PB Rescue Open Thread
Read them all. You have all weekend to do it.
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Florida Democrats, time to make nice with the rest of the party and country. You have done enough spinning, now be conciliatory.
Florida, post both sides on your website, explain that the DNC stole nothing from us, and play nice with others.
It is time now.
IMPEACH THE CHIMP AND VICE CHIMP NOW!!!
THEN BRING OUR FINE SOLDIERS HOME NANCY!!!
Posted by sunny on August 31, 2007 at 06:43 PM
Sunny I'm again gonna say how glad I am to be OUT of the looney bin state of Florida!!
That Thurman chick was never my favorite either!
They need new progressive blood down there in bluehairville. lol I'm sorry to hear about Nelson turning DINO. He was usually a pretty good moderate but alas he's turning more dino daily it seems. SAd. I used to really admire that astronaut. Must be something in the water in Coco Beach.
Afternoon AK's,
Censorship is just so un-American. What the heck are they fighting for?
U.S. Military Censors ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress is now banned from the U.S. military network in Baghdad.
Recently, an avid ThinkProgress reader — a U.S. soldier serving his second tour in Iraq — wrote to us and said that he can no longer access ThinkProgress.org. The error message he received:
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The ban began sometime shortly after Aug. 22, when Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste was our guest blogger on ThinkProgress. He posted an op-ed that was strongly critical of the President’s policies and advocated a “responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq.” Previously, both the Wall Street Journal and Washington Times had rejected the piece. An excerpt:
thinkprogress.org/
Posted by Dawnie on August 31, 2007 at 06:49 PM
hey Dawnie, a quick flyby---bahhahahahaha...I cannot believe the hypocrisy of Idaho's senator! This is crazy! I'm visiting the woderful town of NYC right now and it was great reading about it in the Post....
Where's Greg??? Saw two games of the Yanks sweeping the Sox...YESSS!!!
Anyway....carryon....
(AP) - Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men's room, Republican officials said Friday.
Craig will announce at a news conference in Boise Saturday morning that he will resign effective Sept. 30, four state GOP officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The announcement follows by just five days the disclosure that he had pleaded guilty Aug. 1 to a reduced misdemeanor charge arising out of his arrest June 11 at the Minneapolis airport.
The three-term Republican senator had maintained that he did nothing wrong except for making the guilty plea without consulting a lawyer. But he found almost no support among Republicans in his home state or Washington.
Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter appeared Friday to have already settled on a successor: Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, according to several Republicans familiar with internal deliberations...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RC9PLO0&show_article=1
"Turn out the lights, the party's over. They say that all... good things must end..."
I see the senator from Idaho is sneaking out on a holiday weekend. What a coward...
Next question - what's with all the pot talk lately? Jezzzz, I feel like I'm getting a buzz just from reading here! LOL j/k ;-)
Posted by Dawnie on August 31, 2007 at 06:32 PM
LOL, I thought it was just ME, Dawnie, taking deep breaths and holding it! :)
Posted by PamB on August 31, 2007 at 06:36 PM
I've been a registered Democrat for most of the last 30 years, but I never got active politicly until a couple of years ago. I sit on the Board of Directors for Voter Power and Willamette Valley NORML and I work closely with Oregon Green Free. I am a founding member of Willamette Valley NORML.
Voter Power and Willamette Valley NORML will be launching get-out-the-vote campaigns in Eugene, Medford, Bend, and Portland. We are canvassing for a dispensary initiative to tax and regulate medical marijuana production and distribution. Oregon Green Free has 14 chapters throughout the state that grow every month.
All of the people involved in those groups feel that drug policy is an important political issue that is not being properly addressed.
I feel that somebody has to speak up about the waste of the drug war, and since nobody else is willing to, here I am.
Prohibition is a failed policy. It doesn't work, it's unamerican and it is time to end it.
When a Japanese city is decimated, the army is called in to figure out what happened. Suddenly, a dome rises from the earth containing creatures called Mysterians. The alien group from the planet Mysteroid seeks only peace, a small plot of land and permission to procreate with Earth women in order to keep their race from becoming extinct. Offended by this suggestion, the humans decide to go to war with the Mysterians
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This is the plot of the Sci-Fi movie Mysterians. It is not dissimilar to the US military base empire spreading around the world making war as its reason to be.
Posted by BlueinIdaho on August 31, 2007 at 07:04 PM
Blue, what can you tell us about your Lieutenant Governor since it looks like he'll be your next U.S. Senator?
Posted by IrritatedDemocrat on August 31, 2007 at 07:08 PM
He did the right thing. He no longer had the necessary credibility to represent his Idaho constituents...
We agree 100%. The coward reference was to the fact that the MSM will be vacationing as much as they can this weekend as well so the coverage of the resignation will be diminished. By Tuesday, 4SEP07, it's old news.
Posted by BlueinIdaho on August 31, 2007 at 07:04 PM
maybe Greggy will come and kidnap you and not let you return to potato land? LOL
btw - I was looking all around for another dawnie. But then I realized you were talkin to me! :-]
Enjoy your trip!
Hey Blue, I was wondering where you were! Enjoy the rest of your vacation!
Posted by gro4me on August 31, 2007 at 07:05 PM
right on
be careful - this Gov. would love to bust you for the mere mention of it. It's ONE thing they've learned how to do. And aren't we all the more safer for it? That WAR on DRUGS was such a fricken success!! :-\
tsk, sally, sally, sally
I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out years from now that you were suffering some kind of closet problems
you really do have a fixation and I hope someone recognizes the signs and locks you up soon
Ok this says TODAY but I swear I thought this had been done already...... have they done this twice now???? Or am I just dizzy from the cyber fumes?
Commanders convey concern about troop strain to Bush.
Today, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke to President Bush about their growing conern of the “strain on troops and their families from long and repeated combat tours.” Currently, many U.S. soldiers are serving 15-month tours of duty with just 12 months at home.
U notice......... these "idiots" seem to always be MEN who are letting their LITTLE heads think for their BIG heads!!!
What I REALLLLLLLLLLLY want to know is how these (NO WORDS) women can be married to these guys???
Are they THAT INCREDIBLY HARD UP FOR THE POSITION? TALK about HUMILIATING beyond WORDS!! I don't know maybe some folks just don't have the GENE for humility? GW sure doesn't have it. NOR does his stepford wife or their demon spawn. That I've noticed.
right on
be careful - this Gov. would love to bust you for the mere mention of it. It's ONE thing they've learned how to do. And aren't we all the more safer for it? That WAR on DRUGS was such a fricken success!! :-\
So much for Free Speech then.
And Prohibition I was proof that we are not safer with Prohibition. Al Capone wouldn't have become a creature of legend if it weren't for Prohibition.
It isn't as if the Controlled Substances Act was Ratified by the States, like the 21st Amendment stipulates any order of Prohibition must be, so it isn't even following Constitutional law.
I can't lay down and die just because someone disapproves of my solution to a problem. If they feel it is so important to put a stage 4 cancer patient in jail for standing up for what she believes in, there is nothing left of the America I was taught to believe in. And Jefferson tells us that when that happens, it is time for another Revolution.
The groups I am working with have been holding public meetings about this initiative for over a year and a half, working with the people it will effect at the grass-roots level. It was crafted from their input.
I lobbied hard for separation of the sales and production licensure. Oregon has been taking tiny, baby step for too long. It is time for us to move forward.
Dawnie, I agree about Florida. I don't think people understand the nature of the Democratic leaders here. They are a unique kind. I don't refer to the people of the party necessarily, but the ones in charge are different and live by different rules.
Also, finally Dan Gelber fesses up the fact that they really did not try to fight the GOP about the primary. You would not believe his reasons.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1468
And he actually told Dean to stop the circular firing squad which Florida started.
I am very disappointed in Michigan's play to move up, especialy since it was done by Democrats in direct dissent with their own party.
Posted by gro4me on August 31, 2007 at 07:42 PM
ya know what, I just had a mildly positive thought about your condition and the condition of many others......... one being Elizabeth Edwards.
Perhaps she will need to relieve the pain and nausea of cancer too. And with her hubby being ahead in IOWA (it's a stretch I know) but MAYBE just MAYBE he would have first hand knowledge (somehow) of the good effects of it all .... by observing his own wife.... and if he wins the Primaries and 08 election he would himself consider passing a law to make it legal in ALL states (at least medically or in small amounts like other states)
It's just a thought
I'd rather E. Edwards be cured and I have a hard time even talking about her as I respect her so much and she's a homegirl. :-( I hate that she has this disease. I hate that anyone has it.
sniff
but I still want Richardson, Gore or Clark (and homeyharpo troll ur busted as a liar for claiming you're new...... you can't be if you know I like CLARK)
more like abhorrent behavior as there really IS no RIGHT way to pick up someone in an airport bathroom
YUCK
what the hell happened to all the airport bars anyway???
Mutiny at Justice - DOJ Staff Refuses Gitmo Cases Hotlist
by FishOutofWater [Subscribe]
Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 01:34:10 PM PDT
Lawyers in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) appellate division have refused to take the government's side, in detainees' appeals of Guantanamo imprisonment.
The government's legal arguments justifying the detention of hundreds of people at the Guantánamo Bay naval base have been repudiated three times by the U.S. Supreme Court. But it's not just outsiders who take issue with the U.S. Justice Department strategy: Up to one fourth of the department's own civil appellate staff has recently opted out of handling the government's cases against detainee appeals, two sources familiar with the matter tell U.S. News.
BREAKING: AP now reporting that Craig Will Resign Tomorrow
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 8/31/2007 06:34:00 PM ET
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That what CNN says the Associated Press is reporting. Here's the word from AP via IdahoStatesman.com:
Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will announce Saturday he will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men’s room, Republican officials said Friday.
Craig's communications director Dan Whiting told the Idaho Statesman, "I won't say either way."
6:57 PM The article above has been UPDATED with these lines:
The Idaho Statesman independently confirmed the report.
Craig's office declined to confirm or deny a resignation.
Gro4Me, I posted a response to you on the previous thread at 7:14 if you want to read it.
He essentially collapsed inwardly after the elections and many people remember that.
