Bin Laden (Still) Determined To Strike America
Bin Laden (Still) Determined To Strike America
Tomorrow marks the four-year anniversary of the day President Bush received a President’s Daily Brief (PDB) entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.” There are many eerie similarities between now and August 6, 2001. Chief among them is that the threat of terrorism remains high, President Bush is at his ranch in Crawford, and Osama bin Laden is on the loose looking to inflict greater terrorist damage.
Bush candidly acknowledged that he was not thinking about a terrorist strike on the U.S. during the hot, pre-9/11 days at his Crawford ranch. He told Bob Woodward: “I was not on point I have no hesitancy about going after him. But I didn’t feel that sense of urgency, and my blood was not nearly as boiling.”
THEN: Bush Went on Longest Vacation In 32 Years
“By the time President Bush returns to Washington on Labor Day after the longest presidential vacation in 32 years, he will have spent all or part of 54 days since the inauguration at his parched but beloved ranch. That’s almost a quarter of his presidency.”
NOW: Bush Goes On Longest Vacation In 36 Years
“The president departed Tuesday for his longest stretch yet away from the White House, arriving at his Crawford ranch in the evening to clear brush, visit with family and friends, and tend to some outside-the-Beltway politics. By historical standards, it is the longest presidential retreat in at least 36 years.”
THEN: Bush In “Carefree” Mood
“President Bush was in an expansive mood on Aug. 7, 2001, when he ran into reporters while playing golf at the Ridgewood Country Club in Waco, Tex. The day before, the president had received an intelligence briefing — the contents of which were declassified by the White House Saturday night — warning ‘Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.’ But Bush seemed carefree as he spoke about the books he was reading, the work he was doing on his nearby ranch, his love of hot-weather jogging, his golf game and his 55th birthday.”
NOW: Bush In “Playful” Mood
“Bush was in a playful mood as the foursome climbed into the truck and rode off. When a reporter asked if Bush actually had a driver’s license, the president replied ‘Si,’ which is Spanish for ‘yes.’”
THEN: Top of Bush Agenda Was Stem Cell, Immigration, Social Security
“But if top officials were at battle stations, there was no sign of it on the surface. Bush spent most of August 2001 on his ranch here. His staff said at the time that by far the biggest issue on his agenda was his decision on federal funding of stem cell research, followed by education, immigration and the Social Security ‘lockbox.’”
NOW: Top of Bush’s Agenda Is Stem Cell Immigration, Social Security
“But questions remain about the rest of Bush’s agenda. For one thing, many items remaining on Congress’ plate – such as Social Security private accounts, expanding federal funding for stem cell, immigration reform, and even the annual federal spending bills – are likely to spark fissures within the GOP and near-unity among Democrats.”
THEN: Bush’s Political Standing Slipping
“During that month, Bush’s top aides were concentrating on the president’s political standing: His approval rating had slipped ”
NOW: Bush’s Political Standing Slipping
“Americans’ approval of President Bush’s handling of Iraq is at its lowest level yet, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that also found fewer than half now think he’s honest.”
After reviewing Bush’s attitude at his ranch in August 2001, the Washington Post concluded that he “gave no sign of worry” of the danger to come. In the midst of a New York Times warning today that al Qaeda is planning to hit the U.S. with suicide bombers, has Bush learned his lesson?
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Well, I guess having a driver’s license is the only legal thing Bush has done in the last five years…but is the registration and insurance valid?
August 5th, 2005 at 2:59 pm“…that al Qaeda is planning to hit the U.S. with suicide bombers, has Bush learned his lesson?”
Should I get ready for something? God I hope not.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:08 pmI’m sure Bush is counting on it, Skid. And plans to let it happen.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:11 pmPerhaps a new National Lampoon movie here…Presidential Vaction?
August 5th, 2005 at 3:11 pmGreat time for Bush to go on a Vacation, didn’t he leave yet again for texas? Anyone hear if he washington is on alert, it would explain why the chicken crossed the road.
He’s such a coward!
August 5th, 2005 at 3:12 pmat least someone in the press knows “si” means yes in Espanol.
Boy, can’t get nuthin’ by these guys………
August 5th, 2005 at 3:12 pmNo, the President said “see” as he exposed himself in a carefree manner to the female reporter.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:15 pmOh — I thought you said Clinton.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:17 pmIf anyone doubts that Bush has no conscience his five weeks vacation, while American Youth are dying for his lies and deceits, is proof positive! What a poor ecuse for a human being.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:17 pmBush is really French, but it’s a big secret.
That’s why he takes August off every year.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:18 pmBush slithered out of town just as the 1,800th Amerian soldier was killed in Iraq, and the CBS New poll showed 77% of people think he’s lying about the Plamegate investigation and, the AP-Ipsos poll shows 38% have no confidence in his handling of Iraq.
It’s no accident he’s at the pig farm for 5 weeks.
. . .
August 5th, 2005 at 3:20 pmStem Cell Immigration? I think you left out a comma.
Just imagine the disaster if illegal stem cell immigration was actually happening!
August 5th, 2005 at 3:21 pmWhat, me worry?
August 5th, 2005 at 3:23 pmGood question about the license!
I was hoping the media wouldn’t ask boring questions during his vacation: like about Gen. Casey’s Iraq troop reduction statement, about what US counterterrorism strategy is besides the quagmire in Iraq, about why he hasn’t asked Rove directly whether he leaked classified information, about Bolton, and so on…
August 5th, 2005 at 3:25 pmLOL Aaron thats a good one.
anyway, I notice our usual kool aid drinkers are quite on this post.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:25 pmHey Theresa, didn’t you hear? W’s records pertaining to his driving record were WIPED and he was given a new license.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:26 pmBush meant “See? Now watch me drive”.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:30 pmNo more DUI for Georgie.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:31 pmDarth, the media reps DO want to keep their jobs and get invited back to Crawford, you know. They know their place, and it’s not in Iraq and Afghanistan and Uzbekistan and . . . covering the real news.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:39 pmWell,
NED and his CONservative boys who sold Plutonium Nuclear reactors to Iran, WMDs to Iraq and who funded and trained AlQueda (to fight russia?) are now selling f16s to Pakistan. And of course that gives them a pretty decisive advantage over india in the air.
These guys are such stupid greedy idiots! Just so the war machine makes a few dollars, they’ll trade international stability in a heartbeat. It’s like watching kindergarden cop graphed into westwing!
August 5th, 2005 at 3:43 pm#18
Ya, it’s good to be the King.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:43 pmHell! Bein’ president is “hard work” sayin’ all them dumb things and struttin’ and swaggerin.” I just gotta go be a windshield cowboy every few weeks, so I can be rested before I jump on that tread mill I keep in the Oval office.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:53 pmYep! It’s good to be the king. Dictators are all right too, as long as I am the dictator. See I don’t feel I have to answer to anyone.
The damn fool should at least be embarrassed enough to stay in Washington and PRETEND to work. Oh, wait – I forgot. It takes a brain capable of abstract thoughts in order to feel embarrassed.
