I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Wow, I'm first.
Is it me? Or is the link broken?
bad link....
I'm really enjoying how upset Chuckie is that he didn't make the New York Times article.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/
...le_In_Your_Face
The fact that Kos was featured along with Wonkette only a few months before the right went on a Jihad against him made it all that much more satisfying.
It shows that you can survive a swarm attack from the right and come out of it stronger than you were.
Jodi Wilgoren hands another one to Drudge:
http://toughenough.org/2004/09/w.../
worthless.html
A pizza-stained paper plate sat between Moulitsas and Atrios. Together, they have more readers than The Philadelphia Inquirer.
So good it needed to be italicized AND bolded!
Rock. On.
Long live Eschaton, Rock on Atrios!
Gawd damn,that guy wrote a damn book online.How long is that article.I never found the bottom.
smalfish
I read for ten minutes and did not get to the end, it was a good read though.
Newsweek like Knightrider papers doesn't get enough credit. The truth about Iraq -
Much of that media, ourselves included, were in virtual hiding last week, as were nearly all foreign civilians — hostages have even included Russians, French, and 12 Nepalese workers, who were assassinated without any plausible justification. Intelligence that criminal gangs are kidnapping foreigners and selling them to terrorist groups has increased fears about moving around Iraq. Heavily armed convoys of contractors' SUVs, once a common sight, have all but disappeared from busy roads. "The only serious reconstruction going on now," says one Western businessman, "is inside the Green Zone," the heavily fortified area that houses Iraqi government and American Embassy offices, and is guarded by an entire U.S. Army brigade. "We're trapped in a rat's cage," says an ambassador from a non-Coalition country in Europe, who no longer leaves his bunker-like residential compound. "No area of Baghdad is risk-free."
Great prop. Are his trade secrets open source, or still too precious? I'd love more analysis... or even some auto-bio.
Hee hee...I've seen how much you and Kos charge for ads, and what kind of a cut Blogads gets. I'd say you're his hero.
Not that I think your prices are out of line, given how many viewers you get and what kind of influence you have over them. I'm just saying you're putting his kids through college.
Damn you, SWR! (/Jon Stewart)
Actually, this is the first time LGF has been worth the visit. Poor liddle Charlie - didn't get his temple of hate mentioned in the NYT! This is funny on sooo many levels. "Victimization," indeed.
I'm thinking that the Times wasn't too thrilled about causing folks to visit a site with Rachel Corrie pizza jokes. It's called good taste. Sorry, Charlie.
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Hee hee...I've seen how much you and Kos charge for ads, and what kind of a cut Blogads gets. I'd say you're his hero.
Not that I think your prices are out of line, given how many viewers you get and what kind of influence you have over them. I'm just saying you're putting his kids through college.
"No area of Baghdad is risk-free."
A HREF="http://www.newsgateway.ca/
Fallujah_video_massacre.htm">Why do they hate us?
I remember way, way back (a year ago?) when an ad here cost $40... those were the days (for me, anyway)!
I agree about Henry. He is truly an honest person and goes way beyond the call of duty. Over the past few months I started some modest blog ads on my relatively young blog (which still doesn't any ads on it due to my computer illiteracy...keep reading). I had some problems in placing the ads, which were on my end.
Henry was supremely patient with me, walking through it with me on the phone so even a computer klutz like me could get it right. The result? I periodically place a modest blog ad, because I want the diverse readership to my admittedly politically diverse blog. But part of it is also that even with my limited resources I LIKE doing blogads...because it's giving some business to Henry, and he is indeed a true, low-profile hero. A pleasure to deal with and about as professional person as you'll meet.
I'm thinking that the Times wasn't too thrilled about causing folks to visit a site with Rachel Corrie pizza jokes. It's called good taste. Sorry, Charlie.
Yes. I enjoyed seeing Chuckie humiliated.
On the other hand, Wonkette really comes across like an annoying bitch.
You know she's going to wind up as the next Maureen Dowd in 20 years.
Conceptually blogads is a great service, and they do a good job most of the time, but as we get closer to Nov. 2 they are having a lot of problems keeping up with volume. Technical problems and delayed responses have recently made using their service rather frustrating. On the other hand when it comes to advertising on blogs there is nowhere else to go.
I'm thinking that the Times wasn't too thrilled about causing folks to visit a site with Rachel Corrie pizza jokes. It's called good taste. Sorry, Charlie.
This was also kind of satisfying if you hate Sullivan.
