listening, ?. It'd be nice if all the regulars - doubt it, Gary, Sue, Trish, Aaron, Anonymous and the crynic- would join in. Thanks, newbies, but we need some of the old sages!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 00:27:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 00:25:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: I feel many changes going on inside of me. Thought I'd share that. Thanks, my brothers.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 00:21:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Free Taliban John! What the hell did he do to deserve this? This guy is no different than your neigborhood good-boy-turned-Mooney or "Young Republicans" member. He's a religious nut, a far less dangerous one than thousands of that ilk in Nebraska alone. We're getting bogged down again, just like in Afghanistan. I'm beginning to suspect this whole thing is mid-level PR and I believe that's why Mr. Bush's ratings are dropping. People like me, people who try to think, are starting to figure it all out. You know what they say.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 00:11:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree. I believe the reason we got bogged down in Afghanistan (which I personally opposed,)is we didn't hit the nerve centers first. We were too focused on which mongrel hordes to ally with and didn't attack the centers of Afghan communication, government, transportation and commerce. In other words, the attack on America, in which we all got shot, was beautifully executed, from a military standpoint. The methods were primitive -suicide hajackers- but the attack was 21st century all the way. A psychological materpiece from a purely objective view. Our repsonse, however, was the complete reverse. We used modern methods and weaponry but have achieved a realtively primitive result - the military occupation of a feudal land. We needed to get them where it hurt the most. We needed to take out every electrical facility, every railroad station and freight line, every communications center. So, now we've got the terrorists holed up somewhere and we're still stuck in Afghanistan and trying to pin it all on some 21 year old Marin County geek. Is this rolling?
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 23:58:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: What I don't understand is why Rumsfeld wants to kill the Crusader artillery project. A 150 mm shell, that's about six inches, fired every six seconds, and it can hit 30 miles away! Geesh, just think of the Afghani locomotives and roundhouses that gun could take out! Not to mention the miles of track! What the hell is Rumsfeld thinking?
House of Meat
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 23:19:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: De nada, Greg. Buenos noches.
Slumgullion
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 22:06:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thank you, Slumgullian.
Greg
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 21:12:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why I never vote Republican. http://www.buzzflash.com/perspectives/2002/Bushed.html
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:53:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dockers? Slack? Pretty clever.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:53:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mission accomplished.
Slumgullion
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:50:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: I heard Flippin' Jiggers out of vancouver, canada and I think that they are totaly flippin' cool.. They are one of the best bands to hit the scene.... They are going places..
Scott Hamilton <[email protected]>
beavhust, NJ USA - Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:38:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Its not all minorities. Most of the ones that are smart enough to see throught the Democrats thin adgenda vote Republican. However, too many white people are also not smart enough to see through the smokescreen democratic platform. You included.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:32:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, Zerk, to give you a break, to cut you some slack, I'll admit right here and now the the word "Dockers" is no better a word for a pair of pants than the word "Contour" is for a car. That slack I can cut you, as a small Cook Islands palapa in this ocean of malice.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:32:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did they say whether she's going to be wearing the dress, or just carrying it in her purse with the Bianca?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:25:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Those stupid minorities. Can't they see how bigoted the Democrats are? Minorities are stupid!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:25:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Word in Austin is that Jenna has a bet with Bar that she can get a jism stain from a hotel bus-boy in every country she visits. All on the same blue dress. Are these chicks fun-loving, or what?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:24:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know, the noodles are about as smart as they come, and they're jumping to the Dimbofarts in droves, in Cali. Your average noodle is a fucking genius compared to a Polack or a Southerner (most of whom vote Republican, now, by the way.) About the only smart minority the GOP still has a crack at is the punjabs, and those fuckers burn their wives and sleep on nail mattresses. Unless you call the snake-handling Christers a minority.
.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:20:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, that's poetic! Are you some sort of poet? Dust in the wind, man. Dust in the fucking wind.
dust to dust, man
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:16:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: With a bias like that the minorities are supposed to vote GOP?
not smart enough
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 20:10:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Republicans are smart enough to see beyond race and demographics. Unfortunately, too many minorities aren't smart enough to see through democrat lies and lack of results.
Dust in the wind
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 19:28:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mail call.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 19:14:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Man, if you can't lure the nigras with Reagan-Bush, it's worse than I thought. I mean, Bush put Clarence "Long Dong" Thomas on the Supreme Court, didn't he? What more do the darkies want?
GOP
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 19:06:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Reagan-Bush years is why they voted 9-1 for the Democratic Party.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 19:03:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: They vote that way because they have been brainwashed by the liebrals. It doesn't take much for clever white bigots to pull one over on a boot.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:45:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, why is it the blacks vote Democratic 9-1? Huh? Come on, say it, you squirming retchie, say it!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:40:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's always amusing to hear a retchie try and spin bigotry away from the GOP. Like watching a flounder ride a bike.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:37:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Supporting affirmative action is bigotry? Interesting since it's in federal law. Anyway, the clown below is right. At one time, many years ago children, the Democratic Party was infested with bigots from the south. Now, of course, those very bigots have switched to the GOP. Snippy, although he got fewer votes than Al Gore, came close, largely because of this historical switch.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:28:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like you been reading the open letter too much, Leroy. Better slack off a little bit and try to catch your breath.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:25:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here's a good picture of John Conyers, taken at a Christmas party.
http://www.angelfire.com/hiphop/guyz/mr.hanky.jpg
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:24:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good question, anonymous. I've been studying my copy of the "open letter" ever since AOL tanked, so I can see when its predictions start coming do and I can expect some cash to trickle down on me. I certainly hope we don't have to wait for a Democrat for it to work, the way we did last time.
Willie-Leroy Jefferson
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:23:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, has the Bush tax cut increased federal revenues yet, the way the "Open Letter" said it would? Or do the positive effects of Republican administrations only have their full effect in the middle of Democratic administrations?
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- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:21:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: The reason the African Americans don't vote Republican is that they're just a bunch of dumb coons. Dumb enough to miss the fact that the Republicans trickle down on all America while all the DimboCRAPS do is kiss Al Sharpton's ring. The dinges should grow a brain. Doink.
Pete�
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:17:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: That Al Sharpton sure has a lot of power. He must be related to the Boogie Man.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:14:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: But, hey, Glint. My analysis of the gridlines say the dome should be in quadrant six! What gives?
Pete�
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:12:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: How can anyone claim that the Republicans are the bigots, when it was Democrat senators that held a 74 day filibuster in an effort to kill the Civil Rights act? That Confederate Flag flying above the South Carolina Statehouse was put there by Democrat Fritz Hollings. I don't think I really need to mention Robert Byrd's past, but there is the time he used the phrase "white niggers" on national Television. Bill Clinton Supported Racial preferences. Democrats ae against school vouchers, while most black parents want the right to send their children to a school of their choosing. The Republicans, Reagan in particular, were in control and saw the black teenage and adult unemployment fall faster than did white teen and adult unemployment. The Republicans do far more to help all of America, rather than the Democrats' demographic support structure that does little outside of helping them stay in power to keep the inner cities dependant and willing to vote democratic. It is sickening to me when I see the Black population continue to vote along the same party lines year after year after year while complaining about the plight of thier people. When do you suppose the democrats will do something to help, rather than kissing the ring of Al Sharpton to get a few votes? They can't do that, because if the black people were to actually succeed in life(which many are beginning to do), what use would the government social programs (about the only leg the democrats have to stand on) be?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:01:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not so fast with the no-jism presidency*. I have yet to hear Snip be forthcoming about his semen. You know, usually after a huge scandal, Congress rushes to pass reform laws. You'd think the GOP would introduce the Executive Jism Open Record Act. But no. What are they afraid of?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 17:00:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Liberal? Sounds like a conservative agenda to me.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 16:10:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020510/ap_on_bi_ge/trade_authority_13 Deal Reached on Trade Package Fri May 10, 5:57 AM ET By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate agreement on expanding help for workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition opened the way to giving President Bush broad negotiating authority he says he needs to be a player in international trade talks.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 16:00:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Leave it to a liberal to want to watch a midlle aged man nekkid. Wierdos.
Pete�
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 15:56:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Spoke too soon, we need to get congress and the justice department on Cheney and the peephole. After all its America's peephole.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 15:37:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now we have the no jism presidency. America is so much better off.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 15:36:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ok, enough about the lying, justice obstructing former POTUS' jism record. We've had enough. Let's move on to more important things like Gore's bad beard, or Hitlery's threesome with Jesse "that mo fo ain't my baby" Jackson and Marion "da bitch set me up" Barry. Now there's a load of jism.
Spew me a river
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 14:35:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Urban legends or the product of Glint's fertile imagination?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 14:28:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Quad 2.
Glint
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 14:28:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: A young couple appeared in casualty one evening, he with a bleeding and lacerated organ and she with serious bruising around the head. It appears that during the course of providing her husband with oral sex in the kitchen (starters?) the young lady had suffered a "grand mal" epileptic fit, clamping her jaws closed on her husband's wedding tackle. In great pain and fear of actually losing the aforementioned penis, he grabbed a convenient heavy implement (a saucepan - fortunately empty) and used it to render his wife unconscious, so that she would release her grip.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 14:27:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: A policeman in Staffordshire returned home from the night shift to find his wife preparing breakfast. For some unknown reason, he wrapped a slice of bread around his penis, at which point the dog leapt up and took a bite out of it. The man needed cosmetic surgery to restore the damage.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 14:22:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: A man of 20 reported to a casualty department complaining of pain in his rectum. The examination revealed a hard, stony mass. According to the man, he had been "fooling around" with his boyfriend, which involved lying on his back with his feet against the wall, while his boyfriend inserted a funnel in his rectum and poured a quantity of concrete mix through it. The man underwent surgery to remove the by now solid lump of concrete, which weighed 275 grams, and on further examination, was also found to contain a ping-pong ball.
news from around the bend
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 14:19:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint did not protest the Vietnam War. Glint saw Watergate as the John Dean Scandal. Iran-Contra was A-OK with Glint. To Glint, Clarence Thomas was slimed by Anita Hill. But, when the issue was Democratic jism, there was Glint, on the front lines with a few dozen freepers, petitioning his government dressed as a cigar. You've got to pick your battles.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 14:14:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: So which of the four quadrants is the dome in?
Pete�
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 14:14:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Eternal wallowing in other men's jism is the price of freedom.
Glimpse Dimly
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:26:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Daddy, do I have to?
Poe
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:24:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Yuck!"
Ben, 11
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:23:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sometimes, child, the road to the truth is yucky. Sometimes you just have to wade through a man's jism. You'll understand when you get bigger and grow some nice breasts to go with that Phillipino jism-rod.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:22:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm thinking of going to JISM University in England, and study JISM. -- Chelsea
'nuff said- ookie billicans!
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:16:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yuck! The Clinton-loving (yucky!) liberals are whistling past the graveyard while the facts pile up, fact upon fact, proving that while president he on at least one occasion had a tubule full of (ewwww!) SEMEN, or (yuck) Jism. I'll bet there isn't a Clinton Family quotation that you couldn't make yucky with that!
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- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:14:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: "'I'd have to say that Clinton should never have been hired in the first place.'" -- Ben, 11
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:12:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Daddy, why do you keep all this stuff about jism in your hard drive, along with the pictures of oriental he-shes? My adopted oriental sister says it makes her feel weird.
Poe
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:11:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I am proud of what my husband gives our country and all of us every day by his generous outpouring [of jism]" -- Mrs. Clinton
nuff said - yuck!
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:10:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree, GOP operative. Let's send some of our top Rotarians into the ghetto dressed up like cigars. Maybe distribute some video tapes of the fine Southern House Managers during their finest hour, explaining the threat presidential jism is to our Republic. That ought to work on Leroy and Jemima and Sambo!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:08:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: "... declared himself a sinner with `a broken spirit` as a result of his liaison .... he issued a public apology for the first time." -- The Guardian
they must be talking about jimmy swaggert now <no, clinton the other "minister">
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:07:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it. In hindsight, now we know that even a vice-president is allowed to wank off at the Oval Office peep-hole. At least Clinton used real lips! Cheney carries around one of those latex Jenna Jameson twat repros for his peep-hole work.
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- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:05:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The [Starr] report describes nine oral sex sessions between Mr Clinton and Ms Lewinsky, describes him touching her intimately through her underwear and says he fondled and kissed her breasts. It says that on one occasion Mr Clinton performed a sexual act on Ms Lewinsky with a cigar and that on two occasions the couple had "genital to genital" contact. It confirms that DNA tests conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on one of Ms Lewinsky's dresses provide samples of Mr Clinton's !S E M E N!" -- The Guardian
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:04:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think we can lure the Meskin and Nigra voter to our side if we just keep this ball of jism in the air, don't you?
GOP operative
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:03:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think the bluenose here should keep working on the hindsight. Maybe the poker blocks the view.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:03:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Leave it to the liebrals to spin a man dressing up like a sex toy sound sick.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:01:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Trial By Leaks -Drip Drip Drip" - Time 02/16/98 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980216/cover1.html
this headline, in hindsight, is a perfect summary of the clinton legacy
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:57:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bill and Monica sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
wank cloth
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:57:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: My daddy once dressed up like a big cigar to protest Clinton sticking a cigar into Monica Lewinsky's wet pussy. What did your daddy do?
Poe
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:56:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why, I was even inspired to dress up like a cigar myself in order to petition the government about my grievances. Something for the kids to remember me by when my arteries give out and I'm gone.
Glimpse
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:55:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was that "most unseemly of souvenirs" that turned me. Why couldn't she just collect seemly souvenirs, like shrunken heads from the Amazon and little trilobite ashtrays from Nebraska?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:54:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Or the cigar? Hooey! That's a good one. Yep.
Glimpse
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:53:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, did I ever tell you about Clinton shooting his wad into a sink?
Glimpse
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:52:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, he's worse than Beelzebub. Beelzebub kept his jism to himself and never lied about it under oath. Traitor.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:51:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know. It looks to me as if maybe Geraldo is the Boogie Man.
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- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:50:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who is this dude they're talking about? Sounds like Beelzebub incarnate. Or maybe the Boogie Man!
ready to go GOP
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:49:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm visualizing Clinton's dick banging on the lectern. Mmmm.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:48:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Okay, okay! Enough with the jism cut-and-pastes! You've made your point already. You really know how to get under a liberal's skin, don't you? All you've got to do is remind us that Clinton wanked on a dress and steam comes out of our ears. STOP! ENOUGH!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:46:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, it was Clinton's jism alright. No doubt about that. The FBI was right on top of the president's jism. Now they can't even be bothered with warnings of terrorist attacks. Just resting on their jism laurels. Which is okay with me.
blue dress Republican
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:43:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: "In a story with no shortage of lurid details, news that Monica Lewinsky may have kept a dress stained from sex with President Clinton was in a class by itself. For fans of the prurient, it offered the tale of a woman so smitten by a sexual encounter that she vowed to keep the most unseemly of souvenirs. For the prosecution-minded, it promised hard DNA evidence. And for those hoping to see the powerful humbled, it introduced a pulse-racing new phrase: presidential !S E M E N!. "Monica's Love Dress," as the New York Post dubbed it, fast became a staple of water-cooler talk and late-night comedy." -- Time 02/16/98
love dress? more like a whack off cloth
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:43:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: I was once a Clinton supporter. In fact, jism aside, he was a fine, fine president. But how can you ignore a president's jism? I lost all respect for the man when he refused to clearly state what he knew about his penis and when he knew it. Now he baits us daily by living large and always grinning. It's not right I tell you!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:40:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: "According to the more sensitive RFLP test, the genetic markers on the !S E M E N!, which match the President's DNA, are characteristic of one out of 7.87 trillion Caucasians." -- Judge Star
i assume that's 7.87 trillion *male* caucasians? <7.87 trillion - man, that's a lot of !S E M E N!>
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:40:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Ms. Lewinsky turned over a navy blue dress that she said she had worn during a sexual encounter with the President on February 28, 1997. According to Ms. Lewinsky, she noticed stains on the garment the next time she took it from her closet. From their location, she surmised that the stains were the President's semen. Initial tests revealed that the stains are in fact semen." -- Ken Starr
thank you Judge Starr!
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:37:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The FBI crime laboratory has determined that the stain on the blue dress was !S E M E N!, two officials briefed on the results said." -- New York Times 08/21/98
can get a statement from Starr on that?
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:36:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jism.
Amen
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:35:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yep. Jism.
'nuff said
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:34:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: In the end that's what it all comes down to, doesn't it? Jism, plain and simple. Vile, filthy jism arrogantly spewed onto a Gap dress. It is the jism of it all that causes the eye-twitching and the self-abuse among the virtuous soldiers and soldierettes of the The Right. That and the man's haughty reluctance to share the details of his jism with agents of the government and, by extension, you and me.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:33:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Legal sources tell ABC News that as part of the immunity deal with prosecutors, Monica Lewinsky agreed to turn over evidence she claimed would back up her story that she had a sexual relationship with the President. The sources confirmed that one piece of evidence is in fact the dress Lewinsky said she saved after an encounter with Mr. Clinton because it had a !S E M E N! stain on it. ... The dress may provide Starr with forensic evidence of a relationship." -- ABC 07/29/98
ABC's not afraid to say it
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:33:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: "There is, ladies and gentlemen, absolutely no possibility that a so-called semen-stained dress exists because Monica has insisted to everyone that things never went that far, never went to completion." -- Geraldo Rivera 07/08/98
of course not, don't be rediculous! <blup blup>
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:32:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Investigators who have heard the tapes said Ms. Lewinsky made references to gifts she had received from President Clinton, including a dress. On one of the tapes, the investigators said, Ms. Lewinsky tells a friend, Linda R. Tripp that the dress contains a !S E M E N! stain from President Clinton." -- New York Times 01/24/98
a WHAT!?
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:29:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: "According to a source, Lewinsky says she saved--apparently as a kind of souvenir -- a navy blue dress with the president's !S E M E N! stain on it." -- ABC 01/23/98
EMPHASIS added
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:27:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't forget the treasonous deal he made with the Venusian Amazon Cat Women.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:25:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the deal with the Red Chinese to take over the USA.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:23:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jism! Jism! Jism! The public loves a scandal that drips with jism. Clinton was at the right place at the right time. The stars aligned and the cycles converged to make it acceptable to talk about the president's jism in detail in public. What a wonderful time to be alive!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:23:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the pact with Satan.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:22:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the incestuous boinking of his mother during that three-way with the whore.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:21:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the groper of Willey's swingin' gourds.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:20:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the siring of black bastard children.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:17:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: You left out murdering.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:15:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, that's what I thought. You're talking about the Clinton that caused you to lose all self-control and sink into foaming obsession. The Clinton that made you pick at your scabs. The Clinton caused your left eye to twitch and your tongue to turn black.. The Clinton who drove you to fill your anus with metal rods. That Clinton. Of course. The popular guy who was actually elected easily TWO TIMES. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:12:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, we mean the raping, and lied about it, draft-dodging, and lied about it, drug sucking, and lied about inhaling, distinguished pencil pecker popper outer, and lied about it, yolk popping clothes staining, and lied about it under oath, impeached, philandering husband of the carpet stealing carpet bagger that lied about the travel office, lied about the FBI files, lied about Whitewater, and rolled old Web Hubble like an old tire.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:03:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: You'd think he'd have the common decency to use the sinks.
Hortense Beegum
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 11:59:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: The great thing about the Bush administration is they don't cover anything up. If the vice president is caught masterbating at the peep-hole, the president announces is to the whole world without running it through Karl Rove.
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- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 11:57:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, it's great to know the adults are back in the White House and only the Vice President has been caught with jism on his hands.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 11:54:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean two-term actually-elected Balanced-Budget Peace and Prosperity President Clinton? That Clinton?
Throw them Out, and Welcome to War and Poverty Bush Lite Years! Ray!
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 11:53:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Capitol Hill - The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has unanimously ruled that President Bush's nominee to a disputed seat on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is the legitimate holder of that seat. At issue is whether Victoria Wilson, who was appointed by President Clinton to complete the term of Judge A. Leon Higginbotham on January 13, 2000, or Peter Kirsanow, who was appointed by President Bush to a new six-year term, was the legitimate holder of the position.
another clinton bum, thrown out on her ear <BRING IN THE FORKLIFT, BOYS!>
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 11:09:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Star party tonight at the backyard observatory. According to the Weather Channel forcast skies at the observatory should remain perfectly clear until 4 a.m. when some haze or fog may come in. Twilight will be at hand by then so no biggy. <> Here's a Leftist piece about David Brock which interestingly contains a reference to my late neighbor, Whittaker Chambers, and his book "Witness": http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020527&s=hitchens
Glint
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 10:42:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 09:26:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: You see, the joke was, it looked like Cheney was watching a peep-show, maybe seeing some nip, or some high thigh, maybe even some "beaver." Since his hands looked like they were on his crotch, Bush said, get this, "I hope you're not doing what it looks like you're doing!" Har har har! Killer! See, the deal was, it looked like the VICE PRESIDENT WAS MASTURBATING AT THE PEEP-HOLE! Too bitchin! Haw haw haw! Maybe it won't set so well with the old ladies in Omaha, but golly, they know that boys will be boys! They know the President is under a lot of pressure what with balancing the budget, and prosecuting the American Boy Taliban, so it's OK to let off a little steam by pretending the photo shows Dick Cheney choking the chicken at the keyhole. What a slick joke! A perfect set-up! I bet George never pulled off any better ones during the whole 1963 Ivy League cheerleading season! That's the kind of punchline you wait your whole life to deliver! Cheney handed it too him on a platter!
Tag Stensing
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 03:52:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's good to know that we finally have a class act in the White House! Those Arkansas hillbillies were just too gross! It was worth subverting the Constitution just to get them out!
Hortense Beegum
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 03:42:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like little George and Glint would get along together just fine! Glint, why don't you invite him over to look at the neighbor children through the telescope and tell each other jokes about how it looks like they're playing with their various body parts.
Social Committee
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 03:40:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Narrating a comical slide show as part of his presentation at the Washington Hilton, Bush paused at a photo of Cheney peering through a peephole into the Oval Office, with Cheney's hands in front of him, apparently at his crotch. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the vice president of the United States looking through a peephole," Bush said as the veep blushed. "And Dick, I hope you're not doing what it looks like you're doing."
Maybe he read the "open letter" about Pete's big one cumming.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 03:31:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hard to see how the Republicans can attract a wide range of social and economic types. Sure the party of greed, fear, hatred, envy, sloth, and hermaphrodite pedophilia should ring a bell somewhere deep down in the medulla oblongata of most people, but the GOP's problem is that the party has always attracted predominantly ignorant but comfortable white male businessmen who focused these Republican personality traits or characteristics outward toward the less fortunate. Now that the less fortunate are engulfing the country in great uncontrolled waves of immigration or were targeted for criminal disenfranchisment by the Florida coup d'�tat, there is little chance that they will turn to the party that does very little to hide the fact that it despises them and thinks of them as lazy and stupid. Ask your black or your latin-American friends about this... I think you will find that there is not a lot of love for the junior or for what he stands for in those communities. Of course, Snippy does get the Batista Cubans, and what's left of the Contras and the Columbian drug cartel. And that down home deep purple nigrah, Colin "Stop-at-the-Border" Powell. But hang on to your dreams, little pineapple chunk. In your dreams you will always find a future.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 01:28:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: The antics?
???
- Friday, May 10, 2002 at 01:15:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who was the last black guy to run for President on the democratic ticket? Oh yeah, that's not the point. The lame adgenda the Republicans push is far more thought out and reasonable than you give it credit for. However, your typical liberal jargon doesn't stand on its own anymore, and you will see soon that the democrat's base will begin to shrink little by little as people begin to realize that. Especially with the antics of Daschle and company in the national spotlight.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 23:01:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: That FBI "suspicion" that you're riding Snippy about consisted of no bigger deal than some low-level Special Agent yapping to management about how somebody ought to investigate the fact that so many Arabs were taking flight training. What the fuck did the guy think, that some crazy Arab was going to steal an airplane? With the Bush family back in the White House? Geesh!
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- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 22:45:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: I hear that Laura and Jenna use the same cervical cap to hold down government expenditures. That will cause traffic jams at the sinks if they happen to run into a couple of Yemeni oil-sheik hunks out for a good time in Paree.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 22:42:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just think, if Jenna were going to Oxford, the school officials would be disturbed and upset about her leaving town during the school year. Thank goodness West Texas Dental Hygiene isn't snooty like that!
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- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 22:38:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Carry on, my commander-in-chief*
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 22:22:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oops, my bad. Snippy's FBI was the one asleep at the switch, not Clinton's. Oh well, you live, you learn. No biggie.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 22:20:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: FBI ignored appeal to probe suspicious pilot training before Sept 11...
fucking Clinton!
