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that was aweful

golden joe @ 5:

that was aweful

So you are now full of awe?

McC*nt radio ad, figures wrong and f*cked up from start to finish.

Doh

Hypocrisy anyone?

US Exports To Iran Skyrocketing During Bush's Presidency

ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 9:

McC*nt radio ad, figures wrong and f*cked up from start to finish.

Doh

Of coarse, you wouldn't expect the truth from a religious right wing repugnant ad would you?

Amendment Would Put Spy Lawsuits, Amnesty On Hold Pending Investigation; A delay is better than nothing 7/9

Glenn Greenwald
Monday July 7, 2008 07:58 EDT
Beltway myth: "The left-wing base" vs. "the American people" on Iraq

(updated below - Update II)

The Washington Establishment lies most brazenly when they want to claim that their own insulated, fringe views are shared by majorities of "the American people." To achieve that goal, there's just no limit on their willingness to go on television and make up facts. Look at what NPR's Mara Liasson said this weekend on Fox News Sunday about what "the American people" believe about the Iraq War:
...more

Ostroy Report: The Bumper-Sticker Wars: How Democrats Can Effectively Disarm the Right of its Most Powerful Rhetoric 7/9

Very simply, every Lefty across the country should immediately place three bumper stickers on their cars. In the middle should be "Obama for President." To the left should be "Praise the Lord" and to the right "Support the Troops." That'll show 'em! We love God too, even if some of us are atheists. And while this may sound shocking, we can get behind a good war every now and then as well...case in point Afghanistan. Yes, let's fight fire with fire and pull the rug right out from under the Rovians. Beat 'em at their own game. Just think how effectively this could shift perceptions and disarm Republicans of some of their most powerful rhetoric.

Ostroy Report: LINK

savannah @ 17:
Nice song, too.

A family sues
a hospital which left the mother on a waiting table. A judge wants those Guantanamo detainees cases tried yesterday. High prices are even hurting the Saudis. Most sunscreens don't really screen you from the sun.

Ron @ 25:
please don't provoke anyone.

Sincerely,
CIP

Tequila @ 26:
Re: SAUDIs
I imagine they have an oil based economy and so are getting cheneyed like the rest of us. whoodathunkit?

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 30:

Tequila @ 26:
Re: SAUDIs
I imagine they have an oil based economy and so are getting cheneyed like the rest of us. whoodathunkit?

Well now you know how the corporate fascist operate. They know how to exploit everyone in every part of the world. First they exploit cheap labor and resources, then they sell them the things they need at high prices.

Ron @ 32:

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 30:

Tequila @ 26:
Re: SAUDIs
I imagine they have an oil based economy and so are getting cheneyed like the rest of us. whoodathunkit?

Well now you know how the corporate fascist operate. They know how to exploit everyone in every part of the world. First they exploit cheap labor and resources, then they sell them the things they need at high prices.

the corporate state is very similar to the british economic model that caused the formation of the US. royalty and serfs, that's all there were. we're well on the way ourselves,

constituent @ 35:

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=86072&videoChannel=1
this has potential to be a big deal
maliki using the word timetable is ironic

So, what's next? Boosh and Cheeeneey going to declare that Maliki is a terrorist and start another war?

IRAQ: Military Deaths By Time Period
Period US UK Other* Total Days Avg
Total 4115 176 138 4429 1937 2.29
6 1029 46 14 1089 524 2.08
5 933 32 20 985 412 2.39
4 715 13 18 746 318 2.35
3 580 25 27 632 216 2.93
2 718 27 59 804 424 1.9
1 140 33 0 173 43 4.02
*Fatalities by Nationality

AFGHANISTAN: Coalition Military Fatalities By Year
Year US Other Total
2008 68 60 128
2007 117 115 232
2006 98 93 191
2005 99 31 130
2004 52 6 58
2003 48 9 57
2002 49 20 69
2001 12 0 12
Total 543 334 877

Coalition Military Fatalities By Year and Month

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total
2001 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 4 12
2002 10 12 14 10 1 3 0 3 1 6 1 8 69
2003 4 7 12 2 2 7 2 4 2 6 8 1 57
2004 11 2 3 3 9 5 2 3 4 8 7 1 58
2005 2 2 6 19 4 29 2 33 12 10 7 4 130
2006 1 17 13 5 17 22 19 29 38 17 9 4 191
2007 2 18 10 20 25 24 29 34 24 15 22 9 232
2008 14 7 19 14 24 45 5 0 0 0 0 0 128
Fatalities By Country

Just the biggest part of this mess we're in.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 39:

Ron @ 36:

constituent @ 35:

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=86072&videoChannel=1
this has potential to be a big deal
maliki using the word timetable is ironic

So, what's next? Boosh and Cheeeneey going to declare that Maliki is a terrorist and start another war?

sort of like panama, eh?
it does not pay to be a leader chosen by a drunken boosh.

