Well, what’s going on today? Apparently there’s been a rash of flag burning, ‘cuz the Senate is gonna take up a flag burning amendment (how they can keep anything lit in this weather is beyond me). I’m not sure how that fits in with the whole Nicole Kidman getting married thing, but I guess exempting multimillionares from the estate tax works out OK for her and her kids. Odds are they’ll never need to survive on a minimum wage job, so killing any increase there shouldn’t be a problem. They’re white and privileged, so killing the Voting Rights Act works out OK, too. And I certainly doubt they’ll be joining the military, so staying in Iraq permanently should be fine, too.
So let’s hear it for the rich folks. Nothing’s too good for ’em, as long as they keep their yaps shut and don’t express any “bad” opinions. As for the rest of us, well, try not to get stuck in a flooded subway tunnel.
PJ you would be really good at running a railroad.. The blog is always out of the station on time thanks.:nod::omg:
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Poverty American Style
What does it mean to be poor in America?
“It means having to do without basic needs. It means being last, forgotten, judged wrongly by others.”
Male, 44, Delaware, household of three, income less than $8,860
“To me, it is not being poor in itself that holds any meaning; it is seeing all the wealth in others, and of our nation, that makes your feel poor — like living within many states of hopelessness.”
Male, 40, California, household of nine, income less than $8,860.
“Hopeless.”
Male, 58, Delaware, household of one, income less than $8,860
“Being unseen and unheard.”
Female, 70, Washington, household of one, income of $8,860 to $11,939
“You are voiceless and somewhat powerless to change your situation, because you are too busy trying to survive to make the changes you need to improve your situation.”
Female, 40, Washington, household of one, income less than $8,860
“I’m a senior, disabled, all alone, no money, sit in front of T.V. all day – why? Too poor to socialize. Poverty is like being in prison. Why even try to stay alive? For what?
Female, 62, Oregon, household of one, income less than $8,860
“You are treated as a second class citizen.”
Male, 47, Oregon, household of one, income less than $8,860
“Heartbreaking. I worry about when I become elderly, sometimes I feel that my concerns, my voice isn’t heard.”
Female, 44, no state, household of two, income less than $8,860
“It’s unbearable. It’s like you have no reason to exist. Everywhere you go you get turned away.”
Male, 45, Illinois, household of five, income of $11,940 to $15,019
“It feels as if you are the lowest creature on earth and rich people look down at you over their noses.”
Male, 66, Pennsylvania, household of three, income of $15,020 to $18,099
“Struggling to pay bills, constant disconnection notices, not having money to wash and purchase clothing to work in because bills and household needs have to come first. Listening to your children say they are hungry, but not knowing what you are going to be able to give them before your food stamps come.”
Female, 32, Missouri, household of five, income of less than $8,860
“I am poor so I know poverty. It’s wearing tattered clothes and shoes and having to bow my head in the face of injustice and oppression.”
Male, 55, Florida, household of two, income of less than $8,860
“People look down on you, thinking that you’re nothing, like not one poor person tried in their life.”
Female, Kansas, 16, household of three, income of less than $8,860
“Not having the American Dream.”
Female, 49, New York, household of three, income of less than $8,860
“Not having enough money to have a nice Christmas. Not being able to have nice things for birthdays.”
Female, 23, Michigan, household of one, income of less than $8,860
“Feeling like you always owe everyone either an apology or an explanation or both.”
Female, 52, Kansas, household of four, income of less than $8,860
“Being poor in the U.S. today is very rough and scary.”
Female, 36, Kansas, household of two, income of less than $8,860
“Looked over by most (due to fear), forgotten, seeing the richest people in the world while hungry and cold, feels alone and invalid.”
Male, 31, California, household of six, income of $8,860 to $11,939
“It means I lost life as I knew it.”
Male, 36, California, household of one, income of less than $8,860
http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour.htm
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Fuck
😥 :growl:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
Nation divided on troop withdrawal deadline
Poll shows rebound in President Bush’s job approval rating
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About half, 51 percent, oppose a deadline for getting out of Iraq, but the margin has dwindled as insurgents have continued to kill U.S. troops. The poll found that 47 percent now favor some kind of deadline, up eight percentage points since December. Two thirds of Democrats support setting a deadline, more than double the proportion of Republicans who want a timetable for withdrawal. Among independents, 44 percent support a deadline.