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 22:18:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did you ever stop to think that maybe the reason Snippy wants to be Ted Kennedy's buddy is that the first lady once killed someone with her car?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 22:17:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: First lady, daughter Jenna embarking on 10-day European trip.
the murderess and here floozy, drunken daughter
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 22:15:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has asked the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta to nullify his marriage to his second wife, Marianne Gingrich, whom he divorced in 1999. Marianne Gingrich provided the Journal-Constitution with a copy of an April 30 letter she said was sent to her by the archdiocese. The letter, signed by Monsignor David P. Talley, judicial vicar, informs Marianne that Gingrich has requested the annulment because Marianne had been married previously. "We were married 19 years and now he wants to say it didn't exist," Marianne said. Gingrich has since married Callista Bisek, a former Washington aide with whom Gingrich admitted to having a 7-year extramarital affair. Neither Gingrich nor archdiocese officials would confirm Gingrich's annullment request.
geesh
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 22:13:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: The way the numbers and changing demographics work, by 2020 the GOP will need to get 75% of the white vote in order to win an election. Bye, bye GOP.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 21:50:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sigh. Look, Anonymous, there are plenty of rich white guys running the Democratic Party. However, there are also plenty of beaners, spooks, broads, etc. In fact, it's safe to say the power is pretty evenly shared in the Democratic Party. That's not the point though, you poor, pathetic dingleberry. The point is, the GOP wants what the Democrats have - a broad base. This requires an "outreach" effort, something that the GOP is clueless about. They're never going to sell their lame agenda on its merits so it would stand to reason they might want to send someone other than the local Rotary treasurer into the ghetto or barrio or Planned Parenthood clinic to recruit. But, no, that would alienate the snake handlers and robber barons - in other words, the current GOP base.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 21:46:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: None of this, of course, means one has to support the Likud government (that's "Bulldozer" Sharon's party for you troglodyte pig farmers.) Or does it, Maggie?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 21:37:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The current Republican idea for broadening the base of the party has been to bring a bunch of rich white guys in to run the party," said Michael Schroeder, former chairman of the California Republican Party. "Meanwhile, the Democrats.............." -- aren't a bunch of rich white guys?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 21:34:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Democrats have always liked Israel because they are can-do people, just like the Democrats, the party of the working classes, the party of the cable-splicers. Israel made the desert bloom, just the same as the liberals from George Washington through Abe Lincoln to Jimbo Carter have built and strengthened America's core and gut, its roads and bridges and buildings and yes its parks and noble monuments and theatres and works of art instead of just standing on the sidelines trading paper and trying to make an easy dollar like the Republicans. That is why Republicanism sucks the ass of Saudi Arabia, why every Republican from Sprio T. Agnew to the current unelected president's father works for the Saudis; because like the Arab royalty the Republicans are addicted to sitting on their asses and letting the money flow out of the ground or out of chicanery, out of anywhere but their own sweat and productivity. Don't worry, Maggie, as long as there are liberals, as long as there are real people in America, Israel will make it through.
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- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 21:28:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: What kind of name is "Contour" for an automobile? It sounds like something on a map. Why didn't they at least name it the "Longitude." Or how about the "Camping", the "Boat Launching Facilities", or the "Esso Station?" Or they could change gears completely and name it something sexy, like the "Probe." On the other hand, "zx2" immediately says "this is Ford's answer to all those other cars with 'z' or 'x' in the name, followed by a number. It is one zippy little number, almost like a sort of two-seater for fat big people with dogs. Buy this car and you will be a sporty dude for Waco, and you will maybe get laid."
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- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 21:21:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: The "religious right" as we know it, has been around since, oh, about five years after Roe vs. Wade became the law of the land. Israel's been around for 50 years. Do the math.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 21:19:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Troglodytes 'R' Fun.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 21:14:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maggie has it figured that if Jerry Falwell doesn't yammer on behalf of Israel the USA will let it be snuffed out. Uh-huh. "If America's alliance with Israel is to be maintained over the long term, it will be thanks to the Religious Right." Why, of course. What other reason could there be? Haven't the liberals been trying to drop Israel like a hot turd ever since Harry Truman made it exist by recognizing it fifteen minutes after it declared itself? There must have been dozens of snake-handling Nebraska deacons kicking Harry's ass to make him do it. Besides, what rational country would support Israel? They're obviously the weak sister of the middle east. They have to untie one of their hands just to fight a little war against Syria, Egypt, and the United Sheiks of the Burning Sands. What in the world will happen to them when we unleash Yasir Arafat? They're doomed, I tell you, without Pat Robertson and every religios fanatic in the Ozarks.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 21:13:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maggie was doing all right until she said, what does having the Hebe as an ally get us? Well, for one thing, Maggie, it doesn't hurt to have as your ally the toughest country in the world, a few million people who can whomp a few billion. What a dingbat. You sound like Pete. Maybe we should sign up with the Palestinians, who have developed the brilliant military strategy of sending schoolgirls to blow themselves up in discotheques? So Maggie figures, like any clear-minded troglodyte, that the only rational reason to support Israel is because God said he would smite those who smiteth themeth? That's really intelligent. I say we should probably support Utah in the basketball finals because John Smith found the golden plates. Maggie should probably take a shower. She's catching up with Noonan and Coulter in the foreign affairs analysis sweepstakes. Sp, the real question is, was that posted by a reasonable person as a joke, or was it posted by glint with pride in the troglo-Christian movement?
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- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 21:05:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Brilliant article. Brilliant analysis.
Pig Farmer
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 20:54:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: JEWS, ISRAEL AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT Tue May 7, 9:01 PM ET By Maggie Gallagher I never write about the Middle East. You can't know about everything, and the tortuous, painful politics of the region are one area that heretofore I have left for others, more daring or expert than myself. But lately, as the world experiences a spasm of anti-Semitism, and as American Jews feel more beleaguered than ever ("Crisis for American Jews," trumpets New York magazine), I have had occasion to reflect on the reasons for my own deep support for the state of Israel. In America, this kind of deep support is becoming rarer. In 1989, 69 percent of Americans supported Israel. In the latest ABC News poll, just 41 percent of Americans do. And the really weird thing is, as New York magazine put it, "Even more unnerving for liberal Jews here (in New York) has been the fact that sympathy for Israel is strongest among Republicans. At 64 percent, they are far beyond Democrats, only 38 percent of whom sympathize with the Israelis." Columnist Zev Chafets explains the results this way: "Israel's base is now located in pro-American hawks or conservatives or Jews. Some Jews don't feel comfortable with Jerry Falwell, but that's too bad." How to explain American support for Israel? Like Desmond Tutu, many people abroad aggressively blame the alleged power of something called the Jewish lobby (in a democracy in which Jews are just 2 percent or so of the population). Meanwhile, Islam, designated representative of Third World culture oppressed by evil Western patriarchy, has become the new darling of the liberal intelligentsia. In PC-Speak, international alliances are supposed to be defined in rational, secular terms. We support Israel because Israel is a democracy, which is true, but so are a lot of other countries. We support Israel because Israel is a staunch ally. Which is true, but what does it get us? With allies like this, America hardly needs enemies. No, support for Israel cannot be justified by the cold logic of national self-interest. And it cannot be explained away by calling some people hawks. Both sides in this conflict use force of arms. A generalized willingness to use military force does not explain why Americans are still much more likely to identify with Israel than, say, the Palestinian authority (news - web sites). For me, what it comes down to, right or wrong, is a sense of religious affinity. As a Christian (Roman-Catholic style), I believe the Old Testament of the Bible is true. Jews are the chosen people through whom God revealed himself to humanity. Deeper than the ins and outs of any particular policy Israel adopts toward the Palestinians (which may be as right or wrong), my support is based on an inchoate sense that if put into words would be something like this: As Christians, we just cannot sit by and let Islamic nations exterminate the Jewish people. There are a billion Muslims and only a few million Jews. I am not sure I know how to defend this as a national policy position. (As I said, I leave that for the experts.) I am not trying to make a political argument so much as explain a political phenomenon. The uncomfortable truth for many American Jews (who remain overwhelmingly allied to the Democratic Party and many of whom view Christian conservatives as political enemies) is this: If America's alliance with Israel is to be maintained over the long term, it will be thanks to the Religious Right.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 20:46:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyway, the zx2 is a weird critter. Obsolete on the assembly line. A poor man's mustang. It's, well. it's not alot. It's not an Escort engine, It's the dohc engine from the larger Contour. 130 hp stock. It's 60 series tires on aluninum 15's and a ricer exhaust factory. It;s on either a mazda or escort chassis but shares not one bodyskin with either.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 20:42:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's never been "beach pretty". Explains alot.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 20:12:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who do you think all the news anchors are wrinkling their eyebrows at every night, Glint? You think it's someone in Cali?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 19:52:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: I could never figure out why he waited so long. Best I could come up with was that he liked making his contribution. Kept him busy or something. Couldn't been the money, because those guys are working for about negative income by that age. He had 35 years in. From hearing him discuss stuff with his buddy, another old-timer, I get the idea that he wasn't popping too many yolks. I doubt if even a sexually confused teen-age boy could have done it for him. Is Geepers pronounced with a hard G, the same as Geesh?
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- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 19:51:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Glint has the all the knowledge a Nebraska pig farmer needs, thank you very much. He also has the pig farmer's mistrust of his betters." Can you rephrase that in eybrow?
Glint
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 19:49:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: "He was too weak to lift his head and drowned in the toilet. Let that be a lesson." Yeah, don't give blow jobs and then rinse in the toilet. Why'd the stiff wait until he was 65 to retire? Spending too much company time popping his yolks in the "cube in back of me" no doubt. Perverts, the both of you!
Glint
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 19:23:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geepers Glint, can't ypu give us a better idea of how close this is?
Pete�
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 19:15:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint has the all the knowledge a Nebraska pig farmer needs, thank you very much. He also has the pig farmer's mistrust of his betters.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 18:41:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 18:32:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wrong, anonymous, about Glint's easily protecting himself from the liberal eyebrow. It drills into his core beliefs every times it twitches. The liberal eyebrow is as a werewolf that stalks the night, taking bites out of our intuitive knowledge of What Jesus Would Do. Ever since I've witnessed his act, Glint has been in a barely controlled state of panic, fearing the intrusion of knowledge into his brain. We liberals cannot know the scope of the desparate battles that go on in the minds of 13th-Century cathedral deacons trying to keep it together in the 21st Century. They walk through the valley of death alone, and for this we must respect them. If respect and disgust can truly co-exist.
House of Meat
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 18:22:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: I know that place. Olive Oyl's Office Goils, in Annap, Mary.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 18:16:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: You and Glint are both blessed with the ability to protect yourselves against liberal eyebrow persuasion. It's the common man I worry about. What happens to Joe Sixpack when he sees those eyebrows twitching?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 18:15:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: I am, of course I am assuming that my guess about the crynic is correct. Which is that he currently manages an independent temporary employment agency, which was started by his wife before they married. If this is not true, the crynic, please correct me. I hate to read people wrong.
House of Meat
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 18:14:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: I tend to think that Rather and Brokaw and the others do probably lean to the liberal side in their political opinions. I tend to assume most fairly intelligent, knowledgeable, experience people have developed the even-handed, open, fair attitudes that are consistent with a liberal philosophy. People who have spent their lives inside bubbles, in engineering cubes and banks or as petty personnel bureaucrats tend to develop the stout hide of ignorance that permits the lynch-level conservativism exhibited by our fornigate troglodytes. I've always felt, however, that if our news guys on occasion can't supress the escape of a liberal eyebrow crook, I am sophisticated enough to protect myself from it. I guess that boils down to it, why the troglodyte fears knowledge and liberty-- because they have no protection against it. That's why a lot of them end up in rubber rooms or lusting after proto-homosexual children.
House of Meat
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 18:08:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: (Washington Times, May 9) Republicans, despite hopes that they would make progress with President Bush at the helm, can't seem to get the hang of outreach to Hispanic, Asian and black voters. "The current Republican idea for broadening the base of the party has been to bring a bunch of rich white guys in to run the party," said Michael Schroeder, former chairman of the California Republican Party. "Meanwhile, the Democrats have full-time staff people tasked with making sure their message is taken into all the ethnic communities in California." Other Republican leaders acknowledge that their party's ethnic-outreach efforts have met with only moderate successes among Hispanics nationally and have been a flop with Asians and blacks. "It's time that Karl Rove understood that it takes more than a Mariachi band and a TV show in Spanish," said K.B. Forbes, a veteran Republican campaign operative and current executive director of a nonprofit group that works in Hispanic communities. Mr. Rove is Mr. Bush's chief political strategist. When President Bush appeared at a California fund-raiser for gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon in Santa Clara last week, few Asians, fewer Hispanics and even fewer blacks could be seen at the event. Yet it took place in the San Francisco Bay area, which has a large Asian population. At a national party meeting a few weeks earlier, Shannon Reeves, the conservative black leader of the Oakland National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who is running for California Republican Party chairman with the blessing of the Bush White House, drew scant attention from some key party officials from other states. These officials intended no racial slight, they said. They simply found it hard to get excited about California, a state they have all but written off. California hasn't voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1988. Democrats control its governorship, legislature and every statewide office except secretary of state. Also, Republican officials suggest the California party would benefit more from having a Hispanic as chairman of the state party, but no Hispanic is seeking the post. Mr. Bush's success with Hispanic voters when he was twice elected governor of Texas raised Republicans' hopes that they could regain the momentum they once had with Hispanics nationally. So when Republicans elected former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III as their national party chairman last year, he told them that successful outreach meant inviting minorities to Republican political and social events. Republicans should also learn how to mix and mingle in minority communities, he said. Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot said much the same thing when he succeeded Mr. Gilmore earlier this year. This week, Mr. Racicot upped the ante when he announced a $1 million campaign to air a Republican-produced news magazine twice a month on Spanish-language television stations in selected cities. While calling it a good first step, some Republican activists are getting impatient with their party's national and state organizations and with Mr. Bush's political team. "It's time to get the grass-roots foot soldiers involved in communities that are not traditionally Republican," said Mr. Forbes, whose mother became a U.S. citizen after emigrating from Chile in 1958. "It's time to get members of the Young Republican, College Republican and Republican Federated Women clubs into the barrios, helping people translate letters, showing them how to transfer money to relatives back in Latin America or wherever, and with misunderstandings with local police." Interviews with party officials around the country indicate that Republicans are unable to cite many examples of successful Hispanic recruitment. Some acknowledge they face a cultural divide. Republicans touted the 2000 election results as success, even though 67 percent of Hispanics voted for Al Gore - more than double the 31 percent who picked George W. Bush. And Mr. Bush failed to match the 33 percent Hispanic support that President Reagan got in 1984. Republican attempts to court black voters have yielded dismal results - more than 90 percent of black voters went for Mr. Gore in 2000. And the failure to win over Asian voters, considered a natural constituency for Republicans, is particularly telling, strategists in both parties say. Although Asians went by a 55-31 percent margin for the elder George Bush in 1992 and by 48-43 percent for Bob Dole over Bill Clinton in 1996, they reversed party allegiance in 2000, voting 54-41 percent for Mr. Gore over Mr. Bush. Democrats do not hide their glee over Republican ineptitude in courting minority voters. "Republicans are at their nadir with Asians," Gary South, chief strategist for Democratic Gov. Gray Davis of California, told The Washington Times. Asians are the second-fastest growing segment of the electorate after Hispanics. Yet, as Mr. South noted, "Democrats now have a 65-35 percent split with [Asian voters], not in registration but in voting behavior. In 1992, they were registered 4-1 Republican. Right now, that constituency is half Democrat and half Republican" in California. Republicans say their free-market, limited-government philosophy does not allow them to push the welfare-state social policies that Democrats use to gain support with minority constituents. And some Republicans say an ethnic-focused strategy won't work for their party. "I don't think the Republican Party can succeed by approaching people on the basis of their ethnicity," said California Republican campaign strategist Wayne Johnson. "Our outreach is built on shared values. It's not based on ethnicity and should not be."
OK, so how about TWO Mariachi bands, then?
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 18:02:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shit, and here I was just today planning on retiring in November instead of next May. Back to the drawing board. Sad, really.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:59:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: I believe that a "middle-of-the-road" observer would find that the pliable mush was all on the lunatics' side of the political spectrum. But I may have been influenced by the reactionary press, who can tell any more?
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- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:59:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I heard a guy on radio today, the new yack show with O'Reilly. The caller says Tom Brokaw tilts left. O'Reilly, bless his dumb little head, asked for specifics and the guy said it was Brokaw's "attitude" and "facial expression." O'Reilly didn't dispute any of this. Made me think of Mara Liasson's eyebrow language.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:58:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Zerk, I took half a sick day instead of going to the "memorial service" of the guy who used to sit in the cube in back of me. He retired at 65, about six months ago, and then found he had Lou Gherigs's Disease and maybe four years max. Two or three weeks ago he made it into the bathroom at night to take a piss, the newly-installed grab-bar broke and he took a header. He was too weak to lift his head and drowned in the toilet. Let that be a lesson. As soon as that pension vests, get your ass to the high country.
Dr. Elvis Z'blook
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:56:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course, Dan Rather thinks the Washington Post is "middle of the road" and that Rush Limbaugh and Chuck Colson are conservative!! The eyebrow-twisting, socialist, blubbering traitor!
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- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:52:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Come to think of it, when I heard Spiro call the Democrats "nattering nabobs of negativism" I started despising the nattering Democratic nabobs, feeling they were negative. But Dan Rather saved my with his eyebrows, and today I'm a proud liberal.
Proud Liberal
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:49:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Figured that out in only 5 months? It's easy to manipulate pliable burned out mush.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:48:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hmmm. That must be why I started to secretly despise Gore about that time. I remember thinking, "this guy is such a creep, he probably has operatives instead of aides." It was Glint and the pineapple, with their posts mightier than swords. Just a modern variation of Spiro Agnew saying "nattering nabobs of negativism."
Manipulated by the Lunatics
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:47:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: I just figured out why Glint and the pineapple kept referring to Gore "operatives" during the Florida putsch. They were manipulating our minds!
House of Meat
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:43:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: No Trippy, no dressy. No dressy, no drippy. No drippy, no impeachy. Peachy! Anonymous. - Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 13:32:58 (EDT) - - CLOSET HOMOSEXUAL
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:42:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: It must feel pretty harsh to be called "bratty" by Ann Coulter.
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- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 17:42:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's all in the eyebrows. The media bias that is.
Lunatic�
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 15:21:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hi Pete. O.K. the Liberals talked me into it. They want my 1020 'cause they're trying to zero in on Brenda. Well, here it is. The dome is somewhere in this photo and by mousing around, zooming and offsetting, you can find it. Hint: Whittaker Chamber's pumpkin patch is somewhere nearby.
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- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 14:23:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Speaking about 4 year olds.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 13:57:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Forget Roe - What's His Stand On Cow-Tipping? Universal Press Syndicate | May 9, 2002 By Ann Coulter THE CHAIRMAN of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy, recently said: "To contend that [Miguel] Estrada, a young attorney with no judicial experience, is the only Hispanic who could be a nominee to a potential vacancy on the Supreme Court does a disservice to the many outstanding Hispanic judges serving in our federal and state courts." Actually Bush was just looking for top legal talent, not models for a Benetton ad. And not even a Supreme Court justice. Estrada has been nominated to a federal court of appeals by President Bush. It's rather churlish for Leahy to complain that Estrada has no judicial experience. He can't develop judicial experience until he's on the bench, where the Democrats refuse to put him because he has no judicial experience. It's interesting that Leahy complained about Estrada's youth. After an utterly undistinguished legal career prosecuting cow-tipping cases in Chittenden County, Vt., Leahy was, his Web site boasts, "also the youngest senator (34) elected from the Green Mountain State"! To be sure, Estrada, 40, has no cow-tipping prosecutions under his belt. But he has argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court, often considered even better experience than practice before the Chittenden County bench. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Clinton, for example, the media briefly stopped hailing Hillary Clinton as the greatest legal mind in the universe in order to rave about Ginsburg's six arguments before the Supreme Court. Back when Estrada was first nominated - one year ago - Leahy said: "The nominees who were selected for their qualifications are likely to be confirmed. Those who were selected primarily for their ideology are not likely to be confirmed." But in the succeeding year, Leahy has refused to grant hearings to a slew of lawyers with astonishing legal qualifications. Almost 40,000 students graduate from law school every year. Each year, only 33 will clerk for the Supreme Court. Indeed, only three sitting members of the Supreme Court - also a good credential - did so. Estrada is among this elite group, as are at least three other of the nine lawyers Bush chose for appellate courts one year ago. Estrada clerked for Justice Kennedy and has argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court. John Roberts clerked for Justice Rehnquist and has argued more than 30 cases before the Supreme Court. Jeff Sutton clerked for Justice Scalia and has had 15 arguments before the Supreme Court. Michael McConnell clerked for Justice Brennan and has argued 11 cases before the Supreme Court. None of them have even been given hearings by Leahy. It turns out what the Democrats mean by "selected primarily for their ideology" means the nominee went to top law schools, had prestigious federal clerkships, went on to distinguished legal careers - but are believed to be Republicans. Evidence of "extreme views" consists of association with the Federalist Society, a group of intellectuals that holds racy legal debates on the privileges and immunities clause, and issues publications with edgy titles like "Reciprocal Compensation Decision Resolves Little." As legal scholar Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., explained: "We don't want this to be a judiciary jammed and packed with people who've come out of the Federalist Society with extreme views." Consequently, Bush had already purged his list of judicial nominees likely to incite a Democratic witch-hunt. He withdrew the names of two Harvard Law School graduates - one a Supreme Court clerk, one a U.S. congressman - after Democrats discovered with alarm that the two had suspicious associations with the Federalist Society. To get a fair shake from the Democrats, the Federalist Society should change its name to "Communist Party U.S.A." In addition to the first nine he chose, Bush even included two Clinton nominees - an unprecedented concession. The Senate Democrats responded to Bush's olive branch by quickly confirming the two Democrats and refusing to confirm all but one of Bush's nine nominees. When that first batch of judicial nominees was announced one year ago, Democrats said they would refuse to hold hearings until the candidates had been vetted by the Democratic Party's legal adjunct, the American Bar Association. OK: All four of these nominees have been reviewed by the ABA. Three received unanimous "well qualified" ratings (Estrada, McConnell, Roberts), and one received a mixed "well qualified/qualified rating (Sutton). Still, no hearings. When Bush recently complained about the massive resistance to his judicial nominees, Leahy angrily denied the accusation, saying: Republicans did it first! In point of fact, Republicans held up nominations of jurists like Frederica A. Massiah-Jackson of Philadelphia, who shouted obscenities at prosecutors from the bench. ("Shut your f***ing mouth," she exclaimed.) Which Clinton nominee with a half-dozen arguments before the Supreme Court did Republicans refuse to confirm? But moreover, even if it weren't a lunatic comparison, what kind of argument is that? The Republicans did it too? This must be the sort of finely honed legal argument one develops prosecuting cow-tipping cases. Perhaps the Federalist Society could finally gain the admiration of Senate Democrats if it too began showcasing the legal logic of bratty 4-year-olds.
go anne go
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 13:57:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: "To placate Republicans angered by the exit of California GOP operative Dan Schnur and others from the campaign, the former mayor has hired pollster Fred Steeper and media consultant Don Sipple. Both men are highly respected consultants with strong Republican pedigrees, but Sipple's reappearance adds another interesting twist to the race. Sipple, whom I always regarded as one of the top GOP media consultants, lowered his profile a few years ago after a messy divorce made him politically untouchable." http://www.rollcall.com/pages/columns/rothenberg/00/2001/roth1126.html
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 13:49:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: No Trippy, no dressy. No dressy, no drippy. No drippy, no impeachy. Peachy!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 13:32:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: The manipulation is suble, yet it's there. Listen to how they introudce the characters in the story. On the right you have "GOP operative Dan Schnur." On the left is "Chris Lehane, a former aide to Al Gore." Dan was an aide, but Chris is an operative. Which title sounds more benign? Which is more sinister in its overtones?
Glint
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 13:24:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint needs to learn patience regarding scandals. It takes awhile for the whistle blowers to come forward, but eventually it happens. There is little doubt Enrongate will have its John Dean, or David Brock. Perhaps even a Linda Tripp will emerge to save our country.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 13:08:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: How is it we're all pawns for the "unintentional" manipulation of the Washington Post, NY Times and Dan Rather, and yet a hayseed doofus like Glint isn't?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 12:31:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: So?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 12:30:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wow! This developing feud between Drudge and O'Reilly promises to be a real interest-grabber!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 12:14:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: The corporations that own the media are Marxist. Everybody knows that.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 12:12:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good analysis, you paranoid rube.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 12:10:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Middle of the road in is the eye of the beholder -- just ask Dan Blather. Perhaps "mainstream" is a more appropriate term. For although NYT is left leaning it is considered "mainstream" because so many get there news, and spin, from there. More so than, say, the Online Journal. For instance, here's a piece in the Washington Post, a mainstream paper, which reporting that "Both Political Parties Say Enron Proves Their Point": http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49366-2002May7.html If course mainstream doesn't mean that the Post doesn't, even unintentionally, impart its own spin the subject as you will see when you read it.
