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Ex-CIA bin Laden expert and WH critic Michael Scheuer
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Premier Plameologist Marcy Wheeler, author of Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy
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Thousands pardoned after princess’ birth
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pardoned almost 9,000 prisoners and commuted more than 24,000 sentences to mark the birth of a daughter.
Princess Lalla Khadija, the king's second child and first daughter, was born Wednesday.
March 8, 2007 12:33 PM
that's what i call a happy guy!
Committee Will Hold Hearing on Disclosure of CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson's Identity
(March 8, 2007) Chairman Henry A. Waxman announced a hearing on whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. At the hearing, the Committee will receive testimony from Ms. Wilson and other experts regarding the disclosure and internal White House security procedures for protecting her identity from disclosure and responding to the leak after it occurred. The hearing is scheduled for Friday, March 16.
LINK
Bye again!
Later
toniD said...
Committee Will Hold Hearing on Disclosure of CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson's Identity
Wahoo!
I finally beat tonideee to a post!
Wahoo!
:D
I luvs ya, toni. See you later!
eya GBC!
how did the move go?
bridge said...
Who should play the Wilsons?
I think Joe Wilson should be played by Reefer Jello because he's so smooth and deboner!
hee hee hee!
"smooth and deboner!"
and subtul!
Val Plame: Meg Ryan
Joe Wilson: Colbert sez it s/b Clooney. I am hard pressed to disagree.
Nixon was a Cox-Sacker!
Those homeless black guys WERE donors, dammit. They were saving up cans and deposit bottles for the re-election campaign. They were workin' on that special Buckaroo-Maverick thing. Pioneers and Rangers wouldn't have 'em.
Meg Ryan? NoNoNo
sorry, bibi, but I don't think MR works here. She is too short, ruined her face with all that surgery (to my dismay :-( and lacks the nec. stage presence. VP is a stunning v. tall beauty and one tough CIA agent after all.
George Clooney is the obvious choice for many, I guess ... and I vote for him for Prez too ;-)
The Significance of the Libby Convictions
The immediate comments from Democrats in Washington pertaining to the conviction of Lewis (“Scooter”) Libby on the crimes of Obstruction of Justice, False Statements and two counts of Perjury, have been to focus on the superficial aspects of corruption surrounding these crimes. In doing so, they are missing the opportunity to directly confront the fundamental issue that is of paramount and historical importance to the world, and to the essential character of our nation and place in that world. Valerie Plame was exposed by persons in the Bush administration as an intelligence agent of the C.I.A. The reason for this outing was to take revenge on Ambassador, Joe Wilson, husband of Plame, because he provided direct evidence that the Bush administration intentionally fabricated the justifications for the invasion of Iraq. The crimes that Libby was convicted of were part of the administration efforts to cover up this reprisal. The following link from the N.P.R. website presents a satisfactory, chronologically organized review of the relevant events, including the evidence that Wilson produced. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4764919.
The invasion of a foreign country without just cause is a violation of international law. Stated more poignantly, the actions of the Bush administration in prosecuting this unjust aggression amounted to a war crime. It is just as plain as that. And it is common knowledge among informed and intellectually honest persons that the Bush administration, including both Bush and Cheney, consciously led this nation into war against a nation under false pretenses, without just cause, which eventually led to the practical destruction of that nation, and the killing of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of its citizens. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/10/600000_iraqis_killed_by_war_cr.html. In doing so, they lied to Congress and to the world at the United Nations. For all the various forms of corruption of which the Bush administration has been guilty, they are trivial compared to this outrageous and intolerable international crime. Fabrication of the necessity for going to war is the fact that Democrats and all persons of conscience in this country ought to focus on when reflecting on the significance of the Libby convictions. This point ought to be made in speech and in the press continually, repeatedly and relentlessly. Let us not miss this opportunity to shine a bright light upon a hidden truth now more clearly revealed.
bridge said...
Meg Ryan? NoNoNo
i forfot about the hatchet job on the face. yer right. she is sympathetic.
colbert also said julia roberts and I chafed!
