THEY EMAIL AMONG US...

The rapture: When all the believers in Jesus Christ, who have been born again, are taken up to heaven.

After the rapture, there will be a lot of speculation as to why millions of people have just disappeared. [Well, yeah.] Unfortunately, after the rapture, only non believers will be left [Living in the new believerless paradise] to come up with answers. ["Oh, they just disappeared one day, we use their car. Did you know we no longer need reservations?"] You probably have family and friends that you have witnessed to [No, we just love and respect each other, we're not locked down; we have varied ways of thinking, like healthy normal persons] and they just won't listen [Bet THEY'LL be glad you disappeared]. After the rapture they probably will [No, they'll be too busy with all the new job opportunities], but who will tell them? [I wouldn't worry about it, just keep going wherever it is you're going. Have fun!]

We have written a computer program to do just that. It will send an Electronic Message (e-mail) to whomever you want after the rapture has taken place [Why not just take your computers?], and you and I have been taken to heaven. [No, I'll still be here. With all the good-lookin' unbelievin' women.]

How is this accomplished, you might ask [No, I don't think I would...] It's a dead man switch that will automatically send the emails when it is not reset. [Not a rapture switch?]

If you wish to do something now that will help your unbelieving friends and family [How about some free gasoline?] after the rapture, you need to add those persons email address to our database. Their names will be stored indefinitely and a letter will be sent out to each of them on the first Friday after the rapture. Then they will receive another letter every friday after that. [Note to self: upgrade spam filter...]

This rapture letter service is FREE [I should think so, who's gonna pay your bills...] and will hopefully gain the person you send it to an eternity in heaven. [Eternity on earth will be even better, once you folks have... raptured?]

You still here?

Do you believe it

A TEXAN KNOWS

"I never took him as a compassionate conservative. I’m a Texan. I saw what he had done to Texas and I knew he would do to the nation what he had done to Texas. And by God he’s done it. He’s turned the environment over to the polluters, he’s turned the courts over to big business, and he’s turned the schools over to the religious right. I was not fooled by his prevarications and his camouflage and his deceits."

Bill Moyers

Coward: With a Hush and a Whisper, Bush Drops Town Hall Meeting with Germans

"During his trip to Germany on Wednesday, the main highlight of George W. Bush's trip was meant to be a "town hall"-style meeting with average Germans. [Touted as a very big deal in all the rightist media, proof that their man actually 'had the goods'.] But with the German government unwilling to permit a scripted event with questions approved in advance, the White House has quietly put the event on ice. Was Bush afraid the event might focus on prickly questions about Iraq and Iran rather than the rosy future he's been touting in Europe this week?

Well, he can't just answer any old question, now can he? What if it's got a correct answer and he doesn't know it? ...He can always just fumble, like he always does...he represents Merka.

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TRUTH IS GREATER THAN FAITH

“We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.”

Bill Maher

The babbling righties hate Maher though, he's so much more convincing than their favorite addict, Rush.

In Re: Flag-Sucking Half-Wits

"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill "gooks". They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are racists and hate mongers among us - they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them..."

Hunter S. Thompson

RIP, Dr. Gonzo.

Uncle Warbucks

"William H.T. 'Bucky' Bush, uncle of the president and youngest brother of former President George H.W. Bush, cashed in ESSI stock options last month with a net value of nearly half a million dollars.

'Uncle Bucky,' as he is known to the president, is on the board of the company, which supplies armor and other materials to U.S. troops. The company's stock prices have soared to record heights since before the invasion, benefiting in part from contracts to rapidly refit fleets of military vehicles with extra armor."

Only a small portion though, of what the whole Bush Family is pulling in...

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THE GOP IS DROWNING...

THROW THEM AN ANVIL.

Can't Wait to See the Dubya-Gannon Fotos...

"Note: Since this sleazy story broke, we have received at least two dozen really detailed accountings of male prostitutions rampant inside the Beltway, many with lists of names of very prominent people. This story has legs and is not going away. This ought to give the Moral Majority and trailer park types spastic colon but the rest of us can take comfort that we didn't vote this bunch into power. Ed."

Full Story at TBRnews...

Journalists are Supposed to Find Out the Liars--What Happens When Journalists Lie?

"Enter all-but-proven gay whore and abysmally inexperienced "journalist" James D. Guckert, who, under the senseless banner of an alias, "Jeff Gannon," made the business of defeating the Congressional head of the Democratic Party his business."

Perfect tool for Karl Rove's pale, damp version of democracy.

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You Joe Sixpack?