Glint
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 12:05:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: FERC, CHENEY, BUSH, CAlIFORNIA, LAY. How hard is it to connect the dots?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 12:01:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, just because Snippy partied with crooks and sought the advice of crooks on public policy matters, doesn't mean a thing! Birds of a feather do NOT flock together, as the old saying goes.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:39:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, you poor rube. Of course you're going to find more Enron/Bush information from those who are biased against Bush. Are you suggesting that those biased FOR Bush are the ones to pay attention to? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:37:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Enron Corp. (ENRNQ) and at least two other power sellers combined to profit by using false information to resell extra power during California shortages in 2000, Thursday's Wall Street Journal reported, citing internal Enron memos. The two memos, co -written by an Enron attorney and an outside counsel, detail a system in which Enron's trading unit requested power on behalf of the company's retail customers in California that wasn't actually needed. The memos call it "`dummied-up' load from EES," or Enron Energy Services, the retail unit where Army Secretary Thomas White was then vice chairman. Enron's trading unit obtained the power from utilities outside California that couldn't sell power without a request from within the state, according to the memos -- benefiting those suppliers. Then Enron would sell the excess power the next day to California 's perennially power-needy system operator, reaping big profits for energy that it wasn't entitled to hold in the first place. The move took advantage of the attempts of utilities to hold down volatile prices by ordering less power than they needed to suppress demand. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/dowjones/20020509/bs_dowjones/documents_say_two_other_firms_took_part_in_enron_power_scheme
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:36:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Another mouth to feed? As in, "Oh no, Dad brought home another hermaphrodite."?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:35:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's nice, Glint. You'll be dead soon and the kids can hock the stargazing crap.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:35:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Kids came down for breakfast this morning and saw the case containing the scope laying in the breakfast room. "Oh no, Dad brought home another telescope." Not like it's another mouth to feed. Speaking of food, I had three slabs of prime ribs for dinner last night. It was all you could eat prime rib night. No red ale though, just root beer.
Glint
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:26:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't think we'll have any problem finding a home for this premium 5" refractor. The gummit has already offered land, and a local farmer has a silo dome we can have. All we have to do is come get it.
Glint
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:18:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's see, NYT story posted at 00:14. No Bush. Then there was piece about Enron in the Online Journal at 00:37. The page mentioned Bush and also had links to Democratic Media Reform and another article about the "BUSH REGIME COUP." Considering the source it sounds like kind of Liberal bias that Dan Rather would call "middle of th road." <> Got a new telescope. Actually a used telescope from an anonymous donor who asked me to take it, look after it, and use it for whatever purposes. It's a high end 5" refractor. Even used its worth a couple of $k. Tube assembly only; no mount. But I know someone else who received a donated 6" refractor with a heavy duty observatory mounting. That telescope is worthless optically, so we might be able to get together on this one if we can find a place to erect our "spy scope."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 10:05:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: I was talking with the Dr. about Brenda over dinner last night. He said knowing me soon I'll posting a pic of Brenda on one of my web pages.
Glint
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 09:43:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: He's one of them RINOs. He's a traitor and this is treason. I've a good mind to do something about it, as soon as I'm finished breaking a few yolks in the observatory.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 09:21:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: But--golly! I thought Mike Bloomberg was a Republican!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 08:52:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: BUSH RATING CONTINUES DOWNWARD SPIRAL Four points lower than President Clinton's the day after he was "impeached." "Direction of Country" Index Lowest Since Bush Stole Office Washington, May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Americans' satisfaction with the direction of the country is at its lowest point of George W. Bush's presidency, giving Democrats an edge as they battle for control of Congress, a Bloomberg News poll shows. The number of voting-age Americans saying they're pleased ``with the way things are going in this country today'' was 46 percent, down from 51 percent when Bush's term began and 15 points below December's peak of 61 percent. Bush's approval rating is 69 percent, compared with 74 percent in March and 83 percent after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
WAR & POVERTY BUSH EVEN-LESS-ADEQUATE'S POLL NUMBERS PLUMMETS TO FOUR POINTS BELOW PEACE & PROSPERITY CLINTON'S POPULARITY THE DAY AFTER HE WAS "IMPEACHED" BWA HA HA
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 08:51:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WEDNESDAY MAY 08, 2002 22:53:12 ET XXXXX O'REILLY RAGE AFTER STATION PAYOUT IS REVEALED; WESTWOOD ONE THREATENS TO PULL CASH; FOX NEWS HOST ADVISES: 'DRUDGE SHOULD BE KILLED' **Update** Cable host and now talkradio broadcaster Bill O'Reilly was pushed over the edge this week after the DRUDGE REPORT revealed exclusively that $300,000 was promised to O'Reilly's New York City flagship station WOR-AM to carry the program. Although VIACOMCBSINFINTYWESTWOODONE radio head Joel Hollander publicly denied to reporters that compensation was being paid to affiliates for carrying O'Reilly -- behind the scenes on Tuesday, Hollander threatened to pull the payout guarantee to WOR, blaming the station for the DRUDGE REPORT leak! Meanwhile, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, Los Angeles' KABC-AM is receiving $250,000 in outdoor advertising from VIACOM in exchange for clearing The Bill O'Reilly Radio Program. A similar comp deal has also been promised to O'Reilly's San Francisco affiliate. Difficulty clearing O'Reilly in the Washington, DC market raised the payout price to $200,000, according to insiders -- a payout that was rejected by all major stations in the region, including ABC's WMAL-AM. Just as O'Reilly showed signs of increasingly reckless behavior. "There is no other cure than to kill Matt Drudge," O'Reilly charged on the IMUS in the MORNING radio show on Wednesday. "I just want to tell everybody that Matt Drudge is smoking crack - right now, in South Miami Beach on Washington Avenue... And the authorities should know it." This reporter is currently in London, England, not South Beach, and I have never smoked crack. More O'Reilly lies. [But for a couple hundred thou, heck, I'd even carry O'Reilly Radio.]
Doncha jus love female mud wrestling?
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 08:25:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's weird here in Cali. I remember as if it were yesterday when Cali was a hotbed of right-wing hysteria. The dominant political factor was the retired Navy officers around San Diego and the hysterically anti-communist religious kooks and transplanted midwestern dentists in the LA area, with a statewide sprinkling of little old ladies in tennis shoes worrying about sex education and fluoride in the water. This was the crowd whose heart melted for Ronald Reagan and his jokes about you couldn't tell whether these college hippies were boys or girls any more, and phew didn't they know about deodorant? The man ran on a platform of the imaginary smell of imaginary adversaries. I don't understand why California has been voting Democratic lately. Maybe it's just the Mexicans voting against Republican racism, and the back-sassing women, and a generalized distaste for small-time no-talent Texas bunco artists. Who the hell knows or cares? Wisconsin is the bell-weather state now. Wisco is the future, while Cali is the past and maybe the present. The wake-up call in the mailbox is is return-addressed Wisco, and even a haole paralegal coun't of laid it out more perfect.
House of Meat
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 03:43:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Chin020102/chin020102.html
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 00:37:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Enron at Home: Extortion and Racketeering for Bush and Gang While media coverage and congressional inquiries have dwelled on the fraud, accounting irregularities, swindled mutual fund managers and stock jockeys, and ripped off pension fund owners, the most sinister aspects of Enron's operations remain cloaked. Through manipulation of energy distribution, Enron was effective in subverting and controlling the politics and pocketbooks of entire populations within the US and overseas. One of Enron's first acts on behalf of the present Bush administration was the manipulation of the California energy grid, which essentially blackmailed the state. California is a Democratic stronghold and "hotbed of liberal dissent" that opposed the installation of George W. Bush in the White House. California's once burgeoning economy was derailed, and its damaged Democratic political leadership was sent scrambling into months of damage control. So emasculated were the Democrats that they were unable to oppose Bush on the rest of his extreme right wing agenda. This delighted Bush and Cheney, who (on Ken Lay's advice) not only refused to assist, but also blamed California for "its own failures" and blocked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commision (FERC) from intervening. Enron made a fortune.
humpty dumpty
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 00:31:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nyt/20020508/bs_nyt/how_enron_got_california_to_buy_power_it_didn_t_need
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 00:14:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Happy Birthday, Zerk.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 22:30:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's how I read it too. I been there myself a few times. No fun.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 21:32:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: The running joke is just part of the cry for help. Read between the lines. The poor cornhusker's brain is squirming in agony.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 21:29:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: It happens all the time in my neighborhood.
Prescott Jamison
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 20:41:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: What are the odds that a healthy man would make a running joke of his lust for the homosexual teen-age son of a neighbor?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 20:17:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The trash compactor? I thought it was genetic. I thought everyone from Nebraska looked like that, more or less.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 20:08:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: If Brandon didn't want the lustful attention of squat middle-aged men with faces that look like they've been squashed in a trash compactor, he wouldn't shake his ass at them.
Child Protective Services
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 20:01:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint is just experimenting with his homosexual tendencies. He'll come back to reality the next time he sees a picture of Linda Tripp.
Dr. Laura
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 19:59:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: I chalk up Glint's current behavior to youthful indiscretion.
John Ashcroft
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 19:57:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: No. I'm convinced that Glint is "just kidding."
Henry Hyde
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 19:56:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: No. It's perfectly normal to be sexually excited by your neighbor's medical problems.
ePte
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 19:54:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: No.
Chief Broken Yolk
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 19:51:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: No.
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 19:31:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does anyone else get the feeling that Glint's yolk has broken?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 19:16:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course, there's the theory of Vince Foster's "suicide." Makes about as much sense as the Theory of Relativity.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 17:51:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: I never thought of that. Nobody ever took the trail of corpses behind the Clintons seriously, until the proofs about the yolks in the sink started flooding in. That and the link on Yahoo put it on the map. Now even the crynic knows about the corpse trail.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:52:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where did this Pete character park his brain? Is it sticking to the bottom of a Denny's counter with the rest of the gum-wads?
Is this site for real?
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:49:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: It better have its own link on Yahoo, or the webmaster will ban it as inappropriate.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:47:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think it has its own link on Yahoo, mugabwe.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:46:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: A few half-situps are the darker side of pain? Shit, you must have been born on a yacht with a bar-b-q hanging out the back. Talk about silver spoons. But at least you're not in the White House breaking your yolks into the sinks. That excuses a lot. You get a pass on this one. What you did before, the trail of swamp-sunken corpses, only counts if you break yolks. I think it's in the Platform, or the constitution or something, maybe in the part about the electoral college.
mugabwe
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:45:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, does Brenda have a Yahoo link? If not, why do you still make such a fuss?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:34:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll believe Enron is worth a link on Yahoo! when Coulter writes a column saying it is all the New York Times's fault.
doubt it
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:34:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, I think Glint's statement about Snippy getting to the bottom of it "come hell or high water" was an original. I think Glint thought it up all by himself, as his own personal way of celebrating the Snipster's virtue. Only guys that just fell off a turnip wagon would have to cut and paste on that topic. A sophisticated fellow like Glint can do it all by himself.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:32:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Will you guys stop pasting shit about Enron? The story is dead. It didn't have any legs. Hell, it doesn't even have a link on the Ugly Pages. Let's get back to discussing how juicy young boys can be. How the hell can we masterbate in the sinks if we don't get a play-by-play on Glint's neighbor boy?
Naughty Ned, catch me if you can whoop de doosie!
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:29:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mentioning Bush's name in an editorial about Enrongate. How disgusting! After all, it was Snippy who said he would investigate this mess himself, in much the same manner as Ed Meese investigate Iran-Contra. What more can you ask?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:27:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's probably it. Glint just can't recognize where criminal sexual deviance is unless it has its own link on Yahoo!, and not just on the business branch.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:26:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't worry. Kenny Boy will have plenty of opportunity to say stuff under oath. It just won't have its own link on Yahoo.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:24:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Was that really Glint, the posts down there about the beautiful hermaphrodite teenager? Is that stuff terminally embarrassing only, or is it something we should forward to the Carroll County Sheriff? I'm a little worried about this Glint character. It's the way it was with Pete Trademark before they rubber-roomed him. I guess "terminally embarrassing", by the way, is code for "disgusting." How can someone with a monicker to maintain be so disgusting? Is it a cry for help? Only the Sheriff and child protective services can help at this stage.
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- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:22:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: UST WHEN it seemed that Enron outrage had reached its peak, out come new internal company documents that reveal not just the extent of its market manipulation, but its almost gleeful audaciousness about its gouging games. Enron employees used cute names such as "Death Star," "Get Shorty" and "Fat Boy" for their elaborate schemes to drive up prices during energy shortages. The Death Star memo openly acknowledged: "The net effect of these transactions is that Enron gets paid for moving energy to relieve congestion without actually moving any energy or relieving any congestion." The penal code has a word for a transaction that purports to do something it does not. It's called fraud. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has asked U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to open a criminal investigation into Enron. The new disclosures may also help the state of California's legal attempt to persuade federal regulators to rescind long-term contracts that were signed during the height of the crisis. It's time to ask the question, under oath, of Enron CEO Ken Lay, known as "Kenny Boy" to his buddy President Bush: What did you know and when did you know it?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:21:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint lacks the patience to ride out any scandal that doesn't feature jism.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:19:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: A glance at the Enron tree, in fact, shows many recent stories about Bush and Enron, including "Bush's California Energy Stance Faulted" from today. Also the main news.yahoo.com page features an Enron section link right up top, off to the left. That encounter with Brenda the other night must have sent those hormones racing and clouded your brain even more than usual, Glint.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:14:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: A search through the /BUSINESS/ENRON/ tree shows the last story with Bush and Enron in was around a month ago in mid-April. It was in some mic paper like the McTimes. The story wasn't even about Bush. US Army Secretary Tomas White who was an Enron executive for 11 years. Of course that was before he came to Washington, so it wasn't like he was in the White House breaking his yolks in the sink like some people.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:01:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: You'd think that the Clinton's broken yolks would have at least been a /REPUBLICANSEXOBSSION/ story. Guess that page was filled with Henry Hyde, Helen Chenoweth reports.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 16:01:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hint: read about the Electoral College. Doink.
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:58:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Picky, picky, picky.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:58:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, I see. Enron is just a /BUSINESS/ story. Too bad. Clinton's broken yolks were /US/ news all tthe way.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:52:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually starting to get some pretty solid thoracic definition.
zerk
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:48:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: yeah, a crunch is like a situp, like half a situp, bottom half, shady sidse of the exercise ball.
Don't forget to enjoy the darker side of pain.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:46:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Business/Enron/
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:34:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's as if Pete� never quit forever. He spurts forth in the full flower of his stupidity when you rub the right lamp. He's like a human anthrax cyst.
go pineapple go
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:15:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: The sad thing is, with Jeb as governor and a Republican legislature, Bush would have been elected constitutionally, if not morally, without the intervention of the oligarchy. The Supreme Court majority turned the court into a South American junta for nothing.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:12:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: My copy of the Constitution says that the states run their own elections. You must be reading the Cuban version, pineapple.
.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:10:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Haw! Enron doesn't even have a Yahoo link!
nyah nyah nyah
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:08:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Interesting that this dork still ignores the Constitution. Read it, then you might figure out who won. Despite the liberal idiots on the Florida Supreme Court who tried a socialsit coup. Doink.
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:07:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: When you think about it, the Supreme Court majority was right. I the election had been allowed to proceed, and if Gore had been elected, it would have cast even a bigger cloud on Bush's presidency than his illegal appointment by the court did. Things tend to work out for the best, when honorable minds work toward the benefit of their class.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:06:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gore came in second, true. But he did get more votes than anyone else who ever ran for President, he does have that consolation. He just had the misfortune to run in an election where the Supreme Court decided that his winning it would cast a cloud on his opponent's presidency.
.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 15:00:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh! I can't believe that there are countries evil enough to unilaterally fail to honor their arms-control treaties!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:56:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, Enron is over, except for the trials and the criminal investigations and cover-up and the legislative hearings and the unexpected suicides and brake-failure deaths, and the SEC reforms and sniping from John McCain, and the general cynicism fed by public realization that the president* is a crook and obvious liar, but that doesn't mean we don't have to hammer it, does it? In my opinion it should be right up there with the blow jobs and Whitewater and Travelgate and Willy's cat, even though it did fizzle in the pan. Let's not drop it just because it is Republican policy and practice, let's be fair! We're all open-minded independts here so let's stop wearing the bowling shirts and mount those links!
independent conservative
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:52:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: U.S. warns 3 more nations: Weapons efforts 'must stop' Tue May 7,10:14 AM ET Bill Nichols USA TODAY WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Monday accused three more nations -- Cuba, Libya and Syria -- of trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Undersecretary of State John Bolton used a speech at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, to warn those nations that the United States will do whatever is necessary to keep them from passing on nuclear, chemical or biological weapons to terrorist networks. ''We call on Libya, Cuba and Syria to live up to the (arms control) agreements they have signed,'' said Bolton, the administration's leading authority on arms control. ''We will watch closely their actions, not simply listen to their words.'' Administration officials said Bolton's speech was meant to broaden the doctrine President Bush set out in his State of the Union message in January. In that address, Bush categorized Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an ''axis of evil'' because of their weapons programs. Bolton did not use the term ''axis of evil'' to describe Cuba, Libya and Syria, but he referred to them as ''three other state sponsors of terrorism that are pursuing or have the potential to pursue weapons of mass destruction.'' ''States that sponsor terror and pursue WMD (weapons of mass destruction) must stop,'' he said. ''States that renounce terror and abandon WMD can become part of our effort. But those that do not can expect to become our targets.''
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:47:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: How can you say Osama lost? Did we take out 3,000 Al Quaidas? 3,000 camels, maybe, but how do you tell a dead Afghan kinder-garten teacher from a dead terrorist? I say we shouldn't rest on our laurels until we have 3,000 Al Quaida coonskins nailed to the barn door. Sure, Taliban John is a start, Glint, but even Rumsfeld says the war is not over. Even Snippy will cop to that. And after we take out Osama, we've still got to go after the Axis of Evil. We have to take out Iran and Iraq and North Korea. It's a yellow day, Glint, maybe even orange. It's going to be a long time before we see green on the wallpaper, so let's gird our loins and comb our hair and let's roll! Dude!
a patriot but nobody's fool
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:42:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gore came in second!
BWAAAAAAAAAAHA!
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:41:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Couldn't we have at least a little bitty link to Osama bin, even though he lost? The dude was sort of interesting. And sure, Gore came in second on the supreme court selection process, but that doesn't mean we can't hate and fear him, and point out the status of his facial hair, does it? Glint, I fear the team is losing the edge on its hatred, and something will come up and bite us in the ass because of the relaxation of vigilance. Sure, the stuff about turning all the boy scouts into queers is good, and the abortion stuff, but we've got to watch out for our real enemies! And what about Clinton? Are we going to forget Clinton just because the lunatic House Managers got to stand and babble at the incredulous Senate? Let's tighten things up around here!
mugabwe
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:37:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: We need more stuff on the Axis of Evil! Does Bush personally have to invent these slogans to keep people laughing at them? Let's get some war links mounted! Let's get the wallpaper to reflect the day's Homeland Defense color so we know how scared to be! Let's roll!
mugabwe
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:31:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, let's see. Gore and Osama lost. Bush won. But I thought Enron was supposed to keep on giving, or was that only up until it stopped?
Glint
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:30:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does Enron even have its own URL on YAHOO! full coverage yet? I mean, from day one we had http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/intern/. But try http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/enron/ and you get 404 doc not there error.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:26:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, where is the stuff about how Al Gore is the incarnation of Beelzebub? Hello? Troglodytes? Are you there?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:21:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, how come nobody is posting stuff about how we're zeroing in on Osama bin? Where are the paste about daisy cutters and and nuking Mecca and taking out the Taliban railroad system? Let's get back on track, fornigate! Let's roll!
mugabwe
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:19:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: According to Dopey or Grumpy or whoever that is, not throwing United Way money at the Boy Scouts is "precisely the same thing" as allowing predatory homosexuals to destroy the lives of boys. Sounds like the poor fellow could use good Jesuit education, or a brain transplant.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:16:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: ERUSALEM (AP) - A bomber detonated explosives at a bus stop near the northern port city of Haifa on Wednesday, critically wounding himself but causing no injuries to others. The bomber was walking along Megiddo Junction when the blast went off, possibly prematurely. A group of soldiers was standing at a nearby bus stop and might have been the intended target, Israel Army Radio said.
The Lighter Side of the News 8-D
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:10:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: What, no Enron news today? Does Bush need to personally oversee the investigation to keep it going? Start mousing around and get a link or something put up here.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 14:06:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Boy Scouts have a rule against allowing predatory homosexuals to destroy the lives of boys? I thought they had a rule against homosexuals period. Gorsh! Ya larn sumpin ever day!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 13:40:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: ..........Norton had placed a sign depicting "a color photo of a bloody, aborted female child's head being held by surgical equipment," near the clinic entrance, according to a statement from the Thomas More Law Center. As Norton, 57, and friend Diane Roberts picketed the clinic, a passerby who disapproved of Norton's sign tore it from its backing, leading Roberts to telephone police. One officer was dispatched to the clinic to file a report, but several days later, the center said, Norton and Roberts were informed by police they were being charged with a violation of state law for displaying the graphic sign. Michigan statutes prohibit the public display of pictures of murder. ......
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27534
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 13:11:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: ...So, the big question: Why does the "mainstream press" condemn the Catholic Church for allowing predatory homosexuals to destroy the lives of boys, while simultaneously condemning the Boy Scouts of America for not allowing precisely the same thing in their organization? ...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27539
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 13:07:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wonder if Brenda still gets boners or have the hormones shriveled up the nads and shrunk the schlong?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 12:40:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pay attention Glint. What you were looking at is a pickled guestbook. There's an active one at this link, but it holds a limited amount of messages. Still, you should be able to tell a hell of a lot of people about Brenda, especially if you keep reposting your lustings.
http://mercury.beseen.com/guestbook/v/180708/guestbook.html
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 12:34:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Four beltnotches, eh? Had to take a dip last week, look at some little fish, and the frog-diving suit almost wouldn't go on. It was the hardest part. Swam down the river and about halfway had to piss, peeled off the frog suit and couldn't get the fucker zipped back up, the top. Went the rest of the way unzipped, which was fine because it was so tight it was hard to breathe. Said to myself, what the fuck? Idea of extra pounds never even entered my mind. I figured that was for geeks like, oh, Glint or the haole. Do you half to do all those crunchers and things? What is a crunch anyway? Like a situp? I'm too old for this shit.
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- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 12:30:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who got creative all of a sudden? Dexter, is that you?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 12:25:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Naked performer bleeds for his art By Dalya Alberge A NAKED performance artist is to cut his stomach and invite an audience to look at the wound at an arts festival backed by �65,000 of public money.
it ain't art unless i can pinch a loaf in the wound and then p1ss on it
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 11:55:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Vanity Fair magazine has dubbed Chelsea Clinton "the new J.F.K. Jr" ...developing...
what's developing? is she starting to grow a G0dd@mn3d c0ck or something?
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 11:49:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: No fun there. Guestbook was disabled. Now how will people learn about Brenda?
Glint
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 11:46:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Apathy's pickled guestbook.
http://11-sept.org/Exc/helder.html
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 11:16:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: I could post the URL of an aerial photo of Brenda's house, but that would be revealing too much information. Brenda's mine!
Glint
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 10:47:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Of course, you don't smoke a cigarette with your nuts, so it's not on the table, right?" Just where exactly do suspect your nuts would stick the butt to get a drag off it?
Glint
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 10:41:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, they caught that little snot-nosed Wisconsin tit yanker. What do you expect from a kid getting his brain washed and hung out to dry at a Liberal college like the U of Wisc. Guy takes off and starts bombing mailboxes in the red counties only, including some Cornhusker boxes. This is why we have a dealth penalty.
Glenn Glans
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 10:32:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Last night was a jazz band and chorus festival at school. When the eldest daughter's chamber choir walked on stage I froze. There was Brenda wearing a slinky black dress and a golden necklace Brenda's well toned her well toned arms hung down from the sleeveless shoulders and the toe to hip split on the left side revealed a smooth peaches and cream leg. Brenda's spike heeled shoes had the narrowest of straps would have delighted Dick Morris. When Brenda started singing I could feel my heart swelling and rising in my chest like a balloon being pumped full with helium. Brenda's poise and self confidence have become remarkable - Brenda's role demands self assurance which oozes out from Brenda's smile. When they sang "Yesterday" Brenda flashed a smile and rolled the eyes while singing, "I'm not half the man I used to be." Would have brought a camera had I realized that Brenda would be there. You would have been stunned if I had managed to get one to scan and post. When will I learn? If there's a program at school, music or drama, Brenda will be there. Brenda will be there. Brenda WILL be there! Brenda must have left the building before the end of the program because my stolling around the auditorium, lobby, and parking lot afterward was unsuccessful in bringing to fruition a "chance encouner."
