Birthday coming early?

Hope she wins just to put your panties in an uproar. It'd be so worth it. Remember, you'll hate her more than we will. We didn't coin the term "Hitlery," you guys did. We didn't claim she murdered anyone - you guys did. And frankly, our psychology does not find a female president to be a fundamental affront to our (where applicable) masculinity.

Happy Election Day, 2008. Hope you get what you appear to be wishing for.

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

I never thought Craig should have resigned anyway

#4. Fred Thompson

"Phone-it-in" Fred Thompson has been hanging around Iowa in his Gucci loafers recently, apparently still "testing the waters" for a presidential campaign. Reasonable people might argue that perhaps it's time for him to stop dipping his toes in and take the plunge. But not so fast! Apparently Fred wants people to know that if he were to be elected president he'd be just as secretive and underhanded as George W. Bush, hence his insistence on covering up his campaign finances and activities.

Unfortunately for Fred, liberal blogger Lane Hudson filed a complaint with the FEC last week, accusing Thompson of "ignoring the letter and spirit of Federal Election Law for his own political benefit." Very nice. And it's not like Fred has much of an excuse. According to ABC News:

In June Thompson signed a long-term lease on a Nashville location for his national campaign headquarters. He's been to Iowa and New Hampshire, and headlined GOP dinners.

Moreover, when Thompson filed his disclosure form with the IRS, he revealed that $72,000 of the $3.4 million raised is to be used for the general election. Former FEC General Counsel, Larry Noble told the Washington Post "I think it's problematic. Clearly it's a red flag."

Fred's excuse? In the history of political chutzpah, this one's up there with the best of them:

Thompson's campaign says that he's complying with all rules and regulations, and Thompson has cast all questions about this in terms of him not doing things the way Washington, DC, insiders want them to be done.

Clever stuff! Perhaps Thompson should use it in his next stump speech, er, I mean, informal chat.

"Hey, those stoopid Washington DC insiders want a president who's going to follow the law! Well outside the Beltway we don't believe in the so-called law! If you want a president who's gonna wave his dick in the face of American jurisprudence, look no further than Fred Thompson! I pledge to be more reticent and obstructive than George W. Bush, and you can take that to the bank!"

(CBS) BAGHDAD, Iraq One week before Gen. David Petraeus is expected to give his report on U.S. progress in Iraq, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric says she has already seen dramatic improvements in the country.

"We hear so much about things going bad, but real progress has been made there in terms of security and stability," Couric said Tuesday. "I mean, obviously, infrastructure problems abound, but Sunnis and U.S. forces are working together. They banded together because they had a common enemy: al Qaeda."

Couric traveled to the city of Fallujah in Anbar province, which U.S. forces entered in April 2003 and again in November 2004. That is the same city where, in house-to-house fighting, American forces uncovered nearly two-dozen torture chambers.

She really looks terrific in that photo. She'll

make a great looking prez! It would be neat

having a woman running the show. I think it

would really freak out sexist fascists.

Couric: Finalist for Pseudo-Journalist of the Year Award usually reserved for Fox employees.

... Mr. Dragon. I can only hope that my pulling the lever for Ms. Clinton will bring one Fascist Homophobic Misogynist closer to God. Like, literally.

... if I could be sure it would give the Republicans in the mid-west a heart attack.

Nothing will be better than this playing out in all it's ugliness...

For everyone.

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ABC News report. July 2, 1982, Frank Reynolds/Carole Simpson.

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But here's some more snarkiness before I go. Read it and weep, this is what passes for science among this subset of the bottom 28 percenters.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1038/1038_01.asp?wpc=1038_01.asp

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Only a gay could say "i have never been gay"

but who cares... good for him....

The hypocrisy of the Republican party is INSANE.

Of course everybody saw THIS Raw Story article about the many more GAY-publicans to be outed soon, right?

RIGHT?

Now Go Play in the Street!!
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Keep up the good work. :)

RAW STORY Gay article

More Gay Republicans to be outed soon

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Washington_outing_blogger_says_a_few_0904...

but I thought he specifically said "he intended" to resign end of Sep? No?

Craig Said to Consider Not Resigning

By CARL HULSE and WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: September 5, 2007

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 — Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho opened the door Tuesday to returning to the Senate, creating another twist in his unfolding political drama and raising the possibility of an ugly showdown with national Republican leaders.

Dan Whiting, a spokesman for Mr. Craig, an Idaho Republican, said Tuesday night that Mr. Craig had not ruled out reversing his plan to step down Sept. 30. After intense pressure from Republican colleagues in the Senate, Mr. Craig announced Saturday that it would be best for “the people of Idaho” if he resigned after the disclosure of his guilty plea last month to disorderly conduct charges stemming from his arrest in June in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom.

“As he stated on Saturday, Senator Craig intends to resign on Sept. 30,” Mr. Whiting said in a statement. “However, he is fighting these charges, and should he be cleared before then, he may, and I emphasize may, not resign.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/washington/05charge.html?ref=politics

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I hope he stays. They not only didnt want Vitter to resign, but they APPLAUDED him! The family values party APPLAUDED the whoremonger??? The ONLY reason they have come out so strong against Craig is because he solicited a male.

---Bait News Headline Service---

Senator Larry Craig To Not Resign To Spend More Time With His Family

Look:

Republicans are the people who brought you...
mushroom clouds,
and "we know where the WMD are"
and 'Saddam definitely has WMD"
and "we dont torture"

etc........

Getting out of pleady guilty to trying to have gay sex with a Cop is going to be easy for them.

I hope gays follow him around when he does appearances and campaigns....
the fuckin hypocrite.

Come back you f-ing new ager, you!

;)

give newsmax your real email address.

http://polls.newsmax.com/craig/?p=1&PROMO_CODE=392D-1&gclid=CInPxuzBq44C...

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The other reason is b/c of which party will replace the two guys...

Submitted by Crank Bait on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 12:46am.

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I thought perhaps I was merely a stoned drunk ostrich with nothing insightful to say these days.

This thread & the last one were quite interesting.
That balance of offsetting the news with other fun stuff.

And for what it's worth, at least philosophically speaking,
aren't we all at least a bit gay? Or did I miss that discussion/debate?

;)

Catharine,
I like the ambiguity. Is he not resigning so that he CAN spend more time with his family, or is he not 'resigning to spend more time with his family'?

Damn. He really gets to the essence of the issue. He expresses my disgust with Bush and Cheney the way I wish I could.

What the hell is wrong with us? Why do we not storm the Bastille?

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Crank - "Is he not resigning so that he CAN spend more time with his family, or is he not 'resigning to spend more time with his family'?"

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With PR like this, how, oh how, did we ever let these people snow us?

Shame on us.

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Gay Chicago: There's No Place Like Home

On my journey to becoming a gay socialite this summer, I began to notice just how GAY this city really is. I think it is a common fallacy that "Boystown" is the official gayborhood and everything gay ends and begins there. There is no denying that Boystown is very gay, but it is gay in a very flamboyant-in-your-face-Rupaul kind of gay. I guess if Chicago was Oz, Boystown would be the Emerald City. There is alot of glitter, bright lights, pretty buildings, decorative streets and fierce queens all over the place. Lincoln Park and the Gold Coast I suppose could be considered suburbs of the Emerald City. Or perhaps it would be easier to describe them as Boystown's in the closet gay baby brothers?

The gayness doesn't stop there though. It spreads into practically all of the Chicago northside neighborhoods. Uptown, Edgewater and Ravenswood are gayborhoods. Where are the rainbow street lights you ask? Well, with all the crime in those areas I assume the mayor deemed it pointless to beautify those neighborhoods but trust me, they are still very gay. However, in the land of Oz, those neighborhoods would be more like Wicked Witch's castle, because those homos are fucking scary! The guys that cruise those areas look like extras that escaped from a Rob Zombie movie. They don't have time to make themselves look pretty like the Boystown boys. They simply crawl out of there run down studios when they run out of crystal meth and prey on the innocent. I swear, they have no shame. The next time one of those Scary Gays are trying to pick you up at Hollywood beach, look closely, they probably still have the heroin needle dangling from their arm.

Wicker Park, Logan Square and the Ukranian Village are gayborhoods too. I think they could best be described as Munchkin Country. I say this not because the gays in those areas are short, but simply because that's where all of the artsy-fartsy, alternative out cast gays dwell. Nevertheless they are quite entertaining to look at, much like a person with Torrette's syndrome. They simply don't look like the rest of us with their goth make up, excessive tatoos, pierced lips and dirty dread locks. Oh, and they smell. I suppose no one thinks of those areas as being gayborhoods because all of that body odor and LSD in the air could throw off even Cher's gaydar.

And where does the Southside fall into the mix of Chicago gayborhoods? Well, let's just say the Southside might as well be Kansas!

Andersonville is also antoher enigma in the grand gay scheme of things, cuz sweeties, not even an experienced gay socialite like myself can figure out those leasbians!

posted by Chicago_Sexbox @ 6:53 PM

This great news

Wait untill GAY lindsey graham gets outed

and all the rest

Its gonna be a gay old 2008 election day...

Republicans will lose 22 seats in the senate.

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Submitted by Catharine

"What the hell is wrong with us? Why do we not storm the Bastille?"

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I think that all day long.

Catherine, my fake email username for that poll was "burlysue"

heh heh heh... Newsmax turds.

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Press Release: Keynote Speakers Announced: Biofuels Forum to Focus on Biodiesel And Ethanol for Fleets
The Alternative Fuel Vehicle Institute (AFVi) announces
keynote speakers for the Biofuels Drive Economic Solutions Forum to be held
Thursday, September 20, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Michael Caudill,
automotive journalist for KTLA in Los Angeles, and expert on the vehicle
marketplace kicks off the morning with his insightful automotive forecast.
Nationally recognized energy icon, David Freeman is the keynote lunch
speaker. The Forum focus is on biodiesel and E85 and is designed as part of
AFVi's Learning Marketplace to introduce fleets and other decision-makers to
a wide range of information on the fuels, the vehicles, and available
incentives.

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Gasoline stations sue ethanol operation
The suit claims Utica violated the Wisconsin Unfair Sales Act by selling 10, 20 and 85% ethanol fuel for less than the required minimum price from mid-August until the end of December last year. The $12 million suit not only seeks damages but also asks for a permanent injunction to prevent Renew from selling fuel for vehicles. An attorney for Utica Energy describes the suit as big oil ganging up on Renew and Utica.

Submitted by Meg on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 1:07am.

Catherine, my fake email username for that poll was "burlysue"

heh heh heh... Newsmax turds.

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hee hee hee hahahaha! burlysue!

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gnite ladies. bedtime for miss teacher. past bedtime actually. nite

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It must be the thrill of getting caught doing something "naughty," according to some back-asswards obsolete Puritanical rules, or something.

I mean, the rich & famous gay men in Tucson, have certain exclusive circles they run in. And, as a result, don't make the news usually. (Former Congressman Jim Kolbe was the exception here. He somehow offended a local gay magazine, ... and well, then announced his gayness, prior to it publicizing it.)

And in places like D.C., they even import boys discretely for these politicians.

It seems these Republicans only get caught doing the stupidest, riskiest shit. Family values must seem so boring. Must be more fun to be a bad boy.