Posted by IrritatedDemocrat on August 31, 2007 at 07:59 PM
Yeah, I guess having an Election stolen out from under you, with Right wing Asshats pounding on doors and walls, will do that to one!!!!!
And LOOK at the prize we got in return for all this instability, huh??? Our country has lost 3800+ US troops in an illegal lie of an invasion, it has cost us Billions of dollars, with more being asked for. Our Constitution has been torn to shreds! Our deficit went from a surplus to a HUGE deficit. Our Face in the International community is nothing more than a joke! We have more enemies than we ever had in our history. New Orleans and it's people will never be the same. Price of oil at all time high. Economy and jobs sucks! Another recession on the horizon. the US dollar is almost worthless overseas. Our Civil Rights are slowly drifting away, but maybe YOU like having your phone and internet spied upon. My ancestors did not come here to Spawn a government like this one!
So Al Gore would have been a thousand times better than this puke of a pig that we have now!!!!!!!
At least the Republican leadership shoved this guy out quickly. Posted by HypocritesWok on August 31, 2007 at 08:15 PM
Now isn't that funny! No Republicans tried to push out that Vitter who wanted to PAY a cop to give the Cop a BJ a couple months ago,
Could it be because Vitter's governor was DEMOCRAT and would have replaced him with a DEMOCRAT! hmmmmmm, let me think about that!
rj, you might find this one of interest. Even the Cancer Society realizes the folly of Americans not having Health Insurance.
Cancer Society Focuses Its Ads on the Uninsured
By Kevin Sack
Atlanta - In a stark departure from past practice, the American Cancer Society plans to devote its entire $15 million advertising budget this year not to smoking cessation or colorectal screening but to the consequences of inadequate health coverage.
earlier today I was told how low I had sunk because I didn't spend much time praying and worrying over Tony Snow.
My opinion hasn't changed on Mr. Snow...he can have Bush's 30% pray for him, I'll save my prayers for little girls like this one.
A prayer for Gloria | "I want my miracle. I want my family"
rj, you might find this one of interest. Even the Cancer Society realizes the folly of Americans not having Health Insurance.
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PamB, that is an interesting one. They are supposedly going to spend money on commercials to call attention to the situation. Good for them!
So Al Gore would have been a thousand times better than this puke of a pig that we have now!!!!!!!
Posted by PamB on August 31, 2007 at 08:15 PM
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Chimpy sucks! And look what we got to along with Chimpy - the insane Shooter!
Republicans dig deep into the excuse vault
Some are afraid of black men. Some plead guilty because they can't take the pressure an innocent plea would bring. Others just felt compelled to forgo treatment by a trained massage therapist, favoring the tender massage only a prostitute could deliver.
Welcome to the excuse vault of the scandalized Republican politician.
Iraq War: Exporting fraud
The Times, meanwhile, reports that our federal agencies are looking into criminal cases involving the sale or purchase of these weapons. These investigations, it says, "amount to the largest ring of fraud and kickbacks uncovered" in Iraq. How large? As of last week, there were 73 investigations into fraudulent dealings (conspiracy, kickbacks and bid-rigging) in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. Sure, investigations will happen.
But first, we have to make sure that whistle-blowers are punished. The Associated Press reports that "the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted. Or worse."
Imprisoned and interrogated at a U.S. military prison in Iraq after telling the FBI of illegal arms sales, two Americans (one a Navy veteran) filed a federal lawsuit in February. Now consider that nearly a third of the $30 billion Congress handed over for Iraq's reconstruction can't be accounted for. We need these guys to speak up.
Can't say the Florida DEMS are right, but when they finally got the opportunity after a couple of decades in "Bush/GOP bondage", they're throwin' down and callin' bluffs.
Where else but Florida.
Peace \/
Favorite Memory: Gonzo on Habeas
By Robert Parry
Consortium News
Tuesday 28 August 2007
Everyone has their favorite memory of departing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: his endless "do not recalls"; his quibbling definitions of torture; his dismissive attitude toward the "quaint" and "obsolete" Geneva Conventions.
But my personal favorite was his insistence that the U.S. Constitution doesn't expressly recognize habeas corpus, the great fair-trial principle of English law that dates back to the Magna Carta in 1215.
"There is no expressed grant of habeas in the Constitution," Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 18. He did acknowledge, however, that there was "a prohibition against taking it away."
Gonzales's bizarre remark left Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a former federal prosecutor and the panel's ranking Republican, sputtering in disbelief.
"Wait a minute," Specter interjected. "The Constitution says you can't take it away except in case of rebellion or invasion. Doesn't that mean you have the right of habeas corpus unless there's a rebellion or invasion?"
Algore would have wrecked the US economy trying to stop the sun from warming the earth.
BULLSHIT!!!
Wonder why Japan, Germany, other countries who all demanded their corporations did not face any financial disasters then if you believe this propoganda???
Wake up and Grow up!
A Sobering Census Report: Americans' Meager Income Gains
The New York Times | Editorial
Wednesday 29 August 2007
The economic party is winding down and most working Americans never even got near the punch bowl.
The Census Bureau reported yesterday that median household income rose 0.7 percent last year - it's second annual increase in a row- to $48,201. The share of households living in poverty fell to 12.3 percent from 12.6 percent in 2005. This seems like welcome news, but a deeper look at the belated improvement in these numbers - more than five years after the end of the last recession - underscores how the gains from economic growth have failed to benefit most of the population.
The median household income last year was still about $1,000 less than in 2000, before the onset of the last recession. In 2006, 36.5 million Americans were living in poverty - 5 million more than six years before, when the poverty rate fell to 11.3 percent.
And what is perhaps most disturbing is that it appears this is as good as it's going to get.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082907B.shtml
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Al Gore would have hurt the economy? Try again troll boz. Chimpy has been a complete economic disaster ... unless you are in the top .1% ... they did quite nicely in this new Gilded Age.
Here's another Repug who won't be looking for Bush to go and stand next to him and campaign!
Huckabee backs D.C. voting rights bill
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) is breaking with President Bush on the D.C. voting rights bill.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/huckabee-backs-d.c.-voting-rights-bill-2007-08-31.html
Wake up and Grow up!
Posted by PamB on August 31, 2007 at 08:42 PM
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hypocriteswok = sally
Tonight harpy plays irritated Dem ...
Different names, same old trolls.
Here's another one of those "compassionate conservatives!" Hope the next Hurricane/flood hits HIS house! Wonder if those were all blond blue eyed rich people, if he would bitching about money spent thee?
"GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo (Colo.) said Friday it is “time the taxpayer gravy train left the New Orleans station” and urged an end to the federal aid to the region that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina two years ago.
“The amount of money that has been wasted on these so-called ‘recovery’ efforts has been mind-boggling,” said Tancredo, who is running a long-shot presidential campaign. “Enough is enough
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/tancredo-slams-katrina-spending-2007-08-31.html
let's spend that money on invading another country, instead!
Can't say the Florida DEMS are right, but when they finally got the opportunity after a couple of decades in "Bush/GOP bondage", they're throwin' down and callin' bluffs.
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J, I still don't understand why they think there is justification for them to have their primary early.
Lawmakers Who Were Almost Shot Down Declare ‘Significant Progress’ In Iraq
martinez4.gif Yesterday, a plane carrying three U.S. senators and a member of the House was forced to take evasive maneuvers to avoid rocket-propelled grenades as they took off from Baghdad. “It was a scary moment,” said Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL). “There were a few minutes there where I wondered: ‘Have we been hit? Are we OK?’” added Rep. Bud Cramer (D-AL).
Despite the close call, the lawmakers continued to insist that progress was being made in Iraq:
– “Incredibly significant progress has been made on the military front,” Martinez told the Orlando Sentinel.
– “I believe the surge, from observations…that they have made a lot of progress with the surge. It’s not definitive, but it’s on the right track,” Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) told the Tuscaloosa News.
– Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) told the Tulsa World that “his visit allowed him to witness firsthand the progress resulting from the ongoing troop surge in Iraq.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/31/congress-plane-iraq/
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Inhofe is a total asshat. He nearly gets shot down yet insists there is progress in Iraq. Putz!
RJ,
and left winger was no other than the boastful, arrogant little uninfallible from yesterday.
HE JUST CAN'T TAKE A HINT, HAS NO SELF RESPECT, AND JUST KEEPS COMING BACK! What is up with guys like this, get rejected yet keep coming back?
Beats me.
U.S. Military Censors ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress is now banned from the U.S. military network in Baghdad.
Recently, an avid ThinkProgress reader — a U.S. soldier serving his second tour in Iraq — wrote to us and said that he can no longer access ThinkProgress.org. The error message he received:
tpbann22.gif
The ban began sometime shortly after Aug. 22, when Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste was our guest blogger on ThinkProgress. He posted an op-ed that was strongly critical of the President’s policies and advocated a “responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq.” Previously, both the Wall Street Journal and Washington Times had rejected the piece. An excerpt:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/31/military-censors/
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Nice huh? Nothing like fighting for freedom in Iraq as we censor the media.
What is up with guys like this, get rejected yet keep coming back?
Beats me.
Posted by PamB on August 31, 2007 at 08:51 PM
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Don't know PamB. In the case of the frosted gang, they think that by acting obnoxious, they will drive people off the blog. Have you that if anything, we are picking up way more bloggers? People who haven't been in here awhile are back again. That's just how blogs are ... people come and go.
this is a riot - the recreation of larry craig does airport bathroom on Olbermann ala dragnet style.
What a perv!
Bye, bye Larry Craig you conservative perv.
J, I still don't understand why they think there is justification for them to have their primary early.
Posted by rjsnj on August 31, 2007 at 08:49 PM
They know there is no reason, BUT you have to understand that this is a state in which the GOP is literally ground into the very dirt and has been for a couple of decades. DEMS have been paralyzed and bound for 8 years. They are leaping at ANYTHING that will give them an edge in future elections. In the the past decade the GOP through every way imaginable changed state election rules and policy to favor their party.
Though the DEMS have managed to build strength and numbers in the last couple of years, the GOP still has a tight grip on the state.
You, trollie, are really full of crapola!
Before you post your lies on here, know that I chew up and spit out little men like you every day with their lies.
