I really have to turn off all of the RNC coverage and just ignore it. So many lies and bullshit, it really is making me angry. I know who I'm voting for and nothing is going to change that, so it is best for me not to get my blood pressure too high, you know? I also listen to Rush Limbaugh, but I have to stop that too. It isn't helping me.
The worst was when G.W. let it slip that the 'war on terrorism' cannot be won. That may be the first honest thing he's said this year. But as I was listening to Rush, GW phoned in and said something to the effect of "What I MEANT TO SAY was that this isn't a conventional war,... " blah blah same old stump speech. "Perhaps I should have been more articulate." Douchebag, THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAID. I HEARD YOU SAY THAT THE WAR ON TERRORISM CANNOT BE WON. (I agree with him. At least, it can't be won the way we're fighting it now.) Fortunately for you, no one expects you to be articulate. They just let you fuck up and then Rush or some other flunkie can step forward and put words in your mouth. (The fact that you're trusting a drug addict and accused felon with your career is another matter, but jeez.) I left my car, and not 20 minutes after that, ABC news already had the president's soundbite explaining himself, as a news update.
The media pisses me off. I'm just going to ignore it and stay drunk until November. Who's with me?
The worst was when G.W. let it slip that the 'war on terrorism' cannot be won. That may be the first honest thing he's said this year. But as I was listening to Rush, GW phoned in and said something to the effect of "What I MEANT TO SAY was that this isn't a conventional war,... " blah blah same old stump speech. "Perhaps I should have been more articulate." Douchebag, THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAID. I HEARD YOU SAY THAT THE WAR ON TERRORISM CANNOT BE WON. (I agree with him. At least, it can't be won the way we're fighting it now.) Fortunately for you, no one expects you to be articulate. They just let you fuck up and then Rush or some other flunkie can step forward and put words in your mouth. (The fact that you're trusting a drug addict and accused felon with your career is another matter, but jeez.) I left my car, and not 20 minutes after that, ABC news already had the president's soundbite explaining himself, as a news update.
The media pisses me off. I'm just going to ignore it and stay drunk until November. Who's with me?
by at 6:48 PM
CHEAP SHOT OF THE DAY!
I'm sure most of you have seen this article by now: Dave Matthews tour bus caught dumping sewage on boat tour! All I have to say is, can this really come as too much of a shock? I mean, the Dave Matthews Band has been raining shit on the listening public for the better part of a decade!
I'm suprized at ME, Savage Cochryde!
I'm sure most of you have seen this article by now: Dave Matthews tour bus caught dumping sewage on boat tour! All I have to say is, can this really come as too much of a shock? I mean, the Dave Matthews Band has been raining shit on the listening public for the better part of a decade!
I'm suprized at ME, Savage Cochryde!
by at 9:46 AM
I'm sure all of you have seen the so-called Swift Boat Vets for Bush and their disgusting attack against John Kerry. Whether or not you like Candidate Kerry is not really important; but the sniping of a veteran's well-documented service record should make any patriotic American mad as hell...especially since the Swifties' actions are stage managed by a guy whose own service record is a joke!
In another week the RNC will convene in New York, and you can bet your ass they will feature legions of tin soldiers with fife and drum to proclaim the GOP's proud support for the military...well, mostly for defense contractors. If the Republican Party is supposed to be THE party of the US military (even if they consistently vote to deprive soldiers and vets of benefits), how can they permit an attack like this? It's absolutely outrageous that Bush's team is doing this to a decorated 'Nam vet...again! (Remember McCain?)
In the end, the Swifties aren't really questioning how Kerry got his medals, or the official record of what happened...they're STILL pissed that Kerry spoke out against the war after he returned. And that's it! Like Bush, Kerry was a Fortunate Son--but unlike other sons of priviliege who parachuted into "Champagne Units" during the sixties, JK actually fought Charlie. For a member of the Ruling Class to speak out against the war was dangerous to the establishment...it meant public opinion would turn soundly against them and the war, and they were right.
The Military-Industrial complex and the Second Estate regarded JK a traitor, and they still do. In fact, John O'Neill, the leader of the Swift Boat Vets, was hired by Chuck Colson to publicly attack Kerry for his anti-war activism all those years ago, which reached its zenith on the Dick Cavett Show, where Kerry really cleaned O'Neill's clock. You can bet a protege of Nixon isn't going to let time get in the way of a simmering grudge like that...certainly not with Lee Atwater understudy Karl Rove in charge of the Bush campaign.