"By buying back the long bond on the local US markets on the sly, the FED has managed to drag out the day of reckoning for the dollar for as long as it could. The buy-back also enabled the FED to cushion the unavoidable devaluation of the dollar for its own shareholders, the US Mega Banks. The FED's covered policies have given its shareholder banks the advanced opportunity to bail out from their dollar long bond holdings and dollar stocks and move timely into foreign assets, currencies and treasuries, commodities or whatever... away from the dollar, passing the bag on to Joe Six-pack and foreigners. All behind the scenes, through derivative transactions where the banks can camouflage their actions and keep shifts in policy away from the public eye. Do not forget, that the FED is there to protect its shareholders, the banks, and not the nation nor the public!"

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Debtor Nation

Planning to get elderly? better read this.

"The Bush version of Social Security will be just like this. It will further impoverish the poor, the working classes and women and be filled with hidden scams that benefit the financial institutions at our expense. Given that most Americans hate their credit card companies - the industry has a very high complaint rate - opponents of Bush's efforts to privatize Social Security might do well to use the industry as a predictor of what is to come.

Just imagine - the same financial interests that gouge you now, have indecipherable rules in their microscopic agreements, enjoy no regulation and can do whatever they want to screw the average American will soon control our retirements. Priceless."

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Debtor Nation
By Susan J. Douglas

More Torturers at the Top to Govern You

The twig has appointed John Negroponte to be the America's first National Intelligence Director, a subdivision of Big Brother, who will know exactly where you are and what you're doing at all times, and it won't be pretty. (You watch: they'll start pushing for a national RFID card.) As U.S. ambassador to Honduras under ditzy Reagan in the early 1980s (Torture? I don't recall...), Big Tortureboy (as opposed to twig-appointed Gonzales, Little Tortureboy) reportedly collaborated with a top-secret Army death squad, known as Battalion 316, that kidnapped, tortured and killed whoever they thought needed it.

From the press at the time:

"Among the kidnapped were 14 who described their treatment in interviews with The Sun. Nine said members of Battalion 316 clipped wires to their genitals and sent electric currents surging through their bodies.

'They started with 110 volts,' said Miguel Carias, an architectural draftsman who was held captive with Nelson Mackay for a week in 1982. 'Then they went up to 220. Each time they shocked me, I could feel my body jump and my mouth filled with a metal taste.'

Former members of Battalion 316, interviewed in Canada where they are living in exile, described how prisoners were nearly suffocated with a rubber mask wrapped tightly around their faces. The mask was called 'la capucha,' or 'the hood.' Women were fondled and raped, the torturers said."

The twig keeps nice company. Tomorrow's America today.
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Those Danged Class Action Lawsuits are Hurting Bush's MoneyBuddies

If this law gets passed, you can forget about repeats of the asbestos and tobacco industry lawsuits, that did so much good for American citizens and revealed the corporate greed that brought it all about. That same corporate greed got Bush II elected. But frivolous lawsuits like that are hurting Bush's moneybuddies, and as a lame duck (was that term ever more appropriate?) Dubya's been assigned to put an end to it, cut you and me off from the nefarious and untrustworthy jury system, and let the current equivalents of asbestos and tobacco thrive untouched at the hands of Bush-appointed Federal judges, get that money out of the hands of those unscrupulous private lawyers and back into the hands of those scrupulous corporate lawyers. That will be good for everybody, like asbestos.

TORTURED U.S. PILOTS DON'T DESERVE BIG MONEY

Gulf War pilots tortured by Iraqis during the Gulf War under Bush the First should take their peanuts from U.S. and shut up, not aspire to be as rich as Halliburton execs and other GOP supporters for godsake, it's ludicrous, say Bushies, and that's not the American way. Besides, that money has been earmarked for Bechtel.

COMPLETELY UNKNOWN CANDIDATES SWEEP TO VICTORY IN IRAQ

A newly Democratic Iraq is now celebrating an election in which an uncertain number of unknown candidates have swept to power: 48% unknown Shiites, 26+% unknown Kurds and the rest - unknown. No one among the newly priveleged voters knows who they actually voted for, who has been elected, or how many of them (whoever they are) are still alive and will remain so until and after they are masked and seated in the 275-member General Assembly of the Unknown, to carry on with the independently masked government that will stand as further proof that the insurgency has failed, and that Democracy has come at last to Iraq, as it came to Ohio so long ago.

