I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
FUCK BUSH
Hey, two in a row.
Pooh. DWD beat me to it.
Thanks, DWD.
Scoot, Scooter
So is this an interim thread? Shall we expect a plethora of threads to appear within the next 15 minutes?
Sorry, QL, But we are all after the same thing so it okay.
RIL, I wrote a long, detailed response to your question about kneepads and Hell-o-scan ate it. These are the highlights.
Judy Miller is lying.
The depths of her lies are known only to her.
She did not want the prosecutor examining her lies so refused to testify,
Prosecutor agreed to limit questions to the relevent lies
Judy agreed to lie ONLY about the one incident.
The press is giving the wankers a free ride again - if Miller testifies that Libby is the source, why are they not mentioning Cheney.
Hullo.
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DWD (and Diane from the thread below): Thanks. So in other words: same shit, different day.
Grand morning!
antidisestablishmentarianism
oh, and Fuck Bush!
Gorgeous slightly chilly morning here in the northeast.
Let's see, Senate Leader under investigation, House Leader indicted, White House political pro up to his teeth in scandal, big-time Repug lobbyist at the center of multiple crimes, including gangland-style assassination, Iraq a continueing and deepening mess, hurricane relief floundering....
So what do Repugs do? They investigate Clinton.
This spring, Republicans and Democrats voiced outrage over the news that independent counsel David M. Barrett was still pursuing a decade-long, $21 million investigation into a crime long confessed and paid for. Without debate, the Senate unanimously agreed to strip Barrett of further funding for his inquiry on former housing secretary Henry G. Cisneros.
But, prodded by conservative commentators, House Republican leaders grew convinced that Democrats were trying to suppress embarrassing revelations about the Clinton administration. The Senate provision was ditched behind closed doors, and Barrett and his staff continue to work -- at a cost to taxpayers of nearly $2 million a year -- on an inquiry that seemingly ended 13 months ago.
In its semiannual audit, the Government Accountability Office said yesterday that Barrett spent $930,742 from October 2004 to March 2005, six years after Cisneros pleaded guilty to the charges Barrett was appointed to investigate -- and more than a year after Barrett submitted his 400-page report for final judicial review. The GAO did not indicate what Barrett has been doing since he finished his report, other than maintain staff and office expenditures that have continued to rise since the investigation ended.
Kumquats!
Well, I hope October's indictments tops September's.
RIL, yep, SS/DD
I just keep wondering why the press will not do their jobs. Judy Miller is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
In essence we have set the news media up as a quasi-government organization with regulatory powers granted to the current administration. If this were not the case, how do you account for the vested interest of the current media.
Reporters need to report the news: not be a part of it. If they abdicate their responsibility to report, then they are no more than shills for the status quo. I think this is the case more often than not: they are so afraid or losing their access to those pre-written reports they publish under their own names as if it were news. If they would do their jobs, then it would be much harder work.
Saw that in the WaPo Moe,
I believe the Starr investigation is still being funded as well. At least it was within the last year or so. That was also in the Post.
DWD, I saw a great program about the media on FSTV the other night. It was called "Orwell Rolls in His Grave".
However they put more of the blame on the media OWNERS than the individual reporters.
Well, ton of work today, so I'll be going. Keep those threads less than 700 comments, willya?
I believe the Starr investigation is still being funded as well. At least it was within the last year or so.
Last week Pheonix Woman called think tanks sheltered workshops for conservative scholars, perhaps that's what these various independent (huh!) prosecution rackets are for Republican lawyers.
I believe you are right EPT. Get a few connected lawyers, and pay them to "wind up" the investigation for a few years.
Reporters need to report the news: not be a part of it.DWD
And they need to NOT take money from the SCANDAL RIDDEN BUSH ADMINISTRATION to promote its agenda and disguise it as news.
NYTimes
Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal
By ROBERT PEAR
Federal auditors said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the U.S., in violation of a statutory ban.
http://www.nytimes.com/
Hmm, article on the fron page of the NYT asks why DID Judy decide to testify now.
Gotta run, folks.
Karin, I would agree to that (the owners exerting pressure on reporters) to a certain extent. I think that a lot of times reporters do know the truth but cannot get it past their editors.
But that will only go so far. There are alternatives to getting the word out. If a reporter who KNEW something decided to post on this venue under some funky name: naming names and dates and specifics, the information would be available. Instead they have become timid lap dogs willingly licking the fingers of editors, owners, and the government. They cannot be absolved of their responsibility.
Last week Pheonix Woman called think tanks sheltered workshops for conservative scholars, perhaps that's what these various independent (huh!) prosecution rackets are for Republican lawyers.
Welfare, Republican style.
From my soon-to-be-published novel, CHALLENGE. . . .
“Now, we are damned with a media that constantly parrots the talking points of the current administration without regard to either the worthiness or the truthfulness of these points. In essence, they have muddied the waters of reality until we are left searching for truth without a framework for judging this same truth.
“For the past year I have been away from this fine institution examining the ramifications of the loss of our collective memories. It is a fascinating study as it appears that – with the help of our corporate controlled media – we may have irrevocably lost our ability to discern truth from fiction. Truth is, we seem to have lost our ability to place information into the equation that differentiates from reality and wishful thinking. Information that we need to tell fact from fiction has been lost or kept hidden from us for purposes that are clear to some and an enigma to most..
“If we only believe what we want to believe, or what someone tells us to believe – whether it is truthful or not – we are doomed. I do not say such things lightly. In fact, I think this particular moment in our collective history is the most dangerous of all that we have faced before this time. We are in supreme danger of losing not only our freedom, but the concept of individualism that is the basis for freedom.
“Certainly an attack like the one on September 11th was a major blow to our collective psyches, but should this relatively minor incident result in a grievous wound to our national identity? Not in my estimation. But apparently it has and we have no qualms about condemning and killing in the name of freedom – with the heinous methods of a tyrant.
“We have been cast into a world without memory and without values that have been tempered by our history: it is as if we have fallen into the rabbit hole made famous by Alice and we keep searching for the exit: but there isn’t one. The only thing we have to counter the lies is truth. But whose truth? At this point I am unsure of nearly everything I think I know.
“What I want you to take away from this brief introduction to this course in contemporary American thought is this: question everything. Don't take anything for granted. Challenge the premise that the argument is based upon. If you look beneath the surface, perhaps you will see the manipulators at work. I have seen them and now my time at this fine university is finished.
“Remember, challenge the premise, not the argument. Arguments can be persuasive, reality is not in the argument, but rather in the bases of these same arguments. If you question the foundation of your beliefs, then perhaps your way will be cleared for a more perfect understanding. I have little hope that what I am telling you will have some lasting effect on your existence. But as I have little choice in the matter, I have offered these words of wisdom.
