Shut up and Sing. Full Documentary

Enjoy

http://tv-links.co.uk/video/9/5745/8568/55089/79047

I think this is a really good deal - when you buy in bulk, you get the best price.

I miss the days of the $700 toilet seat.

Maybe they're Kevlar happy faces or something. After all, these guys always know what they're doing.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/31/3519/

More of your tax dollars at work.

Bush Hears About Strain on Troops
by ROBERT BURNS | August 31, 2007 08:02 PM EST | AP

WASHINGTON — At a key juncture in the Iraq war, the military chiefs conveyed to President Bush on Friday their concern about a growing strain on troops and their families from long and repeated combat tours.

Bush met privately at the Pentagon with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Secretary Robert Gates in preparation for decisions about how long to sustain the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq, whether to change course this fall and how to save the health of a heavily stressed Army and Marine Corps.

Indications are that Bush intends to stick with his current approach, at least into 2008, despite persistent pressure from the Democrat-led Congress _ including some prominent Republicans _ to find a new course.

Still to be heard is the long-awaited assessment of Gen. David Petraeus, Bush's choice to execute the new strategy he announced in January to improve security in Baghdad.

...

There are no signs that the Pentagon's top generals and admirals are pushing for an early end to the war, but they are concerned not only about strains on troops but also about the possibility that the heavy focus on counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq leaves the military ill-prepared in the event of a crisis elsewhere.

Well, that's about as much as a "fuck you" to the American people as the budget would allow I suppose.

Gotta hand it to them for being consistent, at least.

Wonder how New Orleans would have spent 27.4 billion dollars with a b? Guess we'll never know.

Hey Pelosi! Clean your goddamn table off, impeachment's for dinner.

Perhaps something to do with the leaked GAO report on Iraq?

But Bush NEEDS those happy faces to put on his Iraq Report. It makes him feel like he did a good job.

TheNextDylan @ 15:

But Bush NEEDS those happy faces to put on his Iraq Report. It makes him feel like he did a good job.

yes and another $50Billion for the contractor's pockets and the ancillary expenses of killing innocent people and taking their oil.

Going to put them on the faces of dead and wounded military. There's your fucking republican sunny optimism.

Today, both President Bush and Fed Reserve chair Ben Bernake gave speeches today in which they expressed similar beliefs. "It's not the government's job to bail out speculators, or those who made the decision to buy a home they knew they could never afford." the President said. Bernake read from the same page. "A federal bailout of lenders would only encourage a recurrence of the problem."

So why is it the government's job to ensure the profits of war profiteers and hurricane extortionists by handing out no-bid cost plus contracts?

Why is it the government's job to bail out companies who waste their employees pension funds? Why not bill the stockholders? If you want a piece of the pie when things are good, you should be liable when they go bad.

And maybe they need to be reminded of who it was who relaxed restrictions and barriers which would have stopped those people who couldn't possibly afford it the possibility of getting a loan?

Is this really for real? If so, I'm moving to Canada...

tHeGaMeOfLiFe @ 18:

Yuck! snowjob's good-bye speech was just a bunch of yucky lies. He's so phony.

Dana Milbank (C /w KO) said snowjob was the best in the business. Best of what? Arrogance? Snobbiness? Lying?

I think he ment yes to all of those. Perino will have a hard time filling his shoes because she's not a very good liar. But who knows, maybe Rove quit to train Bush's little monkeys.

BaScOmBe @ 9:

There are no signs that the Pentagon's top generals and admirals are pushing for an early end to the war, but they are concerned not only about strains on troops but also about the possibility that the heavy focus on counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq leaves the military ill-prepared in the event of a crisis elsewhere.

Is your "elsewhere," here at home or starting another useless war?
repugs better remember this when we see $9.00 at the gas pumps.

StirFry @ 25:

tHeGaMeOfLiFe @ 18:

Yuck! snowjob's good-bye speech was just a bunch of yucky lies. He's so phony.

Dana Milbank (C /w KO) said snowjob was the best in the business. Best of what? Arrogance? Snobbiness? Lying?

I think he ment yes to all of those. Perino will have a hard time filling his shoes because she's not a very good liar. But who knows, maybe Rove quit to train Bush's little monkeys.

She does seem to slip up and tell the truth sometimes.

Craig resigned.

