Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
Walter Cronkite needs to check the label on his meds:
CRONKITE: KARL ROVE BEHIND BIN LADEN TAPE
Former CBSNEWS anchorman Walter Cronkite believes Bush adviser Karl Rove is possibly behind the new Bin Laden tape.
Cronkite made the startling comments late Friday during an interview on CNN.
Cronkite said he is "inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing."
Interviewer Larry King did not ask Cronkite to elaborate on the provocative election eve accusation.
Developing...
Is this man insane? With crackpot statements like this, the next thing out of Walter's mouth will be about endorsing the use of tin-foil hats to keep your brain safe from mind-controlling beams sent from Department of Suppression satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
I'm serious.....wait for it.
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Well, now we know who Dan Rather caught it from.
|| Posted by Pixy Misa, October 31, 2004 12:08 AM ||Well, what do you expect? He's a senile old coot. He's a far cry from the man who reported on the moon landing way-back-when. I hope when I'm that age I don't turn into a crazy conspiracy theorist... I mean even more than I already am.
|| Posted by Davey, October 31, 2004 12:31 AM ||This is the kind of shit that makes me crazy! Cronkite is off his rocker! In this case Cronkite should have fired those neurons you're talking about, Mikey!
Frankly, I can't wait until the election is over. The vitriol coming from all of us, myself included, is only serving to further divide our country and I only hope that, unlike Humpty-Dumpty, we will be able to put it back together again regardless of who wins on November 2.
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|| Posted by deuddersun, October 31, 2004 05:42 AM ||WOW.
The guy has really lost the bubble on reality hasn't he?
That is some impressive insanity. But sure - I'll buy it. I mean, if "America's most trusted news man" said it, it must be true, right?
|| Posted by Mike the Marine, October 31, 2004 01:32 PM ||You people are...out of your depth. Agreed, Uncle Water was a jerk who manipulated his public shamelessly while he was still working for CBS, and agreed his overall effect on the news media was negative, and agreed he always was an empty suit. But ye gods, don't you people realize that he was JOKING, for crying out loud?? The reason King did not pick up on it was that it was a flat, uninspired joke. If Walter had meant it seriously, he would have presented it differently and King would have jumped on it.
I'm in the position of having to explain a joke to someone who simply did not get it, and that never works. You either saw that Walter was doing his best, given his lame sense of humor, or you didn't. So I suspect many of you will still think his words were meant literally.
Right: it was not funny. In fact it was so stupid that King must have been embarrassed. But it really was a feeble attempt at satire. Very feeble, very stupid, and that should tell you something about a man who managed to pass himself off as a wise old uncle for so many years. He fooled a lot of people then, and he's still fooling them today, but in this case it wasn't intentional.
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Kerry Supporters Go Get Gas
So yesterday after dealing with yet another doctor's appointment, I went down to Price Club/Costco to get some gas.
I pull up the shortest line and shut off the engine. The car immediately in front of me is some japanese import (Honda?) with a Kerry/Edwards '04 sticker taped up in the back window.
I thought: 'Well, there has to be someone around here that's a Kerry backer...' and turned on the CD player to listen to some Oingo Boingo.
Read More of "Kerry Supporters Go Get Gas"I also notce that the car in front of that one was a Ford Astro van that also sported a Kerry/Edwards '04 sticker to which I thought 'safety in numbers....?' and turned up 'Just Another Day' on the CD player really loud.
The lady in the japanese import gets out and she's sporting a Kerry/Edwards button. 'Wow....' I thought, 'she's really into it'.
I then spent the next two and a half minutes listening to Oingo Boingo and watching this lady attempt to slide her Costco card into the gas pump's card reader with the card UPSIDE DOWN.
Slide....stare....slide again.....stare again....slide once again.....blame Bush....
She finally realizes that she's doing it wrong and gets it right. Another indication of the Democratic mindset here in San Diego?
Now, while I was enraptured with watching the Kerry/Edwards lady minion performing a simple task the wrong way, the guy in the Astrovan in front of here has been chit-chatting on his cell phone about three feet away from the gas pump.
**BIG NO-NO** This is a good way to start a fire at the gas pump incase you didn't realize it.
While he's been chit-chatting, the gas pump nozzle had already gone CH-CHUNK (because of the back pressure from the gas tank being 'full') and was just sitting there. After about a minute or so, this clown finally realizes that his minivan if full and proceeds to replace the nozzle back into the gas pump - all while blathering on this freakin cell phone!!
