Update 89

So, I've heard all this talk about Bush having a man date, but so far I've not seen any indication of who the unlucky man is.

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

brian

11.14.04 09:00pmpst

Update 88

Paraphrasing from the back cover of the 1964 printing of Hannah Green's "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden": Seldom has the strange and seductive world of insanity been charted more explicitly, or more beautifully, than in Avengers #502.

It has been a long time since a super-hero comic book storyline has been able to lay claim to the accolade "Instant Classic".

The producers of the Avengers Disassembled story-line can easily make that claim, yet, knowing they don't need to, they haven't even tried.

-- Jamez L. Smith
Poet, DJ, Infinite Soul

11.14.04 03:51ampst

Update 87

My sentiments exactly...

http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

brian

11.08.04 11:55ampst

Update 86

in response to update 84:

it's funny to hear the pope compared favorably to bush.

isn't the pope himself a dangerous right-wing ideologue? and isn't his political fanaticism oppressing people all over the world? and isn't he the head of the world's oldest christian blood cult? shouldn't he be prosecuted? shouldn't his church be abolished?

the end of religion: let's make it happen!

11.03.04 6:19pmpst

Update 85

October 28, 2004 - 06:29 PM
Red Handed!!!!

Secret Document Suggests GOP Preparing to Challenge Black Vote in Florida

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Investigative reporter Greg Palast exposes a secret document within the Republican Party in Florida that contains nearly 1,900 names and addresses of voters in the predominantly black and Democratic areas of Jacksonville. The so-called "caging list" could be used to block and harass African-American voters. [includes rush transcript]

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Concerns continue to mount across the country over the fairness of next Tuesday's election. Already problems have emerged in many states. In one county in Ohio, more than 900 registered voters have been told they must appear in court on Saturday to defend their voter eligibility or risk losing their right to vote. In Wisconsin, scores of students report that their local elections board says it has no record of their voter registration. In Nevada, fallout continues after the it emerged that a group registering voters had destroyed possible hundreds of ballots of voters who identified themselves as Democrats. But nowhere is concern greater than in the state of Florida, the epicenter of the theft of the election in 2000.

Yesterday, the deputy election supervisor in one of Florida's most populous counties admitted that some 60,000 absentee ballots had gone missing. Broward county election official Gisela Salas said the matter is under investigation by law enforcement agencies. In 2000, it was Broward county that gave Al Gore his strongest support in the state of Florida. The US Postal Service says it has investigators trying to find the missing ballots, which constitute 5 percent of Broward County's electorate.

This comes as investigative reporter Greg Palast obtained a secret document from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida. The document suggests a plan-possibly in violation of the law-to disrupt voting in the state"s African-American voting districts.

Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list". It lists more than 1,800 names and addresses of voters in predominantly Black and traditionally Democratic areas of Jacksonville, Florida. Palast broke the story on BBC's Newsnight program. Today, we broadcast the story in its entirety for the first time on US television and radio. Here is Greg Palast's report.

Greg Palast's report.
Greg Palast, investigative reporter with the BBC and author of the books "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and "Democracy and Regulation." He has a new documentary out called "Bush Family Fortunes."

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This transcript is available free of charge, however donations help us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution. Donate - $25, $50, $100, more... AMY GOODMAN: Today we broadcast the story in its entirety for the first time in the united states on U.S. television and radio here. Here is Greg Palast's report.

WILLIE STEEN: I'm happy, I'm excited, and I'm ready to vote.

GREG PALAST: Willie Steen's his way to vote …he hopes. In the last election, he was one of thousands of black citizens stopped from voting when they were falsely tagged as criminals.

WILLIE STEEN: I went in the place to vote and I was with my son, and there's about forty or fifty other people around, and I got up there to vote, and they told me that I was a convicted felony. I told the young lady that I never been arrested before.

