I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Oh, and first.
We have always been winning the war with Euraqia.
Hagel didn't drink the Kool-Aid - which is quite a feat considering it is Nebraska's State Drink. I am not making that up.
I've been turning the crank all afternoon an, I really promise this time, my focus is gettin' danged sharp. Really. Very sharp. Box-cutter sharp.
I needed some hope in my life today. This helped.
Not for long. The more Mr. Bush's "lame duck" status becomes clear, the faster the sycophants will be dropping as their noses become unglued to the posteriors of the White House crowd.
They're already a day late and a dollar short, but the sooner they wrest the actual decisionmaking role away from Che..uh Bush, the more lives that will be saved in the end. No time like the present.
http://asilentcacophony.blogspot.com
war is peace.
how many times i gotta tell you mo-fo's?
dang, ain't you gotten the memo?
News from the UK:
British bombing raids were illegal, says Foreign Office
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
art...1660300,00.html
Hagel will be lucky if he survives the week-end!!
Yup. Hagel and the rest of us are supposed to observe and study the reality that the Great Imperial Order of the Holly Bonobo are creating for us. We live in the reality-based world. Commander Cuckoo-Bananas and his court of chicken-hawks "create" reality for the rest of us.
Yes sir-ee-bob!
BTW, it may be that there are many thousands more killed than we have lead to believe by GWB. How many americans must die before the weak kneed of the republicans begins to revolt and demand accountability.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
th...ption_2838.html
More news from the UK:
Sunday June 19, 2005
The Observer - Extraordinary efforts by the White House to scupper Britain's attempts to tackle global warming have been revealed in leaked US government documents obtained by The Observer.
These papers - part of the Bush administration's submission to the G8 action plan for Gleneagles next month - show how the United States, over the past two months, has been secretly undermining Tony Blair's proposals to tackle climate change.
The documents obtained by The Observer represent an attempt by the Bush administration to undermine completely the science of climate change and show that the US position has hardened during the G8 negotiations. They also reveal that the White House has withdrawn from a crucial United Nations commitment to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions...
SHut up liberals, you are doomed! Hagel is a RINO! We are taking our country back and YOU CAN'T TAKE IT! No more government subsidized faggotry, baby killing, and persecution of Godly people. The Lord's justice, Freedom of Markets and no more criticism of our president while we are at war. And global warming is a liberal crock as a ploy to eliminate private property and saddle business with burdomesone and unproven requirements, all will give the UN more power and eliminate jobs for those who need them.
Just finished Grant's memoires and starting Ike's.
In Operation Torch, the US State Dept. protested the decision to invade French North Africa, because the US had diplomatic relations with Vichy and had not declared war on that entity.
So to satisfy them, a finding was drawn up that Vichy was aiding the German war effort.
Meanwhile, the US believed it would be welcomed in Oran with dancing and flowers and was deceived. The Vichy officers had individually signed a loyalty oath to Petain and were not interested in surrender.
Anyway, if the assumption is that Saddam was aiding the al Qaeda war effort, there's a precedent in attacking a non-belligerent.
I always did like Hagel.
Shark fetuses!
"Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality,"
DUH! Just now noticing that Chuckles? Jeepers H. Christmas. All these great uber Patriots in the GOP are just as culpable as Bu$h for taking down the road to hell in Iraq, at home and abroad.
Bush Rocks!
Dude! You are so like so totaly wasted,you need another joint.
Quite so, Bush Rocks. As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, "Devil take the hindmost; USA fuck yeah!"
Speaking of completely disconnected from reality:
...Bush acknowledged discontent over his decisions but signaled no shift in policy or timing for the American presence in Iraq. "Some may disagree with my decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, but all of us can agree that the world's terrorists have now made Iraq a central front in the war on terror," he said.
Shorter Commander Codpiece: I fucked up. You clean it up.
I guess if you own your own voting machine company, you're a little safer talking back to BushCo.
OT--Uf you've has enough of sharks, there a doc on Discovery about man-eating giant squid. So far we've learned that they're highly intelligent, "the natives fear them more than sharks," and they have 44.000 teeth. I might have misheard that last bit.
Is Mr. Hagel up for re-election in 2006?
Just wondering.
This is refreshing but not a shock to anyone who follows Hagel. Although pretty conservative on some issues, he's by far the most stand-up Republican in Congress and has never been scared of Bush.
Of course I am sure I will lose all repect for him as soon as he inevitably starts pandering to the "base" in the Republican primaries should he decide to make the run.
Gee, Bush Rocks! forgot to mention all those chicken-eating terrorists and cadillac-driving welfare queens.
I take it that this guy is going down, "Durbin" style.
Hey Bush Rocks. That's quite a fanciful strawman you concocted there. Quite the imaginative little middle-aged loser living in your mother's basement, aren't you?
SHut up liberals, you are doomed! Hagel is a RINO! We are taking our country back and YOU CAN'T TAKE IT! No more government subsidized faggotry, baby killing, and persecution of Godly people.
Christian blood tastes best, especially when sprinkled on top of cocktails enjoyed when chilling on my government government-subsidized lanai.
Bush Rocks
Call this number: 1-800-GOARMY
Can you take it?
Not for long. The more Mr. Bush's "lame duck" status becomes clear, the faster the sycophants will be dropping as their noses become unglued to the posteriors of the White House crowd.
Too late. They are all on record. They broke it, they bought it. Along with the latest distortion of science Chimp is going to present the the G8, this regime is toast. Poodle Boy Blair ain't even going to buy into this load of tripe.
Chuck Hagel's not going to be invited onto any Sunday-morning TV shows tomorrow. (Now, if were, say, Joe Lieberman going after Bill Clinton, he'd get all the air time he could stand.)
I take it that this guy is going down, "Durbin" style.
No doubt.No one,and I mena NO ONE,talks about Juniors crowd that way.
He will be vilified very soon on the gop channel and cnn will follw suit as will the wapo and the times.
Yes and the Gaza Strip pullout is going to be a fiasco too. Bush is setting it up so it will be sure to fail.
Little of the groundwork has been done. No work on the seaport. No work on the airport. No agreement on the status on the settlements to be evacuated on the West Bank. No work on land links between Gaza and the Palestinian territories. No work on frontier security between Gaza and Egypt, no work on the movement of people and goods between Gaza and rest of the Palestinian Territories. No date for negotiation on final status as promised by Bush. No work on plans to rebuild the economy of Gaza. No work on the release of 7,000 political prisoners held in Israeli jails. No decision on what is to become of abandoned settler homes.
Shrub&Co are not bonobos. Bonobos are definitely "Make love,not war" apes. Besides, they are much smarter and better looking than any of the shrubbery.
Blair's own party can't put up with much more of this. At some point someone in Question Time is going to ask Tony if he at least got the courtesy of a reacharound from Bush, and the place will crack up.
Diane,
I don't know about '06, but he's thinking about a presidential run in '08. At the rate Monkey Man is destroying the country, Chuckles may be the only repuke in the reality based GOP left standing.
...As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, "Devil take the hindmost; USA fuck yeah!"