NYTimes
Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal
By ROBERT PEAR
Shaw Kenawe
Yup, good story, but not good enough. There was no comment on the media that carried the propaganda for the maladministration.
Morning, all. I think World O'Crap hits the nail on the head with this post title:
"Judy Goes Free After Scooter Assures Her That Judge Roberts Promised That Scooter Will Never See the Inside of Jail Cell -- And So She Agrees to Testify, Since Martyrdom Was Making Her Hands Chappy"
That about sums it up.
Vietnam Redux:
A.P. Updated: 6:35 a.m. ET Oct. 1, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq - About 1,000 U.S. service members launched an offensive in western Iraq near the Syrian border on Saturday aimed at insurgents from Al-Qaida in Iraq, this country’s most feared militant group, the military said.
The operation against “a known terrorist sanctuary” began in the town of Sadah in the western province of Anbar, about eight miles from the Iraq-Syria border, the U.S. military said in a statement.
The offensive also was aimed at stopping foreign insurgents from entering the country from Syria and at improving security in the area before Iraq’s Oct. 15 national referendum on the country’s draft constitution, the military said.
Bushboy & the Goopers continue to do what they've been doing, despite blunders, disasters and scandals piling up one after another like a chain of car wrecks on the Freeway during a foggy night.
What they continue to do is: Waste taxpayer money on unbid contracts for their corporate cronies, neglect the problems that caused the disaster in the first place and continue to treat "government" as the issue instead of the needs of the downtrodden and left behind.
Bushboy & the Goopers are looking to cut Medicare/Medicaid and any other "social programs" to help pay for the clean up of the gulf coast, instead of rescinding Bushboy' despicable tax cuts for the rich.
They also are blocking any "Audit board," that could review government contracts to insure that the contractor has not bilked or cheated the government.
The Bushboy/Gooper malfeasance is criminal but the American people won't hear about it thanks to our smug, sick and sycophantic media.
TJ, I read your post last night but it was so busy I did not have time to respond.
What are you going to do? (I am assuming you are a professional - lawyer, accountant, consultant type. You said you could work in Baton Rouge but that housing is unavailable.
Whatever you decide, please believe that everyone is concerned.
Dowd, 1 October
"Paul Wolfowitz is having fun.
''It's fun to have the chance to be a retail politician again,'' he told Andrew Balls of The Financial Times on a recent trip to India. It was an economic odyssey designed to warm up his image by tipping off the press to record his shirt-sleeve visit to a slum and his street dancing with children in Andhra Pradesh.
When the reporter noted that Mr. Wolfowitz's role as No.2 at the Pentagon must seem distant, he agreed, saying, ''Yes, it does seem like a long time ago.''
A lot has changed for this architect of the Iraq war since he left the scene of the accident. Following the lead of that other woolly-headed war theoretician, Robert McNamara, Wolfie scuttled to the World Bank, where he changed the subject from bollixing up Iraq to fixing up Africa.
Unlike the Powell maxim ''If you break it, you own it,'' the Wolfowitz philosophy is ''If you break it, walk away from it.''
Where on earth are those who egged on the Iraq civil war? The neoconservatives have moved on to debates about China and Iran. Richard Perle has dropped out of sight, except to pop up, as he did at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual meeting in May, to urge a military raid on Iran if it's ''on the verge of a nuclear weapon.''
The president and his generals are still offering gauzy assessments of our fight against an insurgency that grows ever more vicious, and dishing out loopy justifications for the war.
Before Mr. Bush was dragged out of Crawford this summer, he was making the case that we had to keep killing in Iraq to honor troops killed there. This week, Gen. Richard Myers offered more circular logic, warning that a U.S. defeat would invite another 9/11. The Bush administration used 9/11 as a pretext for invading Iraq and now says it can't leave for fear of spurring another 9/11.
Wolfie and fellow hawks turned Iraq into a harbor for Al Qaeda with an invasion they justified by falsely calling Iraq a harbor for Al Qaeda. General Myers said that America couldn't leave and allow Al Qaeda to dominate Iraq because ''then in my view we would have lost, and the next 9/11 would be right around the corner, absolutely.''
Here's the weirdest perversion: First Rummy, as President Reagan's Mideast envoy, was photographed with Saddam, supporting him in the war against Iran. Then Rummy and other hawks rushed the U.S. into war against Saddam and ended up turning Iraq over to Shiites intertwined with Iran. And now Richard Perle thinks we might have to bomb Iran.
The president spent years saying that Al Qaeda was on the run, and Rummy spent years saying we just had to finish off a few Saddam ''dead enders.'' But four years after Mr. Bush promised to get ''the people who knocked these buildings down,'' they are finally talking about Al Qaeda as a threat again.
Dowd, Pt II
"Perhaps they have no choice, now that Al Qaeda has supposedly started its own weekly newscast on the Internet, ''The Voice of the Caliphate,'' with an anchorman wearing a ski mask and an ammunition belt, and props like a Koran and a rifle pointed at the camera. Its top story was joy over Katrina damage.
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Gen. John Abizaid called Al Qaeda ''the main threat we face'' in Iraq, citing its 400 suicide bombers deployed worldwide. So, when W. says if we fight them there we won't have to fight them here, that's just nutty.
Though the Bush gang has maintained that it would be hard for Al Qaeda to operate on the run, General Abizaid noted that the group is ''empowered by modern communications, expertly using the virtual world for planning, recruiting, fund-raising, indoctrination and exploiting the mass media'' to break the U.S. will and try to form a haven in Iraq.
Al Qaeda is exploiting tribal tensions intensified by the bungled U.S. occupation. Mr. Wolfowitz's assumption that America could conquer Baghdad and install the Shiites at the expense of the Sunnis -- with bouquets thrown -- in a religious war that has been going on for centuries, was naive and dangerous.
The rest of us may be glued to the gruesome pileup of bodies in Iraq, but Wolfie has moved on. He told The Financial Times that he still thought the U.S. and the British did ''the right thing'' for ''the right reasons,'' and ''hopefully, it's going to turn out the right way.''
He said that wherever he travels, from Burkina Faso to Bosnia, Iraq rarely comes up. How fortunate for him.
Diane,
The media is afraid if the story of how they've been coopted by the administration really comes out, it will drive more of their consumers to alternative sources. Like here for example.
If the true extent of manufactured news was known, our heads would explode. Even my daughter has asked me, "how come all the news sites have exactly the same stories?" Um.
