hippoetry

DaNCe Studio

2008-07-27T09:11:00.001-04:00

Dems can rumba. Dems can samba.
Can they dance the chic OBAMBA?

Can they follow their “change” master
As he spins them ‘round much faster?

If he glides them to the right
Will they slide from him with fright?

Dems preferred the macarena.
It was not so insane-a

ENGINE NUMBER 44 [A Ballad of Barack Obama]

2008-07-26T09:44:00.000-04:00

Clickity-clack, clickity-clack,
Who's that slowing on the track?
Got a media team
But NO head of steam.
His carbon phobia's held him back.

(It don't mean a thing, if you ain't got that steam)

Baby-Daddy-O learns to dance

2008-06-26T14:20:00.000-04:00

The Rumba, the Samba,
The flirty Obamba,
Are dances this Marxist can master.

He learns to twist rightly -
Says he now holds guns tightly -
And pretends that he can’t hear his pastor.

SCHIP

2007-10-20T14:10:00.000-04:00

Democrats got greedy
In their drive to "aid the needy."
They sought a trip
On a bloated SCHIP.
But got nowhere...indeedy.

The Ballad of “Big Don” John Murtha

2007-05-23T08:38:00.000-04:00

Here’s the story of “Big Don” John Murtha
Whose morals were greatly in dearth-a.
As committee’s main host-a
He runs Casa Nostra.
He shouldn’t hold power no furtha.

Murtha's misstep (LA Times Editorial slams Murtha and Pelosi)

Korea -- the ignored war

2006-11-28T12:31:00.000-05:00

People have short memories.

How many people remember that

* 30,000 Americans died in Korea in (less than) 3 years (1950-52) of Democrat Truman's presidency? That means more than 10 times as many troops died under Truman as died under Bush in 3 years.
* How many people remember MacArthur saying on this date in November of 1950 that the war would be over by that Christmas? The "official" action in Korea went on until 1953.
* How many people remember that Truman said he was sending our troops to fight a "police action" against "bandits" who were threatening the Republic of Korea?

Tedward and the Commies

2006-11-28T12:18:00.000-05:00

Tedward can rant. He can rave.
I get dizzy when I watch his hands wave.
He's got two left arms,
Which is one of his charms,
To Commies, who think the guy's brave.

Rangel: Mother Teresa REALLY wanted to be a housewife

2006-11-27T09:03:00.000-05:00

US Representative Charles Rangel (Dumb-NY) astounded listeners when he revealed his latest personally funded study, which showed that, contrary to previous findings, Mother Teresa preferred staying home and baking cookies.

As a young woman, however, she received no marriage proposals, so she was forced by the Yugoslavian government to travel to a distant country to help other people.

Rangel said that no one should challenge his findings because he is a Catholic

Notify the authorities!!

2006-11-26T11:40:00.000-05:00

Listening to the Main Stream Media is sort of like hearing a violent argument in a neighboring apartment.

Your first instinct is to want to block out the noise.

But it's good that you can't avoid hearing it, because you need to notify the appropriate people that something bad is happening.

(Lack of) Class will out

2006-10-31T16:59:00.000-05:00

Kerry is out of his mind.
He speaks words that aren't very kind.
The guy is so crazy --
He calls our troops lazy.
John isn't the least bit refined.

Prince Harold [Harold Ford, Jr.]

2006-10-26T13:14:00.000-04:00

Harold's a fun loving guy,
He's young and unmarried and spry.
Neither too old, nor gnarly,
A real "good time Charley"
He's never been labeled as "shy."

Family Lies [Don't look behind the curtain]

2006-10-25T13:26:00.000-04:00

A Lib, name of Michael J. Fox,
Goes on tour for the Democrat blocs.
Like a one-man Spin-City
Or a young Walter Mitty
He lies from his on-air soap box.

Michael's a character actor,
But we must not consider that factor.
We may only show pity
On the saint from Spin City.
If we question, we're called a detractor.

