I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
So cool
Second? Could it be?
Third, Moonbats
It's nearly half past four in the morning here and I haven't been to bed yet. One day I will manage to crack the code of never needing any sleep at all.
Hey you guys. Get back to bed. Way too early for you to be up. Heck, it's way too early for me.
Here's what I love. The current spin is that Rove hasn't yet received a letter that he is a target of the investigation. Well duh. He just finished testifying yesterday afternoon. Even if the letter was hand delivered, it wouldn't have had time to wind its way from the mailroom when that article was written.
Echidne,
Drugs work for me. Off for a little more as well. Ambien = cure for Bush Insomnia
Echidne~
I weel tell joo my secret...
are joo ready?
Cat naps.
so.
Drugs work for me.
Not for me, sadly. I have tried most everything. I even participated in one of those things where you sleep at the sleep clinic. I have a circadian rhythm not equal to twenty-four hours, supposedly.
But then not sleeping gives me those big haunted-looking eyes...
Cat naps! I will try those, El Gato Negro. I will try anything once.
Rove hasn't gotten his letter yet? Too bad, but there is plenty of time as ql said.
Apparently not many Atriots awake now, so I'll just put in a plug for the ablum/artist I'm curresntly playing:
Josh Rouse, whose everything from his spare 8-track homemade beginnings to his current fancy productions is beautiful.
By Beautiful I mean that he loves everyone and loves the past, including the fictional parents on an early album.
There was some discussion at Eschaton last week about how males singing love songs tend toward narcissism, how the ladies make THEM feel good, neglecting the actual ladies. Not with JR, mostly--he has a habit of describing the ladies (not always). I hadn't even noticed that before.
If you've ever had a religious impulse but no faith, I much recommend his song Sparrows Over Birmingham, a secular song with gospel elements and way big faith, unspecified, utterly rhapsodic
I'm not smoking drugs though. It's medication.
However, the sleeping aid drug Lunesta works really well for me. Gives a good solid 7-8 hours of sleep.
I just haven't taken it recently.
So, I join in and y'all decide to go back to sleep?
How fucking rude.
Lou Dobbs is, well, Lou Dobbs. But I just watched him on CNN excoriate BushCo on issues other than immigration. He was reporting on how the US middle class is now being given the biggest shit sandwich by the government in decades, detailing how energy, education, and housing costs are steeply rising, but real wages are falling.
When a field reporter stated that the Pentagon's "News" (read propaganda) Service was only aimed toward service personnel he replied, "Well, I'm not sure that explanation is reassuring."
He wrapped up the segment with the quip, "There's your government, ladies and gentlemen, looking out for you."
Shrub, if you've gone and lost Lou Dobbs, you've outdone yourself.
Well, I'm up monitoring the basement flooding caused by 40 days and nights of rain here in New England. Gotta keep at it with the shop vac, promises of sunshine later in the afternoon today.
The trolls are really, really running scared, what with claims of yellowcake, and a hero of an American ambassador (facing down Saddam with a noose around his neck, remember?) being accused of exposing his own wife, to what end? All these crazy conspircy theories, flying in the face of facts and history. Big time fear and bedwetting and Troll central. Tiresome, but necessary.
Shrub, if you've gone and lost Lou Dobbs, you've outdone yourself.
Max Planck | Email | 10.15.05 - 5:01 am
I find the thought of Dobbs being handed a big shit sandwich of crow when Judy Miller is further revealed to be an actual player and not a reporter in the Bush adminstration's TREASON case. The interview he did with Miller was shameless.
Good luck Jesus
We had that problem last week. DC got over 7 inches in two days and one of my window wells filled up with water. Had to keep pumping it out with a small submersible pump all day.
Max P--Lou Dobbs is so arrogant that he's POed that W isn't looking out for their common class. Dobbs has realized that his rich Wall Street class is somewhat different from W's cheap labor Texas oil class. That's the dif.
How this plays out in Rethug party divisions I don't know. But they can't honestly stick together. They can't honestly do anything
Despite the fact that I have been getting up at 3:00-3:30 all this week, I refuse to believe I have trouble sleeping. I just figure I'm all caught up and don't need much more that six hours a night anyway.
Denial can be your friend.
The one good thing about having a house with a slanting basement is that I don't get water in the basement because it flows out right away. Everyone else is having trouble right now in this area.
J - I heard somewhere that if this had been snow we would have received over 90 inches by now. The sun is coming out today. Whoohoo! That's a sight we haven't seen in awhile.
