I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
The bread light flashing for hot French bread at Binder's AND I am first?!
What a day
i'll take second
There is one key rule in contemporary journalism - thou shalt not speak ill of Howie Kurtz. In fact, better to just appoint yourself his personal fluffer and then elevate him to Godhood as CQ has done. CQ Weekly doesn't even bother with the standard "both sides criticize him so he must be doing something right!" line. Consider this paragraph. See if you can wrap your brain around
Awww, is little Duncan jealous?
How unbecoming.
Kurtz is paid to write about what other people wrote about...and he does it badly.
Last time I checked, Clinton wasn't the president.
Thirds are okay.
The irrationality of the toady media is almost deliberate, I think. It's a test. How far can the limits be pushed before things explode?
Too full of french bread to be suitably indignant - but the sad thing is that it isn't hard to wrap one's brain around the cw that saying anything negative about the R's is automatically called 'unfair'.
fake dave--Gordon needs fellating. Why don't you two get a room?
Sallyh: Last time I checked, Clinton wasn't the president.
He's been promoted to National Scapegoat... there he is, in his case... "Break Glass In Case Of GOP Criticism That Is Sticking..."
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Sorry to go OT so soon but WTF, a Texas based company wants to drill for natural gas at a former nuke site in Colorado! When will the insanity end?
Josh Marshall, you don't know the extent of damage or vandalism by departing Clinton White House aides, and neither do I. So, in writing in Slate Magazine that the press wildly overplayed this story, it kind of sounds like you're acting as a knee-jerk Clinton defender.
Standard corrupt media fare. "Josh Marshall, you don't know the extent to which Clinton participated in satanic rituals and neither do I. So, in writing that the press wildly overplayed its reporting of his participation of satanic rituals, it kind of sounds like you're acting as a knee-jerk Clinton defender."
Okey-doke -- gotta go round up the dry clothes, and then, off to pack up the GL-1 and head to Dave's studio for the capture job.
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Jeff in MI--any chance of it being in Colorado Springs?
unfair criticism from some liberal bloggers
So if "some" implies a minority of liberal bloggers, I guess "a majority" of liberal bloggers give him fair criticism!
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Jeffraham--pet Curly boy for me!
National Scapegoat
Hey! That title used to be the exclusive right of us Jews (at least in Europe), but since some of our rottenest apples are running foreign non-policy, they had to find someone else.
Can't do it overtly with black folk anymore; and though the Rethugs hold the great unwashed white trash masses in uttermost contempt, that's their base, so can't go there.
So I guess Clinton's the only one left.
National Scapegoat is hard work, I tell ya, hard work!
Howie always has the thin thin coating of fairness and the deep, chewy center of repbulican talking points, built on a foundation of rightist assumptions.
OT
Ad creator charged with molestation
June 04,2005
Brittney Booth
The Monitor
EDINBURG — A man who made national news in 2000 by producing an anti-Al Gore television ad featuring his stepdaughter is now charged in Hidalgo County with multiple counts of molesting the girl and another young relative.
Carey Lee Cramer, 43, pleaded not guilty to six counts of aggravated sexual assault, two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact and one count of indecency with a child by exposure. State District Judge Noe Gonzalez arraigned Cramer on Wednesday in his 370th state District Court room.
snip
In 2000, Cramer used his stepdaughter, then 9 years old, in a pro-Republican commercial that made national news because it accused the Clinton-Gore administration of giving nuclear technology to China in return for campaign contributions.
The commercial showed a young girl picking daisy petals and ends with a nuclear blast, a remake of a 1964 ad by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign against Republican Barry Goldwater. The original commercial aired only once.
Cramer created the ad for Aretino Industries, according to a 2000 article by The Associated Press. He refused to identify who paid for the commercial.
The ad was pulled after airing in several cities. Bush’s former spokesman Ari Fleischer condemned "anonymous ads like this," according to the AP.
Whittaker, who now lives in Arizona, said she now thinks Cramer molested her daughter during the making of the commercial. She does not know who funded the ad.
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http://www.themonitor.com/SitePr...4&
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What is it about right wingers and sex crimes?
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Josh Marshall, you don't know the extent of damage or vandalism by departing Clinton White House aides, and neither do I. So, in writing in Slate Magazine that the press wildly overplayed this story, it kind of sounds like you're acting as a knee-jerk Clinton defender.
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George W Bush, you don't know the extent of Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction and neither do I. So, in the SOTU address saying that he had 500 tons of Uranium Oxide, it kind of sounds like you're acting as a knee-jerk warmonger.
Corrected versions will appear in all later editions.
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Howie Kurtz's column is Drudge and the Moonie Times's wormhole into the mainstream press.
This American Life is really interesting today.
And, having remarried two years ago, (Howie’s) now father of a baby girl.
whose paternity is in doubt, given the mount of time he spends with his mouth softly fellating his GOPuke sources...i mean, with that schedule, when does he have time to fuck, even his new trophy wife?
