What… 30 August 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, Afghanistan War, AFRICOM, Culture of Death, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Iran, Iraq War, Israel/AIPAC, NORCOM, Pakistan, WAR!.trackback
Phoenix, US: Inmates spend their day under tents at the section that houses undocumented immigrants at the jail in Maricopa County [Darren Hauck/EPA]
What is that they have been saying?
The end to combat in Iraq?
Something like that, weeks of video clips of pulling out men (women too I am sure) and materiel… Tens of thousands of texters and video gamers, I guess they want us to think, left to control and command… and many more tens of thousands of contract paramilitaries left to do the job…
As if we have retreated to base, ceased house to house, ceased night patrols, ceased clear and hold, much less opened the prisons and released the political prisoners and the innocents, relinquished control of the air - it is we who control the air space over Iraq – we have stopped none of that anywhere in the world, including at “home”, tho Homeland is more accurate.
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Oh For Fuck’s Sake… why not just dispatch Barbara to the WH with the Holy Walker Bush Oil of Office and she can annoint Obby as a younger brother to adopted son Bill C?
It smacks of obeisance to the Lord of Texas…
President Obama plans to call former President Bush on Tuesday when he visits Texas to speak to troops, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
Obama will address soldiers at Fort Bliss, Texas, before he returns to the Oval Office to speak on the formal end of the U.S. military’s “combat mission” in Iraq.
“I don’t believe there are plans to see him, but my sense is, it will be one of the calls he makes tomorrow,” Gibbs told reporters Monday when asked if Obama will speak with Bush.
She can say something so Barbara, so Bushian … like, ”we’ve always liked Negroes. er … Africans. Well… we like some Americans, I know that. More oil Barry?”
AND I see that Simpson survived comparing all of us to nursing calves. No surprise…
Heckuva job Obby.
I even caught the last few mins of his remarks today, and I sure missed the pounding action (maybe below camera view the podium reached out and grabbed him… ). The quote sounded more like a beg to me:
Pounding the lectern, Obama continued:
“Holding this bill hostage is directly detrimental to our economic growth. So I ask Senate Republicans to drop the blockade.”
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The Drug War..
So much for whether we export terror..
Bloody awful: our off the books business as usual.
Some “Change” with the market fixers for carteliers and skank banksters minding things.
Some hideous horizon we’re headed for.
And they’ll never legalize it or cut off the the Drug War WELFARE QUEENS. Among the biggest wastes of money on Earth: the cops, jailers, judges and attorneys in on the Drug War. Tho lower level bank employees when you get right down to it.
I think the Feds re going ot make a major display in the West if the Cali ballot measure on MJ goes thru in Nov… it seems there is stepped up raids, carried out by Feds, and state and locals, this year and last…
I think they will try ot link almost all MJ growing to Mexican cartels and operatives on this side of the border.
They made a big meth bust, and what they said was an unknown before the bust cock fighting ring (what they showed looked more like the household kept some chickens, it did not look like a cock fight/breeding set up to me) in August nto far from here, and were very pleased to report it was run by 3 Mexican nationals…
Obviously there are problems, real ones…. but the Feds have a bigger agenda…
So I ask Senate Republicans to drop the blockade.
And will he ask Netanyahu to drop his blockade too?
Bibi please, think of all we hve meant to each other!
Country says “Fuck It, give us a Republican.”
Straight up – on the rocks- who gives a shit?
It’s all so Historic and all…
At this rate he’ll be lucky if he and Snobby are not calling for a helicopter lift from the roof of the WH.
HA! and how about a warning next time?
Please Secure your Beverages during the airlift ..
Too funny. For some reason I see MO and OB in-artfully one-handing it, dangling from the landing rails as they float away. With Rahm, Teh Clintons and Biden in the open doorway trying to heel crush them both OFF. With Nancy AND Harry on the South lawn trying to gun them ALL down before they get out of range..LOL.
one thing i am sure of, if La Nan loses her speakership… she is going to b packing.
Please don’t get my hopes up…
what a hoot!
hmmm talk about Bad News Bears…
Read more: Link to Politico
Naderite!
Have had the same thoughts, for quite the while, re WikiLeaks, BooHooHooman. …I hope it doesn’t undo Glenn Greenwald if true, I agree with so much of what he puts out ……………I would be hard put to think that Glenn was an OP.
what a frackin wormhole we appear to be in………………..
gotta go have some soup with my mom, will check back………
(and sorry this is ‘off topic’ …I’m slow.)
