Blessed are the warmongers… 12 August 2008
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, Border Issues, Culture of Death, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, WAR!.trackback
Georgian soldiers prayed with an Orthodox priest. Air attacks by Russian forces caused numerous casualties among the civilian population in Gori. [Photo: Wojtek Grzedzinski/Napo Images]
Blessed are the warmongers… for they enable the arms dealers.
A Georgian soldier’s body lay at a morgue in Gori. Russian officials said Georgia provoked the assault on its troops by attacking South Ossetia last week, causing heavy civilian casualties. The Kremlin said its actions since then were intended to strike at Georgian military forces that had fired on its peacekeeping troops in South Ossetia and it did not intend a broader offensive deeper into Georgia. [Photo: Wojtek Grzedzinski/Napo Images]
Aside from blessings for murder, BBC has this report, Medvedev seems to step up… or something.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an end to military operations against Georgia, the Kremlin says.
He told officials he had taken the decision to end the operation after restoring security for civilians and peacekeepers in South Ossetia.
However, Russia has been highly critical of Georgia’s leadership, and there were no signs of imminent talks.
Before the announcement, there were fresh reports of Russian warplanes bombing the Georgian town of Gori.
Witnesses told the BBC that several people were killed when a bomb hit a hospital in the town, which is 10 miles (15km) from the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali. ::snip::
The whole article just screams WEAK.
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On a somewhat related note (blessed are the warmongers.. ), I read that the Democrats are planning to have an Orthodox rabbi (along with the usual mix, for closing and opening prayers) at the Convention. How many signs do we need that we are not moving forward? How damn tough would it be to have a Reform rabbi, a WOMAN maybe?
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Hollywood deaths come in threes, they say … Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes… Anyone placing bets? (Yes I know it is ghoulish.) Reports are Paul Newman has asked to go home to die. I hope when the moment comes I hear more about Hud, than about wretched tomato sauce…
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Last, I am in the middle of this, Grigoriadis in NY Mag wringing every last drop printable on race issues in this run…… in honesty it is a tough go, but there are tidbits.
I am praying to Jesus this is wildly overstated... we are DROWNING in bathos (and lies) in this election:
Now she has another purpose: to let people cry. A square blue box of tissues has been placed onstage, next to an unattractive plant.
“She’s going to be good,” says one woman, in the audience. “She’ll have us all crying!”
And cry they do, sharing their stories of health-care crises, job losses, subprime-mortgage nightmares, about daughters dumping their out-of-wedlock babies at their door and toddlers who are forced to split a hamburger because there’s no money for two. It’s group catharsis with Michelle as Mary in the Pietà, with the groove in her forehead becoming increasingly pronounced. The purgation goes on for an hour, with only the most minor of laugh lines: “I wasn’t stimulated by President Bush’s stimulation,” says one woman, from the balcony. “Will President Obama do something similar to a stimulus process?” Michelle laughs, then says, coyly, “Yes, Barack is talking about doing something for short-term stimulation.”
I just cannot bring myself to read the Penn/Hill camp emails in the Green article in The Atlantic. But here are the links for the intrepid.
More of the last, ABC World News reports, with little information, that an “independent Republican group” is filming in Indonesia, in the environs and streets where young Obama lived. What a shock.
Marisacat 
LOL I did laugh out loud at this headline for an opinion piece in USAToday… luv to see that finger shake in REVERSE:
For Edwards, only full truth can pave path to redemption
That his mea culpa, the least possible version and only when cornered, is leaking day by day… is providing me much amusement.
“Redemption”, as if these chumps believe in anything but on-going self aggrandisement, war and pillage.. of one kind or another.
This headline made me chuckle:
Lezak back in Olympic pool after sizzling relay
I got the mental image of a flaming hot bar of metal being plunged into the Olympic pool: Sssssssssssss!
hmmm Hoover Institute. Sweet.
LOL, Madman sent this Steve Bell cartoon on Bush Saakashvilli, SOssetia, Georgia and whatever else…
Re the steve bell cartoon
Free markets!, Christianity! An oil pipeline!
From E Intifada:
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9756.shtml
With the Cold War back in style, so is the Domino Theory:
Yeah, and if free and democratic South Vietnam fell, the Chinese Commies would appear in Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington the following morning, and we’d never eat a grain of rice for as long as we lived, because that was where Asia’s ricebowl was, as LBJ said, and we couldn’t afford to be without it.