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But the survey offered some hopeful signs for Bush and the Republicans as they prepare for the midterm elections. The big advantage that Democrats held on virtually every major issue has narrowed or reversed. On the question of which party is best able to handle the situation in Iraq, the Democrats’ 14-point advantage in last month’s Post-ABC poll has been cut in half; they now have a 47 percent lead over Republicans’ 41 percent.
A month ago, Democrats held a five-point lead over Republicans on dealing with international terrorism. Republicans now hold a seven-point advantage. On the economy, the Democratic advantage has narrowed from 18 points to 13 points since May
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13546174/
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And if you beleve this what do you get ???:barf::barf::eek::yuck::gate::omg: :fu: 🙁
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It doesn’t get much better than this:
According to the New York Times, Hurrican Katrina has “produced one of the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles in modern history, costing taxpayers up to $2 billion,” RAW STORY has learned.
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FEMA officials say they typically expect 1-3% of disaster relief funds to be improperly disbursed. However, in the cases of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, nearly 11% of the expenses to date are estimated to have been fraudulent — and as much as 21% of the money given directly to individuals.
The most disturbing cases are those which involve government officials accused of orchestrating elaborate scams involving bribes and extortion in connection with debris removal, provisions for relief workers, and unemployment benefits. Even a program set up by the American Red Cross resulted in an extraordinary level of waste and abuse.
http://tinyurl.com/nhl8c
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Greed and corruption the American way ..:gate::omg::jason::fist:
morning all!
same poll or different poll”?
Poll: Majority of Americans want withdrawal plan for Iraq
guess he really should be called LIMPbaugh :rofl2:
this is pretty good:
Bernie Ward smacks down right wing talk show host: He storms off the set!
“UPDATED: This is hilarious. The topic was the NY Times and the financial transactions story. Bernie Ward asked right wing talk show host Chris Baker if he thought the government should determine what the media reports. As they debated, Baker got so upset that he hurled insults at him and then stormed off the set. One of the new techniques to these types of debates now is to call your opponent fat and then walk off.”
I guess that’s why he needs one of these! 😀
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (June 26) – Rush Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription.
I will be spending the next couple of hours making up my own punchlines.
Dear Dr. Maddow: Do airport dogs have the ability to sniff out Viagra? Or do they just sniff out bloviating idiots? And if that’s the case, why are O’Reilly and Hannity walking around?
I guess we know why Dayna Kagan is single these days, my friends.
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Hey, sheeple! Can’t blog long. I just checked into Goldendale in Southern Washington. Kinda burnt, man- it’s late. Later
Why is it republicans seem to need that viagara stuff? I wonder if that’s why Daryn Kagan dumped him? No starch in his falafel.
Hey, Travis. Welcome to the lower 48.
:banana:
Congratulations Travis on arriving in Washington!
Glad you got your viagara through customs.
:yinyang: Taiwan pres. stays in office (for now).
Morning Evening
Re #5 Fred and #8 Farmerkat,
I read both articles several times and what both articles said (to me) was double-speak – saying much but meaning nothing (except rethugs’ lies :growl: ).
ARREST!
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VIGILANCE!
Isi re #6 :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
Perfect!
:tinfoil:Maybe if the rethugs really are androids designed by a DARPA contract the designer never considered that they might want to reproduce :?::?::?:
I always call Rush.. Limpprick.. I never knew really I didn’t :!::billcat:
Farmerkat :banana:re Bernie.:banana: In mountains I listened alot. He looks healthier and really good. (Much healthier and Dr. Wife must be elated.)
Isi re #10 :rofl2::jerk::rofl2:
ARREST!
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VIGILANCE!
:banana:Travisdem_04, :banana:
Welcome back to the lower 48.
King Kong, G’Eve :pent::yinyang: 😉
G’Night, G’Day One and To All :yawn::wink:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
From DU Erection Fraud
http://tinyurl.com/zowy6
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I wish I was that good with paint shop pro..
