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Quick note from one of the associate editors
Hi folks, it's Doc Steve. I've deleted a couple articles tonight -- at least I set the kill flags. While you might see them in the headlines, you shouldn't be able to get to them. Please don't write a comment on them -- if I set the kill flag after you've commented, there's a chance it won't work.

The "articles" are more Eleano-style posts, though unsigned, and have more of the usual Jooooo-hating nonsense along with "indictments" of GWB, etc.

Been there, seen that, wrote the book report.

Fred can change this if he wants, and he'll let me know. But for tonight at least I'm gob-smacking them as I find them. I'll check back in the early am.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/16/2004 12:50:04 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, but, how am I supposed to justify my high blood pressure meds without trolls to blame?!?!?

Murat... where are you???
Posted by: Hyper || 03/16/2004 2:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey Doc. Lano was prolly on his tenth Tecate. Could have been a hoot!
Posted by: Lucky || 03/16/2004 3:09 Comments || Top||

#3  I did see where Eli invoked Saint Rachel de Jemima in an effort to bring down nuclear fire on our heads.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 03/16/2004 4:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Good work...it just needs to happen more often. Whack the moles that need whacking...
Posted by: gromky || 03/16/2004 7:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Yea! It will discourage them from coming here if their hard work goes unread. Just like graffiti...they think their half-&**& mess is beautiful, when 99 times out of 100, it's just talentless crayon scribblings.
Posted by: B || 03/16/2004 8:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Thank you.

Reasonably argued alternative viewpoints stimulate thinking. Hateful and interminable screeds stimulate blood pressure.
Posted by: Mr. Davis || 03/16/2004 10:25 Comments || Top||

#7  We appreciate all the hard work you and the other guys from Rantburg Animal ConTroll are doing.
Posted by: Mike || 03/16/2004 14:11 Comments || Top||

#8  I wish I could work in a little Shakespeare St. Crispus/ St. Pancakes Day Battle. But it's to much...almost has tiresome as a Dune parody. Dune! The Dessert Planet.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 15:51 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Soldier’s shame over donkey sex
No, Amhed! When I said we use the donkey for sex, I meant that we use the donkey to take us into the village brothel.
AN Afghan soldier was detained by police after being caught stuffing having sex with a donkey in southeastern Afghanistan. The soldier was discovered doinking with the donkey in an abandoned house in a small village of Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, last week, a local police officer said. "He was caught in the act by a small boy who immediately told police about what he had seen and police arrested him in action," the Gardez-based officer said, requesting anonymity.
"Officer Friendly! Officer Friendly! Mahmoud's humping his donkey!"
The soldier claimed he committed the act because he did not have enough money to get married. After being caught with the donkey in a village about 100km south of the capital Kabul, he was jailed for four days and then released without charge. According to tradition in south and southeastern Afghanistan, a suitor must pay around $US5,000 ($A6,800) to the parents of the girl he wishes to marry.
... and you can get a donkey for much less, especially if you lease.
Posted by: tipper || 03/16/2004 7:41:45 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So I guess a donkey is cheaper?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 03/16/2004 19:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Ain't no big thang. No really, it was a small thing. Very small.
Posted by: Donkeys Anonymous SpokesDonkey || 03/16/2004 20:01 Comments || Top||

#3  He was cleaning pedro's right hoof and then he noticed the shapleiness of his donkey's well formed ankle...
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/16/2004 20:15 Comments || Top||

#4  The article sort of leaves ambiguity about whether he was playing the mommy or the daddy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/16/2004 20:56 Comments || Top||

#5  "the shapeliness of his donkey's well formed ankle"

Hmmm, I'm thinking he's more of an ass man.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/16/2004 20:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Will Sweden let him in as a refugee?
Posted by: Jackal || 03/16/2004 22:02 Comments || Top||

#7  SuperH and SteveS:

I wanted to leave a smarmy comment, but...

you guys too funny, man !
Posted by: Carl in NH || 03/16/2004 22:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Peace be upon the donkey.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester || 03/16/2004 22:46 Comments || Top||

#9  The donkey has been violated. She must be stoned to death. It's an honor killing thang.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/16/2004 23:10 Comments || Top||


