Mike's Blog Round Up
By Mike Finnigan Friday Aug 01, 2008 11:00amState of the Day: The script doctor's 'narrative.'
Politicker: Oklahoma politician's offensive comic book - with the phrase "anal sodomy" in it - doesn't win him re-election. Meanwhile, a Texas State Representative gets caught using campaign contributions to buy $1500 cowboy boots, a Texas Republican Congressman is getting some heat for holding a fundraiser in a Vegas burlesque joint, a Kansan sticks it to the election system, and in Iowa, a judge says "it's about time"
Emptywheel: Scott McClellan dismantles Cheney's Plame firewall
Newshoggers: Republican hypocrites will even run against the GOP brand to get elected. Not surprising coming from a pack of liars who can unblushingly blame Democrats for energy woes and call for more drilling access despite the fact that their Big Oil constituency is shipping record amounts of gasoline and diesel fuel to other countries, enjoying enormous, record profits, while ducking responsibility for massive pollution.
10 Zen Monkeys: This roundup of YouTube clips is meant to give a small sense of what it's like for the people who are killing and getting killed in Iraq - a view that, limited as it is, one can't possibly get from the mainstream newsmedia.
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De ja Vu
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25974346/
Great article about the solving of the anthrax murders. All the victims and families are satisfied, feel the case is closed and the facts are obvious now that the dude committed suicide, and that there is nothing left to see here.
Way to go NBC! Great coverage!
I wouldn't pay $15.00 for shit-kicker boots.
curtilingus @ 2:
There seems to be a steady campaign to close the case, from the scrawled illiterate LOLcatz style court papers 'he wuz the wun did it, case ended'
to the estranged brother who hadnt seen him in 23 years but was an expert on his murderous bro.
There are many many testimonies from people who worked with and knew Bruce Invins and are saying that he wasnt the monster that the MSM and others are foisting on us.
He was one of 20 people under suspicion and close FBI surveillance, Invins happened to be sort of a whistle blower at USAMRIID in 2002, and got into trouble for doing safety checks beyond normal, found Anthrax contamination in staff areas and it took 10 days for his bosses to get their PR release ready, THEN they told their employees...
They comitted him to a mental hospital, stuffed him full of psychotropic meds, then he comitted sucide, surprised !,
sounds like how the Soviet Unions handling of dissidents and political trouble makers.
You know the MSM are lying or something, when their careful showcase report is cough preceded (cough can indicate a lie)
Something stinks about this mostly anon hearsay railroading of Ivins.
2 curtilingus
The other day on another thread, princess was gloating on about this suicide calling it no more terrorism in the country since 9-11. Technically it could be called domestic terrorism. I did hear last night, however, on Washington Week in Review that the law was trying to provide a motive, claiming he had invented a universal anthrax cure that he wanted to patent, and he wanted to provoke a mild outbreak so he could ride in and save the day. But the strains were more potent than he even realized.
However, his suicide makes proving a motive as well as if he were working on someone's behest, moot. As I pointed out the other day, it's all too convenient, like the Washington Madam's suicide. Particularly since the scientist was a high government scientist. Additionally, if he created some kind of vaccine on government time and/or on government lab equipment, wouldn't such a patent belong to the government, thus decreasing any profitiability?
The reporters said it would probably be considered a solved case--something booshco could brag about though the reporter did not say. But I would think even if the FBI are sure of their suspect, if he's never tried, he's innocent until proven guilty, and the case would be filed as unsolved. It's kind of like the Ken Lay case. Because he was appealing the lower court decision when he died, his family got to keep his ill-botten gooty.
What is it with twerps like Brent Rinehart? Does he go through life trying to picture how other folk "do it?" Is he in the eighth grade? No, then it might be understandable. He's a friggin' pervert and deserved to lose. Maybe he should find another hobby. But not animal husbandry.
The double-hulled tanker Tintomara involved in the recent collision in the Mississippi (spilling fuel oil & blocking the river for several days) was loaded with about 4.2 million gallons of biodiesel (and nearly 1.3 million gallons of styrene) headed for Rotterdam. (The collision was not the fault of the tanker .. but that's not my point.)
That's 4.2 million gallons of biodiesel, manufactured from US grown soybeans, being shipped thousands of miles and sold to a foreign buyer.
#1) Soybeans are FOOD. People can eat them or feed them to livestock and eat the livestock. Making biodiesel from foodstock is responsible for a 75% increase in food prices worldwide.
#2) If we ARE going to make biodiesel from foodstocks, then let's use the biodiesel HERE.