And if Georgia has really come further towards genuine democracy than any other Eurasian country, we might as well abandon any hope of it ever taking root in that region of the world. It’s probably even less of a democracy than Iran, and Saakashvili is a scummy thug who only last year sent his security goons to rough up protesters marching against his corrupt regime. He also had a former colleague turned political opponent arrested and tortured until he recanted.
Chris Floyd has a great deal of his own material and links to posts by former Moscow Times colleagues.
BTW, I don’t think Saakashvili got a green light from BushCo. to start this war. I think he’s narcissistic moron with delusions of grandeur who made an extraordinary miscalculation. At any rate, contra the high IQ moron from Johns Hopkins quoted above, this deplorable incident is a splendid reason why we should not grant NATO membership to such countries:
Hard to believe that someone could use Pakistan as a positive example here, or that someone who is the research director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies wouldn’t know that our alliance with Pakistan goes back to a bit of J.F. Dulles treaty-making originally called the Baghdad Pact, later renamed CENTO when the Hashemite’s were overthrown by a Marxist regime in 1958. But then as the Wikipedia entry notes “is generally viewed as one of the least successful of the Cold War alliances,” and the author doesn’t seem the type to acknowledge that the US geopolitical meddling has ever resulted in failure.
Comment in moderation, I think.
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thanks for posting the Chris Floyd links, I jst was directed that way via Dennis Perrin.
I heard today that Saakashvili was a NY lawyer. LOL. Gotta love the free market system. Woo Hoo.
Re Talking about historical fallacies (such as Munich/Chamberlain)
Domino theory.
I wish these “experts” that write Op/Ed pieces think of some new historical principle?
This morning for breakfast as I was eating my toast I made the mistake of reading George Will expounding on Georgia. I think that guy must be seriously constipated.
W/r/t what prompted Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia, Josh Marshall has a hint, and it has to do with John McCain’s chief foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann:
As I said earlier, I doubt Saakashvili was encouraged by BushCo. to do this, but certain shadowy figures like Scheunemann probably did urge him on, and may have convinced him that the US would be eager to see him succeed, and would intervene to prevent Putin (the real power in Russia, Medvedev is on a par with the clownish and powerless Iranian president Ahmadinijad) from responding the way he has.
Another in moderation, I think.
Ah Sally Cat and the fascists of Kos jes love their banning. Again, all of the “he/she probably deserved banning” apologias. Read the FAQS! Of course, if you’rre Kos and tell Democrats to go vote for a Republican (i.e. Romney) you’re a brilliant trickster — not a troll sockpuppet, like Mike Stark. What a groupthink of pinheads.
Were they in charge of the world, you would see twoll executions. These Kossacks are a supreme example of exactly the authoritarian rule that they allegedly despise from Bush, but love their shiny black pooties to mete out censorship.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/12/133412/237/690/566790
Just followed a link in another post Josh M did on the subject of Russia/Georgia, and found the following John McCain quote:
I guess on that basis, Turkey should be expelled, and new countries such as Bosnia and Kosovo have no chance at entry.
McCain certainly did not know that prior to making the statement, and the factoid was inserted by an aide, but you have to wonder why anyone thought its inclusion was a good idea. One more reason to doubt the elderly McCain’s judgment regarding world affairs.
It also reminds me of a scene from the late 60s film “The Charge Of The Light Brigade,” directed by Tony Richardson and starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, and Trevor Howard. At one point, as war fever against Russia is being stoked, a group congregates on the steps of some building in London to protest, demanding “why are we siding with heathen Turkey against Christian Russia?” Lord Cardigan (played by Howard) is passing by in uniform at the head of a mounted column. He stops to listen to the dissident, then charges up the steps on his horse, breaking up the small group, ripping their banner, and causing a few to be injured in the melee.
I’ve no doubt McCain would behave in similar fashion.
This seems instructive in the latest ‘sanctified and baptized’ bloodbath:
”Just prior to taking power in Georgia, the new U.S. backed leader, Mikhail Saakashvili, announced, “All strategic contracts I Georgia, especially the contract for the Caspian Pipeline, are a matter of survival for the Georgian state.” That regime change resulted in the closure of Russian bases in Georgia and an increase in U.S. military aid to the country. In early 2004, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld deployed private military contractors from the Washington firm Cubic on a three year $15 million contract to Georgia “to equip and advise the former soviet republic’s crumbling military, embellishing an eastward expansion that has enraged Moscow,” reported London’s Guardian. “A Georgian security official said the Cubic team would also improve protection of the pipeline that will take Caspian oil from Baku to Turkey through Georgia. Georgia has already expressed its gratitude by agreeing to send 500 troops to Iraq.”
