WHO WILL WIN?

Posted by not sam at May 9, 2006 10:02 AM

I have faith that Bush will not fail me and repeat his past at being a failure.

Bush is #1

I would expect that your own ratings would be of a more immediate concern to you. Politicians are concerned with something they call election . AAR on the other hand lives and dies with the Arbitron radio ratings.

If Bush had your problem he would indeed be in trouble. On you last day on the air will you post Bushes popularity numbers? Wouldn't that just be ironic?

G'day, gang!

The sneeky li'l repuke bastards are at it again.

Yeah, all hail the "Borrow & Spend" republicans.

For Investus, our house econ troll: It's the deficit, stupid!

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Another Possible Bump to the Debt Ceiling

A $2.7 trillion budget plan pending before the House would raise the federal debt ceiling to nearly $10 trillion, less than two months after Congress last raised the federal government's borrowing limit.

The provision -- buried on page 121 of the 151-page budget blueprint -- serves as a backdrop to congressional action this week. House leaders hope to try once again to pass a budget plan for fiscal 2007, a month after a revolt by House Republican moderates and Appropriations Committee members forced leaders to pull the plan.

You know....with these low poll numbers of Bush's.....

I'm really starting to doubt he'll win a third term!

(BTW, for the humor-challenged, I DO know about the 22nd Amendment....but apparently AAR/MR still thinks it's "important" to discuss Bush's "numbers")

REPUBLICANS ARE FUCKED

WELCUM TO YOUR 6 MONTH NIGHTMARE REPUBLICAN SCUM

BUSH IS HISTORY

DEMS WILL TAKE OVER AND REAM YOUR ASS WITH AN OIL RIG

YOU LIKE ? I LIKE !

I DO know about the 22nd Amendment

Posted by: Gare at May 9, 2006 10:48 AM

Yeh after we told you..... should have paid attention in school.

"important" to discuss Bush's "numbers")

Posted by: Gare at May 9, 2006 10:48 AM

RIGHT ASSHOLE,, WERE SO STUPID

YOU DONT CARE ABOUT BUSHS LOW NUMBERS

HE CAN STILL GET WHAT HE WANTS RIGHT?

OH WAIT, NO . HIS LOW NUMBERS INDICATE HES A LAME DUCK

ENJOY 2 YEARS OF IMPEACHMENT AND SUBPOENAS, REPO-SCUM.

morning gang,

off to the mill.

pix later, love ya all.

RANDI ON THE ROAD

Join Randi, Cindy Sheehan & Susan Sarandon this weekend in Washington DC
May 13-14 (Sat & Sun) there will be a 24-hour vigil outside the White House to send a message of peace to those who wage the wars.

Look for the Randi table Saturday from 6-8pm ET.

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RANDI ON THE TEEVEE

Tonight (Tue, 5/9/2006) at 6pm ET on CNN Randi returns to do the Dobbs.

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According to War Dog, Iran has had a Nuke for 13 days.

According to War Dog, Iran has had a Nuke for 13 days.""

A nuke? only one?

http://www.watchingamerica.com/paktribune000009.shtml

In an interview with CBS' Sixty Minutes, Lebed said, "I'm saying that more than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of 250 are not under the control of the armed forces of Russia. I don't know their location. I don't know whether they have been destroyed or whether they are stored or whether they've been sold or stolen, I don't know"].

Lebed was killed in a mysterious helicopter wreck in 2002.

the bitch is back?

I see the Dow is still moving toward a new all time high.

Dow 11,613.99 up 29.45 (0.25%)

"For every one that I kill, I create almost 10 more"

During the 2004 presidential race, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney attacked John Kerry for suggesting that the war in Iraq was making America less safe. "The logic is upside-down," the president said during one campaign stop. "See, we don't create enemies and terrorists by fighting back. We defeat the terrorists by fighting back."

Now, we understand that the accountability moment on Iraq has come and gone, but we wonder if the president will take note of some words from a general on the ground anyway. As the Los Angeles Times reports today, Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the U.S. commander in charge of day-to-day military operations in Iraq, is telling his troops: "We have to understand that the way we treat Iraqis has a direct effect on the number of insurgents that we are fighting. For every one that I kill, I create almost 10 more."

-- Tim Grieve

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

The Karl Rove indictment watch: Shuster says he's convinced

From the "For What It's Worth" Department, MSNBC's David Shuster says he's "convinced" that Karl Rove will be indicted in the Valerie Plame case.

Shuster's reasons? They're all pretty speculative, but that doesn't mean they're wrong. First, Shuster says -- and he's surely right about this one -- that Rove wouldn't have testified for a fifth time before Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury if he didn't think he had to do so to save his skin. Second, whatever Rove told the grand jury this time around, it apparently hasn't resulted in an instant "you're clear" from Fitzgerald. And third, "whenever Fitzgerald has identified somebody as 'Official A'" -- and that's the way Rove is identified in the Scooter Libby indictment -- "that person eventually gets indicted."

-- Tim Grieve

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/05/09/rove/index.html

blows againt the neoconiverse.

At this rate, he'll be at zero by July

When a Fox News poll released last week showed George W. Bush's approval rating jumping five points to 38 percent, we suspected that it would prove to be an anomaly: Every other major poll released recently had Bush in the low 30s and falling, and there was little reason to think that the White House was succeeding in turning things around so dramatically so soon.

It looks like we were right. A new USA Today/Gallup Poll out today has the president's approval rating dropping three points in a week, all the way down to 31 percent. How low is that? Only four presidents have done worse since Gallup started keeping track: Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and the current president's father.

Overall, Gallup says, 65 percent of the public disapproves of the president's performance. Only 52 percent of self-described conservatives approve. "You hear people say he has a hard core that will never desert him, and that has been the case for most of the administration," University of Wisconsin polling expert Charles Franklin tells USA Today. "But for the last few months, we started to see that hard core seriously erode in support."

-- Tim Grieve

ah, yes the dow at an all time high. It's take Bush six years to get to the point where he started, thus making possible his "all time high." During the Clinton years, "all time high" wasn't much of a big deal, as it was happening almost every day for 8 years.

CORRUPTION
Ney's #1

Nearly one week after conservatives pushed their "sham" lobbying reform bill through the House, former House Administration Committee chairman Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) -- better known as "Representative #1" in the court pleadings filed in the Jack Abramoff case -- has been implicated in another guilty plea dealing with the Justice Department's investigation into the disgraced lobbyist. Neil Volz, who worked as a top aide to Ney from 1995 to 2002 before working closely with Abramoff as a lobbyist, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to a corruption conspiracy charge and to violating the one-year ban on lobbying former associates in Congress (i.e., the same ban the House bill failed to extend to two years). Volz admitted to accepting "a stream of things of value" from Abramoff and his clients in exchange for legislative favors. While Volz's plea was the fourth to implicate Ney, it was the first plea to go outside of Rep. Tom DeLay's (R-TX) inner circle. Federal prosecutors are focusing in on Ney, and last week said they will "pursue a wide range of allegations about dealings" between Ney and Abramoff, "rather than bring a narrowly focused bribery case against the congressman." Volz is "considered particularly critical" to the case against Ney "because he served as Ney’s closest political confidant for years on Capitol Hill and remained extraordinarily close to the lawmaker after he went to work as a lobbyist with Abramoff in 2002."

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blows againt the neoconiverse.

Posted by: ecrasez l'infame at May 9, 2006 11:31 AM

crushmonkey! whadduppppppp-p-p-p??

Ney = garbage

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Feingold speech at the National Press Club

Feingold recently gave a speech at the National Press Club. You can view it online here.

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Roll Call: Speaker Hastert comes out against Hayden nomination

Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has come out against the nomination of Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to head the CIA, calling the ousting of former Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) from the agency’s top post “a power grab” by John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence.

Hastert’s opposition to Hayden is not based on any personal reservations about the nominee. Rather, Hastert is concerned that installing a top-ranking military official at the “CIA would give too much influence over the U.S. intelligence community to the Pentagon.”

“I don’t know anything about him. He has never darkened my doorstep,” Hastert told reporters on Monday in Aurora, Ill., when asked about Hayden. "I don't think a military guy should be head of CIA, frankly."

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hastert v. negroponte

fat-n-rich v. bald-n-rich

place yer betz

Then I wrote about Stephen Colbert and his unfunny performance at the White House correspondents' dinner.

Kapow! Within a day, I got more than 2,000 e-mails. A day later, I got 1,000 more. By the fourth day, the number had reached 3,499 -- a figure that does not include the usual offers of nubile Russian women or loot from African dictators. The Colbert messages began with Patrick Manley ("You wouldn't know funny if it slapped you in the face") and ended with Ron ("Colbert ROCKS, you MURDER") who was so proud of his thought that he copied countless others. Ron, you're a genius.

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ut the message in this case truly is the medium. The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before -- back in the Vietnam War era. That's when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon. In this way, they managed to prolong the very war they so hated.

The hatred is back. I know it's only words now appearing on my computer screen, but the words are so angry, so roiled with rage, that they are the functional equivalent of rocks once so furiously hurled during antiwar demonstrations. I can appreciate some of it. Institution after institution failed America -- the presidency, Congress and the press. They all endorsed a war to rid Iraq of what it did not have. Now, though, that gullibility is being matched by war critics who are so hyped on their own sanctimony that they will obliterate distinctions, punishing their friends for apostasy and, by so doing, aiding their enemies. If that's going to be the case, then Iraq is a war its critics will lose twice -- once because they couldn't stop it and once more at the polls.

Digital Lynch Mob

Borrow and Spend GOP ......

Another Possible Bump to the Debt Ceiling

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A $2.7 trillion budget plan pending before the House would raise the federal debt ceiling to nearly $10 trillion, less than two months after Congress last raised the federal government's borrowing limit.

The provision -- buried on page 121 of the 151-page budget blueprint -- serves as a backdrop to congressional action this week. House leaders hope to try once again to pass a budget plan for fiscal 2007, a month after a revolt by House Republican moderates and Appropriations Committee members forced leaders to pull the plan.

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But the federal debt keeps climbing because of continued deficit spending and the government's insatiable borrowing from the Social Security trust fund.

With passage of the budget, the House will have raised the federal borrowing limit by an additional $653 billion, to $9.62 trillion. It would be the fifth debt-ceiling increase in recent years, after boosts of $450 billion in 2002, a record $984 billion in 2003, $800 billion in 2004 and $653 billion in March. When Bush took office, the statutory borrowing limit stood at $5.95 trillion.

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Harper's editor says six members of Congress caught in Watergate party scandal

RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday May 9, 2006

The Washington Editor of Harper's magazine, Ken Silverstein, continues to allege that six members current and former members of Congress attended parties sponsored by Brent Wilkes, the man named as an unindicted conspirator in the case of Rep. Duke Cunningham, who was sentenced to eight years in jail for accepting bribes.

These nebulous parties are said at the very least to have involved "occasional card games with friends" (according to the lawyer for recently resigned CIA #3 "Dusty Foggo," also implicated in the scandal) or at worst, were venues for prostitution and bribes.

Formerly an editor for the Los Angeles Times, Silverstein has previously reported on intelligence, political corruption and ties between oil companies and repressive foreign regimes. Excerpts follow.

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I double-checked with my sources regarding who attended Wilkes’s parties, and all of them repeated what they had said before: over the years, at least six former and current members of Congress were said to have been at events sponsored by Wilkes, and their names have apparently been provided to investigators in the Cunningham case. Also, it wasn't only congressmen who were at the parties; intelligence officials, businessmen, and assorted hangers-on also attended. (As we previously noted, some of the attendees may have simply dropped by for a drink.)

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The hatred is back.

Posted by: Green at May 9, 2006 12:15 PM

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No new news here. Just listen to Janeane for 5 minutes.

