We were told this was a crisis!
A couple of things to remember about these social security projections.
1. The social security trustees are appointed by Bush and the CBO numbers project trust solvency into the 2050's
2. Accepting the SSTrustees #'s, if we do nothing, 2041 is the year that social security will be able to only pay out 80% of current benefits well into the 22nd century.
3. Raising the cap on ss taxes from 90k (presently) to about 140k, eliminates the trust shortfalls totally.
4. Bob Dole, in 2000, said one of his greatest achievements when he was in the Senate was pushing the solvency of the trust until 2034.
In other words, there is/was no "crisis" with Social Security. So why did the Republicans and Bush pretend like there was?
5. Republican leaders don't want to return the money they raided from the Social Security trust fund to pay for tax cuts for the rich. And they hate the most succesful Government plan ever... insurance that you won't eat cat food when you retire.
And the new blog is coming. You are going to love it.
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p.s. sorry for the ultra-realism, cathy & blog
April 25, 2007 12:00 AM
Not a problem for me. You know my limit and you don't go past. That's why you are my fave rave.
whoa.
Goodnight everyone.
Me too, Good Night!
Cat Chew said...
[enjoying a trip in the Way-Back Machine]
Anyone for a little Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass?
Tijuana Taxi
Spanish Flea
Thanks,cool.He's the guy that helped Brazil 66 get going,way back when.My folks use to play Herbie too.Classical music,jazz,show tones etc..And I'm glad they did.I was lucky,and got a well rounded exposer of musical types. :)
nite Lillith
-conbo
G'night lilith, toniD. Sweet dreams, sweethearts.
Cat Chew:Sorry I posted your post.
??? np.
G'night, mmrules.
So long and thanks for all the tuna, blogkins.
It's about time we heard from you samablama!
holy sheep dip and I'm sorry/speechless b/c there is nothing to say thats appropriate! I feel the anger and that's why I don't own a gun! I'd .... you know? she is much braver than I and she gets death in her life as her reward for doing her duty! burn the little shrub!
An important request for C&Lers:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/24/open-thread-454/
evening gang,
sorta nice to find
myself in this nice blog eddie.
was delighted to find a bunch of my neighbors at the meeting with the developers.
was even more delighted to not be the most pissed off one there... )
and we managed a few improvements, maybe...
and we collectively busted the developers every time they lied to us about what they'd done.
i've been at these before and ended feeling like i was the lone dissenter.
not tonight and we met and got contact info on three couples we had'nt met before.
not a bad evening at all.
so unless anyone wants to chat a bit
i'm outa here in 15 or so.
Howdy sunshine..Just watching McCain on Jon.Too funny....And,practicing my hot-linking.Which is not working for some reason?I just can't get it.It can't be that hard??
eya mmrules
no sweat on the links
want me to teach ya how to do it?
Glad your meeting went well.Yess on linkies.
first let me test and see if the normal way works...
should be a link to my website below:
http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/
ho k!
lessee if everything posts, and give me an url to link, any ol site.
Make links like this:
[a href="URL here"]Descriptive text here[/a]
BUT change brackets to arrows
[ to <
] to >
Yep that works.I can put up half a link.It works,you get to the page,but it's not right.
"URL here"
the quotation marks stay!
get rid of the
URL here
and paste yer url in there
half? wassat mean?
not right? wassat mean?
"In language, clarity is everything"
Lin Tsu
(about 3000 yrs ago)
Yes I do that.But when I do the first part (a href= my computer shifts the (a up a line.And seems to screw up the first part of my link.I never took typing in school(long story)so maybe I have my shift on?or something?
try doing the link in a document of some sort
then cut and paste it
tell me if it jumps when you write it there
(a href
crooks and liars
hey Sunny!
Im glad you meeting went well!
Im out of here for the night
-conbo
love ya #
say hey to dinoboy fer me.
ask him if he wants to see some fossils next time we're on the outers together
outers = puters
/2007/04/24/open-thread-454/
Sunshine:you don't have to stay.But,Thanks for the help.I'll just keep practicing.I'll get it one of these days.But,it's getting late.So take care:)
so first
ya got a left pointing arrow
then a href=
then a pair of quote marks "" the url goes between
then a right pointing arrow
the url label
then a left poining arrow
the Label for the sight goes between those arrows (the part lit up in a normal link)
then a forward slash
than an a
and then a right pointing arrow
oh !
you put in one forward slash after http
try cutting and pasting the url instead of typing it in
/2007/04/24/open-thread-454/
remember
how hard it was to make a c, g, and d chord when you started to play guitar?
it's like that... )
I do paste it in.What's the url label?is that what is what is showing now on this page ?
yes
url label
is the text you want highlighted on the 'link'
Sunshine said...
remember
how hard it was to make a c, g, and d chord when you started to play guitar?
it's like that... )
Yes.My older sister is now trying to learn how to play guitar.Taking leasons.Something I never got the chance to do.Self taught.So she asks me guitar ?s and I try to answer her,like your trying to help me.Thank you.
heres how i prefer to do links when i'm archiving
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
tell ya
heres the payback,
be just as patient with
the next person that needs help.
basic nitty gritty "what goes around comes around"
Sunshine said...
heres how i prefer to do links when i'm archiving
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
Yes-I want to do it like yours.What am I missing?
http:/ stuff?
stuff? is that a computer term?
"In language, clarity is everything"
Lin Tsu
(about 3000 yrs ago)
Sunshine said...
tell ya
heres the payback,
be just as patient with
the next person that needs help.
basic nitty gritty "what goes around comes around"
No Problem there:)
ok
put the url beteen the quotes
and put the url ALSO in the label spot!
give it a try...
i'll wait )
The front part(stuff)On my link the URL is missing.But not on your post.
there is no such thing as a stupid question
just stupid answers
put the url beteen the quotes
and put the url ALSO in the label spot!
paste them in there...
/http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/24/open-thread-454/
dam!
youre getting good at this linkie 'stuff'
thanks for sticking with it.
Well hell!Nobody told me that last part before you!That's what has been driving me nuts.I've been able to do the half link(label spot)But not the URL spot.And nobody or i wasn't listing,pointed out the " " marks.Thank you soooo Much!! :) :)
hee!
that's why they give me the big bucks eh?
same thing work on all the other skills training.
that's the nitty gritty of diagnosis
stick with it and look at one thing at a time.
does'nt work go back and try the next thing
eventually you'll tweak the right thing and then 'purr city'
got it?
ONLY tweak one thing at a time
and make sure you can go back so you don't lose track.
good trick eh?
so come on,
give me a perfect link!
I had it.Now I lost it.I'll get it again.I've got to practice.Thank you so very much again.And For your Patience.Your the best! :)
i'm an old fisherman
if yer not patient, you don't eat...
copy out this and save it as
html trix
"so first
ya got a left pointing arrow
then a href=
then a pair of quote marks "" the url goes between
then a right pointing arrow
the url label
then a left poining arrow
the Label for the sight goes between those arrows (the part lit up in a normal link)
then a forward slash
than an a
and then a right pointing arrow. "
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/24/open-thread-454/
change sight for site
By George.I think I did it!!
if you want them to match
you need to put both in in exactly the same
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
then
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
give it a try
Sunshine said...
i'm an old fisherman
if yer not patient, you don't eat...
