I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
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Joe Lieberman is a good man. He knows the absence of the missing WMDs only mean they were dangerous than ever imagined. If I was American, I'd vote for the Jewish guy.
That should tell you something.
Trust me on this.
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Yay, Marcy! She was just starting out when I lived in the Toledo area. Good on her.
Race of my heart: http://www.glennmelancon2006.com/
first volunteers meeting was last night. About 25 showed up. Good starte.
we knew that
Not even the top three!
holy toledo! go marcy!
I just posted this about Lieberman and Lamont on the last thread.
Good news for Lamont.
JoMo out of office!
Maxine rulz!!!
Watch for msm news coverage (if any) to focus on how Maxine Waters' endorsement of Lamont is good for Lieberman.
Watch for msm news coverage (if any) to focus on how Maxine Waters' endorsement of Lamont is good for Lieberman.
I'm surprised she hasn't been tarred as an "anti-semite" for not voting for the fig leaf resolution the other day.
Watch for msm news coverage (if any) to focus on how Maxine Waters' endorsement of Lamont is good for Lieberman.
Everything is good for Lieberman. An asteroid striking the Earth would be good for him especially because then he could keep his seat forever.
"Watch for msm news coverage (if any) to focus on how Maxine Waters' endorsement of Lamont is good for Lieberman.
SteveLG"
Indeed. Maxine Waters doesn't exactly make a secret of the fact that she is both liberal -and- non-white.
Vicki, when the Jehovah's Witness lady and child appeared at your door, you should have asked them politely to wait there for a moment while you go checked with Kos to see if it's okay to slam the door in their faces.
I'm surprised she hasn't been tarred as an "anti-semite" for not voting for the fig leaf resolution the other day.
Both voted "present". I actually like that better than voting "nay" because to my mind it shows disdain for even having the resolution offered.
Indeed. Maxine Waters doesn't exactly make a secret of the fact that she is both liberal -and- non-white.
Maxine Waters is passing? Who knew.
I actually like that better than voting "nay" because to my mind it shows disdain for even having the resolution offered.
Yea and verily.
Maxine Waters doesn't exactly make a secret of the fact that she is both liberal -and- non-white.
Nim, ham hock of liberty
Time was when she could single-handedly trigger a full-scale evacuation of any neighborhood in Darien just by slowing down at a "For Sale" sign.
Time may still be, for all I know.
OT:
Why the hell were Starsky and Hutch in my dream?
watertiger
Was it one of "those" dreams. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
ql in ny
David Soul/Paul Michael Glaser?
or
Owen Wilson/Ben Stiller?
Hello I must be going.
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David Soul/Paul Michael Glaser?
or
Owen Wilson/Ben Stiller?
I would hope it was the originals, at least.
Maxine Waters: shrill, abrasive, and always fucking right.
David Soul/Paul Michael Glaser?
Them. No Huggy Bear, though.
And a humongous bag of candy I had to schlep around as a means of distracting secretaries.
Sometimes, it hurts to be me.
OT blogwhoring - Thoughts on the current crisis in the Lebanon
and
Anniversary
WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she is not interested in the "false promise'' of a quick ceasefire in the Middle East but will work to eliminate the root cause of the current fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
Shouldn't you know what the "root cause" is before you seek to eliminate it?
OT: U.S. speeds up bomb delivery for the Israelis
WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she is not interested in the "false promise'' of a quick ceasefire in the Middle East but will work to eliminate the root cause of the current fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
I won't point you to attaturk's link to CorrenteWire, with some of the most disturbing images I've seen in quite some time.
Who knew Bolton and Condi were into backing snuff films?
Shouldn't you know what the "root cause" is before you seek to eliminate it?
Lime Rickey
Sounds to me like they want to kill all members of Hezbollah.
What, exactly, does Israel expect to ACCOMPLISH with their invasion of Lebanon? (Israel invaded in response to 2 kidnapped soldiers) They started A WAR, for God's sake. War is a natural and MORAL result of the abduction of 2 soldiers. A war where hundreds, maybe thousands, of innocent women and children will die. Does anyone believe this is "for a prisoner swap"? Does anyone believe that Israel expects to WIN this war and CONQUER Terrorism? Do they expect to somehow IMPROVE the lives of the INNOCENT people of Israel/Lebanon?
Sounds to me like they want to kill all members of Hezbollah.
ql in ny
Yep. That's snuffing out them terraists for ya.
WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she is not interested in the "false promise'' of a quick ceasefire in the Middle East but will work to eliminate the root cause of the current fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
Yeah, I just blogged that. Bloody hell.
Good for them!!! Maxine and the rest of the black caucus usually get it right!!! We would have a better country if they had more power.
OT: U.S. speeds up bomb delivery for the Israelis
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
To give democracy in Lebanon a jump start.
OT:
Nice piece on "straight-talkin" McCain waffling up, down and sideways on "intelligent design."
OT: Go Landis!
And good for Maxine.
OT: U.S. speeds up bomb delivery for the Israelis
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
To give democracy in Lebanon a jump start.
They're democracy bombs!
'They're democracy bombs!
NTodd, Intertube Master'
Equal opportunity death.
So, the next time a friend's car needs a jump start, I should offer to drop a bomb on it?
Jeebus, their bombing the television stations and hospitals.
Jeebus, their bombing the television stations and hospitals.
OT: U.S. speeds up bomb delivery for the Israelis
If 8 moonbats didn't vote againts the resolution, we could have been there faster, dammit!
The more people we bomb, the fewer there are to convert to democracy, thus making our job significantly easier.
The more people we bomb, the fewer there are to convert to democracy, thus making our job significantly easier.
You are a genius.
I apologize profusely in advance.
I just can't take it anymore.
Do they expect to somehow IMPROVE the lives of the INNOCENT people of Israel/Lebanon?
Bugs | 07.22.06 - 10:32 am
it is not about improving lives...
it is about improving their strategic situation...
they intend to create a no-man's land in the south of lebannon, a free-fire zone in which they may feel confident in killing any moving thing...much the same way aas they hoped to creat a free-fire zone in Gaza, when they pulled out their settlements last year...
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So, the next time a friend's car needs a jump start, I should offer to drop a bomb on it?
BlakNo1, Deprogrammer
Sure -- if it's a foreign piece of shit.
watertiger -
no apologies necessary. I feel the same as you do about the middle east - sick to death of it.
watertiger -
no apologies necessary. I feel the same as you do about the middle east - sick to death of it.
Joe Lieberman - "The poster boy for the 'What's wrong with the Democratic Party'"!
lol - that was wonderful!!!
Thank you, Maxine Waters!!!
You are a genius.
I'm gunning to be the next SecState. I can play piano and speak Russian, so I'm clearly qualified.
'they intend to create a no-man's land in the south of lebannon, a free-fire zone in which they may feel confident in killing any moving thing'
And it's an economically responsible move, you know how expensive the Smart Bombs are?
OT: U.S. speeds up bomb delivery for the Israelis
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
US 'foreign policy' in the Middle East is totally at the behest of the American Zionist lobby and Israel. The US Congress and the White House are their cowering lackeys.
There is no other perceivable interpretation.
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Israel’s rationale behind bombing civilians
I'm gunning to be the next SecState. I can play piano and speak Russian, so I'm clearly qualified.
Now if you can just figure out how to get an oil tanker named after you....
I'm gunning to be the next SecState. I can play piano and speak Russian, so I'm clearly qualified.
Can you ice-skate?
What are other countries saying about this? They can't be as laissez-faire as the Bushies and they certainly are in a more perilous position due to their proximity to the powder keg.
they intend to create a no-man's land in the south of lebannon, a free-fire zone in which they may feel confident in killing any moving thing...much the same way aas they hoped to creat a free-fire zone in Gaza, when they pulled out their settlements last year...
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WoodyGuthrie'sSnowflakinho
I tend to think this is only one of several layers to the plans, some of which may very well have been handed to Israel by some influential folks in DC.
And a humongous bag of candy I had to schlep around as a means of distracting secretaries.
Sometimes, it hurts to be me.
watertiger
From what were you distracting them?
I'm gunning to be the next SecState. I can play piano and speak Russian, so I'm clearly qualified.
Yeah, but you look like shit in nylons.
Maybe back later, batses.
I'm off to make raspberry pancakes for my daughter and myself.
And then perhaps a drive over to Nim's house to pick up his girlie girl and whisk her to the beach.
Or not.
Bill Clinton is playing his sax Monday for Leaverman BUT we have Ned Lamont singing Imagine with Bruce John and the Eaglevill Band....
http://www.videoegg.com/video/ehyYq
and here he is playing....
http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/show...42?
diaryId=2252
US 'foreign policy' in the Middle East is totally at the behest of the American Zionist lobby and Israel.
Not entirely, I think. Georgie was meeting with the Saudis about the situation the other day. So it seems they have some influence as well.
When has Condi Rice EVER done her fucking job?
Neocons love the death of brown people but hate abortion. They are fucked up in the head bad.
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Israeli troops seize Lebanese village
Hundreds of Israeli troops have crossed the border and taken control of a village in south Lebanon, despite Israel saying it has no plans for a full-scale invasion for now.
Israeli soldiers, backed by artillery and tank fire, moved into the village of Maroun al-Ras on Saturday and took control, military officials said on condition of anonymity.
Israeli tanks, bulldozers and armoured personnel carriers knocked down a border fence and entered the area at about 3pm.
Up to 2,000 troops entered the area on Saturday, but some returned to Israel during the day. No Israeli or Hezbollah casualties were immediately reported.
Saudia Arabia and Jordan would be happy to see Hezbollah destoryed because not only is it a shia organisation but to them its an agent of Iran, a country they fear.
conservative arab countries have no love for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Morning, all!
Quick drive-by post -- got to clean house -- anticipating a small invasion of moonbats later today.
I have now received 2 emails -- one from some predictably right-wing acquaintances, one from a very liberal friend -- asking in various ways for all Jews to show their support for Israel.
I couldn't reply the way they wanted me too. Gutting Hezbollah may be a worthwhile goal but destroying Lebanese civilians and Lebanon's infrastructure -- leading to more deaths of innocents -- most assuredly ain't the way to do it.
Why is that so hard to see? "My Israel, right or wrong" seems to have written itself right into the DNA of too many American Jews.
I can understand it in my parents, who know all too well the consequences when there was no Israel for Jews to turn to -- and every country in the world was refusing Jewish refugees from the Third Reich.
But nothing Israel is doing now will assure a secure future for it as a country -- just the opposite.
It's lonely here off the reservation.
So it seems they have some influence as well.
Lindsay |
How and on whom??
White evacuation going well.
From what were you distracting them?
I was participating in the liberation of said undercover detectives, who were being held captive in an office building.
It was a big-ass bag of mixed penny candies. A vase of purple flowers and a conference room were also involved.
and if that weren't surreal enough, here: a gibbon with a death wish.
Gummo,
You have a friend here. [waves]
How, I don't know. On whom, Bush. How much influence Bush actually has...who knows?
Next year, in Jerusalem.
don't forget the Bush Family have a close relationship with the House of Saud.
Saudi Arabia would also encourage action against Hezbollah, who they reguard as a dangerous agent of Iran.
What do other countries think?
C B C . C A N e w s - F u l l S t o r y :
Israeli ambassador says Louise Arbour doesn't get it
Last Updated Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:09:21 EDT CBC News
Israel's ambassador to Canada has dismissed a warning from Canadian jurist Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, that war crimes charges may be warranted against Israel and Hezbollah if measures aren't taken to protect civilians.
Alan Baker says that Arbour, who has been an international war crimes prosecutor and a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, doesn't understand the situation.
He says his country is attacking legitimate Hezbollah military targets and she should be careful with her language.
"I completely reject Louise Arbour's warning. Israel doesn't target civilian concentrations, and I think that by merely giving such a warning she's jumping to conclusions and as a judge she should know better," he says.
With Hezbollah launching rockets into Israeli cities and Israel bombing densely populated areas in southern Lebanon, hundreds of civilians are dead on the Lebanese side and more than a dozen in Israel.
Arbour issued a statement on Wednesday saying that indiscriminate shelling of cities constitutes a foreseeable and unacceptable targeting of civilians and that bombardment of sites with alleged military significance, but resulting invariably in the killing of innocent civilians, is unjustifiable.
She has the support of her boss, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who has condemned both parties for killing civilians at an alarming rate.
The Israeli ambassador isn't apologizing for his country's strategy. He says Arbour fails to grasp the nature of the conflict.
"The Hezbollah are using schools and clinics and the back gardens of houses to put their missile placements there, and they are turning these civilian establishments and civilian areas into legitimate targets."
He says Israel won't entertain the idea of a ceasefire until Hezbollah has been pushed from its border.
On Friday, thousands of people were fleeing Lebanese border villages after a new Israeli warning of a possible attack. There was no indication that Arbour's warning or Annan's plea for civilians would stop either the attack or the rockets falling on Israel.
Damascus? It's still better than Nebraska.
They're democracy bombs!
NTodd, Intertube Master | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 10:34 am | #
There is in fact a Porky Pig cartoon based on the Hatfields and McCoys wherein all the barnyard animals run around in a frenzy blasting each other, dunking each other in wells and setting domiciles afire.
Porky and Petunia, from rival clans but in love, drag out their Peace Bomb and detonate it, at which point everyone starts singing and square dancing in celebration.
I'm afraid that's current US foreign policy.
Hi, watertiger!
Didn't mean to sound too melodramatic in my post, but these are weird times, for sure.
July 22 1946 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
missy's brother | 07.22.06 - 10:51 am | #
That was spectacular!! Ned is awesome!!!
Thank you for all the great links and videos. I think that this is going to be be the first i-generation/youtube campaign!!!
Keep it coming!!!
I can't wait to see if/when/how Salazar goes into this mess and keeps his word to Joe.
Ken Salazar hasn't made one single tough stand yet.
Ken Salazar hasn't made one single tough stand yet.
Gregg Easterbrook is a fan (went to college together, iirc).
Gummo,
no worries.
here, read this. Stranger has an interesting interpretation on Bush's slow crawl to intervention.
Gummo - I'm not Jewish, but I think your assessment is right on the money.
There's gotta be a better way of getting Hezbollah out of Lebanon.
How about offering something better?
This mass murder is just making Israel less secure.
There was no indication that Arbour's warning or Annan's plea for civilians would stop either the attack or the rockets falling on Israel.
Completely lost their minds.
So equating money with speech violates the Fourteenth amendment. Money may in fact be speech, but it is not protected speech, that violates the First.
But nothing Israel is doing now will assure a secure future for it as a country -- just the opposite.
that's not really true, gummo...
what they're doing is guaranteeing the future of a militant, militaristic state, which need not EVER negotiate anything which might be to the material disadvantage of the State of Israel. they are cementing 5-BILLION-dollar-per-year financial and military support utterly unquestioningly and uncritically supplied by the US/AIPAC Congress, for one thing: No senator or congresscritter running for office in the USofA this year would DREAM of seriously suggesting that aid to Israel bve made contingent on Israel's good-faith efforts to assist the palestinians in establishing a viable State, for instance. rather, the cries will be for MORE --mainly military--aid to Israel...
