Saturday, April 23, 2005

Both Sides Are Not Equal: Their Side Is Evil.

Can’t take, the raw shit,
I gotta say, the raw shit,
Gotta flip, a pop-hit,
To blow ya mind, just a bit,

Rewind, just a bit,
Back in time, was the shit,
Bill Clinton, grabbed his dick,
While Lewinsky, got a lick,

We never beefed, with his bitches,
Made peace, with his sitches,
Saw the opp, for some riches,
Punkin’, World Bank, snitches...

- Black Krishna, Song: "Chokin' On Chomsky"

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Yahoo! News

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White House to Enforce Abortion-Fetus Law

Sat Apr 23,12:47 AM ET White House - AP

By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Friday that it would enforce a nearly 3-year-old federal law that requires doctors to attempt to keep alive a fetus that survives an abortion.

In making the announcement, the Department of Health and Human Services Department said it was an attempt to educate the public about the little-known law. Officials said they didn't know how often a fetus survives an abortion and would not say whether there have been any complaints about a lack of enforcement.

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"What really happened, today?
What the hell, is Bush, trying to say?
What really happened, today?
What should I do: shop or pray?"

- Black Krishna, Song: "What Really Happened Today?"

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SOURCE - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=718&e=10&u=/ap/20050423/ap_on_go_pr_wh/abortion_fetus

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2 Evangelicals Want to Strip Courts' Funds

[Ed note: Why the hell is the title of this article "2 Evangelicals Want to Strip Courts' Funds"? Is 2 lonely nutty evangelicals really a front-page story? Is that really the story???]

Fri Apr 22, 7:55 AM ET Top Stories - Los Angeles Times

By Peter Wallsten Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — Evangelical Christian leaders, who have been working closely with senior Republican lawmakers to place conservative judges in the federal courts, have also been exploring ways to punish sitting jurists and even entire courts viewed as hostile to their cause.

An audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times features two of the nation's most influential evangelical leaders, at a private conference with supporters, laying out strategies to rein in judges, such as stripping funding from their courts in an effort to hinder their work.

The discussion took place during a Washington conference last month that included addresses by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who discussed efforts to bring a more conservative cast to the courts.

Frist and DeLay have not publicly endorsed the evangelical groups' proposed actions. But the taped discussion among evangelical leaders provides a glimpse of the road map they are drafting as they work with congressional Republicans to achieve a judiciary that sides with them on abortion, same-sex marriage and other elements of their agenda.

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"We set up the courts. We can unset the courts. We have the power of the purse," DeLay said at an April 13 question-and-answer session with reporters.

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"Very few people know this, that the Congress can simply disenfranchise a court," Dobson said. "They don't have to fire anybody or impeach them or go through that battle. All they have to do is say the 9th Circuit doesn't exist anymore, and it's gone."

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"It’s the dawn, of the neo-con,
Spawn, of a hellish-bond,
Church, state, and biz,
Nazi-kids, of an older-God,

That’s why we in the streets,
That’s why we ridin’ beats,
‘Cause next-these-motherfuckers—-
Takin’, Rosa Parks, seat!!!"

- Black Krishna, Song: "Chokin' on Chomsky"

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SOURCE - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=5&u=/latimests/20050422/ts_latimes/2evangelicalswanttostripcourtsfunds

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Moussaoui Pleads Guilty in 9/11 Conspiracy

2 hours, 43 minutes ago U.S. National - AP

By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - With the first U.S. conviction from a Sept. 11 case in hand, federal prosecutors face a new battle over whether Zacarias Moussaoui should receive the death penalty for plotting with al-Qaida against Americans.

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"We missed, Osama,
In, Tora-Bora,
If it was you,
You really think they’d ignore, huh?"

- Black Krishna, Song: "Bomb Dropping Shenanigans"

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SOURCE - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050423/ap_on_re_us/moussaoui

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Roadside Bomb Kills 9 Iraqi Soldiers

6 minutes ago Middle East - AP

By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A string of explosions rocked the Iraqi capital and other parts of the country Saturday, including a roadside bomb that exploded near an Iraqi army convoy on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing nine soldiers and wounded 20, police said.

When the surviving soldiers responded by opening fire, they shot and killed the driver of a civilian car, said police Lt. Ahmed Abud.

The attack occurred near the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, which was at the center of a prison abuse scandal last year after photographs were publicized showing U.S. soldiers humiliating Iraqi inmates.

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Knowin’ truth in Iraq,
Caught, Seymour Hersh,
I thought it was bad,
He said it was worse,

His curse,
Pulitzer-Prize, eyes-wide,
Since the massacre, at My Lai,
He can’t tell a lie...

- Black Krishna, Song: "Chokin' On Chomsky"


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SOURCE - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050423/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&sid=84439559

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Top Officers in Abu Ghraib Case Cleared

29 minutes ago White House - AP Cabinet & State

By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer

WASHINGTON - Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, faulted by some for leadership failures in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, has been cleared by the Army of all allegations of wrongdoing and will not be punished, officials said.

Three officers who were among Sanchez's top deputies during the period of the prisoner abuse in the fall of 2003 also have been cleared. An Army Reserve one-star general has been reprimanded, and the outcome of seven other senior Army officer cases could not be learned Friday.

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"You know, I hate to see,
Uncle Tom’s Grabbin’,
You know, I can’t,
Just, let it be...

You know, I hate to see,
You, back-stabbin’,
This, isn’t how,
It’s meant, to be..."

