COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Irresistable - From Drudge; About a Dog


Clinton had eyes for Demi, says Kutcher
Monday Oct 2 10:00 AEST
Former US president Bill Clinton tried to 'hit on' actress Demi Moore, her husband Ashton Kutcher has said.

Kutcher, the star of the hit MTV show Punk'd, told chat host Jay Leno that Clinton made eyes at his superstar wife during a recent function.

Kutcher said although the three were all sat at a table next to each other he felt like "the invisible man".

Kutcher says Clinton didn't say one word to him the whole evening as he was so engrossed with Ghost actress Moore.

"I met Bill Clinton once but he didn't really talk — he was hitting on my wife," Kutcher told Leno.

The 28-year-old Butterfly Effect actor — who celebrated his first wedding anniversary with Moore, 43, on Sunday — said Clinton completely ignored him as he chatted to Demi.

"I don't think he looked at me the whole time," Kutcher said. "I was like the guy that wasn't there."

Splash News/Snapper Media

To be fair to Slick Willie, I agree Kutcher's wife is quite the eye candy, however I can control myself. This confirms the story told by Leann Rimes' husband about Clinton; bold as brass with the woman and right in front of the husband. Some day, he'll do it to the wrong man. Can you imagine the headlines?

86 comments:

  1. I would not give two shits about the girl's boy toy, either.
    He's no heavy hitter, obviously.

    Bet Demi was enjoying herself.

    Invisible man, seems apt

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  2. Slick Willie's behaviour is not news, it's old hat.
    Rape and Intimidation are his stock in trade. That is well documented.

    All that makes this
    "news" is that it's Demi and her boy, and that Bill acted as if Ashton was out of the room.
    Bill dissed Ashton, Ashton liked it. That's the story.

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  3. Unfortuneately even ex-Presidents' are on the "No Ass Beat'en List" unless you want a heavy felony charge and big time jail.
    Not that certain politicians don't deserve the Sumner approach.

    Sumner Beating

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  4. Sumner took two or three years to recover before he returned to the Senate.

    Man if they'd only had videos then..WOW.

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  5. That is what it takes to start a War, an Insurrection.

    Show me that kind of anger today, coupled with action, and I'd believe that a sea change could be attempted in the US.
    But it is nowhere to be seen.
    Except in Iraq.

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  6. We've empowered a Sunni Militia, flipping them from "Insurgents" to "Militiamen".

    These militiamen, locals, will hunt down the foreigners.

    Now there is the ISF and four major, established militias.
    plus the PKK.

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  7. I'll tell ya the honest truth...

    In all my readings about politics the ones that are by far the best are by H.L. Menchen, who was a giant in journalism in his day, and still considered a giant.
    If you have the time get some of his works:

    The best book ever written, May 12, 2000
    Reviewer: James Versluys (Houston, Texas.) - See all my reviews
    Perhaps I am biased. Maybe I am gushing. I don't mind- I have read a good couple thousand books in my lifetime, and I have reviewed a few dozen for Amazon.com. Yet this is the one I keep coming back to read, year after year. As time goes by I find myself revising the scale of Mencken's achievement upwards and upwards, especially knowing that the only comparison is to other mere mortal writers.
    What makes this book brilliant is its terse structure- it is fragmented and in short pieces, and this produces his intense compact wit in wave after wave of the finest observations and thoughts to come out of mortal man since Tom Sawyer. A Mencken Chrestomathy utterly fails to do badly at every turn.

    If you have glanced at this book, and have even a tiny thought at not buying at least two copies, shoot yourself in the foot for punishment, then go buy a dozen copies and pass them out to your superior friends as rewards for their sagacity and charm and as a reward for their loyalty. But if you have little humanity and wish to punish a friend or make their lives more miserable, do not tell them of this book, and leave it right where it is.

    I give no book this high a regard. But I give this one my complete, unconditional support. If you have the means, I suggest buying a thousand copies and distributing it among the hungry of mind for the wonderful elixer of an effect Mencken has upon the mind.