I didn't know there was a velodrome
at the Mount of Beatitudes
All Durbin said was if a WWII GI were to be transported in time and walk in on a DoD gulag interrogation today, he would have thought the US lost the war. Is that right?
they're all evil. all on the same team.
corporations are king. we are their by-products. im losing hope quickly.
Big deal on what Chuck says now. Where was he when his party was electing the bonehead?
Remember according to the CPB reports, Hagel is a liberal, not a conservative. 
Cannibals? Watch them eat their own? Missing Hammerhead, so not sure if Land Sharks do the same.
It is official, Tricky George has his Viet Nam.
Looks like the whole reason for him lying us into this illegal morass was so Dick's Halliburton could get a $3 billion gulag contract here and there.
How many times can they blow up the same jeep???
It really is past time for a new terror alert, isn't it?
These guys are losing their touch.
Hagel will be lucky if he survives the week-end!!
Rove is much more afraid of Hagel than Hagel is afraid of Rove.
Hagel wants to run for president and so is trying to separate himself from the Iraq disaster.
Bigvic, thanks for the info. I suspect that in the coming months more Republicans are going to have to speak out against Bushco's insanity. Bush may not pay attention to polls, but Congress Critters sure do, and for good reason.
Let the repuke imploding begin!
I looked up the giant sqyud and I'm see figures of between 20,000 and 36, 000 teth. Some more fun facts:
"A Humboldt squid can grow to the size and weight of a hockey player. So, imagine Todd Bertuzzi with bulging eyes, eight arms, two tentacles, three hearts, a beak for a mouth, a brain wrapped around his esophagus and gullet with a willingness -- nay, eagerness -- to dine on his own kind every other meal, and you get a sense of how the squid has earned such a fearsome reputation.
"It's a big animal, a powerful animal, a hunter. They can drag you down. They're going to get a bad rep. That's nature's way."
The Humboldt squid's suckers, which have a semi-circular row of small but razor-sharp teeth, swivel 360 degrees, corkscrewing into hapless prey. "
"Make love,not war" apes. Besides, they are much smarter and better looking than any of the shrubbery.
Ahianne
Hahahahaha. The GOP would take a step up in the world running an ape for Preznit rather than another Shrub.
Fuck Hagel. He's a corporatist and his voting record supports that. His finger has joined the others that have been inserted up GWB's ass for years now.
His motto: Fuck the USA and Up GWB anus!
disgrazia
Fair warning, I'm going to make a habit of whoring this endeavour:
Independent World Television
Thenk yew.
Thank God someone is sane in the GOP. I know he has his reasons, but we're losing and it needs to be said.
I wonder if they will call him a traitor as well.
The fearsome squid also seem able to destroy typing skilol.
Bush Rocks
Call this number: 1-800-GOARMY
Can you take it?
It can't take it. It is a LGFer. It also sounds pretty desperate.
Local Fox Station here says Army has got only 43% of needed recruits over last few months.
Now a story about grandchildren visiting the Vietnam memorial. Sure does make me feel old.
Big deal on what Chuck says now. Where was he when his party was electing the bonehead?
Exactly. Let's not forget who got us into this hideous mess. Republicans. All of them.
Let me know when we can start shaving their heads and parading them through the streets.
Big deal on what Chuck says now.
He's been speaking out for a long time now. He cep his mouf shut during the election, as far as I remember (though I could be wrong).
He also backed up Kerry on some Vietnam-related allegations, IIRC. He's a Vietnam Vet himself, and the Senators who survived the Big Muddy stick together.
From the last thread:
The lower the polls go the more he thinks that if he just gets out and tells enough handpicked audiences how wonderful his ideas are that they will be accepted. He thinks that if he just shows up and says that global warming is not happening the other members of the G8 will all bow down and yield to his great wisdom.
____league
heh. Word!
I'll take any bad press Bush can get right now. Mission Accomplished !
hamletta - it's really nice to see you - I haven't seen you in awhile.
and the Senators who survived the Big Muddy stick together.
Well, McCain's defections are all the more wrenching to me because of just what you said.
Big deal on what Chuck says now. Where was he when his party was electing the bonehead?
counting the votes
Chuck Hagel is the Marshal Badoglio of the Republican party....
I doubt Commander CuckooBananas has any real grasp of reality.
Remember, he only hears what Big Time Dick and Negroponte allow Condi to read to him.
However, Big Time Dick and Black Spot have definite ideas about the reality they live in, and even stronger ideas about the reality they want all of the rest of us to believe in.
If Chuck Hagel wants the Republican nomination for President, he should avoid riding in small airplanes, possibly any airplanes for the next 3 years.
He's a Vietnam Vet himself, and the Senators who survived the Big Muddy stick together.
hamletta
No offence, but look at what the Swift Liars did to Kerry and how other vets turned on him. Granted, Kerry came home and protested the war, but Chuckie is doing that in a subtle way right now.
Fuck hagel- he is a big time vote fixer, it's the only way he got in office.
He's dishonored our COnstitution several times over.
He is simply trying to cool off the nearest militia in his state.
Enjoy the karma you brought on.
They're probably getting requests for martial law appropriations behind closed doors and the deep red staters know which side to get in.
They made that bed, and have to sleep in it.
Things are going to get uglier unless they allow a no confidence on the entire Bush White House.
No pardons either, there's probably been a Star Chamber warrant awaiting his attempt to do so. Ditto Dick Cheney.
As for the Repubs, are there any worth retaining? K Street runs right up Hagel's ass as well as any other Repub.
Rove has to stir up ghost writers, leak fake everythings, and try to discredit Dems with outright accusations.
He'll have to do it on a Repb first.
Jeff Gannon's pager rings...
He also backed up Kerry on some Vietnam-related allegations, IIRC. He's a Vietnam Vet himself, and the Senators who survived the Big Muddy stick together.
hamletta
Yes, and he's looking at the polls. He wants to run for president. He knows that the DSM is going to do some more damage.
I just hope it helps us get back the House in 06.
Well, McCain's defections are all the more wrenching to me because of just what you said.
I gotta go with The Rude One on McCain.
Fuck McCain.
Big deal on what Chuck says now. Where was he when his party was electing the bonehead?
Exactly. Let's not forget who got us into this hideous mess. Republicans. All of them.
Let me know when we can start shaving their heads and parading them through the streets.
Yes, they did screw up and enable this, but if they don't desert Dubya we will never be able to get rid of him.
BTW, about withdrawing from Iraq: here is a petition being circulated by a member of Congress and a member of the caucus insisting on a timetable that Maxine Waters spoke about at the Conyers' hearing.
Well, McCain's defections are all the more wrenching to me because of just what you said.
Yeah, but at the same time, I wish our side could demonstrate even half that much party loyalty. I mean, McCain goes out and stumps for the guy who smeared his family, but let Howard Dean make one little impolitic remark, and our guys damn near trample each other running for the cameras to denounce him.
KnowhutImean, Vern?
