I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
freest
aha!
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Cockpunch!
bush = the human slump
Fuck the media, and fuck Bush.
It's all about George.
What a dismal fate.
"Republican strategists say President Bush has time to snap out of a three-month run of bad luck and setbacks…"
"Bad luck"?
Character is destiny, dumfuks.
MMmkayyy, since everybody rushed upstairs the minute I posted under Poor Bill, I'm a gonna repeat myself:
Just waking up and reading the WaPo story Atrios references downstairs. Jesus, I hate the "neither assertion is wholly accurate" bullshit, because that paragraph is totally contradicted by the "but Bush and his aides had access to much more voluminous intelligence information than did lawmakers, who were dependent on the administration to provide the material."
The way the story is cast makes it sound like Congress is ignoring inconvenient facts. Wrong. They were dependent on Bush to give them the straight dope. Congress has every right to be mad, and Bush has no grounds on which to claim Congress was fully informed.
ah, blowjobs...the good old days..
hahahah, good one atrios. they'll "understand" only when woody and i are lining them up for the pitchfork & torches treatments.
they understand just fine: keep "creating your own reality" and some shocking large proportion of amurkins will buy it.
i will do everything in my humble power to shame this charlatan from office. he should be in prison.
And Hitler's ratings went up after that WWII scandal. Just ask David Irving.
Unless Bush and his advisers do something dramatic
Let's not put ideas in Chimpy's head.
His "something dramatic" might be another war.
Atrios,
Tell it to bug eyed Norah O'Donnell who as recently as last week on Tweety's program, lied, and said Clinton's approval numbers were "lower than Bush's."
Remarkably, Tweety didn't challenge or correct her.
Maybe he was mesmerized by her stare?
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OT: but does anyone else see the contradiction in this statement from the Times?
"Jacques Demers, the head coach of the last Montreal Canadiens hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, has written a book admitting he is illiterate."
The way the story is cast makes it sound like Congress is ignoring inconvenient facts. Wrong. They were dependent on Bush to give them the straight dope. Congress has every right to be mad, and Bush has no grounds on which to claim Congress was fully informed.
smitty underpantsless | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 9:27 am | #
smitty, love your show and all, but i call bullshit. do you rely on your competitors for vital information about how to run your business? do rely on the other team for winning plays and moves? do you turn to your ex for useful advice in love? fuck no.
neither should the congressional dems have relied on an obvious liar, cheater and fool like bush for vital info about the war.
i get that the prez's office has all the super-secret up to the minute spy data. but it's not like that's the only source in DC. fuck, any putz with a library card can read the CIA factbook. and there were only about ten thousand phd types in a hundred departments around the world calling bullshit on the pre war intel, just waiting for a call or email from an interested political party. not to mention foreign intel services who all knew and said bush's case was crap.
i knew the wmd line was bullshit before the war, millions around the world did too. at the very least, congressional dems should've said, "hey wait a minute- this source disagrees with the preznit's. let's look at this more closely."
they didn't. they are chickenshit enablers who got sucked in by rhetoric, and the politics of fearmongering and cockmeasuring. tens of thousands of people are dead because they couldn't come together and say, "this is a really weak case and i don't believe you."
it wasn't that hard to do.
When Nora O'Donnell says something, and Tweety says "good" she gets all giggly, just like a little school girl.
See, that's the problem. Lots of women wanted to give Clinton a blow job.
Bush? Not so much.
Bush's vigorous Veteran's Day speech has turned the corner on the dip in his popularity. At a robust 36% approval rating, Bush has a mandate to press on with his second term agenda: revamping Social Security and preparing the country for the Avian Flu epidemic.
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I don't think Bush can turn things around; he's a one trick pony -- turrism, and without this to milk, he's nothing.
Christ, he even tried to insert al Qaeda when he responded to Hurricane Katrina.
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OT: but does anyone else see the contradiction in this statement from the Times?
"Jacques Demers, the head coach of the last Montreal Canadiens hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, has written a book admitting he is illiterate."
They're being puckish.
But when Clinton got a blowjobs thousands of our troops died in "Serbianegrobosniastan!"
That's what Brit Hume told me (and that place is a lot smaller than California)
Good morning from a sunny locale in Canada.
How long before America wakes up to the fact that a blowjob and the illegal invasion of a country are vastly different things.
Fuck Bush. Worst president ever! Can't wait to see this human trash melt down. Anything with a brain and a spine can take over.
When Nora O'Donnell says something, and Tweety says "good" she gets all giggly, just like a little school girl.
ql in ny
You never see Norah's hands. I keep thinking she's giggling cuz she's touching herself while saying something stupid.
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bush = the human slump
focus
It could just be the low quality Folgers at work, but this made me giggle uncontrollably.
Most excellent. There's nothing the media like better than a comeback kid story. My Georgie will be back in the 60s in a matter of months. Chris Matthews told me that he would make it happen.
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Bush will never come back.
It's all down hill for the next 3 years. I can't see one thing that will help him not even another terrorist attack.
CD, you raise a good point. I'm just sick to the teeth of Bush getting away with something again. And this is his new out: Congress should have stopped me before I warred again. It seems that having Congressional leaders now out there criticizing him is the only way people are gonna wake up and realized how much of a liar this guy is.
through my waking haze, I heard a story on NPR about the "handpicked audience" who "came to support" Bush, while the real world protested outside.
"Bush never knew they were there, as he arrived and left via military helicopter."
Good morning, moonbats!
Good post, Atrios.
I'm just giving a shoot out to my beloved Atriots. Getting ready to go to the potters guild show.
I had dinner and drinks (a few too many for me) with Nim and my sister last night ~ he is really a very nice man.
Did San Francisco do something new to provoke the ire of O'Felafel, or is it just the City by the Bay's usual rep for liberalism?
Google:
Worst president ever
and,
dishonest president
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Perhaps if Clinton got a blowjob from another chubby teen my Georgie's ratings would improve.
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Oh no! The link seems to have busted in the past few days. But Pollkatz usually has a delicious little graph of ratings for Nixon, Clinton, and GWB. Clinton's ratings pretty much climbed throughout his two terms. IIRC, there was a little drop early on (probably health care), then the usual scatter and an overall upward trend from then on.
Except for Bush's artificial "Sept 11," "Iraq" and "Saddam Capture" spikes, his ratings have been tracking nicely with hose of Nixon.
If you're interested in this, check back with Pollkatz. I'm sure he'll fix the link (it's the one labeled "NEW!!") in the left margin, "Nixon-Clinton-Bush: A Comparison."
BONUS: Please enjoy the Pollkatz Bush Approval Index. It looks like that recent 36% FOX poll tightened up the confidence bands surrounding Bush's worst-ever data point.
DOUBLE-BONUS: Please curse the fact that for more than a year now, Bush's highest approval was just a hair above 50%... and that highest point occurred on or about election day last year. Grrr.
BTW, did anybody see the new SpongeBob last night? I TiVo'd it, but haven't watched it yet.
through my waking haze, I heard a story on NPR about the "handpicked audience" who "came to support" Bush, while the real world protested outside.
"Bush never knew they were there, as he arrived and left via military helicopter."
watertiger
It's a precursor.
Bush will be using this same method when he departs the White House for a final time.
Think Saigon 1975.
Dartanyon....that's funny
Clinton came back from a blowjob = Bush coming back from 2 quagmires, 2 deadly hurricanes, 2 shitty SCOTUS nominees
Of course.
left via military helicopter
Kind of like the South Vietnam Embassy in '75?
I'm just giving a shoot out to my beloved Atriots. Getting ready to go to the potters guild show.
I can understand why one would go postal on the Atri-twats, but I had no idea the fans of Harry Potter had formed a guild.
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Atta J, you thought of it before I did ...
GMTA Smitty.
Bush cannot crawl out of his hole unless he fires Rove and apologizes to the country.
Chances of that happening? Low, unless Poppy and a bunch of oldtimers put Fredo in a straight jacket. The Repugs who are worried about mid term elections might try to talk to Bush, but I doubt he'll listen.
Bush:done, ruined and fucked.
Bush is a lame ducky just like his poodle Blair.
they are limping along.
Bush is now saying that those who question pre-war intelligence are UNPATRIOTIC...they're on the defensive...
http://katrinamemo.blogspot.com/...s-hurt-
war.html
Clinton came back from a blowjob = Bush coming back from 2 quagmires, 2 deadly hurricanes, 2 shitty SCOTUS nominees
Of course.
Until recently Clinton always scored higher on the job performance scale than Bush (much higher) but lower on the "likeability" scale.
Well, now Bush has done something that no one has since Nixon.
He's viewed as incompent like his father, but he has matched it with an unlikeability rating that is, I believe lower than Clinton's low point.
American's think he is incompetent, uncaring and dishonest.
That's one hell of a trifecta to try to recover and it is why his speech yesterday is going to hurt him.
good to see BushCo.'s still pushing that whole hearts and minds thing.
CD- Thank you so much for that post. I am sick to death of people claiming that the dems were incapable of independently researching the WMD claims. Anyone with 1/2 a brain and internet access(not to mention the desire to do so)knew the WMD claims were bullshit.
But Clinton never had a serious ratings slump because of the Lewinsky scandal. According to Gallup his lowest post-Monica revelation job approval rating was a shocking 57%.
At this point, not even a chubby intern could get Chimpy's poll up.
Heh.
Moonbotica,
Who's the Tory leader who will be leading our fair land ("ours" when I get there in January) after Blair is turned out?
This is stuff I oughta know before I get there.
Oblivious - In Denial - DANGEROUS!
American's think he is incompetent, uncaring and dishonest.
I believe this is the point in which those in the reality-based community get to say:
I TOLD YOU SO!!
Bush keeps saying that everything will be AOK as soon as the country "understands" why we must stay the course in Iraq. He says he has to "explain" to the American people why we can't back down.
The problem is that "understand" means "obey" and "explain" means "bully."
Hooray, Chicago Dyke! You nailed the issue and said it much better than I could.
I see red every time I hear "but everyone thought there were weapons of mass destruction - everyone."
Bullshit. I didn't. You didn't. And millions of others around the world didn't. The dems who voted to authorize W to wage war were too cowardly to go against a popular president. And every time someone tried to tell W or his minions that the intel was shaky, the Bushies put their hands over their ears, closed their eyes and chanted "na, na, na, I can't hear you."
Now 2,000 plus Americans are dead, god knows how many Iraqis have died, and the U.S. has a new generation of troops permanently scarred by an unnecessary war.
I ain't got no quarrel with the Viethong.
clinton had a poll slump but it was in his 1st term and had nothing to do with blow jobs.
Bush:done, ruined and fucked.
Arabella | Email | 11.12.05 - 9:45 am
you're reight, in the abstract...
problem is, empirically, there's a littl more than three YEARS left in his term, and NOBODY is going to impeach him...it just aint gonna happen...10-to-1 against, minimum...
American's think he is incompetent, uncaring and dishonest.
I believe this is the point in which those in the reality-based community get to say:
I TOLD YOU SO!!
watertiger
I suggest a congratulatory group hug.
With feeling (and for the love of gawd, better coffee!)
From the article:
Johnson, Reagan and Clinton also slipped into the mid-to-high 30s at some point during their terms. Truman, Nixon, Carter and George H.W. Bush saw their numbers slump into the 20s, with Truman's at one point dipping to 23 percent
When was Clinton at "mid-to-high 30s"?