August 5th, 2005 at 3:58 pmYoung people are dying over there because of his lying arrogance and stubbornness. Iraqi children are sick and dying for the same reasons.
Saddam was a tyrant – no doubt – but the people had commerce, they had utilities, they had schools, they were functioning as a society. What do they have now? And Fearless Fosdick in the White House feels he needs to take a break. What? A working vacation? Yeah, right. Someone, quick, condense another memo into a 7 word headline, so he’ll take a few seconds to read it.
cue the Go-Go’s:
Vacation all I ever wanted
August 5th, 2005 at 3:59 pmVacation, had to get away…
I was reading over at Redstate today, I can’t post because they thought I was a liberal and had my “privlidges” revoked. They are still claiming 9/11 was Clinton’s fault .
God help the idiots in this world. The funny thing was (well, it is sad, not funny), no one disagreed. Duh.
We are being led by Homer Simpson. Now if only he’d buy me a beer.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:02 pmI’m not worried and Bush isn’t worried and you shouldn’t be worried either.
The difference between 2001 and 2005 is that the madman Saddam Hussein is safely locked away.
Really, people. We have absolutely nothing to be worried about.
Please, go about your business and stop making trouble.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:05 pmBruce,
Are you trying to pull the old Jedi mind-trick on me?
August 5th, 2005 at 4:10 pm(pointing to Saudi Arabia)
…these are not the Arabs you are looking for…
August 5th, 2005 at 4:14 pmSkid: He’s just repeating GOP talking points.
If another attack does happen, he’ll come back and tell us what fools we were to not be worried, that we never should have let [insert designated enemy here] run around free, and now we’ve got to invade that person’s country before the evidence comes in the form of super-duper death ray machines aimed at Wyoming.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:17 pmregardless of who attacks us, we will invade Iran next.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:20 pmWe all know that Bin Laden is in Crawford holding hands with Bushie now that Bandur dumped him.
The ranch is fully equiped with a dialysis machine and a mountain of sex toys.
Should be a good vacation for the fella’s.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:25 pmI don’t know, krazny. Iran is far more western than Iraq.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:29 pmMany of the justifications for war aren’t there as they were in Iraq.
Will you believe the Gov’t when they tell you Iran has a bomb?
Don’t forget Syria.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:30 pmAlso the Hiroshima anniversary. You’d have thought that might have clued Rice into its significance. Or maybe that’s too “historical” for her.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:31 pmWhat a snapshot of this presidency: President golfing and weed-wacking, Vice-President in Saudi Arabia fartin’ around and divvying up with Princes, while at war.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:31 pm.. and the former Secret Serviceman shill had the nerve to write “Dereliction of Duty” about Clinton.
George takes a vacation
President Bush is going on the longest vacation of his presidency, and the longest presidential vacation in 36 years. After his upcoming vacation is complete, Bush will have spent nearly 20% of his presidency at his ranch in Crawford, TX. Though the…
August 5th, 2005 at 4:33 pmIf/When we go after Syria, BushCo will try telling us that they KNOW Iraq sent their WMDs there, rather than use them against US invading forces.
Don’t think I can hold that much smoke up my ass.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:33 pmI can’t wait for Hilliary to move into the White House so she can clean this mess up!
August 5th, 2005 at 4:35 pmYea! Georgie and Hasterd are coming to Aurora Illinois in a few days! Great photo-op! How many miles away will they keep the protesters at bay?
August 5th, 2005 at 4:37 pmHey Skid, Durbin just sent me an e-mail in response to my demand to impeach.
I couldn’t believe he wrote a personal e-mail to me. He says he’s as appalled as we are and says we need to bring our demand to all house members.
He also invited me over for coffee. Pretty cool Senator we have.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:37 pmPolitically,
The president is always on call should a situation arise. I don’t remember the right giving this much grief when Clinton went on vacation. Last week, Bush was taking heat for being too fit and now he wants to get out of town. Could you blame him? I wouldn’t want to stay there either with all of the liberal nuts living there.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:39 pmSkid, I know I won’t get in. I’ve been sending Bushie a lot of mail telling him he is a coward and traitor. I know I’m black listed.
Got more info? I’d like to at least protest the visit. Aurora is only 10 miles from my house.
P.S. We gotta get Hasturd out of office.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:40 pmThats cool Susan.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:40 pmWhat are you talking about Always Votes Right-Wing?
August 5th, 2005 at 4:43 pmI think that if clinton had gone on vacation as much as bush has, that clinton would have gotten lots of shite
August 5th, 2005 at 4:44 pmHere’s the local link, Susan. I haven’t heard the actual date yet.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0508050136aug05,1,5001376.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
August 5th, 2005 at 4:46 pmHeard the same company that builds the Wild West town facades for Disney also did the Crawford ranch for Bush.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:49 pmIt will be Iran, it seems, not Syria, according to this bit in the “Amercian Conservative”:
http://www.amconmag.com/2005_08_01/article3.html
August 5th, 2005 at 4:49 pm#41. We know. I expect Dubya to return in a blaze a glory to save the brain dead.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:50 pmAnyone planning to attend the Impeach Bush rally in Washington, DC on 9/24?
August 5th, 2005 at 4:51 pmHope there’s a Caterpillar accident that day.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:51 pmBruce, I don’t care what you say, I’m worried and scared. First they told me we’re attacking them there so they won’t attack us here, but now after London they’re teling us we’re going to get attacked no matter WHAT we do. And now this Crawford thing — where fratboy is carefree and ‘not on point’ again –could it be 9/11 redux?
August 5th, 2005 at 4:51 pmSusan,
Perhaps Hasterd will have another pig-roast for this occasion. Pork is on the menu.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:55 pmI am, Marie.
A week after that I’m walking from Chicago to Springfield, Illinois to the Governors office with an education petition.
I’m raising funds for the walk but using my own money to get to D.C.
I think I’ve convinced my mom to meet me in D.C. She lives in MA so it’s a short drive for her.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:55 pmInstead of “Dereliction of Duty” one of Bushs’ S.S. men will write “Howdy Duty”………….(doody)
August 5th, 2005 at 4:56 pm#42 Susan, I feel the FBI has a folder on me too, for all the mail I send, letters to papers, etc. When someone posts the information on the planned visit to Aurora, I will be very interested as I am less than 20 miles away. According to today’s paper, I am not sure the Bush visit is a done deal. They may cool their jets until the last minute, thereby foiling those of us who might need a day or two to plan. I will need time to remove all those bumper stickers from my car dare I get myself arrested for simply being there (you heard about Colorado?)
August 5th, 2005 at 4:56 pmZippy,
How about Neverland Ranch?
August 5th, 2005 at 4:57 pmSkid,
The pork has been served! In the form of energy and highway bills
August 5th, 2005 at 4:58 pm“Now watch this drive!”
August 5th, 2005 at 4:59 pmSkid, if pork is on the menu then I think it is safe to say the there will be a Hasturd roast.
