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filkertomLet's make sure we understand what kind of folks we're dealing with here.
- After spending the past couple of weeks trying to tell America that John Kerry is trying to scare them (while Dick Cheney continues to insist that, if you vote for Kerry, the terrorists will attack), the Bush campaign unveiled its newest TV ad last week. Entitled "Wolves", it's supposed to have you terrified of the evil slavering terrorist hordes waiting just outside the shadows of the tree line. First problem: They're adorable. With the sound off, it looks like a World Wildlife Fund PSA.
- Second problem: The ad premiered during Wolf Awareness Week.
- Meanwhile, turns out that 380 tons -- lessee, that's 760,000 pounds -- of high-grade explosive, kept secure by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) until the Iraq invasion, was not secured by Our Glorious Leaders, despite the IAEA telling them to secure it dammit:
The International Atomic Energy Agency publicly warned about the danger of these explosives before the war, and after the invasion it specifically told United States officials about the need to keep the explosives secured, European diplomats said in interviews last week. Administration officials say they cannot explain why the explosives were not safeguarded, beyond the fact that the occupation force was overwhelmed by the amount of munitions they found throughout the country.
The TV news media are not all over this -- they are mentioning it, because it's way too big not to mention, but they're not pressing it.
Let me spell it out for them:
Hundreds of tons of explosives, the kind very popular with suicide bombers, are now in the hands of terrorists because George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz were more worried about "shock and awe" and securing the oil wells.
The Middle East, and the world, are more dangerous because the President and his team, having been told about this, did nothing.
But, ya know? John Kerry sure was mean, mentioning that Mary Cheney was a lesbian.
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Date: 2004-10-25 07:55 am (UTC)Have you seen the Democratic response, Eagle? Now that's an ad -- I wish it had been running for six months.
And also see Lie Girls. PERFECT sendup of late-night phone sex ads. And a perfect skewer of the lying liars.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 08:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 05:10 pm (UTC)Top Ten Conservative Idiots
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/04/176.html
(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 12:58 pm (UTC)If the Republicans want to counter-attack by associating themselves with the eagle, all anyone needs to do is to bring out the tape of John Ashcroft singing "Let the Eagle Soar".
(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 08:04 am (UTC)Have you seen this?
www.wolfpacksfortruth.org
Puppies!
Date: 2004-10-25 08:11 am (UTC)There are already several other parody sites. But my favorite reaction was when they played it on Crossfire last week... and the audience laughed (http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/10/puppies.html).
Re: Puppies!
Date: 2004-10-25 07:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 09:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 09:12 am (UTC)Yea.. "Look! The Terrorists are fuzzy-wuzzy doggies!"
On a scarier note, the banners on both the NYT and CNN say that Chief Justice Rehnquist has been hospitalized with thyroid cancer.
No details yet.
OMG. Kerry has to win. Were I not a militant agnostic, I would be wearing out my knees in prayer.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 09:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 01:00 pm (UTC)"I don't know and neither do you!"?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 01:53 pm (UTC)Damned straight. We DON'T KNOW. We REALLY REALLY DON'T KNOW!
Also, there's "What would ? do?"
:)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 09:43 am (UTC)I'm the precinct organizer for one precinct on the Old West Side in Ann Arbor. We need people to greet people at the polling places, make sure they have their ID and they're in the right place, inform them of their rights, and keep an eye on what the Republicans are doing -- there's a lot we can do to make sure the GOP vote-suppression tactics don't work, but we need people at every polling place. Anyone who's concerned, please call your local Democratic campaign headquarters to volunteer -- or if you're not sure how to do that, you can just respond to me and I'll help get you connected, whether you live in Ann Arbor or not. We're working out the who's-going-to-do-what for election day right now, so please speak up if you can help.