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There's gotta be a better way of getting Hezbollah out of Lebanon.
Maybe we could fight them in Iraq instead of fighting them in Lebanon.
watertiger --
I don't know if I buy that interpretation.
The slow response of the Bushies isn't playing well with anyone I know, right, left or middle. Everyone over 30 remembers a United States that led the world in foreign affairs, not trailed along with toilet paper dangling from its shoe.
And the missteps on the evacuation -- the slowness of it, and the attempt to fucking charge people -- blackmail'em, really -- to get the hell out pissed off everybody.
They're democracy bombs!
NTodd, Intertube Master | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 10:34 am | #
There is in fact a Porky Pig cartoon based on the Hatfields and McCoys wherein all the barnyard animals run around in a frenzy blasting each other, dunking each other in wells and setting domiciles afire.
Porky and Petunia, from rival clans but in love, drag out their Peace Bomb and detonate it, at which point everyone starts singing and square dancing in celebration.
I'm afraid that's current US foreign policy.
Draco
If we keep doing the same thing over and over and over, it's bound to work eventually...
A collection of Lebanese blogs.
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http://cedarseed.livejournal.com/
http://lebop.blogspot.com/
http://lebanonheartblogs.blogspot.com/
http://beirutnotes.blogspot.com/
http://meastpolitics.wordpress.com/
http://beirutspring.blogspot.com/
http://colddesert.blogspot.com/
one from an USian who's been evacuated to Cyprus.
http://thawrahsden.blogspot.com/
Loony tuned.
July 22 1946 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
yesterday's terrorist is todays.....?
There's gotta be a better way of getting Hezbollah out of Lebanon.
Maybe we could fight them in Iraq instead of fighting them in Lebanon.
NTodd, Intertube Master
I'm sure there's plenty of Hezbollah or Hezbollahesque groups so we can do both.
So how's that flypaper theory working out so far, Mr. President?
He says his country is attacking legitimate Hezbollah military targets and she should be careful with her language.
especially the dairies !
There's gotta be a better way of getting Hezbollah out of Lebanon.
How about offering something better?
This mass murder is just making Israel less secure.
HoneyBearKelly - 11:05 am
Honeybear, you can't "get Hezbollah out of Lebanon.' Anymore than you could "get the Druse out of Lebanaon." Hezbollah is an authentic, indigenous Lebanese institution. It is a political party, a social service institution.
It would be like driving the Democrats out of the USofA--assuming that the Democrats actually did anything to improve the status of the average USer on a regular basis...
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So how's that flypaper theory working out so far, Mr. President?
It's working brilliantly! We haven't had one Katyusha rocket attack in NYC since Bush became preznit.
WGG --
I dunno. The days when all Americans saw Israel as the plucky David standing up to the looming Arab Goliath are long gone. And AIPAC may have a mighty voice in Washington, but I don't know how many Americans actually feel like they have a dog in this fight.
If we keep doing the same thing over and over and over, it's bound to work eventually...
Insanity. It's a winner!
It would be like driving the Democrats out of the USofA
Ah, so that's why Bush is waiting before he takes any steps -- he's taking notes!
He says his country is attacking legitimate Hezbollah military targets and she should be careful with her language.
Those hospitals and apartments were clearly just well-disguised ammo depots.
watertiger --
Anyone who doubts we have common ancestors with the primates only has to watch that gibbon taunting tigers.
That's so human.
And the moral of the cartoon is don't spare the anvils.
Over half the Arab population in the ME is under 16 yrs old. We could take the long view and work to improve their lives so that they see the benefits of democracy and a stable, peaceful society in which to raise their families.
Or we could try and kill them before they reach fighting age.
Anyone who doubts we have common ancestors with the primates only has to watch that gibbon taunting tigers.
I'd like to see that gibbon try it with an adult tiger.
Mmmmm....gibbon canapes...
Boy, Atrios seems to be awfully quiet on the Israel thing. What is he afraid of? And he still hasn't upgraded the snacks.
i hope the rasputin numbers in the link vicki posted upthread are true...ned ahead by 10 pts!
but i'm having trouble being hopeful...
Chuy:
Israel set war plan more than a year ago
Strategy was put in motion as Hezbollah began gaining military strength in Lebanon
- Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service, Friday, July 21, 2006
(07-21) 04:00 PDT Jerusalem -- Israel's military response by air, land and sea to what it considered a provocation last week by Hezbollah militants is unfolding according to a plan finalized more than a year ago.
In the six years since Israel ended its military occupation of southern Lebanon, it watched warily as Hezbollah built up its military presence in the region. When Hezbollah militants kidnapped two Israeli soldiers last week, the Israeli military was ready to react almost instantly.
"Of all of Israel's wars since 1948, this was the one for which Israel was most prepared," said Gerald Steinberg, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University. "In a sense, the preparation began in May 2000, immediately after the Israeli withdrawal, when it became clear the international community was not going to prevent Hezbollah from stockpiling missiles and attacking Israel. By 2004, the military campaign scheduled to last about three weeks that we're seeing now had already been blocked out and, in the last year or two, it's been simulated and rehearsed across the board."
More than a year ago, a senior Israeli army officer began giving PowerPoint presentations, on an off-the-record basis, to U.S. and other diplomats, journalists and think tanks, setting out the plan for the current operation in revealing detail. Under the ground rules of the briefings, the officer could not be identified.
In his talks, the officer described a three-week campaign: The first week concentrated on destroying Hezbollah's heavier long-range missiles, bombing its command-and-control centers, and disrupting transportation and communication arteries. In the second week, the focus shifted to attacks on individual sites of rocket launchers or weapons stores. In the third week, ground forces in large numbers would be introduced, but only in order to knock out targets discovered during reconnaissance missions as the campaign unfolded. There was no plan, according to this scenario, to reoccupy southern Lebanon on a long-term basis. ....
i don't disagree that Hezbollah has its own agenda
NTodd --
Are you in NYC today?
I don't know why people even care about what's happening on this planet. Don't you know that we're just going to throw it away and start fresh somewhere else?
but I don't know how many Americans actually feel like they have a dog in this fight.
Gummo |
"Fighting terroism" is the biggest dog in American propaganda today.
In the minds of a large percentage of Americans this is the good guys (Israel and the US) standing up to the bad guys.
This fighting is simply red meat for the keyboard commandos. Israel's doing things the 'right way'.
No - I think our dog is right in the middle of this.
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from Lamontblog:
Local Media Slams Lieberman on Halliburton
Amazingly, it seems the local press doesn't appreciate being played for complete fools by Sean Smith and Marion Steinfels, as evidenced by this reaction in today's Connecticut Post (hat tip Sue at MLN):
Thumbs down to U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., and his campaign. The senator's campaign staff recently released several ads critizing Lieberman's Democratic primary opponent, anti-war businessman Ned Lamont, for owning shares of Halliburton, a company the government has awarded billions of dollars in Iraq war contracts to. Lieberman told the Connecticut Post editorial board last week that, "It's important that apeople know where you get your income from." Lieberman should have taken his own advice. According to a news report in the Post Friday, it turns out the senator also owns shares in Halliburton. While his staff says that Lieberman was unaware he owned any Halliburton stock, it seems questionable that his campaign never raised the Halliburton issue without first checking Lieberman's own stock holdings. Hopefully the senator's campaign will exercise better discretion in the future.
NTodd --
Are you in NYC today?
No, sorry, I'm gonna miss the shitty movies. Forgot to RSVP regrets.
The days when all Americans saw Israel as the plucky David standing up to the looming Arab Goliath are long gone.
it was never true that "all" USers lined up unilaterally behind Israel...i know that was a figure of speech, but still...
however the truth of the matter is that a huge majority of USers has fallen for, and still upholds the twin narratives viz Israel: the Israel-as-perpetual-victim, and the Israel-as-brave-western-outpost-holding-the-
frontier-against-the savages...
No, sorry, I'm gonna miss the shitty movies. Forgot to RSVP regrets.
NTodd, Intertube Master
We'll always have Paris.
So, the Astoria power update I know you've all been waiting for:
No AC again last night. Mayor Bloomberg whined that ConEd is doing everything in it's power (hahaha) to fix stuff; I am less than convinced. Mr. Mayor says it is less likely today that power will be restored by Sunday than it was likely yesterday (take a minute to deconstruct that sentence). We have food and water handouts on street corners, but I have a functioning fridge, so I am spared that exercise. Ooh, and cold-water showers are less refreshing than you would think.
Carry on.
Alacrity, Oh IDF! Spare not the horses, it's onto Syria and redraw the mapses.
We'll always have Paris.
Casablanca is NOT shitty! 
But so long as the get together becomes more regular, I'll prolly be able to make a drunken ass of myself on a later date.
Someone way upthread asked what the rest of the world is thinking about the US attitude toward what's going on in Lebanon.
Well, here's a start.
Marcia --
Ouch!
Bloomberg doesn't seem to realize these are exactly the things that determine a NY mayor's legacy -- and political future.
He's being way too fucking cavalier about this -- even for his own selfish purposes.
Ever remember your parents warning you about the friends that you keep?
Israel used to be an ally with Apartheid South Africa.
Israel seems to have picked up some bad habits from their friends along the way.
Ooh, and cold-water showers are less refreshing than you would think.
Having experienced them in Lithuania during the Moratorium, I would agree.
the Israel-as-perpetual-victim, and the Israel-as-brave-western-outpost-holding-the- frontier-against-the savages...
WoodyGuthrie'sSnowflakinho
..and who've made the 'deserts bloom' with 10s of billions of dollars of US tax money.
When Hezbollah militants kidnapped two Israeli soldiers last week, the Israeli military was ready to react almost instantly.
What's the difference between kidnapping and capturing? One usually says soldiers are captured.
And exactly where were the Israeli soldiers when they were kidnapped/captured? I saw one story in the Asia Times that said they were across the border in Lebanon when their patrol was attacked and they were kidnapped/captured. I believe there is a disputed area along the Lebanon/Israeli border that both sides claim. Is that where they were? The US MSM I've seen have been somewhat vague on this.
WGG I know all that.
In fact I was wondering the other day if I had given money to anybody attached to Hezbollah because I'm always clicking those "donate" buttons on blogs.
I might be on a terrorist list because I'm a sucker when I see a pitiful picture.
I know I contributed to a Saint Bernard rescue organization.
'Fraid it looks like Israel has joined the US in showing its deep disregard for interests that don't coincide with its own. Altho I participated actively in a better time when that wasn't true of the US, so suspect there was a time when moral constraints also acted on Israel. The GWOT ethic is not working and its making them both desperate, it would seem.
Having experienced them in Lithuania during the Moratorium, I would agree.
NTodd, Intertube Master
Well, our water doesn't come from the Gulf of Finland, but I'm an American, damnit, and I should have at least tepid showers.
Oh Monny. How could you blow that big goyem from Hope?
These are just a few photos taken by my maternal grandparents, during WW2 they were stationed in the Middle East and North Africa respectively.
seems like a different world back then.
Israel used to be an ally with Apartheid South Africa.
Israel seems to have picked up some bad habits from their friends along the way.
Doug,
Israel was not only a good ally, it supplied the apartheid government with a great deal of its military hardware.
Mayor Bloomberg whined that ConEd is doing everything in it's power (hahaha) to fix stuff;
I call bullshit.
We had a citywide power outage and it took two days to fix it. But remember how the grid came back on - neighborhoods that weren't especially . . . how you say . . . wealthy? . . . came on last.
If Astoria were the Upper East Side, they'd have had power the next day.
this is just another sign of the moral degradation that accompanies the democrat fixation on wrong-hole sex.
'I know I contributed to a Saint Bernard rescue organization.
HoneyBearKelly'
St. Bernard is known for having cast out all the wrong demons, and bringing along rum. You're in deep doodoo.
I know I contributed to a Saint Bernard rescue organization.
St Bernard's are notorious Islamojihadofascistsympathizers.
I know I contributed to a Saint Bernard rescue organization.
HoneyBearKelly
Terrorist St. Bernard organizations are too cute and horrifying to contemplate...
I know I contributed to a Saint Bernard rescue organization.
St Bernard's are notorious Islamojihadofascistsympathizers.
NTodd, Intertube Master
And they slobber, too.
I know I contributed to a Saint Bernard rescue organization.
HoneyBearKelly
I thought they had unionized for better barrels around their necks, etc.
They should have wisked that little whore off to a kibbutz when she was nine and tried to blow the rabbi.
"Terrorist St. Bernard organizations are too cute and horrifying to contemplate..."
little known fact: the barrel around their neck is an ied.
..and who've made the 'deserts bloom' with 10s of billions of dollars of US tax money.
Agnet Orange - 11:22 am
with water they dispropriated from the Arab farmers and Palestinian cities and towns...fucking swimming pools full of water all over Israel, and the in the camps people die of dehydration...it's abominable...
Everyone over 30 remembers a United States that led the world in foreign affairs, not trailed along with toilet paper dangling from its shoe.
And a diposable toilet seat cover hanging from the back of its pants...
Moonbootica
Fascinating photos.
Saint Bernards have booze!
Crispin Sartwell on Our System of Free Market Democracy
Israel was not only a good ally, it supplied the apartheid government with a great deal of its military hardware.
Diane
South African - Africans in Bantustans
USA - Indians on Reservations
Israel's friends are well chosen for their past accomplishments.
Israel also tested at least one A bomb of the coast of S. Africa with their 'help'.
this is just another sign of the moral degradation that accompanies the democrat fixation on wrong-hole sex.
What's that got to do with Republican perversion. IE: jimmy jeff Gannon Guckert?
Okay, now I really have to do some work.
Later, gators.
We can't all hop on one St. Bernard rescue so here's where I must hop on off. Lighter.
Sorry for the blogwhoring but I just found out about this! It's really important! While everyone is focusing on Lebanon and Israel, Bush is planning a sweeping new power grab!
Rupert Murdoch wants Bloomberg to be prezident. I bet he has lost the Astoria vote.
And they slobber, too.
We had relatives who were St. Bernard owners. We went to visit them in Westchester, and one of the dogs accidentally knocked my sister into the pool.
Oddly, it didn't dive in to try to save her.
They also had those crazed attack ducks...
That should be: "How could she have blown that dig dnumb goyem?"
Toonscribe thanks
And they slobber, too.
Gummo
When I was very little, I loved every animal in existence -- bats, rats, mice, dogs, cats -- you get the picture. We were visiting my mother's childhood home on Grindstone Island, and I spent a delightful afternoon with two St. Bernards. My mother was less impressed with the amount of drool I was covered in as she stripped me down and hosed me off before allowing me into my grandparents' house.
