Saturday, January 08, 2005
Bush's Butcher Shop
Fighting 69th mourns loss of N.Y. soldier0 comments
This is the famous New York City National Guard outfit of Jimmy Cagney movie fame: "The Fighting 69th."
69th Infantry Regiment KIA:
Civil War: 388
World War I: 900
World War II: 472
All of Korea: 0
All of Vietnam: 0
So far in Iraq: 4
Just as in Cagney's day, they're as tough as any bunch in the game.
So, you want to support our troops?
Fine.
Then, badger your Senator to make Bush bring them home now, while they're still alive to appreciate the gesture and say "Yo! Thanks, Mac!" for your support.
posted by Gotham 7:55 PM
Friday, January 07, 2005
White House Czar Tortures America's Bullshit Meter
"Flip-Flop!" — "Flip-Flop!" — "Flip-Flop!" — "Flip-Flop!" ...0 comments
If your're gonna push for terror, I say, be a man, stay with the girl that brung ya, stay with terror.
White House Terror Czar Alberto Gonzales Condemns Torture Tactics
This is what's known in New York City as: lying in your job interview. I'd love to see what he actually put down on his resume.
posted by Gotham 2:42 AM
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
GOP Sexuality Comes to the Military
Here is an updating to the U.S. Military's real "Don't Ask; Don't Tell" policy:0 comments
He "don't ask."
Afterwards, she "don't tell."
A question:
If these pigs have raped over 100 U.S. uniformed women—who have, and are trained on, military weaponry, then how many unarmed Iraqi women have been assaulted over the last year and a half.
Pentagon Toughens Policy on Sexual Assault
Forget the training, boys. Let's see some convictions pile up. And heavy time accrue.
Also, are we to assume that this new military policy extends to 15-year-old Iraqi boys held in Abu Ghraib and other military prisons?
Or has Torture Czar Alberto Gonzales already signed off on that, and given his OK?
posted by Gotham 1:37 AM
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Adam of The Times Stumps for the DLCers;
Mole for the GOP?
Consurmer tip:0 comments
Watch for this byline when reading your morning New York Times:
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Then, you can safely skip over it, and move on to the next article in the paper, or click onto another article on the site.
After having his not liking John Kerry ooze up through his dispatches throughout the recent presidential campaign as the beat writer for The Times, and after writing a string of personal, negative stories about the candidate he was supposedly following impartially, Adam Nagourney has decided (or was he assigned?) to insert himself squarely into the current battle for the Chair of the DNC.
Democrats Entangled: So What Happened in That Election, Anyhow?
Do not expect an informed discussion about that question in the title. It's basically a rehashing of the themes the TV talking heads were prattling about in the week after the election.
If you're Karl Rove and the GOP machinery, how much better could it get, then having The Paper of Record running stories emphasizing the corporate donations-based Status Quo wing of the Democratic Party, who assert that it was just not enough focus on "values" and "terrorism" that cost them the election. The content and well-funded "Republican Lite" Boys—Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), incoming Gov. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and the hapless, but ever-lovely outgoing DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe—all get a firm pat on the back from ol' Adam here. Even their current poster boy for the Chair, former Rep. and former member of the 9/11 Commission Tim Roemer, gets a nod from Adam to say a few words about How to Paint a Different Face on Strong Republican Issues.
You won't have to search very long to notice that there is only passing mention of the massive grassroots Reform Movement within the Democratic Party—which spurred a million people to hit the streets in February 2003 and created the outpouring of volunteers and cash and technology that infused the effort to unseat George Bush—and that mention is only indirectly, as something these tried and true Democrats need to put up with on their way to their next defeat.
It really is incumbent upon the editors of The Times to keep Selective writing, and Opinion writing to to its well reknowned Op-Ed page, which has rightly won awards for years.
posted by Gotham 10:14 AM
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Pataki's Own Whitewater
We keep forgetting about the Other George, George Pataki the governor of New York, and HIS coming race for the presidency in 2008.0 comments
Gee, it's so-o-o-o-o easy to do.
But thanks to an actual, brave PUBLIC SERVANT, this time State Controller Alan Hevasi, Georgie P. will actually have something that reporters can dog him about on the campaign trail.
Maybe the Democrats can spend ANOTHER $8 million of taxpayer money the way the GOP did, and tie things up for the next couple of years, investigating a land scandal of the Republican variety, this time.
The Canal-gate Scandal has popped up a couple of times over the last year or so, but from the reactions of some in the Pataki camp, it seems to have finally gained some legs.
Here's how Pataki's staff, committed to the Common Good as they are, responded in e-mails when Hevasi single-handedly killed a well orchestrated land grab by Thomas Hutchens, a major Pataki campaign contributor, who only paid $30,000 for the rights to develop homes along the 500-mile Erie Canal.
Gov staff's %$#! rap for Hevesi
Temper, temper, Miss Stoll.
posted by Gotham 4:32 AM
Washington Be Broken...
...and D.C. Be Sinkin'.0 comments
Perhaps the good people of the Ukraine would lend us their leaders, legislators and judges for a few months.
Then, perhaps we'd have a shot at forming a working democracy for ourselves.
Congress Resists Key Recommendation of 9/11 Panel
There are few people left in either the Senate or the Den of Thieves who are worthy of working in the Public sector.
It may be time to shut the entire facility down.
posted by Gotham 3:58 AM
Are You Really Stupid?
I Mean Really Stupid?
The Bush Guys think so.1 comments
And they're in the process of betting MILLIONS on the fact that you're too stupid, too lazy and too gutless to avoid handing over to them every last cent you'll need to live on when you're retired.
Think of the Bush Guys as hackers, spammers and thieves.
Because that's what they are. They're just guys with their hands in your pockets—just like the hackers, but without the patina of outlaw cool.
We all know well that the Social Security Insurance plan is only a safety net to keep people from starving to death in the streets.
It's never been a means for creating a lush retirement. That's what pensions were for, and recently, 401K and IRA-type accounts.
We know rich guys know they'll never need it, and resent paying SSI taxes on the first $87,000 of their incomes, so they want to wipe it all out. Fuck everybody else.
Unfortunately for them, despite the fixes the program needs along the way, SSI is WAAAAAAY too stable and solvent for their purposes, so they're about to spend millions upon millions to create an ad campaign that they're convinced will have you banging on their door for their "great plan."
The same way they sold you the cigarettes that killed your parents and now have you walking around with an oxygen tank.
They're going to tell you there's a crisis when there IS NO crisis. They'll tell you scary SSI ghost stories day and night until you're convinced that the walls around you are talking to you, and that your bed is spinning, falling into an endless pit.
Kinda like that.
They know they have to convince you of something that just isn't true.
And they're sitting there, grinning, because they "know" you're going to swallow it hook, line and sinker.
A Big Push On Social Security
ARE you that stupid?
You're not, are you?
Really?
posted by Gotham 1:47 AM