Colorado Springs, Colo. - With the euro down nearly 15% this year and at a two-year low against the U.S. dollar, the world’s largest exporting nation is worth a good look. So is another country that has thriving exports in spite of a stronger currency. We’re talking about Japan and Germany, respectively, the world’s second- and third-largest economies.
Germany Outshines Japan
February 20, 2007
By Stephen S. Roach | New York
For the past 15 years, many a pessimist has had a field day with the so-called race to the bottom between the world’s second and third largest economies -- Japan and Germany. As a post-bubble Japanese economy became trapped in deflation and a series of rolling recessions, an increasingly sluggish and inherently rigid Germany economy was widely feared to be next. The verdict is now in -- those fears were vastly overblown. Not only did Germany never fall into a Japanese-like quagmire, but the engine of Europe is now very much on the mend -- with a newfound sense of vitality that is still missing in Japan.
http://www.morganstanley.com/views/gef/archive/2007/20070220-Tue.html
An “innovation scoreboard” published by the European Commission in 2007 ranked Britain behind the leaders, a group made up of Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Japan and Germany.
http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9597461
and there are dozens more where those came from.
You are an idiot, and if you don't like my mouth, you know where the exit key is, don't you!!!
Florida and Michigan are populous states with real Electoral College votes and they want their say. They\'re tired of the candidates using up all of their campaign promises before they even get to the primaries in their states.
Then WHY DID THE JERKS GO AND VOTE YES TO THIS RULE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE JUST A YEAR AGO??????
Not too bright, are they! NOW they want to take back their votes? WHAT, they weren't populous electoral states back then?
Hey Dems, loggin off. blog ya tomorrow.
If there is anything worse than a troll, it is a STUPID troll! One who THINKS he is posting intellectual stuff, but merely looks childish and dumb. Ignore him, friends.
Hi,
Two years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. In the days following the tragedy, promises rolled in from the Bush Administration to help rebuild that great city and get New Orleanians back on their feet. It turns out, that's all they were—empty promises.
The tremendous suffering that persists on the Gulf Coast is a national disgrace and Congress must help hold the president to his word. "Two years is too long—Congress must force President Bush to keep his promises by passing the Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007."
I signed a petition urging the Senate to pass the Gulf Coast Recovery Act of 2007. Can you join me at the link below?
http://pol.moveon.org/katrina07/petition
Thanks!
A Presidential Gulf Coast Recovery Agenda
Hillary Clinton announced an agenda that she would pursue as president to cut through the red tape, deliver the promised federal assistance, and get services running and infrastructure built in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast. Hillary believes that it is unacceptable that 20 months after the storms, New Orleans is still coping with vulnerable levees, closed hospitals, dilapidated schools, rising crime, halting economic development, and a shocking lack of affordable housing. Hillary also believes that the people of New Orleans and the region – with real federal commitment and meaningful federal aid – can overcome these challenges. Here is what she would do to help them:
Posted by rjsnj on August 31, 2007 at 08:03 PM
My God the Department of Defense is passing out data sheets like Congressional playing cards. Who in the executive branch authorized the bios? Can "We the people" see them in our newspapers, what propaganda the Defense Department is passing out? Talk about Bush's dirty bag of tricks spreading BS to intimidate the troops. Look at the bio for Rep. Ellen O Tauscher (D-Calif) it should be published in the Congressional Record to show how low the DOD gets. Maybe the DOD has playing cards, which it makes up Dirty Dick tricks on.
also
"U.S. Military Censors ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress is now banned from the U.S. military network in Baghdad."
Have Congress ask the U.S. Military which sites it has banned for U.S. troops to see. It seems that Free Speech is what the White House wants them to see. It seems the Microsoft filters are censoring our "We the people." Like myself they can "At Will" of Guantanamo ban who we see to suit their faulty intelligence that like Congress they are not allowed to question Bush's executive power. Never before has one person had this Totalitarian power. So what does Congress do today anyway cower.
They are leaping at ANYTHING that will give them an edge in their future elections. In the the past decade the GOP through every way imaginable changed state election rules and policy to favor their party.
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J, I think I get what you mean. Yet, taking their frustration out this way probably won't give them an edge on the GOP.
JMO.
Posted by HypocritesWok on August 31, 2007 at 09:09 PM
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give it a rest sally.
I signed a petition urging the Senate to pass the Gulf Coast Recovery Act of 2007.
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Hey DKA, it's about time we did something about New Orleans. Too much money being wasted on this Iraq occupation and not enough being spent to solve our problems right here.
The reason is simple - Chimpy and the conservative idiots in Congress.
Congress they are not allowed to question Bush's executive power. Never before has one person had this Totalitarian power. So what does Congress do today anyway cower.
Posted by dlesterpoet on August 31, 2007 at 09:33 PM
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dlester, impeachment is the answer. The only way to deal with the arrogance of Bush-Cheney is to start the ompeachment process. The reason Bush walks all over Congress is that they signaled impeachment is "off the table" ... bad move.
Germany's Merkel Urges US to Support Climate Deal
By Sophie Hardach
Reuters
Thursday 30 August 2007
The United States must support a global deal to cut carbon dioxide emissions and combat climate change as time is running out in the fight against global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
In a speech during her first visit to Japan as chancellor, Merkel said both developing and industrialized economies need to agree on specific targets for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
"I think America will cooperate - America must cooperate. If we can't find a regulatory regime that is accepted by the USA, then China and India will never agree to reduction targets," she told participants of a conference organized by the Nikkei daily.
Many developing countries are worried that strict environmental regulations will hamper economic growth. They demand that industrialized nations, the chief polluters, bear the brunt of emission cuts.
Merkel suggested that as a compromise, developing countries should be allowed to increase their emissions per capita while industrialized national cut theirs, until both sides reach the same level.
Abu Ghraib Swept Under the Carpet
The New York Times | Editorial
Thursday 30 August 2007
We would have been hard pressed to think of a more sadly suitable coda to the Bush administration's mishandling of the Abu Ghraib nightmare than Tuesday's verdict in the court-martial of the only officer to be tried for the abuse, sexual assault and torture of prisoners that occurred there in 2003.
The verdict was a remix of the denial of reality and avoidance of accountability that the government has used all along to avoid the bitter truth behind Abu Ghraib: The abuses grew out of President Bush's decision to ignore the Geneva Conventions and American law in handling prisoners after Sept. 11, 2001.
The man on trial, Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, was not a career officer. He was one of a multitude of reservists pressed into Iraq duty, many of them for jobs beyond their experience or abilities. A military jury of nine colonels and a brigadier general decided that he was not to blame for the failure to train or supervise the Abu Ghraib jailers and acquitted him on all charges related to the abuse. He was convicted only of disobeying an order to keep silent about Abu Ghraib. Even that drew only a reprimand, from an organization that Colonel Jordan presumably has no further interest in serving.
Our purpose is not to second-guess the verdict. Rather, we fear that this and the other Abu Ghraib trials have served no larger purpose than punishing 11 low-ranking soldiers who committed despicable acts. Not one officer has been punished beyond a reprimand, and there has been even less accountability at higher levels.
President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top officials have long claimed that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were the disconnected acts of a small number of sociopaths. It's clear that is not true.
Posted by Kristen at August 31, 2007 08:25 PM
"Just watching her do this is telling us that God is still using her," says Gloria's mother, Kristen.
coincidence?
very sad - better watch it with blasphemous talk like "saving your prayers." WWJD or say?
forget that - I'm just one huge back sliding heathen!! LOL (chuckle) Because I totally agree.
I'm like this broken clock. I'm right at least twice a day! pahahaha!
time to walk Atreyu (one last dang time, ugh, today)
and Happy B day DAD!! RIP!
CAPITOL HILL OPEN DISCUSSION ON IRAQ AND THE HISTORY OF INSURGENCY, TERRORISM AND GUERILLA WAR
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-08-31 20:33. Activism | Congress
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), co-chaired by U.S. Representatives Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee and the Out of Iraq Caucus, chaired by U.S. Representative Maxine Waters will co-host a Capitol Hill Open Discussion to review the Bush administration’s policy in Iraq, assess current status of insurgency and future prospects, and need to proceed in a new policy direction to achieve redeployment of U.S. troops before President Bush leaves office.
Speaker confirmed: Dr. William Polk, distinguished senior statesman, Middle East expert and author of multiple books including the just published Violent Politics - A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, & Guerilla War from the American Revolution to Iraq.
Speaker invited: U.S. Army General Wesley Clark (retired) on his new book
Audience: Members of Congress and staff, leading diplomatic, military, and intelligence experts, media (including C-SPAN for nationwide broadcast), general public
Format: U.S. Representatives Woolsey, Lee, and Waters to function as facilitators. General Clark and Dr. Polk to give opening remarks to be followed by discussion and questions from Members of Congress.
Date: Wednesday, September 19th
Time: At least two hours in length – 9:30 A.M. to Noon
Posted by ClarkKent* on August 31, 2007 at 09:48 PM
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give it a rest sally ... we all know it's you.
You aren't fooling anyone by changing your userid.
Cholera spreads in Iraq as health services collapse
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-08-31 16:41. Evidence
By Patrick Cockburn, Independent
Lack of clean drinking water and poor sanitation has led to 5,000 people in northern Iraq contracting cholera.
The outbreak is among the most serious signs yet that Iraqi health and social services are breaking down as the number of those living in camps and poor housing increases after people flee their homes.
"The disease is spreading very fast," Dr Juan Abdallah, a senior official in Kurdistan's health ministry, told a UN agency. "It is the first outbreak of its kind here in the past few decades."
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/26341
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The surge is a failure.
Basra Pullout Story Breaks Into The US Press Hotlist
by DemFromCT
Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 06:26:26 PM PDT
While the coverage is still thin, the Basra pullout by British forces at least made it into the US press today.
Recent weeks have brought a lot of misplaced criticism of the United Kingdom's role in southern Iraq. It is time to set the record straight.
Des Browne and David Miliband, the British Defense and Foreign Secretaries, writing in the WaPo, use an unusual tactic (an op-ed) to address US sniping at the Brits' position on withdrawal. From This Is London:
The growing U.S. attacks on its biggest and most loyal partner in the coalition have clearly rattled Downing Street, and the intervention of two senior ministers was seen as a sign of Government anxiety that relations with Washington are being undermined by U.S. carping.
