~~~The statement by the official came after the White House had declined to confirm, for three days, Libby's grand jury testimony that he had been told by Cheney that Bush had authorized the disclosure.~~~

He's setting up Libby and maybe even Cheney to take the fall on this one so he can say he wasn't lying.

This is a joke, but not a funny one. Unbelievable how thiese people think. Pure evil!!

with butter. maybe some jam. maybe.

Posted by: conbo at April 9, 2006 10:16 PM

Mmmmmm - I did both...

Some tasty red raspberry (canned [or should i say jarred] by my sis-in-law) that didn't suck!!!

yep, think I'll have a little 2nd's and then drift off to bed...

Posted by: UNODOSTRES at April 9, 2006 10:01 PM

If I compare it to last week? No. I would call it ok.

*

In Nepal, Death Toll Is 3 as Protests Continue

...

The protests this week, marking the 16-year anniversary of democracy in Nepal, are by far the most strident public demonstrations against the king, who seized absolute control of the government 14 months ago on the grounds that politicians had failed to stanch the debilitating Maoist rebellion.

About 13,000 Nepalis have died in the conflict between the rebels and the government. The conflict also has virtually halted economic growth in Nepal, much of which already suffers from dire poverty.

...

Hey -tk...I'd like to hear your song too.

The Supreme Liar in Chief!!

Does he even know what the truth is!?!

Could Australian workers follow the French lead? by Sue Bolton

...

Contrasting France and Australia

In France, the government has introduced a law affecting young workers. In Australia, a whole raft of anti-worker and anti-union laws have been introduced that affect every single worker.

In France, the student and union movements have responded with two months’ of mass mobilisations, causing a split in the French government over whether to compromise or tough-out the situation. In Australia, two nationwide actions have occurred in 16 months, with the next one not due until June 28.

In France, the union and student movements have set a deadline for the total withdrawal of the legislation, which has already been passed through parliament. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) secretary Greg Combet appears to be accepting that a future Labor government would not even restore all that the Howard government has taken away.

...

Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President

By Neil Mackay
15 September 2002: A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.
The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It says: 'The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.'

The PNAC document supports a 'blueprint for maintaining global US pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests'.

This 'American grand strategy' must be advanced for 'as far into the future as possible', the report says. It also calls for the US to 'fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars' as a 'core mission'.

LINK

He's setting up Libby and maybe even Cheney to take the fall on this one so he can say he wasn't lying.

This is a joke, but not a funny one. Unbelievable how thiese people think. Pure evil!!

Posted by: toniD at April 9, 2006 10:27 PM

==========================================================

You thought you had a rope..

Then it was a straw..

Then it became a thread..

Now Fitzmas is nothing but a plume of smoke..

This is a must watch video

How the US government, big business, and the CIA developed techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people. Click here to view - Download File Windows Media

Mmmmmm - I did both...

Some tasty red raspberry (canned [or should i say jarred] by my sis-in-law) that didn't suck!!!

yep, think I'll have a little 2nd's and then drift off to bed...

Posted by: -tk at April 9, 2006 10:28 PM

schlober

i need to eat.

Hey -tk...I'd like to hear your song too.

Posted by: A. at April 9, 2006 10:28 PM

Cool - you want it with or without vocals? or both ;)

I'll have to email...and you'll have to unnerstand (as dr might say) that they're unfinished (but that's only cause music-types always qualify their shit...just in case someone thinks it sucks - then we got an out ;)

FRED HIATT
Is he mentally retarded or incredibly dishonest? Or both. Could be both.

Posted by not sam at April 9, 2006 10:23 PM

Compare today's WP lead article with today's WP editorial

My email is inder my name in my post to you, -tk.

Umm...I'll take both, please.

*

I think My Space is getting so much publicity, negative I guess, because of that snake Rupert M.

US government, big business, and the CIA developed techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people.

Posted by: toniD at April 9, 2006 10:36 PM

YOU MEAN OTHER THAN CABLE TV ?

I'll send both - two diff songs (but sent one at a time)

Also - I'll gettum loaded up...but dieter's already begging me to let him push the "send" button :) he likes that sorta simple pleasure...

Posted by: War Dog [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 9, 2006 10:34 PM

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Isn't it past your bed time yet squat-boy?

Remember you gotta lay down your morning bullshit too.
Are ya getting overtime for this?

Click here to view - Download File Windows Media

Posted by: toniD at April 9, 2006 10:36 PM

that one is a keeper. will watch it later.

We make you this fat!

It is too LATE. No matter what Bush claims at this point, it has now hit critical mass ... everyone believes Bush lied about everything important.. and he is responsible for many thousands of deaths not to mention the loss of our liberties, and our livelihoods.

No matter what he says at this point, public opinion is that he is a LIAR.

He can't change it now.

Ha.

Ronald McDonald In Scared Silly

We make you this fat!

Posted by: conbo at April 9, 2006 10:48 PM

That's great!

hey Catharine-

Did you find that comercial disturbing on many many levels or was it just me?

The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign.

Monday, April 10, 2006; Page A01