I’m sure there will be an ozone action alert as a result.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:59 pmI’ll be sure to bring a nebulizer.
Denny won’t let me in.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:59 pmI’ve been waiting for Bushie to come to Illinois. I’ve been saying all along that he’s too chicken to go to a blue state. He’ll either back out or do like Marie said and come in with no hoopla.
I’ve never known a president who is as afraid as Bushie. Says something about his own perception of himself.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:07 pmI LOVE THIS POST!!! This moron gets elected President, vacations all the time, let’s America get attacked…..yet – you still CAN’T BEAT HIM. As a matter of fact, Democrats have suffered historic losses under Bush’s failed leadership. What does that tell you about the state of liberalism today?
Susan – how’s weight watchers working out for ya?
August 5th, 2005 at 5:11 pmFOX REPORTER: How many servicemen died today mister President?
Prez: WHACK! …… Fore!
FOX REPORTER: Relax. Told you he was on top of things people.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:11 pmHow’s AA treating ya, DilEnema?
I bet if I wear my old Hank Williams Jr. shirt I’ll get in.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:13 pmYEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAWWWW!
August 5th, 2005 at 5:14 pmThe only thing Bushie is on top of is Bin Ladens lap.
And to Ned, nice to see that your enjoying your minority status. Do all the patients feel as you do or do the meds work for some?
August 5th, 2005 at 5:15 pmIs Pickles conveniently “away” for the 5 weeks Bush is in residence?
She usually is. She roams around New York, the Kennebunkport compound, or the Bush ranch down in Zacatecas, Mexico when her hubby is in town.
So much more sensible considering Bush is then free to entertain Jimmy Jeff Guckert Gannon and the 2 can play US Marines butt nekkid.
. . .
August 5th, 2005 at 5:16 pmI am so happy Democrats are still focusing on the August 6 memo and blaming Bush for letting 9/11 happen. The GOP could never have the power we have without your hatred. Thanks guys – I appreciate it.
BTW, how did you feel about President Clinton ignoring terrorism for oh, say 8 YEARS!!!!
Skid – I will be in AA when I’m good and drunk!!!
August 5th, 2005 at 5:17 pmNed, you should try assinines anonymous. I hear fake joined and is doing a little better.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:19 pmSusan – I’m sorry, are you serious. We have 55 senators, 233 house members – you couldn’t even beat that dipsh*t Jean Schmidt for God’s sake, the Presidency and now THE SUPREME COURT. Oh and Susan – it’s going to get worse. Better pray that geeser John Paul Stevens hangs on. Just one question – will you insist we remove his feeding tube too when it’s time? lol!!!
August 5th, 2005 at 5:19 pmNED, please don’t use ‘Democrats’ and ‘liberalism’ in the same sequence. See, the Dems are trying to out-Bush Bush, is why they’re doing so poorly. They lost any semblance of liberalism with Clinton. So — all is forgiven — let’s you and I work on ‘em and make them realize that Democrats (think Kerry) no longer represent liberal values.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:20 pmDon – that’s interesting. Kerry represented liberal values until he had to run for office. But, I’ll take your bet. Go ahead and run a liberal – and you ain’t seen nothing yet in terms of losses. Liberalism has failed and people are moving on. It’s a dirty word, but I dare you anyway….
August 5th, 2005 at 5:22 pmYour rambling again NED, maybe its time for you to get a feeding tube. I will be happy to pull it for you when you give me the nod.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:22 pmSusan – I’m waiting. How can Republicans be in the minority when you control NOTHING.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:22 pmAlso NED, I could care less who’s on the Supreme court. I don’t use the abortion and law like you do.
Maybe you haven’t grasped reality yet but there are many laws in this country that are broken every minute of every day. Take a look at your criminal in charge for example.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:25 pmNED, I’m sorry you cannot comprehend what the American people feel these days.
You are the minority. Only 38% support your criminal in charge.
Go back to school idiot.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:27 pmSusan – I am glad liberals are still quoting worthless polls. Gee, the AP must have gotten on the phone right after the 14 marines were killed. Talk about exploitation.
The only poll that matters is the one on Election Day. AND I promise, it only gets worse from here. Democrats have no chance in hell of winning anything – while our side is plotting our next big defeat, you guys still hung up on DeLay, Rove and whoever the smear of the week is.
We will be running on energy reform, less than 5% unemployment, tort and bankruptcy reform, and a conservative judiciary. That’s called a positive agenda. What will you be running on?
August 5th, 2005 at 5:31 pmI would run through the “spooky” similarities between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations but they would be as irrelevant as this post.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:32 pmTell you what NED, I’ll put my polls up against your crusty ol crotch anyday. The stink may knock me out but I bet I win anyway.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:35 pmSusan – you’re very vulgar person who no ideas and can’t handle debate. That makes you the perfect liberal.
WHAT WILL DEMOCRATS RUN ON IN 2006? No one here can answer that question – it’s amazing.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:37 pmNE,
August 5th, 2005 at 5:52 pmThe bankruptcy is a big fat kiss to the big credit card companies. And yes I know many corperate whores that signed up for it were Dems. Did you know that we tried to give an escape clause so that Iraq vets would be protected from this travesty and you aholes failed to put it in the bill. Love how you hypocrites support the troops. The energy reform gave billions in tax cuts to industries that are all ready rolling in money. The WH house has allready acknowledged it would do NOTHING to alliviate our energy woes.Many of the so called employed are slaving for peanuts at low wage dead end jobs like wallmart. So your 5% unemployment is a sham – give me 5% unemployment with those working having health care and a living wage then maybe you
f**nk repugs actually did something good. As far as I can see, all you did was still two elections, devide the country, screw the middle class, enrich the rich even more, and kill THOUSANDS of innocents in the process. fu*king EVIL bastards is what the GOP has become.
go to hell ned.
“while our side is plotting our next big defeat”
That plot seems to be right on schedule for ‘06
August 5th, 2005 at 5:53 pm“Gee, the AP must have gotten on the phone right after the 14 marines were killed.”
I bet you think American support for FDR was at an all-time low after D-Day? Problem is, you Republicans think you can hold on to public support if you can only keep the bad news off the front page, hide the coffins from public view. Guess what, in WWII there were plenty of coffins to see, and the public was behind the president 100%. Why? Because he had one goal throughout the entire 4-year world war. That’s right, the war was over in 4 years. Unlike Bush, who four years later can’t even define victory.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:57 pmNice to hear from you again, Susan.
August 5th, 2005 at 6:08 pmKeep checkin’ under the seat, NED.
If the Dems run on a Progressive agenda they can win, but with the current cast of characters it won’t happen. They’re all in the corporate cradle, suckin’ their corporate bottles.
The Progressive agenda should be:
– no more lie-based foreign military adventures that kill tens of thousands and cost hundreds of bilions, prodce terrorists by the bucketful and alienate us throughout the world.
– No further attempts to curtail our civil liberties and Constitutional rights.
– a rollback of corporate welfare tax reduction programs.
– restraint on military expenditures, in line with reduced military adventures.