And a diposable toilet seat cover hanging from the back of its pants...
And its skirt caught in the top of its pantyhose.
Shit, I'm outta here. Shit.
Ooh, and cold-water showers are less refreshing than you would think.
Wouldn't know it here - we won't have anything but hot water from any tap there is until around October.
shamless blogwhore - Thoughts on the current crisis in the Lebanon
shamless blogwhore - Thoughts on the current crisis in the Lebanon
Rupert Murdoch wants Bloomberg to be prezident. I bet he has lost the Astoria vote.
spinoza
Having enjoyed his whiney and defensive performance yesterday, I'm not sure he would go over so well in the heartland, wherever that is nowadays.
..and who've made the 'deserts bloom' with 10s of billions of dollars of US tax money.
It would have been less expensive to just send some container ships loaded with bottled water.
wt -
The monkey fucking with the young tigers was outrageous. I really enjoyed that.
Gibbons be some smart apes. Foolhardy in this case, but highly intelligent just the same.
Thanks.
The Nazis, and Hitler himself, much admired the American Indian reservations. He wanted to use it as the model for eastern Europe.
My mother was less impressed with the amount of drool I was covered in
I once had a girlfriend like that.
Having enjoyed his whiney and defensive performance yesterday, I'm not sure he would go over so well in the heartland, wherever that is nowadays.
Yes, but what he lacks in stature and vocal profundity he more than makes up for with cold, hard cash.
Jesus CHRIST, Litz.
Not that I'm surprised they're dishonest fuckers, but I am surprised at how bad they are at it.
A.
Another organization I contributed to is Gentle Giants Rescue run by Burt Ward.
Yes.
That Burt Ward.
We were visiting my mother's childhood home on Grindstone Island, and I spent a delightful afternoon with two St. Bernards.
Come home! We have hot water!
Wouldn't know it here - we won't have anything but hot water from any tap there is until around October.
It's gotten that way around here -- 16 straight days with 100+ degrees here in the sun-blasted, yet beautiful west San Fernando Valley.
billy b,
happy to oblige. Gummo's right; we're direct descendants.
"I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you! Does it bug you when I do this?"
watertiger | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 11:25 am | #
All NYers seem to hate Con Ed. The Village Voice used to have a one-panel cartoon Conversation Stoppers. One week the image showed a guy entering a party and waving. The Stopper was "Hey everyone, I found a new way to screw ConEd"
That Burt Ward.
HoneyBearKelly - 11:36 am
the very last words my mother ever spoke to me were: Honey, you can't save'em all
referring especially to my proclivity to rescue dogs...
if i had burt ward's resources, id be doing the exact same thing...
It's the non-evil Mo Dowd in the NYT this morning, describing Condi's efforts as "air guitar diplomacy."
We had relatives who were St. Bernard owners. We went to visit them in Westchester, and one of the dogs accidentally knocked my sister into the pool.
A friend of ours has big labs. Beautiful, friendly dogs. So friendly that the boys continually jump on you when you're at their house.
Which is not too much of a problem, except when we're there and partying with food and drink. One does not want to handle dogs when one os trying to eat.
My friend says, with a look of disdain, that I'm 'not a dog person'...
Come and get me!
Arthur's Cousin Ernie's half-brother Jack's nephew, Ed is looking for a new home.
And all those villas the U.S. built in Gaza.
Then paid to tear them all down.
I once had a girlfriend like that.
spinoza
Like my unimpressed mother or the drooly St. Bernards?
Draco,
With good reason. I'm in the middle of researching other electric companies. We can switch our service, thank god.
I'm tired of paying through the nose for running my A/C 30 minutes a day.
Dowd:
The cowboy president bet the ranch on Iraq, and that war has made almost any other American action in the Arab world, and any Pax Americana that might have been created there, impossible. It’s fitting that Condi is the Flying Dutchman, since Lebanon represents the shipwreck of our Middle East policy.
But he didn't bet the Crawford brush ranch.
Arthur's Cousin Ernie's half-brother Jack's nephew, Ed is looking for a new home.
Oh, sweet Jesus! That is amazing.
Arthur's Cousin Ernie's half-brother Jack's nephew, Ed is looking for a new home.
What an adorable...whatever it was!
If Astoria were the Upper East Side, they'd have had power the next day.
Is Astoria reliably Democratic?
Arthur's Cousin Ernie's half-brother Jack's nephew, Ed ...
GWPDA Broadsword of Compassion - 11:43 am
ed is a terry-cloth towel?
(i know, i know,)
I know I contributed to a Saint Bernard rescue organization.
HoneyBearKelly - 11:22 am
You mean there's actually an organization that rescues lost Saint Bernards?
I imagine a searching Clydesdale clopping through the snow, a small barrel of spiked Doggie Brew hanging around its neck.
Yes, but what he lacks in stature and vocal profundity he more than makes up for with cold, hard cash.
watertiger
I'm sure your not implying that one could buy one's self into the White House.
Homer: (Impersonating JFK) Look, Mom. I am President, er, um, Kennedy.
Homer's Mother: Oh, Abe, do you think that someday our little Homer could grow up to be President?
Abe: (To Homer) You, President? This is the greatest country in the world. We have a whole system set up to keep punks like you from ever becoming President! Quit your daydreaming, melon-head!
Pancakes were yummy. I wonder if Haddasah cooks Joe raspberry pancakes for breakfast?
Okay...now it's off to Saugatuck or somewhere north...who knows?
Have a nice day.
(i know, i know,)
WoodyGuthrie'sSnowflakinho - 11:47 am
those saggy, baggy sharpei need a LOT of attention...i know you know that, but just the same, it needs sayin...
That Ed. What a kidder. He's wearing his Dad's suit....
Minister condemns Israeli action
Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has criticised Israel's bombardment of Lebanon, while on a visit to Beirut.
He said Israel had not carried out "surgical strikes" and attacking the Lebanese nation was not the answer.
Downing Street said the prime minister would stand by Mr Howell's comments, adding the British government had "always urged restraint on Israel".
Meanwhile thousands of people across the UK are joining demonstrations against Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
More from NYT
Not only do the Bushistas deny the cause of global warming, NASA is now required to "look the other way"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/
2...Kewo84xTSGWNuoA
Like my unimpressed mother or the drooly St. Bernards?
The bernard. Also she kept a barrel of single malt scotch around her neck for me. So sweet. Good times. Good times.
Watching the British Open on the old tube. Fairways look distinctly brown. Is that a feature of the unusually hot weather in Great Britain this summer? Global warming can play hell with your golf game.
We could not address Diebold because we hoped to use it ourselves.
We could not address Global Warming for the same pecuniary reasons the Republicans could not, minus the peculiar and unnecessary hatred the rethugs always manage to insert.
We could not address the war because we want to win it.
We could not address Israel because we allowed the Israeli intelligence apparatus to have its way with ours, and the day we confront Israel a quarter of the entire CIA is going to die or be captured.
We could not address racial inequality because frankly those poor bastards'll vote for us if we campaign by cakewalking in blackface.
We could not address reproductive freedom because we decided we needed to appeal to those who want us to be lynched.
We could not address the economy because (the global warming).
So remember, if anyone tries to compete with a Democratic incumbent, it's because he could only be a Republican secret agent. As opposed to Democratic incumbents themselves, who are quite open.
Is Astoria reliably Democratic?
Molly Ivors
Looks like:
http://www.gothamgazette.com/
sea...t22.shtml#stats
If the Bush administration's views paraelle those of America's ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, these attacks on the civilian population are legal and justified. Bolton says there is no "moral equivalence" between Israeli and Lebanese deaths.
say...saay what?...
That Ed. What a kidder. He's wearing his Dad's suit....
GWPDA Broadsword of Compassion
I want to nuzzle his wrinkly little forehead. Is that wrong?
Not only do the Bushistas deny the cause of global warming, NASA is now required to "look the other way"
Mars, beyotches...
seriously that sucks big, long, gooey boogers...
the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers, the motherfuckers,
Toonscribe yeah we have had a mini heatwave here in Britain.
so the woman who said she could never have imagined planes flying into the world trade center on sept 11,
the same woman, had no idea that a presidential memo titled, 'bin laden determined to attack within the US' actually meant bin laden was determined to attack within the US
now that very same woman believes that a truce in the israel/lebanon debacle won't save lives.
what wonderful imaginative world leaders we have representing us.
So how's that flypaper theory working out so far, Mr. President?
It's working brilliantly! We haven't had one Katyusha rocket attack in NYC since Bush became preznit.
I actually heard Bill Schneider on CNN say this Lebanon/Israel thing was good for Bush. It takes people's minds off Iraq which polls badly for him. In Schnieders mind what's happening in the ME will remind people of the war on terror and that's good for Bush.
My mind does not work the way Schneider's does apparently. Coz it makes me think Bush has made one enormous mess and doesn't know how to deal with any of it.
The British Open is on the Wirral peninsula, west of Liverpool. That's on the Irish Sea and the normal weather would be cloudy and rainy. Thanks to Clusterfuck McBunnypants ((c) Atta J. Turk) it's turned to hard clay.
Bolton says there is no "moral equivalence" between Israeli and Lebanese deaths.
Somebody want to explain again how this isn't racism?
Not only do the Bushistas deny the cause of global warming, NASA is now required to "look the other way"
Yeah, I already covered that!
Twin blasts rock Kandahar
Two bombers who blew themselves up in the Afghan city of Kandahar have killed two coalition soldiers and at least six civilians.
The first attack occurred at around 5.45pm on Saturday when a military convoy was rammed by a car bomber.
A coalition spokesman, Major Scott Lundy, said two soldiers were killed and eight wounded.
A second bomber blew himself up a short time later at the same location.
A spokesman for the region's governor said that at least six civilians were killed and a further 20 wounded.
Is Astoria reliably Democratic?
It's a predominantly Greek neighborhood, but not rolling in phyllo dough.
Two indisputable truths regarding the middle east:
1) The men who are ultimately responsible for all the death and destruction have not and will not put their own lives nor the lives of their loved ones on the line.
2) These same men, along with various friends and business associates, will gain wealth and/or power regardless of the outcome.
say...saay what?...
animal, Bush roadkill
Re: Bolton
I'll be the last to defend Bolton as UN ambassador but he carefully tip toed around the statement of moral equivalence by including intent. He may be deranged but he is shrewd too.
His POV - terrorists target civilians.
Israel targets terrorists and...well sometime civilians get blown up.
That's where he hangs his moral equation - intention.
.
so the woman who said she could never have imagined planes flying into the world trade center on sept
the same woman, had no idea that a presidential memo titled, 'bin laden determined to attack within the US' actually meant bin laden was determined to attack within the US
now that very same woman believes that a truce in the Israel/Lebanon debacle won't save lives.
ya know that mushroom cloud's boots are pinching her rationality...
That Ed. What a kidder. He's wearing his Dad's suit....
GWPDA Broadsword of Compassion
I want to nuzzle his wrinkly little forehead. Is that wrong?
Marcia Brady∞
Nah - go ahead. He's in there somewhere! What a meatmouth. (Arthur, a bonemouth, tells me that the meatmouths are from the -other- side of the family.)
relaxing Friday Cat Blogging
currently it is raning hard plus we have thunderstorms in Devizes, current temp is 27°C (80°F), humidity at 51%.
HoneyBearKelly
Here's my rescued retired track racing greyhound,
Not only do the Bushistas deny the cause of global warming, NASA is now required to "look the other way"
Yeah, I already covered that!
NTodd, Intertube Master
All those pesky satellite photos of glaciers shrinking over time have to be stopped!
.
Operation Prester John
Ethiopian military personnel landed at a Somali airbase on Saturday after Ethiopian troops took control of the airport in the southwestern Somali town of Wajid, residents and aid workers said today.
The troops seized the air base from gunmen serving the local authorities overnight and met with no resistance, the sources said.
Two helicopters carrying Ethiopian forces landed this afternoon.
Earlier today Somalia's Islamists refused talks with the government, blaming an incursion by Ethiopian troops sent to defend the interim administration's limited authority, Islamic officials said today.
"We do not negotiate with a government which is being helped by the enemy of Somalia," senior Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said in a letter to Islamist delegates to the talks.
His POV - terrorists target civilians.
Israel targets terrorists and...well sometime civilians get blown up.
That's where he hangs his moral equation - intention.
I'm sure the dead feel exactly the same.
ya know that mushroom cloud's boots are pinching her rationality...
animal, Bush roadkill | 07.22.06 - 12:00 pm | #
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yes one can never protect oneself enough against imagined disasters
My mind does not work the way Schneider's does apparently. Coz it makes me think Bush has made one enormous mess and doesn't know how to deal with any of it.
Neponset
I'm thinking that my fellow citizens will conflate the 2 and say "the Middle East is one giant clusterfuck and it's this maladministrations fault".
Agent Orange | 07.22.06 - 12:00 pm |
In the Case Against Israel, Canadian ethics professor Michael Neumann blows this idea out of the water. He says yeah there's a difference between knowingly killing civilians as part of a larger scheme and knowing killing civilians, but it's a difference so small as to not even be academic.
HoneyBearKelly
Here's my rescued retired track racing greyhound, http://thumbsnap.com/v/YmDi9TAT.jpg
All those pesky satellite photos of glaciers shrinking over time have to be stopped!
Time to shoop down some satellites. And maybe a few scientists.
oops that should be *extra saturday cat blogging.
i think the rush load of laser guided munitions to israel speak far louder than condi actions
Uh, 'shoot', not 'shoop'. More coffee. Maybe some brunch, too.
missy's bro - you want that I should add your greyhound to the Companions album?
i think the rush load of laser guided munitions to israel speak far louder than condi actions
Nonono. We all know that words speak far louder than deeds. Bush has proven it time and again.
Here's my rescued retired track racing greyhound, http://thumbsnap.com/v/YmDi9TAT.jpg
missy's brother 12:03 pm
oh, good on you!!!!!!
what a darlin!
if i werent at my limit, i'd adopt one, or two, too...
I actually heard Bill Schneider on CNN say this Lebanon/Israel thing was good for Bush. It takes people's minds off Iraq which polls badly for him. In Schnieders mind what's happening in the ME will remind people of the war on terror and that's good for Bush.
I think Schneider's right. Plus it gives Bush's base the red meat of war they so seem to crave. They also get to cheer the Israelis on as the IDF does things the 'right way' - Fuck Yeah.
I think Chimps approval ratings will go up on this one.
.
Nonono. We all know that words speak far louder than deeds. Bush has proven it time and again.
NTodd, Intertube Master | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 12:06 pm | #
I see said the blind carpenter to his deaf daughter on a dark night.
are you sure were are not double parked diagonally in a parallel universe';?
missy's bro - you want that I should add your greyhound to the Companions album?
