Archive for February 21st, 2003


Dirty thoughts could lead to…

Dirty thoughts could lead to cleaner clothes


Dave Barry ponders:



“I have here a shocking letter from a person named ”Julia,” who openly admits to being a woman. It concerns laundry.


As you men know, laundry is a key area in which we have long enjoyed a tactical advantage over women, thanks to the fact that, through a combination of genetics, evolution, instinct and plain old good fortune, we are pigs.”


Read more, including shocking information on the devious reverse Lysistrata ploy being used by some unscrupulous women to trick men into doing the laundry.


One women reported that not only was her ploy successful, she found her husband folds laundry better than she does. All of which makes no sense to me, as I’m not clear on her perceived link between “laundry” and “folding”.

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All war, all the time….

All war, all the time. Chapter 47.


The US is sending 3,000 combat troops to the Philippines to fight with Philippine forces against the rebels.

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CBS execs want no ‘anti-war’…

CBS execs want no ‘anti-war’ statements during Grammys


Drudge Report exclusive



“Top CBS executives are deeply concerned that Sunday night’s GRAMMY Awards may turn from a celebration of music — into a giant anti-war political rally, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.


The GRAMMY broadcast, which is set to air live from New York City, will feature performances by Eminem, Sheryl Crow, Springsteen, Coldplay, James Taylor and others.


Word has reached network suites how one star is allegedly planning a dramatic anti-war gesture.


“I would hope the artists will remember they are on stage because of their music,” a top CBS source told the DRUDGE REPORT Friday morning. “


Ah, how pious of them. This, of course, is the same CBS that aired the Andrew Luster video a few days back, showing Luster on his bed about to sexually assault a woman he’d rendered unconscious by drugging her.


Let Steve Lopez of the L.A Times continue:



“In the video shown Wednesday, the woman on the bed lies there utterly defenseless against Luster, and against “48 Hours,” too.


“A strawberry blond beautiful girl passed out on my bed,” Luster says with a leer, “and basically there to do whatever I choose.”


He moves toward her and begins lifting her dress, and that’s where “48 Hours” cuts away.

An executive producer told The Times that CBS was “extremely judicious in what we are showing.” A CBS exec added, “We would never do anything to compromise our journalistic integrity.”


Journalistic integrity?


It might not even be journalism. As for integrity, you be the judge.”


It’s hard to compromise something you do not possess.


So we have a major TV network cheerfully showing a video of a rape about to occur who gets huffy when someone might exercise of freedom of speech.


Did you hear that CBS moved into a tenement apartment? And that the cockroaches moved out?

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Oh DARN

Oh DARN


Bush Approval Plunges In New Poll.



“A new Harris Poll shows President Bush’s approval ratings falling 12 points in the last month. See Polling Report for monthly data….” [Taegan Goddard's Political Wire]

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Word

Word



“It stands to reason that self-righteous, inflexible, single-minded, authoritarian true believers are politically organized. Open-minded, flexible, complex, ambiguous, anti-authoritarian people would just as soon be left to mind their own fucking business.” R.U. Sirius (Via Progressive Review)


Which leaves Greens somewhere in the middle. While we are a definitely a political party, organizing Greens can be akin to herding cats…

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Colin Powell: Don’t ask about…

Colin Powell: Don’t ask about My Lai, don’t tell about Iran-Contra


Or Panama. Or the Gulf War or Gulf War syndrome. It’s a long and bloody list.

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They wanted an Iraq War…

They wanted an Iraq War five years ago



“Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz undertook a full-fledged lobbying campaign in 1998 to get former President Bill Clinton to start a war with Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein’s regime claiming that the country posed a threat to the United States, according to documents obtained from a former Clinton aide.


This new information begs the question: what is really driving the Bush Administration’s desire to start a war with Iraq if two of Bush’s future top defense officials were already planting the seeds for an attack five years ago?”

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