Monthly Archives: February 2004

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What About Justin?

There are

three things that bother me about the outrage that followed this latest Super Bowl. First of all, how did these gangstas and pimps make

it into Halftime? These men believe that ALL women are whores. If Janet’s breast had remained covered, would anyone complain about huge

sums of money being made exploiting, excoriating, women. These guys fill their videos with largely-naked women in porn poses. The pimps

like semi-classy callgirls in Victoria’s Secrets, while Kid Rock prefers strippers and biker chicks (and confederate battle flags —

don’t the brothers know about the Kid?).

Secondly, where was the collective outrage after the NFL and Pepsi raped the

National Mall in DC, with a stripped Britney Spears begging for it? That was just an undress rehersal, and good, clean patriotism,

to boot.

Worst of all, why do I keep hearing Janet’s name and not Justin’s? Did he not expose her? Isn’t he at least

half the problem? Why aren’t all these outraged bluenoses going after the boy, with his weasely excuses? I don’t see either of them as

a role model, but I do imagine a lot of boys did a lot of grabbing after the game. Do you realize that many young girls report being

groped and harrassed? Now we’ve elevated it to primetime entertainment.

Halftime wasn’t the problem. The fantasy of noble conflict

people used to project on athletes and athletics has become a delusion. They’re all whores owned by Corporate Pimps selling you drugs.

It’s time to disband all professional sports (and de-professionalize all other sports). Find something better to do with your

time and money. mjh

”In this dirty-minded world, she thought, you are either somebody’s wife or somebody’s whore

— or fast on your way to becoming one or the other. If you don’t fit either category, then everyone tries to make you think there

is something wrong with you. But, she thought, there is nothing wrong with me.” — Jenny, Garp’s mom in The World According to

Garp, by John Irving

Alpert’s Truth:

Titillation

Pika’s

take

Dump Duhbya

‘It’s all a web of lies.’

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CNN.com – Transcript of Powell’s U.N. presentation – Feb. 5, 2003 (all 10 pages are online)

Iraqi denials of supporting terrorism take the place alongside the other Iraqi denials of weapons of mass destruction. It is all a web of lies. …

The United States will not and cannot run that risk to the American people. Leaving Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction for a few more months or years is not an option, not in a post-September 11th world. …

Today Iraq still poses a threat and Iraq still remains in material breach.

Tallahassee Democrat | 02/02/2004 | Miscalculation or outright lie?

The Bush administration was left with a single rationale: Iraq’s imminent threat to America.
Thus came Powell’s Feb. 5 multimedia extravaganza before the Security Council. You may remember it.

“Look at this (satellite image). This one is about a weapons munition facility, a facility that holds ammunition at a place called Taji. This is one of about 65 such facilities in Iraq. We know that this one housed chemical munitions….

“Here, you see 15 munitions bunkers in yellow and red outlines. The four that are in the red squares represent active chemical munitions bunkers.”

Again:

“At this biological-related facility, on Nov. 25, just two days before inspections resumed, this truck caravan appeared, something we almost never see at this facility, and we monitor it carefully and regularly. … Five large cargo trucks appeared along with the truck-mounted crane to move missiles. We saw this kind of house-cleaning close to 30 times.”

Oh, and enough anthrax (one spoonful of which was enough to shut down the U.S. Senate in the fall of 2001) to “fill tens upon tens of thousands of teaspoons.”

And this: “My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.“