NTodd, Intertube Master
Please good NTodd. Let me add my resuce doberman boy, Jake, too. I'll get a picture. Greyhound is Cleo.
Maybe some brunch, too.
Next time you visit, I'll make you some fab turkey hash with poached eggs and orange hollandaise.
missy's bro - you want that I should add your greyhound to the Companions album?
NTodd, Intertube Master - 12:05 pm
um, Ntodd????
i do NOT find therein the smiling visages of the only two Atriot companions to have EVER attended EschaCon...
I see said the blind carpenter to his deaf daughter on a dark night.
I see said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
Please good NTodd. Let me add my resuce doberman boy, Jake, too. I'll get a picture. Greyhound is Cleo.
Will do!
I'm thinking that my fellow citizens will conflate the 2 and say "the Middle East is one giant clusterfuck and it's this maladministrations fault".
HoneyBearKelly
That's what I'm hearing...except from one friend, who told us last night - despite the fact that she is Lebanese - that she "still supports W and his administration."
My other friend and I dropped our jaws.
It's a predominantly Greek neighborhood, but not rolling in phyllo dough. -watertiger
Does it spanakopita blocks or is it larger?
http://thumbsnap.com/v/lL4aJuN4.jpg
Jake, resuced Doberman boy from Penn.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/lL4aJuN4.jpg
Jake, resuced Doberman boy from Penn.
i do NOT find therein the smiling visages of the only two Atriot companions to have EVER attended EschaCon...
Send me linkies/pics (blog@pritsky.net) or post here! Merely an oversight--I'm reactive, not proactive.
I see said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
is this a direct quote of tony snow?
is it to late to call-in Karen (state dept. cheerleader for Arab pacification)Hughes?...
I think Schneider's right. Plus it gives Bush's base the red meat of war they so seem to crave. They also get to cheer the Israelis on as the IDF does things the 'right way' - Fuck Yeah.
I think Chimps approval ratings will go up on this one.
I don't know. I think the people that approve of this are the 32%ers who he's never lost and never will. I think alot of people are horrified. I've heard enough TV anchors asking "Is this the start of WWIII? You decide." That's not good. Plus the almighty gallon of gas is not going to get cheaper. That trumps all.
I think Schneider's right. Plus it gives Bush's base the red meat of war they so seem to crave. They also get to cheer the Israelis on as the IDF does things the 'right way' - Fuck Yeah.
I think Chimps approval ratings will go up on this one.
Possibly, but there are an awful lot of Lebanese-Americans. It's not playing well on that score.
Israel is destroying one of the few functioning liberal democracies in the ME.
I think Chimps approval ratings will go up on this one.
Nah, I don't think so. He's spent his capital, remember? He spent it on lies.
Almost everyone I know is sick. to. death. of him. They blame the gas prices, the fucked up war, everythig, on Bush.
And he isn't getting a bounce in the polls.
Next time you visit, I'll make you some fab turkey hash with poached eggs and orange hollandaise.
I'll drop by for Sunday brunch tomorrow.
Plus the almighty gallon of gas is not going to get cheaper. That trumps all.
That too.
I'll drop by for Sunday brunch tomorrow.
Bring fresh OJ and a couple of bottles of champagne.
gawd almighty you watch the cable news and its israel 24hr, all day, all night. photos of empty hospitol beds just waiting for casualties and empty streets waiting for the bombs. nothing at all from the streets of lebanon
Lebanon's two fighting forces
Lebanon is a country with two fighting forces - the Lebanese army and Hezbollah's guerrilla outfit.
For now, the Lebanese army has remained in its barracks during the current conflict with Israel.
It is Hezbollah that is launching attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians from the south of Lebanon.
The issue of military strength is a sensitive subject in a country that war torn apart by 15 years of civil war.
missy's bro - you want that I should add your greyhound to the Companions album?
NTodd, Intertube Master
It's okay. I understand why you wouldn't offer to display my five lovely liberal cats.
Speciesist!
spooky stuff going on with Israeli spy rings in Lebannon.
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Jo...-and-
mossad.htm
Reassessing the Hariri assassination in the light of recent events
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/200...ination-
in.html
He's spent his capital, remember? He spent it on lies.
I love you.
missy's brother thanks for that.
We got the late, great Cindy from a chow-chow rescue place and she was the sweetest, best behaved dog EVAH.
She had been so abused by her original owners she couldn't stand anybody touching her when she first came to us. She was even blind in one eye from the beatings she took.
She gave us ten years of joy before she just got too sick and had to be helped over the rainbow bridge.
In honor of Cindy I give till it hurts because I realize I can't save them all.
Yesterday I say this lady with 2 afghan hounds around City Hall and I just shook my head.
Don't people know that keeping these large dogs in apartments is just another form of abuse? In my opinion anyway.
I think Chimps approval ratings will go up on this one.
I disagree. I think people are getting tired of all-war-all-the-time. I also think they made a huge mistake with all the WWIII or IV talk -- world war is a powerful image, and especially WWIII, which we all grew up with thinking of it as the end of the world. Only their dwindling rabid base, the nutcases who want to bring on the Second Coming, get off on that kind of talk. Everybody else, it just scares shitless. And one of the most powerful memes of the last 40 years was about a doomsday WWIII brought about through accident -- a seemingly small war or confrontation spiraling out of control. That scenario is looking very familiar these days.
Iraqi army 'saves British troops'
The Iraqi army has foiled a potentially deadly attack on UK troops in Basra, the British army has said.
A routine patrol discovered five Katyusha rockets aimed and ready to fire at a base housing around 200 soldiers of the Light Infantry.
Major Charlie Burbridge said the 107mm calibre rockets would have caused many casualties if they detonated on target.
The Iraqi army made safe the weapons, which Maj Burbridge said had a range of 7km (4.35miles). No-one was arrested.
I love you.
Molly Ivors
Back at you, fertility goddess!
Possibly, but there are an awful lot of Lebanese-Americans. It's not playing well on that score.
Israel is destroying one of the few functioning liberal democracies in the ME.
Molly Ivors
Hmmm, so the immigration thingy is losing the Latino/Asian group for the Republicans, the mideast "cakewalk" is losing the Muslim/ME Christian/Lebanese groups...
Almost looks like someone is counting on the Rapture.
todays subliminal message is
)
Oooh, 12:11p.
I can have beer.
Doug, | 07.22.06 - 12:13 pm |
Yeah, did you catch the fact that the MO of the Hariri assassination, as not reported by any mainstream media for some mysterious reason, just happened to be a Mossad trademark used the last time they wanted to toppel the Lebanese government? How fucking stupid can Americans get?
and what did shrub do when the shelling started of lebanon?
he sure didn't tell israel not to bomb a city filled with 25,000 US citizens.
what he did was allow those US citizens to be charged for their evacuation..... until the cry outrage got to him.
so much for his extra spendin money
right on, pigboy.
Lebanese reach out under fire
By Martin Asser
BBC News, Zefta, southern Lebanon
Dr Hussein Faqih makes a call every three or four minutes, as he sits on his friend Fuad Nahli's balcony, overlooking one of the main roads in southern Lebanon.
He is offering free medical advice to some of the thousands of civilians trapped by Israel's bombardment of Lebanon, which started 10 days ago when Hezbollah guerrillas snatched two Israeli soldiers during a cross-border raid.
"My phone bill is going to be about $1,000 this month," he says with a shrug. "But I don't care about the money; I have to help the people."
Okay, really must get going.
Please make the warmongers stop, m-kay?
I don't fear so much for myself, I fear for my child.
Okay, really must get going.
Please make the warmongers stop, m-kay?
I don't fear so much for myself, I fear for my child.
Israel has bombed Lebanon's cellphone and radio/tv towers.
right on, pigboy.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 12:17 pm | #
^5
Dixie-belle (she whose eyelashes Watertiger envies)
and Mischief, whose name is all one need know about her
Milton Friedman: "What's really killed the Republican Party isn't spending, it's Iraq. As it happens, I was opposed to going into Iraq from the beginning. I think it was a mistake, for the simple reason that I do not believe the United States of America ought to be involved in aggression."
Only their dwindling rabid base, the nutcases who want to bring on the Second Coming, get off on that kind of talk.
That's exactly why they're doing it. Their MO from the very beginning has always been "tend the base." That hasn't changed a bit, and there's an election coming up.
and what did shrub do when the shelling started of lebanon?
I think right about then he was groping a German.
How fucking stupid can Americans get?
There is a long history of Americans being ignorant clods.
HoneyBearKelly
Cindy had a great home! Cleo is finally learning to be a pet and I have had the pleasure of her for over a year now. Jake was rescued from an ugly situation where he was literally eating his legs apart. His legs have completely healed now. Cleo and Jake are madly in love.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/y3uQUQD5.jpg
I concur with the notion that Bushco will be unable
to spin the destruction of the Liban to their advantage. Malign inaction doesn't smell well, and that's all these jokers have at the moment. Reminds folks of the cake-and-geetar episodes during the first days of Katrina.
Israel has bombed Lebanon's cellphone and radio/tv towers.
I guess there won't be any "IDF" txting "Ur in svr dngr" messages to the local population.
and what did shrub do when the shelling started of lebanon?
I think right about then he was groping a German.
Neponset | 07.22.06 - 12:19 pm | #
The AP ran an item yesterday about the now-infamous massage Bush gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G8 Summit earlier this week. The AP didn’t actually do a story about the incident; it did a story about blogs laughing at the incident.
An impromptu back rub that President George W. Bush gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel is now massaging millions of funnybones.
A 5-second video and series of photographs recently posted on YouTube.com and various blogs show Bush surprising Merkel at the G-8 Summit by quickly rubbing the back of her neck and shoulders. The chancellor immediately hunches her shoulders, throws her arms up and grimaces, though she appears to smile as Bush walks away.
The video has been one of the most popular clips on the Web and spawned countless remarks on the particulars of etiquette for world leaders.
In other words, the president’s frat-boy tactics aren’t necessarily enough to prompt a story in the Associated Press, but dissemination of the video of those tactics is.
Why has the media blown this story off?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
I've heard enough TV anchors asking "Is this the start of WWIII? You decide." That's not good. Plus the almighty gallon of gas is not going to get cheaper.
Yes but as long as you believe "they" started it on 9/11 and the US and Israel need to win it then WWIII could be great entertainment as long as it stays over there.
On gas prices - I recall that the gas crunchs of the 70s triggered a much greater public outcry than today. Back then fewer people were buying gasoline on credit cards. No cash meant no gas. Today with the average American carried something like $10,000 credit card debt, what's another $1,000? Filler up, credit.
It's gas lines that will anger people not price. My POV.
btw Bush/Cheney have now surpassed Jimmie Carter, the failed President on gasoline prices in real dollars.
http://inflationdata.com/
Inflati...ation_chart.htm.
I'm baa-aack!
Donovan's "Universal Soldier" is on the stereo (yes I know, it's Buffy St. Marie's "Universal Soldier" but you know what I mean).
Some messages never go out of style.
"... and he never sees the writing on the wall"
Israel has bombed Lebanon's cellphone and radio/tv towers.
Nûr al-Cubicle | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 12:18 pm |
Well they had to, didn't they? It's Lebanon's fault and no one else's. They were trying to kill Israelis through extraordinarily bad TV. Haven't you ever wanted to kill our own Les Moonves or Aaron Spelling? The Israelis did it feeling guilty, though. That makes it okay. Also, when Lebanon's parents came over, Israel only nailed one of their eyelids to the floor, to be nice, to show they respect family and all.
what he did was allow those US citizens to be charged for their evacuation..... until the cry outrage got to him.
Limbaugh was mocking the people who were upset and angry that they were going to be charged for evacuation. Apparently, if they had the money to get over there in the first place, they ought to be able to cough up enough to be taken out. Or so his reasoning went.
There's a better picture of Dixie on this website.
On a positive note for W, this has pushed Iraq to the back burner.
Limbaugh was mocking the people who were upset and angry that they were going to be charged for evacuation. Apparently, if they had the money to get over there in the first place, they ought to be able to cough up enough to be taken out. Or so his reasoning went.
Buzz Bomb
He is paid to justify anything the Bushies do.
He may be a whore but he's a loyal whore.
That backrub by Bush was that old rudeboy trick to get Merkel to lift her boobs.
The AP didn’t actually do a story about the incident; it did a story about blogs laughing at the incident.
Ha ha ha. It's so funny when bitches imagine that they own their own bodies. It's like that AT&T CEO said, in explaining why American IT infrastructure is inferior to the rest of the industrialized world even though we invented it: everything must be exploited as capital, bitches. Pimpin ain't easy but it pays better than being a fucking enlisted peon.
AFGHANISTAN CLOSE TO ANARCHY
GUARDIAN, UK - The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan yesterday described the situation in the country as "close to anarchy" with feuding foreign agencies and unethical private security companies compounding problems caused by local corruption. The stark warning came from Lieutenant General David Richards, head of NATO's international security force in Afghanistan, who warned that western forces there were short of equipment and were "running out of time" if they were going to meet the expectations of the Afghan people.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
afghan...1826479,00.html
There's a better picture of Dixie on this website.
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 12:21 pm
tanks tkk...that's a really good shot of her...
Aaron Spelling is recently deceased.
bloody helloscam
NToddie-woddie --
As long as you're editing the Atriots Companions page, could you maybe perhaps change my moniker on the Atriots page from bj to Gummo?
Thank you...
concur with the notion that Bushco will be unable
to spin the destruction of the Liban to their advantage.
I'm not sure however, that people will blame the Republicans in Congress for this mess. Since it's impossible to solve the thing in 25 single syllable words or less, which Tim Russert and co will require from the Democrats, I don't know if it helps this fall. Man, that sounds crass huh.
Fresh Israeli raids into Lebanon
Israel has carried out air strikes and small-scale incursions into Lebanon, as troops and tanks gather on the border.
Israeli jets knocked out TV and phone masts in the east and north of Lebanon, while ground troops carried out operations in two southern villages.
Israel has warned residents in 10 southern villages to leave by 1800 local time (1500 GMT), and thousands of civilians have been fleeing north.
However, Israel has insisted it has no plans for a large-scale invasion.
UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland is due to arrive in Beirut to assess the crisis on the ground.
fuck, it's raining again.
And I need to go out in a couple of hours.
Limbaugh was mocking the people who were upset and angry that they were going to be charged for evacuation. Apparently, if they had the money to get over there in the first place, they ought to be able to cough up enough to be taken out. Or so his reasoning went.
Buzz Bomb | 07.22.06 - 12:21 pm | #
limpballs has a bad habit of doing that. katrina victims got it, earthquake victims get it, enron investors got it, pensioneers get it. limpballs has 20/20 hindsight on everything and no insight for positive change.
fuck, it's raining again.
And I need to go out in a couple of hours.
ql in ny
Me too.
