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Thursday July 21, 2005 Opening Thread

By Vanessa Peel

TOP STORY
How Would Rove Know Valerie Plame's Name Was Supposed to be a Secret?  It Said "Secret" Next to Her Name.

UNDERBELLY STORY
Much to the Chagrin of the Entire Muslim World, Republican Tancredo Goes on Talk Show and Proposes Blowing Up Mecca
(Huh, Newsweek-like outrage suspiciously absent...)

FRONT PAGE STORIES
Roberts Update

Grand Theft Auto Gets 'Adults Only' Label While Violently Racist Game Left Alone

Your Safety: Bush Visits a U.S. Port to Promote the Patriot Act. 

Ask Yourself:

Does the Patriot Act force ports to screen all cargo containers?  No.
Can bombs/nukes/WMD fit into cargo containers?  Yes.
What percentage of cargo containers in ports like the one Bush was at are screened?  5%
Does the Patriot Act let Alberto "Torture Guy" Gonzales look at your library records?  Yes.
Can bombs/nukes/WMD fit into your library records.  No.

PET STORY
Shark Contest Ends in 6 Minute Disappointment

DEVELOPING STORIES
Cheney Attends Theme Team Meeting

Patriot Act

Dems Will Hold Own Hearing on Rove

EXTRA CREDIT:
The Violence Policy Center this week released a new study on 50 caliber anti-armor sniper rifles, which are legal to sell to the general public in the US.  The study reveals details of a previously secret 1985 report written by US secret service officials that says large caliber sniper rifles pose a threat to the president, to other senior government officials, and to civil aviation.  50 caliber rifles are accurate to over a mile, and can penetrate armor plating.  Congress and the White House have followed the NRA's lead on the issue of 50 caliber weapons - they're sold now with fewer federal controls than a standard handgun.

The Army Times reports that the Defense Department quietly asked Congress this week for permission to raise the maximum age for military recruits to... what.  What do you think the maximum age is that they want to recruit people.  25?  28?  30?  Try 42!  Right now the rule is 35.  Wow. 

Remember hearing about the new weapon the Pentagon was testing, the big gun that shoots microwave beams to heat you up and cause intolerable pain?  Well the New Scientist Magazine is now reporting that the gun is due to be deployed in iraq nesxt year - it's mounted on a vehicle and is codenamed Sheriff.  If that doesn't weird you out, consider this: according to new scientist, the military tests on this thing required the people participating in the tests? pretending to be rioters? to remove metal objects like coins from their clothing, and to remove their glasses and contact lenses to protect their eyes.  Think they'll take all those precautions when they fire it at Iraqis next year?

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Cheney Tree Fort---NO GIRLZ ALOUD!

Dick's little meeting can only bring to mind Matt Groening's vision of repub party HQ, with the aliens, and the Willem Defoe Dracula and Sideshow and Crusty and Dr Frist...er...Hibbard...and of course Montgomery "Ruppert" Burns.  Save me Jeebus".

hey Rachel

that's a big damn shark

So

Roberts is a level 10 neocon piece of trash huh?damn.

yaaa,

this is getting better and better.Im glad the memo from airforce 1 was confirmed topsecret.Toast Rove.Roast Rove.Roberts looks like Noeman Bates.Rove toast.Rove roast.Horses George Bush masterbates.With Rove down,and we catch Bush hard cold redhanded and impeach him finally,supream court will get back under control.Then we'll never let the neocon zealots cheat away another election again.

tom clancy

first persons are just as bad I think.I dig FinalFantasy,not the last ones with the deteriating quest storylines,but 12 is supposed to rock like the old ones.But I want some raunchy sex seens in my videogames.Kids need outlets like that.didn;t anyone hear that interview between Neal Horsly and Allen Combs,because of a lack of good porn mixed with a religon derived sense of sexual identity crises and moral confusion, he became a mule humper.I think every game should have a stripclub bonus level,cause when a game cheats it's frustrating and so games are really frustrating,like mortal combat if you don't know what your doing and you might need to beat off of you my kill the first person who walks through the door-Reggy"hi Jimmy,playing a...."-Jimmy"AAAAH!!!You killed me!!!!Knock you fucker or I'll hit you with a hammer!!!"-   easily avoided if Jimmy just hand smoked his sausage.ask Tom Clancy.

