I've finally achieved consistency in my life. Any person of average or above intelligence can predict what I will say next with unerring accuracy. And what I say will always be wrong.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: CBS, NBC Clean Up Bush's 'Happy' Talk

Mighty nice of them. It reinforces my opinion that as soon as he
leaves office, we will learn what his damage is - like Reagan, any
thinking person can see there's something seriously wrong with that
chimp, though with everybody conspiring to cover it up, it's hard to
know what it is.

With Reagan it was Alzheimers - with Bush - who knows? Rocking back
and forth - Autism?

CBS, NBC Clean Up Bush's 'Happy' Talk

8/24/06

During his August 21 press conference, George W. Bush responded to a
question about the Iraq War by saying that "sometimes I'm happy" about
the conflict. But many readers and TV viewers never heard the remark,
since journalists edited the statement to save Bush any possible
embarrassment.

Bush's unedited comment was as follows:

Q: But are you frustrated, sir?

BUSH: Frustrated? Sometimes I'm frustrated. Rarely surprised.
Sometimes I'm happy. This is -- but war is not a time of joy. These
aren't joyous times. These are challenging times, and they're
difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I
understand that.

Viewers of CBS Evening News (8/21/06) saw a carefully edited version
of that response—one better suited to presenting Bush as serious and
concerned with the effects of the war. Reporter Bill Plante previewed
the answer by saying that Bush "conceded that daily reports of death
and destruction take a toll, both on the nation and on him." The
edited quote that followed:

Frustrated? Sometimes I'm frustrated, rarely surprised. These aren't
joyous times. These are challenging times, and they're difficult
times. And they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand
that.

CBS was not alone in massaging Bush's response—many outlets excised
Bush's "happy" remark, or found other ways to clean up Bush's
performance. NBC Nightly News (8/21/06) worked around Bush's awkward
answer; reporter Kelly O'Donnell noted that Bush "offered an unusual
glimpse into his thinking," but then proceeded to edit the comments to
Bush's advantage:

BUSH: Frustrated? Sometimes I'm frustrated. Rarely surprised.

O'DONNELL: ...and acknowledged Iraq's weight on the nation.

BUSH: They're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of
our country. I understand that.

So instead of airing Bush's "happy" remark, NBC's reporter stressed
the fact that Bush was serious about Iraq's "weight on the nation."

Print outlets also generally left out Bush's remark and praised his
performance. The New York Times (8/22/06) interpreted Bush's
"occasionally rocking back and forth" as a sign that he was "generally
upbeat," while the Los Angeles Times was more effusive: "Bush's
appearance suggested he was settling into a pattern of regular,
wide-ranging interactions with reporters in which he can appear
confident and presidential" (8/22/06).

Of course, Bush can only appear that way if the press decides to
present his comments in the most flattering light. With the Iraq War
widely unpopular with the public, many viewers may have found Bush
saying that it sometimes made him "happy" jarring and distasteful. CBS
and NBC apparently thought it was more appropriate to shield viewers
from Bush's words—and, perhaps more importantly, shield the White
House from that public response.

ACTION: Contact CBS and NBC and ask them why they decided that Bush's
comments about the Iraq War making him "happy" should be excised from
their reporting.

CONTACT:
CBS Evening News
evening@cbsnews.com

CBS Public Eye
publiceye@cbs.com

NBC Nightly News
nightly@nbc.com

NOTE: You can watch the CBS broadcast here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?channel=eveningnews

Click on the segment labeled "Bush Holds Firm On Iraq"


Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CanYoAssDigIt/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
CanYoAssDigIt-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Friday, August 18, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: Fwd: Unable to deliver your message

hey, that's ok, I dig free speech, even irresponsible speech.

I've been expecting this for a while - the crime of seditious libel is alive and well in the rank and file!  And with seditious libel, if what you say is true, it magnifies the crime. 

It's pretty amusing that on a list well subscribed to by the foil hat crowd and extremists of every stripe, that a mild, persistent devotion to fairness and facts gets one banned.  Sure I've had a little mild fun at Bill Clinton's expense - but it's notthing compared to the wild slander thrown at prominent democrats by democrat lovers like Holly and Liberal Girl (can you tell me - are they the same person?  That would be just about one of the saddest and silliest things I've heard of in a while - somebody joining their own list under another identity, and then praising themselves for saying such smart things - but that is about the only way Holly is going to hear that, and I don't know how else soembody who's been on a list less than a month is a moderator!)

But all of this is pretty much what I expected - this is only the latest time of several that I've been thankful that amateur inquisitors are only that, and don't wield any power in the real world!

On 8/17/06, chris nolan <cedgarnolan@yahoo.com> wrote:
hey matt -
 
I appologize for that last post of mine - however, Holly has blocked your messages.


Matt Love < matt.mattlove1@gmail.com> wrote:
There is something wrong with my gmail account. I attempted to reply to your e-mail via the list.  It certainly can't be that I've been banned by Holly for pointing out obvious things like Joe Lieberman is a Democrat, or that Bill Clinton is a horndog.

It certainly can't be that I've been banned here in the land of the free, home of the brave, home of free speech and all those yummy things that the republicans hate, but the democrats love. 

I'm sure it's just a passing problem, and I'll soon be posting factual, useful, logical posts to the list again - the kind the list really, really needs.   Please communicate this to other folks.

Now onto the message I was trying to send.

You wrote: 
Hey Matt:
 
go screw yourself.

I wrote:

"Well, I'd rather screw myself than be screwed by Bill.

Or HIllary.

You'd like it to.  You'd never go back to Democrats."

Have a great day!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yahoo! Groups <notify@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 18 Aug 2006 03:19:57 -0000
Subject: Unable to deliver your message
To: matt.mattlove1@gmail.com


We are unable to deliver the message from < matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>
to < GWB_BiteMe@yahoogroups.com>.

You are not allowed to send email to this group. There are two possible
reasons for this:

1. This group may only accept postings from moderators.
2. The moderator of this group may have removed your ability to post to
  this group.

To contact the group moderator, send mail to GWB_BiteMe-owner@yahoogroups.com

For further assistance, please visit http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Matt Love" <matt.mattlove1@gmail.com >
To: GWB_BiteMe@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:18:01 -0700
Subject: Re: [GWB_BiteMe] Re: *Bill [Clinton] burns Bush*
Well, I'd rather screw myself than be screwed by Bill.

Or HIllary.

You'd like it to.  You'd never go back to Democrats.

On 8/17/06, chris nolan <cedgarnolan@yahoo.com > wrote:
Hey Matt:
 
go screw yourself.


Holly <lovecats_888@ yahoo.com> wrote:
--- LIEBERMAN IS NOT A DEMOCRAT YOU IDIOT. Don't waste my time.