But just as Fox News has been creaming CNN, the traffic on Kaus's and Sullivan's sites has flat-lined recently, while Atrios's and Moulitsas's are booming.
Ouch.
Wonkette really comes across like an annoying bitch. You know she's going to wind up as the next Maureen Dowd in 20 years.
You mean she isn't already?
I still really haven't gotten the appeal of Wonkette, frankly. She reminds me of every college newspaper sex columnist. She gets away with not saying much, when it's all said and done, by little more than being female and talking dirty.
I did like Suck, though, for what it was.
I still really haven't gotten the appeal of Wonkette, frankly. She reminds me of every college newspaper sex columnist. She gets away with not saying much, when it's all said and done, by little more than being female and talking dirty.
I did like Suck, though, for what it was.
Backslider
Is there a connection between Wonkette and Suck, or are you just saying they are similar in tone?
Sorry, I know I am unbelievably out of it.
SWR: I'm really enjoying how upset Chuckie is that he didn't make the New York Times article...
Particularly after having only achieved 'me too! me too!' status on the great typography scandal. That's the problem with listening to an incessant clamor of syncophancy, expectations get raised, dissappointment ensues.
orbitron,
In the article linked, it said Wonkette wrote for Suck before it went down. They both share that post-grunge hipster cynicism and snarkiness that's amusing in very tiny doses.
OT, but I see Drum is having a hissy fit over CBS "bending over" to the brownshirts regarding that 60 Minutes story they pulled.
Tom Lehrer was right: satire's dead...
Absolutely!
And he's a heck of a nice guy too.
anyone know if the mayor of shitville (scarborough) has been blown (AH) out to sea yet in Florida?
it was kinda fun watching him struggle out there in the hurricane --- i was chanting earlier for his sudden rip into the atlantic ocean
The LGF Johnson Worshippers hope to Freep Klam tomorrow and get His Johnson some props:
09/26/04
07:30 am[Eastern time]
0:30 (est.) LIVE
Call-In
Political Influence of Bloggers
C-SPAN, Washington Journal
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Klam, Matthew, Contributor, [New York Times] Magazine
Mr. Klam talks about his cover story in the New York Times magazine on bloggers and their growing influence on politics. He will respond to telephone calls, faxes, and electronic mail from viewers.
So, I submitted the following:
Mr Klam, I was reading Little Green Footballs and I noted that Charles Johnson, who runs that site, was bitterly disappointed that you spoke to him but didn't mention his website in your article. He had this to say:
"The New York Times, with help from Matthew Klam, is trying to make us all disappear". Mr Johnson feels that he is a very important voice for right-wing lunatics and war-enthusiasts. Do you agree?
If you want to send your own question, just click homepage below for submission form.
OK, a couple of things.
There was a LOT in a 10 page article and I had a lot to say. You can try printing it out. Sorry, but some things need to be said and my layout works against long pieces.
Second, I've worked online since 1996. Between me and my partner, Jen, we've dealt with all manner of scumbag and liar.
Henry Copeland is the first honest ad broker I have dealt with in eight years. The first.
This isn't the place to go into a subject only website developers care about, but let me say, Blogads is the reason a lot of these sites are up and running.
My hatred of Suck/Plastic conmes because they couldn't sell a single ad.
While Atrios has that fancy Ph.D in economics, I barely got through high school geometry. But I doubt either one of us are advertising professionals. Yet, we're able to sell ads with Henry's help and most importantly, he pays every one every month, on time.
And he gives straight numbers unlike Google Ad Words.
Can he keep up with volume? Probably not, success always brings this problem, but he's created the one mechanism to make blogs successful without always relying on contributions.
Kos is lucky enough to rely solely on ads. I think more of us would like to move to that model.
Even better, as pop ups have become the ad tools of scamsters and banner ads fading into disuse, blogads allow for a relatively unobtrusive way to get attention with ads.
Yes, Henry gets a cut, but believe me, people would much rather deal with his system than invent their own. He's literally made things like the Tank possible, because we had the money to come to New York and cover the RNC and kick in to the Tank's costs. His 20 percent is the cheapest deal I've ever come across.
People think it's all about the bloggers, but without blogads, a lot of people would be stuck with straight jobs or paying for the blog out of their pocket or begging for cash regularly.
Also, blogads are the cheapest form of advertising going. Even at Kos's and Atrios's rate. They charge a fraction of what the Inky or the Examiner charges for a quarter page ad, forget full page.
