RESISTANCE
DISPATCHES
The BBBR Mailbag
Posted June 26, 2001
Updated June 27, 2001
BETH ON A GENDER-NEUTRAL
From: <Beth>
To: < thediva@coup2k.com
>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 2:29 PM
Subject: RYOB
Dearest Diva:
Much as I appreciate the timely and inspired Action Alert for Roll Your Own
Beat-Out, I fear I must take issue with the blatant sexism of this
proposal. While many Peanut Butter People are men,
many others are women. We must also
boycott something a female PBP would do just to be the opposite of us.
Think of it: what is the female PBP to do on July 7th to
show her opposition to us? Poke herself
in the lower abdomen until she thinks she's hit ovary? Have a helper drop bricks on her pelvis? This is much too unwieldy and
imprecise. I recommend we designate
July 7th as a day when we women will *not* pierce any portion of our Georgia
O'Keefes, (as I heard a comedienne say).
Think of the ramifications.
Imagine if their counter-protest took off. Hundreds, nay, thousands of socially conservative rich white
Republican women, (often identifiable from a distance by their scarf-with-suit
ensembles), suddenly extreme pierced like punk college students and sexual
deviants.
(Note: In deference to our pierced friends, while the
thought of it makes me cringe, I do not consider piercing genitalia as
senseless as beating same with a brick.
I would just find it funny if the opposition women did so. Or, for that matter, the opposition
men. Since this is the era of
governmental cognitive dissonance, it would only be fitting if the man telling
you you would burn in hell for being a homosexual commie pervert had a Prince
Albert.)
July 7th. Lots of
sore and cranky conservatives. Since we
are the true party of compassion, maybe we should stock up on ice packs to
offer our neighbors.
Beth
[DIVA NOTE: I
hereby pledge not to pierce any part of my Katy on July 7, 2001, in order to
show my opposition to George W. Bush's invasion of Planet Earth. It's the least I can do...]
PEANUT BUTTER PERSON IN DISGUISE?
MAKE McCAIN SENATE MAJORITY LEADER?
From: < delbert223@yahoo.com >
To: "Diva" thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 4:00
PM
Subject: Leadership...
[DIVA NOTE: Edited for sanity. A whole mess of Peanut Butter-Inspired Rambling deleted,
then....]
Lastly, Tom Daschle
is silent on exposing Rove and O'Neill's ethical lapses for fear that King
George II will attack Tom Daschle himself for his past ethical lapses. I say invite John McCain to the Democratic
Party and make him Majority Leader of the Senate. McCain would not have the
same problems in investigating Rove and O'Neill and would relish the opportunity
to indict these two criminals. We need
to move on, fellow progressives and provide leadership to our fellow
Democrats. McCain was slandered by King
George II in the South Carolina primary last year. McCain is more motivated than any of us to give King George his
rich reward. Why not actively recruit
McCain to our side?
Sincerely,
Delbert Franklin
From: "The
Diva (Tammy)"
To: < delbert223@yahoo.com >
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: Leadership...
Dear PBP Delbert:
That wouldn't be the same John "Mr.
Clean" McCain that got busted in the Keating Five scandal, would it?
No, surely it couldn't be...
And it certainly couldn't be THIS John McCain,
could it: "McCain climaxes his
stump speech with a promise that "I will always tell you the truth, no
matter what." But McCain's public comments on abortion, for example, verge
on incoherent. Last year he stated that he would not repeal Roe v. Wade
"in the short term, or even the long term." He subsequently
backpedaled and has repeatedly brought up his pro-life voting record without
explaining why he still holds to it. If McCain is not masking his position, he
is, at the very least, failing to share the full complexity of it. Worse,
McCain has flip-flopped on the Confederate flag, eventually settling upon
agnosticism, the reason for which he has likewise failed to elucidate."
Or this one?
John McCain to Jim Lehrer, Feb 2, 2000: "If you inspect my 17-year
voting record, it's a proud conservative Republican."
Or the one spoken of here? Time correspondent Jack White: "What's really amazing here to me is
that this is one of the great acts of political alchemy we've seen in a long
time. They've taken a Western, ultra-conservative like John McCain, and they've
turned him into, in the eyes of some voters at least, sort of a liberal
centrist."
Honesty?
My ass.
Centrist?
My ass twice.
Democratic ideals? My ass, three times.
Please remove me from your
"list." I have no personal
interest in being subjected to unsupported accusations against liberals, or in
supporting a far-rightwing ideologue for MAJORITY LEADER OF A DEMOCRATIC
SENATE.
I try, at all costs, to keep interaction with
Peanut Butter People to a bare minimum.
Thank you so very much for your prompt
attention to this matter. It is greatly
appreciated.
