It was just last month when President Bush assured the world that the situation in Iraq was dramatically improving. Sectarian tensions were going to relax as a result of Zarqawi's overly publicized death. As Bush put it bluntly, the death of Zarqawi served as "an opportunity for Iraq's new government to turn the tide in this struggle." But it's becoming painfully evident that Zarqawi, like Saddam's illusive WMDs, was just another creation of the US propaganda machine.
There were other times the White House attempted to paint the chaos in Iraq in a positive light. Remember when US armed forces annihilated Saddam's wretched sons Oday and Qusay? Or how about when they captured Saddam and promised things were starting to look up? At best these token events only served as minor diversions for most of the US media, not unlike the alleged thwarting of a terrorist attack on the Holland Tunnel in New York did late last week.
Over the weekend, Sunni and Shiite militias were said to be responsible for the deaths of more than 60 Iraqi civilians while injuring dozens more. Just another tranquil weekend in the streets of Baghdad. Rarely do we hear reports of what's going on outside the Green Zone, where the ethnically driven civil war is believed even worse.
On June 6, shortly before Zarqawi's death, the infamous blogger behind "Baghdad Burning" reported; "There's an ethnic cleansing in progress and it's impossible to deny. People are being killed according to their ID card ... We hear about Shia being killed in the Sunni triangle and corpses of Sunnis named Omar(a Sunni name) arriving by the dozen at the Baghdad morgue. I never thought I'd actually miss the car bombs. At least a car bomb is indiscriminate. It doesn't seek you out because you're Sunni or Shia."
Unfortunately, political opposition to the war is weak here in the United States. Washington supports an ongoing occupation, if it can even be called such a thing these days. Dissent is all but dead in DC, where candidates so-often flex their foreign policy muscle in fear that they'll be looked at as soft on terror.
But how could anyone reasonably argue that things were worse with Saddam at the helm? Iraq under US control is far more violent and malicious. Not that the US has any sort of legitimate control over the large country. In fact, the US is now just one of many armed militias in Iraq, truly unable to contain the exponentially increasing sectarian warfare. Every reservation critics of the war put on the table before the invasion is now coming true. Iraq is unwinnable, and the bloodshed is only being exacerbated by the presence of US military.
No matter how many troops the US and its allies shovel at the ever-growing sectarian flames, the fighting is sure to spread. The US military is only fueling the fire. And if there were ever a reason why the troops should be brought home immediately, this would be it.
Dick ÔTurbanÕ Durbin Cares More For Bugs Than Soldiers
Publius' Forum ^ | 7/11/06 | Warner Todd Huston
My son went away to Iraq with the Illinois National Guard, last week. I, the proud papa of one of our brave men in uniform, stood in the bleachers at the General Richard L. Jones Armory in downtown Chicago on the morning of July 3rd watching as the boys of the 178th Infantry battalion (MPs) presented themselves to their relatives and ChicagoÕs media for the last time before they leave for duty in Iraq.
Republican candidate for governor, Judy Barr Topinka, was present and stayed for a while shaking hands and wishing the soldiers well. Every single TV news outlet attended to interview the boys for a segment on their nightly newscasts.
And where was Dick ÒTurbanÓ Durbin when the boys from Chicago were preparing to leave for Iraq?
Talking about bugs.
No, not the NSA, CIA, surveillance kind, I mean real bugs. Dick was touring nearby Kane county, Illinois looking for the emerald ash borer beetle that he is trying to get Federal funds to combat.
Obviously it was more important to be merely one county away looking for insects instead of making an appearance at the ceremony wishing bon voyage to the soldiers of the biggest city in his state.
Yes, apparently the ash borer beetle is more dangerous to America than are terrorists as far as Senator Dick is concerned.
In researching this beetle problem, I can agree that we Illinoisans need to try and stop their advance across the state. But, was it right to be only a few dozen miles from the soldierÕs farewell ceremony yet to eschew attendance to talk about bugs? No, they arenÕt that important.
Worse, the matter isnÕt even very pressing as to the funding issue, anyway. Durbin has said that the matter of Federal funding wonÕt be settled until the coming September! He certainly had the time to make a token visit to the soldierÕs ceremony, IÕd say.
So, once again, we see that Dick ÒTurbanÓ Durbin has his priorities clearly on display. The soldiers that he thinks are as bad as the enemy -- OUR soldiers -- are to be ignored as a bug takes first palce in DurbinÕs list of priorities.
Spending Federal funds on bugs or supporting our soldiers? The choice is clear for Durbin.
Senator Durbin, meet the beetles É but to heck with Beetle Bailey.
For years officials at the Federal Reserve Bank, including Chairman Bernanke himself, have assured us that inflation is under control and not a problem-- even as the price of housing, energy, medical care, school tuition, gold, and other commodities skyrockets.
The Treasury department parrots the Fed line that consumer prices, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), are under control. But even many mainstream economists now admit that CPI grossly understates true inflation. The most glaring problem is that CPI excludes housing prices, instead tracking rents. Everyone knows the cost of purchasing a home has increased dramatically in the last ten years; in many regions housing prices have more than doubled in just five years. So price inflation certainly is alive and well when to comes to the largest purchase most Americans make.
When the Federal Reserve increases the supply of dollars in circulation, both paper and electronic, prices must rise eventually. What other result it possible? The supply of dollars has risen much faster than the supply of goods and services being chased by those dollars. Fed policy makers have more than doubled the money supply in less than ten years. While Treasury printing presses can print unlimited dollars, there are natural limits to economic growth. This flood of newly minted US currency can only increase consumer prices in the long term.
Mr. Bernanke has stated quite candidly that he will use government printing presses to stimulate the economy as necessary. He is famous for joking that he would endorse dropping money from helicopters if needed to prevent an economic slowdown. This is nothing short of an express policy to destroy our money by inflation. Every new dollar erodes the value of existing dollars based on simple supply and demand. Does anyone really believe the Treasury can make us rich simply by printing more money?
The coming dollar crisis is not likely to be "fixed" by politicians who are unwilling to make hard choices, admit mistakes, and spend less money. Demographic trends will place even greater demands on Congress to maintain benefits for millions of older Americans who are dependent on the federal government.
Faced with uncomfortable financial realities, Congress will seek to avoid the day of reckoning by the most expedient means available-- and the Federal Reserve undoubtedly will accommodate Washington by printing more dollars to pay the bills. The Fed is the enabler for the spending addicts in Congress, who would rather spend new fiat money than face the political consequences of raising taxes or borrowing more abroad.
The irony is that many of the FedÕ³ biggest cheerleaders are the same supposed capitalists who denounced centralized economic planning when practiced by the former Soviet Union. Large banks and Wall Street firms love the FedÕ³ easy money policy, because they profit at the front end from the resulting loan boom and artificially high equity prices. ItÕ³ the little guy who loses when the inflated dollars finally trickle down to him and erode his buying power. Someday Americans will understand that Federal Reserve bankers have no magic ability-- and certainly no legal or moral right-- to decide how much money should exist and what the cost of borrowing money should be.
Maybe if Clinton would've offered Osama a signed basketball by Michael Jordan, 9/11 wouldn't have happened?
Pandywidth's bragging rights here:
White House Blasts Clinton N.Korea Policy
By FOSTER KLUG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
The White House belittled former President Clinton's policy of direct engagement with North Korea on Monday, saying efforts to shower North Korean leader Kim Jong Il "with flowers and chocolates" failed.
White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters that Bill Richardson, who served as United Nations ambassador and Energy Secretary under Clinton, "went with flowers and chocolates, and he went with light- water nuclear reactors ... and a basketball signed by Michael Jordan and many other inducements for the 'dear leader' to try to agree not to develop nuclear weapons, and it failed."
"In 2003, he identified Valerie Plame as a CIA operative in his column. Novak reported the information was provided to him by "senior administration officials."
In August 2004, after other journalists had reported on it, Novak admitted that his son, Alex Novak, is the Director of Marketing for the Swift Boat Veterans' publisher, Regnery Publishing. At the time he said that he didn't "think it relevant." Two months later Salon.com reported that Regnery's owner is also the publisher of Novak's own US$297 (annual rate) newsletter and that Novak is on the board of a foundation whose chief holdings are the stock of Regnery's parent company. [5]
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"senior administration officials." Or who's who, one has to be a lie, eh?
He is a just another (no-so) Swiftboat liar.
How big of a liar does one need to be to get one's self fired from CNN?
David, I hear Ann Coulter included 780 footnotes to her *tome* "Scandal" -- must have been for heft because it certainly wasn't for scholarly purposes.
BTW, on the Hoekstra story: I was very impressed with your insight on that one.
"senior administration officials." Or who's who, one has to be a lie, eh?
Nice try Capt, but Fitzpatrick didn't think so! I know it's embarrassing to admit that lying Joe could be such a dumbass but who can blame you when all your eggs are in his frog marchin basket.
I'm still giggling over Clueless and Factless' caterwauling over tagging Factless as a Ku Kluxer. Turns out it was all part of a plan. They planned to make me call them "racists" by directing racist epithets at me. Genius, I say.
Next, they'll visit a brothel so that I can call them "whore mongers." Then, they'll start dressing like women so that I can call them "cross-dressers." Then, they'll start selling secrets to Iran so that I can call them "traitors." All the while wailing about how intolerant I am. Genius, I say. Absolute Genius!
You guys are too freekin funny. Is this your idiotic version of Tuesday Night Funnies? If it is, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Kudos. And bringing Hapless along for the ride brings the full complement of Stooges to the Cornblog. Hey Hapless, Holla dude.
On June 30, 2005, Robert Novak appeared on CNN with host Ed Henry and explained that while he could not answer questions about who in the administration gave him Plame's identity, he would soon "reveal all":
NOVAK: Well, that's what I can't reveal until this case is finished. I hope it is finished soon. And when it does . . . I will reveal all in a column and on the air.
In an op-ed on Human Events Online, Novak writes that Fitzgerald has cleared him and that "frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry." But Novak fails to "reveal all," as he earlier pledged, in at least two respects.
1. Novak refuses to identify his primary administration source who revealed to him that Valerie Plame worked at the CIA as an undercover agent. He confirms Karl Rove was his second senior administration source, and that CIA official Bill Harlow served as a confirming source. But Novak writes his primary source's name "has not yet been revealed" and "has not come forward to identify himself."
2. Novak also did not explain why he earlier said he was given Plame's identity by the White House as part of an effort to intentionally out her. He said: "I didn't dig it out [Plame's identity], it was given to me They [the White House] thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it." In his latest op-ed, Novak fails to address this issue, and states simply that Plame's "role in instituting her husband's mission was revealed to me in the middle of a long interview with an official who I have previously said was not a political gunslinger."
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Copying machine!!!! I can't stand this. And she has a team helping her. I wonder if she's paying minimum wage or if she convinced her relatives to do it for free.
A Treasury Department analysis "presented in the Mid-Session Review itself confirms what outside experts have consistently said - "tax cuts do not come remotely close to paying for themselves."
Conservatives are outraged that a strict new immigration bill in Colorado still allows children to receive public assistance like food and healthcare: "We're helping create the next generation of terrorists," said Rep. Debbie Stafford, R-Aurora.
Spencer Ackerman on the Pentagon's claim that U.S. military detainees are now protected by the Geneva Conventions: "The very obvious loophole is what will happen to detainees outside of U.S. military custody as in CIA custody, such as the so-called black sites, where Geneva is a sick joke."
Michael Savage: "Liberalism is, in essence, the HIV virus."
There is as much wind power potential off our coasts "as the current capacity of all power plants in the United States combined," according to a new report sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and General Electric.
"Don't believe Social Security phase-out is coming down the pike again next year?" Read this.
And finally: Watch incredible video from a camera attached to a Orbiter Shuttle rocket booster both the ascent and descent (complete with parachute ocean landing) are caught on tape.
"When they came for the Branch Davidians, we did not say anything because we were not Branch Davidians." -- Doug Newman
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"When the rights of just one individual are denied, the rights of all are in jeopardy!" -- Jo Ann Roach
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"No one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. Therefore everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interests of everyone hang on the result." -- Ludwig von Mises
Feeding and providing healthcare to children breeds terrorists. How? American History tells me it breeds good hardworking citizens if you add education and opportunity. But what do I know?
Close to five years after 9/11, a Homeland Security list of national critical assets is still unreliable, and includes entries such as an 'ice cream parlor' and a Sears Auto Center, according to an article set for Wednesday's New York Times.
"Nearly five years after the 2001 attacks, the Department of Homeland Security still has been unable to produce a reliable list of critical national assets, considered a fundamental first step in developing a risk-based domestic security system, a new report by the inspector general has concluded," writes Eric Lipton.
"The report cited lists that include such inexplicable entries as an ice cream parlor and a Sears Auto Center and inequities such as the 8,591 entries for the state of Indiana, compared to 5,687 for New York and 3,212 for California," the article continues.
"Homeland Security officials themselves, interviewed by the investigators, agreed that the older data in the inventory -- entered starting in 2003 -- "was of low quality and that they had little faith in it," the report says," Lipton writes.
"But this is the database the government is supposed to use to help divvy up the hundreds of millions of dollars in anti-terrorism grants it distributes each year," writes Lipton.
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I guess NY City doesn't have enough ice cream parlors.
In a motion, the department argued that "The United States submits that the actions authorized by the President are essential to meeting a continuing and grave foreign terrorist threat and are well within lawful bounds."
It argued that to demonstrate this "would require evidence that must be excluded from consideration under the military and states secrets privilege" and as a result the judge should throw out the case in order to avoid "grave harm to the national security of the United States."
The ACLU argued that the existence of the program was far from a secret: it has already acknowledged and defended the spying program to the public and issued a 40-page paper discussing in detail its legal defenses and justifications in January.
"If the court accepts the government's state secrets argument we would be facing a constitutional crisis because the government is essentially arguing it can ignore the law and is thumbing its nose at the constitution and the courts can't do anything about it because it's a secret program," Steinberg said. "There's no conceivable end to this argument."
Steinberg said the ACLU's case was strengthened by the recent ruling over the Guantanamo tribunals, which reaffirmed that the president does not have unlimited authority to act without Congressional approval during its "war on terror."
There is nothing wrong with wiretaps or any kind of surveillance provided there is a warrant. It is only the illegal wiretaps that break the law that must stop or we are no longer a nation of laws.
Any law enforcement officer or agent can get a warrant from the court on "probable cause by oath or affirmation" without breaking the law.
They can search and wiretap WITH a warrant and they can get a FISA warrant BEFORE they have to go in front of a FISA judge in "secret" FISA courts.
That is not constitutional and the FISA court should not exist.
ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, QUE. Ñ Managers at a local Wal-Mart forced employees to search the store after it received a bomb threat, Radio-Canada reported Monday.
