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Friday, Sep 03, 2004
demanding satisfaction
the general gives zell his due.
classs act
fred kaplan skools the repug speeches.
pasucki
listening to pataki makes me yearn for a euphonious al gore. i look forward to the day when he is the republican candidate for president. here is a man that can make people enthusiastic about a kerry candidacy.
factored in
who found the factor?
Thursday, Sep 02, 2004
kiss off
"Keep the focus on the president's manifest record of failure and he loses this election. Simple as that."
la kings
poor little tv execs lost an opportunity today to exploit the rich careless black athlete and the poor confused little white girl. youd think msnbc could pay her off to keep up the charade. if she understood it was for the sake of ratings maybe shed relent. now all we have to look forward to is the new season of The OC. dawg.
Wednesday, Sep 01, 2004
fallow the leader
"[T]he biggest question... whether [the Bush] response to 9/11 has made [America] safer or more vulnerable.... Over the past two years I have been talking with a group of people at the working level of America's anti-terrorism efforts... no partisan ax to grind with the Administration... they have so far been proved right. In the year before combat started in Iraq, they warned that occupying the country would be far harder than conquering it.... [A]mong national-security professionals there is surprisingly little controversy... America's response to 9/11 [was] a catastrophe. I have sat through arguments among soldiers and scholars about whether the invasion of Iraq should be considered the worst strategic error in American history—or only the worst since Vietnam.... "Let me tell you my gut feeling," a senior figure at one of America's military-sponsored think tanks told me recently, after we had talked for twenty minutes about details of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. "If I can be blunt, the Administration is full of shit. In my view we are much, much worse off now than when we went into Iraq. That is not a partisan position. I voted for these guys. But I think they are incompetent, and I have had a very close perspective on what is happening. Certainly in the long run we have harmed ourselves. We are playing to the enemy's political advantage. Whatever tactical victories we may gain along the way, this will prove to be a strategic blunder.".."
dig deeper
"Jim Lobe argues that the FBI investigation that caught up Pentagon Iran expert Lawrence Franklin is much wider than initially thought, and focuses on the unauthorized transfer to Israel of highly sophisticated military software and designs."
not equal too
"The middle class and working poor are told that what's happening to them is the consequence of Adam Smith's 'Invisible Hand.' This is a lie. What's happening to them is the direct consequence of corporate activism, intellectual propaganda, the rise of a religious orthodoxy that in its hunger for government subsidies has made an idol of power, and a string of political decisions favoring the powerful and the privileged who bought the political system right out from under us." -- Bill Moyers, Keynote speech, June 3, 2004"
not it
id like to nominate jenna and her giggly twin to the drat fink - not terribly serious (apparently) hall of something for their spirited takedown of the republican agenda.
