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A couple arrested for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts at a July 4, 2004 speech in Charleston, West Virginia by President Bush (R-Chickenshit) have won their lawsuit against the White House. This is typical Bush Administration paranoia. Sometimes the Constitution wins out in the end. Check it out.

http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc082007

What Freedom Of Speech Means To Muslims (The U.S. Edition)
By The Stiletto (bio)

Following the riots in Denmark over cartoons depicting Mohammed, death threats against Pope Benedict XVI – accompanied by a nun’s murder and firebombings of several churches – over an obscure reference in a lecture, and fears of violence that caused the Deutsche Oper in Berlin to cancel performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo, The Stiletto observed:

[W]hether Muslims are in the majority or minority, living in a Western nation or in the Middle East, governed under laws that are secular or Islamic, “moderate” or fundamentalist they are all too often hostile to free speech rights.

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I am feeling better and I might get my computer back tomorrow.
Woo Hoo! That would be cool.

I also have a radio show waiting to be recorded
if I can just stop coughing.

Bart, I have figured out whay all the candidates (with few exceptions) love Bush so,
They ALL work for the same guy…Satan. I think you must have to sell your soul
to be a candidate for president of any denomination.

Whaddya think?
supergraphicdude

Bart says: I agree.

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Donald Trump wants to invite Britney, Paris and Lindsay to join his monkey show. According to an interview with the New York Post’s Page Six, he’s serious.

“We’re negotiating with Britney right now.” The Donald told Page Six. (Doesn’t he know that’s almost enough to get a subpoena from K-Fed’s lawyer?!) “Can you imagine her doing it? We’re not sure what will happen. She’s a f-ing mess. And that little reality show she had did nothing. But she likes the idea of being on television and I think she’d be great.”

Bart says: Trump know how to woo the hotties, doesn’t he?
Calling them “a f-ing mess” and implying they can’t get a job without him?

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20326315/site/newsweek/

Now, with his former livelihood in ashes and his college degree in Arabic languages all but useless, he makes ends meet the same way his father did nearly half a century ago—as a boatman on the Tigris River. The boat itself is the very one that his father operated when Ritha was just a baby. Now it’s Ritha who ferries passengers back and forth across the river, past the ruins of bridges that used to be heavy with traffic. Corpses drift with the current, many of them bound and blindfolded, and the sight of them horrifies Ritha.
But every time insurgents blow up another bridge, his ferry business gets busier.

Dear Bart Cop,
You know Hillary voted for this war (another obvious lack of balls). I wanted to know about the candidates views on military action with Iran. You would have to be an idiot not to. I want know, that the next President isn’t going to get us in the same senseless mess of a war, as we are in Iraq.
It’s obvious she is your candidate but, that dosen’t make her the right one. I
don’t read much on your site about Rep. Kucinich… your not just another media whore are you??? He’s the only one that has it right.
Sincerely
Rudy H

Bart says: I like Dennis, but people laugh when you mention his name.
Besides, he’s too honest to be president.

Thanks for the note…

How To Reduce Your Medical Costs.

We used to have doctors that actually liked people. They had a passion to help others, to heal the sick, to be of service.
No more.
Today’s doctors like money. They go to medical school because of money. They serve their internships because of money. They “stack” their patients because of money. If you insist on spending more than 20 minutes with one, he’ll become nervous and irritated because secretly he wants to get to his next patient.
And if he works out of an office, it’s jammed with people. This isn’t because he’s popular but because he “stacks’ his patients, causing a backlog. This way if there is a cancellation he can easily fill the hole in his schedule, and keep a continuous flow of patients helping him make his next Mercedes payment.
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At a time when there are no real- istic actions on impeachment likely to spring from the U.S. House of Representatives, the concept is merely the issue out of context with the cur- rent political circumstance. It would be like asking whether the Department of Education should be abolished. The questions are pointless because neither is going to happen—certainly not any- time soon.

So what is the point?

Bart says: What’s the point of ANY poll?
To see what people are thinking – so why is Zogby so afraid?
I’ll bet he’s asked, “Do you believe in UFOs?” but have any landed?

Zogby won’t ask the BIG questuion because he’s afraid
the answer might be 75% and then what would Bush’s MSM do?

“Tony Snow feels compelled to leave his White House job, which pays him $168,000
with a sweet benefits package, because he’s running out of money. If a guy can’t get by
on $168,000, the economy can’t be that good.”
–Steve Benen, http://www.crooksandliars.com/

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Hillary says she’s thrilled to be getting under Rove’s skin. Still other Hillary advisers, however, are whispering anonymously to the Whore AP that they’re terrified that these Rovian attacks will drive up her negatives.
 
“Ooooooooo, scary! We never underestimate the capacity of Dems to be skittish. But
come on. A man who squandered sky-high Presidential approval ratings post-9/11 to
preside over what may be the largest downswing in Presidential popularity ever, who
fumbled control of both Houses of Congress, whose boss is routinely described as the
worst President in American history, who decimated the percentages of self-identified Republicans, and who himself has an approval rating in the low 20s…is saying mean things that are going to drive up her negatives! How terrifying!”

