You know work sucks. Monday started out OK but I ended up getting calls all night and finished about 4:30 AM Tuesday. Then back on for a Telco Tuesday from 7:30 till 11:30 am. Now thatÂ’s what I call a long day. Yesterday afternoon as I was preparing to live blog a touching episode of Little House on the Prairie and take a nap there was news everywhere, Darn. So I was able to find several candidates to trash today and also get a nap. Sorry I was unable to get to the LHOP. The wife and I played Charles and Carolyn instead.
OK letÂ’s add to the list Gov Rob Blagojevich. My fine ILL Republicans have been keeping tabs on him for me. LetsÂ’ see what they have in the newsletter this week below the break.
• THE TRUTH BEHIND ALL KIDS. We all know that focusing on children's healthcare is a great way to distract the press from a slew of subpoenas handed down this week for the Blagojevich administration. The Governor's AllKids facts are shaky though. Of the 263,000 children that the he uses as a figure of uninsured children in Illinois, 155,000 of those children are already elgible for Kids Care, another medicaid program geared towards individuals under 18 whose households make less than $40,000 a year. This figure is staggering considering that the only reason that these children are not insured is because their parents have failed to fill out the proper paper work to enroll them in the program. A second disturbing fact behind AllKids is that you do not even need to be a legal resident of the United States. Anyone is elgible for the program. The projected costs are untangible. This legislation is very conceptual. The Illinois Republican Party believes in children, not false more false promises from this administration.
• BOND SALE, NOT USED CAR SALE. Senate Republicans this week called for a Security and Exchange Commission ("SEC") investigation into the possibility that the Blagojevich administration made false financial claims in a $300 million bond sale. In the administration's sales pitch, Blagojevich overstated claims that savings from recently approved pension reforms would save the state $3 billion. However, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability ("CGFA") said additional costs may add up to over $4.7 billion, which was omitted in the initial presentation to potential investors. Senators Syverson (R- Rockford) and Radogno (R-Lemont) made the complaint stating that they did not have confidence in the numbers that were presented based on the CGFA report. (Pantagraph 10-26-05)
Actually the Kid Care program is good you just have to be really, really poor to get in. Is this a problem yes but Tenn. has a much broader program but the cost has been terrible. Better to have a limited program that you can afford than to go too big and then to scrap the program because you are broke.
October 21st newsletter here that I never got to blog.
PAY FOR IT YOURSELF ROD. Chairman Andy McKenna called on Governor Rod Blagojevich to pay for an additional Central Management Services audit, by accounting firm Deloitte and Touche, out of his campaign. "It's shameful for the Governor to ask taxpayers to fund a duplicative and frivolous audit just so he can put a politically favorable gloss on his questionable claims of cost savings at CMS," McKenna said. The Pantagraph's editorial board echoed McKenna's concerns today, "This smacks of a move to bolster the governor's re-election campaign. That's why his campaign should pay for the consultant, not taxpayers." (Pantagraph 10-21-05)
• THE GOVERNOR'S HEALTH CARE FAILURES. Governor Blagojevich has not quenched AllKids critics' thirst for details as he is failing to get medical organizations behind th e plan. "Legislators don't vote on concepts," the Chicago Tribune editorial board said today in regards to AllKids. The proposed legislation is following the path of the I SaveRx prescription drug venture that has already failed on its one year anniversary. The Southern Illinoisan called for the program to stop this week, "As we stated before this was a bad idea from the start. The state should not be involved in what amounts to a private business function." (The Southern Illinoisan 10-19-05)
• BEAN BRINGS IN THE PAC CASH. Congresswoman Melissa Bean (D-IL 
ran against former Republican Congressman Phil Crane on the premise that he took too many contributions from Washington special interests. Bean has now earned a place in the top ten of ALL members of congress who receive the most cash from political action committees. Bean ranks number nine on the list, raking in over $150,000 in special interest money. Her latest FEC filing reveals Bean has received more individual donations from New York than she raised in her own district. Her support is clearly coming from outside the district and state, not from the communities whose interests are supposed to be served.