How to Make A Mullah
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/16/2004 11:09 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Science proves beer bubbles sink
Scottish scientists claim to have video evidence which proves that bubbles in a glass of beer can move downwards. Working in association with colleagues in California, the Edinburgh University researchers used a high-speed digital camera to record the movement. Until now, some had claimed that the effect was an optical illusion. The scientists released their evidence to coincide with St Patrick’s Day, claiming that the effect is clearest in Irish stout.
After several glasses of stout, I tend to sink to the floor.
Although generations of beer drinkers had reported seeing bubbles sink to the bottom of their glass, scientists had struggled to prove that it could really happen.
Needed lots of hands-on research, with a grant to pay their bar tab.
The researchers found that bubbles touching the walls of a glass experience drag which prevents them floating upwards. Bubbles in the centre of the glass are free to rise, creating a circular flow which causes the bubbles near the edge of the glass to be pushed downwards. The effect occurs in any liquid, but the scientists claim that the contrast between dark liquid and creamy bubbles in stout made it most suitable for their research.
The fact that it tastes better had no influence on their selection of brews. Right.
Dr Andrew Alexander of Edinburgh University’s School of Chemistry said: "We had known for some time about the question of Guinness bubbles defying the norm. Our group carried out preliminary experiments at a local pub a few years ago, but the results proved inconclusive."
Couldn’t remember what the results were, so they had to keep repeating the experiment.
Although an undisclosed quantity of beer was used in the laboratory experiments, the researchers insist that it was poured away afterwards to prevent their judgement becoming clouded.
"Excuse me, I have to pour like a racehorse. Where’s the loo?"
Posted by: Steve || 03/16/2004 10:01:30 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  maybe the bubbles are stationary, but the mug is raised - I know that happens with mine
Posted by: Frank G || 03/16/2004 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Mmmmmmmmmm... Beeeeeer!
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 03/16/2004 10:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey Fred, why doesn't Rantburg U ever conduct studies like this? And why wasn't I invited? Your staunch allies in the WoT want to participate in these things, too. Or was this "experiment" held at the Wheelus O'club?
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/16/2004 12:55 Comments || Top||

#4  "Oi! Landlord! More experimental subjects over here..."
Posted by: mojo || 03/16/2004 18:38 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
The Dear Leader Enjoys Private Parties With His Pleasure Team
Next to the nuclear-weapons program, there is probably nothing more secret in North Korea than the "joy brigades," sometimes known as the "pleasure team." These are exceptionally pretty young women from the countryside who are brought to Pyongyang in their mid-teens. They are taught to sing and dance for the Dear Leader’s private parties. Their principal purpose, of course, is to become sex objects for the Great Leader and his closest aides. When he is in a rare magnanimous mood, he is known to pass them out to his subordinates as party favors.

In one instance, after a drinking party he told the male guests they could have any of the young girls they could catch. This led to ludicrous scenes of elderly drunken lechers chasing the girls all over the palace. One defector’s account paints the following scene:

[T]he party scene was overtaken by pandemonium. Men and women were rolling over each other near the tables and sofas. Young ladies were shouting, ’Comrade leader!’ as they tried to escape. Elderly officials grabbed young ladies that had escaped into the restrooms where they forced them against washbasins to threaten them with comic faces. The scene was overtaken by extreme frenzy.
The rest is censured. Rantburg is a family website.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester || 03/16/2004 7:44:11 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Note to NK people: I could do this job, and make sure you're fed as well. Resume available upon request
Posted by: Frank G || 03/16/2004 20:35 Comments || Top||

#2  You know, I keep reading about this stuff in NKor, but nobody posts pictures of the young lovelies in question.

Has anyone alerted Gweilo Diaries ?

Posted by: Carl in NH || 03/16/2004 21:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Shoot. with that kinda track record Old Great Leader could make the Soddie or Taliban grope and rape varsity team!!
Posted by: anymouse || 03/16/2004 21:57 Comments || Top||

#4  From the first in the series:

The people of North Korea are taught to think that since gods lead North Korea, then it must be "paradise on earth." That is an illusion far from the truth. During a round of drinking in Beijing a PLA general bragged to an American diplomat that a number of KPA senior officers have defected to communist China. The general made the rhetorical remark, "Can you imagine what their society must be like if they defect to us?"
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/16/2004 22:18 Comments || Top||

#5  CF: "During a round of drinking in Beijing a PLA general bragged...'Can you imagine what their society must be like if they defect to us?'"