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the jump from Assange to Greenwald…
I don’t follow.
Greenwald is, in the perhaps unfair scheme of things, an American lawyer turned political observer. Put it out, perhaps give interview. Observe, cite, give assessment. Has so called “controversies” with Joe Klein, Fluffer/ Journo.
A very different proposition from Assange. Sitting at a web enabled, now very well publicized nexus of disclosure from would-be truthtellers, conscientious objectors, whistle-blowers, etc. AKA …WAR CRIMES.
So we have Assange.. who has been in the disclosure scene how long? As another chapter in what is obviously a very long, methodically written book , i.e. The Wars, carry on. Greenwald on the one hand controversially web-warring with Joe Klein…And Assange on the other, in “controvesry” with Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, Leveler of Nations, Syringe and Diaper Guy.
Much of it seems by design. Sorry for the facile construct, but Do Europeans give Assange any more notice than Americans give Greenwald? Or, etc? For disclosing what has largely been available in press there for years? FFS, the fact that Assange is not from New York, DC, or Texas is enough to get the international intrigue legs goin in the American MSM. LOL.
Another little thing sticking for me is the negotiating with the Pentagon. Kind of where the whole notion of the “we report you decide” breaks down, NTIM, as the faint approximation of such quaint approximation of such has been gone for decades.
Another is the haven in DynO-mite Prize land…
When we’ve already drugged, diapered, and rendered alleged Enemies of State off the Streets in Italy (and IIRC) Germany? Which was reported how long ago?
I dunno.
Via the Local in Sweden-
..and Helen Thomas former employer, UPI-
And the Government of Sweden -
You know. Nothing says Peace like when delivered courtesy of a Saab Jet engine.
My jump from Assange to Greenwald was admittedly subjective, and in regard to what seems to me to be:
Glenn’s perhaps dangerously mistaken belief that Assange was providing well intended transparency to ugly ‘Homeland’ dirty deeds…(i.e. is Assange well intended, or a whistle blower vacuum? …I suspect he’s a vacuum, and am kind of loathe to say it for fear that I might be wrong and therefore provoking unnecessary suspicion.)
Glenn’s gift for clarifying human defense from offense … and the (perhaps intended) confusion and despair that would result if it turns out that Assange is just one of many monstrous OPS; and that the many who found at least some hope in some of Glenn’s reflections (I’ve no shame in admitting I’m one of those people, just as I’ve found hope in many of your and Marisa’s reflections) came to the conclusion that Glenn must be of the same ilk for so vigorously defending Assange.
(what do FFS and NTIM stand for?)
ffs: for fuck’s sake
NTIM: Not that It Matters…
thanks hon.
I think he was pounding the podium, but it was in the form of dry humping it.
“Dry humping the podium Obama asked the R for some relief”.
hmm doesn’t play too well does it?
“Fucking this podium like I fuck over the base of the party … hard and fast.”
Two-year-old Sanjev Kumar bathes in a water bucket provided by UNHCR in Pakistan
Tea Party Members Encounter Special D.C. Tax, Respond by Throwing Sandwiches
5 cent bag tax?
What would they have done if it was 25 cents? Move on to pistol whipping?
they’re such fucking nuts.
McChrystal’s fee
Just think what tidbits he will share privately off the record…
How to Kill Goyim and Influence People: Israeli Rabbis Defend Book’s Shocking Religious Defense of Killing Non-Jews (with Video)
Jewish Law, rabbinical councils, sharia law, islamic law, crazed imams… canon law, all the hierarchies of the Catholic, Anglican and assorted Protestant and even loonier evangels..
We are strangling.
I see some commentary around that maybe the check bounced… but, somehow, after all these months into years, both Gibbs and Obby lost that esteemed voter, political analyst and, lest one forget, fearless partisan blogger, Booman.
I still have flashbacks to the Kerry function I went to back in 04 about three months before the election. It was a lot of Kos type “activists”, 20-and-30-something sons and daughters of the hoi-palloi, a few party operatives (the keynote speaker worked for The Nation). There were a bunch of booths stacked by various interest groups.
