Comments on: Time to Rearrange the Deck Chairs? http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:48:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Oracle http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-102090 The Oracle Sat, 13 May 2006 05:51:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-102090 <p>Halliburton. $385 million contract. Detention centers. For immigrants? For “new purposes”?</p> <p>Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.</p> <p>Maybe we’ll know more after Bush’s speech on Monday.</p> <p>Will he announce he’s put a “bounty” on the heads of all illegal immigrants?</p> <p>Will he announce that he has hired all the border-patrol Minute Men to be Bush administration mercenaries…like Blackwater?</p> <p>Will he announce that he’s declared martial law and he knows who all the dissidents are because he’s had the NSA recording all their phone conversations?</p> <p>Stay tuned.</p> <p>Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.</p> <p>Hey, it Tick’s me off, okay.</p> Halliburton. $385 million contract. Detention centers. For immigrants? For “new purposes”?

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.

Maybe we’ll know more after Bush’s speech on Monday.

Will he announce he’s put a “bounty” on the heads of all illegal immigrants?

Will he announce that he has hired all the border-patrol Minute Men to be Bush administration mercenaries…like Blackwater?

Will he announce that he’s declared martial law and he knows who all the dissidents are because he’s had the NSA recording all their phone conversations?

Stay tuned.

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.

Hey, it Tick’s me off, okay.

]]> By: rail http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-101505 rail Fri, 12 May 2006 23:29:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-101505 <p>Rove gettin’ indicted next week?<br /> hallelujah!</p> <p><a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_051206Y.shtml">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2.....206Y.shtml</a></p> Rove gettin’ indicted next week?
hallelujah!

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2…..206Y.shtml

]]> By: a guy http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-101305 a guy Fri, 12 May 2006 21:34:18 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-101305 <p>Actually, that is an inaccurate picture of the Titanic sinking. There weren’t icabergs all around, and the sea was unusually calm that night.</p> Actually, that is an inaccurate picture of the Titanic sinking. There weren’t icabergs all around, and the sea was unusually calm that night.

]]> By: anonymous http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-101030 anonymous Fri, 12 May 2006 18:33:50 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-101030 <p>Here’s the WSJ link again:</p> <p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114735765551950179-fy1LPeyuG4da_fD_6Hl8cdYRNeY_20070511.html">http://online.wsj.com/public/a.....70511.html</a></p> <p>We hear alot that Bush is among the top three for lowest approval rate but no one has said he’s the least popular president ever for having the highest disapproval rate ever.</p> Here’s the WSJ link again:

http://online.wsj.com/public/a…..70511.html

We hear alot that Bush is among the top three for lowest approval rate but no one has said he’s the least popular president ever for having the highest disapproval rate ever.

]]> By: OhioBlue http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100997 OhioBlue Fri, 12 May 2006 18:09:49 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100997 <p>EPU - Great post. Maslow rocks - thanks for reminding me.</p> <p>TonyT - the night before Libby was indicted I dreamed that Karl Rove came and hid in my basement. It was horrible - I called the police to tell them where he was and to come get him and all they said was, “There’s no problem. Karl Rove can stay in your basement as long as he wants.” Then I tried the FBI, but they wouldn’t answer. Gee - as far as I know, he’s still there!</p> <p>Just opened my copy of Neil Young’s “Living With War.” Powerful - Back in the Day of Shock and Awe is my favorite.</p> <p>I bet I just got EPU’d. Oh well……</p> EPU – Great post. Maslow rocks – thanks for reminding me.

TonyT – the night before Libby was indicted I dreamed that Karl Rove came and hid in my basement. It was horrible – I called the police to tell them where he was and to come get him and all they said was, “There’s no problem. Karl Rove can stay in your basement as long as he wants.” Then I tried the FBI, but they wouldn’t answer. Gee – as far as I know, he’s still there!

Just opened my copy of Neil Young’s “Living With War.” Powerful – Back in the Day of Shock and Awe is my favorite.