:eek::yuck::doh::doh:
Druid, you’re not horsing around, are you? 🙂
Now that the School Summer program’s basically, done,I’mmtrying, tonight, to catch up with my emails.
Thanks, fred, that was :rofl2:
Good Morning :joe:
Newsdaddy is doing Rachels show. He’s okay, a little dry.
Mr. Crowley.
Jeff Farias is filling in for Dr. Mike this morning. I like him a lot. http://aaphx.com/
I get those guys mixed up. They both have deep rich voices.
i thought “I’m……wayne gilman” was newsdaddy?
thanks for the laughs one & all!
I just want to :barf: at these talk show dip shits that sit on their fat A*’s in their air conditioned offices and interview some fat politician sitting on his fat a* in his air conditioned office about how long it will take the democrats to undo the damage caused by the Bush admin..I would suggest to them that if we get though Nov without a major problem that they will have less than a year to fix the problems or they all both dems and thugs will be hanging from light poles.:omg::eek::yuck::gate::omg::jason::fist:
881 have a good day
Jeff Farias has a wonderful voice. :love: He’s a big lug.
Busy blog today!:-x
:-o:roll::wink::pent::omg::love: Out of here!:rant1:
If the democrats can take back Congress and then the White House, it will be interesting to see how far up their ass the traditional media is, as compared to their near total complacency (complicity, even) during the Bush II monarchy.
Posters at the right-wing Free Republic message board today were roused into a fury of indignation by a news story about the New York Times’ revelations of the administration’s illegal programs of warrant less surveillance. Posted by an individual calling himself or herself “pissant,” the story quoted Vice-President Cheney as saying:
“The New York Times has now twice — two separate occasions — disclosed programs; both times they had been asked not to publish those stories by senior administration officials. They went ahead anyway. The leaks to The New York Times and the publishing of those leaks is very damaging.”
more including excerpts
http://tinyurl.com/on5ch
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It is interesting that AAR doesn’t want any serious discussion on their blogs of issues concerning there move to right and DU hardly has any discussion of much more than whether the surrender flag should be white or if an off white will do yet at Free Republic they post this kind of crap,… Perhaps we should start spelling out our emo’s. 🙁 😡 :growl::gate::omg::jason::fist:
Remember that during Clinton’s admin the M$M never said diddly about the thug congress but they were relentless about Clinton and his zipper problems. If the Dems manage to get back into office I hope with will invoke the Sherman Anti Trust law and break these M$M giants up. They would do well to nationalize some of the corps who have the worst track records on exporting jobs, screwing their employees and price gouging and maybe in ten years or so privatize them again on a regional basis.:rant1::shock::mad::eek::yuck::gate::omg::jason::fist:
I wonder, if the NY Times can figure this shit out, don’t they think the evil do’ers can figure it out, too?
After all, they’ve pretty much run circles around our mighty intelligence agencies so far, unless you wanna count the seven dipshits in Miami, or those dummies in Lackawana, or batshit crazy Moussaoui.
Is AAR discouraging discussion on their blogs? I don’t get over there much.
Holy Shit! The freakin’ Bruce Berman commercial that ran incessantly on AAR is actually a goddamn teevee commercial, too.
“You got a business plan, Bob! Huh! Huh! You wanna make money, doncha Bob!”
Geez. I guess the History Channel and AAR get equivalent advertising rates.
Maddow had this please be nice comment on her blog a week or so ago.. She didn’t seem to like people calling her out on her shift toward the red side. 🙁 :no: 🙁
I always thought advertising on TV was put their by the remote control unit manufacturers so they could sell you a new remote unit after you wore out the mute button.:nixon::peace:
I’m too used to my ReplayTV’s. I never watch commercials at home.
I solved that problem by not watching any TV.. To bad you can’t turn it into a planter or something without damaging it.. The night I threw my laptop at it and punched a hole in the sheet rock behind it I decided it was time to unplug it. :no: 🙁 :eek::yuck::nixon::peace::(
I’m with you Fred. Besides breaking up th e media giants, take Fox away from Murdoch and revoke his “citizenship”.
