Coming up next! Andrew C. Revkin, reporter for the New York Times and author of The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World.
Remember Sam's ultimatum for today: Call Congress about under-oath testimony for White House officials ... or Sam will play children's music. He's serious, folks.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 353 of 353BTW, did NOBODY in the Gore Fest ask the ex-Veep...
"Al, how much money do YOU make from YOU buying 'carbon credits' from the company that YOU founded and that YOU are a partner in?"
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air-ono said...
just a quick count of posts and then a quick plunck of the counted posts on your lap
(11)
March 22, 2007 7:15 PM
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Too bad for you, then.
Anonymous said...
BTW, did NOBODY in the Gore Fest ask the ex-Veep...
"Al, how much money do YOU make from YOU buying 'carbon credits' from the company that YOU founded and that YOU are a partner in?"
March 22, 2007 7:24 PM
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Oh look... we had Dumb, and Dumber ... and now here's there youngest brother, Dumbererest.
//you lure him with a vibrating falufah & some of that charm you're always flaunting
"come, bill... come around here, bill"
(into this dark alley way)
(and slit!)
bill's voice box is silent & bloody //
March 22, 2007 7:21 PM
Wow
that was kind of scary
it's a good thing you live in Australia
Bill would call Homeland security on you if you lived here
-conbo
yo, fuck-head (aka, gare)
maybe if a few billion bucks had been diverted from the pig's breakfast (aka, iraq), into alternative energy, then big al needn't of had to rely on fossil fuels
(oops! record big oil profits)
and fuck-head (aka, gare)
big al is the messenger
alerting the dumb-ants (aka, your base) to realise that we're facing a global catastrophe
(woops!)
(your base are dying to be raptured)
*
your superficial charge of hypocrisy is pathetic (aka, gare's tradmark)
Anonymous said...
BTW, did NOBODY in the Gore Fest ask the ex-Veep...
"Al, how much money do YOU make from YOU buying 'carbon credits' from the company that YOU founded and that YOU are a partner in?"
March 22, 2007 7:24 PM
______________
BOY!
Way to put a CORK in ol' AL GORE!
I WONDER if this shrieking NINNY could be GARE!!! -- or SOMEONE just like HIM!!!!
The partisan conservo-jugend DESPERATION of seeking to DISCREDIT Gore by characterizing him as some kinda MONEY-GRUBBING HYPOCRITE is kinda GLARING, don't you think? And kinda TRANSPARENTLY stupid, too.
(To say nothing of the hyperventilating FONDNESS for superfluous CAPS.)
As Einstein once said, only two things in this world are infinite, the galaxy and human stupidity, and ol' Albert had him some doubts about the galaxy.
you lure him with a vibrating falufah & some of that charm you're always flaunting
"come, bill... come around here, bill"
(into this dark alley way)
(and slit!)
bill's voice box is silent & bloody //
March 22, 2007 7:21 PM
OK.
I'm in.
but Bill needs to suffer more than that...
[catharine's posts aren't always in vain]
; )
//but Bill needs to suffer more than that//
oh, wow!
give the gurl blood
I still have that handsome thing working!!!
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air-ono said...
[catharine's posts aren't always in vain]
; )
March 22, 2007 7:39 PM
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Oh, golly, I feel so... redeemed now.
Limbaugh suggested Edwards camp "leak[ed]" false information to Politico reporter "to jump-start the campaign"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230001
On the March 22 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh suggested that the presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) intentionally "leak[ed]" false information -- that Edwards would "suspend" his campaign because his wife's cancer had recurred -- to Politico reporter Ben Smith in order "to jump-start the campaign." At a press conference earlier the same day, Edwards announced that his wife, Elizabeth, had been told that she has Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, but that the Edwards campaign would continue. Smith incorrectly claimed that Edwards would announce the "suspen[sion]" of his campaign in a March 22 weblog post on Politico.com. Referring to that post, Limbaugh stated that "this business about" Edwards announcing that he will continue his presidential bid "makes me think that the leak that was planted today was purposely wrong to create surprise." Limbaugh reiterated that the inaccurate leak "[m]ay have been done on purpose."
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Top secret there, Rush.
Wow!
You blew the cover off of that really important political maneuvering!
anyway, just dropped by to drop off this killer film noir/ femme fatale pic-site
~IT'S!!!
r.a. maguire's cover art
(oh, yes it is)
How much do you want to bet that the sight of his own blood makes O'Leilly faint?
