Tension 14 November 2007
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, California / Pacific Coast, DC Politics, San Francisco, WAR!.trackback
The Birds (1963)
Not sure what the official take on The Birds was, but it certainly seemed to me to be some sort of psychological trance… people trapped inside it. Much bloodletting of pale human flesh, from claw and beak. Up at Bodega Bay… in Western Marin, on the ocean.
2 television channels have fallen to just telling us over and over the “saga of the birds”… in a safe way, saving them, washing them, etc. Adding that “no more volunteers are needed”…
However, the CBS affiliate today took a crew to Point Richmond, over in the East Bay, around Albany, N of Oakland and Berkeley… the beach, which is narrow, mostly rocks, is soaked. Birds began arriving a few days ago, soaked and trying to clean themselves. A few dead but most hanging on. No cleaners in view, and those who try to volunteer, step onto the rocky shoreline and DO something, are told “illegal”… CBS also reported that the 800 numbers displayed at beaches as the number to call to report birds in trouble is wrong. They spent a few minutes at each beach they were at to post the correct number. CBS affiliate also said the big bird washing facility does need help, people to do laundry, prepare the food they feed the birds who must eat every 4 hours and other necessary chores…
Perhaps the other affiliates catch up in the am… afterall:
Obama is Here! He was at Google!
VOTE, it is your civic duty! Show up! Be counted! Fall in line! Forget you ever fell in love! Be pragmatic! The Perfect is the enemy of the Good! Pure Troll! Concern Troll! Change is Incremental! Work from Within! You have no Choice!
etc.
Has anything gone right? Other than citizens stepping up, commiting civil disobedience by attempting to rescue birds, remove oil from their beaches, try to help… other than grass roots being ready to go on the ground, lithe and flexible, smart and in the mix… other than that: No.
The crew of the container ship that hit the Bay Bridge and spilled 58,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay last week was not tested for drugs until 53 hours after the incident, a delay that violates federal law, federal investigators said today.
National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman Debbie Hersman also said today that a radar technician hired by the board found the ship’s radar and electronic charting systems “performing as expected.”
The news came on the same day that it was announced that the Coast Guard officer overseeing the response to last week’s oil spill has been replaced.
The agency has been criticized for a lapse of several hours between when officials knew the spill was 58,000 gallons – not 140 gallons as initially reported – and when that information was made public.
Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen announced the move at a hearing on Capitol Hill. Captain William Uberti, the Coast Guard commander for the bay region, had been overseeing the agency’s response to the spill. He’ll be replaced by Captain Paul Gugg.
I feel an utter fool, Saturday, reading of Bolinas, Stinson Beach, Pt Reyes, I landed on a reference to oil at a small beach up there in western Marin, Agate Beach, and remembered being at that beach as a small child and nearly burst into tears…
Alcohol testing was done on the ship’s pilot, captain and crew just within or slightly after the legal requirement, according to Coast Guard Rear Admiral Craig Bone. But six crew members involved in navigational activities were not tested for drugs within the 32-hour limit. He said Coast Guard officials had to order the drug testing after they learned it was not complete. All alcohol tests have shown none of the crew, captain or pilot had alcohol in their system.
Well, as Arnold blurted at his presser last week: We know alcohol was involved…
Of course, unlike NO, we have our homes, ’til a big, big East Bay quake comes (they keep telling us the Hayward Fault is due to blow next year…), we all have that.
Except for those who have lost the big gamble to sub-prime crimes.
And to think, many millions will vote in 51 or so weeks and security – a security to be provided by political leadership – will determine their vote.
We are lost in a fiction.
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Marisacat 
This Essay?
Marisacat at her Best.
how strange is it that VOLUNTEERING is now a form of civil disobedience?
Oh, I know, because it’s not being filtered through a
conRECOGNIZED AND APPROVED tied in org! Is there an American Red Cross for cleaning goo off of sand and birds?this culture is so fucked.
Have a ball, Hair:
Why Are They So Afraid of Ron Paul?
Neocons and sectarian leftists unite to smear the antiwar Republican
Speaking of Ron Paul, I’m already ahead of you by one smear.
Looking around some of the “centrist” Dem blogs I’ve found out that they’re lining up a “Dennis Kucinich has ties to the New Alliance Party” attack, should Kucinich ever get the traction Paul’s getting now.
The “Dennis saw a UFO” bit was only a shot across the bow.
Face it, this is not about Ron Paul. This is about a political/media funnel/system of gatekeeping that makes it impossible for any candidate with any real opinions about anything not to get smeared.
And so we get Hillary Clinton talking about how much she likes Spitzer’s drivers license program one week and her talking about how she would never, ever give immigrants drivers licenses the next.
Raimondo is right about Neiwert. The man is a serious cretin one step away from Glenn Beck. The idea that you can go to a rally, take a few photos of some of the worst people there and post it to the internet as a “news story” is neocon smear 101.
Should Obama win the nomination, look for much worst directed at him. Should ANY Muslim organization that has ANY ties to ANYTHING questionable write Obama a check for 100 bucks, then Barack *Husein* Obama is going to be toasted alive by Michelle Malkin and LGF.
I know you enjoy it, but it drives me nuts that “liberals” don’t see any of this.
And for what it’s worth, if Nazis want to send me money, I’ll give them my paypal account. American money all has pictures of slaveowners on it anyway.
A huge Cat 5 cyclone is supposed to hit Bangladesh tomorrow (the 15th … just in case it’s ALREADY tomorrow for you).
Not that the media is noticing.
Are you really going to take Niewert seriously after he says stuff like this?
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/02/fascination-with-fascism.html
I suppose that, after winning a couple of way-cool Koufaxes for two different essays involving fascism, it’d be fair for people to ask if I have kind of a, you know, thing about the subject.
Not that the media is noticing.
First I’ve heard of it. Are we taking Christmas 2004 Tsunami levels of destruction?
And so we get Hillary Clinton talking about how much she likes Spitzer’s drivers license program one week and her talking about how she would never, ever give immigrants drivers licenses the next. — HC
Apprently part of the chill on it all, is that SF approved an ID for anyone in the city, legal or otherwise, just this week. Bd of Supes. Following a plan that New haven CT adopted not too long ago…
mainly so people can open bank accounts. The story is that all local banks are on board iwth it, it is done in conjuction with some sort of CA governmetn outreach. With out imprimatur on an ID, that is not Real ID, it is now poison. And thsu Sptizer’s unequivocal walk away today (I heard the speech)
We must be witches and warlocks out here. Or something.
well, Paul’s ties to the nativists go back years, even if you’re right and Neiwert has overblown them … frankly I don’t care enough to look real hard, because I KNOW that he looks at women as wombs-on-legs, which is an automatic disqualifier for me.
Oh, and speaking of nuts, PZ Myers has some fun w/ Purdue’s little raindance:
mainly so people can open bank accounts.
FWIW, you can’t open a bank account in New York City with a driver’s license. You need a phone bill or a utility bill.
Anybody who’s subletted in Manhattan is sadly aware of this fact.
Chris Matthews on MSNBC is heavily pushing the case for a national ID card.