Murdork and his cronies need to be made an example of.. How about .. well … Read the article about the Freepers. :omg::yuck::eek::rant1:
Efforts to register new voters in Ohio will be undermined by rules written by Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and upheld yesterday by a state panel, critics said after a contentious hearing.
The Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review voted along party lines not to invalidate the rules submitted by Blackwell, the Republican nominee for governor. Outvoted Democrats accused Blackwell of using the narrowest interpretation possible to suppress voter registration — especially among minority and poor residents.
“It’s just another example in a long laundry list of what Secretary Blackwell will do to trample voting rights,” said Senate Democratic Leader C.J. Prentiss, of Cleveland
more
http://tinyurl.com/g37qt
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With the total melt down of the Ohio economy I would not be surprised if the liberals/progressives move out..
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WASHINGTON – The nation’s capital readied Tuesday for more of the heavy rains that slathered highways with mud, brought down a 100-year-old elm tree on the White House lawn and caused flooding that shuttered the National Archives and zoo.
With more flash floods in the forecast, government employees were given the option of taking a vacation or personal day. National Guard members were mobilized to distribute sandbags to residents in low lying areas of the city.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13569576/
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PJ Do you own a row boat or a canoe ?? :omg::nixon::peace:
Also is the “low lying areas of the city” where the rethugs live ??.:nixon:
NIZMIT HILL, Israel (Reuters) – Israeli tanks and troops massed near Gaza on Tuesday for a threatened offensive against Palestinian militants as the Israeli government said it would target Hamas leaders if an abducted soldier was not freed.
In northern Gaza, Palestinians blocked roads with dirt and barbed wire. Militants wielding automatic rifles and anti-tank rockets rigged explosive devices along a road as tensions hit their highest since Israel quit Gaza nearly a year ago.
The United States urged Israel to give diplomatic negotiations a chance to win the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, who was seized on Sunday by militants who also killed two soldiers in a raid on a military border post.
http://tinyurl.com/k2lhl
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When is Putin or HU going to move to win the hearts of the Palestinians ?? .. What happens if they do ??
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:ear:What? Viagra! Oh, MSNBC is on that story right now with Limbaugh.
There’s only one computer in this whole place , so reading the blog is sort of hard. Oh, and I’ve only had a couple hours of sleep.:yawn:
Hey, I’ll try and make it to a library next week, too. ‘Cause I know how much you guys need my blogs and what not.
In Goldendale, it’s supposed to be 90 degrees today. Wow!
Later.:knit2:
Long Lunch break today. jeeeeez, they’re doing me a favor :doh:
:banana::banana::banana: Its Travis …:banana::banana::banana:
Glad you made it ok to Washington, Travis :tongue:
:omg:Peter B Collins is in for Hartman today.. he was talking to brad at Brad Blog about Calif and he said the DCCC doesn’t want to confront the voting machine issue :omg::omg::mad::eek::yuck::shock:
So many of these commercials on AAR affiliate stations are almost fraudulent. This Invent Tech commercial .. they may show you how to get a patent but they don’t furnish the three patent attorneys you will need for five years when a fortune 500 firm decides to steal your patent.:omg: 🙁 :mad::yuck::eek:
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Good morning. A cool 70ºF at 10 a.m. here. Welcome to the lower 48 Travis.
glad you made it a-ok Trav! :gate:
I wrote the NYT yesterday as I’d read the rightwing bloggers were badgering them. I thought they might need some balance. Here’s where I wrote:
letters@nytimes.com
public@nytimes.com – this is to the public editor
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the two dems, Cox & Taylor. running for Governor here in Georgia are eating each other alive. They both are running nasty campaigns – most especially Taylor, from what I’ve seen. It is so dumb – they both look dirty and meanwhile the doofus Perdue, the repuk incumbant, is sitting back running these “Sonny Did” campaigns looking clean as a whistle. We’re f**k here if something doesn’t happen fast. (Of course with these black boxes here, we’re pretty much screwed anyway. The polls and the vote were way off in the last election, from what I read. And Cathy Cox was the one who implemented it!) :rant1:
Pretty good stuff from the Maron Man, I’d say. :nod:
You nailed it, Fred. The bulk of those sponsors are snake oil salesmen, especially the buy at foreclosure crap – You can call now if your name starts with an A through M, and you can call tomorrow if your name starts with an N through Z. The people who respond to this ad already lost their money by sending their personal information to that e mail financial minister of Nigeria who needs their help cashing that big check.