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At this point, not even a chubby intern could get Chimpy's poll up.
What about a bj from a gigantically obese teen intern? The bigger the intern, the bigger the ratings bounce.
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Did San Francisco do something new to provoke the ire of O'Felafel, or is it just the City by the Bay's usual rep for liberalism?
The brownshirts are in a tizzy because, in Tuesday's election, aside from joining the rest of the state in telling der Gropinator to shove it up his ass, SF passed city propositions banning military recruitment at high schools and banning handguns in city limits.
Bush:done, ruined and fucked.
Unfortunately, he's taken the country with him.
But that's Bush's schtick in life - fuck up, leave a wake of disaster, leave it to others to clean-up.
He's not going to last three years.
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You never see Norah's hands. I keep thinking she's giggling cuz she's touching herself while saying something stupid.
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Dartanyon
Okay, yu owe me a new keyboard. 
Anyone with 1/2 a brain and internet access(not to mention the desire to do so)knew the WMD claims were bullshit.
But were you 100% sure they weren't going to *find* something to justify their little adventure?
With feeling (and for the love of gawd, better coffee!)
On my third cup. 
SF passed city propositions banning military recruitment at high schools and banning handguns in city limits.
Oh, good for them.
There is a case going in front of the Supremes about banning military recruitment from colleges that accept federal funds (including private universities that take fed funds for, say, research at their medical schools). I wonder when those will bring a challenge in San Francisco, based on its schools accepting state funds.
He's not going to last three years.
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Arabella - 9:52 am
no offense, but wanna bet?
But were you 100% sure they weren't going to *find* something to justify their little adventure?
They could still do that now if they wanted to and the media would eat it up.
From something called "Blogs for Bush":
Karl Rove is laughing at you, lefties...and so are the rest of us on the right. Sure, you've had a good couple months at our expense, but in the end it is our ideals which win elections...so, we'll see you in 2006 and let the chips fall where they may.
That's a laugh? Sounds more like a death rattle to me.
Idiot America
I posted this yesterday here but this piece is worth it!
clinton had a poll slump
Heh-heh-heh-uh-huh-huh-huh.
The Bush Legacy: Ineptitude - Indifference - Incompetence!
I believe this is the point in which those in the reality-based community get to say:
I TOLD YOU SO!!
No, that just means you're unpatriotic.
But were you 100% sure they weren't going to *find* something to justify their little adventure?
*That's* what I find astonishing. They were either so convinced they would find something, or at least nobody would care if they didn't, that they didn't even try to plant something. Par for the course with these bonehads, though, I guess: never a Plan B or Plan C.
Clenis jokes aside, what they don't want you to know is how sucessful that administration was. A bang up job is more like it. Best president ever.
They could still do that now if they wanted to and the media would eat it up.
Well, then...
The Dems could not have stopped the war. Period.
(Does that make it all right that they voted for the authorization? No.) And we wouldn't have HAD a war if Gore had been President. Remember that.
This is Bush's war. His and only his.
Can someone, somewhere, point out that is real fucking life and not the Neilsen ratings? Who cares what people think of him. He's fucking up the country and the world.
I think the "myth" of a popular president was pretty much gone by last Summer and Fall, but the GOP smear & fear thing had legs enough to get him another term.
But a good portion of those voters we're really hoping that reelecting Bush would make things go better in Iraq and that the economy would really start getting better.
Well, they were stupidly naive and now a lot of them realize it.
What about a bj from a gigantically obese teen intern? The bigger the intern, the bigger the ratings bounce.
William H. Rehnquist
Well then I guess somebody better train a blue whale intern to administer blowjobs 'cause Bush is gonna need it...
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Bodies found after US Iraq offensive
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - An Iraqi Red Crescent doctor said on Saturday more than 50 bodies had been found in the rubble of a town near the Syrian border which U.S.-led troops swept through this week in an anti-insurgent offensive.
Around 2,500 U.S. troops and 1,000 Iraqi soldiers launched Operation Steel Curtain a week ago around the western town of Qusayba. They conducted house-to-house searches to root out insurgents and destroyed a number of houses in airstrikes.
The U.S. military says it has detained around 180 insurgents and killed at least 36 more in the operation, which was continuing in the nearby town of Karabila on Friday.
Can someone, somewhere, point out that is real fucking life and not the Neilsen ratings? Who cares what people think of him. He's fucking up the country and the world.
You mean this isn't just one big reality show on Fox?
nobody would care if they didn't
Yep, then you change the rationale for the mission to "fighting for freedom" and the press eats it up. It's worked just fine so far.
no offense, but wanna bet?
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar
I'll take that bet, Woody. The man's a born quitter.
Listening to Ted Koppel being interviewed right now, and he quotes Lily Tomlin in re public figures:
"No matter how cynical I get, I can never keep up."
With feeling (and for the love of gawd, better coffee!)
On my third cup.
watertiger
I put down my cupt of folgers (with the noticeable patch of grease on the top) and shake my fist at you vigorously!
Well then I guess somebody better train a blue whale intern to administer blowjobs 'cause Bush is gonna need it...
Won't a stained blue whale get him impeached?
ha ha ha condi pot calling kettle black?
Rice takes aim at Syria over human rights
MANAMA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took aim at Syria on Saturday over its human rights record, stepping up Washington's bid to isolate Damascus internationally.
The top U.S. diplomat used a conference in Bahrain attended by Arab leaders trying to promote economic and political reform, to criticize what she said was Syria's "arbitrary detention" of human rights activists.
"We continue to support the Syrian people's aspirations for liberty, democracy, and justice under the rule of law," said Rice in a sideways swipe at the government in Damascus.
Sure, I'll bet ya, WGG.
Bush looks a bowery bum who got stuffed into a new suit. Look at watertiger's blog to see the latest mug shots. I think he's using Grecian formula. The fact that the media are running photos like that is bad for Bush. Next thing you know, the White House will demand that any photographs taken of Bush must be done in soft light with Vaseline on the lense. It's unpatriotic to publish poorly taken photos of Bush because it gives aid and comfort to the enemy.
Bush: done, ruined and fucked.
You mean this isn't just one big reality show on Fox?
The Dubya Show?
Well, I'll just point out that the dems had control of the senate and the only reason they voted to authorize is out of fear of a popular president and leave it at that.
It takes two to tango last I checked.
Par for the course with these bonehads, though, I guess: never a Plan B or Plan C.
I was reminded of that again when I read the end of the Pincus/Milbank article. Condi called Clinton's 1998 bombing of Iraq's facilities war! I think she's convinced herself of that and everything else. There was no debating anything with these people.
Frightening.
Never again? Who knows? That's even more frightening.
I wonder when those will bring a challenge in San Francisco, based on its schools accepting state funds.
res ipsa loquitur
Ah, but remember Res, the Ninth Circuit doesn't represent Real Americans. An appellate case only has legitimacy if it comes from Virginia or Texas or Tennessee. Ask O'Reilly, he'll tell ya.
Pope speaks about ethics in politics
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict told the United States' new ambassador on Saturday that world leaders had to consider the ethical and moral dimension of every political decision.
In his address to the envoy, the Pope made no specific mention of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq but referred several times to the positions on war and peace of his predecessor John Paul, who strongly opposed the war and tried to thwart it.
Benedict told the new envoy, Francis Rooney, that John Paul "called attention to the intrinsic ethical dimension of every political decision."
Won't a stained blue whale get him impeached?
NTodd, House Bitch
It might get Porter ZGoss to pay attention.
I put down my cupt of folgers (with the noticeable patch of grease on the top) and shake my fist at you vigorously!
soon, pet. soon. the package will arrive on your doorstep, and you'll inhale that coffee scent wafting from the box...
Bush won't leave office unless dems gain control of at least one house in 06.
clinton had a poll slump but it was in his 1st term and had nothing to do with blow jobs.
Atrios
Correct.
Males slump following a blowjob, but that's a different topic.
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Communists protest Lenin burial plan
Russia's Communist Party has begun a petition against proposals to remove Vladimir Lenin's embalmed body from its Red Square mausoleum and bury the revolutionary leader in a city cemetery.
Lenin's body has been on display in the mausoleum, adjacent to the walls of the Kremlin, since 1924.
In what appeared to be a government attempt to gauge public reaction to the divisive issue, a regional envoy of President Vladimir Putin said in September that Lenin's body should be buried in a cemetery along with the remains of other Bolshevik dignitaries.
OT, but NTodd,
is that electronics store you sneak to called "Small Dog Electronics"?
I'm looking at an ad for it in MacWorld mag. Good prices!
SF passed city propositions banning military recruitment at high schools.
It doesn't matter because they don't let gays in the military anyway. It would be like SF denying the Pope the authority to open priest recruiting centers.
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Bush won't leave office unless dems gain control of at least one house in 06.
BlakNo1
I'll accept that as a friendly amendment. But if they do, he'll run like the chickenshit little bastard he is.
That's* what I find astonishing. They were either so convinced they would find something, or at least nobody would care if they didn't, that they didn't even try to plant something. Par for the course with these bonehads, though, I guess: never a Plan B or Plan C.
NTodd, House Bitch
I remember reading somewhere that suspicious american vehicles were being brought in, and the rumor was that the military was going to try and plant some WMD. But word got out so they scuttled the attempt. I don't believe though, because with this lot, they would have just tried to brazen it out. And anyone who claimed, or shit anyone who had video of the military planting the items, would have been labeled unpatriotic and shipped off to gitmo.
Males slump following a blowjob, but that's a different topic.
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Dartanyon
Spoken like one who knows....
It takes two to tango last I checked.
Yeah, and what would have happened after the election when I'll bet you a gazillion dollars they would have lost control anyway? Bush was going to have his war, and it really didn't matter when it started.
I hope we find out more about what went on behind the scenes, like maybe getting to look at Cheney's Energy meeting minutes. There's a lot more out there which will prolly shock the hell out of everybody, even knowing how rotten these people are.
they didn't. they are chickenshit enablers who got sucked in by rhetoric, and the politics of fearmongering and cockmeasuring. tens of thousands of people are dead because they couldn't come together and say, "this is a really weak case and i don't believe you."
Chicago Dyke is right. The reason many of the democrats are in a corner on this, is because they also manipulated the intelligence, are at least enabled it, so now Bush can put it back in their faces.
I love Bush's "if we had it Kennedy's way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power" argument. Yeah, and 2060+ American families would have their sons, husbands, and fathers back. And only God knows how many Iraqi families have been destroyed. The argument is specious on so many levels, which is typical for Bush, and reflects his true character.
I'm trying to think of reasons (excuses) he'll use when he quits.
Pursue other opportunities
Spend more time with his family
Open a chain of excercise spas
Train for the Tour de France
bush: done, ruined and fucked.
All hail King Oedipus!
OT: but does anyone else see the contradiction in this statement from the Times?
"Jacques Demers, the head coach of the last Montreal Canadiens hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, has written a book admitting he is illiterate."
We don't expect much from NYtimes editors!
And anyone who claimed, or shit anyone who had video of the military planting the items, would have been labeled unpatriotic and shipped off to gitmo.
I believe a few journalists paid the price for trying to dig too deeply in some of the goings-on over there.
I'll accept that as a friendly amendment. But if they do, he'll run like the chickenshit little bastard he is.
