I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Bush presidency: FIERY WRECK!
Jail DeLay without delay!
Let Fitzmas come early this year!
Bring me the head of Scooter Libby!
(and Dick Cheney!)
This thread is mine! All mine!
It's mine, I tell you!
Hah, res. you are being watched.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Identical, Bush-backing Editorials Appear Nationwide
Posted by Rose Siding
Added to homepage Sat Oct 22nd 2005, 09:39 AM ET
What do these newspaper editorials have in common?
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/a...05/10/21/
colu...
http://www.jdnews.com/SiteProces...mplate=/
Globa...
http://www.kinston.com/SiteProce...emplate=/
Glob...
http://www.gazette.com/display.p...311384&
secid=13
All of them are unsigned editorials, which makes it look like they're original opinion pieces for each paper. (The Colorado Gazette even says it's "our view.")
And they all happen to say exactly the same thing, beginning with this paragraph:
One of the smartest things President Bush did to reduce recovery costs in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita was to suspend Davis-Bacon Act rules in the hardest hit states. But Congress is frantically trying to overrule the president, which would add billions of dollars to the already staggering recovery costs.
Amazing that newspapers from California, Colorado, and North Carolina could be channeling, simultaneously and in complete harmony, the Bush administration line for cutting wages for workers rebuilding the Gulf Coast.
UPDATE: As one commenter points out, all the papers involved are owned by Freedom Communications, Inc. (although, oddly enough, they all list different owners on their websites, with variations on the "Freedom" theme). It's still a no-no for papers to run these as if they're house editorials -- and therefore somehow the result of a spontaneous convergence of editorial opinion across the country, as opposed to just being a reprint.
UPDATE II: This paper in Indiana also ran it, and they're not owned by Freedom Com (they're Knight Ridder). And they attribute it to "The Lima News, Ohio." Confusion (?) reigns.
All I want for Fitzmas is Bush's gonads in a teeny-weeny jar.
What will happen next week? Indictments?
Rummy and a donkey? write your own caption...
Holy crap! ANyone in the NY Tri-State area ... turn on WLIW now!
What the heck is that?
Wednesday will be Fitzmas!
Merry Fitzmas to all!
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/
20...endoflightbulbs
Accidental Invention Points to End of Light Bulbs
Bjorn Carey
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.comFri Oct 21, 5:00 PM ET
The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork.
An accidental discovery announced this week has taken LED lighting to a new level, suggesting it could soon offer a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to the traditional light bulb. The miniature breakthrough adds to a growing trend that is likely to eventually make Thomas Edison's bright invention obsolete.
LEDs are already used in traffic lights, flashlights, and architectural lighting. They are flexible and operate less expensively than traditional lighting.
Happy accident
Michael Bowers, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, was just trying to make really small quantum dots, which are crystals generally only a few nanometers big. That's less than 1/1000th the width of a human hair.
Quantum dots contain anywhere from 100 to 1,000 electrons. They're easily excited bundles of energy, and the smaller they are, the more excited they get. Each dot in Bower's particular batch was exceptionally small, containing only 33 or 34 pairs of atoms.
When you shine a light on quantum dots or apply electricity to them, they react by producing their own light, normally a bright, vibrant color. But when Bowers shined a laser on his batch of dots, something unexpected happened.
"I was surprised when a white glow covered the table," Bowers said. "The quantum dots were supposed to emit blue light, but instead they were giving off a beautiful white glow."
Then Bowers and another student got the idea to stir the dots into polyurethane and coat a blue LED light bulb with the mix. The lumpy bulb wasn't pretty, but it produced white light similar to a regular light bulb.
White light from Bowers' lumpy new bulb. Credit: Vanderbilt University
The new device gives off a warm, yellowish-white light that shines twice as bright and lasts 50 times longer than the standard 60 watt light bulb.
This work is published online in the Oct. 18 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Better than bulbs
Until the last decade, LEDs could only produce green, red, and yellow light, which limited their use. Then came blue LEDs, which have since been altered to emit white light with a light-blue hue.
LEDs produce twice as much light as a regular 60 watt bulb and burn for over 50,000 hours. The Department of Energy estimates LED lighting could reduce U.S. energy consumption for lighting by 29 percent by 2025. LEDs don't emit heat, so they're also more energy efficient. And they're much harder to break.
Other scientists have said they expect LEDs to eventually replace standard incandescent bulbs as well as fluorescent and sodium vapor lights.
If the new process can be developed into commercial production, light won't come just
My question from downstairs:
Is fitzmas like Christmas, with presents and family-friendly fun? Or is fitzmas like New Year's Eve, with much alcohol and debauchery.
I need to know how to dress.
Bet they've already started drinking and playing with handguns up at Camp David.
I hate/must blog whore.
I was quoted in the Washington Post!!!!!!!!!!!
Yea Me! 
A Bright note in a really scary week.
It's mine, I tell you!
res ipsa loquitu
Assclown.
Holy crap! ANyone in the NY Tri-State area ... turn on WLIW now!
The Lawrence Welk Show?
Bet they've already started drinking and playing with handguns up at Camp David.
Good one!
Steve S., (from previous thread)
They said that the New Pornographers may reschedule sometime in February or March. At least I get my money back.
But that could've meant another day up in Duluth.
BTW: I won $320 at a casino playing 2 cent slots (only put in $30 in all).
The Lawrence Welk Show?
Did you catch that quartet? They were unbelievable!
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Fitzmas!
Is fitzmas like Christmas, with presents and family-friendly fun? Or is fitzmas like New Year's Eve, with much alcohol and debauchery.
Definitely the latter in my case!
Res IL-
WLIW-Lawrence Welk?
"I am the fucking wrath of God!"
Hey, Cardy - where's all the booooooze!
Related to previous editorial article
http://www.cjrdaily.org/archives...ives/
001691.asp
A couple weeks ago, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report shooting down a longtime Rural Legend -- and oft-time Republican talking point -- that impecunious farm families often have to sell their farms to pay the estate tax when the senior farmer dies. According to the New York Times, the CBO found that "The number of farms on which estate tax is even owed when the owners die has fallen by 82 percent since 2000, to just 300 farms, as Congress has more than doubled the threshold at which the tax applies." More importantly, the Times reported that of those 300, "All but 27 farmers left enough liquid assets to pay taxes owed, the budget office found, although it hinted that the actual number might be zero." (The CBO arrived at its numbers by analyzing 2000 tax records under current law.)
Long parroted by anti-tax politicians and lobbyists, the Rural Legend has played its part in many elections and Congressional battles. It has also had gotten its fair share of print, usually in editorials arguing for estate tax repeal. And, despite the recent CBO findings, the Legend is still wreaking havoc. The latest victims are the readers of the Daily News -- a Jacksonville, North Carolina newspaper owned by Freedom Communications.
Bet they've already started drinking and playing with handguns up at Camp David.
Good one!
res ipsa loquitur
Double assclown.
I need to know how to dress.
Dressing optional.
Listening to War makes house cleaning much easier.
I have "family fun" clothes and "drunken debauchery" clothes. Surprisingly similar, but with a few key differences.
WLIW-Lawrence Welk?
spinoza ... Yes. There was this spectacularly bad quartet on. Never seen anything like it.
Marcia Brady ...
Seriously considering a party at my place if the indictments come down. Will invite all Atriots in the NY-TriState area.
Listening to War makes house cleaning much easier.
War?
What's it good for?
.
Guy of Guy and Rolna (sp?) work(ed?) for Trent Lott. They were frat brothers at Ole Miss. Or so I'm told.
I'll say this for Lawrence Welk, he employed musicians and his wardrobe dept. used enough oil to heat a small country for several years.
Will Bianca spend the weekend with Little Boots at Camp David this weekend?
.
?
Get yer own blog.
Thanks,
Marcia Brady ...
Seriously considering a party at my place if the indictments come down. Will invite all Atriots in the NY-TriState area.
res ipsa loquitur
Triple assclown.
"All I want for Fitzmas is Bush's gonads in a teeny-weeny jar."
Sorry, Cheney already has them secured in an unknown location.
Dressing optional.
I belive that you are confusing the ancient pagan holiday of Fitznalia where dressing was definitely frowned upon, with Fitzmas. Fitzmas, grafted onto Fitznalia by those eager to appropriate this, as all other, pagan holidays, is a more family-oriented holiday which explains why dressing is optional. Turkey, however, is required, as is gravy. Modernists have been known to substitute cooked goose for the turkey.
WooHoo! Drunkenly debauched family fun at RIL's place!
Woooooo!
I'd kind of like to be the President
So I could show you how your money's spent.
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Wednesday will be Fitzmas!
Why Wednesday?
That means only four shopping days left until Fitzmas. Three a and a quarter, really.
Rove in handcuffs, that is all I need for Fitzmas.
? you are seriously pissing me off.
Now, I come from the land of polka. Lawrence Welk is on every Saturday night here. I saw a couple of books this weekend that he had written.
Renissance man I tells ya!!
a-one, and a-two, and a...
Wednesday will be Fitzmas!
Why Wednesday?
That means only four shopping days left until Fitzmas. Three a and a quarter, really.
Seebach
I want an IPod (hint hint.)
.
I've always wanted an ocelot.
I am a witch and I have magical powers. Be nice or I will do a spell on you!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I love the reality based community!
Zap Rowsdower, I read Welk's autobiography, Wunnerful, Wunnerful. With God as my witness, I'll never be that bored again.
I'm not fussy. And old little thing in a baby blue box would be just fine.
I want Andy Roddick.
.
? you are seriously pissing me off.
Hecate
?
For keeping you abreast of the fake multiple editorials? For posting modern science discoveries? Or for the lifelike chimp?
Or is it just that time of the month?
? you are seriously pissing me off.
Hecate
And you don't want to piss me off because I will do a spell on you!
I'll be right back, the neighbor's dog wants to talk to me.
We're coming up to Samhain, the Celtic festival that recognizes the end of the summers. You celebrate by burning pyres and fire jumping.
Ever see "The Wickerman?"