Digital Lynch Mob

Posted by: Green at May 9, 2006 12:15 PM

But Cohen IS a douche. He leaves that part out.

hastert v. negroponte

fat-n-rich v. bald-n-rich

place yer betz

Posted by: bibimimi~☆♪♪♪ ♡ at May 9, 2006 12:14 PM

Hastert --- out of shape ex-wrestling coach, looks like a heart attack is coming any day.

Nenegroponte -- Pussy... yet can probably still run.

Nenegroponte just has to get Hastert to chase him up a flight of stairs and he wins by Hastert croaking.

kyle foggo...

isn't that blowfish sushi?

Hey you know Bush's seven pound perch story?

A friend of mine says the largest perch on record in the United Stated was four pounds three ounces.

Nenegroponte just has to get Hastert to chase him up a flight of stairs and he wins by Hastert croaking.

Posted by: Kevin © at May 9, 2006 12:23 PM

ice cube down the neck or loogie in his martini?

lung butter on a dinner roll?

a load in hs cuban, maybe...?

Congressional Briefing
Journal-World Staff Reports

Roberts not ready to endorse CIA nominee
May 9, 2006

Sen. Pat Roberts likes Gen. Michael Hayden. But that doesn’t mean Hayden will get Roberts’ support to be the next director of the CIA.

AP reports: “President Bush's nomination of Gen. Michael Hayden as CIA chief ignited a confirmation fight Monday over the intelligence veteran's ties to the controversial eavesdropping program and his ability to be independent from the military establishment.

“Senate Intelligence Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., stopped short of endorsing Hayden: ‘While I am not opposed to his nomination, senators - including myself - will have important questions which they will want addressed.’

“Several Republicans, including House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., have called Hayden's military background troublesome in this case. It will fall to Roberts to keep order on the intelligence panel as it considers Hayden's confirmation.”

The New York Times adds: “White House officials said they wanted to have confirmation hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee completed and General Hayden confirmed before Mr. Goss leaves his post on May 26. But Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who is chairman of the intelligence committee, said only that he hoped to have the hearings begin before May 26, the last scheduled day of the Congressional session before a weeklong recess after Memorial Day.

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"Sen. Pat Roberts likes Gen. Michael Hayden."

ladies & gents, this is ALL U NEED 2 KNOW

Hey you know Bush's seven pound perch story?

A friend of mine says the largest perch on record in the United Stated was four pounds three ounces.

Posted by: Meg at May 9, 2006 12:27 PM

The Germans translated that story wrong Bush said Bass .... The German article uses the word "Barsch," ....which is translated in a German-English dictionary as "perch."

On line you can find both "bass" and "perch" are rendered as "Barsch."

Hate to stick up for Dumbass ... but this is not a story worth all the hype it's gotten.

ah, yes the dow at an all time high. It's take Bush six years to get to the point where he started, thus making possible his "all time high."

Posted by: rtg at May 9, 2006 11:48 AM

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Not sure what you are attempting to say.

Bush was inaugurated on Saturday, the 20th of January, 2001.

On the 19th the Dow closed at 10,587.59.

The Dow is currently at 11,617.60.

So what are you trying to say?

By the way, since you want to link the Dow index to Presidents...

how about what happened while Clinton was there..

How much did the markets drop during his last year?

how about what happened while Clinton was there..

How much did the markets drop during his last year?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 12:39 PM

bush 4.5 trillion to 9 trillion debt

worst

president

ever

shut

up

fuckhead

You know....with these low poll numbers of Bush's.....

I'm really starting to doubt he'll win a third term!

(BTW, for the humor-challenged, I DO know about the 22nd Amendment....but apparently AAR/MR still thinks it's "important" to discuss Bush's "numbers")

Posted by: Gare at May 9, 2006 10:48 AM

The point is, Garish, that his poll numbers and the congress pole numbers are really changing people's minds about who they will vote for, or even worse, will they vote.

You're a smart ass with remarks, but really you are a dumb ass!

worst

president

ever

shut

up

fuckhead

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 12:42 PM

I mean.....really! It has to really SUCK to be
still locked in to the "defend Bush Team!"

What a bunch of losers!

Got a virus off this page.

Hate to stick up for Dumbass ... but this is not a story worth all the hype it's gotten.

Posted by: Kevin © at May 9, 2006 12:37 PM

a perch as big as a bag of sugar...genetic engineerd, boss. don't eat it. stuff it.

HUD secretary's blunt warning
Alphonso Jackson says deal was scuttled after contractor admits not liking Bush
Dallas Business Journal - May 5, 2006by Christine PerezStaff Writer
Once the color barrier has been broken, minority contractors seeking government work may need to overcome the Bush barrier.

That's the message U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson seemed to send during an April 28 talk in Dallas.

Jackson, a former president and CEO of the Dallas Housing Authority, was among the featured speakers at a forum sponsored by the Real Estate Executive Council, a national minority real estate consortium.

After discussing the huge strides the agency has made in doing business with minority-owned companies, Jackson closed with a cautionary tale, relaying a conversation he had with a prospective advertising contractor.

"He had made every effort to get a contract with HUD for 10 years," Jackson said of the prospective contractor. "He made a heck of a proposal and was on the (General Services Administration) list, so we selected him. He came to see me and thank me for selecting him. Then he said something ... he said, 'I have a problem with your president.'

"I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I don't like President Bush.' I thought to myself, 'Brother, you have a disconnect -- the president is elected, I was selected. You wouldn't be getting the contract unless I was sitting here. If you have a problem with the president, don't tell the secretary.'

"He didn't get the contract," Jackson continued. "Why should I reward someone who doesn't like the president, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the president? Logic says they don't get the contract. That's the way I believe."

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The Curious Life of Kyle "Dusty" Foggo

Got a virus off this page.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 12:46 PM

u are the virus on this page, schmoop.

What do we know about Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, the highest-ranking CIA official to admit he attended poker parties thrown by crooked contractor Brent Wilkes? Thanks to a handful of enterprising journos, we know a surprising amount about the guy, whom the CIA insisted was undercover until late last year. Those facts help draw a line through history that leads Foggo -- and others -- from the jungles of Central America to the posh hotel suites where Wilkes did his questionable entertaining.

(A quick shout out to the San Diego Union Tribune, Laura Rozen and Jason Vest, whose work forms the basis for this post.)

In November 2004, newly-installed CIA chief Porter Goss reached down into the ranks of long-serving middle managers at the CIA to make Foggo the Executive Director of the agency. Thus the lifelong friend of Cunningham briber Wilkes found himself in charge of running day-to-day operations for the $5 billion spy outfit.

Wilkes and Foggo have known each other since they played football together in high school 34 years ago. They were roommates in college, and best men at each others' weddings. They named their sons after each other. When the two men became successful in Washington together, they jointly rented a wine locker at the posh Capitol Hill steak joint, the Capital Grille. And for the past 15 years they played poker together, along with lawmakers and other CIA officials. News accounts suggest they did more; both men so far have denied that.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

In the early 1980s, after graduating from San Diego State University and working for three years as a police officer, Foggo joined the CIA. He was sent to Honduras to assist the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, sources told the San Diego Union-Tribune last year. Foggo's position was essentially a contracting officer -- he could get anyone anything they needed. (And in the CIA, that can really run the gamut.) Sources say he was pretty good at it.

Meanwhile, Wilkes set up shop in D.C., and somehow made a living ferrying congressmen to Central America, where he would introduce them to Foggo and the Contras.

With Foggo's help, by the end of the 1980s Wilkes had cemented relationships with a number of congressmen -- mostly members of three key House committees: Intelligence, Appropriations, and Armed Services, the Union-Tribune reports.

(Last week, the SDUT reported that lawmakers from those same committees joined Wilkes and Foggo at Wilkes' hotel suites for "poker parties" throughout the 1990s and into this decade.)

During that time, sources tell POGO's Jason Vest that Foggo racked up a number of potentially embarrassing "social encounters" that are now in his counterintelligence (CI) file:

According to sources familiar with Foggo's counterintelligence file. . . much of [the file] has to do with various social encounters over the years, none of which he's been deceptive about when polygraphed, and all of which have been deemed to be of no threat to operational security--but are still the types of things that could be embarrassing for Goss and the agency. . . .

Several senior CIA officials have expressed concerns about potential embarrassment over parties [Foggo and Wilkes] have thrown together in overseas locations.

So was Foggo a potentially embarrassing appointment for Goss to make? Yes. That may explain why, on the eve of Foggo's appointment, Goss' deputy Patrick Murray put the word out at the CIA that any leak from Foggo's personnel file would be dealt with harshly.

It's still not clear why Goss picked Foggo, or how he knew who he was. Laura Rozen says she's been told that Foggo and Murray knew each other from Wilkes' poker parties.

Foggo isn't undercover anymore, although he may wish he was: Every reporter on this story I've spoken with seems to have a line on Foggo's hijinks. And with his denial in the Wall Street Journal today, anyone with a bone to pick with the guy has a reason to pick up the phone and dish to a reporter. Trust me: the reporters are standing by.

DoD Dominance of Intelligence: Some Context

So some in Congress are worried that putting a four-star general in charge of the civilian Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) would somehow give the military greater control over the nation's intelligence apparatus. If this isn’t a sign that Congressional oversight of intelligence is lacking, we don’t know what is. Indeed, as Judge Richard Posner recently noted, the institution “most ambitious to expand its intelligence activities” is the Defense Department--and is already doing it so well that military intelligence is “out of the practical control of the DNI.”

First, pertinent legislative history about intelligence chiefs: Since the CIA’s beginning, it has been, as our august legislators put it, “the sense of Congress” that “it [wa]s desirable” to have as either Director or Deputy Director “a commissioned officer of the Armed forces, whether in active or retired status,” or someone who has “by training or experience, an appreciation of military intelligence activities and requirements.” Congress specifically stated that only one position could be filled by an active duty officer, and further mandated that such an officer be removed from the Defense Department’s chain of command.

In 2004, when the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act severed the dual DCIA/DCI roles (acronym translation: where the head of the CIA also headed the entire intelligence community) and created the new Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Congress amended the existing statute, and applied the language to the new DNI and his Deputy. For some reason, however, Congress neglected to re-apply the same language to the new CIA Director and Deputy Director positions (indeed, Congress actually forgot to re-authorize the Deputy Director position altogether). But last year--in addition to correcting that little boo-boo--the Senate intelligence committee suddenly decided, after all these years, that the top two CIA officials should only hail from “civilian life.” (Of 19 CIA directors, six have been active-duty flag officers, five have had some previous military service as commissioned officers, and three have previous served as intelligence officers.)

Yet the committee decided to put no actual time limit on “civilian life”. In other words, as far as the Senate’s concerned, resigning one’s commission, taking a day off and then accepting the president’s nomination to be number one or two at CIA is enough to constitute an “appointment from civilian life”. Sounds more like “appointment through a revolving door” to us. (The point is, however, somewhat academic, as the Senate’s intel bill never even got voted on--as such, the matter of requirements and prohibitions for DCIA might be one the Senate wants to resolve before Hayden’s confirmation hearings).

But even more galling about the sudden flurry of Congressional concern about the Pentagon’s influence over intelligence is that the biggest enabler of expanded military intelligence power has been Congress itself. The Armed Services’ committees happily (and quietly) acceded to Donald Rumsfeld’s request to create a Deputy Undersecretary for Intelligence in 2002; in 2003, the Senate committee took about 15 minutes to confirm Stephen Cambone after a farcical hearing. Since then, Cambone’s set to building himself an empire that’s rife with red flags, ranging from unresolved Abu Ghraib related matters, to sketchy overseas covert units to troubling domestic intelligence activities. The state of things at the miltiary’s National Ground Intelligence Center hasn’t exactly inspired confidence.

National Geospatial Agency chief Lt. Gen. James Clapper has been pushed out for pushing back against Rumsfeld and Cambone. The Defense Intelligence Agency, which acquitted itself so well in handling Iraqi defectors like Curveball (not), is now, courtesy Senate confirmation last year, headed by a career artilleryman.

