I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Fucking hell.
I read that as Operastion Forward Backward.
Third
Frith?
Clear, hold and build failed, too, unfortunately. It was sort of like trying to keep the flood waters from washing over New Orleans.
So what do I see in my Associated Press coverage
Associated Press? That's like getting your news from the terrorists!
/wingnut
How long can this insanity go on? Seriously. 11% of the American people support escalation, but we're doing it anyway.
Suggested name and theme music for the surge. It is a bit longish and is credited to Billy Preston
"I've got a song, I ain't got no melody
I'ma gonna sing it to my friends
I've got a song, I ain't got no melody
I' ma gonna sing it to my friends
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky
I've got a story, ain't got no moral
Let the bad guy win every once in a while
I've got a story, ain't got no moral
Let the bad guy win every once in a while
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky
I've got a dance, I ain't got no steps, no
I'm gonna let the music move me around
I've got a dance, I ain't got no steps
I'm gonna let the music move me around
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky"
After Operation Forward Together III (Revenge of the Sith), we begin Operation Rolling Thunder.
how many democrats have come out unequivocally -against- permanent bases in iraq?
[shakes fist, has no cats to withhold]
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OT: The Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted that he fears losing control of the worldwide Anglican Church, which is on the brink of schism over homosexuality.
In a surprisingly frank assessment of the crisis, Dr Rowan Williams said that he feared anything that set Christians more deeply at odds with each other.
"And because I am an ordinary, sinful human being, I fear the situation slipping out of my control, such as it is," he said.
"I fear schism, not because I think it's the worst thing in the world but because, at this particular juncture, it's going to be bad for us. It's going to drive people into recrimination and bitterness."
In a documentary on Canterbury Cathedral to be broadcast on ITV tomorrow, the archbishop added: "We can't take it for granted that the Anglican Communion will go on as it always has been.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...6/
nchurch06.xml
I thought "clear, hold, and build" had something to do with the brush in Crawford.
11% of the American people support escalation, but we're doing it anyway.
At least some in the military have come out and said it's to going to work. Will history brand them as traitors and dirty hippies, too?
NOT going to work
I'm waiting for "Operation Happy Together".
how many democrats have come out unequivocally -against- permanent bases in iraq?
bembeya jazz national - 11:13 am
crickets
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Operation Forward As One?
I'm waiting for "Operation Happy Together".
Turtles!
Mark Benjamin writes in Salon today about the "real ISG"
http://www.salon.com/news/featur.../aei/
index.html
Takeaway para-
The plan looks good on paper, just as the plans to establish democracy in Iraq did back in 2002. But its framers failed to explain how, after three years of shocking mismanagement, the Bush administration would somehow now be stricken with a case of icy competence. Nobody explained how the White House would better manage the war with more troops. McCain said the war had been "very badly mishandled" but said that might be all over now. "I believe that the war is still winnable," he announced. "But to prevail, we will need to do everything right and the Iraqis will have to do their part. Are we concerned about doing everything right and having the Iraqis do their part?" he asked rhetorically. "Of course we are."
What utterance comes to mind?
Oy...
"I'm waiting for "Operation Happy Together".
watertiger"
Okay, now that is going to be stuck in my head for another thirty years or so.
I'm waiting for "Operation Happy Together".
We're investing a lot more than a dime, though.
OT: A wedding was postponed after a woman said "no" as a joke when asked if she took her fiancé as her husband.
Despite protests from a now blushing bride, Tina Albrecht, 27, the officiating registrar in Steyr, Austria, cancelled the wedding for 10 weeks in line with local law.
Guests at the heavily attended castle ceremony were told to go home because there was nothing they could do to change the decision.
Miss Albrecht, who was due to marry Dietmar Koch, 29, said: "We had to send all our guests home and now we have to wait until March. In retrospect, it was probably not that funny." Officials told the Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten newspaper that the cancellation was to ensure that the bride was not consenting to the union under pressure from her family.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...01/06/
wed06.xml
Still no roofer....
Okay, now that is going to be stuck in my head for another thirty years or so.
Heh. my bad.
what happened to the moveon protest against lieberman? did it get derailed. that man should be hounded around the clock.
"Still no roofer..."
Must be the guys two houses down here banging away on a Saturday morning.
(So much for sleeping in)
how many dem press conferences have been held to express outrage that col. james steele (ret), trainer of death squads in honduras under negroponte in the reagan years, was training death squads under negroponte again throughout 2005?
What utterance comes to mind?
Oy...
RF | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 11:15 am | #
Clap your hands to keep Tinkerbell from dying?
11% of the American people support escalation, but we're doing it anyway.
Some of the 11% thought the question was about supporting escalators in Iraq, though.
well, it's back to an accomplished word game. instead of a deciding-entity, we need a leader-entity, to lead the charge-surge sorta thing, if that's the goal. you don't lead from comfy fluffed quarters.
in the meantime, those that have the luxury of doing this are not on the front lines.
and what are the front lines on this war?
Scum-Watch - Rip Off Tube Fares
Clap your hands to keep Tinkerbell from dying?
Tinkerbell was buried a long time ago.
More than I can say about Gerald Ford.
I'm waiting for "Operation Happy Together".
I guess it's contingent on how is the weather.
good morning bats
Operation Denial
steve, where does one go to read your movie reviews?
Must be the guys two houses down here banging away on a Saturday morning.
(So much for sleeping in)
EkCenTriK
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Malkin update (with Watertiger-worthy pic)
http://flashpoints.net/index.htm...html#2007-01-
04
this is good
Must be the guys two houses down here banging away on a Saturday morning.
(So much for sleeping in)
EkCenTriK
Do they have my eavestrough?
how many dem press conferences have been held to express outrage that col. james steele (ret), trainer of death squads in honduras under negroponte in the reagan years, was training death squads under negroponte again throughout 2005?
bembeya jazz national
that would be none.
I liked the letter Reid and Pelosi sent yesterday, but I want to see more than words. I am sick of words. I want them to stop this motherfucking war and start investigating NOW.
You can fool all of the base, all of the time.
I wonder how much more impatient our Saudi friends are getting.
So - there was somebody who denied that Bill Gates is the AntiChrist?
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation
The world's largest philanthropy pours money into investments that are hurting many of the people its grants aim to help.
By Charles Piller, Edmund Sanders and Robyn Dixon
LATimes Staff Writers
January 7, 2007
Ebocha, Nigeria - Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb.
An ink spot certified that he had been immunized against polio and measles, thanks to a vaccination drive supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
But polio is not the only threat Justice faces. Almost since birth, he has had respiratory trouble. His neighbors call it "the cough." People blame fumes and soot spewing from flames that tower 300 feet into the air over a nearby oil plant. It is owned by the Italian petroleum giant Eni, whose investors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Justice squirmed in his mother's arms. His face was beaded with sweat caused either by illness or by heat from the flames that illuminate Ebocha day and night. Ebocha means "city of lights."
The makeshift clinic at a church where Justice Eta was vaccinated and the flares spewing over Ebocha represent a head-on conflict for the Gates Foundation. In a contradiction between its grants and its endowment holdings, a Times investigation has found, the foundation reaps vast financial gains every year from investments that contravene its good works.