– health care for all, just like Congress enjoys.
– cease the war on Marijuana.
– trade agreements that give equal consideration to workers as well as corporations.
– cease federally-mandated education testing.
– cease the free ride to Israel on economic aid without recognizing Palestinian rights.
August 5th, 2005 at 6:09 pm“I was not on point” said Bush, on vacation before 9/11.
August 5th, 2005 at 6:13 pm“I was pinchin’ a loaf in the brush and thinkin’ about liftin’ my leg and wizn’ on the American people.
“I am so happy Democrats are still focusing on the August 6 memo and blaming Bush for letting 9/11 happen. The GOP could never have the power we have without your hatred. Thanks guys – I appreciate it.”
Lets see, BushI trains and funds AlQueda. BushI puts troops in saudia arabia. BushII ignores memos that clearly state airplanes are to be hijacked and used as weapons. Well a rational person would blame bush – but CONservatives like are never rational.
“BTW, how did you feel about President Clinton ignoring terrorism for oh, say 8 YEARS!!!!”
Well, guess you never read Clarke (a REPUBLICAN’s) book. Not only was terrorism the #1 priority of the clinton whitehouse, because of this they caught the millenium bomber. Ironically when the leaving clinton admin told bush to put his highest priorities as terrorism – he ignored them with the same stupid and arrogant attitude of irresponsibility that you have.
“Skid – I will be in AA when I’m good and drunk!!! ”
The first step is admitting you have a problem. Now if we can just get to admit your psychosis – that would be a better step in the right direction.
August 5th, 2005 at 6:23 pm“I LOVE THIS POST!!! This moron gets elected President, vacations all the time, let’s America get attacked…..yet – you still CAN’T BEAT HIM. As a matter of fact, Democrats have suffered historic losses under Bush’s failed leadership. What does that tell you about the state of liberalism today?”
That’s just because cheaters like you rigged the election machines. You’re such stupid, desperate little losers that you can’t even convince rednecks to vote for you in high enough numbers to win fairly!
http://www.argusleaderonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3170&page=2
http://archive.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=181
But then again, facts never persuade fascist progandists like yourself to believe in democracy. See unlike you, I believe that CONservatives should have a voice even when they’re in the minority – and yet you being a fascist totalitarianist (which means total control) have no such ideas of democracy….
Thanks for reminding everyone that you’re so stupid you don’t even know you’re a fascist!
August 5th, 2005 at 6:26 pm“NED: WHAT WILL DEMOCRATS RUN ON IN 2006?”
What do you care Ned? An full glass has no more room – you’d simply ignore anything that wasn’t on the talking points crib sheets you’re fed. You’re too stupid to think for yourself, so there’s no way you’d ever care what anyone else stands for other than in you psychotic desire to lie and twist it.
August 5th, 2005 at 6:28 pm“The president is always on call should a situation arise. I don’t remember the right giving this much grief when Clinton went on vacation. Last week, Bush was taking heat for being too fit and now he wants to get out of town. Could you blame him? I wouldn’t want to stay there either with all of the liberal nuts living there. ”
That’s because Bush in 5 years has already taken more vacation more vacation time than any previous president did in 8 years! Duh! But then again when you’re a howdie doodie stooge for RoveTheHutt, who cares if you’re in washington as long as you rubberstamp the NeoCon fascist bills..
August 5th, 2005 at 6:30 pm“Liberalism has failed and people are moving on. It’s a dirty word, but I dare you anyway….”
Sure it has! Only in your own head does this tune play. When americans are polled about specific agenda points they care about, democratic values win the majority of americans. The only reason Bush is there, is because like all Fascists – he cheated. Being a cheating bully doesn’t mean the people are behind you as his 38% approval rating in Iraq has shown.
Most americans I’ve polled think you’re an idiot dick NED – so keep on living in your dream world, it’s obviously more comfortable for you than the reality that your political stances are the same as a nazi fascist!
August 5th, 2005 at 6:32 pmWell all, this has been fun, but I’m on vacation for the next month, and out of the country for the rest of it.
Have fun, and I’ll check in to see if any of the CONservative mars attack aliens heads have exploded from their own delusional seizures when I get back.
Keep up the good fight everyone – you guys rock! And NED, Little closeted queer FascistButtheadIdiot, and Fish the impotent – get a clue! Wize up! Learn to discern source from propaganda – you guys are all sad!
August 5th, 2005 at 6:34 pmMost of the neo-CONs are on vacation, what a coincidence, all the private S&M and B&D clubs in D.C. have closed down too.
August 5th, 2005 at 6:40 pmGet outta here Lyin Ryan. One less lying liberal.
August 5th, 2005 at 6:40 pm“Get outta here Lyin Ryan. One less lying liberal.”
You first need to prove a lie, before you can accuse someone of lying. I post facts, resources and references that prove the truth – just because you’re delusionally insane doesn’t mean your opinion is factual. But then delusionally insane people like you are always that way…
As for ‘lying liberals’, that’s projection as liberals tend to use sciences, facts and rationality – whereas CONservatives use fear, religion, propaganda and other tools at their disposal to lie. If congress hadn’t been stolen by Diebold, you and your lying cabal would have been impeached from office, and sent to jail.
Take some medication for that delusion – it’s overtaken all sensibility one would hope you might have had at some point in your life. Your DESPERATE desire to cling to your delusion in the face of what must be becoming overwhelming proof of the delusional state seems to be more than your tweeter brain can handle. It explains why you so readily say the opposite of truth on a consistent basis.
And while you’re at it – how was the shock of learning your politics are right wing fascism? The same as hitler? You seem to have no problems with that identification – or have you rejected yet another truth to keep up the facade of lies you live in?
August 5th, 2005 at 7:04 pm“Most of the neo-CONs are on vacation, what a coincidence, all the private S&M and B&D clubs in D.C. have closed down too.”
Phil, funny you would say that. An acquaintence of mine is a dominatrix, and she talked about all of the business in DC from the repressed republicans. It was REALLY funny to hear her talk about how they all wanted to be dominated by a woman – it would explain their wierd and irrational public stances on womens rights and abortion. Freaks one and all!!
August 5th, 2005 at 7:05 pmGood god, Ned go away.
What is the repugnican agenda? you keep saying we’re focusing on “old news”. Well, we don’t have TIME to latch onto these scandals. They’re happening so fast! I’ve never seen a more corrupt government ever. nixon was a choirboy compared to this band of crooks.
IMPEACH~!~!
August 5th, 2005 at 7:13 pmPiltdown,
The republican agenda is to lie so often, and so loud, that everyone believes the lie, and those that don’t just close their ears and eyes so they don’t have to listen to the crazy man shout lies on the corner anymore.
More and more americans I know are wising up this. Now if we can just force a court case to the supreme court to force voter registration receipts and quickly before Roberts closes the last door to democracy…
August 5th, 2005 at 7:17 pmoverbearing, castrating, inappropriately close Mother + distant, aloof, competitive(with his sons also), money maker Father = future and present male neo-CON and sexual freak.
