Wednesday, November 3, 2004
10:08 a.m.

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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
07:32 p.m.

So, give him another shot, or fire his ass?

Well, I've voted, absentee. And now I'm going to go into hiding. But I will leave you with one last reason to vote for John Kerry, or at the very least, keep your ass home instead of bothering to vote for Our President, George W. Bush: Howard Stern chats with FCC commissioner Michael Powell.

Powell was appointed head of the FCC by Bush. He is for government regulation of content on broadcast stations, but against government regulation when it comes to corporations buying up channels. Oh, and there's been talk of his FCC regulating religious terms like God damn, Jesus H. Christ, etc., and of regulating content over cable and satellite pay services.

Keep your eyes open, your feet well-shod and emergency supplies on hand. I hope to be back the day after election day. There will be a special SwaG! Halloween guest host tomorrow.

Tuesday, October 26, 2004
12:52 p.m.

John Peel, RIP

Tuesday, October 26, 2004
01:02 a.m.

White House tries to spin away 380 tons of missing high explosives.

Sunday, October 24, 2004
05:44 p.m.

Incompetent, cocky, arrogant swine.

Some 350 tons of high explosives (RDX and HDX), which were under IAEA seal while Saddam was in power, were looted during the early days of the US occupation. Like so much else, it was just left unguarded.

Not only are these super-high-yield explosives probably being used in many, if not most, of the various suicide and car bombings in Iraq, but these particular explosives are ones used in the triggering process for nuclear weapons.

In other words, it's bad stuff.

What also emerges in the Nelson Report is that the Defense Department has been trying to keep this secret for some time, even going so far as to order the new Iraqi government not to inform the IAEA that the materials had gone missing.

Sunday, October 24, 2004
03:14 p.m.

Interesting story in the NYT: What happens when Bush loses?

Sorry, they used the word "if."

Saturday, October 23, 2004
12:05 p.m.

Afghanistan, Iraq: Two Wars Collide

Just read it.

Saturday, October 23, 2004
11:55 a.m.

They had a chance to get bin Laden. But they blew it. Now Bush, Cheney and Tommy Franks are lying about it.

Saturday, October 23, 2004
11:19 a.m.

Wolf Packs for Truth

Friday, October 22, 2004
12:27 p.m.

Take a look, and seriously think about supporting these people. In summary, Bush makes his little joke early this year about not finding WMD. The sister of a soldier then speaks about how her brother was killed while looking for WMD. Ha ha, pretty funny.

Compare the ad there with the new Bush ad that shows hungry wolves in a forest. Scary wolves, and only Bush can save us from them!

Friday, October 22, 2004
09:10 a.m.

Freedom vrs. "Freedom"

Thursday, October 21, 2004
07:22 p.m.

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a 40-year veteran of political coverage, takes a well-reasoned and restrained look at the election.

Kerry came into October as a five-point underdog with almost no chance of winning three out of three rigged confrontations with a treacherous little freak like George Bush...

Thursday, October 21, 2004
09:20 a.m.

From a review of "Stolen Honor":

After rewinding this moment half a dozen times, I had to believe it: A film destined for the airwaves of national television on the eve of the election was coolly asserting that the Democratic candidate was a rapist and a ball-wiring babykiller. You'd think that would have come up in the debates: "My opponent has no plan for saving Social Security. Plus, he wired all those balls in Vietnam."

Thursday, October 21, 2004
01:43 a.m.

All about Dick.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004
01:02 p.m.

Timmy goes to haunted house, is condemned to hell.

Happy Halloween from Jack T. Chick!

Wednesday, October 20, 2004
11:52 a.m.

"Burger King wants to maintain neutrality during this election."

Thank god.

A quote from The Note by some BK Lounge guy explaining why they've pulled their ads from Sinclair stations.

I just picture either Kerry or Bush waking up to see that creepy King in bed with them.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004
10:34 a.m.

Now this is scary.

Pat Robertson is saying something that makes sense, something negative about Our President, Appointed by God...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, "We're not going to have any casualties."

Pat Robertson, an ardent Bush supporter, said he had that conversation with the president in Nashville, Tennessee, before the March 2003 invasion. He described Bush in the meeting as "the most self-assured man I've ever met in my life."

"You remember Mark Twain said, 'He looks like a contented Christian with four aces.' I mean he was just sitting there like, 'I'm on top of the world,' " Robertson said on the CNN show, "Paula Zahn Now."

Wednesday, October 20, 2004
12:53 a.m.

Let's Roll!!!

Tuesday, October 19, 2004
11:21 a.m.

Nerds.

Monday, October 18, 2004
11:20 p.m.

"Well, we've won the war in Iraq."

We won. We Won!!! Yippeee!!!

Wait -- that was said May 3, 2003, by Chris Matthews, MSNBC. Right after Bush's "Mission Acomplished" stunt.

Just a reminder of what tools these clowns are. Not journalists, not commentators. Tools.

Sunday, October 17, 2004
11:19 p.m.

Something you have to read.

''This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts,'' Bartlett went on to say. ''He truly believes he's on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence.'' Bartlett paused, then said, ''But you can't run the world on faith.''

....The faith-based presidency is a with-us-or-against-us model that has been enormously effective at, among other things, keeping the workings and temperament of the Bush White House a kind of state secret. The dome of silence cracked a bit in the late winter and spring, with revelations from the former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke and also, in my book, from the former Bush treasury secretary Paul O'Neill. When I quoted O'Neill saying that Bush was like ''a blind man in a room full of deaf people,'' this did not endear me to the White House. But my phone did begin to ring, with Democrats and Republicans calling with similar impressions and anecdotes about Bush's faith and certainty. These are among the sources I relied upon for this article. Few were willing to talk on the record. Some were willing to talk because they said they thought George W. Bush might lose; others, out of fear of what might transpire if he wins. In either case, there seems to be a growing silence fatigue -- public servants, some with vast experience, who feel they have spent years being treated like Victorian-era children, seen but not heard, and are tired of it.

Sunday, October 17, 2004
08:34 p.m.

Mars, bitches!

Sunday, October 17, 2004
11:55 a.m.

Phase 4-C: "To Be Provided."

WASHINGTON - In March 2003, days before the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, American war planners and intelligence officials met at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina to review the Bush administration's plans to oust Saddam Hussein and implant democracy in Iraq.