I hear ya.
u betcha!
and we's into BBQ salmon!
tell ya a funny
took me 25 years to learn to back and flat pick
taught my grandy dotter how to do it in an hour and a half...
ain't that a pisser?
the trick is to twist the pick slightly so it rubs over the strings insteag of 'catching' on them.
smooths it like glass...
Your Grand Daughter sounds like A Natural!She'll be kicking(guitar wise)our rear ends soon! :)
insteag = instead
fingers getting stiff eh
hee!
i tell er 'good genes'
she says 'what about this nose?'
Ya its getting late.That's why it's taking me a 1/2 hour to responed to you.I'm not a great typer to begin with!
i tell er it's her great grandmothers fault
take it up with her...
bloggie 3rd rule
"don't sweat the small stuff"
or speller for that matter.I must have been out smoking pot,or surfing,or playing my guitar that day,at school.Anyways,that's my excuse and I'm stickin to it!
well you got the basics eh?
i'm out, time to curl up with my pack.
love ya all!
G'nite!
Oh,and I forgot.This thread is Much Too Long.Aye Sammy??
Sunshine said...
i tell er it's her great grandmothers fault
take it up with her...
Ha!Too Funny!Thank you again for the help.Take care.Good Nite :)
hee!
nite!
Nite :)
~~~ Both sunshine and alice will have to tell us how all the democrats suck ass and everyone else is to their liking someday. ~~~
They're both non-political. I mean really, honest to goodness non-political.
I admire them both.
hi Stranger!
-conbo
They're both non-political. I mean really, honest to goodness non-political.
---
Shell is certainly
she has a heart of GOLD
so does ToniD
they are too good for the world
-conbo
SAM!
WE NEED A REAL BLOG.
NOW LOOK.
YOU THINK WE CAN'T HANDLE A REAL BLOG...OR PERHAPS YOU THINK YOU CAN'T HANDLE A REAL BLOG.
THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WITH COMPUTER SKILLS THAT WOULD HANDLE IT FOR YOU!!!
NOT ANYONE HERE, PROBABLY.
BUT I KNOW YOU KNOW PEOPLE.
HELLO!!!!!
YOU HAVE SO MANY FANS, NOT JUST THE PEOPLE WHO USE THIS AS 'CHAT ROOM'. TONS OF FANS WHO WOULD WILLINGLY
BE APART OF A MORE ORGANISED BLOG.
YOU CAN HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND STILL HAVE RULES.
I SWEAR TO GOD, IT IS POSSIBLE. IN FACT HAVING RULES WORKS BETTER THAN HAVING NO RULES.
I AM TYPING IN ALL CAPS TO GET YOUR ATTENTION.
PLEASE HIRE A BLOG ADMINISTRATOR...NO IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ONE OF US, GOD NO. AGAIN, I AM SURE YOU KNOW PEOPLE.
-CONBO
Go get-um Conbo!!
its stuff like this reuters story that ticks me off this early in the morning:
But some Democrats, who stress they intend to provide all the money for the troops that Bush has requested, and $4 billion more, signaled they were open to a post-veto bill that provides the funds without timetables for withdrawing troops.
where the hell is their spine? what are they thinking of? why are they acting like republicans?
have you heard the current republican noise? read your editorial page. i'll bet you find a letter to the editor from some neoclown saying harry reid should be tried for treason because he gave comfort to the enemy. these writers aren't smart enough to make this stuff up. its all neocon talking points.
Morning blah 3!
You are right. Neo talking points and it started with Tom DeLay who is, himself, under scrutiny for wrong doing.
DeLay says top Dems close to treason
I knew this...
Study: Intelligence not linked to wealth
Study finds those with lower IQs just as wealthy as those with higher IQs.
Liz Smith Covers Ann Coulter's Voter Fraud in Today's New York Post, 70 Other Mainstream Papers...
Fox 'News' Invites Us Onto 'Fox & Friends' to Talk About It...
"When it Rains, it Pours" Week continues here at The BRAD BLOG...
Widely syndicated columnist Liz Smith, in the New York Post today and elsewhere (her column runs in at least 70 papers), picks up on Joe Conason's NY Observer piece from last week which pointed to our coverage of the Ann Coulter Voter Fraud issue.
In the bargain, a Fox & Friends producer has called me today to see if I might be available to appear on their show to discuss it tomorrow or the following morning (which would be about 3am or 5am my time, so if I do it, watch for the sleepless bags under my eyes...anything for Election Integrity.) The producer explained that Coulter might appear after me via phone. I suggested she appear either before, or preferably at the same time, so she's not allowed to, um, say things that aren't true, as occurred last time she was asked about all of this on FNC.
As FNC tends to be, um, Ann Coulter friendly, we'll have to see if she has veto power enough to ensure I never actually get to appear to discuss it. But we'll see.
Anyway, here's Liz today:
COULD THE sexy but controversial conservative gadfly Ann Coulter go to jail? According to Observer columnist Joe Conason - Ann is guilty of voter fraud. He says when the far-right Coulter registered to vote in Palm Beach back in 2005, she wrote her address as her Realtor's office. She then signed the form despite its warning that falsifying any information on it makes one liable to felony prosecution.
Palm Beach County election officials say she also voted in the wrong precinct the following year, disregarding a poll worker who explained her error. (You can see this registration form online at bradblog.com.) Conason says those acts are crimes punishable by prison terms of up to five years and that Coulter is an attorney who knew what she was doing. Ann, with typical restraint, has called Palm Beach officials "syphilitic and mentally defective" but has stonewalled the ongoing investigation into the matter.
No charges have yet been filed.
Of course, you can read more about it, including perusing documents, such as her fraudulent voter registration form, and the report from the poll worker demonstrating she knowingly voted at the wrong precinct last year, via our "Ann Coulter Voter Fraud" Special Coverage page.
Good luck, Ann. Though it's taken over a year for the rest of the national media to catch on, you may finally be busted. At least in the media.
UPDATE: 3:19pm PT Heard back from Fox who reports they "just spoke to Ann and she is unavailable tomorrow AM", so they probably won't be covering it tomorrow. Have a feeling Ann will be unavailable every AM to talk about this one. Hope they'll cover the story anyway, as I'm happy to stay up all night to help them.
LINK
Frustrations with Wolfowitz ‘boil over at meeting.’ Paul Wolfowitz was “confronted by one of his top deputies” at a World Bank meeting last week:
Graeme Wheeler, the bank’s managing director, said at the meeting that the fight over whether Mr. Wolfowitz should stay on at the bank amounted to the “the biggest crisis in its history.”
He said it arose from a range of issues, including fears that Mr. Wolfowitz and his aides were trying to impose Bush administration ideas on family planning and climate change at the bank and worries over a possible conflict of interest in the bank’s hiring of a Washington law firm, Williams & Connolly, to investigate leaks. A partner at the firm had earlier negotiated Mr. Wolfowitz’s employment contract with the bank.
Mr. Wheeler also said Mr. Wolfowitz’s staying on would cause “fantastic damage” to the bank’s reputation and effectiveness.
LINK
morning toniD and everyone else.
toniD wrote:
no link between intelligence and wealth.
i couldn't agree with you more. the one thing they don't teach you in engineering school is how to get ahead.
From David Ignatius column at the WaPo....
