Liberal Repercussion: 02/15/2004

samedi, février 21, 2004

Gingrich's positive words for Republicans (try not to laugh or retch)

"Active, activist, building, candid(ly), care(ing), challenge, change, children, choice/choose, citizen, commitment, common sense, compete, confident, conflict, control, courage, crusade, debate dream, duty, eliminate good time in prison, empower(ment), fair, family, freedom, hard work, help, humane, inventive, initiative, lead, learn, legacy, liberty, light, listen, mobilize, moral, movement, opportunity, passionate, peace, pioneer, precious, premise, preserve, principle(d), pristine, pro-flag, pro-children, pro-environment, prosperity, protect, proud/pride, provide, reform, sights, share, strength, success, tough, truth, unique, vision, we/us/our, workfare"

Particularly entertaining was the inclusion of such words as "Eliminate good time in prison", "peace" and "pro-environment". No. They did not include "Audacity" in their "pro-Republican" word list. Anyway, Newt continues with his choice of words to describe the opposition.

Gingrich's negative words for Democrats

"Anti-flag, anti-family, anti-child, anti-jobs, betray, coercion, collapse, consequences, corruption, crises, decay, deeper, destroy, destructive, devour, endanger, failure, greed, hypocrisy, ideological, impose, incompetent, insecure, liberal, lie, limit(s), pathetic, permissive attitude, radical, self-serving, sensationalists, shallow, sick, they/them, threaten, traitors, unionized bureaucracy, urgent, waste"

So now we know what Gingrich was doing when he wasn't busy cheating on his sick wife or serving divorce papers to her in the hospital while she received cancer treatment so he could marry his bimbo. Busy! Busy! Busy!

Nevertheless, if a loser like Newt can issue a list of "power words" then so can we. It…is our duty.

Positive words for Democrats

American, Best-interest, Bipartisan, Caring, Children, Choice, Clean, Common sense, Confident, Correct, Courage, Decent, Democracy, Determination, Diversity, Environment, Equity, Fairness, Family, Fiscal responsibility, Forward looking, Freedom, Growth, Hard working, Health, Humane, Innovative, Justice, Liberty, Life, Majority, Middle-class, Moral, New ideas, Open government, Open-minded, Passionate, Peace, Pioneer, Populist, Progressive, Pro-growth, Promote, Prosperity, Protection, Proud, Reality, Responsibility, Security, Solution, Strength, Success, Tolerance, Truth, Unity, Vision, We/us/our, Win, Women, Working, Working-class

And…

Realistic Words for Republicans

Against, Al Qaeda, Anti-, Anti first amendment, Anti-choice, Anti-civil rights, Anti-environment, Aristocracy, Arrogant, Audacity, Authoritarian, Backward, Behind the times, Betray, Big brother, Bigotry, Bin laden, Chaos, Chickenhawk, Closed-minded, Corporate interests, Corporate malfeasance, Corruption, Cowardice, Crisis, Cronies, Danger, Dark ages, Death, Deficits, Denial, Despicable, Destructive, Destructive, Divisive, Doubt, Elitist, Embarrassment, Endanger, Enron, Extremist, Failed, Failure, Falling stocks, False, Fear, Fearful, Fear-monger, Greed, Hateful, Hurtful, Hypocrisy, Ideologues, Incompetent, Inhumane, Insecure, Insecure, Intolerant, Isolationist, Judgmental, Lies, Limousine, Lose, No ideas, Nuclear proliferation, Oil, Oppression, Orwellian, Outdated, Pain, Partisan, Poison, Prejudice, Propaganda, Racism, Radical, Recession, Right-wing, ,Secrecy, Selfish, Selfish, Self-serving, Shameless, Terrorists, They/then, Traitors, Unemployment, Unfair, Unilateralist, War, Warmonger, Weak, Wealthy, Zealots

Odds and ends of dark information. Not sure how accurate the conclusions are, as there are some fairly sensational charges on this page, even for me. Nonetheless, I have long been suspicious that Poppy helped engineer the JFK assassination, and was able to wield tremendous blackmail power as such. The facts of the assassination to the extent that they are known, are consistent with this theory.

http://www.beachnet.com/~hoffman/Bush.htmlhttp://www.beachnet.com/~hoffman/Bush.html

Daddy Bush would have another opportunity to display both his love of freedom and democracy and his “family values” when it was revealed in September of 1988 that seven members of his presidential campaign were fascist, pro-Nazi, anti-Semites. The seven, who later resigned or were fired, were part of the Republican Party’s Heritage Groups Council—a funding clique made up of extreme right-wing Eastern European émigrés. In 1976, Heritage Groups Council Director Colonel Jay Neimczyk wrote a memo to the RNC’s Co-Chairman Robert Carter praising Bush’s leadership of the ethnic recruitment effort, reportedly including a number of war criminals.[26] One of Bush’s allies, Yaroslav Stetsko, had collaborated with the Nazis as their puppet prime minister of Galicia in the western Ukraine. Captured Nazi records revealed that over 100,000 Jews were murdered within two years of Yaroslav’s reign.

As John Loftus and Mark Aarons write in: The Secret War Against The Jews:

“It was Bush who fulfilled [President Richard] Nixon’s promise to make the “ethnic” emigres a permanent part of Republican politics. Bush’s tenure as head of the Republican National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor’s 1972 drive to transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party’s official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush’s campaign allies were the émigré Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United States....
Nearly twenty years later, and after exposé’s in several respectable newspapers, Bush continued to recruit most of the same ethnic Fascists, including Pasztor, for his own 1988 ethnic outreach program when he first ran for President.”

Fugitive Nazi war criminal Otto von Bolschwing, U.S. head of the notorious Nazi Gehlan Org spy apparatus, was himself a Republican Party activist and reportedly a friend of Richard Nixon’s.

Another group of suspected Nazi war criminals, the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, participated in a 1983 White House meeting with George Bush and Ronald Reagan. One photo of the meeting was signed: “To the Honorable Yaroslav Stetsko, With Best Wishes, George Bush.” [27]

Reagan himself, formerly part of Allen Dulles’s Office of Policy Coordination, had been the front man back in the 1950s for the Crusade for Freedom, a money-laundering organization which was part of Dulles’s fascist “freedom fighters” program.[28]

President Reagan—perhaps demonstrating his own alignment with Nazis—visited the Bittburg Waffen SS cemetery to pay his respects during a controversial but well-publicized trip to Germany.

