The Rose Garden Offensive Bush came out swinging against a Democratic Congress determined, he argues, to undo the benefits of the "surge." Time for a reality check. Finding the thorns in Bush's Rose Garden address.
The administration is justifiably worried that the new Congress will use its constitutional prerogative to cut off funding for the Iraq war at a time when, after four years of miscues, Bush thinks he's finally got the right strategy and team in place. But upon closer inspection, some of Bush's warnings suggest that the president is holding the Democrats to a different standard than he held his own party when it ruled Capitol Hill-and building a political case against Congress' course that doesn't quite add up.
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Yet previous Republican-controlled Congresses have left for spring recess without passing the sort of supplemental bill Bush was talking about. In 2006, the GOP Congress didn't approve the supplemental until the middle of June. Sen. Jack Reed, a leading Democratic member of the Armed Services Committee, told Newsweek that "there was no concern then about the dire consequence of running out of funds." Besides, Congress has already passed a huge $70 billion bridge fund last fall that will tide the troops over-even if the spending bill doesn't go through. (This was created because previous Congresses have been concerned that the administration tends to fund the war hand-to-mouth with supplemental bills, rather than asking for the money up front in its annual Defense budget.) "It's hard not to view this [Bush's charges] as somewhat hyped up," says Steve Kosiak of the Center for Strategic And Budgetary Assessments, a Washington-based military think tank. "In addition to [the bridge fund], the Pentagon can tap its regular budget for the last quarter of the fiscal year, and shift money from procurements with a long lead time, like a new armored fighting vehicles. It creates some inefficiencies, but it's part of the process."
A recent survey shows Hillary Clinton as the favorite among leading Democratic candidates for President at this point in the 2008 race for the White House.
But the former first lady's numbers have slipped.
The Granite State Poll surveyed 339 voters between March 27 and April 2 who say they are likely to vote in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire.
Clinton was the favorite with 27 percent of those polled, followed by John Edwards with 21 percent and Barak Obama with 20 percent.
"And I think also, everybody ought to be able to serve in this country," Murtha said. "I think we ought to not just have a select few who volunteer. I think everybody ought to be obligated to serve.
It now looks like the White House might have actually been helping these House Republicans arrange their trip to Syria at the same time they were criticizing Pelosi for going there! Who's the source of this allegation? The chief of staff to one of the GOP Congressmen who went to Syria, that's who!
Just ask yourself why this problem exists in the first place.
The axis of evil is in Bush's mind and in the minds of his neocon advisors. They are only in it for the power and money. Please, do you ever talk normal, without these crazy talking points.
Drop them, they don't work anymore! People are tired of the same ole, same ole. They are now looking for solutions to the problems and that is something Bushco doesn't know how to do. Example....Katrina!
Britons Split Over Military Action to Resolve Hostage Crisis
An ICM poll of 762 British voters found that 48 percent rejected force as a solution to the crisis even as a last resort. Forty-four percent of respondents approved of force if diplomacy failed.
In a separate question, 26 percent of the respondents thought that Britain should apologize to Iran.
However, 66 percent of respondents said they trusted Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett to resolve the situation.
Despite increasingly fractious relations between Blair and the opposition Conservative Party, Conservative leader David Cameron has told media organizations that the government has his full support.
FDA wants to loosen regulations with irradiated food by Chris in Paris · 4/04/2007 03:27:00 AM ET
Forget about addressing core problems in the food industry, just zap it with some radiation and hope it all works out. Just ignore the issues about irradiating food such as the unknown long-term health effects on humans since testing is incomplete and don't think about the taste issues, because what does taste have to do with food? Another brilliant idea by the GOP run FDA who cares more about the Big Food industry and less about human consumers. Who wants to eat radiated food?
The FDA also proposed letting companies use the term “pasteurized” to describe irradiated foods. To do so, they would have to show the FDA that the radiation kills germs as well as the pasteurization process does. Pasteurization typically involves heating a product to a high temperature and then cooling it rapidly.
In addition, the proposal would let companies petition the agency to use additional alternate terms other than “irradiated,” something already allowed by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 but that no firms have pursued, according to the FDA. Yes, note the year 2002. These were high times for the GOP who delivered everything industry lobbyists wanted while ignoring concerns from consumers. Pick your issue and it's clear who the GOP sided with. Looking at the actions of the FDA during the Bush years and you could easily forget that they are there to protect consumers.
WASHINGTON — A $1.8 billion pending deal by Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Ltd. to buy private-equity firm Carlyle Group's aviation business is unlikely to set off a furor by U.S. lawmakers, according to analysts.
A politically charged election season, rising national security concerns and the element of surprise were all converging factors that created a perfect storm last year over the proposed Dubai Ports World deal. The state-owned ports operator was seeking to buy six of the nation's largest ports but was stopped by U.S. lawmakers over national security concerns that the United Arab Emirates-based company would be running security at U.S. ports.
"The White House has given permission for a company owned by the government of Dubai to run six U.S. ports, including the Port of New York. Now Dubai was accused of supporting the September 11th attacks and was one of only three countries to support the Taliban. Now they're going to run the Port of New York. What's next, we'll put Mexico in charge of immigration? How about Dick Cheney in charge of gun safety? Courtney Love in charge of Olympic drug testing?"
Roving Protest by Steven D Wed Apr 4th, 2007 at 07:28:47 AM EST
No wonder neither Bush nor Cheney wanted to appear before an "unfiltered" crowd to throw out the first pitch of the new baseball season. Look what happened to the "Architect" last night:
Heckling protesters briefly delayed the car carrying top White House aide Karl Rove last night as he left the American University campus, where he had just given a speech. No arrests or injuries were reported after Rove's invitation-only talk. About 20 students lay in front of the car as it prepared to leave, a witness said.
Josh Goodman, an AU junior, said other students kicked the car "and tried to stop it as best as they could."
He said the car, with Rove in the back seat, left after those in front of it "were all pulled away."
I can't remember this happening to any of Clinton's staff, can you? The level of animosity toward this administration in the country is the highest I can recall since the Nixon years. And even then Tricky Dick felt comfortable enough to go to the Lincoln Memorial and talk to anti-war protesters one on one.
Hey, everybody. How ya doin' today? It's like groovy around here. I like it. That WarDog troll is, like, a real bummer. I think he's taken, like, one toke to many from the old military-industrial-complex humvee exhaust pipe.
The House Armed Services Committee has said it will stop using the phrase “global war on terror.” A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says defense policy should be specific about military operations and “avoid using colloquialisms.”
Breaking: Iran to release British hostages. “President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran would free the 15 detained British sailors and marines as a gift to the British people. He pardoned the sailors and announced they would be released following a news conference at which he pinned a medal on the chest of the Iranian coast guard commander who intercepted the sailors and marines in the northern Gulf on March 23.”
From the NY Times, whose link won't work for me right now.
Right Wing Smears Pelosi As ‘Subservient’ For Wearing Scarf - What About Laura Bush? Yesterday, right-wing Internet gossip Matt Drudge posted a photo of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wearing a headscarf while visiting the tomb of John the Baptist inside the Umayyad mosque in Damascus.
As Mahablog points out, right-wing is now seething:
HotAir: “The campaign commercial practically writes itself. Ah well. A woman must know her place when entering a mosque. … It pains the left too, I’m sure, to see the most powerful woman in America having to yield, however slightly, to a misogynistic culture’s expectations, but they can’t vent their anger at the people responsible so they’ll vent it at Charles or me or whomever instead.”
Instapundit: FEMINIST IN AMERICA, subservient in Syria.
The New Editor: “This picture disgusts me. What message is Nancy Pelosi trying to send? Are women equal to men, or not? Why is modesty foisted only upon women?”
Little Green Footballs: “Pelosi in a Hijab. The modern Democratic leadership. How … quaint.”
Apparently they never saw Laura Bush when she visited al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem:
Prosecutor scandal beginning of Bush’s end About a year from now, pundits and instant historians will point back at the firing of the federal prosecutors and say, “That’s where the impeachment began.”
Reid: Bush is not King of the United States "He is president of the United States, not king of the United States," Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) told reporters in his home state. "He has another branch of government, a legislative branch of government, he has to deal with."
if the government says its legal then you're not doing anything wrong.
wow. whatever happened to the notion of personal responsibility?
i think walmart has played a large role in destroying the middle class. when they come into a town they destroy the local stores and facilities that your neighbors have worked all their lives to build.
Not to mention, the items they are selling. Recent recall of children's bracelets, made in China, with lead-paint. This is what we are in for when we rely on foreign manufactured items. And wasn't it China that produced the gluten that poisoned our pets and could also be used for human consumption. They don't have to physical invade our country and drop bombs. We will buy our own demise.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Army has warned program managers to prepare for a possible money crunch if President Bush vetoes an emergency war spending bill that calls for the eventual withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq.
But analysts say Pentagon staff will be the first to face cuts.
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these f*tards have no shame. next thing you know they will be saying the current bill hurts grandmas and children. why don't people wake up and realize that the only person hurting the troops is bush because of his refusal to sign the legislation.
President Bush intends to bypass the Senate in order to name a "conservative academic" to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Wednesday's Wall Street Journal reports.
"Bypassing a reluctant Senate, President Bush will use a recess appointment to name a conservative academic to the White House's top regulatory post," Henry Pulizzi writes for WSJ. "The move, expected to be announced today, will fill a position that has been vacant for more than a year, and could help the White House use the regulatory process to shape policy."
According to the paper, "Susan Dudley, the former head of regulatory studies at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, has generated opposition from environmentalists and liberal interest groups, who say she would carry out a pro-business agenda at the expense of public health and safety."
Saturday's LA Times noted that Dudley, and two others that the president wishes to appoint "have ties to industries that face costly Environmental Protection Agency restrictions, and all three have previously bypassed or questioned the EPA's scientific process."
i disagree with this guy who says the railroads are putting trucks out of business. the rails are the most efficient way to move large quantities. the real issue is that with each passing day we are destroying our infrastructure. just look around at all the empty factorys.
anyone seen "freedom to fascism"? explains how we're not legally liable to pay income tax? I'd advise checkin it out if you got time.
Guliani on Hannity last night was a hoot, caught it at the truckstop, "i will keep America on the offensive!"
I think we're offensive enough thank you.
also, spoke with this danish couchsurfer who crashed with us this weekend, he thinks America is in decline, and none of our "allies" will be there when we need them twenty years down the road once our economy reaches third world status.
fun stuff.
Ladies... you make it hard to stay away. phhhiladelphia freeedom!
toniD was writing about recess appointments and how president custer intends to abuse them to put one of his hacks in place. i did some checking and the only thing i could find that could be used to check this is that congress can vote to withhold the salary for the position.
http://www.thisnation.com/question/010.html
interesting concept. if only the dems would follow thru.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is delaying his formal entry into the presidential campaign to deliver a “major speech on Iraq” on April 11 at the Virginia Military Institute. McCain “now faces a forest of hurdles, including continued skepticism from the party’s conservative base and mocking coverage of his televised assertions that Iraq is safer than portrayed by the media.”
Mitt Romney Unveils Secret Plan To End The War » Speaking on ABC’s Good Morning America, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) said that he supports setting a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq — but only if it’s a secret time line.
Asked yesterday by Hannah Storm if he would “set a deadline for bringing the troops home,” Romney said only that he “wouldn’t publish it for my adversaries to see.” Romney added, “I would certainly sit down with al-Maliki as well as his government, plot out a series of milestones, timetables as well, measure how well they’re doing. But that’s not something you’d publish for the enemy to understand.”
Watch it:
Richard Nixon “campaigned in 1968 by saying he had a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam.” His Defense Secretary Melvin Laird later wrote, “Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 on the assumption that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. He didn’t have any such plan.” In fact, the war dragged on, leading to over 20,000 American deaths.
Creating a secret Iraq timeline, as Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) also proposed last week, would be pointless. The key purpose of a public timeline is to make clear to the Iraqi people and their government that the U.S. does not have an open-ended commitment to Iraq, and to use that fact to pressure Iraqi politicians to make compromises.
Making it secret won’t actually prevent Iraqis from knowing when the U.S. is leaving; there’s no subtle way to pack up and move 145,000 troops and their equipment.
Romney is just desperate to thread the needle between supporting Bush and distancing himself from the war, so much so that he’s willing to embrace completely absurd ideas.
what benefit exists for delaying the formal annoucement of a presidential campaign? are there legal issues about what you can and can't do or can can can't say?
blah blah blah said... toniD was writing about recess appointments and how president custer intends to abuse them to put one of his hacks in place. i did some checking and the only thing i could find that could be used to check this is that congress can vote to withhold the salary for the position.
http://www.thisnation.com/question/010.html
interesting concept. if only the dems would follow thru.
I am with you on the Connections Lee! I believe we are so connected that you can legitimately say things such as: Oil Royalty = Pilate; BushCo = Herod; All Innocent Dead = Jesus; and that's not an arbitrary symbol, but a literal concrete fact.
The opposing point of view, if one were able to get them to admit that all concrete phenomena interact, would say that the causes and effects are so miniscule as to not matter enough to be worth doing anythig about. My counter to that point is that the smallest things are the easiest to change, larger more macrosmic phenomena are often beyond most individual's ability to affect. So one's "guilt" in rejecting one's responsibility to do even the smallest things is greater than not doing the larger things.
Walmart is a retailer and like all retailer they note the fashions. Environmentalism is back in fashion and they are ready to promote. I say "let them".
The good news is that with so many stores and trucks, their environmentalism may actually have a worthwhile impact. As a competitive business, they may also set a trend for other businesses to follow suit... let them.
Walmart is moving gradually toward better corporate citizenship, not just with their new energy efficiency, but also how they helped out in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. I hope that the more they move in this direction, they will be encouraged.
I'm watching and waiting for Walmart's labor practices to improve. When they do for both their workers and their suppliers they will finally get my business.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) On April 1, 1976, British astronomer Patrick Moore told his radio listeners that a rare configuration of Jupiter and Pluto was occurring. So dramatically would it affect Earth's gravity, he said, that they might feel lighter than usual, and perhaps even be able to float up into the air. I'm wondering if we can expect a similar phenomena this week. There's a rare grand trine in fire signs, with Jupiter in Sagittarius, Saturn in Leo, and the sun in Aries. Especially for you, the buoyancy factor will be in full play, and levels of levity will be at a maximum. If you can't actually fly, you'll probably get higher than you've been in a long time.
The Times sharply criticized Pres. Bush today for essentially telling Americans they are too emotional about Iraq for their opinions to be taken seriously:
President Bush and his advisers have made a lot of ridiculous charges about critics of the war in Iraq: they’re unpatriotic, they want the terrorists to win, they don’t support the troops, to cite just a few. But none of these seem quite as absurd as President Bush’s latest suggestion, that critics of the war whose children are at risk are too “emotional” to see things clearly. The direct target was Matthew Dowd, one of the chief strategists of Mr. Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign, who has grown disillusioned with the president and the war, which he made clear in an interview with Jim Rutenberg published in The Times last Sunday. But by extension, Mr. Bush’s comments were insulting to the hundreds of thousands of Americans whose sons, daughters, sisters, brothers and spouses have served or will serve in Iraq.