I just hope it helps us get back the House in 06.
portia
i think things are shaping up nicely for several democratic wins in 06. the dukestir cunningham may not make it to the next election -- the fbi and a grand jury are looking at his corruption; coingate is going to turn ohio blue and now jebbie is going to alienate any middle of the roaders who might have given him a pass on the schiavo thing. and then, just the general revulsion with the gop agenda is beginning to take root in the public.
____league
That was message to "Bush Rocks".
Assasination by Adjective.
This is on Yahoo right now. The story is from AP:
Memos Show British Fretting Over Iraq War
Fretting. Those worrywart Brits!
SHut up liberals, you are doomed! Hagel is a RINO! blah blah blah clinton got a blow job blah blah 9/11 changed everything blah frist did not cheat at harvard medical school blah blah something about negroes blah liberals are the party of death blah blah blah bush is not a half-wit agent blah blah blah hillary wants to gang-bang the bush twins blah blah blah if you dig a hole approximately 15' feet, fill it with water, float on your back and sing "la marsailles" at midnight on the sunday after the summer solstice you will be able to determine, from the alignment of the stars, the point at which we will turn the point in iraq...
© Res Ipsa Loquitur
I just hope it helps us get back the House in 06.
That would be nice, but it's a tall order. House districts tend to not be competitive. We're probably in good shape for a "Throw the bums out" mood like '94, but people tend to think their Rep is just ducky, it's everybody else's that are screwing things up.
think things are shaping up nicely for several democratic wins in 06. the dukestir cunningham may not make it to the next election -- the fbi and a grand jury are looking at his corruption; coingate is going to turn ohio blue
bkny,
and lets not forget the biggie - SS.
For years, dems ran on that platform - we will not let them take away your SS. Then Newt Gingrich told the country They are just trying to scare you.
Bush has given that issue back to Democrats.
Another commenter raised this point, but here's the link: the hack consultant hired by PBS to monitor Moyers classified Hagel as a liberal.
Wellll...just in time for breaking news!
The White House just redesigned the Presidential Seal to reflect the new reality of America!
Here it is!
© Res Ipsa Loquitur
Royalty! Ka-CHING!
"but all of us can agree that the world's terrorists have now made Iraq a central front in the war on terror," he said."
"Shorter Commander Codpiece: I fucked up. You clean it up."
dave™®©
Actually we made Iraq a central front in the WOT, not the Terrorists. But oh what a wonderland it is, where American Soldiers and Civilians can be blown up to the Terrorists hearts content.
Just another reason we should exit post-haste.
Oh, here's some more brilliant Chimpy achievement. Iraq is unable to pump oil (due to sabotage and over-pumping) and al-Jaafari is down in Kuwait begging for a swap of Iraqi natural gas for Kuwaiti petroleum.
Chimpy said he was going to unite Ulster, so today there's 29 injured in street battles.
He thinks that if he just shows up and says that global warming is not happening the other members of the G8 will all bow down and yield to his great wisdom.
Seems to be working.
Elaine:
That's priceless!
Damn, that's what I just blogged about, now you'll get all my hits. (yea right)
A major crack in the dike
Elaine,
Great Preznit Seal and great blog. I heart Conyers for uttering "Impeachable Offense!" Somebody had to state the obvious.
classified Hagel as a liberal
Well, of course! If you differ with the Bushies, you must be an evil, stinky librul!
Screw Hagel,he got elected by voting machines furnished by a company he was or had been closely associated with.
What Mr.Murder said.....
Well, of course! If you differ with the Bushies, you must be an evil, stinky librul!
hamletta
And if you dare to tell the truth or hold Executives of the Federal Government accountable for their bidness failures, you are a RINO.
qed. "Real Republicans" = only lie and on accountability, IOKIYAR.
hagel is a rethug first, never forget that.
Even though only about 18 dead and 78 wounded from Nebraska maybe he got some this from a mother:
angry words of the mother of young man killed in Iraq:
“Sheehan ridiculed Bush for saying that it's ‘hard work’ comforting the widow of a soldier who's been killed in Iraq: ‘Hard work is seeing your son's murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you're enjoying the last supper you'll ever truly enjoy again. Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son, your first-born, your kind and gentle sweet baby. Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big (brother) into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both,’ she said ...
"’We're watching you very carefully and we're going to do everything in our power to have you impeached for misleading the American people,’ she said, quoting a letter she sent to the White House. ‘Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life ... ,’ she said, as the audience of 200 people cheered.”
http://
www.editorandpublisher.co...t_id=1000961543
bubble boy would never hear that, but hagel might, he doesn't have the SS protecting him from the great unwashed masses.
Damn, that's what I just blogged about, now you'll get all my hits. (yea right)
A major crack in the dike
Rkrider
I gave you a hit just for caring enough to blog it.
Peace.
Who's next to jump ship?
Actually we made Iraq a central front in the WOT, not the Terrorists. But oh what a wonderland it is, where American Soldiers and Civilians can be blown up to the Terrorists hearts content.
You think that's bad, Senator Durbin said mean things about torture on the Senate floor.....Oh and fuck Newt Gingrich
One of my friends on another forum asked for a new seal.
Meanwhile, we have to get a new walrus for Cheney.
Jumping ship reminds me, this is now the USS Titanic, isn't it?
wolcott slaps chris wallace upside the head:
I look at Chris Wallace now and, apart from wishing I had never written his name except in execration, wonder how Mike Wallace feels about having produced such a blot of a son to carry on the family name in broadcasting. He must wonder where he went wrong, even perhaps in the dark night of the soul wish he had worn a rubber rather than spawn this disgrace to a once-proud profession.
It was bad enough when he was badgering and interrupting the American spokesman of Amnesty International like a road-company Joe McCarthy for comparing Guantanamo to a Soviet gulag, conducting the interview as if it were an inquisition, but via Atrios from the Clever Pleasantry blog, we learn of Wallace's most recent gift to reasoned discourse. A guest on Hugh Hewitt's ham radio show for halfwits, Wallace mused that compared to the inmates of Auschwitiz or Belsen, Gitmo's prisoners would probably be happy to defecate on themselves, if that's as bad as it gets.
This is the new meme among our shit-for-brains neoauthoritarian friends, that the residents of Gitmo should be grateful for their captivity and degradation. The other day on MSNBC, Republican strategist Jack Burkman blithely echoed the idiocy spouted by angry caucasian Congressman Duncan Hunter and proposed that the regular meals the Gitmo guests were getting were probably better than what they had back in their native lands, where "they have to hunt their own animals for food." This rightly the normally Buddhist-calm Ron Reagan, who immediately protested Burkman making such a silly, stupid statement.
But of course in the Fox universe such trash talk is the lingua franca. There's no Ron Reagan or Keith Olbermann around to blow a referee's whistle. This morning on Cashin' In, part of Fox's Saturday morning business/investment block, the first topic was (I kid thee not) "The Prison at Guantanamo Bay: Good for the Stock Market?"
Opening up the mental-midget debate for the panel, host Terry Keenan asked, "If we 'cut and run' from there, isn't it all bets off for the market?"
Yeah, if we close Gitmo, everyone's going to sell Google and into the black hole goes the stock market: real smart thinking there, Terry.
