Login HereBespectacled Nudnik David Brooks could learn a lot more about what a purge really looks like from Mel Brooks.
I realize he and his fellow Republicans DLC Democrats think running a primary challenger actually supported by rank-and-file party voters somehow represents a radical totalitarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-rationalism, anti-anarchism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism. Pot, kettle. Projection, much? Heh. I guess we're accused of "anti-liberalism" because we're too. . . liberal. Clue for Jonathan Chait: it's a fucking blessed primary! (Note: reversion to Ned Flanders-speak for the wilting orchids in the audience.)
I've always found this bit from Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I to be drop dead, laugh out loud hysterically funny. It still is. And yet, viewing it afresh today, it leaves me with a new sensation: a shuddering, sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. The past is clearly, once again, prologue. Instead of Torquemada, we now have John Yoo, Don Rumsfeld, George Bush. We have Gitmo. We have become the Inquisitors.
Not even Jackie Mason or Shecky Green can make that funny.
Let's see the Bespectacled Nudnik write about that.
Discussion topic: if Mel Brooks were to make a sequel, what might it include?
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I dunno, but it would be better than a lot of other sequels out there….
Ok how can there be a comment at 7:33 when the post is 8:09pm? I’m late at 8:15 but am baffled how to defeat someone who comments well before the actual post. I bow to my superior. In this instance only :)
Answer: he cheated like a gutter rat.
The sequel: how we became the new Germany, inch by inch, without realizing it. Geneva Conventions? Bah. Constitution? Old stuff. World public opinion? What do they know.
H E L P world out there, help…are you listening? Help us
Discussion topic: if Mel Brooks were to make a sequel, what might it include?
A George Bush doppelganger swaggering around, shooting everybody who disagreed with him, yelling “I AM THE DECIDERERER!!”
iraq baghram abu ghrab gitmo = the cube
Oh lord Pach that’s a little too close to reality right now.
iraq + baghram + abu ghraïb + gitmo = the cube
sorry for the dupe, delete the 1st (#8)
Yeah, Jane. It’s turned into a fuck you comedy skit. In context, it has a burning, accusatory edge that, I think or hope, forces people to see where we are now in a new light.
Instead of Torquemada, we now have John Yoo, Don Rumsfeld, George Bush.
We have Dorquemada.
good answer
Well, you know that part about how the GOP professes to be protecting us all from the demons and perverts and terrorists? And how we’ve been thinking that they demonize the thing they fear themselves to be? Well, all pretense is gone. We can see the “man behind the curtain” and it’s no Oz, that’s for sure. It’s evil and it’s here. It put down roots while others were being distracted with bogus laws and phantom terrors. It’s here.
The sequel? Maybe the bully kid from the Simpsons’ “Ha-Ha.”
Or how about the History of the World, Part…Wait - What World?”
Sad and sick and really, quite terrifying.
Okay this is fun—now emptywheel has a youtube up of Christy at ykos. :)
“Rove Quotes Christy: Ongoing ‘Case’
by emptywheel”
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/
And we have our very own “Minister of Propoganda” - Karl Rove, or perhaps we could just euphemistically refer to him with Bush’s other favorite nickname ……Goebbie Jr
And we have our very own “Minister of Propoganda” - Karl Rove, or perhaps we could just euphemistically refer to him with Bush’s other favorite nickname ……Goebbie Jr
“I want my little Karl!”
Rant number nine:
The accusation that the US. cut and ran from Vietnam after almost twenty years of unsuccessful and unmerited intervention in Vietnam is political fodder. Success after Vietnam is that anyone who opposes war is successfully painted as an unpatriotic flag burning traitor by some asshole neocon. I (nor anyone else) need not approve of a past, present or future of torture, oppression, slavery, ethnic cleansing, land/resource grab imperialist warfare of any sort to prove love of the land I live on. Paint me traitor cut and run, we shouldn’t be in Iraq in the first fucking place and staying another day won’t make it right. Boot neo-con bums off the planet, the one Al Gore talks about with trees, polar ice and something left un-pillaged. Not many in Congress represent me, am I that far from the norm in the US. or is congress pledging allegiance to their own fat ass… well I know that. Senator Lamont, we have approximately 530 members of congress to replace and about half the country to reeducate, educate. I’m not ready for my “vacation” to the east coast of Cuba but one more nanosecond of Bushdumb kingdom is grinding. Seems with Castro close to his 200th birthday it’s time to take Cuba back in the fold, there maybe a lot of us down there soon.
