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No, they are absolutely fake.

I know it is difficult to accept, but such a claim has never been substantiated. The best you can do is say the documents have not been proven to be copies of the authentic documents showing that George Bush stopped showing up for his plum National Guard service duty (back when the National Guard stayed in the United States) the very same month mandatory drug testing was implemented. And, as the substantiated records very clearly show, George Bush never showed up for his mandatory physical this same year he went missing from his duty. Kill two birds with one stone -- stop showing up for duty and never have to fail your drug test. That's our boy!!

Next you will tell me the August 6, 2001 presidential daily briefing was a fake: Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US (more than one month before 9/11).

Then again, you will probably deny George Bush has a substance abuse problem. These documents (very presidential) must be fakes!

Wonderful criticism skills you got there. You are aware that George Bush left his service to the National Guard the very month mandatory drug testings were instituted for the very first time. Of course, you would probably call that coincidence. Or claim the records that Bush left his service were somehow lacking (hint: they aren't; Bush even admitted he left to work on someone else's political campaign in another state).

But since you types always want in-your-face evidence, here's George Bush's criminal conviction from 1976 recorded for all posterity:

Bush D.U.I. / D.W.I.

George Bush, the first criminal to become president in the history of the United States. Of course, George Bush holds another distinction -- he is the first president to have been put in place by a ruling of the supreme court. Not that he respects judges much.

Reminds me of this guy. Hey, maybe we have another Einstein in the making... or maybe not.

I grew up on a farm. If there's one thing that pisses me off, it's people who walk around with their noses in the air. Yuppies, politicians, etc. are prone to this behavior.

I would think that growing up on a farm, the one thing that would piss you off is when the local fire chief screws your sheep
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0307062sheep1 .html

Check this out. She might not....

After many decades of English subjug^H^H^H^H partnership with India, Indians are far to expensive and skilled for operations work. It's much better to use such an well known and educated work force for research and development. What a crime it would be to make PhDs push buttons and monitor mind numbing panels for a living. It would be better for them to stay home like their US counterparts, and they will have to if they keep get much more expensive.

For operations work, we need the educated and inexpensive discipline that can be found in all the former Soviet territories. The people who built and named the Kurks obviously have the discipline and razor sharp focus demanded for the job. Moreover there's great economic need for such a thing. I hear there are still many people displaced and unemployed by the Chernobyl dissaster. Remote operations of Nuclear power plants is just the break they need. Due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, they are cheaper than the happily employed people who live next to you. Just think of the savings and how much more money people like Neutron Jack deserve. Their compensation is hardly enough for all the hard exercise they get. Expect the paper value of such forward looking companies as GE, NBC and Microsoft to skyrocket.

Ten years ago, I read a joke but some people must have taken it litterally. The joke was, a clever executive noticed the value of their company increased 10% every time they fired five percent of their workforce. The bold executive soon got into a boasting contest with others. Everyone was fired and the Dow hit 10,000. Oh yeah, well just own all the ideas other people come up with and implement that will work.

Hell, some people are still screwing animals so I wouldn't be that suprised.

Maybe one day we will see a recreation Steve Bartman ruining the World Series dreams of all Cubs fans.

This type of stuff happens all the time, There was a case where the judge gave the verbal ruling in the form of a rap in a case between two rappers, "Bailey thinks he's entitled to some monetary gain,/ because Eminem used his name in vain./ The lyrics are stories no one would take as fact,/ they're an exaggeration of a childish act./ "It is therefore this court's ultimate position,/ that Eminem is entitled to summary disposition." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3204318.s tm

And dont forget our favrote Federal Judge, Samuel Kent in Texas who in BRADSHAW v. UNITY MARINE http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document073 001.shtml said "Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish pleadings ever to cross the hallowed causeway into Galveston, an effort which leads the Court to surmise but one plausible explanation. Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact -- complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words -- to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed. Whatever actually occurred, the Court is now faced with the daunting task of deciphering their submissions."

Judge Kent wrote in Smith v. Colonial Pen, http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/skent1.html, "...Alas, this Courts kingdom for a for a commercial airport! The Court is unpersuaded by this argument because it is not the Court's concern how the Plaintiff gets here, whether it be by plane, train, automobile, horseback, foot, or on the back of a huge Texas jackrabbit, as long as the Plaintiff is here at the proper date and time" Earlier in the order he talks about the three week long covered wagon trip from Huston to Galveston being free of bandits.