What struck me was that nobody, and I mean nobody, seemed to really care whether Kerry got elected, or even about the election. It was an evening of going through the motions in the coincidence that there was an election coming up. Kerry was pretty much written off.
I talked to a bunch of different people at the booths, trying to make small talk about the election, hey could Kerry take some state or other, do you think the Iraq thing will hurt Bush, yadda yadda. The responses were to a man and woman…”meh”. The whole function was pretty much just to be seen and to put on some sort of resume somewhere.
Ob is pretty much written off the same way. The party and hangers on are just positioning themselves for a GOP House. What else is there to write about as a partisan activist? Pretty much 40% desperation and 60% perspiration. Think positive. Don’t think lose. Why won’t they pass a decent stimulus? No, that’s not the way to think. They’re just saving it for October…and on and on…
If it’s become just a job and a marketing niche, how do you do product placement when your main product is defective and getting recalled? I expect a lot of confused wandering in and out of camp, punctuated by the insanity that was the Kos diary mentioned in the last thread. WE CAN’T LET HIM LOSE!!! TEA PARTY!!! EVIL, BLEAAARGH!!! DAMN LIBERAL DEMOCRATS!!! Lather, rinse, repeat.
Oh, it’s gonna be fun to watch.
well… as i see it, the default mode in DC is to Republican. The Democrats ARE the handmaiden party and know it… they are fine with it. They get crumbs and every one understands that it has to revolve to the Dems periodically so the electorate stays locked in…
We do hold elections and not all parts and pieces of an election are controllable, so sometimes there is tension on election day…
I figured Bush would win from the get go, for one, Rove. His history as a top operative is almost unique. One thing he really really gets is the guts of elections. What the Republicans also have down to a near science is conducting ridicule. Kerry was esp vulnerable to ridicule. And knowing where to wound, the R do that one very well…..
One reason I jsut laugh at the whining about how Obby is treated… sure a lot of it from some quarters is racism…. no question. How quick the Dems forget how Kerry was treated (and he so deserved it)
AND Kerry threw the election over and over in the run up.
3 months before election… I cannot summon up July that year but I can remember August, very clearly. It was a mess.
In Obby’s case one thing the R are actively using this (the whole of this, ”this” being Obby’s rise, admin and inevitable fall) for is to make black leadership look like what they are, empty suits, corrupt suits… and so on. It is most certainly planned.
they are also making black electeds look like spoiled whiners. And hell most of them are. They are not constructive, they don’t care about their constituency… (why would they be any different). And so n.
Picking them off …
Well the leadership and the rank and file certainly had a role for him to play. Doesn’t matter that he didn’t fit that role in any way, shape or form. Doesn’t matter that the role was different between the leadership and the rank and file. They just willed themselves to believe (yes we can) for awhile. He will be another Clinton (and ironically, in most ways he was) leading us to the promised land. He just came in as the economy was going into a Depression, rather than coming out of one. And he was no FDR, certainly. FDR wouldn’t even make it out of the primaries these days.
Now the whole Potemkin Village has come crashing down. And not only that, the ground’s pretty well salted now. The obvious solution would be for the liberal wing to defect and form a new party. This would be a pretty good time for it. As I see it they’re doomed to minority status sooner or later. Might as well tear the rotten structure down before it falls down. But we both know that won’t happen.
History will treat Ob as a brief extension of Clintonite era…. Just as GHW was an extension of Reaganism… and so on.
Both parties are pretty battered, but the R play a much tougher game…
oh god… cue the screaming, they redecorated the Oval. Hard to tell from the photo but it looks a lot more beige. Maybe a quite brown-beige. Darker… with striped wall paper.
Just in time for a bomb of a speech.
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Yeah. That’ll help.
HuffPo has before and after pics.
and here is a few photos… it really is brown. Beige brown. And striped.
Thanks for the Huff po……………
fwiw….
the photos in the London Daily Mail, things are a lot more honey colored, a much lighter brighter ambiance (!) less Man Cave Corporate Style Updated Metro – or whatever!.
What’s with the lone blue pillow?
They should have let Colin & Justin loose in there.
yeah I noticed that…………….
I think it is now the Corporate Couch Room slash Meeting Place. I am kind of expecting the portrait of George Washington over the mantell to close his eyes… in boredom.
What a hoot!
In other makeover news: Boob Apron
THAT was awesome — thanks, catnip!!
I love belly laughs!
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