I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
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I just added to the pony section on wikipedia, it's worth checking out. Finally someone does some research on where all this pony talk comes from (and you might be surprised).
Well, part of the reason I was against the war was because I was afraid what has happened would happen. Either the NYTimes Sunday Magazine or The Nation had a long article predicting a civil war and warning that fighting a guerilla war in an urban setting would be a losing proposition.
Rebuilding Iraq was never really the point. It's all a complicated process, the purpose of which is to transfer government revenues to large American corporations.
First you pay them to build the weapons and ammunition for blowing stuff up. Then you pay them to rebuild the same stuff they blew up. Barring that, you pay them to provide something like humanitarian aid or economic development. Where's the profit in paying the Iraqis to rebuild their country?
clearly Halliburton is much better equipped to rebuild Iraq than the Iraqi's themselves.
the Iraqi people have contributed nothing to the RNC, nor to the RCCC, and thus are in no position to rebuild Iraq.
just that it is clear that had there not been so much incompetence things would be at least a bit better.
What's a little incompetence when friends and well-wishers are making money hand over fist?
Oh.
This whole thing has, in such a large part, been about enriching Dick Cheney. Who already had so much money that he was never going to have to worry about a thing and could pretty much live wherever and however he wanted. So it's all pretty sick.
Bremer was right on top of things. Fired the entire army and didn't offer alternative employment. All these trained soldiers with nothing to do and no where to go growing more and more resentful every day. Heck of job Bremer.
Bremer was right on top of things. Fired the entire army and didn't offer alternative employment. All these trained soldiers with nothing to do and no where to go growing more and more resentful every day. Heck of job Bremer.
In order to address the Empty Stall problem, Farmer John has convened a town meeting, which is expected to announce next week that a plan is in the works to close the barn doors.
I am a painter.
I can teach 'em the roll, the spackle and the cut.
it was a stupid idea in the first place to a) get rid of baath party members and b) disband the army.
automatically you create a pool of unemployment and lots of resentment and no pay.
if your going to occupy a country at least keep the local elites around.
even in WW2 when Germany under allied occupation the allies kept low level Nazis about and local government.
and Japan was very similar, MacArthur acted basically as a Roman pro-consul.
I once calculated that we could have put a hundred Iraqi's to work for what it costs us for each Halliburton employee working in Iraq.
Who already had so much money that he was never going to have to worry about a thing and could pretty much live wherever and however he wanted.
I hope his money buys him many more years trapped in a broken-down, wheezing body rotting from the inside out.
Oh, and I hope there's lots of pain.
I was against the war because the rationale for war didn't add up, based on what I was hearing "them" say, and what I was reading in depth. Everything I was reading pointed to an illegal, immoral, pre-emptive war based on greed for oil. I still have serious doubts that the purpose of PNAC was to democratize the middle east. Even on its face, there was something sinister about it just under the surface.
I am also of the opinion that, unless attacked (and we weren't - not by the Iraq government), war is never an option.
I believe in resolution by diplomacy, and in a country minding its own business before it minds the business of others. I suppose you could call me an isolationist with a pacifistic bent.
What, you mean you want to deprive the Cheney family from what they think is their inheritance?
It’s hard work invading other countries and building your pension fund.
I was against this war because it made no fucking sense.
20 to 30 years from now, schoolchildren in america will be raising their hands and asking, "why were we so stupid back then?"
Don't worry, MM will get to the bottom of it.
This whole thing has, in such a large part, been about enriching Dick Cheney. Who already had so much money that he was never going to have to worry about a thing and could pretty much live wherever and however he wanted. So it's all pretty sick.
Hecate,
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this is my standard of what differentiates DEMs and GOPers.
they are sick fucks and we aren't.
ok, I take that back.
so many of them are sick fucks who would rather let power betray and destroy a nation than relinquish that power.
I believe in resolution by diplomacy, and in a country minding its own business before it minds the business of others. I suppose you could call me an isolationist with a pacifistic bent.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 01.06.07 - 4:24 pm | #
Damned dirty hippy.
20 to 30 years from now, schoolchildren in america will be raising their hands and asking, "why were we so stupid back then?"
Only if we rebuild public education.
Don't worry, MM will get to the bottom of it.
Did she go?
one of the weirdest things in Chandresekaran's Emerald City is when he describes being yelled at by an Indian cafeteria worker for asking for French Fries instead of Freedom Fries. You just know some bug-eyed Baptist kitchen supervisor from halliburton went Captain Queeg on the staff for speaking American English
I am sorry, Atrios, I am having trouble getting in the spirit of things: IT WAS SO FUCKING DUMB TO INVADE IN THE FIRST PLACE that everything else comes in second or third.
So, we talk about what we should have done with the population: WE SHOULD HAVE LEFT THEM THE HELL ALONE.
No amount of pontificating or cajoling will ever erase the mark of stupidity they emblazoned on the flag of the USA.
one of the weirdest things in Chandresekaran's Emerald City is when he describes being yelled at by an Indian cafeteria worker for asking for French Fries instead of Freedom Fries.
That's surreal.
Bremer was right on top of things. Fired the entire army and didn't offer alternative employment. All these trained soldiers with nothing to do and no where to go growing more and more resentful every day. Heck of job Bremer.
ql in ny | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 4:22 pm | #
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disbanding the army might not have been a bad idea if they had also disarmed them.
Rorschach,
I'd rather you call me a dirty, fucking hippie.
But the Iraqis were incapable of doing anything themselves, which is why we had to invade.
book review of Emerald City:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Mid...t/
IA06Ak04.html
I'd rather you call me a dirty, fucking hippie.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 01.06.07 - 4:27 pm | #
Or, I could call you a dirty hippie, while fucking.
I am also of the opinion that, unless attacked (and we weren't - not by the Iraq government), war is never an option.
I of the opinion that there is no 'unless.'
Just call me dirty, and it's all good.
if the coalition had kept the local army then I bet it would of been a whole lot easier to police the country.
with the army and local government apparatus gone, nothing was there to fill the vacuum.
But the Iraqis were incapable of doing anything themselves, which is why we had to invade.
NTodd, Mass Of Ego'n'Id | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 4:28 pm | #
Historically, brown people have been very lazy about invading and exploiting their own nations, leaving it up to us to do it for them.
Had there been a massive public works program which hired Real Live Iraqis instead of whoever the hell Halliburton was importing to do the work...
Imagine that here. Thousands of Americans out of work, we're occupied by another country, and immigrants being brought in to rebuild the place for a few dollars a day. The wingnuts hate immigrants now, so they'd be the first to start an insurgency if America were in Iraq's place.
I don't know how much of the blind trust de Cheney is tied up in Halliburton but I do know that by 2000, close to 80 companies were looking at asbestos class action lawsuit settlements and most of them went belly up.
Halliburton happened to get the no-bid contracts timed so that by 2004 they were bragging about a billion dollar set-aside fund specifially to payout the asbestos law suits.
Time Warp in the studio of DWD this day. Some damned fool loaded the playlist with Bobby Vinton and Johnny Tillotson and Bobby Vee. Feel like I have dropped into 1960. Strange days.
Wait - you were against the war?
Why didn't you say so before?
It was never about re-building, that never came up, just as doesn't come up now. It's only about war.
And Bush has become obsessed with it.
I of the opinion that there is no 'unless.'
Yeah, I thought about that before I posted. I'm pretty much with you on that, although when I think about my little microcosm of the world, if I'm attacked, I will defend myself, so I apply that on a global perspective.
I recall a story from fairly early in the occupation where an effective cell phone operation set up locally by Iraqis was shut down by Bremer. The reason? The occupying authorities had given the contract for "rebuilding" Iraq's cell phone service to an American company, which then proceeded to fuck things up. Evidently, Iraqi telecommunications were built according to European standards and methods, which the American company was incapable of working with since they never had to deal with before.
One more consequence of George's misadventures in warmongering will be the difficulties faced by any reasonable US administration in the future.
I believe a lot of the world has become convinced of the dangers that can be posed by a country, any country, with as much influence as the US brings to bear upon the rest of the world at its own discretion.
I think the US is going to find itself losing influence no matter how admirable future governments may be, because nobody wants a potential repeat of the Bush years.
I recall a story from fairly early in the occupation where an effective cell phone operation set up locally by Iraqis was shut down by Bremer. The reason? The occupying authorities had given the contract for "rebuilding" Iraq's cell phone service to an American company, which then proceeded to fuck things up. Evidently, Iraqi telecommunications were built according to European standards and methods, which the American company was incapable of working with since they never had to deal with before.
Richard
I wonder if our execution-filmer used the American or European standard.
But at least abortion is outlawed in the Iraqi, ahem, constitution...
Imagine that here. Thousands of Americans out of work, we're occupied by another country, and immigrants being brought in to rebuild the place for a few dollars a day. The wingnuts hate immigrants now, so they'd be the first to start an insurgency if America were in Iraq's place.
TheOtherWA
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we are awfully close to bloodless coup right now in terms of liveable wage, decent employment and foreign investments.
Anent, below:
i await with 'bated breath and anxious anticipation the stirring and eventual arousal of the Democratic Horde from it's Minority slumbers, and it's stirring and strident rebukes of the countless mal- and misfeasances which they were forced to endure at the hands of the delusional and dillatory GOPhux.
and no one--NO ONE--will be happier than I upon the event of such a reversal...
i'm just not optimistic...
that's all
i was disappointed that Blair took Britain to war also.
when I think about my little microcosm of the world, if I'm attacked, I will defend myself, so I apply that on a global perspective.
There's a big difference between personal responses in an immediate life-death struggle and state-sponsored violence.
But at least abortion is outlawed in the Iraqi, ahem, constitution...
Zap Rowsdower, Bad Blogger
Really?
Let's tell the fundies, maybe they'll all move.
i was disappointed that Blair took Britain to war also.
Moonbootica, Ubuntu User | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 4:34 pm | #
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i still don't understand why he did it.
disbanding the army might not have been a bad idea if they had also disarmed them.
And guarding the weapons depots like al Qa Qaa would have helped too. The insurgency was fueled with the hundreds of barrels of explosives carted off in April 2003.
i'm just not optimistic...
that's all
Say it isn't so! 
DWD, i think Bobby Vinton's a BEEEEG HIT in Branson, MO...
just sayin
/
WGG,
You should have heard Louise Slaughter on Ed Schultz yesterday. She is chair of the Rules Committee, and it sure sounds to me as if she takes her new role seriously. She's very proud of what they were able to accomplish in the first day and a half of the 110th Congress. I think it's hilarious that there will be no more fly abouts in corporate jets, no more meals purchased by lobbyists, no more golf games...
