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The Bill Richardson Platform: UFOs, Pot and Iraq 'N' Roll 2007-10-30 02:50:00 It's something that's often heard by second-tier candidates and their followers. "If only we could get our message out, people would be flocking to us". Fair enough. In an effort to help get one man's message out, we took a look at New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson
.What is Richarson's message? What can we do to help disseminate it?We looked at dozens of Bill Richardson fund-raising letters and articles and tried to boil down what it was that made Richardson different from the others in the Democrat field. What we came up with was: UFOs, drugs and Iraq
and roll.The Bill Richardson Fascination with UFOsThere's no denying it: this is one issue that Governor Richardson has completely to himself. There is no one else trying to crowd him on the UFO political spectrum, either from the Left or the Right. While he does strike a chord with a certain crowd of Americans here, is this really a Presidential issue? Richardson's camp certainly thinks it is. And it garnered him some coverage t Read more:Platform
Pol Pot Mercedes For Say on E-bay: Genocide Optional 2007-10-30 02:08:00 Always wanted to be a mass murderer, but never had the time or opportunity? Well now you can feel like one as you ride down the road in your 1973 Mercedes
-Benz Pol Pot Special Edition Killer![Note: The four on the floor might be bodies.]If you got the bucks, E-bay's got the car. From der Spiegel:He was one of the most brutal dictators of the 20th century. Now Pol Pot's car is up for grabs on eBay. A Brit is offering the 1973 Mercedes Limousine that is said to have once belonged to the Cambodian dictator for 35,000 pounds."For Sale - one classic 1973 Mercedes Benz Stretch Limousine (short-wheel base stretch) -- previously used by one infamous owner -- Pol Pot who led the Khmer Rouge during its genocidal regime in Cambodia from 1975-1979." This is the tantalizing, if morally dubious, offer to car shoppers on eBay. The going price is 35,000 pounds (about €50,000 or $72,000).Want to bid on an authentic slice of genocidal 20th-century history? Here's the page to bid on E-bay.Current bi Read more:Genocide
The Humor of Ted Rall 2007-10-30 01:55:00 by MondorebThis week we look at the humor of cartoonist, Ted Rall.And that's a look at the "Humor
of Tedrall"Back to Front Page.
Moral of Paul-Alex Jones Tale: Take "Attack" Button off Auto-Pilot 2007-10-29 14:25:00 by MondorebDavid Fredosso of The Corner at National Review Online makes the same point that has been bothering any fair-minded observer of the feeding frenzy that is all things Ron Paul:On the Right, or in parts of it anyway, hatred of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) arguably matches or even exceeds antipathy toward Hillary Clinton. So eager are conservative bloggers to pounce on Paul that a number of them have accused him of "paying" $1,300 to 9/11 conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Fredosso then goes on to reveal this little gem:The "payment" to Jones (and yes, it is that same Jones) was not a payment at all, but a partial refund of Jones’s $2,300 contribution. It is clearly marked as such, if you look in the right place on the electronic FEC forms. Paul's spokesman said he put a line in to the campaign treasurer when he noticed it being discussed on the blogosphere, but that's the answer he's going to get. That sound you hear is certain bloggers scooping up myriad forks and knives to help Read more:Moral
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Bill Maher's Melting Ice Cap Costume: Help Out, Go Undercover 2007-10-29 12:19:00 Salon gives space to Maher
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to flesh out things that go bump in the night, as he twists up a little something to help take the edge off the fear.Bill Maher scares his reader at Salon:What's really scary this Halloween is that the same group of idea-free losers who won the last presidential election could win the next one by making us afraid of the wrong things. Which is why this year for Halloween, I'm going as something truly horrifying: a melting polar ice cap. This week -- as every week -- all the Republican candidates talked about was who was toughest in the war on terror. While the country's most populous state literally burned. The Democrats, as usual, said nothing, because they didn't want to offend fire.The Republicans, including the scaremonger in chief, sell themselves as protectors of our safety. But since they're all, except for McCain, armchair warriors, they're only comfortable protecting us from fears they made up. Like the way Iran is itching for a war with th Read more:Undercover
Forces of Nature: PIXELANEOUS #13 2007-10-29 07:37:00 by MondorebThis morning's break time, we're looking at the forces of Nature. Tornadoes, wildfires, tsunamis, and lightning. Pictures gathered from our travels on the WWW.Click on pictures to enlarge them.Yesterday's PIXELANEOUS4 Early Halloween Pix! Back to Front Page. Read more:Forces
