Friday, July 07, 2006

THIS JUST IN! AND THEN HE BLEW OUT THE CANDLES!

BULLY BOY PRESS - CHICAGO.

THIS JUST IN!

AND THEN HE BLEW OUT THE CANDLES!

AFTER TURNING 60 YESTERDAY, IT WAS ALL DOWN HILL FOR BULLY BOY.

FIRST THE FINANCIAL TIMES OF LONDON REPORTED "US jobs growth weaker than expected."

BUT A BULLY BOY ECONOMY WAS JUST PART OF THE GIFTS THAT AWAITED THE BIRTHDAY BOY.

EITHER HIS BRAIN AND SANITY WENT THE WAY OF THE ECONOMY OR HE DECIDED HE WOULD TRY OUT A NEW ROLE, COMEDIAN-IN-CHIEF, IN CHICAGO. IF IT'S THE ONSET OF EARLY SENILITY, CALL THE DOCTORS. IF IT'S HIS ATTEMPT AT STAND UP, STOP HIM BEFORE HE CRACKS DUMB AGAIN.

EARLY ON, HE OPENED WITH:

Unemployment rate in this area is 4.3 percent. That's below the national average. People are working. People are able to find jobs.

THE AUDIENCE COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING AT THAT, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE REPORTS THAT MORNING ON HOW WEAK THE ECONOMY WAS.

BECAUSE HE NEVER GETS TIRED OF JOKING THAT HE WORKS HARD, HE HAD TO WORK THAT IN TOO AND CHOSE TO USE IT FOR IRAQ:

It's hard work because we face an enemy that will kill innocent people in order to achieve an objective. And their object is to drive us out of Iraq so they can have safe haven from which to launch attacks against modern Muslim nations so they can spread their ideology of hate.

WHAT ENEMY? THE IRAQI PEOPLE? MOVING ON TO ANOTHER STAPLE, HE TURNED TO TALK OF OSAMA BIN LADEN:

I mean, we got a lot of assets looking for Osama bin Laden. So whatever you want to read in the story, it's just not true, period.
[. . .]
Absolutely. No ands, ifs or buts.
And, my judgment, it's a matter of time, unless we stop looking. And we're not going to stop looking so long as I'm the president; not only for Osama bin Laden, but anybody else who plots and plans attacks against the United States of America. We're going to stay on the offense so long as I'm your president.
WHAT YOU MAY HAVE READ, IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, WAS THIS:
The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence
officials confirmed Monday.
[. . .]
Michael Scheuer, a former senior C.I.A. official who was the first head of the unit, said the move reflected a view within the agency that Mr. bin Laden was no longer the threat he once was.
Mr. Scheuer said that view was mistaken.
"This will clearly denigrate our operations against Al Qaeda," he said. "These days at the agency, bin Laden and Al Qaeda appear to be treated merely as first among equals."
SENILE OR STAND UP? EITHER WAY, THE CANDLE'S OUT.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

THIS JUST IN! BITTER SWEET BIRTHDAY FOR BULLY BOY!

BULLY BOY PRESS - DC.
 
THIS JUST IN!
 
BITTERSWEET BIRTHDAY FOR BULLY BOY!
 
BULLY BOY TURNED 60  BUT THE BAD NEWS WAS HE DIDN'T HAVE TOO MANY FRIENDS LEFT.  NOT ONLY DID HIS FELLOW WAR HAWKS LOSE OFFICE ACROSS THE GLOBE, HE ALSO LOST KEN LAY.
 
LIKE A LOVER YOU TRY TO PRETEND DOESN'T EXIST, WHITE HOUSE FLACK AND SPOKESMODEL TONY SNOW INSISTED THAT LAY WAS JUST "AN ACQUAINTANCE." 
 
IN BETTER TIMES, BULLY BOY NICKNAMED LAY "KENNY BOY,"  EVEN WHEN THINGS WENT BAD FOR KENNY BOY HE NEVER FORGOT HIS BULLY BOY EVEN BELLYING-UP-TO-THE-BAR TO DROP A COOL $100,000 FOR BULLY BOY'S INAUGURATION BALL.  
 
SAD DAYS FOR THE BULLY BOY AS HE HAS TO WORRY IF PEOPLE REALLY DO REAP WHAT THEY SEW?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

THIS JUST IN! BULLY BOY BRAGS THAT HE'S CURBED THE PRESS!

BULLY BOY PRESS - DC.

THIS JUST IN!

BULLY BOY BRAGS THAT HE'S CURBED THE PRESS!

