We were so… 22 September 2009
Posted by marisacat in Afghanistan War, California / Pacific Coast, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, San Francisco, WAR!.trackback
A photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge taken during a thunderstom by Frank Fennema. More details here: I awoke last night to the sound of thunder…
Picture: FRANK FENNEMA via the London Telegraph
… dramatic! No other word for it….
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I took today “off”, sort of. Did not even see Ob on with Letterman. (What did I miss? 
) I watched a series of BBC crime thrillers from Netflix … very engrossing! Who shall die next? and how gruesome can they make it?
But I just fell into a rerun of Charlie with Chandrasekaran from the Wapo on his article (or Woodward’s with him, I gather) on what Hillary is calling the “pre-decisional assessment”… by McChrystal, which is classified. Well of course it is!
We knew that! We’ve been thru this before!
Good luck to all parties! May you congeal! Get pushed off the cliff! Claw each other to death! (anything I missed that might cause harm to the war wagers, propagandists, liars, dissemblers, steno pool, note takers, well-experienced FELLATORS*…etc?)
Rajiv says the Pentagon found Ob’s round of chat on Sunday quite stunning! They thought Af-Pak was settled! (It is settled. They inhabit their own land, we kill them for it.)
Such blood streaked sludge.
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* I cannot possibly have made that word up, but it seems WP does not like it… maybe I am misspelling it. I mean those who practice mediocre mumbling fellation round the clock.
Well. Google has heard of both. Fellator. Fellation.
But then of course Google is close to this administration. Adept they are at it, I would presume.
Moving this forward from the end of the last thread…
From BHHM (no embedded links)
G20 in Pittsburgh.
PGH Cops tossing houses and vehicles w/o search warrants citing NATIONAL Security. Fuckin dicks. They seem to be focusing on Lawrenceville , the Hill, and the South Side.
Extraordinary geographical advantage IMO for the PTB. The approaches into downtown easily controlled , no working class residential downtown, easily controlled in corridor fashion. . The Hill and the Bluffs seperated by what else – hills – Lawrenceville Bloomfield more than a mile away seperated by the Strip District…
Specter escorting Half of Squirrel Hill to the Club Spots will have no problem tho. It’s such a joke as Pgh is home to perhaps the sharpest Jewish criminals in the world. And home away from Brooklyn home to others. I’m sure Romoff and his Doctor and Lawyer minions will be hosting events courtesy of Organ Transplant Dollars and Insurance Fraud. Not a peep yet about PNC’s insider who cleared 50 million in 2 kited checks to Solomon Dwek, the Rebbes son.. Crickets.
Nobody quite seems to know how that kind of float was ever arranged. And the Media isn’t interested in finding out, either.
HAHAHAHAH!
Charlie asked Rajiv C why Hillary, the SecState, was not mentioned in his article. He stuttered quite a bit then said because Holbrooke really is point man for Af-Pak. Such “news”
Claw, death etc.
Blair was on Morning Joe yesterday arguing that they had no choice but to expand troops in Afghan or else … well, the rest of the area would topple into extremism.
Like dominoes.
Said it with a straight face, too.
McChrystal says we have a bare 12 months to turn this thing around!
What scams they all are running. Blair should be run off the edge of the Flat Earth. But of course he won’t be.
IOZ has an astute, and short, assessment (pre decisional, it is not!) on the plot! The Plot! (A thief in the night, I stole the whole.)
Another placed piece on the Paterson affair. I guess this could get stiffer and more awkward…
NYDN
NY Post weighs in.
Bam embraces Gov- and all that’s missing is the knife in his hand
hmm Micah Sifry at Tech President.
I’ve never seen “online” as this great end all be all that the Kos types and Obs (or at the least the less than really smart white boys behind him) like to paint it as being. Always thought it was great for certain types of functions but not some High Tech Jesus incarnate for the 21st c.
Etc.
Like every other medium, online immediately fills up with trash. In the case of politics, endless campaigning and fundraising. Universal literacy, and we get the NYT list. TV, well. No reason to expect online to be any different.
