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“My SUV funds terrorism!”
Bob Morris @ Jan 9th 2003 00:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
“My SUV funds terrorism!”
Two professionally-done ads bashing SUV’s will be appearing on major media this weekend.
“I need to own a huge gas-guzzling car, even if my gas consumption helps fund terrorist nations”. Great stuff! You can view the ads online (keep trying, the Real Player servers are overloaded).
Arianna Huffington conceived the idea and did the organizing.
From her newsletter:
“The anti-SUV ad campaign you helped create, which we have named The Detroit Project, is unveiling our two 30-second ads (entirely funded by your contributions) at a press conference in Los Angeles at 10am this morning. The ads are available at www.detroitproject.com. Also on our website will be a letter you can send to Detroit’s automakers, a form to fill out for those dumping their SUVs, and a paypal link so that we can raise more money and buy additional air time. The ads will start running on the political talk shows this Sunday in major markets around the country.”
Behind the Bushes
Bob Morris @ Jan 9th 2003 00:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Behind the Bushes
Bev Conover Online Journal via ProRev
“In a May 21, 2000, New York Times’ puff piece about the values Bush gained growing up in Midland, Texas, Nicholas D. Kristof quoted Bush’s childhood friend Terry Throckmorton: “‘We were terrible to animals,’ recalled Mr. Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. ‘Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,’ Mr. Throckmorton said. ‘Or we’d put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.’”
On Sept. 12, 2000, Baltimore Sun reporter Miriam Miedzian wrote, “So when he was a kid, George W. enjoyed putting firecrackers into frogs, throwing them in the air, and then watching them blow up. Should this be cause for alarm? How relevant is a man’s childhood behavior to what he is like as an adult? And in this case, to what he would be like as president of the United States..” . .
In his Sept. 12 article, White House insiders say Bush is “out of control,” Mike Hersh wrote, “Some among Bush’s trusted White House staff fear what they are seeing and where Bush is taking us. His state of mind hauntingly reminds them of Richard Nixon’s Final Days. They fear Bush is becoming Nixonesque . . . or worse. Although Bush lacks Nixon’s paranoia, he may entertain even more dangerous notions.”
But their desperate late night phone calls to trusted reporters has not seen the light of day in the corporate media. Yet, some of us outside the Beltway have long had an inkling of what we are dealing with. More proof lies in Alexandra Pelosi’s documentary, Journeys with George. Pelosi, the daughter of incoming House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, was a producer for NBC when she wangled the assignment to spend 18 months as part of Bush’s campaign press corps.
From the surface, Pelosi’s “home movie,” as she calls it, seems to be nothing more than a love fest as George W. works to charm the pants off her and the rest of the press corps. The striking thing about this George, even though Karen Hughes is often seen hovering at his elbow, is that he isn’t tongue-tied when he is pumping up his ego, dishing out digs and being sarcastic and crude.
Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon and professor of media studies at New York University, who also sees the darker Bush, said in a Nov. 28 interview with the Toronto Star, “”Bush is not an imbecile. He’s not a puppet. I think that Bush is a sociopathic personality. I think he’s incapable of empathy. He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and he’s a very skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged idiocy, this is what a lot of people miss.”
What were you expecting from…
Bob Morris @ Jan 9th 2003 00:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
What were you expecting from a thug?
Corruption scandal hurting Sharon
“Three weeks before Israel’s Jan. 28 election, Sharon’s once comfortable lead in the polls has been steadily dwindling since allegations surfaced of vote buying and underworld involvement in last month’s primary, in which his Likud chose its candidates for parliament.
Israel’s attorney general, Elyakim Rubinstein, confirmed a police investigation is under way into a $1.5 million transfer a year ago to bank accounts in the names of Sharon’s sons.”
Panel: “The Skeptical Environmentalist” perverted…
Bob Morris @ Jan 9th 2003 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Panel: “The Skeptical Environmentalist” perverted message
“COPENHAGEN, Denmark, January 8, 2003 (ENS) - An official Danish scientific ethics panel has ruled that Bjorn Lomborg “perverted the scientific message” in his book “The Sceptical Environmentalist,” which disputes the seriousness of many key environmental problems. The decision is an embarrassment for the Danish government, which last year installed Lomborg as head of a new Environmental Assessment Institute (IMV).
Part of Denmark’s Committees on Scientific Dishonesty, the panel decided to examine Lomborg’s book after receiving several complaints. It has cleared him of the most serious charge of misleading readers deliberately or through gross negligence, but nevertheless finds the book to be “clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice.”
The pain! The Pain! [1].
Bob Morris @ Jan 9th 2003 00:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