Near the end of his presentation, an Army lieutenant colonel who was giving a briefing showed a slide describing the Pentagon's plans for rebuilding Iraq after the war, known in the planners' parlance as Phase 4-C. He was uncomfortable with his material - and for good reason.

The slide said: "To Be Provided."

Saturday, October 16, 2004
02:54 p.m.

Helpful list of all the ways you can download the "Buttboy and Dick" Crossfire with Jon Stewart.

The way this is buring up the Internets is crazy. It's like Stewart just fired the first shot in the revolution.

But really, he's just making the point that CNN and the rest of the media are full of clowns who do entertainment, not journalism. Bowtie Tucker proves this point when he calls Stewart John Kerry's "buttboy." And then Stewart gets that manic grin that says, "I'm a funny man! And I'm going to punch you in the throat!"

Saturday, October 16, 2004
02:23 p.m.

Bush Draft Likely?

Face it -- he can promise all he wants that he won't bring back the draft. Does he risk reelection if he breaks that promise anytime after Nov. 3, 2004?

We're now begging the UK to send troops to help out in Bagdhad. We've got troops who refuse to go on missions. People who joined the Guard thinking they'd never go overseas to fight know how wrong that was. Re-enlistment is down. And Bush says things are fine, we're winning, we have no reason to change what we're doing, he can't think of any big mistake.... What, Me Worry?

Are you of draft age? Do you have sons and daughters of draft age? Are you registered to vote?

Kerry's going to at least try to fix this mess. If he doesn't, he'll have only one term. If he brings back the draft, he'll only have one term. For Bush, if he gets in again, he just won't care what the public thinks (as if he does now -- but then, he has to at least pretend to care or else he's going to lose).

Saturday, October 16, 2004
11:15 a.m.

FCC head Michael Powell is a bullshittin' motherfucker.

Saturday, October 16, 2004
12:50 a.m.

Illegal Art Videos, video made with unauthorized stuff.

Go watch the Negativland video.

Friday, October 15, 2004
11:51 p.m.

The Crossfire with Stewart bittorrent here, baby.

Friday, October 15, 2004
07:00 p.m.

Oh, golly!

Jon Stewart on Crossfire! Stewart starts off his theme telling the "real" news boys of CNN, as Tucker Carlson whines that he was too easy on Kerry, "If you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more than welcome to. "

And ends by telling Tucker, "You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show."

Friday, October 15, 2004
01:57 p.m.

Rove Dirty Trick Alert

Beware of overly-offensive anti-Bush flyers -- could be a manufactured backlash.

Friday, October 15, 2004
01:26 p.m.

Where it has mattered most -- the three debates -- Bush has been wooden, ill at ease and downright spooky. He makes bad jokes, cackles at them in the manner of a cinematic serial killer and has lacked the warmth that he not only once had but that I thought would compensate for a disastrous presidency and give him a second -- God help us -- term. In short, he could take over the Bates Motel in an instant.

Friday, October 15, 2004
01:26 p.m.

Where it has mattered most -- the three debates -- Bush has been wooden, ill at ease and downright spooky. He makes bad jokes, cackles at them in the manner of a cinematic serial killer and has lacked the warmth that he not only once had but that I thought would compensate for a disastrous presidency and give him a second -- God help us -- term. In short, he could take over the Bates Motel in an instant.

Friday, October 15, 2004
01:18 p.m.

GOoPer Fraud Alert: Target Ohio

Friday, October 15, 2004
10:44 a.m.

Yes, more proof that there was a big operation underway to trash Kerry's Vietnam service.

I'm just picturing some villager fishing on the river. A boat comes chugging upstream...

Back in Tran Thoi, villager Nguyen Van Khoai said that about six months ago he was visited by an American who described himself as a Swift boat veteran and told him another American from the Swift boats was running for president of the United States. Nguyen said the man was accompanied by a cameraman.

"They say he didn't do anything to deserve the medal," Nguyen said. "The other day, they came and asked me the questions and I said that the recognition for the medal is up to the U.S.A."

He said that, after they met, the Swift Boat veteran and the cameraman turned around and went back down the river. Nightline has not been able to identify the men.

Friday, October 15, 2004
10:05 a.m.

Everytime there's a war, for good reason or bad we're told that the troops are fighting and dying to protect our freedom. I assume that includes the freedom to vote -- but if this is the case, why are Republicans trying to stop people from voting?

Wednesday, October 13, 2004
07:22 p.m.

So, who's a paranoid and creepy lech?

Wednesday, October 13, 2004
05:44 p.m.

Iggy Pop's Ocelot Shop

Just something to break the pre-debate tension.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004
04:37 p.m.

Of course...

If you play a debate drinking game tonight, and you have to take a shot whenever Bush starts a sentence with "Of course," then be sure you have a ride home or that you are home.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004
11:44 a.m.

iPod radio pirates.

What if those picking up the weak signals from those little FM transmitters (the type that get your iPod or whatever to play on your radio) themselves had a little FM transmitter? They fed the signal they were getting into a transmitter, and the car behind them did the same with their transmitter... Hmmm...

Wednesday, October 13, 2004
12:30 a.m.

Voters Outreach of America has been registering voters. Good for them! And tearing up Democrats' registrations. And they're funded by the GOP.

Tuesday, October 12, 2004
05:50 p.m.

Follow the Money

Ohhh, this is so dirty.

Tuesday, October 12, 2004
02:27 p.m.

Dirty, dirty swine.

Monday, October 11, 2004
12:30 p.m.

Dirty, illegal tricks were done, jamming the phone banks of a Dem get-out-the-vote effort in '02. Was the New England regional chairman of the Bush-Cheney campaign, Jim Tobin involved?

Monday, October 11, 2004
12:10 a.m.

George W. Bush is playing politics with war.

From the LA Times:

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will delay major assaults on rebel-held cities in Iraq until after U.S. elections in November, say administration officials, mindful that large-scale military offensives could affect the U.S. presidential race.

Sunday, October 10, 2004
09:21 p.m.

Sigh... Just thinkin' 'bout Mojo Nixon.

"Don Henley, I agree with a lot of his political things...but he was in The Eagles! The fucking country Monkees of the '70s! How can you take them seriously?"

Saturday, October 9, 2004
03:39 p.m.