There is so much else available – try UCTV sometime – but no one ever watches it. This a.m. I was watching the UN climate summit opening session. Obama gave his usual campaign speech, incredibly jarring in the venue. But there were a couple worthwhile presentations as well. A multimedia offering by a group of kids that basically said look, get off your dead asses. And Paul Kagame on a country by country reduction approach that would take cap n die out of the hands of Wall St and the City of London. Unfortunately, he spoke in English and I found it difficult to understand through his accent, so need to still find the text. Still, where else would we hear what Pres Nasheed of the Maldives has to say about his plan to “jump first” and be carbon neutral in ten years? Not on msnbc.
well access is a function.
I have no problem identifying “online” as providing wider access and recognising the value of that…
but it is beyond tiresome how some operatives and others try to sell online as the ice in the kool aid.
Anyone remember O’s promise during the campaign that health care reform would be hammered out in public discussions with pharma, etc, all broadcast on CSPAN? Someone must have video of that, he said it several times.
sure do. The righties quote it and link to the statements all the time.
The Corner … think it is Geraghty, keep track of what they call his “promises with expiration dates”.
via TPM
From the bottom of page 13
in the indictment.
982 Million. Talk about a Money Funnel.
But with Joshie livin up in New York now…….
Crickets on Schumer. and Robert Rubin. CRICKETS.
Ironically in a Sidebar next to Joshie’s Lede?
Put up by his lackey, ANOTHER Dem op- .
LOL. Just discovering Due Diligence for THE BANKS.
And the PARTY, my friend? Hmm? Anything? No?
I didn’t think so.
“cause This guy…and the other guy Morris, too-
Tied right to Schumer.
Fuck~ Nemazzee was Finance at DSCC UNDER Schumer…
Chuck’s pick.
Maybe Benyamin Smith and Joshie missed that…..
Nemazzee bagged for Hillary, AND Ob and every other shitheel sucking off the DS/ D Trip/ DNC’s perennial Up With People Scam. .
Well. If he can stay alive, This bagman Nemazee is going to be incarcerated for the rest of his shitty-food-eating life..
So I say, Get CHATTY, Hassan.
Cohm’on man – DISH. Give it UP.
Spread the love Around, brotha.
Just like the money.
For Old , Long , LONG Time’s sake.
Seems their coverage is to get all hand wavey,
muddy the waters ..blur it:
..he gave to EVERYBODY – Who knew?
Uhm – Everybody.
It’s fucking insane-
Well They ALL ARE guilty you know. – THEREFORE –
NO-ONE IS!!
The “MIA” link failed… if you are around, post the URL and I will fix it…
Thanks………………….
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/09/mia_due_diligence.php
No no – Thank YOU!
fixed it.. thanks!
hmm “leak” analysis. But you really have to buy into Woodward being aging star reporter, etc., to buy in.
Who knows.
Jeezis™.
From p. 23 in the Nemazee Indictment
The Feds have moved to seize his numerous accounts at Bank Julius Baer. Seems like a favorite parking space. Teh Wiki is good for the short and skinny.. But Links to a bare bones Reuter report on the suicide of its 52 year old CEO Last December. …Body Number 10? 11? 12 in International Finance? Round UP, I always say.
Anyways–
The NYT had more to offer on the CEO off-er-ing,,,himself, as it were – -
{SNERK!} Sure.
Yeh , the ongoing business that was fucking pillaged for over 70% of the $300.8 billion it had under its management…
Nemazee’s stash a small part, considering the move on Russian and Indian uppity muks:
Dark.
Also from the Times on the Baer CEO suicide:
The now bare Baer Bank bare bio had this:
Stay out of Banks. Cars. Small Planes. US Markets. Switzerland.
Moscow and Indonesia. Marriage. LOL.
Maybe they were chain smokers.
I watched a series of BBC crime thrillers from Netflix
I used to enjoy watching Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren. Great series.
I enjoyed those too… This was Wire in the Blood… with Robson Green who was also in … Touching Evil, think it was called. His character in that was called Creegan. In WitBlood he is Dr Anthony Hill.
But
… it’s all about murder, both series… and I found a couple of others with gruesome killings. 
Oh, I loved Wire in the Blood. Touching Evil was good, too. I even liked the American remake of Touching Evil, even though they were utterly different.
I think my all time favorite is Cracker.
loved Touching Evil… I saw that when PBS out here carried it, some years ago. Apparently only two seasons are on DVD… so I went for Wire in the Blood first as it would be new. I just loved it… and Hermione Norris too, DCI Jordan.