The summer of the Republicans is over, and spent time today building a wicker man.
Now I have to find Elke Summer to do a wall dance.
I am the wrath of god
SSquirell,
My short-hand for the eventual situation is Somalia, supersized.
?, you are going to have an embarassing gas attack at the most horrifying time sometime in the next couple of days.
And that's just the beginning.
Fitztivus: The Holiday for Rest of Us!
Rummy and a donkey? write your own caption...
dionysus
"Wait till I get my hands on the wise guy who set me up on this blind date!"
Way to go Squirrel!
?
Reposting articles that Atrios blogged about a day or so ago is not exactly helpful. As someone else suggested, if you want to cut and paste news articles, get your own blog. And keep your msyogony to your own damn self.
And old little thing in a baby blue box would be just fine.
Hecate ...
How about something like this?
Evening, all.
Off for some elitist chardonnay
quaffing.
Also planning to bore the hell out
of my friends with my new birthday
MP3 player.
Hey, listen to THIS song!!!!
Hahahahaha.......
See you guys later....
Speaking of Tom DeLay (I know we weren't but, this is so good)SurveyUSA says the Hammer now enjoys a stunning 15 percent favorable rating. LMAO!!!
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Ever see "The Wickerman?"
I have that on tape!
That's GREAT!
?, you are going to have an embarassing gas attack at the most horrifying time sometime in the next couple of days.
And that's just the beginning.
EPT
Hey, I'm the only one who is allowed to use my magical powers!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I am a member of the reality based community.
Hecate, this is Ted. I guess the prediction I made about "troll" is coming true only Ted's changed names again.
He always vents on women, he hates women.
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Is fitzmas like Christmas, with presents and family-friendly fun? Or is fitzmas like New Year's Eve, with much alcohol and debauchery.
And for indictees, a lump of coal in their sock, and the sock up 'long side the head.
Ted, I was talking about the natural consequences of being as full of shit as you are.
Arabella wins for obscure reference.
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Reposting articles that Atrios blogged about a day or so ago is not exactly helpful. As someone else suggested, if you want to cut and paste news articles, get your own blog. And keep your msyogony to your own damn self.
Hecate
WTF?
Grab up some Midol or xanax and stop being a bitch.
In other words fuck off you tired old bitch!
If I want shit I'll squeeze your head.
res ipsa,
Oh yes, that's the box!!!
Anybody notice that DeLay used the same defense in court that Saddam used the day before?
Attack the judge and proceedings as illegitimate.
And keep your msyogony to your own damn self.
Hecate
*misogyny*
Still trying to recover from the last post. Potterotica? Why?
Bet they've already started drinking and playing with handguns up at Camp David.
Hecate
DUMBya's gonna make Karl pray with him.
Hiya blogmates. Long day of cleaning and family party has left me tired and down. What's cooking?
On the first Day of Fiztmas, Fitzgerald gave to me...
fill in the rest later.
Is fitzmas like Christmas,...
Well on Christmas, many people go wasseling.
For fitzmas, Republicans start waffling.
Grab up some Midol or xanax and stop being a bitch.
In other words fuck off you tired old bitch!
If I want shit I'll squeeze your head.
? |
Charming?
Midol?
Bitch?
Problem with women, much?
Terry,
Given Bush's complete inability to finish a sentence, it could be pretty funny to hear him try to squeeze out an Our Father.
" Speaking of Tom DeLay (I know we weren't but, this is so good)SurveyUSA says the Hammer now enjoys a stunning 15 percent favorable rating. LMAO!!!" -- Dartanyon
Do you have a link handy? DeLay is my personal favorite conservative.
Remember, always say "conservative leader Tom DeLay."
or, "unpopular conservative president, George W. Bush."
Let's remind everyone where conservatism has gotten them.
Shameless blogwhoring, it involves spanking my wanker of the week.
Still trying to recover from the last post. Potterotica? Why?
Eligere
My daughter was maybe 12 when she accompanied me to class and a very very weird student started talking to her about Draco-themed S&M porn.
SSquirell,
My short-hand for the eventual situation is Somalia, supersized.
I couldn't resist the Saudi/Israeli Irony.
Hiya blogmates. Long day of cleaning and family party has left me tired and down. What's cooking?
NYMary
For you, dearie, anything you like. Sit down, put up your feet, have some ginger ale and a nice piece of cheese and make Thers bring you tribute.
Is fitzmas like Christmas, with presents and family-friendly fun? Or is fitzmas like New Year's Eve, with much alcohol and debauchery.
It's like Festivus, starting with the Airing Of Grievances, and moving on to Feats Of Strength.
Rove and Scooter getting the Club Fed Cornhole?! It's a Festivus Miracle!
And hey, don't forget Proctoberfest.
NYMary,
I hope you failed him.
"What's cooking?" -- NYMary
Apparently someone has name stolen Hecate and is baiting "?".
We are also all deciding what to wear for Fitzmas -- okay, that was just me...
What's cooking?
Bushco's goose.
Not fit to eat, however, but enjoyable to watch.
NYMary! I got to meet Majikthise and Amanda Marcotte and Norbizness! By myself... cuz nobody else came... sob.
Or is it just that time of the month?
?
Yes, folks...you can get that, and other timeless troll classics, on two CD's, or three cassettes.
Who could forget...
"It's Clinton's fault"
"Hillary is gay"
"Bush won. Get over it"
"Let the turbins fly"
"Israel is our friend"
"This is the criminialization of politics"
And hundreds more
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Bet they've already started drinking and playing with handguns up at Camp David.
Hecate
Condi and Harry are scrapbooking, Karen's trying to get the guys to show her how to smoke a cigar.
Midol?
Bitch?
Problem with women, much?
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat
He's upset because he won't be able to get the government to pay for his Viagra anymore. He takes extra because,... well, he needs extra.
.
Everybody Loves Tom!
http://tomdelay.blogspot.com
I smiled and the media bent over backwards. They love me!
.
"Liberals believe in equality of all people regardless of their religion. Liberals believe that people should be able to worship or not worship any god they choose. Liberals believe in the free enterprise system. Liberals believe that health care is a right not a privilege. Liberals believe that men and women are equals and should be able to choose their life paths. Liberals believe the sex lives of consenting adults are no business of the government. Liberals believe how many children a couple choose to have or not have is none of the government's business. Liberals believe that people are responsible for their actions and once they take responsibility for and accept the consequences of their actions they should be forgiven by society."
Amen!
Seriously considering a party at my place if the indictments come down. Will invite all Atriots in the NY-TriState area.
PAR TAY!!! WHOOO WHOOO !!!!!
Speaking of Tom DeLay (I know we weren't but, this is so good)SurveyUSA says the Hammer now enjoys a stunning 15 percent favorable rating. LMAO!!!
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Dartanyon | Email | Homepage | 10.22.05 - 6:50 pm | #
It makes you wonder who the 15 percent are.
I hope you failed him.
Her. And no, she did well enough in the course. But she's still the benchmark against which all weird students are measured.
Bet they've already started drinking and playing with handguns up at Camp David.
Hecate
Why, except for the handguns, that's what we're doing here!
Or is it just that time of the month?
?
What a surprise.
A women-hating troll.
nice Volvo Phinky!
NYMary! I got to meet Majikthise and Amanda Marcotte and Norbizness! By myself... cuz nobody else came... sob.
Seebach
Oh, that is so cool. Amanda linked to me one time; we had a nice correspondence.
It makes you wonder who the 15 percent are.
Probably his district in Houston.
It makes you wonder who the 15 percent are.
Golf, tourism, and banking industry....
Bet they've already started drinking and playing with handguns up at Camp David.
Hecate
Condi and Harry are scrapbooking, Karen's trying to get the guys to show her how to smoke a cigar.
NYMary
They're all going to get drunk, get naked and play Abu Gharib (sp?)
Do you have a link handy? DeLay is my personal favorite conservative.
Marcia Brady, You ask and I provide.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...5102100777.html
It's the 7th paragraph from the bottom.
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Midol jokes? Would I be correct that this sort of dates this troll to a time before the 80s? Or do frat boys still make Midol jokes?
Bet they've already started drinking and playing with handguns up at Camp David.
Oh, they're playing Russian Roulette, all right.
And the fall guy is...
Oh, that is so cool. Amanda linked to me one time; we had a nice correspondence.
I decided not to bring my camera. It might seem kind of rude for a stranger out of their blogcircle to show up and invade their privacy. And the other camera's battery ran out.
So there's no proof my whole Southweschacon thing wasn't just a delusion...
Seebach sez:
NYMary! I got to meet Majikthise and Amanda Marcotte and Norbizness! By myself... cuz nobody else came... sob.
Aw, crap.
I have a serious crush for Amanda.
Why can't I meet her?
.
They're all going to get drunk, get naked and play Abu Gharib (sp?)
Garcon! Brain bleach, s'il-vous-plait!
Just saw a Katie Holmes interview where she must have said that her relationship with Tom Cruise is amazing about fifteen times in two mins.
Does someone know the name of a good Cult deprogrammer we can send poor Katie. I feel so bad for her.
They're all going to get drunk, get naked and play Abu Gharib (sp?)
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat | Email | 10.22.05 - 6:59 pm | #
What an idea. I could see them doing just that!
And then they're going to have phone sex with Saudi royal family.
After playing pin the tail on JeffyLube.
RE: "The Wicker Man".
Britt Eklund, actually.
RE: "The Wicker Man".
Britt Eklund, actually.
It makes you wonder who the 15 percent are.
oldwhitelady
His pals in the NRA and at RJ Reynolds, I guess.
.
Or do frat boys still make Midol jokes?
They're a bit slow.
Bush is circling the toilet of history. Get read you mutha! For the big payback!
This is fun from Dartanyon's link:
Also, a recent nationwide tracking poll by National Journal's Hotline similarly showed that after the indictments, DeLay not only became better known but also more disliked, attracting a 44 percent unfavorable rating and a 15 percent favorable rating.
Midol jokes? Would I be correct that this sort of dates this troll to a time before the 80s? Or do frat boys still make Midol jokes?
