Mike's Blog Round Up
By bluegal Thursday Aug 23, 2007 10:00amJosh Marshall blogs on Militarism and Anti-Democracy...coming to a country near you! And in related news, George W Bush hitches his wagon to revisionist dreams of Vietnam? Um, Driftglass offers him a refresher course in reality.
The White House decides that the Office of Administration is exempt from FOIA, since they might just know the disposition of those missing millions of federal prosecutor scandal emails. And speaking of secrecy, turns out you can't even get a straight answer from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Halfway There exposes Paul Greenberg's exposure of the Evil ! Atheist ! Agenda ! in the tragic story of Erasmus.
Agents provocateurs in Canada, helping Bush smooth the way for the Security and Prosperity Partnership? Sure looks that way...
Atrios tries to gag Tom Friedman (with a spoon) and all he gets is this lousy t-shirt.
And finally, the best little [fake] Brownback blog on the web. Hat tip to BG.
Guest blogged by Mark Hoback. Send tips to mhoback AT verizon Dot net.
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The link to Driftglass comes up invalid.
My daughter is teaching herself French, and I told her le mot du jour est "agents provacateur".
Canada: The world's last hope.
Come on, Canadians, Harper has to go.
The Busholini "administration" has never cared about reality. As said (by Rove?) "we create our own reality".
Hence, we are f*cked.
I think you mean Josh Marshall, not "John."
The brownback blog is a hoot.
I'd love to see one dedicated to ol' cornpone fred and his little red pickup truck.
Did you see the link at Josh Marshall, to article about Gen. Peter Pace calling for reducing the troops by half, because the military is so strained?
Oh goody, now not only do we get the boosh library, but now a Creationism Institute too?
Shades of lapidific juice and seminal air here.
In Ottawa, the police feel they did nothing wrong.
hey most certainly knew that their actions could lead to property damage, bodily injury and even deaths.
They knew that what they were doing could get people killed. Are they sure they wish to argue that there's nothing wrong setting events up, that can lead to police having to murder people?
If the police feel that there is nothing wrong about endangering the public, they need to be replaced.
It's kind of frightening that this 'agent provacateur' business doesn't even seem to be on the MSM radar in the States. A government or it's agents would only take such action to justify more stifling governance and to quell dissent, and such actions and their implications should incite seething outrage in a truly "free" press.
The crickets are chirping a dire warning here, friends...
There is a great cartoon, which I am unfortunately unable to copy, in today's USA Today, which shows Bush at a podium proclaiming "We never should have left Vietnam", while in the near background are ghosts of the soldiers who needlessly died in Vietnam standing on the Vietnam Wall and looking incredulously at Bush and saying to him: "We?!"
Next time, the cops won't wear matching shoes.
Compared to the hippies in white shirts and ties, the cops in fatigues and boots, stood out a bit.
Here's the video, in case you haven't seen it yet.
Weaseldog @ 13:
Yeah, clueless. Even the narcs in the '60s knew how to blend in.
Editorial : The Problem Isn’t Mr. Maliki
Published: August 24, 2007
Blaming the prime minister of Iraq, rather than the president of the United States, for the spectacular failure of American policy, is cynical politics, pure and simple. It is neither fair nor helpful in figuring out how to end America’s biggest foreign policy fiasco since Vietnam.
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has been catastrophic for Iraq ever since he took over from the equally disastrous Ibrahim al-Jaafari more than a year ago. America helped engineer Mr. Jaafari’s removal, only to get Mr. Maliki. That tells you something important about whether this is more than a matter of personalities. Mr. Jaafari, as it happens, was Iraq’s first democratically chosen leader under the American-sponsored constitution.
hadenuf @ 15:
the matching orange triangles were a giveaway, eh?
About Paul Greenberg. Isn't he the author of The Protocols of the Elders of Atheism?
Fascinating story about the diguised cops. Says something positive about the Quebec Provincial Police. That level of incompetence speaks to their level of experience in starting a riot. Complete amateurs.
Their exit into the police line was smart and dumb. Dumb because it proved they were cops, and smart because if they exited to the rear, someone might've kicked the crap out them.
Did you notice the ugliest one slipped his bandanna down in order to have a conversation with one of the cops in riot gear, then put it back up when he faced the cameras?
Thanks for linking the agents provacateur story.
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Democrats are crooks and liars for breaking the constitution that no longer exists.
Or that now looks like Stephen Colbert's nasty looking cast.
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I find the agents provacateurs story frightening. Stephen Harper studied the same Straussian politics that the neoc-ons did, at the University of Alberta. (Alberta is our Texas-- ranching and oil.) He is a Bush wannabe.
I came across this too:
SEPTEMBER 15 MARCH IN WASHINGTON
http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=S15_homepage
Organizations Unite Around
September 15 March on Washington
and Plan "Days of Action"
A broad spectrum of national groups have united to mobilize for a massive fall anti-war mobilization called the Days of Action. September 15-21 will be a major showdown in Washington, DC at the very moment that the Petraeus Report is released and Congress takes up spending over $100 billion to prolong the war. Launched with a huge March on Washington on September 15, led by veterans who have returned from Iraq, there will be seven days of actions to send a shockwave through Washington and the nation with the reverberating demand: End the War Now! [Read more]
I have been maintaining for a while that maybe 90% of the trolls on every progressive site are in fact paid professionals. They all seem cut from the same mold and have certain characteristics in common.
Very articulate - but not interested in honest debate. The main purpose is to sidetrack and derail every substantive discussion. Waiting to pounce on any grammatical error - as if such errors completely invalidate valid comments and demonstrate the ignorance of the commenter. Failure to directly respond to the main thrust of the argument; they prefer to pounce on a triviality - as far from the main point as possible. Any wrongdoing by any Republican is excused and obscured by a Clinton attack. They somehow have the time to monitor every thread and respond to any sucker they can get to bite. The degree of their presence seems to be related both to the popularity of the site and the effectiveness of said site in booting them. (Kudos to C&L for that, BTW)
I used to be horrified by the idea that a progressive site would in any way suppress speech. (I won't post at Huffpo because they deleted the Cheney comments. It was their right - I don't have to like it.) Now I cheer every deleted comment here. Sincere conservative argument is welcomed on most progressive sites, but I wonder who is paying these guys. Anybody have any real info on that subject? The RNC, FBI, CIA, and/or Fox are my best guesses.
To any sane person, this seems like tinfoil hat territory at first blush - unless one has some familiarity with the extensive use of agents provocateur against the Vietnam era peace and civil rights movements of the 60s/70s. (Extensively documented and completely proven in several congressional hearings.) But I would love to have some evidence - such as that obtained by Wiki about FOX and Franken's Wiki entry.
Hey, thanks!
PS - seems to me that some determined techies could sort all this out. I would love to see that happen!
Love the Blogs for Brownback link. Almost as good as the Baptist For Brownback blog minus the religious nuts. All these political spoofs are hitting the mark.
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