Yea, she's going:
My blogging has been lighter than usual the past few weeks due to family time, Fox News duties, holiday chaos, holiday illness--and, yes, planning for a trip to Iraq. As you know, ex-CNN newsman Eason Jordan extended an invitation to me three weeks ago to go to Iraq to investigate the Associated Press/"Jamil Hussein" story. He offered to pay for a trip. As you'll recall, I asked if he would offer to cover travel and security costs for Curt from Flopping Aces--who broke open the story of AP's dubious sources on Thanksgiving weekend and continues to lead the blogospheric search for the truth. Jordan agreed.
I spoke with Jordan by phone before Christmas to learn more details of his offer, which I'm not going to get into for privacy and security reasons. (He asked that his discussion be off the record.) I let him know that I had received invitations to embed with the military and planned to follow up on some of these offers concurrently with the investigation of the AP's reporting. Since our conversation, things have moved at a fast pace on the embed side. Over the holidays, my Hot Air colleague Bryan Preston and I received word that our embed applications had been approved. We have been busy preparing our families and ourselves for the journey. Our overarching goals are two-fold:
1) to report on how the troops perceive mainstream media coverage of the war (with a particular focus on the wire services relying on local stringers); and
2) to report on progress and interaction between U.S. troops and Iraqi Army trainees.
The "Jamil Hussein" story is one important item on our agenda, but not the only one. As Curt and other bloggers on this story have noted from the beginning, Jamilgate isn't just about "Jamil Hussein." Bryan and I plan to do as much on-the-ground reporting as we can to nail down unresolved questions--not only about Jamil Hussein and the Hurriya six burning Sunnis allegations, but also about the AP four burning mosque story discrepancies and the many other AP sources that our military has publicly challenged--including "Lt. Maitham Abdul Razzaq" and more than a dozen police officers listed by U.S. military spokesman Navy Lt. Michael Dean. There's also the issue of detained AP photographer Bilal Hussein. And we are looking forward to reporting first-hand on the security situation in Iraq outside the so-called "Green Zone" (International Zone) and talking to as many American and Iraqi Army troops with insights on these and other broader matters.
Re-HICA!
Didja'll see all the kitty pixles I posted, this morning?
Well, anyway... MusicMatch Jukebox is trying to funk me. Twice now, it's done some ironic thangs in its random playlist. It played two R.E.M. tunes from the same album, in the order they play on the album. Then, it played a Donald Fagen tune, followed by a Steely Dan cut.
Freeekeeeee!
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Let's tell the fundies, maybe they'll all move.
Yeah...haven't you seen all of those Iraqi license plates that say "Choose Life"?
Seriously, that was some 24 YO kid's responsability during the Bremer regime.
DWD, i think Bobby Vinton's a BEEEEG HIT in Branson, MO...
Heh. My former place of employment installed the seating in the Bobby Vinton Theatre in Branson. He has a special "BV" engraved on the end panels of each row of seating. I think his initials may even be woven into the fabric.
Cheney can't take it with him. He and his ilk are only interested in one thing: power.
His obsession with hating others, to punish, to exclude-- is psychotic. The money is only an appendage that comes along with the power. He thinks admiration from the wingnuts is THE thing in life.
Yeah...haven't you seen all of those Iraqi license plates that say "Choose Life"?
No, but I've noticed a lot of Allah fish.
i still don't understand why he did it.
Olaf glad and big | 01.06.07 - 4:34 pm | #
I think I partially understand it, he has a messiah complex and is obsessed about his legacy.
he truly belied that invading Iraq was the 'godly' and 'right' thing to do, this was not a cynical ploy on his part, his genuine belief is what makes him so dangerous.
Blair has always lived a very insulated life, protected and promoted by his patrons, cloistered at Oxford very much the traditional career path of an aspiring PM, when he got into power he surrounded himself with the 'true believers' the Blairite ultras. This has served to further insulate Blair from wider reality and promote the self-delusion that he is actually politically popular.
DWD, i think Bobby Vinton's a BEEEEG HIT in Branson, MO...
He's no Yakov Smirnoff.....
Yeah...haven't you seen all of those Iraqi license plates that say "Choose Life"?
Zap Rowsdower,
I don't do a lot of driving in Iraq 
I saw a bumpersticker today on an old, brown Chevy beater:
"My car isn't much because my treasure is with Jesus in Heaven."
heh:
Donations to defray the costs of our trip to Iraq are gratefully accepted. Checks can be sent to Hot Air Network LLC, 554 N. Frederick Ave., #115, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. Credit card and PayPal payments can be made by clicking the donation button below:
President Bush’s new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to employ Iraqis in projects including painting schools and cleaning streets, according to American officials who are piecing together the last parts of the initiative.
If it was a Dem president proposing to spend that much money painting American schools, the wingnut heads would be exploding.
Vicki,
Probably had a W sticker too didn't it?
Probably had a W sticker too didn't it?
No, but I wouldn't have been surprised if it had.
I saw a bumpersticker today on an old, brown Chevy beater:
"My car isn't much because my treasure is with Jesus in Heaven."
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 01.06.07 - 4:39 pm | #
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nothing wrong with driving an old, brown, chevy beater. but if you're going to do it, do it with some pride. don't be making excuses the whole time.
intended to employ Iraqis in projects including painting schools and cleaning streets
Do headless bodies go in with the regular garbage, or blue bags?
Jamilgate isn't just about "Jamil Hussein." Bryan and I plan to do as much on-the-ground reporting as we can to nail down unresolved questions--not only about Jamil Hussein and the Hurriya six burning Sunnis allegations, but also about the AP four burning mosque story discrepancies and the many other AP sources that our military has publicly challenged--
this would be funny if there weren't so many deaths beneath the delusion. I can just see her triumphant post on return:
Only 599,994 dead civilians in Iraq!
And from there: On the ground reporting has proven the number of civilians deaths has been grossly exaggerated.....
A horribly wrong idea?
The war is ILLEGAL. It was never sanctioned by the UN with a second vote. Bush BROKE THE LAW of the land when he ordered Shock and Awe to begin. A bad idea, yes, for many reasons, yes, but nobody has to defend thier opposition to an illegal war.
Yeah but hiring Iraqi's to perform large scale public work is like the New Deal. You know we can't have that going on.
WGG, it is Mrs DWD's fault. She mistakenly called Bobby Vee, Bobby Vinton so I went into the vaults and dug out the Bobby VInton to explain the difference. (And it has been stuck there since)
But he sold his theater in Branson.
My latest sticker is
"So...How;s that W thing goin'?"
"I'm going to crap in my pants for the rest of my life cause I'm waiting to sit on the golden toilets in God's Kingdom."
I never could get my head round the idea that…….. “Shock and awe”…. worked well with ……“winning hearts and minds”
Chimpy’s gigantic pyrotechnic display for the benefit of his moron base, did not seem the best idea of convincing the Iraqi people that we meant well.
I hope all the corporate newsreaders who squealed with joy as Chimpy blew shit up now feel ashamed of themselves.
If it was a Dem president proposing to spend that much money painting American schools, the wingnut heads would be exploding.
The Kenosha Kid - 4:40 pm
and for good reason....
fer chrissakes, poor american children do not have any oil...
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If I hear the phrase "painting the schools" ONE MORE TIME, I'm going to scream. That is one of the stupidest, most meaningless idiot stories to come out of the Iraq nightmare.
"My car isn't much because my treasure is with Jesus in Heaven."
Vicki,
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dayyyuuuum
that's dounding an awful lot like a fundienut muslim terrorist.
I'm sure heads will explode. Iraq as a libertarian, freemarket terrarium was a big part of their fantasy
my favorite bumper sticker of all time is the one that says this:
jesus loves you
everyone else thinks you're an asshole
I think the US is going to find itself losing influence no matter how admirable future governments may be,
Just imagine the next dictator we woo...
In the course of his career, Vinton has sold over 75 million records (singles, albums, compilation inclusions, etc) and is still performing on tour. He owned and performed at the Bobby Vinton Blue Velvet Theatre in Branson, Missouri until 2002 when the theatre was sold to David King, creator and producer of Spirit of the Dance. Vinton returns to Branson annually for limited engagements at the theatre.
Billboard Magazine called Bobby Vinton "the all-time most successful love singer of the 'Rock-Era'". During the first ten years of rock and roll's existence, Vinton had more #1 hits than any other male vocalist, including Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob...ki/
Bobby_Vinton
That is one of the stupidest, most meaningless idiot stories to come out of the Iraq nightmare.
Fine.
WE'RE GIVING ALL OF THE KIDS SOCCER BALLS!!!
You shouldn't paint brick anyways.
I like Blue Velvet by Bobby Vinton.
These Iraqis that can't do anything for themselves...except survive a disatrous war with Iran, another War and 12 years of sanctions with the US, and this last war where Amerika makes a nation a scapegoat for mideast.
Violent protests against the government's plan to disarm people in Mogadishu are taking place in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday.
Hundreds of people, most of them women and young people, have burnt tires and have thrown stones at the cars passing by the streets where the demonstrators staged their protest.
The demonstrations are taking place at "21 October Square" known as Tribunka and KM4 junction at the center of the capital. Many schools that were supposed to be opened today are still closed in fear of violence and insecurity.
Protestors chanted anti-Ethiopian slogans. Most of the people in Mogadishu have been angered by the government's disarmament plan after nearly 1,000 Somali troops from the semi-autonomous regional government of Puntland were reported to be taking part in the disarmament.
http://allafrica.com/stories/
200...0701060041.html
I liked Pat Boone's "Sings Irving Berlin" Album. But then he went nuts.
No, Pat Boone was always nuts. Fundy through and through
Okay, now I go get booze.
First, the NYT reports that: Dec. 12 — Exhaustive computer simulations carried out at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., suggest that the Arctic Ocean will be mostly open water in the summer of 2040 — several decades earlier than expected. Scientists attribute the loss of summer ice largely to the buildup of carbon dioxide and other man-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Then the NYT takes a swipe at those who think every hurricane is a disaster, equating them with batshit insane Injofe, and, finally, and suggests "thoughtful hearings."
2040 is, just in case you're counting, 33 years from now. How old are your kids? How old are you?
Who knew HaloScan had "internal servers" that could have errors?
Moonbootica: I like BV's Blue Velvet, too. Makes me want to breathe into an oxygen mask and look for my mommy.
The power of the "free market" has really been demonstrated in Iraq. I think we should privatize everything now.
WE'RE GIVING ALL OF THE KIDS SOCCER BALLS!!!
Zap Rowsdower
Perfect, Zap. Perfect! Unless maybe Play Stations would do the trick.
The power of the "free market" has really been demonstrated in Iraq. I think we should privatize everything now.
Irving R. Feldman
I am in a foul mood for a variety of reasons but that brought out a guffaw.
"Bluer than Velvet were her eyes
Warmer than May the Starry skies
Love was ours...."
If I hear the phrase "painting the schools" ONE MORE TIME, I'm going to scream. That is one of the stupidest, most meaningless idiot stories to come out of the Iraq nightmare.
