I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
whoo.
hoo.
Fuck Bush - Bring on the Revolution.
Two of my favorite Moonbats. Good morning.
You folks are all up pretty early for a saturday morning. I'm at work, what's your excuse?
ql,
aw. shucks.
feral, heading upstate at 8. waitin' for my ride.
"You folks are all up pretty early for a saturday morning. I'm at work, what's your excuse?"
Getting married in six days, trying to tie up loose ends at work.
And checking the Red Sox score from last night.
Dinsdale.
Spiny Norman was me.
It's late, y'all.
Hey Watertiger, hope it's the start of a fun weekend.
Withnail - Congrats! I'm sure your plenty busy.
Bad news -
someone stole the remaining memorial items at Camp Casey.
http://198.65.14.85/News/2005/37...38/
37news10.htm
They even took Casey's boots.
(I NEED more coffee - but am living a pissed off life at this moment, sleep is hard)
Revolution: Now
This morning the sun has yet to grace the sky in Michigan and here, in the pre dawn, the world is slowing waking. Birds are not flying, but you can hear them in the distance. The people continue taking advantage of the Saturday morning by sleeping. But my mind is not nearly so settled. The truth is that I am petrified for the future of what we always believed was the good and just country: America.
How much more proof do the people need before they wrest their government back again. I am not speaking of the Republicans exclusively here either. There is an immense disconnect between what is happening around us and what our so-called leaders are perceiving. Certainly the Republicans bear the major responsibility for the schism that threatens to envelope our society, but without the utter capitulation of the Democrats; this would not be happening.
This disconnect between the reality we are living and the fantasy world of the inside-the-beltway crowd is a dangerous thing for my country. It is so dangerous that I believe the only way to have the government represent the people anymore is some sort of civil war.
Not necessarily a violent war: but a war against those who would exploit using the perversion of the law against the people. How many examples can you name? With a little bit of effort I am sure I could make a list of 100 actions that have attacked the very fabric of my country. I would include such things as the terrible war of attrition in Iraq: a war began on false pretenses for the purpose of establishing some sort of control over the resources of another sovereign nation. The continued altering of our laws for the benefit of a tiny minority at the expense of the majority of people. The denigration of the environment to the extent that we are threatening the further existence of humans. The absolute and utter destruction of the government of the United States for the purpose of ending the people’s ability to protect ourselves from damn near any cataclysmic event.
You fear the revolution: I fear the continuation of the subjugation of the people. Bring it on, it is long past time.
And checking the Red Sox score from last night.
Withnail
What a cheap frigging win that was!
And checking the Red Sox score from last night.
Withnail
What a cheap frigging win that was!
Oh, and HI everybody. Hope your day finds you refreshed from sleep and anticipating the beautiful day ahead.
lots to do today before i head to nm tomorrow. it will be great to escape work for two weeks.
Morning, all! Congrats, Withnail. And watertiger, do you ever weekend *in* the city?
Feral Liberal - thanks.
Steve J. - I agree, but I'm still happy. The Sox needed that one.
WT - Enjoy your visit.
DWD - I think Dems like Clinton, are hoping to hold on long enough to regain power and then turn this country around. I'm not sure it can happen. I pimped Chicago Dyke's Corrente post earlier, but I'll do it again.
With the current plan to drain monies from some programs and transfer them to NOLA reconstruction, Rove has once again managed to find an issue that will further divide the country.
Again, from the earlier thread.
For those of you who missed Al Franken's show yesterday, here is a perfect illustrative example:
Franken thinks the number FEMA gives out for hurricane relief is too tough to remember and that they should use 1-800-katrina instead. Unfortunately that number is already owned by a lady (and I use the term liberally not because of what she does, but because of her views) who provides sexual relief for callers. She started the call all purry and sexy. She had never heard of Franken and had no idea what show she was on. When he asked her about maybe giving up the number to aid the relief effort, she went into a wild rant about how "those" people were already getting too much, and if we give them more they will just waste it on frivolous items. Man, she was hateful. It really shook up Franken.
We are so fucked.
I was supposed to have the relations over to paint the house this weekend, but it looks like rain, so I'm just going to do the prewash and putter around priming until tomorrow.
Morning, all! Congrats, Withnail. And watertiger, do you ever weekend *in* the city?
doesn't look like that's gonna happen until some time in October!
Uhm, Mary. Do you ever rest. Driving 500 miles a week, teaching, and raising three kids aren't enough?
And Feral: Damn my internal clock. I get up between 3:30 and 4:00 every goddamn day. It would be really nice to sleep in once in awhile.
ql, the thing is: look at the actions we know about and extrapolate that there are many others we do NOT know about. People should not fear responsibility for their country, they should fear NOT doing anything
Thank God for Knight-Ridder reporting:
"Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the U.S. official with the power to order a massive federal response to Hurricane Katrina, flew to Atlanta for a previously scheduled briefing on avian flu on the morning after the storm swept ashore.
Chertoff's decision to fly to Georgia for a business-as-usual briefing even as residents in New Orleans fought for their lives in rising floodwaters raises new questions about how much top officials knew about what was happening on the Gulf Coast and how focused they were on the unfolding tragedy.
In fact, Chertoff didn't know for sure that New Orleans' life-preserving levees had failed until a full day had passed.
Not until Chertoff was returning from Atlanta on Aug. 30 did he begin writing the memo that declared Katrina "an incident of national significance" and put the full force of the federal government behind the relief and rescue efforts.
"What a cheap frigging win that was!"
Steve J.
First time since 2002 a game was ended by a hitting a batter.
A win is a win is a win.
QL,
Oh, it's enough in my book too. But this needs to be done, I can't afford to pay anyone to do it, ergo....
Believe me. What I wouldn't give for day running around to garage sales or sitting in front of chick flicks. Alas, not to be.