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  8. Rufus,
    I truly believe that in the Lloyd Bentsen-J. Danforth Quayle debates history could have been drastically altered if, when Bentsen did his "I knew John Kennedy,blah blah, and you're no John Kennedy" IF quayle had had the retort,
    "You're right Senator I only sleep with my own wife"
    Quayle would have made Bentsen eat his homily instead of becoming a political joke...missed opportunity.

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  9. I am obsessed with Geogia and my old adversaries the Russians. I love it when Putin reminds everyone what they are really like.

    EU urges Russia to lift Georgia sanctions
    Tue Oct 3, 2006 9:23 AM BST Reuters

    By Margarita Antidze and Guy Faulconbridge

    "TBILISI (Reuters) - The European Union called on Russia on Tuesday to lift economic sanctions on Georgia or risk deepening the crisis between the ex-Soviet neighbours sparked by a spying row.

    "We do hope that Russia very, very soon lifts these sanctions because sanctions do not, particularly in this case, lead anywhere," EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told Reuters in an interview.


    Russia cut rail, air, sea and postal links to Georgia in response to the arrest in Tbilisi last week of four Russian soldiers on spying charges. Georgia released the four on Monday in what it termed a goodwill gesture."

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  10. Putin has to double down, or give up the juice. Bet he double's down. Hard to see him walking away, it's not in the historic or cultural pattern.

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  11. HIDALGO — Clowns entertain at parties. They are usually not a party to a large drug investigation.

    But on Sunday, customs inspectors at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge found more than 500 pounds of cocaine on a private tour bus that a Latin Grammy-nominated musical group of clowns was riding. ...

    ...Upon searching the bus, customs inspectors found 200 bricks of cocaine wrapped in plastic in a secret compartment.

    Los Payasonicos are popular in the Monterrey area, where they have a television program that airs three times a week. In 2005, they were nominated for a Latin Grammy for best Latin Children’s Album. ..."


    The Children, remember the children.

    But another bus, three hours later, was also busted. 700 lbs between the two.
    Valuations vary, a lot.

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  12. Habu, the better retort would be, "I suppose you are correct senator, the only Marilyn I've slept with was my wife."

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  13. 1200 lbs total, not 700.
    So sorry...

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  14. Hell, speakin' of the dead, like that.

    Ms Monroe, not the happiest story of a broken Kennedy relationship. Teddy has just been trying to measure up, spent his whole life failing.

    Think of the feelings of inadequecy that he must endure.
    That's why he has spent the years since that accident, practicing the breast stroke.

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  15. I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.
    O'Rourke, P.J.

    To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
    O'Rourke, P.J.

    War will exist as long as there's a food chain.
    O'Rourke, P.J.

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  16. DR..1200,700 what's the difference..okok 500 but i mean it's the norteamericanos who snort it gum it,cook it who are driving the poor to provide what our government could for a much cheaper price, gain tax revenue, and you'd probably get your picture taken and a thumb print minimum..that would end the cartels..it would also id lots of users and when they OD they can be buried (for free) in that Nevada radiation salt mine..it's win-win....AND maybe Coca Cola could go back to the original formula..I'll bet our GDP would skyrocket.

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  17. The Problem Isn't Foley
    House Republicans have done a lousy job of policing themselves.

    From the WSJ Opinion Journal

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  18. My girl wants to party all the time,
    party all the time, party all the time
    My girl wants to party all the time,
    party all the time, she parties all the time
    Whoooohooohoohoo (party all the time)
    She likes to party all the time (party all the time)
    Whoooohooohoohoo (party all the time)
    She likes to party all the time (party all the time)

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  19. Liberty and Freedom would support that position, habu.
    Defund the narco terrorists by legalizing the products and then taxing them.

    Kentucky and the rest of the tobacco belt dould grow some "gooood" weed, I'd bet.

    Coke and Opium as well. Defund those Taliban.

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  20. The Wall Street Journal has certainly "gone negative" on the Republicans in the past couple of days.

    A leading indicator?

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  21. rufus said:

    The Republicans are acting like "Spoiled" Children. Some congressman dreamed of diddlin teenage boys, so the repubs want to vote in the party that's in favor of partial birth abortions. Fuck!