DWD & Karin -- Haven't seen "Orwell Rolls in His Grave", but I agree ownership is the problem. Jack Welsh laid out explicitly his belief that media should be used to advance the corporate interests of its owners. From his viewpoint it didn't make sense to have news departments that contradicted the commercial objectives of the airways and press.
Of course there are independent news publications -- the Nation, Progressive, Mother Jones, etc. But we rarely if ever see them cited on the mainstream "progressive" blogs.
My guess is mainstream blogs adhere to a strategy that we must secure the center before moving left and that msm represents -- by virtue of tradition if nothing else -- the center today. Not sure I agree. This may all be a game.
mornin blogkins
Four explosions just reported in Bali.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
I like these long pieces you're doing.
Krugman, 30 September
"Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He sold all his stock in HCA, which his father helped found, just days before the stock plunged. Two years ago, Mr. Frist claimed that he did not even know if he owned HCA stock.
According to a new U.S. government index, the effect of greenhouse gases is up 20 percent since 1990.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a 33-year-old Wall Street insider with little experience in regulation but close ties to drug firms, was made a deputy commissioner at the F.D.A. in July. (This story, picked up by Time magazine, was originally reported by Alicia Mundy of The Seattle Times.)
The Artic ice cap is shrinking at an alarming rate.
Two of the three senior positions at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are vacant. The third is held by Jonathan Snare, a former lobbyist. Texans for Public Justice, a watchdog group, reports that he worked on efforts to keep ephedra, a dietary supplement that was banned by the F.D.A., legal.
According to France's finance minister, Alan Greenspan told him that the United States had ''lost control'' of its budget deficit.
David Safavian is a former associate of Jack Abramoff, the recently indicted lobbyist. Mr. Safavian oversaw U.S. government procurement policy at the White House Office of Management and Budget until his recent arrest.
When Senator James Inhofe, who has called scientific research on global warming ''a gigantic hoax,'' called a hearing to attack that research, his star witness was Michael Crichton, the novelist.
Mr. Safavian is charged with misrepresenting his connections with lobbyists -- specifically, Mr. Abramoff -- while working at the General Services Administration. A key event was a lavish golfing trip to Scotland in 2002, mostly paid for by a charity Mr. Abramoff controlled. Among those who went on the trip was Representative Bob Ney of Ohio.
It's not possible to attribute any one weather event to global warming. But climate models show that global warming will lead to increased hurricane intensity, and some research indicates that this is already occurring.
Tyco paid $2 million, most going to firms controlled by Mr. Abramoff, as part of its successful effort to preserve tax advantages it got from shifting its legal home to Bermuda. Timothy Flanigan, a general counsel at Tyco, has been nominated for the second-ranking Justice Department post.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is awash in soldiers and police. Nonetheless, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Blackwater USA, a private security firm with strong political connections, to provide armed guards.
Mr. Abramoff was indicted last month on charges of fraud relating to his purchase of SunCruz, a casino boat operation. Mr. Ney inserted comments in the Congressional Record attacking SunCruz's original owner, Konstantinos ''Gus'' Boulis, placing pressure on him to sell to Mr. Abramoff an
Jack Welsh laid out explicitly his belief that media should be used to advance the corporate interests of its owners.
This is no different from John Stossel's declaration of his "journalistic" ethic.
It's really no different from the practice of almost all broadcast and all cabloid "news" media.
We have to take the radio stations, half-hearted measures won't do it. We have to write the public service and even more stringent fairness provisions into law in a way that Roberts and the rest of the Republican-fascist Supremes can't undo with a Junta's Veto.
Krugman, Pt II
"Mr. Abramoff was indicted last month on charges of fraud relating to his purchase of SunCruz, a casino boat operation. Mr. Ney inserted comments in the Congressional Record attacking SunCruz's original owner, Konstantinos ''Gus'' Boulis, placing pressure on him to sell to Mr. Abramoff and his partner, Adam Kidan, and praised Mr. Kidan's character.
James Schmitz, who resigned as the Pentagon's inspector general amid questions about his performance, has been hired as Blackwater's chief operating officer.
Last week three men were arrested in connection with the gangland-style murder of Mr. Boulis. SunCruz, after it was controlled by Mr. Kidan and Mr. Abramoff, paid a company controlled by one of the men arrested, Anthony ''Big Tony'' Moscatiello, and his daughter $145,000 for catering and other work. In court documents, questions are raised about whether food and drink were ever provided. SunCruz paid $95,000 to a company in which one of the other men arrested, Anthony ''Little Tony'' Ferrari, is a principal.
Iraq's oil production remains below prewar levels. The Los Angeles Times reports that mistakes by U.S. officials and a Halliburton subsidiary, which was given large no-bid reconstruction contracts, may have permanently damaged Iraq's oilfields.
Tom DeLay, who stepped down as House majority leader after his indictment, once called Mr. Abramoff ''one of my closest and dearest friends.'' Mr. Abramoff funneled funds from clients to conservative institutions and causes. The Washington Post reported that associates of Mr. DeLay claim that he severed the relationship after Mr. Boulis's murder.
Public health experts warn that the U.S. would be dangerously unprepared for an avian flu pandemic.
As Walter Cronkite used to say, That's the way it is.
Operation Iron Fist just launched in Iraq!
LGF has landed!
“Fire and Force, Fist and Faith, let our friends draw strength from us and our enemies tremble”.
Oven Mitt, Reheated
The mass media, which prides itself on sniffing out government corruption and malfeasance, seems to suffer from nasal drip when it comes to smelling the stench of Bushboy/Gooper criminal conduct.
The funding of Armstrong Williams for Gooper propaganda using taxpayer dollars was just condemned by a congressional committee.
The insider trading of Bill Fristy has gone "formal" at the SEC.
The massive corruption of Tom DeeeLay and his "purchase" of the Texas legislature for the Goopers with corporate $$$ (illegal), which in turn allowed them to gerrymander the state so that 5 more Gooper reps would be added to the US Congress.
The ongoing atrocities in Iraq and the profiteering by Cheneychin's patron, Halliburton go on and on.
The criminal and gross neglect of New Orleans before, during and since Katrina by the Bushboy administration remains ignored by the MSM, in their enthusiasm to present "Ain't it awful!" pictures of the dead and dispossessed on the gulf coast.
America, it's laws, it's reputation and it's fiscal stability, is being shredded by the incompetent, deceitful and depraved Bushboy & Goopers and they want to thank the press and the people for not paying attention!!!
EPT, when I first wrote CHALLENGE a decade ago, I had several principles in mind as the reason to write. Synthesized, these are the three.
Challenge
There are three observations which are the basis of the book. Each of these is seemingly
innocuous, yet, when taken together they appear to at least raise the possibility of a nefarious
public policy institution such as “The Center.”
