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There is some funny stuff out there on the internets this weekend. And after the last few weeks of dismal news, I thought we could all use a laugh or two this morning.
-- Bob Geiger has collected the Week in Cartoons -- and there are some hilarious ones this week.
-- Jesus General has a few funnies, but the one that caught my eye was the She-Ra in Ninja Turtle Garb graphic. Priceless. (Also, don't miss the Al Gore quote from his Rolling Stone interview.)
-- TBogg is just funny. Mwahahahaha.
-- Needlenose is running a "Had Enough?" series that deserves a LOT more attention. And they are taking suggestions for more images in the series. If you've had enough -- and have a visual that you think proves it -- let them know.
-- OMG! Can't...stop...laughing. If you haven't seen the Lewis Black smackdown of L'il Ricky Santorum from the Daily Show, get thee to Crooks and Liars. What a hoot!
-- While you are over at C&L, chekc out Robin Williams' thoughts on the Rush Limbaugh "Viagra Vacation" out with the boys fishing excursion. *snerk*
-- Go. Read. Wolcott. (Oh, and huge kudos to our own TRex for his Wolcott shout out. You go, boy!)
-- An oldie but goodie at Kung Fu Monkey.
-- And from Roger Ailes (no, not THAT one, the good one), a double feature -- here and here. Read and laugh.
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Could it be?
FITZ!
Ned! (way to go Mack!)
Heh: No one wants to leave downstairs?
Not exactly a funny, my younger daughter had a great idea for a bumper sticker that works from the inside out. Would love to see those in Red States with a strong Religious Right representation—Oklahoma, for example (my natal state).
Christy, Thanks so much for the fun stuff today. It seems that so many people I talk to are very depressed about the everything going on. That leads to hopelessness and inaction.
We need to know that their is a chance, that we can make a difference, that if we push and pull and scream and shout that someone is listening. The hard part is when we feel that we are down in the well and no one can hear us.
Robin Williams for President!! After all, we could use a little snark in the White House!!! No?
Fun, Fun, Fun…LOL
OT….I guess everyone has heard that Abu Gonzalez has been sent out by Miss Piggy Rover to start the “Supreme Court is hindering our efforts on the war on terruh” memme…..What a total dirtbag….Imagine selling out as bad as Abu has……LOSER!
katymine at 4 — it seemed like we could all use some extra laughs this week. It’s just been such a crush of bad news and dreary predictions and the like — a break from all of it seemed warranted.
Redd!
Weekend!
Rootz!
Impeach the Murder Monkey!
Ned!
Wollcott!
Swopa!
ot, but had to do this concerning what people are saying about the times disclosure
Quote:
Originally Posted by thomas jefferson
“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.” –Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632
Quote:
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Quote:
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.
Quote:
Our citizens may be deceived for a while & have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light
Quote:
“The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.” –Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823. ME 15:491
Quote:
“I am… for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.” –Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:78
we need to pay especial attention to this next quote from this incredible man;
Quote:
“No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33
and the president needs to read this;
Quote:
“I have been for some time used as the property of the newspapers, a fair mark for every man’s dirt.” –Thomas Jefferson to Peregrine Fitzhugh, 1798. ME 10:1
you’ll especially appreciate this quote from jefferson, as it seems he predicted these relationships
Quote:
Originally Posted by thomas jefferson
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: (1) Those that fear and distrust people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. (2) Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist; and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. - Letter to Henry Lee (August 10, 1824)
Mike Luckovich in the Geiger link.
They are a lot of really good ones, but that one is special.
They are saying the lawyer who beat King George probably will lose his job….They just hate the constitution don’t they?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....ift01.html
David E. - last thread - re Julie Christie:
Afterglow (1997)
(i can’t switch back to current events. too depressing)
Reposted with pleasure, from last night’s Late Nite: I found this website thanks to cuteoverload, which daily provides some of my best laughs…. Here’s something I never thought of using the internet for, yet it seems to make perfect sense:
http://www.infinitecat.com/
Franco 12, this Maladministration rewards corruption and incompetence.
Integrity and competence are anathema.
This is the first time in my life (54yrs) that I have heard so many people talking, planning and actually moving out of the country because of what our country has become.