That criticism has grown in recent weeks with the revelation that British troops would soon pull back from their Basra Palace HQ to the last remaining base near the airport on the outskirts of the city.
[The other U.S. piece on Basra found today is background from NPR]:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/31/204312/992
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It took this long for the story to make our media?
Bssra has been lost to Shiite militia.
The surge is a total failure.
Posted by rjsnj on August 31, 2007 at 09:52 PM
she wants us to know it's her - hence the *
Jersey did you see I thanked you earlier for bringing me up to speed on troll action?
Man, I was so OFF MOST of this day I thought it was SATURDAY!!! LOL
Marine, Army soldier die in separate attacks in Anbar province
The Associated PressPublished: August 31, 2007
BAGHDAD: A U.S. Marine and an Army soldier were killed in separate attacks in Anbar province of western Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday.
Both attacks occurred on Wednesday, the command said.
No further details were released.
The deaths bring the American death toll to at least 79 this month, one more than the July total, which was the lowest for the year.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/31/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-US-Casualties.php
Anne Davies Herald Correspondent in Washington and agencies
August 30, 2007
THE US President, George Bush, has given his strongest indication yet that he intends to continue with plans to increase troop numbers in Iraq after the September 15 report to Congress, when he delivered an upbeat assessment of military progress and a more positive view of the political outlook.
He also warned that pulling out of Iraq would harm US interests in the Middle East for decades and expose America to the threat of increased terrorism and a nuclear arms race in the region by allowing al-Qaeda-backed Sunni extremists to flourish and Shiite extremism in Iran to spread.
The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, added fuel to the fire on Tuesday, saying that America's power in Iraq was rapidly collapsing and that Iran was ready to step in to help fill the vacuum.
In the Iraqi city of Karbala, about 100 kilometres south of Baghdad, riots that left at least 52 people dead and 206 injured continued yesterday, as more troops and police were trucked in by Iraqi authorities. Gun battles between rival Shiite groups escalated, causing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to flee after a two-day religious festival.
An indefinite curfew has been imposed on the city, which had earlier been the scene of jubilation and religious fervour, as thousands walked for hours to pray at the shrines of Muhammad al-Mahdi, a revered Shiite cleric. Violence reportedly broke out when police tried to confiscate weapons at entrances to the shrines.
Many of the gunmen were linked to Moqtada al-Sadr, the influential preacher whose followers make up Iraq's largest Shiite militia, the Mahdi Army.
During recent months, the militants have been fighting the Badr Organisation, a rival Shiite group, whose followers include many of the region's police officers, for control of southern Iraq.
Mr Bush, who was speaking at the annual American Legion convention in Reno, Nevada, on Tuesday, painted a graphic picture of what would happen in the Middle East if the US pulled out.
"Extremists of all strains could be emboldened by the knowledge that they forced America to retreat," he said. "Terrorists could have more safe havens to conduct attacks on Americans and our friends and allies. Iran could conclude we were weak and could not stop them gaining nuclear weapons."
He also warned that once Iran had nuclear weapons it would set off a nuclear arms race in the region. It would allow extremists to control a key part of the world's energy supply and hold the Western world to ransom.
But the President did not mention military action against Iran - something some advisers are urging him to consider - instead stressing that the US was pursuing a diplomatic strategy of isolating Iran through a united front on economic sanctions.
Pilgrims flee Iraqi city as gunbattles rage
Reuters | Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Police have ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala after fierce gunbattles erupted between security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
A source at Kerbala's al-Hussein Hospital said 28 people had been killed and 144 wounded. A senior security source in Baghdad said 25 people had been killed, mostly policemen.
Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier-General Abdul Kareem Khalaf told state television that reinforcements were being rushed to Kerbala from Baghdad and neighbouring provinces. He said 50 people had been killed and wounded in the violence.
The fighting appeared to be between gunmen loyal to the fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, possibly members of his Mehdi Army militia, and police linked to the rival Shi'ite political movement, the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) and its Badr Organisation.
In a sign the violence was spreading, police said five people were killed hours later in fighting between Mehdi Army militia and supporters of the Badr Organisation in Baghdad.
Police said Sadr supporters also set fire to an SIIC office in the capital.
Jersey did you see I thanked you earlier for bringing me up to speed on troll action?
Man, I was so OFF MOST of this day I thought it was SATURDAY!!! LOL
Posted by Dawnie on August 31, 2007 at 09:57 PM
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Hi Dawn,I must have missed that. No problem. These boz think they are clever but they are transparent. Their posts betray who they are.
I have been on and off the blog the past couple of days myself.
Posted by rjsnj on August 31, 2007 at 09:49 PM
Gen Clark is gonna be there? Awwwwwwe, rrrats I wanna be a bug on the wall.
Posted by rjsnj on August 31, 2007 at 10:04 PM
we're just such busy people (LOL) kiddin - mine's been mostly medical stuff....... blah.
r u listening to MIKE?
talkin about what happened to Germany - with Hitler
The silence of some and active support of others
(I think this is why Warner is getting OUT) That would be one decent Republican and for that I respect him enough to spell his Party correctly.
JEZus, Joseph and Mary I hope we DON'T repeat what my ancestors lived through (and ran from).
one slight mis-step is all it would take for us to tunnel from this reality to another (talkin quantum physics here) and wake up to find ourselves REALLY in HELL (all over again).
Keep FIGHTING TRUTH SEEKERS!! Life is happening (moving and changing) one nano second at a time.
The surge is a failure.
Posted by rjsnj on August 31, 2007 at 09:54 PM
BUSH IS AN UTTER FAILURE AGAIN!
HONK HONK HONK HONK!
He also warned that once Iran had nuclear weapons it would set off a nuclear arms race in the region.
Posted by rjsnj on August 31, 2007 at 10:00 PM
What a hypocrite. PA is helping India build "nukular" weapons. Now I read where Pakistan is restarting their "nukular" program. Talk about an arms race.
How about PA restarting the Cold War. Now Russia is developing new weapons of mass destruction.
He restarted the arms race with Russia, something we spent Trillions ending in 1992 and giving credit to ray-gun.
Katie Couric in Iraq
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/08/31/couricandco/entry3225041.shtml
Dawnie,
Was your family involved in the Holocaust?
I think PA is heading us toward a new holocaust involving Muslims. All the talking pseudo-religious jerks on the radio do nothing but thump the Bible and badmouth Muslims. It's the 1930's all over again. bush has restarted the holocaust but different victims are involved. The reason he gives is we don't want the Muslims to control the World's oil. It's ok for us to control it but not for them.
What bullcrap.
507 days
1 hour
25 minutes
and the seconds are spinning
this is what my BUSH COUNTDOWN CLOCK says on my facebook page.
that's way too long - way way WAYYYYYYYYYYYy to much time left!
Can Nancy Pelosi single-handedly take impeachment off the table?
By Bruce Fein
Dawnie,
Where is Asshat shooter, in Paraguay scouting out little girls for the repig senators that will move there in November 2008 along with the trolls? Paraguay must have undeveloped oil reserves.
well the trolls are all a twitter...its been another great week for their repelicans! hahahahahaha
Hello, everyone.
We had the most wonderful afternoon walking around in a public garden today. It's been nearly a month since the weather has been this nice. It was good to see that Nature has been taking care of business and that the turn of the seasons is at hand. I love fall and the harvest season.
And as the Bible doth say: What that you sow you shall also reap...
Bush unveils modest mortgage proposals
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Friday announced a set of modest proposals to deal with an alarming rise in mortgage defaults that have contributed to turbulent financial markets over recent weeks.
Housing analysts said it was highly likely the limited steps Bush outlined will be expanded in coming weeks by a Democratic-controlled Congress intent on responding to growing voter anxiety as up to 2 million homeowners worry about losing their homes.
Officials in the troubled housing industry said the important thing was that the administration had finally offered a proposal, a step they said should help calm global financial markets that have been on a rollercoaster ride in recent weeks as investors worried about a serious credit crunch.
"This is not a cure-all, but it is good to see something coming out of the White House," said David Seiders, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders. "It is good for markets, both domestically and internationally, to see that the White House is facing the problem head on and at least starting to do something about it."...
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_housing_slump
Facing up to problems? Surely this guys jests.
This is the same President who after the attacks on 9/11 implored his countrymen to go out and shop till we dropped.
The economy was already on the skids at that time from his pronouncement that a recession was already underway before he was elected/crowned and the only way to cure it was to give the top 2% of the wealthy the biggest tax cut in history. On September 11, 200l, Bush was putting the finishing touches on a proposal to give them more tax cuts...just because Cheney told him they could.
He then ran up the biggest trade and national deficit in history by approving without even looking at the billions of Congressional GOP pork barrel spending which included such items as bridges to no where.
Then there is that one trillion dollar blunder in Iraq that wasn't necessary either.
And the billions of dollars in war profiteering and missing appropriations that just disappeared in Baghdad, along with the hundreds of thousands of missing weapons.
This is not a White House that faces any economic problems or mistakes. It just creates new ones to divert attention from the old ones.
I can't wait to see what Bush is going to propose in the next few months when the sub-prime crisis leaks into the other financial institutions. A new war in Iran, perhaps?
Posted by Johnedwrd on August 31, 2007 at 10:35 PM
My Dad's MOM & Dad came over here (in the 1930's) to escape Hitler. My Mom's Dad also.
Mom's Mom's family has been in the U.S. since Washington. I guess my relative was some kind of PAGE of his. According to my Mom.
I always get the story wrong as I don't care too much about geneology anymore. We also have a relative that was a chancellor in Germany. (Ebert)
(but nobody that I know actually suffered by his hands) They just had the means to get the HECK away in time. Thankfully.
I think if we do nothing to slow or stop them they will continue to grow more aggressive not only in Iraq but also will begin to threaten other countries in the Middle East.
Same rationale used to get us into Vietnam. But after we left, nothing dire happened. Slowly but surely things settled down and the dominoes didn't fall.
