Another week gone already? Where does the time go?
On Press the Meat today, it’s Michael Chertoff on to tell us what a great job he did in having the Brits capture those nasty old water bombers, plus the co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission – Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton – are on to tell us what they think. Then – this could be interesting – it’s Howrd Dean and Kenny “Bud” Mehlman on to talk about how Lieberbitch’s loss to Lamont signals the end of the Democratic party, and maybe even CT itself.
Over at Faze the Nation, Michael Chertoff stays out of his crypt long enough to chat with Bush buddy Bobby Schieffer, plus Republican and Republican-lite members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Pat Roberts and Jane Harman. Then it’s the DINO killer himself, Ned Lamont.
Over at Fux News Sunday – how long can can he stay out of his tomb? – it’s Michael Chertoff yet again, plus Pete “Hokie” Hoekstra, and a little more Nedmentum with the next Senator from CT.
On Thie Weak with George Snufalufagus, believe it or not, it’s Michael Fucking Chertoff once again! They’re certainly trotting Skeletor out there a lot this week, aren’t they? Then it’s John “I keep a few rolls of quarters tucked between my cheek and gum” McCain and Russ Feingold. At the roundtable, you’ll find little Robbie Reich, Martha Raddatz, and of course George :jerk: Will. And John Secada will be on to sing Happy Birthday to Fidel Castro.
CNN’s Late Emission with Wolf Blitzer has – can it be? – YES! Mike “the Skull” Chertoff goes five-for-five, hitting yet another bobblehead show. Be afraid, America (but not so afraid that you stop buying SUV’s, of course). Plus we’ll get a little of the old scare thrown into us from Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed. Also, it’s Ehud Barak (former Israeli Prime Minister) Lebanese Ambassador Nouhad Mahmoud, author Vali Nasr, and retired Gen. George Joulwan (former NATO Supreme Allied Commander).
Later, on 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace has a chat with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (that could be interesting), plus they’ll be re-running the Stephen Colbert segment, which is definitely worth watching.
There’s also a new episode of Deadwood, plus the 4400 and the Dead Zone. So, hey, what more could you ask for?
Have a good Sunday.
Ladies and Gentlemen START YOUR ENGINES:jason::jason::jason::jason::jason::jason::jason::jason:
:nixon:
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2: Goodnight!
YEA:banana:MoonLightMan is #1, #2, and…:banana:YEA
😉
Goodnight Dear Druid, Get some sleep for a change.:pent:
And the bar is open for cocktail hour. :40:
MoonLightMan, I like the Night :omg:
How fare you (thee) King Kong
Need any leeches for your stitches:?::rofl2:
Oops is it that late?:doh:
I was over at yesterday again.
I saw about 9 meteors :banana::banana::banana:
Thanks to Travis and Bill:nod:
It wasn’t that much, was it?
Next time you have to:40: It”s like an unfair advantage if you don’t:mad:
Healing up fine. Still getting the pins stuck in me for a half an hour a day.
Did I take advantage? :paranoid:
Don’t be 😡 at me
I didn’t want to tempt fate.
sblueheron, 😎 did see 3 last night/day (night) and saw Graveyard (stray cat) which I hadn’t seen for awhile.:banana: and Sir Cosmic Montigue and…
Wait….what? No! See, when you’re drunk- your sorta in a different plane- and you hope everyone around you can join
Wow. I’m not 😡
:rofl2:
Actually a big part of me wished I could have but- I gotta keep my drivers license and also my life for a little while more…:nod:
I’m eating raspberries. I live for raspberries.
King Kong :oops:oops I just reread and accidently hit an “a”. I didn’t when I thought so cute yesterday :rofl2: 😳 but glad to hear you are still a “poppet” Bwah HaHa
I may be a “poppet” soon too, but no leeches for stitches
needed. 😉
raspberries! Roxie said she had some blackberries for me, but I guess she saved them… Anyway, maybe I can come over and then you can :alc: without forethought
:40::alc:getting drunken in mexico tonight!:banana:
SeanMS, :omg::hot::billcat::banana::cool:
:alc: Yeah! travis:tongue:
Or a mushroom pizza- where is my hat guy:paranoid:
😯 insomnia
Or a mushroom pizza-
Hey! That’s a secret code! Shhh!:no:
Drunk in Mexico!