Philip de Vellis has a history of damaging both the Democratic candidates he says he supports while he does even worse damage to other Democratic candidates. I think he's an agent provacateur, or a big dirtbag. Haven't made my mind up yet. Still searching for more stories on the guy. Crapped on both D frontrunner prez candidates. I'm sure he will end up working for Fox spews eventually.
i admire bill's gallant ability to faint at the sight of blood
(it mirror's my own)
remember i'm only into cartoon violence, and not the real "shove broken glass into faces" violence
(that's the o.g's forte)
ho hum
i am bored as usual
my life is boring
excpet when the electricity is about to be shut off and what not
-conbo
you know what my son said the other day?
"Mommy lets go to 'donalds (mcdonalds). I am so hungry! my sugar is dropping!"
hahahaha
His babysitters mother has low blood pressure and she talks about her blood pressure dropping when she needs to eat.
-conbo
//How much do you want to bet that the sight of his own blood makes O'Leilly faint?//
o'leilly is a big baby...
I think that he is really Roger Ailes' gimp.
-conbo
//His babysitters mother has low blood pressure and she talks about her blood pressure dropping when she needs to eat.//
high blood pressure that is, diabetes.
high low whatever, right?
-conbo
when the o.g. goes for a piss
i call him "piddles"
"hello, mr. piddles" ~i say, like an up-beat englishman from the 1930's (my jolly optimistism in full bloom) riding by on my bicycle, "i heard you piddling old boy, how marvellous"
*
and, yo...
don't diss "my jolly optimistism"
how do you think we trampled on half the world; backs in the day when the sun never set on the british empire
(top-ho!)
//my sugar is dropping//
(lol)
give him a kiss & a hug
Evening all.
Watching the Daily Show and Jon is doing Gore tonight. From the name Gore was given , the Gore-acle, Jon took off with other names like Gore-nac the magnificent, making fun of the news people.
//right?//
right!
So when are you and the OG tying the knot?
-conbo
//Evening//
Evening
"look at me! look at me! are you looking at me!... i'm hag-ridden... i've got nothing pretty to wear and the fucking painters are in"
then i do my impression of a guy swim on dry land
*tee-hee*
(it's a show-stopper)
//swim// as in *swimming*
///swim// as in *swimming*//
ah! i was confused
-conbo
and that dear reader is my life
(in a nut-shell)
not a shell that blogs here, nor a nut-meg who used to blog here
but a nut-shell drowning in an enigma sauce, when all of a sudden!!
(a tomato hits me in the head)
:|
Bush, Cheney, Gonzales blocked Gitmo closing. From the New York Times:
In his first weeks as defense secretary, Robert M. Gates repeatedly argued that the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had become so tainted abroad that legal proceedings at Guantánamo would be viewed as illegitimate, according to senior administration officials. He told President Bush and others that it should be shut down as quickly as possible. […]
Mr. Gates’s arguments were rejected after Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and some other government lawyers expressed strong objections to moving detainees to the United States, a stance that was backed by the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, administration officials said.
As Mr. Gates was making his case, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined him in urging that the detention facility be shut down, administration officials said. But the high-level discussions about closing Guantánamo came to a halt after Mr. Bush rejected the approach.
LINK
sounds like you do a lot of pantomiming in your spare time
-conbo
hi ToniD!
:)
-conbo
//pantomiming//
heh!
my stuff is more than //pantomiming//, sniffles
my stuff is hard-core gangster cabaret
*
you need underworld connections to purchase a ticket, sniffles
None of us will survive!
it's the cabaret of the bored & the stiff
a discarded freak show
starring a discarded freak
*
RENOUNCED!
(watch me bounce)
p.s. (boing!)
Sam is being really funny lately
:)
I can tell by the blog posts
I have only heard the show once this week and it was pretty funny.
On Tuesday, I think. The one with the writer stuck on the train.
-conbo
Sorry ono!
Hi Connie
Really tired tonight.
Have to work again tomorrow so I can't stay long.
//None of us will survive!//
thanks for the hand up, leonard
: )
work...AGAIN?
as my son would say
:)
have a good night ToniD!
