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"Harry Hope" |
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07 May 2006 05:13:52 PM |
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The prospect of a George W. library. |
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I知 Governor!
and Holy Crap, I知 President!!
________________________________________________
I'm sure y'all can think of many other exhibits.
Harry
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| User: "SyVyN11" |
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| Title: Re: The prospect of a George W. library. |
07 May 2006 07:52:54 PM |
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"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:1dss521hgt5np52h7mve416jeh1eflv877@4ax.com...
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Yale and Harvard Years,
The Building Business Years,
The Baseball Job where he traded away Sammy Sosa (you have to blame him
for that),
Recovering Texas from the incopatance of Ma Richards!
and A President who raised America to Great Prosperity!!
FIXED!!!
________________________________________________
I'm sure y'all can think of many other exhibits.
Harry
Sure can,
"American's Rising"- Fighting Back against the Terrorists.
"Freedom to the Middle East"- Freed over 50 Million people from fascists.
"consperacy of hate"- the Media and the left's hatred and zeal to bring down
a president.
"Clinton's failure"- How Bill Clinton let Usama Bin-Ladin slip thru his
fingers when offered on a silver platter THREE TIMES!
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| User: "Rich Travsky " |
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| Title: Re: The prospect of a George W. library. |
07 May 2006 10:19:07 PM |
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SyVyN11 wrote:
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:1dss521hgt5np52h7mve416jeh1eflv877@4ax.com...
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Yale and Harvard Years,
The Building Business Years,
The Baseball Job where he traded away Sammy Sosa (you have to blame him
for that),
Recovering Texas from the incopatance of Ma Richards!
and A President who raised America to Great Prosperity!!
FIXED!!!
You mean *forged*.
________________________________________________
I'm sure y'all can think of many other exhibits.
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| User: "The PretZel" |
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| Title: Re: The prospect of a George W. library. |
08 May 2006 12:28:34 PM |
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On 2006-05-07 20:19:07 -0700, Rich Travsky <" traRvEsky"@hotmMOVEail.com> said:
SyVyN11 wrote:
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:1dss521hgt5np52h7mve416jeh1eflv877@4ax.com...
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Yale and Harvard Years,
The Building Business Years,
The Baseball Job where he traded away Sammy Sosa (you have to blame him
for that),
Recovering Texas from the incopatance of Ma Richards!
and A President who raised America to Great Prosperity!!
FIXED!!!
You mean *forged*.
________________________________________________
I'm sure y'all can think of many other exhibits.
Naw...
He was talking about his daughter....
--
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be
dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War
is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...known
instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. . .
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
- James Madison, Political Observations, 1795
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| User: "syvyn11" |
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| Title: Re: The prospect of a George W. library. |
08 May 2006 08:28:31 AM |
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no fixed, anyone who thinks this is the original post is a moron. If
you think it is a forgery, take it to the cops or fbi. They will be
glad to hear about it.
www.fbi.gov
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| User: "DaWalRus" |
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07 May 2006 08:03:50 PM |
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SyVyN11 wrote:
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:1dss521hgt5np52h7mve416jeh1eflv877@4ax.com...
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News
reckoned that the exhibits would include
The Yale and Harvard Years,
The Building Business Years,
The Baseball Job where he traded away Sammy Sosa (you have to blame
him for that),
Recovering Texas from the incopatance of Ma Richards!
and A President who raised America to Great Prosperity!!
FIXED!!!
________________________________________________
I'm sure y'all can think of many other exhibits.
Harry
Sure can,
"American's Rising"- Fighting Back against the Terrorists.
"Freedom to the Middle East"- Freed over 50 Million people from
fascists. "consperacy of hate"- the Media and the left's hatred and
zeal to bring down a president.
"Clinton's failure"- How Bill Clinton let Usama Bin-Ladin slip thru
his fingers when offered on a silver platter THREE TIMES!
Ya, That's it a comedy channel reading room. The real serious book he read
would be the one about the pet goat. The only one he was able to stay
focused on.
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| User: "Pete LaFlamme" |
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07 May 2006 05:28:55 PM |
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Don't forget his time spent at Pelican Bay! Then on to Nuremburg.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:1dss521hgt5np52h7mve416jeh1eflv877@4ax.com...
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
________________________________________________
I'm sure y'all can think of many other exhibits.
Harry
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| User: "George Washington Hayduke" |
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07 May 2006 11:40:42 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I知 Governor!
and Holy Crap, I知 President!!
Bush's drunk driving and cocaine snorting era.
Bush's desertion from the Air National Guard.
Bush's war crime atrocities against humanity.
