I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Frist!
Iran and Russia sign $1 bln defence deal - reports
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to sell more than $1 billion worth of tactical surface-to-air missiles and other defence hardware to Iran, media reported on Friday.
Moscow is already at odds with the West over its nuclear ties with Tehran but has sought to use its warm relations with Iran to be recognised as a key mediator between the West and the Islamic Republic.
The Vedomosti business daily cited military sources as saying Iran would buy 29 TOR-M1 systems designed to bring down aircraft and guided missiles at low altitudes.
The paper, calling it the biggest sale of Russian defence hardware to Iran for about five years, said Moscow and Tehran had already signed the contract.
Drat!
Oh, goodie! A real enemy! Not North Korea, of course, but hey, just right for the Wingers....
Bushboy was quoted the other day saying that as long as he's POTUS the US won't be "run out" of Iraq by the insurgents.
False bravado to say the least.
It's not his ass or the ass of any of his family that's on the line. If it were, Bushboy, the coward, would be singing a "peace" tune!
Health agency refuses to hire any more smokers
The World Health Organisation has stopped employing smokers as part of its drive to curb tobacco use. All vacancy notices now state the UN health agency does not promote tobacco use or recruit smokers, a spokesman said.
Job applicants will be asked if they smoke or use other tobacco products. If they reply "yes", they will be shown the door.
There will be no penalties for existing staff who smoke. Asked whether WHO would soon stop hiring obese people or those drinking alcohol, spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said the agency needs to align its employment practices with its principles.
The Bush error is over!
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O'Lielly has been getting crazier and crazier all the time.
If he's not advocating the terror bombing of San Francisco, he's comparing Cindy Sheehan to Annthrax Coulter as an extremist, or he's just ranting and raving how anyone who dissents from Bushboy's Iraq war debacle is a "traitor" or some such ilk.
Only in PREDATORY-CAPITALIST AMERICA could a third-rate, gossip-monger and pathological liar be paid tens of millions $$$/year to spew hate, lies and stupidity.
Meanwhile, O'Lielly, like Bushboy, would never put his ass on the line in Iraq or anywhere else. Like most bullies, he's a coward.
Iran and Russia sign $1 bln defence deal - reports
...so those who think in 'black and white' will say that eye-ran is evil because they are buying DEFENSE missiles...hmm I wonder why eye-ran feels they need missiles that can shoot down planes and guided missiles - couls it be the US's "cocksure" prodding to get tehran to blink
Key Afghan border crossing shut
A key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been closed after a confrontation between soldiers from both countries.
Efforts are now on to reopen the border crossing linking the Pakistani town of Chaman with Spin Boldak in Afghanistan.
Both sides have accused each other of beating up their soldiers and the atmosphere remains tense, reports say.
The Chaman-Spin Boldak border point is one of the two main crossing points along the porous border.
I thought O'Reilly was retiring. Seems like a good time to put him to pasture. Rush has a variety of problems starting with his drug abuse, O'Reilly seems to be slipping into some form of dementia, I wondr what Hannity's issue will end up being?
Conservative front men, beware those of the whirling eyes.
Rudy -- O'Lielly is the ultimate troll. He shouts and screams and takes over a forum (in this case, the public airwaves), attacks everyone, has no facts, ignores his own lies, and believes that he has the power to trash other people just because he supports Dear Leader. The fact that he's ugly and his mama dresses him funny is only the icing on a really bad cake.
US civil rights group to sue CIA
A US civil rights groups says it is taking the CIA to court to stop the transportation of terror suspects to countries outside US legal authority.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says the intelligence agency has broken both US and international law.
It is acting for a man allegedly flown to a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she'll comment on recent reports of alleged CIA prisons abroad before starting a visit to Europe on Monday.
Media Matters did a comparison of the recent craven, Bushboy praising remarks of O'Lielly and Tweety.
Frankly, it was hard to tell the stupid bastards apart!
"There will be no penalties for existing staff who smoke"
Seems if they deny one they must deny the other. Why should they tolerate smokers already on staff.
Today's terror alert color:
Retroactive puce
bush: done, ruined and fucked.
see the movie.
EkCenTriK -- BOR has been really batshit crazy lately, hasn't he? There are times I'm convinced that the only people more insulated and delusional than BushCo are the punditry. Can it actually be that BOR doesn't realize how he looks? Especially when he sits around having a tag-team screeching with Coulter?
first specter and to, now this. the gop must be trolling for the football vote. does nascar not drive during the winter:
Friday, December 2, 2005
Congress to look into 'deeply flawed' BCS system
Associated Press
HOUSTON -- Calling the Bowl Championship Series "deeply flawed," the chairman of a congressional committee has called a hearing on the controversial system used to determine college football's national champion.
A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, charged with regulating America's sports industry, announced Friday it will conduct a hearing on the BCS next week, after this season's bowl matchups are determined.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/p...5440&
type=story
Did Kos's server crap out? It looks like they disappeared into the "cannot find server" wasteland early this morning, and it still isn't up.
Is DailyKos down for everyone or just me?
When is Flush Limbo going to trial?