Maura reports in at the end of the last thread with some John Lewis news.
Mel told us at the end of History of the World Part 1 what would be in the sequel:
SEE…Hitler on Ice!
SEE…a Viking funeral!
SEE…JEWS…IN…SPACE!!!
History of the World:
The End Of The American Century
Boy, whatta downer. The only way out is endless investigations to find out how all this shit happened and to drive a stake through the hearts of the guilty. Hang their carcasses out for the sport of crows as a grissly reminder to those, who in the future (mistake of Vietnam redux–Iraq) entertain such idiotic and demonic schemes.
De-lurking from Germany: have you seen the action alert by Avila at DKos? (Currently one of the top recommended diaries.) You may have heard that one of the chief apologists & ideology-peddlers for torture, William Haynes, has been nominated to a judge-ship at the 4th(?) U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Senate hearings begin tomorrow (???)
The diary has full info, the nominee’s background, the background of the legal contortions to legitimise torture, plenty of links, senators’ addresses a.s.o. Please check it out. (P.s. I was in a hurry to post here, so I don’t recall if the hearings are before a full Senate or the appropriate committee.) Good night and good morning, Agnes (5:52 a.m., Berlin time)
Yet another thing I find in common between myself and the rest of the FDL community - appreciation for great comedy from Mel Brooks. That’s my second favorite Brooks movie and that clip is my favorite scene from it, especially the part of that scene when he spins the 3 watermills like a slot machine. My favorite Brooks movie is To Be Or Not To Be, set in Poland during WW2 and the only movie he ever did with his wife Anne Bancroft.
If he were to do a Part II, I am certain he would do a bit about the Berlin Wall coming down, he always loves skewering the Germans. He would also do a bit about Y2k and all the doomsday prophecy that took place in the 90s.
Finally the entire Cheney Administration era would round out the rest of the movie. Its all so farcical the story writes itself and Brooks would only need to write minimal parts.
DEPU’d Eli
double epu’d
Neo-Conn party
new-ct party
bwahahahaha
It would include something about the Dems uniting in Ohio to take out DeWine…maybe a pun the from an Eric Burdon/War song. I dunno. But…
http://news.com.com/FBI plans new Net-tapping push/2100-1028_3-6091942.html
“The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping, CNET News.com has learned.
FBI Agent Barry Smith distributed the proposal at a private meeting last Friday with industry representatives and indicated it would be introduced by Sen. Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.”…
-snip-
“Jim Harper, a policy analyst at the free-market Cato Institute and member of a Homeland Security advisory board, said the proposal would “have a negative impact on Internet users’ privacy.”
“People expect their information to be private unless the government meets certain legal standards,” Harper said. “Right now the Department of Justice is pushing the wrong way on all this.”
Neither the FBI nor DeWine’s office responded to a request for comment Friday afternoon.
DeWine has relatively low approval ratings–47 percent, according to SurveyUSA.com–and is enmeshed in a fierce battle with a Democratic challenger to retain his Senate seat in the November elections. DeWine is a member of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee charged with overseeing electronic privacy and antiterrorism enforcement and is a former prosecutor in Ohio.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., decided 2-1 last month to uphold the FCC’s extension of CALEA to broadband providers, and it’s not clear what will happen next with the lawsuit. Judge Harry Edwards wrote in his dissent that the majority’s logic gave the FCC “unlimited authority to regulate every telecommunications service that might conceivably be used to assist law enforcement.”"
-snip-
“If the FBI’s legislation becomes law, it would derail the lawsuit because there would no longer be any question that Congress intended CALEA to apply to the Internet.”
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This may be old news here on/at the Lake, but first I’ve seen. This cannot be allowed.
Spill DeWine.
Spill DeWine.
I like it.
How about “DeWine bugs me”?
I can just see all those Repug fundies sittin’ in the dark in their double-wides, gnoshing on Orville Redenbacher’s best and grinnin’ and singin’ along a capella with Mel…“the inquisition is here to stay!”
Aaaaggghhh…this must be a dream, mustn’t it?
Put De Wine in the coconut, and listen to the wingnuts..
That, by you, is a definition of a nudnik?
A guy walks into a psychiatrist’s office and says ‘ Doc you have to help me. I’m desperate’. The psychiatrist says ‘what’s the problem?’. The guy says ‘ I talk to myself inside my own head. I’ve tried everything to make me stop but nothing works. You have to help me or I’m going to go out of my mind’. The doctor says ‘Just relax. There’s nothing wrong with that. Everyone does it. I do it all the time.’ Well that’s fine for you doc’ says the man ‘but you have no idea what a nudnik I am’
Aaaaggghhh…this must be a dream, mustn’t it?
