See how Eschaton started the party last year....and yeah, this open thread is "just kind of a tease business."
Open Thread below....
Update: mystery solved, Bob Cesca made the "BillO in the Falafel Sammich" picture. Thanks, Bob!
Stephen Moore Gets His Ass Handed to Him on Health Care Reform on Real Time
Obama Finesses Furious Catholic Bishops On Contraception Issue
SNL Digital Short: Andy Samberg and Pee-wee Herman Get Drunk and Attack Anderson Cooper
White Nationalist Leader Peter Brimelow Among Panelists at CPAC
Breitbart to Occupy Protesters: 'Stop Raping People! You Freaks!' |
Breitbart to Occupy Protesters: 'Stop Raping People! You Freaks!' |
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Rachel Maddow Responds to Cal Thomas' Ugly Remarks at CPAC |
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Romney Tells CPAC: 'I Can’t Wait to Get My Hands on Washington' |
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Dispatch From CPAC: Day 1, Mitt Romney Called a Mexican |
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Ellen Responds to Anti-LGBT Group: 'My Haters Are My Motivators' |
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#StopColbert: Pelosi Says Stephen Doesn't Even Like Kittens |
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Michael Steele Loves States' Rights Argument Against Gays, But Not Against Blacks |
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Jon Stewart Knocks Romney For Saying He's 'Not Concerned About the Very Poor' |
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Bill Burton Rips Karl Rove's Lecture on 'Good Governance' |
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Rachel Maddow: PolitiFact... You Are Fired! |
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T. Boone Pickens’ Bold New Plan: Use Wind Power for ‘Swift Boats’
Karadzic on His Way to the Hague
By REUTERS 8 minutes ago
Radovan Karadzic is leaving Serbia and will soon be in the custody of the war crimes court at The Hague, Serbian government sources said on Wednesday.
may we soon see headlines like this for
bush cheney rove cundi and most of the bushco administration
The felafels are in his pants.
I'm not easily grossed out, but eeeewwwwwww!
Ah Sorry about the screw up John.
I wrote before that I'm starting to like the idea of Tim Kaine as Obama's VP.
He's from a swing state, he's got a degree in economics, he's been basically running a medium state for six years, and he really seems to care about people.
it's no bull$#!+, i nearly cried w/ pride for the FBI today when i heard about the stevens indictments.
that's some serious balls, nabbing an 84-year old crook who's been entrenched in alaskan politics since before they were even a state.
ted must have really pissed off some serious law-enforcers.
If we're fighting them there so we don't have to here, then why did the Brits get 3,000 passports- worth millions on the black market-stolen? Home prices suffer a record drop. The House finally apologizes for slavery and Jim Crow. Global warming hits Canada, eh? Stevens might make it easy for the Dems to win a majority, especially since he thinks he can continue to run for office, and hope people ignore his crime. The U.S. and India doesn't care about poor farmers.
since it's an open thread...
THE LEGEND OF BULLFROG
bullfrogs show up in the blues, the doors wrote "peace frog", etc.
the frog is amphibious, hard to keep up with, hopping about like yoda in star wars 2.
my best buddy a few years back, the most gifted musician i've ever known, got jacked on smack and f#cked some stuff up really bad. E-V-I-L, dig?
i asked a mutual friend, "what happened?"
and this friend told me that when this guy was young, he found a bullfrog. brought the frog up to his treehouse, built a terrarium, filled it with vegetation and water.
then, the neighborhood bullies found out. and when my friend was away, they came up and killed the bullfrog.
and THAT's when it started.
rove reminds me of my friend, that's why i stand up for him.
Hey, any of you C&Lers get to experience the earthquake this AM?
Woof, it was a good one. I thought for a bit I was going to be found under a pile of patient charts when the filing cabinets began to sway. Lasted a while, too.
More fun than the tornado's of my youth, I'll tell ya'.
"...and then you could turn around and kneel down and - do you like Vienna Sausages, baby? 'Course you do. So anyway..."
;-}
The original court docs of the Great Falafalizer
Sad day, RedlLasso is being shut down by the TV networks they were supporting and advertising. RedLasso was a site where bloggers could go to create clips of streamed media and then post those clips via a URL. It was free advertisement for news networks. It was also a way to create a real history of what was said and when it was said. I'm quite sure the networks and the administration don't want that power in the hands of normal people.
http://redlasso.com/landing.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx
It's just unbelievable how they are trying to blame Obama for what's happening in our country now. It's his fault gas prices are so high. I hope that even the dumbest repugnant can see through this B.S.
'Transsexuality gene' boosts male hormones
They'll nail it down one of these days and the Reich will laugh and say "Yeah - but scientists also said the earth was flat - ha ha ha ha!!"