The Bush Administration knew that the controversial pipeline would need to be protected in each country it passed through. While Washington increased its military aid to Georgia, it faced a decade long U.S. Congressional ban on military assistance to Azerbaijan, where the oil would be extracted. In 1992, Congress banned such aid because of Azerbaijan’ bloody ethnic and territorial conflict with Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabak region. But on January 25, 2002, President Bush “waived” that section of the Congressional act, thereby allowing U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan to resume. The White House said the waiver was “necessary to support United States efforts to counter international terrorism [and] to support the operational readiness of United States Armed Forces or coalition partners to counter international terrorism” – in other words, to protect oil interests…….”
Excerpted from Blackwater, The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary army (chapter: Caspian Pipeline Dreams), by Jeremy Scahill.
Sorry JJB, got it out of moderation.
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Oh shit, hadn’t heard about “The Bush Administration’s Plan To Make The Endangered Species Act Extinct,” just saw this on melvin’s diary on it.
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Error in the first quoted paragraph, should’ve read:
“All strategic contracts in Georgia,”
The Poem as Comic Strip #6
This is pretty neat.
Photography as a Weapon By Errol Morris
This is really interesting, the ability to focus a broader story down to one picture. (ON top of the other interesting points in the article about manipulating people w/ images and captions). It reminds of the Lakota keeping histories w/ Winter Counts.
Anyway, the whole piece is really good:
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Thanks for the great link Madman, loved this:
If you want to trick someone with a photograph…. All you need to do is change the caption.
Just another example of how lacking in creativity NBC is. Here is a cartoon/commercial from the BBC for their Olympics coverage done by Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) and Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl comics, Gorillaz’ videos/characters), based on the old Monkey story “Journey to the West”.
Very cool.
Very interesting documentary (and potential Olympic antidote, for anyone who needs a break from the rah-rah-rah) playing on Wide Angle tonight: China Prep. About high school seniors (of diverse backgrounds and levels of wealth) at an elite (and yet, unheated) prep school, going through the final exam process that will determine their acceptance at China’s top universities.
“not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.”
I think that Mukasey quote is the nation’s motto.
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thanks for the tip on PBS… i will catch that tongiht.
From the Law dot com online legal dictionary:
crime
From my copy of Black’s Law Dictionary (abridged seventh edition):
Perrin:
Snippy bloody snip:
Duh
Study says most corporations pay no U.S. income taxes
”WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most U.S. and foreign corporations doing business in the United States avoid paying any federal income taxes, despite trillions of dollars worth of sales, a government study released on Tuesday said.
The Government Accountability Office said 72 percent of all foreign corporations and about 57 percent of U.S. companies doing business in the United States paid no federal income taxes for at least one year between 1998 and 2005.
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The study showed about 28 percent of large foreign corporations, those with more than $250 million in assets, doing business in the United States paid no federal income taxes in 2005 despite $372 billion in gross receipts, the senators said. About 25 percent of the largest U.S. companies paid no federal income taxes in 2005 despite $1.1 trillion in gross sales that year, they said.”
I love the feigned Congressional shock.
(full pdf GAO Report)
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To put that in context, there’s was a near 100% reduction in the collection of Corporate Federal Income Taxes, as a percentage of total Federal Income Taxes collected, from the sixties to 2005.
If Congress had any intent of balancing any scales, and helping the citizens out of the economic nightmare so many are living in, at a minimum, they would reinstitute income averaging, at least under a certain level of income, and cease entering into contracts with multinationals that aren’t paying a dime into the coffers being bled on endless war.
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well I will hand it to the 1am to 5 am slot on KGO, the host pulled up the Gary Brecher War Nerd posting on Georgia, S Ossetia, Russia etc.. (aemd linked to it last thread)
LOL Earlier Rose had on Churkin the UN Amb from Russia… Very temperamental guy, a hoot as an ambassador. This could get entertaining.
hmmm I see Brecher has two on Georgia and war…
August 9
August 12
LOL I see Mark Warner is chosen as keynote speaker at BamaLand
Another observation about the Olympics. Probably something most people haven’t noticed unless they are watching the unedited online coverage of certain events… the maddening overuse of (mostly Western) pop music at these events. I’ve been watching the archery matches, and between every match, and between rounds even, or during time-out calls for officiating, they feel the need to fill the silence with needle-dropped blasts of loud bouncy music. (Perhaps to cover up that there are few people in the stands. I can’t understand why a country of 1 billion plus has had such trouble filling the stands.)