One of CIA Director Allen Dulles’s covert agents inside the Roosevelt and Truman administrations was Edwin Pauley, who would become the U.S. representative to the Allied Reparations Committee and the industrial advisor to the Potsdam Conference. Pauley later became George Bush’s partner in the Mexican government’s oil monopoly Pemex. The CIA used Pemex as a cover and as a money laundering operation for Pauley’s campaign contributions. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:

“Pauley, say several of our sources, was the man who invented an intelligence money-laundering system in Mexico, which was later refined in the 1970s as part of Nixon’s Watergate scandal.”

As for Watergate, burglar Frank Sturgis told the San Francisco Chronicle that “the reason we burglarized the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news leaking relating to the photos of our role in the assassination of President John Kennedy.”[29]

Former CIA operative Trenton Parker, who was part of a special unit named “Pegasus,” states that Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George Bush all knew of the intended assassination plot.[30]

Bush reportedly coordinated Frank Sturgis, as well as Watergate team members Rafael “Chi Chi” Quintero, E. Howard Hunt, and Bernard Barker for the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion—using Pemex and Bush’s Zapata Oil as a staging point (the operation was codenamed OPERATION ZAPATA). Nixon, as Vice President, had supervised Allen Dulles’s planning of the invasion.

Quintero worked under CIA coordinator William F. Buckley, Jr. in an assassination unit Buckley supervised under the cover of Pemex. Bush had a keen financial interest in turning Cuba back into a playground for ultra-capitalist interests, as Bush’s Zapata Oil was one of the key suppliers to Cuba under Batista.

As Richard Nixon told John Ehrilchman shortly after his election: “Eliminate everyone except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause.” Nixon and Bush had openly discussed killing Kennedy for his failure to provide air cover at the Bay of Pigs.[31*]

Nixon’s relationship to the Bush family goes back to 1946, when Nixon answered an ad placed by the Orange County Republican Party in a Los Angeles newspaper. Key funding for the ad was provided by Prescott Bush, who was looking for a puppet to run for Congress. Nixon got the job, landing a seat in the Senate and then progressing to the Vice-Presidency. In 1960 George Bush became a protégé of Nixon’s, who was then running for President.

Bush described Nixon as his mentor.

However Bush denies his connections with the CIA. Yet a November 29, 1963 memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the State Department’s Director of Intelligence and Research uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act describes a briefing given to “George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.” The memo was written after Lee Harvey Oswald was interrogated about his connections to the Cuban exile community and the CIA.[32]
For his part, Bush claims he never worked for the Agency until he was appointed Director in 1975, and CIA spokesman Bill Devine would “neither confirm nor deny” Bush’s role to reporter Joseph McBride of The Nation. Yet when the memo was published, the CIA did an about-face when Agency spokeswoman Sharon Basso told Associated Press that the memo actually referred to a George William Bush, who was a CIA night watchman at the time (hardly a man who would be given such a briefing!). When located and contacted by McBride and Nation editor Victor Navasky, William Bush confirmed that he was definitely not the Bush referred to in the memo. He had simply worked for the CIA for about six months as a coast and landing beach analyst—not a night watchmen—at the time, with a rank of GS-5. In response to questions about the Hoover memo, he replied, “Is that the other George Bush?”[33]

Yet Bush had maintained a personal relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald’s alleged handler, CIA “asset” George DeMohrenschildt, who carried Bush’s name and telephone in his address book until his supposed suicide. DeMohrenschildt gave only the vaguest explanations for his frequent trips to Bush’s home town of Houston in his testimony before the Warren Comission.[34*]

Now deceased Army Colonel, CIA operative and NYPD detective “Big Al” Carone stated that “George Bush was CIA prior to the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963.” Carone told his subordinate William Tyree that he “had taken money to a female named Ruth Paine in late 1956 on orders from William Casey (OSS/CIA operative who was CIA Director from 1981 to 1987).”

According to a lawsuit filed by Tyree, “Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background...

“Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Mohrenschildt, who in turn contacted his CIA supervisor, identified as George Bush. Carone said that George Bush was the same George Bush that was CIA Director. Carone said the individual located by Ruth Paine was identified as a Mr Lee Harvey Oswald.

“FBI records/reports within 14 days after the assassination of President Kennedy will reflect that Mr George Bush met with J. Edgar Hoover, as Bush was trying to ascertain what the FBI might have stumbled onto by mistake in regards to the Ruth Paine - Oswald connection.”[35*]

When appointed CIA Director in 1975 by President Gerald Ford (a former member of the Warren Commission), Bush conveniently headed off inquiries by Senator Frank Church into the CIA’s various assassination plots which DCI William Colby had been cooperating with. Colby would later wind up dead under suspicious circumstances. (See Chapter XX)

In fact, Bush had been a top agent of the CIA since at least 1960, when he recruited Cubans for the Bay of Pigs invasion. Given the Bush family’s oil interests in the region, this is hardly surprising. As Anthony Kimery writes in Covert Action Quarterly:

“Veteran CIA operatives in the war against Castro say Bush not only let the CIA use Zapata as a front for running some of its operations (including the use of several off-shore drilling platforms), but assert that Bush personally served as a conduit through which the Agency disbursed money for contracted services.”[36]

It was at that time that Bush met Felix Rodriguez, part of a CIA shooter team coordinated out of a training base in Mexico supervised by the FBI’s Division Five (domestic counter-intelligence).[*] Rodriguez would later become Bush’s main liaison to Oliver North’s Contra drugs-for-guns pipeline when Bush served as Vice President.

http://www.beachnet.com/~hoffman/Bush.html

Like father, like son, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives testified under oath that he was contacted by Houston businessman “Sid Adger and asked to recommend George W. Bush, Jr. for a pilot position with the Air National Guard,” and that he called General James Rose and “did so.”[20]

Yet Bush, Jr. our current Commander-in-Chief, reportedly never even bothered showing up for drills. General William Turnipseed and his aide Kenneth Lott both flatly deny that Bush ever appeared for duty—a violation of the Texas Code of Military Justice (a State Statute and a version of the U.S. Code of Military Justice)—a court martial offense.[21]

Neither did our chief flag-waver appear for his training at the 187th Tactical Recon Group at Dannelly ANG Base in Alabama.[22]

Bill Burkett, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Guard, said, “As the State Plans Officer for the Texas National Guard, I was on full-time duty at Camp Mabry when [Bush aide] Dan Bartlett was cleansing the George W. Bush file prior to G.W.’s presidential announcement.... The archives were closely scrutinized to make sure that the Bush autobiography plans and the record did not directly contradict each other.”[23]

Government documents do note, however, that Jr.’s flying privlidges were suspended for failure to take his annual medical exam, even though he stated that he was perfectly healthy. Michael Dannenhauer, former Chief of Staff to the elder Bush, states that Jr.’s cocaine and alcohol habit was “out of control” and that he experienced “lost weekends in Mexico” during that time.[24] This is not surprising, considering that Jr. would offer free beer to college students to garner their votes during his 1987 congressional race.[25]

When it was time to leave the National Guard, the prodigal son and future President received an honorable discharge.

http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/videos/index.html

This is a sad and yet unexplored subject. The fall of those towers DID look like a controlled demolition. That is undeniable. Couple that with President Hungry Caterpillar's seeming inability to get off his ass and scramble a couple of jets. I dunno...