Something's got to give. That's the sense around Washington this week as the news from Baghdad worsens and the president defiantly continues an Iraq policy that many military leaders question. Unfortunately, what's giving way right now is the national interest. Bush is hunkered down with his troop surge strategy, and the military is expected to pay the price. A grim example of that human cost was Monday's deaths of nine U.S. soldiers from car bombs that hit one of the vulnerable forward operating bases that are a key part of the surge strategy.
Retired Marine Gen. John Sheehan summed up the military's skepticism in explaining why he turned down White House feelers to become "war czar" for Iraq and Afghanistan: "The very fundamental issue is, they don't know where the hell they're going."
If you want to hear despair in Washington these days, talk to Republicans. The Democrats are exulting in their newfound political power and are eager to profit from Bush's difficulties. But Republicans voice the bitterness and frustration of people chained to the hull of a sinking ship.
I spoke with a half-dozen prominent GOP operatives this past week, most of them high-level officials in the Reagan and Bush I and Bush II administrations, and I heard the same devastating critique: This White House is isolated and ineffective; the country has stopped listening to President Bush, just as it once tuned out the hapless Jimmy Carter; the president's misplaced sense of personal loyalty is hurting his party and the nation.
"This is the most incompetent White House I've seen since I came to Washington," said one GOP senator. "The White House legislative liaison team is incompetent, pitiful, embarrassing. My colleagues can't even tell you who the White House Senate liaison is. There is rank incompetence throughout the government. It's the weakest Cabinet I've seen." And remember, this is a Republican talking.
thats a pretty damning statement coming from a conservative paper like the washington post.
i guess what it means for us is they'll ratchet up the talk of defeatocrats and treason.
CNN has the Special Council investigating Rove on now.
John Roberts is interviewing him. His name is Scott Bloch. He is also being investigated.
Tonid said:
"This is the most incompetent White House I've seen since I came to Washington," said one GOP senator. "The White House legislative liaison team is incompetent, pitiful, embarrassing. My colleagues can't even tell you who the White House Senate liaison is. There is rank incompetence throughout the government. It's the weakest Cabinet I've seen." And remember, this is a Republican talking.
And just think..six short years ago The Repubs were saying how experienced and Competent The New Bush admin.would be.Gee,what happened??
toniD said...
CNN has the Special Council investigating Rove on now.
John Roberts is interviewing him. His name is Scott Bloch. He is also being investigated.
What a Country!Jezz,Crazy!
Analysis: Veto
won't end Iraq dispute
In the political test of wills over Iraq, congressional Democrats opposed to the war have public opinion on their side and President Bush has enough Republican votes to make his vetoes stick. Long term, that's not a winning formula for the White House.
LINK
Morning mmrules!
Don't forget to watch Bill Moyers on PBS tonight.
He's going to tie together the admin and the media.
New 'super-Earth' found in space
Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface.
The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.
Scientists made the discovery using the Eso 3.6m Telescope in Chile.
They say the benign temperatures on the planet mean any water there could exist in liquid form, and this raises the chances it could also harbour life.
"We have estimated that the mean temperature of this 'super-Earth' lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius, and water would thus be liquid," explained Stephane Udry of the Geneva Observatory, lead author of the scientific paper reporting the result.
'Is there life anywhere else?' is a fundamental question we all ask
Alison Boyle
London Science Museum
"Moreover, its radius should be only 1.5 times the Earth's radius, and models predict that the planet should be either rocky - like our Earth - or covered with oceans."
Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble University, added: "Liquid water is critical to life as we know it."
He believes the planet may now become a very important target for future space missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life.
These missions will put telescopes in space that can discern the tell-tale light "signatures" that might be associated with biological processes.
The observatories would seek to identify trace atmospheric gases such as methane, and even markers for chlorophyll, the pigment in Earth plants that plays a critical role in photosynthesis.
LINK
tonid:Cool.Thanks.
toniD said...
New 'super-Earth' found in space
Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface.
The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.
Beam Me Up Scotty!!
The Daily Show - Jon Stewart smashes John McCain last night...
LINK
RULES ARE FOR CRY BABIES!
Here's Jon Stewart's Bush vs Bush
LINK
i couldn't agree with you more. the one thing they don't teach you in engineering school is how to get ahead.
Especially Aro-space engineers-my Dad,and thousands of other engineers,helped get us to the moon.How did they get repayed?Lay-offs!The whole family was in Aro-space in one way or another.And yes,They all got layed-off.What a waste of minds,and talent.......I'll get off my soapbox now:)
The last thing a planet that can sustain human life needs is human life.
mmrules said...
Especially Aro-space engineers...
you got that one right. just one more example of how a republican (nixon) screwed the country, but i digress.
i grew up in the sixties and remember those days as one of america never being better, even with the war in viet nam.
thinking of viet nam, remember the domino theory?
as i recall, the idea was that we couldn't leave viet nam because if we did, the commies would take over and the rest of south east asia would fall.
as a republican truth, it never came true. fast forward to today. now we have fight them over there or we'll have to fight them over here. sound familiar?
why is lee rayburn beating the tillman story to death? its not going to bring him back, those that care already know the bush administration piles lies on top of lies, and those that drink the kool aid can't be swayed.
O'Reilly still has his radio show. 400 stations coast to coast. A great radio success story. A rich and famous guy like that takes time to help Al Franken. Bill is a great guy!
Bill O'Reilly Taunts Al Franken
"It's a small world after all."
"Vote for Stewart Smalley. He'll do for Minnesota what he did for Air America".
Bill is hot now! Did Soros give up on Sam?
'Factor Investigation': George Soros
"Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super Rich Undermine America".
You would think with Rush's 600 stations and Bil's 400 stations, that Sam could have his 16 stations, but nooooooooo! How does the right wing make so much money at radio ?
I guess it doesn't matter. Sam lost his show, Sam's blog is a joke, Air America is losing all it's stations. It's right back to square one.
Limbaugh Plays "Barack The Magic Negro" on His Show
This is a head-shaker. Imus gets canned for calling some college women basketball players "nappy-headed hos" and yet Rush Limbaugh plays "Barack The Magic Negro" on his show and he is still on the air?
How is that even possible?
To hear the song yourself, watch video right ...
It is a parody by Paul Shanklin impersonating Al Sharpton and based on the Peter, Paul, and Mary hit song "Puff, the Magic Dragon". I am really at a loss for words. I heard it for the first time yesterday on the radio and was sickened.
Again, how is this man on the air?
http://www.alternet.org/story/50998/
blah blah blah said...
mmrules said...
Especially Aro-space engineers...
you got that one right. just one more example of how a republican (nixon) screwed the country, but i digress.
i grew up in the sixties and remember those days as one of america never being better, even with the war in viet nam.
I'm just glad I was bit too young for the draft.Because,I would have had to go.My Dad was also a Ret.WWII Air Force Lt.Col.He would have probably shot me if I would have draft dodged!But,I remember those times as Dark times.The War on TV every nite.The protests,the 68 Demo Convention.The mounting war death toll..And,the poor solders getting harassed back at home.It wasn't their fault.They were just following orders.Hell,most of them didn't want to be there..I'm a Air Force&Navy Brat,so I'm Pro Troops.But,Anti-politician(Bush).Nothing makes me sicker,or madder than a bunch of chickenhawks getting us into this war,for no reason.And then lying,over and over, to cover their own butts.They All ought to be thrown in Jail!! I'll get off my soapbox Again:) I forgot to say,about the only thing good about the 60's,was the Music for me.