Bush's endless treason against America.
---
"And reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
"The cons get especially nasty on Sundays, right about time
the Bible thumping stops." -- Comment by unbelievable
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| User: "SyVyN11" |
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08 May 2006 11:07:59 AM |
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"George Washington Hayduke" <GeorgeWashingtonHayduke@Hotmail.COM> wrote in
message news:125tiulk58qvba4@corp.supernews.com...
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
Bush's drunk driving and cocaine snorting era.
Yeah, you can interview that idiot who lied about the book he was writing
about it. Did you buy a copy?
Bush's desertion from the Air National Guard.
Prove and Cite without using the Texas Democratic committiee/CBS forgeries.
Bush's war crime atrocities against humanity.
Proof.
Bush's endless treason against America.
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
---
"And reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
"The cons get especially nasty on Sundays, right about time
the Bible thumping stops." -- Comment by unbelievable
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| User: "George Washington Hayduke" |
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08 May 2006 01:39:08 PM |
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"SyVyN11" <711robhorine@earthlink.net> wrote:
"George Washington Hayduke" <GeorgeWashingtonHayduke@Hotmail.COM> wrote in
message news:125tiulk58qvba4@corp.supernews.com...
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
Bush's drunk driving and cocaine snorting era.
Yeah, you can interview that idiot who lied about the book he was writing
about it. Did you buy a copy?
<rofl!> You insane Christian rightard.
---
"And reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
"The cons get especially nasty on Sundays, right about time
the Bible thumping stops." -- Comment by unbelievable
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| User: "DaWalRus" |
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08 May 2006 11:42:53 AM |
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SyVyN11 wrote:
"George Washington Hayduke" <GeorgeWashingtonHayduke@Hotmail.COM>
wrote in message news:125tiulk58qvba4@corp.supernews.com...
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News
reckoned that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
Bush's drunk driving and cocaine snorting era.
Yeah, you can interview that idiot who lied about the book he was
writing about it. Did you buy a copy?
Bush's desertion from the Air National Guard.
Prove and Cite without using the Texas Democratic committiee/CBS
forgeries.
Bush's war crime atrocities against humanity.
Proof.
Bush's endless treason against America.
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
Obvious treason when the duties entail defending it and then calling it
"only a piece of paper". To this administration Americans are just as
disposable and will continue to die for "as long as it takes" for no more
then an agenda that has taken new political form each time something goes
wrong. No plans, no clue, now no power to defend this nation against a real
threat.
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| User: "SyVyN11" |
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08 May 2006 12:20:04 PM |
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"DaWalRus" <DaWalRus@xemaps.com> wrote in message
news:xKidnZGgQM-U6MLZ4p2dnA@comcast.com...
SyVyN11 wrote:
"George Washington Hayduke" <GeorgeWashingtonHayduke@Hotmail.COM>
wrote in message news:125tiulk58qvba4@corp.supernews.com...
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News
reckoned that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
Bush's drunk driving and cocaine snorting era.
Yeah, you can interview that idiot who lied about the book he was
writing about it. Did you buy a copy?
Bush's desertion from the Air National Guard.
Prove and Cite without using the Texas Democratic committiee/CBS
forgeries.
Bush's war crime atrocities against humanity.
Proof.
Bush's endless treason against America.
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
Obvious treason when the duties entail defending it and then calling it
"only a piece of paper". To this administration Americans are just as
disposable and will continue to die for "as long as it takes" for no more
then an agenda that has taken new political form each time something goes
wrong. No plans, no clue, now no power to defend this nation against a
real threat.
Read article II, it describes what just Treason is and how to get a
conviction from it.
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| User: "The PretZel" |
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08 May 2006 12:30:47 PM |
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On 2006-05-08 10:20:04 -0700, "SyVyN11" <711robhorine@earthlink.net> said:
"DaWalRus" <DaWalRus@xemaps.com> wrote in message
news:xKidnZGgQM-U6MLZ4p2dnA@comcast.com...
SyVyN11 wrote:
"George Washington Hayduke" <GeorgeWashingtonHayduke@Hotmail.COM>
wrote in message news:125tiulk58qvba4@corp.supernews.com...
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News
reckoned that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
Bush's drunk driving and cocaine snorting era.
Yeah, you can interview that idiot who lied about the book he was
writing about it. Did you buy a copy?
Bush's desertion from the Air National Guard.
Prove and Cite without using the Texas Democratic committiee/CBS
forgeries.
Bush's war crime atrocities against humanity.
Proof.
Bush's endless treason against America.