:paranoid:mushroom pizza? secret code? is that the code for the commander in chimps football? something simple enough for him to remember!
Insomnia was filmed in Hyder, Alaska.
YEAH, with Robin
:shock:al pacino and robin williams
It’s not that I can’t sleep it’s that I won’t sleep.
Seanie Sean :alc:
That is the place where my Dad lived…
Good News..
I’m pretty spacey. I meant Robin Williams.,,, Hey, where did your dad live”:doh:
Travis- are you having more work to do tomorrow?
In Hyder, AK
No. I think I’m a free agent. Why?
:fire::peace:ok well just stopping in for a minute later sheeple!
I still owe you a tour or something. I am going to try to make it to the A tomorrow before the special characters I call my friends scatter. You are welcome to join me there.
should I edit photobucket?
Is it going to be early? If so, I think I have to fall asleep now then
Ok time to pass the :jason: to the east coast people.:banana:
Hell. I don’t care if there’s a naked guy.
white peaches :love: raspberries :love:
our kitty cat sitting next to me on the desk just growled at something she saw out the window. maybe our local bear is walking past our cabin ❗ but it’s too dark out to see. :yinyang:
What time? I have to set the alarm!
Lets meet up at noon- Bring the ipood and laptop Ok?
:peace:peaches!
Peaches!!!!!You don’t see them in Alaska!
night foggyblue!
Cool. I’ll see you then.:yawn::peace:
Why the ipod? You’re not taking it away, are you? 🙁
:banana:ooh ipod im busting mine out!
😉 :pent::pent::pent::pent::pent:
slashdot link
Oh, no. I think she is. :fustrate:
sblueheron, good night to you (a greeting, not a farewell) :peace:
I think I have to pass out now. I’ll correspond with you cats later. Sean, the next time you’re here in Seattle, you better visit Sblue and me:mad:
And Roxie, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad:
Hey, I’ll be there at noon. No ditching me, though, “cause that tends to happen… especially with me
cheers :nixon: for Shewanella oneidensis:
:idea::idea::idea:
slashdot link
:jason: :jason: :jason:
east coaster started her engine. (good one moonlight man & sblue!)
Morning!
bububut I don’t wanna see skeletor so many times in one day. :omg:
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There’s a lot of happy folks ’round here! :alc:
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Pj, tell Granny I also couldn’t travel without my lip gloss – what are these people THINKING? bet airlines start selling amenity kits plus food on board – there’s got to be a $$$ in it for them, correcto? It’s the Amerikan way.
I guess the blog has passed-out before I did. Hmm. Ok, then, later
farmerkat!:omg::nixon:
Hey Trav! So are you going to stay in Seattle? I want to move back something fierce. :growl:
Well, I’m trying to. I’m not too certain about the future.:doh:
Sleepy-time:yawn:
sleep well! :gate:
The WSJ Middle East News page
http://tinyurl.com/epu8o
This blog reminds me of a bar that doesn’t close at 2am.. :rofl2::rofl2::nixon:
13/08/2006 11:06 – (SA)
New York – The US government was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s military operations against Islamic militant group Hezbollah even before the July 12 kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue. …
But Pulitzer Prize-winning US journalist Seymour Hersh writes that President George W Bush and vice president Dick Cheney were convinced that a successful Israeli bombing campaign against Hezbollah could ease Israel’s security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential US pre-emptive attack to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations.