1. We seem to have forgotten that every issue has at least two viewpoints. While it may be in our
nature to accept one viewpoint as correct: it is not contrary to our abilities to consider ideas
which are diametrically opposed to the proposition. Yet, we seldom do this. Ideas are thrust
upon us as being correct without (at least from my observations) adequate examination of a
contrary position. Premises are publically delineated as fact which may be (and often are)
suspect in their logic.
2. In the last thirty years, the amount of information which assaults us daily has increased
faster than at any point in our history. If you watch television, listen to the radio, or read: each
day becomes a smorgasbord of information. It has bothered me for some time that some of the
information which is first discussed in one medium: suddenly is found in a prominent spot on
another medium. Why is this happening? And who is controlling this?
3. As we have moved further and further from understanding the technology which makes our
standard of living possible, we have, by necessity, given up control over that same technology.
This goes along with your explanation and perhaps I did not state it adequately in this small piece, but it is not only the same stories: it is exactly the same perspective on the story. That is scary.
DWD, thanks for your concern. I appreciate it. I am a lawyer. We stayed up most of the night talking it through, and I'm not going back there right now. I'm not taking my children into that nightmare. I started sending out resumes as soon as it became apparent that the party was about to end. Hopefully, I can find something in the next 4-6 weeks, because that's about how long we can keep going w/o my paycheck.
I'm trying not to be angry at my firm--we're only a midsize outfit and a lot of the partners lost their homes, but apparently they never purchased business interruption insurance and that's why we're in this situation. Other firms secured housing for their employees immediately; we were left to fend for ourselves.
Anyway, I'm just joining the hundreds of thousands of other jobless folks in Bush's America. This country is so fucked right now. I don't see how we're ever going to recover from what the repukes have done to us...
GWPDA -- Do you think that weekly al Qaeda broadcast is for real? It sounds a lot like psyops to me.
Love your posts, GWPDA.
The corporate media (as WGG so wisely calls them) is not interested in journalism, merely on the bottom line. I can't think of better evidence of this than the NY Times insistence that we pay to read their columnists.
I appreciate it when some kind soul figures out a way to break down that wall. The fewer eyeballs on the ad-driven site, the lower the ad revenues.
That's the only way to start busting some corporate chops.
I think I'm going to start keeping count now. So far, I note that the SBA, FEMA, the VA and now the USDA all are not making payments to citizens that are authorised and approved and funded on the grounds of 'computer glitches'. All four of those agencies have, within the past three years, had their computer systems defunded in one way or another. How very strange - who else will be next?
"Ranchers Still Waiting for Disaster Cash
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press Writer
September 30,2005 | WASHINGTON -- Livestock producers around the country are still waiting for agricultural disaster payments Congress approved a year ago to help them deal with an ongoing drought.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and other senators are pressuring the Department of Agriculture to distribute money that Congress appropriated in an October 2004 spending bill. Baucus, who met with Deputy Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner Friday to discuss the issue, said that only 13 percent of the checks have been distributed to qualified producers.
Department spokesman Ed Loyd attributes the delay to "one glitch after another" in department computer systems and said Friday that the payments should be distributed within the next two weeks." (Salon, AP wire)
Liberal mountain morning blogwhore.
I don't see how we're ever going to recover from what the repukes have done to us...
TJ,
We are all in that boat, except in your case, you are in the water hanging onto the boat.
The Krugman column cited above makes the Clinton impeachment look like the petty partisan persecution that it was.
How come the MSM doesn't pound home the interconnectedness of all of these financially unsavory characters with the Gooper leadership and the constant government malfeasance and negligence that continues to this day????
Outside of Krugman and a few other real journalists, the public remains uninformed as to the massive scale of the Bushboy/Gooper corruption and incompetence!!!
EPT -- I agree, but where are the mainstream politicians speaking about this? I can understand that do so invites attacks as whiners, losers, etc. But they aren't the losers, we the people are, when the media our constitution protects in order to keep us informed, is kept under corporate personhood's thumb. Hillary cozies up to Murdoch, Obama makes no mention of media monopolies in his DKos post. Mainstream pols are explicit or at minimum accept the situation as fait accompli.
TJ!
Sugar, don't you realise what a prize you are right now? A living, breathing, bar-qualified Louisiana lawyer? You know that your laws are so strange that you guys are the only ones who know what's going on - it's like being a New Mexico lawyer - if you're not born to it, you can't just pick it up with a bar review course! I will bet money that every single major law firm in Texas, Florida, and you'll know where ever else is trying to get hold of you - how else will they be able to conduct business in Louisiana? Oh yes, and doubtless there are a couple of pretty good firms in DC that could use you - Hecate might maybe know one or two....
Honey, you are a catch!
Looks like Bennett is not the only stupifyingly tone deaf idiot today.
From HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson (that's Alphonso "Action" Jackson to dear leader)
A Bush Cabinet officer predicted this week that New Orleans likely will never again be a majority black city, and several black officials are outraged.
Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development, during a visit with hurricane victims in Houston, said New Orleans would not reach its pre-Katrina population of "500,000 people for a long time," and "it's not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again."
Re Media Responsibility:
When confronted with criticism about how violence at the SuperDome and Convention Center had been portrayed in the MSM, and whether or not reporters need to re-evaluate the work they do, here is the stunningly mealy-mouthed answer from Carlo Quintanilla, which indicates the lack of will and critical insight that the MSM has on an individual basis:
Well, the lesson I think is that here is never going to be any end to Monday morning quarterbacking when it comes to the media. And that's a good thing. I think it's a good thing we're asking all these questions; I think it's a good thing we're being challenged like we're being challenged on this panel.
The bottom line, though, is that the media -- often television -- is about the flow of real-time information. We were getting information from figures of authority with their own estimates. We weren't making this up certainly. I think interestingly in Katrina we saw the entire rainbow of human emotion, of human behavior; we saw people doing heroic things and we saw people doing rather sinister things.
And I think you're going to find as broad a spectrum when it comes to the media, we saw people I think less careful with their facts than they could have been and we saw others very disciplined. So I'm sure it's very easy to generalize and talk broadly about what the media did right or wrong, but this is as messy and as complicated a system as hurricanes themselves.
And we can find plenty of argue arguments for things the media did right and what they did poorly.
Full Transcript
Liberal mountain morning blogwhore.
watertiger
Congrats on your TBogg shout out WT.
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TJ, I would think with all of the lawyers peopling this particular place that some contacts will be made on your behalf. Just among the regular posters I would guess there are more than 20 lawyers - in many different parts of the country. Each of these lawyers probably knows a dozen more lawyers and on and on.
