Not surprisingly, the Kerry campaign has decided to flip-flop on its “condemnation” of the recent Moveon.org anti-Bush ad aimed (yawn) at George Bush’s Air National Guard record. From CNS: The Bush campaign has suggested that Sen. John Kerry join President Bush in calling off the dogs—those “shadowy” 527 groups that run ads for and against Bush and Kerry. The liberal group MoveOn.org and the anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for
August 19, 2004
Jessica Cutler borrows a pogo stick
little girl: “Hey! Where’d you hide my pogo stick, lady?”
August 19, 2004
Jack Boots
AP: The Senate Judiciary Committee has heard this morning from one of its own about some of the problems with airline “no fly” watch lists. Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy says he had a close encounter with the lists when trying to take the U-S Airways shuttle out of Washington to Boston. The ticket agent wouldnt let him on the plane. His name was on the list—in error. After a flurry
August 19, 2004
Overheard inside Imam Ali shrine, Najaf, 3
nervous militant: “Hand me that Snicker’s bar, will you, Halil? I’ll be damned if my last meal on earth is gonna be moldy dates and freakin’ chick peas.”* update: “You know what?—pass me that bottle of Coke, too. No more of this Mecca Cola piss for me. For once, I want the real thing.”
August 19, 2004
The updated Hunter S. Thompson
“We were just outside of Barstow when BUSH IS THE DEVIL! THE DEVIL! Now get off my land before I sick the prairie trolls on you. Mean little fuckers, those prairie trolls—teeth as sharp as an Enron lawyer’s. They’ll be through muscle and tendon and sucking marrow from your femur before you can say dos Dexedrine, padre. “Now hurry up, scoot. You ain’t Ahab and I ain’t your white whale.
August 19, 2004
Fifteenth in a series of real-time empirical observations
While you were reading this post, Joan Baez affixed a Nader/Camejo bumper sticker to her 1968 Gibson LG-12 12-string and tried unsuccessfully to complete her latest protest anthem, stumped as she was for a poetic rhyme to “Bushitler.” So she said fuck it and ate a big bowl of lentils instead.
August 19, 2004
Kerry a Heavy Load…
From the Cincinnati Post: Veterans at the Cinergy Center gave Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry a polite if not enthusiastic reception Wednesday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention. Applause for the Massachusetts senator was mostly light during his 35-minute speech, in which he criticized President Bush’s plan to bring 70,000 foreign-based U.S. troops back to America. Kerry said if he is elected, he’d add 40,000 more U.S. troops
August 19, 2004
Kerry a Heavy Load…
From the Cincinnati Post: Veterans at the Cinergy Center gave Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry a polite if not enthusiastic reception Wednesday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention. Applause for the Massachusetts senator was mostly light during his 35-minute speech, in which he criticized President Bush’s plan to bring 70,000 foreign-based U.S. troops back to America. Kerry said if he is elected, he’d add 40,000 more U.S. troops