Thursday - September 09, 2004
The Silent Poodle
The poodle is keeping the reporters at arm’s length for some reason. He hasn’t held a press conference or talked to reporters following his campaign in over a month. Hmmmm. What’s the problem, Senator Waffles? Afraid one of them might actually ask you a substantive question that would require you to tell the truth for a change? Or maybe you’re happier letting all your 527 attack organizations carry the water for you with all of the bullshit personal attacks on President Bush?
What about what you said a few months back ....
“I’m going to have a press conference at least once a month to talk to the nation about what I’m doing, because I don’t have anything to hide,” Mr. Kerry told a Wisconsin audience Aug. 3.
Looks like Senator Fuckface is flip-flopping again. But that’s what we’ve come to expect from him. It’s too bad there are so many Moonbats and forons out there who will vote for the poodle just because he’s not George Bush. I have a message for them: GET A CLUE YOU F**KING RETARDS!
No matter what their reasons for hating Bush, it doesn’t justify electing this moronic lying gigolo.
Speaking of gigolos, the poodle seems to have convinced his rich moneybags wife that he is brilliant and the rest of us are “idiots”.
Kerry’s proposal includes health care subsidies for children, the unemployed, small companies and more; and government assistance to insurers and employers that keep premiums for workers down.
If Kerry is elected, Heinz Kerry predicts that opponents of his health care plan will be voted out of office. She says, “Only an idiot wouldn’t like this.”
Who the fuck does this woman think she is calling me an idiot? I don’t buy into this socialized medicine crap that Senator Waffles and the rest of the Dummycraps are preaching and I never will. Teresa may have come under the spell of this lying svengali (look that one up) but I ain’t buying it at all. Never have, never will. Period. You know how the poodle is going to finance this gargantuan medical plan don’t you? Everyone repeat after me, “RAISE OUR TAXES”. The Dummycraps and Hillary especially have already told us that is their plan: raise our taxes to provide socialized medicine - the same kind of socialized medicine that the people of France, Britain, Canada and a few other countries have proven just doesn’t work worth a flying damn. Ask any (sober) Canuck how he feels about their wonderful socialized medicine plan.
Damn! I’m glad it’s almost Friday. The Dummycraps are wearing me down with all their lying bullshit, attack ads, whining hypocricy and just generally childish, spoiled-brat behavior. I feel the need to visit my local rifle range this Saturday. I’ll have to find a suitable picture to paste over the 10-ring .... just for inspiration .... I wonder what I could use .... hmmmmm ....
on 09/09/2004 at 01:18 PM
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Please Pass This Along
You all know by now that this is “Bash Bush’s National Guard Record” week at all the major media, including CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, The NY Times, etc.
Well, I want you all to please do me a favor. Byron York has posted an editorial that explains Bush’s Guard service in excruciating detail from 1968 to 1972. What you may not know by listening to all the liberal media whores is that they are all concentrating on only two months of Bush’s service. In fact, they’re concentrating on the last two months of Bush’s service when he requested an early change from active to reserve status so he could go to school and get his MBA.
I would like for you all to read York’s article and get the whole picture. The entire four years of Bush’s service. Then pass it around to everyone you know. We need to combat the bullshit coming from the Left with the whole story. Their lying spin doesn’t even come close to telling about the fine record Bush accumulated during nearly 48 months of full-time training and service .... which is 44 months longer than Kerry spent in Vietnam getting band-aids applied to his arm.
Zell Miller Drugged?
Now if that don’t beat all. The Democrats are now contending Zell Miller was drugged and forced to make that speech at the RNC.
Frothing-at-the-mouth Democrat attack dog James Carville is accusing Republican Party officials of drugging Sen. Zell Miller for media appearances after his speech to the GOP convention last week.
“They probably shot him up with something,” the wild-eyed Ragin’ Cajun insisted Wednesday during an interview with radio host Don Imus.
