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Hey, I kid the Saudis, but I love 'em.
The Bush administration distanced itself yesterday from a Pentagon briefing that described Saudi Arabia as an adversary of the United States and a backer of terrorism, with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld saying it doesn't represent the views of the U.S. government and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell repeating that message in a call to the Saudi foreign minister.
Well, except maybe for Powell, who probably wasn't invited to the original briefing.
Rand Corp "analyst" who gave briefing follower of LaRouche
Also apparently hangs with Richard Perle, so his delusions pretty much cover the waterfront.
Meanwhile, from Sunday's Op Ed section of administration spokespaper the Washington Post: Greatest risk to America... Saudi state religion
So someone missed a meeting, is what I'm getting at.
Bush, seeking to staff the front lines of our nation's defense, somehow skips right over National Guard where there are quite a few experienced professional military people who the president already controls, most of whom are required to show up for work.
What the Republican faithful need right now is a little nostalgie de la boue
Reagan still has alzheimers, you'll be surprised to learn. In related news: Francisco Franco looking peaked.
Pooch lights cigarette, asks when Cheney can get away again
But wait! As it turns out, the Bush family has a great big interest in the firm with the asbestos liabilities, so maybe Mr. Cheney got exceptionally good value for his money.
Halliburton, on the other hand, is well and truly screwed. (They sluffed due diligence because Cheney was such a sophisticate. Now they're probably going bankrupt).
Resume-inflating racist soldier-for-hire anthrax suspect says government has ruined his reputation, presumably by introducing him to people who don't admire that sort of thing.
Philip Roth meets Nicole Kidman
This is some sort of pop culture apotheosis, but my mind is doing that amoeba-and-glass-pipette thing about what kind.
Government support of education averts nuclear war
India decided not to blow up the world because it would hurt the bottom line. They have one, see, because they educate people. Which is why America's newest middle class is on the other side of the world.
No analogy springs to mind.
Huh?
Melvin van Peebles takes credit for african-american cinema in new documentary. Apparently Oscar Micheaux, who wrote, produced and directed fortysomething independent films starting in 1919, didn't take the germinal step of making his hero a pimp.
TIPS program scaled back some more
Now only intended to cover truckers and dockworkers. We'll have to see if the Hoffa kid wants to stay in office badly enough to put the teamsters in the forefront of this public relations disaster.
My beloved Molly
Civil libertarians have a slight tendency to look as though we've just been fired out of a cannon. We are forever hearing the sounds of jackbooted Fascism approaching. Nearly every time someone complains about a dirty movie theater or a KKK rally, we can be counted upon to leap up and announce that the First Amendment is in dire peril. To be a good civil libertarian is to spend one's life in a fairly constant state of alarm, which leaves the group somewhat frazzled.
I think we can clearly see Ann Coulter's point here, can't we?
Nevada looking a little blue these days
Party like there's nuclear waste on a fault line down the road!
Perfectly wonderful attack on Delaware
Bush uses recess appointment to put contributor into Agriculture post
Confirmation wasn't looking too good, given his past farm subsidy fraud (says all his friends do it) and that whole success in farm counties linked to whiteness thing (which, in fairness, the consent decree would tend to bear out). Oh, and he's against subsidies for family farms. Actually fought against them. Calls the recipients peasants with too many cars.
Way to court the farm states, guys.
In the Times
Our old friend State Sen Espada explains what the meaning of "isn't" is
He's off the Democratic ballot, which he says isn't fair, because even though calls to his campaign are answered by the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, his district is 11-to-1 Democratic, so if he runs as a Republican no-one will vote for him.
He's becoming quite a pet of mine, State Sen Espada. He gives me joy practically every time he hits the papers.
The State Senate's not giving up, though
Redistricting goodies went to Democrats who might be willing to switch after November.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Les gens bushistes say we're not subject to international environmental laws outside the three mile limit from our shores. Forward-thinking dolphins packing.
and while we're at it... you can let our soldiers commit atrocities against your people or you can starve. Your call. Don't feel pressured. Get back to us, OK?
Energy Department letting Lockheed off the hook for nuclear mess in Kentucky, maybe
Whistleblower lawsuit stalled two years by Justice Department, Mrs. Cheney former Lockheed board member, definitely.
Sarah Baartman buried in South Africa
The end of a long ugly story.
