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Go HERE. Vote Early. Vote Often.Daily Dose Of Doonesbury
Go HERE.Quote of the Millenium:"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
--George W. Bush in a Freudian moment of candor during the signing ceremony for the $417 billion defense spending bill.
OK, you asked for it, you got it! HERE is the video. And check out Rummie, he didn't even flinch.
Red & Blue States?
This is a really kewl site for those who want to create their own scenarios for defeating Bush (or Kerry). Red is Wrong. Blue is Best. Go HERE. Blue States (strong or leaning to Kerry) currently stands at 225 vs 227 for The Shrub. If Kerry takes his states, plus Florida and Ohio, he wins. We win.Or, give Bush all his 2000 states and Kerry has to take either Ohio or Florida.
10/31/04 Click HERE for the latest totals. Go HOME for MacDries DesignFlash!!!!!!!!!!Election Too Close To Call.
Except Zogby predicts Kerry will win! Undecideds usually go to the challenger he claims on The Daily Show.
I'll take any good news available.
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TwoFerOne - 20" x 16" each.Happy Halloween
10/30/04Add Eight (8) More Americans DeadYesterday's toll was 8. Total is One Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty-One. That's Amercians; ten times that are Iraqis.
But they are mostly Muslims, so fuhgeddaboutit. This image is from the previous Muslim war in Bosnia but, y'know, it's still relevant. These are the Christian/Muslim Wars. Relax, we got God on our side.
Flippin' The Bird
What The Shrub really has to say to America. Go HERE.Eminem Does The ShrubMarshall's latest video. It's a big download but worth it. Go HERE.
GET IT OVER WITH!!!!!!!!!WHEN THIS CRAP IS FINISHED I'LL GET BACK TO MY MUSIC MEMOIRS. Meanwhile, I can't concentrate.
10/29/04Spread The WordPlease remember that, because of the high turnout expected at the polls this year, Democrats will be voting on Tuesday, November 2nd, Republicans on Wednesday the 3rd. Pass it on.
Po'k Chops
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, is refusing to sell comedian George Carlin's best-selling new book, "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops," in its stores because its cover makes fun of the "Last Supper," a spokesman for Carlin said Thursday.Another Prediction
Sales of Halloween masks have a proven record. Bush leads Kerry 54-46 this year as of 10-29-04. The thing is, if you look at the percentages, the 2000 results are way off. None the less: Be afraid. Be very afraid.Oh Reilly?
"The parties regret that this matter has caused tremendous pain, and they have agreed to settle," said a statement from the 55-year-old talk show host's law firm, Epstein Becker & Green. "All cases and claims have been withdrawn, and all parties have agreed there was no wrongdoing whatsoever by Mr. O'Reilly, Ms. Mackris or Ms. Mackris' counsel, Benedict P. Morelli and associates."O'Reilly's countersuit alleging extortion was also dropped.
The statement did not say whether a financial settlement was involved.
MacDries says, "Naaaahh. They both just tete a tete agreed it was all a multi-million dollar mis-understanding.
In a case filed earlier this month, Mackris alleged that O'Reilly, who is married, made explicit phone calls to her in which he recommended she use a vibrator, described sexual fantasies involving her and masturbated.
The specificity and length of the quotations cited in the lawsuit led readers to infer that she had taped the conversations.
Doncha just love it when these fascist talk show assholes like O'Reilly and Limbaugh get busted? The tapes will pop up at some point but they will prove too pathetic to believe. This is a product of Catholic upbringing. Trust me.
Oh Osama! You Devil.
The October surprise rears his evil-doer's head to taunt us.
Apparently you can run and you can hide, despite what The Shrub thinks about you.
MacDries wants to know, "What's your point Osama? Who should we elect oh Wise bin Laden, son-of-a-Saudi billionaire?
Nevermind, go back to your bunker and battery powered dialysis machine and die.
Kerry gonna getcha!
10/28/04The Boss
Bruce is campaigning with Kerry in the midwest.Nice gig, but I wish it was the other way around.
Artist Of The Day
Fred Engel is the photographer guy whose house we bought.Nice photos. Go HERE.
What's All That Stuff, Mr. Shrub?
Oh, I see, you've whittled it down to an iPod on your back.Yo Yasser!!!!
Get well, Yo and kick some more Israeli Ass.Doh! Of The Day La Crosse, Wisconsin William Dahlby said he threw a live electrical wire into his wife's bath hoping a near-death experience would save their marriage. He was, none the less, convicted of attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
Bye Bye Bill, hope you voted early.