Rangel

2006-09-26T10:28:00.000-04:00

I know of a congressman, Rangel,
Who thinks from a leftist-skewed angle.
In his gruffily voice
He offers one choice,
"Give bad guys the whole Sunni triangle."

2006-09-11T10:07:00.000-04:00

Al Qaeda's appeal to many Muslims has more to do with the perception that the United States has become an oppressor than with the particulars of the group's intolerant worldview.
I see that the Globe editorial staff skipped their history classes.
I'm reading a book that was
"That society has deteriorated to a point where violence is almost inevitable...

--tired of being overwhemed, have leapt with frantic sadistic joy to burn and kill.

The burning of Cairo, the assassination of Prime Ministers, the intimidating of Christians, the vehemence and hatred in their literature--all this is to be understood in terms of a people who have lost their way, whose heritage has proven unequal to modernity, whose leaders have been dishonest, whose ideals have failed.

In this aspect, the new Islamic upsurge is a force not to solve problems but to intoxicate those who cannot longer abide the failure to solve them.

pp. 158-59, Islam in Modern History, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Princeton University Press

Syriacus home page at Free Republic

2006-09-11T10:03:00.000-04:00

Syriacus -- in honor of that wonderful shrub Hibiscus syriacus, the Rose of Sharon

hippoetry

A tale of two countries

Beijing may manage our ports
After smuggling large arms* of all sorts.
(Not merely Smith-Wessons).
Have we learned any lessons?
No, we punish the Arab "good sports."

*On March 18, 1996, Federal agents surreptitiously seized a Poly shipment of 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles in Oakland, California. These weapons had left China on February 18 aboard a vessel belonging to ... state-owned company, the Chinese Ocean Shipping Company (`COSCO').

Is T. Ebbert [NOLA DHS chief] responsible for delay in large-scale response to levee breach?
"It's a very slow rise, and it will remain so until we plug that breach. I think we can get [the breach] stabilized in a few hours" [August 30, 2005]

From catastrophe to chaos in new orleans
"This is a national disgrace," said New Orleans' emergency operations chief Terry Ebbert. "We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans." [September 1, 2005]

*COSCO interested to buy stake in Greek port
*Shipping giant COSCO sets sail for big time [April 09, 2005] ...COSTACO, the country's largest shipping tally company, has become a subsidiary of COSCO, the world's second largest shipping company in terms of capacity.
COSTACO's business ranges from cargo measuring and weighing bulk cargo to supervising loading and unloading operations.
*The U.S. government agreed to exempt COSCO from laws discriminating against state-owned shipping companies. *CLINTON OK'S CHINESE ASSAULT WEAPONS FOR U.S. DELIVERY

Kerry's Fillet-bluster

The Pied Piper of Davos
John Kerry made news with his yodel,
From a room in his Switzerland hotel.
This Libs' wild-eyed Piper
Has made them too hyper.
They'll soon be extinct like the Dodo.

Leahy is the quintessential hypocrite. In 1998, Leahy criticized the Independent Counsel system. During the recent hearings, Leahy criticized Samuel Alito for having criticized the Independent Counsel statute in 2000.

Scenario for intruder who caused Jane Doe's collapse

Supranuclear Proliferation of a "fairy tale"

The muddy road

If we cling to bad feelings, we must necessarily skew our perception, degrade our decision-making,

With Gratitude, To FreeRepublic
I'd feel all adrift and "at sea"-ly
As a Con in a Lib'ral family
But, this forum, so dear,
Helps banish such fear
'Cause it gives folks the means to speak freely

A second look at Hwang Woo Suk 12/16/2005

Hwang's just a name in the news.
'Cuz the man's disappeared from our views.
He's been hospital-ridden
Since we've learned he was kiddin'
And he can't show us cells to peruse.

Collaborator says Korean cloning pioneer admitted faking stem cell result

Cookbook for Flim-Flam

The pressure for cloning's so great
That a researcher might take the bait
And "doctor" his finds
To mislead weaker minds
Proving -- greed is a strong human trait

Clone Scandal: 'A Tragic Turn' for Science [S. Korea scientists fabricated evidence]

Dean's Big Head -- 12/10/2005

Old Deanie is really intense,
You can't say he sits on a fence,
He states his opinion
But never can win in
A race, 'cause his ego's IMMENSE.

