NEW YORK - In a debate televised Friday night, Don Imus’ former producer called the Rev. Al Sharpton a race-baiter who was looking for attention when he led a campaign to fire the radio host. Sharpton said Imus and his producer got what they deserved for making a racist, sexist remark on the air.
...McGuirk countered that Sharpton “terrorized these spineless, thumb-sucking executives” into taking Imus off the air. In an earlier appearance on “Hannity & Colmes,” he said the executives “were in a fetal position under their desks sucking their thumbs on their BlackBerrys, trying to coordinate their response.”
May 5th, 2007 by Scott Millican on May 4, 2007 - 11:59am. COMING SOON! Ring of Fire expands to 3 hours and Politically Direct's David Bender joins Bobby and Pap. The new show debuts May 26. Be listening at our new time -- Saturdays 3:00-6:00 pm and Sundays 8:00-10:00 pm ET. This week: Major General Paul Eaton, who trained the Iraqi military in 2003 & 2004, offers his assessment of Bush's war escalation and predicts the next few years in Iraq. Gen. Eaton was among the high-ranking officers who called for Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's resignation last year. Jeremy Scahill tells the very scary story of the neo-con's private armed forces -- paid with your tax dollars. Scahill is the author of the current bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of The World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Bobby and his sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend analyze the deep and disturbing changes in American organized religion: pedophile priests in the Catholic Church and right-wing politics in Protestant pulpits. Kathleen is the author of Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way. The Pap Attack: DC Madam Entertains the GOP
This Sunday 7pm (EST) - on C-SPAN 2 Book TV Amy and Greg have a couple of neo-cons for lunch recorded live at the LA Book Fest. Want a taste? Read the Interview with Palast from the Dollars & Sense magazine spring issue about to hit the streets …
"I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding."
Dollars & Sense: In the new edition of your book, ARMED MADHOUSE, you report on the theft of the 2008 election. How do know what they're doing? Any way to stop them?
Palast: I know because I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding. He and his team aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. They sent copies of their plans to GeorgeWBush.ORG instead of GeorgeWBush.COM addresses -- and, heh heh, they ended up in my in-box. Who says this job ain't fun?
Dollars & Sense: Bush fired eight prosecutors. You were behind the scenes on that story long before it broke in the US. What are they still withholding from us?
Palast: Look, it's all about VOTES. You'll see that the prosecutor that Karl Rove insisted in putting in place is a slithery character named Tim Griffin. He's the guy I busted as the spider-mind behind the "caging lists" which purged thousands of Black voters. The prosecutors fired, as you'll see in Armed Madhouse, include those, like David Iglesias in New Mexico, who refused to bring phony cases of fraud against legitimate voters. It's a matter of economics: the Republican party is systematically knocking out lower-income voters; that makes their purges racially biased -- but my data show that's just the effect of hunting down and attacking the ballot power of working class and poor voters. Disenfranchisement is class war by other means.
It's Not a Tax Increase if You Don't Vote to Increase Taxes by clammyc Sat May 12th, 2007 at 08:32:34 PM EST
Ugh. In a conversation with my (conservative but Bush hating) dad today, I got this line thrown at me:
”Well, this Democratic Congress is responsible for the single biggest tax increase in history” Of course, this relates to the spin put forth by republicans who are counting the lack of renewal of the obscene Bush tax cuts from 2001 AND 2003 which were purposely made to sunset in 2010 so that rosy “balanced” budget estimates could have been made by the administration and the republican controlled Congress during 2001 and 2003. Couple this with the fact that the same republican Congress didn’t extend these “temporary” tax cuts at the end of 2004 or 2005 (or 2006) either, but nobody was calling it a tax increase back then. But hey, IOKIYAR, right?
Unfortunately, the truth of not extending temporary tax cuts that were only made “temporary” was to falsely reduce the budget deficit projections at the time really didn’t matter in my conversation. Nor does it seem to matter, now that the new fiscal year budget talks are starting again. Yet, as reported recently by the most excellent McClatchy Washington Bureau, this lie is starting to seep out now about those “crazy tax and spend Democrats”:
"Regrettably, the Democrats' budget plan amounts to the largest tax hike in American history," said Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the senior Republican on the House Budget Committee. "When you take everything away, this bill is a classic Democratic tax-and-spend bill," said Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the Senate budget panel's top Republican.