I looked at the movie of WitB… but ti got mixed reviews. Did nto notice an American remake of TE but will look… I still remember the child kidnapper in that series. Fantastic sequence.
There is also MI-5 which I listed and a couple of others I had never seen.
PBS here has finally, fully and with no shame fallen apart. Corporate inroads were made by 1970… so…
There are incredibly horrible political shows on, not just conservative but blatantly right wing and loaded iwth lies. I think PBS and CPB exist just to shuffle out big salaries. And KQED here I think exists only to self perpetuate with a flaccid and frumpy liberal sub strate and to invite them to donate to KQED in their FUCKING WILLS. One reason I am just death now on almost all organised groups who are, at all, in any way, even nominally thought to be associated with the Dem left lib whatever.
So much is absolutely OVER.
oh I loved Cracker too… and I see netflix has some seasons I never saw.
Whoops: Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense Contractors, Others Charged With Fraud
whoops is right
Your congress – hard at werk.
lol…someone in the comments linked to Republican Clown College. (Mind you, it was passed by a DEM majority. So who’s the bozo?)
oh let’s just use a line from Ob’s tired speech at the UN today…
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of progress”.
Scintillating.
I am sure there was a sports metaphore in there too. But really, who fucking cares anymore.
Paterson. Gee what to say.
Last month Paterson claimed race was his problem AND Ob’s problem. Sounded like solidarity, of a sort… NOW he is critical of Ob and the administration.
… The first comment mentions he seems to be asking for a toe tag.
oh yeah what a shock…
………. via NY Post
The simple truth is these people got in on the basis of it being pitched as insider trading. Plain and Simple. One of theirs. One of them. In the Loop. In the know. So Fuck em.
Free enterprise and all. Ya takes your chances. They’re lucky the Feds don’t move further down *and Up stream in this multi level marketing scheme.
It seems to me…the DOJ… by moving against restitution is a way of wrapping it up, trying to prevent the fallout from weeping into deeper IMO, The best thing that could happen is all those greedy quarellsome chiselers start devouring each other over money. And then cop a resentment towards their Lawyers.. Or if barristers themselves, their Partners get pissed over the billables washed as a result.. Let them fret about it on their own clock. On their own dime.
Because the more time spent on their internecine lawsuits the less time for fraud elsewhere in the Medical , Legal, and Accounting “Professions” .
Let them turn once again turn to their Rabbis.
Afterall, Who knows?
They may even get a tip on backing an Organ Harvesting Snuff Film coupled with the latest tax dodge and nice handbag full of shwag.
Missed in an edit…
.It seems to me…the DOJ… by moving against restitution is a way of wrapping it up, trying to prevent the fallout from weeping into deeper *… ….deeper well waters..
{plunk}
Reuters has an “Analysis” piece up. I think Ob is running out of shoes to drop.
When – how soon – til the conversation moves to all sports metaphor all the time. What a fucking joke this is. (not that anyone bought into the “get tough with settlements” bullshit)
Somhow I caught Katie Couric with G Beck on the evening news. Wha ta break for him. He came off as Buster Brown, maybe iwth untied shoe laces. Nothing more. A real teddy bear toy.
Indeed
oh let’s just use a line from Ob’s tired speech at the UN today…
So tired….Today,
President Chider Chide Obama Chides Mideast Leaders Over Peace
Do it For the Chide-ren? What sissy slap crap happy
How Inspiring! How Refreshing! How New!
The same hammered hobbled horseshit on a half loaf.
Do they actually think this somehow translates better now?
I mean to the few intelligentsia in Europe and the Arab world that AREN”T ALREADY quite fluent in English?
What a weak, ineffectual prop.
This “Chider” meme, definitely something the R will run with…
And then whiplash him ala Carter for ‘dressing down” the Presidency.
I saw a clip of him on Letterman. In a suit but slouched in a chair. making his case. on Late Night. If you didn’t know he was POTUS you could have mistaken him for some B lister making the usual self promotion rounds. . Oh wait –
S’anyways, Stupid Bojangles Move, to be blunt.
Familiarity breeding, and all that.. LOL. Faux Familiarity at that.
But they’ll go back to it. It’s All they got… this propped up personae.
Same as Bush.
““It is past time to stop talking about starting negotiations, and time to move forward,” Mr. Obama said.
there is really nothing left. Dead in the water. I’m calling it. The next dip in the markets, whenever it hits will be deadly.