Just get the word out, I am sure that responses will be made.
Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development, during a visit with hurricane victims in Houston, said New Orleans would not reach its pre-Katrina population of "500,000 people for a long time," and "it's not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again."
"Mission accomplished!' shouted Eli triumphantly from the Liberal Mountain couch, between bites of an uncooked knish.
watertiger's too busy so I've thrown this into the pot.
Re Diane's post up thread:
I found this on the Huffington Post by a commentor who nails it:
Judy's "stand" reeks of artifice. And hubris. And disingenuous miscalculation.
She and the NYT seemed to be angling for two mercenary birds with one stone:
1. A competitive edge (front-page "exclusives" and front-page bylines) -- by trying to put out the word in NEON, "Hey, anyone with a hot scoop out there, we're the place to bring it, because look, see, we're the only ones who thumbed our nose at the prosecutor, so you could count on us [as accomplices] to let you say whatever you want [aka lie and smear whoever you like] and get away with it" -- &
2. To rehab Miller's tattered reputation as a journalist, by disguising her grandstanding as a supposedly selfless sacrifice.
Even since I read that MANY other reporters had been subpoenaed, but ALL the others had made arrangements with the prosecutor (including Walter Pincus at WA PO, who long ago impressed me as a REAL journalist), and Miller was the ONLY one who INSISTED on going to jail -- well that sure smelled fishy to me.
What, as if she had more integrity than those other reporters? More than Pincus? That I didn't buy. It smelled like unnecessary holier-than-thou grandstanding.
So she had the release over a year ago, eh? Gee maybe that's why her lawyer wouldn't answer when asked months ago whether she had asked the source for a release. I think he said something like, "I can't comment on whether she has asked for a release."
How could Miller have not realized that everyone with at least half a brain would be instantly asking the same question Arianna did: "If all it took for Miller to feel properly released was a phone call, why did she wait 85 days to make it?" Not to mention the 365+ days before that. Why didn't she at least call that day in July when Judge Hogan explicitly told her that she was "mistaken" -- because her source had already released her? How dumb does she think we are?
If she GENUINELY did not want to go to jail, why wouldn't she have asked her lawyer to make a phone call to double-check things THEN, or BEFORE then, instead of waiting until late August?
It seems obvious that the answer is because that would have put the kibosh on her (and the NYT's) carefully planned jail party. It sure seems like it was PR stunt, masquerading as a "principled stand".
And if she DID make the phone call earlier, and Libby (or Cheney?) kept refusing to release her until now, then WHY doesn't she say that? Again, the answer seems to be because she is protecting them (to preserve her cozy relationship with them) -- because she is still in cahoots with them. Which is why I doubt she told the truth, or the whole truth, when she testified today. I doubt she would reveal anything that they wouldn't want her to say. She still seems like a shill.
And yes it still smells like she is hiding something... maybe her key source was Cheney or ? and they are trying to pull t
Congrats on your TBogg shout out WT.
Thank you, kind sir! I know I'm in for trouble when he posts on my blog.
continued:
And yes it still smells like she is hiding something... maybe her key source was Cheney or ? and they are trying to pull the wool over our eyes and make us think it was only Libby, the one who already released her over a year ago.
The sanctimonious hypocrisy is what bothers me most.
Posted by: janavivica on September 30, 2005 at 02:28pm
I posted this much earlier, but it is apropos here as well.
Jesus, I need to get a life. I actually woke up thinking about this whole, "Dems don't have a program" meme.
The question on Washington Journal yesterday morning was "Have the Democrats run out of ideas?" On the Newshour, Mark Shields who is supposed to be on our side, said Democrats just can't sit back and watch the repukes implode, they have to have a program. Now I hear it was on Hannity as well. Do we see a repeat of the Gore invented the internet crap here. It will be repeated and repeated until it becomes the accepted wisdom. Never mind that Conyers and Polosi and Kerry and Clinton and everyone else are out there putting out ideas. Ignore them and just go along with the talking points.
If the American justice structure fails then we really are in a free fall to utter fascism.
If the Justice Department and state Attorney Generals don't go after the criminal conduct of public officials, then the victory of the Gooper fascists over the institution of LAW in this country will be complete.
Currently Rover & Libby are under investigation as is Fristy's insider trading crime. DeeeLay has been indicted for criminal misuse of corporate funds and criminals like Abramoff, Safavian and others (all linked in one criminal enterprise after another) are also under investigation or indictment.
If after the evidence is produced in court any or all of the above walk with "not guilty" decisions or with mere slaps on the wrist, it will be time to emigrate to somewhere else, where the rule of law still applies!
TJ,
A solo shingle junkie like me cannot do much for you except wish you good luck. I'm sure you'll find something soon. I imagine in that area there is going to be a lot of reshuffling of small and moderately sized firms.
Thanks, GWPDA! I got some nice feedback late yesterday from a Raleigh firm I sent my resume to--however, like at most firms, this is the time of year when new associates are just starting fresh from law school, so the opportunities are scarce. The guy I spoke with said they are going to meet to determine if they have any needs at my level, and get back with me next week. It may be a brush-off, it may not. We shall see. I'm basically looking anywhere from Charlotte to DC, and Mr. TJ will just follow me to whichever graduate school is closest...luckily for us his credentials are such that grad schools fight over him, otherwise we'd be looking at a lengthy separation.
GWPDA, great find.
donnie fowler = lost
Democrats Wishful Thinking Won't Beat Republicans
Here’s an alternative strategy to complacency and wishful thinking. The Democrats must change the tone of the messages coming from the party in Washington to something that voters can understand, that appeals to them rather than the political press corps and hard core activists, and that gives activists something to believe in rather than reminding them of what they already hate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
do...kin_b_8153.html
The average ma and pa kettle and jane and joe six pack have know idea what the thugs are doing to them. The "liberal media" is not going to tell them.
Anyone that was on planet earth before the 2004 election saw the dem nominee trashed endlessly. charlie gibson, Americas friendly uncle, starting snarled rat-wing talking points at Kerry before Kerry finished sitting down. Remember the "I voted for it before I vote against it" thing? See, Kerry said something dumb. That's why the "liberal media" went after him. While candidate bush was bold and masterful through out his run. Yes indeed. bush was bold and masterful through out his run.
How about the entire "liberal medias" two year war on Gore? Maybe if his message was different the media wouldn't have made up lie after lie. Yeah, maybe. If only Clinton had a simple message people could understand then the NYTs and WaPo wouldn't have pushed lie after white water lie for 6 years. Yeah, right.