We were gray all week here in DC, but not much rain to speak of luckily.
this is a lively place at such a weird hour new york time. cat got up on the roof and was too lazy to climb back down the cedar tree he uses to get up so i had to get up and put a ladder against the kitchen roof in this relentless rain or else listen to the crying as i haven't taken the air conditioner out of the window he usually comes in from october to june.
anyhow about rove, the best he can hope for is a management trainee position at target....instead of being a target.
Six hours of sleep has always been perfect for me, as long as I get the twenty-minute wolf nap in in the afternoon. this flooded basement thing is annoying, but I'll live. It ain't Katrina.
I am sooo glad that my cats are inside cats!
I'd like to take this slow moment to share my Bush's falling popularity indicator: On my morning commute from subarban Houston to downtown Houston I typically see many of the same cars/SUVs. I have now counted FOUR vehicles that have removed the ridiculous "W" logo stickers. I don't know, but to me, that's a sign of some kind. You have to be moved far past general apathy to muster the energy to get a razor and peel off the "mark of the moron."
The snow-rainfall equivelant is around 12" of snow per 1" of rain.
Heh. However, one has to consider the relative temperature when said snowfall occurs. If it's raining then turns to snow, it could be really heavy, wet snow... of the type that breaks trees. Or, the upper air could be much colder than the ground level and it may be fluffy and light.
Just depends.
I think you would be hardpressed to find peopleother than freepers who admit to voting for Bush now.
True confession time.
I have no champaigne on ice awaiting the indictments. Last time we had a bottle cooling it was to toast our victory on Nov. 3, 2004. We saved it to celebrate my promotion at work in January, 2005.
The thing about this rain is that it is tropical moisture traveling up the east coast. The Northeast is not supposed to get tropical moisture. Very strange weather pattern, but not to worry. The wingers assure me that there is still doubt about global warming.
KC, that may be the case, but we still have some pretty stubborn trolls here. Party of personal responsibility, hey?
The rain will spoil the foliage time here. It's too wet and the nights are too warm. We are going to have lots of rotting brown leaves.
Echidne--Where are you in NY at the moment? When I lived on Long Island as a kid, we certainly had a slanting basement, to prevent flooding. We also had adjustments for Dad's pool table, to make it even, when there was little flooding danger, but longterm slant danger.
There were certainly allowances for Long Island tap water, long ago polluted and only certified for drinking after serious, expensive filtering.
Draco, I'm not in NY. I live in Massachusetts.
ql, whatever this stuff is there is alot of it. up in hudson ny they had 11 inches and that was on last saturday!
and now that you mention it there is a warmish, pina colada feel to the air...back to bed.
I have no champaigne on ice awaiting the indictments.
We are all righteously skeptical about justice prevailing anymore.
And I use the term righteous in its original, pure form. Not the boutique Xtian abomination of the concept.
Yet we still find a bit of solace in the tiny thread of hope.
Max - If indictments are handed down I will be greatly relieved that the system still works.
Conversely, it is scaring the shit out of me that all this seems to be hanging on one honest man. What happens if we don't have an honest man the next time. And one thing we can be sure of with this lot, there will be next time. They haven't built their schools and think tanks to get and hold power for the duration of just one administration, they mean to hold on til the U.S. is a total theofascist state.
Your credit card payment just doubled
"Consumers are about to be hit with a triple whammy -- a series of blows that could push those on the edge into bankruptcy. And with the new bankruptcy laws scheduled to take effect Oct. 17, even bankruptcy won't be an easy solution.
Get ready. The combination of rising energy prices, rising interest rates, and rising credit-card required minimum payments are going to take a big bite out of your budget in the coming few months. And since consumer spending has been a potent force in keeping the economy growing, this blow to consumers could have a larger impact on the economy.
The big players have raised minimum payments from 2% to 4% of your balance, meaning you'll get out of debt much quicker.
There's nearly $1 trillion worth of revolving credit-card debt outstanding -- the balances that revolve from month to month. And about half of those accounts are held by consumers who make only the minimum monthly payment."
happy holidays!!!
Not to worry. Republicans have a plan.
Bring Back Debtor Prisons!!
(Of course contracts to build and run the prisons with go to Haliburton.)
People refuse to fight in a war
led by
people who refuse to fight in a war.
Call to action. Stop the Republican Party.
http://tinyurl.com/8ghl8
http://tinyurl.com/b97vk
Where Republicans tread, innocent people end up dead.
