Politics: J'accuse!

[bilmore]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
George Bush & John Kerry: Blood Brothers
By Victor Thorn

Feb 16, 2004

I was gonna yell at you, 'cuz we've already got someone here who keeps quoting Josh, until I realized that he used a pen name for this one, and you couldn't have known.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
The franchise moved to Phoenix and now has Gretzky as Director of Operations

No, you misunderstand. I went to sleep during the Our Lady of Immaculate Cleanliness Drama Club's production of "West Side Story". Boorrrring.

How'd it end?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
George Bush & John Kerry: Blood Brothers
By Victor Thorn

Feb 16, 2004

From: http://www.aljazeerah.info

So Ralph Nader is writing for Al Jazeerah now?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
George Bush & John Kerry: Blood Brothers
By Victor Thorn

Heh. It's all about the bloodlines, baby.

[SlaveNoMore]

Sexual Harassment Panda
No, you misunderstand. I went to sleep during the Our Lady of Immaculate Cleanliness Drama Club's production of "West Side Story". Boorrrring.

How'd it end?

She drowns. And her husband opens a detective agency with wife number #2 and a butler named Max

[Not Me]

http://news.bostonherald.com/nationa...articleid=1774

WASHINGTON - Teresa Heinz Kerry's vast wealth is no secret on the presidential campaign trail - but when it comes to her tax returns, it's a different story.

``As she is not a candidate for any office, she will not be making additional disclosures,'' said Jeff Lewis, Heinz Kerry's chief of staff.

Unlike her candidate-husband, Sen. John F. Kerry, Heinz Kerry said yesterday she won't make public her income tax returns, Lewis said.

Heinz Kerry's personal wealth has been an issue in Kerry's campaign - with opponents suggesting repeatedly the Bay State senator is likely to dip into his wife's wealth if he falters against President Bush.

By most estimates, he'd have a lot of dipping to do.

Heinz Kerry, heiress to the Heinz ketchup millions, has an estimated worth of about $550 million - including primary ownership of four family homes in Idaho, on Nantucket, in rural Pennsylvania and in the Georgetown section of Washington.

So far in the campaign, Heinz Kerry has said she doesn't plan to use her wealth to bolster her husband. She gave the legal limit, $2,000, to his campaign and legally can't use shared assets to assist him. But she has noted several times that, if fired upon, she might fire back in so-called ``issue ads'' to help - which is legal as long as the ads aren't coordinated with the campaign.

``Teresa has First Amendment rights to speak on issues just like anyone else and she reserves her right to do that,'' Lewis said during the primary fight in February.

``All she has said is that, in the event she is attacked, the family is attacked, and it is an issue of family honor, she would defend herself and she would defend her family.''

Politicians aren't required to release their tax returns, though most do so voluntarily. The Kerrys have always filed separate returns, allowing Heinz Kerry to keep most of the family's secrets. Lewis noted that Heinz Kerry since 1995 has provided information about her finances on her husband's annual financial disclosure reports.

Kerry released his federal tax returns earlier this week, reporting $395,338 in income and $70,575 in taxes paid.

If Republicans choose to make an issue of the tax return dodge, they could compare it to the decision by Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro of New York to release the returns of her businessman husband, John Zaccaro, in 1984.

The Democrats ceded to press and Republican pressure, but complained bitterly that questions were being raised about Zaccaro's business ties because of the couple's Italian-American heritage.

That year's nominee, Walter Mondale, said recently that the release ended up showing the pair overpaid their taxes. But it did prove a potent distraction, he said.

[Atticus Grinch]

Whoever on this board said "popes never critcize other popes publicly" is pretty much eating crow now.

What's really rude is not that the Pope waited 800 years finally to take mitre in hand and apologize --- after all, he's a very busy man --- but that the Patriarch waited a full three years to accept the apology. I'm sure the Pope was on pins and needles.

I say it takes a really withered nutsack holding some balls of solid brass to apologize for an medieval act of war. Have the Huns apologized? The Visigoths? There's no precedent for this. I say, "kudos," unless that means "double anal" in Polish.

[SlaveNoMore]

Atticus Grinch
Whoever on this board said "popes never critcize other popes publicly" is pretty much eating crow now.

What's really rude is not that the Pope waited 800 years finally to take mitre in hand and apologize --- after all, he's a very busy man --- but that the Patriarch waited a full three years to accept the apology. I'm sure the Pope was on pins and needles.