Aaron Spelling is recently deceased.
plantsman, lowercase | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 12:24 pm |
And while he lived people wanted him to hurry the fuck up. We rest our case.
It's gas lines that will anger people not price. My POV.
Agreed. That's what pissed people off in the 70s. It wasn't the high prices, it was the scarcity. Having to wait in long lines, or only being able to buy gas every other day. Americans are far more upset by inconvenience than by high prices. This time around, despite high prices, gas has been plentiful. So far.
Although I did recently have a half a tankful stolen out of my truck while it was parked at the dealer for several days getting repaired. I nearly ended up stranded; I was lucky I noticed in time.
Lebanon president: We will fight invaders
'Violence brings violence ... everybody will lose,' Lahoud says
(CNN) -- President Emile Lahoud has urged the Lebanese to remain united in the face of an Israeli offensive against Hezbollah and logistical targets in Lebanon that was in its tenth day Saturday
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/
me...tion=cnn_latest
have I mentioned lately that I want to be Charles Pierce if I ever grow up?
"Now that angry liberal blogging crazypeople have achieved their ultimate goal of destroying civility in American politics, as demonstrated by the fact that Aunt Pittypat Kondracke has keeled over on her fainting couch,"
Limbaugh's stock in trade has always been deriding the weak and less fortunate, dittoheads get something from it.
limpballs has a bad habit of doing that.
Apparently, he is a man of many bad habits.
i can hardly wait for limpballs to finally overdose
Rain? In NYC?
get the hell outta here!
However, Israel has insisted it has no plans for a large-scale invasion.
Israel is calling up reserves and massing units on the Lebanese border because that is the only place those units and reservists can be put! It's not for an invasion! It's storage!
Israel has bombed the Fatka, Jabal Terbol and a third telecommunications center serving Beirut and Tripoli.
OT:
Ceausescu regime used children as police spies
· Young informers reported on parents and teachers
· Romanian archives reveal network of thousands
The secret police of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu recruited thousands of children to spy on schoolfriends, parents and teachers, according to communist-era archives. They show that the Securitate blackmailed children across Romania into becoming informers in the late 1980s, as the whiff of liberalisation in the Soviet bloc prompted Ceausescu to tighten his grip on the country.
The files have shocked Romanians and prompted calls for an inquiry into why many of the agents who allegedly recruited the child spies continued working for the security services after Ceausescu was toppled and executed in 1989.
limpballs has a bad habit of doing that. katrina victims got it, earthquake victims get it, enron investors got it, pensioneers get it. limpballs has 20/20 hindsight on everything and no insight for positive change.
pigboy
Humor in a democracy revolves around the little guy standing up to & outwitting the big guy: Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, even the Marx Brothers; it's no coincidence that Chaplin & the Marx Brothers were physcially small, too, thus adding to the David v. Goliath meme.
Humor in a fascist state revolves around the powerful mocking & humiliating the powerless -- Howard Stern practices both form of humor, and doesn't seem to know the difference; all the right-wing "humor" is about mocking the oppressed -- gays, ethnic & religious minorities.
I was prompted to think about this by those ads for that new movie "My Super Ex-Girlfriend".
Gummo, WGG, missy's bro - updating now.
Marcia - same as I told Woody: send me stuff and I'll post it!
*mwah*
or at least lose his voice, can viagra cause you to lose your voice?
Israel has very good tanks and a very good airforce (payed for by the US) but their infrantry is pretty poor.
fuck, it's raining again.
And I need to go out in a couple of hours.
ql in ny
Me too.
Gummo |
Should be brief - check the wider view in a few hours.
http://www.intellicast.com/Icast...op&
prodnav=none
(CNN) -- President Emile Lahoud has urged the Lebanese to remain united in the face of an Israeli offensive against logistical targets in Lebanon that was in its tenth day Saturday
We edited out "Hizbullah" because we are unaware of any Israeli efforts to actually fight Hizbullah. The Israelis themselves say they are punishing Lebanon as a nation for not killiong Hizbullah themselves.
Anybody know of Mark Regev, former Australian now Israeli Foreign Ministry mouthpiece? He certainly has aged a lot the last couple of years.
There's a better picture of Dixie on this website.
The Kenosha Kid
Wow. That NTodd's hot!
Fears of war in Somalia grow
Reports say Ethiopian troops allied with Somali government advancing against Islamist militias.
By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com
Fears of an "all-out war" in the Horn of Africa rose Friday with the news that Ethiopian troops are moving closer to Somalia's captial, Mogadishu, which is controlled by Islamist militants. Reuters reports there are conflciting reports about what is happening.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/
07...ailyUpdate.html
I'm thinking of changing my support from Lamont to Lieberman.
Leave aside the silly thing about "who you'd like to have a beer with." Let's try this -- who would you rather see in some widely-publicized photograph blowing coke off a shemale hooker's ass, Joe Lieberman or Ned Lamont?
Admit it. You'd prefer to see Lieberman in such a photograph.
Vaote for Joe! My logic is irrefutable.
Rain? In NYC?
get the hell outta here!
watertiger
And tomorrow Mayor Mike gets to hold a news conference wherein he says, "Unfortunately, the rain has delayed ConEd's repair efforts..."
Humor in a fascist state revolves around the powerful mocking & humiliating the powerless -- Howard Stern practices both form of humor, and doesn't seem to know the difference; all the right-wing "humor" is about mocking the oppressed -- gays, ethnic & religious minorities.
Gummo | 07.22.06 - 12:29 pm | #
it is the sickest, cruelest kind of humor. actually it isn't even humor. it is some kind of pathology
"Humor in a fascist state revolves around the powerful mocking & humiliating the powerless ... gays, ethnic & religious minorities."
then they call themselves "politically incorrect" and pat themselves on the back for being so brave. There was a DJ in Chicago in the 90's who made fun of retarded people on a regular basis, and whenever he got called on it claimed the liberal weenies were picking on him cause he had the "balls" to support Clinton's impeachment. and I could be wrong because I've never been able to stomach more than a few minutes of it, but isn't this Carlos Mencia's schtick, too?
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 12:30 pm |
Where do you get this? We had always admired Israeli infantry, although we expected severe downgrading for a number of reasons like their racism, the fact that none of them believe in the existentialist threat crap they sell to America or the fact that they are a totally different generation than the opne that won in '67. Still, we would expect them to be the best in the area.
How fucking stupid can Americans get?
k&y hate everyone - 12:16 pm
Search me. Every time I think we've touched bottom, it shatters like an exploding car's windshield and we're in free fall again.
i can hardly wait for limpballs to finally overdose
pigboy
But will it be Oxy-contin, a massive heart attack while banging a Dominican hooker, or one too many nights at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse?
ode to chimpy, from mushroom cloud's alter ego...
You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
and you keep losin' when you oughta not bet.
You keep samin' when you oughta be a changin'.
Now what's right is right, but you ain't been right yet.
These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
But will it be Oxy-contin, a massive heart attack while banging a Dominican hooker, or one too many nights at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse?
Buzz Bomb
Absolutely.
But will it be Oxy-contin, a massive heart attack while banging a Dominican hooker, or one too many nights at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse?
Buzz Bomb | 07.22.06 - 12:33 pm | #
Oh, one could hope for all of them at once........ ahhhhh.........
How fucking stupid can Americans get?
k&y hate everyone - 12:16 pm
Search me. Every time I think we've touched bottom, it shatters like an exploding car's windshield and we're in free fall again.
Little Brøther
k&y from my father, who is knowlegable about armed forces and military matters.
the Israelis have always relied first and formost on their tank and aircraft, this means that they have not focused on their infrantry as much.
Israel has very good tanks and a very good airforce (payed for by the US) but their infrantry is pretty poor.
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
Always kvetchin' about the heat.
We edited out "Hizbullah" because we are unaware of any Israeli efforts to actually fight Hizbullah. The Israelis themselves say they are punishing Lebanon as a nation for not killiong Hizbullah themselves.
k&y hate everyone
Most of these reports are spun in some way or another that you'd not be aware of if you knew nothing about the local situation.
Example that CSmonitor report I posted above, stated that the Ethiopian forces were "nominally" Christian.
That's stretching reality quite a bit.
At least half of Ethiopia is Moslem, and I'd expect that this is also true of their army.
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And tomorrow Mayor Mike gets to hold a news conference wherein he says, "Unfortunately, the rain has delayed ConEd's repair efforts..."
Well, you never try to fix electrical stuff in the rain.
Now I'm going to the gym.
I actually heard Bill Schneider on CNN say this Lebanon/Israel thing was good for Bush. It takes people's minds off Iraq which polls badly for him. In Schnieders mind what's happening in the ME will remind people of the war on terror and that's good for Bush.
My mind does not work the way Schneider's does apparently. Coz it makes me think Bush has made one enormous mess and doesn't know how to deal with any of it.
Neponset | 07.22.06 - 11:57 am | #
Schneider's considered one of the uberpollsters, right? Given that, I'd like to see a panel convened somewhere, with him invited to state his case to it, on this theme:
'Can William Schneider bring evidence of ANYthing he ever wrote or said, that shows he even slightly anticipated the President's free-fall in the polls, or should it be hereby resolved that William Schneider is a fraud, and by implication so is CNN, for presenting him as an expert?'
Doug--is there anyplace not in upheaval right now?
Lebanese Army officers are Christian and Sunni but the footsoliders are Shi'ite.
OT: Eight killed in twin Afghan suicide attacks
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Eight people were killed, including two foreign soldiers, in a two-pronged suicide attack in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday, police and a coalition spokesman said.
Major Scott Lundy, a spokesman for the U.S.-led force, said a suicide car bomber rammed a coalition convoy in the city of Kandahar on Saturday at 5:45 p.m.
"I can confirm that two coalition soldiers were killed and eight wounded in the suicide attack," Lundy told Reuters. He did not give their identities.
Police said at least one civilian was killed in that attack.
A second suicide bomber blew himself up a short time later at the same location, killing five Afghans, police said.
Kandahar's governor, Assadullah Khalid, said the bodies of two Afghans along with at least 30 wounded locals were brought to the city's main hospital.
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 12:35 pm |
An excellent point. It is also worth remembering that in cases of heavy overdependence on high-tech, such as America in Vietnam or Iraq in fighting Iran, it is always possible and usually cheaper to slosh on foot through a marsh. The more pieces to the war machine the more can go wrong.
That's what pissed people off in the 70s. It wasn't the high prices, it was the scarcity. Having to wait in long lines, or only being able to buy gas every other day.
Charles Nelson Reilly, somewhat effeminate raconteur during the 70s gas lines. On learning that based on his license plate number he could buy gas on dates that were even said...
"I'm so thrilled, because all my life people have told me I'm odd."
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I'd imagine it gets pretty warm inside those tanks.
Israeli troops seize Lebanese village
Saturday 22 July 2006, 18:18 Makka Time, 15:18 GMT
Some 2,000 Israeli troops entered Lebanon on Saturday
Hundreds of Israeli troops have crossed the border and taken control of a village in south Lebanon, despite Israel saying it has no plans for a full-scale invasion for now.
Israeli soldiers, backed by artillery and tank fire, moved into the village of Maroun al-Ras on Saturday and took control, military officials said on condition of anonymity.
Israeli tanks, bulldozers and armoured personnel carriers knocked down a border fence and entered the area at about 3pm.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...BC9219E0454.htm
I feel bad for the people in Astoria but am glad it didn't happen here in Southeast Queens.
We were the last to get our power back in the last citywide blackout.
Con Ed's reasoning: If we wanted anything we could just cross the border into Lawn Guyland.
However, Israel has insisted it has no plans for a large-scale invasion.
Israel is calling up reserves and massing units on the Lebanese border because that is the only place those units and reservists can be put! It's not for an invasion! It's storage!
k&y hate everyone | 07.22.06 - 12:28 pm
Maybe Israel should use those PODS I keep seeing advertised. It would probably be more cost effective.
is there anyplace not in upheaval right now?
Other than my impending move, which has my house in upheaval, my yard is pretty quiet, except for the grackles, and swifts which have declared war on bugs.
I love the "knocked down a fence" angle. Woo!
Is it true that the Unitard™ offered to drive Angela Merkel to the airport, with the intention of stopping short? 
a few nights back I watched an interview on BBC 2's current affair's show Newsnight and they interviewed this Israeli politican or general, I forget which, anyways he said that the IDF does not always tell the Israeli government what they are going to do.
he also said that the IDF was basing their response to the kidnapping of soldiers on the British model.
If you recall we tore apart an Iraqi prision to get two of our soldiers out.
But will it be Oxy-contin, a massive heart attack while banging a Dominican hooker, or one too many nights at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse?
Buzz Bomb
Oxy-contin precipitating a massive heart attack while banging a Dominican hooker at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse?
Buzz Bomb
the British army also does not always tell the British government what they plan to do.
'Can William Schneider bring evidence of ANYthing he ever wrote or said, that shows he even slightly anticipated the President's free-fall in the polls
"The press never eats its crow."
This may not be the only true thing Rahm Emanuel ever said, though it's the only one that comes to mind.
But brother, it's true in spades.
I actually heard [paid Republican Party operative] Bill Schneider on CNN say this Lebanon/Israel thing was good for Bush. It takes people's minds off Iraq which polls badly for him. In Schnieders mind what's happening in the ME will remind people of the war on terror and that's good for Bush.
Okay, so [START] Israel will distract people from Iraq, even though [TURN] they're both in the same region, and this will be good for Bush because [TURN] it will remind folks of the War on Terror even though [TURN] we thought Iraq was the flypaper centerpiece of the War on Terror.
Why is Schneider paid anything? Why doesn't he have to take it up the ass for a living? A man that dumb...
Marcia B--I love the way you think.
But you knew that.
I don't want Rush to go out having sex. That'd be too good for him. I'd rather he just explode like Mr. Creosote.
Iraqi speaker decries US 'butchery'
Saturday 22 July 2006, 18:08 Makka Time, 15:08 GMT
US troops were roundly condemned in the speech
US forces have committed butchery in Iraq and should leave, the speaker of the country's parliament has said.
Mahmoud al-Mashhadani was speaking on Saturday at a UN-sponsored conference on transitional justice and reconciliation in Baghdad.
"Just get your hands off Iraq and the Iraqi people and Muslim countries, and everything will be all right," he said in a speech as the conference opened.
"What has been done in Iraq is a kind of butchery of the Iraqi people."
He also criticised US support for Israeli attacks against Lebanon.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...BC50A43F541.htm
Israel Lets Aid in As Lebanese Flee North
With fears of a humanitarian crisis growing, Israel opened up its blockade of Lebanon's ports to allow the first shiploads of aid to arrive, and tens of thousands of Lebanese fled north to escape Israeli army incursions.
Some 35,000 Lebanese filled the southern port town of Sidon as they searched for a place to stay or a way to get farther north. With the town of 100,000 unable to absorb more refugees, many families were joining Palestinians in a refugee camp.