Holly

In GWB_BiteMe@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Love" <matt.mattlove1@...>
wrote:
>
> I could never hate democrats the way that your group does, "Holly."
> just look at what you and they have to say about Lieberman (still a
> democrat until he runs as an independent) and his supporters (still
> Democrats, probably to their dying breath).
>
> Why don't you guys find a group that hates Democrats as much as you
> do, and leave this group to the reasonable people?
>
> BTW, I don't find anything wrong with with being sex positive...
it's
> the deceit that's the problem with Clinton. Not that he's
deceiving
> Hillary, she knows exactly what the deal is, their arrangement was
> made early on (see attached). The same sort of arrangement that
the
> Roosevelts, and Eisenhowers, and Kennedys, and Johnsons and George
and
> Barbara Bush, and Goerge and Laura Bush had/have, though apparently
> not the Nixons, Reagans, Carters, or Fords (for those who think
that
> politically powerful men must express themselves in the sack, or
they
> will be too repressed ot do their jobs - and there are people that
> maintain that, proud of the virility of Kennedy and Clinton,
disgusted
> at the hypocracy of Bush I, and the free pass given to Bush II).
>
> edited by alexander cockburn and jeffrey st. clair
> August 11, 1999
>
>
> The First Lady Syndrome (con't)
>
> There are differences between the two, {Princess Di and HIllary
> Clinton] of course. The late Princess Diana campaigned
against
> land mines, whereas Hillary Rodham Clinton was an enthusiastic
> advocate for the cluster bombs that now litter the Serbian and
> Kossovan landscapes, set to kill or cripple for the next half
> century. But memories are short. Who knows? Perhaps we will soon
see
> HRC clutching some Balkan infant, bent over the maimed tike
in
> the approved Di manner, and who will then recall that she
bears
> some responsibility for that lost limb? "I urged him to
bomb,"
> she confided to Lucinda Franks. "You cannot let this go on at
> the end of a century that has seen the major holocaust of our
> time. What do we have NATO for if not to defend our way of
> life?"
>
> For the better part of the past decade HRC has been a not
> insubstantial part of the same NATO-defended "way of life," a
> lead player in the world spectacle, just as Diana was,
> advertising for public edification and enjoyment the
> tribulations of the married state. Diana of course took her
narrative
> a few chapters further than Hillary. Her amours and revenges,
> after separation from the heir apparent, were flagrant. With
> Hillary there is only, as yet, allegation and surmise. In his
> thin and humdrum account -- Bill and Hillary: The Marriage --
> Christopher Anderson insists that Hillary had a long affair with
> Vincent Foster rounding up all the usual Arkansas state troopers
> to support that claim. Otherwise there are scant indications
> that she sought sexual distraction from the flagrant serial
adulterer
> she so eerily reckoned, almost from Day One, to be a sure
thing
> for the White House. She certainly seems to have known, almost
> from Day One, that every time she turned her back Bill was
screwing
> the campaign volunteers, the flight attendants, the
> receptionists, the pretty girls in the front row, the pretty
> girls in the back row, this woman he saw in church, that high
> school teacher, this woman in the real estate office, that
other
> woman in the real estate office and so on, and on and on.
>
> Anderson has this vignette from the McGovern
campaign: "Hillary
> was on the end of the line. 'What do you think you are doing
to
> me? To us?' she screamed, her words clearly audible to the
> workers in the room. 'Hillary, I don't know what you heard,
> but...' 'Don't fuck with me, Bill,' she yelled as his face
> turned crimson. 'You are a real shit, do you know that, Bill?
> Christ, a real SHIT.' But...' 'You know, Bill, there's a guy
> here who has been trying to get me to go to bed with him and
> that is exactly what I'm going to do.' With that, Bill began
> sobbing. 'I'm begging you, Hillary,' he cried, 'don't go and
do
> something we'd both be sorry for.' Well, did she? We don't
know.
>
> In the old days First Ladies, like Elizabeth the Queen, or
> Elizabeth the Queen Mother or Jackie (Camelot vintage) were
> there to advertise the essential solidity of marriage. It was
> the role of film stars to underline its inherent frailty.
> Hillary has a far more complex assignment. Her core constituency,
> women who came of age reading Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan,
> Simone de Beauvoir, the Boston's Women's Health Collective and
> maybe Shulamith Firestone, scarcely want as their standard bearer
> Woman as Doormat. Women know that men are beasts, and part of
> the infinite superiority of women is their capacity to persevere
> in the face of this beastliness.
>
> But there are limits. If the dialectic of women's liberation
> taught anything, it's surely that a woman doesn't have to
put up
> with unending crap such as Bill has been serving Hillary down
> the years. So Hillary has to reassure that constituency that
> yes, she does draw the line somewhere, that in post Lewinsky
> months she can't bear to be in the same room, the same city
or
> even the same country as the First Man.
>
> Yet at the same time, knowing not only from more or less Day
> One that Bill couldn't keep his pants zipped up, but also that
> she could get both of them into the White House, (and out the
> other end sans impeachment conviction) she's always had to act
> out the other half of the pantomime and display the ties that
> bind. So, yes! After months of coolness he gets to hold her hand.
> Hillary's chief of staff, Melanne Verveer, is order to lob the
> red meat of passion to a waiting world and she dutifully confides
> to the press that "We've slowly seen a physical passion come
> back into their lives."
>
> So the generation that came of age reading De Beauvoir, Greer
> and maybe Firestone find themselves, with the Hillary
narrative,
> reading a story endlessly in contradiction with itself.
>
> Germaine Greer has spoken of Hillary harshly and in truth we
> have in our First Lady the whole sad arc of middle-class
> radicalism since the late l960s, endlessly in contradiction of
> its early heroic premises. Given a couple of dice rolling another
> way, Hillary could have been a Weatherperson, could have died
> amid the rubble of that bomb depository on West 11th St. But
> like almost all of her generation she never did take opposition
> to the Vietnam War as far as reading manuals on bomb fuses.
>
> Hardly had she raised her foot to step over the threshold of
> radicalism than she turned back. She declined to go with the
> SNCC, turned down an offer to work with Saul Alinsky as a
> community organizer in Chicago. Anderson quotes her political
> science prof at Wellesley, Alan Schecter, as saying that by the
> late l960s his pupil had decided that the best radical strategy
> was to "'use the legal system' as an agent of change." She
> wasn't alone in that calculation. The long march of the left
> through the courtrooms was under way: the world would become
a
> better place, courtesy of courtroom briefs, complaints and
class
> action suits.
>
> And so what we have seen, across the last three decades, is
the
> left vanishing into the quicksands of regulation. All
society's
> problems could be fixed by a statute, a rule, a waiver, a
> program. Much of the antiwar left vanished into the consumer
> movement, the environmental movement and legal fixitry. The
mass
> movement died and litigation -- often successful --
flourished
> amid the ruins.
>
> Let's pay Hillary the compliment of taking her seriously as a
> woman set on bringing about social change. She declines the
road
> that led to West 11th St and goes instead to Yale Law School.
> She works for John Doar, helping draft articles of
impeachment
> against Nixon. The road seems clear. She'll rise effortlessly
> through the ranks of non-profit, do-goodery; she'll shuttle
> comfortably up and down the Northeastern corridors of power.
>
> But she makes a far riskier bet. The road to the White House
> runs through Little Rock, so South she goes, with bottle
> glasses, bell bottoms, and according to another woman in
Bill's
> life at the time, Dolly Kyle browning, hairy legs and a
dislike
> of deodorants. Year after year she puts up with Bill's crap.
She
> hold his hand, puts up with the most terrible humiliations,
> drives him forward.
>
> In l993 she finally wins her incredible wager with Destiny.
And
> here she is, the First Woman, in the White House with a
mandate
> from the First Man to fix American health care. Was there ever
> a person who could gaze back at the late l950s and at the
strategy
> she had selected and say with more apparent justification, I
> did the right thing?
>
> The strategy bombed, as we all know. In l993 there was a huge
> constituency, an explosive constituency for health reform.
The
> First Woman had it in her power to lead a mass movement to
that
> goal. She flirted with the idea, issued a few denunciations
of
> the health care industry and then led health reform straight
> into the deepest of all quicksands, a regulatory labyrinth so
> baroque in its complexity that even its designers were
unable to
> issue any reliable guidemaps.
>
> Somewhere in the early months of the health battle an
advocate
> of universal health care met with Hillary and pointed out that
> over 70 percent of Americans favored this radical course. He
> reported later that Hillary gazed at him and said coldly, "Tell
> me something interesting." Hillary, as with so many of the
> brightest minds of that generation, no longer had any
concept of
> a mass movement, beyond a spike on one of Dick Morris's polling
> graphs. Supremely "realistic," she'd lost contact with
reality.
> She won her bet. She lost the war.
>
> When Hillary Clinton made her radical graduating speech at
> Wellesley attacking the Vietnam war in l969 a third of the
world
> had broken with capitalism. But 1999 capitalism's triumph had
> been so absolute that Bill scarcely had to work the phones to