Rush Limbaugh Leukemia & Lymphoma
Society Cure-A-Thon Raises Over $3 Million
RUSH: We closed the program at three o'clock on Friday afternoon, and by 3:30, two women, who I know, and I do not mention any names here because all donors' identities are kept confidential, but two women who are sisters of the Great Northeast matched my $300,000, so that put us at $920,000. There's a man that I met out in San José, California. We did our sort of Rush to Excellence Tour, KSFO, in San José a couple, three years ago. His name is David Sant. He doesn't mind being identified. He is a lymphoma survivor. He lives in northern California. Three years ago he made an independent -- I don't think it had anything to do with our Cure-A-Thon -- huge donation three years ago to leukemia and lymphoma. Since that time he's become committed to the work of the society, and so we went out there and he was in the crowd of people I met before the performance out in San José, and late in the day on Friday he sent in another huge donation, the amount of which we're going to keep confidential. But it was substantial, and so this put us just under $3 million and the amount of money from -- well, you gotta count all this in the audience.
I don't know if you can run a radio station selling coffee mugs. I think you still need to sell advertising.
Morning!
The bee’s have been out for a week
Activity has slowed from the earlier pace.
I took a look inside our bee hatch box this AM,
most of them did’nt hatch at first look inside! Huh!
Three of them were there inside the hatch box this morning
one male with a gimp front leg and two females. one had a thin
wing as she came out maybe needs to dry out and unfold? hopefully!
I took out the layers of paper towels we had inside to examine
them and then gently put the hatch box back under the
bee condo again. Usually they hatch in three days
once they warm up. Depending on what happens
after a few more days, we’ll either have more
bees from this batch, or get some more
from the nursery. This leads me towards
thinking we may have made mistakes in storing
them, temp and moisture wise in our frost free fridge
possibly or when we gave them the wash to get rid of mites.
(or they might be perfectly fine! too early to tell for sure one way or the other)
Sunshine:cool beans,or is it cool Bee's. :) The troll just left.I used your line of last nite on him.It might have worked again.Yeah!!
How did that happen?O'well,two,two two posts in one.......
our bloggie troll?
is getting lazier for sure.
use to be he'd keep it up all day!
now he pukes out a few "you're all gonna die" and fades.
no staying power! when i was a kid trolls were full of energy and wit!
Ha!You crack me up sushine! :)
hee!
laughter is golden.
had an apocolypse dream
last night. dam entertaining!
everything looked like a junkyard
or a torn up excavation site when it started.
as i wandered around in it i encountered other people.
they were busy going on with life as much as possible.
one of the images that stayed with me were gates.
ramshackle, pieced together with scrap.
and all of them partially open.
Iraq is failing on human rights. In the two months since the Baghdad security plan was launched, approximately 3,000 people have been arrested in security sweeps. According to a new U.N. report, Iraqi authorities “failed to guarantee the basic rights” to these people, and “four million Iraqis were at risk because of lack of food.”
LINK
the construction site fired up the machinery at 6:30 they're doing road work in the lane.
guess our complaints about the noise fell on deaf ears last night.
city says 7 AM for start up. this is a full year of pre-7 to dark o' clock banging and clanging.
Interesting dream.Wonder what it means?
mornin T!
Sammy - How about a bone! Week two no talkie. Can you get a guest spot on - ROF? How about a guest spot on NovaM?
I keep playing podcast over and over and over again. I could spit out your last show vebatim. HELP! HELP!
PS how about a Radio Blog gig?
Sunshine said...
the construction site fired up the machinery at 6:30 they're doing road work in the lane.
guess our complaints about the noise fell on deaf ears last night.
city says 7 AM for start up. this is a full year of pre-7 to dark o' clock banging and clanging.
A Full Year!!??That's inhumane!That's crazy.Poor dude.Man that sucks.
Morning Jim!
mmrules, sorry I left you b4. Felt sleepy again so went back to bed for awhile. Catching up I guess.
Just heard on CNN that Rosie O'Donnell is leaving the view in the midst of their highest ratings ever. She leaves in June.
QOTD
Jon Stewart:
"As first-term president Bush, you invaded to remove the threat of Saddam Hussein. And you, current president Bush, are there to battle the threat created by the lack of Saddam Hussein".
I might have gone Postal on them by now! But,maybe not.
No laws were broken during
the destruction of this
Constitution.
np tonid :) I get crazy insomnia,so i've been up all nite..Poor sunshine has had constuction workers starting up at 6:30am right next to his place,For A Year!That's crazy.
"Wonder what it means?"
shit happens then you recover from it?
i needed to travel in the dream, and an ol timer in a junkyard loaned me a panel truck.
i started out and then woke up to the noise from the repaving project next door.
Good morning everyone...
A couple of tidbits of info.
If you all have access to HD, Dan Rather Reports looked at Iraq War refugees in his show this week and it was a pretty powerful episode.
Stephanie Miller's radio show will be simulcast in Imus' old spot on a few days next week. MSNBC has been trying a ferw things so far. The dope Smerconish had been on this week and I thought they had pretty much just replaced Imus with an Imus wannabe, but maybe they're testing the market. If so, I think this will be the first time a liberal talk show host will be simulcast on network television.
Franken did it but it was on Sundance Channel. Interesting.
Several retired generals endorsed Congress’ Iraq withdrawal legislation yesterday. Maj. Gen. John Batiste called it “important legislation [that] sets a new direction in Iraq,” while Lt. Gen. William Odom said it will “re-orient US strategy to achieve regional stability, and win help from many other countries - the only way peace will eventually be achieved.”
What's this about the Dems not litening to the Generals?
tonid said...
From David Ignatius column at the WaPo....
This White House is isolated and ineffective; the country has stopped listening to President Bush, just as it once tuned out the hapless Jimmy Carter; the president's misplaced sense of personal loyalty is hurting his party and the nation.
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The difference however between the Bush and Carter regimes is the media. The so-called liberal media was savage toward the Carter Administration. They didn't give Carter an inch of slack.
Bush has destroyed every institution in America, and the same so-called liberal media has been the head cheerleader and main sycophant in every crime.
Edna...Bill Moyers, tonight, PBS!
He's discussing the media's involvement with Bush admin and the Iraq war.
Attorney General Gonzales to Return to Capitol Hill For Meeting With Democratic Senator
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
By Trish Turner, Fox News
WASHINGTON — Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, this time to meet with Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, who recently called for the attorney general's resignation, accusing Gonzales of lying to the senator and his constituency in Arkansas.
Pryor was referring to a meeting he had in mid-December 2006 in which the attorney general asked him to consider Tim Griffin, a former aide to White House political strategist Karl Rove, for the job of U.S. attorney for Arkansas.
Gonzales' former Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson told committee investigators that Gonzales assured Pryor he wanted Griffin to go through Senate confirmation if Pryor approved of him. But four days after that conversation, Sampson pushed forward a plan from the Justice Department to circumvent the Senate confirmation process through the use of a provision slipped into the renewed U.S.A. Patriot Act that allowed interim U.S. attorneys to serve indefinitely without Senate approval. That provision has since been removed by lawmakers made aware of its unintended consequences.
"The attorney general not only lied to me as a person, but, when he lied to me, he lied to the Senate and he lied to the people I represent," Pryor said last month after hearing Sampson's statements.
