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September 24, 2004

"Operation Fortunate Son," RIP?

Posted by Bill

Almost. Maybe. Not quite. From the NY Times:

Mr. Kerry still mentions his service frequently, often in the context of his challenge to Mr. Bush on Iraq, but he has not said a word about Mr. Bush and the National Guard since the night after the Republican National Convention. "We've moved past it," explained a senior strategist, Joe Lockhart.

That's awful smart of them. The DNC? Not so much:

But the Democratic National Committee is pressing forward with its efforts to use the National Guard questions to try to undercut the president's character and credibility on jobs, health care and Iraq.

I repeat my assertion that Terry McAuliffe is a very, very "special boy." A continued focus on Bush's National Guard service is analogous to the sacrificial Charge of the Light Brigade, except instead of charging nobly into overwhelming cannon fire with sabres held high, the Dems are packing rubber chickens and water balloons.

UPDATE: GASP! I think that the "Weekly World News" may have figured out what happened to Lucy Ramirez ...

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are looking high and low for Brimbaw, Texas, a once-booming financial center of 1.2 million people that investigators say vanished from the face of the earth on June 17, leaving behind just one man who remembers it.

"This is like something out of the Twilight Zone -- and the more I think about it, the weirder it gets," says an FBI agent working the strange case from a field office in Dallas.

"We're talking about a city of over a million people -- a huge banking and financial center -- gone . . . poof! -- just like that. "And all we've got to go on are the recollections of just one man who is struggling to provide us with details.

It may be worth noting that at this point, I trust a ridiculous rag that has a regular feature on "Alien & UFO Reportings" more than CBS.

Posted by Bill at September 24, 2004 07:42 AM | TrackBack (3)

Comments

Come on! They HAVE a picture!!

Isn't the parallel universe the one moonbats live in?

Posted by: Rightwingsparkle at September 24, 2004 08:57 AM

I'm sure Bat Boy is involved, somehow. But I just can't think that he's somehow gone to the other side - I mean, he served in Iraq!

I'm guessing that Brimbaw was needed in the future for communication with capitalist space whales.

Posted by: Noah Doyle at September 24, 2004 09:23 AM

Huh?

Posted by: Bill from INDC Journal at September 24, 2004 09:30 AM

HUH?

Bill: Star Trek

Posted by: mshyde at September 24, 2004 10:18 AM

Heh. I guess I blocked out the one with the whales.

Posted by: Bill from INDC Journal at September 24, 2004 10:20 AM

"the Dems are packing rubber chickens and water balloons."

No, no: spitballs! Didn't you get the RNC VRWC memo from Karl Rove this week? We need to play up the spitball angle in order to remind folks how great Zell Miller's speech was at the Convention.

Posted by: Chris W. at September 24, 2004 10:42 AM

Damn, a million people gone. Well there goes one of our electoral votes here in Texas!

Posted by: KBiel at September 24, 2004 10:53 AM

Maybe they are hiding in Oklahoma? No, wait, that was the Dems in the Texas Legislature.

Posted by: Pete at September 24, 2004 10:41 PM

I've always enjoyed the "Weekly World News" - particularly their reports about the exploits of Bat Boy.

I may have to pick one up again soon. Is there serious irony behind their articles? I would hardly give them the credit, yet it's worth checking out.

Besides, I haven't read "Dear Dottie" in ages and long to see imaginary simps skewered in her column!

Posted by: Squatch at September 24, 2004 11:49 PM

Where is Lucy Ramirez?

Ask Bob Woodward. He's in charge of fictitious 'Deep Throats', and extra -worldly informat interviews.

Posted by: Yahuti at September 27, 2004 09:29 AM