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Sunday, August 21, 2005
Here We Go....
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Oooopsie-Pooopsie, the Big Bwana isn't gonna like this:
Republican senator likens Iraq war to Vietnam
By Sue Pleming
"What I think the White House does not yet understand and some of my colleagues, is the dam has broken on this (Iraq) policy," said Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee and possible presidential candidate in 2008.
A decorated Vietnam War veteran, Hagel also said the war in Iraq had further destabilized the Middle East and the White House needed to find an exit strategy for Iraq. :=8O
Hagel's comments on ABC's "This Week," coincide with
President George W. Bush's new offensive to counter growing public discontent over U.S. involvement in Iraq and calls for a pull-out date.
The White House rejected Hagel's remarks and said it was essential the United States complete its mission in Iraq.
"The president knows a free and democratic Iraq will help transform a dangerous region and lay the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren," White House spokesman Trent Duffy said in Crawford, Texas. No, its laying the foundation for moore terrorism and moore 9/11 attacks for our children & grandchilren... :=8/
"Our policies of the past only allowed the Middle East to become a terrorist breeding ground," he said. "Quitting now wouldn't help anyone except terrorist killers, who certainly aren't quitting their efforts to target innocent people." Those are YOUR policies, you idiot!!!! :=8O
Bush is taking his message on the road this week when he will invoke the September 11, 2001, attacks naturally... :=8/ to contend that the United States must stay the course in Iraq.
But the public is showing more discontent with Bush's handling of Iraq, with high-profile protests during his Texas ranch vacation and new poll results showing growing concern over the outcome of the war.
Hagel said there were growing similarities between Iraq and U.S. involvement in Vietnam and he predicted the longer the United States stayed in Iraq the more unpopular it would become.
"We are locked into a bogged down problem not unsimilar or dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam. The longer we stay the more problems we are going to have," he said.
Others Disagree.
Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia, speaking on the same program, strongly disagreed with Hagel's assessment and said there were huge differences between Iraq and Vietnam.
Allen backed the president's view that the Iraq war, which began in March 2003, was a focal point in America's war on terrorism after the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
"It is absolutely essential that we win it. We cannot tuck tail and run (from Iraq). We have to prevail. We must win. If we lose, that will destabilize the Middle East," said Allen. Too late, you've alredy done that! :=8/
Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin broke ranks with many of his colleagues this week and called for a December 2006 deadline to withdraw from Iraq, arguing this would take the wind out of the sails of the insurgency. Had to break ranks, huh? :=8/
In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," Feingold said if a target date was not set the American public would become more and more disillusioned.
"The president is not telling us the time frame ... what's happening is that the American public is despairing of the situation," said Feingold. "I felt it was time to put on the table an idea and break the taboo," he added.
But fellow Democrat Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, disagreed and said a fixed timetable was not needed.
"The senator (Feingold) is understandably frustrated, like all America is. What we need in Iraq is either a strategy to win or a strategy to get out," he told ABC.
Feingold and Allen are also on the Foreign Relations Committee.
Hagel also did not back Feingold's approach but he said there needed to be a clearer strategy from the White House.
"I don't know how many more casualties we're going to take. We're spending a billion dollars a week now (in Iraq)," said Hagel.
More than 1,800 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq and thousands more have been wounded.
"We should start figuring out how we get out of there. But with this understanding, we cannot leave a vacuum that further destabilizes the Middle East," said Hagel.
Well, America, its yer money, yer sons and daughters, yer nation getting hated globally. That's what you all get for voting in a complete moron, and I hope the chickens come home to roost on this because stupid, selfish, ignorant Americans will never understand anything until they see consequences.
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Thursday, August 18, 2005
Cat Fight!!! :=8O
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Lott Attacks Frist in His New Book
Senator Accuses Majority Leader of 'Personal Betrayal'
By DAVID ESPO, AP
Senator Accuses Majority Leader of 'Personal Betrayal'
By DAVID ESPO, AP
WASHINGTON (Aug. 17) - Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott blames his fall from power in 2002 on a "personal betrayal" by an ambitious Sen. Bill Frist, his successor, adding in a new book that President Bush, Colin Powell and other GOP associates played a role.
Frist, R-Tenn., "didn't even have the courtesy to call and tell me personally that he was going to run," the Mississippi Republican wrote of a tumultuous period in which he lost his position as Senate leader after making racially tinged remarks.
"If Frist had not announced exactly when he did, as the fire was about to burn out, I would still be majority leader of the Senate today," Lott said in "Herding Cats, A Life in Politics."