Citing an unnamed Middle East expert with knowledge of the current thinking of the Israeli and US governments, Israel had devised a plan for attacking Hezbollah – and shared it with Bush administration officials – well before the July 12 kidnappings. …
If there was to be a military option against Iran, it had to get rid of the weapons Hezbollah could use in a potential retaliation against Israel, Hersh writes.
http://tinyurl.com/lu7jm
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War prep :?::?::?:
Got to go blog with ya all later
regarding all these Rethugs who extoll Lieberman’s virtures….do you think they praised Gore for his genius when he chose Lieberman as a running mate AND do you think they VOTED for Lieberman in 2000 against the evil bush monkey? SOOOOO how great, exactly, is loser Joe?
Great enough to lose? He’s done that.
foggyblue, re 52 & 58 😎 & 😎 re:pent: 52
:cool::cool::cool:
Farmerkat, what was that goat think’n? :rofl2:
I keep missing Fred 🙁 in your honour
:omg::jason::jason::jason:
This is a really interesting story about a Wyoming ranch with the largest undisturbed cache of dinosaurs in North America, among other archeological and ecological treasures. Long, but interesting read.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080800983.html?referrer=email
Jurassic Park
Sue P, Cool 😎 I will read when awaken.
Foggyblue and Farmerkat and The Farm :love: and THX
Have to feed Rats and :yawn: THX 😉
G’Night, G’Day To All
:knit::gate:Merry Journeys
Good Morning all you lil seditionists. :gate::joe:
Hey everyone….happy Skeletor day…Ive seen him 3 times already and my Mom is making me tape the morning shows for her because she got divertedin Home Depot….but she may have to watch this elsewhere, because its stuffing up my brain!…at least Timmuh is off and we get David, who is semi-OK and has his moments.
Kat, I heard that the airlines have some kiosks to buy stuff inside security…I was thinking that a halliburton subsidiary must be running this or is going to be soon….
Im not sure if thats a joke or not, but with the way the guys in the background of airports can get aorund and how little they actually check them/pay them, I doubt it would be hard to get stuff on board.
AND why then would they use liquid again?…why not move on to the next thing?
Like, when the stupid head show guy failed, why would anyone else use shoes when they had their eyedrops?…so why use the hair gel and eyedrops when you could use your powder?…..
The important story here is that Bushco withdrew funds for explosives detection in airports…THAT is the real story!
hey Krista
Skeletor is goign on about pulling back on the nail clippers and focusing more on the liquids…but the NYTimes reports that the research in detection of liquid explosives has been held up due to money deflected into training of screeners…..why is there not money for both?? We seem to have endless money to pour into the halliburton war supply company….
Hey FK! Thanks for the help in gettin online!
Hey Melina! Hey Druid, if you’re still up. Sue P, Travis, King Kong and anyone e4lse I missed.
speaking of which, Kat I am just sick that Mr FK has to go back…I guess that they need him there because…who is even over there? Are we even seeing Iraq lately?
But it is, as Murtha says in Huffpo today, THE story.
In one way he gets to be on the ground in the very spot that is the very focus of this most historical administration and time in American History…but on the other hand, its a war that was constructed to fulfill some rapturous get-rich-quick scheme or world domination plot, and its all gone to hell over there.
You must be worried and stressed.
I hope he will be back for the emmys anyway…if not, tell him to give you the tickets and you can bring a friend….:lol::lol::lol:
Oh god…the south americans are here to load the dumpster…suddenly….out of the blue….eekkkkk…..
I watched the
Why We Fightdicumentary last night, Good flick; wish they had delved a little more into this subject, though:How the War Machine is Driving the US Economy
Military Keynsianism Might get Bush Re-elected, But it is Starting to Worry Economists
by Andrew Gumbel
What do the war in Iraq and the economic recovery in the United States have in common? More than one might expect, to judge from the last couple of rounds of US growth figures.
The war has been a large part of the justification for the Bush administration to run ever-widening budget deficits, and those deficits, predicated largely on military spending, have in turn pumped money into the economy and provided the stimulus that low interest rates and tax cuts, on their own, could never achieve.