After closing the tank, he then proceeds to walk in front of his van and continue chit-chatting on the cell phone even though he's done.
Now I mention this because in addition to not only myself wait patiently to get gas, there were another three or more cars behind me also waiting.....and this dork is just blatthering away.
A firm hand on the horn of my truck got this man's attention - and scared the crap out of the Kerry/Edwards lady with the defective CostCo card. Cell phone man looks a little 'annoyed' by the horn interupting his important phone call and he starts to get into his van finally.
About this time, the Kerry/Edwards lady finally finishes her gas pumping and also leaves right after cell phone man.
As I pulled up the the pumps to get my gas - 10 minutes later - I really had to stop and think: Is this indicative of most Kerry/Edwards supporters? Are they either too dumb or too wrapped up in their little world to realize what's happening right around them?
It kind of put a chill in me to think that Kerry might win the election and then it's four years of upside down credit cards and being oblivious to blatant danger.
All done with "Kerry Supporters Go Get Gas"?
Comments on Kerry Supporters Go Get Gas
Ah Mikey, those folks were just morons, plain and simple. You were a lot more polite than I would have been, Kerry supporter or not. I wouldn't have waited ten minutes to lean on the horn, LOL!
d.
|| Posted by deuddersun, October 30, 2004 10:24 AM ||d. It's SoCal, sooo much more laid back than the East Coast. Me, I'm just an asshole, I figure I enough truck and 2nd gear for two vehicles, a little nudge might get his attention. ;)
|| Posted by kilabe, October 30, 2004 12:27 PM ||But that might cause them to feel 'persecuted'....
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 30, 2004 12:35 PM ||I was at a gas station recently and was scratching my head at this "bumper" sticker.
Seems that this car owner placed a "W '04" sticker on her gas tank door on the side of her car.
I scratched my head for a minute, but it did seem fitting.
|| Posted by rob, October 30, 2004 02:22 PM ||That took me a minute to 'get' also.
Clever, but wrong IMO.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 30, 2004 02:37 PM ||If you can draw conclusions about the nature of Kerry supporters in general, based on a sample size of two idiots at a gas station, then you're just as stupid as they are. There are morons of every political stripe. At least the Kerry voting bloc doesn't include Southern Baptists, who happen to be among the dumbest, most backward-thinking people on the planet. Creationism, anyone?
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October 28, 2004
Canines for Truth
And they say dogs know when something is bad....
(Glommed from I Love Jet Noise)
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ROFLMAO! That is a GREAT photo!
|| Posted by Maeve, October 28, 2004 08:57 PM ||Good one! :)
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SoCal Blechs
The server where this blog resides was 'down' most of yesterday for some unknown reason and by the time it was up again, I was too wiped out to blather about much of anything.
Today I've got TWO midterms back-to-back with the first one starting in about 45 minutes.
So, so summarize the last 48 hours: blech.
I can say that I'm looking forward to the election on Tuesday - mostly because I'm really burned out after nine months of politics.
Of course, when President Bush is re-elected, the amount of whining about 'stolen elections' and 'disenfranchised voters' will be plentiful. And then it'll be more 'blech'.
Comments on SoCal Blechs
Good luck on the exams and remember after bush is elected, it will be them going 'blech', not us.
|| Posted by kilabe, October 28, 2004 09:10 AM ||I, too, will be glad when this election season is over. Quite draining. I'm guessing we won't know who the new prez is for a few days after Tuesday.
My gut tells me it will be President Kerry, and I hope I'm right. Still, it will be a tough four years of gritting our teeth before we can get a Rudy G. and anyone else ticket in place to set this country back on the right path. Fiscal conservative, social moderate. With backbone.
|| Posted by The Other Mike S, October 29, 2004 12:12 PM ||I fear you're right - it'll be DAYS before there is a clear winner. Unless it's a landslide for Bush.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 29, 2004 12:51 PM ||At least days....