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
Obvious treason when the duties entail defending it and then calling it
"only a piece of paper". To this administration Americans are just as
disposable and will continue to die for "as long as it takes" for no
more then an agenda that has taken new political form each time
something goes wrong. No plans, no clue, now no power to defend this
nation against a real threat.
Read article II, it describes what just Treason is and how to get a
conviction from it.
Been there and done that. That's why King Georgie needs to be impeached
and removed from office.
--
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be
dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War
is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...known
instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. . .
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
- James Madison, Political Observations, 1795
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| User: "Lamont Cranston" |
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08 May 2006 01:41:40 PM |
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SyVyN11 wrote:
"George Washington Hayduke" <GeorgeWashingtonHayduke@Hotmail.COM> wrote in
message news:125tiulk58qvba4@corp.supernews.com...
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
Bush's drunk driving and cocaine snorting era.
Yeah, you can interview that idiot who lied about the book he was writing
about it. Did you buy a copy?
Bush's desertion from the Air National Guard.
Prove and Cite without using the Texas Democratic committiee/CBS forgeries.
Bush's war crime atrocities against humanity.
Proof.
Bush's endless treason against America.
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
Why? Bush said it was "just a ***** piece of paper."
---
"And reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
"The cons get especially nasty on Sundays, right about time
the Bible thumping stops." -- Comment by unbelievable
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| User: "bens" |
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08 May 2006 05:21:04 PM |
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"Lamont Cranston" <Lamont@TheShadow.com> wrote in message
news:EhM7g.988$E84.385@chiapp18.algx.net...
SyVyN11 wrote:
"George Washington Hayduke" <GeorgeWashingtonHayduke@Hotmail.COM> wrote
in message news:125tiulk58qvba4@corp.supernews.com...
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
Bush's drunk driving and cocaine snorting era.
Yeah, you can interview that idiot who lied about the book he was writing
about it. Did you buy a copy?
Bush's desertion from the Air National Guard.
Prove and Cite without using the Texas Democratic committiee/CBS
forgeries.
Bush's war crime atrocities against humanity.
Proof.
Bush's endless treason against America.
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
Why? Bush said it was "just a ***** piece of paper."
cite?
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| User: "DaWalRus" |
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08 May 2006 06:03:35 PM |
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bens wrote:
"Lamont Cranston" <Lamont@TheShadow.com> wrote in message
news:EhM7g.988$E84.385@chiapp18.algx.net...
SyVyN11 wrote:
"George Washington Hayduke" <GeorgeWashingtonHayduke@Hotmail.COM>
wrote in message news:125tiulk58qvba4@corp.supernews.com...
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W.
library. In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning
News reckoned that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
Bush's drunk driving and cocaine snorting era.
Yeah, you can interview that idiot who lied about the book he was
writing about it. Did you buy a copy?
Bush's desertion from the Air National Guard.
Prove and Cite without using the Texas Democratic committiee/CBS
forgeries.
Bush's war crime atrocities against humanity.
Proof.
Bush's endless treason against America.
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
Why? Bush said it was "just a ***** piece of paper."
cite?
Question. If someone provides this would you then say OK, I now believe or
will you still believe what you want?
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| User: "Lamont Cranston" |
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09 May 2006 09:33:29 AM |
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bens wrote:
"Lamont Cranston" <Lamont@TheShadow.com> wrote in message
news:EhM7g.988$E84.385@chiapp18.algx.net...
SyVyN11 wrote:
"George Washington Hayduke" <GeorgeWashingtonHayduke@Hotmail.COM> wrote
in message news:125tiulk58qvba4@corp.supernews.com...
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
Bush's drunk driving and cocaine snorting era.
Yeah, you can interview that idiot who lied about the book he was writing
about it. Did you buy a copy?
Bush's desertion from the Air National Guard.
Prove and Cite without using the Texas Democratic committiee/CBS
forgeries.
Bush's war crime atrocities against humanity.
Proof.
Bush's endless treason against America.
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
Why? Bush said it was "just a ***** piece of paper."
cite?
www.counterpunch.org/leupp12142005.html
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| User: "George Washington Hayduke" |
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08 May 2006 09:24:41 PM |
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Lamont Cranston <Lamont@TheShadow.com> wrote:
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
Why? Bush said it was "just a ***** piece of paper."
Bush never said that. That's a Capitol Hill Blue spoof.
---
"And reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
"The cons get especially nasty on Sundays, right about time
the Bible thumping stops." -- Comment by unbelievable
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| User: "Lamont Cranston" |
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09 May 2006 09:46:52 AM |
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George Washington Hayduke wrote:
Lamont Cranston <Lamont@TheShadow.com> wrote:
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
Why? Bush said it was "just a ***** piece of paper."