The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The documents state that the U.S. campaign aims to turn Iraqis against Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, by playing on their perceived dislike of foreigners. U.S. authorities claim some success with that effort, noting that some tribal Iraqi insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists.

For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi's role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

Remember, from the beginning we all believed (even the apolitical) that Cheney was really running the show (Thanks to SNL and all the late night comedians/talk show hosts).

And now, if he were to wage a war or even a terrorist attack against his own people ... the zeitgeist is such that people would only be that much more convinced that he has done all the bad things that have been alleged.

His goose is officially cooked. Just stand back and let him fall. Hard.

His goose is officially cooked. Just stand back and let him fall. Hard.

Posted by: Catharine at April 9, 2006 10:58 PM

lol..

Really..?

Did you find that comercial disturbing on many many levels or was it just me?

Posted by: conbo at April 9, 2006 10:55 PM

You mean the one with the Transylvania tater tots?

Yup.

His goose is officially cooked. Just stand back and let him fall. Hard.

Posted by: Catharine at April 9, 2006 10:58 PM

They can still pin everyhing on Andy Card and not feel any political ramifications.

;) jk. who knows with this bunch tho.

The man behind the mask:

Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) June 17, 2004 -- Today Actor Joe Maggard(Matlock,Love Field,One Christmas) announced he filed a Lawsuit(Case No. 7:04-CV-117-FL(1)) against McDonald's Corp. and Leo Burnett Advertising in Federal Court in Raleigh NC on June 9th 2004. Mr. Maggard has alleged in his Complaint that McDonald's and Leo Burnett engaged in unethical business practices and fraud.

"I have bent over backwards to try and communicate with McDonald's in a positive way how very upset I am with way they have treated me for the last 10 years." Mr. Maggard said. "It's a shame because I grew up under the Golden Arches, then to play Ronald and have them treat me this way, maybe a Judge will help us sort out our disagreement."

Mr. Maggard alleges in his Lawsuit that McDonald's refused to provide a copy of his contract for 8 years. Also, McDonald's used coercion, threats and manipulation in dealing with his contract negotiations. "McDonald's used the very same tactics against Sandra Darling out in California, one of their own Franchisees. A jury found them guilty, I guess thats just the way McDonald's does business." Maggard said.

"I pray for Justice in this proverbial David vs McGoliath" Maggard said. "I served my Country overseas in the US Army, then came home and put on the badge of a Deputy Sheriff and served my community. I put my life on the line to protect the laws we live by, now I expect those very same laws to protect me."

McDonald's has demanded the return of Mr. Maggards Ronald McDonald Costume, he has refused saying, "Tell the McQueen Amy Murray at the Golden Palace in Oak Brook that she can kiss this Ronald's McGriddle!"

"I look forward to my day in Court" said Mr. Maggard. The case will be heard by the Honorable Louise Flanagan, US District Court Judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

"It all comes down to a lack of respect for anything or anyone by McDonald's and Leo Burnett, someone said they were just a conscienceless entity. Well this is one Ronald who is gonna stand his ground against the McBullies!" said Maggard as he polished his Big Red Magic Shoes.

I'm off to bed you late nighter!!

See you in the morning!!

nite ToniD.

thanks for the movie link.

In the realm of Public Perception... Yes he is done. He is not yet burning in hell, perhaps ... but I can't wait around for the video confirmation, much as I'd like to see it. It doesn't, however, mean that we let up on his sorry ass, but we can put some of the energy into bringing down some of the other sorry asses who supported his America-Hating ways.

The next step is too talk about changing this country to something everyone can be proud of (or at least proudER).

I think Feingold has some good ideas, whether or not he is ultimately an interim answer ... we can back him and push him even further.

Clean out as much riff-raff as we can in this year's elections and put the others on notice.

Ronald McDonald: Crimes Against Humanity

25 Apr 1977 McDonald's Corporation requests an injunction forbidding former Ronald and recently outed queer Bob Brandon from dressing as Ronald McDonald or implying in any way that the spokesclown is homosexual.

12 Aug 1988 Mac and Me released in theaters. This horrible, low-budget ripoff of E.T.: The Extraterrestrial was financed by McDonald's and the Coca-Cola Company. It also features Ronald McDonald as himself.

16 Jun 1991 A Ronald McDonald statue disappears from a McDonald's in Mesa, Arizona. The next day, an anonymous vegetarian phones The Arizona Republic to demand meatless sandwiches at the restaurant. The statue is later found burning in the desert by a sheriff's helicopter crew.

4 Mar 1998 Four men dressed like the Hamburglar steal a Ronald McDonald statue from a McDonald's in Saint-Jean-de-Vedas, France. They leave a message behind: Humanitarian intervention. Ronald McDonald rots away your guts and pollutes your head. React. Deliver the planet from this blight.

20 Sep 2001 A swastika appears on the forehead of the Ronald McDonald statue in front of the Ronald McDonald House in Tucson, Arizona.

2 May 2003 In San Jose, California, 4-year-old Joey Roberts wedges his head into the crotch of a life-sized Ronald McDonald statue. McDonald's employees finally release him after 35 minutes using a quantity of liquid soap.

Posted by: ronald sues mcdonalds at April 9, 2006 11:09 PM

That's great!

You're on fire, McConbo!

One who does not believe Seymour Hirsch's account of Chimp's refusal to remove the "nuclear option" against Iran either does not know or does not want to acknowledge the depths of Chimp's insanity and stupidity.

Let's "keep tabs" on this developing story.

Wilson Wants to See Leak Transcripts

Former ambassador Joe Wilson demands release of leak investigation transcripts.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=1823154

