Enjoy the celebration of--or shopping day for--a president who supposedly never told a lie. I'm hitting the mall.....
Posted by David Corn at February 20, 2006 11:17 AM
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I apologized. Why can't the Iraqis do the same?
CHENEY 'STILL WAITING' FOR IRAQIS TO APOLOGIZE
Calls Invasion of Iraq 'The Worst Day of My Life'
Vice President Dick Cheney said today that the March 2003 invasion of Iraq was "the worst day of my life" and that he was "still waiting" for the Iraqi people to apologize for it.
Speaking to Brit Hume of the Fox News Channel, Mr. Cheney said that when the U.S. invaded Iraq he expected the troops to be greeted as liberators, and that when that did not happen "it was extremely hurtful to me personally."
"I would have thought that the Iraqi people would have made some sort of apology to me by now," the vice president said. "I'm still waiting for that apology, but I guess you could say that I'm not holding my breath."
Mr. Cheney added that he thought that Iraqi civilians who had been accidentally shot in the face owed him "a special apology."
"Accidents will and do happen," Mr. Cheney said. "But it's incumbent on the person who has been accidentally shot in the face to apologize for it."
Mr. Cheney said he would encourage the President of Iraq to name March 1 as "a national day of apology" when all Iraqis would offer gestures of contrition to the vice president.
In his concluding remarks, the vice president said that the day it became clear that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction was "the second worst day of my life."
"Saddam Hussein owes me an apology for not having WMD's," Mr. Cheney said. "It still hurts."
Elsewhere, Sunday was a day of redemption for the United States at the Winter Olympics as Bodie Miller won two gold medals for the U.S. drinking team. - Andy Borowitz
Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust and conceded that he was wrong to say there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Harry,
The American people probably won't be apologizing for going broke either. I know it makes cheney look bad and since everybody knows he's the one running the country...well I guess it really makes him look really bad.
And the people of NO probably won't be apologizing to him either. Ungrateful little...anyway. I know the ones in Minnesota are really enjoying slipping on their asses on the snow and ice.
Detainees at GITMO??? Three square meals and the refuse them. I don't get it.
Maybe if we knew cheney like you do it would be different.
dbltap, is that really you? And why would you think that would ruin my day? Other than putting people in jail for so-called thought crimes, it doesn't concern me at all.
Thank you Mary Matalin for providing a definitive insight into the Bush White House mindset. On Meet The Press, she said that Cheney needn't have called Bush, nor Bush have spoken personally with Cheney after the shooting accident. "What purpose would have been served by the vice-president then waking up the president to say, "Feel my pain?" This goes a long way in helping to understand how Bush could have remained on vacation while Katrina ravaged the South. What purpose would have been served in returning to the White House? I don't begrudge Bush over this at all. He should act naturally. But the next time he calls himself a "compassionate conservative" I do hope more than one voice will be giving him the Cheney salute: "Go Fuck Yourself."
Posted by: Peter Simon
at February 20, 2006 12:13 PM
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The TRUTH is that probably NOBODY knows the truth Except the Regular Lefties here led by David Corn. I like this possible version of truth much better!
By the Washington Times
New questions on Saddam, WMD
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
February 20, 2006
More information has surfaced in recent days about Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction programs, and the possible roles of Syria and Russia in spiriting WMD and massive arsenals of conventional munitions out of Iraq prior to the start of the war three years ago.
The new information includes audio recordings of 12 hours of conversations from the early 1990s through 2000 involving Saddam Hussein and his top aides, in which Saddam discusses how to conceal Iraqi weapons programs from U.N. inspectors and the possibility that the United States could be the target of terrorist attacks. The recordings were provided by Bill Tierney, an Arabic speaker, who worked during the mid-1990s for the United Nations Special Commission that was responsible for overseeing Iraq's disarmament.
One new piece of information revealed on the tapes, released Saturday by Mr. Tierney at the Intelligence Summit, a private conference held in Arlington, is that Saddam was actively working on a plan to enrich uranium using a technique known as plasma separation. This is particularly worrisome because of the date of the conversation: It took place in 2000, nearly five years after Iraq's nuclear programs were thought to have stopped.
Perhaps most disturbing of all, according to Mr. Tierney, was the fact that the Iraqi scientists briefing Saddam about the uranium enrichment plan in 2000 "were totally unknown" to U.N. weapons inspectors. The plasma program also appears to have escaped the attention of the Iraq Survey Group, which reported two years ago that it had ended back in the late 1980s.
Mr. Tierney points out that the 12 hours of information that he has translated thus far is just a small fraction of the hundreds of hours of tape recordings and other raw intelligence data collected after the fall of Saddam.
Another speaker at the conference was John Shaw, former deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, who charged that Saddam's stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction were moved by Russian special forces into Syria and Lebanon.
According to Mr. Shaw, former Russian intelligence boss Yevgeny Primakov came to Iraq in December 2002 in order to supervise "cleanup" operations to remove WMD production materials from the country. This operation, carried out by GRU military intelligence and Russian "spetsnaz," or special forces, troops, was designed to make it possible for critics of the war to be able to claim that Iraq had had no WMD. Mr. Shaw claims that officials in the Pentagon and the CIA, who were fearful of alienating Moscow, actively worked to discredit his efforts to bring this story to light, and that some derided it as "Israeli disinformation."
It is apparent that the American public has much more to learn about Moscow, Damascus and WMD and precisely when Saddam's nuclear weapons programs actually stopped
When I think of the Washington Times I always think of the little party the GOP had for Reverend Moon at the Capitol where he was coronated as the messiah.
What a class act by Mr. Whittington to so publicly apologize for the whole incident. He didn't need to do that! Just the simple fact of his looking really well, should have been enough to tell the public that this whole thing was so overdone!
SHAME on the Antique Media and all of the blogs and blogers that wasted an enormous amount of time, space, keystrokes on this `incident'.
VP did the absolutely right thing to take ALL of the blame even if Mr. W had been even minutely responsible. I was involved in a civil (accident) lawsuit decades ago where I thought I was 99% NOT GUILTY; well, guess what, in a civil suit, I ended up 40% liable and my insurance company had to pay partial damages instead of the other guy's insurer paying both sides' damages.
NEW YORK Even as the Sunday morning televison talk shows featured blistering attacks on the press for going overboard in its critical coverage of the Cheney shooting incident last week, further revelations guaranteed that the story would have legs.
Newsweek and Time magazines both put the vice president on their covers this week with lengthy, if not especially fresh, accounts of the shooting of Harry Whittington inside. Most major newspapers rehashed the episode in their Sunday papers. Cheney aide Mary Matalin accused NBC reporter David Gregory of going on a "jihad" gainst the vice president.
Buried in the Time cover story, however, was one brain-teaser that could fuel more speculation, as it contradicts earlier explanations that Cheney wanted to get the full story out, he was just a bit tardy about it. The passage reads:
"At about 8 a.m. Sunday, a Cheney aide called strategist Mary Matalin, who regularly advises the Vice President. The aide read her a statement about the accident that Cheney had considered releasing before he decided to encourage Armstrong to go to the (Corpus Christi) Caller-Times.
"But the statement 'didn't say much of anything,' Matalin says "not even that Cheney was the shooter. Matalin then spoke with a second aide and with Cheney's family and heard different versions of what had happened in the shooting. She decided no statement should be released amid the confusion. Matalin spoke with Cheney, and, she says, they agreed that 'a fuller accounting, with an eyewitness,' would be preferable."
Time also reports a poll showing that almost two-thirds of Americans (65%) think Cheney should have taken immediate responsibility for the shooting incident. His approval rating stands at 29%; President Bush's approval rating is 40%.
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I love it. cheney can't take responsibility for anything, even something he is directly responsible for. And then when he's forced to take responsibility for it, he makes the victim apologize too. Kind of evens things out.
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No one. They don't even keep up with the stats on the terrorist problem. The administration is too busy covering for their own "terrorist" activities or 'incidents'. Whatever you prefer to call them.
Workplace Issues
Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Scott Reeves, 02.14.06, 10:00 AM ET
NEW YORK - Sadly, innate stupidity isn't a firing offense. It's the "brilliant" things stupid people do that get them canned.
In New York recently, Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly fired a city employee for playing solitaire on his work computer during business hours. Mayor Mike, who has a net worth of $5.1 billion (see: "The 400 Richest Americans"), made a fortune by building a real-time financial newswire from scratch. He is obviously a futzy traditionalist who believes workers should, you know, work.
"Be in tune with the corporate culture," says Richard Bayer, chief operating officer of Five O'clock Club, an out-placement and career coaching organization in New York. "You also have to be aware that computer technology keeps a record of everything you do. You don't want to have porn on your hard drive. Believe me, that's not as uncommon as you'd think."
But there are other ways to get yourself fired that require little thought and less talent than improper use of the company's computer.
Alcohol is a tried and true way to get a pink slip. In Michigan, a reporter and photographer at a small newspaper reportedly got the boot for guzzling beer while doing a story on "beer pong." Emulating Hunter S. Thompson isn't a wise career move. This just in: Drinking on the job or drinking too much at company functions isn't smart.
Many aspiring Einsteins don't realize that the computer system keeps a copy of every e-mail sent. Ponder that awesome truth the next time you're about to send a saucy note to the hottie in the next cubicle or you're about to flame the boss for his latest manifestation of what you consider terminal idiocy. Moral: Don't assume that your work e-mail is private. (See: "Kiss 'n Tell Via E-Mail" and "Flirting Without Disaster.")
Hacking the company's Web site or scrambling proprietary data is generally frowned upon by the bigwigs, but it's not uncommon for grunts with a grievance to go digital after going ballistic. (See: "How To Ruin Your Career In Ten East Steps.")
Who could forget the blistering blog written by a young woman at a national fashion mag? Great inside dirt--and it got her fired. It's best to leave statements to the company press officer. If loyalty is asking to much, at least remember who signs your paycheck.
Theft is another good way to get the boot. Your manager isn't a Sunday school teacher and won't take the time to teach you the Ten Commandments. Your manager's task is much simpler: protect the company's reputation from a low-life thief.
Then there are always the junior high pranks that no one finds funny except the soon-to-be-ex-employee: the afternoon naps, office affairs, bad personal hygiene and the days off from "I don't feel like going to work" disease. These lapses in judgment could easily get you a pink slip. It doesn't matter if you're employed at a private company or a major corporation such as Chevron (nyse: CVX - news - people ), Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ), JPMorganChase (nyse: JPM - news - people ) or Home Depot (nyse: HD - news - people ).
Don't think that having an idiot for a boss is an excuse, either. Just because you work for an idiot doesn't mean you have to act like one. (See: "How To Work For An Idiot.")
If you're a manager faced with a terminally stupid employee, you must make it clear that certain behavior is unacceptable and chart a course to redemption. This generally requires a closed-door, no-holds-barred meeting where you lay things out chapter and verse. Put everything in writing and document any future transgressions. You'll have to work with the personnel department to fire bad employees, and that can be sticky. (See: "How To Motivate Bad Employees.")
"Most good work habits are just common sense," says Bayer. Or, as your grandmother used to say, "Don't stick beans up your nostrils."
AS the insurance companies screw over thousands of Bush/Katrina victims they record the second biggest profits ever. I can only hope some of them voted for Emporer Bush in 2004.
The investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson is heating up. Evidence is mounting that senior officials in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Security Council conspired to unmask Plame Wilson's identity to reporters in an effort to stop her husband from publicly criticizing the administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence, according to sources close to the two-year-old probe.
In recent weeks, investigators working for Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald have narrowed their focus to a specific group of officials who played a direct role in pushing the White House to cite bogus documents claiming that Iraq attempted to purchase 500 tons of uranium from Niger, which Plame Wilson's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had exposed as highly suspect.
One high level behind-the-scenes player who has been named by witnesses in the case as a possible source for reporters in the leak is Robert Joseph, formerly the director of nonproliferation at the National Security Council. Joseph is responsible for placing the infamous "sixteen words" about Iraq's attempt to purchase uranium from Niger in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address.
....Joseph did not return calls for comment. A spokeswoman for the vice president's office said she would not comment on "rumors" or "speculation" as long as the investigation is ongoing. Hadley's spokeswoman also did not return calls for comment, but she has said in the past that Hadley played no role in the leak.
Do you think I am grossly incompetent enough for a job in the Bush Administration? Maybe if I cut out half of my brain I could get Brownies old job?
Heckuva job Happy!
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:57 PM
Thanks! Corky! Anything I can to help you on the rest of your life. We are having porblems getting enough qualified help in the Houston area and you might want to check us out! We are also not affected by blizzards and we are ~70 ft. above sea level. But work here is real, not to be spent on blogs blowing employer's time and net resources.
Having a somewhat boring day with the market closed! Can't get a feel for how much my oil & gas stocks have gone up with Nigeria in a hiccup!
Maybe Happy should send his employment advice to the White House.
The American dream has been shot dead by The Ownership Society. It no longer matters how qualified or how hardworking you are. You just have to be a rich crony now.
The double standard with this whole conservative group is hilarious. They spew the corporate excellence bullshit all day. They make you pee in a cup, give you lie detector test's and psycological exams for a 5.15 cents an hour job at Best Buy. But when you take a long hard look at these guys at the top all you see is incompetence, lies, thievery and greed.
Before you know it, the UAE will be apologizing to the Bush Administration for allowing al-Qaeda types to infiltrate security in some of the United States' largest ports.
I wish I knew how to extricate myself from this Gang, but I have found out the hard way that once a person "goes along, to get along" it is very, very difficult to sever the ties without repercussions. It is a gang psychosis-mentality.
Have you ever read about the initiation-type violence that is required for membership in a gang? And the senseless use of violence to "send a message" to those who are beginning to waver from "the cause?"
#249 Den (previous post) I watched Katrina, George Will and Cokie Roberts on "This Week" also.
The show started with Katrina addressing the media's obsession with Cheneys hunting accident. She believed this obsession was due to Cheney's team withholding information from the american public..represented a metaphor for the ongoing secrecy and deception of the Bush administration. George Will responded with "Katrina sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". He immediately hit below the belt in response to Katrina addressing the failings of this administration.
My response to George Will would have been "and George sometimes "NO WMD'S MEANS THERE ARE NO WMD'S)."
Katrina also addressed the failure of the Bush administration to find any of the promised WMD'S that they had relentlessly repeated were in Iraq. She went onto say that the Bush administration switched gears after the WMD failure and told us no it wasn't WMD's that we invaded Iraq for, we pre-emptively invaded another nation to "spread democracy". As Katrina pointed out that "convenient" new plan was also failing miserably.