Craig will announce at a news conference in Boise Saturday morning that he will resign effective Sept. 30, four state GOP officials told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_go_co/craig_arrest

I know the Sex Scandal is REALLY REALLY important news...

tHeGaMeOfLiFe @ 29:

StirFry @ 25:

tHeGaMeOfLiFe @ 18:

Yuck! snowjob's good-bye speech was just a bunch of yucky lies. He's so phony.

Dana Milbank (C /w KO) said snowjob was the best in the business. Best of what? Arrogance? Snobbiness? Lying?

I think he ment yes to all of those. Perino will have a hard time filling his shoes because she's not a very good liar. But who knows, maybe Rove quit to train Bush's little monkeys.

She does seem to slip up and tell the truth sometimes.

And she does have big hands. (Could've sworn there was a clip from The Daily Show somewhere on the "handful" of missing Rove emails. But couldn't find it.)

Paul in LA @ 38:

McCain: "We are at a crossroads in this struggle, and we will need a president who has the credibility to lead, the experience to lead wisely and the strength of will to take the right path, even if it means walking a lonely road" of nuclear holocaust.

Uh whatever.

LA -
> Sorry here it is. http://tv-links.co.uk/listings/9/5745

ThanX, and excellent timing. I finally figured out that Glenn Beck was (very) rarely (amazingly enough is that is on it's own) censoring me on his blog. Only where I'd post Dixie Chicks music that showed how much that DC is America, and how much they love the troops. So I snuck that link out there without saying what it was.

yenehC hcaepmI @ 40:

W...But why hasn't the MSM reported on the testimony of Lance Corporal Humberto Mendoza

Marine Testifies: Sergeant Shot 5 Unarmed Men Week Before Haditha Massacre
Reuters | Dan Whitcomb | August 31, 2007 at 09:13 PM

The U.S. Marine sergeant accused of leading a 2005 massacre of Iraqi civilians in Haditha gunned down five unarmed men who were standing next to a car after a roadside bombing, a Marine from his squad told a military court on Friday.

Sgt. Sanick Dela Cruz also testified that, about a week before the incident at Haditha, another bombing prompted Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich to say the squad should "kill everybody in the vicinity" if they were hit again.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/

It's what's required to keep morale high. All the pictures of the troops will just have those stickers placed on top of all their heads, so it looks like they're all happy to serve their country. Needless to say this requires a LOT of happy-face stickers...

Paul...do you know if there was any mention of it on any of the major networks?

One hundred fifty-eight countries reach an agreement
on global warming. Speaking of warming, it could hurt our food supply. Gay marriage is on hold
in Iowa. Romney plays the homophobe card.

They are also playing the gas price will triple if we pull out of Iraq now. Couldn't be further from the truth. Gas price would fall tremendously if we pull out now. We are holding not only our American soldier hostage in Iraq but also holding the Iraqi's oil hostage, and they're desperate to sell Oil to rebuild their country and finance their civil war.

If Bush says the price will triple, you better believe the opposite.

Oh forget about 2.

[...] Mine Open Thread » This Summary is from an article posted at Crooks and Liars on Friday, August 31, 2007 This [...]

Daricus @ 11:

Well, that's about as much as a "fuck you" to the American people as the budget would allow I suppose.

Gotta hand it to them for being consistent, at least.

Wonder how New Orleans would have spent 27.4 billion dollars with a b? Guess we'll never know.

Hey Pelosi! Clean your goddamn table off, impeachment's for dinner.

Impeachment. It's what's for dinner!

> Also, how many blogs have you been kick off of? 100? 200? >?

One. Blogs For Bush is the only blog I've been kicked off of. :-)

White House budget item flagged by GAO: 122(c). Military Grade Happy Face Stickers — $27.4 billion

GET THE FUCK OUTA HERE!!! This is a joke, right?? RIGHT?? Somebody please tell me this isn't real.

Stanley Rosenthal @ 58:

> Also, how many blogs have you been kick off of? 100? 200? >?

One. Blogs For Bush is the only blog I've been kicked off of. :-)

Ooh, went over there... ick. I need a shower now.

Medford Tim @ 21:

Today, both President Bush and Fed Reserve chair Ben Bernake gave speeches today in which they expressed similar beliefs. "It's not the government's job to bail out speculators, or those who made the decision to buy a home they knew they could never afford." the President said. Bernake read from the same page. "A federal bailout of lenders would only encourage a recurrence of the problem."