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Date: 2004-10-25 11:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 12:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 12:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 02:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 09:45 am (UTC)Bush in '04 means Armageddon in '12
Date: 2004-10-25 11:09 am (UTC)I've been wrong before. I thought something dire would happen in 1998, as 1998 = 666 x 3.
Of course, would would really scare the bejeezus out of the Pubbies and make them soil their gray flannel elephant shorts is the idea that a vote for Shrub in '04 could result in a campaign for Hillary in '08.
Mandrake, Have You Ever Heard Of Fluoridation?
Date: 2004-10-25 11:47 am (UTC)My own take is pretty simple: Prophecy tends to be really frickin' vague, specifically so that when it doesn't work out as advertised, prophets can say something like, "Ahhh, but we missed this sign, which means that it will happen at that appointed hour!" Exhibit a: Nostradamus (http://skepdic.com/nostrada.html).
See, I don't believe in that stuff.
But many of Bush's supporters do.
Example: According to some end-times (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_times) prophecy Israel is supposed to be destroyed by its amassed enemies -- and so they support arming the state of Israel and having it try to militarily dominate the Middle East, not because they necessarily agree with its policies but because that will bring its enemies together to destroy Israel and hasten the Rapture.
There's even an End Times Monitor (http://www.findthepower.com/etm/), keeping track of news that may signal the end of the world.
As per usual, I'm not nearly so afraid of God as I am of His fan club.
On no account will a commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Date: 2004-10-25 12:09 pm (UTC)Hell, many of Bush's STAFF believe in the Biblical Armageddon...
Re: Mandrake, Have You Ever Heard Of Fluoridation?
Date: 2004-10-25 02:27 pm (UTC)Yup.
As per usual, I'm not nearly so afraid of God as I am of His fan club.
Ditto that.
Will there be an end times? Who's gonna win the Gog vs. Magog slugfest? I don't know, but I want to hedge my bets just in case. (Come the Rapture, can I have all the abandoned cars in Grand Rapids? :-) )
As a matter of fact, I have heard of fluoridation. And no, I don't grok what else you're referencing in the subject line. :-?
Re: Mandrake, Have You Ever Heard Of Fluoridation?
Date: 2004-10-25 02:31 pm (UTC)Can it be you've never seen that movie...?
Re: Mandrake, Have You Ever Heard Of Fluoridation?
Date: 2004-10-25 02:50 pm (UTC)Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
Re: Mandrake, Have You Ever Heard Of Fluoridation?
Date: 2004-10-25 09:05 pm (UTC)I know it was Slim Pickens who rode the bomb down, but I often like to say that it was Slim Whitman who rode it down, yodeling all the way.
Re: Mandrake, Have You Ever Heard Of Fluoridation?
Date: 2004-10-26 05:59 am (UTC)Re: Mandrake, Have You Ever Heard Of Fluoridation?
Date: 2004-10-25 05:04 pm (UTC)If you're looking for an abandoned car in Grand Rapids I've got a deal for you on a nice 1994 Escort......
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Jim
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Date: 2004-10-25 11:11 am (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/dagoski/111560.html?#cutid1
He says he hasn't looked the exact figures up (being at work and all...), but in my experience, his memory's generally pretty good for things like this.
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Date: 2004-10-25 12:11 pm (UTC)I'm not sanguine about living in LA this decade but I don't spend much time downtown but out in the 'burbs. Desktop Publishing is Good. Sherman Oaks would not be on any terror organization's top ten list of targets, would it?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 12:20 pm (UTC)Anything is a terror target. You will never know who might have it in for one place or another. Life is not safe. Therefore, be afraid... or live.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 01:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 03:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 03:20 pm (UTC)But the benefit there was that they at least wanted to be around to see the results of their handiwork....
The current mob just don't care.
Kerry vs Anime!?
Date: 2004-10-25 03:17 pm (UTC)Nevermind the fact that the character Dubya's people use to represent the Yakuza is Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a Christian Preacher!
http://www.asianmediawatch.net/yakuza/