I think it’s a bad idea. No retina scans for me.
oh and we just officially got rid of ROTC in the HSs too. Something that Gavin said made him “embarrassed” last year when ti got rolling. He said it made us “look” unpatriotic.
God knows we must worry how we look.
well, Paul’s ties to the nativists go back years, even if you’re right and Neiwert has overblown them … frankly I don’t care enough to look real hard, because I KNOW that he looks at women as wombs-on-legs, which is an automatic disqualifier for me
But once again, this is not about Ron Paul. This is about disciplining the Democratic Party rank and file, about setting up a climate where people are too intimidated to challenge them on the war.
Neiwert’s really too dumb to see it. But it’s there, the giant ideolgoical funnel that says “be boring or be a Nazi”.
phone bill and or utility bill and some sort of picture ID is mostly what people want here, as well.
Are we taking Christmas 2004 Tsunami levels of destruction?
Hard to say. Here’s a link from the blog Myers referenced:
another post links to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. It’s a big storm.
phone bill and or utility bill and some sort of picture ID is mostly what people want here, as well.
And if you don’t have it it’s the check cashing place for you.
Fortunately though if you’re in this position you probably don’t have a lot of extra money to worry about having to hide it under the bed.
This is about disciplining the Democratic Party rank and file
Oh, I agree. I’m just about truth in advertising, and there is some truth to the charges leveled against him. I just want people to know who they’re championing. Hell, Nader was an asshole on Schiavo in FL, and on some other issues (and I want to ram that “Traditions” book up his ass), but I still support him.
People should know the truth about people, quit trying to make them into heroes or champions in shining armor astride noble steeds. They always make a really frightful clatter when they fall off.
there is also the 7.7 quake in Chile that Miss D posted to the alst thread. I have not made to the FP of CNN to check yet…
Oh, I agree. I’m just about truth in advertising, and there is some truth to the charges leveled against him.
It’s actually a marriage made in hell. Both sides are using the other. Neiwert and the Hillaryites are using Paul to strut their stuff as ideological enforcers. Anybody who reads Kos diaries knows the drill. The Paul campaign on the other hand is using the Hillaryites to pump themselves up into the media and onto the big mainstream blogs. That 500 bucks from Don Black is just Donny McLurkin in Nazi drag. Paul’s just better at playing this game than Obama.
The trick for me will be to avoid being “disciplined” when it’s Rudy vs. Hillary. As scary as I find Rudy, I have to realize that once the race is about Rudy vs. Hillary, it’s not about individual personalities. It’s about the people behind the scenes who set the rules and how completely they’ve won. And the trick is to stay out of the game altogether.
Reuters India:
And the trick is to stay out of the game altogether.
agreed.
And the trick is to stay out of the game altogether.
— HC
Right. I won’t reinforce the game. Too lethal.
And when it comes down to the point that a candidate with ties to the militia movement not only appears better than the more mainstream candidates but actually *is* a better choice than the frontrunners, it’s time to recognize how rigged the whole system is.
The propganda is so sophisticated, the ideological funnels and gates so well put together, the intimdation so complete that dissent is supressed so completely that the repressed can only return in the form of a rigidly ideological libertarian, a guy who sees UFOs, and an ex Senator from Alaska who’s been out of politics for 30 years.
We really have arrived in a bloodless version White Rose era Nazi Germany. It’s the Jehovahs Witnesses or Hitler.
well I don’t see Ron Paul as “better than the frontrunners”.
The ENTIRE shitty game, top to bottom is a mugs game.
I sure don’t want Ron Paul running the government. IIRC he has pinche tejano’s vote. And a lot of ground glass served up as standard issue uglier than thou misogyny on offer.
I am not interested in RP and his policies, opinions and hideous take on abortion NOR interested in a Democrat who will reinforce war.
I jsut don’t see the difference.
takes different butterfly nets for different types.
at least gravel did something of lasting value once in his political life.
jeff masters at weather underground says that the storm surge could be as high as 30-40 feet, because of the geography, even if the storm intensity drops before landfall.
nearly all of bangladesh is lower than 40 feet elevation, with the most populated parts in the ganges delta and dhaka at less than 8 or 10 feet.
and then the floodwaters will drain back down through the same area.
damn.
i wonder how calcutta will fare, it’s right next door, but not in the same river drainage system.
The Official list… and just as a fly weight civilian I can read that this did not go well. They really wanted to reopen (and in fact did for a day or so) Chrissy Field, which is down at the Marina District of SF… at the Yacht Club with a small protected beach at the end of the boat slips, at the end of a big grassy dog walk area…
This is a mess.
The more I think about it, the sea lions were likely photographed at Angel Island. It has rocky walls, small coves and beaches… which is what I saw that am. It is not on the list tho last I heard the island, the state park that is, was open but the beaches were closed.
* late in the day Ocean Beach is now fully closed.
24 – wu ming
well granny d who took gravel around when he first came down from Alaska a few months ago… almost a year ago now… granny d is persona non grata at Dkos. her sort of direct, shake your fist in their face populism just would not go over at Kos. and a long time ago she did do the odd diary there.
sigh
My sense is there was immense pressure from the sellers, the Golden Gate Restaurateurs Association. I dunno something killed those sea lions and did it fast…
off the CNN wire:
SF Bay Guardian has a round up editorial on the crash.
at least gravel did something of lasting value once in his political life.
Well, I’d say three times, at least:
Ending the draft, helping release the Pentagon Papers and taking some chunks out of Hillary during the debates. He managed to get some things said that were being squelched, even if he had to do a loud meltdown on the cable nets to do it. I think that was a real service.
Hillary Racks Up Gambling Lobby Support
Ending the draft,
Whis is now almost as popular among liberals as the CIA.
If the United States had a draft (for which there is no political sentiment), its warriors would be drawn from a much wider swath of the population, and political leaders would think much longer and harder before committing the country to war.
LOL I laughed out loud a few times at this, Cockburn and St Clair write about Hillary.
thus taking water Fanjul was appropriating for his operation.
Wow. Memories. The Clintons support for Fanjul was outed in the Ken Starr report. Fanjul was the guy Clinton was talking to on the phone while he was, um, well…you know.
That seems damn appropriate.
And don’t forget Gravel’s open support for gay rights in the ’70’s. Not a popular position at the time – not even on the map in mainstream politics.
Hair Club, no. 33,
If the United States had a draft (for which there is no political sentiment), its warriors would be drawn from a much wider swath of the population, and political leaders would think much longer and harder before committing the country to war.
I’ve argued long and loud against this POV. Anyone with accurate memories of the Vietnam War know it’s ridiculous. First of all, getting a deferment was remarkably easy in those days. I have 6 cousins who were prime draft bait back then (born 1948 through 1952 inclusive). All came from humble, blue collar backgrounds (fathers were a NYC cop, a truck driver, and an assembly line worker), not a single one was drafted. Only 3 of them went to college, and one of those spent 7 years as an undergrad without picking up a degree. None of them were drafted. The conscript army was drawn from as narrow a spectrum of the population as today’s all-volunteer force.
