FITZ!

Most. Corrupt. Administration. Ever.

The Fitz is afoot…

What is also amazing if that not one talking head had any idea about the law on classified information which Mary and Looseheadprop wrote such amazing posts about last night. Bottom Line: if it’s illegal, it’s not classifiable, therefore leaking info about illegal black sites is not leaking properly classified information. There is much more, better explained, in the threads below.

Funny pic of Condi at
http://www.Billmon.org
was offered by ccmask in the previous thread

scuse me while I go read the post before I blather

LOKIYAR

OOps…I didn’t do that link quite right. It s/b http://www.billmon.org
Scroll down a wee bit.

The rules of the game are simple, leaks that are in the Republican party’s interest generally and Bush administration’s interest specifically (whether or not they are in the public interest) are good. Leaks that are in the public interest alone but damage the Republicans/Bush administration are bad Bad BAD!

the LA Times just published an editorial calling for Rumsfeld’s resignation and Cheney’s retirement.

NC

IMO, there will be no need for a ‘defense fund’ for Mary McCarthy. They can’t dare try her - information emerging from discovery would be devastating. (OTOH, if I were a betting man, I’d have long ago gone broke betting against ’surely they can’t be *that* stupid’…) However, I just don’t see a criminal trial in her future.

I would be willing though, to include a few dollars out of each weekly budget to contribute to a suit brought by Mary McCarthy for wrongful termination….

binLaden is a myth.

Wag the Dog.

Recall my 2004 Photoshopping fun with CondiSleeza:

http://www.bgladd.com/Bush_Mal.....e_Rice.jpg

LA Times

Yeah they did- never have I seen such a lukewarm watered down call for resignations.

The LA Times can’t figure out what the hell it cares about.

Sharkbabe 5
If you are policing me with your unkind comment, I think the post is about leaking classified information, and the political considerations dictating the consequences, or not. Maybe I just don’t get what you see as the subject, but “blathering” is not a word that I expect to see aimed at whoever your target is.

More topically, just what defense secrets doesn’t Israel have already? It seems they’ve infiltrated our security/defense establishment so thoroughly you are a bit surprised there’s anything left to steal.

Morning, all. Re: Condi the Incompetent and Dick’s retirement, get a load of this link…

Dump Cheney for Condi, Bush urged
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/a.....00,00.html

loyalty oaths:

from the wapo:

The White House also has recently barraged the agency with questions about the political affiliations of some of its senior intelligence officers, according to intelligence officials.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....442_2.html

Sorta OT:

In the last thread I was ignorant re: WaPo/D. Priest and admin prior communication on CIA/black sites. Later in thread Greenwald’s post was mentioned. He confirms this prior communicatin was in Priest’s original work, so that point is moot.

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/

His post IS laserlike; it concludes with:

“They want to be able not only to disappear people, torture people, eavesdrop on us illegally, and break every law and treaty they can find — but they want to be able to do it all in secret, without it being known that they are doing it.

That is why they are spending so more time and energy fortifying the wall of secrecy around what they are doing — waging war on every last check and restraint on their conduct. They believe that they ought to have the power to operate in total secrecy and without any restraints, and it is not hyperbole to say that leaks of this sort are one of the very last things that stand in their way.”

More topically, just what defense secrets doesn’t Israel have already? It seems they’ve infiltrated our security/defense establishment

and don’t forget they own a significant chunk of the commentariat

I would be willing though, to include a few dollars out of each weekly budget to contribute to a suit brought by Mary McCarthy for wrongful termination….

Yeah baby! me so there too.

Whoever did that excellent rendering of condi had to have studied at the feet of Mad magazine and especially Dick DeBartolo. God, Mad had the best artists…they totally shaped my entire brain to this very day.

Can’t resist: Condi can wear white to her swearing in

oh Bobbyg - there are scrambled eggs and strawberry jam spewed all over the FDL Wheelhouse ! thanks

holding you and yours in our thoughts

the LA Times just published an editorial calling for Rumsfeld’s resignation and Cheney’s retirement.

Hello, LA Times morons! Who’s missing from your calls for resignations?

The way to curb the dark power of Cheney is to make him President.

Ok, that made me kinda sick too, but that’s one way to shine a light under the rocks he operates beneath.

And a V.P. becomes the Pres after…lemme think…IMPEACHMENT.

OT.

Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency has nary a mention of the protester at the Whitehouse event.