In fact, affairs between others in the region became so normalized that Bush recently granted Vietnam the most favored nation's status.
Do we really want to go through that again when all we apparently have to do is jump 40 years in the future and just set up a trade agreement with Iran?
THis is for the FBI, CIA, NSA, and any other agencies tapping IN.................
keep an EYE on THIS FROG (name below) for it surely is fixing to do damage to all local livestock starting with goats. He's been threatening to for weeks but I really think this weekend IT MAY DO IT.
(a seriously fixation here)
Posted by Harpos_Works_Hard_Labor_Day on August 31, 2007 at 10:50 PM
serious fixation
major mental case
perhaps equal to a McVey
dangerous and on the loose
there is a bit more great news out there for your pelicans than another hypocrite getting the klieg light treatment baby harpie, stop humping sally's scabrous leg for a bit and try giving your weekly reader a glance...
bushwar. gettin better all the time:
Iraqi civilian deaths climb again
War-related fatalities rose in August for the second month in a row, suggesting that the U.S. troop increase has done little to reduce violence.
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 1, 2007
BAGHDAD -- Bombings, sectarian slayings and other violence related to the war killed at least 1,773 Iraqi civilians in August, the second month in a row that civilian deaths have risen, according to government figures obtained Friday.
In July, the civilian death toll was 1,753, and in June it was 1,227. The numbers are based on morgue, hospital and police records and come from officials in the ministries of Health, Defense and the Interior. The statistics appear to indicate that President Bush's increase in troops this year has done little to rein in civilian bloodshed, despite U.S. military statements to the contrary.
Military officials have said the security plan is showing progress because the number of attacks on civilians has decreased and sectarian killings have dropped. The security plan, which began in February, has put an additional 28,500 U.S. troops in Baghdad and other trouble spots.
The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, is likely to cite such indicators when he presents an assessment of the security plan to Congress this month.
The U.S. military says the numbers it gathers are lower than those provided by Iraqi government ministries, but it does not release them. But it has said that the monthly civilian death toll from sectarian killings, which do not include all bombings, has dropped to about 1,000 per month from 1,200 per month early this year.
The latest Iraqi government figures show that after an initial drop in civilian deaths after Bush's plan was launched Feb. 13, deaths quickly climbed back nearly to previous levels.
The numbers indicate that even if attacks have dropped, their degree of lethality may have increased.
In January, the month before the extra troops began arriving, 2,076 Iraqi civilians died in violence related to the war, according to Iraqi officials. In February, the first month of the security plan, the number dropped to 1,646. In March, it reached 1,872. April saw 1,500 people killed, and May's figure rose to 1,949. In June, the month in which the last extra troops arrived in the country, 1,227 people died.
Various factors can skew the numbers. Baghdad, which is usually the most violent part of the country, experienced a four-day curfew in June following the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra north of Baghdad. Other cities also were under curfews, which kept violence at bay.
July and August each saw massive bomb blasts that killed scores of civilians and sent numbers soaring.
The latest numbers will not surprise many Iraqis.
A man who identified himself as Khaldoon, a blacksmith living in the mainly Shiite Muslim area of Hurriya in western Baghdad, said he felt secure there only because Shiite militiamen patrolled the streets. He said his cousin, also Shiite, had been killed recently because he had gone into a Sunni Muslim neighborhood.
"The government keeps on feeding us lies on TV, saying that there is progress in such-and-such place or that the services are getting better in some places, but it's all propaganda," said Rana Wajid, a Christian woman living in the mainly Sunni area of Dora, in southern Baghdad.
Most Iraqis interviewed recently about their views on the military plan say security will not improve unless the country's political leaders resolve their differences.
Vali Nasr of the Council on Foreign Relations, an expert on Iraq's political situation, agreed.
"It is the political impasse that is causing the security problem, and it is the political impasse that has to be solved if there is to be an end to the fighting," he said.
Posted by gregg on August 31, 2007 at 10:59 PM
Did you find Idahoblue? She said she's in NY this weekend.
i had no idea dawnie. hope she at least rides the staten island ferry.
Gregg
reposting for you -
hey Dawnie, a quick flyby---bahhahahahaha...I cannot believe the hypocrisy of Idaho's senator! This is crazy! I'm visiting the woderful town of NYC right now and it was great reading about it in the Post....
Where's Greg??? Saw two games of the Yanks sweeping the Sox...YESSS!!!
Anyway....carryon....
Posted by BlueinIdaho on August 31, 2007 at 07:04 PM
Perverted homosexual behavior belongs to the progressive party.
That's more like "perverted hetrosexual" behavior...Craig demands that he's not gay. I've decided to give him the benefit of a doubt on that one. Besides, we all know that Republicans never lie.
I believe gregg may have been referring to the outgoing Gonzales. Now there was a real piece of work.
Did you read Novak's column about how thrilled the GOP Senators were when Bush appointed him as a White House counsel in 2001? They told Novak that he was unfit for any governmental office....but they all stood by him through Abu Graibe, the midnight rape of John Ashcroft in an intensive care unit to his recent massive short-term memory lapse.
He, Harriet Miers, and Brownie will stand out as some of Bush's better nomonees. It's a shame Bernard Kerik didn't slip through the confirmation process. It would have been interesting seeing how he worked organized crime into the heart of of Homeland Security.
Dawnie,
Your family was lucky to get out of Germany in the 1930's. It must have been a terrible ordeal.
My grandparents (father's parents) came over from England in 1909 and I remember my grandmother always telling my brother and I that we were lucky to be in America. It was during the Blitz when Hitler's bombers were pounding London and other cities.
On my mother's side we too had family in Virginia and Boston during the Revolution. The Boston grandfather was a Minute Man.
You would be well advised to drop this whole impeachement bullshit. It hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell.
What the hell were you thinking anyway?
Posted by Harpos_Works_Hard_Labor_Day on August 31, 2007 at 10:44 PM
*******
Stick it where the sun the doesn't shine!
Posted by Johnedwrd on August 31, 2007 at 11:11 PM
ooooo kewl a Minute Man! Let's hope that's the ONLY thing resembling a MINUTE in his life! hehe j/k (bad joke) sorry! ;-)
That's back when you saw the color of the EYES of the person before you impaled him with the sword at the end of your musket.
How "personal" killing was back then........ I don't think I could have done it. Unless of course it was ME or him. I'd never pick a fight though. noooooooo. And that's back when signing up was REALLY kissin your butt good BYE!
OMG ROFLMAO
just the troll just warn someone to be "well advised"
ROFLMAO ohhhhhhhhhh ho ho ho I'm gonna fall off this chair!!!
major oxymoron
a troll telling ANYONE here to be "well advised"
ROFLOLOLOLOL i must stop laughing
Whoever is in charge of the DNC website should block and ban these Republican trolls from posting here because all they do is come here to post propaganda to try and start arguments with people on purpose. These Republicans stand for nothing!
From CNN, September 2004
President Bush wants to change the Constitution to effectively ban same-sex marriage, the party platform goes even further by stating its opposition to civil unions for gay couples and no openly gay Republican has been invited to speak at the GOP convention.
And this week, Alan Keyes, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, agreed with a critical description of Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter.
Still, about 40 openly gay Republicans are at the convention as delegates or alternates for Bush, according to the Log Cabin Republicans, an organization for gay and lesbian Republicans.
"We're really here as a voice for what the future needs to be," said Patrick Sammon, a spokesman for the group. "We are getting that message out."
The Log Cabin Republicans lost a pre-convention bid to insert a "unity" plank in the platform, one that would have essentially said it's OK for Republicans to disagree on some social issues. And they're still licking their wounds from Bush's bid earlier this year to amend the Constitution to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples.
The proposal failed on a procedural vote in the Senate in July.
This week, the group has begun airing a commercial in New York City, asking Republicans whether they want to be a party of unity or one that practices "politics of intolerance and fear."
The group also remains undecided on whether it will officially endorse Bush for re-election.
"There is a brewing battle in the GOP for the future of this party," said Chris Barron, political director for the Log Cabin Republicans. He described that battle as one of "inclusion" or "division."
Gay Republicans here are taking some comfort in the choice of some high-profile speakers. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example, have voiced support for gay rights in the past -- although neither mentioned that issue specifically in their prime-time speeches to delegates.
"Obviously, I would like to have us get to a point where we can have speakers speak to that on the floor," said Jeff Bissiri, a gay delegate from Los Angeles, California. "We're not there yet."
In fact, Sen. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina delivered a speech Tuesday night which took a clear, uncompromising stand on marriage: "Marriage between a man and a woman isn't something Republicans invented, but it is something Republicans will defend."
The line drew strong applause.
Several gay Republicans here said they are drawn to the party because of its stand on economic, international and military issues. Several said they're not looking for the party to necessarily embrace something like same-sex marriage, but they want it to at least express support for issues like legal benefits for gay couples."
We're not looking for some sort of group hug from the party," Barron said, saying he understands that some conservatives will never be comfortable with homosexuality.
While gay Republicans see their expectations as moderate and reasonable, they get little sympathy from either liberals or conservatives.
"I think they have some deep-seated self-hatred, and they really need to do some serious introspection," said Adam Jankowitz, who was walking around the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City with a gay rainbow flag draped over his shoulders.
From the conservative side, Genevieve Wood of the Family Research Council, said gay Republicans didn't understand the party's core principles if they expected it to stay silent on controversial social issues.
"Homosexuals can live with whomever they want to live with," Wood said. "The question is whether government has to endorse it."
One recent bright spot for gay Republicans came from Cheney.
At a rally last week, Cheney was asked about his views on "homosexual marriage." Cheney noted that one of his two daughters is gay and he declared his affection for both. He then he proceeded to signal that he believed the question of same-sex marriage was best left to the states -- a position that put him at odds with Bush.
That made Keyes' comments this week particularly galling to gay Republicans here. During an interview with a satellite radio station that provides gay and lesbian programming, Keyes on Monday night described homosexuality as "selfish hedonism" and then replied "of course" when asked if Mary Cheney -- an adviser to her father's campaign -- was a "selfish hedonist."
Said Bissiri: "Keyes' remarks were disgusting, and every Republican should condemn them utterly."