There are no shortage of reasons to be leery of Hayden as potential DCIA. But if Congress is really worried about expanding military control of intelligence, they might want to consider the performance not of four-star generals who’ve been statutorily taken out of the military flow chart, but of certain Pentagon civilian officials who direct military intelligence policy and generals under them.

I'm a little confused about the charts above....

Do I read it correctly to assume we only have 2 or 3 months of Bush left?

second part of the question, does W have to hit the same point in the ratings, is August automatically when disgraced Presidents resign?

What a bunch of losers!

Posted by: Pyramid Patchouli at May 9, 2006 12:44 PM

my statement was anti bush, you know... im NOTDEFENDING bush

Iran President Says Democracy Has Failed By NICK WADHAMS and ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writers
30 minutes ago

Iran's president declared in a letter to President Bush that democracy had failed worldwide and lamented "an ever-increasing global hatred" of the U.S. government. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice swiftly rejected the letter, saying it didn't resolve questions about Tehran's suspect nuclear program.

"This letter is not the place that one would find an opening to engage on the nuclear issue or anything of the sort," Rice said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It isn't addressing the issues that we're dealing with in a concrete way."

Rice's comments were the most detailed response from the United States to the letter, the first from an Iranian head of state to an American president since the 1979 hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

The letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made only an oblique reference to Iran's nuclear intentions, asking why "any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East region is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime."

Otherwise, it lambasted Bush for his handling of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, accused the media of spreading lies about the Iraq war and railed against the United States for its support of Israel. It questioned whether the world would be a different place if the money spent on Iraq had been spent to fight poverty.

"Would not your administration's political and economic standing have been stronger?" the letter said. "And I am most sorry to say, would there have been an ever- increasing global hatred of the American government?"

Ahmadinejad on Tuesday called his letter "words and opinions of the Iranian nation" aimed at finding a "way out of problems" facing humanity, according to the official Iranian news agency. He spoke briefly before boarding a plane for Indonesia, where he was to attend a summit of developing nations.

Iran's top nuclear negotiator called the surprise letter a new "diplomatic opening" between the two countries, but Rice said it failed to resolve the dispute over the Iranian nuclear p

I'm a little confused about the charts above....

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at May 9, 2006 12:53 PM

.......that's not all you are confused about.

btw, I think the person said 1997

Posted by: Çhu??ÿ?ßu??årach at May 9, 2006 01:48 AM

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Nope, the person was pretty specific, referring to the big drop in October of 1987.

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I see the stock market is still climbing, trying to get back to where it was in October 1987, when the dollar was worth more.

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at May 9, 2006 01:22 AM

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btw, on that black Monday the Dow closed at 1,738.74..

The previous high for the month was 2,640.99 on the 2nd.

The Dow currently stands at 11,618.72.

This is why I did not understand the original comment of; "the stock market is still climbing, trying to get back to where it was in October 1987".

This is why I did not understand the original comment of; "the stock market is still climbing, trying to get back to where it was in October 1987".

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 12:59 PM

it is as irrelevant as everything you have to say.

Former House Aide Agree to Cooperate in Abramoff Inquiry

Iran's top nuclear negotiator called the surprise letter a new "diplomatic opening" between the two countries, but Rice said it failed to resolve the dispute over the Iranian nuclear program — the focus of intense U.N. Security Council debate this week.

The Iranian negotiator, Ali Larijani, also said Tuesday that Tehran had no intention of withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and promised to cooperate if the U.N. atomic watchdog agency dealt with the issue of its nuclear program, rather than the Security Council.

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AOL Laying Off About 1,300 Employees By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer
30 minutes ago

NEW YORK - AOL is laying off about 1,300 employees, or 7 percent of its worldwide work force, and is closing its call center in Jacksonville, Fla.

Other cuts will come from call centers in Ogden, Utah, and Tucson, Ariz.

The layoffs announced Tuesday represent the first major cuts since the Time Warner Inc. Internet unit cut about 700 positions last fall.

Although AOL's subscription has been declining, spokesman Nicholas Graham attributed the layoffs to more savvy customers and better tools for them to help themselves.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060509/ap_on_bi_ge/aol_layoffs

Exxon to claim bigger cash pile than Microsoft

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Published: Tuesday May 9, 2006

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Exxon Mobil is set to claim a bigger cash pile than Microsoft's, according to today's Wall Street Journal.

Excerpts follow:

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Move over, Microsoft Corp. Here comes a new cash king.

Thanks to soaring oil prices and record earnings, global energy titan Exxon Mobil Corp. appears to be on track to amass a cash mountain even taller than Microsoft's. That would give Exxon, the world's biggest company by stock-market value, bragging rights to one of the largest cash piles at a nonfinancial company.

Exxon's bank still isn't as big as Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s. Neither is Microsoft's. But Berkshire boss Warren Buffett doesn't pay out dividends or repurchase stock. Had Exxon followed the same policy in the past three boom years, its cash pile would be about double that of Berkshire. Instead, Exxon these days pays out more than $2 billion a month to shareholders.

Despite such an outlay, Exxon's total cash hit $31.9 billion at the end of March, compared with $28.6 billion at the end of 2005, according to figures filed late last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That puts Exxon within reach of Microsoft's cash and short-term investments of $34.8 billion at the end of March. Exxon's cash doesn't include $4.6 billion it has set aside related to the appeal of a court case. Berkshire had cash and equivalents of nearly $43 billion at the end of March, giving it the largest cash holding for a nonfinancial company, according to research provider Capital IQ. Banks, insurers and other financial firms, by definition, are huge cash compilers. (A number of Berkshire-owned companies are financial firms, but Berkshire also owns consumer-goods makers and other types of companies.)

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Posted by: toniD at May 9, 2006 01:03 PM

Does posting a lot of negativity articles somehow make you feel better about your present position in life?

Don't dignify that anonymous asshole with a response, t.

Don't dignify that anonymous asshole with a response, t.

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:12 PM

my response right here mama

open wide ho

Half of Teachers Quit in 5 Years
Working Conditions, Low Salaries Cited

By Lisa Lambert
Reuters
Tuesday, May 9, 2006; A07

Jessica Jentis fit the profile of a typical American teacher: She was white, held a master's degree and quit 2 1/2 years after starting her career.

According to a new study from the National Education Association, a teachers union, half of new U.S. teachers are likely to quit within the first five years because of poor working conditions and low salaries.

Jentis, now a stay-at-home mother of three, says that she could not make enough money teaching in Manhattan to pay for her student loans and that dealing with the school bureaucracy was too difficult.

"The kids were wonderful to be with, but the stress of everything that went with it and the low pay did not make it hard to leave," she said. "It's sad because you see a lot of the teachers that are young and gung-ho are ready to leave."

The proportion of new teachers who leave the profession has hovered around 50 percent for decades, said Barry A. Farber, a professor of education and psychology at Columbia University in New York.

The study, which the association released last week ahead of its annual salute to teachers today, also found that the average teacher is a married, 43-year-old white woman who is religious.

Teachers are more educated than ever before, with the proportion of those holding master's degrees increasing to 50 percent from 23 percent since the early 1960s.

Only 6 percent of teachers are African American, and 5 percent are Hispanic, Asian or come from other ethnic groups. Men represent barely a quarter of teachers, which the association says is the lowest level in four decades.

"We must face the fact that although our current teachers are the most educated and most experienced ever, there are still too many teachers leaving the profession too early, not enough people becoming teachers and not enough diversity in the profession," NEA President Reg Weaver said in a statement.

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Learn some social skills, asshole, and maybe you'll earn the right to have a conversation with the good bloggers here. As of now, you don't even deserve the reprimanding I'm giving you.

As I read about more & more repukes coming out against -- or being suspicious about -- Gen. Hayden being nominated for CIA Director, I can't believe that the Bushiters didn't already know about these reservations in advance.

C'mon, kids...HASTERT! The WH floats this shit face-to-face with senior repuke leaders BEFORE they make it public.

Dim Son & the inner circle don't give a flying fuck about Congress' or anyone else's reservations concerning Hayden.

Here's the bottom line: Putting Hayden in charge of the CIA conveniently puts the entire US intel apparatus under military command: CIA, NSA, DIA.

This greases the skids to purge those agencies of non-believers & reality-based personnel so that those who do remain, or are brought in later, can provide intel in whatever flavor the neocon's have a need of. (think: Iran!)

So when does Congress next have a recess?

From the general line of items posted in this chat room, a reasonable person would have to conclude the participants are mostly "down and out" folks, unhappy with their own lives.

You ought to ask for help from the more positive and happy people.

Will Congress vote against women in the military?
There are 350,000 women serving in the U.S. military, making up almost 15 percent of all active-duty personnel. But federal law does little to protect their reproductive rights.

Congress has forbidden military hospitals from allowing abortion care, except in cases of life endangerment, rape or incest – and in the latter two cases, the woman herself must pay for the services.
Military health-care facilities are not required to carry emergency contraception (the “morning-after” pill).
Please take action today to defend the rights of those who defend us. Urge your lawmakers to support amendments that would improve the health care of women in the military when they consider the Defense Authorization Act.

Take Action

I have pity for you, anonymous.

I have a feeling you wouldn't know happiness if it fell on you.

Jeneane,

your show brings up good points but your pointed hatred and bias towards Israel is misguided. I dont understand how you blame Israel in their conflict. They are defending themselves from groups whose stated goal is to eliminate the state of Israel and the Jewish people. You should be ashamed for spreading lies and falsehoods regarding this subject. Please be more truthful.

As of now, you don't even deserve the reprimanding I'm giving you.

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:16 PM

That's funny, but I guess you just can't control yourself. :-)

The poll finds that an overwhelming 85 percent of Americans say they do not trust Iran to tell the truth about their nuclear technology program, including large majorities of Republicans (91 percent), independents (90 percent) and Democrats (78 percent).

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Now that is what I am takin about..

Them Evil Doers in Iran..

Good thing we got a lot of good War Dogs in office..

Now is no time for weak spines and lilly livers..

What ever a lilly liver is, we don't need none of that now..

We are goin to war..!!!!

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05/09/06 FOX News Poll: Do Not Trust Iran
Tuesday, May 09, 2006

By Dana Blanton

NEW YORK — The latest FOX News poll finds that Americans think Iran cannot be trusted, and a majority thinks Iran either already poses a threat to the United States or that it will soon.

The poll finds that an overwhelming 85 percent of Americans say they do not trust Iran to tell the truth about their nuclear technology program, including large majorities of Republicans (91 percent), independents (90 percent) and Democrats (78 percent).

In addition, a majority of voters thinks Iran is a threat to the United States. A quarter of the public — 24 percent — sees Iran as a “clear and present danger,” and another 33 percent think it will be a threat in the near future. Almost a third think Iran will be a threat sometime down the road (30 percent) and one in 10 think the country, which is known as part of the “axis of evil,” is not a threat to the United States at all. These results are in line with polling conducted at the beginning of the year.

Skeleton in the Bush family cupboard
By Alec Russell in Washington
(Filed: 09/05/2006)

One of America's great historical controversies intensifed yesterday with the publication of fresh evidence that members of an elite secret society may have dug up the remains of the Indian leader Geronimo and displayed his skull in their headquarters.

Rumours that half a dozen members of the Skull & Bones society at Yale University - including President George W Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush - dug up the grave of the legendary Apache leader during the First World War have exercised historians for years.

"Bonesmen", as senior members of the society are known, and the Bush family have long refused to comment on the claims.

The society, founded in 1832 and famous for its strange rituals centred on symbols of death, has over the years been accused of obtaining the skulls of a range of famous figures, including the former president Martin Van Buren and Che Guevara.

Its members include President Bush and his defeated rival in the last presidential election, Senator John Kerry.

Now contemporary evidence has been unearthed backing the theory that a group of young Bonesmen, based at an artillery school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, desecrated Geronimo's grave.

The Apache leader had died while in custody at Fort Sill in 1909, 23 years after he finally surrendered to US troops.

