I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Frist?
Primo!
Linkee to Thomas Frank's guest column in today's NYT.
(Send Bobo on a permanent vacation and replace him with Mr. Frank, Pinch!)
Terzo!
fresh meat!
The Bubble Boy
And isn't this nice? A fresh thread.
So, is there conversation going now?
G'morning,all!
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Are the bonuses bushadm reinstated documented somewhere publicly available, as to what was paid to whom?
res, I had fun thinking of you and the KK sneaking from one auditorium to another. Did you have fun as well?
Bubble Boy indeed. From Today's WaPo:
On one of the scariest days yet in the five-year battle with terrorists, President Bush prepared to make a speech to reassure the American people. But the White House press corps was 1,000 miles away in Texas.
Bush had left his ranch vacation and jetted north for a scheduled closed-door fundraiser. No press plane accompanied him. And so when news broke that Britain had broken up a major terrorist plot, the only ones there to convey the president's reaction were a handful of local reporters and a few pool journalists who ride in the back of Air Force One.
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But increasingly in recent months, Bush has left town without a chartered press plane, often to receptions where he talks to donors chipping in hundreds of thousands of dollars with no cameras or tapes to record his words for the public. Barred from such events, most news organizations will not pay to travel with him. And so a White House policy inclined to secrecy has combined with escalating costs for the strapped news media to let Bush fly under the radar in a way his predecessors could not.
Beirut, Lebanon (AHN) - Israel widens its air strikes in Lebanon despite the United Nation Security Council's Resolution for peace in the Middle East region.
Achieving its deepest thrust in its ground offensive against Hezbollah, Israeli forces reached the village of Ghandouriyeh near the port city of Tyre, on Saturday.
In a similar way, Israeli forces launched several air strikes just hours after the Security Council voted on a resolution calling for an end to the month-long Israel-Hezbollah conflict
Oh, lovely. No one could have anticipated . . .
(Of course, any retaliation by Hizbollah will be construed as intransigence .)
Oh -- and good morning, all!
Hi, QL.
We didn't get to the movies (yet).
I went to the beach yesterday, though. It was empty and the water was calm and clear. I had a nice chat with a vaguely bada-bing-ish Brooklyn dad on the blanket next to me who told me that he's "Done! Finished! Kaput!" with the Republicans. The "Terra!Terra!Terra!" on Tuesday drove him over the edge.
So all in all, a pretty nice afternoon.
"Done! Finished! Kaput!" with the Republicans. The "Terra!Terra!Terra!" on Tuesday drove him over the edge.
I think there's gonna be a lot more of this. I certainly hope so, obviously.
I had a nice chat with a vaguely bada-bing-ish Brooklyn dad
One of my friends of Italian descent referred to this phenomenon as "guido by osmosis"
Oh, and good morning everyone...
But increasingly in recent months, Bush has left town without a chartered press plane, often to receptions where he talks to donors chipping in hundreds of thousands of dollars with no cameras or tapes to record his words for the public. Barred from such events, most news organizations will not pay to travel with him.
WTF is going on? Why does he continue to get away with this?
One of my friends of Italian descent referred to this phenomenon as "guido by osmosis"
I was being kind when I said "vaguely." He really was pretty bada-bing. He had a big gold chain with some sort of medallion around his neck and the news about tanning and skin cancer had obviously not reached his neck of Brooklyn. But he was an okay guy. He definitely made me laugh a few times.
But increasingly in recent months, Bush has left town without a chartered press plane, often to receptions where he talks to donors chipping in hundreds of thousands of dollars with no cameras or tapes to record his words for the public.
Even if they aren't with him, the press ought to keep track of how often Bush is speaking at these events.
Voters might find this somewhat informative.
It's almost fall-like here this morning. I'm drinking hot coffee for the first time since May.
Rearm Hezbollah!!!! Finish the goddamn job already.
res, gonna try jones beach myself tomorrow. the one with the pool. kids love to run in the giant kiddie pool. as awful as it is that robert moses left mass transit out of his plan for gotham he still built some great public use stuff which no one ever does anymore...and now the beach crowd is at least half african american and latino...and the water is cleaner than back in the 1970's when the nyc garbage barges just went thirty miles or so out and dumped....then over to two cousins fish market in freeport for some catch of the day to take home to upstate...ny, we oughta be a country!
Morning, bats, khmer rougers, and all the rest of you way out of the mainstreamers...
Have our political-correctness tribunals purged any new Moderate Statesmen yet today?
It's almost fall-like here this morning. I'm drinking hot coffee for the first time since May.
If I hadn't turned the thermostat down, I think the furnace would have cut in yesterday.
Temperature's only supposed to max out around 64 Fahrenheit this weekend.
and the news about tanning and skin cancer had obviously not reached his neck of Brooklyn.
I think there's gonna be a lot more of this. I certainly hope so, obviously.
Virginia
The NYT Editorial that lamented the fact that the liquid explosive TAIR threat has been known about for over a decade (well, D'uh) and that very little had been done by the gov't to thwart it was a step in the right direction.
And it came a day after the 'plot' was trotted out to attempt to bolster the repuke's sagging numbers.