They do have some sharp pics of a Chinese actress who went to the event though.

This is how the real pros do propaganda.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/engl.....459662.htm

Bush and Rove are envious of the skills exhibited by the spin doctors in the Peoples Republic of China. Some day, Rove prays, “we’ll get it right.”

-GSD

Democracies die behind closed doors

cbl-

LOL! Thanks.

guys - where did I read this morning that the judge in the AIPAC case will take a written statement from Condi ? so many links, so little time

OT

Continuing on the Roots Project, if any of you can mosey on over to DKos and recommend selise’s diary maybe we can get it on the rec. list and get more attention to our project and maybe even more recruits.

“loyalty oaths”

I’m going to be mean here when I saw that I hope we take a page from this playbook. I want the next Democratic president, in coordination with the party, has the spine to hunt down the last millenialist wingnut in every branch of this government, hound them out of their positions of public trust and utterly obliterate their careers and professional reputations. There’s a cancer infecting the ship of state, and it needs eradicating. It’s not enough just to get rid of Bushco. The idea that is Bushco (or rather anybody that embraces that idea) has to go as well…

Condi Rice is a sellout, as was her predecessor, Colin Powell. Neither of these two have any dignity, or pride whatsoever. They are a disgrace to their ethnic roots. No one of color with an ounce of respectibility would work for a bigoted warmonger criminal who seems to get his jollies going around the world murdering and bullying third world people who cannot defend themselves against the likes of Adolf Bush and the mighty U.S. military machine. Mary McCarthy is a hero! Condoleeza Rice is a coward, a liar, a criminal and a “Auntie Tom”.

FWIW on another note: The Hungarian press announces that George Bush has appointed his ex-girlfriend, April Foley to be U.S. Ambassador to Hungary. She was the Prez’s primary squeeze from his dope smokin’, coke snortin’ two fisted drinkin’ daze at Harvard Biz School. I wonder what Ms. Foley has on the boy. I’ll bet she could write one helluva book.

saw = say

jayt
much better to leave him there stripped of his puppetmasters dangling in the wind. As a first step.

Wouldn’t it be all too sweet if:

- Cheney Resigns/Pushed out by July
- By October, Serious Allegations land at the new VP’s feet

BobbyG + Photoshop = “Riceless”

I say everyday these people deserve scorn and derision.

You have added a helping of each; blessings.

‘harlot!’…

too cute! LMAO!

Blank Kludge #18

Chilling doesn’t begin to describe it. We are living in Kafka’s world with no discernible way out—at least we’re not seeing one.

If the dems can’t get their act together to stop this . . . well I am at a loss for words (not a usual trait of mine).

Susan in Iowa 14
It’s a mistake if my post 5 was taken as a reaction to you or anyone - I was ribbing myself and the fitz early-thread thing - please do not think my words were in reaction to yours or meant to disrespect yours - absolutely utterly not the case

I’m a susan too, let’s stick together :)

“Born on third base and thought he hit a triple”

That’s our dear little Clusterfuck.

He also didn’t notice that his once high approval ratings were totally due to Osama- and had NOTHING to do with him!

He just doesn’t pay attention- and so now- he’s still out on the course- and the wind at his back has shifted- it’s now squarely in his face- and he has no idea how to tack. He’s “In Irons” as the sailors say- but thinks he’s still making good time.

OT - There’s a wonderful write up on Ned Lamont in today’s Hartford Courant.

“On the way out the door, Lamont is asked to autograph a political cartoon. It pictures a broadly smiling Lamont with a lapel button that says, “Ned Who?”

Lamont, who collects political cartoons, seems bemused by a request for his signature on a work caricaturing his anonymity. He smiles as he scrawls a message, then disappears into the night…

The signature he leaves behind: “Ned Who.”

Isn’t that great? You gotta love a guy like that.

Clusterfuck can’t figure it out. Doin nothin has always worked for him in the past.

Cheney will never be forced out — even the Grim Reaper will have a hard time prying his cold dead hands off the levers of power.

It seems as though this administration is setting up a no·men·kla·tu·ra style of leadership. Would make a good post.

Blub - #30 - I’m with you 100% on that - they’ve got their minions in every single nook and cranny of every single place anyone can think of and they’ve all got to be hunted down and eliminated - that’s the only possible way.

