Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2003 22:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Watch what Arnold does, not what he says, pt. 2
Susan Estrich is on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team. Yes, that Susan Estrich, the “feminist” who told us a week ago that sexual battery was no big deal.
I wondered when I read her defense of violence against women when she sold her soul. Apparently the deal hadn’t yet been completed.
Well, there IS considerable paperwork involved.
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2003 21:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Watch what Arnold does, not what he says
“I will hire an outside independent auditor, free of political influence…”
Schwarzenegger breaks promise to Californians, hires Donna Arduin to head the 60-day audit of California. Arduin is “on loan” from Florida, where she is Jeb Bush’s Budget director. Arduin has been criticized by economists and even prominent Florida republicans for “surreal”,misleading, unrealistic, and risky accounting procedures.
During her stint as Budget Director, Ms. Arduin oversaw numerous tax cuts aimed at the wealthiest Floridians, while most Floridians saw no significant decrease in taxes. Infact, today Florida has the second most regressive taxes in the nation.The effects of these tax cuts? Unprecidented shortfalls in state tax revenues, with massive budget cuts for public schools, universities, child welfare, vision services for uninsured children, etc.
Class warfare, anyone?!
I think they’ve already declared class war on the rest of us.
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2003 10:35 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dean holds lead in New Hampshire
Howard Dean “continues to hold his lead” among likely voters in the New Hampshire primary according to the latest New Hampshire Poll. Dean leads Sen. John Kerry 29 percent to 19 percent. Every other candidate is in single digits.
While much of media portrays the Democratic Presidential race as wide open, it’s clear Howard Dean is the frontrunner and further, that his lead is widening.
PS Whoops, maybe not, a national poll has Clark ahead, Dean second…
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2003 00:21 - Category: Unfiled ;
Extreme Pumpkins.com
From the website:
At
what point did the carving of pumpkins turn into a “cute” event? When
did boys stop carving pumpkins and moms start? Where did we lose touch
with one of the years coolest events?
Today we will seize back this ritual.
Today is the day we throw away those safe, cute carving tools. Today.
We will buy a big, ugly, pumpkin so large one man cannot lift or move
it. Today. We will carve that sumbitch into something ugly and plop it
on the front porch. October 31st we will light it brightly enough to
give visiting children suntans.
And while we’re at it, let’s bring back cherry bombs
and M-80’s. My friends and I exploded lots of them when we were kids. A
cherry bomb tossed inside a hollowed out pumpkin makes quite a
satisfying mess. No one ever got hurt. And, gasp, we even rode bicycles
without helmets too.
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2003 00:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
First come sanctions, then comes invasion
A key US congressional committee has voted to impose new sanctions on Syria.
And why, pray tell, are we imposing sanctions on Syria? Has there been proof of them evildoing? Um, no. Has there even been hints of them evildoing. Golly, there’s been none of that either, has there?
Dubya wants a war, is what the reason is.
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2003 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Israel’s date with a runaway freight train
By Hasan Abu Nimah, former Ambassador Permanent Representative of Jordan at the United Nations and Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada.
Israel may hope for a Syrian escalation to save it from an existential crisis that is hurtling towards it like a runaway train. It may hope that spreading the chaos from Iraq and the occupied territories to other countries will give it a free hand. But nothing can alter the fact that a Jewish minority, no matter how well armed and ruthless, will not be able to subjugate indefinitely even an impoverished and decimated Palestinian majority any more than a nuclear-armed white-ruled South Africa was able to survive against the determination of its “backward” black majority.
Will the international community face this stark truth and tackle it head on, or will it continue to pretend it can be disguised and deferred by wringing its hands and blaming the Palestinians?
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2003 00:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Lunacy from the Vatican
The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which the HIV virus can pass - potentially exposing thousands of people to risk.
The church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to the HIV virus.
How many unwanted children — and deaths — will result from this latest lunacy from this most medieval of institutions?
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2003 00:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
FBI caught bugging Philadelphia Mayor’s office
Federal law enforcement officials on Wednesday confirmed that listening devices found in the offices of Mayor John F. Street were planted by the FBI.
Street issued a statement late Wednesday saying that one of his advisers had been told by the U.S. Attorney’s office that the mayor was not the target of an investigation.
So why were they bugging him?
“The timing of the discovery of these listening devices seems incredibly strange, seeing that we are four weeks out of the election, and we have a Democratic mayor ahead in the polls, and we are on the eve of the first mayoral debate,” Street campaign spokesman Frank Keel said.
Oh, that’s why… Hmm, I don’t recall the FBI bugging white Republican mayors do you? I’m sure this bugging a Black Democratic mayor was just some kind of terrible mistake, right?
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