An oldie but a goodie. And more than likely true, knowing the propensity of the Republicans to projection.

http://www.ebcaw.org/ftw/free/ciadrugs/W_plane.html

Why Does George W. Bush Fly in Drug Smuggler Barry Seal's Airplane?

by
Daniel Hopsicker and Michael C. Ruppert

It has all the makings of a major box office thriller: Texas Governor and Republican Presidential contender George W. Bush and his brother Jeb, allegedly caught on videotape in 1985 picking up kilos of cocaine at a Florida airport in a DEA sting set up by Barry Seal…

October 7, 1994, Clinton Speech on His Administration's Progress.

CLINTON: Yes, Sarah?

SARAH McCLENDON, McClendon News: Sir, the Republicans are trying to blame you for the existence of a small airbase at Mena, Ark. This base was set up by George Bush and Oliver North and the CIA to help the Iran-Contras, and they brought in planeload after planeload of cocaine there for sale in the United States, and then they took the money and bought weapons and took them back to the Contras, all of which was illegal, as you know, under the Boland Act. But tell me, did they tell you that this had to be in existence because of national security?

Pres. CLINTON: Well, let me answer the question. No, they didn't tell me anything about it. They didn't say anything to me about it. The airport in question, and all the events in question, were the subject of state and federal inquiries. It was primarily a matter for federal jurisdiction. The state really had next to nothing to do with it.

The local prosecutor did conduct an investigation based on what was within the jurisdiction of state law. The rest of it was under the jurisdiction of the United States attorneys who were appointed successively by previous administrations. We had nothing - zero - to do with it, and everybody who's ever looked into it knows that.

HEADLINE: THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, DC REGULAR BRIEFING September 23, 1996, Monday

BODY:

MR. MCCURRY: Anything else? Any other subjects?

Q Yes.

MR. MCCURRY: Yes, ma'am?

Q You know, all this talk that we're getting every five minutes about the Republicans saying that Clinton hasn't done enough against -- to curb narcotics, why doesn't he answer that? Why doesn't he come out and say: The last two or three days around here there's been documented evidence that it was George Bush and Oliver North and the CIA that was bringing in the narcotics, and they're still doing it. The CIA is still bringing in the narcotics through Mena, Arkansas. Now why the devil doesn't -- excuse me for saying that -- but why in the world doesn't Clinton come out and say the Republicans are the ones who have bringing in narcotics?

MR. MCCURRY: Well, the president is on the --

Q Can you ask the president, for me, that question?

MR. MCCURRY: The first part of that question, the president is satisfied, as Director Deutch has indicated, that they are conducting an independent review of those allegations at the CIA and that is underway, as has been announced. Secondly, the president is --

Q I didn't quite understand what you said just then.

MR. MCCURRY: What I just said just then is, as Director of Central Intelligence, John Deutch has said, and assured members of Congress, an independent inspector general at the CIA is looking into some of the allegations that you just referenced. On the first --

Q They're looking into allegations?

MR. MCCURRY: They're --

Q Is that what you said, that they are looking into the allegations?

MR. MCCURRY: They're conducting an independent inspector general's review of the matter. On the first part of the question, the president is happy to talk about his record during the time he has been president and, frankly, his commitment going back all the years he's been in public service to combat drug trafficking and drug use.

Q Well, then --

MR. MCCURRY: This president has requested more funding from the Congress for anti-drug efforts than his predecessors did. He has put together a drug strategy now with the leadership of a four-star general. He supported the death penalty for drug kingpins, and he's worked vigorously to combat drug use and spoken to the issue publicly.

Q But why doesn't he just come out --

MR. MCCURRY: Helen?

Q -- and tell the Republicans: After all, you have been bringing them in for years.

MR. MCCURRY: Well, I believe that's what we are in the process of doing. I think we are attempting, as effectively as you can during a political season in which many misbegotten charges get made, to rebut some of that information. Helen?

Q Ambassador Deutch said that he's been waiting on some allegations --

Q [Helen Thomas?] Come on, Sarah, put a sock in it.

Q -- and his inspector general to find out something. (Laughter.) And all he has to do it turn around in his office and find it.

MR. MCCURRY: Well, we've -- that's exactly what he's doing. Helen?

This is a very important article; be sure to read it in full. These bastards have to be stopped. It is subversion of democracy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/21/opinion/21SAT1.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

ELECTIONS WITH NO MEANING

A major reason legislative elections are becoming a charade is that the parties that control the redistricting process now routinely follow the dictum of "pack, crack and pair." They pack voters from the other party into a single district and crack centers of opposition strength, dispersing opponents to districts where they will be in the minority. They redraw lines so two incumbents from the other party will wind up in one district, fighting for a single seat. Using powerful computers, line-drawers can now determine, with nearly scientific precision, how many loyal party voters need to be stuffed into any given district to make it impregnable.

This sort of hyperpartisan line-drawing was evident in Texas last year, when Republicans pushed through a plan that, by aggressively packing and cracking Democratic voters, could unseat as many as 8 of the state's 17 Democratic members of Congress. Now a local prosecutor is investigating charges that a political action committee run by Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, may have illegally used corporate contributions to help Republicans take control of the State House of Representatives — control that the party needed to have a free hand in redrawing new Congressional districts. The investigation is revealing just how much planning Mr. DeLay and the national party put into their Texas strategy, which seems to have involved every political player in the state except the voters.

http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=38283&Disp=2#C2

Wowso, the legend of Weezil lives on.

Lifted from my favorite political forum:

Letterman Rips Bush

Hope they post the video, can't find it so far. Below is the outline.

