if there is a god and if there is a hell then george bush junior will burn in the flames for eternity.

Updated: 7:17 p.m. ET March 29, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Fourteen shot at a trading company. At least 90 kidnapped at other businesses. Bodies dumped nightly, bound hand and foot, some tortured. A new brand of violence — a deadly mix of organized crime and sectarian murder — is tearing at Iraq.

ha ha ha. I love the Holiday Inn Express joke.

Speaking of jokes-- George Allen. If only it was a joke. Please, please give us a good campaign Jim Webb

A new thread!! Thank you!

*hands in front of heart and bowing*

For all those who live in Connecticut:

The Locals Love Their Ned

[...]

There is a rumbling out there, and Lieberman himself hears it. Indeed, he has become uncharacteristically petulant and defensive.

And I think the reason for the rumble and the senator’s ire is the same: Lieberman cannot make sense of his own defense of U.S. government policy in Iraq.

Lamont’s secret weapon is not his personal wealth. That helps. But his greatest asset is a public philosophy. He believes in constitutional democracy. He believes in limited government and popular sovereignty. Even in wartime, the power of government must be checked; even in wartime the president is not a law unto himself; even in wartime the people deserve to be informed by the free exchange of ideas. Even in wartime, the citizens may seek to change the government.

As Jane pens at Firedoglake: Feel the Nedmemtum

Must be something about Republican presidential candidates that makes them think they can diagnose people hundreds of miles away over video tape.

Is that like the President saying that global warming is natural??

hell lizzy. he will burn forever in hell.

cheney was on the tube. he was at some reporters conference of some such bullshit and he was telling jokes, jokes and blood was dripping from his hands and entrails of humans were piling up all around him and limbs were flying thru the air and children were screaming and he was telling funny karl rove jokes and the audience was laughing and i think i saw lucifer selling popcorn....

greg,

cnn reported earlier that the goof aka george w is now blamining sadam for the violence and mayhem. yep, i guess it didn't stick when he blamed the media aka the messenger.

hey goof, colin told you if you break it, you own it. goof owns it...unfortunately our finest are paying for it there and we're paying for it here.

Long Live Texas

Recently I saw a train load of UN vehicles moving towards the east. They were being guarded by black helicopters. They must be on to Charlie Sheen.

Every morning the first place I visit on the Internet is:

http://Iraq Casualties.org

aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

when you hock those luggies is there any blood in them?

i think i saw lucifer selling popcorn....

Not red hot dollars?

Jen, what is the matter???

Has anyone in the media talked about the rumor that Bush will host a budget summit, and present a plan to ...raise taxes? Those midterm poll numbers must really be making the republicans sweat...whats next a plan for national health care?

i was flying recently from atlanta to the west. we had to stop in el paso to get fuel. as we descended i looked out the window and the place looked alot like a former nuclear test site. could we give texas back to mexico and then make all the texans apply for citizenship as mexicans?

i just listened to this 9/11 911 tape.

richard, yes they are going socialist for the mid-terms. cheney is wearing a che t-shirt ( with manzierre of course ) and promoting the nationilization of the oil industry. they figure if it works in latin america why not give it a try?

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African dominatrix has given up her battle to live in a vicarage, telling the church's congregation they can "shove" the disputed residence, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.

The Pretoria News said Marianne Ellis had been renting the manse, or vicarage, at the Doornkloof Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk near Pretoria for some time when church elders discovered her sideline as a local dominatrix and asked her to move.

Ellis and her husband at first sought to fight the church in court, but Tuesday decided to back down, the newspaper said.

"It is a long story, but basically I am tired of fighting, really tired. They can take their manse back, in fact they can shove it," she told the newspaper.

it is being reported in the american newspapers that marianne ( thats ms. marianne sir! to you dpd ) is in line to replace karl rove and her husband will replace jeff gannon....

If democracy fails, Bush predicted that terrorists would use Iraq as a base to overthrow moderate governments in the Middle East and launch further attacks against the United States.

"The president can give all the speeches he wants, but nothing will change the fact that his Iraq policy is wrong," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

"Two weeks ago, he told Americans that Iraqis would control their country by the end of the year. Last week, he told us our troops would be there until at least 2009. These mixed messages from President Bush are taking America in the wrong direction and jeopardizing Iraq's chances for success."

Vice President Dick Cheney said the Democrats' behavior has been inconsistent with what they're now promising to do. Cheney said he did not believe the Democrats had a credible plan for tracking down bin Laden and their plan to move U.S. forces out of Iraq this year would amount to a strategic retreat.

"It makes no sense at all to turn Iraq over to the terrorists," Cheney said on Fox News Radio's "The Tony Snow Show."

Jeez, is the insurgency in it's last throes, or are the "terrorists" about to take over the place? Make up your mind Dick, or at least get your lies straight.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060329/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq

Is anyone watching Bartlett on Colbert? omg!

Jen, saw it too.

Be well all, tomorrow is another day. Seems Tweety thinks there is another attack on religion.

