DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "Somewhat smiling, 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 observation."

Newsday.com: IRS probes NAACP leader's speech

Newsday.com: IRS probes NAACP leader's speech: "Frances Hill, a University of Miami law professor and an expert on the political rights of tax-exempt organizations, read Bond's speech and said it was indeed critical of President George W. Bush. But she added that Bond was probably on safe legal ground because his speech was broadly conceived, didn't focus solely on Bush and touched on a range of issues that have long been trademarks of the NAACP, such as equality and justice.

'You can be passionate and still have a tax-exempt status,' Hill said. 'If the IRS thinks that this speech is sufficient to trigger an audit, then I think we have quite a new standard and they must be planning to audit hundreds of other groups.'"

Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - October 28, 2004

Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - October 28, 2004: "Defense officials said the Russians can provide information on what happened to the Iraqi weapons and explosives that were transported out of the country. Officials believe the Russians also can explain what happened to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. "

...smells like panicky bullshitting to me.

Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - October 28, 2004

Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - October 28, 2004: "The disappearance of the material was reported in a letter Oct. 10 from the Iraqi government to the International Atomic Energy Agency."

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "And a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.' "

Yahoo! News - Web Server Takedown Called Speech Threat

Yahoo! News - Web Server Takedown Called Speech Threat: "'The significance of this is that apparently, a foreign government, based on a secret process, can have the U.S. government silence independent news sources without ever having to answer to the American people about how that kind of restraint could happen,' said Keith Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which drafted the motion. 'Every press organization should be asking, 'Am I next?'' "

DRUDGE REPORT 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT 2004�: "Jeff Fager, executive producer of the Sunday edition of 60 MINUTES, said in a statement that 'our plan was to run the story on October 31.'

Elizabeth Jensen at the LOS ANGELES TIMES details on Tuesday how CBS NEWS and 60 MINUTES lost the story [which repackaged previously reported information on a large cache of explosives missing in Iraq, first published and broadcast in 2003]."

Amazon.com: DVD: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Amazon.com: DVD: Invasion of the Body Snatchers: "Denny Zeitlin's eerie, atonal electronic score highlights the often very unsettling visuals, which include disintegrating people, fibrously materializing doppelgangers, and a dog with a human face. "

We Hold This Dirt to Be Self-Evident (washingtonpost.com)

We Hold This Dirt to Be Self-Evident (washingtonpost.com): "President Bush: 'My opponent, you see, wrote -- or he helped to write -- this document, this so-called Declaration of Independence. And in it, see, he says something about how we hold these truths to be self-evident. Now, self-evident is just a fancy word -- or actually it's two words: Of course I know that! I can count! -- it's just a fancy way of saying you don't have to say anything because folks already know it.
'In other words, he's saying that you don't have to tell the truth. Well, I just happen to disagree with that. I think the truth is one of the most important things in our great country. The truth is American. And it's good. It's good to tell the truth. But my opponent disagrees with that. He thinks you don't need to tell the truth. And I happen to think that's wrong. It's a difference in philosophy, you see.' "

USATODAY.com

USATODAY.com: "With no fanfare, he signed his fifth tax cut aboard Air Force One en route to a campaign stop. It's a $136 billion behemoth of breaks and payoffs over 10 years to corporations that lobbied hardest and executives who donated the most to Congress."

Amazon.com: DVD: American Splendor (2003)

Amazon.com: DVD: American Splendor (2003): "One of the most acclaimed films of 2003, American Splendor is also one of the most audaciously creative biographical movies ever made. "

way true !