Some 40 nervous employees searched the store for an hour last Thursday, said Mailie Fournier, a former employee of the store. They were accompanied by six police officers.
Several employees, whose jobs don't include security, found the experience traumatic, said Mr. Fournier.
The incident prompted Quebec workplace health and safety board to investigate.
Wal-Mart said it simply wanted to help police conduct the search.
According to police, the store didn't violate any laws and only had an obligation to evacuate the store if a suspicious object was found.
Customers in the store about 60 kilometres east of Montreal were, nonetheless, asked to leave the premises.
"Anyone who doesn't think this is a country where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer needs to check the numbers-this is Bush country, where a rising tide lifts all yachts."
One in four U.S. jobs pays less than a poverty-level income.
Since 2000, the number of Americans living below the poverty line at any one time has risen steadily. Now, 13 percent 7 million Americans are officially poor.
Bush's tax cuts (extended until 2010) save those earning between $20,000 and $30,000 an average of $10 a year, while those making $1 million are saved $42,700.
In 2002, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, compared those who point out such statistics as the one above to Adolph Hitler (surely he meant Stalin?).
Bush has diverted $750 million to "healthy marriages" by shifting funds from social services, mostly childcare.
Bush has proposed cutting housing programs for low-income people with disabilities by 50 percent.
A series of related stats starting with the news that two out of three new jobs are in the suburbs shows how the poor are further disadvantaged in the job hunt by lack of public or private transportation.
Meanwhile, for those who have been following the collapse of the pension system, please note a series in The Wall Street Journal by Ellen Schultz taking a hard look at executive pension obligations:
"Benefits for executives now account for a significant share of pension obligations in the United States, an average of 8 percent (of large companies). Sometimes a company's obligation for a single executive's pension approaches $100 million."
"These liabilities are largely hidden, because corporations don't distinguish them from overall pension obligations in their federal financial findings."
"As a result, the savings that companies make by curtailing pensions of regular retirees which have totaled billions of dollars in recent years can mask a rising cost of benefits for executives."
"Executive pensions, even when they won't be paid until years from now, drag down the earnings today. And they do so in a way that's disproportionate to their size, because they aren't funded with dedicated assets."
THE resumption of regular schooling - especially for girls - has been one of the more uplifting aspects of Afghanistan's reconstruction, but Taliban brutality and crony greed are forcing thousands to stay at home in fear for their lives or to face years in front of the blackboard in dilapidated tents.
More than 200 schools have been attacked since early last year and according to Human Rights Watch the attacks have left entire districts without schools, teachers and educational aid groups.
A senior education official in Kabul named three senior establishment members among "influential figures" whose involvement in land grabs around the capital had blocked the building of 20 schools for which international funds had been allocated.
The media has reported extensively on educational advances in Afghanistan, but an investigation published by the human rights group yesterday says the majority of girls in the country are still not at school and one-third of districts do not have girls' schools.
Today the National Journal published a list of salaries for the 403 White House staffers. Here are the four most overpaid:
Deborah Nirmala Misir Ethics Advisor $114,688
Erica M. Dornburg Ethics Advisor $100,547
Stuart Baker Director for Lessons Learned $106,641
Melissa M. Carson Director of Fact Checking $46,500
And yes, there is a White House Director for Lessons Learned. We aren't making this up.
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Lessons learned. Don't shoot your friend in the face. That's the only lesson I know of that has been learned in this presidency.
I learned (once again) that the Republicans are the most corrupt bunch of effin liars to ever start a dictatorship and still cannot run a country (except into the ground).
This year the highest paid staffers in the White House Ð including Karl Rove, Dan Bartlett and Steven Hadley Ð got a cost-of-living adjustment of $4,200, boosting their total salary to $165,200.
Meanwhile, the White House is backing Congressional efforts to beat back a modest increase in the minimum wage for the lowest paid Americans for the first time since 1997. Here's a press release issued today by Rep. George Miller (D-CA):
For the fifth time in less than two weeks, Republicans in the House of Representatives today voted to block a vote on legislation to increase the national minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour...
A full-time minimum wage worker earns just $10,712 per year - which is $5,888 less than the $16,600 needed to lift a family of three above the federal poverty threshold...The minimum wage is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, when adjusted for inflation. Congress has not raised the federal minimum wage since 1997.
And I've learned that Liberals and Democrats are mostly effin liars who only wish that the Republicans could run this country into the ground as good as they do. Liberals are so full of "down with America" rhetoric it is a wonder this country has survived as long as it has. Oh yeah, I forgot. The majority of Americans are not effin Liberals!
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Posted by: Happy on Plame-Gate at July 11, 2006 06:26 PM
My Leak Case Testimony
by Robert Novak
Posted Jul 11, 2006
(Last 3 paragraphs only....for full article, see Last Thread)
In my sworn testimony, I said what I have contended in my columns and on television: Joe Wilson's wife's role in instituting her husband's mission was revealed to me in the middle of a long interview with an official who I have previously said was not a political gunslinger. After the federal investigation was announced, he told me through a third party that the disclosure was inadvertent on his part.
Following my interview with the primary source, I sought out the second administration official and the CIA spokesman for confirmation. I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in "Who's Who in America."
I considered his wife's role in initiating Wilson's mission, later confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, to be a previously undisclosed part of an important news story. I reported it on that basis.
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Much likely to be written tomorrow on Novak's revelations. David is also likely to take a shot at it!
All you Cornuts have to admit that I can set off `Happy' ripples for hours on end, often for days, after an AUTHENTIC Happy post! Happy (fakes) are definitely prominent on this site! My living legacy and LASTING gift to you Cornuts! You too, David!
I'd follow you over there KC but I did once and saw Saladin posting there and I was accused of stalking her by a Cornnut. Don't want to go there. As a matter of fact, don't want to go here. Effin Liberals!
y son went away to Iraq with the Illinois National Guard, last week. I, the proud papa of one of our brave men in uniform, stood in the bleachers at the General Richard L. Jones Armory in downtown Chicago on the morning of July 3rd watching as the boys of the 178th Infantry battalion (MPs) presented themselves to their relatives and ChicagoÕs media for the last time before they leave for duty in Iraq.
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Liberals are so full of "down with America" rhetoric
Liberals love this country; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Liberals love the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. To liberals, the Constitution is not just a piece of paper; to liberals the Geneva Convention is not "quaint."
Liberals disagree with the values of compassionate conservatives,the policy of pre-emptive warfare, and the portfolio of policies that favor corporations and the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and "the greater good."
emmerson has a big fat lying mouth in is big fat keg-shaped head.
Happy One has trouble differentiating real from fake and first from second. All the Happy posters are real. Only one threatened to leave unless others complied with his request. My three year-old did that once at the supermarket. Once.
My parties have all big names
And I greet them with the widest smile
Tell them how my life is one big adventure
And always they're amazed
When I show them round my house to my bed
I had it made like a mountain range
With a snow-white pillow for my big fat head
#15 Relatives? I want to see a current pic of her with her Mom and Dad and siblings. I want to hear her mom come out and vouch for her and offer definitive DNA.
Hmmmm...maybe, she's the REASON, the busheviks are so against embryonic stem cell research. She's a product of early (embyronic) tests gone awry.
But, I'm not a scientist...capt, get us an article about this, wouldja? Dr. B may have some thoughts, too. ;-)
Jeanne, if you do a google search for b**b threats and wal-mart, you'll find that the paragon of big box capitalism has been the target of many such threats --including various spots in Canada, Arkansas, Oregon, Michigan, etc. -- perhaps, a willingness to search for the b**bs is now a prerequisite for hiring?
Columnist Robert Novak said publicaly for the first time Tuesday that White House political advisor Karl Rove was a source for his story outing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
In a column Novak also says his recollection of his conversation with Rove differs from what the Rove camp has said.
I saw the John Dean interview with K. Olbermann. Fascinating. My brother (in-law) heard Randi Rhodes read some passages from his book, Conservatives Without A Conscience today. He can't wait to get the book. I didn't even have to tell him to. (I direct him to buy certain books and then I get them after he finishes reading. It's a great setup.)
Capt. Regarding the Federal Reserve article you posted, I read somewhere that a certain great historian whose name, of course, I can't remember, predicted that the 21st century would be a century of polar upheaval and catastrophic economic ups and downs.
Sounds about right doesn't it? What with global warming and all breathing heavily down our necks.
Stay tuned for another article I've just found that is guaranteed to pique interest in the global warming crisis. It involves drinking. I'll post it tomorrow for maximum audience effect.
I'll say good night now. Looking forward to another day of going through dusty archives and closets. This is a large house, damn it. In a way, I can't wait to move into something smaller. Still, I'll miss my parent's (and the family's) old home and gardens. It was built in 1957 and has never known another family. It never will. The land is what is of value here in La Jolla. The house will be torn down to make way for another monstrosity of the kind that keeps popping up all over La Jolla now. Where do people get this kind of money??? And who, in their right mind would waste all of that money on god-awful, ugly, gigantic showplaces that have no redeeming taste at all? Bush people! Republicans! That's who.
"When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect Ñ but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate Ñ may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical Ñ always think for yourself."
Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker (2001) by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager
Pauling is the only person ever to receive a nobel prize in two different fields - peace and chemistry
ALERT!
MOUNTING EVIDENCE suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of autism, attention deficit disorder, speech delays, and other childhood neurological disorders now epidemic in the United States.
Now that Karl Rove won't be indicted, now that the president won't fire him, now that it really doesn't matter anymore, more details of the Valerie Plame leak investigation trickle out.
In his latest syndicated column released Wednesday, columnist Robert Novak revealed his side of the story in the Plame affair, saying Rove was a confirming source for Novak's story outing the CIA officer, underscoring Rove's role in a leak President Bush once promised to punish.
The columnist said he learned of Plame's CIA employment from a source he still refuses to publicly identify, and then confirmed with Rove and then-CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, whose roles in talking to Novak have been previously reported.
Novak said for the first time that prosecutors looking into the leaks already knew his sources when he agreed to disclose them.
Novak comes late to the Plame game, long after several other reporters talked publicly about the involvement of Rove and of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, in leaking the CIA identity of the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson. Novak says he kept his mouth shut so long because prosecutors asked him to.
A month ago, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said he didn't anticipate seeking charges against Rove. Novak wrote that, more recently, Fitzgerald told his lawyer that after 2 1/2 years his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to Novak has been concluded, freeing him to talk now.
Triggering the criminal investigation that resulted in Libby being charged with perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI, Novak revealed Plame's CIA employment on July 14, 2003, eight days after her husband went on the attack against the Bush administration.
Initially refusing to identify his sources to the FBI, Novak knew that Fitzgerald had obtained signed waivers from every official who might have provided Novak information about Plame. Despite that, Novak was prepared to resist. He says he relented in early 2004 when it became clear that Fitzgerald "knew the names of my sources."
Novak could still have protected his sources, but his lawyer told him "I was sure to lose a case in the courts at great expense."
Dean was the guest on Jon Stewart last night. They talked about his new book. He described himself as a Goldwater conservative - no liberal he. I think there are a lot conservatives like Dean who think the conservative movement is on the wrong track, not irrevocably but no signs of leader who will reclaim it. Dean thinks conservatism has been greatly harmed by authoritarianism in the executive office and the sheeple who in this country that will follow it BLINDLY.
It's refreshing to hear a principled critique of the presidency from a conservative with some integrity rather than the blather regurgitated by Bush cultists.
A month ago, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said he didn't anticipate seeking charges against Rove. Novak wrote that, more recently, Fitzgerald told his lawyer that after 2 1/2 years his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to Novak has been concluded, freeing him to talk now.
We know Rove told Novak and Cooper then lied to FBI investigators and the grand jury.
We believe Rove was indicted under a sealed indictment. Within weeks of the indictment, we believe Fitz faxed Rove's attorney a letter, which Luskin announced as a evidence Rove will not be indicted. If that was the entire letter said, then Rove's attorney would have shared it, We believe the letter said more.
In return for no indictment, Rove will turn states evidence on Cheney. Bush will step in for the sake of the country, and give Cheney clemency, and while he's at it, give Libby clemency too. Liberals will take to the street and demand accountability in government
Israeli Troops Move Into Southern Lebanon
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SIDON, Lebanon, July 12 -- The militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers along the Israel-Lebanon border Wednesday morning, and Israeli officials said seven more soldiers were killed after tanks and troops moved into Lebanon in response to the attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the abduction of the soldiers an "act of war" and said Hezbollah would pay a "heavy price," the Associated Press reported. The kidnappings follow the June 25 capture by Palestinian gunmen of an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip.
In southern Lebanon, fighter jets bombed five bridges in quick succession, effectively cutting off that region from the rest of the country, civil defense officials said. At least two Lebanese civilians were killed in one of the bridge strikes, and a power plant was badly damaged.
Air strikes hit the cities of Marjuyun and Kfar Shouba. Warships were shelling Lebanon, Israeli news agencies reported, and witnesses said Katyusha rockets were being fired from the western part of the border into Israel, close to the Mediterranean Sea.
Scores of suddenly stranded Lebanese wandered back roads looking for a way home -- their faces grim and worried, their belongings stuffed into plastic bags. Sirens wailed in the background.
The attacks and counterattacks are sure to escalate tensions along a border that often serves as a battlefield between Hezbollah militias and the Israeli army. But the sense of unease and fear was mixed with resignation from people who have known peace only rarely. Many also said they were elated at the capture of the soldiers by Hezbollah, which for years has effectively controlled this region.
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Everybody knows how hard it is to fold up a "Roadmap"...
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Early this morning, before the situation exploded in Lebanon, Israel expanded its military offensive in Gaza, dropping a quarter-ton bomb on a house in Gaza City. Israeli officials said they targeted the house based on information that senior Palestinian gunmen were meeting there to plan a terrorist attack.
The huge explosion destroyed the house of Hamas activist Nabil Abu Salmiyeh, a lecturer at Gaza City's Islamic University, killing him, his wife and seven of their nine children, the Associated Press reported. Rescue workers said four people were still missing, and 37 were wounded, according to the wire service. The dead children ranged in age from 4 to 18.
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Ok, now send jets to actually bomb the Syrian President's house...then go bomb something (anything, doesn't matter) in IRAN...and the whirlpool will suck everything in the region down!
PDA TO REGISTER VOTERS AND INFORM CONCERT-GOERS ABOUT PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES AND ISSUES
Legendary rock and roll super group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's North American "Freedom Of Speech 06 Tour" launched on July 6, and along with delivering great music at major shows running through mid-September, the tour provides a vital forum to educate concert attendees about critical social, political and environmental issues. Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) is proud to be among the groups participating in the Free Speech Zone table area that will be prominently featured at every CSNY tour date.