This is how covert government introduces lies and smears into the MSM,
if they believe their PR, or are telling the truth or the official gov line, then they should stand by their releases with their names.
Court orders journalist to tell, $5000 per day contempt.
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ysbaddaden @ 5:
You have to consider the MO of the names in the news, Ivins wrote and performed poems and songs for retiring or leaving colleages,
he did charity work, juggled for kids, and sounds like a liberal thinking person.
Hatfill designed a mobile offesive Anthrax production lab for the CIA, which was designed to be used by SF types for producing Antharx int he field for bad purposes.
It chalk and cheese, and speaks volumes about who they were are as people.
ysbaddaden @ 5:
Check out Glenn Greenwald's Vital Unresolved Anthrax Questions and ABC News (from Salon but republished at Common Dreams - no site pass needed).
ABC News repeatedly quoted three or four "unnamed sources" that the anthrax attacks had to be coming from Iraq because bentonite had been found in the anthrax - a blatant lie, but extremely effective in whooping up the post 9-11 hysteria that led to the invasion of Iraq.
Greenwald has unsuccessfully attempted to hold ABC responsible, asking that they reveal these "sources" - obvious false-flag collaborators.
A person has to be of a certain mindset to even consider cooperating with something as evil as this mobile production unit.
Theres nothing defensive or moral about covert bio weapons used by CIA in other countries, you would have to be a sick person to do this.
i'm confused. isn't "anal sodomy" from the department of redundancy department?
at any rate, i so would have supposed that it would have been a huge hit in Oklahoma too. i mean, they just seem to spend so much of their time thinking about it is all. and talking about it. and drawing comic books about it....
eh, shows what i know.
On a sort of happier note, China is exploding with electric vehicles more precisely E-mopeds and bicycles,
but theres a downside, vested interests are screaming and trying to restrict them.
Theres been a quiet green revolution going on in China since 1995 or so, something that hasnt been happening here on the scale over there.
Five page IEEE Spectrum report on Chinese E-Mopeds well worth reading.
Just one of many Chinese manufacturers, Luyuan, some basic, some futuristic, some just like traditional Italian scooters but electric, all fun and practical (weather allowing)
Instead of hosting a watch party, Brent Rinehart went to see "Batman - The Dark Knight" and actually compared himself to the embattled and misunderstood comic book hero.
No word on the identity of his "boy wonder."
OK, I made this part up, but I've always said, anyone that far to the right is hiding a big dark ironic secret.
We have some real winners here in Okieville.
$1500 cowboy boots! were they steel or titanium toe capped !!!
unsurprisingly shows Texas has less tastes than Arizona with McVegas's $520 Italian brothel creepers.
Obama is now calling for off-shore drilling.
bateman @ 15:
Bit like the married Republican 'Batman' and his 'boy wonder' down in Alabama, yet another McNasty campaign clone.
Do the Repugs have the market cornered for log cabins !
Obama was heckled at a speech in St. Petersburg Fl. by protesters calling themselves the The Internation African Revolution, which has a mission of "giving voice to the struggles of the African working class from around the world" (From wire reports.)
The audience immediately started drowning them out shouting, "Yes We Can" and booing.
much too complicated for Nancy and the majority of congresscritters to understand.
ferrofluid @ 18:
I'm not bragging(more like hanging my head)but Arizona has Oklahoma and Alabama beat: We have War Hero John McKeating!
ysbaddaden @ 19:
And Obama made the audience quit drowning them out, then asked the "hecklers" (rather forcefully) to sit down & wait for the Q&A session after he finished his speech.
Obama obviously has experience (no doubt gained in the classroom & community meetings) dealing with rowdy crowds.
Story & video here: Guardian UK: 'Y'all are feisty here in St Petersburg!'
curtilingus @ 2:
Amazing how quickly this was all wrapped up .. and swept under the rug.
"Dateline Germany, January 2005. Police in the sleepy hamlet of Bayreuth are in a bit of a pickle. Someone -- or something -- is jamming miniature toothpick flag portraits of U.S. President George W Bush into piles of dog shit on sidewalks, public parks, and pedestrian thoroughfares. Josef Oettl, parks administrator for Bayreuth, said: "This has been going on for about a year now, and there must be 2,000 to 3,000 piles of excrement that have been claimed during that time."
http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/dog-shit/
anyone know if this is true?
Got a new post up about the flimsy bags(made from petroleum) being slowly outlawed worldwide - now the ban is coming to a community near you!
I've got some pretty pics up too.
http://sbgypsy.blogspot.com/
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