AhhhhHA!

Starting to have to watch my obsessive/compulsive refreshing!

Cesar Chavez!
John L. Lewis!
and a great big FITZY !

sorry if i missed it but did the “rubber stamp” project even make it into NYT? you would think that bastion of liberalism would be trumpeting it.

I think Kirsten Heffron must have gotten the idea for the brick campaign from FDL’s Rubber Stamp success.

Now, I would think of sending a brick to Washington with another meaning and a little appendage (bat) attached, for the lack of legislation upholding the Common Good.

Oh, yes, FITZ!

I remember years ago when we were urged by someone at Pacifica Radio to send a slice of baloney to the White House…

Goper’s Lament (Hard To Be A Republican

Excellent Googling, Christy. We couldn’t really expect a reporter to actually use modern research tools when writing a story, could we?

One little nit…did you mean 11 words?

RBG at 7 — while it is great googling, Will Bunch deserves all the credit. I just stumbled on his reporting right after Anne and I discussed the brick campaign. It seemed like article serendipity. ;-)

Of course, Republicans have been sending pricks to Congress since time immemorial. This was only a slight variant.

Oops, I missed that the blockquote was Attytood’s.

…and did it ever occurr to the Brick Organizers what a hassle it is for mail carriers to handle unexpectedly heavy packages containing bricks? not nice at all !

BTW punaise,
Thats one zero each now.Never saw that ’till last night that I recall.Buenos huevos.

Got this from Ned’s campaign people…Looks like Rape Gurney Joe is being helped by Rover!!!!!
———————————————–

This past weekend, as we reflected on the sacrifices made by American service members and their families during wars past and present, Senator Lieberman launched a full-run of television attack ads against Ned Lamont. Just like President Bush did to John Kerry in 2004, the ads are so devoid of context they would make Karl Rove blush. And while their content is highly suspect, the money paying for them is undeniable. This election cycle, Senator Lieberman is the U.S. Senate’s top recipient of campaign contributions from the defense industry, second largest recipient of pharmaceutical manufacturer donations, and has collected over $1 million from political action committees. From now until the end of the campaign, every time you see a Joe Lieberman advertisement, flier, bumper sticker or button, you know who’s paying for it.

Our campaign will never match Senator Lieberman’s special interest money, and we don’t want to. This campaign is a struggle for the heart and soul of our party, and we have relied on a growing army of grassroots Democrats who share the common goals of bringing our troops home from Iraq, healthcare for all Americans, and energy independence. That’s why over 8,000 individuals have contributed and signed up to volunteer in three short months. But we need your help again. It’s not about the amount you can give, it’s about adding your voice to the thousands more who share our vision of progress.

https://secure.nedlamont.com/page/contribute/fightback

What makes Senator Lieberman’s desperate ads even more outrageous is a passage that can be found in the pages of his own book, “In Praise of Public Life”:

At that point, Weicker stopped ignoring me. He hit back with a barrage of attack commercials … One of those ads was technically accurate but didn’t mention that the tax votes cited were cast seventeen years earlier, in 1971.
Which is exactly what Senator Lieberman did, presenting votes cast by Ned over a decade ago without context. For example, Lieberman’s ad claimed Ned voted against cleaning asbestos out of a local public school. But what the ad didn’t say was that it was part of a larger $45 million appropriation of which less than 5% was slated for asbestos removal. Those bills are all-or-nothing, and Ned thought a good amount of the spending in the bill was unnecessary, so he voted the whole thing down. It’s the same kind of attack President Bush launched when he screamed over and over that John Kerry voted against the now infamous $87 billion to provide troops with body armor. That vote too was part of a much larger spending bill that resulted in billions of wasted dollars. Senator Lieberman has always been too close for comfort with President Bush on issues like Iraq, Social Security, and the current energy policy, but who knew they have been trading advice on campaign tactics during their time together. We need your help to fight back.

https://secure.nedlamont.com/page/contribute/fightback

Sincerely,

Tom Swan
Ned Lamont for U.S. Senate

Well, well, well – how interesting is that?

Doesn’t say much for balanced journalism that the NYT completely missed that part of the story. And I would argue that those details are as much a part of the story as the project itself.