So, anyway, I was at the Barking Tuna Fest, where the Pilot Scott Tracy (Causey Way Tim Hayden Experience) rocked last night, and caught most of the debate on tape.

Needless to say, Bush lost.

My impression of Bush -- Blink. Blink, blink. Blink. Jaw-thrust-twitch. Blinkblinkblinkblink. Squinty glare blink. Jaw thrust. Jump up, "YELL. YELL YELL YELL? YELL SAMEOLDTHING YELL!"

Saturday, October 9, 2004
02:46 a.m.

Need some wood for your Internets?

Saturday, October 9, 2004
02:39 a.m.

The scorer's table reproaches President Bush for not knowing when he has wood.

Thursday, October 7, 2004
12:37 p.m.

There are some who need to be slapped. David Kay the first US inspector to tell us Saddam didn't have squat, takes glove in hand and...  

The White House has insisted Saddam was a threat to the United States and had weapons of mass destruction capability, but Kay told NBC television: "All I can say is 'denial' is not just a river in Egypt."

"The report is scary enough without misrepresenting what it says," he added.

Iraq "was not an imminent and growing threat because of its own weapons of mass destruction," he added.

Bush said Wednesday there was a risk that Iraq could have transferred weapons to terrorist groups.

But Kay told CNN television "Right now we have a lot of people who are desperate to justify the Bush administration's decision to go to war with Iraq.

"They will focus on issues such as intent. You will also hear that although we haven't found the weapons or manufacturing capability, they could have been shipped across the border. You can't ship that which you haven't produced. You can't bury that which you haven't obtained or produced."

"Look, Saddam was delusional. He had a lot of intent. He wanted to be Saladin the Great, of the Middle East yet again. He wanted to put Iraq in a preeminent position to remove the US from the region," Kay added.

"He had a lot of intent. He didn't have capabilities. Intent without capabilities is not an imminent threat."

Thursday, October 7, 2004
12:04 p.m.

Gary Busey and George W. Bush meet at last. A fun cartoon for the whole family, mentions "buttsex."

Thursday, October 7, 2004
11:27 a.m.

In Napoleon Dynamite voice: Sweeeet....

Thursday, October 7, 2004
11:10 a.m.

If you're gonna be ballsy, BE BALLSY!

Cheney: Weapons Report Justifies Iraq War

Thursday, October 7, 2004
02:28 a.m.

I unearthed an old turn-of-the-century patriotic Flash used during that year's election, and put it on SwaG!. Ah, we were so innocent then.

Wednesday, October 6, 2004
12:52 p.m.

Crreeeek... And Kerry moves ahead.

He's even got Florida. But, once again, I have to wonder, what the fuck is wrong with you people in Indiana!?! Even John Cougar Mellencamp has it figured out!

Wednesday, October 6, 2004
12:28 p.m.

So, uh, Mr. President, we hate to keep bringing this up, but uh... What's up with this?

Wednesday, October 6, 2004
11:20 a.m.

A talk with E. Howard Hunt, creepy-ass evil old motherfucker.

ALB: Do you hold anyone responsible for Watergate?

HH: No, I don't.

ALB: And you didn't apologize?

HH: No. It never occurred to me to apologize.

ALB: Should Nixon have resigned?

HH: No.

ALB: I know there is a conspiracy theory saying that David Atlee Phillips—the Miami CIA station chief—was involved with the assassination of JFK.

HH: [Visibly uncomfortable] I have no comment.

ALB: I know you hired him early on, to work with you in Mexico, to help with Guatemala propaganda.

HH: He was one of the best briefers I ever saw.

ALB: And there were even conspiracy theories about you being in Dallas the day JFK was killed.

HH: No comment.

Wednesday, October 6, 2004
01:51 a.m.

Yeah, that's me, baby.

No, really. I uncovered the truth -- Dick Cheney is really an operative for George Soros.

Wednesday, October 6, 2004
12:30 a.m.

"If this party gets anymore excitin' it'll break out into a funeral!"

Rodney Dangerfield, Respect In Peace.

The above link is to a fitting tribute, the Fark comments on his passing.

Tuesday, October 5, 2004
01:38 p.m.

This Halloween, hold an...

... party!

Tuesday, October 5, 2004
11:59 a.m.

So this are my 56th post and..I despise hard-ass robot monkeys. And they are hideously bad with my conspiracy theories about hard-ass robot monkeys too , or at least it seems to me. What are your opinions of my learning of words? completely. Hard-ass robot monkeys are definitely freaky scary crappy :-*. What do you despise to say?. i like hard-ass robot monkeys. while i am talk about hard-ass robot monkeys, i wanna say they are shi*ty tons of times perhaps i could discuss my rambles with my friend edward a.

Who is "I Am Learn," and watch as he/she/it grows into a full sentient being.

Tuesday, October 5, 2004
11:30 a.m.

Former McCain aid for Kerry.

Tuesday, October 5, 2004
11:15 a.m.

Scary.

Secretary of State Colin Powell is not staying for a second Bush term. When he goes the last bulwark against complete neoconservative control of U.S. foreign policy goes with him. The implications are enormous, yet the American electorate appears to be blinded by the Bush campaign's deliberate manipulations of 9/11.

Monday, October 4, 2004
07:40 p.m.

2face

Monday, October 4, 2004
03:52 p.m.

Just thinking about the Rev. Dr. Fred Lane. Of "French Toast Man" fame.

This is where it all started.

Monday, October 4, 2004
11:28 a.m.

SpaceShipOne is the winner.

Speaking as someone with a past in nerdy model rocketry, I want one of those.

Friday, October 1, 2004
07:55 p.m.

Things are getting freaky!

"I'm metrosexual — he's a cowboy," the Democratic candidate said of himself and his opponent.

A "metrosexual" is defined as an urbane male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.

This from a FOX News web story on today's Kerry speech about the debate. I'm glad FOX finally cleared up for me what a metrosexual is (I was worried that I might be one). But the problem was, the Kerry quotes were fake. They're just putting up bullshit as news.

Friday, October 1, 2004
11:05 a.m.

Say goodbye, Georgie.

From a swell page of debate photos. (Was McCain really getting too flerty with the Bush girls?)

Thursday, September 30, 2004
11:29 p.m.

Bush: Whiney, defensive, full of excuses. Wife says, "Twerpy."

