June 11, 2009 07:30 PM
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"Some people say" Crooks and Liars is funded with something called "Soros money." We're not. We're funded by you. And every little bit helps. Thanks.
About Bluegal aka Fran
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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tomorrow morning.
I'm East Coastin' it and am already tucked in for the night....
Expect a check from The Berkshires!
"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
what to think.
What's it worth vs. the dollar? Better check my foreign currency charts.
(Check will be in the mail soon.)
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
YouTube: Solar car demo drive from Buffalo to Rochester to Buffalo
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
And they say it can't be done!
Its not operation Mockingbird, bur operation Hummingbird. Didn't you get the memo?
you're a funny guy moose.... must have been too busy directing this
amBUSHed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ypsEmg9yOs&fm...
It's a powerful video, but I for one have difficulty in understanding 'rap" lyrics. Would have been much better spoken a bit slower and with a quieter more menacing musical score.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
I liked it 'til the rap started. Then I had to shut it off.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
Hey, why not apply to a Soros foundation for a grant?
Here's one: The Open Society Institute:
http://www.soros.org/grants/application/grant...
Funding Priorities
The Open Society Institute’s National Security and Human Rights Campaign provides grants to U.S.-based organizations working to promote progressive national security policies that respect human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law. The campaign’s grantmaking supports efforts to advance the following five policy goals:
1. End arbitrary detention and the use of secret prisons, restore due process, eliminate the use of torture and extraordinary rendition of terror suspects, and close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
2. Reform surveillance laws and policies to restrict warrantless and unchecked surveillance and restore broad privacy protections at the federal, state, and local levels.
3. Ensure that anti-terrorism laws and law enforcement activities do not target freedom of speech, association, or religious expression.
4. Reduce the practice of racial, ethnic, and religious profiling of Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Middle Eastern (MASA) individuals and communities, and build the capacity of MASA organizations to fight abusive national security policies disproportionately directed at them and promote the acceptance of MASA communities in American society.
5. Decrease government secrecy, restore strong oversight of executive action taken in the name of national security, and expose and hold U.S. government officials and private actors accountable for abuses and violations of the law.
An overarching goal of the campaign is to promote new thinking, engage new voices and constituencies, and strengthen capacity and collaboration within the field of organizations engaged in these issues.
The campaign provides funding for projects that address one or more of the above policy goals through at least one of the following strategies:
-- Policy advocacy
-- Grassroots organizing and field building
-- Mobilization of new voices and constituencies
-- Scholarship and research
-- Communications
-- Litigation
There's more at the above URL. It seems to me that C&L might qualify for a combination of grassroots organizing and field building, and communication. C&L is focusing on items 1, 2, 3, and 5 above.
bwahahaha!
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
lines of "and if O'Reilly doesn't like it he can stick it where the sun don't shine," so my line of thinking was a little bit um, cruder. :D
I've never seen change without a fire
sorry...but sometimes profiling works
after yesterday's events, i want all old white people to be strip searched before entering any buildings
The first 7:20 of Part 1 is a fascinating Revolutionary War story.
Then he begins his summary of the False Torture Story Line.
Hearing him say what he says makes me hopeful we may at last have a day of reckoning for those who engineered and executed the Torture Regime.
Part 1: The Storyline We Have Been Told About Torture Is False In Every Dimension! Sen Whitehouse
Part 2: The Storyline We Have Been Told About Torture Is False In Every Dimension! Sen Whitehouse
Part 3: The Storyline We Have Been Told About Torture Is False In Every Dimension! Sen Whitehouse
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
I can't wait until that hits the mainstream media. Oh wait, Trump just fired a blonde bimbo.
If it weren't fer you sendin me money everday I woodunt be able to pay my inturnit bil and woodunt be able to coment hear. Fox can make shit up so why can't I? Oh, they make shit up all the time. Who wooda knone.
Presidential Excuse to Skip School
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
This just in... "Limbaugh Lies Turn Lame". more later tonight at nine...
keep watching the skies
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
More on the psycho
and the saint. Will we really be gone in '010? Today's seniors are stuck with the same shitty jobs they had when they were teens. The Army Corps doesn't care about saving trees. Our first Gitmo detainee on trial pleads not guilty. Global warming's already ruining our oceans. I got new, babe.
Does anyone really think that Letterman was referring to Palin's FOURTEEN year old daughter in those jokes of his?