Israel lifted its sea blockade Friday after Israel's U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman said his country would open a humanitarian corridor for food, medicine and other supplies.
A Greek warship carrying 22 tons of humanitarian supplies arrived Friday in Beirut, followed Saturday by another with 14 tons of supplies, the Greek Foreign Ministry said. An Italian navy ship was expected the next day.
has CNN ever mentioned that Schneider is a senior fellow (or whatever they call being on the pad for Coors/Scaife) at AEI?
But brother, it's true in spades.
SteveLG | 07.22.06 - 12:41 pm |
Everything that slimeball says is a lie and this is no exception. The press is very quick to apologize to the Bush administration and they would be to Democrats if said cowards would grow some spines and make them.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook...?
articleid=9390
It's a gloomy, muggy day here in northern New Jersey--here's an analysis of Israel's strategies and goals in the current Lebanon invasion, which are just like the old one.
Read and get in tune with with the gloom.
Via antiwar.com, Jonathan Cook, a writer based in Nazareth.
The true reasons for these deaths are concealed from credulous observers by Israel's use of Orwellian language. When it says it is destroying the "infrastructure of terror," Israel means it is crushing all Arab resistance to its territorial ambitions in the region. The "infrastructure" includes most Arab men, women and children because they continue to support – against Israel's wishes – their peoples' rights to self-determination without interference from the Israeli army.
I have often wondered why Israel's leaders were, seemingly, deliberately weakening the secular leaders among the Palentinians (recall that Israel helped set up Hamas as a foil to the PLA) and destroying the very social, political, and religious tolerance which would make coexistence feasible. According the Cook, one of the reasons is to push the Arab populations toward extremists, through weakening the secularists and moderates and by making governing impossible so that the only help comes from the Islamists, so that they all will be viewed by the West as just part of those Islamists who are terrists.
Oh, shit. Seems to be working.
What I really wanna know is:
why the fuck is George Bush allowing the bombing of one of the only places in the entire eastern Med with decent waves???
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/07/2...d.ap/
index.html
Is it just me or does the term "beyond a reasonable doubt" take a beating when a guy is accused and convicted 17 years after the fact ?
Must be something more to this story than what we are hearing.
I'll be the last to defend Bolton as UN ambassador but he carefully tip toed around the statement of moral equivalence by including intent. He may be deranged but he is shrewd too.
His POV - terrorists target civilians.
Israel targets terrorists and...well sometime civilians get blown up.
That's where he hangs his moral equation - intention.
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Agent Orange | 07.22.06 - 12:00 pm | #
(Sorry to lag so far behind, but I just came here and scrolled back a half hour.)
Intention. Right. To the degree that Israel knows its bombsnrockets are going to kill civilians, based on the relevant logistical factors going in, how to any fairminded person's mind can they claim non-intention? (This directed at Bolton, of course, and not the poster.)
'Can William Schneider bring evidence of ANYthing he ever wrote or said, that shows he even slightly anticipated the President's free-fall in the polls
"The press never eats its crow."
Looking back through old copies of 'The Nation' magazine, it's really quite astonishing how right their covers have been it predicting future trends in this war mess.
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What is wrong with this bitch... she sees this as a good thing... the people of lebanon are going to get fucked big time.
Rice sees bombs as birth pangs
Saturday 22 July 2006, 13:44 Makka Time, 10:44 GMT
Rice says she has been in constant contact with Ehud Olmert
Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.
"This is a different Middle East. It's a new Middle East. It's hard, We're going through a very violent time," the US secretary of state said.
"A ceasefire would be a false promise if it simply returns us to the status quo.
"Such a step would allow terrorists to launch attacks at the time and terms of their choosing and to threaten innocent people, Arab and Israeli, throughout the region."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...48836DD2A59.htm
you can read my opinion on the current state of affairs here
AEI: DC's Boys' and Girls' Club for neocons.
Moonboo--seems the Israelis have learned a lesson from the ethnic cleansing attempt is Kosovo: Look just a little bit concerned about humanitarian needs and you can bomb the shit out just about anyone not in favor with the US. Plus, they limit the video of starving kids, always a way to arouse sympathy for the starving group.
No, open up a safe passage and look like good guys. They definitely lost points for bombing the relief trucks with some countries.
Charles Nelson Reilly, somewhat effeminate raconteur during the 70s ...
I think back to the 50's, 60's and 70's when so many like CNR were popular: Paul Lynde, Liberace (duh), Johnny Mathis and countless others. There seemed to be something almost comforting about them to the American viewing public of that time.
What they were doing in their off-hours seemed not to concern people (although I was a mere pup and the time and might not have been paying close enough attention).
Vaote for Joe! My logic is irrefutable.
Thers, Now with Minions!
I don't like you anymore.
is there anyplace not in upheaval right now?
there is a tiny vacant spot that is perfectly undisturbed by anything. it lies just above two beady little eyes and betwixed two extended simian like ears...
Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East"
I knows about birthing Middle Easts!
why the fuck is George Bush allowing the bombing of one of the only places in the entire eastern Med with decent waves???
Charlie don't surf!
*YAAAAAWWWWWNNNN*
I'd say Good Morning but, well, you know.
Yay! We get to babysit today!
& Brit Humes praises Taliban:
http://tinyurl.com/f3m2b
Rasmussen poll has Lamont over JoMo, 51-41 in primary, dead even in general at 40-40.
Both voted "present". I actually like that better than voting "nay" because to my mind it shows disdain for even having the resolution offered.
NTodd, Intertube Master | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 10:24 am |
Damn right! I'm amazed the Dems haven't glommed onto this tactic of showing disdain--can't be said to vote against, just show it's a non-issue.
jawbone it shows a clear lack of ideas or policies on the Israelis part.
they withdrew from both the Gaza Strip and Southern Lebanon yet Hezbollah and Hamas still manage to kidnap two soldiers and with Hezbollah launch rockets.
This show what a faliure these policies were, and now they are falling back on that old standard - brute force.
Rice - It's a new Middle East.
Like Rumsfeld's "old Europe" and "new Europe". Same shit, different mouth.
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I don't want Rush to go out having sex. That'd be too good for him. I'd rather he just explode like Mr. Creosote.
Buzz Bomb
Okay, we can work this out:
Oxy-contin precipitating a massive heart attack after hearing he will be nationally outed over banging a male Dominican hooker at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse?
Buzz Bomb
Buzz Bomb
my mother is cooking a Tunisian dish for tea tonight.
it is called Macaroni au Gratin.
Rasmussen poll has Lamont over JoMo, 51-41 in primary, dead even in general at 40-40.
DemByDefault
Saw that earlier and made my day. I am sitting here now doing my part by filling out postcards encouraging Democrats to vote Aug 8th for Lamont.
Rice sees bombs as birth pangs
Saturday 22 July 2006, 13:44 Makka Time, 10:44 GMT
fuckin bint needs acoupla 20mm cannon shells to off between those stick-legs of hers...
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Vaote for Joe! My logic is irrefutable.
Thers, Now with Minions!
I don't like you anymore.
missy's brother
I'm sure he meant irredeemable.
Time for a late breffix.
A week of schlepping through this rancid and dank superheated steambath, including a commute on shuttle buses because the El is partly shut down for construction*, has truly wiped me out. 
*They began the massive El overhaul in 2000, announcing it as a 5-year plan. I read somewhere recently that they're now saying we're in Year 2 of a 4-year plan.
Rasmussen poll has Lamont over Liebermann, 51-41 in primary, tied in general at 40-40.
To the inhabitants of villages south of the Litani Rivier. Because of Hezbollah terrorist operations against the State of Israel launched from inside your villages and homes, Israel will defend itself against theses operations and will enter your villages. For your safety we ask you to leave your villages as quickly as possible and go north of the Litani River [But Israel has bombed all the bridges]. Signed, the State of Israel.
Since the refugees can't cross the river anymore, they are headed for the heights. So Israeli fires at their cars and pickups as they head for the town of Marjayoun, swollen with refugees.
The Sunni States are in major fear of Iran's power and influence and a Shia crescent running from
Afghanistan to Beirut.
Rice sees bombs as birth pangs
Saturday 22 July 2006, 13:44 Makka Time, 10:44 GMT
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Aww, Israel gets its own colony now?
Although I did recently have a half a tankful stolen out of my truck while it was parked at the dealer for several days getting repaired. I nearly ended up stranded; I was lucky I noticed in time.
A friend in CO told me yesterday that people are siphoning gas from tanks of cars parked in lots at malls and supermarkets.
But will it be Oxy-contin, a massive heart attack while banging a Dominican hooker, or one too many nights at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse?
Buzz Bomb | 07.22.06 - 12:33 pm | #
Oh, one could hope for all of them at once........ ahhhhh.........
Trifecta!
A friend in CO told me yesterday that people are siphoning gas from tanks of cars parked in lots at malls and supermarkets.
Ah, welcome back to the 70s! 'course, most cars now have lockable caps these days, unlike back then...
Somali Islamists and government clash
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist militia briefly fought government forces on Saturday -- the first clash between the two sides and one that many Somalis fear may signal a slide to war in the Horn of Africa country.
Government militia seized and set on fire two "technicals" -- heavily armed pickup trucks that are Somalia's version of tanks -- in fighting in the remote Qoryooley district, an Islamist source told Reuters.
There was no word on any casualties in the clash, the first since Islamists captured Mogadishu from warlords on June 5, challenging the slim authority of President Abdullahi Yusuf's Western-backed government.
Witnesses said government forces brought one of the Islamists' battlewagons back to Baidoa, the government's provincial base, bolstered by the reported deployment of Ethiopian troops across the border in recent days.
Somali Islamists and government clash
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist militia briefly fought government forces on Saturday -- the first clash between the two sides and one that many Somalis fear may signal a slide to war in the Horn of Africa country.
Government militia seized and set on fire two "technicals" -- heavily armed pickup trucks that are Somalia's version of tanks -- in fighting in the remote Qoryooley district, an Islamist source told Reuters.
There was no word on any casualties in the clash, the first since Islamists captured Mogadishu from warlords on June 5, challenging the slim authority of President Abdullahi Yusuf's Western-backed government.
Witnesses said government forces brought one of the Islamists' battlewagons back to Baidoa, the government's provincial base, bolstered by the reported deployment of Ethiopian troops across the border in recent days.
What is wrong with this bitch... she sees this as a good thing... the people of lebanon are going to get fucked big time.
Rice sees bombs as birth pangs
Who the hell is she going to talk to anyway. We won't talk to Hamas or Hezbollah. We won't talk to Syria or Iran. We've already talked to Olmert. Maybe she'll talk to Siniora. But seriously, what's she going to do anyway. Tell everyone they should be democracies? Israel and Lebanon are. Now what?
A friend in CO told me yesterday that people are siphoning gas from tanks of cars parked in lots at malls and supermarkets.
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Think of the growth opportunities in breath mints, though.
Condi and bombing Lebanon as "birth pangs" of democracy:
BushBoy and the Neocons do not believe right to life extends to anyone not a BFF, supporter of BushBoy, supporter of Neocons, a blastocyst, an embryo, or foetus.
The last three only apply to same in acceptable human beings and right to life does not apply if mothers are not supporters of BushBoy and the Neocons--especially if they are foreigners, even more so if the wrong foreigners..
A few human beings obliterated? Not to be worried about, dear voters, unless they can be used for purposes of electing Rethugs.
Grrrrrrr.
A friend in CO told me yesterday that people are siphoning gas from tanks of cars parked in lots at malls and supermarkets.
Otto, here is the school district's 'credit card'/Principal Skinner
Rush Limbaugh - "Erection on loan from Viagra"
A friend in CO told me yesterday that people are siphoning gas from tanks of cars parked in lots at malls and supermarkets.
I was cleaning out a storage shed and found this crappy repair kit someone had given me. None of the tools inside were worth keeping, but I was amused at one item included in the kit, a gas siphoning hose, with a small pump and one way valve so you'd not have to suck on the hose, and possibly get gas in your mouth.
A few human beings obliterated? Not to be worried about, dear voters, unless they can be used for purposes of electing Rethugs
I mean after all, those Ay-rabs started it on 9/11. We're the good guys. It's their fault.
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The ancient and lovely city of Tyre, now aflame and under bombardment.
NTodd, wow. You do a good job with the pictures on Atriot Companions and they aren't even "fussy or bleary"!
Yay! Fuzzy math...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says Con Ed estimates that between 15,000 and 20,000 customers are still without power, but since one electric meter can serve a building with many people, the number of people affected could still be as high as 100,000.
Wow, GWB is exporting the success he's had to New Orleans.
New Orleans, Getting Less Power, May Pay More
By ADAM NOSSITER
NEW ORLEANS, July 21 — To the list of daily aggravations in the new New Orleans, add one that augments the heat, spoils the food and drains the cash register: power failures.
The wind blows and a neighborhood’s power goes out. Or it rains and the power goes out somewhere else. Thunder crashes distantly and out goes the power.
Ten months after Hurricane Katrina, the city still does not have a reliable electrical system. Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of repairs are still needed on a system devastated by flooding, the local utility is in bankruptcy and less than half the system’s prestorm customers have returned. Of those who have, many have endured hot and sleepless nights with no air-conditioning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/
2...agewanted=print
NEW YORK (AP) - An Algerian man believed to be the last domestic detainee still in custody from a national dragnet after Sept. 11 - and who was cleared of links to terrorism in November 2001 - was set free this week, his lawyer said Friday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
worldl...5967405,00.html
Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Rasmussen poll has Lamont over Liebermann, 51-41 in primary, tied in general at 40-40.
Stalon | 07.22.06 - 12:52 pm | #
wrt the tied-in-the-general part: verrrry interesting. Heard Tony Blankley on NPR ('left right & center') yesterday putting forth the meme that 'Lieberman likely loses the primary but wins the general handily, 57% of the vote.'
What a fat pile of shit.
meant "fuzzy or bleary". sorry too much pleasure last night.
The sun is out in my neighborhood of NYC.
Why doesn't he have to take it up the ass for a living?
Why should he enjoy the pleasures of taking it up the ass?
For your safety we ask you to leave your villages as quickly as possible and go north of the Litani River [But Israel has bombed all the bridges]. Signed, the State of Israel.
Signed by the state of Israel, financed and armed by the U.S.
Oh, Nur, Nur, Nur--your blog recounts such horrors. What can be done????
A few human beings obliterated? Not to be worried about, dear voters, unless they can be used for purposes of electing Rethugs
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Nonsense. I've never heard any of them refer to arabs as human beings.