Sheesh. Jessica Hahn gonna have to start dressing like a dude.
The bait has changed.

by digby

In case there's anyone who doubts that this gambit to change California's electoral college votes is anything but a standard, GOP dirty trick, this should put them to rest:

Lawyers behind a California ballot proposal that could benefit the 2008 Republican presidential nominee have ties to a Texas homebuilder who financed attacks on Democrat John Kerry's Vietnam War record in the 2004 presidential campaign.
Charles H. Bell and Thomas Hiltachk's law firm banked nearly $65,000 in fees from a California-based political committee funded almost solely by Bob J. Perry that targeted Democrats in 2006. Perry, a major Republican donor, contributed nearly $4.5 million to the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that made unsubstantiated but damaging attacks on Kerry three years ago.

The Perry-financed committee in California, the Economic Freedom Fund, continued to spend money this year, mostly on legal expenses tied to an ongoing legal dispute in Indiana over phone calls made to voters in 2006. It lists the Sacramento law office's address as its home and its Web site directs contributions to the firm, Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk. In addition, Bell serves as the committee's treasurer.
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Joint Vision 2020 builds upon and extends the conceptual template established by Joint Vision 2010 to guide the continuing transformation of America's Armed Forces.

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...the multidimensional application of information, engagement, and mobility capabilities to position and employ widely dispersed joint air, sea, land and space forces to accomplish assigned operational tasks.

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That's too funny..I don't think I'll be able to call her Meg any more....

Sweet dreams...

zzzz

The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence. There are several means by which science may achieve this breakthrough (and this is another reason for having confidence that the event will occur):

* There may be developed computers that are "awake" and superhumanly intelligent. (To date, there has been much controversy as to whether we can create human equivalence in a machine. But if the answer is "yes, we can", then there is little doubt that beings more intelligent can be constructed shortly thereafter.)
* Large computer networks (and their associated users) may "wake up" as a superhumanly intelligent entity.
* Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent.
* Biological science may provide means to improve natural human intellect.

http://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html

If the Singularity can not be prevented or confined, just how bad could the Post-Human era be? Well ... pretty bad. The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. (Or as Eric Drexler put it of nanotechnology: Given all that such technology can do, perhaps governments would simply decide that they no longer need citizens!). Yet physical extinction may not be the scariest possibility. Again, analogies: Think of the different ways we relate to animals. Some of the crude physical abuses are implausible, yet.... In a Post-Human world there would still be plenty of niches where human equivalent automation would be desirable: embedded systems in autonomous devices, self-aware daemons in the lower functioning of larger sentients. (A strongly superhuman intelligence would likely be a Society of Mind with some very competent components.) Some of these human equivalents might be used for nothing more than digital signal processing. They would be more like whales than humans. Others might be very human-like, yet with a one-sidedness, a _dedication_ that would put them in a mental hospital in our era. Though none of these creatures might be flesh-and-blood humans, they might be the closest things in the new enviroment to what we call human now. (I. J. Good had something to say about this, though at this late date the advice may be moot: Good proposed a "Meta-Golden Rule", which might be paraphrased as "Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your superiors." It's a wonderful, paradoxical idea (and most of my friends don't believe it) since the game-theoretic payoff is so hard to articulate. Yet if we were able to follow it, in some sense that might say something about the plausibility of such kindness in this universe.)

I don't understand the "we would be more like whales than humans." thing. Maybe you need superhuman intelligence to get it.

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/2433.html

"To be an altruist, you must first be an egoist." -George Gurdjieff.

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UC engineering researchers reach new heights in robot sophistication — or sink to new depths in bad jokes.

http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=6139

The ability to appreciate humor is an enormous increment in subtlety. You need to know a lot to ‘get’ humor — a computer does not find it easy.

"Part of the difficulty lies with the formality that computers and people need to use to interact with each other," says Mazlack. "A critical aspect in achieving sociable computing is being able to informally communicate in a human language with computers. Computationally handling humor is critical to being able to conduct an informal dialogue with a computer

by digby

Please just shoot me. I can't take any more:

Bush Sees Possible Troop Cuts in Iraq

President Bush raised the possibility Monday of U.S. troop cuts in Iraq if security continues to improve, traveling here secretly to assess the war before a showdown with Congress.

The president was joined by his war cabinet [when did the press start calling it his "war cabinet"?] and military commanders at an unprecedented meeting in Iraq over eight hours at this dusty military base in the heart of Anbar province, 120 miles west of Baghdad.

Bush did not say how large a troop withdrawal might be possible or whether it might occur before next spring when the first of the additional 30,000 troops he ordered to Iraq this year are to start coming home anyway. He emphasized that any cut would depend upon progress.

Gosh. I'm all on pins and needles. What ever do you think will happen?
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From Rob Brezsny for GBC, and Sunny Jim, and Willow and all you other Virgos out there:

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When big egos bluster and bounce off the
walls, you're a master at cleaning up the messes. When glory hogs get
careless about the details, you're good at patching up the resulting holes. And when people with stunted emotional intelligence try to assert their control-freak fantasies without acknowledging anyone's feelings, you can be the savior who steps in to prevent full-blown chaos from breaking out. I admire these skills of yours, Virgo, and I hope that you invoke them if necessary in the coming week. But I also want to make sure you know that you've been granted a poetic license to have a bigger ego than usual, and to flirt with being a benevolent glory hog, and to maybe even play around lightheartedly with your own control-freak fantasies.

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Historiography introduces the notion of chronotopological nonlinearities (which is not at all the same thing as nonlinear Newtonian dynamics over a linear-time reference, chaotic or not, handled by complexity theory or not). The present global situation -- “out there” and “in here” -- is far worse than during run up to World War Two: it is very hard to postulate a two-thirds survival rate, as with the Black Death.

Thirty years ago when I had a brief lettered “encounter” with Prigogine over the issue of operator-time and interpretation of Schrödinger's wave-function, it was already too late to be doing what people presently place belief in. Nothing that could in substantial measure positively impact the situation is currently being done anywhere by any person or institution, for one or more of several reasons: [1] people still believe that what is inevitable can be prevented; [2] that the prevention will be accomplished by advances in Newtonian technologies and reforms and elaborations of the Cartesian-Newtonian institutionalization, these advances, reforms and elaborations generally being designated “new paradigm” when, actually, they are simply complexified replays in principle of the technologies and institutions responsible for the problems which the advances, reforms and elaborations are to rectify (not to mention matters like falsification of Schrödinger's intemporal wave equation by failure to evaluate it under m-valued Polish logics); no sacrifices in the habituated lifestyle, whatever the involved lifestyle in a given case, are actually contemplated, however much talked. Longing for the past, in this longing's myriad forms, is the dominant theme -- be the clinging-behavior idealization 1800's New England, 1400's Kyushu, 700's Fertile Crescent, next year in Jerusalem, Sweden before formation of the Swedish Empire, the Most Ancient Church, pre-Brahmanic tribal Kaligium… -- and it is oh-so-easy to convince oneself that the planetary crunch is all just so overwhelming, so staggering, so much bigger than anything one could hope to act upon: the resultant choice is “screw it, get what ya can while ya can”, a throwback to waning of the Middle Ages.

http://www.geocities.com/m_valuedlets/tranche17.html

Don't forget to evaluate it under m-valued Polish logics.

"what if this isnt an agented conspiracy at all, but a kind of superstorm?" - comment from the Dream's End Duncan/Blake Annex

Like a big synchronistic coincidence.

Nothing sadder to me than seeing the conspiracy genre get hijacked by the post-modernist hipster clique. Now I know how the goths must have felt when Tom Cruise starred as Ann Rice's Vampire.

The Moon of Hoa Binh
by Cong Huyen Ton Nu Nha Trang & William L. Pensinger

Set in the intelligence underworld of Saigon in 1968 and at a scientific conference in Kyoto nine years later, the novel involves a murder mystery, a scientific exegesis, a metaphysical treatise, a psychological diatribe, through which aspects of the Vietnamese and Japanese cultures and their contemporary histories are explored.

http://www.geocities.com/moonhoabinh/

Synopsis

Written in concentric nestings which analogically model the creative process, with the idea shotgun set on broad-spectrum open-choke, as is always the case in the psychology of invention, this novel employs Joycean stylistic allusions drawn in relation to the natural and social sciences, the arts, literature and philosophy; these allusions suffuse the subtext, thus integrating the storyline, explications of physical theory, and reflections on historiography. Characters are not developed, but devolve non-simply on the basis of a quantal identity transparency mediated by collective psychological processes as well as transference relative-states vis-à-vis the protagonist. The pattern elements determining literary form are not the storyline's external events or inner states of streaming consciousness, but archetypal ideas appearing in exact recurrence nest-to-nest on a temporal twistor to constellate events and states interpreted by the reader as sequential storyline.

The novel consists of three storylines nested inside one another. The largest loop depicts the inner growth of the American protagonist, Derek Dillon, an intelligence officer working in Saigon during the Spring of 1968. The occasions catalyzing this psychological growth involve events associated with the investigation of a murder. A prominent Vietnamese literary figure, publisher, and member of the Saigon Municipal Council is found dead of an apparent suicide. His beautiful, brainy, and headstrong daughter does not accept that the death was due to suicide and begins to investigate her father's affairs in an attempt to identify who might have killed him. The protagonist is drawn to her and into this investigation which comes to focus upon intelligence-related information and unravels a network of espionage and revolutionary activities extending their reach to Japan. Final solution to the murder mystery does not come until nine years later at a scientific conference held in Kyoto, and requires untangling a case of scientific spying involving a Shanghai connection.

goodnight...

Hey dada

Found some music you might find interesting.
They require a fast connection.

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... just turn the Gem to change ones reality...,
but DITTO (reclaiming)MMRules, still waiting. ;)

wonderful Music by the misunderstood curmudgeon CW ;)

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The Strategy:

1. Millions of Democrats should contact their election boards and request to be listed as “Non-Declared”, “Independent” or, if necessary, “Republican” before the primary election.

2. On primary day, Democrats should request a “Republican” ballot and vote for Ron Paul.

3. In the general election on November 2nd, 2008, Democrats should vote their conscience knowing that either candidate for President will end the War in Iraq and stop the insanity in the Middle East.

Why This Strategy?:

1. It appears that Hillary Clinton will more than likely be anointed as the Democratic candidate and even if she is not, it is almost irrelevant which Democratic nominee wins the primary as the front runners are almost indistinguishable from one another in their positions on issues and especially the Iraq War. Let’s not worry who the Democratic nominee is; let’s worry about who the Republican nominee will be!

2. Given Ron Paul’s growing popularity among Republicans and many Democrats, he may be able to win the Republican nomination if the Democrats help him out in force.

3. If Ron Paul wins the Republican nomination, the general election will become a choice between two anti-war candidates and no matter who wins, it will be better for the country.

By Cindy Sheehan

I know just a little bit about Mr. William Kristol:

He is the son of one of the founders of the "neo-conservative" movement, Irving Kristol.

He is a commentator on Fox News.

He was Chief of Staff for one of the political "geniuses" of our time: VP Dan Quayle.

He is editor of another Rupert Murdoch war-propaganda rag, "The Weekly Standard."

He is a member, and signer, of the Project for the New American Century, which is a game plan for US global hegemony based on military strength and one of its goals and objectives was the over-throw of the Hussein Regime in Iraq with a next stop in Iran and Syria (because the PNAC plan is going so well, so far).

By all accounts, Mr. Kristol is a brilliant man, who like his father before him, uses his brilliance for destruction. He is a shameless supporter of a failed, murderous, and miserable strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan and one of the "mushroom cloud" crowd.

One thing Mr. William Kristol is not, is a combat vet.

