So, another hypocrite Republican supposedly bites the dust today. See ya around the airport, Larry. It’s one thing to be a hypocrite, but to be so self-loathing and opportunistic to not just turn your back on who and what you are, but to go out of your way to make life miserable for your fellow, um, fellows, is just so twisted and disgusting. In other words, typically Republican.
No doubt, some wealthy thug made Larry an offer he couldn’t refuse. I’m sure he’ll be making bug bucks working for major corporation as soon as this all blows over (so to speak). He might even get the key to the executive washroom. Hopefully it has floor to ceiling partitions between the stalls.
That’s what’s so annoying about all these bastards – Craig, Rove, Snow, Gonzo, and their ilk. Sure, they may resign with, at best, a modicum of shame, but they’ll be back out there in no time, making more money in a week than I’ll see in a lifetime. And they’ll still have their grubby little fingers into everything – probably to be reborn ala Cheney, Rummy, and Negroponte into another corrupt administration a few years down the line. If we actually have a few more years left. The way they’ve fucked this world up so far, who knows?
from beneath the shadows….. :paranoid:
good morning seditionists!!! :banana: :joe: :love:
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Quietgirl! How are you?
I’m off to rent cars….. :yuck:
QUIET QIRL, XOXOXO don’t go away, my computor is weitf
andy aka Aquaman, go be brilliant. 😉 Have a good day. :dancers:
Good Morning :joe: So, we haven’t heard from Marc in a while. Is he still in Scotland?
Good morning, :joe: :joe:
Isn’t Craig supposed to resign shortly? I guess he’s not going to plead alcoholism and go to rehab. But I’m sure he needs to spend more time with his family.
Craig going down at 12:30 PM EDT, I think.
Borrowed from Brilliant
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Thats why you need Vigilance committees or better yet Orkin when these rethugroaches are involved.. :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
I say we institute exiling. But it aint enough that they be exiled from their own country in a global society. They need to be exiled from the PLANET! :fu:
A federal judge yesterday barred the Bush administration from launching a crackdown Tuesday on U.S. employers who hire illegal immigrants while she considers a lawsuit by the AFL-CIO that charges that the plan will harm citizens and other legal workers.
The ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge Maxine M. Chesney in San Francisco, prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from starting to mail notices to 140,000 employers about suspect Social Security numbers. The “no- match” letters warn of penalties employers face by having discrepancies in their paperwork.
The order was a victory for the labor federation and the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit alleging that DHS is overstepping its authority to enforce immigration laws and is misusing a Social Security Administration database. They allege that the letters are an effort to pressure businesses to fire workers whose documents are flagged and could expose countless immigrant workers — including law-abiding citizens and legal residents — to job discrimination.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/31/AR2007083101900.html?wpisrc=newsletter
U.S. manufacturers are increasingly exporting goods, including toys and pacifiers, that do not meet domestic safety standards, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Companies notified the agency 97 times last year that they planned to export goods that did not meet some aspect of U.S. safety standards. That is up from 57 times in 2002, according to the agency.
Among the types of goods exported were toys, lighters, fireworks, clothing, chemicals, carpets and pacifiers. They were shipped to Belgium, Ireland, New Zealand, Colombia, the Czech Republic and the Philippines, according to the CPSC. The agency did not identify the companies involved or reveal what standards the goods violate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/31/AR2007083101877.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Great lets exile them to the sun.. it would better prepare them for their after life :reaper: :reaper:
Court: Mexican trucks program to proceed
SAN FRANCISCO — The Bush administration can go ahead with a pilot program to allow as many as 100 Mexican trucking companies to freely haul their cargo anywhere within the U.S. for the next year, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request made by the Teamsters union, the Sierra Club and the nonprofit Public Citizen to halt the program.
The appeals court ruled the groups have not satisfied the legal requirements to immediately stop what the government is calling a “demonstration project,” but can continue to argue their case.
The trucking program is scheduled to begin Thursday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Mexican_Trucks.html
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Will Sean have to kiss his job good by ?? :yuck:
U.S. Military Censors ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress is now banned from the U.S. military network in Baghdad.
Recently, an avid ThinkProgress reader — a U.S. soldier serving his second tour in Iraq — wrote to us and said that he can no longer access ThinkProgress.org.
The ban began sometime shortly after Aug. 22, when Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste was our guest blogger on ThinkProgress. He posted an op-ed that was strongly critical of the President’s policies and advocated a “responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq.†Previously, both the Wall Street Journal and Washington Times had rejected the piece
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/31/military-censors/
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Vigilance committees :sheep: le Vigilance committees :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
Interesting piece on Rice, her legacy and future.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/washington/01rice.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&hp&adxnnl=0&adxnnlx=1188652999-uDzIJZOnrwVCNCw5aKLYOg&oref=slogin
I think a lot of SBR exports do not meet the SBRs own safety or environmental standards.
