Hey, Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there.
As a special treat, Press the Meat has an “exclusive,” with a meathead being interviewed by a potatohead as Timmy takes on the Newt. I wonder if Newt will change his tune on the latest NSA spying scandal, or if the White House has gotten to him? Then Wall St. Journal hack John Harwood, “Liberal” John Meachem (who referred to Russ Feingold as a ‘sane’ Howard Dean), and rightwing shill (and apparent Botox addict) Judy Woodruff get together to talk about how it’s OK for the NSA to keep track of every phone call ever made in the USA. Hell, they caught Moussaoui, didn’t they?
Over at Fazed the Nation, it’s, well, it’s apparently a secret. Hey, CBS, if you need a web guy to update your frickin’ FTN web page, let me know; I work cheap.
Over at This Weak, George Snufalufagus has Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel on to talk about the NSA’s spying (I, for one, would like to know how we got 250 million Al Qaeda operatives in this country, and we’re going to do about them), then it’s – get this – “feminist and mother” Laura “Lithium” Bush, and, if you haven’t puked yet, they’ll also have another mother, Reese Witherspoon. Then it’s time to see if a bunch of square pegs can fit around a round table, with David “Douchebag” Brooks, Donna “Please don’t hire her if you run again Al” Brazile and, of course, George :jerk: Will.
Over at Fux News Sunday, Chris “Weaselface” Wallace gives us another heapin’ helping of the First Stepford Lady, and then Mary Cheney will be on to tell John Kerry to go fuck himself.
On CNN it’s, oh, hell, who gives a shit what’s on CNN?
Later, on 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft talks to the Dixie Chicks, Lesley Stahl features SEIU President Andy Stern, and Dan Rather says Brazil is off imported oil, so why the hell aren’t we?
It’s a sad moment (IMHO), as the best president of the past 8 years leaves office, as NBC shows both the first and last shows of the West Wing. There are those who say the show isn’t as good as it used to be, but even if it’s true, it’s bound to be better then I Wanna Date a Millonaire, or I Wanna Be a Fucking Rock Star, or whatever crap that’ll probably replace it.
Have a happy mudda’s day.
:fu:
:rofl2:
Hey!
somebody snuck ahead of me, hmmph, I was supposed to be first
alright, I’ll forgive you this time :banana:
which picture is you??? I think I know 💡
Boo…. Wasup ??
Yous guys were busy last night..
C-span has some rethugofool on talking about the economy. The dem has facts and figures and they really confuse the thugs. They live is denial that there unemployment figures are all screwed up. Some one needs to take a :gate::omg: or a :jason: and have a conversation with them.
Now we have John Snow job or is it maybe John blow job on talking about why they need to cut taxes to the rich.:fu::fu::fu::crap::barf:
Snow job is another one of those revision three rethugobots with the bald head , round face and beady eyes.
:barf:
Nothing like the dry heaves to start the day.
I wonder if C-span intentionally puts this stuff on opposite Art Bell.. They need to title it “The Twilight moring show” or something and have Rod Sterling introduce the program.
Listening to the rethugofools lie , lie and lie some more.. :alc::blech::growl::spank:
Well no one other than ThruthOut has said the Rove got indicted. The other two reports from last night were echos of the Truthout story. Freeperville is all up in arms over the accusation. I wonder what the morning propaganda spewers will say if anything ??
What can be done? I have done even a bit beyond —–
what’s left?:doh: :fu::fu::fu::fist:
Time for tea :joe:
:knit: :pent: Untie a knot, tie a new knot, BIND IT and set it free (if I have to heeheehee)
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Freddddddd, Randi is on :rofl2: ( We need music note(s) or :alc: cheers )
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I’m so alone, so all alone. Nobody here beside me.
(Donkey’s Song in Shrek)
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Hello Hello Well now C-span has Mel Barftinez on talking about immigration reform. There immigration plan sounds like they got it from the IRS.
Report: Suicidal troops sent into combat
U.S. military violated own rules on mentally ill troops, newspaper finds
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12777489/
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That’s one way to avoid medical costs later on get them killed up front.
