Letterman for Senate

I am so tired of that whining turncoat Joe Lieberman. I don't know what his deal is. Perhaps he got a bad case of the "I'm so important" jag in 2000. Then when his 2004 campaign was a complete basket case he decided to either 1) punish the Democrats or 2) stay in the limelight by being a "Democrat" that sided with Bush. But I don't know, I'm not his damn shrink.

In any case his support of the war in Iraq did a lot of damage to Kerry. They were always holding him up and saying that "see some Democrats, who aren't partisan, support our president" and making those against the war and the mishandling of the war on terror seem like partisans rather than patriots. Now he is waffling on Social Security.

Fact is that the Democrats would be better off without him. He does far more harm than good towards advancing those issue that are important to Democrats. So the Democrats should cut off his financial support in the primary and support someone to run against him.

I would like to suggest someone who is perhaps Connecticut's best known resident, David Letterman. Letterman is intelligent, articulate and very, very fast on his feet verbally. It would be a slam dunk. He has that mid-western down to earth personae. People would love him. Joe would be toast.

Letterman for Senate - for a better Connecticut! For a better country!

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Well at least we know why now. I guess thls explains why we haven't found Bin Laden yet. It seems that fighting terrorists isn't a priority for the US anymore. I guess with all those purple fingers in Iraq it's all good. Who needs to worry about really dealing with the terrorists. it makes for depressing news stories afterall.

Osama Bin who?

Looks like Bin Laden has disappeared. Or as the linked article from the BBC says, his trail has "gone cold". That would be, "hmm, where did that boy get to" as opposed to "we're going to hunt him down and smoke him out" or whatever The Leader said in 2001. You all remember 2001, right? I mean it wasn't that long ago. A bunch of terrorists from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, led by this Bin Laden guy attacked us and killed thousands ofb our citizens. The degree of incompetence necessary to allow that to happen was pretty spectacular but that is another thread, or ten. But back to this Bin Laden guy. He attacked us and demanded that we remove our troops from Saudi Arabia. We said we were sure going to get him for that. We were going to teach him and the rest of those fundamentalists a lesson.

And we sure did. We overthrew the most secular dictator in the region. Let's face it, almost all the leaders in that part of the world are dictators but did we have to overthrow the one most against the fundamentalists? And we removed out troops from Saudi Arabia. Oh, yea, and we seem to have lost track of Bin Laden. At this point it hardly matters. We sent Bin Laden a message alright. We told him if he attacked us we would do what he demanded we do, figure out other things we could do to help him that he hadn't thought of (possibly he felt we weren't stupid enough to do those things so he didn't bother asking) and we wouldn't try very hard to catch him. After all, it is hard, he is hiding.

That sure is teaching him a lesson. One good thing is that we didn't negotiate with Bin Laden. We did what we wanted us to do without negotiating. Nice work there in the gov'ment!'

Here is a pretty scary story.

Interpol, the international police, are worried about a terrorist attacking using biological weapons. That is really bad news. Coupled with the previous story, which hints at the potential failure to act prior to September 11 it is even scarier. I'll be having a series on the failure to act both before and after September 11.

Yet another example of an important story lead that the major media ignored.

Here is a story from the Village Voice about the time before September 11. It points out that Salman Rushdie was denied permission to fly in the US and Canada by an emegency order on September 3, 2001 UNLESS THE AIRLINE TOOK EXTRA SECURITY PRECATIONS! It said that the FAA were aware at that time of a threat. Why the fuck didn't they tell anyone about it? Like the pilot of UA Flight 93 which took off (late) about 25 minutes after the first hijacking was confirmed.

Even more importantly, why arent any of the useless sheep in the press investigating the events of September 11, 2001 and whether anyone should have, or could have done more?

More on this later, I need some deep breathing exercises.

And next in the right wing's never ending quest to hurt people.......

After 59% of people in California voted for stem cell research: the radical right wing is still trying to stop it. This is a very interesting development in conjunction with the article in the NYT today that shows that in mice they have used stem cells to reverse paralysis. Maybe the right wing should just put sick people on the ice pack or send them to the top of mountains to die. We are talking about evil here in my opinion. And I know that one of the people who is against the program in California is a paraplegic. But it is important to remember that being a paraplegic doesn't necessarily make you smart. Useful to some perhaps, but not necessarily smart.

Hunter S. Thompson and Deep Throat?

So here is a curious little story that may or may not develop. It has been posted over at Eschaton in the comments thread (under the story about "That Liberal Media" posted at 10:20 PM last night) that the death of Hunter S. Thompson will be the subject of a press release by Pat Buchanan in the near future. This has been linked to the Deep Throat of Watergate fame. Thanks to Joseph over there for a lot of this info. So is there anything to this? Well, sure enough we will know in a few days. But it goes like this....

