Kitty Litter

 
BLOGGER ROUNDUP



Aaron M., at PardonMyEnglish, has discovered More Voter Fraud:
Over a month ago, two members of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a blatantly liberal activist group, were fired after being caught submitting fraudulent forms to election officials in Ohio, a swing state. … Yesterday, election officials in Nevada, another swing state, are befuddled by the overwhelming number of suspicious and fraudulent voter registrations being submitted by several 527 groups, the most outspoken of them being ACT (America Coming Together) , another blatantly liberal, anti-Bush organization.


roberto, at DynamoBuzz, reports that "Florida to Let Former Felons Vote". A key democrat constituency is now free to vote in November, as long as they stay out of trouble.


Tyler, at RedLinerAnts, puts his own humorous slant in his daily digests, and Friday Night Digest was no exception:
* Full Metal Jacket Quote of the Day: "Oh that's right, Private Pyle, don't make any fucking effort to get to the top of the fucking obstacle. If God would have wanted you up there he would have miracled your ass up there by now, wouldn't he?"
* Sharon Stone: "Does anybody want to pay $12 to see me naked?" Answer: no.

RightThinkingGirl has discovered a rare Kerry artifact: The fact is, Kerry has actually articulated a position! This is news! He wants to run a platform of engendering respect around "the world" (ie, France).
Well ain't that peachy. Sleep tight, kids.

Boop-Boop-De-Doo

 
MOORE LIES


Say WHAT?!

However, as KerryHaters continues to document, Kerry and Edwards are stillthisclose. Ain't love grand?

Daschle denies hugging Moore
There was no hug between "Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle at the film's June 23 premiere in Washington, D.C., Daschle said Thursday.
…
"At the Washington premiere, Moore sat a few rows behind Daschle. Afterward, says Moore, ‘He gave me a hug and said he felt bad and that we were all gonna fight from now on. I thanked him for being a good sport,'" Corliss wrote.
Daschle, who was at the premiere at the invitation of producer/distributor Harvey Weinstein, said he and Moore have never met.


As of Thursday, July 8, 2004:

1st place) SPIDER-MAN 2 ..... $211,257,583 (9 days)

3rd place) FAHRENHEIT 9/11 ..... $69,090,104 (16 days)

 
CHANGE IS A’COMIN’



Surveys show the ’70s are over and kids have changed
By James Glassman
EXTRA! EXTRA! The big news of the past decade in America has been largely overlooked, and you’ll find it shocking. Young people have become aggressively normal.
Violence, drug use and teen sex have declined. Kids are becoming more conservative politically and socially. They want to get married and have large families. And, get this, they adore their parents.
…
“What is emerging,” writes Hymowitz, “is a vital, optimistic, family-centered, entrepreneurial, and, yes, morally thoughtful citizenry.”
That’s trouble, I believe, for the Democratic Party, at least in its current anchored-to-the-’60s version. It’s possible that John Kerry will win in November because of the war in Iraq (though the smart money is on George Bush), but the long-term trend is clear. …
The changes in politics are rooted in changes in values.
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Whatever the reasons, the change in young people and their parents is very, very good news — which is precisely why so much of the media is ignoring it.

 
"I HAVE A MAN, WHOOPI."



DEMS' @#%! COVER-UP
President Bush's campaign yesterday demanded that John Kerry release the full video of his New York fund-raiser, where Whoopi Goldberg delivered an X-rated rant that turned Bush's name into a crude sexual joke. … Bush also got attacked as a "cheap thug," a liar and a killer — and afterward praised the performers for expressing "the heart and soul of our country."
Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman said yesterday, "We call on Kerry to release the video of this event so that all Americans can see what John Kerry has called America's 'heart and soul.' "
…
[Whoopi] also repeatedly addressed the fresh-faced Edwards as "Kid," adding: "He looks like he is about 18. I'm going to card his ass tomorrow."
The jab at Edwards was the only part of Whoopi's rant that Kerry challenged from the stage on Thursday night, insisting, "I have a man, Whoopi."