The result, according to economists, is a variant on Keynesianism that has particular appeal for Republicans. Instead of growing the government in general – pumping resources into public works, health care and education, say, which would have an immediate knock-on effect on sorely needed job creation – the policy focuses on those areas that represent obvious conservative and business-friendly constituencies. Which is to say, the military and, even more specifically, the military contractors that tend to be big contributors to Republican Party funds.
“It may be very inefficient and obviously not fair, but it is nevertheless causing almost 5 per cent more money to be pumped into the economy than is being taken out in tax revenues,” observed Robert Pollin, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. “At the same time, it fits into the broader ideological goals of the administration because they can paint it as part of a national emergency, the fight against terrorism, the fight against Saddam Hussein, and so on.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0106-12.htm
I heard on CNN that the memo that told the British Terrorist to do their terror now was supposedly intercepted by the Americans and that the British did not want to make the arrests yet because they thought they might learn more and the plans were NOT operational in that they did not have passports, airline tickets or explosives. Here we go again.:fustrate:
Why did Bushco wait until after Lamont thrashed Liebermensch to release this sensational story of terror nipped in the bud?
:omg:
hey melina – thanks for all the kind words and If I can snag those tickets, I know who to call first! :nod:
the s. americans are supposed to be taking the dumpster, right? They aren’t the illegal dumpees using your dumpster??
we’re so enmeshed in the business of war that i wonder if we can ever find that place called peace….
KP => great to have you back! My motives were selfish, I fear, we need our friend from AZ here! :nixon:
Here we go again.
did they mention the rethug fundraising letter that went out, as well, suep?
Military Keynesianism is a government economic policy in which the government devotes large amounts of spending to the military in an effort to increase economic growth. This is a specific variation on Keynesian economics, developed by English economist John Maynard Keynes. Instances commonly supplied as examples of such policies are Germany in the 1930s and the United States in the 1980s, although whether these assessments are accurate is the subject of vigorous debate.
Wikipedia entry
If you want to worry about airline security, here’s a good article. Hint: water bottles are the least of your worries.
I don’t think that “military Keynesianism” is a necessary component of developed state capitalist societies, though it has been a major component for several centuries, dramatically so in the past half-century. The reasons, in part, are not economic: rather, that’s the easiest way to disguise from the public the fact that costs are being socialized while profits are privatized. Truman’s Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington put the matter rather accurately, when he said that the word we should use is “security,” not “subsidy.” Computers, the internet, and info. tech. generally are illustrative current examples. But other methods can be used as well. The biotech. industries, for example, are publicly subsidized by other devices (“a war on cancer,” etc.). On the side, whether these ways of using public funds are a good idea or a bad idea is a different topic: the question here is who decides.
NOAM CHOMSKY
I just sent you an email FK.
So, I just got a reply from Al Gore’s office to my inquiry about being a presenter of the info from his movie. The training session is 2 days in Nashville and is free, but you have to pay for travel and hotel expenses.I doubt I will be able to do it. If anyone is interested in filling out the application I can forward the email. Let me know.
The [Cold War] policies have deep institutional roots. The crucial planning document, N.S.C. 68, written just before the Korean War, warned of “a decline in economic activity of serious proportions” without a government stimulus through military spending. One function of the Pentagon system has been to insure that the public provides the costs of R&D and a state-guaranteed market for advanced industry while profits accrue to the private sector, a gift to the corporate manager. Thus, business has always been troubled by what The Wall Street Journal calls “the unsettling specter of peace,” and it grasps at the hope that a capital-intensive and high-tech military will still provide, as Gen. Edward Meyer assured, “a big business out there for industry.”
Despite the inefficiency and costs, such devices will not be easy to replace. It has long been taken for granted that large-scale government intervention is essential to maintain private economic power, but nonmilitary forms, however feasible in narrow economic terms, have unwelcome side effects. They tend to interfere with managerial prerogatives. organize new constituencies, redistribute income and in other ways foster democracy and reform, thus conflicting with the basic goals of social policy designed by the privileged. Military Keynesianism has none of those defects.