This became so graphic to me during the 2004 Kerry campaign. I was managing a phone banking center for one of our districts and a couple came in every day from the time we opened, 8 am and was there until close, around 9 pm. They were in their 70’s and had immigrated from Argentina, they lived through what is occuring today. They were frantic to pull America back from the brink of what they know was happening.
My theme song is Dixie Chicks “Not ready to make nice”
My saying is “Had Enough”
I want some progressive organization to buy billboards and put up Needlenose’s “Had Enough” posters all over America. You could geer them for the local. Here it would be gas prices, cuts in VA benefits and Fires out of control because we have no national guard to fight them!
Atlas Shrugged? I am pretty sure Atlas had an aneurism followed quickly by a lobotomy. What a kooky wingerette.
-GSD
Operation demonize the media is in full swing. From across the ocean, deep in the heart of ancient Babylon, comes this babbling.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20.....aqmilitary
-GSD
Is this the first Cheney sighting since Hamdan was handed down? Do you think they’ve told Cheney about Hamdan? Perhaps they waited until after his physical today….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00195.html
Great Op-Ed from both editors of the LA and NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07.....wanted=all
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I just clicked on the Crooks & Liars link.
Ah folks? Rick Santorum held up a document that he described as classified not recently declassified, CLASSIFIED.
And waived it around on television. SOmeone with even mediocre tech skills could freeze a frame and blow it up and possibly read the classified document.
THIS IS A FREAKIN CRIME!!!
This is not funny. The man committed a crime. On television. In front of Millions(?) of viewers. (Or at least hannity & colmes dream of having miilons of viewers)
There rules for how you handle classifed documents. I assure you televised screen shots are not authorized.
This isn’t funny. I am not snarking here. This is one of those reallyopen and shut kind of things. He did it in front of witness. Compare wih the Sandy Berger episode.
We could turn this into a moment like the Wes Clark cellphone records being purchased kind of thing.
Does anybody (clearly not me) have the techinical skills and equipment to see if they can read off that page that Santorum was waiving around? If it is redable, you Osama has read it already. Don’t the American people have the right to be at least up to speed with what Santorum is giving away to the terrorists?
Franco @ #
The PI article you cite doesn’t purport, as you put it “They are saying the lawyer who beat King George probably will lose his job.” The article says Lcdr Swift was passed over once for promotion, and that he expects a second passover, as his experience background is heavily weighted toward one area of the gamut of experience expected by the military in the resume of an advancing officer. His former commander, Col Will Gunn, said “Charlie has spent a lot of time as a litigator, a trial advocate. That’s really unusual in the JAG. You find that people in the more senior ranks have moved around and proved themselves in a variety of settings.”
If Swift is passed by, he will have to weigh opportunities available to such a brilliant young attorney in the private sector vs the important role he’s so far been able to play in his current uniformed role.
Examples of people put in similar positions in the Navy in the past include Hyman Rickover, who, by concentrating on nuclear propulsion, hurt his overall assessment as an officer.
Still, it sucks, and we shouold keep our eye on how Swift gets swiftboated……
Is BushCo implementing the Cheney replacement strategy yet?
Lots of rumors here in AZ during 2004 on McCain turning down the VP slot with Kerry for the shoe in to Cheney’s position with the “darling” being overwhelmingly confirmed when Cheney steps down for health reasons. That was the line for why McCain was cozying up with BushCo and swallowing his pride.
THAT is why I appreciate anyone who brings up how much a hipocrite McCain is, how he DOES NOT deserve his maverick label and that his voting is 98% BushCo ruberstamp record.
I am looking forward to a McCain vs Gov Janet in 2010 if he is still a Senator…. She will clean his clock!
Franco - that article about Swift was the kind of thing that gets you mad, but he sounded so grounded that you can see why he has been able to do such a fantastic job. If the Navy loses Mora and Swift, that’s sad for the branch and all of us. But if he moves on to other things it will be with a history of drawing the line and doing the right thing behind him. Not many of us leave that kind of footprint.