NYMary
Better Chimpy should remain in place, to be used as a dartboard for the rest of his term.
And anyone who claimed, or shit anyone who had video of the military planting the items, would have been labeled unpatriotic and shipped off to gitmo.
As I've said before, the fact that one doesn't put anything past this administration is a fucking sad statement on how far astray this country has gone.
"Bush still has three years in office, "and three years in the life of a president is an eternity," Hess said."
Oh Goddess. It certainly is.
Better Chimpy should remain in place, to be used as a dartboard for the rest of his term.
Lime Rickey
Exactly why he'll bolt.
The only reason Bush would give upon quitting is that he's tired of "fighting the Radical Left's Irrational Bush Hatred™."
Mark my words.
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Bush needs to be pelted with tomatoes and vegetables in various states of freshness. Then he can go back to Texas with fruit all over his suit.
Bush still has three years in office, "and three years in the life of a president is an eternity," Hess said."
Hell, it already seems like he's been in office for twelve years.
Maybe the dems would've lost control anyway but it's better, IMAO, to be damned for what you are than to go along to get along.
However, as far as the actual war goes, this is Bush/Cheney's war and it should be lashed to them at every opportunity, no matter how I feel about how we got from there to here.
OT, but NTodd,
is that electronics store you sneak to called "Small Dog Electronics"?
I'm looking at an ad for it in MacWorld mag. Good prices!
watertiger
Ooh, technology-gee-gee.
I'm starting to jones for a newer bigger telescope.
No real need, just want.
Over the holidays in the Phoenix area if I can make it I'm a gonna look.
Celestron 14 bitches!
Of course Chi Dy and others are right but when have we really had honesty and integrity in Washington? Gulf War I? Kosovo? Nah. The best we can maybe hope for is "plausible story." I think the dems justifiably claim to be somewhat less culpable in this scenario.
AP-Ipsos Poll:
56% percent disapprove
37% percent approve
The 37% precent all live in Texas.
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Bush will emotionally crack up. I think he's medicated to the gills. I agree with Nora Ephron - the long vacation was used to rebalance his med. The lack of affect Bush showed while in Crawford and during & after hurricane Katrina was probably due to his meds.
It's tough for a regular-nonpresident person to get meds balanced. It's impossible for Bush. He should retire for medical reasons or FORCED OUT of office.
bush: d,r, f
Hell, it already seems like he's been in office for twelve years.
Doesn't it?
is that electronics store you sneak to called "Small Dog Electronics"?
Yup! Haven't been there in a few months: too much of a temptation to buy shit when I'm there.
Celestron 14 bitches!
Oh man, don't make me more jealous. My 4.5" Newtonian (cut) is so pathetic...
Hell, it already seems like he's been in office for twelve years.
You mean it hasn't been 12 years?
Males slump following a blowjob, but that's a different topic.
But with the proper motivation, we perk back up in about 20 minutes.
Bush refuses to fire someone who leaked the identity of a CIA agent -until someone makes him.
Same behavior on down the line- Executive authority, Executive privilege, Cheney's secret Energy Task Force meetings, Scalito's refuse-to-recuse.
They aren't going anywhere voluntarily.
NTodd,
Next time you come out here, there's an excellent telescope store in a very small town. I think they do most of their business online.
BRB, I need more Diet Dew.
Tell the truth about Bush and you will be punished.
Just ask Mary Mapes.
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He might as well quit... At least then we could see the real leader at the helm.
Can someone, somewhere, point out that is real fucking life and not the Neilsen ratings?
You know, while we're at it, fuck the Nielsen ratings!
In a move that will likely spell the end of a TV show that critics love but never drew big audiences, the Fox network said on Friday it pulled offbeat comedy "Arrested Development" from its schedule for the rest of the month.
Fox plans to air reruns of its popular new jailhouse drama "Prison Break" in place of "Arrested Development" through the end of November "sweeps," when networks go all-out to boost their ratings for the sake of local TV stations' ad sales.
Removing a struggling show during sweeps, while falling short of outright cancellation, is usually a sure sign a network has given up hope on a series.
In addition, Fox, a unit of News Corp. Ltd., said it had cut back its production order for "Arrested Development" to 13 episodes from 22 episodes for the season.
A network spokesman said the show would return to prime time in December but the show's future beyond that had not been decided.
Insiders at the network and its sister production studio, 20th Century Fox Television, said it was doubtful the series would be renewed for a fourth season next year.
"It probably does spell the end of the show," one source told Reuters.
The comedy, starring Jason Bateman as a widower struggling to manage the affairs of his dysfunctional family after his father, played by Jeffrey Tambor, lands in prison, has been a darling of TV critics since its launch in 2003.
Despite winning an Emmy Award as best comedy last fall, the show has continued to flounder in the ratings, averaging a meager 4.2 million viewers through the five original episodes that have aired this season.
Of course, if CNN were averaging a "meager" 4.2 million viewers a night, they'd be dancing in the street...
If Bush quits, Dick Cheney will be a figure head and Lynne and her daughters will run the country.
bush: d,r f.
NYMary - cool! Now I just need to sell about 250 more prints...
NYMary - cool! Now I just need to sell about 250 more prints...
dave,
Arrested Development is one of the few shows on TV worth watching.
Celestron 14 bitches!
After the wedding last weekend upstate, I drove to my sisters and got out of the car and just sat out there for a while, staring up at the sky.
I wouldn't know where to start! So many stars.
Doesn't the Nielson Ratings system seem rather quaint for the 21st century? I dunno, maybe it's still the best way to determine viewership numbers, but it seems silly to me.
...with the proper motivation, we perk back up in about 20 minutes.
Oh, to be young again!
If that show had been on Comedy Central, it would be hailed as a smash hit.
Yup! Haven't been there in a few months: too much of a temptation to buy shit when I'm there.
i can see why.
They aren't going anywhere voluntarily.
Jay C. - 10:14 am
WORD, pardner...
and nobody in the country has the stones--or the organization--to do what'd be necessary to actually force 'em out and into Paraguayan exile...
Celestron 14 bitches!
Oh man, don't make me more jealous. My 4.5" Newtonian (cut) is so pathetic...
NTodd, House Bitch
I just want to emphasize, we are talking telescopes.
NTodd what area do you live in. If you are near a big city, C-14, C-8 or 4.5 inch newtonian, doesn't matter.
I think you would be able to get a good picture of the space station with a decent scope.
George or Barbara?
http://waterfordalumni.com/asset...images/
Bush.jpg
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dave,
Arrested Development is one of the few shows on TV worth watching.
NYMary = 10:16 am
it having been on Fox, i never watched...
Bush could shake up his White House staff, as Eisenhower and Reagan did in their troubled second terms. Or he could follow Clinton's lead and engage in a flurry of domestic and foreign policy initiatives.
Hasn't he already tried that? Isn't that what caused his ratings to plummet in the first place?
And we all know that nobody really gave a shit about The Blowjob except for the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that Hillary was actually right about. Clinton's impeachment was a media and political circus fomented by his opposition, who had the majority in Congress. What's Bush's excuse?
and nobody in the country has the stones--or the organization--to do what'd be necessary to actually force 'em out and into Paraguayan exile...
Screw Paraguay. They need to be sent somewhere uninhabitable.
Look, the "ratings slump" is no big deal. All our great president has to do is go back to Crawford and clear more brush. People love watching him clear brush. If he goes down there with Karl, Condie, Cheney, Rummy, and, hell, even Scooter Libby, and they all put on some jeans and flannel shirts and start clearing brush this will all go away. This only didn't work with Harriet Miers because she wasn't working hard enough in the field.
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Celestron 14 bitches!
After the wedding last weekend upstate, I drove to my sisters and got out of the car and just sat out there for a while, staring up at the sky.
I wouldn't know where to start! So many stars.
watertiger
Clear day in the country.
If GWPDA & Arthur are away from city lights they have the best sky of all in Arizona. Just a fabulous sky.
Used to think there'd be no way Bush would leave, or be forced to leave, before 2008. What's happened since Katrina, and with Iraq, and the budget, and just about everything else, is that people across the political spectrum are confronted daily with Bush's transcendant incompetence, and the backup team (Cheney) isn't as reassuring as it once might have been. It won't be Willie Pete in Fallujah or Gitmo or the CIA gulag or the WMD lies that get him. It'll be a bunch of old, rich guys in conservative suits telling him one night that he's no longer good for business, that he isn't doing the job.
Arrested Development is one of the few shows on TV worth watching.
It's one of the only two traditional-network based shows I watch (the other is "The Simpsons").
But I knew the writing was on the wall last year when, despite being on directly after "The Simpsons," it still couldn't find an audience. Fox was forced to renew it after it won the Emmy, but they move it around like a roach coach...
Screw Paraguay. They need to be sent somewhere uninhabitable.
Ahem.
(taps microphone)
Mars, bitches!
George or Barbara?
georgie's new look once he leaves the White House.
Dartanyon-There is something truly disturbing about that picture.
dave™ - I've been intrigued by what I've read about "Arrested Development" but I've never seen it because I don't watch much tv, and when I do I NEVER watch Fox. Maybe the show should shop itself to another channel, is that possible. Perhaps a large part of the demographic it would attract is comprised of Fox boycotters like me.
attaturk, they used to be pretty darn gorgeous if we drove north from Ames.
Gotta go. Today we're throwing a surprise b-day party for my sister.
We are at the end of the third act of a five act play. There will be lots of twists and turns, and it will take way longer than we want. But in the end, Bush will be done, ruined and fucked. Trust me.
we can't afford the luxury of despair
I don't know. When I look at George I can just imagine him dressed in a beer helmet and a diaper.
Screw Paraguay. They need to be sent somewhere uninhabitable.
OK, what about Mississippi?
Its Saturday and what don't I see?
Last week at least we got a picture-- of ONE of them. Crumbs. You become more like a Bush Supporter everyday.
TBogg had his Thursday dogs-- BOTH of them! AND a penis!
I hate you.
yes me too
i have a ton of coursework to do, so talk whenever!
Thoughts during the second cuppa coffee........
i never thought Clinton was a great President. Above-average, maybe. Thanks for doing a good job, here's your pension, the interne sexcapades never bothered me.
But he's been gone SIX FOOKIN' YEARS, and the Republicans can't stop talking him down. i mean, i think they physically can't stop themselves. It's beyond the point of reason.
During this morning's coffee, i realized that it can't be hatred of him still pushing it. The only thing i can think of is that he must have been a hell of a lot better than i thought. They Repubs are forced to attack him constantly because he was so much better than them that they are going to be permanently seen as usurpers next to him.
i guess i gotta rethink my degree of regard for Clinton.
TBogg had his Thursday dogs-- BOTH of them! AND a penis!
Beckham is a slut.
NTodd what area do you live in. If you are near a big city, C-14, C-8 or 4.5 inch newtonian, doesn't matter.
I'm in the boonies--no light pollution, good seeing all the time (well, when it's not cloudy, duh). 4.5 is good enough light collection, particularly with a Barlow, that I've seen the Cassini Division, Jupiter's Red Spot, etc, but I want more detail, and I really want something with a computerized drive so I can get into real astrophotog. My very best selling prints are of the moon and the Big Dipper, and I figure maybe some other cool astro stuff would be a good expansion to the line.
attaturk, they used to be pretty darn gorgeous if we drove north from Ames.
pie
When they are good that is true. But still a lot of humidity in the summer and cloudy days on the plains.
we can't afford the luxury of despair
Not if we want anything to get accomplished. I'm happy we've gotten to this point. It was looking like Bush was untouchable for so long, I wasn't sure if his teflon coating was ever going to start to peel.