PDA is a large collective of committed grassroots activists from across the country who support other progressive grassroots activists locally. PDA's mission is to carry the progressive agenda from the American grassroots to Congress to help guide the development of progressive legislation, fight for its passage into law and support the realization of progressive policies at the state and local levels. Local PDA activists will table at the Freedom of Speech 06 concerts to register voters, inform concert attendees about PDA-endorsed candidates in the area and sign up volunteers to take part in working groups related to progressive causes.
PDA Executive Director Tim Carpenter commented, "We're very happy to go on the road and advocate on behalf of progressive ideas, policies and candidates throughout the CSNY tour. It's great when artists are out there using their influence to speak to the most pressing issues of our time. The message of their music is inspiring to us in our work."
Looks like the same old, same old on the blog today, the reich wing nuts blathering their same stupid crap. Support the troops, wave the flag, trash talk anyone that sees the reality of this fiasco. But notice not one volunteer on the right, go to the VA volunteer to wheel those faithful troops around to their appointments, listen to them talk about how they have been abandoned when they return home. Typical right wing crap support the troops, until they come home wounded. Plea for babies until they are born, restrict rights for all in the name of psuedo security, and by the way show the world what a bunch of dumbasses they are. Yep, you deserve each other, enjoy your new lifestyle that is on the way. Eat this!!!
A new poll indicates bush is losing support among a key group of voters who had stood firmly with him even as his poll numbers among other groups fell dramatically.
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The new poll shows that, for the first time, bush's approval rating has fallen below 50% among total fucking morons, and now stands at 44%. This represents a dramatic drop compared to a poll taken just last December, when 62% of total fucking morons expressed support for the president and his policies.
Not all Republican lawmakers are concerned about the poll. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) does not find it a cause for anxiety. While he agrees that the GOP should not take total fucking morons for granted, they "really don't have anywhere else to go. They're never going to be able to understand someone like Al Gore or John Kerry or anybody intelligent. Just try having a conversation with one of them about global warming. They'll say, 'Oh, but Rush says volcanoes consume more ozone than humans do.' "
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"They've got nowhere else to go," Alexander reaffirms with a smile, "and they always vote."
Karl Rove, the chief GOP strategist who is credited with being a political genius, said, "We will be talking about flag-burning homosexual illegal immigrants who don't speak English and treasonous reporters."
August of 2004 posts, on review, we sure seem like a more mature, more engaging and "kinder and gentler bunch of bloggers, then." Some familiar handles and themes, but a lot more respectful...
#52, Micki, spark up the Xerox and Ms. Coulter's got a new book. Why would she bother her pretty little head over research?
Capt. #26, the pension-busting done by the greedheads was documented in the Wall Street Journal. I guess that's why the real Journos at the WSJ can't stand the idiotorial pages ruining their reputation. They feel like they're getting stabbed in the back.
O'Reilly. Dean is hilarious. Watching a Republican skewer the criminals in the Bush Administration is like watching the running of the Bulls in Pamplona. Lotsa drama.
Speaking of Drama. I was watching CSPAN's coverage of the Senate Committee (Judiciary?) that was reviewing the SCOTUS's Hamdan decision and how it should change public policy. They had a panel of Legal scholars and "experts" to testify. It was a fairly evenly divided panel: a couple of lefties, a couple of righties and a couple of down the middle military types. They had former solicitor general Olson (husband of that blonde FauxNews lady who died on the plane going to DC on 911). They had the Dean of the Yale Law Dept., the guy who wrote the Military Commissions ideas for the Bush Team, Hamdan's lawyer Swift, An AF Jag dude.
It was very evident from the panel that the reason that the Bush DOJ is constantly getting punked is because they are a bunch of legal lightweights. They were, I must say, direct, modest, forthright, but they were a bunch of mumbling, stuttering goofs. The liberals on the panel talked circles around them and directed a fair amount of snark at the Conservatives. It was eerily similar to the exchanges that we have here with the Bush-oisie. I felt particularly bad for the Olson guy. He seemed like a very nice person, not very smart, but polite to a fault.
What I found particularly amusing about the hearing was Lindsay Graham (R-Hajji) grilling the government shill who was defending the Bush Administration's refusal to grant enemy combatants the basic rights granted by the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Sen. Hatch (R-Mormonia) had to intervene to keep Graham from throttling the guy. Even funnier was when Leahy went after him. This was the exchange (Via ThinkProgress): LEAHY: The president has said very specifically, and he’s said it to our European allies, he’s waiting for the Supreme Court decision to tell him whether or not he was supposed to close Guantanamo or not. After, he said it upheld his position on Guantanamo, and in fact it said neither. Where did he get that impression? The President’s not a lawyer, you are, the Justice Department advised him. Did you give him such a cockamamie idea or what? BRADBURY: Well, I try not to give anybody cockamamie ideas. LEAHY: Well, where’d he get the idea? BRADBURY: The Hamdan decision, senator, does implicitly recognize we’re in a war, that the President’s war powers were triggered by the attacks on the country, and that law of war paradigm applies. That’s what the whole case — LEAHY: I don’t think the President was talking about the nuances of the law of war paradigm, he was saying this was going to tell him that he could keep Guantanamo open or not, after it said he could. BRADBURY: Well, it’s not — LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong? BRABURY: It’s under the law of war – LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong? BRADBURY: The President is ALWAYS RIGHT.
73 I saw them perform five years ago with Neil Young. It was awesome. They played both CSN and Neil Young songs... southern cross, cinnamon girl. Neil Young stole the show. It was great.
With pardons to the person who previously posted about this -- DRINKINGLIBERALLY -- here is a site that will take you to a place to *drink liberally* in your neck of the woods.
Spy! Was it you who first posted about this. BTW, Spy!, where do you find that stuff you link??? (Such as above.)
Pande, you're always so polite with the Mr. and the Ms. and the honorifics! You should be in politics!
The good news is that the first time I saw this demonstration in 1987 - aboard the Sloop Clearwater where I was a mate of the month - the freakin' b.b.s never stopped for minutes.
Now, they only lasted a minute or so, but the demonstration was no less dramatic. Anyway, Ben and Jerry's has a new flavor coming out, American Pie a portion of the proceeds of which are to be used to promote:
I want to make sure you are aware of the latest threat uncovered by the Center's Intelligence Project.
We've just issued a report documenting how the U.S. military, under pressure to meet manpower goals for the war in Iraq, relaxed standards to weed out racist extremists.
Center President and CEO Richard Cohen delivered a letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld calling for a zero-tolerance policy regarding racist extremism in the U.S. military.
Read the report and the letter. HERE
Twenty years ago, the Center's work prompted the Defense Department to issue the first regulations aimed at white supremacists in the military. Please help us convince Secretary Rumsfeld that he must again address this issue and put a stop to racist activity in our armed forces.
Send him a letter, asking for a zero-tolerance policy toward racist extremism in the military. We have a letter available for download. SAMPLE LETTER HERE
The New York Times also published an article about hate in the military, which stemmed directly from the Center's investigative work.
Thank you for standing with us in this vital effort to fight hate and extremism in our country.
An Effervescing Elephant
with tiny eyes and great big trunk
once whispered to the tiny ear
the ear of one inferior
that by next June he'd die, oh yeah!
because the tiger would roam.
The little one said: "Oh my goodness I must stay at home!
and every time I hear a growl
I'll know the tiger's on the prowl
and I'll be really safe, you know
the elephant he told me so."
Everyone was nervy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread
to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
who wallowed in the mud and chewed
his spicy hippo-plankton food
and tended to ignore the word
preferring to survey a herd
of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
And all the jungle took fright,
and ran around for all the day and the night
but all in vain, because, you see,
the tiger came and said: "Who me?!
You know, I wouldn't hurt not one of you.
I'd much prefer something to chew
and you're all too scant." oh yeah!
He ate the Elephant - Syd Barrett
Is this a hat tip to others who have used this expression on this blog or a clever message to trolls who come here to name-call and spoof post... or both. Corn is full of meaning.
ÒIt is unclear how the United States will achieve its desired end-state in Iraq given the significant changes in the assumptions underlying the US strategy.Ó Ð Excerpt from a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), that focuses on the Bush administrationÕs ÒNational Strategy for Victory in Iraq.Ó
"More frequently than what we would like, we find out that the intelligence community has been penetrated, not necessarily by al Qaeda, but by other nations or organizations[.]"
"I don't have any evidence. But from my perspective, when you have information that is leaked that is clearly helpful to our enemy, you cannot discount that possibility[.]" - Rep. Peter Hoekstra
The reduction of the budget deficit to $296 billion, touted by President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony yesterday, will be completely reversed by 2007, RAW STORY has learned.
A report in today's Wall Street Journal shows that by 2007, the budget deficit will rise to $339 billion. The projection was offered by the White House's own Office of Management and Budget, the source of yesterday's numbers on deficit reduction.
every time i've seen paul(89) post here i've wondered if his email address was a tribute to syd barrett....
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Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.
If military officers are to be gentlemen (or women, but I doubt there is much female rape going on) why is there so much sexual violence at our military academies?
And not just in the academies, but in the officer corps, and within the ranks of nco's as well.
This is a web site supporting the case of U.S. Army Specialist Suzanne Swift, a veteran of the Iraqi War and a survivor of systemic sexual assault during her military service.
As you explore these pages you can learn many things, including the facts behind Spc. Swift's experiences while serving in Iraq, how deeply her courage in demanding a stop to her abuse has resonated among veterans groups and social justice organizations worldwide, and links to aid in the survivorship of those who continue to survive in circumstances that are criminally common.
Spc. Swift, facing a redeployment to Iraq while serving under the command of the same individuals now under investigation for rape and sexual harassment, chose to go absent without leave rather than subjugate herself to the horrors she experienced during her first tour of duty.
Spc. Swift's arrest on June 11 sparked a national outcry from all walks of life, both military and civilian. Veterans of military service and those who believe in basic human rights have organized to demand that the Pentagon protect the dignity of our soldiers and implement the changes the Pentagon's Joint Task Force on Sexual Abuse in the military recommended in a report to Congress in 2004.
I will give you a word or some words and all you have to do is say right or wrong. If you wish, you may ask a question like what is (word or some words), just as you see on Jeopardy. I am truly amazed as to how many Nazi Americans do not know the difference between right and wrong. Since we do not know the difference between right and wrong, we can never do anything right. Let us begin.
The Bible
The Ten Commandments
Jesus' Words
Murders
Hatred
Torture
War Crimes
Decadence
Corruption
Greed
Lies
Christianity
Bushianity
Hitler Bush and his Cabal
Universal Health Care
Protecting the Environment
Student Loans for Higher Education
Day Care Centers
Adoption Services
Social Services
Congress
Supreme Court
Downsizing American Jobs
Outsourcing American Jobs
Offshore Tax Shelters for the Rich and Corporate America
Military Men and Women Paying for their Military Equipment
Poverty
Disease
Human Trafficking
Sweat Shops
Abortion
Capital Punishment
Euthanasia
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Adult Stem Cell Research
Homosexuality
Gay Lifestyle
Lesbian Lifestyle
Conscientious Objector
Mother Teresa
David Corn Website
Laughter
Sense of Humor
Gerald
The Lord's Prayer
Shalom
The Formula for Justice and Peace
Mattie Stepanek
Conversion of the Heart
Seeing with your Heart
Justice
Peace
Love
Mercy
Axis of Evil (money, nuclear weapons, Bush's words)
Wars Create More Problems
Wars Protect Lifestyles of Rich and Famous
Lack of Steady Increases in Minimum Wages
Attach Increases in Minimum Wages to Congressional Wage Increases
American Soldiers Synonymous with Cannon Fodder
We are God's Children
Nazi America
Illegal Immigration
Hugh Fines and Prison Sentences for Employers Hiring Illegal Immigrants
Born to be Saints
Born to be with God
Work to Make a Heaven on Earth
Two Destinations Upon Death - Heaven or Hell
These are a few words of many words. These words are a good start on our journey to know what is right and what is wrong.
"You really think Republicans fought to have terrorists kill more Americans? I wouldn't even stoop that low about your hero Clinton."
DId you or did you not read the link I provided about the difficulties that Mr. Clinton had to deal with when trying to fight terrorism in the 90s? Why is it that you conservatives wet the bed when anyone uses your own fauxPatriotism against you? Writers and talkingheads spend 90% of their time questioning the Patriotism of Liberals and the other 10% of their time trashing the parents of those whose kids have died in Mr. Bush's ill-conceived war. Either the Republicans in the 90s were part of the problem or part of the solution. Facts show that they were so intent on bringing him down that they hammpered his fight against terrorism. They were clearly part of the problem (Mr. Clinton's immoral handling of other matters was another big part of the problem as it gave his critics firepower to stop him).
"All I have to say about that is: WHATEVER!"
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 03:33 PM
That is the typical response of Conservatives when it comes to Terrorism. Nevermind the numbers that show that more Americans die when Republicans are in the White House. Never mind the efforts of the Clinton Administration to stop terrorism. All you conservatives ever do is bow to the efforts of your leaders to get more and more AMericans killed. YOu encapsulated the Conservative mindset in a single word: "whatever."
"Pandy crying like a baby to mr Corn was getting embarrassing!"
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 07:02 PM
Still lying and still not embarrassed about being called a liar. Your credibility is floating face-down in the sewer. I guess it died looking for your moral compass.
"Panty wants to call us klansmen for being conservatives ..."
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 07:13 PM
Nope. There are a few Republicans who have voted on the right side of the civil rights issues. If it bothers you to be called a Ku Kluxer, don't use racial epithets. Just as it is difficult for you to engage in discussions without cussing and name-calling, your racism busts through whenever you start foaming at the corners of your mouth. Much like Factless, you probably don't need to hide your Klannish (or clownish) tendencies. Wave your flag. You 3 stooges can high five each other. We know what you really think.
That is the typical response of Conservatives when it comes to Terrorism. Nevermind the numbers that show that more Americans die when Republicans are in the White House. Never mind the efforts of the Clinton Administration to stop terrorism. All you conservatives ever do is bow to the efforts of your leaders to get more and more AMericans killed. YOu encapsulated the Conservative mindset in a single word: "whatever."
By lying Panty wasted
Here's what your hero Al Gore had to say about the #1 terrorist as a Senator:
Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration.
There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!
He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?"
Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."
The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't that just a little excessive?"
"No, sir," continued Ollie.
"No? And why not?" the senator asked.
"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."
"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.
"By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered.
"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
"His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied.
At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked.
"Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie answered.
"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.
"Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.
"What really happened is that Clinton didn't like the spending cuts that would balance the budget and wouldn't originally commit to a 7 yr plan."
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 04:12 PM
That's true. The timeline shows that he stood strong for the lower and middle class. And he did stand strong against tax cuts for Billionaires first proposed in the 90s.