-conbo
G'night all
sam is over-doing the "funny"
while he has sidney blumenthal on for only a handful of minutes
i mean fun is fun
but let's get the heavy outta the way before the dessert
pleasant dreams, toni
sam is over-doing the "funny"
while he has sidney blumenthal on for only a handful of minutes
i mean fun is fun
but let's get the heavy outta the way before the dessert
March 22, 2007 8:44 PM
his biggest competetior is Stephanie Miller
She is very funny
Maybe that is it
Or maybe Sam is just tired lately and being extra silly
At any rate, I like it better than heavy
Im not a CSI kind of person
Im more like cartoon network
well. when I had cable
-conbo
wow
someone just posted a poem on the open thread at KOS
that like, never happens
they are getting goofy over there, too
maybe because of Global Warming everyone is getting less oxygen
-conbo
//She is very funny//
that bitch ain't funny
(ffs!)
i think it was you that put up some of her show and it was total shit
then i saw her flirting with sean hannity
fucking puke
(that was the cherry on top)
she was KIDDING
she flirts with everyone
im going on my dinner break
-conbo
she was KIDDING
she flirts with everyone
im going on my dinner break
-conbo
Well, I finally found this place! I miss the regular blog where I am known as Name Witheld.
Things are really going to get shitty for Bush and his boys over the next few months.
//she was KIDDING//
she was arse-licking
(enjoy your dinner)
Oh yes, Stephanie Miller's show is quite funny because of her sidekick, Jim Ward. He is brilliant!
Wow! This place is dead! It's not like it used to be around this time of night!
(the lull)
alice
(awww)
bibi
(before the storm)
lilith
(aftermath)
jenise
(don't turn away)
connie
(ha!)
toni
Odetta,Hit or Miss
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Excerpts from Nellie Bly's "Ten Days in a Madhouse"
Born in 1864 to a wealthy Pittsburgh family, Elizabeth Jane Cochran changed her name to Nellie Bly to avoid embarrassing her family when she pursued a career as a journalist. Tired of reporting on the theater and arts, she convinced Joseph Pulitzer to let her go undercover at the Women's Lunatic Hospital, feigning insanity, so that she could report on conditions of neglect and mistreatment for the New York World. The result was Ten Days In A Madhouse. The audio excerpts are from LibriVox, at librivox.org Bly was among the early practioners of this form of investigative journalism that was a precursor to the muckraking journalists of the Progressive Era.
evening my friends,
how are you all doing?
amonynous said...
Wow! This place is dead! It's not like it used to be around this time of night!
March 22, 2007 9:15 PM
Cute. ROFLASMC!
If it's lively, someone will push the "get a life, blog addicts" theme.
If it's slow, someone will push the "this blog is a rotting corpse" theme.
I want to push the "You may as well do what you want, but do no harm theme" because the previous two ideas have no appeal for me, because they are shtupid!
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but it takes one to know one!"
Ucky u, and phfffttttt
"amonymous"!
Cat Chew
(having problems with Blogger sign-in, and not sticking around, either.)
NC, you're lucky I didn't see the marathon man pics before my appointment... ;)
*
On November 15, 1969, more than 250,000 protestors marched on Washington.
felt good enuff to play a bit of ball with Ruzz just now, life is good.
how you feelin A.?
I need to write Chubby a letter still!
ok.
Mad Libs.
Dear Chubby,
I am ______________. Today I ___________. How is your 'vacation'? The Blog is________. The Majority Report got changed to the Sam Seder Show.
Uhm. Oh yeah, Bush really is a Nazi. We we're right! hahaha! Now he is refusing subpeona's!!!
The blog is now broken and Sam has resorted to eBlogger. He doesn't see anything wrong with this, and ignores everyone's complaints. We miss you at the blog, especially Crank Bait who every once inawhile bleats out:'free the Rajah.'
I hope you are doing as well as can be expected and that you get out asap!
Sincerely,
Conbo
My jaw is sort of sore, SJ...I just took a couple asprin..
& I agree with you Cat Chew...someone complains no matter how the blog is...
That's sweet, conbo..
ok now everyone else write chubby a letter on this thread and I will just print it out!
go on!
-conbo
That's sweet, conbo..
March 22, 2007 11:23 PM
isn't tho?
-conbo
it's the kind of letter I would want were I seperated from everybody.
That's sweet, conbo..