Although he was born in 1952, he never served during Vietnam. I am sure while at Harvard he was a staunch supporter of the American effort to enrich the war profiteers while ostensibly stopping that war's "enemy" communism from spreading across Asia. Secure in his studies during that quagmire, Kristol joins a long line of neo-con chicken-hawks who are drenched in other people's blood and love to send other people's children to die for their lies.

I don't know anything, or care to know anything about Mr. Kristol's private life. I don't care if he is another closeted gay Republican or is a happily married hetero with children. I do suspect, however, that if Mr. Kristol is married, his children are not serving in Iraq, being misused by the very same incompetent and cowardly Commander in Chief (who also did not serve in Vietnam) that Mr. Kristol shamelessly supports while the entire administration and Republican hypocrites are crumbling from corruption and scandal.
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Let’s not worry who the Democratic nominee is; let’s worry about who the Republican nominee will be! //

If you can do nothing to bring one of the far left liberals candidates forward in the Democrat party, what in the world would make you believe you can have any effect on the Republican choice?

If you think you are part of a tiny impotent minority now, show up at the Republican Convention. The best you could hope for is another spot behind a barricade 10 blocks from the convention center.

I WILL NEVER, EVER, NEVER VOTE RETHUG, EVER, growls this YELLOW DOG DEMOCRAT. ;) AND WE WILL WIN AGAIN, my dear CW or Anon. ;)
Voting for Ron Paul is a losing "strategy". HAHAHA
I have better Strategies; however, especially now, I will keep my own counsel. giggle, teehee, LOL & snickers.
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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 3:38am

I do want to reiterate ... I NEVER would have come out and said what you were -- but you did. That leaves me to go in the direction that under my passion regarding what I read, I ask, "Are you a neo-nazi? and why not just be intelligent?" After years it is not going to change your way. In Unity There Is Strength. (Book of Kells) I still am waiting for GORE. But AT LEAST FOR NOW = A YELLOW DOG DEM.
You are so Smart. You are so WISE. Why do you have to be so stupid? ;)

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Commenters represent only themselves.
Some commenters have many nicknames and also post anonymously.
Try not to make too many foolish assumptions.
Have a nice day.

Chertoff promised right-wing group charges against Clinton. The LA Times reports that in 2001, Michael Chertoff, then head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, met with the conservative group Judicial Watch and “personally assured” them that he would pursue criminal charges against Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) “in connection with a lavish fundraising event in Los Angeles.” Chertoff is now one of the names mentioned to take over the Justice Department, which has been criticized for a lack of independence.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/chertoff-promised-right-wing-group-c...

Bush’s advisers tell him what he wants to hear. “President Bush’s senior advisers on Iraq have recommended he stand by his current war strategy, and he is unlikely to order more than a symbolic cut in troops before the end of the year, administration officials told The Associated Press Tuesday.” This advice reaffirms Bush’s stated desire to stay in Iraq.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070904/D8RET89G0.html

Countdown Special Comment: You have no remaining credibility about Iraq, sir.
By: Logan Murphy @ 6:50 PM - PDT Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment tonight is without a doubt, one of his hardest hitting and most emotional to date. Keith absolutely lays waste to President Bush’s lies and rhetoric about the surge. He contrasts his callous disregard for the truth and the troops between his six hour photo op in Iraq and the interview with Draper released this weekend.

This video is a must-see, hold on to your hats.

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And there it is, sir. We’ve caught you.

Your goal is not to bring some troops home — maybe — if we let you have your way now;

Your goal is not to set the stage for eventual withdrawal;

You are, to use your own disrespectful, tone-deaf word, playing at getting the next Republican nominee to agree to jump into this bottomless pit with you, and take us with him, as we stay in Iraq for another year, and another, and another, and anon.

Transcripts below the fold:

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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/04/countdown-special-comment-you-h...

3 terror suspects arrested in Germany By DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press Writer
1 minute ago

Three suspected Islamic militants were arrested for allegedly plotting "imminent" and "massive" attacks on a major U.S. Air Force base in Germany and Frankfurt International Airport, one of Europe's busiest, German authorities said Wednesday.

German federal prosecutor Monika Harms said the three had trained at camps in Pakistan and procured some 1,500 pounds of hydrogen peroxide for making explosives.

"This is a good day for security in Germany," she said.

A top legislator said an attack could have occurred "in a few days," noting a "sensitive period" that includes the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_re_eu/germany_terror&printer=1...

Which means Bush failed to do what he said he would do after 9/11!

This is definately a Bush failure. He side tracked this whole thing by attacking Iraq and ignored the buildup, again, of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

He failed! Bush failed!

Then you want a larger and more aggressive military?

And why would I want to discuss anything with an anon!?!

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BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- Three terror suspects held in Germany planned to carry out "imminent" and "massive" bombs attacks on a U.S. air base and Frankfurt's international airport, according to prosecutors.

The suspects, two Germans and a Turk, received terrorist training in Pakistan and had close ties to al Qaeda, according to Jorg Ziercke, president of Germany's Federal Criminal Investigation Office.

The group had amassed 680 kg (1,500 pounds) of hydrogen peroxide to use for making bombs, German federal prosecutor Monika Harms told reporters on Wednesday.

According to Ziercke, the group was united by a "hatred against American citizens" as it planned attacks against Frankfurt airport, a popular international travel hub, and Ramstein air base, a major transit point for the U.S. military into the Middle East and Central Asia.

Harms said the three suspects also planned to attack bars and restaurants popular with Americans.

She said the planned attacks would have been among the biggest yet on German soil. Possible scenarios would have been car bombs used in simultaneous attacks.

Officials said the hydrogen peroxide could have produced a bomb with the explosive power of 540 kg of TNT.

"This would have enabled them to make bombs with more explosive power than the ones used in the London and Madrid bombings," Ziercke said at a joint news conference with Harms.

Harms said the two Germans detained were aged 22 and 28 while the Turkish national was aged 29.

The three suspects appeared before judges in a closed court in Karlsruhe after being flown in by helicopter, court officials told The Associated Press.

"This is a good day for security in Germany," Harms said.

"There was an imminent threat," German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung told Germany's ARD broadcaster earlier.

The German terror arrests came a day after Danish police arrested eight "militant Islamists," accusing them of storing "unstable explosives."

At U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Capt. Jeff Gradec said German authorities had alerted them of a possible terrorist threat to American installations, but not specifically Ramstein.

Gradec said EUCOM had no plans to raise its force protection levels in light of the plots.

Ramstein Air Base is located in western Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate state and is about 125 kilometers (75 miles) southeast of Frankfurt. The base is a major transit point for the U.S. military into the Middle East and Central Asia.

Authorities in both Germany and the United States have warned of the possibility of a terrorist attack, and security measures have been raised, according to an AP report.

However CNN's International Security Correspondent Paula Newton reported that intelligence officials have been calling for more cooperation to combat terror plots in Europe, in particular the faster transfer of information between different countries.

Europe is at high risk, officials say, due not only to the Iraq war, but also the NATO mission in Afghanistan, to which many European countries contribute, she said, adding that the Muslim population in Europe is beginning to feel more alienated than it has done in previous decades. "This brings Europe to the battleground," Newton said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/05/germany.terrorarrests/index.h...

Let's attack another country. Think before you post.

Congressional report says
violence stays high in Iraq
Violence in Iraq remains high, fewer Iraqi security forces are capable of acting independently, and the Baghdad legislature has failed to reach major political agreements needed to curb sectarian violence, says a report released Tuesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070904/pl_nm/iraq_usa_dc;_ylt=AiFaBPY_jcdFI...

blog note
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 5:49am.

Your post is rather rude. Mean What You Say and Say What You Mean. /|\
I answer Anons at the "pedestrian" timing, twit. Get it, The timing, Anon. The OPEN SUBJECT of an ANON when/if I POST it is usually Around THEN and NOW!

wiccandruid

Maybe you shouldn't read into posts what isn't there!

Blah blah yourself!

Wasn't asking for another war. Bush didn't finish the one in Afghanistan where Al Qaeda was. No! He had to go into Iraq and made a mess of it.

Cheney's the one who wants to start another war. This admin is the worst ever! Ever!

People now realize this. He's a loser!!!

Go play in the Street,Anon!
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By CQ Staff
Tue Sep 4, 10:25 AM ET

By Bart Jansen, CQ Staff

President Bush’s success rating in the Democratic-controlled House has fallen this year to a half-century low, and he prevailed on only 14 percent of the 76 roll call votes on which he took a clear position.

The previous low for any president was in 1995, when Bill Clinton won just 26 percent of the time during the first year after Republicans took control of the House. If Bush’s score holds through the end of the year, he will have the lowest success rating in either chamber for any president since Congressional Quarterly began analyzing votes in 1953.

study of House and Senate floor votes, compiled by CQ over the August recess, also showed that House Democrats have backed Bush’s legislative positions this year only 6 percent of the time, making for the strongest opposition from either party against a president in the 54 years CQ has kept score.

• CQ Party Unity Scores | Presidential Support Scores

A separate analysis of so-called party unity votes, in which a majority of one party votes against a majority of the other, showed the possibility of another historic first for House Democrats. So far this year, Democrats have backed the majority position of their caucus 91 percent of the time on average on such votes. That marks the highest Democratic unity score in 51 years.

Although any president can count on a certain amount of discontent from the opposing party — especially one that controls Congress — Bush’s low success rating and his low support scores among House Democrats are a direct result of disagreements with him over the Iraq War and spending priorities, according to a review of votes.

By comparison, House Democrats supported President Richard Nixon 46 percent of the time in 1974, the year he resigned. Nixon prevailed on votes 68 percent of the time that year, despite the Watergate fallout. And House Republican support for President Lyndon B. Johnson stood at 51 percent in 1968, during the height of the Vietnam War. Johnson succeeded 84 percent of the time on votes that year.

Bush has fared better in the Senate this year than in the House, though his success rate also has declined there. He was successful on 40 of 55 Senate votes on which he took a clear position. His success score of 72 percent is still the lowest since Bush took office. Clinton’s Senate success rates under GOP control were lower than Bush’s every year, and his 42 percent score in 1999 was the lowest since 1953.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20070904/pl_cq_politics/bushsuccessratingathi...

Pentagon Drags Its Feet When It Comes To Safety Gear For Troops »

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AFP | September 4, 2007 10:52 PM

The Pentagon often has dragged its feet or refused to spend on safer equipment for US troops in Iraq, forcing the Congress to step in, a study published on Tuesday found.

The report published in USA Today came as a crucial report on the military situation is due within days in Washington.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070904/pl_afp/iraqusmilitaryreport_0709041...

Is that so? And what about Pelosi and the Senate? Who is it that writes the checks? Who is it that holds that rubber stamp?

Newspaper's project exposes - gasp! - the truth in presidential campaign
by davidkc
Tue Sep 04, 2007 at 05:45:06 AM PDT
In the age of "truthiness" from our politicians and lapdog media, there's something going on here in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area that is truly revolutionary. On of oure local newspapers, The St. Petersburg Times, has launched a new project to expose the honest-to-goodness truth, or lack thereof, in the 2008 presidential campaign. It's unlike anything I've seen in a major newspaper, and a look at their dismantling of a recent Rudy Guiliani claim shows why.

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We've all seen attempts by newspapers to examine political ads, but in all of the examples I've seen the newspaper shies away from actually saying whether or not an ad is actually true. Instead, they'll analyze and summarize the contents of an ad and use watered down, lame phrases like "the ad stretches the facts" or "the ad is somewhat misleading," rather than saying "this ad is not true." And as we all know too well, most candidates' statements get regurgitated by the MSM steno pool with no attempt to examine the truth of those statements, no matter how outrageous they may be.