Rove Delayed and Heckled By Melissa McEwan Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Permalink Just where do you think you’re going, Turd Blossom?
Heckling protesters briefly delayed the car carrying top White House aide Karl Rove last night as he left the American University campus, where he had just given a speech. No arrests or injuries were reported after Rove’s invitation-only talk. About 20 students lay in front of the car as it prepared to leave, a witness said.
Josh Goodman, an AU junior, said other students kicked the car “and tried to stop it as best as they could.” Why were these crazy kids trying to stop Rove from leaving?
Goodman said students went to the Ward Circle building where Rove spoke to make a “citizen’s arrest” of the presidential adviser. He said the students claimed they had compiled evidence indicating that Rove had violated what they say is a presidential records act stipulating that all presidential e-mail be recorded on White House servers. Aww, that’s adorable!
Boy, you know an administration is corrupt when campus radicals are trying to make citizen’s arrests as an act of protest.
ABC News is reporting the U.S. is engaged in a secret war with Iran. Since 2005, U.S. officials have been advising a Pakistani tribal militant group with ties to the Taliban on how to carry out deadly guerilla raids inside Iran. The Pakistani group – called Jundullah -- has taken responsibility for the deaths and kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials. Most recently, Jundullah took credit for a bus bombing that killed at least 11 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in February. Officials say the U.S. relationship with Jundullah is arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would require an official presidential order or "finding" as well as congressional oversight. Some former CIA officers say the arrangement is reminiscent of how the U.S. government used proxy armies to destabilize the government of Nicaragua in the 1980s.
Waxman seeks e-mails on potential misuse of agency for 2008 elections Michael Roston Published: Wednesday April 4, 2007
The Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today requested e-mails from the Republican National Committee related to the possible misuse of federal government employees and resources for political purposes.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) warned that there were "Serious questions...about the legality and propriety" of a presentation delivered by a top White House aide, J. Scott Jennings, to General Services Administration appointees on the 2008 Elections. Some GSA political appointees reportedly asked how they could use their agency to contribute to Republican political gains in the 2008 elections.
Waxman therefore asked for all e-mails relating to the matter on Republican National Committee servers.
"I request that you provide any electronic messages sent or received by Karl Rove, J. Scott Jennings, or any other White House officials using accounts maintained by the RNC that relate to (1) the January 26, 2007, PowerPoint presentation at GSA, (2) the presentation of any similar political briefings at other federal agencies or to other federal employees, or (3) the use of federal agencies or resources to help Republican candidates," he wrote to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan.
Last week, RAW STORY reported on the hearing of the House committee in which GSA Administrator Laurita A. Doan was heavily questioned. One slide from the hearing, also featured at RAW STORY, showed 20 House Democrats that the White House believed were potential targets for defeat in the 2008 Elections.
Students protest Cheney visit to Brigham Young University David Edwards and Ron Brynaert Published: Wednesday April 4, 2007
Although a planned commencement address by Vice President Dick Cheney isn't supposed to be political in nature, many students and faculty at a Mormon Church owned university are up in arms that he was invited in the first place.
"Some students and faculty on one of the nation's most conservative campuses want Brigham Young University to withdraw an invitation for Vice President Dick Cheney to speak at commencement later this month," the Associated Press reports.
"Critics at the school question whether Cheney sets a good example for graduates, citing his promotion of faulty intelligence before the Iraq war and his role in the CIA leak scandal," Debbie Hummel reports for the AP. "The private university, which is owned by the Mormon church, has 'a heavy emphasis on personal honesty and integrity in all we do,' said Warner Woodworth, a professor at BYU's business school. 'Cheney just doesn't measure up,' he said."
"Dueling Dick rallies" were held on the BYU campus today, as College Republicans "received approval for their own rally, at the same time, near the same location, as the College Democrats."
has anybody noticed the absolute silence from the white house about the british hostages being released. god forbid they acknowledge that diplomacy works.
meantime, the right wing smear machine is ripping the hostages as a bunch of pussies.
What kind of traitor (sam seder) would continue to protect the real mass murders of 911 by reiterating the false and fraudulent official story over and over again?
NO STEEL FRAME BUILDING IN HISTORY HAS COLLASPED DUE TO FIRE.
NO BUILDING IN HISTORY HAS COLLASPED AT FREE FALL SPEED WITHOUT HAVING ITS STRUCTURE BLOWN APART BY EXPLOSIVES.
NO PLANE WAS FOUND AT THE PENTAGON (THE OFFICAL STORY SAYS IT MELTED!!!!!)
MOLTEN METAL BURNED FOR THREE WEEKS IN THE BASEMENT OF THE TWIN TOWERS. jet fuel??? WE THINK NOT, TRAITOR.
7 OF THE 19 "HIJACKERS" HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO BE ALIVE AND WELL.
TOWER 7 “COLLASPED” IN SPITE OF NEVER BEING HIT BY ANYTHING.
SILVERSTEIN, THE OWNER/LEASE HOLDER OF THE TOWERS IS ON RECORD AS SAYING HE ORDERED THAT TOWER 7 BE PULLED. HOW COULD IT BE “PULLED” (DEMOLISHED) IN SHORT ORDER IF THE EXPLOSIVES HAD NOT ALREADY BEEN PLANTED?
ON TAPES OF RADIO TRANSMISSIONS ONLY DECLASIFIED BY THE JUSTICE DEPT LAST YEAR, THE NYFD, CAN BE HEARD SAYING THERE WERE ONLY VERY SMALL FIRES AND THEY COULD KNOCK THEM DOWN WITH TWO LINES OF MEN.
THESE RADIO TRANSMISSIONS ARE CLEAR AS A BELL AND HAPPENED MOMENTS BEFORE THE “COLLASPE”. The radios appeared to be working fine that day.
Those same firefighters said they heard explosions going off in various parts of the building.
Physicist Steven Jones of BYU has published two papers that conclude thermite and/or thermate were used as part of the explosive charges that brought the buildings down. He was asked to retire early. He is a pioneer in fusion research.
The day before 911, Donald Rumsfeld announced the disappearance of over 2 trillion dollars!!!! The Pentagon was hit exactly where those records were kept. No one has mentioned the missing 2 trillion since.
Most witness statements at the Towers and the Pentagon say that explosions were going off BEFORE the attacks. The clocks at the Pentagon were knocked off the wall and broken five minutes before the “attacks”.
The Smithsonian has displayed one such clock for years now.
You know the truth. FREE THE PEOPLE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WASH POST: "Where Candidates Money Comes From Doesn't Matter"
By David Sirota
I said yesterday that Beltway journalists aren't reporting on where political money is coming from probably out of sheer laziness. But I was wrong. As an interchange on MSNBC's Keith Olbermann showed last night, many of them want the public to believe hundreds of millions of dollars of special interest campaign cash buys absolutely nothing - that, in effect, K Street finances candidates out of the goodness of its heart. Yes, here was Washington Post political reporter on Olbermann's show last night, deflecting a question on where Mitt Romney's $20+ million in campaign cash came from, and whether it buys anything:
"History has taught that where money comes from doesn't matter all that much."
That's right, folks - all that Texas oil money flooding into the RNC and the Bush campaign has absolutely nothing to do with, say, the Energy Bill that gives away massive tax breaks to - shocker! - Texas oil companies. All that pharmaceutical industry campaign cash had positively no relation to Congress allowing the drug companies to write the Medicare bill. Oh and all that New York money from Wall Street flowing into Democratic campaign coffers? Yeah, that has nothing to do with Democrats still refusing to, say, reform America's lobbyist-written trade policies.
WASH POST: "Where Candidates Money Comes From Doesn't Matter"
thats a gem toniD. what's sad is that there are a lot of people that would hear that and agree.
personally i think its big money that has corrupted the entire system. but because we need money to make the wheels go round, the problem will never be fixed.
has anybody noticed the absolute silence from the white house about the british hostages being released. god forbid they acknowledge that diplomacy works.
Did the GOP Congress ever provide any oversight at all? by Chris in Paris · 4/04/2007 03:09:00 PM ET
They should be embarrassed with the pathetic job they did and send back their paychecks. Pick your subject and it's always the exact same story. The Republican Congress consistently opted to let things just somehow work out instead of providing oversight and supporting consumers. Keep in mind that big business is on a major PR offensive right now, crying that they are over-regulated and that they need to be dealt a free hand with business. Sorry folks, but that is precisely what they had for the last few years and they dropped the ball.
Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) scolded the five members of the Federal Communications Commission when he finally got them before a powerful subcommittee last month.
The FCC botched handling of cable television franchising, racked up a backlog of unanswered consumer complaints, and dallied on various disputes between industry rivals with little oversight from the previous Republican-controlled Congress in recent years, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said in the March 14 hearing.
Within days, word spread that the FCC was accelerating efforts to complete action on about 150 pending matters -- from regulating cable television service in apartment buildings to settling quarrels over the distribution of telecommunications funds in rural areas. Some analysts saw the move as a direct response to lawmakers' complaints.
Rice trying to dodge hearing on Iraq-Niger documents Michael Roston Published: Wednesday April 4, 2007
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears to be seeking to avoid testifying before a committee hearing concerning the intelligence used to justify the Iraq War and other matters, according to a report in today's Washington Post.
Al Kamen, author of the Post's "In The Loop" column, reported today that an Assistant Secretary of State wrote to Rep. Henry Waxman and said the State Department had responded to most of the requests for information sent to the Secretary of State by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
"'Our records reflect that you have sent 49 individual letters . . . since 2003, 21 of which' went to Rice, [Jeffrey T. Bergner, assistant secretary for legislative affairs] wrote, and with the exception of one letter they haven't been able to find and a few recent ones they're working on, she's responded to everything," the letter said, as Al Kamen reported today.
Kamen added that because of these earlier replies, the State Department was hoping the April 18 hearing the House Committee had scheduled would be canceled.
"'I'm sure that this thorough and comprehensive' response, department spokesman Sean McCormack said yesterday, will be sufficient to 'obviate the need' for a formal hearing," Kamen wrote.
FLASHBACK: Hastert Traveled Abroad, Told Foreign Leaders Not To Listen To Clinton President Bush yesterday said Speaker Pelosi’s bipartisan delegation to Syria sends “mixed signals,” implying that Pelosi overstepped her bounds by visiting Syria. Bush’s supporters have been repeating the argument:
Former ambassador John Bolton: “I would simply hope that people would understand that, under the Constitution, the president conducts foreign policy, not the speaker of the House.”
Former Gov. Mitt Romney: “It has long been the established principle of this country that the president of the United States leads our foreign policy. And if you don’t like the president, then you change him. But you don’t have the two parties each conducting foreign policy in the way they think it ought to be conducted.”
Thomas Sowell: “Until Nancy Pelosi came along, it was understood by all that we had only one president at a time and — like him or not — he alone had the Constitutional authority to speak for this country to foreign nations, especially in wartime.”
Speaker Pelosi has done nothing to suggest that she intended to speak on behalf of President Bush or the U.S. Government. But her predecessors haven’t been so respectful.
In 1997, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) led a delegation to Colombia and specifically encouraged military officials there to “bypass” President Clinton and “communicate directly with Congress.”
At the same time Congress was attaching human rights conditions to U.S. security assistance programs and negotiating a formal end-use monitoring agreement with the Colombian defense ministry, other lawmakers were secretly assuring Colombian officials that they felt such restrictions were unwarranted, and would work to either remove the conditions or limit their effectiveness.
One example of this was a congressional delegation led by Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) which met with Colombian military officials, promising to “remove conditions on assistance” and complaining about “leftist-dominated” U.S. congresses of years past that “used human rights as an excuse to aid the left in other countries.” Hastert said he would to correct this situation and expedite aid to countries allied in the war on drugs and also encouraged Colombian military officials to “bypass the U.S. executive branch and communicate directly with Congress.”
Subsequently, U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Myles Frechette sent a cable complaining that Hastert told Colombian military officials to “take a tough line and wait for [the U.S. government’s] insistence on human rights conditions to be overwhelmed by the pressure of events,” saying it had undermined his leverage with the Colombian military leadership.
82 percent: Number of Americans who “say the world is becoming more dangerous for the United States and its people, with 48 percent saying ‘much more dangerous.’” Seventy-three percent “say the United States is not doing a good job as a leader in creating a more peaceful and prosperous world.”
well war dog, seems we both admire teddy "Speak softly and carry a big stick" roosevelt. personally i don't have a problem if we glass the nuclear facilities in iran, although i would prefer that it not be done by a psychopath. perhaps the israeli's could do us a favor.
the question is whether we are tough enough to deal with the consequences. oil would go thru the roof. russia might respond by attacking us. the iranians might retailiate with conventional terrorism or perhaps their scientists have some tricks up their sleeves with virus's.
meanwhile if you follow the money, the germans, russians, and french are all making a lot of money off of iranian nuclear development. so who is our real enemy?
Any of the Constitutional scholars here at Sederrific tell us what the Constitutional powers the Speaker of the House has to engage in foreign policy of this sort?
Anonymous said... Any of the Constitutional scholars here at Sederrific tell us what the Constitutional powers the Speaker of the House has to engage in foreign policy of this sort?
not sure what you're complaining about since your boy bushwa shredded the constitution when it was convenient. and there was that little bit with the pubes (hastert for example) end running clinton but that doesn't count does it.
this is so adorable http://pscelebrities.com/mrr/bandwkitties.bmp
makes you want to forget the scary scary R.A.T.S. as anon called them upthread - so don't forget to vote Dem - cause its all about the Supreme Court IMHO
toniD, we are to pick up our cat this afternoon from the Vet's office because her blood sugar is stabilized again and the urinary tract infection is getting better from the anti-bio meds. Her kidneys are ok so we are hopeful she will get back to normal and attack our sofa again. Back next week for check-up. Thanks for asking :)
What about Sam's Sunday program? Is it a sure thing? Have you heard anything about that?
Tainted food from a foreign country -- where's Homeland Security?
--- bibi, indeed.
I also listened to a pet food recall segment on CNN late last night and someone from petconnections (I think thats what it was) said that lots of pets could have been saved had the recall started earlier. So Pet owners spent thousands at the Vet to get their pets better but when cats and dogs returned home they ate the same tainted food again and died. Its terrible.
So Pet owners spent thousands at the Vet to get their pets better but when cats and dogs returned home they ate the same tainted food again and died. Its terrible.
April 4, 2007 4:59 PM
all out of pocket. a class action suit will follow, nd it ain't about $. They knew about it on 3/8 and they didn't release the advisory until 3/20. PDB-like...
Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarboro giggled themselves silly that Republicans are visiting Syria as well - but nobody cares cause busy getting their knickers in a twist over Speaker's visit. Looks like Mr. Prez forgot his own people are there, too.
