[CFC__VRWC]

Damn!!! They discovered our secret weapon.

[Kirkwood]

"This call was in a league of its own," Ongaro said. "When I answered it, what I heard sounded like a cross between a roar and a loud humming noise. The noise seemed to be oscillating, and I could not make out any words being spoken. Instead, just this loud, grotesque, sometimes screeching and humming noise."

Guess he never got a fax call before on his voice line.

[randog]

Went to the site and read a few essays. Wow....those folks really need to start drinking more.

[Protagoras]

I'm just guessing this crap won't last long.

[mabelkitty]

Key words here: Tough election campaign.
He wasn't a shoo-in to win re-election.

Why kill someone when you can steal the election away from them? See? Even their own conspiracies conflict with each other. Too funny cuz they're too stupid.

[CaptRon]

Wellstone cast his vote for his conscience and against the Iraq measure, the lone Democrat involved in a tough 2002 election campaign to do so.

This loose bolt would have us erect a Soviet-style statue of Wellstone, no doubt. IMHO, Wellstone was not important enough to waste the gamma rays on. But, in death, he has become more significant than he was in life.

[woofie]

Where can I get some drugs like this guy is on?

[BlueLancer]

[Spok]

This from the folks who did not so much as raise an eyebrow over the Vince Foster 'suicide'. Gamma rays, no less. I'd put my money on the veracity of Juanita Broderick and Kathleen Willey first.

[VRWC_minion]

I hope the NYT, WP, and Dean jump on this news.

[jmstein7]

Click here to see the Democrat Campaign Letters from Hillary Clinton and Rep. Carolyn Maloney that YOU paid for!

[Godfollow]

Oh my gosh... how'd they know... now we're toast!

[cwb]

Rush was right: When these people are out of power, they are hilarious. And please...while I felt sorry for the Wellstone family, Paul was hardly this legendary figure they've made him out to be.

[schu]

If someone used an EMP device to “destroy” the electrical circuits of the plane, wouldn’t there be physical evidence of this destruction? Certainly all of the electrical components were not “lost” during the crash. Leaving physical evidence of this type at a crash site of a prominent public figure just does not seem real wise to me.

I guess the FBI, NTSB, CIA etc were all in on the conspiracy.

[redhead]

Help me up, here...I just fell right out of my chair laughing! Ohhhhh! My sides!!

[Labyrinthos]

Electromagnetic pulses from military craft may have been responsible for several civilian airline disasters in the late 1990s, according to an article in The London Observer. In particular, Swissair 111 in 1998 and TWA 800 in 1996 both took the same route over Long Island, experienced trouble in the same region, suffered catastrophic electrical malfunctions, and were flying at a time when military exercises involving submarines and U.S. Navy P3 fighter planes were being conducted***

"More likely, an EMP strike would disable delicate electronic systems, leaving electrical systems intact," the engineer wrote. "After being struck by an EMP, the aircraft would likely function more or less normally, but without any control systems, instruments, or radios. This would account for the assertion that the Wellstone plane's engines were still running when the plane hit the ground."

If EMP's allow the plane to function more or less normally, but without control systems, and TWA Flight 800 was struck by EMPs, then why did TWA Flight 800 explode in the sky rahter than crash into the sea with its engines running?

[Labyrinthos]

Electromagnetic pulses from military craft may have been responsible for several civilian airline disasters in the late 1990s, according to an article in The London Observer. In particular, Swissair 111 in 1998 and TWA 800 in 1996 both took the same route over Long Island, experienced trouble in the same region, suffered catastrophic electrical malfunctions, and were flying at a time when military exercises involving submarines and U.S. Navy P3 fighter planes were being conducted***

"More likely, an EMP strike would disable delicate electronic systems, leaving electrical systems intact," the engineer wrote. "After being struck by an EMP, the aircraft would likely function more or less normally, but without any control systems, instruments, or radios. This would account for the assertion that the Wellstone plane's engines were still running when the plane hit the ground."