Republican excuses for the Deficit? "fact: Dot com bubble burst (Clinton letting corporations use phony accounting books)"
You might want to research your silly talking points before spouting them cluelessly. The stock market correction of 2001 had nothing to do with phony accounting procedures. It was caused by overvalued tech stocks and ridiculously prices IPOs. The booming Clinton economy created the wealth and freedom to invest (often recklessly) in the Stock Market. The Marketeers shot themselves in the ass. Clinton had nothing to do with it other than providing the economic boost for them to gamble on the Market.
You obviously don't remember the S&L scandals that rocked the early 90s. Who brought us out of that recession? Big Dawg. And the hiccup in 2001 was about the same as the stock hiccup in '98. I don't see anybody making excuses for the '98 correction. Why? Because the Clinton Administration made sure that the Economy kept rolling (for everyone, not just the Billionaires). Typical Conservative whiny-tittybaby response to the flat market under Mr. Bush.
"fact: 9/11 and stock market crash, insurance industry crash and small business crash."
Yes, Mr. Bush scrood the pooch on 9-11 and that had a ripple effect across the country. As I said, the Conservatives can't be trusted with protecting our citizenry or our economy. As for Big Business eating up our small businesses. The decline in the number of small businesses has been happening for over 2 decades. You never heard the Clinton Administration whining about it or letting it stop the economy in the 90s.
"fact: Corporate scandals under Clinton (that were finally put to a stop under Bush)"
Scandals that were caused by lax accounting procedures made legal by Republicans in the 90s over Mr. Clinton's veto. Can't blame Clinton for that one.
"fact: Iraq war that was approved by Dems in Congress."
If you look at the market graph that I linked above, you'll see that the war was the single biggest destroyer of the economy. It created worldwide instability and the kind of economic caution that prevented the kind of growth that you would expect from the world's biggest, most powerful economy. If Mr. Bush hadn't lied his way into the war, the economy would be doing a hell of a lot better.
Another contributing factor that you left off of your list of "excuses" is all the pork that Republicans have included in their budgets. As soon as Mr. Clinton consolidated power in the late 90s he could clamp down on the pork. After he left office, the pork spending went through the roof. But you think the Republicans balanced the budget on their own? Facts don't back up that assumption.
Also, now that Mr. Clintons's out of the way, the Republicans are free to destroy both middle and lower classes and make the Billionaires richer. Why you would be proud of ruining the lives of millions of Americans, is beyond me. I guess you conservatives won't be happy until you drive the entire country bankrupt.
"I would be referring to the father of a soldier killed under Clintons debacle that refused to shake his hand before a live audience."
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 03:41 PM
I applaud that man for giving the President a piece of his mind when Mr. Clinton let him down. Conservatives can't wait to call Ms. Sheehan all kinds of tawdry and unseemly names just because she feels that the President has let us down (as do a majority of Americans). Only the CornCOB (Cult of Bush) element of this blog continues to worship Bush as a National Hero.
Here's what your hero Clinton did about terrorism in the 90's:
Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called "political prisoners."
However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands. The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released.
Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified.
#94
Robert,
I visted Suzanne Swifts website yesterday and signed the petition. I am losing faith in my military when they can't protect their own people from...their own people. We now have KKK infesting the military along with the predatory apes that have always been there. You know, how hard is it? A military person commits a crime (rape is a crime I think) and he goes to jail. Weed out the predators. Put them where they belong. Instead our military rewards them. Sick.
Nope. There are a few Republicans who have voted on the right side of the civil rights issues. If it bothers you to be called a Ku Kluxer, don't use racial epithets. your racism busts through whenever you start foaming at the corners of your mouth. Much like Factless, you probably don't need to hide your Klannish (or clownish) tendencies. Wave your flag. You 3 stooges can high five each other. We know what you really think.
By Panty waste
Like I told you before, you don't deserve the label "wetback" that Factchecker put on you. You haven't had to risk anything to get to this country or given anything back to this country. Someone called a "wetback" has risked everything to make a better life for themselves and their families. You just want to cry about it. Your more of a wetback wannabe.
Just as it is difficult for you to engage in discussions without cussing and name-calling,
What a fu**ing cry baby! WAAAAAAAA!
Factcheck has you pegged Pantywaste. Go back and change your diaper so you will quit your crying!!!
"What really happened is that Clinton didn't like the spending cuts that would balance the budget and wouldn't originally commit to a 7 yr plan."
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 04:12 PM
That's true. The timeline shows that he stood strong for the lower and middle class. And he did stand strong against tax cuts for Billionaires first proposed in the 90s
By cornfused pantywasted
Dude, you want it both ways, or make that three ways. Thanks for finally admitting that I was right about Clinton not wanting to balance the budget. That's one lie my you admitted. We'll keep working on the rest until you finally run out of lies.
You might want to research your silly talking points before spouting them cluelessly. The stock market correction of 2001 had nothing to do with phony accounting procedures. It was caused by overvalued tech stocks and ridiculously prices IPOs.
No shit? Overvalued tech stocks (phony numbers?)ridiculously priced IPO's (phony numbers?) At least you admit, again, that Clinton was the overseer of a phony stock market that went bust as he left office. Lie #2 exposed. keep it coming Panty!
Senator Al Gore of Tennessee was not a member of the United States Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition and therefore did not take part in the questioning of any witnesses before the Committee.
Your asinine screed was debunked YEARS AGO! Lies, lies, lies. You'd better update your GOP Talking Points Notebook.
Did you or did you not read the link I provided...
i doubt if that link in particular or even most links in general have been read - even if it/they have been read and even comprehended it matters little when it/they are ignored continually.
Dear Sweet Lord. What has become of the Conservative party? They use lies to refute the facts.
Is that how bad things have gotten for you Clueless? You can't face the fact that Terrorists run hog wild all over Republicans; so you start making shit up?
The Atta that was released by the FBI during Bush I's presidency wasn't the same Atta that attacked the WTC. The Atta that bombed the bus was released in 1990. It's the Republicans that are releasing the terrorists to kill again. Typical.
And the Terrorist that Ollie was talking about was Abu Nidal. NOT Osama. Two lies in a row? And you get to throw in a stupid lie about Al Gore to boot! You're on a roll!!
Please excuse my while I step out of my den and laugh my ass off. It'll give you a chance to dig up some more idiotic lies.
You are truly not as Clueless as I originally gave you credit for. You are purposely lying (again?) to make excuses for your tragic Hero Mr. Bush. You are no longer Clueless. You are a Truthless LIAR.
If you really didn't know that the crap you cut and paste is BS, I can cut you some slack and keep referring to you as clueless. Truthless or Clueless, either one is fine with me.
You obviously don't remember the S&L scandals that rocked the early 90s. Who brought us out of that recession? Big Dawg. And the hiccup in 2001 was about the same as the stock hiccup in '98. I don't see anybody making excuses for the '98 correction. Why? Because the Clinton Administration made sure that the Economy kept rolling (for everyone, not just the Billionaires). Typical Conservative whiny-tittybaby response to the flat market under Mr. Bush.
S & L scandals- you weren't even born yet! Thats funny!
Wrong again! Nice try though.We were already coming out of the recession before Clinton gave us the biggest tax increase in history. It was the Republicans that took over in 94 that kept him from becoming the worst President in history by bringing him to the table and signing WELFARE REFORM. Yes the big dawg stuck it to the poor and even took credit for it. Or, like forcing him to balancing the budget, which you already admitted lying about. Or the spending cuts combined with tax cuts that gave the big Dawg (who didn't want them) bragging rights over a great economy. Too bad he couldn't regulate that phony dot com bubble that you also admitting lying about and Bush wouldn't have had such a hard time correcting Big Dawgs mistakes. Maybe you should stick to that embarrassing support of Jamie Gorlick. It's the only subject you can lie about and no one cares, because it's so damn boring, like you!
You are truly not as Clueless as I originally gave you credit for. You are purposely lying (again?) to make excuses for your tragic Hero Mr. Bush. You are no longer Clueless. You are a Truthless LIAR.
You know it's true- Gores a dumbass, like you! That's proof enough.
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Moving along...
Posted by: Hajji at July 11, 2006 07:03 PM
Inside the beltway, it's "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. No evil here, nothin' to see, move along now, move along..."
Posted by: David B. Benson at July 11, 2006 07:13 PM
Who are you kiddin? All is evil in Cornnut land. That is why I'm here to cleanse the evil from progressive minds!
Posted by: LBH at July 11, 2006 07:22 PM
Sectarian Flames
It was just last month when President Bush assured the world that the situation in Iraq was dramatically improving. Sectarian tensions were going to relax as a result of Zarqawi's overly publicized death. As Bush put it bluntly, the death of Zarqawi served as "an opportunity for Iraq's new government to turn the tide in this struggle." But it's becoming painfully evident that Zarqawi, like Saddam's illusive WMDs, was just another creation of the US propaganda machine.
There were other times the White House attempted to paint the chaos in Iraq in a positive light. Remember when US armed forces annihilated Saddam's wretched sons Oday and Qusay? Or how about when they captured Saddam and promised things were starting to look up? At best these token events only served as minor diversions for most of the US media, not unlike the alleged thwarting of a terrorist attack on the Holland Tunnel in New York did late last week.
Over the weekend, Sunni and Shiite militias were said to be responsible for the deaths of more than 60 Iraqi civilians while injuring dozens more. Just another tranquil weekend in the streets of Baghdad. Rarely do we hear reports of what's going on outside the Green Zone, where the ethnically driven civil war is believed even worse.
On June 6, shortly before Zarqawi's death, the infamous blogger behind "Baghdad Burning" reported; "There's an ethnic cleansing in progress and it's impossible to deny. People are being killed according to their ID card ... We hear about Shia being killed in the Sunni triangle and corpses of Sunnis named Omar(a Sunni name) arriving by the dozen at the Baghdad morgue. I never thought I'd actually miss the car bombs. At least a car bomb is indiscriminate. It doesn't seek you out because you're Sunni or Shia."
Unfortunately, political opposition to the war is weak here in the United States. Washington supports an ongoing occupation, if it can even be called such a thing these days. Dissent is all but dead in DC, where candidates so-often flex their foreign policy muscle in fear that they'll be looked at as soft on terror.
But how could anyone reasonably argue that things were worse with Saddam at the helm? Iraq under US control is far more violent and malicious. Not that the US has any sort of legitimate control over the large country. In fact, the US is now just one of many armed militias in Iraq, truly unable to contain the exponentially increasing sectarian warfare. Every reservation critics of the war put on the table before the invasion is now coming true. Iraq is unwinnable, and the bloodshed is only being exacerbated by the presence of US military.
No matter how many troops the US and its allies shovel at the ever-growing sectarian flames, the fighting is sure to spread. The US military is only fueling the fire. And if there were ever a reason why the troops should be brought home immediately, this would be it.
More HERE
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Bring the troops home!
capt
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 07:25 PM
Another Pantywidth hero!
Dick ÔTurbanÕ Durbin Cares More For Bugs Than Soldiers
Publius' Forum ^ | 7/11/06 | Warner Todd Huston
My son went away to Iraq with the Illinois National Guard, last week. I, the proud papa of one of our brave men in uniform, stood in the bleachers at the General Richard L. Jones Armory in downtown Chicago on the morning of July 3rd watching as the boys of the 178th Infantry battalion (MPs) presented themselves to their relatives and ChicagoÕs media for the last time before they leave for duty in Iraq.
Republican candidate for governor, Judy Barr Topinka, was present and stayed for a while shaking hands and wishing the soldiers well. Every single TV news outlet attended to interview the boys for a segment on their nightly newscasts.
And where was Dick ÒTurbanÓ Durbin when the boys from Chicago were preparing to leave for Iraq?
Talking about bugs.
No, not the NSA, CIA, surveillance kind, I mean real bugs. Dick was touring nearby Kane county, Illinois looking for the emerald ash borer beetle that he is trying to get Federal funds to combat.
Obviously it was more important to be merely one county away looking for insects instead of making an appearance at the ceremony wishing bon voyage to the soldiers of the biggest city in his state.
Yes, apparently the ash borer beetle is more dangerous to America than are terrorists as far as Senator Dick is concerned.
In researching this beetle problem, I can agree that we Illinoisans need to try and stop their advance across the state. But, was it right to be only a few dozen miles from the soldierÕs farewell ceremony yet to eschew attendance to talk about bugs? No, they arenÕt that important.
Worse, the matter isnÕt even very pressing as to the funding issue, anyway. Durbin has said that the matter of Federal funding wonÕt be settled until the coming September! He certainly had the time to make a token visit to the soldierÕs ceremony, IÕd say.
So, once again, we see that Dick ÒTurbanÓ Durbin has his priorities clearly on display. The soldiers that he thinks are as bad as the enemy -- OUR soldiers -- are to be ignored as a bug takes first palce in DurbinÕs list of priorities.
Spending Federal funds on bugs or supporting our soldiers? The choice is clear for Durbin.
Senator Durbin, meet the beetles É but to heck with Beetle Bailey.
Posted by: LBH at July 11, 2006 07:27 PM
FEDERAL RESERVE POLICY DESTROYS THE VALUE OF YOUR SAVINGS
For years officials at the Federal Reserve Bank, including Chairman Bernanke himself, have assured us that inflation is under control and not a problem-- even as the price of housing, energy, medical care, school tuition, gold, and other commodities skyrockets.
The Treasury department parrots the Fed line that consumer prices, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), are under control. But even many mainstream economists now admit that CPI grossly understates true inflation. The most glaring problem is that CPI excludes housing prices, instead tracking rents. Everyone knows the cost of purchasing a home has increased dramatically in the last ten years; in many regions housing prices have more than doubled in just five years. So price inflation certainly is alive and well when to comes to the largest purchase most Americans make.
When the Federal Reserve increases the supply of dollars in circulation, both paper and electronic, prices must rise eventually. What other result it possible? The supply of dollars has risen much faster than the supply of goods and services being chased by those dollars. Fed policy makers have more than doubled the money supply in less than ten years. While Treasury printing presses can print unlimited dollars, there are natural limits to economic growth. This flood of newly minted US currency can only increase consumer prices in the long term.
Mr. Bernanke has stated quite candidly that he will use government printing presses to stimulate the economy as necessary. He is famous for joking that he would endorse dropping money from helicopters if needed to prevent an economic slowdown. This is nothing short of an express policy to destroy our money by inflation. Every new dollar erodes the value of existing dollars based on simple supply and demand. Does anyone really believe the Treasury can make us rich simply by printing more money?
The coming dollar crisis is not likely to be "fixed" by politicians who are unwilling to make hard choices, admit mistakes, and spend less money. Demographic trends will place even greater demands on Congress to maintain benefits for millions of older Americans who are dependent on the federal government.
Faced with uncomfortable financial realities, Congress will seek to avoid the day of reckoning by the most expedient means available-- and the Federal Reserve undoubtedly will accommodate Washington by printing more dollars to pay the bills. The Fed is the enabler for the spending addicts in Congress, who would rather spend new fiat money than face the political consequences of raising taxes or borrowing more abroad.
