The United States must also take into account the fact that Iran unlike Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon would be an opponent with the capability to resist the US sponsored attacks on the ground, but also on the sea and in the air.

Unlike the former opponents faced by the United States and its partners, Iran would be able to target the military launch pads used by the United States. Iran would also be able to attack the U.S. supply and logistical hubs in the Persian Gulf. American ships carrying supplies, troops, and warplanes would be vulnerable to Iranian counter-attacks by way of Iranian missiles, warplanes, and naval forces. It is no mere coincidence that Iran has been demonstrating its military capabilities during the “Blow of Zolfaqar” war games conducted in late August .

Iranian Preparations for an American-led Air Campaign

The United States has continually threatened to attack Iran. These threats are made under the pretext of halting the development of nuclear weapons in Iran. The development of nuclear weapons by Iran is something the IAEA and its inspectors have refuted as untrue, but the United States insists on continuing the charade as grounds for a military endgame with Iran.

The threat of an American-led attack against Iran with the heavy involvement of Israel and Britain, amongst others, has primed Iran to prepare itself for the anticipated moment. Over the years, this has led Iran to stride for self-sufficiency in producing its own advanced military hardware and the development of asymmetrical tactics to combat the United States.

Iranian defense planners have stated publicly that they have learned from the cases of neighbouring Afghanistan and Iraq. They are acutely aware of the U.S. military’s heavy reliance on aerial strikes.

August 2006 saw the start of the virtually unprecedented events of the Blow of Zolfaqar war games throughout Iran and its border provinces. These were similar to those conducted in April 2006.

The latter were also held during a period of tense confrontation between Iran and the United States.

April 2006 was a period that could have resulted in military conflict between both the United States and Iran. In Ap

European Faults U.S. Official for Remarks on Geneva Rules

PARIS, Sept. 22 — The European counterterrorism chief, Gijs de Vries, criticized a Bush administration official who suggested that the Geneva Conventions should not be considered sacrosanct, and that the legal framework for the treatment of terrorists should be amended.

The State Department’s legal adviser, John B. Bellinger III, said in an interview published Thursday in The Financial Times that he questioned whether the Geneva Conventions should be “the immutable legal holy grail as to what the rules ought to be in the 21st century.”

“Mr. Bellinger is suggesting that we should change the rules,” Mr. de Vries, the European Union’s counterterrorism coordinator, said Friday in a telephone interview. “The opinion of Europe’s ministers is that respecting the rules, not bending them, is essential to our credibility and hence to our effectiveness in the fight against terrorism.”

In a telephone interview on Friday, Mr. Bellinger expressed “shock” that his comments had not been well received, and said he was “not suggesting that the old rules should be discarded or that they should not be followed. The U.S. is absolutely committed to our obligations under the Geneva Convention and under existing human rights treaties.”

“The purpose of terrorism is always to provoke governments, and in this case Western governments, into overreacting by undermining the rights we have pledged to uphold,” Mr. de Vries said. That, he said, just creates grievances that encourage further radicalism.

Iran has taken the opportunity of the launching of both the April 2006 and Blow of Zolfaqar war games to display its preparedness and capability to engage in combat. Additionally, Iran has taken the occasion to fine tune its defenses and mobilize its military apparatus. This exhibition of Iranian military might is intended to deter America's intent to trigger another Middle Eastern war.

During the war games, the Iranian military has adjusted and modified its air defense shield for maximum dexterity and efficiency in preparation, to stop incoming missiles and invading aircraft..The war games have been an opportunity for testing of Iranian capacity to wage war in the air.

The Iranian military has also reported the testing of laser-guided weaponry, advanced torpedoes, ballistic missiles, anti-ship missiles, bullets that pierce through bullet-proof vests, and electronic military hardware during the Blow of Zolfaqar war games.Surface-to-surface and ocean-to-surface missiles (submarine-to-surface missiles) in the Persian Gulf were also tested in late-August 2006. These included missiles that are invisible to radar and can use multiple warheads or carry multiple payloads to hit numerous targets simultaneously.

Iran has also tested a “2,000 pound guided-bomb with long-range capabilities.” This “2,000 pound bomb” is said to be a “special weapon developed for penetrating military, economic and strategic targets located deep underground or on the soil of the impending enemy.”In the case of war, this weapon could be directed against Anglo-American military infrastructure in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf. This guided bomb is an unmanned aircraft carrying an explosive warhead. Following the execution of the Blow of Zolfaqar war games, the Iranian Defense Minister stated that “Iran now joins the few countries that possess guided missile technology,”

Iran has also been manufacturing its own warplanes, submarines, attack helicopters, tanks, torpedoes, and missiles. This includes remote-controlled modified Maverick Missiles. Brigadier-General Amini, the Deputy Commander of the Air Branch (Air Force) of the Regular Forces, has highlighted that Iran has starting the development and manu

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at September 23, 2006 1:50 AM

wow...spamalicious...

so, you'd rather have her dead?

is she better than the alternative?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъå at September 23, 2006 1:41 AM

Chubby, you do know that I'm talking in metaphor, right?

You're missing the point [again].

I'm not saying she should be put out of office today. I'm talking straight about her actions.

If anything, I'm trying to save her political life!

She's not doing anyone, including herself, any favors.

I am aware that she is what we've got right now. She's losing, man. And so are we. The time has come for different measures. To get smart.

that Iran has starting the development and manufacturing of new types of warplanes besides the “Lighting fighter jets” that have been showcased in Northern Iran.

To discourage the United States in its plans to attack Iran, the Iranian military has additionally been showcasing its abilities to dog fight in the air with its fighter jets. Iranian fighter and bomber jets have been progressively equipped with advanced software and hardware, developed in Iran or by way of technology transfers from China, the Russian Federation, and the republics of the former Soviet Union.

Iranian Commanders have also stated that Iran can track and hit warplanes without using conventional radar. Iran has also been showcasing its signal jamming devices and electronic military hardware, which it compares to NATO standards.

Here we go again...another attempt to flood everyone out.

Warnings to the United States To Stop Its War Plans

In Iran military commanders and state officials have also directly warned the United States to halt its march towards war in the Middle East. An account of a statement by Major-General Salehi, commander of the Iranian Army, sums up the generic view of Iranian military officials and planners in the advent of another Middle Eastern war initiated by the United States;
“Pointing to the joint maneuvers to be carried out by the U.S. army (meaning military)and some other countries in the regional waters in the coming days, the General said that the U.S. presence in the region Middle East is considered as a threat to the security of the regional countries, and further warned Washington that in case the U.S. dares to practice threats by actually attacking, it will then have to face a defeat as bad as the one that the Zionists Israel had to sustain in Lebanon.”

The Iranian Defence Minister has said “that his ministry is now equipping the border units of the army with modern military tools and weapons in a bid to increase their military capabilities,”and “that any possible enemy invasion of Iran will receive a severe blow, adding that failures of alien troops meaning U.S., British, Coalition, and NATO forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have taught trans-regional powers extreme caution.”
Other examples of public warnings by Iranian military commanders directed at the United States and its partners include;
Acting Deputy Commander Brigadier-General Ahmadi of the Iranian Mobilized Forces (Basij), noting the intensification of the psychological operations and pressures against Iran, stressed that his troops are fully prepared to encounter “any stupid act by the enemies.” (September 9, 2006)
Brigadier-General Mohammad Hejazi advised the U.S. to relinquish the idea of invading Iran, stressing that as soon as the U.S. dares to make such a big mistake, it will lose its forged reputation due to its the U.S. military’s frequent and shocking defeats from the Iranian troops.(September 10, 2006)
Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Major-General Safavi has warned that Revolutionary Guard ground troops form a defensive force, but m

"Pelosi will do us no good as an ex representitive.

sure, she could state her true feelings and appeal to about %12 of the voters..."

I don't buy it. Pelosi is just one of the uninformed. She doesn't know, and doesn't want to. Politics by way of ignorance. That's all.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at September 23, 2006 1:53 AM

perhaps you should eat more protien?

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

"But wait a bit," the Oysters cried,
"Before we have our chat;
For some of us are out of breath,
And all of us are fat!"
"No hurry!" said the Carpenter.
They thanked him much for that.

"A loaf of bread," the Walrus said,
"Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Are very good indeed--
Now, if you're ready, Oysters dear,
We can begin to feed."

"But not on us!" the Oysters cried,
Turning a little blue.
"After such kindness, that would be
A dismal thing to do!"
"The night is fine," the Walrus said.
"Do you admire the view?

San Diego Mayor Opposes Sleeping Zones For Homeless

The criminalization of homelessness continues. And what happens to these folks if they can't pay the fine: jail?

>>If anything, I'm trying to save her political life!

>>She's not doing anyone, including herself, any favors.

this is where we disagree.

you way would alienate way too many people.

America is a scared little victim right niow.

the vast majority of us just don't `get it' right now.

they just aren't ready to accept the truth and they definately will shoot the messenger.

So as long as the Walrus talks in a lovely tone of voice about lovely nonsense... Nancy's okay with the oysters being eaten.

The time has come.

Do you think this might be just a little over-the-top?

Posted by: Just askin at September 23, 2006 1:32 AM

Torture is ok. Bombing civilian infrastructure is ok. Building "immigrant detention centers" is ok.