In a letter written in 1918, one society member tells another that Geronimo's skull had been exhumed and was being kept in the "Tomb" - the society's headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Learn some social skills,

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:16 PM

Are you saying you would like to dance with me?

Smile, pops.

Evrything you post is an attempt to rile someone. We get it, you want to make everyone as miserable as you are. Well, good luck. I hope it makes you feel proud of yourself.

No new news here. Just listen to Janeane for 5 minutes.

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Yeah, 'cuz ya know Rush and Hannity and O'Reilly and Savage and Coulter are only puttin' on 'the love' for the liberal left.

STFU ya thin-skinned repuke and grow a set already.

Why are you so bitter?

chill out...

enjoy life.

I wouldn't dance with you if you were Grace Kelly. Because your soul is ugly.

I wouldn't dance with you if you were Grace Kelly. Because your soul is ugly.

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:28 PM

Oh, another display of bitterness.

The folks don't like taxes...

The folks don't like Iran...

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Among other things, the poll found:

• Eighty percent think the tax system is too complex, and 59 percent say they pay too much. Sixty-five percent say the government service they receive for their taxes is either poor or "only fair."

• Eighty percent also think the system needs a major overhaul. As an alternative, 33 percent would like to see a national flat tax with minimal deductions, 20 percent favor a national sales tax and 21 percent would keep the status quo.

• Fifty-two percent, most of them people who itemize their deductions and currently benefit most, would be willing to give up deductions to make the system simpler. Sixty-eight percent favor eliminating the estate tax. Given a list of four options, 31 percent said the estate tax is the least fair national tax, followed by 25 percent who chose the income tax.

• People seem to be getting wise to Congress. Only 9 percent said they would be willing to pay an extra $2,470 to reduce the deficit. Of those, 65 percent said Congress only would increase spending instead of reducing the deficit if they did.

The question is, will Congress ever get wise to what the people want?

enjoy life.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 01:28 PM

Oh, fuck off, asshole.

Somehow I have a feeling you hear that often.

Where Is My Mind?

If time is an illusion (as the kabbalists teach), why then are we so concerned with what time it is?

This week’s Zohar portion talks in detail about many of those windows in time. It discusses Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Pesach, and Shavuot. The sages explain we can now tap into the energy of these cosmic openings (peace, harmony, control, cleansing). It’s like our souls get to experience a taste of that energy so we can develop a deeper craving to tap into the tools that are specific to each holiday.

Because your soul is ugly.

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:28 PM

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That is -exactley- what I said to my last girl...

Weird.

But the question of time remains. According to Rav Ashlag, founder of The Kabbalah Centre, time is not something measured by a clock or calendar. That whole system is just a frame of reference for us to know when to tap into different packets of energy.

The best way for us to understand this is by thinking of time as containers on an assembly line. You can only deal with what’s in front of you. It’s our job, as workers on the line, to fill these containers with Light. Unfortunately, when we are hugging our chaos from the past, we’re trying to fill containers long-gone. And when we're living in fear of the future, we’re trying to fill containers yet to be made.

Oh, fuck off, asshole.

Somehow I have a feeling you hear that often.

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:32 PM

Awww

What's the matter?

Is little baby having a bad day?

This only leaves us with more empty containers…and feeling empty ourselves.

The real lesson The Zohar and Rav Ashlag are trying to teach us is the only thing we have right now is now. Our only tool to take control of the future and to correct the past is to inject Light into the present. That is why knowing when cosmic windows are open – and what they offer us – is so crucial for our spiritual development.

You will never be able to fill the container labeled "Monday, May 8, 2006" ever again, nor will you be able to tap into the energy available on "Rosh Hashanah 2006" once that container has passed you by.

It's a nice day... light rain.. the birds are working the yard for worms.

A couple bunnies are playing tag.

A deer is standing near the edge of the timber by the corn field.

The blue iris are looking good.

The honeysuckle is in bloom.

Very few vehicles on the road today...

just a nice peaceful day.

Things are great.

I'm just a happy guy.

Happy to be able to enjoy life without being bitter.

I would have to think someone running on the idea of lower taxes and a War in Iran would do pretty darn good..

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Hillary on Russia, Iran

FILE UNDER: Hillary Clinton

Senator Clinton, Tamir Sapir and his wife, Liena. "You're having your dinner in this beautiful room in the United Nations," said Senator Hillary Clinton, at Sunday night's gala for the UJA-Federation of New York's Russian Division. "We've got to do a better job of persuading the international community that no nation is immune from terrorism and violence."
"Nobody can sit on the sidelines," she continued. "I do not understand Russia's attitude toward Iran--it's continuing effort to help them acquire nuclear capacity and other forms of weapons. If the current Russian government thinks they can control Iran-- and Iran will not turn on Russia--I think they have a very short-sided view of history."

With such fiery political rhetoric, one might assume the lavish dinner was on the floor of the General Assembly. However, it was actually upstairs in the Delegates Ballroom, which overlooks the East River.

The Holidays and Rosh Chodesh/New Moons that happen each year are like gas stations on a road trip - we need to fill up if we're to keep going.

This week pay close attention to your awareness. Ask yourself often throughout the day, “Where is my mind?” When you find yourself off in the past or the future, scan the 72 Name below or The Zohar for a few moments. Bring yourself back home to where the action is – the present.

All the best,

Yehuda

Most Iran exiles in U.S. oppose an attack

LOS ANGELES With neon signs in Persian decorating the window of the Woodland Hills Market - "Kabob" glowing in bright red, "Iranian Market" in pea green - this corner grocery store could just as well be in Tehran as in the heart of "Tehrangeles," the name Iranians everywhere have given their largest exile community.

Products labeled in Persian and English reflect the dual identity of most customers, who find themselves particularly torn these days, wanting change in Iran but dreading what further sanctions or military action would do to Iranians.

"I love my country but I hate these mullahs," said Houshang Samandi, a television director for an Iranian satellite channel whose life in Los Angeles remains so completely Iranian that after 14 years he still asks a fellow exile to translate the word "sanctions."

"Sanctions will only harm the ordinary people," Samandi said. "If there is a military attack, they will be killing my people. But if they don't attack, the mullahs will never leave."

More than 60 percent of the 70 million Iranians are younger than 35, and they often seethe at the lack of economic opportunity and personal freedom.

"I think the youth of Iran will do that job," said Hamid Moghadam, 49, an Iranian-American business owner in San Francisco who helps finance the Iran Democracy Project. "You don't need the Marines in there."

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Posted by: War Dog [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 9, 2006 01:34 PM

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Listen, piss ant, I don't even want to go into

what I think of you.

op.

oh, well, if the fox news poll says so...

Hillary knows the score..

She may end up fighting the Battle of Iran in the War on Terror..

No loony left talk from Hillary..!!!

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Stephen Zunes: US, Israel, and Possible Attack on Iran

Foreign Policy In Focus

Despite many dangers, Israel—with U.S. encouragement—has long considered the possibility of an attack against Iran.

By Stephen Zunes

Not that he needs to worry about that. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, widely seen as the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, accused the Bush administration in January of not taking the threat of a nuclear Iran seriously enough, criticized the Bush administration for allowing European nations to take the lead in pursuing a diplomatic solution, and insisted that the administration should make it clear that military options were being actively considered.

From the general line of items posted in this chat room, a reasonable person would have to conclude the participants are mostly "down and out" folks, unhappy with their own lives.

You ought to ask for help from the more positive and happy people.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 01:17 PM

What?

It's your day to play Eeyore, Investus?

You're in a room full of lefties & you spout shit about our posting gloom & doom that the repoo-poo's have inflicted on this nation?

You're a fucking idiot.

You should be ashamed for spreading lies and falsehoods regarding this subject. Please be more truthful.

Posted by: Jeff at May 9, 2006 01:23 PM

Anyone who criticizes Israeli policies is labeled a liar and a hater of jews.

If you have a specific "lie or falsehood" to address, please do.

Somehow I have a feeling you hear that often.

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:32 PM

Yep, but only from bitter people in this chat room.

You really should relax a little and enjoy life.

You are living in a land of great opportunity.

Use those opportunities wisely.

Enrich yourself and become a happier person.

Listen, piss ant, I don't even want to go into

what I think of you.

op.

Posted by: MJP at May 9, 2006 01:38 PM

Now, which day is the world gonna end, asshole?

I want to tie up some loose ends.

I said fuck off, asshole.

I said fuck off, asshole.

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:40 PM

Aren't you the asshole musician wannabe who plays one gig a year but acts like he's James fuckin Brown?

I said fuck off, asshole.

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:40 PM

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Wow..

I leave for a few day and everyone goes nuts..

How about a little live-and-let-live before we attack Iran..???

Fuck...it is still alive.

Posted by: Yehuda at May 9, 2006 01:36 PM

Amen, Yehuda. Blessings to ya.

Posted by: Harsh Reality at May 9, 2006 01:40 PM

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It has.

Have'nt you noticed?

Aren't you the asshole musician wannabe who plays one gig a year but acts like he's James fuckin Brown?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 01:42 PM

Ouch... that had to hurt.

Not to worry, dada....

you can do it...

avail yourself to the opportunities this Great Nation offers.

Become a happier person.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 01:42 PM

That's a mean thing to say to someone.

Hee hee

heya dog. Good to see you.

I like to post upbeat information.

Check this out... things are looking good.

It's a good time to build that nestegg for your future.

Dow 11,610.87 up 26.33 (0.23%)

Taken out of context, financial information is fetishized and transformed in the imagination into something with supernatural powers: These numbers, not merely the snapshots of symbolic representation that they are, become the oracle of destiny, quoted by the fundamentalist financial types as if they are holy writ.

This is why when a troll posts some statistics about the markets going up today, or consumer spending being high last month, it means not simply exactly what it says, but to them it is some kind of magical totem, invested with the power to cure all ills and grant all wishes. Pure escapist regression to a primitive worldview.

It's a good time to build that nestegg for your future.

Dow 11,610.87 up 26.33 (0.23%)

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 01:49 PM

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Kinda a dumb fuck, eh?

Well, it's been fun, but I gotta go.

later

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

*smiles*

Nice day, dada!

Kinda a dumb fuck, eh?

Posted by: MJP at May 9, 2006 01:53 PM

For W's team its all riding on the economy.

its also just about the only thing Bushies have had any remote claim of success.

Jeneane,

your show brings up good points but your pointed hatred and bias towards Israel is misguided. I dont understand how you blame Israel in their conflict. They are defending themselves from groups whose stated goal is to eliminate the state of Israel and the Jewish people. You should be ashamed for spreading lies and falsehoods regarding this subject. Please be more truthful.

Posted by: Jeff at May 9, 2006 01:23 PM

[nods toward dada]

Note, boys & girls, how the AIPAC apologist slides the word "Jewish" into the screed.

1) ...pointed hatred and bias towards Israel...

2) ...how you blame Israel...

And finally, the payoff:

3) ...groups whose stated goal is to eliminate the state of Israel and the Jewish people...

The only thing that can't be imparted in ol' Jeffie's text is the feigning of the vapors.

"Never again!" is de rigueur for you guys, eh?

Exactly. "Never again" will I let pass the conflation of Israeli politics with the Jewish people.

Feh!

[Oh, and it's spelled J.A.N.E.A.N.E., dimwit.]

puttering around the house today. not too much going on...

same lame trolls nipping at the heels, but I got bigger fish to fry...

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:51 PM

What a putrid and defeatist spin of matters.

As if a family should not rejoice the birth of a new addition to their family because a family down the road is suffering the loss of a loved one.

Quit being so bitter.

All good things to you, dada.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at May 9, 2006 01:59 PM

Are you employed?

... but I got bigger fish to fry...

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at May 9, 2006 01:59 PM

Now, how are we gonna get an audience to believe that?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at May 9, 2006 01:59 PM

Are you employed?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 02:08 PM

Best laugh I've had in a while.