Carville leveled the bizarre charge after claiming that Republicans had written Miller’s speech, even though it contained lines Miller had used before and echoed much of the criticism of Democrats outlined in Miller’s recent book, “A National Party No More.”
But Carville insisted the renegade Democrat’s speech was strictly a put-up job.
“They got that poor man in the twilight of his career and just used him,” the former Clinton adviser insisted. “They said, ‘Look, go up there and say this,’ and they handed him a bunch of documents.”
Carville claimed Miller didn’t know “what he was talking about” in post-speech interviews, saying that’s why he grew angry when challenged by MSNBC host Chris Matthews.
When Imus noted that the Georgia Democrat sounded “fine” when he interviewed him the next morning,” Carville shot back: “They probably shot him up with something, you know. He just likes screaming at people.”
Is it just me or does anyone else think the Dummycraps have started to lose what little minds they have? These people are about one good drink of water away from being institutionalized. I wonder what drugs Carville and his Dummycrap friends are on? Rational people don’t make wild-ass statements like this. They must be drugged.
on 09/09/2004 at 06:58 AM
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Uh-Oh
Already 11 dead in the Caribbean. Currently a strong category 4 hurricane with winds of 145 mph. Time for Floridians to do the “I-95 Shuffle” again.
Daily Dose 09-Sep-2004
Quote Of The Day
“Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.”
-- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
On This Day In History
September 9, 1863 - Union Army Captures Chattanooga
Union General William Rosecrans completes a brilliant campaign against the army of Confederate General Braxton Bragg when his forces capture Chattanooga, Tennessee. The capture of Chattanooga followed a campaign in which there was little fighting but much maneuvering. On June 23, Rosecrans marched his troops out of their camp in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, just south of Nashville. Bragg, who hoped his defensive line could keep Rosecrans out and protect the rich agricultural resources of south central Tennessee, had his army arrayed northwest of Tullahoma. When Rosecrans moved his army to Bragg’s right flank, the Confederates found themselves in a dangerous position and so Bragg pulled his forces further south to Tullahoma. But Rosecrans then feinted toward Chattanooga, forcing Bragg to give up Tullahoma and retreat into Chattanooga. At the cost of only 560 Yankee casualties, Rosecrans had taken south central Tennessee from Bragg. Approaching Chattanooga from the west on September 8, Union forces began crossing Lookout Mountain above the city. Again, Bragg was outmaneuvered and was forced to leave Chattanooga with only minor skirmishing. On September 9, triumphant Union troops entered the city. Bragg finally gathered his troops and dug in his heels in northern Georgia, just south of Chattanooga. The two armies collided again at Chickamauga on September 19 and 20, when Bragg finally sent Rosecrans in the other direction. The Union force then retreated back into Chattanooga.
September 9, 1942 - Japanese Bomb U.S. Mainland
On this day in 1942, a Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on an Oregon state forest-the first and only attack on the U.S. mainland in the war. Launching from the Japanese sub I-25, Nobuo Fujita piloted his light aircraft over the state of Oregon and firebombed Mount Emily, alighting a state forest--and ensuring his place in the history books as the only man to ever bomb the continental United States. The president immediately called for a news blackout for the sake of morale. No long-term damage was done, and Fujita eventually went home to train navy pilots for the rest of the war.
Today’s Birthdays
William Bligh, (1754–1817), British admiral (captain of HMS Bounty)
Otis Redding, (1941-1967), Singer, songwriter ("Dock Of The Bay")
Michael Keaton (Michael John Douglas), (1951- ), American actor (Batman)
Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - The Biography Channel.
Wednesday - September 08, 2004
Now You’re Talking!
The Russian Bear has awakened .. and he is pissed. Officials in the Russian government announced today that they are considering “pre-emptive strikes” against terrorist bases around the world. Hot-diggity-damn! It’s about time!