    No, what they will do is stay home on November 7, that way they don't have to vote for boy diddlers nor baby killers. Besides, not even Gramma Pelosi could spend as much money yet do less than this congress has.

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  22. The "drug" problem is that we can't and will never be able to stop the demand, and thus the supply. So we co-opt it.
    We already spend zillions more on social programs from narco broken homes,70% of the people in jail are there for "drug" violations (where they are recruited by AQ or MS-13, or White Supremeists).

    We been fight'n that war forever and yeah we make big busts but the supply NEVER stops. I saw a PBS show about how much marijuana is grown in Kentucky..amazing-zing.

    Yeah I know "gateway drugs arguments" etc but REALITY IS..and we haven't stopped the drug culture and I'd Rep. Foley's pet gerbil that we won't.

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  23. mo on da "DRUG" problem?

    How many agents, military, and others have lost their lives because someone wants to waste away on coke?
    I mean I worked In Beverly Hills, CA for a very large computer company and it was everywhere. I mean everywhere..yet they all drive Rolls, Mercedes and produce.
    We could save the lives of good men and women who, even if it were legal would never use it (rhinoplasty exception), save literally (over time) trillions of dollars and gain revenue via taxation..hell half of Congress couldn't pass a piss test.
    Allow those who would ruin their lives through excess have complete success at doing so.
    Let's do it for the children.

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  24. Someone must have pushed the envelope over at the BC.

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  25. Belmont Club Closes because of HABU!

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  26. Easier than Pushin a String.

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  27. Are you counting words, content, or number of posts?

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  28. spaghetti is easy to push, before it's cooked.

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  29. BC LOCKDOWN AS VISIGOTHS INVADE WITH BAD GRAMMAR, SHORT POST,HUMOR, AND "HOOLIGANISM"



    AER LINGUS ALWAYS DOES IT.

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  30. "... What a spectacle America at war presents to the world.

    A former president, red-faced, bawls his rage at Fox News' Chris Wallace, who had asked why he had not shut down bin Laden and Co. in the seven years he had to do it. The president of the United States declaims to a partisan audience in Alabama, "The Party of FDR and Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run."

    Is this how the great republic fights and wins its wars?

    America has taken on the aspect of France's Fourth Republic after the fall of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. ..."


    RCP
    American Dien Bien Phu?
    By Patrick Buchanan

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  31. and I was just getting this ready....Speaking to the economics of Joseph Scumpeter..

    But he was a prophet, and in order to understand the nature of this achievement we must visualize it in the setting of his own time. It was the zenith of bourgeois realization and the nadir of bourgeois civilization, the time of mechanistic materialism, of a cultural milieu which had as yet betrayed no sign that a new art and a new mode of life were in its womb, and which rioted in most repulsive banality. Faith in any real sense was rapidly falling away from all classes of society, and with it the only ray of light (apart from what may have been derived from Rochdale attitudes and saving banks) died from the workman's world, while intellectuals professed themselves highly satisfied with Mill's Logic and the Poor Law.

    Drat..I just missed

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  32. Pat gets to the point a little quicker.

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  34. We should Nuke Iran and the Sovs under cover of the Foley Kerfufle.

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  35. At the National Review Online this question becomes a matter of speculation
    "... How long until the "clash of civilizations" becomes a campaign issue? ..."

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  36. I'm not at all sure the terrain lends itself to the Dien Bien Phu metaphor. Nor do I think we would know how many Islamofascists would have bubbled up from the resurgence of the Caliphate syndrome. What however is surprising is this.

    "Asked by his friends about his victory strategy, Abizaid replied, "That's not my job." A jolting comment indeed from the general who is to lead us to victory."

    Abizaid should immediately be relieved of command and downgradd in rank. It is his job to provide VICTORIES...if he can't he should have resigned. That comment is outrageous from someone in his position and is as close to treachery as one can come to giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
    Abizaid resign now. That my friends is not leadership, it is cowardice.

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  37. FBI10/03 02:06 PM
    Back in July, the FBI apparently conducted a preliminary probe based on the e-mails, and it apparently didn't occur to those professional criminal investigators to examine instant messages.