EPT
I know.
Why is it that misogynists have a 1950s mentality?
I know it will break all y'all's lil hearts but...
the trool spooge is just too thick, an' i already took one shower today; so i'm gonna pack it in...
cheers, chers...
I have a serious crush for Amanda.
She was very nice, and gregarious. Putting my near-autistic social awkwardness into stronger relief than usual.
All I want for Fitzmas is Bush's gonads in a teeny-weeny jar. - SteveLG
I'd prefer them to remain attached, but contained in this.
googled "erotic" came up with "artios", noT
Well, I'll be back. Thers Jr. is itching to play himself some SpongeBob on this machine.
RE: "The Wicker Man".
Britt Eklund, actually.
Chris Tucker
Which they used a body double for because she was pregnant at the time.
the Hammer now enjoys a stunning 15 percent favorable rating. LMAO!!!
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Dartanyon | Email | Homepage | 10.22.05 - 6:50 pm | #
It makes you wonder who the 15 percent are.
oldwhitelady
Ain't his family.
They don't like him.
I'd like to awake Christmas morning to find Andy Roddick under the tree wearing nothing but a blue ribbon and a gift tag that reads "TO: Dartanyon." Oh well, a boy can dream.
.
Developing: sources have informed ? that wimmin's internal plumbing may be different from his own!!! Nobody tell him they look different externally too.
Just saw the AP article at Yahoo on Tropical Storm Alpha, the first time in the 60 year hostory of Hurricane name that they have exhausted the years list. - Half the article was about how this is all part of a 'natural cycle'. No global warming. No we don't have any of that, no siree. Just move on folks, nothing to see here.
?,
Irrational outbursts - check
Bloated ego - check
Cramped mentality - check
Definite case of PPMS*
Pouty Powerless Male Syndrome
Terry,
Given Bush's complete inability to finish a sentence, it could be pretty funny to hear him try to squeeze out an Our Father.
Hecate
And THAT's when he's SOBER!
Way to smack down Ralph Peters, phinky!
Developing: sources have informed ? that wimmin's internal plumbing may be different from his own!!! Nobody tell him they look different externally too.
JeffCO
Except Karen Hughes.
I feel so bad for her.
Seriously.
I remember when he left Nicole, he said something like *she knows what this is about*.
Gossip from Google:
"Kidman admitted three years ago that she was only a fringe member of
the church.
'I believe in a bit of Scientology, Catholicism, Judaism and the
Eastern philosophies. I take a bit of each. I'm a hybrid,' she said.
'I would never have married Tom if he had insisted I become an
out-and-out Scientologist.
'That would've been forcing me to do something I didn't want to do. He
and I allow ourselves to be who we are.'
Friends of Cruise say that attitude did not sit well with Scientology
leaders, who demand absolute dedication.
'Tom takes his religion very seriously,' said a producer who worked
with Cruise on Mission: Impossible.
'It would not have been easy for him to see Nicole treat Scientology
like just one more dish in a religious smorgasbord.' That is just what
Kidman discovered when she was at a party with Cruise and Mel Gibson.
The Australian actor began to tease Cruise about his religion.
'Tom lost his cool completely, ' said an actor who was present.
John Aravosis is going to be on CNN around 7:15 (or so) tonight.
What's cooking?
NYMary
Nada Mucho.
.
Chris Tucker - Yes! Britt Eklund, actually. She was wickedly good, even with clothes on
Chris Tucker - Yes! Britt Eklund, actually. She was wickedly good, even with clothes on
I'd like to awake Christmas morning to find Andy Roddick under the tree wearing nothing but a blue ribbon and a gift tag that reads "TO: Dartanyon." Oh well, a boy can dream.
.
Dartanyon
Do you look anything like Mandy Moore? Although that may work against you now...
Karen's trying to get the guys to show her how to smoke a cigar. -
NYMary
More likely Sasquatch Hughes is showing Mehlman how to smoke a cigar.
To all ya women-hating ( tolls
Pre- adolescents):
Ya'all don't know just how disturbited ya are.
Have you never had a positive male role-model?
don't ya understand that by lashing-out against wimmen, ya"ll are sayin' ya don't LIKE mimmen?
Iffen ya din't like no wimmenses, then we got no room fer ya in todays KK... ah, .. I mean todays GOP.
I'd like to awake Christmas morning to find Andy Roddick under the tree wearing nothing but a blue ribbon and a gift tag that reads "TO: Dartanyon." Oh well, a boy can dream.
OK, that's one naked Andy Dick coming right up!
I swear, if Nicole Kidman ever writes a tell-all book about her years with Cruise, I bet our mouth will drop in disbelief.
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Britt Eklund
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'It would not have been easy for him to see Nicole treat Scientology
like just one more dish in a religious smorgasbord.' That is just what
Kidman discovered when she was at a party with Cruise and Mel Gibson.
The Australian actor began to tease Cruise about his religion.
'Tom lost his cool completely, ' said an actor who was present.
pie
Cruise has obviously gotten past the regular thetan-clearing stage, and has advanced to the sleeping thetan-clearing stage.
Xenu hates that.
Did anybody happen to catch Delay's interview on MSNBC last night?
It seems that _insert blonde talking head's name here_ was only interested in his lapel button.
Sure -- I miss cable. But I'd have a broken TV soon after I got it.
Damn appendecitis (re: New Pornographers bass player)
I thought that good bands played through pain 
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Think I'm gonna google her.
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I'd like to awake Christmas morning to find Andy Roddick under the tree wearing nothing but a blue ribbon and a gift tag that reads "TO: Dartanyon." Oh well, a boy can dream.
OK, that's one naked Andy Dick coming right up!
Hard of Hearing Santa
ROFL!!! Hard Santa, please leave me the receipt -- that Andy is being returned!
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Mel Gibson. The Australian actor began to tease Cruise about his religion.
Mr. Opus Dei is teasing someone else about their beliefs?
Hey, I'm no fan of Tom or Scientology, but Gibson has brass ones.
At least Tom hasn't made a snuff film.
At least Tom hasn't made a snuff film.
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat
Eyes Wide Shut? Well, I died a little, inside.
Do you look anything like Mandy Moore? Although that may work against you now...
Marcia Brady,NowWithIntegrity
Nah. Closer to a young Al Pacino, or so I've been told. Think Godfather One.
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Watching some WS PreGame on the local Fox Station and the Field at Celluar One looks so green it looks fake.
Durance,
A conservative friend was explaining the "natural cycle" stuff to me this week. They need to believe this stuff. Katrina was probably a Category 3 Hurricane that was ramped up to a Category 5 by global warming that's heated up the Gulf. A human-made disaster, in other words.
Terry C. sez:
At least Tom hasn't made a snuff film.
Well, Katie's still alive...
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Karen's trying to get the guys to show her how to smoke a cigar.
I'm pretty sure she knows how. She's teaching everybody else. Only problem is that she wears a thong while doing it...
Let's remind everyone where conservatism has gotten them.
I don't understand the liberals that draw a distinction between the extremists in the Bush administration and conservatives, as if real conservatives had nothing to do with the Bush administration. Bush is the culmination of all conservative dreams. It's too damn bad that their dreams turned out to be nightmares.
At least Tom hasn't made a snuff film.
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat
Eyes Wide Shut? Well, I died a little, inside.
Marcia Brady,NowWithIntegrity
No, the OTHER snuff film.
I read ScienTOMogy requires a Scientology tent for "information purposes only" be available on his movie sets now. It's so bizarre.
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Only problem is that she wears a thong while doing it...
NTodd the pwn3d
Oh, fuck - brain bleach, please!
Only problem is that she wears a thong while doing it... - NTodd the pwn3d
Garcon, more brain bleach, please.
For God's sake, NOW!
Only problem is that she wears a thong while doing it...
Excuse me, please. I'm going to go bang my head on watertiger's desk until I'm unconscious. Thank you.
Gather round the Fitztivus pole, children! It's time for the feats of strength!
Hey, I'm no fan of Tom or Scientology, but Gibson has brass ones
Have you seen that Family Guy episode where they make fun of Gibson. Peter steals the master copy of Mel Gibson's upcoming "Passion of the Christ 2". Classic.
Well, Katie's still alive...
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spork_incident
Technically, she is.....
Eyes Wide Shut? Well, I died a little, inside.
It ain't great, but I think that flick is more maligned than it deserves...
Have you seen that Family Guy episode where they make fun of Gibson. Peter steals the master copy of Mel Gibson's upcoming "Passion of the Christ 2". Classic.
Unrepentant Fenian
Oh, god.
Wasn't that great?
And, though I'm not a South Park fan, their episode about that movie was funny, too!
Gather round the Fitztivus pole, children! It's time for the feats of strength!
Buzz Bomb
Cruise has obviously gotten past the regular thetan-clearing stage, and has advanced to the sleeping thetan-clearing stage.
Xenu hates that.
Marcia Brady,NowWithIntegrity
Reminds of a book I did a report on in a sociology class.
It was about a UFO cult and how some lost or mantained thier faith as unfullfilled predictions were made.
AS you expect the ones who had the most invested (gave up thier homes and life savings) were the ones who had the strongest faith. Kinna a chicken and egg thing. Did they give so much because the hag strong faith or do they have strong unshakable faith because the gave up so much.
Something tells me Tom as given them Millions and now MUST believe or he must admit to being a fool.
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Eyes Wide Shut? Well, I died a little, inside.
It ain't great, but I think that flick is more maligned than it deserves...
NTodd the pwn3d
Never thought an orgy scene could be boring till "EWS"
Oh man, the Nazi Twins have really brought out the nutjobs at my place. BTW, I posted a new podcast--my 2nd in 3 days, so I guess I'm back, baby!
Well, look at it this way: if Katie and ScienTOMogy take home movies of the birth, they can release the film under the title "Rosemary's Baby Two."
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Malkin is off her meds again ... click here.
Gather round the Fitztivus pole, children! It's time for the feats of strength! - Buzz Bomb
Like resisting the mental image induced by NTodd's last post?