MOSCOW - A wounded Russia threatened Wednesday to strike against terrorists “in any region of the world,” offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the killing or capture of Chechnya (news - web sites)’s top rebel leaders, and criticized the United States for its willingness to hold talks with Chechen separatists.
What are the Russians talking about when they criticize us for our “willingness to hold talks with Chechen seperatists”? Well, read this news article and you’ll see what is going on with that. Here’s an excerpt ....
WASHINGTON - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld denounced the attack on a Russian school in which more than 350 people were killed as part of a global struggle with extremists.
But the State Department, while joining in condemnation of last week’s attack, said Russia ultimately must hold political talks with rebellious Chechen leaders who are determined to break away from the Russian Federation.
And stepping around an angry declaration by Russian President Vladimir Putin ruling out negotiations, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday, “All parties including the Russian Federation have been looking for a political solution to the crisis in Chechnya.”
Basically what I’m reading here is that Rummy pretty much thinks the Russians are “right on” to want to strike back at the murderers of children and once again Colin Powell is making an ass of himself. I’m getting pretty fed up with Powell. I wonder what he would say if those children had been American children. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Powell Must Go! He and the liberal weenies at the State Department are sending confusing signals to everyone, our friends and enemies alike. It’s time for “W” to give him the boot after November.
As for the Russians, I say not only let them go ahead but assist them. I think the two remaining superpowers can clean up this radical Islam bullshit prety quickly if the dogs of war are really unleashed. Including the nuclear dogs ..
Col.-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, asserted Russia’s right to strike terrorists beyond its borders.
“As for carrying out preventive strikes against terrorist bases ... we will take all measures to liquidate terrorist bases in any region of the world,” he told reporters.
And how do the Russians feel about Powell and the US State Department’s urging the Russians to hold talks with the Chechen terrorists? Yep, you guessed it ....
Responding to a statement by State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that “we solve our internal problems ourselves and there’s no need to search for an American route to political normalization in Chechnya,” Interfax reported.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko also lashed out at the United States, saying talks with Chechens linked to rebel leaders are “absolutely unacceptable.”
“After all, we are talking about those individuals who stand behind bloody attacks by terrorists in Russia, which have drawn the indignation of the entire civilized word,” Yakovenko said in a statement.
Memo To Secretary Powell and The US State Department: Let me translate that for you .. what the Russians are saying is that with 400 dead school children on their hands they feel that you can go piss up a rope and mind your own f**king business. Got that?
And if that’s not enough for you, pay careful attention to what President Putin had to say ....
LONDON: Russian President Vladimir Putin has forcefully ruled out any negotiations with Chechen separatists following the deaths of more than 350 people in a hostage-taking crisis in southern Russia, The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday. He also ruled out a public inquiry into the disaster.
“Why don’t you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace? Why don’t you do that?” The Guardian quoted Putin as saying late on Monday in a lengthy meeting with foreign journalists and academics at his country home outside Moscow.
“You find it possible to set some limitations in your dealings with these bastards, so why should we talk to people who are child killers?
“No one has a moral right to tell us to talk to child killers,” The Guardian quoted him as saying.
“Correct me if I’m wrong, but Margaret Thatcher, whom I’ve met more than once, said: ‘A man who comes out into the street to kill other people must himself be killed,”‘ he was quoted as saying.
Dammit! I’m really starting to like Putin. It’s too bad Powell is trying to piss him off. We need Putin and the Russians on our side. Whaddya say, folks? Let’s just fire Powell and invite Pooty-Poot to Texas for a real barbecue where we can discuss a few issues like (1) how to help us take Iran and Syria out of the picture and (2) scare the f**k out of the rest of the Islamic world (including Chechnya) while doing it.
Go West Young Man
In case you haven’t been keeping track, our Benevolent Dictator, Vilmar, is winging his way west today. He’s on his way to visit his son and new grandson. He’ll be out for the next week so yours truly (BMEWS Secretary Of War) will be manning the helm by himself.
