I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Kick Ass.
He rounds second, heading for thrid....
G'night! I love you all.
kufr, I think you're a worthless piece of shit.
How's swallowin' them apples?
fourth
So where does Cynthia McKinney go to get her reputation back?
A grand jury declined Friday to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney in connection with a confrontation in which she admitted hitting a police officer who tried to stop her from entering a House office building. The grand jury had been considering the case since shortly after the March 29 incident, which has led to much discussion on Capitol Hill about race and the conduct of lawmakers and the officers who protect them.
The encounter began when McKinney, D-Ga., tried to enter a House office building without walking through a metal detector or wearing the lapel pin that identifies members of Congress. McKenna did not recognize her as a member of Congress and asked her three times to stop. When she ignored him, he tried to stop her. McKinney then hit him.
McKinney described the encounter as "racial profiling," insisting she had been assaulted and had done nothing wrong. McKinney is black. McKenna is white.
Wainstein, meanwhile, sought an indictment from a federal grand jury, with assault on a police officer mentioned in the filings as a possible charge. That is a felony that would require an indictment...
The grand jury subpoenaed several House aides thought to have witnessed the encounter. McKenna, too, testified. The grand jury voted not to indict her. Prosecutors also could have charged McKinney with simple assault without having to seek an indictment.
But they did not because it was a bullshit case from the gitgo.
Moronic brownshirt fucks can line up to kiss Ms. McKinney's ass starting [whoosh!] RIGHTNOW [Gong!]!!!
Tickets for sale to kiss Rep. McKinney's ass....
Git 'em right heyah boyahs -
HICA! I! AM! KIROK!
.
Evening, all.
Why am I up so late?
Just asking....
Wouldn't have anything to do with anxiety or cocaine would it steve?
Steve = You're not up late. You're up early. Welcome to the morning crew.
Good Morning Moonbats.
Steve = You're not up late. You're up early. Welcome to the morning crew.
Good Morning Moonbats.
ql in ny | Homepage | 06.17.06 - 4:59 am | #
Right back at ya.
ql in ny -- HICA!
I slept on it. I do think it's good. I wish you were here to see it!
.
Wouldn't have anything to do with anxiety or cocaine would it steve?
Barndog, Free Born Man | Homepage | 06.17.06 - 4:59 am | #
Yep, here at Chez Simels, it's
non-stop hookers and blow.
After listening to the faux debate yesterday, it is really obvious that the repukes have got nothing but empty rhetoric. And yet KKKarl tells them to use it and they do. No matter how many names they call us, the fact remains that our kids are dying over there.
morning all.
As I recall, JP, you were sleeping on outing the trolls that were slamming Thers and Mary, don't know that I wouldn't be there too.
Barndog, did anyone tell you a poster here was trying to talk to you yesterday p.m.? Don't remember the details. Had some info for your wife's job search.
Okqy, just up on the old MP3 player,
is the live version of Springsteen's
"Thunder Road" from that DVD
anniversary edition.
I don't care if it's corny (or to
think that it is):
Fucking gorgeous.
Ruth: As I recall, JP, you were sleeping on outing the trolls that were slamming Thers and Mary, don't know that I wouldn't be there too.
Not outing, no -- causing painful, woeful disruption to their lives, yes.
There's a legal and ethical difference.
.
"There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you
sent away....."
Has there ever been a better evocation
of what it feels like to be sixteen
and rejected?
steve simels: Has there ever been a better evocation
of what it feels like to be sixteen
and rejected?
Pffft! I forgot all about those rejections the moment I met Belva!
.
Steve - I only wish at 16 I understood that the boys were every bit as shy and unsure of themselves as I was. Would have made a world of difference.
Thanks for calling me, Steve.
I'll just start calling you "steet sign simels".
aka: ONE WAY.
Curtis Salgado, the singer and bluesman who was the visual inspiration for John Belushi's Blues Brothers act, has liver cancer and has suspended concerts.
Salgado, who grew up here and lives in Portland, was diagnosed with cancer three weeks ago. The 52-year-old performer expects to begin radiation treatment in May and eventually hopes to have a liver transplant, said longtime manager Shane Tappendorf.
http://steveaudio.blogspot.com/2...o-im-
gonna.html
JP - So what happened?
JP - So what happened?
Allo, sailor.
Hey, Barndog, email me. I know some folks in Michigan, might be able to help your wife find a happier position.
Hit the homepage for an email link!
