I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
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Does anyone really wanna be "Frist" anymore?
THOID !!!
Frist so Icky.
Hillary should give the money back if she's such a leader.
We have come to The Wasteland.
Quite simply, people like Beutler are afraid of the power that bloggers have.
So they have to attempt to negate the obvious.
I see the package of birthday meth arrived.
f i r e h o s e !
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Hey, I met Bill at EschaCon. He seemed like a nice fellow. Guess he's just a wanker in nice fellow's clothes.
I see the package of birthday meth arrived.
Har-har-har!
Rats having a five-day rave? Who knew?
Who?
I'm no fan of Hill, but the woman sure can't catch a break, it seems.
Atrios--just 'cause it's your birthday, it doesn't mean it's your *party*! The posts are going so fast, I can't get a word in edgewise!
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Party!!
and the Blogometer should now be taken with a massive grain of salt.
And pepper, too. Don't neglect the pepper.
Chi Dyke was in fine form last night, was she not?
I spoke to him at EschaCon too. Seemed nice enough... later he gave me static in Hotline for calling Jeff Goldstein an "asshole" during the BitchPhD/Deignan kerfuffle, using information (my job) that he'd heard from me when we spoke at EschaCon.
I thought that was a bit snotty.
I thought that was a bit snotty.
Helluva lotta that goin' around this winter.
"Hillary should give the money back if she's such a leader.
kei & yuri"
hillary will give some of it to candidates of her choice, so they will be beholden to her.
great.
Have you seen any of the Pentagon proclamations about the "grave security risks" of the Internet, the "vulnerability to Internet terrorism"?
The nasty bloggses won't be a problem much longer.
Thank goodness all I have to worry about is my shovelling and sweeping.
i never remember their names but i've bumped into hotline people a couple of times and they always seem surprised that I'm not impressed by them and don't reall want to talk to them.
Beware a thick-legged woman!
I spoke to him at EschaCon too. Seemed nice enough... later he gave me static in Hotline for calling Jeff Goldstein an "asshole" during the BitchPhD/Deignan kerfuffle, using information (my job) that he'd heard from me when we spoke at EschaCon.
I thought that was a bit snotty.
That is. But you should always watch what you say around reporters.
He's cited me a couple times, did a profile on my blog, always spells my last name wrong (Pritzky).
How appropriate that I cross the 10K hits mark on Atrios' birthday. 43 hits to go! 
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Have you seen any of the Pentagon proclamations about the "grave security risks" of the Internet, the "vulnerability to Internet terrorism"?
Yah, when I heard Rumsfeld going off on this yesterday I figured "here it comes."
But there is a lot of territory between wanting to control the internet and actually being able to control the internet.
Enjoy 34, it's high prime time!
that is pretty crappy. reporters on the blog beat should respect that people keep their blogs separate from their professional lives. I couldn't have complained if a reporter outed me at some point because my blog was big enough that my identity would've been a genuine if pointless story, but that's just not true of most bloggers.
Fuck civility!
treat stupid shitheels like stupid shitheels, and mebbe they get the point...
mebbe not, but if not, what's the fucking loss?
Tena: Yah, when I heard Rumsfeld going off on this yesterday I figured "here it comes."
You're talkin' HICA talk, woman!
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That is. But you should always watch what you say around reporters.
I couldn't have complained if a reporter outed me at some point.......
Anne Frank got outed at one point, too.
Fuck civility!
The battle cry of The Ages!
how 'bout dem fatwas, eh?
From Rasmussen Reports: The survey also found that 33% of Ohio voters believe the withdrawal of Hackett will make it harder for Democrats to win this seat in November. Seventeen percent (17%) believe it will make victory easier to obtain. Democrats are evenly divided on this point.
Thanks Idiot Democratic Senators for letting your own greed and lust for power be more important than actually winning senate seats!!!!!
That is. But you should always watch what you say around reporters.
I suppose. I don't really care though. I mean, I totally stand behind my contention that Jeff Goldstein is an asshole, and would say so in any public forum imaginable...
Anne Frank got outed at one point, too.
Yeah, that was nice.
Its amazing that someone could be so clueless about a subject they are supposed to be experts on.
Do some research, and some creative thinking.
This guy is arguing, basically, that establishment insider democrats have done such a good job running campaign and winning, that it is foolish for the party faithful to want to change how business is being done. How dare we support primary challengers, and challenge democrats who don't oppose the republicans. I mean, look how successful their cowering to Bush has been in the past!
Anne Frank got outed at one point, too.
Tore Miep up, it did.
I fail to understand why people have a problem with people excersizing their constitutional right to free speech and free expression. Even if bloggers' actions went to no effect, why is it wrong to have media where political ideas are discussed and thoughtful actions taken. Is their real issue that they have essentially lived their whole life as the resident expert on all things in national politics and this is more a threat to their fealty? These folks just feel like buggy whip makers scoffing at the passing cars.