PLAMEGATE!
http://www.libertaddigital.com/vinieta/cf/05.07.14.PlameGame-X.gif
Boris Wilson and Natasha Plame
http://polisat.com/images/BorisWilsonAndNatashaPlame-FullSize.gif
sunshine said...
how did the move go?
Heya Sunny J!
The physical move starts tomorrow after work. Right now, I've just been finishing up packing at the old place, changing my address with everyone, getting new wireless service set up, et al.
It's a great old home located right downtown. It's great to be back in the city proper. Needs work of course, but, we've got a good start on that. The upstairs, (nevermind the bathroom situation for now) is just about complete. Should be by tonight if the damn contractors actually showed up today. :/
Dubya stands firm in his resolve!
http://pabloonpolitics.com/images/plame.jpg
way cool GBC!
love those old houses!
i wish you good fortune in your new home!
bibi,
I am with you there, not Julia Roberts.
re debonair and all that: Pierce Brosnan is someone to consider in that role ...
noone is more stylish, handsome and cool in film than PB plus he is the right age ... and I am not talking about the silly 007 roles
Libby Iceberg...
http://www.juancole.com/graphics/libby/iceberg_small.jpg
PLAMEGATE!
--
Enjoy your books and movies. A fantasy world is all you will gain from Fitzmas.
The President’s Latin American Journey: A Matter of Low Expectations and Utter Despair
At a time when his popularity has hit rock bottom at home, President Bush is slipping out of Washington today to visit five Latin American nations in the course of an eight-day trip. Bush’s itinerary will take him first to Brazil, then south to Uruguay before heading north again for stops in Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. The president plans to briefly address, (in some instances, for the first time in his administration) a number of regional issues, which have taken a back seat since his first inauguration in 2001. These include a wide range of under-discussed—or previously completely ignored—topics associated with Washington’s professed “commitment” to the region, which, in fact, have never been honored.
Below, in list format, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs has outlined some of the more important topics, issues, themes and possible outcomes of the Bush-Latin America visit. If further information or analysis is desired, please feel free to contact our offices at (202)223-4975 or coha@coha.org
... while thinking about the right Libby actor ... you know the short ones ... beloved by Mrs Jury ... who swagger along among the Aspens wearing big hat on his oh so nice person ...
work was calling.
Before I go off and forget ... this is why I like the Daily Howler - cause he is right just about every time
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh030707.shtml
scroll all the way down and click on the dumbest post written on the web
ITA. Lawrence O'Donnell has completely lost it here. But its all about job security IMHO.
bye everyone
P.S. HAH!
"Misery"-Kathy Bates must play Ann Reddington (sp.) whose agenda is bigger than KingKong, fiercer than the T-Rex/Kong battle, and promises to be as neverending as the stunning Brontosaurus stampede.
Has anyone seen my script?
have you seen this great sam seder steve sherill video
fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=194
How to link?
(try yahoo or msn it doesn't work in google)
Billy Strayhorn was only sixteen years old when he wrote "Lush Life."
A long, long time ago, fractal god Benoit Mandelbrot posed a simple question: How long is the coastline of Britain? His mathematical colleagues were miffed, to say the least, at such an annoying waste of their time on such insignifigant problems. They told him to look it up.
Of course, Madelbrot had a reason for his peculiar question. Quite an interesting reason. Look up the coastline of Britain yourself, in some encyclopedia. Whatever figure you get, it is wrong. Quite simply, the coastline of Briutain is infinite.
You protest that this is impossible. Well, consider this. Consider looking at Britain on a very large-scale map. Draw the simplest two-dimensional shape possible, a triangle, which circumscribes Britain as closely as possible. The perimeter of this shape approximates the perimeter of Britain.
However, this area is of course highly inaccurate. Increasing the amount of vertices of the shape going around the coastline, and the area will become closer. The more vertices there are, the closer the circumscribing line will be able to conform to the dips and the protrusions of Britain's rugged coast.
There is one problem, however. Each time the number of vertices increases, the perimeter increases. It must increase, because of the triangle inequality. Moreover, the number of vertices never reaches a maximum. There is no point at which one can say that a shape defines the coastline of Britain. After all, exactly circumscribing the coast of Britain would entail encircling every rock, every tide pool, every pebble which happens to lie on the edge of Britain.
