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Congratulations (and awe) to my pal Prime63, whose video above, "What I stand for in 30 seconds," was selected to be a top-ten finalist in the Lions for Lambs YouTube video contest.

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Executive Producer of The Professional Left Podcast. On staff at Crooks and Liars since 2007. Master's degree from Harvard. Happy wife of Driftglass. Mother of three geniuses. Obsessive knitter. Blogs at http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. .
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fiver's picture

Can anyone remember the name of the guy Jon Stewart interviewed and shut down with an argument comparing and contrasting lives "saved" due to anti-abortion attitudes VS. lives not saved due to war mentalities? It was something about promoting war, but being pro-life being contradictory. It was 1-2 years ago. I have been looking through a guest list and on the daily show's new video repository, but its a daunting task. Anyone?

Stanley Rosenthal's picture

That's a great video ...

TO: The Free World
FROM: The American People
RE: HELP!

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5197

OliverDreams's picture

If you believe in the message of this video, then there is only one candidate for you. His motto is "Strength through peace". He not only talks the talk, he walks the walk.

Elect Dennis Kucinich 08 - The only candidate that truly believes in peace.

Tequila's picture

Bush continues his crony love by honoring Henry Hide with a Medal of Freedom and protecting Blackwater. Why can Egypt have nuclear power, and not Iran? If we elect Hillary, we'll be no better than Argentina.

StirFry's picture

Holy shit from Blumenthal. Huckabee is an asshat. When I watch Janet Folger from "faith2action" I remember why I strongly support post-natal (like 40 years later) abortions.

Tequila's picture

George leaves 1 in 10 American schools behind.
Our medical students aren't being taught about the Geneva Code of health. The lead-filled toys keep on coming.

Batocchio's picture

Way to go, TPM!

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fiver's picture

Hey, who else is on here as fiver?

Ruthless People's picture

Bush Crime Family Home Videos.

fiver2's picture

I guess I have to go as fiver2! Do you not want some tool out there impersonating you with lame requests? ;)

littlehorn's picture

Hey guys look what i just heard !
http://wor.ldne.ws/node/8596
"Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest" ! Hurray !!

fiver's picture

fiver2 @ 12:

I guess I have to go as fiver2! Do you not want some tool out there impersonating you with lame requests? ;)

Hardly a lame request. I'm not sure but I remember Jon playing a W clip after his stem cell veto with W saying that the veto reflected his view on the importance of life. Jon then played a W clip with Bush responding to a question about how many were killed in the Iraq war by saying something like "Oh, I don't know 30 or 40 thousand."

I also remember an opening comment Jon made about the "Snowflake Babies" each being unique... and white.

Is that close?

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littlehorn @ 13:

Hey guys look what i just heard !
http://wor.ldne.ws/node/8596
"Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest" ! Hurray !!

This is the best news I've heard in a long long time. Justice on the trail of the criminal.

fiver's picture

Immunity, it's not just for telecoms anymore.

Blackwater guards granted "use immunity."

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Immunity Deal Hampers Blackwater Inquiry

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned.

The immunity deal has delayed a criminal inquiry into the Sept. 16 killings and could undermine any effort to prosecute security contractors for their role in the incident that has infuriated the Iraqi government.

"Once you give immunity, you can't take it away," said a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.

Isn't that special...

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fiver @ 14:

fiver2 @ 12:

I guess I have to go as fiver2! Do you not want some tool out there impersonating you with lame requests? ;)

Hardly a lame request. I'm not sure but I remember Jon playing a W clip after his stem cell veto with W saying that the veto reflected his view on the importance of life. Jon then played a W clip with Bush responding to a question about how many were killed in the Iraq war by saying something like "Oh, I don't know 30 or 40 thousand."

I also remember an opening comment Jon made about the "Snowflake Babies" each being unique... and white.

Is that close?

It's an actual interview I am looking for, not just commentary on Bush. But I do remember those quotes. I'll have to check and see if they were related...

Hot on the trail!

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The Smiths Go To Washington @ 3:

TO: The Free World
FROM: The American People
RE: HELP!

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5197

TO: American People
FROM: "Free" World
RE: RE: HELP!

PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND HELP YOURSELVES. WE ARE TOO BUSY FIGHTING YOU TO HELP YOU.

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JustSickOfIt @ 19:

The Smiths Go To Washington @ 3:

TO: The Free World
FROM: The American People
RE: HELP!

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5197

TO: American People
FROM: "Free" World
RE: RE: HELP!

PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND HELP YOURSELVES. WE ARE TOO BUSY FIGHTING YOU TO HELP YOU.

:lol:

Stanley Rosenthal's picture

I finally got around to watching 30 Rock this season. The internet's great, the episodes I missed are on the NBC website. I guess I watched 4 or 5 episodes tonight. And it's still great!!!! I think I even noticed a couple of synchronicities to the Stephanie Miller show. ( goldwatermiller08.com )

But it kind've makes me miss Studio 60 (on the Sunset Strip) ... (and West Wing, of course)

bettestreep's picture

How come a sensible message like this can be conveyed in 30 seconds - but nothing sensible has come out of George W Bush's mouth in his lifetime???

War is wrong - and when will these morons in power realise it???

fiver2's picture

I found what I was looking for here: Ramesh Ponnuru

Tequila's picture

Japan is leaving
Afghanistan.

CoconutHead's picture

I liked it

heh...

fiver's picture

fiver2 @ 23:

I found what I was looking for here: Ramesh Ponnuru

Wow! Good find. I remembered that interview after seeing it again, but I couldn't have come up with that name if the Vice-President's life depended on it.

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fiver @ 26:

fiver2 @ 23:

I found what I was looking for here: Ramesh Ponnuru

Wow! Good find. I remembered that interview after seeing it again, but I couldn't have come up with that name if the Vice-President's life depended on it.

I kept thinking it was D'souza. Ignorant me! Enjoy the clips, they are CLASSICS!

wilderness wino's picture

I bet cheney and shrub will not be attending any meetings in europe for a while!?!

Dewey Kneadleeders's picture

Great video, nice work prime63.

JustSickOfIt's picture

fiver @ 26:

fiver2 @ 23:

I found what I was looking for here: Ramesh Ponnuru

Wow! Good find. I remembered that interview after seeing it again, but I couldn't have come up with that name if the Vice-President's life depended on it.

Thanks a lot. I had almost succeeded in expunging my mind of all memories of that vacuous whiny bitch. Almost as difficult as getting that Lee Greenwood propaganda song out of your head. Now it's going to take another two years to get back to that happy place. BTW, and I say this with all sincerity, Ramesh Ponnuru is a prime argument in favor of abortion on demand. If I would have known his mother was pregnant with him, I would have demanded one on the spot.

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littlehorn @ 13:

Hey guys look what i just heard !
http://wor.ldne.ws/node/8596
"Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest" ! Hurray !!

Yes and noticed how awash the replies are with the typical American replies ...... looks like some there just want to dig an even deeper hole for the country and its people to slide into.

Ellie's picture

If voters could go back in time to when inspectors were finishing up in Iraq, and mere days away from advising the UN Security Council that Iraq had no WMDs, how many would do so and tell the Chickenhawk in Chief to keep his Codpiece in his pants?

We could have resolved Iraq's democratic situation multilaterally and peacefully, and shepherded the nation into the fold of secular, constitutional democracies had the war horny idiots not literally bombed the inspectors out of Iraq. As Hans Blitz said of the administration's loudest war pornographers -- Bush, Cheney, Condi, Rummy et al -- and the Iraq war hype, (paraphrasing) they can't be 100% sure there are WMDs and 0% sure of where they are. (Remember, Rummy said he knew, but couldn't show the double dip top secret intel with an extra cherry on top, that the WMDs were in Baghdad, in Tikrit, over here, over there, everywhere .... ).

Well if they don't want a replay happening in Iran, they best heed al Baradei's appearances last week and on the weekend declaring that Iran wasn't an immediate nuclear threat. I know we don't have the troops to go in, but my fear is that since the Republicult has nothing to run on, they'll cynically use this to drum up fear and votes in an election year precisely BECAUSE they have sweet fuck all.
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Take 2:

Blackwater men 'given immunity'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7068600.stm

Edwin's picture

I was thinking today, even though Gonzales is gone, shouldn't the American Bar Association still be looking at disbarring him? Ought of sight, doesn't mean inactive.

fiver's picture

Edwin @ 36:

I was thinking today, even though Gonzales is gone, shouldn't the American Bar Association still be looking at disbarring him? Ought of sight, doesn't mean inactive.

