HULK SMASH
thrid?
second?
IMPEACH
SUCKS.
olexicon, go for first
frist?
aha
Moe?
If you don't have a financial crisis, the terrorists have won.
First?
No Moe.
fucking haloscan!
I so rarely have "first" I assumed i would be third
There were really no comments when I first posted. So technically I was first. Bitches.
Doesn't take long to get a lot of postings up.
I so rarely have "first" I assumed i would be third
Modesty is very becoming in a man. 
Friday Hope Blogging.
Pretty goddamn interesting this time around, if I do say so myself....
I so rarely have "first" I assumed i would be third
Well, you just won the "Most Canadian of the Month" award for that.
Thanx, Echidne.
Libera Anglia Nova!
I think it is going to be an xtra strange weekend here for everyone not at the eschacon.
From below, you're right, NTodd. We gotta live. We do the best we can.
I am the most modest guy on the planet. Recognize me!
Modesty is very becoming in a man
If it weren't for my excessive modesty, I'd be perfect!
I so rarely have "first" I assumed i would be third
olexicon
You want to impress me? Get a first with a number like '663rd' - and be right when the thread is done.
Gorgeous Friday Cat Blogging
Well, you just won the "Most Canadian of the Month" award for that.
Finny
The prize is a 24 of canadian and a maple leafs toque with a pompom
Modesty is very becoming in a man
That's my best quality.
euphronius Night School didn't make it to first poster. How sad.
Closet Aristocrats would be a great band name.
From below, you're right, NTodd. We gotta live. We do the best we can.
Indeed, brother. You should know, since you love killing trees.
Dear Hillary:
I've noticed in two different speeches you've given, you've cited a survey in which "22% of people want me to quit, 22% want Obama to quit, and 62% want
me to stay in". Hon, that's 106% percent.
Modesty is very becoming in a man
I have Modesty coming out the ass ...
You should know, since you love killing trees.
NTodd
Heh.
That was one of very many strange exchanges we've had here. "The most unsustainable thing you can do..."
I really wish I was in Philly right now. Truth is, I could've gone down there and still get all my work done, but I wouldn't want my boss to know that.
I don't recall the anthrax attacks as a principal justification for the Iraq war, though they were part of the climate of fear at the time, which surely enabled it.
Basra seige unleashes storm of protest.
Dear Hillary:
I've noticed in two different speeches you've given, you've cited a survey in which "22% of people want me to quit, 22% want Obama to quit, and 62% want
me to stay in". Hon, that's 106% percent.
plantsman
She's right.
100% of the Democrats, and 6% of the Republicans, are accounted for in that statement
I really wish I was in Philly right now. Truth is, I could've gone down there and still get all my work done, but I wouldn't want my boss to know that.
We should have a gathering in PEI. I haven't been there in about 10 years and would love to go back.
Gorgeous Friday Cat Blogging
Moonbootica,
Wish you could have made it over here. 
Dear Hillary:
I've noticed in two different speeches you've given, you've cited a survey in which "22% of people want me to quit, 22% want Obama to quit, and 62% want
me to stay in". Hon, that's 106% percent.
The numbers don't have to add up to 100% if some people hold two opinions at the same time.
I have Modesty coming out the ass ...
focus smith
Been taking Alli?
Weak Echidne, but nice try.
The numbers don't have to add up to 100% if some people hold two opinions at the same time.
I always take such things as more poetic: 62 sounds better after 22, 22...
I would've said 52, tho.
That bridge kinda freaks me out. Let's have it at Magnetic Hill instead.
"Senator Leahy To Clinton: Drop Out"
Rubber stamping the Bush agenda hasn't made me want to listen to him.
Wish you could have made it over here.
Karin | 03.28.08 - 3:32 pm | #
me too, oh well i'm sure there will be plenty of other chances to visit the States
It's obvious why the US, it's media, and it's Iraqi puppet regime have demonized al Sadr for the past 4yrs:
It's vitally important to understand that Sadr's popularity and legitimacy is a result of his having a platform that's favored by an overwhelming majority of Iraqis.