Wow, in vino veritas...
Posted by: Carl in NH || 03/16/2004 22:27 Comments || Top||


News Flash! North Korea Invents Grass!
The Institute of City Management of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has bred a new species of turf. It, a variety of the short golden turf, is very popular among people.
Yumm, tasty!
It grows only 6 centimeters so that it does not need to be cut. The new species spreads its stalks and leaves more than four times as fast as other species of the golden turf. With nodes shorter than other species by a half, the new species strikes so many roots to cover the soil and thus prevents soil from being washed away by rain. Its thick leaves keep the soil moist, so they remain green even in the dry season. And it comes back to life easily. The color of the turf and its seed is light green, which resembles a green carpet. The color remains unchanged by November.
Be great for all those North Korean golf courses, if they had any.
The turf has been planted on Yanggak Islet and in different parts of Pyongyang.
Lunch is now being served.
Posted by: Steve || 03/16/2004 10:41:04 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Umm, I think he's describing crabgrass.
Posted by: 11A5S || 03/16/2004 11:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Ha HA HA fucking excellent laugh, the hight of Nork science,can't stop laughing. Like something from a bad comedy sketch,well a good one actually
Posted by: Jon Shep U.K || 03/16/2004 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  they can grow grass but not food?
Posted by: smokeysinse || 03/16/2004 11:47 Comments || Top||

#4  they can grow grass but not food?
Posted by: smokeysinse || 03/16/2004 11:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Why should they grow food? The NGOs are more then happy to feed their starving people so that Kimmie-boy can have his army of thugs.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/16/2004 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Frankly, after five years of drought and water bills that take a healthy chunk out of my paycheck, I'm looking for any type of grass that will grow in crappy, mostly-sand soil, needs little water, and is a color other than mud brown. Oh, and it has to be able to withstand temperatures ranging from -30F to over +100F, survive on 15 inches of moisture a year (or less), and capable of surviving in air about 30% thinner than sea level... and be cheap to buy! If Kimmie baby's grass will do that, I've got enough concerned neighbors to take out the NKor government. I wouldn't pay this POS anything for anything, but I'm not averse to stealing from them. NKor would be toast!
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/16/2004 13:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Hmm..I wonder what sort of tree bark gets served with this new grass. Something light like Birch or more robust like Oak?
Posted by: JerseyMike || 03/16/2004 15:05 Comments || Top||

#8  OP: My friend you need Zoysia Grass! Look for the great big yellow ad in Parade and other fine periodicals.

LOL. I used to edit (seriously) a magazine which relied on Zoysia Grass! for 15% of its ad revenue. It was much fun. PS remember to ask for the grass installer. (Broom handle with a nail)
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 16:36 Comments || Top||

#9  The proud inventor was recently overheard:

"It's a combination of Pyongyang Blue, featherbed bent, and Northern Korean Sensimean. You can play 18 holes on it during the day, and get stoned to the Bejesus belt on this stuff dat night." - Kim Young Spagler, DPRK
Posted by: eLarson || 03/16/2004 17:09 Comments || Top||

#10  The NorKs have got to have something to sell, now that the bottom has dropped out of the ballistic-missile market. The Muslims take a very dim view of their populations using white slag.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/16/2004 19:36 Comments || Top||

#11  Super grass! Super rocks! Super dirt!
Can anything stop these amazing people?!
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/16/2004 21:43 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Australia steps up war on terror with massive funding boost
Posted by: || 03/16/2004 23:40 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Locusts swarm across Australia
Signs and portents:
A plague of locusts that has devastated crops in the Australian outback has begun migrating south. Heavy rains that ended a long drought in north-eastern Australia has provided ideal breeding conditions for the bugs. Officials said the swarms that appeared in remote parts of Queensland had moved to more built-up New South Wales. Until the weekend, locust fighters thought they had won the battle over Australia’s worst locust outbreak since December 2000. More than 200,000 hectares (494,000 acres) have been sprayed in a bid to contain the plague. But the heavy rainfalls that ended the drought last month rendered the insecticides virtually useless.

"Over the last week, substantial redistribution of adult locusts have occurred with movements into northern New South Wales," said the Australian Plague Locust Commission. New South Wales farmer Joe Davis, who has already lost crops to the locusts, said he had been warned to expect the worst. "In a few days, we will see locusts that will just black the sun out," he told ABC television. "There won’t be a green thing, they’ll even eat the clothes off the washing line."
Drought - check. Locusts - check. Sun blotted out...excuse me while I check the supplies in my bunker.
Posted by: Steve || 03/16/2004 9:34:42 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  wow sounds awesome,a plague of biblical proportions.hope they go to russia to eat
Posted by: Jon Shep U.K || 03/16/2004 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  In Thailand they are lunch. Seriously locusts are just a resource we havn't yet exploited. On a number of occasions I have driven through the bush in Western Australia and the locusts are so thick that after five minutes you have to stop and clean your windshield because it is completely obscured by dead locusts.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/16/2004 9:53 Comments || Top||

#3  My understanding is that the problem with using insecticides on locusts is that they quickly build up resistance to anything used on them and so become that much stronger. And it messes up our food supplies with residual pesticides. Too bad the Aussies can't find a way to catch them, dip them in chocolate or Thai spices or whatever, and package and sell them to those who enjoy such "delectable" crunchables. Little bags of bug chips.
Posted by: ex-lib || 03/16/2004 10:07 Comments || Top||