Glint
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 09:55:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 09:39:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: working out with one of those big rubber balls too. weight stable at about 228 but still bulking up and losing flab. 250 crunches, 150 curls, 150 benchpress all with freeweights in reps of 50. Also the treadmill. Think I've dropped 4 beltnotches.
zerk
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 09:11:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: 3 months no cigs as of last sunday
zerk
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 09:08:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course, you don't smoke a cigarette with your nuts, so it's not on the table, right?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 03:27:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, Zerk, how you doing on the butts? I haven't touched a choke in over a month, and it's starting to leach itself out of my bloodstream. I figure the desire to light up will be gone in under five years. But who wants mouth cancer? Eddie Van Halen has that, whoever he is, a musician, cancer of the tongue. Sounds awful. Almost rather have it in the nuts.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 03:26:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't you click Drudge, man? Prozac doesn't work. Or, rather, sugar pills work as well as Prozac. It's a link on the cat in the hat today.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 01:39:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wow, you must have missed your Prozac, man. Lighten up.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 23:58:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's that populist streak that runs through your average Cheesehead too. These people have pokers up their asses but they're RED pokers, if you catch my drift.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 23:57:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now don't come back until you've googled fighting Bob LaFollette, the socialist governor and senator from Wisconsin. The first Milwaukiban. You ignorant dorks.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 23:56:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wisconsin has always been a socialist area. Think of all the Polacks in Milwaukee. Scratch a Polack and what do you find? Right. Socialist. Anarchist. Syndicalist. So, where was Bob LaFollette from? Why, I believe he was elected to serve for Wisconsin, a goddamn socialist. The dumb people, fools, idiots, know-nothings, uninstructed dolts, crynics and petes of the world have concentrated on California because that is what they see on TV, their window on the world. But the evil is rising out of Wisconsin, and always has been. Polacks and socialist krauts. Polka dancers. That's your Winsconsinites. Beware. Bob LaFollette. Bob fucking-a LaFollette. Think about it.
Halibuts
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 23:50:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, they caught the Midwest pipe-bomb terrorist, eh? Kid from Wisconsin, home of hot tubs and dairy products. You can't call him a Caliban, not a cornfed yahoo like him. Callowban?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 22:36:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is it just me or is the crynic a little more thin-skinned than usual today?
Borg 11 of 22
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 22:26:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: I ain't buyin' it. Kids with pierced tits and tattoos might be secret smokers? Bullshit! Show me the proof!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 22:14:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Go figure! Shut my mouf'! Who would of thunk it! Quelle surprise! Auf der shocken einer! �Caramba!
Geesh!
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 22:12:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pierced Kids Looking for Trouble, Study Finds Tue May 7, 2:58 PM ET By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - So your teen-ager comes home with her eyebrow pierced -- should you be worried, or glad that she didn't do something worse? A report released at a conference this week suggests a parent should be very worried because high school students with body piercings tend also to have smoked, used alcohol, had sex, skipped school and gotten into fights. The study, by Dr. Timothy Roberts of the University of Rochester in New York, shows clear links between body piercings -- other than the ears -- and risky behavior. "It's just like hairstyle, cosmetics, jewelry -- these are things an adolescent uses to project an image of him or herself to the world," Roberts said in a telephone interview. "They can give you a lot of clues about how an adolescent sees himself." And while body piercing is becoming more mainstream, in a teen it still signals rebellion. Roberts, a pediatrician, told a meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Baltimore that he studied information on nearly 4,600 teens aged 12-19 taken in a U.S. government survey in 1995 and 1996. The teens, living across the nation, were asked detailed questions about their behavior. "Females (with body piercings) were about 2-1/2 times more likely to have had sex, 2-1/2 times more likely to have smoked, 2-1/2 times as likely to have used marijuana in the past month, and almost two times as likely to have skipped school in the last year." Boys with piercings were five times as likely to have skipped school in the past year, and had similarly higher risks for smoking and drinking as girls. Roberts said that body piercings did not guarantee that a child was misbehaving, but they should serve as a warning to parents, pediatricians and other health care providers. "If your adolescent wants to have a body piercing, it is a reason to talk to them," he advised. At the least, he or she should get it done properly. "Encourage them to get it done in safe, sanitary manner. Watch someone else get one. Do they have an autoclave, a machine to sterilize equipment? Do they use one needle and then throw it away?" Roberts did a study last year that showed a very strong association between tattoos and risky behavior in teens. "This doesn't apply to adults," he cautioned. "We didn't look at the effects of piercing on college-age people."
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 21:40:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're crazy, Oggie! Anyone who says something bad about the crynic is drunk and needs Prozac and lives in a trailer! They all get their drugs at the free clinic, too, when they're not standing in line for free cheese! Everything the crynic does is within the letter of the law, from evading the income tax to dodging the draft. Learn to live with it!
live free or die
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 20:16:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Lots of draft-dodgers are gruff conservatives, anonymous. Senator Trent Lott. Speaker Dennis Hastert. Vice-President Dick Cheney. Attorney General John Ashcroft. Fat Boy Rush Limbaugh. Supercilious Dickhead George F. Will. Former Drug Czar Bill Bennet. Schlumpf Pete Trademark. The list is endless. Scratch any saber-rattling Republican and you are almost sure to find a draft-dodger. Why should the crynic be any different?
Oggie Slivovitz
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 20:11:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: I mean, I thought he was a gruff conservative!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 20:06:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: The crynic is a phonus bolonus? What a surprise! I thought he was a gruff liberal! When did this all come out?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 20:05:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why does the crynic hate the poor people and trailer people so much? Didn't one of them do what would have been his Viet Nam service for him? Would have been if he hadn't dropped the 750 mics before his physical?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 19:56:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Come hell or high water. If the heart attack boy's head has to roll, it will roll. There will be no Sprio Angew typical Republican vice-presidents in MY administration*.
Snippy
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 19:28:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Seriously, crynic, you are a phoney American. You are a shirker, doing anything you can within the letter of the law to avoid paying your share of the load. You are the reason Arabs feel safe stealing airplanes and flying them into our buildings-- because they know that people like you will yawp and squawk but think only of themselves where it counts. Contrast that to Israel, where the crynics were weeded out long ago or never went, and effectively 100% of the people have volunteered to participate in whatever way necessary in their struggle, whether they have already done their duty or not. I can't imagine a whole lot of Israelis squawking about how tough it is to pay taxes, or working chickenshit shelters offshore, or worrying about the people in the trailer parks and how they might be getting a fair shake. You really suck.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 19:16:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm going to get right to the bottom of this Enron thing come hell or high water. I'll do it by backing the Feinstein proposal. One way or another, I'll figure out what Kenny Boy was up to when he was writing my energy plan.
The Snipper
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 18:43:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Has Glint ever actually tickled Brenda?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 18:42:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Before I believe Glint's claim about the intensity of Bush's support for the investigation, I want to hear what Ari Fleischer has to say on the subject. If Ari endorses Glint, then I'm in.
Clint
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 18:39:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: My Financial Advisor and Lobbyist, Omar, is going to Washington to lobby against closing the offshore money laundreis. I have supplied him with talking points. First he will tell them that the issue of offshore tax evasion is "stale." Then he will accuse them of all wanting to "vote" and come up with a common solution, as if treason were a popularity contest and not something that a man is forced into when they steal his money and give it to the poor. I am confident that Omar will come back with good news for the ol' crynic, and I can get back to nickle nosing my palapa.
general
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 18:37:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm getting really tired of this nonsense. If Boxer, Feinstein, and the rest of the dimmocrats what to turn up the heat, they should request every last shred of paper, every email, every phone record from Enron. Then, these two morons can compare all the information they collect with the energy bill sent to Congress (and passed by the house) months ago. This should keep these idiots busy so our president and his administration can concentrate on fighting a war and keeping us protected from...say...an airplane flying into a nuclear reactor. And if our President lets himself be distracted by this nonsense -- if he listens to kudos from transgender ticklers like you, he's no better than the dimmocrats!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 18:23:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: We're talking about an investigation here. One in which it must be determined if crimes have been committed. Of course Bush is all for that. After all, he's a compassionate conservative American looking out even for persons in the Caliban-American community. There's no us or them. Everybody loves a good investigation, right?
Glint
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 18:13:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: As a lifelong Freeper (that is, for its life), seeing Bush back Diane Feinstein on anything doesn't sound strong, but rather weak. Only liebrals like Glint would see something virtuous in this. Then again, he probably likes transvestites.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 18:09:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, "Bush backs a call from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Justice Department open a criminal investigation into Enron's possible manipulation of the state's electricity market." Bush is sounding pretty strong on Enron. He's going to get to the bottom of it come hell or high water. Can you please post a few more similar stories about Bush and Enron? It's good to read about a president whose yoke is under control.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 18:01:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Angel dust? Is that stuff still around?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:52:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: 17:35:27 - Dude, that is weak - even for you. You gotta come up with some new material. The citizenship denouncement crap is pretty stale. The "we" and "us" angle seems to work better for you. There's power in numbers; haven't you heard? Now get on that keyboard and pump out something really scathing and vulgar, you little bitch.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:50:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rumsfeld Exonerates Army Secretary Tue May 7, 3:46 PM ET By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld exonerated Army Secretary Thomas White on Tuesday in an investigation of alleged improper lobbying of Congress by members of the Army staff. But the controversy raged on. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that someone on White's staff was "way in the dickens out of line," and that he would await the investigation's findings - due Wednesday - before taking action. He appeared to rule out punishing White, 58, a decorated Vietnam veteran who is the Army's top civilian official. "I certainly have confidence in Secretary White," Rumsfeld told a Pentagon (news - web sites) news conference. President Bush (news - web sites)'s spokesman echoed that sentiment. "The president has confidence in Army Secretary White. He thinks he's doing a good job in his post," Ari Fleischer (news - web sites) told reporters at the White House. In a private show of support Tuesday morning, Rumsfeld sent White a newspaper that contained a front-page story indicating White was likely to be fired. Rumsfeld attached a stick-on note to White that read, "All baloney," or words to that effect, according to an official who saw it. Rumsfeld left open the possibility of taking action against someone below White's rank. "The task is to find out the facts," he said. "And it isn't a matter of ready, shoot, aim. It's ready, aim, fire - and we're still in the aiming business." The investigation is being conducted by the Army inspector general. At issue is who in the Army initiated contacts with members of Congress to undermine Rumsfeld's push to cancel the $11 billion Crusader artillery system. The Army appeared to be enlisting political support to defeat Rumsfeld's objective. The documents were faxed to members of Congress shortly after White was informed by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz that Crusader would be canceled. The documents reportedly included an assertion that without Crusader or an equivalent artillery system, soldiers in ground combat would be put at undue risk. "I talked to the secretary, and he had no knowledge or awareness" of the documents, Rumsfeld said. He dismissed speculation that White was about to be fired. "There is no question but that the Army - not the Army, but some individuals in the Army - were way in the dickens out of line," he said. "It was not Secretary White, and he has advised me to that effect." On Monday, officials close to both Rumsfeld and White, speaking on condition of anonymity, said White could be forced out, although White told aides he did not intend to resign. In White's view, Crusader is indispensable to protecting soldiers in close combat. Aides said he gave no indication he intended to soften his stance. Rumsfeld appeared equally determined to kill Crusader, although he faces a tough battle in Congress. White has declined to comment publicly. For weeks White has been under political pressure as a result of contacts with Enron Corp. officials during the company's collapse last year. White had headed Enron Energy Services, a subsidiary, before he became Army secretary. White is a retired general and a decorated Vietnam veteran. White also is under investigation by the Defense Department's inspector general for his handling of personal business matters on trips involving Army jets.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:47:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's hear more opinions from Ari Fleischer! I find them very valuable.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:46:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Enron Board Members Defend Themselves Before Senate Panel Tue May 7,10:38 AM ET By: Judith Burns WASHINGTON -- An Enron Corp. (ENRNQ) board member and two former board members offered a vigorous defense of their work Tuesday in testimony prepared for delivery to a Senate subcommittee investigating the collapse of the Texas energy company. "We worked hard. We prepared for meetings. We asked probing questions and imposed controls and procedures that management and outside advisors were required to follow," former board member John Duncan testified. Mr. Duncan resigned from Enron's board in March. Mr. Duncan and other board members said Enron's managers and outside auditors at Arthur Andersen LLP withheld information about the company's off-the-books transactions and finances. Even as late as mid-August of last year, the board received a glowing report on Enron, showing rising earnings, improving business and a stable balance sheet, Mr. Duncan said. Arthur Andersen partners regularly briefed the board and its audit committee, but never raised concerns about the complex, off-the-books deals, Robert Jaedicke, an Enron board member who chaired its audit committee, said. Mr. Jaedicke recently resigned from the Enron board. Herbert Winokur, who has served on Enron's board since the mid-1980s, told lawmakers he wished at least one person among Enron's management, employees or outside advisers had alerted the board to problems at the company. "Sadly, despite all that we tried to do, in the face of all the assurances we received, we had no cause for suspicion until it was too late," Mr. Jaedicke said. Other directors defended the board's approval of lucrative compensation packages for top Enron executives. Former Chief Executive Kenneth Lay received $ 141 million in total compensation in 2000, 10 times the average for CEOs of the 200 largest U.S. companies. Former Enron director Charles LeMaistre said Mr. Lay wasn't overpaid, noting that for the top 10 companies, Mr. Lay's compensation ranked seventh, the same ranking as Enron itself that year. Average compensation for CEOs of the top 10 companies was about $169 million that year, with top compensation at $293 million, he added. As for compensation to other Enron executives from off-the- books partnerships and transactions, Mr. LeMaistre said the board was not aware that some individuals reaped huge profits at Enron's expense. Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich. ), chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said board members should have been alert to numerous red flags at Enron and demanded more information from the company and its auditors. "The board failed in that responsibility," Sen. Levin said. During the question-and-answer session, the board members said they were unaware of the company's seemingly manipulative trading in California 's energy markets, revealed in confidential memos released Monday. "This board was never told of any illicit practices in California ," Mr. LeMaistre said. Enron board members said they only recently became aware of the potentially incriminating memos and provided them to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (news - web sites) on Monday. Regulators released the memos, which detail trading schemes with colorful names such as "Get Shorty" and "Death Star." Although the board was briefed often on Enron's energy trading, "not once did we hear anything that suggested any impropriety in California ," said Mr. Winokur. He said directors had "no hint" that Enron might be playing fast and loose in California 's energy markets amid a power crisis in 2000. Interim Chairman Norman Blake said he was "extremely, extremely upset and disappointed" by the memos, saying they appear to describe "questionable practices, seemingly gaming the system," to the advantage of Enron at California 's expense. Separately, in light of the revelations that Enron tried to manipulate the energy market in California , the Bush administration said Tuesday would back strong punishment for any company that engaged in such actions. "Last May, the president called on FERC to be vigilant in protecting consumers. And we've always said anybody that is illegally manipulating markets, they need to be held accountable," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer (news - web sites) said. While Mr. Fleischer said it would be inappropriate for the White House to comment on a specific case, such as the allegations against Enron, he said the administration's views are clear. "As a general matter, the administration supports very tough enforcement of the laws that protect consumers. That applies to the energy markets as well," Mr. Fleischer said. The administration backs legislation that would sharply increase the punishments for companies and individuals who try to manipulate markets for their own profit, Mr. Fleischer said.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:45:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: W.House Sees Vigorous Enron Power Probe Tue May 7, 2:07 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House Tuesday expressed confidence federal energy regulators would "vigorously" investigate new evidence indicating Enron Corp. manipulated California wholesale prices during the state's electricity crisis. President Bush (news - web sites) counted Enron executives among his top campaign contributors. The Houston-based company, once the world's biggest energy trader, filed for bankruptcy protection five months ago after revelations it hid debt to inflate corporate profits. "He (Bush) expects that the investigation will be vigorously pursued wherever it may go," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer (news - web sites). On Monday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (news - web sites) released three documents written by Enron lawyers that described in detail the company's electricity trading strategies during California's power crisis. Two of memos written in December 2000 indicated Enron was deliberately moving power out of the state, then reselling it back in California to obtain higher prices in a technique it called "Ricochet." In another strategy, dubbed "Fat Boy," Enron traders created phantom congestion on the California grid, which led to higher prices. Enron said in one memo that other companies used similar techniques to boost profits. "We've always said that, if anybody is illegally manipulating markets, they need to be held accountable," Fleischer told reporters. "As a general matter, the administration supports very tough enforcement of the laws that protect consumers. That applies to energy markets as well." The FERC launched its investigation of Enron's electricity trading in March, at the behest of California lawmakers who contend the company was one of several power suppliers which gamed the market to boost profits. California Sen. Barbara Feinstein, a Democrat, said she will ask the Justice Department (news - web sites) to begin a criminal investigation of Enron. A separate case at the FERC seeking nearly $9 billion in refunds from a dozen California wholesale power suppliers has unfolded slowly over the past year, with no final ruling expected for months. Fleischer also said the administration asked Congress for tougher market manipulation penalties, with fines increased for violations of the federal Power Act to $1 million from $5,000 and in some cases to $25,000 per day from $500 per day. The White House hopes the tougher penalties will be included in a broad U.S. energy bill that will be negotiated by Senate and House lawmakers during the next few weeks. "Those are all items that we have proposed that we will fight for in the conference committee that is now pending up on the Hill," Fleischer said.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:43:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, it worked on the moron population-- why not the Hispanics?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:43:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush Expects Vigorous Enron Probe Tue May 7, 4:10 PM ET By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush (news - web sites) expects vigorous pursuit of an investigation that prompted Enron Corp. to acknowledge it drove up electricity prices during California's energy crisis, a White House spokesman said Tuesday. Bush has faced criticism for his close ties to the collapsed energy giant, which has been the single biggest financial supporter of his political career. But Tuesday, the administration took credit for a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (news - web sites) inquiry that demanded the company turn over documents revealing its practices during California's crisis. The documents "were released by FERC, an independent agency of this government ... as part of an ongoing investigation launched by this administration," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer (news - web sites) said. FERC opened the inquiry in February. The revelation is a development "the president has noted, and he expects the investigation will be vigorously pursued wherever it may go," Fleischer said. He used the disclosures to renew the White House call for tougher penalties for violations of the Federal Power Act. But Fleischer declined to say whether Bush backs a call from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) and the Justice Department (news - web sites) open a criminal investigation into Enron's possible manipulation of the state's electricity market. Justice Department spokeswoman Barbara Comstock did not respond directly to Feinstein's request. "The Enron Task Force is continuing to actively investigate a wide variety of matters concerning the conduct of Enron Corp. and individuals and entities associated with it," Comstock said in a statement that noted that Attorney General John Ashcroft has recused himself from the investigation because he received campaign money from the company in his 2000 Senate race. A memorandum, written by Enron lawyers in December 2000, outlined practices similar to those described by California officials who allege the energy trading company created phantom congestion on electricity transmission lines and engaged in sham sales among its affiliates to increase electricity prices. Describing one such strategy called "Death Star," the lawyers wrote: "The net effect of these transactions is that Enron gets paid for moving energy to relieve congestion without actually moving any energy or relieving any congestion." Another practice, called "Ricochet," allowed Enron to send power out of California and then resell it back into the state to avoid price caps that applied to transactions solely within California. "To us, this is really the smoking-gun memo," said Sean Gallagher, a staff attorney with the California Public Utilities Commission (news - web sites). "It's Enron's own attorneys admitting that Enron is manipulating the California market." Enron turned over the documents to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which made them public Monday. Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for California Gov. Gray Davis (news - web sites), said the memos are more evidence that federal energy regulators should order power companies to refund billions of dollars in exorbitant electricity sales. "My suspicions have been high for some time that Enron was fraudulently manipulating the California energy market for its own benefit," Feinstein said in a statement. "I am asking Attorney General John Ashcroft to pursue a criminal investigation to determine whether in fact federal fraud statutes or any other laws were violated by Enron." Enron provided the memo to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission along with a later, undated report from other Enron lawyers that took issue with the first memo. FERC posted the memos on its Web site, along with a letter to Enron seeking more information about the company's electricity and natural gas trades in California and other Western states. Robert Bennett, a Washington attorney representing Enron, said the memos became known 10 days ago and could easily have been kept confidential. The reports were addressed to Richard Sanders, Enron's vice president and assistant general counsel, to prepare for investigations and lawsuits resulting from the California situation. "Current management decided the responsible thing to do was to release the documents," Bennett said.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:42:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: It will be a long, hard word, but there will be progress. And some day, some shining day, there will be an Enron story, and nobody reading it will think of Kenny Boy's bent pud with Snippy's lipless mouth wrapped around it, and Snippy wiping up the jism-drip with a copy of the Constitution of the United States of America.
.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:41:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Republicans are stepping up their drive for Hispanic support - considered crucial to GOP success in upcoming elections - by introducing a Spanish-language television program on public affairs in selected markets that could be pivotal in the fall elections. Republican National Chairman Marc Racicot announced details Monday of the latest GOP venture to improve the party's appeal in the fast-growing Hispanic community. The title of the new show will be "Abriendo Caminos," Spanish for "opening paths." '"Abriendo Caminos' is an opportunity to communicate directly with the Hispanic community," Racicot said, adding it is important that the Republican agenda "reach every community across America." The 30-minute show will be aired monthly in media markets in Fresno, Calif.; Albuquerque; Denver; Las Vegas; and in two Florida cities, Miami and Orlando starting May 20. Those media markets are in areas with key races in the fight for control of the U.S. House, and in some states with potentially competitive governors' races like New Mexico and Florida. The show will air initially on Telemundo and Univision stations in those cities, and Racicot said the GOP would likely expand the show to other key Hispanic markets if it is seen to be an effective way to communicate with that community. The RNC is spending more than $1 million on the production, promotion and broadcasting of the show, which will include headlines from the news, focus on a major topic, interviews with Hispanic leaders and a segment announcing upcoming political events. President Bush (news - web sites) got about 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in the 2000 election. Republicans hope to build on that base, especially in races for governor, the Senate and the House in regions with large numbers of Hispanics. The number of Hispanics in the United States has grown rapidly over the last decade and they now make up almost as big a share of the population as blacks. The population of Mexican-Americans grew by 53 percent over the last decade, fueling the surge in the Hispanic population. A majority of Hispanics, excluding Cubans, have supported the Democratic Party in recent years, especially since anti- immigrant measures pushed by conservative Republicans in the early 1990s. Bush led GOP efforts to start winning over more Hispanics. The RNC says it will pay tuition for all state party leaders who want to learn Spanish. The party also is working on exposing newly arriving immigrants to the party's political agenda. Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites), said Republicans are "buying a 30- minute political infomercial touting the GOP's empty record on Spanish-language television." McAuliffe said Republicans are focusing their outreach on "a mere 30 minutes a month" rather than taking action on "pressing needs in the Hispanic community like education, health care, jobs and immigration."
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:39:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geeze, the news media used to be run a bunch of Liberal Jews. Today, the new media is listing so far to port that it views the jews as a bunch of radical rabid conservatives. The middle of the road in their view is somewhere in the other guy's lane.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:38:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're exactly right, Glint. I get down on my knees and praise the Lord for every Enron story that doesn't mention the Bush family or the Republican party. Shall we pray, my brother?
Peggy Nooner
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:37:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: That does it. I have taken enough guff from America. I have had it up here and I'm moving the whole shitaree to the Cook Islands. What the Hell has America ever done for the crynic? Stole my money and kicked my ass is what America did for me. Drove up the price of angel dust and crystal meth with its commie laws, killed my incentive, and gave my money to a bunch of foreigner monkeys. Turned my daughter into a socialist slut sucking off hotel doormen for a line of coke. Willfully fucked up the maritime industry. I have had it with this lousy country and I'm out of here. All you Prozac-chewing trailer-park whores can eat shit. I renounce what is left of my citizenship.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:35:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: No mention of Bush or Republicans in Enron news at 15:41. That's progress, alright. Keep up the good reporting. We look forward to your next installment with all due eagerness.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:27:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Luke John Helder? No way. He ain't swarthy enough.
Ann
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 17:17:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: They don't call me House of Meat for nuthin.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 16:58:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ain't that the truht.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 16:56:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mother Gets Three Years in Prison for Scheme to Impregnate Daughter By Joe Milicia Associated Press Writer AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A woman who helped her husband impregnate her 16-year-old daughter with a syringe of his semen was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison. Narda Goff, 43, was convicted in a non-jury trial in March of child endangering and complicity to commit sexual battery. She could have gotten 10 years behind bars. Her 40-year-old husband, House of Meat - the girl's stepfather - has been charged with rape and sexual battery and is awaiting trial. Paternity tests confirmed that Goff fathered his stepdaughter's baby. The boy, born in 1999, is in foster care. Mrs. Goff's defense attorney had argued that the daughter willingly allowed the insemination to fulfill Mrs. Goff's wish to give her husband a child. Mrs. Goff had had a hysterectomy. The daughter testified that her stepfather, an auxiliary police officer, drug addict, and former Marine, threatened to kill her mother if she did not agree to become pregnant. The daughter - now 19 - suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and depression and has attempted suicide - problems Judge John R. Adams said stem from the insemination and birth of her baby. Meat is accused of breaking the rape laws that he and his wife campaigned to make tougher after a man accused of molesting Mrs. Goff's daughter was acquitted. Mrs. Goff and House of Meat persuaded lawmakers to change the law in 1996 to include penetration with any object. Previously, only sexual intercourse was considered rape. Anonymous. - Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 16:31:41 (EDT
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 16:55:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Disgusting, pathetic shithead.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 16:45:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fun in the sun. Love is in the air. Happy day to you all. Aloha!
