It will give him more time to squirm.

Posted by: RWiley at October 28, 2005 12:55 PM

and mince. and sweat. and piss. and moan. and leave a BIG grease stain.

"Puttin' On the Fitz"

If a leak gets leaked and you don't know

who it was, Cheney, or was it Rove?

Or some other neo-con dip-shits?

Now, We're Puttin' On the Fitz !!

Scandals, Scandals, Skanky Vandals

are the douchebags now in power

corrupt, abrupt, skanky mother gucks

in SUV interiors designed by Eddie Bauer !

Oh, if you don't know what you can do

and you want something that is true

Let's hope they indict the nitwits

You better give it to 'em Fitz !!

You better give it to 'em Fitz !!

You better give it to 'em Fitz !!!

Christy Harvey rules!

Bush's America = No pumpkins at halloween. No turkeys at Thanksgiving. No gifts at Christmas. Hate on every Americans face every moment of everyday. Oil companies make unreasonable price gouged profits. The top 1 % get a tax cut. I heard one nitwit republican nazi comment that the oil company's profits are the result of capitalism. I guess he believes sodomy rape is love making.

"Oil companies make unreasonable price gouged profits."

Posted by: Texian at October 28, 2005 01:00 PM

Calculated any which way, it's the biggest quarterly profits in human history.

Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, was indicted today by a grand jury on one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of making false statements and two counts of perjury in the CIA leak probe.

Posted by not sam at October 28, 2005 12:56 PM

Rove is SO next. Bigger fish take longer to FRY!!!!!!!!!!

This is also a great day too, because Sri Dookie-Dookie met with the Jolly Llama recently, and helped bridge the gap between two of the world's oldest and funkiest philosophical religions!

Check It Out HERE

Rove is SO next. Bigger fish take longer to FRY!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: bibimimi~☆ at October 28, 2005 01:02 PM

Yeap! the headlines said Rove not Indicted today.

Still under investigation. : ]

My favorite local Vegan Grocery Store.

rovein handcuffs

Fitzgerald is investigating Daley in Chicago. He always uses the little fish to get the big fish, so he is so not done yet!!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 01:03 PM

I'm close to tears after reading that

tears of JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This miers shit was put in place to take steam off the Indictments.

Notice the timing?

Hmm. Seems the regressives didn't make the jump to the new thread? I wonder why...?

He always uses the little fish to get the big fish, so he is so not done yet!!

Posted by: toniD at October 28, 2005 01:04 PM

rots from the head down, girl.

tears of JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Bart at October 28, 2005 01:05 PM

ME too Bart!

I could barely sleep last night!

check it out!

"I will not sell myself,nor will I surrender.

I must be conquered."

- Augusto Cesar Sandino (1927)

check it out!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 01:08 PM

Man that's a pretty site!

: ]

So outing Joseph Wilson's wife was no crime then?

check it out!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 01:08 PM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

oh, that's good!!!!.... thanks....

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 01:11 PM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

you must hate youself for being so stupid.....

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 01:11 PM

Go away, chickenshit TROLL.

Let us know when you're creative enough not to ask stupid baiting questions AND come up with a real nickname, ok?

you must hate youself for being so stupid.....

Posted by: ¹³Ъзй at October 28, 2005 01:13 PM

I'm positive his mother must.

Beat the drum

(and there is a kitchen sink)

http://www.drumheadquarters.com/images/fillers/LargestDrumset.jpg

You have to tell yourself the cows are going to die anyway.

Inside the abattoir at Swedish Meats in Linkoping, the cows stood patiently, occasionally nuzzling the lens of our camera.

From there, it was a short walk past the white-walled butchery, down the steps to the basement where the raw material for biogas, slid greasily down a chute.

Still bubbling and burping, and carpeting you with an acrid stench, came the organs and the fat and the guts. Enough, from one cow, to get you about 4km (2.5 miles) on the train.

A tanker collects the organic sludge and makes the short journey to the biogas factory, where the stinking fuel is stewed gently for a month, before the methane can be drawn off.

Oil price rising

The world's first biogas-powered passenger train is taking its first passengers between the Swedish cities of Linkoping and Vastervik. And the biogas comes from the entrails of dead cows.

heres the link to that article

Mucky you might like this one for your blog. : [

Is this an appropriate nic?

So outing Joseph Wilson's wife was no crime then?

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 01:11 PM

Can't you just picture this poor guy?

Is this an appropriate nic?

Posted by: White Devil at October 28, 2005 01:18 PM

Certainly more accountable. Thanks.

Is this an appropriate nic?

Posted by: White Devil at October 28, 2005 01:18 PM

why not use the one you've been using all a long?

Re: Rove not indicted today

Now let's see how this plays out.

Does Fitz continue the investigation or will there be a new special prosecutor?

Does he use the same or a new grand jury...or none at all?

As long as Fitz (or a replacement) keeps on investigating, I'm pleased.

Scooter's indictment will cast a continuing pall over Dim Son & the neocons...that's what we need to remember and keep hammering home.

Although that prick Rove seems to have temporarily dodged a bullet...for now.

"And the band played on....."

BREAKING NEWS: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. has resigned. CNN

Is this an appropriate nic?

Posted by: White Devil at October 28, 2005 01:18 PM

How about "turd-tastic" it suits you. : ]

BREAKING NEWS: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. has resigned. CNN

Posted by: ¹³Ъзй at October 28, 2005 01:20 PM

What? Really? Already?

BREAKING NEWS: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. has resigned. CNN

Posted by: ¹³Ъзй at October 28, 2005 01:20

WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

oh Happy DAY!

OH HAPPY DAY!

Cheney Adviser Resigns After Indictment

By JOHN SOLOMON and PETE YOST, Associated Press Writers 4 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Vice presidential adviser I. Lewis "Scooter' Libby Jr. resigned Friday after being charged with obstruction of justice, perjury and making a false statement in the CIA leak investigation, a politically charged case that could throw a spotlight on President Bush's push to war.

Karl Rove, Bush's closest adviser, escaped indictment Friday but remained under investigation, his legal status a looming political problem for the White House.

The indictment charged Libby, 55, with one count of obstruction of justice, two of perjury and two false statement counts. If convicted on all five, he could face as much as 30 years in prison and $1.25 million in fines.

BREAKING NEWS: CNN

Posted by: ¹³Ъзй at October 28, 2005 01:20 PM

Can we get a link please?

I think I'm going to cry!!!

THANK DOG! THANK DOG!

Wow, nice catch, ¹³Ъзй

Lewis "Scooter" Libby

Libby's indictments (five counts) - more details

*************************************************************

Details on indictments in PDF format (7 pages) -

Link:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-images/upload/libbyindictment.pdf

Posted by: White Devil at October 28, 2005 01:18 PM

These are the sorts of questions we all must ask ourselves.

I.L.Libby's rap sheet...

-one count of obstruction of justice

-two counts of perjury

-two counts of false statement.

If convicted on all five he could face:

-30 years in prison

-$1.25 million in fines.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

i imagine turd blossom's will be worse.....

Not enough. Libby is scum, but i want cheney. Libby is a small fish. But it looks like we have an expansion, so perhaphs there's hope.

and the thing is....

the investigation is still lingering over the White House's collective head.....

I think DailyKos is crashed?

MAN I wish I had a blunt to smoke!

THIS IS WAY better than any christmas!

It's Friday, ya bastards! :)

Libby indicted and resigns. What type of bargain will he make?

Rove STILL under investigation.

Fitz' is not done with that fat bastard just yet.

Will the little fish lead to the big fish?

I need to do the darlene HAPPY DANCE!!!

Posted by: Liberal-at-large at October 28, 2005 01:20 PM

As I understand it, there has been no change in status for the Rove investigation.

It appears clear the Special Investigators are unwilling to dismiss Rove's actions and are either going to pursue an extension for the Grand Jury or wait to see what the prosecussion of Libby yeilds in regards to proof for a Rove indictment.

Crazy!

Like wildfire!

Type in 'Libby Resigns' on Google!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 01:25 PM

there is a DOG....

and he's not a rightwinger!

Cat and Mouse

-- billmon, 9:36 a.m. today

Posted by: ¹³Ъзй at October 28, 2005 01:26 PM

Hope lives on.

there is a DOG....

and he's not a rightwinger!

Posted by: Bart at October 28, 2005 01:32 PM

CAN I GET AN AMEN!!!

I'm smiling so big MY FACE HURTS! : ]

And just to rub the George Will-troll's nose in it: That would be perjuries, as in plural, as in high-end felonies -- again, as in plural.

Schadenfreude? You bet your freepie li'l ass it is!

*

Libby indicted on five counts: (2) perjury, (2) false statement, (1) obstruction of justice.

Late Update: The indictment. [ http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/documents/libby_indictment_28102005.pdf ]

-- Josh Marshall

[Note: Apologies link isn't hot.]

Some interesting news in the UN Oil for Food scandal.

No Rove????

Looks like a lump of coal in the stocking at "Fitzmas" for the libs?

Start practicing your "questions STILL remain" posts guys....for the next 3 years!

L@L's link

: ]

So outing Joseph Wilson's wife was no crime then?

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 01:11 PM

It is a crime! There is a law, though not a good law, that you cannot out an undercover CIA agent.

However it is much harder to prove.

So Fitz went after the other indictments. Lying about prior knowledge and lying about reporters telling him rather than the other way around.

Looks like a lump of coal in the stocking at "Fitzmas" for the libs?

Posted by: Gare at October 28, 2005 01:36 PM

Nope, Gare, we're not greedy like you an' your Regressive buddies.

Best...Fitzmas...EVER!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 01:30 PM

If you ever come to NYC i'll smoke you out no

charge, blunts for everyone, on the house

What the HELL does the "I" stand for in libbys name?

It bugs the crap out of me.

who would name there kid I?

charge, blunts for everyone, on the house

Posted by: Bart at October 28, 2005 01:39 PM

: ]

*************

So you know damn well if Libby knew it, so did Cheney and so did Rove. This is just the base of the investigation. Climbing the ladder so to speak.

Rove, Rove he's our man. Can't indict him, what say you Sam?

Posted by: Gare at October 28, 2005 01:36 PM

I guess opperating under an ever darkening cloud of corruption should at the very least hamper the progress of BushCo Inc's Agenda Of Destruction and phony wars for oil.

At best, we'll see the whole Pack of 'embehind bars.

Somewhere in the middle is an administration with rock bottom poll numbers and control of congress at stake in '06.

I have high hopes yet.

What the HELL does the "I" stand for in libbys name?

Irve, according to Wiki.

I think it's short for Irving.

I suspect Libby will end up being acquitted at trial.

Blair rebukes Iran for threats against Israel

Ewen MacAskill, Michael White, Nicholas Watt and Robert Tait in Tehran
Friday October 28, 2005
The Guardian

Tony Blair warned Iran last night in his starkest terms yet that the world would soon start demanding direct action against Tehran if "totally unacceptable" threats to wipe out Israel were repeated by its government.
At the end of the EU's one day summit in Hampton Court, Surrey, where Iran's stance was roundly condemned Mr Blair recalled that many countries had been urging restraint from the international community over Tehran's nuclear programme. But he said that instead of people "telling us you are not going to do anything about Iran, the question people are going to ask is 'what are you going to do about Iran?' because can you imagine a state with an attitude like that having nuclear weapons".

LINK

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 01:41 PM

I thought you were gonna post with a real name, Anon?

I suspect Libby will end up being acquitted at trial.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 01:42 PM

It's certainly a possibility.

Clinton was, after all.

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 01:39 PM

Ignatz?

Igor?

Rove STILL under investigation.

Fitz' is not done with that fat bastard just yet.

Will the little fish lead to the big fish?

Posted by: Gay Boi Charlie at October 28, 2005 01:31 PM

________________

Ichthyology 101:

I suspect you may be missing who the targeted "big fish" is here.

I suspect the "big fish" is a white whale name a Moby Dick Cheney, not a beached whale name a Karl Rove.

Find it curious that the *only one* indicted today is Scooter.

Pressure to flip Karl to get Dick?

Could be.

Consider this little curio from WaPo.

--------

Rove provided new information to Fitzgerald during 11th hour negotiations that "gave Fitzgerald pause" about charging Bush's senior strategist, said a source close to Rove.

"The prosecutor has to resolve those issues before he decides what to do."

---------

Might not mean what it *could* mean, but, if true and concrete, and combined w/an ongoing investigation in which Karl ain't outta the woods yet, prolly means sumpin' purty damn significant.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 01:42 PM

I suspect "I'ma creep while you sleep cold slip

in your house,tie you up make you watch while I

slip in your spouse"

From Wikipedia:

Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr. (born August 22, 1950) is a lawyer and former Chief of Staff to Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States as well as the Vice President's assistant for National Security Affairs.

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 01:44 PM

I think the perjury charge was dismissed by the courts.

Clinton was aquitted in the Senate of the impeachment brought by the House Of Representatives.

Posted by: 15 Cent Screw at October 28, 2005 01:46 PM

Operative words: Clinton was aquitted

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 01:44 PM

Sure looks that way to me.

I dunno dr, Fitz wouldn't let one of them plead out to screw the other, eh?

Maybe Libby's gonna send 'em all up the river?

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 01:48 PM

Well, yes, absolutely.

Additionally, the perjury charge was not even pressed by the courts, it was dismissed outright, which was why the Senate really had no choice but to acquit.

I suspect you may be missing who the targeted "big fish" is here.

I suspect the "big fish" is a white whale name a Moby Dick Cheney, not a beached whale name a Karl Rove.

Find it curious that the *only one* indicted today is Scooter.

Pressure to flip Karl to get Dick?

Could be.

~-~-

Nah, I'm with ya on that dr.

But, I still enjoy the very thought of Rove just squirming... squirming... In whatever capacity, Fitz isn't done with fatboy yet.