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OT
This just in from CNN. A Zarqawi deputy has been arrested today.
I think that brings the official number to exactly one million Zarqawi cohorts who are in custody.
Mission Accomplished for the millionth time!
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Hey, c'mon, give the guy credit. I didn't realize he was the one who broke the Jeff Gannon story. 
What boggles my mind is how the media treats wacko wingnut criticism as valid and their own fault, but criticism from the LEFT as completely nutzo. I read the new NYT ombudsman's introductory editorial, and it became painfully clear to me that the media is completely deaf to our concerns. Our e-mails are going in the trash bin. They just don't care what we have to say.
Don't pull punches when on a date.
Let her know you're fucking deadweight.
You can't see both sides
When you give pony rides
To the ape that holds you prostrate.
How many people are re-reading "All the President's Men" this week? I am. And I grieve for what has happened to our governing class and our chattering class since then. People knew what was right and what was wrong, and they cared about it-- and that's why Nixon and his men COVERED THINGS UP.
There's one conversation Woodward has with an anonymous lawyer who works for the government and the lawyer is spitting mad about how the CRP and its minions are subverting the electoral process.
Think about that. Someone who works for the government, probably a Republican, angry that the Republicans are subverting the electoral process. And telling a reporter about it. Spitting mad.
Another poignant little moment: Someone tells the reporters that someone was in charge of "engineering the response," which the boys realize means they weren't planning to stand up and tell the truth. Think about it. They knew that an engineered response -- a talking point -- is a LIE.
This was only what, thirty years ago? What a difference. Only thirty years ago.
Oh, I grieve, I grieve. Then I'm gonna get to work and give Howard Dean some $$.
My mantra is "Howie's a putz".
Back in the days he was Jack Anderson's buttboy, Howie must've taken lotsa pics of our media superstars.
Its the only explanation.
This just in from CNN. A Zarqawi deputy has been arrested today.
Yay! We're turning the corner!
Quentin--maybe that's what the Republicans meant by No Child Left Behind.
These old men are so vacuous and out of touch. Where did all these stupid people come from all of a sudden?
This just in from CNN. A Zarqawi deputy has been arrested today.
Was he third in command?
On Kurtz - I have ignored this putz since he wrote a column on Social Security some time ago. In said column, he sneered at the little people that collect SS. The insinuation was that SS is welfare.
He needs a good swift boot up his ass.
This just in from CNN. A Zarqawi deputy has been arrested today.
But is he the #3 guy.....that's the question.
A man who made national news in 2000 by producing an anti-Al Gore television ad featuring his stepdaughter is now charged in Hidalgo County with multiple counts of molesting the girl and another young relative.
Are we going to win eventually because all the republican sexual predators have got themselves locked up thus shrinking the republican base vote to miniscule proportions?
I think being al qaeda's number 3 guy is sorta like being a spinal tap drummer.
A Zarqawi deputy has been arrested today.
Was that Sarqawi's Number Three Man?
Kurtz is the target of both fair criticism from industry peers and unfair criticism from some liberal bloggers, who question whether he is tilting toward the right now that he is married to a Republican.
I'd kind of like to see a citation for that. That would be neat.
Breath not being held, however.
If Howard Kurtz isn't an officer in Karl Rove's army of media shills and whores, they ain't made none. Howies daily journalistic blowjobs delivered to Bush and his minions are sickening.
"I think being al qaeda's number 3 guy is sorta like being a spinal tap drummer."
Atrios owes me a keyboard.
I'd kind of like to see a citation for that. That would be neat.
Breath not being held, however.
Thersites
Jackass.
Where did all these stupid people come from all of a sudden?
Oh, they've always been with us -- my question is, when did stupid become a virtue, something to be proud of?
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This will go down in history as "Compassionate Conservatism Shining Moment".
NEW YORK — The former FBI man unmasked as "Deep Throat" probably won't be prosecuted for sharing information with reporters during the Watergate scandal, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (search) indicated Friday.
"It happened a long time ago," Gonzales said of W. Mark Felt's (search) conduct 30 years ago, when he was the No. 2 man at the FBI. "The department has a lot of other priorities."
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What is it about right wingers and sex crimes?
QuentinCompson
There are several PhD dissertations in that question.
I'd kind of like to see a citation for that. That would be neat.
Breath not being held, however.
Thersites
Ummm...Thers? This was the media "industry", not a blogger. They don't do citations.
I guess they were always around I just never noticed. But now that they're affecting me negatively, I want them gone.
These old men are so vacuous and out of touch. Where did all these stupid people come from all of a sudden?
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Hey, wait a gol-durned minute there you little whippersnapper?
Whos' OLD?
Howie's, what, 51?
that ain't old (especially when you've/one's already lived several more years that that and only feels old when your/one's sciatica acts up, every day... erm, ahhh, owwww...oh, never mind)
just sayin'
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Those are the same ones accusing gays of being the primary child molesters.
A Zarqawi deputy has been arrested today.