Not the least because I'm pretty damn sure that if we'd offered to go over there and paint the schools w/o attacking the place, they'd have let us. So if this is all about painted schools, how do we explain all the shock & awe, death, torture, and disruption?
Iraq as a libertarian, freemarket terrarium was a big part of their fantasy
Yeah and they sent all those young GOPers recruited from wingnut websites to try and put that fantasy into effect. Fuckheads with no qualifications at all beyond their idealogical purity. In essence, the occupation was being run by people like liberal jeenyus. 24 year old fools who couldn't balance a checkbook put in charge of billion dollar budgets.
Roses Are Red is a pretty nice song too.
I think of Goodfellas when I hear it.
Moonbootica: I like BV's Blue Velvet, too. Makes me want to breathe into an oxygen mask and look for my mommy.
I'm doing that right now.
2040 is at least 20 years earlier than I read was predicted earlier in the week, but that was winter ice, too.
WE desparately need another Truman committee.
I believe Henry Waxman's our boy.
Had there been a massive public works program which hired Real Live Iraqis instead of whoever the hell Halliburton was importing to do the work, and instead of painting the goddamn schools they'd managed to turn the lights on for more than a couple of hours per day there's some chance things could've worked out a bit better.
They didn't send enough people over there that could speak the language. It was the Tower of Babel in the 21st century. Of course, they weren't really interested in making it a success now, were they.
There was lots of money to be had for the taking. The Iraqi people were an inconvenient nuisance.
Find Teh Pony II, Coming Soon to a theatre of war near you!
New! Contains 10% More Troops!!@1!
Gawly. I'm only on the 4th soft rock CD that I've got to import.
BTW: We're having a game night tonight. If anyone want's to stop over...
you know it would of been cheaper to give every Iraqi a radio or TV.
24 year old fools who couldn't balance a checkbook put in charge of billion dollar budgets.
But at least they loved Jebuz and opposed letting women control their own bodies. So this is working out rather nicely for them.
24 year old fools who couldn't balance a checkbook put in charge of billion dollar budgets.
Richard
Liberty University's best and brightest.
Giving all those no bid contracts to Halliburton and KBR was an undeniable show of mission cynicism that, though lost on many Americans, was not lost on any Iraquis.
They had people that could speak the language, but they were queers -- so they drummed them out of the military instead!
I am inclined toward:
I Love How You Love Me
and the original
Sealed With Kiss
So this is working out rather nicely for them.
*shudder*
Talk to Chicago Dyke sometime about what they did to Mesopotamia. It is to weep.
Geez, we're watching this movie called FM. Jimmy Buffett looks like a baby.
you know it would of been cheaper to give every Iraqi a radio or TV.
...and a satellite dish.
It's one of those absolutely perfect days in between late Autumn and early Spring here in Boston. The cherry trees along the Charles River have started to bloom already. Women are wearing skimpy outfits. Robins are pulling up worms. I'm so glad the SC didn't let crazy Al Gore win in 2000. What does he know anyways.
Geez, we're watching this movie called FM. Jimmy Buffett looks like a baby.
pie | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 4:53 pm | #
and a random memory surges through halfdead brain cells: Eileen Brennan rolling a joint?
Geez, we're watching this movie called FM. Jimmy Buffett looks like a baby.
pie
He *is* a big baby. He cries when people eat his peanut butter
Final score
Oregon Ducks 68
UCLA Bruins 66
:rocket:
:rocket:
:rocket:
Someone was complaining about the missing billions and billions and I had to correct him....
They may be "missing" from any public scrutiny, but they are in somebody's fucking pockets.
pie,
Most of my siblings are parrotheads. While I think "Margaritaville" is one of the catchiest pop tunes ever, somehow, I managed to escape endless Buffet concerts and parrot parties.
Thank ye, Jeebuz.
I really hated when Eileen Brennan got hit by that car.
I sincerely believe that, just before the invasion, there were neocons sitting around sucking down their singlemalts, comparing ideas about vacation homes on the Tigris or the Euphrates.
I really hated when Eileen Brennan got hit by that car.
Me, too.
24 year old fools who couldn't balance a checkbook put in charge of billion dollar budgets.
Richard
Liberty University's best and brightest.
Irving R. Feldman
Jethrene was wait-listed, and Jim Beirne threw is Heritage Foundation intern application away because he misspelled "Row" "Vee" and "Wayd"
Wasn't Sealed With a Kiss by Brian Hyland??
Moonbootica - I have an assignment for you. Please convince BBC America to play something besides Cash in the Attic on weekend afternoons. They used to show old Eastenders or that show about the kid who inherited a castle in Scotland, both of which I found quite enjoyable to listen to.
Thank you.
and no this is not a duplicate post
well my father is me by default am watching this mindless piece of nonsense The Transporter 2
, think Steven Segal but less bone snapping but with lots of bangs, explosions, half naked girls, OTT villians, crappy acting and guns.
comparing ideas about vacation homes on the Tigris or the Euphrates.
Yeah. The Bluth family never got around to building those, did they?
I have an unreasonable fondness for Omega-3 fatty acids. I bought peanut butter today that has 1000mg/serving of Omega-3's.
But at least they loved Jebuz and opposed letting women control their own bodies.
I've been trying find a link to the story that talked about the young GOPer fuckhead who desperately wanted abortion to be outlawed by the Iraqi constitution. Wasn't it part of a Newsweek story?
you know it would of been cheaper to give every Iraqi a radio or TV.
...and a satellite dish.
Yup. And folks did suggest things like that...
Moonbootica - I have an assignment for you. Please convince BBC America to play something besides Cash in the Attic on weekend afternoons. They used to show old Eastenders or that show about the kid who inherited a castle in Scotland, both of which I found quite enjoyable to listen to.
Thank you.
and no this is not a duplicate post
ql in ny | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 4:56 pm | #
I'm not sure what I can do.
They had people that could speak the language, but they were queers -- so they drummed them out of the military instead!
But should the military have been responsible for the rebuilding? They needed people to supervise the carpenters, plumbers, electricians, electrical enginneers who could that and speak the language. They didn't have to be Americans if none were available.
They just weren't interested in rebuilding except as propaganda.
And no oversight. Holy fucking crap. They couldn't have screwed this up more spectacularly, and where was the fucking media to call them on it?
It's revolting.
Jethrene was wait-listed, and Jim Beirne threw is Heritage Foundation intern application away because he misspelled "Row" "Vee" and "Wayd"
Jim
If she secretly agrees to pull late hours at Uncle Jerry's Liquor Store she may get anouther chance at that diploma
you know it would of been cheaper to give every Iraqi a radio or TV.
...and a satellite dish.
Yup. And folks did suggest things like that...
NTodd, Mass Of Ego'n'Id
you are all being very selfish. After 9/11, Richard Cohen and Dennis Miller needed some therepeutic violence to stop the bedwetting, if only for a time.
providing clean water and electricity would like you know help run a place such as Iraq.
They didn't send enough people over there that could speak the language.
In the future Amerika would do well to dissuade its children from the study of Romance languages. Its appalling, even now, at the lack of Chinese and Arabic language courses in many universities. We are talking 40% of the world's population.
This assmin's originally calling the invasion a crusade, and treating the country like a colonial outpost hasn't helped matters much, IMO.
(only if they wanted Iraq to be as ugly as your average military installation)
Urdu and other languages of the sub-continent might be good, too.
Most of my siblings are parrotheads.
Only one sister and her husband in my family. They used to mount a cut-out shark head and tail on their van and attend concerts in the northeast and Florida, because they own a condo down there.
It was always good fun. Music should be that, too.
The overriding ideology of the CPA was to achieve the investor class wet dream wherein nearly 100% of a country's capital flows out to them.
They couldn't have screwed this up more spectacularly, and where was the fucking media to call them on it?
"Breaking news: Pretty 18-year old Caucasian girl missing in Aruba"
Late to the thread. Everyone has said what I would have say. I despair at what Bush&co have done to the world. I hope there is a solution for Iraq and related happenings, but I don't see it right now.
Wars of aggression simply do not turn out well for anyone involved.
We did all of us actually learn this, several times over, from 1914-2003. Unfortunately, the people in power treated knowledge as something from the loose-leaf binder school of history and gaily picked and chose the lessons they'd use.
The result was entirely predictible. From the first moment to now, every single aspect was so utterly predictible as to be trite. Sorry. There's simply no correcting this kind of catastrophic systems failure.
Sewer service would be nice in a very warm city of 5 million plus residents.
Jimmy Buffett is as close to country as I get.
I heart the Eastenders
Wasn't Sealed With a Kiss by Brian Hyland??
Bad Art
Not sure: this sounds like the one I remember. And isn't Brian Hyland more noted for the "silly" songs like Short Shorts and Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie . . .?
Yeah. The Bluth family never got around to building those, did they?
Zap Rowsdower
Now there's a series I'd like to see made into a feature film
OT--Some cool eye candy to ease the day.
WE desparately need another Truman committee.
I believe Henry Waxman's our boy.
angryspittle
I think the scale of the fraud and corruption will shock even us. A tip of the iceburg kind of thing.
There's simply no correcting this kind of catastrophic systems failure.
Tell that to Bush, McCain, Lieberman, and the 11% who still support this madness.
This continuing sacrifice.
Mehmet was an Eastender.
I hope there is a solution for Iraq and related happenings, but I don't see it right now.
mer
Releasing Chimpy into Sadr City wearing nothing but a diaper would be a good start.
They couldn't have screwed this up more spectacularly, and where was the fucking media to call them on it?
Cheerleading.
What kind of a name is Yasmeen Bleeth?
I like that Irving.
Dr, from 4:26
"IT WAS SO FUCKING DUMB TO INVADE IN THE FIRST PLACE that everything else comes in second or third.
So, we talk about what we should have done with the population: WE SHOULD HAVE LEFT THEM THE HELL ALONE."
Now there's a series I'd like to see made into a feature film
We got all the episodes as wedding gifts. We watch 'em all the time.
i remember a version of "See You In September" by the Four Lads (iirc), with strings and shouted harmonies...
but the top-40 version was Brian Hyland, i'm pretty sure...
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WooHoo. Time to start brown rice.
Well said as usual, Dr. B.
plantsman, I'm sure you;ve tried smartbalance peanut butter. How is it?
I always get Bobby Vinton and Bobby Goldsboro mixed up. Now "Honey" is a real song. I always blast that on my stereo at high volume when I'm cleaning my gun collection.
"Sealed with a Kiss" is the title of a song written by Peter Udell and Gary Geld. It was first recorded in 1960 by The Four Voices. While their version was released as a single, it failed to make a significant impact. In 1962, Brian Hyland, a frequent recorder of Udell's and Geld's material, released the song as a single. It became very popular, charting in the top ten of both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart.