AN INSIDE SOURCE WHO LEFT THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE WHITE HOUSE A SHORT TIME AGO BUT CONTINUES TO HANG AROUND "BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO DO" TELLS BULLY BOY PRESS THAT THE BULLY BOY OF THE UNITED STATES IS QUITE PLEASED THAT HE'S "WHIPPED THE PRESS INTO LINE."

THE INSIDE SOURCE 'NOT SO DEEP THROAT BUT I DO SWALLOW' TELLS BULLY BOY PRESS THAT THE BULLY BOY CAN BE "VERY MASTERFUL" AND VERY "COMMANDING" WHICH DID MAKE BULLY BOY PRESS QUESTION THE SOURCE'S SANITY.

HOWEVER, 'NOT SO DEEP THROAT BUT I DO SWALLOW' SAYS THAT THE BULLY BOY, VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY AND SECRETARY OF HOLLA' BACK CONDI RICE ARE GIDDY WITH GLEE OVER THE FACT THAT THE LATEST NSA SPYING STORY HAS BEEN LARGELY KEPT UNDER WRAPS.

THUS FAR, AMONG THE FEW PICKING UP ON IT.

AS MOST WILL REMEMBER, WHEN THE ILLEGAL N.S.A. WARRANTLESS SPYING ON AMERICANS OPERATION WAS 1ST EXPOSED, THE BULLY BOY SAID THIS WAS NECESSARY BECAUSE OF 9/11. THE LATEST REVELATIONS REVEAL OTHERWISE.

THE PROGRAM WAS PLANNED IN 2000. THE OPERATION BEGAN IN FEBRUARY 2001, SHORTLY AFTER THE BULLY BOY WAS INSTALLED BY THE SUPREME COURT AND 7 MONTHS BEFORE 9/11. 7 MONTHS BEFORE 9/11.

'NOT SO DEEP THROAT BUT I DO SWALLOW' TELLS BULLY BOY PRESS THAT HE IS THRILLED THE BLOOMBERG STORY HAS GOTTEN SO LITTLE ATTENTION AND IS BRAGGING THAT HE "SHOWED THE PRESS WHO'S THEIR DADDY!" BULLY BOY THEN STOOD IN PROFILE, ACCORDING TO THE SOURCE, AND BEGAN MAKING SPANK MOVEMENTS IN THE AIR WHILE SAYING, "WHO'S YOUR DADDY, BILLY KELLER? WHO DA' MAN NOW?"


THUS FAR, AMONG THE FEW WHO HAVE NOTED THE STORY ARE KPFA'S THE KPFA EVENING NEWS, KPFA's THE MORNING SHOW, THE COMMON ILLS, AND TRUTH OUT.
THE NEW YORK TIMID AND OTHER OUTLETS APPEAR COWED AT PRESENT.


'NOT SO DEEP THROAT BUT I DO SWALLOW' SAYS BULLY BOY IS BRAGGING THAT HE RODE THE NEW YORK TIMID "HARD AND PUT HER UP WET." 'NOT SO DEEP THROAT BUT I SWALLOW' GETS VERY ANTSY AND BEGINS PANTING WHEN HE REMEMBERS THAT.


Recommended: "NYT: Falluja Dexy starts whitewashing Ramadi"
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"Mopey"
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

July 4, 2006 News

Iraq snapshot

Chaos and violence continue. As Dahr Jamail said on Monday's Flashpoints, "It really is horrible to try to keep in context the level of violence . . . Here we are doing it again with no end in sight and I wonder just how long we'll continue doing it? . . . Things are not just staying the same in Iraq, it's getting exponentially worse."

As Sandra Lupien noted on yesterday's KPFA's The Morning Show, former US soldier Steven D. Green was arrested and charged Friday with raping an Iraqi female while he was serving in Iraq and then killing her and three members of her family. The twenty-one-year-old Green was a member of the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army before being discharged with what The New York Times termed a "personality disorder." The BBC notes that Green's next appearance in court will be July 10th. Various press reports note that four others are suspected of involvement but Green has been the only one charged. The Associated Press reports that Minister Hashim Abdul-Rahman al-Shebli, Iraq's justice minister, has "demanded" that the United Nations provide oversight to ensure that those guilty be brought to justice.

Though the United States military has maintained that the rape victime was at least twenty-years-old, reports beginning with Ellen Knickmeyer's (Washington Post) on Monday have placed the female's age much lower. Yesterday, Reuters reported that the mayor of Mahmudiya declared today that the woman "was no more than 16 years old when she was killed along with her parents and young sister".

