I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Hah!
And I thought this was why it was slow downstairs.....
Saturdays in August. I guess only losers are still at home....
A home run walking. It's hardly even a thrill....
Well, down the stairs again then, if there's even anybody still there...
"They" do this a lot, and it's offensive on a "Clelanding" scale.
Canada deployed troops to Afghanistan to support us. They didn't go to Iraq, but they did go to Afghanistan.
So of course Jonah Goldberg has to spit in their face.
This is the neocon way of dealing with allies. If an ally acts like an ALLY, and not a servant, spit in their face. Spit in their face as their soldiers die for you. Rotten motherfuckers.
I'd pay large money to see Todd Bertuzzi beat the living shit out of Jonah The Whale.
"don't forget your nightlight. You know the dark makes you wet the bed"-Lucianne to Jonah
If I quote the MST Canada song, will someone beat me up?
I hope the NRO cruise is treated like one of those floating barges of trash that no country will allow into its ports.
"They" do this a lot, and it's offensive on a "Clelanding" scale.
Canada deployed troops to Afghanistan to support us. They didn't go to Iraq, but they did go to Afghanistan.
So of course Jonah Goldberg has to spit in their face.
As Chris Kelly in the linked article points out, Goldberg's article was written a few months after 4 Canadians were killed by an American f-16 in Afghanistan.
Rotten motherfuckers.
As concise a description of the neocon movement as any.
I'd pay large money to see Todd Bertuzzi beat the living shit out of Jonah The Whale
That would be worth it in many ways.
Doughty Panload is not being very nice, what a tosser.
I hope some Canadian mounties like encircle him or something.
what a fuckhead
If I quote the MST Canada song, will someone beat me up?
Molly Ivors in NY
Oh, hell, should I add it to the post?
I'm so sick of this "let's run the world based on insecurities that some men have over the size of their dicks." Really. I really am.
Goldberg's article was written a few months after 4 Canadians were killed by an American f-16 in Afghanistan
Imagine that wouldya?
Recession peers over the horizon
I hope the NRO cruise is treated like one of those floating barges of trash that no country will allow into its ports.
It's more like a plague ship, spreading death and destruction.
Let's quarantine them and cut off their supplies.
OT: The son of the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is serving a five-year jail sentence in Britain for his part in an African gang feud which culminated in the killing of a Somali student, it can be revealed today.
Faisal Wangita, 25, was one of up to 40 African youths who set upon 18-year-old Mahir Osman at a bus stop in Camden, north London, in a murderous attack which has highlighted how some young men from war-torn countries are fuelling gang violence in Britain.
One senior police officer told the Guardian that more intervention was needed to stop large numbers of traumatised young men from civil wars in Africa forming street gangs. He said the level of violence used by these groups was extreme, involving not only knives, but ceremonial swords, guns and hammers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/
...2141346,00.html
Hate on, Jonah, you obese hater.
Wait...that is not a spoof cover? It isn't a photoshop?
Oy.
Driving straight through?
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 08.04.07 - 9:59 am | #
Nah, we're going to meander a bit, esp. in the Ozarks.
rorschach, futon djinn | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 10:00 am |
You don't want to head straight north through through the Dakotas and then East? You'll miss all that exciting scenery!
Oh yes those glorious days of old when hating Canada was the thing to do. When someone reported hearing a woman in her dentists office how she wished we would nuke Canada. When a local rock jock declared how he hated Canada, and Canadians, and I'm in Michigan not so very far from there. It really hit home then how far we had come when back in even older days you could count on a rock jock being at least a tad liberal. In the run up to the Great Patriotic War however if you were in the public eye and being paid for it you made sure to mention how you hated just about anyone who wasn't a white American of a certain type.
Oh, hell, should I add it to the post?
If you must.
I'm so sick of this "let's run the world based on insecurities that some men have over the size of their dicks." Really. I really am.
I declare myself "Dictator-for-Life", as I am hung like a bull moose.
my mother has fond memories of her visit to Canada
That's funny. WATB Jonah calling
these guys wimps?
The National Review Whaling Ship tour docks for a blubber reup.
Watching this, it strikes me that Tom Servo's meltdown is positively Goldbergian.
'Wimps!' simply isn't a worthy addition to our discourse, even before considering the political judgment behind it. And, from of all sources, Jonah Goldberg, whose life is in countless ways an exemplar of selfless courage and triumph in the face of adversity...
I declare myself "Dictator-for-Life", as I am hung like a bull moose.
Come over here and sit by me.
We have our own very serious pundits - one of our best-known political columnists just put down the idea of engagement with Quaddafi because - get this - the man is a tyrant who imprisons foreign nationals on trumped-up charges and refuses them due process.
We also have a major doctor's association calling for more private health care.
Um, should note that by "we" I mean "we Canadians"...
At least eight people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in northwest Pakistan.
The bomber's car rammed into vehicles parked near a bus station in Parachinar, in North West Frontier Province near the border with Afghanistan, security officials said.
About 20 people were wounded in Saturday's attack said Mohammed Kamal, an area police official.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...B943512666C.htm
Watching this, it strikes me that Tom Servo's meltdown is positively Goldbergian.
Molly Ivors
I was thinking the same thing.
a hit piece by Politico:
Candidates court bloggers, avoid commitment
Karl Rove will be proud!
I'd pay large money to see Todd Bertuzzi beat the living shit out of Bill "Orange Hair Dye" O'Reilly.
Isn't Adam Nagourney Canadian?
Turkey's new parliament is to be sworn in on Saturday, with Kurdish representatives set to hold seats for the first time in 13 years.
The ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, will have 341 of 550 seats in the legislature, while the Kurdish Democratic Society Party will hold 20.
The Kurdish party last had representation in parliament in 1994, when it was removed over alleged ties to groups fighting for a separate Kurdistan in southern Turkey.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...6CB6FD78EF0.htm
Come over here and sit by me.
Molly Ivors in NY | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 10:11 am | #
I'm tellin'.
attempting to do some email correspondence this am regarding my software development project. ie... patents/copyrights etc.
you know... intellectual property management type of stuff.
this should be interesting...
You gotta love this:
"But Canada is barely a functioning democracy at all: Its governmental structure, if described objectively, is far more similar to what we would expect in a corrupt African state with decades of one-party rule."
Just what do you have to eat to be able to pull something like this out of your ass? Of course they won't get off the boat. If they did, they might have to avoid seeing all of those good roads and clean city streets, and somehow ignore the conspicuous absence of filthy beggars. And if they so much as talked to a single soul, how would they be able to disregard how well-informed and politically conscious even the most ordinary people are there? This is a pleasure cruise, dammit! That would be way too much work!
I don't think a Bertuzzi beating is sufficient for O'Reilly. Can we get Gino Odjick out of retirement?
I had never heard the MST Canada song before, but that's pretty funny.
118 more hits till I reach the 200,000 mark! And then I'll shut up about it!
The duration of heatwaves in Western Europe has doubled since 1880, a study has shown.
The authors of the research also discovered that the frequency of extremely hot days has nearly tripled in the past century.