Dead Ted’s Dying Wish granted.
No, not HCR , silly Dead on Arrival Dems…
His death rails gasp at relevence over the Prahhhcess
of his seat selection. Yeh well, the morticians still processed him through the rigor mortis like any lucky fisherman does with a slab of flabby tuna on the docks in Hyannis Port….
Within days, The NYT says Deval is going to give it to Paul Kirk.
DNC Chair.
Now THAT’s Change You Can Make Believe In!
Cue grateful God Bless Teddy Diaries on Dailykos!
Correction..”Senior Dems in DC” said Kirk is the likely choice…
well..good thing the “Change You Can Make Believe In” still holds
Hmm. Ogletree floated..
Ogletree drove me nuts during the GE. Puhleese place him the senate seat. I cannot wait. My guess, the mention is a courtesy kiss off.
Again with the Whispers and Lies mode…
Who knows what the fuck they’re up to…Floating DNC-er Kirk, puffing the DNC tithers to have Kirk take a dive, a little bone to Pwogs and Academia with the look-see metioned of Ob Pal Ogeltree…
Pick your stiff for Teddy’s seat. NTIM.
Yeh, this should work well…
Not to mention HYGENIC, too! Ethnically CLEANSED!
lol…what’s that smiley look about?
Oh I’ll be sure to order the box set. Bulk.
Send em out as gifts. Surely it will re-orient my whole world view.
Turn it upsi – well – change it- you know.
More like okaayyyyyy. I thought 2 of the quotes were really funny:
““Nobody goes to Israel for Golda Meir, I’m so sorry,” Lucas said in heavily Russian-accented English.
And the one from Musto…“He’s a master self-promoter,” said Village Voice writer Michael Musto,
Cake, meet Take. LOL.
uh. Michael Musto?
gah.
I’m not on your gift list, right?
That particular bit of culture I can do without, tyvm.
well for political activism… think they left out Larry Flynt. He’s been active.
And in sort of related gay news (but not) comes this headline: Rep. Frank extracts vanilla from consumer agency
Why don’t the Dems just lay down and die and get it over with?
Is there anything so far that they HAVEN’T caved on? I can’t think of one issue.
Somebody from the AP obviously just woke up from a coma:
Stern Obama confronts Israeli, Palestinian leaders
Since when does Mr Cool bristle with impatience?
haha
Dad means business now, kids!
Oh get this… I cannot stand the lie down fall down corporate black opinion writers, so I don’t bother with them anymore (but now must go look!) but just heard commentary that Eugene Robinson apparently wrote that he thinks McChrystal’s assessment was so bleak as to force withdrawal.
What is that? A rubber band stretched around a bubble gum bubble?? It is a MEANINGLESS assessment. It is nothing. If we wanted to leave, we could ahve left under McKiernan.
Can this mess get more fucked? More of a joke on wheels, skidding into hell?
He of the “I’ll listen to the generals on the ground” stance will send in more troops. Guaranteed. He just needs to pretend that he’s agonizing over it for the cameras.
And la voila!
Via the NYT:
If they go with the reported Biden approach of surgical strikes after withdrawing troops, Afghanis will basically be a) fucked and/or b) will turn to the Taliban and warlords to protest them (even more than they are now).
Bullshit excuse. Whether they would have gotten Karzai or his other west-friendly buddy Abdullah, they’d have been dealing with the same stinking barrel of corrupt fish.
protest=protect
Well.. it all meant nothing in the end, but Jimmy did at least have the folks from the ME (Arafat and Begin, I think it was…) out to the vaca home (Camp David) for enforced talks.
Gonna be a long long long 3 years and 3.5 months.
It’s quite the dog and pony show. Meanwhile, back at the Gaza ranch…
So, I told my dr I was concerned about getting the H1N1 vaccination when it’s available because of the lack of testing and he said that front line health care workers like him have to get it and added, “So, if you see my obituary, you’ll know how that turned out.”
Oh yeh, Bristling. With a raging Hard-ons in view.
And nothing left to the imagination in the
“Men of Israel” photo op.
The pic apparently available only overseas, as everything but these stars together in the tawdry scene is presently available Stateside…..
That man is a pariah.
Which one?
touché
hmmm mmm
nu
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