But pointing out that politicians have their heads up their ass while Rome burns? Well, now that's just over the top.

You have your head up your ass while Rome burns. I like that.

Feds Seek to Block Oregon Spying Case

U.S. Justice Department lawyers filed an appeal Friday aimed at blocking a lawsuit by a former Islamic charity that has challenged a Bush
administration secret surveillance program.

U.S. District Judge Garr M. King ruled earlier this month that a lawsuit by the defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation chapter in Ashland could go forward without damaging national security.

But government lawyers argue that state secrets would be revealed if the lawsuit is allowed to proceed.

The case hinges on a classified document that U.S. Treasury officials inadvertently turned over to Al-Haramain lawyers after the charity was
declared a global terrorist organization.

The operative mechanism of a circular firing squad?

"you're doing it all wrong"

So, basically what the Anonymous Cowards are all telling us, is that they are:

1) Easily frightened, or scared shitless.

2) They are all 'endtimes' believers.

Freaks.

Here we go again...another attempt to flood everyone out.

Posted by: Nobody at September 23, 2006 1:52 AM

I don't think that's the case.

some on dial up think that posting the whole article is doing a favor to fellow dial uppers.

I just don't get why they don't open links in new browsers...

that way, they could continue reading the blog while waiting for the article to come up.

you point to the link...right click and select `open in new window'...

what's so hard about that?

unless you preffer a system that gives you just one mouse button...

Posted by: Catharine at September 23, 2006 2:05 AM

yeap...you watched the documentary...

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъå at September 23, 2006 2:06 AM

You actually bought that BS explanation?

Even knowing that posting the link doesn't harm dialuppers and that none of those articles are whole articles and the excess text actually makes it more difficult to refresh the blog for dialuppers?

"It was so kind of you to come!
And you are very nice!"
The Carpenter said nothing but
"Cut us another slice.
I wish you were not quite so deaf--
I've had to ask you twice!"

"It seems a shame," the Walrus said,
"To play them such a trick.
After we've brought them out so far,
And made them trot so quick!"
The Carpenter said nothing but
"The butter's spread too thick!"
"I weep for you," the Walrus said:
"I deeply sympathise."
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.

"O Oysters," said the Carpenter,
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?"
But answer came there none--
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.'

`I like the Walrus best,' said Alice: `because he was a little sorry for the poor oysters.'

`He ate more than the Carpenter, though,' said Tweedledee. `You see he held his handkerchief in front, so that the Carpenter couldn't count how many he took: contrariwise.'

`That was mean!' Alice said indignantly. `Then I like the Carpenter best--if he didn't eat so many as the Walrus.'

`But he ate as many as he could get,' said Tweedledum.

There are ignorant people, and there are informed people.

Informed people read Chomsky.
Ignorant people read the daily propaganda. And more importantly, they believe it.

I'm guessing Pelosi doesn't read Chomsky.

You create your reality. If you think you must pander to a base of dummys then you will find that's what you need to do. If you are a dummy yourself, you won't see any other alternatives.

Sep. 21, 2006 -- House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi called Hugo Chavez a "thug" for the Venezuelan President's "diablo" remarks about George W. Bush. Pelosi was speaking at a Washington news conference today when she denounced Chavez as a thug and said he demeaned himself and Venezuela. Pelosi seems to forget that it is a thug who tried to oust Chavez in a bloody 2002 coup, a thug who has invaded and killed tens of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, a thug who gave Israel the green light to pulverize Lebanon and kill over a thousand civilians, and a thug who wants to torture prisoners in U.S. custody. And while Pelosi was calling Chavez a thug, he was busy negotiating the sale of cheap heating oil to the people of Harlem. When was the last time Ms. Pelosi did anything to provide cheap commodities to the poor?

Perhaps Ms. Pelosi is a bit confused by the term "thug." Her father, Thomas D'Alessandro, broadcast wartime radio messages to Italy exhorting Italians to rise up against Benito Mussolini. An ally in the program to get Italians to revolt was none other than Mafia don Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who, after the war, was paroled from a federal prison and deported to Italy where he continued to run the Mafia in exile. D'Alessandro was elected Mayor of Baltimore in 1947 -- a time when Luciano's mob had a virtual free reign in the port of Baltimore. It would appear that Ms. Pelosi has forgotten that her mobbed up dear old dad dealt with thugs on a routine basis. Perhaps she should remember that the next time she has an urge to call a democratically-elected real populist leader (Pelosi does not know the meaning of the term "populist") a "thug."

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

Posted by: Catharine at September 23, 2006 2:11 AM

in this exchange I don't even like "Alice"...They're all idiots.

Besides I like oysters smoked and then plopped into a chowder...

"to and end-times believer

and a home coming queen..."

I always liked that Monkees song

You create your reality. If you think you must pander to a base of dummys then you will find that's what you need to do. If you are a dummy yourself, you won't see any other alternatives.

Posted by: dada at September 23, 2006 2:13 AM

Is this the wrong time to remind you that I view Chomsky as something less than a genius?

Hey n, didnt make it the studio tonight. I'll have it ready to send over tomorrow tho...

Sep. 22/23, 2006 -- The editor spoke on Randi Rhodes' radio program yesterday on the background of the April 2002 Bush administration-backed coup against President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Also discussed was Poppy Bush's role, as CIA Director, in the two 1976 terrorist attacks that killed the passengers of a Cubana Airlines plane off of coast of Barbados and the former Chilean Foreign Minister and his American colleague in the middle of Embassy Row in Washington, DC. Randi and I spoke about the most unsavory actors in the Bush Latin America Mafia, including Elliott Abrams, Otto Reich, and wanted assassin and terrorist Orlando Bosch.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

Is this the wrong time to remind you that I view Chomsky as something less than a genius?

Posted by: Nobody [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 23, 2006 2:16 AM

Nah, I'm over-simplifying for the sake of the debate. The conversation can go in any direction it wants. Of course.

Even knowing that posting the link doesn't harm dialuppers and that none of those articles are whole articles and the excess text actually makes it more difficult to refresh the blog for dialuppers?

Posted by: Nobody at September 23, 2006 2:11 AM

why not?

I am a firm believer in the absolute stupidity of the masses.

some people are just dumb enough to think they'd save time by posting the whole article rather than clicking on the link, waiting for the new page, hitting the back button and waiting for the blog to redraw.

never would dawn on them they could have a whole new window.

You've worked in IT long enough to know at least aa third of all users are too cowed by the technology to try anything different than what is right in front of their noses?

Hey n, didnt make it the studio tonight. I'll have it ready to send over tomorrow tho...

Posted by: dada at September 23, 2006 2:17 AM

Np...I went to the hardware store instead of the music store like I'd planned...seriously thinking about a new programmable pedal...

Sep. 22/23, 2006 -- The U.S. Census Bureau is the latest government agency to report the theft of laptop computers -- in this latest case 246 laptops containing confidential census information of a highly personal nature were stolen. In addition, another 426 Census computers were stolen, but the Bush administration denies they contained any sensitive information. In addition, the Commerce Department, of which Census is a component, reports the theft of 465 laptop computers. Also, the Census Bureau also reports that 46 portable data storage devices were stolen along with 15 handheld data entry devices that store data collected by census takers.

Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez only authorized his department to admit the thefts after receiving a congressional inquiry and a Freedom of Information Act request from the media. Commerce, adopting the same talking points used by other federal agencies and companies in reporting similar data thefts, contends that the data in the stolen computers was encrypted and password-protected. The Census data thefts could be the mother lode of all past thefts and possibly involve hundreds of millions of Americans.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

>>I am a firm believer in the absolute stupidity of the masses.

which dove-tails perfectly into why I feel Pelosi said what she did about Chaves when she did.

red tofu for dopes

Emily Perez is dead...

Excerpt:

It is easy to grow numb as this increasingly pointless war churns on and they throw more of our children into that meat grinder. But every now and then a story comes along that gets past my defenses and it leaves me wondering how much longer we will let the Pied Piper of hatred and violence lead our children to a place of no return.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

red meat, oysters, tofu...we cover all the basic food groups here

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъå at September 23, 2006 2:21 AM

At what point did you miss my saying that I've lost some tolerance of the slow kids since they took over the government?

You either oppose ignorance or you allow it to infect others...I've made it quite clear that it's quite obnoxious for everyone else when they do that and that it's unecessary and rude besides.

Now the remaining motivators past that point are few and doubtful to be well meaning.

WMR has previously reported that the thefts of personal data are part of a covert Bush administration program to illegally populate the databases of the Total Information Awareness surveillance system -- which, after Congress cut off its funds, was transferred from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to other intelligence agencies and private contractors. The targeting of census data is nothing new for the Bush administration. In July 2004, it was revealed that the Census Bureau gave the Department of Homeland Security possible illegal access to confidential 2000 census data on Americans of Arab ancestry. The census data included figures on Arab ancestry in certain zip codes throughout the United States, particularly in New England. The responses divided Arab-Americans into Egyptian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Moroccan, Palestinian, Syrian, Arab/Arabic, and Other Arab categories.

WMR Data Theft chart updated:

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/Datathefts.php

Emily Perez is dead...

