Mike's Blog Round Up
I was going to write something profound and challenging, but then I had to polish the Louis Quinze taps in the wet bar so I didn't have time. So, herewith a random walk through the links that you, alert readers, were kind enough to throw over the transom of The Department of Undiscovered Blogs in The Mighty Corrente Building.
Watching Those We Choose asks an excellent question: "Where Is The Democratic Video Explaining Why Reid Pulled The Defense Authorization Bill?" Harry? (Of course, I never watch videos. For obvious reasons.)
And Justice for The Poor asks a second: "Who was Blair taking orders from? Bush, Murdoch, or both?" ("No details were given of what subjects Mr Blair and the News Corporation chairman discussed in the calls on March 11, 13 and 19 2003, ahead of the launch of US-led military action in Iraq on March 20.")
And speaking of the greatest strategic disaster in American history, we're finally going to give 14th Century tactics a chance. Excellent!
Yet more excellently, the right people are still being profiled, the right people are still making money, and, in the national laboratory of bad government, the right people are still being sold down the river.
Mercifully, however, the Harry Potter parodies are here. Ernest Hemingway: "Voldemort appeared. Harry shot him. He had a butterbeer"; Harry Potter and the Black Leather ____ (R-rated).
In closing, new words for the day: chyron; testikelausschnitt.
Guest Bloggery: So, check out the wet bar of The Mighty Corrente Building, and tell the bartender the guy under the stairs sent you. (You, Mike, and the C&L posse especially. Try the Frothing Wingnut.) And whatever you do, don't try to take any peanuts away from the monkey-faced guy with the earbud and the bad case of the mumbles that nobody wants to sit near.
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Iran has arrested 14 spy squirrels with hi tech gear, crossing their borders.
How is that for war drums?
The original Iraq war 'plan' called for digging a trench around the whole country, to trap Al Qaeda inside. Then Cheney had to remind everyone that 1., There really were no Al Qaeda in Iraq, and 2., The trench would be a barrier for our troops getting into Iraq. So the trench was scrapped.
Now it's been revived. A trench is being dug around the whole country. The idea is to fill it with oil, and set it afire. It's Bush's plan to stop all this talk about 'redeploying' our troops, pointing out that it would not be 'supporting our troops', to make them swim across a pit of burning oil, to 'cut and run' out of Iraq.
For those who may have missed it, the official Bush White House & RNC approved list of Republican talking points on Iraq has gotten a bit of a make-over in the past few days.
For the full list, see:
"The Official Republican Iraq Talking Points."
We shall be blind to not to see "who and why and where and what" regarding any war throughout the history. By the way do not forget to check your daily blog www.bgctoday.com.
Why the democrats don't impeach Bush.
Everyone please read this article, it is a great summary of WHY the democrats are NOT impeaching Bush.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer160.html
I think we should party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--ilKGvxSAc
SteveAudio's point about a proposed moat around Kirkuk may not be the 14th century tactic he thinks, with just a little modification. We could plant sharpened bamboo stakes in it (a la Viet Cong), smeared with human waste. Load knows there is enough of that floating around Washington -- so Halliburton could make a huge profit flying it into Iraq. As everyone knows, the toxic quality of DC sh*t far surpasses that from any other place, and surely exceeds the quantity available in Iraq as well.
Welcome, Lambert! Great round up. I'll send you some stuff.
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Mitt Romney's aides used illegal fake badges to strong-arm their way through reporters and tolls.
http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=1012402
But John Edwards paid too much for a haircut.
Nice to see you here, Lambert!
My favorite "badge" is for the Grameen Foundation micro-bank, making the world a better place a few dollars at a time.
Murdoch's influence in the corridors of power is undoubtedly significant.
As he closes in on the Bancroft family, the key question is where will he go next.
For more consideration click here:
http://sneakybusiness.typepad.com/sneaky/2007/07/dow-to-sell-out.html
My favorite widget is the new suppository made by FLEET'S, a miniature life-model of Bush, that you shove up your ass instead of having to drink all that GOLYTELY, to clean all the crap out of yourself before a colonoscopy.
Good on yer, FLEET'S!
My favorite badge?
The Romney campaign badge, that says:
I COP FOR MITT
If they start flashing those in West Hollywood, they're gonna stir up a lot of business, before they get busted.
The only logical reason for Reid pulling the Defense Authorization Bill, is that he thought it was his pud.
(He's getting senile, you know)
Speaking of new words of the day, the new Clinton campaign slogan is:
RESIPISCENT
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