Why in hell would any GOP candidate want to be like Ronald RayGun? Reagan was a senile old fool who couldn't get through a nap without a teleprompter.

Passed off old movie scripts to a VFW gathering as if it were a real life event. Honored SS troops (the fucking SS mind you. The fuckers that rounded up jews and exterminated them) at a cemetary in Bitburg.

Had to have "mommy" whisper responses during press conferences. And while he just happened to be President when the Soviet Union fell is just coincidence. The Soviet Union went broke. It wasn't Ronald McDonald's great leadership or cowboy diplomacy. Reagan just happened to be at the cashier station when the one millioneth customer was announced.

Reagan couldn't defeat a pretzel in a fair fight. We already have a Reganesque president.

And just like Ronny, Bush is just a stupid and twice as clumsy.  SB

Hi Bart, Cayobo here.... Living in Key West, Florida, I track all the Storms that build in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf. It's a drill I have to go through every year. If you (or your readers) would like to follow along, I'm collecting the graphics, Satellite and personal impact images here: http://flickr.com/photos/cayobo/sets/72157601428659325/ Dean is currently a Cat. 4 Hurricane with waves in the eye reaching 30+ feet. You may post the above URL if you like. Many blogs and forums follow my tracking posts. This is my favorite image of Dean so far: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1152/1159262888_bffeed5b3e.jpg May Koresh help us all.  Cayobo in the Keys -- Cayobo http://cayobo.tripod.com

Dude, You still don't use a Mac because... You need frequent vacations from the Internet? You have too much money and you're trying to prop up the local economy in Knuckle-drag? There's a hot babe at the PC repair shop? Your IQ really is 60? Here are some Hai Ku's for PC's that you may chant... Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. First snow, then silence. This thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully. With searching comes loss And the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao- until You bring fresh toner. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here. Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. Your radical pal, Ernest a.k.a. Mac Daddy Bart replies: If I get that Mac and it crashes constantly, then what? 

http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3339 Joe Trippi — the preeminent name in Internet electioneering — is back from the desert he occupied when Howard Dean fired him as campaign manager. The New York Whore Times reports that Trippi has slowly moved into center circle of John Edwards’ campaign, displacing traditional advisors Edwards relied on in 2004 and earlier this year. By the Times’ account, it is Elizabeth Edwards, more so than John, who has smoothed the way for Trippi’s resurgence and the near-total commitment to an Internet campaign.

Here are three sample paragraphs from an article about the business practices of the Communist Chinese: Furthermore, China persistently attempts to import the same goods that have already been refused entry. Rick Weiss, reporting for The Washington Post stated: "for years, FDA inspectors have simply returned to Chinese importers the small portion of those products they caught - many of which turned up at U.S. borders again, making a second or third attempt at entry." The list of horror stories concerning Chinese goods could continue ad infinitum. This is particularly concerning since half the garlic, 45% of the apple juice, 20% of the honey and 16% of all seafood imported into the United States originates in China. Furthermore, China is currently trying to muscle its way into America's poultry market. Thankfully, some government officials are fighting to stop this, since Chinese farmers commonly flood their crops with illegal pesticides and fertilize them with human feces. The livestock they raise is then shot full of banned antibiotics and antifungal agents to keep them alive. Here’s the link for the complete article: http://www.tfp.org/TFPForum/TFPCommentary/trouble_brewing_in_china.html

  Norway's Princess Maertha Louise A school newly created by Norway's Princess Maertha Louise for students who wish to "get in contact with their angels" was due to open on Thursday at an undisclosed location because of the clamour it has caused.

The project has been criticised in the Scandinavian country where some have called for the 35-year-old princess, a devotee of alternative therapies, to renounce her official title or even get medical help. 

Maertha Louise, who claims she is clairvoyant, says the Astarte school will offer students the chance to get in contact with their angels, described as "forces that surround us and who are a resource and help in all the aspects of our lives." Bart wonders: How much is a Norwegian handjob? The tuition fees amount to 2,100 dollars per semester and the programme, which involves alternative therapies such as hands-on treatment and healing, lasts for three years.