In the book, Lott described an unusual partnership with President Clinton that worked to the detriment of 1996 GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole; praised former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota as trustworthy; and recalled that Vice President Gerald R. Ford personally cautioned him "not to go so far out on a limb" in defending President Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
A native of Mississippi, Lott recalled feeling "anger in my heart over the way the federal government had invaded Ole Miss to accomplish something that could have been handled peacefully and administratively," the admission of the first black student to the University of Mississippi in 1962.
As a law student at the school, Lott wrote, he remembered the visiting professors from Yale, brought in to teach constitutional law. "Instead of making us more liberal, they helped create a generation of thoughtful, issue-oriented conservatives who grew up to run Mississippi politics."
Lott, first elected to the House in 1972, moved to the Senate in 1988.
He became majority leader in 1996, succeeding Dole when the Kansan quit to campaign full time for the White House.
In the book, Lott wrote he quickly formed an unusual alliance with Clinton. Political consultant Dick Morris was the go-between. It's called compromise...learn it GWB :=8/
The "backstairs arrangement" produced major health and welfare legislation, "but I was treading on dangerous territory," Lott wrote.
Dole protested. "But I thought there was more at stake than Dole's chances at winning the White House," Lott wrote. "Dole wasn't providing as much coattails for other Republicans on the ticket as we had hoped," Lott added.
Republicans lost their thin majority in 2001 when Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont left the GOP to become an independent.
"I had raised money for Jeffords; in 2000, I had even campaigned for him in Vermont. Six months later, this was the way he repaid me," Lott wrote.
"He'd always had a habit of bartering his crucial vote on legislation for his own pet projects," Lott said. Bitter much?? ;=8)
Lott said that Jeffords once demanded $1 billion for a child health program and also sought provisions to help Vermont's dairy industry.
Lott's final fall from power was triggered when he said at Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday that the country "wouldn't have had all these problems over the years" if it had elected Thurmond president in 1948. Ummmm, that was a supremely stupid thing to say... :=8/
The remarks directed to the one-time segregationist were delivered off the cuff, Lott wrote, saying he often kidded Thurmond, R-S.C., by telling him he would have made a great president.
The uproar was slow to build. But, Lott wrote, by the time it was over, former Sen. Don Nickles of Oklahoma had helped bring him down, and he recalled a tense conversation with Sen. George Allen of Virginia, who told him to resign for the good of the party.
"'I'm not going to do it,' I yelled back at him. 'I'm not going to do it and I'm very disappointed by your call," Lott wrote.
Bush "struck at me," Lott wrote, when he said that Lott 'has apologized and rightly so."
Lott added, "I couldn't argue with the words he chose. But the tone he employed was devastating ... booming and nasty."
Powell, who was secretary of state at the time, called in reporters to deplore Thurmond's Dixiecrat campaign of 1948. "I couldn't understand it. I'd worked with him enough over the years that he should have known I wasn't a racist," Lott wrote.
Ahhh, nothing like a bit of in-fighting and sour grapes to show that all is not well here in Jesusland for the right wingers. Bush's plunging popularity, the never-ending quagmire in Iraq, political scandals for the GOP in Ohio and udder states.... just goes to show ya the wheel of politican fortune is spun by a very fickle hand indeed, at least in this country... Frist and Lott are a pair of scumbags, and they deserve their fates, but at least Lott made the mooove to work with a Democrat in the White House.
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- posted by The MooCow @ 6:54 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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POO BUNNY ATTACK!!!!! :=8o
Man charged over bizarre conduct
BY MELANIE BENNETT
Staff Writer
An Atlanta man was arrested Thursday afternoon after he smeared feces on himself and walked around a department store :=8O in Columbus, police said.
Antoine Williams, 26, of 438 Vine St. NW, was charged with disorderly conduct after the incident at Macy's in Peachtree Mall, said Columbus Police Lt. Richard Gaines.
Williams is scheduled for a Recorder's Court hearing at 8 a.m. today.
Gaines said Williams entered the men's rest room at Macy's about 6 p.m.
He defecated, Gaines said, then smeared feces over the walls and on himself.
Gaines said Williams then walked out into the department store."Everybody saw it," Gaines said. "He didn't try to touch anyone -- he was just walking through the store."
Mall security caught Williams, Gaines said, and he was taken by ambulance to St. Francis Hospital for a psychiatric examination.
"They cleared him," Gaines said. Williams was then taken to the Muscogee County Jail.
Macy's employees would not comment about the incident.
Well, we are talking Macy's, after all, so its not THAT surprising... :=8/
And, just to show you the MooCow doesn't just have bunnies on the brain, there's this:
Financier's pet cruelty shame
By Les Kennedy
August 13, 2005
Brendan McMahon could be a model for the sensitive New Age guy. He says he sponsors eight children in Guatemala, is a long-term member of the NSW Art Gallery Society and a successful financier. He even claims he was voted bachelor of the year in 1998.
