Sunday, and time to play “who’s the token Democrat” (aka, Peace Demonstration? What Peace Demonstration?) on our fine “news” programs. First, up, on with Dick Cheney’s puppet, Timmy Potatohead, it’s the Republican governor of Arkansas and Iraq War Supporter, Mike Huckabee, Chuckles “voted for the war” Schumer, Republican war supporter David Vitter od Louisiana (how’s that rebuilding of New Orleans going Davey?), former dubys speech write and war supporter Michael Gerson, and Iraq war supporter Ken Pollack, of the Brooking’s Institution.
Over at Faze the Nation, Republicans Mitch “the prick” McConnell (pro War), and Arlen “I’m moderate until I vote” Specter (pro War) double team Jim Webb. Doesn’t seem like a fair fight, does it? They ought to toss a couple more of these lightweight candyassed Republicans out there to help out.
On Fux News Sunday, weaselface Wallace hosts Republicans Sam Bareback Brownback (pro War) of krazy Kansas, and smarmy traitor (and pro-est of pro War douchebags) Joe “Zell” Lieberman.
Over at Goebbels, it’s Senator MBNA (pro War), and Republican Dick Lugar (pro War), plus Republican Fuckin’ Duncan Hunter (pro War), on to let us see just how delusional he is. At the Roundtable, it’s WaPost Columnist E.J. “grey poupon” Dionne and former Pentagon spokesbitch Torie Clarke, Martha Raddatz, and George :jerk: Will. Plus, for some reason, Kevin Bacon.
For CNN’s Late Emission, Woof “please don’t hurt me Mr. Cheney” Blitzer’s guests include war supporters Jay Rockefeller, asshole Jon “Krazy” Kyl, token black Republican Michael Steele, and Chris Dodd, as well as Donna “loser” Brazile.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft reports on the rise of the Geeks (yes, be afraid. be very, very afraid). Bob Simon reports on Joe Dresnok, who defected to North Korea in 1962, and Morley Safer reports on probably the world’s most eloquent autistic savant, Daniel Tammet.
Plus, there’s all the usual Sunday night fare. Enjoy.
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C-span is web casting the presentations portion of the march from yesterday if you are interested
http://www.c-span.org
I find it kind of interesting that the M$M actually has said something about the demonstration yesterday . From PJ comments they seem to be atoning for it on the Sunday am programs
I could be that they intend to show that the people said to GTF out of Iraq but look the dem congress is incapable of performing so you are screwed .. voting for dems is futile ..so go back and curl up in your fetal position under your bed and suck your thumb .
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I haven’t seen any aeriel shots of the gathering but some people indicated there was grid lock from the mall to the capital because of the crowd .. that has to be good ..
Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders
Boasts of a nuclear programme are just propaganda, say insiders, but the PR could be enough to provoke Israel into war
http://tinyurl.com/2c7q8p
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Thats to bad if this is true .. I think some MAD in the middle east would prove worth while . :reaper: :reaper:
Lynn Woolsey must not have any defense contractors in her congressional district
I believe she said the house resolution to cut off the funding of the war was HR508
Clinton concedes role in authorizing war
DES MOINES, Iowa – New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton blamed President Bush on Saturday for misusing authority given him by Congress to act in Iraq, but conceded “I take responsibility” for her role in allowing that to happen.
(snip)
“I have said clearly and consistently for quite some time that I regret the way the president misused the authority,” said Clinton. “He misled Congress and the country on what he was seeking and what he intended to do.”
The responsibility Clinton said she accepts was helping clear the way for Bush’s path in Iraq.
“I take responsibility for having voted to give him that authority,” she said. “My focus is on what we do now. That is the proper debate.”
http://tinyurl.com/ypnmw9
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Well she at least took responsibility for something ..
The typical politicians response would be “Who Me”
US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors
Washington urges scientists to develop ways to reflect sunlight as ‘insurance’
http://tinyurl.com/26lvc8
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Fred, Hillary “taking responsibility” is so much bullsh*t. I knew that he wasn’t going to war “as a last resort”, he was going right in . So did you. So did the half-million people who marched in NYC before the war. You didn’t have to be a genius to know. If she’s supposed to be that smart, and she didn’t know, than she’s an idiot and not capable of being president.