"At the White House on Tuesday, Bush told reporters that he saw little point in talking to Syria now.
"Sending delegations hasn't worked," he said. "It's just simply been counterproductive."
Even so, three Republican congressmen - Robert Aderholt of Alabama, Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania and Frank Wolf of Virginia - visited Syria separately and met with Assad on Sunday. And a senior American diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey, held talks in Damascus last month with Syrian officials about an influx of Iraqi refugees. Bush did not mention those visits in his remarks Tuesday"
It is both ridiculous and disheartening to see the effort that the U.S. put into protecting John McCain on his recent visit to Iraq, while millions of people in the world are in dire need of change and protection. One in every five people who live in poverty survive on less than a dollar a day. This is a global concern that must be addressed immediately. Instead of going to excessive limits to protect one political leader, efforts should be made to provide security to people who barely survive each day. My hope is that the Millennium Development Goals will achieve this by eradicating global poverty by 2025 as proposed by 191 world leaders seven years ago.
"all out of pocket. a class action suit will follow, nd it ain't about $. They knew about it on 3/8 and they didn't release the advisory until 3/20. PDB-like..."
Yes. Lets get those %$^&*$%!!! -- Too bad one cannot collapse the whole lot. Absolutely. Red IGNORE button, please!
Sam Fox was just made ambassador. Bush used his recess appointment.
BREAKING: Bush names Swift Boat funder as ambassador. AP reports:
“President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination. …
Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. On Wednesday, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.
This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency.”
UPDATE: The White House originally said that it had pulled Fox because “his nomination would not have passed” the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fox donated $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
UPDATE II: Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) responds: “I seriously question the legality of the President’s use of the recess appointment authority in this instance. I intend to seek an opinion on the legality of this appointment from the General Accountability Office and invite other Senators to join with me in that request. This is underhanded and an abuse of Executive authority — sadly this behavior has become the hallmark of this administration.”
Any of the Constitutional scholars here at Sederrific tell us what the Constitutional powers the Speaker of the House has to engage in foreign policy of this sort?
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Hey SHIT FER BRAINS!
Even so, three Republican congressmen - Robert Aderholt of Alabama, Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania and Frank Wolf of Virginia - visited Syria separately and met with Assad on Sunday. And a senior American diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey, held talks in Damascus last month with Syrian officials about an influx of Iraqi refugees. Bush did not mention those visits in his remarks Tuesday"
oh, and...
FLASHBACK: Hastert Traveled Abroad, Told Foreign Leaders Not To Listen To Clinton
RNC Attacks President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Gen. Richard Myers A new research document put out by the RNC Research Department proclaims:
NO JOKE! DEMS TAKE ROSIE VIEW House Dems Take Policy Advice From Rosie O’Donnell And Ban Use Of “War On Terror”
The document comes in response to a Military Times article which reports that the House Armed Services Committee has said it will stop using the phrase “global war on terror” in an effort to “avoid using colloquialisms” and instead focus its language on military operations.
Rosie O’Donnell’s views are irrelevant to the decision by the House Armed Services Committee. The Bush administration has itself tried but failed to rename the “global war on terror” as “a global struggle against violent extremism.” In scrapping use of the GWOT phrase, the Committee has taken action long promoted by President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers:
Did Justice Dept. discriminate against Iglesias? An independent federal watchdog agency is investigating whether the firing of former U.S. attorney David Iglesias violated a federal law that prohibits job discrimination against members of the U.S. military. To justify his dismissal, Justice officials accused Iglesias of being an “‘absentee landlord‘ who was spending too much time away from the office.” But as TPMmuckraker notes, “Iglesias did, in fact, leave the office for 45 days each year. But that’s because he’s a a captain in the Navy Reserve — something that was no secret to his superiors.”
Hey, did anyone hear the very brief story on CNN Tues a.m. about the American who went missing several weeks ago in Iran. Gee it was kept so quiet...huh? Do ya suppose we didn't hear about it because it was a former Brewster Jennings associate (a NOC) perhaps? Why else have they kept it out of the news? How many more people have disappeared from the face of the earth because of the CIA leak about this organization. Guess we'll never know.
If Bush and Cheney smoked pot, tens of thousands of folks who have died over the past four years would be alive today to smoke a little doobage themselves.
The US Department of Homeland Security is pushing to get hold of the master keys for a proposed revision of the internet's domain name system. 4-4 POAC
We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The global war on terror that is being fought around the world is an embodied reflection in the material world of a deeper, more fundamental war that is going on in the realm of consciousness itself.
We have the most criminal regime in all of our history wreaking unspeakable horror on the entire planet, while simultaneously waging war on the consciousness of its own citizens - US. If we aren't aware of this, we are unwittingly playing into, supporting and complicit in the evil that is being perpetrated in our name.
A government's war on the consciousness of its own citizens is by no means unique to the Bush administration. Abusing power over others so as to limit their freedom is an archetypal process that has been endlessly re-enacted by governments throughout history in various forms. With the Bush administration, however, the pathological aspect of this process has become so exaggerated and amped up to such a degree that it is just about impossible not to notice its staggering malignancy. With the Bush administration, the underlying evil that has played out in our government over many years is becoming overwhelmingly obvious for all to see. With the Bush administration, the underlying evil that informs systems of government that are based on "power over" instead of "liberty for" is coming out from hiding in the shadows. Instead of being acted out underground, our government is acting out this evil above ground, in plain sight for all who are courageous enough to look.
Impeaching Bush and Co. ultimately won't change anything unless we deal with the corrupt powers which control and direct them. George Bush is just a finger-puppet of the hidden hand which animates him. Bush only has apparent power, as he himself is a minion of far more powerful predator-like forces whose nefarious interests he serves. Whether we call it the illuminati, the global elite, a shadow government, or a secret cabal, there is no doubt that there are darker, self-serving forces that have insinuated themselves into and taken over our government. The terrorists that we should be worried about are domestic terrorists who are actually implementing their agendas from deep within our very system of government itself.
The United States Government itself has become a "front" for the underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate that animates it. This is not to say that there aren't many good, well-meaning people in our government they are simply prohibited by the very nature of the corrupt system they are in from reforming it. Our system of government is rigged in such a way so that there is no way to transform the system within the system itself.
Anonymous said... Any of the Constitutional scholars here at Sederrific tell us what the Constitutional powers the Speaker of the House has to engage in foreign policy of this sort? April 4, 2007 4:36 PM
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I recommend that you read the U.S. Constitution (Article I - The Legislative Branch).
"Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress"
Excerpt:
The United States Constitution divides foreign policy powers between the President and the Congress so that both share in the making of foreign policy. The executive and legislative branches each play important roles that are different but that often overlap.
Both branches have continuing opportunities to initiate and change foreign policy, and the interaction between them continues indefinitely throughout the life of a policy.
This report reviews and illustrates 12 basic ways that the United States can make foreign policy.
The practices illustrated in this report indicate that making foreign policy is a complex process, and that the support of both branches is required for a strong and effective U.S. foreign policy.
Hammering, sawing, drilling and bricklaying could one day be replaced with printing. A room-size machine currently being built by researchers in the U.K. will use rapid prototyping techniques to print walls, complete with brick, plaster, windows, insulation and conduits for wires and pipes.
The technique could make walls stronger and more functional, while at the same time reducing construction waste, minimizing the amount of labor needed and liberating the building's form.
"Maybe straight is not always the best shape. You can build a flat or curvy place and there is no more expense involved," said Richard Buswell, lecturer for civil and building engineering at Loughborough University in U.K.
Buswell and his team are embarking on a four-year project to build the 13- by 16.4-foot-sized printer, which will borrow techniques from rapid prototyping processes currently used to produce items made of ceramics, polymers and metals. ...
spaced out the coffee maker lid at home to start off. coffee dripping everywhere for a 6 ft radius. me Bgurl and the dogs survived.
Safety meeting first off, lotsa corporate liability loopholes, interesting view of corporate construction trades developments. fully staffed med crew here. safety first deff the way to go. on site hard hat show. three warnings and off the site for the crews. bout 80 subcontractors. over 1500 rooms.
Buncha good kids in the crew. had a great time chasing parts with them.
figured out how to repair all the dings in the brand new cabinetry without using any evaporative solvents. (new VOC requirements for public buildings)
was quite a challenge as i have to faux finish the repairs. have a three toner fix that looks great from a foot away. requirement was a six foot 'read' on the repaired areas.
bout six times better than they expected. my rep as a master craftsman will be firmly established with a new bunch a peeps.
also got any hours i want and any days off i need. they treat me any better i'll have to start paying them.
the fix i just figgered out gets em out from under a potential contract default and saves em a minimum of a hundred grand in legal fees and replacing several hundred cabinets.
About a year from now, pundits and instant historians will point back at the firing of the federal prosecutors and say, "That’s where the impeachment began." April 4, 2007 10:41 AM
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What's this about "instant" historians?
History does not repeat itself, [instant] historians merely repeat each other.
N.M.’s Domenici, Wilson face more questions about Iglesias By Susan Crabtree and Elana Schor April 04, 2007 Kyle Sampson’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week suggests that congressional pressure may have played a significant role in the firing of a New Mexico prosecutor.
Statements from Sampson, who served as chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before resigning last month, to the Judiciary Committee last Thursday are placing additional pressure on New Mexico GOP Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson, as well as Gonzales, White House political adviser Karl Rove and ex-White House counsel Harriet Miers, to explain what roles, if any, they played in the firing of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, according to legal experts.
Under intense Democratic questioning during the hearing, Sampson admitted that he regretted placing Iglesias’s name on the list of those slated for dismissal. He also said Gonzales had informed him that he had received a complaint from Rove that three U.S. attorneys, including Iglesias, were not doing enough to pursue voter-fraud cases. Justice Department e-mails and Sampson’s testimony also show that sometime between Oct. 17 and Election Day, Iglesias’s name was added to the list along with three names that were redacted in the e-mails.
Domenici and Wilson, who was running in a tight reelection race, called Iglesias just a few weeks prior to the Nov. 7 election. Iglesias said they called to inquire about whether he was going to issue indictments in a pending high-profile corruption investigation involving a Democrat in New Mexico, a line of questioning he said was both improper and threatening.
Domenici and Wilson dispute the nature of the calls; the Senate Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into the matter, while members of the House ethics panel have refused to comment on whether they’ve launched a probe.
McCain hires Jew counter. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today announced that fund-raiser Fred Malek had joined his team as a national finance co-chair. David Corn reminds us of Malek’s history in the Nixon administration:
Nixon summoned the White House personnel chief, Fred Malek, to his office to discuss a “Jewish cabal” in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The “cabal,” Nixon said, was tilting economic figures to make his Administration look bad. How many Jews were there in the bureau? he wanted to know. Malek reported back on the number, and told the President that the bureau’s methods of weighing statistics were normal procedure that had been in use for years.
Among Malek’s other highlights — being arrested as a young man for killing, skinning, and barbecuing a dog.
Swift Boat funder’s appointment may be illegal. Mary Ann Akers of the Washington Post explains why President Bush’s recess appointment of Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium may break the law:
To fight the Fox appointment, Democrats are questioning the Bush administration’s plan to have Fox serve in a voluntary capacity — receiving no pay for his duties as ambassador. This is an important legal technicality, as federal law prohibits “payment of services” for certain recess appointments. However, if the recess appointee in question agrees that he or she will take an unpaid position and not sue the government at a later date for compensation, then the appointment can go forward, at least as the White House sees it. …
But here’s the rub that makes Democrats view Bush’s recess appointment of Fox as a major-league no-no: Federal law prohibits “voluntary service” in cases where the position in question has a fixed rate of pay, as an ambassadorship does. That’s how the Government Accountability Office, an arm of the Democratic-controlled Congress, interprets the law.
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) said today, “I intend to seek an opinion on the legality of this appointment from the General Accountability Office and invite other Senators to join with me in that request.”
White House helped free Iranian diplomat. President Bush yesterday: “There should be no quid pro quo when it comes to the hostages.” From tomorrow’s New York Sun:
The Iranian diplomat released Tuesday preceding the announcement that Iran would free the 15 British sailors it had taken hostage was being held in a joint Iraqi and American facility, and was released in part because of a decision at the highest levels of the American government.
The decision to release Jalal Sharafi on Tuesday was made at the White House, according to an administration official who asked to be anonymous because of the sensitivity of the information. […]
Pentagon and White House spokesmen on Tuesday and Wednesday insisted publicly that the release of Mr. Sharafi was solely an Iraqi decision.
JACKSONVILLE, North Carolina. April 1 — Vice President Cheney delivered a speech early Sunday morning before a formation of soldiers at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The speech was not publicized and the prepared remarks were intended to boost troop morale. The comments were fairly unremarkable except for one short comment near the end of the speech in which Mr. Cheney suggested that the Bush Administration may seek to challenge the 22nd amendment in the 2008 presidential election in an effort to ensure that the war in Iraq is successful.
Mr. Cheney again cited the war in Iraq as a key component in the effort to combat terrorism, saying "The war in Iraq is such a crucial part of the greater war on terror that we currently have our legal advisors looking into the possibility that the 22nd Amendment may not apply in 2008."
Because the speech was not publicized and was held on a secure military base, very few journalists were present, and none were able to ask questions about what the Vice President's comments might mean. Repeated efforts to contact the Vice President's Office to clarify the comment were unsuccessful.
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution prohibits U.S. Presidents from running for a third term, stating "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice...". The 22nd Amendment was passed in 1951 after President Franklin Roosevelt broke a tradition that dated back to George Washington, in which Presidents voluntarily refused to run for a third term.
Political pundits and Constitutional experts are split on what the Vice President's comments could mean. Some see the comments as an effort to extend the Administration's "war powers" due to the fact that the country is at war. They argue that there is a tenuous case to be made that the 22nd Amendment doesn't apply during war time since the Congress waited until after WW II to introduce such an Amendment. Others say that the mere fact that the country had just ended the war in 1951, when the Amendment was passed, suggests that the Congress would have put such an exception into the language of the Amendment if they had intended it not apply during times of war.
Others say that the Bush Administration will argue that the 2000 race was not actually decided by an election and that the Bush administration has technically only been "elected" once since the Supreme Court's Decision in Bush v. Gore effectively nullified the popular vote. Anonymous sources inside the White House have corrborated that this may indeed be the Administration's plan. ...
Surge soldier likely killed by friendly fire, didn't get full training because Bush expedited "surge" by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/04/2007 11:09:00 PM ET
He was 18. Bush has destroyed the military, and is now sending virtual kids, unprepared, into battle. He has the nerve to talk about supporting the troops. His idea of support is killing our troops in order to assuage his own ego. Anyone and everyone who continues to support this war is complicit in this kid's death.
Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon | The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040407R.shtml
"It's become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King's death, we get perfunctory network news reports about 'the slain civil rights leader.' The remarkable thing about these reviews of King's life is that several years - his last years - are totally missing, as if flushed down a memory hole" write Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon.