I suspect that just about any US attorny’s office in the country will want him. I think Perkins Coie (a very prestigious national firm, with extremely fun clients) has seen his work and knows the quality of it and may want him.
i think the military will rue the day it let Swift go
If Swift is passed by, he will have to weigh opportunities available to such a brilliant young attorney in the private sector vs the important role he’s so far been able to play in his current uniformed role.
Ed*ard, I have a relative in a similiar scenario, my reading of the situation (and I could be wrong) is that one is expected to leave the service.
Every editorial board in America should publish that Baquet/Keller op-ed on the frontpage tomorrow morning. Perhaps accompanied by quotes from Jefferson across the banner….
mmm, Julie Christie
Was “Darling” a really funny movie, or was it just because I was stoned?
Will punaise show up to put the upcoming swiftboating of Swift into divine context before somebody comes up with a better example of his (Swift’s) sliming than the PI article?
No doubt the Sunday papers will have some great examples of sliming this latter day American hero.
I love me to me’s Jefferson quotes about the press. The last, made near the end of his lilfe, shows incredible wisdom.
EdTeller….I found the article after I heard on CNN that he might lose his job…I should have said that…sorry……
Mary….you are so right!
ifthethunderdontgetcha,
That is true, but there’s the Rickover example, and also - can’t remember her name - a woman Naval officer who was way ahead of her time in developing computer use, who was held up three times, stayed, and was eventually honored by the Naval service. And others.
maybe Cheney is just waiting to get Frist and Hastert to confirm the Alien and Sedition Acts ?
Franco,
that’s cool..
The story of my FDL life — by the time I finished reading the comments on the last thread, I was deep in EPU territory. If you will allow me to bring it upstairs, I recommend Strictly Ballroom, Baz Luhrmann’s first (pre-Moulin Rouge) international hit. To Mommybrain’s recommendation of Elizabeth George, seconded, but read her in order. Ditto Ann Perry. Finally, Midsomer Murders is shown in the Biography channel (A&E plus) on Sundays. As is Poirot. And the new Miss Marple series with Geraldine McEwan on PBS’ Mystery! is first rate. (Can you tell I like mysteries? And musicals?)
This is good for a few chuckles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH0awSk7i8Q
-GSD
E.T. — I’m glad you too saw that production of the original Sacre — that is probably my favorite piece of music — it’s seen me through some rough times — along with the Rachmaninov Sym #2, it’s probably the most erotic too !
awesome jefferson quotes, m to m - thanks
I LOVE mike lukovich - his visual style alone makes me laugh. Really miss Herblock, and often imagine what RAGE would be coming from his pen, had he lived to see what we’re in.
teddysanfran 27:
but people will have to take time away from American Idol and The View to read it.
*ilson…. Rach#2 is sublime. I need me some Tchiak#5 to get me through those tough times.
I just sent an email to Phil Bronstein, the executive editor of the SF Chronicle (and former Mr. Sharon Stone) to ask him to re-publish the Baquet/Keller piece. I suggested perhaps if the Sunday paper is to-bed already, the op-ed would be an excellent addition to the Independence Day edition on Tuesday. We’ll see.
Hi katymine! Don’t forget Teddy’s favorite question about the “McCain for President” campaign:
Isn’t John McCain too old to be President?
The Blessings of a Beacon of Democracy !
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/v.....2644-5670r
Breaking News!
The death of another “Missing White Woman” continious….. Rita Cosby show cancelled!
http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....3418c.html
Mahaaahhawwww Yippy Skippy…. my weekly emails to MSMBC saying…… not watching…. still NOT watching….
katymine#42…OK…I just lost my latte…too friggin funny!
Speaking of The View, did anyone hear Olbermann say last night that Friday’s pre-taped episode had a segment, tied in to “The Devil Wears Prada,” about getting FIRED by your female boss?
** resume regular FDL discussion **
{Teddy hangs head}
watertiger has the understatedly cutest fisheye lens dog pic ever. plus a mouse on the back of a frog. scroll past fuckface cheney.
TeddySanFran…Olbermann was really on last night…When he called E.D. a “nitwitt” I completely lost it.
omg, katymine, can you imagine being in that NINE HOUR meeting with Rita Cosby?
My ears bleed to think of it….