School Massacre Avoided: Another Kid Wants to Take Out "Bullies" 2007-10-29 06:53:00 Another Columbine-style attack is planned; this time it's short-circuited before anyone dies. The justification: ridding the world of bullies. When firing a rocket launcher at innocent students doesn't qualify you as a "bully". The look into a 14-year-old's confused mind from the Philadelphia Daily News?DILLON COSSEY apparently wanted to rid the world of bullies.And he had a plan to do so, according to his confession to police:Back up a car to Plymouth Whitemarsh High School
and dump out a stockpile of weapons; barricade school doors using chains and padlocks so students couldn't get out; then fire a rocket launcher.The chilling details of Cossey's blueprint for carrying out a Columbine-style attack emerged yesterday as the 14-year-old entered a guilty plea in Montgomery County juvenile court.Cossey pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit murder, risking a catastrophe and possessing an instrument of a crime. He faces a maximum sentence of seven years in jail. Because he was charg
Rockies Swept: There is No Joy in Denver 2007-10-29 06:26:00 Seems appropriate (sob)(apologies to:)Ernest Lawrence ThayerThe outlook wasn't brilliant for the Colorado nine that day;The score stood four to three with but one inning more to play.And then when Cooney died at first and Barrows did the same,A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.A straggling few got up to go in deep despair.The rest clung to the hope which springs eternal in the human breast;They thought if only Casey could but get a whack at that -We'd put up even money now with Casey at the bat.But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,And the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake;So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball;And when the dust had lifted, and the men saw what had occurred,There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.Then from five thousand thro Read more:Denver
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New Ford Book: Dead Men DO Tell Tales 2007-10-29 05:50:00 Bill Clinton let sex interfere in the carrying out of his Presidential duties? Others, including departed ex-president Gerald Ford, took notice of it? And this is news?Marketing types at book publishing houses have to drum up business and reporters have to report on something. So Bill Clinton's habits are back in the news. Ford not only had thoughts on Bill Clinton's sex addiction, but also on dumping Dick Cheney. More about Ford's musings from the New York Daily News:Gerald Ford was disturbed by Bill Clinton's skirt-chasing ways - and thought he should check into a sex addiction clinic.A new book on the late 38th President reveals he had strong views about the Clintons: He thought Hillary wore the pants and that Bill couldn't keep his zipped."He's sick - he's got an addiction. He needs treatment," Ford told Daily News Washington Bureau Chief Thomas M. DeFrank, author of "Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford." Also weighing in on t Read more:Tales
Bike Bomb the Latest in Low-Tech Terror 2007-10-29 05:06:00 As if car bombs and IEDs weren't enough to worry about, terrorists have a new tool in their arsenal of destruction: the bike bomb. 24 Iraqi police officers killed and others were wounded. More on this deadly new threat from CNN:At least 24 Iraqi police officers and police recruits were killed when a suicide bomber riding on a bicycle exploded at an Iraqi police base in central Baquba Monday morning, an Interior Ministry official said. The blast also wounded 17 people, the official said.Local health officials put the death toll at 27. They also said a woman and child were among the wounded.Baquba is the capital of the Diyala province northeast of Baghdad. The direction terrorists seem to be taking is a backward one, technology-wise. Where explosive artists are concerned, low-tech is the way to go. As detection methods get more sophisticated, the ways of blowing up things will turn retro. There was the shoe bomber, then a video of using a radio-controlled toy car, now a bike bomber. Red Read more:Terror
Divorce Fair: The Ferris Wheel is More Fun 2007-10-29 04:39:00 The fair is such a joyous place: cotton candy, the Ferris