New Dawn of Democracy

YOWZAH, YOWZAH, YOWZAH, SAYS DUBYA

Bush lauds conservative private investing for the young: and quick, before the markets crash and his backers lose a percent or two

While corporate insiders (Bush's buddies, much like Ken Lay was to Bush the First) who REALLY know how things are going are SELLING their own company shares 50 times more often than they are BUYING their own company shares, Dubya says, with all the honesty that got him into office, that the young of America should take his advice, step right up yowzah yowzah, and use the pennies in their personal accounts to prop up the collapsing stock market as a way to better control their retirements. He says they should get their life's blood out of social security and into their own hands, then jump in the water with the sharks, suggesting via his usual mathematical wizardry that this would net a young worker who averages $35,000 annually (as a Wal-Mart greeter?) in his lifetime nearly $250,000 when he leaves the workforce 40 years from now when the dollar is worth one sheet of toilet paper as a result of Dubya's clownship. If this Bush scam is followed, in 40 years the anonymous homeless will be without number.

BUSH IS USING YOUR TAXES TO BRIBE JOURNALISTS TO PROPAGANDIZE YOU

Of course the neocon faith potatoes don't care, they've already swallowed it whole anyway. Dubya is their golden calf...

"But wait a minute. It takes two to play the payola game - the corrupters as well as the corruptees. What we have here is Bush & Company routinely and cynically using your and my tax dollars to use the media to propagandize you and me. Where's the accountability for these corrupters? Which agency officials are diverting our tax funds into propaganda? Which Bush operative devised this system? And why aren't all of these Bushites being publicly castigated... and fired?"

Good questions. But faith potatoes don't ask good questions.

Bush's Covert Propaganda Machine
By Jim Hightower

SHE IGNORED 9/11 WARNINGS? MAKE HER SECRETARY OF STATE!

Well, impugn my integrity!! Actual ability (not just blue steel ambition) clearly plays no role in the Dubya Club, just the precision butt-accuracy of the kiss.

'01 Memo to Rice Warned of al Qaeda and Offered Plan

By SCOTT SHANE

January 25, 2001 Richard Clarke Memo:
"We urgently need . . . a Principals level
review on the al Qida network."

"A strategy document outlining proposals for eliminating the threat from Al Qaeda, given to Condoleezza Rice as she assumed the post of national security adviser in January 2001, warned that the terror network had cells in the United States and 40 other countries and sought unconventional weapons, according to a declassified version of the document.

The 13-page proposal presented to Dr. Rice by her top counterterrorism adviser, Richard A. Clarke, laid out ways to step up the fight against Al Qaeda, focusing on Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan. The ideas included giving "massive support" to anti-Taliban groups "to keep Islamic extremist fighters tied down"; destroying terrorist training camps "while classes are in session" and then sending in teams to gather intelligence on terrorist cells; deploying armed drone aircraft against known terrorists; more aggressively tracking Qaeda money; and accelerating the F.B.I.'s translation and analysis of material from surveillance of terrorism suspects in American cities."

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Clark memo (pdf)

This woman was then put in charge of the whole show!! Dubya's running the US like Enron!

Real Men Should Run, Not Walk, to Marry Someone as Unlike Marian Coombs as Possible

"Marian Kester Coombs is a woman who believes America has become a 'den of iniquity' thanks to 'its efforts to accommodate minorities.'

White men should 'run, not walk' to wed 'racially conscious' white women [that would of course exclude the Moon family] and avoid being out-bred by non-whites [Moons]. Latinos are 'rising to take this country away from those who made it,' the 'Euroamericans.' [Using the muscles of Africans and Chinese, on the blood of Native Americans] Muslims are 'human hyenas' who 'smell blood' and are 'closing in' on their 'weakened prey,' meaning 'the white race.' Blacks, Coombs sneers, are 'saintly victims who can do no wrong.' Black solidarity and non-white immigration are imposing 'racial revolution and decomposition' in America."

Bush is her buddy.

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Blind Faith

"One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. The offspring of ideology and theology are not always bad but they are always blind. And that is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts."

By Bill Moyers

Karl Rove Promoted to Level Approaching Visibility

WASHINGTON: White House adviser Karl Rove, formerly almost completely invisible, has been brought out from the shadows under his rock. Despite being made up almost entirely of white bread and unflavored marshmallows, Rove is described by President Bush, his bigtime mealticket, as the "architecturalist" of the so-called "re-election" last year. Epicine political strategist and former Pillsbury Doughboy, Rove will have an expanded second-term role in policy-making, sort of a yeast-like function, which will bring him more into light-of-day visibility, with all its potential for insult and severe sunburn.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that Rove, 54, would "coordinate" the National Security Council, the National Economic Council and other advisory panels, so as to ensure that GOP appointees got the most M&Ms.

