I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Has he bombed any abortion clinics?
That is what the teebee says liberals do.
Rahm isn't just bugging their phones, he's tapping into their built-in webcams and watching them write spittle-flecked blog posts and comments on newspaper sites.
But SSSHHHHHH! Don't tell anyone!
Terrorist hoof-bump.
You know what they say: reality has...
Pre-9/11 mindset!
...Or something equally as stupid.
Left is right.
June 19 and Al Franken is still waiting. Someone check and see if the Minnesota Supremes are still alive.
Trademark Dave,
My very words I was going to write - a virtual coke for having the same thought at the same time.
Well, sure. They simply replaced one librul for another.
/wink
Froomkin's "crime" was speaking truth through the newspaper that the Serial Offenders see on their doorstep every morning.
RGE Monitor:
It appears from the WSJ account as if little Amherst Holdings of Austin, Texas was happy to sell the big guys like J.P. Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Bank of America something like $130 million notional CDS on a $27 million credit event, used the proceeds to buy off and make good the underlying subprime loans, and pocketed $70 million or so for their troubles. The big guys, on the other hand, paid perhaps a hundred million and got back zip.
Said big guys, naturally, are screaming bloody murder, trying to bring in the lawyers to show that Amherst wasn't playing by the rules of the game.
For my money, the first rule we need would be a law, not a rule, that notional not exceed actual.
Barring that, here's another rule I trust: a fool and his money are soon parted.
Villago delenda est
June 19 and Al Franken is still waiting. Someone check and see if the Minnesota Supremes are still alive.
cosmosis the shodan
Will Al get back pay?
If the court installs the loser will Minnesotans go Iranian?
coaltion of the willing...those seven self-serving characters ...
what can you say.
froomkin not popular not relevant?
i want more krauthammer and some ketchup on that hot dog. talk about sausage and unknown pieces of meat. krauthammer is krautacular.
NTodd, is it true, is your wife to be going to have a boy? If so, I am sorry to say that I feel for the poor thing already. I hope your woman doesn't let you totally fuck him up.
Because you will.
June 19 and Al Franken is still waiting. Someone check and see if the Minnesota Supremes are still alive.
Rumors were flying that they were going to announce their decision yesterday.
Sadly, it didn't happen.
Please, if the media were liberal Bill Irwin would have gotten his Nobel Peace Prize already.
The difference between liberals and conservatives, in a nut's shell:
YOU CONDEMMED PRESIDNTE BUSH BUT YET OBAMMA KILLS A HARMLESS FLY WHO DID NOT POSE AN IMMINENT THREAT TO TEH UNTIED STATES AND YOU LIBERASL LOOKED THE OTHER WAY - YOU HAVE BUG ON YOUR HANDS
Merkin Patriot | 06.18.09 - 8:59 pm | #
I think Give em head Harry doesn't want 60 votes. It means he'll have to get things done. He prefers doing nothing.
My guess: Froomkin was axed not for liberalism, but for strong and frequent criticism of WaPo (and most of the rest of the press, too, but Weymouth/Brauchli/Hiatt&Co. probably aren't too concerned about that.)
The worshipful attitude WaPo employees are supposed to display toward their paper is demonstrated by Kurtz in all his online chats.
Commerce; Ways & Means; and Labor all collectively wrote the proposal downthread.
So it's just some thing one member threw out there.
re: NTodd's son
Hoping insanity skips a generation.
I sure hope I haven't just figured out what "mimi" is short for.
What I find most amusing is, Froomkin built up a huge following on the internet, and as undountedly the most popular member of the WaPo's internet staff, drove big numbers to their site. Who else do they have to fill this function now? In fact, haven't they just alienated the very audience - the "online" faction - they and other newspapers are constantly claiming are "the future" of their business? Instead of giving Froomkin a constant rash of top-down shit for the past several years, shouldn't they have building on his popularity?
Honest to God, I love newspapers - always have - but motherfuckers like this can't go out of business soon enough for me.
and the poor kid will have to fight for attention with his father. poor thing!
WAPO isnt in the business of selling newspapers and attracting readers
MSNBC stories:
GOP closes ranks on Iran. Can the President remain silent?