At this point Cokie Roberts looked like she was about to blow a fuse. Katrina was telling the truth and the truth will sometimes make these talking heads eyes bug out. Will was also squirming and smirking.
George will responded to Katrina's comments about the Bush administrations failures to "spread democracy". By saying that "the U.s. had a remarkable history of spreading democracy".
Katrina responded that it was the U.S.'s support of totalitarian regimes that have caused so much trouble for people in the middle east.
The issue of the funds being cut for Hamas and the U.S. asking for $50 million back came up. Cokie Roberts said "the american people have the right to not have their taxes used to support terroist groups". So convenient of Cokie to forget that we have been supporting Israel for fifty years and many of Israels leaders are considered terroist by many people around the world.
The show closed by George Will asking Katrina whether she had a Kerry/Edwards sticker on her vehicle.(this was a very unusual move by Will) She did not respond. Will went onto say that this was a sure sign of anger. Katrina responded that she was a person of passion.
I have generally not seen George Will hit below the belt like that. He is usually brilliant and sticks to the points and usually does not try to attack.
There he was trying to pin the emotion/label "angry woman" on Katrina (we know that this has been done recently to Clinton). I thought this was petty and childish.
I found the show rather interesting.
Cokie Roberts eyes bugging out and her body language (she was aghast) and Will's obvious discomfort with someone as articulate and full of facts as Katrina...blew their minds.
THIS SHOW WOULD MAKE A GREAT SKIT ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.
#270 Jeanne....all of the smirking and sarcasm that came out of Mary Matalin seemed as if she was channeling the old Bush. While Matalin had some valid points, (I think the press's obsession with this accident was disgusting and boring) her body language was the body language of a spoiled child.
I thought Maureen Dowd was composed and on point about the subject (Cheney's shooting).
The rolling of eyes and smirks are really ineffective and I believe show that person to be acting like an idiot.
#5 What is the state of affairs in Austria - and other European countries - that gives "the state" an interest in abridging free speech insofar as prosecuting people who ignorantly think the Nazi's did not try and to some extent succeed at exterminating homosexuals, gypsies and Jews?
What a class act by Mr. Whittington to so publicly apologize for the whole incident.
What kind of bizarro world do you live in where a man demonstrates "class" by apologizing for someone else's carelessness? It would be one thing for the guy to acknowledge that Cheney expressed remorse and to reassure everyone that he was well and all was forgiven. But to apologize for getting shot? That's just plain weird.
"Happy" is a paid troll. He rolls in with some story from the Washington "great birdcage liner" Times and then rolls out. PR firms actually do pay idiots to leave post's on liberal blogs. It was more widespread when the Bush administration hired a PR firm to sell the Iraq invasion. The Bush administration spends almost a billion dollars of your tax money on PR every year.
Earlier this week, in an attempt to shift attention away from Vice President Cheney's hunting accident, the right wing attacked former Vice President Al Gore for calling attention to the round-up of Arabs and Muslims that occurred in the days after 9/11. Labeling him "seditious," Michelle Malkin said Gore "slandered" America for stating that Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" after 9/11.
On Tuesday, Karl Rove's White House deputy, Peter Wehner, emailed Gore's comments on background to reporters urging them to editorialize on the issue. On NBC's Meet the Press, Tim Russert gave airtime to Paul Gigot, editor of the Wall Street Journal, so he could say this:
I think the remarks were notable. Because I think when you go to a country like that, particularly in the heart of Wahhabi Islam, and say we have indiscriminately rounded up Arabs in this country after 9/11 - first of all, I don't think that's true. I don't remember us doing that.
While the right has been quick to politicize Gore's remarks, they haven't had the time to do a fact-check. Gore was merely stating what has been reported and well-documented over the past few years:
Even some government officials are worried. In a secret meeting of top Justice Department officials hours after the attacks, then-immigration chief James Ziglar rebuked those in the room for proposing a "roundup" of Arabs and Muslims. "I'm not going to be part of this if weÕ²e going to do things that blatantly violate the law," Ziglar declared, according to people there. [Knight Ridder, 6/15/03]
we are typically taught that Hitler was an evil dictator who rose to power in Germany and sought to take over the world. This provoked a reaction from the Allies, which, while causing a massive and regrettable loss of life, was unfortunately necessary if the world was to be saved from a global fascist regime. But how many of us ask how it was that Hitler, the leader of a country so economically crippled that a wheelbarrow full of banknotes was needed to purchase a mere loaf of bread, could afford the immense cost of all-out European war? How was it that the German army could secure the vast and continuing supply of oil and armaments necessary to undertake war on so many fronts simultaneously? The answer, of course, is that it was loaned the money necessary by the banking and industrial cartels of the West.
Thought it was very interesting that Mary Matalin kept insisting that "we all know" the Vice President doesn't drink...despite the fact that he admitted having beer with his lunch that day. Also, does Mary wonder how he got those two DUI's?
Lindsey 37, what I want to know is why throw these people in jail? Revisionism and reductionism have been made crimes punishable by prison terms, but to what end? Seems to me a better way to deal with this controversy is to get it out in the open, promote research, broadcast debates, if the Holocaust stories are true, absolutely and completely, they will stand up to any and all scrutiny, so what do they have to lose? These historians who challenge it will be made to look like fools and that will be the end of that. Sort of like ID geologists who claim the Grand Canyon is less than 10,000 years old. Gagging revisionists just makes me wonder what they are trying to keep hidden. Truth does not need laws to protect it. Will they throw the writers of the Red Cross report into prison as well? How about the person who made the decision to reduce the number of victims on the Auschwitz plaque from 4 to 1.5 million? Or the chemist who was unable to detect any residue of cyanide gas in any gas chambers? Or the curator of the Auschwitz museum who claimed that it was Russia that built the gas chambers AFTER the liberation of the camp? There are lots of people they could throw in jail, but wouldn't it be better to just prove them wrong?
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. - Researchers at the University of Minnesota said Sunday that they were able to reverse diabetes in monkeys by transplanting insulin-producing cells from pigs.
Some are calling it a milestone that could eventually transform the lives of millions of people. If the research pans out, it could provide an endless supply of healthy cells to replace the ones that don't work in diabetics.
"Happy" is a paid troll....and then rolls out. PR firms actually do pay idiots to leave post's on liberal blogs....
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 02:12 PM
On a boring day, you Gloomy Nuts are my Daytime Entertainment! I have already fessed up that I am paid at $100 per keystroke! EVERYBODY, Corky gets the credit for `Outing' me as being paid by the Bush/Rove PR machine. Sorry, I can't job-share with you; as much as I want to help you get employed!
Maybe Michael Moore could pay you for being his troll, since you use him as a source so often. You would have to live in Canada and not be a member of a union and be willing to go without health insurance to get on his payroll (he likes to outsource to Canada)but I am sure he would pay you more than $5.50 an hour (what's the minimum wage in Canada? There you go!).
Gregory was articulate. He made clear points; kept his composure and didn't take the bait.
Dowd shredded Matlin. Dowd's metaphorical commentary about Cheney blowing off democratic institutions and having the same fever for unlimited executive power as he did for the Iraq invasion stunned Matlin. Matlin failed to respond.
Matlin is very good at what she does. In this instance, the distain and contempt she projected for Gregory and Dowd is a PR play, although hard to recognize as such by many, it is a play Yesterday, Matlin came off as the a$$hole.
The White House PR narrative is that the "angry" press on a jihad against the upstanding and victimized VP.
Russert kept his mouth shut during the best part of the exchange, thank god. The fourth guest had not one thing to say. He was nothing more than a prop on the set.
From #40
What kind of bizarro world do you live in where a man demonstrates "class" by apologizing for someone else's carelessness? It would be one thing for the guy to acknowledge that Cheney expressed remorse and to reassure everyone that he was well and all was forgiven. But to apologize for getting shot? That's just plain weird.
Posted by: Don at February 20, 2006 02:12 PM
I guess this poster has never got in the way of anybody in his Gloomy Life to say "Sorry for getting in the way" even though the other party was probably more `guilty'! Never cutting off someone while driving, nomatter how inadvertent, even though if all facts were known, that car shouldn't have been where it was! Never accussed someone of wrongdoing when in fact, the accuser was merely, tinyly right!
DON, you are perfect! Just the type of folks I want to limit my help on Habitat for Humanity projects; if I was/am perfect! But, I am not.
Now if only we did not have a government that puts the needs of giant pharmacuetical companies ahaed of sick Americans...
The real problem with transplanttaion is the patients immune system. Diabetes is ultimately an immune system disorder. There is something that causes the diabetics immune system to freak out and attack the insulin producing cells in thier own body. So even if you transplant the cells again, the body will eat them up again.
We were very close to understanding the reasons for this in the nineties. But then came the most anti science government in our history.
I checked with the Bush administration about getting paid to wack a few Cornnuts and they said sorry but David Corn is a worthless nobody and that the resources would be a waste.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The unmistakable Hall of Fame voice of the Red Sox and a national baseball audience for a generation has passed away.
Curt Gowdy, enshrined in Cooperstown in 1984 as a Ford C. Frick Award winner, died Monday after battling leukemia while living in his West Palm Beach, Fla., home. He was 86.
Gowdy broadcast 13 World Series and 16 Major League All-Star Games.
The Wyoming native made his debut in 1944 broadcasting a football game atop an orange crate in sub-zero weather. His enthusiasm quickly caught on and earned him a job broadcasting the New York Yankees alongside Mel Allen in 1949.
Two years later, he moved to Boston to do Red Sox games and a New England broadcast legend was born.
"I'll never forget him," Red Sox patriarch Johnny Pesky said Monday morning in Fort Myers upon hearing the news. "I was talking about him just the other day. People ask you about people you've met. The announcers back in our day used to travel with us [on trains] and we would play cards with them. Those years there just seemed like there was a lot of affection there."
Gowdy earned the George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting in 1970 for his "blend of reporting, accuracy, knowledge, good humor, infectious honesty and enthusiasm," becoming the first sportscaster to be so honored.
But it was in Boston that he touched the hearts and souls of countless New Englanders with a professional, conversational and witty style all his own.
And no one knew or trusted Gowdy more than the players he covered.
"I loved Curt Gowdy and I think he loved Ted [Williams], Bobby [Doerr], Dom [DiMaggio] and me," Pesky said. "We had some great guys and great people and I wish we could have won more.
"They were the guys you grew up with and stayed with them for a lot of years. I knew Curt for over 50 years."
Pesky recalled Gowdy's distinctive style.
"He had a great voice but he wasn't a hotshot," Pesky added. "Some guys get so big and think people listen to them because they're the thing. He was nothing like that. He and Mel Allen were the two best announcers in my era. He was an exciting guy. He had that expression, 'rounding third and heading home,' and I'll never forget that if I live to be 100."
Gowdy was named "Sportscaster of the Year" on three occasions. After leaving the Red Sox following the 1965 season, he quickly ascended to the status of national sportscaster.
Gowdy's numerous network assignments included the World Series, the Super Bowl, the 1976 Montreal Olympics and the "American Sportsman" series.
"I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game -- poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened," Gowdy said in accepting his 1984 Cooperstown honor. "I never took myself too seriously. An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."
Curtailing speech is the slippery slope towards authoritarianism, fascism and communism. (I put communism in there for all the neo-cons who need an enemy to fight.)
Back to my original question: What's the state's interest (Austria's) in passing these laws? What is the situation there that makes these questionable laws the best answer to the problem? What?s the problem?
I got a job two weeks ago. I geuss you are not being paid to read the post's, only to cut and paste the latest editorial from the Moonie news.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 02:53 PM
You are partially Right (again)! The pay is only $1 to read each Lefty Post! But I do want to know what you do now? Like what LBH just said? If so, Good for you...Easy, low-stress, low-intellect, low-value, low-calorie, low-everything work.
As investor in Pfizer, I hope your type of diabetes will be helped by the inhaled insulin coming out so that maybe you can get from under Mr. Moore's shadow.
Posted by: Happy buzzing
at February 20, 2006 03:09 PM
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Now if only we did not have a government that puts the needs of giant pharmacuetical companies ahaed of sick Americans...
I hear ya Corky. As for the article, I think the research going forward can work on the anti-rejection part at the same time. That your body doesn't reject the insulin made by bacteria in a lab might be a clue also.
Don is an Aethist and dosen't understand what the word "sorry" is all about. Please don't hold this against him, it's not his fault he was not raised with any morals.
Alan,
Did you catch Bush's reference to genetic research in his State of the Union misinformation speech? He warned of the dangers of human animal hybrids. He opposes such research. It is more lucrative for the pharmacuetical companies if the transplant recipient has to buy lots and lots of anti immune drugs. As for the recombiant DNA insulin, I am not sure why the situation is different. Science still does not really understand why the diabetics body only attacks the islet cells and nothing else.
Welp, I'm 'bout to head out to the 'Tea Party'. I hope I get to meet Cindy Sheehan. First, I hope to find a place to park, cause it's a mess over there in the Galleria area right now. If they tow my truck, I'd be scrooood. The protest is at Barbara "pretty minds" Bush's church from 4pm to 7pm (central).
Oh and, another piece of b/s from Happy was the "70 ft above seal level" quote. haha
Nevermind the Saddam quote in 2000, when we all know those tapes were made in '95. Happy is a liar and we all know it.
Although, I too am often happy, Happy is much to nice, to you Cornnuts, to be me (LBH). I, on the other hand, have no problem calling you what you are (a damn corny cornnut).
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It sounds like Happy is blaming Whittington for getting shot? That is just retarded.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:04 PM
Corky, you clearly have problems beyond diabetes! You don't read your opposition's post in its entirety before challenging or making idiotic assertions! You are a perfect hire for Michael Moore!
I know many of you here are narrow-minded and judging from the dozens of dollars I earned reading the "Birding" posts over these past several days, Extremes of NO compassion. How hard is it to believe shooting a friend as being your worst day? Also, it is pretty obvious that most of you have never stepped up to take the `fall' even though you were just minutely responsible for some team/group failure! This IS what Good people do and Mr. W proved to me his Goodness! Stay with your Gloomy viewpoints; it just makes me feel so much, much Happier to be Happy.
corky, as I have posted before, the neocon's roots are in extreme left communism. That is not something I made up, that is a provable fact. Facism and communism are kissing cousins, that is why the behavior of these neonuts seems so familiar, we've been here before. Did you know that an ex-KGB officer is an advisor to the Dept. of Homeland Security? Are you surprised?