#4  It's Bush's fault.
Posted by: Matt || 03/16/2004 10:14 Comments || Top||

#5  You think the locusts are bad... you just wait for the B-36 seagulls that are on the way.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  locusts - Why do they hate us?
Posted by: .com || 03/16/2004 11:35 Comments || Top||

#7  perhaps binny will put out a new apocalyps trailer saying the locusts are the new weapon of 'Islam'. Can't we Geneticlly modify locusts to be made out of pork and thenrelease them so they can swarm binny and his friends in Pakiland
Posted by: Jon Shep U.K || 03/16/2004 11:49 Comments || Top||

#8  i hope antiwar remeber to get her laundry. they should not put poisin everywere in a panic as that can damage envirement. croc hunter will probly make show about locus purdy soon.
Posted by: muck4doo || 03/16/2004 11:57 Comments || Top||

#9  We in DC are expecting a bumper crop of 17-year cicadas this spring...
Posted by: Seafarious || 03/16/2004 13:27 Comments || Top||

#10  Arright, mates, who fergot ta go to Church on Sunday????
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/16/2004 13:28 Comments || Top||

#11  Oh, it's NOT another story about Muslim immigrants.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 03/16/2004 14:26 Comments || Top||

#12  M4D ever the kind hearted poster. AntiWar will sell you down the river in a heartbeat. BTW Chainney hiding on the new planet.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 16:40 Comments || Top||

#13  Just spent some time talking with a friend of mine who works for a local chip manufacturer. He clued me to something I wasn't aware of - you can kill locusts with sound. Remember those "sound weapons" the Marines were going to deploy to Iraq? According to Joe, you can kill locusts with something similar to that. Tune it to the right frequency, and it turns the juices in their digestive tract to steam. Someone in Australia needs to start experimenting... like ten years ago!
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/16/2004 18:25 Comments || Top||

#14  OP: see http://rantburg.com/poparticle.asp?HC=&D=9/28/2003&ID=19181
Posted by: mojo || 03/16/2004 18:32 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
A Letter for American s Abroad
A Letter for American s Abroad
Snipped, thanks for sharing.
Ambassador Alan Blinken
Former Ambassador to Belgium
Lt. General (Ret.) Claudia Kennedy
Former U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence; Chairman First Star
Ambassador Sam Brown
Former Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Rand Beers
Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism
Ambassador Clay Constantinou
Former Ambassador to Luxembourg
Gregory Craig
Former Director, Office of Policy and Planning, U.S Department of State
and bunches of others.
Posted by: || 03/16/2004 1:51:28 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess this explains why these guys are all "former" Ambassadors.
Posted by: Steve || 03/16/2004 14:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Sam Brown? LOL Tie Die Sam?
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 14:15 Comments || Top||

#3  If I responded to this crap appropriately, Fred would ban me.
Posted by: PBMcL || 03/16/2004 14:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Wait I second.... I am begining to pick up a pattern in these names..... hmmmmmm. Why yes, now I see it, they are all preserved paleolefties from the Jimmuh and Billuh years.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 14:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Since when is Rantburg a billboard for appeasement? No link, no poster - SNIP IT!
Posted by: Spot || 03/16/2004 14:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Agree with all.

Especially the "dump it" sentiment.

Don't keep it because we've posted comments - toss it where it belongs, the bit bucket!
Posted by: .com || 03/16/2004 14:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Ahh, the usual assortment of State Department...oh, never mind. When I was assigned overseas, us DOD peons roundly despised these useless tools. I see nothing here to make me change my mind, either.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 03/16/2004 14:38 Comments || Top||

#8  I bet every one of them is receiving Saudi money from one front organization or another.
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 03/16/2004 14:41 Comments || Top||

#9  I bet every one of them is receiving Saudi money from one front organization or another.

