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BLAIR 'N BUSH:
Are they two boys who think
"Jesus wants them for sunbeams"???
:)
The humor of Gore Vidal:
http://www.iddybud.blogspot.com/2003_05_25_iddybud_archive.html#95119857
Internet muse.
Daring, bold, never sold.
My daily weblog of politics, humor, philosophy...and a constant and nagging reminder of the existence of universal love....
Sunday, June 01, 2003
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TODAY'S WISDOM:
HOW TO BE UNHAPPY
--Make little things bother you. Don't just let them, MAKE them.
--Lose your perspective on things and keep it lost: don't put first things first.
--Get yourself a good worry, one about which you cannot do anything.
--Be a perfectionist, which means not that you work hard to do your best, but that you condemn yourself and others for not achieving perfection.
--Be right. Be always right. Be the only one who is always right, and be rigid in your rightness.
--Don't trust or believe people, or accept them at anything but their worst and weakest. Be suspicious. Insist that others always have hidden motives.
--Always compare yourself unfavorably to others. This guarantees instant misery.
--Take personally everything that happens to you.
--Don't give yourself wholeheartedly to anyone or anything.
-- Always remember that if your partner loves you, he or she can read your mind. There is never a need to share openly with them how you feel.
--Surround yourself with only people that agree with everything you say. The last thing you need is contradictory opinions!
--Break that promise.
--Lose your faith in all that's good.
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TODAY'S WISDOM:
HOW TO BE UNHAPPY
--Make little things bother you. Don't just let them, MAKE them.
--Lose your perspective on things and keep it lost: don't put first things first.
--Get yourself a good worry, one about which you cannot do anything.
--Be a perfectionist, which means not that you work hard to do your best, but that you condemn yourself and others for not achieving perfection.
--Be right. Be always right. Be the only one who is always right, and be rigid in your rightness.
--Don't trust or believe people, or accept them at anything but their worst and weakest. Be suspicious. Insist that others always have hidden motives.
--Always compare yourself unfavorably to others. This guarantees instant misery.
--Take personally everything that happens to you.
--Don't give yourself wholeheartedly to anyone or anything.
-- Always remember that if your partner loves you, he or she can read your mind. There is never a need to share openly with them how you feel.
--Surround yourself with only people that agree with everything you say. The last thing you need is contradictory opinions!
--Break that promise.
--Lose your faith in all that's good.
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HEY, COMRADES--DON'T WANNA BE COLD-WO NO MO
BEEN DARE DONE DAT
WAKE UP, BUSH ADMINISTRATION
U.S. "inattention and parsimony" has contributed to the growing possibility of nuclear proliferation, delaying for years a U.S.-Russian project to eliminate 1.9 million chemical weapons housed at a rickety and vulnerable facility in Russia.
http://www.hpronline.org/news/437679.html?mkey=796243
"the turn to the free market did not solve the matter of Russian capital left over from the Cold War: stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium as well as 200,000 nuclear scientists, engineers, and technicians employed in weapons-related work. The confluence of Cold War material and the neoliberal spirit has led to a "nuclear industry", as Russia encourages resource maximization and profit seeking, even at the price of global brinksmanship."
"The United States has failed to provide the material incentives necessary to dissuade Russia from questionable nuclear alliances that the Russian government has condoned. Ironically, such partnerships might be the only way possible for Russia to fund the nuclear conversion projects championed in the post-Cold War world."
HEY, COMRADES--DON'T WANNA BE COLD-WO NO MO
BEEN DARE DONE DAT
WAKE UP, BUSH ADMINISTRATION
U.S. "inattention and parsimony" has contributed to the growing possibility of nuclear proliferation, delaying for years a U.S.-Russian project to eliminate 1.9 million chemical weapons housed at a rickety and vulnerable facility in Russia.
http://www.hpronline.org/news/437679.html?mkey=796243
"the turn to the free market did not solve the matter of Russian capital left over from the Cold War: stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium as well as 200,000 nuclear scientists, engineers, and technicians employed in weapons-related work. The confluence of Cold War material and the neoliberal spirit has led to a "nuclear industry", as Russia encourages resource maximization and profit seeking, even at the price of global brinksmanship."
"The United States has failed to provide the material incentives necessary to dissuade Russia from questionable nuclear alliances that the Russian government has condoned. Ironically, such partnerships might be the only way possible for Russia to fund the nuclear conversion projects championed in the post-Cold War world."
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HEY GEORGE---LET'S PLAY 20 QUESTIONS!
1-Where's the WMD?
2-Where's Saddam?
3-Where's Osama bin Laden?
4-Where's Mullah Omar?
5-How come you didn't know about the resurgence of Al Qaeda?
6-Why haven't you fixed the economy?
7-What do you plan to do to fix the economy?
8-Millions of jobs were lost on your watch. Why did you cut unemployment
benefits for more people than any other president in U.S. history?
9-Why do Alan Greenspan and Warren Buffet both say your tax plans won't
work and will only serve to further damage the economy and the
country?
10-Why does Dick Cheney still receive benefits from Halliburton? Why did
Halliburton receive a no-bid contract for the reconstruction of Iraq
worth tens of billions of dollars?
11-Where exactly were you during those months you served as a Lt. in the
Guard?
12-Why did we kill journalists in Iraq?
13-Why do you favor slashing Veterans benefits while significantly
increasing defense spending?
14-As a 2nd Amendment supporter, why did you vote in favor of extending
the ban on assault weapons?
15-As a supporter of free speech, why has your administration put massive
restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act?
AND----What are you hiding?