Noam Chomsky, 1990
Aww trav…I just wanted to put more shows on it 🙁
Oh, that’s cool then. You know how a drunk mind works, right? :doh:
Ice water is the best invention EVER!
I can’t believe you are up already!?
How’s your head:fustrate::doh:
My neck is sore from looking at the sky but:bow: that was so cool to see.
I cant’ believe I’m up either. I set the alarm for 10. I think from being dehydrated that it woke me up.
Anyway, I’ll try and be at the ‘place’ at noon.
Don’t forget the cord for the ipod ok?
OK.
Too much water is a bad thing. Even if it is the best invention ever:yuck: I’m cool, though
Think whale thoughts…
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
TONIGHT!!! TONIGHT!!! TONIGHT!!!
Or whenever since Maronites are all over the world.
Cool, PG. Maybe I’ll be able to get it to work on this computer I’m on now. 🙂
I’m waiting here at the bus stop. It won’t arrive for another 30 mins or so. So, when it finally does show up, I’ll still have to figure out where to get off. Um…don’t be mad if I’m a little late.
Yes PLEASE LISTEN. Please?
Anyone who’s listening tonight (and talkin’ in the chat room) can give some shout-outs to Godless Soldier. He dropped by the comments of a previous podcast (available here) to say hey so he’s listening!
8 pm Central on FREERADIOSAIC.org
Hey everyone…..The garage is CLEAN!!!
:alc: Now you can throw a garage party!
well, its not that nice;-)
Hey Melina!:banana::banana:
We’ll all close our eyes as we enter the garage for the garage party.
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
Party over here! Party over there!
Ill assemble a garage sale….stair climber and wood swingset included….
What a job and what alot of crap my grandfather saved
Its so great to fill a dumpster!
Stair climber?
What ever happened to those?
Oh. They’re all in your garage.
Slander Minute on tonight’s Grand National Championship
I call dibs on one of the swings!
:banana::banana::banana:
Who wants to swing with me?:hubba:
I’ll swing with ya, as long as we can swing in a cold place!:hot:
kevin & krista sittin’ in a
tree, err, swing, :billcat:stairmasters are baaaad boogie for Neuromas in the tootsies :tinfoil:
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DRAFT DODGER BLUES
I’m just a typical American boy from a typical American town
I believe in God and Senator Dodd and keeping old Castro down
And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than red
But when I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said:
CHORUS:
Sarge, I’m only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen, and I always carry a purse
I got eyes like a bat, my feet are flat, and my asthma’s getting worse
O think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old invalid aunt
Besides, I ain’t no fool, I’m a goin’ to school, and I’m working in a defense plant
I’ve got a dislocated disc and a racked up back, I’m allergic to flowers and bugs
And when the bombshell hits, I get epileptic fits, and I’m addicted to a thousand drugs
I got the weakness woes, and I can’t touch my toes, I can hardly reach my knees
And if the enemy came close to me, I’d probably start to sneeze
CHORUS:
I hate Chou En Lai, and I hope he dies, but one thing you gotta see
That someone’s gotta go over there, and that someone isn’t me
So I wish you well, Sarge, give ’em Hell, Yeah, Kill me a thousand or so
And if you ever get a war without blood and gore, Well I’ll be the first to go
CHORUS:
Greetings All,
kevin & krista , northern California is “Romantic”.