Actually, I bet every one of them went to work lobbying for the countries where they used to be posted. I remember that old anecdote about Reagan asking the ambassadors who they represented. None of them came back with the right answer - the United States of America.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 03/16/2004 14:43 Comments || Top||

#10  wow i am surprised ole kimmy and the mullas in tehran are not mentioned in their support for kerry....
Posted by: Dan || 03/16/2004 15:16 Comments || Top||

#11  I thought I'd killed this idiot. Turns out, I wrote over the code that did it. Now it's turned back on...
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2004 16:03 Comments || Top||

#12  Fred ain't misdirectin.... No!
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 17:09 Comments || Top||

#13  I knew a Sam Brown in Washington, DC, but he was never an ambassador. He's also not 'into' politics. I wonder if someone isn't using a bunch of DC names, and attaching another title to them. We know the Saudis plan to do everything possible to see George Bush is defeated (that can be stopped with one small tac nuke in Riyadh, but the consequences would be horrific - maybe if Kerry wins). I didn't get here in time to see all the names, so I can't comment on anything else. I don't ever remember a LtGen Kennedy in Intel, and I usually keep track of those postings (lots of friends in the field).
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/16/2004 19:17 Comments || Top||

#14  Claudia was a golden girl back in the day. She was pretty cute when she was a major. She was on lots of committees.
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2004 20:20 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Imaginary Foreign Leader Endorsement
From e-Bay via Instapundit
ROFLMAO!
Caught in a Presidential race lie? I’ll cover for you!
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As the imaginary leader of a foreign nation who supports your candidacy, I’ll play along with you with whatever you want me to say. If you want to tell some pesky Republican who calls you out at a campaign stop that I support you, I’ll back you up. If you want me to claim that Bush has ruined the reputation of the United States, I’m up to it. Just like you, I’m willing to say anything it takes to get you elected, I won’t mean a bit of it, and I’ll change my stand on the situation when it is politically convenient.

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*****THIS DOES NOT MEAN I AM YOUR REAL SUPPORTER!!!!!This is only pretend!!!!!***** When our time is up, right before the election, I’ll send out another press release stating that this was all fake. Hey, I’m out for a buck, I’m not insane.
Damn straight!
But who are we kidding, if flip flopping on the issues makes a person less trustworthy, you would have dropped out of the race already.
Check out the guy’s picture. Now there’s a guy with a sense of humor!
In the words of the Blogfather, "Heh."
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut bskolaut@hotmail.com || 03/16/2004 6:42:23 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fred (or whomever) - thanks for cleaning it up, but "or fraudulent donations from Moveon.org" shouldn't be struck; that's what the original says. Love the guy's sense of humor.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 03/16/2004 21:39 Comments || Top||


Al Jazeera Praises Kerry
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/16/2004 18:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Foreign Leaders For John Kerry Identified?
Posted by: Puddle Pirate || 03/16/2004 16:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I love it!
Posted by: Damn_Proud_American || 03/16/2004 17:15 Comments || Top||

#2  superb :)
Posted by: Jon Shep U.K || 03/16/2004 17:15 Comments || Top||

#3  That was great! I hope everybody reads your post.
Posted by: ex-lib || 03/16/2004 17:21 Comments || Top||

#4  This is good!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/16/2004 19:22 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm disappointed that Mugabe, Chavez and Aristide weren't included. Is Kerry a racist?
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/16/2004 21:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Here is a quote from Guillaume Parmentier of France's Center for the Study of the United States:

"He is the closest thing that you will have to a French politician . . . ."

As far as I am concerned, the Bush campaign ad on this writes itself.
Posted by: Tibor || 03/16/2004 22:40 Comments || Top||


Dems start fund raising for Kerry
Can’t his wife just cut a check?
Former President Clinton, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Democratic congressional leaders are trying to raise $10 million for presidential nominee-to-be John Kerry in 10 days.
(Good luck)
The former president, taking up his longtime role as the Democrats’ fund-raiser-in-chief, sent prospective donors an e-mail Tuesday urging them to help meet the online fund-raising goal. Kerry’s campaign raised $10 million over the Internet in 10 days after he locked up the Democratic nomination March 2. "It’s our chance to demonstrate that, in 2004, we’re not going to yield an inch to the Republican attack machine when it comes to defining what this campaign is all about," Clinton wrote.
(Let’s start calling the Republican Attack Machine RAM. So we can just RAM it to em!)
The Internet money drive will lead into a 20-city fund-raising tour by Kerry that he hopes will raise $15 million to $20 million by early May. Kerry’s fund-raisers start March 29 with a two-day swing through California.
(I bet it falls way short)
In addition to the Clintons, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and several former Democratic presidential hopefuls plan to take part in the online fund-raising drive, the campaign said.
(Would you give money to that crowd?)
Kerry is trying to raise $80 million this year to counter record fund raising by President Bush, who has taken in more than $163 million so far for his re-election effort. If Kerry meets his goal, he will have raised a Democratic record of roughly $105 million for his campaign from January 2003 to the party’s nominating convention this summer. That’s about the same as the then-record sum Bush raised for his 2000 campaign and has already surpassed. The Kerry effort is just one part of Democrats’ fund-raising push for this fall’s elections. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, trying to regain a House majority, was holding a fund-raiser at a Washington steakhouse on Tuesday evening that it hoped would raise $2 million and help reduce House Republicans’ multimillion-dollar fund-raising advantage.
(That is just too funny! They hope that they can at least just break even! Win seats? HA!)
Roughly 1,000 people were expected to attend the event, a tribute to former House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri. The Democratic National Committee plans a March 25 fund-raiser in Washington that will also celebrate the opening of its renovated headquarters. Kerry and former Presidents Clinton and Carter are among those expected to headline the event.
(At the Watergate hotel?)
If you haven’t heard the Dems are have a hard time raising cash from the faithful. Soros is giving some to fringe groups and the Hollowwood crowd may chip in a few buck but they can’t give unlimited donations. Also heard the convention is really strapped for cash and needs about $30 million! I laugh when they talk about gaining seats in either house. They will be lucky if they don’t lose a super majority after the past four years of Bravo Sierra they have been shoveling! BTW I am taking bets that Daschle loses his seat, any takers?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) || 03/16/2004 4:21:53 PM || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm with you, CS--can't Mz. Pickle heiress just give Sen. Ketchup more allowance?
Betcha the Dims are sick they passed those pesky McCain-Feingold laws...
I want in on that Daschle action, too--Go Thune!
Posted by: Jen || 03/16/2004 17:34 Comments || Top||