March 22, 2007 11:23 PM
isn't tho?
-conbo
it's the kind of letter I would want were I seperated from everybody.
well for utter snarkicity we need LaL and FG.
yeh.
I think I will just print out the blog.
he will like that.
-conbo
Anonymous said...
ok now everyone else write chubby a letter on this thread and I will just print it out!
go on!
-conbo
March 22, 2007 11:25 PM
That is a fucking brilliant idea...
(Now I must ponder why it's going to work better than us each writing a letter....)
well, as soon as they cut him loose i'm buying him a pizza, a Guiness and a bag of socks.
when is he out, Sunny?
-conbo
(Now I must ponder why it's going to work better than us each writing a letter....)
March 22, 2007 11:33 PM
Im going to do it I swear!!!!
I have his address and have figured out where to get postage stamps
sept at the earliest,
hopefully work release and probation
I'M ABOUT TO DELVE INTO SOMEONE'S
DERANGED MIND
(you'll find a link on the page that takes you to this)
doll yoko weeps:
ruined, all ruined
cant believe
this trash life
: )
ok, motivation
my letter will reach mr. chubbs before yours does, connie
: p
(clueless)
REPUBLICAN
(watching fox news)
sure would like to garden this year.
did a truck garden with dad when i was a kid.
miss that taste of a fresh tomato.
want to try growing em in hanging baskets.
my last post is the rubbish i spout to the o.g. the live long day
: )
p.s. (LMAO!)
According to the study, carried out by the U.S. Congressional Research Service, without including the gigantic annual budgets of the Pentagon, from late 2001 to September 2006, Congress has allocated $510 billion for its wars.
Alice said...
That's sweet, oboe..
March 22, 2007 11:23 PM
oh, fank ewwww
(my foo fwunt pheeph haf fallen hon ha horr)
AO
STFU!
(just wanted to make you feel better)
air-ono said...
p.s. (LMAO!)
March 23, 2007 12:07 AM
oh,
hank doo, mee-ho
(me want mee-ho)
(me want mee-ho)
oh! that's me...
that means i don't have to travel far
i spin around & there i am
"hello"
fank ewwww, A.
i feel fetter
fank ewwww, fank ewwww
i feel light as a fev-err
my fev-err is fetter now
'fore had ho-ho hempa-fempa
oh, so ho
i hot fom fev-err
damn! s.j. not "A."
last thing that registered was "AO"
Insurgelicious
[A.O. minus the "O" = "A."]
carry the 1
remove the Y
so then when it's all been said and done
(dun dun dun)
(hun hun hun)
how may help you today
.
It's Gold, Jerry! Gold!
LOL!, A.
i wanna pinch you so bad
(it hurts)
: )
i call the silly putty mind meld.
try rolling yourself over some sunday funnies.
my mind is beginning to settle
beginning to take on a semblance of normality
(woo-hoo)
!
my brain squirrels have settled down
yours have a hard-on
(woo-hoo)
!
my brain squirs are higly trained
man, i'm headed for a major crash
(oh, well)
OH, HELL!
(ain't that a shame)
if i had a gold medal
i'd shove it up my arse
and walk around like a rich man
sept at the earliest,
hopefully work release and probation
March 22, 2007 11:49 PM
poor guy...that is a long time.
Guess what? I heard Beck on the way home. Yeah, on the radio station. My life is farkin' cool.
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and Im out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stock car flamin with a loser and the cruise control
Babys in reno with the vitamin d
Got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat
Someone came in sayin Im insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Dont believe everything that you breathe
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin all your food stamps and burnin down the trailer park
Yo. cut it.
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
cuz ones got a weasel and the others got a flag
Ones on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey-neck and its hangin from a pigeon wing
You cant write if you cant relate
Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax fallin on a termite
Thats chokin on the splinters
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(get crazy with the cheese whiz)
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(drive-by body-pierce)
(yo bring it on down)
Soooooooyy....
(Im a driver, Im a winner; things are gonna change I can feel it)
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(I cant believe you)
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(schprechen sie deutches, baby)
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(know what Im sayin? )
-conbo
weird freakin' weather, man
38°C (100F) @ 6.00pm
even though this song was written ages ago, this part always reminds me of the Neocons:
//Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
cuz ones got a weasel and the others got a flag
Ones on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string//
I also lived near a potatoe factory that made 'special'
french fries for McDonalds growing up. I might have been exposed to some stuff.