Jeebus and Mary, here we are winning hearts and minds:
'Formica said, for example, that the forces used five interrogation techniques that were allowed at one point but had been rescinded by then: sleep or food deprivation, yelling and loud music, forcing detainees to remain in stressful physical positions, and changing environmental conditions, which could include making their locations too hot or too cold.
Formica also found that the nakedness "was unnecessary and inconsistent with the principles of dignity and respect" in the Geneva Conventions. And he said that while one of the prisoners fed just bread and water appeared to be in good condition, 17 days of that diet "is too long."'
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/me...s.ap/
index.html
Shit, if you really want to talk about rejection issues - lets talk about how ya feel when you were adopted.... like me.
Talk about feeling like ya weren't wanted from day 1, holy fuck.
ql in ny: JP - So what happened?
With the girl? Nothing, yet. But I have an insider at Sahib's.
.
'Steve - I only wish at 16 I understood that the boys were every bit as shy and unsure of themselves as I was. Would have made a world of difference.
ql in ny'
I was lucky, had a bro who was in the worst of awkward stages, so was pretty sympathetic. But was also girl nerd of the HS.
Curtis Salgado, the singer and bluesman who was the visual inspiration for John
Belushi's Blues Brothers act, has liver cancer and has suspended concerts.
Salgado, who grew up here and lives in Portland, was diagnosed with cancer
three weeks ago. The 52-year-old performer expects to begin radiation
treatment in May and eventually hopes to have a liver transplant, said longtime
manager Shane Tappendorf.
http://steveaudio.blogspot.com/2...o-im- gonna.html
SteveAudio | Homepage | 06.17.06 - 5:15 am | #
I really hate that all my generational
icons are dead or dying.
I mean, yesterday was Paul McCartney's
64th birthday. Should have been a
cause for celebration.
Instead, it was an occasion for tabloid
fodder because the poor lonely bastard
decided to marry a golddigger who wanted
his billions.
In other words, there's no fool like
an old fool.
That shouldn't describe
a Beatle. In a just world.
so, I never really heard, what were Thers and Mary being tormented for? they were supposed to be offending the bottom feeders just how?
So glad Barndog you got together with Tuck. Hope it does good things for you. My mother used to fantasize she had been adopted and her true parents were going to show and reclaim her. 'course, being a sharecropper's daughter had something to do with that.
Heh Ruth. I had 3 sisters, one of whom was drop dead gorgeous. Took me a long time to realize that while I wasn't beautiful, I wasn't exactly ugly either. Probably helped cause it made realize from early on that I wouldn't be able to depend on my looks to make it in the world.
ql in ny:
Silly as this might sound, but I
really think Springsteen's stuff is
the smartest about actual relationships
any songwriter has ever done.
I mean, it's no accident that--
with a few exceptions -- nobody in
his songs has sex.
...just up on the old MP3 player,
is the live version of Springsteen's
"Thunder Road" from that DVD
anniversary edition.
Ever hear the bootleg demo with just Bruce on guitar, where the woman's name is something other than "Mary"?
Fucking killer...
I figure Steve Simels has the perfect life. Able to make a living doing something he loves to do. Listen to music.
Ruth... are you referring to Steve Tuck?
Ruth - Some idiot blogger who fashions himself an intellectual got offended by some comments that T left on his blog. His minions then escalated the whole thing by spamming T's blog and one even made a sexual reference to T's daughter. Really disgusting stuff.
Heh, turns out the guy doesn't even have a masters let alone a PhD. Hell, neither do I, but I don't hold myself out here as be credentialed with anything but a little ole B.A.
Ever hear the bootleg demo with just Bruce on guitar, where the woman's name
is something other than "Mary"?
Fucking killer...
dave™© | Homepage | 06.17.06 - 5:26 am | #
Short answer: no.
But your description of it is giving me a
heart attack.
Steve - During the whole Springsteen phenom I was either overseas or too busy changing diapers to ever hear his stuff. To this day, other than Born in the USA, I have no idea what his music is.
Did he do that song about living in Allentown and not being movie stars?
Steve - During the whole Springsteen phenom I was either overseas or too busy changing diapers to ever hear his stuff. To this day, other than Born in the USA, I have no idea what his music is.
Did he do that song about living in Allentown and not being movie stars?
Barndog, Chris Tucker at 5:17, with leads about jobs for your wife.
ql - okay, thks, I saw the thing about their little daughter, that was revolting beyond belief - sounds like some one's fantasies were farther from reality than they were able to stand. And of course, T is pretty profound when he's not straight out funny. Sad they'd have to be attacked for being good folks - that needs to be remedied.
Did he do that song about living in Allentown and not being movie stars?
ql in ny | Homepage | 06.17.06 - 5:32 am | #
Allentown is Billy Joel.