All I know is thank gawd for a) blogs and b) the blog ads that support them. Perfect storm timing just when we really need independent media.
orbitron,
In the article linked, it said Wonkette wrote for Suck before it went down. They both share that post-grunge hipster cynicism and snarkiness that's amusing in very tiny doses.
Backslider
Just back from reading the article. Wonkette seems pretty pleased with herself.
OT - This is Cat Stevens' statement... very touching:
Yusuf Islam's statement
Friday September 24, 2004
First, I thank God for relieving me of my ordeal and delivering me home safe; also, thanks to all those who prayed for me and supported me through this whole dark episode, from eminent politicians, the press and religious leaders, to plain, everyday people.
Never would I believe that such a thing could happen in the land of the free - unfortunately, it did. But it's warming to have such a wave of sympathy from my friends and my worldwide well-wishers.
After the experience of my dramatic deportation from the USA it feels like I am on a different planet from the one I was on a couple of days ago; certainly the world has changed, not for the best.
Two days beforehand, I had started a journey with my daughter to Nashville, intending to initiate work on a new recording project. Suddenly, our aeroplane was diverted 600 miles to Bangor International Airport and I found myself surrounded by six uniformed officers and handed over to the FBI for questioning.
The most upsetting thing at this point was being separated from my daughter, Maymanah, not knowing how she was or when and where we might be united.
And since my phone was confiscated I couldn't contact my family (nor could they ring me) and they were relegated to watching the whole frightening episode on TV and surviving on scraps of information shown by the media.
My interrogators repeatedly wanted to know how my name was spelt; it sounded to me as though they had it mixed up with someone else's. Security officers finally told me that my name was on a no-fly list, I was classified as inadmissible and sent back to London.
The amazing thing is that I was not given, and have still not been given, any explanation whatsoever as to what it is I am accused of, or why I am now deemed an apparent security threat - let alone given an opportunity to respond to these allegations. I was simply told that the order had come from on high.
We have now initiated a legal process to try to find out exactly what is going on, and to take all necessary steps to undo the very serious, and wholly unfounded, injustice which I have suffered.
I am a man of peace and denounce all forms of terrorism and injustice; it is simply outrageous for the US authorities to suggest otherwise.
I have dedicated my life to promoting peace and understanding throughout the world. It would be devastating were the charity work I do through my humanitarian relief organisation, Small Kindness, which helps countless children and families, and which is accredited by the United Nations, to be undermined by what has happened.
What makes the situation even more distressing is the fact that I have now been prevented from entering the United States - a part of God's earth that I love and whose people have always been great friends to me.
Yet, after all this, I can think of no better response than by con
Here's the rest of it (I got truncated!)
"Yet, after all this, I can think of no better response than by continuing what I believe to be the tremendously important work of caring for the needy and campaigning for peace and stability in this volatile and increasingly violent world, and at the same time try to seek to clear my name of this appalling and baseless slur.
In the meantime I am confident that, in the end, good sense and, above all, justice, will prevail."
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Jenny--I do like his statement, and think the on the spot deportation was a load of crap, but given that he supported the fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie's death in 1989, I just can't bring myself to care all that much about him...
Yes, Henry gets a cut, but believe me, people would much rather deal with his system than invent their own.
When someone asked Woody Guthrie to sing for a rally he told them his fee.
But it's for a good cause, the guy said,
"I don't sing for bad causes," Woody answered.
The worker is worthy of his wage.
rorschach -
I agree. I haven't thought about him kindly (though he did pony up serious cash for the Kosovo or Bosnia refugees (forgot which at the moment) so he redeemed himself a bit. I do dislike his fundamentalism intensely and have given him no slack because he wrote a couple of songs in the 60's. But now he's a victim and unnescessarily so... I think we've got bigger fish to fry. Detaining him after he landed and deporting him was incredibly stupid!
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Rorschach, the fact that Cat Stevens may have said some hateful things shouldn't have anything to do with whether we let him into the U.S. The original idea of this country was that people we couldn't stand could come here too.
Apparently we're too terrified to do that anymore.
bad Jim--Perhaps you didn't notice this part of my post:
I do like his statement, and think the on the spot deportation was a load of crap.
I think calling for someone's death because of something he wrote is a few steps beyond saying "some hateful things." So, I don't like him.
The question of whether or not has-been rocker Cat Stevens is so dire a threat to the national safety that we ought to exclude him from the country is not a question.