Steve J. - I agree, but I'm still happy. The Sox needed that one.
Withnail
I am a fan of (ahem) God's Team! 
And MoDo... damn, pace yorself, girl.
The Oedipal loop-de-loop of W. and Poppy grows ever loopier.
With Karl Rove's help, Junior designed his presidency as a reverse of his father's. W. would succeed by studying Dad's failures and doing the opposite. But in a bizarre twist of filial fate, the son has stumbled so badly in areas where he tried to one-up Dad that he has ended up giving Dad a leg up in the history books.
As Mark Twain said: "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
Of course, it's taken Junior only five years to learn how smart his old man was.
(sips coffee)
and the morning's first (and probably only) blogwhore.
Breaking news from CNN:
Another Bush arrested for being violent!
John Bush, son of Jeb, arrested after fighting cops
flew to Atlanta for a previously scheduled briefing on avian flu on the morning after the storm swept ashore.
Big Pharma probably flew him there.
But I'm cynical.
With the current plan to drain monies from some programs and transfer them to NOLA reconstruction, Rove has once again managed to find an issue that will further divide the country
It's the twisted MOA of the Rovians that will take the tragety of Katrina and use it as a tool to achieve their ends. Bush said yesterday that programs had to be cut to fund the rebuilding efforts, but that tax cuts are still necessary for the economy's "recovery", so you know the programs that will get cuts are the ones that don't affect republican contributors. In other words, the poor and disenfranchised, those that need the programs the most.
"an incident of national significance"
how . . . understated.
'Historic changes possible in military's role in domestic emergencies'
http://tinyurl.com/8rthl
"President Bush's push to give the military a bigger role in responding to major disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of legal limits on the use of federal troops on U.S. soil. At question, however, is how far to push the military role, which by law may not include actions that can be defined as law enforcement — stopping traffic, searching people, seizing property or making arrests. That prohibition is spelled out in the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, enacted after the Civil War mainly to prevent federal troops from supervising elections in former Confederate states. Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said, "I believe the time has come that we reflect on the Posse Comitatus Act." He advocated giving the president and the secretary of defense "correct standby authorities" to manage disasters."
Well here it goes.
Police state here we come.
The moment the posse pomitatus act gets repealed or get's 'patriot-acted' we'll see the Bush cabal one step closer to the dictatorship he and the PNAC'ers have always wanted.
Just one more step closer to that corporatist/fascist state the corporations have been striving for since the 1930's.
This whole thing seems like quicksand. Each disaster leads up to another, and another, and another until we sink ever further into the muck of our own doomed fate.
Everyone better start memorizing their old testament cause that'll soon be our new constitution before too long.
MYOB'
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(Feral Liberal -- see above)
(Feral Liberal -- see above)
With the current plan to drain monies from some programs and transfer them to NOLA reconstruction, Rove has once again managed to find an issue that will further divide the country
Speaking of Rove -- there are no limits to his slimy trail of evil
"White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove personally called the Texas secretary of state about a newspaper story quoting a staff lawyer about whether Rove was eligible to vote in the state.
The lawyer was subsequently fired.
Secretary of State Roger Williams said that he decided to dismiss the lawyer after talking with Rove but that the White House adviser didn't request that he do so.
"Absolutely not," said Williams, a longtime supporter of President Bush and a major GOP fundraiser.
"Karl called me. He had read the article and wanted to know if it was our stance" that his voter registration status in Texas might be in jeopardy, he said. "I told him it wasn't and that the person who gave that opinion was not authorized to do so."
The call to Williams came at the height of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, the weekend after the storm struck. Rove was involved in the early White House response and subsequently has been a leader in the federal government's reconstruction effort."
Man its hard work not blogwhoring my own stuff.
Morning, rational people.
Here's my blogwhore for the morning.
When even the Israeli newspapers are laughing sarcastically at Bush, things are indeed bad.
fuck the sox - let's go Yankees!
*note to self* I must stop reading Russ Smith of the New York Press......
"Bush will be seen as an extraordinary & visionary leader...."
I could weep.
DWD - You state our shared fears so eloquently. There are times I feel so overwhelmed by what I do know, and you are so right about what we don't know. It seems that perhaps there's a change in the wind, that maybe we are getting close to a tipping point where enough people realize what's happening to our country and are willing to do something about it. Bush's poll numbers are encouraging, but that has to be a much longer term trend before it's truly significant.
atta,
they might very well need that Texas vote come '06.
Bush channels Cheney.
(just pic)
morning, all. i need to make some coffee. is anyone up on the whole avian flu thing?
i don't know if i should be worried or pissed off or what. is it hype to make us all buy tamiflu, or a scary truth that boosh and co are uttely unprepared for?
From ABC News:
It could kill a billion people worldwide, make ghost towns out of parts of major cities, and there is not enough medicine to fight it. It is called the avian flu....
According to Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Bush's call to remain on the offensive has come too late.
"If we had a significant worldwide epidemic of this particular avian flu, the H5N1 virus, and it hit the United States and the world, because it would be everywhere at once, I think we would see outcomes that would be virtually impossible to imagine," he warns.
Already, officials in London are quietly looking for extra morgue space to house the victims of the H5N1 virus, a never-before-seen strain of flu. Scientists say this virus could pose a far greater threat than smallpox, AIDS or anthrax.
"Right now in human beings, it kills 55 percent of the people it infects," says Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow on global health policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. "That makes it the most lethal flu we know of that has ever been on planet Earth affecting human beings."....
"Each year different flus come, but your immune system says, 'Ah, I've seen that guy before. No problem. Crank out some antibodies, and I might not feel great for a couple of days, but I'll recover,'" Garrett says. "Now what's scaring us is that this constellation of H number 5 and N number 1, to our knowledge, has never in history been in our species. So absolutely nobody watching this has any natural immunity to this form of flu."....