Thirty five years after the last soldier left Saigon, we're still fighting the Vietnam War. Will it ever be over? I can't imagine how this evil smear against Kerry is affecting other war vets who went through hell for their country, only to be spit on by their own government. Is this how we treat our own?
This is an absolute new low in American politics. The Republicans really are a bunch of nazi bastards.
In another week the RNC will convene in New York, and you can bet your ass they will feature legions of tin soldiers with fife and drum to proclaim the GOP's proud support for the military...well, mostly for defense contractors. If the Republican Party is supposed to be THE party of the US military (even if they consistently vote to deprive soldiers and vets of benefits), how can they permit an attack like this? It's absolutely outrageous that Bush's team is doing this to a decorated 'Nam vet...again! (Remember McCain?)
In the end, the Swifties aren't really questioning how Kerry got his medals, or the official record of what happened...they're STILL pissed that Kerry spoke out against the war after he returned. And that's it! Like Bush, Kerry was a Fortunate Son--but unlike other sons of priviliege who parachuted into "Champagne Units" during the sixties, JK actually fought Charlie. For a member of the Ruling Class to speak out against the war was dangerous to the establishment...it meant public opinion would turn soundly against them and the war, and they were right.
The Military-Industrial complex and the Second Estate regarded JK a traitor, and they still do. In fact, John O'Neill, the leader of the Swift Boat Vets, was hired by Chuck Colson to publicly attack Kerry for his anti-war activism all those years ago, which reached its zenith on the Dick Cavett Show, where Kerry really cleaned O'Neill's clock. You can bet a protege of Nixon isn't going to let time get in the way of a simmering grudge like that...certainly not with Lee Atwater understudy Karl Rove in charge of the Bush campaign.
Thirty five years after the last soldier left Saigon, we're still fighting the Vietnam War. Will it ever be over? I can't imagine how this evil smear against Kerry is affecting other war vets who went through hell for their country, only to be spit on by their own government. Is this how we treat our own?
This is an absolute new low in American politics. The Republicans really are a bunch of nazi bastards.
by at 1:04 PM
Nobody takes money from Saudi Arabian propagandists like...The Drive (The Drive....)
I was surprised to tune into The Drive (don't laugh, it's sonic Geritol when I'm in the litterbox) yesterday and hear an advertisement defending our poor beleagured ally in the fight against international terrorism.....Saudi Arabia????!!?!?
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Yep, that's right...that beacon of freedom and democracy in the Middle East, SA. Forget that nearly all the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis; Pay no mind that the Saudi royals have an immediate connection to Osama and his skunkworks; Disregard the fact that our own FBI was forbidden to investigate those ties, financial or otherwise...The calm male voice in the ad gently insists SA is our friend. And those nasty things Michael Moore said in Fahrenheit 9/11 about the Saudi royals just aren't true, dammit!
Of course, SA's nifty little ad distorts the holdings of both the 9/11 Commission Report and F9/11. Take a jot over to Moore's site and see how well his movie stacks up to the Committee's final determination. Among other things, the ad doesn't mention the real issue: that the bin Ladens and other Saudi nobility were allowed to travel inside the country while all domestic flights were grounded...and were allowed to leave without so much as an exit interview.
I always had a feeling that the yuppie/Boomer pandering proffered by stations like The Drive were part of a more sinister plan of social control and psy-ops conditioning to keep the people in line. The station peddles pure nostalgia, but nostalgia of a very safe kind. The playlist features a lot of sixties tunes, but it's overwhelmingly stilted in favor of the really lame seventies pop dreck that signified a return to conformity, materialism, and political and social conservatism--everything the 6Ts kids hit the streets to fight. The velvet-voiced guy on the bumpers constantly reinforces the notion that "WE NEEDED TO ESCAPE THE TUMULTUOUS SIXTIES." "WE NEEDED TO SELL THE MICROBUS, MOVE TO THE SUBURBS AND VOTE FOR NIXON."
The Drive's formula--softpedalling the sixties while wallowing in the seventies--allows aging boomers to indulge in the music of their protest-era youth without allowing them to make too much of an emotional connection to the issues of the time--it would be pretty dangerous to have a gigantic demographic like that challenge the establishment again (even if they ARE the establishment now).