Let's not get into that.
Bruce?
Here's my most intimate
thoughts (scroll down)
http://search.barnesandnoble.com...96112&z=y&
btob=,
Oops! Caught a fly in the honeypot, so to speak. Have to go do a little IP homework.
Keep the faith -- I'll be back later.
.
Chris - I think incoming...
And on that note, I'm off to the
arms of Morpheus.
Later, gators!
how are you doing, barndog?
Jeepers - Steve's review makes me want to run out and buy a complete set.
Ruth, I did meet Steve Tuck out in Vancouver tho. He's the former US Army Veteran, who was a medical marijuana refugee in Canada - before the Bush gov't just extradited back to Oakland or SF, where he's now awaiting trial for growing medical pot.
I'm so sick of these fuckers and how they treat sick people. I don't know if you guys have VH1... but they're running a series called "The Drug Years".
It shows how the escalation of the 'war on pot smokers' has turned the rehab industry into a multi-billion dollar industry. And, that's not even mentioning the legal end of it.
It's fucking mind numbing.
I should go back to sleep.
Really.
.
Did he do that song about living in Allentown and not being movie stars?
Please tell me you're joking.
.
Sorry spork. I was really out of the music scene for many years.
I hadn't heard about persecution of medical marijuana users, do know that it seems more and more illogical to criminalize smoking pot. We have enuff real threats to ward off, somebody's own private life is so out of bounds.
On that note, S.Tx farmers have been putting up ladders over their fencing so that people coming over the border won't cut it - and those suspicious fellas are going around the ladders, they're afraid it's a trap. Heh, indeed. [this is in DMNews].
Billy Joel = Allentown.
A decent song (IMHO) and was released about the same time as Born in the USA.
.
BD - When you consider all the money we have spent on the fucking war on drugs, we could have had national health care all these years. It is absolutely ridiculous. And we've accomplished nothing except making people's lives miserable.
Best. Fitzmas. Evar!
QL - it's innane.
Olaf - I had the radiofrequency rhizotomy Wed on the right lumbar of my spine. So far, there is negligable pain on my right side.
It's like relearning how to live without pain again. I'm still constantly reminding myself that my spine and hips are totally screwed up.
The procedure was phenomenal in it's efficacy. July 12 - I have the other side done.
A decent song (IMHO) and was released about the same time as Born in the USA.
.
spork
So that's why I have them mixed up.
My god Ruth.... I could make you cry with some of the stories I know of, and have heard. The persecution of medical cannabis users is ungodly.
We may have 11 or 13 states that allow personal medical use, but not so the feds recognize anyways.
Back in the nineties I saw this panel that included 3-5 guys who make recommendations as to which drugs should be in what category. They were all in the seventies and it was obvious to me that the drug laws would never change until we got some new blood on the panel. Their only agrument against marajuana was that it is a gateway drug. That was the best they could come up with.
Allentown kind of struck a nerve with me cause I was staying home with kids and we were constantly scrambling to pay the bills. It was around that time I realized I was never going to be master of the universe.
FYI - for those interested:
http://www.drugpolicy.org/homepage.cfm
ql, you're not master of the universe? who is this name stealing troll?
BD, a lot of the profs my son has in law school support the decriminalization, so I suspect they're running into real stupidity, there's not a lot of radicalism in the law school. of course here in flyover land, meth is out of control - anyone who uses pot is 15 minutes ago I would imagine.
Meth is out of control here too. They're knocking off meth houses left and right these days. Seems everywhere you go where theres a substantial crowd of people, you'll inevitably see a couple people in there with rotting teeth - a clear sign of smoking meth.
Goes with the territory.
Morning, peeps.
I don't know what I'm doing up so early, but I just saw the horrible news about NTodd's Ma.
Gilliard has a good post up wherein ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI essentially says the Iraqi government is a joke. They operate in the Green Zone, an American fortress, because they can't operate anywhere else. Gilliard mentions that at some point one of the militias might blockade the Green Zone. That coupled with the article a few days ago that we are probably outgunned in Iraq sends shivers up and down my spine. As bad as it is now, the militias are pretty much fighting between themselves. If they ever turn on us, it will be a blood bath.
ql in ny-
I don't think it's militias blockading the green zone that's as likely as a Shia uprising in the south which would cut off U.S. supply lines. Just about everything they eat or drink is coming through the port of Basra or through the south from Kuwait.
Morning All,
Hope today will be a better day than yesterday.