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
But she was the only kid with them in NYC. After I heard that today, I understood their reaction to his joke.
That said, I doubt anyone outside of Alaska would automatically think they have any kid other than Bristol. They aren't as famous as they think they are.
But since they think that they are as famous as the First Family, that they'd be instantly recognised as individuals, they automatically assumed that he would know that it was Sarah and Todd, traveling with Willow.
What I think Letterman saw was that wacky Palin woman, her husband and that kid of hers. And since Bristol is the one THEY pimped out, it's partly on them.
I think I saw a pic of them and just assumed it was Bristol, although thinking about it, I realise it was a younger girl.
I would recognise her, but not her husband. Or any of her kids.
me-oww!
in the way that one instinctively recognizes a poisonous spider...
Will Barry use the Truman approach to gays in the military? Anyone interested in glow-in-the-dark wasps?
isnt it enough that wingnuts belittle the man?
How about some glow-in-the-dark catholics?
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
and im sorry that i dont have
and i feel bad that i cant give
for the blog that truly changed the internet needs to thrive
btw...after the incidents of the past 2 weeks, does anyone think that wingnuts will stop talking about how we have not had a terrorist attack since 9/11?
i didnt think so
and i dont care what any economist says...take a drive around los angeles
you will see what i have never seen in the 20 years that i have lived here
street after street of empty storefronts for lease....apt building after apt building with for rent signs
this city is dying
But since you can't, I will.
Hope things get better for you soon, Uncle Joe!
give me a few well-needed laughs, no many how often I watch them.
F'ing brilliant!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I feel the same about Shawn of the Dead.
As many times as I've seen it...it never fails to make me laugh like hell.
Oh, here's an odd story for yous guys.
I think this dog has watched "Up In Smoke" one too many times.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/12/dog-...
and he had a young (6 mos old) German Shepherd pup. We were all blazing away, and my friend had made up a 1/2 oz bag of good green for someone who was "right around the corner". Well, time went by, bud was burned, and a few hours later, the guy finally showed for his 1/2 ounce. No one could find it, though it had been on the bed. Well, in stumbles his dog, bouncing off walls and tables, before passing out cold on the living room floor...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
True to my (new) laodicean ways, I haven't been around much lately. I'm planning to move to Europe soon, and American politics is more of the same (fucked), and I'm not American so...
I do get into a 'good newsy' torture thread or other outrageous "foreign policy" (bullying) thread. I'm still keen on what happens there. Other than that, I'm thinking about the future and learning about music.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
i hear ya, ed. i haven't been around much, either.
just doesn't quite seem like the good old days. no sphinx, no tyree, no orangutan, no truthbtold.
it's kinda like walkin' through a ghost town...
i'm still here, until the 4th of july, then i will be done with politics for good, and thinking about music and the future, as well.
good luck in europe. don't drink the tapwater.
here in the US either!
if'n it ain't the mercury, it's the flouride. if'n it ain't the flouride, it's the radiation. if'n it ain't the radiation, it's the alligator p!ss.
I drink tap water all over the place (in different countries). In SE Asia, I'm a little more carfeul, but otherwise...
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
I fear tyree was driven out. There is only so much negative energy (directed at a person) one can take before one must leave. He had every right to say what he wanted about poiticians: that's the life they chose. Most of them deserve our criticism, if not scorn.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Yeah, its a shame that some of those people have left here.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
I already offered to help out by cleaning toilets.
I kicked in a little. Hey, Blue Gal said "every little bit helps"! And that's exactly what I can afford to give.
JP
http://giveusthisdayourdailtydread.blogspot.com
PEAK OIL TOLD YOU SO: Energy Department changes tune on peak oil...It’s official—the era of cheap oil is over - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-11-era-c...
So to all the 'drill now' dip$hits out there...you need to change your idiotic nursery rhyme ideology...we told you so...
Stupidity of right wingnuts/con-servatives/republicans on full display: One Energy Plan Still Has a 'Thrill for the Drill' - http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=n...
See the above story...and confirmation on how absolutely useless, clueless, and mind numbingly idiotic the GOP has become...
Cigarette Regulation Breakthrough: More than four decades after the surgeon general declared smoking a health hazard, the Senate on Thursday cleared the final hurdle to empowering federal officials to regulate cigarettes and other forms of tobacco for the first time.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/business/12...
Finally, after joining the 21st century...we begin the reformation of the industries of the 20th century that were/are killing us...