TheLouisvilleChannel.com - Entertainment - Ashlee Simpson Blames Her Band After 'SNL' Gaffe

TheLouisvilleChannel.com - Entertainment - Ashlee Simpson Blames Her Band After 'SNL' Gaffe: "'Exactly. I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song. I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoe-down,' Simpson said."

apparently bullshit

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Casualties of Faith

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Casualties of Faith: "As Lincoln noted in his Second Inaugural Address about the Civil War, one can't speak for God: 'The Almighty has His own purposes.' "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Casualties of Faith

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Casualties of Faith: "Mr. Robertson said he'd warned a self-satisfied Bush about Iraq: 'The Lord told me it was going to be (a) a disaster, and (b) messy.'
Mr. Robertson said, 'He was the most self-assured man I ever met.' Paraphrasing Mark Twain, he said Mr. Bush was 'like a contented Christian with four aces. He was just sitting there, like, I'm on top of the world, and I warned him about this war. ... And I was trying to say, Mr. President, you better prepare the American people for casualties. 'Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties.' ' "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Casualties of Faith

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Casualties of Faith: "Some right-wing Catholics want John Kerry excommunicated, while evangelicals call the president a messenger of God. 'God's blessing is on him,' the TV evangelist Pat Robertson says, adding, 'It's the blessing of heaven on the emperor.' "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Casualties of Faith

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Casualties of Faith: "Miracles make the incurious even more incurious. People who live by religious certainties don't have to waste time with recalcitrant facts or moral doubts. "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Casualties of Faith

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Casualties of Faith: "Miracles make the incurious even more incurious. People who live by religious certainties don't have to waste time with recalcitrant facts or moral doubts. "

My Way News

My Way News: "VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A conservative U.S. lawyer's attempt to enlist the Vatican in his drive to declare Senator John Kerry a heretic over his abortion views backfired Wednesday when the Holy See said it had been hoodwinked."

The New York Times > New York Region > Study Suggests Design Flaws Didn't Doom Towers

The New York Times > New York Region > Study Suggests Design Flaws Didn't Doom Towers: "But the most severe shortcomings identified at the World Trade Center in the institute's comprehensive review do not pertain to how the buildings were conceived or built. Instead, the failings on Sept. 11 were chiefly found in the response by the New York City Fire and Police Departments, which was hampered by inadequate command, unreliable communications equipment and an overwhelmed dispatching system."

CNN.com - William Shatner sings again - Oct 18, 2004

CNN.com - William Shatner sings again - Oct 18, 2004: "'Live life like you're gonna die / Because you're gonna / I hate to be the bearer of bad news / But you're gonna die.'"

CNN.com - William Shatner sings again - Oct 18, 2004

CNN.com - William Shatner sings again - Oct 18, 2004: "Has been might again.'"

Progressive News - What's Wrong With Patriotic Journalism? by Robert Jensen

Progressive News - What's Wrong With Patriotic Journalism? by Robert Jensen: "�There is one difference,� I pointed out. �In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare war.�

�Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.�["

My Way News

My Way News: "'I don't think anybody here wants to impede the free flow of information over the Internet,' Weintraub said. 'The question then is, where do you draw the line?'"

My Way News

My Way News: "'I don't think anybody here wants to impede the free flow of information over the Internet,' Weintraub said. 'The question then is, where do you draw the line?'"

My Way News

My Way News: "'I don't think anybody here wants to impede the free flow of information over the Internet,' Weintraub said. 'The question then is, where do you draw the line?'"

The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Religion: Group of Bishops Using Influence to Oppose Kerry

The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Religion: Group of Bishops Using Influence to Oppose Kerry: "For Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, the highest-ranking Roman Catholic prelate in Colorado, there is only one way for a faithful Catholic to vote in this presidential election, for President Bush and against Senator John Kerry. "

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "This is an abuse of the public trust."

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Nuclear Fiction

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Nuclear Fiction: "Duelfer report says, that Saddam was no threat to the U.S. or any other country. The mushroom cloud was a Fig Newton of Dick Cheney's feverish imagination. That would mean W. didn't fix his father's screw-up, but he screwed up his father's fix. A big Oedipal oops."

FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Quotations: Christopher Reeve

FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Quotations: Christopher Reeve: "�Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.�"

FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Quotations: Christopher Reeve

FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Quotations: Christopher Reeve: "'Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching'"

Google Search: aarp medicare

Google Search: aarp medicare: "Novelli wrote for a Gingrich volume on
health care published last year. One sentence reads, 'Newt's ideas are
influencing how we at AARP are thinking about our national role in health
promotion and disease prevention and in our advocating for system change.'"

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Getting Junior's Goat

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Getting Junior's Goat: "The Clintonistas have infused the Kerry campaign with a new motto: 'It's the couch, stupid!' "

The New York Times > Business > Negotiators Approve Big Tax Cuts for Business

The New York Times > Business > Negotiators Approve Big Tax Cuts for Business: "'This is a disgrace,' said Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who had backed the proposal to make tobacco products subject to F.D.A. regulation. 'They have removed the linchpin in the passage of this legislation in a complete sellout to the tobacco companies.'"

My Way News

My Way News: "DeLay also raised 'serious concerns' by contacting the Federal Aviation Administration to help locate Democratic lawmakers, who were fleeing Texas in an effort to thwart state Republican legislators from passing a DeLay engineered redistricting plan."

This is of course absolutely outrageous. That this prick gets away with it is beyond scandalous.

My Way News

My Way News: "The committee, which has authority to recommend more severe punishment up to expulsion, spared DeLay from a lengthy investigation by delivering its mildest punishment. But it did warn the Texas Republican, long known in the Capitol as 'The Hammer,' to shape up.
Citing 'the number of instances to date' that it has commented on DeLay's conduct, the panel told DeLay 'it is clearly necessary for you to temper your future actions to assure that you are in full compliance ... with ... House rules and standards of conduct.'"

The big debate last week - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - October 05, 2004

The big debate last week - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - October 05, 2004: "In France, in 1940, the men and women who dreamed of liberation and eventually formed 'la resistance' were not being realistic. The realist was the austere, aristocrat Marshall Petain, who negotiated a collaborator's peace with Hitler and called it Vichy. Five years later, his followers were shot in the village squares by patriotic Frenchmen. There is a lot of Petain in Mr. Kerry.
John Kerry may have won the debate, but he would lose the war. "

MSNBC - Rumsfeld backtracks on al-Qaida, Iraq links

MSNBC - Rumsfeld backtracks on al-Qaida, Iraq links: "On whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the war, Rumsfeld told the New York audience flatly that intelligence about such weapons before the invasion was faulty � a markedly different statement than what he told a television interviewer just a day earlier.
�It turns out that we have not found weapons of mass destruction,� Rumsfeld said Monday in the speech. �Why the intelligence proved wrong I�m not in a position to say, but the world is a lot better off with Saddam Hussein in jail.�"

MSNBC - Rumsfeld backtracks on al-Qaida, Iraq links

MSNBC - Rumsfeld backtracks on al-Qaida, Iraq links: "Asked to describe the connection between the Iraqi leader and the al-Qaida terror network at an appearance Monday at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pentagon chief first refused to answer, then said: �To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two.�"

Bremer Criticizes Troop Levels (washingtonpost.com)

Bremer Criticizes Troop Levels (washingtonpost.com): "'We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness,' he said yesterday in a speech at an insurance conference in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. 'We never had enough troops on the ground.'
Bremer's comments were striking because they echoed contentions of many administration critics, including Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry, who argue that the U.S. government failed to plan adequately to maintain security in Iraq after the invasion. "

Road to the White House: Heinz Kerry assails Bush policies

Road to the White House: Heinz Kerry assails Bush policies: "In addition, her husband plans to provide every student in America with four years of college tuition in exchange for two years of community service, and to provide parents with a $4,000 tax credit for college tuition they pay, Heinz Kerry said."