Judge Kent also wrote a great one in Republic of Boliva v. Philip Morris http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/obiwan4.html

This type of stuff happens all the time, There was a case where the judge gave the verbal ruling in the form of a rap in a case between two rappers, "Bailey thinks he's entitled to some monetary gain,/ because Eminem used his name in vain./ The lyrics are stories no one would take as fact,/ they're an exaggeration of a childish act./ "It is therefore this court's ultimate position,/ that Eminem is entitled to summary disposition." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3204318.s tm

And dont forget our favrote Federal Judge, Samuel Kent in Texas who in BRADSHAW v. UNITY MARINE http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document073 001.shtml said "Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish pleadings ever to cross the hallowed causeway into Galveston, an effort which leads the Court to surmise but one plausible explanation. Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact -- complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words -- to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed. Whatever actually occurred, the Court is now faced with the daunting task of deciphering their submissions."

Judge Kent wrote in Smith v. Colonial Pen, http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/skent1.html, "...Alas, this Courts kingdom for a for a commercial airport! The Court is unpersuaded by this argument because it is not the Court's concern how the Plaintiff gets here, whether it be by plane, train, automobile, horseback, foot, or on the back of a huge Texas jackrabbit, as long as the Plaintiff is here at the proper date and time" Earlier in the order he talks about the three week long covered wagon trip from Huston to Galveston being free of bandits.

Judge Kent also wrote a great one in Republic of Boliva v. Philip Morris http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/obiwan4.html

I dunno it's pretty hard to beat this judge

When you say "We're prolly gonna have to package it up inside a good story anyway, if we wanna get it out there for public consumption", I wonder: is that particular wording the product of your intelligent design process?

Your statement reminds me how George W Bush affects his artificial good old boy colloquial accent, makes anti-intellectual statements to appeal to his base, talks down to the American people as if they were children, makes up nice sounding stories he knows aren't true, "packages" the truth he refuses say in public, and doesn't believe the American people deserve to know what he really thinks.

As they say in Texas (or is it Tennessee?), and as Laura Bush embroiders across several pillows: "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."

The Affective Computing Rearch Group at MIT Media Lab should hit the White House Press Office up for some research funding, to help perfect the skill of looking directly into the camera and lying with a straight face. The Bush Administration is going to need to get a lot better at that, during the next few years.

Maybe they'd pay Picard millions of dollars to develop a vibrator for Bush Administration officials that goes off when people look like the don't believe the lies they're being told with a straight face. Just to be fair and balanced, imagine what a mess we could have avoided if Bill Clinton had one: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman. BZZZZZZZZZZZ!"

Doesn't Bill O'Reilly already have one of those? It just always going off all the time, for him!

"What, you've got a vibrator, don't you? Every girl does."
[Is that why girls always know what guys are thinking? Or is it because guys are always thinking the same thing?]

"And just use your vibrator to blow off steam."

"Yes, in fact my wife does have a vibrator. She'd kill me if she knew I was telling you!"

"You should purchase a vibrator and name it."

"I have a vibrator shaped like a cock with a little battery in it."

"We should buy a vibrator together, I could coach you through it."

"If any woman ever breathed a word I'll make her pay so dearly that she'll wish she'd never been born."

"I'll rake her through the mud, bring up things in her life and make her so miserable that she'll be destroyed."

"And besides, she woudn't be able to afford the lawyers I can or endure it financially as long as I can."

"And nobody would believe her, it'd be her word against mine and who are they going to believe?"

"Who are they going to believe? Me or some unstable woman making outrageous accusations?"
[Bill, your vibrator's going off again! They're not convinced!]

"They'd see her as some psycho, someone unstable."
[In other words: A match made in heaven!]

"Besides, I'd never make the mistake of picking unstable crazy girls like that."
[Yeah, he'd rather pick Ann Coulter, who's actually an unstable crazy dude!]

"Nobody sticks up for Christmas except me."
[Such a martyr. Why don't you get nailed up for Easter, too?]