> get the okay for his war. Russia and china soon came to heel.
> The triumph of neo-liberalism is absolute.
>
> It's scarcely surprising therefore that Hillary should have
> urged the First Man to drop cluster bombs on the Serbs to
defend
> "our way of life". It was another logical step for all those
> radical "realists" embarking on careers in the early l970s.
> War is more social engineering; fixitry via high explosive,
> social therapy via the nose cone of a cruise missile.
>
> There's not much of a left any more. Bet there are plenty of
> therapeutic cops around, and Hillary is their leader, the very
> essence of social worker liberalism. All it takes to usher in
> the New Jerusalem are counselors, community action programs and
> tougher gun laws which is what Hillary called for after Columbine,
> not long after she gave the First Man that bit of advice about
> bombing the Serbs. As a tough therapeutic cop, Hillary does not
> shy away from the most abrupt expression of the therapy, the
> death penalty.
>
> In this perspective perhaps we ought to look at her
commitment
> to Choice as at least in part another piece of therapeutic
> policing. Steve Levitt, an economist at the University of
> Chicago, and John Donohue III, a law prof at Stanford, have
been
> circulating a paper -- reporting in the Chicago Tribune on
> August 8 of this year, that the legalizing of abortion in the
> early l970s has contributed to the falling crime rate in the
> l990s. Indeed they claim that legalized abortion may account
for
> as much as half the overall crime drop between 1991 and 1997.
> Levitt says abortion "provides a way for the would-be
mothers of
> those kids who are going to lead really tough lives to avoid
> bringing them into the world." The authors cite stats from
five
> states that legalized abortion before the Roe v Wade
decision of
> 1993. These five states with high abortion rates in the early
> 1970s had greater crime drops in the l990s. The Trib's story
> quotes Cory Richards, a policy wonk at the Guttmacher Institute
> as saying, "This is an argument for women not being forced to
> have children they don't want to have. This is making the
point
> that it's not only bad for the women, but for children and
> society."
>
> So, from the social engineering, crime fighting point of view
> the reintroduction of the death penalty in 1977 saw Roe v
Wade
> as its logical precursor and concomitant. That's not the way
> Germaine Greer or the Boston Women's Health Collective saw
the
> Choice issue, but one can certainly imagine Hillary argue for
> abortion as socially therapeutic. She comes from the liberal
> social engineering tradition that sponsored the great sterilizing
> boom earlier in the century, whose rampages in Vermont are only
> now coming to light.
>
> Hillary, never forget, is a Methodist and that bleak creed of
> improvement is bedrock for her. She's a social cleanser.
This is
> the cold steel that stiffens her spine and carries her
forward,
> self-righteous amid the untidy mess of all her
contradictions.
>
> On 8/17/06, Holly Venn <lovecats_888@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > And "Matt" is our voice of reason? lol........I don't think
so........I really wish you would just leave, Matt.....why don't you
go find a group that hates Democrats?
> >
> > Christopher Bates <dfwchris1@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Me too! LOL!
> > CB
> >
> > chris nolan <cedgarnolan@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yes, I've been a long time opponent of abstinence.
> >
> > Matt Love <matt.mattlove1@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yeah, The Horn Dog is popping up everywhere these days, speaking
truth to power.
> >
> > For example, at the at the 16th International Aids conference in
Toronto he said:
> >
> > "Empowering women to protect themselves seems so elemental, and
yet when I hear people pontificating against Aids and acting as if
we can do everything through abstinence," he said.
> > "I think they don't know what most women are up against in too
many parts of the world today."As long as he's showing up around the
globe pontificating about this and that, he's hoping as many of them
as possible will be up against him!
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/16/06, Liberal Girl <liberal_grl@...> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Leave it to The Big Dog to put things in perspective and dump
some
> > > reality on Bush.
> > >
> > > << "They [the Bush gang] seem to be anxious to tie it to Al
> > > Qaeda," he said. "If that's true, how come we've got seven
> > > times as many troops in Iraq as in Afghanistan?
> > >
> > > Why have we imperiled President [Hamid] Karzai's rule and
> > > allowed the Taliban to come back into the southern part of
> > > Afghanistan?">>
> > > .
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > *Bill burns Bush*
> > >
> > > by MICHAEL McAULIFF
> > > The New York Daily News
> > > August 16th, 2006
> > >
> > > << WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton got in the
current
> > > President's face yesterday, slamming the Bush administration
for linking
> > > the London bomb plot and the war on terror to the war in Iraq.
> > >
> > > "The Republicans should be very careful in trying to play
politics with
> > > this London airport thing, because they're going to have a
hard time
> > > with the facts," Clinton said in an interview.
> > >
> > > "I don't think the foiling of that London bomb plot has any
bearing on
> > > our Iraq policy," he said.
> > >
> > > Clinton's broadside, delivered on ABC's "Good Morning
America," came as
> > > President Bush spent his second day in the wake of the defused
British
> > > terror plot holding high-profile national security meetings.
> > >
> > > "America is safer than it has been, but it's not yet safe,"
Bush said at
> > > the National Counterterrorism Center.
> > >
> > > "The enemy has got an advantage when it comes to attacking our
> > > homeland," he said. "They've got to be right one time, and
we've got to
> > > be right 100% of the time."
> > >
> > > He praised U.S. and British intelligence for stopping a plot
to blow up
> > > 10 airliners.
> > >
> > > Clinton, who never mentioned Bush by name, suggested the
> > > administration's claims that the British plot looks like the
work of Al
> > > Qaeda reveals a flaw in its strategy.
> > >
> > > "They seem to be anxious to tie it to Al Qaeda," he said. "If
that's
> > > true, how come we've got seven times as many troops in Iraq as
in
> > > Afghanistan? Why have we imperiled President [Hamid] Karzai's
rule and
> > > allowed the Taliban to come back into the southern part of
Afghanistan?"
> > >
> > > He also said the administration and GOP leaders in Congress
had opposed
> > > tighter security on cargo containers at ports and airports.
> > >
> > > White House spokesman Tony Snow said there had
been "considerable
> > > efforts" to ensure container safety.
> > >
> > > "So President Clinton, I know, is sort of committing some
politics here
> > > and accusing Republicans in so doing," Snow said. "I think in
the same
> > > position he'd be looking at the same options."
> > >
> > > The former President also said Democrats who had voted to give
Bush the
> > > .authority to go to war in Iraq -- including his wife, Sen.
Hillary
> > > Clinton (D-N.Y.) -- had hoped the threat of war would force
former Iraqi
> > > leader Saddam Hussein to comply with UN inspections. But the
Bush
> > > administration went to war before the UN's work was complete,
he said.
> > >
> > > The dueling Presidents weren't alone in the debate, with Vice
President
> > > Cheney telling GOP donors in Arizona the "central front" in
the war on
> > > terror is Iraq.
> > >
> > > He pointed to Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman's primary loss
to
> > > anti-war liberal Ned Lamont last week, saying Democrats booted
a man of
> > > courage in favor of a candidate who wants "to give up the
fight against
> > > the terrorists in Iraq."
> > >
> > > [NOTE FROM ME: Joe Lieberman is NOT "a man of courage"; he is
> > > a pompous, self-interested twit who has done NOTHING to make
> > > us safer.]
> > >
> > > But Democrats are determined to stop the GOP from running
successfully
> > > on national security as it did in 2002 and 2004, and Clinton
was echoed
> > > yesterday by other party leaders in conference calls and
statements.
> > >
> > > "These claims that we are safer just don't resonate," said
Sen. Carl
> > > Levin (D-Mich.).
> > >
> > > Clinton, who campaigned for Lieberman, also took a shot at
Lieberman for
> > > complaining that he lost to Lamont because of left-wing
partisan
> > > attacks.
> > >
> > > "There were almost no Democrats who agreed with his position,
which was,
> > > 'I want to attack Iraq whether or not they have weapons of mass
> > > destruction,' " Clinton said. "His position was the Bush-
Cheney-Rumsfeld
> > > position."
> > >
> > > The former President's interview came as he was attending an
> > > international conference in Toronto on AIDS. He did have words
of praise
> > > for the Bush administration's AIDS efforts, saying the United
States is
> > > spending more to fight the epidemic than any other
government. >>
> > >
> > > [NOTE FROM ME: Well, I would hope we would give the most
> > > money; we ARE the wealthiest nation on the face of the Earth.]
> > >
> > > Read this at:
> > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/United-Stands-
America/message/82330
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even
though I wasn't here." â€"at the President's Economic Forum in
Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002
> > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GWB_BiteMe
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone
> call rates.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> > http://mail.yahoo.com
> >
> > ________________________________
> Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US
(and
> 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Power_of_Intention/
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and
30+
> countries) for 2¢/min or less.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>