I think that would be the State Bar in Texas; I'm not holding by breath.

yogi-one's picture

The first half of it should have been titled "your tax dollars at work or how Dick Cheney makes money off you."

As for Blackwater, it's Erik Prince who needs to be investigated. Sure, the thugs are guilty too.

Accoording to Rumfeld's vision, Blackwater is how the future of war looks. You give out a no-bid, contract, grant all the mercenaries immunity, let them go kill civilians and rape as much as they want, then when the citizens protest, suddenly nobody knows anything and nobody can be held responsible.

Hey, world, how do you like the new America?

An Average Joe's picture

That was great! Nice work!

This bothers me: I was watching "Hardball" with Chris Matthews and Pat Buchanan last night, and they kept referring to "the upcoming war with Iran" over and over. Is this the MSM selling it to us? I find it repugnant that it is being treated as a foregone conclusion.

Arctic Dude's picture

Canada's military exports soar as numbers go unreported: CBC investigation - Yes we make guns in our igloos all winter for Walmart to sell.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/10/29/military-exports.html

Ottawa dismisses report that Afghan prisoners are still beaten - We have our own neocons too eh! Just like you folks.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/10/29/qc-afghanreport1029.html

40 Mile caribou herd crossing near Dawson - :)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/10/29/yk-40mile.html

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OliverDreams @ 4:

If you believe in the message of this video, then there is only one candidate for you. His motto is "Strength through peace". He not only talks the talk, he walks the walk.

Elect Dennis Kucinich 08 - The only candidate that truly believes in peace.

Dennis has my vote. Previously I voted the lesser of 2 evils and got EVIL. This time I will vote for Dennis and not waste my vote.

peaceful easy feeling's picture

JustSickOfIt @ 19:

The Smiths Go To Washington @ 3:

TO: The Free World
FROM: The American People
RE: HELP!

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5197

TO: American People
FROM: "Free" World
RE: RE: HELP!

PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND HELP YOURSELVES. WE ARE TOO BUSY FIGHTING YOU TO HELP YOU.

Good one. :)

Anyway, it seems Edmonds has already been talking with 60 Minutes.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/25/60minutes/main526954.shtml

right wing hater's picture

Daily Reading pt 2...

BradBlog: DNC Calls for 'Immediate Firing' of DoJ Voting Chief in Wake of 'Outrageous Comments', 'Outright Attack on Voting Rights' - http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5219

Edwards Visits All 99 Iowa Counties - http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/10/edwards_visits_all_99_iowa_countie...
I'm really starting to like him above all the others...Kucinich is great, but not electable

Colbert Goes To South Carolina; You mean he's taking this seriously? - http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/10/colbert_goes_to_south_carolina.php

Stephen Colbert Launches Campaign in South Carolina -- Edwards' Campaign Gets Hot About It - http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_con...
Folks....the Edwards campaign is playing along....satire....remember the satire

******Obama Promises To Reinstate Net Neutrality During First Year In Office – MoveOn Challenges Other Presidential Candidates To Pledge The Same - http://civ.moveon.com/releases/071029netneutralityobama.html ******
Net Neutrality refers to a principle or a set of principles that would prevent Internet service providers from blocking or degrading certain kinds of traffic on their networks. The idea is that a large company like AT&T or Verizon could block or slow down IP packets carrying information that is being sent or received from a particular Web site or service. Recently cable operator Comcast has been accused of blocking BitTorrent traffic, but the company denies this.

Yet another candidate for the no $hit hall of fame: Hannity & Colmes Interview Subjects Allege Their Views Were Misrepresented, Distorted And Censored By FOX Noise - http://www.newshounds.us/2007/10/29/hannity_colmes_interview_subjects_al...

Paul Krugman: Fearing Fear Itself - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/opinion/29krugman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The republican GOP mantra....corporations will save you...unless its not profitable...

Freee Pron's picture

Hell, Why not make the video even smaller to 1x1 pixel?