GREG PALAST: Enthusiastic Americans like Willie can now vote early in the weeks before election day. Willie sued governor Jeb Bush after Jeb's officials were caught playing games with the voter list, dropping legal voters, especially black ones, who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.

WILLIE STEEN: Hey, how are you doing?

GREG PALAST: This is as far as Willie got last time. Will he be blocked yet again? We leave Willie in Tampa to go just past Disneyworld to Faithworld. Here in Orlando, the faithful, who believe they were cheated last time, pray it won't happen again. In the last election, one million black votes were not counted.

FAITHWORLD PREACHER: The Reverend Jesse Jackson.

JESSE JACKSON: You don't have to vote the way I vote. But I shouldn't steal your vote, in the name of Democracy. The winner shouldn't lose and the loser shouldn't win.

GREG PALAST: Jackson fears that the Republicans have some new plan to block the black vote, not just the fake felon scam used last time on Willie Steen.

JESSE JACKSON: There are more Mr. Steens out there, and now you have a case of this is a guy who just may be a kind of biopsy -- a kind of political biopsy of a cancer that is much more widespread than just one example. You can't forget the stealing of your birthright. You can't forget disenfranchisement of your vote.

GREG PALAST: A hundred miles away in the riverside town of Jacksonville, we may have found the evidence of the plan Jesse Jackson fears: something called a "caging list, "which could capture black voters. This is a list of nearly 2,000 voters in the black neighborhoods of Jacksonville, who appear to have errors in their mailing addresses. The list was specially prepared for George Bush's campaign.

GEORGE BUSH: There is no doubt in my mind that, with your help, we'll carry Florida again, and win a great victory on November the 2nd.

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11.02.04 9:45ampst

Update 84

Reply to Mr. M re: Update 80

This article is from May of last year, but I think it is pertinent and you might have missed it.

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Pope fears Bush is antichrist, journalist contends - Church -
journalist Wayne Madsden - Brief Article
New Catholic Times, May 18, 2003

WASHINGTON DC -- According to freelance journalist Wayne Madsden, "George W Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his constant references to 'evil doers,' in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations--the anti-Christ."

Madsen, a Washington-based writer and columnist, who often writes for Counterpunch, says that people close to the pope claim that amid these concerns, the pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to confront the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized in Revelations. John Paul II has always believed the world was on the precipice of the final confrontation between Good and Evil as foretold in the New Testament.

Before he became pope, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla said, "We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel."

The pope worked tirelessly to convince leaders of nations on the UN Security Council to oppose Bush's war resolution on Iraq. Vatican sources claim they had not seen the pope more animated and determined since he fell ill to Parkinson's Disease. In the end, the pope did convince the leaders of Mexico, Chile, Cameroon and Guinea to oppose the U.S. resolution.

Madsen contends that "Bush is a dangerous right-wing ideologue who couples his political fanaticism with a neo-Christian blood cult."

COPYRIGHT 2003 Catholic New Times, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale Group

11.02.04 4:05ampst

Update 83

Lamenting the loss of those with whom I can share the important things.

Jamez L. Smith
Poet, DJ, Infinite Soul

11.02.04 9:45ampst

Update 82

who is the keeper of the discharge? i've noticed that my liberal rants have been second page news yet "MR M" gets prime real-estate.

when the time comes to renew my subscription i'm checking "cancel". and... i've heard the cubby runs a sweatshop print house in San Francisco's "latino" neighborhood. how do you think the cubby can afford to give away "free" copies of their right wing literature?

who are you? and what have you done with bonemaker.

10.27.04 2:10pmpst

Update 81

Ashlee Simpson gets 0WNED...

http://ashlee-simpson.ytmnd.com/

http://imsorry2004.ytmnd.com/

http://webpages.charter.net/dan-doug/haha.avi

10.24.04 5:02pmpst

Update 80

To Whom It May Concern:

Hello, yes, I would like to say that as a frequent visitor to your website i was utterly disappointed in the small and subtle yet extremely offensive change to your homepage. I have always enjoyed the work of the Cubby and have been endlessly entertained by the features on your website. But I have to say that part of this enjoyment was in the fact that the Cubby seemed to me to be apolitical, at least as far as real world politics were concerned. For you to so sacrilegiously and treacherously state that our president is evil, and to therefore take sides in the upcoming election, is for me a profound disappointment, and I have to say that I must choose to no longer visit your website or be a supporter of the Cubby.