I think NTodd should be sentenced to wearing the bottom half of a suit or armor for six months for that.
Never thought an orgy scene could be boring till "EWS"
Well, one problem was the American version had those digitally-created people to block the rumpy-pumpy. But actually, I find it strangely erotic because it is so detached emotionally and not what one might expect from an orgy scene or a porn flick.
Malkin is off her meds again ... click here.
blogenfreude
The Rabid Pekingese.
That bitch is sooooo crazy!
I think NTodd should be sentenced to wearing the bottom half of a suit or armor for six months for that.
But how will I, you know...?
Never thought an orgy scene could be boring till "EWS"
Then again....Camp David this weekend!
Eyes Wide Shut? Well, I died a little, inside.
Marcia Brady,NowWithIntegrity
Brought me alive with frustrated anger at the stupidty of it all!
I literally when into the kitchen and went, "AAAAAARRRRGGGGH"!
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The Rabid Pekingese and Little Green (Fascist) Fuckers.
A match made in hell.
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It makes me sad.
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Well, look at it this way: if Katie and ScienTOMogy take home movies of the birth, they can release the film under the title "Rosemary's Baby Two."
Saw a clip of the Scientologist actress from King of Queens who filmed the birth of her child. It was really creepy. No noise at all. I guess that Scientologists believe that noise at birth is bad for the child.
Wasn't working on EWS what broke up Nicole and Tom?
Malkin is off her meds again ... click here.
As I said at Agitprop: them's my peeps. Gotta go blog about this!
Now, I come from the land of polka. Lawrence Welk is on every Saturday night here. I saw a couple of books this weekend that he had written.
ah the men they dance with the polka dots
and the women tear their blouses off
it's partner found and partner lost
and hell to pay when the fiddler's lost
it's closing time
closing time
I loved you for your beauty
that doesn't make a fool of me
you were in it for your beauty too...
etc...
l.cohen
'closing time'
But how will I, you know...? -NTodd the pwn3d
Willing to trade potty breaks or fire ants in said steel slacks?
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It makes me sad.
Don't worry, modern medicine can work miracles with missing colon separators these days.
But how will I, you know...?
NTodd the pwn3d
Dance? Shower? Garden?
Ever see "The Wickerman?"
Never accept the invitation to be the guest of honor at the Summerisle Celebrity Roast.
Wasn't working on EWS what broke up Nicole and Tom?
Hecate
That and the fact that Tom Cruise is nuts.
" Wasn't working on EWS what broke up Nicole and Tom?" -- Hecate
I think it was the celebacy.
Never thought an orgy scene could be boring till "EWS"
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat
It didn't have the tension building miscommunication of a 'Blood Simple' just a frustrating noncommication where you just wanna scream 'SPEAK' stop mumbling 'SPEAK!'.
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The pics of Malkin as Medusa are pretty good.
Wasn't working on EWS what broke up Nicole and Tom?
Hecate
What I heard was Cruise tried to get Nicole to give up Catholicism for his Cult and after nearly 10 years of trying and failing, he tossed her out with the garbage.
She's much better off I think.
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Alright, WHOSE got it?
Nobody leaves da blog...
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I find it strangely erotic because it is so detached emotionally and not what one might expect from an orgy scene or a porn flick.
so sexually sexless it's actually sexy?
But how will I, you know...?
NTodd the pwn3d
Dance? Shower? Garden?
No, uh...you know, get busy in the BK bathroom? Solo or with a partner?
get busy in the BK bathroom? Solo or with a partner?
NTodd the pwn3d
You own a janitorial service? I don't understand...
The music during the "black mass" was cool...
Can anyone suggest something for this Cub fan to do tonight other than watching the Sox in the World Series. I just can't take it.
Maybe photographs or a diagram may help.
Wasn't working on EWS what broke up Nicole and Tom?
Hecate
What I heard was Cruise tried to get Nicole to give up Catholicism for his Cult and after nearly 10 years of trying and failing, he tossed her out with the garbage.
She's much better off I think.
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Dartanyon
I remember when he was fooling around with Nicole while he was still married to Mimi Rogers.
Putting it right in Mimi's face.
What a jerk!
get busy in the BK bathroom?
Oh, you should have thought of that before you suggested Huges smoking cigars in her thong. It's all fun and games until someone pokes their eyes out, you know.
Can anyone suggest something for this Cub fan to do tonight other than watching the Sox in the World Series. I just can't take it.
Unrepentant Fenian
I hear alcohol is the cure for, and the cause of, all life's problems.
Can anyone suggest something for this Cub fan to do tonight other than watching the Sox in the World Series. I just can't take it.
Unrepentant Fenian
When you figure it out, let this Yankee fan know.
Bushlicker Clemens just can't win this.
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Can anyone suggest something for this Cub fan to do tonight other than watching the Sox in the World Series. I just can't take it.
Unrepentant Fenian
Just keep telling yourself "If Houston wins, it will make the Bush Family happy."
Then swallow your pride and say "Go Sox!"
Can anyone suggest something for this Cub fan to do tonight other than watching the Sox in the World Series. I just can't take it.
Unrepentant Fenian
You can watch the 'stros!
(sorry)
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Why are trolls so stupid?
Oh, you should have thought of that before you suggested Huges smoking cigars in her thong. It's all fun and games until someone pokes their eyes out, you know. - Hecate
Aaaack, I'd almost gotten the image out of my mind.
Why are trolls so stupid?
Ma Joad
Because they're trolls.
RE: Eyes Wide Shut
descendents of puritans
don't do
pleasure
Why are trolls so stupid?
A constant diet of Cheetos and Kool-Aid does nothing to enhance brain cells.
Putting it right in Mimi's face.
What a jerk!
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat
Is Mimi Rogers a fellow cultist?
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Can anyone suggest something for this Cub fan to do tonight other than watching the Sox in the World Series. I just can't take it.
Read a book?
Watch a movie?
I forgot a word:
RE: Eyes Wide Shut
descendents of puritans
don't do
pleasure
easily
Just keep telling yourself "If Houston wins, it will make the Bush Family happy."
Why did you remind me of that. Now I can't cheer for EITHER team.
Fox Pregame. Jeanie Zalasko is wearing the worst jacket in the history of jackets tonight.
Can anyone suggest something for this Cub fan to do tonight other than watching the Sox in the World Series. I just can't take it.
Unrepentant Fenian
As a Browns and Indian Redwings(makes me a wingnut)fan, may I suggest Oxy-Contin, a Cuban Cigar, and the "Windsor Ballet" (a little Bailey's rocks as needed)
Maybe I'll watch One Flew over the Cukoos Nest tonight. Haven't seen that in a while.
Indians and Redwings
Maybe I'll watch One Flew over the Cukoos Nest tonight. Haven't seen that in a while.
I once had a department chair who channeled Nurse Rachit.
Has Joe Buck started his monotone yacking? He makes my skin crawl.
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No Joe Buck yet but Zalasko's jacket is killing me.
Has Joe Buck started his monotone yacking?
No; Fox is still running its inance pregame bullshit. Oh, but Joe Buck will be up next with the lineups. They are never gonna begin this game.
Here's hoping Clemens gets shelled tonight and the White Sox take home the bling.
I once had a department chair who channeled Nurse Rachit. - spinoza
We have a department manager who is Nurse Rachit. Fortunately, I don't report to her.
H'lo, all. Speaking of wondrous movies, I got the Ed Wood box set today. Hours of glorious nonsense awaits.
Joe Buck is just plain awful.
When he went ballistic after the (honestly quite funny) Randy Moss fake-moon in Green Bay, I wanted to mail him a chocolate Oscar statuette for his bravura preformance.
Sox in seven 
Afternoon, batses...there are fresh cinnamon buns now being served.
Sallyh,
Mmmmm, cinnamon buns....
My neighbor brought me chocolate chip muffins.
Feh! I wanted Xtian baby buns.
Yellow Rose of Texas? WTF?
I live in TX but not really a...
WAIT! I was going to ask who to root for and remembered; I was Born in Chicago!
Astros SUCK!
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Unrepetentant Fenian
Do yourself a favor; get Kesey's "Sometime A Great Notion".
If you don't own a copy; then get your sorry ass down to the greatest manifestation of Western Coulture - the LIBRARY and read it.
AFAIC- his best work.
STAR WARS?
Will Do Ma Joad.
H'lo, all. Speaking of wondrous movies, I got the Ed Wood box set today. Hours of glorious nonsense awaits.
Silleigh
Silleigh --
It's a delight!
The documentary that accompanies the box is amazing -- they talk to everybody!
Where's Max Planck? I was wrong (yet again) about the grand jury. They don't bring indictments, the prosecutor's do per
http://talkleft.com/new_archives...ves/
012824.html
Too bad. They're mostly African American, where Bush is not so favored. Probably a good thing they can't or Georgie and Puddin Head might find themselves in very deep doodoo
Sallyh,
Jus' in time. Is our children learing more?
Last week a friend of mine told me that the result of giving change-of-address information over the phone to the outsourced customer service center of one of his credit cards was a statment addressed to
"John Doe"
The Terrorist
123 main st
etc.
This after five minutes explaining/splelling the address line
"The Terraces"
the greatest manifestation of Western Coulture - the LIBRARY and read it.
AFAIC- his best work.
Ma Joad
Can't you get it on EBAY?
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Party Like It's 1917?
Josh Groban?
Open Letter To The Atriot Community:
I'm really, really, really, really, really sorry for putting the image of Karen Hughes smoking a stogie in her thong in your mind. I promise to never do it again. Please don't force me to wear pants.
Sincerely,
ntodd
That's one big flag!
Mimi Rogers was a scientologist at one point. Now, who knows. She was in "Rapture" a haunting little movie.
H'lo, all. Speaking of wondrous movies, I got the Ed Wood box set today. Hours of glorious nonsense awaits.
Silleigh
Silleigh --
It's a delight!
The documentary that accompanies the box is amazing -- they talk to everybody!
Oh, man, thanks for the recommend! I'm putting that on my Amazon Wishlist right now...