Thus, the coastline of Britian is infinite.
Al-Qaida functions on the basis that they think they can break our will and cause us to "quit and go home". That's their fundamental underlying strategy . If we adopt the Pelosi policy we will validate the strategy of al-Qaida.
chipped prism said...
... There is no point at which one can say that a shape defines the coastline of Britain. After all, exactly circumscribing the coast of Britain would entail encircling every rock, every tide pool, every pebble which happens to lie on the edge of Britain.
Thus, the coastline of Britian is infinite.
March 8, 2007 5:53 PM
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Thus, the Bush administration's modus operandi of infinitely maddening semantic justifications-cum-lies stands revealed.
Technically tested, mendaciously approved.
Democrats deny they have a plan for America's defeat in Iraq. They're correct. They have many such plans, and they're in competition with each other to see who can get it done the quickest.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
"Lush Life" Billy Strayhorn 03:32
"Nature Boy" Nat King Cole 1948 02:37
"Nature Boy" (First Version) John Coltrane Quintet 7:08
John Coltrane Quintet
John Coltrane (ts) McCoy Tyner (p)
Art Davis (b) Jimmy Garrison (b)
Elvin Jones (d)
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, February 18, 1965
(There are two other versions of this cut on the album.
Personally I prefer the version on track three.)
"You Let Me Down" Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson & His Orch 1935 02:54
"Lush Life" Harry James (Billy Strayhorn) 03:34
minor blues said...
Billy Strayhorn was only sixteen years old when he wrote "Lush Life."
March 8, 2007 5:15 PM
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Kinda sad that Billy knew so much about drinkin' at the tender age a 16.
Notes from the latin side of da americas:
Bwaynus Nochez Libruls!
I'm off on my Latin American good will tour to make good visits with all my brown latino friends.
We are going to have such a good time with all the latins.
Click on me for the newser coverage.
Think Positive,
George
Here is some "newser coverage" on you George:
Brazil police battle Bush protesters By STAN LEHMAN, Associated Press Writer
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Police clashed Thursday with students, environmentalists and left-leaning Brazilians protesting a visit by President Bush and his push for an ethanol energy alliance with Latin America's largest nation.
Protesting students also lobbed rocks and homemade explosives called potato bombs at riot police on a university campus in the Colombian capital of Bogota, where Bush is scheduled to visit Sunday as part of his five-nation tour of Latin America.
In Sao Paulo, officers fired tear gas at protesters and beat them with batons after more than 6,000 people held a largely peaceful march through the financial heart of South America's largest city, sending hundreds of demonstrators fleeing and ducking into businesses to avoid the mayhem.
More at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070309/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_bush_protests
^
You are one crazy commie Nobody!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
At least you aren't as low as a few here that put out lots of hate toward other posters here for no reason.
The Republican said...
Democrats deny they have a plan for America's defeat in Iraq. They're correct. They have many such plans, and they're in competition with each other to see who can get it done the quickest.
March 8, 2007 6:14 PM
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You know, I hate to admit it, but it's true!
I, e.g., am the classic example, par excellance, of liberal perfidy that "The Republican" wets his hyperventilating bedwetter pants over.
After all, if we all just clapped louder, obviously Iraq would be a rousing success.
Like, duh.
(You know, it's almost a rhetorical shame that instead of having to take selfish assholes like "The Republican" seriously anymore, now we can simply mock him.)
When reality outstrips propaganda, "The Republican" stands revealed like the calamitious change of life.
-- dr
p.s. This "blog" is exceptionally fucking irritating to post on. Nothing seems to work. (Hence my "anonymous" post b/c I can't get "other" to work.) As an aside, I've said nothing about the blog b/c I ain't payin' for it and it is what it is. I will only observe this much: When you say you are going to do something and you don't, continually, people justifiably have the right to hold you in contempt.
I'm lookin' directly at you, Seder.
Click on me for some good articles.
March 8, 2007 6:34 PM
thank god, finally. i've been wondering how to join the communist party and just couldn't figure it out. thank you.
GAP, you just really make me sad.
hey, dr. how've you been? does uncle dave still rule?