I can't tell what most of them are from this, maybe it will jog your memory and you can tell us. They could have used thousands of clips for the "Confused Stare". Was it the one from the Russert interview? I believe I have 'cleaning glasses' saved somewhere. That was when Bush was on Letterman sitting in the chair during a commercial. A lady comes up that works on the set, Bush wipes his glasses on the ladies clothing when she wasn't looking. It was really telling, like "Hey, you are no more than a wash rag for me, all people are to serve ME!!"

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/

TOP TEN: Our Top Ten Favorite George W. Bush Moments.
#10. The Trip
#9. Not knowing his left from his right
#8. The Butt Slap
#7. Drinking
#6. Cleaning Glasses
#5. Confused stare
#4. Visit to Africa
#3. The Head Bump
#2. The Dog Drop
#1. Looking Presidential (the spit)
______

here's one from a couple days ago....

Top Ten Signs Bush Is Considering Dumping Cheney

10. Cheney's desk has been replaced by President's new air hockey table.

9. There's a listing on Monster Dot Com for a Vice-Presidential position in a "Large North American Government."

8. Cheney's so depressed he's only eating 12 KFC drumsticks a day.

7. There is a "For Rent" sign on the front lawn of the undisclosed location.

6. When Cheney says, "We're gonna win in November," Bush snarls, "What's this 'We' crap?"

5. White House interns are no longer required to know CPR.

4. The CIA says they have reliable information Cheney won't be dumped.

3. Bush asked Trump if he could come to Washington and fire Cheney.

2. Yesterday a tearful Cheney sang "I Will Survive" on the White House lawn.

1. Bush called Daddy looking for Quayle's number

vendredi, février 20, 2004

http://www.counterpunch.com/brauchli02192004.html

the cute things Haliburton has done. And that doesn't even include its cute trick of overcharging for gasoline delivered to Iraq by approximately $61 billion.

Consider the $27.4 million in overcharges for meals served to American troops at five military bases which, according to Haliburton were simply overcharges and not evidence of wrongdoing. $16 million of the overcharges occurred at one base according to the Wall Street Journal that first disclosed the problem. The fault lies not, we are assured, with Haliburton's subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root. Although it handled the food service contract it subcontracted to a Saudi subcontractor and it was the subcontractor that billed for roughly three times more meals than it actually served. That is not KBR's fault although one might think that a January 8 memorandum from KBR instructing the Saudi subcontractor to charge for "the projected number of meals or the actual head count-whichever is greater" might conceivably have been partly responsible for the problem. Not to worry. According to a Haliburton spokesperson, "KBR is working with the government to improve the counting method" and on February 2 the Pentagon said Haliburton would repay the government for overcharges estimated to be $27.4 million. Had the error not been discovered by the government, KBR would have pocketed the overcharges and sung a happy tune all the way to the bank. Haliburton's cuddly arrangement with money is not limited to food and fuel.

In January it was reported that two employees of KBR had taken kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor providing services to troops in Kuwait, kickbacks that result in repayment to the government of $6.3 million. On January 23, 2004, it was reported by the Guardian in Great Britain that a French judge has warned that Dick Cheney could be charged over allegations that on his watch, Haliburton paid $180 million in bribes to get permission to build a Nigerian gas plant. According to a confidential memo disclosed by the French daily Le Figaro, Judge Renaud van Ruymbeke let the Justice Ministry know that embezzlement charges could ultimately be filed against Cheney. Nigerian prosecutors are pursuing a similar investigation. The investigations arise out of a contract won by KBR to build a Liquefied Natural Gas plant in the mid-1990s that cost more than $4 billion. The Justice Department has ordered Haliburton to provide documents relating to the alleged bribe. Mr. Cheney was head of Haliburton for five of the seven years during which the bribes were allegedly paid. Mr. Cheney's spokespersons have refused to comment on the case.

GO HELEN THOMAS!!
(when are other correspondents gonna grow some nads?)

MR. McCLELLAN: I'll come to you in a minute. Go ahead, Helen.

Q I want to revisit a question I asked you last week and you didn't have the answer -- you may have it now. Did the President ever do community service while he was in the National Guard?

MR. McCLELLAN: Helen, you had said that this was relating to a rumor that you heard, and I think there's a difference between rumor-mongering and journalism. And so I'm just not going to dignify those kind of rumors from this podium. I think the records have been released and you have -- all the information is available to you publicly.

Q So you don't really know?

MR. McCLELLAN: No, I said this was relating to some trashy rumors that are circulating out there, and I'm just not going to dignify them from this podium.

Q It's a very simple question.

MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead, John.

jeudi, février 19, 2004

Along with many others, I received this gracious email from Howard Dean. I post it because I respect him and I am very interested in his plans for going forward to energize the Democrat party. I think if I were president, I would think about tapping him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security, or perhaps more obviously, Surgeon General. However, I think Dean's administrative genius would be wasted as Surgeon General.

Dear C.,

I am very proud of all of you and very grateful to all of you for your extraordinary hard work.

I announced today that I am no longer actively pursuing the presidency.

I am so thankful for all of you who traveled around the country, showed up at our office, worked around the clock, because you believed in what we were doing - to you, thousands of Americans who have given generously of your time, in your states, because you believed in our cause.

I want to thank the 300,000 small donors that decided that they wanted their country back.

I want to thank all the people in every state who heard our message and supported us.

We have led this party back to considering what its heart and soul is. Although there is a lot of work left to do, I am very proud of all of you and very grateful to all of you for your extraordinary hard work.

As the fight moves forward, I have some things that I specifically want to ask of you.

First, keep active in the primary. We are still on the ballots. Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses. Use your network to send progressive delegates to the convention in Boston. We are not going away. We are staying together, unified -- all of us.

Secondly, we will convert Dean for America into a new grassroots organization, and I hope you stay involved. We are determined to keep this entire organization vibrant. There are a lot of ways to make change. We are leaving one track, but we are going on another track that will take back America for ordinary people again.

Third, there have been a lot of people who have decided to run for office locally as a result of this campaign. I encourage you to run for office and support candidates like you who run for office. We will use this enormous organization to support you as you run -- we will change the face of democracy so that it represents ordinary Americans once again.

We must beat George W. Bush in November. I will support the nominee of our party and do everything I can to beat George W. Bush and I urge you to do the same. But we will not be above letting our nominee know that we expect them to adhere to the standards that this organization has set for decency, honesty, integrity and standing up for ordinary American working people.

One of the things that I realized a long time ago is that change is very difficult. There is enormous institutional resistance to change in this country. You cannot expect people with great privileges taken at the expense of ordinary working people to surrender them lightly.

Change is hard work. Change does not happen simply because you go to a rally and simply because you make phone calls -- and I know how hard everybody has worked. But change is a process that you can never give up on.