10/27/04Walking Man
Walking the world for Peace. Y'remember peace? No war? No persons getting blown to bits?The image came in a multi-forwarded email so I don't know who spent the time creating it but it's quite awesome. No?
RiddleWhat's the difference between Vietnam and Iraq?
George Bush-43(The Shrub) had a plan to get out of Vietnam.
Psalm 2004George Bush is my shepherd, I shall be in want.
He maketh me lie down on park benches,
He leadeth me beside the still factories.
He restoreth my doubts about the Republican Party.
He leadeth me into the paths of unemployment for his cronies' sake.
Yea, though no weapons of mass destruction have been found,
he maketh me continue to fear Evil.
His tax cuts for the rich and his deficit spending discomfort me.
He anointeth me with never-ending debt:
Verily my days of savings and assets are kaput.
Surely poverty and hard living shall follow me all the days of
his administration,
And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever.
Same Old Same Old...
1 truism =s 1000 pix.1st Car (in 25 years)
The last car I bought was a new Ford Pinto in 1974 for $2100. I sold it in 1979 for $900.This is an 11 year old Jeep Cherokee I bought today for $3000 and change.
What is money anyway?
10/26/04Tag SaleGotta go up country again; buy a car, lawn mower, chain saw, weed whacker, etc. Back on Thursday. Vote early. Vote often.
And remember the BumperSnicker:
"Like Father Like Son,
One Term Only"
10/25/04Bill's Back
On the trail again, just can't wait to get on the trail again... GO BILL, WE NEED YOU!!!!!!!!!
Later In The Day: Just listened to Bill's speech in Phillie. Gotta say, I miss him. Brought a tear to my eye.* So articulate and it's so easy to see why he beat Shrub 1 (a nonentity) and Dole (lacking more charisma than Gephardt, which ain't easy to do). Shrub 2 is a whole other beast; gifted with malevolence with Cheny & Rove buzzing him on his Blackberry.
Bill's gift as a speaker is that he talks as if he is talking (about what he thinks, with pertinent facts and numbers to back it up). Bill is not plotting something or pulling your chain. There is not a political iota of difference between Clinton and Kerry but Clinton can convince while Kerry demands a leap of faith. I'm not at all sure Kerry can pull a rabbit out of this electoral system. But that may just be my pessimism.
*Disclaimer: I did not vote for Clinton the second time for two reasons. I had to protest his lack of scruples vis a vis Monica.** But then I knew he would kick Dole's ass; I would have gone to the polls if I thought it was necessary to stem the ubiquitous and odious Republican tides.
* I am a sentimental fool.
** I don't believe Bill didn't allow or accept anything most men would turn down. On the other hand a POTUS*** (even the Shrub) is not not most men.
*** Just learned that Acronym on The Note.
Mommy's Boy
No comment. Courtesy of WlfSng.
The Other Stewart
The funny one. Not in jail, yet.
10/24/04It Ain't Easy...coming up with new interesting stuff everyday. Even the NYTimes has run about a gazillion article about how close the race it. Borrrrrr-ing. Jimmy Breslin dreams that the polls are all wrong because no one is counting cell phone users. He predicts Kerry will win easily. Yeah, right.
I recall working for McGovern in Missourah and deluding myself that he would still beat Nixon when he was 27% in the polls.
10/23/04Katha Pollitt-ical
Reservists mutiny in Iraq, old people keel over standing in line for flu shots and all sorts of cats leap out of Bush's bag of secrets: According to Ron Suskind's revelatory New York Times Magazine cover story, the President himself recently told a closed Republican meeting that if elected he would "move quickly" to privatize Social Security, lavish funds on faith-based initiatives and more. The debates, which were supposed to seal Kerry's doom as a garrulous dandy, actually showed that he'd make a pretty good President: confident, serious, knowledgeable, affable. Who cares about his windsurfing now? The President's performance -- sluggish and sullen in the first debate, prickly and evasive in the second and third -- was so disgraceful that even on the National Review website there was wailing and gnashing of teeth. He couldn't recall a single mistake he'd made in four years? Most people would have no problem thinking of a mistake they'd made that week.