H'lo, all. Speaking of wondrous movies, I got the Ed Wood box set today. Hours of glorious nonsense awaits.
Silleigh
Silleigh --
It's a delight!
The documentary that accompanies the box is amazing -- they talk to everybody!
Oh, man, thanks for the recommend! I'm putting that on my Amazon Wishlist right now...
The documentary that accompanies the box is amazing -- they talk to everybody!
bj, thanks -- I wasn't sure what to dive in first, and believe I have an Ed Wood date in about an hour. Perfect.
Good evening, moonbats!
After a few morning chores, this has been a gloriously lazy day.
Grey skies & drizzle seem to make sloth okay.
Hey, it's an NTodd! I own one of those. Those are great. Very handy for, uh, stuff.
I'm really, really, really, really, really sorry for putting the image of Karen Hughes smoking a stogie in her thong in your mind. I promise to never do it again. Please don't force me to wear pants.
Sincerely,
ntodd
NTodd the pwn3d
I didn't see it the first time through, so AIYEEE!
There- I just posted it again! Ack!
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Accckkkk! Couldn't go with an indirect reference, could ya?
NTodd,
I need some help in getting that image out of my mind. Is it that there is a smoking stogie in her thong? (And is it yours?)
earl - you left out the best lines of Closing Time:
"We're drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening.
The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
And my very close companion
gets me fumbling gets me laughing
she's a hundred but she's wearing something tight
I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth
except to say it isn't worth a dime
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ
but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
we're busted in the blinding lights
of CLOSING TIME"
By the way, did you ever happen to notice that Rebecca De Mornay has a production credit on that Cohen album (The Future)?
Yikes. I thought finding the Ed Wood box set for $33 at Borders was a steal, but it's slightly cheaper at Amazon.
Great, NTodd, now when I think of Karen Hughes (which isn't often) it's going to be as a character out of a Lina Wertmuller film....
I'm really, really, really, really, really sorry for putting the image of Karen Hughes smoking a stogie in her thong in your mind.
How the stogie got into her thong, we'll never know.
Who Need a Kitty Fix? - jdw
Punky gets first shot at clawing out Frist's eyes.
fy - Ralph Nader is still, you know, a goat-blowing assclown.
Yea! more dabbadoo!
How the stogie got into her thong, we'll never know.
Thers
Say the magic word and win a hundred dollars.
fy - Ralph Nader is still, you know, a goat-blowing assclown.
Not that there's anything wrong with that....
Hooray!!
"Punky gets first shot at clawing out Frist's eyes."
punky would be glad to do it....
A Republican precinct chairman in Tom Delay's own district said that Tom is a pig that's gotten so fat that he's a hog now and needs to be slaughter. Who wants to do the stuffing?
Yea! more dabbadoo!
SSquirell"
dabbadoo is gonna be a favorite for pics...she likes to pose.
Re: the Ed Wood Box
It's a shame Bela Lugosi didn't live to play Kenne Duncan's part in Night of the Ghoul.
When you imagine Duncan's zombie monotone replaced by Bela's beautifully musical delivery, it makes all the difference....
For some reason I'm craving a cigar. Really, I am. Haven't smoked one in weeks. Got a couple Cohibas begging to be lit on fire. In my thong.
John Aravosis on CNN re bloggers and their impact on MSM...He said that the blogs have been on top of the leak story - if anyone in the Administration committed TREASON in ouring a CIA agent during wartime. Very glad that T word got out on the air.
Got a couple Cohibas begging to be lit on fire.
Okay, that's gotta hurt.
"Morphine, with a demerol chaser."
Off to watch One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest. Later Batties.
I wish Melissa were here.
She loves to sing the Anthem and then yell PAY BALL! She's a doll.
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For some reason I'm craving a cigar.
Yuck. Step outside the blog first, please.
Ralph Nader: Sweet and Sour Porked.
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He said that the blogs have been on top of the leak story
When I talk to people who get their news from "mainstream" sources - esp. TV - it's like we're living in different worlds.
Corporate media have been way too good at keeping the big stories either off the air or minimizing what they mean.
bj,
I know what you mean. Even this week, I've had people give me a blank look when I mention Plame indictments.
Got a couple Cohibas begging to be lit on fire.
Okay, that's gotta hurt.
I double pith them first.
Yuck. Step outside the blog first, please.
I have a policy of not smoking in the house or the blog. And I don't often smoke at all if it's not Poker Night, but I missed the last couple gatherings, so I have a hankering.
Joe Buck is just plain awful.
He's the George W. Bush of sports announcing -- he's where he is thanks to his daddy.
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Well, it's officially "lap weather" here now. Kitty follows me from room to room just waiting for me to sit down.
Agave@ 7:56
BTW
Fuck HALOSCAN-
And an even bigger FUCK YOU to the phone company!
(Living in rural New Mexico means never having to say you are sorry for having decent infrastructure)
E-Bay?
YA materialistic hedonistic Barhstid ye-
the library t'is FREE man!
Used to live next door to Kesey's daughters.
Re-RoveHICA to one and all!
Oh, and to Al, too. 
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Well, it's officially "lap weather" here now.
Oh my.
When I talk to people who get their news from "mainstream" sources - esp. TV - it's like we're living in different worlds.
Yeah. I keep running into that, too, even among lefties.
It's also very difficult to explain why a line like "I did! I did slob a plutocrat!" attributed to "Tweety" causes me to fall out of my chair laughing.
Here's hoping the Flying Spaghetti Monster hears my prayers and gives Chicago the win.
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The hell is Biggio looking at in the crowd, and how long to we have to wait until Fox shows us the royal family?
Condoleezza Rice was at the Alabama/Tennessee game today.
http://www.business-opportunitie...blogspot.com%
2F
My blog is worth $2,118,154.08.
How much is your blog worth?
well.
the business opp web site was mined from billmon.
-J.T.
It's also very difficult to explain why a line like "I did! I did slob a plutocrat!" attributed to "Tweety" causes me to fall out of my chair laughing.
Holy shit, maybe we do belong to a cult. If only everybody else would just take The Spores, they'd understand everything...
I dearly love rolling through US Customs smoking a Cohiba. I'm such a rebel!
the library t'is FREE man!
Ma Joad
You read me like a book!
Where in NM?
Near AbbyQ?
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From the thread below from simels on sully... but I'm just waking up...
when Americans and Brits are actually presented with genuine conservatism - the kind exemplified by Reagan and Thatcher or Gingrich in 1994 - they respond.
steve simels
Ummm... Sully hasn't been following the proceedings of the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool last week.
It only took them 13 years after forcing Thatcher herself off the stage, that it was time to force Thatcher's ideas from forming any part of the platform.
Running to the far right like the BNP and Thatcher is no way to win elections in England or the US, which is why Gingrich is out on the curb being a used ideology salesman and Guitar George has sold his hokum of Compassionate Conservatism.
Liberalism is the answer instead of militarism, Sully. Freedom at gunpoint is not freedom, but only confirms Maoism in its most virulent forms.
{Which dovetails nicely in to my wanker of the day, Rumsfeld telling the Chinese not to threaten people with their military, cuz that's not the proper thing for civilised countries to do. *snort*}
"Got a couple Cohibas begging to be lit on fire."
I've got s huge La Unica 100 I'm gonna cut in just a minute...it's at least 8" cut. It's no Cohiba, but way back when I could buy them for the outrageously cheap $1, and then fucking Cigar Afficianado had to rate them a 92 and the price blasted up. Fucking yuppie scum.
Anyway, it's a 1 1/2 of great smoke...gonna light it up while we watch "Hot Mad Ballroom".
NTodd--I see being linked to this morning sort of blew your mind...that Karen Huge image required an entire bottle of Clorox.
Damn haloscan--now it's saying no user name specified. Killed my post about Gore Vidal interview in the current The Nation.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/200...20051107/
cooper
Says BushCo's next step will be martial law. Audio available at site.
(2nd try.)
JohnTomato -- Mine's only worth about $9k and change, but my net B$ worth is nearly $300BM.
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Hecate it worries me that people will have to be brought up to speed on this deal. Gives the repubs time to serve more coolaide while the dems remain polite and silent.
Is our only hope a full blown Geraldo court fest? 
I dearly love rolling through US Customs smoking a Cohiba. I'm such a rebel!
I could've almost done that coming back from our honeymoon in Cancun. We flew out of Montreal, and when we got to the Vermont border, the Customs folks (new nice young ladies) wanted to hear about the trip more than anything else (it was February and we were in the middle of a blizzard). They only asked if we brought back liquor or tobacco as an afterthought, and when I said I hadn't even smoked a stogie in Mexico, they made fun of me and waved us on. Damn.
I love that quote from "control Room"
"Be free or I'll kill ya"
He also mentioned the Jeff Gannon (yurp) story and I bet 80% of the population have no clue who he is/was. BTW I have that Ed Wood set also...that may be my entertainment tonight too. RE L Cohen "The Future" turned out to be prophetic.
51 degs! in Houston.
Sometimes it seems it'll never happen again.
Feels more like mid 60s here.
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Used to live next door to Kesey's daughters.
I always thought it must'a been hard to be a kid in that household during the Acid Test years.
Y'know, with all the adults cruising the edge of the universe looking for the door to Nirvana and all....
Eli had better be here for liveblogging the Scifi Saturday Night Original Movie.
Oops! Nix that, JohnTomato; I thought we were talkin' BlogShares. At the URL you provided, I'm only worth $6K and change.
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bj I've wondered the same thing.
We used to give them their privacy, figured they might want it.
We used to give them their privacy, figured they might want it.
Yeah, how many times can you answer, "What was Neal Cassidy really like?"
I live in South Florida and have my house all shuttered up and waiting for Wilma. I think my family will be safe. The only thing that really concerns me other than my families safety is the fact that our power will be off for several days or maybe a week or longer. No AC no TV no Computer and I will miss all the indictments and that will be rough.
Agave:
Always beware of girl friends who don"t clear there cookies before or after taking certain liberties...