Or… a vision.
Suddenly I seem to be in a sequel to The Omega Man…
OT, for those of us that would rather chew our arm off than use Internet Explorer;
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3216
Firefox 2.0
Discussion topic: if Mel Brooks were to make a sequel, what might it include?
Oh, I think he should borrow extensively from the Dr. Strangelove movie. The current WH crowd fits the movie nicely.
Ghostman
Ghostman — I recently bought Dr. Strangelove but have yet to have time to watch it.
Man, did anyone see John Dean on Olbermann? I”m on the West Coast, so I may be on the late freight here.
He was hawking his new book, which apparently deals with studies of the psychological bases of modern conservatism — Dean used the phrase “Authoritarians” to describe the unique species we refer to as “wingnuts.
Both he and Keith were VERY grave and almost shaken during their lengthy discussion, Dean at the end telling Keith we are very close to fascism — and Olbermann not batting an eye.
Seems that these two really, really get it.
Sandcandu-rough cut in a Brooks fashion
How about a bunch of fancy exneo conboys riding camels with no saddles through the desert. Some Woody Guthrie dubbed over Nusrat Fetah Ali Kahn type music. One camel is dragging a lasso tied Rummy who is mumbling “ok ok i’ll make a new conboy policy.” Cheney yells back “shut up Rummy.” Fade to night scene around a campfire of cash bundles only. Every cowboy gathered near in a sort of huddle murmuring “moma moma.” Karl the cook looks over at lil shrub while he spills some beans and says “yer kinda cute.” Suddenly a couple of Haliburton Patty wagons pull up doors swing open spilling more cash, with a couple of fire hoses spraying black oil till they are soaked and the wagon leaves. Several camels pass gas. Fire is all over the camp now, crying and coughing sounds as a bomb explodes. It’s dawn only one exneoconboy remains sitting up and dazed. Off to the left sits Kos wearing a Mark twain hat and a white suit at a nice little table, blogging about it with Dixie Chicks music coming out of his laptop.
Bustednuckles, thanks for the heads up on the Firefox update. I’m not enough of a techie to use it yet, I’ll wait a week for other, smarter people to find those initial problems.
mercury, yup, Olbermann and Dean most definately get it. That’s the kind of info that should be on every network, every day.
Not gonna happen, but it should.
Mercury-
Keith and John seemed very shaken to me as well. As well they should be. When I heard that Dean was going to be on Countdown, I figured it would be regarding Kyl and Huck Graham.
This was scarier.
Chris Floyd sums up an impending doom (the logic of evil) quite well here-
Diplomatic Deception: The Calm Before the Firestorm
http://www.chris-floyd.com/ind.....llComments
36, Matt O: I think you’ll enjoy the movie. It’s older than you are! Try imagining which current WH people would play the characters you’ll see in the War Room. But also, just watch it and have a good laugh.
Ghostman
Hey Dorquemada What do you know?
I just got back from Guantanamo
Guantanamo? What’s Guantanamo?
It’s where all the Muslims are gonna go.
The Accusation - All you need to know
The Accusation – at Guantanamo . . . .
The Accusation – We hope you’ll go away . . .
But the Accusation’s here and its here to stay . . . .
The Accusation – You’re a celeb
The Accusation – at Abu Ghraib
The Accusation – We hope you’ll go away . . .
But the Accusation’s here and its here to stay . . . .
Put it in the car . . .
RGJoe’s party.
Hedge Party
1 a : a fence or boundary formed by a dense row of shrubs or low trees b : BARRIER, LIMIT
2 : a means of protection or defense (as against financial loss)
3 : a calculatedly noncommittal or evasive statement
summer camp inquisition:
“hello Mudda
hello Fada
here we are in
Camp Torquemada”
Oy the agony.
Oy the shame.
To make my privates public for a game?
Good to see you keeping the Late Nite fires blazing, Pach!
Things are lovely here at the beach. I am sunburnt and overfed.
This is my first exposure to cable news in quite a while, though. I killed the television in my apartment, so when I visit someone who has cable, I do News Tourism. I see that things haven’t gotten any better in Big Media.
Now I don’t want that this should scare you,
But my bunkmate has malaria.
You remember Jeffery Hardy,
They’re about to organize a searching party!
Take me home, oh Mudda, Fadda,
Take me home, I hate Torquemada!