Thank God for Mary Cheney. Without her, right-wing pundits would be stuck with David Brooks's truly embarrassing "Bush is heart, Kerry is head" line -- vote for Bush, he cares less about the facts! Defending the honor of Mary Cheney has to be more fun than that: How dare John Kerry, that cad, that lowlife, that poltroon, mention on national TV that the Vice President's older daughter is a... lesbian? Writes Brooks, "He will say or do anything to further his career." Was Kerry's remark "spontaneous -- and unpleasant" (Robert Novak) or "McCarthyite" and evidence of Kerry's "cheap, cold, calculating cynicism" (William Kristol)? As I write, the phony scandal is in full swing: Pundits preen, shock jocks rant, closet Republican Ed Koch waxed so wroth he practically gave himself a heart attack on New York 1. We're back in the world of soaps and scandal and sex: Maybe Zell Miller will challenge Kerry to a duel
-Nation
They Just Keep Coming
If those people keep coming to my house, I'll have no choice but to inform the government so they can get me into that Jehovah's Witness Protection Program.
Email from someone via Grupp
10/22/04Lord, Give Me One Day...without a picture of Jude Law passing before my eyes. Is that so much to ask? I think he's had about 35 of his alloted 15 minutes of fame.
Floral Flag
Just in case Bush thinks he owns this too. The 2002 Floral Flag is 740 feet long and 390 feet wide and maintains the proper Flag dimensions as described in Executive Order #10834. This Flag is 6.65 acres and is the first Floral Flag to be planted with 5 pointed Stars comprised of White Larkspur. Each Star is 24 feet in diameter; Each Stripe is 30 feet wide. This Flag is estimated to contain more than 400,000 Larkspur plants with 4-5 flower stems each for a total of more than 2 million flowers. You can drive by this flag on V Street south of Ocean Ave. in Lompoc, CA.Take back America.
You Realize, Of Course...that as soon as the election is over, one of two things will happen:
1. I will no longer feel the need to Bash Bush.
Or:
2. I will be totally depressed and find no reason to continue with this useless cry in the night.
My friend Jeff, who I've known and liked for 30 plus years just yesterday revealed that he is a Bush supporter. Almost inconceiveable, but I vaguely recall he was not a fan of Gore either in 2000. In 2000 I felt it inconceivable that Bush could be elected; also inconceivable that he would merely be appointed (annointed) by The Supremes. What the fuck do I know?
It seems Tim Leary was right those many years ago. Tune in. Drop out. Move to the country, blow up the TV...
Whoops sorry, that's John Prine...
10/21/04Lynne Cheney's Literary MistresspieceGo HERE to see what Mrs. Cheney really thinks about lesbians
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Peek 29" x 21"I Repeat
10/20/04Kerry The CheatOnce there was a Presidential election that was too close to call. Neither Bush, the Republican candidate, nor Kerry, the Democratic candidate, had enough votes to win. Therefore it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest between the two candidates to determine the winner. There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but a week-long ice fishing competition seemed the manly way to settle things.
The candidate with the most fish at the end of the week would win. It was decided that the contest would take place on a remote, cold lake in Wisconsin. There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out separately on this lake and return daily with their catch for counting and verification.
At the end of the first day Kerry returned to the starting line with 10 fish. Soon Bush returned with zero fish.
At the end of the second day Kerry came in with 20 fish. Bush returned again with none.
That evening Dick Cheney got together secretly with Bush and said, "I think Kerry is a lowlife cheatin' son-of-a-gun. I want you go out tomorrow and don't even bother with fishing; just spy on him and see if he is cheatin' in some way."
The next night (after Kerry comes in with 50 fish) Cheney says to Bush, "Well, what about it? Is Kerry cheatin?"
He sure is, Dick," says Bush with a smirk. "He's cutting holes in the ice."
Pat Robertson, ProphetThe founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, "We're not going to have any casualties."
"I mean he was just sitting there like, 'I'm on top of the world,' "
Robertson also said he wishes Bush would admit to mistakes made.
"I mean, the Lord told me it was going to be A, a disaster, and B, messy. I warned him about casualties.
Even if he stumbles and messes up -- and he's had his share of stumbles and gaffes -- I just think God's blessing is on him," Robertson said.
The Children Shall LeadNEW YORK Oct. 20, 2004 - Kid power! Democrat John Kerry is the winner, and the rest of the country should pay attention because the vote on Nickelodeon's Web site has correctly chosen the president of the United States in the past four elections.
Nearly 400,000 children and teens voted, and the results were released Wednesday. Kerry received 57 percent of the vote; President Bush got 43 percent.