Yours,

Mr. M.

p.s. It's not Bush that it is evil, it is Kerry, all democrats, and all those who think it's OK to kill embryos and not kill Iraqis.

10.21.04 12:03ampst

Update 79

Happy birthday, Nico! I hope you get that diamond tennis bracelet you so deserve.

Also, Christopher Reeve is dead, but did you know that he is also a dead homosexual? True.

bk 10.11.04 1:12pmpst

Update 78

Superman R.I.P.

a tribute of sorts

10.11.04 10:41amest



Update 77

I got back from san francisco for anyone who cares. i saw an unahppy flight attendant on the plane. she dissed me while she served beverages. an instant dislike she took to me, it seemed, and she didn't seem to want to shake it.

why the flippin' jet-settin'? once again, for the second time in two weeks, I was airlifted to San Francisco by the 'Hoodies on a special love-spreading mission.

But the love somehow got spread all over me, 'cause my dashing hero of an employer came along, and with his haircut by jared of dandie salon, he looked oh so cute. and i ended up with a bad case of boss crush. Who could help it? Isn't he dreamy?

You were all as trashy as ever and as generously supportive as could be. It's nice to see Sam not only out of his shell but apparently beyond hope of ever recovering it. And Miss Brock is now the pontiac of the posse, issuing orders with royal confidence. never has a queen so successfully held court. And Jake and Phil, I'm still blushing at what I saw that night!

And thanks to all who gave their blood, sweat, and cheers to this weekend's triumphant neighborhoodies street fair trunk show extravaganza. from the valencia street fair and now this castro street fair, i've learned one thing: if you rent a tent you know you're going to have fun. cubby creature bill saved the day again, providing genius flexibility in extraordinary circumstances. The Johnny and Kevin Hoskins appearance on Castro Street was like an angelic intervention. And the people of San Francisco were darlings.

ALSO:

karl and kevin RULE!

and stephanie and jason are rad.

truly
jol

10.5.04 2:23amest



Update 76

The nutty kids at Olde English made this great short about Neighborhoodies.

9.29.04 12:15amest



. Update 75

Oh yeah, and that's signed JOL.

9.28.04 11:53pmest


Update 74

Today I will reassume control of the daily discharge. I will not let anyone stop me from having a loud editorial voice. instead of practicing humility and restraint and modesty i shall toot my own horn here and toot it loudly. i will proclaim from the mountaintops that i am the master of this kingdom, that i am the king of narnia, and that i coulkick all o yours asses. I will introduce and select and discuss whatever I want whenever. I will no longer be held back by any sense of propriety, decency, or chivalry. i renounce all my past pussyistic behavior regarding this page.

9.28.04 11:48pmest



Update 73

I don't miss school, because it totally blew; however, I do miss buying new school supplies. Such fun. The only part of school I ever succeeded at was the purchasing of school supplies at Albertson's, Denault's True Value, or whatever Office Depot was at the time. Man, I wish I needed a new, green Trapper Keeper and a fistful of outliners at this point in my life.

bk

9.9.04 4:09pmpst

Update 72

From eonline.com:

"NOT MONKEYING AROUND: Gollum actor Andy Serkis in Rwanda living with gorillas to prepare for his next role as King Kong in a remake of the classic ape movie being directed by Lord of the Rings helmer Peter Jackson."