Like I said I want everyone 😎 to move here, take over completely, then RULE:fist: :rofl2: 😉
Shoot, even West Washington is already is being taken over (SblueHeron and Travis and…:?::fist:
Oregon anyone:?::banana: The Seditionists Party:!::banana::cool::fist:
“Painting Girl” You Must Be Psychic:banana::cool:. Last Night (Actually early this morning (my night)) I just sent Godless Soldier an email asking how is he, and to come onto MSists soon, since he is missed. :cool::wink:
I need to check my “sbcglobal” email. If I hear back anything, I’ll let you know, but hopefully, he will just “appear” here. 😉
:omg::pent:
Susan Joy, :cool::omg::pent:
I am listen’n and dancing to (now last minutes 🙁 )Dr. FWC on KTLK:banana::cool::banana::cool::banana::cool:
NOW HE EVEN IS CONFIRMING WHAT I SAID ON 8:10 re 8:10 and 9:11…Numerology and …
Dancing, eh? Maybe I should put it on…I’m drunk by the way. Well, a little. Just came from girl’s day out in the city and we got a little loopy on Sangria…
I may put in Pratical Magic (again) and make Margaritas
:cool::banana::alc::pent::cool:
FK, re #85, cnn did not mention the fund raising e-mail sent by my favorite Mayor, Giuliani, within 2 hours of the Terrorist news:omg:.. I hear there is a new book coming out about Rudy.
:growl:I still take it as simply as 8:10 and 9:11 but Dr. F is stillllll 😎 (I’m good for the debate :rofl2:)
I have to run to put on my SCIFI/FAN TV Shows:banana::cool:
From Dailykos:
Who said this?
The United States needs to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq within the next six months . . . rather than ratcheting up its military commitment now.
With Iraq exploding in sectarian violence and “moving closer and closer to a straight-out civil war,” the Bush administration’s decision to transfer nearly 5,000 additional U.S. troops into Baghdad is “only going to make it worse for us.” In the end . . . “feed(ing) more American troop fodder into the fight” could result in “even a worse defeat.”
Iraqis are “going to have to step up” and assume responsibility for defense of their country, . . . [I]ncreasing U.S. troop strength in Iraq by extending military tours while cycling in new troops is a mistake. Eventually, we need to start pulling people out of there. . . With violence “out of control” and militias in charge . . . U.S. troops increasingly are “seen as occupiers.”
. . . Asked what the United States could do, [he] said “Ask the president. Ask Secretary (of Defense Donald) Rumsfeld. They’re the ones who got us into this.”
And who said this?
Does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq? Yes we do. And it is important to make it clear to the American people that the plan has not remained stubbornly still but has changed over the years. Mistakes, some of them big, were made after Saddam was removed, and no one who supports the war should hesitate to admit that; but we have learned from those mistakes and, in characteristic American fashion, from what has worked and not worked on the ground. The administration’s recent use of the banner “clear, hold and build” accurately describes the strategy as I saw it being implemented last week.
The first Republican is Chuck Hagel
The second Republican is Joe Liberman
Descent Into Moral Barbarism
Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination?
By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
As Israel’s military bravely fires away shells and missiles to lay waste the fragile human and physical infrastructure of Lebanon, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, waging battle on a second front to legitimize Israel’s criminal aggression, bravely fires away op-eds from his foxhole at Martha’s Vineyard to lay waste the fragile infrastructure of international law. These are but the latest salvoes in Dershowitz’s long and distinguished career of apologetics on behalf of his Holy State.
Since becoming a born-again Zionist after the June 1967 war Dershowitz has justified each and all of Israel’s egregious violations of international law. In recent years he has used the “war on terrorism” as a springboard for a full frontal assault on this body of law. Appearing shortly after the outbreak of the second intifada, his book Why Terrorism Works (2002) served to rationalize Israel’s brutal repression of the uprising. In 2006 Dershowitz published a companion volume, Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways, to justify Israel’s preventive use of force against Iran. It is painfully clear from their content that Dershowitz possesses little knowledge or for that matter interest in the timely political topics that purport to be the stimuli for his interventions. In reality each book is keyed to a current Israeli political crisis and seeks to rationalize the most extreme measures for resolving it. If Why Terrorism Works used the war on terrorism as a juggernaut to set back the clock on protection of civilians from occupying armies, Preemption uses the war on terrorism to set back the clock on the protection of states from wars of aggression. Dershowitz’s current missives from Martha’s Vineyard take aim at the protection of civilians in times of war.