It’s getting so one cannot read or listen to much of anything in the mainstream anymore without wondering what important facts and details have been conveniently omitted. Either the wall is breaking down between the reporting side and the editorial side, or the quality of journalists is really on the decline – or maybe both.

Disgusting.

Bruce Springsteen: “Glory Days”

Bush invites families to “Flight 93″ screening at the Occupied Whitehouse.

http://www.team4news.com/Globa…..v=menu90_3

-GSD

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall . . .

And the mainstream press decries the lack of editors in the blogosphere? “Editors are what give us credibility – we don’t just put the first words that come into our heads out there for the world to see.”

Please.

Props to Will, and would that more reporters followed his lead!

*ilson @11 -

But the postal workers are unionized, so they don’t count.

Given the weight of a brick and the current postage prices, I’d say that ‘border walll’ supporters have more money than sense. (Has it occurred to them that walls will keep people in as well as out?)

I wonder how they are delivering these bricks. By hand? By mail? Through the windows?

We don’t need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

Anne at 13 — I knew you’d appreciate the rest of the story on this. You piqued my curiousity and I stumbled onto Will’s article and thought I’d front page it. Interesting how all these little details never made it into the NYTimes, isn’t it? Wouldn’t you think that would be relevant in a NYTimes story about a political “grassroot” operation that might just not have been so “grassroots” after all?

RBG @ 7

just wanted to applaud your summation of the FDLers valiant performance against the mosquitos trolls the other night – spot on nice

I’m going to sound like a broken record, but I’m asking that we seriously consider a corporate media boycott.

Inside 24 hours they’ve screwed with us on at least three issues:

- Numerous outlets pick up and run uncontested the RNC talking point “But nobody died at Abu Ghraib”;
- The major cable and broadcast networks all run with AP’s John Solomon’s propaganda/hit piece on Senator Reid yesterday;
- NYT can’t be bothered to do anything more than roll over tits up for Pombo and Tancredo with the Brick bitch’s piece.

What’s it going to take before we walk? Leveraged buyouts of all media by Clear Channel and Fox?

Oh good grief, does this nonsense never end? Could these dogs be any further in the lap of power and luxury? And Raw Story is now highlighting a story on the FCC’s new drive to expand consolidation of media even further. This is outrageous! Pretty soon every single media outlet will be owned by Phil Anshutz or Murdoch.

fwiw: a common brick weighs 3.6 pounds…

Did you mean “c-o-n-s-e-r-v-a-t-i-v-e”?

That’s 12 letters, not 11.

I HATE THE NEW YORK TIMES! It used to be such a good newspaper. These days, it’s a waste of paper 98% of the time.

Gosh, I hope I don’t hurt their feelings. I know the MSM is kind of sensitive these days.

boycott!

Great post Christy. And a hat tip to Will Bunch, of course! Republican shenanigans gone wild!
Go Will & Fitz!

This story, and the missing identifying coverage of the person at the center of it, deserves a shout out to Mr. Byron Calame, the NYTimes Public Editor:

public@nytimes.com

A Public Editor is there to address this kind of issue. Ombudswomen, not so much….

11 LETTER=STEVE FORBES

OT sorta– check this out:
>>>>>>>>>
NEW YORK The top editor of Syracuse (N.Y.) New Times, which saw its profile of President Bush’s new chief domestic advisor altered and reposted on his Web site, calls the incident “insulting” and said she plans to consult a lawyer about possible legal action.

“What is getting lost here is that he changed quotes, that is getting lost here,” Molly English, who has served as editor-in-chief of the alternative weekly for five years, told E&P today. “I find it insulting and his excuse is awfully lame.”

English’s comments came a day after the newly appointed domestic policy advisor, Karl Zinsmeister, acknowledged taking the 2004 New Times profile of him and changing both quotes and text. He then reposted it on the Web site of the American Enterprise Institute magazine, which he edits — still under the New Times author’s byline. The article, by New Times staffer Justin Park, had been written because Zinsmeister lived in the Syracuse area.

http://www.editorandpublisher……1002610767

It’s so friggin pathetic.