And the ratings say.... Rush is #1

Al Franken did not make the list.
As a host, he should cease and desist.
There's a miniscule chance
His spot will advance
Since his show's such a snap to resist.

Hillary's aide - Sidney Blumenthal - 12/08/2005
There once was a low-life named Sidney.
Who dealt in life's dregs, like a kidney.
Doing Hillary's work,
Like some low-level clerk
With morals as pliant as a squid knee.

12/01/05

Note to Hillary
about her stand on Iraq:

You'd be more prepossessing
If you didn't keep folks guessing.

11/30/05

Joe Wilson disses Robert Novak

Joe Wilson's gone blankity mad.
Hot anger pours out of the cad.
Playing juvenile games,
He calls Novak names.
His joi d'vivre's gone. It's so sad.

Untitled

'Tis strange that I turned out to be
The Con in a Lib family tree.
I've now left the ranch, to start a new branch
Of children with minds that roam free

Shades of the Soviet Union

Have you heard that Miss Miller's recanting?
Her excuses are less than enchanting.
"I've done readers wrong."
"Now I'm moving along."
"I hope you'll forgive my news-slanting."

Schoolchildren of Da Nang
"celebrate" the anniversary of the fail of Saigon
Vietnam Conflict Remembered,
Sunday, 2 April, 2000, BBC

Pre-War "containment" of Saddam failed more each day.

1. The oil-for-food program was corrupt
2. The weapons inspections were a farce
3. US and allied planes were targeted
4. Uninspected flights to Baghdad gutted the sanctions
5. Terrorists were training in Iraq
6. Saddam supported terrorism - $25,000 to each family of a suicide bomber (Thanks, Prost1).
7. Saddam brutalized our fellow human beings

Saddam was thumbing his nose at decent people as he rewarded his collaborators.

Bush interrupted Saddam's staging of a comeback.

Analysis: Saddam steps up defiance, 1 December, 2000, By BBC Middle East analyst Roger Hardy

US Troops liberating the French - A-OK -- US Troops liberating the Iraqis - BAD

Anti-War Wall of Shame

A tale of the difference in treatment by the DNC and MSM of Valerie Plame and Terri Schiavo -- both from Huntingdon Valley, PA, both born 1963, both married to liars.

Dims Dims Dims Dims

They may talk o’ agent outting,
While stamping feet and pouting--
Yelling, “White ‘ouse is the nastiest of places.”

But when it comes to slaughter
They’ll deprive the weak of water
And they’ll never ’ave the shame to ‘ide their faces.

Saddam learned that the President withholds his wrath until the right moment.

The Lessons of Halabja: An Ominous Warning

Professional Pundits

Eau d' Chris

Chris Matthews will rarely make sense.
(Perhaps 'cause his brain is too tense.)
As he spews forth ridiculous gaffes,
He spits and he giggles and laughs.
His guests sit far back, in defense.

Persnickety Jack Cafferty makes me want to laff-erty

Jack spends his time on mindless cavils
Like Bush's mileage during travels.
But Jack could better use his craft
If he measured Blanco's graft.
Checking Nagin could be good
And counting cops per N'Awlins 'hood.

Democrats don't spin--They "philosophicate*"
*Democratic spinning, in which facts are less important than tangentially related myths
Don't look for medical breakthroughs to be accomplished by pro-abortion or pro-euthanasia doctors

To the minority on the Judiciary Committee

Dour, dour, liberal scowler
Angry men without much power
Dems can bark, can lie, and bite
But still can't win their dirty fight

I think we can get [the breach] stabilized in a few hours"

Little Chuckie Schumer
Chuck Schumer's like a two-year old --
Very negative and kind of bold.
He can't say "Aye."
He must defy
A judge who's found to be pure gold.