(ahem)
Ma Joad was me, your oben't servent-
Melissa bought a cigar last nite, it's around here somewhere...
Yeah, it's a PHILLIES berry.
Don't think it's cuban.
(wonder if she'll be pissed if I smoke it!)
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Hey, no one was happy to see Chimpy in LA!
People Left Fuming When Bush is in Town
Rosie wandered off with the remote this morning and it is still missing. Rotten child.
RB get yourself a good old transistor radio and lots of batteries.
R.B. - What are people doing in Miami?
My wife is suppose to go to a conference in Miami Tuesday, and is wondering if it is going to be cancelled.
Journalist Who Filmed Burning Taliban Bodies Suggests Media Got it All Wrong
There has been a lot of outrage in the media concerning the burning of a couple of dead, Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in early October. Yet, the Australian journalist who videotaped the proceedings, Stephen Dupont, stated in an interview on National Public Radio yesterday that he believed the bodies were burned purely for reasons of hygiene when the local villagers refused to retrieve them, and that the American soldiers didn't do anything wrong:
“I actually believe that the guys who were involved in the burning did it with honorable, you know, reasons. They did it through their orders, or they did if for hygiene. I had no doubt in my mind that they were telling me the truth. If they were doing something that was problematic or controversial, there’s no way they would have shown me this. There’s no way they would have let me go up there and film this.”
With regard to the bodies intentionally being pointed toward Mecca as many in the press have asserted, Dupont said:
“No. Look, the bodies as far as I’m concerned, the bodies were lying on the ground, they weren’t facing anywhere, they were just lying there.”
Rosie wandered off with the remote this morning and it is still missing. Rotten child.
I'm sure it's in the trash or the toy basket, like NYMary's cellphone and my keys.
Rosie wandered off with the remote this morning and it is still missing.
Check the side of the milk carton.
What are people doing in Miami?
Thanks to the junior administration, we now get to panic over every cat 2 storm to come ashore. It used to be that hurricanes were nothing to worry about, except the odd cat three and above. Now, post Katrina, we are going to be freaked by every freeking storm that has a name.
It is sad.
Fucking sad.
Home run Chicago!
Agave:
Always beware of girl friends who don"t clear there cookies before or after taking certain liberties...
I was about to say WHAT?!!
Oh, your GF!
HOME RUN! sox
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There has been a lot of outrage in the media concerning the burning of a couple of dead, Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in early October. Yet, the Australian journalist who videotaped the proceedings, Stephen Dupont, stated in an interview on National Public Radio yesterday that he believed the bodies were burned purely for reasons of hygiene when the local villagers refused to retrieve them, and that the American soldiers didn't do anything wrong...
That certainly could make sense. Too bad you don't provide a link to the article you've pasted, let alone to the NPR story in which the journo is quoted.
Q- you know, italics are as easy to do as bold. Links to sources are even better.
Used to live next door to Kesey's daughters.
I always thought it must'a been hard to be a kid in that household during the Acid Test years.
Y'know, with all the adults cruising the edge of the universe looking for the door to Nirvana and all.... - bj
A woman's written a book about growing up on the Russian River in the midst of it all and apparently her account is pretty harrowing and depressing.
Q --
I would like to believe it.
The metaproblem is that the well of public opinion has been so poisoned by the many lies of Bushco that everything we do, good or bad, on the world stage will now be interpreted negatively.
NTodd - let me know when I plan to comment again so I can follow you.
too much to plow through
I may come back for the next thread
(doowatchalike!)
bj: The metaproblem is that the well of public opinion has been so poisoned by the many lies of Bushco that everything we do, good or bad, on the world stage will now be interpreted negatively.
The reasons stated don't explain why the soldiers went on to read inflammatory statements on the video. I guess someone will pin that on some lefty video editor, looking to be the next Michael Moore, eh?
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Rosie wandered off with the remote this morning and it is still missing. Rotten child. - Thers
Probably hidden it because she's worried about the crap on TV hurting your mind.
Stephen Dupont, stated in an interview on National Public Radio yesterday that he believed the bodies were burned purely for reasons of hygiene
The military guy on MSNBC last night said that was bullshit.
Not his exact words, of course.
evening, rational people.
Is there bad sci-fi flick blogging this evening? I got the popcorn.
too much to plow through
When I come in late I start from the bottom, work my way up just a bit to see what's up and jump right in.
Or not.
JeffCO - I'll call you...
sandiaman
used to have that problem when I used to post to newsgroups. I found myself posting as Melissa Dole, usually when I thought I had come up with a clever, insightful comment. She's got her own computer now, so, no mo a dat.
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1-1
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the troll is right. the oz journalist didn't think the soldiers did anything wrong by burning the bodies, he thought the psyops guys did something wrong by taunting the villagers with the burning bodies.
Houston tied it up.
Damn, I don't want to get sucked into this game!
We were gonna watch an Ed Wood too (just can't decide which one -- tho' mrs. bj can always watch Glen or Glenda).
But this looks to be good.
the troll is right. the oz journalist didn't think the soldiers did anything wrong by burning the bodies, he thought the psyops guys did something wrong by taunting the villagers with the burning bodies.
See, that's why we ask for linkies! Thanks, Atrios...
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All the Kenter Canyon parents, they are not happy with (Bush) right now," said Fahn, 33, whose 5-year-old twin girls had prepared for their field trip for months. "He's not at the top of any list.
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He's been at the top of my list for going on six years.
Or not.
bj
well Okay
my timidity made it worse
Thres: re; remote
Have you checked her tummy?
Or the garbage disposal?
Ya'al have animals?
olexicon, totally lost mountie | Email | 10.22.05 - 8:35 pm | #
Anyway, if threadbot is working ... ha ha ... we're only 10 minutes or so from a new thread....
bo: He's been at the top of my list for going on six years.
I hate to point it out, but obviously, this isn't limited to BushCo. Any time a Secret Service detail is involved in a visit, it's a major PITA for the locals. I remember when Al Gore was in Nashville about once a quarter. Traffic jams and SNAFUs all over town.
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Q -- true, that, but additional analysis indicates the psy ops guys who were in charge did direct the burnings so as to inflict psychological damage on Muslims.
Once again, the lowest ranking guys actually having to do the dirtiest jobs are taking the fall for higher ups who are setting them up, apparently.
Q - you also forgot this part of the story:
U.S. Army examines new abuse allegations Afghanistan video appears to record burning of bodies; [1R Edition] Eric Schmitt. International Herald Tribune. Paris: Oct 21, 2005. pg. 1 [snip]
Dupont said the first group of soldiers told him, "We've been told to burn the bodies; the bodies have been here for 24 hours and they're starting to stink so, for hygiene reasons, this is what we've got to do." But then Dupont said a second group of soldiers from a psychological operations unit intentionally used the burnt bodies as a propaganda tool. "They deliberately wanted to incite that much anger from the Taliban so the Taliban could attack them," Dupont said. In the program, Baker's taunt is heard first. Then a second soldier, who was not identified, chimes in singling out several mullahs by name: "Your time in Afghanistan is short. You attack and run away like women. You call yourself Talibs but you are a disgrace to the Muslim religion and you bring shame upon your family. Come and fight like men instead of the cowardly dogs you are." In the interview with the producers, Dupont explained that the American soldiers were trying to bait the Taliban fighters to shoot at them. "They want the Taliban to fight them because they can't find them otherwise." [snip]
jawbone-
Thanks for the link to the Gore Vidal interview. One of my favorite people.
. we're only 10 minutes or so from a new thread....
bj
love goes where my rosenmary goes
he thought the psyops guys did something wrong by taunting the villagers with the burning bodies.
And the oz journalist was naive, right?
Knew squat about Muslim culture.
sad.
See, that's why we ask for linkies! Thanks, Atrios...
NTodd the pwn3d
Just what I was gonna ask for.
(Linkless Troll was the term I was gonna use)
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(Linkless Troll was the term I was gonna use)
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agave
as opposed to thoughtless troll
brainless troll
compassionless troll
cheeto-less troll
It's in the frig.
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Email | Homepage | 10.22.05 - 8:38 pm | #
Oh, you mean like when Asshole Arnie decides to motor into Silicon Valley and Bayshore Hwy is buggered up for there hours? Nah, never happens around here.
Oh, and here's a link to the story in the NYTimes, whence came the Trib post.
mrs. bj is cursing the crowd-the-game-off-the-screen FOX graphics.
Go Sox!
1st and 3rd
STEAL! STEAL!
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olexicon: cheeto-less troll
I wonder if trools are susceptible to any asbestosis-like ailments, owing to the repeated exposure to Cheetos-dust?
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Funny, I have no trouble fathoming this.
WASHINGTON - It's a nightmare prospect that Republicans have trouble fathoming: legal problems that could drive some of the president's most powerful aides from office.
I wonder if trools are susceptible to any asbestosis-like ailments, owing to the repeated exposure to Cheetos-dust?
One could conclude that we've seen the results here.
owing to the repeated exposure to Cheetos-dust?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
that explains our boy Gary
i thought it was mold spores
I invented the cheeto suppository.
Poll shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces
LONDON (Reuters) - Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph.
Less than 1 percent of those polled believed that the forces were responsible for any improvement in security, according to poll figures.
Eighty-two percent of those polled said they were "strongly opposed" to the presence of the troops.
The paper said the poll, conducted in August by an Iraqi university research team, was commissioned by the Ministry of Defense.
legal problems that could drive some of the president's most powerful aides from office.
watertiger
yes
but the democrats are causing all the problems
or that's what Sean Hannity told me
All infant-logical places for remote control placement have been duly searched.
That is frustrating us, as is the continuing presence of a set of relatives in the home who were supposed to have left hours ago. I can't even get to my favorite comfy chair. Arrrrrrrrgh.
watertiger -- You're not a Beelzebublican, though. The statement is clearly qualified. Obviously, folx like us have a serious Kool-Aid deficiency.
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Who's on 1st?
(he he)
Oh, never mind
2-1 sox
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NY Times public editor, Byron Calame comments on the Miller situation...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/2...?
pagewanted=all
The most disturbing aspect of the Oct. 16 retrospective was its revelation of the journalistic shortcuts that Ms. Miller seems comfortable taking.