The question of what in the name of the hell of kittens our Public Safety Men at Heimat Sekuritaet are fucking doing (1) relying on Arabic names for identification
--(Arabic and Hispanic names are essentially unusable for this kind of thing: look up any, or even an apparently specific one like GonzalesGonzales or Esperanza-Guitierrez, on a military Outlook address list and you get like at least 50 people with the same name not related to eachother)--
and of (2) allowing banned people doing onto planes, on the other hand, is a rather important question and so wil not be asked.
and of (2) allowing banned people doing onto planes, on the other hand, is a rather important question and so wil not be asked.
Typical asinine behavior, yet again, from this administration. Everything they do, they do ass-backward. I wouldn't expect anything else...
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Really, that was pretty damn nutty of him to support that fatwa as fervently as he did.
Now was he a threat flying to the US, though? Would he be a threat after getting here? As much as I think Yusuf Islam's a fruitcake, I seriously doubt it...
Is he an asshole? Or is he one of those hyperdefensive converts that is more fervent in his religion than those raised with it? I put him somewhere in between the two.
Inbetween Cat Stevens supporting something stupid twenty years ago, Mel Gibson trying to resurrect the Passion play last year and Madonna supporting apartheid today, are we not brought back to the fact that they're bloody airheaded celebrities for chrissakes?!
The question of what in the name of the hell of kittens our Public Safety Men at Heimat Sekuritaet are fucking doing (1) relying on Arabic names for identification
McVeigh, Nichols, William L. Pierce, don't sound like Arabs to me. Imagine if there was an exclusion list based on that bombing. And if they added other known terrorists they'd have to include names like Butler.
Any chance pie can open a Cat Stevens thread?
Just saying. It's getting old.
Two new Sunday UK polls show that Labour has lost their lead, with one poll having them drop to third behind both the Conservatives and the Lib Dems.
you know what i love best about Cat Stevens?
he used to just hang out all day, and sleep, and maybe eat something, and bathe a lot, and then, at night, he'd go out and hunt infidel mice... then he'd write a song about it.
and he used to tune his guitar by purring , that was cute. Less cute was his proclivity to poop in a sand filled box, in the kitchen, then write a song about it.
But is that any reason to deport him, meow?
Tony will be rewarded by the Bushes for killing Labour.
Local issue could swing Minnesota blue
Sugar beet farmers in a rural Minnesota district that turned out solidly for President Bush in 2000 are having second thoughts about his re-election now that the administration is supporting a trade agreement they see as a threat.
more on the story, with analysis, here
It's about time rural MN started voting in their own best interest.
If we could just get the corn and soybean farmers here in Iowa to see things the same way. The republicans use their barns and fields to put up these HUGE b*sh signs. I guess they are content to see the family farm die under the thumb uf con-agra, IBP and ADM.
Most American farms are industrial wastelands.
Most American farmers are welfare queens.
This is why they are proud to be "independent" and "free" and etc. Just like all the Bush red states feed off the taxes of the states that produce, ie, places that pay more taxes than they get back from DC.
Here's some news:
Iraq's got its own third party candidate. He's a household name.
What would Bush do if he won?
Just to say that Matt Klam's on WashJournal in ten minutes, and the exterminationist fucks from LGF are lining up to abuse him.
Well worth calling in to share a little love.
Wonkette was 'Ann O'Tate' on Suck, and pretty good at it. Though I think that Heather Havrilesky (aka Polly Esther aka Salon's TV critic) has matured more as a writer.
Ana Marie's probably more famous in 'proper' journalism for her editorial stint at The American Prospect. It didn't last long.
I still miss Carl Steadman: the time he spends keeping Plastic running is time he should be writing. But Joey Anuff can go fuck himself.
Hey, guys I have a really cool new blog, why don't you come over and visit? It's called Hardblogger, cutting edge politics, and the real scoop on the campaign trail.
rorschach,
i don't see why not, i hear war criminal leaders are all the rage.
could he take a significant share of the vote?
Klaus says he will quit after this 'election'.
HAHAHAHA.
Hey, K, baby, why not quit now? Eh? 
Hey, K, baby, why not quit now?
I thought he quit writing years ago, and used an auto-generator.
Klam's on now. Expect the first LGFuckwit within minutes. Rachel Corrie! Small penis! Lizardoids!
Stefano remarked that a recent Gallup poll indicates that 42 percent of the Iraqi people want their former leader back.
nevermind, confirms my notion that people like to be abused as mush as they like to abuse.
not me.