The study shows that many previous assessments of daily summer temperature change underestimated heatwaves in Western Europe by about 30%.
The research appears in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres.
The team found that heatwaves lasted an average of three days now, with some lasting up to 13 days. This compares with an average of about 1.5 days in 1880.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...ure/
6929668.stm
Isn't Adam Nagourney Canadian?
Molly Ivors in NY
Adam Nagourney is a native of Dumbfuckistan.
"But Canada is barely a functioning democracy at all: Its governmental structure, if described objectively, is far more similar to what we would expect in a corrupt African state with decades of one-party rule."
Is that like a Permanent Republican Majority?
It really hit home then how far we had come when back in even older days you could count on a rock jock being at least a tad liberal.
That was before these same DJ's became multimillionaires.
For example, Preston and Steve, a very popular duo in Philly, espouse everything the republics hate. Sex, booze, rock and roll are their stock in trade.
But they are republics. Because they are filthy rich.
The Butchart Garden really is beautiful. But if you go just a few more miles, you can visit the Veterans Cemetery in Esquimalt. The golf course next door will be closed, but you can wander under the evergreens that line where it borders graveyard. The chapel is small, and plain, but the lanterns on the walls used to burn real whale oil. It's very quiet at night.
One of the newer graves, there, belongs to Bombardier Myles Stanley John Mansell. He lived in Victoria and was killed in Kandahar last year. He was 25. He was blown up by a roadside bomb. He's buried between his grandfathers.
At Myles Mansell's funeral, one of his uncles said, "In our hearts, he will always be home." Which isn't as hilarious as "Canada needs to be slapped around like a whining kid," but it's not bad.
"In our hearts, he will always be home."
I hope no one in Canada gets offended when people like Jonah Goldberg write ugly nonsense. They don't really mean it. They're just trying to be vile, as a substitute for how men might talk.
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A colleague of mine from back in the day, now teaching in Vancouver, has just written a book about why 'Lament for a Nation' is ever so much rubbish.
Anyway, Victoria's too nice a city to have to deal with the crusin' assholes. Especially Doughbob Loadpants, the fucking cretin.
Shad!
Sorry. 
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Today's email to Harry Reid, cc's to senators:
Dear Majority Leader Reid:
1) Please resist Bush's attempt to rush legislation through the Congress. Haven't you noticed this a favorite tactic of theirs, to place a short deadline on something to prevent real evaluation of the not what the nation needs.
Plus, BushCo is trying to get you to create a legislative cover for illegal information gathering they've been doing anyway. Don't do it for them, please. Resist his veto threats and vetoes.
And, most of all, never give the kind of overwhelming power to wiretap/datamine to this president with this attorney general as the judge, jury, and executioner.
I would think the Rethuglican part of the Republican Party would find this an extremely handy tool for "managing" their Democratic opponents in the upcoming 2008 election.
Please resist: Stand up for the citizens of this country and our Bill of Rights.
2) Please keep people on watch during this vacation--in other words, do not have a formal "recess" which permits him his favored "recess appointments" of egregious personnel.
If legislators haven't figured this out by now, this man and his maladministration cannot be trusted with any exra powers, much less the actual power the executive has.
Isn't Adam Nagourney Canadian?
Molly Ivors in NY
No, you're thinking of Anne Murray.
Very OT:
Several months ago now I happened upon a "real" music video. By real I mean like the stuff that MTV had back when they actually did that sort of thing - a music video with a theme and catchy visual tidbits that made it a "music video" as opposed to video of a stage show.
In this case, LP album covers provides the theme. It's very cute, and I swear you could do a PhD thesis on the styles/bands/album covers parodied.
Morningwood - The Nth Degree
Cute song too.
I'm tellin'.
As if he'd be concerned. We're married ten years this week. I know where my bread is buttered.
any hits i do to your site today will probably only count as .33 of one. fuck... probably not even that much.
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is embroiled in a row over a major arms deal with Libya signed a week after he won the release of six jailed health workers.
The French leader has repeatedly denied promising the weapons to Tripoli as part of a secret trade-off for the prisoners' freedom. However, he faces further controversy after the European aerospace company EADS announced it had signed a €296m (£216m) military deal with Libya.
News that the sale had been "finalised" came just two days after the son of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gadafy, suggested Tripoli had been promised arms.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
france...2141450,00.html
That MST3000 was beautiful--"Mustn't hate so overtly" and "Pardonez moi"
Man, I miss those guys
So is the House going to hold the line against this eavesdropping bill, or do we need to keep calling and writing to buck them up? Actually, if you substituted a picture of the Senate on that NR cover, I wouldn't have an argument with it.
As if he'd be concerned. We're married ten years this week. I know where my bread is buttered.
Molly Ivors in NY | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 10:16 am | #
Congrats!
I declare myself "Dictator-for-Life", as I am hung like a bull moose.
SteveNS | 08.04.07 - 10:09 am | #
I'm sure you could get the Democratic controlled congress to ratify that title.
Isn't Adam Nagourney Canadian?
Molly Ivors in NY
No, you're thinking of Anne Murray.
attaturk
She's a big-boned girl from southern Alberta.
You just couldn't call her small.
118 more hits till I reach the 200,000 mark! And then I'll shut up about it!
115 now.
You're welcome.
Look at all the horsies, Pantload. Wouldn't you and Rich have loads of fun playing with them?
We're married ten years this week. I know where my bread is buttered.
Molly Ivors in NY
Kinky . . .
NRO is stealing story ideas from South Park.
Maybe they can publish the recipe for Scott Tenneman chili, too.
rorschach: 118 more hits till I reach the 200,000 mark! And then I'll shut up about it!
Dang. You're 116,017 ahead of me!
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That MST3000 was beautiful--"Mustn't hate so overtly" and "Pardonez moi"
Man, I miss those guys
noblejoanie
Then I seriously suggest renting "300" and then buying this:
http://www.rifftrax.com/cart.php...uct_detail&
p=80
Seriously, you will laugh your damned head off.
So is the House going to hold the line against this eavesdropping bill, or do we need to keep calling and writing to buck them up? Actually, if you substituted a picture of the Senate on that NR cover, I wouldn't have an argument with it.
Karin | 08.04.07 - 10:16 am | #
God I hope so. The Senate is a disgrace.
If they did, they might have to avoid seeing all of those good roads and clean city streets, and somehow ignore the conspicuous absence of filthy beggars.
Actually, Victoria does have its share of homeless people. It's the one place in Canada that they all tend to gravitate towards, given that the winters are survivable. In fact, I was told that the authorities in North Idaho, I mean Alberta, have a habit of giving their homeless people bus tickets to the Lower Mainland.
I'd pay large money to see Donald Brashear beat the living shit out of Little Georgie "The Deserter" Bush.
As if he'd be concerned. We're married ten years this week. I know where my bread is buttered.
Don't you mean where your bread is soaked in bacon grease?
But seriously, happy anniversary in advance!
I am far too obsessed with this.
Ya know, for a brief time there I operated under the illusion that Jim Webb wasn't a Quislingcrat.