Did everyone watch Bush apologise (daily show had a clip) - talk about spoilt brat.....not meaning it....it was so obvious.
How does anyone in this country possibly like this idiot?
QL - You're up even earlier than me. At least I can sleep until 4:45 on workdays, and I manage to stay in bed until 6:30 on weekends I'm not working. People ask me why I don't sleep in on weekends, and I tell them Hey, that IS sleeping in compared to weekdays.
Yep.
The speed with which President Bush responded to his own political disaster stands in stark contrast to the snail-like response of his administration to the suffering of many thousands of victims of Katrina.
Hugging trips to New Orleans and the Gulf, promises of big spending (editorial, Sept. 16) and a speech at a national prayer service at the National Cathedral on Friday follow hard upon a precipitous drop in his poll numbers.
The priority couldn't be clearer.
Laura Conte
Vestal, N.Y., Sept. 16, 2005
Oh, and good morning moonbats. Murky morning here in Bawstin. Gonna get me some cappucino at Cafe Graffiti.
DWD. Eloquent and spot on.
CD -
I have read about the flu over the past few months and I foolishly assumed that someone in the Federal government would be on top of it.
After Katrina, I have the feeling little has been done. :-(
Steve J., 'God's Team'?
I'm from Chicago, I think God's Team resides on the North Side,to teach us patience and suffering, and quite possible localized insanity.
morning, all. i need to make some coffee. is anyone up on the whole avian flu thing?
i don't know if i should be worried or pissed off or what. is it hype to make us all buy tamiflu, or a scary truth that boosh and co are uttely unprepared for?
if it comes now and becomes virulent we are screwed. it will make the plague look like a vacation.
suffering, and quite possible localized insanity.
Buckeye,
Ever been up 3-Zip in an LCS and LOSE?????
Watertiger,
Sheesh, that picture of Bush channeling Cheney even has the sneer!
Amazing!
Morning all. So does anyone know how to go back and read those long threads from last night? I get just a blank Haloscan box....
A note of optimism about the flu:
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/aug20...05/nigms-
03.htm
Hurricane-now-Tropical Storm Ophelia is here today. So far it looks like just another Nova Scotia fall day, but they say we're going to get whomped.
okay, pibbles. off to Rhinebeck.
NYMary, put yer feet up for at least 5 minutes, girl.
attaturk, please don't pop an artery before our nuptials.
feral, i prefer your caption to mine!
The avian flu pandemic is "unavoidable' according to UN public health officials.
Roche Labs produces the only known "cure" in pill form and the US would need 200 million of these "treatments" to prevent substantial loss of life. And yet the Bushboy maladministration has only secured 2 million with the liklihood that they won't get much more soon because other countries are wait-listed for Roche, who are making the pills as fast as they can.
Once again the Bushboy maladministration either miscalculated into thinking:
a: The avian flu won't be a problem (on my watch).
b: Private enterprise will devise a solution - no need for large government involvement.
c: God and prayer will save us!
good dowd this morning if no one has posted it here yet.
Anent above: If George will not advocate raising taxes and prefers to cut government programs: which ones do you think he means?
Defense department?
Government subsidies to be big business?
Agribusiness?
or
Medicare
Medicaid
Education
Social Security
Environment
Bring it on, Motherfucker!
The avian flu pandemic is "unavoidable' according to UN public health officials.
Rudy, could you share a link for that?
Thanx!
G"mornin', "bats.
Turdblossom gets even.
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When Bushboy claims to revere life by prohibiting women from having abortions despite their own wishes, how come this reverence for life doesn't supersede his tax cuts for the rich?
If we had sufficient funds from the taxes Bushboy has chosen NOT TO COLLECT, we could have prevented the Katrina disaster (by shoring up the levees), instituted healthcare for the poor and provided food and shelter and transportation before the hurricane hit with sensible planning.
None of the above was done because Bushboy has been running huge deficits and his conservative (religious hypocrites) base are against helping the poor, because in their own twisted minds and theology, the poor "deserve to be poor!"
They believe that "God helps those who help themselves!" Like Ken Lay.
Most rightwingers believe the above aphorism and think it's from scripture. It's from Ben Franklin's, "Poor Man's Almanac."
Steve J:
There was a story in the front section of yesterday's Boston Globe.
I tossed the paper or I would find the page.
From what I have read, most first world nations have been preparing for the Avian flu and have snared any medicine available to combat it. It is too late for us to try and play catch up now. Like everything else, w has dropped the ball on this one.
Avian flu maybe the long awaited WMD come true. Or, reference chimp's speech to the UN, an op to ratchet up profits for the drug industry, along with AIDS vaccine.
Of course we need drug preparedness. Just that one gets gunshy of anything bushco does, suspecting profit is the only motive.
Good morning all. DWD:
People should not fear responsibility for their country, they should fear NOT doing anything
Eloquent, sir, eloquent.
Anyone catch Clinton last night on Larry King? It has been said many times on the Atrios board, but one really longs for an intellect like Clinton versus the half-witted simpleton that is at the reins now.
Bill mentioned that we have a moral obligation to the poor. He then said that the major Western religions write in the Bible, the Koran, and the Torah that one of the greatest obligations of man is to alleviate poverty.
Dude is sharp.
Prayer.
Lord above in thy heaven, please, I implore you: shield my eyes that I may not see. Cloud my brain with football and beer and reality TV so that I may find peace. Let me forget my brothers and sisters and learn to hate my fellow people for their race and religion. Let me believe my government when they tell me that they are doing your work. All this and more, I implore. (I tried it the other way and it is not working: perhaps being an unthinking moran would help)
DWD
"gunshy"
is that a word?
Really virulent diseases die off quickly. Ahem.