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It seems to me that the best thing to do with BillO, et al is to simply STOP talking about them... EVER!
bullfrog @ 6:
The IRS may have helped reattach the FBI's balls when the co-raided (seriously) Ted Stevens house some months back.
SteveK @ 14:
He's sure as hell isn't going to quit talking about the progressives. He gave McClellan hell today but wouldn't admit or apoligize to the shit he said about McClellan.
bullfrog @ 8:
That's a sad story man.
vice president:
the timing of the john edwards "scandal" leads me to believe there are some high profile corporate jack@$$es who are pulling out all the stops to keep him off the ticket -because he can't be bought and paid for.
i hope obama still taps edwards. edwards' scandal is nothing compared to the dirt we got on maverick.
if not, i like kathleen sebelius, then bill richardson, then tim kaine.
but NO hillary, and this is where amato and i disagree.
we don't need bubba running around the W-House w/ his di%K wagging in the wind until the wee hours of the night....
Is the sex addict getting any relief?
Ron @ 12:
Well he IS the most liberal senator...like Kerry was in his days...or Gore...or Clinton.
Orangutan. @ 17:
it's 100% true.
it plays out endlessly like a Confucian parable in my mind, every night...
How come nobody invites Michael Savage as a guest on the cable news talk shows? He's got 8.5 million listeners. That should count for something.
orcas @ 22:
How about the fact that he's totally f*cking nuts and they want to pretend that they have some credibility.
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 20:
dadams @ 2:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/29/karadzic.deportation/inde...
We need to make sure President Obama demands investigations and allows these war criminals to be deported.
orcas @ 22:
Michael Savage is a punk!
JustSickOfIt @ 25:
You mean extradited.
Hey guys, how are you all doing tonight. Say, I hate to be a downer, but a huge chunk of ice from Ellesmere Island in the Arctic Ocean just broke off. Seriously. This is bad.
Nancy Pelosi gets confronted by some people who are mad as hell and aren't taking it anymore...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_uNIVU5Wns
Patriots.
calgarylady @ 28:
Is it glacial break off and do you have a link?
calgarylady @ 28:
Global warming? Don't bother us, were busy trying to make money!
Nancy Pelosi spews Bullshit on The View...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJs4UNZ3LFE
Ron @ 30:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iFr6wu-1Zc2L9hnf_3MFzXez0tIgD927Q2O86
It was on the CBC news tonight. Ron, you know how horrible I am at linking things ... :)
Orangutan. @ 29:
"Can you write, 'Down with the two-party dictatorship and new world order?'"
"No."
Thanks, Orangutan, for that link :)
Tequila @ 7:
We could ask why the British civil service and MoD MI6 MI5 and assorted other government depts lose laptops with confidential and top secret data on them almost on a monthly basis.
If it wasnt so serious for security it would be hilarious.
In Britain its socially acceptable to go to the pub and have a drink at lunchtime, and people drink after work, so what does the average Brit civil servant do ? they take their work laptop with them and then lose them in taxis or in some bar.
It happens here in the US too, but they keep it more under wraps.
Check out this kick ass picture of what the internet means to a lot of people...
"The Internet" ~ JPEG Image
Orangutan. @ 38:
If it was a house of cards it would be easy to knock down. I'm afraid it's worse than that.
Charred meat might be carcinogenic.
calgarylady @ 36:
No Prob :) Here's one with a picture.. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/29/iceshelf-fracture.html
Obama says he'll do away with executive orders which "trample" on liberty.
rand corporation u.s. should rethink their war against terror
http://rand.org/news/press/2008/07/29/
The Internets is still not allowed to cover China during the Olympics.
constituent @ 43:
Good. The "war on terror" is the biggest fraud/hoax played upon humanity. We aren't going after Bin Laden. We aren't investigating the Anthrax. We are going after Iraq's natural resources and setting up the world for a corporate dictatorship. It's hard to accept the predicament we are in I agree.. but it is the only way out as well.
2b @ 10, I didn't see your comment until now. How ya doin ?
~ Nancy Pelosi's Book Tour ~
7/29/2008 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128, 212-415-5654, Noon, For Tix Call 212.415.5500
7/30/2008 Synagogue at 6th and I, 600 I Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20001, 202-364-1919, 7 pm
8/2/2008 Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, 202-364-1919, 3 p.m.