As an example a lot of the cars we export to the third world don’t meet EPA air pollution standards :yuck: :crap: :paranoid: :paranoid:
KP, I’m for exiling. But, we could have more fun if we sent them to their appropriate reward.
For instance, Greedy Dick and his wife could spend 8 years in a Soweto slum. Bush and his lovely family could live in an Iraqi refugee camp. Rumsfeld would do well as a foot soldier in Iraq. Then we could send them to the sun.
I say we liquidate all their holdings so they’re broke. Then they have to spend the rest of their lives in Iraq cleaning up the mess they made. All of them including their families.
BTW Fiat did not become YUGO.. YUGO was an attempt by the communist government of Yugoslavia to become capitalistic. Fiat is still alive and well in Europe but exited the SBR auto market place in the late 1980s.. They own Allis Chalmers ( a SBR based heavy equipment manufacture..)
Their earth movers used to have FIAT ALLIS painted on the side
I thought for a while that was the operators name for his peace of equipment :omg:
Hey Andy, we get snow up here in the winter. How do you think one of them there SMART cars would do in, say, three to eight inches of snow? They don’t look like they have a helluva lotta clearance.
I like how Sue has combined the 2 plans of exile and added a 3rd aspect that would maximize suffering. Good job Sue! :sammy:
It’s rear engine rear wheel drive with traction control, from the reviews I’ve read written by some Canucks, it does OK.
And I’m not above using chains.
Maybe the car has a built in ice skate blade. :paranoid: :paranoid:
I had a VW Rabbit that was good at getting high centered when the snow got over six inches deep. 😮 😮
Tea Cheers All , which I NEED MORE NOW ( slit vein — pour tea or set up an I.V. Tea Drip put needle in vein release the drip on High :yippee: (I figured I would say it correctly since there is a RAGING Granny lurk’n aka “haunting” about. :rofl2: LBH. The Goblin King (in Labyrinth) said, “LAUGH”. 😉
YUM :growl: A!I!V! … NickelBack… If Everyone Cares
Just from what I’ve heard in Alaska, you really want something that is front wheel drive. Not diggin’ the Smart Car for artic expeditions.
I saw something the other day at the U-Village that had three wheels and smaller than the Smart Car. Had more seats than wheels :doh:
Anyone see any meteors last night? I couldn’t stay up so I threw in the towel early
KP, I’m for exiling.
For instance, Greedy Dick and his wife could spend 8 years in a Soweto slum. Bush and his lovely family could live in an Iraqi refugee camp. Rumsfeld would do well as a foot soldier in Iraq. Then we could send them to the sun.
I say we liquidate all their holdings so they’re broke. Then they have to spend the rest of their lives in Iraq cleaning up the mess they made. All of them including their families.
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Yes of course and then :yippee: Feed the Homeless, Feed Whomever is Hungry, make grades of living spaces, Organic Crops, Hemp Fields (non smoking, sorry 😀 ), and so much more… 8) …Yum :growl: A!I!V! ..If Everyone Cares…Nickelback
What’s this, PJ? :yawn:
Aw, now that was just mean. I’m not saying anything bad about anyone else’s alma mater until we see how Akron does against Army tonight.
If I want Akron to beat Army, will Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer say I’m unpatriotic? It’s not like I want insurgents to beat Army.
He said “beat Army.” Heh-heh. :jerk:
Yeah, I’m not worried about sliding around and stuff, more about driving in deep snow. It tends to get a bit deep around here before they get the streets plowed. I do fine in my Hyundai, but those cars look like they have about zero clearance above the ground, and about a half inch between the tire and wheel well. I’d love to get one, though. I could put it in the back of my van.
Yeah, SU was pathetic last night. Again. Against a team that sucked, too. I’m glad I passed up two free tickets. Much easier to just turn the teevee off.
Not just my alma mater, but the hometown team I grew up with. I mean, we had the first black Heisman Trophy winner, and people like Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Jim Nance, Floyd Little, Donovan McNabb, Marvin Harrison…. Now, we suck. It’s a damn shame. Been a tough couple of years here. Football sucks, basketball got screwed out of the NCAA’s, the lacrosse team failed to make the final four for the first time in like 25 years.
Oh, woe is we.