-Bill O'Reilly

-Don

MARCH 31--The Washington headquarters of NASA was raided this week as part of a kiddie porn probe targeting an executive with the space agency, The Smoking Gun has learned. On Wednesday morning, federal investigators seized a laptop computer, a hard drive, CDs, and other material from the office of James Robinson, ... link to SmokingGun So ya, this is a BIG problem and these people are sick.

Reminds me of the Billy Madison footnote.

Nothing personal, and no, I don't have some view that Americans are in some way different from everyone else on the planet. Are they putting something in the water in some states or something? ;-)

But what exactly is the difference between "there was evidence" and "there were facts?" You're splitting hairs and attacking someone who probably already agrees with you.

Because it made it sound like there was some doubt. Yes, we seem to be agreeing on the point here, but the language in which people express themselves is important. The way you said it came across as "it might have a grain of truth" when essentially the worlds largest armed robbery is taking place right now. It's like you expected disagreement and were testing the water. We should screaming this from the tallest buildings!

FWIW, criticisms of the Project for a New American Century, investigations into its history and of its members, and so forth can be found in various conservative (or perhaps "classic liberal") magazines

Interesting. I'm in no way suggesting that the information is hidden away or anything, but it honestly terrifies me that the vast majority of Americans have a 9-11 -> Iraq relationship in their minds. Even though many know there is no smoking gun, they still believe that the war was valid due to the "post-9/11 world" we need to be reminded of anytime a neocon gets near a public address system. The plan to invade Iraq is so publicly nothing to do with our supposed "changed world" and no one in mainstream media seems to care. Why is this not on CNN? ABC? I understand FOX, but what about PBS? Surely ONE mainstream media organisation has started to veer from the official party line? What the hell is going on over there? Is someone so wrapped up in patriotism that no one is willing to point out the obvious? Weren't we critizing Saddam for having the exact same "bubble" leadership problem, where everyone was too scared to speak out?

What am I saying; things aren't much better here either. And that's the truth.

Three words. O'Reilly. Falafel. Loofah.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0306061billy1 .html

The footnote on Page 2 is the price of the ticket.

Or not. Some cops go a step further.

I mean, have you read the crap snippets out of her recommended books?

while i agree with you this has got to be the most confusing article i've ever read on /.

according to the article not only are you allowed to watch porn at a library, but they claim the constitution is the reason why!

Ok so apparently I can watch porn at a public library full of kids doing book reports but I can't watch porn in my car?

are there any other public places I can watch porns at? Schools are public, can I bring my laptop there and watch porns? For some reason I think i'd be arrested and the judge when have a good laugh when i tried to explain that the US Constitution protects the right to watch porns in libraries.

Please explain this to me because this makes very little sense.

Well, it's only fitting that a popular bar game from the 1970's is being honored at the White House. I think Bush may have had a few too many. (Few know that the White House is occupied by a convicted criminal.)

1. That makes too much sense and it absolves Capitalism and the United States from guilt. There is no room in the Global Climate Change arguement for past climatic shifts or any evidence of the Sun rising in output or cyclical events.

2. "At least 10 to 30 percent of global warming measured during the past two decades may be due to increased solar output rather than factors such as increased heat-absorbing carbon dioxide gas released by various human activities, two Duke University physicists report.

3. The physicists said that their findings indicate that climate models of global warming need to be corrected for the effects of changes in solar activity. However, they emphasized that their findings do not argue against the basic theory that significant global warming is occurring because of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases."

4. Nope, we can't talk in this arguement about how the planet's climate has shifted in the past, but must blame the US, George W. Bush and/or Capitalism for Global Warming.

He lied about being involved in a fatal train accident that took the lives of two high school students. From The Smoking Gun:

In addition to these rap sheet creations, Frey also invented a role for himself in a deadly train accident that cost the lives of two female high school students. In what may be his book's most crass flight from reality, Frey remarkably appropriates and manipulates details of the incident so he can falsely portray himself as the tragedy's third victim. It's a cynical and offensive ploy that has left one of the victims' parents bewildered.

He accuses their dead child of lying to them on the night she died....but, it's all in good fun.

