Politics As Usual

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Soooooooo, you have a choice. Either he is crazy or . . . "Gore Lied, Gore Lied"!

Alternately, he actually believed the Admin's statements about WMD. Hell, I did (yeah, I'm a sucker).

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Alternately, he actually believed the Admin's statements about WMD. Hell, I did (yeah, I'm a sucker).

That would be an alternative only for the post 9/11 remarks. How do you explain the pre?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by sgtclub
That would be an alternative only for the post 9/11 remarks. How do you explain the pre?

I explain it by saying that you really need a vacation.


(Hint: Both June 24, 2004, and February 22, 2002 are post-9/11)

(if you intend me to read the blog you posted, I'll pass. I don't even read Ty's blogs)

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Alternately, he actually believed the Admin's statements about WMD. Hell, I did (yeah, I'm a sucker).

You mean the Clinton administration's statements, right? I mean fuck it had only been a little more than a year since he'd been VP.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I explain it by saying that you really need a vacation.


(Hint: Both June 24, 2004, and February 22, 2002 are post-9/11)

(if you intend me to read the blog you posted, I'll pass. I don't even read Ty's blogs)

That is what I intended, but fair enough.

[Replaced_Texan]

I understand that there's a fiscal crisis going on in California, but this just seems horrible. If I still lived in California, I'd be tattooing, microchipping, tagging, and otherwise making sure that the Displaced Dog had plenty of identification, just in case the shelters got a hold of him.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/177/..._speed_:.shtml

Schwarzenegger seeks to speed killing of strays in shelters to save money
By Associated Press, 6/25/2004 08:51

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to repeal a state law that requires animal shelters to hold stray dogs and cats for up to six days before killing them.

Instead, there would be a three-day requirement for strays. Other animals, including birds, hamsters, potbellied pigs, rabbits, snakes and turtles, could be killed immediately.

Schwarzenegger has told the state Legislature that the changes could save local governments that operate shelters up to $14 million.

ETA: I will support him on the snake killing. *shiver*

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I understand that there's a fiscal crisis going on in California, but this just seems horrible.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/177/..._speed_:.shtml

Schwarzenegger seeks to speed killing of strays in shelters to save money
By Associated Press, 6/25/2004 08:51

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to repeal a state law that requires animal shelters to hold stray dogs and cats for up to six days before killing them.

Instead, there would be a three-day requirement for strays. Other animals, including birds, hamsters, potbellied pigs, rabbits, snakes and turtles, could be killed immediately.

Schwarzenegger has told the state Legislature that the changes could save local governments that operate shelters up to $14 million.

"My vellow Kaleevornyens, vee vill terminate zee spezhul interests und zee puppeez und kittenz az vell!"

[SlaveNoMore]

Sidd Finch
Alternately, he actually believed the Admin's statements about WMD. Hell, I did (yeah, I'm a sucker).

Wasn't HE the Admin for 8 long years ? Or did the Gorelick Wall prevent him from speaking to anyone?


"I'm the boss...need the info"

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

Other animals, including . . . potbellied pigs. . . could be killed immediately.

Look! BACON, HANK, BAAAACON!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Look! BACON, HANK, BAAAACON!

Maybe. But remember it's California. They'll kill them "humanely' and that'll involve sedititives, and that'll spoil the meat. Shoot if it weren't for the humane killing thing, Taco Cabana would offer to outsource the whole service, all species. That could result in net income.

This is rEcockulous. Of course, I can't think of a better demonstration of Republican priorities than forcing 500,000 commuters to walk through a pedestrian cattle chute so the fat cats in MSG can conduct their GWB ass-licking ceremonies undisturbed.

Oh, and Bloomberg Lied.

Confidential to half the board: it's from the NYT so you can assume it's false and stop reading now.