8/4/2008 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Columbia Point, Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125, 617-514-1645, 5:30 pm
8/5/2008 Free Library of Philadelphia (Central Library), Montgomery Auditorium 1901 Vine St., Philadelphia, PA 19103, 215-567-4341, 7 pm
8/6/2008 Temple Judea, 5500 Granada Blvd., Miami, FL 33146, 305-442-4408, 7:30 pm
8/7/2008 Borders Books, 612 East Liberty St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 734-668-7652, 7 pm
8/11/2008 American Jewish University, Gindi Auditorium 15600 Mulholland Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90077, 310-659-3110, 7 pm
8/12/2008 Dominican University, Angelico Hall 50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901, 415-927-0960, 7 pm
8/13/2008 Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Pkwy., Redwood City, CA 94065, 415-382-6022, 7 pm
8/14/2008 Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, Pier 2, San Francisco, CA 94123, 415-643-3400x11, 7 pm
8/20/2008 Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th Street, Denver, CO 80202, 303-436-1070, 5:30 pm
Confront her and tell her what you want or ask for it if you are polite. Consider taping it and putting it on the internet for others to enjoy and share. America ~ Land of the free. Home of the Brave.
Tequila @ 44:
They'll never get any respect until they stop being a series of tubes.
RobertD @ 48:
The tubes and a bridge to nowhere guy has been indicted.
bullfrog @ 8:
Yo Bullfrog, have you seen the documentary "Bush's Brain" Maybe you could get it through Netflix or Rent it at your local Blockbuster or Library. It's worth a look into this. Anyway. I'Respect your compassion. No doubt about that.
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The Systematic Destruction of Voting Rights in America (Part 1) Heidi Stevenson, (NaturalNews)
You might be very sadly mistaken.
Voting rights are under systematic attack in the United States. Techniques include:
* Outright disenfranchisement.
* Vote switching in election machines.
* Refusal to allow the public to see how votes are counted.
* Use of the people's courts by political parties and corporations to subvert the law.
* Use of lawsuit threats by large corporations against cash-strapped local governments to prevent them from examining voting machines.
Each one might not seem like a major issue, but taken together, it's clear that there's a coordinated attack on American citizens' rights to vote.
Vote Flipping
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Voter Caging
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Lack of Transparency in Vote Counting
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Lawsuit Threat
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A Chilling Subversion of Our Democracy
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References
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
Josef Stalin
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Why is today Falafel Day in the first place anyway?
chicano2nd @ 31:
Plus , the large chunks of tar and residual oil from the offshore oil rigs will insulate the ocean again like a giant ice cooler.
yes, we're fucked!!
evangelicals warn mcBush not to pick mittens or else
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/29/mitt-romney-mccains-vice_n_1156...
So how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Bushee-pop?
Only Angry O'rpheus knows.
GNA!
Leave Bill O'Reilly ALONE!
Can't a man be passionate about his fried Middle Eastern foods in peace?
bullfrog @ 6:
So when's Mukasey going to have it dropped or congress going to give him retroactive immunity?
this to me was going backwards in the evolution of people and politics......goodling passed over qualified democrat
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/28/goodling-passed-over-experienced-cou...
princess is in the fetal position because everyone is teasing her hero, O'Racist.
You know, the terrorist penguins and polar bears, some of them on ice floes, could surf their way onto your shores and do some serious damage if they wanted to.
Gee, I wonder if Chertoff has a bad feeling in his stomach today. We can always rely on Chertoff, right ?
Gotta go, early morning for me tomorrow. Had fun .... night, all.
chicano2nd @ 19:
i'm doing fine, i just masturbate if mrs. skippy isn't home to help me out, thanks for asking.
Orangutan. @ 29:
Did he ever get his bag back?
The EPA hates
the Everglades. I know it won't make up for phone companies being able to spy on you, but a judge ruled that cell phone termination fees are illegal.
Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 51:
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
Josef Stalin
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Everyone here should be voting in Democrats as Secretary of States in order to stop the theft of our voting rights.
you know, im really afraid of november. i looked at the gallup poll of mccain vs obama for the last 2 months and its neck and neck. i mean in my mind and basically all the minds of the news blogs i go to, mccain is way off.
he isnt. he's right there.
he's so fucking dumb but he's right there. im afraid because in a race this close its bound to be stolen by the same shmucks who stole the last 2. and then what? the hold on war is let go and the rest of our
sluzzuls @ 66:
having some concern is normal i know how you feel but the reality at least my reality is that the polls mean little. what's going to be important is young people turnout. i hope to vote early if possible and volunteer during the elections. the country is so divided on cultural issues nothing gets done
and the wingnut plan to turn the united state into the worlds richest 3rd world country continues unabated, as due to the banking collapse, ma is unable to provide low cost loans to university students
they want us ignorant and untrained
8 fucking years
sully18 @ 63:
It looks like he might have gotten it back at the very end when the cameraman was arguing with the cop over the cigarette being a weapon.
Great vid. and kudos to the citizens with courage to confront the warcriminals.
.......How come nobody invites Michael Savage as a guest on the cable news talk shows? He’s got 8.5 million listeners. That should count for something.
How about the fact that he’s totally f*cking nuts and they want to pretend that they have some credibility.......
Must run in the family. I knew somebody in Austin, Texas with the same sur name and she was f+cking nuts too.