Has someone posted this already?
Vice President Dick Cheney said he didn't immediately disclose his hunting accident because he wanted the confusing details to come out right. Instead, authorized accounts came out slowly — and often still wrong.
The result: a week of shifting blame, belatedly acknowledged beer consumption (not "zero" drinking after all) and evolving discrepancies in how the shooting happened, its aftermath and the way it was told to the nation.
"There's a reason they call this crisis management," said corporate damage-control specialist Eric Dezenhall, "and that's because it's a mess"...
DRINKING
Although there is no evidence that beer impaired Cheney's judgment, initial denials that he had consumed alcohol were wrong.
"No one was drinking," Armstrong said at the outset. "No, zero, zippo." She said the hunters washed down lunch with Dr Pepper. Later, she qualified her comments and said beer might have been in the cooler but she did not think anyone drank any.
The investigating officer from the Kenedy County sheriff's department, after interviewing Whittington in the hospital, reported that the victim "explained foremost there was no alcohol during the hunt."
Authorities did not investigate the accident until the next day. The Texas Parks and Wildlife accident report, dated two days after the shooting, checked "No" on the question of whether Cheney appeared under the influence of intoxicants. It did not address whether the hunters had been drinking at all. (The report also included a diagram depicting Whittington's wounds on the wrong side of his body.)
Cheney acknowledged Wednesday, "I had a beer at lunch" several hours before the group's afternoon hunt, asserting "nobody was under the influence."
VICTIM'S CONDITION
In the rush to assure everyone Whittington was "just fine," some important details were left out.
Initial reports had him treated at the scene, then taken by ambulance to the hospital, where in no time he was cracking jokes with the nurses. It turned out that after being taken to the emergency room of a local, small hospital, he was flown by helicopter to the intensive care unit of the larger hospital in Corpus Christi.
According to Armstrong's initial account of the accident scene: "He was talking. His eyes were open." Later, Cheney said that when he rushed up to the stricken man and talked to him, Whittington had one eye open and did not respond. He was, however, conscious.
Doctors said Tuesday that Whittington suffered a mild heart attack while in the hospital when one of the pellets migrated to his heart. He was released Friday.
Anne Frank got outed at one point, too.
Tore Miep up, it did.
But hey, at least she's now famous.
The main thrust of the link seems to be that the thing the right fears the most from liberal bloggers is the ability to raise money. Isn't always about the money with the Republicans?
I'm sure somewhere, it's a huge fashion faux pas to wear ostrich skin cowboy boots with black sweatpants. It's not -- I say, it's NOT -- in Curly's condo.
They keep the feetses nice and warm...
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The whole Quail-Flail story might be characterized as 'stumbling disclosure."
bloggers suck at raising money. we can raise just enough to create a buzz, and that's what really matters. one day people will figure that out
What an odd coincidence-- I was just thinking about creating a buzz of my own.
But hey, at least she's now famous.
As a kid, I was truly moved by the book. It served it's purpose humanizing jews for Americans beautifully. But I always found Anne's humanistic, dreamy last diary entry too understanding of humanity to be believed. My flaw.
She said the hunters washed down lunch with Dr Pepper.
OT, but the irony of the "Dr Pepper" thing JUST struck me for the first time. Duh.
Judging from just the comments in this thread, let alone the link, this Beutler guy seems to have lots of wankitude to his credit.
...reporters on the blog beat should respect that people keep their blogs separate from their professional lives.
Well, if I'm reading Thers right, Beutler's transgression had little, if anything, to do with Thers' blogging - he was merely a "commenter" Beutler disagreed with.
I personally like the part where he refers to Lincoln Chaffee as a "liberal". Don't you have to occasionally vote against the Bushies to be considered a liberal?
February 17, 2006
U.S. Company Plans $265M Spaceport in UAE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. Company Plans $265M Spaceport in UAE LOS ANGELES (AP) -
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbi.../
021700109.html
A day after Space Adventures announced it was in a venture to develop rocket ships for suborbital flights, the company said Friday it plans to build a $265 million spaceport in the United Arab Emirates.
etc.
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The space bloggers' finances are difficult to trace.
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the irony of the "Dr Pepper" thing JUST struck me for the first time.
I've been peppered
He's been peppered
She's been peppered
They've been peppered
Wouldn't you like for me to pepper you?
If you like Dr. Pepper, you'll LOVE "Black-Cherry Vanilla" Coke!
Atrios: In the link the article cites the $75,000 raised for Rodriguez, that is what I was pointing to. Of course you are right about bloggers not being good at raising money, but the right still focuses on any amount raised. Oh, by the way, Happy Birthday. Thirty four is a great age to be, enjoy.