The Saudi ad will blend in so well with the other CONSUME! BUY! REPRODUCE! DIE! messages on The Drive it will lift nary an eyebrow. It's an opiate administered through stereo speakers...soma for the masses.
FM...no static at all...
I was surprised to tune into The Drive (don't laugh, it's sonic Geritol when I'm in the litterbox) yesterday and hear an advertisement defending our poor beleagured ally in the fight against international terrorism.....Saudi Arabia????!!?!?
link
Yep, that's right...that beacon of freedom and democracy in the Middle East, SA. Forget that nearly all the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis; Pay no mind that the Saudi royals have an immediate connection to Osama and his skunkworks; Disregard the fact that our own FBI was forbidden to investigate those ties, financial or otherwise...The calm male voice in the ad gently insists SA is our friend. And those nasty things Michael Moore said in Fahrenheit 9/11 about the Saudi royals just aren't true, dammit!
Of course, SA's nifty little ad distorts the holdings of both the 9/11 Commission Report and F9/11. Take a jot over to Moore's site and see how well his movie stacks up to the Committee's final determination. Among other things, the ad doesn't mention the real issue: that the bin Ladens and other Saudi nobility were allowed to travel inside the country while all domestic flights were grounded...and were allowed to leave without so much as an exit interview.
I always had a feeling that the yuppie/Boomer pandering proffered by stations like The Drive were part of a more sinister plan of social control and psy-ops conditioning to keep the people in line. The station peddles pure nostalgia, but nostalgia of a very safe kind. The playlist features a lot of sixties tunes, but it's overwhelmingly stilted in favor of the really lame seventies pop dreck that signified a return to conformity, materialism, and political and social conservatism--everything the 6Ts kids hit the streets to fight. The velvet-voiced guy on the bumpers constantly reinforces the notion that "WE NEEDED TO ESCAPE THE TUMULTUOUS SIXTIES." "WE NEEDED TO SELL THE MICROBUS, MOVE TO THE SUBURBS AND VOTE FOR NIXON."
The Drive's formula--softpedalling the sixties while wallowing in the seventies--allows aging boomers to indulge in the music of their protest-era youth without allowing them to make too much of an emotional connection to the issues of the time--it would be pretty dangerous to have a gigantic demographic like that challenge the establishment again (even if they ARE the establishment now).
The Saudi ad will blend in so well with the other CONSUME! BUY! REPRODUCE! DIE! messages on The Drive it will lift nary an eyebrow. It's an opiate administered through stereo speakers...soma for the masses.
FM...no static at all...
by at 2:38 PM
it's nice to know that new york city officials recoginze that protesters are people, too.
apparently, "peaceful political activists" can get their grubby litte hands on a swell button that gets them discounts to some of the city's finest restaurants, like applebee's, and it's wonderful cutural institutions, like the museum of sex.
check out the full http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagepkey=1272list!
i'm sure this makes up for the fact protesters won't be allowed to gather in central park, or get within 58 miles of madison square garden. very wise nyc!
but make no mistake! this isn't available to the violent, rabble-rousing protesters who might burn cars, smash windows or pants police officers. no sir, you are not welcome to participate in the peaceful protester discount.
but that doesn't mean you can't beat up some stupid hippie from vermont and take his button.
apparently, "peaceful political activists" can get their grubby litte hands on a swell button that gets them discounts to some of the city's finest restaurants, like applebee's, and it's wonderful cutural institutions, like the museum of sex.
check out the full http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagepkey=1272list!
i'm sure this makes up for the fact protesters won't be allowed to gather in central park, or get within 58 miles of madison square garden. very wise nyc!
but make no mistake! this isn't available to the violent, rabble-rousing protesters who might burn cars, smash windows or pants police officers. no sir, you are not welcome to participate in the peaceful protester discount.
but that doesn't mean you can't beat up some stupid hippie from vermont and take his button.
by at 4:46 PM
Alan "Motel 6" Keyes, you keep cracking me up!
In yet another policy backflip, Keyes--once unequivocally against the very idea of reparations for the descendants of slaves--is now all for it.
To paraphrase Dave Chappelle's comments on Ralph Nader, the very fact Keyes has slavery reparations on his platform proves heís not serious about winning anything. If he thought he could win on actual policy matters, he wouldnít go anywhere near that third rail. I guess his "vote for me to deprive you of the right to vote for me" stance on repealing the 17th Amendment wasn't polling well in the focus groups.