Being a San Franciscan,
“The Great Quake of ‘06″
comes to mind.
Blank Kludge 27, that p.o.s. DeWine. Good for absolutely nothing. Thanks for the link, I’ll send it out to other Ohioans.
Jenny f t B - LOL, the good old days
Liererman to Run as Dependent Candidate
http://www.correntewire.com/jo....._dependent
“To sleep, purge ants, to dream -
ay, there’s the rub.”
You know, I stopped watching all television news, including the cable shows after the Bush/Kerry debates. Just turned it off. I can’t have lies pumping into my environment anymore.
How much DeWine must a man wash down, before you call him a lamb? The answer my friend, is blowing inter tubes.
punaise -
he he. ‘night!
the posting of that comment was precipitated by kitten dancing across keyboard
You know, I stopped watching all television news, including the cable shows after the Bush/Kerry debates. Just turned it off. I can’t have lies pumping into my environment anymore.
I watch Daily Show and Countdown. Other than that, there has to be some kind of special occasion.
My Suggestion for Mel:
Who shook all tha world bankers
Who think they can rhyme
Shot tha landlords who knew it was mine
Yes, it’s a war from tha depth of time
Oh, Hear the masked scream
War within a breath
It’s land or death
Rage Against the Machine
Eli - agreed along with c-span.
NSA sequel: Planet of the Tapes
Oh McCoughlin for kicks and some Charlie Rose.
Punaise - I still think Lieberhosen looks like the old blonde doctor from Planet of the Apes.
so-so doom and gloom song from the Reagan era (?), timely lyrics:
The Call - The Walls Came Down
I watch c-span but not the snark shows. I can get my laughs here. :)
You can see the KO-Dean interview on MSNBC.com… ‘Countdown’: Dean on Bush’s woes.
Scary indeed and just more evidence of what we were discussing in the FUBAR thread with Sam and Stephen. No amount of facts, no theory proven false — nothing — can make some people abandon their faith in their authority figures.
If they believe it’s the middle of the night, no sunburn can tell them otherwise. It’s like 23-30 percent of the country has a chip in their skulls.
So Jenny are you Nurse Diesel?
No amount of facts, no theory proven false — nothing — can make some people abandon their faith in their authority figures.
It still amazes me that a cult could be created around such a transparent loser.
So Jenny are you Nurse Diesel?
It totally ruins my night when Jenny witholds th fruit cup, so strive always to be obedient and punctual.
Nurse Diesel? fruit cup? that’s one loop I’m way out of….
Dover Bitch - I think it will take an energy and of food shortage to wake these zombies out of denial.
That link http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/10/20596/1741 on William Haynes is a must read imo. What a fright! Mary will be cussin’ over this.
Dover Bitch - I think it will take an energy and of food shortage to wake these zombies out of denial.
I keep thinking of the end of The Dead Zone…
Nurse Diesel from Mel Brooks movie High Anxiety.
OK, got it. thanks ES, Ar
Eureka springs at 71:
Dover Bitch - I think it will take an energy and of food shortage to wake these zombies out of denial.
That won’t do it. Anything bad that happens is the fault of the evil librul enemy, either directly or by interfering with Dear Leader preventing it. In their minds, it would just be justification for more authority.
Nurse Ratchett’s cousin.
The sequel would include “Jews in Space” just like the end of the movie says :D
This is so ironic. I bought the Mel Brooks collection of all his movies on DVD this weekend. It was $70 at Wal-Mart. It was a much needed purchase.
Redshift - You are probably right.
The Eocons In Space
What would make them happy?
Jamie - Just thinking about you this afternoon when I was cut & pasting a comment. Much thanks for working the bugs out of this bright little internets oasis.
DITTO JWR at 10:53!
not even jackie mason or shecky green can make that funny.
shecky green? don’t you mean pat cooper?
Well crap.
The post by Agnes at 24? deserves a serious look. You may have heard that one of the chief apologists & ideology-peddlers for torture, William Haynes, has been nominated to a judge-ship at the 4th(?) U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Senate hearings begin tomorrow (???)
I had not heard that. Up until now, Sen. Leahy (God Bless Him) had been pretty much unilaterally keeping that nomination on hold. Haynes is incredibly bad news.