WE COULD DO BEUTLER'S JOB
1) The other day we came across Krugman's the Great Unravelling in a pile of books we're getting around to reading.
2) On the back it mentions Krugman is the recipient of an award for Economists under the age of 40.
(allow time just for jokes about this proviso. what happens to an economist on turning 40, do they lie about their age, do other fields have age-specifc awards, etc..)
3) Atrios has never mentioned if he won this award, which seems pretty swanky if Krugman thinks it's worth mentioning. Therefore, on nothing that can be called research, we will assert he has actually not won this award!
And then throw in a non-quote from Kos contradicting what Kos has been very clear about, and inflate it with words to meet the limit if it's not there yet, and submit it to the editor.
How can Democratic candidates who aren't co-opted, and are committed to reforming our pathological status quo, going to conquer the formidable financial hurdles if they don't get support-- financial or otherwise-- from progressive blogs?
Anyone? Beutler?
the thrust of this thing seems to be: "if bloggers get involved and dems lose seats, it'll all be their fault".
which is pretty stupid, as far as 'analysis' goes.
and i would also add: so what? wtf have the dems done for me lately with their shitty namby-pamby-ness..? what have they promoted that's gonna either make me proud of them or my own political affiliation or promote my interests?
and we're suppossed to support these people?... why?
http://www.commondreams.org/view...s06/0216-
20.htm
Blogs and real democrats are attacked here because they are the only game in town. They are a real threat to the establishment. It's like telling revolutionaries that while their ideals are admiratble the responsible thing to do is to trust the lords and kings to reform in their own good time.
Conventional Wisdom:
"Insanity consists of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time."
Dump the paid consultants.
and we're suppossed to support these people?... why?
Exactly. Perhaps if we withhold turkee until something is done correctly, or, the turkee is sent when something is done right, at least in our mind's eye.....
The MoveOn "kiss of death" effect seems real. Paul Hackett was definitely pretty truculent for a dem, and the goopers would LOVE dems to reject any money from blogs. Diabolical, they are.
I spoke to him at EschaCon too. Seemed nice enough...
Well, that's a reporter's job - to get people to "open up." That's fine. But don't expect a reporter to be on "your side," don't expect a reporter to be your "friend."
A good reporter isn't any of those things, which is fine by me - I just think people who are around them should keep it in mind.
Now, to get a bit snarky, one should probably assume at this point that a reporter on a blogging story is there to find a scandal and cluck his tongue. Probably not the reporter's choice, but definitely the choice of his management.
What if this was a Democrat?:
VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies
AP - Sat Feb 18, 3:52 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said he didn't immediately disclose his hunting accident because he wanted the confusing details to come out right. Instead, authorized accounts came out slowly -- and often still wrong. The result: a week of shifting blame, belatedly acknowledged beer consumption (not "zero" drinking after all) and evolving discrepancies in how the shooting happened, its aftermath and the way it was told to the nation.
I agree that bloggers are stupid and short-sighted for vocalizing support for Democrats who do not act like Republicans.
You stupid bloggers.
FWIW,
Beutler wrote me and asked for permission to come to EschaCon. I asked Atrios what he thought, and it seemed harmless enough.
I think the problem is that the range of blogs called "liberal" is so broad that of course there's great differences of opinion. Atrios doesn't agree with Kos who doesn't agree with Gilliard who doesn't agree with My DD. But I simply can't see that as a bad thing.
one should probably assume at this point that a reporter on a blogging story is there to find a scandal and cluck his tongue.
Seriously, has the liberal bogosphere appeared in print in any other light?
"The MoveOn "kiss of death" effect seems real."
they support pretty progressive candidates, perhaps people that are a bit too far to the left for mainstream electibility...
to that i say, 'so what'?
part of the problem with our nation's rightward tilt is that for decades the left has been marginalized..whereas with the right it's been pandered to, and the center has moved right.
so i believe it's in my own interests to support people on the left, for no other reason then to balance the scales slightly, and to get those voices heard....even if they lose.
We're invading the club.
But . . . But . . . But . . . if we don't act like slightly more wimpy Republicans, the cable news talk shows might say something bad about us? How to survive such a blow?
(/beltway insiders)
Anyone else see the AP story about the "inconsistencies" in Cheney's story?
Isn't it interesting that these unflattering pieces come out on Saturday....
Yet it's harder to know what they're enforcing, and woe to the politician who tries to guess the netroots' preferred position on Issue X -- and guesses wrong.
See, you really are all very irrational, emotional, stupid women, and flit from ad hoc priority to new fashionable rave without any intervening logic or overarching ideology, and are vindictive in punishing those who fall out of favor. Which is totally unlike any Beutler can think of.