Excerpt:

It is easy to grow numb as this increasingly pointless war churns on and they throw more of our children into that meat grinder. But every now and then a story comes along that gets past my defenses and it leaves me wondering how much longer we will let the Pied Piper of hatred and violence lead our children to a place of no return.

Posted by: How now, Anon Cow? at September 23, 2006 2:24 AM

Thank you for that. This is what it's made of. The death of real people, many of them children.

Sep. 22/23, 2006 -- With the current debate on the war crimes of top officials of the Bush administration it is noteworthy to look back at the final coded comments of German Admiral Wilhelm Canaris before his execution for helping a plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Canaris, Commander of the German Military Defense Command during World War II, was executed in Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp in April 1945 after an unsuccessful military coup against Hitler. The DPA German Press Agency reported that, according to Canaris biographer Karl Heinz Abshagen, Canaris tapped a final message on the wall to a Danish inmate in the neighboring cell: "You as an officer will understand, that I was only fulfilling my patriotic duty when I tried to step up against the criminal senselessness of Hitler, leading Germany into disaster."

"the USA put on a dress like a man on a sinking ship prepared too do any thing save them self ‘s"

Someone has been reading their Burroughs.

Senate Monkeys See No Evil

taking about 6 minutes to burn these DVDs Ono sent me to distribute to whatever bloggers want them.

email me if you wnat a copy.

1st dvd is a danish movie called `pusher'

2nd is a compilation of BBC comedy, 6 episodes of `the mighty boosh' and 2 episodes of `spaced'.

bgecause they are encoded in region 6, you need a dvd drive n your computer to watch them.

I supposed I might beable to video capture the disks and remaster them in in region one...but I don't have the software for it...if there is software that lets you video capture from DVD...seems like there ought to be, but, man talk about time consuming!

not to mention the disk space...

but mainly the time...

Admiral Canaris "fulfilled a patriotic duty" to depose a maniacal despot leading his nation into disaster.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/Canaris.jpg

Senate Monkeys See No Evil

Posted by: Moral Clarity: Bush Style! at September 23, 2006 2:35 AM

Good one. If I may ...

See No Evil

We are, in a sense, at the moment of truth. The sadistic and/or bizarre acts committed in Guatanamo, Abu Ghraib and the CIA's secret prisons can be written off as the crimes of a few bad apples with names like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld -- or, more charitably, as the consequences of a string of bad and brutal decisions made under emergency conditions by men who were terrified by all the things they didn't know about Al Qaeda. Either way, they were not acts of national policy, endorsed and approved by Congress after open, public debate. But, thanks to the Hamdan decision, the question is now formally on the table . . . So now we'll find out, I guess, what we're really made of as a nation -- down deep, in our core.

Hoof and horn, hoof and horn;
All that dies shall be reborn!
Corn and grain, corn and grain,
All that dies shall live again!

Blessed equinox.

"Hat and Beard" Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch (1964) 08:28

Happy Pre Jesus Day!

Billy Preston...

playing `that's the way God planned it'

on stage with George harrison...swings into Ringo singing `you know it don't come easy'

Do you think this might be just a little over-the-top?

Posted by: Just askin at September 23, 2006 1:32 AM

When you have a collection of wacko leftists in a room it becomes a contest to see who can say the most outrageous thing

"Bush is Hitler"

"Are you kidding? Bush is worse than Hitler"

"You two are crazy. Bush makes Hitler look like mother Teresa"

To a normal person, these statements are insane, but in here, nothing is "over the top"

Why can't we be humble

Like the good lord say

He promised to exault us

but no-one is away

How men be so greedy

When there's so much left?

All things are God given

And they all have been blessed

That's the way God planned it

That's the way God wants it to be, be

That's the way God planned it

That's the way God wants it to be, be

Let not your heart be troubled

Let mourning sobbing cease

Learn to help one another

And live in perfect peace

If we'd just be humbler

Like the good lord say

He promised to exault us

But love is the way

That's the way God planned it

That's the way God wants it to be, be

You better believe me

That's the way God planned it

That's the way God wants it to be, be

I hope you get this message

Where you won't others will

You don't understand me

But I'll love you still

That's the way God planned it

That's the way God wants it to be, be

oh... the concert for Bangladesh...came on.

who woulda known?

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at September 23, 2006 2:48 AM

To a normal person, invasion of countries that are not a threat, torture camps, dereliction of duties, massive fiscal irresponsibility, cronyism of the worst kind, etc., etc., etc., are reprehensible and disgusting.

If you only had a brain, and a heart, and some courage...

You're not the only one. Arianna herself on her blog has been all over Clinton this year, and a lot of the posters are realising what a fraud he is....

Posted by: GG 4.33 at September 22, 2006 11:13 PM

--
Talking about fraud ...

Citing Arianna Huffington, the Ann Coulter of the nineties, as some kind of authority on Bill Clinton it laughable were it not so sad since The Arianna Huffington borgs for some nutty reason or another have bought her merchandise.

You read one of her Clinton hating articles and the comments in response - and you have seen them all. She is absolutely shameless and has been that way for as long as I remember.

I hold it with two of her biographers who correctly stated that despite everything Arianna Huffington has done in California there are still people - and celebrities in particular - who who just love to be fooled by her even though everyone should know better. Fools, all of them.

And the rest of the folks who experienced AH during the nineties on TV - and this includes the liberal bloggers who embraced her without reservation - who rather refuse to remember and insist on a state of total amnesia for themselves what AHuffington is concerned. Pathetic. Talking about fraud ...

i was watching some daily show clips today, and the jokes they were making about Bill O were similar to mine.

i only bring this up because it looks like I was recycling daily show jokes, but i don't have cable so I can only watch it two days behind everyone else on the comedy central website, and so I can't really take their jokes and pretend they are mine.

there. i feel better.

man...at one point Jesus was used to promote peace...

now 30 years later he's being used to promote a world war!

Talk about versatility!

Don't take Jesus's word on torture, Chubby

he was tortured and so he can't jugde torture in a unbiased fashion like the Holy FOX channel.

also, doing horrible acts in the name of Christianity is almost as old as Christianity itself.

Sad, but true.

President Clinton Smacks Down Chris Wallace

FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News

I might have to get the Concert for Bangaladesh dvd.

I forgot how good it was.

Leon Russel going `Jumping Jack Flash'...how about that, sports fans?

I remember seeing Leon on Austin City Limits or some similar PBS show in the 70s...

oh, yeah...Eric Clapton plays on C4Bang, too.

while my guitar genly weeps

pre Jesus?

Im pretty sure Jesus would condemn torture.

>>while my guitar genly weeps

you just get the feeling this is wheeling into an epic jam...

there. i feel better.

Posted by: conbo at September 23, 2006 2:58 AM

The ponies say... "We know you are the real McCoy, Conbo. No worries."

pre Jesus?

Posted by: Meg at September 23, 2006 3:03 AM

the Sabbath.

Posted by: Meg at September 23, 2006 3:03 AM

the Sabbath.

Posted by: conbo at September 23, 2006 3:06 AM

But since Jesus was a Jew, is the real Sabbath Saturday or Sunday?

George Harrison with about a half foot's worth of beard...that jam I expected didn't really materialize...but the promised jumping jack would...

you takes your Sabbaths where you find them

The ponies say... "We know you are the real McCoy, Conbo. No worries."

Posted by: Catharine at September 23, 2006 3:06 AM

:)

What is this that stands before me?

Figure in black which points at me,

Turn 'round quick and start to run,

Find out I'm the chosen one

Oh, No!

President Clinton Smacks Down Chris Wallace

FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News

Posted by: How now, Anon Cow? at September 23, 2006 3:02 AM

Again, I will reprint for the sake of getting the 'good stuff' repeated and out into the ether [over and over again. Yeah that's right, Yogi Berra]...

CLINTON: OK, let's talk about it. I will answer all of those things on the merits but I want to talk about the context of which this arises. I'm being asked this on the FOX network...ABC just had a right wing conservative on the Path to 9/11 falsely claim that it was based on the 9/11 Commission report with three things asserted against me that are directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report. I think it's very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say that I didn't do enough, claimed that I was obsessed with Bin Laden. All of President Bush's neocons claimed that I was too obsessed with finding Bin Laden when they didn't have a single meeting about Bin Laden for the nine months after I left office. All the right wingers who now say that I didn't do enough said that I did too much. Same people.

Big Bill raised how many billions of dollars to help the world? I think he is the only adult left in this country.

Find out I'm the chosen one

Oh, No!

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 3:11 AM

For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! They feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. (xxcc, I, 31)

and here another little reprint cause its worth repeating ... Go Bill!!!

--

WALLACE: Do you think you did enough sir?

CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him.

WALLACE: Right…

CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try and they didn’t…I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke… So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know..

WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir…

read on ...
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/22/clinton-fox/

But since Jesus was a Jew, is the real Sabbath Saturday or Sunday?

Posted by: Catharine at September 23, 2006 3:07 AM

hahaha!

that is like a one hand clapping thing.

i never thought about it before.

but ye are my chosen ones.

Great, that is so reasuring.