August 5th, 2005 at 7:21 pmWHAT WILL DEMOCRATS RUN ON IN 2006? No one here can answer that question – it’s amazing.
It won’t be gasoline or petrol.
August 5th, 2005 at 7:22 pmPhil,
There you go talking science and medicine again – you know them there rednecks don’t cotton to book lurnen…
August 5th, 2005 at 7:25 pmCan’t tell you how many conservative men I work with that call their wives MOM. No matter how many times I hear it, it freaks me out a little.
August 5th, 2005 at 7:34 pm#64, Zippy. I like the sarcasm!
August 5th, 2005 at 7:37 pmNED
August 5th, 2005 at 7:44 pmThe worthwhile social advances made in this country were all liberal ideas. Conservatives were opposed to: abolition, women’s rights, voting rights.
If you have a regular job with safe conditions – thank a liberal. If you have medical care available to you -thank a liberal. If your kids go to a good public school, thank a liberal. If your Grandma is in a nursing home with good food and care, thank a liberal. The fact that you can spout your venom on this site – thank a liberal.
There isn’t a helluva lot that the average American can thank a conservative
I once saw a documentary on dominatrixes in London,England and how they catered to the most conservative and successful of politicians and businessmen. Of greatest interest was infantilsm, where they would be changed, spanked for soiling, powdered and diapered .They also got off on dressing in childrens’ clothes and being dominated by a strict mother figure. The money they paid was unbelievable.
In reality several parliamentary members were caught in a sex scandle which I can not remember the name of.
August 5th, 2005 at 7:48 pm#78, I beg to differ — the public was hiding under the covers after 9/11 because Bush encouraged that, but they have peeked out from under the blanket now and they see that the Boogeyman is Bush. He lied us into the wrong war. His economic plan is worthless. His Social Security plan isn’t flying. His popularity is plummeting. Even his Macchiavellian puppetmaster is having to keep a low profile because of the Plame/scandal. Rummy is caught in a contradiction every week. Karen Hughes can’t fine the right “catch phrase” — it appears that the Republicans are beginning to act scared – senselessly thrashing out at everyone and everything, calling names, but having no real defense.
August 5th, 2005 at 7:48 pmRyan, We’ll miss you.
August 5th, 2005 at 7:53 pmNow if the Dems just had a program . . .
August 5th, 2005 at 7:56 pmWhat will dems run on in 2006? Clean Government. No corruption. And we will win, as long as the vote tampering is dealt with. Repugs couldn’t win without it and everyone knows it now.
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?submitDate=200585124342
August 5th, 2005 at 8:04 pmVacation from what? Exercise? Falling off bikes? Camp David? Helicopter rides? throwing out the first pitch? Introducing unpopular hirees? Smirking? Spending other peoples money?
August 5th, 2005 at 8:18 pmClean government is good, but not enough.
August 5th, 2005 at 8:26 pmCheney. Iran. Nukes. August. Will you folks PLEASE pay attention to what’s important????
August 5th, 2005 at 8:48 pmWe can’t invade Iran, they still have the same jet fighters that Tom Cruise flew in Top Gun. Goose! Besides, there is too much money in the Iran arms/hostages/drugs trade for the Bushes to ruin it yet. Ghorbanifar is still alive.
August 5th, 2005 at 9:44 pmThe only reason we invaded Iraq was because “we” thought that Iraq would be easy pickins after 10 years of sanctions.
Turns out that when we dropped that first bomb, the Iraq army went under ground and now are called insurgents. I remember that before Operation Desert Storm, the world was told that they had one of the largest armys in the world and yet, we keep having hig ranking officials tell us that the insurgency is dying off.
What a load of crap. WE ARE FIGHTING THE IRAQI ARMY.
It won’t die off anytime soon.
How do we get ourselves and our children out of the mess the Bush administration has got us into? The rest of the world views it as America, when we know that it was less than half of the voters that go them back in.
And I made sure to say less than half the voters. It was let alone the peple that didn’t vote. Do you think the non-voters will care when the Draft is reinstated?
August 5th, 2005 at 11:18 pmAnd they don’t have Saddam. We need to have our demons personalized.
August 5th, 2005 at 11:19 pmSaddam. Hah.
He was a figure head.
What we are dealing with is this:
How much longer would World War II lasted if the Nazis wouldn’t have stopped when Hitler died. What if they put on civilian clothing and blended in with he rest of the german population? What if they started using road side bombs and suicide bombers to keep on killing?
The Iraq is not a war we should have started. There are way to many fundalist (notice I didn’t say extremist) Muslims. I think would should have went after (and kept at it) Osama bin Laden. The problem with that is that the bin Ladens are good Bush friends. Why would Bush go after a family friend?
Not to mention that they can see we have fundamentalist Christians here. The Muslims consider this war as a war on Islam, not a war on terror. That is a huge mistake on our part.
August 5th, 2005 at 11:31 pm“Some of the violence you see in Iraq is being carried out by ruthless killers who are converging on Iraq to fight the advance of peace and freedom. Our military reports that we have killed or captured hundreds of foreign fighters in Iraq who have come from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and other nations.” Bush June 28, 2005, Fort Bragg, NC. While a lot of the insurgents are of the Iraqi Army, even more are pouring in from other countries to fight against us. The war was not inevitable, it was created by this “war president”.
If you do not recall Bush’s “secret air campaign” against Iraq in late 2002. Where we bombed the hell out of Iraq, months before congressional approval, or request of congressional approval for war. And as stated in the DSM’s the soul purpose of these bombings were to coax Saddam into retaliating against us, thus giving Bush an excuse for war. This failed, so he just had the intelligence and facts “fixed around the policy” conjoining Saddam with 9/11 and al queda, and accussing him of having WMD’s. The two only basis’s for war, there was nothing in his letter to congress about “freeing the Iraqi people”, why? Because it is unlawful to go to war on that premise. And yet now it’s the only real justification they’re giving.
August 5th, 2005 at 11:41 pmOkay Josh, Clinton bombed the hell out of Iraq in 1998 and 99. Killed lots of civilians. Hit some targets, missed some targets. What was his basis? Hmmmmmm?
BTW, you must not be aware of the Liberation of Iraq Act of 1998. Why is it one of the key reasons included in the joint resolution to authorize use of force?
August 6th, 2005 at 1:51 amMarie writes:
The damn fool should at least be embarrassed enough to stay in Washington and PRETEND to work. Oh, wait – I forgot. It takes a brain capable of abstract thoughts in order to feel embarrassed.
Young people are dying over there because of his lying arrogance and stubbornness. Iraqi children are sick and dying for the same reasons.
Saddam was a tyrant – no doubt – but the people had commerce, they had utilities, they had schools, they were functioning as a society.
She’s concerned about sick and dying people now, but thinks things were better under Saddam?! Maybe we’ll get to hear her defend mass graves, rape rooms, disappearing family members, assissinations, people arrested or losing appendages for publically denouncing Saddam. Oh, and children sick and dying because Saddam is siphoning off money for his fancy house. I can’t wait…
August 6th, 2005 at 1:59 amWhat is the PRIMARY reason why Bush spends so much time at the ranch?