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June 25, 2004
New York to Close Area Near G.O.P. Convention to Traffic
By WINNIE HU and MICHAEL SLACKMAN

The New York City Police Department plans to shut down several Midtown thoroughfares during the Republic National Convention in August, essentially closing the area around Madison Square Garden to the public and letting protesters get only as close as one corner of the garden.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, outlined for the first time today an ambitious security undertaking that would effectively channel all commuters coming out of Penn Station to a pedestrian corridor down 32nd Street and set up a barricaded lane in front of the convention site to search under cars with platform-mounted cameras.

Mayor Bloomberg previously asserted that the convention would be largely invisible to most New Yorkers. But speaking on his weekly radio show, he said that his priority was to keep the city safe, and maintained that the heightened security measures would not, for the most part, interfere with city life during the slow summer season. In what has become a common refrain, the mayor declared, "If you don't live or work in the Garment District, you won't even know that there's a convention in town."

But the shutdown of streets would affect large parts of Midtown Manhattan. Police officials plan to close off 13 blocks of Seventh Avenue, spanning the Garment District to Times Square, and 11 blocks of Eighth Avenue south of 34th Street during the one morning and four evenings that the convention is actually in session.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will reroute buses on both avenues. Subway commuters will be strongly urged to use stations other than those at 34th Street. And the police will essentially put Madison Square Garden in a concrete box, with barricades around the entire perimeter of the arena.

In describing the measures, the mayor also reminded radio listeners that the Republican convention would benefit the city as a whole, saying that it would generate an estimated $250 million for the local economy and create thousands of jobs. "So this is a good economic deal for the city," the mayor said. "The disruptions will be a little bit annoying but minimal. There's no reason for businesses to close down."

But many Midtown residents, business owners and advocates for transportation groups complained today that the convention was more trouble than it was worth.

[SlaveNoMore]

ironweed
This is rEcockulous. Of course, I can't think of a better demonstration of Republican priorities than forcing 500,000 commuters to walk through a pedestrian cattle chute so the fat cats in MSG can conduct their GWB ass-licking ceremonies undisturbed.

On the other hand, "If you're to going/to Boston Beantown/be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"

As I hear there's going to be nothing be free love, good times and dancing in the streets during the Democratic Convention.

There's even a rumour that all the cops are going to be given the week off.

Oh, and Bloomberg Lied.

Of course he did, silly. He's a former Democrat.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
On the other hand, "If you're to going/to Boston Beantown/be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"

As I hear there's going to be nothing be free love, good times and dancing in the streets during the Democratic Convention.

I was actually thinking about going and posing as a Deaniac, just for the free love.

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
On the other hand, "If you're to going/to Boston Beantown/be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"

As I hear there's going to be nothing be free love, good times and dancing in the streets during the Democratic Convention.

There's even a rumour that all the cops are going to be given the week off.

You and I both know that more people use Penn Station on a daily basis than have ever set foot in Boston. When did you start caring about what happens in Boston? Weak, dude, weak.*

*Which reminds me, last night I met the guy who does the Jim Anchower column for The Onion and got to do my "I'm not worthy" kowtow. It so totally rocked.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Wasn't HE the Admin for 8 long years ? Or did the Gorelick Wall prevent him from speaking to anyone?


"I'm the boss...need the info"

Good point.

Let me say this:

Gore's a twit. Gore will say whatever he thinks he needs to to garner popularity. Worse yet, he has a shocking inability actualy to figure out what that is. He is also about as exciting as a root canal.

Take away the hot daughters, and Gore is basically a walking prostate gland married to a case of jock itch. Seriously, he was the worst fucking candidate the Dems have fielded since.... well, it's a tough crowd, but even in that crowd he stands out. Clinton did the party a royal disservice by backing Gore, almost as bad a disservice as he did by getting his dick sucked by Skankinsky and lying about it.*

Now, how embarassing is it that more people voted for him than for Bush?


*This is, in truth, how I feel about Gore. My initial response to Club was motivated more by my own personal feeling of having reluctantly supported the Iraq war based on WMD evidence (though I thought Bush's handling of the diplomacy was pathetic, made marginally better only in comparison to Chirac's diplomatic incompetence), only to realize that I'd been misled.