>>Again, I will reprint for the sake of getting the 'good stuff' repeated and out into the ether [over and over again. Yeah that's right, Yogi Berra]...

yeah, it is a good one.

even if it reminds us that Clinton WAS A DOUCHEBAG...

he was a far better douchebag than we gots today.

Bush, a new standard for douchebagary.

I think the truly disgusting thing about Bush's america com[ppared to Hitler's Germany: No one ever looked to Germany as the exemplar of freedom, etc.

that is like a one hand clapping thing.

Trying to commit suicide by self crucifixion never works. :(

Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God.~~

I'd make a good high priest, if I must say so myself. All I'm missing is the high part.

Big Bill raised how many billions of dollars to help the world? I think he is the only adult left in this country.

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 3:14 AM

i think he'd make a better president than Bush

sometimes he appears to be human

bush doesn't even try

great mystery of the House of God

Where all the money for the building fund really goes to?

Big Bill raised how many billions of dollars to help the world? I think he is the only adult left in this country.

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 3:14 AM

oops. i thought you were talking about bill oreilley.

i still think even Bill O Really would be a better president than Bush tho.

>>bush doesn't even try

Bush has an MBA.

you don't get those while retaining humanity.

bleachin one's soul out is a pre-req for an MBA

i think he'd make a better president than Bush

That is not really saying a whole lot. A stoned gopher would make a better president than Bush. It just goes to show you in a land of idiots the leader will be the biggest. You get what you ask for, not ya'll of cource, but you know what I mean.

Abracadabra, thus we learn
The more you create, the less you earn.
The less you earn, the more you’re given,
The less you lead, the more you’re driven,
The more destroyed, the more they feed,
The more you pay, the more they need,
The more you earn, the less you keep,
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to take
If the tax-collector hasn’t got it before I wake.

Bush lowered the bar for presidents

Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. (ccxx, II, 19)

I'm all set.

http://greywolf.critter.net/images/deadlands/weirdwars/egypt/seti.jpg

Set... get it?

Silly thelemic humor.

Bush lowered the bar for the entire human race. There are monkeys out there burning copies of Origin of the Species in protest!!!

bush has lowered the bar for human beings-

and as great of thing as Bill Clinton is doing, I think he is trying to upstage Al Gore and is trying to help his wife get elected.

Al Gore really is doing what he is doing because he cares. Im not sure about Clinton. Al Gore wouldn't be caught dead running around with Bush Sr.

My friend came to me
With sadness in his eyes
Told me that he wanted help
Before his country dies

Although I couldn't feel the pain
I knew I had to try
Now I'm asking all of you
Help us save some lives

Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh
Where so many people are dying fast
And it sure looks like a mess
I've never seen such distress
Now won't you lend your hand
Try to understand
Relieve the people of Bangla Desh

Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh
Such a great disaster
I don't understand
But it sure looks like a mess
I never known such distress
Please don't turn away
I wanna hear you say
Relieve the people of Bangla Desh

Relieve the people of Bangla Desh

Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh
Though it may seem so far
From where we all are
It's something we can't reject
That suffering I can't neglect
Now won't you give some bread
Get the starving fed
We got to relieve Bangla Desh

Relieve the people of Bangla Desh
We got to relieve Bangla Desh

Now won't you lend your hand
Try to understand
Relieve the people of Bangla Desh

***

BANGLADESH
George Harrison

http://cunningrealist.blogspot.com/

Thursday, September 21, 2006
"On The Brink"
Readers know I'm a fan of Andrew Sullivan. I've linked to him often, and he's been kind enough to return the favor every now and then. But in light of his oft-stated regrets for having trusted the Bush administration before the Iraq invasion, I simply don't understand his repeated misstatements on Iran -- inaccuracies that parrot the demagoguery and hysteria favored by those he so deeply mistrusts. Andrew's been the subject of a PIA Alert before in this space for writing, "Especially when they are on the verge of wielding nuclear weapons."

Al Gore has one thing that Hillary does not have. He did not vote for the war. No one who voted for the war will get the Democratic Nomination if I have any thing to do with it no matter what Big Bill does or says. I still think that Bill's heart is in the right place and he does look good like your ex after you married a pyscho bitch from hell.

How bout them Jets?

The Abnormal Is Not Courage

The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German
Tanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers,
A magnitude of beauty that allows me no peace.
And yet this poem would lessen that day. Question
The bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.
Would say courage isn't that. Not at its best.
It was impossib1e, and with form. They rode in sunlight,
Were mangled. But I say courage is not the abnormal.
Not the marvelous act. Not Macbeth with fine speeches.

Not the marvelous act, but the evident conclusion of being.
Not strangeness, but a leap forward of the same quality. Accomplishment. The even loyalty. But fresh. Not the Prodigal Son, nor Faustus. But Penelope. The thing steady and clear. Then the crescendo. The real form. The culmination. And the exceeding. Not the surprise. The amazed understanding. The marriage, Not the month's rapture. Not the exception. The beauty That is of many days. Steady and clear. It is the normal excellence, of long accomplishment.

-Jack Gilbert

I still think that Bill's heart is in the right place and he does look good like your ex after you married a pyscho bitch from hell.

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 3:34 AM

that is true!!!

even Reagan looks pretty now. :)

even dead lying in STATE, he looked better than W does.

and he does look good like your ex after you married a pyscho bitch from hell.

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 3:34 AM

A fine analogy.

"Chronology" Ornette Coleman (as)Don Cherry (cor) Charlie Haden (b) Billy Higgins (d)Ornette Coleman Quartet - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) 06:03

Yes she did sleep with all our friends, but she never tried to kill us unlike the head spinning pea soup spewing pycho we got now.

How bout them Jets?

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 3:35 AM

Well, Sunday’s game at Buffalo has a unique twist no matter which way you look.

The Giants are the only team in New York that can play a lick of football. Jets suck, suck, suck!!!!

hey that reminds me-

Saddam is free now

I wonder if he would be better than Bush?

He at least gave his military body armor

Do you know the only thing that sucks worse than the jets?

Brooklyn

Do you know what the only thing that sucks worse than Brooklyn?

White out of work rascists with no life that live in Brooklyn. oh yea, Jets suck, suck, suck,

Yes she did sleep with all our friends, but she never tried to kill us unlike the head spinning pea soup spewing pycho we got now.

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 3:43 AM

Hee!

Me (to Krissy): So, would you mind if I tape bacon to the cat?

Krissy: That’s a fairly interesting question. What’s the purpose here?

Me: I put taping bacon to the cat on a list of things I said I was going to do today and people seemed to be skeptical.

Krissy: You said you were going to tape bacon to the cat on the Whatever.

Me: Yeah.

Krissy (audible sigh): Since you are going to do it, and take a picture of it, all I ask is that you take the bacon off right after. All right?

Me: Okay.

Krissy: You’re a strange, strange, strange man.

http://www.scalzi.com/cattapebacon2.jpg

Do you know the only thing that sucks worse than the jets?

Brooklyn

Do you know what the only thing that sucks worse than Brooklyn?

White out of work rascists with no life that live in Brooklyn. oh yea, Jets suck, suck, suck,

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 3:48 AM

You should meet NC.

maybe if we tape bacon on Bush

he would seem more appealing

"Lonely Woman" Ornette Coleman (as) Don Cherry (cor) Charlie Haden (b) Billy Higgins (d)Ornette Coleman Quartet - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) 05:03

maybe if we tape bacon on Bush

he would seem more appealing

Posted by: conbo at September 23, 2006 3:52 AM

LOL!

Batman chose his name because 'Obsessed Psycho-Guy' was already taken.

Former President George W. Bush Credited With Saddam Hussein Acquittal [satire]

Mr. Hussein, whose estimated $3.4 billion in personal assets have been restored following his acquittal and release, said he plans to use some of the money to hire former Bush advisor Karl Rove as his political consultant and campaign manager for the upcoming Iraqi presidential elections. His chances, he said, "look very bright."

i really thought the cat would try to eat the bacon

it seems more annoyed

i bet Bush would eat bacon off his arm if you taped bacon on it.

Former President George W. Bush Credited With Saddam Hussein Acquittal [satire]

Mr. Hussein, whose estimated $3.4 billion in personal assets have been restored following his acquittal and release, said he plans to use some of the money to hire former Bush advisor Karl Rove as his political consultant and campaign manager for the upcoming Iraqi presidential elections. His chances, he said, "look very bright."

Posted by: How now, Anon Cow? at September 23, 2006 3:56 AM

Brava[o]!

http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/

Off the cat's arm or his own?

i bet Bush would eat bacon off his arm if you taped bacon on it.

Posted by: conbo at September 23, 2006 3:56 AM

The cat should be president.

that cat with bacon taped to it would be a better president than Bush

I'm more interested in the faces that he'd ake once you started frying the bacon taped to his arm...

I am sure that the Democratic Party would nominate the cat, but he/she doesn't have enough friends in the Defense contractor bidness so a no go on that one.

Former President George W. Bush Credited With Saddam Hussein Acquittal [satire]

"Basically, by putting Saddam under the Bush legal code, Saddam was suddenly granted all the legal protections Bush had been working so hard to get for himself," Mr. Thrush said. "Suddenly, torture was no longer a crime. Can you believe that? That wiped about 78,000 slam dunk cases right off the map for the prosecutors, because in those cases, even though Saddam's victims were undoubtedly tortured and had the scars to prove it, the specific kinds of torture Saddam and his henchmen used were not among the ones spelled out as prohibited by Bush's torture law. Bingo, off scot free on a technicality."