License too Shrill
Chuck like to boss folks around
And his voice is his own fav'rite sound.
He vows, til he's hoarse,
That he'd take guns by force.
Don't argue, 'cause he'll shoot you down.

Chuck Schumer is a hatchet man
Chuck Schumer is a hatchet man
Not anywhere near an attractive man
He sneers, he lies,
And averts his eyes,
Can he be nasty? In fact, he can.

A Scowler, NOT A Scholar

A dillar, a dollar, an all-day-long scowler.
Tell me, what is that Senator's name?
Chuck Schumer, that fumer, with no sense of humor,
He won't accept personal blame

Bloomberg is saying, "Oh, Woe,
Judge Roberts might overturn Roe."
New York's Boston-born mayor,
Is a nosey nay-sayer,
My opinion of him's at a low

Lib pols would gladly slit throats,
Then escape in their own one-man boats
Nagin did not go swimmin'
Like the poor N'awlins women
Yet now he's grandstanding for votes.

Mumbling, stumbling, bumbling Reid, can show us that leadership's part of his breed

Double, double, toil and trouble, attempts to burst John Roberts' bubble,

Double, double, reams of memos, Sought and read by seething Demos,

Double trouble, reams of memos, Sought and scanned by scheming Demos

Schumer hates all demagogues while feinstein fights for rights of frogs

Leaky Leahy
Pat's heart leaps up when he beholds, Feinstein's deep'ning love of toads.

Turning the tables
Grilling Tedward Kennedy
Dems can taste quite succulent
If they're not too truculent

Chuck shows too much reticence to overturn bad precedents.

Let's speak of sweet senator Dick, Whose skull is exceedingly thick, With no room left inside, for deep thoughts to reside, As a clock, he would only say, "Tick"

Cindy Sheehan

I know of a woman in Texas
Does her bestest and mostest to hex us.
She says she loves children
Yet, she'd let Saddam kill them
Since he didn't take steps to annex us.

Charlie Rangel endorses the draft.
Cindy Sheehan is borderline daft.
The plans of this twosome
Are plain simple gruesome
Since they don't know their fore from their aft.

Joe Wilson's been wholly disgraced,
Thus, the Left has had him replaced
By that nut Cindy Sheehan,
The Media Queen,
Whose photos with Bush she erased.

Cindy Sheehan says, "I'm doing this for the children of the world"

Victim of the attacks by Saddam and his Ba'ath forces on Halabja.

Cindy could be renamed Excess Cindy Shee-Haw, because she is the spiritual daughter of two infamous, American-born, anti-Semitic liars ..WILLIAM JOYCE alias LORD HAW-HAW and Mildred Gillars, alias Axis Sally

Axis Sally used to say "Damn all Jews who made this war possible. I love America, but I do not love Roosevelt and all his k#ke boyfriends."

The best counterarguments to Excess Cindy Shee-Haw's lies are the choices her son, Casey, made.

Do excerpt or title only

Timeline for atta

CIA "leak"

Joe Wilson's Perfidy

Joe took the Islamicists' side,
When he said that the President lied.
Since the Times spread Joe's tale,
Please put them in jail
And, certainly, Joe should be fried

Ambassador Wilson Lied

Joe W. wrote an op-ed and lied
Didn't care if Americans died
He sat on his tush
As he undermined Bush
And pretended wife Val was "inside."

O'Donnell, Plame and Rove

Larry O'Donnell, the Pouter,
Blames Karl for Valerie's outer
Larry spits and he spins
Weaving "outs" out of "ins"
But he can't change the mind of this doubter.

Celebrity Pundits

Burt Bacharach: The wrong song, for the wrong time

Burt (who's "more passionate than ever")
Thought the lyrics he'd written were clever.
Thought he'd strike up the band
And enlighten our land,
Burt’s forgot voters push their own lever.

Mean Janeane

Poor Janeane Garofalo
Has the humor of a buffalo
Her face is so dour
I could use it to scour
All the pots that my sink would allow.