And a school's been painted. I suppose now all you lie-berals are ashamed of yourselves.
I'm [talking] about you, Woody. Ya'll know what I mean.
NEW YORK -- A federal judge has ordered the Defense Department to turn over dozens of photographs and four movies depicting detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq as part of an ongoing lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
I wonder if the movies will contain the forced sodomy of young boys that Sy Hersh claimed was SOP at Abu Ghraib? Hersh said it was all on videotape, including the screams of the kids as US Army personnel commited anal rape.
over/under on pre-teen boys being sodomized as their mothers watched in horror? makes urinating on Korans seems like the light touch.
fucking animals, committing war crimes on our dime.
Kurtz is the target of both fair criticism from industry peers and unfair criticism from some liberal bloggers, who question whether he is tilting toward the right now that he is married to a Republican.
I get it now. Criticism is 'fair' as long as it is directed towards someone who is to the left of you. It is 'unfair' if directed towards someone to the right of you. This means that Ann Coulter can criticise everyone and no one can criticise her while {can't think of anyone on the left as nutty as AC} can not criticise anyone while everyone can criticise the extreme leftist.
"Oh, they've always been with us -- my question is, when did stupid become a virtue, something to be proud of?"
Reagan made it a virtue. Bush perfected it.
59% of Americans do not own a single book? Not even a Bible or a cookbook?
It all becomes clear.
Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air book critic, filling in for absent Charlie Rose, live on c-span2/BookTV at LA Book Thing.
Those are the same ones accusing gays of being the primary child molesters.
tell it to the American soldiers operating Abu Ghraib.
This just in from CNN. A Zarqawi deputy has been arrested today.
Amazing how that happened on the day we also got the official report of the defiling of the Quran at Gitmo. The amazing three-headed hydra that is al-Quaida always seems to grow a new third head just in time to distract everybody from any news that will embarass Commander Chimpy.
Of course, FOX is 24/7 on the poor girl lost in Aruba right now, so this latest three is actually superfluous.
"Oh, they've always been with us -- my question is, when did stupid become a virtue, something to be proud of?"
Reagan made it a virtue. Bush perfected it.
I trumpet my stupidity as proof of my virtue.
My adoring fans lap it up and aspire to monumental stupidity, too. You can see examples of that on the trolls that visit this blog.
Reagan made it a virtue. Bush perfected it.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
Perfect.
New GOP motto - "We worship stoopid"
"59% of Americans do not own a single book? Not even a Bible or a cookbook?"
Next thing they'll argue is that they don't own books because the greedy liberals snatch them all up.
Remember also that Zarqawi only has one leg and has recently been mortally wounded, but is also two legged and not hurt at all.
Also, we are winning in Iraq because there are really very few foreign fighters, just the dead-enders of Saddam's regime. We are at the same time winning in Iraq because the country is full of foreign fighters, cleverly lured there to be destroyed.
{can't think of anyone on the left as nutty as AC}
According to Cloudy John, the opposite is Michael Moore.
I wonder if the movies will contain the forced sodomy of young boys that Sy Hersh claimed was SOP at Abu Ghraib? Hersh said it was all on videotape, including the screams of the kids as US Army personnel commited anal rape.
over/under on pre-teen boys being sodomized as their mothers watched in horror? makes urinating on Korans seems like the light touch.
fucking animals, committing war crimes on our dime.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
Oh brother if this story breaks this way. On an earlier thread I commented on the expressions on tyhe faces of 2 select (House and Senate) committe members that were shown these images in private. Their faces looked grim when they left...even the RePugs Bush lovers.
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...cleverly lured there to be destroyed.
Don't forget, the insurgents' intensified attacks show that they've become desperate. They've been desperate for going on two years now.
59% of Americans do not own a single book? Not even a Bible or a cookbook?
Which is why the rightward tilt of the corporate media is so damn dangerous.
These people's only information about the world comes from the tube.
We'll never reach them as long as we're locked out of broadcast/cable.
They'll never be an audience for the internets.
Oh brother if this story breaks this way. On an earlier thread I commented on the expressions on tyhe faces of 2 select (House and Senate) committe members that were shown these images in private. Their faces looked grim when they left...even the RePugs Bush lovers.
If those images are that bad, I think that we may finally start to see some people trying to put some distance between Bush and themselves.
Hersh said it was all on videotape, including the screams of the kids as US Army personnel commited anal rape.
That's why I think June is going to be an interesting month. I want to be out of here, I don't know, just out before June 30 when those photos are released. I think the shit's going to hit the fan this month.
59% of Americans do not own a single book? Not even a Bible or a cookbook?
You have hit here on the reason why the selection of books in schools is a matter of such central importance in the curriculum.
it's predicated on the assumption that no more than 20-25% of students will ever read more than the works assigned in/for class...
what books one reads is of surpassing importance if it is assumed (as it is, justly, in USer schools which struggle to demonize reading by rgulating it through phonics) that children may not be reading any other books their whole lives long...
the genius of USer Schools has been their uncanny ability to convince children that reading is 1) a chore, 2) with no intrinsic rewards, 3) which is a waste of their time when they could be palying video games...