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"Two years after the nation's deadly anthrax attacks, the FBI still has not been able to re-create the process the killer used to produce the substance sent through the U.S. mail, a top FBI official said Monday."
The FBI should just shut the hell up, because every time they come out with another of these lame stories, it just hammers home the point that there is a cover-up in this case.
As a reminder; the anthrax used in the letters was genetically identical to a strain maintained at US bioweapons labs at Fort Detrick. The anthrax used in the letters was also "weaponized", consistent with manufacture in a full level-four weapons laboratory. Such labs also have the hot-boxes needed to insert the anthrax into letters without exposing the perpetrator.
It should come as no surprise that the FBI, in its total focus on Stephen Hatfill, has totally ignored (or is covering up for) another suspect, one actually caught on the security systems entering the storage area where the anthrax used in the letters was kept, without proper authorization and AFTER being fired from his job at Fort Detrick over a racially motivated attack on an Egyptian co-worker. This suspect's name is Dr. Philip Zack, who has since relocated to Dugway Proving Grounds.
But despite this damning evidence. Zack remained untouched and untouchable, while the FBI, spurred on by Dr. Barbara Rosenberg, continued to focus on Stephen Hatfill, while trying to concoct a way for him to have created the anthrax, even though he did not work with anthrax or have access to that strain. Rosenberg and Hatfill are Jewish.
You may recall, when the FBI tore up Hatfill's house, and that of his girlfriend, then drained an entire pond hoping to find an improvised hotbox, all without producing a single piece of evidence in the case.
And now we have today's announcement, that four years into the case, the FBI cannot figure out a way for the anthrax to have been created and placed in the envelopes outside a fully equipped laboratory.
Now either the FBI is very stupid, or they are protecting the real criminal. Why? It cannot be because the letters included with the anthrax, written to appear to be from Muslims, prove a plot to frame Muslims for terror attacks on the US, because this is equally true if Hatfill is the culprit. So, given the Israeli spies uncovered in the Pentagon (and elsewhere), Zack may well be protected because to expose him would expose that Israel also has their spies deep inside our nation's biological warfare laboratories. And as the anthrax letters prove, they are not shy about taking and using those materials for their own purposes.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-29-anthrax_x.htm?POE=click-refer
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 02, 2005 12:35 PM (TVaWo)
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greg,
Where else might the stuff have come from assuming it was part of the 9-11 attack just for fun.
Posted by: Howie at November 02, 2005 01:57 PM (D3+20)
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Zack eh? Sounds like a JOOOOOOOO!!! The Vast Right Wing Neocon Zionist Chimpy McHellibacon Big Oil Consipracy needed to take down the Natonial Enquirer because the Batboy stories came dangerously close to exposing the truth!!! GLOBAL WARMING IS TERRAFORMING OUR PLANET FOR THE ALIEN BATPEOPLE!!! HALLIBURTON IS WORKING FOR THEM!!!
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 02, 2005 03:29 PM (0yYS2)
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Oh yeah speaking of global warming left leaning PBS and the Bill Gates foundation showed me last night that one volcano in the East African rift zone releases more sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide than the entire US auto and power emissions.
Posted by: Howie at November 02, 2005 03:35 PM (D3+20)
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Greg,
I'm still waiting for an answer to my question.
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 02, 2005 05:19 PM (rUyw4)
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Howie,
Please don't think me rude, but there is absolutely no evidence that the Anthrax attack was part of the 9-11 attack. Clearly this Anthrax was American and used to frame up the A-rabs. The FBI is focusing on American suspects.
Zack was fired for orchestrating racial attacks on an Egyptian coworker at Fort Deitrick, a facility where Anthrax research is done. He was then photographed illegally entering Ft. Deitrick at night AFTER he was fired. Did he steal some Anthrax? Probably.