Second of all, LBJ sent in the combat troops every bit as thoughtlessly and cavalierly as Bush invaded Iraq, and hardly anyone bothered to notice, or care. By the end of 1967 (i.e., after over two years of heavy combat involving US troops), something like 15,000 had been killed, and the majority of the population was still in favor of the war.
The draft, which I believe is coming in the very near future, will be a component of some National Service scheme young Americans will be forced into. There will be some resistance to it, but the sheeple will go along, just as they’ve stood by and allowed BushCo. and his Democratic enablers to eviscerate the Bill of Right without a peep of protest.
On to other topics. The big news today on both the local news (NBC affiliate) and the Today program was how a bunch of nasty liquids with which one could make a bomb were smuggled onto airplanes at 19 airports. This is probably to get us ready for having to remove not only our shoes but our socks when we fly. Both reports that I saw had the local reporter (the woman who generally goes to the scene of whatever “It Bleeds So It Leads” story there is) standing in the terminal building at Iran/Contra National Airport uncritically announcing whatever it was the DHS wanted to scare people with, while on Today the two anchors talked about how scary it all was, like a couple of 8 year-olds trading ghost stories at a sleepover.
A draft or a form of mutable National Service is going to come from the Democrats (imo)… and I think is one reason to shoehorn Hillary into office.
I think it is an utter horror that is arriving. But they all want it… and if you read between the lines, they ALL regret that they did not invoke a draft pronto when 9/11 hit.
SO now, from BOb Herbert to Rangel to Hagel to all the others…
You need a driver’s license to get insurance. So I think everyone is ok with people driving unprotected.
More oil news:
Hair Club.33
I say draft EVERYBODY. Do you think there will be LESS
propensity for War and Mil Culture depending on headcount? I don’t.
I say let the sheep who aren’t in the street now opposing this –
Fuck Em Let every mofo sheep serve Empire, see it for what it is and let the Imperial Wizards figure out how to pay for it.
Though often inarticulate, I’m not naive nor misunderstand the danger of a vast swath of America wearing their Swinging Dickery in Uniform. I also have no illusions about the enactibility of Universal Conscription by War Profiteers. The PTB NEVER HAVE pushed an indiscriminate Draft without the generous weazel clauses targeted to social demographics most common to White/ Corporate Class Allied America. The deal breaks down like this:
How likely is it that Black college sophomores who are undeclared or Humanities Majors would be considered “Eligible” vs white kids already accepted into engineering or further along or pending graduates in their immediate Corporate serving technical Majors?
The Lip service paid to Academic Diversity and the need for higher minoroty graduation rates will account for nothing in the event of a Draft.
This is, of course, an Academic discussion. I see any enacted Draft as Discriminatory, passed off as ” Fair” in its forearm’s reach into College campuses:::::: Younger Minorities would be shipped off of campuses all across the country from which they are now less likely to graduate from and even less likely to inhabit the higher prospective income and social trajectory Programmes. Yet again, white college kids of Corporate and Gov Class Servants , favored in “Preferred” Majors would be OUT of the Draft to “Fight the Battle” in the lucrative Stateside Private Sector.
I think the whole issue is a scam, and her’s why… The Money to be ripped off in The Defense Budget isn’t in Salaries for grunt headcount or even supplying basic equipment and provisions per grunt.
Sure, there is a lot of dough in any one of the provisioning contracts and substantial in the aggregate but the heavy loot , critical interests, and leverage points are in the Major Defense Contracts that the West Coast ,Texas, New Mexico, VA, Fla etc Propped up Economies critically depend on with a myriad of other also-rans …The nature of War Profiteering itself isn’t going to support a massive grunt or middling officer class and their inevitable perhaps even small armed demands.
I know War and Discriminatory drafts can do more for a Fascist Agenda in a few years what ‘the Drug War’ and mandatory minimums endeavor to accomplish over twenty years to a lifetime.
Nonetheless, I reject the argument that we could be more LETHAL with General Conscripton. Roll everybody in. Have MAMZ bunking in with Francis Holland. Maryscott and Elise sharing barracks with Mcat, Catnip, Devore Xeno, etc.
Delaware Dem might qualify as a short order cook but you’d have to audit inventory. Thereisnospoon could conduct a live-fire excercise teaching Hand to Multiple / Armed- Assailant- Combat to a Platoon led by HRH. Make Pyrrho the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Small matter that catnip resides in Canada.
We’ll figure something out….😀
Anyone with accurate memories of the Vietnam War know it’s ridiculous.
I wasn’t even born during the Vietnam War and even I see how stupid it is. Bring back the draft to bring back the anti-war movement? That’s a bit like bringing back the Klan to bring back the civil rights movement.
There will be some resistance to it, but the sheeple will go along, just as they’ve stood by and allowed BushCo. and his Democratic enablers to eviscerate the Bill of Right without a peep of protest.
According to David Neiwert, the term “sheeple” comes out of the militia movement and its use makes you ideologically, hmm, suspect.
You’re probably a skinhead who just got your boot off a black lesbians neck.
now they are talking about the seals. 37 of the over 200 seals at Pier 39 show sho oil on their fur.
LOL State Assembly members held hearings this am in Emeryville on the spill… the CG did not appear… they will only answer in a Federal forum.
Gotta love the nation.
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Well I feel sorry for anyone who thought they’d never pull a draft. It may have taken years from 9/11, but we were always headed here.
What I’m trying to point out is the ruse that we’re not subordinate to a milstate now. As a matter of Policy they could at Least do us the courtesy of saying EVERYBODY IN.
It’s the Quickest way to collapse
OR THIS
Our present, drawn out bloodletting ruse doesn’t make it any more justifiable.
41. I will have to bring my medically necessary chihuahua to the barracks.
The aftershocks in Chile are major quakes themselves: 6.2, 6.8. and 5.6 in the space of 13 minutes!
Blood Diamonds Brokered by FuckSpeak.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1684247,00.html
oh fucking goddess–the kosling approves of being matched with Rove for his Newsweek gig:
“Newsweek actually got this right, for once. They balanced out a movement progressive with a movement conservative. In years past, Rove’s “balance” would’ve been Bob Shrum. Now, they’re apparently starting to realize the difference between a movement partisan and an establishment hack.”
LOL Dee.
MCat, no. 38,
A draft or a form of mutable National Service is going to come from the Democrats (imo)…
I agree, they’ve already made some noises about it.
BTW, Newsweek has announced that Kosolini will be balanced by . . . Karl Rove!!!!
That’s comparable to setting up a Death Match between a crocodile and a 3 week-old baby.
If they engage in any kind of dialogue, that is. Maybe they’ll just run them on alternating weeks until Kos craps out (I can’t imagine he’ll have the patience much less the smarts to keep producing copy Newsweek will deem worthy of publication). If they do actually try to do a Point-Counterpoint/Crossfire type of debate, expect Baby Kos to have his head handed to him over and over.
Pelosi slobbering over Denny’s Man-Boobs now…
well I suggest they draft dues paying xtians first… I mean clearly this is a religious war. Fricking lunatics.
Oht he Dems were the first out of the box with draft legislation, ready to go post 9/11 for a draft. Even at the state level out here in CA.. jackie Spiers for one, she of the survivor class of the mission to Guyana to Jonestown years ago.