There was the odd smell.
-conbo
wanda jackson sweet nothin
nah, no synchro
(the synchro was fabricated)
the reason "i'm a creep" came to mind is that it was released about the same time as the beck song
(and i bought both)
night gang,
can't keep my eyes open,
time fer a snooze.
love!
i'm not kidding about the smells that wafted from the corporate potatoe factories...
the funny thing is, no one seemed to think it was odd.
i didn't either til just now.
-conbo
nite Sunny J!
-conbo
Vita,Why I Eyes Ya
this describes the Bush Administration perfectly
//Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare//
-conbo
take 'er nice and easy, s.j.
//The World is a Vampire
Set to drain...
Even though I know
I suppose Im sold//
wow. my radio station is playing all my favorite songs. stuff that was popular when i was a teen.
-conbo
woot!
Where is Cicero lately?
He has disapeared into the threads of the Daily Kos.
Writing top ten comments and the like prolly.
:)
-conbo
Someday I'll get enough rec's to be on the top comments list
Since I spend all my time online, the odds of it happening are fairly big.
I give it two to three years
Victory!
-conbo
I can talk to myself for hours
It's a talent
-conbo
I wish I could kick the holy living crap out of Glen Beck
Not very Christian, but I'm
not Christ.
I have a feeling he is going to be awarded a medal of freedom, and be a top Furer.
-conbo
Once they start making the camps there will be Beck unraveling the first roll of barbwire...
For Freedom!!!!
-conbo
"This is Glenn Beck reporting live from Camp Freedom. I'm not one to toot my own horn, but I am the first journalist to break ground here."
-conbo
Loser, Beck
Creep, Radiohead
Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Smashing Pumpkins
---
No comments today at kos, too busy. Read a bit, though.
That said...
"I am a kossack
My individuality will be added to the kollective.
Resistance is futile."
Something tells me that Glenn Beck has a confederate flag bathrobe.
He's just the type.
-conbo
You have a real life, Cicero?
what is it like?
-conbo
Today, the US House of Representatives is considering a bill that will continue the funding of the Iraq occupation. It has certain provisions, such as troops must be rested before being sent back to Iraq, and that certain 'benchmarks' must be met - however, there are all set up so that bush/cheney can ignore them. It is being touted by the anti-war left as a great bill because it sets a date for withdrawal by September 2008. First, this date is not final. Second, it has a loophole - one large enough to put the entire US military through. It says that bush can keep troops there if they are need to train Iraqi troops or fight al Qadea. There will always be al Qadea in Iraq as long as there are US troops there, and it looks like they will go on attacking innocent civilians that are working with or a part of, the new Iraqi government. This administration could claim (and they will) that the entire US military in Iraq is needed for these two purposes.
...
It looks like the occupation will continue until after bush is out of office in 2009. The only ways to change that is to cut the funding and to impeach him. The Democrats are going to sign on to this war and take responsibility for an evil and failed disaster. They are making a big mistake.
...
http://dancewater.blogspot.com/2007/03/iraqi-protests-again.html
: )
Not much of one, but I like it, #.
Me and a couple of cats. Some good friends and family here in the city, or within a couple of hours drive time at best. A work schedule that allows me to pay the few bills I have. A job the doesn't make me nutty. A lot of good music to keep me sane. A lot of reading to do the same.
And, of course,
THE BLOG.
That's what it's like in a nutshell, I guess.
Blueeyed Devil, Soul Coughing
sounds good to me!
i've been going through another depression...don't ask me why
It's stupid. I cut everyone out of my life again, except for my son.
I do this periodically.
It's totally dumb.
-conbo
Anyway, I'll get over it, I always do.
:)
I got a puppy! Will loves him. He actually wears the puppy out, I was hopping for vice versa.
-conbo
I think I am way worried about Bushco. They are going to take it to the Supreme Court, these subpeona's and then the Supreme Court will rule in their favor. sucks. It is getting harder and harder to be hopeful.
-conbo
Stupid Kos and his post today:
How it looks from the outside
Everyone thinks the Dems are supercool!
hahahaha
doubt it.
The Dem's look weak. As usual. Fark the Dem's. They are acomplices for letting this madness go on for so long.