When Congress sends me their version, when Congress listens to all the data and facts and they send me a version of how to close those gaps, I'll ask one question, and I'm going to ask the DNI: Does this legislation give you what you need to prevent an attack on the country? Is this what you need to do your job, Mr. DNI? That's the question I'm going to ask.
OF course, the important thing is that McConnell and the Senate had worked out a deal that Bush torpedoed, but...
"Mr. DNI..."
For the sake of the nation, could David Broder tell him his infantile, condescending pseudo-folksy shit is.... well, bullshit
I'd pay large money to see Donald Brashear beat the living shit out of Little Georgie "The Deserter" Bush.
I'll take Mario Lemieux waling on Alberto Gonzalez.
Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean
The unborn grass lies waiting for its coat to turn to green
The snowbird sings the song he always sings
And speaks to me of flowers that will bloom again in spri
We're married ten years this week. I know where my bread is buttered.
Molly Ivors
Congrats to you both!
But hey, if you ever feel like a dinner roll instead of bread, give me a shout. 
So is the House going to hold the line against this eavesdropping bill, or do we need to keep calling and writing to buck them up?
Keep calling. Tell your congresscritter not to vote on the FISA revisions unless he/she has read the text and knows what it does, point by point.
Actually, Victoria does have its share of homeless people. It's the one place in Canada that they all tend to gravitate towards
Yabbut I live in Berkeley, CA, one of the highest propery value municipalities in the country, and you can't go ANYWHERE there without being accosted by multiple beggars. Almost all of downtown SF is the same way. I saw nothing remotely like that in Vancouver or Calgary.
But hey, if you ever feel like a dinner roll instead of bread, give me a shout.
Didja see these two cat pixels this morning, or was that before you lazy hippies got out of bed?
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We're married ten years this week. I know where my bread is buttered.
Molly Ivors
By the Milk Man?
(I keed, I keed)
Or a baguette...?
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Hey! I'm in that MST3K!
But, I'd like to share something that was written by Strib columnist Nick Coleman (no relation to Norm, but brother of my mayor, Chris):
No one knew it might fall? Give us a break. What do you need? They were talking about bolting plates on it to keep it up. Maybe duct tape was next.
Bottom line: It fell.
Is it political to be angry about that? So be it. Everything is politics. Politics is not a dirty word by itself. Politics builds bridges and schools and hospitals. And politics can make them fall down. Bad politics.
After Tim Pawlenty was elected governor in 2002, he made his running mate, Carol Molnau, commissioner of transportation. Tell me a better way to politicize transportation and control the spin on everything involving roads or bridges.
When Pawlenty vetoed the transportation bill in May, "Commissioner" Molnau was beside him, smiling. Dear, Minnesota. A transportation commissioner who grins while her department is being knifed is not a transportation commissioner.
Now, a bridge has fallen and people are dead. The buck has to stop somewhere. Molnau was in China when it happened. She probably kissed the Minnesota turf when she got back. Because a Chinese transportation commissioner whose bridge collapsed might lose her head.
We are lenient in Minnesota. Molnau can keep her head. She should lose her job.
So. Welcome, Mr. President. We are really hurting here. It's great you could come.
I'd pay large money to see Terry O'Reilly beat the living shit out of Bill "I'm A Tough Irish Guy" O'Reilly.
Put a banner in the Victoria harbor:
"Reverse Whale watching - Welcome the National Review!"
Checked out the sample, atta. Very funny, thanks.
Fine looking feline specimens there, JP.
.We're married ten years this week. I know where my bread is buttered.
Molly Ivors
Really? My own 10th anniversary was Thursday the 2nd. I'll be in debt for a while over that one, but what tok place afterwards was worth it.
Keep calling. Tell your congresscritter not to vote on the FISA revisions unless he/she has read the text and knows what it does, point by point.
pseudonymous in nc | 08.04.07 - 10:21 am | #
No use here. I'm "represented" by Jim Gerlach (R-traitorous scumbag).
I'd just be wasting my time.
It's just astonishing that the so called deliberative body would let itself be goaded into this by the school yard bully. The MASSIVELY UNPOPULAR school yard bully. Harry Reid's gotta go. He's gotten worse instead of better over time.
This is so depressing.
Where are you in that video, zap? Seriously?
Glad the Strib is taking it to the Republicans. More please!!
We're married ten years this week. I know where my bread is buttered.
Molly Ivors
By the Milk Man?
(I keed, I keed)
attaturk
True story: my father was the "milk man" in our small town. Our next door neighbor was a teacher at the school we attended.
One day my sister was in her class. She was very pregnant with her first child at this time, and one of the students smarted off and asked who the father was.
"The milkman" was the equally-smart reply from the teacher, without thinking.
I'm not sure who was more embarrassed, the teacher or my sister.
Saturday Goddess Blogging to go with that second cup of coffee.
Belated congratulations to blerb, as well!
noblejoanie,
The nym Zap Rowsdauer comes from a character in that episode of MST.
Wimps repair bridges and shit.
REAL MEN go bomb the shit out of something.
LittlePig: Fine looking feline specimens there, JP.
Thanks. It's the gnawing. I gnaw on my kittehs.
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i would love to see my neighbors take chimpy out for a boat ride...
some of you may understand if you saw my posts from yesterday.
Where are you in that video, zap? Seriously?
No, silly.
That clip is from an MST called The Final Sacrifice; and the "hero" in the movie is named Zap Rowsdower.
I've been namestealing him.
Really? My own 10th anniversary was Thursday the 2nd. I'll be in debt for a while over that one, but what tok place afterwards was worth it.
Congrats!
Strapped for cash, here, because of various things, but that doesn't really affect the afterparty.
Because a Chinese transportation commissioner whose bridge collapsed might lose her head.
~Thinks bannable thoughts~
Thanks for the explanation, Molly.
And more from the Strib piece Zap was linking to:
That means don't blame the people in charge for letting 140,000 vehicles a day -- 1.7 every second --cross a bridge that wasn't fit for traffic.
No one knew it might fall? Give us a break. What do you need? They were talking about bolting plates on it to keep it up. Maybe duct tape was next.
Bottom line: It fell.
Is it political to be angry about that? So be it. Everything is politics.
I am far too obsessed with this.
Molly Ivors in NY | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 10:20 am |
Kiwis!
~Thinks bannable thoughts~
Hecate,
Yup. Me too. Every day. Every damn day.....
Oh, and congrats, happy birthday and happy anniversary to everyone. Did I miss anyone?
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I stole this from poster "Da Spyda" at Crooks & Liars, but it seems quite appropriate:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.”
Cicero
That clip is from an MST called The Final Sacrifice; and the "hero" in the movie is named Zap Rowsdower.
You are using the term "hero" rather loosely.
He was the hero only because Larry Czonka was unavailable.
I hope the NRO cruise is treated like one of those floating barges of trash that no country will allow into its ports.
It's more like a plague ship, spreading death and destruction.
Ship of Fools?
Molly!
How was the show last night?
Oh, and congrats, happy birthday and happy anniversary to everyone. Did I miss anyone?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
You didn't say "Merry Christmas!" you Jeebus-hater.