HEY JOE - just how do you and the Gang of 14 plan on dealing with this atrocious nomination?
crap crap crap
Haynes, who they plugged in as counsel to the Pentagon, joined forces with Cambone at Rumsfeld’s behest to pretty much beat down the combined rest of the military counsel and top officers who WANTED to observe Common Article Three of the Geneva Conventions. By absolutely refusing and demanding that they instead adopt what have now been held to be procedures and positions in violation of the War Crimes Act - he is getting his payoff.
While his nomination has been on hold for awhile, having Lutting move off the bench to take that ripe plum of an offer from Boeing has made putting someone on more of an issue.
So Haynes is now front burner-ing. I could cry for what these insane immoral cretins are doing to the Federal court system.
Torture Bybee in the 9th, Torture Haynes in the 4th, Kavanaugh on the DC Cir.
If the God DAMNED Dems can’t get their act together on this one, they are worthless in the extreme, and if Graham and Kyl gunrun for him, they are beneath contempt.
I want to curse and throw things.
Just when you think that they are running low on the monstrous and malacious - they pull another immoral incompetent who has willfully and willingly threatened the integrity, honor and safety of our military at the whim of Addington, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Billmon weighs in with a graphic worthy of darkblack
Great catch Dover:
Dover Bitch says:
July 10th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
I know the CT Senate race is where my brain is focused lately, but in case anybody missed it, Paul Hackett threw his support to Sherrod Brown in Ohio today.
This is real good news for Brown and a shining example of what a real Democrat would do (hint, hint, HoJo).
That race is still tight and nothing could be better for women’s and civil rights, at least as far as the Senate is concerned, than to get that bottom-feeder DeWine out of office.”
Old-Time FDL’ers will remember we lost at least two commenters over this. Oakland Melanie or Mel? and I am embarrassed I cannot remember the other one’s name, because she was really important in getting the netroots launched.
John Casper - you pre-date me in these parts
that’s my second favorite brooks movie
not even in the top 5 for me.
young frankenstein
blazing saddles
the producers (original)
spaceballs
uh….
ok, in the top 5
history of the world part i
got say, it’s good to be the king.
but actually, i would, if i could, put the first 3 seasons of “get smart” as number 3. but honorary mention goes to 12 chairs.
Mary - It’s horrible, the brazen audacity never fails to surprise me a little. Such a short notice I will have to use NSA or rather AT&T in the morning on this one.
Hey Skippy, A Scanner Darkly was excellent. Robert Downey Jr. made the film. Thankfully, they stayed true to the book.
“I want to curse and throw things.”
Old glass jars against concrete works for me.
Easy to sweep up too.
I think your comments in part are attracting a lot of other smart lawyers. Eventually, it might lead to some kind of legal net roots. For right now, please keep venting. It sounds like it helps you and they make for terrific comments.
Arianna:
Robert Downey Jr. made the film.
Is it wrong of me to have a terrible crush on him?
Don’t forget Alberto Gonzales!!
He’s the REAL Torquemada in the bunch…It’s his cold clammy hands that write the legal opinions to justify torturing.
John Casper - You shoulda heard Hackett sticking it to Lieberman today on Ed Schultz’s show this afternoon. Big Eddie luvs him some Joe.
punaise - Thanks for the Billmon, but I thought I remembered you from the time John’s referring to. And did you start here with a different handle?
but TRex - he’s B list. and you’re so A-list now….
ALL ABOARD!
http://apoeticjustice.blogspot.....train.html
but TRex - he’s B list. and you’re so A-list now….
I could slum with Downey, Jr., couldn’t I? Would y’all still be my friends?
JWR - I (ahem) must not have been as engrossed back then. I recall coming to FDL in the build-up to Libby indictments - August/September 2005? originally posted as punaise/berkeley until 2006 rolled around…
TRex, I think you’ll find that we’re very indulgent
Here’s a link to the Avila diary at KOS
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/10/20596/1741
More on topic, I’m pretty sure Brooks would use the military running around screaming that suicides by people held without hope and treated like animals for half a decade is “assymetrical warfare”. Probably use fafenblog’s (sp?) piece whole.
The “peace is war” bits.
The insane guy who goes to funerals saing that dead soldier’s are God’s judgment on America for gays or abortion or pink lemonade or whatever.
The insane guy who called for the assasination of another nation’s elected leader and who thinks natural disasters visit on the heels of court decisions unfavorable to his theories on evolution, church and state, pink lemonade, or whatever.
The “who knew the levees might not hold” statements right after being briefed on — the levees not holding. The concept of “it’s not a problem until someone makes me a DVD, especially with that nice Brittany Spears signing in the background”
Santorum in pink and lavendar seersucker, with the jar in the office.