You're on fire, McConbo!

Posted by: Catharine at April 9, 2006 11:19 PM

I am trying to figure out if that story was satire or if it really happened.

here is one that is not satire:

McDonalds Plays Role In Destruction Of The Amazon

Another baby is born to the empire

conbo is a golden anarchist.

conbo is a golden anarchist.

Posted by: Crank Bait at April 9, 2006 11:34 PM

hahaha!

I never knew that McDonald's was that evil until started googling around. They feed their chickens
ge grain and then we eat it and no one really knows (yet) what ge food does to people long term.

guess we will find out.

Defending Democracy in Ecuador

You can run, GOP - but you can't hide!

Posted by NanceGreggs

Added to homepage Sun Apr 09th 2006, 10:24 AM ET

Abraham Lincoln, the president you are so fond of calling yourselves the party of, said it best. “You can’t fool all of the people, all of the time.” And sadly for you, the time of reckoning is now. It was inevitable, and you should have seen it coming.

Whoever coined the phrase, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” obviously never met a Republican voter living the nightmare you have created. A spurned woman’s wrath pales in comparison to the anger now being felt by those who believed your promises and your rhetoric, only to realize they have been betrayed.

And because – as you have never missed an opportunity to point out – you control the White House, the Congress and the Senate, there is no one else to pass the buck to, no one else to take the blame.

You broke it; you bought it. The disaster in Iraq, the desecration of our environment, the rising national debt, the faltering economy – all yours, every last bit of it. And all the spinmeisters in the world cannot untangle you from the noose you have so carefully, albeit inadvertently, placed around your own necks.

You promised your supporters protection. They’ve seen your response to Katrina. They now know you cannot keep them safe in the aftermath of a predictable natural disaster, no less a terrorist attack which, as you have unfailingly reminded them, is inevitable and will come without warning.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

hrm.

Captain My Captain

freedom haters

Captain My Captain

Posted by: conbo at April 9, 2006 11:52 PM

Yeah.

That's what she's talkin' 'bout.

The baby and the bun ... that's just wrong.

McDonald's Popularity Grows

watch out folks ... she's on a McRoll...

The baby and the bun ... that's just wrong.

Posted by: Catharine at April 10, 2006 12:00 AM

It is wrong, isn't it?

McDonalds is wrong. Maybe Ronald is the anti-Christ. It says the antiChrist will have wide appeal and fool many. haha.

jk.

You assured your constituents that you were the party of fiscal responsibility. They’ve seen the national debt rise to unprecedented heights. They’ve seen their hard-earned tax dollars funneled into the coffers of Halliburton, the pockets of the wealthy, the accounts of the oil conglomerates. They’ve watched you debate million-dollar bridges-to-nowhere, while schools and hospitals struggle to keep financially afloat.

You promised your voters victory in Iraq, and triumph in the War on Terror. They’ve seen their soldiers come home with broken bodies and broken minds; they’ve seen the caskets you’ve tried so to hard to keep from view. They’ve seen the terror in the eyes of Iraqi children, and the suffering of the people you’ve allegedly liberated.

You held yourselves out to moral citizens as the guardians of family values. They’ve watched you gut social programs that feed hungry children and shelter the homeless, that offer assistance to the poorest among us. They’ve read about the raises you’ve voted for yourselves time and again, while they struggle to provide for their own families in the face of the rising prices and shrinking paycheques caused by the very policies you’ve endorsed.

You sold yourselves to your trusting followers with promises of bringing integrity and honesty back to Washington. They’ve seen the nightly news reports about how your political favours are available to the highest bidder. They’ve witnessed your fellow party members breaking the laws of our land for personal gain – or, worse yet, for political revenge. They’ve heard your president say that he is not accountable to them, nor to anyone, because he is above the very law he has sworn to protect.

You identified yourselves to people-of-faith as good Christians. They’ve seen the photos from Abu Ghraib. They know that good Christians, nor anyone with an ounce of humanity, would never countenance such barbarity, no less condone it. Even the most hard-hearted of your supporters have been reduced to tears by what they have seen, and by what you have allowed our country to become.

If you look at your flagging poll numbers, and wonder where your supporters have gone, I can tell you where to find them.

They’re on the unemployment lines, thanks to your support of the outsourcing of their jobs. They’re in the waiting rooms of local free clinics with their sick children, because you have made health care insurance a luxury beyond their grasp. They’re busy trying to find prescription medicine for their elderly parents, because you have protected the profits of the pharmaceutical industry rather than protect our most vulnerable citizens.

Some of them are homeless, because your policies have plunged them into poverty. Some of them are at funerals, burying sons and daughters who lost their lives fighting for what you call freedom in the Middle East; soldiers who died for lack of a few hundred dollars worth of body armour, while billions of dollars disappeared into the pockets of the war profiteers you handed no-bid contracts to with a wink and a knowing nod.

As the country goes to the polls this November, and again in 2008, you might wonder if your former party supporters will remember what you have done to them, to their lives, and to their once-proud nation. You might try to convince yourselves that all is not lost, there’s always the chance that you can still fool some of the people, some of the time.

Well, I wouldn’t count on it. You know what they say; an Elephant never forgets.