From the wayback machine, July 20, 2003---http://web.archive.org/web/20030720060539/http://www.mideasti.org/html/bio-wilson.html, bio of Joe Wilson

Listening to "the Great One" while driving

Mark Levin is a tower of straingth
As he holds off them Dems at arm's laingth
Mark elicits such laughs
At the Liberal gaffes
That my car nearly exits its lane-th.

The Senate Judiciary Committee

Schumer Day Three of the hearings I Like the rest of the Democrat minions, Chuck wanted to know John's opinions. Chuck hurled out an insult, Got a boomerang result, And now we're all sure Chuck's the dim one.	Schumer Day Three of the hearings II Chuck says that the process's absurd But he barely lets John say a word He talks of old pictures As he sets up his strictures Chuck's comments are getting quite blurred.
C. Schumer - male chauvinist pig Here's a question that Chuckie will dodge-- "Can a woman belong to your lodge?" Female Masons he'd thwart, But he'd help gals abort His thinking is such a hodge-podge.	Persona non gratia Chuck Schumer will act so superior As he guts an opponent's interior. He pretends he's so wise, But it's only a guise, And his motives are always ulterior.
Tackless Chuck Schumer He's not been a very good sport His only technique is to thwart When he's not telling lies, He loves to "advise" Chuck wants his own seat on the court	School-less Chuck Schumer Chuck Schumer has said that he might Approve a justice who's AIR-EE-YOO-DITE. There's only one clinker In this plan of Chuck Stinker* -- The candidate mustn't lean right. *Schumer's preferred mispronunciation of erudite.
Schumer the Schooler Chuck likes to think he's a master And acts like he's everyone's pastor. He's a loud-mouthed New Yorker Who's a modern day "Borker" His choices would lead to disaster.	Tactless Chuck Schumer A nominee better be lucky, And get approval from close-minded Chucky, His vehemence floors us -- He's a one-man Greek chorus -- Whose vision for America's yucky.
Dems on the Judiciary Committe Libs love a Justice who's ready For approval by Dick, Chuck and Teddy. Pat, Joe and Dianne, Are preheating the pan, To fry nominees deemed "right-heady."	Durbin plays the Nazi card Durbin's a foul, stinking skunk, Though he puts on the airs of a monk. He feigns he's amazed That the words that he phrased Could put our morale in a funk.
Ben, the guy who told Cheney off. Ben wants Blanco for President? Yipes!! We'd all have to hoard paper wipes To dry any big flood Cause Blanco's a dud Who needs to put on prison stripes.	I know an old cowgirl named Sandy, Whose judgment seems perfectly dandy, But her writings lack logic, To folks in Dowagiac, When they have their spectacles handy.
The legacy of Sandra Day O'Connor There once was a justice named Sandy Whose voice sounded sweet, just like candy. Still, her mouth went and said, "You can puncture its head!! If a baby's not thought to be dandy."	Southwestern Justice I once met a gal from a ranch, Whose logic could make a babe blanch. NOW called preborns "chattel," Sandra thought they'd said "cattle." So she gave Libs the judicial branch.

I know of a woman named Jamie Whose face shows no sorrow or shamey 'Though she raised the high wall That endangered us all She doggedly shrugs off the blamey.

The riots in France

It took a little doing....but I found the Bush-Riot connection... Bush -- rush -- rust -- must -- most -- moot -- root -- riot

The French have valued Michael Moore's input in the past...maybe they can look to him for some direction about riot-handling.Paging Michael Moore...Paging Michael Moore

Rep. Pelosi, (D-CA)

There once was a woman named Nancy,
With a plan not exceedingly fancy.
She'd shout out, "Corruption!!"
To engender disruption.
But was swamped by the riots in France-y.

Mooligans

The French Yutes are dancing with glee
As they burn up an auto or three.
Using Molotov torches
For inflicting large scorches
They threaten the peace in Paree.