Wheel, the Tunnel of Love and--divorces?Austrians love their divorces more than they love 'love', it appears. More on the latest blow to Cupid, the Divorce Fair, from New York Post:Vienna is a city where "I do" often turns into "I want out," a fair for those wanting to untie the knot seemed a sure hit.But journalists easily outnumbered those looking for advice on how to end their marriages on Saturday, the first day of what was billed as the world's first divorce fair.Detectives were ready to catch a spouse in the act, mediators to help ease the pain of separation, a laboratory to conduct paternity tests, and, of course, lawyers to do everything else.So where were all those in struggling marriages?The Austrian capital would seem a good venue for the event, with its 66-percent divorce rate, near the top for European cities. The country itself has a rate of more than 50 percent. In the United States, the rate is thought to be b
Bill Richardson Not Alone:Judge Wants PA UFO Info Released 2007-10-29 04:10:00 This weekend, the news was that Presidential candidate Richardson
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was demanding answers about the Roswell incident of decades past. Now a judge wants information released about an incident that happened outside of Pittsburgh. First, the lowdown on Richardson from Weasel Zippers:ROUND ROCK, Texas — If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery.Answering questions at a townhall meeting Friday, a Dell employee asked Richardson about the 1947 incident in which many people still believe a flying saucer landed near the eastern New Mexico town."I've been in government a long time, I've been in the cabinet, I've been in the Congress and I've always felt that the government doesn't tell the truth as much as it should on a lot of issues," said Richardson, who is governor of New Mexico."When I was in Congress I said (to the) Department of Defense ... 'What is th Read more:Judge
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Is Dobson-Hating Therapeutic? 2007-10-29 03:28:00 The Religious Right is such an easy target. They believe in certain things, certain non-PC things. James Dobson
is a licensed therapist? How can this be?More therapeutic thoughts about a therapist from Kiko's House:With Jerry Falwell dead and Pat Robertson acting more the fool with every passing month, Dobson is the only evangelical of the three who came on the scene during the Reagan administration with the avowed purpose of imposing their dogma on the Republican Party who remains truly influential. Translation: Sticking up for what he believes; like Folsom Street Fair gays, Code Pink and KikoHouse screed scribblers.The scribbler in this post would have us believe the following."A therapist who turns a critical diagnostic issue into one of his or her own beliefs in ways that their professional group does not agree with has to make a hard choice," one of the former board members said. "Are you true to your beliefs or to professional standards? A therapist cannot have it both ways and Read more:Hating
Witches School Fails to Charm Town 2007-10-29 03:22:00 The Civil Rights Act protects everyone, except maybe circus people. Next to race, creed, color, gender, and whatever else is PC these days, does the Act need to include Halloween characters? What are witches in a small town to do? A story for those not wary of slippery slopes from the Chicago Tribune: ROSSVILLE, Ill.--Things were already going downhill in this small farming community when the witches arrived.Area factories had shut down. So had the local high school. A suspicious fire had gutted much of the downtown. The use of methamphetamine was destroying families.So when a group of Wiccans from out of town moved into a storefront this summer and erected a sign advertising "Witch School
," it was only a matter of time before alarm bells sounded and tempers started to boil in this village of 1,200, about 125 miles south of Chicago near the Indiana border. Sounds like a spooky story, complete with 'alarm bells' and boiling tempers. The culprits? A reporter's favorite boogie-man-cum
Like an NGO: Rushing Aid To the Bolivian Prostitutes 2007-10-29 02:25:00 When the problem is "prostitutes sew their mouths shut", the solution is "RidesAPaleHorse ". The sympathetic sort, RAPH offered the above solution and some kind words.Maybe these girls should take a tip from the lefties that go on "hunger strikes" here. Makes it a bit easier to eat when no one is looking. More on the sewing abilities of the world's oldest profession from Reuters:Prostitutes
in the Bolivian city of El Alto sewed their lips together Wednesday as part of a hunger strike to demand that the mayor reopen brothels and bars ordered closed after violent protests by residents last week."We are fighting for the right to work and for our families' survival," Lily Cortez, leader of the El Alto Association of Nighttime Workers, told local television."Tomorrow we will bury ourselves alive if we are not immediately heard. The mayor will have his conscience to answer to if there are any grave consequences, such as the death of my comrades," she said, surrounded by about 10 prostitut Read more:Rushing