Atrios! On C-SPAN! Photoshot! Looking like a young Sam Neill, of all things.
rorschach,
i don't see why not, i hear war criminal leaders are all the rage.
could he take a significant share of the vote?
One of the many horrible things that Bush's idiotic invasion and criminal mishandling of the aftermath has done, I think, is to make possible a nostalgia for the orderly life Saddam provided.
Floridians, why haven't you learned?
Once again, your ass has been burned.
Holding the Lord at bay
Will just fuck up your day.
Drop the Chimp, and your luck will be turned.
damn, that thing is long, but props to you atrios. i don't hang out in all these blogs, but i still know this one is the best. as one poster (mondo dentro?) put it, direct democracy blogging.
of course realizing just how popular you are i have to wonder about some of the things i've said. what happens to haloscan when you die?
Oops. Wonkette screenshot on C-SPAN contains liberal use of the word 'fucking'.
Lime Rickey--Your rhythm goes all askew in lines 3 and 4; it just doesn't scan.
lime rickey, pick'n on floridians. you know there is a hurricane right outside my window. blogg'n the cane. it's not too bad, here.
Kerry takes Florida 50-45. i don't care about the polls, i've called around.
If he'd used his own name, he'd have been okay. Instead, he travelled as Cat Stevens. "Cat"! Everyone knows that cats are manipulative, use mind control, and harbor nefarious schemes and agendas. They can't be trusted. Worse still, he used his ENTIRE legal name, CALICO Cat Stevens. Now, how scary is that?
First lizardoid fuck on C-SPAN. Being a lizardoid fuck, of course.
A teser from Naomi Klein's brillian article: BAGHDAD YEAR ZERO
"...The Iraqi Year Zeroists made natural allies for the White House neoconservatives: Chalabi’s seething hatred of the Baathist state fit nicely with the neocons’ hatred of the state in general, and the two agendas effortlessly merged. Together, they came to imagine the invasion of Iraq as a kind of Rapture: where the rest of the world saw death, they saw birth—a country redeemed through violence, cleansed by fire. Iraq wasn’t being destroyed by cruise missiles, cluster bombs, chaos, and looting; it was being born again. April 9, 2003, the day Baghdad fell, was Day One of Year Zero..."
From Harper's, and reprinted here:
http://www.commondreams.org/view...s04/0924-
13.htm
rorschach:
Whaddaya want this early in the morning? I can barely see.
Fair enough.
Tough crowd. Sheeeeesh...
Car Bomb Kills Top Hamas Leader in Syria
Published September 26, 2004, 6:10 AM CDT
DAMASCUS, Syria -- A car bomb killed a leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Damascus on Sunday, and Israel claimed responsibility.
Can someone please remind me what exactly the critieria for being a "terrorist" or "terrorist organization" is again?
Man, Wilgoren's going to town on Kerry today:
http://tinyurl.com/6jjwx
Man, Wilgoren's going to town on Kerry today:
One big thing to credit to Wonkette: posting the pool report emails. And Wilgoren really does come across as a trivia-obsessed nincompoop.
Wow.
Two polls out today, on the eve of the Labour party conference, showing Blair's party third behind both the Tories and the LibDems. (32/28/27). I don't think that's going to last, but I do think that Blair really does need Bush out of the door, so that he doesn't have to do kissy-face with King George in the run up to a probably 5/5/05 election.
Kinda late to the party, but what neocon pissed in MoDo's cornflakes?
in tampa
wind howling
rain sideways
power on
dsl on
and i have a sneaking suspiscion(sp) that kerry will win down here, too. He's winning the battle of the bumper stickers every time I drive.
peace.
ha ha: Israel claimed responsibility.
Bush has often been described as very likeable. But then, John Grisham has often been described as a writer, so taste varies. Still, you have to give a tip of the old orange hunting cap to the kind of person who inspires such warmth as this:
"Mr. Bush said he had "six or seven guns" in his office safe, including two .22's, deer rifles and a .243-caliber "varmint" rifle.
"Given to me by the former lieutenant governor of Texas, Bob Bullock, my old buddy," Mr. Bush explained of the .243-caliber rifle, "who on his deathbed said, 'I want to give you a gun.' "
and i have a sneaking suspiscion(sp) that kerry will win down here, too. He's winning the battle of the bumper stickers every time I drive.
peace.