SECURITY.
At the White House, he is exposed to far more personnel.
For a traitor like Bush, it’s hard to know who he can trust.
He also gets to laze around in casual clothes, but that’s just gravy.
August 6th, 2005 at 6:11 am“while our side is plotting our next big defeat�
That plot seems to be right on schedule for ‘06
Comment by cynical ex-hippie  August 5, 2005 @ 5:53 pm
ROTFLMAO! This NED guy has been observed lighting a match for illumination in a fireworks factory.
August 6th, 2005 at 7:32 amShe’s concerned about sick and dying people now, but thinks things were better under Saddam?!
Any Iraqi will tell you that things were far better under Saddam. Iraq was far better than Saudi Arabia. Steed has never been to either country. Doesn’t know any Iraqis or Saudis. Steed doesn’t know anything but what he’s told and would have a difficult time with the truth, it doesn’t fit his preconceived notions.
August 6th, 2005 at 7:36 amHere Steed, you ignorantly vile piece of human garbage, get out your purple band-aids. When the backlash comes, and it’s coming, mostly from the veterans who will be returning, angry at you, I hope people like you leave the country for fear of your own safety. I hope some of you, like you and NED and FBA, don’t make it out alive. Praise the Lord and pass the ammo, it’s time to shoot my treasonous neighbors.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3982783,00.html
Dead couple had marital problems
Soldier informed Army but wasn’t considered a risk
By Hector Gutierrez, Rocky Mountain News
August 6, 2005
A few days before apparently killing his wife and committing suicide, a soldier just back from Iraq told Army evaluators of his financial and marital problems. But they didn’t consider him a risk to himself or others.
“He was not flagged for any kind of mental health issues,” 1st Lt. Justin Journeay said Friday in reference to Stephen S. Sherwood. “There were no indicators.
“He said, from what I understand, that he was having a couple of financial issues and a marital issue, but it wasn’t considered serious at the time.”
Larimer County sheriff’s investigators said they learned that Sherwood’s wife, Sara, may have been involved with another man.
The 30-year-old woman was shot five times in the head and torso, the sheriff’s office said. Her husband then shot himself in the head.
A Larimer County SWAT team found the bodies in the couple’s Highland Acres home near Fort Collins on Wednesday night.
Sara Sherwood took their 15-month-old daughter to a neighbor’s home about two hours before the shooting so that she and her husband could talk about her relationship with the other man, investigators said.
A neighbor said he spoke with Stephen Sherwood a day before the apparent murder-suicide, and the former paramedic mentioned he was having family problems.
Sherwood had returned from Iraq with members of his 2nd Brigade Combat Team on July 25. He and other soldiers were allowed to go on 48-hour leaves after their arrival in Colorado, said Journeay, 7th Infantry Division and Fort Carson spokesman.
Sherwood then returned to the Army post where he went through “soldier readiness processing,” during which returning combat veterans receive mental and physical screenings.
During the mental evaluation, the staff found that Sherwood, 35, did not display any signs of distress when he disclosed that he had marital problems.
Had the staff detected that Sherwood was under severe duress, they may have required him to stay in the barracks to undergo further evaluation, Journeay said.
Army Community Services, which helps soldiers “reintegrate” with their families, is also available to counsel couples, Journeay said. The Army also provides resources for troops who would prefer to seek help in the civilian community.
However, Journeay said, “you can only offer” the services.
On Monday, Sherwood received the monthlong leave soldiers often get after returning from overseas, Journeay said.
Friends and neighbors said Sherwood had joined the Army so he could provide health care and financial support for his daughter. His wife was pregnant with their baby when Sherwood joined the Army in January 2004.
Sara Sherwood had left her job at the Hunt Club, a topless business in Fort Collins, about two weeks ago, said Aaron Bekkela, the bar owner.
The Sherwoods were planning to move to Colorado Springs, but neighbors said Sara was not pleased about having to relocate to El Paso County.
Bekkela refused to say how long Sara Sherwood worked at his business but said it had been “for a while.”
The bar has helped collect about $2,000 in donations from customers and other employees for the couple’s daughter.
Sara “was a very, very well- liked girl,” Bekkela said.
August 6th, 2005 at 7:43 am[...] Four years ago today. [...]
August 6th, 2005 at 10:31 amBush now in a “playful” mood.
1) Watch your backside Laura.
2) Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
August 6th, 2005 at 11:10 amBush is in a playful mood while our Troops are being slaughtered in Iraq. Hope all those “moral values” voters are proud.
August 6th, 2005 at 12:17 pmhttp://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/2005/08/foreknowledge.html
From 1789 until 1949, the U.S. Department of War was the executive military department of the United States. It later became the Department of the Army and was incorporated into the Department of Defense.
Perhaps, the DoD ought to change its name back to the “Department of War”, since before, during and even after September 11th, 2001, our illustrious Schizophrenic-in-Chief has shown more interest in waging war on other countries than in defending this one.
Future (and current) servicemen and women deserve “honest labeling” for what they are joining.
August 6th, 2005 at 12:46 pmRight folks… let’s all join hands, wear slippers and dance around a burning flag while we all destroy this nation… thank’s for all your help and support. I hope all our kids are speaking Arabic and beating their wives in about 15 years.
Allah bless all of you,
Don’t Tread on Me.
August 6th, 2005 at 1:47 pm“I hope all our kids are speaking Arabic and beating their wives in about 15 years.”
We know you do, that’s why republicans are dangerous. They’d rather ‘be right’ and have the country flush down the toilet, than do the right thing… It’s called the poison well syndrome.
I personally don’t care what language the country speaks, as long as it sheds the CONservative values that beat wives like you were obviously raised in.
The problem with idiots like you is that you don’t realize that because you’re a radical terrorist yourself, to us you look virtually identical to islamic terrorist. The problem isn’t islam, or arabs -it’s radical fundamentalism. The christian taliban is every bit as dangerous, as we’ve seen by the oklahoma and olympic bombings, as well as the numerours assasinations of abortion doctors, torture of prisoners, and bombings of black churches and gay bar. From where I sit, murder in the name of christianity looks no different from murder in the name of islam – I’m against it all!
As for the reason we’re in this mess, radical right wingers like you always forget to metnion BushI trained and funded alqueda, and put troops in Saudia Arabia. And yet you blame liberals? It must take a lot of effort to retain your fantasy world!
August 6th, 2005 at 2:11 pmNo Head on Me,
Go screw yourself. Not everyone of us wants to join hands, sing and have sit ins. Some of of kick more ass than the weak ass NeoCons. Here is an example of why Liberals kick more ass. Because we are the ones in the military you jerk. The NeoCOns start the wars, but we are the ones who fight them. Why, because rich people (aka NeoCons), such as Bush don’t go to war. Their rich friends keep them out of it.
Go take your NeoCon bullshit and blow it out your ass or blow it up your nose like your fearless (yeah right) leader.