Kerry: Cool, firm, certain, full of details that he just couldn't get into before the red light begins blinking.

Makers Mark: Best bourbon for the situation.

Thursday, September 30, 2004
03:02 p.m.

WHY IS IT SO?

An American on a '60s Australian TV kids's science show, Professor Julius Sumner Miller was so, so... intense!

"The hope I have here is simply summed up: To stir your imagination, awaken your interest, arouse your curiosity, enliven your spirit - all with the purpose of bringing you to ask, as young Maxwell put it, "What's the go of it?" - or, as Kepler had it, "why things are as they are and not otherwise". Or, more simply in my own phrase, why is it so?"

Thursday, September 30, 2004
10:52 a.m.

What to look for tonight: The Wink

Traditional winking is politically dangerous, of course, especially now that a majority of voters are women. (Rest assured that the sketchy dude who winks at the ladies from the end of the bar ain't getting any tonight.) Aside from appropriate usage among friends or family members, winking is condescending, smarmy, and self-congratulatory - descriptions which Bush, with his reputation as a privileged frat boy, cannot afford to lend credence.

Yet somehow I suspect that Bush heartily executed more than his share of macho, full winks during his Yale frat boy years, if not long after his college days. The Wink we see today, during his political second-life, is a pathological but refined vestige from those younger days. Just because he's subtly sliding it past you, however, doesn't make it any less condescending, smarmy and self-congratulatory.

Wednesday, September 29, 2004
01:21 p.m.

WHOOHOO!

SpaceShipOne, the rocket plane aiming to win the $10m Ansari X-Prize, has completed the first of two qualifying flights above the Californian desert.

Tuesday, September 28, 2004
05:21 p.m.

Wow. Crawford, Texas, paper The Lone Star Iconoclast, which endorsed George W. Bush in 2000, has this to say about Their President's term: "He let us down." They're endorsing Kerry this time.

Monday, September 27, 2004
04:41 p.m.

Meet the new Florida -- Ohio!

There's been a huge voter registration drive in the land of Devo and Cleveland. But it seems that some have been sent in on paper that's too thick, or too thin, or too something, so they're going to be thrown out.

Monday, September 27, 2004
02:35 p.m.

Rove's methods... I like the use of the word "lizardly" here.

Sunday, September 26, 2004
08:00 p.m.

Bush is turning into a characature of himself.

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) said he had no regrets about donning a flight suit to give his "Mission Accomplished" speech on Iraq (news - web sites) in May 2003 and would do it all over again if he had the chance, according to excerpts from an television interview released on Sunday.

When asked by Fox News if he still would have put on a flight suit to declare major combat operations in Iraq over, Bush replied, "Absolutely."

When Bush gave his May 1 speech fewer than 150 Americans had died in the war. Since then more than 900 have died.

I think he needs to show up at the debate Thursday in the filght suit.

Saturday, September 25, 2004
12:11 a.m.

SPREE! An Escape From Reality

Are you a SwaG! listener? Then you will enjoy this.

The best music is always free music.

Friday, September 24, 2004
02:46 p.m.

Swell video by the Persian Rugs.

The song rocks, and the video does also. It features scenes of cavemen (the band) going ape over the women of Russ Meyer's "Mondo Topless."

I have dreams like this ...

Friday, September 24, 2004
02:12 p.m.

POW!

Bush says something stupid yesterday, Kerry's got it in an ad today.

Thursday, September 23, 2004
11:04 p.m.

Sooner or later, it will be a SwaG! world.

The few, big, famous music makers are selling less and less; the small, obscure bands are selling more and more.

The question is, who's the big, overplayed pop star I need to make fun of on air? I thought I was just old, and not in tune with the kids. But it's true, the superstars really have begun to fade out in the past few years. There will be no more Backstreat Boys, there will be no more Beatles.

Industry insiders are just as confused by the good news as they are by the bad. Here are the kinds of questions they’ve been asking themselves: Why doesn’t Eminem break out on the order of the Beatles and sell 10 million copies of every release? Why can’t Britney, Whitney, Madonna and Mariah make hits like they used to? Why can’t the Strokes break through to the mainstream, stymied at 500,000 units shifted? Conversely, they wonder how a one-off Sub Pop release like the Postal Service’s Give Up — a mash-up of the niche genres of bedroom electronica and emo-punk — has sold well over 250,000 copies. How could Matador sell a half-million copies of the debut by an unheralded New York band like Interpol? Why are bands like Modest Mouse, the Shins, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Wilco selling hundreds of thousands of records, where a few years ago they would have — optimistically — sold 50 thousand?

It all started in 1999, it seems.

Thursday, September 23, 2004
10:48 p.m.

More unusual links found while surfing when I should be sleeping.

I wasn't looking for this. It was a link on Metafilter.

I think all that can be said is, Dick Cheney probably thinks this is what could happen to men who vote for Kerrey.

Thursday, September 23, 2004
10:39 a.m.

Teacher reads from Bush and Kerry web sites, then gets kids to vote:

He read where each of the candidates stood on the main issues of the campaign.  He didn’t say who was who…just “this is what candidate one says, this is what candidate two says”.

The kids made tally marks about each thing they agreed with from each candidate.

     Then the kids voted on the issues.

     Four kids voted for Bush.  26 kids voted for Kerry.

But wait, there's more.

Thursday, September 23, 2004
03:21 a.m.

Post-SwaG! early morning web surfing...

Mister Pants points out Jay J. Armes.

Here's Armes hanging out with Marlon Brando (he found his kidnapped son), Armes' pet tiger and cheeta, Texas Gov. (and future President!) George W. Bush, and...

Oh, that photo on the bottom. I see that, and click on the Spymall logo... Hmmm.... what does this guy do?

Interesting. I'm disturbed, yet intrigued...

SUPER SONIC NAUSEA

This "industrial strength" version of the Sonic Nausea is now available for non-government sales for the first time. It provides serious, substantial capability to disrupt and disperse gatherings. Speeches, demonstrations. crowd dynamics - this device has been used to "influence" more of these in recent years than you might suspect.

Wednesday, September 22, 2004
02:43 p.m.

If you didn't see it on ABC News last night, watch this. They don't tell you Bush is bullshitting, they just show it.

Wednesday, September 22, 2004
01:02 p.m.

A Nation Mourns...