Ditto for Ken Lay and former Enron CEO, Skilling.
Why wasn't O'Lielly prosecuted for sexually harassing a female subordinate?
I guess being Gooper provides a certain amount of immunity or "delay" in the justice process.
Quote of the Day
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." -- George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
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filker
If O'Reilly were sitting in a bar somewhere the barkeep would be refusing him drinks and trying to convince him to take a cab home.
Frankly, it was hard to tell the stupid bastards apart!
Rudy
i don't know -- my $$'s on tweety for the most florid pronouncements on chimpy:
MATTHEWS: You know, Tony, there is in the past, it‘s not always there, but sometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility. How does he bring it back because it hasn‘t been apparent for a while now.
O'Reilly - Dear, dear. That hair. Every professional Irishman I've ever known has that same goofy hair - parted on on side and combed into some kind of hump on the other. The hair is full of some product (Brylcreme perhaps) so that the hair stays in place in a greasey lump. One can see the characteristic comb grooves running through the do.
Is it the old pagan Celtic tradition of mound worship that causes this love of hair piles?
bush:drf
In my home state of Mass we have Mitt Romney as the resident Gooper behaving like most Goopers.
With an important healthcare pharmaceutical bill coming up for vote, our unesteemed governor flies to the US governors conference on a private jet provided free of charge by: (you guessed it!):
Pfizer Pharmaceutical!!!!
Some Dems may also be corrupt, but for Goopers it's a way of life!
For any other railroad freaks out there:
Amtrak is the next to go.
Good Snark from the Times' review of AEONFLUX, "As it all approaches a hectic climax, Mr. Postlethwaite - whose role in this I will not even begin to try to explain - remarks, "I've been waiting 400 years for this day." I knew how he felt, though I'd only been there for an hour and a half."
Today's terror alert color:
Retroactive puce
Arabella, Did you call the Fab Five?
Puce is much better than the original stale colors.
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re: o'leilly - it isn't the delusional foaming at the mouth...it is the lame murkans who listen and agree - every 'successful' mouthpiece needs an audience, and scary as it sounds - o'leilly has one in the scariest and worst portion of murka: the ignorant racists who inhabit most of the land between new york and california!
Oh, FUCK you, Scott Simon!
Talking with Daniel Snore about the Dukestir, and Schorr says, "Why is it the Democrats have the sex scandals, and the Republicans have the money scandals?
Simon: "Oh, I can think of plenty of Democratic money scandals. But don't ask me to try to remember Republican sex scandals."
Hey, Scott: check this list out, dickhead.
fuck. link broken.
list here.
Arabella
These are good solid conservative men. They would never diminish their virile image with Brylcreme. It has to be B'ar grease or nothing. If it don't reek it ain't manly.
watertiger,
Linking.........., thanks.
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Filkertom,
You are right about o'Reilly being a troll. Like most trolls he also can't take criticism very well.
Anybody see the zombie movie? Wonder if renqwist made an appearance?
With his Fed Chairmanship ready to expire in January, Alan Greenspan has finally found his balls and is denouncing the Bushboy deficits that are spiralling out of control.
When Paul O'Neill was Treasury Sec. he had second thoughts about Bushboy's tax cuts before they became law. He spoke to Greenspan and urged him to press for a "trigger mechanism" that would cancel the cuts if deficits re-appeared.
Greenspan agreed it was a good idea but never went public with any criticism of the tax cuts until this year.
I'd say Alan was a four years too late and a couple of trillion $$$ short.
Greenspan is of course a Gooper in good-standing. Which explains it all.
Mateo -- seems to have been down for most of the morning.
EkCenTriK -- yeah, and he'd get belligerent, and get arrested, and likely resist, and then go on his show talking about the unfair victimization of drinking men, hell, maybe that's why Bush stopped drinking, because he was oppressed, well, the American People know what's right and we will be watching these bartenders who refuse to sell drinks to us professional drinkers....
Gaaah. Gave myself a nosebleed.
DWD -- [snort][SPEW]
watertiger -- man, I used to love Scott Simon. I can't even listen to him anymore. And even Schorr has dropped several notches. Thank God for Walter Cronkite, y'know?
Un-american pissant bartenders....
Dartanyon - I was too busy looking at paint samples to call the Fab 5. My apologies.
I hadn't seen that quote you posted. It just goes to show that Bush thinks if he keeps repeating himself he can "make people understand." He's a dangerous religious fanatic who listens to nobody. I am convinced that he doesn't care about the midterm elections. The Republicans are passing peach pits.
Watertiger, thanks: added to my favorites. Next time my Republican MIL complains about the Democrats not having family values . . .
watertiger:
Excellent list of Gooper sexual predators, liars and just plain philanderer's.
The only one I thought was missing was Henry Hyde, who while married had an affair with a friend's wife, which he called a "youthful indiscretion."
Hyde was 43 at the time.
Gooper logic at work.
anyone need a cuppa joe and a freshly made cinnamon muffin...I got plenty!
Arabella,
Agreed. I don't think Bush gives a rats behind about the midterms.
All the better for OUR side.
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filk:
There are so few in the national media worth watching or listening to.