Tammy
"The Diva"
WebMistress of BBBR
From: <delbert223@yahoo.com>
To: "The Diva (Tammy)"
<thediva@coup2k.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: Leadership...
Tammy,
Thanks for the history lesson of John
McCain. I guess we can add John Glenn (D:OH)
to the Keating Five list as someone who should have gone to jail instead of
back into outerspace at government expense.
You find me any honest politicians and I'll
support them (assuming they are pro-Bill of Rights and reasonable people).
I'm not here to defend John McCain, I simply
made the statement that John McCain is George Bush's enemy. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Is that so hard to understand?
Sincerely,
Delbert Franklin
From: "The Diva (Tammy)"
<thediva@respectperfection.com>
To: <delbert223@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Rose Rose" <roserose@earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Leadership...
PBP Delbert wrote:
<<The enemy of my enemy is my
friend. Is that so hard to
understand?>>
Dear PBP Delbert:
Not if you're a Peanut Butter Person.
But for me, yes.
For me, my friend is my friend.
:)
But then, I am SANE.
Tammy
"The Diva"
WebMistress of BBBR
From: <delbert223@yahoo.com>
To: "The Diva (Tammy)"
<thediva@coup2k.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: Should I be insulted?
Tammy,
Let me in on your inside joke. Why do you insult people you don't even know
by labeling them "peanut butter people?" You're no different than Shrub when you label other people. Even my worst enemy I wouldn't label, unless
of course, the person was a criminal.
Delbert
From: "The Diva (Tammy)"
<thediva@respectperfection.com>
To: <delbert223@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: Should I be insulted?
You wouldn't get it.
Peanut Butter People don't get it. That's why they're PBP's to begin with.
LOL!
:)
Tammy
"The Diva"
WebMistress of BBBR
From: <delbert223@yahoo.com>
To: "The Diva (Tammy)"
<thediva@coup2k.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: Should I be insulted?
Try me.
From: "The Diva (Tammy)"
<thediva@respectperfection.com>
To: <delbert223@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Should I be insulted?
Dear PBP Delbert:
No, thank you. I try to keep communication with PBP's to an absolute minimum.
Standards...You understand.
...Well, maybe not.
LOL!
:)
Tammy
"The Diva"
WebMistress of BBBR
From: <delbert223@yahoo.com>
To: "The Diva (Tammy)"
<thediva@coup2k.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: Should I be insulted?
Tammy,
You're not credable.
Delbert.
From: "The Diva (Tammy)"
<thediva@respectperfection.com>
To: <delbert223@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: Should I be insulted?
PBP Delbert wrote:
"Tammy,
You're not credable.
Delbert."
Dear PBP Delbert:
I should certainly hope not, since there is no
such word...
LOL!
Did the voices in your head tell you to call
me that?
If so, before you obey them in the future, you
should check and make sure that what they are telling you will make sense to
the sane.
Get well soon.
Tammy
"The Diva"
WebMistress of BBBR
From: <delbert223@yahoo.com>
To: "The Diva (Tammy)"
<thediva@coup2k.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Should I be insulted?
Tammy,
I'm sure that your psychological evaluation
would reveal some very interesting results, such as your obsessive need to
denigrate others.
I sure hope you aren't responsible for the
care and feeding of any other fellow human beings. Heaven help them.
You wouldn't happen to be a femininst as
well, would you? Psychobitches from
hell are my personal favorite.
:)
Delbert
[DIVA NOTE: AND
HE'S OUT! FINALLY! WOO-HOO!
Here is my letter to his "Fellow Progressives" hit
list,
letting them know that they had a mole in their midst:]
From: "The Diva (Tammy)"
To: < delbert223@yahoo.com
>
Cc: "Rose Rose" < roserose@earthlink.net >
Bcc: PBP Delbert's
Hit List
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: Leadership... PEANUT BUTTER PERSON
"DELBERT" OUTS SELF
Dear "Fellow Progressives" (as PBP Delbert would
say):
You have a mole in your midst: One PBP extraordinaire, but as all PBP's, not smart enough (or in
enough control of his psychological state) to keep from showing his true
colors.
He recently wrote to you, advocating that John McCain be
made leader of the Democratic Senate Majority (a huge hint in itself):
==============
>... I say invite John McCain to the
Democratic
> Party and make him Majority Leader of
the Senate.
> McCain would not have the same problems
in
> investigating Rove and O'Neill and would
relish the
> opportunity to indict these two
criminals. We need to
> move on, fellow progressives and provide
leadership to
> our fellow Democrats. McCain was slandered by King
> George II in the South Carolina primary
last year.