Peace.

night {{lovely lizzy}} sweet dreams

jen i missed it, was it good omg or bad omg. i do love the way colbert poses as the spokesman for the right. he is quite clever.

i made a bunch of calls for moveon for that congressional race in california that happens on 4/11. felt good to do something. sooner or later we will start to get some hits.

see you all in the morning.

gregg

Who mis this we who will give Texas back to Mexico? And you are right, El Paso looks like a disaster zone. It's right across the border from Juarez.

Suppose you wanted to go to Mexico. Click link for the requirements: Americans in Mexico

thanks gregg for your hard work! the show was surreal, bruce bartlett just seemed to fall right into colbert's trap. laughed my head off.

lugie, can't quite understand your first sentence. but i am ready to give back texas and throw in alabama and mississippi and oklahoma for that matter. anyhow see you tomorrow and be well.

jen, i was hoping that was the outcome. maybe crooks and liars or internet weekly will have a clip for streaming tomorrow. nite young lady.

night gregg, i bet it will be.

hope you had fun today at the lake.

I'm guessing it was the Holiday Inn. LOL

Anyone else going to be on the focus group tomorrow for Polling Points?

Posted by KarenF on March 30, 2006 at 01:12 AM
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What?

Hello and Guten Tag from Germany,

some weeks ago I've seen a feature about New Mexico and Governor Bill Richardson on German television. I must say that I was deeply impressed.

After having done some research I have learned that Mr. Richardson intends to run for US-Presidency in 2008 and I am convinced he in fact would be the most promising candidate for the White House.

Actually, I have already begun to introduce Governor Richardson to my German audience and I would be very happy indeed to learn more about him.

Any recommendations and hints appreciatied.

Regards,
Olaf Petersen

They're not even trying to hide it anymore......

Bush spends heavily to get message out

The Bush administration, amid record budget deficits, has been spending huge amounts on advertising and public relations contracts to counter a (so called) hostile media environment

http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/message2.htm

CAUGHT! ((((RED))))) Handed.

This Repulican got caught in a lie.......again.

Conservative Politician Claims This Calm Scene Is Downtown Baghdad - But All Signs Point To Turkey..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/03/29/conservative-politician-c_n_18098.html

DEMOCRATS are the MAJORITY!

Gallup: More Americans Identify Themselves As Democrats...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/03/29/gallup-more-americans-id_n_18113.html

Statement of Senator Russ Feingold
On Senator Schumer’s Proposed Legislation Regarding the President’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program
March 29, 2006

"I applaud Senator Schumer’s desire to get this issue to the Supreme Court as soon as possible. I am pleased that my colleagues are thinking about ways to address the President's illegal conduct. But while I look forward to reviewing the Schumer proposal, Congress itself should not delay in holding the President accountable for his illegal actions."

FreedomOfSpeechForComprehensiveImmigrationReform on March 30, 2006 at 02:06 AM,

Thanks, FOS-CIR, for thelink to the fallacious foto!! Upon reading some of the post about this photo the one I liked best was the fact about edo ice cream being am Turkish company with no outlets in Iraq, much less Baghdad!

Pertaining to your sign-in name, have you analyzed "guest worker program"? Say it three times, slowly. Why do I get the feeling that this program is the same thing that this country did away with 146 years ago? Think of what this program will do for "stabilizing" wages for the working class in this country, or maybe stagnating is a better term!! Yep, for all you folks that said we do not need unions because we have all these great government regulations, so go the regulations with a government that can't uphold a treaty with anyone anywhere.

I think that GWB would like to take us back to 1834. This is when the government passed legislation which approved of workers right to organize, but also stated that their employers did not have to recognize their employees organization. Of course, at that same time, the right to own slaves (guest workers?) was unconditional in the south.

Incidentally, this was the hey day of the partisan press. The days when newspaper editors were party activists and favorable press gained patronage from political parties. Just sayin'!

I see Jack 'm-off got a six year sentence. I guess they took into account the hard labor of exposing his misguided trust of all those corrupt republican representatives. Otherwise, it would have been 60 years?

Hey, I wonder if Andrew Card picked his own successor? I further wonder who in hell helped little George put together his adminstration because, you know what, they are just as responsible for the mess in our country as little George.

Can you imagine impeaching Bush and having to deal with the imperial executive they-don't- call-him-Dick-for-nothin' Cheney?

Maybe the whole country should move to Florida? What do you think, 294 million people, think dizzy world could handle the influx? I choose influx as that is where the flux we now find our country in began. The fluxxers anyway!!;-\

If we impeach Bush and Dick-for-sale becomes president, who does he name for his VP? Rumsfeld? What a nice team that would be. I'd think about it, but I don't want to.

morning fos and david.

speaking of tipping points this poll is amazing. so it would seem our democratic leadership would put energy independence, global warming and the future of our children and grandchildren together into one big fat winning agenda...

