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More idiotic ramblings from the entertaninment industry:

Eve Ensler on the Huffington blog:

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Dear America: I am longing to reach you -- crossing this river of indifference and consumption and denial. I am trying to find you, reaching out through the desperate limitations of words and descriptions, swimming through the rhetoric of terror and God.

I need you to wake up. The house is on fire and you are still sleeping, lulled by the intoxication of smoke and mirrors. I need you to wake up and I know that shaking you, scaring you will only make you cling to your sleep and sleep more.

How then do I tell you what's going on? How do I tell you about the one hundred thousand dead Iraqi people that you and I are responsible for murdering. Each one of them valued their life, longed for their morning, cherished their first cup of milk or coffee or tea. In what way shall I deliver what I learned? The substance identical to illegal napalm that melted tender five year old skin; the cluster bombs that have left their murderous and disguised offspring, throngs of bomblets set to explode, scattered on the Iraqi earth; the depleted uraninum from the Bunker Busters we dropped that now lives in lungs and livers and soil.

How do I tell you about the strategic planning of such atrocities in the boardrooms, the backrooms, the back seats of limos, the organized take over and looting of Iraq right out from under the terrorized, hungry, thirsty Iraqi people. How do I get you to listen to the stories of our soldiers who are trying to kill themselves now, longing to escape the madness of murdering and maiming for no reason.

Please don't go back to sleep. I know how hard it is to hear of the massive black holes, called prisons we have dug to hold thousands without charging them, without trials or the torture, the meanness, the cruelty we are inflicting upon them.

America, those who now control our country have changed and ended law. I do not believe you are so calloused or selfish that you do not care. Your sleep is induced. You are distracted and derailed. The corporations have concocted and perfected these sleeping potions for years, developing ingredients to make you despise every bit of yourself, to feel ugly and fat and stupid and poor and not enough. And so you spend your time and every bit of the money you do not have buying products that will make you better, skinnier, lighter, whiter, tighter. And as you consume and consume, the corporations consume you. They take your money and your time and your voice and your instincts and your outrage and your sorrow and your anger and your grief. They consume your courage and leave fear in its place. They devour your conscience and your memory and your compassion.

And how do I speak when they are sure to tie my tongue? When they will say I do not love my country or support the troops or honor the dead or believe in their God? How do I break through your sealed wrapping, your self-obsession, your TVheadphonedDVDcell pod?

America I am getting desperate and I know this will not get me published or heard. Those who control the information will say I'm extreme, that I've gone mad. But I have heard the cries of children in the exploding houses of Falluja. I have seen the agonized faces of the sleepless Iraqi women who still clutch the outline of their charred dead babies in their arms. I have watched as we as a nation grow more isolated, despised and alone.

America, there is not much time left. The fire is spreading, consuming the world. We are the arsonists. We will need each other to find our way out through the lies and haze. It will take our greatest imagination, courage and skill to subdue these flames.

FWIW, why is anyone publishing anything that this idiot thinks? She's done nothing more than refer to her vagina on stage as a cunt.

Fanny is as fanny does

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
FWIW, why is anyone publishing anything that this idiot thinks? She's done nothing more than refer to her vagina on stage as a cunt.

The Post publishes Andrea Peyser every week, and I don't think she's even been on Broadway.

Fanny is as fanny does

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Originally posted by ironweed
The Post publishes Andrea Peyser every week, and I don't think she's even been on Broadway.

Extending this all the way out, as long as the Time publishes Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd there is justification for any publisher's infliction of intellectual stupification upon us?

And now, an idiot from the right [ahem] side of the aisle

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WASHINGTON, July 10 - Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, suggested on Sunday that President Bush could name Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is retiring from the Supreme Court, to the position of chief justice if it opens up.

"I think it would be very tempting if the president said to Justice O'Connor, 'You could help the country now,' " Mr. Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania and a pivotal player in any confirmation hearings, said in an interview on the CBS program "Face the Nation."

Further proof that Specter loves nothing more than hearing the sound of his own voice

And now, an idiot from the right [ahem] side of the aisle

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Further proof that Specter loves nothing more than hearing the sound of his own voice

Wow, that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. He is a fidiot. Sebby, what's wrong with you quakers?

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
FWIW, why is anyone publishing anything that this idiot thinks? She's done nothing more than refer to her vagina on stage as a cunt.

That's funny because I've referred to her as a c*nt on stage.

I'm sure its published because her columns are still big amongst the Film Actors Guild crowd.

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AliHajiSheik
...still big amongst the Film Actors Guild crowd.

Speaking of:

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Over the weekend, the liberal activist group MOVEON.ORG hosted over a 1,000 house parties across the nation to stop President Bush from nominating a “radical right judge” -- and the DRUDGE REPORT obtained an exclusive invite to one of their hottest parties.

Charles Fazio of Alexandria, VA was the host of one of the most widely attended MOVEON parties in the Washington, DC area. The DRUDGE REPORT has learned because of Fazio’s registration success, his party was chosen to be a finalist on the WASHINGTON POST’s list of house party events it would use in its Monday edition to cover MOVEON’s weekend efforts.