You know, i think those people on the springer show are the ones who passed the iq test.
thanks isi, that is great!
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Based on a lot of this information we are hearing I don’t think the dems really want to win this election for us this year.. With the water up to about D deck and flooding fast they probably don’t want to take command about the time the bow goes under the waves. ( inset glub glub glub emo here) :shock::rant1::-(
It’s all low-lying area around here, ranging from seal level t a high point of 410 feet. Took a trip over to VA on the train, and the Potomac looks very, very swollen. And brown. Looks like a big choppy yoohoo.
No hurry Dems. Wait till about 2024 or so, then they can run the Capt James T. Kirk and Spock ticket. Worthless wankers.
Now be honest; can you possibly listen to the World Cup without imagining Angus doing the play by play?
[…]
It is fair to say that since 1980, conservative candidates have been winning overall more than have liberal candidates. From the presidency to the Congress to the state legislatures to the governorships, this trend has been much reported.
Moreover, the liberals who do win, like Clinton, Lieberman, Bayh and assorted governors are often more corporatists than liberals on major subjects such as foreign policy, military budgets, the Federal Reserve, corporate welfare, real regulation, tax policy and consumer protection.
It could be that more often than is normally recognized, the self-described conservative voters spend more time personally interacting with one another in situations where “social” can easily move to “political.”
More often than the liberal voters, they participate in activities associated with clubs, and churches where person to person conversations abound.
The above areas of liberal domination involve more passive, spectator, celluloid or “cool” internet occasions. And after a while a chronically humorous way of looking at politics becomes a distraction, even though it may be a style that avoids commercial media censorship.
Of course, money in politics comes more easily to corporatist candidates, as does the media. For example, extreme right-wingers get on talk shows, receive media attention or have their own profitable shows like Pat Robertson does. Who are the extreme left-wingers, who receive any press, other than an occasional newspaper picture showing them being dragged away from a protest at the IMF, World Bank or toxic dump site?
The lesson? Politics, even in an age of electronic supremacy, is still strongly moved by the person-to-person, conversational, affinity, communal groupings in our society. Big TV ads cost money and the corporatists can buy them over and over again. But the word of mouth from friend to friend, relative to relative, neighbor to neighbor and worker to worker is not something anyone wants to sell short.
R. NADER
Mmmmm Yoohoo, mmmmmmmm
Hey Trav- Goldendale?
How long? When will you be back in Seattle?
I might have to turn right around after the 4th and come back down to Oregon.
Apparently the 102 degree heat forced my customer into early labor!
Yikes:omg:
:knit:
Israel’s Deadly Siege of Palestine
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
“The idea is to put Palestinians on a diet but not make them die of hunger,” commented Dov Weisglass, senior advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Sharon and Olmert, when asked how Israel should deal with the new Hamas government. Even these disgustingly callous words scarcely do justice to the collective punishment to Palestinians (illegal under international law) being inflicted by Israel on the people of Palestine for democratically electing a government that refuses to accede to Israeli demands.
The situation is desperate. Since the new Hamas-dominated government took office in January 2006, record levels of poverty, unemployment, food insecurity, malnutrition, movement restrictions and social unrest of all kinds have been reported.
Here is the grim picture as culled from available sources by Jennifer Loewenstein of the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford, the U.K.
In addition to an economic siege imposed by the governments of the United States and the European Union -in which all aid to the Palestinian Authority (and in some cases to NGOs as well) has been cut, bank transfers suspended, contacts with and visas for new government members effectively banned, and $55 million in tax revenues illegally withheld each month- comprehensive closure has been imposed on the territories restricting access to goods and services within the West Bank and imposing draconian movement restrictions on the entire Palestinian population.