In fact, the Chineseness of these games, if there is any at all, is barely coming over in the coverage. The Chinese athletes don’t even have their own names in Chinese characters on their own uniforms. There are few signs in Chinese at the arenas. Except for the preponderance of Asian faces in the stands (what few there are in the stands), it’s difficult to tell where these games are actually being held.
I can’t understand why a country of 1 billion plus has had such trouble filling the stands
This has been odd…
The Edwardses need zippers. For their mouths. EE in People Mag, the cover. her story and why she stayed.
I think she had some whine up at Dkos about VOYEURS. And how private this all was, and should be.
I think the government has stage-managed the Games to the point where most average Chinese people are just staying away and watching at home. I read in the NY Times that chanting fans at some of the events have been recruited.
Interesting collision of corporate excess and one-party rule. I’m sure the Chinese people will blame themselves, though.
Never fear, Tbilisi! George W. Bush is sending you an unmistakable message that Georgia is on his mind by sending renowned super-diplomat Condi Rice to effect your rescue. It couldn’t have been easy to drag her away from her vacation, but this trip will also include France (and this story lists her itinerary as “France and Georgia,” suggesting that’s the order of the trip), I guess she figures that it’s August, the Parisians are out of town en vacance, thus offering prime shopping opportunities, so why not?
Also, Defense Secretary Robert Gates will be conducting “a humanitarian mission to Georgia involving aircraft and Naval forces” that promises to be “vigorous and ongoing,” whatever the hell that might mean.
In the meantime, a Russian tank batallion has apparently seized control of the city of Gori, Stalin’s hometown. One does wonder what the old mass-murderer would make of this imbroglio. The French-brokered cease fire seems to have turned down the level of violence in this conflict, but the Russians appear to be moving about, taking control of the areas they’ve seized, and making sure their positions are as secure from counterattack as possible.
Holbrook and Dimitri Simes almost came to blows yesterday on Lehrer over Russian presence in Gori.
What a mess… I sort of avoided Bush speech this am…
Madman sent thsi Bell cartoon from The Guardian.
Reuters is saying that Saakashvili is claiming that Bush’s offer of humanitarian aid means that Georgian ports and airports will be under U.S. military control.
Wow, that guy is an asshole. Russia is just acting like Russia, but this guy’s certifiable.
For no good reason, I checked out George Swill’s WaPo diatribe. He really does give mindless pedantry a bad name:
WWI began on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and bombarded Belgrade. The M-R pact, shocking and momentous as it was, probably had less effect on starting the Second World War than Germany’s seizure of what remained of Czechoslakia the previous March (which brought an end to the policy of appeasement and is probably the one event that made war inevitable, if any one action could be said to have done so, i.e., Britain and France would no longer acquiesce in any of Hitler’s territorial demands). At least he gets Saddam’s attack on Kuwait right.
He might also mention that WWII ended in August 1945, when Japan surrendered, but I guess that might not fit in his theme of “bad things always happen in August, geopolitically speaking.” It’s not a very long list anyway, although I can think of something else he might have added to it, namely the Gulf of Tonkin incident (August 2-4, 1964). Can’t imagine why he left that off . . .
…but this guy’s certifiable.
Which is what Churkin the Russian Amb to the UN said last night on Rose. He was pretty calm on Lehrer… but by the time of taping for CR, he was agitated.
Swill… good name for Will… LOL
Another newsflash from Reuters…
Russia says U.S. must decide between real partnership with Russia or the “virtual project called the Georgian leadership”
Ouch.
Too bad the leadership of the U.S. is also a virtual project…
hmm Democratic party chair in ARK has been shot. Sounds like the shooter is dead. No word on condition of state chair.
Developing…………. as they say.
Bob Casey jr will speak Tuesday night at the convention.
Kerry mounts his faithful steed and brandishes his faithful weapon, a butter knife:
Get the man a pillow for his head.
This NY Times article says that the truce supposedly in place in Georgia may be DOA. It includes this statement from the commander of that Russian tank batallion occupying Gori:
Saakashvili is quoted as saying Boy George’s dispatch of [non-military] aid is a “turning point.” He seems to have taken leave of his senses, although to be fair, he’s probably handling himself better than Bush did on 9/11.