Humanity is but a mere "ecological niche" which will be filled by the ever evolving, ever changing viral community.
It is utterly incredible how screwed America is.
I just read an article in the August, 2005 "New Yorker" magazine by a guy named Lemann, who is a journalism professor.
He did a piece on a rightwing radio talk-show host, blogger and all-around rightwing scumbag named Hugh Hewitt.
Turns out Hewitt wants to make all journalism 'fess up to their political biases and he and his vast rightwing network (and it is vast), routinely applaud any rightwinger in politics (John Roberts is their current hero) and smear any leftwinger, be they politician or journalist who fails to be enthusiastic enough about Goopers or suggests that the "other party" might have a pov.
It's this kind of insidious insanity that will bring about the theocratic/autocratic state that the rightwing fanatics are so desirous of and will cause another civil war in the USA.
Glad to read DWD's lament, upthread. Although I think we are already in revolution. Society is moving too fast for the country as a whole. Revert to fundamentalism is always the result.
Issues like abortion and gay marriage derail the election of democrats every time. The people want health care, accessible higher education and other dem positions, but are simply not ready to change from the traditional spot.
Unfortunately the rovians of this world siphon off the leery, use them as voting stock to keep their sorry asses in power.
I believe the only answer is time, live through it, man and natural disaster will kick us in the ass. Only way the neocons will do the right thing is by necessity.
Hell, Rudy, I am trying to enlist people already: wake up before you have lost all, please.
Hell, Rudy, I am trying to enlist people already: wake up before you have lost all, please.
"gunshy"
is that a word?
Yes.
And while we're at it, how about a little more outrage that the chimp has put a vetinarian in charge of women's health. Should tell you something of what he thinks of women.
Ah, the rites of passage of the homeland....
Was it hazing, or just boys being boys?
FLOWER MOUND [Texas] – As the freshmen arrived at a Flower Mound High School wrestling team party Aug. 27, the upperclassmen swept them off their feet – literally.
They stripped the newcomers down to their bathing suits, picked them up and carried them to the pool in the backyard, some of the participants said.
On the way, they took turns slapping the youngsters' bellies, a game they call "pink bellying." After eight or nine slaps, they threw the boys into the pool.
When the freshmen tried to leave the pool, upperclassmen played defense. They dunked the boys back into the pool as parents and their coach, Charles Zascavage, watched, said two freshman team members who attended the party but are not among the five accusers who told police they were the victims of hazing and assault. One of the five said he was also sexually assaulted.
Is that hazing or "boys being boys"? Two sides interpret the same party very differently. To most of the parents and freshmen, it was a display of boyhood roughhousing. Police determined it was criminal.
[Bunch of "they're good kids stuff here, then]
The mother of one of the 14-year-old accusers said her son's back was black and blue after the alleged hazing.
"I guarantee a car wreck would not look this bad," she said. "He said they pounded the crap out of him. I said, 'Why didn't you get away?' and he said he couldn't. To me, that's hazing."
The older kids kicked, punched, slapped and threw footballs at the five victims, she said. All five went to a hospital after the party, she said. She said one had a concussion and one a bruised spleen.
Zach and Kirk said team members know of only two of the accusers, and they said neither has been harassed.
"I'm not going to say no one was hurt," said Dareth Chapa, the mother of a 16-year-old wrestler. "But this was not premeditated. This was not malicious. This was dumb boys not thinking. When you put that many boys together, they're going to be boys."...
The wrestlers explained the sexual assault charges against three juveniles as "knifing" or "goosing," a common prank where a person surprises someone by holding their hand straight out and whipping someone in the rear.
But a relative of one of the accusers said the sexual assault occurred when some team members put condoms on their fingers and sexually assaulted a teammate....
Spork,
is that really a toupee, kinda looks like roadkill.
Humanity is but a mere "ecological niche" which will be filled by the ever evolving, ever changing viral community.
_____________
Does this mean, gasp, that man will be replaced by a pack of viruses?
Here's the avian flu thing from the Boston Globe.
el:
Waiting for the rightwing to "do the right thing" through necessity will be as painful as it is dangerous.
The rightwing is really nothing more than a group of greedy, selfish, bigoted bastards who want things their way and will not tolerate any other possible "sharing" arrangements.
Unlike the liberals who seek accomadation and compromise, these people are intransigent and unscrupulous about using any lie, distortion or fear-mongering to get their way.
Capitalism is an inherently unfair situation (as Katrina has shown) but it can be made "livable" with appropriate government regulation and intervention.
The rightwingers in the USA are not very different than the Taliban. They want their religious beliefs to be law and they want an unfettered capitalism that enriches the few at the expense of everyone else. What they want is a Banana Republic that goes to their church on Sunday!
Good Morning, fellow travelers!
Yesterday I had a minor run-in at a DNA conference with one of the Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth" nimrods.
He was one of the presenters about post-conviction DNA remedies for innocent people in prison. His main point is that there is a big difference between "innocent" people and "exhonerated" people (just like, I suppose there is some diference between "innocent" people and those found "not-guilty" by judge or jury.) This is a very small and pointless observation....
Anyway, true to Swiftfuck form, after all his points were exposed as either false, setting up improper oppositions or internally inconsistent, the first thing out of his mouth was to attack me because "I was a professor who didn't know what was going on in the real world." Well, this is just an ignorant attack because I probably have as much "real world -- whaytever" experience as he, but it was just amazing that he was willing to simply and ignorantly attack.
And then there was his showing of murder victim pictures, which is simply prosecutor porn.
Just needed a morning vent, thanks,
Rudy, my note could be interpreted as being personal: that was not my intent. I want EVERYONE to have the scales fall from their eyes so that may see.
Jesus X. Crutch sez:
is that really a toupee, kinda looks like roadkill.
Maybe a squirrel but I didn't want to assume.
.