The central premise of Dershowitz is that “international law, and those who administer it, must understand that the old rules” do not apply in the unprecedented war against a ruthless and fanatical foe, and that “the laws of war and the rules of morality must adapt to these [new] realities.” This is not the first time such a rationale has been invoked to dispense with international law. According to Nazi ideology, ethical conventions couldn’t be applied in the case of “Jews or Bolsheviks; their method of political warfare is entirely amoral.” On the eve of the “preventive war” against the Soviet Union, Hitler issued the Commissar Order, which mandated the summary execution of Soviet political commissars and Jews, and set the stage for the Final Solution. He justified the order targeting them for assassination on the ground that the Judeo-Bolsheviks represented a fanatical ideology, and that in these “exceptional conditions” civilized methods of warfare had to be cast aside:
In the fight against Bolshevism it must not be expected that the enemy will act in accordance with the principles of humanity or international lawany attitude of consideration or regard for international law in respect of these persons is an errorThe protagonists of barbaric Asiatic methods of warfare are the political commissars. Accordingly if captured in battle or while resisting, they should in principle be shot.
It was simultaneously alleged that the Red Army commissars (who were assimilated to Jews) qualified neither as prisoners of war protected by the Geneva Convention nor civilians entitled to trial before military courts, but rather were in effect illegal combatants. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
:omg: Yowzah!!!!
a lot of good posts today, Nicki
holy shite n.r.
those barbaric yellow, brown, red evildoers. i bet the soviet troops hated the germans’ freedoms (like the freedom to do whatever they wanted to anyone for any reason). killers, terrorists….foammmmmm.
hi all, just stopped on my way to painting girl’s gig.
whew!
roxie
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Roxie!:banana::banana::banana:
Was getting ready to call you…glad you checked in…
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Come one… preferably all!
Reagan had no character as person, Demdorp on Arne Arneson show. He was a fucking dolt!:fu:
Hey Sheeple, Just passing though on my way to bed. Early to rise tomorrow. Added a video clip page to my site. Go here to view the page. The first two clips are of tonight’s Mike Wallace interview of Iranian President Ahmadinejad. I plan on adding my own personal video’s in the coming weeks. Sort of a travelog of the Birmingham and surrounding areas. Hope everyone has a good evening, goodnight and tomorrow. You guys and girls try not to stay up all night. And turn off the lights when you come to bed. And the computer too. There’s an energy crisis or haven’t you heard! Later ppl.
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
Sweet dreams man…
Hey nick!!:love:
Funny- I was sort of pissed at the attitude of that Iranianienjad…but wanted to post the rerun of the Colbert piece!!
But I have to get an actual post happening first…Just wrecked from cleaning otu the garage today w/ Mexicans…lots of mold…really bad…but we filled a whole dumpster…a big one!
I miss AAR as it used to be….tomorrow we apparently find out about Seder’s future at the station.
Even if they keep him it still sucks…but at least there is one show.
Why would they remove the funny totally?
Whats with that?
blue- sorry I misse dyou and Trav…I hope you did something fun!
Ohhh I have to knit a baby something by this Thursday so if I’m quiet I’m really:knit::knit2::knit::knit2:
I didn’t miss anything while I was sleeping the whole day, did I? :billcat:
Hey, Sblue, throw down the names of the people you were talking about today so I can look them up? You know, that artist/writer guy…
Somebody should throw it down.
Ok. I can read the writing on the wall. 881
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Tonight’s Maron and Earl filled show is up in podcast form at http://twentyfour.podomatic.com
Thanks so much for everyone who listened live! It made my week!
Who was that? The one we listened to?
No. Um, I think I could look on the pod for that name. I mean the person that woman was stocking and sorta:paranoid: With the notebook
Hey thanks Painting girl! Good show but it was cuttin’ up so I will d’load the podcast and enjoy it again.
Oh yeah..let me find a link..
link
Ok so that didn’t work:doh:
no linky
:40: ice water a good thing.
