Overheard White House Conversation Coming Soon to the Memory Hole

   "They only show him on the news."
   "Nobody watches the news."
   "Everybody watches Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade."
   "How do we get him on that?"
   "We could fill him with helium and float him down the street."
   "Nah."
   "How about if does something newsworthy that gets them to interupt the broadcast and cut to him?"
   "Like what?"
   "Why doesn't he visit Iraq for the first time? He could visit a hospital and show compassion for wounded soldiers."
   "Nah."
   "He could visit a battlefield and say a prayer for the dead."
   "Nah."
   "What then?"
   "How about if he just lands at an airport for a photo-op and gets cheered by thousands of soldiers, then leaves."
   "Are you sure they'll cheer for him?"
   "What are you, a commie? Of course they'll cheer for him."

Missing Audio Segment from Dubya's Visit to Iraq

"Boo!" Sound of rifle firing. "Unngh." Plop.

One Good Thing

Great minds think alike. Those Google smackdowns I've been doing were too much work. Turns out it's much easier to just go to Google Fight and do it all with one click.

Buchanan for President

No, not THAT Buchanan. We're talking about John Buchanan, the journalist who broke the Bush/Nazi story for the New Hampshire Gazette. He's challenging Bush for the Republican nomination with about one billionth the campaign contributions and a lot of moxie. Step one, the New Hampshire Primary, where that other Buchanan made a good showing against that other Bush. News coverage from just about anybody would be considered a victory.

Internet Gizmos of the Week

I Feel So Much Safer Now

This Would Have Never Happened if Joan Crawford were President

December 2: Meria With John Stanton - Hitler's Ghost In the White House 
December 3: Meria With Kathy Kelly, Founder of Voices in the Wilderness - SOA Protest Abuse 
December 4: Meria With Danny Schechter on his latest book - Embedded, Weapons of Mass Deception 
December 11: Albert Pastore - Stranger Than Fiction, True Culprits of 9/11 
December 16: Robert Greenwald - Uncovered: The Truth About The War in Iraq 
December 24: Catherine Austin Fitts - Where's the Money? 

Contest of the Week

"As a bachelor, I get a chance to fantasize about my first lady. And you know maybe Fox will want to sponsor it as a national contest or something. But in any event I would want definitely want someone who would not just be there by my side, but be a working partner because I think we're in a day in age when partnerships are imperative to making anything happening in the world. And I certainly want a dynamic, out-spoken woman who was fearless in her desire for peace in the world and for universal single-payer health care and a full employment economy. If you are out there call me." - Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, 11/05/03 -

Here's a site that takes him at his word. You can be Mrs. Dennis Kucinich! To enter the "Who Wants To Be First Lady Contest", E-MAIL them your biographical information, personal statement, and a photograph.

Online Screenplay of the Week

Don't miss the hilarious Good Cop, Good Cop by Michael O'Donoghue, Ken Finkleman & Bruce Wagner.

His Satanic Majesty's Request

Mick Jagger (Satan) is getting knighted.
 

The War Against Plants

Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan doubled between 2002 and 2003 to a level 36 times higher than in the last year of rule by the Taliban. 
Good thing the CIA is helping them distribute it around the world or else what the hell would they do with it?

Don't Take My Word For It

"You're about to enter into a world filled with hypocrisy and doublespeak, a world in which your limo to the airport is often a half-hour late. In addition to not even being a limo at all; often times it's a Lincoln Towncar. You're about to enter a world where you ask your new assistant, Jamie, to bring you a tall, non-fat latte. And he comes back with a short soy cappuccino. Guess what, Jamie? You're fired. Not too hard to get right, my friend."
- Will Ferrell: 352nd Harvard Commencement speech, June 5, 2003 -

"Be cautious of those who confuse kindness with weakness."
- Noah ben Shea -

"You can destroy our planet, but the souls are going to keep on going, they'll keep on getting new bodies and going on to other planets. So in the end, it doesn't really matter."
- George Harrison -

"Today's radios and TVs can carry enough ultrasound messaging to be 'heard' by the human brain (though not the ear) to be effective in conveying hypnosis. This was proven by the U.S. military forces in the Gulf War."
- Eleanor White: The State of Unclassified and Commercial Technology Capable of Some Electronic Mind Control Effects -

"It is the past experience issue that is so diligently ignored by those newly awakened voices of opposition who expend needless energy debating whether explosives were placed in the towers, whether the planes were remote controlled, whether an airliner really hit the Pentagon, or whether maybe Congress will actually do something about any of it. These debates are worse than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. They are expediting the demise of people who could otherwise be constructing life rafts. The proof already exists that the government lied."
- Michael Ruppert, remarking on the use of physical and scientific evidence to unravel the lies of 9/11 -