Crude jokes, insults OK with Kerry camp
When in doubt, play the Vietnam card. That's long been a tactic embraced by Sen. John Kerry [related, bio] and his aides in the face of political trouble.
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"Performers have a right to speak their minds even when we don't agree with everything they say. That's the freedom John Kerry put his life on the line to defend," Kerry spokesmen David Wade said.

 
TOLD-JA SO


Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) holds the committee's report on pre-war Intelligence on Iraq as Committee Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) looks on during a news conference in Washington July 9, 2004.

THE SENATE INTEL REPORT: SO MUCH FOR 'BUSH LIED'
By John Podhoretz
Indeed, the report destroys the entire edifice of the "BUSH LIED" temple. Here's the key sentence: "The committee found no evidence that the [intelligence community's] mischaracterization or exaggeration of weapons of mass destruction capabilities was the result of political pressure."
This sentence, on the second page of the report's conclusions, was agreed to, unanimously, by the members of the Senate committee, including every Democrat. Some of them, disgracefully, are already claiming that they don't think that sentence means what it says.
In other words, THEY LIE.

 
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE



Amoral Hazard
By Shawn Macomber
THAT'S RIGHT, WITH our forces stretched thin, our "allies" are blocking us from access to our own troops. It was fine with the French and Germans that American military power be used through NATO a few short years ago to end the warfare in Kosovo. The United States had no compelling national interest whatsoever in that war other than to help Europeans do something they could not do for themselves.
Yet now, we cannot even get European troops to replace us in Kosovo to allow us to go and fight our own battles. Worse, France has assured us that NATO will not be helping train the new Iraqi army or stand guard as the people of Afghanistan vote in their first free elections.

 
BLOGGER ROUNDUP



In alphabetical order …

Aaron, at SomethingToCryAbout:
1) Random Thoughts of Thomas Sowell #3
Nations do not wait for iron-clad proof when there are lethal threats. The massive Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb was begun when the United States was at peace because of reports that Hitler's scientists were working on such a weapon.
We had no proof -- and, after Germany surrendered, it turned out that Hitler's atomic bomb project was nowhere near the stage that we feared. But we couldn't take that chance.

2) Update: an AP poll from July 5-6 now shows Bush with a 4pt lead over Kerry-Edwards that is outside the margin of error.

Not a blog, put that poll above reminded me of this one:
HAIRY KERRY OUTSIDE THE MANE-STREAM
In a nationwide poll as to who has superior locks, Bush grabbed an overwhelming 51 percent of the vote, with Kerry coming in a distant second with just 30 percent.


Fly at A FlyOnTheWall:
In Space No One Can Hear You Giggle
Jennifer Shiman, who does hysterical thirty-second rabbit animations of popular movies, is at it again.
She's just finished Alien in Thirty Seconds and Re-Enacted by Bunnies. It's easier to understand if you just go to her page by clicking here.

Pat at KerryHaters has posted quite a collection of photos of those Huggy HomeBoys throughout his blog starting here, with lots of humor and analysis along the way.

Boop-boop be-doo!

 
1 IS THE LONELIEST #



Energized with bipartisanism, the DNC invited a rightish blogger to join their throng of leftish bloggers. That's one ... and counting?

A Mean Mess
It's no secret that the Democratic National Convention in Boston is a big mess. … It's no surprise, then, that the much-ballyhooed introduction of press credentials for bloggers should go less-than-smoothly.
…
As it turns out, Patrick Belton of the prominent rightish OxBlog posted yesterday that the OxBloggers had "just received a very nice call from the DNC, saying very kind words about our blog and inviting us to cover the Boston convention as an accredited blogger."

 
"This campaign will be a celebration of real American values."