She is trying to say her vote was wrong without saying it was wrong, and the heck with that. If she would come out and say “It was politically impossible to vote no back then so I took the coward’s way out and voted yes”, then MAYBE we could talk. But with this she is parsing the definition of “for”, and I say the hell with her. :rant1: 😡 :fustrate:
Good Morning. :joe: Fleece bed sheets are AWESOME! Just call me kozy. :love:
Smoke and mirrors, huh. Isn’t Bushco already using that tactic? :fustrate:
Hey, thanks for the link to the CNN video, Em. On C-SPAN, I couldn’t tell she was wearing her “Send a Chickenhawk to Iraq” sweatshirt.
The Bush administration will inform Congress on Monday that Israel may have violated agreements with the United States when it fired American-supplied cluster munitions into southern Lebanon during its fight with Hezbollah last summer, the State Department said Saturday.
The finding, though preliminary, has prompted a contentious debate within the administration over whether the United States should penalize Israel for its use of cluster munitions against towns and villages where Hezbollah had placed its rocket launchers.
http://tinyurl.com/2ou2j3
They should give them a very stiff fine, and a severe scolding. :no:
There’s a guy in my program, who’s been in a bunch of my classes that’s from Lebanon. He went home over the last break for the first time since before the war. He said mostly all the buildings have been reduced to rubble. Just holes in the ground, and burned out shells. I guess he had some trouble trying to get out of the country again, too.
nytimes put themselves out with a pathetic article on the anti-war protests…..on page 20 with some pitiful picts. it’s true, the revolution won’t be televised.
fleece sheets? never heard of those.
common, we need to sell those cluster munitions to someone ; we’re talkin’ amerikan jobs here….didn’t we ignore israel selling US arms and trading nuke projects to south africa during the embargo? past behavior predicts future behavior…
We kind of ignored the attack on the USS Liberty, too. Israel is more or less untouchable in US politics. Look at the backlash on Jimmy Carter, of all people.
I am amazed that the Bush administration noticed Israel’s transgression and I fear that the Bushies may be trying to hold something over Israel in an effort to get them to do something like attack Iran.
I used to get the Times, but since it pretty much sucks, I quit it. I have access to Lexis, so I can read the columnists that I don’t despise and anything else is out there on the web. Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately), the traditional media has made itself more and more irrelevant. Especially on the teevee. With the flashy lights and graphics, I think it’s become more like jiggling the shiny keys in front of the baby’s eyes to keep people hypnotized in between attempts to sell you pharmaceuticals that you can’t really tell what they’re for, but it sure looks they’re good.
You really think they need to bully Israel into attacking Iran? Doesn’t seem like that would be a very tough sell.
Is there a concern from those allies that America is too tied down, too overwhelmed with the situation in Iraq to deal with Iran?
I haven’t seen that. Most of the nations in that part of the world believe their security is supported, if you will, by the United States. They want us to have a major presence there. When we—as the president did, for example, recently—deploy another aircraft-carrier task force to the gulf, that sends a very strong signal to everybody in the region that the United States is here to stay, that we clearly have significant capabilities and that we are working with friends and allies as well as the international organizations to deal with the Iranian threat.
http://tinyurl.com/25mtwm
I think it is possible that the Israeli’s, themselves, may not be thrilled with hitting Iran, knowing that Iran has the capability of hitting them back, and hitting them back hard.
Why would the Bush administration cite Israel for any transgression? Have they done that before?
The US ought to be thinking the same thing re: Iran, too – whether it’s the US or Israel that hits them. But, well, rational thinking isn’t really this administrations strong suit. I think the clusterbomb thing was out in the, so I’m sure they feel they have to chide Israel to some extent. Maybe cut back on arms sales for something they don’t really want. Or maybe nothing at all. I doubt you see a Security Council resolution condemning them being allowed to pass. But, who knows?
I think dubya is more than stupid enough to wanna do Iran all by himself. No point in sharing the “glory.” I just wonder if there’s anybody in the military capable of stopping him.
israelis were not happy with olmert’s Lebanon debacle (did they ever get those soldiers back?)
frank rich torches hillary clinton today.
No, they aren’t happy with him. The general is falling on his sword over it. The question is, are the Israelis unhappy because they started it, or because they stopped?
good question.
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A friend just sent the following graph about David Broder’s column (without a link, sorry I’m too lazy to look it up).
I dislike Broder intensely, but somebody smarter than I will have to explain what’s unfair about what he said.
Now, and far more importantly, no wait, first let me apologize for not keeping up here. That has to be said because you all may have been discussing the rumors about the prospective Air America buyer, and I would have no way of knowing that without reading the last 3 weeks of blog posts. I have a Google Alert set for Air America, so I’ve been reading for many weeks that there WAS a suitor, and in just the last few days, the names Richard French and Dick French and their TV Station WRNN have been in the Googled-up articles I’ve received. This morning, I finally did my own Google search, and the results are pretty anemic. I didn’t find a website for the station, but did find some pretty esoteric info, like WRNN stands for R)egional N)ews N)etwork, and they won a FCC frequency battle with a station that broadcasts Korean church services.