Bart, you wrote: "John, Rove never had the Democrats' number. He just cheated and the  Democrats were too meek to call him on it." Rove obviously had the Dems' number. He knew the Dems were too weak/ meek/wimpy, especially after watching for 20 years. Dick P Justice, then Peace Bart says: If you give the bully your lunch money each day, he comes to expect it. If they had broken Karl Rove's nose in back in 2001, they wouldn't have had to put up with his bullying ass all these years.

Hi, Bart I've been following the coal mine story and the total number of miners killed over the last several years.  What is wrong with us that we allow this to continue?  I'd rather sit in the dark for 2 hours every night than to take the lives of so many hard-working men and women so that I can have cheap electricity. Mary in Texas Bart says: Mary, like GM's exploding pickup trucks, it's cheaper to pay the families of a few victims than make the mines safe. How hard would it be to sink a 6-foot tall steel pipe into each mine that would allow the men to walk out after a collapse? How hard would it be to run a one inch steel pipe with phone wires and cameras into each mine so they could communicate after a collapse? Men go into mines that aren't safe because their parents did - and that's crazy. Joe Strummer: "You must not act the way you were brought up." Bottom line: Mine owners and crooked Bush don't care how many men die.

Frank Rich, The New York Times, August 19, 2007 Back in those heady days of late summer 2002, Andrew Card, then the president's chief of staff, told The New York Times why the much-anticipated push for war in Iraq hadn't yet arrived. "You don't introduce new products in August," he said, sounding like the mouthpiece for the Big Three automakers he once was. Sure enough, with an efficiency Detroit can only envy, the manufactured aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds rolled off the White House assembly line after Labor Day like clockwork. Five summers later, we have the flip side of the Card corollary: You do recall defective products in August, whether you're Mattel or the Bush administration. Karl Rove's departure was both abrupt and fast. The ritualistic "for the sake of my family" rationale convinced no one, and the decision to leak the news in a friendly print interview (on The Wall Street Journal's op-ed page) rather than announce it in a White House spotlight came off as furtive. Inquiring Rove haters wanted to know: Was he one step ahead of yet another major new scandal? Was a Congressional investigation at last about to draw blood? Perhaps, but the Republican reaction to Mr. Rove's departure is more revealing than the cries from his longtime critics. No G.O.P. presidential candidates paid tribute to Mr. Rove, and, except in the die-hard Bush bastions of Murdochland present (The Weekly Standard, Fox News) and future (The Journal), the conservative commentariat was often surprisingly harsh. It is this condemnation of Rove from his own ideological camp — not the Democrats' familiar litany about his corruption, polarizing partisanship, dirty tricks, etc. — that the White House and Mr. Rove wanted to bury in the August dog days. What the Rove critics on the right recognize is that it may be even more difficult for their political party to dig out of his wreckage than it will be for America. Their angry bill of grievances only sporadically overlaps that of the Democrats. One popular conservative blogger, Michelle Malkin, mocked Mr. Rove and his interviewer, Paul Gigot, for ignoring "the Harriet Miers debacle, the botching of the Dubai ports battle, or the undeniable stumbles in post-Iraq invasion policies," not to mention "the spectacular disaster of the illegal alien shamnesty." Ms. Malkin, an Asian-American in her 30s, comes from a far different place than the Gigot-Fred Barnes-William Kristol axis of Bush-era ideological lock step. Those Bush dead-enders are in a serious state of denial. Just how much so could be found in the Journal interview when Mr. Rove extolled his party's health by arguing, without contradiction from Mr. Gigot, that young people are more "pro-life" and "free-market" than their elders. Maybe he was talking about 12-year-olds. Back in the real world of potential voters, the latest New York Times-CBS News poll of Americans aged 17 to 29 found that their views on abortion were almost identical to the rest of the country's. (Only 24 percent want abortion outlawed.) Read More Here