Well, Metafilter does. Find Russ Meyer links in their "21-Bosom Salute."

Yes, SwaG! will pay tribute tonight.

Wednesday, September 22, 2004
11:36 a.m.

Hang on!

From the Electoral Vote Predictor 2004:   Kerry 269   Bush 253

Are we swinging the other way? Whatever. Keep your eyes on the horizon and you won't get sick.

Wednesday, September 22, 2004
10:25 a.m.

Say you have this friend. And you take him to a party. And he does something really fucking rude, starts a fight, takes bottles of the good booze for himself. Everybody there is horrified. They just stare at him, but nobody stands up to him because, well, he's a crazy motherfucker. And he expects you to fight along with him if anything starts.

Time passes. Nobody invites you and your friend to any parties. Then, out of the blue, you get a call. "Come out this weekend, and, by the way, you're friend has learned to be cool, right?"

You really want things to go well, because it seems like you haven't had a friend in the world -- except for this asshole. But you can't ditch him.

You and he go to the party, and there he goes again, being a cocky sonofabitch.

Maybe it's time to get rid of this "friend."

Wednesday, September 22, 2004
10:20 a.m.

Russ Meyer, RIP

Wednesday, September 22, 2004
12:07 a.m.

I was wondering about this, also...

Tuesday, September 21, 2004
03:35 p.m.

Do you live outside the US? Are you also a US citizen who would like to vote? It seems "the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots."

If this is you, go here for help to do what you need to do.

Tuesday, September 21, 2004
02:20 a.m.

By the way, if you look in the site linked to in the post below, you will find what I think is the funniest baby t-shirt ever. And there's a matching bib.

You may not find it funny. But remember, it's a joke. Take your political correctness elsewhere, hippie!

Tuesday, September 21, 2004
02:15 a.m.

Bill Clinton was the best president of our time. In fact...

Sunday, September 19, 2004
09:29 p.m.

Even Republicans see that Bush fucked up Iraq.

Sunday, September 19, 2004
05:49 p.m.

"THAAAAAAT OLD BLACK MAGIC, HAS ME IN A SPELL..."

Obnoxious public preachers vrs. showtunes -- a true story.

Saturday, September 18, 2004
11:41 a.m.

The year, 1970. Too many of the young generation had tuned in, turned on and dropped out. Kids' lives were going to "pot." These "hippies" spit on our Flag.

Now we have proof that Our Young Future President, George W. Bush, was a Patriot who got "high" his own way!

The only other material released Friday was a photograph of Mr. Bush with his basic training unit in 1968 and news releases from his Guard unit in 1969 and 1970 highlighting his service. One of the releases from 1970, which has been widely reported on, called Mr. Bush "one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed" but rather through flying fighter planes.

It seems like his commanding officers loved him, and wrote their praise of this gifted young flying, killing machine to his father, Congressman George H. W. Bush. The elder Bush wrote back, noting that his ass had been thoroughly kissed.

"That a Major General in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me," Representative George Bush wrote on his House of Representatives stationery to Maj. Gen. G. B. Greene Jr., then the commander of the Lackland Military Training Center in Texas.

Saturday, September 18, 2004
02:21 a.m.

Bat Guano, AT THE MOVIES

I don't write movie reviews. But if I did, I'd write something like, "Only a fart like Roger Ebert wouldn't like 'Napoleon Dynamite'" or, "The tunnel monkeys in 'THX-1138' weren't as bad an addition as the shit Lucas puts in his enhanced 'Star Wars' crap."

Friday, September 17, 2004
03:52 p.m.

More on Phil Parlock.

Not only did those DEMONcrats attack him in 1996, 2000 and 2004, but there was also an attempted assasination.

Friday, September 17, 2004
10:29 a.m.

Republican Family Values

Mix support of your President, George W. Bush, with your family and political dirty tricks. Meet Phil Parlock of Barboursville, West Virginia, son and Master of Disquise Phil II, back-up Alex and stunt daughter Sophia.

Thursday, September 16, 2004
12:31 p.m.

Bush's Beer?

The farks at Fark take a look.

A much more entertaining debate than that one about fonts and proportional spacing.

Thursday, September 16, 2004
11:42 a.m.

From the NYT.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 - A classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President Bush in late July spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq, government officials said Wednesday.

The estimate outlines three possibilities for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst case being developments that could lead to civil war, the officials said. The most favorable outcome described is an Iraq whose stability would remain tenuous in political, economic and security terms.

"There's a significant amount of pessimism," said one government official who has read the document, which runs about 50 pages. The officials declined to discuss the key judgments - concise, carefully written statements of intelligence analysts' conclusions - included in the document.

Take it, Scottie!

"You know, every step of the way in Iraq there have been pessimists and hand-wringers who said it can't be done," Mr. McClellan said at a news briefing. "And every step of the way, the Iraqi leadership and the Iraqi people have proven them wrong because they are determined to have a free and peaceful future."

President Bush, who was briefed on the new intelligence estimate, has not significantly changed the tenor of his public remarks on the war's course over the summer, consistently emphasizing progress while acknowledging the difficulties.

Thursday, September 16, 2004
11:02 a.m.

Liberal Wall Street Journal headline: Bush's Convention Bounce Vanishes as Race Tightens

In a Harris poll, Kerry is now a point ahead of Bush.

Thursday, September 16, 2004
02:40 a.m.

Johnny Ramone, RIP

Wednesday, September 15, 2004
04:42 p.m.

Nunchucks = Fun!

Wednesday, September 15, 2004
12:18 p.m.

At that convention in New York the other week, President Bush talked about his ownership society. Well Mr. President, when it comes to your record, we agree – you own it.

Of course, the President would have us believe that his record is the result of bad luck, not bad decisions. That he’s faced the wrong circumstances, not made the wrong choices. In fact, this President has created more excuses than jobs. His is the Excuse Presidency: Never wrong, Never Responsible, Never to Blame. President Bush’s desk isn’t where the buck stops – it’s where the blame begins. He’s blamed just about everyone but himself and his administration for America’s economic problems. And if he’s missed you, don’t worry – he’s still got 48 days left until the election.

Kerry's going to be punching away for the next two months. If it doesn't get rid of Bush, I hope at least it bloodies him, softening the swine up for impeachment.