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Dennis Hastert, who served eight years as the most lamentable Speaker of the House
in the chamber’s history, began a slow exit from the Congress Friday. It was on that
day that the sweaty wrestler, who attained the speakership not on the basis of any political skills or policy expertise but because he was willing to front for the unpalatable Tom DeLay, announced his decision not to seek reelection from the Illinois district that has elected him since 1986.

The House that Hastert built was neither a check nor a balance on the excesses of
the Bush presidency. Hastert’s House allowed the president to go to war and then
initiate the long-term occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan without declarations, it
rubber-stamped the administration’s anti-Constitutional assaults on civil liberties,
it made no complaint when the president attached signing statements that effectively
exempted him from hundreds of laws that had been passed by the chamber.

Hastert’s House was a crude and unworkable place, where members who sought to uphold their oaths to “defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign or domestic” were held up to ridicule and forced to hold hearings on issues
involving the most extreme abuses of presidential authority — lying to the Congress
and the American people about matters of war and peace — in basement rooms.

Bart says: Remember, they chose Hastert because he couldn’t get laid.
Gingrich was caught up in a sex scandal, and so was Bob Livingston. Since the Fascist bastards just impeached Clinton for having sex, they couldn’t afford THREE speaker resignations in a row over sex, so they picked the sweaty wrestler, who they KNEW couldn’t possibly have a sex scandal in the present or in the past.

“For those of you who still care, what exactly is the Iowa straw poll? [on screen: a
political science prof. explaining that GOP candidates tend to pay the $35 ticket
fee for voters in hopes they will come out and support them].

So, it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union,
where rich candidates pay $35 for your vote. Or, as the Republicans call it,
‘Our vision for the future.’”
–Jon Stewart

Dear Bart, Sorry you (and much of America) fell for
that Karl Rove “counterfeit” shit on Bush’s National
Guard Records.

“Typeface” aside, you and I know that the allegations
were true. Bush not only skipped the “drug test,” but
he also skated on his Guard duty for the last 1.5 years.
It’s my belief that Rove and his minions knew this was
coming and “dummied up” the evidence. This is part of
Rove’s partisan history — political ju-jitsu, making
what is true seem false. Rather (and his CBS producer,
Marla Mapes) were right about Bush shirking his National
Guard duty, but Rove (and his accomplices) stuck them
with suspect documentation — and thus, not only
counteracted the truth, but also undermined a true
war hero, John Kerry, at the same time.

Machiavellian genius or pure Republican evil.
The choice is yours — and history’s.
Best, David

Bart says: Hey, I didn’t fall for anything.
*I* would’ve made sure all my ducks were in a row
BEFORE I made the accusation – something Dan Rather
couldn’t figure out and his screw-up gave Bush the
forever pass of desertion during wartime.
In 11 years doing this page, I’ve never made a
mistake THAT big and I don’t have an army of
fact-checkers and producers and interns backing me up.
Dan Rather got outplayed when the stakes were miles high.

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A couple arrested at a rally for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the ACLU announced Thursday.

Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state Capitol, where Bush gave a speech. A judge dismissed trespassing charges against them, and an order closing the case was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charleston.

Bart says: I told them how to stop this, but Democrats have no balls and no brains.
You can go to a federal judge and have him issue a prior restraint order that prevents the jack-booted bastards from arresting law abiding citizens – but the Democrats don’t have
the brains or the balls to think before they step in the gisnt hole and break a leg.

How did I get in a party of sacless quitters that can’t learn?

Leahey deserves to be permanently inducted into the pink tutu hall of shame.
I mean how hard is it to stand up to a president who is less popular than the clap
and when your party controls both houses of Congress?

from todays WaPo:

[The White House has] stalled or ignored Leahy’s requests as his
committee looks into the wiretapping program and the travails of
Gonzales. They have calculated — accurately so far — that the
Dynamic Duo of Leahy and Schumer would deliver harsh words but no
punishment of consequence.

“The time is up. The time is up,” Leahy whined. “We’ve waited long enough.”

But what would Leahy do about it? The first questioner riddled
Batman with this.

“The full Judiciary Committee will have to sit down and determine whether to seek contempt from the full Senate,” said the noncommittal action hero.

Does that mean he would seek a contempt-of-Congress citation?
“What I want to do is get the response to these things,” Leahy demurred.

Rebecca Carr of Cox News tried again to pin him down, but Leahy
continued to escape. “What we have to find out is what happened here,” he answered.

How about withholding money from the administration?
“Let’s take it step by step,” he proposed.

Holy incrementalism, Batman!

Bart says: Leahy want so take things step by step?
What step comes after “Go fuck yourself?”

Leahy needs a few shots of Jack Daniels and a shot of testosterone,
but he’s too busy with his damn Batman movie to come to f-ing work.