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8409129199157823217&pr=goog-sl BILL HICKS - A "MUST WATCH" INTERVIEW 1 hr 19 min 52 sec - Apr 20, 2007 Average rating: (96 ratings) Description: I have to give Bill Hicks full credit for waking me up to how the world really works, and this, his last interview includes the footage which proves the Branch Davidians were murdered at Waco, a Bradley tank with a flame thrower attached. This interview was shown on Austin Public Access and has been on Google before, only to be pulled for some spurious reason. If Bill's friend Kevin Booth is still selling this video then please support his good work (along with Alex Jones) exposing the New World Order, but the information Bill puts across in this interview is too important for humanity to be perceived as having "intellectual copyright". Bill hardly swears in this interview so there's no reason for it to be removed for obscenity reasons, if it gets pulled again then it's the evilarchy, not his friends, followers or disciples requesting it's removal. Please watch, learn and WAKE UP - There IS a war on for our minds... R.I.P. Bill, you're my messiah, Vernon was a false prophet!

Bart says: Clinton's enemies were forced to agree that Vern killed himself and his kids. The GOP did everything possible to destroy Clinton short of murder, so why would they help him cover up a mass murder of children?

In the strongest words, Sen Ralston Purina said, "There is 100% proof that the government DID NOT start that fire," but there are still those who want to believe the worst.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070819/ap_po/democrats_debate  Barack Obama on Sunday accused his presidential rivals of "political maneuvering" for saying he lacks experience and he insisted he could handle the rigors of international diplomacy. The candidates began their latest debate by critiquing the freshman senator's recent comments on Pakistan and whether he would meet with foreign leaders — including North Korea's head of state — without conditions. "To prepare for this debate I rode in the bumper cars at the state fair," the Illinois lawmaker said.   Chris Dodd, directly addressing a question about Obama's relative inexperience, said: "You're not going to have time in January of '09 to get ready for this job." Dodd has served in Congress for more than 30 years. Edwards said Obama's opinions "add something to this debate." But Edwards said politicians who aspire to be president should not talk about hypothetical solutions to serious problems. "It effectively limits your options," Edwards said.  Bill Richardson agreed. Bart wonders: Are they ganging up on Obama? How does Hillary get Edwards, Dodd and Richardson to attack Obama?

Dear Bart, Why are you picking on these nice girls who won't use up your stash while you are going out for Anejo? I think it's smoking that is unacceptable to females. One young initiate remarked, "it doesn't taste icky!" after pulling on a water pipe back in '73. Also rumor has it that THC may be an endocrine disruptor and you know how sensitive females are to a change in hormones. http://cannabis.net/endocrine/index.html Men as well get our hormones spilled at times when inhaling holy hits of Hawaiian but we(males) probably do enjoy being out of control more than females. So I think your hypothesis is sound at least on the control thing. Give her a drink first then a little smoky smoky. The volcano is nice. Have you been to the vapors yet? http://www.storz-bickel.com/us_home.htm?x=41&y=14 BC Martin

BC, I didn't write that, and yes, I've been to the vapors. It's been 37 years since I seduced a lady :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/18/us/politics/18cong.html?_r=1&oref=slogin A rash of retirements among House Republicans is adding to the party’s electoral challenges and raising questions about a rush for the exits.

 

Representative J. Dennis Hastert, with an aide, after announcing Friday in Yorkville, Ill., that he would not run for re-election.

Retirement Watch

Four House Republicans — Representatives J. Dennis Hastert and Ray LaHood, both of Illinois; Deborah Pryce of Ohio; and Charles W. Pickering Jr. of Mississippi — have all announced in recent days that they will not seek re-election next year, worrying Republican leaders anxious to hold back a potential wave of retirements after the loss of their majority in 2006. Mr. Hastert, the former speaker, Mr. LaHood and Ms. Pryce were all well-liked leaders within their party.

“I think our party’s chances for winning the majority back next time are pretty bleak at the moment,” Mr. LaHood said in an interview, “and I will admit to you that being in the minority is less fun.”