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Thanks ToniD,
I'll be watching.
That provision has since been removed by lawmakers made aware of its unintended consequences.
unintended consequnces?How about Intended Consequences!!
I'm watching the View. They are ranting about Bush, Tillman and Rosie said the "I" word. Walters said we have the deomocratic way of voting them out. Rosie said "By that time it might be too late".
The URTUOA has but the blog on the endangered list.
Barbara Walters had a little rant about Bush and barracades. She couldn't cross the street to where she lives because the street was barracaded for the Bush motorcade.
She said "he's the president, not the king"!
ha!
found two more bees in the house!
must have got out while i was making coffee.
both gently escorted to the bee condo.
the female imediately set up
house in an empty tube!
The View is good today!
They are talking impeachment.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Has this chat room always been infested with such simpletons, or is this just happened after Sam got the boot?
What a funny place. How old are you guys?
I'd Just Like To Say Hello To My Uncle!
Hey Sunny J. WHat do you know about the dying bees. Do you think it is cell phone towers?
bees and impeachment, just grand. they say there is no fool like an old fool. you cant be a work, you must be in a home.
President Bush said that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice might have one-on-one talks with Iranian leaders at an international conference on Iraq next month. “What I’m not willing to do is sit down bilaterally with the Iranians,” he said in an interview. Later, he said Rice and Iran’s foreign minister might have bilateral conversations. “They could. They could,” Bush said.
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tell us about your tomato crop grandpa. is grandma going to bake cookies today? gosh i can't think of why liberal radio died.
is this the residue that is left after a radio show implodes?
ToniD,
don't you find it suspect that Cspan is not airing the most serious hearings on their main channels. Kyle Samson, Alberto Gonzales, and the Tillman Hearings were aired on Cspan 3. Of course most people do not have Cspan 3.
Now on Cspan 3 they are discussing the missing emails. I thought Condofreezer was schedule to testify. Both are important.
If you ask me, Brian Lamb should go.
C-span:Your right,tonid.I didn't notice that until you brought it up.
eya 60th st!
heres a good article on that theory.
http://tinyurl.com/28yops
give it a read.
lots of other electromagnetic possibilities.
jury is still out. theres quite a few other possibilities as well.
main prob seems to be with the commercial bee keepers.
one possibility is breeding programs that target larger bee size to get longer tongues for 'better'
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, April 25, 2007; 8:18 AM
"I do not stand alone," Dennis Kucinich said as he stood, alone, in front of a cluster of microphones yesterday evening.
The Ohio congressman, a Democratic presidential candidate, was holding a news conference outside the Capitol to announce that he had just filed articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney. But subsequent questioning quickly revealed that Kucinich had not yet persuaded any of his 434 colleagues to be a cosponsor, that he had not even discussed the matter with House Democratic leaders, and that he had not raised the subject with the Judiciary Committee.
Kucinich did have one thing: a copy of the Declaration of Independence. And he was not afraid to read it. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," the aspiring impeachment manager read at the start of his news conference. He continued all the way through the bit about the right of the people to abolish the government.
"These words from the Declaration of Independence are instructive at this moment," he said.
A reporter from the Cleveland Plain Dealer encouraged USS Kucinich to contact planet Earth. "But Nancy Pelosi says this is not going anywhere," she pointed out.
"Have you talked to her today?" Kucinich shot back.
"Yes, I did," she replied.
Kucinich had not expected that answer. "Then I would say I have not talked to her," he acknowledged.
It was not an auspicious beginning for the impeachment of Richard B. Cheney.
Kucinich had called his news conference for noon on the terrace of the Cannon building. But minutes before the event, his office sent out a statement: "News reports this morning indicate the Vice President was experiencing a medical crisis. Until the vice president's condition is clarified, I am placing any action on hold."
This was odd, because the vice president's spokeswoman had already announced that Cheney had merely gone to a doctor's office to check on a blood clot in his leg, which is improving. Cheney himself, far from suffering a medical crisis, joined Senate Republicans for lunch at the Capitol. "The leg's doing good," Cheney announced after lunch, his lips in his trademark snarl. Indeed, he was feeling so well that he chose to start a new fight with congressional Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was not only "uninformed and misleading," but also practicing "defeatism," Cheney said. Democrats are guilty of "political calculation" and "blind opposition."
Reid visited the same microphones minutes later to return the playground taunts: "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating." And: "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with the administration's chief attack dog."
Kucinich evidently realized there was no reason for him to get cold feet just because of Cheney's leg. A few minutes after the Cheney-Reid showdown, the congressman arrived in the Speaker's Lobby off the House floor, handing out news releases to any reporter he could find: "Kucinich to Move Forward with Impeachment News Conference."
Washingtonpost.com's Paul Kane showed the news release to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who declined to endorse the Kucinich crusade. "He was busily engaged in handing that out," Hoyer observed. "Beyond that, I don't have any thought about it."
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic caucus, was equally dismissive -- "Dennis can do what he wants; I'm not going to support it" -- but used the occasion to try out some Cheney material: "This is the biggest setback for the vice president since oil went under 65 bucks a barrel."
Kucinich, however, did not find humor in the matter. Standing perhaps 5 feet 6 inches tall in shoes, he wore a solemn face as he approached the microphones, which nearly reached his eye level. He beckoned to aides, who handed out thick binders detailing the case.
Kucinich read at length from his articles of impeachment, undeterred by rush-hour traffic noise on Independence Avenue ("I'll wait till the truck goes by here," he said at one point) and wind that ruffled his text and the few strands of his hair that were insufficiently weighted by Brylcreem.
Tom Ferraro of Reuters asked Kucinich if any other lawmakers supported impeachment.
"Because this resolution is so weighty in its import, it's going to be important for members of Congress to have sufficient time to study the articles," Kucinich answered.
We'll take that as a no. "So at this point you stand alone?" Ferraro pressed.
"I believe I stand with millions of Americans," Kucinich parried.
Someone else asked why Kucinich targeted Cheney but not Cheney's boss. "There's a practical reason," the congressman explained. "If we were to start with the president and pursue articles of impeachment, Mr. Cheney would then become president. . . . You would then have to go through the constitutional agony of impeaching two presidents consecutively."
It was a valid point. If Kucinich is having this much trouble impeaching one vice president, imagine the difficulty impeaching two presidents.
Breaking: Monica Goodling given immubity
Old is better than dead said...
tell us about your tomato crop grandpa. is grandma going to bake cookies today? gosh i can't think of why liberal radio died.
April 25, 2007 11:28 AM
crusty said...
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Old is better than dumb ass puppet.
ap-UN: Iraqi gov't held casualty figures By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
18 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government withheld recent casualty figures from the United Nations, fearing they would be used to present a grim picture of Iraq that would undermine the coalition's security efforts, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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Working with its own figures, the U.N. released a new human rights report Wednesday saying that sectarian violence continued to claim the lives of a large number of Iraqi civilians in Sunni Arab and Shiite neighborhoods of Iraq's capital, despite the coalition's new Baghdad security plan. Begun Feb. 14, it has increased U.S. and Iraqi troops levels in the capital.
The Iraqi government quickly responded by calling the U.N. report "inaccurate" and "unbalanced."
The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq report said civilian casualties in the daily violence between Jan. 1 and March 31 remained high, concentrated in and around Baghdad.