The irony is that many of the FedÕ³ biggest cheerleaders are the same supposed capitalists who denounced centralized economic planning when practiced by the former Soviet Union. Large banks and Wall Street firms love the FedÕ³ easy money policy, because they profit at the front end from the resulting loan boom and artificially high equity prices. ItÕ³ the little guy who loses when the inflated dollars finally trickle down to him and erode his buying power. Someday Americans will understand that Federal Reserve bankers have no magic ability-- and certainly no legal or moral right-- to decide how much money should exist and what the cost of borrowing money should be.
More HERE
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More truth about the failed policies of the fed and this WH. If the measure comes up wanting just change the way you measure.
SOB's.
capt
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 07:30 PM
Maybe if Clinton would've offered Osama a signed basketball by Michael Jordan, 9/11 wouldn't have happened?
Pandywidth's bragging rights here:
White House Blasts Clinton N.Korea Policy
By FOSTER KLUG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
The White House belittled former President Clinton's policy of direct engagement with North Korea on Monday, saying efforts to shower North Korean leader Kim Jong Il "with flowers and chocolates" failed.
White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters that Bill Richardson, who served as United Nations ambassador and Energy Secretary under Clinton, "went with flowers and chocolates, and he went with light- water nuclear reactors ... and a basketball signed by Michael Jordan and many other inducements for the 'dear leader' to try to agree not to develop nuclear weapons, and it failed."
Snow added, "We've learned from that mistake."
Posted by: LBH at July 11, 2006 07:33 PM
Senate Dem "Turbin" Dick Durbin says screw the troops bring the bugs home!
Posted by: LBH at July 11, 2006 07:36 PM
Robert Novak:
"In 2003, he identified Valerie Plame as a CIA operative in his column. Novak reported the information was provided to him by "senior administration officials."
In August 2004, after other journalists had reported on it, Novak admitted that his son, Alex Novak, is the Director of Marketing for the Swift Boat Veterans' publisher, Regnery Publishing. At the time he said that he didn't "think it relevant." Two months later Salon.com reported that Regnery's owner is also the publisher of Novak's own US$297 (annual rate) newsletter and that Novak is on the board of a foundation whose chief holdings are the stock of Regnery's parent company. [5]
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"senior administration officials." Or who's who, one has to be a lie, eh?
He is a just another (no-so) Swiftboat liar.
How big of a liar does one need to be to get one's self fired from CNN?
Whatever the size Novak qualifies.
capt
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 07:37 PM
David, I hear Ann Coulter included 780 footnotes to her *tome* "Scandal" -- must have been for heft because it certainly wasn't for scholarly purposes.
BTW, on the Hoekstra story: I was very impressed with your insight on that one.
Posted by: micki at July 11, 2006 07:49 PM
"senior administration officials." Or who's who, one has to be a lie, eh?
Nice try Capt, but Fitzpatrick didn't think so! I know it's embarrassing to admit that lying Joe could be such a dumbass but who can blame you when all your eggs are in his frog marchin basket.
Posted by: LBH at July 11, 2006 08:09 PM
KC mentioned the similarity in Appearance between Coulter and T. Petty. Frankly, I don't see it.
Micki, this is Coulter's idea of research.
I'm still giggling over Clueless and Factless' caterwauling over tagging Factless as a Ku Kluxer. Turns out it was all part of a plan. They planned to make me call them "racists" by directing racist epithets at me. Genius, I say.
Next, they'll visit a brothel so that I can call them "whore mongers." Then, they'll start dressing like women so that I can call them "cross-dressers." Then, they'll start selling secrets to Iran so that I can call them "traitors." All the while wailing about how intolerant I am. Genius, I say. Absolute Genius!
You guys are too freekin funny. Is this your idiotic version of Tuesday Night Funnies? If it is, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Kudos. And bringing Hapless along for the ride brings the full complement of Stooges to the Cornblog. Hey Hapless, Holla dude.
Posted by: Pandemoniac at July 11, 2006 08:18 PM
Novak Backs Off Pledge To Reveal All
On June 30, 2005, Robert Novak appeared on CNN with host Ed Henry and explained that while he could not answer questions about who in the administration gave him Plame's identity, he would soon "reveal all":
NOVAK: Well, that's what I can't reveal until this case is finished. I hope it is finished soon. And when it does . . . I will reveal all in a column and on the air.
In an op-ed on Human Events Online, Novak writes that Fitzgerald has cleared him and that "frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry." But Novak fails to "reveal all," as he earlier pledged, in at least two respects.
1. Novak refuses to identify his primary administration source who revealed to him that Valerie Plame worked at the CIA as an undercover agent. He confirms Karl Rove was his second senior administration source, and that CIA official Bill Harlow served as a confirming source. But Novak writes his primary source's name "has not yet been revealed" and "has not come forward to identify himself."
2. Novak also did not explain why he earlier said he was given Plame's identity by the White House as part of an effort to intentionally out her. He said: "I didn't dig it out [Plame's identity], it was given to me They [the White House] thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it." In his latest op-ed, Novak fails to address this issue, and states simply that Plame's "role in instituting her husband's mission was revealed to me in the middle of a long interview with an official who I have previously said was not a political gunslinger."
More HERE
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Not even a good liar, not a man of his word. No credibility. (just like some that post here, eh?)
Just more distraction, but good try.
capt
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 08:22 PM
Choked on a pretzel because he forgot he was chewing. That is sooooo funny.
Posted by: Jeanne at July 11, 2006 08:25 PM
#12
Copying machine!!!! I can't stand this. And she has a team helping her. I wonder if she's paying minimum wage or if she convinced her relatives to do it for free.
I love those little pictures.
Posted by: Jeanne at July 11, 2006 08:28 PM
Think Fast!
A Treasury Department analysis "presented in the Mid-Session Review itself confirms what outside experts have consistently said - "tax cuts do not come remotely close to paying for themselves."
Conservatives are outraged that a strict new immigration bill in Colorado still allows children to receive public assistance like food and healthcare: "We're helping create the next generation of terrorists," said Rep. Debbie Stafford, R-Aurora.
Spencer Ackerman on the Pentagon's claim that U.S. military detainees are now protected by the Geneva Conventions: "The very obvious loophole is what will happen to detainees outside of U.S. military custody as in CIA custody, such as the so-called black sites, where Geneva is a sick joke."
Michael Savage: "Liberalism is, in essence, the HIV virus."
There is as much wind power potential off our coasts "as the current capacity of all power plants in the United States combined," according to a new report sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and General Electric.
"Don't believe Social Security phase-out is coming down the pike again next year?" Read this.
And finally: Watch incredible video from a camera attached to a Orbiter Shuttle rocket booster both the ascent and descent (complete with parachute ocean landing) are caught on tape.
More HERE
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A bunch of good stuff!
capt
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 08:31 PM
"When they came for the Branch Davidians, we did not say anything because we were not Branch Davidians." -- Doug Newman
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"When the rights of just one individual are denied, the rights of all are in jeopardy!" -- Jo Ann Roach
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"No one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. Therefore everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interests of everyone hang on the result." -- Ludwig von Mises
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Thanks ICH Newstletter!
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 08:32 PM
Ok,
Now I'm reading that the White House wants the tribunals restored because they are willing to restore the minimum in Geneva Convention rights.
How does that work? Weren't the rights of the Geneva Convention mandated?
Posted by: Jeanne at July 11, 2006 08:33 PM
Feeding and providing healthcare to children breeds terrorists. How? American History tells me it breeds good hardworking citizens if you add education and opportunity. But what do I know?
Posted by: Jeanne at July 11, 2006 08:36 PM
I think we can reduce the Bush presidency to this headline. It says it all.
Almost five years after 9/11, Homeland Security list of nat'l critical assets includes 'ice cream parlor,' Sears Auto Center
Close to five years after 9/11, a Homeland Security list of national critical assets is still unreliable, and includes entries such as an 'ice cream parlor' and a Sears Auto Center, according to an article set for Wednesday's New York Times.
"Nearly five years after the 2001 attacks, the Department of Homeland Security still has been unable to produce a reliable list of critical national assets, considered a fundamental first step in developing a risk-based domestic security system, a new report by the inspector general has concluded," writes Eric Lipton.
"The report cited lists that include such inexplicable entries as an ice cream parlor and a Sears Auto Center and inequities such as the 8,591 entries for the state of Indiana, compared to 5,687 for New York and 3,212 for California," the article continues.
"Homeland Security officials themselves, interviewed by the investigators, agreed that the older data in the inventory -- entered starting in 2003 -- "was of low quality and that they had little faith in it," the report says," Lipton writes.
"But this is the database the government is supposed to use to help divvy up the hundreds of millions of dollars in anti-terrorism grants it distributes each year," writes Lipton.
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I guess NY City doesn't have enough ice cream parlors.
Posted by: Jeanne at July 11, 2006 08:45 PM
US Judge to Rule on Legality of Warrantless Wiretaps
In a motion, the department argued that "The United States submits that the actions authorized by the President are essential to meeting a continuing and grave foreign terrorist threat and are well within lawful bounds."
It argued that to demonstrate this "would require evidence that must be excluded from consideration under the military and states secrets privilege" and as a result the judge should throw out the case in order to avoid "grave harm to the national security of the United States."
The ACLU argued that the existence of the program was far from a secret: it has already acknowledged and defended the spying program to the public and issued a 40-page paper discussing in detail its legal defenses and justifications in January.
"If the court accepts the government's state secrets argument we would be facing a constitutional crisis because the government is essentially arguing it can ignore the law and is thumbing its nose at the constitution and the courts can't do anything about it because it's a secret program," Steinberg said. "There's no conceivable end to this argument."
Steinberg said the ACLU's case was strengthened by the recent ruling over the Guantanamo tribunals, which reaffirmed that the president does not have unlimited authority to act without Congressional approval during its "war on terror."
More HERE
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There is nothing wrong with wiretaps or any kind of surveillance provided there is a warrant. It is only the illegal wiretaps that break the law that must stop or we are no longer a nation of laws.
Any law enforcement officer or agent can get a warrant from the court on "probable cause by oath or affirmation" without breaking the law.
They can search and wiretap WITH a warrant and they can get a FISA warrant BEFORE they have to go in front of a FISA judge in "secret" FISA courts.
That is not constitutional and the FISA court should not exist.
capt
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 08:59 PM
From the Monty Python news service.
Wal-Mart staff ordered to search store after bomb threat: report
ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, QUE. Ñ Managers at a local Wal-Mart forced employees to search the store after it received a bomb threat, Radio-Canada reported Monday.
Some 40 nervous employees searched the store for an hour last Thursday, said Mailie Fournier, a former employee of the store. They were accompanied by six police officers.
Several employees, whose jobs don't include security, found the experience traumatic, said Mr. Fournier.
The incident prompted Quebec workplace health and safety board to investigate.
Wal-Mart said it simply wanted to help police conduct the search.
According to police, the store didn't violate any laws and only had an obligation to evacuate the store if a suspicious object was found.
Customers in the store about 60 kilometres east of Montreal were, nonetheless, asked to leave the premises.
Nothing suspicious was found.
Posted by: Jeanne at July 11, 2006 09:00 PM
See over at Taylor's
http://www.taylormarsh.com/
Posted by: Wimpy at July 11, 2006 09:02 PM
Mmmmmm
Ice Cream (you had to post about ice cream?)
capt
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 09:07 PM
Well, maybe it is a critical asset.
Posted by: Jeanne at July 11, 2006 09:18 PM
The Politics of Greed
"Anyone who doesn't think this is a country where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer needs to check the numbers-this is Bush country, where a rising tide lifts all yachts."
One in four U.S. jobs pays less than a poverty-level income.
Since 2000, the number of Americans living below the poverty line at any one time has risen steadily. Now, 13 percent 7 million Americans are officially poor.
Bush's tax cuts (extended until 2010) save those earning between $20,000 and $30,000 an average of $10 a year, while those making $1 million are saved $42,700.
In 2002, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, compared those who point out such statistics as the one above to Adolph Hitler (surely he meant Stalin?).
Bush has diverted $750 million to "healthy marriages" by shifting funds from social services, mostly childcare.
Bush has proposed cutting housing programs for low-income people with disabilities by 50 percent.
A series of related stats starting with the news that two out of three new jobs are in the suburbs shows how the poor are further disadvantaged in the job hunt by lack of public or private transportation.
Meanwhile, for those who have been following the collapse of the pension system, please note a series in The Wall Street Journal by Ellen Schultz taking a hard look at executive pension obligations:
"Benefits for executives now account for a significant share of pension obligations in the United States, an average of 8 percent (of large companies). Sometimes a company's obligation for a single executive's pension approaches $100 million."
"These liabilities are largely hidden, because corporations don't distinguish them from overall pension obligations in their federal financial findings."
"As a result, the savings that companies make by curtailing pensions of regular retirees which have totaled billions of dollars in recent years can mask a rising cost of benefits for executives."
"Executive pensions, even when they won't be paid until years from now, drag down the earnings today. And they do so in a way that's disproportionate to their size, because they aren't funded with dedicated assets."
More HERE
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 09:21 PM
Afghan children robbed of education
THE resumption of regular schooling - especially for girls - has been one of the more uplifting aspects of Afghanistan's reconstruction, but Taliban brutality and crony greed are forcing thousands to stay at home in fear for their lives or to face years in front of the blackboard in dilapidated tents.
More than 200 schools have been attacked since early last year and according to Human Rights Watch the attacks have left entire districts without schools, teachers and educational aid groups.
A senior education official in Kabul named three senior establishment members among "influential figures" whose involvement in land grabs around the capital had blocked the building of 20 schools for which international funds had been allocated.
The media has reported extensively on educational advances in Afghanistan, but an investigation published by the human rights group yesterday says the majority of girls in the country are still not at school and one-third of districts do not have girls' schools.
More HERE
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Seems once again, we should have finished the one before failing at the other.
capt
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 09:27 PM
Mmmmmm crispy baskets
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 09:28 PM
20jeanne
I guess NY City doesn't have enough ice cream parlors.
evidently it has more than all of california!
Posted by: spy on this! at July 11, 2006 09:29 PM
The Four Most Overpaid White House Staffers
Today the National Journal published a list of salaries for the 403 White House staffers. Here are the four most overpaid:
Deborah Nirmala Misir Ethics Advisor $114,688
Erica M. Dornburg Ethics Advisor $100,547
Stuart Baker Director for Lessons Learned $106,641
Melissa M. Carson Director of Fact Checking $46,500
And yes, there is a White House Director for Lessons Learned. We aren't making this up.
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Lessons learned. Don't shoot your friend in the face. That's the only lesson I know of that has been learned in this presidency.