"I believe there's something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
- Woody Allen -

"Mr. President, when you talk about peace in the Middle East, you've often said that freedom is granted by the Almighty. Some people who share your beliefs don't believe that Muslims worship the same Almighty. I wonder about your views on that..."
- Some reporter in London -

"I do say that freedom is the Almighty's gift to every person. I also condition it by saying freedom is not America's gift to the world. It's much greater than that, of course. And I believe we worship the same God."
- Dubya -

"Yeah, money."
- Xarvon, Alien Investigator -

"Everything is funnier if a puppet says it."
- Zack Everson -

"In reality, the Holy Land doesn't need walls, but bridges."
- Pope John Paul II, commenting on Israel's separation wall, quoted in The Washington Post -

"A very popular error - having the courage of your convictions. Rather, it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions."
- Friedrich Nietzsche - 

"Jesus wasn't a Christian, and he never preached in a church. He was also a drinker, and liked to hang out with sinners. We think of him very highly in the Church of Stop Shopping. We put him right up there with Lenny Bruce." 
- Reverend Billy -

"Every one who changes is often a traitor in the eyes of those who can never change."
- Amoz Oz -

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
- Samuel P. Huntington -

"The idea gleaming and dancing before ones eyes like a will-of-the-wisp at last frames itself into a plan. Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilized world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making the Anglo-Saxon race one Empire. What a dream, but yet it is probable, it is possible...The Society should inspire and even own portions of the press, for the press rules the mind of the people." 
- Cecil Rhodes: founder of the Rhodes Scholarship, 1877 -

"The first major fault that I have heard in all of the works that I have reviewed as a Judge and in works that I have purchased or have been sent to me, is: People cast their friends, partners, lovers, and creditors in these things and they can't act! Nothing will kill a piece of audio art faster than a bad actor. Even if you have a couple of good actors in there, if there's one clinker in a major role or even a minor role that has some importance to it, it's going to lower the level of the entire production and drop you right out of it."
- Phil Proctor: All Things Audio Theatre (check out this link for LOTS of links to great audio theatre, like the old-fashioned radio dramas here and here.) -

"Make the best of this quest and don't ask why."
- Green Day -

"George W. Bush will go down in history as America's worst environmental president. In a ferocious three-year attack, the Bush administration has initiated more than 200 major rollbacks of America's environmental laws, weakening the protection of our country's air, water, public lands and wildlife. Cloaked in meticulously crafted language designed to deceive the public, the administration intends to eliminate the nation's most important environmental laws by the end of the year. Under the guidance of Republican pollster Frank Luntz, the Bush White House has actively hidden its anti-environmental program behind deceptive rhetoric, telegenic spokespeople, secrecy and the intimidation of scientists and bureaucrats. The Bush attack was not entirely unexpected. George W. Bush had the grimmest environmental record of any governor during his tenure in Texas. Texas became number one in air and water pollution and in the release of toxic chemicals. In his six years in Austin, he championed a short-term pollution-based prosperity, which enriched his political contributors and corporate cronies by lowering the quality of life for everyone else. Now President Bush is set to do the same to America. After three years, his policies are already bearing fruit, diminishing standards of living for millions of Americans."
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Crimes Against Nature - Bush is sabotaging the laws that have protected America's environment for more than thirty years -

"If the earth was made of gold, I guess men would die for a handful of dirt."
- Gary Cooper: Garden of Evil -

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard -

"The UK and the USA spent over $80 billion on the Iraq war. The total cost of providing adequate education to the 130 million children who are currently not in school would be just $8 billion one tenth of the cost of war. Surely the education of the worlds children is worth 10% of the cost of the Iraq war?"
- Big News Channel -

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
- George Bernard Shaw -

"Those lines that I before have writ do lie."
- William Shakespeare: Sonnet 65 -

"If they should ask you why we died, tell them that our fathers lied."
- Rudyard Kipling -

"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous."
- Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf -

"The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe."
- Benito Mussolini: London Sunday Express, December 8, 1935 -

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." 
- Buddha -

Everything Else

Mandatory reading: Check out this list of people in jail for very long times for victimless crimes, along with their addresses. Want to do something nice? Write them and let them know they're not forgotten.

Forget teaching your children about the great imaginary cloud being in the sky and check out Spirituality for Kids.

If the US ever needs an excuse to invade Mexico, here's a good one.

Might I point out if Dr. Seuss found out they were using The Cat in the Hat to sell cleaning products on television, he'd still be dead but very angry?