Israel has kept the Karni (al-Muntar) industrial crossing into the Gaza Strip shut for weeks at a time locking out medicines, food and goods as well as preventing the export of agricultural produce from Gaza. Approximately 165,000 employees of the Palestinian Authority have gone without pay for more than three months affecting the lives of at least 700,000 people. Doctors, nurses, teachers, civil servants, policemen and others return home empty handed each day to families whose overall levels of poverty and malnutrition have grown dramatically. Save the Children UK Program Manager Jan Coffey reports that in Gaza now 78% of the population lives below the poverty line ($2 per day) and that 10% of children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition…
http://www.counterpunch.org
I see that AAR news is firmly in the mainstream (extreme right!) when it comes to reporting the news from Israel/Palestine. “Recognize Israel’s right to exist.” If only there was fair reporting on this.
If I had access to, say, Rachel Maddow’s blog, I would post balanced reports about the Middle East; wonder how quick I would be censored by the liberals.
Hitchens Hails “Glorious War”
The recent memorial for long-term New York Review co-editor Barbara Epstein, sadly felled by cancer on June 15, was disfigured by an unseemly outbursts from Christopher Hitchens. There was a list of invitees for the private ceremony and C. Hitchens — a sometime NYT contributor – was not on the list. He implored to be admitted, and some misguidedly decent soul gave him the green light.
Visibly taken with drink, in the estimate of at least one observer, Hitchens showed up and soon made his way to Jean Stein, a close friend of Barbara Epstein, also editor of Grand Street in recent years. Hitchens spared Stein the habitual presentation of his hairy cheek but made a low, facetious bow and offered his hand.
Stein icily declined, saying she had no desire to shake hands with him for many reasons, not least the fact that Hitchens had attacked one of her best friends, Edward Said, while he was on his death bed.
As Hitchens retreated, someone remarked to him, “So your glorious war has turned out to be a total disaster, hasn’t it?”
“It is glorious,” the sodden scrivener blared, “and it is my war because it needed Paul Wolfowitz and myself to go and convince the President to go to war.”
As mourners digested this megalomanic outburst, Hitchens continued, “And we are going to kill every Al Qaida terrorist and Baathist in the country and that’s a good thing. They need to be killed and we will kill them.”
Heh. What’s this “we” shit?
Visibly taken with drink, in the estimate of at least one observer, Hitchens showed up
Comment by NickiRose — June 27, 2006 @ 3:12 pm
In other breaking news, the grass is green, water is wet, Rush Limbaugh is a pill-popping fathead, and the pope shit in the woods.
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Why ANYONE gives a damn about the opinions of this drunken sot is beyond me. Especially the right-wingers with their so-called family values. You would think they could find a guru who is still sober at 11 AM.
:alc:
You would be surprised at how many lefties read Hitchens. I myself find the whole situation a tragedy of some sort. I used to read Hitchens a lot; I did not always agree with him, but I always learned something. I always forget how he trashed, while he was on his deathbed, one of the great men of our times, Edward Said. That is probably why Cockburn relentlessly trashes him. Oh, well…I am not going to defend that drunken neocon.
It’s important to remember Fuckface Reagan, but let’s remember him for what he did, not for his ability to deliver a scripted line. Ronald Wilson Reagan played up and exacerbated economic and racial divisions, and he left the country, and the world, meaner and more dangerous.
Roast in Hell, motherfucker!:fu:
More
Sounds like a pretty good strategy to me.
WTF?
http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/060619roco01?page=2
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Damn, just when I was about to start having unprotected, indiscriminate sex, too.
:nod:
and I like that minimum wage strategy. Plus those idiots in congress do not deserve a raise. Their raises should be tied to a balanced budget and a few other things like knowing WHERE the money is.
(the emoticons showing on my screen are all messed up. hmmmm)
the white house is hammering the nyt. boy, Bush & co. must KNOW they’ve caused a major screw up. control the media control the media control the media :nixon:
white house comment line: 202.456.1111
t’s important to remember Fuckface Reagan, but let’s remember him for what he did, not for his ability to deliver a scripted line. Ronald Wilson Reagan played up and exacerbated economic and racial divisions, and he left the country, and the world, meaner and more dangerous.