Of course w is in a real pickle concerning Iraq. If he pulls out now, with nothing to show for it, he'll have to admit that $300 billion and 2500 lives were for nothing but his own sick gratification of proving his dick is bigger than his Daddy's. If we stay it will just be more of the same. Almost worth it to see it idiot in chief squirm.
I bet the reason he hasn't replaced Rummy is that nobody else will take the job. I've read that there are many government commissions that have essentially shut down because serious people don't want to be associated with this joke of a regime.
Good thing there are no English profs around to read my run on sentences.
Hi, Karin, NTodd sounded pretty much like he was not going to be around for awhile, he's been hit by too much too many times for now.
BD, here in the sticks bad teeth wouldn't stand out so much, maybe that's why it's caught on?
The Green Zone is our little ghetto in Baghdad, isn't it amazsine we keep talking about the cretin 'going to Baghdad' when he skated in over it.
NTodd's Mom?
The Green Zone is our little ghetto in Baghdad
I gotta disagree. It's our little gentirified neighborhood.
The rents are outrageous.
.
"I gotta disagree. It's our little gentirified neighborhood.
The rents are outrageous."
Yes. Elite Gated Community. Just like George and his admin. Bubbles.
Yeah, PP, see NTodd's homepage.
Morning all.
Peasant Party, NTodd's Pa's wife, stepmom isn't the word he uses.
Ghetto, because it's the only place we can locate, and yep the rent's pretty steep. But our grandchildren will pay it.
Moe, is the sun out?
I wasn't here yesterday evening, but I did see the Tweety Show. My tv may not last too much longer. Anyway, I think this debate and resolution is nothing but a Hollywood. My take is that the repugs showed they are against America. They are in a Bush bubble and do not care that 68% of this country wants a change in Iraq. They put another nail in their coffin with that dog and pony show.
Ruth-- sunny yesterday, today, and now they say tomorrow as well. Good thing-- I've got a ton of pumpkins to put in.
Today Mrs. Moe and I have been married a year. Although we were together for several years previously, and we moved up here seeking immigration (for me), she wouldn't marry me until gays could get married, saying she wouldn't have anything to do with discriminating institutions. The good folks in courts and parliaments across Canada made that happen, so here we are.
Congrats, Moe! May you have many more.
Moe - Good people.
My daughter has been active in the gay rights movement in Seattle. Sometimes a little too active as she forgets she has to earn a living at the same time.
Moe & Mrs. Moe, cheers for you on all counts.
I keep hearing the theme from 'Charade' in the background when congress does its tricks. It sounds like coins falling into a void, did you notice?
Mrs. Moe just asked-- does anyone use the word "bliss" in any context besides marriage or ignorance?
Moe-
What about "follow your bliss"?
I believe that bliss can be applied in response to November results. Not soon enuff.
CNN poll this a.m.:
'Created: Friday, June 16, 2006, at 20:29:46 EDT
Do you think President Bush is an asset or liability to Republicans seeking election?
Asset 18% 4627 votes
Liability 82% 20763 votes
Total: 25390 votes '
Okay, Karin, that works.
I'm really late with these pumpkins, but they're good in 105 days, so I'll still be good for Halloween.
"Mrs. Moe just asked-- does anyone use the word "bliss" in any context besides marriage or ignorance?
Moe Szyslak"
Maybe frosted Ghiradelli brownies?
Anyone know where the comments went over at Digby's blog? Just went over there and noticed--how long have they been gone?
Is it another Blogger attack--or Haloscan scam?
Re: Bliss--Joseph Campbell used it often to describe the spiritual state of oneness, iirc..
Well, I've got 22 people coming over for a barbeque later, so I've got to get busy.
Catch you folks tomorrow.
Good thing there are no English profs around to read my run on sentences.
ql in ny | 06.17.06 - 6:34 am
Do Grammar Hags count?
"Liability 82% 20763 votes
Total: 25390 votes '
Ruth "
More proof that he stands AGAINST AMERICANS.
'More proof that he stands AGAINST AMERICANS.
PeasantParty'
only the ones in the 99% with 20% of the income. [I'm loose about the exact numbers, I think it's 10% of income, but too lazy to do the research so go low.]
Yup, it really seems that the country has moved on from the hate amendment and rah rah go troops. We are being held hostage to a vocal minority of between 25-30%.
Interesting how some states are trying an end run around the electoral college. As one senator put it, that would mean candidates would have to cater more to the big cities and would be free to ignore the heartland that is largely uninhabited.
Just saw reports of a shoe bomber in Baghdad, plus explosion kills 17 more. Yesterday, reports of several more killed and missing.