In Ebocha, where Justice lives, Dr. Elekwachi Okey, a local physician, says hundreds of flares at oil plants in the Niger Delta have caused an epidemic of bronchitis in adults, and asthma and blurred vision in children. No definitive studies have documented the health effects, but many of the 250 toxic chemicals in the fumes and soot have long been linked to respiratory disease and cancer.
"We're all smokers here," Okey said, "but not with cigarettes."
The oil plants in the region surrounding Ebocha find it cheaper to burn nearly 1 billion cubic feet of gas each day and contribute to global warming than to sell it. They deny the flaring causes sickness. Under pressure from activists, however, Nigeria's high court set a deadline to end flaring by May 2007. The gases would be injected back underground, or trucked and piped out for sale. But authorities expect the flares to burn for years beyond the deadline.
The Gates Foundation has poured $218 million into polio and measles immunization and research worldwide, including in the Niger Delta. At the same time that the foundation is funding inoculations to protect health, The Times found, it has invested $423 million in Eni, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Total of France — the companies responsible for most of the flares blanketing the delta with pollution, beyond anything permitted in the United States....
I love the specificity.
One of Maliki's Dawa party allies, member of parliament Ali al-Adeeb, said the crackdown would start "soon", though no date was set. He added that Maliki was still considering Bush's idea for more U.S. troops, made in a telephone call on Thursday.
OT: Police and protesters have exchanged fire during a demonstration in Mogadishu, leaving at least one person killed.
A government source said the person killed in Saturday's protest is believed to have been a 13 year old boy.
Witnesses said at least five people were injured in the clashes.
Protesters threw stones and burnt tyres on Saturday as they voiced their opposition to a government disarmament programme and the presence of Ethiopian troops.
"Protesters shot at policemen, the police returned fire killing one man," a government source told Reuters news agency.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...1949ACEC2E4.htm
You can fool all of the base, all of the time.
Max Planck
For more than one definition of the word "base, too.
how many dem press conferences have been held to express outrage that col. james steele (ret), trainer of death squads in honduras under negroponte in the reagan years, was training death squads under negroponte again throughout 2005?
bembeya jazz national
you'd think the senator who investigated iran contra would have a few words about it, but no.
That is a great article. Thanks for the link, Dr. S-C. Wow, reporters actually looked beyond rhetoric and press releases. It's a red letter day.
Malkin update (with Watertiger-worthy pic)
The Sadly, No! guys got that already, I think.
Is it wrong to go off topic so early in the discussion?
Tough.
The weather update from the mountains of central New Mexico is as follows-
Temp- 20 degrees in the the shade, 45 degrees in the sun.
Conditions- A brilliant sun shining from a turquoise sky, reflecting off the 36" of snow that has yet to melt
Wind- none
Forecast- more sun and rising temps, which are perfect for skiing!
With that said, I'm off to shovel the 4" snow (from last night) off the man-made structures; then I'm gonna go X-C skiing around the neighborhood!
And tomorrow, I will be reminded by the aching body that I'm an out-of-shape middle aged guy, and not a kid anymore, but it will be worth it.
70 FUCKING degrees here in NYC. In January.
Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki has said his government could review relations with any country which criticised the execution of ex-leader Saddam Hussein.
Mr Maliki said the hanging was a "domestic affair" for the benefit of Iraq's unity, adding that the former president had received a fair trial.
Mobile phone images showing Saddam Hussein being taunted appeared on the internet days after the execution.
Several Sunni Arab countries have criticised the hanging as sectarian.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ast/
6236743.stm
the picture of maliki on the front page of CNN.com looks like it was taken in one of those sound proof rooms
The Times found, it has invested $423 million in Eni, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Total of France — the companies responsible for most of the flares blanketing the delta with pollution, beyond anything permitted in the United States....
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers - 11:21 am
how do we thank warren buffett for granting his huge fortune to the Gates'?
cover him in nigerian children's phlegm...
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70 FUCKING degrees here in NYC. In January.
watertiger
yikes
and I've the A/C running here
Actual video footage of Moonbootica.
here in Devizes its 7°C (44°F)
Digby:
McCain Watch
a must read!
We have 60°F in Gnashvegas.
And cats in a couple o' minutes!
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Dammed weird. i refreshed to go to this new thread, and got locked into the Friday page, couldn't reach today. Anyone got a guess what that was?
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Matthew:
There's lots of my old movie reviews on the TVGUIDE website.
The new DVD review at Premiere is here:
http://www.premiere.com/dvdrevie...-
meltdown.htmlb
Anyone got a guess what that was?
Firefox.
OT: Thousands of Afghans are returning to their homes in Kandahar province after a deal with local tribal leaders.
The internally displayed people will be allowed
safe passage to the area around Panjwayi from which they had fled.
More than 10,000 people had left the area which has seen heavy fighting between the multi-national forces in Afghanistan and the Taliban fighters.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...8F3012A7BC8.htm
Whatever they say, it still reads 'Clusterfuck.'
I really should be working.
70 FUCKING degrees here in NYC. In January.
watertiger
Solar cycle is just ramping up, and it's going to be a big one.
Enjoy [/sarcasm]
Jeffraham--I'm so looking forward to cats!
OT: Thousands of Afghans are returning to their homes in Kandahar province after a deal with local tribal leaders.
Would " a deal with local tribal leaders" happen to mean "swearing medieval vassalage, as in serfdom"?
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Britain 'out of step with Nato allies'
British policy in Afghanistan is seriously damaging Western efforts against the Taliban, diplomats from allied countries have warned.
Officials from the United States and European members of Nato have told The Daily Telegraph that Britain is increasingly at odds with its coalition partners over its policy of making arbitrary peace deals with the Taliban, while at the same time declining to put pressure on Pakistan to stop providing sanctuary to the Taliban leadership.
Diplomats in Kabul and Islamabad say Britain's "go it alone policies" are threatening military preparations for a major Taliban offensive expected next month.
70 FUCKING degrees here in NYC. In January.
watertiger | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 11:24 am | #
In D.C., the cherry blossoms are in bloom.
In Spain, the bears aren't hibernating (and I'll bet they're cranky).
But only a fool or a commie would suggest that global warming might be real.
Betty and Gerald Ford will be making stops today in OshKosh, Albuquerque, and Hackensack.
Clear, hold and build failed, too, unfortunately. It was sort of like trying to keep the flood waters from washing over New Orleans.
Hey, if everyone had clapped louder, that would have worked.
Also if the Army Corps hadn't fucked up so hugely for years.
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cox suddenly decided it doesnt like haloscan. said it was privacy risk.
Nope Watertiger, Sadly No is using a different pic of Malkin. You are free to use the Malkin GI Santa pic (oh please oh please).
I find myself wondering how competive specially formed rice-cake packaging (for, say TV's and/or PC's) might be with specially-shaped styrofoam pakaging?
Global warming: it's chilly here, but the expectation is that L.A. will have the hottest summer evah.
Since summer in L.A. is hot to begin with, I can hardly wait...
Jeffraham--I'm so looking forward to cats!
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 01.06.07 - 11:29 am | #
I'm so looking forward to spring awakening.
Anybody got any comp tickets?
Steve Simels--no, but I've got a smooch for you...does that count?
OT:GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - During the 10 years since the end of a civil war that took 200,000 Guatemalan lives, the survivors have faced a recurring frustration: A family comes forward asking for information about a vanished parent, child, husband or wife, only to be told there is no paper trail to help their search.