Gonna have to add a Googling panel to the Ethics one.

let them s**t bricks!

btw– the three louses are on cnn– w, negroponte and hayden

Watching the Hayden swearing in ceremony and I have a question: did anyone see who is standing behind President Bush’s right-hand side? After Bush made his “wish you well” remarks about Goss, Negroponte looked over at someone who was behind Bush’s right and made one of those lip movements that say, “Hmmm…interesting.” Just wondering who it was — and I can’t tell. Anyone got a guess or know?

astro-brick “roots”

i would think the Bible would burst into flames as they lie over it while swearing in the cyborg…

just saying.

could not see who it was, Christy.

Christy – thanks for digging deeper on this. I first saw this story on one of the nightly network news broadcasts, and felt a bit of envy that it had managed to get the attention of a major network. As you know, when I saw the Times article, I was looking at the project itself in light of some of the things that have been organized here, and trying to get my brain cells together and thinking of something else we could do. It also made me think of the person who posted here a couple weeks ago that these kinds of projects were a waste of time and money.

I guess it makes me mad – and sad – that it’s people like the “Brick Bitch” (I love that nickname, Rayne!) who get the airtime and the ink, all in the name of spreading their particular brand of bigotry, and probably because of their corporate media connections. It can’t just be laziness, because it doesn’t take a whole lot of time, effort or energy to check the ‘net for projects like the rubber stamps or CtG, and then report on it.

They should be ashamed, but I don’t think they care enough.

i must admit i was swearing during the swearing in ceremony…

It seems like one of the main functions of progressive blogs these days is shaming “news” reporters into actually doing their jobs.

It’s also a vitally important function for the health of our democracy.

And Jane and Christy are masters at it.

I wouldn’t expose fish guts to the indignity of being wrapped in the New York Slimes.

-GSD

Bustednuckles 12
next time, get a screen grab of the elusive #0 post!
kinda like unicorns or Bigfoot…

Instead of sending anything more to Congress, let’s have everybody go over to 44th and Broadway and PISS ON the New York Times!

I wonder how much a brick with a bat attached would weigh?

And, maybe, could we send some to the Times, as well as to Congress?

C’mon, c’mon. The NYTimes is batting liberal homerums every day of the week. So what if the conservatives weere able to sneak a strike pitch in over the plate? They deserve one now and then, what with the pervasive liberal bias that keeps the good stories from being told.

Or so they might say…

OT, I’m sorry. I just got a call from some “kid” with the Washington DC phone number of 202 000 0000. She was representing the US Telecommunications Association asking people to call their congresscritters to chime in on the Net Neutrality Bill. I asked what the bill number was and she came up with, HB2987, I haven’t looked it up yet. She said wouldn’t it be better to not have the government regulate your video choices and the internet. She said people were trying to limit our video choices and regulate the internet and were calling the effort Net Neutrality. She urged me to call my congresscritter and urge her to oppose that. She gave me the critter’s number and I called to again tell Judy Biggert to support rather than oppose net neutrality, but the number the kid gave me was not in service. Anyone else get this call, packaged in a way to make it sound like Net Neutrality is a bad thing?

by no means shocked, but a little surprised that this was Carl Hulse – so instead of bricks should we send him this ?

btw, couple weeks back, one of the stellar NYT crew tried to fashion a column on the premise that Google was making for lazy college students – nice try – staff librarian read him the riot act and refuted all his claims – see if I can find it

http://photos1.blogger.com/blo…..ummies.jpg

What a pathetic work of villainy this Heiffer is.

Bricks to Congress. Thanks for making my job more difficult, you hateful, mendacious cow.

You have to wonder about the real reason for building that wall, and building it where they’d build it. South Texans who have a clue know what will happen if they try it. And it ain’t pretty.

Personally (tin foil hat adjusted), I think they’re trying to provoke a confrontation with Mexico, a country they think they can steamroll over, if need be–then we have free land! And…OIL. They do have some down there in Mexico, last I heard.

Mexico has been jumping up and down about this issue for a while. A long, long while. They’ve seen it coming:

As the daily newspaper La Jornada recently asked rhetorically, “If they cited non-existent threats just to get ahold of Iraq’s petroleum, what won’t they do to appropriate ours?” It isn’t lost on Mexicans that, while Iraq’s oil is halfway around the world from the thirsty colossus, Mexico’s oil is conveniently right next door.