Bush never said that. That's a Capitol Hill Blue spoof.
No spoof. See below.
---
"And reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
"The cons get especially nasty on Sundays, right about time
the Bible thumping stops." -- Comment by unbelievable
www.counterpunch.org/leupp12142005.html
Bush and the Constitution
"Just a Goddamned Piece of Paper"
By GARY LEUPP
Doug Thompson, publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, says he's talked to three
people present last month when Republican Congressional leaders met with
President Bush in the Oval Office to talk about renewing the Patriot
Act. That act, passed by legislators who hadn't read it, in the
immediate aftermath of 9-11 (when most people were shell-shocked and
lawmakers in particular disinclined to use their brains), has of course
been criticized as containing unconstitutional elements. All three GOP
politicians quote their president as saying: "Stop throwing the
Constitution in my face! It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
At least one of Thompson's sources says the president, when told his
insistence on preserving some provisions of the act could further
alienate conservatives following the Harriet Miers Supreme Court
nomination disaster, stated, "I don't give a *****: I'm the President
and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."
I don't know how credible this report is, of course, but let's suppose
it's true. It has the ring of truth, it seems to me, given numerous
earlier reports on the Commander-in-Chief's state of mind and penchant
for profanity. (Capital Hill Blue has earlier noted his "short temper
and tirades" during cabinet meetings. Thompson and Teresa Hampton,
citing "a number of White House staffers" wrote in June 2004 that
"[Bush] who says he rules at the behest of God can also tongue-lash
those he perceives as disloyal, calling them 'fucking assholes' in front
of other staff, berating one cabinet official in front of others." The
Drudge Report has carried similar stories. The most recent Newsweek
contains a report that Rice has to warn foreign diplomats, "Don't upset
him" before meeting the Chief.) The man told Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas in 2003 that "God told me to smite [Saddam Hussein]. And I smote
him." Why should a man who conducts such conversations care about a
document which makes no reference to God?
One can only hope that if Thompson's story is true, one of those three
Republican politicos will at some point share with the public the
details of the Oval Office encounter. I mean, what a scandal for the
faithful to learn that a man who in his oath of office swore to uphold
the constitution of the United States, a document with virtually
scriptural authority among his political base, is inclined to privately
dis this "piece of paper" (sic---parchment, actually) while demanding
that loyal Republicans help him sabotage some of its key provisions in
order to prosecute his "War on Terrorism." That war, being a goddamned
piece of cynical Nazi-like manipulation of fear and prejudice to unite
people around an open-ended program for endless aggression, isn't going
well. It's inevitably producing dissent, and the president wants to
leave all options on the table as he confronts not only genuine
terrorists but his critics among the American people.
That's we the people who have amended that constitution over time, and
obtained whatever constitutional advances we have through struggles
against oppressive authority. President Bush majored in history at Yale,
presumably American history, and ought to know that. But he was a
C-student, and probably didn't take his studies seriously, and
privileged throughout his life, he seems to lack the empathy with normal
humans that humanistic study encourages. Recall how he mocked Karla Faye
Tucker, sentenced to death in Texas? How his former Harvard business
professor Yoshi Tsurumi described him as "totally devoid of compassion,
social responsibility, and good study discipline"? How his one-time
biographer Mickey Herskowitz has quoted him as saying, in 1999, "If I
have a chance to invade [Iraq]. I'm not going to waste it"?
The man, a Canadian official opined in 2002, is "a moron." He's
certainly an ignorant man, perhaps impaired by bad habits, lacking
intellectual curiosity, poorly traveled, confused about basic geography,
clueless about the history of religions but certain of the truth of his
own. A thug indifferent to torture, happy to be led by advisors who
specialize in subtly playing the race/religious bigotry card, driven by
religious fanaticism rivaling that of any al-Qaeda militant, cockily
averring that he "knows" the American people are good and Ariel Sharon
is a man of peace, unable to admit error or even speak without
embarrassing himself in any extemporaneous public situation. A man who
read from his note cards with absolute assurance that Saddam Hussein
threatened the world with his weapons of mass destruction. This is the
man who calls the U.S. constitution a "goddamned piece of paper" which
ought not stand in the way of his presidential mission. Let his
remaining supporters chew on that.