Now, I don’t want a repetition of the nasty incident in July when I sneaked off to the Democratic Convention and you clowns started picking on the Cubs fans (with Vilmar’s help). I have been provided with plenty of ammunition by Vilmar before he left so he is here in spirit, if not in body. I’ll keep you posted on Moonbat behavior but as many of you know I am a kinder, gentler soul than Vilmar (probably because I own twelve times more guns than he does). By this I mean I am a “Compassionate Conservative”, so you will get the same news but without the fiery anger of that madman in Florida.
No. My anger is much more subtle than that. I prefer to strike suddenly, swiftly and accurately while the enemy is otherwise engaged. Pay no attention to the text below ....
YANKEES SUCK!
Kerry Lied, Vets Cried ..
Now we have a veteran who testified before Congress with John Kerry in 1971, coming forth and telling how he was coerced by Kerry and his group to make up stories of rape and murder by American soldiers in Vietnam.
Pitkin’s renunciation of his participation in the Detroit event was reported by Scott Swett, the primary author of WinterSoldier.com, which documents Kerry’s role in VVAW. Swett also is the webmaster for the website of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group of 254 veterans who contend their fomer colleague, Kerry, is unfit to be commander in chief.
On the second day of the Detroit conference, Pitkin said, he was surrounded by a group of the event’s leaders, who said they needed more witnesses and wanted him to speak.
According to Swett, Pitkin protested he had nothing to say, prompting Kerry’s response, “Surely you had to have seen some of the atrocities.”
Swett writes:
Pitkin insisted that he hadn’t, and the group’s mood turned menacing. One of the other leaders leaned in and whispered, “It’s a long walk back to Baltimore.” Pitkin finally agreed to “testify.” The Winter Soldier leaders told Pitkin exactly what they wanted – stories about rape, brutality, shooting prisoners and racism. Kerry assured him that “the American people will be grateful for what you have to say.”
This story gets even worse ....
During the formal hearings, according to Swett, Pitkin started “to slam the press for misrepresenting what GIs really did in Vietnam, but a woman he believes was Jane Fonda shot him an astonished look and started to stand up. Steve could see other members of the group getting ready to cut him off, so he changed course and made up a few things he thought they would be willing to accept.”
Pitkin now states: “Everything I said about atrocities and racism was a lie. My unit never went out with the intention of doing anything but its job. And I never saw black soldiers treated differently, get picked out for the worst or most dangerous jobs, or anything like that. There were some guys, shirkers, who would intentionally injure themselves to get sent home, so I talked about that for a while. But the fact is I lied my ass off, and I’m not proud of it. I didn’t think it would ever amount to anything.”
So where does this leave us? The poodle and his buddies made up a lot of shit and testified before Congress in 1971. The media exposure helped launch John Kerry’s career. It also hurt a lot of honorable soldiers who fought in Vietnam. It hurt them deeply. Many committed suicide and may others were never able to fully re-adjust to a society that hated them when they came home from that war. Thanks to John Kerry and his political ambitions.
And this shit-fer-brains wants to be our next President? If I were in charge, he’d be imprisoned and beaten three times daily .... and forced to wait hand and foot on every Vietnam veteran still living. Of course, most of them would consider it an insult for Kerry to be allowed to do anything more than lick their boots.
The Poodle for President? Fuggedaboutit!
on 09/08/2004 at 11:01 AM
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Jobs? What Jobs? I Don’t See No Jobs. La-la-la-la-la ….
The unemployment rate fell again last month. However, the liberal media somehow managed to make it sound bad. Incredible, simply incredible ....
The unemployment rate fell a tenth to 5.4 percent in August as 144,000 jobs were created during the month and the job creation number for July was revised upward by more than double, from 32,000 to 73,000 new jobs, but all the networks on Friday night managed to turn the Labor Department numbers, released that morning, into a negative. Neither ABC or CNN even mentioned the lower unemployment rate or upward revision for July as CBS also skipped the upward revision. ABC’s Peter Jennings emphasized how the 144,000 new jobs “fell short of the 200,000 jobs per month that most economists consider the minimum for strong employment growth.”
