muriel_volestrangler
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Fri Jan-09-04 10:37 AM
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The most shameless PR leak yet |
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The Lord Protector is going to make a speech about Space next week, and yet it's all over the news now (top story on CNN and ABC websites, and look how much people on DU are talking about it). There were rumours about him announcing this at the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight - but he didn't need it that week (Saddam had just been captured).
So they need to distract attention from something today. Either the combined 'WMDs were made of fairy dust' report/withdrawal of weapons hunting team news had them worried, or something that's about to happen that's bigger still.
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Fri Jan-09-04 10:39 AM
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1. Think it is Kay not filing a report and Sec. Powells "confession" |
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Fri Jan-09-04 10:43 AM
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2. also, the caucuses and primaries |
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and the MoveOn.org ads All that pinko sh*t is getting waay too much ink. Gotta pave over it, PDQ
Oh yeah - and that pesky Joe Wilson mofo - why hasn't that story gone away yet, dammit?
And aybe those RICO lawsuits? Don't need anyone he4aring about THAT do we?
And the Medevac copter getting blown out of the sky Golly but that could be a buzzkill, huh? Especially since it keeps happening after "catching" spiderman.
Quick: more child kidnapping stories! More Michael Jackson! More Mars!
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Fri Jan-09-04 10:47 AM
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3. And don't forget those pesky stories |
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about the Enron criminals getting sweet deals to spend a couple of months at Club Fed and pay back a pittance of what they stole.
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Fri Jan-09-04 10:47 AM
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4. Talking Points Memo suggests: |
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Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 10:49 AM by eek
<<(January 08, 2004 -- 11:46 PM EDT ) No time to discuss it in detail now. But keep a close eye on this developing situation with the Kurds in northern Iraq, which is discussed in this piece http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1767-2004Jan8?language=printer in tomorrow's Washington Post. -- Josh Marshall >> http://talkingpointsmemo.com/(on edit post looked weird)
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Fri Jan-09-04 10:55 AM
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5. Can I call this an analogy |
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Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 11:08 AM by StClone
Bush's America is a horrible mess. A war that 50% support and 50% oppose. Unemployment is down (but much less than expected), yet few jobs were created. The weakening dollar and huge personal and national debt are dragging us to an abyss.
It's a car wreck! When Bush then shouts "Off to Mars!" it's like the unharmed driver of a fatal car wreck announcing "lets all go to "Return of the King" to bystanders. Another sign that MAD GOP Diseases is infecting this country.
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Fri Jan-09-04 11:00 AM
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7. remake of an old movie ... |
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... "It's a Mad Mad Mad GOP World" maybe MoPaul can do a graphic on it :) (who starred in that film .. Jonathan Winters? Mel Brooks??) http://www.explorenader04.org
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Fri Jan-09-04 11:07 AM
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8. I lifted the MAD GOP DISEASES |
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From a bumper sticker. Another sticker I saw from some creative local pols was "Vote GOP and Abort your future."
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Fri Jan-09-04 11:43 AM
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along with Jim Backus, Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Leonard, Spencer Tracy, Cid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Buddy Hackett, Phil Silvers, Terry Thomas, The Three Stooges, and that's just what I can remember off the top of my head. It is one of the funniest movies ever made!
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Fri Jan-09-04 11:13 AM
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I see the driver lurching, and slurring his words.
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Fri Jan-09-04 10:55 AM
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6. It would be interesting ... |
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... to see if man can safely land on the moon ... you know ... to see if it can actually be done ... **** http://www.explorenader04.org
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Fri Jan-09-04 11:14 AM
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10. As much as I'd like to see the space program advanced, I don't |
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think this announcement is going to play nearly as well as Rove seems to think it will. With a massive deficit, continuous "war", cuts to social programs, and unemployment troubles, the American public may just see this as an expensive and unnecesssary diversion.
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Fri Jan-09-04 11:29 AM
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is all I thought when I heard about BushCo's space plans (spanning the next 10 years, according to CNN). how are we going to pay for this? is the space program the best use of our country's dwindling funds? How much more can Bush drain this country of resources for his own political whims? (note: rhetorical question. do not expect answer : )
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Fri Jan-09-04 11:41 AM
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12. But I love an easy question! |
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Q: How much more can Bush drain ...? A: How much more have you got?
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Fri Jan-09-04 11:58 AM
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14. no, that's not the full answer |
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because the deficit drains from money you haven't yet got.
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Fri Jan-09-04 12:47 PM
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15. money your children and your grandchildren haven't got yet nt |
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