I also found this, and if what this is isn’t apparent, scroll down the page to 01-23-07. Here, let me save you the trouble:
I thought you’d like that. 😀 😀 😀 😀
I didn’t see Hillary’s (or McCain’s) questioning of Petraeus, but Broder is a Republican shill who appears to be in love with Joe Lieberman, so I don’t know as I’d put much stock in anything he writes. Not that I’m particularly enamored of Hillary.
According to Maureen Dowd, the questioning by Clinton, Lieberman, and McCain was all about their own political aspirations and posturing:
The number of New Yorkers forced into foreclosure is skyrocketing, especially in Nassau County, where foreclosures have jumped a stunning 82 percent in the past year.
According to foreclosure tracking firm RealtyTrac, the number of city foreclosures went up 15 percent in 2006 from the year before, while Long Island jumped 55 percent. The national rate surged by 42 percent.
http://tinyurl.com/2cq3do
For an economy that doing “great”, this seems like a problem.
And new home sales are at a 16-year low, too. But, hey, the stock market is doing just dandy – for now.
re #24 Maybe one of our more Select members can unlock the message of Rich for us or post it on a blog. No one at my gym was giving it up this morning. BTW, does that paper regularly run Dowd’s columns?
I think calling Broder a repubican shill is a little harsh just because he like a lot of moderates still like Lieberman. I do agree that he has moved right as he ages but he has done some good in his day (which may have passed)..
I don’t knoow: :tommygun: OR :banana:
Good afternoon (almost here, more elsewhere and night to King Kong.)
Ha. That’s not harsh. This is harsh.
OK,OK! Honestly I haven’t paid much attention to the guy lately
Back in the days of VietNam and Watergate, it seemed like all things at the Washington Post were cool. Broder was on Meet the Press and a few of the few talking head shows of the era and was good. I was in school in Charlottesville and had the Post delivered and got DC television and was young and impressionable. I don’t see the Post much now except when I go back to VA.
Afternoon all. Well I had an interesting day at the car rental shop, which believe me is saying a lot given the usual tedium. I had a reservation for one of our moving trucks and noticed the last name seemed familiar. Nah, a coincidence I thought to myself, when a few moments later in walked my newly elected representative Joe Sestak to pick up said moving truck. I figured once you become involved in federal level gov’t you’d have “people” for this, but no he bought a house a few miles away and was doing the moving himself.
I think I may actually be impressed. That and he took one of my Phoenix Systems business cards so I might be his official computer repair dude! COOL!!
Cool, Andy. Did you tell him you’re the BIOS guy, too?
Ah, The Day After is on Sci-Fi. A cheery little flick – almost 25 years old, and becoming more and more relevant again.
San Francisco Values
A coalition of San Francisco lawyers is asking the California State Bar to investigate whether a Bush administration official violated legal ethics when he called for a boycott of law firms that represent Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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Thanks. We aim to please, especially by being harsh.
We aren’t real big on deference over at Corrente.
That movie scared the crap out me out me when I first saw it.
re 37. Haing him take my business card was AWARD enough.
Oh, welcome Lambert and Jeany!
In that case, Lambert, I’ll have to add a link to you.
Arh. :rofl2:
Wonder if anybody else’ll get that?
The damn movie’s a bit chilling, even now. Just got mesmerized by the missile launch scene. Then got lost exploring this missile silo.
Yeah it was the missiles rising up out of the cornfields(?) that freaked me out. That and my ex -wife is from Marion KS. and there were/are silos around there as well.
I think you and I are the only geeky ones here today.
Have you heard from Granny? How was the rally?
Griffis AFB was about 40 miles to the east of us here. There was a B-52 nuke squadron stationed there until a few years back. Over to the west was the Seneca Army Depot, where they used to store nuclear weapons, including (reportedly) neutron bombs and other warheads. Also to the east, over by Utica is the NYS Power Authority, where all the electricity from the hydro plants in Western NY, the nuke plants just north of us in Oswego, and over towards Rochester, and from NNY and Canada comes through and gets distributed downstate. Back in the 60’s, there was a lot of military stuff being done at the GE plant here. We were supposedly right up there on the list of targets. Not really anyplace you can go, except to hope you got a relatively direct hit. Radiation poisoning doesn’t look like a good way to go.