Most Iraqis:
* Favor a strong central government free of the influence of militias.
* Oppose, by a 2-1 margin, the privatization of Iraq's energy sector -- a "benchmark towards progress according to the Bush administration.
* Favor a U.S. withdrawal on a short timeline (PDF) (most believe the United States plans to build permanent bases -- both are issues about which the Sadrists have been vocal.
* Oppose al Qaeda and the ideology of Osama Bin Laden and, to a lesser degree, Iranian influence on Iraq's internal affairs.
http://www.alternet.org/waronira...80/?
page=entire
Gonna go check on my backup flight and head over to the laptop charging station. BRB.
Condi, you truly are a dumbshit. What a stupid thing to say. Maybe spend a little more time reading and less time shoe shopping.
Presumably, some of the 22 percent who want Obama to drop out--- maybe all of them--- also want Hillary to stay in. The numbers make sense.
People are very concerned about what Bugs thinks here.
The numbers don't have to add up to 100% if some people hold two opinions at the same time.
Echidne
22% want her to quit and 62% want her to stay in. That's 88%. The other 12% want her off of their lawn.
Law of unintended consequences? Instead of just blaming the victims for the mortgage crisis, how about also looking at tax policy? John McCain to the contrary, our vast nationwide credit binge was decades in the making and involved a lot more than reckless home buyers. It included tax policy, among other things.
Another day, another Bush administration scandal.
Go to www.msnbc.com for breaking news about the resignation of a White House aid (unnamed so far) over misuse of USAID funds.
Weak Echidne, but nice try.
???
I'm just pointing out something that can be true in various opinion surveys if the categories asked are not mutually exclusive and exhaustive. Then the answers to various questions can indeed add up to more than 100%. Not saying that this is the case here, as I have no way of knowing whether it was possible to agree on two of the three.
Obama Pressed To Renounce Nat Turner
People are very concerned about what Bugs thinks here.
plantsman
--------------
At last, a fan!
Um, aide.
Dear Hillary:
I've noticed in two different speeches you've given, you've cited a survey in which "22% of people want me to quit, 22% want Obama to quit, and 62% want
me to stay in". Hon, that's 106% percent.
You forgot the undecided. There's always a percentage that answers: "don't know/don't care/who?"
Still, it's good to know 106% of the country is engaged in this discussion.
Weak Echidne, but nice try.
plantsman, | Homepage | 03.28.08 - 3:33 pm | #
Actually, those are probably two different survey questions. Hillary, quit or stay; Obama, quit or stay.
62, 22, and some number of undecideds/no opinions.
kittehs!
thanks plantsman. Echidne, unlike you, has no grasp of statistics. You set her right.
No. Moe; for a person already under fire for exaggeration, they don't make sense. She should have the intelligence to check these things out.
OT: Nicolas Sarkozy's proclamation that France and Britain could together form a "greater force for good in the world" has not gone unnoticed in Berlin.
It has left critics and commentators asking whether the once cosy Paris-Berlin alliance has been pushed aside in favour of this "new brotherhood".
The German government will be closely watching future cooperation between Paris and London. But commentators have cautioned against taking the love-in too seriously and say at its heart is Sarkozy's ambitious desire to persuade the British to be more European.
"Europe needs Britain and vice versa," said today's Süddeutsche Zeitung. "But the appeal to the British to become more engaged with Europe is likely to meet with reservation in Britain." Gordon Brown, it reminded readers, "is not exactly a passionate European".
The general view from Berlin is that it will take until the end of the French presidency of the EU at the turn of the year to determine whether or not it is valid to talk of a Paris-London axis.
The inimitable Die Welt correspondent Thomas Kielinger put its most succinctly, writing: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating, as the Brits say."
The London meeting emphasised France and Britain's shared commitment tod nuclear power, a field in which Germany, with its green ideals, could find itself being increasingly isolated, the Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ) said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/.../
germany.france
modesty is not one of my faults.
Psst... Have you heard?