"I only caught the bitter end of Meet the Press so I'm not sure what provoked Mary Matalin's pout-fest (I'm sure Arianna will issue a full forensics report later), but she made quite a petulant spectacle of herself, shaking her head from side to side in silent, lemon-puss disagreement whenever Maureen Dowd and David Gregory made mildly critical comments about Shotgun Cheney...
"Even without the immature pouting and pissy expression, Matalin would have been a car wreck in repose: With a bad haircut topping a mistaken facelift and a ghastly floral pin that looked like spray-painted aluminum, she looked like the Beltway's Madwoman of Chaillot. Maybe defending the indefensible is getting to her, and the acid reflux has gone to her brain."
Here are some excerpts from a story in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in which Ben Love (boyfriend of Katharine Armstrong) was interviewed:
By Jaime Powell Caller-Times
February 17, 2006
"It had been a wonderful day up to that point," said Ben Love. "Afterward, as you would imagine, we were almost in a state of shock, almost disbelief. Cheney was crushed and he was very concerned about Harry."...
All say Whittington, 78, had stepped away from Cheney and fellow hunter Pam Willeford, U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to retrieve two downed quail, and came up on Cheney when he was firing on a second covey of quail...
Love was in a vehicle with Anne Armstrong, former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and ranch matriarch, Whittington's wife, Merce, Armstrong's son-in-law Bob Hixon and Willeford's husband, George, when Katharine Armstrong called to say Whittington had been hit.
"Nobody was freaked," Love said. "When Merce was told what had happened, Merce sat upright and said, 'Tell me what you know.' We told her what we had learned. She did not say a word and took it very well."
The group immediately headed for the scene, Love said...
"Before we reached it, the ambulance was coming out of the ranch," he said. "We tried to catch the ambulance, but didn't have enough steam to get the job done."
After changing vehicles, Bob Hixon, George Willeford and Merce Whittington headed for the hospital in Kingsville and then on to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial, to which Whittington was airlifted, Love said. They called the ranch to report on his condition, which was not considered life-threatening.
...Whittington is in excellent shape and recovering from the winging he took from Cheney's shotgun and a minor heart attack, brought on by a BB from the mishap which lodged near his heart...
"He (Whittington) is an avid, experienced hunter, good outdoorsmen and very likeable and charming," Love said. "For the most part, it's a lot of friendship and fun that we all enjoy. No wild partying, just people that enjoy being outdoors together and enjoy quail hunting."
Just to help you out and get it straight for once, I'm the A$$HOLE. Now I could say that you, and Den, and What the F_ _ k, are all the same people if you want to play this game. How do I know this, well because the IQ level is about the same. WTF may be just a little smarter.
In its prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Bush Administration is staking out new legal territory, arguing that it is a crime for a reporter or any other non-government employee who does not hold a security clearance to receive and communicate classified information.
"The government respectfully submits that an 'ordinary person exercising ordinary common sense' [...] would know that foreign officials, journalists and other persons with no current affiliation with the United States government would not be entitled to receive information related to our national defense," according to the government's January 30 response (pdf) to a motion to dismiss (pdf) filed by the AIPAC defendants.
This is a novel view of the press and the American public.
The idea that the government can penalize the receipt of proscribed information, and not just its unauthorized disclosure, is one that characterizes authoritarian governments, not mature democracies.
The government bases its position on a narrow reading of the Espionage Act of 1917 (18 U.S.C. 793), which prohibits certain communications of national defense information by "whoever" may do so.
"There plainly is no exemption in the statutes for the press, let alone lobbyists like the defendants," the government said.
Prosecution of a member of the press "would raise legitimate and serious issues and would not be undertaken lightly," the government volunteered. But the AIPAC defendants "are not members of the press and enjoy no constitutional rights reserved to the press."
Of course, anyone who commits espionage should expect to be prosecuted for that crime. But that is not the issue in the AIPAC case, where the government seeks to penalize the non-espionage transmission of information that it considers classified.
"Whether a defendant was an agent of a foreign government is not relevant. The statute applies to any person, whether they are acting as an agent, or acting on their own," the government said.
This is precisely what makes the AIPAC case a matter of broad public consequence. The prosecution's expansive interpretation of the Espionage Act potentially applies to every American, indeed every person in the world ("anyone"), not just accused spies.
"The fact that the defendants were not agents of Israel, or any foreign nation, does not negate any element of the offense, and cannot be exculpatory."
If you keep using the profanity, I am going to take your GOP membership card away! Don't you have any morals? I control your party now, you had better remember that!
Posted by: Pat Robertson
at February 20, 2006 03:33 PM
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Froim #70 Alan Cerny
Oh and, another piece of b/s from Happy was the "70 ft above seal level" quote.....Happy is a liar and we all know it.
Posted by: Alan at February 20, 2006 03:17 PM
Alan, you are the true Idiot! I know exactely who you are, so, tell me, who is the idiot? I won't forget your name soon. The Houston FBI Special Agent-in-Charge's business card is in my rollodex. Look on a topo map and tell me what is the average elevation of Houston, which stretches west out to Katy and north past FM 1960? Yes, at the Ship Channel, it is just a dozen ft. above sea level, but check at the west and north ends! Hoston is the second largest (geographic area) city next to Jacksonville just because you live down in Missouri City, much, much closer to the Gulf, and maybe at 30 ft., doesn't mean average Houston isn't higher than where you are. Stay Stupid!
You are right to continue to wonder about "le birdshot d'affaire." At one point after the shotgun blast, there were whispers and hushed discussion about "externalisez le bl‰me."
My French is very rusty, but that roughly translates to "outsourcing the blame." Cheney and Miss Matalin weren't cooking quail; they were cooking up a story to cover for the veep. Rumor has it that not one person on the hunt would take the fall for the veep. Cheney is REALLY angry.
Now that is just down right nasty of you to talk about Mary's plastic surgery when you know that she uses the same doctor that John (mr. botox) Kerry and Nancy (help, I can't close my eyes) Pelosi go to.
I know, that face-lift is something else. Actually, the new face-lift is good but she tried to camouflage it with big hair and an ENOURMOUS broach. That broach is bigger than a 4oz serving of meat. Her husband's skin is as taught as a drum. Maybe she wanted the same.
I didn't bring that stuff up in my original post because it's immaterial, except of course in a People-magazine kind of way.
Maybe that is why I dont like John Kerry or Nancy Pelosi very much. But Kerry's doctor must not have had "a beer" before he did his work. I think that doctor must have been pretty messed up when he streched Matalins eyebrows over the top of her head.
corky, it's SO tempting to face-off with provocateurs like LBH/Happy. It's like shooting farm-raised quail but it's also a waste of time. To coin a phrase, your victory is a “fete-complee”
This is one reason that Cheney is REALLY angry. He and Matalin were trying to "outsource the blame" and no one was willing to be the fall guy (or gal).
"At about 8 a.m. Sunday, a Cheney aide called strategist Mary Matalin, who regularly advises the Vice President. The aide read her a statement about the accident that Cheney had considered releasing before he decided to encourage Armstrong to go to the (Corpus Christi) Caller-Times.
"But the statement 'didn't say much of anything,' Matalin saysÑnot even that Cheney was the shooter. Matalin then spoke with a second aide and with Cheney's family and heard different versions of what had happened in the shooting. She decided no statement should be released amid the confusion. Matalin spoke with Cheney, and, she says, they agreed that 'a fuller accounting, with an eyewitness,' would be preferable."
Not sure if Harry is plastic or not, I think his brain has had some surgery though. Now Michael Moore could use some help with a new face and some fat ass suction and I would even throw in a couple bucks just so I don't have to look at the ugly bastard anymore.
I warned you about the profanity. Did the people who raised you have any moral values?
Posted by: Pat Robertson
at February 20, 2006 03:58 PM
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Corky
It's been fun, but I have a real job to attend to. Keep the humor going, it will keep you living longer than those other uptight cornnuts even being diabetic.
Australian PM John Howard...said a commitment to jihad and extreme attitudes towards women were two problems unique to Muslims that previous intakes of migrants from Europe did not have, and that Australia wanted people to assimilate and adopt Australian ways.
Mr Howard said today it was his "right and duty" to express his thoughts. "I stand by those comments that there is a small section of the Islamic population in Australia that, because of its remarks about jihad, remarks which indicate an extremist view, that is a problem," Mr Howard told reporters in Sydney.
Australian Muslims, of course, are upset over being singled out for criticism. Ali Roude, spokesman for the Islamic Council of NSW, responded:
"To suggest that Muslims alone are extremists in our society or ...that Muslims as a group cannot adapt and embrace Australia's ways, is as invalid an argument as it is offensive and ignorant."
With all due respect, moderate Muslims do themselves no favors by minimizing the threat of Islamic extremism, by pretending it is in any way equal to other extremist elements in society, or by ignoring the question of assimilation.
Australia, and the West in general, is dealing with a very difficult moral and cultural dilemma (some would say crisis) trying to find a balance between maintaining its values of openness and tolerance while protecting itself from exceedingly aggressive Islamic culture populated with a small but lethal element and, perhaps most importantly, a growing number of those who sympathize with radical extremists.
The ICM poll released in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph illustrates the dilemma perfectly: only 1% of British Muslims felt the bombing attacks on London were justified, yet a fully 20% sympathized with the "feelings and motives" of the suicide bombers who carried out the attacks.
As to the question of assimilation, 40% of Muslims favored introducing sharia law in parts of Britain. That seems like an awfully large number for a country with a such a tradition of tolerance and multiculturalism. One could easily draw the lesson that Britain has been too deferential to Muslim culture and has failed to put enough emphasis on assimilation. And Britain's Muslims are more well assimilated than most in Western Europe.
The point is that working through these issues will require some very frank dialogue. Tough questions must be asked and answered. As the leader of a prominent Western nation currently grappling with the issue, John Howard should be praised, not castigated, for raising some of those questions in a very reasonable and measured way.
I do love Michael Moore. He scares the GOP more than six John Kerry's. When you show a picture of Michael Moore to a conservative they go wild with hate. I cant wait until his new movie comes out. Its called "Sicko". It is about the rape of the American worker by the pharmacuetical industry. Unlike the other democrats he concentrates on issues that Americans actually care about. That is why they hate and fear him so much.
You and Michael need to get a room, keep your fantasies off the post. Now did you know Michael owns pharmacuetical stocks? Why would he be the person to bash this subject when he is making money off them? You really need to open your eyes!
I dont share the same delusional difficulties that you suffer from. My eyes are wide open. If you have proof of Mikes stock holdings, please leave a link, I would like to read about it. Not that it really matters. It would seem silly to try and devalue his own stock.
I shot a quail once. At fifty yards with a pellet gun. It was not wearing an orange hat. I had drank a case of beer with lunch, I thought it was a lawyer. I felt bad for the bird, who was unable to apologize to me for being shot because it was dead.
Michaels corporate schedule D showing his capitol gains and losses from stocks has been published for all to see a while back. You can do a google search to find it and get up to speed. Also, just to authenticate it, Micheal has his signature on the bottom of the tax form.
Is Jimmy Carter On The Hamas Payroll?
Well what else could explain his latest finger-wagging at America and Israel?
.....Jimmy Carter has penned a Washington Post Op-Ed demanding that the US and Israel give Hamas a chance.... this disgraceful excuse for an American, let alone an ex-President.
...by becoming the mouthpiece for dictatorships spanning the globe and enemies of America. What's worse, he always seems to make America or its allies the bad guy in every situation....
... let's look at just a smattering of the man's actions since leaving office. He's managed to do the following:
- In 1984, visited the home of then Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. According to Dobryning, Carter was concerned about Reagan's defense build-up and explained that Moscow would be better off with someone else in the White House. If Reagan won, he warned, "There would not be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan remained in power."
- In 1991, wrote a letter to the UN asking them to stop President Bush 41 from removing Saddam from Kuwait
- Stymied the attempt of President Clinton to stop North Korea from getting nuclear weapons, saying of Kim Jong Il: " I found him to be vigorous, intelligent, surprisingly well-informed about the technical issues and in charge of the decisions about this country." As for the North Koreans, Carter said the "people were very friendly and open." The capital, Pyongyang, is a "bustling city," where customers "pack the department stores," which looked like "Wal-Mart in Americus, Georgia."
-Told Haitian dictator Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras he was "ashamed of what my country has done to your country."
- Vouched for Fidel Castro's statement that Cuba did not have the capability to produce biological weapons.
- Backed Hugo Chavez's claim that the Venezuelan elections were fair in the face of numerous reports to the contrary by respected election monitors and polling companies
Keep in mind also that while President, Jimmy lectured Americans about an "irrational fear of communism, as well said that Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito was "a man who believed in human rights", called him "a great and courageous leader" who had led his people and protected their freedom."
With that background, let's turn to the issue at hand - Jimmy Carter's plea of acceptance for a terrorist organization.
Today's Op-Ed is so full of distortions, outrageous statements and ignorance it's hard to know where to start. Let's try from the beginning.
(Critique on today's Carter BS Redacted; find it yourself if you want to see how ridiculous Carter just made himself look today. Must be hard to keep up with Al Gore on Selling Out America)
When will someone in the Democrat party have a "Sister Souljah moment" and call out Carter for what he is - a friend to America's enemies? Could it be because the base of the Democrat party today shares the same beliefs as Carter? How sad is it that a Democrat wanting to be President can't stand up to the lunacy of Jimmy Carter for fear of alienating the party faithful? I think that in and of itself explains why the American people don't trust Democrats on national security.
Michael Moore is no fool, Halliburton stock has made money ever since Clinto gave them their first no-bid contract in Bosnia. He is only doing what any other good American does when investing in stocks-he just lies about it to his fans.
By Jimmy Carter
Monday, February 20, 2006; Washington Post A21
As the results of the recent Palestinian elections are implemented, it's important to understand how the transition process works and also how important to it are actions by Israel and the United States.
Although Hamas won 74 of the 132 parliamentary seats, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas retains the right to propose and veto legislation, with 88 votes required to override his veto. With nine of its elected members remaining in prison, Hamas has only 65 votes, plus whatever third-party support it can attract. Abbas also has the power to select and remove the prime minister, to issue decrees with the force of law when parliament is not in session, and to declare a state of emergency. As commander in chief, he also retains ultimate influence over the National Security Force and Palestinian intelligence.