The new St. Pete Times project is different. The newspaper is partnering with Congressional Quarterly on the project, called PolitiFact, to "analyze the candidates' speeches, TV ads and interviews and determine whether the claims are accurate." As the paper's executive editor, Neil Brown, explained the service in a recent editorial:

Sorting out the "truth" may seem a treacherous endeavor in such a politically polarized time. But we believe our journalists can play a greater role as an honest broker for voters bewildered by the barrage of campaign talk.

So in a move rare for a news organization, we're dedicating a team of reporters and researchers to meticulously examine the rhetoric of candidates and their partisans, and then make a call: Is the claim true or not?

You might think such work would be standard journalistic fare. But many news organizations can spend less money and get less grief if their political reporting sticks to stenography and puffery.

It's easier to record the words and claims of competing candidates than to vet their accuracy. It's easier to write about the strategy of using negative advertising than to do the painstaking research to sort out whether the claim is actually true or false.

Amen to that.

This past weekend, for example, PolitiFact analyzed the following claim by Rudy Guiliani, which was published a few weeks ago in The New Yorker magazine: "I mean, we took a city that nobody believed could be turned around with regard to crime, and really did turn it around. That’s not like a political slogan. We really did it."

PolitiFact gives a Truth-O-Meter rating to each analysis, and in this case it gave Guiliani's claim a "Barely True" rating, and went on to say the following:

In the Aug. 20, 2007 edition of The New Yorker magazine, Giuliani makes the claim that he turned around New York's crime trend.

But violent crime in New York actually began falling three years before Giuliani became mayor in 1994, and property crime started falling four years before.

Under Giuliani, the decline in crime rates sure picked up speed: After falling about 12 percent from 1990 to 1993, violent crime dropped 56 percent over the next eight years. But most big cities, and the nation as a whole, followed a similar pattern: A slow fall beginning around 1990 or 1991, followed by a sharp drop over the next decade.

Giuliani may have helped push New York’s crime rate down, but "turn it around"? Not quite. The trend had started without him.

Wow, the newspaper actually presented the facts and exposed the lies behind Guiliani's statement. When's the last time you saw a newspaper do that? Another nice feature of the project is that it not only examines candidates' own ads and statements but also analyzes the truth behind attacks on candidates by other candidates. And it provides the sources for all of its analysis.

The St. Petersburg Times is, sadly, in a unique position to engage in a project like PolitiFact, since it is independently owned by a nonprofit institute. You can see more PolitiFact analysis at politifact.com. The project is nonpartisan, of course, and analyzes the statements of both Dems and Repugs. It's definitely worth a look, and should prove to be a valuable resource for all of us during the presidental campaign. Maybe journalism isn't dead after all.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/4/8119/95977

Paetraeus Compromised: A Payoff too Big to be called a Bribe
by SmithsLastWord
Wed Sep 05, 2007 at 03:50:02 AM PDT
What Paetreus is being offered a glimpse of is beyond value for a political Army man. Something many would do anything for. What monstrous price will the General give to the vying candidates to become a future emperor. Can you believe the gall of these prospective tyrants to publicly dangle such a position around Paetraeus at this juncture? There are few political creature who could remain objective in submitting reports for people claiming that political beast is under consideration for the payoff too big to be called a bribe. Paetreus has been made a Vice Presidential candidate by people responsible for starting and beating the drums for continuing this war he is being asked to add his own drums for. His report is fatally compromised. What ambitious men trade for power can be monstrously high. The General has been promised the moon by people he will help or hinder this week. His report is compromised beyond all credibility.

The Washington Times reported that "three of the eight announced 2008 Republican presidential campaigns are considering retired Army Gen. Tommy Franks as their pick for vice presidential candidate." The Times did not say which three campaigns these were, but it is hard to imagine that lower-tier candidates, like Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul, are making up vice presidential short lists at this point. If three active candidates have Franks on their radar, there is a strong chance that top contenders like Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee are among them. Fred Thompson, when he announces, could make a fourth...Weekly Standard's William Kristol told a group of college students, in an off-the-record meeting of the Harvard Republican Club, that a ticket of Fred Thompson and David Petraeus might be able to avert electoral disaster for the GOP next year. If Petraeus proves successful as a military commander in Iraq, Kristol said, he could be a potent running mate for the former senator from Tennessee. Kristol also mentioned that he was not the only conservative insider thinking along these lines.

It is striking that Kristol would tout General Petraeus's potential as an electoral asset while the man is still working to stabilize Iraq - a job that should be entirely nonpartisan. If Petraeus is half the soldier he's been made out to be, it would be unthinkable for him to abandon his military mission to join a political campaign.

Paetreus report comes from a man who will benefit beyond his wildest dreams by delivering soothing words for the hawks. The inane cry that he is beyond corruption might already be heard. What a singular folly it is to think any ambitious man is beyond corruption. We hear a report soon from a man compromised beyond all credibility.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/5/61339/53031

Don't let the Evil-Doers push you out of office. You Need to stay and fight for what it RIGHT.

The Country needs more men like you and you should listen to Senator Specter, he is on your side and is a wise man.

I will be rooting for you to stay in office.

ZIP Code -- 83702

http://www.senate.gov/~craig/contact.cfm

Free Democracy

Why don't you go Missing like Steve Fossett!!
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Baghdad blast kills 3 U.S. soldiers By DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer
13 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Three American soldiers were killed and two were wounded by a roadside bomb in east Baghdad, the U.S. command said.

U.S. statement said the bomb was an explosively-formed penetrator, a type which the U.S. says Iran has been supplying to Shiite militias, a charge the Iranians deny.

The U.S. said the blast occurred Tuesday in east Baghdad but gave no further details.

However, a U.S. Humvee was seen burning Tuesday at an intersection in Mashtal section of eastern Baghdad. U.S. officials believe mainstream Mahdi forces have generally stuck by the order but breakaway factions of the militia are continuing attacks.

Elsewhere, a roadside bomb rocked an eastern Baghdad Shiite neighborhood early Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and injuring 19 others when it exploded next to buses used by morning commuters, police and hospital officials said.

Blood stained the ground around a small crater caused by the bomb, which went off in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baladiyat just before 8 a.m.

Video from Associated Press Television News showed the scene strewn with broken glass and littered with people's shoes and other items.

Nine people were killed instantly by the blast, according to police, while a medic in nearby Kindi hospital said two others died there shortly afterward from their injuries.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible, but the blast came on the fringes of Sadr City, al-Sadr's stronghold.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070904234830

Sen.Craig how many toe-taps is a BJ from a evildoer?
I know a Anon that wants to know!
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Mattel recalls 800,000 lead-tainted toys
1 hour, 1 minute ago
NEW YORK - Mattel Inc.'s reputation took another hit after the world's largest toy maker announced a third major recall of Chinese-made toys in little more than a month because of excessive amounts of lead paint.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_bi_ge/mattel_recall

Congress poised to grill regulators
2 hours, 40 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The worst housing slump in 16 years and upheaval in financial markets have cast a shadow on the economy, leading lawmakers to question federal regulators about the path ahead for anxious consumers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_go_co/congress_markets;_ylt=Am...

Top research group warns of 'less buoyant' world economic outlook
39 minutes ago
PARIS (AFP) - The OECD lowered on Wednesday its growth projection for the economies of the G7 group of rich countries and said the outlook was "clearly less buoyant" because of financial market instability.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070905/bs_afp/worldeconomyoecd_07090510394...

Bush urges China to spend, spend, spend
Wed Sep 5, 3:37 AM ET
BEIJING (AFP) - US President George W. Bush called Wednesday on Chinese consumers to spend more on American products to help reduce China's surging trade surplus with the United States.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070905/pl_afp/apecsummituschinatrade_07090...

By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer
Tue Sep 4, 11:03 PM ET
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JERUSALEM - Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.

The findings in the ruins of the city of Rehov this summer include 30 intact hives dating to around 900 B.C., archaeologist Amihai Mazar of Jerusalem's Hebrew University told The Associated Press. He said it offers unique evidence that an advanced honey industry existed in the Holy Land at the time of the Bible.

Beekeeping was widely practiced in the ancient world, where honey used for medicinal and religious purposes as well as for food, and beeswax was used to make molds for metal and to create surfaces to write on. While bees and beekeeping are depicted in ancient artwork, nothing similar to the Rehov hives has ever been found before, Mazar said
Con't
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How ya guys doing.Good I hope!

Is it SJ's birthday today?
And,Kevin.Just because you like Pink doesn't mean you have to write Sen.Craig!
Just kidding!Hee.. ;)
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Withdraw the Plea? Maybe He Can
From TPM Reader RS ...

I'm a criminal defense lawyer in Oregon, so nothing I say would be dispositive on the law in Minnesota. That said, withdrawing a plea on a misdemeanor is far from impossible. The primary factor in Craig's case is that he didn't have a lawyer. For example, in Oregon, the judge should take extra time with an unrepresented (or pro se) defendant, to make sure they are "knowingly" waiving their right to counsel. This "colloquy" between the judge and the defendant usually consists of the judge informing the defendant of the types of things a lawyer can do for that defendant which the defendant probably can't do for himself (legal arguments, challenges to the complaint, etc.).

It wouldn't surprise me, however, if the misdemeanor judge didn't take the time to do that. If it's a big docket, if the judge is pressed for time, if the judge doesn't know any better, if the defendant appears capable, if there's no jail time or immigration consequences, all of these factors would impact the time and care that the judge would take with a pro se defendant.

Craig's lawyer will want to get a transcript of the plea and sentencing. (I haven't heard about one floating around the internet, but that will change shortly, I imagine. Depends I guess whether it was tape-recorded or a court reporter was used. Most jurisdictions have switched to tape-recordings, as far as I know.) The lawyer will then parse it carefully, for any misstatements the judge may have made, but the primary focus will be on the discussion between Craig and the judge on his decision to waive counsel.

Legally, it probably doesn't matter that Craig didn't know (as you alluded to earlier) that his statements could be suppressed or that he had factual defenses to the crime. But I would expect the lawyer to emphasize those things at the motion hearing anyway, because they could be persuasive, if not legally significant.

Again, I want to emphasize that it all depends on the transcript of the plea and sentencing and what Craig was told prior to his decision to waive his right to an attorney.

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/052259.php

Yesterday was Sunny J's birthday.

But he can celebrate the whole month!! Why not!

I thought I heard the 5th for old SJ..O'well.
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Yep, Weirder Still
In the post below I mentioned how Roll Call obtained a voice mail that Sen. Craig left on a line he thought was his lawyer's. I've now found the Roll Call article (sub.req.) And there's an interesting little nugget packed in to the reportage (italics added).

Craig spokesman Dan Whiting confirmed Tuesday that the incoming phone number identified by the cell phone where the voice mail was left is in fact the Senator’s cell number. The cell phone’s owner, who requested anonymity, said Craig’s number has shown up on his phone as a missed call a handful of times over the past several weeks, but said that this was the first time the Senator left a message.
Now, the call appears to have been to Craig's lawyer, Billy Martin. But I thought the story was that Craig only retained Martin at the end of last week. Possibly, the author of the Roll Call piece meant days rather than weeks, in which case it means nothing. But if Craig's been in contact with Martin for several weeks that means there's an important part of the story we haven't yet heard.

--Josh Marshall

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_21/news/19829-1.html

Oh I had to write him .... my boss Mr. Soros told me too.