Obama votes almost identically to Clinton in those areas.
Well maybe less boldly like usual Obama is the small c change guy.
Where has Obama opposed Bush that Clinton has not?
Anthrax is naturally occuring.
Anthrax is naturally occuring.
sea
Just throw a hair metal concert and see.
Well, I'm not going to argue about it.
I really don't give a shit about the Bosnia thing, or if the poll numbers don't add up. I've got better reasons for not supporting Hillary. YMMV.
MSNBC
BREAKING NEWS: White House says a presidential aide has resigned after engaging in improprities using USAID grant money
What's that about?
Dear Atrios:
Is is OK if we commit a ritual sacrifice of Bugs while you're gone?
Love,
abyssgazer
PS, please don't ban me.
No! The British are not Europeans. They live on an island right next to it.
me too, oh well i'm sure there will be plenty of other chances to visit the States
oh, to be young again.....
Where has Obama opposed Bush that Clinton has not?
Bugs | 03.28.08 - 3:37 pm | #
So you're saying that your only objection to him is his race? We already got that.
RMJ: from below: sure, it's always been thus, that there have been any number of those who think violence is necessary to some higher purpose. But for Bush to say, outright, that violence is necessary in Iraq so that it become a free society somehow boggled my mind. It was so naked, I guess, as an almost casual dismissal of the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in pursuit of objectives dubious of purpose, desirability, even possibility of accomplishment.
Anthrax is naturally occuring.
sea
So is oral sex.
u haz sheetz
aide owls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ripping off money from USAID. Heckuva Job.
This Is USAID
The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country. It is this caring that stands as a hallmark of the United States around the world -- and shows the world our true character as a nation.
U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of the citizens of the developing world. Spending less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget, USAID works around the world to achieve these goals.
USAID's history goes back to the Marshall Plan reconstruction of Europe after World War Two and the Truman Administration's Point Four Program. In 1961, the Foreign Assistance Act was signed into law and USAID was created by executive order.
Since that time, USAID has been the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms
for Bush to say, outright, that violence is necessary in Iraq so that it become a free society somehow boggled my mind.
I can't understand why he didn't support a Department of Peace...
More brilliant simplicity from the Alternet piece:
Every headline this week has featured some variation of the storyline of "Iraqi security forces" battling "Shiite militias." But the reality is that it is a battle between Shite militias -- separatists and nationalists -- with one militia garbed in Iraqi army uniforms and supported by U.S. airpower, and the other in civilian clothes.
The United States, for its part, continues to take sides in this conflict -- in addition to providing airpower, U.S. forces are enforcing the curfew in Sadr City -- rather than playing the role of neutral mediator. That's because the interests of the Bush administration and its allies are aligned with Maliki and his coalition. That they are not aligned with the interests of most Iraqis is never mentioned in the Western press, but is a key reason why Bush's definition of "victory" -- the emergence of a legitimate and Democratic state that supports U.S. policy in the region -- has always been an impossible pipedream.
At some point in absurd atrocity, the means become the end. No legitimate end exists for the senseless killing that will not accomplish anything. The end is to kill. At any rate, Rule No. 1 is still: War is the worst possible solution to any problem, even on the rare occasions when it brings some sort of solution about.
plantsman, those percentages are not mutually exclusive. It's like
30% say they prefer apple pie
30% say they like cherry pie
50% say they hate apple pie
That's 110% percent!
From the AP:
The White House says an aide to President Bush has resigned because of the alleged misuse of grant money from U.S. Agency for International Development.
Presidential spokesman Scott Stanzel says the former aide, Felipe Sixto, had been a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs. Stanzel said Sixto was promoted to that position on March 1 and that he came forward on March 20 to tell his superiors about the alleged wrongdoing.
Stanzel said it involved improprieties involving the use of grant money and Sixto's former employer, the Center for a Free Cuba. Stanzel says the matter has been turned over to the Justice Department.
My God in Wright's Heaven the frikin' Magic Man is revealed to to be....
Without coattails.....
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