The dems can not get a message out, not matter what it is. The "liberal media" will not allow it. Fowler never mentions that fact. Is fowler so dumb he doesn't know that? Does he think we are?
The image of a surfing penguin is going to stay with me a long, long time.....
.
Thanks everyone, I've been through worse and we'll be okay. I'm a survivor. 
Enough about me. I'm boring myself, so you guys must be yawning into your cheerios.
hey watertiger, big congrats on the tbogg thing--I so love that man. He and s.z. and the sadlyno! folks are keeping me sane these days with their snarky goodness.
DWD, you've read, of course, DeLillo's White Noise? He's all over a lot of the same stuff.
TJ - if I were you, I think I'd also chat with law schools and with national banks. That is, anyone with any interest in LA laws and how, in the future, they will be applied....
hadenough -- Actually, Kerry didn't even say something done. He explained to the audience that he voted for an appropriation proposal that was offset by reducing other expenditures to pay for it, but that proposal failed. He refused to vote for the one that passed, which appropriated the expenditure without securing revenues to pay for it.
Meanwhile, Bush is on "Autopilot"...he's still making the same trite "makin' progress" speech as ever:
President George W. Bush said Saturday he is encouraged by the increasing size and capability of the Iraqi security forces, touting progress on a key measure of when U.S. troops can come home.
The upbeat remarks in Bush's weekly radio address came two days after the top commander in Iraq said only one Iraqi battalion is ready to fight without U.S. support.
NYMary:
The grounds for impeachment of Bushboy & Cheneychins are massive:
1. The lies leading to the invasion of Iraq.
2. The corruption of no-bid contracts to Halliburton and other corporate cronies.
3. The mismanagement of the invasion of Iraq and the lies used to cover it up.
4. The mismanagement of the federal budget and the explosion of the debt.
5. The callous and gross negligence of Bushboy before, during and since Katrina struck the gulf coast.
6. The treacherous outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame as vengeance on her husband. Anyone who thinks that Rover and Libby acted without the sanction and approval of their bosses (Bushboy & Cheneychins) before committing treason was either born yesterday or is only an adult in the chronologic sense!
I don't get what Al Gore and Joel Hyatt are doing with their network. They've got one, it's available on my mom's Direct TV satellite schedule, but I never see it advertised anywhere. Do they advertise on MTV and other specifically youth-oriented networks? Is anyone watching it?
cs,
"Actually, Kerry didn't even say something done. He explained to the audience that he voted for an appropriation proposal that was offset by reducing other expenditures to pay for it, but that proposal failed."
Yup. The "liberal media" wasn't gonna tell us that part. My point is if Jesus was a dem candidate the "liberal media" would trash him/her endlessly. And, until the dem grassroots are willing to hold the media accountable nothing changes.
Bushboy says we're winning in Iraq!
Bushboy says we don't need to rescind tax cuts for the rich to pay for the Katrina aftermath.
Bushboy says the Medicare prescription drug benefits will "only" cost $400 billion, when in fact, he knew it would be much more (turns out it's double that).
Bushboy says the Social Security is "bankrupt," when in fact, that won't occur for 40 years or so and need not be the case with prudent planning.
Bushboy told Brownie he was doing, "A heck of job!" Then asked him to resign.
Somehow none of these lies and misrepresentations seem to get the media 24/7 coverage that, "I did not have sex with that woman!" did!!!
Shocker!!!
hadenough -- Yeah, you're right. I just wanted to take the opportunity to remind folks again that his words were often lifted quite artfully from their contexts while they do the opposite for Bush -- spinning positive on his buffoonery.
good morning, anyone else from the grand old party indicted while I slept?
President George W. Bush said Saturday he is encouraged by the increasing size and capability of the Iraqi security forces, touting progress on a key measure of when U.S. troops can come home.
And then he said that sparkly ponies with wings will descend from the heavens bearing candy canes and gum drops and big bottles of Jack Daniels for EVERYONE!
good morning, anyone else from the grand old party indicted while I slept?
Sean
THE SCANDAL RIDDEN BUSH ADMINISTRATION
Fristed:
Frist Sale of Stock Launched in April
Private e-mail between Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and his advisers reflects that Frist began discussing the sale of his HCA Inc. stock in April, months before it became clear that the hospital firm's shares would decline in value, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
...
The SEC's new chairman, former congressman Christopher Cox (R-Calif.), removed himself from the probe this week, citing personal ties to Frist. That means the decision about whether to bring a case against Frist rests with the agency's two Democratic commissioners and two Republican commissioners.
In the event of a tie vote, a staff recommendation to file a civil complaint of insider trading against Frist would fail, experts said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...&
referrer=email
So, emails provided by freinds of frist show he made plans to sell stock way back when. Nothing to see here move along.
And just who is chris cox?
cox is the moron that gave a speech at the freeper hate fest in washinton about all the WMNDs that have been found in Iraq:
Saturday, February 19, 2005
You know, even I still get astounded when this stuff gets said, not by the mouth-breathing peanut gallery, but by a sitting Congressman of the United States;
"America's Operation Iraqi Freedom is still producing shock and awe, this time among the blame-America-first crowd," he crowed. Then he said, "We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and facilities to make them inside Iraq." Apparently, most of the hundreds of people in attendance already knew about these remarkable, hitherto-unreported discoveries, because no one gasped at this startling revelation.
That would be Chris Cox.
-Atrios 7:24 AM
http://atrios.blogspot.com/
2005_...os_archive.html
I wonder who the two other repub geniuses are on the SEC commission?
GWPDA,
I love the surfing penguin!
President George W. Bush said Saturday he is encouraged by the increasing size and capability of the Iraqi security forces, ....
Didn't I just read that the Iraqi security forces are down to one battalion from three?
Or was that just my lying eyes?
.
Not getting your legislation passed? Do it my way for once. Read my plan here.
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Where Republicans tread, innocent people end up dead.
Another Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge no allegiance
To the court appointed unelected regents
( G W Bush and Dick Cheney )
Of the United States of America
For which they use the flag
To make a political grandstand.
I make my pledge
To the United States
And its constitution instead.
Didn't I just read that the Iraqi security forces are down to one battalion from three?
Or was that just my lying eyes?
.
PhilosopherKing™Embigulator.
Dear PhilosopherKing,
You're forgetting that they create their own very, very special reality.
Did I hear somesuch about penguin warriers astride gingerbread Unicorns with candy cane horns coming to save the day?
Or am I having a flashback?
I'll be a Darwinian's uncle. Surfing penguins!
The Goopers are an exclusive (mostly white male) club that Hears, Sees and Speaks no evil of fellow-Goopers.