August 6th, 2005 at 2:18 pmAnother Anniversary, Another Vacation
Besides the historic anniversary I mentioned in my last post, today is the fourth anniversary of the President’s Daily Brief titled “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US”. Read Faiz at Think Progress for the similarities between Augu…
August 6th, 2005 at 3:15 pmRight folks… let’s all join hands, wear slippers and dance around a burning flag while we all destroy this nation… thank’s for all your help and support. I hope all our kids are speaking Arabic and beating their wives in about 15 years.
Allah bless all of you,
Far out! Party at the headless guy’s pad!
August 6th, 2005 at 3:28 pmHey! Dipshit! If you don’t pass out drunk on the street every night, yuo won’t get tread upon. You derelict
August 6th, 2005 at 3:30 pmAmen, SpudgeBoy!
August 6th, 2005 at 3:32 pmShould we be mad at Bush for his insincerity and inhumanity or should we focus that anger at every single person who voted for him? I go for the latter.
August 6th, 2005 at 3:59 pmYou have a point Austin. Bush (for now) is untouchable. He could care less that half of the country hates his ass. We need to be up front and loud with anybody that voted him back into office. What it is going to take (sadly) is another 9/11 to make these morons realize that not only are we not safer than before 9/11, but in actuality, we are very much more less safe.
Bush picked a fight with Islam, not Iraq. He is getting close to starting World War III and the people who voted for him, i believe, want that. WHy? because that would bring about the “rapture” and all the good Christians can go to heaven.
I say “Why wait? Go kill yourself and you can be with God now.” Then they would say “Suicide is a sin and will cause you to go to hell.” To that I say “Go to a middle eastern country and proclaim your a Christian.” That will get you killed, which is not a sin.
August 6th, 2005 at 4:08 pmSadly, I am not surprized by anything BushCo does anymore. Vacationing while so many people (soldiers and cilvilians) are suffering, starving and dying throughout the world. Shame on Duhbya and anyone who supports him. Shame on you all…
August 6th, 2005 at 4:34 pm#138, Mack, Sadly, I agree with you. Whenever I think Bush & Co. can get no worse, they surprise me with their ability to exceed my expectations. He should be ashamed of his 6 hour work day, and his record of vacation time. He claims this is “hard work.” I guess it is hard work for one like himself who never had to work for a living. People are suffering in America, children are without health care, old people are unable to afford their prescriptions, and worst of all, our young people are dying in a war he started under false pretenses because he thought it would be an easy way to gain a foothold in the oil-rich part of the world. If he were as “christian” as he proclaims, he would be too embarrased and sad to vacation, he would be begging our forgiveness for his errors, and he would be praying to his God for mercy.
August 6th, 2005 at 6:47 pmWe are not at war with Iraq, we are at war with Iran, we have always been at war with Iran….
August 6th, 2005 at 7:08 pmI see where the New York Post has urged The Vacation President to attend the funeral in Brookpark, Ohio for the killed Marines.
August 6th, 2005 at 7:27 pmDoes anybody feel “the compassionate conservative” will stop removing brush on his pretend-ranch long enough to go pay respects for the men who he sent to Iraq?
Na, I think Bush will stay at his ranch and play as long as he can, oblivious to the real world. Meanwhile his base will continue running this country for him and no doubt the soldiers are the last thing on these peoples minds, what with all the money still to be made from this war and future wars.
Albert, “If there is hope, it lies in the proles.” Or poles for that matter.
August 6th, 2005 at 8:31 pmI guess those four years can be added to 1994 when Clinton got the first PDB will actually stated Bojoinka’s intent to use planes as missiles, but thank god Clinton did so much against al-Qaida (snicker, snicker)
August 6th, 2005 at 9:35 pmI wonder if the village is happy it’s idiot is home for 5 weeks?
August 6th, 2005 at 10:11 pmExclusive: CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853000/site/newsweek/
Kerry was right.
August 7th, 2005 at 11:31 amShould we be mad at Bush for his insincerity and inhumanity or should we focus that anger at every single person who voted for him? I go for the latter.
Tough call… both. Just to be on the safe side.
August 7th, 2005 at 11:33 ambinladen works for bush sr.period.always has always will-and until we get our heads out of the sand-ol man bush won’t be happy till we’re all enslaved or dead-that’ll teach us for not reelecting him!
August 7th, 2005 at 12:43 pmStop the israeli pullout! Don’t let the ragheads take any more land! We don’t need these intolerant SOB’s with their wife-beating, civilian killing, Western-hating crap any longer! RISE UP AND STOP THE INTOLERANCE OF THE MUSLIMS AND ARABS!
August 7th, 2005 at 1:56 pmThe Islamic movement for the introduction of the Muslim Sharia law in Nigeria has picked up pace. On Monday a woman in Nigeria was condemned to death by
stoning for having a child out of wedlock. Please click on the link below, and
sign the open letter to the President of Nigeria appealing to him to stop
this. It won’t take a moment. The link below takes you straight to Amnesty International.
STOP THE MUSLIMS FROM SPREADING THEIR INTOLERANT HATRED AND INJUSTICE AROUND THE WORLD.
Don’t Tread on Me.
http://www.mertonai.org/amina/OpenLetter.htm
August 7th, 2005 at 1:59 pmHey progressives… isn’t this that lovely culture we must spread through peace, diversity, love, and understanding?
August 7th, 2005 at 2:02 pmhttp://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/r/reynalds/04/reynalds072904-graphic.htm
Stop the Zionist Spies!
http://antiwar.com/justin/
August 7th, 2005 at 2:18 pmHey No Head On Me,
Is it irony that the two Pakistanis that were killed worked for Kellogg, Brown and Root, a Haliburton subsidiary?
And the answer to your question is: If we weren’t in Iraq illegally, those two Pakistanis wouldn’t have been working for a Haliburton company and therefore would not have been killed for “working for the infidels.”
You need to think a little harder. Get some of the stagnent, coagulated brains juices of yours working.
August 7th, 2005 at 3:38 pmKneel before ZOG! Pray For Bush!
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2696650p-9133919c.html
Council hopeful doomed by Web
Supremacist postings revealed
By TIM WHITMIRE, The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE — A city council candidate dropped out of the race Friday after it was disclosed that he posted comments to a white supremacist Internet bulletin board more than 4,000 times.
Doug Hanks said the postings on the site were fictional and designed to win white supremacists’ trust as he researched a novel he was writing.
“I needed information for the book and some other writings I was doing,” Hanks told The Associated Press on Friday. “Obviously, when you go to a site like that as a reporter, nobody’s going to give you the time of day. I did what I thought I needed to do to establish myself as a credible white nationalist.”
Hanks’ 4,000 postings to the Web site over the past three years were first reported Thursday by The Rhinoceros Times, a weekly newspaper.