CBS’s John Roberts ran a soundbite of President Bush touting the 5.4 percent rate, but then he undermined the good news: “What the President didn’t say was that the employment numbers in August again fell short of expectations, and it is now certain he will end his first term as the first President since the Great Depression to lose jobs on his watch.” Roberts grew even more dire as he stressed how “the situation is worse than it seems. While the President touts the results of his economic recovery plan, job creation hasn’t kept up with population growth.”
ABC, CBS and NBC: “Hear no jobs, see no jobs, speak no jobs.”
Picture three monkeys with their paws covering various parts of their heads. Now you’ve got the picture of news reporting in this country. Sad, but true.
What E.T. Saw
Thank God this one decided to attack South America. Residents of Florida can breathe a little easier ....
Moore Pork
For some unexplained reason, I simply couldn’t resist this one ....
Memo To Jimmy Carter: “NUTS!”
Jimmy “Peanuts” Carter is pissed at Zell Miller. So pissed that he sent him an angry letter.
In a letter sent over the weekend, Carter also called Miller’s speech “rabid and mean-spirited.”
“By now, there are many of us loyal Democrats who feel uncomfortable in seeing that you have chosen the rich over the poor, unilateral pre-emptive war over a strong nation united with others for peace, lies and obfuscation over the truth and the political technique of character assassination as a way to win elections or to garner a few moments of applause.”
Anybody notice something peculiar about the tone of the letter? Let me give you a hint ....
Does he address any of the points Senator Miller made in his speech at the Republican Convention? Nope! Instead all he can come up with is a personal attack that accuses Zell Miller of “disloyalty”. He obviously didn’t listen to Miller’s speech which began with Miller explaining his presence at the RNC as a decision he made to place family over party. Carter missed the whole point of Miller’s speech. Instead he chose to make an angry attack on the man himself for “deserting the party”.
Do you need any more evidence that Democrats are whining crybabies? Or that Jimmy Carter is a pitiful excuse for a statesman? It’s time for Jimmy to retire to Georgia and keep his mouth shut. The drivel that’s coming out of his mouth lately makes me wonder if he’s totally lost his mind. Judging from his record as President, some might argue that he never had a good mind.
Memo To Carter: Jimmy, don’t take this personally but we would all appreciate it if you would just stay at home and tend to your nuts. If you have any.
Media Slut
Dan Rather is at it again. The Democratic Party’s favorite attack dog (jackal? hyena? weasel?) is all set tonight to fire off the next salvo in his unending war against the Bush family. Yes, Rather has a long history of hating the Bush family, starting with the former President, George H. W. Bush and continuing with an ongoing war aginst George W. Bush. Tonight, Rather is going to press the issue that the Bush family pulled strings to get George into the National Guard thirty years ago. If any of you ever thought CBS was unbiased, you better open your eyes. Rather is a dedicated slut in the Democratic Party’s army of media whores.
The George Bush reelection team is bracing itself tonight as it prepares for another primetime assault by CBS News.
Five months after Dan Rather denounced the just-formed Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as “an experienced and successful Republican operation made up of veterans attacking Vietnam war hero John Kerry,” the 72-year-old anchor and avowed Democrat is set to unveil an extensive interview with Ben Barnes, a former Texas Democratic politician who claims he helped a young Bush avoid service in the Vietnam War by getting him into the Texas National Guard in 1968.
Tonight’s Bush attack marks the latest broadside that Rather and his CBS colleagues have launched against the Bush family. Beginning with his infamous ambush of George H. W. Bush during the Republican primaries in 1988 (which CBS beforehand promised would be softball “candidate profile” interview), Dan Rather and his colleagues have had it in for the Bushes.
Later in the same year, on the eve of the Republicans’ convention, Rather was the sole network anchor to report on a lone man who accused the then-veep of lying about his service in World War II.