It won't work on the most hardcore Bush lovers. They live in their own world, as a sign at a Bush rally proves: "If Jesus weren't a Jew, he'd be an American."

Wednesday, September 15, 2004
09:35 a.m.

Fucker.

Guess which high-level DICK said the following:

"I think what happened in Russia now demonstrates pretty conclusively that everybody is a target. That Russia, of course, didn't support us in Iraq, they didn't get involved in sending troops there, they've gotten hit anyway."

Yes, if only the Russians had supported us in Iraq, then those terrorists who're for Chechnya wouldn't have killed all those kids. How could they be so careless as to not fight terrorists. I mean, Iraqterrorists9/11, Iraqterrorists9/11 Iraqterrorist9/11.

Even Republicans see this as crazy.

Wednesday, September 15, 2004
12:10 a.m.

Teams from around the world get together and create Photoshop collages with the theme: As Redneck As You Wanna Be!

Such poor taste.

Tuesday, September 14, 2004
10:50 a.m.

What a taxcut and spend liberal, promicing handouts galore just to get elected.

The expansive agenda President Bush laid out at the Republican National Convention was missing a price tag, but administration figures show the total is likely to be well in excess of $3 trillion over a decade.

A staple of Bush's stump speech is his claim that his Democratic challenger, John F. Kerry, has proposed $2 trillion in long-term spending, a figure the Massachusetts senator's campaign calls exaggerated. But the cost of the new tax breaks and spending outlined by Bush at the GOP convention far eclipses that of the Kerry plan

Monday, September 13, 2004
12:40 p.m.

Saw this on ABC News last night.

It took a second to think, hey, that was from one of our rockets, and the blood splatter on that lens came from a guy who was not in combat with the United States.

Sunday, September 12, 2004
02:48 p.m.

A type geek at PC Magazine tells us what's what. The default of MS Word will create a document that looks almost identical to an early '70s IBM Selectric Composer.

So this could mean:

-->If the documents were forged, then the forgers had no clue that they could, with MS Word as well as through Photoshop and mechanical manipulations (making copies of copies, aging the paper with chemicals, etc.), make a document that looked as if it was typed on a plain old 1973 typewriter.

-->If the documents were forged, then the forgers had no access to an early '70s typewriter, which would show all the quirks, fonts and spacings of the usual old typewriter, and give the appearance of hammers having struck a ribbon on paper, instead -- if they did just do a printout -- of an inkjet or laser-print document.

-->If the documents were forged, then the forgers were really, really clueless.

-->Or the documents, which were from a guy being pressured to give young slacker George W. Bush special treatment, are genuine.

In any case, the debate is about fonts, spacing, kerning, etc., not about how Bush skipped his medical exam because he didn't want to be drug tested. Mission Accomplished, Rove!

Sunday, September 12, 2004
11:35 a.m.

Nobody told me yesterday was Patriot Day!

Sunday, September 12, 2004
12:53 a.m.

The Hindenburg disaster was the first radio broadcast of a terrible event (well, that and the War of the Worlds a warm up for WWII). JFK's assasination the first for TV. And this the first for the web and the blogs.

There were people at their computers trying to work that day. When everything was chaos I decided I just couldn't work and tried to get the news on the CNN site. So did everybody else, and the flood shutt down major sites. So then people turned to links like that above, trying to find out what the hell happened.

Friday, September 10, 2004
03:37 p.m.

Oh my god. A new Killian memo has turned up. And this looks like it was made without proportional fonts, and with the standard Courier face, so you know it's authentic.

Friday, September 10, 2004
10:07 a.m.

Coming this Fall on FOX!

You've Been Kicked In The Nuts!

Friday, September 10, 2004
09:04 a.m.

In 1941: IBM announces the Electromatic Model 04 electric typewriter, featuring the revolutionary concept of proportional spacing. By assigning varied rather than uniform spacing to different sized characters, the Type 4 recreated the appearance of a printed page, an effect that was further enhanced by a typewriter ribbon innovation that produced clearer, sharper words on the page. The proportional spacing feature became a staple of the IBM Executive series typewriters.

There's an army of voices coming out of the woodwork hoping to distract from the truth that young Bush got out of going to Vietnam, blew off his service and was a general lame-ass. They're doing so by claiming that one memo could only have been done on a computer using MS Word, because, they say, proportional spacing did not exist in the primitive days of the early '70s.

But, the font that looks a lot like Times New Roman! And the raised "th"! And the margins are so close to the defalt on MS Word!

Meet the IBM Selectric Typewriter, the old machine that had proportional spacing, the handy "golf ball" ball-o-type that one could switch around to get diferent fonts and symbols like a raised "th". And it had the ability to lne up margins in the basic format accepted in offices all over which was, crazy as it seems, used as the defalt on MS Word.

Somebody's backed against the wall.

Thursday, September 9, 2004
11:58 p.m.

I've seen bad fiction. I've been to the writers' workshops. I've seen how creativity is "nurtured." That's why I say, "Thank you, Fiction Bitch."

Thursday, September 9, 2004
03:35 p.m.

All About Dick

(The above graphic is a little Flash thing I began doodling with when Darth Dick let us know if we didn't vote for Bush, terrorists will kill us all. Click on the words when they show up. No, I'm not obsessed. I just needed a reason to re-learn Flash. Go fuck yourself.)

Thursday, September 9, 2004
01:06 p.m.

Oh, such beautiful muisc... The Three Suns in Japan!

Thursday, September 9, 2004
10:39 a.m.

A lot of times the word "censorship" gets tossed around in various overblown ways. There is a lot of what could be called corporate censorship, where a powerful company tries to stifle something. What pure censorship really is is a government or representative of a government trying to stop information from becoming public.

Like this:

A representative of the White House recently called Neal Shapiro, president of NBC News, to discourage that network from broadcasting interviews with Ms. Kelley about the book on its "Today'' program and on its MSNBC cable program "Hardball With Chris Matthews,'' a network executive said.

Of course in the land of the free and the home of the brave this type of thing tends to direct people's attention directly to the thing that the powerful are trying to keep hidden. Which shows that Bush and friends have a hard time really understanding the dynamics of a democracy.

