Mike's Blog Round Up
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Jul 24, 2007 10:00amI was just closing my eyes for a power nap, preparatory to writing a brilliant and challenging Roundup, when suddenly a folded note fluttered over the transom. I opened it, and read these lyrics:
I is for Iraq, the dead and dying
M is for the " Mass" in "WMD"
P is for the Presidential lying
E... Ex-ec-u-tive, u-ni-ta-ry--A is for Attorneys who were let go
C is for the Constitution -- maimed
H is for Hell we've made at Gitmo
M is for the Mandate that Bush claimed--E is for the Eight-inch, cut "reporter"
N is for uNserious blogs' snark
T is for those winger Troll supporters
... And now, the final exclamation mark!Put them all together, they spell I-M-P-E-A-C-H-M-E-N-T-!
A word that means the world to me...
Notes on the original: Based on the über-schmaltzy M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me) , lyrics by Howard Johnson. This, alas, is the best I can do for you on the tune: Skip the intro and listen to 1:06 through 2:07. Those of you who remember the fabulous Sixties may have encountered another parody version of the same song in Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.
Guest Bloggerage: Be sure to visit the Antonin Artuad Memorial Theatre of Crudités in The Mighty Corrente Building; tickets are free (except to The Cornerites; they need to settle up for the damage). From a recording made during the opening night's performance of the above song:
[Rimshot. Laughter] Thanks, you're a great audience. Say, I just crawled in from Guantanamo, and boy, are my shackles bloody...
Blogosphere classic: Now They Hate Us With Our Freedom!
Comment at the link above, or send answers, tips, bouquets, brickbats to lambert_strether1 AT yahoo DOT com.--Lambert
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Impeachment? Please. The citizens of the USofA don't have time for such a distraction, not with the start of the NFL season now upon us.
Here in Pittsburgh, more people know who the starting center is for the Steelers than who is the Attorney General, and I guarantee you they know who the starting quarterback is over even who is Vice-President.
Get with the program and realize what is important to *real* Americans.
Lifestyles of the Stoned, Drunk, and Famous.
Bush Aides See Failure in Fight With Al Qaeda in Pakistan
By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID E. SANGER
President Bush's top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden's leadership of Al Qaeda in Pakistan had failed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/washington/18intel.html?th&emc=th
First loser! .......which means I'm second.
Dang... I need to learn how to count. 1....2....many.
Don't know if it's true or not but I read a piece on op-ed news in which Conyers supposedly said he won't introduce impeachment because Fox News would call him partisan.
Anyway, that's what it said. Read it:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_070724_the_conyers_legacy.htm
Impeachment lol! Never happen, not with Democowards at the wheel... they all in on it too.
BaScOmBe @ 3:
Yeah, thats lame. We contracted out the fight against the real al-Qaeda to Pakistan, then the WH blames them for their
ourfailure.Meanwhile, we're fighting the al-Qaeda 2 in Iraq, and failing at that as well. Nice.
Only a handful of fellow dems support Feingold's non-binding censure measure. And you want impeachment??
I find myself being forced to agree with Orwell's Illegitimate Son - time to wake up folks.
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Didn't yew get da memo?
Orwell's Illegitimate Son @ 1:
Sad but true, too many Americans don't have a clue what is going on, if you think just because we top the pole numbers when asked if we should impeach these criminals, were still just a fringe group of ragtag Americans hoping for a better world. The majority of people in this country shouldn't even be allowed to call themselves Americans because they are nothing more the "Idol" worshipers. they bow down to their favorite team or they all gather around to see who the next American Idol will be, but they don't know or care to know what is happening to their country and if you try to educate them they get that 'I don't get it' look on their faces and you know their a million miles away and you could be just saying "BlahBlahBlah" and they would get the same amount of information from it.
I'm sorry, but I get very upset with my fellow Americans who don't give a crap if Bush is the unitary executive or what, oh sure, they want to sound like they have an opinion if asked but if you listen to their answers you can tell it's something they heard of TV and is mostly wrong or misleading info, but they don't care enough to know and don't know enough to care. So we're assured that once again Americans most vile criminals are going to get away scott free, it happened for Nixon, it happened for Reagan and Bush41 and all their criminal buddies who helped them were given a pardon so that nobody at all would have to serve a day of time for the crimes committed against America and the world. So really, if you think it's going to change now, you fooling yourself.
Sorry to be so down but you can't argue with the facts.