After the first session of the new legislature, which was Saturday, the members will elect a speaker, two deputies and a secretary. These legislative officials are not permitted to hold any position in the executive branch, so top Hamas leaders may choose to concentrate their influence in the parliament and propose moderates or technocrats for prime minister and cabinet posts. Three weeks are allotted for the prime minister to form the cabinet, and a majority vote of the parliament is required for final approval.
I have a good source who told me that Michael Moore made a cheese sandwich for Osama bin Laden once. Except Michael Moore was so hungry that he ate it before he could get to the cave in Pakistan. That's one reason why he's so fat.
Micheal Moore was in the grassy knoll. He is also responsible for the crack epidemic of the '80s. Once, Michael Moore took a shit in a bag, placed it on the White House porch, and lit it on fire.
This incident exposes Cheney himself as just another costumed buffoon, and not the Darth Vader figure he and his desparately insecure admirers seemed to relish.
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Stan Goff is a retired Special Forces Master Sergeant, a member of Vietnam Veterans Against War and Veterans for Peace.
Michael Moore actually prefers Jon Luc-Picard over James T. Kirk. Michael Moore often places his elbows on the table when he is eating. In fact, he surrounds his plate with his arms like he's a convict because he doesn't want anyone else to get some of his food (and he eats a LOT of food - it's how he got so fat).
That is four LBH posts, #128, 130 & 131 were from a LBH imposter. Problably that Cornnut that keeps posting as Pat Robertson. Now I really don't care if you Cornnuts try to impersonate me but when your not funny, well that just ruins my reputation and I won't stand for a boring Cornnut trying to be me.
Corky can't respond, I just killed his worship idol Michael Moore and he now has nothing left to live for. You Cornnuts may want to put him on a death watch just in case.
8 Million Facing Famine in East Africa
Caritas Requesting Aid for Djibouti
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 19, 2006 (Zenit.org).- About 8 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti are facing "a terrible famine," warns Caritas Internationalis.
The Vatican-based Catholic confederation said that it urgently needs about $45,000 to bring food aid to the people of Djibouti.
The country, like its larger neighbors in the Horn of Africa region, is falling victim to famine after years of drought.
Several consecutive seasons of failed rains and crops have left 150,000 people in need of food aid in Djibouti, explained Caritas.
"Even if some rain were to fall in the coming months, it would not be enough to avoid the impending humanitarian crisis," the confederation said.
The lack of rain has hit the pastoral herders particularly hard, since they depend on watering holes and prairie grasses to keep their livestock healthy.
Caritas Djibouti plans to bring food aid to some 200 families in the interior of the country, using the network the Catholic Church has established through its missions in All-Sabieh, Obock and Tadjoura.
Over a month ago, the Vatican newspaper sounded an alarm over famine in the Horn of Africa. L'Osservatore Romano described the international reaction to the famine as "largely insufficient."
Desperate need
On Friday the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire reported on the worst drought in the past 10 years which has hit the Horn of Africa. It cited an assessment by the humanitarian agency Oxfam.
Mohammed Elmi, in charge of Oxfam's program for the region, stressed the "desperate need of water" of those populations. The agency pointed out that the families of pastoral herders are obliged to survive on only a 20th of the water recommended, and many of them can only count on three glasses of water a day.
It is not possible to survive on that amount "with temperatures that exceed 40 degrees" Celsius, warned Elmi. That is about 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
"Not having water, children must drink their own urine," warned Abdullahi Maalim Hussein, an elder of the Somali village who accompanied the humanitarian agency in its mission to the border areas of Kenya and Somalia.
Where is the U.N. in all this starving of human beings?
Nazi America cannot help the Katrina victims and the Nazi United Nations cannot help starving populations. Can anyone help someone?
Can't you trolls come up with something more creative than the same old talking points line every Cornnut uses when losing an agrument? Saladin uses this very same line with me once a week at least. I can help if you be nice!
# 80 Capt ..thanks for the update piece on Aipac trial developments. I depend on Justin Raimando for keeping up with this critical investigation and upcoming trial.
I have read that both Judith Miller and Kenneth Pollack either transferred or accessed the top secret intelligence in question.
I had also read that in the F.B.I tapes of Rosen, Franklin and Weisman, that Rosen was taped saying "it is a good thing that the U.S. does not have an official secrets act" as the U.K. does.
Do you understand Rosen's comment about the "official secrets act". I thought this had to do with journalist passing classified material.
2,542 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush and his lies.
Henry Kissinger says that military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
G.K. Chesterton said that Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics.
Confucius spoke that before you seek revenge dig two graves.
When an illegal war is launched, every person killed and injured, every piece of property destroyed, and all environmental damage is a war crime. A war without borders and limits is a perpetual war. This war of aggression proliferates terrorism in proportion to its reckless widening, making the world ever more dangerous. TCR News
When did I ever say turning our ports over to a Saudi Co. a good idea? Jame Ha would problaby argue that this is a non-issue since he believes the Suadis had nothing to do with 9/11 so take it up with him.
If you think turning our ports over to a foreign Co. is not a good idea then I would assume that you would agree that dumbass Jimmy Carter giving away the Panama Canal was even a bigger blunder, yes?
I just assumed that since G.W. was for it you would be, just wanted to hear your opinion. Why do you have to insult everyone (uncleandad)? You should get some help for that anger.
I think the panama canal is outside our borders isn't it. Why do you republicans always justify Georgies fuck-ups by comparing them to past democratic fuck-ups?
I was in college in Atlanta in 1976 when Jimmy was elected. The state was going crazy for getting a Native Son/Governor into the WH. Being from Florida, I wasn't impressed but Ford shot himself with his Pollack joke (no ethinic offense intended) and I, an Independent then, voted Ford & lost badly in the state.
Forward to 1979, The Birth of Nightline and the (in my mind) the rise of Islamic Extremism! All Written & Produced by Mr. Carter. He was a smart Naval Academy guy but most definitively NOT FIT to be the CIC. Just couldn't see beyond the (likely) loss of ~50 lives and tried his 'Peace at All Cost' approach. What has those Carter seeds now brought us? A much bigger problem with WMD implications.
Those we are fighting against in the Islamic World respects nothing but firepower and the will to fight. Amazingly, only GOP and John F. Kennedy understood that. LBJ F***** Up the Vietnam War just like Carter did later with the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Only thing is LBJ allowed over 50k Americans to die instead of bomb the shyt out of Hanoi and finish the war in one week. LBJ was a Dem!
And, as the Post article details, the Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee who were depicted as having fallen passively into line apparently don't appreciate those reports and are eager to demonstrate otherwise:
Snowe earlier had expressed concerns about the program's legality and civil liberties safeguards, but Card was adamant about restricting congressional oversight and control, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing office policies. Snowe seemed taken aback by Card's intransigence, and the call amounted to "a net step backward" for the White House, said a source outside Snowe's office.
Snowe contacted fellow committee Republican Chuck Hagel (Neb.), who also
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I apologized. Why can't the Iraqis do the same?
CHENEY 'STILL WAITING' FOR IRAQIS TO APOLOGIZE
Calls Invasion of Iraq 'The Worst Day of My Life'
Vice President Dick Cheney said today that the March 2003 invasion of Iraq was "the worst day of my life" and that he was "still waiting" for the Iraqi people to apologize for it.
Speaking to Brit Hume of the Fox News Channel, Mr. Cheney said that when the U.S. invaded Iraq he expected the troops to be greeted as liberators, and that when that did not happen "it was extremely hurtful to me personally."
"I would have thought that the Iraqi people would have made some sort of apology to me by now," the vice president said. "I'm still waiting for that apology, but I guess you could say that I'm not holding my breath."
Mr. Cheney added that he thought that Iraqi civilians who had been accidentally shot in the face owed him "a special apology."
"Accidents will and do happen," Mr. Cheney said. "But it's incumbent on the person who has been accidentally shot in the face to apologize for it."
Mr. Cheney said he would encourage the President of Iraq to name March 1 as "a national day of apology" when all Iraqis would offer gestures of contrition to the vice president.
In his concluding remarks, the vice president said that the day it became clear that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction was "the second worst day of my life."
"Saddam Hussein owes me an apology for not having WMD's," Mr. Cheney said. "It still hurts."
Elsewhere, Sunday was a day of redemption for the United States at the Winter Olympics as Bodie Miller won two gold medals for the U.S. drinking team. - Andy Borowitz
Posted by: harry at February 20, 2006 11:32 AM
Happy Presidents Day Cornbloggers
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 11:56 AM
Why do we have two president celebrations right in a row?
Posted by: Saladin at February 20, 2006 11:56 AM
CONSUMER ALERT! Hit the Mall and spend it like ya stole it! That is all.
Posted by: DEN at February 20, 2006 11:57 AM
Gee Sal this must ruin your day.
By VERONIKA OLEKSYN
Associated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria
Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust and conceded that he was wrong to say there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Posted by: dbltap at February 20, 2006 12:03 PM
Harry,
The American people probably won't be apologizing for going broke either. I know it makes cheney look bad and since everybody knows he's the one running the country...well I guess it really makes him look really bad.
And the people of NO probably won't be apologizing to him either. Ungrateful little...anyway. I know the ones in Minnesota are really enjoying slipping on their asses on the snow and ice.
Detainees at GITMO??? Three square meals and the refuse them. I don't get it.
Maybe if we knew cheney like you do it would be different.
Posted by: Jeanne at February 20, 2006 12:05 PM
dbltap, is that really you? And why would you think that would ruin my day? Other than putting people in jail for so-called thought crimes, it doesn't concern me at all.
Posted by: Saladin at February 20, 2006 12:12 PM
Thank you Mary Matalin for providing a definitive insight into the Bush White House mindset. On Meet The Press, she said that Cheney needn't have called Bush, nor Bush have spoken personally with Cheney after the shooting accident. "What purpose would have been served by the vice-president then waking up the president to say, "Feel my pain?" This goes a long way in helping to understand how Bush could have remained on vacation while Katrina ravaged the South. What purpose would have been served in returning to the White House? I don't begrudge Bush over this at all. He should act naturally. But the next time he calls himself a "compassionate conservative" I do hope more than one voice will be giving him the Cheney salute: "Go Fuck Yourself."
Posted by: Peter Simon at February 20, 2006 12:13 PM
The TRUTH is that probably NOBODY knows the truth Except the Regular Lefties here led by David Corn. I like this possible version of truth much better!
By the Washington Times
New questions on Saddam, WMD
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
February 20, 2006
More information has surfaced in recent days about Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction programs, and the possible roles of Syria and Russia in spiriting WMD and massive arsenals of conventional munitions out of Iraq prior to the start of the war three years ago.
The new information includes audio recordings of 12 hours of conversations from the early 1990s through 2000 involving Saddam Hussein and his top aides, in which Saddam discusses how to conceal Iraqi weapons programs from U.N. inspectors and the possibility that the United States could be the target of terrorist attacks. The recordings were provided by Bill Tierney, an Arabic speaker, who worked during the mid-1990s for the United Nations Special Commission that was responsible for overseeing Iraq's disarmament.
One new piece of information revealed on the tapes, released Saturday by Mr. Tierney at the Intelligence Summit, a private conference held in Arlington, is that Saddam was actively working on a plan to enrich uranium using a technique known as plasma separation. This is particularly worrisome because of the date of the conversation: It took place in 2000, nearly five years after Iraq's nuclear programs were thought to have stopped.
Perhaps most disturbing of all, according to Mr. Tierney, was the fact that the Iraqi scientists briefing Saddam about the uranium enrichment plan in 2000 "were totally unknown" to U.N. weapons inspectors. The plasma program also appears to have escaped the attention of the Iraq Survey Group, which reported two years ago that it had ended back in the late 1980s.
Mr. Tierney points out that the 12 hours of information that he has translated thus far is just a small fraction of the hundreds of hours of tape recordings and other raw intelligence data collected after the fall of Saddam.
Another speaker at the conference was John Shaw, former deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, who charged that Saddam's stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction were moved by Russian special forces into Syria and Lebanon.
According to Mr. Shaw, former Russian intelligence boss Yevgeny Primakov came to Iraq in December 2002 in order to supervise "cleanup" operations to remove WMD production materials from the country. This operation, carried out by GRU military intelligence and Russian "spetsnaz," or special forces, troops, was designed to make it possible for critics of the war to be able to claim that Iraq had had no WMD. Mr. Shaw claims that officials in the Pentagon and the CIA, who were fearful of alienating Moscow, actively worked to discredit his efforts to bring this story to light, and that some derided it as "Israeli disinformation."
It is apparent that the American public has much more to learn about Moscow, Damascus and WMD and precisely when Saddam's nuclear weapons programs actually stopped
Posted by: Happy on Monday at February 20, 2006 12:24 PM
Here is a funny little thing to help you better understand the bizarro freaks who have taken over your country:
Republican-English dictionary
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:28 PM
When I think of the Washington Times I always think of the little party the GOP had for Reverend Moon at the Capitol where he was coronated as the messiah.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:29 PM
Newsflash!
THERE ARE NO WMD'S IN IRAQ!
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:32 PM
What a class act by Mr. Whittington to so publicly apologize for the whole incident. He didn't need to do that! Just the simple fact of his looking really well, should have been enough to tell the public that this whole thing was so overdone!
SHAME on the Antique Media and all of the blogs and blogers that wasted an enormous amount of time, space, keystrokes on this `incident'.
VP did the absolutely right thing to take ALL of the blame even if Mr. W had been even minutely responsible. I was involved in a civil (accident) lawsuit decades ago where I thought I was 99% NOT GUILTY; well, guess what, in a civil suit, I ended up 40% liable and my insurance company had to pay partial damages instead of the other guy's insurer paying both sides' damages.
Posted by: Happy words on Birding at February 20, 2006 12:36 PM
Newsflash!
INVADING IRAQ WAS THE SINGLE BIGGEST TACTICAL BLUNDER IN HISTORY!
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:37 PM
So while the Department of Homeland Security is watching the public library for perverts, who is watching the terrorist's?
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:42 PM
The story that would no die.
Mary Matalin: First Cheney Statement for Press Did Not Admit He Was Shooter
NEW YORK Even as the Sunday morning televison talk shows featured blistering attacks on the press for going overboard in its critical coverage of the Cheney shooting incident last week, further revelations guaranteed that the story would have legs.
