Monthly Archives: October 2004

Liar

October 22, 2004 – 4:06 am

I was going to give this post some sophisticated, hidden reference title, but in the interest of calling a spade a general-purpose personal excavation tool… Josh Marshall collects a couple of quotes to make the following points: Bush says that there will not be a draft Bush says we can fight another war at any [...]

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Exactly

October 13, 2004 – 5:47 am

Andrew Sullivan has a post that contains the following line: The contrast between a man who can make an argument and one who can simply assert what he believes to be a truth was striking. This neatly sums up the difference I see. I’d prefer it if Kerry was 20% more resolute, and that’s certainly [...]

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October 12, 2004 – 9:27 pm

Scrotal Safety Commission

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Faucets of Marianna

October 12, 2004 – 6:50 pm

Under the Headline “Faucet Company Donates To Man Who Lost All But Spigot To Twister” a Florida news station reports: “To say James Abney lost everything in his rental trailer during a tornado spawned by Hurricane Ivan doesn’t do justice to his loss: the only thing left where his home had been standing was his [...]

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Old Lies

October 10, 2004 – 9:46 am

A while ago I mentioned that Bush lied about the growth in discretionary spending under his administration. Well, it appears he’s doing it again. Bush says: Clinton 15%pa, me 1%pa The Congressional Budget office says: Clinton 2.5%, Bush 8.2%pa At the time I noted that Gore got hammered for supposedly lying about all manner of [...]

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