Support the troops, my ass! He can't even pay the freaking power bills! Not to mention way behind on troop armor.
As bad as it is now, the militias are pretty much fighting between themselves. If they ever turn on us, it will be a blood bath.
ql in ny | 06.17.06 - 6:27 am
How close to ready are those enduring, heavily fortified bases? Since there's virtually no reporting on them, it's hard to know.
But, as you point out, might be important to be able to get back to the "fort" pretty soon.
Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Moe S.
Many more happy and healthy years.
The way the gov't is conducted here, we may start refering to the WH as our little Green Zone.
US Trade position is improving: equals dollar is plummeting.
Finance pages say Delta wants to end employee Pensions. Actually, I'm amazed they have one. They seem to disappear by the day.
Morning, rational people.
Re: Finding your Bliss...
See homepage under current festival, and look under directions...
I'm over at TPM catching up on Hookergate. Could you imagine the fireworks if this had happened during the Clinton years? Oh well, IOKIYAR.
BD-- which is your band?
"I'm over at TPM catching up on Hookergate. Could you imagine the fireworks if this had happened during the Clinton years? Oh well, IOKIYAR.
Moe Szyslak"
All channels would broadcast 24/7. The search would be on for DNA, fingerprints, soiled clothing, taped conversations, etc.
NYT thinks it's fine to discuss the sex life of the Clinton's but has nothing to say about the biggest sex scandal of this administration.
Diane, how's your mom doing?
Caller on CSpan suggesting we limit stealing to $90,000 on the premise we'd be better off, when pentagon is missing $3 trilliion.
' nothing to say about the biggest sex scandal of this administration.
PeasantParty '
it's not really sex if you're the majority party in Congress.
Diane, how's your mom doing?
Ruth
Better, although she's still in pain. She insisted they take the morphine drip away because she hated not feeling in control and the hallucinations were scaring her.
She'll be transferred to a decent convalescent hospital on Monday (my sister has already checked it out) to start physical therapy.
Like I said the other day, she's a tough old bird.
BOOGEYMAN!
http://news.independent.co.uk/
wo...icle1089664.ece
Worth reading.
Well, Diane, having some care is nice, spoil me, pls.
Glad she's lucid enuff to know the pain medication is a bad trip. I'm with her, there, I hurt myself worse than what I had already, by having my foot collapse when I took muscle relaxers for a pull in my back. Doctors always give me too much meds.
For anyone who couldn't view the Lieberman ad yesterday, it's here.
I just saw it. It is lame to the nth degree.
"Like I said the other day, she's a tough old bird.
Diane"
Assets for a quick recovery. I wish her the best.
Peasant Party, NTodd's Pa's wife, stepmom isn't the word he uses...
Ruth | Homepage | 06.17.06 - 6:45 am
IIRC, it's his mom, not stepmom. NTodd's Pa's Wife was something he came up with when he was younger, and they kept using it. It's in the comments section of one his posts, I'd meant to look for it.
http://dohiyimir.typepad.com/
Peasant Pqarty, from your link:
'The policy of the US in Somalia is based on the premise that a violent Muslim extremist threat has to be countered by funding the same warlords responsible for America's humiliating retreat from the country 13 years ago. The warlords are accused of exaggerating the terrorist threat to keep the money tap flowing, and the fact that they are US-sponsored has driven Somalis to support the Islamists.'
It's noticeable that peace has returned to Mogadishu since the Islamic element has run off the warlords. This 'gov't' just doesn't learn.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins,
Yep. Thanks. I've been there to express my sentiments.
That hurricane, Alberto, might have killed a couple of people up here. Still a boat lost at sea. 9 metre waves Thursday.
I just saw it. It is lame to the nth degree.
ql in ny
Mr. Lieberman is beginning to mimic the whole GOP mindset as manifested by Bush. Everything he does just makes things worse, and to cover up the mistakes he goes into slime mode, which compounds things.
Someone mentioned last night that one of the stupidest parts of the ad is that it keeps mentioning Lamont's name. Since name recognition is Lamont's biggest problem right now, Joe is just doing his opponent another favor.
"It's noticeable that peace has returned to Mogadishu since the Islamic element has run off the warlords. This 'gov't' just doesn't learn.
Ruth"
Agreed! Did you notice the preferred language? It was specifically noted for the reason of future work in the West!
Delta wants Congress to change current pension laws to allow them to do away with them for even more employees.
We have the best economy in the world--not.
It's noticeable that peace has returned to Mogadishu since the Islamic element has run off the warlords.
Also, for all their faults, these Muslim extremists don't have a racist bone in their bodies.