John Fogarty, John Mellencamp, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Lange, Mary J. Blige, Chevy Chase, Wyclef Jean and the band Three on Three, Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward

JERKY JOKESTER WHOOPI IN DIRTY DISS AT DUBYA
Whoopi Goldberg delivered an X-rated rant full of sexual innuendoes against President Bush last night at a Radio City gala that raised $7.5 million for the newly minted Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards.
Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia, and boasted that she'd refused to let Team Kerry clear her material.
…
Other celebs also competed to bash Bush. Singer John Mellencamp sang a specially written song that called the president "just another cheap thug" and ridiculed him as the "Texas bambino."
Kerry could be seen laughing uproariously during part of Goldberg's tirade - and neither he nor Edwards voiced a single objection to its tone when they spoke to the crowd.
…
Edwards said it was "a great honor" to be there and insisted, "This campaign will be a celebration of real American values."
…
Latin comedian John Leguizamo said he refuses to believe there are any Hispanic Republicans, claiming that's "an oxymoron," because "Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid."

 
INCOMING!



This is the writer who smeared Nancy Reagan’s name by saying that Nancy had an affair, in the White house, with Frank Sinatra.

OY, God, more bash Bush bulls - - - heading our way. St. Martin's has a book, Random House has a book. The Kitty Kelley job, which she's been working on five years, drops on us just before the election. As in September. Its vetting process alone had a legal price tag of $1 million U.S. and took six months.

 
OVER-HYPED OVER-VALUED AIRHEAD


Ben Affleck and Scott Peterson: Separated at birth?

Blame Bush because he's overpaid? Do y’think he’ll give any of that dough back? Maybe lower his prices?

"BECAUSE of Bush's tax cuts, I saved a million and a half in taxes last year. Does anyone think that's fair?" — Ben Affleck at a John Kerry fund-raiser.

 


Crush Kerry always has a great synopsis of the news. Like:
1)The Bounce is Only in Their Hair: Gerry Daly, whose blog Daly Thoughts is the best polling resource available reports that an AP poll taken after the VP announcement shows Bush up by 4 points.

2) Did Kerry/Edwards Clear This With France?: The US is planning to cut the number of troops in Iraq. Uh-oh. Like Rush says good news in Iraq is bad news for the Democrats.

3) Joe Wilson, Call Your Office: A British Intellegence Inquiry is set to report that Saddam did try to obtain uranium from Niger. Think the lamestream media will give as much attention to this as they did Bush's supposed "lie" in the SOTU?

 
BLOGGER ROUNDUP



Blogger remains a problem today.

In United Nations Bureaucracies, Reality Hammer suggests that the UN needs more than just reforming:
The only way the United Nations could become an effective tool for freedom in the world is if its current incarnation is dissolved and a new organization based on democracy (a prerequisite for membership!) and temporary bodies that exist only to solve a problem, and ones that cannot be continued indefinitely.

In Open That Wallet, House of Rapp takes on Her Royal C: “It must feel great spending ten thousand dollars to attend a fundraiser only to be told that you aren’t paying enough.”

Aaron M. at Pardon My English points out that it’s been A Bad Couple Weeks For Kerry. “A complaint filed by Hofstra law student Jonathan Stein accuses Reynolds of willfully violating a federal statute that requires her to make deductions from Kerry’s Senate paycheck for his absences. Kerry is also named in the complaint for knowingly accepting salary to which he is not entitled.” And it only gets better!

Love to carry protection without having to buy and register a gun? ACE tells you how:
TASER's X26C Citzen's Defense System
Within the month, citizens will be able to purchase and carry the X26C, which is only slightly larger than a cell phone, for carry without a permit in 43 states, because it is not a firearm.


Boop-boop be-doo!

 
BUTT vs. “UNREBUTTED”

VS.

My Job
What Bill Clinton left out of his memoir.
By Kenneth W. Starr
The sad and undisputed facts revealed by those investigations scarcely need retelling. Numerous criminal prosecutions and convictions dotted the legal landscape, including the conviction (and resignation) of a sitting governor of Arkansas; the convictions of Jim and Susan McDougal, business partners in Whitewater; and the guilty pleas of, among others, a former associate attorney general of the U.S. (and chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court).
…
Six years later, the factual findings of our office's referral to the House of Representatives stand unrebutted. Those findings not only were accurate, they triggered profound concerns as to the basic integrity of witnesses, including the president himself, in the administration of justice. The result included an outgoing president's written recognition of his responsibility to our justice system, imposition of sanctions by a federal judge, and a suspension of his law license for an extended period.