Despite such efforts, Bush was elected but Rather and his colleagues continued to dog the president whose staff swore he would “never” allow the Texas Democrat to interview him. CBS, meanwhile, repeatedly rejected the administration’s offers to allow other network correspondents to interview the president, insisting “only Dan Rather interviews the president.”
After some time, CBS relented and sent Morning News anchors Harry Smith and Paula Zahn to the White House. Unbeknownst to the White House, however, Evening News producer Susan Zirinsky had tagged along.
Bush’s press secretary at the time, Marlin Fitzwater recounted what followed in his memoirs:
“As the show was about to end, I discovered Susan Zirinsky, Rather’s producer, crouched behind some Rose Garden hedges, shouting into her two-way radio: ‘Ask him about Iran-Contra. Iran-Contra!’ That confirmed everyone’s feelings about the depth of Dan Rather’s hatred for the president.”
And how does CBS and Dan Rather cover the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth?
Given CBS’s patently obvious record of liberal and Democratic bias (which even News Division president Andrew Heyward has acknowledged) and Dan Rather’s personal grudge against the Bush family, we are not holding out much hope that tonight’s 60 Minutes episode questioning President Bush’s Vietnam record will be a fair program or that 60 will even bother mentioning the allegations of hundreds of men who doubt the wartime honesty of Bush’s opponent John Kerry, especially considering that it has not shown any interest in interviewing them during primetime.
“CBS has never contacted any of our members for an interview.” Swift Boat Veterans for Truth spokesman John O’Neill tells RatherBiased.com. “There’s not a chance of it.”
It’s nasty enough to gag a buzzard.
I agree. Rather is just a two-bit whore at the Democratic Party’s beck and call.
Background Check
How many of you have had to go through background checks prior to being hired? Probably many of you. I have had to go through background checks on a regular basis due to the fact that a lot of the work I’ve done in the last few decades has been for the Department Of Defense, Department Of Energy or other federal agencies which require a Secret or higher clearance. Drug tests are also a regular part of my life. To date, no one has found any evidence of wrongdoing or drug use. Why should our politicians be any different? Most of them are not required to have a background check until their opponent or the mainstream media or some 527 group decide to go after them.
As you know, our two presidential candidates are having their past history examined in excruciating detail by the mainstream media, and John Kerry is running his entire campaign on what he did 35 years ago. The liberal media is once again poring over George Bush’s past with a fine-tooth comb, just like they did four years ago, hoping to find some new revelations of wrongdoing.
James Taranto at the Wall Stree Journal’s Opinion Journal on-line has an interesting observation ....
Well now! Far be it from us to get all high-mindedly horrified about the prospect of a campaign not based on “the issues.” And there’s something to be said for the drama of a truly vicious campaign, as against the strongerathomerespectedintheworld pap of the Democratic Convention or the petulant whining of the postconvention Kerry.
But dwelling on minor allegations of wrongdoing in the far-off past seems unlikely to bring down an incumbent president. Suppose you’re an employer and you hear that one of your employees, who’s been working for you for about four years, once had a drinking problem and in fact pleaded guilty nearly 30 years ago to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence. You actually heard about all this when you initially hired him, and it did give you second thoughts, but in the end you decided to give him a chance. In the four years he’s been working for you, you’ve seen no sign that he’s fallen off the wagon. Is there any cause here to fire him? Even if the revelation about his past were new, wouldn’t it have to be pretty severe to constitute grounds for termination?
Now say someone comes to you looking for a job. Right off the bat, you notice something strange about his résumé: It goes on for page after page about a job he held for four months, more than 35 years ago, but makes only the barest mention of anything he’s done since. You have him in for an interview, and he can’t give you a straight answer to any question about what he plans to do in the job if you hire him. Instead (to borrow a description from Joe Conason), he sounds like a bar-stool bore, with a bad habit of repeating the same lame boasts about that long-ago four-month stint again and again.