Fake laugh

Is Rachel contractually bound to laugh at the mostly unfunny Ken Jones news segments? Her laugh sounds so forced and fake that it borders on annoying. Just my $.02.

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Oh, I'll bet sapporobaby has THEE definitive sense of humor.

I laugh out loud at home alone to Mr. Jones.  Do you....Mr. Drones?  Rachel makes me smile with a tear or 2.

Now, that's laughable...

...placing "fake" within a billion words of the name Rachel Maddow.

Great show, guys. Rove, Rove, Rove!

I like the softer "audio-bullet".

undepleted uranium - the gift that keeps on giving

Of course that microwave weapon sounds more heinous than the happy little bits of undepleted uranium that litters Afghanistan and Iraq.  The thought that microwave guns would melt contact lens to the cornea sounds like good old military complex sense, if you're holding the gun.  I don't know if anyone's considered this, but I think whoever thinks up these weapons must be actually operating out of a bunker in Bellevue. 

Still my greatest concern, because it's real, it's on the ground, it's affecting our troops as well as Afganis and Iraqis, is the undepleted uranium. I understand that it comes from armor piercing bullets and larger artillary. When such a weapon hits a tank, the UU turns into a cloud. Our troops breath it in. It goes into the ground. Kids play on these tanks.  This is a nightmare. How bad can it get, I wonder? Yet I never read anything about it in the newspapers. What efforts are being done to clean up this radioactive mess? But the greater question is why the military must use such destructive munitions in the first place?   

I realize that the military is in (oddly enough) the honorable business of killing, but between the UU and the microwave gun, I wonder if the honorable military isn't turning into a real Star Wars' death star that wins at all costs or more quaintly, actually wins by cutting off its nose to spite its face.

links

Vanessa, oh Vanessa, I beg of you - please do not send me happily clicking to a white power website without warning me first!

Also on the video game tip - we have a game full of senseless violence and crime (a really fun game, I might add), and the problem is with boobies? Please.

- - Tom Tancredo Colorado

- - Tom Tancredo :roll: Colorado must be so proud  :sick: - - 

Tancredo's "off-cuff" talk off the wall
By Diane Carman
Denver Post Columnist

Colorado U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo was just talking "off-cuff." It was "an
extremely hypothetical situation." Everybody knows he's the kind of guy who
"thinks out loud."

I was positively dizzy from the spin.

It was as if press secretary Will Adams was channeling Scott McClellan.

"You're talking about bombing Mecca," the WFLA-AM talk-show host in Florida
said to Tancredo on Friday. "Yeah," said the Littleton Republican, who's
never been accused of sensitivity.

Adams tried to equivocate: There's a "widespread misconception about what he
said. Congressman Tancredo is not advocating bombing Mecca or Medina or
anybody's holy site."

Next up: a discussion of what the meaning of "yeah" is. ...
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...  But Adams said not to expect an amends anytime soon.

"The statements understood in proper context don't require an apology," he
said, "and we're not going to give one."

It's a rather belligerent stand for a guy who on Thursday, the day before
his "take out their holy sites" remark, issued a press release in which he
"demanded an immediate apology and unequivocal repudiation" from the Chinese
over loose-lipped nuke talk from a government official.

Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu, dean at China's National Defense University, had told
a group of reporters: "If the Americans draw their missiles and position-
guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we
will have to respond with nuclear weapons. If the Americans are determined
to interfere ... we will be determined to respond."

Tancredo didn't just criticize the official making the comment, he ridiculed
the whole country.

"For a senior government official to exhibit such tremendous stupidity by
making such a brazen threat is hardly characteristic of a modern nation," he
said.

Next up: a discussion of what the meaning of "tremendous stupidity" is.

http://www.denverpost.com/carman/ci_2869468


Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for - Will Rogers

Just saw the show tonight

Just saw the show tonight and I didn't think it was possible for Tucker to become more smarmy and obnoxious, but he does it every time. This could almost create its own game show--how soon in the show will Tucker get so annoying that I want to throw something at the t.v.?

Rachel and Al Sharpton ought to just take over the show. Sure they're from the same party. All Fox ever has on is Repubs, and don't say Colmes because he is a mannequin! 

 

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