> McCain is more motivated than any of us
to give King
> George his rich reward. Why not actively recruit
> McCain to ***our*** side? [DIVA NOTE:
Emphasis is mine]
> Sincerely,
>
> Delbert Franklin
==============
I responded to his wiggy proposal, and struck up an e-mail
correspondence with him, endeavoring to poke around his obvious lack of good
mental hygiene, and to get him to out his own sorry self.
My tactic succeeded brilliantly (it always does, and none
to my credit, since PBP's are no match for the sane), when I flushed the mole
out of his hidey-hole, and into the open.
Here is his last e-mail to me:
==============
----- Original Message -----
From: < delbert223@yahoo.com
>
To: "The Diva (Tammy)" < thediva@coup2k.com
>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Should I be insulted?
Tammy,
I'm sure that your psychological evaluation
would reveal some
very interesting results, such as your
obsessive need to denigrate
others.
I sure hope you aren't responsible for the
care and feeding of
any other fellow human beings. Heaven help them.
You wouldn't happen to be a femininst as
well, would you?
Psychobitches from hell are my personal
favorite.
:)
Delbert
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Granted, he did not use the tried-and-true Rushism
"feminazi," but I think you get his drift...
Just a heads-up, and a warning:
Beware the Peanut Butter People. They are not like us.
They lie.
Tammy
"The Diva"
WebMistress of BBBR
LETTER TO BN.COM REVIEWER OF
DERSHOWITZ' "SUPREME INJUSTICE"
From: < thediva@coup2k.com
>
To: <Don Mitchell>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: Excellent Review of "Supreme Injustice"
Dear Mr. Mitchell:
I've not had a chance to read Alan Dershowitz'
"Supreme Injustice" yet, but I am hoping it is another expose in the
vein of "The Betrayal of America" by Vincent Bugliosi, which I have
read, and consider very important.
I plan to purchase and read "Supreme Injustice"
immediately.
I want to thank you for your excellent review at BN.com,
and for continuing to speak out on the Bush v. Gore decision. Your voice is sorely needed. Many
non-lawyers smell sulfur when they read the Per Curiam, but feel unqualified to
judge it on its merits, or to speak out forcefully against it.
(In the interest of full disclosure, I now consider
speaking out the purpose of my life.)
You are a hero to many, and one of many such vocal heroes,
though you may not know it, and I thank you.
A BBBR Resistance Fighter and Fellow-Traveler,
Tammy
"The Diva"
WebMistress of BBBR
ON MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS
From: "The Diva (Tammy)"
To: "Jane
Doe"
Sent:
Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: Re:
spilling the beans
[DIVA
NOTE: This e-mail was written in
response to a Resistance Fighter who is dealing with Post Coup Stress Disorder,
and her boyfriend's jealousy over her magnificent pro-democracy obsession.]
Dear
"Jane":
You and I are
leading parallel lives. There is NO
NEED to explain.
Chuck (My
Consort) is in the same boat as your boyfriend. He has watched me go from a happy-go-lucky love bunny to an angry
Resistance Fighter and committed Diva of Democracy, and is a bit concerned
about the changes in me. Mostly, he is
very concerned about my health...
But we do fight
about my obsession...
An example:
I am reading
Dershowitz' book now, and got off on a rant when I read a particular passage
about the death penalty.
It's complicated,
but basically, here is the story... It
takes FOUR justices to hear any case.
It takes FIVE justices to issue a stay of execution.
Back when the
Supreme Court was peopled by decent human beings, if four justices voted to
hear a death penalty case, one of the other five would cross lines to make a
stay of execution possible, pending review of the case.
Since the
Rehnquist Court became packed with monsters, this no longer happens. The upshot?
Prisoners are executed while their appeals are set for a hearing before
the Court, which then dismisses the appeal, on the grounds that, "dead
people have no standing to appeal," so the case is moot.
Well, when I
read this, I FLIPPED. I mean, I fully
wigged-out.
And my
boyfriend, a cynic from prior to the election, seemed not at all shocked by
this reality, which pissed me off.
Why wasn't he
angrier?
The short
answer -- that Chuck believes our government is just f***ing evil -- did not
satisfy me. I wanted to see my passion
in him, not realizing that, for men, that kind of passion is extremely
unpleasant, because it begs a violent response.
Anyway, we made
up.
But I know
where you are coming from, BELIEVE ME.
-Tammy
"The
Diva"
CEFEPRESS IS HAVING A SALE?!
STOP THE PRESSES!
From: "CafePress.com"
To: "CafePress.com Member"
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 11:02 AM
Subject: CafePress.com Webby Special - $5 off Mousepads!
[DIVA NOTE: A
little shameless promotion of the Coup Couture Designs.]
------TWO IMPORTANT MESSAGES FROM CAFEPRESS.COM------
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