Yeah, it looks like Maliki will be labeled as the next world's worst dictator.

Here's a nice article for fans of Stanley Kubrick

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1177734,00.html

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 42:

Ron @ 40:

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 39:

Ron @ 36: sort of like panama, eh?
it does not pay to be a leader chosen by a drunken boosh.

Yeah, it looks like Maliki will be labeled as the next world's worst dictator.

now is maliki in line ahead of karzai and Musharraf?

Probably, he has the oil.

do I have to?

African-American TV Channel Won't Cover GOP Convention

TV One does have a Republican pundit as part of its convention coverage, comedian Sheryl Underwood. But she’s also voting for Obama.

When critics pressed a panel of TV One’s convention pundits about whether African American republicans will feel slighted, Underwood said, “I speak for all eight of us -- we are not slighted ... McCain is not going to win it, that's why I'm over here, because I want to be with the winners -- and I'm a Bush Republican."

Mikhail Gorbachev believes USA acts like modern-day empire

“Nowadays the USA makes a half of world’s defense products. The country has over 700 army bases spreading from Europe to most remote corners of the world. Those are only officially recognized bases. It seems that the Cold War has never been a matter of the past. It seems that the USA is surrounded by enemies, against which the country can struggle with the use of tanks, missiles and planes. Only empires used to interpret their security like that,” Gorbachev said.

full article

Jeff G @ 49:

Mikhail Gorbachev believes USA acts like modern-day empire

“Nowadays the USA makes a half of world’s defense products. The country has over 700 army bases spreading from Europe to most remote corners of the world. Those are only officially recognized bases. It seems that the Cold War has never been a matter of the past. It seems that the USA is surrounded by enemies, against which the country can struggle with the use of tanks, missiles and planes. Only empires used to interpret their security like that,” Gorbachev said.

full article

what does he mean - "like"?

what does he mean - “like”?

He probably means it's not an actual empire that grabs land, but still behaves like an empire.

http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45061-mccain-kicks-61-year-old-librarian-o...

a 61 y.o. woman asked to leave a mccain townhall site and given a ticket.....why...she had a sign that said mccain=bush that's it nothing else........free speec my ass that's very much like bush
that's mccain's Achilles Heel

Gna! It was interesting.

yes... finally... let's keep producing crap until we trip over genius... that's worked well for us till now...

Two groups stand up for the polar bears.

EliteLemming @ 58:

yes... finally... let's keep producing crap until we trip over genius... that's worked well for us till now...

heh, yeah I was thinking the same thing. we already have an army of monkeys in the WH with type writers and computers that instantly delete emails.

Che's Lounge @ 45:

Harper Valley PTA,

What utter bullshit. As a secular progressive, I hate opera. And yet I would never restrict it. The Liberals you speak of so erroneously have no problem with artists, even extreme ones. It is the Conservatives who actively supress art. I have neither the time nor the money to be their aegis. There are bigger fish to fry. So give them your money. I'll use mine to protect their freedom of expression from crypto fascists that you so conveniently left out of your self indulgent post.

Your post speaks for itself. You tolerate artists but don't see them as a force. It almost sounds racist or sexist, although I won't accuse you of that. You support art excesses, but by rote, you only indulge them, because there are real crypto fascists out there, and thats where your dough goes. Not because their message is worth investigating. Its a given, its why sites like this were formed, that there is no honesty in how we describe our world. And yet you feel compelled to throw the sophmoric tired tired tired old old old "self indulgent" tag on someone who talks about art. Art has a unique unusual power that can come to flourish if you give it a hand, but might be outside the mainstream. Or, if you aren't smart enough to understand how that could be useful, to at least admit you could care less. Which was my point. Most liberals don't.