Golfer-in-Chief: Obama wears khaki shorts
Hawaii to be attacked by N. Korean missile on July 4th
Runaway Kayakers
E. Coli cookie dough
It's all surreal. Fits with Atrios' post. Watching cable teevee you can't tell what the fuck is happening in the world anymore, what's important and what's not. It causes cognitive frameworks to fall apart, the trivial and asinine alongside the grossly immoral and profoundly significant. Post-Modern insane stew. I blame Karl Rove, but many others were involved too.
Woods struggling; Mickelson one shot off.
Keep NTodd out of Canada! fuck, protest in your own fucking country!
Hawaii to be attacked by N. Korean missile on July 4th
guh? Did I miss something (again)?
Migraine-Inducing. Migraine-Inducing.
Chichimec: The tabloid sensibility is devouring us, just as the late George W. S. Trow said.
And NTodd will do his dead level best to teach him to be a girl. To be just like NTodd's mother. Why, NTodd will be on a mission. I pity the poor boy that will be born to NTodd and the poor woman.
Hawaii to be attacked by N. Korean missile on July 4th
guh? Did I miss something (again)?
dan mcenroe
Feh. Just the Japanese buying a big fireworks show! They heard that state government celebrations were being cancelled due to budgetary crisis.
Hawaii to be attacked by N. Korean missile on July 4th
From Here to Eternity 2: Korean Boogaloo
Hawaii to be attacked by N. Korean missile on July 4th
guh? Did I miss something (again)?
Blink and you'll miss it. MSNBC flogging the story all morning that N. Korea intends a missle launch "in the general direction" of Hawaii on the Fourth of July.
"I fire in your general direction. Pffffft."
Migraine-Inducing. Migraine-Inducing.
Dexter Methorphan | 06.19.09 - 12:30 pm | #
Froomkin made the WATB Charles Krauthammer cry.
For that, he was terminated.
Did someone blow up a depression medication factory?
OBAMA TO SEND JOHN MCCAIN TO ATTACK NORTH KOREA
The U.S. military is planning to intercept a flagged North Korean
ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a
U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned.
The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang
Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to
a senior U.S. defense official. The order to inderdict has not been given
yet, but the ship is getting into position.
*******
dan mcenroe : My wife likes Ikea because it's cheap and well, she's Swedish. I'd rather shop local even though it costs more. I'm willing to pay to not have to deal with undulating masses of other human beings.
D00d - you have a Swedish wife. Why are you arguing?
~
But we do have a front row seat. We can watch it all. euph's failure and NTodd's fucking up his son.
WAPO isnt in the business of selling newspapers and attracting readers
None of them are. The SF Kronk, in arguably the most "liberal" area of America, is run by and for wingnuts. All these motherfuckers are are nothing more than propaganda sheets subsidized by right-wing corporations. They'll take whatever losses necessary to make sure the bullshit keeps flowing...
NK is firing a missile east. Therefore, it's aimed at Hawaii. Is that the story?
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
In a country where political discourse has moved to the extreme right, anyone who believes that the laws should be obeyed becomes a radical leftist.
So the DFH's, a moderate group of rational people, have become in America painted as well to the left of Leon Trotsky.
let's just say the kid didn't win the genetic lottery, although I am sure Ericka is a lovely, caring and intelligent woman. She can only do so much with her 50% contribution ofof DNA
The Wapo today: Ignatius, Krauthammer, Wolfowitz. Thanx God we have a free press that can bring us a wide ranging debate from all segments of the right wing of the Republican Party.
OBAMA TO SEND JOHN MCCAIN TO ATTACK NORTH KOREA
"Stop firing missiles, you cunt!"
Julio | 06.19.09 - 12:31 pm
Don't go play down at the schoolyard, Butler. Go play on the freeway.
The couple of minutes I have to post during the day today, and this place is troll infested.
Gah.
NTodd's son will be blessed by two wonderful parents, of this I am sure.
Why I even think NTodd will fuck up his son more than Uncle Blodge fucked up his.
I was thinking exactly this reading a post by tristero. I spent an hour talking with Froomkin for my SL interview show. One of the things I brought up was how people who thought of him (and Glennzilla, ftm) as "liberal" would react when he criticized the Obama administration.