Posted by: Jeanne at July 11, 2006 09:33 PM
I learned (once again) that the Republicans are the most corrupt bunch of effin liars to ever start a dictatorship and still cannot run a country (except into the ground).
capt
Posted by: capt at July 11, 2006 09:37 PM
The headlines I've read today are completely nuts. Where does congress and the white house get off? This is disgusting.
Top White House Staffers Pocket $4,200 Raise, Fight $2 Minimum Wage Increase
This year the highest paid staffers in the White House Ð including Karl Rove, Dan Bartlett and Steven Hadley Ð got a cost-of-living adjustment of $4,200, boosting their total salary to $165,200.
Meanwhile, the White House is backing Congressional efforts to beat back a modest increase in the minimum wage for the lowest paid Americans for the first time since 1997. Here's a press release issued today by Rep. George Miller (D-CA):
For the fifth time in less than two weeks, Republicans in the House of Representatives today voted to block a vote on legislation to increase the national minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour...
A full-time minimum wage worker earns just $10,712 per year - which is $5,888 less than the $16,600 needed to lift a family of three above the federal poverty threshold...The minimum wage is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, when adjusted for inflation. Congress has not raised the federal minimum wage since 1997.
Posted by: Jeanne at July 11, 2006 09:44 PM
And I've learned that Liberals and Democrats are mostly effin liars who only wish that the Republicans could run this country into the ground as good as they do. Liberals are so full of "down with America" rhetoric it is a wonder this country has survived as long as it has. Oh yeah, I forgot. The majority of Americans are not effin Liberals!
Posted by: emmerson at July 11, 2006 09:45 PM
emmerson! what are you doing here moron? what happened to LBH?
Posted by: spy on this! at July 11, 2006 09:54 PM
Spy,
Hey Moron! What do I have to do with LBH?
Posted by: emmerson at July 11, 2006 09:55 PM
driftglass.blogspot.com
shakespearessister.blogspot.com
Give it up, my friends. This blog will never be fumigated of the short-bus riders.
Back to mining NaCl, KC
Posted by: Kid Charlemagne at July 11, 2006 10:16 PM
182 Last Thread
Posted by: Happy on Plame-Gate at July 11, 2006 06:26 PM
My Leak Case Testimony
by Robert Novak
Posted Jul 11, 2006
(Last 3 paragraphs only....for full article, see Last Thread)
In my sworn testimony, I said what I have contended in my columns and on television: Joe Wilson's wife's role in instituting her husband's mission was revealed to me in the middle of a long interview with an official who I have previously said was not a political gunslinger. After the federal investigation was announced, he told me through a third party that the disclosure was inadvertent on his part.
Following my interview with the primary source, I sought out the second administration official and the CIA spokesman for confirmation. I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in "Who's Who in America."
I considered his wife's role in initiating Wilson's mission, later confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, to be a previously undisclosed part of an important news story. I reported it on that basis.
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Much likely to be written tomorrow on Novak's revelations. David is also likely to take a shot at it!
All you Cornuts have to admit that I can set off `Happy' ripples for hours on end, often for days, after an AUTHENTIC Happy post! Happy (fakes) are definitely prominent on this site! My living legacy and LASTING gift to you Cornuts! You too, David!
Posted by: Happy moving along at July 11, 2006 10:20 PM
I'd follow you over there KC but I did once and saw Saladin posting there and I was accused of stalking her by a Cornnut. Don't want to go there. As a matter of fact, don't want to go here. Effin Liberals!
Posted by: emmerson at July 11, 2006 10:30 PM
syd barrett, co-founder of pink floyd has died.
Posted by: spy on this! at July 11, 2006 10:42 PM
I agree
Posted by: Online Sports Betting at July 11, 2006 10:43 PM
y son went away to Iraq with the Illinois National Guard, last week. I, the proud papa of one of our brave men in uniform, stood in the bleachers at the General Richard L. Jones Armory in downtown Chicago on the morning of July 3rd watching as the boys of the 178th Infantry battalion (MPs) presented themselves to their relatives and ChicagoÕs media for the last time before they leave for duty in Iraq.
Posted by: Top Online Sportsbook at July 11, 2006 10:44 PM
I bet Pink Floyd is pretty sad. How come Pink didn't have the same last name as his dad? Is Mrs. Barrett still alive, the other co-founder?
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Posted by: Joe at July 11, 2006 10:46 PM
Liberals are so full of "down with America" rhetoric
Liberals love this country; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Liberals love the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. To liberals, the Constitution is not just a piece of paper; to liberals the Geneva Convention is not "quaint."
Liberals disagree with the values of compassionate conservatives,the policy of pre-emptive warfare, and the portfolio of policies that favor corporations and the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and "the greater good."
emmerson has a big fat lying mouth in is big fat keg-shaped head.
Posted by: Happy knows an enemy of the State at July 11, 2006 10:52 PM
Thank you, Happy.
Posted by: emmerson at July 11, 2006 11:00 PM
Happy One has trouble differentiating real from fake and first from second. All the Happy posters are real. Only one threatened to leave unless others complied with his request. My three year-old did that once at the supermarket. Once.
Say good night Gracie.
Good night Gracie.
Posted by: Happy Two provide perspective at July 11, 2006 11:02 PM
45 anytime.
Big time.
I'm on my way
I'm making it.
Big time.
Posted by: Happy learns LBH sumptin at July 11, 2006 11:06 PM
Here's to hoping you make it!
Posted by: emmerson at July 11, 2006 11:10 PM
My parties have all big names
And I greet them with the widest smile
Tell them how my life is one big adventure
And always they're amazed
When I show them round my house to my bed
I had it made like a mountain range
With a snow-white pillow for my big fat head
Posted by: Happy learns LBH sumptin at July 11, 2006 11:17 PM
leno or lettermen
chocolate or vanilla
jello or pudding
peaches or cream
hiking or skiing
sailing or boating
Good night everybody. I'll be here until Sunday. Try the veal.
Posted by: Happy learns LBH sumptin at July 11, 2006 11:22 PM
I'm joining you. Time for the Gerald/Capt show.
Posted by: emmerson at July 11, 2006 11:25 PM
#12 Senor Pande! Ya think her research is THAT thorough? LOL.
Posted by: micki at July 11, 2006 11:35 PM
#15 Relatives? I want to see a current pic of her with her Mom and Dad and siblings. I want to hear her mom come out and vouch for her and offer definitive DNA.
Hmmmm...maybe, she's the REASON, the busheviks are so against embryonic stem cell research. She's a product of early (embyronic) tests gone awry.
But, I'm not a scientist...capt, get us an article about this, wouldja? Dr. B may have some thoughts, too. ;-)
Posted by: micki at July 11, 2006 11:43 PM
Jeanne, if you do a google search for b**b threats and wal-mart, you'll find that the paragon of big box capitalism has been the target of many such threats --including various spots in Canada, Arkansas, Oregon, Michigan, etc. -- perhaps, a willingness to search for the b**bs is now a prerequisite for hiring?
Posted by: micki at July 12, 2006 12:04 AM
53micki
are you referring to ms. coulter?
here is some dirt on the poor gal:
strap-on veterans for truth
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b**b threats?
b**bs slotmachine
Posted by: spy on this! at July 12, 2006 12:37 AM
sorry jeanne i just couldn't stop myself
Posted by: spy on this! at July 12, 2006 12:38 AM
Here is what awaits the disciples of Nazism
Posted by: Gerald at July 12, 2006 12:40 AM
I need my sleep. The FAIR AND BALANCED SHOW OF GERALD will commence tomorrow, God willing.
Posted by: Gerald at July 12, 2006 12:46 AM
#4 Capt
Here, here. Bring the troops home.
Capt. and all,
Here is Novak's revelation, finally, just out:
Novak: Rove Was a Source in Outing Plame
Columnist Robert Novak said publicaly for the first time Tuesday that White House political advisor Karl Rove was a source for his story outing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
In a column Novak also says his recollection of his conversation with Rove differs from what the Rove camp has said.
Posted by: Carey at July 12, 2006 01:21 AM
Capt & Jeanne
I saw the John Dean interview with K. Olbermann. Fascinating. My brother (in-law) heard Randi Rhodes read some passages from his book, Conservatives Without A Conscience today. He can't wait to get the book. I didn't even have to tell him to. (I direct him to buy certain books and then I get them after he finishes reading. It's a great setup.)
Posted by: Carey at July 12, 2006 01:40 AM
Capt. Regarding the Federal Reserve article you posted, I read somewhere that a certain great historian whose name, of course, I can't remember, predicted that the 21st century would be a century of polar upheaval and catastrophic economic ups and downs.
Sounds about right doesn't it? What with global warming and all breathing heavily down our necks.
Stay tuned for another article I've just found that is guaranteed to pique interest in the global warming crisis. It involves drinking. I'll post it tomorrow for maximum audience effect.
I'll say good night now. Looking forward to another day of going through dusty archives and closets. This is a large house, damn it. In a way, I can't wait to move into something smaller. Still, I'll miss my parent's (and the family's) old home and gardens. It was built in 1957 and has never known another family. It never will. The land is what is of value here in La Jolla. The house will be torn down to make way for another monstrosity of the kind that keeps popping up all over La Jolla now. Where do people get this kind of money??? And who, in their right mind would waste all of that money on god-awful, ugly, gigantic showplaces that have no redeeming taste at all? Bush people! Republicans! That's who.
Posted by: Carey at July 12, 2006 02:03 AM
"When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect Ñ but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate Ñ may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical Ñ always think for yourself."
Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker (2001) by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager
Pauling is the only person ever to receive a nobel prize in two different fields - peace and chemistry
Posted by: spy on this! at July 12, 2006 03:01 AM
ALERT!
MOUNTING EVIDENCE suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of autism, attention deficit disorder, speech delays, and other childhood neurological disorders now epidemic in the United States.
Posted by: spy on this! at July 12, 2006 03:08 AM
Rove told Novak?
Knock me over with a feather, who would have thunk it?
HA!
capt
Posted by: capt at July 12, 2006 08:58 AM
Rove played key role in leak
Now that Karl Rove won't be indicted, now that the president won't fire him, now that it really doesn't matter anymore, more details of the Valerie Plame leak investigation trickle out.
In his latest syndicated column released Wednesday, columnist Robert Novak revealed his side of the story in the Plame affair, saying Rove was a confirming source for Novak's story outing the CIA officer, underscoring Rove's role in a leak President Bush once promised to punish.
The columnist said he learned of Plame's CIA employment from a source he still refuses to publicly identify, and then confirmed with Rove and then-CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, whose roles in talking to Novak have been previously reported.
Novak said for the first time that prosecutors looking into the leaks already knew his sources when he agreed to disclose them.
Novak comes late to the Plame game, long after several other reporters talked publicly about the involvement of Rove and of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, in leaking the CIA identity of the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson. Novak says he kept his mouth shut so long because prosecutors asked him to.
A month ago, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said he didn't anticipate seeking charges against Rove. Novak wrote that, more recently, Fitzgerald told his lawyer that after 2 1/2 years his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to Novak has been concluded, freeing him to talk now.
Triggering the criminal investigation that resulted in Libby being charged with perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI, Novak revealed Plame's CIA employment on July 14, 2003, eight days after her husband went on the attack against the Bush administration.
Initially refusing to identify his sources to the FBI, Novak knew that Fitzgerald had obtained signed waivers from every official who might have provided Novak information about Plame. Despite that, Novak was prepared to resist. He says he relented in early 2004 when it became clear that Fitzgerald "knew the names of my sources."
Novak could still have protected his sources, but his lawyer told him "I was sure to lose a case in the courts at great expense."
More HERE
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What a crock? Why would Fitzgerald let Rove walk? Why would the prez lie (well that is a given).
What a pack of mindless criminal jerks.
capt
Posted by: capt at July 12, 2006 09:15 AM
Never fear, folks. The Department of Homeland Security is protecting you.
Posted by: Don at July 12, 2006 09:15 AM
Dean was the guest on Jon Stewart last night. They talked about his new book. He described himself as a Goldwater conservative - no liberal he. I think there are a lot conservatives like Dean who think the conservative movement is on the wrong track, not irrevocably but no signs of leader who will reclaim it. Dean thinks conservatism has been greatly harmed by authoritarianism in the executive office and the sheeple who in this country that will follow it BLINDLY.
It's refreshing to hear a principled critique of the presidency from a conservative with some integrity rather than the blather regurgitated by Bush cultists.
Posted by: O'Reilly at July 12, 2006 09:38 AM
A month ago, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said he didn't anticipate seeking charges against Rove. Novak wrote that, more recently, Fitzgerald told his lawyer that after 2 1/2 years his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to Novak has been concluded, freeing him to talk now.
We know Rove told Novak and Cooper then lied to FBI investigators and the grand jury.
We believe Rove was indicted under a sealed indictment. Within weeks of the indictment, we believe Fitz faxed Rove's attorney a letter, which Luskin announced as a evidence Rove will not be indicted. If that was the entire letter said, then Rove's attorney would have shared it, We believe the letter said more.
In return for no indictment, Rove will turn states evidence on Cheney. Bush will step in for the sake of the country, and give Cheney clemency, and while he's at it, give Libby clemency too. Liberals will take to the street and demand accountability in government
Posted by: O'Reilly at July 12, 2006 09:54 AM
Israeli Troops Move Into Southern Lebanon
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SIDON, Lebanon, July 12 -- The militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers along the Israel-Lebanon border Wednesday morning, and Israeli officials said seven more soldiers were killed after tanks and troops moved into Lebanon in response to the attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the abduction of the soldiers an "act of war" and said Hezbollah would pay a "heavy price," the Associated Press reported. The kidnappings follow the June 25 capture by Palestinian gunmen of an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip.
In southern Lebanon, fighter jets bombed five bridges in quick succession, effectively cutting off that region from the rest of the country, civil defense officials said. At least two Lebanese civilians were killed in one of the bridge strikes, and a power plant was badly damaged.
Air strikes hit the cities of Marjuyun and Kfar Shouba. Warships were shelling Lebanon, Israeli news agencies reported, and witnesses said Katyusha rockets were being fired from the western part of the border into Israel, close to the Mediterranean Sea.
Scores of suddenly stranded Lebanese wandered back roads looking for a way home -- their faces grim and worried, their belongings stuffed into plastic bags. Sirens wailed in the background.
The attacks and counterattacks are sure to escalate tensions along a border that often serves as a battlefield between Hezbollah militias and the Israeli army. But the sense of unease and fear was mixed with resignation from people who have known peace only rarely. Many also said they were elated at the capture of the soldiers by Hezbollah, which for years has effectively controlled this region.
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Everybody knows how hard it is to fold up a "Roadmap"...
-T
Posted by: Hajji at July 12, 2006 10:03 AM
Continued
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Early this morning, before the situation exploded in Lebanon, Israel expanded its military offensive in Gaza, dropping a quarter-ton bomb on a house in Gaza City. Israeli officials said they targeted the house based on information that senior Palestinian gunmen were meeting there to plan a terrorist attack.
