April 24, 2009 08:30 PM
Open Thread
In-house, around-the-C&L-conference-table chit-chat: William K. Wolfrum has a lovely tribute to our own Mike Finnigan (of the blog roundup) here. And it ain't even his birthday.
Open Thread below...
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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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who said bill mahers was a douchbag!
didn't you, ty? What did Maher do now?
I'll admit it. It was me.
Paul Krugman.
And this time it's not about economics.
Reclaiming America’s Soul
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
If anyone ever thought that Paul had sold out his liberal soul to economics this little piece snaps him right back to the forefront of the liberal cause. Very very nice piece.
Congressional hearings on torture NOW. No excuses. Even though Pakistan is nearing total implosion.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
On "Bush's Program":
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/04/hbc-90...
This article will be setting off a firestorm that Eric Holder will find impossible to ignore.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Let the firestorm begin! Until the the key is exposed, GEO. F++ING BUSH, the air will never be clear. That creature that began his torture careet blowing up frogs with such uninhibited GLEE, turns my stomach!! He is the sole instigator of treason/torture, and thought to be a great cover, so the logical choice, besides his inner need to torture, 'cause that is one tortured critter, not human.
I re-worked this a bit, and intend its delivery mostly for your "pundit class," but also "lawmakers."
George Bernard Shaw was at a party one night and he told a woman that everyone would agree to do anything for money, if the price were high enough.
Woman: `Surely not.’
GBS: `Oh yes.'
Woman: `Well, I wouldn't,'
GBS: `Oh yes you would. For instance, would you torture that man... for a million pounds?'
Woman: `Well, maybe for a million I would, yes.'
GBS: `Would you do it for ten shillings?'
Woman: `Certainly not! What do you take me for, a sadist?'
GBS: `We've established that already. We're just trying to fix your price now.’
far left loon >.<
who this guy is? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQteSSBg6vE
Hasa Diga Eebowai
In a meeting with House Republicans at the White House Thursday, President Obama reminded the minority that the last time he reached out to them, they reacted with zero votes -- twice -- for his stimulus package. And then he reminded them again. And again. And again.
(later) … Obama also offered payback for that goose egg. A major overhaul of the health care system, he told the Republican leadership, would be done using a legislative process known as reconciliation, meaning that the GOP won't be able to filibuster it.
Comments (I liked):
A: Obama has already shown he can get a bill though congress even without filibuster protection…
B: Hell, they can get a bill through congress without anyone reading it!
far left loon >.<
Thanks to both Mike and Blue Gal. Both of you are just class people and have been great to me just like you both are to so many of us D-listers.
And folks, Mike is truly an exceptional guy. Plus, I had never spoken to anyone before who had even met Jimi Hendrix, let alone recorded with him.
We need civil servants keeping track of voter rolls, voter registrations and vote counting.
We need paper ballots for election of the President and the house and senate and governors.
Secretaries of States for the 50 states cannot work for any political campaign.
The Superbowl gets out-sourced. An old guy does to car-thieves what the rest of us wish we could do to executives.
Chrysler's obituary. The Big Three's worst hits. Even major rock stars lost money in the crash. The Bayer plant explosion was another example of the free market at work. The Army's finally doing something about suicides-except for ending war. Anyone feel like a new strain of swine flu? Kim Jong-Il goes nutty over our journalists. Arnie finally does something useful by passing a low-carbon fuel rule. The economy still has a ways to go before getting better. The U.S. Dept. of Labor is considering axing the surcharge for unemployment benefits. Napolitano lets the Repugs call the shots on her patriotism. A CO man got convicted of murdering a transgendered woman. Businesses can actually save money from energy regulations. The CIA tries to stop Italy from prosecuting its members for kidnapping, claiming the fact that they did it in secret makes it alright for them, but not the judge. Obama wants to get rid of the middle-man in college loans. Gore + Gingrich duke it out on global warming. The Dems try to get around the elephant in the room for health care reform. Global warming is causing our rivers to shrink. Barry flip-flops on NAFTA.
and so is bluegal. You both have wonderful talents that are appreciated by all of us.
Lovely tribute, William K. Wolfrum!
Kudos to you all!
Luv ya!
Nice tribute Mike. I didn't know. Next time I'm checking out the round-up, I'll picture you and Jimi together-- cool.
far left loon >.<
Thanks good people for not electing McCain.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/24/mcca...
and get rid of the electronic voting machines. The battle isn't over yet.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9190...
There's something for everyone.
For the bankers: A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
For "patriots": Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
For voters: Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many, for appointment by the corrupt few.
And let's hear it for ..."democracy": Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
And for the politicians: He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
In tribute to the DC Madam: Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Did I miss anyone? Oh,yeah... Bush and Cheney:
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to him.
far left loon >.<
aww ya good stuff.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
we are coming up on the one year anniversary of the suspicious death of madam palfrey.
the woman who could have done more than anyone alive to expose secret society in washington died on MAY 1ST, 2008.
don't forget.
forget Paul Wellstone and the RNC IT guy who was about to testify about the 2004 election (I think his name was McConnell) who was killed a few months back - both in small plane crashes. The list goes on...
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Cheney!!!! All those 'small plane accidents' are Cheney!!!