This should be a no brainer. Yet, Bush is going virtually unchallenged on this, despite the very republican Congresses not extending these tax cuts or making the “sacred” tax cuts permanent when they had the chance in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 AND 2006.
And here is the most basic of premises turned right on its’ head - how can something be a tax increase if nobody voted to increase taxes? Nothing stopped the same republican majority from passing anything they (or Bush) wanted, even if it meant excluding Democrats from every step and bit of the process. And Democrats are saying that they are repealing the tax cuts before they are set to expire either – at least not yet.
And it certainly isn’t like there haven’t been massive tax cuts (mind you, the first time there was a “war” and taxes were cut:
Since 2001, Bush has been able to practically dictate tax policy to Congress. Tax cuts have passed each of the past five years, totaling $1.8 trillion over 10 years. And it isn’t like republican Senators haven’t ALREADY balked at extending these cuts when they were in the majority. From December 2005: But even a more modest White House request to extend them until 2010 is in trouble. The Senate balked last month at extending the dividend and capital gains tax cuts even a single year. Jeez, those tax and spend republican majorities from 2005. And what did they do right before voting as to whether to continue the capital gains tax cuts? House leaders will try again for a vote Thursday, but moderate Republicans in the House have expressed deep misgivings about approving a measure so beneficial to affluent investors so soon after they approved a budget-cutting bill that would cut people off food stamps, squeeze student lenders, impose new fees on Medicaid recipients and slash federal aid for child-support enforcement. Food stamp, student lender, Medicaid recipients, child support enforcement for cuts in the capital gains tax for the wealthy who can afford to invest in the market. Now THAT sounds like a good trade off. Fortunately, the republican Congress DIDN’T extend these cuts, although all of those people who are on food stamps AND have capital gains must have been REALLY pissed.... Now that the budget discussions are coming up again, there is no doubt that those on the “right” will start with this “largest tax increase ever” nonsense. But the fact remains that (1) the republican majority took EXACTLY the same actions to not extend these cuts and (2) nobody, I repeat nobody is proposing to vote for a capital gains tax increase or any “largest tax increase in the history of forever”.
Anyone who actually believes and repeats this is either insane, uninformed or woefully hypocritical. And we should be prepared to call them on it.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT~! Hi Sam! I hope you are doing nice things for Nikki today!
Sam obviously doesn't read our comments:
/this is a family friendly blog/
I have a hit a major milestone with my son...I was actually able to get his haircut in public.
He did not destroy anything or act like it 'hurt' to get his haircut.
He just sat there and smiled and smiled and made small talk with the hairdresser!!!!!
This is such a big deal you have no idea. I have been trimming his hair for him since he was 7 months, old, sometimes in his sleep because he wouldn't sit still.
I can't believe it...I am still in shock. No one stared at us, or gave me looks of horror. He acted like a little man, instead of Animal from the muppets!!!
It's not a phase, I hope.
-conbo
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
:) I think its the valium I have been putting his breakfast
//[I]t was Kissinger’s protégé and partner, Ambassador L. Paul “Jerry” Bremer III, the Managing Director of Kissinger Associates, Inc. for more than a decade, whom Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush placed in charge of the occupation of Iraq when Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush inexplicably cashiered the honest and fair-minded Lt. General Jay Garner, after scarcely a few weeks on the job.//
Read this. Then read it again. Saturday, May 12 2007 @ 01:57 EDT Contributed by: Stranger Views: 2,587 Paradox at The Left Coaster lays out The Great Unspoken - what Bush's War is actually costing us.
Reality and sanity can be attained by ignoring the endless babbling of meaningless ratios and theory in the Post article with a simple public policy perspective: $125 billion represents 12 Nimitz class aircraft carriers fully fitted out with aircraft and weapons, a bigger fleet of the 95,000 ton leviathans we deploy in our navy now.
What happens when 12 aircraft carriers are deployed against a problem? Is it invested for a future result? Is it immediately useful? Does it just sort of sit there in a neutral so-so maybe existence? Or does 12 aircraft carriers worth of borrowing actually make the problem worse?
We all know the war in Iraq is a lying crime of futility that endangers us more, not makes us safer. The United States is borrowing for negative results, not just for this year, but for fours years with a mind-boggling total of $625 psychotic billion. No matter what The Washington Post tries in its babbling of what might or might not be harmful, Americans in reality know this monstrous borrowing to make things worse is a growing disaster of frightening proportions.
12 aircraft carriers' worth of dough, thrown down a hole in the sand.