Once again, one questions the wisdom behind the selection of Keyes. He's too not-of-this-world shithouse crazy to be a mere insider gambit for Barr-Topinka...every time he opens his mouth he runs the risk of chasing out the angels with the demons in the Illinois GOP. Moderates are offended by Keyes's race-baiting tokenism and whacko stance on abortion; hardliners sure as hell aren't going to appreciate his new-found respect for reparations.
And Keyes's landlord in Cal City won't like him very much when he breaks his lease and heads back to Maryland on Nov. 3.
IN OTHER NEWS: Come out to the Abbey Pub tomorrow night for the Chicago Underground Film Festival showcase! Make sure you show up early, 'cuz your friends in Knife of Simpson will make sure you start the night out right.
In yet another policy backflip, Keyes--once unequivocally against the very idea of reparations for the descendants of slaves--is now all for it.
To paraphrase Dave Chappelle's comments on Ralph Nader, the very fact Keyes has slavery reparations on his platform proves heís not serious about winning anything. If he thought he could win on actual policy matters, he wouldnít go anywhere near that third rail. I guess his "vote for me to deprive you of the right to vote for me" stance on repealing the 17th Amendment wasn't polling well in the focus groups.
Once again, one questions the wisdom behind the selection of Keyes. He's too not-of-this-world shithouse crazy to be a mere insider gambit for Barr-Topinka...every time he opens his mouth he runs the risk of chasing out the angels with the demons in the Illinois GOP. Moderates are offended by Keyes's race-baiting tokenism and whacko stance on abortion; hardliners sure as hell aren't going to appreciate his new-found respect for reparations.
And Keyes's landlord in Cal City won't like him very much when he breaks his lease and heads back to Maryland on Nov. 3.
IN OTHER NEWS: Come out to the Abbey Pub tomorrow night for the Chicago Underground Film Festival showcase! Make sure you show up early, 'cuz your friends in Knife of Simpson will make sure you start the night out right.
by at 9:22 AM
He's tanned. He's rested. He's ready.
With his personal possessions stowed safely in his bag of finest berber carpet and a black-eyed susan in his lapel buttonhole, two-time Senate loser Alan Keyes is coming to Illinois to represent YOU! Roll out the red carpet at Extended Stay America, and throw wide your doors, Mailboxes Etc!
As everybody has been pointing out, Keyes soundly denounced Hillary Clinton for "carpetbagging" when she relocated to New York for her US Senate run in 2000. Quoth Keyes: "I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there. So I certainly wouldn't imitate it."
A pretty strong statement from Mr. Keyes. So it's pretty odd that he's doing the same thing!
When confronted about his obvious hypocrisy, Keyes responded with his usual gilded bullshit and rhetorical gymnastics. "I was asked by the people of Illinois to run! It's different!" Um, Alan, no, you weren't--the "people" (i.e. the Illinois Republicans who voted in the primary) chose Jack Ryan! The ILLGOP apparatchiks chose you, and only after considering Ditka, Barthwell, and the Nuge. If I were you, I'd feel like the guy last picked in a 4th grade kickball game.
The Illinois GOP is in such trouble that they've thrown the race card twice in the same trick! Not only did they nominate another black politician to go against Obama--which is cynical enough--but Keyes has already played a card of his own, accusing Obama of "taking the slaveholder's position" on abortion. Whew!
With his personal possessions stowed safely in his bag of finest berber carpet and a black-eyed susan in his lapel buttonhole, two-time Senate loser Alan Keyes is coming to Illinois to represent YOU! Roll out the red carpet at Extended Stay America, and throw wide your doors, Mailboxes Etc!
As everybody has been pointing out, Keyes soundly denounced Hillary Clinton for "carpetbagging" when she relocated to New York for her US Senate run in 2000. Quoth Keyes: "I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there. So I certainly wouldn't imitate it."
A pretty strong statement from Mr. Keyes. So it's pretty odd that he's doing the same thing!
When confronted about his obvious hypocrisy, Keyes responded with his usual gilded bullshit and rhetorical gymnastics. "I was asked by the people of Illinois to run! It's different!" Um, Alan, no, you weren't--the "people" (i.e. the Illinois Republicans who voted in the primary) chose Jack Ryan! The ILLGOP apparatchiks chose you, and only after considering Ditka, Barthwell, and the Nuge. If I were you, I'd feel like the guy last picked in a 4th grade kickball game.