William Fisher | The Right Seeks to Rein In Presidential Power
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040407J.shtml
William Fisher conducts an exclusive Truthout interview with Bruce Fein, who served as associate deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and is a founder of a conservative movement known as the Liberty Coalition. The Coalition has launched a new initiative, known as the American Freedom Agenda, in which leading voices in the conservative movement are demanding that the Democrat-controlled Congress restore checks and balances within the government and rein in the power of President George W. Bush.
William Rivers Pitt | And Then, Something Went Bump
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307J.shtml
William Rivers Pitt on Congress's surprisingly effective tactics on Iraq: "It took a while for the truth of what happened in all this to sink in, for the real muscle behind this withdrawal legislation to show itself. The fact of the matter is plain: The only people in America not talking about leaving Iraq are the ones in the White House and Pentagon because they never intended to leave in the first place and want no part of any exit plan, no matter how bloody and awful it gets over there. Therefore, no withdrawal plan can be effected in a tactical sense until the Bush administration is forced into abandoning its stay-forever pipe dreams."
Alice said... ""They"" should have been impeaching already, imo...I have no faith that there is actually anything he could do that would result in impeachment...
Buuuuut, I think we already know how I feel about the two parties.. ;)
April 5, 2007 12:07 AM
I think what I meant is that the people would then demand his impeachment.
Randi was talking about the 2 parties today and said we should have elections without the electoral college and that we should limit the amount of money that these candidates can raise. The "public networks" should give free time to the candidates and that corporations should not be allowed to donate to any political party. This way, anyone can run for president and have a chance through debates and free air time to have half a chance.
Saudi Arabia offers Kurds 2 billion dollars to give up Kirkuk dpa German Press Agency Published: Tuesday April 3, 2007
Baghdad- A Shiite newspaper published in Baghdad reported Tuesday that Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani had turned down a 2-billion-dollar offer from the Saudis in return for giving up demands to have oil-rich Kirkuk as the capital of Kurdistan. Al-Bianh al-Jadidah newspaper said that the Saudi offer was made to Barzani and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Borham Saleh when they visited Saudi Arabia last month.
The Saudis asked for a 10-year freeze on the Kurdish demand to incorporate Kirkuk in the north of Iraq into Kurdistan.
The newspaper said that an Iraqi government source, who did not want to be named, said both Barzani and Saleh had declined to give in to Saudi pressure to give up the "Kurds' historical rights to the city."
I mean we the people will demand that Bush be impeached. I really think the majority of people have had it with Bushco. I think they will demand that the House bring charges. They are not quite ready yet but if Bush tries that, I think the majority will then demand the impeachment.
"It is a wise person who will control the Antarctic and North Pole. Thousands of years old ice and fresh air is still there. Someday people will pay $10,000 for a glass of water from the poles. So if you have ownership over it, you will be rich. The depth of the ice cap is 800 meters. Suppose a deer is buried for thousands of years in that ice. Its meat will be fresh, and we can cook it, and one piece of meat will cost $1,000, paying even for the memory of eating a piece of meat that old. There are many frozen fish and animals there. Suppose you build a restaurant on this ice cap and drill hundreds of holes to find the frozen meat, and sell it for thousands of dollars a dish. Don’t you want to do this? You haven’t even thought about it, have you? I test the effects of aging on meat."
if you haven't then you cannot be King like Sun Myong Moon
i was thinking about your 22nd ammendment post and realized that the april fools joke is the part about cheney boosting morale.
if you consider the absolute crap that the right has put up for candidates running there is a lot of appeal to being able to suspend the 22nd ammendment in the time of war.
while we think impeachment would occur pretty fast if they tried this strategery, consider the mood of the country if you threw in a nooklear terror attack in the heartland.
i'm not saying they did 9-11 but i do believe they stood aside and let it happen. if such an attack happened it would be leveraged by these monsters in the same way the reichstagg fire was leveraged by hitler.
EU, Iran discussed nuclear dispute over phone after British crew's release
Over the weekend, the United Nations toughened sanctions on Iran over its failure to comply with the demand that it freeze enrichment of uranium, which can be used for nuclear weapons as well as generation of power. Tehran has steadfastly denied it wants to produce nuclear weapons.
The 27 EU nations had planned to discuss Iran's nuclear program over the weekend during a special meeting but were sidetracked by the seizure of the British crew.
The five permanent UN Security Council members - the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China - plus Germany insist that Tehran must freeze its enrichment work before any talks can begin on a package of economic and other incentives, including assistance for its nuclear power generation program.
Iran has remained defiant and announced last week it was partially suspending co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, by revoking a pledge to inform it of any plans to build new nuclear facilities.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's leading nuclear scientist said on Monday that it was just a question of time before Iran developed a nuclear weapon and it should be stopped.
The Islamic republic, facing a showdown with the United States over its nuclear ambitions, clearly has the know-how to make atomic weapons, said Yevgeny Velikhov, a leading physicist and close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"From a scientific point of view of course they could create nuclear weapons," Velikhov, president of Russia's Kurchatov Institute, told reporters. "When they could do it is a more difficult question."
"If you remember, U.S. scientists expected the Soviet Union would only be able to create a nuclear bomb by around 1954 at the earliest," he said.
"They were rather surprised when we created one in 1949," he said with a chuckle. Velikhov trained under Igor Kurchatov, the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project.
is anybody having issues with how the post a comment page is displayed. for me it used to be a 2 column page with comments on the left and the input form on the right. now i have comments at the top and the input box at the bottom in the center of the page.
this isn't bad for this but on the young turks their page shows up as a columnar list of overlapping divs.
Terry Williams of Monty Python wrote the hilarious comments on how the Iranians treated those British Seamen.... and how true his comments are. I love the way Blair takes credit for these people gaining their freedom, rather than thanking Iran, the ones who let them go of their own free will.. what a hypocrite!
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Syria mediating between Iran-Britain over sailors
hmmm. how much would it rock if pelosi secured their release. can't think of a better way to rub the shrubs nose in it.
The Rose Garden Offensive
Bush came out swinging against a Democratic Congress determined, he argues, to undo the benefits of the "surge." Time for a reality check. Finding the thorns in Bush's Rose Garden address.
The administration is justifiably worried that the new Congress will use its constitutional prerogative to cut off funding for the Iraq war at a time when, after four years of miscues, Bush thinks he's finally got the right strategy and team in place. But upon closer inspection, some of Bush's warnings suggest that the president is holding the Democrats to a different standard than he held his own party when it ruled Capitol Hill-and building a political case against Congress' course that doesn't quite add up.
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Yet previous Republican-controlled Congresses have left for spring recess without passing the sort of supplemental bill Bush was talking about. In 2006, the GOP Congress didn't approve the supplemental until the middle of June. Sen. Jack Reed, a leading Democratic member of the Armed Services Committee, told Newsweek that "there was no concern then about the dire consequence of running out of funds." Besides, Congress has already passed a huge $70 billion bridge fund last fall that will tide the troops over-even if the spending bill doesn't go through. (This was created because previous Congresses have been concerned that the administration tends to fund the war hand-to-mouth with supplemental bills, rather than asking for the money up front in its annual Defense budget.) "It's hard not to view this [Bush's charges] as somewhat hyped up," says Steve Kosiak of the Center for Strategic And Budgetary Assessments, a Washington-based military think tank. "In addition to [the bridge fund], the Pentagon can tap its regular budget for the last quarter of the fiscal year, and shift money from procurements with a long lead time, like a new armored fighting vehicles. It creates some inefficiencies, but it's part of the process."
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Did you see how they are working Pelosi...???
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Sympathy for the Axis of Evil...
What a photo..!!!
But she could be a useful idiot if it leads to release of the Brits..
Then the retribution can begin..!!!
Ya gotta love Hillary..
And don't forget Bill..
We are looking for an quick victory..!!!!!
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Hillary Leads in New Hampshire: Poll
A recent survey shows Hillary Clinton as the favorite among leading Democratic candidates for President at this point in the 2008 race for the White House.
But the former first lady's numbers have slipped.
The Granite State Poll surveyed 339 voters between March 27 and April 2 who say they are likely to vote in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire.
Clinton was the favorite with 27 percent of those polled, followed by John Edwards with 21 percent and Barak Obama with 20 percent.
Bring back the draft..
All 18 years olds should serve two years...
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"And I think also, everybody ought to be able to serve in this country," Murtha said. "I think we ought to not just have a select few who volunteer. I think everybody ought to be obligated to serve.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/04/did_white_house.php
It now looks like the White House might have actually been helping these House Republicans arrange their trip to Syria at the same time they were criticizing Pelosi for going there! Who's the source of this allegation? The chief of staff to one of the GOP Congressmen who went to Syria, that's who!
Take a look at this story from Pennsylvania's Lancaster Intelligencer Journal
I choose a conventional war with Iran and an end to the Axis of Evil...
The alternative is Nuclear Strike on Chicago by Iran in some latter (as already demonstrated) conflict with Iran..
Fight em now.. or Nuke em later..!!!
Bush more delusional than ever!
If you listened to his rant yesterday and the Q&A after, he can't grasp the idea that there can be a diplomatic resolution for Iraq.
And for support, Cheney lurking out of camera range. Why? Why wasn't he front and center. Why lurk?
Look WD, we are all on this little planet together and it would be better to get along.
We have a big job just fighting the elements! We don't have to create problems, nature gives them to us.
Your preaching to the choir..!!!
You need to sell that to the Car Bombers..
The 911 pilots..
The Axis of Evil...!!!
War Dog said...
Your preaching to the choir..!!!
You need to sell that to the Car Bombers..
The 911 pilots..
The Axis of Evil...!!!
April 4, 2007 7:53 AM
Just ask yourself why this problem exists in the first place.
The axis of evil is in Bush's mind and in the minds of his neocon advisors. They are only in it for the power and money. Please, do you ever talk normal, without these crazy talking points.
Drop them, they don't work anymore! People are tired of the same ole, same ole. They are now looking for solutions to the problems and that is something Bushco doesn't know how to do.
Example....Katrina!
Does Iran want this to be The Trigger...???
I would think not..!!!
Why not continue to build your bomb until someone stops you..
Priorities..!!!!
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Britons Split Over Military Action to Resolve Hostage Crisis
An ICM poll of 762 British voters found that 48 percent rejected force as a solution to the crisis even as a last resort. Forty-four percent of respondents approved of force if diplomacy failed.
In a separate question, 26 percent of the respondents thought that Britain should apologize to Iran.
However, 66 percent of respondents said they trusted Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett to resolve the situation.
Despite increasingly fractious relations between Blair and the opposition Conservative Party, Conservative leader David Cameron has told media organizations that the government has his full support.
FDA wants to loosen regulations with irradiated food
by Chris in Paris · 4/04/2007 03:27:00 AM ET
Forget about addressing core problems in the food industry, just zap it with some radiation and hope it all works out. Just ignore the issues about irradiating food such as the unknown long-term health effects on humans since testing is incomplete and don't think about the taste issues, because what does taste have to do with food? Another brilliant idea by the GOP run FDA who cares more about the Big Food industry and less about human consumers. Who wants to eat radiated food?
The FDA also proposed letting companies use the term “pasteurized” to describe irradiated foods. To do so, they would have to show the FDA that the radiation kills germs as well as the pasteurization process does. Pasteurization typically involves heating a product to a high temperature and then cooling it rapidly.
In addition, the proposal would let companies petition the agency to use additional alternate terms other than “irradiated,” something already allowed by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 but that no firms have pursued, according to the FDA.
Yes, note the year 2002. These were high times for the GOP who delivered everything industry lobbyists wanted while ignoring concerns from consumers. Pick your issue and it's clear who the GOP sided with. Looking at the actions of the FDA during the Bush years and you could easily forget that they are there to protect consumers.
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The only way we have to test your theory is to allow the Terrorist to attack us AGAIN..
Drop our defenses..
Take off the pressure..
Isn't that exactly what we were doing before 911..???
Now Iran wants to up the anti with a Nuclear Weapon..
Do you think the Jihad is over..???
Do you think they have learned their lesson..???
You must view the War on Terror as one might view the War on Crime..
You can't disarm the police..
Or have them stand down..
Fighting Crime is a daily task..
Just as Fighting Terrorism is a daily task..
Until the Axis of Evil has been replaced with governments that are interested in peace..
We must fight on.!!!!
I collapsed your posts WD. Until you get some new talking points.
You are getting boring now.
Later
And that is the long term goal of the War Dog Plan...
To collapse the Axis of Evil and replace it with governments that seek peace..
Ha ha ha ha ha ha..
Cover you eyes..
Hide from reality...
Create a pretend world..
It will only delay the inevitable..
Sooner or later you must face the truth...
It's so Liberal to want the rewards of peace without doing the Work of War..
It's not like we have have a draft and expect you take up arms..
All we ask is that you pay your taxes and Support the Mission..
We have a Professional Combat Force that is more than willing to fight and win this war..
But your desire for Peace Now will lead to your destruction if you do not have the discipline to do what is rights..
This is true with everything in the world..!!!
Liberalism lives on the rule of short-cuts...
Reward before work..
Reward without work..
You must do the work..
It is true in school...
It is true in business..
Relationships with a spouse..
Raising children..
Taking care of your health..
Preparing for retirement..
It is a rightful law of the world..
How long has Old Yeller been frothing?
(whine)
This is sad.
(whine)
Very sad.
owoooOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
OK
Time for sausages!
If you do drugs your body falls apart and you die young..
IF you eat right and exercise you get stronger and live longer..
If you work hard when you are young..
You can retire and enjoy life when you are older..
These are simple rules...
If you fight Terrorism Now..
You will earn peace Later...
Do the Work...
That is the American Way..!!!!
Dubai Buyout of Carlyle Aerospace Units
WASHINGTON — A $1.8 billion pending deal by Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Ltd. to buy private-equity firm Carlyle Group's aviation business is unlikely to set off a furor by U.S. lawmakers, according to analysts.
A politically charged election season, rising national security concerns and the element of surprise were all converging factors that created a perfect storm last year over the proposed Dubai Ports World deal. The state-owned ports operator was seeking to buy six of the nation's largest ports but was stopped by U.S. lawmakers over national security concerns that the United Arab Emirates-based company would be running security at U.S. ports.
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"The White House has given permission for a company owned by the government of Dubai to run six U.S. ports, including the Port of New York. Now Dubai was accused of supporting the September 11th attacks and was one of only three countries to support the Taliban. Now they're going to run the Port of New York. What's next, we'll put Mexico in charge of immigration? How about Dick Cheney in charge of gun safety? Courtney Love in charge of Olympic drug testing?"
--Jay Leno
That is why most folks out grow Liberalism as they learn the lessons of life..
Can you believe I voted for Jimmy Carter when I was young..???
But I grew up...
You can not be Peter Pan...
Peter Pan is Pretend..
You can not live a Pretend Life..
But not all folks do grow up..
Some live in Pretend worlds..
Pretend they don't have to work..