We know from cults, whether off shored or our own mil.
Hairclub, no. 43,
You’re probably a skinhead who just got your boot off a black lesbians neck.
I’ve still a full head of har, and the lesbian was white and blond, otherwise spot on. 🙂
Bring back the draft to bring back the anti-war movement? That’s a bit like bringing back the Klan to bring back the civil rights movement.
LOL, exactly right!
As to this,
Please tell me he’s being disingenuous with that “movement partisan” business. Then again, if he thinks he can go one-on-one with Rove and hold his own, he’s even more delusional than I thought.
will Rove wear a bib? to catch the butter drool from the dipping bowls. I figure he treats Kos like cracked crab that has been dragged thru bunker fuel.
LMAO Mcat 54
Rove, Buchannon, Bill Moyers, Stephanopoulos,
Begala, Carville, Karen Hughes……
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White House Gigs , Facial Hair, and Post Pubescent Voice Change ??
Check.Check.Check.Check.Check.Check,and Check.
Then there’s Markos.
Markos got the Newsweek gig because MR. Sulu declined.
George Takei of Stark Trek fame was quoted as saying
“I have A LIFE”
I think the federal plan is to destroy fishing out here. The fisherman are reminding people what e coli in spinach that was not properly line washed did to the spinach biz. The fisherman/crabbers want to close it to the Mexican border. The sea here is too poisonous to bring crab and other bottom feeders thru the water…
Fish and Game say they “tested the waters” but won’t release the tests. GMAFB!
Half Moon Bay and Bodega Bay plants are refusing to clean and process crab brought in, which will scuttle this idea to fish outside the banned area and then drag the fucking crab pots into port, thru the bunker oil.
30 beaches closed now… frankly as they keep telling us it is “better”, it seems it is not.
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As for that hors d’oeuvre known as Kos… LOL. I am reminded of Rove et all getting off the camp. plane after Kerry’s fuzzball hunting “event”… (groomsboy to carry the kill) they were all dressed in hunting mufti… as silly as they could make it.
I got a real kick out of that one!
57lmao
listening again to General Kip ward of AFRICOM on with C Rose. Geesh. he says we are Not arrogant, we DO listen, and we seek to cooperate with our African “partners”. We ASSIST the African heads of state. We assist them to be more professional. What a fucking FIBBER.
Great, let’s all play golf. No problems. None.
think he has wings over on the other side from his ribbon display. Handy as I am sure the plan is to bomb Africa from above.
Democracy NOW has Wayne Barrett of VV on, about Guiliani/Kerik:
Turkey’s slow-motion move into Iraqi Kurdistan continues apace:
Meanwhile, in another US-destabilized part of the forest . . . Tthis story was given pride of place at the top and to the left of the FP on the NYT website this AM, but it’s been seriously demoted over the course of the last 6 hours, currently languishing in the “World” index in small type towards the bottom of the FP:
One imagines a number of furious phone calls were made to Young Prince Sulzberger about this.
I think I’m in moderation.
JJB
got you out (sorry)
AND think that is the same story that headlined the NYT email last night. It was the title of the email even. US looking past Musharraff … etc.
what a hoot!
from ABC’s The Note.
I dunno Gail, how do you unwaffle?
MCat, no. 64,
Yes, I’m sure they did promote it big time. It would be interesting to see the early print editions. I guess they couldn’t purge it, but did the best they could under the circumstances. The 3 reporters sharing the byline are no doubt mighty angry about it. God forbid anyone should mention what’s obvious to everyone on the planet who’s paying attention (i.e., the entire world excepting the US), that we have a veto over who runs Pakistan, and Musharraf’s time is up.
aw gee dad, thanks.:
” WASHINGTON (AP) — Ahead of the holiday travel crunch, President Bush ordered steps Thursday to reduce air traffic congestion and long delays that have left passengers stranded.
President Bush, accompanied by acting FAA Administrator Robert Sturgell, outlined a plan to reduce air traffic congestion on Thursday.
The most significant change is that the Pentagon will open unused military airspace from Florida to Maine to create “a Thanksgiving express lane” for commercial airliners. It will be open next week for five days — Wednesday through Sunday — for the busiest days of Thanksgiving travel.”
Miss D # 67 the Pentagon will open unused military airspace from Florida to Maine to create “a Thanksgiving express lane”
Golly maybe those Thanksgiving travelers up their in the MilSpace will see a loose nuke or two fall off over some Hooterville or another.
Talk about dry turkey
Barry Bonds indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice in the steroid investigation. I guess there will be a couple asteriks in the record book.
Bonds: “All puffed out of proportion’
Deutsche Bahn on strike as well. According to Spiegel, French transpot/unions not relenting.
Honestly, the West Coast should strike. Refuse everything. WGA to teamsters to blockading the Forts and bases to the mil induction centers, recruiting centers, to the oil refineries… sit-ins at the Democratic offices (they have all hated that!) universities and colleges.
well one can dream.
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Honestly some of the “gifts” Bush gave us for T-giving travel, sounded a tad dangerous.
There has been talk that the airlines are literally afraid of a full fledged user rights movement
Hell why not. Inconvenienced, embarrassed, x-rayed, held up, shut down, killed (Gotbaum and others unknown unanmed) cattle car’d then dumped at the wrong airport with no luggage.
There should be an airline travellers movement. Think there is a bill kicking around about some aspects of it (being trapped for hours on planes that don’t take off).
JJB sharp grab. A wicked Photo Essay was just Blown right off the FP of the NYT website with the Bonds story. It showed 2 boys killed by Mush Undercover
ONE, is an arresting ,iconic shot of a crowd infiltrating security force man-jackal holding a gun with a solitary boy left dead in the dirt as the crowd is cowering in the distance. Chilling. The wheels are coming off the train….
LOL the opening of the afternoon Note’s Sneak Peak…
I think it is true, she cannot stumble again. Esp not on a big issue… does not mean she odes not “win” however… 🙂
Look back and cherish whatever good memories you’ve had of winters past.
Cheney knows no restraint only perceived “imperatives” and tactical advantage in his way long (on insanity) Neocon Oil Hawk
StrategyPipe(line) Dream. No one in the US can say we weren’t warned. Repeatedly.The Last train left with Kucinich.Betting the ranch in Pakistan is as much cover for Scumbag Cheney as it is anything else. What do they do other than repeatedly and insanely up the ante?
This all flows now from missed opportunities to nail Cheney’s ass earlier. I don’t think Mush is crazy. His nukes, as near as anybody, knows haven’t walked off to Qaeda. They been sold the old fashioned way by an insider to China…Nonetheless, I’d bet my fucking eyesight the overtures have been made to strike a deal with some ambitious bullshit artist Mush understudy who fits the regime change bill…I bet the authorization has already been given to “Pat Robertson” Musharraf’s ass:.
Wondering if it will go as planned????
probably the next general in line steps up.
here is the link to the photo essay BHHM mentioned, killing in Pakistan.
jesus. what does one say anymore. Corps and fertilised eggs hold sway:
All hail The Egg! master of the Universe!