"Mr. Lieberman is beginning to mimic the whole GOP mindset as manifested by Bush. Everything he does just makes things worse, and to cover up the mistakes he goes into slime mode, which compounds things."
Diane, I can't agree more. For anyone that had a chance to watch the debates that was clear as water. The Dems spoke on issues, using facts and results to back up their posture. The repugs, all read talking points over and over. That stupid little Gohmert man should never have read his scripted piece in front of Murtha.
Good morrow, all...
the Gibbering Chimp descended into Abq yesterday.
i watched AF 1 as it circled slowly into final approach, abd waited vainly for it to dissolve into a cloud of smoke, flame and wreckage.
it's a BEEEEEG target, and slooowww...
just sayin...
.
"I just saw it. It is lame to the nth degree.
ql in ny"
watched it yesterday and to me it was incomprehensible...i would think that someone who is only following the race tangentally would have no idea what the hell it was about.
pretty freaking juvenile, also.
didn't know about ntodd...jeebus, what a year this has been for him...
As The Weather Warms, A Reminder
Thks, Buckeye, I hadn't read that.
Okay, Moe, order is something we are having imposed on us forceably by this DOJ, too. But the disorder was more like civil war in Somalia. If there is ever any order in Iraq, it may be the result of partition.
'it's a BEEEEEG target, and slooowww...'
Betcha that was a decoy.
does hackett represent more than one marine?
Contradictions Cloud Inquiry Into 24 Iraqi Deaths
Members of this squad gave differing accounts of their actions. One said that they quickly came under fire. "All we knew was, there's a big firefight," one marine in this group told his lawyer, Paul L. Hackett, a major in the Marine Reserves and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress from Ohio in a special election last fall. "You just heard it everywhere, medium, heavy machine gun fire."
The marine represented by Mr. Hackett added: "This whole section of the city is a kill zone. We're getting shot every time we turn around."
...
The other marine may have been hearing the First Squad's action about 700 yards up the road at the bombing site and thought they were under fire, he suggested.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/1...&_r=1&th&
emc=th
PAUL HACKETT, ATTORNEY FOR CAPTAIN JAMES KIMBER: ...
And it's important to stress that Captain Kimber's Marines were not in Haditha. He was not in Haditha. It wasn't his area of responsibility when he was the company commander of India Company. And keep in mind that they Marines that are being investigated in relationship to the November 19 events are Kilo Company Marines. They're in the same battalion, but Captain Kimber and his Marines are some five miles away, and played no role, either in the -- the IED, in the aftermath, or in the investigation that followed.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANS.../02/
pzn.01.html
Does hackett represent more than one marine? If not he has some explaining to do.
"As The Weather Warms, A Reminder
Actor212"
Thks, Buckeye, I hadn't read that.
Okay, Moe, order is something we are having imposed on us forceably by this DOJ, too. But the disorder was more like civil war in Somalia. If there is ever any order in Iraq, it may be the result of partition.
Ruth | Homepage | 06.17.06 - 8:00
Or maybe not. Partitions as a result of violence aren't very stable, and often result in more violence. (I studied partition as an offshoot of studying Bosnia. Partition's history is not a good one.)
Ruth, you still listening to CSpan?
Buckeye, I understand the big force keeping the present gov't or lack of gov't in Baghdad is that no part of it will give up total claim for oilfields. With this bunch of cretins in power, they may just remove the source of conflict and take away the oilfields altogether.
'Ruth, you still listening to CSpan?
PeasantParty'
not at the moment, but I was earlier for Puckett.
"Private Security in Iraq"
Blackwater, etc. That is the current discussion.
The more and more i hear from Paul Hackett
the more and more i am glad he's not a candidate for any-fucking-thing, ESPECIALLY the Senate seat in Ohio...
seems he's started to believe his press clippings...
.
oooh, now I am and this caller is pointing out about Blackwater being responsible for the Fallujah disasters.
Re: NTodd?
what has befallen?
i just woke up...or got stoned and missed it...
.
I am really concerned about this trend towards 'outsourcing' intelligence and military functions to private entities.
Besides the whole idea of 'mercenaries' being repugnant, we have zero control over these companies, either by way of the military code or civilian criminal law.
"oooh, now I am and this caller is pointing out about Blackwater being responsible for the Fallujah disasters.
Ruth "
You know, this just shows the rest of the world that we can't even use our own Military power to take care of a job. These people in control of things are freaking idiots! Who exactly is co-ordinating these entities? Evidently, they are not at the desk.
NTodd lost his mother suddenly this week, last week his SIL killed herself.