Their core beliefs are as follows:
1. Poor people suck (men, women, children and the elderly), are uneducable and should be left to die of starvation, disease or natural disasters.
2. Government's role is to transfer wealth from the underclasses (middleclass and below) to the upper crust (those who can make six figure donations to the Gooper party).
3. Laws are to applied discriminately so that anyone who robs a convenience store for $28 dollars is thrown in the slammer for decades, while Goopers who steal billions and compromise the lives of American soldiers are to be rewarded with new government contracts!
4. Goopers are never accountable for anything and Democrats exist to be blamed for anything that goes wrong!
You're forgetting that they create their own very, very special reality.
They must have felt the need to whitewash the whitehouse interior with good old fashioned lead paint, that or install nitrous oxide into the HVAC system.
Oh, man!
Just over on BartCop Entertainment.
They have a story about Sonny Bono's widow divorcing her current husband. She's a scientologist.
Links to Yahoo.
On the Yahoo boards, THEY THINK THE STORY REFERS TO U2's BONO.
They can't be kidding because too many of them were saying that.
Damn, how dumb!
Where's surfdork, btw?
.
The tragic and menacing part about the Gooper core beliefs mentioned above is that the MSM (or it's corporate owners - which is a distinction without a difference) actually buys into them!!!
I'll be a Darwinian's uncle. Surfing penguins!
Yeah, but are they gay?
Is Bono's widow still a member of Congress???
Another Gooper miscreant elected by the misinformed or the Attention Deficit Disordered Americans.
President George W. Bush said Saturday he is encouraged by the increasing size and capability of the Iraqi security forces, ....
Didn't I just read that the Iraqi security forces are down to one battalion from three?
Or was that just my lying eyes?
.
PhilosopherKing™Embigulator
No, Bush just believes what he wants to believe.
And his enablers encourage him.
So Bush says he'll veto a defense bill if it includes current spending cuts and warns against adding amendments on prisoner treatment or investigations thereof.
Why don't they right a bill without cuts but strict spending oversight so he has no cover for a veto, but also includes amendments to ban torture and abuse and investigate what has occurred?
And then he said that sparkly ponies with wings will descend from the heavens bearing candy canes and gum drops and big bottles of Jack Daniels for EVERYONE!
watertiger
Christmas!!! i love GWB, just like Santa Claus
santa claus, as everyone knows, is secret code for Satan's Claws.
Rudy 9:36 am, nails the platform.
DWD, you've read, of course, DeLillo's White Noise? He's all over a lot of the same stuff.
willie mink
I just looked over at the original diskette containing the novel, the date it was finished: 11/22/93. Did DeLillo write his 13 years ago?
Is Bono's widow still a member of Congress???
Another Gooper miscreant elected by the misinformed or the Attention Deficit Disordered Americans.
Rudy
Yes, she is. If I remember correctly, Mary didn't want for the body to get cold before she went after his seat.
Cher was more broken up at his funeral than his so-called "wife" was.
I guess she was too busy figuring out how she was going to spend what was in the will!
sorry, didn't WAIT for the body to get cold
Good Morn!
The sky is filled with balloons which resemble the tiny glass bottles in a DeVinci thermometer...
the annual Balloon Fiesta began today.
traffic is gonna be obscene for a week, as folks pursue balloons all over the countryside.
the balloons overhead drive the dogs bananas, all over thecity, btw...
last week State Fair seques into this weeks Balloon "Fiesta
.
Oops. That's "write" a bill, and here's the link.
Just received this email, does this mean I can retire?
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I guess she was too busy figuring out how she was going to spend what was in the will!
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat
Thus proving her bona fides as a Gooper were impeccable and making her a "natural" replacement for Bono in the Congress!!!
I believe that Mary Bono is still in Congress.
I believe her notible accomplishment was being an 'aerobics instructor' (not that this isn't a more notable accomplishment than I've achieved) -- she has also been voted by Congressional staffer polls to be the Congressperson who would look best in a bikini [How she beats out Barbara Mikulski or David Drier for this title remains a mystery]
oh wow, i didn't realize it was october. Happy October everyone, I looove fall.
I really should use preview.
Rep. Mary Bono, Husband to Divorce
By The Associated Press Fri Sep 30, 9:11 AM ET
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Rep. Mary Bono (news, bio, voting record) and her husband, businessman Glenn Baxley, plan to divorce, her office said Thursday.
The couple have "mutually agreed to separate and intend to file for divorce. As this is a time of great sadness for them both, Congresswoman Bono asks that the public and the media respect their privacy," a statement from her office said.
Bono, the widow of pop star-turned-politician Sonny Bono, married Baxley in November 2001. The Western-wear designer and former minor league baseball player moved from his home in Jackson Hole, Wyo., to Palm Springs, where Bono lives with her two children.
Sonny Bono was a Republican congressman when he died in a 1998 skiing accident near Lake Tahoe. Mary Bono, also a Republican, ran in a special election to replace him and has held the seat ever since.
Or was that just my lying eyes?
.
PhilosopherKing™Embigulator
re: rummy's numbers. didn't you see the special chart. first the numbers go up, then they go down.
"you all are chasing the wrong rabbit"
fuck you rummy, where is Osama!!!
chasing the wrong rabbit, what a dipshit.
Whatever happened to the radical idea that "Government is instituted ..... to provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquillity?"
Or that "Government of the people, for the people and by the people shall not perish from this earth?"
Seems America has gotten lost or buried under a mountain of Gooper bullshit and corruption!
How she beats out Barbara Mikulski or David Drier for this title remains a mystery
well, i really didn't want to wear that tshirt anyway, especially now that it's soaked in coffee.
Bennett defends abortion comment as 'thought experiment'
By MICHAEL A. FLETCHER and BRIAN FALER
Washington Post
2003 Associated Press
William Bennett said Wednesday 'you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.'
WASHINGTON - Conservative commentator William Bennett defended comments he made on his radio show suggesting that aborting black children would reduce crime, saying he was merely musing about a hypothetical argument and he made clear to listeners that he wasn't stating his position.
Musing. Merely musing. Passing the time away.
U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay said he felt "nothin' but joy" Friday as he ended a week of legal and political troubles surrounded by adoring local supporters.
Christ! The Cockroach King and his nest of vermin. Who the fuck could "adore" this walking piece of shit?
Libby gave Little Judy Warmonger permission to reveal him as her source a year ago.
She's a martyr. Off with her head!
Who the fuck could "adore" this walking piece of shit?
Lime Rickey
People who are paid well enough to do it?
Chripes, Bush won't even campaign for this asshole in Texas?
How bad is that when the Head Asshole won't even get near you?