The agency also expressed concern about the treatment of detainees under the U.S.-Iraqi operation to pacify the capital, saying that families and other people often were randomly taken into custody, with more than 3,000 people in detention by the end of March.
For the first time, UNAMI said, its assessment of the human rights situation in Iraq did not contain overall death figures from the Iraqi government because it refused to release them, omitting what many had viewed as a rare, reliable indicator of suffering in Iraq.
The Iraqi government announced in a statement its deep reservations about the report that is "inaccurate in presenting information" and that "lacks credibility in many of its points. Also, it lacks balance in presenting the situation of the human rights situation in Iraq."
"The publication of this unbalanced report ... puts the credibility of the U.N. office in Iraq on stake and it aggravates the humanitarian crisis in Iraq instead of solving it," the statement said.
U.N. human rights officer Ivana Vuco said the government did not officially given a reason for refusing to release the numbers but it apparently "was becoming increasingly concerned about the figures being used to portray the situation as very grim."
"Inofficially, however, in a number of follow up meetings to their decision we were told that there were concerns that the people would construe the figures to portray the situation negatively and that would further undermine their efforts to establish some kind of security and stability in the country," she said at a news conference at the mission's heavily fortified compound in Baghdad.
"We found the decision to be rather unfortunate because the figures were helping us ... to understand the scope of the problem," she said. "In our view it is the government's responsibility and they are probably the only one with the real capacity to gather the figures in a systematic manner."
Mission spokesman Said Arikat said the reason appeared to be that after the publication of its last human rights report on Jan. 16, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office told UNAMI its mortality figures were exaggerated, "but our figures were taken credibly they are probably among the most carefully screened figures."
He urged the government to reconsider its decision, saying the figures it could provide could "actually show what is going on in Iraq. Otherwise there will be a great deal of speculation."
Numbers for Iraqi civilians killed since the U.S.-led invasion began in March 2003 vary widely and are believed to be vastly underreported, in part because of political pressure.
The last U.N. report was issued in January found that 34,452 civilians were killed last year, including 6,376 in November and December, based on information from the Iraqi Health Ministry, hospitals across the country and the Medico-Legal Institute in Baghdad. Iraqi officials have complained that the numbers were too high.
The current report cited many examples of deadly attacks by insurgents and militias across Iraq during Jan. 1-March 31, but it often relied on media accounts of such killings and does not provide overall numbers for the period.
On Feb. 14, U.S. troops began stepping up their presence in outposts and police stations in Baghdad and areas surrounding the city, as part of the security crackdown to which President Bush has committed an extra 30,000 troops. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers also are being deployed in the streets of the capital in an attempt to pacify it.
"While government officials claimed an initial drop in the number of killings in the latter half of February following the launch of the Baghdad security plan, the number of reported casualties rose again in March," the UNAMI study said.
Despite the government's announced decrease, the number of victims remained high, with up to 25 bodies still being found on some days during this period in Baghdad, the report said.
On March 1, it said, Iraq's Ministry of Interior announced that 1,646 civilians were killed in Iraq in February, most of them in Baghdad, but that "it is unclear on what basis these figures were compiled."
Despite the lack of government figures, UNAMI said the report still shows continued high levels of violence throughout the period, including large scale indiscriminate killings and assassinations by insurgents, militias and other armed groups.
"In February and March, sectarian violence claimed the lives of large numbers of civilians, including women and children, in both Shia and Sunni neighborhoods of Baghdad," the report said.
It also was the first time the U.N. has issued a quarterly report, previously offering bimonthly assessments, in a bid to enable it to focus more on specific themes like child abuse and detention centers.
The latest report raised fears that arrested Iraqis were facing prolonged detentions while often facing insufficient evidence.
"The continuing failure to take decisive action in this regard can only serve to encourage the climate of impunity that prevails today, undermining the government's own efforts to restore law and order and ensure respect for the rule of law," the report said
Here's what's funny. This troll that says we're old, irrelevant, crazy unemployed loons....can't leave!
ROFLMAO This poor guy has been here for years....is ALWAYS here and continues to say the same things about us....yet he can't leave.
He's totally obsessed with us and this blog. I think it is hilarious.
Feeney aide resigns. Word broke this week that the FBI is questioning Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) over his ties to criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In related news: “Jason Roe, Tom Feeney’s former chief of staff who had left to serve as deputy campaign manager for Mitt Romney, abruptly resigned from Romney’s campaign yesterday,” citing “familial obligations.” The FBI has said it is focusing on a Feb. 2006 email that Roe wrote to a journalist saying, “Any assertion that this office knew Abramoff paid for the Scotland trip is a g–d—– lie.”
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O'Reilly and his "Soros chart" is really funny. You can't make this stuff up.
Here's an old article from "in these times" about the media. It's two years old, but makes some good points, and has some charts, too. Gets you thinking.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2069/
So what are the next steps?
* Progressive media makers should reach out to and educate foundations and individual donors about the strategic importance of providing significant funding to independent media outlets in order to build a sustainable progressive infrastructure that can effectively shape public dialogue.
* Progressive strategists should develop narrative frames and talking points that can successfully carry their values into the mainstream media. This will require an unprecedented level of cooperation among the disparate collection of independently run and funded organizations that currently make up the progressive movement.
* Progressive organizers should continue discussing ways to strengthen their media network without mimicking the top-down, undemocratic methods of the right’s media machine. Supporting current infrastructure groups—and building new ones—is key to improving coordination between the different progressive media sectors. This will require financial resources and research.
* Progressives of all stripes should look for inspiration from innovative models of participatory information-sharing, such as the collective idea development pioneered in open-source networks, or the community-driven organizing of MoveOn’s house parties and Democracy For America’s meet-ups. New technological opportunities offered by advances like community Wi Fi also open up fresh media horizons.
These recommendations are only a start. Like the progressive media network itself, this analysis will continue to evolve...
Our time has come. Kucinich has filed an impeachment resolution against Cheney in the House Judiciary Committee. http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?p=1406
And it just so happens that Impeach for Peace has recently met with Rep. Keith Ellison of the Judiciary Committee.
http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?p=1361
Rep. Ellison was kind enough to give us some advice as to how to pressure that committee to act on impeachment. He reccomended which members of the Judiciary could use some encouragement. So, we've adjusted our Do-It-Yourself Impeachment (which has apparently been wildly successful in helping Kucinich), and have refocused it to impeach Cheney, as well as directing it to the members of the Judiciary recommended by Ellison.
So, it's our turn again to help this process along. Let's innundate these members of the Judiciary with a document that actually initiates impeachment via the House of Representative's own rules. This legal document is as binding as if a State or if the House itself passed the
impeachment resolution. This document is based on one which was
successful in impeaching a federal official in the past. You can find it on IfP's website as a PDF.
Kucinich says he needs us to keep building the groundswell of support for impeachment all over the country. He said he felt that our framing the issue of impeachment in terms of the Constitution is a principled choice, and ultimately more effective than just acting on anger. Here's video of Kucinich addressing the impeachment issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAIJyKhJhiM
Do-It-Yourself by downloading the memorial, filling in the relevant information (your name, state, etc.), and sending it in. The document also has you sending them to Impeach for Peace. That way, we can collect them all in one place, and deliver them all simultaneously (with cameras
rolling) in July. Be a part of history. http://ImpeachForPeace.org/ImpeachNow.html
Additionally, you can contact these members of the Judiciary here: http://judiciary.house.gov/contact.aspx
Hon. Jerrold Nadler
202-225-5635
Hon. Howard L. Berman
(202) 225-4695
Hon. Zoe Lofgren
(202) 225-3072
Hon. Linda T. Sánchez
(202) 225-6676
Had another bee hatch!