Change is the state of America and change is the state of humankind. The history of humanity is that determined people overcome obstacles. It is natural for people to resist, but it is also inevitable that we will win.

So we will continue to fight. This is the end of phase one of this fight, but the fight will go on, and we will be in it together. We will continue to bring our message of hope and change to the American people.

Thank you very much for everything that you have done.

Governor Howard Dean, M.D.

mercredi, février 18, 2004

http://elemming2.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Rumors Flying All Over The Internet

That our Texas Gov. Perry involved In Divorce and Gay Sex Scandal.

Gary Denton Permalink on 2/18/2004

http://www.pineapple-girl.com/melee/0402.php

February 18, 2004
10:46 am CST

I hope y'all are staying tuned! It's coming, and for real. All hell is about to break loose in Texas. Here's what BuzzFlash has to say. And be sure to check out the Burnt Orange Report. They can say far more than I can. As I expected, the political insider sites started discussing it "hypothetically" at first -- I bet we see something in the Austin Chronicle (our alternative weekly) soon. I've heard that the Houston Chronicle and Austin American-Statesman (dailies) are waiting for the smoking gun.

I've heard that he's stepping down, I've heard that he's already got a gig lined up in DC, I've heard that everyone over at his house is pretending like not a single thing out of the ordinary is going on. The rumormongering is mad; this is all the whole town is talking about, albeit in whispers.

Last night at pub quiz, our team neam was "Queer Eye for the Republican Bi." Swear. (credit where it's due: Mary came up with that. She's punny.)

February 16, 2004
1:37 am CST

Now, here's all you need to know for your Monday morning:

Something big is going on here in Austin. There is an enormous scandal about to break, the likes of which Texas hasn't seen since Drew Nixon. Only, far far bigger. And I can't even allude to It, because I'm not going to get my ass in a sling.

But, I heard It from an insider on Thursday morning, and everything else that I heard all weekend is backing It up. No one is talking about It, but everyone's "not talking about" the exact same rumor. So, keep your eyes peeled -- my guess is that the Statesman will have It first. (Well, the political papers will have It first, but those are subscription-only)

And I am just wringing my hands with glee. Absolute glee. I'd heard tell for years about this, but It was far too outrageous to be true. Let's just wait and watch...

http://www.gossiplist.com/blog/

Monday, February 16, 2004
There are rumors about the Republican governnor of TX, Rick Perry. His wife is supposedly leaving him soon because of his extramarital excursions of the male variety. There's also interesting stories like this abounding:

I crossed paths with a college student at UT who SWORE to me that the governor flirted with him and in a very roundabout way (meaning, if ever confronted, he could say he meant something else), extended an inviation to him to hook up. The governor acted like they knew each other, but the guy said they had never met before.

At the time, I thought it was just the over active imagination or outright lie of a young kid. Perhaps not...

http://www.burntorangereport.com/archives/001067.html

February 15, 2004
Daily Dose of Dirty Laundry

As Byron noted, some strange stories are coming from the Governor's Mansion.

Carl Whitmarsh's morning roundup suggests that Secretary of State Geoff Connor might be involved.

At the moment (under fear of libel, I suppose), it's probably best to say that the rumors have not been verified, and could range anywhere between scurrilous and damning.

Weird, man, weird.

http://www.burntorangereport.com/archives/001052.html

February 13, 2004
Rumors Circulating About Gov. Perry

I've been hearing some interesting things from multiple sources about the marital relations of Gov. Rick Perry in the past day or two. If anyone knows what I'm talking about and has information about the rumors, drop me a line: lamasters@mail.utexas.edu.

If the rumors are true, this will be quite explosive.

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/02/ana04003.html

Rumors

A BUZZFLASH RUMOR ANALYSIS

As any BuzzFlash reader knows, we may be irreverent, but we avoid posting rumors. There's enough immorality, hypocrisy, adultery, war profiteering, lawbreaking, graft, lying, bribery and other nefarious Republican activity to cover that we don't need to troll the gutter for RUMORS.

However, for the first time since we have been online since May of 2000, we have received reports from numerous CREDIBLE sources that a "role model" GOP Governor who touts the sanctity of marriage is about to be served with divorce papers.

Furthermore, this particular governor, should the rumor prove to be true is allegedly being divorced for sexual hijinks that would make the GOP appear to be hypocrites extraordinaire (as if there were any doubt) on both the monogamous marriage issue (i.e., adultery) and the issue of homosexuality.

One more thing, again if this rumor proves true, let us just say it will be a major embarrassment to George W. Bush, Mr. Hypocrisy himself. That is not because Bush has anything whatever to do with the alleged incident and alleged pending divorce suit (and we mean that). It is for reasons that will quickly become apparent should this rumor move to the divorce filing stage.

The rumor further has it that the alleged governor is working furiously to convince his spouse not to file divorce papers in return for who knows what.

But in hearing this rumor, which again -- and we're being honest here -- does not in any way directly involve George W. Bush, we are, however, reminded of his strange exchange that Bush had with the aide of the Canadian Prime Minister ("Bush Tells Canadian Prime Minister's Scott that He has a Prettier Face Than Bush's Scott: We Are Not Making This Up!"):

The President chuckled. "Well, you got a pretty face," he told the surprised Mr. Reid. He wasn't done. "You got a pretty face," he said again. "You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway."
[LINK]

That gives the flavor of the rumor involving this governor and what would be hypocrisy of the most extreme sort, were it to be revealed as true.

But for the moment, all we can say is that this story is: 1) developing; 2) being covered up; or 3) not true.

But because rumors are just that -- rumors -- we aren't printing any names. Unlike the slimesters on the other side, we don't want to peddle in personal slander.

A BUZZFLASH RUMOR ANALYSIS

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mardi, février 17, 2004

I have some additional information regarding the Permanent School Fund. I need to finish earning my minimum wage, then I'll get it up here.

Short story: Typical of peabrain Republicans, they invested the funds in TRUST as though they were available for speculative ventures. This flies in the face of fiduciary trust. So they peed away about 1/3 of the corpus of the Permanent School Fund in spectacular losses in the stock market. They invested aggressively and riskily, rather than "conservatively" (love the way the nutjobs coopted that term).

These are the same bunch of assclowns that tell you that you can make more money if you invest your Social Security trust yourself. Tell you what, if you are even remotely tempted, get a book and review the different duties owend by a fiduciary to a trust and those of a speculator with investment capital to burn. Then think about how money for students and learning institutions ought to be treated.