if women still knew how to cook, if they still knew their PLACE, everybody wouldnt eat at Mcdonalds.

for every fast chain restaurant , theres 1000 families who thinks\ home cooking is ordering a pizza or chinese.

*kidding

He's a smart one ain't he?

As the country goes to the polls this November, and again in 2008, you might wonder if your former party supporters will remember what you have done to them, to their lives, and to their once-proud nation. You might try to convince yourselves that all is not lost, there’s always the chance that you can still fool some of the people, some of the time.

Well, I wouldn’t count on it. You know what they say; an Elephant never forgets.

Posted by: Catharine at April 10, 2006 12:07 AM

Stand UP! Stand Up!

Hall of Shame Evil GOP Bastard of the Month:

Neo-Confederate Republican Senator (VA) and Presidential Hopeful (?) Sen. George Allen

The ugly secret of the GOP is that if you scratch the skin of a Republican you'll find an unrepentant racist lurking underneath. Allen, whose odd penchant for Confederate flags extends back to his privileged youth in California, was reportedly involved in an ugly racist incident there. A Confederate flag (and a hangman's noose) has adorned his office. Allen's judgement has shown no signs of improvement over the years. Today, Senator Allen is pushing to promote General Jerry "My God's Better Than Your God" Boykin to command US Special Forces. Could a theocratic "Seven Days in May" scenario be far behind? The truly amazing thing about Allen is that today's Republican Party is so intellectually bankrupt that this goober is considered a serious contender for his party's nomination for president.

MORE

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 240

Flaming Pants Edition

You know it's a watershed week for conservative idiocy when The Hammer resigns in disgrace and doesn't make it to the top slot on the list. George W. Bush (1) has that dubious honor in the wake of his flat-out fraudulent claims of a desire to stop White House leaks, while Tom DeLay (2) crawls into second place, followed closely by his supporters (3) - or as I like to call them, "petty thugs." Elsewhere, Chris Matthews (5) sucks up, John McCain (6) just sucks, and the Grand Old Pedophiles (7,8) get two slots on the list this week. As usual, don't forget the key (and yes, I know, we still need to fix it).

Fun Site:

EvilGOPBastards

Stand UP! Stand Up!

Posted by: wooot! at April 10, 2006 12:12 AM

Woooooooot!

in fairness, McDonald has something called a Ronald McDonald house in every state where they help children with cancer, for free i think.

Ronald mcDonald House

Did You Bank Off Halliburton?

but!

what is this?

Families are asked to make a $10 donation per night or do a household chore to help contribute to the operating needs

ronald mcdonald house Chattanooga

Howdy,

Hey, where did all this Mcdonald's stuff come from ?

I mean why...did something happen?

I swear that stuff does not taste the same as when

I was a crumb crusher.

Hey Kev!

//I mean why...did something happen?//

no. just another way for me to hog the blog with my bs. :)

KKKristians Won't Let Catholics Adopt

Nothing new here, but Bush kindsa peeps don't like Catholics, Muslims, Jews... Man people are stupid to believe he gives a crap about them, huh?

Posted by: conbo at April 10, 2006 12:30 AM

------------------

Oh...I was kinda hoping they got busted for something.

That "food" WILL kill you!

...ever see that documentary "Supersize Me"?

The guy ate from the menu exclusivly for a month and nearly died.

...ever see that documentary "Supersize Me"?

The guy ate from the menu exclusivly for a month and nearly died.

Posted by: MJP at April 10, 2006 12:37 AM

your kidding? geez. i am never taking my son there again. NEVER. I know the food is rotten
but I figure as long as you as you don't eat there a lot its a good treat.

good lord.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

My email exchange with Senator Pat Roberts

posted by Clyde - 11:04 AM

Senator Roberts wrote:

Recently, as a result of a criminal leak of highly classified information, the media reported that the president has authorized the NSA to intercept international communications of individuals believed to be linked to al Qaeda. As Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, with jurisdiction and oversight of the NSA and other intelligence agencies, I have been fully briefed on this program. It is my conclusion that the program is legal and constitutional. (snip)

http://www.dubyad40.com/2006/04/my-email-exchange-with-senator-pat.shtml

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HD08Ak03.html

SuperSize Me

wow. i think we have this, somewhere. I should watch it.

Posted by: conbo at April 10, 2006 12:40 AM

--------------

Check the flik out at the video store...

I believe it one several awards.

The guy who did the eating only ate from there

menu breaky, lunch and din...

After one month, he was in danger of liver failure.

I avoid it now.

SuperSize Me

wow. i think we have this, somewhere. I should watch it.

Posted by: conbo at April 10, 2006 12:42 AM

It's a must see.

I had always wanted my first feature film to be something different, off-center, original. We found all of the above and more with Super Size Me. It started off as such a fun experience, you can see the jubilation on my face on Day One, but as the days pass, the reality of what this food does to you really comes across on screen. The days couldn’t go by fast enough for me … I just wanted this experience to be over.

Holy Crap!

Super Size Me....good film, should have been shorter, felt padded (no pun intended)....

Here in NYC you don't have to eat fast food as much...so many places to eat and gorge yourself...

“You have to question whether it’s food or not. If ­you’ve got something that’s created in an assembly line somewhere hundreds of miles away, comes in on a truck, is thawed out and heated, and is adulterated with chemicals from some processing science company in New Jersey, I ­don’t know if that really is food.”

…methyl anthranilate, which is used as a metal corrosion inhibitor in jet engine lubricants and also to make grape ­Kool-­Aid taste like grape.