How'd the amnesty thing go?
You are using the term "hero" rather loosely.
Hee. Hence the quotation marks.
We all know that the real Zap is as much hero as, say, our keyboard kommandos...
How was the show last night?
FOW was transcendent, as always. It took me longer to get into Squeeze, but they were cooking by the end.
I'd pay large money to see Gordie Howe beat the living shit out of Dick "Draft Dodger" Cheney.
No Canadian bridge has ever taken a nosedive into the Mississippi. They must be doing something right, Pantload.
I know where my bread is buttered.
Molly Ivors in NY
Oh dear, the visuals.
The Senate bowed to White House pressure last night and passed a Republican plan for overhauling the federal government's terrorist surveillance laws, approving changes that would temporarily give U.S. spy agencies expanded power to eavesdrop on foreign suspects without a court order.
The 60 to 28 vote, w/
anyone know where the roll calll vote is, or what the name of this atrocity is?
jac: How'd the amnesty thing go?
Kinda neutral, except for the pocketbook (which is $1252 lighter, not counting the loss of $160 in income). And I still have to get a new license, and take a test (written or road or both, I do not know, yet).
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Congrats!
Likewise!
And of course I was only joking about the relationship between the gift and the postprandial festivities. I think, anyway....
Something I've noticed over the years. "Minnesota Nice" does have an upper limit. You really don't want to piss them off too much as I think they are right now. They'll cut you off at the knees, quietly and politely perhaps, but you're goose is cooked.
Looking forward to Pawlenty and Coleman going down!
Molly & Thers,
Congratulations! Many, many, many happy returns of the day! That's wonderful!
Isn't Ted Intertubes one of the guests on that NR Cruise?
FOW was transcendent, as always. It took me longer to get into Squeeze, but they were cooking by the end.
I'm going to have to lay my hands on some old Squeeze albums.
If they have the taste to tour with both Fountains of Wayne AND Crowded House this summer, they must be right up my alley.
There might be razor wire around his neighbour's gate and security guards patrolling the hedgerows and fields, but Joe Osborne feels anything but safe. The retired farmer has lived in Denby Village for more than 60 years but this weekend he fears this quiet corner of Derbyshire could be overrun when up to 3,000 far-right activists arrive for a three-day festival.
The British National party has chosen the former mining and farming community for its annual Red White and Blue Festival. The far-right party has held the event every year since 2000 but six weeks ago, after an internal row which ended with a failed leadership challenge to Nick Griffin, it was moved from Lancashire to a plot of land in the centre of Denby Village.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
farrig...2141363,00.html
Family reunion time. I'll be back tonight.
dkos quoting the new yorker:
"No one naked around here. No chaos at YearlyKos. No "sweet smell of marijuana," as the straight papers used to refer to it. No demands for revolution."
pretty much sums it up. no wonder we're fit for nothing except slavery.
anyone know where the roll calll vote is, or what the name of this atrocity is?
Jim | 08.04.07 - 10:33 am |
I can't find it on senate.gov. Let me know if you do. The names of these traitors need to be publicly displayed.
Something I've noticed over the years. "Minnesota Nice" does have an upper limit. You really don't want to piss them off too much as I think they are right now. They'll cut you off at the knees, quietly and politely perhaps, but you're goose is cooked.
I started listening to Prairie Home Companion after reading Keillor's column on Norm Coleman (The Hollow Man, IIRC). He ripped out Coleman's guts and festooned them 'round the room like Hannibal Lecter did in that free-standing cell
So what tin or aluminum gift do you think Thers will offer, Molly? Hope it's more glamorous than a six-pack--Congratulations!
Barbarism Begins at Home: I can't find it on senate.gov. Let me know if you do. The names of these traitors need to be publicly displayed.
I think Vicki posted it in the last thread.
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Kinda neutral, except for the pocketbook (which is $1252 lighter, not counting the loss of $160 in income). And I still have to get a new license, and take a test (written or road or both, I do not know, yet).
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Well, at least it's almost over.
Thanks Jeffraham.
India's tigers are facing their severest crisis, with only between 1,300 and 1,500 left in the wild, less than half the population previously estimated, conservationists said yesterday.
The estimates are based on a census by the government-run Wildlife Institute of India, due to be made public later this year.
The census is based on a new counting method and contrasts with the figure of 3,642 reported by the last census, in 2001-02.
"These are estimates done with what the government considers ... a robust scientific process and is a benchmark," Valmik Thapar, a renowned natural historian and tiger expert, told a WWF meeting called to discuss the tiger's plight.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/enviro...04/
conservation
Ooooh. An anniversary is afoot?
Congrats to the first couple of Eschaton!
Something I've noticed over the years. "Minnesota Nice" does have an upper limit. You really don't want to piss them off too much as I think they are right now. They'll cut you off at the knees, quietly and politely perhaps, but you're goose is cooked.
I've always thought of that term "Minnesota Nice" as quite the misnomer.
Obviously, living here all my life, seeing our goopers in office, they instantly change their colors once some national limelight is shone on them.
And they're ALL beholden to that joke of an institution known as the Taxpayers League of Minnesota.
If they have the taste to tour with both Fountains of Wayne AND Crowded House this summer, they must be right up my alley.
I should think so.
Looking forward to Pawlenty and Coleman going down!
noblejoanie
Great - now I've got THAT visual in my head.
Ship of Fools?
Culture of TrÜth
Ship of Tools.
I'd pay large money to see Bob Probert beat the living shit out of Little Georgie "Baseball Is Poetry" Will.
I started listening to Prairie Home Companion after reading Keillor's column on Norm Coleman (The Hollow Man, IIRC). He ripped out Coleman's guts and festooned them 'round the room like Hannibal Lecter did in that free-standing cell
Jim
Garry has become downright uncivil during the Bush years.
So what tin or aluminum gift do you think Thers will offer, Molly?
Tinfoil hat.
Ship of Fools?
Culture of TrÜth
Ship of Tools.
Sweet Sue
Garbage Scow.
India's tigers are facing their severest crisis, with only between 1,300 and 1,500 left in the wild, less than half the population previously estimated, conservationists said yesterday.
This piece of news just ruined my day.
More tigers are needed! Fewer people!
Set about a dozen of them loose on the NRO cruise, I say.
Keillor on Coleman. Not as harsh as I'd remembered, but good stuff:
Last month, when Bush came to sprinkle water on his campaign, Norm introduced him by saying, "God bless America is a prayer, and I believe that this man is God's answer to that prayer." Same guy.
It was a dreadful low moment for the Minnesota voters. To choose Coleman over Walter Mondale is one of those dumb low-rent mistakes, like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. But I don't envy someone who's sold his soul. He's condemned to a life of small arrangements. There will be no passion, no joy, no heroism, for him. He is a hollow man. The next six years are not going to be kind to Norm.
Aluminum?
Try Nambe for anniversaries.
Oh, puke:
New chance for Bush to be comforter-in-chief
Actual. Fucking. Headline.
This Slaughter chick is a piece of work.