Do you Yahoo!?
Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.




How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger�s low PC-to-Phone call rates.


__._,_.___


SPONSORED LINKS
Holy land tour Holy basil Holy land
Holy bible Holy land gifts


YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS




__,_._,___

Thursday, August 17, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: Unable to deliver your message

There is something wrong with my gmail account. I attempted to reply to your e-mail via the list.  It certainly can't be that I've been banned by Holly for pointing out obvious things like Joe Lieberman is a Democrat, or that Bill Clinton is a horndog.

It certainly can't be that I've been banned here in the land of the free, home of the brave, home of free speech and all those yummy things that the republicans hate, but the democrats love. 

I'm sure it's just a passing problem, and I'll soon be posting factual, useful, logical posts to the list again - the kind the list really, really needs.   Please communicate this to other folks.

Now onto the message I was trying to send.

You wrote: 
Hey Matt:
 
go screw yourself.

I wrote:

"Well, I'd rather screw myself than be screwed by Bill.

Or HIllary.

You'd like it to.  You'd never go back to Democrats."

Have a great day!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yahoo! Groups <notify@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 18 Aug 2006 03:19:57 -0000
Subject: Unable to deliver your message
To: matt.mattlove1@gmail.com


We are unable to deliver the message from < matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>
to <GWB_BiteMe@yahoogroups.com>.

You are not allowed to send email to this group. There are two possible
reasons for this:

1. This group may only accept postings from moderators.
2. The moderator of this group may have removed your ability to post to
  this group.

To contact the group moderator, send mail to GWB_BiteMe-owner@yahoogroups.com

For further assistance, please visit http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Matt Love" <matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>
To: GWB_BiteMe@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:18:01 -0700
Subject: Re: [GWB_BiteMe] Re: *Bill [Clinton] burns Bush*
Well, I'd rather screw myself than be screwed by Bill.

Or HIllary.

You'd like it to.  You'd never go back to Democrats.

On 8/17/06, chris nolan <cedgarnolan@yahoo.com > wrote:

Hey Matt:
 
go screw yourself.


Holly <lovecats_888@ yahoo.com> wrote:
--- LIEBERMAN IS NOT A DEMOCRAT YOU IDIOT. Don't waste my time.