If EMP's allow the plane to function more or less normally, but without control systems, and TWA Flight 800 was struck by EMPs, then why did TWA Flight 800 explode in the sky rahter than crash into the sea with its engines running?

[NYC GOP Chick]

And a few weeks later on Oct. 25, as he appeared to be winning his re-election bid, Wellstone, his wife, Sheila, his daughter, Marcia Markuson, three campaign staffers, and two pilots died in a plane crash in Minnesota.

Well, no. The race was fairly tight at that point and there was no clear hint as to the outcome. And as for the vote to go to war, it was pretty clear cut that Bush was going to get it from the Senate.

I've always maintained that if Bush was going to have a 'rat senator offed, he'd have done in one in a state with a Republican governor and who wasn't up for re-election right away. A perfect candidate would have been one of the pompous gasbags from Taxachusetts, or the a-holes from New York and Florida. Wellstone's temp replacement was appointed by Ventura (Deformed Party) and only served a couple of weeks anyway.

What about Democratic Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, who was killed during a close Senate race when his small plane crashed right before the 2000 election?

Ashcroft was just starting to pull ahead of him when Carnahan's plane went down. If he hadn't died, Ashcroft likely would have been re-elected, and this country would have been spared the Widder Carnahan's 2 loooong years in the Senate.

What about John F. Kennedy Jr., who had intelligence, political ambitions, charisma, and the name, dying in a 1999 plane crash?

Oh, *that* was Hillary's doing. < /snicker>

The list of high-profile Democratic politicians killed in plane crashes goes on - Commerce Secretary Ron Brown in 1996, Rep. Mickey Leland of Texas in 1989, Rep. Jerry Litton of Missouri in 1976 [who was also involved in a hard-fought election at the time], House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana and Rep. Nick Begich of Alaska in 1972.

Perhaps 'rats should start taking Amtrak and Greyhound more often...

There was no love lost between the Bush clan and Wellstone. In 1990, as Wellstone challenged the Persian Gulf War preparations, Bush Sr. even referred to Wellstone as a "chicken shit."

Yes, and? The sky is blue, but we don't need that spelled out for us, do we?

When Wellstone first met Bush Jr. in 2001, the latter disrespectfully called him "Pablo."

Considering that Bush gives nicknames to people he likes, I don't see what's so disrespectful. Now, calling him a sawed-off leftist weinie would have been disrespectful. Oh, and speaking of disrespectful (not to mention ignorant), the two Presidents Bush are NOT Sr. and Jr. They do not have identical names and the "Jr." that they keep trying to hang on GWB is just a way to demean, belittle and disrespect the man.

As The Nation said in May 2002, getting rid of Wellstone was a passion for Bush, Karl Rove, and Cheney. "There are people in the White House who wake up in the morning thinking about how they will defeat Paul Wellstone," a senior Republican aide told The Nation. "This one is political and personal for them."

Oh, I doubt that *very* much. Sure, Bush wanted to defeat him, but he wasn't exactly a high priority. Why would some leftist ex-professor with no prayer of national aspirations be a threat to Bush?

No senator had a more consistent record of voting against Bush administration proposals in 2001. Wellstone voted against the Homeland Security Act and many of Bush's judicial nominees. He pushed for stronger environmental programs, for genuine measures to counter corporate fraud, and for investigations into Sept. 11 and $350 million that was missing from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Not true -- most of the 'rats have the same (or very similar) voting record. But the rabid left has never let truth and facts get in the way of their regularly scheduled hissy fits.

[Conservomax]

Funny,

I heard about similar earlier versions of these weapons being tested on liberal targets off the coast of Massachusetts in mid July of 1969.

[Mr. Silverback]

Vice President Dick Cheney, probably the Bush administration's most evil public face.

Oh boy, you know right where it's going as soon as you read that, and in the first sentence, no less! I want the tinfoil wholesaler's concession in this guy's neighborhood!