Dan always seemed entirely non-partisan to me. Being critical of people in government who lie to people and break the law doesn't fit on the left/right spectrum in a healthy society.
I mean, if Dennis Kucinich held up a liquor store, or James Inhofe shoplifted some porn, wouldn't we want them both to be punished? regardless of our political inclination?
"Stop firing missiles, you cunt!"
Jay C. | 06.19.09 - 12:33 pm | # [kill][hide
this is fun NTodd getting his comeuppance.
They'll take whatever losses necessary to make sure the bullshit keeps flowing...
dave™© | Homepage | 06.19.09 - 12:32 pm | #
Rupert Murdoch's NY Post has lost at least six million a year since he took it over in 1977.
I used to think he did it to have some sort of influence in local politics to benefit his other businesses, but I've come to believe he does it just to piss off liberals.
I mean, if Dennis Kucinich held up a liquor store, or James Inhofe shoplifted some porn, wouldn't we want them both to be punished? regardless of our political inclination?
jayackroyd | 06.19.09 - 12:34 pm | #
Not me. Death Penalty for Inhofe. Round of free drinks for Dennis.
I find that progressives, unlike the RW with their NO TAXES, SMALL GOVERNMENT, MILITARY SECURITY, & FAMILY VALUES, have given little thought to what constitutes liberal values. Thus, you have sections of the progressive community oriented toward women's rights, another oriented toward minority rights, another toward economic justice, another toward gay rights, another toward environmentalism. Many of their members spend time only on their particular agenda without any involvement in the broader issues.
NTodd's son will be blessed by two wonderful parents, of this I am sure.
Vicki | 06.19.09 - 12:33 pm | #
As sure as you are that you will find a penis tonight?
The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang
Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to
a senior U.S. defense official. The order to inderdict has not been given
yet, but the ship is getting into position.
*******
C/T, Fair Voter
**Grabs Salvador Dali glasses**
Clearly, I picked the right week to buy the LARGE bottle of Seagram's Distiller's Reserve Gin.
I don't recognize any "liberal" positions in the typical winger rant about 'liberals', and as I have been reminded, I have been way, way out on the left in my day.
I think that they're still pissed over Lincoln, FDR, and LBJ, and nothing will ever satisfy them. But they are only 25% of the population and the rest of the country is onto them.
~
oh god ignore buttle please.
Prof. Atrios has a good point. It used to be that folks who believed strongly in conserving such important aspects of what makes this country great were called (wait for it) conservatives.
But the change to which Atrios is referring happened well before the days of Bush & CO. It dates from Nixon's Southern Strategy and was solidified during the presidency of St. Ronnie.
I mean, if Dennis Kucinich held up a liquor store, or James Inhofe shoplifted some porn....
Kucinich scenario a hypothetical. Inhofe, a certainty.
I mean, if Dennis Kucinich held up a liquor store, or James Inhofe shoplifted some porn, wouldn't we want them both to be punished? regardless of our political inclination?
Yeah, exactly, Jay. It's like Putzold questioning why the left isn't more outraged about Ensign. As I said to him, unlike conservatives, liberals aren't interested in panty sniffing. The disturbing thing about Ensign is the hypocrisy. And today, I learned the reason that he outed himself was because he claims the woman he was having an affair with threatend extortion.
Rupert Murdoch's NY Post has lost at least six million a year since he took it over in 1977.
"You're right, Mr. Thatcher, I lost a million dollars last year. I'll lose a million dollars this year. I ezpect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in - 60 years..."
Not me. Death Penalty for Inhofe. Round of free drinks for Dennis.
rootless-e, hegemonized
Fuck that. Dennis just knocked over a liquor store. Drinks are on him.
Like our recent local election, I don't think ideology much plays into where the voters are coming from. They want competence. The utterly incompetent have been running the show, so now, sure, let's bring in the socialists, they can't fuck it up any worse than the PCs did. Or, down there, sure, we'll vote for the black dude, what's to lose?
conservatives favored the status quo when it favored aristocrats and the rich.
as soon as that changed they became reactionary revolutionaries.
OBAMA TO SEND JOHN MCCAIN TO ATTACK NORTH KOREA
Is that the ship whose alarm siren goes "Henh? Henh?"