This is the second story on The Great Egg at the same link. Don’t miss the title. The Onion is out done:
masturbation is [potential] murder! save those tissues, folks, those are potantial fertilized eggs!
how long until they give other unicellular microorganisms the vote? one cell, one vote! protozoan rights NOW!
masturbation is [potential] murder
Jesus. I’m Hannibal Lector.
I suggest an amendment declaring egg salad to be a person (or several of them), too.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the cervical wall…..
Actaully, “humpty dumpty” is a good name for abortion.
humpty dumpty… good one Miss D!!
how do you unwaffle?
That would be a pancake … you know, like that makeup her people trowel on her before appearances.
Egg Lawyer.
“My client is in there, your honor”, the lawyer began, pointing towards a vagina visible only through the window in the green surgical lap sheet covering the woman in stirrups.
.
Apparently, stupid cruelty is part of the anglo-saxon genome:
Terror police ‘shot’ man in coma
Like the Polish guy in Canada just recently, no doubt.
Like the Polish guy in Canada just recently, no doubt.
Why don’t they just say “shot while trying to escape” the way they used to in the good old days in Argentina in the late 70s?
BREAKING:
thanks for the link to the photo essay. the world is insane.
the look on that mother’s face in picture 7 speaks volumes of the face we offer the world, the hate and fear in her face as she comforts her daughter.
Biden just said that Bush should be impeached if he attacks Iran. Why do we have to wait for that?
Next person shot in such circumstances will be discovered to have Tourettes syndrome.
85-BHHM–I finally understand those mysterious lyrics in “Good Vibrations”: “She’s giving me egg citations”
War Pig:
Just say it, we are Sparta, only with malls and credit cards.
300 was so gay
Kucinich was great on the Patriot Act, after Wolf points out that he is the only person on the stage who voted against the PATRIOT Act.
“That’s because I read it.”
Then he goes after Impeachment.
Biden stands up after Wolf shuts K down and jerks off.
God, why am I watching this?
I think I recorded Survivor. Hmmmmm, might be a better use of my time.
I liked the “box in” question for Hillary and Dodd.
Do you consider democracy or American security more important?
Both passed.
300 was so gay you say?
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
Well BHHM, if we’re going to go there, then …
More video of Olympia Washinton, Direct Action Against War.
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
Great opportunity for jokes but kind of a non story. EVERY politician pretends he knows how to shoot.
The only problem is that Democrats always fuck it up when they try to pretend (Kerry in the duck hunting suit) and of course this.
Military Shipments Contained by 39 Women at Port of Olympia
$2.49 breakfast in Vegas.
You get what you pay for.
Congratulations: CNN’s bimborama reviewers actually made the candidates look intelligent in comparison.
Richardson as usual gets the biggest sigh from me. So good, and so horrible.
I wonder if LGF will get discussed here?
http://www.adl.org/main_internet/israel_conference.htm
Or if they’ll invite Chuckles Johnson to be a guest speaker.
Chris Floyd points me at a new Silber on the latest Donkle Potemkin bill:
I think I’m canned meat, encased in jelly.
Young people don’t have analytical skills to filter out hate sites.
Translation: Some go to Counterpunch or antiwar.com
We need to educate them of the ways to process what they see on line,
Translation: That’s not an American peace activist being run over by a bulldozer. That’s a terrorist enabler guarding weapons tunnels.
He said that the Internet industry needs to do more to keep hate off line.
Translation: Make sure youtube keeps Muslims from posting videos.
“If Internet service providers work as hard as they do to keep smut off the Internet, then they can also keep hate of the Internet,”
Translation: I’m too old to figure out how to find porn on alt.binaries
You may be able to prohibit certain sites, but then they reappear with changed names and addresses
translation: Will someone not rid me of this Alexander Cockburn
Taking something out of Google search results does not remove that content from the Web
Translation: People still found their way to Indymedia after LGF through a hissy fit and got them bounced from Google.
Like many of our users, I find the content on (some) sites extremely offensive.
Translation: My son Keith Moon got flamed on Political Flesh Feast.
RFLMAO
Lou Dobbs “Seriously Contemplating” Presidential Bid
What, Ron Paul isn’t enough?
Shit, if Dobbs is running, let’s open up talks with Miss D’s chihuahua.
BTW madman, LOL’d over the Zappa / Bush vid
then felt put to shame seeing the courage of the Port Protesters
oh, I wish I had the courage of those protesters. I can barely stand human contact in general, let alone pepper balls and batons.
And meanwhile on Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/15/151541/27
Dobbs presidente? Carajo, manito, ahi si que estamos todos bien jodidos. Oiga ‘manito, que tal, le dejo que se esconda en mi casa antes que le revienten las pelotas. Pero cuando vienen para buscarme a mi, pues como Ud. sabe ya no habra ingles, ni educacion, ni diploma, ni mierda ninguna, que me valga contra los enloquecidos cuando me preguntan “y Ud. de donde viene”, me prometes una ayudadita, porque si no a mi tambien me revientan lo poco que me queda.
latest from sfgate:
oops.
107 Utterly revolting.
“It might make us look bad the next time we want to pass a nonbinding resolution.” We might lose Stephanie Herseth’s vote, or Ken Salazar’s! Don’t you understand how vitally important that is?
All you need to know about dkos is in that thread. One of the few times I have wished I could still post one more time, but of course it would be the last too.
These idiots quote Gandhi and King ad nauseam and quail at the thought of nonviolent protest here and now, are absolutely befuddled by it. This is where kos has led them.
All you need to know about dkos is in that thread. One of the few times I have wished I could still post one more time, but of course it would be the last too.
They’re fascists plain and simple. And traitors.
jesus, Hair, that dkos diary is depressing.
‘Merikans are so damned stupid.
CSTAR, as I’m an Anglo w/ no undertanding of espanol, I plugged you post into Babelfish, and got:
So, ummm … that was pretty funny, but …
… ummmm.
jesus, Hair, that dkos diary is depressing.
Have you read Marx’s 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte?
It’s the classic treatment of how a coup unfolds, the more conservative group uses the group to its left than discards it then is in turn used and discarded by the group to its right.
So in 2006, the Dems used the war to get elected.
1.) First they took impeachment off the table
2.) Then they demonized radical left anti-war groups
3.) Then they started demonizing anti-war independents (Greenwald)
And why?
“Liberals” are dependent on the state bureaucracy for their living. Trial lawyers, social workers, people who work at Nonprofits, all of them will eventually label their own ideals as treason and sedition because their economic interests require them too.
Fuck this is right out of classic Marxist theory.
“Irishwitch” could be exhibit A.
that sums it up pretty well, Hair.
leftists need to run away, but they won’t.
And why are their economic interests dependent on supporting the war?
Because it depends on the state continuing to grow. To get government jobs, military contracts, social programs, you need to “grow” the state.
That means taking the militarism with it.
If entitlement programs, social security, the military, the security state = civilization you’re protecting from the bad evil Republicans, then a threat to the state becomes “sedition”.
And when you have no ideals, no beliefs, no core values, you can’t oppose the war. If it’s all about “body armor” you’re going to support Bush until he leaves office.
The people at Kos are actually worse than neoconservatives because they put a moderate face on their fascism.
And they are fucking fascists.