I say it takes a really withered nutsack holding some balls of solid brass to apologize for an medieval act of war. Have the Huns apologized? The Visigoths? There's no precedent for this. I say, "kudos," unless that means "double anal" in Polish.

I woulda called that one "Bartholomew and the Pope-blech"

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Whoever on this board said "popes never critcize other popes publicly" is pretty much eating crow now.

What's really rude is not that the Pope waited 800 years finally to take mitre in hand and apologize --- after all, he's a very busy man --- but that the Patriarch waited a full three years to accept the apology. I'm sure the Pope was on pins and needles.

I say it takes a really withered nutsack holding some balls of solid brass to apologize for an medieval act of war. Have the Huns apologized? The Visigoths? There's no precedent for this. I say, "kudos," unless that means "double anal" in Polish.

I'd say this was an Opus Dei directed compromise, but I saw a show at the detroit Masonic Temple the other night and there were clear signs of this shit coming in the carvings around the second urinal from the right. That was built in '32, so this pope didn't come up with it.

Plus, if you'd followed the Vatican, you'd know this pope is simply taking orders from the Cardinal of Paris, and that sum bitch can't apologize to some other group quick enough.

[Shape Shifter]

I don't really think this qualifies as Dem on Dem bashing, but it's some pretty hot Lefty on Lefty action.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._michael_moore

(Nader to Moore: "Your endorsed presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries has withdrawn. It is time for you to come home, to join your buddies and resume your only genuine role which is that of defiance and resistance.")

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'd say this was an Opus Dei directed compromise, but I saw a show at the detroit Masonic Temple the other night and there were clear signs of this shit coming in the carvings around the second urinal from the right. That was built in '32, so this pope didn't come up with it.

Plus, if you'd followed the Vatican, you'd know this pope is simply taking orders from the Cardinal of Paris, and that sum bitch can't apologize to some other group quick enough.

Hank, when you write things like this, it makes me think you drink at work. NTTAWWT.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I don't really think this qualifies as Dem on Dem bashing, but it's some pretty hot Lefty on Lefty action.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._michael_moore

(Nader to Moore: "Your endorsed presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries has withdrawn. It is time for you to come home, to join your buddies and resume your only genuine role which is that of defiance and resistance.")

Moore is nothing more than a run of the mill opportunist.

The best part of that link was finding out that MoveOn.org is having a bake sale to raise funds for Kerry.

[Not Me]

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994888

• Climate scientists have been stirred to ridicule claims in an upcoming Hollywood blockbuster that global warming could trigger a new ice age, a scenario also put forward in a controversial report to the US military.
  
  The $125-million epic, The Day After Tomorrow, opens worldwide in May. It will show Manhattan frozen solid after the warm ocean current known as the Gulf Stream shuts down.
  
  The movie's release will come soon after a report to the US Department of Defense (DoD) in February predicting that such a shutdown could put the northern hemisphere into a deep freeze and trigger global famine within 15 years.
  
  But in the journal Science on Thursday, Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, surveys the current research and concludes "it is safe to say that global warming will not lead to the onset of a new ice age".

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by Not Me
Moore is nothing more than a run of the mill opportunist.

The best part of that link was finding out that MoveOn.org is having a bake sale to raise funds for Kerry.

I plan to buy a $500 brownie. It better be good.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Not Me
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994888

Just now getting to your daily Drudge? Did you miss this one?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...7m16zinni.html

"Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni wondered aloud yesterday how Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could be caught off guard by the chaos in Iraq that has killed nearly 100 Americans in recent weeks and led to his announcement that 20,000 U.S. troops would be staying there instead of returning home as planned.

"I'm surprised that he is surprised because there was a lot of us who were telling him that it was going to be thus," said Zinni, a Marine for 39 years and the former commander of the U.S. Central Command. "Anyone could know the problems they were going to see. How could they not?"

At a Pentagon news briefing yesterday, Rumsfeld said he could not have estimated how many troops would be killed in the past week. "

. . .

"For years Zinni said he cautioned U.S. officials that an Iraq without Saddam Hussein would likely be more dangerous to U.S. interests than one with him because of the ethnic and religious clashes that would be unleashed.

"I think that some heads should roll over Iraq," Zinni said. "I think the president got some bad advice." "

. . .

"Zinni said the United States must now rely on the U.N. to pull its "chestnuts out of the fire in Iraq."

"We're betting on the U.N., who we blew off and ridiculed during the run-up to the war," Zinni said. "Now we're back with hat in hand. It would be funny if not for the lives lost." "