And these thoughts aren’t confined to conspiracy theorists or the gringophobic left anymore. Thanks to the efforts of the US Congress’ “Committee on International Relations,” Mexico, from left to right, is up in arms over the increasing belligerence emanating from the empire across its northern border.

On May 8, the committee, controlled by Republicans, voted along party lines to tie reform of US immigration laws with a requirement that Mexico open up its state oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to US corporate investors.

Anne — I rather liked it myself, kind of fell out of my keyboard all by itself. Brick Bitch. It Fitz, don’t it?

angie — that’s what a swearing in ceremony’s for, isn’t it? At least that’s protocol under this administration. Hope you threw in a few extra blue words for me, too;

Here’s a couple of interesting tidbits:

– Critics Blast Al Gore’s Documentary As ‘Realistic’

– CNBC’s John Harwood covering the Rep races in PA; the money people must be preparing for a Dem majority based on this kind of coverage.

[BTW, known troll on board. Watch your back.]

I wrote a letter and sent links to that email address provided by commentor #29, letting them know they might want to consider DOING THEIR JOBS.

Darn. My link for the cite didn’t show up for some reason: http://eatthestate.org/07-19/ItsAboutMexicos.htm

LJ/A — I knew we’d hear from you about the Brick Bitch! I remember when you debunked the “mailing bricks attached to postpaid letters” urban myth as soon as I read this post.

English’s comments came a day after the newly appointed domestic policy advisor, Karl Zinsmeister, acknowledged taking the 2004 New Times profile of him and changing both quotes and text. He then reposted it on the Web site of the American Enterprise Institute magazine, which he edits %u2014 still under the New Times author’s byline. The article, by New Times staffer Justin Park, had been written because Zinsmeister lived in the Syracuse area.

She might techinically have a case for copyright infringement here. But that’s a really tough row to hoe.

You are right, Rayne, I have been doing that since January 20, 2001. Can’t wait for the day when I can be proud again of a ceremony like that. sigh.

I’ve been watching CBS News to see if they would express any anger over the deaths of two newsman and severe injuries to Ms. Dozier. Bob Schiefer has so far not shown any, but you can see the emotion in his and other reporters’ faces. In today’s NYT, there is an article that gives us a hint of this, and includes these paragraphs:

“Several executives said criticism by conservative commentators that the networks were playing it safe and not trying to cover the full story of Iraq was unjust %u2014 and offensive.

“One thing I don’t want to hear anymore,” Mr. Capus said, “is people like Laura Ingraham spewing about us not leaving our balconies in the Green Zone to cover what’s really happening in Iraq.” Ms. Ingraham made that comment on the “Today” news program on NBC.

Mr. Cramer said that when played against the injury to Ms. Dozier and the deaths of her colleagues, “for people to criticize what we do is just monstrous.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05…../Countries and Territories/Iraq

I’m not so sure that much has really changed at the Times.

I was rereading Hunter Thompson’s Hell’s Angels, and the first 40 or so pages are devoted to how the NY Time’s (and other popular mass media like Time and Newsweek) “created” the Hell’s Angels by purposeful mis-reporting on an alleged gang rape by the Angel’s in Monterray, CA. The fact is, there was no gang rape. But the story of a gang of bikers marauding across the American landscape was too hard to resist sensationalizing, even through the true facts of what happened were readily available. Thompson concluded that the Time’s articles (b/c of its prestige and position as the “newspaper of record”) “rescued” a dying motorcycle club which had been effectively stomped on by the police and was withering away by creating the mythical bogeyman of the marauding, anti-social outlaw bike gang. Thompson derides the Time’s (and all mass media) use of unnamed and/or unverified sources, and words like “alleged” as cover for the ingenuous reporting. They simply didn’t care – it was too good a story, fiction be damned – the good citizens of America was under attack – the Huns had come. Tales of imminent threats to “American” sensibilities, safety, way of life, sell papers, and the Times is a business, and if it acted like a sensationalizing tabloid…..well, it’s a business.