:40: but some think it is a shock to your kidneys:nod:
Cool. Um, if there’s any other people I should know about, maybe you could throw them down, too
OK. That’s cool. I have to go eat something anyway. Throw it down later then
Maybe you could get a job in a bookstore?
eh?
Maybe. I think I’ll have to settle for anything that comes my way, and is easy to catch:billcat:
Who else was I blethering about?:tinfoil:
You could be a barista but it would be hard on the:ear:
The mineral water did me in!:omg::tongue:
Ok I gotta root in the stash and figure out my:knit:
Ok:peace:
Really???:shock: I am so sorry.:holla:
:peace:http://www.seapeace.org/
I’ll correspond with ya’ tomorrow. Later. (Hey, the bottle never said what was in it. What are these minerals anyway?:paranoid: I think I need a notebook)
Greetings All:
I am running but just wanted to say I am Here:hubba:
but I may be running for an office, although Dems here are eck aka same ol’ same ol’ but this is my first County office…
But I think I burn too hot (Leo :growl:Rising :wink:)
and WHATEVER there was on hwy 36 a major animal abuse to about 20 animals :growl::growl::growl:
and I have a Doc appointment tomorrow yet I have to call when??? and cal regarding county office.
oh hi Druid- I gave my friend your email addy today not sure if anything will come of it. Just wanted to say good luck with all you are doing:nod:
:yawn::yawn::yawn:
check you tomorrow
sblueheron , But I am not here:!: cuz you need to sleep.
:knit:Pleasant Dreams:gate:Merry Journeys Night and Day :banana:
:hot:2 people on!
SeanMS, Wat up?
I was gathering clothes to wash. Exciting huh :growl:
Prof. Chomsky, you claimed that the provocation and counter-provocation all serve as a distraction from the real issue. What does it mean?
“I assume you are referring to John Berger’s letter (which I signed, among others). The “real issue” that is being ignored is the systematic destruction of any prospects for a viable Palestinian existence as Israel annexes valuable land and major resources, leaving the shrinking territories assigned to Palestinians as unviable cantons, largely separated from one another and from whatever little bit of Jerusalem is to be left to Palestinians, and completely imprisoned as Israel takes over the Jordan valley.
“This program of realignment cynically disguised as “withdrawal,” is of course completely illegal, in violation of Security Council resolutions and the unanimous decision of the World Court (including the dissenting statement of US Justice Buergenthal). If it is implemented as planned, it spells the end of the very broad international consensus on a two-state settlement that the US and Israel have unilaterally blocked for 30 years – matters that are so well documented that I do not have to review them here.
“To turn to your specific question, even a casual look at the Western press reveals that the crucial developments in the occupied territories are marginalized even more by the war in Lebanon. The ongoing destruction in Gaza – which was rarely seriously reported in the first place – has largely faded into the background, and the systematic takeover of the West Bank has virtually disappeared.
“However, I would not go as far as the implication in your question that this was a purpose of the war, though it clearly is the effect. We should recall that Gaza and the West Bank are recognized to be a unit, so that if resistance to Israel’s destructive and illegal programs is legitimate within the West Bank (and it would be interesting to see a rational argument to the contrary), then it is legitimate in Gaza as well.”
… I believe passionately in a two-state solution, which includes a strong, independent, economically viable Palestinian state existing along side a strong, independent, economically vibrant Israel. It is the only solution that will bring peace to the civilians who now live in fear of death raining down from above—either because of the missiles of Hezbollah or the bombs of Israeli aircraft.
I do not believe Israel is a terrorist state. I do believe that Israel has committed acts that violate international standards and the Geneva conventions. In Israel, such a statement that the military has committed acts that violate the Geneva convention and international standards and has also engaged in torture (or, as it is called, “moderate pressure”) would be a subject of debate but hardly considered novel or particularly radical. Among the many sources for the truth, beyond my personal experience, is the Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem. If you visit the organization’s website, you will find condemnation of both Israeli and Palestinian violence against civilians of each side.
http://www.btselem.org/English/
Jonathon Tasini