Scandal: Perry Misled Texans About Job Creation

Lifted from the YellowDogBlog - a Governor Goodhair update

From the Houston Chronicle:

Gov. Rick Perry says he has reeled in more than 10,000 jobs since 2003 by luring big business and big events to Texas.

The most-talked-about catch is the Toyota plant being built in San Antonio. Perry parlayed that success into a $295 million appropriation from the Legislature for his office to put together incentive packages to land even bigger corporate prizes.

But a close examination of Perry's claims of creating jobs in Texas raises questions about some of the numbers.

Of the 1,221 Houston-area positions on a list of projects bringing jobs to Texas issued by the governor's office, some are not new. And some jobs may never even materialize.

This is big news- the nearly $300 million "slush fund" used by Perry to court businesses (and potential campaign donors) in controversial ways was decried at the time of its creation by Democrats, Independents and honest Republicans all over the state. The fund was paid for while important education initiatives, such as the Texas Tomorrow Fund, started to sink and now it appears that it was obtained dishonestly. One pretty glaring example:

The governor's office claims the "Lucy Exhibit" will create 46 jobs in Houston, such as hiring an exhibit manager, curator and extra ticket sellers. It will also generate an economic impact of $7 million as tourists rush to see the early hominid.

But that's all news to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, which is supposed to be hosting the exhibit.

"We don't have signed contracts yet," said a surprised Lydia Baehr, director of public relations for the museum.

In fact, the museum is still negotiating the deal.

As for the 46 new jobs or $7 million economic impact? Baehr said she has no idea where the governor's office got those figures. She said they have no idea how many jobs might be created -- if the deal can be successfully consummated.

So the Governor claimed that an exhibit was coming to town, that it would generate $7 million and create 46 new jobs. In fact, the exhibit might very well not come to town and the museum has no idea how many people it will hire, if any, to help. Saying one thing when something else is true is called a lie where I come from and it appears that that is probably what Perry is doing. Another example:

Quest Diagnostics is another company on the governor's list -- 500 jobs created.

But the company says the 500 jobs aren't new. The firm -- which tests blood, urine and other bodily specimens for doctors, hospitals and employers -- had three offices in Houston and consolidated its operations into one center.

"Net job gain? There is none," said Quest spokesman Gary Samuels. The new facility gives the company room to work more efficiently.

Again, the spokesman says no new jobs, Perry says 500 new jobs. That's called lying. The story goes on and I'd encourage all our readers to read it. The fact that this man can stand up to the Legislature, lie to them, get $300 million from them when they could have used that money to keep kids from losing their health care or their college education and then use that money in a disgusting, essentially corrupt way is despicable. We must get rid of the GOP nonsense today.

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LAte Night Bush Jokes

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman

"In his annual economic report to Congress President Bush said that the transfer of American jobs overseas is actually part of a positive transformation that will enrich the U.S. economy over time. So basically, losing your job to someone else can be a good thing. Of course we'll see how he feels about that in November." —Jay Leno

"In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy." —Craig Kilborn

"The White House has finally found one guy that kinda remembers serving with President Bush in the National Guard. Now they just need to find someone who remembers Bush working on an economic plan. ... I think the White House spent more money looking for this guy than finding weapons of mass destruction." —Jay Leno

"The White House has now released military documents that they say prove George Bush met his requirements for the National Guard. Big deal, we've got documents that prove Al Gore won the election." —Jay Leno

"There was an embarrassing moment in the White House earlier today. They were looking around while searching for George Bush's military records. They actually found some old Al Gore ballots." —David Letterman

"There's this huge controversy over the fact that President Bush apparently received credit for National Guard service in Alabama in '72 and '73 even though his commanding officers are saying he never reported. I think what's even more disturbing is that he received enough credits to graduate from Yale." —Jay Leno

"Bush did have an explanation, he said he did go to Alabama but when he didn't find weapons of mass destruction, he went back to Texas." —Jay Leno

"As John Kerry sails toward the Democratic nomination, new questions are emerging about President Bush's service in the National Guard, like where he was for six months in 1972 and why he refused to take a routine physical. President Bush has vowed to get to the bottom of this right after Election Day." —Craig Kilborn

"President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He's going to disappear and go fishing. So he must think he's back in the National Guard." —Jay Leno

"Critics are now saying that his dad got him out of going to Vietnam. However, his dad did get him to go to Iraq." —Jay Leno

"Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent." —Craig Kilborn

"President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one." —Craig Kilborn

"The big story now is that President Bush is coming under attack for his service in the National Guard. The White House said, 'no no,' that they have payroll records to show that he served in the National Guard. But today, the commanding officers can't remember seeing Bush between May and October of '72. President Bush said, 'Remember me? I'm the drunk guy. Remember me?'" —Jay Leno

"President Bush is in the hot seat over Iraqi pre-war intelligence. Remember the good ol' days when the only thing the president was trying to cover up was a stain?" —Craig Kilborn

"On 'Meet the Press' yesterday President Bush was asked what he would do if he lost the election and Bush said, ''Phhh, you mean like last time?'" —Jay Leno

"They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard." —Bill Maher

"Bush the younger has two things going for him that his father never had. One: an easy charm with regular people and two: the power to make them disappear without a trial." —Bill Maher

"New Rule: If everybody was wrong about the weapons of mass destruction, then somebody has to say, 'My bad.' ... For some reason, the two words this president just can't seem to say are 'sorry' and 'nuclear.' Something is terribly wrong when the only person who has been fired over terrorism is me." —Bill Maher

"Bush said the unemployment situation is turning around. Last week alone, 5,000 people started working for John Kerry." —Craig Kilborn

"If there was one lesson to be drawn from Bush's appearance (on 'Meet the Press') it's that he doesn't have to be forthcoming or honest. And he's the first to tell you why. (Bush:) 'I'm a war president.' He added: 'I guess I should have told you that back in 2000.'" —Jon Stewart

"One critic in the L.A. Times said John Kerry looks like he is thinking too much. Well this is one place President Bush has him beat." —Jay Leno

"This week, both John Kerry and Wesley Clark are making campaign appearance with the guys who saved their lives in Vietnam. Meanwhile, President Bush is campaigning with a guy that once took a math test for him." —Conan O'Brien

"President Bush released his new $2.4 trillion federal budget. It has two parts: smoke and mirrors." —Jay Leno

"President Bush's approval rating is now down under 50 percent. So now what he's going to have to do is let Saddam go so we can capture him again." —David Letterman