No. I'm not talking about frying the cat...that would be inhumane.

Plus the cat has a personality.

Tarot Card Generator

Plus the cat has a personality.

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 4:03 AM

And integrity

Its not eating the bacon

even though Saddam's victims were undoubtedly tortured and had the scars to prove it, the specific kinds of torture Saddam and his henchmen used were not among the ones spelled out as prohibited by Bush's torture law. Bingo, off scot free on a technicality."

Posted by: How now, Anon Cow? at September 23, 2006 4:02 AM

ooh... you're sharp.

Maybe the cat is Jewish?

Doesn't seem like Bush should have a mullet?

Its definately more kosher than Bush, perhaps even Hillary

Cat With Bacon Taped To It in 'o8!

Doesn't seem like Bush should have a mullet?

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 4:09 AM

Yes. And less teeth.

"Billie's Bounce" Charlie Parker Bee Boppers (1945) 03:12

"Now's The Time" Charlie Parker Bee Boppers (1945) 03:16

Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as)
Dizzy Gillespie (p -1/9) Sadik Hakim (p -10/12)
Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d)
WOR Studios, Broadway, NYC, November 26, 1945

and drive a muscle car or at least have one on blocks out front of the White House that never works. Tank tops, Bush should start wearing tank tops to show off his guns.

"Billie's Bounce" Charlie Parker Bee Boppers (1945) 03:12

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at September 23, 2006 4:11 AM

Oh. That's nice...

With the twins running around half naked arguing about baby daddies

(aren't sure that its not Grandpa Bush)

Should be a cartoon.

And Laura Bush is definately a meth head

A People's History of the United States,

"The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. How wise to turn the fear and anger of the majority toward a class of criminals bred - by economic inequity - faster than they can be put away, deflecting attention from the huge thefts of national resources carried out within the law by men in executive offices."

We live in a cartoon America.

But the bacon taped to the cat is real, all too real.

"From Bebop to Cool: 1947-1949 - Boplicity" Miles Davis & His Orchestra 03:01

Miles Davis Nonet

Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb)
Sandy Siegelstein (frh) Bill Barber (tu)
Lee Konitz (as) Gerry Mulligan (bars, arr)
John Lewis (p) Nelson Boyd (b)
Kenny Clarke (d) John Carisi, Gil Evans (arr)
NYC, April 22, 1949

they really are white trash

i never thought about it

But they so are

if they did not have all that money they would
be in a trailer park getting high and collecting welfare

Although Jeb would be attending a community college

Hello Toilet Trained, "Come On In."

Floyd Observes My Hairy Chin

Sit Down In The Chair Don't Be Afraid

Steamed Hot Towel On My Face

Barney Ties Me To The Chair

I Can't See I'm Really Scared

Floyd Breathes Hard, I Hear A Zip

Pee-pee Pressed Against My Lips

I Sense Others In The Room

Opie, Aunt Bea, I Presume

They Take Turns And Cut Me Up

I Die Smothered In Aunt Bea's Muff

Jeb is the 'smart' one

bbl

First they distract the nation with the ... rule of law ...

They change the laws... incrementally.

Each increment is argued astutely by legal scholars; and yet it is accomplished.

It goes unnoticed by the uninformed/misled public.

Each increment is a small loss by itself.

But, on the whole, it amounts to the total takeover and makeover of the country. And the world.

And too late, the masses realize what has happened.

When the people start to complain, they are told that their representatives [whom they did not elect] allowed it.

"Aren't you afraid of the boogeyman? He's gonna get ya! We'll protect you from him."

"Freedom means freedom from terrorists!", but not terror itself.

If I tried that shit on my cats they would set me on fire while I slept and use me to cook the bacon.

Long story...but here's a little bird that slammed into our front window yesterday morning.

now he/she is your friend. :)

Maybe the cat is Jewish?

Posted by: Field Hippie at September 23, 2006 4:07 AM

http://www.studiondr.com/images/cards/matzogeneric300.jpg

Just after that photo, it flew across the room and landed behind some bookcases...we opened the window & took off the screen & when we went back in there it had made its way out...Happy ending... :)

Bill O'Reilly's enemies list, available in hardback for $26

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609220010

"My goal," Bill O'Reilly writes in the introduction to his latest book, Culture Warrior, which is published by Random House's Broadway Books imprint and will go on sale September 25, "is to expose and defeat people who have the power to do you great harm. My weapons will be facts and superior analysis based on those facts" (Page 5).

But if "facts" and "superior analysis" are what readers are after, they may want to look elsewhere. Media Matters for America's review of Culture Warrior shows the book to be replete with factual errors, rank hypocrisy, and ad hominem attacks directed at anyone who has crossed swords with O'Reilly.

I love happy endings. :)

If there were more happy endings in the world I would not be such a negative creep. We need more beauty in the world.

Happy endings need sleep..

over and out.

Long story...but here's a little bird that slammed into our front window yesterday morning.

Posted by: A. at September 23, 2006 4:32 AM

Great picture. Illuminatus bird.

That big book of Burroughs interviews is really good.

Oh. That's nice...

Posted by: Catharine at September 23, 2006 4:16 AM

John Coltrane

(b. September 23, 1926; d. July 17, 1967)

Long ago it became tradition at WKCR
to play 24 hours of a jazz great's music
on his/her birthday.

Program starts at midnight.

WKCR 89.9 FM NYC

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/

Listen:

http://kanga.college.columbia.edu/ramgen/broadcast/wkcr.rm

The program is on now.

The station will break for 2 hours this afternoon to broadcast a football game then resume the broadcast special until 6AM Sunday morning.

The Cat Inside.

The world will break for 2 hours this afternoon to take a nap. Maybe things will be better after we have cookies and milk. This could actually work.

Best idea I got. Who doesn't like cookies?

That big book of Burroughs interviews is really good.

Posted by: dada at September 23, 2006 4:42 AM

It is.

I marked a lot of pages in it..like page 79 where's he's asked if he believes in the existence of god.

And pg 509, where he's asked, "You never feel the need to go back on drugs?"

And pg 136, "Are you interested in the automatic writing of the Surrealists?"

Exellent book.

Good night, Blog.. xox

Bacon Bushburgers w/Cheese Catbits!

Republican Cats And Kitties Will Love These Bitties!

Everyone loves The Cat Inside. Gysin drew the pictures.

I recommend Cities of the Red Night.

Night, all.

Thanks for the tunes, NC.

Later

KP for Magister Ludi!

G'night, jim

Thanks for the tunes, NC.

Later

Posted by: dada at September 23, 2006 4:52 AM

:)

nite kiddoo,

just got back from seeing J at the comedy festival along with a half dozen other commics.

How was she?

hilarious,did a bunch of riffs,had the crowd hootin and hollerin, got the best round of applause for the evening.

Good. Hope it was political.

fuckin A!

took a few bites out of both sides of the border.

: )

me and Bgurl had a nice dinner after to wrap it up and cruised the stang home.

gave her a boquet of flowers from the bloggie, got a smile or two, then she had to boogie.

g'nite all

sweet dreams!

night jimmy

"Freedom Jazz Dance" Miles Davis Quintet (1966) 07:16

Miles Davis (tp) Wayne Shorter (ts)
Herbie Hancock (p)Ron Carter (b)
Tony Williams (d)
Columbia 30th Street Studios,
NYC, October 24, 1966

The show was great this week.

Sam still makes the difference and the MRR music intros into each segment set a tone or attitude that is diffent than Springer, Franken, .. hell any other show on this or any other network.

Sam is a very good host.

Steal This Movie with Janeane Garofalo and Vincent D'Onofrio. 1h47m45s
http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/steal_this_movie.htm

Jeff Cohen on his latest book: Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media

Counterspin (9/22/06-9/27/06)

This week on CounterSpin: Few media critics have been afforded an intimate, on-the-job view of the outlets they criticize, but FAIR founder Jeff Cohen spent years in and out of Fox News, MSNBC and CNN. In his new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, Cohen takes the reader inside TV news and probes the conservative biases, timidity and tabloidism that dominate it. Today, in a special extended CounterSpin interview, we talk to Jeff Cohen about his adventures and the book that, it's safe to say, will end any hope he has for a future in cable punditry.

Stream from here:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2963

Evil
by pastordan

Excerpt:

What is happening on Capitol Hill today is plainly evil. As defined by Walt Lowe in the Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling, evil is

that which causes harm, depriving a being of some good which is proper to that being. Moral evil (in religious terms, sin) is the result of a deliberate choice.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/22/14739/8310

"My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance."

William S. Burroughs

U.S. can\'t confirm bin Laden death report: official

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is unable to confirm a French newspaper report that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is believed to have died last month in Pakistan, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Saturday.

\"We cannot confirm the account,\" said the official, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. \"It\'s quite possible (that) there was some talk of this, but in terms of being able to confirm this, that I can\'t do.\"

The French regional daily L\'Est Republicain reported that, according to a French secret service report, Saudi Arabia was convinced that bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan in late August. The French government has said it could not confirm the report and would investigate the intelligence leak.