We need him to stay out there and fight fight fight .. 8-)

Respect Mah Authoritah

It's still along way to Election Day!
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tell him to abstain from sex for awhile!
Or get a New hobby! ;)
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One arrested in snack attack; assault by Cheetos

The assault weapons listed on the Des Moines police report was a bag of Cheetos.

Patrick Hamman, 22, of 4904 S.W. 13th St., was arrested Sunday on a charge of domestic assault. Officers explained that the victim of the snack attack, Michael Hamman, lives with his adult son, Patrick and that they became involved in an argument Sunday night.

Patrick Hammon picked up a bag of Cheetos and threw it at his father, hitting him in the face, police said. It hit him in the glasses, causing a cut to the bridge of Michael Hamman's nose.

The police report said: "Michael's T-shirt was also covered in Cheeto dust."

Patrick admitted being high on methamphetamine, police said. He was taken to the Polk County Jail without further incident.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070904/NEWS/70...

Early life and family
Craig was born in Council, Idaho, to Dorothy Lenore McCord and Elvin Oren Craig.[8] He grew up on a ranch outside Midvale in Washington County. In July 1961, he received his first press mention as part of a United Nations' Youth Pilgrimage Tour, a traveling group of 35 teenagers and adults.[9] In 1969 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Idaho. At the University of Idaho he was student body president and a member of the Delta Chi fraternity. He pursued graduate studies at George Washington University before returning to his family's Midvale ranching business in 1971. Craig was a member of the Idaho Army National Guard from 1970 to 1972, attaining the rank of Private First Class (E3)[10], after which he received an honorable discharge.[11]

Craig married Suzanne Thompson in 1983 and adopted the three children she had from a previous marriage.[12] Through his adopted children, Craig has nine grandchildren.[13]

in on c-span right now.

Most Americans say Bush was too eager for war in Iraq
Published: Tuesday September 4, 2007

Nearly two-thirds of Americans feel President George W. Bush was too eager to wage war in Iraq and is handling the conflict there badly, a poll released Tuesday suggested.

The result marked a turn-around from a survey that asked the same question four years ago, immediately after the US-led war began.

Sixty-one percent of nearly 2,700 US adults surveyed online over one week last month by the Harris Poll group said they felt Bush was "too eager" when he sent US troops into Iraq in March 2003, while only 26 percent perceived the president as "not too eager" to go to war.

In May 2003, two months after the start of the conflict, only 43 percent of Americans said Bush had gone into war too eagerly, and half said he was not overly zealous about going to battle, according to the Harris group.

The poll released Tuesday, as General David Petraeus and US ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker prepared to present a report to Congress on Iraq, also showed that two-thirds of Americans gave Bush bad marks for his handling of the conflict over the past few months.

That was more than double the 32 percent who judged the president's handling of Iraq negatively in April 2003, when US troops entered Baghdad and ousted the regime of Saddam Hussein, according to statistics supplied by Harris.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Most_Americans_say_Bush_was_too_eag_0904200...

Cheetos Meth Trolls! ;)
Or,Patrick..
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Texas Startup Says It Has Batteries Beat

By GRANT SLATER
Associated Press Writer

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine.

An Austin-based startup called EEStor promised "technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries," meaning a motorist could plug in a car for five minutes and drive 500 miles roundtrip between Dallas and Houston without gasoline.

By contrast, some plug-in hybrids on the horizon would require motorists to charge their cars in a wall outlet overnight and promise only 50 miles of gasoline-free commute. And the popular hybrids on the road today still depend heavily on fossil fuels.

"It's a paradigm shift," said Ian Clifford, chief executive of Toronto-based ZENN Motor Co., which has licensed EEStor's invention. "The Achilles' heel to the electric car industry has been energy storage. By all rights, this would make internal combustion engines unnecessary."

Clifford's company bought rights to EEStor's technology in August 2005 and expects EEStor to start shipping the battery replacement later this year for use in ZENN Motor's short-range, low-speed vehicles.

The technology also could help invigorate the renewable-energy sector by providing efficient, lightning-fast storage for solar power, or, on a small scale, a flash-charge for cell phones and laptops.

Skeptics, though, fear the claims stretch the bounds of existing technology to the point of alchemy.

"We've been trying to make this type of thing for 20 years and no one has been able to do it," said Robert Hebner, director of the University of Texas Center for Electromechanics. "Depending on who you believe, they're at or beyond the limit of what is possible."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NO_MORE_BATTERIES?SITE=AP&SECTION...

it sounds like they have developed a new compound that can be used as a capacitor.

Uh-Oh the GOP Clown College is Restless ...

To: Bahbah
Isn't it just wonderful how Specter yanked the rug from underneath his GOP colleagues...? They thought they had finally put this pathetic ordeal behind them once and for all. But nooooooooooooooo.... Arlen has to have a heart to heart chat with Larry about the necessity of clinging to power :

"...ya know Larry, I don't think it's over for you.... not by long shot... why you could fight this thing and actually win. I'm serious.... so what if you've announced your intent to resign and Otter's already picked your replacement. Hell, that don't nothin'.... I mean, you can still salvage your career. At least that's the way I see it. Really".
11 posted on 09/05/2007 3:23:28 AM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: PJ-Comix

If anyone had any doubts that Specter is doing his best to destroy the Republican party, this liitle diddy should put that to rest. Specter has made sure that Hillary’s no nos are put on the back page, while keeping Craig’s perverted actions on the front.

16 posted on 09/05/2007 3:48:29 AM PDT by Post-Neolithic (Money only makes Communists rich Communists)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891337/posts#comment?q=1

To: Kakaze
Spector, gave this story new life. Why would he do it?

Simple, he has a deep rooted animus against the GOP. Nothing gives him greater satisfaction than undermining his Party.

Come on, even Spector can't be that stupid. The GOP, if nothing else, had been able to resolve this mess in short order. Craig would step down, his replacement was picked, time to move on.

No such luck.

Alren has to throw a monkey wrench in the gears and keep this story front page news. It's sickening to think Spector is still around to f*** things up in ways that even his worst critics had never dreamed possible while a good man like Santorum is gone.

This is deliberate on Spector's part. It has to be.
13 posted on 09/05/2007 3:53:44 AM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: Et in Arcadia Ego

“The FBI should be called in to do a thorough investigation of the events leading up to this “non-incident” which has been blown way out of proportion.”

Sure, sure. That’s why he pleaded guilty, ‘cause he wasn’t. Sure.

What part of “homo” don’t you get?

20 posted on 09/05/2007 4:25:46 AM PDT by toddlintown (Five bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891336/posts#comment?q=1

Tsongas widow,
9-11 brother to face off

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The widow of a beloved senator and former presidential contender will face the brother of a pilot hijacked in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks in a race for an open congressional seat.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_el_ho/house_primary_massachuse...

the word play was too subtle...

To: AmericanInTokyo

the fags are behind this, IMO, probably from when they sent a fishing expedition to see if they could reel him in, to now, with him “reconsidering”.......watch them bless his reconsideration......it keeps their issue in our faces and in the news, NOT TO MENTION the facetime uncloseted fag activists are now beginning to get on the teevee. The real fag activists are as slick as Kay Why jelly.....

31 posted on 09/04/2007 6:42:22 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: wpa_mikeb

> Rush is basically spot on, the GOP really thinks the media will come to their side if another one is thrown under the bus.

I don’t give a rat’s patoot if the media will or won’t come to our side. They won’t, no matter what we do.

It’s irrelevant. I don’t want liars, criminals and perverts in our party. I’m flabbergasted that Rush does. I never thought I’d see an icon like Rush would essentially say, “We should get away with [crime, gross immorality] because the Dimocrats do.”

Has the whole world gone insane?

68 posted on 09/04/2007 7:59:02 PM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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Free Democracy

The DLC controls the party. Bill controls the DLC. This is just old school politics. Do you think posting in this little chatroom will change a thing?

http://www.mediatransparency.org/wherethemoneyleads.php

Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Sadrists Threaten Civil Disobedience
Da'wa Leader Slams Bush for Base Visit

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Sadr movement is complaining bitterly about the ongoing detention of its leaders. A spokesman for the Sadr office of Muqtada al-Sadr in Diwaniya threatened a campaign of civil disobedience if the arrests do not stop and if those arrested are not let go. Someone should tell Sheikh Abu Zaynab, the Diwaniya spokesman, that after everything Iraq has been through, the threat of mere civil disobedience is perhaps not very daunting.

Paul Bremer, the former US viceroy of Iraq, shot back Tuesday when Bush alleged that he had not known that he intended to disband the Iraqi army. Bremer shared a letter he sent to then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announcing his intention to disband the army, along with Bush's reply praising his leadership. Bush's reply, however, does not prove that he read Bremer's letter, only that Rumsfeld passed it on to him. You have a sense that Bush gets a lot of memos he doesn't read, in response to which he pats people on the head and names them Turtle Poo. The real question, on which Bremer has never come clean, is who ordered him to disband the Iraqi army. It wasn't Bush. Was it Cheney? I guess they don't bother to tell George everything.

The LAT reports on the reconvening of the Iraqi parliament with only 151 MPs in attendance. They don't appear ready to do any real business. Some Sadrists called for an investigation of the attack they alleged was launched on the Mahdi Army at Karbala last week. (In all likelihood, it was the other way around). They said Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki himself should be investigated.

The LAT says that leader of the Islamic Call (Da'wa) Party - Iraq Organization, Abdul Karim al-`Anizi-- an ally of al-Maliki's Islamic Call Party-- expressed his disgust at Bush's visit to an army base on Monday, by-passing the politicians in Baghdad:

' I want to mention my reservation and abhorrence as the meeting was held in an American base in a country having sovereignty . . ."

The Islamic Call Party - Iraq Organization stayed in Iraq during the Saddam years, unlike the Tehran, London and Damascus branches, which have generally dominated politics on their return after 2003.

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that Sattar Abu Rishah, the chairman of the Council for the Salvation of al-Anbar, said that Bush promised to release innocent Sunni Arab detainees and to provide compensation for damages caused by military operations. He called Abu Rishah a "hero" and urged him to spread the tribal council model to other provinces (i.e. to fight Sunni radicals with tribal militias).

Al-Hayat says that the US military is arming tribal militias in the 'triangle of death' south of Baghdad, with the cooperation of Sunni guerrilla groups such as the Army of Islam, the 1920 Revolution Brigades, and the Army of Holy Warriors (i.e. the very guerrilla groups that had earlier fought the US and Iraqi troops).

The al-Maliki government takes a dim view of the new US policy of promoting Sunni Arab militias, for fear that eventually they will turn on the Baghdad government. Among Abu Rishah's demands, which Bush said he would study, were complaints about Shiite militias and about Iranian interference in Iraq. Al-Maliki depends on both things.

David Walker of the Government Accountability Office is a clear-sighted and brave man. His congressional testimony, that Iraqi security forces are unlikely to be able to hold the neighborhoods being cleared of guerrillas by US troops, has drawn howls of outrage from US officers in Iraq. The GAO sees little progress toward the accomplishment of Congressional benchmarks, including ridding government security forces of militiamen.

http://www.juancole.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZBKgYgc7mw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxTaS1ERmwM

morning all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SvdWk8zRrI

peach of gw!!!

is that a good idea? just asking coz bush had that on in I

The “Blackshirts” were the security troops in Hitler's German army, also known as the S.S.