Anyone know where Bob is?

Is he in the nuthouse?

puttering around the house today. not too much going on...

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at May 9, 2006 01:59 PM

Now THIS we can get an audience to believe!

Maybe he is not an employalbe person.

I don't know.

Posted by: dada at May 9, 2006 01:51 PM

What a putrid and defeatist spin of matters.

As if a family should not rejoice the birth of a new addition to their family because a family down the road is suffering the loss of a loved one.

Quit being so bitter.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 02:01 PM

Maybe you should ask for reassignment to AA for a rehab.

'Cause you ain't doin' nuttin but puttin' "L's" up here.

[P]utrid, defeatist spin, suffering, bitter?

Bruhahahahahaha! *holds up mirror*

The Eeyore/Investus troll is my favorite of late.

employalbe = employable

Democrats Oppose GOP Health Coverage Bill By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer
13 minutes ago

Senate Democrats vowed Tuesday to fight provisions in Republican-backed legislation that they charged would reduce health insurance coverage for millions who already have it.

The bill would allow small businesses to join across state lines to buy insurance, which would give them enough clout to negotiate better rates, said Sen. Mike Enzi, the chairman of Senate's health committee and lead supporter of the measure.

"This is something that the small businesses have been asking for for almost 15 years," Enzi said.

But Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., said the legislation marked "a retreat from our commitment to cancer. It's a retreat for our commitment to diabetes. It's a retreat from our commitment to mental health parity." He and other critics said it would allow small businesses to purchase insurance that overrode coverage requirements mandated by the states.

Democrats said they hadn't ruled out a filibuster to block passage of the measure, which Republicans brought to the floor as part of a week-long concentration of health legislation.

Democrats blocked action on two other GOP-supported bills on Monday. Both sought to limit the amount of money that patients can receive from medical malpractive cases.

Republicans and business groups say the ranks of the uninsured would be reduced because the legislation would allow businesses to offer insurance at a lower cost. The businesses offering the policy would have to belong to same professional trade association.

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==The question is, will Congress ever get wise to what the people want?==

Considering who's in control of government right now, WAD, perhaps you should be asking that very question of Republicans instead of us.

For W's team its all riding on the economy.

its also just about the only thing Bushies have had any remote claim of success.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at May 9, 2006 01:58 PM

But people in the real world aren't believing him about the economy. Many people hurting right now.

And, he is cooking the books, so to speak. We aren't getting the true numbers for Unemployment for one.

shut it you blowhard fools

you lost, now deal. this isnt immigrant day, or earth day or gay pride day. its just another day in the war on terror.

get off your fat greasy liberal asses and do something positive. like work for more than 25$ an hour.

to any SANE Democrats left here on MR blog....

read Richard Cohen's column in the WashPost....and this ...http://www.slate.com/id/2141282/?nav=ais...from John Dickerson at Slate!

to the rest here....."Keep up the good work!"--Karl Rove

to the rest here....."Keep up the good work!"--Karl Rove

Posted by: Gare at May 9, 2006 02:31 PM

karl rove can eat a dead dogs dick.

Good Morning! :)

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Nellie Olesen is Back!

Remember that 'lil bully Nellie Oleson? Yeah you do. She resided on the prairie, her parents owned a general store and she was the richest kid in the village with a pretty serious mean streak. Well, she grew up and lives in the future now with the rest of us...as a comic!

That's right, Nellie (Alison Arngrim in "real life") is a comic, and ready to give us some storytelling and stand-up about her life as pre-teen meanie in Confessions of a Prairie Bitch. She'll let some secrets loose about "Little House on the Prairie", Hollywood and whatever else happened in her former child star life. Vh1 should totally do a "Behind the Petticoat and Ringlets" special.

May 12th and 13th // 8pm // The Cutting Room [19 West 24th] // $20

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Morales and Peru's Humala tout Latam leftist unity

Bolivian President Evo Morales and a nationalist competing in Peru's presidential election opened a Cuban-run clinic on Monday, touting it as a sign of regional unity heralded by Latin America's leftist leaders.

The appearance by Morales alongside Ollanta Humala, a former army commander pledging to increase state control over his country's natural resources if elected, came weeks before Peru's June 4 runoff vote.

Hundreds of Bolivians, some chanting "Viva the nationalist presidents!" and waving Cuban flags, greeted both men as they opened the eye clinic, a tin-roofed building in this town on the fringes of Lake Titicaca bordering Bolivia and Peru.

"This is the kind of thing that strengthens Latin American integration -- something that is natural between Peru and Bolivia that have a shared history," said Humala, draped in a flower garland.

A banner reading "Thank you, Commandante Fidel" in reference to Cuban President Fidel Castro hung in the background.

...

get off your fat greasy liberal asses and do something positive. like work for more than 25$ an hour.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 02:26 PM

Aw!! Whats the matter Anonym-ass? Someone here get on your last nerve. Poor baby's angry.

Just go have a good day! Somewhere else!! Maybe a visit to a freeper blog will lift your spirits again.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 02:33 PM

Sure.....but still no "Fitzmas" yet!

Just go have a good day! Somewhere else!! Maybe a visit to a freeper blog will lift your spirits again.

Posted by: toniD at May 9, 2006 02:40 PM

no no tonee . i like it here where i can keep an eye on my political enemies. OCD cookoo posters like you.

no no tonee . i like it here where i can keep an eye on my political enemies. OCD cookoo posters like you.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 02:46 PM

Can you post from work? Or are you the farmer in the barn doing who knows what with the animals?

General Hayden's CIA nomination may have violated the law
by John in DC - 5/08/2006 07:36:00 PM

I didn't post this earlier because I wanted to confirm it more, but Sailor over at Vidiot Speak blog noted that there seems to be a law on the books that says either the Director of Central Intelligence or his deputy can be active or retired military, but not both. Since, as the blogger notes, the deputy director of the CIA is military, the director can not be (and GENERAL Hayden most certainly is).

While I was trying to confirm all of this, and from what I found the law does seem pretty clear, Sailor emailed me a new AP story that notes that the deputy director is now being moved out of his job. What AP doesn't say, or doesn't realize, is that blogger Sailor might have found the reason the guy was being moved out of the number 2 slot at CIA - Hayden's appointment might have otherwise been illegal.

Any legal minds curious to see if this is the case? If so, it's just another example of how sloppy George Bush is with his appointments to some of the most important positions in the land.

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W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963). The Souls of Black Folk. 1903.

Chapter I.

Of Our Spiritual Strivings

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face. 4
This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius. These powers of body and mind have in the past been strangely wasted, dispersed, or forgotten. The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the Shadowy and of Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. Here in America, in the few days since Emancipation, the black man’s turning hither and thither in hesitant and doubtful striving has often made his very strength to lose effectiveness, to seem like absence of power, like weakness. And yet it is not weakness,—it is the contradiction of double aims. The double-aimed struggle of the black artisan—on the one hand to escape white contempt for a nation of mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, and on the other hand to plough and nail and dig for a poverty-stricken horde—could only result in making him a poor craftsman, for he had but half a heart in either cause. By the poverty and ignorance of his people, t

criticism of the other world, toward ideals that made him ashamed of his lowly tasks.

TDS: Hayden/Goss-Bush speak

What are the odds that Bush would use almost the exact same words to nominate Porter Goss, as he would to nominate Gen. Hayden? Don't answer that.

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Bush:He's the right man--at this critical moment--in our nation's history.

How calculated does a person have to be? I thought Harriet Miers was the most qualified person in the world for the Supreme Court until she wasn't.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/09.html#a8220

Can you post from work? Or are you the farmer in the barn doing who knows what with the animals?

Posted by: toniD at May 9, 2006 02:48 PM

no im not the farmer. im rollin on 20's drinkin some jin & juice, you know, with those cadillac grillz , chicken n waffles , and a 20 $ rock.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 02:46 PM

a.k.a. - COWARD

(just like his pres'nit)

What are the odds that Bush would use almost the exact same words to nominate Porter Goss, as he would to nominate Gen. Hayden? Don't answer that.

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Saw that on The Daily Show last night as well. He's a friggin' robot. Rove needs to program a few new words and phrases into the Bushbot methinks. ;-p

Or, like Maher says, Bush just needs a parrot on his shoulder.

Jesus... today Bush addressed a guy in a wheelchair by saying:

"You look mighty comfortable."

?!??!?

Whadda fucking ASSHAT!

WHO FOTTID?

there is something nice about being anonymous

i love it. people want credit for the inane things they post. others are less greedy about getting recognition. i know everybody appreciates my posts, i dont need them to sing my praises.

Good news for Janeane!

Scientology nearly ready to unveil Super Power

Clearwater, Fla. - Matt Feshbach believes he has super powers. He senses danger faster than most people. He appreciates beauty more deeply than he used to. He says he outperforms his peers in the money management industry.

He heightened his powers of perception in 1995 when he went to Los Angeles and became the first and so far only "public" Scientologist to take a highly classified Scientology program called Super Power.

Where in L.A. did he do this? "Just in Los Angeles," is all Feshbach will say. Super Power is that secret.

Under wraps for decades, Super Power now is being prepped for its eventual rollout in Scientology's massive building in downtown Clearwater. That will be the only place worldwide where the program, much anticipated by Scientologists, will be offered. A key aim of Super Power is to enhance one's perceptions - and not just the five senses we all know - hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard taught that people have 57 "perceptics." They include an ability to discern relative sizes, blood circulation, balance, compass direction, temperature, gravity and an "awareness of importance, unimportance."

Church officials won't discuss specifics of Super Power. But Feshbach and another prominent Clearwater Scientologist who, like Feshbach, is a major donor to Super Power's building fund, provided some details in interviews with the St. Petersburg Times. A group of former Scientologists who worked for the church on a campus in California where the program was in development also described elements of it. Super Power uses machines, apparatus and specially designed rooms to exercise and enhance a person's so-called perceptics. Those machines include an antigravity simulator and a gyroscope-like apparatus that spins a person around while blindfolded to improve perception of compass direction, said the former Scientologists. A video screen that moves forward and backward while flashing images is used to hone a viewer's ability to identify subliminal messages, they said.

Hubbard promised Super Power would improve perceptions and

But people in the real world aren't believing him about the economy. Many people hurting right now.