Americans at "tipping point" about energy-poll
Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:07 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are nearly as worried about their country's dependence on foreign energy sources as they are about the war in Iraq, a poll released by the magazine Foreign Affairs showed on Thursday.

Almost half of the 1,000 Americans surveyed for the Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index gave U.S. policymakers a failing grade in weaning the country from foreign oil.

Nearly 90 percent said the lack of energy independence jeopardizes national security.

Public Agenda, a nonpartisan group, conducted the poll in early January with funding from the Ford Foundation. It said that Americans are at a "tipping point" on energy, akin to their state of mind about the war.

Daniel Yankelovich, chairman of Public Agenda, said the public reaches a "tipping point" when it is gravely worried about an issue and believes the government has the ability to change matters. When the index was first published in August 2005, only the Iraq war triggered a similar response, he said.

"This time we find that a second issue has reached a tipping point, which is energy independence, and you have a very strong increase in the number of Americans who are intensely worried about the problem," Yankelovich said in a conference call.

take back the world

bush assigns blame--for a change:

last tango in iraq?

i love this one:

beavis and butthead

Morning Greg,

Hey it is refreshing that Bush has stopped blaming Clinton, for now, for his administration's failed policy fiasco in Iraq.

gregg on March 30, 2006 at 06:13 AM,

Yeah, but the head in the middle the shrunken one of the same body politic.

good points david. i am gonna try to get back to sleep. wake me if they finally arrest rush.

...and now we are going to go after Iran for potentially obtaining the ability to produce nuclear weapons. That's right let's have more tough rheteric, as opposed to ensuring Iran's understanding of the nuclear reality. Hey, maybe we can bring on the Armageddon after all, and little George's legacy will have no future for history to write about. Makes sense to me.

Hey, greg, don't forget the night cap!!:) I, too, am out for a while. Thanks for the links! It was good talking to you after not being here for probably two weeks. I'll try to check in later. Morning, All!!!

GOOD NEWS!!:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Journalist Jill Carroll, who has been held hostage in Iraq since January 7, has been released, her employer, The Christian Science Monitor, said on Thursday.

The newspaper's spokeswoman Ellen Tuttle said the release has been confirmed by Carroll's father.

Carroll, 28, was working as a freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor when she was abducted by gunmen in Baghdad on January 7. Her driver escaped, but her interpreter, Allan Enwiyah, was killed.

Morning, Dems! Today is Jen's Birthday! So, if you have a moment, please stop by Night Bird's Fountain (click my name) to join in the celebration.

Helen Thomas and some other reporters take some good swings at the garbage the W, Rove and Co is trying to feed us and find only that there is more garbage than they expected. Witness Scotty McMessage McClellan’s spew and dance maneavers to try and weasel out of answering some very good questions:

http://www.teambio.org/2006/03/garbage-in-garbage-out-did-the-president-prematurely-decide-to-invade-iraq/

Hey, where is everyone? Was there a late nite party last evening I wasn't invited to?

good morning, {{cyn}} and {{everyone}}

i've got an early meeting--but the "bring it on" piece regarding Helen and Scotty is excellent.

Good Morning Cyn! No late parties for me, but I am home for the day.

Morning, Ladies! I was a little worried for a moment that everyone had been kidnapped by the NSA for posting anti - Bush sentiments!

hi cyn. i was up at 6 making some comments and now it is puppy and cardio fitness time. but we are gonna have some great weather you and i and then some rain which we need so those peepers can go about their luv makin bizznezz...

Cyn, you never know a last month a Homeland Security Police office bought a house across the street from me. Needless to say...I haven't stopped by to introduce myself.

Hi, Gregg! You are right about this weather. It's just wonderful. Nothing like 50 degrees and above to put a smile on my face.

Off to work. Have a great day, all.

Good grief, Kristen - Keep you blinds closed! Especially when you are online! ;-)

{{Kristen}}--you're an early bird this mornin'

was greg referring to you...nah

y'all have a spectacular day...i'll trace back the trail late tonight, after class...

check Raw Story for the latest on Cheney...what a thief! hell is too good for that bastid

well, on that positive note...

{{{Fade}}} I'm up by 4:00 am daily but usually in the car or on the train to work at this point. I've been a bit under the weather this week so I'm hoping to get into the Doc's office since the emergency room visit was a complete waste of time and money.

Fault lines widen between evangelicals and the GOP

The fractures between some leading evangelicals and the Republican Party occur in a context of reawakening of what some call the Religious Left. Mainline Protestants, liberal Catholics, Reform Jews, progressive Muslims and Unitarian Universalists came alive politically in opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and further mobilized in the 2004 electoral campaign. The best-selling books of Jim Wallis ("God's Politics") and Michael Lerner ("The Left Hand of God") show that religious progressive voices have a sizable, national following.

awwww {{{Kristen}}} get well, gurl...hope you get in to see the doc and a speedy recovery comes your way...

i'm late...but i had to send you good wishes before i dust my broom and fly

Thanks Fade! Have a fantastic day!

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