You could simply replace Hell’s Angels with “terrorists” and gang rape with “yellow cake” or “WMDs” (or any other reported lie), and have a perfect critique of the Time’s Judy Miller Iraq reporting and the Time’s role in creating the bogeyman of terror and terrorists, who, like the outlaw bikers, are out to destroy the American life. Buy the book, replace those few words, and you’ll see how apt Thompson’s critique is.*

That was in the early 60s, 40 years ago. Not much has changed, only the stakes are bigger.

But 40 years ago the signs were there, and we were warned.

______________________________________
Thompson’s overall opinion of the Times was high – he thought at the time that it got 9 out of 10 stories right. But, that was 40 years ago.

OfT:

Hey, everybody, I’m two-for-two on WaPoO chats today. Edsall took my question this morning, and while I wasn’t watching, David Hilzenrath took my question about why Cheney wasn’t mentioned as the archetype of former SecDefs who got really, really rich!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00246.html

anige — ditto here; the kids reflexively change the television channel whenever Bush shows up on the tube now, or suffer a blue streak emanating from Mom. I am bracing myself for the crying jag I will have if we ever clearly win a majority back or the White House (assuming they don’t figure out how to steal them again); I’m going to have to be treated for addiction to swearing after that date.

Bravo TeddySanFran! Both fine questions!!

GSD #14

If you want to know what a terrible idea this is listen to this episode from “This American Life”:

Not What I Signed Up For 8/26 Episode 295:

The Double Whammy. Marian Fontana’s husband was a Brooklyn firefighter who was killed on 9/11.

http://www.thislife.org/pages/…..ive05.html

Test — posted a comment — twice — and it disappeared.

This is just like Rethugs. They are into building walls. Walls of secrecy, prison walls, walls between nations. They seem to be all walls and no balls!

Hey cbl — I forgot to mention that I left you a reply about Fukuyama two threads back.

Rayne – I’d like to think my dogs just automatically go hide behind the sofa when they hear Bush’s voice, but I think it’s more that my yelling scares them. If my husband – the Republican – is also watching, I tend to tone it down on the theory that I don’t want to hear him rant about Democrats, but on the occasions when I cannot help myself, I’m surprised he doesn’t go hide behind the sofa with the dogs! Muttering is okay, though – usually profane – so the two of us sound a little crazy during the news hour.

Given the weight of a brick and the current postage prices, I’d say that “border walll” supporters have more money than sense. (Has it occurred to them that walls will keep people in as well as out?)

PJ,
All I know is if I were trying to get in to this country through the southern border and someone built a wall, I’d just figure out how to get on a boat. It’s just going to change the mode of transportation. No one ever talks about this. I mean….what would you do?

Anne, we are all of us so going to need therapy after years of abuse once the Bush years end.

Starting with lots of champagne. ;-)

Teddy:

I hate it when they mail the bricks. I really, really, really hate it. If I ever see someone trying that trick (we somehow never do), the Postal Inspectors might be paying a visit, after all–because I will have finallly snapped about seeing bricks in my collection box, I’ve grabbed the offensive party’s cute little bricks, yanked the bastards out of their car, bashed in their pointy heads with the bricks, pulled out their brains, wrapped the stem around the bricks and started pounding it into the pavement.

And, yes, I do have “anger issues.” ;)

It’s funny, about the swearing and muttering, we rarely if ever use it except wrt to the news. It is just reserved for this crowd…

My cat seems to be getting used to it, though. *g*

He used to jump up and run upstairs to hide. But he is a dem-o-cat, after all and it is tough love.

OT – this is horrific – US troops kill pregnant Iraqi woman

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..NlYwM3MTY-

Dr. Trex, you have an 11:13 appointment.

hoosierville — it’s like they never heard of the Berlin Wall.

Agh, what am I saying? We’re talking about the 101st Keyboard Brigade, not an army of literates.

You know what else is puke-inducing? These are the same cretins who will whine about taxes…but they’ll cough up the money for a brick or two and postage, roughly equivalent to what they’d need to pay in additional taxes to cover increased border patrols. Morons.