I bet I just got EPU’d. Oh well……

]]> By: learn2eatlentils http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100987 learn2eatlentils Fri, 12 May 2006 18:04:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100987 <p>Surely Foggo would have already cleaned out his office given recent events, and surely the FBI would have expected him to have already done so. Makes their raiding the place seem as much an opportunity to asssert their “authoritay” as anything else.</p> <p>And I sure would like to have seen the looks on the neo-spook faces when the G-men and women dropped in on them. Here’s hoping it incited a major turf war.</p> Surely Foggo would have already cleaned out his office given recent events, and surely the FBI would have expected him to have already done so. Makes their raiding the place seem as much an opportunity to asssert their “authoritay” as anything else.

And I sure would like to have seen the looks on the neo-spook faces when the G-men and women dropped in on them. Here’s hoping it incited a major turf war.

]]> By: oceanbreeze http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100974 oceanbreeze Fri, 12 May 2006 17:50:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100974 <p>Loved that post EPU @163</p> Loved that post EPU @163

]]> By: TonyT http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100943 TonyT Fri, 12 May 2006 17:34:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100943 <p>Did anyone else dream about Karl R. last night? He looks like my Uncle Bill and I dreamt he hugged me.</p> <p>Dear God, it was weird.</p> Did anyone else dream about Karl R. last night? He looks like my Uncle Bill and I dreamt he hugged me.

Dear God, it was weird.

]]> By: AvengingAngel http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100936 AvengingAngel Fri, 12 May 2006 17:29:35 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100936 <p>A new poll from the Washington Post suggests that the President Bush may be winning a double victory with his illegal NSA domestic surveillance programs. Americans seem willing to buy the White House’s “tough on terrorism” hype at the expense of the law and their own civil liberties. And as an added ironic bonus, the President gets another opportunity to decry leaks that supposedly jeopardize national security.</p> <p>For the ugly details, see:<br /> <b><a href="http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000389.htm">“Poll: Double Win for Bush on NSA Phone Records”</a></b></p> A new poll from the Washington Post suggests that the President Bush may be winning a double victory with his illegal NSA domestic surveillance programs. Americans seem willing to buy the White House’s “tough on terrorism” hype at the expense of the law and their own civil liberties. And as an added ironic bonus, the President gets another opportunity to decry leaks that supposedly jeopardize national security.

For the ugly details, see:
“Poll: Double Win for Bush on NSA Phone Records”

]]> By: ck http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100921 ck Fri, 12 May 2006 17:21:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/12/time-to-rearrange-the-deck-chairs/#comment-100921 <p>EPU @ 163 –</p> <p>That Maslow “membership” thingy is spot on — I’ll have to read and re-read it; maybe even email it to myself.</p> <p>I’ve described this as “tribalism” — human brains are hard wired to seek out membership in a tribal identity. We see it play out in Politics, Sports, Religion, Race, Culture, and Whatever — people have an innate need to belong to a group (yea, FDL!!!) and most folks, most of the time, lack the self awareness to recognize group membership automatically defines those outside the group as “The Other.”</p> <p>The more virulent the tribal group identity, the more willing a member is to dehumanize and demonize “The Other.”</p> <p>Big topic — and another place where the Democrats have dropped the ball on group identity membership, in favor of 500 page position papers.</p> EPU @ 163 –

That Maslow “membership” thingy is spot on — I’ll have to read and re-read it; maybe even email it to myself.

I’ve described this as “tribalism” — human brains are hard wired to seek out membership in a tribal identity. We see it play out in Politics, Sports, Religion, Race, Culture, and Whatever — people have an innate need to belong to a group (yea, FDL!!!) and most folks, most of the time, lack the self awareness to recognize group membership automatically defines those outside the group as “The Other.”

The more virulent the tribal group identity, the more willing a member is to dehumanize and demonize “The Other.”

Big topic — and another place where the Democrats have dropped the ball on group identity membership, in favor of 500 page position papers.

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