I feel in many ways I should not “blog” here. Maybe I should go on DU or Kos since “they” are already spied on :rofl2: “I hate these people” :barf::barf::barf:
Can’t someone arrest this IDIOT — bush HAS BROKEN THE LAW… I think AAR folk should get the masses to “Come to a Boil”
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I haven’t figured out who they will come for first.. One would think they will try to silence the little media we have first so we won’t know its time to escape… Flanders talked with Sheehan and Rhodes from the Code Pink Demonstration in DC last night so they haven’t been disappeared yet.:tongue::blech:
I am furious yet frightened regarding these Illegal Wire Taps.
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With the possibility of losing lots of seats in the house in this years election the thugs may try almost anything. The left must not let them get away with it this time. The thought should be not that we are screwed but that the thugs are going to get themselves screwed. There must be some consequence to their actions.
I am “hot” … I am just worried about all on this site…I really don’t know what to do. I get so many “thoughts” from those not on this site. This is “1984” and I prob should just shut up, but I was a media spokesperson, and I believe folk like me need to SPEAK OUT LOUDLY, but then …
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The problem as I see it is that Bushco owns the law enforcement branch, the law generation branches, the law signing branch and the law validation branch so they can do pretty much anything they want. We the people are so poorly organized that we are powerless..Progressives have a rather poor history of when attacked by indians of circling the wagons then shooting at each other.
I think that thugs worry about losing their ‘stuff” while the progressives worry about loosing their rights. We are in more danger from a freight train derailment than any terrorist attack.. People who own stuff seem to be paranoid. Antagonizing the big powers in the middle east may put us in more danger of having a war which we will lose. Losing a war with Russia or China would make a terrorist attack look rather nonconsequential.
I (I will only speak of me) am one that most of even the regular Dems do not understand, mostly I feel like “…they came for them, and most did nothing”.
AAR is already watched and do not need more heat.
:tinfoil:
http://tinyurl.com/puobx
Cheney Pushed U.S. to Widen Eavesdropping
WASHINGTON, May 13 — In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney and his top legal adviser argued that the National Security Agency should intercept purely domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages without warrants in the hunt for terrorists, according to two senior intelligence officials…
…By all accounts, General Hayden was the principal architect of the plan. He saw the opportunity to use the N.S.A.’s enormous technological capabilities by loosening restrictions on the agency’s operations inside the United States.
For his part, Mr. Cheney helped justify the program with an expansive theory of presidential power, which he explained to traveling reporters a few days after The Times first reported on the program last December.
Mr. Cheney traced his views to his service as chief of staff to President Gerald R. Ford in the 1970’s, when post-Watergate changes, which included the FISA law, “served to erode the authority I think the president needs to be effective, especially in a national security area…”
Thank you Fred, I wanted to see your views. You put it so well regarding Russia and China :nod: — but I see this administration is focusing on Homeland shit as they screwed up more worldly matters and calling those like me horrid names in print and on the airwaves.
There are not enough people who participate in the AAR blogs that anyone would be overly concerned about them being a threat. Most of the evening bloggers are drunk or high by the time they get there so it turns into a BS session about JG’s cup size or something. I think lately Rachel has come to work drunk..They never encourage any action other than voting and only Hartman even hints at the dangers with the economy and the voting machines.
americanowviewer, :nod:
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Cheney the puppet master.. The most paranoid of the bunch.. I think of the high level thugs he also owns the most “stuff”
Thank You again Fred. I really had no one to speak to regarding this and, even though you don’t like Randi :rofl2:, I really respect you, your thoughts, and I wanted your input.
C-span’s WJ usually has a bunch of thugs from the south call in and echo some Limpprick talking points.. Today they actually had what sounded like some paranoid CEO call in and confirm that we should be fighting them there instead of fighting them here.. The paranoia is working its way up the food chain.
:banana:
SNL: Al Gore
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms.
(Melina The Mom , I hope you’re surviving ….. !!)
I see ANV made a drive-by – Howdy! guess i’m glad the evil-one-cheney sleeps half the time or we’d really be in trouble.
*****
I have to go for this morning.. blog with you all later.
Well, farmerkat, did your son survive junior prom? :billcat:
bye fred
isi, he slept over at a friend’s house so I don’t have the report yet. No phone calls, so that’s a good sign. Ugh. teenagers….. :billcat:
Frank Rich today:
fred Bye 😉
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isi, Thank You :love: for link re Gore :love:
I was watching but they introduced a bush character and I immediately turned off TV soooooooooo
THX AGAIN :love:
:fist:bush:spank:
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Druid, did you also see the clip yesterday on crooksandliars of Randi going after the chickenhawk?