Republican/Con-servative 'supporting the troops' updates: Thousands of Free Trips Taken by Pentagon Staff - http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations...
"Despite the Pentagon’s big budgets, DOD personnel routinely accept free flights, accommodations, and hospitality from outside interests, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of thousands of travel disclosure records. From 1998 through 2007, the analysis found, outside sources paid for more than 22,000 trips worth at least $26 million, sponsored by an array of foreign governments, private companies, and other groups which have business with the Pentagon."
Remember this right wingnuts? Army Spc. Thomas Wilson: "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles? And why don;t we have those resources readily available to us?"
Rumsfeld hesitated and asked Wilson to repeat his question. “We do not have proper armored vehicles to carry with us north,” Wilson said after asking again.
Former 'Defense' Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "It isn't a matter of money. It isn't a matter on the part of the army of desire. It's a matter of production and capability of doing it. As you know, ah, you go to war with the army you have---not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.---You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can (still) be blown up..."
Another win for the Wall Street Oligarchy vs Democracy: Another Missed Opportunity: Obama Retreats on Wall Street Compensation
- http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/...
News the Obama administration plans to back away from dictating compensation for all of Wall Street is a victory for those who worry about overzealous government meddling and the dangers of wage controls. But it's also another missed opportunity by the administration to take advantage of the crisis to materially change behavior on Wall Street, which is becoming something of a hallmark of the Obama administration. Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has said "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste," but that's exactly what's happening when it comes to the issue of reforming Wall Street.
The right wingnuts are running the asylum: Shepard Smith Describes Fox Fans’ Email As Increasingly ‘Frightening’ - Freeper Responds: Shep An ‘Angry Little Queer' - http://www.pensitoreview.com/2009/06/11/shepa...
In the wake of yesterday's right-wing terror attack at D.C.'s Holocaust Museum, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith raised concerns over the increasingly hate-filled emails coming from his network’s viewers. Within minutes, Fox watchers began posting angry comments about Smith on the comments board at Free Republic, one of the oldest websites catering to the right-wing lunatic fringe.
The self hating con-servatives are building up to critical mass and are definitely public enemy #1.... Right wingnut noise machine....opened Pandora's box...now their hate speech is being actualized by their low brow minions and brought to a neighborhood near you...
It'll help: Republican Norm Coleman must pay Democrat Al Franken $94,783 to cover court costs for his appeal of Minnesota Senate election results.
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31213241/
Thom Hartmann on Obama - http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com...
Ostroy Report: The Holocaust Museum Shooting -- Another Right-Wing Psycho Turns to Murder. Maybe Now Conservatives Will Listen to Janet Napolitano
- http://ostroyreport.blogspot.com/2009/06/holo...
FedEx Playing with Fire? Deliverer Attacks UPS in New Campaign — But Throws Its Real Punches at Unionization
- http://bulldogreporter.com/ME2/Audiences/dirm...
I just hope FedEx realizes they're going to fall on the wrong side of history on this one....for the sake of a fleeting & stupid ideology of right wingnut 'free marketeerism' that has destroyed our nation's economy...
Rush Limbaugh hates America... and everyone else - http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/06/rush-limb...
All right wingnut con-servatives hate democracy, the very idea that the 'rabble' (as con-servative John Adams would say) should have a voice & power disturbs them....con-servatives are all about the big daddy in charge/dicatorship/unitary executive/federalist nonsense...
In Wake Of Shootings, Conservatives Rush To Defend Disparagement Of DHS Report On Right-Wing Extremism - http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/11/peters-fo...
The latest right wingnut scheme of re-writing history: Robert Parry: Tying Obama to Bush's Budget Mess - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/061009.html
Sorry right wingnuts...but reality & history know that Obama didn't start an illegal 2.5 Trillion dollar war in Iraq, turn the Fed into a fun park, allow Wall street to enact the biggest ponzi scheme of all time (derivatives & hedge funds-a-palooza) and bankrupt our Treasury & the dollar...
The Right-Wing Media Has Unleashed a Race War that Threatens Our Democracy and Our Personal Safety -- A BuzzFlash Editor's Blog
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/8689
Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, 'Savage', Beck, Boortz, Dobbs, and all the other pimps of the right wingnut noise machine....that have made money off of psychotic machinations all have blood on their hands...