Pretend they can smoke grass do fine..
Pretend they don't need a spouse..
On and on they go...
And that's fine..
Until they think they can negotiate with Terrorists..
Until they ask to weaken the National Defense..
Then the Adults must step in and take charge...
It has always been this way...
Air America is perfect example of Failed Liberalism...
They didn't respect the laws or Capitalism..
AAR thought they could live in a pretend world..
But the Laws of Capitalism can not be ignored..
There is always an outcome for your actions, as Air America continues to learn...!!!
That's why I like Hillary...
Hillary has learned her lessons..
Hillary respects Capitalism and Money..
Hillary understands National Defense..
You can work with Hillary..!!!
And best of all...
She keeps the Liberal Crazy Talkers sidelined..!!!
It's showtime...
Wake up Sam and start a New Show Thread...
Everyone must still do their job.!!!!
Roving Protest
by Steven D
Wed Apr 4th, 2007 at 07:28:47 AM EST
No wonder neither Bush nor Cheney wanted to appear before an "unfiltered" crowd to throw out the first pitch of the new baseball season. Look what happened to the "Architect" last night:
Heckling protesters briefly delayed the car carrying top White House aide Karl Rove last night as he left the American University campus, where he had just given a speech. No arrests or injuries were reported after Rove's invitation-only talk.
About 20 students lay in front of the car as it prepared to leave, a witness said.
Josh Goodman, an AU junior, said other students kicked the car "and tried to stop it as best as they could."
He said the car, with Rove in the back seat, left after those in front of it "were all pulled away."
I can't remember this happening to any of Clinton's staff, can you? The level of animosity toward this administration in the country is the highest I can recall since the Nixon years. And even then Tricky Dick felt comfortable enough to go to the Lincoln Memorial and talk to anti-war protesters one on one.
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War Dog said...
Air America is perfect example of Failed Liberalism...
They didn't respect the laws or Capitalism..
AAR thought they could live in a pretend world..
But the Laws of Capitalism can not be ignored..
There is always an outcome for your actions, as Air America continues to learn...!!!
April 4, 2007 8:56 AM
Yeah, like Bush is feeling now. Look at his outcomes!!! But he has a past of failures.
Hey, everybody. How ya doin' today? It's like groovy around here. I like it. That WarDog troll is, like, a real bummer. I think he's taken, like, one toke to many from the old military-industrial-complex humvee exhaust pipe.
Stay cool.
Looks like the British Marines and Sailors are going to be on their way home soon.
Soledad O'Brien was fired?
Iran President pardons 15 British sailors and marines and is sending them home.
No more Sam
sucks
hi ToniD
have a good day!
-conbo
The House Armed Services Committee has said it will stop using the phrase “global war on terror.” A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says defense policy should be specific about military operations and “avoid using colloquialisms.”
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Hi Connie. You too.
Are you not staying?
Mark Morford, 2003 said... 5;23 or so.
Morford is getting good at this 'satire' stuff.
up early,
just forgot to put the top on the codffee maker.
just cleaned up a quart of coffee on the counter and under the nuker and the floor and drawers...
having my first cup after all that...
good mornin!
Back later today!
Breaking: Iran to release British hostages. “President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran would free the 15 detained British sailors and marines as a gift to the British people. He pardoned the sailors and announced they would be released following a news conference at which he pinned a medal on the chest of the Iranian coast guard commander who intercepted the sailors and marines in the northern Gulf on March 23.”
From the NY Times, whose link won't work for me right now.
Right Wing Smears Pelosi As ‘Subservient’ For Wearing Scarf - What About Laura Bush?
Yesterday, right-wing Internet gossip Matt Drudge posted a photo of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wearing a headscarf while visiting the tomb of John the Baptist inside the Umayyad mosque in Damascus.
As Mahablog points out, right-wing is now seething:
HotAir: “The campaign commercial practically writes itself. Ah well. A woman must know her place when entering a mosque. … It pains the left too, I’m sure, to see the most powerful woman in America having to yield, however slightly, to a misogynistic culture’s expectations, but they can’t vent their anger at the people responsible so they’ll vent it at Charles or me or whomever instead.”
Instapundit: FEMINIST IN AMERICA, subservient in Syria.
The New Editor: “This picture disgusts me. What message is Nancy Pelosi trying to send? Are women equal to men, or not? Why is modesty foisted only upon women?”
Little Green Footballs: “Pelosi in a Hijab. The modern Democratic leadership. How … quaint.”
Apparently they never saw Laura Bush when she visited al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem:
Photo here
This is great. Obviously recorded on somebody's phone...grainy. "Go To Jail, Karl!!"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/04/04/students-pelt-rove-after-_n_44959.html
TMZ has confirmed through sources that Miles O'Brien and Soledad O'Brien have been officially booted as anchors of CNN's "American Morning."
Their replacements will be John Roberts and Kiran Chetry. CNN recently hired Chetry after she got the ax from FOX News Channel.
Sources say the move will be effective in two to three weeks. We're told both O'Briens will remain at CNN.
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Prosecutor scandal beginning of Bush’s end
About a year from now, pundits and instant historians will point back at the firing of the federal prosecutors and say, “That’s where the impeachment began.”
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Reid: Bush is not
King of the United States
"He is president of the United States, not king of the United States," Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) told reporters in his home state. "He has another branch of government, a legislative branch of government, he has to deal with."
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And unfortunately Rahm is from my state, thank God, not my district. Although, I have a repub, Roskam!
Don't know which is worse!
if the government says its legal then you're not doing anything wrong.
wow. whatever happened to the notion of personal responsibility?
i think walmart has played a large role in destroying the middle class. when they come into a town they destroy the local stores and facilities that your neighbors have worked all their lives to build.
it's like having a book burning without having to touch all them ding dong dang books.
mornin ferns.
Obama reports: $25 million collected for Campaign funds!
Not to mention, the items they are selling. Recent recall of children's bracelets, made in China, with lead-paint. This is what we are in for when we rely on foreign manufactured items. And wasn't it China that produced the gluten that poisoned our pets and could also be used for human consumption. They don't have to physical invade our country and drop bombs. We will buy our own demise.
Hi Ja!!
You're kicking butt, Lee!
"ferns"! I haven't heard that in a long time.
EFF WAL MART!
PLEEEEEZE!!!!
Jah!
fernmaster general!
I'm in this for me.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Army has warned program managers to prepare for a possible money crunch if President Bush vetoes an emergency war spending bill that calls for the eventual withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq.
But analysts say Pentagon staff will be the first to face cuts.
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these f*tards have no shame. next thing you know they will be saying the current bill hurts grandmas and children. why don't people wake up and realize that the only person hurting the troops is bush because of his refusal to sign the legislation.
President Bush intends to bypass the Senate in order to name a "conservative academic" to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Wednesday's Wall Street Journal reports.
"Bypassing a reluctant Senate, President Bush will use a recess appointment to name a conservative academic to the White House's top regulatory post," Henry Pulizzi writes for WSJ. "The move, expected to be announced today, will fill a position that has been vacant for more than a year, and could help the White House use the regulatory process to shape policy."
According to the paper, "Susan Dudley, the former head of regulatory studies at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, has generated opposition from environmentalists and liberal interest groups, who say she would carry out a pro-business agenda at the expense of public health and safety."
Saturday's LA Times noted that Dudley, and two others that the president wishes to appoint "have ties to industries that face costly Environmental Protection Agency restrictions, and all three have previously bypassed or questioned the EPA's scientific process."
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WalMart revenue DOES NOT stay in the community...they dont even use local banks!
i disagree with this guy who says the railroads are putting trucks out of business. the rails are the most efficient way to move large quantities. the real issue is that with each passing day we are destroying our infrastructure. just look around at all the empty factorys.
anyone seen "freedom to fascism"?
explains how we're not legally liable to pay income tax?
I'd advise checkin it out if you got time.
Guliani on Hannity last night was a hoot, caught it at the truckstop,
"i will keep America on the offensive!"
I think we're offensive enough thank you.
also, spoke with this danish couchsurfer who crashed with us this weekend, he thinks America is in decline, and none of our "allies" will be there when we need them twenty years down the road once our economy reaches third world status.
fun stuff.
Ladies...
you make it hard to stay away.
phhhiladelphia freeedom!
toniD was writing about recess appointments and how president custer intends to abuse them to put one of his hacks in place. i did some checking and the only thing i could find that could be used to check this is that congress can vote to withhold the salary for the position.
http://www.thisnation.com/question/010.html
interesting concept. if only the dems would follow thru.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is delaying his formal entry into the presidential campaign to deliver a “major speech on Iraq” on April 11 at the Virginia Military Institute. McCain “now faces a forest of hurdles, including continued skepticism from the party’s conservative base and mocking coverage of his televised assertions that Iraq is safer than portrayed by the media.”
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"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father, I snorted my father," he told the New Musical Express (NME).
"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow (cocaine). My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a shit.
"It went down pretty well and I'm still alive."
I thought that was the funniest story of the day til i saw the Cheney hides behind shrub.
thats a goooooood visual.
he was probably just checkin his xyzzz's
Mitt Romney Unveils Secret Plan To End The War »
Speaking on ABC’s Good Morning America, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) said that he supports setting a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq — but only if it’s a secret time line.
Asked yesterday by Hannah Storm if he would “set a deadline for bringing the troops home,” Romney said only that he “wouldn’t publish it for my adversaries to see.” Romney added, “I would certainly sit down with al-Maliki as well as his government, plot out a series of milestones, timetables as well, measure how well they’re doing. But that’s not something you’d publish for the enemy to understand.”
Watch it:
Richard Nixon “campaigned in 1968 by saying he had a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam.” His Defense Secretary Melvin Laird later wrote, “Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 on the assumption that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. He didn’t have any such plan.” In fact, the war dragged on, leading to over 20,000 American deaths.
Creating a secret Iraq timeline, as Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) also proposed last week, would be pointless. The key purpose of a public timeline is to make clear to the Iraqi people and their government that the U.S. does not have an open-ended commitment to Iraq, and to use that fact to pressure Iraqi politicians to make compromises.
Making it secret won’t actually prevent Iraqis from knowing when the U.S. is leaving; there’s no subtle way to pack up and move 145,000 troops and their equipment.
Romney is just desperate to thread the needle between supporting Bush and distancing himself from the war, so much so that he’s willing to embrace completely absurd ideas.
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what benefit exists for delaying the formal annoucement of a presidential campaign? are there legal issues about what you can and can't do or can can can't say?
so what if god was a woman? would she still have that "special" time of the month?
blah blah blah said...
toniD was writing about recess appointments and how president custer intends to abuse them to put one of his hacks in place. i did some checking and the only thing i could find that could be used to check this is that congress can vote to withhold the salary for the position.
http://www.thisnation.com/question/010.html
interesting concept. if only the dems would follow thru.
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Send them emails! Ask them to do this. I will!
I am with you on the Connections Lee! I believe we are so connected that you can legitimately say things such as: Oil Royalty = Pilate; BushCo = Herod; All Innocent Dead = Jesus; and that's not an arbitrary symbol, but a literal concrete fact.
The opposing point of view, if one were able to get them to admit that all concrete phenomena interact, would say that the causes and effects are so miniscule as to not matter enough to be worth doing anythig about. My counter to that point is that the smallest things are the easiest to change, larger more macrosmic phenomena are often beyond most individual's ability to affect. So one's "guilt" in rejecting one's responsibility to do even the smallest things is greater than not doing the larger things.
Jezus Christ rolling in his grave? :)
Rayburn should have his own show. Great topic. Very engaging.
I am still handsome!!!
Re: Walmart
Walmart is a retailer and like all retailer they note the fashions. Environmentalism is back in fashion and they are ready to promote. I say "let them".
The good news is that with so many stores and trucks, their environmentalism may actually have a worthwhile impact. As a competitive business, they may also set a trend for other businesses to follow suit... let them.
Walmart is moving gradually toward better corporate citizenship, not just with their new energy efficiency, but also how they helped out in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. I hope that the more they move in this direction, they will be encouraged.
I'm watching and waiting for Walmart's labor practices to improve. When they do for both their workers and their suppliers they will finally get my business.
Lee Rayburn -
You have risen to a place among my favorites, along side Rachel Maddow and Thom Hartman.
Do you have your own blog or website?
There won't be a single good thing that will happen that will decide if we have a future.
There will be a single bad thing that will be the impetus.
We are in a place in time where it will take a huge hit of negative energy to move us.
prism said...
There won't be a single good thing that will happen that will decide if we have a future.
There will be a single bad thing that will be the impetus.
We are in a place in time where it will take a huge hit of negative energy to move us.
April 4, 2007 11:56 AM
Like a bad recession. I see that happening, unfortunately.
Yesterday it was sunny and seventy nine degrees.
Today, it is snowing like a sonumbitch and the wind is blowing 40 miles per hour.
Don't you love spring?
The weather changes minute to minute.
Happy Birthday, Jenise!!
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)
On April 1, 1976, British astronomer Patrick Moore told his radio listeners that a rare configuration of Jupiter and Pluto was occurring. So dramatically would it affect Earth's gravity, he said, that they might feel lighter than usual, and perhaps even be able to float up into the air. I'm wondering if we can expect a similar phenomena this week. There's a rare grand trine in fire signs, with Jupiter in Sagittarius, Saturn in Leo, and the sun in Aries. Especially for you, the buoyancy factor will be in full play, and levels of levity will be at a maximum. If you can't actually fly, you'll probably get higher than you've been in a long time.
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Flowers…
The psychics on art bell's shows say so too...
From Shakesville, formerly Shakespear Sisters:
The Times sharply criticized Pres. Bush today for essentially telling Americans they are too emotional about Iraq for their opinions to be taken seriously:
President Bush and his advisers have made a lot of ridiculous charges about critics of the war in Iraq: they’re unpatriotic, they want the terrorists to win, they don’t support the troops, to cite just a few. But none of these seem quite as absurd as President Bush’s latest suggestion, that critics of the war whose children are at risk are too “emotional” to see things clearly. The direct target was Matthew Dowd, one of the chief strategists of Mr. Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign, who has grown disillusioned with the president and the war, which he made clear in an interview with Jim Rutenberg published in The Times last Sunday. But by extension, Mr. Bush’s comments were insulting to the hundreds of thousands of Americans whose sons, daughters, sisters, brothers and spouses have served or will serve in Iraq.
Continue reading “New York Times To Bush: Stop Infantilizing Americans”
Rove Delayed and Heckled
By Melissa McEwan
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
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Just where do you think you’re going, Turd Blossom?
Heckling protesters briefly delayed the car carrying top White House aide Karl Rove last night as he left the American University campus, where he had just given a speech. No arrests or injuries were reported after Rove’s invitation-only talk.
About 20 students lay in front of the car as it prepared to leave, a witness said.
Josh Goodman, an AU junior, said other students kicked the car “and tried to stop it as best as they could.”
Why were these crazy kids trying to stop Rove from leaving?