Terry Keenan, to refresh some memories, joined Fox from CNN, where she maintained outward appearance of being a real journalist, a pretense she (like Wallace) can dispense with now that they're in the propaganda business, where the cynicism required to draw the first breath in the morning and show up to work without hating yourself is beyond any cynicism even I can muster.
http://jameswolcott.com/
I heart Conyers for uttering "Impeachable Offense!" Somebody had to state the obvious.
bigvic
I also heart Conyers.
Conyers is a true man of the people in every sense of the word.
I watched every minute of the almost 3 hour hearing. It was democracy at it's finest. Too bad Dan Milbank is such a smug, smarmy Yaley to see it in it's simplicity.
He is out of touch with the common man, unfortunately. That says something about his value as reporter, and a human being.
His piece in the WaPo was shameful.
Mr. Murder do you have a blog?
hagel is a rethug first, never forget that.
Well, sure, but I'm so old, I remember when Republicans weren't all rethugs, y'know. I may disagree with Sen. Hagel on a host of issues, but I get the impression that he cares about good governance as much as I do.
Used the FatCam for the slo-mo of Forsythe running.
Thank you bigvic
The Bush administration CREATES reality.
Just not MY kind of reality.
Brrrrrrrr!
war is peace.
how many times i gotta tell you mo-fo's?
dang, ain't you gotten the memo?
your corporate master |
You DO what you can DO with that memo, don't you?
Ahhhh, yes, never let us forget the "oven fried chicken, 2 kinds of fruit, rice pilaf and tea." THEY KEEP FORGETTING TO MENTION THE FARKING TEA!
Duncan Hunter should be given a gold plated Rassy. I heart Wolcott.
Sorry: You DO Know what you can DO with that memo, don't you?
Wow, I just googled Nebraska state drink, and found that it really IS Kool-Aid. It was invented there.
SHut up liberals, you are doomed! Hagel is a RINO! We are taking our country back and YOU CAN'T TAKE IT! No more government subsidized faggotry, baby killing, and persecution of Godly people. The Lord's justice, Freedom of Markets and no more criticism of our president while we are at war. And global warming is a liberal crock as a ploy to eliminate private property and saddle business with burdomesone and unproven requirements, all will give the UN more power and eliminate jobs for those who need them.
Bush Rocks!
And that's ALL true cuz RUSH says so.
(What an asshole)
Well, sure, but I'm so old, I remember when Republicans weren't all rethugs, y'know. I may disagree with Sen. Hagel on a host of issues, but I get the impression that he cares about good governance as much as I do.
hamletta
Don't let your guard down there buddy. They suck you in with their little moderate act. Then just when your starting to feel comfortable they show their true colors.
I may disagree with Sen. Hagel on a host of issues, but I get the impression that he cares about good governance as much as I do.
hamletta
I doubt that. Heavily.
*cough*Bolton*cough*
Chimpy said he was going to unite Ulster, so today there's 29 injured in street battles
Clearly these 29 must have been insurgents/dead-enders/death throe/regime elements/baathists/foreign fighters etc etc
I gave you a hit just for caring enough to blog it.
Peace.
bigvic
As did I, and I'm glad I did. Rkrider's post on the Durbin speech is incredibly fine.
Von Rex,
Damn! I thought you were pulling our leg. But you weren't.
Love that Walcott!
He also has a snarky slam at Didion. Me-OWW!
Wow, I just googled Nebraska state drink, and found that it really IS Kool-Aid.
This is the internets. No one would lie to you.
Chimpy said he was going to unite Ulster, so today there's 29 injured in street battles.
Nûr al-Cubicle |
Oh, it's not bad enough that he's completely destabilized the Middle East. He's going to start fucking up Northern Ireland now?
I'm no IRA fan but I wish they would blow HIM up!
portia,
I watched every minute of the almost 3 hour hearing. It was democracy at it's finest. Too bad Dan Milbank is such a smug, smarmy Yaley to see it in it's simplicity.
I did too. Dana Milbank should be demoted and his editor fired for letting that piece of snark pass for a "news" item. That kind of shit belongs on the op/ed page. The WaPo is the opposite of what it stood for in the Watergate days.
The WaPo is the opposite of what it stood for in the Watergate days.
This time we have Editor & Publisher and the Toledo Blade.
It's a beautiful day...
Downing Hits Main Street!
...nope rk, I do dkos diaries, he gives me space to rant freely.
There have been several petitions to sign there, Conyers(twice) ,Pelosi, and several Congressional Black Caucus members.
I sign up there.
Also at Wes Clark sites as 'Clark Twain' often,
likewise did at Kerrey forums (until banned for criticising John Edweards' light response 'brsh-off' to his war vote).
Also as dk in honor of kos' being kicked out for his opinion regarding mercenaries, at Kerry's site forums.
I usually apply worst-case scenarios for whatever situation there is and try and guage what kind of valid response would help settle it.
If things get too wild for the ride it is understood. If you don't push the envelope then the new ideas don't occur. Of course such energy can also be misplaced of wasted in such replies so the tight rope is kind of tough to maintain.
atrios gives us a wide swath and the feedback is instant, that is the best way to inspire reply
Good God, 2006 can't come soon enough. These fuckers are soooooo out of control.
Congress Assaults the Courts, Again
The House of Representatives took a little- noticed but dangerous swipe at the power of the courts this week. It passed an amendment to a budget bill that would bar money from being spent to enforce a federal court ruling regarding the Ten Commandments. The vote threatens the judiciary's long-acknowledged position as the final arbiter of the Constitution. It is important that this amendment be removed before the bill becomes law.
These un-American, fascist, bastards need taken out and horsewhipped!
Dead-air Drudge Post of Frank Rich
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/
1...agewanted=print
June 19, 2005
Two Top Guns Shoot Blanks
By FRANK RICH
TO understand how the Bush administration has lost the public opinion war on Iraq it may be helpful to travel in H. G. Wells's time machine back to Oct. 30, 1938.
That was the Sunday night that Orson Welles staged the mother of all fake news events: his legendary radio adaptation of another Wells fantasy, "The War of the Worlds." The audience was told four times during the hourlong show that it was fiction, but to no avail. A month after Munich, Americans afflicted with war jitters were determined to believe the broadcast's phony news flashes that Martians had invaded New Jersey. Mobs fled their homes in a "wave of mass hysteria," as The New York Times described it on Page 1, clogging roads and communications systems. Two days later, in an editorial titled "Terror by Radio," The Times darkly observed that "what began as 'entertainment' might readily have ended in disaster" and warned radio officials to mind their "adult responsibilities" and think twice before again mingling "news technique with fiction so terrifying."
I doubt that. Heavily.
Well, you go right ahead. But this country was set up to run with two major political parties, and just as Howard Dean led the charge to revitalize the Dems, one of these days, the Republicans are going to need a contingent of reality-based persons to lead their party back from the brink of theocracy.
Sen. Hagel is likely to be one of them, so I wish him Godspeed.
hamletta,
"I may disagree with Sen. Hagel on a host of issues, but I get the impression that he cares about good governance as much as I do."