In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color.
In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives – overwhelming Black voters.
In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor.
In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.
http://www.gregpalast.com/
Merrill Lynch, if you havent read whats going on there, go do so.
They are the poster child for the Repug economic miracle and atypical of whats going down in the financial world at the moment.
Their CEO got a 161 million dollar golden goodbye last december as they kicked his sorry ass out the door.
Third quarter this year will be the fifth quarterly loss in a row, CDOs sold off at effectively 5c on the dollar.
Share price down to 1/3 of what it was a year ago and going lower, they are paying out billions in compensation to the corporate investors who bought their shares when they were $48.
Posted a loss of $10 a share, plus share dilution scheme going on so shares halved in value for ordinary stockholders, so any non corporate suckers who still have shares owe Merill money.
So its just a matter of time before they do a Bear Sterns and get rescued and or sold off for pennies to another Wall Street shark.
And a last minor comment on Wall Street, they paid out a mere thirty eight billion dollars in bonuses (because they did so well in 06/07) to their execs and staff late 2007, just before it went all pear shaped :)
Its rather farcical in a way, Republican economic wolves gone wild, but effects us all, some more so than others and everybody with a 401K and prices and to an extent the general economic health of the nation.
"we dont need no stinkin regulation"
And the amazing thing about the various large financial companies and other companies liek Starbucks is the fact that they are being driven into the ground by their current boards of management, and the share holders who own the companies seem to be happy about the directors doing it.
If I was a Starbucks share holder in this situation, I would be very peed off that the company was decimating itself and destroying 10% of its regional outlets that cost so much to build up, both in cash and peoples efforts.
The amount of work and resources required to create all those cafes around the country and the top management decimate the company to save their short term profits and hang onto their jobs, they are appeasing the big investors who dont really give a damn about the long term survival of Starbucks or its presence in the high (main) street.
To keep the cafes/stores open (and as a Starbucks outlet in its district) it should be a basic business strategy to say half the cafe floor space, and maybe sell catfood or organic bread or newspaper/ books anyhting to keep it alive and running as a Starbucks outlet.
OK so expensive coffee is a bit of a luxury thing at the moment and not in demand so much in this climate, they could sell other products to coffee lovers in a Starbucks, its not rocket science to realize this and implement it.
IRAQ:
Iraq Bombings Kill Scores, Wound Hundreds in Baghdad, Kirkuk
Iraq Soldier Discusses His "Kills" (VIDEO)
AFGHANISTAN:
Afghan Ambassador Trumpets Obama Agenda
Afghanistan Nearly Twice As Deadly For US Troops As Iraq So Far In July
lafin gas @ 71:
This is how the Republicans are going to steal the 2008 election, doesnt matter that they have a joke as a candidate, the VP will be the one pulling the strings, McC*nt can spend his days doing a 'Reagan' and talking on a faux telephone to pretend people.
ferrofluid (Barack Hillary 08) @ 73:
the average shareholder is both powerless and trusting as sell as generally unaware. they vote their proxy to one of the thieves at the top(boardmember). the new corporate management mindset hasn't sunk in for these people. In all fairness, they don't deserve any sympathy if they see what's going on and do nothing.
'Mission Accomplished' May 2003, how we remember it well.
I wonder if a puppet government wants its masters to leave the country, does it THEN count as an occupation if they wont leave !
ferrofluid (Barack Hillary 08) @ 73:
your model holds firm and true. the problem is that it's basic common sense and that would only be employed by a small business.
the corporate internal model is monolithic, pathological, voracious and generally self-toxic, like any fascist entity. It's design is to funnel money upwards.
After 7 Years, Talks on Trade Collapse
By STEPHEN CASTLE and MARK LANDLER
After years of on-again, off-again negotiations, world trade talks collapsed in rancor, ending hopes of a deal to open markets and cut farm subsidies.
Sorry, but Brett Farve is an idiot.
C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants
By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT
The agency presented Pakistan with evidence showing that members of its spy service had deepened ties with militant groups responsible for a surge of violence in Afghanistan.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 76:
I know vaguely how the system works, just being sarky and incredulous at the few (if any) remaining private investors in these scams.
They can only vote with their selling off of their shares, I suspect most will have done so by now.
Only the high risk rescue share owners who like playing with monies in dying companies will be gambling with company shares like Merill at the moment.
I have a BIL who did the early retirement thing in his mid late forties after twenty fives years working for 3M, he was slightly smug in a quiet way when he did this, now he is rethinking his plans.
I remember the 07 thanksgiving dinner, BIL was talking with SIL about money matters, and about gov bonds and where was the better place to put retirement money and savings, obviously things went down hill.
I am poor as a church mouse myself, and I dont begrudge the BIL his plans or his earned wealth, feel quite sorry for him really.