*ilson,
I got turned on to “Le Sacre…” in 1960 by my junior high orchestra teacher. I didn’t get it, so I bought the full score. It took me a month to be able to follow it, and I still didn’t get it, but knew I loved it. In 1964, when I was auditioning at Oberlin, Stravinsky was there. I knew beforehand that he would be, so brought the score, which he generously autographed, commenting in his gruffly high-pitched voice “You have spent a lot of time reading this.” When the US 1-cent Stravinsky stamp came out, just after the great man passed away, I bought a sheet of them and pasted them on the inside cover. I finally got to play in “Le sacre…” in 2001.
goddamned Israel is gonna get us all fucking killed.
Isn’t John McCain too old to be President?
dunno, but definitely too decrepit
Isn’t John McCain too old to be President?
And his prosthetic face will probably fall off before 2008 . . .
Xan at correntewire poses a great question: Is is fascism when the owners are good guys?
http://www.correntewire.com/wh....._the_mouse
Hi Teddy
The thing I am watching with McCain is his face. He had a large area resected for skin cancer, they will not say what kind but if you look at him, as a nurse, working 4 years in ENT surgery with radical neck desections for oral/head cancer. HE does NOT look good. He will be too old but that did not stop Reagan but then he was already deep into his dementia and they just shoved him up and put a script in front of him, just like Bush.
I need to check to see if my boyfriends LTE on AZ Rethugs refusing to see Inconvient Truth… hits the AZ Republican Newspaper…
E.T. — Igor Stravinsky got a 2-cent stamp — I relished that because he was so very commercially-minded. He used as a monogram I$ so a 2cent stamp was a bit of humorous comeuppance! I never met the dude personally but I might have killed him. The very last piece of music he heard the night he died was John Eaton’s “Mass” for synthesizer orchestra (I was the sound tech on the tape)
too funny, *
A variation on TeddySF’s theme: McCain? Well, maybe, but it would really depend on who the Vice Presidential nominee is, because, you know, at his age…
Of course, you have to keep your fingers crossed when you say “maybe.”
*ilson,
I saw that article in “The Australian” yesterday. Deafening silence from the US media, State Dept, etc. Surprised? - nope….
The siege of Gazagrad reference I made yesterday had to do with the similarity between the current Gaza developments to the siege of Leningrad, not the battle of Stalingrad. Though I am loathe to make WWII German comparisons to current Israeli collective punishment crimes, I can’t think of a better comparison in this case.
It may be that Harrison Salisbury’s -1,000 Days_ (the best book on the 1941-44 siege of Leningrad) is the best introduction to current Israeli policy in Gazagrad.
Sharkbabe - And just imaging what Walt Kelly would have done to this pathetic crew!
*ilson,
Oh dear. I thought he died peacefully. Well, he was always looking for new directions. Elton John, though.
THIS certainly qualifies as Weekend Amusement, and I bet you’ll savor every sentence . . .
From Raw Story,
Right-wing pundits in Internet ratings freefall
E.T. : Lidice keeps returning to my sadness in connection with Gaza …
And if I could type, I would have said imagine.
*ilson sed: “- but I might have killed him.”
A good friend of mine back in DC thinks he might have done the same thing to Lowell George of Little Feat. He was asked by the manager of the FM station where he worked to deliver a package to George at his hotel. The next morning, he was found dead in the tub of an OD. Such an ironic ending for the man who wrote “Fat Man in the Bathtub with the Blues”.
i loved little feat.
sigh. i’m so old.
July First is Kate and Pam’s Two-Year Anniversary!
Take a moment to send them both some virtual cotton (traditional) or china (modern):
http://www.pamspaulding.com/weblog/
Is Rita really gone? I had to turn off KO a few minutes early each nice to not have to catch the handover.
LHP - someone else mentioned that about Santorum. And wasn’t it Hatch who mentioned that we were tracking binLaden’s cell- as we were tracking it? I’m probably misremembering, but I’ve just about had enough of the fact that as soon as any portion of the press leaves lapdog behind (even for a story I could care less about - like the SWIFTone) we have to listen to the “traitors” “secret” “classified” “traitors” chorus.
It bugs the snot out of me to feel obligated to go defend NYT of all rags, but it really is to a point where people need to dig in.