I hope you are right. We'll have to see where hagel goes with the reality that we're losing in Iraq.
Wow, I just googled Nebraska state drink, and found that it really IS Kool-Aid. It was invented there.
Von Rex |
OMG.
Time to try the concotion- pineapple juice and kool aid, it's been sitting in the fridge...fermenting...
I doubt that. Heavily.
*cough*Bolton*cough*
Tom - Daai Tou Laam
I thought that I heard Bill Frist say that they were planning a vote on Bolton on Monday.
Bush rocks:
That asshole is YOUR president, not mine.
And as for your "taking back your" country, you've been watching too many of AH-nuld's movies!
Ha freaking Ha
/Muntz
I may disagree with Sen. Hagel on a host of issues, but I get the impression that he cares about good governance as much as I do.
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
"if the assumption is that saddam was aiding the al-qaeda war effort, there's a precedent in attacking a non-belligerent."
-nur-al-cubicle
there is no al-qaeda war effort.
I can see why this particular post would be a troll magnet.
ahhhhhh the smell of desparation in the Morning..............Shall we go surfing.
Ha Ha Ha, Trolls can't handle the truth
Mock them early and often.
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hey, BushRocks, are you on active duty in the military?
If not, shut the fuck up.
And fyi, Christians are not all fascists...just the ones who claim to be the only true Christians because they are the bend-over bitches of the Republican Party.
Bush is a war criminal who has disgraced this nation and he deserves to be smacked down by his own party for them to demonstrate that some of them, at least, have some decency left.
...and, yeah, I'm sure 2006 looms for reality-based Republicans.
http://tinyurl.com/coayl
Chairman, Congressman John Conyerrs letter to the WaPo regarding their ignorance.
Conyers: The right man for our times. Hit them with the newspaper! His Letter (via TruthOut) is a keeper.
This time we have Editor & Publisher and the Toledo Blade.
Don't forget Knight-Ridder's Washington Bureau. They've been doing yeoman's work since before the war.
Thank you, Diane.
These un-American, fascist, bastards need taken out and horsewhipped!
Rkrider
I posted that little gem this morning. You really cannot make this shit UP!
It passed an amendment to a budget bill that would bar money from being spent to enforce a federal court ruling regarding the Ten Commandments.
Never mind that it is unconstitional, they didn't seem to mind that problem when they stepped into the Terri Shiavo mess. I love it, wingers. Keep showing you sorry asses. You scare America.
Chairman, Congressman John Conyerrs letter to the WaPo regarding their ignorance.
That Milbank piece was something you would expect to read at NRO or WorldNetDaily. Even the Washington Times would have been a little more subtle.
"Royalty! Ka-CHING!"
res ipsa loquitur
Dear Leader's thought for the day is:
I will reassure Americans about the war in Iraq.
Hi everybody sorry about the no posts in a long time but we got a new crate of whisky in
well you know how ive been goin all round this great country talkin about the social security and the worthless ious in the trust fund.
well ok that worked so well i am gonna be doing the same thin with iraq.
So get ready for a serious of speaches on iraq. and they will be:
1. now saddam cant blow up the world trade centr with his wmd
2. the iraqi people are natural democrats and will form a peaceful democratic country if we wait long enough.
3. The Democrats voted for the war too.
4. the cia tricked me about the wmd they said there was wmd there
5. we had lots of car bombs and ieds and stuff after the americn revolution and look how good we turned out
6. after 911 we can no longer ignore countries that are not a threat to us
7. saddam had tortur prisons, now look at it
8. what were the chances there would not be a drop of wmd come on even you thought they had something.
9. just because i have no idea when we can pull our troops out does not mean things are out of control over there
that should make the american people real assured, and then we can talk about the social securty a whole bunch more. and taxes too the taxes need cut
bye for now
"...Bush acknowledged discontent over his decisions but signaled no shift in policy or timing for the American presence in Iraq. "Some may disagree with my decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, but all of us can agree that the world's terrorists have now made Iraq a central front in the war on terror," he said."
Silly me. Here I was getting all outraged about Bush offering up the Iraqi people as cannonfodder in the "flypaper" experiment, when I realized it was all just part of a "culture of life".
How noble.
It passed an amendment to a budget bill that would bar money from being spent to enforce a federal court ruling regarding the Ten Commandments
"Thous shalt not...
...4)make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing, that is in heaven above,or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5)Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I the Lord they God am a jealous God..."
Exodus 20,verses 4 and 5
Nice of the religious right to propose heresy to the law in a court of law.
"I heart Conyers for uttering "Impeachable Offense!" Somebody had to state the obvious."
bigvic
Now would be a good time for Kerry to jump on the bandwagon. Since it's too late to steal the show like it appeared he was doing before.
Some good things he might want to mention other than the obvious implications are, what a shame it is that the Republican's forced Conyers' panel to meet in a teeny tiny basement room and scheduled conflicting votes to try and disrupt the process.
Shameful and a good analogy for Democracy right now.
Shit, I'm Waaaaaaaaay behind on this thread and Atrios has probably posted three more while I typed this. :-|
*concoction*
...just say no to Kerry- he whiffed to plate in the Ohio vote scandal.
John Kerry should be told what george Bush gets told often in meetings- bad chimp, noooo bananna!
Alice, I know about Hagel's past involvement in ES&S, and, yeah, his election was fishy. I'm just sayin' that any non-Kool-Aid drinkin' Republican is precious at this point.
I'm not sayin' he's the best thing since sliced Conyers, or anything, just that we have to take our allies where we can get them.
Stopping this war and getting this country back on track will require a consensus across the aisle. Republican Senators who have brief moments of sanity, like Hagel, Lugar, Lamar!, et al., will be very important in the years to come.
It's important for the future of our country that we not dismiss people out of hand just because they have an "R" after their names.
That Milbank piece was something you would expect to read at NRO or WorldNetDaily. Even the Washington Times would have been a little more subtle.
____league
He is so entrenched in the Washington Media mindset, that he couldn't see that the location of the hearing added to the story. Enhanced it, imo.
Good government doesn't need the trappings of fancy Capital offices. That's the beauty of democracy.
Too bad, he couldn't see that with his own eyes.
"It's a beautiful day...
Downing Hits Main Street!"
Jeebus! That site (Daily Dissent) takes sodding FOREVER to load!
And half the images stall and don't load.
Smaller/shorter pages are EVERYONE'S friend!
Anyone interested in posting a recruitment ad in Young Rethuglicans National Con this month?
Courtesy of the Kenosha Kid over at the Jesus's General.
"How much does it cost to advertise in the YRNC 2005 program?
Advertisement are priced the following way:
* FULL-PAGE AD: $150.00
* HALF-PAGE AD: $75.00
* QUARTER-PAGE AD: $50.00
What is the deadline for submission to the program?
The deadline to submit an advertisement into the YRNC 2005 program is June 20, 2005."
BTW, what is the Republican pat response to calls for their enlistment?