That's all I could think of when I saw it too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts

Must have hit a nerve with Gare he's triple posting Hillary 8-)
Submitted by Kevin © on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 8:00am.

I figure she's going to be the President...unless enough of the idiot "I'm a REAL Democrat" "progressives" didn't learn their lesson from Nader in 2000 and try something stupid.

But I ain't a'feared of her, if she runs the same "triangulating", "New Democrat" stuff that Brother Bill did.

Frankly, as I've said all along, the FUN part of post-Primary/General Election 2008 and beyond will be watching you guys get PI-ISSED at Sam Seder and all the AAR hosts who have to DEFEND Hillary against them evil Republicans....all the while YOU think she IS a Republican!

LOL!------Gare

For Crank
Submitted by dada on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 1:39am.
UC engineering researchers reach new heights in robot sophistication — or sink to new depths in bad jokes...
...The ability to appreciate humor is an enormous increment in subtlety. You need to know a lot to ‘get’ humor — a computer does not find it easy...
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Dave: "Open the pod bay, Hal."
Hal: "Going for a swim, Dave?"

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/4/204526/4393

Harminder, the lady that helps me, saw Bush on tv with the black shirt. She wondered also why he would wear a black shirt in that heat.

Maybe a subtle way of showing he's in charge.

Dave: "Open the pod bay, Hal."
Hal: "Going for a swim, Dave? Get it? 'Pod Bay?' Ha! Sometimes I kill myself, Dave."

That is close to the primary elections. This could play either way but I have a feeling that it may not play well for the Repubs unless CNN finagles the videos.

with Nuclear Warheads, mistakenly. Per CNN

The fact is that President Bush’s comments about Iran could just as easily have come from one of the Democrats running to replace him in the Oval Office. Indeed, Bush sounded positively moderate in comparison to Hillary Clinton.

In a speech in January 2006, she warned that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was ‘moving to create his own new nuclear reality in line with his despicable rewriting of history’.

She emphasised that the United States ‘cannot and should not — must not — permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons’.

Just to ram home the point, she declared that the US ‘cannot take any option off the table in sending a clear message to the current leadership of Iran — that they will not be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons’.

US B-52 Bomber flies across the US
Submitted by toniD on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 9:31am.
with Nuclear Warheads, mistakenly. Per CNN
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The navigator must have been one of those geographically-challenged kids that the Miss Teen contestant from South Carolina was asked about, such as...in Iraq and...other Asian countries that...what was the question?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

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Submitted by Crank Bait on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 9:23am.
Dave: "Open the pod bay, Hal."
Hal: "Going for a swim, Dave? Get it? 'Pod Bay?' Ha! Sometimes I kill myself, Dave."
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Visuals couldn't hurt.. :)
Now don't get pissed.It's just a great excuse to use a 2001 pic! :)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Wow. What a tool.

Tagg Romney. He actually has a MySpace page. Now you know he, his father, and MySpace are so done. Stick a fork in it.

Check out his interests. This guy is supposedly 37 years old! And look at all the "friends" and messages to him. I mean track these people down and harass them for being such losers!

http://www.myspace.com/taggromney

goddessdelirious.com

He said: "Now you just fought one hell of a fight
And I know you hate me, and you got the right
To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do.
But ya ought to thank me, before I die,
For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye
Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you 'Burlysue.'"

Maybe a subtle way of showing He's a Moron! ;)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

MMRules: "Now don't get pissed."
Bait: "For piling-on a joke? Never. I usually regret getting pissed. I should have kept my mouth shut (keyboard quiet) the last time around."

Submitted by Catharine on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 9:52am.
...for being such losers!
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This is the innernets. It's "loosers." Get with the program.

Exactly.

The Special Ed. Program.

goddessdelirious.com

Clicking on all of the Morons who requested and 'add' to Tagg Romney's MySpace page.

When you find the military-industrial-complex-fasco-Christian ones and their screwy ideas about how the GOP is gonna help all the poor people... you almost feel sorry for them.

goddessdelirious.com

Sept. 5, 2007 -- CIA translated documents yield clues on Lin Biao coup in China

Declassified documents point to Nationalist role in attempted coup against Mao Zedong.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070904_2

goddessdelirious.com

I just hope Hillary takes another kick at those welfare cheats.

kidding around Crank,about ya getting pissed.I didn't
mean that.If i'm reading ya right..Almost all of your jokes crack me up!
Even if I don't understand them all.. :)
Surf up! ;)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

You requested an add on Tagg Romney's MySpace page.

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GOP is gonna help all the poor people

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 10:17am.

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goddessdelirious.com

Wow. The market volatility mongers are really running the show: Get in, get out. Get in, get out. Easy come, easy go.

I miss Wilbur, too.

please stop turning anon on "get in get out" easy cum...ooohh no good too early for that!

italy though!

Ride..
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Australian police warn of riot over Bush visit

SYDNEY (AFP) - The largest protest so far during US President George W. Bush's visit to Sydney ended peacefully Wednesday, but police predicted a "full-scale riot" later in the week.

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Australian_police_warn_of_riot_over_0905....

Submitted by MMRules on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 10:21am.
...Almost all of your jokes crack me up!
Even if I don't understand them all...
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I feel your pain. I have to research half of bibimimi's references to get the punchlines.

What Sen.Larry Craig forgot to do! :)
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not nice--kids in my building take the cheese bus!

a crackup too.As we all know.. :)
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pap!

actually started yesterday afternoon. yesterdays rally was missing a very important item, institutional investors. everyone's got an opinion but the ones i read all expect a retracement to the august lows in the next month. but then, who knows? if anyone did, they would be raking in the chips.

Just 2% See Congressional Performance As "Excellent," 45% Call It Poor

Voters continue to look askance at the performance of the U.S. Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey indicates that only 17% are able to say that the performance of that legislative body is Good (15%) or Excellent (2%). A little more than a third (36%) say it's Fair, a plurality of 45% deem it Poor.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/congressional_pe...

CM

"Hello to all our friends and fans in the worthless congress"

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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

did yourll see Sam on go left tv already talking about poor poor larry craig...its funny!

The nation’s Medicaid directors yesterday told the Bush administration that its new restrictions on the federally funded State Children’s Health Insurance Program will limit the number of children covered. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, the National Association of State Medicaid Directors “said the new standards reduce flexibility, making it difficult for states to expand coverage.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070905/NATION/109050058/-1/RSS_...

The Americans Against Escalation in Iraq have released a new ad calling out Bush’s suggestion that he will reduce troop levels. “Do they really mean it this time?” Watch the ad here.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MRQkITuZVwM

By a vote of 69-24, the Senate approved Jim Nussle to replace Rob Portman as the director of the Office of Management and Budget. Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) voted against Nussle’s confirmation because he feared Republicans could portray a yes vote “as a sign of support for the president’s failed fiscal policy.”

http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&story...

‘The Nine’

According to Jeffrey Toobin’s new book on the Supreme Court, Justice David Souter nearly resigned in the wake of Bush v. Gore, so distraught was he over the decision that effectively ended the Florida recount and installed George W. Bush as president.

In “The Nine,” which goes on sale Sept. 18, Toobin writes that while the other justices tried to put the case behind them, “David Souter alone was shattered,” at times weeping when he thought of the case. “For many months, it was not at all clear whether he would remain as a justice,” Toobin continues. “That the Court met in a city he loathed made the decision even harder. At the urging of a handful of close friends, he decided to stay on, but his attitude toward the Court was never the same.”

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Souter isn’t all despair in Toobin’s book, however. The author relates a story in which Souter played along with a stranger who mistook him for Justice Stephen Breyer. After the person asked him what the best thing about being on the court was, he replied: “Well, I’d have to say it’s the privilege of serving with David Souter.”

A court spokeswoman could not be reached over the weekend
Link
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Post the GoLeft TV link please, pretty please!!

“His speech will be noticeably slower and he’ll be zipping around in a motorized wheel chair, but Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) will do something on Wednesday that did not seem possible last December - he’ll give an address on the Senate floor.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0907/After_long_recovery_Johnson_...

The controversial docudrama Path to 9/11 has hit a snag in its plans for a nationwide DVD release. The $40-million, five-hour ABC miniseries “is for now on the path to nowhere.” Cyrus Nowrasteh, the conservative activist who produced the series, is blaming the Hillary Clinton campaign for the stalled release.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/homeentertainment/la-et-path5s...

Al Gore (No. 1) tops President Bush (No. 2) — at least in the second annual “Harvard 100″ ranking, recognizing the university’s most influential living alumni. “Interestingly enough, newly resigned Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales finished last on the list at No. 100.”

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/gore----harvard.html

Soltz to Senor: ‘You can’t spin me a third time.’ Last night on Hannity and Colmes, Iraq war vet and VoteVets founder Jon Soltz debated Dan Senor, former senior adviser to Paul Bremer in Iraq. When Senor told Soltz “you got to admit” progress is being made in Iraq, Soltz responded:

When you were in Iraq, I believed you. I trusted you. Our soldiers needed your leadership. You told us weapons of mass destruction, we’ve turned the corner in Iraq. So I’m not going to sit here and be lectured by someone like you. I just can’t have that. I can be lectured by Gen. Petraeus, I can be lectured by our generals. But you spun me once, you spun me twice, you can’t spin me a third time.

Later, Soltz argued that recent ads by Freedom’s Watch are “completely misleading” because there was “no connection between 9/11 and Iraq.” Those soldiers “have been misled by people like Dan Senor,” Soltz said. Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/soltz-to-senor-you-cant-spin-me-a-th...

i only know how to cut and paste....tell me how i will do it!

Goldsmith: In DoJ Hiring Interview, I Was Asked ‘Are You A Republican?’
In his new book, The Terror Presidency, former Office of Legal Council chief Jack Goldsmith claims “he was quizzed about his political loyalties during his initial job interview” with the Department of Justice. According to Goldsmith, the first question asked in his interview with David Leitch, a deputy to then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, was about his political loyalties:

Goldsmith also said in his book that — like many other Justice Department hires — he was quizzed about his political loyalties during his initial job interview. One of Gonzales’s deputies, David Leitch, opened the conversation by asking him about an $800 campaign contribution Goldsmith had given to a law school dean who was a Democrat. “Why have you never given money to a Republican?” Leitch asked, according to the book. “Are you a Republican?“

Discrimination in hiring based on political affiliation is illegal under both federal law and internal Justice Department rules. Goldsmith is not the first official, however, to reveal the politicization of the hiring process at the Department of Justice under the Bush administration.

During her May testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, former Justice Department White House Liaison Monica Goodling admitted that she had “taken inappropriate political considerations into account.” Pressed by Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), Goodling conceded that her actions were “illegal.”

Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bradley Schlozman, who recently resigned, also imposed a partisan litmus test in his hiring at the Civil Rights Division, even boasting of the number of Republicans he had hired.

The Inspector General of the Justice Department, Glenn Fine, is currently investigating the politicization of the hiring process at DoJ.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/goldsmith-politics-hiring/

he spits FFFFFFFIIIIIIIRRRRREEEE!

Get your own sig..!
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I HAVE IT OPEN JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

if you tell me how to do it toni i would
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Submitted by Lucille on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 11:13am.
i only know how to cut and paste....tell me how i will do it!

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If you tell me what it is labeled, I'll look for it.

I don't know how to embed the actual video, but at least I know which video you are watching.

Australian police warn of full-scale riot over Bush visit Agence France-Presse
Published: Wednesday September 5, 2007

SYDNEY (AFP) - The largest protest so far during US President George W. Bush's visit to Sydney ended peacefully Wednesday, but police predicted a "full-scale riot" later in the week.