 
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE

I don't get a penny in commission; I just think these are great!

 
BOUNCE?



What goes UP usually comes down.

A big whoop?
Last week, Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd emailed Bush supporters that they should expect to see a 15 point bounce for John Kerry in the next month. This bounce would be consistent with those for candidates in previous campaigns, Dowd said, and would be the product of the selection of a Vice Presidential nominee and the positive publicity from the Democratic Party’s national convention.
…
If the 10% who are undecided voters break 2 to 1 for either candidate, that would mean a 4% popular vote victory for one side, and an Electoral College margin of 100 votes or more
…
One thing that Kerry accomplished with the Edwards selection is to put John Edwards’s smile front and center on magazine covers, replacing Michael Moore’s face. Moore may have done his one week of work for the Kerry ticket, but Moore is an unwelcome long term presence. The deconstruction of his movie has begun, and there are, thankfully, a few journalists with enough integrity (e.g., Michael Isikoff), who, despite working for mainstream (liberal) publications, have identified some of the garbage Moore has thrown at the viewers as the garbage that it is.

 
REMEMBER THIS MAP?



Who doesn't! It still looks like a Bush winner to me, but we all know that is was a squeaker. Gore tied up the election results for 36 days with his endless court actions and recounts, all of which Bush won. Just as a reminder, LoanCat sent me the election results for 1972, 1980 and 1984. Thought you’d be interested, too.

 
BLOGGER ROUNDUP!



Like Pat at Kerry Haters, Blogger has been driving me NUTZ! I’ll post something early in the morning, and it may not "appear" to update until late afternoon, or even the following day. There are times that posting at all proves to be impossible. I’ve cleared the cache and deleted all temp files, and I still have problems. Of course, using my dial-up AOL further frustrates me. It’s a possibility that AOL will be replaced with the high speed Road Runner in the near future.

Soanyways … Blogging lately has not been the fun it should be, what with the Botoxicated Brahmin asking the Breck Girl to go steady. (Aren’t they a cute couple?) Plus, my blogging time has been, and will be, limited. I’ve wasted so much time trying to post on my own blog, with a few posts on Kerry Haters, that I’ve had little time to check out other blogs. I’ll tell y’right now that that’s a BIG mistake as bloggers have some of the best buzz. Needless to say, surf through everything these blogs offer, but here are a few tidbits I’ve culled.

SomethingToCryAbout: Aaron has found an absolutely GREAT composite photo of Kerry merged with a famous North Vietnamese shot (pun intended!). AND, he’s also posted a challenge from Fatty-Fatty Too-Much-Moore.

RedLineRants: (I think of it Red Liner Ants:) Speaking of Moore, Tyler has an article written by a Minnesota representative and his dealings with the F9/11 hit’n’run master.

AFlyOnTheWall: With fab Fly’s inside connections to Hollywood, he always has something interesting, like today's Electronic Bugs Found in Eisner's Disney Office.

DynamBuzz: Roberto has linked a story about one of the Breck Girl’s cases. It’s funny and disturbing and very psychic.

Kerry Haters: Need I say more?

Boop-boop be-doo!

 

 
WE FEEL PRETTY, OH SO PRETTY


We feel pretty and witty and ummmm … a-hem.

Kerry, Edwards Begin First Campaign Swing
In Raleigh, N.C., President Bush dismissed Edwards' credentials to be vice president, curtly telling reporters, "Dick Cheney can be president."
…
“[W]e've got better hair," Kerry said, laughing.

Hat tip to Lucianne for the heading!

 
CAN EDWARDS KERRY THE TICKET?


The Post initially got it wrong. However, the real question is, did Kerry get it right?

Botox Boy Wonder
I'll be watching the polls closely in the next few weeks to measure the size and durability of the Edwards bounce. This announcement has come earlier, relative to the convention, than previous veep announcements. Just as Botox wears off before too long, any enthusiasm generated by the Edwards pick could fade by the time of the convention on the 26th of this month. If that happens, Kerry may well be such a turkey of a candidate that he's beyond help.