10/19/04Finally
...word comes down. Too late!!! Some of us quit drinking for exactly those reasons; never knowing "nose" from "tanins". A new Food Network special "John Cleese's Wine for the Confused" (airing this week; check listings) which explores everything from what words to use to describe flavor to how to take the wind out of a snooty restaurant sommelier.MacDries Regulars
I ♥ Dee.My little sis, Dorothy Grupp from Seattle. Dee is a righteous babe, sister to my best friend, artist, Carl Alf Grupp (Ret.), daughter of Carl M. and Solveig Grupp. The Grupps fed a bunch of us for years while we all piddled away our time studying Art in Minneapolis. Don't see Dee much anymore but she is always welcome if she wants to visit Bunker City.
A Dream
Courtesy of Larry Bogdanow, AIA.Wanna Travel for Kerry?Two weeks. Go HERE to volunteer, if you can.
Get Out The Kerry Vote!!!!!In 2000, more than 30 percent of registered voters did not vote.
In 2000, more than 30 percent of registered voters did not vote.
In 2000, more than 30 percent of registered voters did not vote.
In 2000, more than 30 percent of registered voters did not vote.
In 2000, more than 30 percent of registered voters did not vote.
Don't let those weenie friends off the hook (you know those folks who "don't really like Kerry because he has a Jay Leno, Sarah Jessica Parker horse face. Make it personal that they vote.
OK????? Get Out The Vote!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for the excalamation points but I don't think I can wake up November 3rd with The Shrub still there in the White House unless I know he's on the way out.
Don't Say Re-Elect
Bush was not elected the first time; he was annointed by The Supremes.
10/18/04Rough Around The Edges
Latest painting. 18" x 20 1/5"Operation Truth
Go HERE to see the ad.Not Likely
Just in case you have not seen a version of this.
Who Are You?I'm wondering who you are; you 15-30 (on average) people who visit this sight daily. I'm also wondering why I'm doing this. Is this too personally revealing and pathetic? Other sites claims thousands, even millions, of hits a day. Here's what I'd like; send me a photo and a comment and I'll devote a whole day to my bloggers.
10/17/04Out Our New Door
New York Times Endorses KerryWell, duh!!!! And double duh!!!!!!!!!
A.C.T.
Artists Coming Together (A.C.T.) fund raiser. Prints by various Art Stars; Jasper Johns, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Serra, Cecily Brown, John Baldessari, and others. Go HERE.The Jones Girls
My sister, Madonna Dries Christensen, has a new book out about some cousins of ours. Go HERE (Amazon) to read about it.10/16/04Face Art
Now that is make-up!.Bob Aldern
My first painting teacher. I met him when he had a bleeding ulcer and I was an orderly at Sioux Valley Hospital. I got to catheterize him and he's still embarrassed about it. He wasn't always this good looking.10/15/04Federal Deficit Surges To Record 431 BillionRepublicans say the figure shows that the economic and budget pictures are brightening.
Get The FactsLots of lazy claims being thrown around in the politcal season. Go HERE to check them out.
Dear Mary Cheney Confused about poor Mary Cheney being dragged both ways through the gay bashing mud?Go HERE.
I Repeat!!!!!!!Are You Undecided? Or are you just stupid? If you're stupid, Vote for Bush. If you're undecided, Fish or cut bait. Shit or get off the pot. I'm sick of all this and want to get on with my life; country house and all.
10/14/04And Sweat He Did
The little weazle. Kept repeating the L word and added the K name a couple times.Kerry 52 to 39 according to CNN.
Slow Down Slow Hand
DIJON, France - My Main Man on guitar, Eric Clapton won't be driving his Porsche 911 Turbo in France for a while. Police said Thursday they clocked the rock star speeding down a highway at 134 mph; 53 mph above the speed limit.Police confiscated Clapton's British driver's license, suspending his right to drive in France.
Clapton, 59, a 16-time Grammy Award winner, took the bad news well, agreeing to a photo session with gendarmes.
After paying a $922 fine, he rolled away - this time in the passenger seat with his secretary behind the wheel.
MacDries says, "Still got that old death wish, eh Eric? Stop it! We don't need no more dead blues singers.
10/13/04Make Him Sweat, JohnMona On The Web
Go HERE. Some of my work is included on this site.10/12/04 Going To The Country Again
You're on your own. Gotta go inspect our new country estate.10/11/04Superman Dies- RIP
Why are all these people dying? Or, why am I noticing all these deaths?Are You Undecided?Or are you just stupid?