Iraqi Army Seeks Out Insurgents and Arms in Diyala, Backed by U.S. Forces
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
The drive is the fifth in recent months aimed at further reducing violence and extending the reach of both the Iraqi Army and the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
ferrofluid (Barack Hillary 08) @ 82:
I did not mean to patronize, so sorry if I sounded like that. I, too, had some problems with a stock-based portfolio and have been moving stuff away from there.
Question: Why are they called "SECURITIES"???
ferrofluid (Barack Hillary 08) @ 75:
Keep 2006 in mind and work to that end.
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 68:
8 fucking years!
Yep! that's all it took.
U.S. Reports Drop in Homeless Population
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
The number of chronically homeless people dropped by about 30 percent between 2005 and 2007, Bush administration officials said on Tuesday.
Blackwater to airdrop Xbox 360's to US troops to boost recruitment efforts
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/07/27/controversial-blackwater-worldwid...
And poor poor dildo, I'm sure it just feels bad that it didn't get to fellate shrubbie and rover while it was given its marching orders by them.
Suicide Hot Line Received Calls From 22,000 Veterans
more...
all hail the hypno toad @ 88:
no doubt the xbox will be pre-loaded with 'halo3'.
U.S. Blacks, if a Nation, Would Rank High on AIDS
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
If black America were a country, it would rank 16th in the world in the number of people living with the AIDS virus, the Black AIDS Institute says.
i don't keep up with comments a lot, and i'm sure my curiosity must have been answered at some point in one forum or another, but i do wonder why the press has never asked john mccain what wars he has won with his abililty to fight them so well, and what leadership qualilties he possesses that better prepare him for the presidency than obama, whose readiness he demeans so often.
Billo the KKKlown!
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 87:
private prisons, private profits and clean streets with no annoying protesting homeless/ foreclosed peoples.
We have 2,200,000 plus in the US Gulag system at the moment, with another two or four million in the probation or parole satellite system.
Then theres the 500,000 plastic boxes being stored down in Georgia for a rainy day.
Orangutan. @ 47:
She giggled her way out of all those softball questions she got on The View.
Great article in the WaPo this morning about the McCain campaign's repeated lies about Obama's trip to Germany last week.
(free registration required)
McCain Charge Against Obama Lacks Evidence
For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a military hospital because he could not take reporters with him, despite no evidence that the charge is true.
The attacks are part of a newly aggressive McCain operation whose aim is to portray the Democratic presidential candidate as a craven politician more interested in his image than in ailing soldiers, a senior McCain adviser said. They come despite repeated pledges by the Republican that he will never question his rival's patriotism.
The essence of McCain's allegation is that Obama planned to take a media entourage, including television cameras, to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany during his week-long foreign trip, and that he canceled the visit when he learned he could not do so. "I know that, according to reports, that he wanted to bring media people and cameras and his campaign staffers," McCain said Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."
The Obama campaign has denied that was the reason he called off the visit. In fact, there is no evidence that he planned to take anyone to the American hospital other than a military adviser, whose status as a campaign staff member sparked last-minute concern among Pentagon officials that the visit would be an improper political event.
"Absolutely, unequivocally wrong," Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said in an e-mail after McCain's comments to Larry King.
Despite serious and repeated queries about the charge over several days, McCain and his allies continued yesterday to question Obama's patriotism by focusing attention on the canceled hospital visit.
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Pretty well describes my mood this morning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtDWPN4s8Vo
Daily Reading pt 1...
We don't have time for the Republican War on Science: Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf - http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2931485920080729
Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday July 29. Temperatures in large parts of the Arctic have risen far faster than the global average in recent decades, a development that experts say is linked to global warming. The ice broke away from the shelf on Ward Hunt Island, an small island just off giant Ellesmere Island in one of the northernmost parts of Canada. It was the largest fracture of its kind since the nearby Ayles ice shelf -- which measured 25 square miles -- broke away in 2005.
This is why the Bush White House put the gag order on the EPA, Johnson is a scumbag and should never be allowed to work in the field of science ever again...what part of the scientific method states obstruction of facts & data is ok??
EPA - your allegiance is to the safety of the american public, your family, and the health of this nation...not the worst president in history...
Massive piece of Ward Hunt Ice Shelf collapses - http://www.desmogblog.com/massive-piece-of-ward-hunt-ice-shelf-collapses
According to NASA: Loss of sea ice can have major implications for global climate. Because of its light appearance, sea ice reflects most of the Sun’s energy back into space, whereas darker seawater absorbs most of the incoming radiation and could potentially warm Earth’s climate. As sea ice continues to melt, more radiation will be absorbed by the ocean.
Senator John McCain the Oil and Gas Presidential Pick - http://www.desmogblog.com/senator-john-mccain-the-oil-and-gas-presidenti...