In a desperate bid to sanitize his house party and control how its attendees would be perceived by the POST, the MOVEON host emailed talking points to his guests. A copy of those talking points was obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.

Fazio warned his guests: “Its very important that if you talk to the reporter, you stay on message. Remember, it is quite possible that our event will be the one the POST uses to represent the entire MoveOnPac effort this weekend.”

The key message for the event: “The momentum is finally shifting away from extremism. We will not accept a extremist nominee. This is not about conservatism vs liberalism or Republicans vs Democrats, this is all about extremism vs moderation and we're on the side of moderation.”

The MOVEON host reminded his guests: “We don't want to come across as leftist, liberal activists. We want to come across as we are- regular folks who are finally saying enough is enough to the extremists; that we're not falling for their extremist rhetoric anymore and we're finally going to expend the effort necessary to get our country back.”

Fazio: “Please stay on message and just know that ANYTHING you say can be taken out of context and used against the effort.”

One last suggestion from Fazio to his liberal MOVEON party-goers: “Oh, because a photographer will be here, might I suggest we put away our ‘Bush is a Liar’ t-shirts. Let's look like they do.”

Source: Drudge

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
= reminder that no single leading Muslim has truly condemned these terrorist actions.

It's a must read.

http://www.mcb.org.uk/presstext.php?ann_id=151

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
http://www.mcb.org.uk/presstext.php?ann_id=151

Slave said "single leading Muslim," so groups don't count. Think "weapons of mass destruction program related activities."

He'd like to buy the world a Coke...

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Originally posted by Spanky
Did you see the Star Trek with Joan Collins? Because of Joans Pacifisim the US entry into WWII was delayed, giving Germany time to developes rockets and atomic bombs, and therefore the means to win the war.

I did, but dude -- drawing history lessons from Star Trek is about as risky as relying on those "Idiot's Guide" books.

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I am still waiting for someone to tell me a time when a "peace movement" has accomplished something positive.

Funny, but the left used to carry the "if you want peace, work for justice" banners. Which is really the right sentiment, in my opinion.

On the other hand, the outright dismissal of anyone who opposes a particular war as "the stupid useless peace movement" is hardly a rational approach. We'd have been better off listening to "the peace movement" than staying in Vietnam (and no, I don't want to get into a discussion about the merits of the Vietnam War -- I have things to do today).

And of course, there was Gandhi and MLK -- but I guess they weren't really a "peace movement," but rather a peaceful approach to a different end.

He'd like to buy the world a Coke...

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Originally posted by Spanky
Never a Trekker? Shame on you. Although I can relate. I tried to be a trekkie, but a ship run by a frenchman, a psychotherapist, and repressed homosexual with a beard just never did it for me. In the episode Dr. McCoy goes back into time and screws everythimg up. Spock and Kirk go after him to straighten things out and end up in the United States during the depression. They pretend to be unemployed bums and they find food and Shelter at a halfway home run by Joan Collins. She is very well intentioned and of course - as Paris would say - hot. She spends all her time helping the poor. Of course, Kirk bags her, and falls for her. Spock figures out that where McCoy screwed things up was by saving Joan Collins's life by preventing her from getting run over by a car. If she had died everything would have been OK. But since she lived, she becomes a strong leader of the US Pacifist movement. Through her Charisma and earnest charm she convinces the United States to delay its entry in WWII to "Give Peace a Chance". The delay gives Germany the time it needs to develop its special weapons and win the war. So to save the world, Kirk has to prevent McCoy from saving Joan Collins's life. So Kirk grabs McCoy and doesn't let him grab Joan, and Joan becomes road kill.

The moral of the story: Even if Pacifists are hot the world is better off with out them.

You must have missed the end of that episode, where they all agreed that she had the right message, just at the wrong time. (And then they went off and zapped a bunch of Klingons, but whatever.)

He'd like to buy the world a Coke...

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Ah, ok. I thought he was talking about a US peace movement, for some reason. Probably the drugs.

Just in case somebody hasn't beat me to it, there was a US movement to stay out of the war as well. In fact, FDR ran on a promise not to send troops. This was discussed just a couple of weeks ago.

In Europe, the anti-war movement was largely sponsored by the Comintern, as a socialist opposition to the bourgeois war machine. In the US, it was a largely isolationist sentiment, although there was a significant amount of anti-semitic, pro-Aryan propoganda as well. Witness Charles Lindbergh's enthusiastic participation as a spokesman for the German-American Friendship League.

Rove confirmed to be Matt Cooper's source

Were there any others? Did he perjure himself in front of the grand jury?

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Drinks are on me if he goes. I'll meet you at the Hawk and Dove at 6. If you get there earlier scope a few summer interns for us.

Where were you? I had two hotties lined up. But I couldn't hold Ted Kennedy off forever. Fortunately, both were back at work this morning (I slipped them taxi fare to be safe).

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Rove confirmed to be Matt Cooper's source

Were there any others? Did he perjure himself in front of the grand jury?

Presumably that's why Cooper's testimony matters. Rove told the GJ he didn't reveal name, just background fact. Cooper would corroborate.

What matters most, I suspect, is who told Novak. I assume Novak sang long ago, and never attempted to resist the subpoena, because we would have heard about it otherwise.