RevDeb:

There was a band about 15 yrs ago - Living Color.
Their hit was ‘Cult of Personality’; which bears a listen. But I think the song of theirs which most capturd my attention then and now went:

“All I want to know
is which way do I go
to get to your Amerika?”
——-
Not a place most really want to find.

Re:taylor marsh @16;
This is what I have been saying for months. But mostly I have been saying this since the Libby finger-pointing of late.
My friends were querolous of my thoughts, but now I’ll have to send them this link! I am scared to think that I can think like these horrid people.
Dump Cheney for Condi, Bush urged http://www.timesonline.co.uk/a.....00,00.html

ck #41

Especially with his fleet of reanimatrons always at the ready. Some of the parts exchangers are ex NASCAR pit crew members.

I’ll probably get hammered for this, but selective enforcement of existing laws has long been a tool of the Executive.

Even as far back as Andrew Jackson that was so. I’m trying to recall the specific circumstance (I think it had to do with the removal of the Cherokee), but the Supreme Court ruled against him. Jackson replied “the Chief Justice has rendered his decision, now let him enforce it” and continued doing as he pleased.

I still don’t believe that this behaviour or action is *right*…I”m only noting that it has historical precedent. To me, this usually smacks of Imperial Presidency, and used to be a good indicator of how little regard the President had for the populace (or at least for the Congress and/or Courts).

November can’t come quickly enough….This administration has enough time between now and then to recover enough of their damaged reputation to prevent a Democratic sweep, or, their party operatives will make sure the game is sufficiently rigged that the Dems won’t win even if they did. After all, those who cast the vote matter less in the end than those who count the vote, these days….

The leaks, the total incompetence, the rising gas prices are all increasing the pressure on the Republicans. There is even gossip of the GOP firing Rumsfeld and retiring Cheney. The thing is nothing at all will happen. As with the discussion with Senator Murray’s staff below, the most obvious policies to avoid the collapse of the US economy or WWIII are being blithely ignored.

Why. Democrats and Republicans politicians have gerrymandered Congress and their sources of money so they and their supporters all get their piece of the pie. Their one and only goal is milking cash from American citizens. I am more and more convinced that the 2006 election will change nothing unless disaster strikes and then the election will be called off.

So did larry franklin fall on the sword or get paid?

Sharkbabe, thank you. Maybe I’m just insufficiently caffeinated and read it wrong. I apologize if I overreacted.

The news in Ms. Marsh’s article brings forth ANOTHER opportunity for the D team to score. Democratic leaders should be on the soap box, RIGHT NOW, demanding a congressional investigation into the allegation of Rice’s leaks. Oh…we won’t GET a congressional investigation, but the plea would be well-heard and resonate. Virtually no downside to banging the drum over this.
My beloved democrats sometimes frustrate me. It’s as if they’ve lost the will to ATTACK. This Rice allegation is like a gaping hole in the repub defensive line. Those repub linemen are standing around with their hands on their hips, winded. What to do? A smart football coach doesn’t get fancy or nuanced…in these conditions he rams the football right up the middle…over and over.
Come on D team: get in the game!
Ghostman

Chimpocalypse Now.

Scene: The White House Oval Office…In the distance Wagner’s Flight of the Valkyries plays louder and louder. The sound of a helicopter getting louder and louder.

Closeup of a spilled bottle of Jack Daniels, a mirror with powder and a rolled-up twenty dollar bill.

The sounds of explosions, but they are fake explosions coming from the slurred mouth of George W. Bush wearing cowboy boots, a jockstrap with a very large codpiece and a ten gallon cowboy cap. We see him sitting on the desk, operating a Verti-Bird toy helicopter….the helicopter noises get louder……

A secret service agent knocks on the door…”It is time to go Mr. President, you have been impeached and there is a helicopter ready to fly you to Argentina instead of the Hague”….”Some of the unindicted remainders of your administration have secured a small apartment once occupied by Dr. Mengele”….”It is time to go before the Justice Department officers arrive.”

“I have to go?”….”No more Condi?”…”No more Karl”

“No sir, Condi quit, Dick Cheney is in the hospital…..Karl hanged himself with a sock puppet last night…Laura ran off with Tom Daschle and your daughters are on the new reality show ‘My Dad is a Dick and a Dictator’…It is all over.”

“Nobody is left sir, your final executive order handed the administration over to Nancy Pelosi and she has issued arrest orders”…

Bum ba ba ba ba…bum ba..ba..ba.ba..

Coming to a theatre in May.