Now a leaky warehouse crammed floor-to-ceiling with 3 million documents may finally provide answers.
Few families from Guatemala's Indian majority were spared in the 36-year war and its state-sponsored obliteration of hundreds of villages. On top of the known death toll, some 40,000 people simply disappeared.
Yet even now, after a U.N. truth commission, an apology from President Bill Clinton for the U.S. involvement and the discovery of graves every few days in remote mountain hamlets or jungle camps, much of the truth about what happened remains hidden or buried.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldl...c=ticker-
103704
I find myself wondering how competive specially formed rice-cake packaging (for, say TV's and/or PC's) might be with specially-shaped styrofoam pakaging?
plantsman
It would be illegal.
Apparently when people stared using popcorn for packaging some people decided to eat it.
Now ghawd knows why one would want to eat stale popcorn produced and handled in an industrial environment, but there ya go.
LarryElvis and the Buckeye gift mousie!
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Steve Simels--no, but I've got a smooch for you...does that count?
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 01.06.07 - 11:32 am | #
MWAHHHHHHH!!!! back in your general direction.
Jeffraham--he really is getting his health back, isn't he?
Sounds like a typical little boy!
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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I just knew someone here would have information, and was not disappointed.
It would be illegal.
Apparently when people stared using popcorn for packaging some people decided to eat it.
Now ghawd knows why one would want to eat stale popcorn produced and handled in an industrial environment, but there ya go.
11% support escalation.
Pass the popcorn, eh?
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The king and I
With the film of his novel about Idi Amin's brutal regime released next week, Giles Foden describes visiting the crew in Uganda, appearing as an extra and the challenge of bringing a tyrant to life
The Last King of Scotland is a film I definitely want to see this month.
Operation Spring Forward, Fall Behind.
Forget about Operation Forever or Operation Forward Together or Operation Together Forward.
I give you Operation Together Forever!
Sallyh: Jeffraham--he really is getting his health back, isn't he?
Sounds like a typical little boy!
He's 110%, gal! If only he'd hold still long enough for me to Brillo the gunk off from around his eyes, he'd be a right purty li'l feller, too.
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Anybody see Letters From Iwo Jima yet?
OT: Christian students are taking legal action against their university's Student Guild in an equal opportunities row.
The Exeter University Evangelical Christian Union today issued High Court proceedings seeking a judicial review.
They claim to be the first students in the UK to take legal action against the Guild and university under the Human Rights Act.
They want quashed the decision to suspend the CU from the Guild, which they maintain violates the rights of association of religious bodies.
The CU, which will be represented by a civil rights barrister, took the action after advising the Guild and the university authorities that they had failed to support their right as Christians to the freedoms of speech, belief and association.
The 50-year-old CU is currently suspended from the official list of student societies on campus.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
uk...icle2126332.ece
OK, I gotta do something useful...
That is a fantastic article. I just sent the reporters an email thanking them for their work. As much bad reporting as is out there, I think it's important to support the good reporting any way we can. They are bound to get tons of nasty emails in response to this article, I'm sure they'd appreciate a few supportive ones:
charles.piller@latimes.com, edmund.sanders@latimes.com, robyn.dixon@latimes.com
what a horrible read, doc. when are we going to stop being monsters?
simels,
Are you going to see "Spring Awakening?" I want to come along.
Nope Watertiger, Sadly No is using a different pic of Malkin. You are free to use the Malkin GI Santa pic (oh please oh please).
I KNOW I saw it elsewhere. But that doesn't mean I won't use it.
In your face, Moonbootica!
The two men first saw the baby from across the Bronx street, dangling from a fire escape four stories above the sidewalk. His grip was growing weaker by the second. The two men saw only one choice: run over and try to catch him.
They positioned themselves below, arms out. The little boy fell. He glanced off a branch of a tree that was brushing against the fire escape. Then he bounced off the chest of one of the men, who was knocked off balance and could not grab him.
But he landed safely in the arms of the other man, who managed to hold on tight.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/0...dc9c&ei=5087%
0A
Anybody see Letters From Iwo Jima yet?
No, but i have some of my father's letters from Iwo Jima. Okinawa, too.
It wasn't like the Duke Wayne movies that form the foundation of the Tom Clancy fantasies that are the sum of the military experience of the chickenhawks.
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The next post on Blast Off! will be the 666th.
I should do something especially devilish for it.
On an actual tangent, I can admit that I am influenced by advertising. For example, when those George Hamilton "Pita Chips" ads first aired, I was moved to try Pita Chips, but the Nabisco brand ones seemed wildly expensive for the weight involved, So I bought Athenos brand instead. I had not forseen the possibilty of rancid Pita Chips, so I was unpleasantly enlightened.
Now ghawd knows why one would want to eat stale popcorn produced and handled in an industrial environment, but there ya go.
It happens in 11% of cases when people unexpectedly run out of Cheetos.
Are you going to see "Spring Awakening?" I want to come along.
res ipsa loquitur | 01.06.07 - 11:38 am | #
I'm trying to shnorr comp tix.
If I do, it's a date.
Laundry beckons -- back in a few minutes....
There are bears in Spain?
Sinfy -- Didja see this?
Goin' to put together the Meatspace II announcement today. That gives people a month's warning...
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From below
for a repeat:
For a truly nauseating experience,
read Maureen "I Boinked John Tierney and I'm Not Ashamed to Admit It" Dowd's column in the NYTIMES today.
Perphaps the most perfect example of her "Everybody Sucks Except Me" school of punditry ever.
Between her, Brooks, and Friedman it's amazing the Times hasn't lost more readership to suicide.
steve simels
It's a good thing salt-free brown rice cakes have texture and crunch. Otherwise, they would have nothing.
OT: At least 13 people were killed in a pre-dawn separatist rebel raid in the Assam state, hours after another string of attacks killed 19 people and injured 25 others in what officials say is a targeted campaign against Hindi-speaking migrant workers in the state.
Police said heavily armed fighters attacked a group of brick kiln workers and fishermen near Ghormori Chapori, a sandbar located in Tinsukia district, about 590km east of the state's main city, Guwahati.
Officials have blamed the violence on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), which is fighting for a separate Assamese homeland.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...DD271FA7C9F.htm
Who needs a plan? They're throwing flowers at us just like Cheney said, right?
Right?
Speaking of The Plan...
“Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher who said a man can do what he wants but cannot will what he wants, would have understood W.’s nonsensical urge to Surge.
We don’t know if human beings have free will. We just know that human beings in Washington appear not to.” - Maureen Dowd, Monkey on a Tiger
operation together cowboy movie faux toughness who cares how many caskets and amputations will be needed forward
"It wasn't like the Duke Wayne movies that form the foundation of the Tom Clancy fantasies that are the sum of the military experience of the chickenhawks."
Yeah, war ain't a movie. Ever read Michael Herr's book Dispatches? It was in part the background for Full metal Jacket.
Herr says in there that the soldiers would talk about their favorite scenes form war movies allthe time, and then reality hit.
Violence up close is just not funny.
MoDo, Ew. How Could You?
al gore is leading in the invisible primary! according to cnn, coming up.
She's the one who called it boobs and food, not me!