Seriously this is THE book on the state.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/index.htm
I couldn’t find anything enlightening (certainly nothing good) to say about a Dobbs candidacy, in any language. I might as well blurt something out in Spanish. Because, regardless, we’ll be all be minced.
However, the Babelfish translation is probably just as good as anything else one might say about it.
That diarist is simply a high user id DEL Dem sock
the hawk tone the gratuitous what do you think Perv Priest tone
check the self appointed Poll titles of the diarist
http://vanceone.dailykos.com/
its Secret Squirrels hamhanded idea of intelligence gathering
Then check this
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:o7kqeNAXn2MJ:vanceone.livejournal.com/+Vanceone&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
Melrath must be coming unglued …
P30NED methinks J melli…
The Lovely Mistresses of George W. Bush.
Well shit, if corporations are persons deserving bill of rights protections, why the hell aren’t fertilized eggs? I mean, at times, I have uncontrollable muscle contractions in my tensor fasciae. That must mean that it is a person. Hell, if I was a record setting 100 meter runner, it would be a person. It would probably be worth, from an actuarial estimate, more than the lives of every person who posts on this blog combined.
And we wonder why every decision since Roe in the congress and the courts have backslid… property. insurance.
I might, like the lawyer in the Amistad case, propose a different tack – ‘is that cluster of cells growing on the soft muscle wall of this individual their property, or is it the property of another’?
Because it sure as hell isn’t anything other than that. And if it isn’t anything other than that, then Scalia will take the scales from his eyes and proclaim, “I have seen the light, lordy lordy, I have seen the light!”
We like our damn property.
Sorry!
2 of Hair Club out of Moderation
and 2 of Madman out of spam
Then check this
Melrath must be coming unglued …
P30NED methinks J melli…
Interesting bit of detective work.
What a bullshit scam it all is.
Zeleny NYT on the debate. WIll no one point out that Universal health care is NOT forcing every American to BUY health insurance.
So sick of the protestations that Democrats should not criticise each other. GLAD Dodd used the word “shrill” but LOL probably not appropriately.
What whiners, all of them.
Chuck Todd at First Read on the debate.
“When does protest become sedition?”
Yikes. I missed that one too.
hmm I have also heard phrasings such as “no booms were placed around the Cosco Busan”… which lead me to think … gee that wording could be accurate. WHo the hell knows.
From SFGate.com report on the senate briefing called by Boxer…
They never stopped lying, imo.
Gee I thought my rant in Spanish was sedition — offering aid and comfort to illegals. The question to ask is when will human decency turn into sedition. What I do know. Maybe it already has.
What ever Sy.
I am beginning to think the entire endorsement, semi-endorsement business is very dangerous. Certainly two fisted. Back handed… and too often twisted.
I caught a running set of clips from Mailer’s 11 apeparances on Rose. SOme of his statements prior to the Iraq invasion were just excellent, with, I felt, some heart felt delivery. But it was all smudged, dirtied in fact, by how complimentary to Clinton Mailer was in ’96 (ugh saw those clips again as well). Real slobber. All about how Clinton would help Blacks, or affect some beneficial race something or other.
Welfare “reform”??
prison population???
his godamned fucking WIFE?
Jon Lee Anderson has an 11 pager Letter From Iraq, Inside the Surge in the New Yorker. In the same, is a 4 pager from Ryan Lizza on Obama.
politico.com on the Rove and the guppy writing for Newsweek.
Some very amusing quotes from the guppy… I have not read whatever koswhack1 wrote over at Dkos… so it may be repetitious for some..
8)
What ever Sy.
Well Obama now has Hersh, Chalmers Johnson and Cornell West in his corner.
Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/15/debate.main/index.html#cnnSTCText
“The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has assisted the militias and others in killing our Americans and maiming them [in Iraq],” she said. “They have imported technology and technical assistance. I believe they are a terrorist group.”
she and bill just want the nuclear codes again.
War Games. Can’t we just send them to the old movie?
BHHM, no. 73,
That was a riveting batch of photos. Here’s still more indications that Pakistan as a geopolitical entity is rapidly becoming a thing of the past:
That exchange about the police chief reminds me of one of my favorite bits of Marx Brothers dialogue, from Duck Soup. Groucho announces that he’s looking for a secretary of the treasury. But you just appointed a secretary of the treasury, he’s told. “That’s the one I’m looking for!”
Come to think of it, Musharraf does rather resemble Groucho . . .
Uh, no, he can’t:
But Moulitsas added that he’s been published in mainstream publications before, and “can write AP style” when called upon.
He really cannot write at all.
126 Hair Club,
the j melli ref refers to “whats the diff” id jockeying on Blue Jersey in the Adam B, Kos, Philly Blog Boyz circuit..Doesn’t matter if one distinct 3D individ is out of Princeton or not….
But just like the brief individuating sparks that flew in the D Debates last night, whether a distinct , “identity” or actual person is coming from the same place, they are certainly headed there on the Dem USA!USA! armored personnel carrier….
It’s no longer a big mystery to me, it is what MAMZ says it is
A noise machine, and like the RW version meant as much to dupe their supporters as it is to attract new ones….Like the Party, the “Pwogosphere” is built now with a big enogh tent for the scads of ops cops and fops that call it home…..
Gee Paul. So blunt:
137 JJB Here’s still more indications that Pakistan as a geopolitical entity is rapidly becoming a thing of the past:
Who are WE kidding…
Rural true believin militia nuts with day jobs in the Sherrifs Dept.
The Local Police in UTAH or Sand Flea Whatthefuckville – huhuh-ing
to Warren Jeffs ritualized rape of a 14 yo with families going along ith it….
The Jesus Camp VooDoo of Haggard and Dobson to infiltrate the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
The Jena 6 Prosecutor Jesus Juicer
So We got the Holy rollers, the Lubavitchers,
the Gang Bangers ,Steroid Freaks and CrackHeads,
The Cops and Punks, the Game Players and ‘NetCafe Society
And right up Top, we have the HeiressTokeCrazy Corporate Class
whose social position have been traditionally secured by men very similar to Musharraf in deed and motivation: the desire for Power for Powers sake. And Rodney “Brain Nearly Clubbed In” King had the audacity to ask: ” Can’t we all just get along?” The answer is a resounding No, Fuck NO! Not with Market Exploitation and Religious Sectarianism trumping any notion of a common humanity.
Our cohesion here is mostly rammed in our brains by the media and a mostly frivoulous popular culture. Certainly not much thats REAL in terms and times of crisis. No urgency to pass the tourniquette, no quick footed deployment of “national” resources…. There’s hardly any thinking of that kind anymore, the idea of “pooled” resources, mostly because of the corruption. It’s all just discreet cost benefit analysis that – given its narrow scope – can hardly justify any social compact We see it in the rigid walls built between urban and suburban political and budgetary bounds despit the fact that resource pooling would be more efficient. . In this regard, you will ALMOST NEVER see some local local town give up its Police Force, the only way it happens is if the cops interests are secured in the regionalization….