10/10/04OK, What Was It?
Bush campaign aides are laughing off widespread Internet suggestions that President Bush was wired during his first debate with John Kerry, to get help from advisers.Go HERE for more.
How to Run On A Record Of Failure9-11. 9-11. 9-11. 9-11. 9-11. 9-11. 9-11. Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Go HERE for more.
Family Farm
14" x 14"20 acres (no mule).
Excuse me?!!!!Rummie asserted that the news media and others are ignoring the fact that the number of U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces is growing standing now at about 100,000 and that they are fighting and dying.
"They do exist. Over 700 of them have been killed," Rumsfeld said.
MacDries says, "Not to quibble, Rummie, but if your figures are accurate, those 700 Iraqi humans no longer exist.
They are dead, deceased, no longer alive."
10/9/04How's That?Bush wins 2nd debate because he wasn't as awful as he was in the 1st. In a CNN poll 38% Republican, 32 % Democratic and 30 % independent registered voters gave Kerry 47% to Bush's 45%. CNN declared that a draw.
That kind of tally gave Bush the Presidency.
Derrida DiesRIP. Just had to write that; Derrida dies. Derrida dies. Derrida dies.
World renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a founder of the school of philosophy known as deconstructionism, has died. Derrida was 74.
Sorry.
10/8/04Little Shrub Jeb's ShenanigansKeep your eye on Florida again.
Awesome Dress Too, Wangari!
OSLO, Oct. 8 - Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who started an environmental movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and who has campaigned for women's rights and greater democracy in her home country, today won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.You go girl or as they used to say, "Right On!"
Chicken Hawks & DovesDemocrats
Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-'47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat 3 Purple Hearts.
John Edwards: did not serve.
Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam.
Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-1953.
Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve1979-91.
Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII, receiving the Bronze Star & seven campaign ribbons.
Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars, & Soldier's Medal.
Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star & Legion of Merit.
Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V.
Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
Chuck Robb: Vietnam
Howell Heflin: Silver Star
George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received 311.
Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs & Air Medal with 18 Clusters.
Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.
Wesley Clark: U.S. Army, 1966-2000, West Point, Vietnam, Purple Heart, Silver Star. Retired 4-star general.
John Dingell: WWII vet
John Conyers: Army 1950-57, Korea
Jon Corzine: Marine Corps reserves 1969-75
Hillary Clinton: did not serve. Inelligible.
Charles Schumer: did not serve. Lottery #182 was never called
Republicans
Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
Tom Delay: did not serve.
House Whip Roy Blunt: did not serve.
Bill Frist: did not serve.
Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
George Pataki: did not serve. Poor eyesight.
Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
Rick Santorum: did not serve.
Trent Lott: did not serve.
Dick Cheney: did not serve: Several deferments, the last by marriage.
John Ashcroft: did not serve: Seven deferments to teach business.
Jeb Bush: did not serve.
Karl Rove: did not serve.
Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.
Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
Vin Weber: did not serve.
Richard Perle: did not serve.
Douglas Feith: did not serve
Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
Richard Shelby: did not serve.
Jon Kyl: did not serve.
Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
Christopher Cox: did not serve.
Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as aviator & flight instructor.
George W. Bush: six-year Nat'l Guard commitment (in four or less).
Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies.
Gerald Ford: Navy, WWII
Phil Gramm: did not serve.
John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
Bob Dole: an honorable veteran, wounded.
Chuck Hagel: two Purple Hearts & a Bronze Star, Vietnam.
Duke Cunningham: nominated for Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Silver Stars, Air Medals, Purple Hearts.
Jeff Sessions: Army Reserves, 1973-1986
JC Watts: did not serve.
Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
G.H.W. Bush: Pilot in WWII. Shot down by the Japanese.
Tom Ridge: Bronze Star for Valor in Vietnam.
Michael Bloomberg: did not serve. Flat feet.
Pundits & Preachers
Sean Hannity: did not serve.
Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst. Ouch!)
Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
Michael Savage: did not serve.
George Will: did not serve.
Chris Matthews: did not serve.
Paul Gigot: did not serve.
Bill Bennett: did not serve.
Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
Bill Kristol: did not serve.
Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
Michael Medved: did not serve.
What'd I Say? (No, not Ray)Here are some comments made by NBC sports commentators during the [2004] Summer Olympics.
1. Weightlifting commentator: "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria.I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing."
