Arnie Wins California
Yes:54% No: 46% with 96% of precincts reported.
If you listen real close, you can just about hear the lamentation of the women…
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So, you’re building a WMD, but you’re not sure where to source all those tricky tools, and the all-important protective gear? No problem! RummyMart has everything you need. We even deliver! The US Defence Department could inadvertently be providing terrorists with the equipment to make chemical or biological weapons, say congressional investigators. They found the Pentagon was not properly monitoring internet sales of its equipment and so was unable to determine who was buying it and how it was being used. The House Government Reform Subcommittee on national security – which requested the inquiry – will examine the findings on Tuesday. “The Department of Defence should not be a discount shopping outlet for would-be-bio terrorists,” said subcommittee chairman, Representative Christopher Shays. Investigators set up a shell company to find out how easy it is to buy laboratory equipment from the Pentagon. Using a website that sells the surplus gear, they bought centrifuges, evaporators, bacteriological incubators and protective clothing – all of which could be used to make chemical or biological weapons. The report by the General Accounting Office says the equipment was both easy and economical to obtain. They found that in numerous cases surplus kit was re-sold to unknown buyers in countries where terrorists have operated, such as the Philippines and Egypt. The Pentagon regularly sells surplus equipment, and the instruments bought by the investigators are commercially available. “The cheap, virtually unregulated availability of low-cost biological laboratory equipment poses a risk to national security,” said Mr Shays. You heard it folks! The General Accounting Office calls us “Easy and Economical”! Shop RummyMart today! Bacteriological incubators. For sale at your local Department of Defense. I can’t think of anything funny to write about that. I think I’m going to go to bed, in the hope that when I wake up I’ve slipped back into my own parallel universe, where things make sense. *Sigh* And just in from Greg Palast. While the California press is reluctant to challenge the Austrian dumbbell lifter on anything more significant than his palm print on some females’ behinds, one reader of our report below confronted Schwarzenegger. Friday, at a staged event in front of the Von’s supermarket in Bakersfield, Referring to the disclosure in my column (which would have been well known to the candidate by that time), she shouted, “He’s in bed with Kenny Lay, you idiots! It’s your money!” There was dead silence for a beat, then came the voice through the loudspeakers, “I suhtunly wasn’t in bet wit YOU!” The world watches, awestruck. The clock ticks for California. Aljazeera, that font of electoral wisdom, reports from the recall: “Gray Davis has terminated jobs, Gray Davis has terminated dreams, Gray Davis has terminated opportunity and now it’s time to terminate Gray Davis,” he said. The Schwartz needs to learn how to terminate his sentences. Mr Schwarzenegger has been accused of serial sexual battery. Shown extreme disregard for Native American rights. Been accused of plotting with Enron. He has bought up the footage that allegedly shows him doing an excellent Adolf Hitler routine, and saying how much he admire the author of Mein Kampf. He claims to have taken part in the “gang-bang” of a black woman. And then claims he just made that story up to promote body-building. Then came a crime for which most right-thinking male brits would see him strung up for. The Guardian Article at the time (Friday December 15, 2000) reported: Schwarzenegger grasped Boddington’s model turned TV starlet Melanie Sykes around the waist. “Get your hands off me – I’m scared,” she is reported to have said, whereupon the married father-of-four made a lunge for Sykes’ breast instead.The further accusations revolve around interviews the actor had with presenters Denise van Outen and Anna Richardson, also conducted in London’s Dorchester hotel. Richardson told the tabloid: “I wanted to say, ‘You dirty bastard’. But you can’t tell a powerful man like him to f*** off… He kept saying how fantastic I looked and staring at my [breasts].” At the end of the interview, claims Richardson, “He pulled me onto his knee, saying ‘I really want to know if your breasts are real'” Keep your hands off our women, Arnie! We’ll take Melanie and Denise’s word over yours any day of the year. If only Zonker had stood. But he missed the filing deadline. Still, he and his friend, Monsieur Trudeau, have made sure that every paper reader in California has a recorse should the worst happen. Another recall form. That the man is even allowed to run for office with so much hanging over him is an insult to the Californian people, and women everywhere. Wake up America! Dormez-vous California? The world is laughing at you! You’re supposed to make comedy, not be it! George W Bush will unmask the leakers using the power of his mind!
Its a coming to me fellas. I see a face. Is that a beard? Nuts! Sorry guys it’s gone again. Shucks. Well, I guess we did our best. Another tale from the Hindustan Times Mumia Abu-Jamal has been sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a white Philadelphia policeman. It is the first time Paris has bestowed the honour since Pablo Picasso was made honorary citizen in 1971, Socialist mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe told an audience of 200 people, taking the occasion to attack the “barbarity” of the death penalty. Abu-Jamal, sentenced to death 21 years ago for the murder of Daniel Faulkner, has always insisted he was innocent, and scores of movements and organizations have sprung up around the world in his defense. His case has provoked particularly vivid debate in France, which abolished the death penalty in 1981. French school children are required to study the case as part of their education. Not a lot to say about the centre part of this story. The death penalty is a bad idea, as most civilised folks agree. I posted this more because of the interesting combination of France, America, the death penalty, and a black incarcerant. If this one makes it to the right-wing US press, I suspect they’re going to define it as a mortal insult, and anti-American. Extracts from an Associated Press story in the Hindustan Times: US Republican Cass Ballenger has blamed the breakup of his 50-year marriage partly on the stress of living near a leading American Muslim advocacy group that he and his wife worried was so close to the US Capitol that “they could blow the place up”. In addition to CAIR, he told the newspaper that another stress on the marriage was the 1995 decision by “holier-than-thou Republicans” in the House to ban gifts from lobbyists. The meals and theatre tickets from lobbyists once meant “a social life for (congressional) wives,” Ballenger said. Ballenger’s wife also said the move by “do-goody Republicans” to restrict the money spent on members of Congress and their spouses had helped turn Washington into a less desirable place to live. Ballenger said in the latest interview that after the 2001 terrorist attacks, his wife was anxious about all the activity at CAIR, including people unloading boxes late at night and women “wearing hoods,” or headscarves, going in and out of the office building. “That’s 2 1/2 blocks from the Capitol,” he said, “and they could blow it up.” “We meet with the FBI quite often,” Hooper (A spokesperson for CAIR) said. “Our chapters have town hall meetings with the FBI to discuss discrimination and hate crimes (against Muslims).” Unloading boxes and wearing headscarves. What will those wicked Arabs get up to next… It’s worth reading the whole article, BTW. |
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