Still, you decide to check out his references. (John Edwards: “If you have any question about what John Kerry is made of, just spend three minutes with the men who served with him.") Some sing his praises quite extravagantly, but a greater number describe him harshly as a man of dubious character, and some accuse him of lying on his résumé. He acknowledges a few embellishments but refuses to provide you with documents that would shed light on the other accusations.
Would you hire this man? And would you fire an employee of four years’ standing in order to create an opening for him?
So you see, we have George Bush getting examined over and over again for evidence of wrongdoing and nothing is found while all John Kerry talks about is what he did a long time ago. Who do you trust? I suggest you all take a good hard look at what each man has done over the last, oh, ten years or so. Especially the last four. The question everyone should be asking of both candidates is, “what have you done for me lately?”
Hump Day Ha-Ha’s
Before I head to the airport I just HAD to share these from last night’s Late Shows.
From Leno:
==Here’s an interesting fact, the Republican Convention boosted the New York economy $255 million. But the Democratic Convention in Boston only netted it $14.8 million. People wonder why it was so much less? Sure, Democrats don’t like spending their own money.
==John Kerry has a new theme to his campaign, he says the “W” in George W. Bush stands for “wrong”. The wrong direction, the wrong policy. Gee I wonder if Bush will say the “F” in John “F” Kerry stands for “flip-flop”. Are these guys running for president of the 8th grade?
==Well I’m sure you all heard the good news – President Clinton’s heart operation was a complete success and he’s expected to make a full recovery. He’s really doing well. In fact, he’s up and walking. In fact today Clinton was seen roaming the building with his hospital gown on backwards. He’s baaaaaack!
==The nurses have a nicknamed him “Sponge Bill No Pants”.
==The doctors said, this is an amazing after open heart surgery, that Clinton could leave the hospital in four to five days. Although he told Hillary “I’m gonna be here for about three months.”
==As you know, this whole thing came as quite a shock to most people because when you see Clinton, he looks great, doesn’t he? He’s slim, he’s trim, he looks like the picture of health. Here’s my question – what the hell is keeping Michael Moore alive?
==Today John Kerry rushed to the hospital with chest pains after seeing his latest poll numbers. Oh man, doesn’t look good.
==Bush is up 10 points, 11 points. Doesn’t look good. Not only is Bush ahead overall, he’s also ahead in a lot of key issues like Iraq, terrorism and the economy. But Kerry is ahead on grammar and pronunciation, and overall nuance.
==John Kerry called Bill Clinton Saturday night at the hospital. They said that Clinton talked to Kerry for 90 minutes giving him advice. Clinton reportedly told Kerry to stop talking about Vietnam. Not during the campaign. Just during the phone call. “Will you stop? I’m in the hospital.”
==(Talking about the new Kitty Kelly book) That is quite a claim that Bush did cocaine and marijuana. And you know who’s going to get hurt by this? John Kerry – well sure, this means Bush could carry California.
From Letterman
==There’s a new book out that says President Bush used marijuana while in the National Guard. When President Bush heard the news he said, “See I told you I was in the National Guard!”
==President Bill Clinton is recovering from bypass surgery. The doctors say he’ll be able to have sex in two weeks – and Hillary said, “If he does, I’ll kill him!”
==He’s recovering nicely though. He’s already hit on a chubby nurse.
==Who would have thought that his heart would be the first organ to go out?