Goodman said students went to the Ward Circle building where Rove spoke to make a “citizen’s arrest” of the presidential adviser. He said the students claimed they had compiled evidence indicating that Rove had violated what they say is a presidential records act stipulating that all presidential e-mail be recorded on White House servers.
Aww, that’s adorable!
Boy, you know an administration is corrupt when campus radicals are trying to make citizen’s arrests as an act of protest.
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WalMart's shift means the tide has turned.
They wanna maintain the breaks they've gotten all along, which means sucking up to power
lee rayburn should xercise some call control.
ABC: U.S. Engaged in Secret War With Iran
ABC News is reporting the U.S. is engaged in a secret war with Iran. Since 2005, U.S. officials have been advising a Pakistani tribal militant group with ties to the Taliban on how to carry out deadly guerilla raids inside Iran. The Pakistani group – called Jundullah -- has taken responsibility for the deaths and kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials. Most recently, Jundullah took credit for a bus bombing that killed at least 11 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in February. Officials say the U.S. relationship with Jundullah is arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would require an official presidential order or "finding" as well as congressional oversight. Some former CIA officers say the arrangement is reminiscent of how the U.S. government used proxy armies to destabilize the government of Nicaragua in the 1980s.
Waxman seeks e-mails on potential misuse of agency for 2008 elections Michael Roston
Published: Wednesday April 4, 2007
The Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today requested e-mails from the Republican National Committee related to the possible misuse of federal government employees and resources for political purposes.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) warned that there were "Serious questions...about the legality and propriety" of a presentation delivered by a top White House aide, J. Scott Jennings, to General Services Administration appointees on the 2008 Elections. Some GSA political appointees reportedly asked how they could use their agency to contribute to Republican political gains in the 2008 elections.
Waxman therefore asked for all e-mails relating to the matter on Republican National Committee servers.
"I request that you provide any electronic messages sent or received by Karl Rove, J. Scott Jennings, or any other White House officials using accounts maintained by the RNC that relate to (1) the January 26, 2007, PowerPoint presentation at GSA, (2) the presentation of any similar political briefings at other federal agencies or to other federal employees, or (3) the use of federal agencies or resources to help Republican candidates," he wrote to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan.
Last week, RAW STORY reported on the hearing of the House committee in which GSA Administrator Laurita A. Doan was heavily questioned. One slide from the hearing, also featured at RAW STORY, showed 20 House Democrats that the White House believed were potential targets for defeat in the 2008 Elections.
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Students protest Cheney visit to Brigham Young University David Edwards and Ron Brynaert
Published: Wednesday April 4, 2007
Although a planned commencement address by Vice President Dick Cheney isn't supposed to be political in nature, many students and faculty at a Mormon Church owned university are up in arms that he was invited in the first place.
"Some students and faculty on one of the nation's most conservative campuses want Brigham Young University to withdraw an invitation for Vice President Dick Cheney to speak at commencement later this month," the Associated Press reports.
"Critics at the school question whether Cheney sets a good example for graduates, citing his promotion of faulty intelligence before the Iraq war and his role in the CIA leak scandal," Debbie Hummel reports for the AP. "The private university, which is owned by the Mormon church, has 'a heavy emphasis on personal honesty and integrity in all we do,' said Warner Woodworth, a professor at BYU's business school. 'Cheney just doesn't measure up,' he said."
"Dueling Dick rallies" were held on the BYU campus today, as College Republicans "received approval for their own rally, at the same time, near the same location, as the College Democrats."
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"Dueling Dick rallies"
i'll pass.
has anybody noticed the absolute silence from the white house about the british hostages being released. god forbid they acknowledge that diplomacy works.
meantime, the right wing smear machine is ripping the hostages as a bunch of pussies.
What kind of traitor (sam seder) would continue to protect the real mass murders of 911 by reiterating the false and fraudulent official story over and over again?
NO STEEL FRAME BUILDING IN HISTORY HAS COLLASPED DUE TO FIRE.
NO BUILDING IN HISTORY HAS COLLASPED AT FREE FALL SPEED WITHOUT HAVING ITS STRUCTURE BLOWN APART BY EXPLOSIVES.
NO PLANE WAS FOUND AT THE PENTAGON (THE OFFICAL STORY SAYS IT MELTED!!!!!)
MOLTEN METAL BURNED FOR THREE WEEKS IN THE BASEMENT OF THE TWIN TOWERS. jet fuel??? WE THINK NOT, TRAITOR.
7 OF THE 19 "HIJACKERS" HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO BE ALIVE AND WELL.
TOWER 7 “COLLASPED” IN SPITE OF NEVER BEING HIT BY ANYTHING.
SILVERSTEIN, THE OWNER/LEASE HOLDER OF THE TOWERS IS ON RECORD AS SAYING HE ORDERED THAT TOWER 7 BE PULLED. HOW COULD IT BE “PULLED” (DEMOLISHED) IN SHORT ORDER IF THE EXPLOSIVES HAD NOT ALREADY BEEN PLANTED?
ON TAPES OF RADIO TRANSMISSIONS ONLY DECLASIFIED BY THE JUSTICE DEPT LAST YEAR, THE NYFD, CAN BE HEARD SAYING THERE WERE ONLY VERY SMALL FIRES AND THEY COULD KNOCK THEM DOWN WITH TWO LINES OF MEN.
THESE RADIO TRANSMISSIONS ARE CLEAR AS A BELL AND HAPPENED MOMENTS BEFORE THE “COLLASPE”. The radios appeared to be working fine that day.
Those same firefighters said they heard explosions going off in various parts of the building.
Physicist Steven Jones of BYU has published two papers that conclude thermite and/or thermate were used as part of the explosive charges that brought the buildings down. He was asked to retire early. He is a pioneer in fusion research.
The day before 911, Donald Rumsfeld announced the disappearance of over 2 trillion dollars!!!!
The Pentagon was hit exactly where those records were kept. No one has mentioned the missing 2 trillion since.
Most witness statements at the Towers and the Pentagon say that explosions were going off BEFORE the attacks. The clocks at the Pentagon were knocked off the wall and broken five minutes before the “attacks”.
The Smithsonian has displayed one such clock for years now.
You know the truth. FREE THE PEOPLE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO IT SAMMY
ALL IN CAPS scott
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I noticed that too. Not anything except that they are glad the sailors were released.
Wouldn't it be funny if Ahmadinajad did that on purpose to slam Bush. He also said he released the sailors and marines as a favor.
Iran releases British captives
Blair upbeat; US: Not linked to Iranians; CNN: 'Won't defuse tensions.'
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WASH POST: "Where Candidates Money Comes From Doesn't Matter"
By David Sirota
I said yesterday that Beltway journalists aren't reporting on where political money is coming from probably out of sheer laziness. But I was wrong. As an interchange on MSNBC's Keith Olbermann showed last night, many of them want the public to believe hundreds of millions of dollars of special interest campaign cash buys absolutely nothing - that, in effect, K Street finances candidates out of the goodness of its heart. Yes, here was Washington Post political reporter on Olbermann's show last night, deflecting a question on where Mitt Romney's $20+ million in campaign cash came from, and whether it buys anything:
"History has taught that where money comes from doesn't matter all that much."
That's right, folks - all that Texas oil money flooding into the RNC and the Bush campaign has absolutely nothing to do with, say, the Energy Bill that gives away massive tax breaks to - shocker! - Texas oil companies. All that pharmaceutical industry campaign cash had positively no relation to Congress allowing the drug companies to write the Medicare bill. Oh and all that New York money from Wall Street flowing into Democratic campaign coffers? Yeah, that has nothing to do with Democrats still refusing to, say, reform America's lobbyist-written trade policies.
WASH POST: "Where Candidates Money Comes From Doesn't Matter"
thats a gem toniD. what's sad is that there are a lot of people that would hear that and agree.
personally i think its big money that has corrupted the entire system. but because we need money to make the wheels go round, the problem will never be fixed.
has anybody noticed the absolute silence from the white house about the british hostages being released. god forbid they acknowledge that diplomacy works.
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This is kind of diplomacy that does work...
The Brits were talkin to Iran with a Baseball bat held behind there back....
The Iranians knew the Brits would use the bat...
The Brits knew they may have to use the bat...
Iran knows they want to go back to building bombs..
We know Iran will go back to building bombs..
Another day will come when it will in the worlds interest to use that bat...
Iran hope to forestall that day long enough to go Nuclear..
It will fall to Hillary to crush that idea...!!!!!
Iran's mistake is in making it easier and easier for us to use that bat...
Did the GOP Congress ever provide any oversight at all?
by Chris in Paris · 4/04/2007 03:09:00 PM ET
They should be embarrassed with the pathetic job they did and send back their paychecks. Pick your subject and it's always the exact same story. The Republican Congress consistently opted to let things just somehow work out instead of providing oversight and supporting consumers. Keep in mind that big business is on a major PR offensive right now, crying that they are over-regulated and that they need to be dealt a free hand with business. Sorry folks, but that is precisely what they had for the last few years and they dropped the ball.
Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) scolded the five members of the Federal Communications Commission when he finally got them before a powerful subcommittee last month.
The FCC botched handling of cable television franchising, racked up a backlog of unanswered consumer complaints, and dallied on various disputes between industry rivals with little oversight from the previous Republican-controlled Congress in recent years, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said in the March 14 hearing.
Within days, word spread that the FCC was accelerating efforts to complete action on about 150 pending matters -- from regulating cable television service in apartment buildings to settling quarrels over the distribution of telecommunications funds in rural areas. Some analysts saw the move as a direct response to lawmakers' complaints.
LINK
Rice trying to dodge hearing on Iraq-Niger documents Michael Roston
Published: Wednesday April 4, 2007
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears to be seeking to avoid testifying before a committee hearing concerning the intelligence used to justify the Iraq War and other matters, according to a report in today's Washington Post.
Al Kamen, author of the Post's "In The Loop" column, reported today that an Assistant Secretary of State wrote to Rep. Henry Waxman and said the State Department had responded to most of the requests for information sent to the Secretary of State by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
"'Our records reflect that you have sent 49 individual letters . . . since 2003, 21 of which' went to Rice, [Jeffrey T. Bergner, assistant secretary for legislative affairs] wrote, and with the exception of one letter they haven't been able to find and a few recent ones they're working on, she's responded to everything," the letter said, as Al Kamen reported today.
Kamen added that because of these earlier replies, the State Department was hoping the April 18 hearing the House Committee had scheduled would be canceled.
"'I'm sure that this thorough and comprehensive' response, department spokesman Sean McCormack said yesterday, will be sufficient to 'obviate the need' for a formal hearing," Kamen wrote.
LINK
FLASHBACK: Hastert Traveled Abroad, Told Foreign Leaders Not To Listen To Clinton
President Bush yesterday said Speaker Pelosi’s bipartisan delegation to Syria sends “mixed signals,” implying that Pelosi overstepped her bounds by visiting Syria. Bush’s supporters have been repeating the argument:
Former ambassador John Bolton: “I would simply hope that people would understand that, under the Constitution, the president conducts foreign policy, not the speaker of the House.”
Former Gov. Mitt Romney: “It has long been the established principle of this country that the president of the United States leads our foreign policy. And if you don’t like the president, then you change him. But you don’t have the two parties each conducting foreign policy in the way they think it ought to be conducted.”
Thomas Sowell: “Until Nancy Pelosi came along, it was understood by all that we had only one president at a time and — like him or not — he alone had the Constitutional authority to speak for this country to foreign nations, especially in wartime.”
Speaker Pelosi has done nothing to suggest that she intended to speak on behalf of President Bush or the U.S. Government. But her predecessors haven’t been so respectful.
In 1997, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) led a delegation to Colombia and specifically encouraged military officials there to “bypass” President Clinton and “communicate directly with Congress.”
At the same time Congress was attaching human rights conditions to U.S. security assistance programs and negotiating a formal end-use monitoring agreement with the Colombian defense ministry, other lawmakers were secretly assuring Colombian officials that they felt such restrictions were unwarranted, and would work to either remove the conditions or limit their effectiveness.
One example of this was a congressional delegation led by Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) which met with Colombian military officials, promising to “remove conditions on assistance” and complaining about “leftist-dominated” U.S. congresses of years past that “used human rights as an excuse to aid the left in other countries.” Hastert said he would to correct this situation and expedite aid to countries allied in the war on drugs and also encouraged Colombian military officials to “bypass the U.S. executive branch and communicate directly with Congress.”
Subsequently, U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Myles Frechette sent a cable complaining that Hastert told Colombian military officials to “take a tough line and wait for [the U.S. government’s] insistence on human rights conditions to be overwhelmed by the pressure of events,” saying it had undermined his leverage with the Colombian military leadership.
LINK
Back and forth. Back and forth.
No progress.
Just back and forth.
82 percent: Number of Americans who “say the world is becoming more dangerous for the United States and its people, with 48 percent saying ‘much more dangerous.’” Seventy-three percent “say the United States is not doing a good job as a leader in creating a more peaceful and prosperous world.”
LINK
well war dog, seems we both admire teddy "Speak softly and carry a big stick" roosevelt. personally i don't have a problem if we glass the nuclear facilities in iran, although i would prefer that it not be done by a psychopath. perhaps the israeli's could do us a favor.
the question is whether we are tough enough to deal with the consequences. oil would go thru the roof. russia might respond by attacking us. the iranians might retailiate with conventional terrorism or perhaps their scientists have some tricks up their sleeves with virus's.
meanwhile if you follow the money, the germans, russians, and french are all making a lot of money off of iranian nuclear development. so who is our real enemy?
Tainted food from a foreign country -- where's Homeland Security?
Oh, wait, this is from China. They're the good guys. If this were from Saudi Arabia, then they'd be interested.
Oh, wait. The Saudis are good guys too...
Our food was poisoned. We saw how the government reacted. Feel safer now?
yam | 04.04.07 - 3:04 pm | #
Any of the Constitutional scholars here at Sederrific tell us what the Constitutional powers the Speaker of the House has to engage in foreign policy of this sort?
Anonymous said...
Any of the Constitutional scholars here at Sederrific tell us what the Constitutional powers the Speaker of the House has to engage in foreign policy of this sort?
not sure what you're complaining about since your boy bushwa shredded the constitution when it was convenient. and there was that little bit with the pubes (hastert for example) end running clinton but that doesn't count does it.
Hi girls!
I'm naked right now and I just sprinkled my nuts with baby powder!
oh my ....
this is so adorable
http://pscelebrities.com/mrr/bandwkitties.bmp
makes you want to forget the scary scary R.A.T.S. as anon called them upthread - so don't forget to vote Dem - cause its all about the Supreme Court IMHO
toniD,
we are to pick up our cat this afternoon from the Vet's office because her blood sugar is stabilized again and the urinary tract infection is getting better from the anti-bio meds. Her kidneys are ok so we are hopeful she will get back to normal and attack our sofa again. Back next week for check-up. Thanks for asking :)
What about Sam's Sunday program? Is it a sure thing? Have you heard anything about that?