Newsweek and Time magazines both put the vice president on their covers this week with lengthy, if not especially fresh, accounts of the shooting of Harry Whittington inside. Most major newspapers rehashed the episode in their Sunday papers. Cheney aide Mary Matalin accused NBC reporter David Gregory of going on a "jihad" gainst the vice president.
Buried in the Time cover story, however, was one brain-teaser that could fuel more speculation, as it contradicts earlier explanations that Cheney wanted to get the full story out, he was just a bit tardy about it. The passage reads:
"At about 8 a.m. Sunday, a Cheney aide called strategist Mary Matalin, who regularly advises the Vice President. The aide read her a statement about the accident that Cheney had considered releasing before he decided to encourage Armstrong to go to the (Corpus Christi) Caller-Times.
"But the statement 'didn't say much of anything,' Matalin says "not even that Cheney was the shooter. Matalin then spoke with a second aide and with Cheney's family and heard different versions of what had happened in the shooting. She decided no statement should be released amid the confusion. Matalin spoke with Cheney, and, she says, they agreed that 'a fuller accounting, with an eyewitness,' would be preferable."
Time also reports a poll showing that almost two-thirds of Americans (65%) think Cheney should have taken immediate responsibility for the shooting incident. His approval rating stands at 29%; President Bush's approval rating is 40%.
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I love it. cheney can't take responsibility for anything, even something he is directly responsible for. And then when he's forced to take responsibility for it, he makes the victim apologize too. Kind of evens things out.
Posted by: Jeanne at February 20, 2006 12:44 PM
Despite what the GOP punditbots have been telling you:
AMERICANS DONT LIKE ILLEGAL DOMESTIC EAVESDROPPING
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:46 PM
I would like to formally apologize for the Bush administration destroying my hopes and dreams.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:48 PM
#15
No one. They don't even keep up with the stats on the terrorist problem. The administration is too busy covering for their own "terrorist" activities or 'incidents'. Whatever you prefer to call them.
Posted by: Jeanne at February 20, 2006 12:49 PM
Workplace Issues
Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Scott Reeves, 02.14.06, 10:00 AM ET
NEW YORK - Sadly, innate stupidity isn't a firing offense. It's the "brilliant" things stupid people do that get them canned.
In New York recently, Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly fired a city employee for playing solitaire on his work computer during business hours. Mayor Mike, who has a net worth of $5.1 billion (see: "The 400 Richest Americans"), made a fortune by building a real-time financial newswire from scratch. He is obviously a futzy traditionalist who believes workers should, you know, work.
"Be in tune with the corporate culture," says Richard Bayer, chief operating officer of Five O'clock Club, an out-placement and career coaching organization in New York. "You also have to be aware that computer technology keeps a record of everything you do. You don't want to have porn on your hard drive. Believe me, that's not as uncommon as you'd think."
But there are other ways to get yourself fired that require little thought and less talent than improper use of the company's computer.
Alcohol is a tried and true way to get a pink slip. In Michigan, a reporter and photographer at a small newspaper reportedly got the boot for guzzling beer while doing a story on "beer pong." Emulating Hunter S. Thompson isn't a wise career move. This just in: Drinking on the job or drinking too much at company functions isn't smart.
Many aspiring Einsteins don't realize that the computer system keeps a copy of every e-mail sent. Ponder that awesome truth the next time you're about to send a saucy note to the hottie in the next cubicle or you're about to flame the boss for his latest manifestation of what you consider terminal idiocy. Moral: Don't assume that your work e-mail is private. (See: "Kiss 'n Tell Via E-Mail" and "Flirting Without Disaster.")
Hacking the company's Web site or scrambling proprietary data is generally frowned upon by the bigwigs, but it's not uncommon for grunts with a grievance to go digital after going ballistic. (See: "How To Ruin Your Career In Ten East Steps.")
Who could forget the blistering blog written by a young woman at a national fashion mag? Great inside dirt--and it got her fired. It's best to leave statements to the company press officer. If loyalty is asking to much, at least remember who signs your paycheck.
Theft is another good way to get the boot. Your manager isn't a Sunday school teacher and won't take the time to teach you the Ten Commandments. Your manager's task is much simpler: protect the company's reputation from a low-life thief.
Then there are always the junior high pranks that no one finds funny except the soon-to-be-ex-employee: the afternoon naps, office affairs, bad personal hygiene and the days off from "I don't feel like going to work" disease. These lapses in judgment could easily get you a pink slip. It doesn't matter if you're employed at a private company or a major corporation such as Chevron (nyse: CVX - news - people ), Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ), JPMorganChase (nyse: JPM - news - people ) or Home Depot (nyse: HD - news - people ).
Don't think that having an idiot for a boss is an excuse, either. Just because you work for an idiot doesn't mean you have to act like one. (See: "How To Work For An Idiot.")
If you're a manager faced with a terminally stupid employee, you must make it clear that certain behavior is unacceptable and chart a course to redemption. This generally requires a closed-door, no-holds-barred meeting where you lay things out chapter and verse. Put everything in writing and document any future transgressions. You'll have to work with the personnel department to fire bad employees, and that can be sticky. (See: "How To Motivate Bad Employees.")
"Most good work habits are just common sense," says Bayer. Or, as your grandmother used to say, "Don't stick beans up your nostrils."
Translation: Think!
Posted by: Happy advises Corky on job skills at February 20, 2006 12:53 PM
Newsflash!
BIG BUSINESS CRUSHES THE AVERAGE AMERICAN AGAIN!
AS the insurance companies screw over thousands of Bush/Katrina victims they record the second biggest profits ever. I can only hope some of them voted for Emporer Bush in 2004.
America Ripped Off...Again
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:54 PM
Thanks Happy!
Do you think I am grossly incompetent enough for a job in the Bush Administration? Maybe if I cut out half of my brain I could get Brownies old job?
Heckuva job Happy!
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:57 PM
Another story that just won't die.
NSC, Cheney Aides Conspired to Out CIA Operative By Jason Leopold
The investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson is heating up. Evidence is mounting that senior officials in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Security Council conspired to unmask Plame Wilson's identity to reporters in an effort to stop her husband from publicly criticizing the administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence, according to sources close to the two-year-old probe.
In recent weeks, investigators working for Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald have narrowed their focus to a specific group of officials who played a direct role in pushing the White House to cite bogus documents claiming that Iraq attempted to purchase 500 tons of uranium from Niger, which Plame Wilson's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had exposed as highly suspect.
One high level behind-the-scenes player who has been named by witnesses in the case as a possible source for reporters in the leak is Robert Joseph, formerly the director of nonproliferation at the National Security Council. Joseph is responsible for placing the infamous "sixteen words" about Iraq's attempt to purchase uranium from Niger in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address.
....Joseph did not return calls for comment. A spokeswoman for the vice president's office said she would not comment on "rumors" or "speculation" as long as the investigation is ongoing. Hadley's spokeswoman also did not return calls for comment, but she has said in the past that Hadley played no role in the leak.
Posted by: Jeanne at February 20, 2006 12:57 PM
#22
Corky,
I think what Happy is trying to tell us is that cheney should be fired. I agree with him on this one.
Posted by: Jeanne at February 20, 2006 01:00 PM
22
Thanks Happy!
Do you think I am grossly incompetent enough for a job in the Bush Administration? Maybe if I cut out half of my brain I could get Brownies old job?
Heckuva job Happy!
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 12:57 PM
Thanks! Corky! Anything I can to help you on the rest of your life. We are having porblems getting enough qualified help in the Houston area and you might want to check us out! We are also not affected by blizzards and we are ~70 ft. above sea level. But work here is real, not to be spent on blogs blowing employer's time and net resources.
Having a somewhat boring day with the market closed! Can't get a feel for how much my oil & gas stocks have gone up with Nigeria in a hiccup!
Posted by: Happy at February 20, 2006 01:05 PM
Or maybe I could lie on my resume and get this guys job at NASA!
MORE CRONIES GONE BAD
Maybe Happy should send his employment advice to the White House.
The American dream has been shot dead by The Ownership Society. It no longer matters how qualified or how hardworking you are. You just have to be a rich crony now.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 01:06 PM
Jeanne,
The double standard with this whole conservative group is hilarious. They spew the corporate excellence bullshit all day. They make you pee in a cup, give you lie detector test's and psycological exams for a 5.15 cents an hour job at Best Buy. But when you take a long hard look at these guys at the top all you see is incompetence, lies, thievery and greed.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 01:10 PM
Dear Miss Jeanne:
Before you know it, the UAE will be apologizing to the Bush Administration for allowing al-Qaeda types to infiltrate security in some of the United States' largest ports.
I wish I knew how to extricate myself from this Gang, but I have found out the hard way that once a person "goes along, to get along" it is very, very difficult to sever the ties without repercussions. It is a gang psychosis-mentality.
Have you ever read about the initiation-type violence that is required for membership in a gang? And the senseless use of violence to "send a message" to those who are beginning to waver from "the cause?"
Posted by: harry at February 20, 2006 01:14 PM
only 28 more shopping days until the proposed iranian oil bourse
Posted by: James Ha at February 20, 2006 01:16 PM
#249 Den (previous post) I watched Katrina, George Will and Cokie Roberts on "This Week" also.
The show started with Katrina addressing the media's obsession with Cheneys hunting accident. She believed this obsession was due to Cheney's team withholding information from the american public..represented a metaphor for the ongoing secrecy and deception of the Bush administration. George Will responded with "Katrina sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". He immediately hit below the belt in response to Katrina addressing the failings of this administration.
My response to George Will would have been "and George sometimes "NO WMD'S MEANS THERE ARE NO WMD'S)."
Katrina also addressed the failure of the Bush administration to find any of the promised WMD'S that they had relentlessly repeated were in Iraq. She went onto say that the Bush administration switched gears after the WMD failure and told us no it wasn't WMD's that we invaded Iraq for, we pre-emptively invaded another nation to "spread democracy". As Katrina pointed out that "convenient" new plan was also failing miserably.
At this point Cokie Roberts looked like she was about to blow a fuse. Katrina was telling the truth and the truth will sometimes make these talking heads eyes bug out. Will was also squirming and smirking.
George will responded to Katrina's comments about the Bush administrations failures to "spread democracy". By saying that "the U.s. had a remarkable history of spreading democracy".
Katrina responded that it was the U.S.'s support of totalitarian regimes that have caused so much trouble for people in the middle east.
The issue of the funds being cut for Hamas and the U.S. asking for $50 million back came up. Cokie Roberts said "the american people have the right to not have their taxes used to support terroist groups". So convenient of Cokie to forget that we have been supporting Israel for fifty years and many of Israels leaders are considered terroist by many people around the world.
The show closed by George Will asking Katrina whether she had a Kerry/Edwards sticker on her vehicle.(this was a very unusual move by Will) She did not respond. Will went onto say that this was a sure sign of anger. Katrina responded that she was a person of passion.
I have generally not seen George Will hit below the belt like that. He is usually brilliant and sticks to the points and usually does not try to attack.
There he was trying to pin the emotion/label "angry woman" on Katrina (we know that this has been done recently to Clinton). I thought this was petty and childish.
I found the show rather interesting.
Cokie Roberts eyes bugging out and her body language (she was aghast) and Will's obvious discomfort with someone as articulate and full of facts as Katrina...blew their minds.
THIS SHOW WOULD MAKE A GREAT SKIT ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.
#270 Jeanne....all of the smirking and sarcasm that came out of Mary Matalin seemed as if she was channeling the old Bush. While Matalin had some valid points, (I think the press's obsession with this accident was disgusting and boring) her body language was the body language of a spoiled child.
I thought Maureen Dowd was composed and on point about the subject (Cheney's shooting).
The rolling of eyes and smirks are really ineffective and I believe show that person to be acting like an idiot.
Posted by: kathleen at February 20, 2006 01:19 PM
harry,
It worked great for Hitler. It works great for Bush too.
INTIMIDATION
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 01:20 PM
Kathleen,
There are too many things about the Cheney 'accident' that do not add up. I think the press is right to not let it go.
What I saw Maureen Dowd doing was watching every signal Mary Matalin was sending off. She knows something is off center.
Posted by: Jeanne at February 20, 2006 01:29 PM
I heard that Cheneys "special friend", the U.S. ambassador to Liechinstien was hunting with Cheney that day. No one in the press will check up on it.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 01:35 PM
To see the glory of the Bush administration watch the video linked below.
Lousiana
Posted by: Jeanne at February 20, 2006 01:39 PM
A long video on the subject of St. Bernard Parrish in Katrina's path.
St. Bernard Parrish
Posted by: Jeanne at February 20, 2006 01:43 PM
I almost couldnt believe this! Is the Church waking up?
Churches denounce Bush terror
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 01:45 PM
#5 What is the state of affairs in Austria - and other European countries - that gives "the state" an interest in abridging free speech insofar as prosecuting people who ignorantly think the Nazi's did not try and to some extent succeed at exterminating homosexuals, gypsies and Jews?
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 01:48 PM
More about Pam Willeford, Cheneys "special friend".
Hunting partner
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 01:50 PM
#20
Happy, Please reference long artciles with a hyperlink rather than post the whole thing as an entry. Thanks.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 01:55 PM
What a class act by Mr. Whittington to so publicly apologize for the whole incident.
What kind of bizarro world do you live in where a man demonstrates "class" by apologizing for someone else's carelessness? It would be one thing for the guy to acknowledge that Cheney expressed remorse and to reassure everyone that he was well and all was forgiven. But to apologize for getting shot? That's just plain weird.
Posted by: Don at February 20, 2006 02:12 PM
Lindsey,
"Happy" is a paid troll. He rolls in with some story from the Washington "great birdcage liner" Times and then rolls out. PR firms actually do pay idiots to leave post's on liberal blogs. It was more widespread when the Bush administration hired a PR firm to sell the Iraq invasion. The Bush administration spends almost a billion dollars of your tax money on PR every year.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 02:12 PM
Soon Iraq will apologize to the Bush administration for its being bombed into the stone age.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 02:14 PM
Does anyone know when Whittington and Chainy will be hunting partners again?
Posted by: Gerald at February 20, 2006 02:17 PM
Will Cheney ever forgive Whittington for being shot?
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 02:25 PM
Another apology needed. This time from Al Gore. When Cheney's right wing whipping machine came after him it fell apart.