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nyc => 11:40a => January 6 => 69 degrees
we are so fucked.
At the Cornhole, K-lo can't decide between Jeb and Mitt.
"They're throwing flowers at us just like Cheney said, right?|"
hey - it's a cakewalk. Just didn't say what kinda cake did they?
nyc => 11:40a => January 6 => 69 degrees
we are so fucked.
Thank you, Sandra Day O'Connor. Thank you!
From CNN:
Warm winter in Northeast takes toll on allergy sufferers
Tell me about it.
[pops a Claritin D]
It is also a very good thing the skillful saleswoman/butcher at the market was unable to convince me to buy the jumbo wild prawns, since my fridge died.
Which Dowd column is simels talking about? I rather liked this graf from her latest:
With the letter she and Harry Reid wrote to the president yesterday, warning him that “we are well past the point of more troops for Iraq,” Speaker Pelosi tried to exert her free will to stop the Surge. But the Democrats aren’t willing to take real action and cut off money for the Surge. They’re predetermined to want to have it both ways: not to be blamed for the war and not to be blamed for pulling the plug on the war.
She's right. If they are not willing to take action to stop this, then that letter is just more bullshit.
btw, all the TimesSelect columns can be read at http://www.wealthyfrenchman.blogspot.com
At the Cornhole, K-lo can't decide between Jeb and Mitt
Well, Jeb could eat her under the table . . .
Wait, I'll come in again.
OT: LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways Plc (BAY.L: Quote, Profile , Research) has reached an agreement with its four main trade unions on a package of reforms to tackle its 2.1 billion pound ($4.1 billion) pension deficit, the airline confirmed on Saturday.
The deal, struck late on Friday, will be recommended by the unions to the workforce to end months of negotiations and should lift the threat of industrial action at the airline.
BA has agreed to make a one-off contribution of 800 million pounds into the pension fund subject to acceptance of benefit changes.
The airline said together with a one-off employee saving of 400 million pounds and changes to future benefits, the New Airways Pension Scheme (NAPS) pension deficit will be reduced by more than half to 900 million pounds.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/...AYS-
PENSION.xml
Has Tena been about?
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OT: The Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted that he fears losing control of the worldwide Anglican Church, which is on the brink of schism over homosexuality.
So what'll be the outcome? The Sunni Anglicans and the Shiite Anglicans? Oy!
"Well, Jeb could eat her under the table . . ."
Ick ick ick!! Bush's and sex is not something that I wanna see in my nightmares.
At the Cornhole, K-lo can't decide between Jeb and Mitt
Well, Jeb could eat her under the table . . .
Wait, I'll come in again.
As you go out, please take that mental image and put it in the Dumpster. it's starting to smell up me brain.
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A Government minister who launched a broadside on the airline industry's attitude to global warming has been told not to make any further public comment on the issue.
But the Department for the Environment insisted this was simply to avoid fuelling the controversy further and denied press reports that Ian Pearson was subjected to a humiliating dressing down by his boss, Environment Secretary David Miliband.
The climate change minister's comments sparked a furious response from the head of no-frills airline Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, who said Mr Pearson was "foolish and ill-informed" and "hasn't a clue what he's talking about".
In an interview published in The Guardian on Friday, Mr Pearson described Ryanair as "the irresponsible face of capitalism" and said Mr O'Leary was "completely off the wall".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
uklate...6326308,00.html
Sinfy -- Didja see this?
Goin' to put together the Meatspace II announcement today. That gives people a month's warning...
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Hadn't seen that before. Thanks, jp.
Guess I should register for that Gnashvegas conference soon ... 
Thank you, Sandra Day O'Connor. Thank you!
Methinks she was sneaking into Rehnquist's medicine cabinet.
I have to do laundry but it's so fucking hot I hate to think of going down to the basement.
WTF?
It's January.
On an actual tangent, I can admit that I am influenced by advertising.
news flash: they wouldn't do it if it didn't work...
there is a difference between a dodge stratus and a cactus
there is not a difference between a dodge and a chevy...
if you are persuaded that the latter is somehow false, you have been influenced by advertizing...'
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why is dems dont differentiate between contractor and troop money?
Bob Shrum suggested setting a date in the future
(he said a year) beyond which funds could not be spent on military action in Iraq, and beginning to withdraw troops. Sounds reasonable.
BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday declared a revised security plan for Baghdad aimed at curbing the raging insurgent and sectarian violence in the Iraqi capital.
Maliki said the plan will offer more muscle to Iraqi forces who will be backed by US troops, but offered few details.
"The security plan will not protect any outlaws regardless of their sectarian or political affiliations," the prime minister said in a speech marking the 86th anniversary of Iraqi army.
"We will hold accountable all those who neglect orders or work on political and sectarian basis."
The new plan will rely on Iraqi "armed forces to forcefully implement the plan and the coalition forces will support our forces," Maliki said.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.a...?
NewsID=1073078
Bob Shrum suggested setting a date in the future (he said a year) beyond which funds could not be spent on military action in Iraq, and beginning to withdraw troops.
How about 2005?
And now I must retrieve the laundry.
Has Tena been about?
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Jeffraham Prestonian - 11:49 am
she's in santa fe, gem-shopping...
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why is dems dont differentiate between contractor and troop money?
I don't accept your premise. Please re-phrase.
Methinks she was sneaking into Rehnquist's medicine cabinet.
Did you know that they dated during law school? Blech.
As Hecate said the other night, "A junkie evaluating writs of certiori. Oy."
How about if someone passes Bob Schrum a big tablet of STFU?
plantsman - Since I am part of the Crackers family, I have to defend the industry I suppose. However, for crunchy, tasty, low fat and however much or little salt you choose, have you tried roasted garbanzo beans? All variations possible....
Actual Bush Admin. plan:
"House at Pooniel Corner"
"now's the last hour to think anymore"
"Across the heavens is a scar, Dead center, deep as Death.....
All the Idiots have left,
All the Idiots have left......."
Jefferson Airplane
Did you know that they dated during law school? Blech.
Oh, ICK!
Good Rev. Doctor Woody G,
I was thinking last night that you would have made a great codebreaker or propaganda analyst during WWII.
WoodyG'sGuitar: she's in santa fe, gem-shopping...
Ah - well, she's got bigger fish to fry than a Curly pix sent her nearest Walgreen's for her to pick up.
Can I buy anyone a Curly or L.E. photo? They's only $0.15/ea. and if you pick it up, no postage!
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As Hecate said the other night, "A junkie evaluating writs of certiori
Believe it or not, i'm not an attorney. (Yes, i realize that means i'm on Eschaton under false pretences.)
Whaddafok is 'certiori, writs of'?
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much of the truth about what happened remains hidden or buried.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldl...ldl...c=ticker-
103704
Moonbootica
i'm reminded of levin saying, when gates was being confirmed, that iran contra was so long ago, it wasn't worth reviewing. would he have said the same about the holocaust? is that the only genocide that gets sanctified?
[Channeling Lloyd Bridges]
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit Claritin"
The part of the Rehnquist story that freaks me out is that Nixon & Reagan had the FBI investigate people that were going to testify against him in the 2 hearings the Senate had.
Also that it was asst. AG John Bolton that did the investigating.
In the context of "the airline industry's attitude to global warming", isn't "to avoid fuelling the controversy" the point?