sweet cheezits! chemicals?

my god.

well. im off. here is a cool website i found.

its about fast food, cocoa cola, Milk and flouride.

Poison

Trader Joe's finally came to Manhattan. I, for one, am thrilled. Hope they will open one a little closer to me, though.

Nightie night, Conbo.

good evening gang

was a long day. finally relaxing )

Evening, Jim....

eya Catharina!

good posts above sister )

Tanks )

times like this i wish i had a magic wand.

Hey Kev!

Posted by: Catharine at April 10, 2006 12:29 AM

Hey Catherine

8-)

Got a few musics from the Big Lebowski and Dusk til Dawn I'll post if I can wake up proper.

US Proganda http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12243324

Col. Derek Harvey, who served as a military intelligence officer in Iraq and then was one of the top officers handling Iraq intelligence issues on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an Army meeting at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., last summer.

In a transcript of the meeting, Harvey said, "Our own focus on Zarqawi has enlarged his caricature, if you will -- made him more important than he really is, in some ways."

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The military's propaganda program largely has been aimed at Iraqis, but seems to have spilled over into the U.S. media. One briefing slide about U.S. "strategic communications" in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the "home audience" as one of six major targets of the American side of the war.

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Hey Guys

IHT: White House Letter: At the Easter egg roll, focus on a family issue

Next Monday, some 200 gay families are planning to attend the annual White House Easter Egg Roll to showcase themselves to the nation and President George W. Bush. But some religious conservatives say the families are "crashing" the public event and exploiting children for political ends.

"We're not protesting the president's policies on gay families," insisted Jennifer Chrisler, the executive director of the Family Pride Coalition, the organizer of the gay families attending the event. "We are, however, helping him understand that gay families exist in this country and deserve the rights and protections that all families need."

Not so, said Mark Tooley, the director of the United Methodist committee at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, an influential conservative group.

"It's facetious and not very persuasive for Family Pride to say they're not making a political statement," Tooley said in an interview last week. In the conservative Weekly Standard magazine in January, Tooley called the gay families crashers and surmised that President Rutherford B. Hayes, who held the first public White House Easter Egg roll in 1878, never would have imagined the controversy that the event was stirring up more than a century later....Laura Bush, has adopted a neutral position.

"All families are welcome to attend the Easter Egg Roll, provided they comply with the rules," Susan Whitson, Laura Bush's press secretary, said Friday. "No more than two adults per group, and at least one child under the age of 8."...

--MORE--

Hey "NC"

Hey "NC"

Posted by: Kevin © at April 10, 2006 01:42 AM

Hey Kevin,

"Swinging The Blues" Count Basie And His Orch (1938) 02:45

http://www.jazz-on-line.com/ram/DEC63289-A.ram

"Count Basie: Swingin' the Blues" Jazz From Lincoln Center with Ed Bradley 58:17

http://murrayst.superb.net/sound/basie.rm

Yes hello

[sigh]

Be afraid. Be very afraid...

Replay of Sunday's CNN Late Edition ... C-SPAN Radio ... Just starting ....

http://play.rbn.com/?url=cspan/g2cspan/live/cspan4db.rm&proto=rtsp&rbnkey=1

"exactly.

sit down."

times like this i wish i had a magic wand.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at April 10, 2006 01:10 AM

----------

Now, I ask you...

is this not ripe for a riff?

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/nq/2006/nq060409.gif

I have a good song for you

I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - Madeline Peyroux

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2006/db060409.gif

hee!

bravo non sequitur!

hee!

bravo non sequitur!

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at April 10, 2006 02:11 AM

I liked that one too

8-)

-tk

Listening to your tune now.

Love it!

Kinda thing that would go marvelously with some of the stuff the really good animators are coming out with. Great short film stuff!

And that's without any singing at all!

Well done!

like the pipe going directly into dicks room...

Replay of Sunday's CNN Late Edition ... C-SPAN Radio ... Just starting ....

Posted by: Kevin © at April 10, 2006 02:03 AM

Thanks.

Listening now.

I like that stuff.

Grady is a pretty horse

http://www.megseig.com/catomemcopy/meet/gradyp2.jpg

-tk

A really filthy ranter voice would go wonderfully with that. Completely unintelligible!

Something an old wino would mumble!

hee!

i always turn to the comics first when i want to know whats going on. if i ever see "Cathy" show awareness of any of this stuff i'll know the time is right for changes.

Tom Tomorrow is no Jack Chick...

"if i ever see "Cathy" show awareness of any of this stuff i'll know the time is right for changes."

:D

Have any of you heard of Madeline Peyroux?

Well, when you put it that way...

Madeline Peyroux?

sky rockets in flight!

Jim I put a link to a song of hers up above.

Tom Tomorrow is no Jack Chick...

Posted by: Anonymous at April 10, 2006 02:21 AM

Can't wait for Delay to get his own TV Show on Trinity Broadcast Network

This is a must watch video

Posted by: toniD at April 9, 2006 10:36 PM

Thanks.

(For later...)

Zinni's on now -

Must read Hersh later too...

Can't wait for Delay to get his own TV Show on Trinity Broadcast Network

Posted by: Kevin © at April 10, 2006 02:32 AM

i'll give her a listen Meg.

hows your gang doing?

hey!

i like her!

strangest arrangement of "write a letter"

Gonna lay down a listen to C-SPAN .... Good Night Everyone .

8-)

nite Kev!

We're all pretty good. Patrick had to be shut out of the room because he was hassling me. But we;ll cuddle in a few minutes when I go to bed.