Fact-Checking the Right Wing's Attack on Al Gore
Earlier this week, in an attempt to shift attention away from Vice President Cheney's hunting accident, the right wing attacked former Vice President Al Gore for calling attention to the round-up of Arabs and Muslims that occurred in the days after 9/11. Labeling him "seditious," Michelle Malkin said Gore "slandered" America for stating that Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" after 9/11.
On Tuesday, Karl Rove's White House deputy, Peter Wehner, emailed Gore's comments on background to reporters urging them to editorialize on the issue. On NBC's Meet the Press, Tim Russert gave airtime to Paul Gigot, editor of the Wall Street Journal, so he could say this:
I think the remarks were notable. Because I think when you go to a country like that, particularly in the heart of Wahhabi Islam, and say we have indiscriminately rounded up Arabs in this country after 9/11 - first of all, I don't think that's true. I don't remember us doing that.
While the right has been quick to politicize Gore's remarks, they haven't had the time to do a fact-check. Gore was merely stating what has been reported and well-documented over the past few years:
Even some government officials are worried. In a secret meeting of top Justice Department officials hours after the attacks, then-immigration chief James Ziglar rebuked those in the room for proposing a "roundup" of Arabs and Muslims. "I'm not going to be part of this if weÕ²e going to do things that blatantly violate the law," Ziglar declared, according to people there. [Knight Ridder, 6/15/03]
Posted by: Jeanne at February 20, 2006 02:29 PM
"Will Cheney ever forgive Whittington for being shot?"
I don't think so. Cheney said it was the worst day of his life. It would take a great man to forgive Whittington for that much trauma.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 02:34 PM
we are typically taught that Hitler was an evil dictator who rose to power in Germany and sought to take over the world. This provoked a reaction from the Allies, which, while causing a massive and regrettable loss of life, was unfortunately necessary if the world was to be saved from a global fascist regime. But how many of us ask how it was that Hitler, the leader of a country so economically crippled that a wheelbarrow full of banknotes was needed to purchase a mere loaf of bread, could afford the immense cost of all-out European war? How was it that the German army could secure the vast and continuing supply of oil and armaments necessary to undertake war on so many fronts simultaneously? The answer, of course, is that it was loaned the money necessary by the banking and industrial cartels of the West.
BLUEPRINT FOR A PRISON PLANET
Posted by: James Ha at February 20, 2006 02:36 PM
Thought it was very interesting that Mary Matalin kept insisting that "we all know" the Vice President doesn't drink...despite the fact that he admitted having beer with his lunch that day. Also, does Mary wonder how he got those two DUI's?
Posted by: John W at February 20, 2006 02:40 PM
Lindsey 37, what I want to know is why throw these people in jail? Revisionism and reductionism have been made crimes punishable by prison terms, but to what end? Seems to me a better way to deal with this controversy is to get it out in the open, promote research, broadcast debates, if the Holocaust stories are true, absolutely and completely, they will stand up to any and all scrutiny, so what do they have to lose? These historians who challenge it will be made to look like fools and that will be the end of that. Sort of like ID geologists who claim the Grand Canyon is less than 10,000 years old. Gagging revisionists just makes me wonder what they are trying to keep hidden. Truth does not need laws to protect it. Will they throw the writers of the Red Cross report into prison as well? How about the person who made the decision to reduce the number of victims on the Auschwitz plaque from 4 to 1.5 million? Or the chemist who was unable to detect any residue of cyanide gas in any gas chambers? Or the curator of the Auschwitz museum who claimed that it was Russia that built the gas chambers AFTER the liberation of the camp? There are lots of people they could throw in jail, but wouldn't it be better to just prove them wrong?
Posted by: Saladin at February 20, 2006 02:41 PM
This one's for Corky.
Scientists reverse monkeys' diabetes with cells of pigs
Findings called a promising step to help humans
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. - Researchers at the University of Minnesota said Sunday that they were able to reverse diabetes in monkeys by transplanting insulin-producing cells from pigs.
Some are calling it a milestone that could eventually transform the lives of millions of people. If the research pans out, it could provide an endless supply of healthy cells to replace the ones that don't work in diabetics.
read the rest
Posted by: Alan at February 20, 2006 02:43 PM
Extract From #41
"Happy" is a paid troll....and then rolls out. PR firms actually do pay idiots to leave post's on liberal blogs....
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 02:12 PM
On a boring day, you Gloomy Nuts are my Daytime Entertainment! I have already fessed up that I am paid at $100 per keystroke! EVERYBODY, Corky gets the credit for `Outing' me as being paid by the Bush/Rove PR machine. Sorry, I can't job-share with you; as much as I want to help you get employed!
Posted by: Happy Confession at February 20, 2006 02:50 PM
Happy,
I got a job two weeks ago. I geuss you are not being paid to read the post's, only to cut and paste the latest editorial from the Moonie news.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 02:53 PM
Corky
Maybe Michael Moore could pay you for being his troll, since you use him as a source so often. You would have to live in Canada and not be a member of a union and be willing to go without health insurance to get on his payroll (he likes to outsource to Canada)but I am sure he would pay you more than $5.50 an hour (what's the minimum wage in Canada? There you go!).
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 02:56 PM
Dowd and Gregory won the day on MTP.
Gregory was articulate. He made clear points; kept his composure and didn't take the bait.
Dowd shredded Matlin. Dowd's metaphorical commentary about Cheney blowing off democratic institutions and having the same fever for unlimited executive power as he did for the Iraq invasion stunned Matlin. Matlin failed to respond.
Matlin is very good at what she does. In this instance, the distain and contempt she projected for Gregory and Dowd is a PR play, although hard to recognize as such by many, it is a play Yesterday, Matlin came off as the a$$hole.
The White House PR narrative is that the "angry" press on a jihad against the upstanding and victimized VP.
Russert kept his mouth shut during the best part of the exchange, thank god. The fourth guest had not one thing to say. He was nothing more than a prop on the set.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 02:58 PM
From #40
What kind of bizarro world do you live in where a man demonstrates "class" by apologizing for someone else's carelessness? It would be one thing for the guy to acknowledge that Cheney expressed remorse and to reassure everyone that he was well and all was forgiven. But to apologize for getting shot? That's just plain weird.
Posted by: Don at February 20, 2006 02:12 PM
I guess this poster has never got in the way of anybody in his Gloomy Life to say "Sorry for getting in the way" even though the other party was probably more `guilty'! Never cutting off someone while driving, nomatter how inadvertent, even though if all facts were known, that car shouldn't have been where it was! Never accussed someone of wrongdoing when in fact, the accuser was merely, tinyly right!
DON, you are perfect! Just the type of folks I want to limit my help on Habitat for Humanity projects; if I was/am perfect! But, I am not.
Posted by: Happy shoots Don at February 20, 2006 02:59 PM
Thank You Alan!
Now if only we did not have a government that puts the needs of giant pharmacuetical companies ahaed of sick Americans...
The real problem with transplanttaion is the patients immune system. Diabetes is ultimately an immune system disorder. There is something that causes the diabetics immune system to freak out and attack the insulin producing cells in thier own body. So even if you transplant the cells again, the body will eat them up again.
We were very close to understanding the reasons for this in the nineties. But then came the most anti science government in our history.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:00 PM
Corky
I checked with the Bush administration about getting paid to wack a few Cornnuts and they said sorry but David Corn is a worthless nobody and that the resources would be a waste.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 03:02 PM
It sounds like Happy is blaming Whittington for getting shot? That is just retarded.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:04 PM
Former broadcaster Gowdy dies at 86
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The unmistakable Hall of Fame voice of the Red Sox and a national baseball audience for a generation has passed away.
Curt Gowdy, enshrined in Cooperstown in 1984 as a Ford C. Frick Award winner, died Monday after battling leukemia while living in his West Palm Beach, Fla., home. He was 86.
Gowdy broadcast 13 World Series and 16 Major League All-Star Games.
The Wyoming native made his debut in 1944 broadcasting a football game atop an orange crate in sub-zero weather. His enthusiasm quickly caught on and earned him a job broadcasting the New York Yankees alongside Mel Allen in 1949.
Two years later, he moved to Boston to do Red Sox games and a New England broadcast legend was born.
"I'll never forget him," Red Sox patriarch Johnny Pesky said Monday morning in Fort Myers upon hearing the news. "I was talking about him just the other day. People ask you about people you've met. The announcers back in our day used to travel with us [on trains] and we would play cards with them. Those years there just seemed like there was a lot of affection there."
Gowdy earned the George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting in 1970 for his "blend of reporting, accuracy, knowledge, good humor, infectious honesty and enthusiasm," becoming the first sportscaster to be so honored.
But it was in Boston that he touched the hearts and souls of countless New Englanders with a professional, conversational and witty style all his own.
And no one knew or trusted Gowdy more than the players he covered.
"I loved Curt Gowdy and I think he loved Ted [Williams], Bobby [Doerr], Dom [DiMaggio] and me," Pesky said. "We had some great guys and great people and I wish we could have won more.
"They were the guys you grew up with and stayed with them for a lot of years. I knew Curt for over 50 years."
Pesky recalled Gowdy's distinctive style.
"He had a great voice but he wasn't a hotshot," Pesky added. "Some guys get so big and think people listen to them because they're the thing. He was nothing like that. He and Mel Allen were the two best announcers in my era. He was an exciting guy. He had that expression, 'rounding third and heading home,' and I'll never forget that if I live to be 100."
Gowdy was named "Sportscaster of the Year" on three occasions. After leaving the Red Sox following the 1965 season, he quickly ascended to the status of national sportscaster.
Gowdy's numerous network assignments included the World Series, the Super Bowl, the 1976 Montreal Olympics and the "American Sportsman" series.
"I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game -- poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened," Gowdy said in accepting his 1984 Cooperstown honor. "I never took myself too seriously. An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."
*****end of clip*****
A voice I remember well, rest in peace.
capt
Posted by: capt at February 20, 2006 03:05 PM
For anyone who has not already figured it out, LBH is Happy.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:05 PM
49 "Truth does not need laws to protect it."
Well said.
Curtailing speech is the slippery slope towards authoritarianism, fascism and communism. (I put communism in there for all the neo-cons who need an enemy to fight.)
Back to my original question: What's the state's interest (Austria's) in passing these laws? What is the situation there that makes these questionable laws the best answer to the problem? What?s the problem?
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 03:07 PM
Lindsey #54
Gregory apologized for being an rude, obnoxious, idiot, and you call that winning the day? That is damn funny!
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 03:08 PM
Thx Corky. Ignore him. He's an a$$hole.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 03:08 PM
From #52
I got a job two weeks ago. I geuss you are not being paid to read the post's, only to cut and paste the latest editorial from the Moonie news.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 02:53 PM
You are partially Right (again)! The pay is only $1 to read each Lefty Post! But I do want to know what you do now? Like what LBH just said? If so, Good for you...Easy, low-stress, low-intellect, low-value, low-calorie, low-everything work.
As investor in Pfizer, I hope your type of diabetes will be helped by the inhaled insulin coming out so that maybe you can get from under Mr. Moore's shadow.
Posted by: Happy buzzing at February 20, 2006 03:09 PM
Now if only we did not have a government that puts the needs of giant pharmacuetical companies ahaed of sick Americans...
I hear ya Corky. As for the article, I think the research going forward can work on the anti-rejection part at the same time. That your body doesn't reject the insulin made by bacteria in a lab might be a clue also.
Posted by: Alan at February 20, 2006 03:09 PM
Our present government is closer than any U.S. government has ever come to outright communism. That is why they call everyone else communist.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:09 PM
Happy
Don is an Aethist and dosen't understand what the word "sorry" is all about. Please don't hold this against him, it's not his fault he was not raised with any morals.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 03:12 PM
Alan,
Did you catch Bush's reference to genetic research in his State of the Union misinformation speech? He warned of the dangers of human animal hybrids. He opposes such research. It is more lucrative for the pharmacuetical companies if the transplant recipient has to buy lots and lots of anti immune drugs. As for the recombiant DNA insulin, I am not sure why the situation is different. Science still does not really understand why the diabetics body only attacks the islet cells and nothing else.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:16 PM
LBH,
Talking to yourself is a sure sign of mental illness.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:17 PM
Welp, I'm 'bout to head out to the 'Tea Party'. I hope I get to meet Cindy Sheehan. First, I hope to find a place to park, cause it's a mess over there in the Galleria area right now. If they tow my truck, I'd be scrooood. The protest is at Barbara "pretty minds" Bush's church from 4pm to 7pm (central).
Oh and, another piece of b/s from Happy was the "70 ft above seal level" quote. haha
Nevermind the Saddam quote in 2000, when we all know those tapes were made in '95. Happy is a liar and we all know it.
Posted by: Alan at February 20, 2006 03:17 PM
Corky
Although, I too am often happy, Happy is much to nice, to you Cornnuts, to be me (LBH). I, on the other hand, have no problem calling you what you are (a damn corny cornnut).
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 03:20 PM
58
It sounds like Happy is blaming Whittington for getting shot? That is just retarded.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:04 PM
Corky, you clearly have problems beyond diabetes! You don't read your opposition's post in its entirety before challenging or making idiotic assertions! You are a perfect hire for Michael Moore!
I know many of you here are narrow-minded and judging from the dozens of dollars I earned reading the "Birding" posts over these past several days, Extremes of NO compassion. How hard is it to believe shooting a friend as being your worst day? Also, it is pretty obvious that most of you have never stepped up to take the `fall' even though you were just minutely responsible for some team/group failure! This IS what Good people do and Mr. W proved to me his Goodness! Stay with your Gloomy viewpoints; it just makes me feel so much, much Happier to be Happy.
Posted by: Happy to hypocrits at February 20, 2006 03:20 PM
corky, as I have posted before, the neocon's roots are in extreme left communism. That is not something I made up, that is a provable fact. Facism and communism are kissing cousins, that is why the behavior of these neonuts seems so familiar, we've been here before. Did you know that an ex-KGB officer is an advisor to the Dept. of Homeland Security? Are you surprised?
Posted by: Saladin at February 20, 2006 03:21 PM
MARY QUITE CONTRARY (link)
"I only caught the bitter end of Meet the Press so I'm not sure what provoked Mary Matalin's pout-fest (I'm sure Arianna will issue a full forensics report later), but she made quite a petulant spectacle of herself, shaking her head from side to side in silent, lemon-puss disagreement whenever Maureen Dowd and David Gregory made mildly critical comments about Shotgun Cheney...