Whaddafok is 'certiori, writs of'?
Cynicus -- 11:54 am
it's the process by which the SC(R)OTUS decides which cases to hear...
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Dr., I have not tried roasted garbanzos, though I adore the re-hydrated beans and hummus. I was trying to avoid using glucose tablets because I woke up an hour early.
Culture of TrÜth: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit Claritin"
Got some generic -D last ngith after work. It really helps with the LarryElvis issue.
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Whaddafok is 'certiori, writs of'?
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Cynicus
The writ itself - writ of certiorari, btw - is issued by SCOTUS when it wants to hear a case. Short, colloquial form is that "SCOTUS granted cert ..."
Ahaha, Scarborough calls O'Really a Bush "suck-up". Too rich.
Or as my friend would say, "that's the pot calling the pot a pot."
1935: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
. would he have said the same about the holocaust? is that the only genocide that gets sanctified?
Yes.
And WGG, thank you for the info. i would imaginme that that' a priority place for Bushco to work on the staffing - if you control the filter for what the SCOTUS reviews, you have a powerful set of advantages, i should think....
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Al, all is forgiven. Bring back the ice.
Contraception use can cut crime. In this paper (pdf) presented to this week's American Economic Association conference Nicholas Hill shows that there's a statistically significant relationship between greater use of contraception and decreased crime 17 years later.
http://
stumblingandmumbling.type...aearing_a_.html
btw, all the TimesSelect columns can be read at http://www.wealthyfrenchman.blogspot.com
TJ, extra spicy pinko commie!
thanks. sometimes the moustache and bobo get referenced and i'm left not knowing what they're talking about.
Actually I like to bury my head in Tiger's fur.
now the IEDs can take out a tank
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – A Marine tank struck an improvised explosive device today in Fallujah.
The tank was severely damaged and caught fire,
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has declared a Hamas security force in the Gaza Strip 'illegal' after a surge in internal violence, officials said.
Shortly after Abbas' statement on Saturday, Hamas announced it would double the number of its 'executive force' in Gaza, formed in the months after taking power in early 2006.
Abbas's decision is likely to further fuel tension between Hamas and the president's once-dominant Fatah faction.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...60113F99A31.htm
Whaddafok is 'certiori, writs of'?
Cynicus -- 11:54 am
Yeah, a fun fact for you: just 'cuz they don't take the case doesn't mean they agree with the lower court's decision. May mean they think they don't have jurisdiction, e.g., They should have motherfucking denied certiori in Bush v. Gore.
I was thinking last night that you would have made a great codebreaker or propaganda analyst during WWII.
res ipsa loquitur - 11:53 am
whah thankee, lil lady...
textual analysis and social semiotics just happen to be mah skolarly spayshaltees...
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I suggest Operation Tinkerbell.
It will require that we all clap loud enough.
Ah, shit. I read that first line of MoDo and clicked off. Fuck Maureen Dowd. Really.
OT: The once famous dance-bar girls of Bombay are planning to stage a comeback - by standing as candidates in local elections next month. Their platform is simple: to overturn the citywide ban on their work and reopen the clubs where they used to perform.
The dance-bar girls were once one of the best-known features of Bombay nightlife - until the present government of Maharashtra state closed the bars as part of a morality drive in 2005.
It is believed to have put some 75,000 dancers out of work, and now the girls are intent on fighting back. They are to meet tomorrow to decide whether to form their own political party or stand as independent candidates in municipal elections.
There was major controversy when the state government decided to close the bars. It accused them of "corrupting the youth" and being barely disguised brothels, and the bar girls of being prostitutes - accusations the dancers and bar owners deny. They say they were performers and there was no sex involved.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
wo...icle2129955.ece
whah thankee, lil lady...
textual analysis and social semiotics just happen to be mah skolarly spayshaltees...
Heh. I was thinking you had the right sort of knowledge (+) perspective combo, plus the personality for it. Could totally see you locked up with a bunch of geniuses, thinking, reading, analyzing, drinking tons of coffee and scotch, and occasionally seducing each other.
Well, maybe more often than "occasionally."
OT, but talk about a rude awakening. This is a new comment left on the Times-Picayune regarding the recent murders:
Marzie Smith of New Orleans, LA, writes:
I've just spent the bulk of my savings to return to the city several days ago. I have a young daughter and a new baby. I thought I could deal with the crime so that my children could grow up in their home town, instead of being singled out by people as "That Katrina Kid"...Two days after I returned, this poor woman is murdered and her husband shot while holding their two-year-old. This occurred two blocks from my new home. I am horrified beyond words.
Something has got to be done.
Did anybody know that O'Reilly fucks with the height of chairs so his interlocutors will appears smaller than he is...
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OT: Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of the Somali capital Mogadishu in protest at the presence of Ethiopian forces backing the interim government.
Witnesses said security forces fired in the air to disperse crowds, as youths burnt tyres and threw stones.
At least one civilian was killed and several others injured by gunfire, but it was not clear who was responsible.
The protests came as the government indefinitely postponed a forcible disarmament programme in the capital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/afric...ica/
6236495.stm
There was major controversy when the state government decided to close the bars. It accused them of "corrupting the youth" and being barely disguised brothels, and the bar girls of being prostitutes - accusations the dancers and bar owners deny. They say they were performers and there was no sex involved.
i wonder if India's moral reformers are like America's moral reformers? 'Cause, if so, the fact that the bar girl WOULDN'T put out is a major reason that the reformers wanted them out of business......
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Woody, I don't know why O'Really would do that, as he is very fucking tall.
"Fuck Maureen Dowd."
Thanks for the offer, but no.
Well, maybe more often than "occasionally."
res ipsa loquitur - 12:02 pm
in a very masculine way, of course...
luckily for us that geniuses come in both genders...
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Did anybody know that O'Reilly fucks with the height of chairs so his interlocutors will appears smaller than he is...
Strangely, all talk show hosts do this. Back in the day Andy Kaufman did a bit where he was playing a talk show host, sitting in a ten foot tall chair and interviewing someone.
Did anybody know that O'Reilly fucks with the height of chairs so his interlocutors will appears smaller than he is...
Bring a big, thick, heavy, family-type bible with you on the show......then sit on it for height....
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They say they were performers and there was no sex involved.
I should hope so.
Hey, Woody! Thanks to Hecates' work and having my Buddy in the meeting
the Lying, stealing bastard was too chicken to fire me. Now his Executive board knows what has been going on, and I talk to D.O.L.
investigators Mon. It's all getting out to the members now. All this while I'm prepping for my biggest case against a Rat contractor ever.
Thanks everyone for the support during some dark hours. I live to fight another day.
And Woody, do I still get to be your Hero, or has time expired?
Thanks Eschtonians!
"Fuck Maureen Dowd."
I wouldn't fuck her with dith's dick. (If he has one)
Woody, I don't know why O'Really would do that, as he is very fucking tall.
res ipsa loquitur | 01.06.07 - 12:05 pm
i dunno...must be insecurity...he controls every other aspect of his public persona...
i heard the bit on Wait-Wait-Don'-Tell-Me...
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"In the name of decency: the contortions of the pro-war left."
"Fuck Maureen Dowd"
Isn't that rather close to necrophilia?