The links below are to interviews with HST where he describes his long term friendly relationship with Pat Buchanan. Yes, that Pat Buchanan. Those who have read Thompson may remember the fascinating meeting between him and Richard Nixon to discuss football. Buchanan set it up. Not sure if they knew each other before that but they did after. And according to one of the interviews, HST liked to drink with Buchanan which I'm sure would produce some rather interesting conversations to say the least.

Then there is Thompson's suicide. Why, and why now? Well in fact we will to some degree never know, maybe to a large degree. But there is the possibility that he was sick. There has been some buzz recently that Deep Throat was very ill, possibly terminally ill. Many people have thought that Buchanan was Deep Throat. But perhaps not. Perhaps it was Thompson, and he received the information from his buddy Buchanan and perhaps a few others? And he was Deep Throat by virtue of being the one who passed the info to the boy reporters. It certainly isn't a stretch to see him having come up with the name. This is a bit far fetched but who knows. I guess we all will (or not) soon enough.

One thing, however. I certainly hope it is true. It would redefine poetic justice. That HST was able to have a major hand in bringing down someone, a very evil someone, for whom he had such crystalline hatred would be a beautiful thing. And it would be a better epitaph to HST than any I can imagine.



Link to an interview where HST discusses his relationship with Pat Buchanan

And another.


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This sucks

Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself

A fine Sunday in the Park

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Well not really blogging from Central Part. Rather blogging from a really good pizza place in the East Village after walking through Central Park. It was a bit on the chilly side but a clear, sunny day. The Park was crowded and it was a beautiful day to be in New York.

I'm glad to see that the army is taking the prisoner abuse issue seriously

They have started destroying evidence that the abuse is more widespread. That is a real relief.

It is almost impossible to know where it will stop.

The "wild west show"

At least someone is still doing reporting about what we are doing. I would feel a lot better, however, if the US media actually tried to do critical coverage of our activities in Iraq and Guantanamo.

Now this is funny.

AmericaBlog has a great story on intrepid reporter Jeff Gannon. On the one hand it is hypocrisy, but on the other, someone who is a male prostitute becoming a journalist without any apparent additional vocational training doesn't seem much like a stretch to me. I mean just read the NYT for god's sake.

Friday cat blogging

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The things FDR said that The Leader didn't want to quote in his 2004 State of the Union Address

In his State of the Union Address, The Leader had the audacity to quote FDR's 1937 inaugural address. This even as The Leader announced his plan to destroy the greatest legacy of that great president. Roosevelt's second inaugural address, from which the leader quotes contains what can only be called a complete repudiation of virtually everything that The Leader stands for.

Roosevelt's 1937 State of the Union Address, given shortly after the second inaugural address, is if anything even more powerful in its elaboration of a view of the role of government that is diametrically opposed to that of The Leader.

This really contains the spirit of Roosevelt's speech, and why he is great, and good and why The Leader is neither.

"The recovery we sought was not to be merely temporary. It was to be a recovery protected from the causes of previous disasters. With that aim in view--to prevent a future similar crisis--you and I joined in a series of enactments--safe banking and sound currency, the guarantee of bank deposits, protection for the investor in securities, the removal of the threat of agricultural surpluses, insistence on collective bargaining, the outlawing of sweat shops, child labor and unfair trade practices, and the beginnings of security for the aged and the worker.

Nor was the recovery we sought merely a purposeless whirring of machinery. It is important, of course, that every man and woman in the country be able to find work, that every factory run, that business and farming as a whole earn profits. But Government in a democratic Nation does not exist solely, or even primarily, for that purpose.

It is not enough that the wheels turn. They must carry us in the direction of a greater satisfaction in life for the average man. The deeper purpose of democratic government is to assist as many of its citizens as possible, especially those who need it most, to improve their conditions of life, to retain all personal liberty which does not adversely affect their neighbors, and to pursue the happiness which comes with security and an opportunity for recreation and culture.

Even with our present recovery we are far from the goal of that deeper purpose. There are far-reaching problems still with us for which democracy must find solutions if it is to consider itself successful.

For example, many millions of Americans still live in habitations which not only fail to provide the physical benefits of modern civilization but breed disease and impair the health of future generations. The menace exists not only in the slum areas of the very large cities, but in many smaller cities as well. It exists on tens of thousands of farms, in varying degrees, in every part of the country.

Another example is the prevalence of an un-American type of tenant farming. I do not suggest that every farm family has the capacity to earn a satisfactory living on its own farm. But many thousands of tenant farmers, indeed most of them, with some financial assistance and with some advice and training, can be made self-supporting on land which can eventually belong to them. The Nation would be wise to offer them that chance instead of permitting them to go along as they do now, year after year, with neither future security as tenants nor hope of ownership of their homes nor expectation of bettering the lot of their children.