THE SAFE CHOICE
By John Podhoretz
YOU'RE going to hear a lot of talk in the coming week about just how exciting it was that John Kerry chose John Edwards as his running mate — when in fact Kerry did the most unimaginative, obvious and totally conventional thing possible in picking Edwards.
…
Kerry plays it safe. The only really dramatic thing he did during his campaign was to mortgage his house when his campaign hit a shortfall — and given that he's married to a billionaire, that didn't seem like much of a sacrifice. (It reminded me of the "Odd Couple" episode when Oscar pays off a gambling debt pawning his saxophone. "I didn't know you played," Felix says. "I don't," Oscar replies, "I just keep it for hocking.")
…
Kerry will share the stage with more bad news for the president — the 9/11 Commission report, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report and so on. But will he be able to feed the media beast and its 24-hour news cycle? It's hard to do that while playing it safe. But if he doesn't keep it safe, he might make the kinds of blunders that tripped him up in the spring.
All this means that by the time the president is ready to take the stage back when the GOP convention opens in late August, the public might be ready, willing and able to give Bush a renewed hearing.

DISASTER IS LURKING
By Dick Morris
During his run for the top job, John Edwards relied heavily on leading trial lawyers. Twenty-two of his top 25 donors were trial attorneys. And those donations likely cloak a multitude of sins and violations of the campaign-finance laws.
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The Bush campaign's negative-research operatives will be crawling all over the trial lawyers' firms to find any other donations that were similarly disguised. Since more than half of Edwards' donations came from trial lawyers, there's a vast ground to pick over looking for scandal.
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No candidate would relish having to spend the first month of his campaign explaining away donations to his No. 2, but that could be exactly how John Kerry will have to spend the next few weeks.

And that blundered front page on the Post is making BIG BUCKS on eBay, as much as $71/per!

 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DUBYA!

 
THOSE CAREFREE DAYS OF SADDAM



Moore Premeditates
The biggest lie in Fahrenheit 9/11 is the picture of pre-war Iraq. Michael Moore shows a happy collage of smiling Iraqis in a beautifully tranquil country -- a kid getting his hair cut in a barber shop, a couple getting married, children flying kites.
...
On war strategy, Moore argues in Fahrenheit 9/11 that Bush went into Afghanistan too light and too late … That's exactly the opposite of what Moore was preaching a year after the attacks of September 11 …
Back then, Moore denounced the American intervention in Afghanistan as too quick and too strong.
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What's consistent in Moore's worldview is that America is always wrong.


SPIDER-MAN 2 $180,056,000 (6 days)

FAHRENHEIT 9/11 $60,091,000 (13 days)

 
OY, VEY!



Madonna -- Madge to the Brits and Esther to her Kabbalah klan -- a SLUT? Whatever would give anyone that idea?

KABBALAH CURSE
RABBI Shmuley Boteach, the author of "Kosher Sex," has been whipping up controversy by demanding that Rabbi Phillip Berg, head of the L.A.-based Kabbalah Center, "dump Madonna as [their] principal spokesman" because she is "a slut."

 
THAT’S ALL RIGHT MONICA

“Mama she done told me,
Papa done told me too
'Son, that gal your foolin' with,
She ain't no good for you'
But, that's all right, that's all right.
That's all right now mama, anyway you do”
(“That’s All Right Mama” by Arthur Crudup, recorded by Elvis fifty years ago today.)

“Bill Clinton was and remains the rock star of world politics.” Well maybe to some, but not to me. There was actually a split second in my life when I thought of Slick as “needy,” but it passed as quickly as any socially-embarrassing eructation, leaving a bad taste behind. I’m just a spectator; I can’t imagine how the women in his life, who were up-close and personal with him, have fared. We’ve all heard the ever-growing list of names, a list which will only end sometime long after his death, no doubt. Some names have probably already faded into history; some are destined to be Trivial Pursuit questions. But the one name which will live on is probably Monica Lewinsky.