What the Hell??? Conyers has Cindy Sheehan arrested because she went to his office expecting him to fulfill his promise to begin impeachment proceedings?
excerpt:
After nearly an hour of talking with Conyers, a clearly angry Sheehan emerged together with Yearwood and McGovern, and announced to the waiting throng in the hall that Conyers had told them “impeachment isn’t going to happen because we don’t have the votes.” Sheehan said Conyers had insisted that the best thing was for Democrats to focus on “winning big in 2008.”
To a loud and angry chorus of boos and hisses, the three went back inside Conyers’ office suite, where they were joined by some 30 other supporters, and all were subsequently arrested, at Conyers’ request, by Capitol police, who cuffed them and walked them off for booking. Several of those who sat in refused to walk and were carried or dragged out of the Rayburn Office Building, as the activists in the hall chanted “Shame on Conyers! Shame on Conyers!” and “Arrest Bush, Not the People!”
Spineless, double-talking, lying democrats have betrayed the impeachment effort just as they betrayed forcing the Iraq timeline/funding effort. Is there no one, besides "fringe" reps like Feingold and Kucinich, who can actually lead us out of this sh*thole??? Apparently Conyers, Pelosi, Reid, and Webb (who voted with the republicans to rubberstamp a blank check for Bush..) have decided not to accede to the WILL OF THE PEOPLE. We are in deep trouble....
I'm under the impression that HILLARY CLINTON is against impeachment.
Not Dennis Kucinich.
she'll call when she calls
this country of mine
you know
the united states of amnesia
where we promise to promise not to forget
and all our flags are antiques
never did quite figure out who shot JFK
or who sent the american made anthrax
oh well
if a terrorist has white skin and wears a suit
is he still a terrorist?
i say no
i call them senators
and presidents
Nicole Belle
Well said. Article II Section 4 is in the U.S. Constitution for a reason, which is to hold those accountable for their misdeeds. When impeachment proceedings began against Clinton, very few members of Congress were in favor of impeachment. More however began to go on board. In all likelihood the same thing will occur with Bush and Cheney. As more information becomes available to the public, more pressure will be exerted upon more members of Congress to bring charges against this most corrupt administration, such as initiating an illegal war of aggression, condoning torture, the use of extraordinary rendition, violation of the FISA act, etc. The conscience of this nation and the laws of this country demand nothing less.
10 Dubya...
Don't you mean Al Ciada ?
Careful what you wish for: Impeachment procedings will be met with a "catastrophic and catalyzing event" that will make everybody drop what they're doing and go back into 9/11 syndrome. The neocons are gonna stay in power, even after the 2008 election IF that happens at all.
Orwell's Illegitimate Son @ 1:
Eating, sleeping, leisure, and amusement?
Congressman John Conyers Betrays the American People
by Medea Benjamin
(excerpt:)
A hour later, they emerged stone-faced and disillusioned. Cindy said that Conyers had told them that “impeachment isn’t going to happen because we don’t have the votes” and that “our only recourse was to work to get a Democrat in the White House.” The crowd booed and 45 people sat down inside and outside Conyers’ office. They were arrested by the Capitol Police as the supporters shouted “Shame on Conyers” and “Arrest Bush and Cheney, not the peacemakers.”
While the arrestees were being booked, about 40 activists visited the office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We know that from the day she became Speaker, the Congresswoman has insisted that impeachment was off the table. She has refused to support H. R. 333, the bill introduced by Cong. Dennis Kucinich to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors. With 13 co-sponsors, the resolution is destined to languish without ever coming to a vote, thanks to both Conyers and Pelosi.
Let them know what you think of this:
http://www.house.gov/pelosi/contact/contact.html
John.Conyers@mail.house.gov
http://Kucinich.house
www.house.gov/writerep/
feingold.senate.gov/
reid.senate.gov/
via Commondreams.org
Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War By ADAM COHEN
Given how intent President Bush is on expanding his authority, it is startling to recall how the Constitution's framers viewed presidential power.
hanshiro @ 12:
Specter (R-Pa.), gave the Secret Service unbridled authority to suppress political dissent—one of the most basic and essential elements of democracy.
The law, with the Orwellian title “Secret Service Authorization and Technical Modification Act of 2005,” states: “It shall be unlawful for any person or group of persons to willfully and knowingly enter any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of a building or grounds so restricted in conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance.” Without defining what a “special event of national significance” is, the provision continues: “It shall be unlawful for any person or group of persons to willfully, knowingly, and with intent…engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any building or grounds designated a special event of national significance.” The phrase “engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct” is not defined, either. This means that whatever constitutes an event of “national significance” or “disruptive conduct” is left entirely to the discretion of the secret police.
USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act Of 2005 and the other Secret Service Authorization and Technical Modification Act of 2005. A few excerpts from these two bills.
There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the `United States Secret Service Uniformed Division’.
… make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony …
willfully and knowingly to enter or remain in any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of a building or grounds so restricted in conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance
by inserting `willfully, knowingly, and’ before `with intent to impede or disrupt’;
Too bad boosh flunked spelling.
But then there is no S's in the three R's (the one after the apostrophe not withstanding.)
L.A. Confidential @ 21:
Huh? WTF?
Salmineo @ 23:
StirFry @ 8:
actually, al-CIAda is 5% of the "insurgency" at best. As usual, there is a problem with representation, even at this site. It's hard keeping up with the lies. And worse, they just recently started calling themselves that, if they really are! And they are mostly composed of non-Iraqi fighters and funded from Saudi Arabia. But as long as cheney gets his marching orders from rafik bin laden and we have Chimpus I catapaulting the propaganda and no press fact vetting, we get stories like this. The one critical aspect of this whole series of messcapades is that they all started with lies and assumptions. That fact is not even glossed over, much les mentioned at all, anymore.
Face it.
Bush is going to have to be caught in flagrant delecti with a fat Jewish intern before the republican half of congress will agree to impeachment.
Any volunteers?
U.S. Secret Service officers on foot patrol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Secret_Service_officers.jpg
A is for Asshole,who runs the WhiteHouse
B is for Bullshit which comes from his mouth
C is for Cheney, a liar and fool,
D is for....
well,you get the idea.
BaScOmBe @ 20:
Thanks for the link. The best line was the shortest one:
"The Constitution cannot enforce itself."
ANY DJ'S OUT THERE? c-SPAN WITH DAFT PUNK PLAYING OVER IT - IS AWESOME - ESPECIALLY CONYERS. LIKE WIZARD OF OZ AND DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, MINUS THE DRUGS. JUST THROWING THIS OUT THERE. IF YOU CAN, CHECK IT OUT, ITS GREAT - MAKES C-SPAN TOLERABLE - FUN AND LAUGHABLE TOO. CHEERS, ALL.
Cheese it! Al Qaeda's Coming!
I think what disturbs me most about the Sheehan/Conyers affront is that it's only really appearing on Commondreams. The other blogs are carping about Bill O'Reichlly. Conyers f#cking LIED about his commitment to impeach the biggest murderer in presidential history...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declared impeachment “off the table” when the Democrats won their slim Congressional majority in 2006. House Judiciary Committee chair John Conyers (D-MI) declared himself against impeachment late last month, even though he sponsored a 2005 resolution calling for an inquiry into whether the President had committed impeachable offenses.
What IS this "Lucy's football" crap??? All of a sudden, we're getting this, "We need to concentrate on '08...pay no attention to that illegal war and illegal spying behind the curtain." F#cking lying-@ss Dems are no better than the Torture-Party republicans! THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN and the Dems are doing the Emily Litella schtick, "How's that again? You want to be IN peaches? Why would you...nevermind..."
Day to day we get a new slant on things, another all-important element to consider.
If this is true that Conyers has anything other than a cynical dismissal of FOX, or allows them to dictate to his actions over our constitutional rights, then my respect for him is GONE. If all he could tell Cindy was to "vote in '08" he is ignoring the responsibilities of his position, not to mention the rot that continues to stink up from the root.
If this is true, what I regarded as patient intelligence and knowledge and worthy of respect is reduced to the truth that the man is shining up the seat of his pants, a banal brown-bagger who eats bologna everyday, IN OUR WAY and therefore a danger to us with his sheer lack of imagination and courage.
Stupid Kind Of Man
revised lyrics by J. Davis
Mama told George, when he was young
Come sit beside me, my privileged son
And listen closely, to my advice.
And if you do this
you'll rule the world, not once but twice.
Ohh take your time... don't need no brain,
go get your degree, in whiskey and cocaine.
Go find a woman, who won't have no say...
And she'll support you, with a smile,
'til Judgement Day.
And be a stupid kind of man!
You gotta be someone the dumb can understand.
Run as a wealthy Republican!
Just call that woman down in Austin a lesbian.