The song became a hit again in 1968 when Gary Lewis and the Playboys released it as a single. This version also had a high placing on the Hot 100.
A third top forty Hot 100 version came in 1972, when Bobby Vinton released his version as a single. This version also placed high on Billboard's adult contemporary chart.
What kind of a name is Yasmeen Bleeth?
plantsman, lowercase | 01.06.07 - 5:04 pm
Lebanese, I believe.
So it's a desert topping AND a floor wax! THanks, Richard.
How 'bout "The Search is Over" by Survivor??? Huh? Nobody ever talks about that, ya knowah.
Richard, thanks - they get all mixed up after a while.
What kind of a name is Yasmeen Bleeth?
plantsman, lowercase - 5:04 pm
lebanese? she's listed as "American" in her bio...
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"Honey" is a real song. I always blast that on my stereo at high volume when I'm cleaning my gun collection.
I would not trust myself to handle weapons with that song playing.
A sharp woman at the AEI deal yesterday asked Lieberman about employment for Iraqis. He dodged it.
Dr. Barmpot, 1) you should have a syndicated column somewhere (other than here!) and 2} how was the chile stew??
The post-Swing, pre-Motown, British Invasion mainstream music was some of the most whitebread music ever recorded. e.g. "A Summer Place".
Ah, Bobby Vinton, the Polish Prince!
"A Summer Place".
Max Planck
How gay a name is "Percy Faith" ?
lebanese? she's listed as "American" in her bio...
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She is Lebanese-American
A sharp woman at the AEI deal yesterday asked Lieberman about employment for Iraqis. He dodged it.
They've found their own jobs, and he knows it.
you are all being very selfish. After 9/11, Richard Cohen and Dennis Miller needed some therepeutic violence to stop the bedwetting, if only for a time.
I coulda kicked them in the balls. That would be very therapeutic, and prolly get them to stop wetting their beds.
WE ARE PREPARED TO SET UP A BAGHDAD OFFICE WHEN INVITED
Sewer service would be nice in a very warm city of 5 million plus residents.
plantsman, lowercase
You and I, Bubba, and all the rest of the Phoenicians and Southwesterners have a real fair idea of what kind of hell Iraq is at the moment - a modern society, basing its growth and existence of such things as air conditioning, water treatment plants, food and materiel brought from a distance - and all of it stopped dead. All the irrigation systems gone, all the air treatment gone, all the electrical support systems gone - let's pause a moment and visualise what happens if you do that to Phoenix. Or San Antonio. Or Albuquerque. Or let's take the region - say Denver down to Tucson, over to Dallas, then back up thru all of NM.
Turn off the power. Cut off access to food, materiel, supplies, a/c, cell towers, water.
Leave in place the antagonistic Westerners - the ranchers, the farmers, the miners, the IT people, the salesmen, the realtors, the Apache, the Dine, the Pueblos, the Hispanics, the workers, the thinkers, the wealthy and the poor, all of whom know exactly what happened and exactly who is to blame. Add an ineffective occupying force, bunkered and garrisonned, not mobile.
What happens next?
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What happens next?
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Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 5:13 pm |
DR PHIL MOBILIZES THE MASSES???????
WE ARE PREPARED TO SET UP A BAGHDAD OFFICE WHEN INVITED
LEARN HEBREW ONLINE
WW III.
Father Greeley
The present incumbent of the White House often spoke of his personal anger at the Iraqi president. Well, now he has had his revenge, not that it does him much good.
Those who take the Christian scripture seriously must believe the words of God in the epistle to the Romans, "Revenge is mine, says the Lord, I shall repay!" God claims a monopoly on revenge, but the need for it is a powerful human passion. Many of the relatives of victims at the time of American executions tell us that the death of the hated person brings closure. In fact it is only a hollow closure that cannot endure. Many countries reject the death penalty as unworthy of humans. They are right, and the United States is wrong.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/
gre...GREEL05.article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yas.../
Yasmine_Bleeth
Yasmine, which is pronounced yes-MEEN, is the Persian version of Jasmine, the name of a flower...
Bleeth's American father, Philip, is Jewish of Russian and German ancestry, while her mother, Carina, was a Pied-noir [1].
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The wikipedia article features her police mugshot as the main photo. Nasty!
Lenore, I haven't made the chile stew yet, but I have the good Dr.'s recipe (also Woody's) stored in my recipe file to make next week. Hopefully, it will keep my mind off the mess in Iraq for an afternoon. Finding decent chiles in east TN might be an adventure, or maybe not.
Ha ha...very funny. Iraq had a decent sized Jewish community at one time. I'll leave it to you to figure out whether Iraqis forced them out or Zionist did for purposes of their land grabs.
YASMINE BLEETH QUALIFIES FOR THREE PRIVATE LESSONS
From near the bottom of that article...
Bleeth is Yiddish in origin, and was once spelled as blut, which is German for blood.
What kind of a name is Yasmeen Bleeth?
plantsman
Mongrel
Her father Philip is of Russian and German extraction, her late mother Carina was of French and Algerian descent.
I do believe it was Yasmeen Bleeth that my drunken friend was uttering as he was hugging the porcelin God.
you are all being very selfish. After 9/11, Richard Cohen and Dennis Miller needed some therepeutic violence to stop the bedwetting, if only for a time.
I coulda kicked them in the balls. That would be very therapeutic, and prolly get them to stop wetting their beds.
NTodd,
well... how's your aim? and do you have a pair of extremely pointy-toed shoes?
YE SHALL HAVE NO PORCELIN GODS ABOVE THE ONE TRUE GOD
Say what you will about the Polish Prince: he worked his way through college by performing. He studied music and composition and is doing exactly what he wanted to do: that is admirable.
Jobs are not the issue. The US is determined to control the destiny of Iraq. And that, neither Shia nor the Sunni will accept.
I understand that Bush calls Ralph on the big white telephone quite often.
"What happens next?"
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--Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers
Oh dear, I was thinking the same thing when I went out to prepare the grill a while ago. An ugly senario for sure.
BOBBY VINTON IS ON OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
AT LEAST HE WAS UNTIL THE 'INCIDENT.'
Jobs are not the issue. The US is determined to control the destiny of Iraq.
Um, if true, is exactly why jobs aren't the issue.
I'M SORRY. I CONFUSED BOBBY VINTON WITH AN ACTUAL POLISH PRINCE.
Cohen and his "therapeutic violence". What a despicable monster.
No worse than tnat fat fuck former sec. of ed saying to Wolfie last summer we should give war a chance in Lebanon.
oh lord
anybody here from KS-02?
Gibson: Would you vote in favor of money to support another 20 to 40 thousand troops in Iraq?
Boyda: I think we're going to vote to support what the commander in chief and head of military asks to do. At least, I am certainly going to vote to support it.
[...]
Gibson: If he wants the surge, he'll get it.
Boyda: He is the commander in chief, Charlie. We don't get that choice. Congress doesn't make that decision.
Gibson: But the polls would indicate, and indeed, so many voters when they came out of the ballot box, said, "We're voting because we want something done about the war and we want the troops home."
Boyda: They should have thought about that before they voted for President Bush not once, but twice.
Nancy Boyda, Liebercrat, link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bo...u-
_b_37969.html
later, 'bats. Off to watch the Changeling.
Could this be the source of Bush's new plan?
Maximum Surge Movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382178/
Ace game programmer, Steve Hunter is sucked into a virtual computer game world controlled by Drexel, the world's fastest computer addicted to computer games. To save humankind and himself, Steve must do battle inside Drexel's world with the aid of JO an AI robot he created.
Trivia...
Combines 65 minutes of new film footage with 35 minutes of film footage acquired from five separate full motion video computer games. In a similar manner to the original Raymond Burr Godzilla, all scenes with Yasmine Bleeth and 'Walter Koenig' we're originally shot for computer games that never made it to market in 1998. It weaves together a new story and plot connecting the various games together.
Boyda: They should have thought about that before they voted for President Bush not once, but twice.
Jim | 01.06.07 - 5:22 pm | #
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Just freaking shoot me.
FG kickers absolutely suck this year. Chiefs kicker misses untouched from 23 yds out in the playoffs.
ciao
Well, Boyda is one amongst many. She's new and can serve two years and get voted the hell out--unless she shapes up. Time will tell.
I see the Bush Administration is running the Chiefs Offense & Special Teams.
Ha ha, this is rich. The US imposed sanctions on firms dealing with Iran, including the Russian company that supplies mos of the titanium to the US aircraft industry.
later, all y'all devil spawn...
bleeve i'm gopnna watch a lil football...
except that i am sick unto death of that fucking chevy/mellencamp commercial celebrating white, middle-class nativist mediocrity...
/
Goodnight moon.
QL in NYC: BBC America isn't actually run by the BBC. It's a joint venture with the Discovery Channel, which is partly why their offshoots get the US versions of British formats, and why it's all Cash In The Attic, all weekend.
(Though my wife does like Bargain Hunt.)
The Iraqi mobile phone thing is even more interesting, btw: a bunch of entrepreneurs from Iraq and the neighbouring countries started setting up an ad hoc GSM network, but the CPA stopped them from doing it.
There might have been a reasonable explanation, but for the fact that Darrell Issa tried hard to get Bremer's gang to declare CDMA the network standard for Iraq, in spite of it being incompatible with existing phones and every country in the region. Issa's district includes the HQ of Qualcomm, which does CDMA rather than the 'Euro-standard' GSM.
I guess KC isn't setting the world on fire so far...
TOTAL NET YARDS
KC 6
Indy 130
mer, thanks. I copied both recipes.
except that i am sick unto death of that fucking chevy/mellencamp commercial celebrating white, middle-class nativist mediocrity...
/ - WoodyG's Guitar, rogue scholar
That's why God made the mute button on the remote, Woodrow.
Chiefs kicker misses untouched from 23 yds out in the playoffs.
In a dome.
I'm afraid there is so much money in the Pentagon pipeline that we can't do much budget wise to stop the war.
You ever notice how many fucking times PRO QB's throw behind theri fucking receivers instead of leading them?
Jesus, they are fucking pros!
Paint the schools?
Hell, the people there are terrified to even cross the street.
One older Iraqi woman has composed a Christmas Message for President Bush.
My last post is all italic in honor of Speaker Pelosi.
(damn tags)
Nancy Boyda?
she's a Democrat? what a cretinous fucking twit!!!!
seh's a DEMOCRAT???????????????????jeezis!
now, perhaps, you see what I mean, and why optimism is in such short supply in my end of the valley...
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You ever notice how many fucking times PRO QB's throw behind theri fucking receivers instead of leading them?