"Even without the immature pouting and pissy expression, Matalin would have been a car wreck in repose: With a bad haircut topping a mistaken facelift and a ghastly floral pin that looked like spray-painted aluminum, she looked like the Beltway's Madwoman of Chaillot. Maybe defending the indefensible is getting to her, and the acid reflux has gone to her brain."
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 03:22 PM
Happy= LBH,
You are foaming again. Its hanging from your chin.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:22 PM
LBH/Self:
Aren't we good to be able to post at exactly the same time!
Posted by: Happy to LBH/Self at February 20, 2006 03:22 PM
Here are some excerpts from a story in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in which Ben Love (boyfriend of Katharine Armstrong) was interviewed:
By Jaime Powell Caller-Times
February 17, 2006
"It had been a wonderful day up to that point," said Ben Love. "Afterward, as you would imagine, we were almost in a state of shock, almost disbelief. Cheney was crushed and he was very concerned about Harry."...
All say Whittington, 78, had stepped away from Cheney and fellow hunter Pam Willeford, U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to retrieve two downed quail, and came up on Cheney when he was firing on a second covey of quail...
Love was in a vehicle with Anne Armstrong, former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and ranch matriarch, Whittington's wife, Merce, Armstrong's son-in-law Bob Hixon and Willeford's husband, George, when Katharine Armstrong called to say Whittington had been hit.
"Nobody was freaked," Love said. "When Merce was told what had happened, Merce sat upright and said, 'Tell me what you know.' We told her what we had learned. She did not say a word and took it very well."
The group immediately headed for the scene, Love said...
"Before we reached it, the ambulance was coming out of the ranch," he said. "We tried to catch the ambulance, but didn't have enough steam to get the job done."
After changing vehicles, Bob Hixon, George Willeford and Merce Whittington headed for the hospital in Kingsville and then on to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial, to which Whittington was airlifted, Love said. They called the ranch to report on his condition, which was not considered life-threatening.
...Whittington is in excellent shape and recovering from the winging he took from Cheney's shotgun and a minor heart attack, brought on by a BB from the mishap which lodged near his heart...
"He (Whittington) is an avid, experienced hunter, good outdoorsmen and very likeable and charming," Love said. "For the most part, it's a lot of friendship and fun that we all enjoy. No wild partying, just people that enjoy being outdoors together and enjoy quail hunting."
Posted by: harry at February 20, 2006 03:24 PM
The church finally gets some morals! For real!
United Churches renounce Bush's terrorism
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:24 PM
Corky
Just to help you out and get it straight for once, I'm the A$$HOLE. Now I could say that you, and Den, and What the F_ _ k, are all the same people if you want to play this game. How do I know this, well because the IQ level is about the same. WTF may be just a little smarter.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 03:24 PM
Govt Presses AIPAC Prosecution
In its prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Bush Administration is staking out new legal territory, arguing that it is a crime for a reporter or any other non-government employee who does not hold a security clearance to receive and communicate classified information.
"The government respectfully submits that an 'ordinary person exercising ordinary common sense' [...] would know that foreign officials, journalists and other persons with no current affiliation with the United States government would not be entitled to receive information related to our national defense," according to the government's January 30 response (pdf) to a motion to dismiss (pdf) filed by the AIPAC defendants.
This is a novel view of the press and the American public.
The idea that the government can penalize the receipt of proscribed information, and not just its unauthorized disclosure, is one that characterizes authoritarian governments, not mature democracies.
The government bases its position on a narrow reading of the Espionage Act of 1917 (18 U.S.C. 793), which prohibits certain communications of national defense information by "whoever" may do so.
"There plainly is no exemption in the statutes for the press, let alone lobbyists like the defendants," the government said.
Prosecution of a member of the press "would raise legitimate and serious issues and would not be undertaken lightly," the government volunteered. But the AIPAC defendants "are not members of the press and enjoy no constitutional rights reserved to the press."
Of course, anyone who commits espionage should expect to be prosecuted for that crime. But that is not the issue in the AIPAC case, where the government seeks to penalize the non-espionage transmission of information that it considers classified.
"Whether a defendant was an agent of a foreign government is not relevant. The statute applies to any person, whether they are acting as an agent, or acting on their own," the government said.
This is precisely what makes the AIPAC case a matter of broad public consequence. The prosecution's expansive interpretation of the Espionage Act potentially applies to every American, indeed every person in the world ("anyone"), not just accused spies.
"The fact that the defendants were not agents of Israel, or any foreign nation, does not negate any element of the offense, and cannot be exculpatory."
See "Government's Consolidated Responses to Defendants' Pretrial Motions," United States of America v. Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, filed January 30, 2006.
A closed hearing on the motions was held on February 16 and will resume on March 2
*****end of clip*****
A little update on the AIPAC thing.
capt
Posted by: capt at February 20, 2006 03:29 PM
I geuss it is all Whittingtons fault. He should not have put on that Quail outfit. Especially after Cheney had "a beer" with lunch.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:29 PM
capt.
So why is okay for Rove and Libby to disclose classified info? Real hypocrits!
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:31 PM
Lady MacCheney squares of with Gregory and Dowd (link)
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 03:32 PM
LBH,
If you keep using the profanity, I am going to take your GOP membership card away! Don't you have any morals? I control your party now, you had better remember that!
Posted by: Pat Robertson at February 20, 2006 03:33 PM
Froim #70 Alan Cerny
Oh and, another piece of b/s from Happy was the "70 ft above seal level" quote.....Happy is a liar and we all know it.
Posted by: Alan at February 20, 2006 03:17 PM
Alan, you are the true Idiot! I know exactely who you are, so, tell me, who is the idiot? I won't forget your name soon. The Houston FBI Special Agent-in-Charge's business card is in my rollodex. Look on a topo map and tell me what is the average elevation of Houston, which stretches west out to Katy and north past FM 1960? Yes, at the Ship Channel, it is just a dozen ft. above sea level, but check at the west and north ends! Hoston is the second largest (geographic area) city next to Jacksonville just because you live down in Missouri City, much, much closer to the Gulf, and maybe at 30 ft., doesn't mean average Houston isn't higher than where you are. Stay Stupid!
Posted by: Happy rebutts Stupid at February 20, 2006 03:35 PM
Dear Miss Jeanne:
You are right to continue to wonder about "le birdshot d'affaire." At one point after the shotgun blast, there were whispers and hushed discussion about "externalisez le bl‰me."
My French is very rusty, but that roughly translates to "outsourcing the blame." Cheney and Miss Matalin weren't cooking quail; they were cooking up a story to cover for the veep. Rumor has it that not one person on the hunt would take the fall for the veep. Cheney is REALLY angry.
Posted by: harry at February 20, 2006 03:35 PM
Lindsey,
I am not sure what makes Matalin crazier, the foaming at the mouth talking point regurgitation, or the over done plastic surgey.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:36 PM
#85
Somebody sounds a bit crazy. Are you resorting to threatening people Happy= LBH? Not very moral. I don't believe that Jesus would do that.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:40 PM
In bizarro world, there are six foot tall birds with orange hats and vests running around. And Houston is 70 feet above see level.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:43 PM
Corky
Now that is just down right nasty of you to talk about Mary's plastic surgery when you know that she uses the same doctor that John (mr. botox) Kerry and Nancy (help, I can't close my eyes) Pelosi go to.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 03:44 PM
In bizarro world "sea" is spelled "see".
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:44 PM
I know, that face-lift is something else. Actually, the new face-lift is good but she tried to camouflage it with big hair and an ENOURMOUS broach. That broach is bigger than a 4oz serving of meat. Her husband's skin is as taught as a drum. Maybe she wanted the same.
I didn't bring that stuff up in my original post because it's immaterial, except of course in a People-magazine kind of way.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 03:45 PM
LBH=Happy,
Maybe that is why I dont like John Kerry or Nancy Pelosi very much. But Kerry's doctor must not have had "a beer" before he did his work. I think that doctor must have been pretty messed up when he streched Matalins eyebrows over the top of her head.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:48 PM
Corky
So, do you talk to Jesus often? Is this before or after those big blue pills that make you, also, "Happy" on special occasions?
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 03:48 PM
Did Harry Ried get surgery too? I dont like him either.
Anyone who spends thousands on plastic surgery when millions have no healthcare should be voted out of office.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:50 PM
Corky
So you're more of a mans man than a ladys man are ya?
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 03:50 PM
corky, it's SO tempting to face-off with provocateurs like LBH/Happy. It's like shooting farm-raised quail but it's also a waste of time. To coin a phrase, your victory is a “fete-complee”
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 03:51 PM
A happy blue pill popping diabetic would not live very long. Are those the same blue pills that Rush Limbaugh loves so much?
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:52 PM
#96
huh? You have had enough happy pills. Go take a nap. I will tell Ken Mehlman you have been hard at work.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 03:54 PM
This is one reason that Cheney is REALLY angry. He and Matalin were trying to "outsource the blame" and no one was willing to be the fall guy (or gal).
"At about 8 a.m. Sunday, a Cheney aide called strategist Mary Matalin, who regularly advises the Vice President. The aide read her a statement about the accident that Cheney had considered releasing before he decided to encourage Armstrong to go to the (Corpus Christi) Caller-Times.
"But the statement 'didn't say much of anything,' Matalin saysÑnot even that Cheney was the shooter. Matalin then spoke with a second aide and with Cheney's family and heard different versions of what had happened in the shooting. She decided no statement should be released amid the confusion. Matalin spoke with Cheney, and, she says, they agreed that 'a fuller accounting, with an eyewitness,' would be preferable."
Posted by: harry at February 20, 2006 03:54 PM
Corky
Not sure if Harry is plastic or not, I think his brain has had some surgery though. Now Michael Moore could use some help with a new face and some fat ass suction and I would even throw in a couple bucks just so I don't have to look at the ugly bastard anymore.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 03:55 PM
Mary Matalin Makeover (link)
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 03:57 PM
LBH = Happy,
I warned you about the profanity. Did the people who raised you have any moral values?
Posted by: Pat Robertson at February 20, 2006 03:58 PM
Corky
It's been fun, but I have a real job to attend to. Keep the humor going, it will keep you living longer than those other uptight cornnuts even being diabetic.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 03:58 PM
corky, if you ignore them they will go away.
Posted by: Saladin at February 20, 2006 03:58 PM
hmm, the link didn't work, second try.
Link
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 04:01 PM
Serious Subject below (Partially Redacted):
Truth and Consequences
Australian PM John Howard...said a commitment to jihad and extreme attitudes towards women were two problems unique to Muslims that previous intakes of migrants from Europe did not have, and that Australia wanted people to assimilate and adopt Australian ways.
Mr Howard said today it was his "right and duty" to express his thoughts. "I stand by those comments that there is a small section of the Islamic population in Australia that, because of its remarks about jihad, remarks which indicate an extremist view, that is a problem," Mr Howard told reporters in Sydney.
Australian Muslims, of course, are upset over being singled out for criticism. Ali Roude, spokesman for the Islamic Council of NSW, responded:
"To suggest that Muslims alone are extremists in our society or ...that Muslims as a group cannot adapt and embrace Australia's ways, is as invalid an argument as it is offensive and ignorant."
With all due respect, moderate Muslims do themselves no favors by minimizing the threat of Islamic extremism, by pretending it is in any way equal to other extremist elements in society, or by ignoring the question of assimilation.
Australia, and the West in general, is dealing with a very difficult moral and cultural dilemma (some would say crisis) trying to find a balance between maintaining its values of openness and tolerance while protecting itself from exceedingly aggressive Islamic culture populated with a small but lethal element and, perhaps most importantly, a growing number of those who sympathize with radical extremists.
The ICM poll released in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph illustrates the dilemma perfectly: only 1% of British Muslims felt the bombing attacks on London were justified, yet a fully 20% sympathized with the "feelings and motives" of the suicide bombers who carried out the attacks.
As to the question of assimilation, 40% of Muslims favored introducing sharia law in parts of Britain. That seems like an awfully large number for a country with a such a tradition of tolerance and multiculturalism. One could easily draw the lesson that Britain has been too deferential to Muslim culture and has failed to put enough emphasis on assimilation. And Britain's Muslims are more well assimilated than most in Western Europe.
The point is that working through these issues will require some very frank dialogue. Tough questions must be asked and answered. As the leader of a prominent Western nation currently grappling with the issue, John Howard should be praised, not castigated, for raising some of those questions in a very reasonable and measured way.
Posted by Tom Bevan on February 20, 2006
Posted by: Happy on Real Western Issue at February 20, 2006 04:01 PM
I do love Michael Moore. He scares the GOP more than six John Kerry's. When you show a picture of Michael Moore to a conservative they go wild with hate. I cant wait until his new movie comes out. Its called "Sicko". It is about the rape of the American worker by the pharmacuetical industry. Unlike the other democrats he concentrates on issues that Americans actually care about. That is why they hate and fear him so much.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 04:02 PM
Saladin
Would you please mind your own business, go back to your jew bashing, and leave Corky and I alone!
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 04:04 PM
Please feel free to ignore post 107. It is another unsubstantiated story from a neocon propaganda outlet.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 04:05 PM
Who uses a newsreader to keep up on new posts? I'm curious what you use and what you like or dislike about it.
I use Bloglines. It's ok. Sometimes, it's a little slow to get updates.
It allows you to create an e-mail account to send results from Goggle news searches (or listserv e-mail.)
I want to try some of the other readers but I don?t know which. Help?
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 04:06 PM
Corky
You and Michael need to get a room, keep your fantasies off the post. Now did you know Michael owns pharmacuetical stocks? Why would he be the person to bash this subject when he is making money off them? You really need to open your eyes!
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 04:07 PM
LBH,
You are a member of the jew bashing political party. Ever wonder why most Jews vote democrat?
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 04:07 PM
LBH,
I dont share the same delusional difficulties that you suffer from. My eyes are wide open. If you have proof of Mikes stock holdings, please leave a link, I would like to read about it. Not that it really matters. It would seem silly to try and devalue his own stock.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 04:11 PM
If you're going to hunt quail Corky, please leave the farm-raised quail to amateurs.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 04:12 PM
Lindsey,
I wish I could help you. I can barely turn my computer on. capt. and Saladin are pretty good with that stuff.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 04:13 PM
Thx. I'll see if I can find fsome software reviews on-line.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 04:15 PM
I shot a quail once. At fifty yards with a pellet gun. It was not wearing an orange hat. I had drank a case of beer with lunch, I thought it was a lawyer. I felt bad for the bird, who was unable to apologize to me for being shot because it was dead.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 04:16 PM
The Sweden women's hockey team is on the board in the Gold Medal Game against Canada with a power play goal in period three. Score 4-1 Canada.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 04:18 PM
The question everyone wants ask is
: Did the ungrateful bird apologize to you?