Hagel backed McCain. He'll never be forgiven for that, so what has he got to lose by alerting us that the emperor has no clothes??
http://asilentcacophony.blogspot.com
BTW, what is the Republican pat response to calls for their enlistment?
I believe its something to the tune of "Shut up, liberal faggot."
"what a shame it is that the Republicans forced Conyers to meet in a basement . . ."
YO! By no means.
Hey. Wake up. This is history. This is the Boston tea party--minus Boston, minus the tea.
This is the Basement Tea Party.
Be proud! Throw them evil dullards over the side!
Time for Bushie, Cheney, Rummy, Condi, Wolfie, all of the bald-faced liars to--WALK THE PLANK!
Wake up, it's time!
The latest Downing Street document has arrived.
Via watertiger, Andrew Greeley nails it:
...Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars -- Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq. We lost all three of them and for the same reason -- hubris. We were the most powerful nation on Earth, we had the most advanced military technology, we could easily overcome the local peasants with their crude weapons. Then we found ourselves trapped in the Big Muddy with no easy way out...
Our most recent exercise in hubris is by far the worst, the most irresponsible, the most appropriate to indict those responsible as war criminals...
The president, the vice president, the secretary of state, the coterie of "neocon" intellectuals around them, desperately wanted a war with Iraq even before the World Trade Center attack. The neocons whispered that the way to Jerusalem was through Baghdad, never thinking that suicide bombings could migrate from Jerusalem to Baghdad. None of these wise men bothered to worry about the aftermath of the war. The president is a risk-taker, we are told now, as he battles for his harebrained plan to reform social security. The invasion of Iraq was a risk, a big risk the potential costs of which were never seriously estimated. That's what happens when you have a reckless Clint Eastwood type for president. Are not the president and his immediate advisers war criminals for rashly plunging the country into the Big Muddy once again?
John F. Harris in his book Survivor describes in detail President Clinton's agonizing reluctance to engage in military action overseas. There were so many contingencies, so many things that might go wrong. The current administration has never worried about such problems. Convinced of our indomitable might, ignorant of the lessons of history, unconcerned about what might go wrong, it plunged blithely into the Bid Muddy. The rationalizations of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam's involvement in the World Trade Center attack were false.
Now the president, dismissing the revelations about the weapons of mass destruction (the vice president apparently still believes them) is content to say that he still thinks the United States has done "the right thing." However, the majority of Americans and even some Republicans want the United States out of Iraq. The military says it will take four years to train an effective Iraqi army. The Big Muddy gets deeper.
But what about the majority that once supported the war? Blinded by anger at the World Trade Center attack and terrified by terrorism, are they responsible for all the blood in Iraq? Will they be responsible for the Saudi martyrs who will begin to ravage this country? Were the Germans responsible for Hitler?
BTW, what is the Republican pat response to calls for their enlistment?
"Mr. Rove, I made in my pants again."
Good government doesn't need the trappings of fancy Capital offices. That's the beauty of democracy.
Too bad, he couldn't see that with his own eyes.
portia | Email | Homepage | 06.18.05 - 11:46 pm | #
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Speaking of completely disconnected from reality - Billmon has an un-fricking-believable example up.
Too bad, he couldn't see that with his own eyes.
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magnolia's propaganda ministry
Just shows how far these people have drifted from the true ideals of democracy... Town hall meetings and such. Democracy is supposed to be homely.
It's only monarchy or fascism that require elaborate trappings...
BTW, what is the Republican pat response to calls for their enlistment?
1.) Go jump under a bulldozer like Rachel Corrie.
2.) Why didn't you enlist in the air force when Clinton bombed Kosovo.
3.) So you're saying that only cowards should be against the war?
4.) Oh this again. Shutup.
5.) Do I have to be a plumber to get my pipes fixed?
6.) They chose to serve. The all volunteer army works.
7. If you like the insurgents so much traitor, why don't you join them? When you do that I'll enlist.
8.) Why doesn't Michael Moore enlist?
9.) This isn't Vietnam you stupid hippie. Shut up.
10.) The people who do serve are red state Christians you elitist liberals despise.
11.) I have a lot of friends who are serving. They hate liberals.
They just changed the VP seal!
To update it like the President's seal:VP seal for Cheney!
However, the majority of Americans and even some Republicans
Tee, hee. Republicans NOT being part of the 'majority of Americans'.
magnolia's propaganda ministry
Thanks
Lorenzo Lamas es muy macho.
Haloscan sucks.
"Hey. Wake up. This is history. This is the Boston tea party--minus Boston, minus the tea."
Yes, you are right, however it's still a shame and it clearly shows the Republican agenda of drowning out dissent.
Now must run to the store, Peace Out Everyone!
Oh boy. In it's escalating effort to play kiss-kiss to the religious right, the NYTimes has got a whopper of a magazine article tomorrow on gay marriage opponents and their view that homosexuality is a "disease."
Thanks, SWR.
Those sound about right, except the one I have heard that had me howling was "man, that is touchy issue, I WANTED to serve, but I have medical issues that prevent from serving"
Such as? I can't say ...
Last year, the answer from another Rethug that I confronted was that he was "too old" - not anymore you fascist fuck.
As the colonel tells Joker in FMJ, it is hightime they "join the team and come on in for the big "win".
Northwest DC10 flying out of Mumbai makes emergency landing in Teheran.
Oh boy. In it's escalating effort to play kiss-kiss to the religious right, the NYTimes has got a whopper of a magazine article tomorrow on gay marriage opponents and their view that homosexuality is a "disease."
res ipsa loquitur
res--Did you see the front-page story earlier this week in the Times citing a study showing that abstinence pledges reduced STDs... the study of course was by the Heritage Foundation. And the Times neglected to mention that the HF is completely batshit conservative...
The SCLM does it again!
rorschach ... No, I missed that one. This one is pretty bad, though. I hate the NY Times.
[Milbank] is so entrenched in the Washington Media mindset....
Dude, this is so not helpful.
The DSM article was awful, but it was a rare misstep from a damn fine reporter.
Milbank did some great work on the Gannon/Guckert mishigas, and in the midst of it, SusanG over at dKos arranged for him to do a Q&A thread. Well, a couple of assholes chose to hog up the thread with 1000-word treatises on the evil of the MSM, each of which devolved into its own mini-thread pissing contest.
Understandably, he gave up, and resorted to picking through the thread for actual questions and e-mailing SusanG with his responses. I was so embarrassed.
Y'know, I was raised Lutheran, but I dropped out of confirmation class. I've recently begun reading up on the faith, out of curiosity as much as anything, and one of its tenets is that we are all 100% sinnner and 100% saint. It's a pretty reasonable concept.
Yes, his DSM article was perfectly dreadful. But Milbank is an eminently reasonable man, and a fine reporter. If you're a regular viewer of Countdown, you've seen him be The Sane Guy more often than not.
Don't write the guy off. Do a Joementum and approach him More In Sadness Than In Anger.
rorschach ... No, I missed that one. This one is pretty bad, though. I hate the NY Times.
res ipsa loquitur
They do get it more wrong than right (by which I mean "correct")...