And that's just one year's worth of burning money.
I'm starting to believe that these numbers are so huge that people can't wrap their brains around them. What we need to do is start casting the cost of the war in terms they can understand. Here's an example.
Let's pick a small to medium-sized city, near a major metropolitan area - my arbitrary pick is Camden, New Jersey. Close to both Philadelphia and New York City, connected to major highways, on a major waterway. The median home price in Camden (as of 2006) is $212,000. Divide the median price of a home in Camden by the four year cost of the war, and you have enough money to buy 2,948,113 homes.
I am so relieved...he has been well behaved almost every single time I have taken him out the past three weeks. So I decided to chance the haircut today. I can't believe it. He has a normal haircut.
My son has done the following things in public :
Broken a bottle of wine while attempting to restack it in a display
Undid an apron from a cashier
Reset a digital freezer
Made a child cry in the park by running after him and screaming-(he was playing dinosaur with him)
Climbed onto a the luggage carasol in the airport
Helped himself to a picnic lunch that wasn't his
Everyone thought he had ADD I knew he didn't! He is just so hyper and anytime I took him anyplace new he would be overwhelmed with excitement and do any little thing he thought of.
He has done a lot more, but I can't think of anything off the top of my head, i think I have repressed the memories.
He's normal! He just needed time to grow out of it a bit!!!!
The Creature: "What kind of people is it in which I am comprised? Good people? Bad people?"
Victor Frankenstein: "Materials. Nothing more."
Creature: "You're wrong. [Picks up recorder].. Did you know I knew how to play this? From which part of me did this knowledge reside? From this mind? From these hands? From this heart? And reading and speaking. Not so much things learned as things remembered."
Frankenstein: "Slight trace waves in the brain perhaps."
Creature: "Did you ever consider the consequences of your actions? You made me, and you left me to die. Who am I?"
Creature: "And another thing; I know how to play Texas Hold 'em! Isn't that weird? But I don't know what you call these." Frankenstein: "They are called playing cards."
(Creature sits silent, motionless, without expression.)
Frankenstein: "What are you doing now?" Creature: "Waiting for the flop."
I want whatever brain chemical people have that causes them to think that people care about their kids... enough to write/talk about them at length. Seriously.
Yeah, the '04 election was stolen. Americans aren't stupid... aren't brain dead.. They was robbed.
Yeah, the government knew about 9/11 beforehand. They deliberately neglected Hurricane Katrina's victims. It was all planned by an omnipowerful and omniscient government. It isn't incompetent-- oh, no. It's my daddy.
...and people love my [nonexistent]kids as much as I.
It was a discussion on the State of the Union. Greg Palast and Amy Goodman. I was a little disappointed though, because it was short and I did't like the commentater.
You could check it out on cspan's site, it was on cspan 2. Book TV
I want whatever brain chemical people have that causes them to think that people care about their kids... enough to write/talk about them at length. Seriously.
we just got home from McDonalds and I didn't have to call the swat team to get him out of there!!! -conbo ----------------------------------- McDonald's: Home of the big smack.
Rice heads into heavy diplomatic seas on trip to Moscow
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faces one of her most delicate diplomatic missions yet when she flies into Moscow Monday to face down rising Russian anger over US policy in eastern Europe... --------------------------------- Two thoughts:
1.) Could Rice have any credibility anywhere in the world? 2.) Could anyone negotiating with Rice believe that the negotiations have a life span beyond 2008?
My guess is that the answers are "No" and "No."
It's like Rice is a used car saleswoman who works for a car lot that has screwed you and your friends with crappy deals. Then she arrives with another crappy deal, only this junker is marked 50% off because the car lot is having a Going Out Of Business Sale.
The money-back guarantee is more worthless now than ever.
condi-sneezy rice wants to remind the ruskies "who won the cold war, huh!... fuck you, pooty... i don't see any oil tanker with your wanky name on it... ha-ha... (ha-choo... ah-chooo)... anyway, ha-ha... i know you want to slip it into my black beaver"
anyway, s.j. that was me ringing, hanging up & ringing again & again to find out if i can send little chubby a little footy (i'll deflate it)
i've written him a pretend letter; everything is fanciful except for a real footy -- pending permission
Another edition of our series: Great moment in poor judgment.
In this episode, on the final night of a school field trip, teachers stage a mock school shooting rampage as a 'learning experience' for the sixth graders on the trip.
During the last night of the trip, staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the loose. They were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on a locked door. After the lights went out, about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said.