😀
Isi, NO:!: but I did hear about it. You say on yesterdays stream?
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Druid, here’s the link
Isi :rofl2::banana::banana::banana::rofl2:
:spank::spank::spank: Yea Randi:!:
More of today’s Frank Rich:
Frank Rich cont.
So why doesn’t someone (hopefully Gore) just say 3 strikes have occurred therefore YOU’RE OUT:!: N O W ❗
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:::forces eyes open:::
Good morning and happy Mother’s Day all :joe:
It’s not that bad. Organize and take your country.:omg:
The cat dish was empty; I got smacked awake.
that sounds familiar. I just woke up because my bird landed on my head and started scolding me
Orwell the Rat:
9. George Orwell and the IRD [Issue 38 – 1999]
… (c) http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 38) Winter 1999 Last | Contents | Next Issue 38 George Orwell and the IRD John Newsinger In their recent history of the Information Research Department (IRD ), Paul Lashmar and James Oliver discuss George Orwell’s decision to collaborate with that organisation’s anti-Communist propaganda operations. They write that ‘George Orwell’s reputation as a left-wing icon took a body blow from which it may never recover when it was revealed in 1996 that he had cooperated closely with the IRD’s Cold Warriors, even offering his own blacklist of eighty-six Communist …
NickiRose :billcat: hahaha meow G’Night, G’Day One and All :yawn: for a few — sounds like Susan Joy’s hours.
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I must return to sleep. as I must visit today…:omg:
I never did figure out what Orwell’s politics were…and certainly the right like to quote him as much as the left. It’s kind of like the bible, there’s something for everyone to quote if you just look around.
hope you have a nice day
here’s to everybody’s mom :alc:
I’m seeing my mom on Tuesday actually but I’m sure she’s going to want me to call her
Good Morning :joe:
My whiny dog woke me up. She has some kind of bladder infection and has to pee a lot 🙄 Looks like the animals are taking over. I bet they’d run the country better than the animals that are running it now. Rise up creatures of the earth! :fist: I’ll survive because animals like me 😀
Hey everyone…
Frank Rich is up on RIPcoco for anyone who wants it…
FK- Big prom here last night and it was very cute!…fancy…and the kids were pretty well behaved, though I do think that some of them had a room after on this hall…
I love room service!!
Off to gym, shower, pack!
Good morning Krista and Melina :jesus:
Animals know where it’s at. Hard to say if I take care of my bird or he takes care of me 🙂
aww, sounds like the kids had fun…how old do they start proms these days?
OMG! Al Gore was hilarious!:rofl2: Sounded like Al Franken wrote it.
This is where you can see Al Gore’s An Inconvient Truth on opening day
24-May CA Hollywood Arclight
24-May CA Santa Monica Monica
24-May NY New York Lincoln Square
24-May NY New York Sunshine
To check opening dates around the country, you can go here
This is the main site for the movie. Also, where you can watch the trailer.
http://www.climatecrisis.net/
I watched Al, and thought I’d finally awakened from a terrible nightmare.
Oh well, I see “An Inconvenient Truth” is opening in two theatres in DC on June 2nd, so at least I’ll be able to see it.
As for animals, mine had me up and out early this morning, and it was definitely Lab day at the park, with big labs, little labs, yellow labs, brown labs, black labs, oh and that horny Rottweiler. Plus we got to go for a swim, play with a nice white horsey, chase some wild turkeys (well, Siggy did; the only thing I chase Wild Turkey with is beer), scare a crane, get the once-over from a couple of hawks and some turkey vultures, and of course play in the mud.
Next, it’s time to go give my mother-in-law the privilege of feeding us.
Prom Report: Great time was had. Ate at a good restaurant in Hotlana (rays by the river on the chattahoochee). His date wore a “hot” red dress :hubba: liked her corsage and wore it on the wrist, music was good (DJ) at the dance, no one got “busted” for anything, went to another girl’s house afterwards and then on to his friend’s house to spend the night, or what was left of it. He looks like he pulled an all nighter……. breathe…..he survived……teenagers… :gate:
Happy Mother’s Day.:yawn:
:omg:
In this NYTimes piece Russert shows himself to be a real jerk, for so many reasons.