That story really pissed off Doug Ireland. I blogged on it here.
And the Times neglected to mention that the HF is completely batshit conservative...
There's nothing wrong with being conservative.
It's the Heritage Foundation's habit of being completely batshit dishonest that concerns me.
Mornin', moonbats...
...hey does anyone know how to level a refrigerator?
And the Times neglected to mention that the HF is completely batshit conservative...
There's nothing wrong with being conservative.
It's the Heritage Foundation's habit of being completely batshit dishonest that concerns me.
Seraphiel
That's rather what I meant to convey with "batshit conservative." Another way of saying "faith-based science," I suppose.
hey does anyone know how to level a refrigerator?
Captain Goto
Bazooka? That should flatten it.
"DSM Smoking Gun: Bush knew "Slam Dunk" was fixed." Seems like a nice post but it only brings together what we already know. Very concise outline.
Well what he is not telling you was the CONTEXT of Tenet's statement.
Most likely Tenet's reply was to the idea of 'proving a negative'.
i.e.- claim Saddam has too much to track so even if he shows that large ordinance stocks of contraband were dismantled/destroyed he still has large swaths of unaccounted munitions that can be assumed part of an active field program if they're not in desginated(sealed) storage.
Most likely the talk was like this:
q: So he has these precursors and remnants?
Tenet: Yes but there is record of much being destroyed on pace to meet inspections.
q: Can you verify everything is gone?
Tenet: ...certainties are not the object of estimates in a classical sense, for others carrying out prosecution to determine.
q: Any remaining past tagged portions can be a prextext for action?
Tenet: Well now you are asking me to prove a negative...
q: So proving he has not destroyed everything... is a certainty and opens the fourteen hundred forty resolutions?
Tenet: Not being able to prove an estimate is a Slam Dunk in any sense.
No doubt Tenet made statements after that saying that this does not remove the procedural concerns of following the resolution, acting in unison with the ECOSOC, and that the numbers themselves were too high to be convincing arguments for war.
They took an answer to a narrow range of a broad topic and applied it overall.
Tenet's look (wha?) at Colin Powell's speech says it all.
They took an objective concern's approach in theory and made it into partisan subjective actionable analysis.
Most likely the actual words "NOT ACTIONABLE" were used by Tenet. The look he gave Powell says as much. Most likely Tenet had contingency apparatus ready to establish a clandestine monitoring unit to work off what they read/monitored in Iraq's response to weapons inspectors.
...because Condi Rice went through such pains in explaining 9-11's "unactionable information" regarding interagency warnings, stock selloffs, and cancelled DoD and DoJ public flights, actionable info was a hot topic. Propaganda involves taking language used to criticise you and applying it as a cover on actions you plan to take.
The DSM reiterates these facts. Language was being shaped to disable opposition. What better way to do so than use the same kind of language that would stop action , across the board.
As cover for the past even and pretext for the next one.
Tenet's quote was fished out of evidence. The same way deep throat got after the DoJ attempted overhaul of FBI. CIA plant (Woodward) goes after Tenet for his having overhauled the agency's old guard. This was in an attempt to form quick response, data heavy, and politically savy answers to the new paradigm of South Central Asian, Freed Soviet, and global scale economies.
The flat earth is a wrong way to say it. Every country is a first world nation in terms of what access can be obtained. The world community got smaller, the industrialization of third world countries makes them first worlders and facilitates a changing CIA response.
Meet their demand to expand with tech savy agents ready to get well inside the folds of forthcoming alliances.
Tenet got burned in the field. Much of it did with the K street program of political appointments within the understrutcure. His best agents were fired over liefstyles or personal beliefs, the window of transition was enough to undermine response through regular channels.
The old spooks would have stopped it on their own. The inner circle purged, the top and bottom in static post Florida chagrin.
Egg on face Tenet. Powell has yet to turn in. Your number two man is the final hope if you don't step forward.
No Executive privilige binds you. You were ahead of the curve and could have stopped it. It would not stop your ability to move forward today. Blow the whistle.
You and Richard Clarke should work together in private industry, unbound by procedure you have loopholes in the field and simply need to find the crucial business connections to become the true minutemen.
You two can watch the indicators, read into the players, stay a step ahead of each and every possible outcome using the same network every else does.
thanks loads, rorschach...
(/sarcasm)
I had it moved to make room for a set of shelves, and now it's leaning quite a bit. I know the damn thing had levelers on it but I can't remember how they worked (it was bought 17 years ago!!).
Hey, y'all, original Cat People just starting on TCM!
I had it moved to make room for a set of shelves, and now it's leaning quite a bit. I know the damn thing had levelers on it but I can't remember how they worked (it was bought 17 years ago!!).
Captain Goto
Sorry 'bout that.
When it comes to levelling, if the thing doesn't have adjustable feet, the only thing I know to do is shim, shim, shim.
Does Chuck Hagel knnow that the American death toll in Iraq may be more like 9,000 than 1,700, according to Jim Lampley's article at Huffington Post?
rorschach
He could offset the slant by lowering one or two corners of the house.
rorschach
He could offset the slant by lowering one or two corners of the house.
EkCenTriK
Always with the easy way out...
(actually, my house wasn't level when I bought it, but when I had it raised, I had it levelled too, so I kinda did that very thing...)
He could offset the slant by lowering one or two corners of the house.
EkCenTriK
Now, there's some advice I can USE!!
Mike in pr: Jim Lampley said THAT!!!??
By the way, this is the second time this week I have heard a politician make direct reference to the number of seriously wounded and it is not a conservative number. That alone has snapped my head around.
Everyone talks about 1700+ but the wounded have been almost forgotten. Now they are up in front.
That seems like a sign that something is shifting right there.
Captain Goto
Actually have you gone to the manufacturer's site and looked around. At a minimum, frequently you can find part lists with diagrams that may be informative. Some you can actually get installation documents etc.
Damn haloscan!
"Mike in pr: Jim Lampley said THAT!!!??"
Actusally, Lampley says a reporter Brian Harring is making the allegation. You can read about it at Haffington Post.
the post that was eaten said:
Thanks, EkCenTrik, I'll do that. Hopefully my model isn't so old that the info can't be found on-line.
...oh, and something about big screw-heads under the front of the fridge.
Did I already say it? DAMN HALOSCAN!!!
Goto, usually if you take off the grille down at the bottom, the leveling screws are behind it. They're best tackled with a small socket wrench.
Just don't get too muscular with them, or you'll bend the leveling legs themselves. (Or at least I did, but my kitchen floor imitates the rolling hills of Middle Tennessee. And I'm not that strong.)
While you're down there, make sure to clean off the coils, which are underneath if your fridge was built within the last 12 years or so. Vacuum the funk off the grille, then use a yardstick wrapped with a Swiffer cloth or an old sock to poke around and remove as much schmutz as possible. The dust and funk insulate the coils and make them work harder to cool down the air.
And all my brother and sisters, if your fridge is more than 15 years old, and it breaks down, don't call the repairman. Or at least that's what I was told by an old fridge repairman that I called out, who found mine wasn't working because the compressor fan had sucked up a styrofoam peanut. (Damn you and your presents, Mom!)