. . .
where do you stop?
Damn, and I was really counting on you punaise.
Yeah, Christy announced one Saturday morning a poetry contest. Oakland Mel got pissed and told us we were wasting ourselves on poetry when we should be out fighting injustice and stuff. A few of us asked Mel to dial it back a little (but not me punaise, you know). She got more angry and withdrew her active support from this other commenter (whose name I can’t remember) who was really key in the net roots. IIRC they were both working for Hackett in Ohio. The other commenter came aboard and blasted all of us for not supporting Oakland Mel more. She hung around a little longer, but the thing with Hackett really pissed her off.
My memory isn’t what it used to be and it never was very good. Apologies if I have offended anyone or not told things accurately. I guess it has been on my mind lately, because of the loss of Valley Girl. Kind of felt the same way.
The loss of Valley Girl?
Thanks for the link, Mary. Just what the country needs.
Will read up on that topic this week.
I tell you, earlier I was watching Anderson Cooper 360, and I saw that the “woman” those U.S. soldiers raped and killed in Iraq was A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL.
What.
The fuck.
Then they had Chimpy on, followed by Snow Job, gassing away about North Korea, and I just had to get up and walk down to the beach and try to remember that not all people are evil.
As long as these people are our “leaders”, none of us can rest easy. We must do everything within our power to fight for the truth, for peace, and for sanity.
I just…I just can’t believe that people this evil have managed to hijack our country and use our military as a weapon for their personal vendettas. We really are the Worst Nation in the World now. It makes me so sad, so angry, so frustrated.
God, please just let us make it to November.
sorry to let you down, John Casper! VG: proclaimed gone forever (makes me wonder if there’s more to the story, behind the curtain). every now and then I wonder about formerly active posters and wonder what became of them; are they lurking? karen black for instance. Grandpa. others?
Dover Bitch 102 - yes, a couple of weeks ago. flamed out, with cause, as a moderator and decided to move on.
John C.—in internet time, your memory is pretty good. I vaguely remember the Oakland Mel dust up and also must admit I can’t remember the other person’s name.
One of the commenters I miss is Grandpa. He was a fellow Seattleite and late night commenter. I hope he knows what a contribution he made.
Punaise—Wow, are we talking about the same Grandpa and are you thinking of Karen Allen from Ohio?
OT,scuse me-
Stephen Parrish, I left computer info at the end of the last thread.
Thanks.
punaise - Yeah, that’s the name I remembered.
John Casper - Melanie Oakland?
John C - whatever else, it does help me some to vent.
I had a bad feeling this was being set up from the time I heard of Luttig going to Boeing. Boeing - which was going under until Pearle and Rumsfeld had the WH discussions re: their campaign pal and got the billions for the supertanker back on course. It’s not like Boeing owed anything to the Admin. to help with paving the way to a Haynes 4th Cir appointment.
I hope some Dem gets Mora in to testify at a minimum.
I swear we might as well rename the whole freaking department for the proclivities of their leaders, which the rank and file allows them to indulge in, unimpeded and without murmer.
Department of Torture. Similar to the Department of Transportion in initials, but a whole different use for buses and mass transit.
It is UNBELIEVABLE and how anyone works for such a blatantly criminal, immoral, corrupt crew without calling them on it is beyond my abilities of understanding or forgiving.
Worthless members of a valueless community.
RBG - yep, same ones
RBG Scores!
Yes, Karen Allen.
JWG Scores!
Melanie Oakland
Jane and I dug through the old blogger archives hoping Grandpa might have left an e-mail address on some thread but we came up empty. I keep thinking he’d be a great addition to the WA State Roots Project.
Sorry to hear about VG. I’ve been a moderator (briefly) on a message board and never want that job again.
The official scorekeeper will record RBG’s score with an assist from punaise.
Mary - I must confess I don’t follow all of your legal-beagletudes, but your passion and smarts are vital to FDL.
“It is UNBELIEVABLE and how anyone works for such a blatantly criminal, immoral, corrupt crew without calling them on it is beyond my abilities of understanding or forgiving.”
emptywheel has a theory Rove always hires people with skeletons so he can control them.
I just remember all my ancestors/relatives back in Germany, backing Hitler through the slaughter of a million Poles and six million Jews.
RBG - LOL - it was a breakaway and I passed to you for the score
Thanks for a great thread, as per usual, I have to turn in.
wasn’t Karen Black (along with a few others) involved in a kind of proto-Roots Project around Mean Jean Schmidt in Ohio?