Posted by: toniD at May 9, 2006 02:17 PM

~~~~~~~~~

Do you understand that at any given time throughout history there have been people hurting finacially?

Yes, the percentage fluctuates a small amount from time to time, but there is always a certain group that is hurting, as you call it.

The Dems rules the political horizon for about 50 years. All through the time there were poor people, homeless people,.. the down and out.

...always has been and always will be.

What are you bawling about... because you are not happy with your life????

Do something about it.

Don't just sit around and bellyache.

Damn, you are a sad sack.

And, he is cooking the books, so to speak. We aren't getting the true numbers for Unemployment for one.

Posted by: toniD at May 9, 2006 02:17 PM

Yeah, tell us that liberal talking point about how the government doesn't count "discouraged" workers.

As if the gov't supposed to include people who aren't even looking for work.

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Fun stuff!

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Don't just sit around and bellyache.

Damn, you are a sad sack.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 03:16 PM

Listen Anonym=ass, I work at a Park District. It's a local gov't job. I talk to the people in this middle class area and they are hurting. They want to sign their kids up for sports and classes but the registration is down. I am in registration so I know this to be a fact. They have no qualms in telling me this either.

So don't tell me that it happens all the time. Even the Seniors are complaining that they can't afford to go on the outings and trips.

I think you need to get real. So go chase your tail or the cadillac girls tails and shut the F up.

Damn, you are a sad sack.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 03:16 PM

And you're a selfish egomaniac with a mean streak. One who does nothing to add to discourse except rub it in how good you've got it, the rest of the world be damned.

STFU already, you self-flagulating, self-centered hack.

Nevada blast delay a victory, critics say

Environmentalists, politicians see time as chance to probe risks

...

The postponement, rumored last week, marks a victory for critics and opponents who say the federal government has yet to prove that the massive explosion will not harm the environment or people downwind.

The two federal agencies say they need to detonate the 700 tons of explosives - an ammonium nitrate-fuel oil mixture many times more powerful than the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing - to calibrate conventional and nuclear weapons needed to take out a deeply buried enemy bunker.

Attorney Robert Hager in Las Vegas said even with new environmental documents released Friday, it is not clear that Nevadans, including the Winnemucca Indian Colony, and Utahns would be safe if fallout from past atomic testing becomes airborne in the explosion.

"We would like it to be a permanent delay," Hager said, "and we are prepared to go forward [demanding better information on the environmental assessment in court until we] put this matter to bed forever."

A neocon troll named `Harsh Stupidity', that's precious.!

"We tried it once your way, libs...are you ready for a re-match?......Libs....I'm laughing at the superior intellect!"

Oh, look what the Rubber Stamp Republican Congress is trying to sneak through in the fine print:

A $2.7 trillion budget plan pending before the House would raise the federal debt ceiling to nearly $10 trillion, less than two months after Congress last raised the federal government’s borrowing limit.

The provision — buried on page 121 of the 151-page budget blueprint — serves as a backdrop to congressional action this week. House leaders hope to try once again to pass a budget plan for fiscal 2007, a month after a revolt by House Republican moderates and Appropriations Committee members forced leaders to pull the plan….

But the federal debt keeps climbing because of continued deficit spending and the government’s insatiable borrowing from the Social Security trust fund.

With passage of the budget, the House will have raised the federal borrowing limit by an additional $653 billion, to $9.62 trillion. It would be the fifth debt-ceiling increase in recent years, after boosts of $450 billion in 2002, a record $984 billion in 2003, $800 billion in 2004 and $653 billion in March. When Bush took office, the statutory borrowing limit stood at $5.95 trillion.

Oh yeah. I got yer fiscal responsibility right here.

(And good on Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray at the WaPo for catching this.)

UPDATE: This would be funny, if it weren’t so true. Also, this poster from the 30 Something Dems (PDF) sums up the current foreign holdings issue. (Do the words "national security" have some resonance for everyone here? They should.)

LINK

And this comparison really brings home the enormity of the problem:

Tax cuts, they say, force hard decisions and restrain reckless spending. The last time we looked, though, Republicans controlled both Congress and the White House. They are the spenders. In fact, since they took control in 2001, they’ve increased spending by an average of nearly 7.5% a year, more than double the rate in the last five years of Clinton-era budgets. (From a USA Today, 2/21/06, Editorial — looking for the link to the original.)

Can we stop calling them "conservatives" now?

Oh, it's the happy, shiny trollies. Some freeper told them there was a party here, catered by Big Boy Hammity. Like a lot of the "facts" from the uptighty-righties, it was just wrong. You know that saying they have about two wrongs always making a right...

Anyway, we are trying to make the best of a bad situation. We set up a special party gazebo for you trollies (go out the back, it's about 30 yards away, you can't miss it), and we stocked it with your favorite sandwiches. Enjoy! :)

Posted by: toniD at May 9, 2006 03:32 PM

Do you realize you didn't say one thing to refute my statement?

Sure there are people who do not have the amount of money they would like to have, but...

as I said, that has been true throughout history.

You act as if it is something new.

Perhaps it is something you recently became aware of and therefore you think it is a new matter.

There is very little new in the world.

For the most part it is new people becoming aware of matters that have been around for ages.

oh, and why is it so many of you people feel compelled to resort to cussing and being nasty instead of just presenting the facts to support your particular position?

George W. Bush is not the sort of president who reads journals such as the Atlantic Monthly. But at least someone at the White House should check out the piece in the new issue by Jonathan Rauch.

For honest believers in tax cuts, it's devastating.

Just consider the events of last week. On Monday the government reported that Medicare's trust fund would run out of cash in 2018, 12 years earlier than was estimated when Bush came to office. It further reported that Social Security's trust fund would run out in 2040, one year earlier than last year's projection.

"The systems are going broke," Bush commented, sagely. "And now is the time to do something about it."

So what exactly did Bush do? He pressed Congress to extend his tax cuts, thus depriving the government of money it might otherwise have used to plug the holes in Medicare and Social Security. In a world with a viable starve-the-beast theory, this might have been OK: Tax cuts could be presented as a way to force the government to cut spending and maybe even to reform entitlements. But if that fig leaf is gone, how can the administration feel decent?

Right on cue, the Senate followed up its agreement to extend tax cuts with a $109
billion spending bill, complete with money to compensate New England shell fishermen
for a red-tide outbreak. In the wake of Rauch's Atlantic article, the way the president responds to this sort of egregious spending bill is going to be interesting. Will he have the guts to veto them? Or will he stand like the proverbial emperor, naked in the public square?

I think you need to get real. So go chase your tail or the cadillac girls tails and shut the F up.

Posted by: toniD at May 9, 2006 03:32 PM

STFU already, you self-flagulating, self-centered hack.

Posted by: BUllSHit at May 9, 2006 03:36 PM

You're both pathetic liars.

If we had this exact economy under John Kerry, you'd be singing its praises. You just can handle that things are going well under George Bush.

And as far as the kids and senior who are "suffering," are they going hungry? Shit, I was just in Atlantic City. I've never seen so many fat people in my life. And no shortage of seniors feeding money into slot machines.

With regard to their "activities," there are these things called "parks." Last I checked, they're free.

The problem is you don't know what it's like to be poor. To be fair, I don't either, but my parents did, and they'd laugh at your description.

The problem is you don't know what it's like to be poor. To be fair, I don't either, but my parents did, and they'd laugh at your description.

Posted by: Harsh Reality at May 9, 2006 03:49 PM

Oh, how true.......

I too have never been poor or felt the forces of it, but yes....

my folks felt it. I was very young at the time and could not appreciate it.

Later in life my Dad remarked about how much opportunity is available that was not available when he was young.

The big depression hit most people pretty hard.

Today's times are far easier, so people should take advantage of the times.

Develop marketable skills.

There will be buyers for the people who have the needed skills to sell.

[via Froomkin @ WaPo]

The Rubber Hose blog offered a little context: "See how three presidents answered the question 'What was the best moment of your presidency?'

"To summarize:

"Carter: The Camp David negotiations

"Clinton: The resolution of the Kosovo crisis

"Bush: That time I caught a big fish on my ranch "

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Bruhahahahaha!

Does anyone wonder why I call 'em "Dim Son?"

One would have thought the li'l dimwit woulda said...

Ya see, I'm a warrrr preznit!

oh, and why is it so many of you people feel compelled to resort to cussing and being nasty instead of just presenting the facts to support your particular position?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 03:46 PM

Oh, then the term "sad sack" was meant as a compliment then? Do you normally speak out of both sides of your ass, or is it just today?

If we had this exact economy under John Kerry, you'd be singing its praises.

WRONG. How ridiculously simple-minded you are.

Did anyone get that story about Katherine Harris meeting the Bush brothers down in Florida?

Supposedly, her only exposure to Bush lasted about 30 seconds, and ended with them both patting each other on the shoulder.

What do you think they said to each other at that point? My thinking, either "See you tonight" or "Great to hear your winning the race!, way to go!".

Posted by: BUllSHit at May 9, 2006 04:00 PM

I apologize for impugning on your sensitivities with the use of "sad sack".

I had no idea you would find the terminology vulgar.

Perhaps I should have said "unhappy bag".

How stupid you liberals are!

Katherine Harris is going to slaughter the Democrats in the coming election this fall.

She's just going through a tough period right now.

Go Katherine Harris!

Posted by: BUllSHit at May 9, 2006 04:00 PM

I apologize for impugning on your sensitivities with the use of "sad sack".

I had no idea you would find the terminology vulgar.

Perhaps I should have said "unhappy bag".

I agree with you other "Anonymous"!

These liberal idiots are so f-ing stupid!

Come to your senses ladies and gentlemen!

You are debating members of the 31%?????

Your time and energy could be better spent.

I see Eeyore has a playmate...ain't that special?

It's a Harsh Reality, in-fucking-deed.

"The few, the proud, the 31%!"

Come to your senses ladies and gentlemen!

You are debating members of the 31%?????

Your time and energy could be better spent.

Posted by: Barrister at May 9, 2006 04:12 PM

Yeah, and we won 51% in 2004!

You people will never win the Presidency again!

These liberal idiots are so f-ing stupid!

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:11 PM

Really?

we were right about invading Iraq.

we didn't believe any of the bullshit reasons or that we could win on the cheap.

Liberal-at-large!

You stink!

Cops and robbers!

Can't live without each other!

Same with trolls and fish!

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That's so cool!

How many "Anonymous" of us are there?

Us conservatives are all over the place.

That's why we're called "the Majority"!!!

Liberals stink!

They're just plain stinky!

Especially the ones that eat bean sprouts and hummus!

Wowza... does this make you sad, or what?

Dow 11,639.77 up 55.23 (0.48%)

oh, and why is it so many of you people feel compelled to resort to cussing and being nasty instead of just presenting the facts to support your particular position?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 03:46 PM

Excuse me, but you are nasty yourself!!! And if the Bush economy is so great, the middle class wouldn't be having hard times right now. He is always sayong what a great economy we have! It isn't and this admin is fitting the nmbers to suit their agenda, just like the war in Iraq.

They are a bunch of liars.

I see you are what bush calls a "compaaionate conservative"! What that means in bush talk is that you conserve your compassion!

And besides, it gives me great pleasure to cuss you out. I am old enough to really enjoy it now. Haha!

Wowza... does this make you sad, or what?

Dow 11,639.77 up 55.23 (0.48%)

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:17 PM

Yeah! You stupid liberal fucks!

Liberals stink!

They're just plain stinky!

Especially the ones that eat bean sprouts and hummus!

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:17 PM

I know where you're coming from. I was reading
this book about the German SS.....a lot of them were fags and they were repulsed by bad odors.

oh, and why is it so many of you people feel compelled to resort to cussing and being nasty instead of just presenting the facts to support your particular position?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 03:46 PM

OH, FUCK!

I SAID FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!

We have grown sadly used to hearing that the rest of the world, particularly the Islamic world, hates America. But here is some good news. It comes from hundreds of first-hand reports by participants in exhange programs under the American Councils for International Education.

...

Although these examples are few and anecdotal, they represent hundreds of people who bring us the good news from the war of ideas that America can indeed nurture democratic culture in Islamic and other developing countries without firing a shot.

It can do this by inviting to our shores, educating, and otherwise enlightening, ever more of the individuals (many of them women, as the examples here show) who will shape the democratic futures of those countries - if those countries are to have democratic futures at all.