"This Iraqi intelligence scandal is growing. Americans are asking, 'What did President Bush not know?' and 'When did he mispronounce it?'" —Craig Kilborn

"Bush admitted that his pre-war intelligence wasn't what it should have been. We knew that when we elected him!" —Jay Leno

"It's weird watching President Bush struggle with excuses for why we went to war. As he struggles, it reminds us all what a terrific liar Bill Clinton really was." —Craig Kilborn

"Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'" —Jay Leno

"A Newsweek poll said if the election were held today, John Kerry would beat Bush 49 percent to 46 percent. And today, President Bush called Newsweek magazine a threat to world peace." —Jay Leno

"As you know President Bush gave his State of the Union Address, interrupted 70 times by applause and 45 times by really big words." —Jay Leno

"President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day." —Jay Leno

"President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the skills they're going to need are Spanish, Chinese, Korean, because that's where the jobs went. Who better than Bush as an example of what can happen when you take a job without any training." —Jay Leno

"President Bush gave his State of the Union speech. I think he is getting a little cocky. Instead of playing Hail to the Chief, he was lowered to the podium to 'We are the Champions.'" —Craig Kilborn

"President Bush announced a major new plan for the United States to put a man on the moon, which would be a really big story if this were 1962. Bush said he didn't remember anything about the 60's — I guess he wasn't lying." —Jay Leno

"President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth." —Jon Stewart

"President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan — to drill where no man has drilled before." —Craig Kilborn

"President Bush wants to build a space station on the moon. And from the moon, he wants to launch people to Mars. You know what this means. He's been drinking again." —David Letterman

"Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has written a book about his years with the Bush Administration. He said that President Bush while at cabinet meetings is disengaged, he's uninformed, distracted, he's passive, and the Democrats are saying to themselves — how can we possibly beat this guy?" —David Letterman

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman

lundi, février 16, 2004

I found this out on the web. Brilliant discussion of the NUANCES of the body of Vibrator Law in Texas..

Yes, in Texas, vibrators are illegal. We wouldn't want people gettin' carried away, you know. So our esteemed Legislature banned not just vibrators...

...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. [...]

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. [...]

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.

Let's see...guns kill people, vibrators don't (or maybe most of us just aren't using them right). But the former are okay and the latter are not. Confused? Well, get this:

Apparently a vibrator [...] can be sold in the state of Texas if it has a face or an animal on it.

And there's no law against bondage gear, anal plugs, nipple clamps or cock rings. Just the non-animal-shaped, genital-stimulating stuff without a face is off-limits.

Absurd. Preposterous. But now I understand why all those Republican women are so uptight. ;)

The preclearance received on Friday by Texas Secretary of State Geoffrey Connor is the first ocassion in Hebert's memory that the Voting Division Chief did not sign the letter. Hebert says this is a dramatic departure from standard practice and suggests a profound disagreement between political appointees and career staff.

Texas Rep. Paul Moreno, on Attorney General Greg Abbott's efforts to exempt state governments from the requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act:

"Where is your soul?"

got an email from a buddy of mine that went missing over the weekend

"Greetings from Camp Gitmo"

As y'all might have heard, Ashcroft's minions hauled me off for a compulsory rehab session at Amerikkka 6.0's newest favorite resort at fabulous Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. I should have never fucking opened that door. I thought it was Publisher's Clearing House.

Apparently, there are some issues with my personification of the pResident of the Untied States as a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit. Fucking hypersensitive pricks. They should catch me in a BAD mood sometime.

So, upon arrival, I was blindfolded, tied up with nylon straps, and shaved clean. It was a lot like that fancy drug-rehab joint up in Connecticut where I first met the Shrub. I think that might be where he got the "Chimpy" nickname from... he was hooting like a wild gibbon when they brought him in.

Then they put me in a chain link pen with a roof on it, with about 700 other confused guys. It's called "Camp Delta." Do you believe this shit cost $9.7 million? I don't either.

The gun towers make me a little nervous. I mean, how would you like to be under observation by a exhausted and pissed off 18 year old with an automatic weapon?

There is a half-assed working hospital here. Shit, EVERYONE needs medical attention. I think the troops guarding us are in worse shape than we are.

The communal latrines don't have any doors. I have seen enough of other people's "business" here to last me my next six lifetimes. We need a mercy air drop from Bath & Body Works... the whiff here is incredible. There's no hot water, so we clean the stickier residue off our ourselves with baby wipes. Except Halliburton cheaped on us and sent Kitchen Wipes manufactured by some ersatz company for the Dollar Stores, so I'm chafing like a bear.

Sleeping under the stars, freezing my ass off would be kinda romantic, IF this was something I had OPTED TO DO. After a couple of miserable nights, I dug a "spider" hole and climbed into it. THANKS for the idea, Saddam. You're the only one who's been remotely helpful so far.

In truth, there were a few well-intentioned ombudsmen here, but everytime they get caught get doing their job, they get shipped out, or maybe sent to someplace even more delightful than this...

I was looking forward to the legendary specially prepared and culturally sensitive meals. Well...you have just not lived until you have eaten dehydrated reconstituted falafels cooked on the air filter of a Humvee. I knew those overpriced freakmobiles were good for something. Still, this shit tastes better than Jenny Craig. I hear it costs a lot more too. Heh. For the price they're charging for this crap, they could be Fed-Exing us Omaha Steaks.

Well, that's all for now. I'm supposed to be participating in the work/rehab program: registering dead Taliban to vote in Florida on this laptop, and not digging myself in any deeper. I guess it's my contrary un-Amerkin attitude that got me here in the first place. They can kiss my red, white and blue ass. If the ask who wrote "This Machine Kills Fascists" on the outside of the laptop with a Sharpie, I'll deny, deny, deny.

Yours in terra,
Weezil

Explosive Story: GOP has asked British SS to bug phones of American political candidates!

Posted on 02/15/2004 8:36:43 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs

FOX NEWS 11:25am EST 2-15-2004

Fox news is interviewing John Loftus, Formers Justice Department Prosectutor who states that he has an inside scoop that "the Republican Party has asked the British Secret Service to bug phones of American political Candidates. "

FOX NEWS Eric Shawn: "It's a very serious and very shocking story."

JOHN LOFTUS: "That allegation seems very storng of that is the case. Why would any political party want to bug someone else?

It's a juicy way of running a smear campaign behind the works. We have been doing that for about 50 years and it started with president Roosevelt. He had signed a secret treaty with Britian in 1943 that let them each set up listening posts on each other's soil with no search warrants. It's a great little scheme. "

"So the British can use American computers to bug American politicians, and the Americans can use British computers to bug British politicians and each side can truthfully say that they aren't spying on their own citizens. They are just trading information under the table."

