Mike's Blog Round Up
The Group News Blog: Why 50,000 pissed-off New Yorkers are dying to stick a shiv in Rudy Giuliani's presidential hopes.
Orcinus: Be very afraid. Bill O'Reilly has uncovered a "national underground network" of "pistol-packing pink lesbian" gangs.
David Bacon of TAP on Benchmark #1: "In Iraq, however, Maliki faces a fact that U.S. policymakers refuse to recognize: The oil industry is a symbol of Iraqi sovereignty and nationalism. Handing control to foreign companies is an extremely unpopular idea."
Truth 2 Power Journal: Après Scooter, le Déluge! Criminal defendants, including an alleged Hamas operative, are already demanding "the Libby Treatment." (Also: will Bush get the Clinton Treatment?)
Rick Perlstein: "Principled Goldwater conservatism" is just as bad as the cheesy Bush kind.
The ACLU files suit over a "Presidential Advance Manual" explaining how to restrict dissent at taxpayer-funded Presidential events, which leads Drinking Liberally in New Milford to wonder where the White House get its ideas.
Guest blogger Simbaud bids a fond adieu to the C&L community, and to our congenial hosts John, Nicole, and Mike, whose generosity and goodwill we hope to repay when next they visit a distant Northern land. Meanwhile, we are pleased to leave you in the extremely capable hands of our good friend The Heretik, who will be entertaining you in this space for the next week. Send your very finest links to: joe.ivory.mattingly AT gmail DOT com.





Only 50,000 pissed-off New Yorkers????? Come on now! Surely it must be many more then that! These people know him.
"Bill O’Reilly has uncovered a “national underground network” of “pistol-packing pink lesbian” gangs."
ROFL! I knew Oh'Really was delusional but it appears he's gone delusional in the worst way - in a cheesy campy James Bond/Austin Powers flick type of way.
I read that even O'Rielly was outpolling Guiliani in some pricincts.
Mike's big news is the article on the Iraqi oil . The occupation is about oil and always been about oil. The administration had plans on the table before 9/11 and merely looking for a Pearl Harbor event to take place so they could invade. Those are facts that the EXTREME RIGHT WING MAIN STREAM MEDIA (ERWMSM) was not willing to tell you. This administration caters to the coporate oligarchy, not you or the concerns of the average citizens. The media has been complicit in the execution and occupation of Iraq.
Why are we fighting the insurgents in Iraq? Answer, the control of the oil fields and untapped resources. I believe that is the only reason. The oil companies want control of the only resouce the country has. The resources (OIL) is the only thing the Iraqis have. The oil companies hire labor from outside the country while the unemployment runs as high as 60 percent. Our troops are fighting to secure the rights of the oil companies while the war is for the resources that belong to the Iraqis.
We're fighting them over there, so we can fill up over here.
Otay @ 2:
It's guys like this who gave rise to the Nazis.
I don't see how we are much different right now then 1930's Germany was.
I hope I'm wrong but I don't like what I see coming down the pike. The stage is set. Will we stop it?
We can take our country back over here, so they can keep their country over there.
http://myfightfordemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-declaration-of-indep...
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, you've been a very naughty little boy, haven't you? Now go dress up like a woman and show me how sorry you are. Right now.
Otay @ 2:
How else can the neo-cons make all of their constituents deathly afraid of Gays and therfore strengthen one of their platform planks. This is good real good. Now I have to cross the street when I see a group of women approching
Rudy cannot and should not get his hands on the keys to the USA. He is a dictator lying in wait and would make Musharraf look like a choirboy (potential at least). But as this country has many millions of citizens proud of their 'independence', if Rudy, and his staggering presumption to be president, actually thinks he could get away with any dictatorial acts, I'm confident those people would 'take care' of him in an appropriate way. If he's chosen to lead his life the way he has and leave others wounded by the wayside to just sit there and be quiet, he's going to have one amazingly rude awakening very soon. Now if he doesn't get the nomination, hey, all this is moot, because then I'll be glad that folks woke up and picked someone else. A big collective 'phew' will be sighed. I sure hope so.