I love watching the trolls freak out.

They would love for this to be over today. Too bad!

The last thing they want is an extention of this wingnut nightmare. This stuff is killing them.

The longer it drags on, the worse it is for the criminals in the white house. Sorry trolls.

hee hee!

~~~~

I suspect Libby will end up being acquitted at trial.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 01:42 PM

Wouldn't matter. It looks real bad. Your neoconservative ship is sinking.

I suspect Libby will end up being acquitted at trial.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 01:42 PM

That's not a very realistic suspicion.

His most likely "out" would have to come in the form of a Presidential pardon.

That sort of pardon would be VERY politically damaging to Bu$hCo Inc.

im off to spark the Izm

later bloggie

give Scooter the Chair

I hope Libby SINGS like a Canary.

His most likely "out" would have to come in the form of a Presidential pardon.

Posted by: 15 Cent Screw at October 28, 2005 01:54 PM

I think his most likely 'out' is flipping on Rove, or even higher up in the administration.

give Scooter the Chair

Posted by: Bart at October 28, 2005 01:57 PM

have a groovy day Bart!

xoxoxo

Fitzgerald: Valerie Wilson Was “Classified” CIA Agent
According to Wolf Blitzer on CNN, one of the indictments reads:

Prior to the July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson’s employment status was classified. Prior to that date, her affiliation with the CIA was not common knowledge outside the intelligence community. Disclosure of classified information about an individual’s employment by the CIA has the potential to damage the national security in ways that range from preventing that individual’s future use in a covert capacity to compromising intelligence-gathering methods and operations, endangering the safety of CIA employees and those who deal with them.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/28/valerie-wilson-was-classified-cia-agent/

I dunno dr, Fitz wouldn't let one of them plead out to screw the other, eh?

Maybe Libby's gonna send 'em all up the river?

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 01:50 PM

__________

I'm not sure I understand your point.

Sure, Fitz would allow a lesser plea by a littler fish (or even immunity, conceivably) to allow him to land a bigger fish.

That's the very nature of flippin' your way up the pay grade.

That said, it *might* be the reason Unca Karl ain't been indicted yet (or it might not).

Also, bear in mind: for Libby to be the one who flipped, as you conjecture, I suspect Fitgerald would need the Sword of Damocles indictments-motherload hanging over Libby's head before he'd be the one singing *after* being indicted in the fashion he already has.

Libby didn't cut a deal, imo, and he's taking his chances in court.

Rove is an open question.

Notice, too, that Hannah, Wurmser, Hadley and alla the usual suspects *weren't* indicted today?

Can you think of a reason why?

I hope Libby SINGS like a Canary.

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 01:57 PM

Speakin' of things that are yellow,

Neocon politicians are like bananas;

Yellow, crooked, and all hung in a bunch.

The charges do not implicate Libby in the original cause for convening the grand jury — that someone in the White House knowingly and deliberately revealed a covert intelligence officer's identity.

It's Friday, ya bastards! :)

-- A GBC post [That's part of the comfortable, familiar bric-a-brac hereabouts. : ) ]

Let's hope Randi's producers play Madame Devine's rendition of "Bounce 'em, girls"...followed by copious soundbites & analysis on today's events & Fitzey's press conference.

It *IS* a good day, fellow lefties!

I am of the opinion that there will be more to follow...hoooopa.

Yellow, crooked, and all hung in a bunch.

Posted by: bibimimi~☆ at October 28, 2005 01:59 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Can you think of a reason why?

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 01:58 PM

They might be the canaries...?

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 01:57 PM

As a part of a plea deal, sure.

My guess is that plea deal would not include dropping his offenses, but rather a lightening of his sentence.

Bu$hCo Inc would not want that, they'd want him pardoned without a trial, if they could get away with it.

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 02:00 PM

NIC STEALER NIC STEALER NIC STEALER

I did not post that!

Somebody must be awfully worried about what I'm saying...?

OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL WEBSITE

Patrick J. Fitzgerald - Special Counsel

**************************************************************

Press Release (9 pages) and Text of Libby Indictment (22 pages) documents posted.

LINK:

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/

Clinton was aquitted of impeachment charges in the US Senate.

He was found in contempt of court for lying under oath and stripped of his law license.

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 02:04 PM

NIC STEALER NIC STEALER NIC STEALER

C'mon Bitch! Let's go!

So chickenshit you're a fucking thief?

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has just indicted Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff “Scooter” Libby in the Valerie Plame spy case.1 He was involved in leaking national security information in order to smear a government whistle-blower who exposed falsehoods used to justify America’s attack on Iraq.

This is an indictment of the entire system of deception that got us into Iraq, and it’s about time.

But this is only the beginning — and should not be the end — of uncovering the corrupt conspiracy that led America to Fallujah and Abu Ghraib and the war without end in the Middle East.

TELL CONGRESS WE DEMAND A FULL INVESTIGATION INTO THE IRAQ CONSPIRACY. If you're a TrueMajorityACTION member, just click "reply" and "send" to send a letter to your congresspeople. If this message was forwarded to you or you would like to edit the letter, use the following link:

LINK

Somebody must be awfully worried about what I'm saying...?

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 02:03 PM

yer in the club now, prince hal.

He was found ...

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 02:04 PM

We're on to you, asshole.

The blog ain't that dumb, I've been posting here since the beginning.

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 02:04 PM

Let's see... basically yes.

I believe that's why the Senate had no choice but to acquit the more serious charge.

Lying under oath IS perjury, however, the supposed "lying" was not germaine to the Grand Jury's investigation.

---Fitzgerald: Valerie Wilson Was ?Classified? CIA Agent---

Oh good. The freepers can shut up about THAT one now. Next!

---I am of the opinion that there will be more to follow...hoooopa.---

Just the tip of the iceberg. ;)

Bounce 'em for both of us, L@L! I'll miss Randi's opener today - picking up a friend at the airport.

Might not mean what it *could* mean, but, if true and concrete, and combined w/an ongoing investigation in which Karl ain't outta the woods yet, prolly means sumpin' purty damn significant.

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 01:44 PM

You're funny, man, but keep your bait in the water by all means. When you lose hope you've lost it all.

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 02:07 PM

So as to be clear, I just answered the comment without concern for the apparent fact that I was dealing with a NIC stealer.

Can someone walk me through TypeKey so the NIC Thief bastard quits posting under my name?

I'm already signed up

They might be the canaries...?

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 02:01 PM

__________

Sure.

And canaries singing about Libby *and/or* Cheney.

Which, again, *might* be part of the reason Rove wasn't indicted today.

If the littler fish were indicted today, what incentive would they have to cooperate with Fitzgerald's investigation in helping to land the bigger fish?

But if their fate is an open question, subject to cooperation, it sort of changes the equation.

This is why I don't suspect Libby flipped on Cheney.

Libby got indicted as harshly as he could be (w/o diminishing the still-valid option for further and more damning charges later -- for Libby and potentially for higher-ups -- by giving the game away too early on Libby).

No reason for Libby to cooperate at this point *unless* the charges were dropped b/c he agreed to cooperate (i.e. Cheney).

In essence, Fitzgerald simply made good on the threat of legal jeopardy w/an object lesson on Libby. Folks involved know he's serious.

So, now w/the investigation continuing, all persons involved in the affair are put on notice:

1. They can take their chances in court like Scooter and hope they either are not convicted or, if convicted, pardoned.

or

2. They can cooperate w/Fitzgerald's investigation.

or

3. They can hope Bush impetuously quashes the investigation and is willing to take the firestorm of betrayed disapproval such a selfish maneuver would engender for a 38-percent approval president.

Posted by: 15 Cent Screw at October 28, 2005 02:13 PM

I know. So do I paste that funny code into my 'name' space?

I'm already signed up

~-~-

Harold,

Above the comment box, you'll see a link to sign you in to Typekey - follow that. :)

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 02:14 PM

You mean, Typekey?

For Typekey, there is a link near the posting dialog bog.

Click on the link, set up an identity, use it to post by "signing in."

I'll miss Randi's opener today - picking up a friend at the airport.

Posted by: Gay Boi Charlie at October 28, 2005 02:10

no tape of 'bounce yer boobies' in yer car?

Posted by: Gay Boi Charlie [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2005 02:17 PM

I'm all signed in for two weeks at least. I dunno how to apply it to 'this' blog.

You're funny, man, but keep your bait in the water by all means. When you lose hope you've lost it all.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 02:10 PM

____________

What can I say, I've got a vivid imagination.

It's like, just the other day, I was thinking up the most preposterous scenarios, you know.

I thought to myself: What if:

The president of the United States got impeached b/c of a blow job? Wouldn't that be a riot?

But who would believe it?

I mean, besides being ludicrously implausible, nobody could be so stupid to fall for it, you know?

Talk about straining credulity!

So, yeah, then I came back down to reality.

Ah, yes, those fanciful notions of mine.

no tape of 'bounce yer boobies' in yer car?

~-~-

heh... I wish!

I been thinking of downloading it for my cellphone ring tho. There's a link over on Randi's site about that.

I dunno, how to use my TypeKey Account...?

Click on the link, set up an identity, use it to post by "signing in."

Posted by: 15 Cent Screw at October 28, 2005 02:18 PM

I don't understand...? I already have an identity signed in, I don't know how to use it, here on this blog?!

Ugh! This Air America coverage BLOWS

Can anyone PLEASE help me figure out how to use my Typekey identity?

I'm all signed in for two weeks at least. I dunno how to apply it to 'this' blog.

~-~-

I do think you have to follow the sign-in link from this page - it'll then ask you to sign in to Typekey, and it should lead you straight back here after that.

k folks, time fer lunch at The Bayou - Muffaletta sandwich. mmmmmmmmm!

later~

OHHHH!

Thanks GBC!

hee hee.

C'mon NIC STEALERS!

I can f%#@n' dodge bullets!

Sounds like Fitz has the goods on Libby. Libby was told by Cheney that Plame was a CIA agent.

The Empire just got sand thrown in it's eyes.

Thanks GBC!

~-~-

UR welcome, mate. Don't be surprised when typekey inexplicably kicks you out every hour or so.

ciao~

Conservatives look past Miers
Leaders say they want justice with clear conservative views

Friday, October 28, 2005; Posted: 10:03 a.m. EDT (14:03 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As the White House turns its attention to finding a new Supreme Court nominee, conservative activists relieved at Harriet Miers' withdrawal are vowing to oppose President Bush's next nominee unless the candidate has solid conservative credentials.

"I think [conservative groups] will swing into action again" if they disagree with his next pick, said Phyllis Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum. "The judicial issue was a major issue in the 2004 elections, and it was a reason why many people voted for Bush even though they might have been unhappy [with him] for other reasons."

No announcement concerning a new nominee was expected Friday.

Schlafly said Bush has "a dozen" possible people that conservative activists would accept, while she singled out U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a nominee they could not embrace. (Possible nominees)

"It is hard to find anyone else like Miers, unless you are talking about Gonzales," she said. "Most of the same arguments would be there. I think [conservative critics] would simply pick up where they left off."

LINK

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 02:25 PM

Sorry, I was watching the Special Prosecutor.

Looks like you got it now.

Fitz, take your time!! Just get them!!

What the HELL does the "I" stand for in libbys name?

It bugs the crap out of me.

who would name there kid I?

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 01:39 PM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Irve Lewis Libby

"Don't be surprised when typekey inexplicably kicks you out every hour or so."

So I just hit the 'sign in' link again? The one directly below the red 'Post a Comment', right?

So I just hit the 'sign in' link again? The one directly below the red 'Post a Comment', right?

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 02:36 PM

Right

I saw this little fluff news piece one morning a few weeks ago while looking for a weather report, about house fires. The newscaster said something like "more americans died in house fires last year than died in Iraq."

The problem with comparing these two numbers is that America has a few hundred million people in it, and there are less than two hundred thousand American troops in Iraq.

This kind of misrepresentation is inexcusable.

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The courts need to play the game of law, and that is as it should be. But America sees the issues above and beyond the law, sees the difference between "sex scandal" and real scandal that involves a breach in national security. And America wont forget.

Irve Lewis Libby

SO his initials are I.L.L.

fitting...

I think the stupid Nic stealer's long gone, but I feel a little safer now.

Vice President Dick Cheney's
chief of staff Libby indicted
Jason Leopold and John Byrne

snip to this:

Others may yet be indicted, lawyers close to the investigation say. While the media spotlight has focused on key White House advisors, officials outside the senior staff have also been fingered in the probe.

Sources close to the investigation say the probe will continue, and could expand to include other elements, including forged documents that purported to show Iraq had sought uranium from Niger.

Previously, RAW STORY reported that Cheney's National Security Adviser John Hannah and his Middle East advisor David Wurmser, on loan from the office of now-UN ambassador John Bolton, were cooperating in Fitzgerald's probe, and are believed to have secured deals with the prosecutor. Hannah and Wurmser are said to have played a role in disseminating Plame Wilson's name to the press.

RAW STORY also reported that Fitzgerald had intended to charge Bush's deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, but last minute deals appear to have derailed the indictment for now. Rove will remain under scrutiny.

LINK

David Addington, expected to replace Libby, was a principal author of the White House memo justifying the torture of terrorism suspects. He also strongly endorsed holding suspects without access to the legal system, a measure rebuked by the Supreme Court.

The Cheney loyalist has also defended the Vice President's right to withhold information about his meetings with energy company executives, much to the chagrin of environmentalists.

DEVELOPING...

# Libby's Quiet Rise to Power Comes to End AP - 29 minutes ago

I do think it warrants a mention, we haven't seen any regressives in here recently, eh?

Libby's replacement......

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This article appears in the July 16, 2004 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

Cheney's Lawyer Addington Penned Key Torture Memo

by Jeffrey Steinberg

David Addington, the General Counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, was the actual author of one of the now-infamous White House "torture memos" that claimed for President Bush the authority to violate the Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, in the so-called "war on terrorism." The immediate result of this Hitlerian document was the scenes of inhuman torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, and the as-yet untold tales of similar torture at other secret prison locations in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in other countries around the world.

Irve Lewis Libby

SO his initials are I.L.L.

