Comments on: Ssssh, he’s “deciding.”

By: absent signified · Around the blogs

absent signified · Around the blogs — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:35:42 +0000

[…] Here’s a treat from watertiger at firedoglake, particularly the emphasized bit: I’m starting to think that this Presidenting gig doesn’t really require much skill. Lots of style, but very little substance, from what I’ve seen over the past five years. I mean, your working knowledge of geopolitics need only be basic; whenever something bad happens, your press secretary burns a DVD of all the news footage for you to watch while you’re perched on the West Wing john; the Armed Forces keep dressing you in discontinued, presidential seal-emblazoned “Members Only” jackets that would make Kim Jong Il launch an ICBM in a fit of envy; and you get to hand-pick your audience when you have to make that annoying policy speech over and over again. […]

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:57:33 +0000

Nice post…but being realistic…all the deciding is over and done with, they’re just staying the course for the next couple years. Wouldn’t you with the record of success? It will be one long fishing trip from here on in. Let them eat perch.

By: badick

badick — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:27:38 +0000

Iraq PM supports Dem plan for timetable
So how is the “decider” going to deal with the Iraqis telling him they want the US to get the hell out. Kinda puts a kink in the whole “permanent bases from which we can control the oil strategy.”

And how will they reconcile the issue of “terrorists / insurgents.” Yes, most of the resistance in Iraq today could be called a legitimate national liberation struggle against an occupying power. Certainly that’s how the majority of the Sunni insurgents see it. But these groups must have cooperated with the Al Queda terrorists. Giving them an unqualified amnesty seems problematic at best. How will the families who have lost loved ones in Iraq feel about this?

Merla Haggard……..a rebel with a cause.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13...../newsweek/

By: egregious

egregious — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:18:28 +0000

neurophius at 379: Now if only somebody would be so kind as to teach me how to embed a link in a word or phrase (since it’s a slow afternoon)…

Ok. Blind leading the blind here, or at least the lame and wobbling newbie teaching the newborn behind.

type the following: [a href=”the actual link here”]NAME OF LINK HERE[/a] then some other stuff to make sure you successfully closed the html.

Substitute for [] and you’re golden. Hey if I can do this totally anyone can :)

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:33:10 +0000

Jane’s sister Pam has a new thread up top. Just FYI.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:32:30 +0000

Siun — you know that I was happy to help you guys out any way that I could. :) And you took fantastic care of me and everyone else — it was much appreciated.

By: egregious

egregious — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:32:12 +0000

ck at 295 I’ve had Howie’s ActBlue page open all afternoon - just need to get my wallet and credit card to finish the donation. Why don’t you post the link again?

Here it is.

We’re over $1,000!! Let’s keep it going, please donate, we’re trying to reach $1,200 tonight. Help one of the truly good guys….

By: Cujo359

Cujo359 — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:29:40 +0000

Hypatia @ 6:13 pm (#411) - It seems obvious that at least some of the insurgent activity in Iraq could be described as resistance. They are fighting foreign occupiers. There are also people there who are targeting other Iraqis for what can only be termed local political reasons, and, of course, there are international terrorists.

I think there are a couple of reasons we don’t call Iraqi insurgents “resistance” fighters. One is the fact that it’s pretty hard to tell who is who over there, and whether there actually is such a thing as a purely resistance movement. The other is that it’s an obviously politically loaded word. Say “resistance” and you think of all the partisans in WWII. It makes it look as if we’re in the wrong in Iraq. Both reasons make me reluctant to use the term.

By: P J Evans

P J Evans — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:29:16 +0000

Oilfieldguy says:
June 24th, 2006 at 5:14 pm

My mother’s first job was newspaper proofreader; her second was lab tech in an oilfield. She said the guys would stand outside the room (near the window) and use the worst language they knew, trying to shock her.

By: Valley Girl

Valley Girl — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:26:25 +0000

BarbaraB- now that’s very interesting. But I am a lot older than the hiring age in an academic department. Way too old. Odd thing is, way back in junior high school, when I articulated my first “career choice”- it was to be a lawyer. Some silly vocational test concluded that I did not have the people skills, and I took it seriously. I grade my own exams by choice. It’s an important way to learn about my students, and what they are getting and not getting. You think faculty meetings in my department are brief??? So maybe I just need to find the academic law equivalent of dermatology in the medical field. I do really appreciate your comment. Maybe we can discuss this further by some other means. Not right now, because I am totally preoccupied with other stuff, but later.