Fuck that. Dennis just knocked over a liquor store. Drinks are on him.
dan mcenroe | Homepage | 06.19.09 - 12:37 pm | #
I'll accept that as a friendly amendment.
Personal opinion:
this is good news for Froomkin.
Our new socialist overlords take the reins of power this afternoon, btw.
euphronius : conservatives favored the status quo when it favored aristocrats and the rich.
as soon as that changed they became reactionary revolutionaries.
Noice.
~
The fact is, "conservatives" are no longer conservative. They don't embrace a prudent approach to change (see global climate change), they ignore concern over the law of unintended consequences, and they embrace unrestrained capitalism which is dynamic to the point of self destruction.
There's nothing "conservative" about any of this.
They are Mammon worshipping, sex obsessed assholes.
Personal opinion:
this is good news for Froomkin.
Troutski
What else am I thinking...
Not to scare anyone here, but Kenneth Starr is now supporting Sonia Sotomayor.
I wonder how long until Inhofe's dark personal secret is exposed? It's only a matter of time. He is one twisted creep.
I don't think I've bothered my beautiful mind with McCain's, Bush's or Palin's voice since the election. Despite attempts by Grampy and Mooselini to stay in the spotlight.
Apprentice to Darth Holden,
You sound just like my father (who is an "old fashioned" conservative).
Personal opinion:
this is good news for Froomkin.
It probably is. It gets him away from the WaPo and exposes his talent to an entity more worthy of his skills.
They are Mammon worshipping, sex obsessed assholes.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Which makes them sound like a lot more fun than they actually are, btw.
Poor yicki Vicki, at one time she was boinking two Atriots. She was so proud that she had two fucking her that she changed her nym to the scarlet A.
Now look at her, can't get a fuck to save her life.
I have a dream of an internet news operation with Moe as managing editor, Charlie Savage as lead investigative reporter, and Froomkin doing analysis.
And I draw the cartoons!
Guess I have to go by the restaurant supply place, just to find
something like my mom's which has been in use for maybe 50 years.
Moe this is a job for ebay.ca. Or your local thift store/Salvation Army. Either/both are where old good things are found.
NK is firing a missile east. Therefore, it's aimed at Hawaii. Is that the story?
cosmosis the shodan | 06.19.09 - 12:32 pm |
Yes. Or perhaps some poor sea life unlucky enough to be underneath when said missile falls into the sea.
set phasers to ignore vicki.
he has been trolling all day.
Fred Thompson on MTP this Sunday.
Why? For the luv of god, why?
They are Mammon worshipping, sex obsessed assholes.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 06.19.09 - 12:39 pm | #
Yep. And we are currently witnessing a to-the-death cage match between the Jeebus and Greed wings of the party.
When it's over, the Republicans as we've known them all these years, won't exist any more.
I am convinced, Obama's successor in 2016 will be decided in a three way race.
And today, I learned the reason that he outed himself was because he claims the woman he was having an affair with threatend extortion.
Well, isn't that interesting. If you can't pay the time, John, don't do the crime!
Our new socialist overlords take the reins of power this afternoon, btw.
Are you looking for a manservant? I work cheap. I know how to get spots out of rugs...
I wonder how long until Inhofe's dark personal secret is exposed?
I think it involves Barbara Boxer and a gavel.
No worries, euph. Such a tell, though, the "yicky" part of it. It must suck to be that mentally ill.
Is that the ship whose alarm siren goes "Henh? Henh?"
CutUpSound
I keep imagining his head and torso as the prow of an old tall ship.
euphronius : oh god ignore buttle please.
I will, from here on, but damn, someone has got to be scraping their balls with a cheese grater to come up with that kind of vileness.
Or at least I hope they are.
~
Fred Thompson on MTP this Sunday.
Why? For the luv of god, why?
It's a special "Die Hard 2" edition of MTP!
I have a dream of an internet news operation with Moe as managing editor
Do I get cute interns I can make lewd suggestions around?
Classic Atrios post.
Fred Thompson on MTP this Sunday.
Why? For the luv of god, why?
Chichimec | 06.19.09 - 12:40 pm | #
You can't shut the Republicans out of the press entirely. If they don't get their turn during this 500 year period, don't complain if the Democrats don't get a turn in the next 500 years.