I wonder, could it have been Rove? Could discussions on Kitty Kelly have gone something like this?:

Suskind writes of waiting outside Rove's office for an interview. "Inside, Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him. . . . 'We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!' As a reporter, you get around-curse words, anger, passionate intensity are not notable events-but the ferocity, the bellicosity, the violent imputations were, well, shocking. This went on without a break for a minute or two. Then the aide slipped out looking a bit ashen, and Rove, his face ruddy from the exertions of the past few moments, looked at me and smiled a gentle, Clarence-the-Angel smile. 'Come on in.'"

Thursday, September 9, 2004
03:32 a.m.

Oh, it's late. I was just wondering what "CYA" could stand for... Oh, yeah. Duh.

Thursday, September 9, 2004
02:24 a.m.

U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" as sung by George W. Bush.

Thursday, September 9, 2004
01:16 a.m.

Once again I come home from SwaG!, all jacked-up on coffee and punk rock (why so much punk rock lately? its something in the air, and angry something), and find that freakish political earthquakes are rocking the country.

Last week it was Zell and Dick and their message of hope and optimism. Tonight (morning now), it is the massive shitstorm hitting a big, big fan.

Or is it really the shitstorm and the fan? Years have gone by where this comes up only to be tamped back down. I saw the beginning of "60 Minutes II" and left to do SwaG!, thinking, I know this story.

But the documents are coming out. When the White House quietly hands out documents they claimed didn't exist after the broadcast of a little news show talking about the same documents, it seems like an "Okay, you got us," kind of moment.

When have you heard this White House admit anything?

Tuesday, September 7, 2004
08:03 p.m.

Oh, my, looks like Bush will win, look at the pols, it's a double digit, er, 4, er, maybe 3 point lead, at this point Kerry should just give up...

From "Run the Numbers: a Stronger Showing for Bush," the Wall Street Journal gets to the basic fact: "If you add up the numbers, you find that Mr. Kerry would win the Electoral College 307-231."

Kerry's still winning. And the most popular president since Jesus (back around 9/12/01) managed to get a few-point bounce after his convention.

Tuesday, September 7, 2004
01:41 p.m.

Onces again, there is something just not quite right about Bush.

Because I'm not Bush's shrink, I can't say specifically how this plays itself out in his head (general anxiety? confusion? feelings of intimidation? chronic second guessing?). Nonetheless, it's plainly evident in those (infamous) gestures and speech acts in which he freezes up or suddenly blanks out when he has to think on his feet. By now, most everyone has noticed how, in the middle of what he's doing, Bush's eyes will suddenly dart to one side while his head stays locked. Or, for no reason, how he'll suddenly look mystified. Or, how he might stop in mid-sentence and suddenly cock his head upward slightly, as if straining to hear some inner voice.

Could it be damage from the booze and the coke? Are there any former abusers you know who you'd trust to be President of the United States?

Tuesday, September 7, 2004
12:06 p.m.

So, what I want to know is, was this going on around the time George W. Bush was snortin' away during his visits to Camp David?

Oh, please click on the link. I just can't spoil it here.

Tuesday, September 7, 2004
08:49 a.m.

This from a new site probably not approved of by the DOD.

We were told in the outset that Iraq was an imminent threat to the United States. Some marines felt that this war was payback for September 11th. Some marines felt that we were defending our way of life. This wasn't true. How is it that if Iraq was such a threat, their own troops couldn't stop us from reaching their capital in three weeks? We never found any WMD's or signs of battlefield chemical weapons. We did however, find hundreds of caches of discarded weapons and an army throwing away their uniforms for civilian clothes so they could escape certain death and return to their homes and families. We found that once we got to Baghdad, we had no exit strategy. Some of us wondered how we were going to get back out of Iraq when we had bypassed towns teeming with guerrilla fighters. Did they expect us to fight our way out?

Monday, September 6, 2004
01:52 p.m.

The one thing I learned about Bob Graham when he was running is that he obsessively takes notes on EVERYTHING he does every minute of every day.

Bushies are painting the former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman now as just some failed candidate, who cares what crazy things he's sayin'?

Uh, he's got notes on everybody. Legally, notes are just a step down from audio recordings.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman asserted Sunday that the general who ran the war in Afghanistan said more than a year before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that his resources were being shifted in preparation for taking on Saddam Hussein.

Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., contends that just months into combat in Afghanistan, Gen. Tommy Franks also told him that fighting terrorism in Somalia, Yemen and elsewhere should take priority over invading Iraq.

Graham said Franks told him he thought the United States knew less about the situation in Iraq than did some European governments, and the Bush administration should ask them for advice.

The senator, who is retiring at year's end, said his conversation with the now-retired general came in February 2002, when Graham was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

That was the month that Secretary of State Colin Powell told a House committee that President Bush was considering ``the most serious set of options one might imagine'' to bring ``regime change'' in Iraq, including the possibility of doing it alone. At least one European leader, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, said a few days later that Bush had assured him ``he harbors no attack plans.''...

...Graham wrote of his meeting with Franks in a book, ``Intelligence Matters,'' which goes on sale Tuesday.

In an excerpt read on the program, the senator said Franks told him ``his men and resources were being moved to Iraq, where he felt that our intelligence was shoddy. This admission was coming almost 14 months before the beginning of combat operations in Iraq and only five months after the commencement of combat in Afghanistan.''

So, once again we get proof that Bush dropped the ball on terrorism, Afghanistan, al Qaida, bin Laden, etc., so he could get us bogged down in Iraq. What a fucking miserable failure.

Monday, September 6, 2004
10:57 a.m.

New Get Your War On, here and here.

Monday, September 6, 2004
10:11 a.m.

Oh, Dannybot

Sunday, September 5, 2004
07:27 p.m.

It's not new, but...

What do you get if you Google Miserable Failure?

Another look at the Miserable Failure.

Sunday, September 5, 2004
12:38 p.m.

Aw, come on! This is in the past! Why would you want to be like Kerry and be all hungup in the past! Bush is about the future, a hopeful, optomistic, positive future...

Saturday, September 4, 2004
11:56 p.m.

Okay, there were no boos when Bush told a Republican crowd to give some love to Clinton.

But (playing this like a Republican), the AP writer must've heard some boos -- why would he have put that in the story? Maybe there were no hateful boos for a former president in need, but we have heard boos, right? People boo all the time, hateful, partisan people, and Clinton has stirred up the most hate from Republicans...

Saturday, September 4, 2004
11:43 a.m.

Cheney's den of snakes now looks twice as slimy.