NEW YORK (AP) - An Algerian man believed to be the last domestic detainee still in custody from a national dragnet after Sept. 11 - and who was cleared of links to terrorism in November 2001 - was set free this week, his lawyer said Friday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ worldl...5967405,00.html
Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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QuentinCompson
This, along with the news that Katrina trailer-dwellers must be chaperoned when speaking to the press, might cause one to claim we are actually living in a police state.
ao - res is putting together a mini-eschacon ii over Columbus day. If you want to be on the email list send me an addy. That goes for anyone else who just happens to be the hood.
quiltsquito@operamail.com
I feel for the half-million without power in St. Louis, where the heat and storms have been brutal.
Marcie, I heard that Con Ed gave as one reason for the low numbers of people affected by the outages/brown outs in Queens that they only counted the people who had called in to register their outage!!!
Don't know about you, but where I live, if a neighbor has called an area or block-wide outage, we do not all call. Figure it's not worth the aggro.
Fuzzy thinking and fuzzy math.
Israel Begins Occupation with 'Land Operation'
Israel launched limited land operations in southern Lebanon and deployed soldiers at the border, a broader scope of operations and took control of a Lebanese village.
An Israeli military offial, asking to remain anonymous, stated that the Israeli army bombarded the Lebanese side of the border through the night and opened a gate for a possible land operation, entered the village of Marun Erras and took control of the village.
Israeli airplanes dropped a half-ton bomb on the Hezbollah posts at a distance roughly 500 metres into the Lebanese border, reporters said.
White House Calls on Jewish Groups to Line Up Behind Bolton
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/
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Mz mena, you got to sleep in today? Huzzah!
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Via MediaChannel.org — Jim Lobe of IPS reports:
”WASHINGTON, Jul 21 (IPS) - Washington's strong backing -- hedged by occasional calls for restraint -- for Israel's 10-day-old military campaign in Lebanon has won it very few friends in the Arab world, despite recent criticism of Hezbollah by pro-U.S. governments in the region, according to a range of regional and foreign policy experts.
On the contrary, most experts believe Washington's refusal so far to rein in Israel, which Friday began massing thousands of soldiers along its northern border in preparation for a ground invasion, marks a serious setback in its long-term efforts to win Arab and Muslim "hearts and minds" in the wider "war on terror."
I feel for the half-million without power in St. Louis, where the heat and storms have been brutal.
Aye. A goodly part of Stef's fam, including her grandmother, lives there. I haven't heard how they are doing.
On the contrary, most experts believe Washington's refusal so far to rein in Israel, which Friday began massing thousands of soldiers along its northern border in preparation for a ground invasion, marks a serious setback in its long-term efforts to win Arab and Muslim "hearts and minds" in the wider "war on terror."
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You think, maybe? But we're the "honest brokers!"
Sleeping in is just the best, monica.
Amerian (USian) Jews calling for an immediate CEASEFIRE IN LEBANON.
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/
Laura Flanders tonight is going to be broadcasting live at the 2006 National Hip Hop Political Convention.
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Today, several reports have come to The Washington Note that Jay Zeidman, the influential 24-year old White House liaison to the Jewish community, is putting out the call to prominent American Jewish organizations to support John Bolton -- with the arm-twisting innuendo that in this time of crisis in the Middle East, American Jews need to line up behind the guy Jesse Helms said "is the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon, if it should be my lot to be on hand for what is forecast to be the final battle between good and evil in this world."
That's exactly the kind of unstable world that Bolton seems constantly trying to stir up.
Fucking cowards.
Hezbollah to Reject U.S. Proposal for Lebanon Border (Update1)
July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Hezbollah will reject a U.S. proposal to deploy an international military force on the Lebanese-Israeli border, said Ali Fayyad, a member of the Shiite Muslim organization's leadership.
``A force that will act as a deterrent to Hezbollah would be an instrument to defend Israel without taking Lebanon's interest into consideration,'' Fayyad, a member of Hezbollah's policy- making central council, said in a phone interview today. ``We don't accept that.'' He declined to specify his location in Lebanon, citing security reasons.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday said she wants an international force ``robust enough'' to oust Hezbollah from southern Lebanon as part of the resolution of the current conflict in the region. Rice will travel tomorrow to meet with Palestinian and Israeli officials, and then will meet with other nations in Rome on July 26 to discuss the fighting in Lebanon.
The conflict is now in its 11th day, and Israel and the Hezbollah militia have vowed to continue the fighting that has left more than 300 Lebanese and 34 Israelis dead since it began July 12 when Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers.
On c-span2/BookTV now -
Steve Freeman and Greg Palast will be in New York this Saturday, July
22, 2006 at the Harlem Book Fair http://www.qbr.com speaking on a
panel on "A Matter of Trust: Integrity and the US Electoral System"
http://www.qbr.com/page6035.asp .
Time: 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
The event takes place at the Schomburg Center (Langston Hughes
Auditorium) 515 Malcolm X Blvd. @ W.135th Street
Other panelists are:
my co-author. Joel Bleifuss (Was the 2004 Presidential Election
Stolen?: Exit Polls, and the Official Count),
John McWhorter (Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America),
Paul Robeson, Jr. (A Black Way of Seeing),
Greg Palast (Armed Madhouse),
Peniel E. Joseph (Waiting Until the Midnight Hour)
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Several Palestinian factions, working with Egyptian
mediators, have proposed a cease-fire in Gaza to begin at midnight local time.
Ex-Navy officials accused of fraud
Suit alleges plot to get Iraq contracts
By DEBORAH HASTINGS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two former Pentagon officials, including an acting secretary of the Navy, have been accused of scheming with a banned American contractor to get lucrative rebuilding contracts in Iraq, The Associated Press has learned.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/
na...09_fraud22.html
greg palast is totally unreliable...
he insists the 2004 'electile dysfunction' was actually a case of out-right vote theft...
the nerve of the man
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Mornin Woody. How's them dawgs today?
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser
In echoes of Gore 2000, media still robotically report fake "facts" that confirm false storylines
On July 16, The New York Times posted to its website an article by Anne E. Kornblut about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) recent trip to Arkansas. Kornblut, one of the Times' official Hillary beat (or is it Beat Hillary?) reporters, claimed that Clinton had blasted fellow Democrats for "wasting time" and "for taking on issues that arouse conservatives and turn out Republican voters rather than finding consensus on mainstream subjects."
But the targets of Clinton's criticism, as was clear from a transcript of her remarks, were Republicans, not fellow Democrats. Despite the glaring error -- pointed out within hours by weblogs including Eschaton (written by Duncan Black, who is also a senior fellow at Media Matters for America), Americablog, and Daily Kos -- the Times left the article online, uncorrected, all day.
afternoon, gang. some thoughts about what's going on in this mess. yes, i've returned to blogging as the addict returns to the pipe.
I had forgotten what a powerful presense John Kerry could be while speaking. One guy even addressed him as Mr. President.
AP: Soldiers Say They Were Ordered to Kill All Adult Males
EL PASO Four U.S. soldiers accused of murdering suspected insurgents during a raid in Iraq said they were under orders to "kill all military age males," according to sworn statements obtained by The Associated Press.
http://
www.editorandpublisher.co...t_id=1002877916
Were they "suspected insurgents" or were they just military aged males? And who gave the order to kill all military age males?
Pat Toomey's a real headcase.
He reminds me of the beaut who ran for governor here in NJ (back in 2001) and got crushed, Brett Schundler.
He was mayor of this town in North NJ and the City Counsel there even came out for him.
Schundler was one of these dems who got a man crush on Ronnie Reagan back in 1984. He sold out.
He went all the way around the bend - didn't even believe that abortion should be available when a woman's life is in danger.
A blastocyst is much more important than a woman, you know.
Yeah, he got his hand handed to him.
Sorry - just got up.
Got his ASS handed to him!
He was mayor of this town in North NJ and the City Counsel there even came out AGAINST him.
Sorry, again.
Not fully awake yet.
BTW, how can Shrub reasonably be expected to be a legitimate peacebroker in the Middle East when he is invading Arab countries without provocation and selling bunker buster bombs to Israel so that they can go after Lebanon, I mean Hezbollah, more effectively?
The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which some military officers see as a sign of a longer campaign ahead.
Oh Goody!
AP: Soldiers Say They Were Ordered to Kill All Adult Males
I saw this last night.
Still makes me sick!
from booman:
Billary and Schmoe
A Daily Kos member, and Rasmussen poll subscriber, is reporting that Lieberman is doing very poorly in a poll to be released publicly early next week.
here are the numbers primary NED 51% JOE 41% general NED 40% JOE 40% GOP CAND 13% that`s all he said. specific data to come later.
I hope those numbers are true and accurate. If they are, things look very good for Lamont. Meanwhile, the Big Dog will be doing a big rally for Joseph L. on Monday in Waterbury. You can enter into a lottery if you want to attend. The Clintons continue their slide from liberal heroes into our sworn enemies.
AP: Soldiers Say They Were Ordered to Kill All Adult Males
Were they allowed to keep all the underage girls, too?
I'm going to go use some of my power tools now and then start drinking. It just seems right.
The Clintons continue their slide from liberal heroes into our sworn enemies.
They were never liberal heroes, and as much as I don't like some of their politics, they aren't our sworn enemies.
Soldiers are also ALWAYS under orders to disobey illegal orders.
It just seems right.
I recommend drinking first. (hic)
I'm going to go use some of my power tools now and then start drinking. It just seems right.
The order in which you have placed these seems indisputably correct. Be safe and have fun.
AP: Soldiers Say They Were Ordered to Kill All Adult Males
whtf?
and does King Herod know?
The Clintons continue their slide from liberal heroes into our sworn enemies.
portia - 1:26 pm
Bill Clinton's NO KINDA LIBERAL!!!!and neigher is Hillary...
mofo's politics are to the RIGHT of Richard Nixon's ferchrissake...
there has never been a principle the motherfucker wouldn't betray for a temporary political advantage...
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The Clintons continue their slide from DLC heroes into regular DLC politicans.
They were never liberal heroes, and as much as I don't like some of their politics, they aren't our sworn enemies.
NTodd
You mean you can like someone even if they don't agree with your opinions 100%? What kind of stand is that? Just proves you liberals are wishy washy and it's no wonder that nobody knows where you stand on the issues.
(it was Herod's order, absolving the US chain of command)
I'm going to go use some of my power tools now and then start drinking. It just seems right.
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Just remember to put your hair up and remove any dangly necklaces, etc. And eat something with your liquor. Cheers!
Soldiers are also ALWAYS under orders to disobey illegal orders.
Yes, that's often forgotten.
I'm going to go use some of my power tools now and then start drinking. It just seems right.
GWPDA Broadsword of Compassion | - 1:29 pm
did that crack in the plaster fix-up okay?
They were never liberal heroes, and as much as I don't like some of their politics, they aren't our sworn enemies.
NTodd
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Again with the nuance.
They were never liberal heroes, and as much as I don't like some of their politics, they aren't our sworn enemies.
NTodd
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Again with the nuance.
Soldiers are also ALWAYS under orders to disobey illegal orders.
Yes, that's often forgotten.
NTodd, Intertube Master - 1:33 pm
and MUCH easier said than done....
They were never liberal heroes, and as much as I don't like some of their politics, they aren't our sworn enemies.
NTodd, Intertube Master
They, like Joe L. were liberals - at one time - a long long long time ago.
Now all three are centrists DLCers (third way).
I agree that Bill and Hill are not our sworn enemies, but they do disappoint, lately.
The order in which you have placed these seems indisputably correct.
Nothing could be safer than getting drunk and forgetting all about stupid machinery. Other than the fridge, of course.
i'm on cocktail duities tonight here in Chez Moonbootica
The Clintons continue their slide from liberal heroes into our sworn enemies.
Lighten up, Francis.
Bush is MY enemy.
The Clintons continue their slide from liberal heroes into our sworn enemies.
That's just silly on both counts.
You lucky girl, Moonbootica! What a powerful position!
You mean you can like someone even if they don't agree with your opinions 100%? What kind of stand is that?
Sorry. I'm just a big fucking, liberal pussy.
gosh, folks sure are angry. i hope everyone can either have a drink/smoke and a moment of peace, or find something to channel the anger towards. don't let rage consume you, beloved moonbats. in the end, it destroys only you.
Hahahaha, I'm watching the British Open as I surf the blogs and BP has an ad outlining their --wait for it-- use of biofuels. Take *that* Atrios!
plantsman, yeah, its fun!
one of my past christmas presents was a proper silver cocktail maker and a set of 6 Martini glasses
They, like Joe L. were liberals - at one time - a long long long time ago.
Yes, they were libs, but not "heroes" at the time. The Clintons that most people refer to today are, as you note, the "centrist" triangulators. I voted for Bill twice, and he does often disappoint. And sometimes still inspires.
Hahahaha, I'm watching the British Open as I surf the blogs and BP has an ad outlining their --wait for it-- use of biofuels. Take *that* Atrios!
gosh, folks sure are angry. i hope everyone can either have a drink/smoke and a moment of peace, or find something to channel the anger towards. don't let rage consume you, beloved moonbats. in the end, it destroys only you.
chicago dyke
Go away, you're mellowing my harsh.
Condi and bombing Lebanon as "birth pangs" of democracy:
Birth pangs and democracy are two things that bitch knows NOTHING about!
gosh, folks sure are angry.
I'm not angry. I just don't think filling Israel's special order for precision guided bunker busters is the best way to convince Arabs that your peace overtures are real.
oh i'm less angry and more despairing reading the news from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
I spoke to my Rafah nurse friend today, he told me that his hospital is very busy at the moment, he has been staying there for about a week.
just today he had to deal with 6 casulties.
I voted for Bill twice, and he does often disappoint. And sometimes still inspires.
NTodd, Intertube Master |
WORD!
Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.
Her capacity for calm and cool detachment from the horrors of war and violence is astounding. What an inappropriate metaphor.
Are the people in this administration just sick in the head? What is wrong with them?
My Thoughts on the current crisis in the Lebanon
chi dyke
I am not raging, just so fucking depressed that we don't seem to have made any progress toward civilized behavior in my lifetime. There was a glimmer of hope after the USSR fell that maybe all the money we were spending on armaments would be spent on healthcare, schools, childcare, education, etc. Alas.
The quote about the Clintons is by Booman - when I cut and paste - I try to give the whole quote without taking it in its entirety.
I don't agree with Booman that the Clintons are our sworn enemies - but I'll repeat - they disappoint!! All Centrists do - because they straddle the line, and because they don't passionately advance the progressive point of view/policies. Everything is measured.
Some people in the Democratic party think that this is a good strategy. It's not.
one of my past christmas presents was a proper silver cocktail maker and a set of 6 Martini glasses
I got a plastic shaker from Longhorns. It has a little cowboy hat for a top.
greg palast is totally unreliable...
he insists the 2004 'electile dysfunction' was actually a case of out-right vote theft...
the nerve of the man
/borrowing ntodd's fabled nuance/
palast tends to be a little sloppy, and has made a fool of himself more than once, but he's not worth wholly writing off. just as a lot of us write without all the information we need to make a good analysis that's equally critical and daring enough, palast has barked up a couple of the wrong trees, but lots of the right ones.
people looking for sober work on voting issues should follow bradblog, who gets waaaaay less attention and credit than he should. he never makes a claim he can't back up with fact, just as he's never afraid to call a spade a spade, and demand that elections not be called secure and fair without proof.