The 80’s started a real downward trend with Reagan’s “trickle down” shit (picture a dog peeing on a curb and you’ll get an idea what actually trickled down)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top climate scientists are giving “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
The former vice president’s movie — replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets — mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press.
http://tinyurl.com/q8dx2
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I guess if I owned any sea front property I would look for a rethug to buy it really soon.:omg: 🙁 :rant1:
An Israeli airstrike targeted a road that the Israeli military said is used by Palestinian militants to launch rockets. The Israel Defense Forces told CNN that tanks, which are massed at the Gaza border, are not on the move. Tanks and troops are poised at the border as tensions escalate over a solider kidnapped by militants. In some Gaza border areas, Palestinians have built sand mounds to try to slow a tank attack
http://www.cnn.com/
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Usually a military does something like this to make resupply difficult.. It also makes using the bridge for an attack difficult..
I also note that Sedar has said zip, nanda ,nothing about this so far today.
Surprise surprise surprise:omg: 🙁 :crap::eek::yuck:
The scene in the movie of the ocean covering Manhattan was chilling…I’m only about 20 or so miles from wher that happened… :omg: It was a interesting movie, too…don’t listen to critics who called it boring
What a topic, Hitchens. :fu:!
Did Inconvenient Truth provide a time line for this water rise ??:omg:
With the release of all this methane from the melting permafrost they say the heating and hence the melting effects will become much more dramatic in just the next couple of years..:eek::yuck: 🙁 :fustrate::billcat:
I don’t remember the time line, there was a group of old ladies sitting in front of me gasping and talking to each other at that point…I just saw the water cover everything :omg:
So many of these public conservative figures turn out to be cons and frauds and fools you have to wonder about the people that follow them.. In my experience most of the wealthy rethugs got that way though very questionable means. In this area a lot of them got that way through real estate. Developing whole communities of houses on 5 acre tracts in the foot hills. The buyer didn’t bother to ask about things like fire protection, water rights and mineral rights. The forestry service typically doesn’t put out fires on private land unless the owner pays them to do it or it endangers forests on federal land.
In 2003 some of the home owners lost everything and then got a bill for 5 – 10 grand from the feds for watching their house burn.:omg: 😡 :rant1: :fustrate::billcat:
http://www.velvetrevolution.us
:omg:WASHINGTON – A constitutional amendment authorizing Congress to prevent physical desecration of the American flag failed in a close Senate vote Tuesday. The vote count was 66-34 in favor of the amendment, but because it the measure would alter the U.S. Constitution, a vote of of two-thirds majority, or 67, was required.
more
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13579789/
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Why is this important enough to have any dems vote for it ?? :eek::yuck::barf::rant1:
A Congressman took to the House floor yesterday insisting that illegal border crossings from Mexico have slowed due to fear of rape, robbery and beatings at the hands of U.S. National Guardsmen, RAW STORY has learned.
Representative Ted Poe (R-TX) began his one-minute statement by characterizing the US-Mexican border as a war zone. “Mister Speaker,” he began, “news from the front: The border war continues. Generalissimo Fox and the Mexican media have taken a setback in the illegal invasion of the United States.”
http://tinyurl.com/rzbyo
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Wing nuts in action .. terra terra terra.. 🙁 :barf: :eek::yuck::gate::omg::jason::fist:
Why is this important enough to have any dems vote for it ??
Comment by fred — June 27, 2006 @ 6:53 pm
It isn’t, of course. But the Dems who are running for re-election this year are probably too chickenshit to take a stand, for fear that this non-issue will cost them votes when their opponents start the attack ads questioning why Dems hate America.
I haven’t seen a listing yet of who voted yea or nay, but I’m assuming Bill Nelson was one of the Dems who voted for the amendment. He’s ahead of Cruella by almost 30 points, for chrissake. Give me a break.:blech:
Apparently he is not in need of any additional contributions from me, because he’s not going to be getting any, although I have a sneaking suspicion that the person I did donate to today did the same thing he did due to being in the same boat but not almost 30 points ahead of their opponent. Hope I’m proven wrong.