Breaking news from CNN:
Another Bush arrested for being violent!
John Bush, son of Jeb, arrested after fighting cops
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that kid looks mighty,hmmm black hair ,black eyes...umh MUSLIM to me???
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Good on ya
DWD:
I think I've known the right was "the enemy" all my life and I have done what I can to fight it with political activities, donations and letters to the editor of major newspapers (one recently published in the Boston Globe).
But I appreciate what you are trying to do. I sent an email to you.
That family sure has issues with alcohol...
Son of Florida Gov. Bush arrested
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, law enforcement officials said.
John Ellis Bush, 21, was arrested by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission at 2:30 a.m. on a corner of Austin's Sixth Street bar district, said commission spokesman Roger Wade.
The nephew of President Bush was released on $2,500 bond for the resisting arrest charge, and on a personal recognizance bond for the public intoxication charge, officials said.
Wade said he had no further details about the charges.
Gov. Bush and his wife Columba appeared Friday evening at a museum reception in Miami.
"My son's doing fine. It's a private matter. We will support him. We're sad for him. But I'm not going to discuss it on the public square with 30 cameras," the governor told reporters.
It's not the first time Florida's first family has experienced legal problems with one of their children.
Noelle Bush, the governor's daughter, was arrested in January 2002 and accused of trying to pass a fraudulent prescription at a pharmacy to obtain the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. She completed a drug rehabilitation program in August 2003 and a judge dismissed the drug charges against her.
The American people want many of the things the Goopers don't want like:
Stem cell research. Social Security. Peace and the absense of war. An honest Wall St. with government regulation. Balanced budgets and Disaster relief when and if needed.
Unfortunately the rightwing owns most of the media and the bullhorns in this country and keep shouting about "Gay marriage, abortion, prayer in the public school, etc.!" as though these issues have any relevence to government or most individuals lives.
They don't and they shouldn't but so long as the Goopers make the agenda for America, such inanities will prevail.
thanks, nymary. nephew says that it's a wonderful morning, and boosh still sucks.
But a relative of one of the accusers said the sexual assault occurred when some team members put condoms on their fingers and sexually assaulted a teammate....
if it had been a girls receiving this, would anyone have any doubt it was assualt? this is just sad. and the coach was there? nice coaching. not.
Rudy
I stand corrected. Meant to say, the left has to slog it out, but will not win in the moment. Only time exposing the incompetence of the monobusiness culture can pave the way for a change of regime.
I'm with DWD on the need to act.
Let's face it the Booosh family is a nest of vipers and an evil spawn.
Bushdaddy's progeny are a collection of miscreants and criminals such as Bushboy (the worst), Jeb, Neal and Michael.
If they're not whoremongering, they're peddling themselves out as whores for the rich.
They give prostitution a bad name!
Thanks el
I hate loosing composure, but the guy pushed me over the edge right into outrage.
Thees woman...
thees how-joo-say "peeckles"
she just needs a leetle ˇEl Gato Negro! love-eeng.
she weel be how-joo-say "one-of-us"
oh jes...
so.
el,
I know I am right, I just don't know what to do about it. It is the most frustrating thing: our leaders are pretty much all beholden to corporate interests at the expense of the people.
I am writing: it is kind of what I do best that might stand a chance of making a difference. My hope for my new book is that it will remove the scales from the eyes of those who read it.
But the saddest truth I can relate is this: we need a leader with the charisma to harbor the contempt of the people for their masters. It is a sad aspect of humans: we need to be directed.
To say that we should or could do something is nonsensical: what will we do? Somewhere there has to be a savior rising from the streets to lead this nation to the higher ground.
The rightwing is really nothing more than a group of greedy, selfish, bigoted bastards who want things their way and will not tolerate any other possible "sharing" arrangements.
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Maybe not a definition of the rightwing per se, but of the right wing masters. I saw the rightwing while canvassing in the last election. Simple folk who want to be represented by something they can understand.
Well, enter jeebus.
That family sure has issues with alcohol...
It's not the alcohol. It's growing up in a family with an inborne sense of entitlement, zero social responsibility, privlege and unaccountability. That produces people who are a waste of skin.
Jeb Bush Jr, Noelle, Jenna, Not Jenna, GW, Neil, Marvin et al are all do nothing, give nothing people. Alcohol abuse is just a by product of their pathetic, selfish lives.
el:
I agree that we need to act against the American Taliban known as "the rightwing" or the Goopers and I have been doing much and will continue to do much in that cause.
In addition to writing letters and emails to the media, I speak out at family gatherings, social settings and with virtually everyone I meet.
I also worked for Kerry in the last election and Gore in the previous one.
I would and could do more and would be interested in any group that I think could be effective in ridding America of this Gooper plague.
Despite little sustained criticism of the administration in the MSM, the emperor's poll numbers are extremely low.
I would like to see this factoid explored.
What is the biggest reason for this disenchantment? Word of mouth? Independent assessment of news events? general disatisfaction (gas prices..), discomfort and unrest?
Anyone see Maher last night? Any highlights?
It's not the alcohol. It's growing up in a family with an inborne sense of entitlement, zero social responsibility, privlege and unaccountability. That produces people who are a waste of skin.
Jeb Bush Jr, Noelle, Jenna, Not Jenna, GW, Neil, Marvin et al are all do nothing, give nothing people. Alcohol abuse is just a by product of their pathetic, selfish lives.
EarthMerm
Good enough.
I think, though, that alcohol brings out people's true character. Most people drink and just have a good time. But people like the Bushes drink and want to go beat people up, get noisy, fight cops, etc.
So, anybody think Karl's gonna pull a rabbit out of his hat anytime soon?
Signs point to: "Not a snowball's chance in hell."
stupidest thing about the Bush arrest thing- it happened on Sixth Street in Austin -the largest possible concentration of cops, bars and lowest common denominator drunks in town, despite a plethora of other bars where he could have gotten plotzed unnoticed by an army of police.