Set about a dozen of them loose on the NRO cruise, I say.
The fatty diet would be bad for their cholesterol.
J A Hobson - Imperialism: A Study
L.E.'s crying, 'cause I won't let him lay on my foot. It's too hot, kitteh!
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New chance for Bush to be comforter-in-chief
Subheader:
Nitwit Suspected of Causing Disasters Just to Dole Out Hugs
chimpy has his favourite house member on Air Force 1 for the trip to Minn
MR. STANZEL: One thing I forgot to mention, also on board with us today is Senator Amy Klobuchar; Senator Norm Coleman; Congressman Keith Ellison, whose district we will be in; Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, and Congressman John Kline are also aboard Air Force One with us today.
Q Are they staying or are they coming back?
MR. STANZEL: I don't know their travel plans.
Nitwit Suspected of Causing Disasters Just to Dole Out Hugs
It's the only way he can get a girl to touch him.
New chance for Bush to be comforter-in-chief
i.e. Rubble is his best stage.
Keillor's column was 'Empty Victory for a Hollow Man'.
He was 9 points down to Wellstone when the senator's plane went down. But the tide was swinging toward the president in those last 10 days. And Norm rode the tide. Mondale took a little while to get a campaign going. And Norm finessed Wellstone's death beautifully. The Democrats stood up in raw grief and yelled and shook their fists and offended people. Norm played his violin. He sorrowed well in public, he was expertly nuanced. The mostly negative campaign he ran against Wellstone was forgotten immediately. He backpedalled in the one debate, cruised home a victor. It was a dreadful low moment for the Minnesota voters. To choose Coleman over Walter Mondale is one of those dumb low-rent mistakes, like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. But I don't envy someone who's sold his soul. He's condemned to a life of small arrangements. There will be no passion, no joy, no heroism, for him. He is a hollow man. The next six years are not going to be kind to Norm.
http://dir.salon.com/story/polit...sota/
index.html
Just don't let Bush anywhere near a bullhorn today.
More than anything, that bridge collapse has got me worried about what might happen here when the Hayward finally really lets go. In 1989, when an event that size happened 90 miles away, we had more than 60 people squashed like bugs when the Cypress structure collapsed. If something that big happens right in the middle of us, I'm afraid we're going to belatedly discover a couple dozen more Cypress structures. And of course all of the freeways being taken out will mean there will be no escape from the ensuing firestorm. All in all, it could very well make Katrina look minor by comparison. I's say this is the single most compelling reason why I'm thinking I want to move to Walnut Creek.
It's the only way he can get a girl to touch him.
Not if you're Michelle Bachmann.
I wonder if she'll bring him to the Maul of America.
It's just like Baghdad, after all...
I wonder if she'll bring him to the Maul of America.
It's just like Baghdad, after all..
You can get 5 rugs for 5 dollars?
It's the only way he can get a girl to touch him.
Not counting salaried employees, like Condi, or Laura.
gotta go for awhile you DFH's... the walleye's are biting. the following is an excerpt from one of my posts yesterday.
so, i'm sitting on my deck at the lake, right? watching one of my neighbors rolling his dock out a little further. putting the end of the dock in the bucket of a small utility tractor/loader. (the lake has went down a couple of feet so far this year)
and, i'm thinking... 'he doesn't have the dock tied to the bucket...' (note that the lake has a rather steep dropoff/incline)
well, next thing you know, he's pushing it out and the dock starts rolling out on its' own. it is now a floating dock heading out to the middle of the lake, aided by the pretty good breeze blowing out from shore.
it gets better. frantically, they then take their boat off the lift to retrieve it, and in their haste, forget to put the plug in the boat.
they finally get the boat back on the lift to bail it out, and by now the dock is making it's way to the other side of the lake. (8,000 acre lake, btw)
anyway, they get the boat bailed, and are this moment now towing the dock back into shore.
i consumed 2 very tasty beverages during this rather entertaining ordeal.
good times at the lake.
Will Bush bring his GEE-TAR?
I notice my Senator, Bob Casey, joined the traitorous group of Democrats voting for FISA. I can't say I'm that surprised.
He's better than Santorum, but that's not saying very much.
You can get 5 rugs for 5 dollars?
Hecate
Actually, Bush will take this opportunity to stock up on all those free available car mats.
J A Hobson - Imperialism: A Study
Moonbootica, Graduated
Jesus H. Christ, Moon, I do not know what to say. Discovering Hobson on Imperialism? Discovering Hobson on Imperialism??? Next, will we hear about a brilliant new historian of Rome named Tacitus? Just discovered?
Christ, I knew my field had been beat up, but this is one for the books.
I wish folks would line the standing bridges with protest/IMPEACH signs in MSP today. They probably will, come to think of it, just MSM won't show us. If the protestors do, please, someone, post photos.
And the wingers are gotta plotz with an Islamo-Congressman on Air Force 1.
To choose Coleman over Walter Mondale is one of those dumb low-rent mistakes, like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. But I don't envy someone who's sold his soul. He's condemned to a life of small arrangements. There will be no passion, no joy, no heroism, for him. He is a hollow man. The next six years are not going to be kind to Norm.
Very eloquent for a man who makes a living telling Ole and Lena jokes.
And the wingers are gotta plotz with an Islamo-Congressman on Air Force 1.
P O'Neill
Michelle Malkin is drawing connections to Al Qaeda as we speak.
I have to nap, despite all that I need to do, today. Only slept about six hours, and that was not enough of a recharge from yesterday's physical ordeal.
♥
From Moonboo's link at 10:06 to Lenin's Tomb:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/2005...sweek/from/
RS.5
WalMart in Mexico is "using" 4,700 teenagers as "vounteers" to pack patron's groceries--and they get no wages, no benefits, only the opportunity to get tips. And big signs remind .
It is not against the law in Mexico, but the numbers used by WalMart are staggering compared to other large Mexican employers. Wow.
Although Wal-Mart’s worldwide code of ethics expressly forbids any “associate” from working without compensation, the company’s Mexican subsidiary asserts that the grocery baggers “cannot be considered workers.” The Mexico City government’s top labor official dismisses that contention as so much corporate hogwash. “To my mind, that is not an accurate description because the bagger is providing a service on the store’s premises that benefits the company by serving the customer better,” argues Federal District Labor Secretary Benito Mirón Lince. “In economic terms, Wal-Mart does have the capability to pay the minimum wage [of less than $5 a day], and this represents an injustice.”
Lenin's Tomb posits this may be one of corporate America's wet dreams for the future. We don't need (to pay) no steekin' wages.
Shorter Slaughter:
Yeah, I was completely wrong and even my mother told me so, but that just proves my point.
Barbarism Begins at Home call up Casey and tell him how you feel.
As well as your congresscritter.
It might not change anything but we need to let these treasonous bastards know how we feel.
You can get 5 rugs for 5 dollars?
Oh, hells no.
That's why Baghdad's the free-marketeer's wet dream!
Aluminum?
Try Nambe for anniversaries.