But the New Zealand-born man has now been charged with bestiality and animal cruelty.Police allege that McMahon, 36, of North Sydney, had sexual relations with one of 18 rabbits whose mutilated carcasses have been dumped in the city over the past three weeks. :=8O
He appeared before a Central Local Court magistrate, Allan Moore, yesterday on 21 charges, having been arrested at 1 am in Tamarama. He offered no plea.
The investigation began after skinned and partially skinned dead and dying rabbits began to appear in a lane off York Street, near Circular Quay, late last month. Police also found a dead guinea pig. :=8O
The lane adjoined a building in which McMahon allegedly occupied a first-floor office, from which he ran a financial planning and mortgage brokerage, Meares-McMahon Capital with Jason Meares, the brother of Jodhi Packer. The company was formerly known as Transpacific Securities.
During their investigations, police from The Rocks phoned city pet stores to find who had been buying rabbits and found a number of purchases from a credit card in McMahon's name. They also seized a security video of one purchase.
McMahon was charged with 18 counts of committing acts of aggravated cruelty on 18 rabbits between July 20 and August 11. He was also charged with committing an act of bestiality with a rabbit :=8O on August 1 between 3am and 4am. He was also charged with two counts of possession of cannabis. Mr Moore refused McMahon bail and ordered him to reappear before the court next Friday via a prison videolink, when his barrister, barrister, Doug Marr, said he would apply for bail.
His company's website said McMahon was voted bachelor of the year by marie claire readers in 1998. In fact, that magazine does not run such a competition and another man was voted Cleo Bachelor of the Year in 1998. The website said of McMahon: "He is a long term member of the NSW Art Gallery Society and the 18 Footers Yacht Club in Double Bay. World Vision also appreciate his support for the eight children sponsored in one of their projects situated in Guatamala [sic]."
It also said he travelled regularly to New Zealand.
Copyright © 2005. The Sydney Morning Herald.
Ok, maybe I DO have bunnies on the brain. Let's try one mooore little news tidbit...
Enumclaw-area animal-sex case investigated
By Jennifer Sullivan
Seattle Times staff reporter
King County sheriff's detectives are investigating the owners of an Enumclaw-area farm after a Seattle man died from injuries sustained while having sex with a horse :=8O boarded on the property. Investigators first learned of the farm after the man died at Enumclaw Community Hospital July 2. The county Medical Examiner's Office ruled that the death was accidental and the result of having sex with a horse. A surveillance camera picked up the license plate of the car that dropped the man off at the hospital, which led detectives to the farm and other people involved, said sheriff's Sgt. John Urquhart.
Deputies don't believe a crime occurred because bestiality is not illegal in Washington state and the horse was uninjured, said Urquhart. But because investigators found chickens, goats and sheep on the property, they are looking into whether animal cruelty — which is a crime — was committed by having sex with these smaller, weaker animals, he said.
The farm was talked about in Internet chat rooms as a destination for people looking to have sex with livestock, he said." :=8O
A significant number of people, we believe, have likely visited this farm," said Urquhart. The Humane Society of the United States intends to use the case during the next state legislative session as an example of why sex with animals should be outlawed in Washington, said Bob Reder, a Humane Society regional director in Seattle. "This and a few other cases that we have will allow us a platform to talk about sex abuse of animals," Reder said.
Thirty-three states ban sex with animals, he said. Susan Michaels, co-founder of local animal-rights organization Pasado's Safe Haven, said she has been fighting to have bestiality made illegal. "It's animal cruelty behind closed doors," Michaels said.
Jennifer Sullivan: 206-464-8294 or jensullivan@seattletimes.com The Associated Press contributed to this report.
That's it! I am demanding the withdrawl of all cows in the state of Washington, and all other states where beastiality is encouraged, until the situation changes drastically! C'mon everybody, let's have a million moo-er march on Washington!!!!
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- posted by The MooCow @ 9:08 PM 0 comments
Sunday, August 07, 2005
In Case You've Forgotten...
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The war in Iraq goes on and on mindlessly, each day piling fresh corpse upon fresh corpse. People still want to know why:
Mom Protesting Iraq War Meets Bush Aides
Woman Whose Son Died in Combat Still Demands to See President
By DEB RIECHMANN, AP
CRAWFORD, Texas (Aug. 7) - The angry mother of a fallen U.S. soldier staged a protest near President Bush's ranch Saturday, demanding an accounting from Bush of how he has conducted the war in Iraq.