The huge explosion destroyed the house of Hamas activist Nabil Abu Salmiyeh, a lecturer at Gaza City's Islamic University, killing him, his wife and seven of their nine children, the Associated Press reported. Rescue workers said four people were still missing, and 37 were wounded, according to the wire service. The dead children ranged in age from 4 to 18.
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Ok, now send jets to actually bomb the Syrian President's house...then go bomb something (anything, doesn't matter) in IRAN...and the whirlpool will suck everything in the region down!
Posted by: Hajji at July 12, 2006 10:07 AM
O'Reilly,
..."Liberals will take to the street and demand accountability in government."
Other than that, spot on.
-T
Posted by: Hajji at July 12, 2006 10:09 AM
What a crock!
They are just in a holding pattern until after they steal the midterms. Then Pardons for all!
Don, you know the terrorist watch list had PETA and other "eco-terrorists" but no neo-nazi or "white-supremacists" on the list.
ANOTHER CROCK!
I guess we are safe from those animal activists!
capt
Posted by: capt at July 12, 2006 10:13 AM
PDA to be among the organizations to table at Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Historic "Freedom of Speech '06 Tour," running now through Sept. 10
PDA TO REGISTER VOTERS AND INFORM CONCERT-GOERS ABOUT PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES AND ISSUES
Legendary rock and roll super group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's North American "Freedom Of Speech 06 Tour" launched on July 6, and along with delivering great music at major shows running through mid-September, the tour provides a vital forum to educate concert attendees about critical social, political and environmental issues. Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) is proud to be among the groups participating in the Free Speech Zone table area that will be prominently featured at every CSNY tour date.
PDA is a large collective of committed grassroots activists from across the country who support other progressive grassroots activists locally. PDA's mission is to carry the progressive agenda from the American grassroots to Congress to help guide the development of progressive legislation, fight for its passage into law and support the realization of progressive policies at the state and local levels. Local PDA activists will table at the Freedom of Speech 06 concerts to register voters, inform concert attendees about PDA-endorsed candidates in the area and sign up volunteers to take part in working groups related to progressive causes.
PDA Executive Director Tim Carpenter commented, "We're very happy to go on the road and advocate on behalf of progressive ideas, policies and candidates throughout the CSNY tour. It's great when artists are out there using their influence to speak to the most pressing issues of our time. The message of their music is inspiring to us in our work."
More HERE
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Okay, I would be a liar if I said I was not excited about a CSNY concert! WOO HOO!
capt
Posted by: capt at July 12, 2006 10:21 AM
Looks like the same old, same old on the blog today, the reich wing nuts blathering their same stupid crap. Support the troops, wave the flag, trash talk anyone that sees the reality of this fiasco. But notice not one volunteer on the right, go to the VA volunteer to wheel those faithful troops around to their appointments, listen to them talk about how they have been abandoned when they return home. Typical right wing crap support the troops, until they come home wounded. Plea for babies until they are born, restrict rights for all in the name of psuedo security, and by the way show the world what a bunch of dumbasses they are. Yep, you deserve each other, enjoy your new lifestyle that is on the way. Eat this!!!
Posted by: What the F**k at July 12, 2006 10:27 AM
New Poll -- GOPhers Not Worried
A new poll indicates bush is losing support among a key group of voters who had stood firmly with him even as his poll numbers among other groups fell dramatically.
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The new poll shows that, for the first time, bush's approval rating has fallen below 50% among total fucking morons, and now stands at 44%. This represents a dramatic drop compared to a poll taken just last December, when 62% of total fucking morons expressed support for the president and his policies.
Not all Republican lawmakers are concerned about the poll. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) does not find it a cause for anxiety. While he agrees that the GOP should not take total fucking morons for granted, they "really don't have anywhere else to go. They're never going to be able to understand someone like Al Gore or John Kerry or anybody intelligent. Just try having a conversation with one of them about global warming. They'll say, 'Oh, but Rush says volcanoes consume more ozone than humans do.' "
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"They've got nowhere else to go," Alexander reaffirms with a smile, "and they always vote."
Karl Rove, the chief GOP strategist who is credited with being a political genius, said, "We will be talking about flag-burning homosexual illegal immigrants who don't speak English and treasonous reporters."
Posted by: micki at July 12, 2006 10:34 AM
Hey! When you google CSN&Y Freedom of Speach Tour, you get
How I Pissed Off a Key Bush Aide
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August of 2004 posts, on review, we sure seem like a more mature, more engaging and "kinder and gentler bunch of bloggers, then." Some familiar handles and themes, but a lot more respectful...
What a difference 2 years makes!
-T
Posted by: Hajji at July 12, 2006 10:34 AM
..."I am on this website to be the truth police..."
-Tim L, 8/04
Hardeeharhar!
-T
Posted by: Hajji at July 12, 2006 10:37 AM
#52, Micki, spark up the Xerox and Ms. Coulter's got a new book. Why would she bother her pretty little head over research?
Capt. #26, the pension-busting done by the greedheads was documented in the Wall Street Journal. I guess that's why the real Journos at the WSJ can't stand the idiotorial pages ruining their reputation. They feel like they're getting stabbed in the back.
O'Reilly. Dean is hilarious. Watching a Republican skewer the criminals in the Bush Administration is like watching the running of the Bulls in Pamplona. Lotsa drama.
Speaking of Drama. I was watching CSPAN's coverage of the Senate Committee (Judiciary?) that was reviewing the SCOTUS's Hamdan decision and how it should change public policy. They had a panel of Legal scholars and "experts" to testify. It was a fairly evenly divided panel: a couple of lefties, a couple of righties and a couple of down the middle military types. They had former solicitor general Olson (husband of that blonde FauxNews lady who died on the plane going to DC on 911). They had the Dean of the Yale Law Dept., the guy who wrote the Military Commissions ideas for the Bush Team, Hamdan's lawyer Swift, An AF Jag dude.
It was very evident from the panel that the reason that the Bush DOJ is constantly getting punked is because they are a bunch of legal lightweights. They were, I must say, direct, modest, forthright, but they were a bunch of mumbling, stuttering goofs. The liberals on the panel talked circles around them and directed a fair amount of snark at the Conservatives. It was eerily similar to the exchanges that we have here with the Bush-oisie. I felt particularly bad for the Olson guy. He seemed like a very nice person, not very smart, but polite to a fault.
What I found particularly amusing about the hearing was Lindsay Graham (R-Hajji) grilling the government shill who was defending the Bush Administration's refusal to grant enemy combatants the basic rights granted by the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Sen. Hatch (R-Mormonia) had to intervene to keep Graham from throttling the guy. Even funnier was when Leahy went after him. This was the exchange (Via ThinkProgress):
LEAHY: The president has said very specifically, and he’s said it to our European allies, he’s waiting for the Supreme Court decision to tell him whether or not he was supposed to close Guantanamo or not. After, he said it upheld his position on Guantanamo, and in fact it said neither. Where did he get that impression? The President’s not a lawyer, you are, the Justice Department advised him. Did you give him such a cockamamie idea or what?
BRADBURY: Well, I try not to give anybody cockamamie ideas.
LEAHY: Well, where’d he get the idea?
BRADBURY: The Hamdan decision, senator, does implicitly recognize we’re in a war, that the President’s war powers were triggered by the attacks on the country, and that law of war paradigm applies. That’s what the whole case —
LEAHY: I don’t think the President was talking about the nuances of the law of war paradigm, he was saying this was going to tell him that he could keep Guantanamo open or not, after it said he could.
BRADBURY: Well, it’s not —
LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong?
BRABURY: It’s under the law of war –
LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong?
BRADBURY: The President is ALWAYS RIGHT.
Heh, indeedy.
Posted by: Pandemoniac at July 12, 2006 10:53 AM
71 ...fomented on DavidCorn.com and spread into a nationwide movement.
Posted by: O'Reilly at July 12, 2006 11:03 AM
capt 73
I just saw them last night in Toronto. This is a concert you dont want to miss.
Posted by: paul at July 12, 2006 11:03 AM
73 I saw them perform five years ago with Neil Young. It was awesome. They played both CSN and Neil Young songs... southern cross, cinnamon girl. Neil Young stole the show. It was great.
Posted by: O'Reilly at July 12, 2006 11:08 AM
With pardons to the person who previously posted about this -- DRINKINGLIBERALLY -- here is a site that will take you to a place to *drink liberally* in your neck of the woods.
Spy! Was it you who first posted about this. BTW, Spy!, where do you find that stuff you link??? (Such as above.)
Pande, you're always so polite with the Mr. and the Ms. and the honorifics! You should be in politics!
Posted by: micki at July 12, 2006 11:08 AM
Ice cream, excuse me, I seen you lookin' good the other evening - Syd Barret
And speaking of ice cream, on today's Washingtoon Journal was none other than Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame. He did a demonstration involving b.b.s poured into a metal bowel, each one representing the nuclear megatonnage of 15 Hiroshimas... and the pouring of the b.b.s was done as a representation of the total U.S. nuclear weaponry.
The good news is that the first time I saw this demonstration in 1987 - aboard the Sloop Clearwater where I was a mate of the month - the freakin' b.b.s never stopped for minutes.
Now, they only lasted a minute or so, but the demonstration was no less dramatic. Anyway, Ben and Jerry's has a new flavor coming out, American Pie a portion of the proceeds of which are to be used to promote:
Tell Congress to...
Step up and deliver a budget that supports our children as well as our national defense.
Re-order Federal spending priorities to ensure that America's children get a bigger slice of the pie.
Ice cream, excuse me, I seen you lookin' good the other evening...
Bye Syd, the madcap has the last laugh.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at July 12, 2006 11:15 AM
78 Thanks for the briefing on the hearings Pande. Was Kennedy (D-People's Republic of Cambridge) at the hearings? Just curious.
I've been distracted from politics by watching Le Tour de France and catching up on work in the afternoon. Go Team Discovery!
Posted by: O'Reilly at July 12, 2006 11:16 AM
Dear Center Supporter,
I want to make sure you are aware of the latest threat uncovered by the Center's Intelligence Project.
We've just issued a report documenting how the U.S. military, under pressure to meet manpower goals for the war in Iraq, relaxed standards to weed out racist extremists.
Center President and CEO Richard Cohen delivered a letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld calling for a zero-tolerance policy regarding racist extremism in the U.S. military.
Read the report and the letter. HERE
Twenty years ago, the Center's work prompted the Defense Department to issue the first regulations aimed at white supremacists in the military. Please help us convince Secretary Rumsfeld that he must again address this issue and put a stop to racist activity in our armed forces.
Send him a letter, asking for a zero-tolerance policy toward racist extremism in the military. We have a letter available for download. SAMPLE LETTER HERE
The New York Times also published an article about hate in the military, which stemmed directly from the Center's investigative work.
Thank you for standing with us in this vital effort to fight hate and extremism in our country.
Sincerely,
Morris Dees
Posted by: micki at July 12, 2006 11:20 AM
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
Posted by: O'Reilly at July 12, 2006 11:24 AM
EFFERVESCING ELEPHANT
An Effervescing Elephant
with tiny eyes and great big trunk
once whispered to the tiny ear
the ear of one inferior
that by next June he'd die, oh yeah!
because the tiger would roam.
The little one said: "Oh my goodness I must stay at home!
and every time I hear a growl
I'll know the tiger's on the prowl
and I'll be really safe, you know
the elephant he told me so."
Everyone was nervy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread
to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
who wallowed in the mud and chewed
his spicy hippo-plankton food
and tended to ignore the word
preferring to survey a herd
of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
And all the jungle took fright,
and ran around for all the day and the night
but all in vain, because, you see,
the tiger came and said: "Who me?!
You know, I wouldn't hurt not one of you.
I'd much prefer something to chew
and you're all too scant." oh yeah!
He ate the Elephant - Syd Barrett
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hmmmm
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at July 12, 2006 11:26 AM
Nothing To See, Move Along
Is this a hat tip to others who have used this expression on this blog or a clever message to trolls who come here to name-call and spoof post... or both. Corn is full of meaning.
Posted by: O'Reilly at July 12, 2006 11:26 AM
87..I love that song.
Posted by: paul at July 12, 2006 11:34 AM
ÒIt is unclear how the United States will achieve its desired end-state in Iraq given the significant changes in the assumptions underlying the US strategy.Ó Ð Excerpt from a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), that focuses on the Bush administrationÕs ÒNational Strategy for Victory in Iraq.Ó
Okay. Now what?
Posted by: micki at July 12, 2006 11:40 AM
"More frequently than what we would like, we find out that the intelligence community has been penetrated, not necessarily by al Qaeda, but by other nations or organizations[.]"
"I don't have any evidence. But from my perspective, when you have information that is leaked that is clearly helpful to our enemy, you cannot discount that possibility[.]" - Rep. Peter Hoekstra
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Another Effervescing Elephant
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at July 12, 2006 11:41 AM
Bush's Touted Deficit Reduction to Be Reversed by 2007
The reduction of the budget deficit to $296 billion, touted by President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony yesterday, will be completely reversed by 2007, RAW STORY has learned.
A report in today's Wall Street Journal shows that by 2007, the budget deficit will rise to $339 billion. The projection was offered by the White House's own Office of Management and Budget, the source of yesterday's numbers on deficit reduction.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at July 12, 2006 11:51 AM
every time i've seen paul(89) post here i've wondered if his email address was a tribute to syd barrett....
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Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.
Posted by: spy on this! at July 12, 2006 11:51 AM
Question:
If military officers are to be gentlemen (or women, but I doubt there is much female rape going on) why is there so much sexual violence at our military academies?
And not just in the academies, but in the officer corps, and within the ranks of nco's as well.
Please take the time to visit the website of Suzanne Swift:
This is a web site supporting the case of U.S. Army Specialist Suzanne Swift, a veteran of the Iraqi War and a survivor of systemic sexual assault during her military service.
As you explore these pages you can learn many things, including the facts behind Spc. Swift's experiences while serving in Iraq, how deeply her courage in demanding a stop to her abuse has resonated among veterans groups and social justice organizations worldwide, and links to aid in the survivorship of those who continue to survive in circumstances that are criminally common.
Spc. Swift, facing a redeployment to Iraq while serving under the command of the same individuals now under investigation for rape and sexual harassment, chose to go absent without leave rather than subjugate herself to the horrors she experienced during her first tour of duty.
Spc. Swift's arrest on June 11 sparked a national outcry from all walks of life, both military and civilian. Veterans of military service and those who believe in basic human rights have organized to demand that the Pentagon protect the dignity of our soldiers and implement the changes the Pentagon's Joint Task Force on Sexual Abuse in the military recommended in a report to Congress in 2004.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at July 12, 2006 12:00 PM
Some Words
Dear Cornposters:
I will give you a word or some words and all you have to do is say right or wrong. If you wish, you may ask a question like what is (word or some words), just as you see on Jeopardy. I am truly amazed as to how many Nazi Americans do not know the difference between right and wrong. Since we do not know the difference between right and wrong, we can never do anything right. Let us begin.