He told me that new fridges are so much more efficient, even than my '91 model, that I'd save more on electricity than a compressor repair would cost.
I EAT COCK!!!!!!!!! I AM A TOTAL FUCKING DOUCHEBAG!!!!!!!!!
Damnit 
the intake of precious fluids has impaired typing ability, and lag is a threat to this as well...
thanks, mike in pr...
Capt. Goto
Actually I have been surprised at what I have found in looking for appliance data. One thing to remember is that major appliances tend to last and people have them under warranty, so service techs need quite a bit of info to do their job. So a lot of it is still in the pipeline. Since I bought this house in 2003, I have had to address everything from the sprinkler system to the A/C. So far I have found everything I needed in one way or another.
...and thank you, hamletta. I asked a buddy to "help me" move it (actually, he just grabbed the whole damn thing himself and wrenched it away from the wall), then before pushing it back into place I took a mop to the nasty grunge that was exposed on the floor (lint and mousie-poop, mostly--yuck!).
This thing has already had one compressor replaced, so I seriously doubt I'd do that again. But thanks for the tip (and also for the one about the levelers).
It's a beautiful day...
Downing Hits Main Street!
John G | Email | Homepage | 06.18.05 - 11:23 pm
Great news! Thanx for the link.
Funny that. When Zell Miller or some Fox News Democrat criticizes John Kerry, Our Liberal Media jump around and say, "Even Democrats say..." No mention of the dubious credentials of any of these so-called Democrats.
On the other hand, when Chuck Hagel says the White House has been and continues to lie about the war, the media explains Hagel's a "pariah".
Were's the "Even Republicans admit Bush is a liar" meme?
P.S., the old fridge repairman was a Sears-contracted old fridge repairman.
But still. Appliance manufacturers have worked hard over the last several years to make our biggies more efficient, regardless of who's in charge of the gummint.
Seems it's a good selling point.
I know I'd give my left tit for a new gas furnace. The new models are so much more efficient that I'd save money, even in my drafty old house.
(actually, he just grabbed the whole damn thing himself and wrenched it away from the wall)
Golly. It must be old if it doesn't have wheels. It might have leveling legs that need to be turned on a horizontal axis. You'll need to get down on your belly and have a look at how it all works.
Too bad you don't live down the street. I love figuring out stuff like this. I'd bring all my tools and fuck up your fridge good! 
hamletta: my folks had a natural-convection furnace that dated back to the late 40's/early 50's, and every time they thought about upgrading, the furnace guy (a friend of my Dad's) said "why would you want to do that? no moving parts, nothing can go wrong..." Never mind that it was as you said "drafty", and that it took up 1/3 of the basement!!
Well, somthing eventually DID break that couldn't be fixed anymore, and they got a new rig along with central air. Schweet! As it turns out, those oversize ducts for natural convection were perfect for the A/C upgrade.
Now in MY house, when we called the A/C guy for an estimate, we found out that the ducts to the upper 1/2 story would have to be replaced (basically requiring a big chunk of the wall to be knocked out, and moved into the master bedroom about 2 feet).
The upshot: I'm amking do with 3 window A/C units (a bit noisy sometimes, but mostly pretty comfortable). Thank God Cape Cods are compact.
Oh, and hang onto your tit...you may need it.
Actually, it did have wheels in the front...soemthing I woulda noticed had I actually, y'know, LOOKED down there.
And you leave my fridge alone! :-O
I'd bring all my tools and fuck up your fridge good!
were I more wide awake, the more appropriate response would have been, "Ooh, baby, baby, beat me with you repair manuals..."
OMG! Fooly Cooly is on!
[Milbank] is so entrenched in the Washington Media mindset....
Dude, this is so not helpful.
The DSM article was awful, but it was a rare misstep from a damn fine reporter.
Bull fucking shit. Who do you think you're kidding? He follows the way the wind blows and is a pompus ass. He decides, then "reports".
Hagel didn't drink the Kool-Aid - which is quite a feat considering it is Nebraska's State Drink. I am not making that up.
I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the Kool-Aid in question was not the real deal, but a cheap knockoff.
Considering the importance of Kool-Aid to the state, I doubt any true Nebraskan would be caught dead (so to speak) drinking anything but the original.
So, now Hagel is concerned about the war?
Where was he during the run-up to the vote on the IWR? If I remember correctly, he expressed doubts about going to Iraq . . . nonetheless, he voted for the IWR anyway.
Now that it's not all turning out sweetness and light, he pulls this "I'm concerned" shit?
Fuck him.
He was concerned about the soundness of the plan to invade Iraq as early as September of 2002, as I remember it. But he nonetheless still played the role of the "good Republican" and voted for Bush's IWR.
Again: Fuck him.
You libruls are doomed! How can you not love our manly President? Have you not seen how he fills out the front of his flight-suit? I get all giddy whenever I look at that package. I keep that photo in my wallet for whenever I have a few minutes to myself.
I will just never understand you libruls.
Gee, I wonder where Avestus is? He spent most of Saturday telling us that we were winning in Iraq.
"It's like they're just making it up as they go along."
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Hey kids.. take a look! A Repub noticed!
Kool-Aid was, of course, invented in Hastings, Nebraska.
I would actually like Hagel if there wasn't that nagging question: How the hell did an ABSOLUTE NOBODY like YOU just happen to blow a popular (albeit stupid) sitting Governor out of the water in a Senatorial race that was largely tabulated by voting machines from a company you held significant financial interest in?
Prolly just a coincidence.
I'm back, with a refill for sustaining precious bodily fluids, the kool-aid pineapple equation is an intoxicant...
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Hagel is wrong on one point. We aren't losing the war -- we lost it! We lost it two years ago. The question is how many more need to die before the idiots figure it out.
13,000 wounded? Out of 50,000+ evacuees. What were the remaining 37,000 leaving Iraq for, a holiday?
If the truth were known we'd probably have around 28,000 wounded and 6,000 dead (including those who died later after leaving Iraq).
But, since we have a facist gov't we can forget about the Truth - the Truth, at least for us Americans, is now the enemy.
Don't feel so glib about Bush's lame luck status. Cheney has been calling the shots and I would lay even money that he turns out to be the Republican nominee for president in 2008.
Considering his ticker, the VP choice would be critical. I would look for neocon from the inner circle.........
God must be telling Bush that everything is going well in Iraq.
I can't wait to see Hannity and Limbaugh blast hagel for not supporting the troops and hating america and aiding and providing comfort to the terrorists and being a traitor.
Oh, he's a Republican, nevermind.
Don't let the Hagel comments fool you. He's trolling for votes among the moderate & disaffected Republicans. He talks the talk of moderation, but when he votes he votes with the Rethuglicans, all the way. His integrity is in question when it comes down to the doing.
It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq---
Yes chusk they make reality up as they go along and lately they've been whining about the reality they created.
Come over to the Dems, Chuck. We aren't mean to people who disagree occasionally, like they are. Except maybe Holy Joe.
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