Very telling - despite their supposed "inside" status in Texas, here's this stupid fuck getting his drunk on like every other tourist in town.
But in Russia lately, Putin has said little about such reforms. Instead, critics complain he has continued to squeeze out any remaining political opposition. At the White House, Putin made no mention of democracy or the rule of law. Instead, he focused on winning Russian accession to the World Trade Organization and enhancing U.S.-Russian energy ties. After leaving the White House, he went to meet with U.S. oil executives.
But Chimpy saw your soul, Vlad-uh-mur. You haven't misplaced it again, have you?
While Bushboy's low poll numbers are certainly gratifying, if they can't be transmuted into something substantial whereby the media (what's left of "respectable media") and the American public come to the realization that Bushboy isn't (and never was) a "can do" person, but is nothing more than shallow, incompetent barker for the rightwing, then nothing will have changed.
The real acid test for changing America is the 2006 elections. If Goopers can be swept or removed from Congress in sufficient numbers to allow the Dems to control at least one House of Congress, we can then have investigations, which will then overturn the rocks that these rightwing worms have been hiding under and making maggots!
What is the biggest reason for this disenchantment? Word of mouth? Independent assessment of news events? general disatisfaction (gas prices..), discomfort and unrest?
Gimlet
I suspect the shock of what it costs to fill the gas tank has certainly added to the general angst. When home heating costs hit this winter, I think we might finally see some kind of tipping point as working Americans are suddenly faced with the same kind of choice poorer Americans have faced for years: food or heat.
NYMary, thanks.
Steve J., the Sox may be God's team. All I know is that I got engaged in October last year, and a couple of weeks later, the Sox won the Series for the first time in 86 years. I figure that's a good omen for the marriage.
she just needs a leetle ˇEl Gato Negro! love-eeng.
she weel be how-joo-say "one-of-us"
oh jes...
El Gato ees, how-joo-say, muy divertido.
Si?
Very telling - despite their supposed "inside" status in Texas, here's this stupid fuck getting his drunk on like every other tourist in town.
lavalamp | Email | 09.17.05 - 8:56 am
If he is Floriduh based, why was he in Texas? Is this the same son caught having sex in a car a few years ago?
I think, though, that alcohol brings out people's true character. Most people drink and just have a good time. But people like the Bushes drink and want to go beat people up, get noisy, fight cops, etc.
I'll bet Babs Bush never held her kids accountable or responsible for any trouble they ever got into. I'll bet anytime they got into trouble she blamed the bad influence kids they hung out with, in other words, it was always someone else's fault. You reap what you sow & Babs sowed herself a field of self absorbed, selfish, hedonistic spawn all just taking up space in this world. They offer nothing, but take, take, take.
Unfortunately the rightwing owns most of the media and the bullhorns in this country and keep shouting about "Gay marriage, abortion, prayer in the public school, etc.!"
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Here on the left we shoot ourselves in the foot by taking up these issues when the bullhorn is raised. We have to, as gays, fuckers, and atheists are either us or our brothers.
re that hazing story-
That's barbaric.
every adult present, including the parents who stood around and watched, should be arrested. The kids of those parents should be removed from their care.
The coaches should be fired. The school should lose its rights to participate in competition.
Knuckle dragging sadists
THe Simpson's are a mirror onto merica's soul...
Remember that early episode when the town had to grapple with doing something and having to pay higher taxes or not doing it and having a worse scenario - guess which one they picked?
humans are soo evolved with the petri dish of earth being almost empty, that they make the wrong decision almost every time - I wonder if DNA has that pre-programmed so that any dominant species automatically self-destructs?
But but,,, but..... the Bushes are great strong leaders with vision and resolve and freedom, and liberals just want to tax your death and make your kids gay!
Anyone see Maher last night? Any highlights?
Hey.
Are any Boston area moonbats going to Cambridge Common this afternoon to see Cindy + Co?
Normally, I'd go to the Hempfest which is also today, but I think this is more important.
Shock waves that should and could shake the Gooper house of lies and cards to the ground:
The cost of the Katrina aftermath while Bushboy & the Goopers proceed, scandalously, with even more tax cuts for the rich!
The Plamegate indictments.
Continued disconnect between claims about Iraq "victory" and the horrific reality on the ground.
If these get sufficient "press" it is my fervent hope that America wakes up and realizes that we are being misled by a band of vicious xian juvenile delinquents!
Blak No1,
Say hi to Cindy for us. We're trying to get her here next week for the St. Pat's Four trial, but the logistics are a nightmare.
Say hi to Cindy for us
I will!
BlakNo1 --
Can't today, child and playmate responsibilities while my wife has to work.
What time are you going?
Sorry, should have linked that: St. Pat's Four.
And what's this about Camp Casey being vandalized/ransacked?
BlakNo1:
Can't make it today, but perhaps the next time!!!
I think I'll go around 2. I'm riding so it should take me about 5-10 minutes to get there.
Cheney has sugery next week.
He dies. The Cheney witches split his fortune.
Who among them is the most ambitious with grand plans to use his millions for rightwing causes?
My money is on witch Mary.
Wingnuts are saying Cindy called for the withdrawl of troops "from occupied New Orleans." Anyone hear that for real? Any links?
BlakNo1 lives 5-10 minutes from everywhere in Boston. Personally, I think he teleports, but he just doesn't want to show off.
I hope the clouds clear up. I also hope this doesn't distract from Hempfest too much, they got completely washed out last year by remnants of Ivan.