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 16:33:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mother Gets Three Years in Prison for Scheme to Impregnate Daughter By Joe Milicia Associated Press Writer AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A woman who helped her husband impregnate her 16-year-old daughter with a syringe of his semen was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison. Narda Goff, 43, was convicted in a non-jury trial in March of child endangering and complicity to commit sexual battery. She could have gotten 10 years behind bars. Her 40-year-old husband, John Goff - the girl's stepfather - has been charged with rape and sexual battery and is awaiting trial. Paternity tests confirmed that Goff fathered his stepdaughter's baby. The boy, born in 1999, is in foster care. Mrs. Goff's defense attorney had argued that the daughter willingly allowed the insemination to fulfill Mrs. Goff's wish to give her husband a child. Mrs. Goff had had a hysterectomy. The daughter testified that her stepfather, an auxiliary police officer and former Marine, threatened to kill her mother if she did not agree to become pregnant. The daughter - now 19 - suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and depression and has attempted suicide - problems Judge John R. Adams said stem from the insemination and birth of her baby. Goff is accused of breaking the rape laws that he and his wife campaigned to make tougher after a man accused of molesting Mrs. Goff's daughter was acquitted. The Goffs persuaded lawmakers to change the law in 1996 to include penetration with any object. Previously, only sexual intercourse was considered rape.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 16:31:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: What pisses ME off is these here Free Clinics where they take the taxes a man can't evade and give it to the poor people. People come in with TB, what do they do? Right, they give them free penicillin, and they do it right up to whenever they die. It ain't fair and it ain't right. Only people who deserve medical treatment should get medical treatment. Free Clinics should be for people who sunk a half a mil into AOL and were productive, or who bought Enron and were productive that way. Instead, we've got the government throwing Prozac at every shiftless bum who can find his way across the border. I tell you, for a pair of Gucci beach sandals I'd just about move my whole operation to the Cook Islands-- to Hell with America. A rotten, socialist country filled with trailer trash, that steals you blind and hands your hard-earned money to low-lifes. I'm just about out of here.
The Crynic
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 16:10:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, at least some of us are mellow, and figure that paying the extra buck or two for Kenny Boy is nothing to bitch about. Me, I don't need no booze or no Prozac. Just go out and swing in the hammock on the fire excape, and dream about being in the Cook Islands with my tax rebate and my draft deferment.
The Crynic
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 16:02:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Too drunk to get down to the free clinic and refill your Prozac yesterday? Hope you didn't beat the wife and kick the dog - or is it kick the wife and beat off the dog? Simmer down angry guy.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 15:46:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hard to believe that Kenny Boy was in the loop, though.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 15:42:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Electricity traders at Enron drove up prices during the California power crisis through questionable techniques that company lawyers said "may have contributed" to severe power shortages, according to internal Enron documents released today by federal regulators. Within Enron, the documents show, traders used strategies code-named Fat Boy, Ricochet, Get Shorty, Load Shift and Death Star to increase Enron's profits from trading power in the state - techniques that added to electricity costs and congestion on transmission lines. The documents - memorandums written in December 2000 by lawyers at Enron to another lawyer at the company - also describe "dummied-up" power-delivery schedules, the submission of "false information" to the state, and the effective increasing of costs to all market participants by "knowingly increasing the congestion costs."
Enron- the gift that keeps on giving
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 15:41:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/edits/963.shtml
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 15:40:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is that a memory or a lingering stench?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 15:27:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: The memory of Ophelia is dead. It's the memory of the pineapple that won't go away. Hard to figure why not.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 15:25:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint is nobody's fool. He doesn't cotton to being scammed by the Arab. He sees through the lie to the fact. Oh, there was a mine, all right. Let nobody be taken in by the tripe about there being no mine.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 15:21:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: The nonsense that there was no mine? I could believe it, if it made a difference. What's your take on it, Glint. That there was a mine, and the story is a lie, even though it doesn't make any difference to the dead peopls? Why is seeing through this story so important to you?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 15:05:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well I for one think we should never let the memory of the Floating Ophelia die. Somewhere out there lopes a yellow dog that knows more than he's telling. Rember the Floating Ophelia. (yellow ribbon) RIP
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:57:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/lapriest1.html
The queer priest - pre-defrocking
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:54:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: L.G.'s discovery of a fake Palestinian corpse is food for thought. Does this mean that all the dead Palestinians are fake? If not, why couldn't the parade marshall get a real corpse? I can believe that somebody who blows himself up in a Tel Aviv kindergarten may not leave much of a corpse, but surely there should be plenty of corpses around in the West Bank, if the Muslim world is to be believed. What gives, L.G.? The Intifada is a hoax?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:48:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, it was the snapping of the tank's tread and not the exploding mine under the snapping tread that startled the soldiers? Who believes such nonsense?
Glint
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:46:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: I, on the other hand, think that Wittes should wallow in Starr's copped plea like a pig in a dumpster.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:43:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree with you, Glint, that the right-winger who wrote that book trying to whitewash Judge Starr should move on.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:40:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Are we all in agreement with the crynic that Clinton lied UNDER OATH only three times? Again and again and again? Why is it that when the crynic was young his lies about sex were that he was getting a lot, then when he got married his lies were about how he wasn't getting it, and now that his wife is dead and he's an old fart his lies are again about how he's getting a lot? But none of this is UNDER OATH, so it's OK.
.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:37:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: mediawhoresonline.com: Michael "Spikey" Isikoff, Newsweek sex reporter and one of the lowest lives in the Clinton impeachment fraud, is at it again, writing a puff piece disguised as a "review" of a clever but finally transparent book by a Washington Post conservative that attempts to exculpate Kenneth Starr. "Spikey" calls Ben Wittes's partisan book "a balanced and insightful analysis of how Starr conducted his operation." Why? Because Wittes tries to defend Starr as a non-partisan prosecutor who simply erred by overreading his mandate. This is known as the fall-back defense. Starr plainly did something wrong. So Wittes tries, in effect, to cop a plea, allowing that Starr was guilty of a second-class misdemeanor -- overdoing his job -- in the face of massive evidence that Starr was in fact in...................
so, what happened to "let's move on?" <[email protected]>
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:33:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAIXG4IW0D.html
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:24:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Louisiana priest resigns over Mardi Gras picture Mon May 6, 3:49 PM ET HOUMA, Louisiana - A Roman Catholic priest has resigned as pastor of a church after a coffee table book showed him shirtless in a Mardi Gras crowd next to a drag queen and well-muscled men in biking shorts. The Rev. Thomas Bouterie, 47, pastor of the St. Louis Church in Bayou Blue, appeared in the book "Masking and Madness." "The Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux feels that these photographs could be a source of scandal for some and, thus, prevent Father Bouterie from effectively exercising his ministry," diocesan spokesman Louis Aguirre said in a statement Monday. In a statement, Bouterie said "no allegations of abuse of any kind have been made" against him. The photos were taken last year in New Orleans' French Quarter, which is known for raucous partying on Mardi Gras. Parishioner Richard Luquette said he was troubled by Bouterie's resignation. "If you are going to judge somebody's dress at Mardi Gras, you must not be from here," Luquette said. "If Jesus came to Mardi Gras, where would he be? I have a feeling he would be right there."
the root problem's the brown-tipped queers
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:20:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Many people may lie about sex, but I know of only one sitting president who lied about it UNDER OATH - again and again and again." You tell em crynic.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 14:07:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did anyone see the Palestinian "corpse" caught on camera falling out of his coffin, hopping up and climbing back in? His Palestinian "handlers" say they were just making a movie. Now that's quick thinking. Could be a funny movie, can't wait to see.
L.G.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 13:57:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: If Clarence Thomas lied about sex it wouldn't surprise me. Welcome to the club, Clarence.
Lee Hannland
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 13:47:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Imagine that! An (elected) President who lies about his yolks to the government bureaucrat assigned to the task of finding out about those yolks! It's a pity Lee Hannland wasn't appointed by the oath-lying Clarence Thomas! Then we'd get to hear about the president's yolks right from the horse's mouth, instead of having to guess and rely on gossip! Doesn't a POTUS owe his people that much? A simple explanation of what his dick has been up to?
Lee Hannland Fan Club
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 13:35:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Under oath? Oath? Say it ain't so! Oath! It was oath that Clinton was under! Didn't Bush say under oath that he would uphold the Constitution? How about Ashcroft, as he was anointed in Crisco oil? Was he under the magnificent power of oath when he said he would uphold the Constitution? Then why aren't they upholding the Constitution? Why did they lie under oath. Was Clarence Thomas under oath when he lied about long dong silver? Was the crynic under oath when he applied for that job as a Grayhound baggage handler and told them he'd never touched dope? No oath? Oh, that's OK then. The only time the crynic lied under something approaching oath was when he got married. And he may have done something like it when he was dodging the draft. Otherwise, he's probably fairly clean.
.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 13:31:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: First you have a president that lies about emptying his yolks down a big intern's bib. Then the sheeple hold their hose and look the other way when he lies about it. Now you have priests being outed for doing terrible things like making commion wafers out of their own DNA while a small boy stands by, looking shocked, and holding a silver tray. Looks like we've been sent careening down that slippery slope already.
Lee Hannland
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 13:12:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: CLifford, are you a priest?
God
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 12:57:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Never heard of him.
Richard Hertz
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 12:56:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: HEE HEE, I wish I was 13 again!!!
CLIFFORD
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 12:55:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hello, I'm looking for my Father. Somebody said he may have come in here.
Richard Glans
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 12:54:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glen, anyone is welcome on the board. Many people may lie about sex, but I know of only one sitting president who lied about it UNDER OATH - again and again and again. On this board, you will encounter many lying deluded liberal spinmeisters and a few "tell it like it is" conservatives. You be the judge. Welcome.
the crynic
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 12:29:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Lee has the Rule Breakers, the Evil Ones on the ropes with his trenchant point. Keep hammering them, Lee baby! Point out the inherent contradiction within the view that Bill Clinton was OK even if he did try to evade describing his receipt of blow jobs to the government, while still thinking that a priest shouldn't corn-hole the alter boy! Get that knife in deep, Lee, that razor-sharp knife, and twist it! Twist it good! Lee, you are the savior of right-wing lunacy! You have finally given it an ironclad rationale! We salute you, fella. Keep the pressure on.
Lee Hannland Fan Club
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 12:27:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I don't have a calendar on my desk, that beautiful desk, that says, by such-and-such a date, you will be finished. That's not how I think." Dubya
are we still rolling?
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 12:22:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Heartwarming to see that Lee Hannland is back in the saddle again, with that trademark line that lying about consensual adult blow jobs from a plump intern is the same as lying about letching on an eight-year-old boy you are supposed to be taking care of. Sock it to the virtue-less b*st*rds, Lee!
Go, Lee, go!
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 12:18:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glen, this page is open to everyone including you. That is, as long as you don't go about telling lies to the others, except about sex that is. Everybody lies about that.
Lee Hannland
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 11:20:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glen, don't be a schmuck. You allready posted so obviously you don't need to register twit.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 11:15:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Go Lee go!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 11:14:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can anyone join the discussion here or is there a registration page?
Glen Glans
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 11:09:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: How dare someone infer that I am a quitter. By coming back I expose you as the liar you are. You might as well admit it, it's not worth lying again. It's not like a priest annointing a boy holding the wafer tray and it's not like the spluttering up of a dress. Show some decorum and decency why don't you.
Lee Hannland
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 10:55:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 08:27:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, the clown with clifford can't be an artiste, Only I am the prima donna artiste! You said so!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 08:14:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Watermelon sugar not my favorite either. Trout best, then general.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 08:12:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: And it wasn't the King of France's voice after all?
dang!
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 03:20:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean, he's finally found his voice?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 03:19:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: I am pleased that the artist who has created Clifford, who has blown life into Clifford, has fully realized and embraced the fact that he is a poor pitiful asshole.
.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 03:18:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Heh heh. Sharp.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 03:15:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hmmmm it must of been Mona Lisa, with a ghost of a smile, over something, she ate. Heh Heh
CLIFFORD
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 02:29:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: I remember her well. Quite possible Clifford didn't have a clue.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 01:38:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ophelia is sort of a still life as captured by a true artiste. Don't cha know?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 00:31:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tell us more about Ophelia, Clifford. The Fornigate Ophelia.
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 23:59:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Drudge is drooling at the mouth, maybe other parts, about Ann and her new book.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 23:43:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: You guys really get off on that stuff, Don't cha?? I I know for a fact that Ophelia is out fondling thangs, and you aren't getting fondlin, amongst other thangs. You and the 86 year old female school teacher, who lives across the street would hit off, just fine. I think she thinks there is life out there in the universe. Heh Heh but only Ophelia knows fer sure.
CLIFFORD
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 23:41:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can't you just see Ozzy and W bonding?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 23:23:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: True, once or twice, or five times. The problem with Hannland, vis a vis Pete�, is that Hannland has just the one topic, how it's OK to lie about sex, how everyone does it. Pete�, on the other hand, would branch out to multiple topics, to poetry and painting and astronomy and how God is the vibration at the edge of the universe and how the North Sea is rising a hundred feet a year, which means it's over the Eifel Tower by now, and how there is no shade below the Tropic of Cancer. And of course Pete�, like Hannland, was a great moralist, a great teacher of virtue and morality and how it is tied to right-wing reactionary American sociao-political deviations. With Pete� you got the full gamut of stupidity, where with Hannland there's just the one bleat. I don't think it is fair to compare the two, the microcosm and the macrocosm, the yin and the yang, the fric and the frac, the tree and the forest, the sheep and the goat. Honor them both.
House of Meat
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 22:18:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I liked Hannland's style. Say it once or twice, then back off. Kind of refreshing after so many years of Pete's inane redundancy.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 21:24:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Brautigan would have thought Lee Hannland was a fool.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 20:52:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: In Watermelon Sugar sort of sucks, as I remember. Dude peaked with the one about the fish, then the Big Sur one wasn't too bad, and a few of the poems. Dude use to lurch around my nabe, was always walking across that park, Washington Square? Down to City Lights and around. Wore black jeans and jacket and a cowboy hat and beads and winkle boots. A really ugly suck. I liked to sort of light melancholy of the books. And some of the jokes. He'd been around forever. I believe he published the trout book in the vanity press, paid to have it publish. I recall that's what the famous gossip columnist said in the Chron.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 20:46:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: The diesel lawnmower? That was way back when Lee Hannland was mourning the loss of propriety in America, the way people's noses were turning a lighter shade of blue, how many people past teen age were finding the private sexual exploits of others less and less interesting. Whatever happened to Lee Hannland, anyway? Just another flash in the pan, like Gary and Trish? It's too bad, because Hannland really had an important message, if only Hannland had stayed around to be its champion.
Lee Hannland = Quitter
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 20:25:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: I got a Brautigan book in the mailbox. Today. It came today. "In Watermelon Sugar" it's called. A book. By Richard Brautigan.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 20:18:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 20:14:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 19:20:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is that a "lectern splinter???"
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 19:19:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I myself found the social caste post about the diesel vs. non-diesel riding mowers the most pretentious.
borg 3 of 22
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 19:18:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dude still has the Farnham's Freehold complex... gonna save the world from the observatory. Someone find a copper ground..please!!!!
borg7 of 22
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 19:16:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 19:13:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think the republician party is nothing but assholes
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 19:06:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: We got it all on tape, Pete. You're finished.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 18:04:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gross. So where's Ophelia?
Pete�
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 18:03:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?size=big&mapdata=5SWr5yNjh4%2bP93LURwaPeD5UkoSo%2buxOe%2fJ4JWShxDWWPBna0a7Ymo3MXJc8p8BWAE7%2frCJXFpGLcOVe1ZeYzdTTCvrjYxPJ8JWYB3cnwitvQgtblLvS8YUuOK1XovVqB2bBmuUMUh66HeyDyJGsHMoGEdTcqs7kAHrch05spVjyTAGipfc6sPKbwVq%2f1iYAHm3qZ7b5vmDLRDpSy69tm1yhbSN7A2wu4VIQYKf5KyhynyEGL%2fumm%2bd8l6HuREJBPNzvuj%2bJlLiAwV%2bBz183OUPRl1hGWM7vPQqLvWjVyf%2fpU852YPZeDW8tp8zBiEFSlCuiuHm%2fibhBjhbtqCxzuUUMtGZiR6L38yOoyS9gWhJVh9NgC71vDjr4OI%2bR7j9iV%2bRF9fGWR%2fLFgg9iSFbZww%3d%3d
The Holiday Inn where Ydog lost his cherry <[email protected]>
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 17:15:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?size=big&mapdata=5SWr5yNjh48ylfrgYCkDeWqGjfg9mSX61J6zQSNQcG3PYdLQSVmdF7uJ5Cg5qKaTlz9qhsgHk1x%2fJ3I2uGsPhGLTLtxmkofgsJaRTq3XKLONC4vAUdH%2fIaD3cOnrV0E%2bWJFYZ8wwqFVQs1Jj3MRSvjxt6FHXEoGpnKhhsKH4jucPi%2bEgkkKzvBLZTAcFdYilsCT9n0MZUDDogLiuDrylfVu067%2blp9YuWnGYnA47pTvVfcmmFnkMj9q0nDwlBTE6ylmFEd5LipXgDZUrHJ6zpA14wK9%2btwAlh3b11qC0iwzVOvO5OsQ%2bQNxsN9LD6YRnbyfIqSOTT9VtViDhNjeaFiggNSXoLy8rGoGwvveXN4u%2fSeL4C0p%2b%2bEajo73i48XPaJUIyT4ksBQ%3d
Olney Ale House <[email protected]>
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 16:50:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Umm, no. Weren't they carrying it in the Midwest this weekend?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 16:25:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: By the way, belated congrats to Maryland on hoops. Did anyone catch Hawaii win the Men's Volleyball National Championship?
Pete�
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 16:16:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: "You make us all feel like throwing up." . . . Hmm, interesting. So you are the official spokesman of the liberals here. Bah, bah. Listen up little sheep, your leader has spoken.
the crynic
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 16:08:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Prozac, pal. Prozac and a good listening post. Relax. Breathe deeply, exhale slowly. Good boy.
the crynic
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 16:03:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: So long, traitor. Say hello to the land crabs. You make us all feel like throwing up.
.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 15:50:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Pucker up, fuckface."?? Adam!!!
Glimpse
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 15:43:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Again I apologize, Anonymous. But anyone who can support the likes of the Clintons must be somewhat perverted or deranged at best. Anyway, hi and have a nice day!
the crynic
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 15:39:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, faux Glint. The HYGF already has her MBA. Next question?
the crynic
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 15:28:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: the crynic, do you know how rude it is to come on to this page and only greet your butt-boy, Glint? How about a hello for the non-perverts, eh?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 15:23:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did someone ask for me?
Pete�
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 15:06:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: French Voters Tentatively Reject Dynamiting Notre Dame Universal Press Syndicate | May 2, 2002 By Ann Coulter LIBERALS HAVE FINALLY found a people even more worthy of their admiration than the adulterous French: synagogue-burning, genital-mutilating, terrorist-cheering Muslims. Ordinarily, Jean-Marie Le Pen of France's National Front Party would be the left's ideal politician. He regularly denounces U.S. "imperialism." He opposed the Gulf War. He is supported by communists. He so despises religion that he happily married a divorcee, pleased that he would not have to marry her in a church. He has lots of affairs - the centerpiece of France's superiority to America. But liberals don't like Le Pen. They want Muslims to do for Paris what they did for Kabul, and Le Pen stands in their way. After years of irrelevant rants against Muslim immigrants, Le Pen's anti-immigration message has finally hit a nerve with voters. Despite glib, cheerful assertions that Islam is a religion of "peace," the French have been repeatedly presented with stark evidence to the contrary. In addition to their usual prodigious criminal behavior, French Muslims are responsible for a rash of recent synagogue-burnings and anti-Semitic violence. (One of them even took a field trip to America, hoping to slaughter yet more infidels on Sept. 11.) And then, suddenly - shocking liberals everywhere - Le Pen rose like a phoenix from the ashes, placing second in the presidential election. He even beat the sitting prime minister. Liberals are hopping mad about this turn of events. Consequently, they are accusing their beloved French of "xenophobia." "Odious xenophobia," in the words of a New York Times editorial. The Times was in such blind rage that it simultaneously denounced Le Pen for capitalizing on opposition to immigrants, "mostly Arab," and for speaking in "anti-Semitic overtones." How, precisely, opposition to anti-Semitic violence committed by Arabs reflects anti-Semitism remains murky. Whenever liberals are frustrated, they accuse their opponents of "xenophobia" - which is, admittedly, a step up from Muslims who express frustration by strapping dynamite to children. In the Times' classic argument-by-epithet style, an op-ed referred to the surge of European opposition to Muslim immigration as: "hypernationalist," "anti-foreigner," "anti-immigrant" and "ultranationalist." I don't know. Maybe they just don't like female genital mutilation. (On account of the rich culture brought to France by Muslim immigrants, France actually had to pass a law specifically forbidding this charming practice.) When President Bush cut funding to the U.N. population fund - which evidently issues periodic and utterly impotent condemnations of clitorectomies - liberals accused him of "stand[ing] for" female genital mutilation (Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, April 26, 2002). But when French voters oppose a massive influx of immigrants whose cultural customs include female genital mutilation, the Times calls them xenophobes. I propose a new term for people opposed to Third World immigrants coming to their countries: "Westerners Against Genital Mutilation." Other apt labels include: "Westerners Against Arranged Marriages for 12-Year-Old Girls," "Westerners Against Beating Women Whose Shoes Make Noise," and "Westerners Against Barbarians Committing Acts of Savage Violence and Then Explaining They Felt 'Humiliated.'" In addition to mutilating girls and burning synagogues, another popular Muslim pastime in France is to steal cars, set them on fire and push them off cliffs. Is xenophobia really the only explanation for Le Pen's surprise upset? Very possibly, what the Times calls "xenophobia" is a logical reaction to a specific group of immigrants. It has to be said, no politician ever appealed to voters by railing against Belgian immigrants. If an abstract fear of foreigners were the issue, France would not have already admitted so many Arabs that Islam is now the second-largest religion in France. But in the careful analysis of the Times, the various permutations of "Westerners Against Genital Mutilation" (my label) have three "interlocking obsessions": "crime, immigration and the loss of national 'identity.'" Arguably, foreigners who move to another country and refuse to abandon genital mutilation, polygamy and violent attacks on Jews are more preoccupied with maintaining their national "identity" than the Frenchman who never left home but suddenly finds polygamists slaughtering goats in the back yard. Last year, when British Home Secretary David Blunkett said immigrants would have to adopt "British norms" by dropping such quaint cultural traditions as forced marriages and genital mutilation, a female writer by the name of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown condemned him, sneering that "British norms" consisted of "drink[ing] themselves to death in a pub." (One British norm Ms. Alibhai-Brown embraced with little difficulty was the one about women talking.) When the French outlawed polygamy in 1993, Muslim immigrants perceived discrimination. One polygamist announced his refusal to relinquish his supernumerary wives, saying, "I will never divorce, even if they had a knife and cut off my head." Of course, the risk of a beheading is rather remote, inasmuch as Frenchmen, not Muslims, will be enforcing the law. Another Immigrant for Polygamy said: "We accept the French for how they are, and I would like them to accept the way we live." Just like in the old country - where they warmly embrace other cultures by blowing up ancient Buddhist statues. Give them another few years, and they'll dynamite Notre Dame.
go anne go
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 15:04:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: I see, pet name? She probably likes you calling her that better than she would "Nicole Simpson." So, are you going to buy a salon for her, or will be be starting at the Hair Cuttery? My daughters -- both got their hair worked on this weekend. One's tipping makes up for the other's. The eldest got a $40 style and left a $3 tip. The youngest got a $10 cut and left a $5 tip.
Glint
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 14:54:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, it was Anna Nicole, as I call her. Got her AA in cosmetology. Not bad for an 20 year-old.
the crynic
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 14:45:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ahoy, Crynic! Good to see you back. Who graduated, the HYGF?
Glint
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 14:32:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,710181,00.html
Cold War hysteria sparked UFO obsession, study finds
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 14:22:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey Glint. Just got back into town from the graduation on Sat. Weather could've been a bit nicer, but the commencement and party after were great. Hope all is well with you. / / / Scrolled back to find . losing the battle again with his anger. For a self proclaimed liberal feel gooder, you sure are one angry MF. Dude, you really need to get out a bit more. Untie the boys in the basement, double up on the Prozac, sober up, go out and enjoy the day. Do whatever it is you inbred, trailer dwelling, cough syrup swilling, lazy necrophiliac bastards do to have fun. But hands off your daughter for a change. Pork someone who has a legitimate chance of fighting you off. Pucker up, fuckface.
the crynic
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 14:21:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're a regular Hedda Hopper, L.G.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 14:15:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: There has always been an ick-making sexual undertone to Tipper and Al Gore's public banter but their schtick at this weekend's BookExpo was a real gagger. Unlucky C-SPAN viewers who watched it had to bear the Stiff One say he wished he had kissed Tipper longer at the Democratic convention,"but she was struggling." So was I, Al. This Gorey act needs work, so get a room.