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 04:19 PM
Cheney has 2 DUI arrests on his rap sheet.
Dont drink and drive!
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 04:22 PM
They disappear when you ask them for proof.
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 04:27 PM
Corky
Michaels corporate schedule D showing his capitol gains and losses from stocks has been published for all to see a while back. You can do a google search to find it and get up to speed. Also, just to authenticate it, Micheal has his signature on the bottom of the tax form.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 04:36 PM
Corky
Oh ya, you can add to the list Halliburton stock also. He sure suckered you man.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 04:38 PM
Corky
The next time you talk to Michael, ask him why he outsources his workers from Canada to avoid union workers and health care.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 04:40 PM
Is Jimmy Carter On The Hamas Payroll?
Well what else could explain his latest finger-wagging at America and Israel?
.....Jimmy Carter has penned a Washington Post Op-Ed demanding that the US and Israel give Hamas a chance.... this disgraceful excuse for an American, let alone an ex-President.
...by becoming the mouthpiece for dictatorships spanning the globe and enemies of America. What's worse, he always seems to make America or its allies the bad guy in every situation....
... let's look at just a smattering of the man's actions since leaving office. He's managed to do the following:
- In 1984, visited the home of then Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. According to Dobryning, Carter was concerned about Reagan's defense build-up and explained that Moscow would be better off with someone else in the White House. If Reagan won, he warned, "There would not be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan remained in power."
- In 1991, wrote a letter to the UN asking them to stop President Bush 41 from removing Saddam from Kuwait
- Stymied the attempt of President Clinton to stop North Korea from getting nuclear weapons, saying of Kim Jong Il: " I found him to be vigorous, intelligent, surprisingly well-informed about the technical issues and in charge of the decisions about this country." As for the North Koreans, Carter said the "people were very friendly and open." The capital, Pyongyang, is a "bustling city," where customers "pack the department stores," which looked like "Wal-Mart in Americus, Georgia."
-Told Haitian dictator Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras he was "ashamed of what my country has done to your country."
- Vouched for Fidel Castro's statement that Cuba did not have the capability to produce biological weapons.
- Backed Hugo Chavez's claim that the Venezuelan elections were fair in the face of numerous reports to the contrary by respected election monitors and polling companies
Keep in mind also that while President, Jimmy lectured Americans about an "irrational fear of communism, as well said that Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito was "a man who believed in human rights", called him "a great and courageous leader" who had led his people and protected their freedom."
With that background, let's turn to the issue at hand - Jimmy Carter's plea of acceptance for a terrorist organization.
Today's Op-Ed is so full of distortions, outrageous statements and ignorance it's hard to know where to start. Let's try from the beginning.
(Critique on today's Carter BS Redacted; find it yourself if you want to see how ridiculous Carter just made himself look today. Must be hard to keep up with Al Gore on Selling Out America)
When will someone in the Democrat party have a "Sister Souljah moment" and call out Carter for what he is - a friend to America's enemies? Could it be because the base of the Democrat party today shares the same beliefs as Carter? How sad is it that a Democrat wanting to be President can't stand up to the lunacy of Jimmy Carter for fear of alienating the party faithful? I think that in and of itself explains why the American people don't trust Democrats on national security.
Posted by: Happy Chews On Carter at February 20, 2006 04:47 PM
Corky
Michael Moore is no fool, Halliburton stock has made money ever since Clinto gave them their first no-bid contract in Bosnia. He is only doing what any other good American does when investing in stocks-he just lies about it to his fans.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 04:47 PM
Corky
In case you didn't notice, Michael Moore is fat, too.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 04:51 PM
Don't Punish the Palestinians
By Jimmy Carter
Monday, February 20, 2006; Washington Post A21
As the results of the recent Palestinian elections are implemented, it's important to understand how the transition process works and also how important to it are actions by Israel and the United States.
Although Hamas won 74 of the 132 parliamentary seats, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas retains the right to propose and veto legislation, with 88 votes required to override his veto. With nine of its elected members remaining in prison, Hamas has only 65 votes, plus whatever third-party support it can attract. Abbas also has the power to select and remove the prime minister, to issue decrees with the force of law when parliament is not in session, and to declare a state of emergency. As commander in chief, he also retains ultimate influence over the National Security Force and Palestinian intelligence.
After the first session of the new legislature, which was Saturday, the members will elect a speaker, two deputies and a secretary. These legislative officials are not permitted to hold any position in the executive branch, so top Hamas leaders may choose to concentrate their influence in the parliament and propose moderates or technocrats for prime minister and cabinet posts. Three weeks are allotted for the prime minister to form the cabinet, and a majority vote of the parliament is required for final approval.
(more)
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 04:52 PM
Corky
I have a good source who told me that Michael Moore made a cheese sandwich for Osama bin Laden once. Except Michael Moore was so hungry that he ate it before he could get to the cave in Pakistan. That's one reason why he's so fat.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 04:53 PM
Corky
Micheal Moore was in the grassy knoll. He is also responsible for the crack epidemic of the '80s. Once, Michael Moore took a shit in a bag, placed it on the White House porch, and lit it on fire.
Did I tell you that he's fat?
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 04:56 PM
corky, why are you giving these bushbots the satisfaction of a reply? Schoolyard taunting seems beneath you. Just curious.
Posted by: Saladin at February 20, 2006 04:57 PM
chirp chirp
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 04:58 PM
Corky hasn't responded for 30 minutes despite 7 LBH posts and 1 Happy post.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 05:00 PM
This article was my favorite take on Cheney's "hunting" accident.
The Shootist: by Stan Goff
This incident exposes Cheney himself as just another costumed buffoon, and not the Darth Vader figure he and his desparately insecure admirers seemed to relish.
-----------------------
Stan Goff is a retired Special Forces Master Sergeant, a member of Vietnam Veterans Against War and Veterans for Peace.
Posted by: Andrea at February 20, 2006 05:00 PM
Not just schoolyard taunts Sal, pre-school.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 05:01 PM
Corky
Michael Moore actually prefers Jon Luc-Picard over James T. Kirk. Michael Moore often places his elbows on the table when he is eating. In fact, he surrounds his plate with his arms like he's a convict because he doesn't want anyone else to get some of his food (and he eats a LOT of food - it's how he got so fat).
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 05:04 PM
Lindsey
That is four LBH posts, #128, 130 & 131 were from a LBH imposter. Problably that Cornnut that keeps posting as Pat Robertson. Now I really don't care if you Cornnuts try to impersonate me but when your not funny, well that just ruins my reputation and I won't stand for a boring Cornnut trying to be me.
Corky can't respond, I just killed his worship idol Michael Moore and he now has nothing left to live for. You Cornnuts may want to put him on a death watch just in case.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 05:07 PM
Lindsey
I have to bring it to pre-school level, how else will you Cornnuts catch on!
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 05:08 PM
#137
You're getting better, keep up the hard work and it may just pay off. I almost laughed this time.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 05:10 PM
LBH is dead to me.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 05:12 PM
They,too, are our brothers and sisters in God.
8 Million Facing Famine in East Africa
Caritas Requesting Aid for Djibouti
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 19, 2006 (Zenit.org).- About 8 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti are facing "a terrible famine," warns Caritas Internationalis.
The Vatican-based Catholic confederation said that it urgently needs about $45,000 to bring food aid to the people of Djibouti.
The country, like its larger neighbors in the Horn of Africa region, is falling victim to famine after years of drought.
Several consecutive seasons of failed rains and crops have left 150,000 people in need of food aid in Djibouti, explained Caritas.
"Even if some rain were to fall in the coming months, it would not be enough to avoid the impending humanitarian crisis," the confederation said.
The lack of rain has hit the pastoral herders particularly hard, since they depend on watering holes and prairie grasses to keep their livestock healthy.
Caritas Djibouti plans to bring food aid to some 200 families in the interior of the country, using the network the Catholic Church has established through its missions in All-Sabieh, Obock and Tadjoura.
Over a month ago, the Vatican newspaper sounded an alarm over famine in the Horn of Africa. L'Osservatore Romano described the international reaction to the famine as "largely insufficient."
Desperate need
On Friday the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire reported on the worst drought in the past 10 years which has hit the Horn of Africa. It cited an assessment by the humanitarian agency Oxfam.
Mohammed Elmi, in charge of Oxfam's program for the region, stressed the "desperate need of water" of those populations. The agency pointed out that the families of pastoral herders are obliged to survive on only a 20th of the water recommended, and many of them can only count on three glasses of water a day.
It is not possible to survive on that amount "with temperatures that exceed 40 degrees" Celsius, warned Elmi. That is about 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
"Not having water, children must drink their own urine," warned Abdullahi Maalim Hussein, an elder of the Somali village who accompanied the humanitarian agency in its mission to the border areas of Kenya and Somalia.
Where is the U.N. in all this starving of human beings?
Nazi America cannot help the Katrina victims and the Nazi United Nations cannot help starving populations. Can anyone help someone?
Posted by: Gerald at February 20, 2006 05:13 PM
Lindsey
"LBH is dead to me."
Can't you trolls come up with something more creative than the same old talking points line every Cornnut uses when losing an agrument? Saladin uses this very same line with me once a week at least. I can help if you be nice!
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 05:17 PM
Somebody better check on Corky, this is getting serious now!!
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 05:19 PM
Lindsey, try that link again for the Mary Matalin Makeover.
Posted by: Carol at February 20, 2006 05:20 PM
Churches renounce Nazi American terrorism. My answer for these churches is "TOO LIITLE, TOO LATE!"
Posted by: Gerald at February 20, 2006 05:21 PM
The glory of Bush is man fully dead!
Posted by: Gerald at February 20, 2006 05:22 PM
# 80 Capt ..thanks for the update piece on Aipac trial developments. I depend on Justin Raimando for keeping up with this critical investigation and upcoming trial.
I have read that both Judith Miller and Kenneth Pollack either transferred or accessed the top secret intelligence in question.
I had also read that in the F.B.I tapes of Rosen, Franklin and Weisman, that Rosen was taped saying "it is a good thing that the U.S. does not have an official secrets act" as the U.K. does.
Do you understand Rosen's comment about the "official secrets act". I thought this had to do with journalist passing classified material.
Posted by: kathleen at February 20, 2006 05:24 PM
American Soldiers
2,542 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush and his lies.
Henry Kissinger says that military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
G.K. Chesterton said that Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics.
Confucius spoke that before you seek revenge dig two graves.
When an illegal war is launched, every person killed and injured, every piece of property destroyed, and all environmental damage is a war crime. A war without borders and limits is a perpetual war. This war of aggression proliferates terrorism in proportion to its reckless widening, making the world ever more dangerous. TCR News
Nazi America is a mirror image of Hitler Bush.
Posted by: Gerald at February 20, 2006 05:31 PM
Hey LBH, want some good reading. I will expect a full report.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00214.htm
Posted by: uncledad at February 20, 2006 05:36 PM
Lies on War Debate
Posted by: Gerald at February 20, 2006 05:39 PM
Hey LBH,
Tell me why turning over control of our ports to a foreign company is a good idea?
Posted by: uncledad at February 20, 2006 05:40 PM
Day Laborers
Posted by: Gerald at February 20, 2006 05:45 PM
Unclean Dad
When did I ever say turning our ports over to a Saudi Co. a good idea? Jame Ha would problaby argue that this is a non-issue since he believes the Suadis had nothing to do with 9/11 so take it up with him.
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 05:48 PM
It isnt just a foreign company, our ports are already controlled by them, its a company run by a foreign government. That's bad business.
Posted by: Citizen X at February 20, 2006 05:49 PM
Uncledad, if you feed a stray dog, it'll keep coming back.
Posted by: Lindsey Jacobellis at February 20, 2006 05:50 PM
A True Nazi American Hypocrite
Posted by: Gerald at February 20, 2006 05:51 PM
Unclean Dad
If you think turning our ports over to a foreign Co. is not a good idea then I would assume that you would agree that dumbass Jimmy Carter giving away the Panama Canal was even a bigger blunder, yes?
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 05:52 PM
Lindsey
No need to be frightened by me, I don't bite. I promise!!
Posted by: LBH at February 20, 2006 05:53 PM
LBH,
I just assumed that since G.W. was for it you would be, just wanted to hear your opinion. Why do you have to insult everyone (uncleandad)? You should get some help for that anger.
Posted by: uncledad at February 20, 2006 05:54 PM
NO
Posted by: corky at February 20, 2006 05:56 PM
I think the panama canal is outside our borders isn't it. Why do you republicans always justify Georgies fuck-ups by comparing them to past democratic fuck-ups?
Posted by: uncledad at February 20, 2006 05:57 PM
I was in college in Atlanta in 1976 when Jimmy was elected. The state was going crazy for getting a Native Son/Governor into the WH. Being from Florida, I wasn't impressed but Ford shot himself with his Pollack joke (no ethinic offense intended) and I, an Independent then, voted Ford & lost badly in the state.
Forward to 1979, The Birth of Nightline and the (in my mind) the rise of Islamic Extremism! All Written & Produced by Mr. Carter. He was a smart Naval Academy guy but most definitively NOT FIT to be the CIC. Just couldn't see beyond the (likely) loss of ~50 lives and tried his 'Peace at All Cost' approach. What has those Carter seeds now brought us? A much bigger problem with WMD implications.
Those we are fighting against in the Islamic World respects nothing but firepower and the will to fight. Amazingly, only GOP and John F. Kennedy understood that. LBJ F***** Up the Vietnam War just like Carter did later with the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Only thing is LBJ allowed over 50k Americans to die instead of bomb the shyt out of Hanoi and finish the war in one week. LBJ was a Dem!
Posted by: Happy reflects more on Carter at February 20, 2006 05:59 PM
The dying scandal that keeps growing
And, as the Post article details, the Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee who were depicted as having fallen passively into line apparently don't appreciate those reports and are eager to demonstrate otherwise:
Snowe earlier had expressed concerns about the program's legality and civil liberties safeguards, but Card was adamant about restricting congressional oversight and control, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing office policies. Snowe seemed taken aback by Card's intransigence, and the call amounted to "a net step backward" for the White House, said a source outside Snowe's office.
Snowe contacted fellow committee Republican Chuck Hagel (Neb.), who also