So why is it the government's job to ensure the profits of war profiteers and hurricane extortionists by handing out no-bid cost plus contracts?

Why is it the government's job to bail out companies who waste their employees pension funds? Why not bill the stockholders? If you want a piece of the pie when things are good, you should be liable when they go bad.

And maybe they need to be reminded of who it was who relaxed restrictions and barriers which would have stopped those people who couldn't possibly afford it the possibility of getting a loan?

I take it you want financial aid?

Haven't found any relationship between public GAO and the $27.4B figure. WaPo claims to have the leaked report, but hasn't published it.

My guess, if this isn't a snipe hunt, is that it can be found in this report.

In the (excellent) documentary, there's a silly PD saying that nowhere has there ever been a band (Dixie Chicks) that have ever gotten that kind of visirol reaction because of what they said. But of course The Beatles got the same exact reaction (from the same exact people) when they said that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus.

“It’s not the government’s job to bail out speculators,” the President said.

Fed opens cash spigot as mortgage lenders reel from credit crisis

"Aug 15, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Federal Reserve injected more cash into the stressed US financial system Wednesday as some mortgage lenders said they were reeling from a broadening credit crisis.

...

[F]inancial strategists are urging rattled investors not to panic amid the ongoing turbulence, as the Fed stepped in again to shore up confidence and keep the banking system from gumming up.

The central bank said it had pumped seven billion dollars into the financial system, in a vast 69-billion-dollar intervention operation since Thursday."

I think what bugs me the most is they aren't even trying to pay attention. It's like Bush's stupidity has sunk down into the rest of the govt.

nsr @ 71:

“It’s not the government’s job to bail out speculators,” the President said.

Fed opens cash spigot as mortgage lenders reel from credit crisis

"Aug 15, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Federal Reserve injected more cash into the stressed US financial system Wednesday as some mortgage lenders said they were reeling from a broadening credit crisis.

...

[F]inancial strategists are urging rattled investors not to panic amid the ongoing turbulence, as the Fed stepped in again to shore up confidence and keep the banking system from gumming up.

The central bank said it had pumped seven billion dollars into the financial system, in a vast 69-billion-dollar intervention operation since Thursday."

I think what bugs me the most is they aren't even trying to pay attention. It's like Bush's stupidity has sunk down into the rest of the govt.

Believe it. chimpy thinks he's the King of the United States of America.

nsr @ 71:

“It’s not the government’s job to bail out speculators,” the President said.

Fed opens cash spigot as mortgage lenders reel from credit crisis

"Aug 15, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Federal Reserve injected more cash into the stressed US financial system Wednesday as some mortgage lenders said they were reeling from a broadening credit crisis.

...

[F]inancial strategists are urging rattled investors not to panic amid the ongoing turbulence, as the Fed stepped in again to shore up confidence and keep the banking system from gumming up.

The central bank said it had pumped seven billion dollars into the financial system, in a vast 69-billion-dollar intervention operation since Thursday."

I think what bugs me the most is they aren't even trying to pay attention. It's like Bush's stupidity has sunk down into the rest of the govt.

Add this to a prior post on C&L about Federal Reserve Bends the Rules for Citibank and Bank of America and things look even worse.

Company I used to work for just move their employee retirement fund manager over to CitiGroup. Which is half owned by CitiCorp. To me it appears to give them a lot more money to play with.

Global warming hits the U.K..
The Swiss have managed to beat us at xenophobia.

Petraeus lies in advance.

Hey Xoites! Ends up my recent hiatus has been longer than nec. It seems that instead of what my ISP has been telling me (first, that there's been an outage in my area, and 2nd, that my modem's defective), my onmotherboard ethernet is defective. Longer story short, because of driver inavailability, I'm back on XP from my 64 bit Vista for the time being (but at least I'm up to broadband speed) with a DSL modem that works with USB.

> Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance?

Not that I noticed. :-) Still the biggest problem with Vista (at least the 64 bit version) is obtaining drivers that work with your soundcards and network cards.

Stanley Rosenthal @ 83:

> Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance?

Not that I noticed. :-) Still the biggest problem with Vista (at least the 64 bit version) is obtaining drivers that work with your soundcards and network cards.

About 6-9 months ago there were a bunch of MS guys at work helping our help desk to get Vista working on the desktops. I decided to get a Mac for Internet and media. Only keep my old XP for work related stuff.