GOB
I heard on NPR this morning the Democratic registration of voters in Ohio was up from 2000 250% while Republican registration was up only 25%. And in Florida, Democratic registration was up 60% but Republican registration only up by 12%. Of course, they chalked it up to democrats spending more money and not the fact of the real outrage out there toward Bushit.
Anyways, put me in good spirits.
Today's Cleveland paper says that local election boards are getting swamped with new registrations. Twice as many as in 2000. The bulk of them are Democrats. Most are in the big counties of course.
I will try to find some links.
This is good news but there are problems that could lead to a fL like debacle.
"Given to me by the former lieutenant governor of Texas, Bob Bullock, my old buddy," Mr. Bush explained of the .243-caliber rifle, "who on his deathbed said, 'I want to give you a gun.' "
Newton Minnow
Yuppies watched too much John Wayne and what his fake Hollywood version of what a man is.
There are no more "tough guys."
Here is the article regarding all the new voter registrations in Ohio. Good news but there are problems.
overwhelmed at the election boards
Anyways, put me in good spirits.
Incognito
good lord!
I just registered for Blogads at my blog.
Yesterday, I went by my local Democratic Party office to pick up some Kerry Edwards signs. I began a conversation about how frustrated I am at the Bush/Cheney's ability to capture the media with lies and dirty tricks, making the real truths about them seem like dirty tricks by our party(Hmm. Must be their tactic.)and that the media is not doing it's job. One of the women I talked to is an organizer for the local party. She said she doesn't listen to the radio or TV anymore -- she doesn't believe anything they say. I told her I didn't either, that I read weblogs that link me to the stories I need. She doesn't do that either, and I didn't ask about the newspaper.
It occurred to me that there are a lot of uninformed Democrats out there who are charged up and planning to vote this election. Imagine what it would be like if everyone was informed! I'm going to start handing out a list of weblogs to all the people I canvass....
The surge in new voter registrations is beginning to register with the media. They're already making sputtering sounds over the horrid prospect of democracy breatking out all over the country.
They'll try to steal it if they loose, keep an eye on those ballots.
If they pull another Florida (and New Hampshire) we've got to be ready with massive boycott action.
funny for sunday:
http://www.bushorchimp.com/
Wilgoren complains:
"Mr. Kerry is a meticulous, deliberative decision maker, always demanding more information, calling around for advice, reading another document - acting, in short, as if he were still the Massachusetts prosecutor boning up for a case."
In other words, making sure of the proof before he goes to trial--or to war.
She also sneers at his style, which she says is "Socratic". And we know what they did to Socrates, don't we?
And not having a Karl Rove is a bad thing?
She also takes him to task for being more interested in public policy than in raw politics.
What would it be like to have a president who cared about policy? Or even thought about it?
OT
2,000 to be arrested before the election
Homeland Security's Info: Miles from Nowhere
last graph (where else could you stuff that bite)
see also MoA
Atrio, wake up! we need a new thread to start the day!
Reason Why Daschle needs to go:
"Republicans sense that they have Democrats "over a barrel," as Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) put it last week. They appear likely to press their advantage, especially on the bill to reorganize the nation's intelligence agencies. That measure is likely to dominate Congress during the next two weeks before its planned recess for the elections.
In South Dakota, Republican John Thune, a former House member who narrowly lost the Senate race in 2002, has targeted Daschle on Iraq, energy policy and, more recently, the senator's opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment authorizing Congress to ban physical desecration of the U.S. flag.
Daschle "has got a lot of minefields to walk through in the waning days of the session," Thune's Senate campaign manager, Dick Wadhams, said. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...ml?
nav=hcmodule
Another little scratch for the "death by a thousand cuts" strategizers.
http://tinyurl.com/3txyb
It's the Shitster, but still.
Insiders Worked Both Sides of Gaming Issue
E-mails Suggest Men Tried to Exploit Closure of Casino for Huge Fees From Tribe
By Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 26, 2004; Page A01
Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and public relations consultant Michael Scanlon quietly worked with conservative religious activist Ralph Reed to help the state of Texas shut down an Indian tribe's casino in 2002, then the two quickly persuaded the tribe to pay $4.2 million to try to get Congress to reopen it.
Dozens of e-mails written by the three men and obtained by The Washington Post show how they built public support for then-Texas Attorney General John Cornyn's effort get the courts to close the Tigua tribe's Speaking Rock Casino in El Paso in late 2001 and early 2002. The e-mails also reveal what appears to be an effort on the part of Abramoff and Scanlon to then exploit the financial crisis they were helping to create for the tribe by securing both the multimillion-dollar fee and $300,000 in federal political contributions, which the tribe paid.
