Bush: Dumb Like A Bullet / Is Dubya both a bumbling simpleton *and* a shrewd manipulator who smirked at tortures in Iraq?

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11 Hard Questions For Bush / In which
our columnist sits down with the prez
for some truly tough talk. Can Dubya
handle it?

11 Hard Questions For Bush / In which
our columnist sits down with the prez
for some truly tough talk. Can Dubya
handle it? 05/01/2004 09:04 AM
In which our columnist sits down with the prez for some truly tough talk. Can Dubya handle it? .. 11 hard questions for shrub .. Some fine fine hate .. Mark Morford

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/04/30/notes043004 .DTL&nl=fix
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Why won't DUMB work for Bush?

Why won't DUMB work for Bush? 04/19/2004 08:20 AM
Dubya strategists puzzled as campaign launch fizzles.

"The CBS Story That Didn't Run - Bush
Admin too dumb to use Google"

"The CBS Story That Didn't Run - Bush
Admin too dumb to use Google" 09/23/2004 09:50 PM

The Times plays dumb on Bush Guard story

The Times plays dumb on Bush Guard story 09/24/2004 11:28 AM
The New York Times today announced why the story of president Bush's suspect Texas Air National Guard duty has taken hold as a campaign issue, while attacks on Sen. John Kerry's war record have. Politely ignoring the fact that the original Swift Boat Veterans for Truth allegations turned out to be fictitious, the Times declares Bush's Guard story didn't work because it's old news, having already been fleshed out in 2000. Writes the Times' Jodi Wilgoren, "Much of the public had already confronted similar questions about Mr. Bush's service during the 2000 race, and voters judge incumbents far more on their time in the White House than on personal history, so the issue was already a hard sell."

Simpleton CMS

Simpleton CMS 10/30/2003 09:20 PM
New version of Simpleton CMS released!

Tortures for Dummies

Tortures for Dummies 05/11/2004 01:56 AM

Usually Tim Bray makes a lot of sense, but his recent post Torture didn't make much sense to me.  This is what he wrote about those soldiers at Abu Ghraib who are being charged:

This recent New York Times piece got me mad enough to provoke this essay. It’s a lengthy cri de coeur about those poor soldiers on the scene at Abu Ghraib, understaffed, undertrained, overworked. Excuse me? They’re torturers! They’re sick out-of-control sadistic animals. Can we have a sense of proportion here?

Apparently, he believes in the saying you are what you do.  In contrast, I am more partial toward you are a battleground of good and evil and everyone is capable of committing inhumane acts under the right conditions.

We know that inhumane acts can be brought about in many ways, most notorious being brainwashing.  To brainwash a person, one must have control over the victim's surrounding through isolation or immersion.  Isn't a prison an ideal environment for brainwashing whether the victim is a prisoner or a guard?  Can one brainwash oneself?  Definitely.  If your peers are brainwashed, what's you chance of being infected?

Even if you have the iron will, a rare property in my opinion, you won't last long under interrogation because interrogation is an art of not only pain but an art of brainwashing.  To break you, they will first break your perception of the world, twisting it as if opening a jar, aligning it into a position that will give, turning allies into enemies and friends into betrayers.  Guess who those soldiers were interacting with on daily basis?  That's right, professional brainwashers.

I am not saying they are all angels corrupted by evil interrogators.  What I am saying is that they are not too different from you and I.  The problem is not just them, but all of us.

You know what you did, but you know not what you do.

Chip Slowdown Only Obscures Intel
Bumbling

Chip Slowdown Only Obscures Intel
Bumbling 09/15/2004 07:38 AM
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Bush Sees Iraq Friend Berlusconi, Iraq
Foe Chirac (Reuters)

Bush Sees Iraq Friend Berlusconi, Iraq
Foe Chirac (Reuters) 06/04/2004 06:57 PM
Reuters - President Bush will thank an Iraq war ally, Italy, and try to move beyond past differences with a war critic, French President Jacques Chirac, in a hectic day of diplomacy on Saturday.