“I was like, ‘Oh My God,’ “ she said. “At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out.”
toniD said... Pappantonio was talking about a new TV program called "Go Left Television" that is supposed to be out in a few weeks. I haven't heard of it before.
Has anyone else heard about it and where it is going to be aired?
America’s future has become an Orwellian nightmare of ultra-liberalism. Beginning with the Gore Presidency, the government has become increasingly dominated by liberal extremists.
------------ literalism is fundamental said... joke teller: A man walks into a bar wi--
joke teller: Yes, I must be out of my mind. Perhaps we both are? And a mind is a terrible thing to waste, you know. At the present moment, anyway, it would appear we've both wasted ours, wouldn't it? But when we part ways, my temporary insanity for speaking with you will subside, but you, dear fellow, will always be a tiresome study in the fundamental art of concrete thinking. Rock on.
http://fundiesarefundiemental.com/
May 13, 2007 4:23 PM
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Hey, c'mon! I was looking forward to checking out your web page!
I'm no longer going to post Sunday Talkshow Breakdowns, because over at the Campaign for America's Future blog, I've started the Weekend Watchdog feature. On Friday's, we suggest questions for Sunday show hosts to pose to their scheduled guests, and afterwards, we circle back and see if they got asked. And when Seder on Sundays debuts on Air America next week, Weekend Watchdog will be a featured segment.
So it's a little much to do all that and post comprehensive reviews of the Sundays shows at LiberalOasis. But having said that, there still will be Sunday show reactions posted at LiberalOasis, they just won't be part of a comprehensive review.
Anyone as out of touch as McCain has no place leading a country. Anyone who is able to pass off the extreme danger that those in Iraq face everyday, will probably ignore other relevant world problems as well. I want a leader who will address the important issues, such as global poverty. According to the Borgen Project, every 3.6 seconds someone dies of starvation. The US agreed to the UN Millennium Goals which are meant to drastically reduce poverty around the world. We need a president who will admit there are countries in the world that need our help and that will do something about it.
65 comments:
Good afternoon, Seder.
NEW YORK - In a debate televised Friday night, Don Imus’ former producer called the Rev. Al Sharpton a race-baiter who was looking for attention when he led a campaign to fire the radio host. Sharpton said Imus and his producer got what they deserved for making a racist, sexist remark on the air.
...McGuirk countered that Sharpton “terrorized these spineless, thumb-sucking executives” into taking Imus off the air. In an earlier appearance on “Hannity & Colmes,” he said the executives “were in a fetal position under their desks sucking their thumbs on their BlackBerrys, trying to coordinate their response.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18644760/
There's a name for people like this
but this is a family friendly blog. Let's just call him John MCcain talking about his waltz through a Baghdad market.
"I'll be glad to back to that market -- with or without military protection and Humvees, etc." -----
I say hold all the Republican Debates there.
May 5th, 2007
by Scott Millican on May 4, 2007 - 11:59am.
COMING SOON! Ring of Fire expands to 3 hours and Politically Direct's David Bender joins Bobby and Pap. The new show debuts May 26. Be listening at our new time -- Saturdays 3:00-6:00 pm and Sundays 8:00-10:00 pm ET.
This week:
Major General Paul Eaton, who trained the Iraqi military in 2003 & 2004, offers his assessment of Bush's war escalation and predicts the next few years in Iraq. Gen. Eaton was among the high-ranking officers who called for Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's resignation last year.
Jeremy Scahill tells the very scary story of the neo-con's private armed forces -- paid with your tax dollars. Scahill is the author of the current bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of The World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Bobby and his sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend analyze the deep and disturbing changes in American organized religion: pedophile priests in the Catholic Church and right-wing politics in Protestant pulpits. Kathleen is the author of Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way.
The Pap Attack: DC Madam Entertains the GOP
Sundays afternoon, through the evening will be very good. Sam Followed by Ring of Fire!
Ono, I just sent a letter to Chubby. Did you send yours yet?
Jenise did and posted what she sent on the last thread.
This Sunday 7pm (EST) - on C-SPAN 2 Book TV Amy and Greg have a couple of neo-cons for lunch recorded live at the LA Book Fest. Want a taste? Read the Interview with Palast from the Dollars & Sense magazine spring issue about to hit the streets …
"I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding."
Dollars & Sense: In the new edition of your book, ARMED MADHOUSE, you report on the theft of the 2008 election. How do know what they're doing? Any way to stop them?