Questions for Tim Russert
All About My Father
This is a good analysis in The Huffington Post:
Tim Russert Hates His Mother
FK, glad to hear your baby is back in the nest! 😀
Orwell was a non-bolshevik lefty (POUM in Spanish Civil War) who got hystericallydisillusioned with stalinism, and named names to the authorities. He was keenly aware of how propaganda works.
Most ever on line: 5!:omg:
I can see why someone would have been hystericallydisillusioned ( I like this word) with Stalin especially if you were on his bad side.
We will see how much fun Kat’s son had in about nine months..( just kidding)
hey sheeple…
I hope your Mother’s Day is going well. Mine has been about as good as it gets, I think. First, um, I had some Alaskan crab, which wasn’t bad. Then my homeless uncle and his homeless buddy stopped by along with my grandmother who has Alzheimer’s. Yeah, so, you can imagine what kind of conversations were passed around the table and surrounding area (not enough chairs at the table for everyone) Oh, and to add another drop into the stream of fun, my other uncle in the pen gave us a call. I’d tell you what happened to cause that situation but I’ll just let the emoticon tell the story:jason: I’ll through down some details later about the holiday or whatever it is.:yawn:
Hey Travis…well it certainly seems like you had an interesting day… nobody I know seems to lead lives like Hallmark Mother’s Day cards ..I’m having a delayed mother’s day (till Tuesday) because that’s when everybody in my family is visiting her (she lives out in Jersey). We don’t have anything you like you just described, but it is going to be the first year without my father being there, so that should lend a different atmosphere to everything
Travis, :rofl2:
Was the dinner over at your mother’s house?
That was thoughtful of your uncle in the pen to call.
Being homeless in Alaska sounds like a real bummer!
What happened to just Travis?
I kind of bumped Giajinda off of the top poster’s list, so to repent I thought it would be appropriate to resort to my old ways and let her gain back her position on the list or somethin’. I dunno.
Stalinism was merely realized leninism.
Tell me what that means, you goddamn communists.
I think you should post more and bump everybody :spank:
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/SNL-Al-Gore-5-14-06.wmv
That’s “Goddamned-communist-in-the-making,” thankyou, I’m only 3/4 of the way through “Manufacturing Consent” .I’m still a goddamn communist in the making and only 3/4 of the way through Manufacturing Consent. Perhaps Trav here is more Pinko than I am and can answer?
Manifesto, baby! Read
Communist Manifesto!I’m telling on you. You’re corrupting me!
Eh, never mind, I can’t be saved at this point. :omg::omg:
Speaking of Communists [good Communists]:
Left Triumph
The Indian Road
By VIJAY PRASHAD
The results are in, after weeks of voting and days of anticipation. The Communists have triumphed in the two main left-wing boroughs. In West Bengal (population 80 million), which the Left Front has governed since 1977, the coalition secured its seventh straight win. This time the tally was spectacular. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPM], the main force in the alliance, won 176 seats of the 294 total (the Left Front won 235 all together). In Kerala (population 31 million), the Left Democratic Front won two thirds of the seats (the CPM prevailed in 61 of the 98 seats secured by the alliance). The ruling United Democratic Front had to be content with 42 seats. In Tamil Nadu, the Left backed Democratic Progressive Alliance came back into power, and for the first time, the Communists won seats in the north-eastern state of Assam.
The CPM has come a long way. The Indian communist movement emerged in the 1920s as one flank in the Indian freedom struggle against British rule and in the international struggle to create a proletarian revolution against capitalism. Brave men and women threw themselves into the construction of an organization that worked alongside and inside the trade unions, the mass struggles and the various social reform efforts. Their small numbers did not dissuade them, because they came equipped with the belief that their ideology had grasped the dynamic of history, and that therefore their victory was inevitable. For us, in the age of reaction, it is easy to mount a theoretical critique of their faith in teleology (the march of history toward a known end), but what we don’t really appreciate is how this idea (that the Revolution had to triumph) gave them the necessary energy to go on with what was an arduous and dangerous task…
http://www.counterpunch.org
The Beast within
Corrupted System:omg:Oh my…
* Vote Democrat at the federal level
* Vote Green at the state and local levels
ok, now I get it!
