A thing of Beauty indeed
Bob Morris @ Oct 18th 2002 14:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for October 18th, 2002
Ding, dong, the Dept. of…
Bob Morris @ Oct 18th 2002 13:34 - Category: Unfiled ;
Ding, dong, the Dept. of Homeland Security is dead!
Yes, I mean dead…
Here’s the bottom line: I object to this project on purely etymological grounds. The words “homeland security” evoke a Deutschland uber alles mood that is creepy and un-American. Good riddance and auf wiedersehen.
People different from us
Bob Morris @ Oct 18th 2002 12:49 - Category: Unfiled ;
People different from us
“White supremacists Leo Felton, 31, and his girlfriend Erica Chase, 22, were convicted in July of plotting to blow up landmarks around Boston that had significance for Jews and blacks so that a “racial holy war” would erupt. Chase dressed demurely during the trial, hiding her numerous Aryan tattoos (including “white power” on her toes).
Felton has attributed his anger and aggression to the fact that he has a black father (and white mother, and both were civil-rights activists), and courthouse observers speculated that Chase’s distancing of herself from him during the trial reflects her growing ambivalence about his heritage.” <via email>
Judge Orders Release of Cheney…
Bob Morris @ Oct 18th 2002 12:13 - Category: Unfiled ;
Judge Orders Release of Cheney Energy Papers
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Bush administration to produce documents from Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force by Nov. 5, rejecting arguments they should stay secret because they relate to top advisers.
Let’s see Cheney try and weasel out of this one…
Terror Turns Real for Horror…
Bob Morris @ Oct 18th 2002 11:52 - Category: Unfiled ;
Terror Turns Real for Horror Site.
A message attributed to Osama bin Laden appears buried in the depths of a German horror film fan site. Things turn darker yet when a news service fingers the site as a terrorist mouthpiece.
Jeb’s not-so-good day [1].
Bob Morris @ Oct 18th 2002 11:39 - Category: Unfiled ;
Pity Jeb. He should be the runaway favorite in Florida’s governor’s race — he has the cash, the name, the incumbency, the “popular” president, and the state’s electoral machinery (that handed George the presidency). Yet wily McBride insists on making a race out of it, tying the race with less than three weeks to go.
And the news for Jeb haven’t been good lately. In addition to seeing his millions of ads do nothing for his electoral standing (the opposite has been happening), just yesterday he was exposed lobbying improperly for a campaign donor, had to blow off his daughter’s drug court hearing for a television appearance, and saw the press ignore his president big brother’s visit preferring to ask questions about Noelle instead. (Note: not only did Jeb blow off Noelle’s court date, but so did her mother. It’s nice to see the Bush “family values” in action. No wonder Noelle’s a mess…)
Now, individually, each of those things (and Jeb’s “devious” flap) wouldn’t be enough to cost him the election. But collectively, they could strip just enough votes to make this hair-tight election swing McBride’s way. <via Daily Kos>
BushBoy
Bob Morris @ Oct 18th 2002 11:24 - Category: Unfiled ;
BushBoy
A bunch of deeply rude Leftie agitators in Minnesota have launched a parody site, BushBoy, satirizing Norm Coleman, Republican challenger to incumbent Senator Paul Wellstone. Well done!
Check their Flash animation!
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Bob Morris @ Oct 18th 2002 00:30 - Category: Unfiled ;
Florida 2000 vote theft film to appear on PBS!
From the Greg Palast newsletter
In the face of the controversial decision by the PBS network to refuse to transmit the investigative report, the nation’s top PBS stations will independently broadcast Counting On Democracy.
Directed by Emmy-award winner Danny Schechter, the 57-minute documentary follows BBC television reporter Greg Palast as he discovers how Katherine Harris removed up to 57,000 legal voters from registries - most black - five months before the 2000 election.
Counting on Democracy info. TV Schedule
A second film on the scandal of the vote theft in Florida, Unprecedented, opens this month.
From their website:
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. Filmmakers Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler examine modern America’s most controversial political contest: the Election of George W. Bush.
What emerges is a disturbing picture of an election marred by suspicious irregularities, electoral injustices, and sinister voter purges in a state governed by the winning candidate’s brother. George W. Bush stole the presidency of the United States - and got away with it.
We bring you this pre-bombing…
Bob Morris @ Oct 18th 2002 00:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
We bring you this pre-bombing alert
Blair tells IRA: disband, it won’t work any more.
Tony Blair yesterday issued his bluntest warning yet to the IRA that it must disband once and for all if the Northern Ireland peace process is to survive. In a landmark speech designed to win over wavering unionists, the prime minister told Republicans if they wanted the Good Friday agreement to succeed, they must make a fundamental choice between politics and paramilitarism.
Um, why didn’t Blair demand that the Protestant paramilitaries disarm too?
Bill McBride in dead heat…
Bob Morris @ Oct 18th 2002 00:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bill McBride in dead heat with Jeb Bush in Florida governor race
Send McBride some money. Let’s do our part to make sure that Jeb “I’ll fix the election for you, George” Bush doesn’t get re-elected. Because, among other things, if he doesn’t get re-elected, he can’t fix the Florida vote for his brother again.