Happy birthday, Atrios. It's mine too. We Aquarius-Pisces cuspoids are a special breed.
Beutler wrote me and asked for permission to come to EschaCon. I asked Atrios what he thought, and it seemed harmless enough.
Sorry if it sounded like I was "blaming" someone... there's no reason a reporter shouldn't be there - everyone should just be under no illusions about why the reporter's there.
Isn't it interesting that these unflattering pieces come out on Saturday....
Bettew wait than nevah!
And need I point out that giving big campaign contributions to those in safe seats is simply a way of buying access? Or, possibly, a way of saying "thank you" for past, um, legislation.
I'm not giving Chuck Schumer or Hillary a penny.
I'd rather give it to Ned Lamont and I will when I have it.
Happy Happy to you A-man!
Beutler's point at the end of the day is that democracy is stupid.
I hardly have 2 pennies to rub together, sowhen i give some, it will be long considered.
I love the "oh fer" argument, since it lets you know exactly how seriously to take the arguer at hand.
So how about this? Hillary Clinton has my ringing endorsement for Senator in November's general election and the endorsement of everyone else here. (Ahem.) It's like a freaking landslide the support she has among the netroots eager for her triumph over her Republican opponent.
Mark her down for victory, and weep, you naysayers. Behold our mighty might.
So it's Atrios' 34th birthday?
Happy birthday, Atrios. And thank you for cultivating this fever swamp
However, realizing that you're 2 months -younger- than me is making me feel that I should probably start acting like a grown-up one of these years. So can you "correct" the record and point out that you're actually 39? I'd feel better about that.
Thanks.
OT: I know everyone knows this stuff already, but,
this makes me cry
OT: I know everyone knows this stuff already, but,
this makes me cry
Clinton hits what he aims at.
Nim,
If we're judging age on mature actions, then I'm about negative 2.
I'm a heathen, in every respect of the word.
How appropriate that I cross the 10K hits mark on Atrios' birthday. 43 hits to go!
Jeffraham Prestonian
Nice flogging of the WaPo! I can't imagine anyone in this day and age believing that some huge media corporation is already in bed with the Rethuglicans, taking it up the ass Every Single Day.
If only the out-of-the-mainstream people would stop support out-of-the-mainstream candidates and start just being part of the mainstream, then we'd all get along.
Am I hallusinating?
From Hardball:
MATTHEWS: The cartoon notion of the war in Iraq, in terms of its politics so far have been the mainstream supports the war, patriotically, the president leads the fight. He‘s the commander-in-chief and his policies are accepted by the majority of the people.
And people over to the left, that‘s the term used, like Michael Moore are Cindy Sheehan, are the odd ducks. But in reality, when you look at the latest Gallup poll, Senator, it just came out, 55 percent of the country think the war in Iraq is a mistake. They‘re the majority.
How is it that the media portrays and the country has this notion that if you‘re against the war you‘re some sort of odd duck, when in fact the absolutely majority of the people don‘t like this war, they don‘t think we should have gotten into it, and the president still enjoys the notion that he leads the American mainstream, when in fact he doesn‘t?
this makes me cry
That Orwell fellow was pretty dang prescient, wasn't he?
The Democratic Party has been calling me to contribute and volunteer as I have done in the past. I just laugh, then cry, and then hang up.
David Asman asked the correct question this morning on Fox News 'The Cost of Freedom'. "Are Democrats, not Al Qaeda, the real enemy?" . It has to be asked after the past weeks nitpicking of the Vice President by Pelosi and Company.
I'm not giving Chuck Schumer or Hillary a penny.
They don't need it. They're shoo-ins.
Personally, I think people donate to folks like Hillary because the donation is frequently tied to some kind of fundraiser where you can rub elbows with the party in some sort of social setting. Any money I donated to her the first time around (I think it was about $150 between the two of us) went in that way. And it was more about showing her bodies in our pinkish part of upstate, and meeting the people around here who make the decisions. I didn't donate straight through the web or anything.
"Nim,
If we're judging age on mature actions, then I'm about negative 2."
Hardly. You've raised a daughter to the cusp of adulthood - much of it on your own if I'm not mistaken - who is by all appearances well-adjusted, mature, intelligent and talented.
That is about the most responsible and mature thing you can do in this world, imo.
Being snarky and a little hedonistic alone isn't going to push you back into the negative age. Sorry
Today's edition of Brownshirts on the March!
Houston's police chief on Wednesday proposed placing surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets, shopping malls and even private homes to fight crime during a shortage of police officers.
"I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?" Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters Wednesday at a regular briefing.
I hope someone's following this prick 24/7... if they haven't yet, they are now!
