licentious radio

Thursday, June 13, 2002
[9:44:20 PM]

"If it's Wednesday, there must be Al Qaeda "terrorists" in Kashmir. It's Thursday? Did I say Kashmir? I meant Cashmere. An international cashmere laundering syndicate has been providing comfort to the enemy." -- Donald Rumsfeld.

[7:16:36 PM]

Congratulations to 46 Senators for blocking the permanent repeal of the estate tax for the fantastically rich.

[6:54:44 PM]

Ok, so I'll admit that my favorite Bush rumor is the story of getting a 15-year-old pregnant (while he was in the National Guard) and getting her an abortion -- at a time when abortion was illegal in Texas.

Of course, I have no idea if this happened. I'm just a citizen with access to Google.

The links: Bartcop, Jim Huck.

It's very sad when a young woman gets pregnant without wanting to make a baby, of course. Young people -- all people -- make mistakes, and we hope they recover from the mistakes and learn a thing or two. I wouldn't hold a mistake against someone if he/she learned from it.

I like the story for the un-family values, and for the cover-up. It's pretty juicy for a soon-to-be-awol National Guard officer to get an underaged girl pregnant, force her to have an abortion, arrange for the abortion in a time and place where abortion is illegal, and then cover the whole thing up effectively for decades. But to want to re-criminalize abortion -- that's even better.

[11:43:47 AM]
At GWBush.com....

"Don't blame me, I voted with the majority."

"One Person, One Vote*
*May not apply in all states"

"It's not a war, it's a con job."

"G W Bush: drug free since 1974"

[This last quip is almost certainly false. 1974 was the date created by media whores interpreting Bush spinners' obfuscations in the most generous possible way. As far as I know, the exact quotations could be interpreted as meaning a drug-free period started a few years prior to 1989.]

[10:05:20 AM]
Detaining Americans [washingtonpost.com]: "Similarly, the government refused to let Mr. Hamdi meet with a federal public defender interested in representing him. And when that lawyer sought to file a case on his behalf anyway, the government then contended in a Kafkaesque twist that, having had no prior relationship with Mr. Hamdi, the lawyer could not do so."