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Monthly Archives: November 2003

randomotica

30-Nov-03

• suspicions arise over wellstone crash
• 12 war stories “they” don’t want you to hear
• name that war
• fear bush
• “I think it’s fair to say that Howard Dean, and many other liberals-but-not-pacifists, who opposed the war allowed their detestation for the Bush administration to blind them to the merits of the arguments in favor [...]

a fitting tribute

29-Nov-03

bowery & 2nd st., the corner on which cbgb resides, is to be renamed joey ramone way. the street sign will be unveiled tomorrow at 1pm.

Thankskilling

27-Nov-03

I can’t let this day go by without reminding people of the terrible death and genocide that this holiday is based on. Enjoy your turkey. DONT FORGET NOT TO BUY ANYTHING TOMORROW!!!! Buy nothing day…hip, hip, hurray!!!! **More Informative stuff**: Leonard Peltier statement for 34th National Day of Mourning. A day to give thanks? [...]

The Anarchists Won?

27-Nov-03

Here is an interesting article from the Miami Herald. This paper is rather conservative or at least seemed so leading up to the talks, which makes this critcism of the police all the sweeter. Also, notice how, according to the article, it seems like those crafty anarchists somehow coaxed the poor unwitting idiot-boy cops into [...]

Randomotica

26-Nov-03

• Welcome to the age of plebiscitary democracy.
• “[A] 15-page study just released by the minority staff of the House Appropriations Committee [...] finds that the number of home-state projects earmarked in various bills has skyrocketed under the GOP, despite the party’s rhetorical commitment to reining in a profligate federal government. Moreover, it contends, Republicans [...]

Boy That Canadian Border’s Lookin’ Great

24-Nov-03

Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the U.S. in the wake of Sept. 11, Franks said that ‘the worst thing that [...]

Lamentations of the local gentry

24-Nov-03

Lived here almost two years now
Don’t even know my neighbors’ names
Not the ones I see often
Shopkeep dunstairs
Not the ones right next door
Same buildin same floor
read em off the pile a envelopes
Stacked up on the steps
Not the same you know
Bees bustle round come home to their honeycombs
Ain’t got no community tho
Maybe its just a relic of [...]

Which member of the Bush Administration are you?

21-Nov-03

You are Colin Powell! You’re the odd duck of
the Bush White House - the reasonable diplomat.
Every administration’s got one!
Which member of the Bush Administration are you?
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(c/o martin o.)

BUH?

21-Nov-03

Fox News tries to sue Fox Entertainment for Simpsons jab.

Speaking of Cuban Insurgents…

21-Nov-03

Back, and to the Left. Back, and to the Left. Back, and to the Left.

21-Nov-03

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the assasination of President John F. Kennedy, in what was an apparent coup by the National Security apparatus to unseat a man who was no longer interested in playing war games with American dollars and American lives, and who was in the process of making peace negotiations with Fidel [...]

Reps Snub Bush on FCC Overhaul

20-Nov-03

“House and Senate negotiators last night defied a White House veto threat and agreed to a provision that would prevent the Federal Communications Commission from loosening rules on ownership of multiple media outlets.”