Uneven Stevens, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens indicted over dodgy dealings with oil-services firm - http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/7/29/114432/537
Following a series of tubes, that leads to a bridge to nowhere: Sen. Ted Stevens Indicted On 7 Criminal Charges - http://www.kfoxtv.com/politics/17027160/detail.html
First Senator in 15 years to be indicted: Indictment of Stevens adds to bleak GOP prospects - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/stevens_indictment;_ylt=Avf8yNPoTJNF8niIB9dl88es0NUE
The Justice Department on Tuesday accused Stevens of accepting expensive work on his home in Girdwood, Alaska, a ski resort town outside Anchorage, from VECO and its executives. VECO normally builds oil processing equipment and pipelines, but its employees helped do the work on Stevens' home.
Prosecutors said that work included a new first floor, garage, wraparound deck, plumbing and electrical wiring. He also is accused of accepting from VECO a gas grill, furniture and tools, and of failing to report swapping an old Ford for a new Land Rover for his daughter Lily.
Stevens had been expected to win his six-way primary on Aug. 26, and then go on to face a steep challenge from Mark Begich, the Democratic mayor of Anchorage.
THE GOP CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, is Alive and Well....remember this in November...just another Republican on the take from Big Oil....Drilling solves Nothing...THINK, THINK, THINK
Blood for Oil: Oh man: 'Richard Perle has almost always gone along with the Bush administration's policies. But now the longtime neoconservative policy wonk is trying to get in on an oil-drilling deal with Iraqi Kurds despite the administration's public opposition to such deals there.' - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/top_neocon_richard_per...
Remember back in 2003 when those of us who knew that this invasion & occupation of Iraq was about Oil...and the right wingnut noise machine when into superspin mode saying it was a tin foil conspiracy....well, we told you so...
Another Bush Legacy: Struggling College Students Turn to Food Banks. Oh Yeah, and Did You Read That Many of Them Cannot Get Reasonable Loans Anymore to Pay for College? The GOP Has Attacked This Nation with a Wrecking Ball.
- http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5451082
If this sounds good to you...vote for McBush...
As gas prices soar, campaign ads are on the attack against GOP candidates for their oil industry ties. The anger isn't just about high gas prices, it's about the obscene wealth from the oil companies, especially when they won't spend some of that money to drill where they already have leases.
- http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil29-2008jul29,0,4617522.story
McCain's Spin on the 'Surge' -Jason Leopold - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/072908a.html
Flip-Flop: "Over the past several weeks, John McCain and his backers have touted his early endorsement of the Iraq War “surge” as evidence of his political courage, but it could be equally viewed as an act of political desperation, to forestall total calamity in Iraq and to avert disaster for broader neoconservative objectives in the Middle East. McCain’s endorsement of the “surge” in January 2007 also represented a repudiation of his previous support for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s concept of using a light force of mobile U.S. troops, backed by technology and air power, to win the war.
Daily Reading pt 2...
Caught on tape: Army recruiters threaten high school students - http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou080728_tnt_armyrecruiters.eb1...
So Gonzales signed up - but only to "pre-enlist" in the Delayed Entry Program. DEP allows kids to try out the military without a binding commitment. But the 11 News Defenders have found there is a problem: Army recruiters aren't sticking to the program and are bullying and even lying to potential recruits and their families to keep them from dropping out. After he had a change of heart, Gonzalez became one such victim. "I'd rather just stay here, go to college," he said he told his recruiter. The reaction: Gonzalez said a recruiter told him if he did drop out, they would send him to jail.
dubya the movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyDvUwRalXY&eurl=
'The chief executive of BP, Tony Hayward, has warned that the long term trend for oil and gas prices spells more pain for consumers.' - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/07/29/bcnton...
Mr Hayward said that margins in the division have "fallen markedly" because of falling petrol consumption, particularly in the US, and "we are sailing into a gale in our refining business.
BP expects to resume full output at Texas City, its largest refinery in the US, by early next year following the 2005 explosion that killed 15 workers.
An Oil-based economy is doomed....act now and we prevail, delay at our own peril...
What Jesus Wouldn't Do: Republicans and Prosperity Theologists - http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/335
A look at the religious right and their religion for profit scam...
Maverick McCain Turns Mean; In This Presidential Contest, There's Little Left of the Charming McCain of 2000; And we still have a long way to go. - http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/little-left-of
'The United States can defeat al-Qaida if it relies less on force and more on policing and intelligence to root out the terror group's leaders, a new study contends.' which is not what Bush has been doing.
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_al_qaida
The 'war on terror' is a PR front...for the GOP & Big Oil/Old Energy....Bush has decimated the CIA & FBI and privatized 'intelligence for profit' has ruined our ability to defend the nation
Rachel Maddow: "There's a difference between being a veteran and supporting a veteran as a politician." - http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/rachel-maddow-theres-difference-betwe...