One ethical problem emerged when Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor, asked Ms. Miller if she had pursued an article about Valerie Plame, the C.I.A. operative, or her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV. Ms. Miller said in an interview for the retrospective that she "made a strong recommendation to my editor" that a story be pursued. "I was told no."
But Jill Abramson, now a managing editor and the Washington bureau chief in 2003, would have known about such a request. Ms. Abramson, to whom Ms. Miller reported, strongly asserted to me that Ms. Miller never asked to pursue an article about the operative. Ms. Abramson said that she did not recall Ms. Miller ever mentioning the confidential conversations she had with I. Lewis Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, who appears to be in the middle of the leak investigation. When I asked her, Ms. Miller declined to identify the editor she dealt with.
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I wonder why she would do that? Hmmm...LIAR! LIAR! PANTS ON FIRE!
I want the president's aides driven from office by large insects.
Thers
under a couch?
iN THE TOILET TANK
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All infant-logical places for remote control placement have been duly searched.
That is frustrating us, as is the continuing presence of a set of relatives in the home who were supposed to have left hours ago. I can't even get to my favorite comfy chair. Arrrrrrrgh.
10 Great Cities I've found worth visiting ..(in no particular order) Yours?
1. Barcelona
2. Amsterdam
3. Jerusalem
4. Bangkok
5. San Francisco
6. Seattle
7. Paris
8. NYC
9. Melbourne
10.Dubai
Moonbootica | Email | Homepage | 10.22.05 - 8:45 pm | #
Back from a wild Saturday night? Isn't it pushing 2am there?
I still hate Clements for the way he left New York --
and it's Texas,
so ...
Go Sox!
What I thought should be needless to add is that no disputes that one group of soldiers told him they were burning the bodies for reasons of hygiene. That may be true, they may even have believed it, but no one (including the military who are investigating the incident) doubts they were following orders to do so, nor that the psyops guys were right on top of it with prepared text.
Capitalizing on a chance incident, or pre-planned event? You be the judge.
cheeto dust is like crack rock?
I want the president's aides driven from office by large insects.
I for one welcome our new insect overlords.
Funny, I have no trouble fathoming this.
WASHINGTON - It's a nightmare prospect that Republicans have trouble fathoming: legal problems that could drive some of the president's most powerful aides from office.
watertiger
Not all that deep!
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bo can't get to sleep.
sadly no wild nighs here, just a bottle of wine and a couple of dvds.....
just a bottle of wine and a couple of dvds.....
That is a wild night around here.
Diane--Eli hasn't shown up, so I may have to start the liveblogging myself.
I'm seeing trails!
I watch baseball just for the broken bat thing.
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3-1 Sox!
I want the president's aides driven from office by large insects.
I for one welcome our new insect overlords.
The Old Man From Scene 24
are you helping recruit people fro the uyndergroudn sugar mines?
"I want the president's aides driven from office by large insects."
Then it is rerun on the SciFi channel with Bruce Campbell as the hero.
Sounds familiar somehow.
Hey...
Is anyone able to post up the new Frank Rich (now up at NY Times.com).
so I may have to start the liveblogging myself.
Sallyh, Madame Poissoniere
that sounds kinky
poor 'stros
(used to like Strohs Beer, fire brewed, whatever taht means, teh)
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Chinese food's here!
Maybe chime in a little later.
are you helping recruit people fro the uyndergroudn sugar mines?
Yes. Anyone witha "W'04" or "Bush-Cheney 04" sticker on their vehicle: Mines.
That threadbot needs to lay off the sauce and do its work. Hey threadbot!
'Karen Hughes continues to be a world-class embarrassment as W.'s ambassador to the Muslim world.
Hughes, a longtime confidante of President Bush, was in the world's most populous Muslim nation to improve America's battered image after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
At a public debate with university students in Jakarta, she was repeatedly criticized over Washington's original stated rationale for the war in Iraq - Saddam's alleged weapons of mass destruction. No such arms were discovered.
When asked to elaborate on claims that Saddam had poisoned hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to death, Hughes told reporters: "I know it was upward of 200,000."
"I think it was almost 300,000. (That) is my recollection," she said. "They were put in mass graves."
At least 300,000 Iraqis were reportedly killed during Saddam's decades-long rule, but only about 5,000 are believed to have been gassed - in a 1988 attack in the Kurdish north.'
karen 'whats her face' is now batting 0 for 5, in muslim countries...i think it's about time for her to throw in the towel, or take some history lesson's on the topic's she seems to screw-up on...
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! & Mikey! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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Thersites--have you searched cookware, Tupperware, Mary and Molly's cosmetics, and stacks of unread journals? All places Mlle used to deposit such items as car keys.
Yes. Anyone witha "W'04" or "Bush-Cheney 04" sticker on their vehicle: Mines.
The Old Man From Scene 24
well yes
and don't forget about the "democrats for bush"
Larry and ethel
Frog March? Never!
Forget Harriet. Pardons are out of the question. Appoint Fitz to the Supreme Court--now.
Here's some happiness: "TEHRAN, Iran Iran's supreme leader is praising the U-S-backed constitutional referendum in Iraq as "blessed".
He's now urging Iraqis to participate in December's parliamentary elections."
Saw it at Juan Cole.
threadbot?
why hath thou forsaken me!
If Fitzgerald indicts Rove and Libby on less that ironclad and real charges, he will destroy himself instantly.
He will also strengthen the conservative base of the Republican Party immensely.
While the Democrats and the MSM will gloat from ear to ear, their pleasure will be fleeting at best. 2006 and 2008 will be a total diaster for the Democrat party.
Mr. Fitzgerald should be indicting Joe Wilson, Valerie Wilson, Judith Miller, and Matt Cooper for treason.
Those traitors (along with Mr. Fitzgerald, if he indicts Libby and Rove), will be the direct cause of American military and civilians being put in further harms way, because the enemy will believe that the Democrats are coming to power, and will be shouting with glee as they kill soldiers.
The long term damage to the USA and the American people will be fatal, as the Democrat Party kisses up to the people that want to see America and Americans destroyed.
Mr. Fitzgerald better open his eyes wide and look at the big picture! If he had any brains and any loyalty to America, he would shut his investigation down, pack his bags and go home.
The true bottom line is: Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove did nothing wrong! End of story!
Harry Potter yaoi is fucking hilarious. We never got into the books, and what we saw was not that much better than carefully done slash anyway. It's a British private school for Christ's sake.
Having Karen Hughes to spread good will makes about as much sense as having Jeffrey Dahmer serve as a meat inspector.
Is Shoeless Joe vindictating himself at last?
cheeto dust is like crack rock?
olexicon, totally lost mountie
I think the 'head shops' now have a kit with which you can free base it.
Not sure, tho.
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I have to break down and cheer for an American League team this series, just so Poppy and PsychoBabs are left unhappy.
so I may have to start the liveblogging myself.
Sallyh, Madame Poissoniere
that sounds kinky
"I gotta go now--I teach an advanced masturbation class, and if I'm late they start without me."
-- Woody Allen, Zelig
Evenin' Y'all!
Been away for a while...what news of the empire?
"so I may have to start the liveblogging myself.
Sallyh, Madame Poissoniere "
This bothers me, I presumed Eli was a precocious but friendly bot. Now you are telling me he is a real person?
Hi everyone! Thought you all might enjoy my latest columnL
THERE were no weapons of mass destruction. There was no collaboration between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda on 9/11. There was scant Pentagon planning for securing the peace should bad stuff happen after America invaded. Why, exactly, did we go to war in Iraq?
"It still isn't possible to be sure - and this remains the most remarkable thing about the Iraq war," writes the New Yorker journalist George Packer, a disenchanted liberal supporter of the invasion, in his essential new book, "The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq." Even a former Bush administration State Department official who was present at the war's creation, Richard Haass, tells Mr. Packer that he expects to go to his grave "not knowing the answer."
Maybe. But the leak investigation now reaching its climax in Washington continues to offer big clues. We don't yet know whether Lewis (Scooter) Libby or Karl Rove has committed a crime, but the more we learn about their desperate efforts to take down a bit player like Joseph Wilson, the more we learn about the real secret they wanted to protect: the "why" of the war.
To piece that story together, you have to follow each man's history before the invasion of Iraq - before anyone had ever heard of Valerie Plame Wilson, let alone leaked her identity as a C.I.A. officer. It is not an accident that Mr. Libby's and Mr. Rove's very different trajectories - one of a Washington policy intellectual, the other of a Texas political operative - would collide before Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury. They are very different men who play very different White House roles, but they are bound together now by the sordid shared past that the Wilson affair has exposed.
In Mr. Rove's case, let's go back to January 2002. By then the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan had succeeded in its mission to overthrow the Taliban and had done so with minimal American casualties. In a triumphalist speech to the Republican National Committee, Mr. Rove for the first time openly advanced the idea that the war on terror was the path to victory for that November's midterm elections. Candidates "can go to the country on this issue," he said, because voters "trust the Republican Party to do a better job of protecting and strengthening America's military might and thereby protecting America." It was an early taste of the rhetoric that would be used habitually to smear any war critics as unpatriotic.
But there were unspoken impediments to Mr. Rove's plan that he certainly knew about: Afghanistan was slipping off the radar screen of American voters, and the president's most grandiose objective, to capture Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," had not been achieved. How do you run on a war if the war looks as if it's shifting into neutral and the No. 1 evildoer has escaped?
Uncle Smokes--Darth Vader hasn't resigned yet, if that's what you mean.
notafuckingaddamnedduplicate!
Thers -- Allow me to recommend some strategically-placed Velcro™ on the replacement remote.
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karen 'whats her face' is now batting 0 for 5, in muslim countries...i think it's about time for her to throw in the towel
I hear there may be an Unqualified Supreme Court Nominee position open soon.
If Fitzgerald indicts Rove and Libby on less that ironclad and real charges, he will destroy himself instantly.