Hi bridge. Glad kitty is okay!!
I haven't heard squat about anything more than I reported.
Guess we'll hear tomorrow.
bibimimi troll'p said...
Tainted food from a foreign country -- where's Homeland Security?
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bibi,
indeed.
I also listened to a pet food recall segment on CNN late last night and someone from petconnections (I think thats what it was) said that lots of pets could have been saved had the recall started earlier. So Pet owners spent thousands at the Vet to get their pets better but when cats and dogs returned home they ate the same tainted food again and died. Its terrible.
Have to go to work for a couple of hours.
Later
Is it possible to collapse troll posts all at once?
I have been scrolling by troll's posts for years now but collapsing all the posts before reading the thread would be great.
bridge said...
Is it possible to collapse troll posts all at once?
no, and as soon as you refresh...they all display again.
I wanna big goddamn red IGNORE button
Ken Lay is still alive...pass it on
So Pet owners spent thousands at the Vet to get their pets better but when cats and dogs returned home they ate the same tainted food again and died. Its terrible.
April 4, 2007 4:59 PM
all out of pocket. a class action suit will follow, nd it ain't about $. They knew about it on 3/8 and they didn't release the advisory until 3/20. PDB-like...
re Madam Speaker's visit to Syria
Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarboro giggled themselves silly that Republicans are visiting Syria as well - but nobody cares cause busy getting their knickers in a twist over Speaker's visit. Looks like Mr. Prez forgot his own people are there, too.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/04/news/pelosi.php
"At the White House on Tuesday, Bush told reporters that he saw little point in talking to Syria now.
"Sending delegations hasn't worked," he said. "It's just simply been counterproductive."
Even so, three Republican congressmen - Robert Aderholt of Alabama, Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania and Frank Wolf of Virginia - visited Syria separately and met with Assad on Sunday. And a senior American diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey, held talks in Damascus last month with Syrian officials about an influx of Iraqi refugees. Bush did not mention those visits in his remarks Tuesday"
It is both ridiculous and disheartening to see the effort that the U.S. put into protecting John McCain on his recent visit to Iraq, while millions of people in the world are in dire need of change and protection. One in every five people who live in poverty survive on less than a dollar a day. This is a global concern that must be addressed immediately. Instead of going to excessive limits to protect one political leader, efforts should be made to provide security to people who barely survive each day. My hope is that the Millennium Development Goals will achieve this by eradicating global poverty by 2025 as proposed by 191 world leaders seven years ago.
I'm naked right now and I just sprinkled my nuts with baby powder!
April 4, 2007 4:43 PM
you lucky boy!
"all out of pocket. a class action suit will follow, nd it ain't about $. They knew about it on 3/8 and they didn't release the advisory until 3/20. PDB-like..."
Yes. Lets get those %$^&*$%!!!
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Too bad one cannot collapse the whole lot. Absolutely. Red IGNORE button, please!
P.S. Ken Lay is still alive...pass it on
Does anyone have the URL for that site where you can practice html?
I thought the word 'practice' was in the address, but not sure now...
www.practiceboard.com
Have a moment b4 I go.
Sam Fox was just made ambassador. Bush used his recess appointment.
BREAKING: Bush names Swift Boat funder as ambassador. AP reports:
“President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination. …
Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. On Wednesday, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.
This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency.”
UPDATE: The White House originally said that it had pulled Fox because “his nomination would not have passed” the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fox donated $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
UPDATE II: Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) responds: “I seriously question the legality of the President’s use of the recess appointment authority in this instance. I intend to seek an opinion on the legality of this appointment from the General Accountability Office and invite other Senators to join with me in that request. This is underhanded and an abuse of Executive authority — sadly this behavior has become the hallmark of this administration.”
LINK
Any of the Constitutional scholars here at Sederrific tell us what the Constitutional powers the Speaker of the House has to engage in foreign policy of this sort?
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Hey SHIT FER BRAINS!
Even so, three Republican congressmen - Robert Aderholt of Alabama, Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania and Frank Wolf of Virginia - visited Syria separately and met with Assad on Sunday. And a senior American diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey, held talks in Damascus last month with Syrian officials about an influx of Iraqi refugees. Bush did not mention those visits in his remarks Tuesday"
oh, and...
FLASHBACK: Hastert Traveled Abroad, Told Foreign Leaders Not To Listen To Clinton
RNC Attacks President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Gen. Richard Myers
A new research document put out by the RNC Research Department proclaims:
NO JOKE! DEMS TAKE ROSIE VIEW
House Dems Take Policy Advice From Rosie O’Donnell And Ban Use Of “War On Terror”
The document comes in response to a Military Times article which reports that the House Armed Services Committee has said it will stop using the phrase “global war on terror” in an effort to “avoid using colloquialisms” and instead focus its language on military operations.
Rosie O’Donnell’s views are irrelevant to the decision by the House Armed Services Committee. The Bush administration has itself tried but failed to rename the “global war on terror” as “a global struggle against violent extremism.” In scrapping use of the GWOT phrase, the Committee has taken action long promoted by President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers:
LINK
Did Justice Dept. discriminate against Iglesias? An independent federal watchdog agency is investigating whether the firing of former U.S. attorney David Iglesias violated a federal law that prohibits job discrimination against members of the U.S. military. To justify his dismissal, Justice officials accused Iglesias of being an “‘absentee landlord‘ who was spending too much time away from the office.” But as TPMmuckraker notes, “Iglesias did, in fact, leave the office for 45 days each year. But that’s because he’s a a captain in the Navy Reserve — something that was no secret to his superiors.”
LINK
FLASHBACK: Hastert Traveled Abroad, Told Foreign Leaders Not To Listen To Clinton
LINK
Anonymous said...
www.practiceboard.com
April 4, 2007 6:10 PM
That's it! Thanks, anonymous.. :)
Gotta go!
Later
Hey, did anyone hear the very brief story on CNN Tues a.m. about the American who went missing several weeks ago in Iran. Gee it was kept so quiet...huh? Do ya suppose we didn't hear about it because it was a former Brewster Jennings associate (a NOC) perhaps? Why else have they kept it out of the news? How many more people have disappeared from the face of the earth because of the CIA leak about this organization. Guess we'll never know.
eya gang!
had a good day today
after a somewhat challenging start.
If Bush and Cheney smoked pot, tens of thousands of folks who have died over the past four years would be alive today to smoke a little doobage themselves.
eya jazz is dead!
amazing lil plant is'nt it?
the bushies mainly have attitude problems, it woulda helped.
they really need extensive therapy away from this mess.
The US Department of Homeland Security is pushing to get hold of the master keys for a proposed revision of the internet's domain name system. 4-4 POAC
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/03/dns_master_key_controversy/
Latest White House defector, Vic Gold, calls GW, "Dan Quayle in cowboy boots." 4-4 POAC
http://tinyurl.com/2hd82a
(Snark!)
At age 21, Karl Rove worked for "Nixon's master dirty trickster"-convicted Watergate conspirator Donald Segretti. 4-4 POAC
http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=3187
Greetings liberal world,
from beautiful and exciting
Hoe Valley, Rhode Island.
Greetings liberal world,
from beautiful and exciting
Hope Valley, Rhode Island.
April 4, 2007 7:51 PM
Russia refuses to deliver nuclear fuel to Iran till disputes solved
4-4POAC
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/04/content_5930993.htm
Iran Warns Russia Over Nuclear Fuel Deliveries
4-4POAC
http://mosnews.com/news/2007/04/03/iranfuel.shtml
eya dumb quahog
the land time put in a folder and can't remember which one.
The War On Consciousness
By Paul Levy
4-4-7
We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The global war on terror that is being fought around the world is an embodied reflection in the material world of a deeper, more fundamental war that is going on in the realm of consciousness itself.
We have the most criminal regime in all of our history wreaking unspeakable horror on the entire planet, while simultaneously waging war on the consciousness of its own citizens - US. If we aren't aware of this, we are unwittingly playing into, supporting and complicit in the evil that is being perpetrated in our name.
A government's war on the consciousness of its own citizens is by no means unique to the Bush administration. Abusing power over others so as to limit their freedom is an archetypal process that has been endlessly re-enacted by governments throughout history in various forms. With the Bush administration, however, the pathological aspect of this process has become so exaggerated and amped up to such a degree that it is just about impossible not to notice its staggering malignancy. With the Bush administration, the underlying evil that has played out in our government over many years is becoming overwhelmingly obvious for all to see. With the Bush administration, the underlying evil that informs systems of government that are based on "power over" instead of "liberty for" is coming out from hiding in the shadows. Instead of being acted out underground, our government is acting out this evil above ground, in plain sight for all who are courageous enough to look.
Impeaching Bush and Co. ultimately won't change anything unless we deal with the corrupt powers which control and direct them. George Bush is just a finger-puppet of the hidden hand which animates him. Bush only has apparent power, as he himself is a minion of far more powerful predator-like forces whose nefarious interests he serves. Whether we call it the illuminati, the global elite, a shadow government, or a secret cabal, there is no doubt that there are darker, self-serving forces that have insinuated themselves into and taken over our government. The terrorists that we should be worried about are domestic terrorists who are actually implementing their agendas from deep within our very system of government itself.
The United States Government itself has become a "front" for the underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate that animates it. This is not to say that there aren't many good, well-meaning people in our government they are simply prohibited by the very nature of the corrupt system they are in from reforming it. Our system of government is rigged in such a way so that there is no way to transform the system within the system itself.
Who's Your Daddy?
TRIM BUSH!
My brother got me pregnint!
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Anonymous said...
Any of the Constitutional scholars here at Sederrific tell us what the Constitutional powers the Speaker of the House has to engage in foreign policy of this sort?
April 4, 2007 4:36 PM
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I recommend that you read the U.S. Constitution (Article I - The Legislative Branch).
Link:
http://www.usconstitution.net/
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Here is a good report to read on the subject.
"Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress"
Excerpt:
The United States Constitution divides foreign policy powers between the President and the Congress so that both share in the making of foreign policy. The executive and legislative branches each play important roles that are different but that often overlap.
Both branches have continuing opportunities to initiate and change foreign policy, and the interaction between them continues indefinitely throughout the life of a policy.
This report reviews and illustrates 12 basic ways that the United States can make foreign policy.
The practices illustrated in this report indicate that making foreign policy is a complex process, and that the support of both branches is required for a strong and effective U.S. foreign policy.
Link:
http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/6172.htm
Buddy Rich vs Animal
Buddy Rich vs Animal!
Superb!
that always makes me go look for my drum stick!
nice cymbal technique i learned there!
Evening all. Just back from work.
How was your day Jim?
Est-ce que n'importe qui a vu mon manuscrit ?
This is trippy...
Giant Machine Designed to Print Houses
Hammering, sawing, drilling and bricklaying could one day be replaced with printing. A room-size machine currently being built by researchers in the U.K. will use rapid prototyping techniques to print walls, complete with brick, plaster, windows, insulation and conduits for wires and pipes.
The technique could make walls stronger and more functional, while at the same time reducing construction waste, minimizing the amount of labor needed and liberating the building's form.
"Maybe straight is not always the best shape. You can build a flat or curvy place and there is no more expense involved," said Richard Buswell, lecturer for civil and building engineering at Loughborough University in U.K.
Buswell and his team are embarking on a four-year project to build the 13- by 16.4-foot-sized printer, which will borrow techniques from rapid prototyping processes currently used to produce items made of ceramics, polymers and metals.
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Corporate profits said at 'all-time high'
Profitability at historic levels as four in ten workers live 'paycheck to paycheck.'
LINK
eya T!
spaced out the coffee maker lid at home to start off. coffee dripping everywhere for a 6 ft radius. me Bgurl and the dogs survived.
Safety meeting first off, lotsa corporate liability loopholes, interesting view of corporate construction trades developments. fully staffed med crew here. safety first deff the way to go. on site hard hat show. three warnings and off the site for the crews. bout 80 subcontractors. over 1500 rooms.
Buncha good kids in the crew. had a great time chasing parts with them.
figured out how to repair all the dings in the brand new cabinetry without using any evaporative solvents. (new VOC requirements for public buildings)
was quite a challenge as i have to faux finish the repairs. have a three toner fix that looks great from a foot away. requirement was a six foot 'read' on the repaired areas.
bout six times better than they expected. my rep as a master craftsman will be firmly established with a new bunch a peeps.
also got any hours i want and any days off i need. they treat me any better i'll have to start paying them.
the fix i just figgered out gets em out from under a potential contract default and saves em a minimum of a hundred grand in legal fees and replacing several hundred cabinets.
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About a year from now, pundits and instant historians will point back at the firing of the federal prosecutors and say, "That’s where the impeachment began."
April 4, 2007 10:41 AM
_________________________
What's this about "instant" historians?
History does not repeat itself, [instant] historians merely repeat each other.
eya Star Vox!
how are ya?
who knew parody was her forte'?
who knew parody was her forte'?""
"whatchu gonna do with the junk in yer trunk?"
"Well kids, I’ve finally found the song I want played at my funeral."
eya MAT )
good stuff!
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Sunshine said...
eya Star Vox!
how are ya?
April 4, 2007 10:23 PM
_________________________
I am doing fine. I am busy living!
I was just reading your earlier post.
Good to know that you, Bgurl, and the dogs survived!
Thriving is next! Good luck with your gig.
tanks Voxxer!
( remind me to take pic of my old 12 string Vox guitar sometime to post, A 1960-70 'Folk 12')
HEE!
coffee ground EVERYWHERE!
*breaking*
Christ Getting In Shape For Second Coming
i knew it!!!
-conbo
Lee Rayburn mentioned a "religious freedom" group on today's show, based out of Madison, I am interested in looking it up, what was it called?
thanks
Lee Rayburn mentioned a Religious freedom group based out of Madison, WI. please tell me what it was called, i'd like to look it up
thanks!
Just added a story to my blog you might want to read.
David Iglesias, fired US Atty, wrongfully fired for serving in the Navy Reserves
http://abramoffjournal.blogspot.com/
Sunshine said...
tanks Voxxer!
( remind me to take pic of my old 12 string Vox guitar sometime to post, A 1960-70 'Folk 12')
April 4, 2007 10:48 PM
____________________
Classic! I will. Does this mean that there are no Sunshine pics with the Vox (at a gig)?
N.M.’s Domenici, Wilson face more questions about Iglesias
By Susan Crabtree and Elana Schor
April 04, 2007
Kyle Sampson’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week suggests that congressional pressure may have played a significant role in the firing of a New Mexico prosecutor.
Statements from Sampson, who served as chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before resigning last month, to the Judiciary Committee last Thursday are placing additional pressure on New Mexico GOP Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson, as well as Gonzales, White House political adviser Karl Rove and ex-White House counsel Harriet Miers, to explain what roles, if any, they played in the firing of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, according to legal experts.