What a tool.

bk

9.8.04 9:14pmpst

Update 71

Nietzsche on Burning Man

"Lo, these poor, benighted souls have no idea how corpse-like and
ghostly their so-called 'healthy-mindedness' looks, when the glowing
light of the Dionysian revelers roars past them." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Submitted by Tim B

8.17.04 9:39amcst



Update 70

AL QAEDA PLANS TO DROP GAY BOMBS

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/conspiracies/61525

Submitted by AK

8.12.04 6:24pmest



Update 69

News from Arianne

Hi folks,
It’s been a while. I hope you’re all doing well. I’ve been working with a group of kool kids on this here film festival and we need an audience.

I’d love to see some of you guys at the Fast Forward Film Festival this Saturday, August 14 [in San Francisco]. The festival films range in length from 22 seconds to 13 minutes, the entire screening is about an hour and 20 minutes long, so it’s good short attention span theatre.

It starts at 11AM, at the Roxie movie theatre, there'll be plenty of free coffee for the grown up folks and lots of juice, bagels and pastries for everybody. It’s the best way to begin your Saturday. Also attaching check us out in the Guardian’s 8 Days a week section.

Please pass on the word to anyone you think might be down. In many ways it’s in the vein of the cubby.

I hope "everything is beautiful and nothing hurts"

-Arianne

8.6.04 1:42pmpst



Update 68

Relax

I relaxed all day today.

First, I relaxed in a big mineral water pool, on a floating noodle.

Then, I relaxed some more with an hour-long, deep-tissue massage, which was given to me by a woman named Deirdre who recommended to me a private pilates teacher, and which ended in a soothing aromatherapy treatment.

After the massage, I layed, wrapped in a linen blanket, in the shade near the Pond, where the tinkling of fountains lulled me into dreamy reveries.

When that was through, I spent 12 minutes lying in a warm mudbath, noticing how my back muscles reacted to being immersed in a substance slightly denser than themselves.

Once I had been instructed on how to exit the mudbath, I was rinsed off, and was placed into a bathtub full of slightly warm mineral water. I was given a glass of cold cucumber water, a pick for under my fingernails, a soapy brush for the tops of my fingernails, and a pumice stone for my feet.

Fingernails cleaned and soles pumiced, I sat back and closed my eyes, enjoying the water, until an assistant drew me out of the tub and into the sauna, complete with a cold towel for my face.

Several halting breaths later, the last remaining toxins were released from my body, and I was wrapped in linen and led down a hallway to a private room with a bed, where I lay wrapped in more linens. Cucumbers were applied to my eyelids, and I rested for a quarter of an hour.

Orange slices were offered in the changing room, as well as a full supply of combs, cotton balls and tampons. The cucumber water was plentiful, and no voice rose above a whisper.

It was lovely. I didn't have to do a thing, and tonight I'm exhausted.

But you know what? The whole time the thing I wanted most in the world was a cheeseburger, and to chat about Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson.

em

8.8.04 10:09pmpst



Update 67

the laweekly had a scary article the other day about "the man" shutting down free speech. here's a link.

--Submitted by Todd Payne

8.4.04 4:35pmpst



Update 66

Show Me State

I loved (s)Kerry's reaction to the hecklers in Missouri the other night. Like Truman in '48, (s)Kerry and Edwards greeted a crowd from a platform on one of the cars of their campaign train. During (s)Kerry's speech, Bush supporters in the crowd chanted "Flush the Johns," and "Four more years." (s)Kerry responded by saying, "Let them chant because they have only three more months to chant." He also said, "Harry Truman came through here in 1948. And when Harry was talking, people would say, 'Give 'em hell, Harry,' and Harry would say, 'I just tell them the truth and they think it's hell'." Now, I'm no (s)Kerry supporter, but I have to say that was pretty cool. Just for the record, I'm not a Bush supporter either. I will most likely vote for (s)Kerry just because I've been intimidated into submission by all the conservative liberal Nader haters. I feel as though if I were to actually vote for Nader (who is really the person I want to vote for), I'll be attacked and beaten.

brian

8.06.04 11:25ampst