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush and Reality

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush and Reality: "The real world is President Bush's Achilles' heel. He can't keep his distance from it forever. "

Hullabaloo

Hullabaloo: "Once again the fighting hellmice of the 101st keyboarders speak truth to power! "

The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly: "It all started when Bush looked up halfway though an answer during Thursday's debate and snapped petulantly, 'Let me finish.' This is a trademark Bush line and normally wouldn't draw any comment except for one thing: no one had interrupted him. He had plenty of time left, Kerry hadn't said anything, and Jim Lehrer hadn't said anything either. So who was he talking to?
The theory making the rounds is that he was wearing an implanted earpiece of some kind and was reacting to advice from whatever handler was on the other end. The hard evidence for this is approximately zero, but it did bring back memories of an odd incident a few months ago: Bush was at a press conference with Jacques Chirac and really was wearing an earpiece, and it appeared that his responses to questions were being fed to him a few moments before the words came out of his mouth. You could hear it on every network that carried the event."

Getting it wrong on Iran - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - October 04, 2004

Getting it wrong on Iran - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - October 04, 2004: "Two principles appear to underlie Mr. Kerry's approach to foreign policy: First,that anything done by Mr. Bush is by definition wrong, and second, that Mr. Kerry will be able to fix everything by holding summits and bilateral talks, at which he will use his unique persuasive powers to get foreign despots to behave themselves. Twenty-nine days from now, the American people will decide whether someone who lives in such a fantasy world is fit to lead the free world. "

ABCNEWS.com : Texas Editor Defends Endorsing Kerry

ABCNEWS.com : Texas Editor Defends Endorsing Kerry: "The Iconoclast, which endorsed Bush in 2000, said it now supports the Democrat because of disillusionment with the war and Bush's actions on Social Security, the economy and other issues. An editorial dated Sept. 29 accuses the president of having a 'smoke-screened agenda' and leading the United States into a 'quagmire' in Iraq on flimsy pretenses."

New York Post Online Edition: news

New York Post Online Edition: news: "But the mystery was solved when The Post reviewed a Fox News Channel feed from Thursday's debate: Kerry pulled out . . . a black pen. "

Yahoo! News - Kerry-Edwards 2004 - John Kerry: A New Choice for Middle Class Families; George Bush: The Wrong Choices for the Middle Class

Yahoo! News - Kerry-Edwards 2004 - John Kerry: A New Choice for Middle Class Families; George Bush: The Wrong Choices for the Middle Class: "One month from today, the American dream is on the ballot."

Fox News pulls item with fake Kerry quotes

Fox News pulls item with fake Kerry quotes: "The phony item posted early Friday read in part:
'Rallying supporters in Tampa Friday Kerry played up his performance in Thursday night's debate in which many observers agreed the Massachusetts senator outperformed the president.
''Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!' Kerry said Friday.
'With the foreign-policy debate in the history books, Kerry hopes to keep the pressure on and the sense of traction going.
'Aides say he will step up attacks on the president in the next few days, and pivot somewhat to the domestic agenda, with a focus on women and abortion rights.
''It's about the Supreme Court. Women should like me! I do manicures,' Kerry said.'
The item also quoted Kerry as saying of himself and President Bush: 'I'm metrosexual -- he's a cowboy.'"

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: "And you don't want to be the president who is forced to say, 'Of course I know Osama bin Laden attacked us.'"

sacbee.com -- George Will -- George F. Will: Bush benefits when Kerry talks about Iraq

sacbee.com -- George Will -- George F. Will: Bush benefits when Kerry talks about Iraq: "Plato said the city is the soul of the citizens writ large"

Complete Text of the Debate

Complete Text of the Debate: "Now, I believe there's a better way to do this. You know, the president's father did not go into Iraq, into Baghdad, beyond Basra, and the reason he didn't is he said -- he wrote in his book -- because there was no viable exit strategy. And he said our troops would be occupiers in a bitterly hostile land"

Complete Text of the Debate

Complete Text of the Debate: "PRESIDENT BUSH: I'm trying to put a leash on them. (Laughs, laughter.)

SEN. KERRY: Well, I don't know. I've learned not to do that, Mr. President."