FBI counterintelligence investigators have in recent weeks questioned current and former U.S. officials about whether a small group of Iran specialists at the Pentagon and in Vice President Cheney's office may have been involved in passing classified information to an Iraqi politician or a U.S. lobbying group allied with Israel, according to sources familiar with or involved in the case.

In their interviews, the FBI agents have also named two Israeli diplomats stationed in Washington and asked whether they would be willing recipients of sensitive intelligence, the sources added.

The investigators have asked questions about personnel in the office of Pentagon Undersecretary for Policy Douglas J. Feith as well as members of the influential Defense Policy Board, an advisory panel for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, according to former U.S. officials who have been questioned and others familiar with the case.

Friday, September 3, 2004
03:07 p.m.

Republicans show their respect and well wishes for a former President in his time of suffering.

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) President Bush on Friday wished Bill Clinton ``best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery.''

``He's is in our thoughts and prayers,'' Bush said at a campaign rally.

Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them.

Friday, September 3, 2004
10:03 a.m.

Couldn't watch the big speech last night due to health reasons? There's a nice summary of reactions here.

Thursday, September 2, 2004
12:48 p.m.

Enough with the politics, it's time to ROCK!

That lovely cover of the Rolling Stones' "I Can Not Get Me No Satisfaction, Hey, Hey, Hey, LAY-DEE!" is by the great Sam Chaplin. You can find all of his hit album and story here.

If you're more into something that doesn't feature old men singing the classics of the rocking and the rolling, here's some swell exotic flute with jungle drums.

Thursday, September 2, 2004
11:36 a.m.

They're doing it again.

Thursday, September 2, 2004
09:28 a.m.

And for those swing voters who have doubts about John Kerry...

Thursday, September 2, 2004
02:22 a.m.

And we had to give up cable!

Well, I would've missed it anyway, due to SwaG!.

Zell Miller goes nutso on Chris Matthews, after Matthews gets tough on him.

Miller, it seems, in his role as the Senator who would become Emperor, said something nearly fascist in his speech: "It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press."

I thought it was those guys who wrote the Constitution. But anyway, Matthews seemed to think that maybe that was a bit of hyperbole. Miller proved him wrong with the point that he'd like to challlenge him to a duel.

We've got all of September and October to go. Enjoy the ride.

Update: Video!

Thursday, September 2, 2004
01:33 a.m.

Folks at Daily Kos pick up on the Star Wars/Dubya Wars saga right off the bat.

And take it the next step: W is Jar-Jar.

Thursday, September 2, 2004
01:14 a.m.

Okay, once again I play on SwaG! the theme to "The Empire Strikes Back," with the subliminal (obvious) message that it should be played as the theme music to every speech by Dick Cheney.

I was worried that was getting old, but DAMN! You know the Vader helmet would fit Dick. But who would've guessed that Zell is just a black hood away from being The Emperor?

Wednesday, September 1, 2004
05:17 p.m.

Michael Moore is one cocky, ballsy, mutha.

Wednesday, September 1, 2004
11:11 a.m.

Okay, one last word about Jenna and The One That Is Not Jenna.

Wednesday, September 1, 2004
10:53 a.m.

Are you as un-hip as Gammy? Then don't forget to play Twinspotting!

Wednesday, September 1, 2004
10:48 a.m.

Big speech for Daddy, over. Now it's time to PAR-TAY! WHOOO!

From ABC News' The Note:

What did Barbara and Jenna Bush do after their (not terribly well-received) convention debut?

They displaced a group of hard-partying television producers at Whiskey Bar on Sixth Avenue.

The Secret Service came in and checked out the place and told this group of producers that Jenna was coming in.

"Then we were all asked to move so she could take our section," said one.

Jenna was still wearing her outfit from the convention and sat down with six gentlemen, all dressed in suits and very clean cut.

Barbara Bush entered a short while later with an entourage of about 12-15 young girls and guys.

Tuesday, August 31, 2004
01:01 p.m.

Flip-flopper.

In a speech to the national convention of the American Legion, Bush said, "We meet today in a time of war for our country, a war we did not start yet one that we will win.

That statement differed from Bush's earlier comment, aired Monday in a pre-taped television interview, that "I don't think you can win" the war on terror. That had Democrats running for the cameras to criticize Bush for being defeatist and flip-flopping from previous predictions of victory.

Monday, August 30, 2004
11:39 p.m.

"I'd just like to get together with a guy from time to time just to -- just to play. I'd like him to be, uh, in very good shape, flat stomach, good chest, good arms, well-hung, cut, uh, just get naked, play, see what happens, nothing real heavy duty, but just a fun time...."

The only thing that was keeping him from anything real heavy duty probably was the fact that he had a wife, kids, was the second most conservative Republican in the house, etc. He co-sponsored the Federal Marriage Amendment, and wanted those dirty homosexuals to stay single so they might play with him.

Sunday, August 29, 2004
01:09 p.m.

So here's how it was supposed to go down: We'd take care of Iraq. Then we'd take care of Iran. Maybe then Syria...

Conspiracy theories are usually discreditable because they seem so convoluted that if they were to work it would mean that all involved would have to have their shit together. Somebody's going to be the fuckup, or just try to push things too far, or get noticed by the FBI.

Saturday, August 28, 2004
02:43 p.m.

For a moment there, I though Bush might win. But, no, Foghat is not going to tour in support of the "re"election.

Friday, August 27, 2004
09:31 p.m.

Wow. Video of former Texas Lt. Governor Ben Barns getting something off his chest at a Kerry rally.

What he's saying: "Let's talk a minute about John Kerry and George Bush, and I know them both. And I'm not name dropping, saying I know them both. See I got...I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard when I was the Lt. Governor of Texas, and I'm not necessarily proud of that. (audience laughs) But, But I did it, and I got a lot of other people into the National Guard because I thought that's what people should do when you're in office and you helped a lot of rich people. And I walked to the Vietnam Memorial wall the other day and I looked at the names of the people that died in Vietnam, and I became more ashamed of myself than I've ever been because it's the worst thing I did was help a lot of wealthy supporters, and a lot of people who had family names of importance get into the National Guard. And I'm very sorry about that, and I'm ashamed. And I apologize to you, the voters of Texas. (Applause)"

Friday, August 27, 2004
07:38 p.m.

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