Web postings
In a June 1 posting, Hanks wrote: “When Blacks start acting equally, only then will they enjoy the benefits of being treated equally. I treat a rabid dog differently from a healthy one. In fact, this gives me a terrific idea! Let’s treat all the Blacks like the rabid beasts they are. ‘Yeller! Here Boy!’ ”
Michael Dickerson, director of elections for Mecklenburg County, said Hanks formally withdrew from the race Friday morning. Hanks had filed papers seeking the Republican nomination for one of four at-large seats on Charlotte’s council.
Hanks’ novel, called “Patriot Act” and self-published under the name D.A. Hanks, is described on Hanks’ Web site as ” ‘Unintended Consequences’ and ‘Harrison Bergeron’ meets ‘The Turner Diaries’. … The book presents some unique methods of improvising weaponry when our guns are banned, as well as preparing and caching your weapons when that inevitable day arrives.” The Web site also advertises an 80-page guide by Hanks that tells how to build a rifle “that requires no Government paperwork!”
Seeking an audience
Hanks told the AP that he thinks the Patriot Act has sent the nation sliding “downhill into a totalitarian society” but that he wanted his novel about it to appeal to more than just “the gun crowd.”
“I saw how successful these ‘Turner Diaries’ had been, and that was the path to take,” he said.
“The Turner Diaries,” a racist novel by William Pierce that begins with a truck bombing of FBI headquarters as part of a war against the government, is thought to have inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
“That [white supremacist readership] was who I was trying to target for better sales of the book,” he said. “They have more of a tendency to word of mouth, to say, ‘Hey, you ought to pick this up.’ ”
Hanks, who describes himself as a contractor, minister and conservation officer, was active in a debate last winter over whether a Confederate battle flag would be allowed to fly over a public cemetery in Charlotte. In January, he scaled a flagpole and reattached the flag. The city later removed both the flag and the pole.
But he said his support for that fight was distinct from racist beliefs.
“I believe wholeheartedly that the Confederate flag was [taken] down for the wrong reasons,” he said Friday. “If there had been a black regimental flag there, I would have done the same thing.”
Republican Mayor Pat McCrory condemned Hanks.
“He’s a man of total inner hatred in both his heart and soul, and it doesn’t matter what party he’s in,” McCrory said.
http://rogerailes.blogspot.com/2005_07_31_rogerailes_archive.html#112334607129736592
August 7th, 2005 at 4:04 pmprotest to send Bush’s daughter’s to Iraq to fight his war.
August 7th, 2005 at 6:21 pmGeorge Bush is the reason that when I turn 18 I am going to vote ! I’m seriously going to pray that never again will we end up with someone like him as president again .. I have nothing but bitter, and negative feelings towards this man .. He makes me sick.. how can he PossiBly find so much time to himself when everything you could possibly think of is going wrong in this freaken country ??!! Greed and Money is the root of all evil .
August 8th, 2005 at 4:01 amAny questions by reporters or comments from Da Prez about the 4,400,000 pounds of radioactive depleted uranium weapons that have been used so far in Iraq? With a half-life of 4.5 Billion years they will turn Iraq into a death zone for a loooong time to come so any questions or comments on the now and in the future useless – due to background radiation – oil fields? Irradiating both innocent Iraqi civilians and American forces and creating inescapable diseases among those innocent civilians and American forces for generations to come, as well as destroying the profit source for which the invasion was undertaken, would seem to be rather counter-productive. Or is Da Prez just jealous of the commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the first use of radioactive weapons on innocent civilians and wanted to get his licks in?
August 8th, 2005 at 4:58 amGeorge Bush is the reason that when I turn 18 I am going to vote ! I’m seriously going to pray that never again will we end up with someone like him as president again .. I have nothing but bitter, and negative feelings towards this man .. He makes me sick.. how can he PossiBly find so much time to himself when everything you could possibly think of is going wrong in this freaken country ??!! Greed and Money is the root of all evil .
Comment by Sherree  August 8, 2005 @ 4:01 am
Well said, Sherree. Young people like you will change the face of this country from ugly and hateful to hopeful and proud to be an American again. Thank you. You made my day.
August 8th, 2005 at 9:03 amBy the feel of the web blogs (all of them) he picked the perfect time to vacate! As a matter of fact he’s probably skipped the country along with all his cronies and his family…extended and otherwise.
August 8th, 2005 at 9:21 amNEXT ELECTION American’s need to remember the lie’s and the sneaky behavior from The Bush Administration and see to it that Laura Bush NEVER has a chance to win the Presidency in 2008, If Laura Bush is elected, I can promise you all of you we will be at war again another four years
August 8th, 2005 at 12:08 pmLaura Bush? you really think people would vote for that robotic woman?
August 8th, 2005 at 1:24 pmThe people that re-elected George W Bush are the one’s we have to worry about , we can only wait for his term to end. In 2008 we need Hilary Clinton to restore the true values to our country in which our country once stood for.
August 8th, 2005 at 4:28 pmOHH !! robotic ? i was thinking drag queen, but if you look at her , dont she kinda look like Michael Jackson (nothing against MJ)
Offered into the discussion as an attempt at capturing my feelings (and the feelings of so many, many others) at what evil this man and his administration have wrought over the last five years (so far).
Oh, and to NED, I think Homer Simpson said it best:
SHUT UP, FLANDERS!!!!!!!
I’m looking for a title for this, any suggestions welcomed. I wanted “While my country gently weeps”, but then, it’s not my country (I’m Irish).
Anyway, I’m working on it, so if yez like it let me know and I’ll post more verses.
Be safe
Troll
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The Thief of Baghdad hides in Crawford now:
“Victory will be ours in Iraq!” (But how?)
A legacy of hatred from a frighened man:
Greed and the need to topple Saddam.
Sending all the women, sending all the men
To war, but not his daughters — not them!
Fighting for Democracy, Freedom, Right and God —
(Never mind that the intelligence was flawed!)
The neverending war must go on and on and on
Till all your sons and daughters are gone.
Then while Osama relaxes at Bush’s right hand
Their children can go and fight in a foreign land.
(A dreadful calm, a cold silence descends, and the Beast speaks — hear the clinking of dollars in its awful, bloody, oily voice!)
I’ll be gone by ‘08, but it’s alreayd far too late!
August 9th, 2005 at 8:13 amViolence begets violence and hate fosters hate.
There’s no way out, there’s no way back:
The future ahead is bloody and black.
By the rocket’s red glare, the terrified stares,
The screams of despair and the wealth I won’t share,
I’m over here and you’re over there.
(That may not seem terribly fair
But you elected me, and you can’t change your mind
Even after all the death-warrants I’ve signed).
Bush repeat’s history ( check this out )
August 11th, 2005 at 4:32 pmhttp://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1
of course bush was nonchalant when informed of bin laden’s threats-daddy hasn’t issued bin ladens orders yet,so why should jr worry?they know exactly what bin ladens up to cuz they finance him.osamas been their boy for a long long time-since 1976 at least.he was the point man for the mujahedeen against the soviets and was a go between with ollie north in the exchange of stinger missiles to iran for the hostages.and now he’s public enemy #1-much like noriega was before the first bush experiment with regime change.”Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it”
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