Ten days after the Tigua Indians' $60 million-a-year casino was shuttered in February 2002, Abramoff wrote a tribal representative that he would get Republicans in Congress to rectify the "gross indignity perpetuated by the Texas state authorities," assuring him that he had already lined up "a couple of Senators willing to ram this through," according to the e-mails.
What he did not reveal was that he and Scanlon had been paying Reed, an avowed foe of gambling, to encourage public support for Cornyn's effort to close two Indian casinos in Texas. Abramoff, one of Washington's powerhouse Republican lobbyists until his work came under scrutiny by law enforcement agencies this year, has long been close to Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition and now southern regional chairman of President Bush's reelection campaign. Both have political ties to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), as does Scanlon, who had served as his spokesman
MORE at link
Jeebus. On Press the Meat, the gasbag panel is Safliar, Douchebag of Liberty, David Broder and Doris Kearns Goodwin. Throw in GOPwit Timmeh, and that's as balanced as a one-legged drunk.
Let's pass a law forbidding tattered flags on cars. Not to mention the other flag horrors I see like worn, faded flags dangling in the rain, etc.
And tons of flags on gas stations. Especially now.
>One of the women I talked to is an organizer for the local party. She said she doesn't listen to the radio or TV anymore -- she doesn't believe anything they say. I told her I didn't either<
I had this sudden realization this morning. The all powerful MEDIA is just a bunch of bankrupt businesses if we stop watching them.
Tweety, Timmy, Rush, chattering in the void.
In South Dakota, Republican John Thune, a former House member who narrowly lost the Senate race in 2002, has targeted Daschle on Iraq, energy policy and, more recently, the senator's opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment authorizing Congress to ban physical desecration of the U.S. flag.
I hope Daschle loses.
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Let them pass the constitutional amendment to ban physical desecration of the flag. There will be flag burnings everywhere. And let the punishment be death by firing squad.
Democrats should insist that punishment be death by firing squad written into the amendment.
Daschle is the Alan Colmes of the Senate.
as balanced as a one-legged drunk.
yup. on three successive visits I get broder, safire, novak. I think, "fuck, I'd better turn off the TV and get out of the room before it starts channeling satan."
Speaking of flags, Kerry has to win if for no other reason than that the rainbow-colored "PACE" flag I got in Italy just before the war, and have hanging from the front of the house, will fade into a white flag of surrender before another four years is up.
Read the NYT magazine piece on bloggers and came away with the primary reaction that... Mr. Klam is really, really jealous of all the attention they're getting (this confirmed by a Google search which discloses his own fervid attempts to become a 'star' of some sort. He has his own David Levine caricature on his website... bet he thought he had it made when he got that). Didn't read anything worth knowing in the entire piece.
I don't understand the great perplexity about blogs in the mainstream media. To me it's simple... we're the Greek chorus. We aren't the principals in the action, but we don't let bullshit passed by unnoticed and, in the aggregate, I think 'we' (not me, or you or the next guy individually) have a pretty good moral sense.
There should be no other punishment for burning the flag like fines or prison sentences. Democrats should insist that the punishment only be death by firing squad.
Increased voter turn-out is going to cause problems. Many polls won't be prepared for the large numbers. We've got to get the word out to our people to get to the polls early and to be prepared to wait in long lines. Don't get discouraged. Bring water, cell phone, Blackberry, reading material, etc. We need every single vote in order to prevent them from stealing this election.
Also, when they run out of ballots, suggest that people return later, etc. we've got to be ready to stay there until they let us vote. It will only get more chaotic as the day goes on.
Finally, if you are standing in line when the polls officially close, they must let you vote. They can stop new people from getting in line, but they are required to allow those already in line to vote.
On another note, every time they announce that it's better to have part of the country vote (in, supposedly, Iraq) even if some places can't vote, it scares me. Are their Florida internals bad and will we find out that the storms have made it impossible to hold elections in Florida? Are they planning to send envelopes of white poweder to polls in Blue states early in morning so that those polls must be closed down? I know, it sounds like I'm wearing my new fall chapeau, but I don't think they're really talking about Iraq.
Kudos to Steve! And to Henry! Now can we do something about that tree?