Greatly enhanced play by the receivers keeps the QB numbers up. Used to be, passing the football was an art. Now it's just a strong arm.
hilarity at it's worst
Doctor of Laws
http://www.yale.edu/opa/v29.n31/...1/
story103.html
re: the first person listed
N. Boyda was trotted out at a Dem post-victory meeting as an example of the fruits of the 50 state strategy. hmmmmmm
Poppy may find New Haven a very chilly place by this spring, global warming notwithstanding.
as for Boyda, I think Mssrs Murtha and Clyburn ought to take her out to lunch and a little chat
oh lord
anybody here from KS-02?
this is a fucking "Democrat"????
from kansas, know, but still
'He's the commander -in-chief...'
of the army, you stupid fucking cow...and of the navy, etc...
he's NOT MY commander-in-chief; i opwe him no fucking obedience...
how many MORE are there just like this cud-chewing bovine?
except that i am sick unto death of that fucking chevy/mellencamp commercial celebrating white, middle-class nativist mediocrity...
/
WoodyG's Guitar, rogue scholar | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 5:26 pm | #
Hey, pal.
This is our country!
the disaster capitalists wanted the most money with the least actual work involved so they could keep the "rebuilding" checks coming for decades to come to their cronies
hilarity at it's worst
Doctor of Laws
Well, thanks, tofubo. Now I will have that drink. Wonder why he wasn't wearing his boots?!
Doctor of Laws?
Doctor of Loss, Doctor of Lawless
Atrios -
For a person as smart as you are, why are you surprised?
BushCo's attitude to Iraq is exactly the same as their attitude to New Orleans.
They. Don't. Care.
Time Warp in the studio of DWD this day. Some damned fool loaded the playlist with Bobby Vinton and Johnny Tillotson and Bobby Vee. Feel like I have dropped into 1960. Strange days.
DWD - Dirty Fucking Hippy
What, no Gene Pitney?
Jesus fucking Christ on Wasa bread, did Chevrolet buy up ALL of the commercials for the play-offs?!
What, no Gene Pitney?
Flint, still employed - 5:37 pm
no it isn't very pretty what a town without pity can do...
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Anyone else care for a Seething Webb long as I'm making one for Lenore?
Flint, a town without pity.
Where O where is the anthem for white, *lower-class* mediocrity?
Modern country music section, I suppose...
(okay, can't change race, probably stuck being mediocre, therefore also stuck in the lower class...damn)
I would like to see a flowchart of the billions spent in Iraq, with special emphasis on all of it that ended up back in the U.S. Yes, we know what a racket wars are, but it would be nice to know exactly who got what and how.
Ain't that America???
Anyone else care for a Seething Webb long as I'm making one for Lenore?
bo - 5:38 pm
bo, after considering that bint Boyda's replies, i need a fucking pitcher o'dat shit...enough to drown in...
/
Jesus fucking Christ on Wasa bread, did Chevrolet buy up ALL of the commercials for the play-offs?!
watertiger
..this is uuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrr countreeeeeeeeeeee..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u...h?
v=u8YJt3H2z0Q
town without pity
Lenore, Waxman's our man.
Boyda represents a (D) in the House of Representatives numbers game and that's very good but, at this point, she's started with one foot in the hole...
The hole between her buttocks, that is.
What's in a Seething Webb? I'm in the mood for something strong.
Flint - what did I miss, with the employing?
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Thanks, bo. Seething Webbs on the house!
We've got some sangria ready to go, if anyone's interested...
Boyda, so she's an asshole. But she added to the Democratic victory. She has no power, being new and all. I'm not going to think about her right now.
KC has not a single first down against the worst defense in the league.
this is uuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrr countreeeeeeeeeeeee
Lenore, Waxman's our man.
angryspittle - 5:39 pm
well, if nancy boyda's any indication, and on waxman's committee, that's one vote for subpoenas he won't be getting...
jeesisfuckingCHRIST!!!
i have seldom been made angrier by one single legislator...
didn't the fucking bint study civics???
shouldn't she have passed a fucking civics test before the asshole idiot redneck cracker scum in kansas were allowed to vote for her stupid, reeking, blighering ass???
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bo, after considering that bint Boyda's replies, i need a fucking pitcher o'dat shit...enough to drown in...
/ - WoodyG's Guitar, rogue scholar
You'll get a fresh one each time you send a real-time cell phone picture of yourself standing next to a Republican. Wouldn't want you drinkin' one of these without putting it to good use.
Point taken, mer.
Pash thuh pichur, Woodmeister.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u...h? v=u8YJt3H2z0Q
town without pity
Jim | 01.06.07 - 5:39 pm | #
brilliant. good looking smart guy. he produced recordings for others as well.
Man, I missed this Boyda stuff. WTF happened?
Boyda ran against Jim Ryun.
That must of been a really high-brow battle of the intellectual superstars.
well, if nancy boyda's any indication, and on waxman's committee, that's one vote for subpoenas he won't be getting...
It'll be worth watching to see how the new leadership reacts. Message discipline is important. To say nothing of the whole What Fucking Planet Are You On? aspect of it.
most *voters* couldn't pass a civics test. probably not most *legislators* either.
A paragraph from "Imperial Life In The Emerald City":
Once the Americans arrived, the job of rehabilitating Iraq's health-care system fell to Frederick M. Burkle Jr., A physician with a master's degree in public health and postgraduate degrees from Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and the UCLA Berkeley. Burkle was a naval reserve officer with two Bronze Stars and a deputy assistant administrator at the USAID. He taught at the John Hopkins School of Public Health, where he specialized in disaster-response issues. He had worked in Kosovo and Somalia. And in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, he had been put in charge of organizing the American response to the expected public health crisis in Iraq. A USAID colleague called him the "single most talented and experienced post-conflict health specialist working for the United States government."
A week after Baghdad's liberation, Burkle was informed that he was being replaced. A senior official at USAID told him that the White House wanted a "loyalist" in the job. Burkle had a wall of degrees, but he didn't have a picture of himself with the president.
Man, I missed this Boyda stuff. WTF happened?
angryspittle
See Bob Geiger's post at HuffPo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bo...u-
_b_37969.html
Boyda, so she's an asshole. But she added to the Democratic victory. She has no power, being new and all. I'm not going to think about her right now.
mer
Yuppers.
Haven't we been hearing about a lot of Kansan repukes switching to the dems cause the repuke party is just too damn out there. So she could really be a repuke refugee trying to move the dems to the right. I wonder though if there are any genuine ringers.
shouldn't she have passed a fucking civics test before the asshole idiot redneck cracker scum in kansas were allowed to vote for her stupid, reeking, blighering ass???
/ties cardigan around shoulders, takes puff from pipe
I'm sensing some anger here...
KC's defense ought to play on offense. They're keeping the Chiefs in the game.
Boyda's a Dem...
she's therefore one of the votes supposedly to be counted upon for responsibility and accountability...
how may one 'count' upon someone so irredeemably and irremediably STUPID???
she's not just stupid, she' FUCKING STUPID!@
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) turns the Golden Rule on its head: "What we really expect out of the Democrats is for them to treat us as they would like to have been treated."
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by providing tanning beds in the hallways of congress??????????
Considering how much Congress loves testing and standards and jumping hurdles for teachers and students, how about a Congress 101 test for everybody before they actually get seated? Particularly focusing on the role of Congress in foreign policy and warfare and how the president is not simply king of the military, answerable to nobody but his own toadies.
no it isn't very pretty what a town without pity can do...
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WoodyG's Guitar, rogue scholar
Especially when you're tryin'to hitch a ride from...the Last Exit to Brooklyn.....
Not to mention that the Boyda response is exactly what I've been on about all day.
Like Woody, mi hermano mayor, I sincerely hope this proves to be the exception, and not the rule. At this point, I concede that it is an open question, and it behooves one not to get twitchy at the slightest squeak of closure.
I wonder though if there are any genuine ringers.
That's what I wondered when I read this. What did she campaign on?
Jesus, can't the Dems vet their candidates any better than that?
A week after Baghdad's liberation, Burkle was informed that he was being replaced. A senior official at USAID told him that the White House wanted a "loyalist" in the job. Burkle had a wall of degrees, but he didn't have a picture of himself with the president.
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 5:44 pm | #
wasnt he replaced by someone whose main goal was to stop smoking and abortions?????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!""""""""""""""
"The "Jamil Hussein" story..."
I'm sure Mr. Hussein really appreciates being treated with quotation marks...just like he doesn't really exists.
But then the average Iraqi doesn't really exist for the wingnuts so I guess they are being consistant.
Landrieu said something along the same lines.
Didn't she?
Jeez, the Chief's secondary is eating up Manning.
Peyton's doing his Eli impression!
Especially when you're tryin'to hitch a ride from...the Last Exit to Brooklyn.....
Flint, still employed - 5:47 pm
the man who shot liberty valence was only 24 hours from tulsa...
/
KC has not a single first down against the worst defense in the league.
this is uuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrr countreeeeeeeeeeeee
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Jesus, can't the Dems vet their candidates any better than that?
Oh, Please. Out of how many seats in play, you have the nerve to say this?
Go take a chill pill.
I hope Our Lady of the Concentration Camps goes to visit Jamil in jail, so ha can see the face of the woman who put him there.
Landrieu said something along the same lines.
Didn't she?
HoneyBearKelly?
wouldnt' surprise me, but wasn't she on the Olbermann show last night, coming out the white house saying escalation was a nonstarter?
Peyton's doing his Eli impression!
Hey!
[pause]
Oh, screw it. You're right.
Atta:
Mike Tomlinson, the Queens D-coach, is interviewing for the Miami job.
Landrieu said something along the same lines.
Didn't she?
HoneyBearKelly 5:48 pm
i didn't hear that, but it wouldn't surprise me a bit...
she's another reason why i think the previously incipient rapture over the 'democratic congress' was and is still pretrty fucking premature...
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Now that last play by the Chiefs was a thing of true beauty.
this is uuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrr countreeeeeeeee
I hope Our Lady of the Concentration Camps goes to visit Jamil in jail, so ha can see the face of the woman who put him there.
I hope she wears that oversized flak jacket and helmet.
If you go one half against the Colts, without a single first down, don't you have to forfeit the franchise?
I know some triangulating Dem woman said something about that she would go along with the "surge" if their mission was something concrete.
Tres embarrassing, don't have the link to Seething Webb recipe on my PC at home. Worse yet don't remember who proposed mix.
jigger of blue curacao layered on a jigger of something else and the shot glass top off with gin. Swallow, breathe fire, break jaw of adjacent Republican. Works just as well with a Liebercrat.
Atta:
Mike Tomlinson, the Queens D-coach, is interviewing for the Miami job.
Zap Rowsdower
This is my response
the 'surge' will deal with the inSURGEncy
get it?
it's frickin' brilliant, EH?????????
Landrieu is going to have to get on board now if she's interested in helping Louisiana.
I'm off to go cook my Saturday Sin dinner--while I can. Seems like fairly soon I'll be digging for roots and berries. At least I have woods behind my dwelling.
(lovey face here)
I know some triangulating Dem woman said something about that she would go along with the "surge" if their mission was something concrete.