ERIC: How widespread is this. Members of the Security Council admitted to me that they are being bugged and that it wasn't surprising, they expected that.

JOHN: "What congress doesn't realise is that this is meant to favor one party only. In 1978 Carter tried to ban taping without a court order. So the bill is that the NSA cannot target american citizens, but not other countries from doing it. "

"Gov. Perry (R-TX) Sex Scandal Brewing"

from a friend

Dear friends,

It is rare that I pass on political gossip, but I have now heard this from 3 sources (2 of which I find HIGHLY credible).

Source #1: "I attended a political meeting this morning at which it was reported that Governor Perry's wife has left the Governor's Mansion in Austin. The alleged reason was that she found the governor in bed with another man. If true, discussions of gay issues are likely to take a higher profile in Texas in the coming weeks."

Source #2: "I did not want to say anything until it hit the mainstream press, but I have known about that for more than a week."

Source #3: "...the rumors about Perry and Secretary of State Connor (the alleged paramour) have been "swirling" since January. The governor's office is being very evasive."

For photos of the paramour go to http://www.sos.state.tx.us/about/sosbio.shtml

And from another friend:

I too heard this rumor the other day, and thought about posting it, but didn't want to without any corroboration. The person I heard it from is a lawyer with some pretty good connections.

Woo Hoo! Is all I gotta say. I can't wait for it to hit the mainstream. Those tight ass repubs who up until now have been saying what a great governor this jerk is are going to have to really pinch their noses closed to vote for him again...and on the other hand, it'll be a lot of fun to see them trying to get him out and finding a replacement to run on the repub side against him next election cycle.

Man, oh man, with monkey boy looking like the asshole he is and now his buddy Perry really coming out and looking like a butt buddy, the elections here in Texas are going to be a lot more fun.

And from another site:

An Austin-watching, rumor-checking FrontBurnervian is hot on the trail of the gubernatorial matrimonial rumors:

Well, it's about time you get off your duff and engage in a little reportage, Allison. Good work on calling Haskell County. I see you spoke with Peggy Anderson, district clerk. Did you know that she's Rick's cousin?

THE AUSTIN RUMOR MILL...

...is grinding at top speed, and reporters all over the state are chasing down stories about the state of the governor's marriage. Nothing has hit print or the airwaves because none of it seems to be true. The big one this morning: Anita Perry filed for divorce yesterday in Haskell County, where the Perrys are from. It didn't happen, at least according to Penny Anderson, the Haskell County district clerk. But you know media-types: where's there's smoke, there's fire. Heck, it's because of the smoke that I called Penny.

RE: ZIPPERS

Part of the Austin rumor entails the Chronicle and the paper's having received confirmation of certain details. Supposedly they are set to publish a story on same. I can tell you that the Chronicle's policy, as expressed by a senior member of its staff, is: "We don't comment on any story we might or might not be working on." That said, I do not believe they are working on a story.

Tim Rogers · 11:47 AM

CAN POLITICIANS KEEP THEIR ZIPPERS ZIPPED?

Meanwhile, there's another rumor that has swept Austin in the past week or so about a high-ranking Republican whose wife is barely staying on the reservation, if she hasn't already left. The Kerry campaign is imploding, and there may be more to follow here.

LATEST NEWS
August 26, 2003
Perry appoints new secretary of state

Geoffrey Connor will become Texas' 104th secretary of state, Gov. Rick Perry announced Tuesday.

Connor has served as assistant secretary of state since 2001 and led numerous international trade missions under two previous secretaries of state.

As secretary of state, Connor will serve as the state's chief elections officer and is the liaison for the governor on border and Mexican affairs.

Former Secretary of State Gwyn Shea resigned August 4 to spend more time with family, according to a letter Shea sent to Gov. Perry in July.

The office of secretary of state also is the repository for official and business records, publishes government rules and regulations, and attests to the governor's signature on official documents.

"With the merger of the Texas Department of Economic Development in to the Governor's Office, Geoff's experience in international affairs will be a strong asset," Perry says.

Connor previously worked as senior counsel in the energy section of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

Connor received a bachelor's degree in international studies from Southwest Texas State University and a law degree from the University of Texas.

Perry also announced the appointment of Luis Saenz as assistant secretary of state. Saenz most recently served as a senior advisor for community affairs to the governor, working with local elected officials, community groups and business organizations across the state.

Before joining the Perry administration, Saenz was executive assistant to Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn. He also has served on the legislative staffs of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, former Sen. Phil Gramm and Congressman Henry Bonilla.

dimanche, février 15, 2004

RE: Bartcop chat (a major political hang)

From FUD --

The main chat server went down so i call the owner of the machine.He says he called the server farm and they said it was a cut cable.

So i call 8 hours later and he explains the fbi confiscated every machine at the co location because some kid was doing a denial of service attack on visa.This was just one machine out of bunch and they took them all which hosted thousands of websites.Todd the owner is trying to talk to the FBI to get his drive back.

This is insane...they march in and grab every single machine because of one snot nosed kid that decided to attack another site.There were backups on the site but what good is it if they grab it.The one box hosted over a hundred sites,and the others i don't know about but they had a ton of machines there.

Where the fuck is the FBI when it came to anthrax attacks on democrats?Anyway this is from the owner and it isn't his fault but he should of kept backups locally.I never dreamed the gov would go to these extremes.Welcome to Ashcrofts America.

It can be reached though http://thebird.com/~fud/irc/ or /server thebird.org

http://www.mizar.lod.com outage

LOD Customers: On February 14th, at approximately 11:00 AM - the ISP (foonet) where we co-located our IRC/Shell/Eggdrop server mizar, went abruptly out of business. We were given no prior warning or ahead time from them that this was about to happen. We were finally able to get an answer from their technical support at about 7:30 PM, at which time we were informed they were shut down permanently and we would have to make arrangements to try to get the data off of our co-located server at some time in the next few days.

We have already obtained a replacement server (65.215.220.202), (It should be available for us to begin user account setup by Sunday, Feb 15 afternoon). Please contact us at our (602)-549-3367 phone number and we will begin creating accounts ASAP. We are not able to give you an exact time as to when we can pull your account information from the old mizar box as we are simply at the mercy of the timeframe of foonet.

We greatly apologize for the inconvenience, and appreciate your patience and understanding. We will work as quickly as possible to get you all back up and running.

-Todd
(602) 549-3367

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