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the purpose of the USer School system is to provide the empirical (test-scores) 'evidence' to rationalize the assignment of students to the social class and place in the econopmic order into which they were born.
the purpsoe of the USer media system is to reconcile those folks to their fate, and make it seem their own fault...
I got my largest two pots, each weighing about 150lbs, out today. We'll, they're sitting in the bed of my truck ready to go. They're full of rich potting soil I've built up with household organics for years. I'm going to put my Mandevilla in those.
On an earlier thread I commented on the expressions on tyhe faces of 2 select (House and Senate) committe members that were shown these images in private. Their faces looked grim when they left...even the RePugs Bush lovers.
And it'll be the whole country that pays the price - not just the Repukes who got us into this mess.
The al Queda recruiters won't have any trouble filling their quotas.
Oh brother if this story breaks this way. On an earlier thread I commented on the expressions on tyhe faces of 2 select (House and Senate) committe members that were shown these images in private. Their faces looked grim when they left...even the RePugs Bush lovers.
Many people I talk with believe any Iraqi (read: terrorist) deserves whatever treatment the military doles out.
Ditto on desecration of the Koran.
Hell, they's heathens and they's also the enemy.
I kid you not.
Jeez, I'm turning into a little Hobbit.
OT: and pulled up from a way-back thread--Any suggestions as to which satellite radio system is the best? Best to support (think I read some things about part ownership issues)?
Any receivers which can handle both systems?
Tnks!
Howie wasn't above writing about Jordan's private life....though I think (?) he pulled this paragraph after it had appeared
Several CNN staffers say Jordan, who was distraught about the controversy, saw the handwriting on the wall in tendering his resignation. But top executives are also said to have lost patience with the continuing gossip about Jordan, including his affair with Marianne Pearl, widow of the murdered reporter Daniel Pearl, and subsequent marital breakup.
http://tinyurl.com/99q75
Great article on the suppression of science:
Poorly Served by Republicans Who Support Attacks on Science
fake dave troll:
Just blow me, already, okay?
You know the rest of the rant,
but I haven't got the energy to
re-post it, given how tiresome
you are.
But just blow me already. It's
what you really want.
PS: Please return my videotape of
the Alan Colmes interview with
that Republican guy who fucked
a mule and was proud of it.
If those images are that bad I'm willing to bet that both Democrats and Republicans will agree to classify them beyond the reach of any FOIA request.
Don't know how, but it'll be done. Then if they get leaked it will leak to a liberal source (NYT or WaPo) and liberal media will be blamed for the hell that lands on our heads as a result.
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This just in from CNN. A Zarqawi deputy has been arrested today.
Yay! We're turning the corner!
At what point do we discover that this guy gave some advice to a guy who gave a ride to a friend of a friend of the guy who once held a door open for a guy who was at a party that Zarqawi stopped at to get directions? Hmmmm . . . 'bout a week, I think.
Hell, they's heathens and they's also the enemy.
I kid you not.
Billy B
B-b-b-but...I thought we went into Irack to bring peace and freedom to our little brown brothers?!?
Wasn't there a GAO report that stated that the accounts of outgoing Clinton staffers "trashing" the WH and west wing offices, et al, etc, made by the incoming Bush people were, essentially, LIES told by LIEING LIARS?
The more cynical WGG gets, the wiser he sounds.
You cannot get too cynical when describing the machinations of modern fascism.
"Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?"
"I think it would be a good idea."
59% of Americans do not own a single book? Not even a Bible or a cookbook?
It all becomes clear.
Can we take these people and burn them instead of books?
Leaves more of everything for the rest of us.
Clinton staffers "trashing" the WH and west wing offices, et al, etc, made by the incoming Bush people were, essentially, LIES told by LIEING LIARS?
You mean they didn't take all the "W" keys off keyboards???
Say it ain't so.
We had the standard astroturf letter from a Bush disciple last week in the local paper, bitching that the media is reporting on the daily carnage in Iraq rather than how many Little League teams we've started and how many schools now have a nice fresh coat of paint. The asshole actually characterized what happened at Abu Ghraib as "inconveniencing a few Muslims".
I truly hope that some of the stories of what happened there are not true, but if they are, the wingers should be required to stare at the photos, "Clockwork Orange"-style, at every meal for the next ten years.
Chris T--the 'damage' in a GAO report (don't have the link at present) determined that the amount of damage per worker in the Clinton WH = `$50/person over 8 years, which was stated to be very normal wear and tear.
I heart Mark Morford.
Should we have an anti-wanker of the day?
Know what real men do? They admit their mistakes. Know what real people do in times of great stress and strife and economic downturn? They seek help, understand they don't know all the answers, realize they might not've been asking the right questions in the first place.