#2 
BTW I am taking bets that Daschle loses his seat, any takers?
No bet, Cyber Sarge. I'm on your side. From your lips to the voters' ears! (and ballots)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 03/16/2004 17:35 Comments || Top||

#3  They just named Al Sharpton as the Chief Financial Officer of the fundraising, so they can keep all the expense reporting in order.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 03/16/2004 18:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Bastards that you are, you can't even deal with a few bucks from an aged Siren. How do you look at yourself in the mirror? How do you shave? How DO your shave, it looks dangerous....
Posted by: Babs || 03/16/2004 18:28 Comments || Top||

#5  If you're the same Babs I'm thinking of you've got yourself a bit of 5 O'clock shadow as well. Might want to divey up that uni-brow also.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 03/16/2004 18:56 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm sure Bill's friends the Chinese will come on board, along with the House of Saud, the Militant Mullahs for Kerry, AQ for DC/Kerry, and of course, the French for "one of ours". Of course, with Rev. Al keeping the "books" (and as much of the cash as he can skim), Kerry may come up a few bucks short. Maybe the "African American" Heinz pickle-puss can lend him some spare change.

The one seat I'm worried about is the seat previously held by Ben Nighthorse Campbell. I know he has health problems, and I respect his wishes to retire, but the timing is attrocious. So far, there isn't a decent candidate - from either party - stepping forward. It's still early, I guess, but ...
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/16/2004 19:36 Comments || Top||

#7  OP, you left out that Indonesian group (durned if I can remember the name...).
Posted by: Pappy || 03/16/2004 19:48 Comments || Top||

#8  BCCI?
Posted by: Mr. Davis || 03/16/2004 20:56 Comments || Top||


CBS, NYTimes poll has Bush way out in front
When independent Ralph Nader is added to the mix, Bush has a clear lead over Kerry, 46 percent to 38 percent, with Nader at 7 percent, according to the survey released Monday.
Posted by: Damn_Proud_American || 03/16/2004 3:32:22 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think the key to the election will be, barring a terrorist attack or huge foreign development, the economy. If we start getting 100-200k job growth in the late spring and it lasts thru the summer, then Kerry is doomed. If we don't, Bush will be lucky to squeek thru.
Posted by: mhw || 03/16/2004 16:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Encouraging, but way too damn early to mean much.
Posted by: Dar || 03/16/2004 16:26 Comments || Top||

#3  This is the second poll in a couple days that shows Bush regaining. Trend is your friend. With 50% of the population having no opinion of Kerry, and Bush starting to hit hard, this trend will be reinforced barring live boy, dead girl scenario.
Posted by: ne1469 || 03/16/2004 16:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Bush is doing exactly what Dick Morris suggested...define Kerry early with negative ads. Seems to be working. Of course Kerry's continuing use of the mythical "foreign leaders" line is not helping him.