Life imitates art
Joe Eszterhas, prominent smoking glamorizer, moves to the Gary Busey bench and speaks out against Hollywood's promotion of smoking, as well as he can with a chunk of his larynx missing.
It's just like Showgirls, only with a big hairy ugly guy who gets to keep his clothes on. The redemption thing.
It's all a great big game of connect the dots
OK, everyone remember this from last week? White House bravely agrees to back the EPA in making the only two diesel manufacturers who haven't so far comply with the consent decree agreeing to limit toxic emissions in return for the EPA forgetting about the business with the temporary limiting switch they installed to game emissions testing? Even though Hastert asked them not to?
So, now Bush has something environmental to talk about at election time and everybody's happy, except for maybe the folks at Caterpillar, which is right there in Mr. Hastert's district.
So, amongst the cast list for Bush's hastily assembled economic summit (it's NOT A GODDAMN VACATION, PEOPLE): Glen A. Barton of Caterpillar, which gave $255,000 in soft money to the Republicans in 2000 and nothing to the Democrats.
Isn't this fun?
Well, we knew this, but it's nice to hear again
Joshua Marshall takes on the odd idea that Bush and Cheney and Co. are good at their jobs.
The progress of George Bush's moral education
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 — When President Bush opened the door to human embryonic stem cell research a year ago this week, he imposed strict limits on federal financing to discourage the destruction of embryos. But in a little-noticed ruling, the administration later told federally financed researchers they could go beyond the president's strictures — as long as they did so with private money.
Bob Barr runs against fellow Republican incumbent in redistricting battle
Hard, hard right wing Chairman of the House Rules Committee vs. hard, hard right wing foamy-mouthed whacko who started impeachment rolling.
Go husband. Go bear.
In other Barr news:
Guns don't kill doors. Republican congresmen kill doors.
Lobbyist unindicted coconspirator.
Bush administration allows blue states to misappropriate excess child health insurance funds
It should have been sent to states with uncovered children.
108-yr-old Buffalo Soldier meets Powell
His army career started in 1910.
Wow.
Calvin Trillin, deadline poet, on Bush and Cheney's business ethics
Leni Riefenstahl, not popular, approaching 100
Not anxious to encounter largely jewish administrative structure of heaven.
Hey, I kid the Saudis, but I love 'em.
The Bush administration distanced itself yesterday from a Pentagon briefing that described Saudi Arabia as an adversary of the United States and a backer of terrorism, with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld saying it doesn't represent the views of the U.S. government and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell repeating that message in a call to the Saudi foreign minister.
Well, except maybe for Powell, who probably wasn't invited to the original briefing.
Rand Corp "analyst" who gave briefing follower of LaRouche
Also apparently hangs with Richard Perle, so his delusions pretty much cover the waterfront.
Meanwhile, from Sunday's Op Ed section of administration spokespaper the Washington Post: Greatest risk to America... Saudi state religion
So someone missed a meeting, is what I'm getting at.
Bush, seeking to staff the front lines of our nation's defense, somehow skips right over National Guard where there are quite a few experienced professional military people who the president already controls, most of whom are required to show up for work.
What the Republican faithful need right now is a little nostalgie de la boue
Reagan still has alzheimers, you'll be surprised to learn. In related news: Francisco Franco looking peaked.
Pooch lights cigarette, asks when Cheney can get away again
But wait! As it turns out, the Bush family has a great big interest in the firm with the asbestos liabilities, so maybe Mr. Cheney got exceptionally good value for his money.
Halliburton, on the other hand, is well and truly screwed. (They sluffed due diligence because Cheney was such a sophisticate. Now they're probably going bankrupt).
Resume-inflating racist soldier-for-hire anthrax suspect says government has ruined his reputation, presumably by introducing him to people who don't admire that sort of thing.
Philip Roth meets Nicole Kidman
This is some sort of pop culture apotheosis, but my mind is doing that amoeba-and-glass-pipette thing about what kind.
Government support of education averts nuclear war
India decided not to blow up the world because it would hurt the bottom line. They have one, see, because they educate people. Which is why America's newest middle class is on the other side of the world.
No analogy springs to mind.
Huh?
Melvin van Peebles takes credit for african-american cinema in new documentary. Apparently Oscar Micheaux, who wrote, produced and directed fortysomething independent films starting in 1919, didn't take the germinal step of making his hero a pimp.
