Mike's Blog Round Up
(Due to technical difficulties, we didn't get a round up yesterday, so today, we get a SUPER round up! ~Nicole)
Abortion concern trolls, human rights concern trolls and the plain old kind that should live under bridges. We need a study on how many species of rightwing troll there are!
Never mind the yellow ribbons, even the flag patches on troops' uniforms aren't made in the USA. Maybe conservatives can use that as an excuse for why their prayers go unanswered.
Web 2.008 - if it all came down to MySpace friends, Clinton and Obama would bury the field.
Holy Juice, the Moonies and Dinesh D'Souza.
Freedom of speech? Not while you're working!
"If you refuse to be daunted by anything less than impeachment, then you'll have no problem turning the government all the way to 11."
Welcome to Cheneystan - a nation of puppets, puppeteers and regencies where to dissent can have alarming (coincidental?)consequences and the name of the game is denial, whether plausible or not. What will it take to arouse the ire of the people? Can we continue believing that things will get better if we are patient...indefinitely? We've already created a situation where others don't have the luxury of patience anymore. If we are patient enough, we may find our right to speak up disappears. Meanwhile, the hating mob who enable the puppeteers still have the monopoly on impatience. Nor is there any real sign of a change.
Guest round up by Cernig @ The Newshoggers (newshog AT gmail DOT com).
Not a blog, but news (oldish)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6239896.stm
Mis-representing facts again, "al-Qaeda" were in fact local neighbourhood watch.
I have friends that live under bridges due to republican policies. They don't want the company of theses scum-bags.
This is off topic but I was wondering if one of the more enlightened souls, like a site monitor, could explain how HaloScan works. I know you're not using it here anymore but I've run into a bit of an issue with the local newspaper here in town. I've managed to get myself banned from making comments on their HaloScan forum for what seem to me to be an extremely minor complaint about the newspaper/webmaster. It seems to me that someone has gone to great lengths there to find offense whenever possible. One of the things I was wondering about is whether it is typical to have the forum be run by someone out of state as opposed to keeping it local. The paper in question is Alamogordo Daily News here in Alamogordo, NM. Maybe I'm just used to the site monitors here on C&L who have more patience and enough courtesy to show when they have edited someone else's comments. Any information would be helpful.
The Invisible Man. Elliott Abrams sure has been operating well under the Radar.
On 2 February 2005, Bush appointed Abrams Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy. In his new position, Abrams is responsible for advancing Bush's strategy of advancing democracy abroad.
Abrams accompanied Condoleezza Rice as a primary advisor on her visits to the Middle East in late July 2006 in the course of discussions relating to the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.
Regarding Fred Thompson (third link):
Today the Washington correspondent for the British Sunday Times gushes about “the legions of former girlfriends who still adore him and who want him to be president.”
Give us a break.
Clinton's impeachment was prelude to Bush's running amuck. It smells stronger now then it did during the impeachment. No special prosecutor and no impeachments because we can see now how they could be misused. Only now that we REALLY COULD USE BOTH of these tools of democracy they have been discredited and our very nation's way of life is endangered.
Republicans are shameless in their own interest. Money over party, party over country, country over people; these are the republican values.
Somehow these cats have turned doing everything wrong into a virtue. Given the sequacious nature of their followers, somehow these crooks, liars and torturers manage to obscure their malversationism with MORE misdeeds!
Think the July 4th honk-a-thon will have an effect?
and we need more self-created definitions of the useless word "troll" so we know exactly how to destruct all debate. thanks kos!
Finrod @ 7:
Is Sequacious the name of Susquatch's nerdy younger brother?
No, I'm the nerd ... but I was watching Luntz on a Daily Show link and decided screw him and his two-syllable limit.
'Sequacious' popped up on Word of the Day last week, and as it means a propensity for following without thinking ...
My bad! Uh ... "sheeplike?"
Whoa, dude! Okay, here's the morning reading! Good stuff!
Morning Ysbadd, quick question for you. Ever heard of the Nashi federal movement in Russia? And do you think these guys are a reaction to Bush's over zealous foreign policy? They see Americans as a threat and seem to have backing from large Russian Corporations. So is the next cold war going to be American Haliburton against Russian Haliburton so to speak?
Impeachment off the table = let the bodies hit the floor.
Everything that sparkes is not gold and everything that's Blue is not good.
Here's a suggestion.. Maybe Fred's girlfriends can be called the "Spread Your Leg Friends of Fred PAC"
Thanks for including my interview with the ACLU's Bruce Barry about freedom of speech in the workplace in today's blogroundup. Very appreciated.
Hi Battochio, thanks for the kind words.
ILJ, it was a great interview and deserved inclusion.
Mike's said something a bit tinfoilhatish but worth considering. Was the Clenis scandal really all about discrediting the impeachment process in advance? You've got to figure Cheney at least might have thought that way. How involved was he in it all?
Regards, C
Cheneystan? Cute, butmisguided. Placing "stan" on the end of a made up country's name denotes a certain reverence to Islam or Islamic countries. It usually is used as a sarcastic label to identify a certain country's capitulation to the ideal of the hardline Muslim world.
That being said, if you're gonna make fun of the VP in that way, I think "Cheneyland" or "Cheneyia" would be much more apropos.
In this manner, the people can be denied their rights to free speech at all by being denied employment for exercising it. In a capitalist society, the non-1%-elite must be employed in order to feed clothe and provide shelter for themselves and their families, so naturally, we will suppress ourselves for fear of losing the jobs many Americans are already clinging to by very thin and stretched threads.
This indeed is a way to silence the people.
And it should infuriate everyone.
Hi Jay,
I was in a hurry :-) But do you really think there's that much of a gap between extremist camps, in behaviours if not in beliefs?
Cheneyvakia, maybe? The Turd Reich? (from Cockney rhyming slang - Richard=Richard the Third=Turd.)
Regards, C
Thanks for the link, Cernig.
By the way, folks, do not forget: Today is Torture Awareness Day!
If anyone (Rahm, for example) wants to nail Cheney, they better hurry up. Insiders report he has just prepared two new 'Presidential Signing Statements', the first appoints Cheney 'Invisible Overlord of the Iraq Contretemps', the second 'Behind-The-Scenes Negotiator for the Iraq Government in Assigning Rights to Iraqi Oil Futures'. So far he has held off signing Bush's name to them, rumor has it he is waiting for an impeachment bill to attach them to, just his way of 'giving' the finger to the Congress. (Even though he is the 'president' of one of it's houses).
As soon as Cheney disappears and assumes those roles, he probably won't miss the pittance allowance assigned the V.P.'s office. He'll probably just give it to charity, such as the 'Halliburton Fund for the Maintenance of the Lifestyle of Deposed Presidents'.
Ever play that quirky 'insight' game, if so-and-so were a tree, what kind of tree would he/she be?
Here's a twist, that may bend your mind:
If Bush were not an absolute ass, what would he be?
If Cheney were not such an arrogant sociopath, what would he be?
If neocon-zionists were not..........................................................
Unintentionally Funny
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