The U.S. State Department had no immediate comment and was looking into the reports.

http://cagle.msnbc.com/working/060922/crowe.gif

"All of President Bush’s neocons claimed that I was too obsessed with finding Bin Laden when they didn’t have a single meeting about Bin Laden for the nine months after I left office. All the right wingers who now say that I didn’t do enough said that I did too much. Same people."

President Clinton

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/22/clinton-fox/

Diana Mosley, unrepentantly Nazi and effortlessly charming -- By Andrew Roberts

The death of Diana Mosley brings to an end one of the most curious questions of British upper-class etiquette: how does one deal socially with an unrepentant Nazi?

One of the funny, charming, intelligent and glamorous Mitford sisters; a denizen of the "Hons' cupboard''; a dedicatee of Vile Bodies; a beautiful woman whom Churchill called "Dinamite''; an inspired interior decorator; a steadfast friend to a wide galère (including some Jews); a fine autobiographer and loving mother; yet Diana Mosley was also a woman who could - when she was inadvisedly invited to appear on Desert Island Discs - describe Adolf Hitler in almost wholly positive terms.

The social problem was made easy for most people of her acquaintance during the Second World War because of her long incarceration in Holloway prison for her fascism.

Lest anyone still believe that her imprisonment was somehow undeserved, let them read Jan Dalley's generally sympathetic 1999 biography of Lady Mosley, in which it is recorded that, during a Hyde Park rally in October 1935, she silently gave the Heil Hitler salute when the rest of the crowd was singing God Save the King. And that was before she married Sir Oswald Mosley.

Her interrogation by Norman Birkett's Advisory Committee in 1940 - the transcripts of which were finally released in 1983 - confirmed that it had been quite right to recommend that she stay in jail, especially after she told them that "she would like to see the German system of government in England because of all it had achieved in Germany''.

The key, inescapable difference between Diana Mosley and the scores of other pre-war pro-Nazis who had changed their political allegiance once the concentration camps yielded up their incontrovertible evidence of the profound evil of Hitlerism was that she was hooked for life.

As the writer Michael Shelden has diagnosed it: "There was no going back; Diana Mosley's stubbornness and aristocratic pride made her reluc

As the writer Michael Shelden has diagnosed it: "There was no going back; Diana Mosley's stubbornness and aristocratic pride made her reluctant to admit that she had made a profound mistake.'' Indeed, even that puts it too mildly.

Lady Mosley fully appreciated the frisson that would shoot through a lunch table when she made some fond reference to a Nazi leader. Nor did it end there.

She helped to finance the British Union of Fascists until the death of its organiser, Jeffrey Hamm, in 1994, often attending their annual dinners. In letters I received from her in 1992, she took particular pleasure in the way that Czechoslovakia, which she wrote "couldn't last in its 1938 form'', was splitting in two, just as Hitler had succeeded in forcing it to do at Munich. She even recently wrote to The Spectator to argue that her late husband "was not an extremist''.

Diana Mosley, unrepentantly Nazi and effortlessly charming -- By Andrew Roberts

UN report: Torture in Iraq 'totally out of hand'
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0922/dailyUpdate.html

Publishers Hesitated to Run Stories of U.S. Torture
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/needtoknow/2006/11/post_2.html

Iraq engulfed by tide of violence
By John Simpson
World affairs editor, BBC News

Torture is at appalling levels in Iraq

Manfred Nowak, the UN's chief anti-torture expert, captured the headlines round the world when he suggested that torture could be worse in Iraq now than it was under Saddam Hussein.

Torture is indeed at appalling levels in Iraq. Everyone, it seems, from the Iraqi forces to the militias to the anti-US insurgents, now routinely use torture on the people they kill.

Each day, bodies are found with appalling injuries, particularly in Baghdad.

At the Baghdad mortuary, I was told that more bodies now showed signs of torture than of a clean death.

But new figures show that the picture is worse in other ways.

The number of violent deaths for July and August reached a total of 6,600 - 13% higher than the figure for the previous two-month figure.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5371394.stm

New Al Qaeda Leader Appears In Video...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060923/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_video;_ylt=Aty86PJcSyjXVET.cjj5wois0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OTB1amhuBHNlYwNtdHM-

France looks into bin Laden death report By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer
21 minutes ago

PARIS - President Jacques Chirac said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is "in no way whatsoever confirmed."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060923/ap_on_re_mi_ea/france_bin_laden_report;_ylt=AvRSTpezAmGZr2x3wr47NW2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OTB1amhuBHNlYwNtdHM-

Leave no crook behind:

Bush reading program blasted in internal audit
By Joanne Morrison

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A $1 billion reading program that is a key part of the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind education law was mismanaged and rife with conflicts of interest, according to an internal audit released on Friday.

The audit by the inspector general's office of the Reading First program -- the largest early reading program in U.S. history -- found that officials in 2002 and 2003, shortly after the program was established, improperly tried to influence states on which curricula they should use.

In addition, some officials with the power to approve certain reading materials for states had connections with the publishers, according to the report. It said the department had not properly reviewed the officials for such potential conflicts.

"The department did not identify any of these connections in its conflict of interest screening process; therefore, it would not have been in a position to deal with the potential conflict raised by these connections," the report said.

More here

"A Billion Here, A Billion There..."

Did Dirksen ever say, " A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money"? (or anything very close to that?)

Perhaps not. Based on an exhaustive search of the paper and audio records of The Dirksen Congressional Center, staffers there have found no evidence that Dirksen ever uttered the phrase popularly attributed to him.

Archivists undertook the search after studying research statistics showing that more than 25 percent of inquiries have to do with the quote or its variations.

[snip]

A gentleman who called The Center with a reference question relayed that he sat by Dirksen on a flight once and asked him about the famous quote. Dirksen replied, "Oh, I never said that. A newspaper fella misquoted me once, and I thought it sounded so good that I never bothered to deny it."

Study Condemns F.D.A.’s Handling of Drug Safety

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 — The nation’s system for ensuring the safety of medicines needs major changes, advertising of new drugs should be restricted, and consumers should be wary of drugs that have only recently been approved, according to a long-anticipated study of drug safety.

The report by the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, is likely to intensify a debate about the safety of the nation’s drug supply and the adequacy of the government’s oversight. The debate heated up in September 2004 when Merck withdrew its popular arthritis drug Vioxx after studies showed that it doubled the risks of heart attacks.

Several senators have already proposed significant changes, some of which the report seems to endorse.

The report’s conclusions are often damning. It describes the Food and Drug Administration as rife with internal squabbles and hobbled by underfinancing, poor management and outdated regulations.

“Every organization has its share of dysfunctions, unhappy staff members and internal disputes,” the report said. But panel members said that they were deeply concerned about the agency’s “organizational health” and its ability to ensure the safety of the nation’s drug supply.

More here

I am listening to Friday's show on our local AM station (forgot to podcast, will do so later). Sam still kicks ass! He is GREAT!

Here we are once again! Asshole deep in the UN! Who was it that said the UN was the way to go? Wasn\'t the failed Dem candidate for President John Kerry. Didnt he say if only we had gone to the UN all the problems of Iraq could have been avoided? Didnt he say we should just work the Iranian problems out in the UN?

What a simpleton!

Get a clue:
http://icasualties.org/oif/
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

More clues:

Bush's real goal: profiteering
Renouncing Bush's Failures Is a Start

More help for the clueless:

Fiasco in Iraq,/a>
Britain's had it with Bush, Blair

Poll: Iraq war could wound GOP at polls
POSTED: 1311 GMT (2111 HKT), September 6, 2006
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(CNN) -- President Bush's unpopularity -- due largely to the war in Iraq -- seems likely to affect GOP candidates in congressional midterm elections in November, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday.

Fifty-five percent of 1,004 Americans said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who has supported Bush administration policies

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/06/iraq.poll/

Torture is just all right with me
Torture is just all right, Oh yeah
Torture is just all right with me
Torture is just all right

I don't care what they may know
I don't care where they may go
I don't care what they may know
Torture is just all right, oh yeah
Torture is just all right

I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Torture is just all right, oh yeah
Torture is just all right

Invading countries that are no threat to us is much better than letting folks hammer out agreements, because someone might call Supreme Commander Bunnypants an icky name and that would be just awful!

Sir Byron W. Johnson, in recent interview....

"America truly deserves the government it is
currently getting. America is a country filled with losers. Anyone with any self respect, sense
of decency or talent has gotten out of there.

It's no wonder their leader is a loser! He will
deserve every bit of what is surely coming to him. The American people will pay for allowing
Bush's rampage against the world."

Notes
Charles Mingus composed "Fables of Faubus" with the Governor's stand against desegregation in mind. The official Mingus website supplies lyrics which Mingus was prohibited (by Columbia Records to include on the final cut of his album Mingus Ah Um:

Oh, Lord, don't let 'em shoot us!
Oh, Lord, don't let 'em stab us!
Oh, Lord, don't let 'em tar and feather us!
Oh, Lord, no more swastikas!
Oh, Lord, no more Ku Klux Klan!
Name me someone who's ridiculous, Dannie.
Governor Faubus!
Why is he so sick and ridiculous?
He won't permit integrated schools.
Then he's a fool!
Boo! Nazi Fascist supremists!
Boo! Ku Klux Klan (with your Jim Crow plan)
Name me a handful that's ridiculous, Dannie Richmond.
-Faubus-Rockefeller-Eisenhower
Why are they so sick and ridiculous?
Two, four, six, eight: They brainwash and teach you hate.
H-E-L-L-O--Hello.