I agree that the economy will play a big role. There are lots of positive indicators out there. Local machine shops that we use are reporting a big increase in business from the tech industry (Bay Area, CA)
Posted by: remote man || 03/16/2004 16:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Calling Kerry out on "foreign leaders" is doubly brilliant: not only does it show him up as a liar, but Kerry's been baited into defending a position that's actually bad for him! The whiff of foreign influence is deadly for an effete, French-looking elite like Kerry.
Posted by: someone || 03/16/2004 18:03 Comments || Top||

#6  What's the "French Looking Meme" I always thought the Senator looked like a Walloon.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 18:30 Comments || Top||

#7  The "French-looking" thing comes from a long-running taunt on James Taranto's BOTW feature at opinionjournal.com. The full text, standard in all mentions of John Kerry, is "...the haughty, French-looking Massachussetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam,..."
Posted by: Dave D. || 03/16/2004 18:38 Comments || Top||

#8  I was wondering what happened to the Poll faries. Like I said before this means nothing. I am interested that CBS/NYTimes actuall published a poll that shows their guy behind. Out here in California the LA Times said the recall was a dead heat and that Cruz Bustamante was in a close race with Arnold for Gov. We all know how that poll panned out. I also remember a poll that showed Dean way ahead in the Demo field. Anyone seen Howling Howard lately?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) || 03/16/2004 18:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Nader will pull out for platform concessions, but he will do so late in the game.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/16/2004 21:26 Comments || Top||


Trolls and Spam
Rantburg is a death-watch of America forum! Damn you traitors!
Posted by: Boris Pribich || 03/16/2004 22:01 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Boris, piss off.
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2004 22:03 Comments || Top||

#2  CompuSerb, Eleano, Boris, JockItch . . . You obviously have no intent to persuade (seeing as you just hack everybody off); so, I conclude you are not the Slav you pretend to be -- just another boring IslamoSlave. Funny how you abuse our freedoms and liberties in your vain attempts to dominate -- have you never read the ending of Animal Farm? Your piggish totalitarian masters will face wrath their tiny minds could never conceive.
Posted by: cingold || 03/16/2004 22:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Elineo/Boris, I've been in touch with the left coast chapter of our International Zionist Conspiracy, and I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that your restaurant will soon be filled to overflowing with hundreds of folks who have never been before.

The bad news is that they will all be EPA, OSHA, Health Department, INS and IRS agents.

Bwwuuhaaahaaahaaa!
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 03/17/2004 1:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Driving Policy with Distractions
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/16/2004 21:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Dozens protest CNNs Iraq coverage
Scappleface of course
Posted by: Cheddarhead || 03/16/2004 6:02:40 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq-Jordan
RIP Bob Zangas
Posted by: Korora || 03/16/2004 16:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Indeed. There is a guest book at his moving web site with a place for condolences. I am sure his children will someday better understand the importance of his sacrifice if you enter your thoughts for them now.
Posted by: Mr. Davis || 03/16/2004 16:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Damn, that was harder than I thought it would be.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 18:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Seattle Prof's lips fall off
Posted by: Korora || 03/16/2004 12:45 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Had I remembered that today was the Feast of St. Rachel Corrie, I would have had pancakes for breakfast.

(Sorry. Can't help myself sometimes.)
Posted by: Mike || 03/16/2004 13:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Thanks for not helping yourself. I lost some coffee, but it was worth it.
Posted by: Mr. Davis || 03/16/2004 13:07 Comments || Top||

#3  For dessert this evening, perhaps crepes Suzettes?
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2004 13:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't have pancakes because of Atkins. I'll make a nice flat omelet for dinner.
Posted by: Sgt.DT || 03/16/2004 15:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Prof. Steve Niva - Asshat.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 03/16/2004 15:26 Comments || Top||

#6  I've got it! Quesedillas!
Posted by: Mike || 03/16/2004 17:13 Comments || Top||

#7  I wonder if WWF will have a match in her honor.

"And in this corner, weighing in at 150 pounds its St. Pancake."

"And in this corner, weighting in at 62 TONS (thats about 124 thousand pounds folks) is a D9 bulldozer..."

(and no..I dont watch WWF... yuck)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/16/2004 19:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Second, weapons that get through tunnels are primarily used in attacks against soldiers and settlers within the Gaza Strip, not against civilians within Israel.

Oh. Sorry. I guess that makes it okay.
Thanks for clearing that up, perfesser...
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/16/2004 22:40 Comments || Top||


Iraq-Jordan
Soldier, Iraqi Team Gets 'Beans, Bullets' to the Troops
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 03/16/2004 10:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Task Force 1 AD Finance Soldiers Train Iraqi Counterparts
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 03/16/2004 10:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraqi Poll Details
Posted by: ed || 03/16/2004 08:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The poll, as with all other polls taken in Iraq, is largely meaningless -- classic Western - Arab disconnect.

In the West, when we laughingly say, "Well, you'll never make old John happy - cuz then he'd have nothing to bitch about!" we are just on the cusp of "getting it" regards inherent contradictions in polling numbers -- of a Western poll... we have learned how to phrase questions to better elicit truth, but we know we don't get absolute truth - and that's only valid for the culture you know as a member.