-GSD

cool Susan in Iowa

I’m going to be mean here when I saw that I hope we take a page from this playbook. I want the next Democratic president, in coordination with the party, has the spine to hunt down the last millenialist wingnut in every branch of this government, hound them out of their positions of public trust and utterly obliterate their careers and professional reputations.

yes. thank you for making that point i neglected.

once the democrats win, they now have the PRECEDENT that fredo has used so brilliantly. and considering the federal government has seen the mass exodus of career professional only to be replaced by bush cultists, the housecleaning is going to be a major undertaking. .

#43. I believe that’s how the rethugs got us to where we are today. The wingnut club spent the entire Clinton era biding their time, building political infrastructure.. slowly infusing their ideologues into Congress, the bureaucracy, the Republican party apparatus, the military, etc, etc, etc. By the time 2000 came around, a cabal of ruthless and evil men simply activated this apparatus, instantly outmaneauvering, outorganizing, outfundraising, outclassing us in every sense imagineable. These brown shirts sinmply walked in and took over.

If we ever want to rule again, for more than a single term, we have to destroy this apparatus, at all levels, from the grassroots up to the White House, with the same ruthlessness with which it was constructed in the first place.

And we have to have our own apparatus. Maybe Moveon or whoever their successors will be can do that for us, maybe it’s the Janes of the world, who now run the leftyblogs, I don’t know. But after we get back Congress, somebody’s going to have create our political infrastructure. And be ready to greet the next wingnut to emerge with even a hint of political ambition, with a boot in the face.

ooooooooops - in selise’s diary at Daily Kos, i, proud citizen of MA, ascribed the debate of the Constitution and Bill of Rights to Faneuil Hall. i was in error. Those discussions took place in Philly.
From http://www.nps.gov/bost/bost_l.....aneuil.htm
i cut and paste:

The town meetings held in Faneuil Hall should only have concerned themselves with local issues. In the mid-1700s, however, the discussion turned to the taxation policies of the British Empire, and Faneuil Hall became the focus of revolutionary activity in Boston. At times protest meetings held at the Hall spilled over into incidents of violence on the streets. Under the leadership of James Otis, Samuel Adams, Dr. Joseph Warren and other “Sons of Liberty,” debates led to opposition to the Sugar Tax of 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, and other British political maneuvers. In December of 1773 sessions took place here concerning a newly arrived consignment of tea and the tax to be paid on it. Though the rhetoric expressed here concerned only the community in Boston, reports were carried through out the colonies and led them together towards unity and independence. Activities here earned Faneuil Hall the name as America’s “Cradle of Liberty.”

It’s almost as though there is a double standard.

I wonder what kind of legislative wooden stake can be fashioned to drive thru the heart of the “Imperial Presidency?” A runaway executive is truly a bane on the world and must never again be allowed to rear its hideous head.

O/T

Sunday Silence in God’s Country -

been up for several hours now - kept asking ourselves what seemed different about this morning - finally dawned on us about an hour ago that the usual and standing practice of after-church-lawn-mowing is missing

you can set your watch by it here in the country - unless it’s 100 deg. w/ 110% humidity (even then, you send the teenager out at dusk), these guys have been out every Sunday for the last three years - my husband caught up with most of them down the road, playing with a neighbor’s vintage tractor - he said they’re all in a pissy mood about paying 2.94/gal and will just let it go for a while - everyone blamed Chimpy “and his Ay-Rab boyfriend” good luck with that Mr. Bolten!

Can we dispense with the Doctor Rice? The only other SOC I recall using this was Kissinger.

I don’t recall either Albright (Doctorate) or Christopher (Juris Doctor) ever being addressed this way.

Guess it’s a Rethug need to inflate their sense of self-importance.

gotta go do stuff, see y’all sometime tonite

Mary McCarthys “leak” resurrects an underlying debate that all of us should re-visit and keep front and center in our minds when discussing the depraved criminality of the Bush administration and their enablers….

On December 9, 2005 Kevin Drum published the following…

STATE-SANCTIONED TORTURE

One of the things that I think gets less attention than it deserves in the debate about torture is the crucial difference between torture and state-sanctioned torture. It’s an important distinction, and one that’s too often elided.

The infamous “ticking bomb scenario,” for example, asks whether we should torture someone if we had good reason to believe that this would cause our prisoner to reveal the location of the bomb and save thousands of innocent lives. Should we?