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Chris Burns, CNN reporter just said : "little teenagers" are carrying this out.
Anchorperson, Carol, acting as if this story is something new. 11/05/2005 5:06:10 PM EST

Terri SchiavoWeird George Felos repeatedly flicked his tongue out his gaping mouth when lying to the press 3/31

"[Nancy Cruzan, three days before her death from starvation] turned and looked at me and stared at me with a panicky look, sweating profusely, and the thought I had was, she was thinking, ‘Oh, here’s a policeman, he’ll help me.’ But we weren’t allowed to do that,"...Doug Seneker

Screwy things that the "Kill-Terri" hordes have said and done

1. Ed Koch thinks Terri needs to watch TV to know she is starving.
2. George Felos thinks Terri looks "beautiful" after her week of forced starvation.
3. Doctor Cranford, who helped Michael win Terri's "right to die" does not believe Terri has constitutional rights
4. Terri said "No tubes for me, " but Michael ignored Terri's "wishes" and had a tube inserted
5. Bulimic women get significant legal boost toward weight-loss goal by local Judge who is willing to order them to be starved to death.
6. Jay Wolfson thinks that an inverse statement (B) "I don't think, therefore, I am not," follows logically from the statement (A), "I think, therefore, I am."
Elementary logic shows Wolfson is wrong to make an assumption that an inverse statement is true.
7. Sanjay Gupta said it was interesting that the neurological diagnoses of Terri could vary so much.

Felos said Michael's cause was only able to succeed because of the help of the ACLU and of some others.

For years, the ACLU has been very busily fighting for the right to Physician Assisted Suicide. They know their way around the courts, all right. Back in 1999, the ACLU gave an award and a dinner (!!the irony!!) to Former Chief Justice of the Florida State Supreme Court, Gerald Kogan, who supports Physician Assisted Death.

George Greer: Soon starring in the hit movie They Starve "Bulimics," Don't They?

New Orleans, Katrina, and Rita

If the MSM concubines of the DNC hadn't been so busily bashing Bush for the last 5 years they might have done Americans a real service and investigated the potential dangers in NOLA and other Dem-run cities. Instead, the concubines praised Cindy Sheehan and broadcast false accusations about Bush's national guard service.

CTV.ca --Streets of New Orleans sink deeper into crisis CTV.ca News Staff, Wed. Aug 31: "It's a very slow rise, and it will remain so until we plug that breach. I think we can get it stabilized in a few hours," Terry Ebbert, New Orleans' homeland security chief told The Associated Press.

"Please, Mother. I'd rather do it myself" Give the poor woman a bottle of Anacin.
Bush called but Blanco and Nagin stalled
It almost seems as though Nagin and Blanco didn't want "snoopy" feds around their turf too soon...I wonder why.

67 posted on 09/03/2005 10:43:51 PM EDT by syriacus

Compassionate Liberalism Part II: Blaming the Iraq War and Tax Cuts for New Orleans Flooding

Face it Sharpton--Mayor Nagin killed thousands more poor black people by his inaction in the 48 hours preceding the storm than Bush killed by his supposed inaction in the 48 hours after the storm

Ever hear of "I-gotta-get-my-own-family-to-high-ground-in-Baton-Rouge-and-can't bother-evacuating-the-poor-people" Nagin

Nagin abandoned the poor of New Orleans, just like Kerry abandoned the people of South Vietnam and just like Cindy Sheehan wants to abandon the people of Iraq.

Nagin and Blanco should have been aware of this study which shows that poorer people do not move out of a hurricane's path as often as less poor people do, and special steps need to be taken to protect them.

Citizen Hurricane Evacuation Behavior in Southeastern Louisiana: A Twelve Parish Survey
Released by The Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Taskforce, July 2005, concluded (page 6) that The number of low income residents who remain in harm’s way illustrates the need for both education about the need to travel far enough¹ and providing evacuation assistance to those without means²
1. I don't think Nagin emphatically told his poorer constituents that they needed to evacuate at a distance, to high land, rather than take shelter in a friend's "stronger" home.
2. I know I don't have to ask if Nagin sent buses to evacuate his poorer constituents.

Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

Saturday, August 27, 2005
Brady Westwater said... I may be wrong - but it sems to me that the laid back attitude (more in demeanor than in action, but in some actions, too) your Mayor has taken has diminished the numbers of people who left New Orelans in time. And I can not understand why every school bus in the state has not been commandered to get the poorest, most vulnerable people away from danger. 5:56 PM

2/28/02 - This web site supports Ray Nagin for Mayor... Although it doesn't like the idea that he claimed he is a CPA or the fact that he tried to get a contract as a disenfranchised minority business owner, ...

"Louisiana Gov Kathleen Blanco said that President Bush had called and urged the state to order the evacuation"

NYP: A CITY WE MAY HAVE LOST
It HAS happened and there is no way it is Bush's fault.

The City of New Orleans should have had a housing code that required a lifeboat for every 8 residents.

28 posted on 09/01/2005 9:59:46 AM EDT by syriacus

Geography of New Orleans The final death knoll of the city may very well come from the river itself. Scientists and environmentalists know that the Mississippi is trying to change its course that will bypass the city in favor of the shorter route to the Gulf through the Atchafalaya basin.

Has de-Babylonization of New Orleans arrived?

~~Happy Days are Here Again~~

"Happy Days are here again,"
Said New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin.
"Yes, the water's down,
Come back into town.
Happy days are here again."

A storm named Rita's coming strong
Nagin fears the levees won't last long
He'll repeat his hymn
To folks he once made swim
"Don't blame me. I'm never wrong."

A. Broussard started telling his story
And cried when the tale got real gory.
Russert, barely awake,
Was taken in by this fake
.... Yet, Tim STILL won't admit that he's sorry.

The Deep Six Commission

2006-09-09T10:28:00.000-04:00

Thanks to Berger, Clinton, Clarke, Gorelick and Ben-Veniste, the 911 Commission should be renamed the

Deep Six Commission

Cindy Sheehan: Nobody's candidate for Mrs. America

2006-08-07T13:08:00.000-04:00

Old Cindy is known as "The Stalker."
Ne'er a helper, she's more of a balker.
Her voice is so grating
It deserves an X-rating.
She'd NEVER be called a sweet talker.

I'm certain that tough-talking Sheehan
Is lacking the tenderness gene.
You might think she cares
As she fakes her sad stares.
But, in fact, she is mad she's not queen.

Cindy, whose words are so cruel,
Thinks she is the one who should rule.
She uses the cops
In her planned photo-ops,
To get headlines, which cause her to drool.

Frankenstein lives

2006-07-31T11:11:00.000-04:00

Biologists, with voices brisk,
Tell us species are at risk.
"Preserve that flower!!"
"Don't build that tower!!"
"That plant might have some hidden power."

Scientists, with stem cell lists,
Pound on tables with their fists.
They want our money,
Don't you see,
To blindly lop our family tree.

Villain-aire Buffett

2006-06-27T23:16:00.000-04:00

Billionaire Buffett's forgotten
That wee folks who have been begotten,
Have just as much right
To see the daylight
As rich guys, whose morals are rotten.

INS "data mined" addresses on mail. Opened mail

2006-05-16T11:29:00.000-04:00

US government kept records of addresses of citizenry and opened mail during WWII:

Consequently, [A.S. Hudson -- administrator of the Fort Lincoln Detention Station] sought authorization to bring in a full-time German-speaking intelligence officer to eavesdrop on the detainees and to gather information on the nearby populace.
Some of the citizenry, he feared, might assist in escape attempts. Intelligence work, he argued, should also include examination of the detainees' incoming and outgoing mail in order to determine their attitudes.
On the basis of this opinion, Hudson and his staff set up index cards for each detainee, recording on them the names and addresses on all outgoing mail and the writers' names, addresses, and dates of arrival on all incoming mail. This practice would soon become standard procedure at all the INS camps.
A sampling of mail was to be opened and read. In addition, the chief patrol inspector ordered incoming packages inspected for unspecified contraband prior to delivery to the Germans.