Yeah, she’s on her way back. ETA probably around 5:30ish. She said the march was great. Got to shake hands with Kucinich (I was more interested in his wife – no disrespect to Dennis). She stayed at the Wm Penn house in DC, and there were a lot of other activists there, too, so they had a good old time at breakfast this morning.
49. Outstanding
48. I think pretty much anywhere in the northest corridor and you’re toast.
Thanks, Andy @ 42. I’ve been here before.
I was surprised that none of the Maronistas picked up the last bit about Maron being in the “new owner” discussion.
Knock knock?
There was a slew of silos here in Delaware county, they have all since been dismantled….NIKE missiles.
This is disturbing
51. Woah, I missed that! :fire:
Hey Jeany, yeah, the Maron/French was cool. We actually talked about it earlier in the week. I just hope it all comes together.
NIKE missiles? No shit. I wonder if they were made by sweatshop labor in Indonesia or something. I’ve seen some of these old silos for sale, and rehabbed as housing. It would be kinda neat to live in one. Sorta.
I used to make parts for Pershing missiles, back in my foundry days. Just some sorta castings.
The Marianas I think. But those silos were somewhat on the small side so I don’t think you could turn it into housing.
hey from nyc….west side hwy
Actually, this Titan Silo appears rather spacious – 45,000 square feet. A bit oddly configured, perhaps….
hey…..marc was great with sam on fri
Nike missiles were anti aircraft weapans . They guarded most major cities pre ICBMs from attack by Russian strategic bombers .
During the Cuban missile crisis Russian Bear bombers ( 4 engine turboprops ) routinely flew photo missions over Florida , and Georgia flying out of Cuba at an altitude of 100 feet or less to avoid our radar .. The Bear is still in service .. In fact the Russians built some more in the late 1990s
http://ed-thelen.org/missiles.html
You sure they just weren’t named that ‘cuz when they launched ’em, they went, “swoosh?”
So, Melina, I see your Senator, holy Joe, says he’s not sure if he’ll be voting for a Democrat in 2008, now that he’s uh indeependunt.
Warren AFB at Cheyenne Wyoming Rapid City South Dakota and Minot North Dakota are command centers for the some 1200 Minuter Man III silo based ICBMs we still have in service . We also have 14 Trident submarines each with 12 Poseidon ICBMs . It used to be there were 4 on patrol in the sea of Japan 24/7.
The Russians have about 800 ICBMs, I think they have four missile firing submarines still in service . About a third of their land based arsenal are on road mobile launchers. All of their ICBMs are solid fueled missiles . The Russians did a major weapon system upgrade in the 1995 time frame so most of there ICBMs are around 10 years only,
The newest Minute Man is about 25 years old . They used to keep remanufacturing them .. (note the used too ). 😮
Oh, yeah, I remember those Nikes. I always thought they were kinda cool looking, with the fins. Kinda like my dad’s Bonneville convertible. ’66, I think it was.
Must be disaster day on Sci-Fi. Next up, a volcano under NYC.
Well, granny’ll be home in a few minutes (about time; these women sure do stop a lot when they drive places). I guess I better pay the hookers and send them on their way.
There were like three generations of Titan ICBMs all silo based put in the ground starting in the late 1950s, They were all liquid fuel based and they all used different silo designs Most of the launch complexes covered several hundred acres The living quarters,back up generators, fuel storage , and command bunkers were all underground connected by tunnels. Some times all that was above ground was some innocent looking farm house where there was a elevator that went down to the catacombs . ( and four or five very mean looking air police people)
59. I would love to have that control console. I been planning a fan film based on the TV series Time Tunnel. Of course I’ll be doing the James Darren part.
The launch complexes were all connected via some failsafe appliance to the defense dept . and then both launch officers had to unlock the firing console with some operation that required keys to be turned at the same time while they were standing several tens of feet apart . There was some command and control document that was circulated that showed how to unlock the system with two clip leads . They supposedly went to devcon 5 several times when the communications system went on the fritz ,. 😮
The minute man sites are all independent silos . The missiles are targeted and fired from the control center. Generally two people control maybe 10 missiles. They just have a 10 foot real lock fence with concertina wire around the top around each silo along with TV cameras and intrusion detectors. You could be driving down some country road and drive right by one and never notice .. Just don’t try to cut through the fence . 😮
MELINA
CAN YOU POST FRANK RICH FOR FOLKS? I don’t want to post the whole thing here since it mucks up the blog because of the its length.
maybe this link will work for others…
(Welcome home RG!)
re SF values. Yes!