Under intense Democratic questioning during the hearing, Sampson admitted that he regretted placing Iglesias’s name on the list of those slated for dismissal. He also said Gonzales had informed him that he had received a complaint from Rove that three U.S. attorneys, including Iglesias, were not doing enough to pursue voter-fraud cases. Justice Department e-mails and Sampson’s testimony also show that sometime between Oct. 17 and Election Day, Iglesias’s name was added to the list along with three names that were redacted in the e-mails.
Domenici and Wilson, who was running in a tight reelection race, called Iglesias just a few weeks prior to the Nov. 7 election. Iglesias said they called to inquire about whether he was going to issue indictments in a pending high-profile corruption investigation involving a Democrat in New Mexico, a line of questioning he said was both improper and threatening.
Domenici and Wilson dispute the nature of the calls; the Senate Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into the matter, while members of the House ethics panel have refused to comment on whether they’ve launched a probe.
link
McCain hires Jew counter. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today announced that fund-raiser Fred Malek had joined his team as a national finance co-chair. David Corn reminds us of Malek’s history in the Nixon administration:
Nixon summoned the White House personnel chief, Fred Malek, to his office to discuss a “Jewish cabal” in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The “cabal,” Nixon said, was tilting economic figures to make his Administration look bad. How many Jews were there in the bureau? he wanted to know. Malek reported back on the number, and told the President that the bureau’s methods of weighing statistics were normal procedure that had been in use for years.
Among Malek’s other highlights — being arrested as a young man for killing, skinning, and barbecuing a dog.
LINK
Swift Boat funder’s appointment may be illegal. Mary Ann Akers of the Washington Post explains why President Bush’s recess appointment of Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium may break the law:
To fight the Fox appointment, Democrats are questioning the Bush administration’s plan to have Fox serve in a voluntary capacity — receiving no pay for his duties as ambassador. This is an important legal technicality, as federal law prohibits “payment of services” for certain recess appointments. However, if the recess appointee in question agrees that he or she will take an unpaid position and not sue the government at a later date for compensation, then the appointment can go forward, at least as the White House sees it. …
But here’s the rub that makes Democrats view Bush’s recess appointment of Fox as a major-league no-no: Federal law prohibits “voluntary service” in cases where the position in question has a fixed rate of pay, as an ambassadorship does. That’s how the Government Accountability Office, an arm of the Democratic-controlled Congress, interprets the law.
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) said today, “I intend to seek an opinion on the legality of this appointment from the General Accountability Office and invite other Senators to join with me in that request.”
LINK
White House helped free Iranian diplomat. President Bush yesterday: “There should be no quid pro quo when it comes to the hostages.” From tomorrow’s New York Sun:
The Iranian diplomat released Tuesday preceding the announcement that Iran would free the 15 British sailors it had taken hostage was being held in a joint Iraqi and American facility, and was released in part because of a decision at the highest levels of the American government.
The decision to release Jalal Sharafi on Tuesday was made at the White House, according to an administration official who asked to be anonymous because of the sensitivity of the information. […]
Pentagon and White House spokesmen on Tuesday and Wednesday insisted publicly that the release of Mr. Sharafi was solely an Iraqi decision.
LINK
Bush dies, mocking birds
murd'rous: "We never promised
him a Rose Garden."
Oh my....husbot said something to me about this moons ago...hmmm...wonder if he will....?
Cheney: Bush Administration May Challenge 22nd Amendment in 2008 Election.
By PHILIP MCKRACK
Published: April 1, 2007
JACKSONVILLE, North Carolina. April 1 — Vice President Cheney delivered a speech early Sunday morning before a formation of soldiers at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The speech was not publicized and the prepared remarks were intended to boost troop morale. The comments were fairly unremarkable except for one short comment near the end of the speech in which Mr. Cheney suggested that the Bush Administration may seek to challenge the 22nd amendment in the 2008 presidential election in an effort to ensure that the war in Iraq is successful.
Mr. Cheney again cited the war in Iraq as a key component in the effort to combat terrorism, saying "The war in Iraq is such a crucial part of the greater war on terror that we currently have our legal advisors looking into the possibility that the 22nd Amendment may not apply in 2008."
Because the speech was not publicized and was held on a secure military base, very few journalists were present, and none were able to ask questions about what the Vice President's comments might mean. Repeated efforts to contact the Vice President's Office to clarify the comment were unsuccessful.
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution prohibits U.S. Presidents from running for a third term, stating "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice...". The 22nd Amendment was passed in 1951 after President Franklin Roosevelt broke a tradition that dated back to George Washington, in which Presidents voluntarily refused to run for a third term.
Political pundits and Constitutional experts are split on what the Vice President's comments could mean. Some see the comments as an effort to extend the Administration's "war powers" due to the fact that the country is at war. They argue that there is a tenuous case to be made that the 22nd Amendment doesn't apply during war time since the Congress waited until after WW II to introduce such an Amendment. Others say that the mere fact that the country had just ended the war in 1951, when the Amendment was passed, suggests that the Congress would have put such an exception into the language of the Amendment if they had intended it not apply during times of war.
Others say that the Bush Administration will argue that the 2000 race was not actually decided by an election and that the Bush administration has technically only been "elected" once since the Supreme Court's Decision in Bush v. Gore effectively nullified the popular vote. Anonymous sources inside the White House have corrborated that this may indeed be the Administration's plan.
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Surge soldier likely killed by friendly fire, didn't get full training because Bush expedited "surge"
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/04/2007 11:09:00 PM ET
He was 18. Bush has destroyed the military, and is now sending virtual kids, unprepared, into battle. He has the nerve to talk about supporting the troops. His idea of support is killing our troops in order to assuage his own ego. Anyone and everyone who continues to support this war is complicit in this kid's death.
From E&P
Anonymous said...
*breaking*
Christ Getting In Shape For Second Coming
i knew it!!!
-conbo
April 4, 2007 11:06 PM
Hahahaha!.... Funny conbo.. :)
Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon | The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040407R.shtml
"It's become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King's death, we get perfunctory network news reports about 'the slain civil rights leader.' The remarkable thing about these reviews of King's life is that several years - his last years - are totally missing, as if flushed down a memory hole" write Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon.
Shell, I've been worried about that. But I think at this point, if he tries that, they will impeach.
William Fisher | The Right Seeks to Rein In Presidential Power
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040407J.shtml
William Fisher conducts an exclusive Truthout interview with Bruce Fein, who served as associate deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and is a founder of a conservative movement known as the Liberty Coalition. The Coalition has launched a new initiative, known as the American Freedom Agenda, in which leading voices in the conservative movement are demanding that the Democrat-controlled Congress restore checks and balances within the government and rein in the power of President George W. Bush.
""They"" should have been impeaching already, imo...I have no faith that there is actually anything he could do that would result in impeachment...
Buuuuut, I think we already know how I feel about the two parties.. ;)
William Rivers Pitt | And Then, Something Went Bump
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040307J.shtml
William Rivers Pitt on Congress's surprisingly effective tactics on Iraq: "It took a while for the truth of what happened in all this to sink in, for the real muscle behind this withdrawal legislation to show itself. The fact of the matter is plain: The only people in America not talking about leaving Iraq are the ones in the White House and Pentagon because they never intended to leave in the first place and want no part of any exit plan, no matter how bloody and awful it gets over there. Therefore, no withdrawal plan can be effected in a tactical sense until the Bush administration is forced into abandoning its stay-forever pipe dreams."
They see more than they speak
Alice said...
""They"" should have been impeaching already, imo...I have no faith that there is actually anything he could do that would result in impeachment...
Buuuuut, I think we already know how I feel about the two parties.. ;)
April 5, 2007 12:07 AM
I think what I meant is that the people would then demand his impeachment.
Randi was talking about the 2 parties today and said we should have elections without the electoral college and that we should limit the amount of money that these candidates can raise. The "public networks" should give free time to the candidates and that corporations should not be allowed to donate to any political party. This way, anyone can run for president and have a chance through debates and free air time to have half a chance.
That last paragraph was awful. Sorry Shell. I'm really tired and a little depressed today. This news is getting me down.
Think I'll try to sleep and hope I don't dream of this stuff again.
Saudi Arabia offers Kurds 2 billion dollars to give up Kirkuk dpa German Press Agency
Published: Tuesday April 3, 2007
Baghdad- A Shiite newspaper published in Baghdad reported
Tuesday that Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani had turned down a
2-billion-dollar offer from the Saudis in return for giving up
demands to have oil-rich Kirkuk as the capital of Kurdistan.
Al-Bianh al-Jadidah newspaper said that the Saudi offer was made
to Barzani and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Borham Saleh when they
visited Saudi Arabia last month.
The Saudis asked for a 10-year freeze on the Kurdish demand to
incorporate Kirkuk in the north of Iraq into Kurdistan.
The newspaper said that an Iraqi government source, who did not
want to be named, said both Barzani and Saleh had declined to give in
to Saudi pressure to give up the "Kurds' historical rights to the
city."
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That sounds better..(& obvious...) Sometimes I can't believe how some people can make a living stating the obvious...
How do you mean demand his impeachment?
Me too, Toni.. fergit it...we've been working too hard & thinking too much lately maybe..
SLEEP WELL & HaVE SWEET DREaMS!!!!
XOXOOXOXOOXOX
I mean we the people will demand that Bush be impeached. I really think the majority of people have had it with Bushco. I think they will demand that the House bring charges. They are not quite ready yet but if Bush tries that, I think the majority will then demand the impeachment.
Thanks Shell. You too!
Good Night
pics with the Vox (at a gig)?""
theres a great one from when we did the 4th of july river cruise on my troller! we had a great BBQ on the docks too.
have to find it and scan it in...
i'm in my 20's and bearded with my favorite hat. the vox was perfect then. she's been through more than one storm since with me.
(still sounds sweet and plays like a dream. the hood kids pop it out of the box whenever they come over)
hee!
Night A.!
sweet dreams!
HAHAHAHAAHA! (Snark!)
22nd?
be wonderfully
ironic if they scewed
with it and ended up with
a "Democrat Women President"
for the next three decades.
(long as she don't think
she's royalty)
Has anyone considered the following:
"It is a wise person who will control the Antarctic and North Pole. Thousands of years old ice and fresh air is still there. Someday people will pay $10,000 for a glass of water from the poles. So if you have ownership over it, you will be rich. The depth of the ice cap is 800 meters. Suppose a deer is buried for thousands of years in that ice. Its meat will be fresh, and we can cook it, and one piece of meat will cost $1,000, paying even for the memory of eating a piece of meat that old. There are many frozen fish and animals there. Suppose you build a restaurant on this ice cap and drill hundreds of holes to find the frozen meat, and sell it for thousands of dollars a dish. Don’t you want to do this? You haven’t even thought about it, have you? I test the effects of aging on meat."
if you haven't then you cannot be King like Sun Myong Moon
There is only one RULER worthy of such thoughts
-conbo
morning alice,
i was thinking about your 22nd ammendment post and realized that the april fools joke is the part about cheney boosting morale.
if you consider the absolute crap that the right has put up for candidates running there is a lot of appeal to being able to suspend the 22nd ammendment in the time of war.
while we think impeachment would occur pretty fast if they tried this strategery, consider the mood of the country if you threw in a nooklear terror attack in the heartland.
i'm not saying they did 9-11 but i do believe they stood aside and let it happen. if such an attack happened it would be leveraged by these monsters in the same way the reichstagg fire was leveraged by hitler.
It's a Happy Doggie Thursday...
Aren't you excited..???
I know I am...!!!
Is Sam going to do his show today..??
2 shows left I think..
I know Sam is excited...
Freedom!!!!!!
Remember that old song...
"Freedom's just another word
For nothin' left to lose"
The up-side of being fired..!!!
I guess Iran didn't follow Jimmy Carter down the 444 day hostage route...
A wise choice..
I know Jimmy Carter...
And Tony Blair is no Jimmy Carter..!!
Thank God..!!!
Morning blah 3!!
I have written on this blog b4 that I hoped he wouldn't try to stay a 3rd term about a year ago and earlier.
Just the thought of Cheney mentioning it at all gives me pause.
It don't take no great big brain to figure out where that Hostage Crisis was headed..
Ahmadinejad is living the War Dog Plan...
His goal is finish his Bomb and change the balance of power between The Axis of Evil and the West..
Our goal is to dray him into a shooting war...
We took another step toward that war..
So back we go to the build-up toward The Trigger..
Next time Iran pulls that trick they will be greeted by a F-16..
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EU, Iran discussed nuclear dispute over phone after British crew's release
Over the weekend, the United Nations toughened sanctions on Iran over its failure to comply with the demand that it freeze enrichment of uranium, which can be used for nuclear weapons as well as generation of power. Tehran has steadfastly denied it wants to produce nuclear weapons.
The 27 EU nations had planned to discuss Iran's nuclear program over the weekend during a special meeting but were sidetracked by the seizure of the British crew.
The five permanent UN Security Council members - the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China - plus Germany insist that Tehran must freeze its enrichment work before any talks can begin on a package of economic and other incentives, including assistance for its nuclear power generation program.
Iran has remained defiant and announced last week it was partially suspending co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, by revoking a pledge to inform it of any plans to build new nuclear facilities.
It's all about the timing..
Wait too long, you have Nuclear War...
Go too soon, You don't get the NATO Cooperation you want..
Best if Iran makes the first move..
No waiting required..!!!
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Russian expert says Iran can make nuclear weapons
Guy Faulconbridge, Reuters
April 3, 2007
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's leading nuclear scientist said on Monday that it was just a question of time before Iran developed a nuclear weapon and it should be stopped.
The Islamic republic, facing a showdown with the United States over its nuclear ambitions, clearly has the know-how to make atomic weapons, said Yevgeny Velikhov, a leading physicist and close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"From a scientific point of view of course they could create nuclear weapons," Velikhov, president of Russia's Kurchatov Institute, told reporters. "When they could do it is a more difficult question."
"If you remember, U.S. scientists expected the Soviet Union would only be able to create a nuclear bomb by around 1954 at the earliest," he said.
"They were rather surprised when we created one in 1949," he said with a chuckle. Velikhov trained under Igor Kurchatov, the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project.
Sam returns!
Spencer Ackerman just back from Iraq
Eric Alterman just back from breakfast
Atrios!
is anybody having issues with how the post a comment page is displayed. for me it used to be a 2 column page with comments on the left and the input form on the right. now i have comments at the top and the input box at the bottom in the center of the page.
this isn't bad for this but on the young turks their page shows up as a columnar list of overlapping divs.
I'm getting a 2 column page with borders. Maybe it's my browser settings? No pop-ups.
link
Anonymous said...
I'm getting a 2 column page with borders. Maybe it's my browser settings? No pop-ups.
interesting. i followed the link you provided and i got the traditional display. i have popups in new tab but not sure that would make a difference.
Terry Williams of Monty Python wrote the hilarious comments on how the Iranians treated those British Seamen.... and how true his comments are. I love the way Blair takes credit for these people gaining their freedom, rather than thanking Iran, the ones who let them go of their own free will.. what a hypocrite!
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