THE DAY BEFORE the first Anthrax letter was discovered, an anonymous letter arrived at the FBI accusing the Egyptian, that Zack had attacked, of being the Anthrax mailer. OOPS! Zack, you're a fuck up! Why don't they investigate this guy? Is it because the FBI's expert advisor, Dr. Barbara Rosenberg, a Jew, is steering the investigation away from her fellow Jew, Zack? Yes, it is.
The Anthrax attack was a psyop used to terrify Americans and villainies the A-rab.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 02, 2005 05:29 PM (TVaWo)
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JJ,
No offense, but the answer is no.
Thanks anyways. If I didn't blog anonymously, I would take you up on your kind offer.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 02, 2005 05:32 PM (TVaWo)
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I don't see why people equate the passing of the Iraq Liberation Act with the undertaking of this poorly planned invasion. They're obviously highly different proportions of response to the threat of iraq.
Posted by: actus at November 02, 2005 05:38 PM (CqheE)
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Why do you call the invasion of Iraq poorly planned, Actus?
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 02, 2005 05:44 PM (rUyw4)
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Greg,
All I got to say is you missed the chance for a hell of a good time. We could of sit back, drank a few, and maybe got lucky with some ladies. As long as you didn't bring up no politics, cause right now I'm real pissed at all this Leftist crap.
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 02, 2005 05:49 PM (rUyw4)
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Joe,
I have no doubt about it. I love to drink (the hard stuff though, not beer unless it's 100 degrees outside) and bullshit with my fellow Texans. I'd just throw a bunch of Rightist crap at you, because I'm a true conservative and this neo/ziocon movement is an offense to conservatism. But, I'd pick up the tab, so, heh, it all works out.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 02, 2005 06:02 PM (TVaWo)
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'Why do you call the invasion of Iraq poorly planned, Actus?'
Because we failed to plan for the peace. We were told it would cost less and be over sooner than now.
Posted by: actus at November 02, 2005 07:59 PM (Zi15r)
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Well, ok, Greg, maybe sometime in the future. Who knows where a path leads? And I do like to shoot the breeze with my fellow Texans, expecially the ones who were born and raised here in Texas, with no offence meant at all to the other good people who discovered Texas later in life. But people born in Texas have a unique take on life.
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 02, 2005 08:02 PM (rUyw4)
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Well, ok, I see your point, but one would have hardly thought that a large percentage of Americans would have turned against the mission of our troops, whether they agreed with the war or not. This is the failing I see.
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 02, 2005 08:05 PM (rUyw4)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1607426,00.html
Posted by: Route Irish at November 02, 2005 08:08 PM (Eh9tH)
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Uh, Route Irish, we don't read the Al-Guardian on the Jawa. Sorry!
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 02, 2005 08:11 PM (rUyw4)
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Greg, please delineate your political philosophy for us. List the things you believe in and support, and your favorite historical leaders, as well as everything you don't support, and your least favorite leaders, and please explain why to everything.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 02, 2005 08:18 PM (0yYS2)
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Impy,
I admire those who risked their lives in the defense of the U.S. Constitution. Today that battle is being fought on our soil.
I'm a wierd mix of Libertarian and Catholic. I'm against abortion, I'm against the death penalty, I'm against wars being brought on the American people and their pocketbooks under false pretenses, I'm for defending our country, I'm against disturbing wasp nests (DSM favorite analogy, in case you hadn't caught on), I'm for the tribe, I'm against pollution, I'm against the IRS and believe the 16th amendment was never properly ratified, I'm against paying interest on money that is created out of air by the Federal Reserve, I'm against the cozy relationship our leaders have with corporations and Israel when they ignore their constituents, I'm for small businesses, I'm against eminent domain, I'm a volunteer firefighter (today's minute men), I'm for science and education, I think religious education is best imparted by the efforts of the family not the state, I think pot should be legalized and I like puppies.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 02, 2005 08:41 PM (TVaWo)
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Oh, and I think we should declare bankruptcy on our National Debt. Screw the Chinese, the Japs, the South Koreans and all the rest who own and have the American people under a yolk.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 02, 2005 08:44 PM (TVaWo)
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"please explain why to everything."
maybe if you sit on his lap he'll tell you a story and explain the big, mean, bad world to you?