As far as who will be the winner... did you hear some guy called a radio talk show a while back and said Kerry will be president when Boston wins the series? ;)
|| Posted by scroff, October 29, 2004 02:51 PM ||Rudy G.is an asshole. Did you hear him blame the troops for the missing explosions yesterday? He handled 911 quite well, but everything else he did with NY sucked...I say as a New Yorker
|| Posted by ruthie, October 29, 2004 04:13 PM ||Point well taken, Ruthie. I still like him the best out of anyone out there, but you're right, that was a very poor showing.
|| Posted by The Other Mike S, October 29, 2004 04:31 PM ||Yeah, Big Bad Rudy G., son of a Loan Shark, cracked down on hot dog vendors and cab drivers prior to 9/11, blames privates and pfcs for Bush's mess afterwards. What a leader!
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|| Posted by deuddersun, October 29, 2004 09:02 PM ||What about John McCain as a conservative candidate?
|| Posted by scroff, October 30, 2004 12:37 AM ||I would vote for McCain.
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October 26, 2004
Details Make the Story
I was trying to find any other MSM that was talking about Drudge's breaking news last night about how the missing plastic explosives splattered all over the front page of the New York Times were missing before U.S. troops arrived in Baghdad, but it would seem that no one is interested in quelling this October surprise.
And then I check (of all the places) CNN and wadda-ya-know? Here it is.
I am actually suprised that CNN is the first up on reporting this.What is also interesting is that Drudge Report is saying that this was 'broken' by NBC News and yet - there's NOTHING on MSNBC. Curious.
I find that it's the details of the story that make it interesting....
What is also interesting is that the IAEA was notified October 10th about the *cough* missing explosives and decided just now to release this information - ONE WEEK before the U.S. election?
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Yet even as these facts come out Edwards is still out there saying its George Bush's fault that these explosives got out. So I guess Edwards thinks we should of invaded Iraq sooner.
|| Posted by The Pirate, October 26, 2004 07:44 AM ||Embedded Reporter Saw No Explosives Search
NEW YORK - An NBC News reporter embedded with a U.S. army unit that seized an Iraqi installation three weeks into the war said Tuesday that she saw no signs that the Americans searched for the powerful explosives that are now missing from the site.
Reporter Lai Ling Jew, who was embedded with the Army's 101st Airborne, Second Brigade, said her news team stayed at the Al-Qaqaa base for about 24 hours.
"There wasn't a search," she told MSNBC, an NBC cable news channel. "The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean certainly some of the soldiers head off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around.
"But as far as we could tell, there was no move to secure the weapons, nothing to keep looters away."
On Monday night, NBC reported that its embedded crew said U.S. troops did discover significant stockpiles of bombs, but no sign of the missing HMX and RDX explosives.
The NBC report came after the U.N. nuclear agency told the Security Council on Monday about the disappearance of the 377 tons of high explosives, mostly HMX and RDX, which can be used in the kind of car bomb attacks that have targeted U.S. forces.
Iraq blamed "theft and looting ... due to lack of security."
The disappearance raised questions about why the United States didn't do more to secure the Al-Qaqaa facility 30 miles south of Baghdad.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said coalition forces were present in the vicinity of the site both during and after major combat operations, which ended on May 1, 2003. He said they searched the facility but found none of the explosives in question or weapons of mass destruction.
"The forces searched 32 bunkers and 87 other buildings at the facility, but found no indicators of WMD," Whitman said Monday.
That raised the possibility that the explosives had disappeared before U.S. soldiers could secure the site in the immediate invasion aftermath.
However, Iraq's Ministry of Science and Technology told the IAEA the explosives disappeared sometime after coalition forces took control of Baghdad on April 9, 2003.
The NBC team accompanied the 101st Airborne at Al-Qaqaa the following day — on April 10, 2003.
Lai Ling told MSNBC that there was no talk among the 101st of securing the area after they left.
She said the roads were cut off "so it would have been very difficult, I believe, for the looters to get there."
|| Posted by ruthie, October 26, 2004 03:12 PM ||One would also note the roads in the area were clogged with supply and communications lines all the way back to Kuwait. one could alos note that there are limited numbers of paved roads in the countryside of Iraq. One might also note that unmanned aircraft were used to monitor the roads and surrounding areas for anything out of the ordinary. One might also note that it would of takenatleast 38 trucks to move 38-tons of material.
But it could of grown legs and walked off on its own.
|| Posted by The Pirate, October 26, 2004 06:24 PM ||Sorry NEOdork - your opinion(s) aren't worthy enough to grace our presence.
And the colored girls say: 'delete, delete, delete-delete-delete'.....