Keep in mind that it’s not practical issues that are at stake in this thought experiment. Rather, the question is simpler: assuming that torture would actually work in this case, would you do it?

I would. Likewise, in the unlikely event that I could travel back in time and murder Hitler, I’d do that too. In the imperfect world we inhabit, it’s simply not possible to say that there are never any circumstances in which we might choose the lesser of two evils.

But that’s not and never has been the question at stake in the torture debate. The real question is whether the United States should support the routine use of state-sanctioned torture, and that’s quite a different thing. Are beatings, waterboardings, endless hours of stress positions, cigarette butts in ear opening, strangulations, sleep deprivation, and murder examples of torture? And as a routine matter, should the CIA be allowed to use these techniques on prisoners in order to coerce information out of them?

I’m not naive enough to think that the United States has never engaged in torture. But even though we’ve fought in more than dozen wars in the past 70 years, some of them against existential enemies far more dangerous than al-Qaeda, we’ve never felt that routine torture — or even abuse — of prisoners should be government policy. On the contrary: it’s the kind of thing we always believed that only our enemies engaged in. But now we have met the enemy. And it is us.

In our hearts, we all know that state sanctioned torture has long been the exclusive tool of the thugs and dictators we’ve spent most of our history reviling. For reasons both moral and practical, we shouldn’t join their company.

Susan in Iowa- I see it’s all been sorted out- but even before I read all of the ensusing stuff I was going to comment- this is Sharkbabe checking in “hi guys” and referring to herself. Mostly I’ve seen her comments like this on Late Nite. Also, I’ve never seen her do a “subtle” hit.

Sharkbabe! Hi ya!

Morning, Valley Girl.

Re: New Osama tape (?) and why Osama always seems to show up when Bush needs him:

When Seeing and Hearing Isn’t Believing

By William M. Arkin Special to washingtonpost.com Monday, Feb. 1, 1999

“Gentlemen! We have called you together to inform you that we are going to overthrow the United States government.” So begins a statement being delivered by Gen. Carl W. Steiner, former Commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Command.

At least the voice sounds amazingly like him.

But it is not Steiner. It is the result of voice “morphing” technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

By taking just a 10-minute digital recording of Steiner’s voice, scientist George Papcun is able, in near real time, to clone speech patterns and develop an accurate facsimile. Steiner was so impressed, he asked for a copy of the tape.

Steiner was hardly the first or last victim to be spoofed by Papcun’s team members. To refine their method, they took various high quality recordings of generals and experimented with creating fake statements. One of the most memorable is Colin Powell stating “I am being treated well by my captors.”
etc

This is probably not news to most here at FDL. But note that the date of the article is 1999. That’s a *long* time ago in technology-years.
(sorry, couldn’t get a link)

Retired Col. Larry Wilkerson(Insert vicious swiftboat smear here) is concerned.

Says the US is becoming a “radical Republic”. That is an understatement.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/ne.....-headlines

-GSD

Am I being too simplistic to think that:

1) If the information Mary McCarthy provided to Dana Priest was false, she commited no crime.
2) If the information MM provided DP was regarding an illegal operation, or was illegally classified, she commited no crime.
3) Even though the CIA could fire her for not follwing whistleblower protocol, they would be foolish to disallow her pension and subject themselves to civil suit. (Has there been any discussion on whether or not she did or didn’t follw WB protocol?)

Valley Girl -

Hi. Sittin’ on the foot of my Ma’s bed. The hospital now provides open access WiFi. Pretty cool.

Ahs anyone noted the irony of the newest form of “McCarthyism” to have bubbled up from within darkest recesses of our nation once again?

-GSD

they’ve all got to be hunted down and eliminated

while in 100% agreement with the statement, could we use less inflammatory language. eliminationist rhetoric is and should be the sole province of republicans. (although, i’m certainly not against the routine use of derogatory names … lol)

how about ’should be encouraged to seek employment elsewhere’; and ’since you (the cultist) are opposed to any and all federal employee protections — sayonara, fucktard’.

From Gallup:

.

“With which one of these statements about the environment and energy production do you most agree? Protection of the environment should be given priority, even at the risk of limiting the amount of energy supplies — such as oil, gas and coal — which the United States produces. OR, Development of U.S. energy supplies — such as oil, gas and coal — should be given priority, even if the environment suffers to some extent.” Options rotated. N=1,000, MoE ± 3.

.