Another national problem is the intelligent development of our social security system, the broadening of the services it renders, and practical improvement in its operation. In many Nations where such laws are in effect, success in meeting the expectations of the community has come through frequent amendment of the original statute.

And, of course, the most far-reaching and the most inclusive problem of all is that of unemployment and the lack of economic balance of which unemployment is at once the result and the symptom. The immediate question of adequate relief for the needy unemployed who are capable of performing useful work, I shall discuss with the Congress during the coming months. The broader task of preventing unemployment is a matter of long-range evolutionary policy. To that we must continue to give our best thought and effort. We cannot assume that immediate industrial and commercial activity which mitigates present pressures justifies the national Government at this time in placing the unemployment problem in a filing cabinet of finished business."

Bill Frist - and you thought he just killed a lot of kitties.

This story was so big and so disturbing that I needed help with it. So I inverse channeled Rush Limbaugh, generating the new entity, Lush Rimjob, to help right it. So putting the facts into Lush with the appropriate filters gave me this. For your information and enlightenment.


Ladies and Gentlemen, patriotic Americans - hold on to your seat because I have a very disturbing set of facts to present to you tonight. These are facts that the conservative media may have let get to the public in some form, but they haven’t been linked together. Because those in the conservative media won’t ask the right question. Well freedom seekers, truth seekers – Lush will ask the right questions.

This topic begins with the recent economic summit in Davos, Switzerland. Now the United States decided in its wisdom not to really participate in this. But that grandstanding, chardonnay sipping conservative and senate majority leader Bill Frist decided to ignore his countries wishes and attend anyway. I guess he couldn’t stand the thought of all those rich pockets and not a Republican hand to reach in them. But in any case he went. But that isn’t bad enough. The bad part is what happened there.

As this link shows the good senator was chairing a session and a woman came out of the audience and to speak. And Senator Frisk asked her to identify herself. Well, certainly if I’m in front of an audience and someone comes to the fore, I would ask them to identify themselves. Well, if they were someone’s Aunt Mildred I would anyway. But no, gentle and patriotic listeners, this was not your Aunt Mildred. This was Sharon Stone. Yes, that Sharon Stone. And apparently her identify was completely unknown to the good senator. Now Sharon Stone has been trying for more than a decade to make herself known to every male being on the face of the earth and I thought had probably come pretty close to succeeding but apparently the good senator must have missed the boat. But the real question my inquisitive friends, the question we always must ask is - why? Why is it that Bill Frist did not recognize Sharon Stone? Hold on listeners and fellow patriots, this is where it gets interesting.

So what else do we know about this Bill Frist. He is senate majority leader. Okay, but even more interesting, he admitted to killing a bunch of cats. This revelation earned him the nickname, Kitty Mengele. But the right wing media always asks the wrong question. They asked why he murdered all these cats. But the real question; the question that they should have asked, is why did he admit it? Well, also who the hell would want a surgeon who learned on cats to operate on them, but that is a different thread. In any case, back to the admission.

To answer the real question we possibly need to look no further than Bernie Kerick. Remember him? The conservative media want you to forget about him. He was nominated for head of the department of homeland security. And he admitted to having not properly paid a housekeeper with some immigration problems. What does this have to do with Senator Frisk? Easy, and beautiful. Not long after Bernie’s admission, people started pointing out that he sort of maybe didn’t even have a housekeeper. Huh? But, why would he admit to it if he hadn’t done it. Well, because he did something worse of course. So he admitted to something that no one but a bunch of chardonnay sipping conservative law and order types would be upset about in order to detract attention from the apartment donated to help workers at the World Trade Center take a break that he used instead to bang his mistress. It’s much better to take the fall on the nonexistent housekeeper. Then there was the cigarette money and various other issues. Yes, by all means, stick with the housekeeper Bernie.

But some of you have probably already seen the flaw. I mean no one cares about the damn housekeeper, but murdering kitties? What kind of a person admits to that to cover for something else. Well, maybe a lunatic, but maybe someone who has actually done something worse. Hah, what can be worse you ask. Easy.

Bill doesn’t know who Sharon Stone is, so he isn’t interested in woman. He admits to murdering a bunch of cats and becoming Kitty Mengele. Not recognizing Sharon Stone plus worse than Kitty Mengele equals…..

Kitty Kasanova?


Yes, dear followers, I told you this would be as bad as it gets.

Who would admit to killing the kitties, indeed. Well if you were having sex with the kitties first you might. Indeed you might. Anyone in their right mind would cop a Kerick to avoid taking the rap for that.

Am I right about this? Well who knows. Maybe he is just gay.

Thanks for looking up the article......

I didn't have the energy or courage to look this up. But I'm glad someone did it. The link is to a New York Times article about the success of the election. The elections in 1967. In Vietnam.