Bush Sees Iraq Friend Berlusconi, Iraq
Foe Chirac

Bush Sees Iraq Friend Berlusconi, Iraq
Foe Chirac 06/04/2004 10:15 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 5 2004 1:49AM GMT

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Ports Manipulator 0.3

Ports Manipulator 0.3 06/05/2004 02:40 AM
A ports collection manipulator for BSD.

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New: PDF Manipulator Plug-in 1.0

New: PDF Manipulator Plug-in 1.0 02/19/2004 11:22 AM
PDF Manipulator Plug-in is a FileMaker Pro add-on that enables you to exchange data between FileMaker Pro and Adobe Acrobat PDF files that have embedded fields.

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Ports Manipulator 0.4

Ports Manipulator 0.4 07/24/2004 12:55 AM
A ports collection manipulator for BSD.

Candygram for Dubya

Candygram for Dubya 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

Candy King is very popular here and is just like Pick-A-Mix candy back in the US where you can fill a bag with a variety of candy and pay by weight. While I was staring at the variety of Easter chocolates today I noticed a bin filled with what I thought at first glance were candy nipples. Considering that Finland has a soup commercial running in prime time on TV that features a couple who roll around in the snow with full frontal nudity that makes the American furor over Janet's little 'wardrobe malfunction' seem even more idiotic, I really thought they were supposed to be nipples.

I bought a few and they taste just like strawberry Tangy Taffy which used to be popular in the 70s. Sadly, Jarkko told me that they're really supposed to be mushrooms but...c'mon, I'll bet the kids don't call them mushrooms. :) I'd love to send a giant bag of them to the White House and to Ashcroft but I wouldn't get the joy of watching the secret service either freak out over the 'obscene' candy or the bioterrorism scare from a Finnish anthrax killer nipple attack. :)

All aboard, the S.S. Dubya

All aboard, the S.S. Dubya 09/01/2004 08:58 PM
While the widely discredited Swift Boat attack campaign against John Kerry appears to be rightly sinking, a new vessel has appeared on the horizon -- and she's cruising into port with a cargo full of bona fides about George W. Bush. Join Skipper Sonny Wallace and the Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth for a cocktail or three, and a quick sail through the murky waters of the 43rd president's past. Guaranteed to cure any RNC-induced queasiness in just under 60 seconds.

Dubya wants out of one of the debates

Dubya wants out of one of the debates 09/08/2004 11:05 AM
Weasel

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3586-2004Sep7.html
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Must Read, Very Long NYT Article,
Unusally Candid Piece About Bush Cartel
Ineptness, Arrogance and Spin: The Bush
Cartel Neo-Con Blueprint for Disaster in
Iraq. Crimes Against Our Soldiers and
Our Nation. 11/1

Must Read, Very Long NYT Article,
Unusally Candid Piece About Bush Cartel
Ineptness, Arrogance and Spin: The Bush
Cartel Neo-Con Blueprint for Disaster in
Iraq. Crimes Against Our Soldiers and
Our Nation. 11/1 11/02/2003 07:35 AM
everyone's weekend reading list

nytimes.com/2003/11/02/magazine/02IRAQ.html
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manipulator :: personal work

manipulator :: personal work 08/20/2004 08:16 AM
Photography of primates by Jill Greenburg .. Monkey Portraits .. Monkeys!

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Symbolic Equation Manipulator

Symbolic Equation Manipulator 09/06/2004 02:14 PM
I'm back on the job

Neuros Database Manipulator

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Version 1.20 of NDBM has been released

Query String Manipulator

Query String Manipulator 10/30/2002 11:14 PM
This class allows you to change and add variables in query strings, add arrays to them, and then output it in a few different ways.

New: Address Book Manipulator

New: Address Book Manipulator 06/28/2004 09:54 AM
Address Book Manipulator is a FileMaker Pro plug-in that enables two-way data exchange between FileMaker Pro and the Mac OS X Address Book.