Environment Energy Both/
Equally (vol.) Neither/
Other (vol.) Unsure
% % % % %
3/13-16/06 49 42 4 2 3
3/7-10/05
52 39 4 2 3
3/8-11/04
48 44 3 1 4
3/3-5/03
49 40 5 2 4
.

“Overall, do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity for the U.S.?” N=502, MoE ± 5 (Form A)

.

Strongly
Favor Somewhat
Favor Somewhat
Oppose Strongly
Oppose Unsure
% % % % %
3/13-16/06 22 34 19 19 7
3/7-10/05
17 37 22 21 3
.

“Overall, would you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose the construction of a nuclear energy plant in your area as one of the ways to provide electricity for the U.S.?” N=498, MoE ± 5 (Form B)

.

Strongly
Favor Somewhat
Favor Somewhat
Oppose Strongly
Oppose Unsure
% % % % %
3/13-16/06 14 28 18 37 3
3/7-10/05
11 24 19 44 2

——————————————————————————–

Notice that a majority of americans favor nuclear power- but NOT IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD!

From Taylor’s link @ 16:
“Rove has been privately warning party activists to expect some losses in the mid-term elections. One insider said: “I’ve heard him say at several party gatherings that the president wasn’t supposed to win in 2000, but he did. We’ve increased our margins of victory time and again. We can’t just keep winning on top of winning so we’re bound to slip back, but we’re still doing better than you would historically expect.†“

Oh man! Who’d a thunk it? I guess the Repubs should get down on their news and thank Rove properly, don’t you?

After all, Bush wasn’t even supposed to win!

Some are gonna be lost. If you’re a Repub, up for reelection, do you want to risk it without Rove’s magic election powder?

I think the war in the White House is over who should go — Cheney or Bush.

GSD, as always, enjoyed your scenario - mine is much shorter -

somewhere in DC, flashlights in the dark of night, and a bullhorn -

“Mr. Cheney, put down the Chimp, and slowly back away. . .”

Anyone want to bet that if the heat gets turned up high enough, Bush will ride to Condi’s rescue and admit that he “declassified” whatever it was she “leaked,” thus rendering what she said not a leak? I mean, isn’t that how this game is played?

I think the most important bit of information to get out in the mainstream - and maybe we have to shame them into it - is that it is not possible to classify information about activities that are illegal. One has to wonder how many other illegal activities and programs exist and are as yet unknown because they are “classified.”

And while it may be routine to polygraph those working in the CIA and NSA, does anyone doubt that the Mary McCarthy firing is designed to button the lips of anyone else within these organizations who might dare to reveal illegal activities? By extension, the threats to polygraph reporters are part of the same design.

We can only hope that these fascist actions will spur investigations, rather than chill disclosure.

Goopers have been playing down expectations for the 06 elections for some time. They want it to be viewed as a major victory if they hold both houses- even if by only one seat.

If they lose even one house- they are convinced that it will be catastrophic for them. Clusterfuck will be unmasked- goopers will be forced to make a decision as to whether to defend him or not- and it all gets uglier from there as to the likely scenarios following his term.

They will do whatever it takes to hold majorities. They think that their lives depend on it.

I’m not sure if they are right- but that’s their perception.

heres the link to my comment #62 regarding Kevin drum and his article on state sanctioned torture

http://www.washingtonmonthly.c.....007734.php

Osama bin forgotten?

He didn’t do 9/11 — nor is he alive. A 6-foot guy dragging his dialysis machine around the mountains of Pakistan? C’mon.

jeanine Garafalo said it: “911/ was an inside job.”

And those videos of Osama taking “credit” for 9/11? That guy doesn’t even look like Osama. That’s the fat Osama, a fake.

And do you notice how every time there’s a new Osama tape (usually before an election) the CIA instantly “authenticates” it while people who have actually heard Osama say “no way”?

Fake Osama Stuff:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html

GSD #52: “Karl hanged himself with a sock puppet last night…”

LOFL!!! Outstanding! The whole post was great, but that particular line… pure fucking gold! Thanks!

They will do whatever it takes to hold majorities. They think that their lives depend on it.