UPDATE: That story has changed significantly since I first read it just a few minutes ago. For instance, that quote from the tank commander was on page 2, now it’s on page 1. His name is now withheld, previously he was identified by first name and the patronym that serves as the middle name for Russians (don’t remember what it was). There is also material denying that the Georgians killed something like 1,500-2,000 people when they attacked South Ossetia, and the following passage that sounds like something from a Hollywood film made during WWII:
Now, I don’t want to make fun of people responding to the occupation of their country by a hostile foreign oppressor, but that bit about throwing leaflets at a truck strikes me as odd. Aren’t you wasting them in a futile gesture? And why do you have these leaflets anyway, wouldn’t the local population be overwhelmingly opposed to it, and not in need of leaflets to convince them?
This story has definitely had material added that casts the Russians in a worse light, particularly that quote from Human Rights Watch workers (or those who say they are) denying that the Georgians killed as many people as the Russians have claimed, and also claiming that South Ossetian (i.e., pro-Russian) militias are committing atrocities in Georgian populated villages in the break-away province.
Another NYT article about the lead-up to the war that I find plausible:
Is Condi Rice the least competent chief diplomat of a major power in human history? You’d have to go back to the lunkheads that Wilhelm II appointed after firing Bismark to find someone similarly idiotic, and I’m not sure that Condi isn’t inferior to them as well.
BTW, I wonder if Condi will be making use of her fluent Russian on this latest diplomatic voyage? 🙂
We’ll know if the U.S. media has really gotten in on the act, if NBC suddenly carries footage of today’s women’s archery final round. The American woman still remaining in the contest, is a naturalized native of Georgia.
Duck Soup
According to a couple of posts I saw at Josh Marshall’s site, McCain is supposedly on the phone a great deal with Saakashvili, and he’s accounced he’s sending his own delegation to Georgia. If true, that would very possibly cross the line of conducting independent diplomacy, which is a crime.
And while McCain’s chief foreign policy advisor has resigned from actively participating with the consulting group through which he served as a lobbyist for the Georgian government, he’s probably still got his ownership stake in it.
If true, that would very possibly cross the line of conducting independent diplomacy, which is a crime.
It is?
No. 54,
Yes. It’s a crime for U.S. citizens to conduct diplomacy with foreign governments independent of the Department of State. This includes U.S. Senators. If McCain is not clearing everything he does with Foggy Bottom, he’s breaking the law.
What’s the definition of diplomacy, though? I think there is probably a lot of wiggle room on that.
Why don’t you look up the definition somewhere? You obviously need to do a lot more reading.
Or stick to discussing subjects about which you actually know something. I realize that’s quite a short list and would limit your participation in these threads.
I love you too, JJB. Mwah.
Wow, this turns really nasty:
There is video at the link.
Most of the crowd is on Pelosi’s side, from what I can tell from the video.
I wonder how many people in SF have really turned against her, how nasty the fall campaign will be?
Details on the protest Marcy Winograd:
details from the protesters in moderation, I think.
LOL On the other hand Kaine says Medvedev listened to Ob’s call for cease something or other.
Gah. Screw them all. And twice on Sunday.
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I let the most recent out of Moderation Madman…. do you see all your posts? If not wait a min, may turn up…
I heard Nancy on KGO this am with Ronn Owen. She just glides thru the shit. Myabe her version of Pinnochio is that her SSeas Pearls just get bigger. And Democrats hold her up for scorn and shame and anger.. and will diligently vote for Ob. Thinking he is a different party somehow.
2010 should be very entertaining.
hmm had not heard that Congress fell to 9 pts. (Rasmussen).
Good luck to someone.
Judge says UC can deny religious course credit
Hold Bolton and Rove in Contempt
FUCKING screw contempt. Arrest them.
Won’t be happening. Might muss the lipsitck on the pigs.
thanx, that was it!
How is the CA media reacting to all of this? I read stories in the Times and Chronicle, but have no feeling for broadcast media from my perch her in Cheeseland.
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Yes I was so thrilled this am when that came thru.
Damn the exemptionals (I made that word up). They want to be victims and exceptions and exemptions and exalted by Jesus, all at once.
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Just reporting it… Most people agree with Otero… and our fucked religionists are up North in Very White Land (Butte Co and Calaveras and so on, two counties that have refused to do marriages since we all went gay!) We do have loon Russian crazed religionist immigrants (masses of them), I suppose they are less than thrilled and I don’t know where the offspring of Asian Missionary Conversions are, probably less than happy… … and then we have pockets of Catholics who do the work of the Catholic Bishops… like fund the parental notice ballot measures.