I say we cut Texas loose. Let ’em go, and let them sell their oil to China. Up in the Northeast, we’ll just cut a deal with Canada for everything they’ve got, since they’re our #1 source of foreign imports anyway. Mexico’s a close second, so we’ll take theirs, too, and we can even agree to pay their folks a decent living wage if they wanna come on up here. Just stop by and let us know who you are – no hassles, no quota, no exploitation. Anything else, we can get from Hugo – at least until we develop alternative energy sources. Oh, and dummy is no longer eligible to be prez, so he has to go back to Midland, or Crawfor, or whatever. He’s not allowed to go to Maine, ‘cuz we’re building a big old fence to keep the undesireables out.
Israeli troops crossed the border into southern Gaza early Wednesday after air strikes targeted a power plant and at least two bridges, the Israeli military told CNN. The campaign is aimed at securing the release of a soldier kidnapped by Palestinian militants. Palestinians have been building sand mounds on border roads to try to slow a land attack.
http://www.cnn.com/
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I hope Putin or HU lob a couple to 5 megaton war heads their direction.. ASSHOLES
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Destroying infrastructure was what Bill the Clintdork did in Iraq.. Only killed about 2 million children .. great president according to Randi the jew Rant. :gate::omg::jason:
Earth to Susan Earth to Susan .. are you there..repeat are your there ?? AAR seems to have expired.. Did you see any bright flashes hear any loud noises..??:omg:
Whats with the “Randi the Jew rant” shit? Let us know if that was an attempt at humor.
Actually Randi’s mother is …That’s why she won’t talk about the Palestinian problem
Yay TV!!! Yay Internet!!
Mail…Newspaper….blog…yay!
Did anything happen while I was gone?
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Oh and regarding Kidman…the Cruise-Kidman children are half scientologist and one of them is black…but he still wont have to worry about Iraq or minimum wage, I’d guess….If she has a bump them more power to her because she went through tons of infertility treatments with Cruise…and this might be the indication that we need to prove that Cruise is in fact GAY and had a stand in do the nasty with his Katie….
I suppose Id have a better grasp on all of this really important stuff if I had bought the NY Post while I was down there, but I went with no news at all…except the first day when I actually went on my phone’s internet to check the news.
Kidman…Urban…who care about them! The really big news is that Star Jones is OUT, OUT, OUT…thus, removing a scary hour from the day in which I must avert my eyes from the gym TV sets lest I have an anxiety attack (not that Rosie O’donnell is gonna be any better though…)
OK thats the popular culture news…now Im gonna try to scan for real news.
I hope Mr is OK over in the war.
Travis travelling? Seanie on the road?
Wireless networking works really well sometimes and then other times …:barf::barf:
America tops in national pride, survey finds
U.S. leads 34 countries in confidence in democracy, military, economy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13577802/
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The nationalism part I can see the other must be from a poll in 1943 :barf::barf::eek::yuck::rant1:
Breaking news in Scarborough Country!!! The senate killed the flag burning thing…what a bunch of crap and a waste of time. The only interesting thing is that it seems that Pap is arguing this thing in a clip…though perhaps one could get that on crooks and liars rather than have to look at old Joe….
only 4 incidents of flag burning last year and 3 the year before…incidence of this went down after the supremem court ruled that it was OK to burn it….
This is a smoke screen but they are also gonna try to paint the Dems as the flag burning baby killers….I dont think its gonna help them. This is a desperate move by a desperate party….
I am going to the city square. I expect to see a crowd of people there, protesting the Israeli attack on Gaza. Call the White House. Demand that they order Israel to stop their attack.
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well, Im back but everyone is gone….but its Ok because I have to catch up anyway.
All the thugs are doing by all this c* in the senate and house over the last two months are proving that they really don’t want to govern just play in and with our money.. The FAUX fools audience will go for it the other 92% will think its the bunk it is..( lets hope)..:gate::omg::jason::fist:
YES!:omg::bow:
when?
Thee must be a good sports event on TV no one at DU has even commented ( someone did report it) about the Israeli invasion of Gaza.:?::?::eek::yuck:
I thought the invasion was the sports on teevee.
This why Arlen Spector beat Java Joe Hoeffel in 2004.
Is is my breath? Every time I post, everyone disappears! 🙁 :smack:
:tongue::hubba:
Where the heck is everyone?