But teflon always does, eventually, even if you pay a lot for it.
well, i just had a "I'm fucking angry!" moment, and i wrote about it.
it's about money. your money.
Yup! Haven't been there in a few months: too much of a temptation to buy shit when I'm there.
i can see why.
Heh, I went down there back in May with flameape and Bill, just so they could get some upgrades/repairs taken care of, and I came homoe with my Mac Mini. It was just so cuuuuuuute...
with a Barlow, that I've seen the Cassini Division, Jupiter's Red Spot, etc, but I want more detail
Yes, but did you see the neighbor's 19 year old daughter home from college?
But still a lot of humidity in the summer and cloudy days on the plains.
We had good luck in the fall, except that it would be freakin' freezin' sometimes.
My animal is no Beckham...but she is a mighty curious hunter
"Monica was a scandal for the media, not the country. It's time they came to understand that."
do the phrases: "playing dumb" or "willful ignorance" have any relevance? ...just asking.
Not only did the Cleni™ not have a post-fellatal depression, several polls had him at over 70% the day of the impeachment vote. Several also showed him taking a 5-10 point jump from polls a few days prior.
To be fair to the AP writer, though, he did say "Clinton triumphed", which is a damn sight better that "rebounded". Bassetballs rebound, Clenis™es triumph...
I came homoe with my Mac
Ah, those Freudian typos...
Oh, I should point out that the Small Dog peeps are wicked cool, and they really do have small dogs roaming around the store...
I came homoe with my Mac
Ah, those Freudian typos...
I have no idea what you're talking about! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to make some soup.
Not if we want anything to get accomplished. I'm happy we've gotten to this point. It was looking like Bush was untouchable for so long, I wasn't sure if his teflon coating was ever going to start to peel.
But teflon always does, eventually, even if you pay a lot for it.
pie
To continue the metaphor: that's when it gets really poisonous, too.
My animal is no Beckham...but she is a mighty curious hunter
Damn, she is cute.
As we like to say in the watertiger household when the Aussie shepherd sees a squirrel: "ALERT! ALERT!"
My kitty is About to
Fall Asleep behind the Wheel
particularly with a Barlow, that I've seen the Cassini Division, Jupiter's Red Spot, etc, but I want more detail, and I really want something with a computerized drive so I can get into real astrophotog. My very best selling prints are of the moon and the Big Dipper, and I figure maybe some other cool astro stuff would be a good expansion to the line.
NTodd, House Bitch
That's great, getting the Cassini division in with a 4.5" is an indication of great conditions. They really have done wonders with astrophotography. If I ever get a big scope, might as well give that a whirl.
To continue the metaphor: that's when it gets really poisonous, too.
And that's why you shouldn't buy nonstick cookware.
Cast iron or stainless. Yeah, they show their use, but at least you can trust 'em.
Bush and Scottie trot out the "false and baseless attacks" canard like they discovered diamonds in Cheney's excrement. Not bloody likely.
Cast iron or stainless. Yeah, they show their use, but at least you can trust 'em.
watertiger
Democrats: harder to clean, and you have to coat them with oil, but they won't flake out and poisson you.
errr, poison, that is. Not fish.
Gotta rake leaves and watch college football like a decent American. Surely the Chevy and Budweiser ads will do something about this nagging political conscience...
MSGOP anchor Alex Witless just said she thought when Pat Buchanan was on they always had the best discussions -
I guess if you want someone who revises history on a daily basis to meet their narrow warped viw of the world
interesting have a man to discuss the ethics and credibility of a president who worked for Nixon and Reagan two presidents caught up in scandals of deceit.
no wonder they never represent both sides of the isses they don't recognize their is another one
Better Chimpy should remain in place, to be used as a dartboard for the rest of his term.
Lime Rickey
Exactly why he'll bolt.
NYMary
I'm convinced Bush hasn't the sense or the motivation to do either.
In that booze-addled, sociopathic brain lie delusions that make Bush believe he's a great man who will be revered in history books for eternity.
And not to be smarmy, but in all seriousness, I am beginning to think Bush is mentally ill. I don't know how anyone else could behave as he does, showing no sense of shame or humility when he is caught in blatant lies or behaving with complete incompetance.
That's great, getting the Cassini division in with a 4.5" is an indication of great conditions.
Yeah, I was astonished. My favorite moment was the transit of the Red Spot, though. I'm a big Jovian freak, and I went out on successive nights with my Sky and Telescope transit chart to see it. Saw a couple color bands and the big brownish-red smudge of the Spot--sketched it, just like Christian Huygens would have.
Everything Clinton did or said was shit on at the time by the GOP. Now they're using Clinton quotes to try to bolster Chimpy.
Standard Rovian "Attack their strength" gambit. Falsely accuse "them" of what we actually did before "they" can truly accuse us. 60% of the time it works every. time.
The 37% precent all live in Texas.
I realize this was a tossoff comment, but I think it's important to counter those.
Bush's approval numbers are below 50% almost everywhere now, including Alabama and (I bet) Texas.
People in blue states like to think that the rest of the country is uniformly Republican, but that's bullshit. My congressman, for example, who represents the most affluent metro area in the Southeast (Atlanta is #2), is a Democrat.
To continue the metaphor: that's when it gets really poisonous, too.
Tru, dat. But sometimes I think the Bushies have had us fooled just like Dorothy and her pals were fooled by the great and powerful Wizard of Oz. Those who oppose them have to stop being afraid of them and see them for what they are.
Gotta rake leaves and watch college football like a decent American. Surely the Chevy and Budweiser ads will do something about this nagging political conscience...
It's a good day to do it. A shame I live in an apartment and have no leaves to rake.
Sigh.
Yes, but did you see the neighbor's 19 year old daughter home from college?
Max Planck | Email | 11.12.05 - 10:28 am | #
naughty, max. very naughty.
i used to live in an apartment that looked down upon a couple of houses in which some teenaged boys lived. i do a lot of yoga, and in the wintertime it's bikram all the way, with a pot of boiling water on the stove and no clothes. every once in a while i'd leave the drapes just open enough to educate them varmints. you know, some one's got to make up for abstinence only edumahcashun and all.
see y'all later, beloved moonbats. it's time for breakfast.
And not to be smarmy, but in all seriousness, I am beginning to think Bush is mentally ill.
Beginning to? Shit, I've maintained for years that he suffers from NPD. Now throw in his clear return to the bottle, and it's a whole new ballgame.
... i realized that it can't be hatred of him still pushing it. The only thing i can think of is that he must have been a hell of a lot better than i thought.
I wasn't motivated to follow politics very closely until I saw where Bush was heading after 9/11. But I still don't understand what is so great about Bill Clinton, or Hillary for that matter. The main thing I liked about him was that he made Limbaugh and his ilk froth at the mouth, and still does. That whole "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing.
Ah, Chicago Dyke, i would think you ought to use "Mammon" instead of "Moloch". Mammon is not just a Caananite patriarchial deity demonized by Xtianity, but also a term for money.
As a stinkin' liberal Nazarene once said, "You cannot worship both God and Mammon".
Republicans and religion : Talk God, worship Mammon.
Bush will never come back.
It's all down hill for the next 3 years. I can't see one thing that will help him not even another terrorist attack.
scout prime | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 9:41 am | # ............>>>>>>>>>>>>That bastard can cause a riot,declare martial law,announce his dictatorship,muzzle what's left of the free press and issue approval ratings of 85%.
Meanwhile, we're number one! We're number one!
...American automakers should feel more shame than pride in their fuel-thirsty fleets. Of the 24 cars in (our list of the least fuel efficient), 13 are American, five are British, five are German and one is Italian. The Japanese are absent from the list.
As we initially said, inefficient cars are often highly desirable. But only six of the 13 American autos on the list count as the sort of high-end vehicles we described earlier. The rest are such proletarian fare as General Motors' Chevrolet Silverado pickup (to read a review of the hybrid version of the Silverado, click here) and the GMC Savana, which one frequently sees painted with the words, "Rent This Van: $19.95."
We didn't even include some of the most heinous offenders. For example, you won't find the Hummer H2 on our list, because the EPA has not yet issued a 2006-model ranking. In fact, you won't find any cars not listed in the EPA's 2006 rankings in the slide show, as, due to varying fuel-economy estimates from different sources, we chose to use the EPA as the official--and only--source for data in this story.
Woo hoo!
Bush's approval numbers are below 50% almost everywhere now, including Alabama and (I bet) Texas.
SurveyUSA's state chart:
1 Utah Bush 61%
2 Idaho Bush 55%
3 Wyoming Bush 54%
4 Alaska Bush 52%
4 Nebraska Bush 52%
6 Oklahoma Bush 51%
...
9 Alabama Bush 48%
...
17 Texas Bush 42%
...
48 Vermont Kerry 29%
50 Massachusetts Kerry 28%
Heh.
watertiger,
Damn! The gin blossoms on the "Ignorance is Bliss" picture are pretty impressive!
A shame I live in an apartment and have no leaves to rake.
Hey, hop a Jet Blue flight out here and I'll give you all you can take, baby!
Even throw in some orange and lemon picking, for good measure...
heh. biofuels.
OFF-TOPIC! OFF-TOPIC! CUT HER MIC!
Damn! The gin blossoms on the "Ignorance is Bliss" picture are pretty impressive!
You can't tell me that those marks are "sun damage."
"Son damaged" maybe.
I think the Bushies have had us fooled just like Dorothy and her pals were fooled by the great and powerful Wizard of Oz.
That's a great freaking analogy, pie.
Especially since I watched the moive last night.
Damn! The gin blossoms on the "Ignorance is Bliss" picture are pretty impressive!
At least he's got good teeth to make up for it.
Mornin', bats. So, what's the wisdom for today?
Mornin', bats. So, what's the wisdom for today?
Buy low, sell high.
Mornin', bats. So, what's the wisdom for today?
Buy low, sell high.
Slaughtergate.
One of the reasons to hope Hillary wins the presidency is the massive brain damage it would cause among wingnuttia.
Ah, Chicago Dyke, i would think you ought to use "Mammon" instead of "Moloch". Mammon is not just a Caananite patriarchial deity demonized by Xtianity, but also a term for money.
actually, i had a very specific painting in mind, although i couldn't find it online. it's a 20th century painting of a giant seated demon maned "moloch" sitting atop a burning field, and iirc it was a reaction to the pointless violence and horror of the trenches of wwi. but i get your point. Ba'al forgive me.
Thanks, billy b. And it is the secretive atmosphere surrounding the White House that has helped fuel the fire.
Anyway, I'm determined to have a happier Thanksgiving for the fam than we did last year, so I'm on a positive roll here. And it's a beautiful day. Got lots to do, so see you later, 'bats.
Things are at last changing at last - but the current situation seems to be a scandal for the country, not the media. It's time they came to understand that too.
Mornin', bats. So, what's the wisdom for today?
Don't end a sentence with a preposition.
We voted for bush, but all we got was gore.
Don't end a sentence with a preposition.
Yeah. That is English up with which I will not put.
