July 13, 2008 11:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
Cynics' Party has recovered McCain's press release (recently scrubbed from the Psychogeezer's website) announcing disgraced AG Troy King as Alabama State Campaign Chair.
The Agonist: Our long national obsession with cars
naked capitalism: The death of globalisation consensus
Fafblog! Veepstakes 2008: Turgid For Change Edition
NotionsCapital: Turdblossom found
BlondeSense: Over There

Frist.
*yawn*
What else is left to say but...
IMPEACH
Hmmm
Pretty website. Poorly written. What do you think?
The link to the WayBackMachine gives:
Apparently McCain's campaign requested they scrub the entry - the WayBackMachine will do so if requested.
BUT .. the pdf link works!
P.S. herr dubyah lifts his daddy's ban on offshore oil drilling.
Let's take Scott Ritter 's advice and demand that our Reps pull together a congressional hearing on Iran. Especially since Israeli leaders will be pressuring the Bush administration even more to back up their much desired pre-emptive strike on Iran.
This recent interview with Scott is really worth listening to
http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/07/12/scott-ritter-5/#comments
Scott Horton Interviews Scott RitterJuly 12th, 2008
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the likelihood of a U.S. attack on Iran and the smokescreen of diplomatic progress, how Iran’s recent promise of retaliation has raised the stakes by ensuring limited U.S. strikes would be inadequate, how facts and reason are irrelevant since the neocons in command believe they can generate their own realities, the need for Congress to reduce the level of tension not increase it with their current pending Iran war resolutions, how the War Party’s aggressive rhetoric towards Iran only helps their hardliners, Iran’s nuclear program as pretext for regime change, the dubious origins of the “smoking laptop,” the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. against Iran and the need for American business to demand Congress put an end to the march to war.
MP3 here. (47:29)
Scott Ritter was a Marine Corps intelligence officer from 1984 to 1991 and a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He is the author of numerous books, including Iraq Confidential (Nation Books, 2005), Target Iran (Nation Books, 2006) and his latest, Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement (Nation Books, April 2007).
Iran Red Lines
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/07/iran-bomb-us-isra...
Washington Dispatch: Mother Jones has learned that a parade of high-level Israeli officials are on their way to the White House over the next two weeks to discuss Iran policy. Here's where the two countries differ on what to do next.
By Laura Rozen
July 10, 2008
Justin Raimando has an important article up about Iran and the push for a pre-emptive strike
Amber Alert
http://antiwar.com/justin/
Gawd I love Fafblog. Trouble breathing from laffing so hard.
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 5:
what, you have some sorta problem with tyrannical sleights of hand?
Did anyone read that article from naked capitalism? its ridiculous. He implies that free-trade is a failure but doesn't recognize that "free-trade" argreements are hardly free. They are more like "fair-trade" or "managed trade".
I ask people please research the true meaning of "free-market" before they go about blaming free-trade agreements(which are thousands of pages of rules and regulations- real free-trade doesn't even need one sentence) as proof of the negatives of a free-market.
We have not had real free-trade.
Clicking on the Cynic's Party link to the press release... links to the pdf file and quotes from a Congressman Bachus.... interesting coincidence, no?
Bachus
From the gang that promised $20 a barrel from the Iraq war and oversaw record profits for big oil as prices skyrocketed at the pump now lifts the ban on drilling promising.....you guessed it...lower prices at the pump!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/bush-to-lift-executive-ba_n_112...
Fool me once! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A
witnessed a very interesting phenomena this morning. This article having to do with the expansion of Illegal west bank settlements was posted at Firedoglake early this morning I posted it at Crooks and LIars. so you can get to the article posted via this link.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/14/israel-okays-new-factories-in-wbank-se...
But later that article about the expansion of Illegal settlements was taken down at Firedoglake. So if you go directly to Firedoglake and do not use the link that I provided earlier at Crooks and Liars You will see what I mean
Here is the direct link
http://firedoglake.com/
the earlier article about the expansion of illegal settlements was between Christy's latest on Senator Dorgan and the article about the Economy and is not longer there. Wondering why?
What if the Candidates Pandered to Economists?
"Senator Obama’s bad-mouthing of Nafta and his opposition to free-trade pacts with Colombia and South Korea make most economists cringe."
what, do most economists favor the assassination of labor leaders in colombia? i find that surprising.
do economists really believe that our trade deals are fair? are they that compromised, short sighted and dim? (don't answer that)
calling our trade deals "fair" is just about as accurate as referring to our market economy as "free"
Theguy @ 9:
that is not free trade, that is the 21st cen version of the slave trade.
as long as this false and insulting notion of "free" includes slave labor, environmental devastation, child abuse, etc. it is to be mocked and reviled.
NotionsCapital: Turdblssom found
Travelling to foreign lands - regardless their extradition treaties with the US (or lack thereof) may not be the safest of moves for members of the Bush Crime Family.
They've pissed off a lot of people who don't need official permission to .. err .. render justice to these thugs.
I'd prefer to see them rot in prison - preferably chained in uncomfortable positions in a large cage on wheels that tours the world's major cities.
After a fair trial, of course!
OT, but how 'bout the cover of the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine? If you're not aware of it, it shows Obama dressed as OBL and Michelle strapped with an AK-47. It's "humor" you know.
Happy Bastille Day everyone! We're partying like it's 1789 over at Les Enragés.org.
Dr Acula @ 16:
Just when you think they've sunk as low as they can, they go and prove you wrong. :-(
SadButTrue @ 18:
And the latest "snoozeweek" (Newsweek) poll shows 12% of 'merkins believe Obama is a Muslim.
Idiocracy indeed!
That article on Turdblossom is satyrical...right? Right?!
MountainMan23 @ 15:
and turdB should be careful, Americans traveling in unstable countries
get hurt or even shot. not a smart move when he now can not return
to the U S. does anyone see extraordinary rendition in turdB's future?
Wow, Mike. Thanks for linking to my guest post over on Blondesense. Makes my day feel a little sunnier.
Turdblossom found! You know, in the run-up to a presidential election, you would think that a high-price political analyst for a top-rated "news" network would have to postpone his vacations until after November.
Boy, it sure is hard for McCain to find scandal-free operatives for his campaign.
Emptywheel over at FDL discussing
Five Years Later–and the Attorney General Still Maintains the Cover-Up
By: emptywheel Monday July 14, 2008 6:39 am
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/
Amazing how the party that bangs the patriotism drum with such zeal can get away with treason.
Scott Ritter really kicking up the dust. Encouraging all of us to Call our Reps and demand congressional hearings on Iran
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10337/
Published on Monday, July 14, 2008 by TruthDig.com
Iran Shows Its Cards
by Scott Ritter
There can no longer be any doubt about the consequences of any U.S. and/or Israeli military action against Iran. Armchair warriors, pundits and blustering politicians alike have been advocating a pre-emptive military strike against Iran for the purpose of neutralizing its nuclear-related infrastructure, as well as retarding Iran’s ability to train and equip “terrorist” forces on Iranian soil before dispatching them to Iraq or parts unknown. Some, including me, have warned of the folly of such action, and now Iran itself has demonstrated why an attack would be insane
I'm sure the French Foreign Legion could extract Turblossom for us - for a fee.
Troy Queen actually whooped out the "What about the children"? defense in response to the GAY allegations.
I could not make this up!
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