Bushboy/Gooper scandals are epidemic
WH & Congressional greed is systemic
All roads are paved
by callously depraved
members proving corruption to them is endemic!!!
Breaking News.. Karen Hughes has the shit kicked out of her in Egypt for not wearing a burka.. From the hospital she claims to not understand why she was beaten since the US constitution has under God in it.. We love God in the US too she exclaimed through broken teeth.
Bush at Camp David this weekend.
The King put in a full month of work and he's ready to drop with exhaustion!
Bring in the kegs of Coors!
Libby gave Little Judy Warmonger permission to reveal him as her source a year ago.
Don’t you just know already that morons like Chris Matthews and many of his cable ilk will celebrate Judy Miller’s post-jail conversational finickiness as a sign of Princess Judy’s evolved sensitivities toward news peas buried in her reporter mattresses?
Are we expected to believe that Princess Judy’s highly refined Manhattan 5-star restaurant taste buds freely chose 12 weeks of eating 3 squares off a jail tray because she lacked a personal evaluation of her source’s “timbre” and “real feelings”?
Oh PA-LEEZE!
The gasbags of the pundit class, Bush enablers and aficionados of self-aggrandizing convolutions, are sure, over the next few weeks, to fall prostrate before Princess Judy’s veracity-stained and now prison flip-flop-less feet.
Breaking News.. Karen Hughes has the shit kicked out of her in Egypt for not wearing a burka.
They tried and tried to find one big enough to fit a 7 foot monster, but there simply aren't any tailors in Egypt capable of stitching together such large pieces of burlap.
As Walter Cronkite used to say, That's the way it is.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar -8:46 am
that didn't appear to be all that shrill, really...
just a nice, quiet account of the ways in which
ALL THE REST OF US ARE SOOOOOOOO FUCKED BY THESE SLEAZY MOTHERFUCKERS...
Bring in the kegs of Coors!
Dartanyon
And a shitload of Jim Beam.
Bring in the kegs of Coors!
Dartanyon
And a shitload of Jim Beam.
Lime Rickey
And M4M Military Stud for Hire.
Bush is horny.
Christ! The Cockroach King and his nest of vermin. Who the fuck could "adore" this walking piece of shit?
Lime Rickey - 9:55 am
where's a fucking Suicide Bug Bomber when you fucking need one???
one hand grenade and we're rid of that criminal asswipe...
Breaking News.. Karen Hughes has the shit kicked out of her in Egypt for not wearing a burka.
They tried and tried to find one big enough to fit a 7 foot monster, but there simply aren't any tailors in Egypt capable of stitching together such large pieces of burlap.
Dartanyon
She should contacted Omar the Tentmaker.
There's a creature that belongs in a burka...for sure!
Will the MSM ever do it's job and disclose that Bushboy & the Goopers are incompetent criminals who don't give a rat's ass about the American people?
Methinks not!
Walter Cronkite was on Larry King's last night and said the nation suffers from "ignorance."
He was not optimistic about America's future given it's under-educated populace!
Bush at Camp David this weekend.
The King put in a full month of work and he's ready to drop with exhaustion!
Bring in the kegs of Coors!
Dartanyon
In every photo I see of him lately he looks like he's tied one on the night before.
The King put in a full month of work and he's ready to drop with exhaustion!
for these privileged motherfuckers, three weeks is more than enough work to fill a month...
there simply aren't any tailors in Egypt capable of stitching together such large pieces of burlap.
Could is be that "Manhands" Hughes simply didn't have a pair of lip-stick lesbian earrings that went with burlap?
Good pics from the surfing penguin file.
Is our road crews reading?
Sarte's Iraq Strategy
every photo I see of him lately he looks like he's tied one on the night before.
Case in point:
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/2...-sleep-
off.html
He was not optimistic about America's future given it's under-educated populace!
Rudy | Email | 10.01.05 - 10:09 am
that is n ot an accident, i can tell you...
the 'back-to-basics'/hukd-on-fonix folks have presided over the total evisceration of the nation's public schools...with fucking malice aforethought...
Anybody else notice this morning that something the Bush Administration did has officially been declared "illegal"?
It's illegal, and it involved money, and a public official has said so.
Can we now declare this Administration officially "corrupt"? Or will that take an act of Congress, which will then be parsed as "partisan"?
I'll retire to Bedlam....
Are we expected to believe that Princess Judy’s highly refined Manhattan 5-star restaurant taste buds freely chose 12 weeks of eating 3 squares off a jail tray because she lacked a personal evaluation of her source’s “timbre” and “real feelings”?
Roger Ailes' top post is devastating on Judy's and the Times' patent dishonesty on this point - all it takes is reading all of this morning's NYT closely, which he does for us. Click on homepage.
[[EDIT: This is atrios, it's the only way I can get into this thread. Blogger just ate a whole day of posts - if someone's still sitting there with the Eschaton page open, could you just save the whole thing to a file and email it to me ? thanks ]]]
WGG:
Which is why Bushboy & the Goopers want to flood the Gulf Coast with education "vouchers" to complete the privatization of public schools so segregation, separate and unequal arrangements can be maintained!
Jonathan Kozol's book, "The Shame of America!" tells all!!!
Can we now declare this Administration officially "corrupt"? Or will that take an act of Congress, which will then be parsed as "partisan"?
I'll retire to Bedlam....
Almost as much as I eagerly await the indictment of Rove, I eagerly await the chorus of "partisan!" screamed at Pat Fitzgerald.
A Republican.
Got to go but I hope everyone will say a prayer for my Boston Redsox who are currently fighting the Evil Empire of the NY Yankees!
May truth and virtue prevail and may Redsox Nation make it into the playoffs!!!
Don Gonyea/Gagne is a worthless, gutless, compromised, corrupt piece of shit.
just sayin'
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I've sent this to you. Hope it works.
I wish I could go to the Balloon Fiesta!
They used to float down around my house next to the Rio Grande, used the river as a landmark.... This time of year, you couldn't tell for quite awhile whether it was a balloon's burner or the geese going south to Bosque del Apache.... The neatest thing in the world tho is being in a plane leaving Albuq. right after a mass ascension - the plane has to climb waaaaaaaaay up high and suddenly below you are all the tops of the balloons. Beautiful.
new thread upstairs
and on this i'll leave you all to go see 'a history of violence'
can somebody tell me how to quote in itallics with me mac? merci beaucoup and good day to you all. À plus tard
Walter Cronkite was on Larry King's last night and said the nation suffers from "ignorance."
He was not optimistic about America's future given it's under-educated populace!
Rudy
Amen!
This is the only country in the world where above average children are treated as freaks.
And THAT's fucked up!
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