We’re all doin’ what we can. – Revolution, John Lennon
So, what are you capable of doing to make sure that our long, national nightmare is truly going to end on November 2? As a public school teacher with a son in college and another playing goalie for the local high school: I simply do not have a lot of “extra” money to contribute. It seems that our outgo exceeds our intake on a regular basis.
So, what can you do? I would like to think that I am contributing to my cause. Perhaps not, but I am trying. For fifteen years now, I have been trying to teach myself to communicate using my language. If I have a little skill, perhaps I can give that? I write my little three or four hundred word essays in hope that someone will find a little inspiration and solace. And we truly do need the solace of our friends in this time.
When the WaPo comes out with specious, ill-thought, editorials such as the ones today, a contrary voice is sorely needed. I read that editorial this morning and I screamed when I reached the part where they said that we are safer for having invaded Iraq. HOW? What is better?
If I write some, I talk more. I copy articles that are persuasive. I print them out and share them with as many as I can. If Atrios has an interesting argument, it joins the cadre of information. I was particularly impressed with ”http://www.commondreams.org” Common Dreams the other day. The article by E.L. Doctorow was particularly impressive. Reading the wisdom of Father Greeley is also very helpful. I print them out and distribute to those who somehow cannot make up their minds. I do it willingly. I implore them by reason and argument to cast their lot with the American dream, not the fascist’s plan. I think it will be enough. It is what I can do. What are you doing?
I read Steve's article on the NYT story last night. Steve rocks. He seems to have a very sharp mind and is a remarkable strategic thinker. He predicted the state of affairs in Iraq well before the boots hit the ground.
I also thought the story about the Sex in the City star and her new lesbian lover. It was hysterical.
That should have been, "I also thought the story about the Sex in the City star and her new lesbian lover was hysterically funny."
"Daschle is the Alan Colmes of the SenatE"
Agreed. How is Daschle supposed to carry the Dems water if he is always watching his back. Thats why Dems always cave, because Daschle cannot even vote for the Dems legislation himself. Also, I ve seen two ads-both of them have Bush in them, in a positive way.
"You know she's going to wind up as the next Maureen Dowd in 20 years.
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I don't think she has the energy to do that.
Hecate is right about the problems which increased voter turnout would cause, precinct by precinct, and the need to prepare 'our' voters for delays and other discouragement.
Maybe Dems should organize entertainment and street theater near (not at, since that's illegal) individual precincts to help sustain people's motivation. And create peer pressure to discourage our guys from leaving.
flipping back and forth between that and the hurricane on CNN. in three successive visits to PTM I get broder, safire, novak. I figure it's time to turn off the TV set before it starts channeling satan.
[shamelesslyrepeatingself]
I dunno. Sounds like a pretty unholy trinity to me.....close enough is often good enough.
Gen. Abazaid has had some of the media PR classes in the military.
Good morning:
Iraqi insurgents launch dual carbombing at Iraqi National Guard base in Karama, wounding several Americans.
OT, but Biden just went politely nuclear on Chris Matthews, re: Bush gets a pass on dissing intelligence, Kerry is hammered by Rove talking points for pointing out the inconsistencies of Iraq puppet
Hey, is it just me, or did the SCLM become awfully quiet about the whole CBS Killian memos things as soon as Roger Stone's name came up?
I'll admit, I don't watch cable news, so maybe the story is still being flogged.
For those of you who will be watching Meet the Press. an alert.
A DailyKos reader thinks that the interview was Gen AbuZaid was pre-taped
(his answers pre-taped, Tim asking questions later). Watch this carefully.
If it is true, we will expose him.
The dkos reader says: AbuZaid's positions on the chair etc were different from answer to answer.
Chris "my Daddy wus jouranlist too" Wallace....My bad
Increased voter turn-out is going to cause problems. Many polls won't be prepared for the large numbers.
I really don't think so. So few people turn out in most elections that pol workers are bored out of their minds.
Also, the Dems. are on fire and have so many volunteers they hardly know what to do with them in my blue town in a red state.
The dkos reader says: AbuZaid's positions on the chair etc were different from answer to answer
It's hard to keep all the lies and spin and deceit straight defending the Worst Disaster of a Preznit-wit Ever.
By the way, I hope Wonkette wont be the next MoDo "in another 20 years." I don't think she will be. We're moving away from that. I've been around the both type my entire adult gay life and I abandoned that sort of vacuousness years ago. And I think that's where all of us are headed and they're type will be inevitably swept away. To real spirituality and caring for one another. What Atrios stands for is the future. We're probably going to be forced that way, regardless.
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