Holly

In GWB_BiteMe@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Love" <matt.mattlove1@...>
wrote:
>
> I could never hate democrats the way that your group does, "Holly."
> just look at what you and they have to say about Lieberman (still a
> democrat until he runs as an independent) and his supporters (still
> Democrats, probably to their dying breath).
>
> Why don't you guys find a group that hates Democrats as much as you
> do, and leave this group to the reasonable people?
>
> BTW, I don't find anything wrong with with being sex positive...
it's
> the deceit that's the problem with Clinton. Not that he's
deceiving
> Hillary, she knows exactly what the deal is, their arrangement was
> made early on (see attached). The same sort of arrangement that
the
> Roosevelts, and Eisenhowers, and Kennedys, and Johnsons and George
and
> Barbara Bush, and Goerge and Laura Bush had/have, though apparently
> not the Nixons, Reagans, Carters, or Fords (for those who think
that
> politically powerful men must express themselves in the sack, or
they
> will be too repressed ot do their jobs - and there are people that
> maintain that, proud of the virility of Kennedy and Clinton,
disgusted
> at the hypocracy of Bush I, and the free pass given to Bush II).
>
> edited by alexander cockburn and jeffrey st. clair
> August 11, 1999
>
>
> The First Lady Syndrome (con't)
>
> There are differences between the two, {Princess Di and HIllary
> Clinton] of course. The late Princess Diana campaigned
against
> land mines, whereas Hillary Rodham Clinton was an enthusiastic
> advocate for the cluster bombs that now litter the Serbian and
> Kossovan landscapes, set to kill or cripple for the next half
> century. But memories are short. Who knows? Perhaps we will soon
see
> HRC clutching some Balkan infant, bent over the maimed tike
in
> the approved Di manner, and who will then recall that she
bears
> some responsibility for that lost limb? "I urged him to
bomb,"
> she confided to Lucinda Franks. "You cannot let this go on at
> the end of a century that has seen the major holocaust of our
> time. What do we have NATO for if not to defend our way of
> life?"
>
> For the better part of the past decade HRC has been a not
> insubstantial part of the same NATO-defended "way of life," a
> lead player in the world spectacle, just as Diana was,
> advertising for public edification and enjoyment the
> tribulations of the married state. Diana of course took her
narrative
> a few chapters further than Hillary. Her amours and revenges,
> after separation from the heir apparent, were flagrant. With
> Hillary there is only, as yet, allegation and surmise. In his
> thin and humdrum account -- Bill and Hillary: The Marriage --
> Christopher Anderson insists that Hillary had a long affair with
> Vincent Foster rounding up all the usual Arkansas state troopers
> to support that claim. Otherwise there are scant indications
> that she sought sexual distraction from the flagrant serial
adulterer
> she so eerily reckoned, almost from Day One, to be a sure
thing
> for the White House. She certainly seems to have known, almost
> from Day One, that every time she turned her back Bill was
screwing
> the campaign volunteers, the flight attendants, the
> receptionists, the pretty girls in the front row, the pretty
> girls in the back row, this woman he saw in church, that high
> school teacher, this woman in the real estate office, that
other
> woman in the real estate office and so on, and on and on.
>
> Anderson has this vignette from the McGovern
campaign: "Hillary
> was on the end of the line. 'What do you think you are doing
to
> me? To us?' she screamed, her words clearly audible to the
> workers in the room. 'Hillary, I don't know what you heard,
> but...' 'Don't fuck with me, Bill,' she yelled as his face
> turned crimson. 'You are a real shit, do you know that, Bill?
> Christ, a real SHIT.' But...' 'You know, Bill, there's a guy
> here who has been trying to get me to go to bed with him and
> that is exactly what I'm going to do.' With that, Bill began
> sobbing. 'I'm begging you, Hillary,' he cried, 'don't go and
do
> something we'd both be sorry for.' Well, did she? We don't
know.
>
> In the old days First Ladies, like Elizabeth the Queen, or
> Elizabeth the Queen Mother or Jackie (Camelot vintage) were
> there to advertise the essential solidity of marriage. It was
> the role of film stars to underline its inherent frailty.
> Hillary has a far more complex assignment. Her core constituency,
> women who came of age reading Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan,
> Simone de Beauvoir, the Boston's Women's Health Collective and
> maybe Shulamith Firestone, scarcely want as their standard bearer
> Woman as Doormat. Women know that men are beasts, and part of
> the infinite superiority of women is their capacity to persevere
> in the face of this beastliness.
>
> But there are limits. If the dialectic of women's liberation
> taught anything, it's surely that a woman doesn't have to
put up
> with unending crap such as Bill has been serving Hillary down
> the years. So Hillary has to reassure that constituency that
> yes, she does draw the line somewhere, that in post Lewinsky
> months she can't bear to be in the same room, the same city
or
> even the same country as the First Man.
>
> Yet at the same time, knowing not only from more or less Day
> One that Bill couldn't keep his pants zipped up, but also that
> she could get both of them into the White House, (and out the
> other end sans impeachment conviction) she's always had to act
> out the other half of the pantomime and display the ties that
> bind. So, yes! After months of coolness he gets to hold her hand.
> Hillary's chief of staff, Melanne Verveer, is order to lob the
> red meat of passion to a waiting world and she dutifully confides
> to the press that "We've slowly seen a physical passion come
> back into their lives."
>
> So the generation that came of age reading De Beauvoir, Greer
> and maybe Firestone find themselves, with the Hillary
narrative,
> reading a story endlessly in contradiction with itself.
>
> Germaine Greer has spoken of Hillary harshly and in truth we
> have in our First Lady the whole sad arc of middle-class
> radicalism since the late l960s, endlessly in contradiction of
> its early heroic premises. Given a couple of dice rolling another
> way, Hillary could have been a Weatherperson, could have died
> amid the rubble of that bomb depository on West 11th St. But
> like almost all of her generation she never did take opposition
> to the Vietnam War as far as reading manuals on bomb fuses.
>
> Hardly had she raised her foot to step over the threshold of
> radicalism than she turned back. She declined to go with the
> SNCC, turned down an offer to work with Saul Alinsky as a
> community organizer in Chicago. Anderson quotes her political
> science prof at Wellesley, Alan Schecter, as saying that by the
> late l960s his pupil had decided that the best radical strategy
> was to "'use the legal system' as an agent of change." She
> wasn't alone in that calculation. The long march of the left
> through the courtrooms was under way: the world would become
a
> better place, courtesy of courtroom briefs, complaints and
class
> action suits.
>
> And so what we have seen, across the last three decades, is
the
> left vanishing into the quicksands of regulation. All
society's
> problems could be fixed by a statute, a rule, a waiver, a
> program. Much of the antiwar left vanished into the consumer
> movement, the environmental movement and legal fixitry. The
mass
> movement died and litigation -- often successful --
flourished
> amid the ruins.
>
> Let's pay Hillary the compliment of taking her seriously as a
> woman set on bringing about social change. She declines the
road
> that led to West 11th St and goes instead to Yale Law School.
> She works for John Doar, helping draft articles of
impeachment
> against Nixon. The road seems clear. She'll rise effortlessly
> through the ranks of non-profit, do-goodery; she'll shuttle
> comfortably up and down the Northeastern corridors of power.
>
> But she makes a far riskier bet. The road to the White House
> runs through Little Rock, so South she goes, with bottle
> glasses, bell bottoms, and according to another woman in
Bill's
> life at the time, Dolly Kyle browning, hairy legs and a
dislike
> of deodorants. Year after year she puts up with Bill's crap.
She
> hold his hand, puts up with the most terrible humiliations,
> drives him forward.
>
> In l993 she finally wins her incredible wager with Destiny.
And
> here she is, the First Woman, in the White House with a
mandate
> from the First Man to fix American health care. Was there ever
> a person who could gaze back at the late l950s and at the
strategy
> she had selected and say with more apparent justification, I
> did the right thing?
>
> The strategy bombed, as we all know. In l993 there was a huge
> constituency, an explosive constituency for health reform.
The
> First Woman had it in her power to lead a mass movement to
that
> goal. She flirted with the idea, issued a few denunciations
of
> the health care industry and then led health reform straight
> into the deepest of all quicksands, a regulatory labyrinth so
> baroque in its complexity that even its designers were
unable to
> issue any reliable guidemaps.
>
> Somewhere in the early months of the health battle an
advocate
> of universal health care met with Hillary and pointed out that
> over 70 percent of Americans favored this radical course. He
> reported later that Hillary gazed at him and said coldly, "Tell
> me something interesting." Hillary, as with so many of the
> brightest minds of that generation, no longer had any
concept of
> a mass movement, beyond a spike on one of Dick Morris's polling
> graphs. Supremely "realistic," she'd lost contact with
reality.
> She won her bet. She lost the war.
>
> When Hillary Clinton made her radical graduating speech at
> Wellesley attacking the Vietnam war in l969 a third of the
world
> had broken with capitalism. But 1999 capitalism's triumph had
> been so absolute that Bill scarcely had to work the phones to