Looks like it was an interesting night around here. Do we have a designated victim assigned to read Malkin's book and find out if King Leopold is in there?
At least he's got good teeth to make up for it.
Nah, look at the pic with the baby. They're positively gray.
But if you all are bored, I need some help with a debate at my blog: steve simels and I disagree about the film That Thing You Do and I need you all to weigh in.
Do we have a designated victim assigned to read Malkin's book and find out if King Leopold is in there?
Looks like you just volunteered!
The question that haunts every G.I. in Iraq: Will we get a cardboard turkey from Chimpy on Thanksgiving?
Damn, watertiger, I thought it was "Don't end a sentence with a proposition?"
It is coming . . . (I)
Just heard from my publisher, It's going well. I work on Challenge every night now. I am finding it compelling. You are a strong writer and story-teller, which I think keeps readers wanting to come back to the page where they left off. I like your nuancing of situations and perceptions. It makes me feel connected to what's going on.
The other problem with this analysis: the scandals listed were within the Administration, and reflected on the conduct of their office.
Bush's fall started, not with "Plamegate," but with Katrina. He failed signally to do what government should always do: protect and serve the governed.
Plamegate was just grease on the skids. Bush can't recover by being "Presidential." He has to recover by becoming someone other than who he is.
That's what the NYT editorial was getting at. The country can't take three more years of Katrina-level incompetence. But changing that before a Presidential election is, frankly, impossible.
Damn, watertiger, I thought it was "Don't end a sentence with a proposition?"
DWD - Ego Driven
Mae West: "Come see me sometime when you get it up."
Reposted from previous thread:
Bill O'Reilly, I'd like you to meet Ali Al-Timini, who was convicted in U.S. District Court in Alexandria of inciting his followers to train overseas for violent jihad against the United States. His words alone were enough to send him to prison for what prosecutors said will be a mandatory life sentence.
http://tinyurl.com/ble7r
"When Tony Soprano says go whack some guy, that's not protected speech,'' said Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg."
I miss King Leopold.
Lime Ricky. Did I ever tell you that I enjoy your posts. You are one of my favorites on the blog. But then again, there are a lot of my favorites so don't let it go to your head.
Awww ... garsh.
NYMary - can't help as I never saw the movie.
If only Jefferson Davis had that same advice he might have been able to come back from his ratings slump too.
Hey RMJ:
Yup. That's what I was getting at to the north. It's the incompetence, not the evil, that'll be his end. I'm of mixed minds about that.
Bill Clinton had a mature pederasty, not uncommon in families with one female child. At least Moni was of age, it's guy's like Scalito you need to watch, they have a lot of anger towards the little girls.
Looks like you just volunteered!
You're evil. And no.
Monica was a scandal for the media, not the country. It's time they came to understand that.
I know I'm late but if no one has pointed it out, for Bill and Hillary Clinton existing was a scandal for the media. Even if neither of them had been concieved or given birth their possible existence as an existential contingency would have been a scandal for the media.
There is no possible way for the Clintons to have not been a scandal for the corporate media. Any successful Democrat of any possible character exists ideally as a scandal for the corporate American media.
Hey RMJ:
Yup. That's what I was getting at to the north. It's the incompetence, not the evil, that'll be his end. I'm of mixed minds about that.
ProfWombat
Well, I just stepped in, sorry I missed that.
But I think the incompetence of this administration is what is unravelling it. The polls don't show despair over Libby's indictment (although that is quite serious, and the polls do reflect that): the polls reflect despair because the circus clowns keep spilling out of the little car labeled "Bush Administration."
Most say Bush lied about WMD and the need to go to war with Iraq (hence his speech yesterday, rather than laying a wreath at the tomb of the Unknowns); that he's a miserable failure as a POTUS; and on and on.
Plamegate is just another reason to drive a nail in Bush's political coffin. He can't recover now by "cleaning house" or initiating some bold new "plan." He's screwed the pooch so badly, nobody will trust his next proposal as far as they can throw it.
Bill Clinton had a mature pederasty, not uncommon in families with one female child.
Um... pardon me, but what???
If the past 1.5 days of coverage on dumbya hasn't been enough to show that the press isn't liburhyal then what would be? Every news report and story I've seen seems overtly eager to portray shrub as an everyman ready to roll up his sleeves and fight back. It's sickening.
The polls on the CNN site have been interesting though, not even the freepers could turn around one the other day. People overwhelming clicked on the "Yes, I believe the hwite house manipulated pre-war intelligence." Those polls seem to quickly get replaced with polls like the one there now.
Does anyone know if any Atriots live in Seattle?
Bill Clinton had a mature pederasty, not uncommon in families with one female child.
I have seen absolutely no evidence that Bill Clinton is attracted or has ever had any sexual interaction with anyone other than females over the age of consent. To call his affair with a woman six or seven years over the age of consent, even despite their age difference, pederasty is absurd and unfair.
The age of consent is the cut off for determining pederasty.
Britney Spears?
To call his affair with a woman six or seven years over the age of consent, even despite their age difference, pederasty is absurd and unfair.
Indeed!
res,
Mema lives in Seattle.
bigvic ... Thanks. I will keep a lookout for her. Brother is thinking of moving there. Want to get some general info.
God looks on with approval at women like Monica. They are blessed vessels.
Res: WalterNeff is in Seattle, I think.
And I think someone's off on the definition of pederasty.
The General is somewhere up there-- eastern Washington state, I think.
Based on my experience I would consul this President Bush to ignore the popularity polls. They have no purpose. However, if he were to not heed this advice and decide that he wanted to increase his popularity I would suggest he start a war. He should make up some nonsense about a threat from a weak and helpless forces and then send the forces of the empire to crush them. At least that is what I would advise.
Peace,
Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
"Jacques Demers, the head coach of the last Montreal Canadiens hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, has written a book admitting he is illiterate."
DWD - Ego Driven - 9:35 am
No contradiction here, DWD! After consulting with Scott McClellan, Demers' spokesperson explained that Demers is indeed illiterate; however, he was perfectly capable of writing the book-- he just couldn't read it.
I meant meNa, of course. 2 of my best friends moved to Seattle several years ago and love it.
RMJ:
Yup. No way, once people don't think you know what you're doing, that they'll change their minds. And the backup team doesn't look any more competent or sympathetic.
I wish it were about more than that. I agree with Molly and your take on her cri de coeur. How can a social contract be restored once ripped to smithereens?
Silleigh boy.
Res: WalterNeff is in Seattle, I think.
If WalterNeff is in Seattle then maybe I will go, too.
NYMary et al - those flakes peeling off cheap nonstick cookware won't do any harm if swallowed. They are too chemically inert to break down into anything nasty in our guts. I used to specify Teflon™ faced diaphragms for diaphragm valves in acid lines at chemical plants because it can handle most corrosive chemicals without a hiccup.
Heat is a different matter. Heat polytetrafluoroeyhylene hot enough and you can get some nasty breakdown products. Cooking heat won't do it but you don't want to get it in a flame. Polymer fume fever is not pleasant and can leave permanent lung damage.
If WalterNeff is in Seattle then maybe I will go, too.
I'm hiding in your luggage.
I have seen absolutely no evidence that Bill Clinton is attracted or has ever had any sexual interaction with anyone other than females over the age of consent.
But that chubby intern was 10 years old. And then there was Bill's gay sex with Cub scouts that Vince Foster saw and which led to Hitlery having to kill him with a pitchfork. Just because the liberal media didn't report on it, doesn't mean there wasn't lots of evidence.
.
I'm hiding in your luggage.
Don't be a greedy girl. You have the 'Turk!
Res: My sis lived very near Seattle for years. I visited; it was beautiful. And you know with WalterNeff there, it's got all that extra handsome in it -- although he'll be taking his handsomeness to New Zealand soon.
But that chubby intern was 10 years old. And then there was Bill's gay sex with Cub scouts that Vince Foster saw and which led to Hitlery having to kill him with a pitchfork. Just because the liberal media didn't report on it, doesn't mean there wasn't lots of evidence.
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William H. Rehnquist | Email | 11.12.05 - 11:24 am
Even his view from beyond the grave is clouded by bigotry and ignorance.
Don't be a greedy girl. You have the 'Turk!
(slinks away in greedy shame)
Polytetrafluoroethylene. Preview would be my friend if I ever used it.
the polls reflect despair because the circus clowns keep spilling out of the little car labeled "Bush Administration."
HeeHee, this is a great image. Thanks.
Good morning, William H. Rehnquist; have you had your brains 'n eggs yet?
... But then it must be very hot and uncomfortable where he is now.
Rehnquist:
You forgot the part about the barn, the monkey and the shovel handle.
Even his view from beyond the grave is clouded by bigotry and ignorance.
What about the stained neckerchiefs and merit badges? What about those?
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Rehnquist:
You forgot the part about the barn, the monkey and the shovel handle.
naughty sprite | 11.12.05 - 11:28 am
Wasn't that the felafel king?
Polytetrafluoroethylene. Preview would be my friend if I ever used it.
Ahianne
Don't get all chemical on us.
Even his view from beyond the grave is clouded by bigotry and ignorance.
no bs
He's mixing up Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney again. Death addles the brain that way.
This is way OT, but it has me boiling mad. Yesterday I read that the house is planning to pass legislation pushed by that rat bastard Dick Polombo, R-(at) Calif., to sell patents on public land in national forests and national parks for $1,000 an acre or "fair market value," whichever is greater. In otherwords, mining interests get the land on the cheap and the minerals for free.
Once the patents are bought, the Dept. of Interior can't prevent the owners from selling the land over to individuals, say Disney or some real estate mogul who could turn Yellowstone National park into a theme park or resort. This is fucked up and my reps got an earful from me yesterday.
Good morning, William H. Rehnquist; have you had your brains 'n eggs yet?
No breackie for me today. All that cat blogging yesterday, inspired me to go on a kitty-brain bender. I have a pounding headache. Never again.
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Morning Batties. So they think Commander CooCoo Bananas can recover his popularity?
Hahahahahahaha!!!
idjits.
I'm tired of the Fascist MSM parroting the old line that "this is just a regular case of the 'Second-Term Blues.'"
We're not talking about a blowjob here - we're talking about TREASON AND TRAITORS! Fuck those complicit bastards!
The only one worth a damn anymore on television is Keith Olbermann. How ironic that his sign-off line is Edward R. Murrow's old one, "Good night, and good luck?"
Yes, it's the 1950s all over again. Only much, much darker.
He's mixing up Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney again. Death addles the brain that way.
EPT | 11.12.05 - 11:29 am
Especially when you're suffering the torments of the bad place.
Cuckoo
Morning, Tena. I've got to go, busy day but I hope everyone has a good day except gordon the mierenneuker, Ted Korinthenkakker, and Michele "cog" Malkin. Toby, get help.
You forgot the part about the barn, the monkey and the shovel handle.
naughty sprite | 11.12.05 - 11:28 am
I hadn't heard those rumors, but I assume they're true. There's probably rafter or hayloft stains in the barn. But the media will ignore them. BTW, what kind of monkey was it? I've heard Bill likes spider monkeys.
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Oral sodomy trumps torture every time.
I have a pounding headache. Never again.
Isn't there something in Zombie 101 about the dangers of eating out-of-species?
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Tena: Commander CCB is looking under couches, chairs and tables for his popularity. It's gotta be there somewhere.