I have the 2nd string bee cocoons in the comp room in a ventilated container.
watched this one work out of the cocoon and then rest a bit.
as soon as it started flying i released it at the bee condo.
this one was a male.
by John Nichols
When Nancy Pelosi announced last fall that impeachment was "off the table," official Washington accepted that the primary avenue for holding lawless Presidents to account had been closed off by the new Speaker of the House. But the Republic's citizenry has not been so inclined. And now, with the Administration's troubles mounting, they're preparing to tell Pelosi that America and the world cannot wait until January 20, 2009, to put an end to Bush's reign of error. When Pelosi arrives at the California Democratic Convention in San Diego on April 28--the same day that activists nationwide will rally for presidential accountability--she'll find on the agenda a resolution that declares that the actions of President Bush and Vice President Cheney "warrant impeachment and trial, and removal from office." Delegates are expected to endorse the measure.
House Committee Authorizes Subpoena for Goodling
By Paul Kiel - April 25, 2007, 11:22 AM
The House Judiciary Committee, by a vote of 32-6, just authorized a subpoena for Monica Goodling's testimony and an offer of immunity.
As former U.S. Attorney for New Mexico David Iglesias pointed out yesterday, Goodling should prove to be a very valuable witness to investigators. Since Goodling acted as the liaison to the White House at the Justice Department, communications from Karl Rove or other White House officials are likely to have gone through her. As Iglesias put it, she has "the keys to the kingdom."
Update: The Republican dissenters, we understand, were Reps. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Chris Cannon (R-UT), Randy Forbes (R-VA), Steve King (R-IA), Trent Franks (R-AZ), and Louie Gohmert (R-TX). Rep. Cannon claimed that the investigation was harming the Justice Department's ability to conduct business, and Rep. Forbes called the committee's investigation the "hearings to nowhere," saying that the investigation was interfering with the committee's legislative work. Rep. Sensenbrenner wondered whether it was wise to grant Goodling immunity, because doing so would let her off the hook.
Update: It is likely to be weeks before the committee actually gets to interview Goodling. That's because the law requires that the Justice Department be allowed an opportunity to provide its views on immunity -- i.e. whether it might interfere with an existing or possible investigation. If the DoJ objects to giving Goodling immunity, then the committee would be forced to consider whether to defer or delay conferring immunity. And regardless of what the DoJ says, the local federal court has to approve giving Goodling immunity. All this is likely to take several weeks.
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The Daily Muck
By Will Thomas - April 25, 2007, 9:32 AM
Critics Doubt Official Looking Into Rove
"Even as Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch moved forward with plans for a sweeping probe of the Bush administration, several advocacy groups complained that his ties to the administration and to conservative groups, as well as his record on gay rights and whistle-blowers, made him the wrong man for the job. 'There is a serious question as to whether Bloch will just provide cover for an administration that is covering for him,' said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a Democratic-leaning group." (LA Times)
Continue reading...
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By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, April 25, 2007; 8:18 AM
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As long as there are so-called Democrats like Stinky Hoyer and Rahm (son of a terrorist and former ballet dancer) Emanuel, we are F***ed.
Dana Milbank's further insults Kucinich by talking about his brylcreamed hair and small stature. If you've seen Milbank, his hair is greasy enough to fry a whole chicken. Besides, Rumsfeld is a very short man and Emanuel is a about 5 foot 2. Snap!!!
O'Reilly: "Media Matters is an Internet site, but directly feeds its propaganda to some mainstream media people, including elements at NBC News, columnist Frank Rich and Paul Krugman at The New York Times, columnist Jonathan Alter at Newsweek, and Bill Moyers at PBS."
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Why not just call them all commie traitors and get it over with, Bill.
is it wrong to laugh when others fail?
holy bazoo!
another one hatched while i was typing!!!
a few more and i’ll have a Busby Berkely Chorus Line! (7 today!)
another one poked it’s nose out of the cocoon!
this’ll be # 8! what a hoot!
"Anti-American" is code for recognition and strong criticism of the history of bungles, follies, and atrocities known as U.S. foreign policy. - Max Sawicky
it's laying on it's back
rolling the empty cocoon around
like a kitten playing with a ball of yarn!
Anonymous said...
Both sunshine and alice will have to tell us how all the democrats suck ass and everyone else is to their liking someday.
April 25, 2007 3:50 AM
Yep...
I've been "aware" of government since Ford...what I see is rhetoric..unending perpetual rhetoric....with no regard for the population they supposedly serve...
If I'm forced to live under a government...I DEMAND BETTER than what I've witnessed!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you mr. mayor....
Giuliani Says Dems Put U.S. At Risk
Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.
But if a Republican is elected, he said, especially if it is him, terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped.
well i guess this decides the election. why bother doing anymore :)
How the media helped send us to war. Bill Moyers’ new documentary, Buying the War, airs tonight on PBS at 9pm. The Washington Post’s Tom Shales calls it “one of the most gripping and important pieces of broadcast journalism so far this year, but it’s as disheartening as it is compelling.”
Moyers and producer Kathleen Hughes use alarming evidence and an array of respected journalists to make the case that, in the rage that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the media abandoned their role as watchdog and became a lapdog instead.
Exhibit A — the first event recalled in this report — is a news conference by President Bush on March 6, 2003, which Moyers says is two weeks before Bush “will order America to war.” The press conference was a sham, with Bush calling only on “friendly” reporters who’d ask friendly questions. The corker was this scorching investigative query: “Mr. President, how is your faith guiding you?”
Watch a preview:
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Thanks, Fish n #....♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
toniD, we're reading these things every day and we lived thru them. i still don't understand why 59 million people voted for these f*tards.
This is a look into the demented mind of Bush...
Bush: If You Judge My Iraq Strategy By The Number Of Violent Attacks, The Terrorists Win »
In an interview last night on PBS, President Bush complained that people who measure progress in Iraq by how many car bombs and suicide attacks occur are giving a “huge victory” to the enemy by making it more difficult for him to promote the war to the American public.
“If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings,” Bush said, “we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory.” He repeated later that people who “judge the administration’s [escalation] plan” based on such acts of violence “have just given Al Qaida or any other extremist a significant victories [sic].”
Bush said that these images of brutal violence on television are “one of the problems I face in trying to convince the American people” that the war is worthwhile. Watch it:
Another reason President Bush doesn’t want to talk about suicide bombings: they’ve increased 30 percent over the past six weeks despite the escalation, according to U.S. military data.
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blah 3, I don't understand that either. It's taken some people til last year's election to understand what was really happening. Others....they are beyond help. They won't understand or don't want to understand.
There's a New Hampshire repub, Sen Judd Gregg talking on the floor of the Senate right now, trying to justify Bush's surge. Even the Gen. Grange that does war coverage on CNN said that he thought we could win in Iraq. Said it wasn't going well now but if we had the troops and the equipment, we could win.
