Posted on 04/26/2004 5:56:14 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:14:44 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
One night last summer, radio host Larry Elder beckoned his listeners to the Ha Ha Cafe in North Hollywood to film a documentary lampooning liberal film maker Michael Moore.
Intrigued, producer Eric Peterkofsky showed up for the night's comedy. He listened as comic Jeff Wayne headlined the event with right-wing jokes rarely heard in comedy shows.
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Aw shoot, we can't even get rain here! Pull those sweaters out, again. :-)
Heads up, Kerry on Hardball tonight. Get out the sea sick pills, after the fighting in Fallujah today Effin' will be pitchin' like a small boat in 'Victory at Sea'!
The dang phone rang when Effin' was whimpering about evil republican attacks (this much I heard), ...."on the presumptive nominee." ???!!!
Keeping my eye out for that transcript!
Don't cry for me Argentina!
Boater and fisherman Rick McKenna, of Winchester, Mass., shows off a glass of clear ocean water he collected from the Boston Harbor, Wednesday, April 21, 2004. The last time a Republican named Bush ran for president against a Massachusetts Democrat, a filthy Boston Harbor was transformed into a massive campaign prop in one short ferry trip. Today, as Bush's son takes on U.S. Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., a rejuvenated Boston Harbor looks nothing like a campaign issue. (AP Photo/Angela Rowlings) Don't need it, Teddy and Effin' have given us the Big Dig. :-)
My yahoo email is coming your way.
In Cleveland later Tuesday night, Kerry met privately with 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, who endorsed Howard Dean in this year's party primaries.Here come da curse!
LOL! You can bet meeting "privately" wasn't Gore's idea. He's becoming the white Jesse Jackson trying to worm his way into every newsworth event.
I'm boycotting O'Reilly since he started screaming for Rumsfeld to resign. Hmph! Like O'Reilly could run the DOD!
I'll give her credit: She admitted to being a socialist.
Obviously not an elected type since it's impossible to get people to vote for an admitted socialist. Vermont being the exception.
Looks like Snarlin' Arlen may have eked out a close victory. Break out the haggis and single malt for a Scottish celebration of McRINO's accomplishment!
Hey, here's a photo of sonsofliberty2000 and me protesting Kerry on Monday. I've never looked better.
We hear that some citizens were dismayed to see all the Secret Service agents loitering outside the Bumble & Bumble salon on East 56th Street yes- terday while Teresa Heinz Kerry had her hair done. [Didn't she tell Cindy Adams she does her own hair? Never mind.] "Our tax dollars at work," groused one voter. ....
YOU have to wonder about Michael Jackson's claim that he replaced Ben Brafman and Mark Geragos as his lawyers because they weren't paying his case enough attention. Brafman confided to a friend just a couple of days ago how he would be flown out to L.A. first-class and put up in a suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel to have just a 20-minute meeting with Jackson, who would sit quietly and barely say a word about the child-molesting charges against him. "Michael Jackson shows less concern and interest in his case than any client I've ever had," Brafman told one friend.
Speaking of Michael Jackson, the NY Daily News reports:
Michael Jackson may have split with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, but at least they can agree on clothes. Jackson has summoned Farrakhan's personal designer, [How much can you do with a white shirt and bow tie?] Willie Scott, to make a custom outfit for every day of his child-molestation trial. "Michael always complimented [Farrakhan] on his clothes and [his son] Josh Farrakhan told him to get in touch with me right away," Scott tells us. full story
It's looking more and more as if one of the best reasons to get rid of Saddam Hussein was that it was probably the only way to get rid of Oil-for-Food. The problem wasn't simply that this huge United Nations relief program for Iraq became a gala of graft, theft, fraud, palace-building and global influence-peddling--though all that was quite bad enough. The picture now emerging is that under U.N. management the Oil-for-Food program, which ran from 1996-2003, served as a cover not only for Saddam's regime to cheat the Iraqi people, but to set up a vast and intricate global network of illicit finance.
And though much debate has focused on the list published this past January in the Iraqi newspaper Al Mada--cataloguing some 270 individuals and entities world-wide alleged to have received illicit oil vouchers worth millions from Saddam--the Al Mada list may be the least of it (apart from the last name of the executive director of the Oil-for-Food program himself, Benon Sevan). Dwarfing the Al Mada list for size, scope and menace was the U.N.-piloted mothership, the entire $111 billion U.N. Oil-for-Food program. Supplied by Iraq's oil wells, the sums involved in Oil-for-Food's transactions were so enormous that even the routine rounding errors of a few hundred million here or there easily rivaled, for example, the $300 million or so in family money believed to have given Osama bin Laden his terrorist start.
Given Saddam's proclivities for deceit and violence, Oil-for-Food was also a menace to security. By letting Saddam pick his own business partners and draw up his own shopping lists, by keeping the details of his contracts and accounts secret, and by then failing abjectly to supervise the process, the U.N.--through a program meant to aid the people of Iraq--enabled Saddam to line his pockets while bankrolling his pals world-wide.
From this labyrinth, via kickbacks on underpriced oil and overpriced goods, Saddam extracted, by conservative estimates of the General Accounting Office, at least $4.4 billion in graft, plus an additional $5.7 billion on oil smuggled out of Iraq. Meanwhile, Mr. Annan's Secretariat shrugged and rang up its $1.4 billion in Iraqi oil commissions for supervising the program. Worse, the GAO notes that anywhere from $10 billion to as much as $40 billion may have been socked away in secret by Saddam's regime.
In Oil-for-Food, "Every contract tells a story," says John Fawcett, a financial investigator with the New York law firm of Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, which has sued the financial sponsors of Sept. 11 on behalf of the victims and their families. In an interview, Mr. Fawcett and his colleague, Christine Negroni, run down the lists of Oil-for-Food authorized oil buyers and relief suppliers, pointing out likely terrorist connections. One authorized oil buyer, they note, was a remnant of the defunct global criminal bank, BCCI. Another was close to the Taliban while Osama bin Laden was on the rise in Afghanistan; a third was linked to a bank in the Bahamas involved in al Qaeda's financial network; a fourth had a close connection to one of Saddam's would-be nuclear-bomb makers. complete story
More ammuntition for your arsenal.
You OTOH need to trim your nails. ;-)
You OTOH need to trim your nails. ;-)
Concerning snarlin Arlen's win, grrrr..... Let's just say I didn't cast my vote for him yesterday.
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