Star Trek: The Original Series Season One arrived today, thanks to UPS and Dan. I’m in for some good old fashioned, bad-effects space fun.
September 13, 2004
60’s style kitch
Cheney’s self-loathing?
Yeah, so I said last Thursday or Friday I’d be back with some Cheney lies … well, it’s been a bit longer than I thought it would, but here we go:
In March of this year, Cheney attacked Kerry for having “repeatedly voted against weapons systems for the military,†hammering the senator for voting “against the Apache helicopter, against the Tomahawk cruise missile, against even the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.†He said this record has “given us ample doubts about [Kerry’s] judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.â€
What Cheney leaves out of his stump speeches is the ironic fact that almost all of the cuts Kerry voted for were endorsed or originally proposed by Cheney himself. At issue is not the cuts themselves, but the hypocrisy of Cheney attacking an opponent who merely followed his lead.
Cheney accuses Kerry of calling for “major reductions or outright cancellations of many of our most important weapons systemsâ€; Bush ads attack the senator for voting “against 13 weapons systems for our troops†over 20 years. But it was Defense Secretary Cheney who gloated that he had “put an end to more than 100 systems†in less than three years. In December 1991, he bragged to the Washington Post that he was setting “an all-time record as Defense Secretary for canceling or stopping production†of weapons and equipment.
When all else fails …
… Blame Clinton.
“…So, given that the previous administration’s diplomatic efforts were such a dismal failure, where exactly does Senator Kerry come off blaming President Bush for dealing with a problem that was created by the spinelessness of the Clinton administration?â€
Well, let’s see, since then North Korea was declared a member of the “Axis of Evil”, and George W. Bush has done WHAT about it? Nada. So instead of criticizing George W. Bush for what he hasn’t done in regards to North Korea — certainly a nation that won’t roll over as easily as Iraq — what do Republican pundits do? That’s right - they pull out the “Clinton” card.
Gimme a friggin’ break, guys.
Pop Ups
Well, this week the ole’ Dell got infested with Pop-Ups. EVERYWHERE. Internet Explorer started crashing every time I opened the browser. It was, let me assure you, a total fuck-up. I downloaded some ad-blockers, but really what saved me was switching to Mozilla Firefox, a new browser.
Mozilla Firefox. The way to go.