Supported by more than 50 demonstrators who chanted, ''W. killed her son!'' Cindy Sheehan told reporters: ''I want to ask the president, 'Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?''' Sheehan, 48, didn't get to see Bush, but did talk about 45 minutes with national security adviser Steve Hadley and deputy White House chief of staff Joe Hagin, who went out to hear her concerns.
Appreciative of their attention, yet undaunted, Sheehan said she planned to continue her roadside vigil, except for a few breaks, until she gets to talk to Bush. Her son, Casey, 24, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004. He was an Army specialist, a Humvee mechanic.
''They (the advisers) said we are in Iraq because they believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that the world's a better place with Saddam gone and that we're making the world a safer place with what we're doing over there,'' Sheehan said in a telephone interview after the meeting.
''They were very respectful. They were nice men. I told them Iraq was not a threat to the United States and that now people are dead for nothing. I told them I wouldn't leave until I talked to George Bush.''
She said Hagin told her, ''I want to assure you that he (Bush) really does care.''
''And I said if he does care, why doesn't he come out and talk to me.''
Sheehan arrived in Crawford aboard a bus painted red, white and blue and emblazoned with the words, ''Impeachment Tour.'' Sheehan, from Vacaville, Calif., had been attending a Veterans for Peace convention in Dallas.
The bus, trailed by about 20 cars of protesters and reporters, drove at about 15 mph toward Bush's ranch. After several miles, they parked the vehicles and began to march, in stifling heat, farther down the narrow country road.
Flanked by miles of pasture, Sheehan spoke with reporters while clutching two photographs, one of her son in uniform, and the other, a baby picture, when he was seven months old.
She said she decided to come to Crawford a few days ago after Bush said that fallen U.S. troops had died for a noble cause and that the mission must be completed.
''I want to ask the president, 'Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?'' she said, her voice cracking with emotion. ''Last week, you said my son died for a noble cause' and I want to ask him what that noble cause is?''
White House spokesman Trent Duffy said response that Bush also wants the troops to return home safely.
''Many of the hundreds of families the president has met with know their loved one died for a noble cause and that the best way to honor their sacrifice is to complete the mission,'' Duffy said.
''It is a message the president has heard time and again from those he has met with and comforted. Like all Americans, he wants the troops home as soon as possible.''
The group marched about a half-mile before local law enforcement officials stopped them at a bend in the road, still four to five miles from the ranch's entrance. Capt. Kenneth Vanek of the McLennan County Sheriff's Office said the group was stopped because some marchers ignored instructions to walk in the ditch beside the road, not on the road.
''If they won't cooperate, we won't,'' Vanek said.
Let's see, just what was that 'noble cause", they hate our freedom, Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, imposing democracy in the Middle East, cheap oil revenues - does it really matter any moore??
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- posted by The MooCow @ 8:44 AM 0 comments
Saturday, August 06, 2005
what the dingdongheckamadoodle damn is going on?? :=8/
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The HUGE and MASSIVE Gulf between my title and the body of my last post refuses to go away. Sorry, Blog fans, ain't much a cow and a horde of typing helper monkeys can dew about it...
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- posted by The MooCow @ 9:14 AM 0 comments
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Ummm....Ewwwww.... :=8P
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Always finding the winners...
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Always finding the winners...
Teacher Reprimanded for Licking Wounds - By Associated Press
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BEND, Ore. - A state board voted to publicly reprimand a Central Linn High School teacher and football coach for licking the bleeding wounds of several student athletes.
The Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission Wednesday placed Scott Reed on two years' probation.
Details of the case and censure will go on the commission Web site and be sent to all Oregon school districts and to departments of education nationwide.
Reed must attend a class on the risks of blood-borne pathogens within the next two months and furnish the commission with written verification of his attendance.
Reed agreed to "stipulated facts" that included him licking blood from wounds on a track team member's knee, a football player's arm, and a high school student's hand. :=8O
It was not clear why he licked the wounds. Sure it is: the guy is NUTS!!! :=8O
The Linn County Sheriff's Office investigated the case last year. No charges were filed. Sheriff Dave Burright called the behavior "bizarre" but not criminal, since the contact wasn't forced.
Two students who reported licking incidents and another who witnessed an incident said it seemed that Reed was "just joking around."
Reed, a science teacher, resigned this spring as a track coach but remains the school's dean of students and head football coach.
The state sanctions virtually duplicated those imposed by the school district.
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Information from: The Register-Guard
Pardon me while I go "Ewww Ewww Ewww Ewww", and hop up and down, flapping my hooves, like a little girl who has just seen a squooshed spider.
That's just gross, guys... :=8P
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