Interesting point in Manufacturing Consent about how the advent of advertisement in newspapers influenced the content of the periodicals and pushed out rivals
Al Gore: A User’s Manual
Cockburn/St. Clair Filets Gore In Scathing Detail
by John Nichols
After reading “Shrub,” the delicious dissection of George W. Bush’s short political journey penned by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, I was left with just one question.
Would there be an equally scathing critique of the longer but not particularly more meritorious career of Al Gore?
The answer is yes, and the book is “Al Gore: A User’s
Manual” (Verso). Authored by Alexander Cockburn, the veteran left-wing columnist and commentator whose ability to filet the deserving is unrivaled, and Jeffrey St. Clair, one of the nation’s ablest and most aggressive environmental journalists, the “User’s Manual” offers a deconstruction of Gore that is every bit as chilling as the job done on Bush by Ivins and Dubose.
The masterful hand of Cockburn is at work from the start of this eminently readable tome: “Like a street mountebank fluttering a handkerchief to distract attention from his sleights of hand, Gore has always used his proficiency with the language of liberalism to mask an agenda utterly in concert with the Money Power.
“Nowhere is this truer than in his supposed environmentalism, which nicely symbolizes the chasm that has always separated Gore’s professions from his performance. He denounces the rape of nature, yet has connived at the strip-mining of Appalachia and, indeed, of terrain abutting one of Tennessee’s most popular state parks.
“In other arenas, he denounces vouchers, yet sends his
children to the public schools of the elite. He put himself forth as a proponent of ending the nuclear arms race, yet served as midwife for the MX missile. He offers himself as a civil libertarian, yet has been an accomplice in drives for censorship and savage assaults on the Bill of Rights. . .
Everybody’s freakin’ nuts on this blog…I love it :omg:
Labor media were unable to get advertising. Where else have you seen that, ovaltine?
He offers himself as a civil libertarian, yet has been an accomplice in drives for censorship and savage assaults on the Bill of Rights. . .
SOOOO true about Gore and censorship. Him and Tipper, I’ll never forget the Parent’Music Resource Center…
Brian From Everett called into Ring of Fire (yesterday).:rofl2:
Bakunin Rules!
Cheney’s Notes
He made a very informed call aabout torture. Good exchange with the hosts. Little or no :rofl2:. :omg:
“You are a republican.”
“Republican, yes; but that means nothing. Res publica is ‘the State.’ Kings, too, are republicans.”
“Ah well! You are a democrat?”
“No.”
“What! Perhaps you are a monarchist?”
“No.”
“Constitutionalist then?”
“God forbid.”
“Then you are an aristocrat?”
“Not at all!”
“You want a mixed form of government?”
“Even less.”
“Then what are you?”
“An anarchist.”
:omg:
I love people who have political conversations with themselves :nod:
More Red Propaganda:
CHOMSKY: Bakunin’s warnings about the Red bureaucracy that would institute the worst of all despotic governments were long before Lenin, and were directed against the followers of Mr. Marx. There were, in fact, followers of many different kinds; Pannekoek, Luxembourg, Mattick and others are very far from Lenin, and their views often converge with elements of anarcho-syndicalism. Korsch and others wrote sympathetically of the anarchist revolution in Spain, in fact. There are continuities from Marx to Lenin, but there are also continuities to Marxists who were harshly critical of Lenin and Bolshevism. Teodor Shanin’s work in the past years on Marx’s later attitudes towards peasant revolution is also relevant here. I’m far from being a Marx scholar, and wouldn’t venture any serious judgement on which of these continuities reflects the ‘real Marx,’ if there even can be an answer to that question.
“Political cartoonists afraid to speak out” 🙁 Cartoonists losing their jobs
Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld. The Army Man.:fu:
I didn’t think this would ever be an issue when I went to art school…I was very idealistic. Man, oh man
Cartoonist Matt Weurker lives in Portland.
Work for the man, compromise your ideals.:omg:
I had Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman for instructors, I was realllly lucky…really explored the art form. We never discussed censorship, though. Of course, that was a while ago.
Yeah… it’s hard NOT to work for the man…sheesh…that’s where unions come in, hopefully…we sooo need to keep unions as a big issue
Spraypaint to the people! Become the Media!