Keith Olbermann & David Brancaccio are rarities amongst the TV talking head-set littered with the likes of O'Lielly, Hannity, Scarboro, Tucker Carlson, et. al.
It just goes to show that Bush thinks if he keeps repeating himself he can "make people understand." He's a dangerous religious fanatic who listens to nobody. I am convinced that he doesn't care about the midterm elections. The Republicans are passing peach pits.
Arabella | Email | 12.03.05 - 9:31 am
[nod nod nod] I realized awhile back that Dubya reminds me of a Jimmy Stewart movie, where he's pleading, "Doncha see? Doncha see?" and then starts to advocate some of the most screwloose, impossibly stupid bullshit as if it's the most obvious truth in the world.
I still have fantasies of him in his later years at his oubliette in the Hague, occasionally bursting into tears in the darkness, murmuring, "What did I ever do to deserve this...?"
Mmmm... cinnamon....
Rudy -- I tell ya. If not for AAR, I'd be right depressed. Even Nina Totenberg has lost points this year.
filk:
I've grown more and more dependent on independent magazines like Harpers, The American Prospect and the The Nation to which I subscribe.
On occasion I also read Mother Jones and The Progressive.
Even with all that, it's hard keeping up with the crimes and misdemeanors of the Bushboy/Gooper syndicate!!!
Buenos días.
Rudy the Enron boys are going on trail soon.
While I was googling for an exact date I found this interesting article.
For three years, California officials pleaded with federal regulators, President Bush, and Vice President Dick Cheney to provide the state with some relief from soaring wholesale power prices and investigate energy companies, including Enron, Williams Companies, and Reliant, for allegedly manipulating the market.
Bush and Cheney responded personally to former California governor Gray Davis's pleas for help in May 2001 by saying the crisis was the result of California's poorly designed power market, which left some regulatory restrictions in place.
It wasn't until Enron collapsed in October 2001 and evidence of the company's manipulative trading tactics emerged that FERC began to take a look at the company's role in California's electricity crisis. Since then, memos written by former Enron traders were uncovered, with colorful names like "Fat Boy" and "Death Star," that contained the blueprint for ripping off California.
Enron's top trader on the West Coast, Timothy Belden, the mastermind behind the scheme, pleaded guilty in 2003 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and has agreed to cooperate with federal investigators, who are still trying to get to the bottom of the crisis more than four years later.
California had demanded $8.9 billion from energy companies for overcharging the state for electricity during its year-long energy crisis. An administrative law judge for the agency released a preliminary decision in December that says California is due no more than $1.2 billion in refunds because the state still owes the energy companies $1.8 billion in unpaid power bills. snip
A few weeks before the meeting between Bush and Davis, Vice President Dick Cheney, who chairs Bush's energy task force, was interviewed by PBS's "Frontline" for a special series on California's energy crisis. During the interview, Cheney flat-out denied that energy companies ripped off California.
"The problem you had in California was caused by a combination of things - an unwise regulatory scheme, because they didn't really deregulate," Cheney said in the May 17 "Frontline" interview. "Now they're trapped from unwise regulatory schemes, plus not having addressed the supply side of the issue. They've obviously created major problems for themselves and bankrupted PG&E in the process."
When asked whether it was possible that energy companies were behaving like a "cartel" and if some of the high power prices in California could be the result of manipulation, Cheney responded with a resounding "no."
Reliant has also been connected to Cheney's energy task force, which met between January and March 2001 to work on Bush's National Energy Policy.
Reliant, along with Entergy and TXU, two other major electricity corporations based in Texas, hired Diane Allbaugh as a lobbyist.
Rudy -- and Salon, Working For Change, and TruthOut.
I'm getting no love from Kos's server. Anyone else having the same problem?
Like others, no access to Kos's blog. likewise Booman and Street Prophets.
Yeah, what's with dKos? Also Kevin Drum.
First they came for the blogs.
SusanG at Booman has posted an explanation from Markos for DKos outage up (click "homepage" for link):
From Markos:
Our host used to lease space at a wholesaler data center. The host bought its own building, and is in the process of physically moving all their servers to the new facility. The process was supposed to take 2 hours, in the dead of night, and we were supposed to have a message on the site explaining the situation.
But, as is often the case with technology, things didn't go according to plan. I'm not sure what the problem is, and since I know they're scrambling trying to make things right I don't want to call and further delay them demanding an explanation. There will be time for that later. But bottom line, moving 10 servers (in addition to all their other clients) from one physical location to another is not easy. Lots of things could go wrong, and apparently many of them did.
They can't even do a redirect to tell people the thing is down ?
I was just over at Media Matters and read the article about O'Lielly and Coulter. At the bottom of the article was a link for Ann Coulter-tom@anncoulter.org.
Is Tom the name of the actor that plays Ann Coulter? I'm confused.
As to the server problems, I had a hard time getting here too. I can report that Jesus' General appeared on the first try. It took 6 tries for Eschaton to come up, with DKos down too....I was getting nervous.
checny is trwisting the Central Internet Knobs in his palatial bunker! All of the other left blogs are going down!
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