The Bible
The Ten Commandments
Jesus' Words
Murders
Hatred
Torture
War Crimes
Decadence
Corruption
Greed
Lies
Christianity
Bushianity
Hitler Bush and his Cabal
Universal Health Care
Protecting the Environment
Student Loans for Higher Education
Day Care Centers
Adoption Services
Social Services
Congress
Supreme Court
Downsizing American Jobs
Outsourcing American Jobs
Offshore Tax Shelters for the Rich and Corporate America
Military Men and Women Paying for their Military Equipment
Poverty
Disease
Human Trafficking
Sweat Shops
Abortion
Capital Punishment
Euthanasia
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Adult Stem Cell Research
Homosexuality
Gay Lifestyle
Lesbian Lifestyle
Conscientious Objector
Mother Teresa
David Corn Website
Laughter
Sense of Humor
Gerald
The Lord's Prayer
Shalom
The Formula for Justice and Peace
Mattie Stepanek
Conversion of the Heart
Seeing with your Heart
Justice
Peace
Love
Mercy
Axis of Evil (money, nuclear weapons, Bush's words)
Wars Create More Problems
Wars Protect Lifestyles of Rich and Famous
Lack of Steady Increases in Minimum Wages
Attach Increases in Minimum Wages to Congressional Wage Increases
American Soldiers Synonymous with Cannon Fodder
We are God's Children
Nazi America
Illegal Immigration
Hugh Fines and Prison Sentences for Employers Hiring Illegal Immigrants
Born to be Saints
Born to be with God
Work to Make a Heaven on Earth
Two Destinations Upon Death - Heaven or Hell
These are a few words of many words. These words are a good start on our journey to know what is right and what is wrong.
Sincerely,
Gerald
Posted by: Gerald at July 12, 2006 12:09 PM
O'Reilly, no, he wasn't there. I suspect he was off having a beverage someplace (or sleeping one off?). Drinking Liberally perhaps.
Micki, #82, I'm working on it.
Posted by: Pandemoniac at July 12, 2006 12:14 PM
I forgot to include The Beatitudes - right or wrong!
Posted by: Gerald at July 12, 2006 12:20 PM
"You really think Republicans fought to have terrorists kill more Americans? I wouldn't even stoop that low about your hero Clinton."
DId you or did you not read the link I provided about the difficulties that Mr. Clinton had to deal with when trying to fight terrorism in the 90s? Why is it that you conservatives wet the bed when anyone uses your own fauxPatriotism against you? Writers and talkingheads spend 90% of their time questioning the Patriotism of Liberals and the other 10% of their time trashing the parents of those whose kids have died in Mr. Bush's ill-conceived war. Either the Republicans in the 90s were part of the problem or part of the solution. Facts show that they were so intent on bringing him down that they hammpered his fight against terrorism. They were clearly part of the problem (Mr. Clinton's immoral handling of other matters was another big part of the problem as it gave his critics firepower to stop him).
"All I have to say about that is: WHATEVER!"
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 03:33 PM
That is the typical response of Conservatives when it comes to Terrorism. Nevermind the numbers that show that more Americans die when Republicans are in the White House. Never mind the efforts of the Clinton Administration to stop terrorism. All you conservatives ever do is bow to the efforts of your leaders to get more and more AMericans killed. YOu encapsulated the Conservative mindset in a single word: "whatever."
"Pandy crying like a baby to mr Corn was getting embarrassing!"
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 07:02 PM
Still lying and still not embarrassed about being called a liar. Your credibility is floating face-down in the sewer. I guess it died looking for your moral compass.
"Panty wants to call us klansmen for being conservatives ..."
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 07:13 PM
Nope. There are a few Republicans who have voted on the right side of the civil rights issues. If it bothers you to be called a Ku Kluxer, don't use racial epithets. Just as it is difficult for you to engage in discussions without cussing and name-calling, your racism busts through whenever you start foaming at the corners of your mouth. Much like Factless, you probably don't need to hide your Klannish (or clownish) tendencies. Wave your flag. You 3 stooges can high five each other. We know what you really think.
Posted by: Pandemoniac at July 12, 2006 12:21 PM
#90 micki, Nazi America has no end-state in Iraq.
Posted by: Gerald at July 12, 2006 12:26 PM
That is the typical response of Conservatives when it comes to Terrorism. Nevermind the numbers that show that more Americans die when Republicans are in the White House. Never mind the efforts of the Clinton Administration to stop terrorism. All you conservatives ever do is bow to the efforts of your leaders to get more and more AMericans killed. YOu encapsulated the Conservative mindset in a single word: "whatever."
By lying Panty wasted
Here's what your hero Al Gore had to say about the #1 terrorist as a Senator:
Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration.
There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!
He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?"
Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."
The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't that just a little excessive?"
"No, sir," continued Ollie.
"No? And why not?" the senator asked.
"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."
"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.
"By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered.
"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
"His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied.
At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked.
"Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie answered.
"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.
"Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.
By the way, that senator was Al Gore!
Posted by: LBH at July 12, 2006 12:35 PM
"What really happened is that Clinton didn't like the spending cuts that would balance the budget and wouldn't originally commit to a 7 yr plan."
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 04:12 PM
That's true. The timeline shows that he stood strong for the lower and middle class. And he did stand strong against tax cuts for Billionaires first proposed in the 90s.
Republican excuses for the Deficit?
"fact: Dot com bubble burst (Clinton letting corporations use phony accounting books)"
You might want to research your silly talking points before spouting them cluelessly. The stock market correction of 2001 had nothing to do with phony accounting procedures. It was caused by overvalued tech stocks and ridiculously prices IPOs. The booming Clinton economy created the wealth and freedom to invest (often recklessly) in the Stock Market. The Marketeers shot themselves in the ass. Clinton had nothing to do with it other than providing the economic boost for them to gamble on the Market.
You obviously don't remember the S&L scandals that rocked the early 90s. Who brought us out of that recession? Big Dawg. And the hiccup in 2001 was about the same as the stock hiccup in '98. I don't see anybody making excuses for the '98 correction. Why? Because the Clinton Administration made sure that the Economy kept rolling (for everyone, not just the Billionaires). Typical Conservative whiny-tittybaby response to the flat market under Mr. Bush.
"fact: 9/11 and stock market crash, insurance industry crash and small business crash."
Yes, Mr. Bush scrood the pooch on 9-11 and that had a ripple effect across the country. As I said, the Conservatives can't be trusted with protecting our citizenry or our economy. As for Big Business eating up our small businesses. The decline in the number of small businesses has been happening for over 2 decades. You never heard the Clinton Administration whining about it or letting it stop the economy in the 90s.
"fact: Corporate scandals under Clinton (that were finally put to a stop under Bush)"
Scandals that were caused by lax accounting procedures made legal by Republicans in the 90s over Mr. Clinton's veto. Can't blame Clinton for that one.
"fact: Iraq war that was approved by Dems in Congress."
If you look at the market graph that I linked above, you'll see that the war was the single biggest destroyer of the economy. It created worldwide instability and the kind of economic caution that prevented the kind of growth that you would expect from the world's biggest, most powerful economy. If Mr. Bush hadn't lied his way into the war, the economy would be doing a hell of a lot better.
Another contributing factor that you left off of your list of "excuses" is all the pork that Republicans have included in their budgets. As soon as Mr. Clinton consolidated power in the late 90s he could clamp down on the pork. After he left office, the pork spending went through the roof. But you think the Republicans balanced the budget on their own? Facts don't back up that assumption.
Also, now that Mr. Clintons's out of the way, the Republicans are free to destroy both middle and lower classes and make the Billionaires richer. Why you would be proud of ruining the lives of millions of Americans, is beyond me. I guess you conservatives won't be happy until you drive the entire country bankrupt.
"I would be referring to the father of a soldier killed under Clintons debacle that refused to shake his hand before a live audience."
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 03:41 PM
I applaud that man for giving the President a piece of his mind when Mr. Clinton let him down. Conservatives can't wait to call Ms. Sheehan all kinds of tawdry and unseemly names just because she feels that the President has let us down (as do a majority of Americans). Only the CornCOB (Cult of Bush) element of this blog continues to worship Bush as a National Hero.
Posted by: Pandemoniac at July 12, 2006 12:36 PM
Here's what your hero Clinton did about terrorism in the 90's:
Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called "political prisoners."
However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands. The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released.
Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified.
It was censored in the US from all later reports.
Posted by: LBH at July 12, 2006 12:37 PM
#94
Robert,
I visted Suzanne Swifts website yesterday and signed the petition. I am losing faith in my military when they can't protect their own people from...their own people. We now have KKK infesting the military along with the predatory apes that have always been there. You know, how hard is it? A military person commits a crime (rape is a crime I think) and he goes to jail. Weed out the predators. Put them where they belong. Instead our military rewards them. Sick.
Posted by: Jeanne at July 12, 2006 12:44 PM
Nope. There are a few Republicans who have voted on the right side of the civil rights issues. If it bothers you to be called a Ku Kluxer, don't use racial epithets. your racism busts through whenever you start foaming at the corners of your mouth. Much like Factless, you probably don't need to hide your Klannish (or clownish) tendencies. Wave your flag. You 3 stooges can high five each other. We know what you really think.
By Panty waste
Like I told you before, you don't deserve the label "wetback" that Factchecker put on you. You haven't had to risk anything to get to this country or given anything back to this country. Someone called a "wetback" has risked everything to make a better life for themselves and their families. You just want to cry about it. Your more of a wetback wannabe.
Just as it is difficult for you to engage in discussions without cussing and name-calling,
What a fu**ing cry baby! WAAAAAAAA!
Factcheck has you pegged Pantywaste. Go back and change your diaper so you will quit your crying!!!
Posted by: LBH at July 12, 2006 12:47 PM
"What really happened is that Clinton didn't like the spending cuts that would balance the budget and wouldn't originally commit to a 7 yr plan."
Posted by: Clueless at July 11, 2006 04:12 PM
That's true. The timeline shows that he stood strong for the lower and middle class. And he did stand strong against tax cuts for Billionaires first proposed in the 90s
By cornfused pantywasted
Dude, you want it both ways, or make that three ways. Thanks for finally admitting that I was right about Clinton not wanting to balance the budget. That's one lie my you admitted. We'll keep working on the rest until you finally run out of lies.
Posted by: LBH at July 12, 2006 12:49 PM
93 spy
You would be correct. :)
Goodbye to the Vegetable Man
Posted by: Paul at July 12, 2006 12:50 PM
How are the footnotes going, Mr. Corn? Having fun yet?
Posted by: Jeanne at July 12, 2006 12:53 PM
You might want to research your silly talking points before spouting them cluelessly. The stock market correction of 2001 had nothing to do with phony accounting procedures. It was caused by overvalued tech stocks and ridiculously prices IPOs.
No shit? Overvalued tech stocks (phony numbers?)ridiculously priced IPO's (phony numbers?) At least you admit, again, that Clinton was the overseer of a phony stock market that went bust as he left office. Lie #2 exposed. keep it coming Panty!
Posted by: LBH at July 12, 2006 12:54 PM
LBH -- get a life.
Senator Al Gore of Tennessee was not a member of the United States Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition and therefore did not take part in the questioning of any witnesses before the Committee.
Your asinine screed was debunked YEARS AGO! Lies, lies, lies. You'd better update your GOP Talking Points Notebook.
Posted by: micki at July 12, 2006 12:55 PM
Repugnant Majority and Their Choices
Posted by: Gerald at July 12, 2006 12:58 PM
Did you or did you not read the link I provided...
i doubt if that link in particular or even most links in general have been read - even if it/they have been read and even comprehended it matters little when it/they are ignored continually.
ignoring is the best of all tactics.
Posted by: spy on this! at July 12, 2006 01:00 PM
Dear Sweet Lord. What has become of the Conservative party? They use lies to refute the facts.
Is that how bad things have gotten for you Clueless? You can't face the fact that Terrorists run hog wild all over Republicans; so you start making shit up?
The Atta that was released by the FBI during Bush I's presidency wasn't the same Atta that attacked the WTC. The Atta that bombed the bus was released in 1990. It's the Republicans that are releasing the terrorists to kill again. Typical.
And the Terrorist that Ollie was talking about was Abu Nidal. NOT Osama. Two lies in a row? And you get to throw in a stupid lie about Al Gore to boot! You're on a roll!!
Please excuse my while I step out of my den and laugh my ass off. It'll give you a chance to dig up some more idiotic lies.
You are truly not as Clueless as I originally gave you credit for. You are purposely lying (again?) to make excuses for your tragic Hero Mr. Bush. You are no longer Clueless. You are a Truthless LIAR.
If you really didn't know that the crap you cut and paste is BS, I can cut you some slack and keep referring to you as clueless. Truthless or Clueless, either one is fine with me.
Posted by: Pandemoniac at July 12, 2006 01:03 PM
You obviously don't remember the S&L scandals that rocked the early 90s. Who brought us out of that recession? Big Dawg. And the hiccup in 2001 was about the same as the stock hiccup in '98. I don't see anybody making excuses for the '98 correction. Why? Because the Clinton Administration made sure that the Economy kept rolling (for everyone, not just the Billionaires). Typical Conservative whiny-tittybaby response to the flat market under Mr. Bush.
S & L scandals- you weren't even born yet! Thats funny!
Wrong again! Nice try though.We were already coming out of the recession before Clinton gave us the biggest tax increase in history. It was the Republicans that took over in 94 that kept him from becoming the worst President in history by bringing him to the table and signing WELFARE REFORM. Yes the big dawg stuck it to the poor and even took credit for it. Or, like forcing him to balancing the budget, which you already admitted lying about. Or the spending cuts combined with tax cuts that gave the big Dawg (who didn't want them) bragging rights over a great economy. Too bad he couldn't regulate that phony dot com bubble that you also admitting lying about and Bush wouldn't have had such a hard time correcting Big Dawgs mistakes. Maybe you should stick to that embarrassing support of Jamie Gorlick. It's the only subject you can lie about and no one cares, because it's so damn boring, like you!
Posted by: LBH at July 12, 2006 01:04 PM
You are truly not as Clueless as I originally gave you credit for. You are purposely lying (again?) to make excuses for your tragic Hero Mr. Bush. You are no longer Clueless. You are a Truthless LIAR.
You know it's true- Gores a dumbass, like you! That's proof enough.
Posted by: LBH at July 12, 2006 01:08 PM
micki,
Local meeting of "Drinking Liberally" tomorrow night at the Handlebar, Greenville, SC followed by a performance of "Old Crow Medicine Show".
As R.S. once said...now THERE's a draft I can get behind!
-T