I think Santorum should get a censure, at a minimum. I think the document was probably only the info about degraded mustard gas findings, but he needs to get a grip on what his job entails.
The worst thing about this Admin is that they have degraded every institution to the point where when you hear the “secret secret secret” screams you have absolutely no trust in any of them.
what a match! 112 minutes of great soccer.
Hi Mommybrain…. how is the brain family?
I believe it was Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) who leaked that Osama’s satellite phone calls were being tracked — OBL instantly stopped using the device …
btw, remember Osama bin Laden? A blast from the past! I wonder what ever happened to him …
Pre-Iraq War Intelligence
http://inside.c-spanarchives.o.....=546878130
CSPAN on Monday and again today is showing this committee meeting which includes one Republican from N.C. of all places. It should be required viewing in its entirety. Seen along with “The Dark Side” on Frontline, this makes the case for impeachment of both Bush and Cheney. Here is a panel of former CIA and State Department folks stating on the record that all the reasons and evidence for going to war with Iraq was a lie concocted by Cheney et al.
Some Israeli’s must find some irony in the “total war” policy adopted by their leaders.
Add in the wierd Elvis/Koizumi weekend and things are FUBAR as all getout.
At least Bush Jr. didn’t puke on the Japanese guy.
-GSD
… and does Santorum have enough historical understanding to realize that loud alarm bells go off when ANY Senator stands up and says, “I have here in my hand….”
Why not complete the photo-op; travel to Wheeling and make the speech, Ricky?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.....-communism
Priscilla Presley looked — creepily — like her ex-son-in-law.
Is David Frum moonlighting as a writer for this new Iraqi Sunni insurgent group?
Quote:
“A statement by The Supporters of the Sunni People posted on a website regularly used by Iraqi groups said: “Every day the world sees what rejectionist (Shia) militia … do to the Sunni folk in Iraq with blessing and support from the rejectionist government led by [Nuri] al-Maliki.”
-GSD
OT-
Kirk Murphy - I take few things anyone might post here (or says to me in the “real world” for that matter) personally, and I don’t take what you posted personally - whether you question my omniscience or not.
I’ve gotten into it with others regarding posts that analogize the Nazis and TEAM LOSER (pretty sure Norske and I had a “dialogue” for a while concerning moral relativity - which is why I don’t support Nazi analogies (pre or post taking power); and I also believe that such references deflect attention from the seriousness and thoughtfulness of the points usually being made.
You wrote what you wrote - my inferences from what you wrote were based on what YOU wrote - important parts of which you state were “unclear”; yet you blame me for misunderstanding you?
My response to your clarifications is: I don’t believe TEAM LOSER is analogous to the pre- Jan 10, 1933 not yet in power Nazis, or that the present political situation in the US is analogous to pre Nazi taking power political situation in Germany (and I don’t believe that in power they are analogous to the post Jan 10, 1933 Nazis, or that America is analogous with Nazi Germany).
I’ve always preferred analogies to 20th Century Communist rather than Fascist dictatorships. 1. Communism is a much dirtier word in THIS country than Fascism (not that that makes logical sense since they are both totalitarian dictatorships, but it’s true); and, 2. The leading example of 20th Century Fascism were cults of personality which did not outlive their one charasmatic leader (Italy, Germany and Spain), where as I see 20th Century Communism as cults of the Party (e.g. the USSR and China), and I see the repugs as a cult of party, not as a cult of personality based on Chimpy (although as the face of the Cult of the Party there is admittedly a certain Chimpy Cult of Personality, but it plays a supporting role).
Anyway, I’m not giving up my omniscience. Enjoy the long weekend.
ET, 31: Admiral Grace Hopper. I don’t know if she was the first female admiral, but pretty damn close to it. A grand old woman.
Nevertheless, I always hated COBOL, her baby.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....6568.story
You’re right *ilson. Hatch *only* ;-) disclosed other details about phone surveillance and intercepts in the days after 9/11.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters hours after terrorists crashed hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that U.S. intelligence had intercepted a telephone call from a suspect reporting to his handler that the targets in New York City and near Washington had been hit.