….under the radar? The Brick Bitch probably went right through the front door.

hoosierville says:
May 31st, 2006 at 11:51 am

Go through Canada? Use the traditional tourist visa? (They never seem to point out that the hijackers came in on legitimate visas; it’s all the illegals-from-the-south plus terrorists linkage. Seems to work for a lot of the less-thinking people.)

For everyone wondering about the ultimate irony in all of this…?

Yes, they’ve had to pay for the postage.

But I bet they didn’t send it via Priority Mail, and certainly not by Express Mail.

That leaves Parcel Post.

That means it will take forever to get to its destination. Theoretically, P/P is supposed to take about 5-7 business days. It doesn’t.

I’ll let y’all know if the window clerks at my station have any bricks sent out. I’ve been off work the past few weeks–passing kidney stones. Joy. Agony. It’s like being with Mr. LJ#1 again.

OT – Taylor Marsh has a post up about Tehiri, the guy who fabricated the Iranian badge story, who was invited to the White House and had a face-to-face with Bush as an expert on Iraq…

(laughing like I need to be medicated)

Two tidbits from ABC’s “the Note”

1) they have taken to calling the MSM “old media”. I lake that because it implies that netroots is “new media”, not “outside the mainstream media”.

2) yesterday they made an oblique reference to all the receptionists on th eHill having to deal with the bricks, so maybe, like the basket of rubber stamps, that bricks (or most of them) are being delivered in person.

before the US Govt rushes to build a Wall, perhaps they should consult with some aging but experienced architects from Eastern Germany. Skip the Chinese — I understand their Wall didn’t really work too well after all. Great tourist site though!

scarecrow at 62 — sorry, your comment got caught in the SPAM filter while I ran out to the store to get the emergency gallon of milk. (NEVER run out of milk with a 3 year old in the house. I’m just saying…) Catching up on what’s caught in there at the moment.

Thanks, Christy, and thanks to the other turf-watchers that have contributed things to this thread. Had poked suspiciously at the brick report last night on C&L, wondering wherever in the world they got an idea like that. Note the heavy-handed, so to speak, execution.
NYT signalled it first with the Clinton article (and note that they seem to be the ones on the point), and now these other mediagrabs: it’s time to protect those real, delicate grassroots against the carpetlayers—and deploy the counter-snipers too, because these folks mean to shoot at anything that might move.

Well, if they can’t find a use for all of those bricks, I propose we build a new belfry for Ann Vulture and seal her in it.

*ilson-
I think the key to East Germany’s wall success was the shoot to kill order.

O/T Mary & Sharkbabe avert your eyes !

Disgusting !

Tyrannical AND Chickenshit
As the debate over the reauthorization of the Patriot Act heated up, the librarians and others gagged by the NSL had to watch in silence, intimately aware of dangers they believed were not being exposed.

“We could not speak to Congress until after the renewal of the Patriot Act,” Said Barbara Bailey, President of Library Connection and one of four plaintiffs in the case.

http://rawstory.com/email_story.php?sid=2092

Shorter LJ/Aquaria at 11:54 am –

Going Postal, Returned to Sender –

I was looking at this link at Froomkin’s (not updated since last year)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..listb.html

Claude Allen was paid $161,000 a year, the same as Rove. I’m assuming Zinsmeister.

I scrolled through the list and found this:

White House Ethics Advisors:

Naughton, Janet Roell $100,594
Horton, Elizabeth Ann $100,152
Smith, Tonia Rashana $73,229

That’s $273,975 on ethics. Ms Smith is apparently not as ethical as Ms Horton and Naughton. What’s up with that? BTW does anyone find this as ironic and funny as I do?

hoosierville says:
May 31st, 2006 at 11:51 am

I liked Molly Ivins quoting someone. “Show me a 50 foot wall and I’ll show you a 51 foot ladder.” ’bout sums it up.

LHP #77:

they have taken to calling the MSM “old media”.

I’d prefer Dinosaur Media, but that’s just me.

800 people died crossing the Berlin Wall during its 25 year existence – over 2000 folk died from 1998 to 2004 crossing the US-Mexico border

cbl

Congress was afraid to let librarians speak tot them? Did I read that right. What where the scary libraions going to do to the congresscritters? SHHHHshsh them to death?