We need real political parties, too.:omg:
Auschwitz was legal, Bush!:fu:
I like spraypaint…
I just lost my stream and computer froze :fu:
Big, colored felt pens, too.:nixon:
That religious show is coming on, I think.:jesus:
you better believe it. I beautified a lot of the Urban landscape in my day 😉
yeah, I was gonna say, WTF is this show?????:omg:
ok, time to try a different stream 🙁
McCain Watch:Mothers Day 2006
So, I’m sittin’ in a booth at Katz’ Deli with my friend having pastrami and eggs and discussing our liberties being erroded away this morning and in walks the pasty white Senator McCain and his chalk white blonde wife, Cindy. I thought, now’s my chance! I can tell him something to his face! My heart started beating as I went through the issues, Immigration, Iraq, Patriot Act, Presidency, etc Fuck! WHat should I say! I lapsed into a dream state and decided I would just walk over there and the issue would just present itself. My companion tried to stop me as I rose and headed toward the illustrious Senator. Cindy was quick to notice there was something dangerous in my stride. She bolted up from the booth and I relized my cheek was grazed with a vicious round house kick from the tall slim womans’ stilleto heel slicing into my cheek bone. I grabbed Senator McCains fork and raked her forehead! The red blood vivid against her pale skin and hair, splattered onto the Senators’ papery aghast, face. McCain snarled like caged badger:growl: recoiled into the corner of the booth. All of a sudden I heard a banshee scream and Cindy McCains long, manicured nails sunk into my neck. She was going for the jugular! I had to get away but not before I told McCain what was on my mind! Cindy McCain was dragging me to the floor, nobody was coming to anyones aid becuase of the crazy screams that were coming out of Cindy, they were all paralyzed with fear :omg:. I quickly spun around grabbing her by the arm and I flung her through the swinging doors into the kitchen. “She’s toast now”, I muttered to myself. I turned toward McCain and approached him with purpose. He cowered as I grabbed him by the suit lapel and lifted him out of the booth. I glowered at him and said through gritted teeth, “I hope your enjoying your breakfast McCain!” as I shoved his face into the pile of corned beef hash on his plate. Let’s see you figure out an exit stategy NOW!” I dropped him like the dirty diaper that he his and walked out without paying my bill. My companion had the car ready to go and we fishtailed it outa there like a couple of bank robbers.
I had to clear out of Olympia,WA because the smalltown cops put me under intense surveillance. (I’m Innocent!) A certain professor at the local college warned me to leave town because the cops were going to kill me.
(I found out later that Herbert Marcuse himself warned the same professor, when he was a first year professor in San Diego, that the cops were going to kill him if he remained in San Diego.)
Damn,, KP! You certainly topped my story.:omg:
Actually, I just sat there feeling like I should go and say something but not wanting to disturb his breakfast and knowing I would get tongue tied and end up looking like an idiot and feeling even worse. We paid our bill and went to get tickets for Steven Seagals’ band Thunderbox instead. :alc::bow:
Oh shit! You told on yourself by posting here. Why didn’t you just chill?
“I hope your enjoying your breakfast McCain!” as I shoved his face into the pile of corned beef hash on his plate. Let’s see you figure out an exit stategy NOW!”
I wake up with the same thoughts almost every day…except in my fantasy it’s mashed potatoes, and McCain’s ex Vietnam Captors were doing the pushing. I was wondering if anybody would understand!
Prepare that fiction for publication.:rofl2:
Dudes:eek:, they are SOOO going to take all of us away soon…just READ everything that’s been written over the last few days …but maybe they’ll keep us around for entertainment value? Which must be why we’re still here:mrgreen:
Oooo, I know, I’ll have to post my Hillary Clinton fantasy
Dead Blog! Good…….
😥
Hey, I wonder if PJ saw Billy Boy:40:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060514/ap_en_ce/people_joel
I was getting a drink (non alcoholic though)
I wonder where Sean is? I Haven’t seen him in a couple of days…
We will see how much fun Kat’s son had in about nine months..( just kidding)
Comment by fred — May 14, 2006 @ 3:19 pm
Fred, when I read Kat’s earlier prom posts, I had been debating whether or not to go there. Thanks for beating me to it.