-conbo
Billionaire Opens Mansions to Homeless
Depression's a bitch. I go through some cycles of it, too. Kind of a hereditary thing in my family. Paying attention to politics doesn't help.
Here's to sunnier days!
---
What kind of puppy? Have some friends that are getting a Samoyed next week. I haven't had a dog in a lot of years now.
Glad Dinoboy likes him. A boy and his dog are a great combo in life.
---
I'm optimistic about BushCo's take on the subpoenas. Scalia, Thomas, and Alito will probably vote in Bush's favor, but I have a feeling that Roberts might use this as a way to get some distance between himself and a failed administration.
Here's hoping, anyway.
//What kind of puppy?//
A little black lab.
She is so sweet!
She puts up with dinoboy's
enthusiam very well.
She is a sweet, sweet puppy.
Only cries when she has to go to the bathroom.
She has huge brown eyes. She is just the sweetest dog, and I'm not much of a dog person.
-conbo
Her name is Emily. :)
//I'm optimistic about BushCo's take on the subpoenas. Scalia, Thomas, and Alito will probably vote in Bush's favor, but I have a feeling that Roberts might use this as a way to get some distance between himself and a failed administration.//
Roberts is more partisan than all of them put together. But that is just my take.
-conbo
I am going to print the thread in 3 minutes for Chubbas.
Anyone have any special comments for him?
i know its late, so yeah.
-conbo
Republican RICO-Style Abuse of Power
By Stephen Crockett
March 21, 2007
Editor's Note: George W. Bush is rejecting Democratic calls for sworn testimony by his White House inner circle about the unusual firings of eight U.S. Attorneys who were viewed as not "loyal Bushies," according to one Justice Department e-mail. But what might the Democrats find if the officials did testify openly and under oath?
In this guest essay, Democratic Talk Radio co-host Stephen Crockett suggests that underlying Bush's resistance to a full investigation is evidence of longstanding criminality that borders on racketeering:
There is nothing as corrupt as using the governmental powers of law enforcement, to selectively prosecute your political enemies and to cover-up criminal behavior by your political organization and allies, while in a position of political power. This situation is the essence of the current scandal concerning the firing of U.S. Attorneys by the Bush White House.
The Watergate scandal should have taught the Republican Party that this kind of abuse is outside the bounds of acceptable political behavior in American society. Republican activists failed to learn the lessons of Watergate and are now reliving history on issue after issue.
Republican Presidential pardon powers were used to thwart the rule of law and let the Republican political criminal Richard Nixon avoid the jail time he deserved. Republicans should have gone to jail in large numbers doing the Iran-Contra scandals.
In that case, a Republican White House ignored the rule of law. They abused the traditions of normal American political behavior and federal law to impose their minority foreign policy views on an American public opposed to the Republican ideologically based policies. Instead, Presidential pardon powers were abused to help Republican political criminals avoid the jail time they deserved.
The current Bush White House by executive order changed the process on revealing prior Presidential papers to the public early in George W. Bush’s first term in a way that prevented revelation of criminal behaviors concerning Iran-Contra figures. The role of his father, the first George Bush, in the criminal behavior concerning of Iran-Contra remains unexplored. The executive order may violate the Presidential Papers Act.
At issue is Republican Presidential politics influencing potential criminal investigations and prosecutions. The current Republican White House has definitely politicized the process of federal law enforcement in a way that corrupts American government.
Unfortunately, they are continuing a long Republican tradition. Republicans seem to view this as politics as usual. It is not! It is corruption and deeply offensive to the real traditions of American government.
Under this Bush, it appears that federal prosecutors have targeted 7 or 8 times more Democratic officeholders than Republican officeholders. The investigations of Democratic state legislators in Tennessee looks politically motivated.
Anyone familiar with Tennessee politics knows that Republican politicians in that state are just as corrupt or corruptible as Democratic ones. The federal government has not investigated the Republican officeholders in Tennessee in the way they have Democrats.
The political strength of Republicans in Tennessee looks to be closely linked to politicized federal law enforcement by the Bush Administration. The Tennessee politicized law enforcement situation appears ripe for investigation.
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Hyia CB. Jsut wanted to say taht you are msised here on the blogh.
Best wishesa nd many blssinmgs.
WfC
damnit!
out of ink!
ft love of God!
I knew I should have done this at work.
oh well.