Palast: I know because I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding. He and his team aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. They sent copies of their plans to GeorgeWBush.ORG instead of GeorgeWBush.COM addresses -- and, heh heh, they ended up in my in-box. Who says this job ain't fun?
Dollars & Sense: Bush fired eight prosecutors. You were behind the scenes on that story long before it broke in the US. What are they still withholding from us?
Palast: Look, it's all about VOTES. You'll see that the prosecutor that Karl Rove insisted in putting in place is a slithery character named Tim Griffin. He's the guy I busted as the spider-mind behind the "caging lists" which purged thousands of Black voters. The prosecutors fired, as you'll see in Armed Madhouse, include those, like David Iglesias in New Mexico, who refused to bring phony cases of fraud against legitimate voters. It's a matter of economics: the Republican party is systematically knocking out lower-income voters; that makes their purges racially biased -- but my data show that's just the effect of hunting down and attacking the ballot power of working class and poor voters. Disenfranchisement is class war by other means.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php...
to my eternal shame... nada, toni
i'll send him a "memo" by days end
(promise)
It's Not a Tax Increase if You Don't Vote to Increase Taxes
by clammyc
Sat May 12th, 2007 at 08:32:34 PM EST
Ugh.
In a conversation with my (conservative but Bush hating) dad today, I got this line thrown at me:
”Well, this Democratic Congress is responsible for the single biggest tax increase in history”
Of course, this relates to the spin put forth by republicans who are counting the lack of renewal of the obscene Bush tax cuts from 2001 AND 2003 which were purposely made to sunset in 2010 so that rosy “balanced” budget estimates could have been made by the administration and the republican controlled Congress during 2001 and 2003.
Couple this with the fact that the same republican Congress didn’t extend these “temporary” tax cuts at the end of 2004 or 2005 (or 2006) either, but nobody was calling it a tax increase back then. But hey, IOKIYAR, right?
Unfortunately, the truth of not extending temporary tax cuts that were only made “temporary” was to falsely reduce the budget deficit projections at the time really didn’t matter in my conversation. Nor does it seem to matter, now that the new fiscal year budget talks are starting again.
Yet, as reported recently by the most excellent McClatchy Washington Bureau, this lie is starting to seep out now about those “crazy tax and spend Democrats”:
"Regrettably, the Democrats' budget plan amounts to the largest tax hike in American history," said Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the senior Republican on the House Budget Committee.
"When you take everything away, this bill is a classic Democratic tax-and-spend bill," said Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the Senate budget panel's top Republican.
This should be a no brainer. Yet, Bush is going virtually unchallenged on this, despite the very republican Congresses not extending these tax cuts or making the “sacred” tax cuts permanent when they had the chance in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 AND 2006.
And here is the most basic of premises turned right on its’ head - how can something be a tax increase if nobody voted to increase taxes? Nothing stopped the same republican majority from passing anything they (or Bush) wanted, even if it meant excluding Democrats from every step and bit of the process. And Democrats are saying that they are repealing the tax cuts before they are set to expire either – at least not yet.
And it certainly isn’t like there haven’t been massive tax cuts (mind you, the first time there was a “war” and taxes were cut:
Since 2001, Bush has been able to practically dictate tax policy to Congress. Tax cuts have passed each of the past five years, totaling $1.8 trillion over 10 years.
And it isn’t like republican Senators haven’t ALREADY balked at extending these cuts when they were in the majority. From December 2005:
But even a more modest White House request to extend them until 2010 is in trouble. The Senate balked last month at extending the dividend and capital gains tax cuts even a single year.
Jeez, those tax and spend republican majorities from 2005. And what did they do right before voting as to whether to continue the capital gains tax cuts?
House leaders will try again for a vote Thursday, but moderate Republicans in the House have expressed deep misgivings about approving a measure so beneficial to affluent investors so soon after they approved a budget-cutting bill that would cut people off food stamps, squeeze student lenders, impose new fees on Medicaid recipients and slash federal aid for child-support enforcement.
Food stamp, student lender, Medicaid recipients, child support enforcement for cuts in the capital gains tax for the wealthy who can afford to invest in the market. Now THAT sounds like a good trade off. Fortunately, the republican Congress DIDN’T extend these cuts, although all of those people who are on food stamps AND have capital gains must have been REALLY pissed....