Heh. The actual gift I received was a wide 8-quart All-clad stockpot. Of course it's stainless on the outside, but I think it might have some aluminum in the middle. I don't think I'll actually use it as a stockpot because it's too nice, but it will do nicely I think to bring a festive paella to table for guests....
Gotta go water plants. See you refreshingly rational people later, I hope.
Okay, kids. Gotta run. Have a lovely one!
Barbarism Begins at Home call up Casey and tell him how you feel.
As well as your congresscritter.
It might not change anything but we need to let these treasonous bastards know how we feel.
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 10:50 am | #
I'm calling Casey, but my rep is a hardcore bushie. Not wasting my time on him.
You can get 5 rugs for 5 dollars?
Clearance sale at Wig-o-rama!
Everything must go!
You'll have toupee the salesclerk... but not much!
Very eloquent for a man who makes a living telling Ole and Lena jokes.
Zap Rowsdower
DON'T MOCK LITTLE GARRY KEILLOR MOTHERFUCKER!
(Actually, his writing for the New Yorker is awesome.)
I'd pay large money to see Clark Gillies beat the livig shit out of Pugsly "I Can't Get No Boners" Limbaugh.
fokwai, an inland lake going down 2 feet in one season? And the summer's not even over? Isn't that a bit unusual?
Isn't MN in the North Central US drought area?
Very eloquent for a man who makes a living telling Ole and Lena jokes.
Hey, no Dissing on my man Garrison! What about when he made his living writing for The New Yorker? It doesn't get any more prestigious than that.
We're all dried up in WI's northwoods this summer but our lake level is up--beaver have clogged the outflow, the industrious little buggers.
Headline at Malkin's joint:
Meltdown at the YearlyKos?
I'm sure she thinks this a great time to round up and intern a butt-load of leftists...
This Slaughter chick is a piece of work.
It's been pointed out many times before, but do you notice that the only time one is being "partisan" is when one is not agreeing with the republics 100%?
i'm in eastern SD... and in summer heat we can lose 1"/day. do the math.
plus, yes... we are in very severe dry spell.
Blerb owes me a Coke.
Here is one of Ms Slaughters glimmers of hope:
as well as Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates' efforts to close Guantanamo
Kind of like Colin Powell's efforts to end the war, and Arlen Specter's efforts to hold Abu Gonzo accountable.
The 60 to 28 vote
Excuse me while I go get wasted on the poison of my choice (h/t Simels).
Stand by. Dig out the short-sleeved shirt. Here it comes; that yellow object in the sky we've nearly forgotten this summer - the sun. Britain is likely to see its hottest day of the year tomorrow as proper summer weather at last puts in an appearance.
Temperatures in London and the south-east are likely to hit 27C today, and climb up to a scarcely-believable-in-2007 peak of 29C during the course of Sunday.
Let's be grateful for it, even if it's hardly the best that summer can do. "It's a bit pathetic really, isn't it?" said a Met Office forecaster last night.
Contrast this weekend's peak with last year, when we had just experienced in July 2006 the hottest month ever recorded in Britain, and on 19 July, the hottest-ever July day - when the mercury at Wisley, Surrey, reached 36.5C, beating a record that had lasted since 1911.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
uk...icle2833917.ece
OT, but a suspected member of the flat-earth society, a "chemical engineer", published an oped piece on the myth of global warming and energy crisis in our local rag today, Wisconsin State Journal. Besides writing to the editor, I'm lining the bird cage with it.
Wish that made me feel better.
Hey, no Dissing on my man Garrison! What about when he made his living writing for The New Yorker? It doesn't get any more prestigious than that.
I only half-kid.
He's actually my neighbor, and I frequent his bookstore; a mere fifty feet from my current residence.
But he's got an ego the size of his Victorian house.
Ms Slaughter is also promoting "Salazar-Alexander", Joe Klein's favorite hobbyhorse, which will turn the tide by strongly urging the President to adopt the strong suggestions of the Baker-Hamilton group.
Blerb owes me a Coke.
You want ice in that?
And finally, I would pay large money to see Joey Kocur, dressed in Arab garb, beat the living shit out of the entire neocon cabal.
Chimpy gets his preferred aerial view of disasters
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/
0708...f6df421d81be661
You want ice in that?
blerb
Yes please. It was 98 degrees here yesterday.
But he's got an ego the size of his Victorian house.
Zap
well, he's a gifted actor and I found it totally believable that Meryl Streep once had a passionate affair with him in that clip of that movie I saw.
the Beeb has been showing this three part documentary series - Atom
In this three-part documentary series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever: that the material world is made up of atoms.
90% of what he says I can understand but there is about 10% which just makes me go 'eh?'
still it would of been cool of had Professor Jim Al-Khalili as a physics teacher at school heh
Called Casey's office and no one was there (must be on vacation with AlQaeda). Left a voicemail.
Didn't make me feel any better, though.
Really nice outfit.
Bush needs something like "Garanimals for Grown-ups"
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/
...mMZEDyjHhbFps8F
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Daily Kos, Atrios, etc.internet community having influence in the dem party? Those in power pay lipservice at best. Just like they've done to the unions & minority groups for decades.Trust the DLC to represent those who seek justice& due process?Time to join with others who are looking for alternatives. The dems are too far gone.
Slaughter:
Republicans need to admit they the other side has point on global warming, spending, trade, etc.
Democrats need to admit the other side is right and we need to get out of Iraq.
The Effin' Senate handed the power to determine who/what/when on datamining goes to Freakin' Alfredo?????????
What is actually in what they voted for?? Are the detailed voting lists out yet?
Were there enough Dem Senate turncoats to give Hillary, Biden, Dodd cover?
jawbone at Sinfonian's blog there's a list of the traitorous dems with phone numbers and e-mail addys.
The Effin' Senate handed the power to determine who/what/when on datamining goes to Freakin' Alfredo?????????
No, they actually voted to insulate themselves from charges of being soft on terrorism after the next attack in the US comes.
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I found it totally believable that Meryl Streep once had a passionate affair with him in that clip of that movie I saw.
I listen the PHC all the time, but I'm not going to see that movie. It will be too disappointing to watch him in something that totally stinks.
Fuck, six Canadian soldiers were killed a month ago in Afghanistan.
I wonder if Pickles wonders why she had to go out ahead to Minneapolis while Michelle Bachmann gets to go with Chimpy in the big plane.
What're the DKossers doing at Yearly Kos to tell Reid, et al, what they think of this recent vote?
A few boos would be a start.
Damn.
No, they actually voted to insulate themselves from charges of being soft on terrorism after the next attack in the US comes.
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Agent Orange | 08.04.07 - 11:04 am | #
Little do the dumb sons of bitches realize that if there is another major attack, they'll be out on the streets when bush declares martial law. Cowardly, short-sighted, self-interested pricks.
On Book TV this weekend: Multiple showings of Charles Pickering (whack job, KKK-loving judge whose promotion was blocked in the Senate) talking about his book on the liberal assault on the judiciary, and at least three "Politically Incorrect Guides to..." American literature, feminism and environmentalism.
Called Casey's office and no one was there (must be on vacation with AlQaeda). Left a voicemail.