"Military Grade Happy Face Stickers"................(snort)

(said with a 2nd grade teacher voice) "And Cpl. Stevens wins our best shooter award for hitting every single one of his targets today! Here's your happy face sticker, Corporal! And, because this is your third sticker this week, you get to be the head of the chow line today! Yay!"

Thing Fish @ 85:

Stanley Rosenthal @ 83:

> Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance?

Not that I noticed. :-) Still the biggest problem with Vista (at least the 64 bit version) is obtaining drivers that work with your soundcards and network cards.

About 6-9 months ago there were a bunch of MS guys at work helping our help desk to get Vista working on the desktops. I decided to get a Mac for Internet and media. Only keep my old XP for work related stuff.

Yeah... Vista convinced me that my next OS upgrade will be Linux or FreeBSD. I got a new HD a few months ago (the one I had for five years was whining really loud) and I put a dual boot XP/Ubuntu on it.

Stanley Rosenthal @ 90:

Blue, the next Linux I'm gonna try is Ubunta. Any advantages I should look for when I finally get around it? (and actually, Vista isn't all that bad, from my obvservations, and in fact I like it. Other tha the extra security that keeps on interrupting you in your actions and the lack of all the drivers nec.)

It runs on the GNOME desktop environment and they schedule a new version every six months. There are convenient little "add programs" (popular open source games and apps) and "update system" tabs from the drop menu on the top, which is kind of nice. It's one of the more user friendly Linux OS's, so about 95% of it is plug-and-play. They have a really good support forum to help those completely clueless about Unix commands. I think it's the user friendly aspect that convinced Dell that they would offer it on the new computers they sell.

I don't think they bought actual happy face stickers, it's just the amount of money wasted trying to put a "happy face" on the situation.

I don't know if I can do this here, but here are (the most damning for US/Bush) excerpts from BBC News. (The link follows to read the whole page.):

UK general attacks US Iraq policy

The head of the British army during the Iraq invasion has said US post-war policy was "intellectually bankrupt".

In a Daily Telegraph interview, former chief of the general staff, Gen Sir Mike Jackson, added that US strategy had been "short-sighted".

He said former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld was "one of the most responsible for the current situation".

We should have kept the Iraqi security services in being

He criticised the decision to hand control of planning the administration of Iraq after the war to the Pentagon.

He also described the disbanding of the Iraqi army and security forces after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein as "very short-sighted".

"We should have kept the Iraqi security services in being and put them under the command of the coalition," he said.

The Telegraph said that in Sir Mike's autobiography, which is being serialised in the paper, he said the US approach to fighting global terrorism was "inadequate" as it focused on military power rather than diplomacy and nation-building.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Malcolm said: "I think one of the most fundamental criticisms is not just that Rumsfeld was incompetent - which he was - but it was actually his boss, George Bush, who actually made the extraordinary decision to put the Pentagon and Rumsfeld in control of political nation-building after the actual war ended."

Read more...
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/6973618.stm

Published: 2007/09/01 09:04:34 GMT

tHeGaMeOfLiFe @ 27:

BaScOmBe @ 9:

There are no signs that the Pentagon's top generals and admirals are pushing for an early end to the war, but they are concerned not only about strains on troops but also about the possibility that the heavy focus on counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq leaves the military ill-prepared in the event of a crisis elsewhere.

Is your "elsewhere," here at home or starting another useless war?
repugs better remember this when we see $9.00 at the gas pumps.

oops! that was a quote from the article, not my words. And I'm sure we agree we are talking about Iran as "elsewhere".

no, the gas won't be $9.00/gal. we are not getting oil from Iran. but when the currency used for oil is shifted completely to the euro and the chinese call in $1.5Trillion (with a 'T') in US debt, we'll use wheelbarrows to carry the money for our groceries. And even if we disagree on the scenarios, I'm sure we agree it will be messy.

unfortunately, blackwater will be used in the coup in the US after that, since the regular military will be spent.

As an optimist, I still hold out in hope we'll not only wake up, but act.

tHeGaMeOfLiFe @ 56:

snowjob is like reagan, all jokes, racist talk, and simple-mined.

How many gobbley-goop-"speakers" can they cough up? What's next? African-American?

Armstrong Williams!

Sorry folks, but so far, I think it's a hoax.