The Chicago Tribune's editorial page yesterday said as much. "Give us a concrete plan for how you plan to kill those 30,000, and we'll sure as shit back you all the way."
Gross.
A.
Remember Woody, ..Only Love Can Break Your Heart.
Even If you are ..The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
I think Peyton might be color blind.
What's this BCS stuff out here? Something involving Florida?
Oh, and vaguely on topic: What about the millions-- billions?-- that have simply slipped between the cracks in the Iraqi clusterfuck? Does anyone have even a ballpark total?
All of the schools in Iraq could have been wallpapered with C-notes ten times over with this disappeared swag. How likely is it that any of this will be accounted for?
It'll be like the S&L crisis-- written off financially and politically as the cost of doing business.
Landrieu is going to have to get on board now if she's interested in helping Louisiana.
pie - 5:53 pm
she's interested in hepling Mary Landrieu...
if she gave a shit about Louisiana, she'd a been on board a long time since...
/
Oh I love it when they take commercials with 02 seconds left in the half.
Because you are guaranteed a LOT of action before the next break.
He can tell the difference between a fucking horseshoe and an arrowhead can't he?
Jesus, can't the Dems vet their candidates any better than that?
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hey there are Dems and then there are Dems.............
some of dem Dems arent de Dems ya want to look after ya'
This is my response
Heh...I knew it.
Aiiight...gotta go get ready for our shindig.
Peace!!
Because you are guaranteed a LOT of action before the next break.
Gives me enough time to load my gun to shoot the TV at the next "this is uuuuuuuuurrrrrrrr countreeeeeee" commercial.
Yeah, I guess we go to war with the Dems we have, not the Dems we would like to have at a later date........
Gives me enough time to load my gun to shoot the TV at the next "this is uuuuuuuuurrrrrrrr countreeeeeee" commercial.
watertiger
Oh, great.
Now she's going to have to buy another TV. Didn't she throw the last one out the window and kill someone?
Gives me enough time to load my gun to shoot the TV at the next "this is uuuuuuuuurrrrrrrr countreeeeeee" commercial.
What happened to Mellencamp? Did he get neutered by his current wife?
if she gave a shit about Louisiana, she'd a been on board a long time since...
Nope. Not when reopubs were controlling the purse strings. Not that her state ever benefitted. Still, someone sure shut her up after the horror and her anger was televised.
imagine a nutcase wanting to dig up rachel carson ------------so she can die again.
i.e. this Spocko business.
good fucking god.
we are truly in the land of the bizarre and insane.
Gives me enough time to load my gun to shoot the TV at the next "this is uuuuuuuuurrrrrrrr countreeeeeee" commercial.
watertiger
I think they should combine the Chevy Commercials with the Volkswagon Jetta commercials.
...cuz that would be ... well something.
Gives me enough time to load my gun to shoot the TV at the next "this is uuuuuuuuurrrrrrrr countreeeeeee" commercial.
watertiger - 5:55 pm
i just leave mine loaded all the time...
no kids, and the dogs don't have thumbs, and so cannot cock the piece...
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"My mother's calling. I'll put it on speaker."
I think they should combine the Chevy Commercials with the Volkswagon Jetta commercials.
I think they should have buried Ford in a Yugo.
Nearly din-din time for the diabetic.
I love those VW ads.
I veel unpimp yar ride.
I think they should combine the Chevy Commercials with the Volkswagon Jetta commercials.
Better yet - combine them with that incredibly atrocious BMW ad with the kid having a screaming seizure over a new toy he got for Christmas.
"My mother's calling. I'll put it on speaker."
watertiger
Best commercial out there right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i...h?
v=iomlEcaeZgQ
Speed cocker? Oooh... that sounds dirty.
I think they should combine the Chevy Commercials with the Volkswagon Jetta commercials.
I miss the "my fast" commercials.
http://images.businessweek.com/a...ine/
vw_fast.jpg
Volvo and Jaguar sound kinda cool, until you remember they're owned by Ford.
Yeah, I guess we go to war with the Dems we have
And I guess you're going to have to be patient a bit longer. All indications are that the Dems are moving full speed ahead.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and it took just as long to watch it fall apart.
I love those VW ads.
I veel unpimp yar ride.
HoneyBearKelly
I'm talking about the commercials where they get in accidents.
btw: i apologize for any appearance there might have seemed to be in my discourse of either defeatism, arm-chair revolutionizing, or magical thinking...
mea gulpa...
imagine a nutcase wanting to dig up rachel carson ------------so she can die again.
i.e. this Spocko business.
good fucking god.
we are truly in the land of the bizarre and insane.
LEARN HEBREW ONLINE |
And all they had to do was neuter public education and dial up the propaganda machine.
Is that Talia Shire?
I prefer jay Leno's "Big Mac....Apply directly to the ass!"
Is that Talia Shire?
Yup.
"My Fast likes the windows down!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u...h?
v=uoWFtPbhMmM
I'm a little confused.
John Madden just answered a question in a straightfoward manner.
Is the Earth still spinning the right way?
btw: i apologize for any appearance there might have seemed to be in my discourse of either defeatism, arm-chair revolutionizing, or magical thinking...
Hey, you've been wrong before. You may be right.
But I love it when you're wrong.
Love ya, you grizzly thing.
hi all. i'm back east.
supplemented with a jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to employ Iraqis in projects including painting schools
on the plus side, iraqi schools are among the most energy efficient in the world.
turns out that 834 coats of paint makes great insulation.
John Madden just answered a question in a straightfoward manner.
You must have misunderstood the question.
John Madden & Peter King should retire when Favre does. The three of them could move to Fire Island.
on the plus side, iraqi schools are among the most energy efficient in the world.
Both of them.
The Earth appears to be. Those folks in the 2 cars overrun by an avalance in Colorado must've been surprised.
I want my gold and pearl ring NOW....
Not as tho I can do anything to make this happen, but I do want it. NOW.
The only problem is that once the schools are painted, somebody blows them up.
John Madden & Peter King should retire when Favre does. The three of them could move to Fire Island.
The Pines will never be the same.
Time to go let the brown rice sit for 10 mins.
John Madden & Peter King should retire when Favre does. The three of them could move to Fire Island.
Substitute Al Michael for Peter King and you have yourself a deal.
It is a most lovely ring as I remember it, and I do.
was and is still pretrty fucking premature...
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WoodyG's
I love ya woody but come on. You were absolutely convinced we didn't have a chance of winning even one house and instead we won both. Now that you were proved wrong you're moaning that it isn't dem enough. One step at a time brother, one step at a time.
was and is still pretrty fucking premature...
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WoodyG's
I love ya woody but come on. You were absolutely convinced we didn't have a chance of winning even one house and instead we won both. Now that you were proved wrong you're moaning that it isn't dem enough. One step at a time brother, one step at a time.
I tried to talk my husband into a little vacation on Fire Island. All he said was "are you fucking nuts?" I told him it that family also vacationed there, but all he said was "are you fucking nuts?"
I wasn't aware that Dick was related to Sherwin Williams.
I have no "hoodia."
Just sayin'
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But I love it when you're wrong.
Love ya, you grizzly thing.
pie - 6:02 pm
i noted before that i would be delighted to eat crow or humble pie (no offense :lol, or any other suitably penitential entree should it eventuate that i am wrong about the cravenness, the cowardice, the fecklessness, the gutlessness, the and/or the weakness of the Dems...
i'm not gonna save any space for it in my diet, though...
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I tried to talk my husband into a little vacation on Fire Island. All he said was "are you fucking nuts?" I told him it that family also vacationed there, but all he said was "are you fucking nuts?"
It's beautiful out there; you just don't want to be on Fire Island during the summer weekends, when it's overrun with 20-somethings overloading the share houses.
Need to visit the ol' CVS. My prescription is the only way for me to cope.
I have no "hoodia."
Just sayin'
refrains from "Abraham's Pact with God" joke.
you just don't want to be on Fire Island during the summer weekends, when it's overrun with 20-somethings overloading the share houses.
Exactly! No more LOGO for him. I let him watch one "Queer As Folk" episode and suddenly the world in over-run with Brian's trying to get into his pants.
I tried to talk my husband into a little vacation on Fire Island. All he said was "are you fucking nuts?" I told him it that family also vacationed there, but all he said was "are you fucking nuts?"
Fire Island?
Ooookay...
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ELI returns!
Spork,
It's a beautiful place.
but all he said was "are you fucking nuts?"
Monica_A:
We spent a lovely weekend there in 1975. Heehee. First time I saw a bikini bottom so low pubic hair was visible. The women was stunning.
Now, attaturk, he's just trying to make his little brother feel a little LESS incompetent.
spork_incident | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 6:11 pm
heyyyyyy, bubba!!!!
howyadoin???
/
These Coors light commercials suck too
i'm not gonna save any space for it in my diet, though...
I wouldn't want you to.
We'll see what happens and how much they move you. It'll never be enough. But I hope it makes your lips curl up just a little.
Monica, there's a new lotion you can use to keep away teh gay. It comes in several strengths, called "P-Town", "Nantucket," "Fire Island," "Ogunquit," etc. Just rub a little on yer hubby and he'll be okay.
refrains from "Abraham's Pact with God" joke.
I thought "Isaac" had the hoodia.
Does this mean that "hoodia" kills someone's son?
I can't keep up with this Bible stuff.
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And obviously, the non-combat components to the Iraqi c/fuck were and are implemented in accordance with the dictates of the Hollow State.
By this, I meantersay that the Hollow State is controlled by an elite which operates on the principle that "government is the problem", meaning the social services dimension of government. The elite only values and endorses the powermongering, plutocratic, and kleptocratic aspects of government. They rule with the goal of preserving and concentrating power and wealth; We the People are but an inferior host to a superior parasite.
Thus, as the various bits of information cited above reveal, the Hollow State gummint always acts in bad faith masked by Hollow Rhetoric-- e.g. the Unitard™'s promise to rebuild New Orleans. (A comprehensive list of comparable hypocrisy would be too long and sickening to compile, but it includes "Mission Accomplished!")
There was never an honest, public-spirited commitment to rebuilding Iraq, or protecting and preserving its citizenry and infrastructure during and after the depredations inflicted by the Coalition of the Wilting. The proof is in the blood pudding.
ELI returns!
Attaturk - 6:12 pm
how's the coffee holdin out?
tigress, you need any comidas de nuevo mexico???
i'm goin to the store on monday...
.
These two teams are playin' real bad, m'kay?
I thought "Isaac" had the hoodia.
Well, ya see, when a God and a Father of all Religions love each other very much...
I thought "Isaac" had the hoodia.
Does this mean that "hoodia" kills someone's son?
I'd like to see a reenactment please.
Had to stop washing dishes when If You Want Me To Stay came on the shuffle.
I love you My iPod.