We see hideous tribalism in the cherry picking done by insurers . the corpse left dead in the street while onlookers cower is not seen but the rich should really have their heads chopped off in this country along with their retainers ….Hardly playing “Footsie”, The States and Federal government have promoted this socioeconomic tribalism by approving such schemes in thoroughly corrupt graft havens known as Insurance Commissions….
We’re Tribal all right , Violent- Stone- Age- Tribal.
We, .. like various Pakistani Tribes, have evolved only in the sense that we prefer rockets to rocks.
I don’t watch shows such as Press The Meet or The Tweety Blueballs Yakathon, and I don’t watch these “debates” either, which have nothing to do with debating, and which are really nothing more than joint talk show interviews MCed by people who think the story should be about them, such as Wolfman Blitz, Campbell Brown, etc. Whatever dim sense of civic responsbility I might have felt disipated yesterday as I sat watching while the Wolfman, Campbell, and some other woman MSMer whose name I didn’t catch prattled on and on about what they thought the candidates should discuss, what they needed to do to calm what they believed were public fears about them and their policies, so on.
Well, as bad as that was, here’s something that proves the whole process is even worse than I’d thought:
Presumably, some of her other non-Yucca Mountain questions were a good deal more substantive than this bit of fluff.
I knew I wasn’t missing anything by skipping this stupid “debates,” but it’s always nice to have your opinions vindicated in this way.
141 “Student Forced to cast Pearls before Swine”
pretty good thumbnail checklist on the SF bay spill at the marin independent.
even the employees of Marine Spill Response Corp, the national nonprofit firm funded primarily by oil companies, hired to clean the spill seem horrified:
less bread!
more taxes!
something people should needle the beyond clueless major, and governor about.
makes sense to everyone. except to the corporate profiteers.
Another sham media controlled debate. How about a replay of the crowd cheering Kucinich on impeachment?
Maybe Kos will rail against it in NEWSWEEK…HA HA!
Miss D, no. 142,
That’s extremely funny.
Just noticed that Duncan Black has a brief piece (does he post any other kind?) criticizing CNBC for a pro-management tilt in covering the Writers Guild strike. It starts out:
Spot The Bouncing Bulls—
On my CNBC teevee screen:
That would look a lot better if it weren’t running directly under the Chevron ad, DB.
137 JJB Here’s still more indications that Pakistan as a geopolitical entity is rapidly becoming a thing of the past:
Who are WE kidding…
Rural true believin militia nuts with day jobs in the Sherrifs Dept.
The Local Police in UTAH or Sand Flea Whatthefuckville – huhuh-ing
to Warren Jeffs ritualized rape of a 14 yo with families going along ith it….
The Jesus Camp VooDoo of Haggard and Dobson to infiltrate the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
The Jena 6 Prosecutor Jesus Juicer
Forgive the Labels as they are the problem , But when in a collapsing Rome….So We got the Holy rollers and the Lubavitchers,
the Gang Bangers ,Steroid Freaks and CrackHeads,
The Cops and Punks, the Game Players and ‘NetCafe Society , Not to mention the Body Sculptors Jockstraps and Workout Junkies .Fans of every stripe with The Arts more likely to be held up to ridicule than it is to be experienced or appreciated much less contemplated or enjoyed.
And right up Top, we have the HeiressTokeCrazy / Corporate Class
whose social position have been traditionally secured by men very much like Musharraf in deed and motivation: the desire for Power for Powers sake. And Rodney “Brain Nearly Clubbed In” King had the audacity to ask: ” Can’t we all just get along?” Was he fucking crazy in ?!@?
Given the pandemic corruption the answer is No, Fuck NO! Not even if we wanted to with the yoke of Market Exploitation , Religious Sectarianism, and the elevation of Aggression trumping any notion of a common humanity or perhaps a better way of Life… it must be cast off or continue to watch your back when in this part of town or other.
Paul Fussell had a Book Class that pretty entertainingly dispatched with the “In it Together ” Scheisse. He noted twenty Five some Years ago that Americans in Small towns would always demure when asked about class divisions – even divisions at all. Then with little goading would inevitably dish on who was “who” and gush that this section of town was the shizzle with Country Club A, Church B , Masonic Lodge C and so forth ….Exponential Sprawl has since done in the already diminished ties to locale. Most “communities” now are hardly that, thought mostly as a “place” not a “where” with other people, purpose and Life. It’s thought of now as a housing location convenient to shopping and hopefully neither to close or far to the coal mine of a working environment that makes it all possible….
Our cohesion here is mostly rammed in our brains by the media and a mostly frivolous popular culture Sports, PseudoEvents, and our common Neanderthals interest in club wielding violence.. With all official language meant to subordinate and most language spoken meant to deceive, Theres Certainly not much thats REAL in terms of cooperation in times of crisis. No urgency to pass the tourniquette, no quick footed deployment of “national” resources…. It’s seen in New York, NO, and the SoCal fires and now San Fran. There’s hardly any thinking of that kind anymore, the idea of “pooled” resources, mostly because of the corruption. It’s all just discreet cost benefit analysis – that – given its narrow scope – can hardly justify ANY social compact . We see it in the rigid walls built between urban and suburban political and budgetary bounds despit the fact that resource pooling would be more efficient. . In this regard, you will ALMOST NEVER see some local local town give up its Police Force, the only way it happens is if the cops interests are secured in the regionalization….
We see hideous tribalism in the cherry picking done by insurers . the corpse left dead in the street while onlookers cower is not seen but the rich should really have their heads chopped off in this country along with their retainers ….Hardly playing “Footsie”, The States and Federal government have promoted this socioeconomic tribalism by approving such schemes in thoroughly corrupt graft havens known as Insurance Commissions….
We’re Tribal all right , Violent- Stone- Age- Tribal.
In aggregate, this now duct taped, clusterfuck of a country that WE live in, is quite like Post Nuclear Orgasm Pakistan…Like the various Pakistani Tribes who long for THEIR tribal finger on the button, we have evolved only in the sense that we prefer rockets to rocks.
hmmm the guppy is up in Newsweak…
http://www.newsweek.com/id/70653
bay
plus there are not enough official cleaners to go around. THIRTY beaches are shut….
I got http://www.zunasurf.wordpress.com to stay up for me (and not crash the computer) if I open it in Firefox…
and they are saying no cleaners in most of Marin and NONE in E Bay (except for a single canned comment, not a word from Barbara Lee that I have seen… did pelosi kill her and dump the body?) so they are begging for photos from people. They mention yet another man (not the same as Marin I-J wrote about a few days ago) who was arrested for trying to clean Muir Beach… and it is still caked iwth oil (zuna surf has pics).
I think the destruction is intentional and there ia a plan to destroy our fishing and crabbing. I don’t care how irrational that sounds.
The surf guys have the best h old on this… and are so in the present tense, organised and smart that officials DO talk to them… but now Ocean Beach is fully shut and if you even try to go there, security on motocycles (on the beach) chase you off – but to get back to the surfers they say the stuff is out there and ”moving around”, because it returns to beaches ti had stopped washing up on.
the whole thing is terrible… and I Hope some people are thinking ahead to what will be done to us post event in the case of a big earthquake. That is, if Katrina was not enough for people, and apparently it was not.