Posted by: sharpz at November 02, 2005 09:42 PM (kC/hG)
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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/11/2/worldupdates/2005-11-02T173942Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-221903-1&sec=Worldupdates
Posted by: Route Irish at November 02, 2005 10:37 PM (Eh9tH)
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Dullz, If I sit on his lap he'll be missing an ear and my wallet'll be gone.
Greg, you truly sound like a soft libertarian according to your interests, though thankfully you didn't mention long walks in the rain, but the links you post and the arguments you make come off as doctrinally strict moonbat. Maybe you should spend more time articulating your position rather than just posting links to other people's stuff, or at least explaining the relevance of the link.
I actually am with you on everything but the death penalty; I say let
me pull the switch on murderers, rapists, and child molesters. I'll do it for free. And forget the switch, some cinder blocks, some chain, and a boat ride is good enough for the parasitic scum that prey on our society. You see, I'm a
hard libertarian.
So where are you on free markets, price controls, minimum wage, unions, socialized medicine, etc.?
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 03, 2005 12:59 AM (0yYS2)
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Hmmm..methinks Greg speaks with forked tongue!
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 03, 2005 10:34 AM (rUyw4)
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(In my best Nelson Muntz voice): HA HA! (Not Nelson): Busted by Oyster for the troll you are, eh greg? By the way, by "neocon", do you mean that Rusty is a JOOOOOOO?
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 03, 2005 11:05 AM (0yYS2)
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"By the way, by "neocon", do you mean that Rusty is a JOOOOOOO?"
that is so over. Brooks tried that, and had to play it off as a joke when he was clled on it.
Posted by: actus at November 03, 2005 11:20 AM (CqheE)
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I just spent a few minutes reading the crap that greg wrote on the Yahoo group, and it's hilarious. He wrote that I'm a neocon, and that he "turned me", because I responded to Finn by stating, solely on known facts, that someone had shorted tons of stocks in WTC companies before the attack.
It's funny, I registered at sotrmfront.org and tried to engage them in debate, but they just called me a Jooooo too, and threw all the same conspiracy theories at me as greg does. As they say, everything comes out in the wash eventually, eh, herr greg?
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 03, 2005 11:37 AM (0yYS2)
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Tsk Tsk Tsk greg greg.
Posted by: Howie at November 03, 2005 11:50 AM (D3+20)
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WTF are you talking about rectus? You mean "neocon" doesn't mean Joooo? So when greg uses "neocon" and "zionazi" in the same post, referring to the same people, it doesn't mean JOOOOOO? You and all your neo-nazi, (that means a Jooo hater), scum bretheren deserve to hang like the
untermenschen you are. Just as soon as you eunichs of the left get off your asses and start your precious revolution, I'm going to build a pyramid of your skulls.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 03, 2005 11:54 AM (0yYS2)
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Tsk Tsk, my ass.
Yes, everytime I get banned, I orchestrate a cyber panty raid and get a new IP address.
Check out all the trolls that answered my battle call at:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/091656.php
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 03, 2005 12:11 PM (TVaWo)
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No need to get all defensive you naughty naughty boy.
Actually that's intresting about the anthrax. My personal conspiracy theory is that it is ours (or at least a strain we use) but not from here. It comes from Iraq. Now how did Iraq get it? Now it gets messy eh. I mean if Iraq did not make all those chem bio weapons they used or if they had help where would it have come from? Ok so no matter which theory is true or none the source will be embarrasing. So no answer will ever come to light. could be gregs theory is a black box plant to throw off relentless people like greg.
Awesome I love big numbers. Wait a minute that's blips I love blips more blips = more fun. Keeps us sharp too. No one to argue with we get fat and lazy.