SHEETS
They are Mammon worshipping, sex obsessed assholes.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 06.19.09 - 12:39 pm | #
Sums it up.
Do I get cute interns I can make lewd suggestions around?
Naaah, they all hang out with the cartoonist...
Extortion is a crime. Yet there is no investigation of Ensign's pals. He's lying to hide something bigger.
And today, I learned the reason that he outed himself was because he claims the woman he was having an affair with threatend extortion.
Except...the FBI hasn't received any such complaint and isn't investigating any extortion, last I read. I think what really happened, and the money trail will show, is that he was willingly helping them get better jobs and paying them hush money. For their part, the couple was keeping quiet, but now Ensign has busted the thing open. Martyr complex? Or something else that made him decide to go public?
Now look at her, can't get a fuck to save her life.
Julio | 06.19.09 - 12:40 pm | #
I was gonna acquaint this idiot with a certain obsolete but still beloved catch phrase, but for some reason I lack the energy.
Back in the days of Burke, conservatives were opposed to the wealth and power of the new industrial capitalists and financiers. Now they want them to run everything completely unfettered.
Not to scare anyone here, but Kenneth Starr is now supporting Sonia Sotomayor.
David Derbes, optimistic | 06.19.09 - 12:39 pm
Gah!
River redevelopment sheets
Despite the general public perception, which arose from its Watergate coverage, the WP is a conservative paper (not RW, just old style conservative). This is unlike the NYT, which is generally liberal (I know they go the other direction at times but overall their positions are liberal). All you need to do is look at its bevy of op ed writers & paper editorials.
Because I am wordy, I owe cosmosis a coke!
SHEETS
Yep. And we are currently witnessing a to-the-death cage match between the Jeebus and Greed wings of the party.
Same wing, steve. I think it 's more like the "Jeebus+Greed" wing vs. the "Greed+Distant Hope of Someday Winning an Election Again" wing.
The USS John McCain was involved in an incident with a Chinese sub last Friday - near Subic Bay off the Philippines. The Chinese sub was shadowing the destroyer when it hit the underwater sonar array
that the USS McCain was towing behind it.
The U.N. resolution does not have a lot of teeth to it. The resolution
would not allow the United States to board the ship forcibly. States to board the ship forcibly. Rather, U.S. military would have to request permission to board -- a request North Korea is unlikely to grant.
maybe if we ask nicely
Most amazing is that you almost never hear any of these issues discussed by the MSM with the directness or honesty that we read it here every day. Sigh...
I think part of the problem is that we have a scarcity of liberal voices that would be equivalent to the far-right that captures Fox News and most of the MSM.
We have a ton of moderate Dems that bombard the media and we have a few liberals like Kucinich and Waters that rarely make MSM.
What is missing is "far-left" or "left" voices analogous on the spectrum to the far right that permeate the MSM.
Where are our Left voices? No wonder the spectrum has shrunk. Why can't a Zinn or a Chomsky be part of our debate?
Doesn't it come down to who controls the media?
"liberal"-media on brookings
The Washington Post sucks Donkey Dicks and has for quite a while now. There is no difference between that filthy little rag and the Moonie owned right wing piece of used toilet paper called the Washington Times.
You friggin hypocrit. What are your thoughts on the Walpin situation?
Froomkin was the only one who could get away with criticizing Hopey without being labeled a PUMA.
But since we just came off the age of Bush,
Ha! don't fool yourself; the criminal age of bush flourishes under Obama.
.
So in our discourse Froomkin became an extreme leftist, even though I don't remember him actually expressing opinions on the vast range of issues which, in non-crazy times, we associate with liberalism.
"liberal" has morphed into anything not in agreement with conservative unhinged detached reality du jour.
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All positions of principal, such as the ones you list have always been expediently ignored by the powerful. Maintaining positions of principal requires high minded faith and commitment, not pragmatic political realism.
The Democrats in the U.S.A. have long been proponents of torture and using lies to get the USA into wars.
The school of the America's, CIA run torture training for democracy squashers in central america springs to mind.
Lies are an essential nutrient for all wars. Strings of lies on Vietnam etc.
Most people break the law occasionally if they think they can get away with it. Governments are no different.
Strike me that the author has a short memory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h...h?
v=hgukduYJZ44
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