Didn't know...

Hey... click here for a flash movie posted on True Majority. I haven't seen much better. It's truly touching.

I really can't wait at this point for the election season to end. It gets nastier by the day and all candidates get more desparate by the hour. Please. Let us go back to the country where we're permitted to disagree. Quickly.

bin Laden watch: 12 days to capture (?)

More partisanship from me, your friendly neighborhood partisan

Kerry kicked major Bush. Although it looked like they gave Georgie the good stuff tonight and the person talking in his ear was feeding him much better answers. The only true thing bush said was that Laura speaks English better than he does.

Baby Tiger thinks that the "October Suprize" will involve Cheney's ticker and Rudy Giuliani. See below for my opinion.

I do hope that the righties took note at Bush's compasion for homosexuals (won't that piss them off!) and that they noted bush's support for athiesm. How does he jive that with his right wing lunatic friends?

bin Laden Watch: 16-18 days to capture.

Whoops...

I guess I'm not being all fair and balanced on the blog here... don't get me wrong: I don't think John Kerry is the Second Coming or anything (even though George Bush thinks his actions will bring on the second coming). Durring the ramp-up to "Operation Replace USSR with a new faceless menace so that all Americans live with a new fear and don't pay attention again" which you might have called "Operation Infinite Justice" or "Operation Shock and Awe", Kerry did become one of those Republi-crats, Democrats who were not standing on their anti-war convictions, but picked the most politically expediant path (that led us to war) and the repeal of many of our civil liberties. It's Ok... I expect it, because Kerry is not the most liberal member of the senate, he's actually the 11th most liberal over his whole career.

bin Laden watch: 19 days and counting until he's "captured." *
* estimates other than mine. I think he'll be "caught" a week before the election, but others that I know think they'll do to Kerry what they did to Carter and find him the day before the election. Right. The Shah of Iran was that affraid of Reagan that he released the hostages on November 1. Didn't have anything to do with George Bush being in Iran days before, did it? Nah!

Conspiracy

1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.
from www.dictionary.com

I would call what Sinclaire Broadcasting is doing conspiracy, but it doesn't fit any of the dictionary definitions. So, we must find different verbiage to describe it. Does wantonly and outrageously partisan or wishing to use their FCC licensed public airwaves to alter the outcome of a political race really have a specific word to describe it? How about lets call it the liberal media. Does showing a movie that is rife with fallacious and slanderous information generated by men who have been following John Kerry for 30+ years and consistently harassing him for being for the end of the Vietnam War sound liberal to you? I'm 30+ years old, and the only things I've done consistently for 30+ years are eating, breathing, and defecating.

If you harass someone for more than a few hours it is considered stalking. What do you call it after 30+ years? Swift Boat. There... something beyond obsession, beyond stalking, beyond harassment. We can now call it swift boat.

12 minutes... (random debate 2 comments...)

For those who were wondering how long it would take shrub to bring up the "global test," it took 12 minutes.

Proposed drinking game: Every time shrub says "terrist," "nucular," or "Sadam," take a shot.

Is it me, or is bush whining? "It's not just you" - Baby Tiger.

Kerry (and the rest of the free world) thought Sadam had weapons because Bush's intentionally flawed and distorted intelligence [which could be called lies outside of politics, but apparently not inside] led us to believe it -- it was not of his own (or anyones own) volition. Lots of smart people (who knew that there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that after 12 years of UN sanctions, bombings, no fly zones, etc. that Sadam had weapons of any more destructive capacity than what you can buy at your friendly neighborhood Walmart) believed Sadam had weapons because we were constantly bombarded with the message and brainwashed into believing so. Had shrub not spent months and thousands of hours lying to us, we wouldn't think Sadam had weapons.

"Kerry sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Bush sounds like a whiny bitch." - Baby Tiger.

Mr. President (?), no one is laughing at your jokes here in this debate. But the whole world is laughing at us because of you.

Is the internet now plural? Did Dick Cheney and Karl Rove create the other one?

Kerry looks at people as he answers their questions. Bush looks at everyone and won't make eye contact for more than 2 seconds.

What is more fassal?

Oh... and if Senator Kennedy is the most liberal senator, what difference does it make to John Kerry? And what's so wrong with a national health care system?

You know, with all these people asking these wonderful questions, why won't Bush answer the question? He runs around and walks around and doesn't answer anything.

Kerry is putting a boot in Bush's ass... I hear it's the American way.

What are bating green eye shades?

Increase wetlands by 3,000,000 what? Acres, inches, centimeters? The Bush plan: Eliminate the risk of forrest fires by cutting down and selling off the trees. You can't sell burnt trees, can you? Stupid is as Bush does. Air and water quality are not better, by the way.

Didn't Bush shut down most stem sell research beyond 22 lines?

Programming note: Baby Tiger is now snarling at the TV. And me.

Translation of Bush's answer: "Love the fetus, hate the child, adult, and elderly.."

Playa haters with weapons?

After watching, I can honestly say: You've got nothing, George. Your clock is up.

All you needed to see from the RNC

Right here in one concise, brief, terrifying and still sadly humorous video, whose link I lifted from Atrios.
http://home.earthlink.net/~houval/gopconstrm.mov

Not that I want to prove the right right, and show that we lefties are now openly hostile, but when someone sticks a W sticker on the round rear window of a 1950's VW Beetle, the mind wanders to fond thoughts of bludgeoning.

Moment of understanding for me: When someone says "Oh, I don't like politics," what they mean is "Oh, I don't like YOUR politics." But as the Italians say, saseachisona, (spelled phonetically) which, I think roughly translates to "you're a moron for voting for the president. "

And while we're on the subject of morons, Nader supporters, you really need to pull your heads out of your sphincters and get with the program. He's not going to win, and by voting for him, you are actually voting for w. By not voting for the candidate with the real chance to win, you're voting for the guy who stole the last election. You think you are sending a message. Do you know what message you send? "Yeah, me and the 2000 other like minded fools in this state are wasting the votes that could have lead to regime change, and so, we are becoming further irrelevant." While no citizen is irrelevant, those who waste their vote are as close to irrelevant as those who don't vote at all. You really like Nader and think he stands for what you stand for? Ask him why he took millions in contribution money from Republicans to get on ballots in most states, and why, even though he knows he doesn't stand a farts chance in a windstorm of winning, he insists on playing spoiler for the Republicans.

Desparation

The desparation hackles are rising in the Republican ranks... they are actually running adds attacking John Kerry for windsurfing. Come on, it's a fricking hobby. "Unless your hobby is molesting children or poking the elderly, with like your finger, or sticks, stop signs, or alligator... shoes, attacking someone's hobby is a sign that 'you got nothin'." - Baby Tiger

Quite honestly, I'd like a president who spends his leisure time decompressing, and not figuring out ways to empty the treasury, send countries into civil war, and make his friends billions. And to the brain-dead fools who [in a Sports Illustrated poll] voted that Bush (who runs and lifts weights) is more athletic than Kerry, who windsurfs, snowboards, runs, plays hockey, bicycles, mountain bikes, trapeezes, climbs mountains, yodels, and plays tournament bridge, what the hell were you thinking?