I'm sure a Harvard-trained lawyer would get deep into the shit with the vice president, the president's chief of staff, and a whole host of other assholes at the top of the gov't if he didn't think he had a case.
In fact, I'm sure he's doing this for his own amusement at at the 11th hour he's going to hold a press conference and say, "Just kidding!"
Yeah. Definitely sure.
fred epper:
I need you. come to the WH basement,.
Actually, Bush nominating Fitzgerald to the SCOTUS would be an interestingly funky move.
The true bottom line is: Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove did nothing wrong! End of story!
Fred Eper
now that is satire
EkCenTrik--having met him at Eschacon, he does a convincing job of playing a human.
I want the president's aides driven from office by large insects.
Ideally, those insects should be the kind of wasp that would use the aides as hosts for their eggs, so that their ultimate fate would be to get eaten alive from the inside out.
Hardly had Mr. Rove given his speech than polls started to register the first erosion of the initial near-universal endorsement of the administration's response to 9/11. A USA Today/CNN/Gallup survey in March 2002 found that while 9 out of 10 Americans still backed the war on terror at the six-month anniversary of the attacks, support for an expanded, long-term war had fallen to 52 percent.
Then came a rapid barrage of unhelpful news for a political campaign founded on supposed Republican superiority in protecting America: the first report (in The Washington Post) that the Bush administration had lost Bin Laden's trail in Tora Bora in December 2001 by not committing ground troops to hunt him down; the first indications that intelligence about Bin Laden's desire to hijack airplanes barely clouded President Bush's August 2001 Crawford vacation; the public accusations by an F.B.I. whistle-blower, Coleen Rowley, that higher-ups had repeatedly shackled Minneapolis agents investigating the so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, in the days before 9/11.
These revelations took their toll. By Memorial Day 2002, a USA Today poll found that just 4 out of 10 Americans believed that the United States was winning the war on terror, a steep drop from the roughly two-thirds holding that conviction in January. Mr. Rove could see that an untelevised and largely underground war against terrorists might not nail election victories without a jolt of shock and awe. It was a propitious moment to wag the dog.
Enter Scooter, stage right. As James Mann details in his definitive group biography of the Bush war cabinet, "Rise of the Vulcans," Mr. Libby had been joined at the hip with Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz since their service in the Defense Department of the Bush 41 administration, where they conceived the neoconservative manifesto for the buildup and exercise of unilateral American military power after the cold war. Well before Bush 43 took office, they had become fixated on Iraq, though for reasons having much to do with their ideas about realigning the states in the Middle East and little or nothing to do with the stateless terrorism of Al Qaeda. Mr. Bush had specifically disdained such interventionism when running against Al Gore, but he embraced the cause once in office. While others might have had cavils - American military commanders testified before Congress about their already overtaxed troops and equipment in March 2002 - the path was clear for a war in Iraq to serve as the political Viagra Mr. Rove needed for the election year.
threadbot?
why hath thou forsaken me!
olexicon, totally lost mountie
(sorry for the kiss)
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Uncle Smokes--Darth Vader hasn't resigned yet, if that's what you mean.
I envision a moment in the Rose Garden, where Cheney throws out his arms and snarls, "Noooooooooooooo!"
the insects would clearly be mothra-esque
Put down the crack pipe Fred, and step away from the keyboard.
The true bottom line is: Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove did nothing wrong! End of story!
Wish upon a star, and see what you get.
Is Shoeless Joe vindictating himself at last?
Shoeless Joe, NTodd with no pants... I want a new thread!!!
Fred. I said, "Come to the basement."
Thank you, Frank Rich!
You're splendid!
"having met him at Eschacon, he does a convincing job of playing a human."
Technology is amazing isn't it. You do know that my four cats are all by Sony. Can't tell until it the eyes light up.
But here, too, was an impediment: there had to be that "why" for the invasion, the very why that today can seem so elusive that Mr. Packer calls Iraq "the 'Rashomon' of wars." Abstract (and highly debatable) neocon notions of marching to Baghdad to make the Middle East safe for democracy (and more secure for Israel and uninterrupted oil production) would never fly with American voters as a trigger for war or convince them that such a war was relevant to the fight against those who attacked us on 9/11. And though Americans knew Saddam was a despot and mass murderer, that in itself was also insufficient to ignite a popular groundswell for regime change. Polls in the summer of 2002 showed steadily declining support among Americans for going to war in Iraq, especially if we were to go it alone.
For Mr. Rove and Mr. Bush to get what they wanted most, slam-dunk midterm election victories, and for Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney to get what they wanted most, a war in Iraq for reasons predating 9/11, their real whys for going to war had to be replaced by fictional, more salable ones. We wouldn't be invading Iraq to further Rovian domestic politics or neocon ideology; we'd be doing so instead because there was a direct connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda and because Saddam was on the verge of attacking America with nuclear weapons. The facts and intelligence had to be fixed to create these whys; any contradictory evidence had to be dismissed or suppressed.
Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney were in the boiler room of the disinformation factory. The vice president's repetitive hyping of Saddam's nuclear ambitions in the summer and fall of 2002 as well as his persistence in advertising bogus Saddam-Qaeda ties were fed by the rogue intelligence operation set up in his own office. As we know from many journalistic accounts, Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby built their "case" by often making an end run around the C.I.A., State Department intelligence and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Their ally in cherry-picking intelligence was a similar cadre of neocon zealots led by Douglas Feith at the Pentagon.
He's now urging Iraqis to participate in December's parliamentary elections.
Of course! Iran has benefited more than any other country from the US Iraq invasion.
final part! Good night and good luck!
THIS is what Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's wartime chief of staff, was talking about last week when he publicly chastised the "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal" for sowing potential disaster in Iraq, North Korea and Iran. It's this cabal that in 2002 pushed for much of the bogus W.M.D. evidence that ended up in Mr. Powell's now infamous February 2003 presentation to the U.N. It's this cabal whose propaganda was sold by the war's unannounced marketing arm, the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, in which both Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove served in the second half of 2002. One of WHIG's goals, successfully realized, was to turn up the heat on Congress so it would rush to pass a resolution authorizing war in the politically advantageous month just before the midterm election.
Joseph Wilson wasn't a player in these exalted circles; he was a footnote who began to speak out loudly only after Saddam had been toppled and the mission in Iraq had been "accomplished." He challenged just one element of the W.M.D. "evidence," the uranium that Saddam's government had supposedly been seeking in Africa to fuel its ominous mushroom clouds.
But based on what we know about Mr. Libby's and Mr. Rove's hysterical over-response to Mr. Wilson's accusation, he scared them silly. He did so because they had something to hide. Should Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove have lied to investigators or a grand jury in their panic, Mr. Fitzgerald will bring charges. But that crime would seem a misdemeanor next to the fables that they and their bosses fed the nation and the world as the whys for invading Iraq.
The liberal New York Times just endorsed Bloomberg for mayor.
It is true that the neocons are a little like Tinbergen's wasps. Move things a little bit, and they keep on trying to find the WMDs. They must be here, they must be here, they must be here.
Okay, let us be like a bonafide Republican.
"The true bottom line is: Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove did nothing wrong! End of story!"
Yes, but they broke the spirit of the law and I am sure that men in their position must have a blue dress lurking in their past. If they have this meager association with scandal in the Plame incident, then how can we trust them to be moral and upstanding leaders. Look for the blue dress, you know it is there no matter what those moonbat conservatives say.
Sound familiar?
the insects would clearly be mothra-esque
Do the Bush twins pop up in a shell, dressed in kimonos and squeak, "Praise Jesus?"
Everyone's been talking about MoDo's takedown of Judy Miller and I feel like I'm the shortest guy in the back of the room.
So I found Maureen's article and decided to post it on my blog and fuck the NY Times and their bullshit "Select."
If you want to read it plus a few thoughts of my own on the subject, drift over to my place.
JP
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com...-know-
what.html
Do the Bush twins pop up in a shell, dressed in kimonos and squeak, "Praise Jesus?"
Uncle Smokes
of course
and then you'd have to invent another creature to fight off the insects who took over wershington
Tonight's Scifi saturday night original movie is The Lost Voyage. Warm up those sets now!
The fact is that Patrick Fitzgerald is a Democrat in denial. He whitewashed the crimes of Tom Harkin. He is basically a Democrat.
One more note: Repeal the 22nd Amendment, Bush in 2008!
of course
and then you'd have to invent another creature to fight off the insects who took over wershington
Mecha-Streisand!
Frank Rich rocks.
Godd column Frank, but I am sorry to see you buy into Packer's shit. He should be fired from the New Yorker and forced to lick Judith Miller's ear wax.
Spinoza--time for more Scotch, boy.
Mecha-Streisand!
Uncle Smokes
sidney poitier
Scifi liveblogging upstairs!
Waht's with all the bold shit?
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Fred Eper
is clearly satire cause no person is that crazy
except maybe fredp phelps and James dobson, and Kaye grogan, and Hindrocket
The bats have exited their palaces.
Sallyh, to keep you from being a hellscanner, check out this...
http://www.flock.com/developer/
It's an interesting approach to integration between a browser (mozilla and firefox) and web editing software.
Mecha-Streisand! Uncle Smokes
Disintegration is the best album ever!
sheets
It's an interesting approach to integration between a browser (mozilla and firefox) and web editing software.
Excuse me blog editing software.
3-3
Basid 'stros.
Where's Eli?
Has he been stopped?
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Fred, bring jimmy jeff with you.
That Fwed guy is wight!
Any of you wibwuls who dare to run against or cwiticize the Bush sewected candidates or issues are commiting tweeson! Pwesident Bush was sewected by God himself to pwotect our holy land, Amerwicca. His chosen wons wiwl wun the cuntry for a thwosand years hence and the other lesser pwesidents like Washington, Winkon, Jefferson and Wosevelt wiwl havew thewre faces wiped off Mount Wushmowre to make womb for Pwesident Bush's beautiful face awone. And awl you tweesonous wibruls will be put on an Iwand and made to work for youwr food and shewter untiwl you are awl extinkt.
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