> get the okay for his war. Russia and china soon came to heel.
> The triumph of neo-liberalism is absolute.
>
> It's scarcely surprising therefore that Hillary should have
> urged the First Man to drop cluster bombs on the Serbs to
defend
> "our way of life". It was another logical step for all those
> radical "realists" embarking on careers in the early l970s.
> War is more social engineering; fixitry via high explosive,
> social therapy via the nose cone of a cruise missile.
>
> There's not much of a left any more. Bet there are plenty of
> therapeutic cops around, and Hillary is their leader, the very
> essence of social worker liberalism. All it takes to usher in
> the New Jerusalem are counselors, community action programs and
> tougher gun laws which is what Hillary called for after Columbine,
> not long after she gave the First Man that bit of advice about
> bombing the Serbs. As a tough therapeutic cop, Hillary does not
> shy away from the most abrupt expression of the therapy, the
> death penalty.
>
> In this perspective perhaps we ought to look at her
commitment
> to Choice as at least in part another piece of therapeutic
> policing. Steve Levitt, an economist at the University of
> Chicago, and John Donohue III, a law prof at Stanford, have
been
> circulating a paper -- reporting in the Chicago Tribune on
> August 8 of this year, that the legalizing of abortion in the
> early l970s has contributed to the falling crime rate in the
> l990s. Indeed they claim that legalized abortion may account
for
> as much as half the overall crime drop between 1991 and 1997.
> Levitt says abortion "provides a way for the would-be
mothers of
> those kids who are going to lead really tough lives to avoid
> bringing them into the world." The authors cite stats from
five
> states that legalized abortion before the Roe v Wade
decision of
> 1993. These five states with high abortion rates in the early
> 1970s had greater crime drops in the l990s. The Trib's story
> quotes Cory Richards, a policy wonk at the Guttmacher Institute
> as saying, "This is an argument for women not being forced to
> have children they don't want to have. This is making the
point
> that it's not only bad for the women, but for children and
> society."
>
> So, from the social engineering, crime fighting point of view
> the reintroduction of the death penalty in 1977 saw Roe v
Wade
> as its logical precursor and concomitant. That's not the way
> Germaine Greer or the Boston Women's Health Collective saw
the
> Choice issue, but one can certainly imagine Hillary argue for
> abortion as socially therapeutic. She comes from the liberal
> social engineering tradition that sponsored the great sterilizing
> boom earlier in the century, whose rampages in Vermont are only
> now coming to light.
>
> Hillary, never forget, is a Methodist and that bleak creed of
> improvement is bedrock for her. She's a social cleanser.
This is
> the cold steel that stiffens her spine and carries her
forward,
> self-righteous amid the untidy mess of all her
contradictions.
>
> On 8/17/06, Holly Venn <lovecats_888@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > And "Matt" is our voice of reason? lol........I don't think
so........I really wish you would just leave, Matt.....why don't you
go find a group that hates Democrats?
> >
> > Christopher Bates <dfwchris1@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Me too! LOL!
> > CB
> >
> > chris nolan <cedgarnolan@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yes, I've been a long time opponent of abstinence.
> >
> > Matt Love <matt.mattlove1@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yeah, The Horn Dog is popping up everywhere these days, speaking
truth to power.
> >
> > For example, at the at the 16th International Aids conference in
Toronto he said:
> >
> > "Empowering women to protect themselves seems so elemental, and
yet when I hear people pontificating against Aids and acting as if
we can do everything through abstinence," he said.
> > "I think they don't know what most women are up against in too
many parts of the world today."As long as he's showing up around the
globe pontificating about this and that, he's hoping as many of them
as possible will be up against him!
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/16/06, Liberal Girl <liberal_grl@...> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Leave it to The Big Dog to put things in perspective and dump
some
> > > reality on Bush.
> > >
> > > << "They [the Bush gang] seem to be anxious to tie it to Al
> > > Qaeda," he said. "If that's true, how come we've got seven
> > > times as many troops in Iraq as in Afghanistan?
> > >
> > > Why have we imperiled President [Hamid] Karzai's rule and
> > > allowed the Taliban to come back into the southern part of
> > > Afghanistan?">>
> > > .
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > *Bill burns Bush*
> > >
> > > by MICHAEL McAULIFF
> > > The New York Daily News
> > > August 16th, 2006
> > >
> > > << WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton got in the
current
> > > President's face yesterday, slamming the Bush administration
for linking
> > > the London bomb plot and the war on terror to the war in Iraq.
> > >
> > > "The Republicans should be very careful in trying to play
politics with
> > > this London airport thing, because they're going to have a
hard time
> > > with the facts," Clinton said in an interview.
> > >
> > > "I don't think the foiling of that London bomb plot has any
bearing on
> > > our Iraq policy," he said.
> > >
> > > Clinton's broadside, delivered on ABC's "Good Morning
America," came as
> > > President Bush spent his second day in the wake of the defused
British
> > > terror plot holding high-profile national security meetings.
> > >
> > > "America is safer than it has been, but it's not yet safe,"
Bush said at
> > > the National Counterterrorism Center.
> > >
> > > "The enemy has got an advantage when it comes to attacking our
> > > homeland," he said. "They've got to be right one time, and
we've got to
> > > be right 100% of the time."
> > >
> > > He praised U.S. and British intelligence for stopping a plot
to blow up
> > > 10 airliners.
> > >
> > > Clinton, who never mentioned Bush by name, suggested the
> > > administration's claims that the British plot looks like the
work of Al
> > > Qaeda reveals a flaw in its strategy.
> > >
> > > "They seem to be anxious to tie it to Al Qaeda," he said. "If
that's
> > > true, how come we've got seven times as many troops in Iraq as
in
> > > Afghanistan? Why have we imperiled President [Hamid] Karzai's
rule and
> > > allowed the Taliban to come back into the southern part of
Afghanistan?"
> > >
> > > He also said the administration and GOP leaders in Congress
had opposed
> > > tighter security on cargo containers at ports and airports.
> > >
> > > White House spokesman Tony Snow said there had
been "considerable
> > > efforts" to ensure container safety.
> > >
> > > "So President Clinton, I know, is sort of committing some
politics here
> > > and accusing Republicans in so doing," Snow said. "I think in
the same
> > > position he'd be looking at the same options."
> > >
> > > The former President also said Democrats who had voted to give
Bush the
> > > .authority to go to war in Iraq -- including his wife, Sen.
Hillary
> > > Clinton (D-N.Y.) -- had hoped the threat of war would force
former Iraqi
> > > leader Saddam Hussein to comply with UN inspections. But the
Bush
> > > administration went to war before the UN's work was complete,
he said.
> > >
> > > The dueling Presidents weren't alone in the debate, with Vice
President
> > > Cheney telling GOP donors in Arizona the "central front" in
the war on
> > > terror is Iraq.
> > >
> > > He pointed to Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman's primary loss
to
> > > anti-war liberal Ned Lamont last week, saying Democrats booted
a man of
> > > courage in favor of a candidate who wants "to give up the
fight against
> > > the terrorists in Iraq."
> > >
> > > [NOTE FROM ME: Joe Lieberman is NOT "a man of courage"; he is
> > > a pompous, self-interested twit who has done NOTHING to make
> > > us safer.]
> > >
> > > But Democrats are determined to stop the GOP from running
successfully
> > > on national security as it did in 2002 and 2004, and Clinton
was echoed
> > > yesterday by other party leaders in conference calls and
statements.
> > >
> > > "These claims that we are safer just don't resonate," said
Sen. Carl
> > > Levin (D-Mich.).
> > >
> > > Clinton, who campaigned for Lieberman, also took a shot at
Lieberman for
> > > complaining that he lost to Lamont because of left-wing
partisan
> > > attacks.
> > >
> > > "There were almost no Democrats who agreed with his position,
which was,
> > > 'I want to attack Iraq whether or not they have weapons of mass
> > > destruction,' " Clinton said. "His position was the Bush-
Cheney-Rumsfeld
> > > position."
> > >
> > > The former President's interview came as he was attending an
> > > international conference in Toronto on AIDS. He did have words
of praise
> > > for the Bush administration's AIDS efforts, saying the United
States is
> > > spending more to fight the epidemic than any other
government. >>
> > >
> > > [NOTE FROM ME: Well, I would hope we would give the most
> > > money; we ARE the wealthiest nation on the face of the Earth.]
> > >
> > > Read this at:
> > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/United-Stands-
America/message/82330
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even
though I wasn't here." â€"at the President's Economic Forum in
Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002
> > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GWB_BiteMe
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone
> call rates.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> > http://mail.yahoo.com
> >
> > ________________________________
> Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US
(and
> 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Power_of_Intention/
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and
30+
> countries) for 2¢/min or less.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>