Howler monkeys, BTW
Isotope I can attempt to moderate my caustic wit.
Oh, and if gordon comes around, please call him "mierenneuker". It's Dutch for "ant-fucker". If his self-image is given a boost he might find something better to do with his time than infest these threads. It could be psychologicall Antzyte for him.
So, see you later.
. How can a social contract be restored once ripped to smithereens?
It can't. This admin and Congress keep barging ahead with terrible, destructive legislation. They show no sign they *get it*. All they have to run on is their phony "family values" and opposition the gay rights/marriage. What a bunch of hacks.
Isn't there something in Zombie 101 about the dangers of eating out-of-species?
Yes yes, I know. Sometimes we can't help ourselves. I was also looking on it as a protest against cat blogging.
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Silleigh - Tena: Commander CCB is looking under couches, chairs and tables for his popu
It eloped with the WMDs.
Damn it, I closed the tags.
The "Clinton poor ratings during the Lewinsky scandal" myth is not the only one perpetuated here and elsewhere. This is the third time in less than a few weeks that I've heard the "Reagan recovered from Iran-Contra" myth. I guess it all depends upon what you determine "recover" to mean. Just before Iran-Contra broke in November 1986, Reagan's Gallup poll job approval rating was 63% - in February 1987, when the worst of the scandal was revealed, Reagan's approval was at its lowest in his second term, at 45%.
However, Reagan never made it above 50% again, until near the end of his term when his approval obviously benefitted from the surge in the Bush I campaign against Dukakis.
Reagan did fall to 37% at one point, but that was in January, 1983, in the middle of his first term. He boosted his approval then by invading Grenada and bombing Libya.
The "Clinton poor ratings during the Lewinsky scandal" myth is not the only one perpetuated here and elsewhere. This is the third time in less than a few weeks that I've heard the "Reagan recovered from Iran-Contra" myth. I guess it all depends upon what you determine "recover" to mean. Just before Iran-Contra broke in November 1986, Reagan's Gallup poll job approval rating was 63% - in February 1987, when the worst of the scandal was revealed, Reagan's approval was at its lowest in his second term, at 45%.
However, Reagan never made it above 50% again, until near the end of his term when his approval obviously benefitted from the surge in the Bush I campaign against Dukakis.
Reagan did fall to 37% at one point, but that was in January, 1983, in the middle of his first term. He boosted his approval then by invading Grenada and bombing Libya.
Morning EPT, hope your day goes well.
Damn it, I closed the tags.
Surrrrre you did.
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I wish one of you economic brains around here would educate CNN on the difference between elastic and inelastic demand vis-vis oil. CNN wants to treat supply and demand as a static graph regardless of the the product.
Shit, this is economics 101.
And surprise, an oil company advertisement comes on right after the CNN story that claims gas price hikes are a product of "natural supply and demand".
So does an antfucker have an almost microscopic dick?
Sorry Billy, can't hear you over all the screams and Hell-fire.
EPT,
You got any good Dutch cuss words? Strictly for research, mind you.
Watch it Rehnquist, you zombies aren't all that difficult to damage.
Again, the "slump" is a myth. All GWB needs to do is put on sme Levis and clear some brush at Crawford. Back up at 60 percent. If he were to declare that terrorists were hiding in the prush and then invade it by himself with just some leather work gloves, he would hit 80 percent again.
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Gotta go. Need to be at work at noon.
clinton had a poll slump
Hey Atrios,
You spelled 'slurp' wrong.
Awwwwww...I feel SO bad for Cowboy Caligula.
NOT!
Strategists: Bush Comeback Will Be Tough
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Republican strategists say President Bush has time to snap out of a three-month run of bad luck and setbacks, including GOP losses Tuesday in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.
Still, a comeback will be tough, and will get increasingly tougher the closer the 2006 midterm elections come, strategists in both parties agree.
Bush might want look back to successful predecessors for pointers. Other presidents have recovered from ratings slumps like the one Bush is in right now: Dwight Eisenhower came back after the Sherman Adams scandal; Ronald Reagan rebounded after Iran-Contra; Bill Clinton triumphed after Monica Lewinsky.
Bush could shake up his White House staff, as Eisenhower and Reagan did in their troubled second terms. Or he could follow Clinton's lead and engage in a flurry of domestic and foreign policy initiatives.
But the clock is running. And Bush may already have passed the point of no return, suggested Paul C. Light, a professor of public policy at New York University.
clinton had a poll slump
Hey Atrios,
You spelled 'slurp' wrong.
M31
Ohhhh, please!
Dutch language curse words and their translations.
You should see how the straight-white-guy-swive-chair-set is reacting to news stories about Bushies numbers on the yahoo msg boards.
I shouldn't read the ridiculous msgs there. I have to admit, I can't help myself. It's such a strange and fascinating window in the minds of people I genuinely don't get.
Good morning, dear batses. Say it again: Bush is an unpopular president.
I wish one of you economic brains around here would educate CNN on the difference between elastic and inelastic demand vis-vis oil. CNN wants to treat supply and demand as a static graph regardless of the the product.
Shit, this is economics 101.
And surprise, an oil company advertisement comes on right after the CNN story that claims gas price hikes are a product of "natural supply and demand".
Troutski | 11.12.05 - 11:37 am
Yes, and no one mentions the fact that the oil companies closed down refineries to increase profits, as evidenced not only by their actions but their own internal memos. They are lying scum.
I suggest
http://www.freetranslation.com/
there is an english - dutch translator for free.
I wish one of you economic brains around here
MMMMMM....economic brains. My favorite flavor next to Originalist Recipe.
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Reagan did fall to 37% at one point, but that was in January, 1983, in the middle of his first term. He boosted his approval then by invading Grenada and bombing Libya
What is with this stinking blood thirsty country that we love mindless violence and bombing the shit out of everything?
The "Clinton poor ratings during the Lewinsky scandal" myth is not the only one perpetuated here and elsewhere. This is the third time in less than a few weeks that I've heard the "Reagan recovered from Iran-Contra" myth. I guess it all depends upon what you determine "recover" to mean.
Or what GOP-fellating "news" source it comes from.
Okay: Bush is an unpopular president.
Yes. Bush - definitely unpopular.
Bush is a Pokkenlijder!
What is all this pro-Condeliar Rice crap they've been presenting all morning on CNN? Is it a lead in to their upcoming fauning mini-bio of the "aluminum tube" expert?
Thanks, Troutski! That'll be fun.
You should see how the straight-white-guy-swive-chair-set is reacting to news stories about Bushies numbers on the yahoo msg boards.
I shouldn't read the ridiculous msgs there. I have to admit, I can't help myself. It's such a strange and fascinating window in the minds of people I genuinely don't get.
n8nyc
Ahem - you might share, you know. Cut and paste some of the better comments so we can see what they're saying.
Or what GOP-fellating "news" source it comes from.
We Republicans neither fellate or lingus. It's unseemly, unclean, and still technically illegal in many states.
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MMMMMM....economic brains.
Is it wrong of me to heart William H. Rehnquist? I mean, being undead really seems to agree with him.
Bush is also a Spast a Sukkel.
I wish one of you economic brains around here
MMMMMM....economic brains. My favorite flavor next to Originalist Recipe.
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William H. Rehnquist | Email | 11.12.05 - 11:41 am
You should enjoy Greenspan in that case. He should be ready for you soon.
The media is back to its old ways. They have to try to create a false equivilacy between the dems and the repubs. But then they find a way to come down on the repubside. Just look at the garbage that Ignatius wrote:
If my imaginary party of performance held a convention this week, its most likely nominee for president would be Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain. Over the past few years, he has been the most visible example of a politician who has tried to swim against the tide of partisanship.
So the media is already trying to corronate Mccain and Guliani,but they have said nothing about Clark or Warner. i guess they are too partisan.
One wonders if Clinton will a full week's funeral coverage like RAY-GUN did.
sleep or work?
You should enjoy Greenspan in that case. He should be ready for you soon.
You have no idea how hard it has been to resist eating him. Not simply for the BIG BRAIN. More so, because I would love to steal away the sultry temptress Andrea Mitchell and have her for my own.
Oh-my-God, those Dutch really know how to curse.
Hey Antifascist:
I yield to nobody in my dislike of Bush et al. and probably agree with your take on current affairs, but I don't think the 1950s were any less dark. Racist apartheid watercannons crossburning and like that. Nuclear weapons by the megaton, shelter area drills, Twilight Zone/Way Out scenarios, serious saber rattling, U2 shootdown and like that. The utter acceptance of gaybashing, the woman making angel food cake in her dream kitchen and like that. The 50s only seemed less dark because we were all better at pretending.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Marwood
And an illegal war is an illegal war.
The supermarket tabloids are saying Clinton is dying.
Is it wrong of me to heart William H. Rehnquist?
It's never wrong to love the Quist. Unless you're a man and you're touching yourself while thinking about me. Then you are going to hell.
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ProfWombat:
I was born in November 1952.
I always say that, had I been an ADULT during the 1950s, I would have slit my wrists.
What a SHITTY decade for women!
Hey sallyh: got blini with Swiss tart cherry jam.
Dutch: Je hebt het niveau van een poffertje = You're equipped with the intellect of a little pancake.
The supermarket tabloids are saying Clinton is dying.
Moe Szyslak
They've been saying that for months.
Wishful thinking....to make their trailer trash readers happy?
They're always trashing the Clintons, never Chimpy and HIS family of losers.
One wonders if Clinton will a full week's funeral coverage like RAY-GUN did.
Lime Rickey
I hope we will not have to worry about THAT for a long, long, LONG time!
They're always trashing the Clintons, never Chimpy and HIS family of losers.
But the National Enquirer was the source for the "Bush is drinking again" story.
Does omitting the word "get" have any psychological significance?
Clinton never had a serious ratings slump because of the Lewinsky scandal. According to Gallup his lowest post-Monica revelation job approval rating was a shocking 57%.
Monica was a scandal for the media, not the country. It's time they came to understand that.
The GOP loves WISH Chimpy's ratings were 57%.
ProfWombat--mmm, blini!
They're always trashing the Clintons, never Chimpy and HIS family of losers.
But the National Enquirer was the source for the "Bush is drinking again" story.
Moe Szyslak
Which they followed right up with a ridiculous story that Chimpy's nephew getting busted made Chimpy "see the light."
Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha!
Nah, I'm just a zombie-lovin' gal.
Got my DVD of Reefer Madness the Movie Musical yesterday. If you'd un-died a little earlier, 'Quist, you could have gotten a bit part. Woulda been sweet.
"Republican strategists say President Bush has time to snap out of a three-month run of bad luck and setbacks…"
"Bad luck"?
Character is destiny, dumfuks.
Tirebiter in Sector R |
Oh, yeah - bad luck.
NEVER his fault, ya know.
I honestly believe that had Clinton been able to run again, he would have trounced Bush handily, "scandal" or no scandal.
The thought of the debates makes me smile.
Imagine, Big Dog tearing Prince Fuckwit a new one three consecutive times.
Bush is also a Spast a Sukkel.
Heh. I tried to get rat fucker translated, but nothing came up. Maybe I'll try pancake fucker next.
"Reefer Madness" is f-in' great!
Clinton never had a serious ratings slump because of the Lewinsky scandal. According to Gallup his lowest post-Monica revelation job approval rating was a shocking 57%.