SEDER on LIBBY DEBATE: “… it‘s candy-covered mountains and marshmallow skies …”
http://rwcs.com/blog/?p=1073
Jenise said...
thank god, finally. i've been wondering how to join the communist party and just couldn't figure it out. thank you.
GAP, you just really make me sad.
hey, dr. how've you been? does uncle dave still rule?
March 8, 2007 6:44 PM
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"Calamitious"?
Ouch. That's fuckin' ugly. I await Crank's righteous horse-whipping w/cringing shame.
RE: the commie "Nobody" posts
We all know I hold no brief for Nobody, and we all know this transparently puerile impersonation tain't Nobody.
Pathetic.
Far's rockin' Unca Dave goes, I'll just say this: I'm just glad I ain't got to parent the aftermath.
"Far's rockin' Unca Dave goes, I'll just say this: I'm just glad I ain't got to parent the aftermath."
best part of having nieces and nephews, isn't it?
time for me to try for a nap. work has me waaaay sleep-deprived at the moment. can't wait til the benefits of being a liberal kick in - all that living off the dole, the slacker lifestyle - i know that's why i joined.
have a good one, dr.
!
These repubs are all hypocrites!!
Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe By BEN EVANS, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 20 minutes ago
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
"The honest answer is yes," Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press. "There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There's certainly times when I've fallen short of God's standards."
Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.
"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge," the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. "I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials."
Widely considered a mastermind of the Republican revolution that swept Congress in the 1994 elections, Gingrich remains wildly popular among many conservatives. He has repeatedly placed near the top of Republican presidential polls recently, even though he has not formed a campaign.
Gingrich has said he is waiting to see how the Republican field shapes up before deciding in the fall whether to run.
Reports of extramarital affairs have dogged him for years as a result of two messy divorces, but he has refused to discuss them publicly.
LINK
have a good one, dr.
March 8, 2007 6:59 PM
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Tx., jenise. You, too.
(Got eleven days comin' up a drinkin' in the intoxicatin' scent a magnolias in the moonlight 'n gardenia blossoms in ol' cracker Floridy. The fishin' 'n the comp'ny is just a sensory extra.)
"You Let Me Down" Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson
goodun! NC
eya j! mornin!
DR, N evening gents!
Evening all.
Later Jenise.
evening T!
hope ya feel good tonight!
White House bows on attorney reforms By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 43 minutes ago
The Bush administration, bowing to an uproar over its firing of eight federal prosecutors, agreed Thursday to tightening the law for replacing U.S. attorneys and letting Congress hear from senior officials with roles in the ousters.
"The attorney general told us the administration would not oppose our legislation requiring Senate confirmation for all U.S. attorneys," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., after a private meeting with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
He and other senators said Gonzales also agreed to let five of his top aides involved in the firings talk with the committee, rather than wait for the panel to authorize subpoenas.
Six of the eight ousted prosecutors told House and Senate committees on Tuesday they were dismissed without explanation. Some said the dismissals followed calls from members of Congress — Sen. Pete Domenici (news, bio, voting record) and Rep. Heather Wilson (news, bio, voting record), New Mexico Republicans — concerning sensitive political corruption investigations.
Others said they feared the Justice Department would retaliate against them for talking with reporters and giving lawmakers information about their dismissals.
The meeting with Gonzales occurred a few hours after Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, dealt Gonzales and his department a public lashing for the controversy.
Specter said the attorney general wrongly besmirched the fired U.S. attorneys by saying most of them had been dismissed for poor performance and calling the uproar an "overblown personnel matter" Thursday in a column Gonzales wrote in USA Today.
"I hardly think that it's a personnel matter," Specter, Philadelphia's former federal prosecutor, said. "And I hardly think that it's been overblown."
I smell a setup here
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Hey Jim!
Feeling okay except for my knee. I think it will not be long, now, that I will need the replacement. Don't think there's any cartilage left. Bone on bone now.
eya Dada!
hows the music going?
//we all know this transparently puerile impersonation tain't Nobody.//
you know that...
but he still wins
he creates doubt...
he wins
it's a no lose pursuit
it's door-to-door telemarketing
his product is your time
Oooo! nasty T...
watched a half dozen of my buds and buddettes go thru that.
how did ya hurt it in the first place?