How is it that the media portrays and the country has this notion that if you‘re against the war you‘re some sort of odd duck, when in fact the absolutely majority of the people don‘t like this war, they don‘t think we should have gotten into it, and the president still enjoys the notion that he leads the American mainstream, when in fact he doesn‘t?
That Tweety's gonna come a cropper for sayin' the truth!
Is Tweety trying to worm his way back to the unrotten side of the apple?
He's cited me a couple times, did a profile on my blog, always spells my last name wrong (Pritzky).
NTodd, Sin Ick
He's just trying to spell your name correctly, Pritzke.
Happy Birthday, Atrios. Now where are the cats?
But don't expect a reporter to be on "your side," don't expect a reporter to be your "friend."
Unless you're part of the subset formed by the intersection of the Ruling/Political Elite and the Celebrity Infopundit/Journalists.
Dubya and Gannon/Guckert is a ridiculously extreme illustration of the symbiotic relationship camouflaged as the adversarial relationship you describe, still theoretically the norm in corporate media producers.
Then there's Ifill and Condomleakage, Judy³ and a cast of thousands, etc., etc., etc....
Isn't it interesting that these unflattering pieces come out on Saturday....
Bettew wait than nevah!
plantsman
I'm wondering, though, if that is a distinction without a difference. That is, it's a pretty effective means of damage control and one that the Bushies have used effectively for the past five years.
When, I ask, will this change? When will our media report the inconsistencies on a day when most of America is listening?
"Are Democrats, not Al Qaeda, the real enemy?"
What a STOOPID fuckin' qweschen!
Wanker of the day posts are depressing - Can we have some sort of hall of shame thingy and add the stupidities and inanities each of the wankers is responsible for every day - include their mailing addresses and every day we can check in on the hall of shame and write a letter or 2 to some wanker until they get the message or hell freezes over
it'd make a nice resource and some people would not want to be in that hall of shame 'cause these wankers are responsible for this administrations existence and by extension the war murder looting of the treasury treason and screwing the american public out of their hard earned dough
NYMary, I suspect a lot of people here in Portland went to see Hillary for much the same reason.
She hauled $100K out of Oregon for her NY campaign. But not before getting her own leftward swiftboating from the guy whose life John Kerry saved. He guilted her into donating some chump change to the Oregon Dem party before leaving town. Didn't even sell out.
So much for her presidential launch here in blue Portland.
It would be folly for a newspaper to ignore the rise of the blog
Emily Bell
Oh, and Doctor? As someone more than three times your age,
*H*A*P*P*Y* *B*I*R*T*H*D*A*Y*!
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its a very patronising article.
Is Tweety trying to worm his way back to the unrotten side of the apple?
Lime Rickey
To be fair, the rotten part's almost completely eatem at this point.
It seems to me that the Republicans are the enemies of America. Al Qaida? Not so much.
Thing is, if the cREeps can bury news on the weekend, why can't the press?
My reak opinion is that folks are lathered up enuf that they'll catch these stories anyway.
""Are Democrats, not Al Qaeda, the real enemy?"
What a STOOPID fuckin' qweschen!
plantsman"
It depends. It's not exactly a precise question. Notably...the enemy of whom?
If you're a Republican shill, and your interest is keeping your cronies and benefactors in power, and not with advancing the welfare of the country as a whole, then yes...Democrats probably ARE "the enemy," and al Qaeda are in fact your friends. Some of your best friends. They're the boogeyman you can pull out and shake at the electorate every time you want to shore up your support, to remind people that you're (somehow) the "tough" party.
Chocolate Proton!: Nice flogging of the WaPo! I can't imagine anyone in this day and age believing that some huge media corporation is already in bed with the Rethuglicans, taking it up the ass Every Single Day.
Thanks. I think it's important to ask, "If you hired me, under what conceivable circumstances will I EVER be directing you to do ANYTHING?"
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This is my rifle, this is my gun.
This one's for shootin', this one's for fun.
He's just trying to spell your name correctly, Pritzke.
Yeah, but "Pritzky" isn't even close to "Sin Ick", for God's sake.
and the president still enjoys the notion that he leads the American mainstream, when in fact he doesn‘t
well don't look now but it would seem that masses channeled through responsible blogging can reach people in the most mentally insulated of places.
"The Democratic Party has been calling me to contribute and volunteer as I have done in the past. I just laugh, then cry, and then hang up.
Discouraged"
I'll give when and where I can, preferably to individual candidates...but it makes me feel a bit guilty if i don't give to the dnc or the state party as both could use the support..
that said, as a member of the Democratic party i'm sick up to my eyebrows of being told that my views are not mainstream and that i'm suppossed to sit in back of the bus and stay very quiet until they need money or boots, at which point they'll take the support but ignore me later.
fuck that.