Personally, I confess, I have no constitution fetish. To me there's
nothing sacred about that document, and if Americans are around in 300
years I expect we'll be working with a better one. Many years ago I was
recommended by a professor for a lectureship position in a state
university, and after getting the job was told off-handedly that before
starting I needed to make a trip to the Federal Building downtown. That
state required loyalty oaths for state jobs, so I had to swear to uphold
the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. I felt
vaguely guilty, like I was reciting the Apostle's Creed, secretly
harboring doubts about the Trinity. But I did it pragmatically, needing
the money and the job experience. Years later the university that had
employed me offered a job to a senior scholar, who after hearing he'd
have to perform this ritual turned the lucrative opportunity down. He
said he'd always opposed loyalty oaths and would not swear one now. I
felt slightly ashamed at my own spinelessness.
But now I think of the heroic work of the Center for Constitutional
Rights, founded by the late great William Kunstler. I think of the
domestic enemies of the constitution, the advocates of torture and
detention without charges or trial, and I confess that with whatever
reservations, these days I want to uphold the goddamned thing! It's a
document of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, based on reason and
humanism, very impressive when read in context. It just takes up a few
pages in your almanac. Imagine ripping them out, wadding them up, and
along with hundreds of others armed with similar goddamned pieces of
constitutional confetti paper chanting, "In your face! In your face!"
hurling them at the Commander-in-Chief as his motorcade passes. I'm not
suggesting that, because I don't want to be accused of advocating
assault in these sensitive times. Just thinking aloud here.
But I would suggest thinking seriously about American and world history,
and reflecting on the history of fascism. Weimar Germany, with a
constituion William Shirer called "the most liberal and democratic
document of its kind the twentieth century had ever seen" morphed into
the Third Reich, step by step as a crazy man with unthinking admirers
convinced them that external and internal enemies threatened them.
Hitler insisted that as "a defensive measure" (against communists, whom
he readily conflated with Jews) "for the Protection of the People and
the State," the seven sections of the Weimar constitution guaranteeing
individual and civil liberties had to be suspended.
In that context those targeted made common cause with any who would join
in a united front against war and fascism. The antifascists disagreed on
many things, but found themselves obliged to break old and form new
alliances based on the conviction that defense against fascism overrode
all other concerns. Again, I urge any present at the above-quoted Bush
explosion to speak out. Defend that piece of paper by exposing how
little it means to a Commander-in-Chief using fear and intimidation,
doing things his way, not giving a ***** about we the people of the
United States or people anywhere else.
Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct
Professor of Comparative Religion. He is the author of Servants,
Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan; Male Colors:
The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial
Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900. He is also
a contributor to CounterPunch's merciless chronicle of the wars on Iraq,
Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, Imperial Crusades.
He can be reached at:
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09 May 2006 09:15:45 PM |
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Lamont Cranston <Lamont@TheShadow.com> wrote:
George Washington Hayduke wrote:
Lamont Cranston <Lamont@TheShadow.com> wrote:
Please cite and read article II of the constituion.
Why? Bush said it was "just a ***** piece of paper."
Bush never said that. That's a Capitol Hill Blue spoof.
No spoof. See below.
www.counterpunch.org/leupp12142005.html
It's a Capitol Hill Blue spoof that CounterPunch -- and many others
-- picked up and believed. There is _zero_ legitimate source for
the "anonymous insider. Even Sheehan started believeing it.
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"And reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
"The cons get especially nasty on Sundays, right about time
the Bible thumping stops." -- Comment by unbelievable
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08 May 2006 11:36:40 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
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I'm sure y'all can think of many other exhibits.
Harry
I am afraid it could be housed in a Port-A-John.
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07 May 2006 09:07:05 PM |
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On Sun, 07 May 2006 22:13:52 GMT, Harry Hope wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I知 Governor!
and Holy Crap, I知 President!!
________________________________________________
I'm sure y'all can think of many other exhibits.
Harry
Crayola to be a big sponsor...
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08 May 2006 12:12:04 AM |
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"Yuk Foo" <hard@work.not> wrote in message
news:1qg1fjc71xjm8$.ld05d93hw8co$.dlg@40tude.net...
On Sun, 07 May 2006 22:13:52 GMT, Harry Hope wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/501963.html
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Dallas press is gleeful at the prospect of a George W. library.
In a column last month, Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News reckoned
that the exhibits would include
The Frat Boy Years,
The Failed Business Years,
The Figurehead Baseball Job,
Cool, I'm Governor!
and Holy Crap, I'm President!!
________________________________________________
I'm sure y'all can think of many other exhibits.
Harry
Crayola to be a big sponsor...
It will have the only book W read as President, My Pet Goat.
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| User: "Bret Cahill" |
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07 May 2006 07:10:06 PM |
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The drunk driver court records should be on display right beside
Cheney's.
Bret Cahill
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