The Illinois GOP is in such trouble that they've thrown the race card twice in the same trick! Not only did they nominate another black politician to go against Obama--which is cynical enough--but Keyes has already played a card of his own, accusing Obama of "taking the slaveholder's position" on abortion. Whew!
by at 4:00 PM
Jeez, can we move up the elections to next week?
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Bush also said high taxes on the rich are a failed strategy because "the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway."
So let's give the wealthy...ANOTHER FUCKING TAX CUT!!!! After all, they're not going to pay them, and who are we to twist anybody's arm? Let's make the poor and Middle Class pay them instead! They're too stupid to do anything about it, right?
Really dumb, George...I wouldn't have made those remarks without a lawyer present.
I'll get to Alan Keyes tomorrow--there's only too much Republican stupidity I can take at once. Ugh.
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Bush also said high taxes on the rich are a failed strategy because "the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway."
So let's give the wealthy...ANOTHER FUCKING TAX CUT!!!! After all, they're not going to pay them, and who are we to twist anybody's arm? Let's make the poor and Middle Class pay them instead! They're too stupid to do anything about it, right?
Really dumb, George...I wouldn't have made those remarks without a lawyer present.
I'll get to Alan Keyes tomorrow--there's only too much Republican stupidity I can take at once. Ugh.
by at 11:32 PM
Alright folks.... For those who've been trying to email us through the Comcast account, the email has been down for about two weeks. It took Comcast a while to get it fixed, but finally, as of 5 minutes ago, we're back up. Project #2 for us is to get the email list back into shape, because it is hurting right now. Shit, we've got dozens of projects, let's hope we get time to finish them all. In any case, come down to the Double Door in Chicago tonight to see the band. We go on right at 9, so make sure to get there early, or at least on time, slacker!
by at 9:43 AM
I was hanging out with Ricky Williams about six months ago in Fiji when he turned to me and said, "Dude. I'm going to retire from football."
"Who do you think I am? Mickey the Dunce!" I yelled at him. "Stop feeding me your bullshit!"
But he seemed like he really meant it. At the ripe old age of 27years old, he was already jaded with his chosen career as a footballer.
"What does it all mean, man?" he asked. "They give me a ball, I run with it up the field, and people kick my ass all over the place - just because I'm carrying a stupid inflated pig bladder. They leave me alone for my whole life, until I get that damn football, and all of a sudden it's open season on me. What the fuck?"
I had to admit, it was pretty good logic, but I still didn't believe a word of it.
"Plus they won't let me smoke my grass, dude," he said.
O.K., another good point, but it still didn't add up. Then I hear last week he officially reitred just 5 days before he's supposed to report camp, by calling Coach Wannstedt from Tokyo. What a dick move! But that's ol' Ricky for you.
Well, I haven't seen Ricky since. He's pretty hard to track down. I mean, shit, he could be in Bora Bora, or the Camen Islands or Nepal, or on his hemp farm in Mexico. Anywhere but the Miami Dolphins training camp.
"Who do you think I am? Mickey the Dunce!" I yelled at him. "Stop feeding me your bullshit!"
But he seemed like he really meant it. At the ripe old age of 27years old, he was already jaded with his chosen career as a footballer.
"What does it all mean, man?" he asked. "They give me a ball, I run with it up the field, and people kick my ass all over the place - just because I'm carrying a stupid inflated pig bladder. They leave me alone for my whole life, until I get that damn football, and all of a sudden it's open season on me. What the fuck?"
I had to admit, it was pretty good logic, but I still didn't believe a word of it.
"Plus they won't let me smoke my grass, dude," he said.
O.K., another good point, but it still didn't add up. Then I hear last week he officially reitred just 5 days before he's supposed to report camp, by calling Coach Wannstedt from Tokyo. What a dick move! But that's ol' Ricky for you.
Well, I haven't seen Ricky since. He's pretty hard to track down. I mean, shit, he could be in Bora Bora, or the Camen Islands or Nepal, or on his hemp farm in Mexico. Anywhere but the Miami Dolphins training camp.
by at 5:24 PM
Oi! Great bolshoy yarblockos, grahzny bratchnies. I've just posted a new page chock full of pics from our summer tour. I'll have more pics and extras posted later in the week, so come on back, if you please.
by at 5:35 PM