I'll vote the straight Democratic ticket. In NY it's really kind of easy because generally the Working Families' Party has the same ticket, so I can vote Working Families while still voting Democratic ticket. This way they keep their spot on the ballot and the Dems might get the idea that they are too centrist. Though in NYC, I doubt it really matters.
I'm only donating to alternative media and candidates I have some relation to and who are not funded by the biggies. Patrick Murphy has gotten some turkee since I own land in PA. Hillary will not get a dime. BTW, Hillary is introducing legislation to prevent the Dubai people from taking over our ports. It's not a racial issue at all. Would we turn over border patrol, or policing to non-Americans.
I will donate money this year. To re-elect Jennifer Granholm, Michigan's governor.
And I will follow the races Atrios posts here and do what I can, when I can. Waiting for my tax return before I give, however.
Once you contribute to an individual candidate, you buy into their campaign and tend to follow it more closely.
Interesting, while I was typing this, I received a call from the Michigan House Dems requesting money.
I told them that I will make a decision to give to individual candidates on a federal, state, and local level. I will not support any candidates who are middle of the road or centrist Democrats. I told her that I think the party needs to seriously consider making a shift to the left, because that's the direction that the country needs to take.
She thanked me and actually agreed with me. She said she couldn't argue with my rationale.
Hate to blogwhore, especially in the presence of real professionals, but has anyone posted a link to the Cheney rap promo Mahrer ran? It's on Huf Po.
Why no link? Because I have too much dignity to so blatantly pander like that [ducks while running for the door].
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...on_n_15887.html
It would be folly for blogs to ignore the fall of the British newspaper: rather than governmental squashing, they were drowned out by Page Three and pure lies. This might be the future: make it all a question of making money and then use the old free market mendacious perversion to murder free blogs on "practical" grounds.
Chuck & Hillary voted for Condiliar and I'll never forgive them for that.
I know, I know she was going to get confirmed anyway but that was the time to show some principal, courage, whatever.
And it's true that they don't need my pennies.
the past weeks nitpicking of the Vice President by Pelosi and Company.
you're no firefighter ollie just a fucktard eating cheetohs at his desk what's you're bmi piggy?
anyhoo the vp committing crimes is not nitpicking - nor is outrage over murder lying a nation into war (wmd's rofl!) looting the treasury sucking up to corp.'s that screw americans over every day of the week enron haliburton bechtel parma etc etc - it's sad that you can find this site on the internet but not the truth that's out there - how stupid are you? you're a caricature of a human being
one more thing - FOAD!
I love this place, and as much as I'd like to hang out, I need to get back to massive amounts of housework.
I'm on a mission from God to get this place Spic and Span.
Listening to The White Album while I clean, and it's really kind of fun.
His rival, it seems, had broken his dreams...
Why were the Sneer's comfort women dressed in blue? Is he jealous about something?
Daniel was hot, he drew first and shot!
(Why does this make me think of Zell Miller challenging Chris Matthews to a duel?)
I'm on a mission from God to get this place Spic and Span.
Expecting company? 
PERKS OF BEING OVER 50
1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
3. No one expects you to run--anywhere.
4. People call at 9 PM and ask, " Did I wake you?"
5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
7. Things you buy now won't wear out.
8. You can eat dinner at 4 P.M. .
9. You can live without sex but not your glasses.
10. You enjoy hearing about other people's Operations.
11. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
12. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
13. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.
14. You sing along with elevator music.
15. Your eyes won't get much worse.
16. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
17. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.
18. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.
19. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
20. You can't remember who sent you this list.
And you notice these are all in Big Print for your convenience!
For those of you expecting oranges - they're in the mail.
Point well taken, Nim.
Thing is, it's so patently obvious that the GOP hates Dems (Beginning with never saying "democratic" and moving on from there) that they DO consider then THE ENEMY. I'm more concerned about how far they;ll take that --
until the country actually falls apart and we're again embroiled in a civil war?
Some bad days I think so.
I'm sorry, but what the fuck is this:
VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20060...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
No shit Sherlock! What was your first clue?
Expecting company?
Al Swearengen
Nah. I just have a graduation party I need to start getting ready for...June comes fast.
On second thought, maybe today isn't the best time to use the word 'landslide' to describe Mrs. Clinton's support among the online community.
But I'll be damned if our support isn't as powerful as a non-leathal shotgun blast to the face, neck and chest.
Feel the burn. Love the burn.
Oh and I think that Schumer & Reid getting Hackett to drop out of the Ohio senate race was another example of gutlessness.
WGG,
I'm only 34 and I fit everything listed.
Condi is oral in Russian.
Jeffraham and Curly--I gave you clicks.
This might be the future: make it all a question of making money and then use the old free market mendacious perversion to murder free blogs on "practical" grounds.
kei & yuri - 12:59 pm
one way or another, and sooner rather than later, the democratizing potential of the Net/Web will be compromised, and vitiated...