I've had countless glasses of iced white wine with liberals who are all for the arts, but would rather you keep the jock strap on, metaphorically or otherwise, and they really don't want to get into the particulars: liberals who contribute to PBS aren't a constituency that is alien to me. And Laura Bush just loves the arts too. Im talking about raising the ante a bit. By the way, there are operas which have had a lot more political impact on the world than this blog ever will, sorry that you choose to have a negative opinion about that form, does poetry bug you too? Are you there, arms open, for the next Dickens or Hugo to describe our societies and change the penal code, for instance? Pina Bausch has pronounced much more distinctly the world of the feminine than HRC. Why would you possibly want to stand in the way? All I am saying is that there is no enthusiasm for controversial art among liberals. I can't imagine anything more facile than to say that it is only conservatives who suppress art.

Sorry for the late response fryguy, but what this Ira guy's claim to fame? Did he he do something I should be aware of? I'd hate to hate out of ignorance...

66 EliteLemming Says: Sorry for the late response fryguy, but what this Ira guy’s claim to fame? Did he he do something I should be aware of? I’d hate to hate out of ignorance…

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Have you ever listened to "This American Life?"

Uhmmm... I don't think so... It does sound familar... I truthfully can't say either way... Hope it doesn't make me sound any more ignorant than I already do...

It is well worth a listen.

One snippet might interest you (the site seems to be down at the moment) Ira Glass goes on an aircraft carrier a few years ago and interviews the sailors about their jobs. This one woman's job twelve hours a day six days a week is filling coke machines.

He gets down to the mundane and way up to the hieghts of what it is to be a human being. He is extrordinary.

thank you x

elite: Could the reason that you enjoy Brooks, Python, Onion, be that you've spent the time to catch their drift, which is also pretty easy/obvious? Could it also be that those are, for the most part, examples of entertainment art, which doesn't mean they are a lesser form, but they just aren't the form I'm talking about. Or if they are controversial they are so in very specific and limited ways. And like you said about people who say they dont like opera, could the reason that you don't like controversial art be that you haven't spent a lot of time tracking it down, supporting it, figuring it out, revealing its context, or that its not always appetizing or easy at the first go? Do you know what the Piss Christ is, or anything about the people involved, or the era? Have you ever seen Pina Bausch, even on YouTube? Do you know how many feet of sod her performers danced upon, and how many costume changes, and how many hours her theatre pieces lasted? I've met a lot of people who really have problems with beautiful art they haven't seen, heard, read, struggled with, read of, talked with friends about etc. If you love opera you know that art asks something of you, and the more you give, the more it gives back, and my complaint is that people, yes, even liberals, don't respond, don't engage, in the controversial art that should attract them and which should be mutually supporting to common causes.. And that art is a resource that is neglected, and by this I don't mean political art, but just art, because art informs us outside of the confines of such structures, to go back to my examples, I don't think anybody would describe Dickens or Hugo as political artists, although they certainly caught the current and shifted the river.

Anyhow I mostly wanted to say it was such a pleasure to hear Glass speak so simply about how to approach developing your art, as though that were an important thing.

The Israeli military raided Palestinian schools, confiscated equipment, school-buses, and shut down several social, medical and professional institutions.

thank you, sitemonitor, for the deletions.

Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 75:

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Ahhhhhhhhh...

Nothing says America like TYRANNY... NO?

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GREED also comes to mind.

constituent @ 54:

http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45061-mccain-kicks-61-year-old-librarian-out-of-town-hall-event

a 61 y.o. woman asked to leave a mccain townhall site and given a ticket.....why...she had a sign that said mccain=bush that's it nothing else........free speec my ass that's very much like bush
that's mccain's Achilles Heel

we ought to mount a campaign against the know-it-all, talking points press. we ought to hammer hom the service records of these shits.

schieffsser
matthewsilda
inshannity
scarborbo

Trial About Privacy in Which Not a Shred Remains
By JOHN F. BURNS
Unlike many caught in embarrassing sexual adventures, Max Mosley, the president of the International Automobile Federation, has chosen to make a public fight.

Ohio Gives Veterans In-State Rates at Public Colleges
By TAMAR LEWIN
To attract more veterans, Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio announced that the state would charge in-state tuition to all veterans attending college on the G.I. bill.

unlike mcC*nt, he apparently cares

Obama Says His Critics Haven't Been Listening
By MICHAEL POWELL
Senator Barack Obama addressed concerns that he had moved too quickly to the political center, saying "The people who say this apparently haven't been listening to me."