“They have an intercept of some information that includes people associated with [Osama] bin Laden who acknowledged a couple of targets were hit,” Hatch told The Associated Press. He made similar comments to ABC News and said the information had come from officials at the CIA and FBI.
. . .
Hatch’s disclosure, with the possibility it would tip off terrorists that their communications had been compromised, left senior officials of the administration dumbfounded and angry.
“Well, that helps a lot!” exclaimed one official, who added an expletive for emphasis, after learning of Hatch’s comments.
TeddySF,
You have a true sense of historical irony. Santorum’s hysterical enough on his own. But he’s given us and the people of PA quite enough already to turn himself into another Tailgunner Joe. He doesn’t drink, though, does he?
Still seething over the Addington article.
http://www.newyorker.com/print.....03fa_fact1
Treasonous puke.
Having a bad day anyway. July 1st is no good for me -
http://santafeandthefatcityhorns.blogspot.com/
ET — one reason I vastly prefer those big posters on the Senate floor: I’m old enough to get nervous when Senators hold up a piece of paper. Oddly, I was womb-bound during Army/McCarthy hearings, and my folks had their first TV set that summer.
So, ladies of child-bearing age, my personal recommendation is Mozart — but no O’Reilly — during gestation.
Soccer is so UNAmerican:
No commercial breaks to give puffed up prima donnas breathers every ten minutes or so, for one.
These guys must be really, really tired.
don’t forget over at skippy:
seven of nine sings ben folds five
Ya gotta feel for GW Clusterfuck.
When he invaded Afghanistan- someone told him that there were some real bad people there- so he figured he’d catch em. Course there are millions of people in Afghanistan- so who was he gonna “catch”. He had no idea who the bad people were. Of course there were some Afghan soldiers defending their country against a foreign invasion. Were they the bad people? Maybe. Mostly, though, the bad people were “terrorists”- but they didn’t wear sings around their necks- so what to do?
“Here’s an idea” says Clusterfuck. “We’ll offer rewards to anyone who turns in a terrorist”.
This struck the Afghans as a great plan- so they turned over lots of people- people they owed money to- people who had been screwin their wives- people who they were competing against politically- etc.
So now Clusterfuck had a whole herd of “terrorists”. They were charged with nothing- he had no witnesses for any of their crimes. The only way to charge em was ta make em “confess”. So he spirited em off to an island where no one could see em- and started torturing them to give him dirt about themselves- OR OTHER DETAINEES.
So what’s poor GW Clusterfuck got on his hands now? He’s got a bunch of pissed of people permanently in a jail with no charges- and the only evidence he has against em is what he bought when he captured em- and what he co-erced out of them and others. In other words he’s got NOTHING.
So what’s a poor dictator to do? Try em of course! Course these trials won’t be like ya see downtown. The guys being “tried” won’t even be there- nor will they be represented by counsel. They won’t ever see the evidence used to convict em- and neither will anyone else!
But here’s the problem. He can’t keep holding em for ever without trials- and he can’t give em REAL trials- cause they’d all be set free- so he’s invented somethin REALLY COLL- tribunals!
With Clusterfuck’s tribunals– a few americans whill go into hiding and come out with “verdicts” about these people- without ever even telling em what the fuck they are charged with or what evidence is being used against em. That’s important- cause if americans ever find out that there IS no fucking evidence- well they might ask QUESTIONS. Can’t have that now can we.
HE might as well just take em all out and shoot em.
Ye gods, this is about as far from amusing as can be, but it’s important.
The AP is reporting:
Excuse me for bringing such as this in here, y’all, but honestly, I need my friends’ help in toting this load of appallment.
BobbyG {{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUG}}}}}}}}}}}}}} for you today
lotus–that’s a few bad apples- I mean REALLY a few bad apples. They should be tried and convicted and no doubt will be. I don’t think that the case has much to do with the policy questions concerning Iraq.
katymine -
Thanks. Bless you.
wtf? “crime of opportunity” with stalking and weeklong plotting?
The allegations of rape could generate a particularly strong backlash in Iraq is the part that’s most worrisome now, rw. And that implicate policy.
“does implicate policy,” I meant.
EPU –
The BushCo GOP Organized Crime Syndicate are modern day Bolsheviks, in the truest sense of the word.