FANTASTIC JOB, SIMBAUD!
Aw. Simbaud, King and Mst Bnvlnt Dspt. Good links!
I am sorry, but I can't stop laughing about the pink-gun-toting lesbians. What a frikkin' nutcase Bill is. Do people watch this guy for anything other than comic relief? I hope not.
Bill, the video you rented from that store, you know that store, is not a documentary. Neither were the ones about the sexually rapacious nurses or the buxom police officers seducing speeders.
OK... That Orcinus link is almost too funny. The sad part is that there are viewers that eat that crap up. I keep seeing links to them from different Blogs, and every time I go there they have something good. They are becoming a must read IMHO.
I woke up this morning and had a link from Crooks and Liars in the Blog roundup. I am not some traffic freak that sweats it too much, but it is nice to occasionally get noticed. In the last 3 months I have had 3 links from the Blog roundup at C&L, 1 from Talking Points Memo and also 1 in the Blogs section of Raw Story. Considering half of what I cover is just local Connecticut stuff and the quality of all of the Blogs out there...
All of those links gave me mega traffic, but that ain't the important thing. It is the fact that it also had some local people (in the New Milford area of CT) notice that there is actually a Blog nearby to them covering this stuff and the local stuff. The dozen or so Emails from the locals in the last few months is the biggest pat on the back I could ever hope for. :)
Thank you Crooks and Liars!
I want to know where "Holy Crap" went!
Even BlueGal, a fine christian woman, posted about theocrats and crazy fundamentalists! Does she have bigger, braver cajones than the men? But none of the rest seemed to have given it a thought. Batocchio and I have exchanged emails about creeping theocracy - and even he treated the subject as "hands off"!
Mike, wherever you are - when are you coming home? I miss the hell out of "Holy Crap"! I'm addicted to "Holy Crap"! Can someone slip me some "holy crap" while Amato's back is turned?
What is Mike's Blog Roundup coming to?
Site Monitor: Mike is on tour this whole summer with Joe Cocker. If you have suggestions for our substitute bloggers, feel free to email them at the address at the bottom of the post.
Which I have done, with my compliments. However, I'm still bereft of my atheist links. And methinks that our guest-hosts are...ahem...short on courage. Perhaps they fear the wrath or the lightning strike. Whatever...
At least Mike put it out there, where it belongs: getting the sunshine-sanitation treatment it needs. Creeping theocracy goes hand-in-hand with the corrupt Bush/Cheney administration. It's an incestuous group, feeding into each others perverted desires for power. Bush couldn't have become president without the Unholy Triumvirate of Jerry Dobertson. Now that Jerry's dead, it's just Dobertson's siamese-twins (James&Pat) giving the handjob. But an ethical president who respected his Oath of Office would never pay for the handjob with faith-based-initiative secular tax dollars. Those whores do not come cheap!
So, if they're gonna pussyfoot around and play it safe with just politics, for the whole summer, C&L's standards are gonna slide. MBRU appears to have held up that corner of the stool, all by himself...I'll bet he didn't know it.
And do me a favor, Site-Monitor. Please, please report me to John Amato. My emails have gone nowhere.
Liberal christians fail to understand how important this is. Excepting BlueGal, and Frederick Clarkson, Bruce Wilson and everyone else at Talk to Action blog. FYI, they don't get nearly the traffic they ought to, without a bump from Mike...
Live(?) Earth
Pink pistols? What the...
Do they paint them w/housepaint? Dip them in pink ink? Is there pink steel? Pink gun slipcovers? I don't usually go pistol-shopping and don't receive gun catalogs, but the idea is totally absurd.
The whole thing reminds me of the hoax e-mails that go into such excruciating detail that you gotta know they're bogus.
Billo's a tool, and dimwits will believe him. These folks spend entirely too much time thinking about lesbians.
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