"manipulator :: personal work"

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Dubya Photo Funnies

Dubya Photo Funnies 08/28/2004 01:39 PM
What happened was, Lauren was away during the Democratic Convention, and as a politics junkie, I wanted to watch some of it, so the kid (just turned five) ended up watching a couple of the big speeches with me. (All on webcast, our TV is a movie box, doesn’t get any channels). He’s full of questions so I tried to explain, and as a result the candidate is the only public figure in the world whose face he knows, when we’re somewhere that there’s a TV showing news he’s apt to pipe up “There’s John Kerry.” This is a little embarrassing, especially considering he’s a Canadian. This morning I was reading news and made some remark about George Bush and he asked “who’s he?” so I tried to explain the big picture around the election and I went looking for some Dubya pix to show him. So I went to the bio page at the official Bush re-election site, and clicked on “View George W. Bush Photo Gallery”... busted link, a peek inside the source reveals href="\News\PhotoAlbum.aspx"... if I were mean-spirited I’d suggest that something about either being Republican or using Windows makes you stupid, but seriously, have to wonder about an organization that claims it can run America not being clueful enough to use a link-checker. Back to our story... I went to Google and looked for pictures of George Bush. This turns out to be a bad idea; the top-ranked pictures are by and large, shall we say, not Republican-friendly. Wanted posters, deranged-monster morphs, things that have just got ta be PhotoShopped. “Why are you laughing, Daddy?” said the kid, and I couldn’t really explain. (PS: Lots of nice pictures of George over at the White House site if you want ’em).

Dubya leads by thirteen points

Dubya leads by thirteen points 09/17/2004 08:30 AM
CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll .. FULL STORY

usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-1 7-gallup-poll_x.htm
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"oh, for fuck sake. could i have any
MORE Dubya Disgust???"

"oh, for fuck sake. could i have any
MORE Dubya Disgust???" 11/03/2003 09:33 PM

Ogle Google but be wary of Dubya ways

Ogle Google but be wary of Dubya ways 12/25/2003 09:18 AM
news.com.au Dec 25 2003 9:07AM ET

OOOOOOOOOOooooooooooh, now the
EEEEEEEEVIL DUBYA WANTS JOOSH
VOTERS!!!!!

OOOOOOOOOOooooooooooh, now the
EEEEEEEEVIL DUBYA WANTS JOOSH
VOTERS!!!!! 04/15/2004 05:12 PM
garner support from Jewish voters? .. battleground states .. charge of heart .. the Jewish vote

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12952-2004Apr14.html
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""Dishonest Dubya" Lying Action Figure"

""Dishonest Dubya" Lying Action Figure" 02/10/2004 03:20 AM

"Looks as if NEWS HACKS have another
weapon to beat Dubya with: OLD
INTELLIGENCE."

"Looks as if NEWS HACKS have another
weapon to beat Dubya with: OLD
INTELLIGENCE." 08/03/2004 08:55 AM

video clip of an obviously bored kid
standing behind Dubya during a speech

video clip of an obviously bored kid
standing behind Dubya during a speech 07/12/2004 10:46 AM
Letterman clip from Monday's show .. clip

overspun.com/video/AmericasYouth.rm
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"Jerky jokester Whoopi in dirty diss at
Dubya."

"Jerky jokester Whoopi in dirty diss at
Dubya." 07/09/2004 05:03 PM
Whoopi Goldberg was the star attraction .. star-studded fundraiser .. Real classy fundraiser

nypost.com/news/nationalnews/24791.htm
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Bullet Trains

Bullet Trains 01/04/2004 12:23 AM

Japan's maglev train sets record: CNN had a story on Headline News about maglev trains and it got the geek in me all excited. They mentioned this one.

The experimental three-car maglev was carrying passengers when it set the world's top speed for a train, clocking at 581 kph (361 mph)...

Now, here's the deal: 600 m.p.h. in a plane is not really a problem, because there's nothing to run into in the air (I know, I know — other planes, buildings, the ground...don't get smart). But 361 m.p.h. on train tracks? On the ground? Where there are things like cars, and cows, and school buses full of little children that could end up on the tracks? That 361 m.p.h. would seem so much faster if you ran into something.

It happened in 1998 in Germany. One hundred twenty people died when abullet train derailed and hit an overpass. And it was only travelling at 175 mp.h.

I don't want to be alarmist or anything, but that kind of speed, that close to stuff that's as unforgiving as an overpass just makes me a little nervous. And it's only a matter of time before Jon Voight and Tom Cruise get into a fight on top of one of them, and then what happens?

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