I moved out of PA a few years ago so I'm paying less attention to Casey. I've always had a sense that he's basically a weird guy - somehow?
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Wow...what insight!
The president's Marine One helicopter circled the site several times during a 10-minute tour, allowing him to gaze down upon the muddy waters where some people still are tapped. He saw pieces of the highway still littered with vehicles, including a school bus hugging a guard rail. Rescue boats below helped in the search for victims.
No, they actually voted to insulate themselves from charges of being soft on terrorism after the next attack in the US comes.
Sigh. Perhaps that Web ad thingie has got them all spooked. Maybe the administration has cooked up some kind of top-secret scare briefing to go with it, too.
actually, there is a global warming myth: that it can only be solved by enacting laws and limiting greenhouse gases. Mass die-offs of the population will also help, and require no new laws or planning.
What're the DKossers doing at Yearly Kos to tell Reid, et al, what they think of this recent vote?
A few boos would be a start.
Damn.
jawbone
I think Reid (Pelosie, Emmanuel) had to cancel Y-Kos appearances cause of these votes.
course we're currently in an interglacial period
Well, my son is squirming away in my lap, pestering me about when will I be done "working". I guess its time to get with the program and act like a dad. Later all....
I moved out of PA a few years ago so I'm paying less attention to Casey. I've always had a sense that he's basically a weird guy - somehow?
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Agent Orange | 08.04.07 - 11:06 am | #
He's a cipher. He got elected on his father's popularity and the fact that the voters finally wised up to the fact that Santorum was an absolute lunatic.
Up to 20 million people have been displaced and at least 250 killed by monsoon rains that have swept across huge areas of southern Asia, creating some of the worst flooding of recent years.
Parts of central India, Bangladesh and Nepal have seen days of rain, causing swollen rivers to break their banks. In many places, where local people said they cannot remember such extensive flooding, the army has been called in to evacuate the stranded.
BP Yadav, a spokesman for India's meteorological department, said the pattern of the annual monsoon had been unusual this year, leading to heavier than normal rain. "We've been getting constant rainfall in these areas for nearly 20 days," he said.
He was referring specifically to the states of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, which have suffered the worst of India's flooding, and where the majority of the country's 178 known fatalities occurred.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
wo...icle2833900.ece
Little do the dumb sons of bitches realize that if there is another major attack, they'll be out on the streets when bush declares martial law. Cowardly, short-sighted, self-interested pricks.
Barbarism Begins at Home
Delete the word 'major' and I agree. One suicide bomber on a bus killing 5 people will get the same coverage as the 9/11 attacks - and with anti-war liberals and Dems to accuse of empowering the terrorists. We're in for hell at the hands of FOXNews, CNN and the rest.
Man I'm so sick of this shit.
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Flip-flopper!!
A special session to deal with the aftermath of the bridge collapse is now likely and is almost certain to produce a gas tax increase, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said through a spokesman Friday. The funding would help whittle down the state's massive $1 billion-a-year backlog in road and bridge construction and maintenance.
Of course, beholden to the Taxpayers League of MN, he vetoed a gas tax increase earlier this year...
From Sinfonian:
Herewith, the members of the D-FUCKED caucus:
Evan Bayh (Indiana) (202) 224-5623
Tom Carper (Delaware) (202) 224-2441
Bob Casey (Pennsylvania) (202) 224-6324
Kent Conrad (North Dakota) (202) 224-2043
Dianne Feinstein (California) (202) 224-3841
Daniel Inouye (Hawai'i) (202) 224-3934
Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota) (202) 224-3244
Mary Landrieu (Louisiana) (202) 224-5824
Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas) (202) 224-4843
Claire McCaskill (Missouri) (202) 224-6154
Barbara Mikulski (Maryland) (202) 224-4654
Bill Nelson (Florida) (202) 224-5274
Ben Nelson (Nebraska) (202) 224-6551
Mark Pryor (Arkansas) (202) 224-2353
Ken Salazar (Colorado) (202) 224-5852
Jim Webb (Virginia) (202) 224-4024
http://flprogressive.blogspot.com/
Well, my son is squirming away in my lap, pestering me about when will I be done "working". I guess its time to get with the program and act like a dad. Later all....
blerb
You mean commenting here is not like being President - "it's hard work".
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Were there enough Dem Senate turncoats to give Hillary, Biden, Dodd cover?
jawbone
yep.
I think Reid (Pelosie, Emmanuel) had to cancel Y-Kos appearances cause of these votes.
What a break for them. Not that the Kossacks wouldn't fawn over them no matter what.
...they actually voted to insulate themselves from charges of being soft on terrorism after the next attack in the US comes.
I hope that's snark, because otherwise, it's out and out bullshit.
Man I'm so sick of this shit.
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Agent Orange
You're certainly bumming me out cause I suspect you are correct. My new neighbors are all staunch Dems yet are convinced we should just nuke everyone in the M.E. and get it over with. Really.
I have to say, Mikulski, Klobuchar and Webb are the only real surprises on that list.
The funding would help whittle down the state's massive
$1 billion-a-year backlog in road and bridge construction and maintenance.
That's 4 days of the Iraq War costs.
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After Gonzales spit in all their faces they voted to give him more power.
This is insane.
The following Democrats voted for it: Evan Bayh (Indiana); Tom Carper (Delaware); Bob Casey (Pennsylvania); Kent Conrad (North Dakota); Dianne Feinstein (California); Daniel Inouye (Hawai‘i); Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota); Mary Landrieu (Louisiana); Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas); Claire McCaskill (Missouri); Barbara Mikulski (Maryland); Bill Nelson (Florida); Ben Nelson (Nebraska); Mark Pryor (Arkansas); Ken Salazar (Colorado); Jim Webb (Virginia).
Were there enough Dem Senate turncoats to give Hillary, Biden, Dodd cover?
jawbone
Jeesh, even when they do the right thing they get grief.
Were there enough Dem Senate turncoats to give Hillary, Biden, Dodd cover?
jawbone
Jeesh, even when they do the right thing they get grief.
ql-was in NY
Dodd voted against the war, voted against every encroachment on the Constitution and separation of powers, and has led the fight (such as it is) to restore habeas corpus. Personally, I wish he'd give up his quixotic presidential run and focus on repealing the MCA.
Congrats Molly on the tenth.
Our eighth is on the fourteenth.
I have to say, Mikulski, Klobuchar and Webb are the only real surprises on that list.
Klobuchar's kind of a wild card.
She's pretty solid re: Iraq; but this vote just baffles me...
Klobuchar just had a bridge fall down. Her constituents are on edge. She's a former USAttorney. And I imagine someone's been whispering in her ear about an August terror attack.
Not surprising, all things considered.
What's the name of this POS, as I prepare to call my DINO rep?
She's a former USAttorney. And I imagine someone's been whispering in her ear about an August terror attack.
Actually, she's a former County Attorney.