A O dee O dee O layyyy!
Nah N has the blogger sign in.
should be him in the blue.
i'll call if Blue N
acts sorta weird.
It's not him. The link goes to cpusa, not N's profile or blog. This is why I got so frustrated last year. Lotsa well intentioned folks that didn't bother reading WTF had actually happened.
i post anonymously to my above post with...
"hahahahaha"
who's to know...
"who could it be knocking at my door"
(men-@-work)
ok, it's me now
then this slimey opportunist may post "hahahahaha"
he's exploiting the "blind man's bluff" format of this blog
i detest him
and he laps it up
//Nah N has the blogger sign in.//
so what...
the scumbag doesn't care
there's all manner of doubt
e.g. maybe it's nobody playing games
i don't believe it
but there you go
signed, sealed and delivered...
HE WINS!!
(that's the bottom line)
Also, N posting pro-communist articles is "sorta weird". It's also one of Legion's signature attacks on him. Post the pro-commie stuff, attack with sockpuppets, have fake N attack back, use sockpuppets to call N a "loony off his meds super paranoid person", repeat.
Transparent.
talkin to N
WFC is right
N's blogger account ends up at his Alpha Librul site.
"People are retarded>"
Alice said...
Radical-bookstore owners: Fire officials were confrontational
March 8, 2007 12:25 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Sounds like they're blaming the victim.
i used "^" for a while, for aesthetic purposes (i don't like the last line scrunched up against the date)
so he uses it
if one person says "aha! that's ono"
(that's more than enough)
HE WINS!
then next he'll take on the guise of a troll accusing us of being immoral, unethical, whatever
HE WINS!
"Yes, they are."
Also, there is a shiny new Friday thread open.
Hi/bye to ono, SJ, toniD, dada.
Brb
//talkin to N//
so what...
there always the doubt that nobody is a pathological lier
i don't believe it...
but if one person does
the troll WINS!
the purpose of disinformation
is not to convince everyone
(they're patient & persistant)
Sunshine said...
"You Let Me Down" Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson
goodun! NC
March 8, 2007 7:07 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Hey Jim,
Ornette Coleman
(b. March 9, 1930)
WKCR 88.9 FM
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/
Listen:
http://kanga.college.columbia.edu/ramgen/broadcast/wkcr.rm
http://kanga.college.columbia.edu:8000/listen.pls
Cya at the new friday thread....
Sunshine Jim said...
how did ya hurt it in the first place?
March 8, 2007 7:22 PM
Jim, this is what happens with Rheumatoid arthritis. It's an auto-immune desease that attacks the joints. Probably a touch of osteo arthritis also.
today the troll won
if he wins once every month...
he wins
only if you got these cowards by the throat will they squeal for mercy
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
http://kanga.college.columbia.edu/ramgen/broadcast/wkcr.rm
This friggen thing cut off
the .ra extension.
(down but not out)
I'LL BE BACK
: )
ah, yes
there's a pic for all occassions
(heh-heh)
DEATH TO TROLLS
(you can't win)
i'll lull you into a false sense of security
then...
BAMMM!!
you be reelin'
(ciao)
Howlin g Wolf, Killing Floor
Jenise, As far as your comments abouts communism Thursday.I really am a neotribalist/socialist/communist. Don't look for my name in the membership rolls though, as I never officially joined the party. The party in my state of Washington closed in 2000.
Don't confuse your thinking about some other people that haven't been around for a very very long time. Searches show they haven't been on here or there since far back into last year.
When you see the generic name of Nobody, sometimes it is the Nobody from majorityreportradio or here and sometimes it is one of the thousands of Nobodys from the internet. Regardless, I am a real Nobody that has posted with that nickname for a very long time in several places and I am certainly no one else from here or that has been here before.
Click on my name for some interesting stories.
Before any of you go off making wild bogus accusations that don't make sense you should do a search of the blogs.
A search shows that there never was a poster with the nick of Legion. However there was a nick of Gare long long ago.
This just shows that people can imagine almost anything in their head that has no basis in fact.
The best thing you can do is IGNORE any snarky postings rather that post false accusations about anyone.
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