Daily Dose 08-Sep-2004
Quote Of The Day
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
-- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
On This Day In History
September 8, 1945 - American Troops Arrive In Korea To Partition The Country
U.S. troops land in Korea to begin their postwar occupation of the southern part of that nation, almost exactly one month after Soviet troops had entered northern Korea to begin their own occupation. Although the U.S. and Soviet occupations were supposed to be temporary, the division of Korea quickly became permanent. Korea had been a Japanese possession since the early 20th century. During World War II, the allies--the United States, Soviet Union, China, and Great Britain--made a somewhat hazy agreement that Korea should become an independent country following the war. As the war progressed, U.S. officials began to press the Soviets to enter the war against Japan. At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pledged that his nation would declare war on Japan exactly three months after Nazi Germany was defeated. A few months later, at the Potsdam Conference in July and August 1945, it was agreed that Soviet troops would occupy the northern portion of Korea, while American forces would take a similar action in southern Korea in order to secure the area and liberate it from Japanese control. The occupations would be temporary, and Korea would eventually decide its own political future, though no date was set for the end of the U.S. and Soviet occupations. On August 8, the Soviets declared war on Japan. On August 9, Soviet forces invaded northern Korea. A few days later, Japan surrendered. Keeping to their part of the bargain, U.S. forces entered southern Korea on September 8, 1945. Over the next few years, the situation in Korea steadily worsened. A civil war between communist and nationalist forces in southern Korea resulted in thousands of people killed and wounded. The Soviets steadfastly refused to consider any plans for the reunification of Korea. The United States reacted by setting up a government in South Korea, headed by Syngman Rhee. The Soviets established a communist regime in North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Il-Sung. In 1948, the United States again offered to hold national elections, but the Soviets refused the offer. Elections were held in South Korea, and Rhee’s government received a popular mandate. The Soviets refused to recognize Rhee’s government, though, and insisted that Kim Il-Sung was the true leader of all Korea. Having secured the establishment of a communist government in North Korea, Soviet troops withdrew in 1948; and U.S. troops in South Korea followed suit in 1949. In 1950, the North Koreans attempted to reunite the nation by force and launched a massive military assault on South Korea. The United States quickly came to the aid of South Korea, beginning a three-year involvement in the bloody and frustrating Korean War. Korea remains a divided nation today, and the North Korean regime is one of the few remaining communist governments left in the world.
September 8, 1966 - “Star Trek” Premieres
On this day in 1966, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise takes off on its mission to “boldly go where no man has gone before,” with the premiere of Star Trek. Although Star Trek ran for only three years (starting in 1966) and never placed better than No. 52 in the ratings, Gene Roddenberry’s series became a cult classic and spawned four television series and nine movies. The first Star Trek spin-off was a Saturday morning cartoon, The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, which ran from 1973 to 1975 (original cast members supplied the voices). The TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation first aired in 1987 and was set in the 24th century, starring the crew of the new, larger U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, captained by Jean-Luc Picard (played by Patrick Stewart). This series became the highest-rated syndicated drama on television and ran until 1994. Another spin-off, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, premiered in 1992, featuring a 24th-century crew that lived in a space station rather than a starship. Star Trek: Voyager, which debuted in 1995 and ran until 2001, was the first to feature a female captain, Kathryn Janeway (played by Kate Mulgrew). In this series, the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager is stranded more than 70,000 light years from Federation space and is trying to find its way home. Meanwhile, the cast of the original Star Trek voyaged onto the big screen, starting with Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. The first film yielded disappointing returns at the box office, but its sequel, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, in 1982 was more successful and ensured more movies in the franchise. Subsequent films included Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; Star Trek: Generations; Star Trek: First Contact; and Star Trek: Insurrection. The Star Trek books have been translated into more than 15 languages, and Star Trek conventions are held all over the United States. In 1992, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., opened an exhibit honoring the original Star Trek television series. The exhibit featured more than 80 costumes, props, and models from the show, including Mr. Spock’s pointy ears and a replica of the deck of the starship Enterprise.
Today’s Birthdays
Richard I, (1157–99), King of England (1189-99)
Antonín Dvorák, (1841–1904), Czech composer of “The New World” symphony
Peter Sellers, (1925-1980), British actor ("The Pink Panther” series)
Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley), (1932-1963), Country singer ("I Fall To Pieces”, “Crazy")
Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - The Biography Channel.
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