When I was a kid, my father arranged for a friend of a friend to help him rebuild our sunporch. Over a period of several weeks, he came over after work and often stayed for dinner.
I don't remember how it came up, but I remember asking my dad what Gene did in WWII. My dad told me in no uncertain terms not to ask Gene about the war, as kids will-- he told me that Gene drove a tank, and had escaped with minor injuries when the tank was hit and caught fire; the other crew members were incinerated.
It was a bad, bad way to go, and bad to be the only one to get out, my dad added. I was actually a little freaked out by how somber and serious my dad was when he explained this, and had the sense to hear and obey.
I would venture that many, if not most, "moral reformers" are fundamentalist members of SOME religion.
WSJ politics blog-- But the Connecticut independent’s comments triggered strange feelings of déjà vu, since they seemed to be directed at an Iraq that existed in 2003 and 2004, when al Qaeda terrorists were the biggest threat to security there, rather than the Iraq of today, where the biggest threat comes from the civil war raging between armed Sunni and Shiite militias.
Lieberman appeared alongside Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain to tout the two men’s support for the idea of temporarily sending tens of thousands of new U.S. troops to Iraq. But his comments this afternoon went far beyond those of McCain in linking Iraq to the Sept. 11 attacks — and because they revived contentious phrases like “axis of evil” that even the Bush administration itself no longer uses.
“It’s 1942 — Pearl Harbor has happened and yet a lot of people in our country are in denial,” Lieberman said, referring to the Sept. 11 attacks. “People are totally focused on Iraq and not on the larger threat of Islamist extremism and terrorism, and also have a hard time seeing the connection between those two.”
Lieberman returned again and again in his remarks to the threat posed by al Qaeda in Iraq, even though the Bush administration now says that the sectarian warfare raging in Iraq is a bigger threat to the country than the attacks carried by Sunni Islamist extremists. And although senior Bush administration officials acknowledge that many of the worst attacks in Iraq are now carried out by Shiite death squads linked to the country’s ruling Shiite political parties, Lieberman declined to even say the word “Shiite.”
"Fuck Maureen Dowd."
I wouldn't fuck her with dith's dick. (If he has one)
Gomez |
I would! Just so I could hear her say
"Thanks, but I really didn't need that."
Kenosha Kid,
Is there one before "Children" that you want to see?
Today would have been scooterrific™.
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dith has a dick. It's the size of a wooden match. Not the ones you light your grill with, more like the ones you start the stove with.
And Woody, do I still get to be your Hero, or has time expired?
Thanks Eschtonians!
Flint, still employed - 12:06 pm
not, of course, unlike the ICORP in Iraq, there is no time limitation on my admiration for your stance, brudda!
*ICORP = Invasion, Conquest, Occupation, Rape, & Pillage
JP, you sold the scooter?
“It’s 1942 — Pearl Harbor has happened and yet a lot of people in our country are in denial,” Lieberman said
My nomination for the dumbest thing Lieberman has said to date. Stupid any way you want to spin it any way he might have meant it.
Who wants to help me tear down the Christmas tree?
♥ ♥ Vicki! ♥ ♥
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Oh, Jesus, I just saw this:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
plantsman: JP, you sold the scooter?
I don't have a blog. 
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♥ ♥ Jeffraham ♥ ♥!!!!
I hope you furry friends are treating you with all the love you so richly deserve!
Reason # 2572 You Tube is better than MTV
"The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty."
Yeah ok they can start with an apology for that. Then they need to apologise for a whole lot more.
Ah, shit. I read that first line of MoDo and clicked off. Fuck Maureen Dowd. Really.
res ipsa loquitur
It's funny, I was scrolling up so I read the graf I posted above before I read the intro. Jebus, she's such an utter bitch.
Operation Yale Illiterate.
Tear down an actual Christmas tree? Or is that some kind of metaphor?
Who wants to help me tear down the Christmas tree?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Don't forget to take a picture.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
watertiger
The dead men of Dunharrow.
more4 are showing a programme called The Trial of Tony Blair on the 15th of Jan here.
Biting feature-length satire portraying the private travails of the Prime Minister as he leaves office after more than a decade in power.
It is some time in the future. Gordon Brown is moving in. President Clinton is looking for her second term in the White House. And Tony Blair has swapped the corridors of power for carpet swatches in his home in Connaught Square.
But some things don't change: in Iraq there's no let-up to the daily death toll and the ex-PM is as obsessed as ever with his legacy.
Anyone read David Kaiser today at History Unfolding?
"...our forces in [Afghanistan and Iraq] are large enough to make thousands of young men angry but not large enough to control them."
and
"There have never been many Arab moderates such as President Bush claims to be helping, and thanks to his decisions there are now fewer every day."
Tear down an actual Christmas tree? Or is that some kind of metaphor?
If you knew me, it's both.
Gomez, you have somewhat unclean mail.
TJ, As soon as I saw the words "Haight Ashbury" I was outta there. Fuck her. Really. Did I say that already. Just.Fuck.Her.
Lieberman said, referring to the Sept. 11 attacks. “People are totally focused on Iraq and not on the larger threat of Islamist extremism and terrorism, and also have a hard time seeing the connection between those two.”
you know, were i an AIPAC conspiracy theorist, i might say that Joe Lie is saying "Iraq is a start, but it's not enough. We have to blow up EVERY Middle Eastern country that doesn't like Israel."
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On the plastic rice-cakes sack, the words Gluten-Free and Wheat-Free are shown in white lettering, highlighted against a dark green background. The word Vegan stands below them and is not highlighted.
Oh, Jesus, I just saw this:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
watertiger
Who knew? The new assistant Sec. Def is that guy from Re-Animator.
Don't forget to take a picture.
Gomez
Okay, thanks for the reminder.
Vicki: I hope you furry friends are treating you with all the love you so richly deserve!
Fat Man and Little Boy are famous friends, chasing each others' fuzzy butts throughout this condo.
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Jesus Christ, watertiger.
I don't think an apology is gonna cut it.
Sorry, Moonboo-- I'm too squeamish to enjoy horror pics.
It is unfortunate that MoDo can, and only occasionally, hit topics spot on, and then revert to the ultimate bimbo on a regular basis.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
watertiger
Wow, the Bush Administration is making sure that not even the military knows who has been lost. They're not allowed to update the databases?
Reason # 2572 You Tube is better than MTV
The Kenosha Kid - 12:12 pm
that the appended song would never have appeared on MTV in a million fucking years?
yeah, i'd buy that...
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more about it here - Television puts Tony Blair on trial
In a new TV drama, the Prime Minister is brought to account over the war in Iraq. James Rampton meets its creators
Larry Elvis reminds me of Cosmo, JP!
He's so cute! And he likes to sleep on you!
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
Death in service as dodging service. Or just the Little Engine That Could on hallucinogens - "C'mon! Don't let a little thing like being dead stop you from going back!"
Kafka would kick himself for not thinking of it.
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Jesus Christ, watertiger.
I don't think an apology is gonna cut it.
TJ
But but but smaller government is so efficient!
/Grover Norquist
Sorry, Moonboo-- I'm too squeamish to enjoy horror pics.
Little Brøther - 12:14 pm
hermanito,
it seems, counterintuitively, that i become more squeamish with every passing month...
i have a an increasingly difficult time sitting still through cinematic portrayals of hyper-violence...