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  38. "Abizaid resign now. That my friends is not leadership, it is cowardice. "
    ---
    Don't be ridiculous, Habu:
    He's a protected class,
    being a Muslim and all.

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  39. They had all the "good" agents workin' that Jefferson bribery case. No indictments, but lots of Press.

    Soon though, the Jefferson investigation is "On Going", of course.

    Mr Talent is running even in Missouri. 35 days to go.

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  40. Whit,

    I know Hooly and it was Hooliganism without peer. You could feel the room filling with a nugatory aimlessness, bring an otherwise fecund enterprise to Luddite level.
    He saved his enterprise from repuke from the Hasty Pudding Club Review.

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  41. Heard that on talk radio, don't think it's true.
    ---
    "According to the General, Al Qaida can not defeat the US militarily. Their plan is keep casualties in the media until the American public become convinced that we can not win and leave the region. When we focus on the things that Americans have done wrong, like Abu Ghraib, instead of focusing on the enemy, we are playing into the enemy's hands. Their goal is to get the US out of the region and come to power in the Islamic countries of the region. From there their goal is to establish a Caliphate that goes from the Atlantic in North Africa to Indonesia in the Pacific. Fifty years after this happens their goal is to rule the rest of the world. This would be tragic for our country according to Abizaid"

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  42. Doug,
    You're right..we have an age old tradition of allowing our top generals in the field,commanding men at arms to make comments soothing to the enemies ears and crushing to his own men..
    how silly of me..and you're right he's an A-rab.

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  43. I'd like asylum too:
    I'll take 1955, thank you.

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  44. " and this next song goes out to General Abizaid leading from behind.

    In this dirty old part of the city
    Where the sun refused to shine
    People tell me there ain't no use in tryin'
    We gotta get out of this place
    If it's the last thing we ever do
    We gotta get out of this place

    You'll be dead before your time is due

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  45. Anyone know if they can bust a general officer down to field grade?

    If not how many stars can they take away?

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  46. aQ could not defeat the ISF or the Shia, Kurdish or new Sunni militias. Never could.

    There were never over 5,000 aQ foreigners incountry at any time. That has been a constant estimate.

    Given those 4,000 "Foreigner" KIA in three and a half years or 1,300 annually. How many other aQ foreigners have come and gone? Back to France, Algeria, Jordon and Yemen.

    The Fallujah II battle accounted for many of those 4,000. So the COIN operations have not accounted for many kills, numerically.

    The General has no strategy for Victory because the Enemy cannot be identified and is in constant flux.

    It is not really a military problem, for US in Iraq, but the US has no other tools.

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  47. That Woman” - Maria Cantwell Maria Cantwell was the "other woman" in lobbyist's divorce
    --- Maria Cantwell was the "other woman" in lobbyist's divorce
    The Seattle Times has recently reported on the close ties between Sen. Maria Cantwell and former boyfriend, boss and campaign consultant, lobbyist Ron Dotzauer. Begging explanation is a $15,000-$50,000 personal loan to Dotzauer reported in Cantwell's financial disclosures since 2001. (See Times articles here, here and here).
    The loan was apparently extended to help Dotzauer through messy divorce litigation. The Times didn't mention that the court file, oddly, was entirely sealed. I had the file unsealed PDF last Thursday. Cantwell is identified as the "other woman".

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  48. Doug,
    You've hit it old chap. Abizaid is a double agent working for the AQ. His knows their leadership is degredated and OBL is on one kidney. He's seen the Caliphate in his dreams and knows he can lead the A-rabs to glory. Why he's Benedict Arnold reincarnate.
    Has anyone seen him doing butt-ups lately?
    Victory, we don't need no sticking victory.

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  49. Doug,
    That is hooliganism, or de trop onanism-air conditioning,one of the two.