Know what great leaders, great nations do at times of war and fracture and massive bludgeoning debt? All of the above, all the time, with great intelligence and humility and grace and awareness and shared humanity. Or they die.
outgoing Clinton staffers "trashing" the WH and west wing offices, et al, etc, made by the incoming Bush people were, essentially, LIES told by LIEING LIARS?
There was. But, it was buried on he back pages. That way, the indignant right still gets to claim it happened.
Big Daddy--if 59 percent of Americans don't own a single book, who is buying all that claptrap from Savage, Coulter, Limbaugh, etc?
It's Saturday. It's a beautiful day outside. I'm at the office.
What is wrong with this picture? 
But top executives are also said to have lost patience with the continuing gossip about Jordan, including his affair with Marianne Pearl, widow of the murdered reporter Daniel Pearl, and subsequent marital breakup.
I normally am not in favor of any censorhip, but how could anyone be insensitive enough to write this? That poor woman deserves to be left alone not have her private life exposed to the whole country.
BushCo will never allow the Mark Felt story to get continued coverage via bringing charges against him. Too close to home for them.
Can you say "Impleachment"?
I was brought up in a culture that practically revered books, loved them, cultivated them, cherished them.
I was, in retrospect, extremely lucky.
Bill Hicks had a great routine about this: sitting in a diner down south (where else?) reading; waitress comes up and asks him, "Whatcha readin' fer?", not "Whatcha readin'?", but "Whatcha readin' fer?" He said it really threw him for a second because no one had ever asked him that question before; finally he said something like, "So I don't end up a waitress in a shitty southern diner."
If Bill was alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
Yeah, and "imbleachment," too. Sorry about typo.
Jawbone--you remind me: Impeach Bush!
That poor woman deserves to be left alone not have her private life exposed to the whole country
I agree but that wonderfully fair guy Howie, who is watching over the media for fairness and balance...Did It.
Off topic. And no, I'm not blogworing--a kid needs your help. Well, at least your moral support.
Want to read about a forced sex change? Want to read about Christian torture? Want to know how Columbines happen? Click my homepage link, then go read this poor kids diary. Talk him down. Give him all the support you can.
Thanks fellow Eschatonians for being a community of kindness.
Former Abu Ghraib Guard says he's a good person who was under great stress
NEWARK, N.J. – The first Army reservist to be freed after serving time in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal said Wednesday that he is a good person who was under tremendous stress amid horrific conditions in and around the Iraqi prison.
In his first interview since being released, former Army Sgt. Javal S. Davis said the open sewage, rotting body parts and constant fear of death from rockets and bombs around Abu Ghraib would "drive the most docile soldier from 'Gomer Pyle' into 'Full Metal Jacket.'"
Davis was released from military prison Sunday after serving less than four months for mistreating detainees. The former high school track star admitted stepping on the hands and feet of handcuffed detainees and falling with his full weight on top of them.
He said he regrets the part he played in an episode that generated widespread anti-American sentiment, but contends it was blown out of proportion by the media.
TJ, you're just trying to live up to Friedman's expectations of the 35 hour work day.
Poorly Served by Republicans Who Support Attacks on Science
Sallyh, La Poissoniere - 12:49 pm
Galpal Sal:
there's a not-obvious downside here, which I call the CSI Syndrome: forensic science is portrayed as so determinative that the mere arrest of a suspect will be taken as primie facia evidence of guilt;
because, with all this scientifically irrefutable evidence, the cops wouldn't arrest someone if they didn't have the goods on 'em.
Trials, on this logic, will come to be seen as just a waste of time, and merely a way for criminals to escape the punishment due them...
i'd bet dollars to donut holes it is already a factor in jury decisions...
have any of our esteemed barristers yet seen any evidence of this phenomenon?
Well, got chores to do -- and we have a CD store that often puts new releases out the weekend before their release date, so we're going to go look for the new White Stripes album!
Later, folks.
The asshole actually characterized what happened at Abu Ghraib as "inconveniencing a few Muslims".
We's at war.
Doc, the right wing folks would gladly look at the pics you describe with pride.
Again, I kid you not.
I truly hope that some of the stories of what happened there are not true, but if they are, the wingers should be required to stare at the photos, "Clockwork Orange"-style, at every meal for the next ten years.
You are assuming that they would find it unpleasant to look those photos. Some of them appear to get off on others being humiliated, degraded and abused.
I just read that the White Stripes drummer is not his sister after all, but his ex-wife. Now that the story is out, maybe he'll get a better drummer?
WGG,
I've been saying the same thing about phonics. They are one tool of limited but important usefulness in the array of methods for teaching reading, but for some reason the right-wingers seem to want them to be the only tool. As if being able to quack out the words on the page made you automatically able to analyze and use what is there.
Phonics transforms reading from an information-gathering and pleasurable activity to a performance, fit only to be critiqued. No wonder so many kids grow to despise reading.
When I was in first grade, I actually thought phonics was just another thing you did in school. Since I could already read, I didn't connect it one bit with reading, and nobody bothered to make that connection for me. I wonder how many schoolkids out there had the same experience, and now don't even want a single book in their homes?