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 28, 2004 02:02 PM ||Good thing you like me, Mikey. ROFL
|| Posted by ruthie, October 28, 2004 02:23 PM ||Well, there is a distinct difference between you and NEOdork: you are civil dispite not agreeing with me on some topics.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 28, 2004 07:15 PM ||Shit. Why is anyone surprised? Thge only thing the troops were ordered to secure were the oil fields. As for the looting, as Runsfeld said, "They're showing the same picture of the same guy with the same vase over and over again." And, "That's what happens in a free society, people loot."
Gotta run. I'm off to Walmart to exercise some "freedom".
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October 25, 2004
No Myth Here
Here are some of those 'lies' that say Kerry is weak on defense:
(The citations for each point can be found on the source page).Food for thought come next Tuesday....
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That's a pretty misleading article, there, Mad One. First of all I almost went blind trying to read the citations so I could verify them. Second, many of the specific "votes" were included in wider bills. Third, in the case of the B-2, Cheney himself tried to cut the production. There are other examples, but I'll just say the only way to really know is to look up his record.
It might take more time than most people are willing to put into it, but here's a link from VoteSmart that lists Kerry's votes...
http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=S0421103
Most people are already decided, but for those "swing voters", my advice is don't go by anyone's impressions, do the research yourself.
|| Posted by scroff, October 29, 2004 03:07 PM ||Mikey,
Why do you keep drinking the kool-aid? Do you know anything about the $87 billion and why Kerry changed his mind on it? Could it be, duh, that the bill itself changed?
Please, Bro, fire a few more neurons and get the whole story before you go repeating the Republican propoganda.
For those of you who question me, get off yer lazy asses and do your own homework. Research the Bill when Kerry voted for it and when he voted against it. Ask yourself this, "How could the same guy vote twice on a single Bill unless it was brought up twice and why was it brought up twice? Could it have been changed? Duh?"
Nah, that's too much work, easier to believe the soundbytes, yeah that's it, our Pres-idiot wouldn't lie, nah...
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Picks for 2004 California Props
This is something I had intended to do about a month ago, but have procrastinated on long enough...especially considering that the election is next week.
Now, these are my opinion(s) on this propositions; they're what I'm thinking when I consider are these proposed changes good for me and/or good for California. Your opinion(s) might differ from mine and you might consider what I've written to be just chock-full-of-crap.
As the saying goes: 'Your mileage may vary'.
Read More of "Picks for 2004 California Props"From the Secretary of the State of California, I offer up my opinion(s) on the propositions on the November 2, 2004 ballot:
Proposition 1A - Protection of Local Government Revenues.
YES
San Diego has for a long time been screwed over by Sacramento as far as taking tax revenues generated here and giving basically crap for support. Keep the money under local control.
Proposition 59 - Public Records, Open Meetings. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
YES/DUNNO
At least here in San Diego, the local city council has been having way too many 'closed-door' meetings and while the need for descression can be beneficial for some activities of government, it doesn't appear to be helpful down here. The City of San Diego is about a biscuit away from bankruptcy (like Orange County a few years ago) and is about to have a lot of its members indicted by Federal authorities, so IMO this 'closed-door' crap has to stop.
Proposition 60 - Election Rights of Political Parties. Legislative Constitutional Amendment
NO
Somehow this one slipped past the 'stupid' censors as it basically enacts current California election law(s). Anything that explicitly re-affirms common sense is something (at least as California propositions go) to be weary of.
Proposition 60A - Surplus Property. Legislative Constitutional Amendment
YES
The state is in a financial bind and this simply allows the state to unload useless assets that could be better utilized by other entities.
Proposition 61 - Children's Hospital Projects. Grant Program. Bond Act. Initiative Statute.
YES
I say yes based on the fact that the only oppostion on the official pamphlet is from some attorney and it was a weak argument. Additionally, the bond is for less than $1 billion.
Proposition 62 - Elections. Primaries. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.
NO
Let political parties select their own candidates - not who party opponents would like to see fail. Let the candidates face each other based on their platforms, not how other parties can 'freep' the primaries.
This proposition is easily confused with Prop 60, which is useless.
Proposition 63 - Mental Health Services Expansion, Funding. Tax on Personal Incomes Above $1 Million. Initiative Statute.
NO
The main idea behind this is admirable, but I really have a problem with targetting people of a specific tax bracket to help cover the costs of something that should be dealt with by the Legislature in its normal work load.