Bolshevik = Majority Party, the name adopted by Lenin’s tiny minority.
Menshevik = Minority Party, the name given to the much larger group of less radical revolutionaries.
Lenin was a master of language . . .
Yes, BobbyG — what katymine “said.”
From the New Yorker article on Addington:
This is odd in light of the fact that Addington is said to carry a rumpled copy of the Constitution around with him all the time.
OTOH he may carry it around to find ways he can trample on it in the name of the unitary executive..er…self-designated emperor.
Or he may find uses for it in ways we in polite society cannot mention.
Speaking of which, if the concept of the unitary executive is constitutional, why does the Constitution not mentioned it? Sorry, I know, stupid question.
http://www.newyorker.com/print.....03fa_fact1
I do love me some penalty kicks!
Brilliant!
ck & EPU,
I think Lenin would acknowledge Rove’s great gift in this area.
Looking like an all Portuguese language semi?
I thought I read that Addington carried a PART of the Constitution around with him, the Presidential Succession part. Perhaps I read that in the NYorker author’s Q&A?
When I was stationed in Greece, my first out of country experience, they gave an orientation to living on the economy of a foreign country and ways to scam the local legal system. The rule was “if you were going to smoke dope, do it on the base, the worse you could get is a repremand but if done outside the base and caught outside the base, life in a 4×8 with no amenities. Families provided Greek prisioners food, bedding and anything else with bribes.
The company line was… if an active duty or family committed a crime outside the base, the first is to get to the base regardless…. that way they can transport them out of the country and out of their jursidiction. A group of guys did a hit and run with the national dying at the scene. They flew them out of the country asap. That is why the Marines involved in Hadetha are in Calif and not in Iraq.
sad news from Truth about Iraqis - and thank you to MFI for pointing to this:
http://truth-about-iraqis.blogspot.com/
“Truth” is a very good view inside Iraq and worth reading regularly.
how will we ever make amends
WTF
I need a litle chuckle, this does it for me, repeatedly. My guy leaves Thursday, 06JUL06 for Iraq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....arch=fucks
but Rove is in service to the Czar …
More on the MSNBC shuffle…
Money quote…
“Abrams said that there wouldn’t be any other major changes in the near future, though there will be some changes to both “The Situation With Tucker Carlson” and “Scarborough Country.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.....msnbc_dc_1
Heh heh.
“Speaking of which, if the concept of the unitary executive is constitutional, why does the Constitution not mentioned it? Sorry, I know, stupid question.”
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Neither does it mention any limitation on the purview of the Supreme Court to have the last word on any dispute pertaining to constitutional and/or federal issues. See Article III, Sections 1 and 2.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/con.....l#section1
We are one vote away, however, from having it wrongly decided otherwise. Should that happen, adios to our tripartite constitutional republic legacy.
Teller #29
“Will punaise show up to put the upcoming swiftboating of Swift into divine context before somebody comes up with a better example of his (Swift’s) sliming than the PI article?”
How does the upcoming Swiftboating of Swift relate to the government’s monitoring of the SWIFT banking exchange.
Does anyone think we are even living in reality anymore?
New Time Mag poll. Bush bounce like dead cat.
http://www.time.com/time/natio.....51,00.html
For quite dry amusement, I enjoy
http://assimilatedpress.blogspot.com/
right/wrong track numbers in that Time poll are getting grimmer for Georgie….
new thread — http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....-illinois/
‘The eternal loop of history threatens to strangle us all’
;>)
BTW
Swimdeep is my other dress kids…I sometimes post on other blogs that way…forgot to change it back on my last thread.
Gosh, BobbyG, huge condolences on this day. Your daughter is stunning. Love and Hugs to you and Cheryl and Nick.
i need a litle chuckle, this does it for me, repeatedly. my guy leaves thursday, 06jul06 for iraq.
whether you’re swimdeep or hope springs a turtle, godspeed to you and your guy, and may he come back safely to you soon.
i have a friend who works on a job i’ve been spordadically doing for the past few months, and her hubby is over there, too…slated to come home in sept. she misses him greatly and gives me updates whenever isee her.
i wish all of our men and women in uniform over there safe passage back to their loved ones’ arms.