Posted by: Howie at November 03, 2005 12:45 PM (D3+20)
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Howie:"No one to argue with we get fat and lazy."
I agree, Howie. If everyone is in agreement and preaching to the choir, it's just a circle jerk.
But your theory about the Anthrax coming from Iraq is nonsense. Sorry.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 03, 2005 01:05 PM (TVaWo)
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While getting a new IP and sneaking back in with a different name isn't illegal, it certainly shows a certain level of dishonesty, immaturity and unwillingness to respect the wishes of whoever bans you. Not to mention that you seem to crave attention, even if it's negative attention. You never got past the adolescent, social behavior most of us shed at age five.
You regularly cut and paste crap totally unrelated to the thread in your quest for someone, anyone, to hear your pathetic little squeaks. Your remark about how you blog anonymously (yet, you do not reveal your URL) shows you to be a coward as well as sophomoric. If indeed you blog at all and criticize those whom you say are just looking to "pat each other on the back", then why don't you give us your URL?
Chickenshit.
Posted by: Oyster at November 03, 2005 01:51 PM (fl6E1)
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I do believe that you call them as you see them Oyster. In this case, Bingo!
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 03, 2005 03:36 PM (rUyw4)
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Non-sense? Oh well. Tim proves a domestic source is possible but sorry I don't buy your side either. Waste of time neither is provable just circumstantial. I've talked about his before it's highly unlikely that some guy was just sitting around with everything ready just waiting for an islamic attack for cover. Then just before the attack knowing in advance of course that he would have cover. He mailed the stuff from the very same city at just the right time and also knowing the 9-11 hijackers would be islamists compose notes and pull it off. Of course greg thinks that the 9-11 planes were the US attacking itself as well despite the fact that UBL and company claims them. So sorry old bud can't buy your idea either but it was interesting. Highly unlikely but interesting in a circumstantial way. Just like my idea. So I doubt it will be solved and I'm not all that intrested I'm pretty sure it was Atta not %100 certain but close enough for me until I see hard proof I'll wait and I'm sure if it comes you'll let us know right. Greg tends to pick a postion and stick with it. He was right about Menenez but he took that postion 2 seconds after the event. I took the opposite, some days you just get lucky eh greg. But a hunch is hunch we all have em some times they turn out right.
Posted by: Howie at November 03, 2005 03:44 PM (D3+20)
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"Just as soon as you eunichs of the left get off your asses and start your precious revolution, I'm going to build a pyramid of your skulls."
Don't wait on me doll. Make your own mark.
Posted by: actus at November 03, 2005 04:06 PM (CqheE)
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Oyster,
Go shuck yourself, you meterosexual vegan.
I misspoke. I should have said I comment anonymously.
What's your real name, address and phone number?
Howie,
If there was any evidence that Iraq was responsible for thhe Anthrax attacks, you can bet the case would have been made.
The technology to mill and remove static from the Anthrax spores so that they can readily dispurse is confined to U.S. labs. Trust me on that. That's why the FBI is focusing on an American source.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 03, 2005 05:14 PM (TVaWo)
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Okay rectus, let's meet. I hope you're skin is as pasty and soft as most other leftard eunichs, I need good parchment for the grimoir I'm making. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Seriously, you chickenshit libtards are all big men on the other side of that keyboard, or in packs when you protest outside of shopping malls, but I can't wait to get one of you in the abattoir and listen to you squeal like a pig while I peel you.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 03, 2005 08:28 PM (0yYS2)
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"Seriously, you chickenshit libtards are all big men on the other side of that keyboard, or in packs when you protest outside of shopping malls, but I can't wait to get one of you in the abattoir and listen to you squeal like a pig while I peel you."
So serious its got to be said on the internet!
Posted by: actus at November 04, 2005 12:00 PM (Zi15r)
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http://www.kadoko.com/wwwboard/messages/9412.html enduredprincessteenage
Posted by: compliments at February 07, 2006 07:31 AM (Dlp0+)
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