Read that again: "without firing a shot"

Hey Anonymous!

Is it just me, or is Katherine Harris buttfuckable?!!?

Is it just me, or is Katherine Harris buttfuckable?!!?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:21 PM

It's just you!

Hey Anonymous!

Is it just me, or is Katherine Harris buttfuckable?!!?

Yes, I agree!

Is it just me, or is Katherine Harris buttfuckable?!!?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:21 PM

no, you both are!

Is it just me, or is Katherine Harris buttfuckable?!!?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:21 PM

no, you both are!

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at May 9, 2006 04:23 PM

Hey CB!

How did you know?!!?

All I know is, liberals are stupid and Katherine Harris is going to win.

She's hot too!

Have you seen those teets?!!?

This is great...I'm listening to some Rustle of Luv music again lately...he's doing some new things that you can read about on his website....

Faces In The Raft by David LaChance

A Crème City Pop Original Audio Drama Production

Music

Angel Leah

Boris the Setlist

Cool. :)

Great, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer! Wonderful!! I am happy your are so elated.

And lets talk about deficits. I don't think you gutless wonders that call yourselves conservatives would like to give some of that great money you made in the market to the gov't to bring down the deficit and help the war in Iraq, would you!?!

This is great...I'm listening to some Rustle of Luv music again lately...he's doing some new things that you can read about on his website....

Faces In The Raft by David LaChance

A Crème City Pop Original Audio Drama Production

Music

Angel Leah

Boris the Setlist

Cool. :)

Posted by: A. at May 9, 2006 04:26 PM

Stupid liberal!

Hey CB!

How did you know?!!?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:25 PM

hello anonymous.

would you like to sell me some nasdaq?

or maybe tell me about bill clinton, hugo chavez Osoma bin laden and sadam husien met in Paris for 3 days in in 1986?

have we met?

Great, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer! Wonderful!! I am happy your are so elated.

And lets talk about deficits. I don't think you gutless wonders that call yourselves conservatives would like to give some of that great money you made in the market to the gov't to bring down the deficit and help the war in Iraq, would you!?!

Posted by: toniD at May 9, 2006 04:27 PM

Well, blah, blah, freakin' blah to you too!

Fucking liberals!

Hey CB!

How did you know?!!?

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:25 PM

hello anonymous.

would you like to sell me some nasdaq?

or maybe tell me about bill clinton, hugo chavez Osoma bin laden and sadam husien met in Paris for 3 days in in 1986?

have we met?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at May 9, 2006 04:29 PM

Chubby Bubba!

Are you really that chubby?

I hate liberals and fat people too!

Stupid liberal!

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:27 PM

Grouch.

Richard Nixon was a crook. However, he was a great president next to the likes of George Bush. During Tricky Dick's administration, corporations assumed that since it was a Republican Administration, they could fix prices much like the gas asses of the present Bush days. However, Dick imposed wage and price freezes. That took guts. George Bush is without guts. He is a great president next to the likes of this jerk.

CB!

No, we haven't met, but we are mutual friends of John Whitehead.

He is another conservative. In other words, he has a fucking brain!

Spies Among Us

Monday 08 May 2006

Despite a troubled history, police across the nation are keeping tabs on ordinary Americans.

In the Atlanta suburbs of DeKalb County, local officials wasted no time after the 9/11 attacks. The second-most-populous county in Georgia, the area is home to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the FBI's regional headquarters, and other potential terrorist targets. Within weeks of the attacks, officials there boasted that they had set up the nation's first local department of homeland security. Dozens of other communities followed, and, like them, DeKalb County put in for - and got - a series of generous federal counterterrorism grants. The county received nearly $12 million from Washington, using it to set up, among other things, a police intelligence unit.

The outfit stumbled in 2002, when two of its agents were assigned to follow around the county executive. Their job: to determine whether he was being tailed - not by al Qaeda but by a district attorney investigator looking into alleged misspending. A year later, one of its plainclothes agents was seen photographing a handful of vegan activists handing out antimeat leaflets in front of a HoneyBaked Ham store. Police arrested two of the vegans and demanded that they turn over notes, on which they'd written the license-plate number of an undercover car, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which is now suing the county. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial neatly summed up the incident: "So now we know: Glazed hams are safe in DeKalb County."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050806J.shtml

Stupid liberal!

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:27 PM

Grouch.

Posted by: A. at May 9, 2006 04:33 PM

Ah, poop!

I Put A Spell On You, Screaming Jay Hawkins, 1957

Fucking liberals!

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:30 PM

yeah. how dare the liberals point out the massive debt W has accumulated!

Bush's job is to get Jesus into America's boardrooms! and American schoolrooms!

not to to mention American livingrooms and American bedrooms!

that's his JOB!!!

Will someone get this asshole "Anonymous" the fuck off our blog?

Why do these stupid fascists even wasting their time with us?

They know their way of thinking is going down the toilet!

Viva Air America!

Hay RW!! How are you? Missed you on the blog.

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He is another conservative. In other words, he has a fucking brain!

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:33 PM

Thats assuming that there is another conservative neo-republicant that has a brain!! It ain't you!

Wowza... does this make you sad, or what?

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Nope. My portfolio looks rather nice lately... right up until BushCo. allows the next terrorist attack to happen. That might tank it again.

Will someone get this asshole "Anonymous" the fuck off our blog?

Why do these stupid fascists even wasting their time with us?

They know their way of thinking is going down the toilet!

Viva Air America!

Posted by: Fuck Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:36 PM

Fuck Air America!

Your station is on its last legs. I give you fucking assholes a few more months!

Wait til late summer.

Bush's approval will be back up in the 90's!

Fuck you!

John Whitehead...I can't place him. bad complexion?

That's not Screamin Jay...hmm...I'll keep looking...

Hay RW!! How are you? Missed you on the blog.
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Posted by: toniD at May 9, 2006 04:37 PM

Hi Toni Deeeeeeee. Thanks for missing me. I am here to lurk almost every day when I am home. I love your news.

so 2 million civilians killed in vnam, cia blames ussr gets in bed and arms islamic fundamentalist that then become the taliban same times arms their good buddy saddam all the time well aware of what this scum are capable of...putting in motion, power vacuums, bloody murder and chaos.business as usual ahhhhhh fight fire with fire is it? but stupid with stupid

----------------------- --------------------- ---------------- Gen. Michael Hayden? This Ken Starr clone? This butt-sucking dweeb, sho is unable to recite the 4th Amendment? This sycophant robot should be polishing urinals--or polishing knobs at the jWatergate. This is a living, breathing, swishing nightmare. Somebody slap me! Hepp me, hepp me, oh, Lord, please........... --------------------------------------------- ------- -- ----------------------------- ----------

Hey Anonymous!

I don't know about you and Chubby Bubba knowing John Whitehead. Is that John C. Whitehead of Wall Street fame?

If so, he is one of the more sensible moderate (and incredibly rich) Republicans who actually think that the Bush tax cuts are about to destroy the economy, and he and a number of other similarly reasonable-thinking Republicans to urge the government to reconsider.

Get your facts straight, nimrod!

Bush's approval will be back up in the 90's!

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Considering just moments ago you were saying AAR has absolutely no listership (complete bogus, but whatever), NOW you're saying AAR's solely responsible for driving Bushboy's poll numbers down by 60+ points..?

Delusional.

Bush's approval will be back up in the 90's!

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Considering just moments ago you were saying AAR has absolutely no listership (complete bogus, but whatever), NOW you're saying AAR's solely responsible for driving Bushboy's poll numbers down by 60+ points..?

Delusional.

Posted by: BUllSHit at May 9, 2006 04:43 PM

That's not what I meant you cunt!

I meant that AAR as you call it, will go down anyway.

There are no more liberals in this country. At least any with any power.

You all suck shit!

Fuck you!

U.S. gets poor grades for newborns' survival

Nation ranks near bottom among modern nations, better only than Latvia

CHICAGO - America may be the world's superpower, but its survival rate for newborn babies ranks near the bottom among modern nations, better only than Latvia.

This should rile the pro-lifer's. Wait, I forget they only care about the unborn fetus. After that... you're ON YOUR OWN, SUCKERS!

Hi Sam!

Can you set up a swearword blocker, so we can clean up the discourse a bit?

The trollers are really making this tough for us.

It's not online anymore..I had to upload it...

Screamin Jay

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Time for work............LATER.........xoxoxo

Hey Anonymous!

I don't know about you and Chubby Bubba knowing John Whitehead. Is that John C. Whitehead of Wall Street fame?

If so, he is one of the more sensible moderate (and incredibly rich) Republicans who actually think that the Bush tax cuts are about to destroy the economy, and he and a number of other similarly reasonable-thinking Republicans to urge the government to reconsider.

Get your facts straight, nimrod!

Posted by: Fuck Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:42 PM

Fuck you and your mother!

Neil Volz, Ney's CoS, who copped to conspiracy yesterday, looks like he's gonna have some fun with da boyz.

Prison bitch name: Faster Pussycat

The funny thing about Bush's approval numbers is that they mostly indicate that Conservatives have been disappointed with Bush because he's too LIBERAL.

How else would you explain AAR's ratings simultaneously being at an all-time low?

This should rile the pro-lifer's. Wait, I forget they only care about the unborn fetus. After that... you're ON YOUR OWN, SUCKERS!

Posted by: GBC at May 9, 2006 04:46 PM

That's right. If it's happening to someone else... "They deserve it!" they say. If it happens to them ... well then ... they will cry like a baby until someone repays them for the trauma that they incurred from that hangnail. Poor me. No rhyme or reason.

I Put A Spell On You, Screaming Jay Hawkins, 1957

Posted by: A. at May 9, 2006 04:35 PM

Thanks Shell. Ole song...Cool!!

Hello, all you Bible-thumpin', lovers of the Lord-- All wholesome, divine and chaste, proper, Christian worshippers of proper and devout deportment: Hallelujah, do da name ruby Begonia strike a familiar note? --- Quick, now, Smedley, send out a bugle call for the Republlican champion of morality, Puritanical sexual rectitude, and correct comportment; that eternal foe of sin, debauchery, and moral turpitude; that champion of virginity and Victorian virtue--no, silly, not Joe Lieberman: Kenneth Starr--indeed! -------------------- Let's give him another 50 million and turn him loose on the Watergate, shall we? Point him directly toward the CIA, and governmental pimps, prostitutes, whores, sluts, Don Rumsfeld, Abu Ghraib, whips, chains, sado-masochistic torture, Guantanamo, and whatever.... Duhbyah, Laura, Jeff Gannon and Ken Mehlman, and whatever they had goin' on during those 200-odd White House sleepovers. If the NSA can spy on you and me and the general populace on a whim, prayer, and a hearsay, there should be an FBI agent lurking behind every potted plalnt within a 20-mile radius of the White House. So, sic' 'em Ken--You smiley-face, weird-ass, freakazoid monument to govenmental sheet-sniffers everywhere--Give 'em Hell! We just might give you a bit part in the upcoming movie; if you draw enough blood. -----------------------

Rice brush-off of Iranian letter prompts concern

Former Iranian officials say response could bolster hard-liners

TEHRAN, Iran - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's abrupt dismissal of a letter from Iran's president might only strengthen hard-line attitudes and mistrust of America, some Iranians warned Tuesday.

As President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began a high-profile visit to a key Muslim country, Indonesia, a former top Iranian official said Rice's response will give new justification to those who oppose ties with the U.S.

Iran's former ambassador to France, Sadeq Kharrazi, said the letter - the first from an Iranian head of state to an American president in 27 years - "could have been a turning point in relations." But he said Rice squandered the opportunity with what he called a "hasty reaction."

More...

RWiley...good to read ya, bud!

Sorry, doing two things at once.

RW, missed the limmericks and also your wise discourse!!

--------------------------------------------------------------- The Dow tends to go up when you do deficit spending. Give anyone 15 Trillion and they can throw the country one hell of a party -- but real estate is trending down, interests headed up, and duhbya's White Rabbit is heading for his whole along with Greenspan--soon, it'll be every man for himself -----------------------------------------------------------

Beck presented mock commercial parodying Mexican immigrants

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605090002

On the May 5 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, new CNN host Glenn Beck aired a mock commercial for a fictional amusement park called "Cinco de Flag," that touted rides such as the "tractor-trailer run," in which "[w]e simulate an 18-wheeler full of illegal immigrants trying to cross the border when the INS [Immigration and Naturalization Service] breaks in." The mock commercial also advertised the "craziest ride ever to come to Mexico: a job application!" The commercial added: "Feel the exhilaration of what it would actually be like to apply for and get a job in Mexico. Imagine the rush of an economy that won't make residents of its country prefer a life away from family while running from the law." After the commercial ended, Beck played the 1958 song "Tequila" by The Champs in celebration of Cinco de Mayo, referring to it as the "Mexican national anthem," and added, "and, of cours