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littlehorn @ 13:

Hey guys look what i just heard !
http://wor.ldne.ws/node/8596
"Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest" ! Hurray !!

Karma, Rummy... Ain't it a bitch!

Edward L. Varney's picture

BTW:
When these politicians started using the term “Islamofascism”, I thought that they were just joking. Nope, I looked, it’s no joke, they were deadly serious. Then, I thought that perhaps they were just uneducated, had not gone to college or had not read enough to have prevented such a faux paux of mixing these mutually exclusive terms.
Then it dawned on me that perhaps the Bhurka Manufacturing Industry (BMI), or perhaps the Association of Iranian Camel Jockeys (AICJ) or the United Rug Weavers ( Axis of Evil chapter) (URWAE) had grown to such strength that it has lobbied and taken over the world of Islam, fomenting the world wide spread of the Koran. Nope couldn’t find anything there, either. All I could find in my research was just your plain old, garden variety religious tyranny.
So, what was I left with?
A. Just plain Stupidity?
Or:
B. A glaring, serious Lack of Integrity?
I think it would very dangerous to assume A, for they may be many things, but, stupid is not one of them.
Which left me with B. Thank God, that was an easy one to verify. I just went over to Fox News and checked out Bill O and Sean and guess what?
Mission accomplished.

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Freee Pron @ 44:

Hell, Why not make the video even smaller to 1x1 pixel?

1x1 pixel! Hooooo Agggghhh!

thepoetryman's picture

Edward L. Varney @ 48:

BTW:
When these politicians started using the term “Islamofascism”, I thought that they were just joking. Nope, I looked, it’s no joke, they were deadly serious. Then, I thought that perhaps they were just uneducated, had not gone to college or had not read enough to have prevented such a faux paux of mixing these mutually exclusive terms.
... All I could find in my research was just your plain old, garden variety religious tyranny.
...Thank God, that was an easy one to verify. I just went over to Fox News and checked out Bill O and Sean and guess what? Mission accomplished.

Nice!

thepoetryman's picture

BG a delicious hug my friend... and C&L many thanks!

dennis's picture

Tony Snow, on his alma mater, Fox News:

"There's perceived bias on the part of Fox because they don't treat conservatives as knuckle-dragging morons....I think the rap on Fox having a bias is an unfair one. My sense is rather than grousing with a winning formula, people ought to learn from them."

Live long and prosper, Tony.

Dr. Acula's picture

bill w @ 41:

OliverDreams @ 4:

If you believe in the message of this video, then there is only one candidate for you. His motto is "Strength through peace". He not only talks the talk, he walks the walk.

Elect Dennis Kucinich 08 - The only candidate that truly believes in peace.

Dennis has my vote. Previously I voted the lesser of 2 evils and got EVIL. This time I will vote for Dennis and not waste my vote.

You WILL be wasting your vote since Dennis isn't going to be on the ballot unless he goes Independent. Bottom line is he doesn't have any chance, so don't bother.

Dr. Acula's picture
actor212's picture

Clinton Rapid Response Team In Mid-Season Form

And congratulations, Mark...just remember those of us who knew you when! :-)

bmw 528's picture

Chris Dodd came out yesterday and said he would oppose the nomination of Michael Mukasey for AG. In response to Mukasey's "theory" that the President could stand above Constitutional statutes he replied " This is about as basic as it gets. You must obey the law. Everyone must."

The good news is that this stand influenced others such as Joe Biden, John Edwards, and Bill Richardson to go public with their opposition also. Hopefully, Dodd's stand will convice even more that this jerk is little more than a Bushco syncophant with no respect for the rule of law, except as they determine it to be.

More info on Huffpo if you care to check it out. Way to go Sen. Dodd!

Dr. Acula's picture

Dodd is a man of integrity. I wish he'd start getting some "traction" in the race for the nomination!

Patriot Actor's picture

The measurement of what makes a country great....

....needs to be revisited.

Post American's picture

If our former ally Saddam was brought to justice for the deaths of 49 Iraqis, I don't understand why Bush, Cheney, Republicans and Democrats in Congress, the Military Brass, and the Corporate State Controlled "News" Media should not be brought to the same justice? Anyone? Anyone?

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