The guy who said that apparently hasn't been listening to me.

harper valley pta @ 64:
well put and enlightening.
thanx 4 that.

WTF? Why all the off-subject, out in left field, HUH? comments from these illiterate bloggers? Ira, good advice man. I have worked in my creative field for almost 30 years. I get discouraged by the amount of absolute crap I have to produce just to pay the mortgage. I need to remember, even producing the crap, I am still practicing the craft and more and more I get produce a piece of work I can say is good. Yep, shovel all the manure and find the pony ! Right on Ira.

Daily Reading pt 1...

Climate Change Crisis vs profits & right wingnuts: Cheney pushed for cutting health officials' climate change testimony, former official says - http://www.startribune.com/politics/24061524.html?location_refer=Nation:...
"More than a year ago, the Supreme Court directed the EPA to determine whether carbon dioxide emissions endanger human health and welfare and, if so, begin to regulate it under the Clean Air Act. That process is not likely to continue until the next administration."
Gee...two oilmen in the White House...hmm...wonder if science fact will trump multinational corporate old energy profits....we've had our answer since February 2001 when Cheney invited Big Oil for a private bash in which they were told deregulation & Iraq will be yours and the american public can (go f* themselves - Dick Cheney)...
Anyone who calls themself a 'skeptic' is a denier/extinctionist pure and simple...and they have no conscience nor deserve any of your time (debate has been over, they're idiotic on a level that can't be comprehended, so leave them behind and do what you can)...

Ex-EPA official: Cheney wanted cuts in climate testimony; 'Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases, a former EPA officials maintains.' Abuse of power, once again.
- http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-08-cheney-climate_N.htm?...

9%: The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. - http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/...
I sincerely hope the Democratic National Committee is watching, if they do get a majority 60 in Senate, so they can end Republican Filibustering...they need to remember that number when they vote in 09....

Feingold on FISA sham bill: “Senators should take a real hard look at whether they want to be associated with such an attack on the rule of law” - http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/08/feingold-on-fisa-sham-bill-sena...
A video every American citizen should watch...

McCain’s Latest "Joke": Maybe Cigarettes Would Kill Iranians. How Can One Party Produce So Many Dangerous Morons? - http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/07/08/mccains-latest-joke-maybe-cigare...
Republican voters are the lowest common denominator...sorry...I have some in my family, I love them, but that is what they are right now...

The 'Free Market' Myth debunked by the Con-servative Fed Chairman: Rigged Casinos and the Plunge Protection Team: Bernanke acknowledges greater intervention in the markets - http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/node/2046
This morning, according the to Wall Street Journal, Fed Chair Bernanke said “federal regulators, policymakers and private sector groups are already taking steps to address some of the concerns laid bare during the turmoil last year.” Translation #1: The myth of the free market is debunked. Translation #2: Investing in the US Stock Market is about as wise as gambling in a rigged casino. Translation #3: The Plunge Protection team market manipulations are outed.
The 'market' as con-servatives & right wingnuts 'know' it...is a gamed system, always has been, always will be....it is the ultimate reverse Robin Hood, a scheme to undo the New Deal and take us back to the days of economic feudalism, where kingdoms are corporations, & CEOs are Kings that do whatever they please (with the myth that shareholders can change the direction if things go 'bad' included to quell naysayers)...

Maliki Stunner: He Wants US Pullout Timetable -Robert Dreyfuss - http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/334991/maliki_stunner_he_wants_u...
"But Maliki's statement is a big deal. At a minimum, it presents an enormous problem for Bush and John McCain, who are arguing for an indefinite US stay in Iraq til "victory," and who oppose a timetable. True, Maliki seems to be linking his timetable to Iraqi military success, which is not too different from the Bush-McCain formula. But inside Iraq, the pressure is building day by day for a US withdrawal, and Maliki is by no means in control of the process.
The fact that both Iran and Sunni nationalists, who are on a collision course, agree that US forces need to leave Iraq, only means that pro- and anti-Iranian factions will settle their differences (either by peaceful diplomacy or by violence) once the United States is gone."