W.M.D. in Iran? U.S.A.Take Action? M.D. in N.Y.T. Writes About E.D.C.? Q.E.D. To the Max 2007-10-28 10:03:00 [photo:DBKP file photo]by MondorebThis is getting to be too much like the synapses of a lab rat clicking. Mo Dowd needs to come up with a column idea, Evil Dick Cheney is the subject, then we respond to it. Our keyboard and Dowd's both need a Pavlovian drool shield.The latest on Evil Dick Cheney, related as Dowd channels the spirit of Scarlett O'Hara, gazing skyward and breathlessly intoning "tomorrow is another day", in the New York Times:RUSSERT: First you threatened to take action if Iran built a nuclear weapon. Now you’re threatening to take action if Iran knows how to build a nuclear weapon. What’s next? You threaten to take action if Ahmadinejad dresses up as a nuclear weapon for Halloween?CHENEY: Well, the difficulty here is, each time he has rejected what he was called upon to do by the international community. I’m not sure now, no matter what he says, that anyone would believe him. He’s pretending he doesn’t have W.M.D., just like Saddam. And then the big finish.R Read more:Action
4 Halloween Early Bird Pictures: Pixelaneous #12 2007-10-28 09:12:00 by Little Baby Ginn & MondorebGet into the Halloween
spirit with these 4 "Early
Bird Special" pictures.Just the right Halloween refreshment.So close...Family Guy has the Evil Monkey, this guy wishes that's all he had.The recently departed? In more ways than one.Many more of these are available for your pre-Halloween viewing pleasure at Worth 1000.Yesterday's PIXELANEOUSClassic Ad Posters Updated! Back to Front Page. Read more:Pictures
Sunday Morning Reminder: Carnival of the Insanities Time 2007-10-28 08:53:00 [e-graphics]by MondorebCheck out this morning's Carnival
of the Insanities. The above poster and our story I'd Shoot Osama; Okay, Maybe I Wouldn't got a linking shout-out.Lots of insanity over at Doc Sanity's weekly absurdity-Fest. Just right for tuning up before all the insanity of the NFL games start in a little bit.Carnival of the InsanitiesBack to Front Page. Read more:Morning
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Atlas Shrugged Off The Slings and Arrows 2007-10-28 07:41:00 More on the Vlaams Belang dust-up in the Netherlands (and the USA).Atlas
Shrugged weighs in with some sober, salient points on the affair.Philosopher Roger Scruton, who also spoke at a VB event:As the British conservative philosopher and author Roger Scruton said in a speech in Antwerp last year, the charge of racism and xenophobia in the EU countries “has become the equivalent of a charge of heresy in medieval Europe, of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, or of ‘deviationism” in the Stalinist state.” However, as Mr. Scruton pointed out, “we have a duty to brave the charge of ‘racism and xenophobia’, and to discuss every aspect of immigration.” AS goes on to add, concerning A. Bostom:Moreover if I might add that Andrew Bostom was SPECIFICALLY requested by the organizers to speak about Antisemitism, AND I included at the end at the of his remarks a specific mention of NAZI Antisemitism in the guise of the annihilationist Johannes von Leers. Atlas was good enough to Read more:Arrows
Charley Rangel and Democrats: 10 More Reasons To Grasp Your Pocketbook Tight 2007-10-28 06:40:00 [image:RidesAPaleHorse; click to enlarge]Just as American taxpayers relaxed the death-grip on their pocketbooks, along comes another chapter in the eternal Texas cage-match between hard-pressed U.S. workers and the Democrat Party tax writers.One is about to light another stogie, embark on the morning's second pot of coffee and is look over the email, along comes an email that sums up recent Democrat tax proposals in one easy-to-read article. RidesAPaleHorse sent us a heads-up, along with the nifty comic cover above.The story comes from The Green Eyeshade. And the sub-headings are capitalized for easy reading by knuckle-dragging Neo-Nazi conservative tax-cutters across the land.After wiping the drool from the keyboard, more about this important Public Service Announcement from Green Eyeshade:The Republican Staff on the Ways and Means Committee put this fact sheet together, I feel it is quite enlightening, and wanted to share it with you.When Chairman Rangel introduced his long-awaited Read more:Charley
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Al-Qaida #2 Calls for Holy War: Gadhafi, Abbas, U.S. Among Those Targeted 2007-11-03 12:38:00 Moammar Gadhafi a jihad target?How soon they forget.Gadhafi is one of the subjects of a video issued by al-Qaida #2 man, Ayman al-Zawahri. Gadhafi's Libya, which was on the US list of "terror-sponsoring states" for years, is now the target of terror.View the video here from Yahoo.al-Zawahri also went after Palestinian leader, Mahmud Abbas