16-Why hasn't anyone been held accountable for 9-11? The most MASSIVE
intelligence FAILURE in U.S. history.
AND --Why have the Saudis been given a
de facto pardon?
17-Why did you take so many vacations leading up to 9-11? Were you asleep
at the switch?
18-Is our children learnin' yet?
19-Do you still think it would be easier if you were dictator?
20-Why should ANYONE in their right mind vote for you?
For extra credit-
21- What fool could have squandered the good will in the world after 9-11--when he could have had them in the palm of his hand?
HEY GEORGE---LET'S PLAY 20 QUESTIONS!
1-Where's the WMD?
2-Where's Saddam?
3-Where's Osama bin Laden?
4-Where's Mullah Omar?
5-How come you didn't know about the resurgence of Al Qaeda?
6-Why haven't you fixed the economy?
7-What do you plan to do to fix the economy?
8-Millions of jobs were lost on your watch. Why did you cut unemployment
benefits for more people than any other president in U.S. history?
9-Why do Alan Greenspan and Warren Buffet both say your tax plans won't
work and will only serve to further damage the economy and the
country?
10-Why does Dick Cheney still receive benefits from Halliburton? Why did
Halliburton receive a no-bid contract for the reconstruction of Iraq
worth tens of billions of dollars?
11-Where exactly were you during those months you served as a Lt. in the
Guard?
12-Why did we kill journalists in Iraq?
13-Why do you favor slashing Veterans benefits while significantly
increasing defense spending?
14-As a 2nd Amendment supporter, why did you vote in favor of extending
the ban on assault weapons?
15-As a supporter of free speech, why has your administration put massive
restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act?
AND----What are you hiding?
16-Why hasn't anyone been held accountable for 9-11? The most MASSIVE
intelligence FAILURE in U.S. history.
AND --Why have the Saudis been given a
de facto pardon?
17-Why did you take so many vacations leading up to 9-11? Were you asleep
at the switch?
18-Is our children learnin' yet?
19-Do you still think it would be easier if you were dictator?
20-Why should ANYONE in their right mind vote for you?
For extra credit-
21- What fool could have squandered the good will in the world after 9-11--when he could have had them in the palm of his hand?
''I'm Howard Dean,'' he shouted, ''and I'm here to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party!''
NY TIMES MAGAZINE ARTICLE 6-1-03
"DR NO AND THE YES-MEN"
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/magazine/01DEAN.html
"In this first campaign of the post-Clinton era, the coalition of interests the former president so deftly managed to patch together is on the verge of spinning apart. Democratic voters are venting more than a decade's worth of pent-up hostility, and at least one poll shows they don't think they're going to win anyway. In Dean, they see someone who will at least go down fighting and give voice to their dissent. Against that backdrop, touting your electability -- because you're a war hero or a Southerner or a social conservative -- might turn out to be the worst argument a candidate can make."
NY TIMES MAGAZINE ARTICLE 6-1-03
"DR NO AND THE YES-MEN"
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/magazine/01DEAN.html
"In this first campaign of the post-Clinton era, the coalition of interests the former president so deftly managed to patch together is on the verge of spinning apart. Democratic voters are venting more than a decade's worth of pent-up hostility, and at least one poll shows they don't think they're going to win anyway. In Dean, they see someone who will at least go down fighting and give voice to their dissent. Against that backdrop, touting your electability -- because you're a war hero or a Southerner or a social conservative -- might turn out to be the worst argument a candidate can make."
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From The Associated Press, 6/1/03:
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-05292003-98292.html
PHILADLPHIA PASSES ANTI-PATRIOT ACT RESOLUTION
LARGEST CITY YET TO PASS RESOLUTION OF ITS KIND.
"Philadelphia's resolution expresses Council's "support of the United
States government in its campaign against global terrorism, but also
reaffirms that any efforts to end terrorism not be waged at the
expense of the fundamental civil liberties of the people of
Philadelphia, and all citizens of the United States."
From The Associated Press, 6/1/03:
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-05292003-98292.html
PHILADLPHIA PASSES ANTI-PATRIOT ACT RESOLUTION
LARGEST CITY YET TO PASS RESOLUTION OF ITS KIND.
"Philadelphia's resolution expresses Council's "support of the United
States government in its campaign against global terrorism, but also
reaffirms that any efforts to end terrorism not be waged at the
expense of the fundamental civil liberties of the people of
Philadelphia, and all citizens of the United States."
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"If many more months go by and our troops are still there, the Iraqis
are still fighting each other and us and we still haven't found any
WMD (weapons of mass destruction), there will be hell to pay."
From The Charlotte Observer, 5/31/03:
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/5982641.htm
Bush aides fear tumult in Iraq rising
Questions swirl about dubious intelligence, weapons, troop deaths
By JOHN WALCOTT
Knight Ridder
"Some of President Bush's top advisers now fear the war in Iraq is
becoming a political, diplomatic and military mess, instead of being
the centerpiece of the president's re-election campaign that they had
hoped for..."
"If many more months go by and our troops are still there, the Iraqis
are still fighting each other and us and we still haven't found any
WMD (weapons of mass destruction), there will be hell to pay."
From The Charlotte Observer, 5/31/03:
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/5982641.htm
Bush aides fear tumult in Iraq rising
Questions swirl about dubious intelligence, weapons, troop deaths
By JOHN WALCOTT
Knight Ridder
"Some of President Bush's top advisers now fear the war in Iraq is
becoming a political, diplomatic and military mess, instead of being
the centerpiece of the president's re-election campaign that they had
hoped for..."
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