No $hit hall of fame charter member: McClellan: Iraq’s Oil ‘Certainly Played Heavily’ In Cheney’s Desire To Launch War - http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/08/mcclellan-cheney-oil/
During a speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last month, McClellan suggested some book titles for Cheney should he choose to write a memoir of his own after leaving office: “The Lies I Told,” or “I Upped Halliburton’s Income - So Up Yours.”

Bush: Telecom Immunity More Important Than Surveillance Powers - http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/bush-telecom-immunity-more-importan...
"Today the Bush Administration released a letter threatening to veto the upcoming FISA legislation if it included the Bingaman Amendment, which puts both telecom immunity and the court cases on hold until after the Inspector General reports about the warrantless wiretapping program. If given the choice between new surveillance powers without immunity for telcos on the one hand, or surveillance under the existing law on the other, the Bush Administration said its choice was clear: keep with the existing law.
Assuming that the President would not put the financial interests of large corporations ahead of the safety of the American people, today's veto threat puts the lie to the dire warnings put forth by the Bush Administration. Alternatively, if the government is being honest about the need for immediate legislation, today's veto threat shows a callous indifference to that purported danger, favoring special interests over security. "

Daily Reading pt 2...

Hey Detroit...pay attention or you'll become extinct: Innovation from a car company: Toyota reportedly to put solar panels on Prius
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/08/BUFO11L7FO.D...

Invesco Field Vs. Bathroom Stall: Defining Venues of the GOP and Dem Conventions - http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/07/08/invesco-field-vs-bathroom-stall-def...
We know Invesco Field will be the defining venue of the Democratic Convention, with Barack Obama speaking in front of 76,000 people. What will the defining venue be for the GOP Convention? Not McCain jello wrestling with teleprompters. It will be Larry Craig’s bathroom stall at the Minneapolis airport.

Fact-Check on Iran Resolutions: How To Convince Your Congressperson Not To Attack Iran - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/muhammad-sahimi/how-to-convince-your-cong_...

Obama Responds to Critics That He is Making Centrist Moves.“When I hear John McCain saying we can’t surrender, we can’t wave the white flag,” Obama said, “no one is talking about surrender.” But, he added to loud applause, “don’t be confused: I will bring the Iraq war to a close when I am president of the United States of America.”
- http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/obama-addresses-critics-on...
Obama stated this while appearing at Powder Springs HS in Powder Springs, GA yesterday

Zogby's Interactive 50-state Poll Map - http://www.zogby.com/50state/
Click on the state to see the latest polling...

We are the worst. We're n

I want to be Ira Glass when I grow up. And there is now show on electronic media I enjoy more that TAL.

Tequila @ 53:

China's going to beat us, economically, in less than 30 years. Iran is rehearsing for our invasion.

Now we see why Bush and Cheney want to control as many oil producing countries as possible. This will help America keep China's ambitions under control at the same time as getting american corporations f...kin' rich.

Useless-HO @ 99:

Thoroughly agree with Mr. Glass' approach and observations of the creative process over time- and appreciate the importance of much of his work. I only wish (and this coming from a useless whore well-versed in 'old school' conversational etiquette) he would now pause a bit to linguistically hone his verbal skills. I cringe at times upon hearing the frequency of such fillers as the glitchy "like....like", rising intonation at the end of normally declarative statements or, conversely, sentences (or fragments thereof) which dip into a gravelly prolonged and dreaded vocal 'fry', among other characteristics- all of which, in this old whore's HO, tend to detract from the gravitas of an otherwise highly gifted artist whose primary calling is to communicate. Let's lose the "Valspeak" and work for a more lucid and linear repartee, speakers of English everywhere!

Yes I too was annoyed but the overuse of "like"....

News reporting? Ira is not a news reporter.

Mornin folks!
I am an uncle again for the 3rd time! A 7.3 lb baby girl!!! Woohoo!!!
Can't wait to see her!

xoites defends Constitution @ 107:

106 liberalNmoderation Says: Mornin folks!
I am an uncle again for the 3rd time! A 7.3 lb baby girl!!! Woohoo!!!
Can’t wait to see her!

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Congrats! :)

Thank ya muchly!

Thanks BlueGal, and you John, for inclusion of the Ira Glass clip. It helps not only political clarity about messages, but was a great kick in my ass about my other creative projects.

well, i guess traipsing one corpse (jon benet) across your screen is as good as another (4th amendment)