fitting...

Posted by: bibimimi~☆ at October 28, 2005 02:42 PM

VERY!

I just threw up!

I was sitting here enjoying the news for a change and I barfed!

I think I might be sick. : \

Fitzgerald expands probe, believes he can get Rove on more serious charges, lawyers say
Jason Leopold

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In one of the boldest moves yet in the 22-month investigation into the outing of a covert CIA agent to a handful of top reporters covering the White House, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is extending his probe and pursuing much more serious charges against senior White House officials, specifically President Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, lawyers directly involved in the case told RAW STORY Friday.

While many people were left confused by news reports that said Rove wouldn't be indicted Friday, the lawyers said that Rove remains under intense scrutiny and added that Fitzgerald is betting on the fact that he can secure an indictment against Rove on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, the misuse of classified information, and possibly other charges, as early as next week.

“This investigation is not yet over,” one of the lawyers in the case said. “You must keep in mind that people like Mr. Rove are still under investigation. Rather than securing an indictment on perjury charges against Mr. Rove Mr. Fitzgerald strongly believes he can convince the grand jury that he broke other laws.”

LINK

more on Addington...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22665-2004Oct10.html

The lawyers said that in the past month Fitzgerald has obtained explosive information in the case that has enabled him to pursue broader charges such as conspiracy, and civil rights violations against targets like Rove. Specifically, the lawyers said Fitzgerald is focusing on phony intelligence documents that led to the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity: the documents that claimed Iraq was attempting to purchase yellow-cake uranium from Niger.

A court filing posted on Fitzgerald’s website last week was the first such confirmation that the prosecutor has in fact decided to pursue the broader claims that intelligence the Bush administration used to build support for the Iraq war was flawed and, as a result, the reason many officials inside and outside of the White House went out of their way to out Plame, whose husband was a vocal critic of the Iraq war who was sent on a mission to Niger to investigate allegations that Iraq had attempted to buy Niger from the African country.

"On August 12 and August 20, 2004, grand jury subpoenas were issued to reporter Judith Miller and her employer, the New York Times, seeking documents and testimony related to “conversations between Miller and a specified government official occurring between on or about July 6, 2003 and on or about July 13, 2003, concerning Valerie Plame Wilson (whether referred to by name or by description) or concerning Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium.” the filing made by Fitzgerald last year states.

NATO sources told United Press International Monday that Fitzgerald's team of investigators has sought and obtained documentation on the forgeries from the Italian government.

According to the report, "Fitzgerald's team has been given the full, and as yet unpublished report of the Italian parliamentary inquiry into the affair, which started when an Italian journalist obtained documents that appeared to show officials of the government of Niger helping to supply the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein with Yellowcake uranium.

marine stands with code pink

This claim, which made its way into President Bush's State of the Union address in January, 2003, was based on falsified documents from Niger and was later withdrawn by the White House."

Fitzgerald will likely draw on another grand jury that is already empaneled. Federal law says that a grand jury’s term cannot be extended more than once, which is the case with the grand jury that has been hearing testimony in the case.

someone needs to slap Shawn Hannity

Carl Bernstein Finds Plame Parallels To Watergate

By Joe Strupp

Published: October 27, 2005 7:30 AM ET

NEW YORK As the anticipation over possible indictments in the Valerie Plame case reaches excruciating levels, Watergate legend Carl Bernstein warns that comparisons to the case that made him famous more than 30 years ago must be viewed carefully.

Still, the former Washington Post reporter who shared a Pulitzer Prize for helping to expose the Nixon administration's wrongdoing says some parallels can be drawn between the two investigations, particularly the way both helped uncover extended dishonesty in the White House.

"We are obviously watching and the press is beginning to document the implosion of a presidency," Bernstein said Thursday, just hours before the Plame grand jury is set to expire. "How destructive that implosion is going to be, ultimately, we don't know yet.

"But what the Plame leak investigation has unveiled is what the press should have been focusing on long before and without let up--how we went to war, the dishonesty involved in that process in terms of what the president and vice-president told the American people and the Congress, and the routine smearing by members of the Bush administration of people who questioned their actions and motives."

LINK

peacetakescourage2000

you ok AKA......

not feeling so hot.

tossed my cookies a bit ago.

I haven't thrown up in a long time.

it was surreal in a way.

Wow. Scared all the righties off.

Wow. Scared all the righties off.

Posted by: Harold [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2005 03:03 PM

you deserve a bloggie metal for that Harold!

not easy to get that to happen! : ]

From Daily Kos:

Walking in a Beltway Wonderland!

Pundits talk, are you listening?
On Rove's brow, sweat is glistening.
A beautiful sight,
Fitz will indict,
Walking in a beltway wonderland!

In the meadow we can build a snowman,
And pretend that he is Preznit Bush.
We'll call him an indicted co-conspirator,
And then we'll start to kick him in the tush!

Can you tell, we're excited?
Just to see, who's indicted!
Those who have clout,
Will be frog-marched out,
Walking in a beltway wonderland!

http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/index.asp

"On the first day of Fitzmas,

My true love gave to me-e-e-e....

Some indictments for Scooter Libby!"

What'll we get for the other 11 days? Hmmmmmm...?

eya MAT!

i hate throwing up.

hope you feel better soon!

Harold, awhile back, I'd say lat spring, a nic stealer used my nic. I documented his posts and sent it to MRR and to annatopia, who was at that time helping with the blog.

They got nic stealer's ISP and banned him from blog for awhile.

It is a terrible feeling, just like getting robbed.

But you are right, the trolls are now very worried. It's just the start.

WASHINGTON - These are dark days for the White House. And they could get darker.

Less than a year after winning re-election by a comfortable margin, President Bush's approval ratings are at the lowest since he took office in 2001 and he is being whipsawed this week by events, some of his own making.

_The U.S. death toll in Iraq hit 2,000 on Tuesday, a fresh reminder of the president's push to war over weapons of mass destruction that were never found.

_A special prosecutor took aim at White House officials in an investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's identity, a disclosure that may have been part of a campaign to discredit an Iraq war critic. The vice president's chief of staff was indicted on five felony counts Friday, although top aide Karl Rove escaped charges for now.

_An insurrection of the president's conservative political base forced the withdrawal of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers on Thursday.

_Consumer confidence dropped, home sales were down and the number of people who lost their jobs because of Hurricane Katrina climbed above the half-million mark.

not feeling so hot.

tossed my cookies a bit ago.

I haven't thrown up in a long time.

it was surreal in a way.

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 03:03 PM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

just tell yourself.....

"I am digesting life with ease!"

Fishgrease: re: grand jury "dynamics"

Below is yet another reason why Fitzgerald doesn't much care about the "dynamics" of the grand jury: he must impanel a brand-new one to continue w/his investigation.

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via: Dan Froomkin at WaPo

The New York Times last night [wrote] that Rove "will remain under investigation, people briefed officially about the case said. As a result, they said, the special counsel in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, was likely to extend the term of the federal grand jury beyond its scheduled expiration on Friday."

One thing I can add to the debate over what Fitzgerald's options are when it comes to continuing his scrutiny of Rove: I have it on impeccable authority that there is absolutely no way that Fitzgerald could extend the term of this particular grand jury.

[What? The NYTs gets it wrong again? Shocked! I'm shocked!]

Fitzgerald has been on the case for 22 months, but he is using a regular federal grand jury that was impaneled two months earlier -- in late October 2003.

Grand juries typically are impaneled for 18 months.

The rules are clear: They can be extended in extraordinary circumstances for six more months, as this one has been.

But beyond that there are absolutely no exceptions.

So if Fitzgerald wants to pursue this investigation, he'll have to use another grand jury.

That's quite doable -- he would just have FBI agents read out loud, to the new grand jury, the relevant testimony from the old grand jury, and then take it from there.

But the group of jurors who actually heard Rove's testimony with their own ears will officially be disbanded -- and sworn to secrecy -- as of today.

Hey Mat, sorry you're not feeling well. Stress can do that to you. I'm sure you've been living with that for awhile now.

just tell yourself.....

"I am digesting life with ease!"

Posted by: 13ben [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2005 03:09 PM

: ]

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 03:03 PM

Cripes, you were serious? Go eat some saltines. Try an' feel better.

10 minutes in and Ed Schultz is still thanking everyone at his live event in Ohio.

Have they not heard?!?

I'm switching to the Randi live stream.

compassionate conservatism at its best...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

# House panel votes $844 MILLION cut in food stamps Reuters - 9 minutes ago

Posted by: 13ben at October 28, 2005 03:12 PM

Yep, here comes the 'offsets'.

So is Randi saying Fitzgerald isn't extending the Grand Jury's time?

The Cheney loyalist has also defended the Vice President's right to withhold information about his meetings with energy company executives, much to the chagrin of environmentalists.

DEVELOPING...

a scumbag's always waiting inthe wings.

Miss Anne;
bird flu from chickenshit exposure

or bs poisoning, Rove-itis, Bush Fever, Cheney Pox, or the creeping Condileeeeeeeza!

White House Ethics

I can't quite figure out if FitzG is saying Rove's in the clear...and/or if he's going to start up a new grand Jury? Is this the end of it (besides the trial of Libby)?

"Evil men obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience must be taken very seriously and we must stop them before their crimes multiply," he said. (George W Bush-October 28, 2005, Norfolk Va)

I looked at Fox, to see how they're spinning it...

"Mr. Libby has informed me that he is resigning to fight the charges brought against him." -Cheney's official statement

So I don't think Libby's gonna flip...unless it's on Cheney himself?!?

But even Fox says Fitz assures everyone that it's not over yet...

Fitzgerald expands probe, believes he can get Rove on more serious charges, lawyers say

Jason Leopold

In one of the boldest moves yet in the 22-month investigation into the outing of a covert CIA agent to a handful of top reporters covering the White House, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is extending his probe and pursuing much more serious charges against senior White House officials, specifically President Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, lawyers directly involved in the case told RAW STORY Friday.

While many people were left confused by news reports that said Rove wouldn't be indicted Friday, the lawyers said that Rove remains under intense scrutiny and added that Fitzgerald is betting on the fact that he can secure an indictment against Rove on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, the misuse of classified information, and possibly other charges, as early as next week.

“This investigation is not yet over,” one of the lawyers in the case said. “You must keep in mind that people like Mr. Rove are still under investigation. Rather than securing an indictment on perjury charges against Mr. Rove Mr. Fitzgerald strongly believes he can convince the grand jury that he broke other laws.”

Rove Not Expected to Be Indicted Today

Oct 28 11:44 AM US/Eastern

By JOHN SOLOMON and PETE YOST
Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON

Karl Rove escaped indictment Friday in the CIA leak case but remained under investigation. The embattled White House braced for charges against Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Trying to put a brave face on one of the darkest days of his presidency, Bush traveled to Norfolk, Va., to deliver a speech on terrorism. "Thanks for the chance to get out of Washington," he said.

Rove's lawyer said he was told by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's office that investigators would continue their probe into the aide's conduct. Fitzgerald's office said Rove would not be indicted Friday, said people close to the Republican strategist, speaking only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy. Rove is deputy White House chief of staff and Bush's closest adviser.

etc

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/28/D8DH4F1G4.html

Tries to Bolster Iraq War Support By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 42 minutes ago

NORFOLK, Va. - At a turbulent point in his presidency, President Bush sought to bolster public backing for his war policies Friday, just days after the U.S. death toll in Iraq surpassed 2,000.

Delivering remarks nearly identical to those he gave earlier this week, the president spoke in a largely friendly environment — a community with an enormous military presence in a state he won comfortably over Democrat John Kerry last fall during a re-election race dominated by national security.

Outside the Norfolk convention hall, a small group of anti-war protesters greeted him by chanting "Bush lies."

Inside, as the president spoke, a man on the second level interrupted him, yelling "Mr. President, war is terrorism. War is terrorism. Step down now Mr. President. Torture is terrorism." Bush continued speaking as security officials escorted the man from the hall.

LINK

In 1997, Libby helped found the Project for the New American Century, a Washington-based Republican think tank with the goal of promoting "American global leadership." With William Kristol, Robert Kagan and others, Libby wrote its 2000 report entitled, "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century."

It was not the first time Libby had written about defending America. He co-authored the draft of the "Defense Planning Guidance" with Wolfowitz for then-Defense Secretary Cheney in 1992.

During the George H. W. Bush administration, Libby served in the United States Department of Defense as principal deputy under uecretary (Strategy and Resources), and later was confirmed by the Senate as deputy under secretary of defense for policy.

"Rather than securing an indictment on perjury charges against Mr. Rove Mr. Fitzgerald strongly believes he can convince the grand jury that he broke other laws.”

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:24 PM

Why not? They got Capone for tax evasion, not all the crazy mob-related crap he was in charge of; same result, though.

Bad guy taken out of action.

>>Bad guy taken out of action.
Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 03:27 PM

Exactly! I don't care WHY he goes to jail, only that he does.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The CIA leak investigation is "not over," special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday after announcing charges against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.

Fitzgerald said he will be keeping the grand "jury open to consider other matters." But, he said, "substantial work" is done.

Libby resigned Friday after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges related to the leak probe, including one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements.

During an afternoon news conference, Fitzgerald said, "A CIA officer's name was blown and there was a leak and we needed to figure out how that happened, who did it, why, whether a crime was committed, whether we could prove it, whether we should prove it. Given national security was at stake, it was especially important that we find out accurate facts."