Afternoon, freethinkers
WGG--I do get annoyed that the 'science' of conviction, while useful, is still really in the realm of art.
The regime will only use science when it suits their purposes. And when they do, they distort and prostitute it in every conceivable way.
That poor woman deserves to be left alone not have her private life exposed to the whole country.
Pearl and Jordon carried on a very public affair. Jordon was married at the time. Every time they appeared in public together and cooed at each other (which they did with frequency) they shoved Jordon's infidelity down the throat of the woman to whom he was still married.
If Jordon wants to screw around on his wife, that's his business. But for God's sake, be discreet. Neither Jordon, nor his mistress, can expect to be left alone when they are both public figures and insist on canoodling in popular restaurants.
dave is mean to me. I don't like dave. dave made fun of me. dave must be destroyed. {{{{{I'll}}}}} show dave. {{{{{I}}}}}}} will reduce him to womanhood. {{{{{{{I}}}}}}}} will make pie of of dave. {{{{{{{{{{I}}}}}}}}} will use "dave".
I'll show that dave not to be mean to me.
Big Daddy--if 59 percent of Americans don't own a single book, who is buying all that claptrap from Savage, Coulter, Limbaugh, etc?
I have always suspected that the books are bought up in huge lots by rich supporters of the repugs. It's a way to offer backdoor support for the Coulters of the world (no comments on Coulter's back door please, snark snark).
WGG, actually, the real CSI effect is that juries are demanding such detailed forensic evidence, and that when it's not present, they are accquitting defendents.
Coupled with increasing revelations that cops routinely commit perjury and that prosicuters routinely withold exculpatory evidence from defense lawyers, it's going to be harder to convict someone just on testimony.
Mr. Davey,
There's a ewe outside your door with a shepard who's holding a shotgun. Really, use condoms, everyone will be happier.
Ta-ta!
I just read that the White Stripes drummer is not his sister after all, but his
ex-wife. Now that the story is out, maybe he'll get a better drummer?
melior | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 1:03 pm | #
And a goddamn bass player.
I'm really sick of bands without
bass players.
BTW: One of the guys from Redd
Kross dubbed bass parts onto White
Stripes songs and posted them on
the Redd Kross website for a while.
Did they sound better than the
originals?
Yes, indeedy.
on the bright side, Saddam Hussein's "morale is collapsing as he faces the gravity of the war crimes charges against him".
This according to the judge in his upcoming trial.
maybe he'll get so depressed he'll tell us where the WsMD went
Yeah, it occurred to me as soon as I posted that far too many Bush disciples would pay the Franklin Mint for plates with the Abu Ghraib collector's series on them, then proudly display them in the dining room.
Maybe they should be forced, "Clockwork Orange"-style, to watch a video loop of Bill Clinton's speeches and the cheering crowds he gets wherever he goes.
And by "Clockwork Orange"-style, I mean the full eye-wires and eye-drops treatment.
Poppy and Bar Bush only have one book, according to one of their houseguests. The only book he could find at their house was a "Bathroom Reader." It explains a lot.
OT -
Steve S - I just picked up a copy of Dylan's "Love and Theft" last night. Good stuff. Just as "Time Out of Mind" was.
Note, I was a late convert to Mr. Zimmerman. Better late than never, eh?
Sort of in line with the book comments, just caught this gem in Newsweek (the office subscribes, not me):
Eagleville, TN high school valedictorian Abraham Stoklasa had this to say about his school during his graduation speech--You have given us the minimum required attention and education that is needed to master any station at any McDonald's anywhere.
Apparently, school officials temporarily withheld his diploma afterwards. That's the third rocking high school senior I've read about in two weeks--first there was Alysha Cosby (the pregnant girl from Alabama), then David McSwane (the investigative reporter who busted the recruiters) and now this kid.
Awesome signs for the future, I think.
Science for weapons=good
Science for bioterrorism=good
Science for oil drilling=good
Science for earthquake and tsunami prediction=bad
Science for discovering the universe=bad
Science for disease cures=bad
The Bush science policy in a nutshell.
Whart this means, quite simply is that anyone interested in stating the truth and attacking lies must be a Liberal.
This is excellent news for us all.
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My point was it's hard to justify your personal life is not to be written about when you write of others.
TJ--I'm seeing a lot of angry kids out there who feel they are not valued by the regime. And they're right.
I have always suspected that the books are bought up in huge lots by rich supporters of the repugs. spinoza
Point of fact, the NY Times has a special symbol (a dagger, I think) to designate "bestsellers" that benefit from big-lot purchases. Invariable, it's the Coulter/Hannity pornography that gets so marked.
Interestingly, I've noticed that when the local paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, prints the NYT bestseller list every Sunday, the little daggers have magically vanished.
mistah kurtz, he dreckmeister.
It is a gorgeous spring day here in Boston.
I MUST go out and enjoy it!
See you all later tonight for Live SciFi Channel BadMovie Blogging.