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  50. The Islamist Cult of Death at Work in Iraq
    October 3rd, 2006
    “All those who hate me love death” – Jehovah, Proverbs 8:36
    “We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two.” – Osama bin Laden, November 2001
    Superlatives are insufficient to describe the horror currently seen in Iraq: bags filled with severed human heads; scores of bodies found with the eyes drilled out; limbs amputated with power saws; crowds of Iraqi children blown to bits for accepting candy from American troops; pits filled with bodies of executed “collaborators”. These are the daily deeds of the self-proclaimed Islamic “freedom fighters” in Iraq – the Warriors of Jihad.
    And in one of the most ghastly events in recent weeks – a female suicide bomber pushing into a crowd armed with a barrel full of ball-bearings and kerosene – those who were not instantly shredded to pieces agonizingly roasted to death as the flesh fell off their bodies. “Two pre-teen girls embraced each other as they burned to death,” was part of the description of the scene provided by the Washington Post. The body count was 38 – almost all women and children – in that incident alone.
    Additionally, in just one shift this week, the Baghdad police reported finding 58 bodies and/or parts of corpses. To begin to get a grip on the scale of awful magnitude of the situation, consider that more people will be murdered by al-Qaeda and its jihadist allies in Iraq this month alone than all of the victims they killed on 9/11 (3,009 murdered in Iraq in August 2006 vs. 2,996 on 9/11). They seem intent on liquidating the entire populace in order to save them for the New World Caliphate.
    This is not the first time that the modern jihad movement has turned their bloodlust against their own
    ---
    The Iraq insurgency is little more than Jackass 2: The Movie with IEDs and automatic weapons.

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  51. Whit,

    does that mean it was past from father to son?

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  52. Delete the whole thread:
    Rufus done Nuked it.

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  53. The contents: 10 human heads ...
    do Islamist celebrate Holloween too?

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  54. How to explain the Republicans?

    Instead to defending the Speaker or criticizing Foley, the Republicans should go on the offense. Specifically, the Republicans need to find a straight Democrat and run with it. How can the Democrats, the liberal party of inclusion, dare field straight candidates?

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  55. SAY HELLO TO YOUR NEW COUNTRY

    North American Union

    New documents come to light as USA disappears and Gringo-Canuck-Mexicano Super Burrito emerges.

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  56. With only two races to go in the Formula 1 World Grand Prix Championship here are the leaders:

    Drivers

    M.Schumacher 116
    F.Alonso 116

    It has in my 45 years of following F1 been this close ..a points tie with two races left..WOW.

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  57. Howard Fineman has an interesting piece in Newsweek
    If Democrats can’t win now, they’re doomed to become modern-day Whigs.

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  58. Help Wanted, National GOP:
    Must be Tone Deaf and Dumb.
    ---
    "Update: Wait, that's the bombshell? Foley was molested as a kid by a priest?

    He should have kept his mouth shut, I think. This makes it look like he's excusing/mitigating his behavior, which I know is the point of a lawyer, but it doesn't help to come out with this when everyone in America is still seething about what Foley did. Wait a while and use it in court-- not as a P.R. offensive."
    -Mary Ham

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  59. BC RECOVERS FROM THE VAPORS, OPENS UP AGAIN ...SWARM

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  60. Look the Foley thing will be trumped by one October surprise after another.
    It's becoming like musical chairs right up to the voting booth..

    Look for rumors of Laura and a ranch hand.
    W and a ranch hand
    Nancy Pelosi, barnyard queen
    Grassy Knoll redux
    John Murtha/Tom Harkin follies
    Paparattzi of Hillary's cottage cheese thighs...
    I ain't over til it's over....

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  61. Den Foley schauen, den Sache trumped durch eine Oktober überraschung nach anderen ist. Sie wird wie musikalische Stühle bis zu dem wählenden Stand. Nach Gerüchten von Laura und von Ranchhand suchen. W und eine Ranchhand Nancy Pelosi, barnyard Königin Grasartiges Hügel redux John Murtha/Tom Harkin Unsinnigkeiten Paparattzi der Hüttenkäseschenkel Hillarys… Ich sein nicht rüber, bis es ist überschuß….

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  62. Or I might want just one more hard one before I depart.

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  63. Ain't enuff Bud for Me to do that w/Hill's Cottage Cheese.

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  64. Izzat Katy Couric in the hot pink?

    I agree w/ tufus--Hillary's appearance is not german to her politics.