1. I went to ristocrats.blogspot.com/2007/08/whitehouse-budget-item-flagged-by-gao.html and there is no attribution.

Someone posted to that blog:

Thing Fish said...

Haven’t found relationship between any published GAO and the $27.4B figure. WaPo claims to have the leaked report, but is still keeping it close to the chest.

My guess, if this isn’t a snipe hunt, is that it can be found in this report.

So I went to the Washington Post and there was no article there.

So I searched "gao and happy and stickers" and nothing came up.

A dead end.

I am more than happy to be proven wrong, but until I see better evidence I call HOAX!

pissed off patricia @ 93:

I don't think they bought actual happy face stickers, it's just the amount of money wasted trying to put a "happy face" on the situation.

Someone finally got it.

Where the hell is the MSM on this? Why do I have to learn of this on C&L? Maybe I've missed it or the MSM is too busy talking about a foot tapping / hand-job in an airport restroom.

Nice to know my tax dollars are hard at work making people smile. Now....where the hell is my HEALTH INSURANCE?

pelosi,either begin the impeachment proceedings or step down. what a disappointment. don't want to hear the bullshit excuses, either s..t or get off the pot.

Damn. When did this turn into a private tech forum? ;)

Stop talking about Linux, boys. You are seriously making me hot, and I might hafta change my panties.

But please, keep thinking this is for real. Call the Pentagon. Demand action on that happy face sticker waste. You're making Sandy Underpants's entire weekend.

Thank you, Pissed off Patricia @92.

tHeGaMeOfLiFe @ 73:

nsr @ 71:

“It’s not the government’s job to bail out speculators,” the President said.

Fed opens cash spigot as mortgage lenders reel from credit crisis

"Aug 15, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Federal Reserve injected more cash into the stressed US financial system Wednesday as some mortgage lenders said they were reeling from a broadening credit crisis.

...

[F]inancial strategists are urging rattled investors not to panic amid the ongoing turbulence, as the Fed stepped in again to shore up confidence and keep the banking system from gumming up.

The central bank said it had pumped seven billion dollars into the financial system, in a vast 69-billion-dollar intervention operation since Thursday."

I think what bugs me the most is they aren't even trying to pay attention. It's like Bush's stupidity has sunk down into the rest of the govt.

Believe it. chimpy thinks he's the King of the United States of America.

Bush must know that "his" government "bailed out" the mortgage industry, the hedge funds and Wall Street in general last week, even as he tells us it's "not government's job" to do so. I mean, he didn't actually say the government hadn't actually done that a week ago did he? Just that it's not their job to do it. See? Does it all make sense now?

Brain...hurts...

Supposedly, George Bush walked off the stage when asked a question about whether Larry Craig should resign. Unfortunately, I can't find the report which was supposed to be on AOL. It seems to me that this is at least the third time Commander Codpiece chose to 'cut and run' instead of standing up like a man and answering the question. The first was when asked about Ken Lay, he just walked off. The second, was the locked double-door incident. And the third is this one. Of course, he's cut short the questioning when it becomes uncomfortable or he's 'gotta pee' on numerous occasions.

How can anyone not see him for the coward that he is?

These stickers (and assorted others) may be 10 years worth of supplies for all the schools on military bases or the total cost of printing for the military. But yes, that's a lot of money.

Good idea Dr. Stern @113. If I'd linked to an editorial re putting a happy face on this awful war it might have registered more clearly that the stickers were satire. Noted, and thanks.

off topic....that friend of mine who was attacked by the White Shark is going to be ok....he's going to keep his leg and ended up with 250 staples....lost 80% of his muscle under his arm(lats) but he's doing well and will be back in a few weeks......Pretty amazing....

Blue Gal @ 102:

Oh my. C&L hired a satirist? ha.

Read The Aristocrats.
Read Blue Gal. That's me.
Tell me we're serious. (Okay, sometimes we are.)
Join us this December for Zappadan: A celebration of Frank.

Would've been better satire if the $27.4B figure could've been matched to, say, the cost for the Pentagon to rewrite the draft GAO report (that no one has seen). And I don't know if anybody else checked out 'sandy underpants' bio, but if you did I think you would've got a WTF? moment.

Have to admit I was annoyed for time wasted trying to find an obscure relationship between the satire and reality. But in the end if you can't laugh at yourself, other's will do it for you.