I always held mixed feelings for Monica, a bit of pity and a lot of anger. I saw pictures of her in a tabloid recently and I began to truly feel sorry for her. She was enormous. I can’t imagine she’s happy at that size. Oh, the snickering barbs she must be enduring, very much like the cruelty Linda Tripp endured, carried to wretched excess daily in the news and on TV. The irony is that Linda Tripp saved Monica’s life. Linda convinced Monica to save the blue dress, thereby giving Monica the DNA proof she needed. Without that dress, Monica may have disappeared. At the very least, she could no longer be labeled a stalker and a loony tune. My hope is that Monica will forget Slick and thank Linda.

Now I ask, why would any thinking-engaged person vote for such a man as Slick?

All the president's women
The hugely promising young governor, whose sights even then were assumed to be set on the Presidency, had a "zipper problem.”
Indeed, Clinton passed up the 1988 presidential race for that very reason.
…
Clinton's lies and deceptions, including the famous "I did not have sexual relations with that woman", ensured that his reputation had been forever tarnished in the view of many Americans.
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Lewinsky says she feels betrayed by Clinton's refusal to acknowledge that he "destroyed" her life.
…
In his book he does not even use the word "relationship" when talking about the young woman. Instead, on page 773, he talks of an "inappropriate encounter".

 
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!



Make your own fireworks.

The following article appeared in The Leader, Corning, NY, on 11-30-84. Dick Peer, then editor, wrote it with information supplied by Ellsworth Cowles, who was then the former Town of Erwin historian. I live in Painted Post, and I would imagine that the statue's base alone would cover the entire downtown area.

It was in 1884, that the people of France gave the {Statue of Liberty] to the people of the United States as a symbol of friendship and of liberty that citizens enjoy under a free form of government.

But although presentation to the Minister of the United States took place in Paris on July 4, 1884, the statue still didn’t have a home.

It was initially offered to New York City, but the city fathers at first thought Frederick Bartholdi’s work was a monstrosity and said non.

Feelers went out next to Boston, which also has a harbor, and the powers-that-be there called it a pagan idol, and turned up their proper Bostonian noses at it. Nor did Philadelphians want anything to do with it after seeing the sketches; besides, they already had the Liberty Bell.

While all this argument was going on, a disgusted official of Fox and Weston Lumber Co. of Gang Mills, who had his office in New York City, was reading about the hassle in the New York Times.

Only half in jest, reaching a limit of his patience, he took quill in hand and penned a letter to the Times, which was dutifully printed. He said he was tired of reading about all the arguments – that the statue was a well-intentioned gift and it was inhospitable and discourteous to bandy its location around from port-to-port.

If no one else would take it, Painted Post would be glad to have it, putting it next to its Indian monument, making a pair. Fox and Weston personnel would even be glad to help put it up. The Indian monument at that time was nothing more than a metal cutout of an Indian on a wooden base, and to be sure, the giant statue would have been a great addition.

No one will ever know if that letter got the site selection off dead center or not, but it was soon afterward that New York City decided it could find a spot for it on Bedloe’s Island overlooking the ship channel of New York Harbor. So Liberty Enlightening the World, (that’s the statue’s proper name) was packed into 214 cases and shipped to the U.S. in May 1885. The completed 150-foot work, atop its 150-foot-high base, was formally unveiled Oct. 28, 1886.

 
RED LINER ANTS



Yeah, I know, it’s really RedLineRants; so sue me already. I don’t know how Tyler packs so much into his posts, but he does. Frankly, I think drinking has something to do with it, which makes me think that maybe I should take it up myself. In fact, I’ve been thinking lately about Vodka Martinis (olive or onion). I love the looks of Martini glasses. Now, if I could learn to smoke while drinking a Vodka Martini, I’d be the epitome of sophistication, wouldn’t I.

But I digress …

Tyler discovered Republican comedians at the DC Improv (adult beverages were involved), and check out UN Observers?, an idea which must have been conceived by a drunk comedian.