Now that the budget discussions are coming up again, there is no doubt that those on the “right” will start with this “largest tax increase ever” nonsense. But the fact remains that (1) the republican majority took EXACTLY the same actions to not extend these cuts and (2) nobody, I repeat nobody is proposing to vote for a capital gains tax increase or any “largest tax increase in the history of forever”.
Anyone who actually believes and repeats this is either insane, uninformed or woefully hypocritical. And we should be prepared to call them on it.
LINK
i sent an envelope full of cocaine to chubby, via, kevin
and although i haven't heard nothing back, i'm sure it's a slam dunk that kevin didn't hesitate to whisk it off...
oh, my absolute trust in that man is the stuff of legend
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT~! Hi Sam! I hope you are doing nice things for Nikki today!
Sam obviously doesn't read our comments:
/this is a family friendly blog/
I have a hit a major milestone with my son...I was actually able to get his haircut in public.
He did not destroy anything or act like it 'hurt' to get his haircut.
He just sat there and smiled and smiled and made small talk with the hairdresser!!!!!
This is such a big deal you have no idea. I have been trimming his hair for him since he was 7 months, old, sometimes in his sleep because he wouldn't sit still.
I can't believe it...I am still in shock. No one stared at us, or gave me looks of horror. He acted like a little man, instead of Animal from the muppets!!!
It's not a phase, I hope.
-conbo
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
:) I think its the valium I have been putting his breakfast
here's a beauty
The Kissinger Connection
//[I]t was Kissinger’s protégé and partner, Ambassador L. Paul “Jerry” Bremer III, the Managing Director of Kissinger Associates, Inc. for more than a decade, whom Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush placed in charge of the occupation of Iraq when Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush inexplicably cashiered the honest and fair-minded Lt. General Jay Garner, after scarcely a few weeks on the job.//
HAPPY MOTHERS DAYS, CONNIE
♥
p.s. and all the other girls
♥
Pappantonio was talking about a new TV program called "Go Left Television" that is supposed to be out in a few weeks. I haven't heard of it before.
Has anyone else heard about it and where it is going to be aired?
Read this. Then read it again.
Saturday, May 12 2007 @ 01:57 EDT
Contributed by: Stranger
Views: 2,587
Paradox at The Left Coaster lays out The Great Unspoken - what Bush's War is actually costing us.
Reality and sanity can be attained by ignoring the endless babbling of meaningless ratios and theory in the Post article with a simple public policy perspective: $125 billion represents 12 Nimitz class aircraft carriers fully fitted out with aircraft and weapons, a bigger fleet of the 95,000 ton leviathans we deploy in our navy now.
What happens when 12 aircraft carriers are deployed against a problem? Is it invested for a future result? Is it immediately useful? Does it just sort of sit there in a neutral so-so maybe existence? Or does 12 aircraft carriers worth of borrowing actually make the problem worse?
We all know the war in Iraq is a lying crime of futility that endangers us more, not makes us safer. The United States is borrowing for negative results, not just for this year, but for fours years with a mind-boggling total of $625 psychotic billion. No matter what The Washington Post tries in its babbling of what might or might not be harmful, Americans in reality know this monstrous borrowing to make things worse is a growing disaster of frightening proportions.
12 aircraft carriers' worth of dough, thrown down a hole in the sand.
And that's just one year's worth of burning money.
I'm starting to believe that these numbers are so huge that people can't wrap their brains around them. What we need to do is start casting the cost of the war in terms they can understand. Here's an example.
Let's pick a small to medium-sized city, near a major metropolitan area - my arbitrary pick is Camden, New Jersey. Close to both Philadelphia and New York City, connected to major highways, on a major waterway. The median home price in Camden (as of 2006) is $212,000. Divide the median price of a home in Camden by the four year cost of the war, and you have enough money to buy 2,948,113 homes.
More here at the blah3 blog
Happy Mother's Day Ono!
I hope the OG painted you a picture.
Happy Mothers Day ToniD!
I am so relieved...he has been well behaved almost every single time I have taken him out the past three weeks. So I decided to chance the haircut today. I can't believe it. He has a normal haircut.
My son has done the following things in public :
Broken a bottle of wine while attempting to restack it in a display
Undid an apron from a cashier
Reset a digital freezer
Made a child cry in the park by running after him and screaming-(he was playing dinosaur with him)
Climbed onto a the luggage carasol in the airport
Helped himself to a picnic
lunch that wasn't his
Everyone thought he had ADD
I knew he didn't! He is just so hyper and anytime I took him anyplace new he would be overwhelmed with
excitement and do any little thing he thought of.