Monica was a scandal for the media, not the country. It's time they came to understand that.
The GOP loves WISH Chimpy's ratings were 57%.
Terry C | 11.12.05 - 11:53 am
Weren't Clinton's lowest poll numbers in his first few months in office when the wingnuts were throwing everything they could at him?
hey moonbats
need a break from my essay on the Battle of Zama.
did I miss anything fun?
Bigvic,
Try this site. You won't belive it.
"Reefer Madness" is f-in' great!
I am sooo addicted to it, Terry. Turned on the captioning last night to get some of the lyrics I couldn't catch before.
I bought the cast album, but it's not nearly as good as the movie soundtrack, which they are apparently not releasing, which pisses me off no end.
"Reefer Madness" is f-in' great!
Especially if you watch it stoned.
Revealed: UK wartime torture camp
The British government operated a secret torture centre during the second world war to extract information and confessions from German prisoners, according to official papers which have been unearthed by the Guardian.
More than 3,000 prisoners passed through the centre, where many were systematically beaten, deprived of sleep, forced to stand still for more than 24 hours at a time and threatened with execution or unnecessary surgery.
Some are also alleged to have been starved and subjected to extremes of temperature in specially built showers, while others later complained that they had been threatened with electric shock torture or menaced by interrogators brandishing red-hot pokers.
11/12/2005
Veterans remember; not many join them
BY JOSH BRODESKY STAFF WRITER
Air Force One cut across the sky Friday morning. The rumble of its jets brought a brief pause to the Veterans Day ceremony at Courthouse Square, where about 100 people gathered to honor American troops.
On a day when President Bush visited Tobyhanna Army Depot, and aggressively defended his decision to go to war in Iraq, the ceremony at Courthouse Square carried a more traditional tone. It focused on remembering and honoring those who have served in the armed forces, in particular those who were killed in action.
“You must understand that if it wasn’t for the soldiers (personal freedoms would be limited),” said Michael Miskell, American Legion District 11 commander. Mr. Miskell, who served with the armed forces from 1968 to 1972, spoke at the ceremony, which was sponsored by American Legion Koch-Conley Post 121 of Scranton.
Such sentiment was reflected in comments made by Lackawanna County Commissioner Michael Washo, Mayor Chris Doherty, City Council President Gary DiBileo and Times-Tribune reporter and columnist Chris Kelly.
The ceremony opened with music from the Abington Heights Marching Comets, and closed with a three gun salute and the playing of taps. It was organized by Joseph Albert, a former Army lieutenant colonel and commander of Post 121.
Asked if the war in Iraq changed the tenor of Veterans Day in any way, retired Lt. Col. Albert said no.
He said he believed support for the troops abounds, even if support for Mr. Bush’s administration is faltering. The need to honor soldiers of all wars is imperative, he said.
He lamented the small crowd, which was mostly made up of veterans. His thoughts were in line with many in the crowd. Arlington Phillips, who served as a scout in the Korean War and was awarded two Purple Hearts, found the ceremony to be moving.
“It’s very emotional,” he said. “It’s just too bad that we don’t get a heck of a lot more people.”
Contact the writer: jbrodesky@timesshamrock.com
Zima stinks. Don't even mess with it, Moonbooty.
Unless Bush and his advisers do something dramatic
Let's not put ideas in Chimpy's head.
His "something dramatic" might be another war.
Lime Rickey
Or have Karl call his buddy, Osama.
Middle East reform meet collapses
A Middle East reform conference, promoted by the US, has ended in confusion and without a final declaration after Egypt tried to introduce language which Washington said would restrict aid groups.
In a result that US officials called disappointing, the conference produced no final document on promoting political and economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa, the goal of the meeting.
"Obviously we are not pleased," said a senior State Department official at the conclusion of the "Forum for the Future" meeting on Saturday in Bahrain's capital Manama.
Egypt gets about $2bn a year in aid from the US and while its move to block a document will not affect this money, American officials said its action was "very curious". Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were angry, too
naughty sprite,
What a great website! I'm childish enough to have bookmarked it.
Big Dick Cheney is an eikel=dickhead. Hahahahahahaha.
Morning, all. This is OT, but kinda funny. got back thursday from my second trip home to new orleans (that's another story--what a trip it was--I'm emotionally exhausted), but anyways, I was looking for a comprehensive Katrina timeline and found one on wikipedia. whoever wrote the wiki inserted this little gem into the timeline:
Thursday, September 8
President Bush issued an executive order suspending the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, allowing federal contractors rebuilding after Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
President Bush declares that in his childhood he was an underage porn star
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!! well, it made me laugh...
Bush is a spast and Cheney is a smeerlap.
Rove and Scotty can each be called a dikzak.
I bookmarked the site, too and I am passing on to other folks I know who would appreciate it!
Cheney's also a Vieze verrotte aambeiebeffer
President Bush declares that in his childhood he was an underage porn star
Can Chimpy even REMEMBER his childhood?
I don't even think he remembers the 1960s since he spent them drunk and fucked up on coke!
Things Dick Cheney would say if he were Dutch:
Je kunt de pot op
Go fuck yourself.
They don't call me naughty for nothing.
the bushcriminal could look on the bright side: that 36% more Americans approve of him than should, that at least 36% of Americans are so stupid you can get them to believe anything.
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The GOP loves WISH Chimpy's ratings were 57%.
Terry C | 11.12.05 - 11:53 am
Weren't Clinton's lowest poll numbers in his first few months in office when the wingnuts were throwing everything they could at him?
JT
And he bounced back.
Something that delighted me to no end!
the bushcriminal could look on the bright side: that 36% more Americans approve of him than should, that at least 36% of Americans are so stupid you can get them to believe anything.
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yowzer
The 36% who still support him are even STUPIDER than HE is!
Found this over @ agonist. Luv the smell of RICO in the morning.
http://tinyurl.com/786v5
historical events today
# 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
# 1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII
# 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
# 1938 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
# 1969 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
# 1971 - Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
Remember, Clinton was once down to 36% too. I can't see how but I suppose it's somehow possible for him to rebound.
Boy, them internets sure is somethin'. Submitted for your approval: Swearsaurus: Curses in 169 Languages
Actually, I was looking up Tagalog swear words, thinking they might come in helpful here for some odd reason.
While I hate to be a nit-picker (ok, ok, I actually like being a nit-picker), but while Clinton's slump to a 36% approval rating was years before Monica, it is not altogether untrue to say: "Other presidents have recovered from ratings slumps like the one Bush is in right now: ...Bill Clinton triumphed after Monica Lewinsky." But it is disingenious, since it does make the reader assume that Clinton's rating slump was caused by the scandal.
But while we're at it, Reagan's low at 35% (and GWB's) was even lower than Clinton's low, and Reagan's highest-ever rating at 68% was five full points lower than Clinton's high at 72%. Only Nixon had a lower high rating than Reagan, at 67% (don't have numbers from before FDR). And Reagan is considered a god by the Repubs?
Bush jumped to 92% immediately after 9/11, and to 71% immediately after beginning the war with Iraq. Both are times where Americans would instinctively WANT to rally around their president. But those highs have been squandered by this adminstration, with ratings dropping steadily after each of those events, and continuing to drop to this day. And I think you'll find that any minor spikes had to do with conveniently-timed terror alerts... Clinton on the hand, while he had a few misteps early-on, had popularity ratings that rose overall during his presidency. (Numbers from the Roper Center)
cont.
# 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
# 1982 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev.
# 1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
# 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
# 2003 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
# 2004 Resignation of Colin Powell as Secretary of State.
You know, reporters could just do some research. It's easy these days on the Internets.
I went to Wikipedia, and in 2 seconds found this -
Clinton's lowest approval ratings happened early in his first term, in 1993, where he dropped to 36%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bil...Public_approval
Guess it proves Atrios' point that Monica was a media scandal - and they're sticking to their storyline, truth be damned.
"come in helpful"? Christ, I need more coffee.
Alex Clit on MSNBC is clearly under W's spell, whatever that is. She kept trying to find "silver linings" for the Administration in recent poll numbers (there aren't any) and plugging yesterday's
"you were fools to believe me" speech as marking a turnaround in his Preznitcy.
Truly Pathetic. Truly Dishonest.
Fundies need to be rounded up and deprogrammed.
Dan Savage's column in the Village Voice:
STRAIGHT RIGHTS UPDATE
A vaccine for two common strains of HPV, the virus that causes genital warts, is currently moving through the federal approval process. HPV can also cause cervical cancer in women, and these cancers kill 4,000 American women annually. Who could possibly be against a vaccine that has proven 100 percent effective in clinical tests and will save thousands of women's lives every year? Those "culture of life" assfucks, that's who.
"A new vaccine that protects against cervical cancer has set up a clash between health advocates [and] social conservatives who say immunizing teenagers could encourage sexual activity," The Washington Post reported last week. Doctors want teenage girls to receive the vaccine when they hit puberty, something the religious right opposes: "Because the vaccine protects against a sexually transmitted virus, many conservatives oppose making it mandatory, citing fears that it could send a subtle message condoning sexual activity before marriage. . . . 'I've talked to some who have said, "This is going to sabotage our abstinence message," ' said Gene Rudd, associate executive director of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations." (To his credit, Rudd says he'd want his daughters vaccinated.)
Studies show that young men and women are still having premarital sex—no shit—despite the billions of dollars this administration pours into abstinence education. A study conducted at Texas A&M found that kids who've been subjected to abstinence-only sex education, the right's preferred brand, have more sex than kids who aren't subjected to it. So the right is saying they're willing to kill American women in order to avoid "sabotaging" their ineffectual abstinence-only message. Nice.
Who ultimately gets to determine the government's position on the HPV vaccine? Thanks to George W. Bush, the Christian fundies do. From The Washington Post: "The jockeying [around the HPV vaccine] reflects the growing influence social conservatives, who had long felt overlooked by Washington, have gained on a broad spectrum of policy issues under the Bush administration. In this case, a former member of the conservative group Focus on the Family serves on the federal panel that is playing a pivotal role in deciding how the vaccine is used." "W" stands for women, he told us when he ran for president. But George W. Bush never said anything about standing for live women. The right-wingers, the fundies, and the sex-phobes don't just have it in for the queers. They're coming for your asses too.
Well I'm going to go Flikker op, see you later.
Truly Pathetic. Truly Dishonest.
plantsman |
Truly deluded.
1 Watt - that story about Cornyn, Reed and Abramoff was in the Dallas paper this morning. Reed really fucked up and fucked over Cornyn and I laughed so hard I almost choked..
Bush jumped to 92% immediately after 9/11, and to 71% immediately after beginning the war with Iraq.
Not ME.
Nothing would make me support that son of a bitch!
did I miss anything fun?
Moonbootica
Looked out the window this a.m., had a flock of gold finches at the feeder & a flock of cedar wax wings bathing in the creek & stripping the dogwoods of berries.
Morning lovely batses.
How's everyone this fine Saturday?
Speaking of sex and such, I just read for the first time yesterday that the birth control patch is causing a much higher incidence of blood clots because it delivers more estrogen than oral pills. The More You Know...™
Iran insists it must enrich its own uranium
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Saturday insisted upon its right to enrich its own uranium, rebuffing a proposal that Russia should perform the sensitive atomic fuel work to allay fears Tehran is seeking atomic arms.