I don’t think we have anyone like Jindal running loose, who wants to foster Creationism in the schools…
67 – I still want to know why getting to live for eternity in paradise after they die isn’t enuff for them. The mortal vale is filthy and horrible, after all.
68 – Thanks, that is good to know. We’d be subjected to a bunch of fucking Bishops and home-schooling freaks if it happened here.
When did Colmes grow a pair?
NYC Panopticon Plans Take Shape
Who believes that the NYPD would delete information in a database after a month if they didn’t “need” it? Who believes they wouldn’t use that database to track people for other reasons, like the so-called drug “war” or protesters from entering the city for something or other.
(not) proud to be an American:
LOL Pity the NYT did such a lousy chopped to death by the legal division job on the “expose” of JMcC and his “lobbyist” woman a few months ago.
She, by the way, disappeared for months following that article. Could not be located. I don’t know if she resurfaced
John and Cindy skated on their denials and the NYT times having clay feet to the hip bones.
John and Elizabeth are leaky messy boats by comparison. The Enquirer is having a lot of fun. To be frank. And the Edwardses look like idiots. Which they are.
Oh BTW, when Ronn Owens o9f KGo raised Edwards today (he never did like him, LOL) Nancy sought refuge in words of St Francis (”to forgive is to be forgiven” – makes one wonder about John Pelosi frankly). AND she informed us he is the patron saint of SF.
Which I am certain none of us here knew. At all. In any way.
Gah.
LOL … well, they both serve the same masters:
Brzezinksi: I Expect Powell To Endorse Obama
The Powell camp has denied it… Geraghty floated that perhaps the leak is to put tension in whatever negotiations are between pwell and ob.
I so want to see that testimony before the UN again. And again.
Poor Powell, trying to resuscitate a dead career.
Pox on them all.
I think it would be so damned funny to see him endorse Obama. They share such “good judgement” and all that.
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May they all do as Powell has done, be so deficient that the BOOK DEALS stop coming. That goes for ob too.
They identified the shooter in Arkansas, but no motive yet:
ah, such a shallow country we live in. Apparently “who would you trade iTune playlists with?” is the new “who would you like to have a beer with”.
Pretty safe lists, imho. (Though props to McCain on the Merle Haggard song … not a big hit). Best part of the piece is Randy Newman’s last comment:
Johnny wants money for his birthday
I notice that as the iTunes reports move along the music declared from each changes. The first reports were interesting. McCain listened to some modern stuff (he does have kids, so I assume he hears it and picks what he likes) and Ob liked some old stuff…
Then later reports seemed to amend their selections to be more what people might expect.
An election for the ages. More of the same. The most important election of our lifetimes. On and on and on and on and on……..
82 – I noticed that too. Pretty funny … human chameleons, only these lizards adjust to match the polls instead of foliage.
There is amusing stuff popping up all the time. When Ob complained of some rapper (Ludicrus? Forget now which one) or distanced himself from words… some blogger, a rightie, turned up Ob laughing in 2004 over his daughter (then 6) liking some song of Snoop Dogg’s.
Footprints in the sand. High tide wipes out all traces.
In this duck soup world we’re living in, we’re all Freedonians.
How the Democrats Can Blow It … in Six Easy Steps By Michael Moore
They’re doing this one already in response to the book that came out today.
Of course, voting for Obama is fucking stupid, but as a list of how to lose it’s not half bad. Too bad the donks will do all of it.
So, Mr. Moore, when they do, are you going to withhold your vote?
Didn’t think so.
[I fixed the text of the last blockquote, Reason 6 — Mcat]
oops, wrong blockquote, shoulda been:
New York Times Attempts to Define and Dictate Black Politics
continued:
Black people are not working themselves into an election year frenzy just to commit political suicide by disbanding as a bloc, no matter what Matt Bai and his ilk say.
But they are. Black issues, poor issues, minority issues will all now find a deaf ear. WIth some palaver for some vague poor somewhere, other than that, it will be Aids in Africa. That wipes most white slates clean.
The Democratic party wants to get out of being the Party of the Social Welfare Net Business… and to walk away from remnants of anti war.
It will be brutal. Good luck to someone.
time will tell if NYC’s new panopticon command center is as idiotically located as the former op center located under the world trade center.
Madman #81
Thank you for that…it made me smile after a long, crappy day.
nice to find a little humor in a headline.
Charismatic Governor Rises to the Short List
charisma boy be timmy kaine.
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