2. Dressage commentator: "This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother."
3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
4. Boxing Analyst: "Sure there have been injuries,and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious."
5. Softball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."
6. Basketball analyst: "He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces."
7. At the rowing medal ceremony: "Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew."
8. Soccer commentator: "Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."
9. Tennis commentator: "One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them... Oh my God, what have I just said?"
10/7/04New York DeadlineTomorrow, October 8th, is the last day to resister to vote in New York State.
To check your own state: Go HERE.
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My Name Is... (Slim Shady) 16"x20"I'm So, So, Sick...... of Bush/Cheney. I don't know how to go on.
I can't stand the thought that Republicans represent America and what America is supposed to represent.
Makes me want to hurl...
Excuse me, but is this what we are supposed to be spending our time thinking about? I thought Art and music and good works and educating and feeding our children were things we were brought up to do. Not war, not all the time. Not the fucking Israelis and Palestinians for my whole life. No!
New deal!!!!!!!
10/6/04Dropping Like Flies
RIP Rodney. You've always had my respect.Dick Is Getting Forgetful
VP Dick said, "Now, in my capacity as Vice President, I am the President of Senate, the Presiding Officer, I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session. The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight."VP Dick managed to insert Vice President, President and Presiding into one sentence. (We get it Dick)
However.
On Feb. 1, 2001, VP Dick thanked Edwards by name at a Senate prayer breakfast and sat beside him during the event.
On April 8, 2001, VP Dick and John shook hands when they met off-camera during a taping of NBC's Meet the Press, according to moderator Tim Russert.
On Jan. 8, 2003, Dick met John when the North Carolina Senator accompanied Junior Senator Elizabeth Dole to her swearing-in by Cheney.
10/5/04World's Greatest Grandpa
Hands down. But that's only because I'm not there yet and feel no rush to be there. Congrats Bob.The Dick & John Show
Oughta be fun. 9PM Eastern.10/4/04RIP Janet Leigh @ 77
The original Babe-a-licious, mother to Jamie Lee. RIP Richard Avedon @ 81
Bad year for photography: Cartier-Bresson, Newton and now Avedon. Damn lucky snake, however.
MacDries has it on good authority that Avedon's last shoot was of Karl Rove (Bush's brain), down Crawford, Texas way. Hope he killed the bastard.
Oh, Nino! Say It Again
"Let me make it clear that the problem I am addressing is not the social evil of the judicial dispositions I have described. I accept, for the sake of argument, for example, that sexual orgies eliminate social tension and ought to be encouraged."
- Justice Antonin Scalia (with a smile)
MacDries says, "Lose the smile Nino and you could possibly still make it into the human race."
Oh, C'mon Linc, Bite The Bullet
"I'll vote Republican," Lincoln Chafee said, explaining that he would choose a write-in candidate, perhaps George Bush the elder, as a symbolic act of protest. Asked if he wanted Senator John Kerry to be president, Mr. Chafee shook his head sadly, as if to say he could not entertain the question. "I've been disloyal enough," he said.
MacDries says, "Chafee sounds like some closet gay who wakes up in bed with a guy and says, "Boy, was I drunk last night."
10/3/04from The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
- W.B. Yeats
10/2/04Off To The Country Again10/1/04I Am-Bushed Kerry finally kicks major ass. Bush looked like a spot-lit Coon, treed and terrified. He wants us all to know his job is hard work, and the war is hard work. He told us at least 6 times (the official count was 11). I think he's tired and would really like to retire.Giving Good Face
Karen Hughes explained the president's petulance this way: "On his face, you could see his irritation at the senator's misrepresentations. He was answering the senator with his face."Florida Practice BallotGo HERE to vote.
Good Old Dick "The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? ...And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq." Dick Cheney -Discovery Institute- 1992
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Anni Albers drawing. More interesting than Old Joseph, eh?
Call'em As You Want To See'emDan Rather, CBS News Anchor
1) given documents he thought were true
2) failed to thoroughly investigate the facts
3) reported documents to the American people as true to make his case
4) when confronted with the facts, apologized and launched an investigation
5) number of Americans dead: 0
6) Republican solution: should be fired as CBS News Anchor
George W. Bush, President of the United States
1) given documents he thought were true
2) failed to thoroughly investigate the facts
3) reported documents to the American people as true to make his case
4) when confronted with the facts, continued to report untruth and
stonewalled an investigation
5) number of Americans dead: 1100
6) Republican solution: should be given four more years as President of
the United States
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