No wonder the stores are trotting out the xmas stuff before Holloween.
morning atriots 
howcum's there ain't a 'lemon law' for preznits...
Morning people. 50 degrees here at 5:18 in the A.M. Very unusual for mid Oct. Hope this lasts a long time. Am not looking forward to the heating season.
IRAQ CONTINUES ITS MARCH TOWARDS DEMOCRACY.
Fitz's DC Grand Jury meeets twice a week - Wed and Fri. Two more weeks to go for the GJ, meaning only 4 more sessions left. I read somewhere Fitz may not wait until the final week, because if he doesn't get GJ quorum (16 out of 24 or something) that week, he could be in trouble. So expect indictments coming Wednes or more probably Fri.
US officials puzzle over al-Qaida letter
US intelligence officials who released a letter purporting to be from an al-Qaida leader to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi say they can not account for a passage that has raised doubts about the document's authenticity.
The 9 July-dated letter, which US officials say was written by al-Qaida's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appears near its close to urge al-Zarqawi to send greetings to himself if visiting the Iraqi city of Falluja.
"My greetings to all the loved ones and please give me news of Karem and the rest of the folks I know," says an unedited English translation posted at http://www.dni.gov/, the website of US intelligence chief John Negroponte.
"And especially, by God, if by chance you're going to Falluja, send greetings to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," it states
ecoast
I also heard he may be trying to extend the gj, but with torture boy in charge that's not too bloody likely.
Morning Moonbootica.
Not to worry. Republicans have a plan.
Kid Charlemagne
who'd thunk, that the chimp would have planned ahead, to counter the rise in inflation (cpi 1.2% for september) caused by the hurricanes, energy mis-management, deficit spending and now the bankruptcy law (just to really make sure that inflation doesn't get outa control again)...being preznit is hard work...pity me...of such little faith...
Morning, again.
Hey BD, going back to bed is nothing personal.
I wouldn't call Sherrod Brown an "Establishment" Candidate. The guy has solid liberal credentials. He's smart as hell and he isn't afraid to to say it like it is. Either guy would be an improvement for Ohio. Brown should be president in my opinion.
He was solidly against the war from the start.
Get ready. The combination of rising energy prices, rising interest rates, and rising credit-card required minimum payments are going to take a big bite out of your budget in the coming few months. And since consumer spending has been a potent force in keeping the economy growing, this blow to consumers could have a larger impact on the economy.
Kill the golden goose. Bush and his thugs are pathetic, thinking they can crack the whip on the middle class, destroy it even.
When the consumers are destroyed, the wealthy will have their businesses destroyed. The oil companies will take it on the chin when people lose their jobs and stop driving, and freeze to death.
Death follows the thugs.
Moonbootica, like negroponte has any credibility. man belongs in jail.
jello that he does along with the Bush Junta and Kissinger....
re DNI, shouldn't this position be covered by someone who's actually an expert on the mideast? a year in iraq is supposed to taken as sufficient enough to qualify.
our security is in the hands of incompetent cronyistic boobs. the only reason repugs get to claim to be strong on security is because dems let them get away with the lie.
But we are still in the state of denial . . .
Last night, in spite of my better judgement, I caught a little bit of my least-favorite newcast (Except for Fox which I never will watch). I was impressed again how much ABC continues to spread lies as truth and truth as paranoia.
If you (as most of us do) read Juan Cole or the British papers on what is happening in Iraq, you know that the situation there is deteriorating daily. (It has been reported that we are destroying bridges to keep the insurgents from getting around. Anarchy seems to be running rampant near the Green Zone and the American deaths continue unabated.)
And what do the news media choose to report? That the elections on ths day will solve the problems. On the face that is just plain silly. A Constitution that is not supported by the people -- no matter how good it is (a dubious proposition at best) - simply cannot have an effect.
The Plame Grand Jury is interesting, but it remains to be seen if is going to be business as usual or whether Fitzgerald can connect the dots with a stream of indictments. In my secret heart, I hope that this will be true. THe more rrealistic part of me believes that several functionaries witll be indicted and exonnerated.
But the news media continues to ignore news that people need to know. But the truth as a way of willing itself into the fabric of our perceptions.
historical events today
# 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals.
# 1552 - Khanate of Kazan is conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny.
# 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
# 1764 - Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
# 1815 - Napoleon I of France begins his exile on St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
# 1940 - The Great Dictator, a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
# 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: A stand-off ensues between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba.