[waves to woody]
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I'm good for now, WGG!
Tanx fer askin'!
These Coors light commercials suck too
Attaturk - 6:14 pm
not near as bad as the *cough-malt beverageCOUGH*
Shoot, where have i been???
i thought the 'hoodia' was the skin flap over the clitoris...
/
Well, ya see, when a God and a Father of all Religions love each other very much...
So *that* explains the Holy Spirit!
.
Another classic offensive series. Jeesh.
There was never an honest, public-spirited commitment to rebuilding Iraq, or protecting and preserving its citizenry and infrastructure during and after the depredations inflicted by the Coalition of the Wilting. The proof is in the blood pudding.
Little Brøther | 01.06.07 - 6:15 pm | #
I don't think anything even remotely related to goodness or mercy had anything to do with George's Iraq adventure.
i thought the 'hoodia' was the skin flap over the clitoris...
Tiny man in the boat, woody, tiny man in a boat.
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Painting Schools
Are we to believe that the people of Iraq aren't capable of painting their own schools?
I have a suspicion that the Iraqis would like nothing better than the opportunity to paint their own schools -- that is, if they weren't too busy waiting for their meager two hours of electricity per day and trying to secure clean drinking water and waiting in line for hours for scarce cooking fuel and gasoline.
And when Iraqis are not engaged in trying to secure the basic necessities of life, they are busy being ethnically cleansed from their homes and neighborhoods, fleeing for their live to Jordan or Syria, dodging car bombs, suicide bombs, sniper's bullets, avoiding kidnappers, and withstanding Sunni insurgent attacks and Shiite militia death squads. And having to bury dead relatives so often can be time-consuming, too.
Thanks to Bush and Blair, being an Iraqi these days is very hard work.
Finally, with Maliki the Barbarian at the helm, the outlook for Iraq does not look promising, to say the least.
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Never ending incompetence:
June 18, 2004 -
"Addressing the preparations for returning sovereignty to Iraq, Powell said he is "impressed by the way in which the interim Iraqi government has started to function even before they have received full sovereignty," and added that "everything we've seen so far suggests it [the turnover of sovereignty] will go smoothly."
All of the reconstruction effort, all of the supervision of the funds that are going into the reconstruction effort now fall under Ambassador Negroponte, reporting back to me, and through me to the President and to the other Cabinet officers involved. And the chain of military command remains intact under the President and Secretary Rumsfeld."
Just saw a commercial on CNN for their congressional coverage: Big red white and blue letters saying "FIRST 100 HOURS. DEMAND THE TRUTH. WE WILL"
I almost puked. NOW they "care" about the truth, when truthiness has been just fine with them for 6 fucking years. God I hate the media.
Tiny man in the boat, woody, tiny man in a boat.
spork_incident | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 6:20 pm | #
I am sailing, I am sailing,
Home again cross the sea.
I am sailing, stormy waters,
To be near you, to be free.
attaturk sez:
These Coors light commercials suck too
Truth in advertising.
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"doesn't anyone in the administration have any creative ideas for putting unemployed Iraqis to work?"
THEY don't even know how to put unemployed AMERICANS to work.
Or how to fix New Orleans.
Just saw a commercial on CNN for their congressional coverage: Big red white and blue letters saying "FIRST 100 HOURS. DEMAND THE TRUTH. WE WILL"
Shorter GOP Whore Media:
"The new Democratic Congress: we SO want them to fail."
These Coors light commercials suck too
Those coach's press conference commercials for Coors are almost as annoying as those ones put out by Jackass in the Box.
Just saw a commercial on CNN for their congressional coverage: Big red white and blue letters saying "FIRST 100 HOURS. DEMAND THE TRUTH. WE WILL"
and they started the countdown on nov 8.
Fortune documented cases of textbook cronyist big government using the military to squeeze out cheaper better local Iraqis with will, labor, knowhow and materials on site for the benefit of foreigners who'd been in business for exactly as long as it took to incorporate and needed everything imported at a huge markup. We linked the story years ago here. Absolutely nothing changed.
Fortune.
"The new Democratic Congress: we SO want them to fail."
And if they don't, we'll present misleading stories to try to fool you into thinking that they have.
Time for dinner.
Pork chops
Salad
Baked potato
Red wine
The simple meals are sometimes are the best.
"The new Democratic Congress: we SO want them to fail."
And if they don't, we'll present misleading stories to try to fool you into thinking that they have.
Richard
Yep. That's why I call them the GOP Whore Media.
Ain't the Chiefs looking like the Detroit Lions, or what?
These Coors light commercials suck too
Those coach's press conference commercials for Coors are almost as annoying as those ones put out by Jackass in the Box.
Richard
I hate the commercials for the "Man Rules."
"FIRST 100 HOURS. DEMAND THE TRUTH. WE WILL"
Fuckers, how about starting with the maladministration classifying everything as "secret" and returning to turn over documents needed to get to the truth. Fucking fuckers.
ql, the simple meals are always are the best. A votre santé!
It is really screwy here. I was just out for hours without a coat. People are wearing flip-flips. Twenty-something girls are semi-nude in the street.
Everyone is saying the same thing, "Thank God we didn't wind up with that nutty Al Gore."
Pork chops
Salad
Baked potato
Red wine
Lose the pork an' I'll be there in 7 or 8 hours!
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Time for dinner.
Pork chops
Salad
Baked potato
Red wine
The simple meals are sometimes are the best.
ql in ny
I'm having my next to last Lot-A-Burger.
If any of the collective meeting to-morrow cared anything about me, they'd take up a collection and priority mail half a dozen Its-a-Burgers to POB 17471, Phoenix AZ 85011. They'd get here by Tuesday, no worse for wear.
But. We. Know. Better.
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"FIRST 100 HOURS. DEMAND THE TRUTH. WE WILL"
Like the criminal administration that they have served so well, they wouldn't know the truth if it took a dump in the middle of their studios.
Ain't the Chiefs looking like the Detroit Lions, or what?
Total offense so far:
KC 21
Indy 332
Astonishing it's only 9-0.
C'mon over to my blog.
I holding a discussion with myself about things that no one else is interested in. Join me.
What's this about a penultimate burger?
THEY don't even know how to put unemployed AMERICANS to work.
Or how to fix New Orleans.
Terry C, Gore/Clark 08 | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 6:22 pm | #
Exactly!
There are a dozen public schools within blocks of the White House that are screaming for paint -- and new textbooks and computers!
Gore '08 for sure!
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?Astonishing it's only 9-0.
Richard | 01.06.07 - 6:29 pm
not when you figger manning'
s thrown three (or is it 4) INTs
that kid addai (from lsu), colts' tailback, is gonna be one of the great ones.;..
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Astonishing it's only 9-0
If it was the Lions, it would be something like 24-0. I take the Thanksgiving game 3 yrs ago, when the Colts came to town, and used the Lions like a high school team.
The first couple of times I saw that VW ad with the four men chatting about Viagra suddenly getting in an accident, I was impressed with the sophisticated production. It struck me (sorry) as extremely well done, even riveting.
But when I caught the other versions, it began to bother me-- as all "appeals to fear" do. I even saw one in which women appear to be discussing the ad campaign itself-- I only saw it once, so I may be wrong about that.
Just before Christmas, our office got the news that one of our clerks, a really smart, capable, and pleasant woman, had been in a crash on the way to work. Apparently a tractor-trailer blew a red light and clipped her. Fortunately, she was only banged up and bruised, and came back to work last week.
I went over to her work station during a quiet moment to see how she was doing, and the subject of those ads came up. She hates them; she said that she was sure the people who approved and produced them had never actually been in an accident-- if they had, they would know how painful and traumatic it is to subject unwary viewers to something so shocking just to sell more cars.
I holding a discussion with myself about things that no one else is interested in. Join me.
Which blog?
(Nobody tells me nothing.)
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This is hilarious. I was just looking at the Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority website and I clicked on the "Countdown to Sovereignty: For the Record" tab in the lower right hand corner and it states:
"This site is under construction and coming soon."
Even the Bush administration and their bogus Iraqi counterparts can't think of anything good to report in their countdown to sovereignty. Pathetic, utterly pathetic.
'bout fucking time.
TD Indianapolis.
Astonishing it's only 9-0
If it was the Lions, it would be something like 24-0. I take the Thanksgiving game 3 yrs ago, when the Colts came to town, and used the Lions like a high school team.
Barndog
Yeah, but look at it this way.
Matt Millen can't live forever.
What's this about a penultimate burger?
A second-best burger?
Feh.
.
KC has -8 yards passing. Jesus.
[...] Twenty-something girls are semi-nude in the street. [...]
Uh, which street is this we're talking about?
Go team!
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Matt Millen can't live forever
We'll see if he lives through the upcoming season.
NTodd has a fan.
How...uh...nice?
Matt Millen can't live forever.
The George Bush of NFL executives.
I'll have spork_incident's pork chop, if you don't mind-- shame to let it go to waste!
NTodd has a fan.
How...uh...nice?
HoneyBearKelly 6:35 pm
not so much a 'fan' as a 'blower'....
watertiger,
That is THE scariest picture of a druggie SCOTUS justice that I have EVER seen.
NTodd has a fan.
I am my own biggest fan.
Have you learned nothing over these years?
OH MAH GAWD!
A first down for KC.
Uh, which street is this we're talking about?
Little Brøther
I was everywhere today: Upper East Side, SOHO, Village, Upper West Side, MSide Heights. There are little girls wearing nothing all over the place.
That is THE scariest picture of a druggie SCOTUS justice that I have EVER seen.
I saw that pic and I heard Krusty the Clown laughing.
I am my own biggest fan
I knew this all along.
There are a dozen public schools within blocks of the White House that are screaming for paint -- and new textbooks and computers!
Have been, for decades. But they're mostly for brown people, so no big deal.
res: I'll be on the first Acela to NY-- do you know a place that sells night-vision goggles?
There are little girls wearing nothing all over the place.
This is Nancy Pelosi's doing. She crashed the marble ceiling and now the little girls can't find their clothes. Horrors.
not so much a 'fan' as a 'fluffer'
Fixed your typo, Woodrow.
There are a dozen public schools within blocks of the White House that are screaming for paint -- and new textbooks and computers!
Have been, for decades. But they're mostly for brown people, so no big deal.
Sarcasm at it's finest.
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There are little girls wearing nothing all over the place.
You know what Bill Orally will say.
Wait a minute. You say 20-somethings?
[looks for car keys]
Little Bro,
I don't think you need the goggles. They're not that difficult to spot.
I'll have spork_incident's pork chop, if you don't mind-- shame to let it go to waste!
Recycling at it's best!
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I'll have spork_incident's pork chop, if you don't mind-- shame to let it go to waste!
Recycling at it's best!
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When I go to DC and see those little red "schoolhouses" they have at every door of the Dept. of Education I want to climb up and write FRAUD on every one of the little blackboards.