LJ/Aquaria

I liked the “old media” “new media” thing because it was not perjorative to the netroots. It appears to give us parity with the old media and even an edge b/c we are “new”

OT

Mary if you are around, I left you a very long post at bottom of EPU zone on last thread.

fascism at it’s finest. Gag oreders on librarians,snooping through peoples check out records.Woooooooh, watch out there Fred, that guy just checked out Erma Bombecks latest, ‘How to Build a Nuclear Bomb From the Dust Bunnies Under Your Bed’!

WaPo doesn’t mind getting into the act either:

The Washington Post’s Trouble with Numbers: Mexico After NAFTA:

Afer running a story on April 17 claiming that “[s]purred by NAFTA, Mexico’s gross domestic product has ballooned, multiplying nearly seven-fold,” a claim unsubstantiated by economists, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the IMF, and the World Bank.

. . .as of May 26, the Post had not printed a correction to its April 17 article, which reported that the Mexican economy “has ballooned” between 1993 and 2005.Still, the paper’s ombudsman wrote on May 7: “The Washington Post is committed to correcting all errors that appear in the newspaper, just as we are committed to the kind of careful journalism that will minimize the number of errors we print. Preventing and correcting mistakes are two sides of the coin of our realm: accuracy. Accuracy is our goal, and candor is our defense.”

There is no TRUE GRASSROOTS on the Right

They are all PAID SHILLS….

every single one of them…

pathethic…NYT do your jobs…

I read a chilling speculation on the use of McCain, and Lie-berman as flip side, vote splitting, neo-con-bet-hedging contenders for the next presidential bid. Basically the game plan is that whichever way the wind blows, one of them will split the vote of the opposing party, and the other one win the presidency. At this point they are interchangeable, since they are both pawns of Neo-con agenda.

OT: But interesting.

For those of you with an inclination there is an interesting account today of ‘War of Terror’, trophy-ism.
A high paid government informer, masquerading as an islamic malcontent, and getting paid to setup, coerce and frame a young gullible arabic man. All in the name of providing grist for the GWOT mill.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9074

OT but important:

Arctic Once Felt Like Florida, Studies Say

The first detailed analysis of an extraordinary climatic and biological record from the seabed near the North Pole shows that 55 million years ago the Arctic was much warmer than anyone had thought %u2014 a Floridian year-round average of 74 degrees Fahrenheit.

The findings, in three separate papers in the issue of the journal Nature that comes out on Thursday, show how much remains to be learned about climate change, both natural and human-caused. But experts say that if anything, the papers suggest that scientists have greatly underestimated the power of greenhouse gases to warm the planet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05…..r=homepage

Rayne,

thanks so much for your meaty response -

I am beyond my end w/these klowns – Fukuyama tries to play it a little more clothed than the likes of Kristol (where’s he been btw -lol!), but yeah Fukuyama does not get it –

these folks consider their love and respect of history a facet of their bona fides – yet they chose to ignore it completely – no matter what happens I take comfort knowing history at best will treat them as cultists, obscure cultists

thank you again for thoughtful response – and thanks for the Diamond “Collapse” heads up – definitely want to get my hands on that !

Hi, everyone, been trying to get stuff done before travel, so I’ve been trying to get caught up. What a place this is, nothing is missed, from the (f**king SCOTUS) to the amazing Duane Allman who died on my all-through-hs boyfriend’s 16th birthday. We went as a bunch to a concert that night and told him on the way home. I grew up in Fort Lauderdale and saw the Allman Brothers at least 15 times; they, Joni, Zeppelin and one or two others are the soundtrack of my teenage life and I still have some very clear and powerful memories of two of those concerts.

What really makes me mad about the corp media giving any space to this story vs the rubber stamps is that it is so unimaginative, while our stamps were actually picked up on by the House Reps and on the floor. Far more interesting and to the point, imho.

Since hooking up with FDL, I only get the NY Times for the crossword puzzle and the occasional Maureen Dowd.

B.S. Lib

I wanna know how they knew the bricks came from individuals. I mean, does anyone think these folks are doing anything like this to show that each brick really does come from a “concerned constituent”? Bringing along the box the brick was mailed in with the return address? We’re supposed to take them at their WORD?