It's not easy being a gay Republican these days
Do you think for a SECOND that PUGS aren't NECK deep in this mortgage thing?
I'd bet 80 percent of the home loans went to DUMB ASS RED STATE PO FOLKS!
You WISH Me to have a simple mind but you KNOW that's not the case. I speak/type communicate in the hopes that ALL reading can understand me.
I don't NEED to talk like some elitest snob to get my POINT across.
YOU on the other hand are just mentally unstable and delusional. Not to mention hard UP for company which is why you come here. I really do feel bad for you (until you get all racists and homophobic) just come OUT will you?
We won't think less of you like your previous blog pals over at RED STATE. You have no idea how forgiving SOME Democrats can be (of course I'm not one of them, I'm a backslider) but I'm honest.
The surge is a failure.
Posted by rjsnj on August 31, 2007 at 09:54 PM
BUSH IS AN UTTER FAILURE AGAIN!
HONK HONK HONK HONK!
Posted by Johnedwrd on August 31, 2007 at 10:23 PM
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You are so right, the Iraq surge is a failure and so is this administration.
Schakowsky On Iraq Visit: ‘Surge Is A Failure,’ Warns There Is ‘Major PR Effort Going On’
With Presidents Bush, Clinton, Nixon and Carter along with power brokers David Rockefeller and Harry Kissenger being members of the Bohemian Grove Club power brokers, who control the world politics by banning together it shows how little power the "We the people" have. It is strange that they wear hoods in Satanic rituals with a 40 foot owl every year, 1500 of the most powerful me in the world, no women allowed so Hillary can't go, but Bill can. Bohemian Grove is believe to be an offshoot of the Nazi based Skull and Bones. Anyway it is interesting how the rich and famous have a fake human sacrifices. Is this family values, look at the list who have have gone the cremation ceremony.
More info even from a Conservative web site
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Wicca%20&%20Witchcraft/bohemian_grove_exposed.htm
Posted by Dawnie on August 31, 2007 at 10:36 PM
Hi, Dawn.
We need a time machine to speed things up a bit...or is that what's been happening with the primary season?
Why don't we just let the primaries serve as the national election and end all the fuss a year early.
So what if Clinton beats Obama. According to my time machine, we will have returned to the time before the 12th Amendment and Obama will just be declared the Vice President with the second highest vote count.
And the Thompson/Gingrich ticket will not count at all because according to my time machine, the Whigs will still be in power and the Republican Party never existed.
Besides, that's the way Bush thinks. He has no concept of reality. If we told him he was John Wilkes Booth, he'd probably shoot Cheney thinking he was Lincoln.
It's worth a try, right? Someone get Haggert on the phone and ask him to mention it in Bush's weekly religious teleconference with Robertson and Dobson...I'm certain they didn't like abolitionists either.
The utter arrogance of the repuke party is totally responsible for the shaky mortgages that were allowed to be sold.
repukes can't stand any government regulation whatsoever.
We all know what has happened recently with the toys and dog food from China.
We all know what has been happening with coal mines.
Now we all know what has been happening with mortgages. "we don't need no stinkin regulations" is the mantra of the repuke party.
Iraq benchmark report; Bush surge a failure
"Overall," the report concludes, "key legislation has not been passed, violence remains high, and it is unclear whether the Iraqi government will spend $10 billion in reconstruction funds," as promised. Full Story:
CBS News: Violence suggests Iraq 'surge' is failing David Edwards
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/CBS_News_Violence_suggests_Iraq_surge_0419.html
Posted by SandyH on August 31, 2007 at 11:36 PM
Besides, that's the way Bush thinks. He has no concept of reality. If we told him he was John Wilkes Booth, he'd probably shoot Cheney thinking he was Lincoln.
Pahahhahaha! U sew FUN knee! ;-)
wow blue got to go to two yankees games!
don't miss the metropolitan museum of art and the staten island ferry ride.
thanks for pointing this out to me dawnie and if she wants to contact me she knows where she can get my address.
Posted by gregg on August 31, 2007 at 11:41 PM
du rien Mon Ami :-)
I may get a bit envious. I love travel. That's my fixation! (or was)
This USED to be a pretty FINE blue planet we have! GREAT for voyages to wonderful places with little danger or problem.
NOT so anymore. :-\
I also read you missed the moon! Oh man it was AWESOME looking! I'm glad DPD caught it.
well the moon here in the hudson valley is pretty fine right now my dear. and the night air has the nice coolness with a hint of harvest and apples to come in it...
Posted by gregg on August 31, 2007 at 11:55 PM
Heyy
Henry Hudson (right?)
We were playing a game last night - one of the questions was about who the Hudson River was named after and all the history behind it.
Apparently he wasn't the first but I guess he was the most popular?
The game is called - are you as smart as a 5th grader! LAWDY some of the questions were surprising. Stuff they didn't teach me in 9th grade they are teaching 5th graders now.
Which is good. And it's good for me to refresh, I guess. LOL Obviously I didn't win. (came close)
We're all obsessed with this game now.
OOOOh I forgot
The Social Studies questions (which I would have totally flunked if you asked me before 2001)
I KICKED butt! Especially the political questions.
My Mom was shocked. They don't realize how much I learn here. I guess they think I only come here to suck my thumb. lol kiddin.
Home ownership is a privledge, not a right. I'm sorry folks, but if a person or a family has a bad finanicial situation, they have no business buying a home that is financed with a sub-prime finance scheme.
Posted by Harpos_Works_Hard_Labor_Day on August 31, 2007 at 11:20 PM
Whatever are you talking about? Bush and the GOP ran last time on the pledge that they could create an "ownership" society for everyone. Are you telling me that they lied?
I thought the President himself said that he would make the pie higher. Why can't he make it it ala mode, too?
You of so little faith.
I'm surprised that you would question whether any pyramid scheme that the financial wiz kids over at the Heritage Foundation came up with wouldn't work. They usually are so right about things like occupying Iraq, hiring so many illegal Mexican workers, and borrowing so much money from Communist China.
If the ownership society doesn't work, well then I guess none of the rest of far right conservative agenda works either, right?
i'm about reduced to playing are you as smart as a ten penny nail...anyhow time for some sleep. see ya tomorrow.
At least we're not hypocrites like the repukes who pretend to be straight for political gain.
Posted by Johnedwrd on August 31, 2007 at 11:32 PM
John,
Yeah, let's bring back prohibition, too. That would throw *sally in a tizzy.
Actually, it would throw me in a tizzy, too. One must have a drink to kill the pain of of listening to the latest Bushism.
Why would Family Value Christian and Jewish Politicians go to the Bohemian Grove Satanic Festival in July and wear those covered pointed hooded uniforms and have a fake human sacrifices to a 40 ft. owl. It seems they also have some questionable sexual encounters there. It seems most of the President from Eisenhower to Bush have been members. I cannot kind Kennedy or Ford mentioned. Interesting reading of our conservative religious leaders and power brokers not worshiping God but a demonic figure of scull and bones. Maybe we need to ask all men politicians if they have been or are members of the secret Bohemian Club. I thought it was illegal for members of the government to belong to segregated clubs.
I get so mad that Bush talks about family values and attends a Satanic ritual with a human effigy sacrifice.
LOL Greggy
sweet dreams
wow me too - midnight has passed
(in the words of my Father)
nothing good happens after midnight
I always hated that he was always right. ;-)
gnite DNC'rs - it's been Phun!
Peace
Posted by gregg on September 1, 2007 at 12:06 AM
Fall is in the air and ain't it sweet? I love sleeping with the windows open.
Good night, gregg.
Posted by dlesterpoet on September 1, 2007 at 12:09 AM
poet,
I thought that was the Yale Skull and Bones Club. So there is another one?
What in the hell is wrong with the white male power structure in this country? They seem to have a thing about meeting in secret in all sorts of dark forbidden places to wear sheets over their heads and compare the size of each others equipment. That's a religious experience?
And no wonder they keep these events segregated.
A 40 foot owl? Now that's opens up a lot of possibilities. Craig must have been visiting that restroom to get away from the images he had to endure at that Bohemian Grove Midsummer's Nightmare.
If I was him, I'd probably be looking for comfort in the arms of a complete stranger, too.
It makes you wonder if al Queada hit the wrong targets on 9/11. They couldn't find a 40 foot owl? I don't thing they were really trying. They probably thought Bin Lauden was joking.
All this seedy far right ritual sex stuff gives me the creeps. I'm calling it a day, too.
Good night, everyone.
Goodnight, John Boy.
Posted by HypocritesWok on September 1, 2007 at 12:13 AM
He's hasn't signed off yet. But I was tempted to say the same thing.
lefty, nobody could pay me enough to look up the Heritage Foundations' position on anything. If you are so lefty-winger, you should feel the same way.
Sweet dreams, Karl. You made my day by finally leaving the building. Rummy has a cot all made up for you down in the bunker...next to the shredding machine.
Dear john,
As you know, the Earth is moving closer to several negative "tipping points" that could -- within as little as 10 years -- make it virtually impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability for human civilization. That is one of the reasons why it is urgent we take action as soon as possible.
My friend Leonardo DiCaprio has just produced an amazing documentary on this subject. The film was created using over 150 hours of interviews with some of the brightest minds on the planet, including physicist Stephen Hawking and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai. Moreover, Leo himself is very eloquent and persuasive in this movie. I recommend it highly.
Through interviews and beautiful footage of the environment, The 11th Hour demonstrates how human beings have created the climate crisis and related environmental crises, and shows that we have the means to solve them.
The 11th Hour is both a portrait of a planet and a source of hope and solutions.
I hope that you will go to see this important film. You can find out if The 11th Hour is playing near you by visiting:
http://11thhouraction.com/seethefilm
Thank you,
Al Gore
From: Ron Gettelfinger
Subject: Remembering Reuther on Labor Day
As we celebrate Labor Day by marching in community parades, attending local union picnics and other activities, may we all enjoy the time with family, friends and co-workers.
This Labor Day weekend has a special meaning for UAW families. On Sept. 1, we will be remembering Walter Reuther on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Walter P. Reuther served as UAW president from 1946 to his untimely death in 1970. During his administration, the UAW negotiated collective bargaining agreements that raised the living standards for the entire working class. But, it was never just about another nickel in the paycheck or another dollar in pension credits. To Reuther, the UAW was not only a trade union; it was a social movement.