i'll bet he's good at getting attention too.

everything winding down here.

just about ready for

a snooze myself.

goodnite Kevin Copywrite

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Happy Late Nighters!

Jimmy I got some more info for you and its in your neck of the woods.

Did Anne ever say what she was going to do with her mom?

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He hassles me and knocks things around until I pay attention to him. He's naughty!

eya gpr!

Okay, I HAVE to go to bed. Gnite.

not as far as i know gpr.

waiting to find out myself

nite Meg,

give Patrick a scritch for me!

Kevin reminded me of another Hammer on TBN...

Hammer's blog

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Jimmy, the company Bigfoot Industries builds Bigfoot RV fiberglass campers, trailers & motorhomes for cold weather use that have high R value polyurethane(R 8 per inch) for a 1.5" wall R value of 12. And that stays that way in very cold & in hot weather unlike fiberglass. Their 1.5" polystyrene walls are R8. Very well built units:

http://www.bigfootrv.com/

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tanks gpr.

they look good.

Night Meg!

Jimmy, I think that Bigfoot spray injects their insulation in so they get complete & full coverage in their cavity. I think one can buy polyurethane in 4x8 sheets though.

Their units are expensive but they do have a lot of features. Good ones to study though.

Too bad that building a fiberglass mold is so expensive. It is really only practical for producing a lot of units.

In Bush's world,and the world of the greedy selfish fatcat fucks,nationalized healthcare...HAH!!!You want the truth!Neocons cant handle the truth!If your wealthy you can be healthy,but growing medicine yourself for free is illigal based on what?THIS?!

blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html

You telling me,in 70 years,no one has relized marijuana doesnt make ax murderers out of people?Corrupted media in Foxnews.Isnt this Hearst dude Patty Hearst dad?Hes a fucking monster mad cause he lossed some land.Marijuana prohibition is rascist and a corperate sham!

blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html

Night Meg!

Jimmy, I think that Bigfoot spray injects their insulation in so they get complete & full coverage in their cavity. I think one can buy polyurethane in 4x8 sheets though.

Their units are expensive but they do have a lot of features. Good ones to study though.

Too bad that building a fiberglass mold is so expensive. It is really only practical for producing a lot of units.

Posted by: GreatAmericanPatriot at April 10, 2006 03:07 AM

are you making life molds of bigfoot?

tanks gpr.

they look good.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at April 10, 2006 02:56 AM

Yep...

I like the curves and the windows.

If I was building a smaller trailer, I would be tempted to put a v nose on the front like are on horse trailers & some cargo trailers for less air resistance.

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just scrolled up.

never mind.

i can't sleep.

Oh yeah,dont ask me how I know,but marijuana is an appropriate treatment for Post traumatic stress disorder.And Ill testify to that in court.

Man, our government is full of a bunch of stupid selfish little men.

blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html

are you making life molds of bigfoot?

Posted by: conbo (?) at April 10, 2006 03:09 AM

LOL!

Not unless Jimmy has really BIG FEET, which I don't think he does.

Life molds are done with plaster anyway, Not fiberglass.

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TODAY'S SCNADAL FROM THE SCANDAL-A-DAY GOVERNMENT:

Amerikans continue to live in a modern version of the Soviet system: Zarqawi is a street thug - "a very small part of the actual numbers," the military admits; admits that it has inflated "outsiders" roles because it is linking Iraq to the 9/11/01 disaster

The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

....The military's propaganda program largely has been aimed at Iraqis, but seems to have spilled over into the U.S. media. One briefing slide about U.S. "strategic communications" in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the "home audience" as one of six major targets of the American side of the war.

That slide, created by Casey's subordinates, does not specifically state that U.S. citizens were being targeted by the effort, but other sections of the briefings indicate that there were direct military efforts to use the U.S. media to affect views of the war. One slide in the same briefing, for example, noted that a "selective leak" about Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter based in Baghdad. Filkins's resulting article, about a letter supposedly written by Zarqawi and boasting of suicide attacks in Iraq, ran on the Times front page on Feb. 9, 2004.

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Jimmy, I notice that Bigfoot Industries even has insulated & heated holding tanks. They use 3 tanks, freshwater, gray water & black water.

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Lima - More than 15 million Peruvian voters will head to the ballot box on Sunday to choose a new president and parliament after a presidential campaign marked by hate and fear.

Opinion polls indicate a tight three-way race among the volatile authoritarian former soldier Ollanta Humala, who has no party apparatus behind him, the conservative Christian Democratic candidate Lourdes Flores and the traditional party Apra's candidate Alan Garcia.

That's a change from a week ago, when Humala led the polls.

To win the first round, a candidate needs 50 per cent plus one vote, but it's doubtful any of the three will reach that. The runoff between the top two candidates would take place on May 7.

In all, there are 20 candidates for president and 2,587 candidates for 120 seats in parliament.

Humala is an aggressive nationalist who blames Peru's white population for the country's poverty and is expected to get strong backing from Peru's poor, who make up more than 50 per cent of the population.

But Humala has never held office, has no party and is surrounded by a team of unknowns.