In the United States, members of CODEPINK, Granny Peace Brigade, Gold Star Families for Peace, United for Peace & Justice and Women for Peace have gathered in DC and are fasting: "While many Americans will be expressing their patriotism via barbeques and fireworks, we'll be fasting in memory of the dead and wounded, and calling for the troops to come home from Iraq."
Yesterday, they gathered in front of the Ghandi statue at 3:00 PM where Cindy Sheehan spoke: "This war is a crime. We represent millions of Americans who withdraw their support from this government." Others participating include Daniel Ellsberg, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and Dick Gregory. On yesterday's WBAI's Cat Radio Cafe, Janet Coleman spoke with several members of Granny Peace Brigade about the fast and other actions. Among the women Coleman spoke with was former WBAI programmer Vinnie Burrows who sang a portion of one her songs: "The kids are dying far away in a foreign land/ I must keep on trying, their lives are in our hands."

In Scotland last weekend, members of Military Always Delivers (an activist group like the Billionaires for Bush in the United States) participated in a pro-war march and rally on Saturday. Scotland Independent Media Center reports (text and photos) that many pro-war marches were not in on the prank as members of MAD shouted slogans such as "Cut Welfare, Buy More Bombs!"; "War is the Health of the State"; and "Power Grows out of the Barrel of a Gun" while passing out "deception dollars."

Today, in Iraq, Reuters reports that Raad al-Harith, Iraq's deputy electricity minister, and 19 of his bodyguards were kidnapped in Baghdad. In other violence thus far today, a roadside bomb in Baghdad claimed the lives of at least two police officers and wounded at least four; in Hawija, a mortar attack claimed the lives of at least one and wounded at least two others; and, in Falluja,
"[g]unmen wounded a member of the Association of Muslim Scholars."

An upcoming event: Brava Theater, 2789 24th Street, San Francisco, Friday, July 7th, 7:00 pm. (415-647-2822)
Mark Manning will be screening his film Caught in the Crossfire for those interested in knowing the realities on Falluja that Dexy and the other Green Zoners never got around to telling you. Nadia McCaffrey, who lost her son in the Iraq war, will bespeaking as will Dahr Jamail.

To date 2538 American troops have lost their lives in Iraq (official count). And 150 members of
Alpha Company of the 1st Battalion, 178th Infantry are headed for Fort Dix and then Iraq.

Around the globe. The AFP reports that confronted with a direct threat of nuclear strikes, from North Korea, the White House shrugs and White House spokesmodel Tony Snow declares, "It is still deeply hypothetical." However, the Bully Boy demonstrates no reluctance to play Wallflower with Iran. The Associated Press reports "Western powers" are demanding a July 12th dealine for beginning talks and ceasing nuclear enrichment -- after that, it's a nuclear dance off! This despite Seymour Hersh's reporting that "Pentagon planners and other experts" are not in support of Bully Boy's plan to nuke Iran. Korea? Iran? Iran? Korea? Michael R. Gordon's head spins as he attempts to figure out which war is a "go" in order to start marketing his own brand of home-made (war) porn. (Seymour and Shane -- what have you wrought!) And in the occupied terroritories? The 'jokesters' at the Associated Press, reporting on continued armed agression, dub their story "Israel keeps up pressure on Gaza." In the real world, Nora Barrows-Friedman, on KPFA's Flashpoints, noted that over 130,000 Palestinians have been left without water; that sonic booms are being used to terrorize the population throughout the night; that Israeli forces, in the last week, have abducted " one-third of the Palestinian government. No one in the international community has yet expressed any outrage at this or the Palestinian political prisoner's conditions."

In election news in the United States, Robert Parry writes on the campaign "tool" that benefitted the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004: Osama bin Laden's rush-released video timed to debut four days prior to the election. Though it didn't fly off the shelves at Blockbuster, CIA analysts studying the release came to the judgement that "that bin-Laden was trying to help Bush gain a second term." Meanwhile, professional politician Joe Lieberman, who never met a baby or an ass he couldn't kiss, has thrown down his Zell-Miller-like marker announcing that if he doesn't win his party's nomination (Democratic), he will run as an independent to hold on to his Senate seat. Particularly surprising to Lieberman may be no cries of: "Say it ain't so, Joe!" This as fellow Democratic War Hawk Maria Cantwell appears to hope she can just wish the war away from constituents' minds. In contrast to Cantwell's fiddle-dee-dee approach, newly declared Democrat Jim Webb stated in Saturday's Democratic radio address: ""I have believed strongly that when things aren't working well, it is the responsibility of our leaders to admit it, and to fix the problem. Some say that speaking out against a war is disloyal to the troops. Whoever says that should consider what it's like to be a troop, wishing someone would speak the truth."