He has done a lot more, but I can't think of anything off the top of my head, i think I have repressed the memories.
He's normal! He just needed time to grow out of it a bit!!!!
-conbo
And there is a Target that will no longer accept my business...
i forgot about that
-conbo
yes, connie
we enacted scenes from...
"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
•[sample]•
The Creature: "What kind of people is it in which I am comprised? Good people? Bad people?"
Victor Frankenstein: "Materials. Nothing more."
Creature: "You're wrong. [Picks up recorder].. Did you know I knew how to play this? From which part of me did this knowledge reside? From this mind? From these hands? From this heart? And reading and speaking. Not so much things learned as things remembered."
Frankenstein: "Slight trace waves in the brain perhaps."
Creature: "Did you ever consider the consequences of your actions? You made me, and you left me to die. Who am I?"
Frankenstein: "You? I don't know."
Creature: "And you think that I am evil."
••((oh, joy to the world))••
Who was the creature?
-conbo
gotta go
Creature: "And another thing; I know how to play Texas Hold 'em! Isn't that weird? But I don't know what you call these."
Frankenstein: "They are called playing cards."
(Creature sits silent, motionless, without expression.)
Frankenstein: "What are you doing now?"
Creature: "Waiting for the flop."
George W. Bush eats Dick!!!
Pass it on!!!
cspan 2 now. Amy Goodman, Greg Palast Douglas Kmiec.
Talking about the State of the Union.
Los Angeles Times is sponsoring this.
-conbo
May 13, 2007 5:52 PM
"I want what [she] is on."
I want whatever brain chemical people have that causes them to think that people care about their kids... enough to write/talk about them at length. Seriously.
My problem is I don't delude myself enough.
Yeah, the '04 election was stolen. Americans aren't stupid... aren't brain dead.. They was robbed.
Yeah, the government knew about 9/11 beforehand. They deliberately neglected Hurricane Katrina's victims. It was all planned by an omnipowerful and omniscient government. It isn't incompetent-- oh, no. It's my daddy.
...and people love my [nonexistent]kids as much as I.
Crank Bait said...
Creature: "And another thing; I know how to play Texas Hold 'em!
beautiful well done cb : )
In honor of this special day, and to show what a nice guy I really am, I will blow any guy in the room for free.
Is anyone watching cspan?
m the ac, cool it! You did pick the wrong day.
Perhaps I'm merely unenlightened, then. Please cite specific examples of # being a "constant bitch to" you.
How does belittling the love a woman has for her child qualify as turning reality onto someone?
jbenet: beautiful well done cb : )
May 13, 2007 7:19 PM
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Thanks. Inspired by air-ono. Go figure...
FREE NOOKIE!
No, not watching, toni. The Gonzo hearings were enough for me for a couple of days. Needed a break.
What's on?
It was a discussion on the State of the Union. Greg Palast and Amy Goodman. I was a little disappointed though, because it was short and I did't like the commentater.
You could check it out on cspan's site, it was on cspan 2. Book TV
Thanks, toniD. Will see if I can check find it later, too busy right now.
WHO FOTTID?
I want whatever brain chemical people have that causes them to think that people care about their kids... enough to write/talk about them at length. Seriously.
May 13, 2007 7:06 PM
hahahaha!
It's called being a parent
Wait til you reproduce
:)
-conbo
Do you know who it is that is your daddy?
I thought that I didn't talk about my son very much
online! Now I will have to ratchet it up
we just got home from McDonalds and I didn't have to call the swat team to get him out of there!!!
It was amazing. I am seriously in shock
-conbo
eya #
i care
happy happy MomO day!
give my best to Dino Boy too!
tell em I just got a haircut without whining too!
we just got home from McDonalds and I didn't have to call the swat team to get him out of there!!!
-conbo
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McDonald's: Home of the big smack.
we has some bitter people today!
im in too estatic to care
go on with the insults!
-conbo
Hey Sunny!
He is seriously calming down. I wonder if he was alergic to something or if it is because he is older.
I don't know, Its amazing though
-conbo
:)
Did bgurl give you a haircut?
(i gave er a 20 anyways)
:)
i got a haircut too
Great Clips
-conbo
bbl
-conbo
Happy Mother's Day Connie!!