# 1965 - Vietnam War: The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages the first public burning of a draft card in the United States.
# 1966 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation.
# 1969 - Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations across the United States.
# 1995 - Saddam Hussein gains 99.96% of votes in Iraq's presidential elections.
Hey DWD, yeah it is.
LOL
This was from last night, I thought my morning friends might enjoy Woody and I dueling . . .
Autumn is flowing down the valley of the Rio Bravo
like a slow-rolling, golden flood sweeping through the crowns of the cottonwood trees.
The flood spreads more and more, deepens in each tree, as the nights grow chill.
This is absolutely my favorite time of the year here in the High Chihuahuan desert, aesthetically as well as meteorologically. Fall in the Southern Rockies is unlike any other season and/or place i've ever been...
bienvenidos if you're headin' my way...
WoodyGuthriesGuitar(aka | Email | 10.14.05 - 6:15 pm | #
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Woody,
Ah, New Mexico in the early fall is a beautiful place.
but then
The crispness of the leaves is palpable: a crinkling in the errant breezes is all the sound they make now. The whisper of summer breezes through the verdant foilage is forgotten. And the mournful dying of winter is still months away. Now, with a snap and a sparkle they blaze in the early October sun shaming the dying flowers into lowering their heads. Maples of red and Aspen of yellow mix with the browning of the oak giving a pallatte-pastiche to the world.
The ever present water is moving more than in the languid days of August. Now the fisherman are plying the waves in search of Lake Trout or Brownies. In the morning, as the sun burst through the horizon onto the lake you can see their boats shimmering in the morning light. Often they will drift the waves until the sun whispers into the lake to end another day.
But the rustling of the leaves is still the predominent feature: murmuring of the winter to come and the spirits that sift the night in the autumn in Michigan
I also heard he may be trying to extend the gj, but with torture boy in charge that's not too bloody likely.
ql, he doesn't need to, since he wrapped up the case. No more loose ends. He has it in the friz.
But some speculate that he may call/recommend another new grand jury if he thinks there is enough pre-evidence on Niger forgery.
But he doesn't want to muddy up his case and his gj must be tired too, after 18 months.
Whoa, where's the coffee? My one day to sleep in and I 've gotta get the twins to school to take the blessed PSAT.
Those "you are a target" letters are dual purpose: 1. impress those who DON'T know (ie. the media) of the prosecution's civility. 2. Intimidate the Target to whatever extent possible. There is no requirement that any notice be sent. My client's notice is the arrest or indictment.
Good Morning! Thankyou for anything! I like you--love you long time.
Mornin' all. Damn, I am one groggy mofo this am. Can hardly make out the letters on the keyboard.
Sun's out for the first time since Wednesday or Thursday of last week. I almost turned into a mole...
Moonbootica, thanks for the list of significant events that occurred today. Especially the one concerning Edward Gibbon and the Roman Empire. That's interesting.
On this date...
Moratorium in DC in 1969. Almost a million people. It was a blustery day with the temperature falling through the day.
I was in the crowd. My best friend was in the Treasury Building with elements of the 2nd Marine Division standing by for trouble.(He was so pissed that I would protest and ruin his liberty for that weekend, he stopped talking to me.)
Nixon ignore us.
The war went on until 1975.
Think I'll play the Powerball this morning
...just in case.
Today, wapo front-paged rove story.
Judy flipped. 1917 Espionage Act may be dusted off.
wapo:
Fitzgerald is believed to be in the final days of a 22-month investigation into whether any administration officials knowingly identified Plame to the media to retaliate against her husband, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war. White House officials are bracing for the possibility that Rove; I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff; or other officials could be indicted.
[snip]
One person who will not be charged is Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who spent 85 days in jail for refusing to testify in the case before making two recent appearances before the grand jury. Miller was recently told by Fitzgerald that she is only a witness in the case, according to a source close to Miller.
"Judy has always been a witness in this case and nothing more," said Robert S. Bennett, Miller's attorney. "She is neither a subject nor a target of the investigation."
A team of Times reporters is preparing a report on Miller's role in the saga that could be published as early as tomorrow. Until a contempt-of-court citation against her was lifted, Miller refused to tell her story to the paper on the advice of her lawyers. But Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said yesterday that Miller is now cooperating with fellow reporters on the story.
[snip]
Some lawyers in the case think Fitzgerald may no longer be interested in proving whether Plame's name was illegally leaked to reporters. That would require the difficult task of showing that an official knew the material was classified, that the official knew that the CIA was actively working to keep it a secret and that the person purposely leaked the information.