Iran is facing referral to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions after failing to convince the international community its atomic ambitions are entirely peaceful.
"Iran's nuclear fuel must be produced inside the country," Iranian nuclear chief Gholamreza Aghazadeh told reporters in Tehran after meeting Igor Ivanov, Secretary of Russia's Security Council.
Word, Terry C -- and the fundies opposing the HPV vaccines is just another celebration of
"The cult of unborn LIFE"
Word, Terry C -- and the fundies opposing the HPV vaccines is just another celebration of
"The cult of unborn LIFE"
plantsman
I hate them.
I want to round them all up and have them deprogrammed.
Rumor has it Zima and Cheetos go well together. The terroir has a certain je ne sais quoi. I guess. Me, I'll stick to Diet Coke with lime and yellow label tea. I'll go no more a'rovin...
Alex Clit on MSNBC is clearly under W's spell, whatever that is. She kept trying to find "silver linings" for the Administration in recent poll numbers (there aren't any) and plugging yesterday's
"you were fools to believe me" speech as marking a turnaround in his Preznitcy.
Truly Pathetic. Truly Dishonest.
plantsman
Wow.
How hard do you have to hit that phonograph to get the needle out of that scratched groove?
(Really old metaphorical allusion; I'm shamelessly showing my age.)
Rush to vaccinate quake children
Doctors treating survivors of the South Asian earthquake have began immunizing more than one million children against infectious diseases threatening to spread through crowded refugee camps.
In hard-hit Pakistani-administered Kashmir, about 800,000 children were being immunized for diseases including measles, polio, diphtheria and tetanus, said Dr. Edward Hoekstra, a senior health adviser for UNICEF.
A similar campaign is already underway in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, which was also devastated by the quake.
Shots will also include vitamin A to guard against respiratory illnesses expected as harsh winter weather descends on the Himalayan region, Hoekstra said.
Cover me! I'm going in!
Off to Barnes & Noble to see if Malkin's silly new book mentions King Leopold.
Say a prayer for my safe return.
Speaking of sex and such, I just read for the first time yesterday that the birth control patch is causing a much higher incidence of blood clots because it delivers more estrogen than oral pills. The More You Know...™
Silleigh
I'll bet it's still safer than childbirth.
Morning, Flory. Everyone seems fine, except William H. Rehnquist is nursing a hangover from indulging in kitty brains yesterday. (Sorry, that was probably highly unnecessary.)
I am just rejoicing at not being at work.
How hard do you have to hit that phonograph to get the needle out of that scratched groove?
(Really old metaphorical allusion; I'm shamelessly showing my age.)
Rmj, Wandering Aengus
It's a good comparison.
Bush and his followers ARE like broken records.
Same crap over and over and over again.
They really buy into Goebbel's line of reasoning: tell a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it.
Cover me! I'm going in!
Woo-HOO! Brave, brave man! Report back soonest!
How hard do you have to hit that phonograph to get the needle out of that scratched groove?
At least you're past the wax cylander references.
All I want for Christmas is Karl Rove's head on a stick!
One more thing:
New poll results "68 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country"
Alex Clit--
Really???
Wow!
Off to Barnes & Noble to see if Malkin's silly new book mentions King Leopold.
If Regnery would just sign up for Amazon's book search function, he coulda done that from the safety of his own home.
How hard do you have to hit that phonograph to get the needle out of that scratched groove?
At least you're past the wax cylander references.
Thers
Platters. Big thick ones. With one song per side.
At my parent's house. Wind-up phonograph to go with 'em. Needle the size of a first-grader's pencil.
Students riot over jump in exam fees
Students of Uganda's main university burned vehicles and ransacked shops yesterday as they protested against an increase in the fee for retaking exams from 6,000 shillings (£1.72) to 120,000.
The private KFM radio station reported that two students were killed, but Patrick Onyango, the deputy police spokesman, said that no students died. Several students were injured and dozens of riot police were deployed in and around the state-owned Makerere University in Kampala, where they fired plastic bullets and tear gas at the students, said Mr Onyango.
William H. Rehnquist is nursing a hangover from indulging in kitty brains yesterday
I hope that has no relevance to why there were no Atrikitties yesterday.
OT, but excellent Ellen Goodman column shrilling out on the HPV vaccine issue:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe...n/oped/goodman/
I mean, sending the wrong message about sex by preventing cancer? The country is awash in messages about sex that are a hell of a lot more on point. Hell, you can portray forced sex in a cage between a girl and a bear and be the vice president's chief of staff. There are, it must be faced, those who want some of our daughters to die, needlessly--and make no mistake, that would happen if HPV vaccine were withheld--because their ethics and religion demand it. This is nothing short of obscene, and has nothing to do with any Jesus worth believing in. This cannot in the slightest be accepted or compromised with.
Militants attack mosque in bid to reignite French riots
Molotov cocktails were hurled at a mosque in southern France last night in an apparent attempt by far-right militants to reignite the smouldering embers of a fortnight of urban riots.
Earlier, the Paris police of chief ordered a ban on all large gatherings in the French capital from 10am today, following a series of internet appeals to young, multi-racial suburban rioters to invade the centre of the city.
Although police say that they have no definite warning of an assault on the capital, police reinforcements have been assembled and "potentially troublesome" gatherings banned as a precaution.
I'll bet it's still safer than childbirth.
No doubt, but I just love hearing about how we currently have all these fabulous options for birth control, so we're dumbshits if we accidentally get pregnant.
Someone should write a song about Monica. Something inspirational, y'know.
This cannot in the slightest be accepted or compromised with.
ProfWombat
I think this is yet one more piece of evidence, like the speech yesterday, that Bush's Brain and his minions have completely lost their touch.
"Moderate" Republicans have daughters -- and those daughters are as subject to HPV as anyone. This is not something anyone but a wingnut is going to support.
I wonder if Fredo will insist Jenna and NotJenna avoid the vaccine.
the royal family
Participants in the Forum for the Future session [bahrain] announced a $100 million fund to promote economic enterprise in a region where populations are growing and unemployment is often high for young men. The fund includes $50 million from the United States, with contributions from Egypt, Morocco and Denmark.
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The conference also launched a $50 million foundation aimed at promoting democracy and political reform in the Middle East. Both initiatives were shepherded by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Liz Cheney, the vice president's daughter, who accompanied Rice on a Mideast trip that also includes stops in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the West Bank.
sheets!
Someone should write a song about Monica. Something inspirational, y'know.
Lime Rickey
Why?
I'll bet it's still safer than childbirth.
No doubt, but I just love hearing about how we currently have all these fabulous options for birth control, so we're dumbshits if we accidentally get pregnant.
Silleigh
I love how this perpetual attitude that the responsibility for birth control is all on us women.
Why?
Terry C
As an example for our youth?
Terry C : The right-wingers, the fundies, and the sex-phobes don't just have it in for the queers. They're coming for your asses too.
I've always believed that.
Why?
Terry C
As an example for our youth?
Lime Rickey
No thanks!
Dan Rather told bold faced lies to the American People.
Cover me! I'm going in!
Off to Barnes & Noble to see if Malkin's silly new book mentions King Leopold.
Say a prayer for my safe return.
Thers | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 12:23 pm | #
Could you use some air support?
SaturdayHICA!
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Why don't we do what they do? Hassle all of O'Reillys sponsors! Start a boycott blog.
Dan Rather told bold faced lies to the American People.
qew | 11.12.05 - 1:02 pm
The facts behind the story are indisputable. The only thing subject to question was the memo, and the most that could be established about that was that it could not be authenticated in the form in which they had it. Had they not gone for the sensationalism of citing the memo, airing the story would have had quite a different outcome.
Cover me! I'm going in!
Off to Barnes & Noble to see if Malkin's silly new book mentions King Leopold.
Say a prayer for my safe return.
Thers | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 12:23 pm
Don't forget the cooty spray!
I loved the way the Knight-Ridder article ended:
"...Former Nixon speechwriter Stephen Hess cautioned it's always dangerous to write the obituary of prominent politicians, recalling Nixon's 1968 comeback after losing the presidency in 1960 and the California governorship in 1962.
Bush still has three years in office, 'and three years in the life of a president is an eternity,' Hess said. "
I guess it all depends on how one reads that comment. I'm sure that for Dubya the next three years will be an eternity, just not the type that Hess alludes to.
"...Former Nixon speechwriter Stephen Hess cautioned it's always dangerous to write the obituary of prominent politicians, recalling Nixon's 1968 comeback after losing the presidency in 1960 and the California governorship in 1962.
Bush still has three years in office, 'and three years in the life of a president is an eternity,' Hess said. "
Sounds as though he's trying to convince himself of that.
Dan Rather told bold faced lies to the American People.
qew
As opposed to Bush Co.?
When are these trolls going to extract their craniums from their anal cavities?
Oh, but according to "Mighty Whitey" Neal Boortz, Bubba's lowest ebb was at somewhere in the low 30's. I ounctured that about a month on a previous Assclowns of the Week.
Btw, I just made a quick blog entry, if you like captions, to tide you over until I post my current Assclowns of the Week, which will be the rudest, angriest and most shocking one, yet. It's my Veteran's Day Roundup in pictures and pretty succinctly captures everything that's been swirling around Capitol Hill during this travesty of a Veteran's Day celebration. Enjoy.
Bush isn't going to recover from his "ratings slump" unless he can wave a magic wand and make Iraq go away.
MSNBC Newsweek
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Marcus Mabry
Newsweek
Updated: 2:00 p.m. ET Nov. 12, 2005
President George W. Bush is sinking deeper and deeper into political trouble, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. Only 36 percent of Americans approve of the job he is doing as president, and an astounding 68 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country—the highest in Bush’s presidency. But that’s not the worst of it for the 43rd president of the United States, a leader who rode comfortably to reelection just a year ago. Half of all Americans now believe he’s not “honest and ethical.”
.......
President Bush leaves the White House on Saturday for a bike ride in suburban Maryland.
Head for the hills - you know what happens when he's out of town with his bicycle and the ratings are low.
There's also an on-line poll that could use some more love (Link in home page):
If Congressional elections were held today, would you vote for a Democratic or Republican candidate?
1023 responses
Democrat 78%
Republican 17%
Not sure 4%
Oooooooooooohhhhhh that waaahscully Wather. All this is his fault.
Monica was a scandal for the media, not the country. It's time they came to understand that.
Ah, yes. Little Duncan just can't accept that Monica and impeachment will forever be Clinton's legacy.
He got away with raping Juanita Brodderick. What a scumbucket.
Dan Rather told bold faced lies to the American People.
qew
So you're saying you feel he's qualified to run for President as a Republican?
And, Clinton released oil reserves and gas was $.99/gallon during the presidential blow job years.
Aaahhhh. Life was good.
"It's time they came to understand that."
And you help them understand that with every righteous post!
You keep on speaking truth to power, atrios!!!!
Also, Reagan's big slump wasn't after Iran-Contra. Iran-Contra was only a 10 point hit that took him from about 60% to about 50%. Reagan's biggest slump was in 1983 and was a result of the massive recession.
-"Monica was a scandal for the media, not the country. It's time they came to understand that."
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"They" understand everything more than "we" do.
It's time the American People , that sleeping moral giant, came awake, and, the very definition of anti- Christian conciousness- the bush administration and its roots can finally get smited!
smote? smoten? smeeten? schmucked!
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