He accuses the police officer who arrested him of beating him and abusing him. Not so: the officer was very kind in not reporting that Frey was drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon when arrested:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/jamesfrey/freysides/g ranville5.html

Liars hurt a lot of people.

It has been pointed out that Frey's lies don't do seriously ill addicts a lot of good.

He apparently has a tattoo that says: FTBSITTTD Fuck The Bullshit It's Time To Throw Down

His story is bullshit. Of the above Pabst Blue Ribbon arrest, The Smoking Gun writes:

That episode--a violent, crack-fueled confrontation with Ohio cops that resulted in a passel of serious felony charges--is a crucial moment in "A Million Little Pieces," serving as a narrative maypole around which many other key dramatic scenes revolve and depend upon for their suspense and conflict. Frey has repeatedly asserted in press interviews that the book is "all true" and he told Winfrey, "I think I wrote about the events in the book truly and honestly and accurately."

The Smoking Gun's article is excellent:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesf rey1.html

And, if you don't think the truth is important, you won't care the the Bush White House is trying to get a NASA scientist to shut up about global warming:

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/ 28/1816238

Doesn't matter; might be better if the NASA guy wrote a book describing how he singlehandedly "throws down" with a hurricane and kicks its ass. He'll make millions.

Martha Stewart spent more time in jail for lying than this guy did for his Pabst-crack fest...I suggest we put him in woman's prison. He'd be somebody's bitch no matter which gender prison they sent him to....

He lied about being involved in a fatal train accident that took the lives of two high school students. From The Smoking Gun:

In addition to these rap sheet creations, Frey also invented a role for himself in a deadly train accident that cost the lives of two female high school students. In what may be his book's most crass flight from reality, Frey remarkably appropriates and manipulates details of the incident so he can falsely portray himself as the tragedy's third victim. It's a cynical and offensive ploy that has left one of the victims' parents bewildered.

He accuses their dead child of lying to them on the night she died....but, it's all in good fun.

He accuses the police officer who arrested him of beating him and abusing him. Not so: the officer was very kind in not reporting that Frey was drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon when arrested:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/jamesfrey/freysides/g ranville5.html

Liars hurt a lot of people.

It has been pointed out that Frey's lies don't do seriously ill addicts a lot of good.

He apparently has a tattoo that says: FTBSITTTD Fuck The Bullshit It's Time To Throw Down

His story is bullshit. Of the above Pabst Blue Ribbon arrest, The Smoking Gun writes:

That episode--a violent, crack-fueled confrontation with Ohio cops that resulted in a passel of serious felony charges--is a crucial moment in "A Million Little Pieces," serving as a narrative maypole around which many other key dramatic scenes revolve and depend upon for their suspense and conflict. Frey has repeatedly asserted in press interviews that the book is "all true" and he told Winfrey, "I think I wrote about the events in the book truly and honestly and accurately."

The Smoking Gun's article is excellent:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesf rey1.html

And, if you don't think the truth is important, you won't care the the Bush White House is trying to get a NASA scientist to shut up about global warming:

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/ 28/1816238

Doesn't matter; might be better if the NASA guy wrote a book describing how he singlehandedly "throws down" with a hurricane and kicks its ass. He'll make millions.

Martha Stewart spent more time in jail for lying than this guy did for his Pabst-crack fest...I suggest we put him in woman's prison. He'd be somebody's bitch no matter which gender prison they sent him to....

The "Million Little Pieces" incedent is minor as far as I am concerned.

Step into the $2.55 million dollar Manhattan penthouse he bought with his lies and you might just change your mind. There's also mention of a summer home in cozy Amagansett.

It also almost got him a screenplay based on the book, and another based on the Hell's Angels. Look him up on IMDb.

I got a few...

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - Aug 5, 2004

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the 'truth' to sink in. You gotta catapult the propaganda." - May 25, 2005

"Tyrants and would-be tyrants have always claimed that murder is justified to serve their grand vision and they end up alienating decent people across the globe." - Oct 27, 2005

Actually, when Bush was in college he committed theft. But since that will surely not be enough for you, you can read up on Bush's criminal conviction for drunk driving (when he was 30 years old). That's right, party boy, George Bush is already a convicted criminal -- going in. It's amazing the shit he's done since.