I say, were are the troops coming from and the equipment, and the money? The Gen doesn't realize how much this war has cost already. Not just monetarily but in lives, both American and Iraqi, equipment, it will take time to manufacture, and the American people are just sick of the way this war has been handled. Plus we need to use some money to help our own nation.
It's too late General! You should have said something to the admin when they screwed up everything about this war.
We are running out of resources for this war.
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with
blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things
historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build
homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even
whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on
the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for
the river." - Will Durant
"jackie says:
April 22nd, 2007 at 1:40 pm
OT, again……:)
Noble Resolve 07: Four days of “simulated” nuclear terrorist scenarios in the US & Europe
By DL Abrahamson
Global Research, April 20, 2007
False Flag News
From April, 23 to April 27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a “foreign nation.”
This week Dick Cheney has also been warning of the “very real” threat of a nuclear attack on an American city. Could the Nobel Resolve drills be used as a screen for a false-flag attack to be blamed on Iran, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, or sheep-dipped Americans like Adam Gadahn?
The drills are being run by Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern Command (NORTHCOM), J9 Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, FEMA’s command bunker, the Department of Homeland Security, and Virginia police.
The US Marines are also running “Emerald Express 07” in Virginia on April 24 as part of their Urban Warrior 07 drill package.
It is important to note the “Nobel Resolve” drills are dominated by NORTHCOM, the branch of “homeland defense” based in Colorado and responsible for shutting down the United States under martial law, as well as ushering in the merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico via the SPP.
Meanwhile the J9 Directorate, formulates various terror scenarios and uses advanced computer modeling to run drills and predict human reactions; Recent articles highlight how they are using virtual environments to create and manage realistic war scenarios with millions of “people.”
Some key quotes from the article:
“He said the scenario of the experiment’s first phase starts with multinational partners and goes down to individual municipalities. It begins with a threat that originates in Europe and travels toward the United States.”
“Kersh said that as the scenario progresses, other agencies and other layers of government become involved.”
“The problem eventually arrives at the commonwealth of Virginia with that threat making it into port and then blowing up. This will cause us to work the consequence management part of the problem”
“The fusion center is in a state police headquarters and it’s collocated with Virginia’s emergency operations center.”
(ed: Mount Weather)
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“coordinated with DHS, possibly to coincide with one of that department’s major exercises.”
We must remember that CIA agent Philip Giraldi warned the American Conservative magazine that STRATCOM would launch a nuclear attack on Iran in the wake of a new WMD-style attack on American soil.
And the Russian media and former Russian military members continue to warn that an American and Israeli strike on Iran is imminent.
While many drills are run every month, Nobel Resolve 07, with it’s “realistic” scenarios, comes at a time of increased geopolitical tension. It is reminiscent of the drills in 2005, where a ten-kiloton nuclear weapon was “simulated” to explode in South Carolina. Some speculated that four-star Gen. Kevin Byrnes, of the Fort Meade TRADOC command, was fired due to his exposure of the drill.
We should not live in a constant state of panic and fear, or make any irresponsible predictions about Noble Resolve 07. But in the coming days, we can email this information to blogs, media outlets, friends and family. Congressmen, and others to help inoculate against any possibility that rogue “red teams” inside the drills may be activated. "
keiran said...
wait. one question: was the lesbian porn like hot lipstick lesbian porn? Or was it hairy armpit, andrea dworkin, mutton, overalls porn? Because if I was in 7nth grade and came across the former, even tho I'm not a lesbian, I would have been very pleased. However, if I was in the 7th grade and came across hairy, angry, andrea dworkin, dykes on bikes porn, not so much. Traumatized more likely.
April 24, 2007 8:15 PM
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Yes, I am angry and outraged! Have you read anything that I wrote? Do you know why I think your statement about me is so outrageous and ironic?
If not, please learn about me before you insult me. Be smart and think!
I don't care if you like me. I don't care if you call me a dyke or lesbian. I called myself a lesbian while I was married to a man. I don't care if you judge me on how I look. So you don't think I am attractive? Are most men attractive? Will you be using the same standards for both sexes?
Call me a radical feminist. Call me an anarchist. Call me an anti-war activist. Call me outspoken about violence against women. I said "take back the night" for women when I marched and I meant it in my speeches.
Do I make you think about feminism? Do I make you think about how women are hated and treated as possessions in our societies?
Don't worry about being traumatized by me. I wouldn't degrade myself in that pornography industry -- it's violent and misogynistic. Don't tell me how women are empowered. I have heard it before.
Do you know what really angers me? Pornography and how women are dehumanized in societies. Pornographers and the corporate media are businesses interested in making money. Most of the money goes to men.
Did I mention that I am an outspoken activist in the feminist anti-pornography movement? While I agree that you may be traumatized by porn, it has nothing to do with me. I assure you. I'm dead now, but my words live on!
If I was alive, I would be protesting against war, violence, pornography, and how women are treated in societies.
Since I'm not alive, I will simply wish you the best in the battles that you have ahead in life. Sisters, be informed feminists and take back the night! Brothers, love women -- don't hurt them. Peace to my sisters and brothers!
Putin is finding that the majority of the Russian people are sleeping, just as the American people were doing when Bush took office. Putin finds it the perfect time to go back in time to the Soviet way of life. I hope the Russians wake up faster than the Americans did.
Say it with me ...say it loud...
LIONEL!!!
hey alice, did you ever read the riverworld series by jose farmer. its been years but i was reminded of it by your durant quote
LIONEL TRAINS!
not bad for a factory made toy!
jose farmer is brilliant,
always a good read.
Was U.S. Attorney Fired For Investigating Republican Congressman?
New evidence is emerging that the Justice Department fired the U.S. attorney in Arizona, Paul Charlton, for investigating a land deal involving Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ).
Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Charlton was fired because of “his poor judgment in pushing forward a recommendation on a death penalty case.” But as Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) pointed out, this explanation appears to be a “made up reason.” Documents show that even after Charlton was ousted, Justice Department officials were still “trying to settle on a complete explanation” for his firing:
In different drafts of an undated Justice Department memo prepared this year and released Tuesday, some possible reasons for Charlton’s ouster were crossed out, including a reference to obscenity prosecution, and others were added later.
Additionally, two weeks after he was fired in December, Charlton sent an e-mail to the Justice Department asking them how to deal with press questions that his firing was retribution for the Renzi investigation:
(email at link)
No one ever responded to Charlton.
Charlton’s office also received pressure from Renzi’s office on the investigation. A few weeks before the 2006 midterm elections, Renzi’s top aide, Brian Murray, called Charlton’s spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle to inquire about the investigation:
“I called Mr. Hornbuckle seeking information about press accounts which appeared just weeks before Election Day alleging a pending indictment,” Murray said in a statement. “I left him a message asking for information about these allegations, but I was called back and told they would not comment.”
Such calls are highly improper and potentially illegal. Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) made similar calls pressuring then-U.S. attorney David Iglesias. The Justice Department fired Iglesias after Domenici took his complaints to Karl Rove and President Bush.
A report in the Wall Street Journal shows Charlton “faced unexpected obstacles in getting needed Justice Department approvals to advance a corruption investigation” against Renzi. While Charlton’s office opened the investigation no later than June 2005, the Justice Department didn’t issue subpoenas for key witnesses until early this year, some 18 months later.
LINK
tonid:About Bill Moyers show tonight.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=189752
(stream of conciousness)
(woot) (!)
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