:rofl2:
Ratzinger probably got Sean in his sleep, like what Kong was tryin’ to say the other day. Maybe. I think I saw him post something about going home.
EDITED(brain spazz. sorry) You know what, I would just like to know who keeps messin’ with Most Ever Online counter!:mad:
Another day, another inane photo op (or more accurately, lack thereof) brightens this Mother’s Day edition of…
CRUELLA WATCH!:omg:
From Sunday’s St Petersburg Times. Apparently the gun is mightier than the pen.
http://tinyurl.com/s5a3c
At least she’s shooting something off other than her mouth!
:rofl2:
You noticed that? The numbers differ strikingly sometimes
Way to go Krista..Our senators never come around here. There is no money here. They (both parties) hang out down town with the rethugs in the state legislature.
Nope, didn’t go to commencement. I didn’t go when I graduated, either (of course, I was done in December, so the thrill was pretty much gone by the time commencement rolled around). Maybe if I don’t die trying to get this masters over with, I’ll go to that one. At least to my school’s convocation, if not the whole SU dog and pony show. Unless they have somebody good. They had Bill Clinton a couple years back, and he was great (say what you want about Bill, he’s a great speaker). The year after that, they had Phylicia Rashad, for some unknown reason (the kids must have felt pretty screwed). At least Billy donated a nice chunk of change.
Yeah, it has a mechanism built into it to reset it whenver it detects NSA IP addresses attempting to access the user information.
Just kidding, I have no idea how it got reset, but it did – I’ll have to look at the code and the database to see what the deal is. Anyhow, so I put it back to 33.
33 at a time…that must have been some party :alc:
By the way, if you’d like to watch an example of what I’ll miss about the West Wing, you can do so here (Real Media link).
Yeah, it broke the previous record of 32, which was on the day of the first Marc Maron Show. Lotsa lurkers though.
I don’t have a Real Player… I’ll have to get one, now that I know it’ available for Macs (if it’s free)
Well no other “news” source has put out anything about Rove being indicted. The folks over at DU are still holding out hope that the Truthout announcement wasn’t a bit premature.
yeah, I was wondering when the MSM story was going to surface on this, but ther have been false leads through this whole thing. I do think something is going to happen, though, but when exactly i don’t know…
Travis-no need to repent on bumping me off the list! It just means I need to start posting more! 🙂
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yay that’s the way to look at it, Gajinda :banana:
I’m aiming to knock the frontrunner right of his seat 😉
well…not really :tongue:
ooooh a virtual cat fight.. :rofl2::banana::tongue:
So activist Ms Flanders has been relegated to bringing us only good news about how the democrats are taking back western states or parts there of with the population of the Denver suburb of Littleton.
Whoa, man, is Nicki part of the Corrupted System?
what’s a corrupted system?????
I think it’s some band in Oregon.
Hey, I lost all my buttons for making links, bold type and what not:mad:
It’s
cool, they’re back.yay 🙂
Alright, well, my brain isn’t workin’ with me right now, so I have to go drink some water and hope that that helps and take a blogger break:doh:
catch you later, Trav. I’m studying math (supposed to be anyway) for now 🙁
Art School Confidential :rofl2: nailed the a rt school experience, spot ON! :billcat:
:omg:Checking in!:rofl2:
❗
oh, the blog’s dead, nobody’s here. good.
ok, I sense life…
Everbody’s watching the Sporanos and the West Wing. Not many TV shows that’ll have Keb Mo on.
so it seems…I can’t get HBO anymore, though
ARGH!! I missed the last West Wing….I guess I’ll get it from Bit Torrent…..
What a BAD BAD BAD drive home…again with bad traffic, but more spread out…and Will is not well…He is having a very bad medicine reaction.
Oh well…Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
Im so happy to be home with my dogs!!
Kat…congrats on getting the prom over with! I never had one in my Brooklyn Quaker High School…but we did have some great grungy/disco/rockin parties in the gym…of course there was alot of alcohol involved ( we all could easily get served at the local dive bar anyway) …ah, the old days…so glad theyre over!! 😉
I cant imagine Will in a tux, but I’m looking forward to it!
I saw alot of white tuxes last night at the hotel prom….even white patent leather shoes! The girls were so done up with sparkles on their shoulders and perfect hair. The guys were all in those rental tuxes with little personal flairs here and there….very nice!
