Bob Morris @ Dec 4th 2003 19:30 - Category: Unfiled ;
Have I got a Google trick for you!
1. Go to Google.
2. Type “miserable failure” into the search box (with or without the quotes; it doesn’t matter).
3. Click the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.
4. Enjoy.
Thanks to DU’s cjbuchanan for the tip!
[doublethink : fair and balanced]
Bob Morris @ Dec 4th 2003 19:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
The FBI thought Walt Disney might be a commie?
Walt Disney’s FBI files. 
Walt Disney’s FBI files are a hoot — all 450 pages worth. Mostly, they consist of various Feebs (all the way up to Hoover, whom field agents call “The Boss”) fretting that Disney’s farce comedies like That Darn Cat (which was based on a novel written by a retired Agent who was a constant thorn in the Bureau’s side) would cast a disparaging light on the Bureau and speculating about how to convince Walt to change the FBI agents to a different species of Fed cop — SS, Park Ranger, anything but the G-Men. Also noteworthy: trying to figure out if Walt is a Commie, debating whether they should let Walt film the crime-lab as part of a Mickey Mouse Club “future careers” spot. 2.8MB PDF Link, 3MB PDF Link, 2.7MB PDF Link
[Boing Boing Blog]
Bob Morris @ Dec 4th 2003 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
More on America Coming Together
These are the folks who will raise hundreds of millions in soft money to defeat Bush.
Leaders of America Coming Together and the Media Fund say they are simply pursuing the type of political activities that have helped the Republican Party for years. They note that the GOP has benefited from ads and other political efforts financed by numerous pro-GOP business organizations and advocacy groups that oppose abortion and restrictions on gun ownership.
Check this interesting take on it
Dick Morris says Democrats “have created an off-the-shelf, unregulated, uncontrolled, soft-money vehicle to run the campaign in 2004. Without the reporting obligations that the DNC has, the independent-expenditure organization can fund anything it wants — overt or covert — to advance the party agenda in 2004.”
“The independent-expenditure effort amounts to more than just an attempt to continue to live off the soft money the Democrats had battled to ban. It is a virtual abandonment of the DNC as the central vehicle for the party’s campaign next year.”
The DNC, controlled by the Clintons and allies, have damn near destroyed the Democratic Party by their befuddled attempt to grab some illusory middle, rather than take a serious stand on anything substantive- so it’s illuminating indeed that some very heavy hitters are doing an end-run around the DNC and the dinosaurs still nominally in control of the Democratic Party.
Bob Morris @ Dec 4th 2003 00:21 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Dec 4th 2003 00:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
And if a Democrat is elected in 2004?
A big problem that the movement will be grappling with for the next 12 months is the pressure to close itself down, suspend demonstrations, and focus solely on defeating President Bush in the 2004 election. The broad problem with being drawn into the “lesser of evils” desperation is that the problem is not merely Bush or Rumsfeld or any of the other scary “neo-cons” running the war.
It’s imperialism. And it’s the deepening crises that drive this malignant system toward catastrophic acts no matter who’s in the White House. Larry Holmes, ANSWER organizer.
Or, if imperialism is too strong a word for you, Nader recently said the same thing in different words.
<Nader> says it doesn’t even matter if Dean is for real: “He can’t deliver–he can be George McGovern on steroids, but when he gets into the corporate prison called the White House, he can’t deliver.”
A Howard Dean in the White House will be orders of magnitude less extreme than Bush, and is worth supporting simply because of that. But let’s not think he can perform miracles. Or let up on antiwar organizing.
Bob Morris @ Dec 4th 2003 00:19 - Category: Unfiled ;
Tell it like it is!
An Austrian trade union has claimed the repetitive playing of Christmas carols in department stores is “psycho-terrorism” for salespeople.
Bob Morris @ Dec 4th 2003 00:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
Appeals court slaps down antiterrorism Law
A federal appeals court panel ruled on Wednesday that crucial parts of an antiterrorism law were unconstitutional because the law, which the Bush administration relies on heavily, risks ensnaring innocent humanitarians.
A panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled that the law failed to require clearly that a suspect knowingly provided support to a terrorist organization.
Under the current law — a law rammed through by the Bush Administration — you can be prosecuted for writing a check to a charity they deem as terrorist - and they do not have to prove you knew it.
Under the government’s interpretation, the court found, a person who sends a check to an orphanage in Sri Lanka run by a banned group or “a woman who buys cookies from a bake sale outside of her grocery store to support displaced Kurdish refugees” could face a lengthy prison sentence for supporting terrorists.
Grotesque laws like this deserve to be slapped down.
Bob Morris @ Dec 4th 2003 00:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
Alice in Wonderland logic
California’s dominant workers’ compensation insurer is expected to cut its rates by only 2.9% next year, guaranteeing that most businesses won’t get much relief from soaring premiums and handing the governor powerful ammunition in his bid to revamp the troubled system one more time.
Got that? Insurers, who are currently making record profits, refuse to drop their rates in any substantive way - so this means the workers comp crisis is the fault of the people making the claims. Uh huh.
Bob Morris @ Dec 4th 2003 00:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
U.S. opposes allowing Iraqis a direct vote
That’s right, the Bushies, who oh so piously claim they invaded Iraq, solely, solely I tell you, so Iraqis could have democracy, are opposed to letting Iraqis to vote on who will govern them.
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