His opponents warn that a Humala victory would mean a dictatorship, social unrest and withdraw of foreign capital. Garcia's Apra Party is expected to emerge as the strongest party in parliament.

Humala's family have provoked worry around the country. His mother has said she would have homosexuals shot. His father wants to chase all whites out of the country and his brother, Antauro, who was incarcerated after a military rebellion that left five dead, wants to have departing President Alejandro Toledo and his wife executed.

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Sweet Dreams Jimmy!

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1984, 1984, 1984

The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

....The military's propaganda program largely has been aimed at Iraqis, but seems to have spilled over into the U.S. media. One briefing slide about U.S. "strategic communications" in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the "home audience" as one of six major targets of the American side of the war.

That slide, created by Casey's subordinates, does not specifically state that U.S. citizens were being targeted by the effort, but other sections of the briefings indicate that there were direct military efforts to use the U.S. media to affect views of the war. One slide in the same briefing, for example, noted that a "selective leak" about Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter based in Baghdad. Filkins's resulting article, about a letter supposedly written by Zarqawi and boasting of suicide attacks in Iraq, ran on the Times front page on Feb. 9, 2004.

Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at April 10, 2006 03:17 AM

Worth reposting because it's so fucking sick

conbo, there is a big election in Italy very soon too.

Prodi is leading that putz berlusconi.

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this scooter libby dude is a freak.

he would smile on the way to his execution.

conbo, there is a big election in Italy very soon too.

Prodi is leading that putz berlusconi.

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Posted by: GAP at April 10, 2006 03:23 AM

i thought this paragraph was amusing. it reminded me of republicans:

Humala's family have provoked worry around the country. His mother has said she would have homosexuals shot. His father wants to chase all whites out of the country and his brother, Antauro, who was incarcerated after a military rebellion that left five dead, wants to have departing President Alejandro Toledo and his wife executed.

besides that, he sounds better than the other
two. hes for the poor people.

Scooter Libbey mentality isn't too much different that Oliver North from 20 years ago.

hee!

yeah i'm nodding off.

G'nite gang, love you all!

Im a happy and charming man, I am

nite Jimmy.

You'd never guess I like to have sex with bears and little girls would you?

You'd never guess I like to have sex with bears and little girls would you?

Posted by: conbo at April 10, 2006 03:31 AM

damn. that looks like i was saying it.

i was referring to Scooter's book:

the apprentice

or here:

scooter's sex shocker

Yep conbo...

Have a good night and Monday conbo holding down the fort and any other very late night lurkers!

I'm out...

zzzzzzzz...

nite gap.

Heya!

hi fishgrease!

Hi, #!!!!!!

Thought what you posted about your little boy looking at the babies on google was the cutest damned thing I'd seen in ages.

Not cute as much as...

Poetry.

Dr Pretorius never would have made marijuana illegal.Think about it.

you've been hit by a smooth criminal.

America are you okay?

are you okay?

America-

thanks Fishgrease!

my son is the cutest smartest little boy ever.

and im not exaggerating. really. he's amazing.

id post his picture, but im too scared to put any pictures on the net.

No... never post his picture, #.

Your descriptions paint a wonderful picture.

he sneaks into the nursery at his daycare and plays with the babies. all the teachers thinks
hes so adorable. and he plays with baby dolls.

and dinosaurs. :)

Getting some musics ready.

Back in like, 15

post them Fishy.

Iraqis arrested by coalition forces have disappeared into a 'black hole' with no records of where they are being held, Tony Blair's personal envoy on human rights has warned.
Ann Clwyd said if the scandal of the missing prisoners had been taken more seriously from the start by the US, it could have helped prevent the abuse of detainees in their jails.

In an interview with The Observer, the Labour MP said she was 'very unhappy' at the rising numbers still detained - and called on the Iraqi government to publish a report on claims that inmates were tortured by Iraqi jailers.

Clwyd, appointed after decades of campaigning against Saddam Hussein's regime, reports directly to the Prime Minister and has until now rarely discussed her work.

Blair envoy reveals plight of Iraqis lost in jail maze

Just gotta do some file naming....

Conbo... when my first son was little, we had these story books about dinosaurs we would read to him. They weren't humanized dinosaurs or anything, and even had the names of the real dinosaurs' names. It was just days in the lives of these dinosaurs... wonderfully written and illistrated. He loved them! We took him to Dinosaur State Park in Utah and the curator wanted to keep him! Jake, I think he was 5 or 6, knew all the names of the dinosaurs... even the obscure ones!

I'll try to find out what they were, exactly... those books.

I'll try to find out what they were, exactly... those books.

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 10, 2006 04:33 AM

:) he likes the little foot series, and jurassic park, which i know he shouldn't watch but he loves dinosaurs. it wasn't my idea, J. bought it for him, and so I couldn't take it away.

he has a lot of dinosaur books. he names the dinosaurs like on the little foot movies:

flier, long foot, sharptooth, big horns

:) I have taken him to a dinosaur park here where they let you dig for fake bones. he liked that.

Utah is really close to where my grandparents live. I should take him to that museum when i go and vist the folks again.

I bet your son adored jurassic park.