Paul Waldman: For years, Republicans have out-played Democrats, particularly on media strategy. This year, with Barack Obama, Democrats have the upper hand. - http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=playing_his_own_game
Senators on the GOP side are abandoning the McCain ship. Nine of them aren’t coming to the GOP convention, and Ted Stevens has been indicted. - http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/07/29/the-gop-senatorial-circus-step-righ...
Nine of 12 targeted Republicans running in the most competitive Senate races this fall are either skipping the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., or have not decided whether to attend.
Think Progress: Top Russian diplomat: 'We're not interested in what McCain has to say.' - http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/29/top-russian-diplomat-were-not-intere...
Daily Reading pt 3...
Time To Hold Conservative Democrats Accountable: Let's Give 'Blue Dogs' the Boot - Glenn Greenwald - http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/07/29/blue_dogs_die/
What we already knew: A murderer's bookshelf: Hannity, O'Reilly, and Savage on killer's reading list - http://reclaimthemedia.org/media_literacy_bias/a_murderers_bookshelf_han...
You can add this POS to the list of right wingnut heroes including; Eric Rudolph, Terry Nichols, & Timothy McVeigh...
Speaking of right wingnut, psychotic anger: Brent Budowsky: John McCain's Anger Problem - http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/07/28/john-mccains-anger-problem/
Aide to U.S. Senator Jim Webb found dead from apparent gunshot wound on Virginia highway. Circumstances leading to death not yet determined. - http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/171148
Obama vows to review Bush’s executive orders - http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-vows-to-review-bushs-executive...
Well, someone has to restore the Constitution and the rule of law to the United States of America, and its not going to be John McBush...
The Enron Loophole - http://seekingalpha.com/article/81243-the-enron-loophole
New Honda Hybrid System Likely to Cost 50% Less than Civic Hybrids - http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/new-honda-hybri.html
Battleground Earth, Starring Ludacris and Tommy Lee, Premieres Thursday on Planet Green - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/planet-green-battleground-earth-...
Uh oh,
To all the altruistic liberals out there...you might not like this, but Obama is a believer in self-interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html
AAAAhhhhhhhhggghghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Run for the hills!!!!!!!!!
Tequila @ 7:
"But the United States feared its agribusinesses would lose new markets just as it made painful cuts in its farm subsidies."
Translated: The US feared that Monsanto can't control more of the world's food supply.
ldzppln @ 96:
McCain should talk... if he cared so much about our military veterans he would have supported Senator Webb's Veteran's Bill. Hey old man McCain, put your money where your mouth is.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/icon.html
Obama 292 McCain 195 Ties 51
CAlI @ 15:
That sounds like FBI SOP: let someone else do the real work and then jump in at the last minute with fanfare and take the credit.
Apologize For Slavery? How Did THAT Happen?
Orangutan. @ 32:
does this mean palosi has given up draining up the swamp in dc ? the bitch!
Until this very minute...I loved falafel...thanks for ruining it for me bluegal...seriously though, that is a naaahasty lookin falafel....even without BOR's big fat empty head in there.
falafel's and PITA. Gives new meaning to the Acronym for "pain in the ass".......Bill is sitting on his little friend.
Stop it already!! I may never be able to eat a Falafel giro style sandwich again! O'Reilly does not deserve to be in the same sandwich as falafel and eggplant. He should be in a ------- (fill in the blank).
We know what FOX is, OK? It's easy to pick on them.
But by such a narrow minded focus, we let MSNBC in particular and CNN and even Brian Lamb's C-span get away the same, or even worse, hard core propaganda and biases.
Have you seen any of Obama's commericals on MSNBC or CNN. NO! Heard any of Obama's policies??
They've played the McCain clip for free, blasting Obama for not visiting the troops almost as frequently as a paid commercial.
And now this morning on C-span's Washington Journal, who by the way gets almost all their callers from the Southeastern part of the country, the callers screened by C-span are saying what...??
Blasting Obama for "not visiting the troops because the press couldn't come".
While you were playing with the Foxes the weasels got your chickens ..and their eggs.
Great Job American people!! You and McCain ++ every Right wing Republican judge, Televangelist, Neocon and Congressmen pulling his strings -- will be very happy, I'm sure!!
FedUp @ 106:
Convenience store hot dog...nothing but lips and assholes!
Orcas @22,
It always amazes me that right wing psycopaths love to point out the number of imbeciles that watch Fox or listen to nutjobs like Savage. As though the fact that America has 8.5 million clueless, sick assholes like the moron in Tennessee, is something to be proud of!