WGG, NTodd's mother died quite suddenly.
"Besides the whole idea of 'mercenaries' being repugnant, we have zero control over these companies, either by way of the military code or civilian criminal law.
Diane"
Evidently we have no communications or clear strategy with these companies. Years ago I thought those Combat Brick camps were a replacement for Saturday poker parties. Sheesh!
Diane,
I didn't know your mother was ill. I hope she and you are doing well.
My best thoughts and good vibes to you both.
And damn for NTodd. What a shitty year it's been for him. My heart breaks for him...
Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX): "Thank God for his ministering to grieving families, but thank God he was not here and prevailed after the bloodbaths at Normandy and in the Pacific or we would be here speaking Japanese or German. Thank you."
Another response would have been:
Is Rep. Gohmert suggesting that we would be speaking "Iraqi" if we left Iraq at this juncture?
Does Rep. Gohmert remember that unlike the Japanese and their allies, Iraq did not attack America and the WTC.
Does he not remember that this is a PREEMPTIVE military action by the US because we felt threatened by nonexistent weapons of mass destruction?
WGG, NTodd's mother died quite suddenly.
Diane - 8:19 am
yeah, that's tough...
one is, i learned to my own chagrin, never too old to be an orphan...
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"Does he not remember that this is a PREEMPTIVE military action by the US because we felt threatened by nonexistent weapons of mass destruction?
Gimlet"
WORD!
Maybe we should "Privatize" our representatives. That would take care of the Lobbying issues.
Gohmert is stupid. Even in those areas conquered by the Germans or Japanese, they never tried to change the language. Paris still spoke french. China still spoke Chinese.
Gohmert was just reading from the prepared text delivered, via the Pentagon, from the White House.
Buncha freakin' parrots!
NTodd's mother died quite suddenly.
Diane - 8:19 am
Did she have some type of kidney problem?
I seem to recall NTodd was writing about donating an organ for transplant. Or am I remembering this wrong?
Thanks, Shaw.
My 88 year old mother took a fall in her apartment and fractured her pelvis. She's recovering.
And I (along with just about everybody who posts here) agree with you on NTodd. That guy has had one hellacious year.
Moe, the man needs to be Shamed. Never thought of serving one minute. You would think before he stood in front of the country to read a script, he would make sure what he was saying was correct.
Gohmert wound up stuttering out how much he respected Murtah for his service while admitting he'd never served, himself.
The idea of 'speaking in tongues' sure doesn't appeal to these cretins does it?
OMG! Estimated 40 core private companies!
NTodd was looking into donating his kidney, yes.
That is one man who's going to have to be stronger than I can imnagine.
The "speaking Japanese" thing really plays into the English only nonsense, I guess.
"The idea of 'speaking in tongues' sure doesn't appeal to these cretins does it?
Ruth |"
ROTFLMAO! Like I've said before, they don't even believe in the Bible they shake in others faces! They simply pick out verses that suit their scare tactics.
Bush should retire to Baghdad when he leaves office
By Bill Ferguson
An excellent article!
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3947236
Hey, Moe!... Re; band... I don't have one - yet.
Any luck and, maybe soon there may be something happening. I'm going to make a push this summer to get something rolling. I'm sick of playing for myself, cats and the wife most of the time.
Well, those pumpkins won't plant themselves. See ya'all later.
This fella on CSpan is sure sold on his party line. Oh, the military is getting lobster every Friday night? not my friend who was there for almost two years, who lived in an unairconditioned tent a lot of the time.
How dumb are the "heartland" republicans. Are they really this dumb or are they just liars like the admin they support?
Agency produces letter from ex-lawmaker
WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department produced a letter Friday from disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham recommending a limousine company for federal contracts — a day after claiming it didn't have such a letter.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20060...ressman_bribery
The admin lies. From top to bottom every one of them lies. Does the "heartland" really think their preznut's and his admin are protecting mureka?
""If we can't trust them to find a letter, how can we trust them to find a terrorist?" asked Rep. Bennie Thompson (news, bio, voting record), D-Miss., the Homeland Security Committee's top Democrat."
And how far in the tank is AP :
"A department spokesman said the letter was discovered in a folder by an administrative assistant who had read news reports Friday morning about its disappearance.
"She says, 'Oh, I get those kinds of letters all the time, I just throw them in a folder," said DHS spokesman Larry Orluskie. "So she starts looking through the folders and finds this letter.""
So a strong and powerful repub sends a letter. A repub that throws his weight around and gets his way. The assistant just tosses the letter from the strong and powerful repub in a folder. Not bloody likely. How dumb are the "heartland" republicans: CBS News Poll. June 10-11, 2006
"Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?"