Now don't you worry about old black gold
Or even 'bout that baseball team you sold,
We've got connections to bail you out,
Supporting wars you'll never fight,
Is what it's all about.
Cause you're a stupid kind of man!
See now you're someone the dumb can understand.
So seek the White House! And talk of sin!
And we'll stuff the pockets of the courts, so you can win.
Boy don't you worry... about that war.
Follow your gut, and nothing more.
Don't care 'bout history - boy, you tried.
Cause even after we die,
We'll still be rich and satisfied!!!
That you're a stupid kind of man!
You're gonna be someone the dumb can understand.
Baby hang a banner! And go with force!
Cause it don't matter what it means,
just "stay the course."
I get it you want to spice up the blog round-up, but enough of the limmericks.
Some of us actually are busy and need to read what the entry is about before clicking on it. I don't have the time to click on each letter of the word "impeachment" to find out what blogs were linked, and again some of us are really busy but want to find out the latest in the blogosphere without playing along.
Thanks.
Salmineo @ 26:
I'm pretty sure Bush would have to be caught eating a baby before anything will happen to this asshole, and even then!
Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 36:
To be sure! The baby will be an islamo-fascistical infant, bent on terrrarizing us. boosh will be entitled to eat him with fava beans and a nice chianti as per executive order 666!
Salmineo @ 26:
Her?
http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061005/244.rivers.joan.1...
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We are running out of time for impeachment, and the Democrats are happy with that. Even if Congress decides to impeach Gonzales, the time eaten up by an investigation (look at how long the Libby thing took) would preclude any chance of getting at Cheney or Bush. The Democrats are making a mistake, however, because they either have to score a victory in unwinding the Iraq occupation or they have to illuminate some of the dark crimes of this administration. They think, instead, that they will win merely by default, but raising the minimum wage will not be counted as a major accomplishment for their two years in power. Here in Oregon an independent, John Frohnmayer, will run against Sen. Gordon Smith who has been deemed one of the most vulnerable Republican candidates, yet the Democratic party has passed on putting up a formidable opponent to him. I will vote for Mr. Frohnmayer, and I hope his independent candidacy will be replicated across the country.
Erroll @ 15:
Erroll, I must demand the credit be given to Lambert of Corrente for the genius of this post. I am simply the conduit. :)
40 Nicole Belle
Erroll, I must demand the credit be given to Lambert of Corrente for the genius of this post. I am simply the conduit.
Nicole, you are amzing me with your burst of creative, lower chakra driven work. Thanks, when I was with KPFA years ago it had that same sort of freedom of thought and expression.
With a non-responsive to the demands of the people congress, the only real things we all can do is show our strength in numbers: Bring the economy to its knees and march on DC to show them what 3 million pissed off people look like.
If the dems don't do something it may be time for a new government...top to bottom. Get people in like Kucinich, Ron Paul, and Finegold, Cynthia McKinney, etc. who care about this country and the constituition.
Nicole, you might want to play a cut of Gil Scott Heron's "Winter in America" on the next music spot. "...and now democracy, is rag time on the corner..."
That's my nickle...
Albert @ 28:
D is for Dubya, Dick Cheney's tool/fool (take your pick)
E is for Evil Money King Chimp
keiran @ 44:
keiran @ 45:
keiran @ 45:
filing a writ of neener neener according to the precedent of I Can't Hear You v. I'm Not Listening.
Okay, now that's funny.
IgnoranceIsNotBliss:
The world's only source for Fafblog, and where the heck Fafblog now that we're entering Giblet time?
"See me loud with lies, big boots stomping, mind awash with schemes."
Been Down So Long... might be my favorite book ever.
Brain wash
Now minty-fresh!
Um hello? I posted this on this site around July 4th, sound familiar?
(to the tune of "Mother")
I is for the ignominy of his actions
M is for the misery he's caused
P is for the people he's still screwing
E is for the emperor he thinks he is
A is for the asswipes that surround him
C is for the Constitution so ignored
H is for high crimes and misdemeanors
Put them all together and IMPEACH BUSH
And return this land to a nation ruled by law.
POGM, trez!
This whole poetry thing in the Blog Roundup is making me annoyed. I'm less inclined to look at the blog links; anyone else feel the same way?
lambert strether @ 48:
Thank the good lord SOMEONE ELSE gets it about Fafblog.
And Aubrey? was gonna leave this comment at your blog but couldn't find it:
...just wait until my "round up limericks" round the bend. You'll plotz fo' sho.
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