US Code regarding telephone privacy

2006-05-11T21:26:00.000-04:00

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TITLE 47 > CHAPTER 5 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part I > § 222
§ 222. Privacy of customer information

Release date: 2006-01-11

(a) In general
Every telecommunications carrier has a duty to protect the confidentiality of proprietary information of, and relating to, other telecommunication carriers, equipment manufacturers, and customers, including telecommunication carriers reselling telecommunications services provided by a telecommunications carrier.

(b) Confidentiality of carrier information
A telecommunications carrier that receives or obtains proprietary information from another carrier for purposes of providing any telecommunications service shall use such information only for such purpose, and shall not use such information for its own marketing efforts.

(c) Confidentiality of customer proprietary network information
(1) Privacy requirements for telecommunications carriers
Except as required by law or with the approval of the customer, a telecommunications carrier that receives or obtains customer proprietary network information by virtue of its provision of a telecommunications service shall only use, disclose, or permit access to individually identifiable customer proprietary network information in its provision of (A) the telecommunications service from which such information is derived, or (B) services necessary to, or used in, the provision of such telecommunications service, including the publishing of directories.

(2) Disclosure on request by customers
A telecommunications carrier shall disclose customer proprietary network information, upon affirmative written request by the customer, to any person designated by the customer.

(3) Aggregate customer information
A telecommunications carrier that receives or obtains customer proprietary network information by virtue of its provision of a telecommunications service may use, disclose, or permit access to aggregate customer information other than for the purposes described in paragraph (1). A local exchange carrier may use, disclose, or permit access to aggregate customer information other than for purposes described in paragraph (1) only if it provides such aggregate information to other carriers or persons on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions upon reasonable request therefor.

(d) Exceptions
Nothing in this section prohibits a telecommunications carrier from using, disclosing, or permitting access to customer proprietary network information obtained from its customers, either directly or indirectly through its agents—
(1) to initiate, render, bill, and collect for telecommunications services;
(2) to protect the rights or property of the carrier, or to protect users of those services and other carriers from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of, or subscription to, such services;
(3) to provide any inbound telemarketing, referral, or administrative services to the customer for the duration of the call, if such call was initiated by the customer and the customer approves of the use of such information to provide such service; and
(4) to provide call location information concerning the user of a commercial mobile service (as such term is defined in section 332 (d) of this title)—
(A) to a public safety answering point, emergency medical service provider or emergency dispatch provider, public safety, fire service, or law enforcement official, or hospital emergency or trauma care facility, in order to respond to the user’s call for emergency services;
(B) to inform the user’s legal guardian or members of the user’s immediate family of the user’s location in an emergency situation that involves the risk of death or serious physical harm; or
(C) to providers of information or database management services solely for purposes of assisting in the delivery of emergency services in response to an emergency.

Cleaning, with Nancy

2006-05-09T12:40:00.000-04:00

Pelosi was flapping her gums,
While her face hinted she needed Tums.
She longed to clean House,
To squash-dead each louse
Alas! She's learned Libs are the bums.

Beating around at Bush

(Cleaning, with Nancy, Part II)
Nancy'd been beating the rugs,
Hoping to murder bad bugs.
But, she stopped being willing
To continue the killing
When she heard that Dem drivers did drugs.

Big Joe Wilson and his Dracular Dems

2006-05-08T16:10:00.000-04:00

What a big web they have woven,
These folks in the Democrat coven.
They'll lie and impugn
From midnight til noon
When the sun burns them up like an oven.

Lawyer: Five Witnesses Say Joe Wilson Outed Valerie Plame

To the MSM in Iraq: Who do you think you are fooling?

2006-03-26T11:33:00.000-05:00

You newsmen will tell us you fear
For your lives, so you cannot go near
To a school dedication.
YET, you've NO hesitation,
In filming a bombing, it's clear.

MSM says reporting on car bombings is safe.

2006-03-26T11:29:00.000-05:00

Today the members of the Roundtable on Meet the Press said there is little good news coming out of Iraq, because reporters would endanger themselves.

Do the members of the roundtable seriously think that reporting on car bombings in Iraq is a safer thing to do?