- Black Krishna, Song: "Uncle Tom's Grabbin"

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"But shit’s changed, now,
Bush, is on the range, now,
Shootin’ savages, for sport,
Cow-boys, scream "Pow!"

- Black Krishna, Song: "Chokin' On Chomsky"

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SOURCE - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050423/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/prisoner_abuse_army

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Chairman of Voting Reform Panel Resigns

Fri Apr 22, 5:02 PM ET Politics - AP

By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The first chairman of a federal voting agency created after the 2000 election dispute is resigning, saying the government has not shown enough commitment to reform.

"All four of us had to work without staff, without offices, without resources. I don't think our sense of personal obligation has been matched by a corresponding sense of commitment to real reform from the federal government," he said.

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"When, I see Bush, on TV,
I make, a hard left,
‘Cause, when they finally come for me,
There may be, none left..."

- Black Krishna, Song/Poem: "How Do We Stop The Next Columbine?"

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SOURCE - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=2&u=/ap/20050422/ap_on_go_ot/election_reform_resignation

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BONUS:

Bush Bulges

No really...

"Belief and disbelief require an equal measure of proof."
- Black Krishna

So please...

Explain away the pictures...

Motion pictures...

Songs... books... people...

SOURCE - http://homepage.mac.com/c.shaw/BushBulges/PhotoAlbum15.html



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BONUS:

proof...

CONFIRMED! KARL ROVE met with NY TIMES Editor before Bulge story was "killed" !!!

According to New Yorker Magazine's, Nicholas Lemann, in a non-Bulge related column, KARL ROVE met with the New York Times' executive editor BILL KELLER for cocktails on October 22nd, 2004. This meeting was 3 days before the Times' "spiked" story on the bulge was originally set to run in the Times, and 5 days before the story was ultimately killed by Keller.

SOURCE - http://www.bushwired.blogspot.com/

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BONUS:

pudding...

The New Yorker

FEAR AND FAVOR
by NICHOLAS LEMANN

Why is everyone mad at the mainstream media?

Issue of 2005-02-14 and 21
Posted 2005-02-07

Just before last fall’s Presidential election, Bill Keller, the executive editor of the Times, and Philip Taubman, the paper’s Washington bureau chief, went on the road to inspect the candidates’ campaigns. In Florida, on October 22nd, they arranged to have drinks with Karl Rove, the White House’s chief political strategist, and Dan Bartlett, its head of communications. It was supposed to be a friendly get-together, and that’s how it went for the first few minutes, until Keller asked Rove what he thought of the Times’ coverage. It’s the sort of question that editors often ask important people, in the same spirit that a politician asks, “How’m I doing?,” usually hoping for an answer somewhere in the lower-middle range of politeness and candor. But Rove, Keller told me not long ago, “pounded on us for two cocktails’ worth of conversation.” Saying what? “It was three kinds of things,” Keller explained. “It was Bush accomplishments we had ignored, flaws in the Kerry record that we had put inside the paper, and a number of pieces we had done looking hard at the Bush record. In their view, that all amounted to arming the Kerry campaign.”

Keller and I were talking in his office in the Times newsroom at nine one morning, a moment when most newspaper offices are empty and expectantly quiet, like a theatre a couple of hours before the curtain. Keller took his time describing the conversation, to suggest that he wasn’t dismissing the criticisms out of hand. “Your initial reaction, especially in someone as ferocious as Rove, is to drop into a defensive crouch,” he said. “But I try not to do that. I listened, with a fair measure of skepticism, because a lot of it is calculated. But there was some genuineness to it. He went through a long litany of complaints. I do think he was channelling a feeling about the New York Times that’s out there in the land, that we should be concerned about, or at least aware of.”

One item that particularly drew Rove’s ire was a Times front-page story, by Ford Fessenden, which appeared on September 26th, under the headline “a big increase of new voters in swing states.” As Keller remembered it later, in an e-mail message to me, Rove “fired off complaints like a Gatling gun, some specific, some generic, some about specific writers, some about specific elements of specific stories.” When I spoke to Rove about his conversation with Keller, it was obvious that, to his mind, the September 26th story was No. 1 among the Times’ journalistic misdeeds during the campaign. The story left the impression that the Democrats’ organization was vastly superior to the Republicans’, especially in Florida and Ohio. Getting out the G.O.P. vote in those two states had for several years been one of Rove’s main projects, and he spoke about the article in roughly the same tone as a writer discussing a bad review of his magnum opus. He gave me a highly detailed, twelve-point critique, and then, in the interest of conciseness, he boiled down the twelve points to two or three.

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A better understanding of conservatives seems manageable, but there is another possibility, which is much more worrisome, at least to journalists who work in the mainstream media. It is that during the years of heavy shelling—through impeachment and the Florida recount and then the rough 2004 campaign—what they consider their compact with the public has been seriously damaged. Journalism that is inquisitive and intellectually honest, that surprises and unsettles, didn’t always exist. There is no law saying that it must exist forever, and there are political and business interests that would be better off if it didn’t exist and that have worked hard to undermine it. This is what journalists in the mainstream media are starting to worry about: what if people don’t believe in us, don’t want us, anymore?

SOURCE - http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact1

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"Fuck “Fair and Balanced” Fox,
They ain’t, being subtle,
When they go, hard-right,
They harder-right, for rebuttal,

And fuck CNN,
“You can’t trust, CNN”
Bum-rush, CNN,
Before they lie to us again..."

- Black Krishna, Song: "Chokin' On Chomsky"