Additionally, this sets a bad 'precident' for creating specific, targetted taxes/fees for other social service programs in the future.
Proposition 64 - Limits on Private Enforcement of Unfair Business Competition Laws. Initiative Statute.
LEANING ON NO
This proposition looks just confusing as Hell and I've always treated confusing issues on propositions with a metric ton of skepticism. If it doesn't make sense, vote no cause it can always be re-submitted for voter approval with language that is more clear.
Proposition 65 - Local Government Funds, Revenues. State Mandates. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
NO
Proposition 1A is an improved version of Prop 65. Vote NO on this and YES on Prop 1A.
Proposition 66 - Limitations on "Three Strikes" Law. Sex Crimes. Punishment. Initiative Statute.
NO
Just plain NO. I have ZERO sympathy for felons that whine about being locked up for committing 'non-felonies'. You commit a crime, you do the time. Period.
Additionally, I really don't like how the changes for 'sex crimes' is altered. IMO, anyone guilty of a sex crime should be just executed immediately.
Proposition 67 - Emergency Medical Services. Funding. Telephone Surcharge. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.
NO
This is just like Proposition 63 - it's an additional tax that will pay for services that should be provided for by the normal legislative process.
The real source of this problem isn't within California - it's the Federal government that needs to deal with the illegals that use emergency room services as a clinic. Eliminate the drain on these services and there isn't a need for this tax or at minimum, have the Federal government pay the states (like California) for the services that we're required by law to shell out.
Proposition 68 - Non-Tribal Commercial Gambling Expansion. Tribal Gaming Compact Amendements. Revenues, Tax Exemptions. Initiative Constitutional Amendments and Statute.
NO
Both Props 68 & 70 are confusing and as such will get my NO vote. If they're great for California, they'll be re-submitted with more concise language.
Proposition 69 - DNA Samples. Collection. Database. Funding. Initiative Statute.
YES/DUNNO
I am a little leary of this cause while I don't subscribe to the 'Big Brother' conspiracy theories, there is always room for a legitimate program to be abused and abusive to innocent people.
Proposition 70 - Tribal Gaming Compacts. Exclusive Gaming Rights. Contributions to State. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.
NO
See Prop 68 for reasoning.
Proposition 71 - Stem Cell Research. Funding. Bonds. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.
YES
While I'm conservative leaning, I am not a hard-core Republican.
For the time being, I have no problem with utilizing all avenues of science to better the human condition.
Proposition 72 - Health Care Coverage Requirements. Referendum.
NO
The idea of 'motivating' business owners to provide health coverage for their employees is a good idea....on paper....it's counter-productive.
Business owners that are employing 18 employees will be exempt whereas if they hire one more person, they fall under the guidelines/regulations of this new law. An owner might not be able or willing to hire that one person just to be able to stay afloat. Now - multiple this one business owner times 100,000 - and you have a significant chunk of unemployed people.
California will take a while to recover from the anti-business environment of former-now-unemployed Governor Gray Davis....we don't need this to retard that re-development.
All done with "Picks for 2004 California Props"?
Comments on Picks for 2004 California Props
On Prop 71 you might want to check out the op-ed in the Boston Globe written by a pro-stem cell, but anti-Prop 71 advocate. (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/10/24/stem_cells_on_the_ballot/)
|| Posted by The Pirate, October 25, 2004 01:24 PM ||Damn you Californians have a lot of props to vote on.
|| Posted by jaws, October 25, 2004 02:52 PM ||I only had two propositions to vote on, one was issue 1 (same sex marriage) and a school bond issue in OH
I agree with you on most of these. I, too, question Prop 71. I'm all for not banning stem cell research, but $3 billion at a time when we are so strapped for cash?? is it really critically important at this time, or just politics? my rule of thumb is NO on any bond measure, with some exception for school bond measures. I don't want my tax dollars paying for something that can be funded in the private sector. if stem cell research is so promising for cures, then private companies can do it and get the glory that comes with it-- at least until our state is in better financial health. that ain't gonna happen for a while...
|| Posted by nathalie, October 25, 2004 06:18 PM ||Nice work. I won't argue with you on 71 but you might want to take another look at 60. While it seems silly that there is a proposition that restates existing law it is designed to offset the negitive effects of 62.
Check out the YES on 60 site here: http://www.yeson60.com/index.html
and the NO on 62 here:
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