If we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we’re going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

~George W. Bunnypants

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.

~Ramman Kenoun

Posted by: Scooturd at June 20, 2005 03:30 PM

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another...after the war is on.

~Senator Robert M. La Follette

Posted by: Scooturd at June 20, 2005 03:31 PM

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

~Bunnypants' Dad

Posted by: Scooturd at June 20, 2005 03:35 PM

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Posted by: Scooturd at June 20, 2005 03:37 PM

Sir Byron W. Johnson, in recent interview....

"The United States has received a free pass from
the rest of the world for several decades. While it's government bullied and ransacked the world,
the American people were told....we don't hate
you, we hate your government.

I believe that changed when the American people
reelected Bush. The world began to see what the
people of the United States truly were...a
nation of fascist enablers, too stupid and weak
to stand up to their own EMPLOYEES!

These days, the world hates the American people,
along with their fascist, ugly government."

Agent 1: We have the terrorist in interrogation room number 4. He says he knows where the nuclear bomb they've smuggled into New York is and when it's going to detonate.

Agent 2: We need that information, millions of lives are at stake.

Agent 1: I asked him to tell us where it is and when it's going to go off, but he won't say a word.

Agent 2: Did you try begging him to talk?

Agent 1: I did. I even started crying and sobbing and pleading with him. But he won't talk.

Agent 2: Damn! My Wife and three kids are in New York right now! What'll we do?

Agent 1: I don't know. But we'd better think of something, because it's almost time for his daily prayers and right after that it's gonna be dinner time for him. They're having falafels tonight and that's his favorite.

Agent 2: I think we're fucked. I'll miss my Wife and Kids. I really love em.

Agent 1: I know! Let's tell him that we're going to hunt down his kids and murder them if he doesn't talk!

Agent 2: Sorry, the new Terrorist Bill of Rights specifically forbids inflicting any type of mental anguish on detainees.

Agent 1: Damn! We ARE fucked!

toniD,

I lost my cut-and-paste of your post regarding storms and tornadoes from last night when the electrical power blipped this morning. Also lost were a billion windows opened (give or take a million) from links taken from this morning's blog reading and the latest Molly Ivins column.

Life has no meaning anymore. I will retrieve the Ivins' column but I'm too disgruntled to bother with another scan of the blog.

Yes, the weather was exciting last night. I sat on the deck and watched a terrific lightning extravaganza. The same weather is nearer to Meg now and up through St. Louis and farther east into Indiana.

I also saw the last night of Ventriloquist's Week on Letterman which featured Todd Oliver And Irving. The dog is a real, living dog with a fake, remotely operated, lower jaw attached under his chin (presumably to his collar?). It's a clever shtick, though somewhat of a one-note joke.

(War Dog is busily adding Todd Oliver And Irving to his Branson "must see" list.)

Agent 1: Damn! We ARE fucked!

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at September 23, 2006 1:01 PM

That's quite a scenario you constructed there,
numbnuts!

You should be writing for ABC TV.

"Agent 1: We have the terrorist in interrogation room number 4. He says he knows where the nuclear bomb they've smuggled into New York is and when it's going to detonate."

He volunteered that much? That makes no sense. You begin with a ridiculous premise, you've lost the argument, not to mention you might want to start checking behind the cushions and under the bed for your grey matter.

Torture is effective for one thing, getting innocent people to confess to crimes they did not commit. Scapegoats are handy for rotten leaders.

dontcha just love

the dramatic "power off" effect on computers?

despite my best efforts i always lose chunks of stuff i wanted to save.

i think of W as a power out phenomonon, in his case a blown transformer.

Agent 1: We have the liberal in interrogation room number 4. He says he knows where the the marijuana they've smuggled into New York is and when they're going to smoke it.

Agent 2: We need that information, they're going to have fun and get the munchies.

Agent 1: I asked him to tell us where it is and when the bongs are coming out, but he won't say a word.

Agent 2: Did you try begging him to talk?

Agent 1: I did. I even started crying and sobbing and pleading with him. But he won't talk.

Agent 2: Damn! My Wife and three kids are in New York right now and my wife loves good weed! What'll we do?

Agent 1: I don't know. But we'd better think of something, because it's almost time for his afternoon toke and right after that it's gonna be dinner time for him. They're having Snickers and Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk tonight and that's his favorite.

Agent 2: I think we're fucked. I'll miss my Wife and kids. I really love em.

Agent 1: I know! Let's tell him that we're going to make him drink Budweiser if he doesn't talk!

Agent 2: Sorry, the new Terrorist Bill of Rights specifically forbids inflicting any type of mental anguish on detainees.

Agent 1: Damn! We ARE fucked!

i'm tire wrestling this morning,

(a grudge match, but i bribed the ref)

Cya's inna bit...

Agent 1: I know! Let's tell him that we're going to make him drink Budweiser if he doesn't talk!

Agent 2: Sorry, the new Terrorist Bill of Rights specifically forbids inflicting any type of mental anguish on detainees.

Agent 1: Damn! We ARE fucked!

Posted by: Pork Pie Hat at September 23, 2006 1:18 PM

A couple questions for those that think torture would work on anyone is...

Would torture work on you?

Would the threat of death work on someone that was planning on committing suiide?

If someone was torturing you would it make you want to cooperate with them and save their lives?

What makes you think that anyone else would be any different?

When asked to comment the IRS said "We're busy gonig after liberal churches that preach against war, poverty and human suffering. We'll get back to you"

Tactic Uses Pulpits to Power the GOP

Evangelical leaders, on the first day of a rally, ask pastors to advocate for a social conservative agenda despite recent IRS investigations.

WASHINGTON — Worried that discontent among conservatives and the lack of a clear standard-bearer to follow President Bush might cost Republicans in November, top evangelical leaders pleaded with their followers Friday to put aside frustrations and turn out for GOP candidates.

"There is no choice, because the alternative is terrible," said James C. Dobson, founder of the influential group Focus on the Family, referring to the potential for a Democratic takeover of the House and Senate in November.

Dobson's organization recently launched a major voter recruitment drive in eight battleground states that will include placing registration tables outside Sunday worship services at conservative churches.

The Values Voter Summit — which will include appearances by several potential GOP presidential hopefuls — underscores evangelicals' growing power in national politics. The agenda serves as a road map of their tactics for energizing voters, including sessions on fighting gay marriage, attacking Hollywood liberalism and denouncing embryonic stem-cell research.

Samuel: They have relegated you to, like, Saturdays at midnight here on the central coast of California. I've contacted the station and told them I would picket if you weren't put back on daily. What can you do about this?

Any of you have school age kids?

House Approves Strip Search Bill

A bill approved by the U.S. House yesterday would require school districts around the country to establish policies making it easier for teachers and school officials to conduct wide scale searches of students. These searches could take the form of pat-downs, bag searches, or strip searches depending on how administrators interpret the law.

Wave of Party Switchers Hits Republicans

Citing extremism, more GOPers are joining the Democrats

Some recent switchers are exiting GOP ranks with a bang. Distorted priorities, the federal deficit and the Iraq war are common themes in their announcements. And in a direct swipe at the far-right ideology that has become a governing credo in the Bush years, they cite intolerance in the party as the chief reason for leaving.

Agent 2: Sorry, the new Terrorist Bill of Rights specifically forbids inflicting any type of mental anguish on detainees.

Agent 1: Damn! We ARE fucked!

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at September 23, 2006 1:01 PM

why do these neo-conned trolls HATE AMERICA so much?

seriously, they want the USA to suddenly be no better than the former USSR, Nazi Germany and all the rest of the tyrants and dictators we've relinquished in the past.

And we did it without torture and secret courts...managed to do it without pawning of most sacred values enshrined in the constitution...

and they want us to throw away the constitution because of some make believe scenario about an atomic bomb and a major city...

I'd be tempted to say they are merely cowards, but the apparent right-wing agenda suggest otherwise, this is just another step in disenfranchising the average citizen.

Hi everybody.

I have a big Poker game tonight.

Gotta defend my bracelet. I'm getting nervous, everyone'll be gunning for me.

I figure I've just got to make it to the final table, and make sure the two players ahead of me in total points (I'm 3rd overall) don't finish better than me.

Wish me luck.

Our Torturer-in-Chief

WE DON'T torture detainees, President Bush has repeatedly insisted; we just make use of lawful "alternative procedures" of interrogation.

But if everything we've done is lawful, why is the White House suddenly so desperate to get a deal with Congress that would "clarify" Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention and amend the War Crimes Act, which criminalizes violations of the article?

According to Bush, the problem is that Common Article 3, which prohibits "cruel," "humiliating" and "degrading treatment" and "outrages upon personal dignity," is vague. He claims it doesn't give "clear" guidance about what is permitted and what is prohibited during interrogations.

Wish me luck.