You're certainly bumming me out cause I suspect you are correct. My new neighbors are all staunch Dems yet are convinced we should just nuke everyone in the M.E. and get it over with. Really.
ql-was in NY
Sorry but I just can't fathom that anyone believes that the Nation will turn against Bush after any attack here. It's like the neoCon fantasy that if only we bomb Iran it will be the catalyst for a popular uprising against the government there.
Secondly, at FOXNews and CNN they are sooo fucking primed for covering the next attack that they go beserk when anything approximating an attack occurs - VA Tech shooting, bridge collapse, Yankee pitcher flies his plane into a Manhatten high-rise.
I'll pay anyone $100 to review the CNN tapes after the failed Glasgow airport bombing and count how many times CNN looped the images of the burning SUV for 72 hours after the event. A thousand times I'll bet at least. And no one was hurt other than the jerk-offs who tried to pull it off.
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Sorry, Zap--thought I'd read she was a federal prosecutor.
bye for now
I'm proud to state that, as a Citizen of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, neither of my Senators are on that list of shame!
Sorry but I just can't fathom that anyone believes that the Nation will turn against Bush after any attack here. It's like the neoCon fantasy that if only we bomb Iran it will be the catalyst for a popular uprising against the government there.
You could write the Tweetys' and the Broders' script already
The president was wrong about fighting them over there, but we all need to rally around our commander-in-chief and come together without pointing fingers. We have entered a new era in this epic generational struggle and must look forward, not back.
I'm proud to state that, as a Citizen of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, neither of my Senators are on that list of shame!
Chris Tucker | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 11:22 am | #
And you have a good baseball team, too. Lucky.
From Moonboo's link to Craig Murray, he mentions that costs of war and empire usually get paid by the taxpayers and the obscene profits go to the uberwealthy.
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/
arc...onomic_vul.html
How the system works was outlined 100 years ago by the Liberal economist J.A.Hobson in his great book Imperialism - A Study. Written at the greatest extent of the greatest formal Empire the World has yet seen, Hobson proved, counter to the prevailing wisdom of both supporters and opponents of Empire, that the Empire had cost Britain money, not been a gain at the expense of the colonies. But while the net effect had been to make Britain poorer, the redistributive effect had made the ruling class, military and arms manufacturers much richer, at the expense of everyone else.
Hobson is now almost completely forgotten. In part this is because Lenin, a much lesser thinker, ruthlessly plagiarised Hobson's work some years later and plastered it over with Communist claptrap. But for me Hobson's Imperialism is in the same rank as J.S. Mill's On Liberty, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Tom Paine's The Rights of Man, as essential reading on the foundations of modern political thought.
Oh, and Murray discusses the One Trillion Dollar cost of the Iraq fiasco, and mentions that China holds about One Trillion US Dollars--wondering when and if they will decide diversification is a wiser economic choice.
China could buy all the real estate in London or New York - buy every property in the whole city - and have change. China could buy a controlling interest in every single company in the Dow Jones.
What's that about those who do not learn from history are doomer to, like, repeat it?
I'm proud to state that, as a Citizen of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, neither of my Senators are on that list of shame!
Chris Tucker | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 11:22 am | #
And you have a good baseball team, too. Lucky.
Barbarism Begins at Home
And Mitt Romney now thinks you suck!
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"And you have a good baseball team, too. Lucky."
Well, a LOT of us liberal/lefty/progressives here in the Commonwealth look upon the stunning victory of the Red Sox in the ALE against the hated and despicable Yankees and then winning the World Series as an Act of God, bestowing His blessing upon us for being the only state that has full marriage equality in the Union.
NJ Dem Senators Lautenberg and Menendez did not vote for this, thank goodness.
But safely seated Mikulski?
Not noted, of course, is the conspiracy that the commonwealth of Massachusetts has stolen all of it's star sport players from my fair state, Minnesota:
-Kevin Garnett
-David Ortiz
-Randy Moss
Hope you're happy.
She's a former USAttorney. And I imagine someone's been whispering in her ear about an August terror attack.
No need to worry. All she has to do is announce that President Bush said we were figthing them over there so we don't have to over here and vote against it.
"And Mitt Romney now thinks you suck!"
We felt that same way about Willard for his entire term in office.
He treated the Commonwealth the same way his dog treated the car it was strapped to the top of.
Sorry about including Dodd--I'd forgotten.
"Hope you're happy."
We're ecstatic!
A "Mr. DNI" with backbone would have told Mr. Little Boots to go to hell and then resigned with a public letter.
I have to say, Mikulski, Klobuchar and Webb are the only real surprises on that list.
Yep. I just fired off an email to Mikulski.
I am extremely disappointed in her and let her know as much.
I'll be calling on the phone also.
This is bullshit.
My Canada Song:
I really hate you Canada, you really piss me off.
You and all your people really suck.
And if you stupid Canucks don't like what I'm saying
I really don't give a ... hey there goes a duck!
Copyright: Snarkic Productions
May be re-used unless there are corporate profits involved.
Little Boots is so ineloquent, I wish I never would hear his voice again!
"Thirteen thousand five hundred Canadians have served in Afghanistan."
If I remember my elementary school math, that would mean that 13,500 more Canadians have served in Afghanistan than have Americans named Jonah Goldberg.
Could someone check my math, please.
Oh, well, might as well have some more from Raimondo:
Is the US mainland really in physical danger because the Taliban and the remnants of al-Qaeda are holed up in mountains thousands of miles away? Must we control every cave, every mountaintop in Waziristan before American mothers can feel safe in walking their prams down the street?
It's the old "domino theory" that we used to hear about during the Vietnam era. Only now it isn't just Burma, or India, that we have to worry about: it's the homeland that's in danger, this time. If we don't fight them in Iraq – or Afghanistan, or even Pakistan, according to some – they'll soon be suicide-bombing our malls and setting off nuclear devices in American cities. The politics of fear, while mainly utilized by the Republicans up to now, is a bipartisan phenomenon, and Obama has lately taken the rhetorical threat-level to an orangey shade of red.
Obama's policy of striking where we have "actionable intelligence" would have us charging our way clear across the Middle East and into Central Asia, a fool's errand that would do much more harm than good. In which case we wouldn't need to speculate as to how ordinary people in the region feel looking up at an American helicopter: we would know, for sure, that it was pure hate. And who could blame them?
Withdraw from Iraq – and invade Pakistan. Oh, and also impose an Iraq-like occupation on Afghanistan, without calling it that, of course. This is the foreign policy platform of the leading "antiwar" candidate in the Democratic primary. Surely the antiwar "base" of the Democratic party can do better than Obama. If not, then it's time to pack it in, forget about having a rational foreign policy, and resign ourselves to perpetual war.
Any country that Doughy Pantload, Fucker Carlson and Bill O'Wanker hates is okay in MY book.
I hadn't seen that cover. Now I have even more reason to hate Jonah Goldberg. If I ever meet him, I'll ask him if he wants to slap me around a little.
Loot's sink em! aye? wit one a are new subs! wheniver et's NAT en fire en belchin smoke!
Aye! wut da hell! Et's a d'fenseless crooz shyap inyway, ain't et! WEEgit moor prakiss roonnin boornin boots!
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