L.G.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 14:13:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Was thinking of the breakfast you get in a passable hotel in Frisco. Mango, papaya, banana, maybe some watercress. Some form of beverage like a bottled NAIVE. No eggs. Pass the fruit and the little umbrellas.
caliban fru-fru
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 14:02:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: "In other words, did you just happen to come upon the occlusion by chance, or were you clued in in advance?" - .@10:40:11. The event was predicted - and much anticipated I might add. The purpose of timing such things is attempt to map the profile of the object doing the occulting. Requires multiple observers spread laterally across the track of the "shadow". "You gotta try one glint, its fab, i tell you", fab!!!! Thanks, I'll have mine with pickled jalapenos, please. That's not too Hawaiian, is it? How about adding a little bit of midwestern flavor to your breakfast with an ear of corn on the side, slathered with a dollup of McKutcheon's preserves?
Glint
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 13:55:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Was thinking of the breakfast you get in a passable hotel in the tropics. Mango, papaya, banana, maybe some citrus, pineapple. Some form of bread product with butter, perhaps a compote. Coffee. Juice. No eggs. You could call it the tropical breakfast burger, maybe. I don't think that messes it up at all. You could still put eggs on it two or three times a week, hold the fruit.
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- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 13:12:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: have to go to the store, later gang.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 12:43:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: But it always has to have eggs, otherwise its just another hawaiian sort of burger deal. Stop trying to mess it up!!!
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 12:42:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pineapple maybe, we discussed pineapple as a poteniality
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 12:41:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't think we should tell the dwarves about breakfast cheeseburgers.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 12:40:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why eggs? Why not slice a little papaya and mango and maybe some melon on there? Banana. Strawberries in season. It doesn't always have to be eggs.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 12:39:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 12:39:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Even the ms, agreed the breakfast cheeseburger was excellent. Had several bites of it.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 12:38:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought about adding bacon, but thats too much breakfast style food on it. It needs to retain its pure burger essence or it will get fkd up, as with a croissant roll. This is a breakfast hamburger. Hamburgers come on rolls.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 12:37:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: That "bat" was just a Rocky Road bar.
Kiss Rules
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 12:36:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: yeah, the breakfast cheeseburger really rocks. Nah, the croissant is to feminine, I did this one on some kind of whole wheat roll kaiser kind of thing sans the poppyseeds. You gotta try one glint, its fab, i tell you, fab!!!!
Borg 19 of 22
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 12:36:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is Snippy ready to bite the head off a bat yet? Just how embarrassed can a shadow president get, anyhow?
Ozzie Sans Harriet
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 10:55:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is that you, Jism Boy?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 10:51:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Talking about the observation as being by chance, and not because you read about it, as in the ephemeris. Perhaps ambiguous language led you to get poetic about the sky "churning" like an oiled watch. In other words, did you just happen to come upon the occlusion by chance, or were you clued in in advance? I'd be surprised that you could have scheduled it in the latter case, if you have a watch that "churns." Most of them just tick and tock.
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- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 10:40:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Yes folks, the breakfast cheeseburger has come nto it's own." - Ydog. Hats off to you, my friend. Only next time how about a croissant instead of the white bread bun? It is breakfast, you know. I like the idea of a slab of fat dressed to the nines with a couple of "over easy fried eggs just waiting to dribble their yummy yolks all over." What did you call it, the Clintinsky? That's a good boy. Lick up every drop Willard's eggs can dribble out.
Glint
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 10:39:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I'm assuming that was a chance observation and not predicted in the ephemeris?" .@10:19:45. In the observatory there is no such thing as "chance" - the sky revolves and churns like a well oiled watch. As you may have heard, the clockmaker doesn't throw dice! "Which star was it?" Why, TYC 1419-00791, at J2000 RA 10h 14m 04.7s, in Leo, of course. Don't have the video spy camera yet so this one had to be observed visually with WWV chirping on the shortwave and a hand-held tape recorder to capture the relvant commentary. Set the alarm for 12:30 a.m. After grilling the strip steaks and downing 7 bottles of red ale I needed a nap. The Dacshund came along and poked his nose into the dome. For moral support purposes.
Glint
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 10:29:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mrs. Bush tells White House Correspondent Martha Brant and Senior Editor Wes Kosova that she was pleasantly surprised when her son showed restraint in the weeks after September 11, carefully formulating a war plan before retaliating.
Makes your heart swell with pride, eh, mom?
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 10:24:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Refresh my memory, there, sport, what is the Zx2 sports car? On the freeway ramps the other day, going to the dentist I think it was, I fell in behind a '62 Corvair, blue, in pretty good shape. Jokeyed out ahead of me into the lanes quick like a fox, like a true sports car. Monza! Why do you want to stain the temple of your body with dull-assed bluey-reddy tattoo? Tattoo permissible if you got it drunk in Subic or Yokahama, and it has an anchor on it. Otherwise it is worthy of Dennis Rodman. It hurts more to get it lasered out than to get it needled in.
.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 10:18:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Besides, maybe the page sort of needs a prima donna. I guess I seem to be the natural choice, the one who occasionally pushes the envelope of the weird. Speaking of which, yesterday I re-defined haute cusine. Yes folks, the breakfast cheeseburger has come nto it's own. This is a real burger, lettuce, mater, pickle, onion, mayo, ketchup, mustard.. an all the way cheeseburger, toasted bun. But there is a twist, there atop the burger and neath the lettuce and onion are nestled a couple of over easy fried eggs just waiting to dribble their yummy yolks all over the lettuce and meat and buns. Really pretty good. If Durkheim only knew.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 09:24:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, well, some of us just are prima donna's the way others are just Neal Bush. It's just the way it is. Personally, I'd rather be me. Unfortunately with my hair wet, I now look like Holly Marie Combs from "Charmed"...with a goatee of course. Been having a blast with the zx2 sports car, tatoo still pending, bought a new goth ring, dark garnett and silver.
Be Prepared for the Obvious <Zerk>
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 08:41:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: What did you expect, Lynn? He's the prince of fucking darkness.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 02:19:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: VP wife Lynn Cheney told associates she was "embarrassed" by the commotion surrounding thrash rocker/MTV star Ozzy Osbourne's appearance at this weekend White House Correspondence Dinner in Washington. "He's hardly someone we should be applauding... not a role model, I am rather embarrassed," Cheney said after the dinner, according to sources.
it's that awful Bush boy agin, Mrs. Cheney. Embarass you every time...
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 01:54:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Zerk? Pulled the usual prima donna routine. I'm getting a little weary of this now you do now you don't act. The guy is turning out to be a walking mid-life crisis.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 01:32:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where the hell is zerk?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 00:38:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's interesting, CLIFFORD. I never thought of it that way. Food for thought. Thanks.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 00:36:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Underneath all my clothes, I am naked.
CLIFFORD
- Monday, May 06, 2002 at 00:34:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Take heart, my fellow conservatives. Le Pen and the conservative cause may have lost the battle, but we will win the war! Someday all immigrants will be deported from France!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 22:26:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 22:00:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/9/easton-n.html
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 18:53:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I too observed an occultation of a tenth magnitude star by the asteroid 28 Bellona this morning. Earlier I had supped on a 28 oz. porterhouse steak and the special two-gallon sampler of various brown ales. The restraunt has a statue of Paul Bunyan on the roof so that tells you how great it is.
Grunt
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 13:58:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where is this happening? You're supposed to post a URL.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 13:35:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pretty funny when the Duh-bya stainers try ragging on "MediaWhoresOnline" by calling it "MediaSlutsOnline." Take that, Ann Coulter, you media slut!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 13:19:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: A little turd in the punch-bowl of the universe, you mean.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 13:09:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you're lurking, Pete�, everyone on this site endorses the attempt by the FBI to hear your message. The whole country is very very interested in what you have to say, so please listen yourself to the chief of the FBI in Omaha and get in touch with them so that the whole nation can hear your philosophy. It must be tiring, riding the Grayhound all around Iowa and Nebraska, so come in out of the cold and drop by the FBI office for a chat.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 13:08:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know. I just look at stuff, you know, man, I just grok the fullness of the night sky. I'm, like, a little dude in a boat on the universe. A universe of more than five planets.
Glimpse
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 13:03:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm assuming that was a chance observation and not predicted in the ephemeris? Which star was it?
.
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 10:19:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Observed an occultation of a tenth magnitude star by the asteroid 28 Bellona this morning. Pretty cool. Sort of like a poor man's solar eclipse. Except that the sun was a distant star and instead of the moon, it was eclipsed by a chunk of rock 126 km in diameter. The shadow passed right over the the observatory and lasted for several seconds. Afterward, starlight once again flooded the garden.
Glint
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 04:05:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: The pipe bomber pretty much has the midwestern mind figured out. My advice to them is that they relax and try to learn.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 05, 2002 at 00:42:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pinsky? Wasn't Pinsky the last guy? Clinton's guy? It's the new guy who was my TA in freshman English. Writes poems that the average Joe can understand. I even understand them myself, I think.
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- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 23:41:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: They can't stop us from fearing death no matter how many mailboxes they booby-trap!
Cornhusker
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 22:25:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: We don't care that we can't balance a budget. What's a cool trillion one way or another? It's all Clinton's fault for HAVING that damn surplus!!
Stained-Dress Snippistas
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 20:06:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: "war ON poverty" makes more sense. Too bad Snippy never mastered those conjunctions. Oops.
Four Years of War and Poverty
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 20:05:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: But what else about President Clinton? Forget about mentioning peace in Northern Ireland, the peace process in the Middle East that Bush threw away, the greatest prosperity in the nation's history that Bush is destroying with his deficits and giveaways to the wealthy and special interests, the greatest environmental programs and conservation since Theodore Roosevelt, programs that sent more than 10 million young people to college on Hope scholarships, more than 6 million people from welfare to work, that lowered poverty by 25 percent, that raised incomes for average Americans more than ever before.
war and poverty replaces peace and prosperity--how long did it take Snippistas to piss it all away?
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 20:02:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Five pipe bombs were found in rural Nebraska mailboxes Saturday, officials said, heightening worries among Midwesterners already on edge after similar bombs injured six people a day earlier in Iowa and Illinois.
I'd say Glint ought to start worrying about the folks back home.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 19:18:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Only Fess Parker's glory rubs off.
who was after Pinsky?
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 19:06:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: She was hot, let me tell you.
.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 14:20:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did I tell you my T.A. for English 1A was recently appointed Poet Laureat of the USA? I wrote him an e-mail confessing that I had as a freshman been involved in the penetration of a glans penis into the forbidden vagina of his girl-friend, then also a freshman, the cradle-robber. Bastard never wrote back. I was just trying to be pals with the poet laureat, hoping some of the glory would rub off. Maybe he saw through the ploy, or had been happily married for decades to the freshman he scammed as a T.A.
.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 14:19:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Copernicus thought the earth was a huge turtle, and the planets were flies that it was trying to catch. The sun was some guy with a flashlight, gigging for frogs.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 14:14:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Exactly. I can just see Pete blabbering about following the rules in 1776. He would be calling everyone traitors for a change.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 14:12:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the right-wing lunatics, who if they had lived in 1776 would have all been loyal to King George, will lay their turd in the July 4th punch-bowl.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 14:11:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the goddamn Christers will grab December 25.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 14:09:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: That Mapquest is pretty cool. I was able to get an aerial photograph of the observatory via e-mail.
Glint
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 13:55:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nest thing you know the Mexicans will co-opt May 5 and the Irish will co-opt March 17. Gives me a migraine.
L.G.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 13:49:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Happy Drinko de Mayo! And I agree with L.G. that Uno de Mayo was co-opted by the commies. They took it away from us, took away the pure celebration of virgins and maypoles, took away the poetry of my youth: "May 1st! Hooray, hooray! Oudoor fucking starts today!" Goddam commie bastards!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 13:40:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: The secrets are in the pyramid.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 13:26:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Making an exception for the most senior readers, nearly all of us were educated from childhood with the knowledge that our solar system consists of nine major planets. That count is a relatively recent development in human history. Far back in ancient times observers from places such as Babylonia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China followed the motions of just five "wandering stars" or planets. Their knowledge has been preserved for us in diverse forms ranging from calendrical records and observations to the lullabies sung by parents to the young children of the past who grew up, lived their lives, and became our ancestors. Beginning closest to the sun, these planets of old are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Of course Earth was also known to them in those days, but its true planetary nature was not understood until much later. Throughout the ages as our view of the universe changed, these five planets, plus earth, were always present. They were charted by Ptolemy, rearranged by Tycho Brahe, and juggled once more by Copernicus when he placed the sun at their center. This "ancient universe" of six planets including earth was also the reigning universe when the founding fathers established the Declaration of Independence only 226 years ago. No record exists of any discoverer for the five planets known to the ancient world. The final three planets were discovered by known individuals in the following order: Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930. Until his death in 1997 Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh was a rare individual, historically speaking. He was one of only two persons alive in the 20th century who had been credited with the discovery of a major planet. The other was Johann Galle (1812-1910), a co- discoverer of Neptune. My late grandmother once wrote a society column for a rural Nebraska newspaper. Each week it revealed who entertained Sunday dinner guests from out of town, where they came from, and which vegetables were served as side dishes. Her columns were usually buried somewhere in the rag's back pages. What does my Grandmother's reporting have to do with planets, you ask? It reminded me of a reference made to the furthest planet I saw once in another society page. Over than a decade ago we were guests at my in-laws' farm in rural southeastern Nebraska. While drinking the morning coffee in their kitchen I picked up a newspaper sitting nearby. The "Tecumseh Chieftain" was a thin weekly paper consisting of around 6-10 pages. After thumbing through the pages of the small paper for several seconds I discovered a society section near the back. Each short paragraph had a small subheading, such as "Son from Omaha spends Sunday with Schmidts." My eyebrows raised upon reading one that announced, "Pluto discoverer visits family." Sure enough, Clyde Tombaugh had come to town. The only recognition of a visit by the man who had discovered another world was a mere footnote in the back pages of the paper! In early May you can see all six ancient planets as evening twilight ends. You'll need a clear horizon without trees or buildings to the west-northwest. Around 8:30 p.m. local time the sun will be far enough below the horizon that the brightest planets shall begin to appear. About halfway between the western horizon to the zenith will be the bright yellow planet Jupiter. Down and to the right in the wnw dazzling yellow-white Venus hovers between Jupiter and the horizon. Venus and Jupiter are the brightest planets in the sky and make a striking couple. As darkness increases over the next 15-30 minutes the other planets start coming out like shy children clustering near their mother for protection. To the lower right of Venus midway between the planet and the horizon will be fainter Mercury. Don't confuse Mercury with the bright star Aldebaran, located a similar distance to the lower left of Venus. Venus forms an equilateral triangle with the other two ancient worlds. Immediately to the left of Venus is the fainter Saturn. Saturn glows with a yellowish color. Yellowish-orange Mars is between, and immediately above, Saturn and Venus. And what about the sixth planet? Dig your toe into the soil and behold the earth. Mother ship of the human race and Keb, husband of the celestial goddess Nut to ancient Egyptians. With these six planets you have witnessed the known universe of the ancient world.
Ancient Universe Revealed in May Sky....developing
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 13:06:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is that about, like, cartoons?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 12:16:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hilarious!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 12:06:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: The FBI is advising everyone to check their mailboxes carefully before opening and to avoid opening any boxes manufactured by the 'ACME Mailbox Co'.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 09:58:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush will not be re-elected. It's the economy stupid!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 08:42:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd say Glint ought to start worrying about the folks back home. If this guy can bother to leave mailbox bombs in second-string states like Illinois and Iowa, he might reach all the way down to Nebraska.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 01:49:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: The style is OK... just hasn't been given that "essay of the week" polish. The use of logic, though, is pure Pete. And there is the familiar Pete technique of pointing out that he has studied the world's many civilizations, and has doped it all out while the rest of us were still struggling with Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent. But the clincher, what is undeniably Pete-like, is the touching faith that somewhere someone gives a rat's ass about what he thinks.
House of Meat
- Saturday, May 04, 2002 at 01:34:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe it's Pete, maybe not. Did the AP say anything about typos? Anyway, the style sucks. Not up to Essay of the Week standards.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 23:23:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't worry about Pete. We got it all on voice-activated tape recorders. His ass is grass.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 23:21:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: (AP) -- The following is the text of the note found in the mailboxes with the pipe bombs on Friday: Mailboxes are exploding! Why, you ask? Attention people. You do things because you can and want (desire) to If the government controls what you want to do, they control what you can do. If you are under the impression that death exists, and you fear it, you do anything to avoid it. (This is the same way pain operates. Naturally we strive to avoid negative emotion/pain.) You allow yourself to fear death! World authorities allowed, and still allow you to fear death! In avoiding death you are forced to conform, if you fail to conform, you suffer mentally and physically. (Are world powers utilizing the natural survival instinct in a way that allows them to capitalize on the people?) To "live" (avoid death) in this society you are forced to conform/slave away. I'm here to help you realize/ understand that you will live no matter what! It is up to you people to open your hearts and minds. There is no such thing as death. The people I've dismissed from this reality are not at all dead. Conforming to the boundaries, and restrictions imposed by the government only reduces the substance in your lives. When 1% of the nation controls 99% of the nations total wealth, is it a wonder why there are control problems? The United States strives to provide freedom for their people. Do we really have personal freedom? I've lived here for many years, and I see much limitation. Does the definition of freedom include limitation? I've learned about the history of various civilizations in history, and I see more and more limitation. Do you people enjoy this trend of limitation? If not, change it! As long as you are uninformed about death you will continue to say "how high", when the government tells you to "jump". As long as the government is uninformed about death they will continue tell you to "jump" Is the government uninformed about death, or are they pretending? You have been missing how things are, for very long. I'm obtaining your attention in the only way I can. More info is on its way. More "attention getters' are on the way. If I could, I would change only one person, unfortunately the resources are not accessible. It seems killing a single famous person would get the same media attention as killing numerous un-famous humans. There is less risk of being detained, associated with dismissing certain people. Sincerely, Someone Who Cares PS. More info. will be delivered to various locations around the country.
Well, I guess we now know what Pete's been up to
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 22:54:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Grey Poupon and Dockers Pants merged----Their new product: POUPON PANTS!!!!
WILL-YUM
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 22:40:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, but I'm not convinced that a president, even an unelected one, is all that important. I think we can easily survive a bad president. Harding was probably dumber than Bush, and it's possible that Jerry Ford was too, but I think a lot of the time he was sandbagging. Born without a silver spoon in his mouth and all, he made it a long way, and it wasn't on good looks or gracefulness. Reagan was as dumb as a fence post, and a few years of Clinton were all it took to clean up his and his successor's mess. All the Republican presidents between Lincoln and TR were dumb, and crooked besides, and the country survived. Simpler times, of course, and simpler times would be safer times to have a simpleton like bush at the top, but again, how badly can he really fuck things up, with all those phlegmatic old men around him and Colin Powell as well? The worst he'll probably do is get the Arabs to pull an oil boycott, but they won't be able to keep that up for many years. It will fuck up the American economy, but so what? That will just put a few people outside the bubble. These poor saps who have never seen anything but the flush times need a lesson in the way the world really is, so maybe Bush is the right man at the right time. I myself would get a kick out of seeing some of these smug techno-yokels who've spent their lives on the Relax-O-Kushion feel a pea or two under the mattress.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 22:21:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes. Well Snippy's popularity is a mile wide and as deep as a postage stamp. There's not a person alive who doesn't know the little bandy-legged doofus is just a disaster waiting to happen.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 21:35:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush Shrinks Out of the Job "Bush has grown into the job" chorus proves one more self-serving media myth Despite that the mainstream media attempts to contort the truth in any way it must to defend the notion that Governor George W. Bush knows what he's doing - or ever knew what he was doing - that pesky, lib-rul reality keeps rearing its ugly head and proving otherwise. Bush apologists continue to use the war in Afghanistan as proof that Chimp has succeeded where everyone predicted he would fail. They've told us since September 11.. well, a few days later when Bush emerged from his rabbit hole to babble inanities into a bullhorn while standing on WTC rubble.. That Bush had "grown," that he had demonstrated previously hidden intelligence, and "character" and personality traits that should reassure the American people and other world leaders his leadership ability should inspire confidence. But the truth is, any one of you reading could have run the war in Afghanistan. Any one of you or your dogs. It's not complicated. It hasn't required anything other than reading a well-written speech to a terrorized public and telling the military to "go get the bad guys." It hasn't required any rhetorical skill beyond "dead or alive" and "evildoers." It hasn't required any specialized knowledge, and the only required reading for a president in preparation for dealing with that aspect of foreign policy are a few Marvel Comics. Still, the jury is out on whether that war is even being won. But that isn't true of the other numerous crises developing around the world, including those created by Bush himself. If the media decides to give up the charade and report the truth, will they say Bush has "shrunk" again, or finally admit that no matter how much disbelief one suspends, they would never be able to sustain the myth that he had ever "grown into the presidency" as they claimed? Will they admit that all his shortcomings that would prove disastrous for America were on display long ago, for anyone willing to see them?
DUH-bya
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 20:14:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: I did find a little Popoff though. Peter, the television evangelist. He was standing in the corner licking the broom handle. Said I'd just missed the wife.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 19:46:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Liar! Searched the laundry high and low. All I found was a bottle of Beefeaters with about a finger and a half remaining.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 19:41:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, open your forbidden twat, cuntE. I big one cumming your way. Allah forgive me, POW!!!
gotta roll with the times
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 19:38:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Laundry room, huh? Hey, thanks, see you later!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 19:28:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's OK. The kids would rather play on the Game Cube, and the old lady still has a bottle and a half of Popoff hidden in the laundry room.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 19:01:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd take the wife and kids to the amusement park this weekend if it wasn't for all those push rainbow types. the little monkey children swinging under and over the bars, boucing over the turnstiles and stuff like that.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 18:30:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thou shalt not copulate if your name is Clinton. If you're Henry Hyde, it's OK. If you're Judge Starr, the question doesn't come up.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 18:00:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thou shalt not copulate without morning after pills.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 17:17:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Abstinence Advocates Turn Up Pregnant From the Water Cooler" (PATERSON, N.J.) Two of the winners in a sexual abstinence essay contest in Paterson are pregnant. Eboni Wilson wrote, "having sex with a condom is like playing Russian roulette with your life." The 16-year-old says so many girls are pregnant at Eastside High that they hardly notice one another. The school was once home to the bat-wielding school principal who was portrayed in the movie ``Lean on Me.''
what, the bat kept the girls satisfied so they didn't get knocked up?
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 16:24:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: A federal judge on Friday ordered the removal of the Ten Commandments at two municipal buildings, ruling that their display violates the constitutional separation of church and state. U.S. District Judge Allan Edgar ordered the removal of the Ten Commandments at the Hamilton County Courthouse and City Courts Building. The commandments are on engraved plaques shaped like a stone tablet.
christers lose one
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 16:09:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Life is tough on dickey birds. I've had two nests on my house this spring, and neither on worked out. One was built on an electrical conduit up under the eaves, and stuck out about halfway. April winds blew it off there. I found two perfect little eggs about as big as a fingernail. Then there was one about head-high in a solanum vine by the front door. Every time I went out the birds would fly off, little brown birds. Then a few mornings ago they weren't there, and the nest looked fuzzy on top, as if a bunch of the grass had been pulled up from it. I figure it got nailed by the scrub jays or the magpies. I was looking forward to hearing the young birdlets chirp, but on the brighter side I can go back to pruning to solanum and keeping it from getting too wild.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 15:40:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: William reminds me of a fat four-eyed man with no sense of rhythm trying to start a conga line, but nobody joins in. Or a haole pulling wedgies out of his ass on the playground.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 15:34:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: We are only young once, but we can be immature indefinitely.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 15:32:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: The merger will give Knott-Now access to new sources of produce permitting it to bring new product lines to market, such as cottage cheese.
Will-YUMMY!
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 15:04:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: 43? That article must have been written pre 911.
Glint
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 15:00:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thanks, WILL-YUM. Your contributions to the page are obvious.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:58:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Knott Berry Farm & National Organization of Women will merge, becoming Knott-Now.
WILL-YUM
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:55:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss, rather than working hard.
WILL-YUM
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:49:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, the positives pegged when the Arabs ran the airplanes into the towers, but they stayed up because Bush caught or killed 4% of Al Caida in Afganistan and 2,347 camels, way ahead of Bill Clinton. Plus, he caught Taliban John, and straighted out the dangerous situation in the mideast, so that cheap gas will continue to flow at the pump. I just hope he has long coat-tails so we can reverse the Jeffords balance-of-power reversal, fighting evil with evil.