As Media Matters for America has noted, Beck recently declared that illegal immigrants are either "terrorists," outlaws, or people who "can't make a living in their own dirtbag country" and said that "Mexico is run by nothing but criminals." Beck's CNN program premiered on May 8 on CNN Headline News.

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We can't condone this behavior. [He probably wants someone to spank him, like all the other warped neocons, but we won't give him the satisfaction.]

One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30303-5366

Phone: 404-827-1500 ; Fax: 404-827-1906

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Bush is too Liberal...?

Hahaha!

Thanks for the laugh.

So tell us, HR... It's true he's not a fiscal conservative (the most ruinous pres we've ever had, IMO) but, he's certainly "conservative" on the domestic front. Ya know, the God, guns and gays issues. Or, isn't he? What about the Republican controlled Congress? Conservative or no?

So, you didn't get what you thought you voted for. A fiscal conservative. Boo-fucking-hoo. Why is that our fault?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

Funny. Check out the ad for Ann *cough/hack* Coulter's new book:

"INCREDIBLE PRICE! $23.00 OFF!"

Must be selling 'em like hotcakes, Ann ol' boy... err... girl! ;-p

Time for work............LATER.........xoxoxo

Posted by: A. at May 9, 2006 04:47 PM

:)

Ya know, the God, guns and gays issues. Or, isn't he? What about the Republican controlled Congress? Conservative or no?

Posted by: GBC at May 9, 2006 05:11 PM

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This is not conservative either. Someone who is conservative should be interested in conserving what this country is about, not destroying the Constitution and creating a theocracy.

Now Bob has to come back...I just found an old Stephen King book called The Backman Books Four Early novels of Stephen King....I wanna send it to him...

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Glad you like it Toni... :)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

Funny. Check out the ad for Ann *cough/hack* Coulter's new book:

"INCREDIBLE PRICE! $23.00 OFF!"

Must be selling 'em like hotcakes, Ann ol' boy... err... girl! ;-p

Posted by: GBC at May 9, 2006 05:13 PM

HAHAHA .... That book has another month before it's released ..... and they are already tanking it.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 9, 2006 04:45 PM

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Wheeeee!

Another troll goes flying off the deep end.

They just can't stand it that their guy's a failure. A complete, utter failure.

Funny, funny shit, trolls. Your ignorance is showing. Keep it up.

Bush Faces Tricky Political Situation in Florida

New York Times - 1 hour ago
SUN CITY CENTER, Fla., May 9 — President Bush and his brother continued their awkward dance today with Representative Katherine Harris of Florida, whose run for the Republican Senate nomination this year they have met with chilliness.

Bush rains on Harris' parade St. Petersburg Times

Can anyone think of a good reason why Michael Hayden should not be CIA director?

Besides the fact that it is ilegal for him to do so. That has been overplayed lately. We need hours long discussion on every TV show and blog on why he just might be a good CIA director.

Remember when SYNA was in here last night yapping about how great the market is?

Well, HERE is an article on the REAL indicator of how a society and economy is doing. Infant mortality.

The bad news... we're near the BOTTOM of the list. THe good news? We beat Latvia!

Bush: NASA outsourced to India

BBC

India and the US are to conduct joint research experiments on the Moon.
Under an accord between the countries' space agencies, India's first unmanned lunar mission will carry two scientific payloads from the US agency, Nasa.

Indian officials called the deal a "milestone". The Indian spacecraft is due to be launched in early 2008.

Posted by: Meg at May 9, 2006 05:15 PM

~-~-

Bingo!

Contemporary American conservatism's content includes a much stronger commitment to free markets, individual rights, and political democracy and much less attachment to hereditary aristocracy and state-support for a particular religion...

Doesn't sound like this 'new breed' of rabid Republicanism to me.

//Bush: NASA outsourced to India//

hahaha!

Its funny because its true.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

Funny. Check out the ad for Ann *cough/hack* Coulter's new book:

"INCREDIBLE PRICE! $23.00 OFF!"

Must be selling 'em like hotcakes, Ann ol' boy... err... girl! ;-p

Posted by: GBC at May 9, 2006 05:13 PM

*snark*

eya GBC!

oh politics is fun,i am a loser.i love candy

I just found an old Stephen King book called The Backman Books Four Early novels of Stephen King....I wanna send it to him...

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Rage and The Long Walk are two damn good stories in there.

optoutprescreen.com

Eliminate credit card pre-approvals

I've been reading past threads. The rain (and thunder) has kept me off of the computer.

Yes, I purchased 200 shares of Encana (ECA) at $50.17 which was too much and bad timing. The winter was mild so there was no short term gain to be had.

However, I try to buy potential short term trades that can be solid hold investments if my short-term prognostication proves faulty.

ECA went into the toilet, as low as $41 and change, but I was asleep at the wheel. I promised myself that I would buy another 200 shares if it dipped to $42 again. It didn't.

Today it closed a $53.26.

Sex, Limos and Government Contracts - by Katrina vanden Heuvel

Posted by: A. at May 9, 2006 03:25 PM

Prostitution Alleged In Cunningham Case

Federal authorities are investigating allegations that a California defense contractor arranged for a Washington area limousine company to provide prostitutes to convicted former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) and possibly other lawmakers, sources familiar with the probe said yesterday.

In recent weeks, investigators have focused on possible dealings between Christopher D. Baker, president of Shirlington Limousine and Transportation Inc., and Brent R. Wilkes, a San Diego businessman who is under investigation for bribing Cunningham in return for millions of dollars in federal contracts, said one source, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

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Prosecutors May Widen Congressional-Bribe Case

GW Rocks

http://www.gopsenators.com/blogs/submit.aspx

Posted by: Kevin © at May 9, 2006 05:31 PM

Like I always say .. never get in bed with brothers.

Hola L@L! How you be?

optoutprescreen.com

Eliminate credit card pre-approvals

Posted by: anonymous at May 9, 2006 05:54 PM

Are you kidding? It's the only validation I get that my credit score is still good!

I also purchased PVX intending to hold it for the dividend (over ten percent paid in monthly installments...yes, over TEN percent).

I purchased 1000 shares at $10.93 and reinvested the dividends.

Today it closed at $12.35.

Why do you hate America, Crank Bait?

Why do you hate America, Crank Bait?

Posted by: conbo at May 9, 2006 06:13 PM

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Think of it as the ancient practice of "bleeding".

It doesn't cure anything but the physician gets paid.

To anyone wondering ... my Governor is a douchebag Republican ...

Governor hopes to snuff out medicinal marijuana

MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Tuesday he doesn't approve of a bill to legalize marijuana for limited medical use.

The Republican governor said it's not medically necessary. "I think it is an unneeded and unwise proposal," Pawlenty said.

Pawlenty's comments came about an hour after medical marijuana backers held a news conference urging Republican lawmakers to support the bill, which awaits a vote on the Senate floor but hasn't made it out of committee in the GOP-led House.

The legislation would allow registered patients to buy and use small quantities of marijuana as part of their treatment. Several people suffering from cancer and other conditions spoke at the news conference, saying the drug helped them overcome nausea and withstand harsh regimens such as chemotherapy.

"My doctor and I agree that marijuana works for me," said Don Haumant, a Minneapolis man who suffers from advanced liver disease and previously used marijuana as a registered patient in California, where the practice is legal.

Senator demands resignation of Housing Secretary after 'don't like Bush' dispute

RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday May 9, 2006

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) called on President Bush to ask for the immediate resignation of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson if a report about government contracts being awarded based on the contractor's opinion of President Bush are accurate, RAW STORY has learned.

In addition, Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Barney Frank (D-MA) have also called for a full investigation. Their release follows.

The article that reported the Secretary’s comments below can be found here.

After discussing the huge strides the agency has made in doing business with minority-owned companies, Jackson relayed a conversation he had with a prospective advertising contractor.

"He had made every effort to get a contract with HUD for 10 years," Jackson said of the prospective contractor. "He made a heck of a proposal and was on the (General Services Administration) list, so we selected him. He came to see me and thank me for selecting him. Then he said something ... he said, 'I have a problem with your president.'

"I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I don't like President Bush.' I thought to myself, 'Brother, you have a disconnect -- the president is elected, I was selected. You wouldn't be getting the contract unless I was sitting here. If you have a problem with the president, don't tell the secretary.'

"He didn't get the contract," Jackson continued. "Why should I reward someone who doesn't like the president, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the president? Logic says they don't get the contract. That's the way I believe."

LINK

A second release:

Rep. Waxman and Rep. Frank Call for Full Investigation Into HUD Contracting Under Secretary Jackson

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Rep. Barney Frank called for a full investigation of all HUD contracting decisions during the tenure of Secretary Alphonso Jackson. In a letter to Secretary Jackson, they demanded all documents related to the advertising contract discussed in his April 28 speech as well as contracts he was involved with during his time at HUD.

"The Bush Administration has a track record of rewarding its friends and ignoring the rules," said Rep. Waxman, Ranking Member of the House Government Reform Committee. "The government has no right to blatantly withhold contracts simply because an American citizen dislikes the President. This raises new questions about the integrity and judgment of the Bush Administration."

"Politics has no place in the awarding of federal contracts. If the report in the Dallas Business Journal is accurate - and it is a highly respected publication - then President Bush must repudiate these comments, reverse HUD's course and assure the American people that politics plays no role in the government contracting process," said Rep. Frank, Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee.

Part 1 - Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq - Democracy Now 30:29

Part II - Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq - Democracy Now 22:03

Author Stephen Kinzer discusses his new book, "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq." In it, he writes that the invasion of Iraq "was the culmination of a 110-year period during which Americans overthrew fourteen governments that displeased them for various ideological, political, and economic reasons."

Bush firm on prescription drug benefit deadline
President continues aggressive promotion of plan

Updated: 4:02 p.m. ET May 9, 2006
SUN CITY CENTER, Fla. - President Bush has heard pleas for an extension of the deadline to sign up for new Medicare drug coverage from lawmakers, seniors advocacy groups and finally two women in his audience Tuesday. He’s rejected them all.

“Deadlines are important,” the president said at a retirement community, less than a week before the last day for most seniors and the disabled to enroll in the program without facing higher prices. “Deadlines help people understand there’s finality and people need to get after it.”

The new program allows 43 million Medicare beneficiaries to enroll in a private plan that will subsidize the cost of their prescription medications. With about 37 million people now either signed up or automatically enrolled, federal officials from Bush on down have engaged in an all-out push to spread the word to those remaining and help them navigate the Byzantine process of choosing a plan by Monday.

LINK

(Of course, if you invest like I do, sometimes the physician gets bled like a stuck pig.)

I got enough dogs to start a kennel.

Feinstein at it again. She thinks Hayden would do a good job as CIA Chief.

LINK

Frist is for him also. Unlike Hastert who is running for office here in Illinois. Frist won't seek another term. Wants to run for President. Yeah, right!!

Today's MoonBat Meltdown at the GOP Clown College ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629359/posts#comment?q=1

To: All

If Bush wasn't already toast, he will be if this story is true!

This President is now officially a FAILURE should this story be verified.

The Republican Party is in the toaster and getting warmer heading toward full toasting.

Butter and jelly anyone?

17 posted on 05/09/2006 12:55:29 PM PDT by negril

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To: BenLurkin

This is unbelievable. Treason of the highest order! I can't believe I voted for this president... twice! I had no idea that Bush would not only ignore the border situation completely, but to actively work against LEGAL citizens of this country who are LEGALLY protecting our borders and people of this country. All for what?! Cheap labor and votes? Good lord... I thought it couldn't get any worse than Clinton! If I never hear of the name Bush again, it'll be too soon.

26 posted on 05/09/2006 1:02:27 PM PDT by Tarkus2040 (We need more Patton and less patent leather! --Michael Savage)

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To: DoughtyOne

If Bush had his fingers in this he deserves to be impeached.
Fully agreed.

84 posted on 05/09/2006 1:27:02 PM PDT by riri

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To: Mind-numbed Robot

No democrat-mole here. Bush basher? You bet, especially after what I've seen today. And I voted for the two-faced sob, TWICE!

95 posted on 05/09/2006 1:32:03 PM PDT by negril