I’m not sure if they are right- but that’s their perception.

well, certainly their freedom. fat tim and tweety have both pounded the ‘if democrats gain control, it’s going to be nonstop investigations cause they’ll have subpeona power’.

in their own way, they are doing what they can to rally the gop base to turn out.

jayt

Here’s your link
Very interesting

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....020199.htm

OT The problem with making your employees sign side agreements, such as non-disclosure agreements, is that your contract of employment no longer is an integrated contract. The first thing you have to do when you litigate is prove the contract of employment. This is particularly troublesome in a civil service regimen where the job description or class specification or whatever it’s called is essentially regulatory. How many other documents or regulations, guidelines, statutes, etc., govern the work of IG’s in particular or U. S. government employees ingeneral?

I do not believe Bush is interested in getting bin Laden. He’s making zero effort to get him. And, if the chapter is closed on 9/11, where does that leave Bush? Even before 9/11, people in the Bush administration were talking about needing a “Pearl Harbor-like event” to justify war against Afghanistan (where the Taliban were refusing to agree to a Unocal pipeline), Iraq (becaue of old scores and oil), and Iran (basically the same reasons as Iraq).

It is deliberate and conscious policy to allow bin Laden to remain free, at least until the US has dealt with Iran. 9/11 was mana from heaven for the neocons, and they’ve been milking it for all it’s worth. They’re not about to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

Federal employees keeping silent about worldwide slaughter and domestic treason so they can keep there jobs make me want to puke. Public service? Puleeeze! I’d wear out 17 copy machines and be flappin my mouth like crazy.

#70: “sayonara, fucktard”

Rightsizing the Office of Faith-based Programs… that I want to see. That, and sending a courtmartialled Boykin to Leavenworth (using your military command as a pulpit for promoting race war must be a violation somewhere in the UCMC). Next.. a Federal ban on religious homeschooling… and cancellation of the tax exempt status of every single politically- involved fundie organization/ church… scratch that, accuse every one of those organizations of making fraudulent representations to obtain tax exempt status and assess them for years of back taxes, plus fines, plus tax fraud charges… :)

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Bustednuckles and Frank Probst comments from last night are highlighted (favorably) over at
http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/ today.

(Why can’t I get a link to work today?!?)(crap!)

Larry @62

What you said! Very well put!

At least the voice sounds amazingly like him.

But it is not Steiner. It is the result of voice “morphing” technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

oh hell, i posted this earlier without knowledge of arkin’s article. i’m not sure if i’d rather the paranoia or the confirmation that they are capable of pulling it off:

Why does Osama like to give Bush a lift?

my suggestion is this is another black ops on the american people. what fortuitous timing that an audio is released as fredo is floundering about to reassert himself as the master of the universe.

Dems, on the other hand- are getting cocky- predicting that they will take one or both houses. Hope they are right- but it’s NOT going to be easy. New Jersey senate race is now trending gooper. Dems have a significant lead in only one gooper race (Pennsylvania). It’s early- and a lot of the polling on general questions shows record or near record discontent among voters- but it isn’t showing up in the individual race numbers yet.

Pardon me for not reading all the posts before asking Bobby if that was indeed his photoshopping? If so, that should get a Photoshop Koufax. Honestly, Bobby, it is my favorite pic to date. I’m honored to know you.

hmmm…looks like it *did* work.

Never mind.

I’m with Trainer. If McCarthy lost her pension, she’s got a hell of a lawsuit to file. Even if they just “retired” her, I think she could probably STILL sue and win. Can’t wait to see what her next move is.

By their fruits and vegetables, ye shall know them.

I am halfway through Kevin Phillips book American Theocracy. The Republicans want to scare the nation by saying –”if the Democrats get control of the government it will be a disaster”. Well what if the religious wing–Sam Brownback, Rick Santorum and Pat Roberts and Rev. James Sponge-Bob Dobson get their way with one more election that cements their rule and confirms their belief that their ideas are what people want it will be a felony buy a dildo. Talk about a “disaster” for desperate houswives everywhere.

If you want to help scare some moderate friends away from the ‘theologically correct’ right wing and their march towards religious orthodoxy in American.

May this inspire a few “cum to Jesus” moments among the great wishy-washy middle.

Show them this article.

http://www.independentmail.com.....68,00.html

Knowing the Republicans this must have something to do with the American Cucumber Lobby and big payments made to the local leaders pushing this bill.

-GSD

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Yeah, that was me. Appreciate the compliment. I actually did that in Microsoft PhotoDraw, which I still use, even though they discontinued it. It’s their Photoshop knock-off. Came bundled with the MS Professional Office Premim Edition that I bought.