From the Civil Rights movement to fighting for national health care, Walter Reuther made sure the UAW was front and center.
It was the Reuther years that ensured democracy in our union through the Public Review Board; demanded honesty and integrity through our Ethical Practices Code; and instituted measures to encourage younger leadership.
On this Labor Day, the UAW honors the life of Walter Reuther as we carry forward his legacy for future generations.
Happy Labor Day!
In solidarity,
Ron
For more information, visit www.reuther100@wayne.edu (live on Sept. 1) and www.uaw.org (click on the UAW history button).
Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this.
This is one of the unions that Bush wants to destroy. This union has helped to create and expand the middle class in America. There are approximately 6000,000 retired auto workers who depend on their pensions and health insurance benefits from G.M., Ford and Chrysler to maintain their lives. Bush would destroy the American Automobile industry with his "free trade" policies in order to destroy this union if he could..If Bush is successful, there will be 600,000 more Americans left destitute because of his policies...he does not give a damn about old people or children!
From: "Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Political Action" <moveon-help@list.moveon.org
Subject: A national disgrace
Date: Fri 08/31/07 03:28 PM
"Two years is too long—Congress must force President Bush to keep his promises by passing the Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007."
Check out this great video from our friends Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation about the status of the recovery on the Gulf Coast.
Dear John,
Two years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. In the days following the tragedy, promises to help rebuild that great city and get New Orleanians back on their feet rolled in from the Bush Administration. It turns out, that's all they were—empty promises.
Molly L., a MoveOn member from New Orleans, tells what really happened: "The president promised my city aid and help, but we have received almost none. He needs to be told that he was elected as the leader of the American people, and that THEY should be his first priority."
It's not surprising that the Bush Administration would fail to deliver—that's their trademark. But we can't let them get away with this blatant neglect of fellow Americans who are trying to rebuild their lives. Clicking the link below will add your name to the petition telling Congress that two years is too long and that they must pass the Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2927?&id=11154-6923278-n7QRDR&t=3
The bill provides desperately needed funds for affordable housing, guarantees the replacement of public housing units, and ensures that all those who wish to return home can do so. It also continues assistance for evacuees to make sure that they have safe, decent housing until they can return home. The bill was introduced by Senator Chris Dodd and is gaining co-sponsors, including Senator Barack Obama.
There is progress in the Gulf, thanks to countless acts of courage and resourcefulness by citizens determined to rebuild. And there is still tremendous suffering—its persistence is a national disgrace. We asked MoveOn members on the Gulf Coast how they were doing two years after Katrina—their stories were uplifting and heartbreaking, eloquent and exasperating. But their message was unmistakable: Don't forget us. Below are some of the messages they asked us to share:
Life in the Big Easy isn't so easy anymore, and it might never be quite the same. As strong and proud as we New Orleanians may be, we still need the help of our fellow Americans.
–Yanna G., Metairie, LA
What helped the people of the Gulf Coast was not the government, not insurance companies, but regular everyday Americans who gave and continue to give of their time, money, moral support, friendship and love to help us here. I am so grateful for that.
–Jessica J., New Orleans, LA
Recovery has been very slow, especially for renters. We lived in government housing and they have been one of the last to rebuild or repair their buildings. Tomorrow is the 2nd anniversary and we are still in a FEMA camper...made to vacation in, NOT live in. We are very thankful for a roof over our heads, however, we need permanent housing.
–Cheryl E., Bay St. Louis, MS
Please, please, please continue to write and call your political representatives, as well as the national media, and tell them that it is unforgivable for them to continue to neglect and forget not only my once amazing city,but the entire Gulf Coast region affected.
–Molly L., New Orleans, LA
Please tell your Congress they must help the Gulf Coast recover. Click below to add your name.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2927?&id=11154-6923278-n7QRDR&t=4
Thanks for all you do,
–Eli, Daniel, Joan, Tanya, and the whole MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Friday, August 31st, 2007
P.S. You can read all of the messages from Gulf Coast MoveOn members at
http://pol.moveon.org/katrina07/member_messages.html?id=11154-6923278-n7QRDR&t=5
Support our member-driven organization: MoveOn.org Political Action is entirely funded by our 3.2 million members. We have no corporate contributors, no foundation grants, no money from unions. Our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go
morning goodfoe. boy a few tough breaks for the repelicans ( well actually alot of self made tough shit ) and the damn trolls are thick as flies.
Dear Friend,
Help us blow away our opponents with 25,000 signatures to get Rick on the ballot! (pdf)
Many of Lt. Col. Rick Noriega's supporters have asked how they can show the overwhelming support for his nomination to be our Democratic candidate against Texas' Junior Senator John Cornyn.
Today, grassroots activists across Texas are launching a petition to put Rick on the March 2008 Democratic Primary Ballot. The election code gives candidates the option of obtaining signatures or paying $5,000 to qualify a candidate for the ballot. Many candidates opt to just pay the fee because it's the "easy" way to go.
We're different.
Rick Noriega is building a grassroots campaign, and here's our chance to show the strength of the Noriega grassroots. Texas requires a candidate to obtain 5,000 signatures. We want to blow that number away, so we've set an ambitious goal: 25,000 signatures!
Help get Rick on the ballot. Download the petition and print it here (pdf)!
(Note: Please use legal size paper to print it out so there is adequate room to write and it can be read by those who must verify the signatures. If you can't print it out, email rick@ricknoriega.com, and we'll send you one so you can make copies).
Here are the basic details about the petition process:
Who can sign? Any registered voter in Texas may sign. By signing, you are making an oath not to vote in any other Party primary or convention. The signer doesn't have to have voted Democratic in the past (or even have ever voted before!). The only registered voters who should not sign are those planning on voting in the Republican primary or attending a third party's convention.
How many signatures does it take? It takes 5,000 valid ones. To make sure we have enough and to show Rick's overwhelming support, we're going to set a goal of 25,000!
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Most campaigns wouldn't even try this, but our campaign is different. Rick's support is deep and wide in Texas, and here's our chance to prove it. Not only are you helping to get Rick on the ballot, you'll also be spreading his message across Texas. That's something a $5,000 check to the Texas Elections Division can't buy.
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Good Morning Gregg, Bob, I hope all is well with both of you....
Gregg, the criminals just keep soiling their pants in public.....
ATLANTA (AP) - Security guard Richard Jewell was initially hailed as a hero for spotting a suspicious backpack and moving people out of harm’s way just before a bomb exploded, killing one and injuring 111 others. But within days, he was named as a suspect in the blast.
Though eventually cleared in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, Jewell, who was found dead Wednesday at 44, never recovered from the shame of being wrongly linked to the bombing in the news media. Finally, a year ago, he was again hailed as a hero.
Gov. Sonny Perdue commended Jewell at a bombing anniversary event. “This is what I think is the right thing to do,” Perdue declared as he handed a certificate to Jewell...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20498211
A sad ending to a hero's life. May he rest in peace.
We had "a gully washer" here last night and did not get our grocery shopping done....Later....
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Federal officials have indefinitely suspended efforts to find six men trapped for nearly four weeks inside a coal mine after a robotic camera failed to provide any useful information, an attorney for the men’s families said Friday.
“They said, ’We’ve exhausted the options that we know about,”’ said Colin King, an attorney serving as a spokesman for all six families.
Allyn Davis, a regional director for the Mine Safety and Health Administration, told the families that the robotic camera was successfully dropped down the fourth of seven holes bored into the mountain, but that it quickly became stuck in the mud as it moved over piles of debris, King said...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20538978/
Two generations ago, my family had a significant number of coal miners in WV. Though safety regulations and equipment were far more primitive than they are today, I never heard of story where a miner was left behind.
This is absolutely unconsciable and yet another example of how the GOP values money above else. Karma, fate, or whatever you want to call it has a way of dealing with people like this.
Katrina All the Time
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 31, 2007
Two years ago today, Americans watched in horror as a great city drowned, and wondered what had happened to their country. Where was FEMA? Where was the National Guard? Why wasn’t the government of the world’s richest, most powerful nation coming to the aid of its own citizens?
What we mostly saw on TV was the nightmarish scene at the Superdome, but things were even worse at the New Orleans convention center, where thousands were stranded without food or water. The levees were breached Monday morning — but as late as Thursday evening, The Washington Post reported, the convention center “still had no visible government presence,” while “corpses lay out in the open among wailing babies and other refugees.”
Meanwhile, federal officials were oblivious. “We are extremely pleased with the response that every element of the federal government, all of
our federal partners, have made to this terrible tragedy,” declared Michael Chertoff, the secretary for Homeland Security, on Wednesday. When asked the next day about the situation at the convention center, he dismissed the reports as “a rumor” or “someone’s anecdotal version.”
Today, much of the Gulf Coast remains in ruins. Less than half the federal money set aside for rebuilding, as opposed to emergency relief,
has actually been spent, in part because the Bush administration refused to waive the requirement that local governments put up matching
funds for recovery projects — an impossible burden for communities whose tax bases have literally been washed away.
On the other hand, generous investment tax breaks, supposedly designed to spur recovery in the disaster area, have been used to build luxury
condominiums near the University of Alabama’s football stadium in Tuscaloosa, 200 miles inland.
But why should we be surprised by any of this? The Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina — the mixture of neglect of those in need, obliviousness to their plight, and self-congratulation in the face of abject failure — has become standard operating procedure. These days, it’s Katrina all the time.
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/opinion/31krugman.html
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It's time to cut through the GOP pundits, waterboz and admin. lies on New Orleans.
Why has only half of the allocated money been used?
How has the half that was spent been used?
Why are we giving tax breaks to those that don't need it?
BUSH IS AN UTTER FAILURE AGAIN!
HONK HONK HONK HONK!
Posted by Johnedwrd on August 31, 2007 at 10:23 PM
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JE, Bush is a miserable failure. The problem is that Dems keep feeding the failure by giving him more and more money for Iraq.
Posted by ClarkKent* on September 1, 2007 at 05:44 AM
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Spoken like a true nazi racist! That's sally for yer.