There were significant revisions to the way the Pentagon’s reports measure sectarian violence between its March 2007 report and its June 2007 report. The original data for the five months before the surge began (September 2006 through January 2007) indicated approximately 5,500 sectarian killings. In the revised data in the June 2007 report, those numbers had been adjusted to roughly 7,400 killings – a 25% increase. These discrepancies have the impact of making the sectarian violence appear significantly worse during the fall and winter of 2006 before the President’s “surge” began. [DOD, 11/2006 . 3/2007 . 6/2007 ]
According to figures compiled by the Associated Press, Iraq is suffering approximately double the number of war-related deaths throughout the country compared with last year. The average daily toll has risen from 33 in 2006, to 62 so far this year. Nearly 1,000 more people have been killed in violence across Iraq in the first eight months of this year than in all of 2006. The AP tracking includes Iraqi civilians, government officials, police and security forces killed in attacks such as gunfights and bombings, which are frequently blamed on Sunni suicide strikes. It also includes execution-style killings — largely the work of Shi’a death squads. Insurgent deaths are not a part of the Iraqi count. These figures are considered a minimum and only based on AP reporting. The actual numbers are likely higher, as many killings go unreported or uncounted. That said, the AP notes that UN figures for 2006 are higher than the AP’s. [AP, 8/25/07 ]
U.S. data on civilian violence is unreliable and excludes most acts affecting sectarian and ethnic cleansing. ” No Iraqi data are reliable and US and Coalition data focus far too much on major bombings, major incidents, killed to the exclusion of wounded, and violent acts to the exclusion of most acts affecting sectarian and ethnic cleansing. No data can be fully trusted in terms of accuracy. More importantly, many current metrics are useful largely as measures for counterinsurgency in a nation filled with diverse civil conflicts and where the most violent insurgent acts are only an uncertain indicator of the trends in security and stability.”
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/1/133254/4236
They have 15″ wheels and the ground clearance is about average for a sedan, although I didn’t actually measure.
Cool. Well, when you pick one up, pick one up for me, too.
Not just my alma mater, but the hometown team I grew up with. I mean, we had the first black Heisman Trophy winner, and people like Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Jim Nance, Floyd Little, Donovan McNabb, Marvin Harrison….
Comment by pjsauter — September 1, 2007 @ 2:48 pm
Hey, Akron had Charlie Frye! Not to mention the dumbest nickname in all of sports.
GO ZIPS!
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And Michgan lost to Appalachian Friggin’ State! Ohio State fans are definitely feeling the Schadenfreude tonight.
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From Digby:
I just keep writing this every day and it just keeps unfolding. We are clearly attempting to stage a coup and put a strongman/puppet in charge of Iraq to “restore security.” For some reason nobody seems worried that this will fuel more terrorism and hatred against America around the world since we will be seen as pulling the strings. In fact, the administration seems to want the world to see that we are pulling the strings. Apparently, they still believe, even after throwing away all the good will built up over 50 years and proving themselves to be abject failures at occupying and reconstructing the country we invaded for no good reason, that it is a good idea for the United States to be throwing its weight around even more in the middle east.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
For any Trekkers out there – the latest New Voyages episode is here, and it streams quite well.
Review of Marc’s appearance in Scotland:
http://mindrobber.blogspot.com/2007/08/edinburgh-reviews-4-marc-maron-kirk-fox.html
I didn’t realize that Marc and Mishna had split up. 🙁
Poor Marc. I should be happy that Mishna left him but I’m not. 🙁 I think they’ll get back together, don’t you? I wonder if she finally left with the handsome Jiffy Lube guy.
Maybe we should send him flowers. I wonder if he is living in their house.
Nice review post CK. Thanks.
Oh, thanks for that, CK. And it’s nice to see you. Sad about Mishna, but predictable, I guess. I wish we could hear Marc every morning again. It would be fun to “live blog” shows again.
30 August 2007
Iraq: Deadly Cholera ‘Attack’ …
As if Iraq wasn’t already (as near as damn it), a living hell on earth for each and every one of the the sorry souls presently sinking fast in the quagmire that country’s become — no matter which side, nor whatever cause said sorry souls are fighting for. Eh?
Remind us again, if you can, what was it that Donald Rumsfeld once (so sneeringly), said “happens”?
No matter, now. It’s not important, now.
But believe us, this is something that is important now. As a matter of fact, this is a matter of life and death. Quite literally. Yet another one.
Deadly cholera outbreak in Iraq
An outbreak of cholera in two northern Iraqi provinces has killed eight people and infected 80 others, the Kurdistan Regional Government has said.
Kurdish Health Minister Zeryan Othman said local health authorities were also treating 4,250 suspected cases of the disease in Sulaimaniya and Tamim.
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A report by the UK-based charity, Oxfam, and the NGO Co-ordination Committee in Iraq (NCCI) last month warned that 70% of Iraq’s population did not have adequate water supplies and that only 20% had access to effective sanitation.
(snip)
The minister said 2,350 people were also suffering from diarrhoea in Sulaimaniya and a further 2,000 in Tamim.
http://rickwrites.blogspot.com/2007/08/iraq-deadly-cholera-attack.html
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dEAR cOMPUTER :tommygun:
I also tried to write YOU! Profound sentiments! FRED ALSO!
And Sue I just want to harass you cuz didn’t ya start school on Tuesday, hahaha :rofl2: :nana:
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If Everyone Cares….. Nickelback….
In 3d stage of of SUNSET. Awwwwww.