Do you Yahoo!?
Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.



__._,_.___


SPONSORED LINKS
Holy land tour Holy basil Holy land
Holy bible Holy land gifts


YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS




__,_._,___

Monday, July 31, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Correction on SubPop's Beat Happening webpage.

I was amused to see this on the Beat Happening page on the SubPop
Website (http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/bands_page.php?id=10&PHPSESSID=4cfb1f56145eb59d18df040e1ab7bb54):

"Brett checked out Calvin and Heather playing a show in the Smithfield
Cafe in Arizona and was blown away. He recalled, "They changed the way
I thought about music." A few months later, Calvin and Brett met and
decided to form a band."

The Smithfield Cafe was in Olympia, which is of course in Washington,
not Arizona. It's particularly amusing given the Olympia roots of
SubPop...

The Smithfield was an important spot in Olympia back in the day; it
was the first place the band Wimps played. In a parallel universe
that's vibrating relatively close to this one, Wimps released a record
on SubPop early in its development.

Sincerely yours,
Abe Simpson

------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->
Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->


Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CanYoAssDigIt/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
CanYoAssDigIt-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Dig that reality, baby

what interested me most about this "news" item is that they have dropped any pretense that people on "reality shows are anything other than actors; "stars", even.

In the 50s there was a scandal about quiz shows being rigged. Now people can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy (California leads with way, providing career paths starting with acting and ending with politics), and nobody gives a shit. 

They probably think all those people that BushCo have murdered are going to come back and take a bow at the end of his administration.

Somebody should do a poll...  I saw a poll recently that was totally astonishing in terms of how fantastically ignorant (or misled by Fox and so on) Americans are about just about everything... but then, Ollie North and G. Gordon Liddy can walk around and pretend to be heroes and people believe them...   bad career move for Hitler and Stalin to have died when they did, I can see the reality tv shows, the commentary on fox news, the best selling books, the parades, the standing ovations....


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: darters@mts.net <darters@mts.net >
Date: Jul 26, 2006 11:26 AM
Subject: [canadianclassicrock] Big news! Maybe not?
To: canadianclassicrock@yahoogroups.com, canadianclassicrock@yahoogroups.com

Lance Bass: I'm gay
'N Sync singer worried he would harm group

Wednesday, July 26, 2006; Posted: 1:16 p.m. EDT (17:16 GMT)

Lance Bass is involved with Reichen Lehmkuhl of "Amazing Race."

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lance Bass, band member of 'N Sync, says he's gay and in a "very stable" relationship with a reality show star.

Bass, who formed 'N Sync with Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick, tells People magazine that he didn't earlier disclose his sexuality because he didn't want to affect the group's popularity.

"I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys' careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said (that I was gay), it would overpower everything," he tells the magazine.

'N Sync is known for a string of hits including "Bye Bye Bye" and "It's Gonna Be Me." The band went on hiatus in 2002. Bass has also found headlines for undertaking astronaut training and failing to raise money for a trip into space.

Bass says he wondered if his coming out could prompt "the end of 'N Sync." He explains, "So I had that weight on me of like, 'Wow, if I ever let anyone know, it's bad.' So I just never did."

The singer says he's in a "very stable" relationship with 32-year-old actor Reichen Lehmkuhl, winner of season four of CBS' "Amazing Race."

Bass and Fatone, 29, are developing a sitcom pilot inspired by the screwball comedy "The Odd Couple," in which his character will be gay.

"The thing is, I'm not ashamed -- that's the one thing I want to say," Bass says. "I don't think it's wrong, I'm not devastated going through this. I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy."

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

__._,_.___


YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS




__,_._,___

Saturday, July 15, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Midge Kelly

Kirk Douglas reprises his 1949 role. Midge Kelly re-enters the ring
for one last prize fight.

Does the day before yesterday's champ have a chance against
yesterday's champ, Stone Earbiter (played by Mike Tyson)?

In a Can Yo Ass Dig It exclusive interview the 89 year old Douglas
said "what can I say? They offered me a lot of money!"

Champion (1949)
Champion Directed by
Mark Robson

Writing credits
Ring Lardner (short story)
Carl Foreman (screenplay)

Add this title to MyMovies Add to MyMovies IMDbPro Details
Genre: Drama / Film-Noir / Sport (more)

Tagline: This is the only sport in the world where two guys get paid
for doing something they'd be arrested for if they got drunk and did
it for nothing.

Plot Outline: Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on
other people. (more)

User Comments: A gritty melodrama – not great but good (more)

User Rating: ********__ 7.6/10 (523 votes) Vote Here

Complete credited cast:
Kirk Douglas .... Michael 'Midge' Kelly
Marilyn Maxwell .... Grace Diamond
Arthur Kennedy .... Connie Kelly
Paul Stewart .... Tommy Haley
Ruth Roman .... Emma Bryce
Lola Albright .... Palmer Harris
Luis Van Rooten .... Jerome 'Jerry' Harris
Harry Shannon .... Lew Bryce
John Daheim .... Johnny Dunne (as John Day)
(more)

Runtime: 99 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification: Iceland:12 / Argentina:Atp / Finland:K-16 /
USA:Approved / West Germany:16

Quotes:
Connie Kelly: Oh, this rotten business!
Midge Kelly: Awww, lay off the business. It's like any other business,
only here the blood shows.
(more)

Awards: Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 9 nominations (more)

------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->
Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->


Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CanYoAssDigIt/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
CanYoAssDigIt-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

[CanYoAssDigIt] rocky balboa

I saw the trailer for this on YouTube, and thought it was a clever cut
and paste of Rocky and another, more contemporary boxing film... the
Rocky scenes were just such a replay of scenes of the first movie (the
first, and last and only one of the series I've seen).

but something about it nagged at me, and I checked it out, and this
fucker is for real.

Sylvester Stallone turned 60 a couple of weeks ago. Is there no fraud
this man is not willing to attempt to put over on us?

The sixth installment of the legendary "ROCKY" franchise hits theaters
Friday, December 22, 2006. Written and directed by SYLVESTER STALLONE.

Rocky Balboa (2006)
Poster Not Submitted Directed by
Sylvester Stallone

Writing credits (WGA)
Sylvester Stallone (written by)
Sylvester Stallone (characters)

Add this title to MyMovies Add to MyMovies IMDbPro Details
Genre: Action / Drama / Sport (more)

Plot Outline: Rocky comes out of retirement to go in the ring once
again. (more) (view trailer)

User Rating: awaiting 5 votes. Vote Here

Production Notes/Status:
Status: Completed
Comments:
Status Updated: 21 May 2006
Note:

Since this project is categorized as being in production, the data is
subject to change; some data could be removed completely.

For expanded development & in production information on over 5,200
film and television projects from Pitch through Completed, including
contact details, visit IMDbPro.com.
Click here for a free trial!

Credited cast:
Sylvester Stallone .... Rocky Balboa
Burt Young .... Paulie
Milo Ventimiglia .... Rocky Balboa Jr.
Geraldine Hughes .... Marie
Antonio Tarver .... Mason 'The Line' Dixon
James Francis Kelly III .... Steps
Tony Burton .... Duke
Henry G. Sanders .... Martin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marvin Beck .... Businessman in Irish Pub
Frank Bednarz .... Ring Side Boxing Fan
A.J. Benza .... L.C. Luco
James Binns .... Boxing Commissioner
Ron Borges .... Reporter
Angela Boyd .... Drunk Girl At Bar
Livingstone Bramble .... Dixon's Cornerman
Michael Buffer .... Himself
D.T. Carney .... Ringside Spectator
Tim Carr .... Buddy
Rick Collum .... Office Worker
Joe Cortez .... Referee
Sal Darigo .... Fish monger
Peter Defeo .... Vendor
Tony Devon .... Neighbor
Nancy de Zutter .... Restaurant Patron
Lou DiBella .... Robert Brown (attached)
Jacob 'Stitch' Duran .... Cut Man
Bernard Fernández .... Reporter
Barney Fitzpatrick .... Commissioner #3
Gavin Lindsay Goode .... Ringside Photo-Journalist
Rick Guzman .... Ringside Photographer
Frank Hansen .... Bar Patron
Norman Horton .... Fight Publicist
Kevin Iole .... Reporter
Charles Johnson .... Reporter
Michael Wingate Jones .... Lawyer
Max Kellerman .... Commentator
Brian Kenny .... Broadcaster
Jim Lampley .... Commentator
Pedro Lovell .... Spider Rico
Anthony Maurizio .... Robert Brown's Entourage #1
Larry Merchant .... Commentator
Paul Dion Monte .... Robert 'Rocky' Jr.'s Friend
Keith Moyer .... Bar Patron
Chris Philip .... Bar Patron
Mark Pricskett .... Restaurant Patron
Dan Rafael .... Reporter
Marc Ratner .... Boxing Commissioner
Jim Rome .... Sportscaster
Nina Rosario .... Philadelphia Extra
Kenny Shapiro .... Precision Driver
Talia Shire .... Adrian (archive footage)
Bert Randolph Sugar .... Reporter
Lahmard J. Tate .... X-Cell
Michael A. Tessiero .... Ring side Highroller #3 (as MikieeT)
Frank Traynor .... Lawyer
James Tunnicliffe .... Bar Patron
Samantha Zweben .... Driver
(more)