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- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:47:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's amazing he can find the time to check out Drudge what with his paranoid delusions and such. Ever since he got caught saying sick things on the voice-activated tape recorder, he's taken to covering his lips with masking tape and wearing aluminum foil on his forehead.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:44:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ease off on Pete, guy. He writes his open letters himself. If he cut and pasted them, the people over on the freep would probably agree with them instead of point out their stupidity.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:38:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: What are the chances that Holy Roller John Ashcroft thinks he was chosen by God to clamp down on treason and bring righteousness to Babylon? The poor guy failed at everything he tried to do himself, only ever got office because someone felt sorry for his latest loss and appointed him, and then he gets beat by a dead man. Suddenly, like a phoenix he is put in charge of the naked statues at the Department of Justice and arresting people and holding them indefinitely without any cause or reason other than panic. What a setup for a nasty little pinch-boweled Christer! I'm not sure America is going to get through this one with liberty intact.
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- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:35:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush comes across as a goober - very friendly but not much brain-power. ... It's hard to dislike him," says Jaime Regalado, director of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University at Los Angeles. Or as Curtis Roelle, 43, a computer worker in Md. put it, "For a lying sack of shit, he turned out to be a lot better than I thought."
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:28:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete's just getting warmed up. Open letter to follow (if he can find one to cut and paste)...Developing
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:11:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Unemployment Rate Highest in 7 1/2 Years.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:10:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thanks, Dead Man. I was wondering why it was Snip's numbers went from 50% to 90% overnight on 9/11. It's seldom we hear from you now. This cut-and-paste warranted your re-emergence. By the way, John Ashcroft has wired your Benz with a voice-activated recorder.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:07:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like a Pete endorsement of JFK and FDR. Must be an imposter.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 14:04:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: There is more to President Bush's relatively high approval ratings than just the patriotic, rally-round-the-flag effect of his leadership in the war on terrorism, a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll suggests. Built on the faith Americans showed in him following his response to terror attacks on Sept. 11, the poll shows that almost eight months later Bush has developed an image among most Americans as a strong, competent, leader who shares their values and has elevated respect for presidency. Once seen by many (lying sack of shit demonrats) as not quite up to the job, analysts say he has effectively used the groundswell of support that buoyed him after the attacks to earn high marks for his overall conduct in office and forge strong personal bonds with a broad majority of Americans. "You've got to think this is more than just the normal bounce from the rally effect," says independent pollster Larry Hugick of Princeton Research Associates. "We have seen some slippage in Bush's approval after peaking in October, but his personal ratings are still quite high." The poll suggests that Americans have taken a closer look (because the media lies have been muted) at Bush since Sept. 11 and find that while they strongly approve of how he has led the country in response to the terrorist attacks, they also generally like him as a person and admire his character, regardless of whether they agree with him on the issues. "Bush comes across as the average American - very warm, very sincere, very friendly. ... It's hard to dislike him," says Jaime Regalado, director of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University at Los Angeles. Or as Amy Muzzocchi, 35, a computer worker in Rosedale, Md. put it, "He turned out to be a lot better than I thought." But whether Bush can translate that goodwill into political clout to advance his legislative agenda and elect Republicans to Congress in November remains a question mark. Perceptions in Washington that his support is slipping - 90% in September to 77% now - have emboldened Democrats to criticize him (traitors) and some conservative Republicans to balk at toeing the Bush line on issues such as the Middle East. Issues aside, more than three of four Americans continue to approve of the job Bush is doing, a high level of support rarely sustained over such a long period of time by previous presidents. Only Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942, the first year of World War II, and Kennedy in 1961, his first year in office, have maintained job approvals above 70% for longer than Bush has.
Pete�
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 13:53:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Taliban John is from Marin, enough said. Le Pen is so far right he's left, if the universe is curved.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 13:27:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Taliban John and Le Pen are both leftists according to Ann Coulter.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 12:06:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll tell you one thing-- the Nation never did a story about treasonous bastards from Marin County that didn't mention Taliban John. Let's hang the little fruit.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:49:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know,I'm still fascinated with the technique of determining guilt by mentions in stories in the Nation. What if the Nation did a story about the World Trade Center that didn't mention Osama bin Ladan? How do we know we have the right guy?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:47:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like Glint has finally found the perfect religion for him. Does this mean the end to posts about incestuous christer con men?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:40:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mo Dean may have been a whore, but she gave it out free to Democrats.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:38:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who knew that Dean was socialist? He had the same haircut as Dan Quayle, even though his wife had big knockers, like the whore she was.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:35:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: That liberal Dean was the one who caused Watergate? Serves Nixon right for hiring a socialist lawyer. Especially one married to a whore. The take-home lesson is never trust a lawyer who married a whore.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:33:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: According to Allah, the Senate was right to let Clinton off the impeachment hook. On the other hand, he still has to confess to Allah, who has decreed that a blow-job is sinful, as the Republican Party knew all along, even though it does not involve penetration of a glans penis into a forbidden vagina.
what vagina more forbidden than a White House intern's?
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:31:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hell, they didn't even mention the whoremonger, John Dean, the real culprit in Watergate.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:30:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: The first year of Watergate stories didn't even mention Nixon.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:29:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, anonymous, cluck cluck, and we suppose that's progress.
James Taranto
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:26:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whatever the LIEbrals say, everyone knows that the recent story in the Nation that didn't mention Bush clears the bandy-legged little guy, who didn't know Kenny-Boy anyway, that Richards dude that he kept on for continuity. You'll notice that the Nation never did a story on Whitewater that didn't even mention Clinton.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:24:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, the Nation has sold out! A story about Enron that didn't even mention Bush? Geesh!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:22:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, since Clinton was guilty of kissing, hugging, and caressing, which is sin, although not subject to the HAD, he still had to be brought before the House Managers, to explain himself?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:20:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: CARVILLE: Let's get some verification. Let's see if Mr. Robert Novak, co-host of CROSSFIRE, had to say about you. Do we have that quote up? Can we put that up there? Listen to this. I'm going to read this to you. "Mr. Brock is, I think, one of the fine investigative reporters in America." Robert Novak, CNN, June 20, 1996. Here you are endorsed by one of the icons of the American right as a fine investigative reporter. And you're sitting here telling us that our current Solicitor General and a member of the Supreme Court lied under oath. I fear for the children.
typical socialist lies
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:13:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here's another from the good doctor. Others may follow as warranted: "You Don't Say By JAMES TARANTO An article in The Nation reveals that Enron is a massive financial and accounting scandal. OK, this isn't exactly news to anyone who's been reading The Wall Street Journal or another business publication for the past few months. But the story in The Nation is notable, since this is the same left-wing rag (or is it a right-wing gag?) that a few months back tried to make Enron out to be a White House scandal, doing so with such disregard for the facts that it even misstated the baseball team Bush once owned. The new article, by William Greider, doesn't even mention Bush, and we suppose that's progress."
Glint
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:10:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Liberal Jewish doctor friend. All fits except for the "friend" part.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:07:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: WILL-YUM and Glint first thing in the morning? How lucky can you get?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 10:06:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: My Liberal Jewish doctor friend has been forwarding some interesting stuff lately. Guess he knows what I like, who I despise, etc.: "Is Bill Clinton a Muslim? Islamweb.net publishes the following fatwa in answer to a reader's question, "Is oral sex considered Zina [fornication]?" The Zina for which the Had (certain punishment prescribed in Sharia) would be imposed on is penetration of a glans penis into a forbidden vagina. The other acts such as kissing, hugging, and caressing are no doubt among the minor acts of Zina but there is no Had imposed on them. But, doing so is a sin and whoever indulges in that sin would be punished. And also he should make sincere repentance from this sin by giving up it, feeling sorrow for what he has done and asking forgiveness of Allah. Allah knows best."
Glint
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 09:52:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was even more hilarious the second time.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 09:45:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the XXX (crap) out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
WILL-YUM
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 06:26:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the XXX (crap) out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
WILL-YUM
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 06:21:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: MOUSE POTATO: The on-line wired generations answer to the couch potato.
WILL-YUM
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 06:17:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Right. He's thinking: Geesh! At least Gert had a chin, and her ass had meat in it instead of this Korean silicone.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 02:06:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, true. But he always thinks of the dead wife while he's pumping on the hot young one.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 02:03:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Any guy who's porking a young babe, his late wife not even cold in the ground, can't be all bad.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 01:02:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, you're saying I should just chuckle indulgently when the crynic spouts off some whack nonsense? Okay.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 01:01:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess you're right, Meat. Anyone with a daughter named Potato Head can't be all that hip.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 00:52:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who said she was a liberal? Was it the crynic? Did you ever stop and think that the crynic might not know a whole lot about who's a liberal and who's not? Is he the guy who came out talking about the liberal Condit, or was that Pete? You've got to remember, anonymous, that these characters aren't all that sophisticated. Basically just shop-keepers and technicians, although I think the crynic may have enough time in the system to have risen to the status of bean-counter. We're not dealing with deep intellect here, or even guys who listened during high school history. These, in fact, are stone dorks.
House of Meat
- Friday, May 03, 2002 at 00:33:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Somebody says Diane Feinstein is a liberal? Since when?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 22:55:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: She'll like it plenty until she finds that all the AOL shares in the Cook Islands are bequeathed to his daughter, Miss Potato Head.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 21:52:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: It won't be long before he'll be dribbling like all old men eventually do. Wonder how Olive will like that.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 21:39:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, that's your opinion, anonymous. For me, it rings true that his "hot young girlfriend" is named Olive. She probably makes him pronounce it Oh-leev, though.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 20:06:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can never imagine the crynic "chortling" between cigar puffs. I see him as a squat man with varicose veins, who almost never smiles, because he knows it makes him look like his piles are acting up. When he's not chortling, his head is bobbing up and down and looking around like a dicky-bird looking for the cat, trying to make sure that nobody is actively despising him for being a mid-level dead-ender with an ugly girlfriend he doesn't really like and a nasty daughter who calls him "Mr. Potato-head" behind his back and has blown every hotel doorman in Baltimore. Hoping that nobody remembers how he told them he was really piling up the gains with his AOL stock. No, Glint, it's hard to see the crynic as something out of a Popeye cartoon, unless it's Wimpy.
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- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 19:48:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: The crynic speaketh in mysterious ways. Is it the Glenlivet, or plain old Thunderbird speaking?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 19:39:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 19:38:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: That was fun, crynic. Nothing to apologize for, mate.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 19:35:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sorry Anon. Just having a bit of fun yesterday with Cali. If we can't laugh at ourselves, maybe we should jump up in the pulpit with St. Cliton or Archangel Ted Kennedy. That is if they're not hiding out in the confessional.
the crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 19:24:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know, Glint, it's really not like anybody outside of Maryland has any kind of stereotype image of it. Nobody's going to riff on Maryland the way the crynic riffed on Cali yesterday. The term, "Maryland Liberals" just isn't on the same level as "Cali watercress sandwiches," or "Stockton hot tubs." Maryland is kind of a forgotten state, one of the ones that trips kids up when they're trying to name all 50 in alphabetical order. I'm sure it's a fine place, in fact I've even been there, but outside of the White Steps of Ballimore, or soft-shell crabs, there's nothing to inspire shallow rants a la the crynic about Cali.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 18:48:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, not being a House Manager is certainly to your credit, sailor.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 18:38:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: They see a veritable ocean of white hatted black billed Maryland Liberals crowded along the dock, shuffling to and fro, green parrots bobbing up and down shouting their tired old canned rants, "it's all about sex. SQUAWK!" "Who's pube's on the can? SQUAWK!" Suddenly the little doors of the saloon swing open, and out sqeezes a huge man, a gruff man with a black beard. In their minds they see him swagger over to a nearby gas lampost. He pulls out a gigantic cigar as he bends the lamp down and lights it, chortling between puffs.
Glint
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 18:28:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cliton was impeached but it didn't make me a House Manager. Hitlery's universal medical plan flopped - didn't make me a doctor. Both the Clitons are responsible for shady disappearances - doesn't make me a killer. Glad I didn't say I was from a parish in SF, guess that would make me a liberal flaming fag priest. Beleive what you will. But I would never fly under the Cook Islands - too expensive. Always register in Liberia.
the crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 18:23:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's sort of like how people kid Glint about being a farm boy, when we all know he couldn't tell a young sugar-beet start from parsley. Or kid him about being outside the bubble when he has to open his own can of chile con carne and his own box of crackers. You fellas are recognizable as parasites, don't think anyone is confusing you with real contributors.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 18:23:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is Annapolis near the ocean? I always pictured it as inland, on a river. We just kid the crynic about being an old salt. We all know that he couldn't skipper a row-boat, but that he has inherited major shipping wealth, and is dependent on a current president's maritime policy, which he knows inside and out. The inherited wealth is what makes him productive. That and his ability to sponge up illegal drugs like a coast-guard hazmat team.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 18:17:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: ...Also with a parrots named Polly on one shoulder squawking, "shiver me timbers!" Then they picture one Annapolean, a big hulking brute with a black beard with a hot young girlfriend named Olive.
Glint
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 18:15:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: And those fucking Cliton maritime regs are driving you out of business. Don't deny it, cap'n.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 18:14:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: After all these years, you're going to try to hide it? Everyone on this board knows that you're a billionaire ship-owner flying under the flag of the Cook Islands. Stop trying to sandbag us, fatso. We're on to you.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 18:12:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think because you once said you were from around Annapolis. They picture people walking around with white beards - both men and women - white caps with black bills, hobbling around on thir wooden legs saying AYE! through their clenched teeth gripping their pipes which are all turned upside down to keep out the sea spray.
Glint
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 18:10:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can't stand it any longer. What makes you guys think I'm involved in the maritime industry?
the crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:58:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: The maritime industry is shot and, as far as I can tell, Snippy* doesn't give a shit.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:44:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: You remind me of doovali droppings. Acidic waste. But I'm sure you knew that.
the crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:43:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: I still contend the cryic is Pete.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:40:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: What kind of goofy name is the crynic anyway?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:37:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Counter productive to the "right" cause, eh? Sounds ominous. What is the "right" cause exactly? C'mon, the crynic, do tell.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:36:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Guess that makes the crynic an independent guy. A man of disernment. Just this side of a tree-hugging furr-bucket, but not a mouth breather.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:29:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hot? At least she's not one of the captain's sheep. Young? Certainly younger than that hag in Valparaiso who grabbed your nuts on the high road and dragged you into the brothel. San Pedro might not be Hollywood, but a lot of sailors find wives there.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:27:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who needs more pussy? Rush is counterproductive to the "right" cause. That's one area where I agree with you mouth breathers. Rush is an alledged entertainer. His primary objective is to sling shit. His schtick gets old quickly. He simply is not credible. Who's Dr. Ruth?
the crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:25:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: After six months at sea in the maritime industry, hot and young are relative terms.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:23:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: How dare you say that to the crynic? He's the man with the hot young girlfriend. Unless she's in San Pedro by now, counting the money.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:22:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Remember, the crynic, scorn and derision is the highest form of flattery.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:21:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ahh, the myth of low self-esteem, the co-dependency of the new millenium. Hey, the crynic, baaaaaaaa. Picked that up from the LifeStyle pages of USA Today, or have you been watching Oprah? Crynic, would you characterize yourself as self-directed, independent, a man with his own ideas? Or do you sometimes think that you give too much credit to whoever you listened to last? If the latter is the case, I suggest you cut down on Rush and listen more to Dr. Ruth. You'll get more pussy.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:19:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm flattered by your little monologue, but shouldn't you finish sweeping up before you punch out for the day? The bossman may be watching.
the crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:17:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Blew out every vein in my eyelids.
The Crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:14:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't forget the shrooms.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:13:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: A little meth. Weed and biphetamines, black-and-whites. Yellowjackets if I was in school. Acid. Joy-popped heroin. Upholstery spray. Chugged Vicks Vapo-rub inhaler wicks. The occaisonal horse tranquilizer. Pretty much anything that appeared in front of my nose.
The Crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:12:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I know you have waaay too much time on your hands, Anonymous. From your writings, I also know you have very low self esteem. You sound like you have often thought of sucking on the business end of a .38! Your family has my sympathy.
the crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:11:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mostly Demerol�.
The Crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:10:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey the crynic, what did you do during the Vietnam war?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:09:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: The taxi-driver had that socialist radio station NPR on and they were interviewing some liberal tree-hugging fuzz-brained furr-bucket feminazi who was an official of the Dark Sky Society. Geesh what a stupid whore! Wants to turn off all the lights so the merchants can't do business after dark and the criminal can walk the street under better cover. Don't these liberal slimers understand that its productivity that drives this country? Productivity, electric light, and good managment by guys who know how to cow a whole roomful of typists by sitting in the Captain's chair and glowering? Geesh!
The Crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:07:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: How about the guys who screw animals. Are they queer if the animal is male?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:04:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Truman Capote was queer? Didn't even know he was a priest let alone queer.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 17:00:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Always thought jazz was kinda queer. Jazz always seemed to attract the likes of Truman Capote and Andy Warthole.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 16:58:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: They don't have tissue dispensers on the priest's side to wipe back tears, smarty pants.
the "gruff know-nothing" crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 16:54:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jazz. Bottom line is it all comes down to jazz.
Glint
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 16:53:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: I always wondered why the confessional was set up like a glory hole. Thanks, the crynic, you gruff know-nothing.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 16:46:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: The problem IS homosexuality. If the priests weren't queer, they wouldn't be hustling altar boys for their virgin staffs under the cassocks. Nor would they be raping young boys in San Diego. Nor would they be jerking off in the confessional listening to young boys confess to jerking off.
the crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 16:40:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: There doesn't have to be any connection. It's just that a lot of priests seem to be queer, probably because of the celibacy requirement, the fact that there is no pressure to marry. Plus there's a great supply of alter-boys. So the problem is not homosexuality per se. It's chicken-hawking, or predatory homosexuality aimed at minors.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 16:05:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Writing in the April 22nd issue of the Jesuit magazine America, Catholic scholars Melvin C. Blanchette and Gerald D. Coleman carefully demonstrate that homosexuality and child abuse have no causal connection. They separate child molesters into two categories: pedophiles, who "possess a primary sexual desire toward children between 1 and 13"; and ephebophiles, who possess "a primary sexual desire toward children between 14 and 17."
get it right you blockheads
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 15:59:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Carville has all those clowns beat on just about every level. Maybe he's not as pretty as some of them, but damn near.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 15:46:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Welk hired good musicians, and that ex-mouseketeer, Bobby, could really cut a rug. O'Reilly is just doing a Geraldo schtick without the salt and pepper, just a dull, noisy little suburban newscaster man pretending to be working class. I don't discern him as being a right-winger, although he does plenty of right-wing material. Just a dude who was going to seed and found a way to stay in the game. A pretty good spin-meister, but all at about the same decibel level. No sense of dynamics.
.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 15:44:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: O'Reilly is moderately popular on cable television because he doesn't feign intelligence. An audience of lowbrows feels comfortable with him. I call it the Lawrence Welk effect. Welk was without discernable talent, yet enjoyed greater popularity than O'Reilly will ever know simply because he mad the midwestern masses feel at ease.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 15:25:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: "21st Century In-QUEER-sition: U.S. Roman Catholic Bishops Now Blame The Sex-Abuse Crisis On Homosexual Priests" by Richard Blow In responding to the clergy sex-abuse scandal, the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in America resurrect an old whipping boy: the priesthood, various Cardinals say, must be purged of homosexuals.
Amen, brother! Give them a boot in the A$$ but try not to get your foot stuck in their fag-fvck3d Bvtth0l3z
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 15:17:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now the Liberals are squawking that Bill O'Reilly's popularity has spilled over from television to radio. Get this, the Liberal board moderators toned down the hysterics in the following screech:
"*&%^#@ O' Reilly coming to Pittsburgh Talk Radio"
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 15:11:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: The funny part is that it's a spoof advertisement. You can buy these donkeys, apparently for a child's toy. It would work good in Mad Magazine.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 13:46:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good cartoon with the boneless donkeys. Funny in an urbane sort of way. Apparently drawn by a child.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 13:40:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, I get it, munch each other guy. You're a moron.
it all comes clear
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 13:38:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Clinton's new talk show?
GAG ALERT!!!
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 13:34:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: What I get from the freep links is there are still a core of seriously obsessed troglodytes who will probably tune Clinton's new talk show just for the gagging opportunities.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 13:32:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: ?, what do you mean by ??? ? They love to bite and chew each other.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/photo_query.php?id=4
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 13:31:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, I checked out those two freep links. Those people are really dumbos, aren't they? It's like a room full of Petes and crynics. In the first one, they can't even understand the bare bones of the story they are commenting on. Some Croatian war criminal's lawyer says Clinton is the war criminal. Somehow the freepers figure the International Criminal Court, which the USA has zero to do with, is going to throw Klintoon in jail. The other one is a ritual hate-fest about Diane Sawyer's appearance on some right-wing talk show.
puke alert
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 13:14:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
?
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 13:00:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Welcome to Media Whores Online... Whore Watch - SAINT RALPH REPENTS! Nader Explains Why Greens Should Stop Being Spoilers! Today in a discussion with James Fallows in Slate.com, Ralph Nader had this to say about the role of Greens/Naderites in the 2000 election: "If the selective what-if game is to be played, the Greens can take credit for sending Maria Cantwell to the U.S. Senate-thereby giving the Democrats a 50-50 split and setting the stage for Sen. Jeffords' switch to Independent and tipping the control of the Senate to the Democrats in June 2001. Sen. Cantwell won over the incumbent, Sen. Gorton, by a mere 2,300 votes, and, absent a Green senatorial candidate, my 103,000 votes went heavily for Cantwell, in part because of their deep aversion to Gorton's votes and policies. Sen. Harry Reid told us in his office that he and Cantwell were 'very well aware' of the Green spillover vote." But.. we thought there was no difference between the Democratic and Republic Parties! If that's so, why is Ralph taking credit for the Democratic control of the Senate? What difference does it make? Why even bring it up? No one who truly believed there was no difference would entertain such a discussion.
I cum to watch them munch on each other
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 12:50:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: newsmax HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 12:37:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673014/posts
*GAG ALERT*
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 12:37:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/670809/posts
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 12:33:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I like the blurb down below talking about sex and the saxaphone somehow tied up in the origin of the word "jazz", when nobody playing jazz blew through anything resembling a sax until at least Sidney Bechet" Anonymous@23:38:11. Alright, I'll admit that the parenthetical saxophone was an improvisation on my part. But then again, isn't that was this jazz jizz is all about?
Glint
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 11:56:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did the crynic mention that Cali has Gary Condit? Was that on his list? If it wasn't, it should be. Represents the Modesto area, which is right next door to that hotbed of liberalism, Stockton. The Hot-Tub Yokels, I call them. Nothing more liberal than an ex-dirt farmer working in the tire-repair business.
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- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 11:26:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: A) It is the women, not the men, who run the clitorectomy business. B) A clitorectomy is something you want your wife and daughter to have, not your mistress.
Captain Cross-Culture
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 11:12:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think Ann knows about clitorectomies. She is dating an Arab afterall!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 11:07:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I mean, like, this Le Pen is a bad guy and a terrorist himself, Ann. You ever hear of the OAS? That's the Order of the Secret Army, a group of anciens paras (read "ex-paratroopers pissed about losing Algeria"). The OAS invented terrorism in France, blowing things up and trying to assassinate DeGaulle, and generally carrying on in Arab-like ways. The FN, or Front National, Le Pen's political party, starts basically as an outgrowth of the OAS but devoted to overturning the government through the political process, sort of like the above ground political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Le Pen, who had been a poujadiste deputy in the French government, Poujade being an earlier fascist politician, took over the FN right at the start in 1972. He's a rich inheritor, the family being in the cement manufacturing business, and runs a record label that produces reproductions of Nazi music. He, like many other French paras of the Algerian war was convicted or administratively censured for war crimes, and was required to issue a formal apology. If you don't know anything about the Algerian was, it was basically one big war crime on both sides, and when it was ending, much of the French army mutinied, including many paras and the Desert Corps of the Foreign Legion. Which is where DeGaulle comes back and puts a lid on things and becomes the President of France, in 1958. The mutineers become the OAS and start blowing up storefronts in Paris, and here you are at Le Pen. It is not really about clitorectomies, Ann. Clit-clipping is something backward Muslim women do to one another, and it does not bother Le Pen or his followers. What bothers Le Pen and his followers is the fact that they didn't kill enough Arabs when they had the chance.
.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 11:00:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: hank janssen freeportill, il. steph. - Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 01:13:01 (EDT)
good question, hank! Say hi to darlene
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 10:42:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: I would say thong underwear is unprecedented but I fondly recall the g-string.
the crynic
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 10:40:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: The proliferation of thong underwear is yet another sign of the emascualtion of the American dad. In my day, my pop would done me good if I'd dared to even think of wearing such slutty unmentionables. And, by the way, smarty-pants, I read that Coulter column. Guess what? She only mention genital mutilation SEVEN TIMES! So there!
Sue
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 10:38:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: I figured out from reading the freep link posted below that the deal is, the girls wear short skirts and whirl around while dancing so you can see their unders. That's why it's important for them to wear the full Matilda. One freeper points out that neither parents nor schools should let teenage girls dance with their "vulvas hanging out" which sounds like his daughter should maybe be doing some of those Kegel exercises they teach in LaMaze classes, tone those pude muscles a little. I always thought that the most horrifying aspect of a thong was the view from the rear, and he should be worried about their "assholes hanging out", assuming the assholes are as out-of-shape as the vulvas. A thong is actually a fair covering for a vulva, but doesn't seem to afford much coverage at all to an asshole. Once again the freepers get it wrong.