Oh BTW, you are all asshats.
HONK HONK YOU ASSHATS!!!
Posted by Harpos_Works_Hard_Labor_Day on August 31, 2007 at 10:34 PM
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FU harpy
HONK HONK HONK you asshat
Good morning goodfoe. All is relatively well here in central VA today. Mostly cloudy.
Oh, and by the way, FU harpy.
Posted by Johnedwrd on August 31, 2007 at 10:36 PM
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LOL
And Harpy most certainly hasn't been away from the blog ... just posting under a different userid like sally.
I see the nazi from bavaria was in here. maybe the lefty_winger really is the puss buckets smuck.
No matter, all of these right wing trolls are asshats and losers.
AND
HONK HONK HONK
Now that the nazi trolls are taken care of ...
A good morning to you all.
Isn't it amazing how these sore loser right wingers just can't let it go. They should realize by now that their feeble efforts has not driven even one person from the blog.
Export all radical moonbats too.
Posted by the_feathered_fighter on September 1, 2007 at 05:49 AM
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alos spoken like a true right wing nazi. turdy birdy, the nazi from bavaria (or is it new bavaria, ohio).
for the trolls getting up from the keyboard to go take a crap is considered a vacation.
why don't we just get bush a monocle and riding crop and be done with it:
Updated: 4:35 p.m. ET Aug 31, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration wants the power to grant legal immunity to telecommunications companies that are slapped with privacy suits for cooperating with the White House’s controversial warrantless eavesdropping program.
The authority would effectively shut down dozens of lawsuits filed against telecommunications companies accused of helping set up the program.
The vaguely worded proposal would shield any person who allegedly provided information, infrastructure or “any other form of assistance” to the intelligence agencies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. It covers any classified communications activity intended to protect the country from terrorism.
based by the fixation about immigration, I surmise that lefty_winger is really PUS. Doesn't matter really ... lefty_winger is definitely a troll. Obviously clarkkent* is sally ... who thinks that "asterisk" after the name is so cute.
Well at least the burd from bavaria used the usual moniker ...
Morning rj.
Posted by Johnedwrd on September 1, 2007 at 08:11 AM
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Hi JE, goodfoe, gregg, bob and anyone else I missed.
or the trolls getting up from the keyboard to go take a crap is considered a vacation.
why don't we just get bush a monocle and riding crop and be done with it:
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Gregg, how very true! These boz are just fixated on the one open thread. They are fools to think that will impact anything including the desire of the people to continue posting on that thread.
No matter ... so much for the troll boz.
The Bush administration wants the power to grant legal immunity to telecommunications companies that are slapped with privacy suits for cooperating with the White House’s controversial warrantless eavesdropping program.
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gregg, I have an idea ... how about doing something novel. How about saying NO to Bush!
Let the lying begin!
Iraq: A 75% Drop In Killing If You Don't Count The Bodies
by BarbinMD
Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 05:06:24 AM PDT
[Bumped -- Plutonium Page.]
With the long-awaited Patraeus White House report on progress in Iraq due in two weeks, Gen. David Patraeus gave new meaning to the expression, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics," when he:
...told the Australian that there had been a 75 percent reduction in religious and ethnic killing since last year
You read something like that and ask yourself, how can that be? You remember the more than 50 Iraqis killed at a religious festival the other day, the 500 Yazidis killed two weeks ago, the tortured victims of death squads found throughout Iraq every day and you ask yourself, how can there be a 75% reduction in killings in Iraq? Well, it's easy. You just don't count the bodies.
Of course the Bush administration has never made any meaningful effort to track civilian fatalities in Iraq, but as hard as they try to ignore it, the killings continue and the bodies pile up. So where did Gen. Petraeus come up with his number? In all of 2006, there were 16,564 reported (emphasis on reported) civilian deaths, and in the first eight months of 2007, there has been 14,732 deaths. So, civilian deaths are down about 11%...but there are four months left in the year. Or was Gen. Petraeus comparing the same time periods from last year and this year? If that's the case, in the first 8 months of 2006, there were 8,490 civilian deaths versus the 14,732 in the first 8 months of 2007, which is an increase of nearly 75%. Is Gen. Petraeus using Karl Rove's math? When the White House was asked about this, Tony Snow said:
MR. SNOW: ...The other thing is, how one measures overall violence, it would be interesting to see what that metric is. General Petraeus clearly has a different view of that. I would defer to him on that.
You see, proving that Bush's surge is working is easy. Announce that those once vital benchmarks are no longer operative, pretend that the training of Iraqi security forces is right on track, disregard the 723 U.S. troops who have died since the surge began. And of course, ignore the thousands and thousands of Iraqis who have died. Why change course now?
And in two weeks, Gen. Petraeus will appear before Congress and swear that the surge is working and the administration will ask for another $200 billion to, "finish what we started." The only question left is, will the Democratic leadership continue to support the administration or will they choose to finally support the troops? Instead of listening to George Bush's man on the ground, perhaps they should listen to Spc. Yvenson Tertulien:
General Sir Mike Says U.S. Fouled Up in Iraq
by Meteor Blades
Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 10:25:29 PM PDT
What? Yet another general has added his voice to the crew who have taken the Cheney-Bush regime to task for botching postwar operations in Iraq? Yep. This time, it's not American generals like Wes Clark, Greg Newbold, Paul Eaton, John Riggs, Paul Van Riper, Charles Swannack or John Batiste doing the pounding. It's "Macho Jacko," General Sir Michael Jackson, who ran the British Army in March 2003 when Iraq was invaded. He retired last year and began writing an autobiography, Soldier, which is being serialized in Britain's Daily Telegraph. (Hat tip to Magnifico.)
General Sir Mike Jackson
According to the Telegraph's story:
His attack - the first time he has revealed the depth of his anger towards the US administration - highlights the deep-seated tension between the British command and the Pentagon during the build-up to and the aftermath of the Iraq campaign in 2003.
i hope freddy thompson jumps in the race for repelican pres candidate asap. this will split the party nicely giving the fundies a champion and with any luck he will get the nomination and set the stage for a democratic landslide.
With the long-awaited Patraeus White House report on progress in Iraq due in two weeks, Gen. David Patraeus gave new meaning to the expression, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics," when he:
...told the Australian that there had been a 75 percent reduction in religious and ethnic killing since last year
You read something like that and ask yourself, how can that be? You remember the more than 50 Iraqis killed at a religious festival the other day, the 500 Yazidis killed two weeks ago, the tortured victims of death squads found throughout Iraq every day and you ask yourself, how can there be a 75% reduction in killings in Iraq? Well, it's easy. You just don't count the bodies.
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So, this is why people have lost respect for Petraeus. He may very well be a great soldier but once these guys get elevated to the top command position they turn into shills for the Bush administration. When they reject the shilling, they get fired! Petraeus is now a shill for Bush.
There is no way in the world that the violence has dropped 75%. This is in direct contradiction to what is being reported in the NIE and the GAO. Even outside news agencies such as BBC say there is no improvement at all in the level of violence. This is lying taken to a new extreme. If this is Petraeus's report to Congress then he is a liar.
Morning Dems. Just a hit and run. I have a Campaign meeting to go to in a few minutes.
The trolls were their usual bitter, sore loser selves it looks like. GAWD, how it kills them to have the Dems in, and their heros, the rotted Republican party out! hehehe
This one made me LMAO!
what a great time to relax and reflect on how many great gifts I have received from God.
MOST people do not think that hatred in the heart, arrogance, belligerence,meanness, racism, homophobia, trespassing, closed mind, lack of self respect, no friends, family that does not respect them so they sit in their lonely little computer rooms for hours, as being gifts from God. A God who is watching and waiting for YOU, chump ! And boy, is he pissed!
How will you Ever face November 2008, if you are as angry as you are now. GET OVER IT, YOU LOST!
Talk to you Dems later on..........
what a great time to relax and reflect on how many great gifts I have received from God.
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Hi PamB,
Yeah, I laughed my sides off with that one from harpy. if he has any gifts he sure uses them poorly. Trying to shutdown an open thread on a blog is a foolish waste of time.
good morning, everyone.
tell me it was a dream!!! jkenneth blackwell on hard ball last night! I was busy getting things ready for the baby shower, (that is later this morning) so I couldn't stop and listen.
repugs who aren't gay, but do enjoy sex with other men? perfect opportunity for the ex sec. of state from oh. he's got plenty of work to do in his mission field!
the brief time I was in Washington, DC (for Z's swearing in) I got an eye full of nice looking young men that could entice lonely old senators/congressmen. eatin' ain't cheatin' indeed. (or something like that)
I'm predicting a whole lot more will come out of this...but remember folks, what doesn't kill us makes us stonger. It works in repugs lives as well.
Enjoy the holiday weekend, everyone.
p.s. a little treat for some of you...have a great one!
Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles your name. Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals; do not forget the life of your poor forever. Have regard for your covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence. Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.
- Psalms 74:18-21
Tancredo slams Katrina spending
By Klaus Marre
August 31, 2007
GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo (Colo.) said Friday it is “time the taxpayer gravy train left the New Orleans station” and urged an end to the federal aid to the region that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina two years ago.
“The amount of money that has been wasted on these so-called ‘recovery’ efforts has been mind-boggling,” said Tancredo, who is running a long-shot presidential campaign. “Enough is enough.”
Citing administration figures, the lawmaker said that $114 billion has been spent on the effort to rebuild a large stretch of the Gulf Coast after the storm hit New Orleans in August 2005 and claimed more than 1,600 lives.
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Oh so that's where the GOP trollies are getting the 114 billion number - from the Bushitas and Tancredo. Yeah, that has lots of credibility.
But where has the money gone? All indications are that it was siphoned off by GOP cronies and fat cats building luxury condos instead of helping the people displaced by Katrina return to New Orleans.
I have read all the postings. Some are from intelligent people making useful suggestions. Others are mostly people bitter that the Democrats have always had the better Administrations. We just know how to run the Country that will help all the people all the time to do all the better. If it didn't hurt so badly for Republicans to be in charge, I would feel sorry for them. But Republicans lie and some of our best die.
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