Article in today's Wall Street Journal (subscription) about real estate speculation in New Orleans. From the article:
Many are trying to cash in while demand is most desperate. Maria Yiannopoulos, who mans the local FEMA legal help line, says that in the last two days, 80 calls have come in from tenants that have been evicted on a few days notice, so landlords can sell their homes at inflated prices. Indeed, Ms. Yiannopoulos says her father in Baton Rouge has been besieged with offers to buy his modest home for as much as $500,000 -- "far more" than its pre-Katrina value. "Real estate is just being gobbled up here," she says.
Demand is so pressing, even people in the far outskirts of the city are feeling it. Before Katrina hit, Susan Durham had been trying to sell her four-bedroom stucco home in Prairieville, La., about 17 miles from downtown Baton Rouge, for $329,000. She took it off the market immediately after the storm when her daughter and some friends needed temporary shelter, but has now put it back on for $339,000. "The market here is crazy," says Mrs. Durham, an artist. "Everything is topsy-turvy."
Although they know they aren't going to get any bargains in a boomtown, speculators are still nosing around. Vinu Zacahriah, a New York computer consultant, flew to Baton Rouge last weekend. But he found the city so crowded with evacuees and other investors, he couldn't even get a hotel room, and had to stay in Yazoo City, Miss., a four-hour drive away. When he saw how few homes and condos were available for sale and how high prices had climbed, he switched gears and started searching for raw land. He found some for about $30,000 an acre, which he plans to buy, subdivide, and sell to builders whom he expects to soon flock to the area. "There will be demand for homes for years to come," he says.
Perverse.
wish I could go, Blak, but have a memorial gathering to attend, someone from a workplace of 15 years ago
Bush did not use a bullhorn Friday, but he did set a benchmark for his administration on social issues. Praising the outpouring of charity to help victims of Katrina with food, shelter and comfort, Bush made no mention, as he had in recent days, of FEMA's failures to respond adequately. Instead, he asked for God's love to "touch all those in need," and he spoke of the opportunity offered by the storm to change not only lives but attitudes.
Your attitude needs changin', Chimpy.
First of all, resign immediately. Then, denounce the rabid, right-wing assholes who follow you.
The Bushboy rationale for keeping the tax cuts and eliminating the Estate Tax even though Katrina will cost upward of $200 billion not to mention the on-going Iraq war, the Medicare prescription drug benefit and the increased interest on the national debt:
"Tax cuts will spur growth and the taxes on the growth will pay for all these costs!"
Bushboy is not only innumerate but he is a proven liar and this rationale doesn't make sense and never did.
If his tax cuts were to spur economic growth so much, how come we've had nothing but record deficits ever since Bushboy instituted them???
My bicycle has a built-in warp core.
A couple of facts stood out in my morning fish wrap:
1. Bush said he will make up the relief effort with other cuts in the budget including Medicaid.
2. Medicare premiums are going up 13.2% percent after last year's record increase of 17.4%.
3. Much of the relief effort is being spearheaded by Haliburtons under no-bid contracts.
4. Bush wants even more tax cuts, most notably the estate tax.
Conclusion: Bush is abusing a national tragedy as cover to take money from the old and poor and transfer it to the rich.
I shouldn't be surprised, but the blatantness is shocking.
Sorry, el.
Priest Pricks Children With Pin
Austin, Texas - The Catholic Diocese of Austin is investigating after a priest called about 15 children to come forward during evening Mass so he could prick them with an unsterilized pin to demonstrate the pain Jesus suffered during crucifixion.
"What I was trying to teach them is that suffering is a part of life," said the Rev. Arthur Michalka, 78, on Friday.
No one reacted strongly during the incident at evening Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Corn Hill on Wednesday, said Helen Osman, communications director for the Austin diocese. Osman said that the priest pricked both adults and children.
"What were you thinking?" said Debbie Sybert, a Jarrell resident whose 11-year-old daughter, Amanda, was pricked during Mass. "Apparently our father has lost his mind."
Sybert said the pinpoint drew Amanda's blood. But Michalka said none of the children bled.
Regardless of whether blood was drawn, Osman said, pricking children with a needle is "not appropriate religious training."
Osman said workers at the Williamson County and Cities Health District will conduct confidential interviews with the Mass attendees to find out whether they have any communicable diseases and whether skin was broken.
Officials will then determine whether the children might be at risk for exposure to diseases such as HIV or hepatitis and whether a blood test is needed.
Dr. Ed Sherwood, health authority for the Williamson district, said the likelihood of transmitting blood-borne diseases by a pinprick is "real but quite small." He said the risk would increase if adults and children were pricked with the same pin because adults are more likely to be sexually active.
"As a parent, I would not be happy about it," Sherwood said. "But I would be consoled by the fact that statistically, the overwhelming probability is that these kids will be just fine."
Michalka said he plans to apologize in church this Sunday for not sterilizing the pin.
"I didn't think it was that big a deal," Michalka said. "I can see the point now. I'll see to it that it doesn't happen again."
$350 billion for Iraq.
$200 billion for Katrina.
Charge it! Charge it!
But wait, give the upper 1% of earners more tax cuts!
Fuckers.
speculation! it's what makes amurka great!
jackals, republicans and vultures- i know which group i wouldn't invite to dinner.
Actually, it took me about 40 minutes to ride to South Station from my house when I rode there about a month ago. I was surprised it only took me that long.
My bicycle has a built-in warp core.
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nice! did you get that at bike nashbar?
Austin, Texas - The Catholic Diocese of Austin is investigating after a priest called about 15 children to come forward during evening Mass so he could prick them with an unsterilized pin to demonstrate the pain Jesus suffered during crucifixion.
and this is in the 'liberal' city in texas. seriously, what the hell is wrong with people in that state? it seems like half the bobo's world stories i read here are from TX. two this morning already.
John Gillnitz:
If we had a mass media worthy of the name the uproar against Bushboy's financial irresponsibility would be a firestorm similar to the one we saw during Monicagate!!!