There is also an esitmated 6-9 million psychos in America who enjoy hurting other people. Maybe clear channel can get Charles Manson a talk show! Then the wingnuts can tell us how "mainstream" he is because he has 9,000,000 liteners. WTF!
This picture is an INSULT TO THE FALEFEL... BillO I hope you rot in hell... sooner... not later.
bullfrog @ 8:
Dude, I'm not buying the "sympathy for the devil" logic on Rove. I was horribly bullied in grade school and jr high, I did not let it turn me into a vile sociopathic scum bag. We are responsible for our adult selves.
sully18 @ 63:
Yes. That's when he left.
Orangutan. @ 17:
Oh fuckin PLEASE!!!
That's the BIGGEST pile of steaming horseshit I ever heard...not the story so much, but using it as a reason to defend Karl fucking Rove! WTF?!
Sorry, but that don't wash...I had bad things happen to me in my childhood...I was bullied some...I never became an evil SOB because of it. Once you're an adult, you can no longer blame past events on present behaviors.
If you're invited to bill o'really's house to eat falafel sandwiches be careful
Not only would the falafel be awful
But be wary of the white sauce that goes on them.
It might not be tzatziki sauce.
Just something speciall o'really personally whipped up.
Ok...just got this from the ACLU...I didn't even know this was in the works...scary scary shit!!!
I signed the petition, so should you, please do so and forward to EVERYONE you know that gives a shit about freedom and justice.
Thanks.
http://action.aclu.org/mukasey
119 liberalMcSuuuurgeNmoderation
I signed the petition, so should you, please do so and forward to EVERYONE you know that gives a shit about freedom and justice.
__________________________________________________________________
You want us to take a dump on freedom and justice?
ysbaddaden @ 120:
LOL! YSB you're such a damn smartass!
Just reminded me of the Mr.Show episode where David Cross tries to shit, puke, and piss on the Flag and couldn't...ah that was funny..I miss that show.
I am a California transplant living in Ms. (Going back in 2 weeks). I have been in all of the quakes since I arrived in California in 1954 when my father's job took us there from Michigan. The magnitude of the quakes have been varied in intensity but the 1989 Loma Prieta quake took the cake IMO. I was living in Santa Cruz and driving a bus and had just pulled out of the Capitola mall when the quake hit. I was headed back to the downtown transit center when my bus started rolling on a wave on the asphalt below. I watched a truck skip across the lawn sideways. I announced to my passengers that we were having an earthquake and to remain calm. I was able to navigate my bus through the damaged pavement which was raised and buckled. 'When I approach 7th and Capitola Rd., a yellow car was on the other side of the intersection, abandoned because the rolling pavement had caught its undercarriage and rendering it inoperable. I proceeded up the hill and it was apparent that it was a bad quake with all the broken windows that I saw going down Soquel avenue. I made it to the transit center watching the downtown skyline filled with fire and smoke. This was the same day for the opening of the World Series at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, so the effects of the quake was felt over a wide area. Living here in the south has its moments with the tornadoes and severe thunderstorms but I much rather be in California because even with the aftershocks, it is more tolerable than the uncertainty of the weather here in the south.
GOPnot4me @ 9:
Nobody is asking you to take a dump. That is a personal issue. If you want this erosion on the civil liberities of all of us to end then you should sign the petition.
Remember what Mark Twain quoted. "You should support your country all of the time but only support the government when it deserves it." We are not supposed to answer to their BS. We need to take a lesson in civics from our other Democratic allies like France so that we will have a manual on what it means to live in a Democracy and instructions on what to do when the government does something that is contrary to the Constitution'
Problems are solved by those people who care about their country but problems are created by those who don't.
ysbaddaden @ 120:
Thanks Tony, But I consider YSB a friend, and a smartass. He's on our side, trust me.
tony @ 123:
Hey-- didn't that new sandwich place just start offering a new one--
the Billo:
It's Flafel on Loofa bread.
Yuck! O'Reilly is one twisted, lying nutcase. I read on NEwshounds today that he edited out good stuff from the video tape of his radio interview with Scott McClellan. He thrives on twisting and lying. Check out the comment section to see his spin. McClellan should be pissed at the editing.
If any one cares, here's a little update on our bridges.
Voter caging? Question: Has anyone realized how many people will not be able to vote in the next election because they have lost their homes recently due to bad mortgage decisions and mortgage fraud. If they don't bother to re-register and try to go to their old polling place they may get turned away. The only question is, will this problem benefit one party more than the other? Are the people loosing their homes more likely democratic voters or republican? Hmmmmm? Is there a correlation between democratic precincts and sub-prime loans? Look at this data and one gets the idea that voter turnout may be less than expected in some communities. http://www.economicmodeling.com/resources/397_data-spotlight-a-map-of-su... I wonder what the results are if we overlay this on a county basis? http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
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