Office of Special CounselPatrick J. Fitzgerald
Special Counsel

whenever someone mentions the Project for the New American Century.... i have to post a links page....

PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY (PNAC) ~~~ LINKS:

Gosh, War Dog might have to update his list of Liberal Failures.

Frankly, I'm not buying it.

It's artificially inflated commodities.

- -

AP Wire - Business News at Yahoo

Economic Growth Strong Despite Storms AP - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

Stocks Surge on GDP Growth; Dow Up 127 AP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

Judge Orders IRS to Pay Buffett's Firm AP - 2 hours, 12 minutes ago

Delta to Discontinue Song by May 2006 AP - 14 minutes ago

Chevron's 3Q Profit Hurt by Storm Damages AP - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

Gosh, War Dog might have to update his list of Liberal Failures.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:32 PM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

he's failing liberally...

Gosh, War Dog might have to update his list of Liberal Failures.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:32 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! No question about it!

Gosh, War Dog might have to update his list of Liberal Failures.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:32 PM

hahahahaha!

# Libby is quiet force who helped shape Iraq policy Reuters - 2 hours, 23 minutes ago

(makes whistling sounds)

Here, War Dog...!

Hmm. Where'd that darn dog go?

Hee hee hee

In 1997, Libby helped found the Project for the New American Century""

the PNAC!

now theres a group known for their willingness for other people to die for their goals...

love to see em all behind bars, not that they don't have many eager understudies in the wings.

REID STATEMENT ON INDICTMENT

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid released the following statement.

“These are very serious charges. They suggest that a senior White House aide put politics ahead of our national security and the rule of law.

“This case is bigger than the leak of highly classified information. It is about how the Bush White House manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to bolster its case for the war in Iraq and to discredit anyone who dared to challenge the president.

“It's now time for President Bush to lead and answer the very serious questions raised by this investigation. The American people have already paid too steep a price as a result of misconduct at the White House, and they deserve better.”

LINK

Bush will be on shortly to talk about Libby!!

Posted by: toniD at October 28, 2005 03:39 PM

Really?

That's better. Anyway, really?

Company accused feds of disaster dithering - Body-recovery firm instead turns to state

Friday, October 28, 2005

By Robert Travis Scott Capital bureau

BATON ROUGE -- Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Katrina's hundreds of dead bodies were still uncollected, the Houston company hired to recover the dead asked federal agencies to find a new contractor because it was exasperated with government dithering and lack of support, according to a letter from a company executive.

On Sept. 11, Kenyon International Emergency Services Chief Executive Officer Robert Jensen complained to Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen, the principal officer for the federal response to Katrina, that "numerous roadblocks, hindrances, and interferences have resulted in a situation making it impossible for Kenyon to maintain its standards when recovering the bodies of victims in this disaster," according to a letter obtained by The Times-Picayune.

The letter includes a company timeline showing that in the first few days after the hurricane, the Federal Emergency Management Agency changed the location and plans for Kenyon's operations base several times and failed to respond to multiple inquiries by the company for instructions.

At end of difficult week, Bush seeks to bolster war support

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — At a turbulent point in his presidency, President Bush sought to bolster public backing for his war policies Friday, just days after the U.S. death toll in Iraq surpassed 2,000.

"We will never back down, we will never give in and we will never accept anything less than complete victory," the president said.

Delivering remarks nearly identical to those he gave earlier this week, the president spoke in a largely friendly environment — a community with an enormous military presence in a state he won comfortably over Democrat John Kerry last fall during a re-election race dominated by national security.

"Thanks for the chance to get out of Washington," Bush told his audience, made up heavily of uniformed service members.

In the nation's capital, about 200 miles north, an anxious White House awaited the results of a special prosecutor's investigation of two top aides in connection with the leak of a CIA operative's identity.

"Thanks for the chance to get out of Washington," Bush told his audience, made up heavily of uniformed service members.

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 03:42 PM

What happened to "I can't take your resignation. I have to fire you." ?

UGH!

my sister just lost her job.

The fallout is starting.

Denver Considers Easing Marijuana Laws

By MEGAN McCLOSKEY, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 28,12:33 PM ET

DENVER - The nickname Mile High City could soon have an entirely new meaning.

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 03:45 PM

I just quit mine a few weeks ago.

Why you think I'm on here so much?

Some of the religious right in trouble of comcealing 2 Mil in campaign contributions.

Complaint charges pro-family groups hid funding
10/27/2005, 2:59 a.m. ET
The Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two Cincinnati attorneys claim several pro-family, anti-gay organizations which have been active in election issues concealed more than $2 million in campaign contributions.

They said they would file a complaint Thursday with the Ohio Elections Commission.

The complaint cites last year's campaign for a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages and the battle in Cincinnati over repeal of an ordinance that prohibited passage of a gay rights law.

Filing the complaint are former Cincinnati mayor Bobbie Sterne and Gary Wright, chairman of Equality Cincinnati, the successor to the group which led the successful repeal effort.

Named in the complaint are Cincinnati-based Citizens for Community Values and its president, Phil Burress; officers of Equal Rights, No Special Rights, and Focus on the Family, of Colorado Springs, Colo.

The complaint claims that only $13,000 of $2.4 million spent by the groups was disclosed on campaign finance reports as required by state law.

"This is a witch hunt," Burress said Wednesday. "This is pure politics at its dirtiest moment and nothing short of harassment. We have complied with every law."

LINK

"People will flock to Denver to use marijuana," said Jeffrey Sweetin, head of the Rocky Mountain Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Even if possession of one ounce is legal, people would still have to illegally buy the drug, Sweetin said, and "people don't realize all that money goes to organized crime."

BULLSHIT!

Gotta love the propaganda, eh ¹³Ъзй?

AP Count Tallies Suicide Bombing Deaths

By LORI HINNANT, Associated Press Writer 33 minutes ago

In the six months since Iraq's government took office, suicide bombers have struck nearly 200 times, killing at least one-third of the more than 3,902 Iraqis slain in war-related violence since April 28, according to an Associated Press count.

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that's 3902 deaths in 183 days.... 21.3 killed/day

My advice is to buy the Russell 1000 large and mid-cap fund.

The US stock market, when weighted by company size, is dominated by large companies. So a total market fund is dominated by large cap companies.

By splitting the portfolio into two, you can increase your exposure to small and medium sized companies.

Why might you want to do this?

Historical data suggest that small company stocks, while riskier, appreciate more over time.

The Russell split is better for taxable accounts, as the Russell 1000 fund doesn’t need to sell stocks (and realize capital gains) if they graduate from mid-cap to large cap status, whereas the S&P Mid-cap 400 index fund will sell stocks if they are promoted to the S&P 500 (large cap) index.

Sorry - what does comcealing mean??

Silvio's Comin' to Town?
Submitted by editor on October 27, 2005 - 1:25pm.
By Josh Marshall
Source: Talking Points Memo

Eagle-eyed TPM Reader PP sent me this ABC News political calendar which includes this detail ...

Oct. 31, 2005: President Bush hosts Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the White House for a meeting and lunch, Washington, DC.

So let's see. President Bush is engulfed in a firestorm originally ignited by the administration's use of the phony Niger uranium documents. A flurry of press reports in Italy have just implicated Berlusconi's government in being behind the forgeries themselves.

Can I come to lunch too?

Joint press conference? Press questions before the meeting?

LINK

Why you think I'm on here so much?

Posted by: Harold [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2005 03:46 PM

I figured it had to do with employment.

Sister didn't quit though.

she has only herself to rely on.

she is scared.

My online dictionary could be pretty "primative" just never hear the word before...couldn't find anything relatively close.

The fallout is starting.

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 03:45 PM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

i know this is a bad joke, but maybe she can get a manufacturing job at McDonald's......

sorry miss anne..... keep positive and you find the new doors that open when old ones are slammed in your face......

>> We have complied with every law."

now, are they talking "God's Law", or just these mundane boring laws here on earth?

Bush on now. Wonder what BS he will say.

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 03:50 PM

My wife says you should drink some ginger tea.

Helps digestion and such.

Bush said nothing!!

Wonder what BS he will say.

Posted by: toniD at October 28, 2005 03:52 PM

Off to Camp David!

Bush said nothing!!

Posted by: toniD at October 28, 2005 03:52 PM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

did he even try????

Helps digestion and such.

Posted by: Harold [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2005 03:52 PM

I would if I had some ginger. : [

all my shit is in a pod still.

Libby will do nothing but drag it out, then in the end. Bush will pardon him when he leaves office.....

M. Haney
Oil City, PA

all my shit is in a pod still.

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 03:54 PM

Oh yeah, the pod issue.

COMMODITY FUTURES

OIL 61.22 0.13

GOLD 475.40 0.60

COFFEE 98.35 -1.80

The European Union's offer today to cut its farm tariffs by as much as 60 percent falls short of expectations because the proposal allows exemptions that would block key exports, U.S. officials and industry groups said.

``Overall we are disappointed in the level of the tariff cuts and with the exclusions from those cuts,'' U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman told reporters in a conference call.

U.S. lawmakers and industry groups said the proposal would effectively block the products most likely to be exported by American farmers to Europe. They didn't specify which products.

In the face of fierce opposition from France, the 25-nation European Union offered to trim agriculture tariffs by 35 percent to 60 percent, and implement a cap that would limit remaining duties to no more than 100 percent of the value of an import.

The EU also said it would lower by 70 percent its trade- distorting farm subsidies, locking in reductions it has already made, and would phase out export subsidies.

The offer today attempted to match a proposal the U.S. made earlier this month to cut its trade-distorting farm subsidies, as negotiators try to bridge what has been the main impediment to the so-called Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks.

``It is a modest step in the right direction, but I just think it is inadequate to reach the mandate of Doha,'' Portman said.

Senator Max Baucus of Montana, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees trade and tariff matters, also called the proposal inadequate and said it may endanger prospects for next month's summit of the 148 WTO members in Hong Kong.

``If the EU is not prepared to come back with a more serious offer on market access, then they will be to blame for the collapse of the,'' WTO talks, Baucus said in a statement.

Has anyone here had any experience with bird taxidermy?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:57 PM

Ugh.

Has anyone here had any experience with bird taxidermy?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:57 PM

There is a place over here on Carman street in Lake OSWANKO that does that shit.

-tk,

if you read up the blog, I already said I was having problems typing today. I have a bad case of arthritis. So don't be such a nudge when it comes to typos.

I found a beautiful owl dead in front of my house this morning. It's gorgeous. No blood or anything. I don't know how it died, although early this morning crows woke us up with their screaming outside our house. There were hundreds of them.

Oh yeah, the pod issue.

Posted by: Harold [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2005 03:55 PM

Yeah, that and I can't leave while the window dudes are creepy around.

I'm going to try sucking on some ice.

Sorry toniD - I was idiot...I was thinking comingle...or something like that - now I feel like huge idiot...pretty sure I could guess it.

What's weird, is I've never seen an owl here in Seattle, and have never even heard of owls here in Seattle. It was still warm. But definatley dead. I put it in my greenhouse to keep the crows away from it.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:59 PM

Ugh again.

Call animal control.

Don't touch it more than you have to.

We need to scale back the farming subsidies and addendums (pork barrel) to the appropriations bills.

Also the fraud, waste and abuse with regards to the contractors at the Pentagon; must be immediately given Congressional oversight.

They aren't even accounting for the spending anymore.

That's a grievous crime on par with nearly 100 billion dollars, almost half of the funds allocated to Katrina alone.

AW!! Bush "saddened" by the news of CIA Leak Indictment (per CNBC .... )

Ya .. I just bet! He is saddened because of the indictment .... not about the leak that started it!

hundreds of them.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:59 PM

Maybe it would be best to let the crows have a meal from him.

Kinda like let nature take it's course.

Beside CATSEA what if it died of the bird FLU!

: \

just kidding on the last part.

Has anyone here had any experience with bird taxidermy?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:57 PM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Taxidermists in Seattle, WA

MAT! do you know why you're nauseous and want to suck on ice? I know what it meant when *I* felt like that!

Harold...you may be right about calling animal control.

What do you think people????

Libby will do nothing but drag it out, then in the end. Bush will pardon him when he leaves office.....

M. Haney
Oil City, PA

"We need to scale back the farming subsidies and addendums (pork barrel) to the appropriations bills."

Did ya all see Senator Stevens' response on the Daily Show? He says (or should I say, screams)if any of that pork is taken from his state, (Alaska, I think?) he'll resign.

What's weird, is I've never seen an owl here in Seattle, and have never even heard of owls here in Seattle. It was still warm. But definatley dead. I put it in my greenhouse to keep the crows away from it.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:00 PM

Call DNR or Animal Control ASAP SeaCat .. it might have passed away from West Nile ... do not touch it .. and if you have .. wash your hands with Comet or Ajax or other strong disinfectant.

What do you think people????

Libby will do nothing but drag it out, then in the end. Bush will pardon him when he leaves office..... M. Haney Oil City, PA

Posted by: M Haney at October 28, 2005 04:03 PM

Bush would have to do it BEFORE he leaves office. And I've heard Pardons aren't so easy to dole out, there are rules.

Posted by: M Haney at October 28, 2005 04:03 PM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

if you listened to Fitz's press conference, it lead me to believe that Libby is pretty much screwed..

I don't know...does this whole balance the budget thing sound progressive?

Or is it populist?

I could go see Alex Lifeson or Tony Iommi, then yell at them from the front row, if you like.

I mean...it's surprising how much these people who wear black co-operate with the US Treasury, don't you think?

I'm not interested in anything other than cash equivalents as long as this pressure is on the financials, I don't know about yuir generation.

NIB

Cheney, Libby Blocked Papers To Senate Intelligence Panel