I also was thinking before that the law firms may have an action against Stimson for tortious interference with business relationship – inducing a third party or parties not to enter into or continue a business relationship is actionable. And Stimson was not acting within the scope of his gov’t job (no immunity).
PJ, Americablog has a video of the march featuring the grannies, I couldn’t tell your’s was in it or not.
Jill today has a great survey on Hagel’s vote history.
Hey Farmerkat!
Thanks, Andy. Very good look at junior in that video – without his Bush Mask on.
OK…Im home finally. I was trying to post from the hihway in the city but I almost crashed and figured that maybe I should just read at stoplights instead of actually blogging.
Jeany-If youre still reading…I did some research on RIPCoco (address up to the right in links or some such) and I found quite a bit about the French family and even clips of the son’s show.
The one thing about the google search crawler that you have to watch out for is that alot of what comes in is not real news….i.e. alot of minor blogs, like mine, are writing in glee about the total failure of AAR and how stupid the left-rich are to put money towards this…but, man, I cant imagine anything better or more important to the world than AAR. I wish that some of it could be public so that I could invest!
Anyway, if you go down a few posts you will find what Ive found on the French’s and…I have to say that I like them so far.
Ive also seen mentioned that Marc is negotiating with them, but I dont knwo if thats true. It seems like a no-brainer to me.
Kat, yes, I will put Rich up. No problem. I have some very interesting pictorial map fash thingys up there right now that I love…but they overlap my sidebar, such as it is, and so I have to move them down anyway.
PJ…I wish there was an easy way for you to tell me how to make a sidebar on each side way over the the edges, but I mayu have to wait till I have some time to really look at this thing.
seems I hit the bold button up there…oh well….sorry bout that.
K- its up…but also check below to see the maps-o-war…really cool!
Family Guy just had the funniest gag with Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell surviving the rapture and having nothing left to hate except a rock and each other. But then they start making out. :rofl2:
Wow, now Stewy is dancing with Gene Kelly.
Tonights family guy was excellent. So Krista, can you name the movie that the scene with Gene Kelly was taken from?
No, Andy. I cannot name it. Never been much of a fan of musicals. :blech:
But that was some excellent dancing and animation.
“Anchors Aweigh” Apparently to this day it’s considered film making milestone. It was originally Jerry the mouse that was the animated character.
That’s entertainment was on the local PBS station a while back and it had that scene in it.
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last? 😐
Andy aka Aquaman * Wanna Dance. “Gotta Dance, Gotta Dance, Gotta Dance.” Which Dance Show from Gene was that and when did Gene do that wonderful “pas de deux” with Freddie (Cheers Fred 😉 .)
I could have won your test about the 3 dudes, let loose in NY. And how Gene fell for the female lead, after dance with “Jerry”. :rofl2:
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Movie: A Green Flash Italy
Credit & Copyright: Danilo Pivato (Beyond the Moon)
Explanation: How could the Sun turn green? Difficult to observe, the momentary green flash above the rising or setting sun has been documented as a phenomenon caused by the atmospheric bending or refraction of sunlight. Like a weak prism, the Earth’s atmosphere breaks white sunlight into colors, bending red colors slightly and green and blue colors through increasingly larger angles. When the sky is clear, agreen flash just above the sun’s edge can sometimes be seen for a second or so, when the sun is close to a distant horizon. Still, from a site atop Mt. Autore (altitude 1,850 meters) in Italy astrophotographer Danilo Pivato captured this dramatic green flash movie. The time between frames varies from over one minute in the beginning to about one second as the flash becomes visible.
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couldn’t resist: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_734.html
White Dwarf Stars
Pushing the limits of its powerful vision, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered the oldest burned-out stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. These extremely old, dim “clockwork stars” provide a completely independent reading on the age of the universe.
The ancient white dwarf stars, as seen by Hubble, are 12-13 billion years old. Because earlier Hubble observations show that the first stars formed less than 1 billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang, finding the oldest stars puts astronomers well within arm’s reach of calculating the absolute age of the universe.
Though previous Hubble research sets the age of the universe at 13-14 billion years based on the rate of expansion of space, the universe’s birthday is such a fundamental and profound value that astronomers have long sought other age-dating techniques to cross-check their conclusions.
Globular clusters are the first pioneer settlers of the Milky Way. Many coalesced to build the hub of our galaxy and formed billions of years before the appearance of the Milky Way’s magnificent pinwheel disk. Today 150 globular clusters survive in the galactic halo. The globular cluster M4 was selected because it is the nearest to Earth, so the intrinsically feeblest white dwarfs are still apparently bright enough to be picked out by Hubble.
Image credit: NASA and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)
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