Glad your little boy is calming down. But be forwarned, they calm down in one way and something else pops up. So enjoy the inbetween!! :)
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Rice_heads_into_heavy_diplomatic_se_05132007.html
Rice heads into heavy diplomatic seas on trip to Moscow
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faces one of her most delicate diplomatic missions yet when she flies into Moscow Monday to face down rising Russian anger over US policy in eastern Europe...
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Two thoughts:
1.) Could Rice have any credibility anywhere in the world?
2.) Could anyone negotiating with Rice believe that the negotiations have a life span beyond 2008?
My guess is that the answers are "No" and "No."
It's like Rice is a used car saleswoman who works for a car lot that has screwed you and your friends with crappy deals. Then she arrives with another crappy deal, only this junker is marked 50% off because the car lot is having a Going Out Of Business Sale.
The money-back guarantee is more worthless now than ever.
condi-sneezy rice wants to remind the ruskies "who won the cold war, huh!... fuck you, pooty... i don't see any oil tanker with your wanky name on it... ha-ha... (ha-choo... ah-chooo)... anyway, ha-ha... i know you want to slip it into my black beaver"
anyway, s.j. that was me ringing, hanging up & ringing again & again to find out if i can send little chubby a little footy (i'll deflate it)
i've written him a pretend letter; everything is fanciful except for a real footy -- pending permission
Another edition of our series: Great moment in poor judgment.
In this episode, on the final night of a school field trip, teachers stage a mock school shooting rampage as a 'learning experience' for the sixth graders on the trip.
During the last night of the trip, staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the loose. They were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on a locked door.
After the lights went out, about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said.
“I was like, ‘Oh My God,’ “ she said. “At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out.”
-- Josh Marshall
LINK
Now Laura is being rescheduled.
I have found that if we gun down a few students in a hail of automatic weapons fire, the surviving students are much stronger.
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toniD said...
Pappantonio was talking about a new TV program called "Go Left Television" that is supposed to be out in a few weeks. I haven't heard of it before.
Has anyone else heard about it and where it is going to be aired?
May 13, 2007 5:59 PM
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It's on YouTube.
Go Left TV -
It's the Pap Attack in convenient video format!
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/golefttv
Thanks Star Vox!! :)
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Music video from Soldiers in Iraq.
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The "Great American", Sean Hannity, with Liberality For All #1
America’s future has become an Orwellian nightmare of ultra-liberalism. Beginning with the Gore Presidency, the government has become increasingly dominated by liberal extremists.
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literalism is fundamental said...
joke teller: A man walks into a bar wi--
joke teller: Yes, I must be out of my mind. Perhaps we both are? And a mind is a terrible thing to waste, you know. At the present moment, anyway, it would appear we've both wasted ours, wouldn't it? But when we part ways, my temporary insanity for speaking with you will subside, but you, dear fellow, will always be a tiresome study in the fundamental art of concrete thinking. Rock on.
http://fundiesarefundiemental.com/
May 13, 2007 4:23 PM
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Error: Can't find web site fundiesarefundiemental.com
Hey, c'mon! I was looking forward to checking out your web page!
I have one especially for you!
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Enjoy!
Link:
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Editor's Note
I'm no longer going to post Sunday Talkshow Breakdowns, because over at the Campaign for America's Future blog, I've started the Weekend Watchdog feature. On Friday's, we suggest questions for Sunday show hosts to pose to their scheduled guests, and afterwards, we circle back and see if they got asked. And when Seder on Sundays debuts on Air America next week, Weekend Watchdog will be a featured segment.
So it's a little much to do all that and post comprehensive reviews of the Sundays shows at LiberalOasis. But having said that, there still will be Sunday show reactions posted at LiberalOasis, they just won't be part of a comprehensive review.
Do you know who it is that is your daddy?
"What we've feared all afternoon has apparently happened. We were watching Number 7 World Trade."
World Trade 7 had massive fires. It was collapsing. When Silverstein said, "pull it," he was referring to the fire crew, who he feared were unnecessarily risking their lives.
End of.
New thread again!
Anyone as out of touch as McCain has no place leading a country. Anyone who is able to pass off the extreme danger that those in Iraq face everyday, will probably ignore other relevant world problems as well. I want a leader who will address the important issues, such as global poverty. According to the Borgen Project, every 3.6 seconds someone dies of starvation. The US agreed to the UN Millennium Goals which are meant to drastically reduce poverty around the world. We need a president who will admit there are countries in the world that need our help and that will do something about it.
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