By Murray Waas, special to National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005

Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, overruling advice from some White House political staffers and lawyers, decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence that erroneously concluded Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, according to Bush administration and congressional sources.

Among the White House materials withheld from the committee were Libby-authored passages in drafts of a speech that then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell delivered to the United Nations in February 2003 to argue the Bush administration's case for war with Iraq, according to congressional and administration sources. The withheld documents also included intelligence data that Cheney's office -- and Libby in particular -- pushed to be included in Powell's speech, the sources said.

The new information that Cheney and Libby blocked information to the Senate Intelligence Committee further underscores the central role played by the vice president's office in trying to blunt criticism that the Bush administration exaggerated intelligence data to make the case to go to war.

LINK

There's a link on buzzflash to an interview Janeane did recently, for those who are interested. It's nothing new, really. Just reiterates what she says on the show...

MAT! do you know why you're nauseous and want to suck on ice? I know what it meant when *I* felt like that!

Harold...you may be right about calling animal control.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:03 PM

SON-OF-A-BITCH!

OH crap CATSEA! I fucking never thought of that!!!

and I have been having sex lately!

OH MY DOG! nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

>>Posted by: ¹³??? at October 28, 2005 04:02 PM

Looks like the closest one is in Bothell....about 40 or so minutes away. but no problem. I'll give them a call.

The crows had disappeared by the time I went out there. Not a single crow around, that I noticed. And like I said...not a mark on the poor beautiful thing.

Good point Harold.....I'll have to research that.....

Not to panic ya Cathy .. but we had a dead crow in the back yard earlier this year .. West Nile got it and the Department of Natural Resources but the fear of God into us about it.

OK, maybe not. Sounds like any 'rules' about pardons aren't binding, merely advisory.

SON-OF-A-BITCH!

OH crap CATSEA! I fucking never thought of that!!!

and I have been having sex lately!

OH MY DOG! nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 04:05 PM

Grab yer calender Miss Anne .. then start counting! If you are even close .. run to Walgreen's! ... I like Clear Blue easy .. myself!

>>OH MY DOG! nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I thought I had food poisoning the first time. I even went to a doc, who looked at me like I had to be the silliest creature he'd ever seen. Hey! What did I know?

Anyway, you know what to do next, I'm sure.

"We will never back down, we will never give in and we will never accept anything less than complete victory," the president said.""

as he takes off for another vacation...

(think his dad told him to get out of sight)

Some people say my love can not be true

Please believe me, my love, and I'll show you

I will give you those things you thought unreal

The sun, the moon, the stars all bear my seal

Follow me now and you will not regret

Living the life you led before we met

You are the first to have this love of mine

Forever with me 'till the end of time

Your love for me has just got to be real,

Before you know the way I'm going to feel,

I'm going to feel,

I'm going to feel

Oh yeah!

Now I have you with me under my pow'r

Our love grows stronger now with ev'ry hour

Look into my eyes, you'll see who I am

My name is Lucifer, please take my hand...

>>to Walgreen's! ... I like Clear Blue easy .. myself!
Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:09 PM

>>Anyway, you know what to do next, I'm sure.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:09 PM

Yep, that's what I was referring to.

bush video about leaks

OH MY DOG! nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 04:05 PM

heh. Good Luck with that...

There are 6 people who hold that title in the State Department. Here are the people who held the position of Under Secretary of State in June 2003:

John Robert Bolton
Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs

Marc Isaiah Grossman
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Grant S. Green
Under Secretary of State for Management

Charlotte L. Beers
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy

Paula J. Dobriansky
Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

Alan Phillip Larson
Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agriculture

WHICH OF THESE? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?

Yep, that's what I was referring to.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:10 PM

: D - LOL!! Well.. this place is quite Hindi today .. life coming might balance out our little owls life being taken away!

Grab yer calender Miss Anne .. then start counting! If you are even close .. run to Walgreen's! ... I like Clear Blue easy .. myself!

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:09 PM

I don't pay attention to it anymore.

I figured I was too OLD!

I think I must be sick, but I don't have a fever.

OH MY DOG! this can not happen to me again!

It will send me right over the edge!

I mean it. I will not be able to function.

I will fucking lose it.

if it's a boy MAT

u can name him Fitz!

More from the National Journal article:

The Intelligence Committee at the time was trying to determine whether the CIA and other intelligence agencies provided faulty or erroneous intelligence on Iraq to President Bush and other government officials. But the committee deferred the much more politically sensitive issue as to whether the president and the vice president themselves, or other administration officials, misrepresented intelligence information to bolster the case to go to war. An Intelligence Committee spokesperson says the panel is still working on this second phase of the investigation.

Had the withheld information been turned over, according to administration and congressional sources, it likely would have shifted a portion of the blame away from the intelligence agencies to the Bush administration as to who was responsible for the erroneous information being presented to the American public, Congress, and the international community.

In April 2004, the Intelligence Committee released a report that concluded that "much of the information provided or cleared by the Central Intelligence Agency for inclusion in Secretary Powell's [United Nation's] speech was overstated, misleading, or incorrect."

Both Republicans and Democrats on the committee say that their investigation was hampered by the refusal of the White House to turn over key documents, although Republicans said the documents were not as central to the investigation.

In addition to withholding drafts of Powell's speech -- which included passages written by Libby -- the administration also refused to turn over to the committee contents of the president's morning intelligence briefings on Iraq, sources say. These documents, known as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB, are a written summary of intelligence information and analysis provided by the CIA to the president.

“This investigation is not yet over,” one of the lawyers in the case said. “You must keep in mind that people like Mr. Rove are still under investigation. Rather than securing an indictment on perjury charges against Mr. Rove Mr. Fitzgerald strongly believes he can convince the grand jury that he broke other laws.”

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:24 PM

Get over it, gal. The Grand Jury term has expired and cannot be extended. It has already been extended the 6 months allowed by law.

I AIN'T HAVING NO MORE DOGDAMN KIDS!

NO fucking way!

It freaking HURTS!

in so many ways!

UGH!

I feel very doomed all of a sudden.

Has anyone here had any experience with bird taxidermy?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 03:57 PM

__________

Bird taxidermy: the avian undertakers of the animal world.

Taxonomically speaking, that is.

crap!

being female bites the big bad ugly one.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 04:15 PM

Ahh we were wondering when you were gonna stick your head out again...

He could call another Grand Jury, as many as are needed to find the truth.

Looks like King County has a West Nile Hotline Cathy

Sorry to freak out about this. Just the DNR guy .. he really freaked me out! It's not that easily transmitted .. but .. ya know .. I am immuno-suppressed .. so I tend to be Little Miss "AAAAAAHHHHHH!!" A GERM!!!!!!! : /

Just heard an interesting opinion on TV from Mike Gergan (sp?) [wingnut apologist].

[paraphrase:]

'From what I've seen of Fitgerald's legal background, he's often gone after the original targets of his investigations by "squeezing" those people at the level just below them.'

*

Hmmmmm?

I think, too, that Fitz is sqeezing Scooter to get at someone above him. Wonder who that might be?

In the press conference, Fitz played EVERYTHING really close to the fucking vest. As much because that's his MO as because he realizes he's playing with the big boys here. You can bet Fitz vetted the shit out of every possible question that his staff could game.

Needless to say, the talking heads are going batshit right now.

The wingnuts are overjoyed that Rove wasn't indicted and are sticking to the repuke talking points: These are minor charges.

But any journalist with half a brain cell has been stressing Fitzey's comment that he couldn't charge anyone with the crime of outing an undercover agent if he hadn't gotten the truth from everyone, YET! Gee, that kinda sounds like Fitz ain't done yet, eh? Wonder what other secrets ol' Fitz is keeping close to the vest?

*

In 1997, Libby helped found the Project for the New American Century""

the PNAC!

now theres a group known for their willingness for other people to die for their goals...

love to see em all behind bars, not that they don't have many eager understudies in the wings.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at October 28, 2005 03:36 PM

AYE!

On TV I've already heard PNAC & Libby in the same sentence a half dozen times since 2:30 PM edt.

Wonder what the google stats will be like for "PNAC" for the foreseeable future? It's not general knowledge in the masses...yet.

______________________________________________________________

JOSH: Have Sammer do a PNAC recap/refresher tonight. He'd probably be way ahead of the MSM curve.

*

Merry Fitzmas to one & all!

>>I will fucking lose it.
Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 04:13 PM

....for a bit, then you'll pull yourself together. we always do!

Get over it, gal. The Grand Jury term has expired and cannot be extended. It has already been extended the 6 months allowed by law.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 04:15 PM

__________

Are you intentionally dishonest or just arrogantly ignorant?

Here's how it works:

It's a regular, not a special, grand jury. As such it can be extended once, which it already has, for up to six months.

Up to that point you are correct.

What you either dishonestly (i.e. lying by omission) or ignorantly (just a dumbass spouting off) fail to mention is that the investigation can be handed over to a different (i.e. successively new) grand jury.

Evidently one is always seated in D.C.

Here is a corroborating link.

OH MY DOG! this can not happen to me again!

It will send me right over the edge!

I mean it. I will not be able to function.

I will fucking lose it.

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 04:13 PM

Go to Walgreen's now .. find out before it's too late to do something about it if you choose that option... as is still your want .. for how ever temporary we have this right.

And yes .. being female can suck shit throgh a straw...and it is about to get alot worse. : /

i got a feeling you'll be okay miss anne......

it's just all the energy in the air......

....keep us posted though......

"Only in America do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Greek meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'"

Hey!! Maybe that is it! Maybe you are in touch with your inner Republican and what is about to happen next in the Adminsitration is freaking it out!??!

: )

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 04:15 PM
__________

Are you intentionally dishonest or just arrogantly ignorant?

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 04:21 PM

Both. The regressive Troll Anons have even stooped to nic stealing today, they were so desperate.

"From the beginning of the administration, a key root of Libby's power at the White House is that he works both for the Vice President (as Chief of Staff and National Security Affairs Advisor) and the President of the United States (as Assistant to the President)."

-- Josh Marshall

Sperms are germs.
_______________________________________________
And yes .. being female can suck shit throgh a straw...and it is about to get alot worse. : /

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:22 PM

I can't leave I'm garding the apartment!

I have to keep the window installers away while my
cat heals

I felt myself up!

Boobs aint sore! Boobs would be sore if I was knocked up.

'Poli' in Greek meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'"

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at October 28, 2005 04:24 PM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

headlines under "Many Bloodsucking Creatures"

* Cheney Adviser Resigns After Indictment AP - 20 minutes ago

* Charges Don't Directly Address CIA Leak AP - 26 minutes ago

* Bush Stresses Libby Is Presumed Innocent AP - 10 minutes ago

* Indictment Adds to White House Woes AP - 38 minutes ago

* Publisher: NYT Slow in Correcting Coverage AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

Ahh we were wondering when you were gonna stick your head out again...

He could call another Grand Jury, as many as are needed to find the truth.

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 04:16 PM

Been out working in the loafing shed repairing feeder bunks. Winter is coming.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda. You need to get over it too. Rove is not likely to be indicted.

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 04:21 PM

For whatever it's worth - it can be extended...more than once - my understanding, anyway.

I just called the public health/West Nile Virus hotline and got assigned a case number and an investigator. Unfortunately, she's not in today. I'll call back and find out what I should do with this beauty until then. Freezer bag and freezer?

Coulda, woulda, shoulda. Rove is not likely to be indicted.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 04:29 PM

Yeah 'not likely' sounds about as concrete as
'could' eh?

Fitzgerald said he wasn't done yet, so he must be after somebody?

Freezer bag and freezer?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:31 PM

And disposable tongs!

>>Get over it, gal. The Grand Jury term has expired and cannot be extended. It has already been extended the 6 months allowed by law.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 04:15 PM

Sounds like you're relieved......they got pretty close didn't they?

Freezer bag and freezer?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:31 PM

wrap it in paper towels put him in a freezer bag.

WASH YOUR HANDS (sing the entire happy birthday song while washing)

Put freezer bag full of bird into another freezer bag place in freezer!

WASH YOUR HANDS AGAIN!

To my little Neo Con Troll .. deluded and spun by the days events .. it is decidedly not over for Mr. Rove....

"Though Mr. Rove was spared indictment today, he remains under a cloud and may possibly be a political liability as Mr. Bush tries to push ahead with his second-term agenda. Mr. Rove will remain under the scrutiny of Mr. Fitzgerald, who said the "substantial work" of the grand jury was concluded, but added "it's not over." He said, "We could use any other grand jury or avail another grand jury. We couldn't use the grand jury that expired today."

And something for us .... "Mr. McClellan said repeatedly at White House news briefings that both Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove had assured him they were not involved in unmasking Ms. Plame. So the charges lodged against Mr. Libby and the ongoing investigation of Mr. Rove offer abundant grist, at least for now, to critics who question the administration's commitment to truth and candor." .. In a nutshell .. YEP!!!

Quotes Courtesy of the New York Times

Not to panic ya Cathy .. but we had a dead crow in the back yard earlier this year .. West Nile got it and the Department of Natural Resources but the fear of God into us about it.

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:07 PM

____________

Heard a fascinatin' piece on crows and ravens on NPR the other day. Some guy wrote a book onnem(w/another fella, who evidently did some very fine illustrations to accompany).