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  65. ot but Woodward is on O'reilly at this instant--for a "long interview"

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  66. HH: Do you believe he saw Bill Casey at the hospital bed scene in Vail?

    TE: I have real problems with that.

    HH: What's the mean, real problems? You don't believe him?

    TE: I know the doctor who was treating Bill Casey, and the doctor who is someone who I think is very credible told me that Bill Casey was dead by all standards, except burial. And for him to have said anything cognizant at that time just was incredible to him. And this doctor is a liberal Democrat.

    HH: Have you ever published that?

    TE: No.

    HH: Does that not go to undermine Woodward's credibility, far beyond that one account?

    TE: To some extent. You know, I have a theory of what happened in Vail.

    HH: But I'm going to the fact that you obviously don't believe that Woodward thing, as do a lot of people just think it's crap, including Michael Ledeen, who published a reason why. A lot of people know that. Doesn't that go to Woodward's credibility in everything that he does?

    TE: Yeah, but I'll tell you what I think may have happened, because I've talked to people...

    HH: Yeah, but let me be a reporter, though, Thomas Edsall. Does it go to his credibility?

    TE: Yeah, but let me explain...say something. I think Bob Woodward may well have gone into the hotel room. He leans over the bed to try to say something to this body that's there. He leans on the chest as he asked this question of whatever it was. And when a body is like that, out comes air. and he goes (groan). And when Woodward hears that, because that's what he wants to hear, as the quote that he puts into Casey's mouth, and he may well be convinced that what he wrote is true.

    HH: Do you think that's plausible, Thomas Edsall?

    TE: That's my theory.

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  67. My theory is the Truth Fairy Runs all liberals minds.

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  68. TE: I think the problem is that Woodward allows it to go too far, and it becomes evident in his books. Richard Darman was clearly a source in one of his books about Herbert Walker Bush. He comes out golden, and Herbert Walker comes out looking terrible. Darman should have been fired by any legitimate administration right after that, but he's making millions of dollars now.

    HH: But given everything you've just said, that he shades towards his sources, he punishes those who don't work, he's not credible in Vail, and the Final Days, doesn't that really undermine the idea that this guy should be listened to? It seems like you've got a very wart-filled primadonna who by virtue of his early work at the Post, has inherited a lot of credibility which he simply doesn't deserve?

    TE: I think that there are significant problems in Bob's reporting techniques, and the product that he produces, that every reader of his work should be aware of. But I don't think you can dismiss what he writes, and just disregard it, because he does get a lot of information that no one else does.

    HH: Okay, last question. Does the press push him in any way like they should push him? Or do they lay down for him, because it's Bob Woodward?

    TE: If it's an either/or question, they lay down for him.

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  69. These press titans can and do change history--as part of their career pursuit. I don't like that--they're not elected. Woodward was instrumental in ending the Nixon presidency--which started up all the nastiness worldwide that evolved from the global humilition of his nation. But to him was simply a pursuit of his career.

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  70. QUALITY COUNTS...since reopening and positioning two new thread the BC has nine (9) comments, compared to when the barbarians swarmed in to up the count on the one thread to 71.

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  71. It seems like a problem of too much 1st Amendment.

    But that's not it.

    It's the "celebrity culture"--a phenom created by free-market enterprise.

    There's really no cure that isn't worse than the ill.

    Either a literate populace, or eventual doom of the American Experiment.

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  72. I thought my Pelosi and Reid doggerels over there, were funny. Hope I didn't poop in the parlor. Maybe it was the computer/sex whimsey.

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  73. I keep asking--what about our RIGHT to NOT know?

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  74. rufus,

    re: Japanese naval code

    In the 30's, the British broke the Soviet military and diplomatic code on three occasions. Each time the fact was made public by members of the government!

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  75. Boys and girls, you will find the western left wrapped around the end of the Roto-Rooter snake, every time the septic tank backs up and the toilet overflows just as you're trying to do something important.

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  76. I think there's a "glitch" in the polling.

    The only glitch is that the poll reflects America right now and the current makeup of the Oval Office, House and Senate reflects America in 2004.

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  77. Wonder if some really will stay home?

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