That SCOWL of hers. It was perfect for that scene, which I’d gotten from the Mel Gibson movie, LOL!!!

#74, anne: Mr. Goss (CIA Director) was brought in to mainly 1) root out leakers, and 2) ensure that the CIA adheres to WH policy (NO CIA intel which might refute a WH policy position)
One of the greatest tragedies of this repub mess is this gutting of the CIA. It’s going on…but behind closed doors where none of it can be seen. The ramifications could extend out many years. The WH, in its zeal for its ideaology, is effectively blinding us to world events via the gut-knifing at the CIA. very bad for long range.
Ghostman

Taylor, thanks for a remarkable run of posts this week. This one’s another “Woah!”

Thanks, al-Scooter, it’s been great posting here.

Photographic proof thermite was used to cut the columns at the WTC Towers:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/c.....read=87932

BobbyG

Here’s a thought: A super dorky pic of Bush (which is most of ‘em) superimposed over the face of Uncle Sam with the caption Cry Uncle Vote Democratic

you’re welcome

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Sheets!
New post!
owls?

Whatever you guys say here.

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Taylor, you have skills. Went to your homepage for a peek. Say, you have looks too!

Ghostman 94

While Goss may be at the company as the enforcer for the Cheney- Bush/WH….he is by no means in control of it

Yeah, Taylor is a hottie.

This from a gooper golf buddy- I only pasted a bit of it. This is the train the goopers plan to ride to victory in November. They oughta be ashamed- but they are not. The message is all coming from UNDERGROUND sources- so Rove doesn’t have to have it hung around his neck.

Did you know that immigrants from Mexico and other non-European countries can come to this country and get preferences in jobs, education, and government contracts? It’s called affirmative action or racial privilege. The Emperor of Japan or the President of Mexico could migrate here and immediately be eligible for special rights unavailable for Americans of European descent. Recently, a vote was taken in the U.S. Congress to end this practice. It was defeated. Every single Democratic senator except Ernest Hollings voted to maintain special privileges for Hispanic, Asian and African immigrants. They were joined by thirteen Republicans. Bill Clinton and Al Gore have repeatedly stated that they believe that massive immigration from countries like Mexico is good. They have also backed special privileges for these immigrants.

Corporate America has signed on to the idea that minorities and third world immigrants should get special, privileged status. Some examples are Exxon, Texaco, Merrill Lynch, Boeing, Paine Weber, Starbucks and many more.

DID YOU KNOW?: Did you know that Mexico regularly intercedes on the side of the defense in criminal cases involving Mexican nationals? Did you know that Mexico hasNEVER extradited a Mexican national accused of murder in the U.S. in spite of agreements to do so? According to the L.A. Times, Orange County, California is home to 275 gangs with 17,000 members;
98% of which are Mexican and Asian. How’s your county doing?
According to a New York Times article dated May 19, 1994, 20 years after the great influx of legal immigrants from Southeast Asia, 30% are still on welfare compared to 8% of households nationwide. A Wall Street Journal editorial dated December 5, 1994 quotes law enforcement officials as stating that Asian mobsters are the “greatest criminal challenge the country faces.” Not bad for a group that is still under 5% of the population.
Is education important to you? Here are the words of a teacher who spent over 20 years in the Los Angeles School system. “Imagine teachers in classes containing 30-40 students of widely varying attention spans and motivation, many of whom aren’t fluent in English. Educators seek learning materials likely to reach the majority of students and that means fewer words and math problems and more pictures and multicultural references.”
WHEN I WAS YOUNG: When I was young, I remember hearing about the immigrants that came through Ellis Island. They wanted to learn English. They wanted to breathe free. They wanted to become Americans. Now, far too many immigrants come here with demands. They demand to be taught in their own language. They demand special privileges–affirmative action. They demand ethnic studies that glorify their culture.
HOW CAN YOU HELP???: Send copies of this letter to at least two other people, 100 would be even better. Help us get the word out.

California Coalition for Immigration Reform
5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117 Huntington Beach, CA 92649 Phone 714
921 7142 Date: 4/5/2006

Anyone ever hear of the quote “Does Macy’s tell Gimbels”?

Now picture Condi shoe shopping in Nolita. It reminds me of her for some reason…

Here’s a link to the Coalition for Immigration Reform. You will discover that many states now- magically- have such coalitions. A good investigative reporter might be able to trace this back to the RNC:

http://ccir.net/