Posted by: Harold at September 23, 2006 2:21 PM

You've got it.

and how they love to blur the line between a suspect and the guilty.

to them being accused of terrorist...to be suspected of terrorism...is the exact same as being found guilty.

they completely ignore the tens or hundreds of thousands of people falsely accused of crimes in this country.

If they strip the rights from suspected terrorists, the next step is to apply that standard to other crimes.

when that's done, the last vestige of the our American values are gone.

Wow, that's the third time I've seen that lame Agent1/Agent2 scenario copied and pasted onto the blog.

Poorly written straw-man points ain't gonna cut it.

Third time I've seen it shot full o' holes, too.

We want these terrorist interrogated! And dont pretend we dont know we they are. And dont pretend they have rights. They are hamburger. The men are going to run this war, and you girls can bake some cookies today. The vote has been taken!

Posted by: Fuck the Terrorists at September 23, 2006 2:30 PM

putz.

when that's done, the last vestige of the our American values are gone.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъå at September 23, 2006 2:24 PM

H ey....where are they stored now?

I can't remember!

Over 14,000 held without trial...No convictions...Thousands tortured...

No torture boy...You know that tortue doesn't work and never has...Saving anyone isn't your objective...Bringing about the final world war is.

Are you sure that it's heaven that awaits you?

The vote has been taken!

Posted by: Fuck the Terrorists at September 23, 2006 2:30 PM

Sorry to have to tell you. A bunch of us guys...and all the women, took a new vote.

The cookies are going to be shoved up your ass
and you're sucking cock for the rest of the
weekend.

Iraq is Bush's Reflection Pond

Martial law is not liberation. Baghdad has been in a state of virtual lockdown since thousands of American Occupation Forces (AOF) were deployed to the city in a futile attempt to establish security. In the last two months, the number of dead appearing at the Baghdad morgue has skyrocketed; nearly 6,600 Iraqis brutally tortured and killed in July and August alone. In terms of population, this is the equivalent of 79,200 American casualties. Simply put, it is a massacre. Still, the AOF continues to execute its bloody mission with impunity regardless of the horrific cost.

According to Bush, the problem is that Common Article 3, which prohibits "cruel," "humiliating" and "degrading treatment" and "outrages upon personal dignity," is vague. He claims it doesn't give "clear" guidance about what is permitted and what is prohibited during interrogations.

Posted by: Nobody at September 23, 2006 2:21 PM

during Clinton's years our biggest problem was parsing the meaning of `is'...what the meaning of `is' is...

now, thanks to neocon values, we are challenged with what the meanings of `cruel,' `humiliating' and `degrading treatment' and `outrages upon personal dignity' are.

talk about being nostalgic for simpler times!

Wow.

Listening to last night's show; with the Iraq Vet caller 'Paul'.

What a conversation.

Chirac: Bin Laden intel not confirmed

AP - 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
PARIS - President Jacques Chirac said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is "in no way whatsoever confirmed." Chirac said he was "a bit surprised" at the leak and has asked Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to probe how a document from a French foreign intelligence service was published in the French press.

Wow.

Listening to last night's show; with the Iraq Vet caller 'Paul'.

What a conversation.

Posted by: Harold at September 23, 2006 2:45 PM

While it was on live, the blog was unanimous that Paul was a fraud. A Repub fake.

Tidal Wave Heading Straight For The Hall Of Mirrors

But as I look out on the darkness outside, I always remind myself of the famous parable: "It is always darkest before the dawn." Win or lose, November 7th isn't going to change everything. But win or lose, it's clear that things are already changing. The rising anger coming from the halls of power are a reflection of the establishment's deep understanding that change is coming. The screams from the angry pundits and the desperate politicians and the paying-to-play lobbyists are like the early warning sirens at a beach. And just over the horizon, they see that tidal wave coming.

"What a conversation."

I was commenting on Sam's solid comeback in what most would consider an awkward situation at best.

Sam handled that call like a pro.

saw Janeane last night at the van com fest.

brilliant and funny, great standup

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъå at September 23, 2006 2:45 PM

Ya um...the rumors of bin ladens being dead are three years old...Apparently he's been killed three or four times...

The timing is suspicious.

Nice! Hi SJ. How was the audience?

Did ya see Maron, too?

brilliant and funny, great standup

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at September 23, 2006 2:57 PM

But of course...I'm quite jealous now...There was just no way that I could've made the show...

so somebody that's never got a bump on his butt without having somebody kiss it is advocating torture.

talk about a reality gap...

I remember:
When torture and secret prisons were the domain of the bad guys; the U.S.S.R. and China.
When Vietnam taught us that technology won't win a war against determined people.
When the U.N. wasn't bad-mouthed by know-nothing pipsqueaks like Limbaugh.
When the separation of church and state meant that politician's checked their superstitions at the political door.
When freedom of religion meant that no one was expected to be or do anything religious or not.
When churches were given tax-exempt status to keep the state out of the churches as a quid pro quo to keep the churches out of the state.
When I wasn't smarter than the potus.
When the Vice-President didn't call the shots.
When propaganda in news services was the domain of the bad guys; the U.S.S.R. and China.
When billions of wasted dollars attracted attention.

Goog luck , Harold with your Poker tonight.

I gotta go take catre of some care stuff thius afternoon.

bbl, who knows, maybe I will be in a civil frame of mind and won't be jumping all over people?

I can't make any promises.

When billions of wasted dollars attracted attention.

Posted by: Crank Bait at September 23, 2006 3:02 PM

That's "trillions" now a days there pops.

audience was a hoot, Bgurl with.

usher/bouncers took good care of us slid us into spare seats.

i got hung in traffic, was in the reserved line for 45.

got to me and said we're OOR. i said no biggie, i'll wait for Bgurl (mz workshop to 8:30)

brought a boquet for the J, figgered i might as well pass out a few, purple hair tattoo ticket lady was delighted.

few minutes after the show starts, an 8 ft tall usher ushers me. the'd thrown in a few chairs for us.

gave J the boquet for the blog.

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gave J the bouquet for the blog.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at September 23, 2006 3:09 PM

thanks for that bud...

eya harold, maron tonight hopefully and J's last show.

kick ass tonight.

Maron getting great responses form the peeps that heard him. was yakking with the peeps in line.

Is Bush really the devil?

No.

He's just his spokesmodel.

Today's video is not a documentary in
the classic sense. It's an art piece
whose purpose - quite frankly - is to
drive home two points:

1. 9/11 happened because it was allowed
to happen.

2. Controlled demolition, far from being a
conspiracy theory, is a perfectly logical
explantation for why the buildings fell
that day.

What makes this short video unique is that
it is made up entirely of TV footage
from the hours immediately after the 9/11
attacks - with nothing else added.

In those first few hours, many analysts
and commentators were very frank about
what they observed and what they believed
had happened.

Later in the day, anyone who did not conform
their opinions to the Bush Administration
version of events was swept off prime time
TV news and they and their incovenient opinions
were never seen again.

No, Bush is not the devil. He just works
for him.

Think of him as the ultimate TV anchorman.

The film is seven minutes long and
it's called: "Today We Saw Evil."

I think it conveys the horror of that day
and its dark significance in a simple
and powerful way.

http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/911/911evil.html

September 23rd, 2006 on Ring Of Fire:

Where do far-right politicians go to network with brutal dictators? A secretive religious organization called "The Fellowship". Journalist Jeff Sharlet reports on his stay at one of the group's Washington D.C. mansions.

Tim Dickinson takes us down the timeline of Bush administration lies that he documents in the current issue of Mother Jones magazine. Or is it the "crimeline"?

Plus -- Laurie David, founder of stopglobalwarming.org, on her first book The Solution is You and veteran political journalist Bill Greider on the latest fear-and-smear tactics oozing out of the White House.

Pap Attack: "Bubble Boy Bush"

eya CB

Rusty was asking how ya making out.

Carlson blasted "wrong and creepy" liberal children's book because "kids ought to be immune from politics" but previously "hope[d]" a "clever" conservative children's book "sells"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609220011

On the September 21 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, host Tucker Carlson blasted a new children's book by Jeremy Zilber titled Why Mommy is a Democrat, which, according to the book's website, "depicts Democratic principles of fairness, tolerance, peace and concern for the well-being of others." Carlson declared that the book is "propaganda, and it's always and everywhere wrong and creepy and should be obviously a bad thing to do to impose your politics on children," adding that "[i]t doesn't matter what your politics happen to be. Kids ought to be immune from politics." He then demanded: "Be quiet, don't push it [politics] on them." But Carlson had a very different reaction to a conservative children's book while interviewing its author in November 2005.

On the November 28, 2005, edition of Carlson's previous MSNBC show, The Situation with Tucker Carlson, he interviewed Katherine DeBrecht, author of the children's book Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! (World Ahead Publishing, September 2005). During the segment, Carlson described a character in the book as looking like "a pretty mannish [Sen.] Hillary Clinton [D-NY]," while DeBrecht added that "you also have Mayor Leech, who resembles a portly senator from Taxachusetts." But even though Carlson said, "I can't stand politics in children's books," he also claimed: "I thought I wasn't going to like it, but actually it's a clever book," adding: "I hope it sells."

***

Yeah. Tucker, the guy I turn to for advice about raising children.

eye good jobber jimms!