Instead, as you rightly point out, Bushboy will fix up the mess he made in New Orleans by passing the tax buck to the working stiffs and the next generation, while enriching his rich fatcat friends with even more tax cuts at the same time!!!
It's an outrage but the public won't know a tree has fallen because we don't have a media that will record the sound (or the pictures)!
it seems like half the bobo's world stories i read here are from TX. two this morning already.
That's because I read the Texas papers first. I gotta run to the farmers market, but when I get back I start on Oklahoma. Then I post them here.
You never know what kind of goodies Ace Wheelworks will have kicking around. 
I'll be getting it fitted for quantum torpedo launchers next week.
I'll be getting it fitted for quantum torpedo launchers next week.
BlakNo1 | Email | Homepage | 09.17.05 - 9:24 am | #
those should work for hummers quite nicely
I figure that's a good omen for the marriage.
Withnail
It was also the first time any BB team came back from a 3-0 deficit.
Bushboy cries crocodile tears for the Big Easy
Katrina he thought would be just a bit breezy!
Prior threats were rife
But "I've got a life"
Said he, vacationing with Cheneychins and Kindasleazy!
and this is in the 'liberal' city in texas. seriously, what the hell is wrong with people in that state? it seems like half the bobo's world stories i read here are from TX. two this morning already.
chicago dyke | Email | Homepage | 09.17.05 - 9:18 am | #
I guess every place has a few pricks.
seriously, what the hell is wrong with people in that state?
The people in Texas are people?
They're Bush lemmings.
Good morning all.
Just sitting here trying to read from various sources about the (Friday news dump) U.N. summit's failure to meet millennium development goals (not only that, but a whole list of failures). You want a look at ugly, here it is.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
intern...1572177,00.html
Hey sittenpretty,
"that kid looks mighty,hmmm black hair ,black eyes...umh MUSLIM to me???"
I get the humor and all, but a MUSLIM doesn't "look" any specific way at all. A Muslim is simply a believer in or adherent of Islam. Its a religious, not an ethnic, based classification.
Just sayin...
Brownbuffalo,
Best gravatar I've ever seen! Props!
The people in Texas are people?
They're Bush lemmings.
so, Holden is a Bush lemming?
Tena?
Amanda Marcotte?
and all the other progressive Texas bloggers? and progressive Texans in general?
fuck you Dartanyon. And anyone else who keeps making oversimplifications like that. It's destructive. And you know it.
fuck you Dartanyon. And anyone else who keeps making oversimplifications like that. It's destructive. And you know it.
lavalamp
OK lavalump.
Tejas didn't give us Bush I and Bush II, or Sens. Kay Baily Hutchinson or John Cornyn, or Gov. Rick "if the gays don't like it here, move" Perry, or the thugs that dragged James Byrd to death.
It's all an "oversimplification."
Oh, and FUCK YOU too.
Hey sittenpretty,
"that kid looks mighty,hmmm black hair ,black eyes...umh MUSLIM to me???"
I get the humor and all, but a MUSLIM doesn't "look" any specific way at all. A Muslim is simply a believer in or adherent of Islam. Its a religious, not an ethnic, based classification.
Just sayin...
Brownbuffalo | Email | Homepage | 09.17.05 - 9:52 am | #
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no shiite!!! i was just adding snark to the oligarchs
Thanks Dartanyan!
Snark is good sittenpretty; guess I'm just a bit oversensitive today.
I thinks the thread has moved on...
I am not arguing that those things aren't true.
You're switching your focus.
Let's get back to your statement about the people of Texas being Bush lemmings.
I'm simply stating that not everone here is a Bush lemming. It's simply not the political reality, anymore than the political reality of America is the prevailing Repuke majority bullshit.
You and I are Americans and the prevailing political reality of my country is not indicative of our views.
But because I'm Texan, you believe that prevailing political reality of my state is indicative of my moral stance?
The things you cite are tragically true. I would never argue with them. I couldn't. I am all too aware of them.
But when you ignore reality and make sweeping generalizations and dismiss the existence of a great many progressives who happen to live and work hard here, it's a destructive oversimplification.
I am a progressive Texan. I'm not a Bush lemming. How am I supposed to react when you call me one? Do you really expect me to agree with you?
I'm not saying this to be a smartass, but I think Jebby's kids look "too Hispanic."
Does he think the trailer trash populace who love the Bush family so much is going to like that?
Jeb, after all, moved out of Texas because people there didn't appreciate his choice of a wife.
(Weird attitude in Texas, I know!)
"that kid looks mighty,hmmm black hair ,black eyes...umh MUSLIM to me???"
I get the humor and all, but a MUSLIM doesn't "look" any specific way at all. A Muslim is simply a believer in or adherent of Islam. Its a religious, not an ethnic, based classification.
Just sayin...
Brownbuffalo
Yeah, but you have to admit that SOME people think Muslims look a certain way.
That stupid Jillian Bandes for one!
Gov. Rick "if the gays don't like it here, move" Perry
Does anyone else find that a little ironic, coming out of Governor Big Hair and Little Brain?
I have my suspicions about him!
Bad news -
someone stole the remaining memorial items at Camp Casey.
http://198.65.14.85/News/2005/37...38/ 37news10.htm
They even took Casey's boots.
Steve J.
What a bunch of scumbags!
Gov. Rick "if the gays don't like it here, move" Perry
Does anyone else find that a little ironic, coming out of Governor Big Hair and Little Brain?
I have my suspicions about him!
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat
Extremely ironic.
I am a progressive Texan. I'm not a Bush lemming. How am I supposed to react when you call me one? Do you really expect me to agree with you?
lavalamp
It must be very difficult to reside in a state that's the constant butt of jokes and ridicule.
But, if you don't fall into the category of a "Bush lemming," then my remarks should have not effect on you.
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