.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 10:31:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: You can only have barf alerts about liberals, jackson. That's not a barf alert, that's a developing snip from TV Guide.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 10:24:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: 9 PM ET FRIDAY: DRUDGE RETURNS TO FOX NEWS ON 'HANNITY AND COLMES'...
class II barf alert!
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 10:23:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Conservatives world-wide, always eventually come around to the ultimate wisdom of gas chambers.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 10:09:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Parents, my eye! It is the FATHER'S duty to KNOW what kind of underwear his budding young daughter is wearing at any given time! If that requires chasing her down the hall, catching her and turning her over his knee to find out, so be it, although a good daughter knows to gently submit to paternal authority.
Buford
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 10:05:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, Coulter has a pretty trenchant piece today about how Jean-Marie Le Pen is a great guy because he wants to gas the "Muslims", who are responsible for a huge wave of crime in France. These nasty Muslims "steal cars, set them on fire, and push them off cliffs." according to Coulter, and they do so much "genital mutilation" that France had to pass a law against it. Evidently, Coulter agrees with Le Pen that the law isn't enough, and construction of some gas chambers is in order. Poor Coulter has convinced herself that Le Pen is a man who rose up to combat the Arab terrorist, not realizing that he's ancien para, mad that DeGaulle gave Algeria back to the Arabs, and has been the bull-goose right-wing French lunatic for 30 years. Coulter hasn't bothered to learn about the French relationship with Algeria or apparently anything at all about French history for the past 50 years. Not surprising, come to think of it, because the bimbo doesn't know a whole lot about America either. The poor woman, just like the troglodytes here, gets all tangled up when she ventures out into topics beyond blow jobs and fantasy jism in sinks that magically happen to be bolted to the walls of oval offices. Somehow she ties it all back to American liberals and the inadequate editorial philosophy of the New York Times. The poor New York Times just can't catch a break from Coulter. This must be the four hundredth consecutive column in which she has pointed out the paper's failure to agree with her.
.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 10:04:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thong underwear can only cheapen a honeymoon. What kind of parents would allow their daughter to go on a honeymoon with thong underwear?
Not a Joke-- Actual Right-wing Post
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 02:06:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: I went to a meeting in Stockton, and one of the guys there was wearing gym shorts. I asked him what the fuck and he said three boogs busted into his motel room the night before with guns, made him lie face-down on the floor, said they were going to kill him, and stole all his other clothes. That's generally the way it goes in Stockton.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 02:04:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: What kind of mother buys thong underwear for her daughter? What kind of mother allows her daughter to go to a dance in a short skirt wearing thong underwear? I immediately think of Chandra Levy and her parents and shudder. I am sure they would have revised their childrearing methods, if they only knew back then, what the path ahead was for their daughter. Thong underwear belongs on the honeymoon...not in the highschool.
actual troglodyte post on the net
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 01:58:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: where do the president's mom+pop live? are they living in the white house? if so,why?
hank janssen <[email protected]>
freeportill, il. steph. - Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 01:13:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://beta.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675272/read
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 00:13:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: The poor crynic's list of Clinton guilts is pretty dang pathetic. Clinton inhaled! Clinton issued pardons! Clinton somehow had Vince Foster commit suicide! Clinton had sex! Clinton protested Vietnam! Geesh, what a litany of evil! Is the crynic losing it? Surely Clinton must have done something bad or out of the ordinary. Raised taxes in the top bracket? He's guilty of that. Exploited the Negro with his own rituals? Guilty! Was impeached by a congress full of self-hypnotizing fringe lunatics and termite exterminators? Not guilty, but geesh think of the impression it will make on historians! Crynic, crynic, the crynic. Best to go back to the storm bridge, turn that pipe upside down against the sleet, and con the great gray tanker out the harbor. You are complete only at sea. On shore, you are a lost, wandering lamb, bleating for security from imagined evils.
.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 23:55:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: To me, Stockton is not so much a Marin County East as it is an Elizabeth, New Jersey West.
Captain Geography Book
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 23:47:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stockton? Yeah, Stockton is a far-out burg, sort of a Marin County East. Nothing but god's eyes and ad hoc poetry riffed out of bay windows. A lot of your American Talibans will be lurching out of Stockton. I say burn the whole town to the ground before it gets out of hand.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 23:45:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: You can talk all you want about Bechet, but for me the man who invented jazz saxaphone was Lester Young.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 23:42:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: I like the blurb down below talking about sex and the saxaphone somehow tied up in the origin of the word "jazz", when nobody playing jazz blew through anything resembling a sax until at least Sidney Bechet.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 23:38:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mrs. said some kid set some other kid on fire today in the shop class at school. I said that's the kind of thing I'd expect some Stockton Caliban loco to do, like firing on a schoolyard of kids - with real fire.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 23:35:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Notice how the crynic throws the liberals off the scent by talking about his daughter going to college? The dude is obviously a 17-year old talk-radio fan, behind his persona of a gruff, street-smart right-winger. The only flaw in his story is to make the crynic the right age to dodge the draft but then squawk about clinton being a draft-dodger.
.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 23:34:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: You dimocrats just don't get it. Obviously non capital punishment states have less death rows than Cali or Huntsville Texas, for that matter. Geesh! And Barbara Feinstein and Dianne Boxer are interchangeable moronic robots. Poke a little fun at your fein state and you start splitting hairs on the heads of Boxer Feinstein and/or Dianne Barbara; or whatever these two nimrods call themselves/herself. Slice it any way you like, but they both are clueless liberal furr buckets.
the crynic
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 22:18:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Are you ready for the liquid fire annointing?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 22:13:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not true, but fire is a fine way to liquidate unwanted assets.
the crynic
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 22:01:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fire is a liquid.
the crynic
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 22:00:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: A little known fact is, in addition to having more people on death row than all the non-capital punishment states combined, Cali even has more death ROWS than all those states combined. Now, Texas kills more people, that's true, but there are fewer on death row itself even though Texas has fewer people than Cali.
the crynic
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 21:38:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nope. It's unprecedented. Also, don't forget the Nebr ditch weed. And, uh, Barbara Feinstein. What's more, Cali has more people on death row than all the states without death rows COMBINED!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 21:35:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm sure there is a precedent for that traffic, I'm just not sure where. Mexico City? Bombay? Napoli?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 21:22:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Get out of Cali and leave more room for the natives.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 20:54:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the watercress sandwiches.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 20:45:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, that still leaves the unprecedented traffic and the list that goes on and on.
'nuff
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 20:44:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: No wonder Cali has more people on death row than all the states without capital punishment COMBINED. It has more people than all those states COMBINED. That's in addition to the fact that states without capital punishment have no death rows, of course. I hate it when tax cheating foreigners play with statistics.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 20:02:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: *Alaska * Hawaii * Iowa * Maine * Massachusetts * Michigan * Minnesota * North Dakota * Rhode Island * Vermont * West Virginia * Wisconsin
non-capital punishment states
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 19:52:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd be interested to know how many death row inmates the non-capital punishment states actually have. It seems cruel to even have a death row in non-capital punishment states. However, I find it quite believable that Cali, a capital punishment state, does have more on death row than the states that don't have capital punishment. Kind of makes sense.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 19:46:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cali has more prisoners on death row than all the non-capital punishment states combined?
doubt it
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 19:38:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe he meant Dianne Boxer.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 18:45:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Artificial cows, huh? In Cali we've got real cows on the roofs of some restraunts.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 18:30:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: In Carroll County there are still some restraunts with life sized artificial cows on the roof. I like the car ones better though. B^>
Glint
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 18:26:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, that was Barbara Feinstein.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 18:25:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rodney King? Was he the one who said "I have me a dream?" The one whose blood Jesse Jackson soaked his shirt in.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 18:19:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://web1.archive.org/web/19990218151548/www.lindatripp.com/ugly.html
Here is the page bruce put up when Linda didn't pay her web hosting bill
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 18:12:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ronald Reagan. Richard Nixon. John Wayne. Orange County. Sam Hayakawa. George Murphy. Herbert Armstrong. The Crystal Cathedral. The list goes on and on.
Barbara Feinstein?????????
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:59:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Barbara Feinstein? Never heard of her. Does she own a deli in Beverly Hills?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:50:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cali has a higher death row population than all the non capital punishment states combined. Geesh! And with such a tiny population, too. Compared to all the non-capital punishment states combined, that is. No wonder nobody lives in Cali. Thanks, foreigner!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:49:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, it's easy for a tax refugee like the crynic to badmouth the Golden State. Just because the Cook Islands are unspoiled by Barbara Feinstein!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:46:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: More death row inmates in Cali than any other state. Texas exterminates more, but Cali houses more and longer too. How about this stat? Cali has a higher death row population than all the non capital punishment states combined. Haha.
the crynic
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:43:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't forget to mention all the fucking tourists from the rest of the fucking country. A real eyesore.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:40:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: The list goes on and on? You mean there's more? Geesh!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:36:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tons of criminals?
you and your statistics!
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:35:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: You've got to throw Rodney King at us, huh? Look, not all of our Negroes beat up cops.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:35:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Smog? Not in this town. Cleanest air of any city in the good old USA.
Buzz
San Francisco, - Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:33:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: The traffic 'round here is unprecedented.
Jaime
Death Valley, Cali - Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:32:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Barbara Feinstein? Who's that?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:32:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Didn't mean for you Cali boys feel the need to defend yourselves and your eateries. After all, Cali has lots to offer. Rodney King, O.J., S.F. (homosexual capital of the nation), unprecedented traffic, Barbara Feinstein, smog and pollution, tons o' criminals, and the list goes on and on...
the crynic
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:30:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: SAUDIS HIRE GOP SPIN DOCS By BRIAN BLOMQUIST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 1, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia has hired a slew of D.C.'s most powerful lobbying and p.r. firms - including turning to an ad-buying company that's helped top Republicans - to buff its post-9/11 image, The Post has learned.
birds of a feather
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:10:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://web1.archive.org/web/19990203132946/www.lindatripp.com/scripts/guest.cgi
In this corner of the museum is an actual page from the LT message board. <wonder where john was at>
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:10:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Jeb Bush choked back tears Tuesday at an anti-drug summit as he talked about his 24-year-old daughter's struggle with drug addiction. "I want to thank you on behalf of my wife for your prayers and for your quiet counseling in the last few months about our daughter Noelle," Bush said. The governor was several minutes into a standard anti-drug speech when he paused, looked down, turned red, put his hand over his lips and choked back a quiet sob.
stop your sniveling and get the bitch a job as a House page
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:01:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: And we inherited their clueless moron posters.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:58:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Eleven teenage House pages are in hot water after getting caught using marijuana -- ROLL CALL's Ed Henry reported late Wednesday. The pages were dismissed from their duties, acording to sources familiar with the investigation. One well-placed staffer said the pages got kicked out for behavior "that anyone shouldn't be doing, let alone kids." MORE Henry reports: "The trouble started when one female page whose family lives in the Washington, D.C., area brought several other pages to the family home unsupervised. The pages involved allegedly smoked marijuana in the basement of the house." The female page then allegedly "brought some drugs back to the House page dorm on Capitol Hill, where her roommate turned her in to authorities. That led to everyone involved being disciplined. " Two Democratic sources tell ROLL CALL DAILY that all 11 pages were sponsored by Republican House Members. Developing...
They must have been experimenting
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:57:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Those guys at the original LT site were totally clueless morons.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:55:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Great. A flashback to something nobody on this page saw when it happened the first time.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:54:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: RIGHT WING ASSAULT ON OUR SERVER!!!! On Tuesday January 19,1999 at approximately 1pm a hack was made on our server. This was a denial of service attack which means that the "hackers" initiated a command that essentially sent multiple bogus requests to our server. As a result, all of the sites hosted on our server were inaccessible. After tracing the attack to its source we have discoverd that the attack originated from a company in Bethesda, MD.. We are withholding the name of this company until our attorneys give us the OK. This type of attack will not be tolerated and we have turned this investigation over to the FBI and our local ISP.
lindatripp.com flashback from Jan 25, 1999
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:53:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like a great place for a slab of marbled fat and a bucket of ale!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:48:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hoo, boy! A restraunt with a car on the roof! Wow! That's gotta be a good 'un!
Rube
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:43:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: By the way, you can get bad food at a place with a car on the roof. Just a tired gimick left over from the Retro period.
been there, done that in Cali
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:39:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know, I like a restaraunt with a hat on the roof.
Missing the Brown Derby
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:37:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: All you can get around here are burgers and Q. I'd kill for a watercress sandwich!
Bored in Fresno
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:30:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know. Sounds like a pale, eastern imititation of the Cadillac Bar or the Pontiac Diner, assuming those places with cars on the roof are still open. They were big in the 70s and early 80s.
seen it all in Cali
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:29:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: You can't get a good burger in Cali. Nothing but watercress sandwiches. A restaurant with a car on the roof? Gosh-a-rooni! What'll they think of next?
Cali Boy
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:16:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: I saw the BBQ place of which you speak. Came through there between 11 and 12 and the smoke was billowing out. I was afraid the place might have been on fire. Thanks for the tip. If any of the kids decide to go to St. Marys we'll make sure and give it a try.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 16:08:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.freedom-usa.net/freeper_pics/protest/Cigara.jpg <> http://www.freedom-usa.net/freeper_pics/protest/Cigar_Brown.jpg
here's a couple more of me, and a good one of my face
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 15:59:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: I love Ann: http://www.freedom-usa.net/freeper_pics/protest/AnnCoulter.jpg
http://www.pokerface.com/DCgig/cigarman.JPG
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 15:55:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Next time you're traveling 301 near Waldorf, you gotta stop at THE place to get BAR-B-Q. It's on the left side going south about 10 or 12 miles south of Waldorf. Can't remember the name but it's something like Smitty's or Porky's or Johnny's. Really good ribs too. Picnic tables set up on the side of the highway to get the total southern Md. package - diesel, charcoal, and traffic - all surrounded by tobacco fields. Much better than dining on oxygen, bottled NAIVE, and watercress in some fru-fru facade in Cali.
the crynic
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 15:39:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, we passed through Waldorf too last week. It was my first time. There's a restraunt farther down Md. 5 (or was it Md. 235?) that had an old car on the roof. I wanted to stop there for lunch on the way back but was overruled by my own spawn in favor of Taco Bell. I figured any restraunt with a jalopy on the roof has to be good!
Glint
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 15:31:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Right. Pat Boone couldn't stand sloppy loose fitting shoes. He's 4-by with all other issues.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 15:28:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thanks Anonymous. / / / Hey Glint. According to that liberal cat box liner THE BALTIMORE SUN, LaPlata is really trashed. Last week I drove through Waldorf on Rt 301 and it was trashy too. Oops, I forgot, the toronado hadn't hit yet. I guess Waldorf was just being Waldorf. Twisters and earthquakes - oh my. My daughter's graduating from one of the bubble colleges down south this weekend.
the crynic
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 15:27:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Funny how all these scandals involve liquids. Watergate. Jizzergate.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 15:26:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think he was looking out for Pat Boone.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 15:07:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: What did Dean have against tight pussy anyway? How unamerican can you get?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 15:07:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Okay, so Blowjobgate was nothing and Watergate was a big deal. Who cares? The GOP had to strike. You never know if you're going to get another chance to even things out.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 14:48:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Interesting comparison between Watergate and Blowjobgate. Comparing a scandal with a scandal*.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 14:32:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dean was the real villain. Him and his whore of a wife. He also blew the whistle on Earl Butts, the great Secretary of Agriculture for telling that joke on the airplane to Dean and Pat Boone. The one about how the Negro male only wants a tight pussy, loose shoes and warm place to take a shit. No sense of humor.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 14:31:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, that's one similarity between the parts played by John Dean and Monica Lewinsky in their respective scandals.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 14:30:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: The worst thing about Dean is he brought down a great man with his loose lips. Shame!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 14:19:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, I guess that tornado really kicked some ass. Don't disasters come in threes? Now all we need is a tsunami.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 14:01:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, as if anybody still cares, who do you suppose that "Deep Throat" wil turn out to be when John Dean spills the beans in Slimeon (Salon) next month? Could it be his former prostitute Democrat wife? Dean reminds me of Brock. Desperate for the limelight of stage left.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 13:57:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: First the earthquake, then the twister. Way to survive, Glint! the crynic too, in case he was in Maryland and not his beloved tax haven.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 13:54:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Crynic, is that really you? I was surpised that La Plata twister was a cat 5. That's a Kansas class tornado. We had driven through there on US 301 two days before on the way to bucolic bubble campus down on the water.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 13:40:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I only hope he doesn't get an infected slice of negro tang up in Harlem. That just wouldn't be fair. I mean with his affinity to fair play and all.
the crynic
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 13:26:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Clinton = exploitation? I don't think so. He didn't inhale. He didn't sell pardons. He didn't have Vince Foster killed. He didn't have sex with Ms. Lewinsky. He didn't protest Vietnam. He didn't taint the office. He surely didn't lie under oath. The guy is a saint. Get with the program.
the crynic
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 13:22:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Many competing theories for the origin of the term "Jazz" exist. Some believe that it derives from the name of a musician, either a dancing slave named Jasper from New Orleans circa 1825, or a late-nineteenth century Vicksburg, Mississippi drummer named Charles "Chas" Washington, or a Chicago musician named Jasbo Brown. A contemporary usage dates from 1918 and means copulation, and is probably related to the slang term "jism." The combination of instruments (esp. the saxophone) and sex, undoubtedly combined to create the name for the style of music.
Clinton exploited the jazz ritual fo' sure <The term "blues" may have derived from the exposure of a dress to a jazz jam session during the term of one 20th century president. See "Clintonized" or "Clinton Legacy (1992-2000)">
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 13:16:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: (1) Starr persuades Judge Norma Holloway Johnson to deny government attorney-client privilege to presidential aide Bruce Lindsey (2) In a rare public speech, Independent Counsel Ken Starr draws parallels between his fight with the White House over executive privilege and a similar showdown during the Watergate scandal. Starr indirectly links Clinton's claim of executive privilege with the failed attempts of former President Richard Nixon to do the same during the Watergate investigation. Starr says in giving his talk, he is following in the footsteps of Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski, who gave a Law Day address in Texas in 1974 in the midst of Watergate. Although Starr says he would "do my best to steer clear of controversy," the last line of the prosecutor's speech, a quote from Jaworski, sounded like a warning to Clinton. "No one -- absolutely no one -- is above the law," Jaworski once wrote, referring to lessons learned from Watergate. Constrained by the secrecy of his grand jury proceedings, Starr couches his opposition to Clinton's claim in what he calls "general, historical, and perhaps -- not to alarm you -- professorial," language. Starr has been looking for ways to put out his message without running afoul of grand jury rules. "I can not, in conscience, talk about the unfolding work of the grand jury," Starr forewarns his audience of the San Antonio BarAssociation. Instead, he uses a history lesson, leading up to the landmark Supreme Court decision during the Watergate investigation, to make his case that the president, except in the most extreme cases, cannot keep information secret from the court. "As the Supreme Court said in United States vs. Nixon ... 'the public has a right to every man's evidence, except for those persons protected by a constitutional, statutory or common-law privilege,'" Starr says. Linking Clinton's claim of executive privilege with the disgraced Nixon, the Whitewater prosecutor says, "No 20th century president tried the privilege in court. Until President Nixon, in what came to be known as Watergate." (3) President Clinton gives his first solo news conference of the year, which is dominated by questions about Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's Whitewater and Lewinsky investigations. The President says his critics continue to attack him personally because they are unable to find fault with the results of his policies. Clinton will not give another solo press conference for another 322 days, until March 19, 1999.
On this date in 1998
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 12:58:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, but he did use the "porking" ritual many times.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 12:57:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did he ever use the "hair-on-my-coke-can" ritual?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 12:55:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: As for details, one ritual he used was to play the saxaphone while wearing dark glasses. That's an important ritual throughout the black subculture.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 12:54:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Still, he exploited no one so much as he exploited the blacks. And he used their own rituals to do it! That must really hurt.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 12:53:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: The worst thing for me was when he exploited that fat eye on the rape chick and then callously told her to "put ice on it." Now that's exploitation. Even sexploitation, maybe.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 12:52:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Go ahead, guy. Your heart hasn't been in it since you found out that Johnny Carson thinks Little George is up to his bandy-legged ass in Enron muck.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 12:13:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: I may be away for a while. Am involved rather heavily in my latest research effort.
Anonymous. <http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/BornHermaphrodite/>
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 11:52:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know, anonymous. She looks Jewish to me.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 11:43:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: He almost exploited Paula Jones, and she was white.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 11:42:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd like to point out that Clinton exploited white people too. Clinton was an equal-opportunity exploiter. Look at Vince Foster. He was white, and you can't get much more exploited than that dude ended up.
Oggie
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 11:42:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: How is it? I thought we were doing good.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 11:39:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's with all the careful tiptoeing around? Couching your words in political correctness and socially acceptable phrases, like negro. Stop playing oh so nice. Just come on out and say it like is.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 11:13:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shouting Amen is itself a black ritual. Clinton did it like a real "soul brother" and was able to exploit the blacks in doing so.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:52:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, Dyson was speaking to a negro audience and they, of course, understood just what he meant by "black rituals." Even if they didn't, the mere mention of such things is enough to get all the nappy heads nodding in agreement and shouting, "Amen!"
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:51:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: What was May 1 like before the commies co-opted it, L.G.? Must have been a real blast back then.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:47:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, one way Klintoon would exploit the Negro using the Negro's own rituals was, he'd come up to a black dude and say, "What it is, bro?" and do the secret Negro handshake where you grab the thumbs instead of the hand, and maybe some other hand-jive to embellish, Clinton had memorized them all, and could even improvise like the hippest hep cat. He would also "high-five" a Negro, worming his way into the Negro's trust, at which point he would exploit him. He also could speak Ebonics, having studied it in Moscow and Hot Springs, Arkansas, and he would use phrases like "mighty tasty" and "yo", which lulled the Negro into thinking of Clinton as "the black President" and permitted his exploitation. Now, Michael Eric Dyson didn't line any of this out, or try to describe it in detail the way I have, but that's not because he was bullshitting, it was because he figured it was so obvious that he didn't need to offer examples.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:46:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's L.G., traitor commie, not LM. But you're right. May 1 is anybody's day to do with as they please. I got married once on May 1. I co-opted the day much to my own detriment as it turned out. So, May 1 is an anniversary of sorts to me, not a joyous commie day of celebration.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:36:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bwack, b'gok, cluck cluck! The commies took our day! Bwa-aak!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:36:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it. How does a day get co-opted? OK, suppose the droll sap meant "taken over", how does a day get taken over? Seems to me it's still there for the rest of us, the first day of May, and we can do anything we want with it. For example, take December 25. It hasn't been taken over by the Bible thumpers-- I find it possible to do something useful on that day, fix the pump or scoop the crud out of the rain gutters. On Super Bowl Day, I go shopping with no crowds. Nobody takes a day away from the rest of us. L.M. is just looking for something to whine about in her coy way. Sounds like she picked up a permanent wedgie somewhere, maybe the playground.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:33:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: So droll, L.G. So very droll. You go, girl!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:17:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know, anonymous, since this perfectly lovely day on the calendar has long ago been co-opted by our commie friends and people who like to make a scene in the street, I have nothing else better to do today than to read the incredible posts from the edge here. I need somthing that will make my stomach and head ache well in to the day.
L.G.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:01:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nice to have the biting wit of L.G. again. Never could figure out the reason for her posts.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 09:54:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Found a survey that should make your day, Eleanor honey. It says mildly depressed, older women live longer and a University of Michigan shrink thinks he knows why. According to him humans may need "low mood" or mild depression to deal with failure and disappointment. "People who don't have it waste their whole lives trying to do things they won't ever do," he said. Wow, this is such good news it may cheer you up and you'll die sooner. Some days you just can't win.
L.G.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 09:48:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Buried in a Washington Post piece entitled "For Activists With Arafat, a Whiff of Relief" is a report of what it was like inside Arafat's Ramallah bunker "enduring what one member called 'a big, gigantic, stinky slumber party.'" during the recent siege. In it one finds this line, "The group persuaded Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat to smuggle in fresh women's underwear in his briefcase when he visited the compound." As there were no women in the compound don't you think just a bit more reporting would be nice? Or maybe not.
L.G.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 09:45:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: All jokes aside, glad to hear about the negative biopsy. Don't know about the cigs though....have a cigar.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 02:03:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: April Fool's Day was last month.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 01:50:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ashcroftism may have hit San Diego, where Drudge links show a high-school vice-principal was checking the girls' panties and not letting any into the dance wearing thongs. One more thing we can thank Clarence Thomas for.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 01:50:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: The rituals of black culture = jism?
Glimpse Dimly
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 01:42:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Or the tongue amputated.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 00:45:49 (EDT)

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