146–spoken like a true guppy, after receiving his infusion of food flakes. It’s simply amazing that we have no idea which path the Dems will take on funding the war. Especially when we hear most of the Dem prez candidates saying they can’t commit to being out of Iraq by 2017.
Stick it to them ‘lil firebrand! And make sure they know you wore the boots!
Just read the guppy’s glug. That piece was so pedestrian I fully expect to see it strolling along H Street when I leave work tonight. It should come with its own sidewalk.
Addendum to last comment,
There must be more than a couple of interns who could have produced that piece. I don’t know what Newsweek is paying Kosolini, but they could have saved themselves a fair amount of change is they’d just handed it to one of the indentured servants they’re underpaying.
just made it to the end. May I say that Newsweek is begging for my forebearance in making me click again to read the whole (a page 2). It is all that the guppy is capable of, and it is STILL remarkably bad.
I mean, turgidly bad. Who will read that sludge?
Kos is a stick figure for Rove to demolish with a nail file.
LOL
Here’s something that might be worth a column in an issue of Newsweek, TIME, etc. Might even be worth a NYT headline, but it’s buried in wire service items:
Just got an email from the Pelosi office on El Spill:
Nothing has worked so far.
hmm the whole Rove v Guppy non match reminds me of films of animals/critters who consume insects, smallish, slightly crunchy, but down the hatch, with calm dispatch.
i suspect that it is exactly groups like zunasurf that will do any good in a big disaster like an earthquake. right back to anarchist mutual aid, when you think about it.
get to know your neighbors, try to cobble something together.
the government will be providing riot control, but that’s about it from what i can see.
HOWWWWLING at 155 ;D
156 Reminds me of all the hysteria about crime, breakins, home security, etc. Any cop will tell you the best thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.
156
I agree wu ming.
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Oops forgot to post this earlier… an interesting piece on protest in Olympia… the years of opposing the stryker brigade shipments..
while i was there at Counterpunch I saw that they pciked up the LAT opinion piece by Benazir’s neice.
oh you HAVE to laugh… Chavez says he will cut off oil exports to the US, if Bush strikes Iran.
At newsweek.
posted By: BooHooHooMan @ 11/16/2007 7:49:52 PM
Comment: This is Hillary-us , Markos now talking about the Democratic Party at “arms length.” Moulitsas pushed this con HARD that Dems would oppose Bush.
“Send in your dollars kids” was the mantra, “We’re Crashing the Gates”. was what Moulitsas and his stock touting Partner in a Democratic Consultancy urged theifoisted upon their readers. LOL.
The only “Road Less Taken” here, is one of candor, credibility, and backbone. Like Mr. Rove, Moulitzas has a habit of purging less than flattering content off his servers.
After a high visibility poster on Moulitsas website called an outspoken woman a “cu** , a bit**, a wh*re”, Moulitsas encouraged the blogger known as “Delaware Dem” to re=register under another pseudonym to enable him to continue posting on his blog. What warranted such an outrage?? The woman was outspoken in her dissappointment with Democratic inaction. It is the very issue Moulitsas has the gall to hold forth on NOW.
Deal with it. (15+ / 16-)
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Mariscat is a cu– of the first order.
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But Mariscat is a bitc*, a wh*re, and a cu–. Whatever derogatory term you want to use, use.
by Delaware Dem on Thu Feb 01, 2007 at 01:31:58 PM PDT
By The Way, this cretin, a lawyer from Philadelphia still has posting privileges on Moulitsas blog.
Disgustingly, a number of Mr. Moulitsas most loyal supporters RECOMMENDED this behavior. Hideously, “Pastor Dan” a blogger featered on KosMedia’s StreetProphets.com also smeared the woman for expressed disappointment over the lack of Democratic Delivery….
Though Moulitsas and “Pastor Dan” purged public servers of their commentary encouraging the abuser , there are archved copies of this widely this travesty readily available on the web. “The Road Less Travelled” for Democrats as well as their apologists and soft ball pseudocritics like Moulitsas can be summed up in a word: CREDIBILITY. Now Newsweek has the problem…..
Good work, BHHM. It appears your post has not been reported as abuse…..yet.
What if they had a serious candidates’ forum on energy and climate – and nobody came? Even on the very day the fourth IPCC Assessment is being released?
Grist is having one Saturday, Nov 17th at 2 pm pacific time, in cooperation withe the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, Center for American Progress Action Fund, NRDC Action Fund, and the Presidential Forum on Renewable Energy.
All the prez candidates were invited. Only Clinton, Edwards, and Kucinich accepted, and good on them for that, whatever else one may think about them. Each will have a full half hour.
Live webcast here
With Markos fluff at Newseek, is this Irony lost on anyone???
Writers Strike Continues
by MissLaura
Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 04:22:34 PM PST
And really the writers are fighting for a share of monies off the INTERNET.
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I admit I am interested to see what rove cranks out against guppy-just-a-guy-with-a-blog.
Track all the happy wee inner tubal pundits, they all took a considered position on the war – and other things… from Calpundit, Kevin Drum to ol’ Sully… and others. Yglesias, Alter (tho he lost his perch at MSNBC… and has had other public meltdowns, but The Nation will give him a nest forever I am sure) and so on…
Oh I know Kos “opposed” the war when he was building his blog… but let’s get real. The joint is pro war, pro mil, pro service, pro government, pro The State vs the People…
etc.
Miss D I doubt Newsweek will Purge
Nonetheless, These screenshots are available for archive
I’ll try again with the HTML, Maybe breaking it in two posts will help..
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I have a thing or two to say about the li’l ewe who was “forced” by big, bad Wolf to ask something she really didn’t want to.
Baaaaa!
I got the link to this from Crooks and Liars, which has video of Randi’s speech:
I’ll believe it when I see him begin hearings.
I bought a new broom today. since I was walking a few blocks with it, I had hoped to run into someone I knew, and say–I don’t know why people call me a witch…..but no luck.
The bristles are made of recycled plastic bottles. My fair city is actually looking into a ban on plastic water bottles. I understand the excessiveness related to them: students leave half-finished plastic bottles of water in my office all the time–at first I tried to look at it as “offerings” made to appease me, but I ultimately concluded that people feel compelled to buy bottled water, even though they don’t appear to miss it when they leave it behind.
oh ffs:
conyers needs to go home.
at first I tried to look at it as “offerings” made to appease me
do they tear the heads off before they leave them, like cats?
The Crooks and Liars post where I found the link claims:
Please.
just to tilt at windmills though, I went and email Russ and Gwen Moore, my rep, asking them to support K’s bill.
well I heard that Feinstein’s office was not hte only one to receive NINE to one emails, letters and phone calls against the IWR vote of October 2002.
And we see how much they cared.
Their game is that people will vote for them anyway.
Like the constituent for Sherrod Brown said, when she stopped SB and said look I worked for you, canvasses and donated and now you vote for funding the war. he said,
You vote your way and I’ll vote my way.
Their way or the highway. They KNOW people fall in line and vote for them.
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Great piece, Madman. If I read one more “liberal” word about this poor little student abused into inanity by a live TV camera, I’ll have a spell of the fantods.
really and truly just a thread………..
LINK
thanks moiv.