~~~ I bet your son adored jurassic park ~~~

He was older then, and I think he probably did, but he'd forgotten the names by then.

I mean, when he was little, he knew the correct pronounciations of like 30 different species of dinos! He was a little dinosaur!

PRESIDENT COMMEMORATES SILVER ANNIVERSARY OF BOTCHED REAGAN SHOOTING WHICH NEARLY BEGAT A GLORIOUSLY ELONGATED GEORGE H.W. BUSH REIGN

http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2006/033006.asp

Two songs from the movie The Big Lebowski

This first one has become my favorite version of this song... and I liked the Eagles version plenty. The Gipsy Kings re-defined this tune. Their guitar work is amazing.

Gipsy Kings -- Hotel California

This second one... well, I just like it.

Townes Van Zandt -- Dead Flowers

I mean, when he was little, he knew the correct pronounciations of like 30 different species of dinos! He was a little dinosaur!

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 10, 2006 04:45 AM

it seems like there are at least 300 of them.

different species. Is he interested in dinosaurs still? Did it transform into palentology study?

Just curious. I can see my son doing that, or
being a veteranarian. Or who knows. A scallywag.
:)

I like the dead flowers!

http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2006/033006.asp

Posted by: Anonymous at April 10, 2006 04:49 AM

ha ha ha!

~~~ Is he interested in dinosaurs still? Did it transform into palentology study? ~~~

Nope. He forgot everything about them a few years after that.

Nope. He forgot everything about them a few years after that.

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 10, 2006 05:15 AM

ah well. i wonder if William will get tired of dinosaurs. he has so many of them. he doesn't leave the house without them. this started when he was two.

I thought star wars was going to replace it for awhile, but he just adores dinosaurs. Sometimes
i get tired of them.

he probably will.

:)

I need to take more pictures of him with his
dinosaurs. i know i can never give them away if he outgrows them.

they are his little buddies.

i should go.

bye fishgrease.

For the heck of it...

Bob Dylan -- Hurricane

Good night, Conbo.

It's great when we can chat like that.

You're one of my favorite folks.

~~~ I need to take more pictures of him with his dinosaurs. i know i can never give them away if he outgrows them. ~~~

I gotta happy cry going on here.

Some military intelligence officials question propagandistic use of Zarqawi in Iraq and U.S.

LINK

All this was perfectly obvious to folks on this blog as long as this blog has been here. I mean.... "Al Qaeda In Iraq" is the name of Zarqawi's organization?

Why does that bother me?

Bob Dylan -- Positively 4th Street

One of my favorite lyrics of all time....

...

Yes, I wish that for just one time

You could stand inside my shoes

You'd know what a drag it is ta see you!

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War Dog needs to listen to that song.

Morning Fish,

Been lurking awhile, reading, looking at the links and listening to your music posts.

I like Dylan because he's from my past, I guess.

~~War Dog needs to listen to that song.

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 10, 2006 06:13 AM

You're right, he should listen to that one.

"You just want to be on the side that's winning"

Shallow!!

Wal-Mart Banking Plan Draws Objectors By MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer
Mon Apr 10, 2:25 AM ET

A parade of objectors spanning American business, unions and charities are going before federal regulators to make the case against allowing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to expand its empire into banking.

The first-ever public hearings on a bank application by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. are drawing a wave of opposition to the move by the world's largest retailer. The company insists that consumers and retail banks have nothing to fear and is pledging to stay out of branch banking and consumer lending.

Some 300 institutions operate branches in 1,150 Wal-Mart stores and the company says it doesn't want to compete with them.

Opponents are not convinced. They portray Wal-Mart's proposed in-house bank — which would handle the 140 million credit, debit card and electronic check payments the company handles each year — as leading eventually to full-scale banking with retail branches that would destroy local banks.

Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart already is too big, they say, with 3,900 stores nearly saturating the U.S. market and unrivaled dominance — accounting for 10 percent of the U.S. retail economy, according to some researchers.

"Wal-Mart is a company that does not play by the rules," Robert E. McGarrah Jr., a corporate governance official with the AFL-CIO, said in a statement prepared for Monday's hearing.

"That factor alone makes its proposed bank a threat to the taxpayers and the nation's banking system. ... Wal-Mart's record in communities across America reveals a company that ruthlessly wipes out important community businesses," McGarrah said.

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Mubarak Questions Loyalty of Iraq Shiites By SALAH NASRAWI, Associated Press Writer
Sun Apr 9, 10:36 PM ET

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak angered Iraqi leaders Sunday by saying Shiites there and across the Middle East are more loyal to Iran than to their own countries as he gave a startlingly frank warning about possible civil war in Iraq.

The flap highlights the escalating tensions between predominantly Sunni Arab countries — alarmed by possible Kurdish and Shiite domination of their neighbor — and Iraqis who say they are not getting enough support from their Arab brothers.

"Definitely Iran has influence on Shiites," Mubarak said in an interview broadcast Saturday evening by Al-Arabiya television. "Shiites are 65 percent of the Iraqis ... Most of the Shiites are loyal to Iran, and not to the countries they are living in."

He also said civil war "has almost started" in Iraq.

"At the moment, Iraq is almost close to destruction," he warned.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, said Mubarak's comments were not accurate.

"It is true that there are some kind of clashes among Sunnis and Shias. But it is not civil war," he told Britain's Channel 4 News.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw reiterated that civil war in Iraq was neither imminent nor inevitable but accepted that the situation was "very serious."

Mubarak has rarely commented on the situation in Iraq and his statements usually are broad, vague expressions of concern over the violence and political turmoil there. Arab leaders also generally avoid pointed criticism of their fellow leaders.

So the interview startled not only Iraqis but also the Shiites who form large communities in a number of Mideast nations — particularly the Gulf, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. Some of them said Mubarak's comments only fuel momentum toward civil war.

Mubarak's spokesman, Suleiman Awad, tried Sunday to soften the impact. He said the president was talking about Shiite sympathy with Iran "in view of its hosting of (Shiite) holy shrines."

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