girlie mensch

* "You'd think Kerry, not Bush, had been the cheerleader in prep school. In the contest between real men and girlie men, women don't exist. The few female speakers were there to underline Bush's heterosexual credentials: Elizabeth Dole said Bush would protect us from gay marriage; Laura, Barbara and the twins testified to his Dadness." http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040927&s=pollitt

* "PUNTERS have hit bookmakers with a nationwide betting plunge on the coalition to win the October 9 election following the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta." munny talks. "Centrebet today shortened the coalition's odds to $1.30 from $1.50 a week ago, while Labor's price had blown out from $2.40 last Friday to $3.20... punters had wagered $70,000 on the coalition and just $100 on Labor with Centrebet." (i dont believe the volume #s, but the price is beyond dispute) http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1656040&storyid=1915256

* "Jon Stewart may be right that anyone can beat George Bush except the man the Democrats have nominated to do so." http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=204 (a good read)

* "The spawn of 9-11 -- two quagmired wars, Abu-Ghraib and Guantanamo, and an ever-less-relevant Constitution, among other things -- generate additional fear. It is not, in this political season, morning in America. More like minutes to midnight." http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=17643&area=geov

* given all the lies and murder of the jihadmin, its only cognitive dissonance that precludes at least the possibility that they were involved in 911. happy farkin anniversary.

* " If you say "Sept. 11," "madman" and "defend this country" enough, it clearly is enough to drive Americans mad." http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/09/10/as_war_toll_climbs_bush_still_deceives/ (ftr - bush doesnt 'deceive', he lies - even the angriest journo cant use those words)

* ftr - the jihadmin (i cant believe that term never occured to me b4) doesnt give a fark about johnhoward or his re-election. its all about generating/keeping a global audience. for a while ive been asking 'lemme know if u hear about the ozelection in the media' - how daft of me - as if it was ever gonna be so subtle. stoopid me. pam & amylh mite remember my prognostications when madrid got madrided that it seemed that they had given aznar enough rope to hang himself - i speculated at the time that it seemed that They had told aznar to run with the ETA story and they'd protect him (or paid him off). it seems that howard is making the same faustian 'bargain' - howard may have been told that if he does what he is told, then theyd help re-elect him, but howards re-election is irrelevant to them - its the 'we wont appease' story that matters - and it seems howard has walked straight into the trap - and has signed a massive death warrant in the process. probably inadvertently - altho when u dance with the devil...

remember that odd story (that i made so much of) when murderck bumped that story about alq terrorist jackroche on its website (on a sat) for the 'delay election' story? well - now we have a pre-nov election here - with howard all set up for a win. if howard gets aznar'd with a pre-election attack here, then we'll see lots of am 'we wont appease' stories - and 43 will be 're'-'elected' - if theres an election. the bottom line is that australia is merely a cog in the machine. of course. despite any media in the interim that its a referendum on 'iraq/terrorism' - and thats why we had the previous full-court press from 43/armitage et al. pure rove.

(ive gotta go organise dinner - more later)


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