The Voice of the White House

"I have seen an NOAA report on the catastrophic melting of both polar icecaps that states, with great firmness, that the sea levels are now rising and in less than three years will have reached the point where high tides and storm-surges will to terrible damage to low-lying areas such as the American Gulf Coast, all of Florida, much of the East Coast, places like the Pacific islands, Bangladesh, Holland and other geographical areas. If this is true, and it is, why do official books claim that there might be such a problem but that it is way off in the future? They do know better but consider that much very valuable American (and Dutch) real estate would be impacted. If this were commonly known, prices for Florida property, for example, would plummet and so the big real estate developers and local politicians have put huge pressure on Washington to keep a lid on this. They know about this disaster in the making and their aim is to keep it quiet until they can liquidate their extensive, and expensive, holdings and then put their rescued money into certain political pockets and other investments. Also, the politicians in power who are sitting on all of this hope frantically that this collapse will happen after they are out of office and enjoying their ill-gotten gains up in the Rockies or other high points. I personally do not blame this; we call this business. But I would not buy a house anywhere along the coast of the United States where the mean elevation is less than ten feet. If this trend keeps up, and it shows no sign of slackening, a few more hurricanes will wipe out huge areas of Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, the Carolinas, the Tidewater of Virginia and onwards and upwards. If you live in an area that has been having serious beach erosion, such as Virginia Beach, and your house is only a few feet above the high tide line, my advise would be to sell it before this becomes well-known and you can't give it away."

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DUBYA EXPLAINS WHY ENDING SOCIAL SECURITY WILL MAKE IT ALL BETTER

"Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those – changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to what has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate -- the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it will help on the red."

And you can quote him on that.

Don't look at ME! YOU voted for him!

RICE PROMISES TO BE BETTER TOOL THAN POWELL

Powell just had too much integrity. That is, more than zero. Nothing gets in the way of being a tool more than integrity does. If you got it. But even with whatever integrity he had left Powell could lie with the best of them. WMDs and all. Trouble is it bothered him; it got to him after a while. He wasn't happy remembering a time in his life when honesty rated higher than a deserter's butt. Rice doesn't have that problem. She's an ice cold expert, doesn't believe one single word she says. Better even than Torture Boy. What a toolbox for building the future of America. And when that future is finally built, America's gonna live in it? You're joking, right? She look like she's joking? Get in there and shut up. You too, Russia.

WHO CARES WHAT JEFFERSON SAID

"Reporters who cover the White House are accustomed to being
spun by administration officials. The modern presidential
toolbox includes carefully rationed press conferences,
say-nothing spokesmen, dead-of-night releases of unfavorable
news, and phony 'town hall' meetings composed solely of
sycophantic supporters. More recently, government agencies
have issued fake-news videos and secretly contracted with
two pundits to promote the administration's policies on
education and marriage.

But now the art of press handling has evolved into actual
manhandling. The Bush team has expanded the use of 'minders,'
employees or volunteers who escort journalists from
interview to interview within a venue or at a newsworthy
event."

Don't Mind Me. I'm Just Doing My Job
Paul Farhi

BUSH AGRICULTURE

"The cows, held in open pens and milked three times a day, never graze on open pasture. In return for free room and board, each cow produces 75 pounds of milk a day and four tons of manure a year. For now, the milk is shipped to processing plants all over the Southwest, but when the cheese plant is operational in late 2005, the milk will travel only a few miles. There it will be turned into Velveeta-style cheese at the rate of one truckload per hour. When the 200,000 black and white Holstein cows are past their prime—about two to three years — they are sent off to a large slaughterhouse in Texas where they are ground up into beef patties for guess who: McDonald's, America's largest buyer of spent dairy cows."

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ACTUAL STATE OF THE UNION

"But, Dear George, do you know what the hardest work of all is? Trying to digest the fact that the leader of the country that your family has fought for and died for, for generations, lied to you and betrayed your dear boy’s sense of honor and exploited his courage and exploited his loyalty to his buddies. Hard work is having your country abandon you after they killed your son. Hard work is coming to the realization that your son had his future robbed from him and that you have had your son's future and future grand-children stolen from you. Hard work is knowing that there are so many people in this world that have prospered handsomely from your son's death."

Cindy Sheehan, on Casey's Peace Page

IT'S NOT WEALTH, FOLKS! IT'S INFLATION.

"It's the polar opposite of wealth. It is the very stuff that corrodes, sullies and diminishes wealth but somehow the average American has been led to believe that the two are one and the same. (By a brilliant and obviously effective long-term program of brainwashing by the Fed, the same folks who brought you the idea that unbacked pieces of colored paper are 'money'.)"

Mark Rostenko