Conversation talked about West Nile and how it decimated the crow/raven population in the upper Midwest and Northeast/mid-Atlantic regions (last year, believe it was, but coulda been longer ago, don't rightly 'member).

Crows and ravens are evidently the canary inna coal mine when it comes to West Nile, being highly susceptible to infection and dying in astounding numbers from an outbreak.

fyi: Crows and ravens are also evidently highly skilled mimics, and, had this been a better known behavioral trait, instead of "the chattering imbecilities of mynah bird blogdom" to describe Gare, I'da picked a crow or raven.

(Parrot was ground a little too well-trod since options was available.)

Another inneresting curio: crows and ravens have a peculiar behavioral trait remniscent of Shirley Jackson's horrific little short story: The Lottery.

Crows and ravens evidently will gather in a group and, at times, and for inexplicable reasons, single out one individual w/in their ranks and savagely gang up on it and kill it.

And such a grouping of crows/ravens is called?

A "murder".

The Forgery Fiasco

....I felt myself up!....

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 04:27 PM

OVERSHARE!!!!! OVERSHARE!!!! ; )

But .. lends creedence to my "Inner Republican" theory!! : D

ENERGY -- RECORD PRICES FOR AMERICANS, RECORD PROFITS FOR OIL FIRMS: Exxon Mobil, the world's largest oil company, "rewrote the corporate record books Thursday as the oil company's third-quarter earnings soared to almost $10 billion." Anglo-Dutch competitor Royal Dutch Shell "wasn't far behind, posting a profit of $9 billion for the quarter." Exxon's return translates into $1,248 profit per second. Most companies would cast these profits in a good light. But mindful of mounting anger over gas prices and calls in Congress "to impose a 'windfall' tax on oil company profits," the firms yesterday "made a game effort to cast the record profit...as middling at best." Even Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) spoke out on the issue, calling for hearings. "If there are those who abuse the free-enterprise system to advantage themselves and their businesses at the expense of all Americans, they ought to be exposed, and they ought to be ashamed." For more information on record oil and gas company profits

But .. lends creedence to my "Inner Republican" theory!! : D

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:37 PM

IF YOU CALL ME A RUPUKLICAN ONE MORE TIME!!!

I will hunt you down and piss on your rav4 wheels!

grrrrrr! : \

The crow is my family's "bird". Like our totem. Thet's why we were listening to them this morning.

Scooter gets indicted and the

DOW went up 173 points today.

Need Bush too get indicted then the

DOW will probably shoot over 12,000

I think it's a spotted owl.

HEALTH CARE -- PhRMA COMES UP WITH A NEW SCARE TACTIC: For years, PhRMA has lobbied Congress to deny Americans access to discounted prescription drugs from Canada "by warning that terrorists might poison the imports." These efforts weren't enough for PhRMA, which came up with a new idea to scare Americans away from Canada: a fictional thriller novel about "a group of shadowy terrorists conspires to murder thousands of Americans by poisoning the medicine they're importing from Canada to beat U.S. drug prices." A PhRMA marketing executive then became "intimately involved" in monitoring the book's progress, much to the frustration of the publishing company. "She demanded that the terrorists be militant Muslims but that their motivation be greed, not politics. She insisted on lots of 'frilly female stuff...Harlequin Romance stuff,'" said Kenin Spivak, who helped write the book. But in July, PhRMA suddenly informed the writers that the company "didn't like the book and was pulling out. [Spivak said] the group offered them $100,000 if they would agree never to speak ill of PhRMA or the drug industry for the rest of their lives. They refused." Check your bookstores for "The Karasik Conspiracy," which will be out in December.

And such a grouping of crows/ravens is called?

A "murder".

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 04:36 PM

Anyone who is a Police fan knows that, DR!!! ; )

We currently have a Peregrine Falcon who likes making feasts outta the little buggers! Very glad she wasn't around the day we found the infected crow!! And we have been in the clear since .. so hopefully .. nothing else will happen! (So speaks my Inner Obbessive Compulsive!!)

I think it's a spotted owl.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:40 PM

Bummer.

Owls are very beautiful.

the celtics have special meanings for Owls.

We had a huge one living near us in San Diego.

It would fly around at dusk. IT's wing span was at least 6FT!

Beauitful and so quiet when it would fly.

All you would hear was WOOOOOOOSH!

I think it's a spotted owl.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:40 PM

Hmm. 'Round here, Cathy, if ya find a spotted owl on your lawn, y'get inside quick and call the cops.

Of course, this is Oregon.

Of course, this is Oregon.

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 04:44 PM

Granted, for many in Oregon, a dead spotted owl on your lawn is akin to a burning cross...

Man that Typekey does drop about once an hour...

I will hunt you down and piss on your rav4 wheels!

grrrrrr! : \

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 04:39 PM

Fine by me! "He" drives the RAV now!! : D - LOL!!

Sorry ... I was just joking .. looking fer a reason you might be ill and all.. one not inclusive of pregnancy!!

We have had a recent influx of Great Grey Owls in Minnesota recently .. Pretty cool!!

or a young barred owl. I guess that's much more likely.

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:47 PM

WHAAAAAAA?

You gave him your CAR???

I'm confused.

We have had a recent influx of Great Grey Owls in Minnesota recently .. Pretty cool!!

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:47 PM

Yes, Willow, that is cool. They are beautiful. We had one visit and stay with us here on the St. Lawrence river for several months late last winter and early spring. I went to visit it nearly every day for several weeks.

I guess that's much more likely.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:50 PM

Did you google Owls?

We have had a recent influx of Great Grey Owls in Minnesota recently .. Pretty cool!!

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:47 PM

Yes, Willow, that is cool. They are beautiful. We had one visit and stay with us here on the St. Lawrence river for several months late last winter and early spring. I went to visit it nearly every day for several weeks.

WOW!!!

I saw - I listened - I am amazed.

Can hardly believe that there are still people

like Fitzgerald around.

What a guy!

owls

look at this beauty owl

ok, now I have to go off to work.

I called the settle Audubon society and they are happy to take and stuff it for education purposes, but if it's going to be stuffed, I want it.

(Sorry about that, I'm too weird and gothic to pass this up. I already have a very old stuffed pheasant (100 +years old))

Should wait until the Public health folks call me back though.

Anyway, we took pics of the beutiful thing. I'll try to post them later.

Have fun this afternoon~

MAT, I'll be thinking about you, and hoping you've just got a little bit of stomach flu....but here's a big hug no matter what...

HUG!

handcuffed republicans in the hall

as joyous democrats watch them fall

celebration is near

it’s time to cheer

a merry fitzmas to one and to all

And such a grouping of crows/ravens is called?

A "murder".

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 04:36 PM

--------

Anyone who is a Police fan knows that, DR!!! ; )

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:43 PM

_____________

What Police song mentions crows?

Murder By Numbers?

SON-OF-A-BITCH!

OH crap CATSEA! I fucking never thought of that!!!

and I have been having sex lately!

OH MY DOG! nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 04:05 PM

Grab yer calender Miss Anne .. then start counting! If you are even close .. run to Walgreen's! ... I like Clear Blue easy .. myself!

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:09 PM

[ping...whoosh...ricochet]

Ehhh...mind yer aim ladies. Pesky damn estrogen bullets.

*

Awwww...that's so cute, missy....errrrr, should I say, MOM! *snark*

I called the settle Audubon society and they are happy to take and stuff it for education purposes...

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:54 pm

Yeah! Donate it to science!

This owl is carmel and white...no grey.

Be back later~

Bye CatSea.

I'm going to find my celtic cards of information when i get my pod back.

I have a feeling there is something more about the owl thang.

have a groovey day!

Spotted Owl .... Barred Owl

Look prety similar ...

Gave him the RAV because with no job .. I couldn't afford the payments on it any longer. So .. since he was paying for it already .. why not! I had my Maxima .. so it wasn't that bad a trade .. I just got my car back that I owned and he got the one he was paying for...

Correction from Raw Story:

INDICTED: LIBBY RESIGNS

Corrected: Under Secretary named in indictment was Marc Grossman; Provided Libby information on Wilson trip...

Awwww...that's so cute, missy....errrrr, should I say, MOM! *snark*

Posted by: Liberal-at-large at October 28, 2005 04:56 PM

I'm the small one!

And after listening to the Prez statement I ask the question:

What are the sacrifices Scooter Libby made for the country? What was that?

Looks to me like he had a pretty fun time in the WH until he was caught.

Awwww...that's so cute, missy....errrrr, should I say, MOM! *snark*

Posted by: Liberal-at-large at October 28, 2005 04:56 PM

I'm the small one!

DAMN IT!

if it's a boy MAT

u can name him Fitz!

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at October 28, 2005 04:13 PM

Man, I didn't have the cahones....

Gave him the RAV because with no job .. I couldn't afford the payments on it any longer. So .. since he was paying for it already .. why not! I had my Maxima .. so it wasn't that bad a trade .. I just got my car back that I owned and he got the one he was paying for...

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 04:57 PM

well yes that makes total sence.

I had no idea of the details.

This owl is carmel and white...no grey.

Be back later~

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at October 28, 2005 04:57 PM

Snow?? Might be a Snow Owl ....They seem to been in your area territory-wise

Was aaauuuup!!!

"u can name him Fitz!"

Fitzgerald is an old-school name.

Gerald or Gerry for short, right?

I'm the small one!

DAMN IT!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 05:00 PM

HAHAHAHAHA

I can imagine you being that.

Owls look like Zza zza gabor all dressed up her winter finery.

Did I spell her name wrong? [sigh]

You were close. I think its Zsa Zsa.

video of fizgerald

What Police song mentions crows?

Murder By Numbers?

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 04:56 PM

Whoops!! My bad!! It's actually a Sting song ....

All This Time

Two priests came round our house tonight

One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying

To serve the final rite

One to learn, one to teach

Which was the cold wind blows

Fussing and flapping in priestly black

Like a murder of crows

Posted by: Harold [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 28, 2005 05:03 PM

UGH!

thank you.

if I had nuts I would give my right one to be able to spell.

I give up my left one to do MATH!

: ]

I had no idea of the details.

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 05:01 PM

Ya .. more from the annals of my f-ed up life! : D

Back for a bit... boy, the talking heads ARE going apeshit aren't they? Was watching while having lunch at a local pub... Buchanan came on MSNBC, being the token apologist, and the crowd in the restaurant started to boo him loudly... caught me off guard! Everyone was glued to the tube, it wasn't just "on in the background" as it normally is in pubs, ya know? Are people finally paying attention now?

Trippy.

Didya catch Bush's 30 second comment on the case? Buhahahaaahaahaa! I swear, there was the slightest tinge of fear and trembling in his voice as he said "the investigation now moves into the next phase."

a merry fitzmas to one and to all

Posted by: RWiley at October 28, 2005 04:55 PM

Ole!

Whoops!! My bad!! It's actually a Sting song ....

All This Time

Two priests came round our house tonight

One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying

To serve the final rite

One to learn, one to teach

Which was the cold wind blows

Fussing and flapping in priestly black

Like a murder of crows

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 05:05 PM

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Tx. Wil.

Had heard the song before, but hadn't never listened close to the lyrics.

Got some lovely imagery throughout and "one by one" certainly gets at the heart of things.

Okay .. I have officially played hooky long enough! I must go make some celebratory Scooter Libby Indictment Brownies .. Gonna put bars of frosting on them when they are done!!! : D

BBL!!!

: ) - Wil

Coulter: Ongoing Rove Investigation Would Be “Worst Possible Scenario” For White House
The White House is trying its best to appear positive today. President Bush appeared smiling and laughing before reporters this morning, while Karl Rove said he was in a “very good mood today. I’m going to have a very good day.”

The truth is that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s expected announcement — that at least one White House official will be indicted, while Rove remains under investigation — is extremely bad news. This morning, even Bush loyalist Ann Coulter admitted that this is the “worst possible scenario” for the administration:

Video in Quick Time

Transcript below:

O’BRIEN: So there you have it, Karl Rove apparently escaping indictment, but that’s the good news. The bad news is, on goes the investigation. What are your thoughts on that one?

COULTER: That is like the worse possible outcome.

O’BRIEN: Oh, an indictment would be better?

COULTER: I think so. I mean, I don’t think indictments are particularly big deal politically. They’re a big deal for whoever gets indicted, but I don’t think it really matters to the White House. I’ve just been thinking, this is going to be lancing the boil. Let’s just get it done one way or the other this Friday. Either they get indicted and they leave, or they’re not indicted and it’s over. To stay under investigation — that is not the best possible outcome.

LINK

I'm the small one!

DAMN IT!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 05:00 PM

That's exactly how I imagine your childhood, missy. Like I've said, in a different time line...we woulda hung out. : )

You were close. I think its Zsa Zsa.

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 05:03 PM

__________

Zsa Zsa does the Cha Cha when she's feelin' hot, hot, hot.

Okay .. I have officially played hooky long enough! I must go make some celebratory Scooter Libby Indictment Brownies .. Gonna put bars of frosting on them when they are done!!! : D

BBL!!!

: ) - Wil

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 05:13 PM

See ya Willow

Everytime I get on this blog I end up getting hungry.

8-)

Posted by: Liberal-at-large at October 28, 2005 05:15 PM

What cha talking about!

Were hanging out NOW!

: ]

mighty glad of it too!

Zsa Zsa does the Cha Cha when she's feelin' hot, hot, hot.

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 05:16 PM

: ]

Schwarzenegger says unions "want to destroy me"

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger painted a grim picture of California's political culture, accusing Democrats and "union bosses" of reflexively blocking government reform and caring more about bringing down the governor than solving the state's problems.

"I want to move things forward, and to them, it works like - they want to destroy me," Schwarzenegger said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's a self-serving government that's all about them rather than serving the people, and it's wrong."

In a 30-minute interview in a hotel suite overlooking Long Beach harbor, Schwarzenegger - tieless and munching almonds - took questions a range of topics, from the constraints of so-called "town hall meeting" campaign appearances to the activities of his wife, First Lady Maria Shriver. A half-burned cigar rested on the table as he spoke, and a chess set - abandoned mid-game - sat nearby.

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ME TOO!

Tx. Wil.

Had heard the song before, but hadn't never listened close to the lyrics.

Got some lovely imagery throughout and "one by one" certainly gets at the heart of things.

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 05:12 PM

'Soul Cages' .. album it's on .. great one.. Lots of great songs on that one ...I highly recommend it ..! Terrific Imagery!!! Here are a few of the songs lyrics ...

Why Should I cry for you

Soul Cages

When The Angels Fall

I fyou would like me to record them and send them off to you .. let me know DR .. I would be more than happy! : ) W_Izzard_Girl @ Yahoo ....

Okay .. off to make me brownies!!

The Marriage Canard and Valerie Plame
by Larry Johnson
Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 06:25:13 PM EDT

by Larry C. Johnson