GAY-RON-fuckin-TEED, chers...
Oh Goody GWPDA. Was my check at the p.o.?
Vicki, when you're done in Michigan, feel free to head over here. I promise to take out for some of the best Northern Italian food around when you're done.
QL -
DONT WORRY ABOUT IT.
Sheesh.
ql in ny ~
I love Italian food! You're on!
IGNATIUS: You know, everything you just said about the press may be true, but it still doesn‘t make sense. I‘m sorry. Not to disclose for almost 24 hours the fact that the vice president accidentally shot someone.
O‘BEIRNE: Eight in the morning.
IGNATIUS: It just doesn‘t make sense, Kate.
MATTHEWS: No, they didn‘t go to the press until noon.
O‘BEIRNE: He contacted the press at 8:00 the morning.
MATTHEWS: It ran in two in the afternoon that story.
O‘BEIRNE: She contacted the media at 8:00 in the morning.
(CROSSTALK)
IGNATIUS: You know, this is not the biggest thing that ever happened. We could leave to it to Jay Leno, if it wasn‘t for the other indications that this White House—Bush and Cheney—really have jumped the tracks in terms of how they‘re controlling information, in my mind how they‘re beginning to manipulate information.
I think that‘s why this story has legs. It‘s not the story, you know, on its own. This is the essence (ph). It‘s a hunting accident, it‘s obvious that Cheney felt awful watching him being interviewed by Brit Hume. He‘s deeply affected by it, traumatized you could say, but there are all these other things that it fits with, and that‘s why I think it has traction.
MATTHEWS: I think it‘s going to have traction because it‘s not an extraordinary event. It fits into the pattern of this administration. It will be used as an episode to demonstrate the problem they had from the beginning.
Non-lethal. Burn, don't doubt.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar | Homepage | 02.18.06 - 1:05 pm
shall you then be sending me some of those luscious orange orbs?
For those of you expecting oranges - they're in the mail.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar - 1:02 pm
OK, look, I'm sorry-- but this one's going straight to the NSA.
"Oranges" indeed. It doesn't take the sharp eye of a Peggy "Miss Jane Marple" Noonan to twig that this cryptic message contains more than meets the eye.
Who is O'Beirne blowing? She can't possibly be that stupid.
ollie ollie ollie's not so free - but osama is! heh!
it was dems that knocked down the twin towers - yesssss! my preecious cheetohs!
I mean it happened on their watch! I mean clinton, darth pelosi and kerry ignored the pdb that said osama was DETERMINED to strike inside the US - and then the shot an old man in the face after drinking whle shooting birds that had been raised in captivity - how cowardly - not brave like firefighter ollie - ROFL
thanks ollie - really needed you here today
Orange is the new "Pinko" ~ he he he.
GWPDA, you started a coded meme.
"Are Democrats, not Al Qaeda, the real enemy?"
Is this enough for the Dem party leaders to get serious about principle, and not be so worried about who the candidate is so they can control the money flow and have their own buddies in the Senate instead of someone who will actually stand up for the American people, including lowly democratic voters (not self intereted politicos)?
If not, then WE have to get serious, I'm not voting for them anymore if they wont fight back against them. They stay comfortable in their limos and pension plans. We have to deal with it on the street, at work, and the effect it has on our paycheck. I'd rather vote for someone that actually cares about me than for a do noting Democrat.
Sallyh: Jeffraham and Curly--I gave you clicks.
I saw that -- thanks!
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
I'll put some Curly up for you later, assuming I have connectivity, of course.
.
Hi sallyh!
WGG,
I fear that everything you list is true, except mebbe the "no more hard lessons."
I'm expecting the Crapture any time, now.
QL -
DONT WORRY ABOUT IT.
Well, I'll let you yell at me, only because you are nearly twice my age.
And I will continue worry til it either is returned to me, or you receive it. I put it with the outgoing mail at work. That may have been a mistake, Maybe I should have put it in the mail box myself.
(Add to WGG's list, as you get older you tend to worry more about little things. The big things you know you can't affect.)
Millionaire owls.
"Coffin-bait" Kate had her facts so wrong, the reporter who actually ended up taking Miz Armstong's call was adamant about that.
Her a tool.
Now are those Valencia Oranges, by any chance?
19. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
20. You can't remember who sent you this list.
And you notice these are all in Big Print for your convenience!