Also Known As:
Rocky VI (USA) (working title)
Rocky VI: Puncher's Chance (USA) (working title)
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Technicolor) / Color
Certification: USA:PG

Quotes:
[from teaser]
Rocky Balboa: What is it you said to the kid? The world ain't all
sunshine and rainbows. It's a very rough, mean place... and no matter
how tough you think you are, it'll always bring you to your knees and
keep you there, permanently... if you let it. You or nobody ain't
never gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you
hit...
(more)

shop amazon
ROCKY BALBOA
Rocky Balboa at Amazon.com Rocky Balboa DVD available at
Amazon.com Rocky Balboa VHS unavailable at Amazon.com Rocky Balboa CD
unavailable at Amazon.com
Rocky Balboa at Amazon.ca Rocky Balboa DVD unavailable at
Amazon.ca Rocky Balboa VHS unavailable at Amazon.ca Rocky Balboa CD
unavailable at Amazon.ca
Rocky Balboa at Amazon.co.uk Rocky Balboa DVD unavailable at
Amazon.co.uk Rocky Balboa VHS unavailable at Amazon.co.uk Rocky Balboa
CD unavailable at Amazon.co.uk
Rocky Balboa at Amazon.de Rocky Balboa DVD unavailable at
Amazon.de Rocky Balboa VHS unavailable at Amazon.de Rocky Balboa CD
unavailable at Amazon.de
Rocky Balboa at Amazon.fr Rocky Balboa DVD unavailable at
Amazon.fr Rocky Balboa VHS unavailable at Amazon.fr Rocky Balboa CD
unavailable at Amazon.fr

Memorabilia
Books | All Products

User Comments:

I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it

Message Boards
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Rocky
Balboa (2006)
Recent Posts (updated daily) User
We will be all 60 someday tonystalloney
Calcium composite mae680
'It Doesn't Matter What People Think... FIGHTERS FIGHT!' ahmedhelbaz
rocky 7:rocky vs chuck norris samthagreat
Looks good bunkerforever
Is There Any Indication As To How Long The Film Is?

------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->
Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->


Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CanYoAssDigIt/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
CanYoAssDigIt-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Monday, July 10, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] "National Public Radio is turning into an upscale version of Fox News."

This is what I've been saying about NPR and China, (and just about
everything else Roberts mentions in this article) for years. While you
could generally count on KUOW to offer more meaningful programming
that the national news, of late you would think they believe NPR means
"Networld of Plants and Recipes" given the vast amount of time they
give to gardening and food shows.

It's very depressing. Listen to Democracy Now online at
http://www.democracynow.org/ if you want news, and KUOW if you want
the same kind of narcolepsy-inducing escapism that Prarie Home
Companion offers.

The only consistently good program on KUOW is Alternative Radio, and
guess what it isn't produced by KUOW, NPR, PRI, Minnisota Public
Radio, or any of the usual suspects. David Barsamian built this thing
up from the ground up with his bare hands, and he deserves an
incredible amount of credit for that.

July10, 2006
Whack North Korea, Before It Can Protect Itself?
Courting Doom

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Finding itself in Republican sights and with no Democratic power
center to offer protection, National Public Radio is turning into an
upscale version of Fox "News." Nevertheless, information still gets
out if the listener is sufficiently attentive.

On July 5, NPR's "All Things Considered" interviewed two warmongers
for their views on the North Korean missile test. One was Ashton
Carter, a Clinton administration Assistant Secretary of Defense, now
at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The other was
Ambassador Christopher Hill, an Assistant Secretary of State in the
Bush regime.

The Clinton DOD assistant secretary is coauthor of a recent article
advocating an unilateral US military attack on North Korea. HIs first
pitch on NPR was that the whole region, not just the US, is threatened
by North Korea and that everyone should gang up on North Korea to make
them behave. The NPR interviewer asked Carter to reconcile his
multilateralism with his own recommendation for the US to unilaterally
attack North Korea. Carter replied that North Korea's missile was
developed to attack us, so we had to protect ourselves.

When the NPR interviewer asked Carter why deterrence would fail with
North Korea when deterrence succeeded in the case of the more powerful
Soviet Union, Carter agreed that North Korea was not sufficiently
insane to launch an attack on the US. So, if the US is not in danger
of being attacked by North Korea, why does Carter want to attack North
Korea?

The answer is, well, you see, if we permit North Korea to develop any
weapon with which they might be able to stand up to us on some issue
critical to North Korea, well, they might not do as we want them to
do. Carter could not conceive of a world in which any country existed
that might be able to behave differently than the US dictates.

Ambassador Hill agreed, but he came at it in a different way. Hill's
view is that it is China's, Japan's, and South Korea's responsibility
to make North Korea behave as the US wants it to behave. Both Hill and
Carter agreed that no country, with the exception of Israel, has a
right to any interests of its own unless it is an interest that
coincides with US interests. No other interest is legitimate.

Listening to the pair of hegemonic maniacs, I realized that the US is
the new Rome--there is no legitimate power but us. Any other power is
a potential threat to our interests and must be eliminated before it
gets any independent ideas. The US, however, is far more dangerous
than Rome. Rome saw its world as the Mediterranean and, for a while,
Northern Europe, but the US thinks the whole world is its oyster. The
Bush regime is busy trying to marginalize Russia, and neocons are
preparing war plans to attack China before that country can achieve
military parity with the US.

Gentle reader, consider what it means when our government believes
other countries have no right to their own interests unless they
coincide with US interests. It means that we are the tyrant country.
We cannot be the tyrant country without being perceived as the tyrant
country. Consequently, the rest of the world unites against us.

How is the US, which has spent three years proving that it cannot
successfully occupy Iraq, a small country of only 25 million people,
going to control India, China, Russia, Europe, Africa and South
America?

It's not going to happen.

What it does mean is that the US government in its hubris and delusion
is going to continue starting wars and attacking other countries until
a coalition of greater forces smashes us. Even among our European
allies we are already perceived as the greatest threat to world peace
and stability.

Our power is not what it once was. We are weak in manufacturing and
dependent on China for advanced technology products. We are dependent
on China to finance our wars, our budget and trade deficits. How long
will China accommodate us when China reads about Bush's plans to
prevent China from achieving military parity?

The Bush regime thinks that it can have every country under its thumb.
Neocons are fond of proclaiming that it is a unipolar world in which
the US is supreme. This is a fantasy, and it is rapidly becoming a
nightmare.

****

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He
is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at:
paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com

------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->
Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->


Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CanYoAssDigIt/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
CanYoAssDigIt-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/