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I was thinking that MoDo and Mary Cheney have a lot in common.
The both want to have it both ways. MoDo wants all the boys to love her and to be taken seriously by all those boys. Mary Cheney wants all the Republicans to love her and to be a lesbian who's accepted and respected by all those gay-haters.
Fuck both of them.
Weather experts are predicting that because of the effects of climate change, the UK will be hit by drought this summer - which is expected to be the hottest on record.
They say that even months of rain would not ensure enough water supplies to cope with the heat.
Scientists warn that while "going green" is sometimes seen as a fad, the planet is changing and 2007 will be a critical year in determining a global response.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/
arti...1246243,00.html
it seems, counterintuitively, that i become more squeamish with every passing month...
i have a an increasingly difficult time sitting still through cinematic portrayals of hyper-violence...
I just had this exact conversation about two hours ago with Gomez. No shit. I hate violence, and refuse to partake.
The Army has raised the maximum age limit for new recruits from 26 to 33 - the highest since 1948.
The Ministry Of Defence denied it was an attempt to solve the crisis in the number of troops.
A spokeswoman said it was a "myth" the recruitment age was being raised because the Army was losing soldiers "hand over fist".
She said the number of people leaving the service was normal turnover.
And she said raising the age limit was simply a move to harmonise the recruitment rules across the Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and the Royal Marines.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/
arti...3560524,00.html
Later, gators.
Time to tear down the tree. I have my little helper available, so it's time to strike while the branding iron is smoultering.
Fuck both of them.
res ipsa loquitur | 01.06.07 - 12:17 pm | #
Exactly so.
Although Dowd, on balance, has probably done more damage to the Republic than Cheney.
Did anybody know that O'Reilly fucks with the height of chairs so his interlocutors will appears smaller than he is...
i dont know that he does but i noticed brit hume was sitting a lot higher than clinton envoy dennis ross, who was sounding supportive of the surge.
The Government is launching a multi-million-pound package to help local authorities tackle Islamic extremism.
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly also wants local councils to work with the Muslim community to combat Islamophobia.
The scheme, which will be announced later this month, is reported to be worth £5m.
It follows intensive discussions with local authorities on how they can respond to the threat posed by violent extremists.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/
arti...1246245,00.html
Sorry, Moonboo-- I'm too squeamish to enjoy horror pics.
Little Brøther - 12:14 pm
did i reply to this a short while ago and my reply just disappear into the ether?
i said:
hermanito...
i find i am become more and more squeamish with every passing month, and less willing to endure cinematic representations of violence, no mztter how carefully crafted...
fucking hell-o-spawn/firefox
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A spokeswoman said it was a "myth" the recruitment age was being raised because the Army was losing soldiers "hand over fist".
She said the number of people leaving the service was normal turnover.
'A spokeswoman'. Poor Baghdad Bob. From Chief Propagandist to a regime to an unnamed spokesperson in drag.
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Moonbootica, FYI, the same tecnology that is used for solar heating can also be used for desalinizing seawater and distilling clean water from water that's a bit dicey, such as rainwater.
And it's simple enough to DIY.
Something to keep in mind when the taps rattle and nothing comes out when they're turned.
Woody,
Are you meeting all those Atriettes this weekend?
OT: Leading bookmakers have stopped taking any more bets on Prince William and Kate Middleton getting engaged.
Both Ladbrokes and Corals have seen a spate of wagers on the couple making their four-year relationship official.
They have now called a halt, believing an announcement will be made soon.
Speculation has grown after 10 police officers were called in to escort 24-year-old Miss Middleton from a London nightclub, throwing a security cordon around her.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/
arti...3560532,00.html
amazing you can bet on anything heh
We should give equal thanks to the Conn voters as well as saint ralph.
Great americans all.
Although Dowd, on balance, has probably done more damage to the Republic than Cheney.
She's cuter than Cheney, though.
I think LarryElvis has some stiff competition, but he's going to be one of the prettiest kitties, EVAR.
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There they go again:
E&P Survey Finds That, At Critical Point, Editorial Pages Offer Little Commentary, Pro or Con, on Likely Troop Escalation in Iraq
http://
www.editorandpublisher.co...t_id=1003528639
The ed pages are in operation ignore mode and the news articles are in support the surge mode. While Americans are asleep at the switch.
Alas, must go. Hope to talk sweet reason with all of you later today...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops and Somali protesters exchanged fire in Mogadishu on Saturday killing three people, witnesses said, as hundreds of Somalis demonstrated against the foreign forces and a government disarmament drive.
The protesters hurled stones and burned tires, wreathing streets in smoke and reviving memories of the chaos that had largely stopped during six months of strict Islamist rule before the Somalia Islamic Courts Council (SICC) was ousted last week.
"The Ethiopians opened fire and shot dead a young boy and a lady, they also killed another person," a witness said. Other witnesses agreed.
http://today.reuters.com/news/ar..._C2_worldNews-
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Boston, January the 6th, 2007.
Slightly past noon and it's 64 degrees.
I'm not going to complain all that much, knowing full well that there are still another three weeks to go in the month, and then comes February.
Am I hallucinating, or was somebody here recommending a book about US repression of Native Americans in the 70s? Does this ring a bell with anyone?
I think "Operation Scapegoat" is in full implementation mode at this point.
The point all these "he's the President, it's his choice" crowd seem to forget is that becoming president does not somehow magically make you a military genius. When 85% of the people, military and government tell you that you are wrong, then you are wrong. Pretty damn simple, unless you are a megalomaniac, or a complete idiot.
Woody,
Are you meeting all those Atriettes this weekend?
res ipsa loquitur - 12:22 pm
as it stands now, tena and flory, who are in santa fe scouring the place for loose gems, are supposed to return to abq on sunday morning, whereupon we will meet up with Martha (Mothra), as well as suzanne and lisa, and olaf and me for some breakfst/brunch...tena's flight back to dallas is supposed to be at 2:30 pm...so there should be time...
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister promised a new crackdown on Saturday on sectarian gunmen who kill hundreds of people a week in Baghdad but has yet to endorse any proposal from President George W. Bush to send in more American troops.
In a pugnacious speech for Army Day, Nuri al-Maliki said a plan was in place for Iraqi forces to crush illegal armed groups "regardless of sect or politics" -- suggesting he may be ready to tackle militias loyal to his fellow Shi'ites, a key demand of Washington and of Saddam Hussein's once dominant Sunni minority.
His announcement, along with a defiant response to critics of his decision to hang Saddam a week ago, came as Bush conducts a major reshuffle of his commanders and diplomats in Iraq and prepares to unveil a new strategy next week that officials say may include a proposal to add 20,000 U.S. troops in Baghdad.
http://today.reuters.com/news/ar...RAQ.xml&
src=rss
"She's cuter than Cheney, though."
So is the roadkill I saw yesterday on the way home from picking up my kids.
unless you are a megalomaniac, or a complete idiot.
General Zod |
2 fer 2.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
watertiger
sorta like the visas they approved to 9/11 hijackers.
The ed pages are in operation ignore mode and the news articles are in support the surge mode. While Americans are asleep at the switch.
i quibble with the order and relationship presented. the ed pages and the news articles are crafted with the express design of KEEPING Americans asleep at the switch.
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Hi. Fuck the surge.