About 300 students, many still in their high school uniforms, marched through central Sydney chanting anti-war slogans in protest at the US leader's presence in Australia for this week's Asia-Pacific summit.

Police allowed the colourful rally, featuring a group of scantily-clad models and a pantomime horse, to march through a section of the city well away from where Bush was meeting with Prime Minister John Howard.

But authorities successfully appealed in the courts for a curb on the main protest action planned for Saturday, which police estimate could attract up to 20,000 demonstrators.

Chief superintendent Steven Cullen, head of the state Public Order and Riot Squad, said he had never been so worried about a demonstration in his career, predicting "horrendous" implications for public safety.

"Police lines will come under attack and a full-scale riot is probable," Cullen told the Supreme Court.

The Stop Bush Coalition protest group agreed to change the route of the march so it did not pass the US consulate in the centre of the city's financial district.

The court also ordered the protesters to stay away from a 2.8 metre (nine foot) high steel and concrete fence that snakes five kilometres (three miles) around the city centre, creating an exclusion zone for the visiting dignitaries.

Cullen told the court he had "absolutely no doubt" minority protest groups would attempt to violently disrupt the march and people would be hurt if there was a crush near the fence or they were pushed into glass-fronted buildings.

While police fear a repeat of the violence at last year's G20 meeting in Melbourne, activists have labelled the unpredented security lockdown over much of Sydney as an attack on their right to peaceful protest.

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Australian_police_warn_of_riot_over_0905....

its under pap with sam seder....thats all what written!

Chertoff, candidate to suceed Gonzales, pledged to investigate Sen. Clinton RAW STORY
Published: Wednesday September 5, 2007

Shortly after President Bush took office in 2001, Michael Chertoff, then head of the Justice Department's criminal division, met with the conservative group Judicial Watch," begins an article that went all but missed in Tuesday's LA Times. "It wanted criminal charges brought against Hillary Rodham Clinton in connection with a lavish fundraising event in Los Angeles the year before."

"Chertoff personally assured us he would pursue it," the group's president, Tom Fitton told the Times' reporters, recalling the meeting with several top Justice officials. "They said they weren't afraid of taking on the Clintons."

The Department opted not to pursue a case against New York's junior senator, they note. Instead, they went after one of her fundraisers, David Rosen, who was later aquitted.

In the wake of Alberto Gonzales' resignation as Attorney General, Chertoff appears among the shortlisted candidates to succeed him.

"Justice Department officials say pressure from Judicial Watch -- which made its name by suing the Clintons in the 1990s -- played no role in the decision to prosecute Rosen," adds the Times. "Chertoff will not discuss the case. But it seems to be an early example of department actions under Bush that critics say were tinged with partisanship."

Read the full story here.

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Chertoff_candidate_to_suceed_Gonzales_ple...

If We Could Turn Back Time...
by Devilstower
Wed Sep 05, 2007 at 08:25:16 AM PDT

Say, back to those heady days of just before Larry Craig pleaded guilty to a widened stance. NPR is reporting that, not only is Craig considering reneging on his resignation, he's also looking into whether he can call for a do-over on his guilty plea. Apparently, his conversation with Arlen Specter has convinced him that he can beat not only the heat to give up his Senate seat, but roll back the crime to which he's already pled. While testing the unidirectionality of time's arrow, Craig has also requested that the Senate ethics committee drop their investigation.

A short course in Jedi mind tricks might be in order if Craig wants America to forget his bathroom antics, but his fighting spirit has to be encouraged. It's not often you see someone willing to simultaneously combat the pressure from his entire party, the legal system, the combined comedians of North America, and Einstein. Go for it, Larry.

US Admissions of Iraqi Refugees Rise

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

WASHINGTON — Nearly 530 Iraqi refugees were admitted to the United States last month, a huge bump from July but still far short of the number needed to fulfill the Bush administration's pledge to accept 2,000 by the end of September.

The 529 Iraqis allowed onto U.S. soil in August _ more than in all of the previous 11 months combined _ bring to 719 the number to have been admitted in the current budget year, which runs from last October to Sept. 30, according to an internal State Department document obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep04/0,4670,USIraqRefugees,00.html

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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Senators not subject to arrest while
traveling to, from sessions of Congress

This may be what a high-powered legal dream team hired by Craig is telling him now. Late yesterday, Craig's staff hinted he may not honor his commitment to resign from the Senate effective Sept. 30.

The critical section of the Constitution states: "The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57484

CM

good lord...yeah thatll help ...resign asswipe

of course it works! thanks!

GOP aide says Craig decision to reconsider resignation 'defies reality' Adam Doster
Published: Tuesday September 4, 2007

Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) apparently didn't call his colleagues in the Senate before expressing his intent to change his mind on resigning his seat.

GOP leaders are shocked; one Senate aide told Politico Craig's announcement "defies reality."

Craig is "losing any goodwill built up among his colleagues," a senior Republican strategist told the Capitol Hill website. "He is simply a fish out of water, floundering right now to get his last gasp of political air."

"It simply defies reality," declared a Senate GOP aide. "You can't make this up even if you are heavily medicated. The American people heard from Larry Craig that he would resign, and using the word 'intent' as a back door doesn't work with them."

Sen. Larry Craig, who originally resigned from his Senate post after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting, said he was reconsidering his decision through spokesmen said Tuesday evening.

"We're still preparing as if Senator Craig will resign Sept. 30, but the outcome of the legal case in Minnesota and the ethics investigation will have an impact on whether we're able to stay in the fight - and stay in the Senate," Sidney Smith, Craig's Idaho spokesman, told AP.

"It's not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign," he added.

According to Roll Call, Republican Party leaders are not amused.

“I think this episode is over," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). "We’ll have a new Senator from Idaho at some point in the next month or so."

Remarked National Republican Senatorial Committee spokeswoman Rebecca Fisher: “Sen. [Republican Chairman John] Ensign (R-NV) believes that Sen. Craig made the right decision to resign, for himself and for the party."

Dan Whiting, Craig's spokesman in Washington, said that the senator was expected to spend the week in Idaho as the Senate votes on spending bills for veterans and other programs this week. Whiting "did not rule out Craig's returning to Washington before the end of the month."

According to Roll Call, a "well-placed Senate GOP leadership aide was even more blunt in describing the feelings of the chamber's Republican leaders, saying Craig’s possible plan to stick around "smacks of desperation by a man who has just devastated his political career and is just now realizing the ramifications of his actions.'"

Some believe the decision was made simply as a way to aid Craig's legal defense, and it is not his intent to stay in the Senate.

More from AP HERE.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070905/D8REVOK80.html

"restroom republicans" wow thats cold

...that was on Bob & Tom this morning..

If you go back to GoLeft Tv look over to the right.You'll see a small box at the top of the page that says,"tags,url,and embed.You just copy the Embed..Then paste it in your post..Just like a YouTube Vid..
Hope that helps! :)
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"Bums for Bush" protesters won't turn the other cheek

A game group of Australian anti-war protesters are planning a cheeky protest against a visit by US President George W. Bush -- baring their bottoms in what they hope will be a world-record moon.

Organiser Will Saunders said the Friday protest was aimed at lightening the mood in Sydney, a city currently patrolled by 5,000 police and soldiers and divided by a massive steel and concrete fence ahead of the APEC summit.

Police have said they expect violence during a series of protests against the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit which will gather together 21 leaders from around the world.

"There's this heaviness about the protests," Saunders told AFP.

"It's hoped to make the point that protests don't have to be these terribly heavy serious things."

The "Bums Not Bombs" group will particularly target Bush, whose unpopular war in Iraq has been strongly backed by Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

The visits by the world leaders, including Bush's five-day stay at a luxurious 3,500 US dollar per night harbourside hotel, have resulted in road blocks, changes to public transport, and other disruptions in Australia's biggest city.

The protest will take place on Friday in Sydney's Hyde Park, close to where the leaders will be meeting.

In a leaflet to possible supporters, the group calls for 4,000 cheeks -- er, 2,000 people -- to "tell Bush what we really think about his visit."

Saunders said numbers for the protest were not yet certain but he had a core group to perform a "21 Bum Salute" to represent each of the countries in the grouping.

"I think there's certain to be hundreds of people," said Saunders, who previously attracted media attention when he and another man painted "No War" on the Sydney Opera House in huge, bright red letters on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The group said it needed 4,000 cheeks to break the previous world record moon. "This is one APEC protest we can all enjoy," it said.

Bush himself seemed unworried about any of the protests.

"People feel like they want to protest -- fine, they can," he told a press conference in Sydney.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/_Bums_for_Bush_protesters_won_t_tur_0905200...

I didn't know that Go Left TV did that.

i will try it...teachers rock!

I luv it!!
Anon's are always trying to crap all over this blog.
F*ck em if they can't take a joke!!
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

when i paste it it comes up with language larry craig would have used on the cop.....

CNBC commentator Seth Tobias found dead in Florida pool
BY SCOTT WENGER and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Wednesday, September 5th 2007, 4:00 AM

Wall Street big shot Seth Tobias was mysteriously found dead yesterday in the swimming pool of his Florida mansion, police said.

Tobias' wife found the well-regarded CNBC commentator's body about 1 a.m., floating facedown in his pool in an exclusive section of Jupiter, Fla., near Palm Beach.

"I don't want anybody to jump to any conclusions," said Sgt. Scott Pascarella, a spokesman for the Jupiter police. "We aren't even classifying it as a suspicious death at this point."

There were no obvious signs of foul play.

Cops said an autopsy would be performed to determine how the brash moneyman died. "It's unusual because of his age," Pascarella said of the 44-year-old.

Tobias, who also had homes on E. 53rd St. and the Jersey Shore, ran the Circle T Partners hedge fund and managed $250 million in assets.

He was a familiar face on the financial network's popular "Squawk Box" show, and his quotes appeared on a financial Web site yesterday even as cops probed his death.

An employee at Circle T Partners confirmed Tobias had died and said a brother, Sam Tobias, was making funeral arrangements.

Seth Tobias' firm was embroiled in a battle for control of QSGI, a Hightstown, N.J.-based computer services company. Reports of Tobias' death sent QSGI's stock plunging 18% yesterday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/09/05/2007-09-05_cnbc_c...

Ney threatened staffer with ‘abusive phone calls.’ Neil Volz, a former top staffer to Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the Jack Abramoff scandal, is now asking for “house arrest” instead of prison time. Documents filed in federal court last week said that Volz has “endured harsh criticism, including abusive phone calls” from Ney when the former congressman suspected he was helping investigators.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/118898197...

Toni,I didn't think they gave you the embed code either..So I went to their site clicked
on Old Sammy&Pap,and there were the Url,and embed codes..Cool!
Lucille.When you try and Copy&Paste a Embed code.It almost always makes you pick Select All first,then Copy.Just telling ya if you have a problem trying to copy at first. :)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Ol' Lavvy (t/w/b Sen. Larry Craig) has gotten a piece of my mind. Damned right he has.

You hand...errr...hang in there, Lavvy. Yeah, the 'speech & debate' clause in the Constitution says you can't be prosecuted during congressional travel. Don't take any shit...errr...bad choice of words there, guff from them leftie tinkerbells. And you just hafta run for reelection in '08, Lavvy...ya just gotta! Otherwise you'd be admittin' to bein' Teh Gay. Oh, noooooo!

Hang tough, Lavvy...and not in that 'other' way, either.