Except I think I'll get shot down.
Shoot, where have i been???
i thought the 'hoodia' was the skin flap over the clitoris...
/
WoodyG's Guitar, rogue scholar
As in "When I was back in the Hoodia"
Does anyone know how long it takes Tim Russert to go through his Email?
If you say so, res. Frankly, my cones are holding up pretty well-- but my rods ain't what they used to be.
I hope the Chiefs win. The now former Not-Mister would like that very much.
The little blackboards that say "no child left behind" on them I mean.
"FIRST 100 HOURS. DEMAND THE TRUTH. WE WILL"
fuck you cnn. why start now. that marketing tag is almost as funny as 'THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS' and is equally as dishonest.
Does anyone know how long it takes Tim Russert to go through his Email?
Snow, Happy Bloody Optimist- 6:43 pm
quite a while, since he can only ead one letter at a time...
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Hecate! A real hobbit home!
Does anyone know how long it takes Tim Russert to go through his Email?
You're kidding, right? He doesn't look at the emails you send him at work. And you'll never get the addy that Cheney, et al. have for him.
Damn, I want one of these!
You'd grow to hate it.
Still...it's rather inviting...
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good evening bats
Damn, I want one of these!
Hecate
you'll have a hard time keeping the hobbits from invading
You'd grow to hate it.
I doubt it; I think I'd feel really at home in it.
In this month's FAIR (which focuses largely on the sudden discovery by the media of high standards for freedom of speech while vilifying Hugo Chavez), there is a great one page piece on the unprotected foreign workers cleainng up ground zero. Immigrants are brought in to die of cancer from doing our dirty work as in other fields. The story was reported by tabloids, and years later by WaPo and the LAT, but has still never been taken seriously, beyond a couple of brief one-sentence mentions as by Paul Krugman by -- wait for it -- the New York Times.
Hecate,
Look. Aren't they purty? They're mine now (with purple crystals).
And Yes, they have store in DC. Sale now, too!
You're kidding, right? He doesn't look at the emails you send him at work.
What? That is bullshit. Had I known that, I would spoken more regular like (like a salty dog).
Russerts E-Mail is like the old National Lampoons' "Letters Section".
He writes it himself.
Devon decided it would be a good idea to swallow some magnetic toys today. After 4 hours at the hospital, it was determined that it was only a steel ball bearing that he swallowed, rather than the magnet thing he said he also swallowed.
got a cool x-ray of his torso though
Russert, you skank. Read my email and comment on air or write me back. Or both. I'll box your ears otherwise.
owlish
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res,
They're gorgous; very delicate.
"Dear Big Russ, I never thought it would happen to me, but one day while trying to buy my son a child-sized SUV to teach him the value of heartland saving money liberty free enterprise patriotism loyalty freedom democracy values homeland conservatism, a tall, thin creature with a mouthful of sushi, swathed in bad natural knits that could've been hemp, stomped him to death while mocking the President for being a redneck. Why are rednecks the last permissable racial targets?"
Damn, I want one of these!
Hecate
Makes me think of a movie I loved as a kid - Disney's version of "Swiss Family Robinson". The tree house in that film was the coolest thing ever.
Shoot, where have i been???
i thought the 'hoodia' was the skin flap over the clitoris...
/
WoodyG's Guitar, rogue scholar
As in "When I was back in the Hoodia"
Flint, still employed
Boyz In The Hoodia
Have been, for decades. But they're mostly for brown people, so no big deal.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 6:38 pm | #
The Bush crime family regards the Iraqis as "brown people," which may explain why despite all the rhetoric the Iraqi schools never get painted.
Then there is the ongoing murder, ethnic cleansing, and mayhem being inflicted on all those "brown people" in Iraq, so the school paint will have to wait for decades (forever).
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Drudge big red banner:
Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, the SUNDAY TIMES of London is planning to report, British media sources tell DRUDGE... MORE...
Are those like the Warplans that weren't on Bushes' Desk?
Devon decided it would be a good idea to swallow some magnetic toys today.
Thank God he didn't swallow any magnets. Several toddlers have died from doing that. If they swallow more than one, when they pass each other they attach, squeezing the intestine between them.
Sorry to be gross, but that's scary as hell.
If you're going to knock the administration for not hiring Iraqis as contractors, you have realize that part of the problem is that the Iraqis themselves are kind of reluctant to volunteer to work for the U.S. The insurgency, in case you haven't noticed, is still alive and kicking, and the insurgent units know the areas where they operate fairly well. It can be a tad challenging to talk a guy into painting a school for you if his next door neighboris going to shoot him for taking your money. Security and public works go hand and hand, but while the U.S. and Iraqi military is at least present to provide security, no other government agency is present to take care of the public works projects that we could be doing.
Which leaves a lot of unemployed people in the cities of Iraq, which is a major contributing factor to the insurgency, and other crimal activity.
btw: i apologize for any appearance there might have seemed to be in my discourse of either defeatism, arm-chair revolutionizing, or magical thinking...
mea gulpa...
WoodyG's Guitar, rogue scholar
you kidding? this is exactly the time to ask those questions, before it gets too late. if we take 20 minutes a week to stay in touch with our congressassholes, we would actually get them to do a few things. I think a weekly email to Speaker Pelosi from several hundred folks pointing out the rightward leanings of certain fuckwits might garner, at the least, a cease of that behavior.
Do I need to declare cease a noun, or can I claim preznitial influence?
Paul Bremer, before he was tapped to replace the fired Gen. Jay Garner as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, was "managing director of Kissinger and Associates." Henry Kissinger???
Bremer brought the same cronyism being practiced in the Bush administration into his new job as head of the CPA. Plus, he and his Iraqi-exile friends, like Ahmad Chalabi, decided to collectively punish ALL the Sunni Baathists (including their children), by firing all of them and denying them any financial assistance from the new, Bush-installed, Shiite-controlled, Iranian-supported Iraqi government.
Plus, all the people with any competency in "nation-building" were forced into the background so Bremer and the neo-cons could conduct their CPA/neo-con grand experiment in nation-building unimpeded.
All Sunni Baathists purged from the Iraqi government, from the ministries in Baghdad, from the military, from even the local police. (Instant security vacuum, which played into the hands of the Shiites backed by the Iranians and Hezbollah).
No more Iraqi government assistance, er, hand-outs, er, welfare for Iraqi citizens, especially any Sunni Baathists, including their children.
A 15 percent Flat Tax instituted. (Good luck, Bremer, trying to collect the tax. This neo-con-nut idea was scrapped, last I heard).
Bremer's CPA rewrote, or kept Saddam-era, Iraqi laws to solely favor corporations, while giving the shaft to Iraqi workers. (No labor unions allowed, period).
The selling off of Iraqi oil assets to foreign corporations. As well as the selling off of many other Iraqi economic assets to foreigners. (Bush, Bremer and the neo-con-run CPA literally sold Iraq out from under the Iraqi people).
Bush, Bremer and the nutty neo-con-run CPA let some of the most radical Shiites (backed by the Iranian ayatollahs) insert into the "new" Iraqi Constitution a statement making the Iraqi Constitution and all Iraqi laws subservient to the hardcore, ultra-orthodox Shiite/Sharia brand of Islam (which is the same brand of Islam that the al Qaeda and Taliban endorse). (Gee, I wonder why religious sectarian violence erupted in Iraq?)
Anyway, these are just a few examples of some of the more warped ideas the neo-cons brought to the CPA under Bremer, ideas that are consistent with their crony-style of "nation-building."
And strangely, what Bush/Cheney/Bremer brought to the CPA is exactly what they'd love to do to America, implemented from their own Green Zone in the White House.
And some historian someday will map the parallels between Bremer's CPA policies in Iraq with Bush and Cheney's neo-con-nut policies from the White House, and be shocked at all the parallels.
We know what has happened in Iraq. Few people realize that this is what the neo-con Republicans have in mind for America.
RE: Original Post
Amen.
Imagining how the world would be a bit btter "if only" Bush administration would be a litte more competent is nonsense. Anybody
who is a little more competent than Bush would not have started the disaster to begin with. Bush gets all the credit, or the blame. The imgagination camp (Hillary included) is useless and bankrupt in all senses of the words.
A billion dollars to paint schools? Christ! How many fucking schools did we blow up going in there anyway?
I had an idea once. It was to contract to the Iraqis, but that was pooh poohed. Now if we have already contracted out to the American companies, and they "now" decide to sub-contract to the Iraqis, then all negative actions they make will, I mean, would reflect on the American Government; and we can't have that. We need to renegotiate the closure of our current contracts and put more in the hands of the Iraqis with direct input from the United States. That would do it, by golly.
the 'rebuilding of iraq' is proceeding exazctly as planned. it never was intended to employ iraq peoples in any way because they would have rebuilt using their methods, materials and understanding. this was not wanted. what was wanted was to make them perpetual consumers of non-iraqi goods and interests.
i have not been to iraq, and may be very wrong, but do wonder how much of the country may be being rewired in 120 instead of 240?
around here, i saw a few of those 'my treasure is in heaven and therefore i have not much here on earth' bumperstickers on a few lesser cars.
1. i am sure your boss loves those, he knows you won't have the guts to ask for a raise you deserve. he will be keeping the money for his.
2. pat robertson and the 700 club
CHARITY WILL BE BUYING
new vehicle for EVERONE that sports one of their 'my treasure is in heaven and not on earth' bumpersticker.
3. the 700club is also taking applications to pay
a. for free dental work to those serious devotees who cannot afford dental work.
b. they are also working on developing a suppllement to pay for all costs your medicare plan partD will not cover.
these are good guys heping out g'ds people here on earth, right? they understand that g'd is a big all powerful diety and does not need any money, but they do. they also make it very clear that the old testament
law must be so totally
replaced EXCEPT for the tithing part,so they can redefine that for their profit?
If only Walmart would open in Iraq, i might find my pony.
i have not been to iraq, and may be very wrong, but do wonder how much of the country may be being rewired in 120 instead of 240?
Standards only matter if they lock you into dependence on one company or country, and I'm sure General Electric or whoever can build 240 V networks just as well as 120 V ones (and domestic mains power is just the last link in the chain that starts with high voltage distribution grids and includes higher than domestic voltage connections for industrial customers). What matters is who gets the rebuilding contracts, how much they're charging and how much profit they're getting.
Even if all the equipment used for the new electricity grid was made in the USA, they couldn't change the standard voltage because that would mean sacrificing absolutely every refrigerator, washing machine, television, etc. in the country.
There was indeed a plan to make CDMA the mobile phone standard for Iraq (before the war there was only an obselete analogue network), which would have prevented Iraqis from using their phones abroad and IIRC forced the industry to buy equipment from Qualcomm or its licencees.
P.S. I should have added every lightbulb and flourescent tube in Iraq too.
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