I wonder what the music was like….I hope they had fun!
We keep seeing the Hummer stretch limo driving around…
Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there!
Im gonna go collapse.
Tomorrow Im going to start dissecting this spying thing. I cant get my mind around it at all…how possibly could this be OK with anyone?
Uh, let’s see. The common phrases are….”If you have something to hide, you must be doing something illegal” or “Hey, everyone has caller-ID”
bah, there are so many flaws in that argument, Travis…it’s about framing. They frame it as “something to hide,” we need to frame it as “privacy,” which everyone is entitled to. It goes back to language again.
Uh, what? OK. Yup.
Hey, I hope Conn. isn’t flooding, Melina. Not fun.
And you have trip-pics, right?
Later, sheeple
I have to go back and edit.
IS THAT A SPY IN YOUR POCKET…?
:nod:
From Brad Blog:
As longtime BRAD BLOG commenter, Czaragorn asked for some red meat today, and as we’ve been conflicted on whether to “report” anything on this or not, we’ll just toss it out there and say, oh well, Czaragorn asked for it. And we aim to please.
Surely, you’ve all heard the many and various rumors and speculation of late about a Karl Rove indictment being handed down from the Grandy Jury in the Valerie Plame TreasonGate case. Either that, or you’ve read Jason Leopold’s article from Friday reporting that Rove has informed the White House he’s about to be indicted. Or the follow-up story yesterday, in which he reports that it’s a done deal, Rove’s attorneys have been served with the indictment and that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald has spent Friday and Saturday with Rove’s attorneys in pursuit of some sort of plea deal.
While we can’t indepedently confirm or deny any of Jason’s specific reporting, we have received various bits and pieces of note from sources that we have more than a fair bit of confidence in, while at the same time noting a few other interesting signs and tea leaves worth pondering…at least for Cazaragorn’s sake…
For a start, one item that jumped out at us personally, in light of these various reports, was the news that Bush has asked for primetime network clearance for an oval office address on Monday night…on immigration. That sort of misdirection has become de rigueur for this administration whenever they wish to distract and attempt to pre-empt various bad news headlines. Does this mean they expect news of a Rove indicement to slip out somehow Monday morning? Dunno.
As well, since Friday, we’ve received various communications from both respected insiders and respected reporters who have told us in no uncertain terms that it’s a done deal. The indictment was handed down by the Grand Jury on Friday, they say, and now it’s only a matter of when the information will be made public.
Though we were not told by these sources who the sources were from which they received their information. So we cannot stand behind those reports ourselves, but we do believe that their certainty is worth notice.
Meanwhile, out there in InternetLand, former CIA man and spookmate of Plame, Larry Johnson sent an email (some of which he also posted on DU) claiming that: “Joe Wilson heard the same from other sources. And, more importantly, Jason [Leopold] is reporting based on multiple, more than two, sources. His editors realized what a big story this is and did the appropriate checking before posting.”
NOTE: Though we’ve spoken with Wilson from time to time, he’s not one of the “insiders” mentioned above with whom we’ve discussed the latest rumors.
For shits ‘n’ grins, Jeralyn Merrit over at TalkLeft recounts an amusing experience (for us, not necessarily for her) in trying to receive confirm from Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin late last night.
More useful, perhaps, is Jeralyn’s always interesting and insightful analysis of the various tea leaves as they’ve been leaking out in drips and drops since Leopold’s initial report on Friday.
Beyond that, it seems most of folks in Blogistan are staying eerily mum. Burned once, so twice shy after the last premature “Fitzmas” celebrations?
Since we didn’t fall for the Fitzmas bait ourselves last time, we guess it’s okay to help stir up some shit this time around on an otherwise quiet-ish Sunday when we’ve got some good stuff, but we’d hate burn it all on a weekend while you people are out enjoying yourselves anyway as we toil away on Mother’s Day. So, much more to come on those other matters, about which we can report with first-hand certainty, over the next 24 or so.
Until then…Will an announcement of Rove’s indictment come Monday? Later this week? Or not at all? Red meat enough for ya, Czaragorn? Have at it BRAD BLOGsters…
Andy did it!:jason:
Fine! I did it:jason:
Yep!