, calling for his overthrow. He also called for a Holy War against French, Spanish and U.S. interests in North Africa.Yahoo News:Al-Qaida's No. 2 figure harshly criticized Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in a new audio tape Saturday, accusing him of being an enemy of Islam and threatening a wave of attacks against the North African country because it improved relations with the U.S.In the 28-minute audio tape called "Unity of the Ranks," Ayman al-Zawahri also announced that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group was joining ranks with al-Qaida.From Dow-Jones Newswire:Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri called for the overthrow of Palestinian president Mah
Pakistan State of Emergency a Coup? Sources Unclear Who's in Charge 2007-11-03 10:27:00 State of Emergency
a coup? The Constitution is now suspended: is this an Army take-over? Though the Washington Post and others are saying President Musharraf is declaring a state of emergency, other sources are saying that Musharraf is not fully in charge here. It's the Chief of Army Staff who declared the State of Emergency, not President Musharraf.UPDATE at 15:43 GMT from the BBC:Pakistan
's President Pervez Musharraf has declared emergency rule and suspended the country's constitution.Troops have been deployed inside state-run TV and radio stations, while independent channels have gone off air.Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, who condemned the moves, has reportedly been sacked and is being confined to the Supreme Court with 10 other judges.It comes as the court was due to rule on the legality of Gen Musharraf's re-election victory in October.The Court was to decide whether Gen Musharraf was eligible to run for election last month while remaining army chief. So apparently at th Read more:State
DBKP Interview with Marcus Wilder: Paradise Not Only 72 Virgins But "Boys Like Pearls" 2007-11-03 07:36:00 Not Only Will "Boys like Pearls
" be Provided,They'll be "Refreshed"?!?A new book is out on Pakistan and it might raise a few eyebrows--both in the United States and in Pakistan. "Naive and Abroad: Pakistan, Travel in a Land of Mullahs" just came out and Death by 1000 Papercuts had a chance to sit down (in the blogosphere sense) with author, Marcus
Wilder. We recruited Noblesse Oblige's Pakistan Powerhouse, Thanos, to join us in questioning the author on his travels and stays throughout Pakistan.It proved to be both interesting and informative.MONDOREB: Welcome Marcus to the Land of 1000 Papercuts!MARCUS WILDER: Thank you for this opportunity.MONDO: No problem. Let's do it!LITTLE BABY GINN: What place in your book would you most like to return to and why?MW: Peshawar, without question. Peshawar is the most interesting city I have seen in a lifetime of travel. I saw Bali before the runways were lengthened to serve 707s. I saw Bangkok before the boom. I knew theMexico of the 1950s, the Read more:Paradise
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Hillary Coming Out: Resume Enhancement? 2007-11-03 06:33:00 Hillary Clinton a lesbian? Coming out?The rumors, whispers and speculation has been heavy this week about the relationship of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's relationship with her personal aide, Huma Abedin. Supposedly, the Los Angeles Times has a story about a sex scandal involving one of the presidential candidates that it's been sitting on.The blogosphere's been a-buzz.RidesAPaleHorse's take is that it might just be the act of resume enhancement.Is Hillary merely cementing the Gay/Lesbian vote? It seems safely in the Democrat Party corner. Hillary is the cautious sort, as anyone who's heard her explain her votes on Iraq and Iran or her stand on Gov. Eliot Spitzer's position on illegal immigrant driver licenses in NY can attest.You'd thought "First Lady" and "Senator" would be enough.by Mondoreb[image and questions:RidesAPaleHorse]MORE:Hillary Clinton a Lesbian? Would Set Gay Rights Back 50 YearsBack to Front Page. Read more:Hillary
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More Bad News From Afghanistan: For the Mainstream Media 2007-11-03 07:05:00 More bad news from Afghanistan
--for Old Media.[hat tip: Awa Puhi & Pat]No matter how the mainstream media tries to dress it up, the news coming out of Iraq these days is mostly of the good variety. Deaths down, more territory secured and more Iraqis lining up behind what they can increasingly see is the strong horse: the United States military.So what's the big mainstream story? Deaths in Afghanistan are up. Newsroom inhabitants at CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, the NY Times and other outposts in the once-monolithic liberal news empire can come out from under their beds. It's not that bad. The reason is simple for anyone who studies both the Afghan situation and Congress: ineptitude.A look behind the statistics from Christian Lowe at the Weekly Standard:IT'S TRUE THAT INSURGENT violence is on the rise in Afghanistan, with a surging Taliban taking up tactics first used against U.S. forces in Iraq, including suicide bombs, improvised explosive devices, and vehicle-borne IEDs. Afghan civil Read more:Mainstream
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