I'll go back and print this when I get to work on Sunday.
arrrrrrrrrg
poor Chubby
-conbo
I could have had it in the mail by tomorrow. Now he has to wait even longer.
Black labs, btw, are great dogs. My friend Nate has one, my brother has a lab mix, my favorite dog was a black lab mix.
They love to play fetch for as long as you'll throw something, and if you ever get a chance to take 'em to the beach, you should. They absolutely have a blast.
She loves to play!
She is sitting in my lap right now.
:)
-conbo
Take her hiking sometime, if you get a chance. Kai (Nate's dog) even has her own little mini saddle-pack that she carries when they go. She gets to carry her own food, and a little first aid pack. : )
Bike riding is another thing Emily would probably dig.
Also, a belated hello to ono, A., and anyone else around.
//She gets to carry her own food, and a little first aid pack. : )//
so cute!
//Bike riding is another thing Emily would probably dig.//
Good ideas! We all could use the excercise and the outdoors. I just bought a bike, because me and the roomie's schedule sometimes conflict. Perfect! I am going to do that tomorrow.
-conbo
Sweet. Am looking forward to riding again when the weather is a bit better. Kai will be stoked. She's been way too cooped up all winter.
Gonna poke around at kos, then go to bed.
Many blessings, #.
night Cis.
:)
new post at Kos.
by Meteoir Blades
-conbo
connie, i still have time to write a letter to chubby here before you print it out?
Yes!
I am out of ink here at home so everyone has time to say hello to Chubbas before Sunday.
I will print out the other threads too.
-conbo
(i go back to work on Sunday.)
The ink flows there like a river. ;)
-conbo
chubby,
i sent a card a few days ago. there should be a little bit of cash in it. if not, i guess the guards pocketed it.
come back quick - for crank's sake.
jenise
thanks, conbo. appreciate it.
your son's four, i think. right? i sent my nephews 'my neighbor tottoro' (a miyazaki anime for kids) and i am now a hero. your son might like it, too.
thanks Jenise!
I will look it up.
:)
-conbo
What is Edwards thinking? How much time does Liz have?
You have to look out for other people in this life If I were in his shoes, I would abandon the campaign and spend time with the woman I love.
Maybe after the election he can spend some quality time at graveside. What's the matter with this guy?
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Oh, shit.
via CNN
"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Fifteen British Marines on patrol in the Persian Gulf have been "seized" by the Iranian navy, the British Ministry of Defense said.
The Marines were "engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters," the ministry said in a statement on Friday.
A U.S. military official who monitors the region told CNN the Marines stopped an Iranian ship suspected of smuggling automobiles, and boarded it for an inspection.
The British ministry's statement said the Marines "completed a successful inspection of a merchant ship when they and their two boats were surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters."
The statement added, "We are urgently pursuing this matter with the Iranian authorities at the highest level and on the instructions of the Foreign Secretary, the Iranian ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office. The British Government is demanding the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment."
well wfc, looks like they got their "situation". its hard to believe the iranians would be that stoopid.
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"The British ministry's statement said the Marines "completed a successful inspection of a merchant ship when they and their two boats were surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters."
Wanna bet they were already in Iranian waters? Detaining and boarding a foreign flagged ship in another country's waters is something of a no-no, I think. Given Iran's rather precarious position, I can't imagine them doing this without cause.
I smell a rat.
Gulf of Tonkin, v2.0 anyone?
sounds about right wfc. for those who came late:
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was an alleged pair of attacks by naval forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (commonly referred to as North Vietnam) against two American destroyers, the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy. The attacks occurred on 2 August and 4 August 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin. Later research, including a report released in 2005 by the National Security Agency, indicated that the second attack most likely did not occur, but also attempted to dispel the long-standing assumption that members of the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson had knowingly lied about the nature of the incident.[1]
The outcome of the incident was the passage by Congress of the Southeast Asia Resolution (better known as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution), which granted Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by "communist aggression". The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for escalating American involvement in the Vietnam Conflict.
MSM is really something else. Front page of our morning paper has article indicating that Arlen Specter has offered a compromise to the bushies. Could someone remind me when we chose specter to represent the democratic party?
Sam,
Don't bother trying to invent an air conditioner for the atmosphere because it has already been invented, patented, and is available for purchase and development.
See www.vortexengine.ca
AVE_man
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