YouTube: 2002 Memo Told Pentagon Methods Yielded "Unreliable Information"
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
I guess, we should be grateful that some feel free to speak not, and Gen. Janis Karipinski is one gold mine that no on has hardly touched. I had to skip past Cheney because the creature sickens me and it is too early in the AM. Ignoring people like Wilkerson is the MO of this gang. Nothing new there. More info in a glut of other info about the FINANCIALMELTDOWN, .....OH! those pirates, isn't there blond-sexy woman being held prisoner some where, Jane Harmon's treason with AIPAC, not to mentions many others is now coming to light, and all those 'favors' she did for AIPAC. Bet it is AIPAC that hires her lawyers, too. No one will speak about that.
So... is Cheney claiming torture is OK?
Is Cheney claiming torture is OK if he does it?
Is Cheney claiming torture is OK if he does it, because he was really good at it? I think it's this one.
Maybe Cheney's claiming torture is OK if he does it, because he's a seperate entity from the executive? A seperate co-equal branch that has no term limit, and is not bound by the constitution. That could be it.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
.........bloated AMBITION, no doubt about it.
isn't one of the reasons we hated saddam and north korea because they tortured and killed people?
if we do the same-aren't we the same as them?
should we torture the craiglist killer to get him to confess?
should we have tortured ted bundy to get him to confess.
as obscene and ridiculous as it sounds--there are rules of war.
we should never cross the line of the geneva conventions.
Iraq is going to invade us and overthrow our evil regime. Oh wait, we just did that ourselves....
Read and sign these legislative petitions please and get hundreds of people to sign them and they will automatically go to Republican minority leaders Sen. McConnell and Rep. Boehner.
http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_c...
http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_c...
http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_t...
http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_t...
http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_t...
Oh the horrors of the Islamic extremists - posted on a right winged site....
my response to this idiocy - i know its vain - but I had to share it with people who would nod their heads and understand.....
Peace.
Rick Beagle
Nice piece about a great guy.
She be dodging sniper fire, and giving good ol' George Bush type answers. Can you smell the change? Betcha Iraqis prob don't think there was ever an election in the US.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30397960/
Guess that means Georgie's surge worked? No, but? Same crap is happening in Iraq daily, but now they are succeeding?
Say, whatever happened to those media reports on all the bad things that were happening in Iraq and Afghanistan? Oh ya, those wars ended with the signing in of Hope and Change as president.
I feel really sorry for those poor, innocent Iraqis, the real victims of the IRAQI HOLOCAUST. This gang thinks that the real, on the street Iraqi, who hasn't fled their own country are so dumbed-down that they can pull the same MO with Iraq, as they have with US. It's an MODES OPERENDI of these inheritors of Prescott Bush, to obtrusify, to LIE, to obstruct, muddy the discourse, with every single word that comes out of their mouths! Concerned Canuck, better might be the question of what happened to the AUTHORS of any and all contrary reports??? Shredders, burnt, destroyed, a ton of physical evidence has already been destroyed and we know electronic evidence has also gone the same. It might be more telling to find out what happened to the contraries. Remember Dr. David Kelley, a brit, who disagreed early on, I believe he was disagreeing with the 'intelligence' before the invasion and he 'committed suicide' -- SURE HE DID.
I never knew... Thank you for making me aware of Mike's great talent. His roundup's are an smorgasbord of interesting links that I enjoy greatly... I guess he's just got a talent with [keyboards]! No wonder C&L's works so well in concert. ♪♪♫♪♫♪
Study the symptoms not the virus...
THE WIZARD OF OZ "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY " "You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!!"
ROBOT CHICKEN STAR WARS "Ani, look! Youza not gonna believe it! Meeza all sparkly glowy!"
"And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you."
JOSHUA 3:5
"Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:"
DEUTERONOMY 5:13
hey
mike
a few weeks back you gave my e-list site a nice daily hit
by listing me in the round up
thanks again to you and bluegal
now i read this about you
and it harkens my brain back to my old roadie days
the b3 was one thing to drag into the venue
but the friggin leslie was the bonus!
so nice to read about where you came from on the planet
and quite impressive
keep up the great work.....
dude,
how could you miss the opportunity to have "angels & demons" open on friday, may 1st, 2009.
it's the 233rd birthday of weishaupt's bavarian illuminati.
anyhow, good luck. the movie might be good; hanks looks better without the mullet. the illuminati will probably play in peoria.
peace out opie!
your pal,
bullfrog
233 is a fibonacci number, a chen prime & a sexy prime.
i'm no mathematician; hell, i suck at chess and i've never solved the rubik's cube, but for rhetorical purposes i consider a fibonacci number a whole bunch of bullshit piled exponentially on a whole bunch of bullshit.
a house of cards, if you will.
That descibes the WH, the non-congres, the LOBBIEST, the whole Washington structure is 233ed. I don't know anything about that kind of math at all, but your commentary is informative.
question #1776
"the great strength of our order lies in it's concealment; let it never appear in any place in it's own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation."
"none is fitter than the three lower degrees of freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it, and therefore takes little notice of it."
who said these two quotes?
a) red skelton
b) mickey rooney
c) soupy sales
d) adam weishaupt
question #1912
"to destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
who said it?
a) red skelton
b) mickey rooney
c) soupy sales
d) theodore roosevelt
question #1920
"from the days of spartacus-weishaupt to those of karl marx, to those of trotsky, bela kun, rosa luxembourg, and emma goldman, this world wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and impossible equality, has been steadily growing.
it played a definitely recognizable role in the tragedy of the french revolution. it has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century, and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of europe and america have gripped the russian people by the hair of their heads, and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."
who said it?
a) red skelton
b) mickey rooney
c) soupy sales
d) winston churchill
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