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka
DOWNSIDES:
1. Unless you drive a nice car, where nice clothes or live in a nice neighborhood.
2. Because you're dead.
3. Because you can't.
4. Because they don't understand insomnia.
5. They view you as terminally ill.
6. And it's too late to do you any good anyway.
7. Because you'll likely outgrow them at the waist first.
8. You have to or you won't sleep a wink and oh the gas.
9. Because sex is now meaningless without them.
10. Because it means other people are likely to die before you.
11. Having lost yours to a recently convicted corporate felon.
12. Because driving has become increasingly like sex.
13. Because some wrinkled old granny might mistake you for a player.
14. Because you liked the Clash (heard Should I Stay in a supermarket last week).
15. Because they can't whereas countenance can.
16. Now that the President's prescription drug plan is kicking in.
17. You mean plastic is sensitive to humidity?
18. And even if they could, no one would believe them now.
19. Just like your hair and your penis.
20. Or where you put the Viagra.
Nah. I just have a graduation party I need to start getting ready for...June comes fast.
Vicki
Maybe some nice single dad will show up. You never know.
I'm more concerned about how far they;ll take that --
until the country actually falls apart and we're again embroiled in a civil war?
Some bad days I think so.
plantsman
It isn't really my place to rip off your Blinders Of Comfort +3. But the "civil war" has already been fought. We lost. Back in '94. It's just mopping up now.
ATRIOS:
Holy crap, I think the Wanker of the Day ultimately refers to me.
Here's what I just posted to MyDD:
Please don't hold this against me, but I think that Buetler's article was largely influenced by Little Old Me. Right before the Alito filibuster, I used a site I had just started called Vichy Democrats to marshall resources for people to use when making their phone calls, faxes, and emails. At five days old, the site boomed to 8,500 hits on that filibuster Monday. Buetler noticed, and asked to be added to my mailing list.
(Why did I connect the "Vichy" concept to the Alito fight? Because the Vichys were the ones who would sink a filibuster, and because the votes on the filibuster would, in my mind, be one measure of who was a Vichy and who wasn't.)
Fast forward to Feb. 8. I started making noises about mounting a similar phone-calling campaign on the NSA question. Buetler -- who, again, had asked to be on my mailing list and gets daily updates on what's posted -- highlighted that in Blogometer:
EAVESDROPPING: Are There Second Acts In American Political Movements?
Attention has temporarily swung away from the NSA wiretap debate (just as Plamegate fell off the radar yesterday) but Vichy Democrats -- launched in the wake [sic] of the failed filibuster of Samuel Alito -- is contemplating another campaign, this one aimed at getting Dems to put the screws to the Bush admin. Quoting a report from the conservative Insight, Vichy Democrats states that Rove "already is afraid that the Congressional investigations may ultimately result in impeachment proceedings, and is putting tremendous political pressure on Republicans to support the President no matter what, saying that any R Senator who deems warrantless wiretaps unlawful will be 'blacklisted' in the next elections." Another letter-writing/fax-faxing campaign is proposed: "So I'm considering launching a new Game Plan to encourage people to harangue the Dem members of Judiciary and Intelligence, the Dem Senate Leadership, and the more moderate or liberty-loving Republicans on the Committee, insisting that the Dems show a unified front if the hearings continue to show that crimes were committed, and that the Republicans place principle above politics, and honor their oaths of office, by calling a crime a crime."
The positions he's ascribing to "liberal bloggers" basically are positions I'm taking on VichyDems: pro-Lamont, pro-Ciro, pro-Pennacchio, critical of the Dem establishment's early blessing on centrist Dems, etc.
Your response to the above may be to publicize the obvious fact that my one blog doesn't speak for the whole community -- minimizing or even ridiculing it. I hope you don't. VichyDems isn't dangerous. I'm not a wild-eyed radical without political common sense. I want to regain the majority and am ...
... selective (and fairly democratic) about who I label a Vichy. My general thesis is that losing 2, 3 or 4 Vichy seats while re-asserting the Party's progressive message and infusing it with new blood will ultimately result in electoral gains that far outstrip those losses. That's not a dogmatic approach, but a practical one, even if it also is idealistic.
So I hope no one takes the anger at Beutler, or their own preference for a more centrist approach than mine, and uses it to smack my site down. I'm one of the good guys, I have the strong support of Glenn Greenwald and others, I seem to be doing some good in terms of galvanizing DIRECT grassroots advocacy (as distinguished from the organizational grassroots like MoveOn) -- and I'm just starting to get the site off the ground. If my little blog is having a disproportionate impact, then I'd love to do some aikido -- working constructively with the larger blogs to take the access to Beutler that I seem to have stumbled upon accidentally, and using it to advance the whole movement.
Now, I'm all ears.
Thersites of VichyDems
Ah, Beutler choses to use a "storyline" approach to writing his blog segments.
Reporters choose to report the "story."
In the "storyline" world, "truthiness" is more important than facts, as maintaining the story line requires picking and choosing and twisting from the available facts. Or, even, making shit up. Reporting a story requires reporting the facts, no matter what they are.
Spot on, kei & yuri at 12:32PM.
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