Chris T, WGG--science in too many legal labs is poorly done. The pay sucks, the working conditions are terrible, and people don't stick around. It takes a great deal of experience and solid technique to get results that are even somewhat determinative, and that's not present in a lot of places.
Big Daddy--if 59 percent of Americans don't own a single book, who is buying all that claptrap from Savage, Coulter, Limbaugh, etc?
I have always suspected that the books are bought up in huge lots by rich supporters of the repugs. It's a way to offer backdoor support for the Coulters of the world (no comments on Coulter's back door please, snark snark).
Second on that. They're bought up by a small group of people who them pass them out like party favors. I'd bet there are storerooms full of their crap.
Howie Putz in a tu-tu pirouettes and kurtzyes.
I want to be out of here, I don't know, just out before June 30 when those photos are released.
June 30th - just in time for the bombing of Iran.....
Billy B:
Indeed.
BTW: My favorite Dylan track of
all time is the studio version
of "Visions of Johanna" (then
called "Seems Like a Freezeout")
he did
with the Hawks. Light years better
than the "Blonde on Blonde" take.
I forget if it's been released
officially, but its on a million
bootlegs.
Doc Sex: Phonics transforms reading from an information-gathering and pleasurable activity to a performance, fit only to be critiqued. No wonder so many kids grow to despise reading.
reading-as-practical-phonix proceeds along the lines which are amenable and commensurable with the epistemology of the Fundie Faithful. That is, words are univocal; they always say exactly what the Author meant, and the Author's intention is inviolable.
this is a perfect fit with their biblical literalism, in which there is only one meaning of the word of god, and the word of god is all you have to read...
phonix, then, is the practical implementation of Fundie epistemology in schools...
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And a goddamn bass player.
I'm really sick of bands without
bass players.
I thought White's use of a distorted acoustic axe on the first album to be a joke.
Get a good Strat Jack and stop trying to be cool.
Number of books published last year in Iceland and the United States, respectively, per 100,000 residents : 212, 63.
-Harpers, June 2005
Science for weapons=good
Science for bioterrorism=good
Science for oil drilling=good
Science for earthquake and tsunami prediction=bad
Science for discovering the universe=bad
Science for disease cures=bad
The Bush science policy in a nutshell.
I can par this down even further:
Science that improves ways of killing people = Good
Science that improves people's way of life = Bad
The Bush Junta and the Culture of Shit.
fresh percale above. A
Amen that, BDMars. With all their talk of "culture of life", they sure don't seem to grasp the concept of "quality of life", do they?
Phonics transforms reading from an information-gathering and pleasurable activity to a performance, fit only to be critiqued. No wonder so many kids grow to despise reading.
English is not a phonetically written language. It doesn't come close. "Phonics" is popular today for one reason, the eternal repeats of cheap "Hooked on Phonics" ads on talk radio. It is bilge.
Steve S -
I'll have to check that out (Visions of Johanna).
I ever bore you with the story that the original Hawks piano player (Will Pop Jones) wife taught me piano?
I have always suspected that the books are bought up in huge lots by rich supporters of the repugs. spinoza
Point of fact, the NY Times has a special symbol (a dagger, I think) to designate "bestsellers" that benefit from big-lot purchases. Invariable, it's the Coulter/Hannity pornography that gets so marked.
Fred Barnes speaking fee is between 7,500 and 10,000. Catherine Crier and Laura Ingraham will each cost you between 15,000 and 25,000.
Al Franken has a speaking fee above 40,000.
Number of books published last year in Iceland and the United States, respectively, per 100,000 residents : 212, 63.
-Harpers, June 2005
Yeah, but . . . like . . . we got "American Idol!" Whadda they have in Iceland? Ice, right? No wonder they gotta read!
Awesome signs for the future, I think.
TJ
Indeed. If I was his parents I'd be obscenely proud.
Whart this means, quite simply is that anyone interested in stating the truth and attacking lies must be a Liberal.
This is excellent news for us all.
David Ehrenstein
Excellent news once all those soccer moms figure out what's going on.
WGG,
I'm still seething about the inclusion of John Dewey's Democracy and Education on the list of the Ten Most Dangerous Books by Human Events.
I have been telling myself that being disliked by that crowd is a badge of honor, but the vapid commentary by the generic right-wing blonde on the story I saw about it on MSGOP put me off my feed all day yesterday.
I realize that Democracy and Education are, truthfully, the most dangerous ideas to the conservative movement in this country today. However, seeing Dewey lumped in with Hitler and Mao still stung.
Amen that, BDMars. With all their talk of "culture of life", they sure don't seem to grasp the concept of "quality of life", do they?
Bush never gave a shit about quality. As long as his blow was primo he was happy.
Bush and his crowd would be perfectly happy if the quality of most people's lives was like that in "Soylent Green". As long as he and his cronies were the ones who got to own the "furniture".
I ever bore you with the story that the original Hawks piano player (Will Pop
Jones) wife taught me piano?