I'd feel lucky, but I'm an American citizen and have to put with his shit for 3 more years. It's good to know the Google feature works. George Bush is a miserable failure of a president and a man. Being proud to break the law is not a quality you want in a leader. Supporting censorship, torture, extraordinary rendition, and other crimes is not what the leaders of a "free" country should be doing. Jack Abramoff and the culture of corruption pervading the Republican party are a disgrace to this country and American citizens everywhere. Bush, resign.

According to the Smoking Gun, bootlegging is still a problem, though it's more of a Virginia thing.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1007052still1 .html

would make me buy the movie.

That other person is President-VICE Richard B. Cheney (soon to be ex President-Vice).

Seditiously,
Kilgore Trout, M.D.

An AOL software engineer was arrested today for stealing the company's entire subscriber list--totaling 92 million screen names--and selling it to a 21-year-old Las Vegas spammer. According to the below federal criminal complaint, Jason Smathers, 24, last year illegally accessed the highly confidential AOL list by using another employee's identification codes. Smathers, who worked in AOL's Dulles, Virginia office, then allegedly sold the list to Sean Dunaway

The Republicans could have saved some money by not funneling it to Nicuaraga during Iran-Contra. Of course, that would take Reagan and Bush I admitting to their misdeeds, something Bush II seems all to willing to do. (George just admitted to violating the Fourth Amendment and, specifically, violating the FISA statutes many times over. Welcome to the criminal-run state.)

Sure, that's what it sounds like, but what are they really saying? It's like Louie Louie that way.

Nick Nolte then this: Smarmi!

Nick Nolte? I think you mean Gary Oldman

No, I'm pretty sure he meant Nick Nolte.

further tidbit- twasn't an ipod at all
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1202052boy1.h tml?link=rssfeed

it was an altec lansing speaker set for ipods.

God forbid anyone would have any sympathy for a guy that is getting felony charges for stealing stuff.

Uhhh...did we read the same story? The felony charge wasn't for the theft, it was for the forgery. You know, the premeditated part. And, if you go read the police report, you'll see that he was an adult (19 years old), an electrical engineering student (should have some concept of right and wrong, and of the value of the product he was stealing), and was a repeat offender, having been observed pulling the same stunt two weeks earlier. This is not a case of "poor innocent kid gets abused by society," this is a case of an intelligent adult consciously and willfully engaging in premeditated crime, and doing so repeatedly.

Didn't know the consequences? He does now.

It gets worse, look at his hand writing. I've seen eight year olds with better penmanship! I refuse to accept that this bloke (a 19 year old is not a child, even if they are retarded) is at college.

Firstly I should correct you in that he never stole an iPod - he stole a iPod DJ System and a iPod Speaker System. It may well be that these products are freely available on shelves. You are, however, correct in your assumption the he used cheaper yet valid barcodes. This link prints the police statement for the arrest.

Essentially the first time he commited the crime he bought a DJ System by using the barcode from a CD player (which he had scouted out previously). The second time he tried (and was caught) he replaced the barcode for an Altec Lansing iPod speaker system with a barcode for earphones. He got caught because he was recognised by the security firm following the first incident.

See the actual police report and his statement @ http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1202052boy1.h tml

Believe it or not, some of us actually enjoy our lives every now and then.

I'm glad your enjoying all of this.

But if it is changed to the SCAT act, President Bush won't support its public debate.
 
-Mark

  P.S. No more public scatology

My favorite tech company lawsuit being the CEO of Savvis, from which I was laid off from. This news made my Friday. Jerk.

I think he wants to send them a message of good driving lessons.

No, but at least the spelling would be correct.

The best link from that page, Jeb's son arrested for pubic intoxication. Seriously, check out that police report.

Robert McClain learned that chainmail is no match for a Taser. He tried to go medieval on Michigan cops. While holed up in his basement armed with a large mallet he uttered: "I'm gonna crush your fucking skulls, I have a thousand years of power."

It always botherd me that the most powerful man in the world, a man who could pick anybody for a mistress, would pick of all people, "Monica".

It was because only Monica would lick the presidential starfish.

Check it here Heavily redacted testimony They redacted the actual testimony but forgot to redact the word index.

Thinking Man's Mug shot