FDL and all the others who took part in some of the roots project fun had a trail to follow to demonstrate where the rubber stamps and CTG books came from. Where’s the trail for Ms. Chesapecten jeffersonius?

The brick idea is good (in principle) as a way to express your feelings to your Congress person, but damned if what favor you gain in making your point you lose with burden of moving the freaking things out of there.

It reminds me of Killing Zoe where the conspirators attempt a heist on the bank of France on Bastille Day only to end up with 10 tons of gold bricks in a basement they can’t even budge. lol.

LHP:

I hear what you’re saying, but, I believe in calling things as I see them, and not worrying too much if people get upset about it. Maybe they need upsetting, as my grandmother used to say.

OK, now they’ve tightened the border with Canada in New England. As the wife of a formerly illegal Canadian immigrant, it’s about time. ;-) The truly scary thing about Canadians is that they look just like ‘merkins. And they speak English too! Even better than Texans do! (Apologies to the folks from Austin…)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200…..anada_dc_2

…but there’s always something different aboot them Canadians, eh?

new thread – our Ned

Arcturus #93

Mexico’s GDP in 2000 base dollars according to World bank figures was:
$448.50 billion in 1993
$666.45 billion in 2006

I’m assuming these are dollar conversion numbers. GDP (PPP) can also calculated in terms of buying power in dollars.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/macroeconomics/ Data/HistoricalRealGDPValues.xls

Not sure why the link came up funny so I will try to repost:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/m…..Values.xls

Now that the Inky and the Daily News have been purchased by a ‘passionate’ Republican, we’re wondering how long Will Bunch (of the Daily News’s Attytood column) is going to continue to be allowed to practice actual journalism, as opposed to VRWC talking points….

Damn good Republican agitprop, though, those bricks. Gotta hand it to ‘em. They can’t govern worth shit–which should come as no surprise, since they want to destroy the government–but in terms of full spectrum media dominance, they make Goebbels look like an amateur.

Troll prophylactic: Gosh, I’m just talking about the technical aspects here, OK? No offense.

Hi Zenn !

Rayne,

Yes, let’s do a MSM boycott. I’m all for it!

Thought that the name sounded familiar. Here in Oregon, a local conservative talk person of the female persuasion (Jayne Carroll, inarticulate, becomes even more so at the mention or I suppose even thought of Hillary Clinton) had a Monday feature in which she would call Kirsten for her “inside take” on the Republican talking points of the week. I heard takes, but I never heard any insights.

But I guess you really need TV to appreciate this fresh new Gen-X voice. Check out this link:

http://www.jerseygop.com/RepublicanBabes15.html

Um, why don’t they just send their bricks to that paranoid freak Chris Simcox and beerguts across America to build is pathetic little walls. What a waste of money and oxygen these people are.

I know it’s late, and I’m tired and therefore,a bit giddy, but, following on my suggestion at #45 about sending “brick bats” to incompetent Congressment, I decided to do a little research. A “brickbat” is not a brick with a bat on it…silly me…it’s a fragment of a brick and people can really get hurt when they are hurled at them. So, keeping that in mind, as we are not violent people, we should reject the “mit einem Ziegelstein schlagen,” and we should just send those little fragments to Congress with the word, “bats,” painted on them,as that’s what I think they are. The fragments of bricks would also send the message that a wall is meant to be torn down, and eventually is.

We should innitiate a “Rock Hammer” program, to send all the senators who got a Brick in the mail, so they can break it up.

I haven’t seen a more “succesful” campaign since Junior asked all of America’s children to send in a Dollar Bill for the children of Afghanistan.

What next? Let’s hang old shoes in the trees of our front yard… The horse crap never stops, and for the 1,000,000th time the jig is up (until tomorrow).

How about sending itty-bitty ladders?

“…PUT UP A WALL THREE TIMES HIGHER THAN THE AMERICANS BUILD, AND DON’T LET IN ANY FUCKING AMERICANS AND ANY FUCKING AMERICAN BRANDS AND NO FUCKING LEVIS OF ANY KIND…”

http://www.wreckingboy.com/mad….._prop.html