Billy B | Email | Homepage
Do tell.....
I realize that Democracy and Education are, truthfully, the most dangerous ideas to the conservative movement in this country today. However, seeing Dewey lumped in with Hitler and Mao still stung.
Doc |-- 1:22 pm
whatever its stylistic imperfections, Democracy And Education is one book about which i should entertain not the least chinchilla of hesitation to make it mandatory reading prior to any planned or possible matrimony and biological reproduction...
required reading...
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I dislike Howie's Pugisms, I really do, so I sent an e-mail to AB Stoddard with a couple of comments about her article:
Ms. Stoddard,
I think Howie is a Pug, without any doubt. He cannot not help himself: he zings Dems and Libs and panders and fawns to the GOP and right wingers. Second, when he isn't pushing WH talking points, when he actually writes a straight news story, he's excellent -- just a fine, fine writer.
You wrote: "But success is complicated. Kurtz is the target of both fair criticism from industry peers and unfair criticism from some liberal bloggers, who question whether he is tilting toward the right now that he is married to a Republican. (Kurtz says that his wife, public affairs consultant Sheri Annis, hasn’t worked in partisan politics since they married, and their careers are separate.)"
So all criticism from the left is wrong, but the criticism from "industry peers" is fair... I see. How come the right wing doesn't complain about Kurtz? Any thoughts? Maybe they agree with him? As to "industry peers," is it possible there's a certain, well, you know -- ass-kissing going on? I mean, if one hopes to get on his cable show, well, he prefers people who agree.
As to his wife. Well, it's going to take a lot more than Howie saying everything is "kosher" for the reality to be just that. Mrs. Kurtz was recently (13 Aug 2004 -- less than a year ago) on "Hardball." How did Chris Matthews introduce Mrs. Kurtz?
"MATTHEWS: Pat Buchanan is an MSNBC contributor. Sheri Annis is a Republican strategist. But as we begin tonight, we‘re going to go to Tim Minton of NBC station WNBC. (here's the URL)"
Mrs. Kurtz herself doesn't even describe herself as a "public affairs consultant." No, she doesn't. She describes herself on her Web site as being a "political commentator and media consultant," and that her company, Fourth Estate Strategies, "use our communications and media expertise to fight for the political and policy issues in which we believe." Now, when one considers her clients are all Republican, what do you suppose she fights for, and what do you suppose the Kurtz's talk about, when not talking about those great guys in the WH?
Some people say "Soylent Green is people!!!"
Howie Kurtz is a MEGA wanker.
haven't read the thread but would like to say Jonathan Miller sure found egregious examples of biased idiocy - spinsanity too. I mean holy crapola!
Defending Rush's hatefuk accusations of the Clinton's being murderers?! Defending Limbaugh's use of Hanoi Tom?!?
Limbaugh is McCarthy! We can't let this fucker alone any more - It is time to take him and his lying hatefilled crap down -
More examples courtesy of Spinsanity: On Nov. 15, he asserted that Daschle's criticism of the conduct of the war on terrorism amounted to "an attempt to sabotage the war on terrorism," called him "Hanoi Tom" and suggested that he is " a disgrace to patriotism." On other occasions, Limbaugh has suggested that "In essence, Daschle has chosen to align himself with the axis of evil" and has drawn an extended analogy between Daschle and Satan.
I'm surprised Daschle can make public appearances. That crap needs retracting. It is crass beyond any stadard of decency and fairness - It's unAmerican
- This cannot be allowed to be perpetrated - If the usual idiot 65% uninformed don't check up on the validity of the claims they end up believing these lies and this falsehood is a part of the public discourse.
- In fact if anything needs regulating it's radio - Rush is one long Republican commercial - Time to take this guy down -
He has no decency.
so what part do liberal bloggers play in Howie's right slanted op-ed crap? We just pointed out we don't like it.
On an earlier thread I commented on the expressions on tyhe faces of 2 select (House and Senate) committe members that were shown these images in private. Their faces looked grim when they left...even the RePugs Bush lovers.
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Agent Orange | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 12:43 pm |
IIRC, one of them said that the worst was yet to come out.
i'd bet dollars to donut holes it is already a factor in jury decisions...
have any of our esteemed barristers yet seen any evidence of this phenomenon?
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 1:00 pm
In the Tucson Daily Star there was an article about how it is getting harder to get convictions because juries were expecting wizbang, CSI-type evidence.
He is a liar
His wife was a talking head during the conventions as for the Republicans and she also was on the air during the McGreevy stories
She was listed as a Republican strategist
Howie a liar?
This is almost as shocking as finding out he figured out how to breed ...
Kurtz's toss into the Duck Pit is preordained. There is no escape for him, he's an utterly worthless whore.
The sack of suckup shit at CQ who wrote that is going to be right after Howie the Hack, too.
Pretty late to the party here, but I just want to say, this may be your best post ever.
Cherry Anus...no wonder Howie married her...
Is Camille Kurtz a relative?
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