Today on Wolf Blitzer's show, The Situation Room, correspondent David Ensor brought up the criticism that has been circulated by folks like Cliff May saying that Valerie Plame compromised her cover by marrying a high profile diplomat like Joe Wilson.

I called David afterwards and had a pleasant conversation to clarify that this is a red herring. As I told David, I know of several CIA undercover officers who are married to so-called high profile people. The reality is that their identity is not known to the public and could only be made known to the public if they revealed their identity or someone else familiar with them did. One of these people is a friend of mine, happily married, and serving the United States as a spymaster overseas.

There is another reason to shoot down the silly and specious claim that Val essentially outed herself by marrying Joe. At no point prior to Bob Novak's column is there a public reference to Valerie as a CIA officer. Moreover, Joe Wilson did not advertise the fact that he had done contracting work for the CIA (i.e., he had been sent on previous missions overseas). Val's cover, while not heavily backstopped, was adequate to allow her to work overseas on sensitive missions.

One of the Repub talking points against Wilson

Didnt' get to hear Randi Rhodes today...

Did she go totally nuts or hold it together well enough to change her story entirely and talk about how Fitzgerald is incompetent for not indicting Rove for "treason"?

BTW, does she have special assistant whose job it is to just mop up the slavering?

Bush heckled during terror speech

At a turbulent point in his presidency, US President Bush has sought to bolster public backing for his war policies, just days after the US death toll in Iraq surpassed 2,000.

"We will never back down, we will never give in and we will never accept anything less than complete victory," the president said.

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The headlines today are like multipule orgazums!

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger painted a grim picture of California's political culture, accusing Democrats and "union bosses" of reflexively blocking government reform and caring more about bringing down the governor than solving the state's problems.

"I want to move things forward, and to them, it works like - they want to destroy me," Schwarzenegger said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's a self-serving government that's all about them rather than serving the people, and it's wrong."

He attacks Nurse's and say's he's "Kicking their Butts' Calls Democrats "Girly Men" Then cries about getting some opposition.

What a fucking Baby.

See ya Willow

Everytime I get on this blog I end up getting hungry.

8-)

Posted by: Kevin at October 28, 2005 05:16 PM

I blame the Liberal Hippy Bloggers .. CONTACT HIGH!!!!!

Okay .. really out now ....Beep!! Beep!!

did you see this kevin

Libby indictment names Rove - or 'Official A' - as confirming Plame's identity to Libby

by Jackson Thoreah

http://www.opednews.com

The indictment and resignation of Scooter Libby on Good Friday is just the beginning. The best news is that a new grand jury was impaneled.

Libby’s indictment includes a passage in which an "Official A" told Libby that he had talked with conservative syndicated columnist Robert Novak about CIA officer Valerie Plame and that Novak would be writing a story about Plame.

And who is “Official A?” None other than Karl Rove, according to my sources.

Rove and Novak go way back in such dirty tricks. In 1992, Rove, with help from Novak, with whom Rove has often dined, smeared Robert Mosbacher Jr., George H.W. Bush’s then-presidential campaign manager. Mosbacher gave John Weaver, a Rove competitor, the bulk of a $1 million direct mail contract, and Rove spread a story that Mosbacher had been replaced in Texas by another campaign manager, which Novak repeated in a column. Poppy Bush reportedly dismissed Rove from his campaign for doing that, but his son will not do so for doing worse in the Plame case.

But expect Rove to go down eventually. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is just building the case against Rove and possibly others.

It's actually good news that the indictment process didn't end Friday. It keeps the whole matter open and keeps Rove - and Bush since Rove is "Bush's Brain" - squirming.

You can read the 22-page indictment yourself at http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/04ms407-i.pdf.

There are reports that Rove lied to the FBI and did not disclose that he had ever discussed Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper during Rove's first interview with the FBI. So Rove could be facing obstruction of justice and perjury charges himself, the same kind that got Libby.

LINK

did you see this kevin

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 05:25 PM

Yeh I saw it.

Pretty Funny

8-)

I put a link and a pict from it on my blog.

If you would like me to record them and send them off to you .. let me know DR .. I would be more than happy! : ) W_Izzard_Girl @ Yahoo ....

Okay .. off to make me brownies!!

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 05:20 PM

__________

Tx. Wil.

Kind of you, but not necessary.

Can do like I do @ the public lib'ry.

Will check it out, Wil willing.

...and caring more about bringing down the governor than solving the state's problems.

YES. His name was Gray Davis.

Okay .. off to make me brownies!!

Posted by: Willow at October 28, 2005 05:20 PM

what kind a brownies ya making wil?

yUM!

YES. His name was Gray Davis.

Posted by: bibimimi~☆ at October 28, 2005 05:29 PM

Can I get a WOOT WOOT!

Rove not indicted, still under investigation
CNN International - 5 hours ago
White Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove talks with reporters as he gets in his car Friday morning. WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove escaped indictment in the CIA leak case Friday but remained under investigation

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I hope that he is going to get far worse than libby.

Can I get a WOOT WOOT!

Posted by: akaMAT at October 28, 2005 05:30 PM

WOOT WOOT

8-)

Al Franken Beats Rush Limbaugh in San Francisco & Portland, Ore.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

News from the Air America:

THE AL FRANKEN SHOW BEATS THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW

Al Franken Beats Rush Limbaugh in San Francisco & Portland, Ore.

NEW YORK – October 28, 2005 – Air America Radio announced today that “The Al Franken Show” beat “The Rush Limbaugh Show” for the first time in San Francisco and Portland, Ore., 2 of the top 25 markets, in the target demo of 25-54, according to Arbitron Summer 2005 Metro. The two shows air at the same time (9am-12pm) in both markets.

In San Francisco, the #4 Metro, “The Al Franken Show, “ heard on KQKE, came in with a11,400 AQH and a 1.8 Share. “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” heard on KSFO, had an 8,500 AQH and a 1.4 Share.

In Portland, Ore., the #24 Metro, “The Al Franken Show,” heard on KPOJ, was ranked #4 with an 11,800 AQH and a 5.6 Share. “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” heard on KEX, was ranked #7 and came in with a 10, 400 AQH and a 4.9 Share.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

Endless sunset
Posted by Rachel Neumann

Smokescreens anyone?

While you were, ah, distracted, Congress was quietly renewing every major provision of the Patriot Act.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/#27501

Didnt' get to hear Randi Rhodes today...

Did she ...talk about how Fitzgerald is incompetent for not indicting Rove for "treason"?

Posted by: Gare at October 28, 2005 05:22 PM

Why would she spread lies like you, Gare?

Fitzgerald hasn't indicted Rove YET because the regressives are just that good at being crooks.

October 28, 2005

Conyers asks: What Did the President and Vice President Know and When Did They Know It?

Directs Judiciary Committee Staff to Conduct Full and Comprehensive Investigation into Treasongate, Downing Street, Pre-War and Other Deceptions

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement regarding Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's decisions to indict Scooter Libby:

"Today's indictments represent the beginning, but not the end of the process of finally holding the Bush Administration accountable for its conduct in foisting a preemptive war on this country.

The prosecutor has performed his job in pursuing this case vigorously and fairly. However the charges really beg the larger question - what did the President and Vice President know about these and related matters, and when did they know it? I believe it is imperative that Congress pursue these questions and determine how these charges fit into the entire web of deception, manipulation and obfuscation laid bare by the Downing Street Minutes and Treasongate. As a result, I have directed my staff to conduct a comprehensive investigation and review of the facts concerning not only alleged efforts to misuse the White House to out a CIA operative, but misinformation concerning the run up the Iraq War, and all legal violations and breaches of trust by the Administration concerning the War."

LINK

Reaction to the indictment Friday of I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby Jr., aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, on charges of obstruction of justice, making a false statement and perjury in the CIA leak case:

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``Scooter has worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people and sacrificed much in the service to this country. He served the Vice President and me through extraordinary times in our nation's history.'' - President George Bush.

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``I have accepted his decision with deep regret.'' - Vice President Dick Cheney, in a statement accepting Libby's resignation following the indictment.

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``When a vice president's chief of staff is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, it does show the world that this is a country that takes its law seriously; that all citizens are bound by the law.'' - Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

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``Today is a sad day for America. When an indictment is delivered to the front door of the White House, the office of the president is defiled. No citizen can take pleasure from that.'' - Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, in a statement read by attorney Christopher Wolfe.

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``Today's indictments represent the beginning, but not the end, of the process of finally holding the Bush administration accountable for its conduct in foisting a pre-emptive war on this country.'' - Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

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``These are very serious charges against Mr. Libby. I believe in the rule of law and the strength and integrity of our justice system and it shall prevail.'' - Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont.

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``They suggest that a senior White House aide put politics ahead of our national security and the rule of law.'' - Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

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``Scooter Libby did the right thing by resigning.'' - Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.

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``It appears to be a case of revenge run amok.'' - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on allegations that the CIA leak was an effort to undermine a critic of the Iraq war.

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Something Good today!!

Rosa Parks to Lie in Honor at Capitol By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
49 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - In death, Rosa Parks is joining a select few, including presidents and war heroes, accorded a public viewing in the Capitol Rotunda. It's the place where, six years ago, President Clinton and congressional leaders lauded the former seamstress for a simple act of defiance that changed the course of race relations.

On Sunday, Parks becomes the first woman to lie in honor in the vast circular room under the Capitol dome.

The House on Friday agreed by voice vote that the body of Parks will lie in honor in the Rotunda on Sunday and Monday "so that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American." The Senate approved the resolution Thursday night.

LINK

``It appears to be a case of revenge run amok.'' - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on allegations that the CIA leak was an effort to undermine a critic of the Iraq war.

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Posted by: Kevin at October 28, 2005 05:40 PM

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``As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.'' - Rep. Tom Petri, R-Wis.

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``Today's events only confirm that we need to know answers to the larger question: Did this administration deliberately lie to Congress in order to obtain its authorization to go to war?'' - Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.

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``If he did something wrong, he did something wrong. What I know of him is a very good and decent person.'' - Former Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn., Washington lobbyist with close ties to the White House.

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``This administration owes our CIA agents around the world a promise that their identities will never be jeopardized. And it owes the American people direct answers and responsible action.'' - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.

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``There are many of us that are frustrated about Mr. Wilson. We are frustrated about the whole Valerie Plame thing, but none of that excuses the behavior that led to the types of charges you see today.'' - House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich.

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"Today's events only confirm that we need to know answers to the larger question: Did this administration deliberately lie to Congress in order to obtain its authorization to go to war?" - Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1028CIAleakQuote...

Pelosi Statement on Criminal Indictment of I. Lewis Libby

Washington, D.C.– House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today following the criminal indictment of Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff I. Lewis Libby:

“The criminal indictments of a top White House official mark a sad day for America and another chapter in the Republicans’ culture of corruption. At the heart of these indictments was the effort by the Bush Administration to discredit critics of its Iraq policy with reckless disregard for national security and the public trust.”

http://democraticleader.house.gov/press/releases.cfm?pr...

Exxon-Mobil Workers Got Fake Flu Shots By WENDY BENJAMINSON, Associated Press Writer
17 minutes ago

HOUSTON - As many as 1,000 Exxon Mobil employees and 14 residents of a senior citizens home were injected with fake flu vaccine, authorities said Friday, and the owner of a home health care company was arrested.

Preliminary tests indicated the syringes were filled with purified water, U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said. And no ill effects from the shots were reported.

But Hermina Palacio, head of the Harris County health department, recommended that people who received the shots get tested for blood-borne pathogens such as the AIDS virus and hepatitis B and C.

Exxon Mobil offered blood tests and counseling to the employees who received the shots at a health fair Oct. 19-20 at the oil company's complex of refineries and chemical plants in Baytown, just east of Houston.

LINK

HOUSTON - As many as 1,000 Exxon Mobil employees and 14 residents of a senior citizens home were injected with fake flu vaccine, authorities said Friday...

Mmm, wonder how much that saved 'em? (Towards their record quarterly profits)

See ya later Blog

8-)

“The criminal indictments of a top White House official mark a sad day for America and another chapter in the Republicans’ culture of corruption. At the heart of these indictments was the effort by the Bush Administration to discredit critics of its Iraq policy with reckless disregard for national security and the public trust.”

Posted by: Kevin at October 28, 2005 05:43 PM

Sad?

You, me, and maybe a thousand other peeps even know about this.

The chance it "makes" a footnote in some future History book are remote at best...

But...I say celebrate - if so inclined.

House Panel OKs School Lunch Funding Cut

By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press Writer
55 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The House Agriculture Committee approved budget cuts Friday that would take food stamps away from an estimated 300,000 people and could cut off school lunches and breakfasts for 40,000 children.