I was hallucinating. Now I remember, I saw it at Jesus' General.
I swear, I think I'm getting early Alzheimers.
Maureen Dowd would suck off a Billy Goat in Times Square if it moved her up the DC and NYC social ladder.
Woody's got a get together in New Mexico, Jefferson has another thing going on in Nashville.
SO when are the Boston Dirty Fucking Hippies going to throw their own bash?
Woody, Have fun. No codebreaking!
Going out w/o a coat. Later, Liberal Elitists.
It goes without saying that W's chief legacy will be utter failure. He will deny it, of course, but unless the entire Earth joins him in the bubble, word will get out.
catch you all laters
So is the roadkill I saw yesterday on the way home from picking up my kids.
I'd hit it.
Maureen Dowd would suck off a Billy Goat in Times Square if it moved her up the DC and NYC social ladder.
General Zod
Oh wait, they took the laughing smileys away.
Later, Moonbootica.
"now the IEDs can take out a tank
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – A Marine tank struck an improvised explosive device today in Fallujah.
The tank was severely damaged and caught fire,
P O'Neill | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 11:59 am | #"
So all its takes to destroy a $1million tank is a plastic bottle and some cheap fertilizer/gasoline.
Oh yeah, we're winning alright.
Chris Tucker: SO when are the Boston Dirty Fucking Hippies going to throw their own bash?
Be the change. Built it, blog it -- they will come.
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When the fifth spring of war had come and gone
With ne'er a pause for breath
The soldier said, "You can go to hell!"
And died a hero's death.
But war for battle's a synonym,
And it made the Kaiser turn blue
To think his soldier had died on him
Before his time came due!
Without the Kaiser's permission,
The summer rolled in like a wave.
Then came a medical commission
To that young soldier's grave.
The medical commission said
A little prayer to their Maker--
This done, they dug with a holy spade
That soldier from God's little acre...
It goes without saying that W's chief legacy will be utter failure. He will deny it, of course, but unless the entire Earth joins him in the bubble, word will get out.
His Gal Condi, in her extensive (ly cribbed) researches into the Soviet Union discovered the concept that, if you have State control of the media, then you have State control of history, and can rewrite it to your liking. Waal, there ya go. what a useful lil' person she is!
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anybody know tena's cell fone #
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Has anyone read General Petraeus' manual on insurgent warfare?
So all its takes to destroy a $1million tank is a plastic bottle and some cheap fertilizer/gasoline.
When I was reading the account of how one of the soldiers died around the three thousand mark - It said he was riding in a sixty ton or so tank when it hit an IED, violently throwing his head against something inside the tank.
Must be some pretty powerful IED's they are making to jar a tank that weights as much as thirty cars.
Back after breffix; wish I could've posted the entire Brecht poem...
JP, I'm a Dirty Fucking Hippie. Ergo, I'm lazy and indolent.
I want it all done FOR ME!
Sheeseh! I'm surprised I have to explain all this to you people.
So all its takes to destroy a $1million tank is a plastic bottle and some cheap fertilizer/gasoline.
That's asymmetric warfare in a nutshell.
Tenas cell phone # has eluded giants before, I'll bet!
BTW, here's why Bush appointed an Admiral to replace a general:
"This reflects Washington's desire to counter Iranian influence by placing the accent on naval and air power." [Via Le Monde]
i remember hearing a tank's floor and rear wall are weak points. insurgents are also doing a number with rpgs.
Must be some pretty powerful IED's they are making to jar a tank that weights as much as thirty cars.
Chris/tx
'member, Rummy let the looters steal 280,000 tons of munitions, much of it HEX. They also passed a law allowing all Iraqi's to bear arms.
Zal Khalizad is reported to be Chimpy's latest pick for UN ambassador.
They are using artillery shells, 500 lb bombs, configured with a shaped charge, buried on the road, in the field, etc. It's still a pretty cheap way to take out a multi-million dollar vehicle. But hey, the repair lines back here are running 3 shifts, and business is good!
BTW, here's why Bush appointed an Admiral to replace a general:
"This reflects Washington's desire to counter Iranian influence by placing the accent on naval and air power."
Pfui.
This reflects Washington's desire to counter Army and Marine influence by placing the accent on naval and air power."
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not only did we lose billions in money, there's a shitload of weapons we cant account for.
The Army and Marines are the most broken services, at the moment.
"naval and air power."
Naval power - in a city - in a desert. I know you're not kidding. And that's sad.
$60 Billion shortfall in materiel, according to Barry McCaffery.
No offense, but an Admiral should not be running a ground campaign. Would they put an Army General in charge of a battle fleet? It's just W sticking his thumb in the Army's eye.
The insurgents are cheating.
Supposedly, the insurgents are receiving improved IEDs from Iran. Who knows if it's true?
W's thumb is firmly emplanted in his own posterior.
I don't think there is going to be a ground campaign against Iran.
"It's just W sticking his thumb in the Army's eye."
Just like Hitler - everyone but the U boats failed him so the head of the U boats was his successor. The navy has not failed - give them a chance to send one a them nookuler submreens ip the euphrates.
Sorry, in case i was unclear -
"Army and Marine influence" is influence in WASHINGTON D.C. You know, the "real battlefront" to the Beltway fuckwads. The folks inconvenienced by an Army and Marine Corps clearly stating that this ain't working and ain't going to. And a group just a mite hard to smear as "un-American isolationists".
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improved IEDs from Iran
They are improved IEDs from Saudi and Jordan and the world knows it, except Podunk on the Potomac.
Iran controls peaceful western Afghanistan and Dubya should ponder this.
s h e e t s
Sheets are being escalated.
But don't talk about it.
"I don't think there is going to be a ground campaign against Iran."
Here's the thing, see, I'm runnin' outta green Army Men, so I need some new Army Men, and those new Army Men are gonna be Navy and Air Force Men.
An' Eye-Ran is all gonna be like BOOM and ZOWIE-SWISH-KAPOW.
An' then I'm gonna get my big magnifying glass an' I'm gonna burn up all them fucking EYE-Ranian sandniggers out in the driveway, see!
Army and Marine influence" is influence in WASHINGTON D.C. You know, the "real battlefront" to the Beltway fuckwads. The folks inconvenienced by an Army and Marine Corps clearly stating that this ain't working and ain't going to. And a group just a mite hard to smear as "un-American isolationists".
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Cynicus
Bush is a guy who wants to read your mail, and will propose a plan only 11% of the country supports.
We are all terrorists, now.
But hey, the repair lines back here are running 3 shifts, and business is good!
General Zod | - 12:41 pm
that's not the case...
i fergit where i saw it, but there was a story (military times?) about the repo depots are only running one shift, because the Army doesn't have the money to run the facilities 24/7, cuz they're fighting this war (and exposing our citizen/soldiers to risk, death, and/or dismemberment) on the fucking cheap...
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that's not the case...
i fergit where i saw it, but there was a story (military times?) about the repo depots are only running one shift, because the Army doesn't have the money to run the facilities 24/7, cuz they're fighting this war (and exposing our citizen/soldiers to risk, death, and/or dismemberment) on the fucking cheap...
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WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar
FMC, who makes the Bradley IFV, is going gangbusters repairing and upgrading them. That was the case I was using. They are a private company, so it could well be the case that other places are not doing the same.
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