Republicans 74% Approve 21% Disapprove, Democrats 6% Approve 87% Disapprove
http://www.pollingreport.com/Bus...om/
BushJob1.htm
'They simply pick out verses that suit their scare tactics.
PeasantParty'
Get thee behind me Satan, would be my verse of choice to most of them. Except I wouldn't trust them there.
afternoon moonbats
"An excellent article!
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3947236
Lil Red, Riding In The Hood "
INDEED!
Well, those pumpkins won't plant themselves. See ya'all later.
Moe Szyslak - 8:36 am
give em another coupla hours...i mean, they're slow, tight?
Labour majority wants PM out by autumn next year
· Disenchantment over core values revealed by poll
· Most members believe donors wield influence
Two-thirds of Labour's remaining members want Tony Blair to stand down by the autumn conference next year, and believe he does not trust the party sufficiently to involve members in policy making.
Half of Labour's membership also feel policy is exclusively made in Downing Street by the prime minister and his advisers. But by a majority of more than two to one, the poll gives no mandate for MPs to try to force Mr Blair out before he wishes in this parliament.
The findings, the first substantial poll of party members for a decade, are remarkable for disclosing the depths of disenchantment even among many of the party's remaining 200,000 - presumably most loyal - members. Only half the party believe the government has been mostly faithful to its fundamental values.
"She says, 'Oh, I get those kinds of letters all the time, I just throw them in a folder," said DHS spokesman Larry Orluskie. "So she starts looking through the folders and finds this letter.""
____________________________________
Hadenough, all I can say is WOW! Shake my head.
The Homeland Security Department produced a letter Friday from disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham recommending a limousine company for federal contracts — a day after claiming it didn't have such a letter.
Next up, Congress passes an Amendment to the Constitution saying the President and his administration are infallible in their policies and the execution of them.
Hey!
If the Pope can govern that way, so can Bush (with certain Fascist modifications)!
Ruth, we can't trust them anywhere. LOL.
Gimlet, didn't Spector already do that?
What to get a 14-yr-old boy for his birthday [since he's going to have to pay off US debts]?
"Gimlet, didn't Spector already do that?
Ruth "
Pardon me. Is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?
Ha!
Has there ever been a better evocation
of what it feels like to be sixteen
and rejected?
steve simels
The song and artist totally elude me, but there's this line...
You broke my heart
You tore it apart
So fuck you!
Not poetical, no. Definitely evocative, though.
"What to get a 14-yr-old boy for his birthday [since he's going to have to pay off US debts]?
Ruth"
Gift Certs for music.
What to get a 14-yr-old boy for his birthday [since he's going to have to pay off US debts]?
Ruth - 8:47 am
check with Working Assets; find a company which is green and progressive and buy him a share of stock or two...
If the Pope can govern that way, so can Bush (with certain Fascist modifications)!
Gimlet
As far as the Pope was concerned, the Fascism was original equipment. Or maybe it's the other way 'round...
What to get a 14-yr-old boy for his birthday [since he's going to have to pay off US debts]?
Ruth - 8:47 am
In the 1980s prison construction kits were popular GOP Xmas and birthday gifts. Today I think the hot item is Risk
Fuck you, libbies. You are ruining my country with your elite bias, hate for God, hate for business and hard work.
Kill Fuckin Liberals | Homepage | 06.17.06 - 8:56 am
bring it, shitwhistle...
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""If we can't trust them to find a letter, how can we trust them to find a terrorist?" asked Rep. Bennie Thompson (news, bio, voting record), D-Miss., the Homeland Security Committee's top Democrat."
Kevin has a link to a story about a dude that came back from the ME, and was detained all day by DHS...
...for an old NY bench warrant and a T-shirt violation.
He's just finished a cook's tour of damn near every ME hotspot there is, and probably shared an elevatopr with bin Laden somewhere along the way, and they asked him not one question. He was innocent of any wrongdoing, but for Xsake, they should have at least been just a tad curious, no? Buffoons, top to bottom.
Oh, they let him go, finally, because they couldn't get NYPD on the phone...
Damn, those ads up at the top just keep on getting bigger, don't they? Not gonna be room for us pretty soon, at this rate.
I can't believe Cynthia McKinney wasn't indicted. She must have had the same grand jury as Karl Rove.
Her actions were criminal and could
have precipitated a trip to the emergency room for that Capitol Hill
police officer. Stiches even.
And course Karl Rove's outing of a CIA operative could have had some
bad repercussions too.
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