The action came as the government reported that the number of people who are hungry because they can't afford to buy enough food rose to 38.2 million in 2004, an increase of 7 million in five years. The number represents nearly 12 percent of U.S. households.

"If there are cuts to be made, why should we make them on food stamps?" said Rep. David Scott (news, bio, voting record), D-Ga. "This is the meanest cut of all."

The cuts, approved by the Republican-controlled committee on a party-line vote, are part of an effort by the House GOP to curb federal spending by $50 billion. The food and agriculture cuts would reduce spending by $3.7 billion, including $844 million on nutrition, $760 million on conservation and $212 million on payments to farmers.

LINK

News from the Air America:

THE AL FRANKEN SHOW BEATS THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW

Al Franken Beats Rush Limbaugh in San Francisco & Portland, Ore.

Posted by: toniD at October 28, 2005 05:35 PM

I have to wonder if there are a lot of people there who lie awake nights wondering how they are going to get screwed by the Rethugs the next day and use AL's show to give them cause for a nap.

This is really laughable!!

RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman on Today's Announcement by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald

To: National Desk, Political Reporter

Contact: Tracey Schmitt of the Republican National Committee Communications Staff, 202-863-8614

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman issued the following statement regarding today's announcement by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald:

"Scooter Libby is a good and capable man who has given many years of his life to serve our nation. Mr. Libby is entitled to his day in court to answer the charges against him, receive a full airing of all the facts and is innocent until proven otherwise.

"While some Democrats have acted irresponsibly in regards to this matter from the beginning, the President and Republicans in Congress have and will continue to focus on the American people's priorities: strengthening the economy, winning the War on Terror, lowering energy costs and improving our schools."

Paid for by the Republican National Committee. Web: http://www.gop.com. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.

Paid for by the Republican National Committee

“The criminal indictments of a top White House official mark a sad day for America and another chapter in the Republicans’ culture of corruption. At the heart of these indictments was the effort by the Bush Administration to discredit critics of its Iraq policy with reckless disregard for national security and the public trust.”

Posted by: Kevin at October 28, 2005 05:43 PM

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Sad?

You, me, and maybe a thousand other peeps even know about this.

The chance it "makes" a footnote in some future History book are remote at best...

But...I say celebrate - if so inclined.

Posted by: -tk at October 28, 2005 05:51 PM

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I suppose one could have said precisely what you just said about Watergate in its formative stages.

Or the Great Depression in its initial stages of implosion.

Or (good news) Bosox winning the World Series, followed shortly thereafter by the Chisox doing the same.

(What's next: the fucking Cubbies, fer chrissakes?)

Your imaginative faculty is static, isn't it, -tk?

In some ways, that's a good thing, I suppose.

That way, you're always surprised and astounded by history.

THE AL FRANKEN SHOW BEATS THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW

Al Franken Beats Rush Limbaugh in San Francisco & Portland, Ore.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 06:02 PM

Hurts, huh?

Al Franken Beats Rush Limbaugh in San Francisco & Portland, Ore.

No surprise, really. Two of the most liberal cities outside NYC (the only other market Franken's beat Rush) so you'd figure if it was gonna happen somewhere...

The cool thing is that they're all BIG markets.

Al-Sistani Said to Weigh Pullout Demand By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago

NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric is considering demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops after a democratically elected government takes office next year, according to associates of the Iranian-born cleric.

If the Americans and their coalition partners do not comply, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani would use peaceful means such as mass street protests to step up pressure for a pullout schedule, according to two associates of the cleric.

The associates spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media. They are in regular contact with al-Sistani and call routinely on the 76-year-old cleric at his home in the holy city of Najaf south of Baghdad.

The reclusive al-Sistani rarely leaves his home and limits his public comments to religious decrees, or fatwas. He has steadfastly refused to meet with any American officials since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003.

But al-Sistani's influence among the majority Shiite community is vast, and a public call for such a timetable would put enormous pressure on Washington to comply.

LINK

THE AL FRANKEN SHOW BEATS THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW

Al Franken Beats Rush Limbaugh in San Francisco & Portland, Ore.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 06:02 PM

Hurts, huh?

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 06:04 PM

No Harold...it's good that AAR is doing well. In Portland you get Tom Hartman for three hours and then a choice of Tom Hartman for another three hours or AL..Today at least Al was very boring. In fact most of the time Al is very boring. I think that's why many AAR listeners refer to him as dead air Al.

Tribes Protest Chavez Expulsion Order By NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 52 minutes ago

PUERTO AYACUCHO, Venezuela - Hundreds of indigenous Venezuelans marched Friday to protest President Hugo Chavez's threat to expel a group of U.S.-based evangelists, amid intensifying government scrutiny of foreign missionaries operating in the country.

The protesters — including some who traveled for days by boat from their homes in the dense Amazon jungle — showed their support for New Tribes Mission, which Chavez has accused of "imperialist infiltration" and exploiting indigenous communities.

Luis Rodriguez, a Piapoco Indian, said the missionaries helped indigenous tribes during hard times when aid from government authorities was scarce or nonexistent.

"The government didn't arrive here to do anything important for us," said Rodriguez, 41, as he marched with fellow demonstrators, some of whom sang hymns.

Two weeks ago, Chavez ordered the New Tribes missionaries to leave the country, accusing the Sanford, Fla.-based organization of links to the CIA and gathering "strategic information" in the country's Amazon rainforest.

LINK

AP - Fri Oct 28, 2:00 PM ET

"...Experts say it's wise for governments to prepare for a potential worldwide flu outbreak that could arise IF the bird flu sweeping Asia morphs into a form that's easily spread among people. "

They're tryin' to keep us scared, folks...

Left this out of the post:

Government officials and other critics of the evangelist group have since backed Chavez's decision, accusing the missionaries of destroying indigenous culture and using their presence in remote, mineral-rich tracts of Venezuela to conduct reconnaissance work for foreign mining and pharmaceutical interests.

Posted by: toniD at October 28, 2005 06:17 PM

Nice post.

Where again in the Bible does the phrase 'quid pro quo' come into play again?

Seldom surprised...no longer astounded...

However:

"I suppose one could have said precisely what you just said about Watergate in its formative stages."

That would be surprising...

No question.

Guess we'll wait and see...'till then.

And...until then - these "scandals" bfd

Makes for a slightly better news day...

So, what's next - I getta forget about this (by tomorrow) and look forward to the new nominee - and that'll be done by Tue (maybe)

Then what? Maybe Cindy will be back in the news, some new killin', some new hurricane, some new lost girl in aruba.

Sorry dr....

Maybe I just had enough at this point

sorry to sorta rant

Your link tried to install Active X on my computer toniD.

Plus these associates of the Iranian-born cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani aren't named.

That makes it propaganda.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 06:15 PM

No AAR listeners refer to Al in that manner.

The Neo-Cons live on lies.

All they have are lies and distortions.

All the want is power and money at any cost; so what who has to pay the price, as long as they get what they want.

Sad, sick, pathetic leaches on our nation and our democracy.

I believe right is might and by that might we will win a better future for more Americans and people around the world.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 06:15 PM

Leeches, I mean.

I'm listening to Randi Rhoads, right now.

Clear as a bell.

Your link tried to install Active X on my computer toniD.

Posted by: -B at October 28, 2005 06:22 PM

I dunno, works for me, it's just a yahoo news story.

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 06:20 PM

I wouldn't know, but my guess it's somewhere around "an eye for an eye."

Which is an idea that perdates the bible, I think to Hamurabi? (sp?)

Posted by: dr at October 28, 2005 04:21 PM

You need to get over it too.

Fitzmas come and Fitzmas gone. Alls ya gots was Libby, a lump of coal. The Rove man continues on, unabated. If you listened to Fitzgerald he told you that, in as much as he could speak directly. He is no longer pursuing Rove, Cheney, or others, but the case is still open. That means if something is dumped in his lap he will act upon it accordingly.

Also, and again, if you paid attention, there was no outing of an undercover agent. Plames identity as a CIA Agent was classified. I have no idea at what level. It could have been merely Confidential for all I know and I think it doubtful it would be Top Secret, or even Secret. You got it??? There was no outing of an undercover agent. That is why Fitzgerald used other legal codes to get Libby.

Damn, I really don't think you are the rockhead you sometimes come across as, but I do think your political biases prevent you from seeing things objectively.

In all liklihood Rove ain't gonna be indicted unless someone jumps in to give Fitzgerald some new information. Get over it!!

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 06:20 PM

DAMN IT!

PREdates, I mean.

Sheesh.

This is a day of good news and bad moods at my house.

15 Cent Screw

Is that like a 37 cent stamp?

Or a rapper named 50cent?!

Bernanke and the Bubble
by Paul Krugman
The New York Times
October 28, 2005

By Bush administration standards, the choice of Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve was just weird.

For one thing, Mr. Bernanke is actually an expert in monetary policy, as opposed to, say, Arabian horses.

Beyond that, Mr. Bernanke's partisanship, if it exists, is so low-key that his co-author on a textbook didn't know he was a registered Republican. The academic work on which his professional reputation rests is apolitical. Moreover, that work is all about how the Fed can influence demand - there's not a hint in his work of support for the right-wing supply-side doctrine.

snip

So should we all feel confident about the economic future, assuming that Mr. Bernanke is confirmed? Alas, no.

No, my main concern is that the economy may well face a day of reckoning soon after Mr. Bernanke takes office. And while he is surely the best politically possible man for the job (all the other candidates I would have been happy with are independents or Democrats), coping with that day of reckoning without some nasty shocks may be beyond anyone's talents.

The fact is that the U.S. economy's growth over the past few years has depended on two unsustainable trends: a huge surge in house prices and a vast inflow of funds from Asia. Sooner or later, both trends will end, possibly abruptly.

LINK

I think that's why many AAR listeners refer to him...

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 06:15 PM

Yeah, I've been listening since day one, never heard that one before.

But I guess that's a typical answer, deny and insult.

I suppose I should check out that second Hartman shift; but his stuff (on AAR anyway) is more morning drivetime to me.

As for Al's show today, cut him some slack, it's his first live location show since Katherine left. Technical problems abounded. It happens.

15 Cent Screw

Is that like a 37 cent stamp?

Or a rapper named 50cent?!

Posted by: -B at October 28, 2005 06:29 PM

Tell 'em what it is, 15 Cent.

Way to keep up, -B...

Posted by: -B at October 28, 2005 06:29 PM

"T.S. used to stand for Terribly Sexy, now it just stands for Terribly Sad." - John Irving

Ah, it's something to do with how a small investment by a company can be the difference between lives lost and lives saved.

That it's irresponsible to cut "15 cent" corners at the expense of their customers safety.

...and a glib, low self esteem sexual reference.

I'm sad.

Remember...

from project censored

"Yet the neocons knew they faced a hard sell as Bill Clinton took office. "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources," a report released by the Project for the New American Century in 2000, stated that the United States needed a catastrophe – "a new Pearl Harbor," as the authors called it – to jump-start the neocons' blueprint for all-encompassing military and economic world dominance. (PNAC was founded by none other than Cheney, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, and other former Reagan and Bush administration hawks.)"

(like Libby for example)

"Indeed, the neocons have had the Persian Gulf in their crosshairs for 30 years now. Ever since the oil crisis of 1976 and the Gulf states' nationalization of their petroleum industries in the years that preceded it, the United States began building up forces in the region – primarily in Saudi Arabia – and strengthening relationships with regional dictatorships. The reasons seem simple: the region holds two-thirds of the world's oil."

"Control over the Persian Gulf translates into control over Europe, Japan, and China," Hampshire College professor and Resource Wars author Michael Klare told Mother Jones. "It's having our hand on the spigot."

By the way - for any interested...which I'm not sure how many...

nevertheless, the day (I was having a bad day) I called "1984" a literary piece of crap

heh heh - sorry - I was way wrong...just couldn't wrap my head around it at the time ;)

Now I think it pretty cool.

So, any (if any) I may have offended - I truly appoligize...and better yet - I really enjoy it!

In fact, will be getting back to it soon to finish up.

OK - thank you for reading this post...oh, and of course, your forgiveness ;)

Posted by: 15 Cent Screw at October 28, 2005 06:35 PM

Stick with the Edwards' reference. More noble.

Probably equally sad, though.

I have to go now.

Posted by: -tk at October 28, 2005 06:36 PM

Bailiff!

Whack his pee pee!

Posted by: Anonymous at October 28, 2005 06:27 PM

Fitzgerald said he's not done yet?

"Also, and again, if you paid attention, there was no outing of an undercover agent. ... I have no idea at what level."

You're the one not paying attention. Fitzgerald said she was undercover. Doesn't matter what your NeoCon buddies feed you, the Prosecutor appointed by one of your NeoCons said she was undercover.

You contradict yourself as usual within a single post.

"Ouch! Sunny"

That smarts!

if he lied we must execute

if he lied we must execute

Posted by: andy gee at October 28, 2005 06:48 PM

Wow, now that's bold...

I can't take it anymore.

I turned on the furnace.

This is a cold as hell Halloween.

And if it only costs 15cent to get laid, then I'm wondering what you would ask for...if I bummed a cigarette afterwards?

Is that $100? Or $400?

Fitzgerald said she was undercover.

Posted by: Harold at October 28, 2005 06:45 PM

I think you just let your mouth overload your ass again, but if I am wrong I shall apologize and ask your forgiveness.

All you need do is provide some support information for your claim. Show me something that has Fitzgerald saying an undercover agent was exposed.

done me house chores

now it's time to say i know fuck all about fuck all

and also to lol @:

Posted by: -B at October 28, 2005 06:50 PM

u're a badass

: )

a "15cent scew" to fuck u up

and a $100-$400 ciggie

how divine

(that $100 ciggie better be laced with some A-grade china white)

Ah, I see your point, Anon.

Your nitpicking the difference between Plame's status being 'undercover' vs. 'classified by the C.I.A.' Revealing either, of course, is a crime.

So Libby shouldn't hang for Treason. Got it.

From Yahoo News:

"...special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald left little doubt that he believed Cheney's top aide learned Valerie Plame's classified identity from the CIA, State Department and his own boss and then revealed it to reporters."

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Posted by: air-ono at October 28, 2005 07:05 PM

uhm, hi. how is that caffeine going?