In other election news: Que una sorpresa -- another election in Mexico is rife with accusations of fraud and rigging. Possibly, next time an election approaches, US media outlets could spend less time shoring up the lite candidate as "left" and more time exploring the system that continues to fail the people? (We mean the system itself, but if it's easier to focus on the voting mechanics, even that would be preferred.) The BBC reports that conservative Felipe Calderon is the winner and the less conservative Manuel Lopez Obrador is waiting for a recount while the people of Mexico wait for a real leader to emerge. (The actual count of the votes will not begin until Wednesday, as noted by the KPFA Evening News Monday.)

In science & techonology news, the London Free Press is reporting that: "A huge asteroid whizzed by Earth early yesterday, passing about 433,000 kilometres from the planet's surface -- slightly farther away than the moon." Meanwhile, Jane Kay (San Franciso Chronicle) reports on a new study published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Science which has found the world's bird population to be disappearing at an alarming rate: "The study, the most thorough analysis of global bird species, says 12 percent of existing species -- about 1,250 -- are threatened with extinction by 2100." La loco bird flies on the op-ed pages of the Washington Post where the always laughable Eugene Robinson shows up days late, without a tardy slip, and rushes to shore up the justifiably (long) tarnished image of Star Jones (a modern-day Joan of Arc burned at the TVQ pyre, to hear Robinson tell it) in a column that will provide laughter for years (print it up, it's doubtful the 'collected works' will ever be published). The always late for the train Robison trots out a seventies spoof of Barbara Walters but seems (not surprisingly) unaware that Star Jones has been spoofed repeatedly in more recent years on both Saturday Night Live and Mad TV. For the record, roaches weren't used in any spoof revolving around Walters. Alleged homophobe, peace-activist hater, and attorney Jones will apparently next argue the case that her firing from The View just because the audiences hated her was a case of wrongful termination at I-Hops and truck stops across the country. Chances are that she won't draw a crowd there either. Meanwhile Robinson is prepping his next hard hitting column: an exploration of Shannen Doherty's public firings. [Note: C.I. participated in the writing of the previous six sentences only after consulting with friends at the Washington Post.] In a better use of space, investigative journalist and internet sleuth Ron Byrnaert discovers that a certain Free Republic poster is apparently better known to many as a voice of the left or 'left.' Ron (Why Are We Back In Iraq?) searches for the answer to the question of "Who is Vis Numar?"

Monday's Democracy Now! offered "We Shall Overcome: An Hour With Legendary Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger" while today's broadcast will feature:

StoryCorps: A national social history project records the voices of ordinary people -- citizen and non-citizen, old and young -- telling their stories to each other.

Musical question of the day from Carly Simon's "Playing Possum" (written by Simon, title track to the CD of the same name):

We lived up in Cambridge
And browsed in the hippest newstands
Then we started our own newspaper
Gave the truth about Uncle Sam
We loved to be so radical
But like a rugged love affair
Some became disenchanted
And some of us just got scared
Now are you playing possum
Keeping a low profile
Are you playing possum for a while?

This joint entry written by The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and me, Jim; Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude; Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man; C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review; Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills); Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix; Mike of Mikey Likes It!; Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz; Wally of The Daily Jot; Trina of Trina's Kitchen; and Ruth of Ruth's Public Radio Report. [With additional help from Dallas and Tracey.]












































Monday, July 03, 2006

SICFUCS DECLARE LOVE FOR CONDI!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX - DC.

THIS JUST IN!

SICFUCS DECLARE LOVE FOR CONDI!

MUST CREDIT CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & BULLY BOY PRESS.


THIS JUST IN!

AFTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTED ON THE "CONDINISTAS" AND HOW THEY WERE VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS IN SPLINTER GROUPS, THEY HAVE COME TOGETHER, ONE ENTERPRISING INDIVIDUAL, TOM ZUNIGA (NO RELATION TO DAPHNE), DECIDED TO USE SOME "PEOPLE-POWER AND A LITTLE NET-ROOTS TO HOLD AN ONLINE CONVENTION."

"WE'RE GOING TO DRAFT SECRETARY RICE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008," HE EXPLAINED. "THE OLD MODELS ARE OUT OF DATE. WE HAVE THE POWER! WE WILL STORM THE GATES! WE WILL FLUSH THE TOILETS!"

ASKED WHAT THE UNIFYING NAME FOR THE VARIOUS GROUPS WERE, ZUNIGA REPLIED, "WE LISTED SOME OF HER QUALITIES AND CAME UP WITH THE NAME."

"S(HE) I(S) C(ONDI) F(ORMIDABLE) U(NINHIBITED) C(ONDI) S(UPREME)," HE SAID TAKING A BIG BREATH. "OR JUST SICFUCS FOR SHORT."

"SICFUCS?"

"YES," HE REPLIED. "WE ARE SICFUCS."

AT LEAST THEY ARE HONEST.

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