Arab culture has several hugely different paradigms and I would suggest there is no useful Western-style polling system which overcomes the differences. There have been band-aids applied, such as the "liberated" versus "humiliated" - when's the last time a pollster offered YOU that option? Heh, but that's about as far as they've gotten. We accept the differences with Asian cultures and some of us have an inkling of "face" issues. The same problem exists with Arab culture - your Western Poll is poorly suited to elicit factual information. To cover the problem sufficiently, you'd need to read and absorb several books - but that wouldn't exactly tell you how to get truthful answers which match up with the pollster's pre-digested polarized categories. It just doesn't work that way.

To have any hope of accuracy, you would have to register the subject's response range in the same manner as a lie detector examiner - custom to each person, custom for the setting of the test, custom for the examiner-subject comfort level, etc. We can safely assume ABC didn't pay enough for the poll to have such controls in place. And we can also assume ABC influenced the results by the manner in which the poll was ordered, who was hired, and other factors that we Westerners CAN comprehend. "Editorial agenda" is now common in the lexicon - and for good reason.

The cultural disconnect prevents getting anything meaningful in Western terms. Period. Full stop.
Posted by: .com || 03/16/2004 9:42 Comments || Top||

#2  And they have a 2% error margin! That's better than we get in U. S. surverys, never below 3%.
Posted by: Mr. Davis || 03/16/2004 10:54 Comments || Top||

#3  To have any hope of accuracy, you would have to register the subject's response range in the same manner as a lie detector examiner

Arabic=Analog
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 10:59 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine
May You Burn in Hell, Rachel Corrie...
Posted by: badanov || 03/16/2004 01:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's March 16th, St. Pancakes day!
Posted by: GK || 03/16/2004 6:18 Comments || Top||

#2  lol CorrieCake's
Posted by: Jon Shep U.K || 03/16/2004 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  This should be a blogger holiday.
Posted by: Charles || 03/16/2004 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure if she were still with us, she'd be flattened flattered by all this attention.
Posted by: Dar || 03/16/2004 8:37 Comments || Top||

#5  throw this in the face of the Seattle P-I and other media expressing sorrow at the killing of a "peace activist"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/16/2004 10:14 Comments || Top||

#6  I wonder if Mr. Johnson over at LGF will choose Poker Playing Dogs (A Friend in Need) or the Young Elvis?
Posted by: Shipman || 03/16/2004 11:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Obligatory pictures


BTW, those pancake jokes are starting to fall FLAT!
Posted by: Korora || 03/16/2004 11:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Huh. I did the IMG tags properly. Oh well, they're the ones from LGF. You know, of Araflat teaching Pali children how to burn the flags.
Posted by: Korora || 03/16/2004 11:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Korora--They may have something in place to prevent "bandwidth highjacking". I've posted the pix on my webspace:

Posted by: Dar || 03/16/2004 12:22 Comments || Top||

#10  corrie went to Israel as a "human shield". To offer her life as a sacrifice to the islamic demon god, allah. Mission accomplished. Well done, you stupid bitch.
Posted by: Danny || 03/16/2004 14:27 Comments || Top||

#11  Nelson Muntz: "HA HA"
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 03/16/2004 18:01 Comments || Top||

#12  I remember seeing a photo of her parents meeting Arafart and I hope they burn in hell too.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 03/16/2004 22:40 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan/South Asia
Pakistani gang rapists
Snipped, old story from 3/1/04 on Rantburg.
Posted by: || 03/16/2004 12:14:06 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  cut their nuts and let them go home.
Posted by: anymouse || 03/16/2004 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Their father, a practising doctor, told the court they should be pardoned because they "did not know the culture of this country".

Translation: Gang Rape is ok in Pakistan....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/16/2004 0:30 Comments || Top||

#3  I recomend breast augumentation,then life in prision.With the general population of course.
Posted by: Raptor || 03/16/2004 6:43 Comments || Top||

#4  I still prefer the old Chinese method of dealing with a rapist - nail them to a tree, and set fire to the tree. Of course, it's hard on the tree...
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/16/2004 11:27 Comments || Top||

#5  OP. Good idea. Of course the environazi's wouldn't like it but so much the better....

I remember seeing a story about how the Chinese (or perhaps the mongols) would tie the badguy tightly 'wrapped' around' an hollowed out iron 'tree' or pipe and then starting a very hot file inside the pipe. I think they would also engrave the offenses on the outside of the pipe as well so that it would be burned into the flesh....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/16/2004 14:20 Comments || Top||



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