Instead, the lawyers, who based their opinions on the kinds of questions Fitzgerald is asking and not on firsthand knowledge, think the special prosecutor may be headed in a different direction. They said Fitzgerald could be trying to establish that a group of White House officials violated the Espionage Act, which prohibits the disclosure of classified material, or that they engaged in a conspiracy to discredit Wilson in part by identifying Plame.
Another possibility, the lawyers say, is that Fitzgerald could charge Rove or others with perjury or providing false testimony before the grand jury. This is a popular avenue for prosecutors in white-collar criminal cases.
Box Mart from Jib Jab
http://tinyurl.com/8kxgz
spot on
DWD and Wood -
The literary jousting was impressive. You cats are good.
pvt pyle - shit happens.
Semper FI
ecoast -
Nice article. I am hoping for indictments against Black Rover including treason, purgery, violation of the Espionage Act, bestiality, jaywalking, and anything else one can dream up.
I wouls like for Fitzgerald to make up a bunch of crap and see if he can get a conviction.
Kind of like the same things the bastards impeached Clinton for.
yeah! all my favorite freethinking moonies are aboard this morning! i awoke to happy news: my lovely killer took down a mouse, and left it at my door. good kitty.
traveling again today, so if it's espionage indictments, i'll miss them. but what a happy image to have while in the car. march, froggy, march!
morning, blogkins. remember: sleep is for the weak, you'll do plenty when you're dead.
Morning, CD. What's shakin'?
Your last comment was funny. Take care in your travels.
Hey CD, yes, the morning thread is full of kindness and wisdom and apparently the trolls are still being recharged in the troll lab. (I can see them all lined up like little bowling pins with their tails plugged into the great prevaricator as they are recyled for another day of bullshit.
remember: sleep is for the weak, you'll do plenty when you're dead.
I'm planning to be a ghost instead.
DWD- i figure we don't have trolls because they're still waiting for mommy to get up and put the bib on them and feed them bananans n berries. you know, like the kind my nephew eats. although our trolls probably don't fit into the high chair anymore...
and i have to agree with you that although woody enjoys the warmth, he's missing on the true Glory that is the Color Tour that happens in this part of america in the fall. i sort of blogged on it the other day (homepage) but i still believe there is no other place on earth i'd rather be than the midwest forests in the fall.
it's like the Riot of God's mind made real, or something.
Good morning, all. Thanks for the read, ecoast- it was delicious with my coffee. Now I'm hungry for more of that sticky high crimes and misdemeanour goodness.
discounted day-old friday parrot blogging at homepage
moonbootica- that's so funny! sis and i were talking about what kind of bond we'd choose last night. myself, i'm for the bond who finds him (her?) self in a world where intel has gone utterly wrong, and every fight it one against an enemy that doesn't deserve to have the attentions of the british military.
kind of a post-modern bond in an antiimperialist new world.
and dammit, what's wrong with jane bond? she can sleep with women still, that's fine by me. but instead of all this tux and martini crap, let's have a totally righteous female bond, who hunts down corrupt politicians in bed with drug lords and who saves elected leaders in third world countries from western MIC adventurers. i'd pay to see that.
Mornin, freethinkers
Save my kitty from Jerry Kilgore!
Jack Kelly's idiotic column on the supposed Zawahiri letter to Zarqawi prompted me to write this to the omsbudsman and CC Kelly:
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Jack Kelly's column this morning probably had to be written well in advance of publication, so perhaps that explains it, but... he gives absolutely no indication that doubts are quickly increasing about the authenticity of the letter that is the basis for his whole column.
A Reuters news story (link: http://tinyurl.com/dmatk) points out this:
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In Washington, U.S. officials and experts were split on the letter's authenticity.
Ken Katzman, a terrorism expert with the Congressional Research Service -- the in-house think-tank of the U.S. Congress -- said the letter contained elements that raised doubts about its authenticity.
For specifics from an expert, one can read this:
If more evidence comes in to dispute the authenticity of the letter, may we expect to see Jack Kelly address that possibility?
It is really too ironic that he closes with this supposed Zaqwahiri quote: "More than half the battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media." Certainly Jack Kelly is doing his part; I am concerned that he has all too willingly sacrificed the truth in his battle.
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1764 - Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
My favorite item from the Complete 2548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said:
"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
--Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
It gives me boundless comfort for my own as-yet-unlaunched literary career.
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