Treason isn't covered under free speech
Report: Holocaust Museum Shooter Wanted To Make a Movie with Mel Gibson. This Rabid, Deathly Chaos Has to be Shut Down.
- http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/06/holoc...
Hey...they could have casted Hannity & his BFF neo-nazi pal Hal Turner in supporting roles...
Only fools play with time bombs -- Last Chance Democracy Cafe - http://www.lastchancedemocracycafe.com/?p=2413
Holocaust Museum Terrorist & Tiller's Murderer Have in Common an Apocalyptic Conspiracy 'Deeply Embedded in the American Psyche'
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/810
Liz Cheney Coasts to a Win as the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week: The Princess of Darkness. - http://blog.buzzflash.com/honors/180
Political Irony: Krauthammer milestone/a first! Tells truth for once - http://politicalirony.com/2009/06/11/conserva...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
bauer here. erstwhile, bullfrog.
sorry about that terrible 'lord blauschild' stunt i pulled last saturday. and a special thanks to andy k. for pulling me back to my senses (you were right... you were right...)
i guess i thought if i made up some bull$#!+ cult around a "blue symbol", and changed my name to "blau schild", all my dreams would come true; i'd be tap-dancing forever on the sunny side of broadway, and i'd live happily ever after.
i was wrong. that name brought me nothing but wretchedness and misery. i was promptly revealed to be a fraudulent huckster, and i deserved everything i got.
but, i'm back. BAUER. it's german for farmer, or peasant, ya know. neither of which is anything to be ashamed of.
i'll be dropping comments for a few weeks, before i retire from the internets tubes for good.
i'll try to keep it real, not be an @$$, and spread the mellow peace vibes as best as i can.
bauer
(btw, here are a couple of links to give you an idea of the flavor i was going for with the "lord blauschild" bit.)
lord rothschild on the BBC
and here's a link our long-departed friend orangutan put me on to:
the money masters
(no offense meant to the rothschild family -i've never met any of them; they're probably very nice people!)
take 'er easy...won't be the same without ya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFFr91atHqE
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"well, whaddya think of clint eastwood confiding his deepest, darkest secrets to an orangutan?"
too #$%^ing funny.
Always liked to read your stuff, and tyree's too. Hope you find peace away from the modern trappings.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Your style is/was unmistakable (blauschild). ;)
Enjoy whatever it is you plan to do, without the internets tubes.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
I'm going to have to mooch off you for a while longer. It might not be too much longer though, because my internet is the next thing I am going to have to eliminate if I don't find something soon. Falling between the cracks. Too old (60) to do the work I used to do (Construction/ Carpenter) too young for Social Security. Thinking of whoring myself out at a girls college nearby LOL
good luck!
Apologies accepted, Bluegal, for the OReilly video....but, boy it was tough! Because of Keith Olbermann's request last week, I've been trying not to watch BOR, and not send him any emails....but every time I see that guy, I get pissed off and want to send him a nastygram again! I'll see how long I last before I start sending him emails again.
If C&L gets money from Soros, perhaps BOR will mention them on his show more often! After all, Soros is the "most dangerous man" in this country, according to BOR.
As far as the "radicals" BOR talks about, I wonder what his definition of "radical" is? My brother-in-law runs an organization with funding from George Soros, and I don't consider him to be a "radical" at all. He's rather mild mannered and even keeled. I guess anyone who disagrees with BillO is a "radical."
Where are the feminists, where is NOW on Lettermen's comments about Palin and her daughter? NOW is really only for liberal women, not ALL women. Where is C&L on this? This is not a political issue. It's awful no matter whose 14 year old daughter is the the subject of a joke about rape. HYPOCRISY!!!!!
he wasn't joking about rape, nor was he joking about a 14 yo doing it. He was talking about Bristol, the Pimped Out Pride of the Palins.
So your fake outrage is just that, and your call to arms is hollow and achingly stupid.
What a fucking idiot. Is your last name Palin by any chance?
me-oww!
Exactly. The jokes were not about rape. David, or his writers, I assume, thought that Bristol was accompaning Sarah to New York. You can say the jokes were in bad taste and even Letterman agrees to this, but to say they were about raping a 14 year old is really, really reaching.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
Everything about her is a reach: like saying, "She can see Russia while sitting on the can taking her morning dump." So what if she can.
And then the drug-addicted thief, the McCain Mrs., repeating it all over the tubes. Trash; the whole lot.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
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