I don't feel particularly angry today. The disgust won't go away though.
Now fer some good news:
I think i've persuaded Mena to join the Escha-Fair in ABQ, sept 16...
that'll mean GWPDrJane, NMRed, Agave, Olaf, Diane, Ruth, Mena, mebbe Katie, me 'n anybody else who wantsa come by...lemme know...i'll procure a keg of some good local brew, fix up a buncha beans, chile verde, carne adobado, and mebbe some green chile/cheesse corn bread...
all y'all c'mon...
Moonboo, perhaps you might want to temporarily change your handle to "Moonbootica, Mixologist".
Soldiers are also ALWAYS under orders to disobey illegal orders.
Yes, that's often forgotten.
NTodd, Intertube Master - 1:33 pm
and MUCH easier said than done....
I was in during the Vietnam conflict and witnessed several soldiers attempts in one way or another to end their service. Of of these, which as I think about it numbered 15, only one was totally successful. The rest ended in jail, got dishonorable discharges, and one that last I heard of was still being looked for since he just went AWOL. That last one was a soldier who'd been in about 8 years, and had some amount of rank, an E-6 if I remember right. None of these guys were combat arms people but ones who had been vetted, as reliable people, with responsible jobs. (detailed FBI background investigations to get those jobs).
It's not easy to deny the military their right to order you to do anything.
Little Brøther tee hee cool!
I just heard that 100 Palestinians have died in Gaza
from Israeli hostilities. This is the first I had heard of Palestian casualties. Oh, and Surgical, my pasty bum!
What is wrong with them?
Drunk with power and visions of permanent republican majorities.
one of my past christmas presents was a proper silver cocktail maker and a set of 6 Martini glasses
Moonbootica
I'll have a Gibson, please.
It's not easy to deny the military their right to order you to do anything.
Indeed not.
missy's brother you are a hero.
Unfortunately the only way I know how to channel my anger is to take it out on a credit card.
I only end up hurting myself.
So I'll take a nap.
JR sure
*hands JR a Gibson*
I think i've persuaded Mena to join the Escha-Fair in ABQ, sept 16...
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Which is probably why my mood is so good at the moment.
Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.
Some birth.
Apparently she hasn't seen Rosemary's Baby.
Now that you mention it, I wouldn't say no to a Bloody Mary, Moonboo.
I don't know what you're going to do with all the Amerikan currency dropped into your tip glass, though.
Al-Jazzeera and Al-Arabiya allege their news teams have been under attack from Israeli troops so they cannot cover hostilities.
Tannis, Condi?
plantsman, yeah, I was watching a report by an Al Jazeera reporter and she was nearly run down by this humvee, her camerman was unfortuanly not as lucky and was rushed off to hospital.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Guerrilla groups in the Gaza Strip have agreed to stop firing missiles at Israel at midnight Saturday, senior Palestinian officials said.
The unilateral ceasefire is aimed at ending an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip that began June 28. ...
... More than 100 Palestinians have been killed since then in daily attacks by Israeli warplanes, tanks and artillery, and the militants have fired hundreds of homemade rockets at southern Israel. ...
...The Israeli Defence Forces said it had no immediate comment on the Palestinian ceasefire. ...
Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.
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Warmongers are always trying to equate warmaking with birth. They think because there's blood involved with both that somehow it legitimizes their homicidal tendencies. It's grotesque to hear it coming from a woman.
*gives Little Brøther a bloody mary*
ql- it's my love for you all that makes me speak so. i understand despair, truly i do, as well as anger. to be frank, that's where i've lived for the last six years. and the question becomes: what do i have to show for it? other than serious liver damage, not much.
i posted for the first time in a long time at corrente this morning, because i have some personal reasons to hope in my life, and i'm taking strength from that and trying to change my attitudes. and more important, get something done. i think that's what kills most of us, beyond the anger and despair. helplessness is a horrible feeling for any animal, let alone a thinking one. which is why i think we can't let ourselves be the victims any longer, prey to narratives of 'what more can we do' and 'it's not our fault' and 'i feel so angry.'
i'm still working out other thoughts, but go over and read it if you want and leave me a comment. and know that you have loving friends, here and elsewhere, who (metaphorically) take your hand and offer you a shoulder in this dark time.
i'm on cocktail duities tonight here in Chez Moonbootica
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
Somehow I always want to go read Maeve Binchy after you make a comment like this.
I once gave an absinthe spoon as a wedding gift. I think they used it to serve pie until the divorce.
Hi.
Breaking:
The Star Tribune has just discovered that bloggers blog. And that they sometimes have a viewpoint. And maybe, just maybe, they can be partisan!! And they own computers, of all things.
Tannis, Condi?
Anyone for Tannis, wouldn't that be nice?
Alternately...the Nazis have discovered tennis!
*yummy*
I have the shaker, but I lack glasses... I use highballs instead
Moonboo?
a vodka & tonic, VERRRRY tall, if you please?
I once gave an absinthe spoon as a wedding gift. I think they used it to serve pie until the divorce.
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
sections of the British press have cottoned onto blogging now.
You mean you can like someone even if they don't agree with your opinions 100%? What kind of stand is that?
Must be tough to go through life hating everyone.
Or is it easy?
*hands WGG a vodka&tonic*
enjoy
It's grotesque to hear it coming from a woman.
mena |
Especially one who doesn't know a birth pang from a hole in the ground made by bombs she helps deliver.
So Zap, bloggers are like the Sasquatch?
I once gave an absinthe spoon as a wedding gift. I think they used it to serve pie until the divorce. | Snow, Not 37 Dammit! - 1:52 pm
That's odd, because I always heard that absinthe makes the heart grow fonder. Maybe it doesn't work as well with absinthe cutlery.
sections of the British press have cottoned onto blogging now.
Well it is all about the fluff, and fur.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/mKb4j8PG.jpg
Gaza City - The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Karen Abu Zeid, said on Saturday that she was "a bit horrified" by the extent of the destruction caused by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.
"I'm a bit horrified by it," she said in a visit to the deserted Maghazi refugee camp.
The camp was hard-hit by an Israeli incursion, launched on Wednesday as part of a wider Israeli operation begun in late June. ...
... "We're horrified following the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) for the past week ... to see what the destruction is from what they've done," she told reporters.
"We're pretty depressed, we're pretty upset. Sixteen people were killed here in Maghazi over the past days, 125 wounded, there are 80 families that are now without houses. ...
"We don't quite understand why every economic venture has to be destroyed.
"The main economic backbone of Gaza, bit by bit, is being dismantled or destroyed. I think we've gone back many years." ...
link
chicago dyke, I'm thankful you are getting a shift being hopeful while so many of us are so down in the dumps right now, that's why this place works
for me, so thanks.
Ah, I just talked to my friends in New Britain about Lieberman.
"We can't wait to take that fucker down."
Music to my rabid lamby ears...
Argh, I've avoided this long enough. Back to packing. Bye now.
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
NTodd, Intertube Master
Absinthe makes the Fondas grow heartier.
Peter, Jane & Henry
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You mean you can like someone even if they don't agree with your opinions 100%? What kind of stand is that? Just proves you liberals are wishy washy and it's no wonder that nobody knows where you stand on the issues.
heh. The woman that works for me as a chemical technologist is so far right it is scary. She listens to everything Limbaugh says and believes it.
I think the world of her personally and professionally. We do not discuss politics, tho.
When I feel down, I remind myself that alcohol is a depressant. So then I blame the alcohol, smile, and have another drink.
Absinthe makes the Fondas grow heartier.
Maybe it makes Hondas go faster.
The Star Tribune has just discovered that bloggers blog. And that they sometimes have a viewpoint. And maybe, just maybe, they can be partisan!!
Well, leftish blogs, anyway.
Okay, people: let's dance.
enjoy
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek | Homepage | 07.22.06 - 1:54 pm
(sips, sighs contendedly, pauses, drains it...)
ahhhhhhh...just the thing...
now to walk the Grrlz...
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Peter, Jane & Henry
Don't forget Bridget!
Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.
Her capacity for calm and cool detachment from the horrors of war and violence is astounding. What an inappropriate metaphor.
Are the people in this administration just sick in the head? What is wrong with them?
lurkyloo |
I SO wanna slap the shit out of her!
Incompetent sociopath, just like her husband.
bloggers are like the Sasquatch?
Jay C.
I'll just link to the story because it's pretty stupid. They mention our "hometown hero's" PowerCrotch by name, but don't mention Atrios' name with regard to the whole Trent Lott affair.
Even the title pisses me off:
"Blogs setting a new pace for political races
Blog warriors tasted their first blood in 2002, when lefty blogs felled Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, relating racial remarks he had made.
Just stupid.
I said, Let's dance, motherfuckers.
heh. The woman that works for me as a chemical technologist is so far right it is scary. She listens to everything Limbaugh says and believes it.
I think the world of her personally and professionally. We do not discuss politics, tho.
billy b
isn't rush limbaugh quite *close* to many 'chemical technologists' though?
I think the world of her personally and professionally. We do not discuss politics, tho.
billy b
Shame people like that can't be deprogrammed.
Hell, it's a shame Limpballs can't be deprogrammed.
Maxine Waters...Oh, boy. What a angry, loud-mouthed, shrill, corrupt fringe lefty. Just the kind of person Atrios likes. Who's going to campaign for Lamont next? Jesse Jackson? Dennis Kucinich? Cynthia McKinney? William Jefferson? Give me a f###ing break!
Owls rewriting history
Blog warriors
Sounds too much like "Protest Warriors" - and I hate those assholes!
She listens to everything Limbaugh says and believes it.
Limbaugh should choke on a little blue pill, but otoh, he doesn't force people to listen to his crap.
Okay, people: let's dance.
==
Nothing like a big ol' hard drive.
Ooooohhhh, Microsoft is gonna introduce an mp3 player to go head to head with the iPod! Imagine,
a music device that freezes up and crashes all the time!
I think i've persuaded Mena to join the Escha-Fair in ABQ, sept 16...
that'll mean GWPDrJane, NMRed, Agave, Olaf, Diane, Ruth, Mena, mebbe Katie, me 'n anybody else who wantsa come by...lemme know...i'll procure a keg of some good local brew, fix up a buncha beans, chile verde, carne adobado, and mebbe some green chile/cheesse corn bread...
all y'all c'mon...
WoodyGuthrie'sSnowflakinho
And Itchy Brother too! Wheeeeeeeeee! Sallyh? Little flory?
Alpaca racing, ho!
Maxine Waters...Oh, boy. What a angry, loud-mouthed, shrill, corrupt fringe lefty. Just the kind of person Atrios likes. Who's going to campaign for Lamont next? Jesse Jackson? Dennis Kucinich? Cynthia McKinney? William Jefferson? Give me a f###ing break!
rover
What limb should I START with?
billy b - good for you, I guess.
Personally, I find it impossible to set aside the obvious willful ignorance that would allow anyone to agree wholeheartedly with everything Rush Limbaugh says. Since none of it is true, it merely serves to prove that these people hold his hateful and bigoted ideas in their hearts already, meaning that they aren't good people.
amazingly even-handed coverage of the lebanese/middle east crisis on cbc news last night.
You mean you can like someone even if they don't agree with your opinions 100%? What kind of stand is that?
this feels suspiciously like straying from Proper Lambofascist Groupthink. we may have to report you, heretic. /picks up red phone to Kos HQ/
Imagine,
a music device that freezes up and crashes all the time!
plantsman
Imagine, a music device that doesn't suck the RIAA's balls!
Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.
Some birth.
Apparently she hasn't seen Rosemary's Baby.
Shaw Kenawe
she is rosemary's baby
Chi Dyke - don't make me start crying by being so nice now.
billy b - I won't talk to repukes other than professionally anymore.
GWPDrJ:
If ya see/talk to Tena, tell 'er too...
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Personally, I find it impossible to set aside the obvious willful ignorance that would allow anyone to agree wholeheartedly with everything Rush Limbaugh says. Since none of it is true, it merely serves to prove that these people hold his hateful and bigoted ideas in their hearts already, meaning that they aren't good people.
Jennifer
I won't even bother with people like that.
It's like "Can't you think for yourself?"
Forgive my ill humours.... Apart from everything else, I've just been told that I must prove to the IRS that I did indeed make charitable contributions last year in the amount of - wait for it - $775. Otherwise, they'll show me by not cashing the rather large cheque I've sent to them. So there.
Pfui.
Personally, I find it impossible to set aside the obvious willful ignorance that would allow anyone to agree wholeheartedly with everything Rush Limbaugh says. Since none of it is true, it merely serves to prove that these people hold his hateful and bigoted ideas in their hearts already, meaning that they aren't good people.
Jennifer
i know it marks me as a small, mean-spirited, narrow-minded, intolerant man, but--i can't help it-- i agree witcha...
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Limbaugh should choke on a little blue pill, but otoh, he doesn't force people to listen to his crap.
pie
Yep. For the life of me I can't figure out why this woman believes that crap.
Rover! Fetch!
[tosses stick as far as possible into underbrush, dashes upstairs to new thread]
billy b - she believes it because she believed it before she ever heard it issue from the foul orifice that is Limbaugh's mouth. He merely is repeating back to her what she already wants to believe.
Like I said, not a good person.
With ten gals and only two men hooking up for the fair, I think wgg is gonna be one tired puppy the next day.
QL--we'll make sure of that.
billy b - good for you, I guess.
You would be wrong to say that the woman I work with is a bad person.
Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.
Some birth.
Apparently she hasn't seen Rosemary's Baby.
DAMIEN!
billy b - well then, you must have a different metric for measuring what constitutes a "bad person". To me, it's someone who looks for reasons to hate other people rather than reasons to love or like them. People who focus on the differences between people rather than having empathy for their fellow human beings. The latter don't have the stomach for Limbaugh.
Like I said, not a good person.
Jennifer,
Whatever. You're analyzing someone you don't even know. I am not sticking up for the woman's politics. I mentioned the situation to illustrate that one can be a leftist and still get along with people that you do not agree with.
billy b - I'm not attacking you. But it's not difficult to analyze someone if you know that a) they are educated and possess a decent intellect and b) they still choose to believe whatever shit Limbaugh spews. I can "get along" with such people to the extent that things remain civil between us...but I don't have any respect for them, because their prediliction for believing anyone who reinforces their bigoted preconceptions makes it impossible.
Need some more good news?
"A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows Ned Lamont (D) beating Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) in the primary, 51% to 41%. Here’s the stunning finding: In the general election, Lieberman and Lamont are tied with 40% with Alan Schlesinger (R) trailing behind with 13%."
mmm mmm good!
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