TIPS program scaled back some more
Now only intended to cover truckers and dockworkers. We'll have to see if the Hoffa kid wants to stay in office badly enough to put the teamsters in the forefront of this public relations disaster.
My beloved Molly
Civil libertarians have a slight tendency to look as though we've just been fired out of a cannon. We are forever hearing the sounds of jackbooted Fascism approaching. Nearly every time someone complains about a dirty movie theater or a KKK rally, we can be counted upon to leap up and announce that the First Amendment is in dire peril. To be a good civil libertarian is to spend one's life in a fairly constant state of alarm, which leaves the group somewhat frazzled.
I think we can clearly see Ann Coulter's point here, can't we?
Nevada looking a little blue these days
Party like there's nuclear waste on a fault line down the road!
Perfectly wonderful attack on Delaware
Bush uses recess appointment to put contributor into Agriculture post
Confirmation wasn't looking too good, given his past farm subsidy fraud (says all his friends do it) and that whole success in farm counties linked to whiteness thing (which, in fairness, the consent decree would tend to bear out). Oh, and he's against subsidies for family farms. Actually fought against them. Calls the recipients peasants with too many cars.
Way to court the farm states, guys.
In the Times
Our old friend State Sen Espada explains what the meaning of "isn't" is
He's off the Democratic ballot, which he says isn't fair, because even though calls to his campaign are answered by the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, his district is 11-to-1 Democratic, so if he runs as a Republican no-one will vote for him.
He's becoming quite a pet of mine, State Sen Espada. He gives me joy practically every time he hits the papers.
The State Senate's not giving up, though
Redistricting goodies went to Democrats who might be willing to switch after November.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Les gens bushistes say we're not subject to international environmental laws outside the three mile limit from our shores. Forward-thinking dolphins packing.
and while we're at it... you can let our soldiers commit atrocities against your people or you can starve. Your call. Don't feel pressured. Get back to us, OK?
Energy Department letting Lockheed off the hook for nuclear mess in Kentucky, maybe
Whistleblower lawsuit stalled two years by Justice Department, Mrs. Cheney former Lockheed board member, definitely.
Sarah Baartman buried in South Africa
The end of a long ugly story.
Life imitates art
Joe Eszterhas, prominent smoking glamorizer, moves to the Gary Busey bench and speaks out against Hollywood's promotion of smoking, as well as he can with a chunk of his larynx missing.
It's just like Showgirls, only with a big hairy ugly guy who gets to keep his clothes on. The redemption thing.
It's all a great big game of connect the dots
OK, everyone remember this from last week? White House bravely agrees to back the EPA in making the only two diesel manufacturers who haven't so far comply with the consent decree agreeing to limit toxic emissions in return for the EPA forgetting about the business with the temporary limiting switch they installed to game emissions testing? Even though Hastert asked them not to?
So, now Bush has something environmental to talk about at election time and everybody's happy, except for maybe the folks at Caterpillar, which is right there in Mr. Hastert's district.
So, amongst the cast list for Bush's hastily assembled economic summit (it's NOT A GODDAMN VACATION, PEOPLE): Glen A. Barton of Caterpillar, which gave $255,000 in soft money to the Republicans in 2000 and nothing to the Democrats.
Isn't this fun?
Well, we knew this, but it's nice to hear again
Joshua Marshall takes on the odd idea that Bush and Cheney and Co. are good at their jobs.
The progress of George Bush's moral education
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 — When President Bush opened the door to human embryonic stem cell research a year ago this week, he imposed strict limits on federal financing to discourage the destruction of embryos. But in a little-noticed ruling, the administration later told federally financed researchers they could go beyond the president's strictures — as long as they did so with private money.
Bob Barr runs against fellow Republican incumbent in redistricting battle
Hard, hard right wing Chairman of the House Rules Committee vs. hard, hard right wing foamy-mouthed whacko who started impeachment rolling.
Go husband. Go bear.
In other Barr news:
Guns don't kill doors. Republican congresmen kill doors.
Lobbyist unindicted coconspirator.
Bush administration allows blue states to misappropriate excess child health insurance funds
It should have been sent to states with uncovered children.
108-yr-old Buffalo Soldier meets Powell
His army career started in 1910.
Wow.
Calvin Trillin, deadline poet, on Bush and Cheney's business ethics
Leni Riefenstahl, not popular, approaching 100
Not anxious to encounter largely jewish administrative structure of heaven.