[Damn, you guys think I'm readin' too much Gen. JC Patriot? *snark*]

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I can be such an evil little bastard. The conversation I had w/ one of Craig's staffers this AM woulda made Sammer proud (a la his call to the Creation Museum).

Hey, you guys can call or send a web comment to the good Senator's offices, too.

Bruhahahahahaha!

This is all the buzz in DC, kids. And the Bushies are royally fucking pissed that ol' Lavvy is cuttin' in on their Iraq pronoucements coverage in the news cycles.

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h/t to Kevin (copywrite) for the Klown Kollege lamentations on Craig's "reconsideration."

Bizarre, Sad, Bizarrely Sad
I was debating whether to post on this. Then TPM Reader DR pushed me over the edge ...

I don't know about you, but if you ever wondered if CNN was in trouble, just look at what's on the front page of CNN.com as I write this;
It's beyond ridiculous, with all the news of significance going on in the world, THIS is what they choose to lead their webpage?

I've noticed this a lot recently on CNN, especially since their redesign. It's not an issue of not fronting enough 'good for you' serious news versus tabloidy stuff. It's more that they increasingly feature 'weird but true' stories as their lead. Not sure what that's about.

Late Update: A quick survey of the other major news sites shows most are fronting the German terror arrests, which unlike the ones we usually have over here seem like the real deal.

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/052295.php

DHS ends criticized data-mining program

The Homeland Security Department has given up on one of its broadest anti-terrorism data-mining tools after investigators found it was tested with information about real people without the required privacy safeguards.

Known as ADVISE and begun in 2003, the Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement program was developed by the department and the Lawrence Livermore and Pacific Northwest national laboratories for use by many DHS components, including immigration, customs, border protection, biological defense and its intelligence office.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/09/dhs_ends_criticized_datamining...

Maybe I'll put one of those videos on my blog too.

Sen. Craig (R-ID) making calls to senate colleagues to round up support.

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/052293.php

READ as usual and follow instructions...i will continue to try though!

Hillary will work for you too!

Blogger who outed Larry Craig challenges Hannity
RAW STORY

Gay Republican outings have reached Fox News.

Blogger Mike Rogers, who outed Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) last October on his site BlogActive, told Fox News Channel viewers Tuesday night that Craig is a gay man with an anti-gay voting record.

"Larry Craig is a hypocrite. He is an anti-gay, closeted homosexual who has sex with other men," he says.

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Blogger_who_outed_Larry_Craig_challenges_...

Iran hangs 21 criminals in one day

Iran has hanged 17 convicted drug traffickers in the northeastern Khorasan Razavi province and four other criminals in the southern city of Shiraz, state media said Wednesday.

"These 17 smugglers were recognised as being corrupt on this earth by the judiciary after legal procedures and were hanged at dawn this morning," the website of state broadcasting quoted a police spokesman as saying.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_hangs_21_criminals_in_one_day_09052007...

Hmmm. When I went to CNN.com, this is what they had front page:

AP: Rep. Paul Gillmor, R-Ohio, was found dead in his apartment Wednesday, a Republican leadership aide says.

full story soon

"Bums for Bush" protesters won't turn the other cheek

A game group of Australian anti-war protesters are planning a cheeky protest against a visit by US President George W. Bush -- baring their bottoms in what they hope will be a world-record moon.

Organiser Will Saunders said the Friday protest was aimed at lightening the mood in Sydney, a city currently patrolled by 5,000 police and soldiers and divided by a massive steel and concrete fence ahead of the APEC summit.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/_Bums_for_Bush_protesters_won_t_tur_0905200...

did they mention him being a restroom republican?

WASHINGTON - The full impact of the upheaval in financial markets “has yet to play out,” a top administration official said Wednesday, while stressing that the effect will be dampened somewhat by solid economic growth.

Robert Steel, Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance, appeared before a House committee as the worst housing slump in 16 years and roller coaster financial markets cast a shadow on the economy.

“What we have is a severe lack of investor confidence,” said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. He said he hopes that Congress and the administration will work together on solutions for the mortgage squeeze.

More lead painted toys from China for Mattel.

It's time we stopped buying from China and begin manufacturing here.

pretty cool,i think anyway!

Our Absurd Discourse

Greenwald reminds us, yet again, that no matter how often Fred "Wrong About Everything" Hiatt is wrong, the real silly people are the ones who were... what's that phrase? Oh yes, proved fucking right about everything.

-Atrios 11:02

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/05/hiatt_ledeen/index.htm...

Weyant's World via The Hill

[And in case The Hill locks out the link:

http://thehill.com/weyants-world/ ]

It's A Secret

Military vs. the GAO:

But Walker said the GAO received different assessments of the levels of violence. The report, he noted, recommended that the administration reflect such divergence in its own reports. It was unclear whether sectarian attacks had dropped, he said, "since it is difficult to measure intentions and there are various measures of sectarian violence from different sources. . . . Some show increases, some show decreases, and some show inconsistent patterns."

Walker said the GAO consulted with the military until Thursday. "We asked for, but did not receive, the information through the end of August," he said. "But we obtained their views for where the situation was . . . as of August 30th."

It's true because the military says it's true. Why do you hate the troops?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR200709...

And why does General Petraeus have so much time to spend with people like Tom Friedman?

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/opinion/05Friedman.html?hp

-Atrios 03:51

I haven't checked yet. Post some.

My brother is coming over soon so I have to go make us some lunch.

Be back in a bit.

PS I bought myself a 2 gig flash drive and I want to try to use it today.

PS.S If I copy some of my music disks to my computer, can I post some of the songs on the blog? Does anyone know how to do this?

Yeah, and ya see what that got us!

Suckled at that teat of the original wingnut.

...to describe Dim Son's imperfect Anbar Province photo op.

Kabuki at Camp Cupcake

[...] Writes Rutenberg: "That is when he hopes the Iraq troop increase will finally show enough results to help him achieve the central goal of his remaining time in office: 'To get us in a position where the presidential candidates will be comfortable about sustaining a presence,' and, he said later, 'stay longer.'

And the president is now aware that the only way to get attention is to make a dramatic move. "'I've been here too long,' Mr. Bush said, according to Mr. Draper. 'Every time I start painting a rosy picture, it gets criticized and then it doesn't make it on the news.'"

In other words: Bush is gaming the media -- and playing for time.

EXCLUSIVE: AMENDMENT TO BAN/RESTRICT TOUCH-SCREEN DRES MAY BE BROUGHT TO HOLT BILL!
The BRAD BLOG Has Confirmed That Congresswoman Susan Davis is Considering Bringing Such an Amendment This Afternoon as Rush Holt's Controversial HR 811 Goes to Rules Committee Before Introduction on House Floor
Call to Action: Contacts Posted for House Rules Committee, Leadership...
By Brad Friedman from Glenwood Springs, CO...

An amendment either ban or restrict the use of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems may be added to Rep. Rush Holt's (D-NJ) Election Reform Bill by California Congresswoman Susan Davis today, The BRAD BLOG can now confirm.

After learning of the possibility early this morning, we have no confirmed with Davis' office that she is mulling such an amendment to present to the House Rules Committee which is set to meet this afternoon at 3pm ET to determine which amendments will be allowed for debate on Holt's controversial HR 811 election bill. The legislation is currently scheduled to come up for debate on the House Floor as soon as it's passed out of the Rules Committee.

The committee will decide whether or not to allow amendments to the bill at all once it's on the House floor. The BRAD BLOG has learned that the committee essentially has three options in that regard. They can move the bill forward with a "Closed Rule", meaning no amendments are allowed on the bill; a "Restricted Rule", meaning only certain amendments will be allowed for debate; or an "Open Rule" which would allow any amendment to be brought to the bill while it's on the House floor.

The phone and fax numbers for members of the Rules Committee are posted below, along with the contact information for House Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer who would be instrumental in allowing such an amendment to be brought.

http://www.bradblog.com/

Boehner Caught Shifting His Own Benchmarks On Escalation
On Jan. 23, 2007, just weeks after President Bush announced his escalation plan in Iraq, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said on CNN that we would know if the troop increase would “work” within “60 to 90 days“:

Q: How long can you and your membership give the president and give the Iraqi military, before you say, you know what, you’re not doing your job?

BOEHNER: I think it will be rather clear in the next 60 to 90 days as to whether this plan is going to work. And, again, that’s why we need to have close oversight, so that we just don’t look up 60 or 90 days from now and realize that — that this plan is not working. We need to know, as we — as we’re — we move through these benchmarks, that the Iraqis are doing what they have to do.

Ninety days passed, violence levels remained high, yet Boehner refused put his words into action. Over the course of the seven months since Boehner first offered his original deadline, the GAO reports that violence “remained unchanged.”

Now it appears Boehner has completely forgotten his earlier pledge. Yesterday, he claimed that the escalation has been in effect “only for a couple of months“:

The GAO report really amounts to asking someone to kick an 80-yard field goal and criticizing them when they came up 20 or 25 yards short. Rather than weighing whether or not Iraqis are making progress toward meeting goals, it asked whether or not they’ve met them — even though Operation Phantom Thunder has been underway for only a couple months. That’s an unfair way to judge our troops’ progress, and the report was designed to guarantee an unsatisfactory result.

After admitting the escalation began in January, Boehner is now moving the goalposts in order to stay the course in Iraq.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/boehner-gao/

Ohio Congressman Found Dead
Citing a Republican leadership aide says, the AP is reporting that Rep. Paul Gillmor (R-OH) was found dead in his apartment Wednesday (via CNN).

Late Update: The Hill has sources who say the cause of death was an apparent heart attack.

--David Kurtz

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/report_gop_rep_paul_gilmore_dies.p...

this ones for you toni...

just switched hmo's and the first thing they do is want to switch my prescriptions to their formulary. i did some checking and the one they are pushing has side effects a yard long compared to the one i'm taking now, but its cheaper.

there ought to be a law...

Be great if Susan Davis D-San Diego,can get that part passed!!
Because without it the Holt Bill isn't worth passing.
Thanks for the info,Toni! :)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Submitted by toniD on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 1:30pm
...Late Update: The Hill has sources who say the cause of death was an apparent heart attack...
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Pardon me while I whine about newspaper journalism. The cause of death was not an apparent heart attack. The apparent cause of death was a heart attack.

If the cause of death was an apparent heart attack, he died due to clutching at his chest and left arm before the heart attack was able to kill him.

Submitted by dan on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 1:37pm.
this ones for you toni...

just switched hmo's and the first thing they do is want to switch my prescriptions to their formulary. i did some checking and the one they are pushing has side effects a yard long compared to the one i'm taking now, but its cheaper.

there ought to be a law...

Get your Doctor to insist on the prescription he writes. Tell your Doctor to say you are alergic to something in the other formula. Your Docotr can insist you get the prescription he writes for you, but you have to fight for it.

Isn't this fun! :(

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/1202#comment

i already pushed and i can stay on my current, just have to pay more. i just don't think hmo's should be allowed to proffer medical advise. their job is to pay the bill based on amortization over a group.

Tengrain from Mock, Paper, Scissorsgives us:

Pickles von Strap-On in "Feminism" [Yeah, THAT Pickles.]

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Now there IS some truth to Laura's nic, Pickles von Strap-On.

I'll bet ol' Pickles is the TOP in that relationship; when she's not liking girls, that is.

Though rumor has it that Pickles threatened ol' Georgie Boy w/ a divorce if he didn't stop moaning "Jeeeeeff" at that crucial moment, strap-on or no. *snark*

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