WTF is going on? Why does he continue to get away with this?
pie
$$$. News organizations won't pay for the flight, and Bush doesn't want them there. Silence is golden. And he "gets away with it" because he can.
This is why his approval ratings are at 33%, and Hillary is finally denouncing Cheney (took long enough, frankly. There isn't a Democrat in office that's exactly a profile in courage, though).
The real question is: is Ned Lamont the al-Qaeda candidate, or not?
The real question is: is Ned Lamont the al-Qaeda candidate, or not?
Beyond the pale.
WTF is going on? Why does he continue to get away with this?
Guess if it's not in the bulleted list of points that Mehlman faxes to them, they can't be bothered to mention it.
singe,
I loved that pool when I was a wee res.
WTF is going on? Why does he continue to get away with this?
pie
According to the Post article, the policy of opening these events to the press was adopted during the Clinton Administration as a response to what it quaintly calls the "fund-raising scandals" of that administration.
Those were simpler times, of course.
I'll bet Nixon would have been thrilled to be able to have ditched the press simply by refusing to charter a plane and provide a continental breakfast.
during the Clinton Administration as a response to what it quaintly calls the "fund-raising scandals" of that administration.
Those were simpler times, of course.
And not so long ago.
Or, rather, it might bring on cognitive dissonance. We don?t know because puncturing conservatism's marginalization fantasy hasn?t really been tried. If liberals are ever to recover, this will have to change. Against the tired myth of the "liberal elite" they must offer a competing and convincing theory of how Washington works, and for whom.
From the Thomas Franks' column.
I think Bush has done this for us. Recall Newt shutting down government, and how badly that backfired. Bush has gone one step further: he's made government thoroughly incompetent. Iraq. New Orleans. Lebanon (more and more it's clear the US allowed Israel to destroy that country for purposes that only Alan Dershowitz can seem to justify). Now the "terra" scare in the skies.
W. is now our man on their side. As I say, it's not dynamic Democrats that make people want to turn Congress over to them (and 3 months ago pundits were insisting that couldn't happen), or have pushed Bush's approval down to Cheney-level. This is all W.
And it's all over for the GOP.
I had to quit the AAR stream because Jerry was coming on. I started streaming NPR; they're doing a story about the "controversy" in the administration -- particularly the Pentagon -- about what to do with Iran. For some reason, they were interviewing batshit insane serial monogamist Newt Gingrich. ("Regime change!")
What the hell can I stream that won't raise my BP beyond healthly limits?
The real question is: is Ned Lamont the al-Qaeda candidate, or not?
Beyond the pale.
pie
That one still stuns me. All pretense to "objectivity" just tossed away on that.
All pretense to anything but being a wing of the GOP tossed away with that.
Remember during the Clinton administration, every time he went someplace some reporter was along toting up the cost to the taxpayers. They even complained when he and Hill took one two week holiday. Howsabout we add up how much it costs to run the fecking western WH?
its still pretty well kept. remember it was designed to look like the pool of a cruise ship? they took down the diving boards though. my friends would go off the high dive which i climbed up once and then climbed down as i was chicken. not an easy back down for a tough guy.
i took my prom date to the pool at like 5 a.m. in 1965 when they let us out of the prom place ( if you went you had to stay till 3 a.m. or something)...we snuck in as the pool wasn't open at that hour and i had a bottle of campagne we drank....i was seventeen and boy was my world about to change...
Bush's behavior and policies have so negatively impacted the country and the world that it's hard to believe that some people thought a blow job was a crime against humanity.
I'd like to personally slap everyone who blew it out of proportion, intentionally or out of some hypocritical sense of morality.
i took my prom date to the pool at like 5 a.m. in 1965 when they let us out of the prom place ( if you went you had to stay till 3 a.m. or something)...we snuck in as the pool wasn't open at that hour and i had a bottle of campagne we drank....i was seventeen and boy was my world about to change...
singe
Yeah, the first champagne hangover is the worst....
Yeah, the first champagne hangover is the worst....
You funny.
singe,
I remember jumping off those diving boards. We had so much fun there!
res, yeah my memories are so nice of jones beach. i live upstate now but i insist on packing everyone in the car and taking them down there once or twice each summer. love the ride from where the meadowbrook parkway crosses merrick road heading south and you get the strong wiff of salt air and you pass over all the little bridges and look out on the marshes and inlets and so on of the great south bay. even clears my damn hudson valley sinus situation for a few hours.
anyhow here in upstate one has to load the garbage in the car and take it to the dump unlike long island where we had garbage trucks. have a nice day.
singe,
I jumped off a boat and into the Great South Bay about three weeks ago. It was heaven!
gotta run res but we used to clam dig out there and eat them right on the boat. brougt lemons and stuff with us....can't wait till tomorrow and then maybe stop in corona where i was born, on the way back for some chow....have a nice day i gotta turn the puter over to a kid who insists on seeing the cheaper by the dozen 2 dvd for the hundreth time....
singe,
Stop at the Lemon Ice King!
Enjoy!
I'd like to personally slap everyone who blew it out of proportion, intentionally or out of some hypocritical sense of morality.
pie
Girlfriend, I'd like to do a hell of a lot more than slap those dissembling jerks.
absolutely but my heart belongs to the parkside speaking of badabing and great food!
ANTHRAX !
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